Volume XVII.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY, JANUARY  17,  1900.

Number 852

Original  Crate  Assortment

36 sets Teas,  handled..................
8 sets Coffees, handled  .............
2 doz.  Plates, 8-inch....................
15 doz. Plates, 7-inch....................
4 doz. Plates, (¡-inch 
.................
U doz.  Plates, 5 inch....................
1 doz.  Plates, 7-iuch soup coupe.
10 doz. Fruit Saucers. 4-inch__
6 doz. Individual  Butters...........
2 doz. Oyster Bowls, 30s...........
54 doz. Sugars, 30s.........................
54 doz. ( 'reams, 30s.......................
1 doz.  Oatmeals.........................
1 doz.  Bowls, 30s..........................
54 doz.  Spooners............................
*4 doz.  Dishes, 8-inch. 
..........
5s doz.  Dishes, 9-inch.............
54 doz.  Dishes, 10-inch..................
54 doz. Dishes, 12-inch..................
54 doz.  Dishes, 14-inch..................
2 doz.  Bakers, 3-inch...................
H doz.  Bakers, 7-inch..................
54 doz. Rakers, 8-inch..................
54 doz.  Bakers. 9-inch 
.............
54 doz. Scollops, 5-inch  ..........
5jj doz.  Scollops, (¡-inch  ...............
54 doz. Scollops, 7-inch................
5s doz. Scollops, 8-inch  .............
54 doz.  Scollops. 9-inch.............
54 doz. Sauce Boats.....................
¡4 doz. Covered Dishes,  8-inch... 
.
H doz. Casseroles, 8-inch. 
54 doz. Covered  Butters, 5-lnch..
54 doz. Pickles.  .......... 
.........
54 doz. Jugs, 12s............................
54 doz. Jugs, 24s............................
54 doz. Jugs, 30s............................
54 doz. Jugs, 3<5s 
.........................

Less 10 per cent

Crate and cartage

Per set 
..$  65 
(¡4
..  1  03

27' 
1  10
3 30
83 
1  10 
2  20 
1  38
1  (¡5
2 48
4  13
5  78

3 30 
1  10 
1  38
1  (¡5
2 48
3 30
....  (¡00 
....  7 43 
.. ..  4 95 
__ 1  (¡5
1  93 
1  65 
1  38

Perdoz 
$19  80 
5  12 
2 06 
13  35 
3  04
89 
4  10
2  20 
1  (¡5 
83 
83 
1  10 
73 
34 
55
1  24
2  07 
1  44 
1  92
41 
1  24 
83 
37 
46 
83
1  24 
1  10 
1  10
3 30 
1  86
2 47 
83
1  65 
48 
82 
69
$88  31 
8  83
79 48 
2 50
$81  08

Buy in  original  packages and 

save  io per cent

The  Meteor  Pattern

The Swellest White Semi-Porcelain ever put on the market

This  beautifully  modeled  ware  is  the  latest  production  of  those  famous 
English  potters— W .  H .  Grindley  &   Co.  The  shape  is  not  only  exceedingly 
artistic,  but  practical  as  well 
The  dainty  embossment  is  a  distinguishing 
feature,  and  in  color,  weight  and  selection  these  goods  rival  the  best  makes 
of  W hite  French  China.  You  get  equally  as  good  an  effect  for  one-fourth  the
money.

Start the new year right and 
buy  the  best  that  is  made.

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A  Good  Point  to Consider

when  purchasing  your  cigars  is  Q U A L IT Y . 
Hasn’t  it  ever  occurred  to  you  that  the  store 
that  has  the  big  business,  that  is  turning  its 
stock  over  several  times  a  year,  is  not  the  one 
that  has  poor  goods?

Take  thought  of  this  and  you’ll  be  buying  a 

goodly  number  of

Royal  Tigers,  10c

and  Tigerettes,  5c

their Q U A L IT Y   IS T H E   B E S T ;  they suit the consumer.  Better get some  at  once

PH ELPS,  BRACE &  CO.,  Detroit

F.  E.  BUSHM AN,  Manager.

The  Largest Cigar Dealers in the Middle  West

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Sewing  Machine  Lamp. 
It throws  the light close  to  the  needle and 
the work  passes  under the  lamp.  Can  be  attached  to  any  machine, 
and when  not on the  machine  can  be  used  for  any  other  purpose. 
Lamp  complete  with  No.  i  burner,  bronze  bracket  and  chimney. 
Each lamp  packed  separate.  An  excellent  article  for  storekeepers 
to use as a premium.

Price, $3.75  a dozen

For sale by all wholesale grocers and woodenware dealers.  Or order 
direct with remittance.

D.  LAW RENCE SHAW CO.,

NO.  40  HUDSON  ST., 

NEW   YORK  CITY

fla k in g   Trade 
and Keeping It*£ at

Plenty of specialties will sell like wildfire for  a  time.  But  they 
won’t last.  People never ask for them again.  They’re worthless 
as a basis for substantial merchandising.

BUTTER

G R A T E F U L  

C O M F O R T IN G

Distinguished  Everywhere 

for

Delicacy  of  Flavor, 

Superior  Quality 

and

Nutritive  Properties. 

Specially  Grateful  and 

Comforting  to  the 

Nervous  and  Dyspeptic.

Sold  in  Half-Pound  Tins  Only. 

Prepared  by

JA M E S   E P P S   &  CO .,  Ltd., 

Homoeopathic  Chemists,  London, 

England.

B R E A K F A S T

S U P P E R

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Cocoa

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Holland,  Michigan

B u c k w h e a t   P a n c a k e s   made 
from 
Walsh-DeRoo  Buckwheat  Flour  look 
like  Buckwheat,  taste  like  Buckwheat 
and  are  Buckwheat.  Absolute  purity 
guaranteed.  Send us your orders.

W alshtD eR oo  M illing  Co.

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daintiness about them that people do not tire of.  The first pound 
sells another and another.  They make trade and keep  it.
That’s the sort of cracker you want to handle,  Mr.  Grocer.

National  Biscuit Company,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Sears  B ak ery.

I   A  Business Man’s  *  

Train

Save  time  in  travel  by  using  the  Detroit  New  York 
It leaves  Detroit, 
Special  and trains connecting  therewith. 
M ic h ig a n   C e n t r a l   S t a t io n ,  daily  at  4 :2 3   p-  m.,  arrives 
Buffalo  10:10  p.  m.,  Rochester  at  midnight  and  New  York 
10  a-  m -  V e r y  F a s t . 

It  is  up-to-date  in  every  respect

Volume  XVII.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY, JANUARY  17,1900.

Number 852

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Spring and summer 1900 samples ready, 
and  still  have  for  present  use  Ulsters, 
Overcoats  and  Beefers  in  abundance. 
Don’t  forget  strictly  all  wool  Kersey 

A  overcoat $5.  KOLB & SON, oldest whole-  ^  
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W ILL IA M   CONNOR,  Box  346,  Mar­
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at Sweet's hotel. Grand Rapids, February 
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Residence property at 24  Kellogg 
street, near corner  Union  street. 
Will sell on long time  at low  rate 
of Interest.  Large lot, with barn. 
House equipped  with  water,  gas 
and all modern Improvements.

E.  A.  Stowe,

Blodgett Building, 
Grand  Rapids.

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Page.
8. D ry  Goods.
3. C itizen  Soldiers.
4. A round  th e   State.
5. G rand  R apids  Gossip. 
T he  P roduce  M arket.
6. W om an's W orld.
8. E d ito rial.
». E ditorial.
10. G etting  th e   People.
11. C lerks’  Corner.
C rockery  and  G lassw are  Q uotations.
18. Shoes  and  L eather.
13.J.«Rules  for  C u rtailin g   R etail C redits.
14." T he  M eat  M arket.
15. P rep a ra tio n   o f  P o u ltry   for M arket.
16. G otham   Gossip.
17. C om m ercial Travelers.
18. . D rugs and C hem icals.
19. D rug P rice C urrent.
80. G rocery P rice  C urrent.
81. G rocery P rice  C urrent.
88. H ardw are.
83. Successful  Salesm en. 
84. C om ing  Convention. 

H ardw are  P rice  C urrent.
R usiness  W ants.

G EN ERA L  TR A D E  REV IE W .

issue,  which  can  not  be 

With  all  domestic  conditions  favor­
able  to  increasing  activity  and  advanc­
ing  prices,  the  week  has  been  a  waiting 
one  in  speculative  markets.  Evidently 
the 
factor  of  most  real  significance  is 
the  Transvaal  situation,  traders seeming 
to  think  that 
it  is  just  as  well  to  wait 
the 
far  off. 
There  is  a  sentiment,  also,  that  the  tide 
is  nearing  its  culmination 
of  activity 
and  the  possibility  of 
in 
some  products  naturally 
increases  the 
waiting  tendency.  The  general  situa­
tion  in  the  stock  market  seems  to  be  a 
strong  bear  pressure,  which  is effectually 
resisted  by  the  conditions.  Railway 
earnings  for  the  first  week  of  this  year 
exceed  the  phenomenally  heavy  ones  of 
the  beginning  of  1899  and  any  material 
decline 
in  their  stocks,  in  the  face  of 
this  report,  seems  very  improbable.

lower  prices 

The  general 

industries  show 

little 
signs  of  lessening  volume  in  the  begin­
ning  of  the  new  year.  Prices  of  prod­
ucts  are  still  maintained  in  most 
lines, 
although  predictions  of  the  depressing 
effects  of  the  enormous  production  in 
the  cruder  forms  of  the  iron industry  are 
common. 
It  would  seem  that  the  high 
level  in  iron  and  steel  products  must  be 
lowered  to  meet  the  world’s  demands, 
but  the  change  will  be  the  gradual  re­
sult  of  increasing  supply  and  should  not 
create  disturbance.  During  the  holiday 
season  many  works  were  shut  down 
for 
the  annual 
inventories,  etc.,  but  they 
have been  prompt in  taking  up  the  work 
again  and  the  booking  of  orders  goes  on 
as  rapidly  as  ever.

The  continuing  decline 

in  hides  at 
Chicago,  although  gradual,  has  reached 
the 
lowest  average  since  November  1, 
which 
is  2.8  per  cent,  below  the  high­
est  a  month  ago,  but  no lower quotations 
of 
leather  are  reported,  and  boot  and 
shoe  makers  are  trying  to  get  still  fur­
ther advances,  as their  products  rose  last 
year  only  12  per  cent.,  against  19.2  per 
cent,  in  leather.  Traders  are  naturally 
slow  to  buy,  although  large  distribution 
to  consumers  makes  them  hasten  deliv­
eries  on  old  orders,  so  that  actual  ship­
ments  from  the  East  have  been  larger 
than  in  any  previous  year  to  date.

Cotton  manufacture  has  been  compar­

atively  quiet  as  to  new  business,  al­
though  many  kinds  are  sold  far  ahead. 
Advances  in  some  kinds  of  woolens  just 
opened  are  large,  but  make  the  general 
rise  in  woolen  goods  average  but  18  per 
cent,  since 
last  May,  against  37  per 
cent,  for  wool.  The  wool  market  is  in­
active,  with  occasional  concessions  to 
effect  sales.

BREA D STU FF»  IN  W AR.

in  the  case  of  American 

The  decision  of  the  British  govern­
ment 
flour 
seized  off  Delagoa  Bay  is  of  importance 
first  of  all  to  Great  Britain.  Hence  it 
is  not  surprising  that  it  is  of  a  nature 
that  satisfies  the  United  States  in  the 
present  instance.  To  be  contraband  of 
war grain  and  flour  must  be almost pass­
into  the  enemy’s  possession  when 
ing 
seized. 
is  not  enough  that  it  may 
reach  the  enemy  if  left  alone;  it  must 
be  shown  to  be  destined  for  him.

It 

in  port!  There 

It  was  not  bound 

The  flour  seized  off  Delagoa  was  not 
on  the  point  of  dropping  into  a  Boer 
oven. 
for  a  Boer 
port,  but  for the neutral  Portuguese  port. 
But  the  British  cruiser  didn’t  know! 
He  couldn’t  know  without  stopping  the 
ship,  nor  then  be  fully  satisfied  short  of 
an  examination 
is  a 
broad  margin  between  holding  up  the 
ship  of  a  friendly  power  and  confiscat­
ing 
If  a  trick  is  concealed 
aboard  delay  may  defeat  it;  will tend  to 
discourage  its  repetition,  and  ultimate 
release  of  the  ship  and  purchase  of  its 
cargo,  at  a  price  covering  value  and 
losses  from  detention,  square  matters 
with  the 
friendly  power,  and  deprive 
the  enemy  of  succor,  tpo.  Britain  has 
illustrated  this  working  of  its  position 
on  flour  afloat  in  time  of  war  in  its  ac­
tions  and  deliverances  in  this  case.

its  cargo. 

The  rule prescribed  by  Lord  Salisbury 
is  entirely  satisfactory.  The practice  of 
British  men-o’ -war  will  be  the  irritating 
thing.  But  by  the  rule  laid  down  the 
owner  of  the  flour  can  count  almost  al­
ways  on  getting  pay  for  his goods.  E x ­
ception  would  occur  in  the  case  of  flour 
seized  while  the  enemy  was  engaged 
in 
making  it  into  bread.  By  the  rule Brit­
ain  guards  its  possible  needs  of  the 
fu­
ture.  For  no  other  people  are  so  de­
pendent  on  food  supplies  from abroad as 
those  of  the  United  Kingdom. 
In  case 
of  prolonged  war  with a naval  power— as 
Russia  or  France  or  the  United  States— 
the  bread  question  would  be  a  serious 
one  with  England.  Then  the  wisdom  of 
the  present  libeial  ruling  as  to the  free­
dom  of  breadstuffs  from  seizure  will  be 
more  apparent  than  now.

Emma  Goldman,  the  anarchist,  says 
that  she  * * washes  her  hands of the Amer­
ican  workingman.”  
It  is  considerable 
of a  departure  for  an  anarchist  or  trades 
unionist  to  wash  anything,  even  meta­
phorically  speaking.

The  new  woman  is  progressing.  New 
Jersey  has  a  case  of  husband  beating, 
which  will  excite  the  sympathy  of  the 
henpecked  article.

You  can  not  do  too  much  for  the  en­
tertainment  of  a  man  who expects every­
thing  and  does  nothing  for  himself.

Live  Topics  Lively  Discussed  liy  an  K nrr- 

f’ftk-  Associat ion.

The  business  men  of  Port  Huron  have 
an  Association  organized  on  a  broad 
and  liberal  basis.  While  it  is  called  the 
Merchants  and  Manufacturers’  Associa­
includes  not  only  men  in  those 
tion,  it 
lines  of  business,  but  also 
lawyers, 
physicians  and  all  others  interested 
in 
the  general  welfare  of  the  city  and  the 
advancement  of  its  highest  interests  in 
the  different  departments  of  trade,  com­
merce,  manufacturing  and  sanitary  de­
velopment.  Meetings  are  held  every 
Friday  evening  and  are  well  attended, 
too to  150  often  being  present.  Many 
assemble  early  and  spend  a  social  hour 
in  card  playing  and  conversation.

in 

Topics  of  general  and  local  interest 
are  discussed.  Friday,  Jan.  5,  the  South 
African  war  was  debated.  Jan.  12  they 
considered 
the  proposition  to  dig  a 
canal  about  7,000  feet  long  above  the 
city 
from  St.  Clair  River  to  Black 
River,  which,  especially  in  summer,  is 
a  stagnant  stream  and  a  menace  to 
health.  Those 
favor  of  the  project 
argued  that  a  sufficient  amount  of  the 
pure  St.  Clair  River water  could  be  car­
ried  through  the  canal  to  Black River  to 
displace  the  water 
in  Black  River  in 
from  twenty-four  to  thirty  hours,  thus 
satisfactorily  carrying  away  the  sewage 
and  offering  greater 
to 
manufacturers  to  locate  on  Black  River 
and  keeping  the  frontage  on  St.  Clair 
River  for  summer  resorts, 
for  which 
Port  Huron 
famous.  Ex- 
Alderman  W.  D.  Smith,  Geo.  Howe 
and  Dr.  Palmer  spoke  in  favor  of  the 
plan.  Ex-Mayor  Mcllwain  and  A.  E. 
Chadwick  presented  the  negative  argu­
ments  and  contended  that  the  project 
was  not  practicable,  for  the  following 
reasons:

inducements 

is  already 

1.  The  fall  between  the  opening  of 
the  canal  at  St.  Clair  River  and  the, 
mouth  of  Black  River  would  not  be 
sufficient  to  accomplish  the  end  sought.
2.  The  expense,  not  only  for  digging 
it  in 

the  canal  but  also  for  keeping 
working  order.would  be  too  great.

3.  The 

cost  of  building  bridges 

would  be  an  added  expense.

4.  No  engineer  would  guarantee  the 

success  of the  undertaking.

Ex-City  Engineer  Rogers  gave  some 
interesting  statements  concerning  the 
surveys  and  other engineering  work  al­
ready  done.  The  question  was  decided 
in  favor  of the  negative.  This  matter, 
which  has  been  under  consideration  for 
years  past,  will  be  decided  at  a  special 
city  election  next  Tuesday.

A  committee  previously  appointed  to 
consider the  advisability  of  holding  an 
annual  banquet  reported  favorably  and 
recommended  that  it  be  held  Feb.  14  at 
the  St.  Clair  hotel.

One  feature  of  every  meeting  is  calls 
for different commodities.  Some reported 
beans  for  sale,  others  wanted  cabbages, 
turnips,  etc.

The  Secretary  receives  some  compen­
sation  for  his  services  and  devotes  con­
siderable  time  to  securing  new  mem­
bers,  arranging  details  and  creating  a 
general  interest  in  the  work.

An  alarm  clock  is  very set  in its ways.

M IC H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N

T rade  P hilosophy.

He  who  thinks  that  because  he  has 
something  to  sell  which  people will want 
there  is  no  need  to  advertise  is not wise.
People  will  traverse  in  search  of  gold 
regions  where  never  the  foot  of  white 
man  trod,  but  no  man  was  ever  known 
to  make  a  tour  of  factories,  warehouses 
in  search  of  something  he 
and  stores 
never  heard  of  before.
is  only  after  he  has  seen  a  thing 
advertised  that  he  wants  it,  and  if  he 
wants  it  he  gets  it,  provided  he  has  the 
means  and  the  price  is  right.

If  you  have  a  good  thing  in  your  fac­
tory,  warehouse  or  store,  do  not  put  it 
under a  bushel;  turn  the  light  of  adver­
tising  on  it.

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D og Gone  Sham e.

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‘ jOur  engagement  is  off  again.”  
‘ ‘ What’s  the  matter  now?”
“ I  gave  her  a  belt  buckle  with  my 
photograph  on  it,  and  she  uses  it  to  fas­
ten  her  dog’s  collar.”

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Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

line  of  high  underwear,  and  the  manu­
facturers  have  taken  heart  to  demand 
full  prices,  where 
in  previous  years 
they  would  give  longer  dates  and  larger 
if  they  had  been  demanded 
discounts 
strongly  enough. 
is  thought  now 
that  the  heavyweight  business  will  be 
practically  completed  within  the  next 
two  weeks.  The  season 
is  early  and 
quick,  and  the  buyers  fully  realize  the 
advantage  of  getting  their  orders  in  as 
early  as  possible.

It 

Hosiery— The  sellers  have  everything 
their  own  way.  Conditions  are  very 
favorable  and  stocks  are  extremely  lim ­
ited.  Prices  are  higher  all  around,  but 
not  quite  what  they  should  be  with  the 
present  conditions  in  the  market.  Both 
here  and  abroad  there  should  be  even 
better  prices  named  than  rule  to-day. 
Agents  are  reluctant  to  place  the  proper 
price  on  their goods,  fearing  that  it  will 
hurt  the  market  in  some  way.  This 
is 
a  mistake,  however,  for the  buyers  are 
as  a  rule  prepared  to  pay  advances. 
American  seamless  hosiery continues ac­
tive  and  there  is  every  reason for believ­
ing  that  present  prices  are  none  too 
high,  considering  all  conditions  at  pres­
ent.  The  scarcity  of  water  has  been  a 
hard  factor to  contend  with,  and  on  top 
of  this  several  destructive  fires  have 
visited  plants  of  importance  that  were 
well  sold  up  for  spring.

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D ry G oods

The  D ry  Good«  M arket.

Staple  Cottons— The  general  tone  in 
the  market  shows  no  change  whatever. 
The 
last  quotations  remain  in  force  for 
immediate and  near-by  delivery.  Ducks 
and  osnaburgs  are  firm,  but  the  request 
is  moderate.  Bleached  cottons  show  no 
change  of  importance.  Sellers  are  firm 
on  account  of  the  underlying  conditions 
of  the  market  in  spite  of  the  quiet  con­
ditions  prevailing.  Wide  sheetings  are 
also  firm  but  quiet,  and  the  sale  of  den­
ims 
is  only  restricted  by  the  supplies. 
All  other  coarse  colored  cottons  show  a 
better  demand  than  supply  and the tend­
ency  is  towards  hardening.

Prints  and  Ginghams— There has been 
a  moderate  business  reported  in  printed 
fabrics,  limited  principally  by  the  de­
sire  of  jobbers  and 
large  retailers  to 
wind  up  their  year’s  business  and  buy 
no  more  than  is  absolutely  necessary  to 
keep  their  shelves  supplied.  The  new 
year  opens  with  very  satisfactory  con­
ditions  for  nearly  every  one except those 
who  are  unable  to  obtain  the  goods 
which  seemed  necessary  to  them.  The 
tone  has  been firm  with  all  regular lines, 
and  but  slight  irregularities  are  noticed 
on  some  unticketed  goods.  Fancy  cali­
coes  are  strong 
in  the  sellers’  hands 
and  the  probabilities  are  that  present 
prices  will  be  maintained throughout the 
season.  Staple  lines,  including 
indigo 
blues,  shirtings,  turkey  reds,  etc.,  a re ' 
firm,  but  without  change 
It 
is  probable  that  some  lines,  however, 
may  be  advanced  before  this article goes 
to  press,  as  the  market  has  been  looking 
for advances for  some  little  time.  Staple 
dress  ginghams  are  quiet,  although 
business  has  been  all  that  sellers  desire, 
for  supplies  are  too  low  to  supply  the 
trade.

in  price. 

