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Number  846

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it 

The  pessimist is  jubilant.  There  is  a 
cloud 
in  the  east,  no  bigger  than  a 
man’s  hand,  but  full  of  menace.  The 
policy  of  the 
“ open  door"  which 
tickled  the  tympanums  of  American 
traders 
is  not  proving  the  unqualified 
blessing  which  it  was  supposed  to  he. 
It 
is  turning  out  a  boomerang  with  a 
hitting  power  as  harmful  as  it  is  un­
desirable  and  sudden. 
is  all  very 
well  to  have  the  “ open  door”   theory 
and  practice,  when  China 
is  talked 
about,  the  basis  of  commercial  activity; 
but  when  the  European  powers  make 
this  the  means  of  driving  a  sharp  bar­
gain 
is  hardly  the  good  thing  it  is 
cracked  up  to  be.  Those  schemers  are 
already  at  work.  With  our  commercial 
sky  fairly  aglow  with  the golden  gain  of 
early  promised  profits  in  China,  there 
comes  the  far-reaching  question  wheth­
er,  should 
the  open  door  policy  be 
granted  in  China,  there  will  be  an  open 
door  policy  in  the  Philippines? 
If  the 
is  affirmative,  well  and  good; 
answer 
i f  not,  well  and  good ;  but— !  That last 
word  has  upset  things  and  the  optimist, 
with  shivers  of  delight  and  exultant  1- 
told-you-sos,  sees  the smiles lighting the 
faces  of  the  powers  and  our  Uncle  Sam­
uel  perplexedly  biting  his  thumb.
from  the 

fact. 
Shortsightedness,  the  prominent  defect 
of  the  optimist,  has  not  taken  posses­
It  can 
sion  of  the  American  eyesight. 
see  clearly  and  the  manhood  behind 
it 
can  state  distinctly  the  reasonableness 
and  the  justice  of  the  question:  “ It  is 
a  poor  rule  which  does  not  work  both 
w ays;’ ’  and  the  Great  Republic  has 
no  desire  even  to 
infringe  upon  the 
broadest  application  of  the  maxim.  “ A  
fair  field  and  no  favor”   is  emblazoned 
all  over  the  shield  of  the  United  States 
and 
is  not  dimmed  by  any 
attempt  to  make  a  one-sided  applica­
tion.  When,  then,  there  comes  the  fair 
question, 
fairly  put,  “ Will  there  also 
be  an  open  door  in  the  Philippines?”  
without  a  thought  of  thumb biting comes 
the  hearty  answer: 
“ Why,  certainly.”
There  is  a something  in  the  American 
make-up  which  other  peoples  can  not 
understand.  Russia  makes  up  her  mind 
that  a  neighboring  nation  must  give 
her  a  part  of  her  possessions  and  the

its  glory 

Nothing 

farther 

is 

idea.  Not  so  with 
is  aboveboard. 

big  nation  goes  underhandedly  to  work 
to  entrap  and  inveigle  her 
into  surren­
der.  England  thinks  best  to  increase 
her  domain  by  a  gold  mine— no  matter 
where  it  is  or  to  whom  jit  belongs—and 
It  is  the  Old 
steathily  works  up  to  it. 
World 
the  New. 
Everything 
Is  China 
going  to  pieces?  All  right.  We’ll prop 
open  the  commercial  door,  sound  the 
preconcerted  signal  and  go  for  it.  Each 
one  for  himself  and  the  devil  take  the 
hindermost.  The  Philippines  have  gone 
under.  Before  the  end  came  the United 
States  bought  the  right  to settle  the 
is­
lands  as  it  should  deem  best.  The  pow­
ers  know  that,  but,  with  the breeding  of 
the  Middle  Ages  clinging  to  them,  and 
with  a  “ cheek”   as  amusing  as  it  is  ex­
asperating,  they  want  to  know  if  there 
is  to  be  the  same  open  door  as  in  China 
and  are  tipping  winks  to  one  another  at 
the  comer  into  which  they  have  at  last 
forced  the  nation  with  the  liberal  pol­
icy.  Judge  of  their  surprise  when  with 
the  question  already settled this  country, 
blind  to 
its  own  interest— well,  appar­
ently  so— throws  open  the  door  with  a 
“ Why,  certainly,”  
the 
key  and  becomes  a  scrambler  for  the 
very  things she  has  thrown  away.

throws  away 

That,  however,  is  the  American  idea. 
We  want  the  scramble  and  we  are  w ill­
ing  to  contribute  our  share  to  make  it 
interesting.  Money-getting  for the  sake 
of  the  money  is  barbarous  and  beastly. 
There  is  no  fun  in  a  walk-over  even  to 
prosperity.  That 
is  where  poverty  lias 
the  better of  riches  ten  to  one,  and  the 
Yankee tradesman,to make things lively, 
throws  the  money  he  has  made  into  the 
commercial  arena  and  “ stumps”   his 
trading  brethren  to  keep  it  away  from 
him  if  they  can.

This 

is  the  key  to  the  situation,  the 
earth  over. 
In  China,  the  Philippines, 
Africa,  South  or  North,  France,  Ger­
many— everywhere— closed  door,  or open 
door,  the  battle  of  trade  is  to  be 
fought 
and  that,  too,  under  the  standard  of  ‘  A 
fair  field  and  no  favor.”  
It  must  be 
remembered,  however,  that  the  Yankee 
In  these  days 
knows  what  he  is  about. 
of  arbitration  the  sword  has  lost 
its 
power. 
“ The  bloodiest  battle  of  the 
century”   may  be  subject  matter  for  the 
historian,  but  it  will  be  little  else.  It  is 
if  the  fought-for gold  mines 
doubtful 
will  be 
found  worth  the  having;  and 
while  the  battle  is  going  on,  there  and 
in  every  other  part  of  the  world,  the 
trade  strife 
is  strenuously  pushed  by 
the  predestined  victor.  With  doors  open 
or  closed  or  on  the  swing,  the  best  will 
be  sure  to find  its way to the front.  Half- 
civilized  China  knows  the  difference 
between  chalk  and  cheese ;  and  has  al­
ready 
found  out  that  this  country  fur­
nishes  the  best  of  both.  What  kind  of 
a  fight  will  that  be  in  Siberia  over  rail­
roads  and  bridges  when  the  American 
workshop  is  already  supplying  that mar­
ket  with  the  best  goods  at  the  lowest 
prices?  What  sort  of  figure  is  England 
going  to  cut 
in  the  shoe  trade,  for  in­
stance,  when  the  footwear  she  turns  out 
is  as  ugly  to  the  sight  as  it  is  clumsy 
and  painful  to the  foot,  civilized  or  un­
civilized?  Name  a  machine  in  a  Euro­

pean  market  of  European  manufacture 
which 
is  not  losing  favor,  because  the 
American-made  article  on  every  point 
worth  naming is  by  far the best.  Geneva 
for  decades  bragged  about  her  watches. 
She  brags  no  more;  and  the  silence  of 
her  shops 
is  broken  by  the  tick  of  the 
American  watch. 
France  has  had  a 
great  deal  to  say  about  her  wines  and 
her  silks  and  her  leadership  in  civiliza­
tion ;  but  the  vineyards  of  California 
and  the  silk  mills  of  New  Jersey  have 
changed  that  and  we  shall  hear  no  more 
of  French  civilization  for  years to come. 
If  the  world  gets  hungry,  we  can  feed 
it  with  600,000,000  bushels  of  wheat,
2.000.  000.000  bushels  of  corn,  32,000,000 
of  beef  cattle  and  40,000,000  of  sheep, 
with  countless  millions  of  poultry. 
If 
it 
it  to  drink
is  thirsty,  we  can  give 
1.000.  000.000 gallons of beer 
make  a  note  of  it!— 1,000,000  gallons 
of  alcoholic  liquors  and  30,000,000 gal­
lons  of  wine.  We  can  warm,  clothe and 
light  our  sister  nations  without  lessen­
ing  our  own  personal  comfort  and  we 
can  do  it  more  cheaply  than  they  can do 
it  themselves.

let Germany 

With  this  condition  of  things,  backed 
as  it  is  by  the  National  reputation  won 
at  Manila,  it 
is  not  strange  that  the 
United States should he generous. 
Past 
the  struggling  period  of  existence,  in 
which she  has  been  overwhelmingly suc­
cessful,  and  recognized  as  she  is  as  an 
equal,  with  the  tacit  conviction  of  su­
periority  under  the  recognition,  it  is  not 
strange  that  she  should  give  to  others 
the  liberty  of  action  which  she  has  her­
self  insisted  on.  Having  gained  a  com­
petency  in  a  century  which  Europe  has 
failed  to  secure  in  a  decade  of  them,  it 
is  no  wonder  that  she  should 
insist  on 
open  doors  and, while  laughing  over  the 
absurdity  of  the  pretended  right  of  her 
envious  neighbors,  should,  just  for the 
fun  of  scrambling 
for  what  is  hers  al­
ready,  heartily  reply  to  their  brazen 
question :  “ Will  there  also  be  an  open 
door  in  the  Philippines?”  
“ Why,  cer­
tainly.”   ______________

One  of  the  results  of  the  Spanish- 
American  war  has  been  a  remarkable 
stimulus  to  certain  departments of Span­
ish  industry.  Although  many  merchants 
have  suffered  by  the  loss  of  Cuba  and 
have  had  their  operations  severely  ham­
pered  thereby,  other  houses  have  taken 
to  manufacturing  on  the  spot  products 
which  used  to  he  got  from  that  colony. 
Sugar  is  one  of  the  chief  articles 
im­
ported,  but  there  were  formerly  few  re­
fineries  in  Spain.  During  the  last  few 
months,  however,  a  number  of  refineries 
have  been  established.  A  single  Ger­
man  house 
is  reported  to  have  orders 
at  present  for  more than $1,000,000 worth 
of  machinery  for  these  refineries  alone. 
So  far,  it  seems  to  have  been  the  Ger­
mans  who  have  profited  most  by  the  sit­
uation.  The  German  houses  have  their 
agents  on  the  spot  and  so  succeed  in 
booking  a  big  share  of  the  orders. 
In 
other  departments,  too,  it  is  very  much 
the  same.  Barcelona,  Madrid  and other 
large  towns  have  recently  adopted  the 
electric 
light,  but  although  the  field  is 
open  to  everybody,  most  of  the  tenders 
were  German.

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T he  D ry  Goods  M arket.

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the  demand 

Staple  Cottons  There  has  been  no 
change  whatever  in  the  strength  of  the 
staple  cotton  division.  There  has  bee 
but  little  difficulty  in  securing  the  ad 
vances  named  on all  the  cotton  goods  u 
to  the  present  writing,  and  these  ad 
vances  still  continue  to  be  named  o 
other  tickets. 
If  there  is  any  differenct 
to  point  out  in  regard  to  the  demand  f< 
various  goods  it  may  be  said  that  heav, 
brown  sheetings,  drills  and  ticks  are 
than  othe 
enquired  for  rather 
goods.  Nevertheless, 
i 
large  enough  to  take  care  of  the  produc 
tion  and  there  is,  therefore,  no  weaken 
ing  of  any  kind.  This  slight  difference 
is  partially  due  to  the  fact  that  no  pos 
itive  promises  can  be  given  as  to  the 
date  of  delivery  of  these  goods.  Buyers 
do  not 
like  to  place  orders  without 
knowing  whether  they  can  get  the  goot 
or  not.  Many 
lines  of  goods,  althougl 
advanced  in  price,  are  held  strictly  ‘ ‘ at 
value" 
for  distant  delivery,  and  the 
prices  quoted  to-day  apply  only  to  such 
goods  as  can  be  delivered  at  once, 
which  are  very  few,  or  in  a  very  short 
time.  The  situation 
in  gray  goods  i 
very  hard 
for  the  trade.  Buyers  can 
secure  nothing  for this  side  of  January 
delivery  unless  it  be  from  second hands, 
and  they  are  obliged  to  pay  full  prices. 
Wide  sheetings  are  somewhat  quieter, 
and  show  no  change  of  importance. 
Coarse  colored  cottons,  denims,  plaids, 
ticks,  stripes  and  checks  are 
in  good 
demand,  and  consequently  very  stronelv 
situated.

has 

this 

Linings— All  grades  of  cotton 

linings 
have  stiffened  during  the  past  week, 
and  advances  in  many  cases  have  been 
named.  Naturally 
been 
brought  about  to  a  considerable  extent 
by  the  advances  in  gray  cloths,  but  the 
continued  steady  demand  has  had  con­
siderable  to  do  with 
it.  Among  the 
cloths  which  have  been  advanced  are 
finished  cambrics,  silesias  and 
kid 
printed  sleeve 
linings.  High  finished 
cotton  goods  in  the  various  new  styles, 
mercerized,  etc.,  have  shown  a 
fair 
business,  although  nothing  above  the 
average.

.  heavyweights. 

Knit  Goods  -There  has  been  consid­
erable  activity  in  the  knit  goods  market 
for  the  past  week  or  ten  days,  in  spite 
of  the  fact  that  it  is  usually  a  decidedly 
off  season  of  the  year,  and  everything 
looks  bright  for  the  opening  of  the  new 
Satisfactory  goods  are 
scarce.  Of  course,  everyone 
looks  to 
higher  prices  tor  next  fall’s  goods,  but 
how  much  of  an  advance  will  be  made 
is  as  yet  problematical.  Those  orders 
which  have  already  been  taken  are  at 
only  a  small  advance  over 
last  season, 
and,  in  fact,  it  is  pretty  safe  to  say  that 
some  of  them  were  taken  at  last  year’s 
prices.  The  policy  of  such  an  action  is 
too  evident  to  need  comment  here.  The 
season  is  really  in  the  hands  of the mills 
and 
satisfactory  prices 
might  easily  be  secured  if  the  business 
were  handled 
in  the  right  way.  Why 
the  agents  will  persist  in  hurrying  the 
season,  and  losing  their  profits  when  so 
much  business  is  floating  around,  is  one 
of  the  puzzles  which  no  man  can  solve. 
There 
is  no  possible  reason  why  they 
should  take  orders  so  far  ahead  of  the 
season,  for  it  is  morally  sure  that  there 
will  be  plenty  of  business  to  go  around 
from  all  the  evidence  which  can 
and 
now  be  gathered, 
it  seems  as  though 
there  will  not be  enough  goods to  supply 
the  demand.  There 
is  every  prospect

agents,  and 

of a  further  advance  in  wool before long, 
and  should  this  take  place  it  will  make 
it  absolutely  necessary  to  make  a  very 
strong  advance. 
In  looking  over  prices 
of  woolens  since  the  last  heavyweight 
season,  some  grades  have  advanced  over 
50  per  cent,  already.  Comment 
is  un­
necessary.  Considering  the  above  and 
the  fact  that  there  are  no  stocks  of  yam 
in  the  market,  it  will  be  a  wise  buyer 
who  places  his  order  at  the  earliest  op­
portunity  for  as  much  as  he  thinks  he 
can  use,  for  it  is  almost  absolutely  cer­
tain  that  many  will  get  badly  left before 
the  end.

Hosiery— Importers  of  hosiery  have 
had  an  unusually  successful  season,  so 
far  as  it  has  gone,  and  they  report  that 
the  sales  have  exceeded  those  for  the 
iast  spring  and  summer.  Of  course, 
staple  blacks  had  a  steady uninterrupted 
business,  but  fancies  and  solid  colors 
have  been  unexpectedly popular.  Prob­
ably  the most  prominent  lines  of  hosiery 
are  the  extracted  patterns  in  neat  de­
signs,  either  stripes  or  polka  dots. 
In 
the  higher  grade  goods  there  has  been 
an  excellent  business 
in  some  of  the 
fine 
lines  of  silk  embroidered  hosiery, 
and  the  prospects  for  these  goods  are 
excellent.

nced  prices  are  now 

Carpets—The  carpet  situation  is  bet­
ter this  year  than  it  has  been  for  several 
years  past.  Buyers  realize  that 
they 
must  pay  the  advanced  prices  for  car­
pets,  and  as  the  times  are  very  much 
mproved  they  are  willing  to  do  this. 
Trade  holds  on  very  well.  The  ad- 
in  effect,  and 
the  prospect  of  a  still  further  advance 
is  stimulating  the  buyers  to  place  orders 
arly.  There  is  a  probability  of  a  gen- 
ral  advance  the  first  of  the  year,  with 
some  advances  December  1.  Jobbing 
houses  continue  to  place  good  orders  for 
arpets,  and  feel  very  well  satisfied  with 
the  outlook  for the  new  season.  Some 
rge  Smyrna  rug  manufacturers  an­
nounced  an  advance  in  their rugs,  which 
wk  place  Dec.  2.  Retailers  who  have 
sold  up  their  stock  of  Smyrna  rugs  find 
t  very  difficult  to  have their orders filled 
)r  a  new  supply.  The  unusually  ac- 
ve  fall  season  in  carpets  and  rugs  bids 
fair  to  continue  prosperous  through  the 
The  medium  priced 
goods,  such  as  tapestry,  Brussels  and 
axminsters  at  about  $1  per  yard,  are 
very  popular,  and  gratifying  sales  are 
ade  of  these  goods,  as  well  as  the 
igher  priced  velvets. 
large 
mills  have  taken  enough  orders direct  to 
last  them  up  to  January  1,  and  will  not 
send  their  salesmen  out  until  after that 
period.  Manufacturers  of  art  squares 
report  that  the  demand  is  so  large  they 
are  unable  to  supply  all  the  goods which 
the  jobbers  could  sell.

ring  season. 

Some 

Corl,  Knott 
&  Co.,

Importers and 
Jobbers of

Millinery

Our Specialties:

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

Putnam's  Cloth  Chart  I

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

No exaggeration.  Get one and  try it.

Price $4.00 each.

Sold in the W est by the Following Jobbers

«   Co- ,  Sherer Bros 

CH ICAGO— Jno.  V.  Farwell  Co.  Carson,  Pirie,  Scott•&  Co.  Marshall 
S I.  LO LIS— Hargadine-McKittrick  Dry Goods Co.
ST  JOSEPH— Hundley-Frazer  Dry Goods Co.
K AN SAS  C IT Y — Burnham,  Hanna,  Munger  &  Co.  Swofford  Bros. 
OM AH A— M.  E.  Smith  &  Co.
ST.  PAU L  Lindeke,  Warner &  Schurmeier. 

Powers  Dry  Goods  Co 

Lederer  Bros.  &  Co.

Dry Goods Co.

Finch,  VanSlyck,  Young & Co.

M IN N EAPO LIS— Wyman.  Partridge  &  Co.
D E T R O IT   Strong,  Lee  &  Co.  Burnham,  Stoepel  &  Co. 

Edson 

Moore  &  Co.

ner &  Co. 

T O LE D O — Davis  Bros.  Shaw  &  Sassaman  Co.  L.  S.  Baumeard- 

6

CIN CIN N A TI— The Jno.  H.  Hibben  Dry Goods Co.
IN D IAN APO LIS— D.  P.  Erwin  &  Co.

3®  Sent by express  ch’ges prepaid 
'  

on receipt of price by the mfr.

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

THE f f S T A N D  BY” C O R S E T

HOW  IT  IS  M A DE:  Each Corset is constructed 
with  twelve heavy flexible steels especially tempered, 
six on each side, grouped  in  sets  of  three,  one  over 
the other in  such a  manner as to form  an  indestruct- 
able side  and  still  conform  to 
every movement of  the  wearer.
Women troubled with the break­
ing down of  the  corset  on  the
sides 
the '
“ STA N D   B Y "

appreciate 

will 

P R IC E ,

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(Pat. Oct. 28,1898.)
V O IG T .  H E R P O L S H E IM E R   &   C O ..

$ 4 .5 0   P E R .  D O Z .

W HOLESALE  DRY  G O O D S. 

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6R A N D   R A PID S,  MICH.

I Ghfistpias 
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Pfesepts

Remember we carry a good line of useful articles  for  Christ- 
mas  Presents, such as  Handkerchiefs,  Neckties,  Cuffs,  Collars, 
Suspenders,  Hair  Ornaments,  Jewelry,  Perfumes,  Umbrellas, 
etc.  Don’t wait too  long  this  season  in  buying  as  you  might 
find  the lines broken  later in the season.  Our line  is  complete, 
having a larger assortment this year than  ever. 

p.  Steketee 

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L andlord  Sweet’s  V ersion  o f th e   B aggage 

L iab ility   C ontroversy.

Grand  Rapids,  Dec.  4— In  your  issue 
of  Nov.  29,  you  do  me  a  serious  injus­
tice  in  connection  with  certain  matters 
which  you  say  occurred  at  the  Living­
ston  Hotel.  1  am  unwilling to  believe 
that  this  is  malicious or even intentional 
on  your  part,  and  yet  I  must  insist  that 
you  should  have  known  from  your  own 
experience  that  there  are  two  sides  to 
every  question  and  that  the  reputation 
for  fairness  which  I  believe  the  Trades­
man  has  fairly  earned  clearly  demanded 
that  you  should  take  the  trouble  to  hear 
both  sides  of  the  matter  referred  to  be­
fore  making 
it  the  subject  of  editorial 
comment.  From  the  fact  that  you  have 
on several  occasions  communicated  with 
me  by  telephone  and  that  it  is  only  a 
short  distance  from  the Tradesman office 
to  the  Michigan  Trust  building,  where 
my  own  office  is  located,  you  must  have 
known that  it  would  be  very easy for  you 
to 
learn  the  other  side  of  thi-s  matter. 
Your  desire  for  a  legal  opinion  on  the 
subject  renders  your  failure  to  obtain  a 
correct  knowledge  of  the  facts  all  the 
more  surprising.

Your  criticism  is  twofold:  First,  that 
although  I  recompensed  Mr.  Lamberton 
for  the  loss  of  his  hat,  I  stated that there 
liability.  Second,  that  1 
was  no  legal 
refused  to  recompense  Mr.  Rogers  for 
the  loss  of  his  traveling  bag.

Your  first  criticism  seems  to  be  no 
more  nor  less  than  that  I  gave  an  erro­
neous  opinion  or  at  least  one  in  which 
Judge  Hatch  does  not  concur.

learn 

for  the 

My  answer 

is:  First,  that  I  never 
gave  any  opinion  in  the  matter one  way 
or  the  other;  second, 
that,  so  far  as  1 
know  or  have  been  able  to  learn  from 
the  manager  in  charge  of  the  Livingston 
Hotel,  Mr.  Lamberton  never  lost  a  hat 
at  the  Livingston,  and  I  never  paid  him 
anything 
loss  of  a  hat;  third, 
that  on  one  occasion  Mr.  Lamberton 
and  another  guest  of  the  hotel  accident­
ally  exchanged  hats,  but  that  the  mis­
take  was  soon  discovered  and  corrected.
In  regard  to  the  complaint  of  Mr. 
Rogers,  I  have  no  personal  knowledge, 
but  1 
from  the  manager  of  the 
hotel,  whose  integrity  I  consider beyond 
question,  that  the  facts  assumed  by  your 
attorneys  are 
incorrect.  They  assume 
that 
the  valise  of  Mr.  Rogers  was 
checked  at  the  check  room  of  the  hotel 
with  the  knowledge  of  the  clerk. 
In 
reality  this  was  not  the  case.  They  as­
sume  that  Mr.  Rogers informed  the clerk 
that  he 
in 
about  three  weeks.  He  gave  the  clerk 
no  such  information.  They assume  that 
“ at  the  expiration  of  that  time  he  did 
return  and  on  calling  for  his  valise  it 
was  missing  and  could  not  be  found 
and  that  its  loss  was  unexplained.”   As 
a  matter  of  fact,  instead  of  calling  for 
his  valise  at  the  end  of  three  weeks,  the 
length  of  time  which  elapsed  was not far 
from  six  months.  Yet 
in  spite  of  all 
these  false  assumptions  against  the  in­
terest  of  the  hotel,  your  attorneys  con­
clude  this  portion  of  their  opinion  with 
these  words:  “ After  settling  his  bill 
and  departing  from  the  hotel  until  he 
returned,  he  was  not  a  guest. 
In  order 
to  charge  the  proprietor  of  the  Living­
ston  Hotel  with  the  liability  of  an  inn­
keeper, 
the  owner  of  the  valise  must 
have  been  a  guest  of  the  hotel  at  the 
time  of  its  loss.”

intended  to  return  again 

In  your  editorial  on  the  subject,  not­
withstanding  this  legal  opinion,  you say 
that  Mr.  Rogers  “ has  béeh  a  patron  of 
the  Livingston  Hotel  for  several  years, 
but  will  transfer  his  patronage  to  the 
Morton  because  of  the  refusal  of  Edwin 
F.  Sweet  to  recompense  him  for  his 
loss.”   Why  you  take  the  trouble  to  in­
form  your  readers  that  Mr.  Rogers  is 
about  to  transfer his  patronage  from  the 
Livingston  to  the  Morton  because  I  was 
unwilling  to  recognize  a  claim  which 
your  own  attorneys  say  was  not 
lawful, 
it  is  difficult  for  me to  understand.  Peo­
ple  are  so  prone  to  look  at  such  ques­
tions  only  from  their  own  standpoint 
that  I  can  see  how Mr.  Rogers might en­
tertain  some  ill  feeling,  but  surely  it 
is 
not  a  matter of  such  public  interest as to 
merit  your  editorial  notice. 
It  is  not 
is  not  in  harmony
worthy  of  you,  and 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

3

with  the  policy  by  which  you have made 
the  Michigan  Tradesman  the  leading 
trade  paper  of  the  State.  At  the  ut­
most,  the  charge  against  me  is  that  I 
would  not  recognize  any  moral  obliga­
tion  to  recompense  Mr.  Rogers  under 
the  peculiar  circumstances  of  the  case; 
that  I  was— in  his opinion and,  possibly, 
in  yours  also— somewhat  ungenerous.  In 
the  Livingston,  as 
in  most  first-class 
hotels,  the  check  room  is  meiely  a  tem­
porary  convenience. 
It  is  not  intended 
to  be  used  for  storage  extending  over  a 
period  of  six  months  or  even  six  weeks. 
Guests  who  are  disposed  to  be  reason­
able  understand  this  and  if  they  have 
baggage  or  clothing  which  they  wish 
stored  for  a  long  time,  they  place  it  un­
der  the  special  charge  of  the  manager 
or  one  of  the  clerks  and  it  is  securely 
kept  in  a  locked  room  which  the  L iv­
ingston  has  for  that  purpose. 
It  is  un­
fair  to  ask  a  hotel  to  assume  any greater 
risk  than  this.

is 

lost 

In  any ■  case  of 

loss  by  accident  or 
theft  a  guest  should  give  prompt  notice 
so  that  the  hotel  proprietor  may 
imme­
diately  take  steps  to recover the property 
and  thus  protect  himself  as  well  as  the 
impossible 
guest.  Such  protection 
when  the  owner  of  the  property 
is 
not  even  a  guest  of  the  hotel  at  the  time 
and,  as 
in  Mr.  Rogers’  case,  does  not 
know  of  the  loss  himself  until  perhaps 
several  months  after it  occurred.

There  is  in  your  editorial  at  least  an 
implication  that  the  Morton  is  more lib­
eral 
in  such  matters  than  the  Living­
ston.  This  I  positively  deny.  1  do  not 
believe  that  Mr.  Pantlind,  of  the  Mor­
ton  House,  would  make  such  a  claim. 
He  is  built  on  too  broad  a  plan  to  seek 
such  cheap  advertising or to even desire, 
in  the  course  of  honorable  competition 
for  business,  to  obtain  an  advantage  by 
such  methods.

ill 

ill 
if 

I  am  not  aware  that  I  have  ever  per­
sonally  had  a  word  with  Mr.  Rogers  on 
this  subject  and  I  can  see  no  reason, 
from  the  facts  of  this  case  as  I  have  as­
certained  them,  why  he  can  justly  have 
any 
feeling  either against  the  L iv­
ingston  or  myself.  If,  however,  he  has 
feeling,  I  now  challenge  him, 
such 
and 
it  will  make  it  any  stronger,  1 
challenge  you,  to  show  that  the  Morton 
or  any  other  hotel  in  Grand  Rapids  has 
treated  its  guests  with  any  more  liberal­
ity  in  any  respect  than  has  the  Living­
ston  during  the  period  it  has  been under 
my  charge.

In  the  interest  of  fair  play  I  trust  you 
will  publish  this  in  the  next  issue  of the 
Tradesman. 

'  Edwin  F.  Sweet.

In fo rm atio n   for  C ertain  H earers.

“ I  have  noticed,”   said  the  Rev.  Dr. 
Goodman,  pausing 
in  his  discourse, 
“ that  two  or  three  of  the  brethren  have 
looked  at  their  watches  several  times  in 
the 
last  few  minutes.  For  fear  their 
timepieces  may  not  agree  1  will  say that 
the  correct  time  is  11  45.  1 set my  watch 
by  the  regulator  at  the  jeweler’s  last 
night.  The  sermon  will  be  over  at 
12:01. 
It  would  have  closed  promptly 
at  12  but  for  this  digression.  Let  us 
proceed 
consider  now  what  the 
apostle  meant  when  he  said,  ‘ I  press 
toward  the  m ark.’  ”

to 

Robert 

L ittle   Robert**  Lesson.
is  being  told  by  his  mamma 

how  to  conduct  himself  in  company.

“ If  you  are  asked  to  have  a  cake  a 
second  tim e,"  says  mamma,  “ answer,
‘ No, 
I’ve  had  plenty.’ 
And  don’t  you  forget  it!”

thank  you. 

What  mother  could  do  more  for  her 

But  when  the  time  comes,  and  Robert 
is  asked  to  have  cake  a  second  time,  he 
answers  merely :

“ No, 

thank  you. 

and  don’t  you  forget  it!”

I’ve  had  plenty, 

child?

Never borrow trouble;
*Tis a drug at  which men scoff,
And  when you try to pay It back,
You cannot work it  off.

The bunco man  has funny ways;
He lies in  wait for foolish J*s;
He takes their X ’s and their  V*s 
With gentle grace and greatest ease. 

--------- --------------------

The  man  who  can  make  other  people 
put  up  with  his  eccentricities  is  called 
a  philosopher.

Michigan  Fire  and  Marine 

Insurance  Co.

Organized 1881.

Detroit,  Michigan.

Cash  Capital,  $400,000.  Nst Surplus,  $200,000.

Cash  Assets,  $800,000.

D. Whitney, Jr.,  Pres.

D.  M.  F erry, Vice Pr.s.

F.  II.  W hitney, Secretary.
M.  W. O’Brien, Treas.

E. J.  Booth, Asst.  Sec’y. 

Directors.

D.  Whitney, Jr.,  D.  M. Ferry, F.J. Hecker, 
M. W. O'Brien, Hoyt Post, Christian Mack, 
Allan  Sheldon. Simon J.  Murphy,  Wm.  L. 
Smith, A.  II.  Wilkinson, James  Edgar,  II. 
Kirke  White, 
II.  P.  Baldwin,  Hugo 
Scherer,  F.  A.  Schulte,  Wm.  V.  Brace, 
James  McMillan,  F.  K.  Driggs,  Henry 
Hayden,  Collins  B.  Hubbard,  James  I). 
Mandish, Theodore D.  Buhl,  M.  B.  Mills, 
Alex.  Chapoton, Jr.,  Geo.  II.  Barbour,  S. 
G.  Gaskey,  Chas.  Minch field,  Francis  F. 
Palms,  Wm. C.  Yaw key,  David  C.  Whit 
ney, Dr.J.  B.  Book, Eugene Harbeck, Chas. 
F.  Peltier,  Richard  P. Joy,  Chas.  C.  Jenks.

wà. y . v . v . v . v . v . v . v . v . v . v . v x . ^ . ^ x . ü

I   D o  Y o u   W a n t   to
|   In cre a se   Y o u r   T r a d e ?

Then  give your  customers  the  old  reliable

I 

Green
Seal
Cigars

\|jf  Made in different sizes— io cent straight and three for 25 cents. 
JR  These  goods  have  been  on  the  market  for  twenty-five  years 
and  have  never  been  prostituted  in  quality.  Although  the 
j L   Cuban  war  doubled  the  price  of  Havana  tobacco,  the  quality 

of  the  Green  Seal.was  maintained.

$   If  you  want  to  give  your  customer  the  greatest  value  for  his 

nickel  hand  him  a

A  long  filled,  hand  made  cigar  of  the  highest  quality  for  the 

Maceo’s  Dream  Cigar

||| 
«s  money.
f t   Send  us  an  order  for either or  both  brands  and  we  will  guar- 
s L   antee  you  satisfaction.

B .  J  R E Y N O L D S   G ran d   R a p id s.

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Sensible  Suggestion.

From the Boston Herald.

The  most  sensible  of  all  the  sugges­
tions  yet  made  before  the  Senate  Com­
mittee  that  is  investigating  the  adulter­
ation  of  food  products  has  come  from 
Prof.  Chittenden,  of  Yale,  who  insists 
that  oleomargarine  and  other  like  prod­
ucts  should  be  labeled  and  sold  for  what 
they  are,  and  a  law  should  be  enacted 
forbidding  their  sale  under  any  other 
condition.  Why  wouldn’t  this  solve  the 
whole  difficulty?

To  P rev en t  W indow s  F ro m   Steaming:.
The  most  effective  remedy  for  this an­
noying  condition  is  the  boring  of  holes 
along  the  top  of  the  window  frame  to 
provide  free  ventilation. 
If  this  can 
not  be  done  owing  to  any  peculiarity  in 
the  construction  of  the  window  frame,  a 
light  application  of  glycerin  to  the glass 
after 
it  has  been  thoroughly  polished 
will  usually  prevent  the  condensation  of 
moisture,which  gives  rise  to  the  steamy 
condition.

A  Business Man’s  |  
I

T rain 

Save  time  in  travel  by  using  the  Detroit  New  York 
Special  and trains connecting therewith. 
It leaves Detroit, 
M i c h i g a n   C e n t r a l   S t a t i o n ,  daily  at  4:25  p  m.,  arrives 
5 5   Buffalo  1 0 :1 0   p.  m.,  Rochester at  midnight  and  New  York 
It  is  up-to-date  in  every  respect

10   a.  m.  V e r y   F a s t . 

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Around  the State

M ovem ents  o f M erchants.

St.  Joseph— Ray  Carr has  engaged 

in 

the  meat  business  at  this  place.

Casco— Irving  H.  Miller has  put  in  a 

new  stock  of  groceries  at  this  place.

St.  Johns— Harvey  L.  Parks,  baker, 

has  sold  out  to  Max.  C.  Brewbaker.

Monroe— W illis  M.  Hansberger  suc­
ceeds  Bice  &  Hansberger  in  the grocery 
business.

Evans— Streeter  &  Co.  have  sold their 
general  stock  to  D.  M.  White  and  E. 
G.  Storey.

Menominee— Paul  Ossholun,  of  Mus­
kegon, has opened  a  clothing  store  at  116 
Main  street.

Ishpeming-----Antoine  Peterson  has
the 

opened  a  confectionery  store 
Nolan  block.

in 

Elsie— F.  B.  McArthur,  of  Bay  City, 
has  engaged  in  the  jewelry  and  bazaar 
business  at  this  place.

Escanaba—Jungers  &  Wurth,  meat 
dealers,  have  dissolved  partnership, 
Mr.  Jungers  succeeding.

Ithaca— The  “ Racket”  

is  the  name 
of  a  new  bazaar store  soon  to  be  opened 
at  this  place  by  O.  Stone.

Sault  Ste.  Marie— A.  M.  Campbell 
has  opened  a  meat  market  at  the  comer 
of  Ann  and  Ashmun  streets.

Capac— M.  B.  Zuber  &  Co.  suc­
in  the 

ceed  Middleton  &  Edmonson 
grocery  and  crockery  business.

Saginaw— J.  V.  Russell  has purchased 
a  stock  of  hardware  at  Stockbridge  and 
will  shortly  remove  to  that  place.

Alma— L.  H.  Hayt  and  F.  L.  Convis 
have  purchased  the  general merchandise 
stock  of  W.  E.  Medler and  will  remove 
same  to  Maple  Rapids.

Houghton—J.  Burnside,  who  recently 
conducted  the  Mirror candy  kitchen  at 
Calumet,  has  engaged  in  the  confection­
ery  business  at  this  place.

Marshall— It  is  Fred J. Zanger,  instead 
of  Fred  Zanger,  Jr.,  as  stated  in  the 
Tradesman  last  week,  who  has  engaged 
in  the  dry  goods  business  here.

Paw  Paw—John  Wall  has  leased  a 
store  building  on  Kalamazoo  street  and 
will  add  stationery  and  school  supplies 
to  his  stock  of  confectionery  and  cigars.
Hudson— Dwight  C.  Buck,  who  has 
conducted  a  meat  market  at  this  place 
for  several  years,  has  sold  out  and  en­
gaged  in  the  meat  business  at  Dundee.
Central  Lake— Thurston  &  Co.  have 
put 
in  a  bazaar  stock  in  the  building 
adjoining  their general  store  which  was 
recently  vacated  by  the  Antrim  county 
bank.

Kalkaska— E.  M.  Colson  and  Louis 
Glazer  have  purchased  the  double  two- 
story  brick  block  now  occupied  by  them 
as  a  drug  store and  general  store  respec­
tively.

Traverse  City— J.  B.  Smedley  and  J.
C.  Woodworth  have  entered  into  part­
nership  and  opened  a  book  store  at  412 
South  Union  street.  The  firm  name  is 
Smedley  &  Woodworth.

Jackson— Yocum  &  Taylor will  close 
out  their  retail  harness  store  at  202  East 
Main  street  and  devote  their  entire  at­
tention  to  the  manufacture  of  harnesses 
for the  wholesale  and  retail  trade.

Chelsea— H.  L.  Wood  &  Co.  have  sold 
their  grocery  stock  to  Henry  Gorton  & 
Son,  who  have  removed  it  to  Waterloo. 
Wood  &  Co.  will  continue  the  flour  and 
feed  department  of  their  business.

Vernon— M.  D.  Rhodes,  hardware 
merchant  and  forty  years  a  resident  of 
this  place,  died  very  unexpectedly  last 
week  from  heart  disease,  aged  70  years. 
He  leaves^a  wife  and  two  daughters.

Crystal— E.  B-  Krepps  &  Co.  succeed 
M.  E.  Town 
in  general  trade  at  this 
place.  Edward  B.  Krepps  was  married 
Nov.  15  to  Miss  Etta  Annis,  of  St. 
Johns,  where  the  groom  formerly  re­
sided.

Adrian— A.  B.  Bey,  of  Toledo,  and 
W.  M.  Stewart,  of  Detroit,  have  pur­
chased  the  building  at  the  comer  of 
Treat  and  James  streets  and  will  open  a 
grocery  and  meat  market  as  soon as nec­
essary  repairs  are  made  on the building.
Benton  Harbor— J.  J.  Bames  and  Geo. 
Anderson  have  formed  a  copartnership 
under  the  style  of  the  Michigan  Dairy 
Butter  Co.  and have opened headquarters 
at  114  East  Main  street,  where  they  will 
handle  butter,  cheese,  eggs  and  oysters.
Otter  Lake— The  general  merchandise 
store  of  W.  E.  M cCorm ick  was  burglar­
ized  last  week  and  $200  in money taken. 
Nitroglycerine  was  used.  Two  reports 
were  heard  about  2  o ’clock  in  the  morn­
ing  and  goods  were  found  scattered  all 
over the  room.

Benton  Harbor— A.  S.  Miles  and  B. 
F.  Wells  have  consolidated  their shoe 
stocks,  the  former  having  removed  his 
stock  to  the  store  of  the  latter  at  113 
Pipestone  street.  Mr.  Miles  will  have 
full  charge  of  the  business,  while  Mr. 
Wells  will  enter on  his  duties  as  book­
keeper  of  the  Benton  Harbor  State 
Bank.