Knit  Goods— Nearly  three-fourths  of 
the  orders  have  been  taken  for  fall  knit 
goods  already  and  the  market  has  a  de­
cidedly  healthy  tone. 
It  is  only  fair  to 
say  that  part  of  this  is  due  to  the  ad­
vances which have been made  and  which 
have  put  the  buyers  on  their  mettle  and 
prove  to  them  that  the  prophecies  made 
were  true  that  goods  were  going  higher 
and  that  if  they  wished  to  get  in  on  the 
ground  floor  they  must  do some hustling. 
The  last  advance  made  by  the American 
Knit  Underwear  Association  on  fleeced 
goods  was  I2J^  per cent.  This came  un­
expectedly  to  the  trade,  although  it  was 
understood  that  the  meeting  was  to  be 
held  for the  purpose  of  further  advanc­
ing  prices. 
It  was  not  thought,  how­
ever, that  these  advances  would be made, 
because 
impression  had 
been  gained  that  the  previous  advance 
named  by  the  Association  had  not  been 
secured.

the  general 

It  is true that  many  manufacturers  did 
not  get  the  entire  advance  agreed  upon, 
but 
the  market  was  so  materially 
strengthened  that  the  effect  all  around 
was  excellent  and  encouraged  this  last 
If  the  members  of  the  Asso­
advance. 
ciation 
individually  will  stand  firm  on 
the  grounds  they  have  now  taken,  there 
is no  doubt  that  the  knit  goods  trade 
is 
on  the  right  road  to  prosperity  and  that 
it  will  assume  the  same  prosperous  con­
dition  which  marks  other  textile 
indus­
in  which  it  has  so  long  been 
tries,  and 
behind.  The  yarn  market 
is  so  very 
firmly  fixed  on  the  advanced  price  basis 
that  there  is  no  chance  of  its  receding, 
and  the  production  has  been  sold  up  for 
five  or  six  months  to  come.  This change 
which  has  come  over  fleeced  goods  has 
had 
its  bearing  on  nearly  every  other

is  the 

Carpets— The  ingrain  carpet manufac­
turers  are  very  busy  filling  initial  or­
ders,  which  with  other  lines  of  carpets 
have  been  unusually  large.  One  of  the 
principal  complaints 
lack  of 
skilled  help  in  this  branch  of  the  textile 
business,  as  many  of  the  weavers  dur­
ing  the  dull  period preceding have found 
employment  in  other  lines  of  business. 
While  a  few  mills  throughout  the  coun­
try  manufacturing  the  standard  all  wool 
extra  super  ingrains  are  obtaining  47J^c 
per  yard, 
large  amount  of 
business  taken  at  45c  per  yard  and  un­
der on  extra  super  wool 
ingrains.  The 
manufacturers  of  C.  C .’sand  other  lines 
of  ingrain  carpets  have  been  obliged  to 
pay  an  advance  of  several  cents  during 
the  past  few  months  on  their  warp  and 
filling  yams  owing  to the advance in  raw 
material  and  increased demand.  Rumors 
are  current 
in  the  market  of  advances 
expected 
in  Brussels  and  Wiltons,  but 
we  have  not  been  able  to  confirm  any­
thing  in  this  line  as  a  fact.

there 

is  a 

Curtains— Within  the  past  month there 
have  been  advances  of  from  10  to  30  per 
cent,  on the  different  grades  of  lace  cur­
tains.  The  cheaper grades  show  more 
of  an  advance  than  those  of  the  fine 
quality  owing  to  the  increased  demand 
for  the  former.  Bobbinet  ruffle  curtains 
have  continued 
in  popular  favor,  and 
this  season  the  demand  has  exceeded 
that  of  any  previous  season.  Jobbers 
and  retailers  have  not  hesitated  to  place 
larger orders,  as  they  find  the  goods  are 
in  demand.

Rugs— Manufacturers  of  this  class  of 
goods  continue  extremely  active  and 
are  pushing  their  work  to  make  deliver­
ies  as  promptly  as  possible.  The  holi­
day  trade  exceeded  that  of  any  previous 
one  for several  years  and  stimulated this 
branch  of  the  carpet  industry.  All 
the 
manufacturers  of  Smyrna  and  jute  rugs 
are  sold  far  ahead,  and  as  the  feeling 
prevails  that  the  prices  of  these  goods 
are  very  low  at  present,  it  would  not  be 
a  surpnse  to  hear  of  further  advances on 
this  line  in  a  short  time.

.  Minnesota  has  not  much  of  a  reputa­
tion  to-day _  as  a  beef  and  mutton  pro- 
ducer,  but 
is  believed  that  the  time 
will  come  when  the  State  will  be  known 
tor  these  products  as  much  as  for  its 
wheat  and  butter.

it 

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Silk 
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CITIZEN  SOLDIERS.

Some  Changes  W hich  Sixty  Y ears  H ave 

W rought.

Written for the Tradesman.

years  and 

The  shrill  notes  of  the  fife  and  roll  of 
the  snare  drum  mingled  with  the  notes 
of  their  basso  companion  as  our  local 
G.  A.  R.  post  of  veterans,  with  martial 
step,  filed  out  of  their quarters  on  their 
way  to  their  annual  reunion  to  be  held 
at  Philadelphia  in  September,  called  to 
the  writer’s  memory  their  striking  con­
trast  to  the  citizen  soldiery of sixty years 
ago.  At  that  early  period  our  country 
from  war’s  alarms  for 
had  been  free 
thirty 
the  whole  country 
seemed  to  have  settled  down  to  the  con­
viction  that  the  two  great  struggles  with 
England— the  revolution  of  1776  and  the 
war  of  1812— had  given  notice  to  the 
civilized  nations  of  the  world thatAmer 
ica  was  invincible,  and  the  people  had 
lapsed  into  a state  of  security and repose 
that  gave  no  thought  of  serious  prepara­
tion  for  future  conflicts.  Their  swords 
into  plowshares 
were 
and  their  spears 
into  pruning  hooks. 
The  then  existing  militia  laws  that were 
intended  to  keep  alive  a  martial  spirit 
among  the  people  and  educate  them 
ir 
the  rudiments  of  warfare  by  keeping  uj 
a  show  of  preparation  were  loose  and 
compliance was with them a burlesque.  It 
is  the  intention  of  the  writer  to  describe 
some  of  the  buffoonery  that  passed  for 
militia  duty  seventy  years  ago,  in  con 
trast  with  the  rigid  military  discipline 
of  the  citizen  soldiery  who  took  part 
the  domestic  struggle  of  1861  or  the  late 
war  with  Spain.

literally  beaten 

lived  and  served  with  an 
it  was 

In  1835,  the  year  in which  the writer’ 
eighteenth  birthday  occurred, 
I  was 
called  upon  by  the  orderly  sergeant  of 
the  militia  organization  of  the  townshi 
in  which  1 
official  notice,  or  warning,  as 
called, 
to  be  and  appear  at  a  certai 
place  designated  on  the  first  Monday  i 
September,  armed  and  equipped  as  the 
law  directs  with  musket,  powder  horn 
belt  and  cartridge  box  containing  prim 
ing  wire  and  brush,  for  company  drill 
in  militia  duty  in  accordance  with  the 
militia  laws  of  the  State  of  New  York 
made  and  provided,  for  enrollment  and 
drill.  The 
items  of 
equipment  were  supposed  to  be  neces 
sary,  the  brush  for  brushing  the  burnt 
powder  from  the  pan  after  firing,  the 
wire  for  keeping  open  the  hole  which 
led  from  the  pan  of  the  musket  to  the 
charge  within.  This  was  called  training 
day  and  it  was  on  the  first  Mondays  in 
May  and  September  that  the  farce  and 
fun  began.

last  named  two 

in  front  of  the 

The  law  required  that all male citizens 
between  the  ages  of  18  and  45  w ere  su b 
ject  to  emollment,  and  a  more  ludicrous 
appearance  than  a  company  of  75  or  100 
of  these  recruits  made  can  hardly  be 
imagined.  There  were  always  among 
them  a  few  veterans  of  the  war  of  18 
and  these  were  placed 
raw  recruits  as  fuglemen  for  them 
imitate  when  the  drill  officer  gave  the 
orders.  The  State  was  supposed  to  fu 
nish  all  the  equipments,  but  it  did  not 
hence  the  recruits  armed  and  equipped 
themselves  as  best  they  could  or  in  any 
way  they  chose.  The  war  material 
left 
over  from  the  war  of  1812  had  all  been 
distributed  and  no  new  equipments 
any  kind  had  been  bought  by  the  mi 
tary  authorities. 
enty-five  men  there  might  be  a  dozen 
the  old  flintlock  muskets  in  the  hands 
of  the  veterans  and,  perhaps,  twice  that 
number  of  rifles and  shotguns  among the 
recruits.  Of  the  balance  of  the  company 
some  carried  canes  or sticks  with  an  old

In  a  company  of  sev 

irar. 

bayonet  fastened  to  the  end  of  them,  but 
favorite  form'  of  compliance  with 
the 
the 
law  by  the  fun-loving  boys  was  to 
carry  new  brooms,  using  the  brush  end 
mitation  of  the  breech  of  the  gun. 
Can  anything  be 
imagined  as  more 
ludicrously  absurd  than  a  company  of 
rown-up  men,  practicing military drill, 
rmed  and  equipped  in  such  a  fashion! 
The  whole  performance  was  a  laughable 
farce  and  the  only  possible  benefit  de- 
ved  by  the  State  was  the  enrollment 
11  male  citizens  subject  to  military 
duty,  which  enrollment  was  duly  re­
ported,  with  much  flourish and red  tape, 
by  the  State  military  officers  at  each 
successive  meeting  of  the  Legislature, 
his  peaceable  state  of  affairs  was  des- 
ned  soon  to  meet  with  a  change  for 
In  the  settlement  of boundary 
nes  between  Mexico  and  Texas  on 
April  26,  1846,  hostilities  were  opened 
by  Mexico,  and  on  May  13  Congress 
declared  that  the  United  States  was 
war  with  the  republic  of  Mexico. 
It 
not  the  intent  of  the  writer  to  give  a 
story  of  the  war  with  Mexico.  Many 
its  heroes  still  survive.  At  the  time 
jf  Col.  McReynolds’  death,  Grand  Rap- 
ds  was  the  home  of  some  of  the  surviv­
ors,  but  I  can  now  recall  but  one,  Col. 
Dan.  McConnell.  Here  I  believe  I  can 
safely  assert  that  no  war  ever  waged  be 
civilized  nations  was  pro- 
tween 
fic  of  such  magnificent  results  for  st 
small  an  outlay  of  men  and money as the 
Mexican  war  of  1846.  The  territory  ac 
uired  by  treaty  of  peace  has  furnished 
five  additional  states  to  the  Union. 
It 
opened  to  the  explorer  and  miner  the 
chest  gold  fields  in  the  world,  and  to 
civilization  and  Christianity  it  opened; 
ride  field  for  Christian  zeal  in  mission 
ry  labor.  The  geographical  and  com 
mercial  prestige 
it  gave  the  United 
States  was  the  opening  of  a  new  era 
history  and  the  marvelous  march  of 
civilization  which  followed  has  aston 
shed  the  world.  On  the  shores  of  the 
Pacific  now  exists  a  new  commercia 
empire  and  where  one  of  the  largest  cit 
in  the  Western  hemisphere  now 
stands  was  only  a  trading  post  for  the 
barter  of  any  kind  of  merchandise  with 
the  natives  for  the  dry  hides  of  the  wild 
attle  that  roamed  at  large  on  the  plains 
of  California.

With  the  reader’s  pardon  for  this  di 
gression,  I 
leave  him  to  contrast  the 
truthful  picture  1  have  drawn  of  the  cit 
zen  soldier  of  1835  with  the  present 
painstaking  methods  of  fitting  soldiers 
for  the  field.  The  State  troops  as  now 
organized  and  splendidly  equipped  with 
modem  arms  and  a  thorough  knowledge 
of  how  to  use  them,  with  their  armories 
and  regular  drills,  are  equivalent  to 
standing  army  of  minute  men  ready  for 
any  emergency. 

W.  S.  H.  Welton.
O bservations  by  a G otham   E gg  Han,
Since  the  new  egg  rules  went  into 
effect,  early 
last  summer,  there  have 
been  a  good  many  objections  to  thei 
provisions  among  some  receivers  and 
dealers. 
It  has  been  claimed  by  some 
that  the  qualifications  for  grading  have 
been  so  stringent  that  average prime lots 
— such  as  were  entirely  satisfactory 
general  buyers— would  not  pass  as  firsts, 
and  that  the  use  of  exchange trading un 
der  the  rules  had  thereby  become  much 
less  than  heretofore. 
In  this  connection 
it 
interesting  to  note  that  the  ex 
change  records  show  438  inspections 
eggs  from  June  9,  1899,  to  December 30, 
1899,  against  385  for  same  time  in  1898 
when  the  old  rules  were  in  force 
increase  of  nearly  14  per  cent.

is 

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I  have  noticed,  in  discussion  of  the 
present  egg  rules  with  those  who  made 
, objections  to  their  provisions,  that  when

effort  was  made  to  draw  out  some  defin­
ite  provision  to  which  the  objections 
Mould  apply,  the  objectors  would  be un­
able  to  specify  any  definite  objection­
able  feature  ana would  resort  to  the  gen­
eral  idea  that  there  was  too  much  “ red 
tape.”   Occasionally,  however,  a definite 
objection  has  been  made  which deserves 
careful  consideration.  Among  these  has 
been  an  objection  to  the  requirement 
that  firsts  must  have  “ flats”   on  the  bot­
tom  and  top  of  each  case,  between  the 
filler  and  packing.  Now,  although 
flats”   are  essential  to  perfect  (lacking 
nd  the  evident 
intention  of  the  egg 
committee  was  to  encourage  their use by 
requiring them in all goods  which  should 
ade  as  firsts),  the  object  of  the  use  of 
ts  is  to  prevent  breakage;  and,  as  the 
rules  otherwise  provide  a  limit  to  the 
imount  of  cracked  eggs  which  may  be 
intained  in  the  various  grades,  the  re­
quirement  of  flats is perhaps superfluous.

In  the 
interpretation  of  egg  rules  a 
iod  deal  must  necessarily  be  left  to  the 
idgment  of  the  inspector.  The  grade 
fresh  gathered  firsts”   should  be  quali­
in  such  manner  as  would  include 
fied 
the  average  prime 
lots  arriving  from 
shippers  who  understand  their  business 
nd  are  able  to  meet the general  require­
ments  of  a  good  class  of  trade,  at  the 
ime  time  safeguarding  the  interests  of 
buyers  so  that  a  purchase  of  ”  firsts”  
should  be  an  assurance  of  satisfactory 
uality.  This was  the  evident  intention 
n  the  last  revision  of  the  egg  rules,  and 
ith  a  reasonable  and 
inter­
relation  of  their  provisions  by  the  in­
spectors  it  is  hard  to  find  any  real  ob­
jection  to  their  provisions. 
If  the  rules 
re  not  interpreted  by  the  inspectors  as 
they  were 
intended  to  be  by  the  egg 
committee,a  complaint  to  the committee 
would  undoubtedly  receive  prompt  at­
tention,  and  if  the  inspectors were found 
to  be  misinterpreting  the  requirements 
f  the  rules  the  difficulty  could  then  be 
ibviated.

judicious 

the  present  egg 
When  one  studies 
a 
full  knowledge 
rules  carefully,  with 
if  the  trade  and  a 
of  the  requirements 
tendency  toward
consideration  of 
the
better  methods  of  grading  and  (lacking, 
t  will  be  difficult  to  find  many  flaws  in 
them ;  perhaps  a  word might be  changed 
here  and  there  to  advantage,  and  1  am 
convinced  that  the  rule  of  case  count 
ales  should  be  made  to 
include  all 
grades  of  refrigerator  and  limed  eggs 
simply  because  these  are  almost  in- 
ariably  sold  in  that  way  in  the  current 
business  of  the  m arket);  but  with  judi­
cious 
inspection  the  present  rules,  with 
slight  modification,  should  afford  op­
portunity  for  as  much  public business  as 
can  be  done  with  equal  satisfaction  to 
seller  and  buyer.— N.  Y.  Produce  Re­
view.

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Around  the State

M ovem ent«  o f M erchants.

Detroit— Geo.  E.  Clark  has  sold  his 

drug  stock  to  Gustave  Kempf.

Escanaha— A.  J.  Young  has  opened  a 

shoe  store  in  the  Masonic  block.

South  Haven— Wm.  J.  Viall  has  sold 

his  grocery  stock  to  Burge  Bros.

Jasper— Hayward  &  Delano  succeed 

H.  P.  Hayward  in  general  trade.

Bay  City— E.  F.  Potter  succeeds  C. 

A.  Allen  in  the  bicycle  business.

New  Lothrop  -Judd  &  Colby  continue 

the  hardware  business  of  Judd  Bros.

Detroit— Carl  W.  Meier  has  purchased 

the  grocery  stock  of  J.  Greshor  & Son.

Bay  City— F.  Kellermann  &  Co.,  gro­
cers,  have  sold  out  to  P.  W.  Schroeder.
Hillsdale— F.  B.  French,  hardware 
dealer,  has  sold  out  to  Geo.  F.  Gardner.
Benton  Harbor— J.  J.  Willetts has pur­
chased  the  meat  market  of  R.  M.  Wor­
den.

St.  Clair— E.  S.  Hart  &  Co.  succeed 
Hart  &  Klingler  in  the  hardware  busi­
ness.

Benton  Harbor— Gus  Amundsen  has 
sold  his  bakery  business  to  Oeltz &  Len­
away.

Grand  Ledge— Willard  Shane,  of  Sid- 
naw,  has  purchased  the  Central  meat 
market.

Detroit— Bernard  Padberg  has  pur­
chased  the  grocery  stock  of  August 
Ross,  Jr.

Battle  Creek  -W.  B.  Cambum  &  Co. 
have  purchased  the  drug  stock  of  John 
Amstutz.

Cheboygan— Louis  Kessler 

succeeds 
in  the  confectionery 

Kessler  &  Allair 
business.

West  Branch— Frank  Estey  has  pur­
chased  the  grocery  stock  of  L.  A.  &  G. 
N.  White.

Springville— Hubbard  &  Shultes  have 
purchased  the  general  stock  of  Chas.  A. 
Des  Ermia.

Bay  City— Robt.  McCauley  succeeds 
in  the  boot  and 

McCauley  &  Larkin 
shoe  business.

Delray— Mathew  A.  Krausmann  suc­
ceeds  KrausmannJ&  Lange  in  the  dry 
goods  business.

Detroit— David  Linn  has  purchased 
the  grocery  stock  and  meat  market  of 
Stephanus  &  Co.

Pontiac— Zimmerman  Bros.  &  Alger 
in  the 

are  succeeded  by  Chas.  Coates 
hardware  business.

Alden— Peter J.  Chapelle  has  opened 
furniture  and  undertaking  establish­

a 
ment  at  this  place.

Ovid— Wm.  W.  Woodworth,  hardware 
and  implement  dealer,  is  succeeded  by 
Eaton  &  Munson.

Howard  City— J.  Anspach  has  re­
moved  his  dry  goods  and  clothing  stock 
to  South  Boardman.

Detroit—Arthur  J.  Roehm  has  pur­
chased  the  hardware  stock  of  Mrs. 
Christine  Helfenbein.

Ovid— Ed.  Beebe  has 

leased  half  of 
the  Stone  store  building  and  will  oc­
cupy  same  with  his  drug  stock.

Rose  City— Wm.  Tullah  continues  the 
furniture  and  harness  business  of  Mor­
rison  &  Tullah  in  his  own  name.

Edmore— Alfred  E.  Curtis,  dealer  in 
hardware,  boots  and  shoes  and  grocer­
ies,  has  sold  out  to  W.  A.  Courtwright.
Sault  Ste.  Marie— The  stock  of  the 
Chippewa  Hardware  Co.,  successor  to 
the  Ferguson  Hardware  Co.,  has  been 
purchased  by  W.  H.  Miller,  of  Bay 
City,  and  R.  G.  Ferguson,  who  was  for­
merly  senior  partner  of  the  Ferguson 
Hardware  Co.  Mr.  Miller  is  a  veteran 
hardware  merchant  of  Bay  City.

M IC H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N

Fremont—W.  W.  Pearson has removed 
his  stock  of  clothing  and  men's  furnish­
ing  goods  from  Newaygo  to  this  place.
Holland— Wm.  Van  Dyke  and  L.  S. 
Sprietsma  have  formed  a  copartnership 
and  engaged  in  the  hardware  business.
Butternut  T.  B.  Moss  has  sold  his 
hotel  to  Z.  D.  Barnhart  &  Son  and  will 
engage  in  the  general merchandise  busi­
ness.

Three  Rivers— J.  Knapp,  dry  goods, 
clothing  and  shoe  dealer,  has  decided 
to  adopt  the  cash  system  of  doing  busi­
ness.

Tecumseh  S.  E.  Parrish  has  sold  his 
drug  stock  to  B.  J.  Pulver  &  Co.  Mr. 
Parrish  will  continue  to  reside  at  this 
place.

Jackson— The  men’s  furnishing  goods 
firm  of  Markham  &  Edwards  has  dis­
solved  partnership,  C.  E.  Markham  suc­
ceeding.

Brookfield— Sherman 

it  Milton  con­
tinue  the  hardware  business  formerly 
conducted  under  the  style  of  Sherman 
Bros.  &  Co.

Stanton— J.  M.  Steams  has  leased  the 
Holland  building  and  will  shortly  oc­
cupy  same  with  his  stock  of  agricultural 
implements.

Concord— The  style  of  the  furniture 
and  undertaking  firm  of  Wiggins  &  Co. 
has  been  changed  to  F.  H.  Knicker­
bocker  &  Co.

Albion— G.  W.  Schneider  has 

leased 
a  store  building  and,  as  soon  as  same  is 
remodeled,  will  remove  his  stock  of 
clothing  therein.

Cheboygan— Joseph  Rosenthal  has  re­
tired  from  the  firm  of  F.  A.  Kramer Co. 
and  will  soon  leave  for the  East  to  en­
gage  in  business.

Clarksville—Jem  Markham  has  pur­
chased  a  half  interest  in  the  meat  mar­
ket  of  C.  Post.  The  firm  name  will  be 
Post  &  Markham.

Marshall— A.  W.  Palmer,  of  Perrin- 
ville,  has  purchased  the  East  End  bak­
ery  of  John  Baldwin, Jr.,  and  will  add  a 
stock  of  groceries.

Albion— John  A.  Houck has purchased 
an  interest  in  the  agricultural  business 
of  G.  W.  Rogers.  The  style  of  the  firm 
is  Rogers  &  Houck.

Stanton— It 

is  rumored  that  W.  D. 
Johnson,  of  Caro,  will  engage 
in  the 
general  merchandise  business  at  this 
place  sometime  next  month.

Manistee—Nels  J.  Larsen,  who  re­
cently  sold  his  grocery  stock  at  923 Vine 
street  to  Olof  Hanson,  has  purchased 
the  L.  S.  Franck  grocery  stock.

Hillsdale— The  transfer  of  the  hard­
ware  stock  of  F.  B.  French  to  Geo.  F. 
Gardner  has  been  completed  and  the 
stock  will  be  rapidly  closed  out. 

D ow agiac-G .  W.  Haines,  who  has

been  engaged 
in  the  grocery  busi ness I 
here  for  several  months,  has  closed  his 
doors  and  will  retire  from  trade.