Menominee— The  Menominee  Gro­
cers’  Association  gave  a  banquet  in  the 
Sons  of  North  hall  last  Tuesday  even­
ing.  The  Marinette  grocers  and  whole­
salers  were  the  guests.  Fifty represent­
ative  grocerymen  assembled  around  the 
festive  board  and  partook  of  a  hearty 
meal.  Speeches  were 
in  order  and  an 
evening  of  rare  enjoyment  was  spent.

Cass  City— It  has  been  decided  to 
change  the  name  of  the  Cass  City  Busi­
ness  Men’s  Association  to  the  Cass  City 
Improvement  Association,  giving  the 
organization  a  wider  scope.  James  D. 
Brooker  has  been  elected  President,  O. 
K.  Janes  Secretary  and  M.  M.  Wick- 
ware  Treasurer.  Over  forty  members 
have  been  secured  and  a  fund  has  been 
started  to  meet  current  expenses.

interests  of  that  locality. 

Saginaw— A   few  years  ago  a  Business 
Men’s  Association  was  organized  on  the 
West  Side  for  the  purpose  of  promoting 
the 
It  had 
been  preceded  by  other  business  men’s 
associations,  boards  of  trade,  and  the 
like,  to  each  of  which  some  permanent, 
or  transient  good  was  due.  During  the 
hard  times  which  began 
in  1893,  the 
business  men’s  association  went  out  of 
existence.  The 
idea  that  the  business 
men  of  this  particular  center  have  com­
mon  interests  which  might  be  promoted 
by  an  active  association  has  never  been 
given  up  and recently  the  reorganization 
of  an  association  has  b6en  discussed. 
The  scheme  has  progressed  so  far that 
a  meeting  will  be  called early this week. 
Hon.  P.  C.  Andre,  who  has  assisted 
in 
many  similar  enterprises,  has  very  gen­
erously placed rooms  in one  of his  blocks 
on  Court  street  at  the  disposal  of  the 
promoters,  rent  free,  for  the  period  of 
six  months.

M an u factu rin g   M atters.

Detroit-----Jacob  Fellman 

succeeds
Rachael  (Mrs.  Jacob)  Fellman  in  the 
skirt  manufacturing  business.

Detroit— The  Meyer-Mathauer  Glass 
jar covers, 
its  style  to  the  Victor- 

Co.,  manufacturer  of  fruit 
has  changed 
Jar  Co.

Sherman— D.  Wheeler,  proprietor  of 
the  Wheeler saw  mill  and  manufacturer 
of 
lumber  and  shingles,  will  move  to 
Gaylord  in  the  spring.

Wayland— Walter  Truax  has  sold  his

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

interest  in  the  general  merchandise  firm 
of  Geo.  A.  Truax  &  Son  to  his  father 
and  will  embark  in  the  manufacture  of 
creamery  butter  in  Dorr township.

Tower— Streeter &  Kuchle,  who  began 
the  erection  of  a  two-story  office  build­
ing  at  this  place  in  October,  are  now 
building  and  equipping 
their  stave, 
heading  and  saw  mill.  The  stave  and 
heading  department  will  be  on  the  first 
floor  and  the  sawmill  department  on  the 
second  floor.

Burr  Oak— A   company  has  been  or­
ganized  at  this  place,  with  a  capital 
stock  of $6,000,  for the  purpose  of  erect­
ing  and  conducting  a  canning  factory. 
The  officers  of  the  new  enterprise  are 
John  Ferris,  President;  F.  E.  Shaff- 
master,  Secretary,  and  W.  W.  Parr, 
Treasurer.  The  factory  will  have  a  ca­
pacity  of  15,000  cans  per  day  and  will 
employ  seventy-five  women  and  twenty- 
four  men  and  boys  during  the  busy  sea­
son.  Work  on  the  building  will  begin 
immediately.

T he  P roduce  M arket.

T he  Boys  B ehind  th e   C ounter.
Kalamazoo— W.  E.  Agnew  has 

re­
signed  his  position  with  the  Agnew- 
Mygatt  Co.  and  taken  a  position  with 
A.  C.  Wortley, 
in  charge  of  the  cut 
glass  and  art  pottery  department.  Mr. 
Agnew  has  been  with the Agnew-Mygatt 
Co.  for the  past  ten  years.

Saginaw— A.  E.  Wellington  has  taken 
the  Saginaw  Dry 

a  position  with 
Goods  Co.

Owosso— Morris  Southard,  for  many 
years  clerk  for several  firms  in  the  hard­
ware  business,  and  lastly  with  Jackson 
&  Son,  has  taken  a  position  with  the 
Chittenden  Hardware  Co.,  of  Ashley.

Ann  Arbor— Fred  Knapp,  of  Owosso, 
in 
who  has  been  employed  as  salesman 
John  K och’s furniture  store,  has returned 
home,  having  taken  a  position  in  the 
furniture  store  of  Knapp  &  Smith.

Benton  Harbor— Harry  Pierce,  of 
Charlotte,  has  taken  a  position  with 
Enders  &  Young  in  their  shoe  depart­
ment.

Elsie— George  Duncan  is  clerking  for 

Lusk  &  Co.

Apples—-Selected  cold  storage  fruit  is 
meeting  with  active  demand  and  ready 
sale  on  the  basis  of  $3.50  per  bbl.  for 
Spys  and  Baldwins  and  $4  per  bbl.  for 
Jonathans  and  Snows.

Beans— Aside  from  a  decline  of  2c  on 
the  Detroit  Board  of  Trade  Tuesday, 
there  has  been  no  particular  change 
during  the  past  week.

Beets—$1  per  3  bu.  bbl.
Butter— Factory  creamery  is  strong  at 
25c.  Receipts  of  dairy  are  liberal  and 
the  price  is  about  the  same  as  it  was  a 
fancy  readily  com­
week  ago.  Extra 
mands  20c, 
fancy 
fetching 
18c  and 
choice  bringing  16c.

Cabbage—60c  per  doz.
Carrots—$1  per 3  bu.  bbl.
Celery— 15c  per  doz.  bunches.
Cranberries— Jerseys  are 

in  fair  de­
mand  at  $6.25@6.50  per  bbl.  Wiscon­
sin  Bell  and  Bugle  command  $7  for 
standard  and  $7.50  for  fancy.

Dressed  Poultry— Spring  chickens  are 
in  strong  demand  at  8@9C.  Fowls  are 
in  good  demand  at  8c.  Ducks  command 
9@ioc  for  spring  and  8c  for old.  Geese 
find  a  market  on  the  basis  of  8@gc  foi 
young.  Old  are  not  wanted  at  any 
price.  Turkeys  are  in  good  demand  at 
8c  for  No.  2  and  10c  for  No.  1.

all 

Eggs— Receipts  are 

liberal,  but  the 
proportion  of  salted  and  pickled  eggs 
which  the  farmers  are  working  into  the 
is  so  large  that  dealers  are 
fresh  stock 
compelled 
to 
receipts. 
Candled  stock  commands  i8@icyc.  Cold 
storage  stock  is  finding  an  outlet  on  the 
basis  of  I7@i8c.

candle 

Game— Rabbits  are  in  fair demand  at 
$1.20  per  doz.  Squirrels  are 
in  strong 
demand  at  $¡@1.25  per  doz.  Mallard 
ducks  are  in  active  demand  at  $4.5o@5 
per  doz.  Teal  ducks  command  $2.5o@ 
2.75  per  doz.  Common  ducks 
fetch 
$1.50.  Sand  snipes  bring  75c  per  doz. 
and  yellow-legged  $1.50  per  doz.

Honey— White  clover 

is  scarce  at 
I5@ i6c..  Dark  amber and  mixed  com-j 
mand  13® 14c.

Nuts— Ohio  hickory  command  $1.25 

for  large  and  $1.50  for small.

Onions— Spanish  are  steady  at $1.50 
per  crate  and  home  grown are active and 
moving  at  35c  for  Red  Weatherfields, 
Yellow  Danvers  and  Yellow  Globes  and 
40c  for  Red  Globes.

Parsnips—$1.25  for 3  bu.  bbl.
Potatoes— The  market 

is  easier,  due 
to  the  holiday  and  the  warm  weather 
which  has  prevailed  up  to  the  present 
week.  Prices  are  about  the  same,  based 
on  a  30c  market  at  central  points  like 
Grand  Rapids.

Squash— Hubbard  commands  i}4c  per 

pound.

Sweet  Potatoes— Kiln  dried  Jerseys 
are  in  good  demand  at  $404.50  per bbl.

Turnips—$1  per  bbl.

Rufus  Reynolds  has  purchased  the 
grocery  stock  of  Julius  J.  Wagner,  at 
207  East  Bridge  street,  and  will  close  it 
out  as  rapidly  as  possible.

Central  Lake— Clarence  Wells  has 
taken  a  position  in  M cFarlan’s  variety 
store  as  clerk.

Belding— Will  Gregg  has  taken  a  po­
sition  in  Holmes  Bros.’  clothing  store.
St.  Joseph— Roy  H.  Force,  who  for 
many  months  past  has  been  the pharma­
cist  at  R icaby’s  drug  store,  has  returned 
to  his  home  at  Rockford.

Solid  T rains  to  N o rth ern  M ichigan.
The  Chicago,  Milwaukee  &  St.  Paul 
Railway  is  now  running  solid  trains  of 
palace  sleeping  cars,  dining  cars  (serv­
ing  meals  a  la  carte)  and  first-class  day 
coaches,  through  from  Chicago,  to  Cal­
umet,  Houghton,  Hancock  and  other 
points 
in  the  Copper  Country  without 
change  of  cars,  with  direct  connection 
for  Marquette,  Negaunee,  Ishpeming, 
etc.,  and  passengers  from  the  East, 
South  and  Southwest  will  find  this  a 
most  desirable  route.

All  coupon  ticket  agents  sell  tickets 
via  the  Chicago,  Milwaukee  &  St.  Paul 
Railway.

A n n u al  C anadian  E x cu rsio n   V ia  G rand 

T ra n k   R ailw ay.

For  the  above  excursion  the  Grand 
Trunk  Railway  System  will  on  Dec.  14, 
15,16  and  17 sell  tickets  to  points  in  On­
tario,  Quebec  and  New  Brunswick  at 
one  fare  for  the  round  trip,  good  to  re­
turn  until  Jan.  6, 
1900.  The  Grand 
Trunk  Railway  System  offers  first-class 
train  service  and  the  fastest  time  to 
most  important  stations  in Canada.  Full 
particulars  may  be  had  at  Grand  Trunk 
City  Ticket  Office,  Morton  House,  or at 
depot. 

C.  A.  Justin,  C.  P.  &  T.  A.

H ave  H ad  T rouble  Enough.

From the  Jackson  Patriot.

Jackson  merchants  have  had  serious 
enough  experience  with 
advertising 
fakirs  and  trading  stamp  schemes  to 
take  warning  of  the  gang  headed  this 
way.  When  they  strike  Jackson,  as  they 
surely  will  sooner  or  later,  they  should 
be  given  to  understand  at  once  that 
Jackson  merchants  are  not  gullible.  No 
merchant  should  give  the  scheme  en­
couragement.

Burrell  Tripp,  the  Allegan  druggist, 
has  been  tendered  the  position  of  man­
ager of  the  Paris  exhibit  of  the  Miama 
Cycle  &  Manufacturing  Co.  He  has 
not  yet  decided  whether  he  will  accept 
the  offer,  but  is  inclined  to think  he  can 
make  more  money  behind  the  counter in 
Allegan  than  in  charge  of  a  bicycle  ex­
hibit  in  Paris.

O.  C.  Bowker  has  engaged 

in  the 
grocery  businesss.  at  Beaverton.  The 
stock  was  furnished  by  the  Lemon  & 
Wheeler Co.

Hale  &  Stage  have  opened  a  grocery 
their 

store  at  Woodville,  purchasing 
stock  of  the  Musselman  Grocer Co.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Orand  Rapids  Oossip

T he  G rocery  M arket.

Sugar—There  has  been  no  change  in 
the  quotations  of  the  raw  sugar  market 
during  the  past  week.  The  price  of 
centrifugals  remains  at  4%c  per  pound 
for  96  deg.  test  and  the  business  done 
on  this  basis  was  very  light,  as  there 
was  so  little  offered  for  sale  and  also be­
cause  refiners  seem  to  be  amply  sup­
plied  for the  present.  The  demand  for 
refined  sugar  at  this  season  is  generally 
comparatively 
light  and  the  present  is 
no  exception.  From  New  Orleans  we 
learn  that  the  grinding  of  the  cane  is 
being  completed  at  a  much 
earlier 
period  than  anticipated,  many  factories 
h iv in g   already  completed  their  crop. 
This  means,  of  course,  that  the  resulting 
crop  will  prove  to  be  much less  than  an­
ticipated,  but  no  reliable  estimates  are 
at  hand  as  yet.  The  total  stock  of  sugar 
in  the  United  States 
is  192,242  tons, 
against  108,103  tons  at  the  same  time 
last  year.

Canned  Goods— Very 

little,  if  any, 
in 
changes  are  to be  reported  this  week 
line  of  canned  goods.  The  strong 
any 
feeling  which  has  existed  all  through 
the  fall  is,  if  anything,  more  apparent, 
simply  because  all  lines  of canned goods 
are  so  nearly  cleaned  up  that  no  uneasi­
ness  is  caused  to  the  packers  or  holders 
as  to  the  future,  especially  as  the  cost 
of  manufacturing  all  lines  of  canned 
goods  is  about  I2^c  a  dozen  more  than 
it  was  when  these  goods  were  produced. 
ideas  strengthened 
Not  only  are  their 
by  the  conditions 
just  mentioned,  but 
the  general  prosperous  condition  of  the 
whole  country  acts  as  a  stimulant,which 
will  be  sure  to  maintain  the  present 
firmness  and  bring  about  renewed  activ­
ity  shortly  after the  holidays. 
Indeed, 
the  situation  is  such  that  it warrants  one 
to  believe  that  this  change  may  take 
place  before  the  holidays,  and  the  only 
thing  that  keeps  it  back  is  that  the  job­
bers  of  canned  goods  are  so busy  filling 
their Christmas  orders  that they  actually 
haven’t  the  time  to  look  after canned 
goods.  This 
is  the  case  year  after  year 
and  the  buyer  who  takes  advantage  of 
this  state  of  affairs  will  have  reaped  the 
benefit  of  a  shrewd  act.  The features  of 
interest  are  centered  in  tomatoes,  straw­
berries,  oysters,  gooseberries,  and  string 
beans— all  of  which  have  felt  the  touch 
of  the  market.  Tomatoes  are  a  little 
are  no 
bit 
changes 
is  ex­
pected  that  buyers  will  begin  looking 
after  peas  soon  after  the  close  of  the 
year,  and that  means  higher  prices.  The 
quantity  available  is  small.  There  are 
some  sales  of  futures  now,  indicating 
that  distributors  expect  active  competi­
tion.  There  is  little  change 
in  com. 
Buyers  give  attention  to  futures,  and 
sales  are  moderately  heavy,  but  not  so 
much  so  as  a  week ago.  Dealers  expect 
active  buying  after  Jan.  1.  String  beans 
are  now  selling  at  the  cost  of  produc­
tion.  There  never  was  any  reason  why 
the  price  of  string  beans  should  have 
declined  and  every  reason  why  they 
should  advance.  Prices  are  the  same  as 
at 
last  reports,  but  everything  looks  to­
ward  an  advance.  California  fruits  are 
scarce  and  prices  tend  upward  on  all 
varieties.  The  conditions  are  about  the 
same,  but  trade  has  been  seriously  re­
stricted  by 
lack  of  supplies.  Peaches 
are  higher than  they  ever  were  before, 
because  of  shortage.  Apricots,  which 
were  a 
large  pack,  are  about  cleaned 
up,  having been  so  generally  substituted 
in
for  peaches.  Other  varieties  are 

there 
in  the  quotations. 

firmer,  although 

It 

much  the  same  position  and  prices  are 
tending  upward.  The  cove  oyster  pack­
ers  are  experiencing  one  of  the  most 
unsatisfactory  seasons  they  have  ever 
had  to  contend  with.  The  receipts  of 
oysters,  instead  of  increasing,  have  de­
creased  and  the  price  is  about  20c  per 
bushel  higher  than  the  usual  cost. 
In 
view  of  this  condition  of  affairs  it  does 
lower 
not  look  as  if  there  would  be  any 
prices  for  oysters  and  it  is  very 
likely 
that  there  will  be  an  advance.  Reports 
are  that  outside  of  red  Alaska  there 
is 
nothing  in  salmon  to  be  had 
from  first 
hands  and  even  these  will  not  last  long. 
Not  at  any  time 
in  the  history  of  the 
industry was  the  market  from  first  hands 
so  well  cleaned  up,  and  this,  too,  with 
several  months  ahead  before  the  1900 
pack.  There  are  reports  that  contracts 
have  been  made  for  next  season’s  pack 
of  Sacramento  and  also  of  Columbia 
River  subject  to  opening  price.  Prices 
are  unchanged,  but  the  market  is  very 
firm.  The  sardine  factories  along  the 
coast  of  Maine  are,  with  few exceptions, 
now  closed  down  for the  season.  There 
is  no  change  in  prices,  but  the  market 
has  an  upward  tendency.

The 

raisins. 

Dried  Fruit— It is now  certain  that  the 
total  crop  of  raisins  in  California  this 
season  will  be  exceptionally  light,  most 
estimates  now  being  2,000  cars.  Stand­
ard  raisins  are  unobtainable,  what  few 
are  still left in  packing houses  being  not 
sufficient  for  orders  already  booked  by 
the  various  packers.  The  weather  dur­
ing  the  past  month  has  been  very  un­
favorable  for  curing  and  very  few  more 
Pacific  raisins  will  be  delivered.  All 
the  raisins  that  will  come  in  from  now 
on  will  be  packed  into  Orientals. 
It  is 
not  expected  that  there  will  be  a  very 
large  quantity  of  Orientals,  as  a  big 
proportion  of  the  raisins  now  out  will 
have  to  be  sold  to  the  wineries,  being 
too  badly  rain-damaged  for  any  other 
purpose.  There  has  been  no  sun  to 
partially  dry  the  raisins  and  give  them 
the  proper  color  before  being  put  in  the 
dryers,  consequently  many  of  the  grow­
ers  who  have  good  dryers  have  been  un­
able  to  make 
raisins 
have  to  be  colored  on  both  sides  in  the 
open  air  before  being  artificially  dried, 
as  they  will  not  color  at  all  in  the  dry­
ers.  Growers  have,  therefore,  had  to 
leave  their  raisins  out  and  they  have 
absorbed  so  much  moisture  that  they 
are  actually 
in  many  cases  not  even  fit 
for  winery  purposes  and  some  of  the 
rain-damaged  stock  delivered  at 
the 
wineries  has  been  turned  down  on  ac­
count  of  rot.  While  the  demand  for  spot 
raisins  is  not  large,  we  are  of  the  opin­
ion  that  all  Pacific  and  Oriental  raisins 
will  certainly  go  into  consumption  in­
side  of  sixty  days.  There  is  reported 
to  be  a  scarcity  of  four  crown  raisins 
and  in  some  places  an  advance  in  price 
is  expected.  Prices  are,  however,  un­
changed  as  yet.  There  is  nothing  par­
ticularly 
in  the  prune  mar­
ket.  The  demand  is  fair  at  previously 
reported  prices.  Peaches  are  quiet,  but 
prices  hold.  firm.  Very  few  are  left  in 
first  hands  on  the  coast  and 
second 
hands  are  not  particularly  anxious  to 
sell.  Apricots  sell  only  in  small  quan­
tities  and  trade  is  limited  to  relatively 
small  orders.  Jobbers  are  the  only  hold­
ers  and  show  no  anxiety  to  dispose  of 
their  goods.  Figs  are  easy,  but  sales 
are  in  small  quantities  only.  Spot stocks 
are  low,  but apparently  sufficient  to  sup­
ply  the  demand.  Dates  move  out  freely 
at  firm  prices  with  the  prospect  of  an 
advance  in  the  near  future.

interesting 

Rice— Rice  dealers  are  at  present 
it  difficult  to  dispose  of  stocks

finding 

and  the  market  is  decidedly  dull.  Local 
jobbers  are  apparently  well  stocked  and 
but  few  of  them  are  in  the  market  at 
present.

Tea— Business 

now,  with  only  a 
and  there.

in  tea 

is  very  quiet 
few  small  sales  here 

Fish— The  demand  for  salt  mackerel 
is  beginning  to  fall  off  considerably and 
receipts  from  now  on  are  expected  to be 
lighter.  Advices  from  Gloucester  are  to 
the  effect  that  offerings  of  cured  codfish 
are  on  the  market  at  from  i^ ij^ c   per 
pound  below  the  regular  quotations.
I Stocks  of 
low  grade  fish  are  said  to  be 
accumulating.

It 

is  practically 

Molasses  and  Syrups— The  cane  juice 
crop 
finished  and  the 
grinding  of  cane  is  expected  to  be  fin­
ished 
in  about  ten  days.  Sellers  are 
holding  off  for  higher  prices,  with  the 
market  excited. 
is  estimated  that 
fully  50  per  cent,  of  the  open-kettle  mo­
lasses  crop  has  already  been  marketed, 
and  that  not less  than  75  per  cent,  of  the 
cane  syrup  of  this  crop  has  passed  from 
the  hands  of  the  planter.  The  demand 
for  corn  syrup 
in  cans  is  very  active. 
The  cans  are  scarce  and  much  higher 
prices  on  syrup  in  this  style  of  package 
are  expected  in  a  few  days.

Nuts— Trade 

in  nuts  has  been  active 
during  the 
last  week,  and  prices  have 
been  steady  on  all  varieties,  with  some 
indications  of  an  advance  on  the  most 
wanted  goods.  Arrivals  of  French  wal­
nuts  are  large, nearly 6,000  bags  arriving 
in  New  York  last  week.  The  goods  are 
meeting  an  active  demand,  as  the  mar­
ket  is bare  of  all  sorts.  The  steamships 
loading  in  France  have  so  much  freight 
that  many  consignments  of  nuts  have 
been  crowded  out,  which  has  added  to 
the  difficulties  in  getting  sufficient  sup­
plies  to  meet  the  demand,  but  they  have 
been  coming  in  in  larger quantities  the 
last  few  days.  The  market  is  firm,  but 
with  no  quotable  change.  There  have 
been  large  sales  of filberts,  but  the  price 
is  so  high  that  the  trade  are  beginning 
to  turn  toward  the  cheaper  grades  of 
nuts. 
In  view  of  the  large  demand  and 
high  prices  for  all  descriptions  of  nuts 
for  holiday  consumption,  dealers  are 
giving  more  attention  than  usual  to pea­
nuts.  They  are  cheaper  than  almost  any 
other  variety  and  for  this  reason,  and 
also  because  they  are  extensively  used 
in  confectionery,  a 
lively  trade  is  ex­
pected.  Almonds  and  walnuts— two  va­
rieties  that  more  than  others  are  asso­
ciated  with  the  holiday  trade— are  in 
limited  supply  and  consequently 
too 
high  in  price  to  permit of great activity, 
especially  among  the  large  mass  of  con­
sumers.  Peanuts,  on  the  other  hand, 
are  in  better  supply,  lower in  price  and, 
consequently,  meet  the  views  of  buyers 
more  nearly  than  the  almond  and  wal­
nut.  Prices  are  the  same  as  at  last  re­
ports,  but  the  market  is  very  firm.

little  or  no  movement 

Green  Fruits— Business 

in  the  green 
fruit  line  is  very light  at  present.  There 
is 
in  lemons. 
Prices  remain  the  same,  but  a  further 
decline,  due  to  the  lack  of  demand,  is 
not  an 
Bananas  are 
firm  and  prices  rule steady on all  grades. 
Arrivals  are  much  less  than  last  year  at 
this  time,  but 
lack  of  demand  keeps 
prices  from  advancing.

improbability. 

Rolled  Oats— The  rolled  oats  market 
is  weak  and  prices  show  a  decline of 25c 
per  bbl.  and  10c  per case.

E.  C.  Dinkel  &  Co.  have  opened  a 
grocery  store  at  Delton.  The  stock  was 
furnished  by  the  Musselman  Grocer  Co.

For  G illies’  N.  Y . 

tea,  all  kinds, 

grades  and  prices,  phone  Visner,  800

6

Policem en  in  P oor  Buttinesfi.

Some  of  the  Grand  Rapids  policemen 
have  gone  into  the  boycotting  business. 
While  on  their  regular  beats,  and  under 
pay  to  protect  the  interests  of  the  peo­
ple  whom  they  are  sworn  to  serve,  they 
are  pursuing  a  systematic canvass  of  the 
grocery  trade  for  the  purpose  of  ascer­
taining  who  are  members  of  the  Retail 
Grocers’  Association  and  who  are  not, 
in  order  that  they  may  concentrate  their 
trade  with  those  grocers  who  are  not 
affiliated  with  that  organization.  The 
reason  for  such  action  on  the  part  of  the 
policemen  is  the  stand  taken  by  the  Re­
tail  Grocers’  Association  on  the  ques­
tion  of  changing  the  custom  of  paying 
policemen  from  a  monthly  to  a  semi­
monthly  basis.  Frequent  pay  days  are 
usually  desirable,  but  the  movement  to 
that  end  recently  fathered  by  Alderman 
Phillips  was  inspired  by  a  few  men  on 
the  force  whose  reputations  for  paying 
store  bills  and  current  accounts  are  not 
above  par.  The  Board  of  Police  and 
Fire  Commissioners 
is  very  particular 
to  enquire 
into  the  character of  all  ap­
plicants  for  positions  on  the  police 
force,  but  the  temptations  surrounding 
a  policeman  are  so  great  that  many  are 
unable  to  withstand  the  pressure  and 
develop 
into  dead-beats  and  rascals. 
Some  of  the  cleverest  scoundrels  the 
city  has  known  have  held  places  on  the 
police  force— men whose  intentions  were 
good  and  whose  lives  were  blameless  up 
to  the  time  they  entered  the  employ  of 
in  the  capacity  of  policemen. 
the  city 
On  the  theory  that 
is  the  hit  bird 
that  flutters,  it  may  be  safely  stated  that 
those  policemen  who  are  going  around 
among  the  grocery  trade,  trying  to  in­
timidate  the  dealers  who  belong  to  the 
organization  to  which  they  owe  their 
salvation  from  the  general  demoraliza­
tion  which  prevails  in  Detroit  and  other 
cities  where  margins  have  been  dissi­
pated  by  strife  and opposition,  probably 
belong  to  the  dead-beat  class  and should 
be  so  treated  by  the 
trade.  To  the 
credit  of  the  grocers,  it  may  be  stated 
that  but  one  grocer  disgraced  himself 
by  denying  his  birthright  and  playing 
into  the  hands  of  the  intimidators  and 
boycotters.  A  compensating  circum­
stance 
is  that  this  dealer  is  himself  a 
dead-beat,  having  no  rating  with  the 
mercantile  agencies,  no  credit  with  the 
jobbing  houses  and  no  standing  as  a 
man  or  citizen.

it 

H ides,  P elts,  F urs,  Tallow   and  W ool.
The  hide  market 

is  strong  in  price 
and  well  sold  up.  The  country  take  off 
is  extremely  light  and,  while  there  is  no 
advance  for  this  line  of  stocks,  they  are 
eagerly  sought  for  and  taken.

Pelts 

feel  the  pulse  of  the  advancing 
wool  market  and  sell  accordingly.  Lots 
which  were  held  up 
for  a  short  time 
have  disappeared.

Furs  are 

in  good  demand,  although 
manufactured  goods  have  not  sold  as 
freely  as  dealers  wished,  on  account  of 
the  warm  weather.  There 
is  a  good 
demand  for  raw  stocks.  The  catch  is 
small,  although  the  quality  is  good.

Tallow  is  quiet,  with  fair  demand  for 

daily  wants.

Wool 

is  firm,  with  an  advance 

in 
value  that  dealers  had  not  looked  for  so 
soon,  although 
it  has  been  expected  for 
the  past  two  years.  Wools  which  sold 
last  month  in  the  State  at  22c  will,  to­
day,  bring  25c  and  are  likely  to  go  still 
higher.  There 
is  not  much  hesitancy 
in  accepting  the  goods  at  any  price 
asked.  There  are  but  few  lots  held  in 
the  State,  outside  of  Detroit,  and  those 
are  held  for  higher  values.

Wm.  T.  Hess.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Crockery  and  Glassware

A K RO N   STONEW ARE. 

a  miserable  makeshift  of  an  easy  chair 
— a  thing  all  angles  and  discomfort— the 
best  they  could  do,  but 
in  which  the 
poor,  queer  back  found  no  rest  or  ease. 
I  could  have  taken  the pain-racked body 
in  my  soft  arms  and  soothed  and  com­
forted  it,  and  she  would  have  found  un­
ending  pleasure  in  my  pretty  coloring. 
This  woman  knew  this  girl,  but  she 
stored  me  away  in  her  garret,  where  1 
was  left  to  mold  and  mildew  and  where 
the  rats  gnawed  my  brocade  and  I  fell 
to  pieces  of  very  uselessness. 
I  accuse 
this  woman  of  wanton  selfishness.

the

imaginable  kind 

“ Then  came  a  nondescript  collection 
of  clothes— baby  clothes,  men’s  clothes, 
women’s  clothes,  old  hats,  old shoes,  < 
overcoats— every 
garment,  and  they  all  began  to  speak 
‘ She  never  went  out  on  the  street 
once'. 
in  winter, 
shrilled  the  little  garments 
‘ that  she  didn’t  see  half-clad  little  ch”  
dren  shivering  on  the  street
comer,
we  hung  on  pegs  in  the  garret  until 
moths  devoured  us.  There  was  not 
year  that,  within  a  half  mile  of  h 
house,  there  were  not  babies  bom 
mothers  too  poor  to  provide  them  wi 
the  commonest  necessities  and  to  who... 
a  few  garments  from  the  chests  of  baby 
clothes  her  own  children  had  outgrowi 
would  have  been  a  boon  from  heaven 
yet  we  were  left  to  yellow  and  rot,  be 
cause,  forsooth,  she  had  a  sentiment 
feeling  about  us.  How  does  that  senti 
look  now?’  and  I  bent  my  head 
ment 
speechless, 
under  the  condemnation 
Presently  they all  began speaking again 
I  could  have  saved the  shivering wretch 
who  put 
in  her  coal  one  winter’s  day 
from  the  rheumatism  that  crippled  hi 
for  life ,’  said  an  old  overcoat. 
‘ I  could 
have  made  a  young  g irl’s  heart  sing  for 
joy, ’  sighed  an  old  ball  dress  that  had 
been  put  away  so  long  I  had  forgotten 
it. 
‘ We  could  have  kept  many  feet  off 
of  the  cold,  wet  pavements,’  murmured 
the  shoes,  and  then  they  all  joined 
kind  of  chorus:  ‘ She  could  have  clothed 
and  comforted  many  and  she  did  not 
do  it. 

Inhuman !  inhuman !’

B u tters

Vt gal., per  doz.............
1 to 6 gal., per  gal......
8 gal. each....................
10 gal. each...............
12 gal. each.................. ’
15 gal. meat-tubs, eacli 
20 gal. meat-bibs, each. 
25 gal. meat-tubs, each. 
30 gal. meat-tubs, each.

2 to 6 gal.,-per  gal..........
Chum Dash
“ ashers, per doz.

M ilkpans
Vt gal. flat or rd. hot., per doz. 
1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each......

F in e G lazed M ilkpang

Vt gal. flat or rd. hot., per doz..
1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each.............

Stew pans
Vt gal. fireproof, ball, per  doz..
1 gal. fireproof, bail, per  doz.

& gal., per  doz.......................
4  gal. per  doz............................ .........
1 to 5 gal., per  gal........................."

T om ato  Ju g s
4  gal., per  doz..............................
1  gal., each......................................
Corks for Vt gal., per doz.................. ”
Corks for  1  gal., per doz............

P reserve  J a r s   and  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 GaUons......................
“lovers.......................................... ..." '
Rubbers.......................

LA M P  BURNERS

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

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LA M P  CHIMNEYS—Seconds

40 
5 
48 
60 
72 
1  05
1  40
2  00 
2 40

50
64
20
30

4 00 
4 25 
6  00 
2  00 
25

37
38 
60
1  00 
45
60
80
50

1  28
1  42

2  12
2  10

1  50 
1  60
2 45

2  15
3  15

.

, 

, 

, 

- 

/ 

„  

I  

, “ T

it  away. 

ones  discarded.

,UIr :   things  that  accumulate 

“ Of  course,  in  time,  the  garret  began 
to  be  a  burden,  it  was  so  full  of  things; 
 but  I  never  for  a  moment  dreamed  of
it.

W om an’s World
with  a  self-righteous  feeling  that  no 
matter  what  other  women  did,  I  was 
g"""......1
wasting  nothing.  As  soon  as  I  finished 
How  to  R elieve th e  P overty o f th e W orld.
with  a  gown  I  carefully  packed  it  away 
The  time  of  the  year  is  upon  us  now 
in  the  attic.  When  I  tired  of  a  hat  I 
when  women’s  thoughts  turn instinctive­
stored 
I  gathered  up  all  the 
ly  to  charity  and  when  women  begin  to 
children’s  broken  toys and  sent them up. 
plan  church  fairs  and  bazars  and 
fes 
Old  furniture  followed  suit  and there got 
tivals  and  concerts,  which  like  ravening 
to  be  chests  of  outgrown  clothing  and 
lions  wili  ' be  turned  loose  on  the  com 
old  bedding  and  a  wagonload  of  worn 
munity  to  seek  whom  they  may  devour. 
shoes  and  all  the  odds  and  ends  of 
As 
it  exists,  the  charity  entertainment
things
in  a  family  of
“   H.rwTnH  h T lT  
is  a  dark  and  blot,dy  mystery  for  wh.ch  Well-to-do  people  where  new  articles 
. 7 7
no  adequate  excuse  has ever been offered Lr» 
being  continually  bought  and  old 
to  a  civilized  community.  Unless  it 
run  on  the  liberal  lines  of  a  confidence 
game,  where  the  victim  is  decoyed  in 
and
then  robbed,  its  profits  are  sma
vr 
1
i  • 
—mi 
will  claim  for  a  moment  that  there 
any  pleasure  in  it. 
It  is  always  accom 
panied  by  dissensions  and  aggravation 
and  strife,  and  ends,  so  far  as 
its  pro­
jectors  are  concerned,  in  exhaustion  of 
mind  and  body.

e I the  possibility  of  ridding  myself  of 
I  was  like  all  other  women  and  I  had
kind  of  dim,  religious  belief  that  some 
time  my  life  would  be  saved  or  I  would 
be  made  rich  or  something  of  the  kind 
by  some  article  I  had  tucked  away  ii 
the  attic.  Nothing  of  the  kind  hap 
Yet,  in  spite  of  all  this,  the  charity 
pened,  naturally. 
It  never  does,  but 
entertainment  continues  to  exist  and 
went  on  adding  to  the  store  and  dread 
flourish.  Year after  year  the  sa
me  weary I ing  the  annual  overhauling  and straight
and  dispirited  committees  go  around  ening  up  until  a  couple  of  years  ago 
soliciting  contributions  and  the  same  Then,  one  day,  I  had  just  finished  the 
good  pious  self-sacrificing  people  go  fall  cleaning  and,  perfectly  exhausted 
and  buy  each  other  s  cakes  and  eat each  I  threw  myself  down  on  a  couch  to  rest 
other  s  salads  and  listen  to  each  other’s  a 
little  before  dressing  for dinner, 
sons  and  daughters  warble  in  amateur  was  so  tired  I  fell  asleep  at  once  and 
concerts.  Why  in  the  world  any  woman | had  the  queerest  dream.
would  rather  bake  a  cake  that  costs  her 
‘ ‘ I  dreamed  that  I  was  dead  and  that
$2,  plus  the 
labor,  than  to  give  the  $2 
I  had  gone  up  to  the  judgment  bar  to 
outright,  or  why  anybody  would  pay 
answer  for  the  deeds  done  in  flesh. 
I 
from  50  cents  to S i.50  for a  ticket  to  a 
frightened,  for  I  had  run 
wasn’t  much 
entertainment  that  bores them,  in prefe
the church  fairs  and  bazars  and  char­
| | ________
ence  to  presenting  the  money  at  once  to 
ity  entertainments  in  my end  of the town 
the  good  cause  they  want  to  help  along,  I and  I  thought  pretty 
well  of  myself  and
is  one  of  the  unsolvable  mysteries  of  wasn’t  in  the  least  surprised  not  to  find 
life.
Probably  it  is  because  we  are  not  any  special  indictment  out  against  me 
yet  educated
ucated  up  to  giving  freely  with-  but  pretty  soon,  while  I  waited,  I  saw 
out  getting  something  by  way  of  return,  the  strangest  procession  coming  towards 
or  maybe  it  is  because  we  want our alms  me.  I  looked  and  InnWeH
me.  I  looked  and  looked  and  to  my hor­
to  be  seen  by  others,  or,  it 
is  more I 
ror  perceived  that  it  was  the  contents  of 
likely,  because  we  still  are  the  victim 
my  garret  coming up  to  confront me.  As 
of  custom  and  of  doing  things  like  our| 
you  may  imagine,  I  was dumb  with  sur- 
foremothers  did.
rise,  but  each  article  had 

found 

. . .  

.  . 

, 

I  would

not  be  thought  to  say  one  I tongue,  and  one  by  one  they  began  to 
word  against  any  charity  that  has  for  its I accuse  me.  The  first  to  speak  was  a 
object  the  alleviation  of  the  sufferings  set of  springs  that  1  had  discarded  when 
if  the  poor  and  unfortunate.  If  this  can  I  bought  my  brass  bed. 
mly  be  done  by  means  of  church  fairs I 
‘ I  have  been rusting in the garret for 
and  bazars,  then  let us  have  church  fairs  years  and  years,’  it  said,  ‘ yet  this  worn 
and  bazars,  no  matter  how  much  work I an 
and  worry  they  entail,  but  it  does 
look I Christian  and  knew  a  dozen  poor  wash 
as  if,  in  this  enlightened  day,  we  ought  erwomen  who  never  had  anything  bet 
to  be  able  to  devise  some  more  humane  ter  to  rest  upon,  after  their  hard  day’s 
way  of  dealing  with  the  subject—some 

charitable  and 

calls  herself 

than  a  sack 

toil, 

the 

that  would  not 

involve  nervous I laid upon  boards.  To  any  one  of  them
prostration  for  the  saints  engaged  in  the 11  would  have  been  a  godsend.  She  laid 
good  work ;  some  way  that  would  not I softly  every  night  of  her  life,  and  she 
convert  the  womenof one’s acquaintance  never once  thought  of  what  a  comfort 
robbers I could  have  been;  how  I  could  have 
into  temporary  bandits  and 
every  time  there  was  a  church  fair,  and,  eased 
and 
above  all,  some  way  that  would  put  a  brought  healing  sleep  to those who found 
stop,  once  and  for  all,  to  that  outrageous  none 
on  their  hard  pallets. Stored
form  of  polite  blackmail  that  consists in  her garret,  I  was  of  comfort  to  no  hu-
sending  batches  of  tickets  through  the  man  being  and  I  accuse  her  of  cri 
iminal
mail  with  a  hold-up  note  requesting  you | thoughtlessness. ’
to  "please  remit.”

tired,  aching  bodies 

-  „r  _  I*.  I ____ _: _1  T  .... .  • 

In  the  meantime,  the poor  and  the  un- 
mprovi 
charitv

“ The  next  was  a  big,  old-fashioned, 
cushioned  chair  that  I  had  sent  up 
in 
fortunate,  the  shiftless  and  the 
the  attic  when  I  refurnished  the  house. 
dent,  are  always  with  us.  The
I  remember  at  the  time  that  I  had
problem  becomes  a  greater  problem  rather  a  thrill  of  pride  in  thinking  how
PVPrv  Hav  Qnrl  fkie 
every  day,  and  this  reminds me  of  a  lit­
economical  I  was  in  not  throwing  any 
tle  story  a  woman  told  me  not  long  ago 
of  the  old  furniture  away,  but,  instead, 
about  how  she  solved  i t :
it  so  carefully  away. 
stored 
It  didn’t 
seem 
just  that  way  now,  for the  chair 
said :

“ You  know,”   she  said,  “ that  I  come 
of  thrifty  people,  and  I  was  brought  up
in  the  belief  that  it  was a  woman’s  first I 
too,  bear  witness  against  her. 
duty  in  life  to  hold  onto everything  she  There  was  a  poor,  crippled  girl  who 
got  her  hands  on.  So,  when  I  was  mar- 
lived  on  a  street  she  used  often  to  pass 
ried  and  we  built  a  house,  my  first  care  The  girl  was  dwarfed  of  mind  and  body 
was  to  establish  an  attic  big  enough  to  and  her only  pleasure  in  life  was  to  sit 
hold  the  accum ulations  of  a  lifetim e.  It  at  the  window  and  watch  the  panorama 
worked  beautifully  and  I  went  around J of  the  street.  Her  family  had  fixed  her

.  ®

I, 
‘ I.