Freeport— J.  W.  Phillips,  Geo.  L. 
Montague  and  A.  M.  Carver  have  pur­
chased  the  interest  of  W.  Fox  &  Son  in 
the  lumber  and  shingle  business.

Butternut— A.  R.  Ishman  &  Sons  are 
erecting  a  store  building,  30x72  feet  in 
dimensions,  which  they  will  use  for 
their  implement  and  buggy  business.

South  Haven— J.  W.  Kenney  will 
shortly  erect  a  brick  addition  to  the rear 
of  his  dry  goods  and  grocery  store  on 
Center  and  Quaker  streets,  50x155  feet 
in  dimensions.

Saugatuck— The  Fruitgrowers’  Bank 
is  to  be  made  a  State  bank  as  soon  as 
the  preliminary  arrangements  can  be 
made.  W.  R.  Takken,  who  has  been 
cashier,  has  purchased  an  interest in  the 
business,  R.  P.  Russell  retiring from 
the  firm  of  A.  B.  Taylor  &  Co.

Cedar  Springs— S.  A.  Nickerson  has 
decided  to  close  out'his  hardware  and 
grocery  stock  and  remove  to  Custer, 
where  he  has  extensive  real  estate  and 
lumber  interests.

Benton  Harbor— The  Citizens’  State 
Bank  of  Benton  Harbor,  capitalized  at 
§50,000,  has  submitted  articles  of 
in­
corporation  to  the  State  Bank  Commis­
sioner  for  approval.

St.  Louis— F.  G.  Kneeland  has  re­
moved  his  book  stock  from  Big  Rapids 
to  this  place,  locating 
in  the  building 
formerly  occupied  by  the  drug  stock  of 
F.  W.  Blair  &  Co.

Whitehall— Watkins,  Klett  &  Co.  is 
the  name  of  the  new  meat  firm  at  this 
place,  composed  of  Jos.  Watkins  and 
J.  L.  Klett,  of  the  Central  market,  and 
R.  G.  Forbes,  of  Shelby.

Otsego— The  Otsego  Chair  Co.  has 
purchased  a  tract  of  440  acres  of  tim ­
bered 
It  is  es­
is  over  a  million 
timated  that  there 
feet  of  lumber  in  the  tract.

land  near  Orangeville. 

Kawkawlin—H.  M.  Koffman  has  ad­
mitted  his  son  to  partnership  in  the  dry 
goods,  boots  and  shoe  and  grocery  busi­
ness,  which  will  be  continued  under  the 
style  of  H.  M.  Koffman  &  Son.

Corunna —Lowe 

it  Walsh,  general 
dealers  a t . this  place,  have  dissolved 
partnership.  The  stock  has  been  pur­
chased  by  John  Malcomson,  of  Owosso, 
and  Will  Duffy,  who  will  continue  the 
business  at  the  same  location.

Ishpeming— F.  Braastad  &  Co.  an­
nounce  their  intention  of  closing  out 
their  dry  goods  and  clothing  stocks. 
The  grocery  department  will  be  re­
tained,  but  will be gradually transformed 
into  a  wholesale  establishment.

Owosso  M.  W.  Southard,  formerly  in 
the  employ of  Mr.  Reimer,  recently  pur­
chased  the  hardware  stock  of  Black­
wood  Bros,  and  has  moved  it  from  West 
Main  street  to  more  commodious  quar­
ters  at  1166  West  Exchange  street.

its 

increased 

Benton  Harbor— The  Twin  City  Tele­
phone  Co.  has 
capital 
stock  from  825,000 to 875,000,  and  gives 
steady  employment  to  twenty  hands, 
with  several  hundred  telephones  in  the 
two  cities  and  long  distance  connections 
to  all  points.

Owosso— Hall  Bros,  have 

lately  en­
larged  their  brick  block  by  building  a 
22x60  foot  addition,  putting  in  a  plate 
glass  front  and  paneled  steel  ceiling 
and  adding  a  third  story.  With  the  ex­
ception  of  a  few  office  rooms  on  the  sec­
ond  floor,  they  use  the  entire  block  for 
their  wholesale  and  retail  grocery  busi­
ness.

Sault  Ste.  Marie— Nelson  A.  Hall  has 
purchased  the  interest  of  W.  A.  Rudell 
in  the  drug  firm  of  Rudell  &  Conway 
and  also  in  the  book  and  stationery  firm 
of  Conway  &  Rudell.  The  style  of  the 
new  firm  is  Conway  &  Hall.  Mr.  Hall 
has  been  employed  by  the  firm  since 
1890,  with  the  exception  of  the  time 
spent  at  Ann  Arbor and  at  Cuba.

Kalamazoo— W.  L.  Brownell,  who  has 
been 
identified  with  the  grocery  busi­
ness  of  Kalamazoo  most  of  the  time 
since  he  was  old  enough  to  enter  active 
commercial 
life,  has  sold  his  stock  to 
R.  H.  Buckhout,  who  will  continue  the 
business  at  the  same 
location.  Mr. 
Brownell  has  taken  the  presidency  and 
management  of 
the  newly-organized 
Puritan  Corset  Co.

Corunna— M.  &  J.  Carland,  for  the 
past  thirty-two  years  engaged  in  the 
general  merchandise  business  at 
this 
place,  have  dissolved  partnership.  M. 
Carland  will  retain  the  grocery,  crock­
ery  and  wall  paper  stocks  and  J.  E. 
Carland  will  take  the  dry  goods  stock.

He  has  purchased  the  grocery  stock  of 
Burnett  &  Son  and  will  remove  his  dry 
goods  stock  to  that  location.  Wm.  Derr 
will  remain  with M.  Carland  and  Walter 
Payne,  W.  S.  Eveleth  and  Miss  Schaar 
have  been  engaged  to  continue  with  J. 
E.  Carland.

Benton  Harbor—Harry  B.  Kidd,  son 
of  A.  J.  Kidd,  of  the Kidd,  Dater,  Price 
Co.,  and  Wm.  Woods,  fcr  some  time 
past  manager  of  the  shoe  department  of 
Enders  &  Young,  have 
formed  a  co­
partnership  under  the  style  of  Kidd  & 
Wood  and  purchased  the  remnant  of  the 
shoe  stock  of  L.  T.  Burridge  on  West 
Main  street  and  will  reopen  the  store 
about  March  1  with  a  new  stock  of 
goods.

is 

Charlotte— Brown  Bros.,  have  sold 
their  clothing  stock  to  Westbrook  & 
Shattuck.  W.  B.  Westbrook 
from 
Elmira,  N.  Y .,  and 
for  the  past  ten 
years  has  represented  a  New  York cloth­
ing  manufacturer as  traveling  salesman, 
prior  to  which  time  he  conducted  a  re­
tail  clothing  business.  F.  J.  Shattuck 
is  engaged  in  the  dry  goods  business  at 
Cherry  Creek,  N.  Y.,  where  he  will  re­
main  for  the  present.

M anufacturing  M atters.

Martin— At  the  annual  meeting  of  the 
Martin  Creamery  Co.,  a  cash  dividend 
of  18  per  cent,  was  declared.

Detroit— Witchell  Sons  &  Gibson  will 
continue  the  manufacture  of  shoes  and 
uppers  under  the  style  of  Witchell  Sons 
&  Co.,  Limited.

Detroit— O.  A.  Bierce,  C.  H.  Culver, 
D.  C.  Matheson  and  S.  J.  Lyons  have 
organized  the  Automatic  Machine  Co. 
with  a  capital  stock  of 820,000.

Bay  City— B.  H.  Briscoe  &  Co.  is  the 
new  style  of  the  company  which  suc­
ceeds  Briscoe,  Plumstell  &  Co.  in  the 
manufacture  of  lumber  and  boxes.

Detroit— The  Barnes  Safe  and  Lock 
Co.  has  discontinued 
its  Detroit  office 
and  the  National  Safe  and  Lock  Co.  has 
opened  a  branch  house  at  the  same 
lo­
cation.  W.  M.  Hull  has  the  manage­
ment  of  the  business.

Lansing— The  Central  Implement  Co. 
has  been  organized  with  a  capital  stock 
of  830,000,  the 
incorporators  being  R. 
Tenney,  A.  B.  Armstrong,  Anna  C. 
Armstrong  and  W.  F.  Webb,  of  Lan­
sing,  and  I.  Hurd,  of  Mason.

Sault  Ste.  Marie— The  Northwestern 
Leather  Co.  has  been  organized  with  a 
capital  stock  of  8125,000 for the purchase 
and  sale  of  hides.  The  incorporators 
are  W.  M.  Bullivant  and  H.  L.  Hall, 
of  Newton,  Mass.,  and  W.  L.  Murdock, 
of  this  place.

Ann  Arbor— H.  H.  Seeley,  of  Owosso, 
has  completed  the  organization  of  a 
stock  company 
in  Ann  Arbor  for  the 
manufacture  of  the  new  gasoline  lamp 
in  which  he  has  become  interested  in 
company  with  a  Chicago  friend.  The 
company  has  been  capitalized  at  816,000 
and  will  soon  be  ready  for  business.

The  temporary  injunction  against  the 
trustee  of  the  Booth  (Cedar  Springs  and 
Belding)  mortgage  was  made permanent 
by  Judge  Severens  in  the  United  States 
Court  here  Tuesday.  There 
is  a  feel­
ing  on  the  part  of  many  of  the  creditors 
that  the  trustee  named  by  the  Booths 
should  be  removed,  because  it  is  alleged 
that  he  has  been  the  legal  adviser of  the 
Booths 
in  the  swindling  scheme  they 
have  put  up  on  their  creditors.  Other 
creditors  prefer  to  see  him  continue  in 
charge  of  the  properties,  in  order  that 
the  winter goods  in  both  stocks  may  be 
worked  off  during  the  cold  weather. 
In 
all  probability  the  firm  will  be  landed 
in  bankruptcy  within  a  short  time.

M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N

Grand  Rapids  Oossip

The  G rocery  M arket.

Sugar— Raw  sugars  are  unchanged 

in 
price,  with  the  market  very  firm,  but, 
on  account  of  the  light  offerings,  few 
sales  were  made.  Quotations  are  still 
on  the  basis  of  4  5-16C  for  96  deg.  test 
centrifugals,  but  indications  point  to an 
advance  of 
in  the  near  future. 
The  Mollenhauer  refinery has just started 
up  again  after  having  been  closed  more 
than  a  month,  during  which  improve­
ments  were  made  which  will increase its 
daily  capacity  500  barrels.  Refined 
sugars  are  unchanged  with  good  de­
mand,  especially  for  the  beet  sugar from 
Michigan  refineries.

i - i 6c 

Canned  Goods-----Trade 

in  canned
goods  continues  light,  only  small  orders 
for  immediate consumption being placed 
at  present.  Buyers  of  spot  goods  are 
taking  just'as  few  as  they  can  possibly 
get  along  with.  The  conditions  which 
surround  the  trade  are  unchanged,  but 
the  tendency 
is  upward,  and  as  stocks 
clean  up  it  is  expected  that  prices  will 
advance.  The  continued  light  demand 
is  a  disappointment  to  those  who  have 
predicted  heavy  business  immediately 
following  the  opening  of  the  year.  High 
prices  have  been  a  preventative  of  busi­
ness  and  small  offerings  also  have  had 
their  influence,  as  also  the  new  freight 
classification,  which  rather  frightened 
it  did  on  top  of  the 
buyers,  coming  as 
present  high  prices 
for  most  goods. 
Futures are  selling  rather  slowly.  Prices 
are  too  high  to  attract  buyers  and  pack­
ers  dare  not  cut  present  quotations  for 
fear  of  placing  themselves  in  a  position 
where  they  can  reap  no  profit.  The  sell­
ing  price  must  be  at  least  ij^c  per  can 
more,  reckoned  according  to  present 
cost  of  canning  materials,  or  packers 
will  lose  money.  The  situation  presents 
many  features  of  grave 
interest  and 
packers  are  not  urging  the  market, 
thereby  possibly  putting  themselves 
in 
position  to  lose  heavily  before  the  sea­
son  changes.  Buyers  are  coming 
to 
think,  however,  that  the  opening  figures 
will  be  the  lowest  of  the  year  and  there 
are 
indications  that  the  majority  of 
them  will  put  themselves  in  comfortable 
position  early  in  the  season.  The  most 
interesting  article 
in  the  canned  goods 
is  tomatoes.  There  has  been 
market 
considerable  buying  done  during  the 
last  week  and  the  market  is  very strong, 
from  2}4@ Sc 
prices  having  advanced 
per  dozen,  with  the  probability  of  a 
if  the  present  demand 
further  advance 
continues. 
is  claimed  that  futures 
must  be  sold  at  75c  this  year to  allow
the  packers  any  profit,  therefore  buyers 
are  picking  up  spot  goods  before  the 
active  season  begins.  The  situation  in 
corn  remains  practically  unchanged,  al­
though  there  is  a  slightly  stronger  feel­
ing,  which  holders  think  will  send  up 
the  price  of  spot  goods  and  perhaps 
cause  futures  to  sell  higher.  The  pros­
pect 
is  considered  rather  better,  but  so 
far  there  is  no  particular  change.  The 
future  sales  of  New  York  State  corn 
have  been  comparatively  small,  but 
more  active  business  is  expected  from 
now  on.  Maine  com 
is  selling  slowly 
at  about  previous  prices.  Maryland com 
is  going  at  full  prices,  but  the  quantity 
sold  so  far  js  small.  The  fact  that  com 
is  about  cleaned  up  is  conclusive  proof 
that  buying  will  be  heavy  after 
it  once 
begins.  Peas,  string  beans  and  most  all 
vegetables  are 
in  fair  demand  at  firm 
prices  with  an  upward  tendency.  There 
have  been  some 
large  sales  of  future 
last
peas  at  prices  averaging  10c  above 

It 

year’s  opening  prices.  Salmon  and  sar­
dines  are  both  very  firm  with  good  de­
mand.

less 

light  at  present. 

Dried  Fruit— There  is  a  stronger  feel­
ing  in  the  dried  fruit  market  and  deal­
ers  in  all  varieties  are  more  or 
in­
fluenced  by  the  new  impulse.  While 
the  volume  of  trade  has  not  increased 
materially,  nor  has  there  been  any 
im­
portant  advance  in  prices,  the  probabil­
ity  of  an  early 
increase  in  trade,  ac­
companied  by  advances  in  prices,  is  so 
strong  that  the  market  presents  a  better 
appearance 
than  heretofore.  The  ‘ex­
pected  and  prophesied  revival  appears 
to  have  come  and  it  finds  dealers  in  po­
sition to  take  the  fullest  advantage of  it. 
Raisins  are  steady,  but  the  demand  is 
apparently 
Stocks, 
both  here  and  in  California,  are  much 
lighter  than  usual  at  this  time  of  the 
year  and  there  is  no  doubt  but  that  the 
market  will  do  better  very  soon.  The 
end  of  the  1899  crop  of  California  rais­
ins  is  about  in  sight.  There is practical­
ly  very 
little  stock  left  on  the  coast  tp 
ship  at  any  price.  Owing  to  the  ex­
tremely  bad  weather  during  the  fall  a 
great  deal  of  the  crop  did  not  cure prop­
erly,  with  the  result  that  hundreds  of 
tons  that  were  piled  up  in  sweatboxes 
outside of  the  packing  houses  have  been 
sent  to  the  wineries,  as  they  were 
moulding  badly.  The  European  de­
mand  for  prunes  is  larger  this  year  than 
ever  before,  Europe  up  to  date  having 
taken  a  thousand  cars  of  prunes.  The 
conditions  are  favorable  for  an  advance 
on  40-50S  and  50-60S,  which  are  lower 
in  the  history  of  the 
than  ever  before 
California  prune  business. 
If  the  ex­
port  demand  should  run  to large sizes,  it 
would  carry  out  about  everything  avail­
able.  Less  than  1,000  cars  are  left  and 
the  demand  is  so  strong  that  in the eight 
months  intervening  between  now and the 
next  crop  it  looks  as  though  everything 
would  be  cleaned  up.  The  market  is 
firm,  with  a  good  demand  and  a  proba­
bility  of  higher  prices  soon.  There  is 
reported  considerably  increased  enquiry 
for  peaches,  but  so  far  no  advance  in 
prices  has  been  made.  The  situation  is 
strong,  but  the  change  in  prices  is  slow 
in  coming.  Chicago  buyers  are  taking 
everything  obtainable  in  anticipation  of 
higher  prices.  There  are  only  180  to 
200  cars 
left  in  first  hands  on  the  coast 
and  those  are  under close control.  Prices 
have  not  advanced  yet,  but  everything 
is  held  very  stiff  and  the  market  will 
very 
likely  be  higher  within  the  next 
few  days.  Apricots  are  in a little  better 
demand,  but  prices  are  unchanged. 
Trade  in  currants  is  generally quiet,  due 
partly  to  the 
light  demand,  which  al­
ways  prevails  at  this  season,  and  partly 
to  the  firm  views  of  holders.  The  sup­
ply  on  hand 
is  heavy,  although  con­
sumption  has  been  large.  Figs are  easy, 
with  sales  limited  to  small  quantities  to 
fill  present  consumptive  demand.  Dates 
are  moderately  active,  but buyers’  wants 
appear  to  be  satisfied 
for  the  present 
and  sales  are  chiefly  in  small quantities. 
The  market  for  evaporated  apples  is 
in 
it  has  been  for 
better  condition  than 
some  time.  The  market  is  much  firmer 
and  the  tendency  of  prices 
is  upward. 
The  Eastern  market  has  advanced  % c  
on  prime  grades  and  better  prices  on 
all  grades  are  expected  soon.

Rice— There  is  nothing  of  particular 
interest  in  rice.  Prices  are  unchanged 
and  the  demand  is  good,  particularly  so 
for  domestic  Japans.  There  is  but  little 
activity 
in  foreign  rice  and  sales  are 
small.

Tea— Advices  from  London  state  that 
while  the  production  of  India  and  Cey­

lon  teas  during  1898  barely  equaled  the 
consumption,  the  crop  of  1899  pointed
a  larger  output,  but  as  consumption 
at  home  and  abroad  has  materially 
in­
creased,  it  is  doubtful  whether  the  sur- 
lus  will  be  heavy.  The  crop  of  Indian 
tea  is  estimated  at  168,000,000  pounds 
nd  of  Ceylon  at  127,000,000  pounds.
Molasses  and 

Syrups—Open  kettle 
is  scarce,  with  no  further  re­
molasses 
in  after  Jan.  15.  The 
ceipts  to  come 
is  about  75,000  to  100,000  bar­
stock 
lower  grades,  so-called  thirds, 
rels  of 
compared  with  300,000 
last  year.  Of 
open  kettles  there  are  about  1,700  bar­
rels,  compared  with  4,400 
in  1899  and 
6,300  in  1898.  The  general  assortment 
has  turned  out  poor 
in  quality,  with 
sellers  and  buyers  indifferent.  The  last 
few  days,  however,  there  has  been  a  lit­
tle  more  enquiry  and  some  sales  of large 
quantities  have  been  made.  Corn  syrups 
are 
in  good  demand  at  unchanged 

rices.
Nuts— The  trade  in  nuts,while  not  en­
tirely  flat,  is  still  very  slow,  and  prices 
tend  downward.  A 
few  favorite  sorts 
are  firm  at  about  the  previous  range  of 
quotations.  Grenoble  walnuts  are 
in 
short  suq>ply  and  the  market  is  well sup­
ported,  although  the  demand  is  limited. 
A  
large  quantity  of  French  nuts  was 
carried  over,  rather  more  than  previous 
indicated,  and  prices  range 
estimates 
low 
in  consequence.  Prices  on  Tarra­
gona  almonds  are  a  trifle  easier.  The 
demand  is  less  and  considerable  stocks 
are  available,  hence  the  disquisition  to 
make  concessions. 
Ivica  almonds  are 
less  stiff,  but  prices  are  not  quotably 
different.  Filberts  are unchanged but the 
market 
is  weak.  Peanuts  have  been 
firm  and  active  of  late  and  qirices  have 
shown  some  tendency  to  advance.  Pe­
cans  are  steady  but  sales  are  small.

in  cases 

Rolled  Oats— The  market  on  rolled 
oats 
is  somewhat  weaker  and 
prices  show  a  decline  of  20  cents  qier 
case.

The  sale  of  the  Detroit  teleqihone 
property  to  the  Bell  monopoly  was  not 
unexpected  by  business  men  generally, 
because it was very commonly understood 
that  both  the  Detroit  and  the  New  State 
companies  were  stock  jobbing  concerns, 
created  and  maintained  for  the  qiurqiose 
of  selling  stock  and  bonds,  instead  of 
conducting  the  teleqihone  business  along 
legitimate  lines.  None  of  the  indeqiend- 
ent  telephone  companies 
in  Western 
Michigan  are  bonded,  but  have  been 
built  and  equipped  by  local  stockhold­
ers  with  their  own  money,  so  that  while 
it  may  be  possible  for  the  Bell  octoqius 
to  pick  up  an  occasional  teleqihone plant 
elsewhere,  it 
is  hardly  to  be  exqiected
that  any  indeqiendent  company  which  is 
operated  by  local  business  men will con­
sent 
independence, 
knowing  that  such  surrender  will  qirob- 
ably  result  in  the  restoration  of  the  ex­
tortionate  rates  which  were  in  effect  be­
fore  the  days  of  competition.  In  no  part 
of  the  United  States  has the independent 
telephone  movement  made  more  rapi 
progress  than  in  Western  Michigan,  and 
the  Tradesman  predicts  that  these  com 
panies  will  stand  together  as  a  unit  in 
repelling  the  seductive  advances  of  the 
Bell  monopoly,  which  shows  the  cloven 
hoof  whenever 
it  gains  the  ascendency 
in  a  community.

surrender 

its 

to 

For  G illies’  N.  Y . 

tea,  all  kinds, 

grades  and  prices,  phone  Visner,  800

Wayne  Morehouse  has  purchased  the 

bakery  business  of  John  B.  Holly.

A  weak  man  in  the  world  carries  no 

weight.

5

The  Print uee  M arket.

Apples  Selected  cold  storage  fruit  is 
meeting  with 
fair  sale  on  the  basis  of 
S3- S°@3- 75  per  bbl.  for  Spys  and  Bald­
wins  and  §4  per bbl.  for  Jonathans.

is  now 

Bananas  The  market  is steady.  The 
in  the  hands  of  a  strong 
trade 
syndicate,  which  controls  about  85  per 
cent,  of  it.  There  is  a  better  shipping 
demand  for  bananas  and  the  feeling  of 
the  market  is  firmer,  but  there  has  been 
no  change  in  quotations  so  far.

Beets  $i  per  3  bushel  bbl.
Butter  Factory  creamery has declined 
to  25c  in  New  York  market  and  is  weak 
at  that.  There 
is  no  creamery  to  be 
had  in  Grand  Rapids.  Dairy  rolls  are 
coming  in  freely,  commanding  18c. 