“  

- 

filled  with straw  and

Then  came  the  old  books  and  maga 
zines  and  picture  papers.  You  know 
how  you  store  them  away,  thinking  you 
will  go  back  and  read  them  over,  and 
how  you  never do  it. 
‘ We  had  treasures 
to  give  to  m any,’  they  said,  ‘ yet  we 
gave  to  none.  This  woman  knew  of 
boys  who  were  hungry  for 
information, 
she  saw  the  wistful  eyes  with which they 
devoured  the  papers  and  magazines  on 
the  book  stalls,  and  which  they  were  too 
It  might  have  been  that 
poor  to  buy. 
something 
in  us  would  have  inspired 
them  to  higher  effort,  or  have  lighted 
the  fires  of  genius  in  their  souls.  She 
knew  of  lonely  country  homes  where 
; 
new  book  comes  like  a  rift  of  sunshine, 
where  even  a  magazine  is  treasured  and 
read  over and  over  again.  What  pleas 
ure  we  might  have  given,  how  we  might 
have  broken  the  dull  melancholy  of  the 
I°ng>  monotonous  winter  evenings,  but 
she  stored  us  away  in  her garret,  and 
we  died  with  all  our  sweetness and  light 
untasted.  Because  she  thought  of  no 
one  else’s  pleasure  but  her  own,  we  ac 
cuse  this  woman  of  utter  lack  of  sym 
pathy. *

“ And  so  it  went  on,”   continued  the 
woman,  “ each  single  thing  that  I  had 
treasured  so  carefully  bringing  its  aw­
ful  indictment  against me,  until in  sheer 
horror  I  woke  up,  but I  had  gotten  a  les­
son  I  have  never  forgotten.  The  very 
next  morning  I  started  out  and  I  never 
rested  until  everything  in  that  blessed 
garret  had  gone  where  it  would  do  good 
to  somebody.  I  have  never accumulated 
anything  since  and  you  haven’t  any 
dea,  until  you  try it,  how  grateful  other 
people  are  for  the  things  that  are  no 
longer  of  use  to  you. 
I  honestly  believe 
the  poverty  of  the  world  could  be  re- 
ieved 
if  the  contents  of  the  garrets  of 
the  rich  and  well-to-do  could  be divided 
out  among  the  ones  who  need  them. 
I 
don  t  know  that  I  believe  much 
in 
dreams  and  warnings,  and  I  don’t  know 
how  it  is  going  to  be  with me at the last, 
but  there’s  one  thing  sure,  I ’m  not  go­
ing  to  have  to  face  that  accusing  garret 
in  reality  at  the  judgment  d a y .”

Dorothy  Dix.

Per box of 6  doz. 

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

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

Jo. 0 Sun. 
No. 1 Sun. 
No. 2 Sun.

F irst  Q uality 

No. 0 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 
No. l Sim, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 
No. 2 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab.

XXX  F lin t

o. 0 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 
No. 1 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 
o. 3 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab.
CHIMNEYS—P e a rl Top 

No. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled.  .
No. 2 Sim, wrapped and labeled.......
No. 2 Hinge, wrapped and labeled... 
No. 2 Sun,  “Small  Bulb,”  for  Globe

Lamps..........................

L a  B astie

o. 1 Sun, plain bulb, per doz.............
o. 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)— ............”
E lectric
No. 2 Lime (70c  doz)..........
No. 2 Flint (80c  doz)...............

O IL  CANS 

gal.  tin cans with spout, per doz 
gal. galv. iron with  spout, per doz.. 
gal. galv. iron with  spout, per doz 
gal. galv. iron with  spout, per doz " 
gal. galv. iron with  spout, per doz 
gal. galv. iron with faucet, per doz 
gal. galv. iron with faucet, per doz
gal. Tilting cans...............................
gal. galv. iron  Nacefas...........
P u m p   Cans
gal. Rapid steady stream..................
gal. Eureka, non-overflow...
gal. Home Rule..................
gal. Home Rule...............
gal. Pirate King.........................
LANTERNS

0 Tubular, side lift...................... 
1 B Tubular............................
13 Tubular, dash...............
1 Tubular, glass fountain...........’.
12 Tubular, side lamp....................
3 Street lamp, each...................
LANTERN  GLOBES 
>. 0 Tub,, cases 1 doz. each, box, 10c.
. 0 Tub., cases 2 doz. each, box, 15c.
0 Tub., bbls 5 doz. each, per bbl..
0 Tub,, buU’8 eye, cases 1 doz. each

'

2 55
2  75
3  75

3 70
4  70 
4  88

90 
1  15 
1  35 
1  60

3 50
4 00 
4 70

4 00 
4 40

1  40 
1  75 
3 25
3 75
4  85
4  85
5 35 
7  25 
9 00
8 50 
10 50 
10 50 
12  00
9 50

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

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S T A T E   OF  M ICHIGAN 
,

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.  29,1899, 
and  saw  the  edition  mailed  in  the  usual 
manner.  And 
further  deponent  saith 
n°t- 

John  DeBoer.

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

notary  public 
this  second  day  of  December,  1899.

Notary  Public  in  and  for  Kent  County 

Heniy  B.  Fairchild, 

Mich.

GEN ERA L  TR A D E  R EV IE W .

in  a 

With  nearly  all  records  of  production 
and  traffic  being  broken  from  week  to 
week  there  is  yet  enough  conservatism 
in  the  financial  situation  in  the  East  so 
that  a  reaction 
few  of  the  most 
speculative  stocks  served  to  lower the 
record  for  the 
industrials  a  few  cents. 
In  the  great  number  of  standard  stocks 
there  was  a  moderate  advance,  but  the 
tightness  of money, with  the  adverse  for­
eign  situation  on  account  of  the  South 
African  war,  was  sufficient  to  keep  the 
market  movement  very  quiet.  The great 
activity 
the 
rapidly  increasing  earnings  is  reflected 
by  an  advance  in  the  average.  Latest 
bank  statements 
indicate  that  the  re­
serves  in  the  New  York banks are finally 
safely  above  the 
limit  and  with  this 
bugbear  out  of  the  way  an  advance  in 
all  legitimate  stocks  would  seem 
inevi­
table.

in  railway  traffic  with 

While  the  textile  trades  were the slow 
improved  condi 
est  to  respond  to  the 
increasing  activity 
tions,  the  ratio  of 
seems 
likely  to  hold  relatively  longer. 
The  most  notable  feature  of  the  trade 
is  the  activity  in  wool,  which  for  four 
weeks  reports  sales of 83,373,703 pounds, 
as  against  29,078,400  in  1898,  the  largest 
previously  reported.  While  this 
is,  of 
course,  largely  speculative 
it  is  an  in­
dex  of  the  pressure  of  activity  in  the 
woolen  goods  trade.  Prices  advanced  2 
cents  for  the  month,  making  a  high 
record  for the  last  eight  years.  The  ad­
vance 
in  goods  prices  is  slow,  but  the 
demand  continues  without  abatement. 
Cotton  prices, as well  as of  manufactured 
products,  continue  steady.  The  advance 
in  cotton  goods  in  six  months  amounts 
to  over 35  per  cent.,  while  woolen goods 
show  only  13.2  per  cent.

In  the 

iron  trade  there  is  apparently 
undiminished  pressure  of  demand  in 
raw  materials.  Mine  owners  have  fixed 
the  price  of  Bessemer ore  at  $5.50  per 
ton  at 
lake  ports  for the  coming

lower 

year,  an  advance  from  $2.53 last  spring 
Mines  are  being  opened 
in  all  direc 
tions,  and 
it  is  stated  that  120,000 tons 
of  ore  are  afloat  from  abroad  bound  for 
Philadelphia  alone.  Bessemer  reached 
$25  at  Pittsburg  and  Grey  Forge  $21.25. 
Prices 
in  plates,  sheets  and  bars  are 
suffering  somewhat  from  a  few  plants 
which  are  catching  up  with  orders,  but 
as  a  rule  works  of  every  kind  are  still 
engaged  far  ahead.

Wheat  exports,  only 18,000,000  bushels 
in  November,  against  26,000,000 
last 
year,  were  in  the  four  previous  months, 
according  to  final  returns,  66,618,976 
bushels,  flour  included,  against  73,485,- 
485  last  year.  This  would  make  about 
85,000,000,  against  100,000,000  bushels 
for  the  five  months,  whereas  com  ex 
ports 
in  the  same  months  have  been 
about  98,000,000, 
against  66,000,000 
bushels,  the  net  exports  for  four  months 
being  78,376,659, 
against  48,381,498 
bushels  last  year.  There  was  no change 
in  wheat  prices,  and  only  half  a  cent 
decline  in  com.

In  spite  of  the  restricted  movement  __ 
wheat  and  also  of  cotton,  the  exports 
from  New  York  in  November  have  been 
4Yi  per cent,  larger than  last  year,  when 
the  total  from  all  points  was  $129,800, 
000. 
Imports  here  have  been  18.7  per 
cent,  larger  than  last  year,  whith  would 
mean,  if  both  changes  were  at  the  same 
rate  elsewhere,  exports  exceeding  im 
ports by about $73,000,000  for the  month. 
The  Bank  of  England 
is  vigorously 
striving  to  prevent  exports  of  gold,  but 
the  balance  to be  paid  in  some  way 
is 
heavy,  and  although  New  York  banks 
have  now  established  a  fair  surplus  re­
serve,  the  demand  for commercial  loans 
s  not  so  small  that  credits  to  Europe 
are  likely  to be  unlimited.

There 

BRE A K ER S  AHEA D .
is  a  class  of  men  in  the  world 
lookout  for 
who  are  on  the  constant 
is  a  cloud  in  the  west 
trouble.  There 
it  has  all  the  appearance  of  a  hur­
and 
ricane.  The  sun  set 
last 
night;  there  was  a  circle  around  the 
moon  with  two  stars 
i t ;  this  fine 
weather  is  altogether too  fine  and we  are 
going  to  pay  for  it  within  the  next  ten 
days.  Better  be  wise  in  time.  There 
are  breakers  ahead.  Look  out.

in  a  cloud 

in 

There 

is  no  doubt  about  the  need  of 
prudence  always 
in  the  affairs  of  men 
and  the  business  interests  of  the  coun­
try  too  often  show  a  lamentable  lack  of 
i t ;  but  it  does  seem  as  if  it is a little  ___ 
early,  when  trade  is  pulling  itself  upon 
its  feet,  to  wonder  if  the  building-up 
trifle  too  fast  and 
not  getting  on  a 
whether  a  setback 
is  not 
imminent 
Getting  well  is all  right,but  relapses  a ., 
all  wrong  and  that  is  what  the  business 
world  to-day  must  be  guarding  against.
It  is  a  cheering  note  to  read  from  the 
East  and  the  West,  the  North  and  the 
South,that good  times  have  come  agai 
Questioned 

if  their  revived  business  _ 
boom  or  a  permanency,  the  manufac 
turers  of  New  England  and  the  Middle 
States  have  returned  no uncertain  reply 
They  have  no  men  begging  for work 
The  cotton  mills  and  the  woolen  mills 
the  silk,  the  carpet  and  the  print works 
the  rubber,  boot  and  shoe  establish 
ments;  the  clock  and  watchmakers  are 
too  busy  for  more  than  the  briefest  ans 
wer.  All  are  up  and  doing  and  whistle 
and  song  and  laughter are  following  the 
business  sunshine  as  it  travels across the 
country.

The  biggest  egg  in the world  is now i„ 
London. 
It  was  found  buried  in  sand 
in  Madagascar  by  natives.  This  egg 
known  to  naturalists  as  the  aepyorni 
maximus,  measures  nearly  a  yard  ii 
circumference,  and over a  foot  in  length. 
Its  cubical  capacity  is  equal  to  nearly 
six  ostrich  or  150 hens’ eggs.  Specimens 
of  this  gigantic  egg,  the linear  measure­
ment  of  which  is  double  that  of  a  large 
ostrich,  while  the  cubic  bulk  is  eight 
times  as  great,  have  occasionally  been 
met  with  in  London,  and  have  fetched 
as  much  as  $350 apiece.

it 

Baled  shavings  are  a  standard  article 
of  commerce  and  are  largely  used  for 
stable  bedding  and  padding 
in  straw 
is  finer  and  there  is  less 
boxes,  as 
waste. 
It  is  also  more sanitary.  Owing 
to  the  fineness  of  the  shavings,  an  un­
easy  horse  can  not  paw  the  bedding  out 
from  under him  as  he  does  when  straw 
is  used.  Feed  dealers 
in  cities  now 
sell  quantities  of  baled  shavings  for this 
purpose.  They  are  also  used  for  pack 
ing

Novelists  would  save  a  heap  of  time 
and  trouble  to  girls  who  have  but 
little 
time  to  read  if  they  would  put  the  last 
chapters  of  their books  first.

You  will  make  the  women  mad  if  you 
die  now ;  they  like to send  flowers  to the 
funeral,  but 
just  now  they  need  all 
their  money  for  Christmas.

The  man  who  wants  to  be  generous 
before  he  is  just  will  spend  for  Christ 
mas  presents  money  he  might  squander 
in  paying  his  debts.

Philadelphia 

liquor  dealers  have 
agreed  to  abandon  the  custom  of  pre­
senting 
liquor  to  their  customers  as 
Christmas  gifts

It 

laughs 

is  a  good  sign  when  the  farmers 
are  contented ;  and  the  earth  has  been 
pouring  forth  her  increase  until  bams 
and  bins  are running over.  Hear  Kansas 
and  Nebraska  rejoicing  over  their  yield 
of  corn.  See  the  exultant  smile  on  the 
ps  of  the  Sunny  South  as  she  writes  L. 
golden  figures  the  result  of  her cotton 
crop.  No  sighing  now  from  the  North 
west  where  the  wheatfields  clap  thei 
hands.  Abundance 
in  the  or 
chards  of  apple  and  orange  and-  the 
vineyards  are  redolent  of  the  breath  of 
clustering  grapes.  Surely  now,  if  ever, 
is  the  time  to  laugh  and  sin g ;  and  yet 
now,  if  ever,  the  pessimist  tells  us  we 
should  he  on  the  lookout  for breakers 
ahead!  What,  he  asks,  is  to  be  the out 
come  of 
overproduction!. 
Wheat  and  com  by  the  hundred  billion 
bushels  only 
lowers  the  price.  A   year 
with  the  manufactories  in full blast over 
stocks  the  markets;  and 
then  where 
shall  we  be?  The  mills  will  shut  down, 
every  industry  will  be  idle,  the  song  of 
the  empty  dinner  pail  will  be  heard 
again 
land,  and  “ the  mourners 
will  go  about  the  streets.’ ’

in  the 

this 

all 

It 

As  if  to  anticipate  and  to  counteract 
the  effect  of  this  gloomy  picture,  the 
Bureau  of  Statistics  opens  to  public 
view  a  page  of  current  business  history 
leaves  the  reader to  make  his  own 
and 
comment. 
is  altogether  evident  that 
the  facts  do  not  strengthen  the  pictured 
gloom.  When  for the  past  eight  months 
three  or four  million  dollars’  worth  of 
boots  and  shoes,  an  amount  double  that 
last 
year,  are  shipped  Out  of  the  country 
from  American  manufactories,  it  does 
not  foreshadow  an  overstocked  home 
market,and  this  conviction  is  not  weak­
ened  by  the  knowledge  of  where  these 
goods  go.  Great  Britain  takes $477,734 
worth,  twice  what  she  had  last  year;  the 
West  Indies  buy  $467,519  worth,  thrice 
the  amount  of  the  year before;  British 
Australasia increases her orders;  Mexico

the  corresponding  months  of 

has  almost  quadrupled  hers;  Africa's 
amount 
is  close  to  the  $100,000  mark, 
while  Asia  and  the  isles  of  Oceanicaare 
becoming  acquainted  with  and  liking 
more  and  more  the  productions  of  the 
United  States’  soil  and  handicraft.  Of 
course,  Central  and  South  America  are 
ours  and  are  growing  more  so;  and 
France  and  Germany  are  constantly 
in­
creasing  their commercial  interests  with 
this  country.  Here  are  a  few  figures  to 
confirm  the  statement  in  regard  to  Ger­
many :  Before  1897,  the  total  commerce 
between  the  two  countries  never  reached 
$200,000,000;  during  1899 
it  has  been 
$240,015,074. 
The  exports  from  the 
United  States  to  Germany  so  far this 
year  have  been  $155,772,279,  the  largest 
in  the  history  of  the  trade  between  the 
two  countries.

Another  comforting  fact,  to  those  who 
are  perfectly  willing  that  there  should 
be  breakers  ahead  provided  they  will  be 
good  enough  to  remain  there,  is  that  the 
exports  continue  to  exceed  the  imports. 
There  may  be,  there  will  be,  anxiety 
and  care  and  worry  without  end  in busi­
ness  lin es;  but  so  long  as  the  income 
exceeds  the  outgo  there  will  be  no 
chance  of  financial  disaster.  A   comfort­
able  living  is  assured  and  a  comfortable 
ddition  to  the  National  bank  account.
A   final  fact  which  the  pessimist  should 
be  willing  to  consider  is  the  increase 
which 
is  going  on  in  trade  extension. 
The  American  invention  and  the  work 
which  comes  from  it  are  outstripping all 
opposition.  France  has  come  down  to 
a  fashion  furnisher  and  is  no  longer  to 
looked  upon*as  a  business  rival; 
be 
Germany  has 
lost  her  prestige  where 
she  once  excelled ;  Great  Britain frankly 
acknowledges  the  superiority  of 
the 
United  States 
and 
in  workmanship 
cheapness  of  production;  so  that  this 
country  has  only  to  keep  on  in  the  way 
she  is  now  going,  strengthening  her  im­
portance  as  the  granary  of  the  world 
and  the  leader  in  all  natural  productions 
and  their  manufacture.  These,  main­
tained  as  they  undoubtedly  will  be  with 
■ II  the  acumen,  energy  and  industry  for 
riiich  the  nation 
is  well  known,  will 
make  the  breakers  ahead,  or anywhere 
else,  an  impossibility  and  those  who are 
prophesying  in  regard  to  them  so  many 
crokers  of  evils  which  exist  only in their 
morbid  imaginations.  Caution  is  never 
out  of  place ;  but  on  the  threshold  of  a 
prosperity  greater  than  the  country  has 
ever  known  it  is  little  less  than criminal 
by  groundless  forebodings  to  lessen  the 
success  which  is  as  certain  as  sunrise.

The  death  of  Vice-President  Hobart 
light  again  the  rather 
has  brought  to 
singular  custom  which  does  not 
invite 
any  member of  any  foreign  legation  or 
funeral  of  an 
embassy  to  attend  the 
American  who  dies 
in  office.  Each 
member  is  notified  officially,  and  that is

The  strike  started  by  thirty  girls 
working 
in  a  factory  in  Derby,  Conn., 
because  another  employe  was  permitted 
eat  limburger  cheese  with  her  lunch­
eon,  has  been  won,  and  the  offensive 
tem  has  been  banished  from  the  menu.

Japan 

little;  but  she  has  navy 
enough  to  make  the  Russian  bear  howl 

is 

'th  pain.___________

It  does  not  follow  that  a  woman  with
pug  nose  is  fond  of  a  pug  dog.

The  early  worm  was  undoubtedly 

made  for the  early  bird.

Constancy  of  purpose  is  what  corrals 

success.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

9

A  W ESTERN  W ANT.

In  scenery  she 

A   Colorado  newspaper  has  drifted  in­
to  this  office.  It  makes  strong  assertions 
in  regard  to  the  remarkable  resources  of 
that  very  remarkable  State. 
It  states, 
with  as  much  truth  as  earnestness,  that 
in  all  things  mammoth  Colorado  stands 
among  the  first. 
is  the 
Switzerland  of  America. 
In  climate 
she  is  the  sanitarium  of  the  world.  As  a 
gold  producer  she  challenges  the Golden 
State.  Her  “ spuds”   are  the  best  pota­
toes  that  soil  anywhere  produces.  Her 
melons  and her celery are  crowding other 
states  out  of  the  market.  Her  apples 
and  her  grapes  are  getting  to  be  classed 
among  the  best  in  size  and  quality. 
In 
front  rank  in  all 
fine,  standing 
in  condition,  conception, 
that 
undertaking  and  accomplishment,  she 
still  contends  that  all  these  are  as  noth­
ing  when  compared  with  her  unde­
veloped  resources.  There  is  where  she 
excels.  A   single 
feature  is  lacking  to 
make  her  the  crowning  glory  in  the 
sisterhood  of  states,  a  tide  of 
immigra­
tion  into  her  borders.

in  the 

is  big 

It  would  be  a  pleasing  task  to  dwell 
at  length  upon  these  just  claims  of  the 
Centennial  State.  Mont  Blanc,  snow 
crowned,  rules  over  the  Valley  of  Cha- 
mouni  and  the  Yungfrau,  enthrowned 
among  the  Bernese  Alps,  looks  down,  a 
queen,  upon  Interlaken  at  her  feet;  but 
the  Rockies,  with  crown  more  regal,  sit 
upon  a  loftier  throne  and  receive  with 
kinglier  splendor  the  homage  of  the 
coming  and  the  going  day.  The  roses 
that  have  faded  in  the  cheeks  of  youth, 
kissed  by  the  Colorado  sunshine,  have 
regained  their  color  and  their sweetness. 
The  soil,  intelligently  cared  for,  pours 
forth  an  unlimited  increase.  Her  moun­
tains  are  packed  with  gold  and  silver 
and  ores  equally  as  precious  and  the 
State  beckons  with 
inviting  finger  for 
the 
immigrant  to  come  and  settle  and 
make  this  State  what  it  might  be,  and 
what  it  ought  to  be,  the  grandest  in  the 
Union.
The 

immigrant,  however,  does  not 
come.  The  capitalist  makes  his  visit, 
admires  the  wonders  that  greet  him  on 
every  hand  and  with  a  smile  goes  home 
again,  satisfied  that  he  can  do  better 
where he  is.  The laborer  does  not  come, 
and  he  does  not  want  to  come.  He  lis­
tens  to  the  superlative  as  travelers  and 
the  papers  enlarge  upon  i t ;  but  between 
the  words  and  the  sentences he hears and 
sees  things  not  quite to  his  mind.  There 
floats 
in  the  western  sky  an  occasional 
cloud  too  dark  for  the sunset to brighten. 
The  natural  scenery  is  all  right  in  Col­
orado  and  there 
is  no  doubt  about  the 
undeveloped resources;  but  when  moun­
tain  and  plain  and  sunshine  and  air, 
Heaven’s  gifts,  are  permeated  with 
selfishness  he  is  contented  with  the  dis­
tance  which 
lends  enchantment  to  the 
view.

The  supreme  idea  of  looking  sharply 
out  for  Number  One,  a  trait  which  is 
said  to  make  an  early  appearance,  is 
easily  accounted  fo r:  Only  twenty-five 
years  a  state,  the  people  have  all  im­
migrated  from  somewhere.  Like  all  im­
migrants  they  have  come  to  better  their 
condition;  and,  while  all  grades  of 
life 
are  represented,  it  is  the  cold  hard  face 
of  the  necessity-struggling  class 
that 
predominates.  The  owner  of  the  dollar 
knows  by  hard  work  what  it  stands  for 
and  he  is  not  inclined  to  give  it  up  to 
his  fellowman  without  a  similar  strug­
gle ;  nor 
inclined  to  make  that 
struggle  an  easy  one.  The  health-giv­
ing  air 
the  thought, 
‘ ‘ Each  for  himself  and  D ivil  take  the 
The  thought  finds  ex­
hindermost. ”  

is  athrob  with 

is  he 

in  every  phase  of  daily  life. 
pression 
The  incoming  train  discharges  its  duty 
and 
its  passenger  at  the  rate  of  five 
cents  a  mile.  Trade  holds  him  up  for 
all  he 
is  worth.  Society  gauges  him 
and  passes  him  on  from  hand  to  hand. 
The  church  smiles  upon  him  and  hopes 
he  will  not  forget  that  Colorado  is  the 
“ Silver  State”   and  that  he  will  leave 
with  her at  least  thirty  pieces  of  silver. 
He gazes with  delight  upon  the  windows 
of  the  west  aglow  with sunset,  with  Ves­
per,  the  evening  star,  looking  down  up­
on  the  mountain-shadowed  plain— and 
wonders 
if  his  money  will  hold  out  for 
another  day  of  it.  He  goes,  and  takes 
with  him  a  pleasing  memory—at  ten 
dollars  a  d a y !

The  workingman,  whom 

the  State 
needs  most,  does  not  go  at  all.  His 
wants  are  supplied  nearer  home.  Good 
times  have  hunted  him  up  and  set  him 
to  work  at  good  wages  in  his  own  town. 
The  revival  of  prosperity  has  lighted 
the  furnace  fires,  set  the  spindles  hum­
ming  and  started  up  the  factories  and 
mines  all  over the  country.  What’s  the 
use  of  going  to  Colorado when right here 
where  he  is  the  family  basket  comes 
from  the  market  not  full  but  running 
over,  at  prices  he  can  afford  to  pay  and 
have  enough  left  to  add to his  account  at 
the  savings  bank?  So  he  hears  about 
the  beckoning 
finger,  and  the  unde­
veloped  resources,  and  the twilight trail­
ing  her  gown  of  purple  and  gold  upon 
the  sunset-kissed  splendor  of  the  moun­
tain  summits— and  concludes he’ll stay a 
while 
longer  where  the  grass  likes  to 
grow,  and  the  trees  of  their  own  accord 
spring  up  and  flourish,  and  selfishness 
isn’t  the  motto  of  the  State,  and  public 
opinion  keeps  step  with  the  National 
drumbeat.

The  Centennial  State  may  be  all  right 
and  her  natural  resources  unlimited,  but 
until  the  time  comes  when  she  has 
laid 
aside  her  foolishness  and  stopped  trying 
to  make  the  tail  wag  the  rest  of  the  dog 
the  chances  are  that  she  will  still  go  on 
with  her  beckoning,  her  arid  lands  will 
remain  uncultivated,  her  mines  unde­
veloped  and  her  territory  uninvaded  b/ 
the  much-wanted  immigrant.

One  of  the  results  of  the  late  war  with 
Spain  will be  the  change  in the furniture 
of  our  war  vessels.  Formerly  all  the 
furniture,  which  was  made  of  wood,  had 
to  be  thrown  overboard  just  before  bat­
tle  in  order  to  lessen  the  chances  of  fire. 
Metal  furniture  will take  the  place of the 
wooden,  and  the  cruiser Atlanta  is  the 
first  vessel 
it. 
The 
furniture,  consisting  of  chairs, 
tables,  sofas,  beds,  etc.,  is  made  of 
chilled  steel  tubing  and  light  wirework.

to  be  equipped  with 

is  supplied 

Near  Philadelphia 

the  widow  of  a 
clergyman  has  fitted  up  the  sunniest and 
best  rooms  in  her  house  as  workrooms 
for  invalids  and  delicate  women.  Every 
convenience 
for  comfort. 
Here  the  workers  are  taught  to  make 
all  sorts  of  useful  and  beautiful  articles 
for  sale.  They  are  engaged  at  a  regu­
lar  weekly  salary  and  a  free  lunch  is 
served  daily.  Those  who  can  not  leave 
their  rooms  are  visited  and  supplied 
with  materials for  knitting,  sewing,  etc.

in  glass, 

A  novel  exposition  is  in  progress  this 
month  in  Rome,  being  an  exposition  of 
the  different  methods  of  packing  for 
exportation,  especially  of  agricultural 
products 
linen, 
pasteboard,  etc.  The  agricultural  so­
cieties  have  sent  a  special  delegate  to 
France  to  examine  the  different  meth­
ods  of packing  for  the exportation  of  ag­
ricultural  products  of  from  two  to  forty- 
four  pounds.

tin,  straw, 

T H E   D A RK   SIDE.

The  world  has  always  been  burdened 
with  thinkers  who  only  see  the  dark 
side  of  human  existence  and  are  always 
prophesying  the  degeneration  and  final 
destruction  of  the  human  race  and  the 
annihilation  of the  globe  on  which  man­
kind  has  for  so  many  ages  lived  and de­
veloped  and  multiplied.

Within  a  century  past,  one  Malthus 
predicted  that 
in  the  course  of  a  few 
centuries  human  beings  will  become 
so  numerous  that  they  will  swarm  upon 
the  overtaxed  earth,  which  will  not  be 
able  to  furnish  them  with  food.  Then 
they  will  kill  and  eat  each other.  Geolo­
is 
gists  have  declared  that  our  globe 
drying  up  and,  as  the  central 
fires 
slowly  are  extinguished  for  lack  of  fuel 
to  feed  on,  all  the  water  upon  the  planet 
will  sink  into  the  crevices  of  the  rocks, 
and  there  will  finally  not  be  left  a  drop 
of  moisture  to  cool  the  parched  tongue 
of  the  last  man  who  may  survive.  An­
other  geologist 
foresees  the  time  when 
all  the  forests  will  have  been  cut  down 
and  burned  and  all  the  coal  will  have 
ex­
been  consumed  and 
the  mines 
hausted.  Then  the  people  upon 
the 
earth  will  freeze  to  death  and  the  race 
will  be  extinguished.

its 

There  have  been  alleged 

scientists 
who  could  see  only  the  terrible  catas­
trophes  that  are  to  overtake  this  planet 
of  ours  and 
inhabitants,  and  they 
delighted  in  parading  before  the  people 
the  predictions  of  the  dreadful  calam i­
ties  that  are  to  befall  them.  Some  of 
these  prophets  of  evil  have  even  carried 
their  fanatical  notions  so  far  as  to  have 
appointed  days  and  hours  for the  disso­
lution  of  the  solid  earth  and  the destruc­
inhabitants  and,  nothing 
tion  of 
daunted  by  repeated 
return 
again  to  their  figures  to  discover  where 
they  failed.

failures, 

its 

Ordinary  mortals  have  ceased  to  be 
scared,  however,  by  the  promises  of 
physical  disasters  to  our  planet.  They 
do  not  believe  there  is  any  danger  that 
it  will  be  knocked  into  a  cocked  hat  by 
collision  with  some  tremendous  comet. 
They  are  not  afraid  that  water  will  find 
its  way  to  the  central  fires  and  blow  up 
the  planet  by  an  explosion  of  steam. 
They  are  not  moved  by  threats  that  the 
land  of  our  globe 
is  steadily  sinking 
into  the  sea  and  that  finally  there  will 
not  be  a  speck  of  dry  ground 
for  the 
sole  of  a  human  foot  to  rest  on.

It  has  become  impossible  to  alarm  the 
human  race  with  promises  of 
such 
cataclysms,  and so  other  sets  of  theorists 
are  rising  up  to  foreshadow  calamity  to 
the  human  race.  Here  they  come  pre­
dicting  the  destruction  of  the  race  by 
deadly  microbes  that  are  seizing  on  the 
people  and  virtually  eating  them  up. 
Consumption 
is  now,  in  the  opinion  of 
these  pessimists,  the  scourge  that  prom­
ises  to  take  the  human  family  out  of 
existence  in  a  few  years  or  centuries, 
and  some  of  these wiseacres  want  to  pen 
up  all  the  consumptives  in  the  world,  so 
that  they  can  not  come  in  contact  with 
the  healthful,  before  the  disease  shall  be 
communicated  to  every  human  being 
and  sweep  all  off  from  the  face  of  the 
earth.

It  is  actually  proposed  by  the  health 
authorities  of  California  to  establish  at 
their  State  lines  quarantine  against  all 
consumptives  who  would  come  into  its 
limits,  and  .so  fence  them  out.  They 
would  have  to  supplement  such  a  propo­
sition  with  another  to  arrest  all  the  con­
for­
sumptives  already  in  the  State  and 
cibly  put  them  out,  or confine  them 
in 
perpetual  quarantine  until  all  shall  die. 
There  are  other such  theorists  who  want

laws  enacted  to  prevent  all  marriage and 
the  propagation  of  the  human  species, 
except  by  and  between  persons  who, 
upon  inspection,  shall  be  found  physic­
ally  healthful  and  perfect  in  all  respects. 
In  such  a  way  it  is  proposed  to  get  rid 
of  all  ill-health  and  deformity,  and  se­
cure  a  population  of  perfect  models 
in 
health  and  vigor  and  beauty.

It 

It 

is  truly  astonishing  that 

in  this 
democratic  age,  when  the  will  of  a  ma­
jority  of  the  people  in  each  country  and 
community  is  really  the  only  authorita­
tive  law,  men  will  put  forth  such  dicta­
torial  and  arbitrary  notions. 
is  a 
return  to  the  savage  custom  of  abandon­
ing  the  aged  and  other  helpless  classes 
that  are  unable  to  maintain  themselves 
or  to  fight. 
In  this  age  of civilization 
and  scientific  discovery,  many  diseases 
that  once  ravaged  the  populations  of  the 
earth,  and  the  famines  that  at  frequent 
intervals  carried  off  millions  of  people, 
have  become  unknown  or  impossible. 
The  death  rate  has been vastly decreased 
and  the  average  of  human  life  very  con­
siderably  prolonged.

Great  fault  is  found  with  this  state  of 
things  by  Prof.  Frank  A.  Fetter,  of  the 
Stanford  University  in  California.  He 
pleads  for  the  supremacy  of  the  natural 
law  of  the  survival  of  the 
fittest  or 
I strongest,  and  he  remarks,  with  evident 
disapproval,  that  the  progress  of  science 
and  civilization  has  had  the  effect  to 
promote  the  survival  of  the  weak  and 
feeble.  He  complains  that  medicine  is 
becoming  more  and  more  able  to  defeat 
the  attacks  of  deadly  microbes;  that 
surgery  preserves  many  an  organ  the in­
juries  to  which  in  earlier  times  would 
have  necessitated  amputation  or  pro­
duced  death ;  that  the  optician  enables 
the  weak-eyed  to  see  and  that  the  den­
the 
tist  furnishes  the  toothless  with 
means  of  biting  and  grinding 
food. 
Even  the modem methods  of  warfare  are 
objected  to,  because  the 
feeble  man 
with  a  gun  is  put  on  a  fighting  equality 
with  the  biggest  and  strongest.

it 

Thus  a  vast  deal  of  human  misery  has 
been  relieved  or  eliminated ;  but  it  does 
not  satisfy  the  writer  whose  views  are 
quoted,  because 
is  all  a  violation  of 
the  old,  brutal,  physical  law  that  only 
the  filtest  or  the  strongest  should  sur­
vive.  That,  however,  was  one  of  the 
necessary  conditions  of  savagery  of  the 
most  bestial  sort. 
Intellect,  progress 
and  enlightenment  are  able  to  annul 
this  brutal  law,  and  they  have  done  it. 
Who  shall  dare  to  obliterate  human 
philanthropy  and  put  back  the  hands  of 
the  clock  of  progress  in  this  age  of  for­
ward  and  upward  movement?  People 
to-day  will  not  tolerate  such  pessimistic 
savagery.

Great  Salt  Lake 

is  receding  on  ac­
count  of  the  excessive  drain  made  upon 
it  by  irrigation  enterprises.  The  Lake 
is  not  fed  by  underground  springs,  but 
by  the  Jordan  and  other  rivers,  and 
when  the  waters  of  these  streams  are  in­
tercepted 
the 
water  supply  of  Salt  Lake  is,  of  course, 
diminished,  so  that  the  evaporation, 
which 
is  constantly  going  on,  is  not 
made  up  by  a  new  supply. 
it 
looks  as  if  the  Lake  will  be  only  a  bed 
of  dry  salt.

irrigation  purposes 

In  time 

for 

Ex-President  Harrison 

is  one  of  the 
busiest  men  in  the  United  States to-day, 
and  he  probably  has  the  largest 
income 
of  any  lawyer  in  the  West,  if  not  in  the 
United  States.  According  to  reports  he 
received  $250,000  from  the  Venezuelan 
government  for  arguing  the  boundary 
case,  which  was  one  of  the  largest  fees 
ever  paid.

10

AMONG  T H E   RIBBONS.

How  a   M ichigan  G irl  M et  H er D estiny  in 

Chicago.

Back  in  Three  Rivers  M illie  Duncan 
had  had  a  pleasant  home  and  the expec­
tation  that  her  lines  would  fall  in  pleas­
ant  places.  But  a  bolt  came  out  of  the 
blue.  M illie’s  father  died  suddenly, 
just  at  the  wrong  time,  not  only 
and 
for  himself,  but 
for  his  family.  She 
faced  the  necessity  for  earning  her  own 
living,  and,  leaving the younger children 
and  her  mother  to  depend  upon  the 
small  income  that  remained  to  them,she 
made  a  bold  break  to  Chicago— which 
cared  nothing  about  her boldness,  but 
only  bellowed  at  her  like  an  angry  bull. 
If  M illie  was  frightened  she  did  not 
show  it.  She  found  an  ugly  little  room, 
made 
it  as  attractive  as  she  could, 
cooked  her  own  coffee  mornings,  con­
io  cent  luncheons, 
tented  herself  with 
and 
in  a  hearty  meal  only  at 
dinner  time.  For  this  function— for such 
it  was  to  M illie— she  made  a  careful 
toilet  and  entered  the  dining  room  of 
the  rather  fashionable  boarding  house 
with  the  air  of  a  princess who was amus­
ing  herself  by  an  experience  among  the 
common  people.  This  was  her  one  lux­
ury— it  was  in  this  fashion  that  she kept 
a  hold  upon  sociability.  This  gave  her 
cheer  for  her  work  and  sustained  her 
vivacity. 
to  a 
necessity.

It  amounted 

indulged 

fact 

in 

look  at 

M illie  began  to  know  the  satisfaction 
that  comes  from  work  well  done,  al­
though  the  task  be  insignificant.  She 
began  to 
life  from  a  different 
point  of  view  and  to  rejoice  that  she 
was  among  the  workers  and  that  work 
was  a  pleasure  to  her. 
In  short,  being 
a  wholesome  young  woman,  she  put  re­
gret  behind  her  and  rose  to  meet  the 
emergency  with  all  the  gallantry  in  he 
nature.

One  day  she  was  putting  her  patience 
its  full  test  with  a  trying  customer 
to 
who  could  not  be  suited  and  who  would 
not  go  away,  when  a  young  man  and 
woman  entered  and  took  chairs  side  by 
side  and  began 
looking  at  white  sati 
ribbon.

“ They  want 

it  for  a  wedding,  I’ ll 
wager,’ ’  thought  Millie  to  herself,  look 
ing  behind  the  nodding  plumes  of  the 
fretful  customer  to  where  the  two  sat

Rtiiiiis

Now  one  of  the  greatest  afflictions
that  had  come  to  her  at  a  time  when 
afflictions  seemed  to  be  pouring  thick 
and  fast  upon  her  was  leaving the vicin 
ity  where  Allen  Darrow  lived.  They 
were  not  sweethearts;  they  had  not  seen 
much  of  each  other;  but 
it  had  been 
his  presence  that  had  made a  party seem 
really  festive  to  her.  It  was  the  meeting 
with  him  casually  on  the  quiet  streets 
of  Three  Rivers  that  had  caused  her 
heart  to  leap. 
It  was  he  she  thought  of 
when  she  put  on  a  new  gown.  Or,  if 
she  did  anything  unworthy  of  her best 
self,  it  was  he she remembered,  blushing 
at  her  own  baseness. 
If  she  was  gen­
erous  or  courageous  in  any  unusual  way 
she  turned  to  thoughts  of  him  with 
joy, 
thinking  that  he  would  be  pleased  if  he 
knew.