Cabbage  -75@90c  qier  doz.
Carrots  $1  qier  3  bushel  bbl.
Celery  25c  qier  doz.  bunches. 
Cranberries  Jerseys  are 

mand  at  $6.75@7  qier  bbl.

in  fair  de­

Dressed  Poultry  The  market is weak­
little  lower  than  a  week  ago. 
er  and  a 
in  moderate  de­
Sqiring  chickens  are 
mand  at  9c.  Fowls  are 
in  demand  at 
8c.  Ducks  command  1 ic  for  sqiring and 
10c  for  old.  Geese  find  a  market  on  the 
basis  of  8c 
for  young.  Old  are  not 
wanted  at  any  price.  Turkeys  are  in 
good  demand  at  9c  for  No.  2  and  10c 

in  contain  so 

>r  No.  1.
Eggs  The  warm  weather  has 

in­
creased  receipts  to  a  considerable  ex­
tent,  but  the  so-called  fresh  eggs  now 
coming 
large  a  qiropor- 
tion  of  salted  and  held  eggs  that  dealers 
are 
loth  to  pay  more  than  is  asked  for 
choice  storage  stock.  Eighteen  cents  is 
local  storage 
stock  commands  17c.  Chicago  storage 
stock  is  still  being  offered  at  13c.

notch  for  fresh,  while 

Game  Rabbits  and  squirrels  are  in 

good  demand  at  $1  per doz.

Honey-  -White  clover 

is  scarce  at  15 
(a> 16c.  Dark  amber  and  mixed  com- 

and  i3@ 14c.
Lemons  The  situation  is not encoura­
ging,  although  dealers  appear  to  be 
hopeful  and  assure  themselves  that  the 
present  figures,  far below  the  cost of  im- 
qiortation,  are  but  temqiorary  and  will 
soon  give  qilace  to  qirices  showing  some 
profit.  The  quality  of  the  lemons  ar­
riving 
last  week  was  somewhat  better 
than  heretofore  and  prices  were  10c  per 
box  higher 
in  consequence.  The  de­
mand  also  was  a  little  better  than  the 
week  previous.

5 

Live  Poultry  -Squabs,  $1.20  per  doz. 

Chickens, 
Ducks,  6 'zic  for  young  and  6c  for  old. 
Turkeys  8c  for  young.  Geese,  8c.

Fowls, 

6@7C. 

Nuts—Ohio  hickory  command  $1.25 
for  large  and  §1.50  for  small.  Butternuts 
and  walnuts  are  in  small  demand  at  60c 
per  bu.

Onions— Spanish  are  steady  at  $1.65 
per  crate  and  home  grown  are  moving 
in  a  limited  way  at.  40c  for  Red  Weath- 
erfields,  Yellow  Danvers  and  Yellow 
Globes  and  45c  for  Red  Globes.
Parsnips-  S i.25  for  3  bu.  bbl.
Potatoes— The  market 

is  unchanged 
in  tone  and  prices,  local  handlers  pay­
ing  35c  in  cariots  and  finding  an  outlet 
for  stock  around  40c.

Squash— Hubbard  command  I j4 c  per 

pound.

Sweet  Potatoes— Kiln  dried  Jerseys 

are  slow  sale  at  $4,501^4.75  per bbl.

Turniqis— $1  per  bbl.

The  tragic  death  of  A.  K.  Wheeler, 
which  occurred  at  the  jobbing  house  of 
the  Lemon  &  Wheeler Comqiany  Mon­
day  morning,  has  cast  a  gloom  over the 
jobbing  trade  and  that  portion  of  the 
retail  trade  who  were  acquainted  with 
the  deceased.  Mi.  Wheeler  was  a  gen­
tleman  of  many  excellent  (qualities  and 
his 
in  this  community  was 
marked  by  many  acts  of  kindness  and 
courtesy  which  will 
long  be  cherished 
by  his  numerous  friends  in  the  trade.

career’ 

W.  H.  Greiner,  whose  grocery  stock 
at  Vistula,  Ind.,  was  destroyed  by  fire 
about  two  months  ago,  has  re-engaged 
in  trade  at  another  location  in  the  same 
place.  The  Worden  Grocer  Co. 
fur­
nished  the  stock.

M IC H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N

0

Woman’s World

P o t  V ourw lf  in  H is  Pin«-«*.

Perhaps  there  is  nothing  more  diffi­
in  another’s 
cult  than  to  put  ourselves 
place  and  see 
life  from  his  point  of 
view.  This  is  particularly  true  of  chil- 
d-en,  with  whom,  however much  we may 
little 
love  them,  we  have,  curiously, 
comprehension  and  sympathy. 
It  takes 
one  such  a  little  time  to  grow  old and  to 
forget  the  things  of  the  world  of  child­
hood, That  has  its  own  hopes  and  fears, 
and 
from 
those  of  grown-up  people,  and where  the 
wrecking  of  a  house  of  cards  may  stand 
for  a tragedy  as  dire  as  a  man’s  disaster 
when  he  goes  into  bankruptcy;  or  a  lit­
tle  girl  may  get  just  as  much  pleasure 
and  serene  satisfaction  out  of  wearing 
her  best  hat  to  school  as  her  mother 
does 
in  sitting  up  in  the  halo  of  a  dia­
mond  tiara  at  the  opei'a.

joys  and  sorrows,  distinct 

We  are 

fond  of  saying  that  men  are 
but  children  of  a  larger  growth,  but  we 
do  not  often  reflect  that  the  reverse  of 
this 
is  also  true  and  that  children  are 
men  and  women  in  miniature,  feeling 
things  pretty  much  as  we  do,  quick  to 
detect  injustice,  responsive  to  love  and 
friendliness,  even  as  you  and  I,  my 
good  sir  and  madame,  and  with  the 
same  sensitive  self-love  to  be  wounded 
by  slights  and  criticism  that  we  elders 
have. 
It  is  the  common  custom  to  dis­
regard  this  palpable  fact.  Children  are 
freely  discussed  before  their  faces  with 
as  little  regard  for  what  they  may  think 
and  feel  as  if  they  were  blocks  of  wood 
— a  thing  that  is  bound  to  end  in  one  of 
two  results :  Either  the  child  is  made 
abnormally  self-conscious  and  morbid, 
or  else,  hearing  his  own  virtues  so  un­
duly  lauded,  he  becomes  a 
little  prig, 
and  between  the  two  evils  thus  engen­
dered  there  is  small  choice.

This 

is  the  day  of  faddists  in  child 
raising,  and  opinions  seem  to  be  pretty 
equally  divided  between  those  who  be­
lieve,  with  the  surly  old  bachelor,  that 
the  best  way 
is  to  put  ’em  in  a  barrel 
until  they  are  21  and  feed  ’em  through 
the  bung,  and  those  who  have  embraced 
the  theory  that  a  child  is  a  mysterious 
problem  that  nothing  but  the  inspired 
wisdom  of  a  mothers’  congress 
can 
solve.  Oddly  enough  no  one  seems  to 
have  thought  of  dealing  with  him  on 
the  plane  of  a  common  humanity,  with 
common  impulses  and  passions— of  put­
ting  themselves 
in  a  child’s  place  and 
trying  to  see  how  they  would  feel  and 
act  under  certain  conditions.  Take  the 
matter  of  openly  remarking  in  his  pres­
ence  on  a  child’s  looks  and  manners, 
which  is  one  of  the  common  occurrences 
of  every  day.  Who  could  endure  to  be 
scrutinized  by  their  dear  500  friends and 
listen  to  their  unbiased judgment passed 
upon  their  faults and  foibles?  We should 
consider  it  a  torture  worthy  of the inqui­
sition.  Fancy  being  told  to  your  face 
that  your  eyes  are  too  small  or  your  feet 
large  or  your  complexion  is  horrid. 
too 
How  would  you 
like  to  hear  some  one 
exclaim,  “ Mercy,  what  an  awkward, 
overgrown  creature!’ ’  or,  “ Dear  me,  al­
isn’t  she?  And  what 
most  a  dwarf, 
skinny 
inmost 
souls  we  may  suspect— even  know— we 
possess  these  defects,  but  to  suspect 
them  and  hear  them  put into blunt words 
are  two  different  things. 
I  have  not  a 
doubt  that  the  most  popular  and  ad­
mired  amongst  us  would  die  of  chagrin 
if  we  knew  our  neighbors’  real  opinions 
of  us,  and  that’s  the  reason  we  have  en­
tered  into  a  tacit  mutual protective asso­
ciation  that  makes  us  only  say  disagree­

little  arms?”  

In  our 

able  things  about  people  behind  their 
backs.

We  show  no  such  mercy  to  children. 
We  think  nothing  of  discussing  Johnny 
and  Susie’s 
lack  of  brightness  or  good 
looks  right  before  them,  and  when  the 
poor 
little  victims  writhe  under  it  we 
simply  add  one  more black mark against 
them  and  set  it  down  to  temper.  I  know 
a  very  charming  woman  whose  wit  and 
graciousness  make  her  the  center  of  a 
brilliant  circle  now,  but  who  was  a  very 
homely  child,  and  who  says  that  her 
whole  youth  and  early  life  were  embit­
tered  by  the  careless  remarks  of  grown 
people  on  her  appearance.  Wherever 
she  went  some  one  would  be  sure  to  say 
something  about  her  nose,  and  she  was 
almost  a  middle-aged  woman  before  she 
realized  that  there  could  be  any  charm 
in  one  who  had  not  a  Greek  profile. 
Any  one  who  would  audibly  comment 
on  the  defect  of  a  grown  person  in  a 
way  to  wound  and  mortify  would  be 
thought  to  be  too  great  a  boor to  be  tol­
erated 
in  polite  society.  Extend  the 
same courtesy  to  your  children,  and  the 
next  time  you  are  tempted  to  remark  on 
their  peculiarities,  put  yourself  in  their 
place  and  see  how  you  would  like  it 
yourself.  And  my  word  for  it,  we  would 
all  keep  silence.

it 

In  some  families 

is  considered  a 
good  joke  to  tease  children  before  com­
pany.  People  who  engage  in  this  pas­
living  a  few  centuries 
time  are 
too 
late. 
It 
is  a  species  of  cruelty  that 
would  have  fitted  them  to  shine  in  the 
dear  old  Indian  days  when  they  stuck 
splinters 
in  a  helpless  fellow-creature 
and  then  set  them  afire.  The  home  is 
the  child’s  world.  Its  praise  is his fame. 
Its  blame 
is  his  disgrace.  To  be  held 
up  to 
its  ridicule  and  flayed  with  its 
gibes  is  just  to  him  what  it  would  be  to 
you  to  feel  that  you  had  made  yourself 
the  butt  and  laughing  stock  of the whole 
country.  Only  the  man  or  woman  who 
has  been  pilloried  and  caricatured  by 
the  yellow  journals—who  has  been  made 
to  seem  like  a  fool  when  they knew  they 
were  not—can  realize  the  dumb  and  im­
potent  rage  that  possesses  a  child  under 
such  an  ordeal.  For  my  part,  if  little 
Johnny  should  turn,  under  such provoca­
tion,  some  day  upon  his  facetious  papa 
or  the 
idiotic  friend  of  the  family  who 
is  making  merry  at  his  expense  and 
murder  him  with  the  first  handy  thing,
1  should  think  it  was  a  pious  deed  and 
not  a  bit  more  than  the  tormenter  de­
served. 
I  have  yet  to  meet  a  grown 
person  with  so  keen  a  sense  of  fun  he 
enjoyed  a  joke  on  himself,  and  we  have 
no  right  to  expect  a  little  child  to  be 
that  kind  of  a  humorist.

Then  consider  for  a  moment  how  you 
would  like  to  be  nagged at  all day.  Sup­
pose  somebody  corrected  you  every  time 
you  made  a  slip  in  grammar or  used  a 
word  of  slang.  Suppose  almost  every 
remark  that  was  addressed  to  you  began 
with  “ don’t” — don’t  sing  in  the  house, 
don’t  make  so  much  noise,  don’t  sit 
with  your  feet  stretched  out,  don’t  touch 
the  books,  don’t  do  this,  don’t  do  that. 
Suppose  your  husband,  who  you  know 
loves  you  dearly  and  is  simply  doing 
it  for  your  own  good,  kept  your  faults 
continually  before  you,  and  reminded 
you  of  them  about  a  thousand  times  a 
day,  what  would  you  do? 
I  know.  You 
would  be  suing  him  for  divorce  and  ali­
mony  by  the  end  of  the  second  week, 
and  any  judge  in  the  country  would  say 
that  if  ever a  woman  was 
justified  and 
had  a  righteous  cause,  you  have.  But 
that’s  the  way  we  peck  on  poor  little 
Johnny  and  Susie,  and  the  more  we  love 
them,  and  the  more  anxious  we  are,  and

it. 

the  more  we  feel  our  responsibilities, 
the  more  we  do 
Is  it  any  wonder 
they  get  hardened  to  our  reproofs  and 
indifferent  to  our  opinions?  Children’s 
faults  have  to  be  corrected,  of  course, 
but  it  is  always  the  one  word  in  season, 
said  with  as  much  tact  as  one  would use 
in  suggesting  a  mistake  a  friend  was 
making  to  him, 
that  works  the  cure. 
Nagging  never  yet  did  anything  but 
harm. 
later  the  badgered 
animal  always  turns  and  fights.

Sooner  or 

intention 

individual 

Then  there  is  the  matter  of  promises. 
When  a  grown  person  makes  you  a 
promise  you  expect  him  to  keep  it  and 
have  a  pretty  poor  opinion  of  him  if  he 
doesn’t,  but  not  one 
in  a 
hundred  has  the  slightest  conscience  or 
honor  about  keeping  their  word  to  a 
child. 
I  have  known  people  to  make 
the  most  reckless  promises  to  children, 
promising  ponies,  and  carts,  and  mon­
keys,  and  talking  dolls— promises  that  1 
knew  at  the  time  they  hadn’t  the  slight­
est 
in  the  world  of  making 
good,  and  then  I  have  seen  the  weary 
waiting  of  the  child.  What  plans  he 
built,  what  hopes,  what  expectations! 
“ Mr.  A.  is  going  to  bring  me  so  and  so 
when  he  comes  again,”   thrilled 
the 
hopeful 
little  childish  voice;  but  Mr. 
A.  never  thought  of  it  again.  He  had 
only  been  amusing himself with a child’s 
inexperience  and  forgot  all 
credulous 
about 
it  the  next  moment.  He  didn’t 
even  know  what  the  tremulous  lip  and 
the  quick  sob  of  disappointment  meant 
when  he  went  back  without  the  marvel­
ous  pony,  or  the  talking  doll,  and  he 
never dreamed that he had  been guilty  of 
a  piece  of  wanton  cruelty.  Sometimes 
fate  does  something  very like  that  for  us 
grown-ups,  but  who  that  has  followed 
the  will-o’-the-wisp  of  a  hope  that  rep­
resented  his  heart’s  desire;  who  has 
hugged  a dream  to  his breast through the 
nighttime  and had the  day made glorious 
by  its  presence,  and  then  seen 
it  fade 
iw ay 
into  the  nothingness  of  lost  illu­
sions ;  who  that  has  sobbed  his  heart out 
over  failure,  loss,  despair,  can  want  to 
darken childhood with such bitter  knowl­
edge?  Babyhood  has 
its  tragedies  of 
disappointment  as  well  as  later  life.

Another  piace  where  mothers  might 
try  the  experiment  of putting themselves 
in  their  children’s places is when Johnny 
and  Susie  appear  in  the  role  of a dimin­
utive 
lawbreaker.  All  of  us  know  that 
the  most  aggravating  thing  in  life  is 
in 
having  our  past  mistakes  and  offenses 
thrown  up  to  us,  and  it  makes  us  mad 
through  and  through  to  be  continually 
reminded  of  them. 
“ For  heaven’s 
sake,”   we  cry,  “ let  that  rest. 
It  is  all 
done  with  and  settled,  and  there  isn’t  a 
bit  of  use 
in  going  over  it  again  and 
harrowing  everything  up.”   That  is  pre­
cisely  the  attitude  a  mother  ought  to 
take  with  her  children.  When  Johnny 
and  Susie  are  naughty  and  have  to  be 
punished,  settle  the  question  right  then 
and  there,  according  to  the  light  given 
you,  and  then  have  done  with  it  for­
ever.  Don’t  drag 
it  up  again  in  cold 
blood  and  have  it  all  over again.  Even 
the  law  extends  us  that  mercy.  When 
we  have  faced  our  crime  and  had  it  out 
with  the  judge  and  jury— and the mother 
is  both,  and  executioner  to  boot— it  is 
settled  and  not  kept  dangling  like  the 
sword  of  Damocles  over  our  heads. 
Many  mothers  consider  it  their  duty  to 
keep  a  record  of  the  children’s  misdo­
ings  to  tell  their  father  when  he  comes 
home  at  night.  This  is  all  a  mistake. 
It  worries  the  man,  and  as  far as  the 
child 
is  an  afterclap  of 
judgment  that  he  doesn’t  deserve.  Once 
you  have  meted  out  the  punishment,

is  concerned 

It 

forget  and  forgive  the  crime.  “ Remem­
ber  not  our  transgressions  against  us 
any  more.”  
is  the  prayer  that  all 
erring  humanity  makes  to  its  God,  and 
the  mercy  we  ask  for  ourselves  we  may 
well  show  to  the 
little  culprit  whose 
happiness  or  woe  lies  in  our  smiles  or 
frowns. 

Dorothy  Dix.

W hen  a   Lady  Is  a   Lady.

it  has  so 

Probably  no  other  term  in  the English 
is  more  continually  misused 
language 
In  the  mouths  of 
than  that  of  “ lady.”  
the  masses 
long  ceased  to 
mean  anything  but  a  female  of  the  hu­
man  species  that  we  are  no  longer  sur­
prised  to  hear of  scrub  ladies  and  cook 
ladies  or  that  a 
lady  was  arrested  for 
theft  or  drunkenness.  A  few  still  use 
the  word  with  discrimination,  but  even 
among  them  there  exists  a  wide  differ­
ence  of  opinion  as  to  what  constitutes 
a  lady,  and  a  curious  light  was  thrown 
on  the  question  the  other  day  when  a 
woman  witness,  in  a  New  York  lawsuit, 
testified  that  in  her  opinion  no  woman 
who  paints  or  powders  or  wears 
loud 
clothes  or  wears  a  wrapper  at  breakfast 
in  a  hotel  is  a  lady.

To  most  of  us  this  definition  of  what 
constitutes  a 
lady  seems  rather  bald. 
Clothes  do  not  make  the  man,  according 
to  the  adage,  but  they  go  a  long  way  to­
wards  making  the  woman,  and  by  pref­
erence  all  of  us  would  choose  that  our 
lady  should  wear  a  refinement  of  garb—• 
a  harmony  of  outward  color,  a  delicacy 
of  material  and  a  beauty  of  fit— that 
would  symbolize  her  inward  graces,  but 
taste 
is  a  gift  of  the  gods  to  the  elect, 
and  not  all  possess  it.  All  of  us  have 
known  women  of  the  most  charming 
manners,  the  highest  breeding  and  cul­
ture— ladies 
in  every  sense  of  the  word 
— who  had  no  more  idea  of  what  to wear 
than  a  Hottentot  and  who  habitually  ar­
rayed  themselves  in  colors that screamed 
at  the  beholder  and  announced  them­
selves  from  afar.

Any  sweeping  stricture against the  use 
of  paint  and  powder  is  also  equally  un­
tenable. 
If  a  woman  plasters  her  face 
over  with  powder  until  she  looks  like  a 
calcimined  wall, 
if  she  daubs  rouge 
on  with  no  more  skill  than  a  sign  paint­
er,  then  it  is  undoubtedly  immoral  and 
to  be  condemned,  but 
if,  on  the  other 
hand,  she  is  skillful  enough  to  conceal 
a  blemish  and  supplement  nature  so 
that  she  appears  more  attractive  to  us, 
then  the  matter  is  one  between  her  and 
her  toilette  table  and  one  with which the 
world  has  no  concern.  The  woman  who 
disdains  to  hide  her tall  forehead  with 
soft  curled 
locks  or  to  tone  down 
the  blemish  of  a  slick  nose  or  to  let  her 
dressmaker  pad  out  the  angles  of  her 
bones  may  be  a  lady,  but she  is  no  more 
one  than  the  one  who  delights  our  sense 
by  the  beauty  of  her  garments  and  a 
subtile  sense  of  good  grooming— of  hav­
ing  made  the  very  most  of  herself.

love 

She  never  wrangles 

Any  real  test  of  what  constitutes  a 
lady  must,  however,  go  deeper  than  the 
outward  appearances,  and  there  can  be 
no  discussion  of  when  a  lady  is  a  lady. 
If  she  is  a  lady  at  all  she  is  one  all  the 
time.  There 
is  no  veneer  on  her  that 
will  break  under stress.  The  fine  grain 
goes  throughout  and  is  part  of  her  very 
nature.  You  may  know  her  wherever 
you  see  her  by  a  gentle  courtesy  that 
in 
never  fails. 
clubs.  She  never  boasts.  She 
is  not 
obsequious  to  the  rich  and  insolent  to 
the  poor.  She  doesn’t  gush  over  the 
rich  debutante  in  one  moment  and 
in­
sult  the  poor  shop  girl  in  the  other.  She 
is  considerate  of  the  rights  of  others. 
She  does  not  use  coarse 
If 
she  possesses  truth,  generosity  and  re­
finement  of  thought  and  word,  she  is  a 
lady,  no  matter  whether  she  is  a  washer­
woman  or  a  millionairess. 
If  she  has 
is  not  a  lady,  no  matter what 
not,  she 
her  position 
It  is  not  a  ques­
tion  of  clothes,  or  powder,  or  paint. 
It 
is  a  matter  of  the  soul,  Cora  Stowell,

language. 

life. 

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S E C TIO N A L  VIEW   OF  A N A L Y T IC A L   LA B O R A TO R Y

Many of our readers may know that for years analytical work has been done at "Thum's»" 

Ever since William Thum founded his pharmacy some twenty years ago,  and now known as 
Thum's German pharmacy,  the public has looked to this place for its research work»  The 
present owner, Walter K.  Schmidt, has  recently enlarged the laboratory,  which is situ­
ated on the third floor in .the building with the drug store at 84 Canal street,  and to­
day we have the best equipped analytical laboratory in Western Michigan»  Mr»  Schmidt 
graduated in  *91 at the University of Michigan and immediately thereafter took a position 
with H» & F* Thum,  who were proprietors of Thum's German pharmacy, having succeeded their 
father,  William Thum»  In 1892 Mr.  Schmidt was taken in as a partner under the firm name 
of Thum Brothers & Schmidt, and so continued until 1894, when he succeeded that firm, and 
is now sole proprietor of the pharmacy»
The equipment of the laboratory enables Mr»  Schmidt and his assistant to solve the 
many chemical problems which come to an analytical and research laboratory»  Among the 
special lines of work that are done here are the following:  Water analysis for drinking, 
culinary and boiler purposes ; the analysis of prepared stains so largely used in  our  fur­
niture industries,  and the productiom of such stains with chemicals or with aniline soluble 
in water,  spirits or oil,  thus correctly imitating expensive woods foreign to our local 
market; the testing of vinegar to ascertain whether it will pass the Government inspec­
tion; to find the fitness of gasoline for producing gas,  now used so largely  in  engines» A 
manufacturer will find that an Eastern competitor is using a certain kind of cement,  get­
ting excellent results; he procures a sample,  the mystery is here solved,  and another per 
cent»  of cost of production is taken off for the patron of the laboratory.
lines enumerate only a small proportion of the work done»  There are many other lines of 
research which are handled in this laboratory:  For instance,  there has been considerable 
agitation in this district by the finding of marl and the owners of such lands have been 
able to ascertain the fitness and cement-producing qualities of their samples in this lab­
oratory; the examination of food products for adulterants,  especially teas and coffees, 
toxicological and pathological examinations and analyses are also made»  One of the spe­
cialties under this head, which is largely patronized by lhe local physicians and insur­
ance men,  is examination of urine»  For this class of work every known instrument and ap­
paratus can be found in this laboratory»  It would be impossible to give here a complete 
list of the different classes of work that are done,  but the readers of the Tradesman may 
rest assured that any work entrusted to him will be carefully and scientifically handled, 
and we suggest to our readers,  should they have any work,  that they consult with Mr» 
Schmidt,  feeling confident that the desired information can be obtained»

While this gives an idea of what a laboratory is to the commercial world,  the foregoing 

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Those  of  us  who  have  long  enough 
memories  to  recall  the storm  of criticism 
and  abuse  which  the  managemeut  of  the 
war  with  Spain  brought  upon  the  heads 
of  the  War  Department  officials  will  ap­
preciate  the  popular  outcry  which  is 
in  England  against 
now  being  raised 
the  management  of  the  campaign 
in 
South  Africa.  That  there  was  ground 
for  much  criticism  in  both  cases  is  true 
enough,  but  it  may  be  doubted  that  the 
popular  outcry  is  due  to  the  true  short­
comings  of  the  British  War  Office  any 
more  than  it  was  in  our  own  case.

The  abuse  of  the  War  Department 
during  the  Spanish  war  was  due  mainly 
to the  disappointment  at  the  failure  of 
so  many  of  the  volunteers  to  go  to  the 
front,  and  to  the  failure  of  the  officials 
to  appoint  all  the  political  favorites  rec 
ommended.  The  real  cause  of  much  of 
the  trouble  and  delay 
in  equipping 
troops,  and  the  indifferent  character  of 
the  supplies  furnished,  namely,  the  to­
tal 
lack  of  preparation  for  war  in  ad­
vance  of  its  outbreak,  were  entirely  lost 
In  the  case  of  the  British 
sight  of. 
War  Office,  abuse 
is  heaped  upon  the 
heads  of  both  the  military  and  civil 
chiefs  because  defeats  have  been  en­
countered,  instead  of  victories.  They 
are  blamed  for  not  having  enough troops 
in  South  Africa  before  the  outbreak  of 
hostilities ;  because  the  best  generals 
were  not  sent  to  the  front,  and  because 
the  artillery  was  not  up  to  date.  The 
real  trouble,  namely, 
intelli­
gence  service  of  the  army  was  defective 
and  a  smaller  army  was  authorized  by 
Parliament  and  popular  opinion  than 
the  needs  of  the  British  Empire  called 
for,  is  lost  sight  of.

that  the 

The  outcry  and  abuse  against  the gov­
ernment  and  thé  War  Office 
in  E ng­
land  are  really due to the disappointment 
caused  by  reverses,  and  not  because  of 
any  really 
for  criticising 
the  War  Department.  A   few  victories

just  ground 

It 

is  almost  amusing  to  read  of  the 
losses”   which  the  British 
“ tremendous 
army  has  sustained,  according  to  the 
London 
journals,  and  the  dire  predic­
tions  of  disaster  which  are  daily sent out 
from  London,  and  which  would  be  very 
cheerful  reading  to  the  Boers  could  they 
see  them.  The  War  Office 
is  abused 
because  it  will  not  reveal the movements 
of  the  armies  in  the  field,  and  the rigor­
ous  censorship  which  at  one  time  was 
considered  too 
is  now  bitterly 
denounced.

lenient 

In  a  word,  the  British government and 
army  are  paying  the  penalty  of  failure. 
It  would  have  made  no  difference  what­
ever  how  perfect  the  preparations  for 
war  may  have  been,  and  how  competent 
the  commanders,  absence  of  the  success 
expected  wouid  have  produced  the  same 
results,  namely,  unpopularity  and  jour­
nalistic  abuse.  A   few  victories 
later 
on,  and  all  the  mutterings  both  of  press 
and  people  will  be  forgotten,  and  noth­
ing  will  be  thought  of  but  the rewarding 
of  the  victors  and  the  pushing  of British 
business  enterprises 
in  thè  conquered 
territory.  The  very  people  who  are 
now  demanding  the  overthrow  of  the 
government  and  the  disgrace of  the  gen­
erals  will  be  the  most  enthusiastic  in 
their  plaudits.  Popular  favor  has  always 
been  of  the  same  fickle  order,  and  wise 
men  gauge  it  accordingly.

Referring  to  an article which appeared 
in  the  issue  of  January  3,  entitled  “ The 
McDonald  Swindle,”   it  is  only  fair  to 
the  officers  of  the  Grand  Rapids Savings 
Bank  to  say  that  they  insist  that  the  use 
of  their  name  as  a  reference  in  both  the 
cases  mentioned  in  that  article  was  en­
tirely  unauthorized  by  the  Bank and was 
without  the  knowledge  of 
its  officers 
until  the  failure  of  the  parties  showed 
it  was  too  late  to  remedy  it ;  that during 
its  whole  history  the  Bank  has  been  ex­
ceedingly  conservative  in permitting the 
use  of  its  name  as  a  reference ;  that 
what  occurred  in  those  two  cases,  being 
about  four  years  apart,  might  occur  to 
any  bank  and  has  probably  occurred  to 
every  bank  doing  business;  that  the 
Bank  has  no  means  of  knowing  what  its 
customers  use  in  the  way  of  letterheads, 
unless  the  matter 
is  brought  to  their 
attention,  and  with  the  most  sincere  de­
sire  to  prevent  the  public  from  being 
imposed  upon  by  the  unauthorized  use 
of  its  name,  it  is  sometimes  helpless  to 
prevent  it.  The  Tradesman  did  not  in­
tend  to  say— and  did  not  say— that  the 
use  of  the  name  of  the  Bank  was author­
ized  by  the  Bank  or  its  officers  or  was 
with  their  consent  or  approval.  The 
Tradesman  has  no  doubt  but  that it  was 
a  fraud  upon  the  Bank  and  entirely con­
trary  to  the  wishes  and  intentions  of  its 
officers.  The  Tradesman  did  not  think 
then— and  does  not  think  now— that  any 
one  acquainted  with 
the  Bank  or  its 
officers  would  believe  that  they  would 
in  any  way  lend  the  name  of  the  Bank 
for  any  such  purpose,  but  what  the 
Tradesman  did  desire  to  emphasize— 
and  what  it  still  desires  to  emphasize— 
is  the  duty  of  a  bank  to  use  the  greatest 
possible  diligence  to  prevent  the  abuse 
of  public  confidence  by  the unauthorized 
use  of  its  name.

Imagine  the  feelings  of  the  man  who 
carefully  preserves  what  he  supposes  to 
be  the  editorial  page  of a newspaper and 
finds  he  has  made  the  mistake  of  saving 
the  woman’s  supplement.

A W A K E   AT  LAST.

The  strength  of  the  potation  from 
Hendrick  Hudson's  fiagan  has  spent 
itself  and  New  York  is  waking  up. 
It 
is more  than  twenty  years  since she went 
to  sleep  and  she  finds  after  rubbing  her 
eyes  open  that  she  is  a  back  number; 
that  her  wharves  from  the 
loss  of  her 
shipping  trade  are  in  a  worse  condition 
than  R ip  Van  Winkle’s  gun,  and  that, 
unless  something 
is  done  about  it,  the 
Eastern  doorway  to  the  Western  conti­
nent  will  be  as  deserted  as  the  en­
chanted  ground  upon  the  banks  of  her 
noted  river  in  the  olden  time.

For a  good  many  years  New  York,  in 
common  with  the  rest  of  that  part  of  the 
country,  considered  everything  west  of 
her  western  boundary  as  her  back  yard. 
It  never  occurred  to  her  that  somebody 
else’s  back  yard  might  be  on  the  other 
side  of  her  back  fence  and  that  from 
that  somebody  else’s  front  door  was  a 
tract  of  country  thousands  of  miles  in 
extent,  full  of  people,  the  most 
intelli­
gent,  pushful  and  enterprising  that  the 
sunshine  has  ever blessed.  She  knew, 
or  thought  she  knew,  that  she  was  the 
metropolis  of  this  side  of  the  Atlantic 
and,  certain  of  this, 
that  to  her  port 
would  be  sure  to  come  any  traffic  that 
might  be  carried  on  here.  The West  was 
wild  and  woolly.  It  was  big  and  coarse. 
It  was  young  and 
It 
in  the  paths  of  its  fore­
would 
fathers  and  by  and  by,  when  the  fathers 
died  it  would  step  into  the  old  trodden 
down  at  the  heel,  split  out  at  the  side 
ancestral  shoes,  live  a  few  years,  a  re­
spectable  knickerbocker,  and  in  its  turn 
sleep  the  sleep  of  its  fathers  to  dream 
how  the  world  was  to  get  along  without 
it.

inexperienced. 

follow 

back 

Business  was 

Occasionally  over  the 

fence 
would  come  a  rumor  of  dissatisfaction. 
The  facilities  of  the  East  were  not equal 
to  the  requirements.  A   quart  pot  can 
not  be  made  to  hold  a  gallon  and  some­
thing  must  be  done  about  it.  Nothing 
was  done.  The  way  of  the  fathers  was 
her way. 
It  had  served  them  as  it  had 
served  her and  as  it  would serve her  de­
scendants  after  they  had  gotten  over  the 
frivolous  friskiness  of  youth.  But 
it 
did  not.  The  new  life  was  not  the  old 
life. 
increasing.  The 
vast  valley  of  the  Mississippi  was  teem­
ing  with  workshops  and  harvests,  every 
one  of  them  clamoring  for  cheaper  and 
speedier  connection  with  the  seaboard. 
The  clamor  fell  upon  deaf  ears.  Then 
the  West  began  to  take  care  of 
itself. 
The  Mississippi  and its mighty branches 
suggested  a  happy  release  and traffic fol-. 
lowed  the  currents  of  the  rivers  to  the 
Gulf.  Then  the  sleep  was  over  and 
with  whitened 
locks  and  shattered  gun 
New  York  has  found  her  way  to  the  v il­
lage  at  the  mouth  of  the  Hudson  and 
is 
in  the  words  of  her 
piteously  asking 
prototype : 
‘ ‘ Does  nobody  here  know 
Rip  Van  W inkle?”

Yes ;  but  nobody  cares  anything  about 
him.  The  moment  that  the  East  was 
found  to  be  a  hindrance  instead  of  a 
help,  that  moment  she  ceased  to  be  a 
partner  in  the  great  enterprises  of  the 
country.  Conceited  and  selfish  to  last 
degree,  she  came  to  her  senses  only 
when  the  heavy 
losses  suffered  by  her 
shipping  trade  compelled  her  to  do 
something  to  repair them ;  and now that, 
with  hair  cut  and  whistling  for  Snyder 
stopped,  she  considers  the  task  before 
her,  the  West 
is  curious  to  see  what 
conclusions  she  will  reach  and  take  ad­
vantage  of  them  if  possible.

Two  plans  for  attracting  the  com­
merce  of  the  West  to  New  York  harbor 
are  engaging  her  attention.  One 
is

the 

widening  and  deepening  of  the  canal 
system  of  that  State,  with  the  enlarge­
ment  and  improvement  of  the 
locks,  at 
a  cost  of  §20,000,000;  the other is widen­
ing  and  deepening  of  the present canals, 
the  enlarging  and  the  improving  of  the 
locks,  the  digging  of  eighty-one  miles 
of  new  canal  between  Syracuse and West 
Troy  and  the  carrying  of  the  waterway 
around 
cities  of  Syracuse  and 
Rochester,  at  a  cost  of  §60,000,000.  The 
idea 
is  to  shorten  the  route  to  the  A t­
lantic  from  the  lakes  wholly  within  the
bcundaries  of  this  country,  thus  turning 
the  enormous  traffic  of  the  lakes  now 
finding  an  outlet  to  the  ocean by the way 
of  St.  Lawrence 
into  American  routes 
with  American  boats.  Surveys  for  the 
carrying  out  of  the  project  have  been 
made  already  by  the  general  Govern­
ment  and  New  York  may  furnish  the 
money  and  do  the  work,  if  she  will.

that 

To  show  that  she  is  at  last  awake  and 
thoroughly 
in  earnest  the  New  York 
chamber of  commerce  has  been  investi­
gating  at  Chicago  the  amount  of  east- 
bound  traffic  going  away  from New York 
towards  the  St.  Lawrence;  and  as  a  re­
sult  of 
ihvestigation  Governor 
Roosevelt  has  deemed  it  best  to  recom­
mend  that  New  York  can  not  afford  to 
lose  the  enormous  amount  of  freight 
which  goes  eastward 
from  Chicago. 
Should  the  Governor’s  recommendation 
be  followed,  the  evil  may  be  averted  by 
making  it  possible  to ship  merchandise 
in  bulk  from  Chicago  and  other  lake 
ports  into  New  York.  If,  with  the  short­
er  route,  rates  are  made  reasonable, 
there 
is  little  doubt  about  the  direction 
of  the  Western  grain  commerce,  and 
with  the  East  thoroughly  aware  of  the 
fact  that  the  West  amounts  to something 
and 
is  no  longer  to  be  trifled  with,  the 
prospects  for  both  sections of the country 
are  very  bright  indeed.

COME  TO  T H E   CONVENTION.

No  Michigan  grocer  who  can  possibly 
arrange  his  business  so as  to  leave  home 
next  week  should  fail  to  attend  the  sev­
enth  convention  of  the  Michigan  Retail 
Grocers’  Association,  which will  be  held 
in  this  city  on  Thursday  . and  Frida> , 
Jan.  25  and  26.  The  preliminary  pro­
gramme,  which 
is  published  elsewhere 
in  this  week’s  paper,  shows  that  the 
proceedings  will  cover nearly every topic 
of  vital 
interest  to  the  retail  grocer at 
this  time  and  it  will  be  noted  that  gro­
cers  of  acknowledged  experience  and 
reputation  along  their  respective 
lines 
have  been  secured  to  prepare  papers  or 
lead 
in  the  discussions.  The  time  se­
lected  for  the  convention  appears  to  be 
opportune,  because  the  annual  inven­
tories  are  now practically completed  and 
trade  is  not  so  brisk  in  most  sections  of 
the  State  but  that  the  average  dealer 
can  leave  home  for a  day  or  two  without 
serious  inconvenience  to  himself  or  his 
business.  From  present  indications  a 
large  number  of  representative  grocers 
will  avail  themselves  of  this opportunity 
to  touch  elbows  with  their  brother  gro­
cers  from  different  parts  of  the  State, 
and  the  Tradesman  bespeaks  for  the 
meeting  the  hearty  co-operation  of  the 
trade,  believing  it  will necessarily result 
in  great  good  to  grocerymen  in  particu­
lar and  retail  merchants  generally.

Suppose  a  woman  does  not  know  how 
to  boil  a  potato  or  sew  on  a  button,  she 
has  a  perfect  right  to  belong  to  an  an­
cient  history  club  and  be  intellectual.

Little  men  make  more  noise  than  big 
ones,  because  they  are  thinking  all  the 
time  that  they  may  be  overlooked  in  the 
shuffle,

M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N

A  CLOUDY  FUTURE.

There  are  dubious  headshakings  in 
the  busy  world  outside  of  the  United 
States.  Things  are  not  as  they  used  to 
be.  The  Old  World  has  ceased  to  be 
the  grand  warehouse  of  all  that  is  rarest 
and  best.  Time  was  when  only  the 
product  of  the  European  workshop  was 
considered  the  nearest  perfection.  A 
house  worthy  the  name  was  planned  and 
prepared,  shipped  and  set  up 
in  this 
Western  wilderness  by  the  skill  of  Old 
World  workmen.  Everything  put 
into 
it  crossed  the  Atlantic,  and  when  the 
proud  proprietor  saw  from  cellar  to  at­
tic  only  what  had  come  from  “ home,”  
he  was  satisfied  that  all  under  his  roof 
was  foreign,  and  so  the  best,  and  com­
placently  received  the  congratulations 
of  his  envious  friends. 
It  was  simply 
a  matter of  course.  The  culmination  of 
civilization 
Europe,  who  was  and  would  ever  after 
be  the  mistress  of  the  world  in  every 
thing.

centered  necessarily 

That was the  fact  a  hundred  years ago. 
but  is  not  now.  The  gold  of  the  king’ 
crown  has  oxidized  and  disintegration 
in  the  foundation  of  his  throne  is notice 
able.  The  realm  and  all  that  is  in  i 
seem,  in  Western  phrase,  to  have  lost 
their  grip.  There is  seemingly  a  stand 
still 
in  art  and  science.  Manufacture 
and  commerce  are  only  marking  time 
not  marching,  and  while  all  are  making 
strenuous  efforts  to advance,  the progress 
is  that  of  a  spent  swimmer  against  the 
tide.

Steam 

its  standard. 

ideals  and  she 

Without  knowing 

it  the  world  has 
changed 
is  no 
longer  the  driving  power  and,  strive  as 
she  may,  the  Old  World  can  not  keep 
up  with  the  New,  whose  ideas  of  life 
and 
living  are  wider  and  permeated 
with  hopes  and  purposes before  now  un 
known.  The  spirit— wholly  American- 
for  a  hundred  years  has  been  copying 
what  was  best.  She  will  copy  no  longer. 
She  will— she  is  now— working  out  her 
own 
is  doing  this  so 
effectively  that  the  future  to  those  who 
can  not  keep  up  with  her  will  become 
cloudy. 
is  safe  to  say  that  no  more 
houses  for  America  will  be planned any 
in  America.  Twenty  years 
where  but 
ago  foreign-made 
furniture  was  some 
thing  to  be  desired  by  the  ultrafastid' 
ous.  Grand  Rapids  to-day  must  set  i 
seal  upon  that  class  of  merchandise 
have  it  meet  the  approving  nod  of  the 
acknowledged  four  hundred.  A   piano 
not  made  in  the  United  States  is  a  curi 
osity  within  our  borders;  and  the  once 
supposed 
impossible  manufacture  o 
glass  in  this  country  has  met with prom 
ising  results.

It 

Before 

i860  most  of  the  glass  used 

this  country  came  from  abroad.  Twenty 
years 
later  the  country  began  to  supp’ 
its  own  demands.  For the  last  five  yea 
foreign  glass  has  been  excluded,  mirror 
plate  being  the  last  to  succumb  to  home 
industry.  Before  that  time  Germany 
and  France  weie  supplying  the  United 
States  with  looking-glass,  at  the  rate  of 
$2,000,000  a  year.  Year  before  last  that 
sum  was  reduced  to  $4,500. 
It  must  be 
admitted  that 
lines  of  fine 
in  general 
manufacture  the  old  country  still  excels, 
is  not  far  off  when  the 
but  the  time 
$4,500, 
is,  will  be 
much  reduced  and  finally  will  disap­
pear.

insignificant  as 

it 

This 

is  a  single  instance.  Others— 
many  of  them— can  be  cited.  They  all 
confirm  the  same  fact,  that  in  every  line 
of  manufacture  this  country  is  pushing 
ahead.  More  than  that,  the  old life  and 
the  old  ways  can  not  keep  up  with  it. 
is  the  old  motto;  swift
Slow  and  sure 

increases  every  day. 

and  sure,  the  new.  Already  the  distance 
leader  and  the  followers  is 
between  the 
noticeable. 
It 
It 
...11  continue  to  do  so,and  it  will  not  be 
confined  to  one  line  of  endeavor  and  de 
jlopment.  Art  will  one  day  build  here 
her  grandest  shrine.  Science  has  al- 
ady  found  here  an  enduring  home, 
iterature  has  fixed  here  her  dwelling 
lace  and  all  of  these,  under  more  gen- 
skies  and  more  favorable  surround 
ngs,  will  so  unfold  the  excellence  that 
in  them  as  to  strengthen  the  growing 
belief  that,  in  these  highest 
forms  of 
expression  also,  the  Old  World  is  dis 
tanced  by  the  New.  The  future 
is,  in 
for  those  who  are  falling 
deed,  cloudy 
behind. 
It  remains  to  be  seen  whether 
they  will  catch  enough  of  this  newness 
ife  to  make  them  worthy  contestants 

>r  the  prizes  to  be  won.

A  PL E A SISG   CONTRAST.

lest  that 

on,  put  up  at  a 

During  the  summer  of  1889  an  Amer­
ican,  on  his  way  to  the  Paris  Exposi 
first-class  London 
hotel.  Among  the  floral  ornaments  of 
is  apartment  was  a  puny  spear  of  In 
ian  corn,  apparently  considered  a  rare 
plant  and  evidently  kept  out  of  the  sun­
shine 
luminary  should  prove 
too  much  for  it.  He  found  the  same 
decoration  for  the  dining  table,  a  pale, 
spindling  shoot  a  foot  high,  with  three 
yellowish  dyspeptic looking leaves draw- 
.ng  some  very  doubtful  nourishment 
from  a  pot  of  most  unpromising  earth.
A  few  weeks 
loitering 
through  the 
lowlands  of  Belgium,  he 
counted  from  Dover  to  Cologne  twc 
atches  of  the  grain  fully  twenty  feet 
by  thirty. 
It  was  of  a  rich  green  and 
was  seemingly  making  the  most  of  the 
favorable  conditions 
it  was 
placed.  At  the  Exposition  there  was  a 
not  extensive  display  of  the  cereal  and 
that  received  little  attention.  Enquiry 
brought  out  the  fact  that  it  was  a  grain 
food  from  America,  fit  only  for  horses 
and  such  other  domestic  animals  as 
would  eat  it.

later,  while 

in  which 

That  was  ten  years  ago.  Now 

is  growing 
in  Europe  but 

it  is  a 
pleasing  fact  to  record  that  American 
corn 
in  popular  favor  not 
onlv 
in  all  other  parts 
of  the  world.  From  the  barn  and  stable 
the  product  of  the  cornfield  has  been 
carried  into  the kitchen,  and  been  found 
to  be  better  food  for  toiling  humanity 
everywhere  than  the  grains  which  unti’ 
now  have  been  the  chief  support  of  the 
Old  World  peasantry.  That  fact  estab- 
.ished,  the  rest  is  easily  told :  The  de­
mand  for  com  is  rapidly  increasing  and 
every  month  proves  that  at  last  its  va 
as  a  food  product  is  beginning  to be  ap­
preciated.  In  the  eleven  months  ending 
with  November,  1899,  more  corn  was 
exported  than 
in  the  same  months  of 
any  previous  year  since  1895  and  at  a 
higher  rate  a  bushel,  the  whole  amount 
for  the  eleven  months  ending  with  No­
vember,  1899,  being  185,832,659  bushels, 
In  1898,  185,284,340 
worth  $74,742,127. 
bushels  were  sent  abroad, 
for  only 
$68,513,147.