She  had  not  said  good-by  to  him 
when  she 
left  home.  She  had  not  the 
desire  to  burden  him  with  the  details  of 
her  misfortune.  How  could  he  under­
stand,  who  had  always  lived  an  easy, 
luxurious  life,  what  responsibilities  she 
had  been  called  upon  to  face?  How 
could  he  appreciate  the  sinking  of  the 
heart  which  she  felt  in  leaving  the  re­
fined,  easy 
lazy 
hours  at  the  piano,  the  charming  circle 
of  friends,  for  the  work  and 
friendless­
ness  that  a  poor  girl  must  know  in  Chi­
cago?

the  books, 

life, 

the 

She  put  her  dreams  bravely  behind 
left  without  a  word 

her,  therefore,  and 
of  farewell.

She  was  rather  glad  when  she  found 
in  the  great  dry  goods 
that  her  work 
house,  where  the 
influence  of  friends 
had  secured  her  a  position,  was  to  be 
among  the  ribbons.  She  rioted  in  the 
color  about  her,  and,  making  up  her 
mind  that  anything  that  was  worth  do­
ing  at  all  was  worth  doing  well,  she  not 
only  studied  to  be  most  assiduous  in 
her  service  to  those  who  came  to  pur­
chase,  but  she  took  the  greatest  pride  in 
arranging  her  stock  attractively. 
So 
original  were  the  fashions  in  which  she 
set  forth  the  bolts  of  gleaming  satin  rib­
bons  that  it  was  much  noticed.  A   gruff 
floorwalker  ventured  to  compliment  her. 
The  other  girls  at  the  ribbon  counters 
were  profuse 
And

in  their  praise. 

“ I  suppose  they 
it  to  run  up  the  aisles  of  the 
I  wish  this  tiresome  old  thing 

and  laughed  together. 
mean 
church. 
would  go  and  let  me  wait  on  them .’ ’

But  the  tiresome  old  thjng  would  not 
go.  She  stayed  on,  asking  for things 
she  did  not  want,  and  Millie,  with a  po­
liteness  which  continually  grew  more 
frigid,  continued  to  supply  her  de­
mands.  But,  meantime,  she  kept  glanc­
ing  in  the  direction of the laughing pair, 
and  feasting  her  eyes  on  the  gay  attire 
and  the  happy  face  of  the  girl  who  sat 
partly  facing  her.  Golden  hair  and  blue 
eyes,  a  brilliant  golf  cape,  and  a  non­
chalant 
little  turban,  made  up  a  pleas­
ing  whole.  M illie  hoped  the  young  man 
was  as  good  looking,  and  made  up  her 
mind  that  she  would  get  a  glimpse  of 
his  face  before  he 
left.  Just  then  he 
turned  and  looked  at  her,  and  she  per­
ceived  with  a  poignant  blending  of pain 
and  delight  that  it  was  Allen  Darrow.
She  had  no  desire  then  to  wait  upon 
the  pretty  girl  or  upon  her  laughing 
companion.  Her one  thought  was  to  get 
away.  But  Allen  Darrow  had  recognized 
her,  and,  with  a  word  of  apology  to  the 
girl  by  his  side,  he  hastened  to  Millie, 
holding  out  his  hand  for a  hearty  greet­
ing-

“ Will  you  not  let  me  introduce  Miss 
Ferguson?’ ’  he  enquired.  M illie  gave 
consent,  and  the  two  girls  chatted  to­
gether  with  every  outward  appearance 
of  cordiality— a  cordiality  which  was  no 
doubt  genuine  with  Miss  Ferguson.

You  were  looking  at  the  white  satin 
ribbon,’ ’  ventured  M illie  at length,  with 
a  sort  of  obstinate  pride  in her vocation.

Did  you  wish  to  purchase  some?”
A   covert  smile 

fluttered  about  the 
young  man’s 
lips,  and  then  M illie 
blushed  at  the  knowledge  of  the  trans­
parency  of  her  motives.  As  usual,  Allen 
Darrow  understood  her  perfectly.  For­
merly  this  had  been a pleasure ;  now  she

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

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would  have  preferred  to  indulge  in  re­
serve.

“ Y es,”   Miss  Ferguson  replied 

to 
M illie’s  question. 
“ We  want  some 
white  satin  ribbon  for— for  a  wedding. 
Don’t  we,  Mr.  Darrow?’ ’

“ Indeed,  we  do,”   he 

responded, 
“ A  wedding  in  which  one 
1 

laughingly. 
or  the  other of  us  is  much  interested. 
won’t  say  which  one.”

“ 1  should  hope  both  of  us  were  inter­
it,”   cried  Miss  Ferguson, 

in 

ested 
saucily.

They  got  the  ribbon  and  went  away, 
and  after  they  had  gone  the  sense  of  her 
poverty  and  loneliness  and  need  for mo­
notonous  work  rushed  over  Millie,  and 
swallowed  up  all  her  cheer  and youth for 
the  time  being,  as  a  cold  storm  of  the 
night  seems  suddenly  to  extinguish  the 
summer  and  to  leave  only  brown 
leaves 
and  dead  fields  behind  it.  That  night 
she  could  not  bring  herself  to  dress  for 
dinner,  and  to  indulge  in  her  usual  lit­
tle  dissipation 
in  the  way  of  conversa­
tion  with  the  young  men  she  met  at  the 
boarding-house.  She  got  a  dismal  little 
meal  on  her  oil  stove  and  went  to  bed 
early,  to  toss  until  dawn,  and  so,  aris­
ing  late,  was  behindhand  at  the  store. 
The  work  had  never  before  seemed  so 
repulsive.  She 
fancied  herself  getting 
horrid  little  tricks  of  manner  like  those 
of  some  of  the  old  clerks  and  imagined 
that  she  was  already  growing  plain  and 
dull.

In  the  midst  of  this  deep  depression, 
when  all  the  store  looked  gray  and  con­
fusing,  and  the  words  of  her  fellow- 
workers  sounded  strange  and  foreign  to 
her  ear,  she  heard  some  one  enquiring 
for  her. 
It  was  an  American  District 
Telegraph  boy,  with  a  package.  A  sud­
den  shaft of anticipation pierced M illie’s 
leaden  heart.  .  She  signed  the  book with 
trembling  fingers,  and  broke  open  the 
strings  on  the  box.  Within  were  ex­
posed  to  view  the  most  glorious  Ameri­
can  beauty  roses  she  had  ever  seen. 
They  were  not  like  other  roses.  They 
were  glorified  flowers,  and  in  the  midst 
of  them  was  a  little  white  note,  reading 
as  follows:

My  Dear  Miss  Duncan— Am  I  not  to 
have  the  great  pleasure  of  calling  upon 
you? 
I  confess  I  have  not  tried  to  find 
where  you  were,  because  1  was  really 
hurt  and  offended  that  you  left  Three 
Rivers  without  saying  good-by  to  me, 
or  letting  me  know  that  you  were  going 
away.  But  now  that  I  have  seen  you  I 
can  feel  no  offense. 
I  think  I  under­
stand  the  motives  that  led  you  to  do  as 
you  did. 
I  do not  know  how  to  be  suffi­
ciently  thankful  that  I  went  with  Miss 
Ferguson  to  buy  those  wedding  bands. 
I  am  to  be  best  man  at  her  wedding, 
which  is  to  occur  next  Saturday.  She 
is  to  marry  one  of  my  best  friends,  and 
I  am  fond  of  her,  and  glad  that  you  two 
met.  But  how  I  am  running  on!  You 
see  I  want  so  much  to  talk  with you  that 
I  can  not  stop.  Kindly 
let  me  know 
where  and  when  I  may  call.  And  I  will 
be  frank  and  confess  that  my  call  is  not 
to  be  one  of  ordinary  importance  to  my­
It will  be  the  most important  visit 
self. 
I  ever  made  to  any  one. 
1  am  filled  at 
once  with  anticipation  and  dread.  But 
I  will  not  let  the  dread  get  uppermost. 
I  insist  that  my  heart  shall  sing. 
in­
sist  that  my  fate  is  to  be  fortunate,  and 
that  after  the  visit  I  shall  be  even  hap­
pier  than  I  am  now— and  I  am  happy, 
for  I  have  found  you  again.  Youis,  al­
ways, 

Allen  Darrow.

1 

When  M illie  looked  up  from  reading 
the  letter the  store  was  no  longer  gray. 
A   sort  of  golden  glory  rested over every­
thing,  and  she  turned  with  eagerness  to 
a  customer.

“ Burnt  orange  ribbon  No.  5?  Yes, 
ma’am,  we  have  a  fine  piece  I  should 
like  to  show  you.”

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

11

A n  E q u itab le  D ivision  o f  th e  Stock. 

From the Negaunee Iron  Herald.

For  some  time  Harris  &  Matthews 
have  been  endeavoring  to  arrange  their 
affairs  so  as  to  be  able  to  dissolve  part­
nership.  A  deal  for  the  transfer  of  the 
stock  was  nearly  completed  with  outside 
parties  but 
it  fell  through.  Lacking 
any  other  plan,  they  determined  to  dis­
solve  by  whacking  up  their  stock  and 
yesterday  put  the  plan  into  effect.  Mr. 
Harris  used  the  delivery  wagon  to  tote 
his  share  of  the  groceries  to  the  Red 
Front  store  on  West  Iron  street.  A  plate 
for  a  plate,  a  potato  for  a  potato, proved 
a  very  successful  way  of  making  an 
equal  division.  Mr.  Matthews  will 
continue  business  at  the  old  stand  while 
Mr.  Harris  will  be  his  competitor 
further  down  the  street.

A  fakir  in  Minnesota  is  working  the 
country  with  a  “ Cuban  rose”   in  a  box 
saturated  with  cheap  perfumery.  When 
the  box  is  opened  it  fills  the  room  with 
fragrance.  Three  seeds are  sold  for  50 
cents,  the  purchaser  paying  25  cents 
down,  the  other  half  to  be  paid  when 
the  roses  bloom,  but  they  never  do  this 
nor  does  the  flower  gentleman  return, 
for  the  seeds  are  sweet  peas.

An  employer  often  values  a  man  by 
the  number  of  suggestions  he  doesn’t 
make.

g  Take a Receipt for g 
I

Everything 

lars, or a lawsuit, or a customer. 

It  may save you a  thousand  dol-  Rj 
fiJ 
W e  make  City  Package  Re-  n] 
ceipts  to  order;  also  keep  plain  =1 
ones in stock.  Send for samples,  uj

SSj

BARLOW  BROS, 

O'  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN.
^ s a s a s a s a s a s g q a s a s g s a s a y

Rare  Chance

The old established business 
of  J.  Lowenthal  &  Co.,  Mo­
bile,  Ala.,  consisting  of  a 
stock  of  Dry  Goods,  No­
tions,  Crockery  and  Glass­
ware,  with  lease  of  build­
ing,  is  offered  for  sale  at  a 
low  figure  for CASH. 
Intending purchasers address 

LOUIS LOWENTHAL,  Mobile, Ala.

H ealth  F oods  \

The question  of  “ Foods”  has  be-  a 
come  one  of  the  very  first  impor-  * 
tauce of the  present  day  and  one  A 
in  which  every Grocery  and  Provi-  j  
sion  dealer  is  deeply  interested,  d 
because he is  called  upon  to  sup-  1  
ply his  patrons  with  the  very  best  g 
at the most  reasonable prices  To  ft 
aid you  in  this we  wish  to  call  at-  " 
tention  to some  of  our  products  in  ft 
this  line. 
You  have  dyspeptics  *  
among  your  customers  and  our  A 
Whole  Wheat  Crackers  will  turn-  ft 
ish  excellent  food  to  aid  in  restor-  g 
ing  the  weak  stomach and preserv-  ft 
ing the strong  one  They  furnish  g 
work  for  the  teeth,  flavor  for  the  1  
palate  and  nourishment  for  the  " 
entire  system.  New  Era  Butter  ft 
Crackers  (creamery  butter  short-  r 
ened),  a  high  grade  cracker  for  d 
soups,  etc.  Gem  Oatmeal  Bis-  *  
cuits,  a  good  seller,  and  Cereola,  g 
See  ft 
the  king  of  Health  Foods. 
Price List for prices. 
.
a
d

Address all communications to 

Battle  Creek  Bakery, 

Battle Creek, Mich.

jof tl)t  Unite»)  %\ates of America,

To 

____
H E N R Y   K O C H ,   your  o l e r k i r f ,   attorneys,  ager.j 
• a l e a m e n   and  workmen,  and  all  claiming  on 
holding  through  or  under  you,

Greeting :

It  has  been  represented  to  us  In  our  Circuit  Court  of  the  United  States  for  the  District  of

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

ENOCH MORGAN’S SONS COMPANY,

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

t t o u ) ,  ^ e t c f o t t j we  do  strictly  command  and perpetually  enjoin  you,  the  said  HENRY

KOCH,  your  clerks,  attorneys,  agents,  salesmen  and  workmen,  and  all  claiming  or  holding  through  or  under  you 
Ji^ d er^ h ^ g ain ^ m c^ jjen altie^ jvh ich ^ n a^ Jfal^ igoi^ rou jan i^ eacl^ o^ o u   in  case  of  disobedience,  that  you  dc 
absolutely  desist  and  refrain  from  in  any  manner  unlawfully  using  the  word  “  SAPOLIO,”  or  any  word  or  words 
substantially  similar  thereto  in  sound  or  appearance,  in  connection  with  the  manufacture  or  sale  of  any  scouring 
soap  not  made  or  produced  by  or  for  the  Complainant,  and  from  directly,  or  indirectly,

By  word  of  mouth  or  otherwise,  selling  or  delivering  as 

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

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

in  any  way  using  the  word  “ SAPOLIO"  in  any 

The  honorable  Melville  W.  F uller,  Chief  Justice  of 
United  States  of  America,  at  the  City  of  Trenton, 
Jersey,  this  16th  day  of  December,  in  the  year  of 
eight  hundred  and  ninety-two.

[signed]

[ seal]

ROWLAND  COX,

Complainants  Solicitor

the  Supreme  Court  of  the 
in  said  District  of  New 
our  Lord,  one  thousand,

&   D.  OUPHANT,

O r*

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

12
Shoes and  Leather

P e rtin e n t  P ointers  for  Progressive  Shoe 

D ealers.

A  shoe  dealer of  more  than  local  rep­
utation  said  to  the  writer  last  week  that 
the  greatest  trouble  through  his  career 
has  been  in  his  search  for  the  clerk  who 
thinks.  The  writer  knows  of  a  college 
girl  who  is  afflicted  with  an  utter 
in­
ability  to  think  and  whose  professor has 
vainly  called  her attention  to  it  several 
times  within  the  past  six  months. 
It 
would  seem,  therefore,  in  view  of  the 
inability  of  some  of  the  gods  them­
selves to  think  that  the  mere  clerk needs 
to  have  no  occasion  to  feel  chagrined 
over  his 
in  that  direction. 
inability 
But  such 
is  not  the  case.  The  holder 
of  a  position  who  goes  through  his 
routine of  duty  in  a stupid,  dumb-driven 
cattle  manner,  absolutely  refusing  to 
think  things  out  for  himself,  and  thus 
improve  in  method  the  system  attend- 
ing  his 
individual  line  of  duty,  is  not 
going  to  advance  in  his  employer’s  es­
timation  very  rapidly.  An  employer 
learns  to  regard  an  employe 
very  soon 
with 
asks 
questions  concerning  his  work,  who 
seems  to  concentrate  his  mind  upon  his 
task,  however  insignificant,  and  to  think 
something  out  for  himself.

interest  who 

continually 

A  few  years  ago  the  writer  stayed  for 
a  few  weeks  in  a  little  village  where  the 
opportunities  for  doing  business  were 
circumscribed  by  the 
local  demand. 
There  he  met  a  shoe  clerk  who  would 
not  leave  the  village  and  go  to  the  town 
where  the  possibilities  were  much great­
er  simply  because,  as  he  said,  “ A  roll­
ing  stone  gathers  no  moss.”   And  that 
simple-hearted 
fellow  might  have  been 
there  yet,  afraid  to  break  away,  if  the 
writer  had  not  responded  that  ‘ ‘ A  set- 
ting  hen  gains  no  feathers.”   He  went 
to  the  town  and  shortly  afterward  be­
came  enamored  of  a  shop  girl. 
In  his 
courtship  he  was  guided  by another fool­
ish  old  proverb— he  was  saturated  with 
proverbs— to  w it: 
“ Faint  heart  never 
won  fair  lady.”   He  sailed  in  with  an 
assured  air  that  said  as  plainly  as 
words,  “ Oh,  my  dear,  I  know  I ’m  a 
good  thing,  and you’ll  drop  on  my  man­
ly  breast  as  soon  as  I  give  the  word. 
Just  wait  until  I’m  ready  to  throw  you 
the  handkerchief.”   She  was  a  girl  of 
spirit,  even 
if  she  was  onlv  a  shopgirl, 
and  she  gave  him  the  worst  fall  of  his 
young  life,  although he  heard  afterwards 
that  she  said  she  really  liked  him  and 
would  have  had  him  if he hadn’t seemed 
so  cock  sure  that  she  was  willing.

*  *  *

it 

it 

A  Philadelphia  retailer  asked 

the 
writer  recently  when  it  was  best  to  ad­
vertise.  He  does  some  advertising  in 
his  down-town  paper,  but 
is  only  at 
certain  seasons.  He  had  this  theory 
about  the  best  season  to  advertise,  the 
same  as  every  other  retailer,  but  he 
it  of  no  avail  to  try  to  force 
thought 
trade  when 
is  dull.  He  knew  that 
some  of  his  competitors  found  trade 
good  enough  at  certain seasons,  and only 
desired  more  trade 
in  such  and  such 
months,  and  advertised  at  such  times 
only.  Some regard must  be  paid  to  sea­
son. 
so 
worded  as  to  be  seasonable.  But  people 
read  the  newspapers  pretty  much  the 
same  at  one  time  as  at  another,  and  if 
at  certain  periods  an  advertisement  is 
not  quite  so  productive,  the  fact  keeps 
competing  advertisements  out  of  the 
newspaper  columns  and  consequently 
gives  the  whole  field  to  the  retailer  who 
does  advertise  at  that  time,  thus  mak­

Advertisements 

should  be 

Y O U   N E E D   T H E M

HOES that  will  fit.
HOES that will  wear.
HOES that bring comfort. 
HOES that give satisfaction. 
H O E S that bring trade. 
HOES that  make money.

W E   M A K E   T H E M

HEROLD-BERTSCH  SHOE  CO., 

¡ 8  

MAKERS  OF  SHOES, 
GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.  j | |

You  Are  Safe

In  ordering  your  BOOTS,  SH OES  AND 
RU BBER S  of  us,  as  our lines  and  prices  are 
right.  We  manufacture  the  best  wearing 
goods  to  be  had  anywhere.  Agents  for  the 
Boston  Rubber  Shoe  Co.

Rindge, Kalmbach, Logie & Co.

10 to 22  N.  Ionia Street,
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Lycomings lie me  Best Firsts 
Keystones  ire me lest Seconds

W e  are  now  prepared  to  fill  all  orders 
promptly.  The sizes and  toes which  manu­
facturers could  not  furnish  prior  to  Nov.  i, 
are now in  stock.

GEO.  H.  REEDER  &  CO.,  M   Rapids,  J1 H.

ing  the  dull  season  in  truth  a  season  of 
plenty.  No  retailer  should  attempt  to I 
push  Arctic  overshoes  with  much energy 
in  June.  But  outside  of  Arctics  and  a 
few  other articles  which  have  their  sea­
son,  the  best  time  to  advertise  is  all  the I 
time. 
I

*  *  *

Some  clerks  are 

inclined  to  hold  on 
to  their  positions  year  after  year,  with­
out  any  reason  for  doing  it.  They  hold 
on  until  their  employers  actually  get I 
tired  of  seeing  them  around  the  store. 
They  may  be  very  good  clerks,  too,  but 
they  may  also  have  been  in  the  store  a I 
long,  so  then  their  efficient I 
little  too 
services  have 
lost  their  novelty  to  the 
boss.  He  thinks,and  perhaps  says,  that I 
he  can  clean  out  his  whole  shop  and  get I 
another  force  of  clerks  just  as  good  as I 
f  not  better than  his  present  one.  And 
perhaps  he  can.  Certain it  is  that  there 
is  an  old  proverb  that  reads:  “ If  at I 
first  you  don’t  succeed,  try,  try  again.”   I 
The  immortal  wisdom  of  that  has  kept I 
many  a  clerk  hanging  on  to  hopeless I 
jobs,  playing a losing  game  long  after  it I 
had  really  gone  by  the  board. 
It  has 
taken  some  of them  twenty  years  to  find I 
out  that  it  is  just  as  important  to  know I 
when  to 
let  go  of  a  little  job  as  it  is I 
when  to  hold  on  to  a  big  one.

*  *  *

A   very  good  illustration of the activity j 
of  shoemakers  and  tanners  generally 
is 
cited  in  the  statement  of  Director  W il­
son,  of  the  National  Export  Exposition 
in  Philadelphia,  to  the  effect  that  his 
chief  difficulty  in  the  preliminary  work 
of  the  Exposition  was  in  the  fact  that 
the  manufacturers  of  shoes,  leather  and 
other  goods  were  so  busy  that  many  of I 
them  could  not  find  time  nor  one  sales-1 
man  with  which  to  prepare  an  exhibit I 
satisfactory  to  themselves. 
In  many I 
other  cases  where  requests  for  exhibits 
were  made  came 
that 
since  they  were  behind  with  their  or­
ders,  the  display  of  their  productions 
would  merely  add  to  their temporary 
embarrassment  by  bringing  a  still 
greater  number  of  orders  over 
their I 
capacity  for  production.
♦   *  s|e 

!
If  you  will  take  the  advice  of  a  sage I 

the  statement 

jealous  and 

Philadelphia  retailer  you  will  not  em­
ploy  any  pretty  women  to  assist  in  your I 
store  when  you  become  your  own  boss.  I 
Such  a  woman will  demoralize  a force of 
clerks  by  making  the  other  women I 
clerks 
the  youths  absent-1 
minded,  so  that  be  she  ever so  indus-1 
trious  and  require  ever  so  little  pay  for 
her  work,  these  won’t offset the demoral-1 
zing  effect  of  her  beauty.  Said  this 
man  to  the  writer  last  week :  “ We had a 
lady  clerk  here  once  who  had I 
young 
everything 
in  the  world  to  recommend 
her  except  homeliness.  She  was  beau­
tiful,  and  what  made  it  worse  she  had I 
that  hopeless, 
kind  of I 
beauty  that  one  doesn’t  outgrow,  like I 
warts  or  freckles,  and 
is  always  the I 
same  no  matter what happens.  I  believe I 
the  girl  could  ‘have  fallen  into  a  hogs-1 
head  of  black  molasses  and  still  come 
out  radiantly  lovely. ”

ineradicable 

*  *   *

Chickens  are  bound  to  come  home  to 
roost.  Don’t  be  enthusiastic  in  praising I 
goods  of  which  you  are  doubtful.— Shoe 
and  Leather  Facts.

W rong  K in d   o f Sponges.

Mrs.  Newlywed— I  was  going  to  have 
some  sponge  cake  as  a  surprise  for  you, 
dear,  but  I  confess  it  a  failure.

Mr.  Newlywed —What  was  the matter?
Mrs.  Newlywed— 1  don’t  know 
for 
sure,  but  I  think  the  druggist  sent  me 
the  wrong  kind  of  sponges. 

|

Shoes for

Little  Folks

Grand  Bapids, Michigan.

Hirth,  Krause  &  Co.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

13

The  P eople  W ho  Sell Goods  a t  W holesale 

Prices.
Written  for the Tradesman.

“ 1  ran  into  a  scheme,  the  other  day, 
that  I  adm ire,”   said  the  fat  drummer 
as  he 
located  himself  on  the  high  stool 
at  the  grocer’s  desk  and  lighted  a cigar.
‘ ‘ Something  new?”   asked  the  mer­

chant.

‘ ‘ No,  I  guess  it  isn’t  new,”   was  the 
reply,  ‘ ‘ but this  was  the  first  time  I  ever 
saw 
in  all  its  purity.  The 
men  who  were  running  the  snap  were 
beauts,  I  want  you  to  know.”

it  worked 

‘ ‘ Understood 

their 

business,  did 

they?”

‘ ‘ Did  they?”   echoed  the  drummer,  ‘ ‘ I 
should  say  so.  Say,  if  the  men  claim­
ing  to  do  up-and-up  business  worked 
as  hard  and  exercised  their  brains  as 
constantly  as  the  people  engaged  in 
shady  schemes  do,  there  wouldn’t  be  so 
many  failures.  Well,  the  people  I  refer 
to  as  past  grand  masters  of  this  lovely 
scheme  were  selling  groceries  at  whole­
sale  prices.”

‘ ‘ The  grocer  always  does  that,”   said 
the  merchant,  with  a  smile  that  caused 
his  cheerful  face  to  resemble  a  Thanks­
giving  pumpkin.

" O f 

course,”   said 

the  drummer. 
‘ ‘ Well,  these  people go  through  the  land 
and  take  orders  from  folks  in  small  v il­
lages  and 
in  the  open  country.  They 
represent  a  Chicago  house,  and  have  a 
long  story  to  tell  about  cutting  out  the 
middle  man.  That  always  takes with the 
farmer,  you  know,  for  the  honest  tiller 
of  the  soil  has  secreted  somewhere about 
his  person  the  notion  that  the  merchants 
who  handle  his  crops  and  trust  him  for 
goods  have  no  right  to  exist.”

‘ ‘ And  so  they  start  stores  of  their 

own,”   suggested  the  grocer.

‘ ‘ And  that  makes  business  for  the 
sheriff,”   added  the  drummer. 
‘ ‘ ‘ Oh, 
yes,  I  have  sold  goods  to  two  or  three 
hayseed  corporations.  Well,  these sharks 
offer  one  or  two  things  mighty  cheap, 
or  at  figures  which  would  be  cheap  if 
the  stuff  was  full  weight  and  wasn't 
adulterated.  When  the  staple  articles 
are  down  they  begin  on  the  hundred and 
one  little  things  which  are  used  in  very 
small  quantities  in  every  house,  and  on 
which  there  is  an  enormous  profit.”

‘ ‘ My  son,”   said  the  merchant,  with 
‘ ‘ there  are  no 
another  bland  smile, 
lines  on  which  the  grocer  makes  an 
enormous  profit.  You  have  been  dream­
ing  that  you  were  selling  hats.”

‘ ‘ And  when  they  get  to  these  little 
things,”   continued  the  drummer,  ‘ ‘ they 
simply  unload.  Yes,  indeed.  Why,  I 
saw  a  stack  of  baking  powder  in  a  farm 
house  last  week  that  rivaled  the  bull 
in 
the  pasture  for  size.  The  purchaser  said 
that  he  had  inside  information  that bak­
ing  powder  was  going  up,  and  that  he 
might  sell  a  little  of  his  supply  when  it 
reached  the  top notch.  Half  a mile down 
found  the  parlor  bedroom 
the  road  I 
stuffed  full  of  baking  powder. 
The 
farmer  said  that  he  had  inside  informa­
tion  that  baking  powder  was  going  up 
out  of  sight 
few  days,  and  he 
might  sell  a  little  when  it  got  up  to  the 
clouds.  Over  on  the  other  half  section 
I  went 
into  a  house  to  get  a  drink  of 
water and  found  the  farmer’s wife  pack­
ing  baking  powder  away  under the hired 
girl's  bed.  She 
informed  me  that  her 
husband  had  received  inside  informa­
tion  that  baking  powder  was  running 
short  in  the  country,  and  that 
it  would 
soon  be  beyond  the  reach  of  all  save  the 
fabulously  wealthy.  She  admitted  that 
they  would  dispose  of  a  part  of  their 
stock  when  the  right  time  came.  A   mile 
nearer  the  village  I  met  a  man  with  a

in  a 

wagon 
load  of  baking  powder.  He 
whispered  to  me  that  he  had  received 
information  that  baking  powder 
inside 
was  bound 
to  come  up,  and  that  he 
might— ”

The  merchant  caught  hold  of  the  desk 

to  save  himself  a  fall.

learn  their 
just 

“ Look  here,”   he  said,  ‘ ‘ you  ought  to 
into  the  subscription  book  business. 
go 
lessons  by  rote,  and 
They 
in  that  way.  How 
repeat  them 
in  this,  anyway, 
many  acts  are  there 
and  how  many  years  are  supposed  to 
elapse  between  each  act?”

‘ ‘ I 

found 

indigo,  and  condensed 

just  nineteen  farmers  who 
had  bought  baking  powder  for  specula­
tive  purposes,”   resumed  the  drummer, 
with  a  smile,  ‘ ‘ and  pepper!  And  gin­
ger !  And  bluin g!  Say,  you  ought  to 
see  some  of  the  farm  houses  down  in 
that  section.  They  hold  pepper,  and 
ginger,  and,  bluing,  and  cheap  coffee, 
and 
lye,  and 
potash,  and  sal  soda,  and  cream  tartar, 
and  stove  polish  enough  to  last  an  army 
a  hundred  years.  And  1  want  to  express 
my  admiration  for  those  Chicago  chaps 
right  here.  They  are  too  good  for  this 
earth,  and  ought  to  be  assisted out  of  it.
I  claim  to  be  an  average  salesman,  but 
in  the  same  degree  with 
I  can’t  work 
I’ll  bet  the  devil  my 
those  fellows. 
head  that  they  sold  a  ton  of  pepper 
in 
that  one  township.”

“ How  do  they  deliver  the  goods?”  

asked  the  merchant.

‘ ‘ When  they  get  a  carload  they send  it 
down  and  put  the  car  on  a  side  track 
somewhere.  Then  the  farmers  come  and 
get  their  goods.  And  here’s  the  beauty 
spot  in  the  scheme.  The  sharks  collect 
cash  for  their  goods  and  receive  the 
produce  of  their  customers  to  sell  on 
commission.  Oh,  the  scheme  is  worked 
from  the  ground  up.”

‘ ‘ Well,  how  much  can  they  make 
the 
handling  farm  produce?”   asked 
merchant.  There  is  little  enough  profit 
in  that. ”

“ How  much  can  they  make?”   re­
peated  the  drummer.  Why,  they  make 
all  they  receive.”

“ But  the  farmer— ”
“ Oh,  the  farmer gets his lesson— that’s 

all  he  gets. ’ ’

“ You  don’t  mean  to  say  that 

the 
farmer  pays  cash  for  his  goods  and  then 
hands  his  crops  over to  these  swindlers 
to  sell 
for  him  without  knowing  any­
thing  about their commercial standing?”  
“ That’s  just  what  he  does,  my dear. ”  
The  grocer  gave  a 
low  whistle  of 

amazement.

“ And  the  farmer  never  hears  from the 

swindlers,  of  course?”   he  finally  said.

“  Never. ”
‘  And  don’t  the  farmers  complain  to 

the  Chicago  house?”

‘  Certainly,  but  the  wholesale  dealers 
have  nothing  to  do  with 
the  affair 
further  than  to  sell  the  slick  men  the 
goods  for  cash  and  ship  them  in  car­
load  lots. ’ ’

“ I  beileve,”   said  the  grocer,  slowly, 
like  one  deep  in  meditation,  ‘ ‘ that  I’ll 
go  into  that  business  myself.  An  hon­
est  man  stands  no  show  in  this  rotten 
old  world  at  this  late  date.”

“ When  you  get  ready,”   said 

the 
drummer,  climbing  off  the  stool,  “ let 
me  know,  and I’ll  put  a  little  capital  in­
to  the  business.”  

Alfred  B.  Tozer.

N ot  Come  to   Stay.

We hear of horseless carriages, 
Also of  loveless marriages,

Propelled by unseen wing—
Which are not quite the thing.

We hear of  wireless telegrams,
But we don’t think armless courtships 

A  wonder of our day,
W ill ever come to stay.

W e carry a full line

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

wins  gives  weird 
and  nerve-testing 
bangs  and  clangs  with  the  tools.  You, 
dear  sir,  are  responsible  for  this,  be­
cause  of  your  description  of  a  perform­
ance  with  the  cleavers  by  an  old  man. 
We  already  have  enough  trouble  in  this 
business  without  dodging  flying  cleav­
If  this  thing  continues  we  will  all 
ers. 
have  to  take  out  accident 
policies. 
While  the  article 
it 
doesn’t— well,  you  know.  Don’t  do  it 
again,  and  oblige.

interesting, 

is 

*  *  *

Dollars 

this  man 

to  doughnuts 

is 
practicing  cleaver  tricks  on  the  quiet. 
Suppose  his  clerks  do  become  experts at 
clever  imitations,  what  then?  Why,  hrs 
,e  the  most  popular  shop  in  his 
neighborhood,  and  his  chopped-beef 
trade  (a  profitable  article,  by  the  way), 
will  boom  with  a  mighty  boom.  Let 
them  cleave  the  air to  their  hearts’  con­
If  he  is  afraid  let  him  crawl  into 
tent. 
his  safe.— Stroller 
in  Butchers’  Advo­
cate.

W om an  in  H orse  M eat  Business.

Chicago  horse  meat  dealers  report that 
there  is  a  big  demand  for  that  article  at 
this  time.  The  most  extensive  dealer 
there  is  a  woman,  who  says  of  the  busi­
ness: 
“ I  have  been  dealing  in  broken- 
down  horses  for  the  last  five  years  and 
always  find  a  ready  sale  for  them.  Per­
sons  notify  me  that  they  have  a  horse 
which  they  want  to  dispose  of  and  I call 
ujion  them.  Sometimes  I  pay  them  $1, 
sometimes  S2  and  sometimes  as  high  as 
$5  for  an  animal.  But  the  $5  ones  I  do 
not  sell  to  the  slaughter-house  man,  be­
cause  1  can  generally fatten  them up and 
dispose  of  them  for as  high  as  $10  and 
¡2p  The  cheaper animals  I  drive fifteen 
miles  into  the  country  and  sell  them  to 
the  slaughterer  for $3  a  head. 
It  makes 
no  difference  whether  the  animal  is  old 
or  young,  plug  or  thoroughbred,  that’s 
all  the  slaughter-house  man  will  pa 
nie.  And  they  do  a  big  business,  tot 
Sometimes  I  have  seen  as  many 
horses  driven  in  there  in  a  day.”   Most 
>f  the  meat,  she-says,  is  exported.

the 

W ill  E nforce  th e  T h irty   D ay  R ult 
Bay  City,  Dec.  4—The  Retail  Meat
Dealers’  Association  has  unanimous] 
adopted  the  following  resolution 

Resolved— That 

inasmuch 

as 

wholesale  houses  have  served  us  with 
notice  that  we  must  pay  for  all  meats 
urchased 

from  them  on  the  Mond 

owing  sa le;  that  unless  we  do  so 

mger  credit  will  be  given  us;  this  » 
heartily  approve  of,  but  go  thou  and  d 
likewise;  therefore  be  it  further 

Resolved— That 

in  order  for  us  to 

meet  the  demands  asked  of  us  it  w 
become  necessary  for  us  to  ask  all  ou 
customers  to  promptly  pay  their  bills  on 
the  first  of  each  month,  as  we  think  to 
days  credit  is  all  you  should  ask  of  us 
alter  we  are  compelled  to  pay  cash  for 
:>ur  purchases.  Any  neglect  on  the  part 
if  customers  to  pay  their  bills  promptly 
v 111  meet  with  a  prompt  refusal  to  give 
further  credit.

Steep  F atten ed   on  Wipe.

slaughter  house 

When  dressing  a  steer  at  the  E.  C. 
Cross 
southeast  of 
balem.  Ore,,the  butchers  were  consider­
ably  astonished  to  find  imbedded  in  the 
wall  of  the  animal’s  heart  a  piece  of 
wire,  presumably  baling  wire,  about 
three  inches  in  length,  which  had  prob­
ably  been  taken  with  the 
and 
passed  through  the  animal’s  digestive 
organs,  finally lodging  against  the  heart, 
where 
it  became  attached,  and,  when 
tound,  was  almost  covered  bv  a  fattv 
growth.

food 

E veryday  Incident« 

in  th e   Life  of  th e 

M eat  D ealer.

I  should 

If  you  happen  to  have  on  your  list  of 
acquaintances  a  man  who  is  sour,  who 
grumbles  continually  and  says  he  can 
see  no  fun  in  life,  send  me  his  address. 
I  shall  endeavor  to  reform  him,  I  shall 
take  him  with  me  some  day  on  one  of 
my  strolls,  and  if he doesn’t  hear  enougf 
humorous  remarks  to  cause  his  eye  to 
grow  brighter,  his  face  to  lose 
its  dul- 
ness,  and  the  “ sorrow  lines’ ’  to  disap­
pear  from  around  his  mouth,  you  may 
brand  me  as an impostor and second-rate 
evangelist. 
like  to  have  had 
such  a  one  as  a  companion  Monday dur 
ing  a 
jaunt  through  Brooklyn.  He 
would  have  found  himself 
in  a  quiet 
little  market,  where  I  awaited  an  op­
portunity  to  speak  to  the  proprietor 
confidential  appearing  little  chap— who 
was  bargaining  with  an  old  Irishwoman 
about  the  price  of  corned  beef.  He  had 
told  her  his price  was  six  cents a  pound. 
t  Go  away  wid  y e,’ ’  she  ejaculated, 
shure  you’re  only  foolin’.  Six  cents! 
Be  the  hivins  1  can  get  it  anyphware 
on  the  avenue  fur  foive  cin ts!’ ’  The 
butcher  looked around him mysteriously. 
He  went  to  the  door  and  gazed  up  and 
down the  street,  as  if  to  learn  if  any  one 
was  in  sight  who  was 
likely  to  enter 
his  market.  Evidently  satisfied  that 
such  was  not  the  case  he  tiptoed  back 
to  the  corned-beef  box,  and  putting  a 
finger  to  his  lips,  simply  said : 
“ Not  a 
word ! 
Then  he  stooped  down,  came 
up  with  a  piece  of  meat,  placed  it  on 
the  scale,  and  coming  close 
to  the 
woman,  whispered : 
‘ ‘ Don’t  tell  a  soul. 
Remember  it  goes  no  further.  You  can 
have  this  five  pounds  for  30 cents. 
I 
don  t  want  to  argue  with  a  good custom 
“ Not  a  word,”   re 
er  about  price.”  
plied  the  woman,  and 
laying  down  30 
cents,  she  picked  up  the  meat,  placed 
it  under  her  shawl  and  stole  away 
into 
the  gloaming.

“ Shure,”   said 

Two  blocks  further  up  the  same  ave­
nue  I  got  into  an  interesting debate wit! 
another  butcher,  and  when  our  discus 
sion  was  at 
its  height,  a  butcher  from 
across  the  street  entered. 
“ Ike,”   he 
said,  “ I  want  a  turkey.  Got  an  order 
for one  and  can’t  go  to  market  yet.  Got 
one  for  me?”  
Ike,
take  your  p ick .”   There  were  three 
hanging  in  the  window.  One  was  white 
and  plump.  The  others  were  not  what 
a  fastidious  person  would  desire,  so  of 
course  the  best  one  was  selected  and 
placed  on  the  scale.  While  the  purchas­
ing  butcher  went  to  the  cashier’s  desk 
to  pay,  Ike  put  the  turkey  back  on  the 
hook,  and  quickly  dropped  one  of  the 
inferior  birds  in  a  bag,  which he handed 
to  his  neighbor.  When  he  had  gone  Ike 
livers 
laughed  so  loudly  that  a  plate  of 
appeared  to  be  doing  ragtime. 
“ He’s 
the  slickest  man 
in  the  business,  you 
know,”   explained  Ike,  “ and  brags  that 
the  man  who  can  do  him 
is  not  yet 
bom. ’ ’

*  *  *

My 

last  week’s  essay  on  the  art  of 
doing  tricks  with  cleavers  has  brought 
trouble  upon  my  innocent  head.  Read 
this  and  sympathize  with  m e:
.  My  Dear  Stroller-I  have  read  with 
interest  your  piece  about  theatrical  ma­
terial  lying  loose  in  meat  markets,  and 
wish  to  say  my  place  is  more  like  a  cir­
cus  just  now  than  anything  else.  Cleav- 
ers  are  flying  through  the  air,  not  only 
to  the  risk  of 
life,  but  to  the  risk  of
nrH^rgflng 5verytillnS  in sight,  and even- 
order  for  chopped  meat  almost  produces 
a  not.  The  clerks  fight  for the  privile|e 
of  doing  the  chopping,  and  the  one  who

R I C E   &   M A T H E S O N
OYSTERS,  FRUITS,  NUTS,  ETC.

Wholesale dealers in

We are headquarters  in  Western  Michigan 
for California Oranges.

20  AND  22  O TTAW A  ST.,  GRAND  RAPIDS

IF  YOU  ARE
SHIPPING
POULTRY

to  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  why  not  ship  to  headquarters,  where 
you  are  sure  of  prompt  sales  at  highest  prices  and 
prompt  remittances  always.  That  means  us.

♦ P O T T E R   &  W ILLIAM S

144,  146.  148  M IC H IG A N   S T .,
B U FFA LO ,  N.  Y.

E S T A B L IS H E D   2 2   Y E A R S .

..oysters^

IN  CA N S  AN D  BULK

F. J.  DETTENTHALER, Grand  Rapids, Mich.

B U TTER   EGGS  BEANS

Wanted on commission.  Shipments sold on arrival.  Returns 
sent  promptly.  Full  market values  guaranteed. 
If  you  pre­
fer we will  name you price f. o.  b.  your station.  Write for quo-

Refer-by pe™,5si°"-w

STROUP  &  CARMER,

3 8   S .  D IV IS IO N   S T ..

G R A N D   R A P ID S .  MICH,

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We are always in the market for Fresh 

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  36  Market  Street. 
|

BU TTER   AND  EGGS 

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

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5
S

Old  E nough  to  Be  Good.

Don  t  you  want  the  water  of  vour 
traveling 

well  analyzed?”   asked  the 
ag ^ t  of  the  chemical  company.

What  fur?”   enquired  the  hale  old 

tarrJ?r Slt*lng  on  the  front  porch.
wholesome  or  not. ’ ’

10  know  whether 

is  pure 

it 

I  reckon  not.  If there’s  anything  the 
I’d  ruther  not 

it,  mister, 

matter  of 
know  it.

and

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W dUcFIGommission MlßWXWfM

,,i?Pw  l°ng  have  you  been  using  it?”  

Eighty-seven  years. ”

The  traveling  agent  passed  on.

Highest  Market  Prices  Paid.  Regular Shipments Solicited.

98 South Division Street, 

Grand Rapids. Mich.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

15

Fruits and  Produce.

O bservations  by  a  G otham   E gg  Man.
The  fruits  of  excessive  cold  storage 
operations  in  eggs  last  spring  and  sum­
mer  are  now  being  reaped,  and  a.large 
part  of  the  harvest  is  found  to  be  “ gall 
and  wormwood.”  
1  have  never  seen  so 
irregular  a  market  for  refrigerator  eggs 
as  we  have  lately  experienced.  There 
is  of  course  a  wide  range  in  the  quality 
of  the  stock,  and  the  proportion  of  or­
dinary  and  inferior  grades  is  larger than 
usual  owing  to  the  fact  that  so  many 
were  put  away  during  warm  weather; 
this  naturally  causes  a  wide  range 
in 
selling  prices,  but  there  appeals  also  to 
be  a  wide  variation  in  prices  for  equal 
qualities  also,  depending  on  the  whim 
of  the  buyer and  the  nerve  of  the  seller.

# 

.* 

♦

Dealers  who have  a  good  class of trade 
and  who  get 
full  prices  for  their  eggs 
based  on  the  value  of  fresh  gathered 
can  make  pretty  big  profits  by  working 
refrigerators  out  for  fresh;  but  when 
they  do  this  they  want  the  very  fanciest 
of  stock  they  can  get  and  some  of  them 
have  not  hesitated  to  pay  pretty  full 
prices  for  occasional  lots  of  especially 
fine  April  packings.  Several  marks  of 
such  have  been  taken  at  17c,  and  in 
rare  instances  even  a  shade  higher.  But 
the  possibility  of  selling  any  xefrigera- 
tors  at  that  price  has  been  limited  by 
the  wants  of  comparatively  few  dealers; 
some  holders  of  fancy  goods  have  been 
willing  to  hold  their  price  steady  on 
such,  and  be  satisfied  with  moving  such 
quantities  as  these 
fastidious  buyers 
would  ta k e;  others  have  had  so  many as 
to  feel  compelled  to  force  a  faster move­
ment  and  have  cut  prices  right  and 
left. 
is  probable  that  some  of  the 
spring goods obtained at  i6coreven 
are  very  nearly  if  not  quite  as  goo^i  as 
any  stock  coming  out  in  original  pack­
ages.  On  a  very 
large  part  of  the  re­
frigerator  holdings  the  market  has  had 
almost  a  demoralized  appearance,  many 
of  the  largest  holders,  both  here  and 
in 
the  West,  showing  a  disposition  to  ac; 
cept  any  reasonable  bid.
♦   «§*

It 

♦  

is  toward 

low  prices 

The  outlook,  especially  for  the  mass 
of  summer packings,  is  gloomy.  We  are 
approaching  the  season when  the  natural 
tendency 
increased  produc­
tion.  The  maturing  of  the  ’99  pullets 
makes  a  great  increase  in  the egg laying 
machinery  of  the  country,  which  can 
only  be  debarred  from  activity  by  real 
winter  weather.  The 
at 
which  stock  can  now  be  bought  are  re­
sulting 
in  a  very  large  movement  and 
some  holders  of  really  fine  goods  are 
expressing  confidence  that  all  such  will 
be  wanted  at  fair  prices,  but  every  week 
that  winter holds  off  now  adds  a  deeper 
shade  of  blue  to  the  prospect  for  the 
held  goods 
It  is  of  course 
within  the  range  of  possibility 
that 
weather  conditions  might  yet  become 
bad  enough  to  help  out  on  the  wind  up, 
but  the  chances  of  this  are  not  very  en­
couraging.

in  general. 

*  *  *

One  thing  which  has  added  seriously 
to  the  demoralization  of  our  market
for  average  qualities  is  the  presence  of 
a  number  of  Western  egg  holders  who 
have  been  drumming  the  trade  in  per^ 
son.  Nothing  could  have  a  more  unfa­
vorable  effect  than  the  efforts  of  these 
strangers  to  force  their goods  upon  the 
local  jobbing  trade  direct. 
It  certainly 
reacts  unfavorably  upon  the  welfare  of 
the  owners  themselves.  A   little  thought 
will  convince  anyone  of  the  justice  of 
this  criticism ;  there  is  no  way  to  make

“ a  silk  purse  out  of  a  sow’s  ear,”   but  a 
bad  matter  may  easily  be  made  worse, 
and  there  is  no  surer  way  than  to  have 
the  buyers  constantly  drummed  to  buy 
goods  from  outside  and  unusual sources. 
If  the  goods  were 
forced  out  through 
customary  channels  the  effect  would  not 
be  so  demoralizing.— N.  Y.  Produce 
Review.

Proposed  L obster  C om bine.

is  reported  that  a  combination  has 
It 
formed  by  the  wholesale  lobster 
been 
for  the  purpose  of 
dealers  of  Portland 
controlling  the 
live  and  boiled  lobster 
trade,  and  for  a  uniform  price.  A   meet­
ing  of  nearly  all  the  large  dealers  has 
been  held,  and 
it  was  agreed  to  pay 
smackmen  who  buy  them  from  the  fish­
ermen,  11  cents  apiece  for  the 
lobsters. 
The  dealers  believe  that  their  stand 
will  have  a  good  effect  on  the  market 
in  other  cities,  besides  giving  the 
fish­
ermen  a  uniform  price  of  about  nine 
cents  apiece  for their  catch.

Calls  th e   C riticism   Caustic.
From the  Topeka  Merchants’ Journal.

The  premium  stamp  epidemic  is  now 
prevalent  in  most  of  the  cities  of  Mich­
igan.  Grand  Rapids  is  the  latest  town 
to  be  moved  upon  by  the  “ enemy”   and 
its  arrival  has  stirred  up  Editor  Stowe 
of  the  Tradesman.  He  goes  after  the 
stamp  men  and  the  merchants  who  have 
signed  contracts,  in  an  article 
in  the 
issue  of  his  journal,  entitled  “ Co­
last 
operation  or  Demoralization?”  
It  is  so 
good,  caustic  and  truthful  that  we  re­
produce  it  in  another  column.

Orders  for  New Goods

Are a  daily  necessity,  and  used  by  all  business 
tirnis and ought to tie made out  in  duplicate, the 
copy retained on tile, to  “ check  off ”  invoice  re­
ceived.  We make the Self Copying  kind,  Stand­
ard Size. 0x8 inches, copy attached, $3 per M.

Remittance  Blanks 

Must be used where discounts are taken, or other 
deductions made  for  freight,  express,  etc.  We 
make the Self Copying kind.  Standard  Size,  5'ix 
s inches, copy  attached.  $3  per  M.  You  attach 
“ copy” to invoices paid until receipt is returned.

S elf Copying Note meads 

About 0x9  in., copying sheet attached, $3 per M. 
Inked  Sheets  for  copying,  25  cents  per  dozen. 
New  (patent)  Kauholders,  furnished  free  of 
charge, to hold paper and secure copy while using 
our print.  Order the regular assortment  of 5,000 
and  have  them  all  printed  to  your  order,  as 
follows:
1.000 Order  Blanks, copy  attached.............. ]
2.000 Remittance Blanks, copy attached......   i . u
2.000 Note Heads,copy  attached  ................   viu
4 doz. sheets copying ink paper for copies.. J
Three  Kauholders  (loaned)  free  of  charge, 
which  insures  the  Kligraph  Copies.  Send  a 
printed card if wanted “ to order,”  and  order  at 
once (as 1900 is near by) only of

L.  A.  ELY,  Alma,  Mich.

FOR  SALE:

U. S. P layin g Card 

Co.’s  Factory,

Cincinnati,  Ohio.

219 feet front by 70 feet deep  on  Eggleston  Ave., 
Sixth and Lock Sts., on Pennsylvania K.B. tracks, 
with  splendid  Six-story  Brick  and  Stone  Build­
ing.  The largest and most  completely  equipped 
Manufacturing  Property  now  offered  in  Cincin­
nati.  For  Plats,  Description  and  Full  Details 
address

Wm. V.  Ebersole & Co., Agents,

240  East  Fourth  St.,  Cincinnati,  0 .

T A M P S ,

Se a l s .

T E N C IL S .
Enameled  Letters,  Rubber Type,  etc. 
IGN  M A R K ER S
50 W oodw ard Ave., D etroit. 

T H O R PE   MANUFACTURING  CO. 

Please mention Tradesman.

I  Redemeyer=Hollister  Commission  Co., §
I
I  
1 
1
£   W e have  secured  the  United  States  contract  to  furnish  Government  sup-  z  
5   plies for Cuba for one  year and  must have  100,000 bushels of  apples, onions  »  
3   and  potatoes.  Shipments and  correspondence solicited. 
»

General  Commission  Merchants. 

ST.  LOUIS,  MISSOURI, 

BEANS

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

Always  in  the market.

M O SELEY  BROS.

2 6 - 2 8 - 3 0 - 3 2   O T T A W A   S T .,  G R A N D   R A P ID S

Seeds,  Beans,  Potatoes,  Onions,  Apples.

Clover,  Tim othy,  Alsyke,  Beans, 
Peas.  Popcorn,  Buckw heat

If you wish to buy or  sell  correspond  with  us.

ALFRED J.  BROWN SEED CO.,

GROWERS.  MERCHANTS.  IMPORTERS.

QRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Make  a  Note  of  It.  W e  Handle

Mexican Oranges

We are now receiving fruit daily from SONORA, Mexico.  Tilts fruit Is fine  quality and 
strictly sound,  is packed in California boxes, sizes good.  We  quote  $3.25  delivered  in 
car lots.  Write for size lists.  Cars always rolling.
■  ST.  LOUIS,  MO.

MILLER  &  TEASDALE  CO., 

Receivers and Distributers of Fruits and  Produce in car lots.

Beans  and  Potatoes  Wanted

Wire,  ’phone or write us  what  you have  to  offer.  Mail  us  your  orders  for 
Oranges,  Nuts,  Figs,  Dates,  Apples.  Cider,  Onions,  etc.  The best  of  every­
thing  for  your Christmas trade at  close  prices.

The  Vinkemulder  Company,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Hanselman’s  Fine  Chocolates

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

Hanselman  Candy Co.

Kalamazoo,  Mich.

t  pays  every  grocer  to  handle  only 
;oods  of  merit.  Q u e e n   F l a k e   B a k in g  
3o w d e r   is  pure  and  wholesome,  is  the 
:heapest,  quality  considered,  on  the 
narket,  and  is  not  manufactured  or 
:ontrolled  by a  trust.

Send  your  order  direct  to  the  man- 

ifacturers.

NORTH ROP, 
R O BERTSO N  
&   C A R R IE R ,

LAN SING,  MICH.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

16

GOTHAM  GOSSIP.

News  F rom   th e   M etropolis—Index  to  th e 
Special Correspondence.

M arket.

New  York,  Dec.  2— With  Thanksgiv­
ing  coming  on  Thursday,  we  can  really 
count  on  about three  days  of business,  as 
Saturday  anyway  is  a  half  holiday.  The 
first  three  days  of  the  week  were  busy 
ones  and  the  holiday  was  a  good  one  for 
sugar  and  spice  and  all  that’s  nice. 
Jobbers  have  had  an  excellent  trade  all 
the  season  and  December  sees 
them 
working 
like  beavers  to  keep  up  with 
the  orders  which  are  literally pouring  i 
from  every  direction.

The  coffee  market  shows  an  easier 
tone,  and  some  falling  off,  both  in  spot 
coffee  and  the  speculative  article,  has 
taken  place.  Advices  from  E u ro p e  have 
not  been  specially  encouraging  and 
while  the  price  may  again  go  up  and up 
and  up,  it  is  certainly  more  reasonable 
to  expect  it  to  remain  about  where  it 
is 
now.  Neither 
jobbers  nor  roasters 
manifest  much  anxiety  over the  situa­
tion  and  the  demand  generally  has  been 
In  store  and 
of  an  everyday  character. 
afloat  the  stock  aggregates 
1,177,823 
bags,  against  1,010,440  bags  at  the  same 
time  last  year.  Mild  grades,  while  not 
especially  active,  are  strongly  held  and 
dealers  will  make  no  concession  from 
•  9,u°tations.  Good  Cucuta  is  worth g}4c. 
East  India  sorts  are  steady.

A   fairy  story  reached  here  from  Chi­
cago  to  the  effect  that  the  Arbuckle  fac­
tory  was  to  be  taken  in  by  the  trust  and 
the  whole  yam  was  bristling with figures 
to  show  just  what  the  deal  meant.  No 
stock  was  taken 
in  the  narrative  here 
and  a  broker  who  is  well  in  touch  with 
the  Arbuckles  said  it  was  a  ridiculous 
canard.  No  possible  benefit,  he  said, 
could  come  to  Arbuckle  by  such  a  deal’ 
and,  as  Arbuckle 
least 
$20,000,000,  he  will  try  to  keep  the  wolf 
from" the  door  and  even  the  Lion.  New 
orders  during  the  week  have  been  few 
and  the  market  remains  practically  un­
changed.  Orders  are  mostly  for  sorting 
upon  broken  stocks.  Some  soft  grades 
are  shaded  i - i6c.

is  worth  at 

The  volume  of  tea  business  going  for­
ward  is  fairly  satisfactory.  While  more 
might  be  done,  it  could  hardly  be  ex­
pected  at  this  time  when  the  holiday 
trade  occupies  so  much  attention.  Quo­
tations  are  well  sustained  and  the  out­
look  is  favorable  for the  future.
Quietude  prevails  in  the  rice  trade, 
yet  matters  might  be  worse.  It  is  owing 
to  the  holiday  trade,  of  course,  which  is 
looking  after  everything  but staples  and 
devoting 
itself  to  the  fancy  articles. 
The  fancy  qualities  of  rice  are  well 
held,  and  for  that  matter  prices  on  the 
general  run  of  goods  are  firm.  All  that 
is  wanted  is  more  buyers.

Spices  are  firm.  The  pepper  market 
adds  greater  strength  every  week  and 
the  situation  generally  is  full  of  encour­
agement.  The  demand  is  good  for  gin­
ger and  nutmegs,  although  no  advance 
is  shown.

New  crop  molasses 

is  developing 
great  strength  and  the  market  generally 
1 ®  ln j>°°d shape.  Supplies  are  not  over­
abundant  and  the  prospects  for  the  im­
mediate  future  are  very  gratifying  to 
holders._  Best  quality  of  molasses,  new 
will  bring  up  to  45c  for open-kettle.’ 
Syrups  are  in  light  supply,  with  a  good 
enquiry,  and  the  market  closes  very 
firm.  Quotations  are  unchanged.

No  canned  goods  are 

in  first  hands 
and  few  are to  be found  anywhere.  The 
market  is  more  closely  sold  up  than  at 
any  time 
in  the  history  of  the  trade. 
Brokers  and  commission  men  both  state 
it  seems  to  be  a 
this  to  be  true,  and 
well-established 
fact.  Next  year  one 
item  worthy  of  the  packer’s  attention 
will  be  the  increased  cost  of  labels,  and 
this  will  be  no  small  matter  if  we  may 
judge  from  present  appearances.  Cans 
are  higher,  and labor has been  advanced 
so  the  packer who  is  selling  futures  on 
is  taking  mighty  big 
present  prices 
chances.  Such 
lots  of  New  York  com 
as  can  be  picked  up  are  taken  at  80c 
and  even  up  to $1,  the  latter  for  fancy 
}
stock. 
fruit  market  is  generally 
firm  and  the  demand  is  becoming  better 
with  every  day.  Raisins are  closely  sold 
up  and  prices  are very firmly adhered to.

The  dried 

Oranges  from  Jamaica  are  becoming 
quite plentiful.  Considerable complaint 
has  been  made  as  to  the  quality  of  fruit 
arriving  and  the  market  is  in  hardly  as 
satisfactory  condition  as  last  week.  Re 
packed  are  worth  $6.50(^08.50  per barrel 
Florida  oranges  are  steady,  but  there  h 
not  the  vim  to  trade  that  might  be  ex­
pected.  Lemons  are  moving  very  slow­
ly  and  at  the  rate  they  are  going  the 
supply  will  soon  be  greater  than  the 
market  can  take  care  ol.
.  Arrivals  of  butter  have  been  rather 
lighter  than  expected,  but  the  market, 
nevertheless,  seems to  be  quite  well  sup­
plied,  and,  as  the  demand  is  moderate, 
the  quotations  of 
last  week  have  not 
been  advanced  in  an  appreciable  man­
ner,  although the  tone  is  rather  stronger, 
fo r  fancy  creamery  27c  seems  to  be 
about  top  notch.

Cheese 

is  much 

firmer  and,  with 
stronger  cables,  the  market  this  week 
shows  decided  improvement.

in­

The  warm  weather  has  caused  an 

flow  of  eggs  almost  greater than  can  1 
taken  care  of,  especially as  a  good  sha 
of  arrivals  is  not  all  they  should be.  Fui 
really  desirable  goods,  fresh  gathered 
Western  will  fetch  23@24c.  For  fairly 
good  about  20c  seems  to  be  top.

Trading 

in  beans  is  quiet,  but,  wi 
small  stocks  and  few  on  the  way,  hold 
ers  insist  on  full  quotations.  Pea  beans 
$2@2.o5;  medium,  steady,  $2.05@;

are made from

Pore Euckwneat Flour

manufactured  by

•I  H.  Proul  x  go..  Howard  City,  men.
Write  them  also  for  special  prices  on 
Feed and Millstuffs in car lots. 

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•  •  •  i f f   t f t  I f •  • • ? • •   ? • • # • *

Not
Nutty

W e have been  unable to  de­
tect any  nutty  flavor  in  our 
buckwheat,  but  we  DO  de­
tect  that  genuine  old-fash­
ioned  buckwheat  taste  we 
were  all  familiar  with  as 
boys.  That  same  delicious, 
indescribable 
flavor  which 
made  us want to eat a dozen 
more  after we  knew we  had 
enough, is in our  buckwheat 
this winter.

If  your  customers 

like 
G E N U IN E   PU R E  BU CK ­
W H E A T   FLO U R   without 
any  frills  or  other  things 
mixed  with  it,  you  can  get 
it of us.  We guarantee it.

Valley  City 
Milling Co.

Grand Rapids,  Mich.

T H E   D EM A N D S

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

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CommercialTravelers

Michigan  Knights  of the Grip

President,  Ch a s.  L.  St e v e n s,  Ypsllantl;  Sec­
retary,  J. C.  Sa u n d e r s,  Lansing;  Treasurer, 
O.  C.  Go u ld, Saginaw.

President,  J a m es  E.  Da y ,  Detroit;  Secretary 

Michigan  Commercial  Trarelers’  Association 
and Treasurer,  C.  W.  Al l e n , Detroit.
United  Commercial  Trarelers  of Michigan 

Grand  Counselor,  J n o .  A.  Mu r r a y ,  Detroit; 
Grand  Secretary,  G.  S.  Va l m o r e,  Detroit; 
Grand Treasurer, W.  S.  Me s t , Jackson.

Grand  Rapids  Council  No.  131

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

Treasurer, L. F. Baker.

Michigan  Commercial  Trarelers’  Mutual  Accident  Association 
President, J .  Boyd  P a n t l in d ,  Grand  Rapids; 
Secretary  and  Treasurer,  Ge o .  F.  Ow e n , 
Grand Rapids.

G ripsack  B rigade.

Henry  Ghysels,  assistant  city  sales­
man  for the  Ba 11-Bamhart-Putman  Co. 
has  taken  the  same  position 
for  the 
Worden  Grocer Co.
Three  members 

of  the  Michigan 
Knights  of  the  Grip  have  announced 
themselves  as  candidates  for  Secretary, 
subject  to  the  approval  of  the  Bay  City 
convention—J.  W.  Schram,  of  Detroit, 
and  R.  S.  Richards  and  M.  A.  Sheay, 
of  Bay  City. 
is  reported  that  A.  C. 
Windt,  of  Jackson,  will  also  go  before 
the  convention  as  a  candidate  for  the 
same  office,  but  the  Tradesman  has  re­
ceived  no  authentic  information  on  this 
point.

It 

Geo.  Rysdale, 

formerly  with  B.  J. 
Reynolds,  has  engaged  to  travel  for  the 
cigar  department  of  Phelps,  Brace  & 
Co.,  covering  the  Grand  Rapids  trade, 
the  Grand  Trunk  from  Lowell  to  Grand 
Haven,  the  Muskegon  branch  of  the  G. 
R.  &  I.  and  the  C.  &  W.  M.  from 
Grand  Rapids  to  Holland,  terminals  in­
cluded.  George  is  a  base  ball  crank  of 
the  first  water  and  has about as much  in­
formation  concerning  base  ball  affairs 
stowed  away  in  his  cranium  as  any  man 
in  the  State.

The  two  proposed  amendments  to  the 
constitution  of  the  Michigan  Knights  of 
the  Grip  are  certainly  entitled  to  the 
consideration  of  the  members.  One 
is 
offered  by  J.  W.  Schram,  providing  for 
the  admission  of  traveling  men  as 
members  who  travel 
in  Michigan,  as 
well  as  those  who  actually  reside  in  the 
is  Mr.  Schram’s  experience 
State. 
in 
that  many  traveling  men  who  reside 
Ohio  and  Indiana  but  travel 
in  Michi­
gan  would 
like  to  identify  themselves 
with  the  organization,  and  it  is  to  reach 
this  class  that  he  proposed  the  amend­
ment  stated.  Geo.  F.  Owen  suggests 
that  death  claims  be passed  upon  by  the 
President,  Secretary  and  Treasurer,  in­
stead  of  by  the  full  Board,  as  at  pres­
ent.  This  would  facilitate  the  payment 
of  claims  very  materially,  instead  of 
holding  them  up  for  the  quarterly  meet­
ings  of  the  Board. 
Inasmuch  as  the 
passing  on  the  claims  is  a  mere  matter 
of  form,  where  there  is  no  contest  and 
no  question  as  to  the  responsibility  of 
the  Association,  the  amendment  would 
appear  to  be  along  the  line  of  sim plify­
ing  the  work  of  the  Association  and  in­
creasing  its  usefulness.

It 

M ileage  B ook  D ecision  B ased  on  E q u ity .
The  traveling  public will be interested 
in  a  suit  recently  decided  in  Milwaukee 
in  which  a  man’s  mileage  book  was 
taken  up  and 
in  which  plaintiff  sued 
the  company  for  damages.  The  plain­
tiff,  H.  A.  Poggenberg,  brought  suit  for 
$5,000 damages  because  Conductor J.  J. 
Leahy  took  up  his  mileage  book  and 
threatened  to  put  him  off  the  train. 
After  hearing  the  testimony  Judge  Lud­
w ig,of  Milwaukee,directed  a  verdict  for 
the  defendant.

The  plaintiff  is  a  traveling  man.  He

stepped  aboard  the  train  at  West  Bend 
to  go  to  Fond  du  Lac.  He  had  a  mile­
age  book  which  he  signed  before  the 
conductor  reached  him.  The  conductor 
asked  him  to  sign  again  and  he refused, 
whereupon  the  conductor  took  up  the 
book  and  the  plaintiff  left  the  train  at 
Fond  du  Lac  and  brought  the  suit.

It  was  shown  by  the  defense  that  the 
plaintiff  in  signing  the  book  entered  in­
to  an  agreement  with  the  company  of 
which  the  following  was  a  part. 
“ This 
ticket 
i§  good  for  the  passage  of  the 
original  purchaser  only, whose  name and 
description  appears  on  cover 
thereof 
and  whose  signature  hereto  has  been 
affixed  in  ink  in  presence  of  the  issuing 
agent  and  whose  identity  must  be  estab­
lished  by  signature  in  the  presence  of 
conductor  on  back  of  mileage  strip close 
to  the  top  and  by  other  means  if  re­
quired  before  detachment 
is  made.’ ’ 
The  railroad  held  that  when  the  plain­
tiff  failed  to  comply  with  the  contract 
the  mileage  book  became  void.

Second  C andidate  for  S ecretary F ro m  Bay 

City.

Bay  City,  Dec.  5— M.  A.  Sheay,  of 
Post  D,  has  entered  the  race  for  State 
Secretary  of  the  order.  He 
is  one  of 
the  boys  well  known  throughout  the V al­
ley  and  State  as  a  man  of  sterling 
worth  and 
for 
the  position  and  whose  character  and 
good  qualities  will 
insure  a  support 
sufficient  to  give  Bay  City  and  to  Mr. 
Sheay  the  State  Secretaryship.

integrity,  well  qualified 

Mr.  Sheay 

is  a  native  of  Ohio  and 
served  his  country  in  the  war of  the  Re­
bellion.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  G.  A. 
R.  in  this  city  and  an  old  and  tried 
knight  of  the  grip.  He  has  been  em­
ployed  as  traveling  salesman  for  the 
Whitney-Plum  Baking  Go.  and  its  suc­
cessors  for  the  past  eighteen  years.

The  position  of  State  Secretary  is  a 
very  important  one  and  Mr.  Sheay  is  a 
man  who  has  often  been  tried  and  never 
denied,  and  if  elected  to  the  office  will 
serve  with  credit  to  himself  and honor to 
the  fraternity.  Mr.  Sheay will  undoubt­
edly  receive  the  unanimous  support  of 
the  Saginaw  Valley.  D.  U.  Morton.

Making Sure of Him.

“ If  you  were  going  to  propose  to  a 
girl,”   she  said,  as  the  conversation 
lagged  somewhat,  “ how  would  you  go 
about  it?”

“ I  haven’t  given  the  matter  much 
thought,”   he  replied,  “ but  I  am  in­
clined  to  think  that  I  would  get down on 
one  knee,  like  this.”

“ Y es.”
“ And  then  I  would  take  her  hand, 

like  this. ”
‘ ‘ Yes. ’ ’
“ And  then  I  would  say: 

will  you  be  mine?’  ”

‘ Darling, 

“ Oh,  George,’ ’ she  exclaimed,  “ this 

is  so  sudden,  but—but— yes,  I  w ill.”  

And  all  the  way  home  that  evening he 
kept  wondering  how 
it  happened  and 
whether  he  was  quite  as  smart  as  he 
sometimes  thought  he  was.

L et T here  Be  a   H earty   Response.

Grand  Rapids,  Dec.  5— Please  give 
notice  in  the  Tradesman  that  there  will 
be  a  meeting  of  the  Michigan  Knights 
of  the  Grip  at  Sweet’s  Hotel,  Saturday 
evening,  December  9,  for  the  purpose 
of  making  arrangements  to attend  the 
annual  convention  to  be  held  at  Bay 
City. 

Manley  Jones,

Chairman  Post  E.
Seventy-Six  W om en  P h arm acists in  M ich­

igan.

Ann  Arbor,  Dec.  4— In  making  out  a 
new  list  of  all  of  the  registered  pharma­
cists  on  record  in  the  State  of  Michigan 
at  the  present  date,  I  find  there  are  sev­
enty-six  women  on  the  register as  phar­
macists. 

A.  C.  Schumacher,  Sec’y.

A   great  many  dentists  grow  rich,  like 
Millionaire  Evans,  in  Paris;  but  many 
of  them 
lead  a  regular  hand-to-mouth 
existence.

When  presents  ate  made  to  a  man  be­
cause  he  is  great,  a  man  who  has  honor 
in  his  own  country  is  not  without  profit.

SUCCESSFUL  SALESMEN.

J .   W.  Schram ,  Detroit*»*  C andidate  F o r 

Secretary.

J.  W.  Schram  was  bom  at  Grimsby, 
Ont.,  in  1851,  and  sold  agricultural  im­
plements  for  Nichols  &  Walker,  of 
Streetsville,  Ont.,  for  five  years,  from 
1872  to  1877.  He  then  accepted  a  po­
sition  as  traveling  salesman  for  James 
Popham  &  Co.,  boot  and  shoe  dealers of 
Montreal,  covering  Ontario,  remaining 
with  that  house  until  1886,  when  he 
came to Detroit  and  engaged  with  Sned- 
icor  &  Hathaway,  representing  them  in 
Southern  Michigan  until  i8p2.  He  then 
severed  his  connection  with  that  house 
and  took  a  position  with  the  C.  E. 
Smith  Shoe  Co.,  which  he  still  holds, 
traveling 
in  Ohio  and  Southern  M ichi­
gan.

Mr.  Schram  has  been  a  member of  the 
Knights  of  the  Grip  since  1890.  He 
was  Secretary  of  Post  C  for  four  years, 
and  when  the  Post  found  itself  $275 
in

candidate  for  the  Secretaryship,  Mr. 
Schram  recently  replied  as  follows :

At  the  request  of  over one  hundred 
members  in good  standing  of  the  Mich­
igan  Knights  of  the  Grip  in  Detroit and 
vicinity,  and  signing  requisition  advo­
cating  my  candidacy,  1  nave  concluded 
to  run  for  the  Secretaryship  for  the  year 
1900,  at  the  Bay  City  convention.

in 
inspection. 

My  record 
for 

local  and  State  affairs 
is  open 
If  my  efforts 
have been  of  any  benefit  to the organiza­
tion  in  the  past  1  can  promise  all  mem­
bers  that  the  future,  if  elected,  will  not 
be  of  less  benefit.

The  object  of  my taking the Secretary­
ship  at  this  time  is  to  try  and  put  new 
life  in  the  Association  among  tne  trav­
eling  men  of  Detroit,  where  the  loss  of 
members  has  been  the  greatest  the 
last 
four  years of  any  place  in  the  State.  My 
efforts  will  also  be  to  try  and  harmonize 
with  all  parties  and  get  as  many new,  as 
well  as  delinquent,  members  into  the 
Association.  Detroit,  with  nearly  three 
thousand  traveling  men,  should  have  at 
least  five  hundred  members. 
I  shall  try 
to  bring  that  harmony  and  enthusiasm 
back  into  the  Association  that  prevailed 
before  there  were  any  thoughts  of  dis­
sension  between  the  State  and  Detroit. 
Both  should  be  as  one  and  my  wide  ac­
quaintance  and  experience  both  in  State 
and  local  affairs  should  help  to  accom­
plish  this  end.

Now  He  Know»*  Hit*  Coffin  W ill  F it.
J.  W.  Boyer,  of  Rock  Hall,  Md.,  who 
recently  died  at  the  age  of  80,  had  dis­
pelled  all  possible  doubt  as  to  whether 
his  coffin  would  suit  and  fit  him.  An­
ticipating  an  early  taking-off,  he  went 
several  years  ago  to  J.  E.  Leary  &  Son’s 
factory  and  selected  heavy  timber  and 
had  it  sawed  to  make  his  coffin.  When 
the  burial  case  was  finished  Mr.  Boyer 
carefully  stretched  himself  out  in  it  to 
make  sure  that  its  dimensions  would  be 
all  right,  and,  getting  out  and  yawning 
with  evident  satisfaction,  he exclaimed: 
“ Yes,  that’ ll  do  first  rate!”

The  man  who  aims  to  sell  to  people 
whom  he  can  not  reach personally  is  the 
man  whose  advertising  must  be  the 
most  carefully  planned  and 
the  most 
thoroughly  executed.  He  must  have  a 
perfect  system  of following up enquiries. 
He  must  never 
let  a  man  forget  him 
after  that  man  has  once  shown  an  inter­
est 
in  his  proposition.  Orders  rarely 
come  with  the  introduction.  They  are 
the  result  of  frequent  visits.  The  more 
frequent  the  visit  the  more  likelihood  of 
the  reception  of  an  order. 
It  works  the 
same  way  in  advertising  as  it  works 
in 
selling  through  salesmen.  A  very  good 
advertisement  may  catch  at  once ;  same 
way  with  a  salesman;  but more often the 
frequent  visit  of  an  advertisement,  a  lit­
tle  different  each  time,  like  the  persist­
ent 
salesman,  gains  the  permanent 
trade.

When 

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

There’s  one  trade  combination  that 

is sure to  be  sat  upon— the  chair  trust.

debt,  he  was  one  of  the  few  who  put  his 
shoulder  to  the  wheel  and  stayed  by  the
organization  until  the  indebtedness  was 
liquidated. 
Two  years  ago  he  was 
elected  a  Director  of  the  State  organiza­
tion,  and  during  his  term  of  office  he 
has  not  omitted  attending  a  single 
meeting. 
record  seems  to 
demonstrate  the  fidelity  with  which  he 
serves  any  organization  with  which  he 
is  identified  in  an  official  capacity.

Such  a 

Mr.  Schram  owns  a  cozy  home  at  609 
interesting 
West  Boulevard  and  has  an 
family,  consisting  of  a  wife,  four  sons 
and  three  daughters.  He  enjoys  a  wide 
circle  of  warm  and  loyal  friends,  both 
among  the  trade  and  among  the  boys  on 
the  road,  and  the  number  is  constantly 
increasing.

In  response  to  an  enquiry  as  to wheth­
er  he  proposed  to  enter the  field  as  a

The new W H O L E SA L E

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in  Fur, Stiff and Wool.  Cheapest to the best.
Our  goods are all new and orlght—direct from the factory;  we own them  right 
and shall sell them at the right  price to  you.

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18

Drugs=-Chemicals

M ichigan  State  B oard  o f P harm acy

- 
- 

Term expires
A. C. Sc h u m a c h e r , Ann Arbor  -  Dec. 31,1899 
-  Dec. 31,1900
G e o .  G u n d r u m , Ionia 
L.  E.  Reynolds,  St.  Joseph 
-  Dec. 31,1901 
H e n r y   H e im , Saginaw 
-  Dec. 31,190-.'
Dec. 31,1903
W ir t   P.  Do ty, Detroit - 
President,  Ge o .  Gu n d r 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 im , Saginaw.
E xam ination  Sessions 
Detroit—Jan. 9 and 10.
Grand Rapids—Mar. 6 and 7.
Star Island—June uf> and 26.
Sault Ste.  Marie—Aug. 28 and 29. 
Lansing—Nov. 7 and 8.

State  P h arm aceu tical  A ssociation 

President—O.  E k r r k a c h, Ann Arbor. 
Secretary—Ch a s.  F.  Ma n n , Detroit. 
Treasurer—J .  S.  Be n n e t t ,  Lansing.

W h at  Changes  Should  Be  M ade  in  the 

C om ing  P harm acopieia ?

That  the  Pharmacopoeia 

is  not  the 
popular  book  it  should  be  among  phar­
macists  and  physicians  is  due  far  more 
to  rapidly  changing  conditions  than  to 
any  fault 
in  the  book  itself,  or  on  the 
part  of  those  for  whom  it  is  intended. 
To  be  popular 
it  should  be  a  book  of 
ready  reference.

for  him to  determine.  Be this  as  it  may, 
he  will  still  occupy  a position  of  highest 
responsibility  in  answering for the  qual­
ity  of  what  he  dispenses.  He  will  be 
either  an  expert  in  making  pharmaceu­
tical  preparations  or  an  adept  in  assay­
ing  as  seems  to  him  best— perhaps  both 
— and  always  a  skilled  compounder  of 
prescri ptions.

The  adoption  of  definite  standards 
upon  which  manufacturers  can  unite, 
whether  or  not  the  processes of standard­
ization  involved  are  within  the  scope  of 
the  retail  druggist’s  time  and  facilities, 
is,  in  the  writer’s  opinion,  of  greatest 
importance.  No  one  will  benefit  more 
than  the  dispensing  pharmacist from the 
introduction  of  such  standards.  Physi­
cians  should  feel  that  specification  of  a 
particular  make  is  unnecessary  in  order 
to  secure  uniformity  in  essentials.