A   comparison  of  the  figures  of  ’98 and 
’99  with  those  of  ’93  and  ’94  shows  that 
the  growth  in  exports  has  been  constant 
and  rapid.  Taking  the  same  period  for 
comparison,  the  eleven  months  ending 
with  November,  ’93,  the  exports  of  com 
were  48,602,183  bushels  and 
’94, 
37,910,232  bushels,  while  for  ’98  and 
’99  the  exploits  were  four  times  greater 
than  those  of  ’93  and  ’94.  Another  item 
to  excite  comment 
is  the  fact  that  the 
demand 
for  cornmeal  has  been  equally 
rapid  in  its  growth. 
In  ’93,  there  were 
exported  235,241 barrels;  in  ’94,  237,095

in 

barrels;  in  ’98,  773,083  barrels;  in 
’99, 
,98,111  barrels.  Europe  takes  the  most 
of  th is;  and  it  is  safe  to  conclude  that, 
as  time  goes  by  and 
the  prejudice 
against  it  is  dimnished  as  it  is  sure  to 
be,  the  exports  in  corn  will  take  a  lead- 
ng  place  among  the  important  products 
if  the  country.

Reference  has  before  been  made  in 
these  columns  to  attempts  to  make  gen­
eral  the  value  of  maize  as  food.  There 
is  nothing  to  recommend  it  when  served 
as  so  much  baked  chicken  dough,  a 
form,  if  not  popular  in  the  early  history 
of  the  country,  at  least  common.  The 
New  England  Johnnycake  baked  on  a 
board  in  the  early  New  England kitchen 
may  have  been  all  that  the  historian  has 
painted 
it,  but  whoever  undertakes  to 
verify  the  statement  by  practical experi­
ence  will  not  repeat 
it  unless  hunger 
compels  him.  So  the  Old  World  peasant 
has  found  it;  and,  while  his black bread 
is  poor  enough  even  with  his  hereditary 
taste  to  commend  it,  that  bread  is better 
than  the  Johnnycake  a  hundred  times 
over  and  he  clings  to  it. 

,

It 

finds 

is  the  Southern  housekeeper  that 
has  made  corn  a  food fit  for  a  king.  She 
early  saw  its  possibilities  and  out  of  the 
old-fashioned  chicken  feed  fit  only  for 
the  biped  which  greedily  devoured  i 
she  evolved  the  wholesome,  delicate,  de 
icious  conception  which 
favor 
everywhere  and  promises  to  be  a  stil 
further  blessing  to mankind.  If  the  ide 
is  faithfully  carried  out  to op>en  at  the 
French  Exposition  a  kitchen  where  In 
is  served  in  its  best  forms 
dian  meal 
and 
food  thus  prepared  can  be 
brought  to  the  consideration  of  the  con 
sumer  on  the  other  side,  it  will  not  be 
long  before 
it  will  be  found  upon  the 
table  of  the  prince  as  well  as  the  peas 
ant  and  in  time  come  to  be  regarded thi 
best  of  the  cereals.

the 

The  University  of  Chicago  has  rc 
ceived  $3,370,000,  under  the  agreement 
made  by  John  D.  Rockfeller  to  dupli 
cate 
its  gifts  until  Jan.  1,  1900.  Mr 
Rockfeller  has  telegraphed  to  President 
Harper  that  he  will  extend  the  lim ‘ 
three  months,  and 
in  that  time  1) 
Harper  thinks  he  is  reasonably  sure  < 
getting  the  rest  of  the  money  to  make 
the  total  $4,000,000.

light 

lamps  sixteen 

A   novel  way  of  illuminating  a  rai 
way  tunnel  has  been  devised  in  Pari 
from  man 
Reflectors  throw  the 
electric 
feet  above  the 
rails  to  the  sides  of  the  tunnel,  where 
it  is  again  reflected  by  burnished  tin, 
soft  and  agreeable 
light.  The  trains 
automatically  turn  the  current  on  and 
off  in  entering  and  leaving  the tunnel

Recent  experiments  by  the  experts 

the  Fish  Commission 
in  Washingti 
have  demonstrated  that  genuine  pearl 
of  high  quality  may  be  grown  inaquari 
urns,  fountains,  fish  ponds  and 
in  any 
other  pools  of  water  which  can  susta 
mussels,  oysters  and  other  mollusks  tl 
emit  nacre,  the  beautiful  iridescent  se 
cretion  of  which  pearls  are  made.

Ten  thousand  dollars  damages  a 
asked  by  an  Alabama  man  from  a  tel 
graph  company,  because,  through  non 
delivery  of  a  dispatch,  his  best  g 
married  another  man.  This  is  either 
lesson  on  the  evil  of  procrastination 
on  the  value  of  special  providences, 
this  stage  of  the  game  it  is  difficult 
tell  which.

A  self-made  man  is  the result of a long 
life’s  work,  if  he  is  we" 

| and  careful 
i made.

9

RESERVE  M ILITARY  FORCES.

There 

learned 

is  a  very  wholesome  lesson  to 
be 
from  the  experience  that 
Great  Britain  is  having  in  South  Africa 
which  our  American  lawmakers  would 
do  well  to  take  to  heart.  Great  Britain, 
like  ourselves,  maintains  only  a  com­
paratively  small  standing  army.  This 
igular  force  is  kept  well  occupied  fur- 
shing  garrisons  for  the  various  Brit- 
sh  dependencies  and  colonies,  as  well 
for  the  important  home stations,  leav- 
ng  little  surplus  to  meet  the  exigencies 
a 
foreign  war.  Thus,  after  sending 
army  corps  of  about  5°»000  nien  to 
iuth  Africa,  composed 
largely  of  re- 
rve  men  called  to  the  colors  for  the 
ar,  the  British  government 
is  put  to 
rious 
in  raising  additional 
)ops  without  completely  denuding  im- 
>rtant  stations  of  their  usual  military 

straits 

jrotection.

During  the  war  with  Spain, 
this 
luntry  met  with  a  similar  experience, 
ith  a  standing  army  of  barely  25,000 
nen,  it  became  at  once  necessary  to  put 
the  field  a  quarter  of  a  million volun- 
it  was  simple  enough  to 
_ers.  While 
ssue  a  call  for  volunteers,  and 
it  must 
ie  admitted  that  the  call  was  responded 
with  gratifying  alacrity,  the  arming, 
quipping  and  training  of  this  totally 
untrained  force  was  a  most  serious  mat- 
:r,  which  occupied  much  time  and 
aused  great  confusion  and  worriment.
Fortunately,  'in  the  case  of  the  war 
/ith  Spain,  we  had  to  encounter  an 
nemy  in  the  last  stages  of  national  de­
crepitude ;  hence  the  state  of  unpre- 
iaredness  in  which  we  found  our  m ili­
ary  establishment  produced  none  of 
the  disastrous  results  which would surely 
ive  followed  had  our  enemy  been  more 
enterprising  as  well  as  more  powerful, 
ingland’s  unpreparedness  was  the  main 
_ause  of  the  disasters  her  armies  have 
suffered  in  South  A frica ;  yet  it  must  be 
admitted  that  the  British  army  was  far 
better  prepared  than  was  ours  at the out­
break  of  the  Spanish  war.

Common  prudence  should  dictate  the 
wisdom  of  avoiding 
for  the  future  the 
mistakes  of  the  past.  We have  no  guar­
antee  or  assurance  that  we  will  be  able 
to  avoid  disputes  with  foreign  powers  ; 
hence  it  would  be  folly  to  neglect  rea­
sonable  preparation 
for  war  during 
jeace.  The  country  is  unalterably  op­
posed  to  a  large  standing  arm y;  but  it 
js  possible  to  be  prepared  even  without 
such  an  establishment.  The  National 
Suard  of  the  States,  if  properly  assisted 
and  countenanced  by  the  General  Gov- 
rnment,  could  be  made  an  efficient  re­
serve,  and  the  sooner  this  fact  is  recog­
nized  and  Congress  takes  steps  to  ex­
tend  more  liberal  aid  to  the  guard  the 
better.  With  the  proper  effort  the  125, - 
000  men  of  the  state  forces  could  be 
made  a  serviceable  reserve,  which,  with 
the  regular army,  would  furnish  a  force 
sufficient  to  meet  all  demands  until  the 
volunteers  could be armed and equipped.
The  principal  preparation  essential, 
however,  is  to  accumulate  and  keep 
in 
readiness  an  ample  supply  of  arms,  am­
munition,  ordinance  and  other  military 
supplies  for  a  large  force,  so  that  there 
need  be  no  delay  on  the  outbreak  of 
hostilities 
in  arming  and  equipping 
such  men  as  become promptly available. 
The  Navy  Department,  even  without 
special  legislation,  is  doing  its  utmost 
to  make  the  naval  militia  as  efficient  as 
looks  upon  that 
possible,  and  already 
organization  as  a  reserve 
force  to  be 
made  at  once  available  in  the  event  of 
war.  The  army  should  do  the  same 
with  the  National  Guard.

M IC H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N

10

Petting the  People

L im itations  of  A dvertising,  as  A pplied  to 

th e   Local  R etailer.

The  man  who  knows  nothing  about 
advertising 
is  apt  to  think  it  is  of  no 
avail.  The  man  who  knows  a  little will 
usually  imagine  it is  “ the whole thing. ”
It  remains  for  the  man  who  studies 
and  practices  advertising  for  a  good 
many  years  to  arrive  at  the  true  conclu­
sion—that  advertising  has 
lim ita­
tions ;  that  there  are  some  things  that 
advertising  will  not  do.  Advertising  is 
only  a  link  in  the  chain  of  good  mer­
links  are  store 
chandising.  The  other 
service,  goods  and  prices.  A  chain 
is 
only  as  strong  as  its  weakest  link—and 
no  matter  how  strong  the  advertising 
link  may  be,  if  the  others  are  weak,  the 
chain  will  break.

its 

The  local  advertiser  has  only  one  pur­
in  his  advertising— to  sell  his 
pose 
goods.  His  advertising  will  bring  cus­
tomers  inside  the  door  of his store— after 
that 
it  rests  with  goods,  prices  and 
store  service  whether  the  sale  is  made. 
Not  only  does  that  one  sale  depend  on 
it,  but,  to  a  large  extent,  do  all  future 
sales  as  well.

If  the  store  performs  what  the  ad­
vertising  promises,the store  gains  a  cus­
tomer  and  a  friend. 
If  the  advertise­
ment 
is  untruthful  or  if  the  clerks  are 
uncivil,  the  store  gains  an  enemy  and 
an  active  one.

Only  the  other  day,  I  heard  one  wom­
an  say  to  another,  as  they  stood  outside 
a  big  store.  “ Oh,  don’t  go  in  here. 
They  never  have  what  they  advertise, 
anyhow.”   A  fine  reputation  to  get! 
And  yet  many  a  merchant  who  thinks 
he  is  shrewd in  throwing  out baits  of  the 
untruthful  sort  has 
just  such  a  reputa­
tion.

Another  source  of  trouble  arises  when 
clerks  do  not  know  what 
is  being  ad­
vertised.  The  store  that  advertises  spe­
cial  bargains  should  make  a  display  of 
in  some 
them,  either  in  the  window  or 
prominent  portion;  and  every 
clerk 
is  being  sold  and 
should  know  what 
why.

My  wife  went  to  a  big  store  the  other 
day  to  see  some  denim  that  had  been 
advertised  at  a  big  reduction.  When 
she  got  to  the  counter,  no  one  knew  of 
any  such  goods  at  the  price  she  men­
tioned  and  she  came  away  with  the  im­
pression  that  the  store’s  advertising  was 
untruthful. 
Possibly  she  was  wrong, 
but  the  affair  showed  bad  management.
If  I  were  managing  a  store,  especially 
a  department  store,  1  should  insist  upon 
the  clerks  reading  not  only  the  adver­
tisements  of  their  own  department,  but 
those  of  every  other  department. 
I 
should  require  them  to  know  what  the 
store  was  doing  and  what its competitors 
were  doing. 
1  should  give  every  clerk 
to  undertsand  that  he  was  working,  not 
for  his  department  alone,  but  for  the 
whole  store.

that 

The 

store 

Another  feature  of  store  service  that 
will make  or  break a store  is  exchanging 
goods. 
advertises 
“ money  back  for  any  reason—or  no 
is 
reason— ”  
the  one  that  will  gain 
friends,  if 
it  lives  up  to  its  agreement. 
Many  stores,  however,  advertise this and 
don’t  do  it,  that  is,  they  don’t  perjure 
themselves  absolutely,  but  they  do  make 
the  process  of  returning  goods so tedious 
and  annoying  that  few  people  care  to 
risk  a  second  trial.  That  is  all  wrong. 
Clerks  should  be  instructed  to  wait  on 
customers  who  wish  to  return  goods  just 
as  cheerfully  as  if  they  were  making  a 
sale.  They  should  be  shown  that  it  is

just  as 
as  it  is  to  sell  them  goods.

important  to  satisfy  a  customer 

If  a  store’s  customers  can  be  made  to 
understand  that,  if  their  purchases  are 
unsatisfactory,  they  can  return  them  and 
get  their  money  back  without  trouble 
or  squabbling,  they  will  buy  more  free­
ly,  and  more,  they  will  recommend  the 
store  to  their  neighbors.  That  is  very 
much  better  than  to  have  them  say,  * ‘ 1 
bought  this  goods  at  Jones’  and  it wasn’t 
what  I  wanted,  and  they  wouldn’t  take 
it  back.”

Many  merchants  will  exchange  goods 
returned  for  others,  but  don’t 
like  to 
give  the  purchase-money  back  to  the 
customer.  Foolish!  Give  the  money 
back  and  do 
it  with  an  air  that  shows 
it 
you  think  it  a  pleasure.  You’ ll  get 
back  again  a  hundred 
If  you 
keep  it,  it  will  probably  be  the  last  you 
ever  get  from  that  customer.

fold. 

is  a 

Woman 

forgiving  creature,  but 
she  never  forgives  the store that won’t let 
her  use  her 
inalienable  privilege  of 
changing  her  mind.

Advertising  has  its  limitations— it 

is 
limited  by  the  breadth  of  the  mind  that 
directs  the  store  back  of 
It  rests 
with  the  merchant  himself,  no  less  than 
with  his  advertising  manager,  whether 
his  advertising  shall  succeed  or not.

it. 

W.  S.  Hamburger.

H ead  o f th e   L iar  Class.

Hon.  Wm.  Alden  Smith  was  recently 
asked  to  describe  the  biggest  liar  he 
ever  knew,  and  replied  as  follows:

“ I  think  the  biggest  liar  I  ever  met 
is  one  of  my  constituents 
in  Ionia 
county.  He  was  always  talking  about  a 
fine  horse  which  he  said  he  owned, 
when,  as  a  matter  of 
fact,  he  never 
owned  a  pound  of  horseflesh  in  his  life. 
But  he  talked  about  it  so  much  that  he 
got  to  believe  it  himself,  and  one day he 
went  to  Grand  Rapids  and  bought  a 
saddle  and  bridle.  You’ve  got  to  give 
a  man  like  that  first  place.”

An  E v erlastin g   Q uietus.

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“ A h ,”   he  moaned,  “ this 

is  not  the 

kind  of  bread  mother  used to make. ”  

“ Perhaps,”   his  fair  young  wife  said, 
preparing  to  abolish  one  joke  from their 
family  forever,  “ it 
is  not  the  kind  she 
used  to  make,  but 
it’s  the  kind  she 
makes  now.  She brought  over  a  loaf  this 
afternoon,  saying  she  knew  you  would 
be  so  glad  to  get  another  taste  of  it!’ ’ 

Then  there  crept 
look 

wild,  hunted 
about.

into  his  eyes  the 
that  people  read 

W heel  F o r  Sale.

Mary had a little dog,
Its fleece was black and tan,
She tied it to her bicycle 
And by her side it ran.

They used to run o'er hill and  dale, 
■When they were coasting down a slope, 

Until one fatal day,
A Tom-cat crossed the  way.

The dog forgot poor Mary quite.
“ 'Twas a dog-goned cat-astroplie,”

She landed on her head;
So charming Mary said.

Too  N early  R eal.

“ As  I  understand 

it,”   said  Cumso, 
“ oleomargarine  is  made  of  beef  fat.”
“ You  are undoubtedly  right,”   replied 

Cawker.

“ I  should  think  that  the  manufactur­

ers  would  make  it  of  goat  fat.”

“ Why?”
“ Because  the  goat 

is  a  natural  but­

ter. ’ ’

Had  Earned  the  Applause.

Hewitt— I  sat  at  the  table  next  to 
yours  at  the  restaurant  yesterday,  and  I 
don’t  see  how  you  could  laugh  at  the 
table  stories  that  Grewitt  was  telling.

Jewitt— He  was  paying  for  the dinnei.

V ariously  Endow ed.

Hobbs— My  landlady  has  both  strong 

and  weak  points.

Dobbs— What  are  they?
Hobbs— Butter and  coffee.

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Gas Lamp

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Fully Covered by  U.  S .  Patents.

The  Imperial 
is  suitable  for 
lighting stores, churches,  halls, 
lodges  and  residences  and  is 
not only the  most  economical,
but  the  MOST  SATISFACTORY.
The  Imperial  burns  ordinary 
stove  gasoline  and  gives  a 
beautiful,  steady 
ioo  candle 
power  light.  Many  thousands 
now in use and giving good re­
sults.  The  Imperial  is  not  af­
fected by  cold nor  wind  and is 
easy to operate.  Send  for cat­
alogue.

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132*134  Lake St.,  Chicago

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This is not a cheap  print shop.  When  we  give  you 
a figure on a  piece  of  work  you  can  make  up  your 
mind that it includes  a  profit  for  ourselves 
It will 
not  be  a  very  big  profit,  but  it  will  preclude  the 
necessity of  skimping  on  the  paper,  the  ink  or  the 
workmanship  to  get  even  on  the  job.  We  always 
want to give a customer a little more than he expects, 
rather  than  a  little  less.  No piece  of printing  ever 
goes out of this establishment until  it has been exam­
ined and found to be  in  perfect  condition.  You will 
not be allowed to take or pay for anything that is not 
just right.  W e  believe  that  good  work  is  the  best 
advertising  matter  we  can  send  out. 
Incidentally, 
the prices will  not  frighten you.

Tradesman
Company,

Grand  Rapids.

M IC H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N

1 1

Clerks’  Corner.

D(m>h I t Pay to Sell Goods on T h eir M erits ? 
Written for the Tradesman.

George  Malcomb  was  one  of  those 
men  whose 
individuality  and  kindness 
of  disposition  made  every  man  his 
friend.  When  1  first  made  his  acquaint 
ance  he  was  second  salesman 
in  Jarvis 
&  C o.’s  men’s  furnishings  department. 
He  was  then  about  30  years  of  age  and 
it  was  rumored  in  the  store  had  a  rich 
wife.  As  for  the  truth  of  this  report  I 
can  not  say ;  I  have  never  tried to verify 
it.  As  a  salesman  he  was  a  success. 
He 
labored  as  faithfully  to  please  the 
expressman’s  wife  who  wanted  only 
25  cent  necktie  as  he  did  to  please  Mrs. 
Hardcash,  who  bought  only  the  most ex­
pensive  things.

I  have  frequently  heard  salesmen  and 

Jarvis’  store  were  surprised  to 
learn 
that  the  vacant  managership  was  to  be 
filled  by  George  Malcomb.  From  that 
time  on  there  were  any  number  of  sur­
prises.  A  new  buyer  in  the  fancy  goods 
stock  was  one  of  them.  A  new  window 
trimmer  was  another.  The  head  of  the 
carpet  department,  who  had  been  with 
the  house  for  fourteen  years,  found  that 
his  resignation  “ would  be  acceptable.’ 

every  instance  the  people  who  went 
out  were  of  the  fancy-goods-saleswoman 
class  and  those  who  came  in  were  not.
The  change  in  the  moral  atmosphere 
that  store  was  another  surprising 
thing  to  those  who  did  not  know  the 
new  manager. 
“ What  a  delight  it  is  to 
ieal  in  this  store  now ,"  said  a  custom- 
r  to  me  after  Mr.  Malcomb  had  been 
charge  about  a  year  “ You  can  de­
pend  on  what  the  salespeople  tell  you 
ind  if  there  is  anything  wrong  they  are
\

a 

it 

of 

the 

this 

compliment 

in  two 
it  pays 

impossi-1 always  so willing  to  make  it  right.”

than 
“ There  are  so  many  things  that  scarcely  be  paid  a  manager 

saleswomen  say  that  it  was  an 
bility  to  be  a  Christian  and  clerk  in  a I greater 
store. 
“  it  pays,  and  pays  big,  to  sell  it  for 
have  to  be  sold  and  if  one  told  the  truth I 
is .”   Mr.  Malcomb  was 
about  them  they  never  would  be. ”   This I just  what 
young I carrying  out  the  policy  outlined  in  that 
statement  was  made  by 
woman 
in  charge  of  our  fancy  goods I statement  of  his  to  the  fancy  goods  buy- 
counter  to  George  Malcomb  and  myself I er  He  showed  us  that  it  paid,  in  the 
as  we  were  discussing  with  her affairs in I management 
department,  by 
the  store.  His  reply  was  that  if  such  doubling  the  business  of  that  depart- 
were  the  case  he  long  ago  would  have I ment 
years.  He  has  shown  us 
in  the  management  of  a
sought  other  employment. 
“ My  ex-  that 
perience,”   said  he,  “ has  extended  over|store> 
when  Mr.  Malcomb  be-
fifteen  years,  and  I  have  found  that  to I 
lisrepresent  goods  is  suicidal,  so  far as I came  manager,  employed  a  hundre 
trade  is  concerned.  Such  a  policy  may I and  twenty-five  salespeople  and  occu 
make  one  sale,  but  it  will  never  build I pje(j  a  four-story  building  75  by  100  feet 
prosperous  business  nor  make  per-1  ¡n  dimensions.  He  has  held  his  present 
manent  trade.  The  chances  are  ten  to I position  just  five  years.  Now  Jarvis  & 
one  that  goods  sold  by  this  means  will 1q ,  employ  two  hundred  and  fifty  sales- 
come  back  and  your  employers will have I people  and  occupy  a  four-story  building 
Your  IOO  by  150  feet.  The  entire  stock  is 
to  make  good  the  difference. 
Its  policy  is 
misrepresentation  places  a  false  value  modem  and  up-to-date. 
upon  the  goods  sold  by  that  means  and I aggressive,  as  there 
is  sharp  com pet i 
the  result 
is  that  your  employer  loses I tjon .  but  there  is  no  departure  allowed 
money  by  the  sale,  and  it  is  more  than I  from  the  fixed  rule,  “ It  pays  and  pays 
ikelv  that  he  loses  a  customer  as well. ”   [ big,  to  sell  a  thing  for  just  what  it  is.
Mac  Allan.
Beef One  D ollar  a   P o und  in  Dawson.
Letters  from  Dawson 

“ That  all  sounds  very  fine,”   replied 
the  young  woman,  ‘ ‘ but  how  do  you  get 
rid  of  the  trash  that  sooner  or  later  finds 
its  way  into  every  department?”

Jarvis  &  Ct 

received 

Crockery  and  Glassware

AKRON  STONKWARE. 

B u tters

H gal., per  doz....................................
1 to 6 gal., per  gal...............................
S gal. each............................................
10 gal. each..................................   ......
12 gal. each............................................
15 gal. meat-tubs, each.........................
22 gal. meat-tubs, each.........................
25 gal. meat-tubs, each........................
30 gal. meat-tubs, each........................

C hurns

2 too gal., per  gal.................................
Churn  Dashers, per doz.......................

M ilkpans

14 gal. Hat or rd. hot., per doz............
1  gal. flat or rd. bot., each..................
Fine d a z e d   M ilkpans
yt gal. flat or rd. bot., per doz.............
1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each..................

gal. fireproof, bail, per  doz. 
gal. fireproof, ball, per  doz.

Ju g "

,4 gal., per  doz....
\  gal. per  iloz......
1 to 5 gal., per  gal.

Tom ato  J  ugs

y, gal., per  doz..................
1  gal., each.......................
Corks for *4 gal., per doz.. 
Corks for  1  gal., per doz..

J a r s   and  Ce

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

Sealing  W ax
5 lbs. in package, per  lb................
FR U IT  JA R S

.AMI’  BURNERS

Pints.............
Quarts..........
Half (¡allons.
Covers.........
Rubbers.......

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

No. 0 Sun. 
No. X Sun. 
No. 2 Sun.

Michigan  Fire  and  Marine 

Insurance Co.

Organized  1881.

Detroit,  Michigan.

Cash  C a p ita l.  $400,000. 

N et  S u rp lu s ,  $200,000.

Cash  Assets,  $800,000.

D.  WiiiTNF.V, J k .,  Pres.

D.  M.  K e r r y ,  V ic e   Pres.

F .  11.  W h it n e y ,  Secretary.
M .  W .  O ’ B r ik n ,  T reas.

E . J.  B o o t h ,  A ss t.  S e c’ y.

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D ir e c t o r s .

D .  W h itn e y , Jr.,  D.  M.  F erry, K .J.  D ecker,
I  M. W . O ’ Brien,  Iloyt  Post, C hristian  M ack, 
A lla n   Sheldon,  Sim on J.  M urph y,  W in.  I..
[  Sm ith,  A .  II.  W ilkin son , Jam es  E d g a r,  II. 
I  K lrk e  W h ite, 
II.  P .  B ald w in ,  H u go 
’  Scherer,  F.  A .  Schulte,  W m .  V .  Brace,

H ayden,  C ollin s  B.  H ubbard,  Jam es  D. 
Stand ish, T h eod ore  D.  Buhl,  M.  B.  M ills,

I  Jam es  M cM illan.  K.  E .  D rig g s,  H enry 
I  A le x .  Chapoton, J r.,  Geo.  II.  Barbour,  S. 

G .  G askev,  C has.  Stinchfield,  F ran cis  K. 
Palm s,  Wm.  C.  Y a w k e y ,  D avid  C.  W h it- 
f  ney,  D r.J.  B.  Book,  E u gen e lla rb e ck , C h a s. 
I  F.  P eltier,  R ichard  P . Joy,  C has.  C .  Jenks.

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Itemized Ledgers

SIZE—8  1-2  x  14.
THREE  COLUMNS.

2 Q uires,  160 p a g e s ..............$2  00
3 Q uires,  240 p a g e s..............  2  5°
4 Q uires,  320 p a g e s .............. 3  00
5 Quires,  400  pages...........  3  5°
6 Quires, 480 pages...........  4  00

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Tradesman  Company

Qrand Rapids, Mich.

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2  45

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2  15
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4  70 
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LA M P  CHIMNEYS- - Seconds

Per box of 1

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

F irst  Q uality

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

XXX  F lin t

No. 0 Sun, crimp top. wrapped & lab. 
No. X Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 
No. 3 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab.
CHIMNEYS—l ’earl Top
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled........
No. 2 Sun, wrapped and labeled........
No. 2 Hinge, wrapped and labeled.... 
No. 2 Sun,  “Small  Bulb,”  for  (¡lobe
I .amps...........................................

L a  B astie

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

R ochester

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

E lectric

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

O IL  CANS

1 gal.  tin cans with spout, per doz —
1 gal. galv. iron with  spout, per doz..
2 gal. galv. iron with  spout, j>er doz..
3 gal. galv. iron with  spout, per doz..
5 gal. galv. iron with  spout, per doz..
3 gal. galv. iron with faucet, per doz..
5 gal. galv. iron with faucet, per doz..
5 gal. Tilting cans..................................
5 gal. galv. iron  Nacefas.....................

P u m p   Cans

LANTERNS

5 gal. Rapid steady stream ..................
5 gal. Eureka, non-overflow................
3 gal. Home Rule...................................
5 gal. Home Rule...................................
5 gal.  Pirate King.................................
No.  0 Tubular, side lift.......................
No.  1 B Tubular...................................
No. 13 Tubular, dash............................
No.  1 Tubular, glass fountain............
No. 12 Tubular, side  lamp....................
No.  3 Street lamp, each.....................
LANTERN  GLOBES 
No. 0 Tub., cases 1 doz. each, box, 10c. 
No. 0 Tub., cases 2 doz. each, box, 15c. 
No. 0 Tub., bbls 5 doz. each, per bbl..
I No. 0 Tub,, bull’s eye, cases 1 aoz. each

‘ ‘ I  have  found  that  it  pays,  and  pays 
it  for  just  what  it  is ,”   he 

to  sell 

big, 
replied.

It  was  easy,  after 

listening  to  this 
talk,  to  understand  why  so  many  of  the 
patrons  of  the 
furnishings  department 
wanted  George  Malcomb  to  wait  upon 
them. 
It was  not  in  salesmanship  alone 
that  he  was  different  from  the  herd,  but 
as  a  stock-keeper,  also.  How  many 
clerks  there  are  who,  when  not  waiting 
upon  customers,  stand  with  folded  arms 
or  spend  their  leisure  time  in  gossip 
with  their  fellow  clerks.  George  Ma 
comb’s  idea  was  that,  from  the  moment 
he  entered  the  store  in  the  morning  un 
til  he  left  it  at  night,  his  time  was  his 
employer’s.  Dust  was  an  unknown 
quantity  upon 
the  many  boxes  in  his 
shelves.  Disorder  might  come  to  his 
stock  when  the  rush  of  trade  was on,  but 
at  the  first  opportunity  he  set  his  stock 
in  order.  Somehow  he  seemed  always 
to  have  something  to  do.

last 
week  stated  that  by  the  end of December 
there  would  not  be  a  pound  of  fresh 
meat  left.  Beef  was  retailing  at  a  dol- 
ir  per  pound  early  in  December,  with 
little  to  be  had.  The  situation  is  more 
serious  from  the 
that  herds  of 
moose  and  caribou  have  become  very 
scarce  with  the settlement  of  the  Yukon, 
and  even  the  Indians  find  it  difficult  to 
secure  them.  Fresh  beef  shipped  over 
ice 
reach  Dawson  before 
March  1.

can  not 

fact 

A  F rien d   Indeed.

If he gives you recognition,
When your clothes are patched and torn;
If he conies to see and cheer you.
When you’re lying sick and worn;
If he takes your hand and lifts you up.
When you’re on the downward track;
If he says the same thing to your face 
That he says behind your back;
If, when odds are strong against  you.
He fights for you to the end.
Bind him tightly to your heart.
For that man is your friend.

T he  D ifference.

“ When  I  came  to  this  town,”   said  the 
lan  on  the  dry  goods  box,  “ everything 
I  had  in  the  world  was  tied  up  in  a  red 
bandanna  handkerchief.

“ And  now?”   asked  the  tourist  who

was  waiting  for  a  train.

‘ ‘ And  now,”   replied  the man,  ‘ ‘ every­
thing  I’ve  got  in  the  world  is  tied  down 

I  was  not  sutprised  when  I  heard  that 
Sutherland,  the  head  of  the  furnishings 
department,  had  been  dispensed  with 
and  that  George  Malcomb  was  to  take 
his  place.  Nor  did  any  one  wonder
when,  a  year  later,  it  was  found that  the I with  mortgages.”  
furnishings  department  needed  more
room. 
least,  was  not  surprised I 
when  this  needed  space  was  taken  from 
t h e   f a n c y   goods  department  and 
i t   was I 
mentioned  that  the  fancy  goods  stock I attention  at  a ll.”  
was  not  paying. 

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‘ No,  he  married  her.’

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M IC H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N

Shoes  and  Leather

How  th e   Shoe  H ealer  P u n ish ed   th e   Desk 

A gent.
Written  for the Tradesman.

I  stepped  into  a  shoe  store  a  few  days 
ago  and  found  a  very  fresh  agent  trying 
to  sell  the  proprietor  a  roll  top  desk. 
He  was  talking  very  fast,  pointing  out 
the  claimed  advantages  of  his  article 
over all  others,  and  pressing  the canvass 
beyond  all  reason,  as  I  thought,  espe­
cially  as  the  merchant was trying  to  wait 
on  a  customer  at  the  time.  Knowing 
the  shoe  man  to  be  rather  a  rough  joker 
at  times  and  decidedly  reckless  in  the 
use  of  words  and  figures  of  speech,  I ex­
pected  to  hear  something  amusing  be­
fore  the  session  closed,  so  I  kept  my 
eyes  and  ears  open  as  1  waited.

“ Modem  business  methods  demand 
the 

conveniences,”   I  heard 

modern 
agent  saying,  and  then—- 

“ Pinches,  does  it?  Try  on  this  one.”  
“ Demand  modem  conveniences,”   re­
peated  the  agent,  moving  around  so  as 
to  face  the  merchant,  “ and  you  can’t  do 
without  one  of  these  desks  any  more 
than  you  can— ”

* ‘ Put  your  foot  down  to  the  floor. 
Is  that 

Now  press  it  forward.  T here! 
about  right?”

“ Can  get  along  without  a  place  to  do 
in ,”   went  on  the  agent. 

business 
“ Here’s— ”

“ French  calf,  of  course,  warranted. 
You  won't  find  a  better,  neater  pair  of 
shoes  in  the  city.  How  did  the  last  pair 
weai?”

“ One  with  quarter-sawed  oak  drawer 
fronts,  letter  files,  solid  brass label hold­
ers 
and  pulls,  ball-bearing  casters, 
and— "

“ Yes,  yes,  I  understand.  Well,  you 
must  keep  your  shoes  away  rfom  the 
stove,  for  we  can’t  warrant  against  fire. 
Call  in  again  and  let  us  know  how  the 
shoes  wear.”

The  merchant  accompanied  the  cus­
tomer to  the  door  and  then  turned  back 
to  the  desk  agent. 
1  could  see the spirit 
of  mischief  lurking  about  his  eyes  as  he 
began  to  examine  the  drawings.

“ What’s  all  these  things  in front?”   he 
finally  asked,  pointing  to  an  array  of 
drawers, 
letter  files  and  pigeon  holes 
with  his  pencil.

a  surprised 

agent,  with 

“ Those  things  constitute  the  beauty 
and  availability  of  the  desk,”   replied 
the 
look. 
“ There  are  about  fifty  drawers,  pigeon 
holes  and  files  there,  arranged  so  you 
can  put  your  hand  on  anything  you want 
in  a  second.  Saves  time  and  temper. 
Pays  for  itself  in  a  year.”

“ You  don’t  mean  to  say  I’d  have  to 
sort  my  things  all  out  and  put  them  in 
there?”   demanded  the  merchant.

“ Why,  my  dear  sir,”   began 

the 
agent,  * ‘ you  would  be  more than pleased 
with  the  system  in  a  week’s  time.  Just 
think  of  having  everything  in  its  place 
and  of  having  a  place  for  everything.”  
“ Young  man.”   said  the  merchant, 
severely, 
facing  the  agent  with  a  re­
proachful  look,  “ you  don’t  mean  to  tell 
me  that  you  have  never  heard  of  the 
cussedness  of  inanimate  things?”

“ Well,  really,  I  don’t— ”
“ Then  you  don’t  know  the miseries of 
one  who 
is  fated  to  endure  the  pangs 
and tortures of the aforesaid cussedness. ’ ’ 
The  agent  began  to  pick  up  his  draw­
ings,  and  I  honestly  believe  he  thought 
the  merchant  going  mad,  for  he  glanced 
toward  the  door  and  looked  worried.

“ Yes,  sir,”   continued  the  merchant, 
“ if  I  should  sort  my  things  all  out  and 
put  them  in  those  drawers,  do  you  think 
I  should  ever  find them there again?  No,

sir!  When  I  went  to  look  for  them  they 
would  not  be  there. 
I  might  lock  the 
drawers  and 
lock  the  desk  and  lock  the 
room  and  lock  the  store,  but,  in  spite  of 
all  those  four 
locks,  the  things  would 
I  might,  some  day  when  I 
get  away. 
had  bought  new  ones,  find the  things  out 
in  the  bam  or  down  at  the  landing  in 
my  fishing  boat,  but  I  never  should  find 
them  in  there!”

At  this  stage  of  the  conversation  I im­
agined  the  agent’s  eyes  began  to  look 
strained,  and  I  imagined,  too, 
that  he 
would  have  given  a  dollar  for  three 
yards  of  clear  sidewalk  out  in  the street.
“ This  thing  that  I  am  telling  you 
about,”   went  on  the  merchant,  “ is  the 
cussedness  of  inanimate  things.  As  the 
Latin  scholars  say,  devildum  des  des­
parado  nix  findum  again.  Oh,  I’ve  been 
through  the  m ill!  I  was  all  alone  in  my 
room,  the  other  day,  in  company  with 
a  boot-jack,  a  long,  cloven-hoofed  boot- 
jack,  that  cost  a  quarter  at  wholesale, 
and  wasn’t  worth  three  hurrahs  on  Luci­
fer’s  front  lawn.  Now,  my  room 
is  at 
the  top  of  the  house  and  it  is  the  onlv 
room  on  that  floor.  The  south  windows 
look  out  on  a  precipice  three  thousand 
feet  deep, 
face  a 
mountain  three  miles  high.  There  are 
no  other  windows  and  the  door  has  a 
double-duplex  time-lock,  warranted  not 
to  rip,  ravel  or  fade  if  soaked  in  warm 
water. 
I  was  up  there  alone  with  that 
treacherous  boot-jack  when  the  con­
demned  thing  fell  out  of  my  hand  to  the 
floor. 
I  heard  it  strike  on  the  floor,  but 
when  I  looked  it  wasn’t  there.  I  hunted 
everywhere,  had  the  floor  taken  up  and 
the  plastering  taken  off  the  walls,  but  it 
was  nowhere  to  be  found.  Do  you  think 
I  wanted  to  be  downed  by  a  common 
iron  boot-jack,  with  no  pedigree 
to 
speak  of  and  no  opinions  to  express  on 
the  expansion  question?  No,  sir.”

the  north  windows 

The  agent  looked  at  his  watch.
“ No,  sir,  I  had  the  house  tom  down. 
And  where  do  you  think  we  found  that 
boot-jack? 
In  the  drain-pipe,  stopping 
up  the  exit  to  the  house  sewer.  That’s 
where  we  found  it.  You  ought  to  study 
up  the  cuásedness  of  inanimate  things. 
Did  you  ever  take  one  of  your  w ife’s 
needles  to  sew  a  button  on  your vest and 
lay  that  needle  down while you found the 
button  for  the  tenth  time  and  have  that 
needle  disappear—to  go  wandering  off 
into  space 
like  the  tail  of  a  registered 
comet  and  never  come  back  again  until 
the  end  of  a  thousand  years?”

The  desk  agent  looked  relieved  when 
he  saw  a  customer  come  in  at  the  door 
and  advance  toward  the  merchant.

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“ Did  you  ever  lay  your  collar  button 
down  on  the  dresser  and  step  to the win­
dow  to  see  if  it  wasn’t  getting  daylight 
— lay  it  right  there  in  plain  sight  where 
you  could  get  it  when  you  got  up,  and 
when  you  did  get  up  have  it  over  in  the 
next  county  or  somewhere  beyond  your 
reach  and  beyond  the  hearing  of  your 
impassioned  addresses  to  it?”

The  agent  picked  up  his  roll  of  draw­
ings  and  pointed  to  the  new  customer. 
He  was  anxious  to  be  away,  it  seemed.
“ The  wisest  men  have  studied  the 
cussedness  of  inanimate  things carefully 
and  seriously,”   resumed  the  merchant, 
“ but  have  never arrived  at  any  conclu­
sion  regarding  the  parentage  of  the 
animal. 
If  I  should  buy  that  desk,  I’d 
be  bankrupt  in  less  than  a  week,  for  un­
der the  system  I’m  telling  you  about the 
things  you  need  are  the  things  that  do 
not  show  up. 
I  shouldn’t  have  the  desk 
a  week.  Some  night  I’d  fill  it  full  of 
coin  and  the  next  morning  it  would  be 
over  in  Widow  Moloney’s  swamp. 
I 
keep  all  my  valuables  in  the  woodbox.

Lycomings me me test M s 
Keystones he me Best Beesons

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.

6E0. H. HEEDEH & 60., M

 Rapids,

$

Little

Czarina

No. 21, White Quilted Silk Top, Fur Trimmed, Pat. Leather Foxed, l to 4, per doz.,  $4 80 
No. 22, Brown Quilted Silk Top, Fur Trimmed, Brown Kid Foxed, 1 to 4, ppr doz.,  4.80
No  23, Red Quilted Silk Top, Fur Trimmed, Red Foxed................ 1 to 4, per doz.,  4.80
No. 24, Black Quilted Silk Top, Fur Trimmed, Pat. Leather Foxed, 1 to 4  per doz.,  4.80 

A Quick Seller.  Order now.

HIRTH,  KRAUSE & CO., Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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DRIVING  SHOES

Made in all styles and of four different  kinds 
of  stock  which  have  a  national  reputation 
and are sold  from  New  Orleans  to  the  Pa­
cific Coast.  They are manufactured by
Snedicor  &   H a th a w a y   Co.

We have added to our  line  of  their  shoes  a 
long felt  need  of  very  fine  goods  made  of 
Colt Skin which is very soft and fine  and  the 
very best to wear.  These are made in  men’s 
on  four  diiferent  style  lasts;  also  in boys’, 
youths’, women’s and misses’.
We want an agent for  this  line  of  goods  in 
every town in  the  State.  Write for samples 
and prices.
Geo.  H.  R eeder  &   Co.,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Boston
and
Bay
State
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binations.

Knit or  Felt  Boots with 

Duck or Gum  Perfections.

Our stock is complete.  Send 
us  your  orders  and  they  will 
have prompt attention.

Rindge,  Kalmbach,  Logie & Co.,

10-22 N.  Ionia  St., Grand  Rapids, Mich*

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M IC H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N

Next  week  I’m  going  to  begin  an  essay 
to  be  entitled,  ‘ Where  do  all  the  things 
you  drop  go  to?’ 
It  will  be  a  winner,  I 
don’t  think.  Going?  Call  again.”

The  agent  got  almost  to  the  door when 
a  small  key  which  he  was  rolling  in  his 
fingers  dropped  to  the  floor.  He  bent 
down  to  pick  it  up,  but  it  was  nowhere 
in  sight.  I  saw it  drop  into  a  hole  in the 
floor  and  saw  a  comer  of  the  rug'  \yhich 
had  been  turned  back  enough  to  expose 
the  hole  flop  back  into  place  as  a  gust 
of  wind  caught  it,  but,  said  nothing.

‘ ‘ No  use 

looking,”   called  the  mer­
‘ ‘ You  won't  find  it.  Things  are 

chant. 
never  found  here. ’ ’

And  he  did  not  find  it,  and to strengh- 
en  the  merchant’s  theory  I  remained 
silent.

‘ ‘ Served  him  right,”   said  the  mer­
chant,  as  the  door  closed,  ‘ ‘ for  trying 
to  talk  to  me  while  I  was  waiting  on 
trade.  Served  him  right.”

And  I  thought  so,  too,  but  still  I  must 
confess  that  there  is  to  my  mind  some 
truth 
in  the  theory  of  the  cussedness  of 
inanimate  things!  My  friend  had  told 
only  the  truth  in  a  joking  way,  baring 
incidents,  of  course!

Alfred  B.  Tozer.

R eg u lar  Business  H abits  Necessary. 

From the New  York  Commercial.

it 

What  the  American  business  world 
needs  more  than  anything  else  is regular 
habits,  and 
lies  within  the  power  of 
American  business  men,  by  proper  or­
ganization,  to  cut  and  fit  to  the  world  in 
question  a  set  of  habits  under  which 
it 
could  grow  and  thrive  as  never  business 
world  did  before.  Thus far  these  habits 
have  been  entirely  in  the  hands  (if  poli 
ticians,  all  of  them  weak  and  selfish 
many  of  them  basely  mercenary,  wh< 
have  changed  American  business  from 
policy  to  policy,  not  for the  purpose 
ballasting  and 
centering  the  grand 
.source  of  bread  and  butter  for  American 
mouths—the  domestic  market  but 
pressly  for  the  purpose  of  increasing 
their  chances  of  re-election  and  theii 
demagogic  hold  on  some  particular  sec 
tion  of  the  country  or  class  of  citizens 
with  no  regard  whatever  to  the  ruin  a 
given  policy  might  work  upon  other  in­
terests.  Too  much  latitude  for  deals  is 
left  with  those  whom  the  people  appoint 
to  act  for  them  at Washington.  What 
needed 
is  an  organization  of  business 
men,  taking in  every  branch  of  business 
in  every  direction, 
from  the  biggest 
wholesaler  to  the  smallest  retailer,  the 
business  of  which  shall  be  to  fix  upon 
policy  which  shall  have 
its  prime 
object  the  securing  and  holding  per 
petually  every  dollar’s  worth  of  the 
American  market  here  for  the  benefit  of 
American  producers  and  distributers, 
necessary  for  the  full  and  profitable  em­
ployment  of  everybody.  Having  fixed 
upon  such  a  policy,  it  should  send  its 
Representatives  to  Congress  to  carry 
that  policy  out,  and  for  no  other  pur­
pose.  America  against  the  world  should 
be  its  motto.

for 

A n o th er  C o-operative  Store  Closes.