Medical  men  may  naturally  refer  to 
the  Pharmacopoeia  to  see  what  a certain 
amount  of  a  preparation  represents,  as 
based  upon  active  principle  or  the  drug 
from  which  the  article  is  made.  Meet­
ing  this  requirement  alone  should  in­
sure  the  book  a  place  on  every  doctor’s 
table.

of 

If  from  1903  to  1913  the  pharmacist  is 
likely  to  have  much  use  for  an  official 
formulary,  methods 
preparation 
should  retain  prominence  and  be  elabo­
rated  to  meet,  in  so  far as  possible,  the 
growing  demand  for  articles  of  definite 
and  uniform  strength.  But  it  is  doubt­
ful  if,  by  the  time  the  next  revision  of 
the  Pharmacopoeia 
leaves  the  press, 
there  wili  be  any  appreciable  demand, 
on  the  part  of  physicians,  for  prepara­
tions  which  are  not  nearly  as  perfect  as 
the  superior  facilities  of  the  great  labo­
ratories  of  the  world  can  make  them.
Formulas  which  do  not  provide  for 
the  greatest  possible  excellence  and  uni­
formity  should  not  occupy  space  which 
might  better  be  devoted  to  processes  for 
the  valuation  of  manufactured  products. 
Just  how  the  Pharmacopoeia  is  going 
to  enable  the  retail  druggist  to  produce 
physiologically 
standardized  prepara­
tions  equal  to  those  offered  by  the  large 
manufacturer,  or  certain  of  the  chemic­
ally  standardized  galenicals  as  cheaply 
as  they  can  be  bought,  is  a  difficult 
problem  to  solve.  The  prescriber  will 
certainly 
insist  on  the  best.  Judging 
from  the  relative  use  to  the  pharmacist 
of  formulas  on  the  one hand  and  meth­
ods  for  valuation  on  the  other,  it  would 
seem  a waste  of  space  to  use  type for the 
former,  which  occupies  50  per  cent, 
more  room  than  that  employed  for  the 
If  we  merely  consider  the  prop­
latter. 
ositions 
involving  processes  for  stand­
ardization  and  assay  which  have  been 
advanced  by  the  A.  Ph.  A.  Committee 
of  Revision  during  the  last  few  years, 
we  realize  that  any  space  saved  can  be 
utilized  to  the  best  possible  advantage.
Standards  may  well  be  adopted  for 
certain  powdered  drugs  so that  they  can 
be  mixed  by  drug  millers  to  approach  a 
definite  content  of  active  principles. 
This  will  help  toward  uniformity,  in 
the  case  of  fluid  preparations,  but  can 
never  afford  an  alternative  for  standard­
ization  as  applied  to  solid  extracts, 
when  variation in the  yield  of  extractive 
influences  the  strength  of  the 
largely 
finished  product. 
It  would  seem  well, 
in  dealing  with  drugs  for  which  no 
standard  can  be  adopted,  to  recommend 
that  the  powder,  as  marketed,  represent 
a  reasonably  large  quantity  of  the  crude 
drug,  for which  a  lower  lim it  might  be 
suggested,  thus  providing  for a  possibly 
fair average  strength.  Whether  it  will 
pay  the  pharmacist  even  then  to  make 
many  of  his  own  preparations  will  be

The  Pharmacopoeia  should  be 

an 
authoritative  guide  to  the  gatherer of 
medicinal  plants,  and  to  the  manufac­
turing  pharmacist,  as  well  as  to  the  dis­
penser. 
The  word  “ official”   should 
mean  much  all  along  the  line.  Concern­
ing  the 
introduction  of  doses  into  the 
Pharmacopoeia,  we  have  weighty  prec­
edents  to  guide  us.  The British Pharma­
in  response  to  an  “ expressed 
copoeia 
wish”   introduced  doses 
in  1867,  mak­
ing 
it  clear  that  the  quantities  given 
were  not  binding  upon  physicians  by  a 
statement  that  they  were  not  “ authori­
tatively enjoined  by  the  Council.”   The 
same  course  has  been  followed  in  the 
B.  P.  revisions  of 
’85  and  ’98,  with 
every  evidence  that  both  professions 
were  satisfied. 
In  the  German  Pharma­
copoeia  the  largest  single  dose  and  the 
largest  daily  dose  appear  in  heavy 
type  throughout  the  book,  the  simple 
provision  being  made  that,  when  the 
prescriber  wishes  to  exceed  the  official 
dose  or  when  the  remedy  is  to  be  used 
as  an  injection  or  suppositorv,  he  is  to 
place  an  exclamation  point  after  the 
quantity  prescribed.  The  English  cus­
tom,  supplemented,  perhaps,  by 
the 
German  “   !”   (or,  better  still,  by  under­
scoring,  since  a  hastily  written  “   !”  
might  be  mistaken  for  something  else) 
would  seem  well  adapted  to  conditions 
in  this  country,  if  the  medical  men  of 
the  committee  can  agree  upon  what  the 
official  doses  shall  be.

Anent  the 

The  arrangement  of  the  index  of  the 
B.  P.,  ’98,  in  three  columns— (1)  name 
of  drug  or  preparation,  (2)  dose,  and 
(3)  amount  of  active  ingredient  repre­
sented— suggests  an easy way  of  meeting 
in  part  the  ready  reference requirement.
introduction  of  patented 
synthetics,  we  again  find  precedents  es­
tablished  in  those  strongholds  of  conser­
vatism,  Germany  and  Great  Britain. 
The  word  “ patent”  
(open,  uncon­
cealed)  should  signify  eligibility  to 
pharmacopoeial  recognition,  providing 
the  article  is  deserving,  upon  its merits. 
Such  drugs  as  phenacetine,  sulphonal, 
etc.,  are  now  important  members  of  the 
materia  medica. 
If  the  pharmacist 
look  up  certain  characters  or 
wishes  to 
tests  or  refer  to  the  dose,  and  doesn’t 
information  in  the  Pharmaco­
find  the 
poeia,  he 
is 
likely  to  conclude  that  if 
the  Dispensatory  must  be  constantly  at 
hand he  has  little  use  for the  Pharmaco- 
poeia.  As  well  might  we  try  to stay the 
rising  fide  as  to  bar  articles  of  estab-

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

lished  value  which  are  daily  prescribed 
by  the  best  physicians.  Unquestioned 
merit  and  the  widest  medical 
indorse­
ment  should  warrant  official  recogni­
tion.

It  would  seem  that  a  short  chapter  on 
poisons  and  antidotes,  printed,  perhaps, 
in  two  colors,  would  add  to  the popular­
ity  of  the  Pharmacopoeia  as  a  book  of 
ready  reference.

Now  that  we  are  attaining  such  ex­
cellence  and  uniformity  in  galenicals, 
would 
it  not  be  well  if  the  Pharmaco­
poeia  adopted  a  set  of  official  measuring 
glasses  and  a  standard  medicine  drop­
per,  which  would 
insure  the  least  pos­
sible  variation  when  the  doctor’s  direc­
tions  call  for teaspoon,  tablespoon,  wine­
glass,  or  so  many  drops?  The  unoffi­
cial  measures,  now 
in  general  use,  are 
too 
indefinite  to  harmonize  well  with 
Twentieth  Century  chemically and phys­
iologically 
standardized  medicinal 
fluids.  At  least  let  us  have  the  greatest 
practical  extension  of  the  standardiza­
tion 
idea,  the  admission  of doses  and 
the official  recognition  of such synthetics 
as  have  won  a  probably permanent place 
in  the  materia  medica.— Seward  W. 
Williams  in  Bulletin  of  Pharmacy.

How  th e   A d ap ter  S u pplants  th e   O rigi­

nato r.

There 

is  something  partly  pathetic 
and  partly  exasperating  in  the  reflection 
that  the  vast  majority  of  mankind,  on 
nearly  every  important  subject,  get their 
facts  and  their  opinions  wholly  at  sec­
ond  hand.  Close  to  thé  heart  of  each 
great  problem,  whether  it  be  theological 
or  political  or scientific or philosophical, 
a  few  powerful  and  unwearied  minds 
are  always  laboring  and  watching,  for­
getful  of  self,  single-minded,  devoted to 
ideal— the  discovery  of 
one  sublime 
truth,  cost  what 
it  may  and  point 
whither 
it  will.  They  have  no  thought 
of  gain,  no  love  of  popular applause,  no 
motive 
scholar’s  motive, 
which 
its  highest,  so  pure  and 
so disinterested  as  almost  to  deserve  the 
name  of  sacred.  Whatever  knowledge 
men  have  gleaned  as  yet in  each  respec­
tive  field 
is  known  to  them,  and  they 
live 
in  serene  contentment,  and  die 
with  a  smile  of  happiness,  if  they  can 
but  feel  that  by  their 
labor  and  self- 
denial  the  sum  of  human  knowledge  has 
been 
that 
through  their effort  a  single  ray  of  light 
has  stolen  out  a  little  further  into  the 
dusk  of  the  Unknown.  They  seek  ab­
solutely  nothing  for  themselves,  and 
what they learn  is  free  to  all  who  care  to 
take  it  from  them.

save 
is,  at 

augmented, 

perceptibly 

the 

at 

ingenious— having  much  of 

There  stands  about  these  men  a  sec­
ond  class— shrewd,  clever,  quick-witted 
and 
the 
scholar’s  knowledge  and  very  little  of 
the  scholar’s  spirit,  with  eyes  that  are 
turned  towards  the  world 
large, 
which 
is,  in  fact,  their oyster.  What­
ever  stream  of  knowledge  flows  forth 
little  sanctuary  where 
from  the 
the 
giants  of 
learning  smite  the  rocks  of 
difficulty,  these  brilliant  persons  rapid­
ly  scoop 
into their  own  shallow 
vessels  and,  diluting 
it  with  the  water 
of  the  first  roadside  puddle,  run  abroad 
throughout  the world,  selling the draught 
to • any  one  who  may  seek  to  buy.  To 
drop  the  figure,  it  is,  in  general,  only 
the  adapter,  the  popularizer,  the  actual 
dispenser,  whom  the  world  at  large  en­
counters ;  and  it is,  therefore,  to him that 
the  glory  and  the  praise  of  the  discov­
ery  are  given.  Harry  Thurston  Peck.

it  up 

Too  much  talk  and  too  little  work  is 
responsible  for  the  non-success  of  many 
a  man.

T he  D rug  M arket.

Opium— Has  advanced,  on  account  of 

higher  primary  markets.

Morphine— Is  unchanged.
Quinine— The  market 

manufacturers  are  firm 
and  are  not  offering  large  parcels.

Acetanilid— Is  weak  and 

lower,  on 

is  steady  and 
in  their  prices 

account  of  competition.

Carbolic  A cid— Is  very  firm  at  the  ad­
vance  noted 
last  week,  on  account  of 
very  firm  markets  abroad.  Large  quan­
tities  are  being  used  in  England  for  ex­
plosives.

Cocoa  Butter— Is  very firm and another 
is  expected  the  latter  part  of 

advance 
the  week.

Cod  Liver  Oil— Is  very firm and stead­

ily  increasing  in  price.

Ergot— Has  again  advanced  and  there 
little  to  be  had.  Fluid  extract 
their 

is  very 
manufacturers  have 
price.

advanced 

Manna— Has  advanced,  on  account  of 

small  stocks  and  higher prices abroad.

Menthol— Has  again  advanced  and  is 

very  firm,  with  an  upward  tendency.

Sassafras  Bark— Continues  to  harden 

in  price  and  stocks  are  very  small.

Arnica  Flowers— Have  been  advanced 
and,  as  stocks  are  small,  higher  prices 
are  predicted.

Anise  Seed— Is  scarce  and  has  been 

advanced.

Russian  Hemp  Seed— Has declined.
Linseed  O il— Further  advanced  on 
December  4,  on  account  of  higher  price 
for  seed.

W ished  She  H ad  L et  H im   T alk.

“ Don’t  you  dare  speak  to  me,  John 
Henry!”   she  exclaimed  as  he  came  to 
the  breakfast  table. 
“ You  didn’t  get 
back  from  the  club  until  long after  mid­
night,  and  it’s  simply  disgraceful.”

He  shoved  something  back  into  his 

pocket  and  held  his  peace.

in 

“ What’s  that  you’re  putting  back 

your  pocket?”   she  demanded.

He  shook  his  head.
“ What  is  it?”   she  insisted.
He  took  a  piece  of  paper  from  his 
pocket  and  wrote  on  i t : 
“ I  was.  about 
to  give  you  $20  for  a  new  bonnet,  but 
money  talks,  and  you  say  I  mustn’t 
speak  to  you. ”

And  he  didn’t.

Wall  Paper  Facts

Are  you  aware  that  Grand 
Rapids  has  one  of  the  fore­
most  wholesale  wall  paper 
houses  in  the  United  States? 
Our trade  extends  throughout 
several  states.  Our  assort­
ment of wall  paper  cannot  be 
equalled.  W e show the cream 
of 26 different factories.  Prices 
terms  are  guaranteed. 
and 
Write  us, 
“ The  Michigan 
Wall  Paper Jobbers. ”
Heystek  & Canfield Co.,

Grand Rapids.

ALLEGAN, 1IGH.

JHFG. CHEMISTS, 

•1

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

FLAVORING EXTRACfS AND DRUGGISTS’ SUNDRIES

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

W H O L E S A L E   P R IC E   C U R R t N T .

A dvance il- 
D eclined—

@
@
@

Menthol....................
Morphia, S., P.& W. 
Morphia, 8., N. Y. Q.
& C. Co..................
Moschus  Canton__
Myristica, No. 1.......
Nux  Vomica...po. 16
Os Sepia....................
■*epsln Saac, H. & P.
D  Co.....................
Icis Liq. Ñ.N.V4 gal.
d oz.........................
Id s  Liq., quarts__
‘lets Liq.,  pints.......
11 Hydrarg. ,,po.  80 
Iper  Nigra., .po. 22 
1 per  Alba.... ¡>0. 35
’lix Burgun.............
’lunibi  Acet.............
’ulvis Ipecac et Opii 
’yrethrum. boxes H.
& P. I). Co., doz...
‘yrethrum,  pv........
Quassia-....................
Quinta, S. P. &  W... 
Quinia, S.  German..
Quinia, N. Y.............
Rubia Tinctorum.... 
Saccharum Lactis pv
Saiacin.....................
Sanguis  Draconls...
Sapo, W ....................
Sapo M .....................
Sapo  G .....................

@  3 40 
2 20® 2 45
2  10®  2 35
@  40
65®  80@ 
10 
25®  30
@  1  00
@ 2 00 
@  1  00 
@  85
®  50
@  18 
@  30
7
@ 
10®  
12 
1  30®  1  50
@  75
25®  30
8® 
10 
37®  42
29®  39
31®  41
12®  14
18®  20
3 50® 3 60
40®  50
12®  14
10®  
12
@  15

Voes

Seldiltz Mixture.
20®
Sinapis...............
®
Sinapis,  opt......
® 30
Snuff, Maccaboy, De 
@  41
Snulf.Scotch.DeVo’s
@  41
9®  11
Soda, Boras.......
9®  11
Soda,  Boras, po 
26®  28 
Soda et Potass Tart
154® 
Soda,  Carb.............
2
Soda,  Bi-Carb........
5
3® 
Soda,  Ash...............
354® 
4
Soda, Sulphas.......
@ 
2 
@ 2 60 
Spts. Cologne........
50®  55@ 2 00 
Spts. Ether  Co__
Spts.  Myrcia Dom. 
@
Spts. Vini Rect.  bbl. 
Spts. Vini Rect. Vibbl 
©
Spts. Vini Rect. lOgal 
@
Spts. Vini Rect. 5 gal 
®
1  00®  1  20 
Strychnia, Crystal. 
Sulphur,  Subl
2k@ 
4
Sulphur, Roil........ ..  2V4@ 354
8® 10
Tam arinds...........
Terebenth  Venice
28® 30
50(fò
52
Theobroma»...........
Vanilla.................. ..  9 00® .16 00
8
Zinci Sulph..........
7®
O ils

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

BBL.  GAL.
70
65
40

70
65
35

19

Linseed, pure raw... 
51 
62 
Linseed, boiled........ 
Neatsfoot, winter str  54 
Spirits  Turpentine.. 
56 

53
55
60
62
P a in ts  BBL.  LB.
Red  Venetian..........  154  2  @8
Ochre, yellow  Mars.  154  2  @4 
Ochre, yellow B er...  134  2  @3 
Putty,  commercial..  254  2V4@3 
nitty, strictly  pure.  2V4  254®3 
Vermilion,  P r im e
American............. 
13® 
15
70®  76
Vermilion, English.. 
Green,  Paris...........   1354® 17*4
Green, Peninsular... 
13®  16
Lead, red..................  6  @ 654
Lead,  white.............  6  @ 654
Whiting, white Span 
@  70
Whiting, gilders’__  
@  90
@ 100 
White, Paris, Araer. 
Whiting, Paris,  Eng.
cliff........................  
@  1 40
Universal  Prepared.  1 00®  1  16

V arn ishes

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

A cidum

6@$  8
-Aceticum  .................$ 
Benzoicum, German.  70®  75
Boracic.....................  
16
@ 
29®  32
Carbolicum..............  
Citrlcum.................... 
43®  4t>
5
3® 
Hydrochlor............. 
8®  10
Nitrocum.................. 
Oxalicum.................. 
12® 
14
Phosphorium,  dll... 
® 
15
Sallcyllcum  .............  
40®  50
Sulphurlcum............  1H& 
5
Tannlcum................. 
90®  1  00
T artaricum .............  
38®  40
A m m onia
Aqua, 16 deg............. 
Aqua, 20 deg.............  
Carbonas.................. 
Chloridum................  
A niline

4® 
6® 
13® 
12® 

6
8
15
14

Black.........................  2 00@ 2  26
Brown.......................  
80®  1  00
B ed............................ 
45®  50
Yellow.......................  2  50® 3 00
Baccte

14
8
25

55®  60
@  2  10
40®  45
45
40® 

Cubebae...........po, 15  12@ 
Juniperus.................  
6® 
Xauthoxylum.......... 
20® 
B alsam  u m
Copaiba.................... 
Peru  ......................... 
Terabin,  Canada.... 
Tolutan.....................  
Cortex
Abies, Canadian......  
Cassiie.......................  
Cinchona  Klava....... 
Euouymus atropurp. 
Myrica Cerifera, po. 
Primus Virgin!........  
Quillato, grrd ...........  
Sassafras  ...... po. 18 
Ulmus.. .po.  15, gr’d 
K xtractum
Glycyrrhiza  Glabra. 
24®  25
Glycyrrhiza,  po......  
28®  30
12
Haematox, 15  lb. box  11® 
Haematox, i s ...........  
14
13® 
Hiematox, Vis.......... 
14® 
15
Haematox, Vis.......... 
16® 
17

18
J2
18
30
20
J2
12
14
15

F e rru

Carbonate  Precip... 
Citrate and  Quinta.. 
Citrate  Soluble........ 
Ferrocyanidum Sol.. 
Solut. Chloride........  
Sulphate,  com’l....... 
Sulphate,  com’l,  by
bid, per  cwt.......... 
Sulphate,  pure........  

F lo ra

Arnica......................  
Anthemis.................. 
Matricaria................  

F o lia

15
2  25
75
40
15
2
80
7

14® 
22® 
30® 

16
25
35

Barosma...................  
38®  40
Cassia Acutifol,  Tin-
20® 
25
nevelly..................  
Cassia, Acutifol, Alx.  25®  30
Salvia officinalis,  Vis
and Vis..................  
12®  20
UvaUrsi.................... 
8® 
10
G um m i
Acacia, 1st picked... 
®  65
Acacia, 2d  picked... 
@  45
Acacia, 3d  picked... 
®  35
Acacia, sifted  sorts. 
@  28
45®  65
Acacia, po................. 
Aloe, Barb. po.l8@20  12® 
14
Aloe, Cape__ po. 15. 
@ 
12
Aloe,  Socotrl.. po. 40 
®  30
Ammoniac................  
55®  60
Assafietida.. ..po. 30  28®  30
Benzoinum............... 
50®  55
Catechu, is ............... 
13
® 
Catechu, Vis............. 
14
@ 
Catechu, 54s .............  
@ 
16
Cam phone............... 
55®  60
Eupnorbium...po. 35 
®  40
Galbanum................. 
@ 100
70
Gamboge.............po  65@ 
@ 3 0
Guaiacum......po. 25 
Kino........... po. $1.25 
@  1  25
M astic...................... 
@  60
Myrrh.............po. 45  @ 4 0
Oplt. .. .po.  4.50@4.80 3  35® 3  40
Shellac.....................  
25@  35
Shellac, bleached.... 
40®  45
Tragacanth..............  
50®  80
H erb a

25
20
25
28
23
25
39
22
25

Absinthium..oz. pkg 
Eupatorium..oz. pkg 
Lobelia........oz. pkg 
M ajorum__ oz. pkg 
Mentha Pip..oz. pkg 
Mentha Vir..oz. pkg 
Rue............... oz. pkg 
Tanacetum V oz. pkg 
Thymus, V .. .oz. pkg 
M agnesia
55®  60
Calcined, P a t............ 
Carbonate, P at........ 
18®  20
18®  20
Carbonate, K. & M.. 
larbonate, Jennings  18®  20

O leum

Absinthium.............   6 50® 6 75
Amygdalae,  Dulc__  
30®  50
Amygdalae,  Amarae.  8 00® 8 25
A nisi.........................  1  85®  2 00
Auranti Cortex........   2 40@  2 50
Bergamii..................  2 80@  2 90
80®  86
Cajiputi.................... 
Caryophylli..............  
75@  85
C edar.......................  
35@  45
Chenopadii............... 
@ 2  75
Cinnamonii.............   1  40®  1 50
Citroneiia................. 
35®  40

\ i

ri»

i »

Hi

**

2 GO

1 75
2 00
1 45

@  75
50®  60

15® 18
15®
13® 15
52® 57
12® 15
16@ 18
35®
35® 40
28® 30
® 15
7® 10
(VjXj,
8
23® 26
15@
15® 18

Conium Mac............. 
40 |
35® 
1 25
Copaiba....................  l  15® 
90®  1 00
Cubebae.................... 
Exechthitos.............  1  00® 1  10
Erigeron............. .  l  00®  1  10
G aultheria...............  2  10® 
Geranium, ounce.... 
Gossippii, Sem. gal.. 
Hedeoma..................  1  70® 
Junipera..................  1  50® 
90®  2 00
Lavendula  ............... 
Limonis....................  l  35® 
Mentha  Piper..........  1  25® 2  00
Mentha Verid__
1  50®  1 60
1  15®  1 25
Morrhuse, .gal__
4 00®  4  50
M yrcia.................
Olive....................
75® 3 00
Ilcis Liquida.......
10® 12
Piéis Liquida,  gal
@ ik)
Kicina..................
96®  1 05
Rosmarini............
@  1  00
Rosae, ounce........
6 50® 8  50
40® 45
40®
Succini.....................  
90®  1  00
S abina....................
2  50® 7 00
Santal.....................
50(0
Sassafras.................
55
® 65
Sinapis,  ess., ounce
1  50®  1 60
Tiglii.......................
40®
Thyme....................... 
40® 50
Thyme, opt__  
_
@  1  60
Theobromas  ...........  
15 <&
15 <0 
20
P otassium
a
Bl-Carb...................... 
Bichromate.............
Bromide  ..................
Carl)  .........................
Chlorate... po. 17 « 19
Cyanide.................... 
Iodide.......................
Potassa, Bitart, pure 
Potassa, Bitart, com.
Potass Nitras, opt...
Potass  Nitras..........
Prussiate..................
Sulphate  po.............  
R adix
Aconitine.............
20® 25
Aithae.......................
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 Can., po..
® 75
Hellebore, Alba, po.
12® 15
Inula,  po..................
15® 20
Ipecac, po................
4 25® 4 35
Iris  plox.. .po. 35@38  35®
35® 40
Jalapa, p r............
30
25db
Marmita,  54s.......
® 35
Podophyllum,  po
22® 25
Rhei......................
75®  1 (X)
Rhei,  cu t.............
®  1 25
Rhei, pv...............
75®  I 35
35@ 38
Spigella...............
Sanguinaria., .po.  15
@ IS
40® 45
Serpentaria.............
Senega .....................
60® 65
Smilax, officinalis H.
® 40
Smilax, M ................
@ 25
Scillai............. po.  35
10® 12
Symplocarpus, Feet!
dus,  po..................
@ 25
Valeriana, Eng. po. 30 
® 25
Valeriana,  German
15® 20
Zingiber a ...............
12® 16
Zingiber j ................
25® 27
Semen
Anisi im ..........po.  15
Apium (grave)
Bird, is ..........
Carol...............po.  18
Cardamon.........
Coriandrum......
Cannabis Sativa
Cydonium........
Chenopodium..
Dipterix Odorafc
Fceniculum  __
Fnenugreek, po.
L in i..................
Lini, grd.......bbl. 354
Lobelia.....................
Pharlaris Canarian..
R ap a.........................
Sinapis  Alba...........
Sinapis  Nigra..........
S piritus 
Frumenti, W. I>. Co.
2 00®  2  50
Frumeuti,  D. F. R..
2 00® 25
Frum enti.................
1  25® 50
Juniperis Co. O. T ...  1  65®  2 00
Juni peris  Co...........   1  75®  3 50
Saacharum  X. E __   l  90®  2 10
Spt. Vini Galll..........  1  75@  6 50
vini  Oporto.............  l  25®  2 oo
Vini Alba..................  l  25®  2 00

@ 12
13® 15
4®
6
11® 12
8@ 10
5® 5*/,
75®  : «o
10® 12
50
1  40®,
® 10
9
7®
3*4® 4*4
4® 4*4
35® 40
5
454®
5
4*4®
9® 10
11® 12

1  25®  :

Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage.................   2  50®  2 75
Nassau sheeps’ wool
carriage.................   2 50®  2 75
Velvet extra sheeps’
@ 150
wool, carriage....... 
Extra yellow sheeps’
wool, carriage....... 
©  1  25
Grass  sheeps’  wool,
carriage................. 
@ 100
@ 7 5
Hard, for slate use.. 
Yellow  R e e f,  for
slate use................. 
@ 140
Syrups
A cacia...................... 
Auranti Cortex........  
Zingiber.................... 
Ipecac.......................  
Ferri Iod..'............... 
Rhei Arom............... 
Smilax  Officinalis... 
Senega. 
ScilUe...

©   60
@  50
@ 
so
@  60
@  50
@  50
50®  60

@

Scillae  Co.................. 
Tolutan..................... 
Prunus  virg.............  
T inctures 
Aconitum Xapellis R 
Aconitum Xapellis F
Aloes ........................
Aloes and M yrrh__
A rnica.....................
Assafietida...............
Atrope Belladonna..
Auranti Cortex........
Benzoin....................
Benzoin Co...............
Barosma....................
Cantharides.............
Capsicum.................
Cardamon................
Cardamon Co...........
Castor.......................
Catechu....................
Cinchona..................
Cinchona Co.............
Columba..................
Cubebae.....................
Cassia Acutifol........
Cassia Acutifol Co...
Digitalis....................
Ergot.........................
Ferri  Chloridum__
G entian....................
Gentian Co...............
Guiaca.......................
Guinea ammon........
Hyoscyamus.............
Iodine.....................
Iodine, colorless....
K in o .........................
Lobelia.....................
M yrrh.......................
Nux Vomica.............
Opii............................
Opii,  comphorated..
Opii, deodorized......
Q uassia....................
Rhatany....................
Rhei..........................
Sanguinaria............
Serpentaria.............
Stromonium.............
T olutan....................
Valerian  ..................
Veratrum  Veride...
Zingiber....................

M iscellaneous 

@ 3 OO

.Fther, Spts. Nit. 3 F  30@ 
¿Ether, Spts. Nit. 4 F  34® 
Alum en....................  254®
3® 
Alumen,  gro’d..po. 7 
4
Annatto..................... 
40®  50
Antimoni, po...........  
4®
Antimoni et Potass T  40®
@
Antipyrin................. 
Antiiebrin  ............... 
©
@
Argenti Nitras, oz... 
Arsenicum............... 
10®
Balm  Gilead  Buds.. 
38®
Bismuth S. N...........   1  40®  1  60
Calcium Chlor.,  is... 
@
Calcium Chlor.,  54s..  @
Calcium Chlor.,  54s..  @
©
Cantharides, Rus.po 
Capsici Fructus,ai.. 
@
Capslci  Fructus, po. 
@
Capslci Fructus B, po  @
Caryophyllus. .po. 16  12®
Carmine, No. 40....... 
50®
Cera  Alba................. 
Cera  Flava............... 
40®
Coccus  .....................  
@
©
Cassia  Fructus........ 
Centraria..................  
@
Cetaceum.................. 
@
60®  53
Chloroform  ............. 
Chloroform,  squibbs  @  1  10 
Chloral Hyd Crst.  ..  1  65@  1  90
Chondrus................. 
20®  25
Clnchonidine.P. & W  38@ 
Cinchonidine, Germ.  38®  48
Cocaine....................  6 55®  6  76
Corks, list, dis. pr. ct.
@
Creosotum................. 
@
C reta.............bbl. 76 
Creta, prep............... 
@
Creta, precip...........  
9®
©
Creta,  Rubra...........  
Crocus...................... 
15®
@
Cudbear.................... 
Cupri  Sulph.............   6V4@
D extrine..................  
7®
75®
Ether Sulph.............  
Emery, all numbers. 
@
@
Emery, po................. 
E rg o ta ......... po. 90  85®
Flake  W hite...........  
12@
G alla.................
8®
G am bler..........
@
Gelatin,  Cooper
35®
Gelatin, French....... 
®
75  &  10 
Glassware,  flint, box
Less than box......
70 
13
11@
Glue, brown.............  
15®  28
Glue,  white
Glycerina.................. 
16@  24
Grana Paradisi.
@  25
55 
Humulus..................  
25®
Hydrarg  Chlor  Mite 
92 
®
Hydrarg  Chlor Cor..
82 
@ 1 02 
Hydrarg  Ox Rub’m.
Hydrarg  Ammoniatl 
@  1  17 
HydyargU nguentum
45®  55
Hydrargyrum..........
@  78
IchthyoDolla,  Am...
65®  75
Indigo....................... 
75®  1  00
Iodine,  Resubi........   3 60® 3 70
Iodoform 
@ 3 
Lupulln..
©
60®
Lycopodium.............. 
M acis.......................  
65®
Liquor Arsen et  Hy­
drarg Iod............... 
@
10®
Liquor Potass A rsiuit 
2©
Magnesia,  Sulph__  
Magnesia, Sulph, bbl  @ 
Mannia, S.  F ............ 
00®

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

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Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

GROCERY PRICR CURRENT.

our aim to make ttis feature of the greatest 

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AXLE  GREASE

doz.  gross
A urora..........................55  6 00
Castor  Oil..................... GO  7 00
Diamond.......................50  4 00
Frazer’s .........................75  9 00
IXL Golden, tin boxes 75  9 00
Mica, tin boxes............75  9 00
Paragon.........................55  6 00

B A K IN G   PO W D ER  

A bsolute

\  lb. cans doz.....................   45
*  lb. cans doz.....................   85
1 
lb. cans doz......................150

A cm e

14 lb. cans 3 doz..................   45
*  lb. cans 3 doz..................   75
1 
lb. cans l  doz..................l  oo
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Bulk....................................... 

A rctic

E l  P u rity

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

>4 lb. cans per doz..............  75
X lb. cans per doz..............1  20
lb. cans per doz..............2  00
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P eerless

O ur L eader

Q ueen  F lak e

1 lb. cans...............................   85

14 lb. cans, 4 doz. case__
X lb. cans, 4 doz. case.... 
1 
lb. cans, 2 doz. case....

JAXO N

45
85
lb. cans, 2 doz. case....... 1  GO

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

14 lb. cans, 4 doz. case 
X  lb. cans, 4 doz. case 
1 
Jersey   C ream

14 lb. cans............................  45
X  lb. cans............................  75
lb. cans............................1  50
1 

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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........................[4 00
5 lb.,  1 doz. case....................9 00

BA TH   BRICK
American........................ 
70
English...................................... 80

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

BLUING

2 75
2 25
1 «5

No. 1 Carpet..................... 
No. 2 Carpet................... " '. j m
No. 3 Carpet...................... 
 
No. 4 Carpet...................... 
Parlor  Gem............ 
2  75
Common W hisk.... 
  qk
Fancy Whisk.............  
" 1 2 0
Warehouse............................     15
. CANDLES
Electric Light, 8s .... 
914
Electric Light, 16s............  ” 10
Paraffine, 6s.......... 
¡ ,1/
Paraffine, 12s ... 
w icking.....................

 

 

CANNED  GOODS 

Star, X lb 
Star, 1  lb ... 
Picnic Tails

M ackerel
Mustard, lib ............
Mustard, 21b............
Soused, 1 lb ...............
Soused, 2 lb .............
Tomato, 1 lb.............
Tomato, 2 lb.............

M ushroom s

Stems.........................
Buttons......................
Oysters
Cove, 1 lb..................
Cove, 21b ..................
Peaches
P ie .........;.............. -.
Yellow..................
P ears

Standard..................  
Fancy......................... 

Peas

M arrowfat............... 
Early June............... 
Early June  Sifted.. 
P in eap p le

G rated......................  1  25@2 75
Sliced.........................  1  35@2 25
P u m p k in
F a ir........................... 
eg
Good................. 
75
Fancy.......................  
85
R aspberries

Standard...................
Salm on
Red Alaska..............
Pink Alaska.............
Sardines
Domestic, k s ...........
Domestic,  Mustard.
French......................

S traw berries

Standard..................
Fancy..................   '.
Succotash
Fair............................
Good.........................
Fancy..................
Tom atoes
F a ir.......................
Good.........................
Fancy.......................
Gallons....................
CATSUP
 

CH EESE
Acme.........................
Amboy..........
E lsie.................;;;;;
Emblem..................
Gem......................
Gold Medal........ .
Id eal....................
Jersey.............
Riverside__ .............
Brick....................... '
Edam ................... ‘ "
L eiden.................
Limburger...... ".  ”
Pineapple.......... 50
Sap  Sago.............

CHICORY

Bulk. 
R ed..

Columbia,  pints 
2 00
Columbia, % pints...........!! 1  25

14@16
20@25

1  25 
@1  65

70
so

1  00
j  00
1  60

90

1  35 
95

@4
@8
8@22

85 
1  25
90 
1 00 
1  20
80
90
1  15
2  35

@14
©13K
@15
@14
@15
@14
®14
@13*
@14*
@12
@70
@17
@13
@75

S. C. W................................   35 00
Phelps, Brace & Co.’s Brands. 
Royal  Tigers. 
55®  80 00
Royal  Tigerettes........35
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................. 15® 70 00
Bernard Stahl Co........ 35@ 90 00
Banner Cigar  Co........ 10® 35 00
Seidenberg  & Co...... 56@125 00
Fulton  Cigar  Co...... 10® 35 00
A. B. Ballard & Co__35®175  00
E. M. Schwarz & Co..  35@liO 00
San Telmo..................35® 70 00
Havana Cigar Co.......18®  35 00
C. Costello & Co.........35®  70 00
LaGorarFee Co..........  35® 70 00
S. I. Davis & Co..........35@185 00
Hene & Co..................35® 90 00
Benedict & C o ........ 7.50® 70 00
Hemmeter Cigar Co 
.35®  70 00 
G .J. Johnson Cigar Co.35@ 70 00
Maurice Sanborn  __ 50®175 00
Bock & Co....................65®300 00
Manuel  Garcia........... 80@375 00
Neuva Mando............ 85®175 00
Henry Clay..................8S& 550 00
La Carolina  .................96@200  00
CLOTHES  LINES
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  go
Cotton, 80 ft.  per doz...........1  80
Jute, 60 ft. per doz............. !  80
Jute, 72 ft. per doz.......... 
95

C O FFEE
Roasted

R io

Santos

HIGH GRADE
Coffees
Special  Combination. . . .  
20
French Breakfast........  
'  25
Lenox................... 
»1
V ienna.................. ¿ j .........  35
Private Estate............... 
‘  3a
Simreme.....................................40
Less 33*  per  cent,  delivered. 
F a ir............... 
q
Good................ .. ” ............... 
,n
Prim e................... 
........
Golden.................. . . . " .......   £5
Peaberry................................... 14
F a ir............................  
,4
P rim e.........................  
1fi
Peaberry.................................... 18
M aracaibo
P rim e..................  
1K
Milled....................
J a v a
Interior............................ 
26
Private  Growth..  ...............   on
Mandehling......... 
or
M o c h a ............
Imitation.............  
99
Arabian.................                
28
Arbuckle.......... 
,,
Jersey.................."jo 00
M cL aughlin’s XXXX

P ackage

 

 

CHOCOLATE 

Walter Baker & Co.’s.

12

German  Sweet.......... 
23
Premium................................... «
Breakfast Cocoa....................  46

A pples
3 lb. Standards........  
Gallons, standards 
B eans
B aked..................
Red  Kidney.......
String.......
W ax.............

B lackberries

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

B lueberries
Standard  .....................
C herries 

Red  Standards.
W hite.................

Corn

F air.........
Good.......
Fancy__
Standard.

H om iny

75

75@1  30 
75©  85 
80

CIGARS

The Bradley Cigar Co.’s Brands
............................$35 00
Clear Havana  Puffs^!!!!!!  22  oo 
• < w  
....................   55 00

85 
1  15

Columbian Cigar Co’s brand.

Columbian..........................  35 qo
Columbian Special...........   65 00
Detroit Cigar Mfg. Co.’s Brands
Green  Seal.............. 
««
60  00
Green Seal Boquet...... 
Green S ealB ^alia........ ”.  S   66
Maceo s  Dream.......... 
35 on
S S e * * ...................i w
o Name........  # 
*>»»
Medal de  Reina.................  28 oo
- J 5 ; & P-Drug Co.’s brands.
Fortune  Teller.................  35 oo
Our Manager........  
35 on
Q u i n t e t t e . 3? $

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E x tract 

c Ä i S Ä  
„   „ 
Valley City *   gross... 
Felix *  gross........
HummePs foil *  gross 
Hummel’s tin *  gross
COCOA 

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.1  15 
..  85 
..1  43

Jam e s E pps & Co.’s

Boxes, 7 lbs........  
Cases, 16boxes.......
on ,K  kCOCOA  SHELLS 
20 lb. bags.
Less quantity
Pound packages  "  ”  "  *" 

CONDENSED  M IL K

jo

4

Daisy.......!.............................8 j®
Champion ...I '." /.'I " .;......£ S
Magnolia..... 
.......? ijr
Challenge.......V. .*.'' '   2,25

D lm e.............................................................

COUPON  BOOKS 
T radesm an  G rade

S up erio r G rade 

U niversal  G rade 

Econom ic  G rade 

.59 
any  denom...  1  50 
100 books, any  denom...  2 50 
000 books, any  denom...  11  50
1.000 books, any  denom...  20 00
50 books, any  denom...  1  50 
100 books, any  denom...  2 50 
. 599 b°°ks> any  denom...  11  50
1.000 books, any  denom...  20 00
50books,any  denom...  1  50 
100 books, any  denom...  2 60 
500books,any  denom...  11  50
1.000 books, any  denom...  20 00
SObooks,any  denom...  1  50 
100 books, any  denom...  2 50 
500books,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  no
50  books.................. 
2 00
3  00
100  books................. 
250  books....................... .'  6  25
500  books.................... 
10  on
1.000  books................... ’ "  i7 go

Coupon  Pass  B ooks 
denomination from $10 down.

C redit  Checks 

CREAM   TARTAR
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*  

A pples

C alifornia  F ru its

.....................  @15

C alifornia P ru n es

...10  @11 
7X

Blackberries...............
Nectarines............
Peaches...........
Pitted Cherries.
Prunnelles..................
Raspberries......... ” ”
100-120 25 lb. boxes........   <® 3 %
90-100 25 lb. boxes........   @ 4Ü
80 - 90 25lb. boxes........   © 5
70 - 80 25 lb. boxes........   @ 5*
60 - 70 25 lb. boxes 
50 - 60 25 lb. boxes
©   7*
40 - 50 25 lb. boxes........  
30 - 40 25 lb. boxes........

„
J4 cent less in 50 lb. cases 

R aisins

C itron

1  75 
London Layers 2 Crown. 
2 00
London Layers 3 Crown. 
Cluster 4 Crown.......... 
2  25
7*
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 
8*
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown 
8%
L. M., Seeded, choice ... 
914
L. M., Seeded, fancy__  
iox
D R IE D   FRUITS—Foreign 
Leghorn.................... 
«
Corsican..........................!!..!  12
C urran ts
Patras, cases.............  
«u
........   7 4
Cleaned, bulk.......... 
Cleaned,  packages..’. ..........  714
.......
Citron American 19 lb. bx.  13 
Lemon American 10 lb. b x .. 10*  
Orange American 10 lb. bx.. 10*  
Sultana l Crown................
Sultana 2 Crown 
Sultana 3 Crown.
Sultana 4 Crown.
Sultana 5 Crown__ ”
Sultana 6 Crown...................
Sultana package ...!  " " "  

R aisins

P eel 

FARINACEOUS  GOODS 

B eans

an

F a rin a

.......,
.......

Dried Lima..........................
Medium Hand Picked'i'<55@l  75
Brown Holland..............
_ 
C ereals
Cream of Cereal. 
Grain-O, sm all....... 
Grain-O, large........... 
1  35
Grape Nuts...............  
.'.'1  35
Postum Cereal, smail!.'. 
Postum Cereal, large........  2 25
24 lib . packages...................1  25
Bulk, per 100 lbs....................     00
„  H ask ell’s W heat F lak es
36  2 lb. packages...................3  00
_ 
B arrels.......... 
o n .
Flake, 50 lb. drums.'.'.'.'.' .. ...1  00 
M accaroni  an d  V erm icelli 
Domestic, 10 lb. box.... 
go
Imported, 25 lb. box.......  "  ” 2 50
P e a rl  B arley
Common.............  
9 nn
Empire.................'.'".'.'.'."."i  £0

H om iny

G rits

Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s Brand.

¡HERBS
................................. _
Sage.. 
H ops......................................... ..

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JE L L Y

V. C. Brand.

Madras, 5 lb. boxes.................55
S. F., 2,3 and 5 lb. boxes........50
151b. palls.........................  
36
30 lb. palls.............................I  62
15 lb. pails....................... 
35
331b. palls....................... 62
Pure  jpple, per doz........... .  85
on
P u re ................. 
Calabria.................................  $
Sicily.......................  
14
Root..............................10

LICO RICE

IjYIS

MATCHES

Condensed, 2 doz................   1  20
Condensed, 4 doz................"2   25
Diamond Match Co.’s brands.
No.  9 sulphur......................  1  65
Anchor P arlo r.......... 
1  50
No. 2 Hom e.............  
l  30
Export Parlor...............;.".. ;4 00
Wolverine................................  50

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MOLASSES 
New  O rleans

Black................................ 
F a ir.........................
on
Good....... ......... 
Fancy..................  
34
°pen K ettle................'.: .'25@35
„  
Horse Radish, 1 doz. . . .  
1  75
Horse Radish, 2 doz......  
3 50
Bayle’s Celery, 1 doz...........'1  75

Half-barrels 2c extra 
m u s t a r d  

........  

Sm all

PIC K L ES
M edium
Barrels, 1,200 count. 
Half bbls, 600 count........ .'3 38
Barrels, 2,400 cou n t. . . .  
e 75
Half bbls, 1,200 count .... '. '. '.3 88 
Clay, No. 216..................  
1  70
Clay, T. D., full count__  
65
Cob, No. 3........ . 
. 
85
48 cans in case.

POTASH 

P IP E S

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R IC E

Babbitt’s .......................  
Penna Salt Co.’s....... 
D om estic
Carolina  head.......... 
Carolina  No. 1 ............. ......... 5
Carolina  No. 2 ....................... 4
B roken.......................’" 33^
Japan,  No.  1................. 5*/,@6
Japan.  No.  2............
Java, fancy head........ . .5  @5*
Java, No. 1.....................5  ®
Table.
@

Im p o rted . 

SALERATUS 

Packed 60 lbs. in box. 

4

Church sArm and Hammer.3  15
Deland s............. 
9 m
Dwight’s  Cow....;;.".................3 15
Emblem......................^...'.'.’I i o
so d k » ;;;;;;;;;;;......................... 9 92
Wyandotte, 100  Ms.'............. 3 oo
„  
Granulated,  bbls... 
so
Granulated, 100 lb. cases  '"   85
Lump, bbls............ 
‘  7B
Lump, 145 lb. kegs............... 
8n
SALT 
" "  
D iam ond C rystal 

SAL  SODA

5 75

Com m on  G rades  "

Table, cases, 24 3 lb. boxes.. 1  50 
Table, barrels, 100 3 lb. bags.2  75 
Table, barrels, 40 7  lb. bags.2 40 
Butter, barrels, 280 lb. buik.2  25 
Butter, barrels,20141b.bags.2 50 
Butter, sacks, 28 lbs.. 
25
Butter, sacks, 56 lbs......  
"   55
j  on
100 3 lb. sacks................. 
60 5 lb. sacks............. ......... 1  7K
2810 lb. sacks.......... 
 
150
W arsaw  
.......
56 lb. dairy In drill bags. 
30 
28 lb. dairy In drill b ag s...”  15 
56 lb. dairy in linen sabks...  60 
56 lb. dairy in linen sacks.. 
60
Solar  R ock
56 lb. sacks............................   22
Com m on
Granulated  Fine.. 
bk
Medium Fine.......... 
..........   95
_ 
Georges cured.............  ® 5
Georges  genuine........   @ 5*
Georges selected........   @ 6
Strips or  bricks..........  6  @ 9
Pollock.
@ 3 *
Strips...
Chunks.

A shton
H iggins

SALT  F I S H .......

Halibut.

Cod

Peas

Sago

R olled  Oats

24 2 lb. packages...................1  80
100 lb.  kegs.............................2 70
200 lb. barrels........................5  10
Green, Wisconsin, bu...........1  35
Green, Scotch, bu................. 1  40
Split, bu................................. 
3
Rolled Avena, bbl................. 4 85
Steel Cut, yt bbls...................2 75
Monarch, bbl.........................4 60
Monarch, *  bbl.................... 2 45
Monarch, 90 lb. sacks.......... 2  25
Quaker, cases........................3 20
Huron, cases......................... 2 00
German................................ 
4
East India.............................   3*
Salus B reak fast Food 
F. A. McKenzie, Quincy, Mich.
36 two pound packages___ 3 60
18 two pound packages__   1  85
B attle C reek Crackers. 
Gem Oatmeal Biscuit..  7*@  8
Lemon Biscuit............  7*@  8
New Era Butters...... 
6*
W holew heat.............. 
6*
Cereola, 48  l-lb.  pkgs.. 
F lak e.............   ................ 
5
P earl......................................  5
Pearl,  241 lb. packages.........6%
Cracked, bulk......................  3*
24 2 lb. packages...................... .2 50
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS 

Tapioca

Whput

4 00

D eBoe’s

...  „ 

2 OZ. 
■.r 
Vanilla D. C............1  10 
Lemon D. C 
........   70 
Vanilla Tonka........  75 

4 oz.
1  80
1  35
1  45

D.  C. Vanilla 
2 OZ.........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..1  25 
No. 3  T..2 00 
No. 4  T..2 40

Jen n in g s’
I).  C. Lemon
2 OZ
3 OZ.........1  00
4 OZ.........1  40
6 0Z.........2  00
No.  8... .2  40 
No. 10.. .  4  00 
No. 2 T..  80 
No. 3 T . .1  25 
No. 4 T . .1  50
N orthrop  B ran d  
„  ™ 
Lem.
Van. 
2 oz. Taper Panel....  75
1  20 
2oz. Oval..................   75
1  20 
3 oz. Taper Panel__ 1  35
2  00 
4 oz. Taper Panel__ 1  60
2  25
Lem.
doz.
75 
1  25

Van.
XXX, 2 oz. obert__ 1  25'
XXX, 4 oz. taper__ 2 25
XX, 2 oz. obert........1  00
No. 2,2 oz. o bert__   75
XXX D D ptchr, 6 oz 
XXX D D ptchr, 4 oz 
K. P. pitcher, 6 oz...
FLY   P A P E R  
Perrigo’s Lightning,  gro..
Petrolatum, per doz..........
GUNPOW DER 
Rifle—D upont’s

2 25
1  75
2  25

2 50 
76

P errig o ’s

.4 00

Kegs.....................
Half Kegs........................ "'..'.'..2 25
Quarter K egs.............................1 25
1 lb. cans..................  
«1
*  lb. cans..................................ig
K e g s.......................................... 4 25
Han K egs......................... 
2 40
Quarter K egs.................” " 1   35
1  lb. cans...........   .................  34

C hoke  B ore—D u p o n t’s

E agle  D uck—D upont’s

K e g s .....................................    00
Half Kegs................................  4 25
2 25
Quarter K egs................... 
1 lb. can s.......................  
45

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN
Grains and  Feedstuffs

P ails

W heat

W heat.................................  

64

W in te r  W heat  F lo u r 

Local Brands

Patents...............................  4  20
Second  Patent....................  3 70
Straight...............................  3 50
C lear..................................   3 00
G raham ..............................  3 so
Buckwheat.........................  6 00
Rye......................................  3  26
Subject  to  usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour in bbls., 25c per  bbl. ad­
ditional.
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand
Diamond  Hs.......................  3 60
Diamond H s.......................  3 60
Diamond Vis.......................  3 60

Worden Grocer Co.’s  Brand

Quaker Hs..........................   3 60
Quaker its..........................  3 60
Quaker Vis..........................  3 60

S pring  W h eat  F lo u r 

Clark-Jewell-Wells  Co.’s  Brand
Pillsbury’s  Best Vis..........  4  36
Pillsbury’s  Best Hs..........  4 25
Pillsbury’s  Best H s..........  4  15
Pillsbury’s Best Hs paper.  4  15 
Pillsbury’s Best Vis paper.  4  15
Ball-Barnliart-Putman’s Brand

Herring*

M ackerel

Holland white hoops,  bbl. 
Holland white hoopsHbbl.  6  50 
Holland white hoop,  keg.. 
85
Holland white hoop mens. 
95
Norwegian.........................
Round 100 lbs.....................   3 60
Round 40 lbs.......................  1  75
Scaled................................ 
15
Mess 100 lbs........................  15 00
Mess  40 lbs........................  6  30
Mess  10 lbs........................ 
l  65
Mess  8 lbs........................ 
l  35
No. 1100 lbs........................  13  25
No. 1  40 lbs........................  5  60
No. 1  10 lbs........................  1  48
No. 1  8 lbs........................  1  20
No. 2 100 lbs........................  11  50
NO. 2  40 lbs........................  4  90
No. 2  10 lbs........................  1  30
No. 2  8 lbs.
1  07

T ro u t

No. 1100 lbs.................
No. 1  40 lbs.................
No. 1  10 lbs.................
No. 1  8 lbs.................
W hiteflsh

10 lbs.......
8  lbs.......

No. 1 No. 2 Fam
.  7  50 6  50
2  50
.  3 30 2 90
1  30
80
40
66
35

90
75
SEEDS

SNUFF

Anise 
...................................  9
Canary, Smyrna....................  4
Caraway  ...............................   8
Cardamon, Malabar..............60
Celery...................................... io
Hemp, Russian........................4H
Mixed Bird............................  4%
Mustard, white....................... 5
Poppy......................................io
R ap e......................................  4%
Cuttle Bone.............................15
Scotch, in bladders.................  37
Maccaboy, in jars...................  35
French Rappee, in  jars.......  43

JA X O N

(AS 8.  KIRK 8 CO.’S  BRANDS.

Single box............................. 2 85
5 box lots, delivered...........2 80
10 box lots, delivered........... 2 75

SOAP

American Family, wrp’d... .2 66
Dome..................................... 2 75
Cabinet...................................2 20
Savon......................................2 50
White  Russian..................... 2 35
White Cloud, laundry..........6 25
White Cloud, toilet.............. 3 50
Dusky Diamond, 60 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  doz........ 2 40
Sapolio, hand, 3 doz............. 2 40
Boxes.....................................   5H
Kegs, English......................... 4H

Scouring

SODA

SPICES 

W hole Sifted

Allspice............................... 
Cassia, China in m ats......  
Cassia, Batavia, in bund... 
Cassia, Saigon, in rolls__  
Cloves, Amboyna............... 
Cloves, Zanzibar................. 
Mace, Batavia.......................  
Nutmegs, fancy................. 
Nutmegs, No. 1.................. 
Nutmegs, No. 2.................. 
Pepper, 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,  Jam aica..................  
Mace,  Batavia....................... 
Mustard.................................  
Nutmegs................................ 
Pepper, Singapore, black. 
Pepper, Singapore, white. 
Pepper, Cayenne.................. 
Sage........................................ 

STOVE  PO LISH

10
12
25
32
14
12
60
50
45
15
22
15
14

16
15

16
22

55

30
40

18
23
65
18
50

20
15

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

STBUPS 

C orn

Barrels....................................18
Half bbls............................... 20
1 doz. 1 gallon cans........ ....3   00
1 doz. H gallon cans....... ....1   80
2 doz. H gallon cans....... ....1   80
F a ir................................. ___  16
Good................................ ....  20
Choice............................ ....  25

P u re   Cane

M ixed

V. C. Syrup Co.’s Brands.

Valley City...................... .. 16@17
V. C., fancy Savored__ ..18@24

2-hoop Standard............. ....1  35
3-hoop Standard............
.. ..1  50
2-wirë,  Cable.................. ....1  35
3-wire,  Cable.................
.. ..1  60
Cedar, all red, brass  bound. 1  25
Paper,  Eureka.............
.. ..2 25
F ibre.....................
....2  25
Tubs
20-inch, Standard, No. 1. ....7 00
18-inch, Standard, No. 2 ... .6 00
16-inch, Standard, No. 3. ....5 00
20-inch, Dowell,  No. 1... .. -.3 25
18-inch, Dowell,  No. 2... __ 5 25
16-inch. Dowell,  No. 3..
....4  25
No. 1 Fibre...................... ....9  00
No. 2 Fibre...................... .. ..7 60
No. 3 Fibre...................... ....6   75
Bronze Globe.................. ....2  50
D ewey............................ ...  1  75
Double Acme.................. .-...2 75
Double  Peerless............. .. ..3 00
Single  Peerless............... ....2  75
Northern Q ueen........... ... .2 25
Double Duplex............... .. .3  00
Good Luck...................... ...  2 75
Universal......................... ....2  25
11 In. B utter.................... ....  75
13 in. Butter.................... __ 1  00
15 in. Butter.................... __ 1  60
17 in. Butter.................... ....2  00
19 in. Butter.................... .. ..2  50

W ash  B oards

W ood  Bowls

TEAST  CA KE
Yeast Foam, 1H  doz__ ....  50
Yeast Foam, 3  doz........
...1  00
Yeast Cream, 3 doz........ ....1  00
Magic Yeast 5c, 3  doz... ....1  00
Sunlight Yeast, 3 doz__ ....1  00
Warner’s Safe, 3 doz__ ....1  00

Provisions
B arreled   P o rk

Mess.......................
B ack.................
Clear back............
Short cu t..................
P ig ............................
Bean...................
Fam ily......................

D ry  S alt  M eats

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

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

6%
6 >4
6*

Sm oked  M eats

L ards—In Tierces

5%
%
H
%
%
%
1
1H
5H
6
8
7H
6%
9
6

Hams, 121b. average.
@  10
Hams, lllb.average.
@  9H
Hams, 161b. average.
@  9
Hams, 20 lb. average.
@  8H
Ham dried  beef.......
Shoulders (N. Y. cut)
@  7
Bacon, clear.............   7H<a  8H
Calif ornia|hams......
©  6%
Boneless  hams........
@  9
Cooked  ham.............   10 @
Compound...............
Kettle........................
55 lb. Tubs.. advance
80 lb. Tubs.. advance
50 lb. Tins... advance
20 lb. Pails, .advance
10 lb. Pails.. advance
5 lb. Pails.. advance
3 lb. Pails.. advance
Sausages
Bologna..................
Liver....................
F rankfort................
Pork  .........................
Blood....................
Tongue.....................
Headcheese..............
B eef
Extra Mess...............
Boneless....................
R um p.......................
P igs’  F eet
Kits, 15  lbs...............
H bbls.,40 lb s ...__
H bbls., 80  lbs..........
T ripe
Kits, 15  lbs...............
H bbls., 40  lbs..........
H bbls., 80 lbs..........
Casings
P o r k .......................
Beef  rounds.............
Beef  middles...........
Sheep........................
B u tte rin e
Rolls, dairy...............
Solid, dairy...............
Rolls, creamery.......
Solid,  creamery.......
Corned beef, 2 lb __
Corned beef, 14 lb ...
Roast beef, 2 lb........
Potted ham,  Hs.......
Potted ham,  Hs.......
Deviled ham.  H s__
Deviled ham.  H s__
Potted tongue,  H s..
Potted tongue.  Hs..
Oils
B arrels
Eocene ......................... @13
Perfection..................
@12
XXX W.W. Mich. Hdlt @12
W. W. Michigan........
@UH
Diamond White..........
@10H
D., S.  Gas.................... @12H
Deo. Naphtha.............. @12H
Cylinder....................... 29 @34
Engine.........................11 @21
Black, winter............... @ 9

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

13H
13
19
18H
2  25
16 00
2  25
50
90
50
90
50
90

C anned  M eats

K ingsford’s  Corn
401-lb. packages.................  6
201-lb. packages................ 
6:
K ingsford’s Silver Gloss
40 l-lb. packages................  
6yt
■ 6 lb. boxes......................... 
7

D iam ond

SUGAR

Com m on Corn

128 5c packages..................  5 00
3010c and 64 5c packages..  5 00 
20 l-lb.  packages...............
40 l-lb.  packages...............
Com m on Gloss
l-lb. packages....................
3-lb. packages....................
6-lb. packages....................
40 ana 50-lb. boxes.............
Barrels...............................  

4%

3
3

Below  are  given  New  York 
prices  on  sugars,  to  which  tbe 
wholesale dealer adds  tbe  local 
freight from New  York  to  your 
shipping point, giving you credit 
on  the  invoice  for  the  amount 
of freight  buyer  pays  from  the 
market  in  which  he  purchases 
to his  shipping  point,  including 
20 pounds for the  weight  of  the 
barrel.
Domino.................................  5 44
Cut  Loaf...............................   5 56
Crushed................................  5 56
Cubes....................................  5 31
Powdered............................   5 25
............  5 25
Coarse  Powdered 
XXXX  Powdered.............   5 31
Standard  Granulated.
5  18
Fine Granulated.................  6  is
Coarse Granulated. 
5 31 
Extra Fine Granulated.
5 31
Conf.  Granulated..............  5 44
2 lb. cartons Fine  Gran. 
5 25 
2 lb. bags Fine  Gran  .. 
5 25 
5 11». cartons Fine  Gran.
5 25 
5 lb. bags Fine  Gran__
5 25 
Mould A..........................
5 44 
Diamond  A.....................
5  18 
Confectioner’s  A ............
4 »4 
No.  1, Columbia A ...
4 69
No.  2, Windsor A.............  4 69
No.  3, Ridgewood A. 
4 69 
No.  4, Plnenix  A. 
4 63 
No.  5, Empire A ..
4 56 
No.  6.....................
4 50 
No.  7.....................
4 44 
No.  8......................
4 38 
No.  9..
4 31
Tfo. 10...................................  4  18
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 
Worcestershire.

VINEGAR

Lfea & Perrin’s, large........  3 76
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..  7H 
Malt White Wine, 80 grain.. 11
Pure Cider, Red Star...........12
Pure Cider, Robinson..........12
Pure Cider,  Silver................11
W ASHING  PO W D ER
Kirk’s Eos...........................  2 00
Wisdom..............................  3 75
Roselne...............................   3 25
Nine  O’clock......................  3 50
Babbitt’s 1776......................  3  12
Gold Dust...........................  4 26
Johnson’s ...........................  3 60
Swift’s  ...............................   2 88
Rub-No-More.....................  3 50
Pearline, 100 6s..................  3 30
Pearline, 36 is ....................  2  85
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 askets

B u tte r  P lates

Bushels...................................1
Bushels, wide  band..............1  10
M arket..................................   30
Willow Clothes, large...........6 50
Willow Clothes, medium...  6 75
Willow Clothes, small.......... 6 25
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 00
No. 2 patent brush holder ..9 00 
12 lb. cotton mop heads....... l  25

Clothes  P in s
Mop  Sticks

Fresh  Meats

B eef

6  @ 8H
Carcass.....................  
Forequarters.......... 
5H@  6H
7  @ 9
Hindquarters.......... 
Loins No. 3...............  10  @14
Ribs..........................  
8  @14
Rounds.....................  
7  @ g
6  @ 6H
Chucks.....................  
Plates....................... 
4  @ 5

P o rk

Dressed............. .... 
Loins........................  
Shoulders................. 
Leaf  Lard................  
M utton
Carcass..................... 
Spring  Lambs.......... 

Veal

Carcass..................... 
Crackers

@ 5
@ 7
@ 6
@  7iW

6  @'7
8  @10

7H@  8H

The  National  Biscuit 

quotes as follows:

B u tte r

Seym our............................
New York...........................
Fam ily................................
Salted.................................
Wolverine..........................

Soda

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

O yster

Faust...................................
Farina.................................
Extra Farina 
..................
Saitine  W afer....................
Sweet  Goods—Boxes
Animals..............................
Assorted  Cake..................
Belle Rose..........................
Bent’s  W ater....................
Buttercups... 
...........
Cinnamon Bar...................
Coffee Cake,  Iced.............
Coffee Cake, .lava.............
Cocoanut Taffy...  ...........
Cracknells.........................
Creams, Iced....................
Cream Crisp.......................
Crystal Creams..................
Cubans...............................
Currant  Fruit....................
Frosted  Honey..................
Frosted Cream..................
Ginger Gems, lg. or  sm...
Ginger Snaps, XXX..........
G ladiator...........................
Grandma Cakes................
Graham Crackers.............
Graham  Wafers................
Honey Fingers..................
Im perials...........................
Jumbles, Honey................
Lady Fingers.....................
Lemon  Wafers..................
Marshmallow.................... 
Marshmallow W alnuts__
Mixed Picnic.....................
Milk B iscuit....................
Molasses  Cake

6H

]

Duluth  Imperial  Vis.........   4  35
Duluth  Imperial Hs.........   4 2E
Duluth  Imperial Hs.........   4  15
Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s Brand
Gold Medal H s..................  4  30
Gold Medal H s..................  4  20
Gold Medal H s..................  4  10
Parisian  H s.......................   4  30
Parisian  H s.......................   4  20
Parisian  H s.......................  4  10

Olney & Judson’s Brand

Ceresota Hs.......................   4  25
CeresotaHs.'......................  4  15
Ceresota Hs.......................   4  05

Worden Grocer  Co.’s Brand

9
...  12
...  12
8
... 
...  10
9
8

M eal

Feed  and  M illstuffs

Laurel  Hs...................... ...  4 30 Molasses B ar...............
...  4 20 Moss Jelly Bar............
Laurel  H s....................
Laurel  Hs...................... ...  4 10 Newton.........................
< latmeal Crackers.  ...
Oatmeal Wafers.........
Bolted............................ ...  1 90 Orange Crisp...............
Orange  Gem...............
Granulated.................... ...  2 10
Penny Cake.
Pilot Bread, XXX...........
Pretzels, hand  made.......
Sears’ Lunch....................
Sugar Cake.......................
Sugar Cream, XXX........
Sugar Squares.................
Sultanas............................
Tutti  F rutti......................
Vanilla Wafers.................
Vienna Crimp..................

St. Car Feed, screened__   16 00
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

Corn

New corn, car  lots...........   33
Old Corn, car lots...............  36
Less than car lots.............   37H

9
12H

Car  lots...............................  27H
Car lots, clipped................   30
Less than car lots.............   32

Oats

H ay

No. 1 Timothy car  lots__   11  00
No. 1 Timothy ton  lots__   12  50

H ides

Hides  and  Felts
The Cappon & Bertsch Leather 
Co., 100 Canal  Street,  quotes  as 
follows:
Green  No. 1.............  
Green  No. 2.............  
Bulls..........................  
Cured  No. 1.............  
Cured  No. 2.............  
Calfskins,green No. 1 
Calf skins,green No. 2 
Calfsklns.cured No. 1 
Calfskins,curedNo.2 

@ 8H
@ 7H
@ 6H
@10
@ 9
@10
@ 8H
@11
@  9H

P elts

Pelts,  each.

50@i  00

@16
@20

;ish  and  Oysters

F resh   F ish

White fish.............
...  @ 10
Trout......................
...  @ 10
Black  Bass...........
...  8@ 10
...  @ 15
H alibut..................
Ciscoes or Herring ...  @ 5
Blueflsh .................
...  @ 12
Live  Lobster........
...  @ 18
Boiled  Lobster__ ...  @ 20
Cod.........................
...  @ 10
...  @ 7
Haddock...............
No. 1 Pickerel......
...  @ 9
Pike.......................
...  @ 8
Perch.....................
...  @ 5
Smoked  W hite__ ...  @ 8
Red  Snapper........
...  @ 10
Col River  Salmon.
...  @ 13
Mackerel..............
...  @ 20
35
F. H.  Counts............ 
F. J . D. Selects........  
27
23
Selects...................... 
F. J. D. Standards.. 
20
Anchors.................... 
19
Standards................  
17
Favorite.................... 
14
B u lk . 
gal.
F. H. Counts........................  1  75
Extra Selects.......................  1  60
Selects..................................   1  36
Anchor Standards.............. 1  15
Standards............................1  10

O ysters in Cans.

Shell Goods.
Clams, per 100.............  
1  00
Oysters, per 100..........1  26@l  50

21

Candies
Stick Candy

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

bbls.  pails
7  @ 7H
7  @ 7H
7H@ 8
@ 8H
cases
@ 6H
@  8H
@10

M ixed Candy

Grocers.....................  
@ 6
@ 6H
Competition.............  
Special 
...................  
@ 7
@ 8
Conserve................... 
g o y a l.......................  
@  7H
Ribbon.....................  
@ 8H
@ 8
Broken.....................  
@  8V4
Cut Loaf.................... 
English  Rock...........  
@  8H
Kindergarten.......... 
@  8H
French Cream.......... 
@ 9
Dandy  Pan.....................   @ 8H
Hand  Made  Cream
m ixed.................... 
Nobby.......................  
Crystal Cream m ix.. 

@|4
@  8H
@12

F ancy—In  B u lk  

San Bias Goodies.... 
@11
Lozenges, plain....... 
@ 9
Lozenges, printed... 
@ 9
Choc. Drops............. 
@11
Eclipse Chocolates...  @13
Choc.  Monumentals.  @12H
Gum Drops..............  
@  5
Moss  Drops............. 
@  8H
Lemon Sours............ 
@ 9
Imperials.................. 
@  9H
Ital. Cream Bonbons
351b. palls.............  
@11
Molasses  Chews,  15
lb. pails.................. 
@13
Jelly  Date  Squares. 
@10H
Iced Marshmellows.......... 
14
Golden Waffles........  
@11

Fancy—In  5 lb. Boxes

Lemon  Sours......... 
@50
Peppermint Drops.. 
@60
Chocolate  Drops__  
@66
H. M. Choc.  Drops.. 
@75
H. M. Choc.  Lt.  and
Dk. No. 12............. 
@90
Gum Drops............... 
@30
Licorice  Drops........ 
@75
A. B. Licorice Drops  @50
Lozenges,  plain....... 
@55
@55
Lozenges, printed... 
Imperials.................. 
@55
M ottoes.................... 
@60
('ream  Bar............... 
@55
Molasses Bar...........  
@55
Hand Made Creams.  80  @90 
Cream Buttons, Pep.
and  W lnt..............  
@66
String Rock.............  
@60
Burnt  Almonds.......1  25  @
Wlntergreen Berries 
@65
C aram els 
No. 1  wrapped,  3  lb. 
boxes...................... 
1  ......................  .............
Fruits
Oranges
Fancy Mexicans__
I Jam alcas..................
Lem ons
Strictly choice 360s..
Strictly choice 300s..
lancy 300s..........
Ex. Fancy  300s........
Extra Fancy 360s__
B ananas
Medium bunches__ 1  00(0)1  25
Large  bunches........
1  50@1  75

@4 00
@4 50
(«5 00
(kb  50
@4  6 J

@4  25
@4  00

@50

F oreign   D ried F ru its

F igs

Californias,  Fancy..
Cal. pkg. 10 lb. boxes
Extra  Choice,  10  lb.
boxes, new smprna
fancy, 12 lb. boxes new 
Imperial Mikados, 18
lb. boxes................
Pulled, 6 lb. boxes...
Naturals, In bags....
Dates
Fards in 10 lb. boxes
Fards In 60 lb. cases.
I’ersians,  P. H.  V ...
lb.  cases, new.......
Sairs, 60 lb. cases....
Nuts
Almonds, Tarragona
Almonds,  Ivlca.......
Almonds, California,
soft  shelled...........
Brazils, new.............
Filberts....................
Walnuts, Grenobles.
Walnuts, soft shelled
Table Nuts,  fancy... 
Table  Nuts,  choice..
Pecans,  Med...........
Pecans, Ex. Large...
Pecans, Jumbos.......
Hickory Nuts per bu.
Ohio,  new.............
Cocoanuts, full sacks 
Chestnuts, per  bu ...
P eanuts 
Fancy, H. P., Suns.. 
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Flags
Roasted.................
Choice, H. P., Extras 
Choice, H. P., Extras 
Roasted.................

California No. 1. 

@13
@12
@13
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@
(9
@ 5H
@10
@ 6
@ 6
@ 6
@ 5

@17

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@  7
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22

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Petting  the  People

first  glance.  Mr.  Pearson  heads  his  cir­
cular  as  follows:

F i*e  E xam ples  o f  A verage  M ercantile 

A dvertising.

From  L.  H.  Hayt,  of  Alma,  comes 
advertisement,  marked 

the  following 
“ for criticism

REDUCTION SALE !

—OF—

Clothing,  Furnishings,  Etc.

I 

• 

Air 

I
I

It  would  have  been  better  to  sa y :

REDUCTION  S A L E

of  Men’s and  Boys’  Clothing  and  Furnishings
At W.  W  PcARSON’S

That  would  have  given  the  gist  of  the 
circular  in  a  nutshell.

Mr.  Pearson’s 

is  good, 
and  rings  true.  The  circular  quotes

introduction 

I have rented a building and  will put in a  Gen­
eral btore at I>iewaygo iu the near  future. 
It  is
my desire  to  give  Newaygo  a  store  second  to 
none in the  county and for that reason desire to 
dispose of a share of my heavy clothing  stock in 
hremont.  We  are  oftering  everything  in  the 
largest clothing store  in  tile county  at  from  to 
per ce.nt. to 15 per cent, off from our already low- 
lu,l:1le state for the best made garments 
dnu id.test  style  furnishings  on  the  American 
market.  Call and see  a  stock  of  which  (¡rand 
Kapids stores would be proud.

prices  and  the  amount  of  reduction  on 
various  lines,  and  should  have  attracted 
plenty  of  customers.

*  *  *

L.  S.  Wendling,  with  D.  Mansfield, 
of  Remus,  has  sent  in  another  batch  of 
advertisements,  which  present  a  marked 
improvement  over  his  previous  efforts. 
One  of  them  I  take  pleasure 
in  repro­
quotes
business, 
ducing. 

talks 

It 

A  Word  About

CROCKERY

FOSTER, 
STEVENS, 
i
&  CO., 
GRAND RAPIDS.  ^
^illiUlUiUiUiUiUiUiUiUiUlUiUiUiUiUiUiUiUiUiUiUiUiUR

I
1  

W O RLD’S  B E S T

L.  H.  H A Y T ’S

Big  Department  Stores. 

SPE6IAL HOSIERY  SALE

—For—

Saturday,  Nov.  25.

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

lar price 15c, for  Saturday..................'
regular price 10c. for Saturday..............  
sizes tt‘4 to 10. a 19c value, for Saturday 
size 5, to 9, at 
814,  a t...............................  

15 doz. Misses’ Merino Hose, sizes 5 to S1...  reeu
10 doz. Misses’ Fleece Lined Hose, size  7  to  8
o<
10 doz.  Boys’  and  Misses’  Fleece  Lined  Hose 
l-ic 
Lxtra Hood  Value in Misses’ Fleece Lined Host
j
Extra quality Misses, Cashmere Hose, sizes 5
2
Special value in Misses’ Wool Hose, sizes  5  to
Infants’  Wool and Cashmere Hose, sizes  4  to*"*
special  value.................................................  2
Ladies'  Heavy  Fleece  Lined  Hose'  spiend
value 
luc
Ladies’  Fleece  Lined  Hose, fine  quality  and
heavy weight, extra good  value........ 
■
Ladies  Heavy ribbed Merino Hose, lowly pric
  15c
at 19c. for^Saturdav................................  
Ladies-’  Heavy  Ribbed  and  Plain  Wool  Hose
extra  quality..................................  
2£
Ladies’ Fine Casimere Hose, regularly priced  i
50c, Saturday’s price...................................4^
Ladies’ All-wool Scarlet Drawers, size 39, spech 
. .  59c
for  Saturday.....................................  

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

L .  H .  H A Y T ’ S

Big  Department  Stores, 

Church Block, Alma.

containing  not 

While  the  advertisement  is  not  good 
typographically, 
less 
than  eight  different  styles  of  display 
type 
in  as  many  lines,  it  gives  prices 
and  details,  which  fact  goes  a  long  way 
toward  redeeming 
it.  A  special  sale 
advertisement  should,  however,  always 
contain  some  explanation  of  the  “ why’ 
of  the  reduced  prices.  People  like  to 
know  these  things  and  a  few  short  sen­
tences  at  the  head  of  this  advertisement 
would  add  materially  to 
selling 
force.

its 

Mr.  Hayt’s  heading 

is  too  large  and 
too  black. 
It  entirely  obscures  the  real 
message  of  the  advertisement— the  spe­
cial  hosiery  sale. 
In  the  announcement 
of  a  special  sale  the  heading  should  al­
ways  be  the  most prominent feature,  and 
should  state  clearly  and  unmistakably 
the  scope  of  the  sale.  Mr.  Hayt’s head­
It  might  lead  the  reader 
line  does  not. 
to  believe  that  men’s  hosiery  was 
in­
cluded 
in  the  sale,  whereas  it  appears 
nowhere  in  the  list  of  prices.  The  head- 
line  should  have  read  preferably :

SPECIAL  SALE

—of—

Women’s,  Misses’  and  Children’s

HOSIERY

Saturday, November 25.

nence  to  the  most 

This  would  have  given  due  promi­
important  words, 
Special  Sale”   and  “ Hosiery,”   and  at 
the  same  time  would  have  given  the 
other  necessary  information.  The  easier 
an  advertisement 
is  to  read  and  the 
more accessible  its  information,  the  bet­
ter.

*  *  *

in 

Right 

line  with  the  above  advice 
is  the  circular  submitted  by  W.  W. 
Pearson,  of  Fremont,  which  is  too  large 
to  be  reproduced.  Its  arrangement could 
be  bettered,  however,  as  Mr.  Pearson’s 
name  does  not  appear except  in one cor­
ner.  On  a  large  circular  of  this  nature 
it  is  important  that  the  name  of  the  ad­
vertiser  be  impressed  on  the  eye  at  the

of Interest to  Housekeepers
We have now  on  our  Ciockery  Count­
ers  the  best  assoitment  of  Plain  and 
Fancy  Crockery  and  Glassware  to  be 
tound  in this locality,  and  invite  your in- 
spection.  Prominent  among  the  lot  are 
the  following specials:
Piece Glass Sets, Butter,  Creamer,  Sugar 
Bowl and Spoonholder.  These sets  must 
be  seen to be appreciated, 
luted  Crystal  Water  Set,  six  Tumblers, 
lray and 1 itcher, very heavy, only. 
inely Embossed Set, with figure  of a child 
handsomely engraved.  Shell  pattern,  six 
Tumblers, Pitcher and Tray,  only........ 
Heavy Cut Crystal, per set. 
Another  one,  still  heavier,  in three tints, 

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

.  95
¡¿5

$ 

100
,  «
1
9 00
2 50

Crystal, Blue and Light Green
hea6  EDe®rsetd  <iothic  style’  8°°d  and 
better one  with  Chased  and  Embossed
Engraving, per set...................... 
Handsome Square  pattern.  Green  with
Gold Bands, per set....... 
A“  Elegant  Crystal  Cutglass  with  Heavy
Gold Trimming, per set......  
Heavy. Cutglass,  Dark Green 
with Pure Gold  Trimming  ... 
Six Piece Blue Decorated  Chamber  Set,
Pme Scalloped  Pattern, a t....................... 
r r ? ? 5  ®reen ”  Decorated 
cnamtx r Set, Handsome  pattern.  Globe
o  An
A 1 teller, tit. 
100 Piece  Brown  Decorated  Dinner  Set, 
t  me Scalloped pattern,  Imported.......... 
9 00
Besides these we have  a  large  line  ul 
Hanging  Lamps,  Stand  Lamps,  Plain 
White  Goods,  Fancy  Cups  and  Saucers, 
Bread and  Milk  Sets,  Berry  Sets,  Plain 
1 umblers, etc.  We  have  a  lot  of  extra 
Heavy  Plain Glass  Sauce  Dishes, 4  inch 
size, for only 25  cents  per  doz.;  in  fact, 
our line is complete  in  every  detail  and 
all  we ask  is your early  inspection.

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

Yours to please,

MANSFIELD, “  The  Busy Man.”

prices,  and  altogether  is  far superior  to 
in  this 
Mr.  Wendling’s  former  work 
line.

Mr.  Wendling 

is  nearly  out  of  the 
woods,  but  not  quite,  however,  as  the 
following  portion  of  one  of  the  other  ad­
vertisements  will  indicate:

The  north  wind’s  icy  kiss  is  cold  and 
cruel,  but  our  felt  shoes  for  men  and
SO°n  ^iss'I)ate  *ts  chilly
toud^11  W* 
Come  off  the  perch,  Mr.  Wendling!
Felt  shoes  keep  the  feet  snug  and

5 0 .  C IG A R .  ALL  JO B B E R S   A N D

G .v J   J O H N S O N   C I G A R O O

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

S en d   fo r  T h e se :

96 P?ges- carr‘ages and  farm  implements. 

Descriptive catalogue of harness, strap  work  and  collars;  60  pages 
Descriptive catalogue of robes and blankets.
Catalogue of cutters and  sleighs.

Will be sent anywhere on  request.

BROWN  &  SEHLER,  Grand Rapids, Michigan.

H.  M.  Reynolds  &  Son,

Manufacturers  of

A sPhaj   ^ aints>  Tarred  Felt,  Roofing  Pitch.  2  and  3 
FJLair^ torpedo Gravel  Ready  Roofing.  Galvanized 
Iron  Cornice. 
Sky  Lights.  Sheet  Metal  Workers 
and Contracting  Roofers.

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Office, Sz Cam pa u st.
Factory,  1st av. and M. C. Ry.

ESTABLISHED  1868

Detroit, Mich.
Foot ist St.

The  Grand  Rapids  Paper  Box  Co.

Manufacture

r^Jlu  ®°?e.s f°r 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  S p elill 
Die Cutting done  to suit.  Write for prices.  Work guaranteed.  ^

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

warm  in  zero  weather”   is  stronger  and 
easier  to  understand,  and better in  every 
way.

♦   *  *

When  you  start  to  write  an  advertise- 
men,  don’t 
imagine  that  you  must  say 
something  clever  or  something  that  is 
not  ordinarily  said.  The  nearer  an  ad­
vertisement  comes  to  a  reproduction  of 
actual  talk,  the more  forcible  it  is  likely 
to  be.  The  man  who  “ poses”   in  his 
advertising  becomes just  as  great  a  bore 
as  the  one  who  “ poses”   in  his  conver­
sation.

*  *  *

Fleming  &  Straub,  of  Lakeview,  send 

the  following :

WORTH  WORKS  WONDERS

Our aim  is to give everyone their money’s 
worth  when they buy Groceries, Crockery 
and  Glassware of

Fleming &  Straub,

Give us a trial. 

Lakeview,  Mich.

it  don’t  say  nuthin’. ”  

The  great  trouble  with  this  advertise­
ment  is  that,  as  the  boy  says,  “  It  talks, 
but 
It  is  a  gen­
eral  kind  of  a  statement  that  could  be 
adapted  to  any  business,  and  it  would 
be  equally  unconvincing  wherever it was 
used.

Let  Fleming  &  Straub  select  one  ar­
ticle  from  their stock— something  timely 
and  seasonable-  I  don’t  care  what.  Let 
them  describe  it  and  use  a  cut,  if  pos­
sible,  and  give  a  good,  reasonable  price 
on  it,  and  their advertising  will  produce 
some  results.  As  it  is,  they  can  not  tell 
anything  about  it.

That’s  the  beauty,  after  all,  of  adver­
tising  something  definite. 
If  an  adver­
tiser  announces  that  he  gives  everyone 
their  money’s  worth,  he  doesn’t  know  at 
the  end  of  a  year  whether  he  has  had 
his  money’s  worth  for  his advertising.

But 

if  he  advertises  25  cent  coffee, 
and  his  sales  jump  up  a  little,  he  knows 
that  his  advertising  pays  and  he  can 
figure  out  pretty  closely  to  what  extent 
it  pays.

If  more  merchants  regarded  adver­
tising  as  an 
investment,  instead  of  a 
necessary  evil,  and  set  themselves  to 
work  to  advertise  in  a  way  that  would 
enable  them  to  realize  a  profit  on  it, 
there  would  he  more  money  made  every 
year— and  the  merchants  would  make 
the  big  end  of  it.

*  *  *

Sid  Lane,  of  Davison,  whose  adver­
tisement  is  reproduced  herewith,  suffers

The  Best Town in Genesee County is 

DAVISON

(Streets  Paved and No Mud.)

We offer you gents, wool lined  Underwear, the 
best garment in the market, at 50c.
A complete line of Dress Goods.
Gloves and Mittens, from 10c up.
Gents, all-wool fulled Coats at $2.00.
Ready-made Clothing,  also  Tailor-made  Suits 

guaranteed to fit.

WE  SELL  GROCERIES.

Self-rising pancake Flour, 2 pound package, 10c.
Pillsbury s Best, Atlas and Gold Thread Flour.
Rogers Brothers’ Buckwheat Flour, 75c  for  25 
Salt, fine, by barrel 80c.

pounds.

Lambertvjlle Snag Proof Rubbers.
A nice stock of Shoes, Felts and  Socks.
SID  LANE,  Davison, Mich.

from  lack  of  system  and  from  trying  to 
do  too  many  things  at  once. 
In  the 
space  occupied  (five  inches  double),  he 
might  have  advertised  groceries  and 
underwear  strongly.  As  it  is,  his  adver­
is  weak  from  a  too  frequent 
tisement 
change  of  subject. 
In  this  space  he 
has  advertised  underwear,  dress  goods, 
gloves,  coats,  clothing,  groceries  and 
rubbers— seven  distinct  lines.

I  don’t  quite  understand  the  heading. 
Is  Mr.  Lane  offering  Davison  for  sale?

W.  S.  Hamburger.

T he  H ardw are  M arket.

is  doing 

The  demand  for  seasonable  and  holi­
day  goods,  which  are  in  active  request, 
coupled  with  what 
in  other 
lines,  makes  a  large  volume  of  business 
between  the  wholesaler  and 
retailer. 
The  policy  of  buying  at  the  present time 
only  goods  that  are  actually  needed  is 
being  pursued  quite  largely  by  both  the 
retail  and  wholesale  trade,  the  policy 
being  rather  to  dispose  of  stock  on  hand 
before  placing  other  orders.  The  wis­
dom  of  this  course  is  generally  recog­
nized.  The  near  approach  of  the  first  of 
the  year,  with  its  usual task of stock tak­
ing,  also  has  its  effect  upon  trade.

The  changes  in  the  market  this  week 
are not many or important,  but  there  still 
continues  an  upward  movement  in many 
goods  which  have  not  heretofore  ad­
vanced  to  any  great  extent.  In  wire  and 
nails  there  has  been  no  change  and  it  is 
hoped  for  the  present  no  other  advances 
will  be  made. 
In Manila and  sisal  rope 
during  the  past  week  there  has  been  no 
change 
in  price,  although  it  is  not  be­
lieved  any  lower  price  will  rule  during 
the  coming  year.  Window  glass  still 
remains  as  quoted 
in  our  last  report. 
Wire  clothes  lines  have  been  advanced 
251^500  a  dozen,  and  there has  also  been 
a  material  advance  in  wooden  hay  rakes 
for  the  coming  year,  which  will  be  in 
the  neighborhood  of  25c  a  dozen.  Prices 
on  screen  doors  and  windows  have  been 
established  by  the  Continental  Screen 
Co.  and  orders  for  spring  shipment  are 
being  solicited  by  the 
jobbing  trade. 
in.  common  4  in.  stile  door 
On  the 
the  price  as  asked  is $7.50  per  dozen, 
while  on  the  No.  75  fancy  door  the  rul­
ing  price  is  $12  per  dozen,  with  an  ad­
vance  of  50c  a  dozen  for doors  1 %  in. 
thick.  Where  dealers  are  not  particular 
and  want  a  door  with  narrower  stile, 
these  prices  are  shaded  in  certain  lo­
calities.  There  has  also  been  an  ad­
vance  on  window  screens  of  about  25 
per  cent.

I  Without  an  Equal  |

For  5  cents 

Long  Havana  Filled

THE  BRADLEY  CIGAR CO.,

Greenville, Mich.

Also Manufacturers  of  the Improved

Hand  *‘W. H. B.” Made

Recognized  Beit  10c,  3  for  age. 
Brand on the  Market.

A ugura  and  B it.
Snell's..............................................
Jennings’ genuine..........................
Jennings' Imitation.........................

Axes

First Quality, S. B. Bronze............
First Quality, D. B.  Bronze..........
First Quality, S. B. S.  Steel..........
First Quality,  D. B. Steel.............

, 

B arrow s

Railroad........................................
Garden.............................................

Holts

Stove.,.
Carriage, new  list...........................
P low ................................................

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

B uckets

B utts,  Cast

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

C artridges

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

X in. 

Com...............   8  c.  ...  7  c.  ... 6  C.  .
BB.................   9 
BBB...............  9V4 

%  in.
... 6/4
...

C hain

5-16 in.
... 
IX  
...  8% 
Crow bars

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

Caps

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

Chisels

Socket Firmer  ...............................
Socket Framing.............................
Socket Corner.................................
Socket Slicks...................................

Elbow s

Com. 4 piece, 6 in., per doz............
. . . net
Corrugated, per doz.......................
Adjustable........................................ ...tils
Expansiv«*  H its
Clark’s small. $18;  large, $26........
Ives’ 1, $18;  2, $24;  3, $30...............
Files—New  L ist
New American...............................
Nicholson’s ......................................
Heller’s Horse Rasps.....................
G alvanized  Iro n

Nos. 16 to 20;  22 and 24;  25 and 26; ‘¿7,
List  12 
16.

14 

13 
Discount, 70

15
Gas  P ipe

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

Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ........

Ganges

Glass

60
25&10
50&10

6 50 
10 00
11  50

14 00 
30 00

50
50

$3 50

65
60

40&10
20

X in.
.  6  C.
.  6H
••

6

65
55
45
76

65
65
65
65

65
1  25
40&10

30&10
25

70&10
70
60&10

28
17

40&10

60&10

80&20
80&20
80

Single  Strength, by box................
Double Strength, by box...............
By the Light...........................

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

H am m er.

33M
Maydole & Co.’s, new list......................dts 
Yerkes &  Plumb's.................................. ills  40&10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel................30c list 
70

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

, 

H inges

H ollow   W are

Pots..............................................•......... 
Kettles.................................................... 
Spiders.................................................... 

50&10
50&10
50&10

H orae  N ails

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

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

70
20&10

Iro n

85
1  00

5 25
6 00

70

60

9
9 Vi

Bar Iron...................................................   3 c rates
Light Band............................................   3‘Ac rates

K nobs—New  L ist

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

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

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

L an tern s

Levels

M attocks

A dzeE ye................................$17 00..dls 

M etals—Zinc

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

M iscellaneous

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

Molasses  G ates

P ans

00&I0
Stebbins’ Pattern.................................. 
Enterprise, self-measuring.................. 
30
Fry, Acme..............................................   60&10&10
Common,  polished...............................  
70&5
P a te n t  P lan ish ed   Iro n  

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

Broken packages He per pound extra.

Planes

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

50
00
50
50

Steel nails, base.................................... 
Wire nails, base.................................... 
20 to 60 advance....................................  
10 to 16 advance..................................... 
8 advance.............................................. 
6 advance.............................................. 
4 advance.............................................. 
3 ad vance.............................................. 
2 advance.............................................  
Fine 3 advance...................................... 
Casing 10 advance................................. 
Casing 8 advance................................... 
Casing 0 advance................................... 
Finish  10 advance................................. 
Finish 8 advance..................................  
Finish 6 advance..................................  
Barrel  % advance................................. 

Rivets

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

Roofing  Plates

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

Sisal,  V4 inch and larger....................... 
Manilla................................................... 

Ropes

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

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

Sami  P ap er

Sash  W eights

Sheet  Iro n

com. smooth,  com.

Nos. 22 to 24 ....................................   3  40 

3 30

All Sheets  No.  18  anti  lighter,  over  30  inches

wide, not less than 2-10 extra.

Sliel Is— Loaded

Loaded with Black  Powder................dis 
Loaded with  Nitro  Powder............... dis 

Shot

I>rop........................................................ 
B B anil  Buck.......................................  

Shovels  and  Spatles

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

V4<&H............................................... 
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

T in—M elyn  G rade

10x14 IC, Charcoal................................. 
14x20 1C, < Charcoal................................. 
20x14 IX,Charcoal................................. 

Each additional X on this grade, $1.25.

T in—A llaw ay  G rade

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

Each additional X on this grade, $1.50

B oiler  Size  Tin  P late

14x56 IX, for No.«Boilers, 
14x56 IX, for No.9Boilers, per pound..
T raps
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........................

w  ire  Goods

Bright....................................................
Screw Eyes............................................
Hooks......................................................
Gate Hooks and Eyes..........................

W renches

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

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

23

Hardware  Price  Cu rrent

Advance over base, on both Steel and  Wire. 

N ails

3  25
3  40
Base
05
10
20
30
45
70
50
15
¡®
35
25
35
45
85

50
46

n  50
7  50
13 00
5 50
6  50
11  00
13 00

11 u
ie

50

22 50

40
40&10

1  46
1  70

8  60
8  10

$850
h  50
9 76

7  00
7  00
8  50
8  50

10

75&10
50
70&10 
15 
1  25

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

75
75
75
75

30
30&10

S

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G rand  R apids  R etail  G rocery  C lerks’  As 

Bociation.

At  the  regular  meeting  of  the  Grand 
Kapids  Retail  Grocery  Clerks’  Associa 
tion,  held  Monday  evening,  Dec. 
President  Mclnnis  presided.

Secretary  Stowitts  being  absent,  the 
President,  on  motion  of  Joseph  Terrill, 
appointed  Theo.  L.  Vancounsant  to  act 
as  temporary  Secretary.

Mr.  Mclnnis  stated  that  the  pictures 
donated  by  B.  T.  Babbitt  are  at  the dis­
posal  of  the  Association  and  can  be  had 
at  any  time  by  calling  for them.

Verne  Campbell  moved  that  the  bak­
ing  powder at  the  office  of  the  Lemon  & 
Wheeler  Company,  donated  by  B.  T 
Babbitt,  be  delivered  to  the  Associa­
tion  rooms  and  there  await  the  pleasure 
of  the  Association  as  to  the  disposition 
of  it.  Carried.

L.  E.  Buss,  chairman  of  the  Commit­
tee  on  Emblem,  had  no  report,  on  ac­
count  of  the  Thanksgiving  rush,  and 
was given  until  the  next  meeting.

Verne  Campbell  moved  that the Exec­
utive  Committee  meet  the  grocers  and 
see  about  obtaining  a  piano.  Carried.
Mr.  Bratt  made  some  remarks  on  do­
ing  something  to  encourage  the  mem­
bers  to  work  more  earnestly 
for  new 
members.

Mr.  Mclnnis  spoke  about  obtaining 
more  tables  and  took  the  matter  in  hand 
to  secure  them.

Messrs.^ Buss  and  Campbell  donated 
one  year’s  subscription  to  one  of  the 
popular  magazines.

Mr.  Buss  moved  that  the  Secretary 
write  the  delinquent  members  and see  i' 
it  is  not  possible  to  secure  their  attend 
ance  at  the  meetings.  Carried.

L.  E.  Buss  read  the  following  paper 

on  Experience  in  the  Spanish  War:

In  the  first  place,  I  wish  to  say  that 
most  of  the  boys  were  very  much  disap­
pointed  that  they  did  not  go  to  Cuba.
*n  3  certain  way  it  was  best  for  us  that 
we  did  not  go,  but  the  boys,  most  of 
them,  were  anxious  to  get  into  actual 
service— not  to  camp 
in  the  South  all 
through  the  war and  be  exposed  to  dis­
ease  and  all  of  the  inconveniences  of 
army 
It  was  very 
tiresome,  I  assure  you.

in  time  of  war. 

life 

No  one  knew  when  the  battleship 
Maine,  under  the  command  of  Captain 
Sigsbee,  sailed  out  of  New  York  Harbor 
for  Havana  that  it  was  sailing  into  dan- 
ger,  but  on  Feb.  15,  1898, 
the  costly 
boat  was  a  heap  of  ruins  in  Havana 
Harbor.

thati thj  Government  mustered  us  in  for 
a.  J aod_ 
improvement  company;  one 
Su 
l  ior a  plow  and  another  asserted 
thata  r  COuld  get  3,1  the  “ rooting”   he 
cared  for  at  home,  and  numerous  other 
remarks.

Every  time  one  of  the  boys  disobeyed 
order  he  was  told  to  procure  an  axe 
and  exercise  his  muscle  a  little  while 
on  a  palmetto  root.  Many  a  time  I 
wished  I  understood  mind reading  when 
one  of  the  boys  grabbed  his  axe  to  pay 
penance  for  his  disobedience. 
I  well 
remember— to  my 
laughed  at  one  of  the  boys  who  had  re- 
ceived  this  order  and  was  accosted  by 
the  first  Sergeant,  who  said: 
“ Buss, 
it  so  very  funny,  just  get  a 
you  think 
rake  and  keep  him  company.”  
I  never 
laughed  again,  as  all  who are acquainted 
with  me  know  that  I  am  not  fond  of 
extra  work.

sorrow— when

Among  the  many  enjoyable  features 
of  the  South  are  the  rains.  They  come 
very  suddenly  and  go  just  as  quickly, 
a   wi )U!d  rain  so  bard  that  our  tents 
afforded  us  no  shelter,  so  that  the  boys 
were  obliged  to  take  off their clothes and 
put  them  in  a  dry  place  and  wait  until 
the  storm  passed.

Our  meals  were  not  always  palatable, 
can  assure  you,  but  beans,  potatoes 
nd  sow  belly  might always be depended 
?on..  Sometimes  we  got  bread  and 
scuit^  and  cabbage  and  onions,  and 
rery  time  an extra menu was announced 
the  boys  would  shine  their shoes  and 
Drush  their  clothes 
in  order to  be  pre­
sentable  at  the  banquet.

After  I  had  been  there  some  time  I 
thought  I  had  a  chance  for a  snap  and 
decided  I  could  play  a  bugle. 
I  mus­
tered  some  of  my  nerve  and  asked  the 
Captain  for'  the  position  of  bugler and 
he  gave  it  to  me.  All  I  had  to  do  was 
to  practice  about  half  an  hour,  eat  and 
sleepuand  also  shave  myself,  which  I 
did  about  every  day,  until  the  by-word 
got  to  be,  ‘ ‘ Well,  have  you  shaved your­
self  to-day,  Buss?”  

y

I  saw  General  Shatter  load  his  trans­
ports  at  Port  Tampa  for  C uba;  and,  bv 
the  way,  Port  Tampa  is  one  of  the  fin­
est  ports  in  the  United  States,  which 
is 
the  reason  we  were  sent  to  Tampa,  it 
being  fitted  to  handle  a  large  body  of 
men. 
I  had  an  opportunity  to  visit 
1 ampa  Bay  Hotel,  which  is  one  of  the 
finest  winter  resorts  in  the  country,  built 
by  the  Plant  Railroad  system  and  cost- 
was  the  headquarters 
of  the  United  States  army  officers.  The 
hotel,  art  hall,  museum, 
swimming 
pool  hothouse,  billiard  hall  and  other 
buildings  cover  over  forty  acres.

On  April  22,  the  President,  against 
his  own  wishes  but  to  avenge  the  loss 
of  the  240  Americans  killed  in  that  aw- 
fuldisaster,  declared war against  Spain.
1  rl  /  TU.r  Grand  Rapids  companies 
left  for  Island  Lake  on  April  26,  where 
they  were  equipped  and  mustered  into 
the  United  States  service,  and  on  May 
17  we  were  ordered  to  Tampa,  Florida 
to  await  further  orders.  We  arrived  at 
Tampa  on  May  21,after  passing  through 
Detroit,  Toledo,  Dayton,  Cincinnati, 
Lexington,  Knoxville,  Atlanta  and  Ma- 
con..  We  were  afforded  an  opportunity 
of  viewing^Lookout  Mountain  and  M is­
sionary  Ridge,  where  so  many  brave 
men  lost  their  lives  in  the  Civil  War.

I  wish  to  state  right  here  that  this war 
has  accomplished  one  of  the  best  things 
for  this  country  that  could  have  hap­
pened— it  has  brought  the  North  and 
South  into  closer  fellowship  than  it  has 
ever been  since  1858,  the  beginning  of 
the  trouble  which  led  to  the  Civil  War 
We  were  met  at  every  place  after we left 
Cincinnati  by  crowds  of  people,  who 
in 
brought  us  everything 
the  way  of good  things  to  eat— a 
fact 
which  was  greatly  appreciated  by  us.

imaginable 

Our  camp  was  situated  on  a  site  cov­
ered  with  palmetto  roots.  Now, 
a 
palmetto  root  is  a  most  interesting  sub­
ject. 
It  sticks  out  of  the  ground  about 
a  foot  and  has  roots  projecting in  all  di­
rections.  We  had  the  delectable  pleas- 
ure  of  cleaning  out  all  of these  roots • 
and  every  morning  before  sunrise  and 
every  night  after  sunset  might  be  seen 
companies  divided  into  squads,  armed 
with  axes,  rakes,  etc.,  excavating  these 
roots,  which 
it  would  have  been  hard 
work  for dynamite  to  throw  out.  Some 
of  the  remarks  made  by  the  boys  were 
very  humorous  and  helped  us  to  pre­
serve  our  patience.  Some  one  suggested

We 

lost  our  chance  to  go  to  Cuba  at 
the  time  Shafter  was  loading  his  trans- 
ports,  being  transferred  from  the  Sev­
enth  Army  corps  to  the  Fourth  Armv 
corps  to go  with  Shafter.  Our  freight 
homes,  mules  and  wagons  were  all 
loaded  on  the  transport  Florida,  which 
if  I  remember  rightly,  was  the  name  of 
ihf  bo-a.tj| butr a/terJ ih,<;  had  gotten out  in 
tba °Jldd e 
(he  Gulf  she  was  run  into 
and  damaged  so  that  she  was  obliged  to 
return.  As  General  Shafter  could  not 
wait  for  it  to  reload,  we  were  again  put 
mto  the  Seventh  Army  corps  and  the 
Massachusetts  regiment  took  our  place, 
it  was  at  this  time  we  were  thought  to 
be  lost,  as  the  Government  believed  us 
jo  be  on  the  way  to  Cuba.  The  marve-
?“ s rVnCt° 7   .7  P,ewey  and  Schley  and 
ihe 
° f  Manila  and  Santiago  so 
humbled  the  Spaniards  that  we  did  not 
to, Guba  and,  judging  from  some  of 
I611! 1*  ,sent  home  by  some  of  the 
wanfin  hCadS  ?nd  P‘e  mouths.  Who
wanted  a  sugar  lump  worse  than  a  two- 
home0 ^  bab^’  11  was  best  we  were  sent
After  experiences,  many  and  varied 
we  returned  safely  to  dear old  Michigan
,^ e  words.  of  the  old  lady, 
3
1^ rri-11  deb.vered  an  address 
on  Citrous  Fruits,  which  was  well  re- 
ceived,  and  both  entertainers  were  ex­
tended  a  vote  of  thanks.

thankful  for our  misson. ”  

There  will  be  a  meeting  of  the  Asso- 
ciation  next  Monday  evening  for  social 
and  entertainment  purposes.  The  As- 
socmtion  extends  a  welcome  to  visitors
!,“ r, h?pes  to  see,  a 
large  number of 
clerks  become  regular  members.

Martin  &  Greene  have  opened  a  gro­
cery  store  at  Eureka,  purchasing  their 
stock  of the  Musselman  Grocer Co.

I 

W Ah^LEDr ? ° ? m o N   AS  MANAGER- o r  
general  store.  H are  had
varuable experience as  manager  and  buyer  for
X ;
S u sa .idd”“ 

cl®,rk 

G rand  R apids  R etail G rocers’ A ssociation.
R*AniH=e  pg ?lar  7 5 eting  of  the  Grand 
held  d-r  ^ etai  Grocers’  Association, 
d e n t  T u e s d a y   evening,  Dec.  5,  Presi­
dent  Dyk  presided.
mi«'  S   Wendorff,  of  the  special  com­
mittee  to  whom  was  referred  the  matter 
of  protesting  against  the  adoption  of 
the  plan  proposed  by  Alderman  Phillips
!ndCh<fnge  th?  Payment  of  policemen 
and  firemen  from  a  monthly  to  a  semi­
monthly  system,  stated  that  the  project 
was  referred  to  the  Board  of  Police  and 
fir e   Commissioners, who  are  understood 
to  be  opposed  to  the 
innovation.  Ac- 
cepted.

B.  S.  Harris  offered  the  following res- 
olution.whieh was unanimously  adopted • 
Whereas— We understand the  Commer- 
cial  Credit  Co.  has  established  a  credit 
and  collection  agency in Detroit,  similar 
to  the  institution  it  has  maintained  here 
dunng  the  past  dozen  years;  and 

Whereas— This  business  originated  in 
the  collection  department  of  this  Asso­
ciation  and  has  been  evolved  from  a 
meager  beginning  as  an  adjunct  of  the 
Association  to  a  system  with  wide  ram­
ifications  and  an  extended  field  of  use­
fulness ;  and

Whereas— The  reports  and  other infor­
mation  furnished  by  the  Commercial 
credit  Co.  have  come  to  be  regarded  as 
indispensable  to  the  retail  merchants  of 
this  city ;  therefore

commend 

Resolved—-That  we 

the 
Commercial  Credit  Co.  to  the  consider- 
?i!lon 
• „   our  Detroit  fraters,  confident 
they  will  appreciate  the  painstaking 
effort  made  to  serve  its  patrons  well  and 
faithfully.

Resolved— That  a  copy  of  this  resolu­
tion  be  mailed  the  Secretary  of  the  De­
troit  Retail  Grocers’  Association  and 
another  copy  sent  to  the  Commercial 
Credit  Co.

Hmner  Klap  moved  the  appointment 
of  a  Committee  on  Ways  and  Means  for 
the  annual  banquet,  of  which  President 
Dyk  should  be  chairman.  The  motion 
was  adopted  and the chairman appointed 
as  his  associates  on  the 
committee 
Messrs.  Payne  and  Klap.

There  being  no  further  business,  the 

meeting  adjourned.

T he  G rain  M arket.

Wheat  has  been  very  irregular during 
the  week.  Receipts  as  was  predicted 
have  grown 
less  weekly,  while  exports 
showed  up  fairly  well.  The  result  was, 
while  the  expectation  was  for  1,000,000 
bushels 
increase,  there  was  a  decrease 
of  158,000.  This  steadied  the  market 
and  put  prices  up  ic  per  bushel.  L iv ­
erpool  also  showed  more  strength,  so 
that  the  market  was  gaining  strength. 
The 
for  wheat  has  been 
reached  and  passed,  the  past  w eek;  all 
indications  were  for better  prices.

low  point 

Corn  was 

in  demand  at  full  prices. 
This  also  showed  an  inclination  to  get 
in 
line  with  wheat,  and  is  holding  its 
own  very  well.  As  winter  sets  in,  the 
demand  will be  better,  which  will  stiffen 
prices.

Oats  are  hardly  as  strong.  Still  we 
can  not  record  any  depression  in  prices, 
all  being  taken  as 
fast  as  they  aré 
offered.

In  rye,  there  is  not  very  much  doing. 
There  are  some  enquiries,  but  the  sup­
ply  is getting low.  Prices  are  about  '¿c 
lower also  or  57J¿c,  against  58 last week.
Beans  keep  around  last week’s  prices 

ranging  from  $i.82@i.78  per  bushel.

The  receipts  of  wheat  have  been  very 
moderate,  being  for  the  month  of  No­
vember  as  follow s:  wheat  197  cars,  com 
42  cars,  oats  57  cars,  rye  3  cars,  malt  5 
cars,  hay  11  cars.

The  receipts  last week were as follows : 
wheat  37  cars,  com  20  cars,  oats  3  cars, 
rye  1  car,  malt  3  cars.

Mills  are  paying 64c  for  wheat.

C.  G.  A.  Voigt.

n .^ <*Ie r*ise.m en*,i  w ill  be  inserted  u n d er 
foi   tw o  cents  ®  w ord  th e   first 
!"iT:rtion  “ Iid  one  omt  a   w ord  for  each 
Jn sertio n .  No  ad vertisem ents 
p ay m en t^  
h an   25  cents-  A dvance

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

for 

8TO,PK  IN  WESTERN 
nvolccs  about  S2.000.  Reason

K ti™J?ENT^ A,iilJAKY L 1900, ONE OF OUR 
CanafsVrMf block.°! stores and  basement  at 34 
store1 
to  * riedrieh  Bros.’  music
3442Canailst 
1 communlcations to I- C. Levi,
1 _____ ______ -___ __________________  
146
s s a f g “310"- -ss  “M i
OUSEHOLl)  GOODS  SHIPPED  TO  CALI- 
„ ^ ni%.and a*,1 Points West at reduced rates 
ChicagoJ?liD e n Freight  Co.,  38  Market^St i

T ?   Ei,OHANOE  FOR  STOCK  OF  GEN- 
Mici?rawi?h ^mhandise—160 acre farm near Jeddo, 
Mich.,  with  good  barn  and  orchard  and  farm 
house;  120-acres  improved;  living  spring-  first 
class stock farm;  title perfect-  taxes  naffl’  a a 
dress Box 146, Upton t g g l V f f 63  paid’  1£ d'
C«OR  SALE  AT  A  DISCOUNT  IF   TAKEN 
onco—A drug and bazaar stock in  a thriv­
e s  village of  1,573  people  (last  census)  at  the 
tnuia  ones  of  railroad.  Owner 
has other  business;  splendid  opportunity  Ad- 
dress 139, care Michigan Tra d e s m a n ty~  ^

r o l l s  f o r   d e s k   CASH  REGIS-
sam Se ’ Pp  CT $1™ 
dozen;  a11 widths.  Send 
lS .d POhio  L'  Maybee’  1162  Slater  St-   Cleve 
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U'OR  SALE — FIRST-CLASS,  UP-TO-DATE 
^«,.nleai  market; best location in  city  of  20 000- 
1  a h6,?  ™  trade.  Poor health reason  for  seliing’
! Address 138, care Michigan Tradesman. 
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BIOR  SALE—FINE  HOTEL  AND  SMatT
«lit  IVAddrern Wd0ing  good  buslness;  termsLfo 
m in   Address  R °- 
care  Michigan  Trades-
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F O R   SALE  —  STOCK  OF  DRUGS  AND 
k  n j1.ar(^ware and store building.  Will  rent  thr 
budding and  seU  the  stocks  together  or  seoal 
i rately.  Good location to add  groceries  to  hard
sfoie St»
 for the « » C o U g e S  
store.  This is a rare  opportunity  for  the  righf 
Pgrson.  Address P. M-. Lacota.Mieh 
3 P *
S P<i L ? ASH  PAID  FOR  s t o c k   o f   d r y
goods,  groceries or  boots  and  shoes.  Must 
be cheap.  Address A. D., care Michigan Trades-
555:___________ _____________________ 130
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  drv 
goods or clothing, either in or out of city.  Reed 
&  Osgood,  32  Weston  building,  Grand  RapMs!
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F'OR  SALE—GENERAL  STOCK  IN  GOOD 
ac»<iunvKiiradlIlg P°int.  Terms  to  suit  pur- 
laiJfffxr 
rent  or  sell  store  building.  Ad- 
I dress No. lie, care Michigan Tradesman. 

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I^OR  SALE  OR  TRADE—A  FIRST-CLASS 
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VV anted- your order for a rubber
\   stamp.  Best  stamps  on  earth  at  prices • 
that  are  right.  Will  J.  Weller? M u s K !  
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If»OR SALE OR EXCHANGE FOR GENERAL 
Stock  of  Merchandise—60  acre  farm  part 
v1®?^» archi^tect house  and  barn;  well  watered 
Ialso h av etw o 40  acre  farms  and  one  80  acre 
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ur will exchange for  tract  of  hardwood  timber’ 
Sme al? a,n i?r a®1®6 one-  Possession given anv 
time,  avestigatlon  soUcited.  E. A. Stowe ^rin 
N. Prospect street, Grand Rapids. 
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MERCANTILE  ASSOCIATIONS

Ch ic a g o

Michigan  Business  Men’i  Association 
-retary, E. A. Stow b, Grand  Rapids.

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

Chicago.

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

T raverse City, C harlevoix and re to sk ey . 

Lv. G. Rapids, 7:30am 
Ar.TravCity, 12:40pm 
Ar. Charlev’x,  3:10pm 
Ar. Petoskey,  3:40pm 
and 10:45pm.
night trains to and from Chicago.

Trains  arrive  from  north  at  2:40pm,  and 
Parlor cars on day trains and sleeping  cars  on 
»Every day.  Others week days  only.

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

n P T D r t I T   Grand Rapids & Western. 
U C   1  K M *   1  9 

June 26,  1899.

D etroit.

Lv. Grand Rapids___  7:00am  12:05pm  5:25pm
Ar. Detroit..................11:40am 
4:05pm  10:05pm
Lv. Detroit.................   8:40am 
1:10pm  6:10pm
Ar. Grand Rapids___  1:30pm 
5:10pm  10:55pm

Saginaw ,  A lm a an d   G reenville.

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.

Ge o . D e H a v e n , General Pass. Agent.

n n   A  l u n   Trank  Railway  System 
* 1 IxAlf LI  Detroit and Milwaukee Dlv

(In effect Oct 19,1899.)

Going East.

Leave 

Arrive
Saginaw, Detroit & N. Y ........ t   6:50am  +  9:55pm
Detroit and  E ast......................+10:10am  + 5:07pm
Saginaw, Detroit & E ast........ + 3:27pm  +12:50pm
Buffalo, N. Y., Toronto,  Mon­
treal & Boston, Ltd Ex. .*  7:20pm  *10:16am 
Going West.
Gd. Haven Express................. *i0:2iam  *  7:15pm
Gd. Haven and Int. P ts..........tl2:58pm  + 3:19pm
Gd. Haven and Milwaukee  ...+ 5:12pm  +I0:llam 
Eastbound 6:50am train has  new  Buffet  parlor 
car to Detroit,  eastbound  3:27pm  train  has  new 
Buffet parlor car to  Detroit.
♦Daily.  tExcept Simday.

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

97 Monroe St., Morton House.

GRAND Rapida  ft  Indiana  Railway
Going 
From 
North  North

N o rth ern   D ivision. 

October 23,  1899.

Trav. City, Petoskey, Mack.  + 7:45am  +  5:15pm 
Traverse City &  Petoskey.. 
t.2:i0pm  +10:15pm 
Cadillac Accommodation...  +  5:25pm  +10:45am 
Petoskey & Mackinaw  City 
til: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;  2:00pm train has parlor car to 
Fort Wayne;  7:00pm train has sleeper to Cincin­
nati;  ll:30pm  train,  sleeping  car  and  coach  to 
Chicago.

Chicago  T rains.

TO  CHICAGO.

8  45pm 

FROM  CHICAGO

Lv.Grand  Rapids...+7  10am  +2 00pm  *11 30pm
Ar. Chicago.............   2  30pm 
7 00am
Lv.  Chicago............................... +3 02pm  *11 32pm
Ar. Grand Rapids.....................  9  45pm 
6 45am
Train leaving Grand Rapids 7:10am has coach; 
ll:30pm train has coach and sleeping  car;  trains 
leaving Chicago 3:02pm  has  coach;  il:32pm  has 
sleeping car for Grand Rapids.

M uskegon  T rains.

GOING  WEST.

Lv. Grand Rapids___+7 35am  +1  35pm  +5 40pm
Ar. Muskegon.............  9 00am  2  50pm  7 00pm
Sunday  train  leaves  Grand  Rapids  9:15am; 
arrives Muskegon at 10:40am.  Returning  leaves 
Muskegon 5:30pm ; arrives Grand Rapids, 6:50pm.
GOING  EAST.
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,

GenT Pass’r and Ticket Agent 
Ticket Agent Union Station.

MANISTEE ft  Northeastern  Ry.

Best route to Manistee.

Via C. & W. M. Railway.

Lv. Grand Rapids.......................   7 00am
Ar. Manistee............................... 12 05pm 
..........
Lv. Manistee...............................  8 30am  4  10pm
Ar. Grand  Rapids.....................   1  00pm  9 55pm

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Michigan  Retail  Grocers’  Association 

President,  J .   W i s i . k r ,  Mancelona;  Secretary, 

E. A. St o w e , Grand  Rapids

Detroit Retail Grocers’ Association 

President,  J o se p h  K n ig h t ;  Secretary,  E. 

Ma r k s ;  Treasurer, C  H.  F r i n k .

Grand  Rapids  Retail Grocers’  Association 

President, F r a n k   J . Dvk ;  Secretary,  H o m er 

K l a p ;  Treasurer, J. Ge o r g e   Le h m a n

Saginaw  Mercantile  Association 

President,  P.  F.  T r k a n o r ;  Vice-President, 
J o h n  McBr a t n ik ;  Secretary, W.  H. Le w is .

Jackson  Retail  Grocers’  Association 
H. P o r t e r ;  T reasurer, L.  P e l t o n .;

President,  J .  F r a n k   H e l m e r ;  Secretary,  W. 

Adrian  Retail  Grocers’  Association 

President,  A.  C.  Cl a r k ;  Secretary,  E.  F. 

Cl e v e l a n d ; Treasurer,  Wm. C. K o e h n

Moskeeron  Retail Grocers’  Association

President,  H.  B.  Sm it h ;  Secretary,  D.  A. 

Bo e l k in s ;  Treasurer,  J.  W.  Ca s k a d o n.

Baj  Cities  Retail Grocen’  Association 

President,  M.  L.  De Bats;  Secretary,  ST^W. 

Waters.

Kalamazoo  Retail  Grocers’  Association 

President, W.  H.  J o h n s o n ;  Secretary,  Ch a s. 

H y m a n.

Traverse Citi  Business Men’s Association 

President,  T hos  T.  Bâtes”  Secretary^TSTHb. 

H o l l y ;  Treasurer,  C.  A.  H a m m o n d.

Owosso  Business  Men’s Association 

President,  A.  D.  W h i p p l e ;  Secretary,  G.  T. 

Ca m p b e l l ;  Treasurer,  W.  E. Co l l in s.

Alpena  Business  Men’s  Association 

President, F. W. Gil c h r is t ;  Secretary,  C.  L. 

Pa r t r id g e . 

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Grand  Rapids  Retail  Meat  Dealers'  Association 

President,  L.  M.  W il s o n ;  Secretary,  P h i l i p  

H i l b e r ;  Treasurer,  S. J. H u f f o r d .
St.  Johns  Business  Men’s  Associai ion 

President, T h o s. Br o m l e y ;  Secretary,  F r a n k  

A.  P e r c y ; Treasurer, Cl a r k  A. P u t t.

Perry  Business  Men’s  Association 

President,  H.  W.  Wa l l a c e ;  Secretary,  T.  E. 

H u d d l e. 

_______

Grand  Haven  Retail  Merchants’  Association 

President,  F.  D.  Vos;  Secretary,  J.  W.  Ve r- 

H o e k b. 

_______

Yale Business Men’s Association 

President,  Ch a s.  R o u n d s;  Secretary,  F r a n k  

P u t n e y .

T R A V E L

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F. & P-  M. R. R.

A N D   S T E A M S H IP   L IN E S  

T O   A LL  P O IN T S   IN   M IO H IO A N

H.  F.  M O E L L E R ,  a .  g .  p .  a .
A lu m in u m   M o n e y

win Increase Your Business.

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Cheap and Effective.

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

44  S.  Clark  St.,  Chicago,  III.

Winter  Weddings

Are  now  on  tap.  We  make  a 
specialty  of  wedding invitations, 
both  printed  and  engraved  on 
copper,  and  cheerfully  submit 
sam pies and  quote  prices  on  ap­
plication.  -

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Tradesman  Company,

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Grand  Rapids, Mkh. J

EetabUsbed 1180.

Walter Baker & Go. mL

Dorchester, Maas.
The Oldest and 

Largest Manufacturers 01
FURLHIGHGIUOE

COCOASAND
CHOCOLATES

on this Continent.

their manufactures.

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

Our  line  of

WORLD

Bicycles for 1900

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

ARNOLD,  SCHWINN  & CO., 

Makers, Chicago, III.

Adams & Hart, Michigan Sales Agents, 
Grand Rapids, Mich.

Dorchester,  Mass.

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

illustrated  catalogue  and  discounts.

Uneeda
Biscuit

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

Five Cents

Sold  everywhere.  Ask  the  Grocer.

If  You  Are  Looking  for  Gold

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You  need  not go  beyond the confines of 
your own  store;  there’s  money  in  your 
business  if  you  only  know  how  to  get 
it  out.

If you will  use The  Money  Weight 
System  of weighing  your  merchandise 
you  can  make  money  in  business; 
if 
you stick  to  the  old  pound  and  ounce 
method  you  can’t.  Remember  our 
scales  are 
sold  on  easy  monthly 
payments.

The  Computing  Scale  Co.,

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Dayton,  Ohio.

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Christmas  Souvenirs  for  Your  Customers

No.  1998  Tim or  Salad  Dish

The practice of giving presents to customers at Christ­
mas time  is  pretty  and  profitable.  Here  are  six  hints— 
hundreds more  in  our  Holiday  Catalogue  (No.  150)  and 
in  our  Regular Catalogue  (No.  151)—they will  bring their 
cost in  trade many times over.

Whether you are  interested  in  this  or  not,  you  want 
these  Catalogues.  They  contain  256  pages, 
literally 
crowded  with  items  in  Crockery,  Glassware,  Toys,  No­
tions,  House  Furnishings,  Jewelry,  Books,  Stationery, 
Lamps,  Hardware,  Cutlery—almost  every 
imaginable 
line, all  priced at a saving of

>5 to 30  per cent.

W e  are  doing  this  year  the  largest  business  in  our 
history,  but by preparation for just this event, we are able to 
ship promptly,  and  our lines are still practically  unbroken.

H.  LEONARD  &  SONS

Importers
Jobbers
Manufacturers

Fulton  and  Commerce Streets

Grand  Rapids.  Michigan

No.  “ A ”  N ut  P icks

Nickle  plated  steel,  with  chased 
handles.  Set  of  six,  in  neat  box, 
lined with colored paper.

Per doz. boxes..................... $0.96

No.  2287  Brow nie  Tobacco  Ja r

Four different faces,  in  bright  nat­
ural  colors,  bisque  finish.  Average 
height  about  6  inches.  One-third 
dozen in package.

Per  doz.................................$1.80

No  2919  Bohem ian  Glass  Bose 

B ow l  or  Vase

In  alternate  stripes  of  pink  and 
amber,  marbleized  effect.  4¡4x4  in. 
One-sixth dozen in  package.

Per doz.................................  $1.20

An exact  reproduction  of  the  fam­
ous  and  expensive  Chinese  ware. 
Decorated with Chinese scenes; green 
and  maroon  ornaments;  814  inches 
diameter—very attractive.

Per  doz............................... $1.50
No.  1645  Bread  and M ilk   Set

Royal Bonn ware, flower and  scroll 
decoration in green underglaze.  Sizes, 
plate  714,  bowl  5x2%,  pitcher  3% 
Inches high.

Per  doz.................................$1.80
No.  2380  Fancy  Glass  Basket

Opalescent  tints,  wrinkled  edges, 
turned-down  comers,  lily  pattern, 
twisted  handle.  One-half  dozen  in 
package.

Per doz.................................. $2.00