The  Clinton  Co-operative Store,  which 
has  been  doing  business  at  Clinton, 
Mass.,  for  a  number of  months,  is  to  be 
closed.  The  reason  for  this'  move  on 
the  part  of  the  promoters  is  that,  while 
the  business  was  being  run  at  a  profit  to 
the  shareholders  and  to  the  benefit  of  all 
those  who  did  trading  at  the  place,  the 
volume  of  business  was  not  sufficient  to 
warrant  the  continuation  of  the  store. 
Those  who  have  been  interested  in  the 
movement  are  satisfied  with  the  demon­
stration  that  the  principle  upon  which 
the  store  was  managed  is  all  right,  but 
patronage  was  what  was  lacking.  As 
soon  as  the  stock  now  on  hand  is  dis­
posed  of  the  store  will  be  closed.

H e’ll  L earn.

The  Youth— Why  should  victory  al­
ways  be  represented  by  a  female  figure?
The  S ag e-Y o u   don’t  see  the  appro­
priateness  now,  but  you  haven’t  married 
yet.

Seven  R ules  to  O bserve  in  C u rtailin g  Re­

tail  C redits.

Credit 

is  a  term  in  political  economy 
if  which  we  possess  no  scientific  defini­
tion.  The  practical  meaning,  however, 
s  well  known.  The  proper  conception 
if  credit  is  that  which  serves  the  pur- 
lose  of  capital;  it  can  only  do  so  while 
there  is  capital  ready  to  come  and  take 
ts  place  when  necessary.  Credits  which 
e  not 
in  this  position  do  not  accom- 
ish  the  purpose  of  capital.
The  practical  position  of  credit  in 
the  retail  business  is  exemplified  by  a 
sponge  saturated  with  water:  Squeeze 
t  and  you  can  ‘ ‘ throw  up  the  sponge.”  
Credit 
imposed  upon  a  community 
for  two  very  good  reasons:  Lack  of 
money  and  greed  of  gain.  The  larger 
art  of  credit  granted  in  the  retail  busi­
ness 
is  given  to  those  anticipating  the 
future— until  they  raise  a  crop— and  is 
unsafe,  while  the  part  given  to  those  of 
known  responsibility 
is  practical  and 
usually  safe.

is 

The  retailer  who  runs  his  business 
ike  a  pawnshop,  taking  in  everything, 
and  charging  more  profit  for the  larger 
risk,  must  come  to  grief. 
I  venture  the 
in  every  town  of  two 
assertion  that 
thousand  population 
in  the  United 
States  there  is  continually  an  outstand­
ing  credit  of 
fifty  thousand  dollars, 
which  no  single  creditor  desires.

Why  is  this  true?  Because  very  few 
for  cash  on ly;  single 
is  prac 

dare  to  declare 
handed  and  concerted  action 
tically  impossible.

Many  retailers,  before  they  have  been 
in  business  six  months,  have  their  en 
tire  investment  credited  out,  doing busi 
ness  on  jobbers'  goods  entirely;  when 
for  any  reason,  they  are  forced  to  meet 
their  obligations,  they  learn  for  the  first 
time  the  real  meaning  of— credit.  Un 
der  existing  circumstances,  credits  have 
been  shortened  and  discounts  cut  dr 
to  the  retailer. 
is  wise,  he  will 
follow  the  good  example  set  him  by 
those  closer  in  touch  wi th  the  needs  o 
the  hour  than  he.  Each  successive  sea 
son  credits  are more closely investigated 
by  the  credit  men  and  it  is  to  be  hoped 
they  will  succeed 
in  weeding  out  the 
old 
following  antiquated 
methods,  finally  go  to  the  wall,  beat  the 
jobbers  and  leave  a  stock  of  goods  to  be 
disposed  of  to  the  ruination of legitimate 
trade  at  that  place  for  some  time.

fogies,  who, 

If  he 

instances 

The  control  of  credit  in  retail  busi 
ness  is  of  much  greater  importance  thai 
the  signification  of  the  term. 
It  de 
pends  so  largely  upon  the  personality  of 
the  merchant  that  anything  but  the  most 
arbitrary  rule  strictly  adhered  to  must 
fail  of  usefulness  to  many;  standing  be 
hind  the  counter  and  coming in persona 
contact  with  each  customer,  who 
many 
is  friend  or  neighbor, 
makes  a  correct  business  attitude  more 
difficult  than  that  of  the  credit  man  at 
his  desk.  Certain  it  is  that  you  possess 
a  more  accurate  knowledge  of  your  cus 
tomers,  but  more  certainly 
it  is  a  fact 
that  a  proper  consideration  of  all  the 
conditions,  which  must  be  considered 
and  acted  upon  instantly,  is  more  diffi­
cult,  except  it  be  an  absolute  refusal  of 
credit.  I am  speaking  now  of  customers 
who  are  known  to  you  not  to  be  prompt 
and  legally  responsible.  Properly  con­
trolling  credits  is  the  merchant’s  night­
mare ;  whether  he  be  careful,  conserva­
tive,  and  painstaking,  or  careless  and 
slothful,  the  credit  portion  of  his  busi­
ness  brings  him  more  sleepless  nights 
and  gray  hairs  than  all  other  business 
cares.

If  I  were  obliged  to  leave  my  store  in 
for  a  considerable

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Sheets  and  Covers will 
be  shown  you  by  our 
salesmen this  month. 
Our  complete  descrip­
tive catalogue and price 
list  will  be  mailed  to 
you  if you want  it.
The  biggest  stock  and 
the  best  assortment  in 
Michigan.

Brown  &   Sehler,

Grand  Rapids.

length  of  time  I  would 
lay  down  the 
following  rule  for  them  to  observe  in 
granting  cred it:

Open  accounts  only  with  persons 

of  known  responsibility.

Take  title  notes  for  one-half  bill, 

demanding  half  in  cash.

3.  Trust  no  strangers  unless  account 
guaranteed  by  some  responsible  per­

son  known  to  you.

4.  Avoid  opening  accounts  less  than 

one  dollar.

Collect  promptly  as  agreed.

5.  Always  set  a  day  for  payment.
6. 
7.  Avoid  long-time  sales.
These  rules,  strictly 

followed,  would 
undoubtedly  cost  you  the  loss  of  about 
one-fifth  of  your  trade,  principally  the 
ndesirable  fifth.  If business  men  would 
follow  such  rules, 
tone  up 
trade,  make  their  daily  life  pleasanter, 
stop  aggravating 
losses  and  be  better 
for  customers  as  well.

it  would 

Finally :  Controlling  credit  is  a  mat­
ter  for  individual  action,  and  no 
infor­
mation  wili  benefit  the  merchant  who 
can  not  say  No,  or  who  insists  on  mak- 
ng  such  unsafe  sales  for  the  chances  of 
making  a  profit,  which  is  often  as  bad 
speculation  as  bucket-shop  deals.

The  real  and  only  safe  way  to  con­
trol  credit  is to  sell  for  cash.  Hasten  the 
arrival  of  that  day ! 

J.  F.  Berger.

U nder  F avorable  Conditions.

Flunk—That  man  Fluster  has  a  won­

derful  command  of  language.

Thunk— Indeed  he  has. 
I  dropped 
nto  his  home  yesterday  when  he  was 
trying  to  put  up  a  stovepipe.

Not  E xclusive.

Nellie  (aged  5)—Our  family  is  awful­

ly  exclusive. 

Is  yours?

Bessie  (aged  4 )—No, 

indeed!  We 

haven’t  anything  to  be  ashamed  of.

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M I C H I G A N  

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S M A N

The  Meat  Market

C hanges  W hich  Tw enty-five  Years  H ave 

B rought.

“ There  goes  a  man who made  his  pile 
in  the  retail  butcher  business.  Oh!  but 
things  were  different  in  his  days.’ ’

I 

I  can 

frequently  hear  this  remark  from 
young  butchers,  and  know  there  is  a 
vast  amount  of  truth  in  it.  Twenty-five 
years  ago  it  was  not  necessary for  a  man 
to  have  half  the  experience  to  run  a 
is  now  requisite  to 
large  market  that 
If  the  old-timers 
conduct  a  small  one. 
who  have  retired  were  to  start 
in  busi­
ness  again under  the  same circumstances 
they  would  not  have  much  chance  of 
succeeding. 
look  back  into  the 
past  and  see  one  of  the  old-fashioned 
markets,  with 
its  grim  old  fixtures. 
Marble  was  then  regarded  as  only  a 
piece  of  extravagance.  Now 
it  is  re­
garded  as  of  as  much  importance  as  an 
ice-box. 
In  those  days  the  proprietor 
went  to  the  slaughter-house  in  the morn­
ing,  bought  all  the  meat  he  needed  for 
a  day  or  week  and  left  his  wife  behind 
the  counter. 
In  those  days  every  butch­
er’s  wife  was  a  butcher.  She  could  cut 
meat  as  good  as  he,  and  did  her  share 
of  the  work.  To-day  the  female  butcher 
is  so  scarce  that  when  one  is  discovered 
the  daily  papers  print  her  picture,  as 
if  she  were  a  wonderful 
freak.  And 
the  butcher  was  not  asked  when  he  was 
going  to  pay  for  what  he  bought.  The 
money  question  was  evidently  of  the 
most  trivial 
importance.  On  his  way 
home  from  the  slaughter-house  he  did 
not  develop  wrinkles  and  gray  hair 
worrying  whether Mrs.  Blank  would  pay 
her  bill,  so  that  he  could  make  good  his 
debts  when  the  week  ended. 
If  Mrs. 
Blank  did  not  pay  until  next  month,  he 
would  not  pay  until  next  month.  And 
so  it  went.  Those  were  happy  times.

♦  

♦  

♦

in 

service”  

He  did  not  have  to  rush  around  to  put 
up  orders,  unless 
it  was  an  order  for 
some  woman  who  was  to  stop  in  for  it 
little 
on  her  way  home.  There  was 
“ delivery 
those  days. 
There  were  no  orders  to  “ send  up  half 
a  pound  of  French  chops  or half a  pound 
of  bacon,  right  aw ay.”   Brown  paper 
was  good  enough  to  put  around  the  best 
m eat;  bags  were  practically  unknown 
in  the  trade.  For  common  meats  news­
papers  were  considered  good  enough  for 
wrappers.  The  customers  were  different 
then,  too.  A  butcher 
in  business  now 
has  to  deal  with  people  who  can  eat  no 
steak  unless  it  be  a  flat  bone  or  a  roast 
of  the  first  cut,  loin  chops that  have  nice 
tenderloins  in  and  veal  chops  with  the 
kidney.  The  butcher  of  to-day— I  am 
speaking  of the average butcher—shrinks 
almost  two  inches  when  he  sees  one  of 
his  customers  coming 
in  to  whom  he 
sent  a  slice  of  ham  the  day  before,  for 
he  knows  she  is  about  to  register  a  kick 
because  the  slice  was  not  out  of  the 
middle.

*  *  *

Then  Mrs.  Green  sends  back  one-half 
of  a  broiler  and  wants  to  know  if  you 
“ could  not  keep  it  until  to-morrow  and 
send  it  up  with  the  box  of  matches  she 
told  the  grocer to  leave  at  the  store,  as 
the  company  she  expected  did  not 
It’s  true  a  man  can  not  expect 
come.”  
all  sunshine 
in  his  life,  and  if  he  did 
get  it  he  would  not  enjoy  it,  but  1  don’t 
think  I  am  saying  too  much  when  I  as­
sert  that  the  man  who  puts  in  five  years 
at  the  business  now  and  manages  to 
make  money  deserves  more  credit  and 
praise  than  the  old-timers  who  became 
rich.

Butchers  occasionally  get  ahead  on 
chuck  of  lambs,  and  before  letting  them 
get  dark  they  put  them  up  at  a  very  low 
figure.  So  I  will  mention  here  a  way  in 
which  they  can  be  disposed  of  at  a  fair 
price.  Take  a  single  chuck  of  lamb 
that  has  about  four  ribs  in ;  take  all  the 
bone  out,  but  manage  to  keep  the  blade 
and  the  shank  bone  together. 
Then 
place  the  shank  and  blade  bone  back  so 
the  shank  bone  sticks  out  one  end,  the 
blade  the  other,  and  skewer  up  tightly. 
Nick  the  blade  bone,  if  soft,  and  put  on 
some  lard  drop  for  decorative  purposes. 
This  can  be  done  by  taking  a  small 
quantity  of  lard  in  the  hands  and  work­
ing  it  until  it  gets  soft.  Then  put  it  in 
funnel-shaped  toot.  The  lard  can  be 
a 
put 
in  any  design  by  pressing  the 
toot.  This 
lamb-duck,  and 
commands  a  good  price.— Butchers’  A d­
vocate.
P ick le  W hich 

lloes  Not  M ake  Corned 
B eef l>ark.

is  called 

in 

There’s  an  old  saying  among  butchers 
that  “ appearances  are  half  the  sale,”  
by  which  is  meant  that  as much depends 
on  how  a  piece  of  meat  is  cut  and  how 
it 
looks  as  on  its  quality.  Especially 
is  this  true ‘ of  corned  beef. 
If  corned 
beef  does  not  have  a  nice  red  color  it 
will  not  please  the  customer’s  eye.  A 
butcher  who  gains  a  reputation  for  fine 
is  sure  to  have  a  big  run 
corned  beef 
on  this  trade. 
It  is  probable  that  many 
country  butchers  will  not  credit  the 
statement  that  there  is  a  retail  butcher 
in  New  York  City  whose  sales  of  corned 
beef  every  Saturday  amount  to $350.  But 
it  is  true,  nevertheless.  He  employs  a 
man  who  has  the  reputation  for  making 
the  finest  pickle  in  the  country. 
I  am 
not  that  man,  and  what  his  formula  is  I 
do  not  know,  but  I  do  claim  to  know 
something  about  this  subject  I  have  un­
dertaken  to  discuss.  How  often  do  you 
hear  a  customer  say : 
is  it  your 
corned  beef  is  so  dark?”   The  butcher 
is  not  always  at  fault  for  having  dark 
corned  beef,  but  a  great  many  of  these 
dark  pieces  he  often  has  on  hand  could 
be  gotten  rid  of  before  they  reached that 
condition,  if  he  had  prepared  his pickle 
right.

“ Why 

To  make  good  pickle  one  must  have 
good  material.  Take  a  clean  tierce, 
tub,  or  any  other  utensil  you  are  in  the 
habit  of  making  pickle  in,  and  use  for 
every  pail  of  salt  three  and  one-half 
pails  of  water,  one  and  one-half  ounces 
of  saltpetre.  Stir  up  well,  and  then 
let 
it  settle  until  all  the  dirt  comes  to  the 
surface,  then  skim  it  off.  Before  plac­
ing  the  meat 
in  the  barrel  or  tank  it 
should  be  thoroughly  chilled,  especially 
in  summer.  Some  butchers  are opposed 
to  stabbing  the  meat,  but  I  have  always 
liberally  and  found  the  result 
done  so 
satisfactory. 
Instead  of  rubbing  each 
piece  with  salt  as  it  is  laid  in  the  bar- 
'  rel,  as  some  butchers  do,  spread  a  hand­
ful  of  sugar  on  each  layer.  One  pound 
of  sugar to  every  one  hundred pounds  of 
meat  is  the  proper  portion.  When  the 
meat  is  all  in,  pour  the  pickle 
in  until 
is  covered,  and  place  a  weight  onto 
it 
keep  the  meat  down. 
In  fourteen  days 
take  the  meat  out  of  the  barrel  or  tank 
and  place  it  in  another  barrel  of  pickle 
that  has  already  been  used. 
In  three 
days  it  will  be  ready  for  the  consumer.
instruct  their 
customers  about  the  proper  way  to  cook 
corned  beef. 
is  put  in  hot  water 
it  becomes  hard  and  knotty.  The  proper 
way  is  to  place  it  in  cold  water  and 
let 
it  simmer  until  cooked.

Butchers  should  also 

If 

it 

Highest Market  Prices  Paid.  Regular Shipments Solicited.

98 South  Division Street, 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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.

I P O T T E R   &  W ILLIAM S

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

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IN  C A N S   A N D   B U L K .

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
tations.  We  want  your  business.  Refer,  by  permission,  to 
Grand  Rapids  National  Bank.

STROUP  &  CARMER,

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

G R A N D   R A P ID S ,  M IC H .

w a n t e d

We are always in the market for Fresh

BUTTER  AND  EGGS

t   3 6   M arket  S tre e t.

R.  HIRT,  JR.,  Detroit, Mich.

A ssociation  to  H ave  a   M eat  F air.

The  Butchers’  and  Marketmen’s Asso­
ciation  of  Providence,  R.  I.,  has  de­
cided  to  hold  a  fair  of  a  most  novel 
character.  There  will  be  meats  and  also 
animals  alive  as  a  leading  feature,  and 
it  will  be  possible  that  some  parts  of 
the  exhibition  will  resemble  a  cattle 
show. 
In  addition,  there  will  be  other 
articles  that  are  to  be  found  in  the  mar­
kets.  An  entertainment  also  of  a  pleas­
ant  character will  be  provided.

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 trade at close prices.

The Vinkemulder Company,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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Fruits and  Produce.

P rep aratio n   o f  P o u ltry   for  th e  E astern 

M arket.

for  that  reason  much  more 

Directions  for  the  preparation  of poul­
try  for  market  are  so  often  repeated  as 
to  be  almost  hackneyed  and  yet  they  are 
all  too  frequently  neglected. 
In  sum­
mer  it  is  necessary  to  ice-dress  poultry, 
is 
and 
shipped  alive  than  during 
the  cold 
weather,  when  shipping  alive  means 
simply  paying  unnecessary 
freight  on 
waste.  However,  no  rules  can  be  given 
as  to  when  poultry  should  be  dressed 
and  when  not.  The  only  safe  method 
is  to  ascertain  the  requirements  of  your 
own  market.  When  shipping  alive  do 
not  crowd  too  closely  in  the  crate.  It  re­
sults 
in  the 
birds  that  it  more  than  offsets  the  slight 
saving  in  transportation  charges.  Any 
commission  merchant  who  handles poul­
try  will  send  you  crates  free,  you  pay­
ing  only  transporation  charges.

in  such  heavy  shrinkage 

See  that  the  birds  are  well  fed  and 
leaving  home.  Put  a 
watered  before 
small  amount  of  green  stuff 
into  the 
crate,  as,  for  instance,  cabbage  attached 
to  the  top  (half  a  head  at  each  end). 
This  the 
fowls  can  eat  easily,  it  will 
not  get  fouled,  and  will  help  to  keep 
the  birds  in  health,  besides  saving  them 
from  the  intense  thirst  from  which  they 
frequently  suffer  when  they  receive  only 
dry  food. 
is  short  the 
cabbage  will  be  sufficient,  but  if  long 
some  dry  food  will  have  to  be  provided.
is  possible  let  the  fowls  be 
of  one  color. 
If  they  are  all  of  one 
breed  better  still.  A   crate  of  pure-bred 
fowls,  or  even  a  uniform 
lot  of  half- 
breeds,  never  fails  to  attract  attention. 
If  at  all  possible,  let  their  ages  be  uni­
form  in  each  crate;  crating  old  birds  by 
themselves,  springs  by  themselves,  and 
so  on,  always  pays.

journey 

If  the 

When 

it 

Dressed  Poultry,  except  ducks  and 
geese,  is  best  packed  in  barrels.  The 
birds  should  not  have  food  for twenty- 
, four hours  before  killing.  Killing is  best 
done  by  running  a  sharp  knife  through 
the  roof  of  the  mouth,  making  a  suffi­
cient  wound  to  bring  the  blood  freely. 
Hang  by  the  feet  and  allow  all  the blood 
to  escape.  Do  not  remove  the  head, 
feet,  crop  or  intestines.  Pick  the  legs 
dry,  and  holding  by  the  legs  and  head 
dip  three  times  in  water  just  below  the 
boiling  point.  Keep  the  head  out  of  the 
hot  water. 
If  the  head  is  dipped  it  dis­
colors  the  comb  and  shrinks  the  eyes, 
giving  buyers  the 
impression  that  the 
bird  has  been  sick.  Remove  all  the 
feathers, 
at 
once,  taking  care  not  to  break  the  skin, 
and  then  “ plump”   by  dipping  for  an 
instant 
into  water  almost  boiling,  and 
then  into  cold  water.  Hang  up  the  fowl 
and  allow  it  to  get  perfectly  cold  before 
packing.

including  pin 

feathers, 

and turkeys,  but  must  be  kept  in a  trifle 
longei,  as  the  feathers  are  more  difficult 
to  loosen. 
It  does  not  pay  to  pick  them 
alive  for  the  sake  of  saving  the  feathers, 
as  the  small  profit  derived  from  them  is 
more  than  lost  on  the  sale  of  the  birds, 
the  result  being  so  to  inflame  the  skin 
as to  greatly  injure  the  sale.  Leave  the 
head  and  upper  portion  of  the  neck  un­
picked  and  the 
legs  and  feet  intact. 
Sometimes  the  feathers  are  left  on  the 
first  joint  of  the  wing  and  on  the  tail. 
Never  singe  ducks  and  geese,  as 
it 
leaves  the  skin  oily and uninviting.  Un­
less  your  birds 
look  clean  and  attrac­
tive,  don’t  ship  either  ducks  or  geese  to 
market. 
If  poorly  prepared,  they  are 
more  than  likely  not  to bring  transporta­
tion.

in  boxes,  the 

for  that  reason 

Great  care  must  be  exercised  in  pre­
paring  game  for  market.  Unless  it  is  to 
be  “ iced”  
it  should  never  be  drawn. 
Prairie  chickens,  quail,  partridge,  and 
woodcock  are  best  wrapped,  each  sep­
arately,  in  a  piece  of  clean  paper  before 
packing,  and  then  packed  in  barrels. 
Nothing  should  be  done  to  wild  turkeys 
and  ducks  but  to  pack  them  neatly,  the 
former 
latter  in  barrels. 
Shot 
injures  the  sale,  and  for  that  rea­
son  trapping  is  preferable.  When  birds 
are  badly  shot  they  are  more  liable  to 
should  be 
spoil,  and 
packed  separately. 
In  shipping  veni­
liver  and  lights,  and  when 
son,  remove 
sending  only  the  saddles,  wrap  them 
in 
the  skin  of  the  shoulders  and  neck, 
which  keeps  them  clean  and  attractive. 
Commission  men  usually  find  good  de­
mand  for  lambs  from  September to  July 
1,  but  during  July  and  August  the  trade 
is  monopolized  by  the  packers. 
In  pre­
paring  lambs  for  market,  the  head  and 
hoofs  should  be 
left  on,  as  well  as  the 
lamb  should  be  split  down 
pelt.  The 
the  entrails,  etc.,  removed, 
the  belly, 
the  caul 
fat  not  removed,  but  drawn 
over  the  kidneys,  which  should  never 
be  disturbed. 
leave 
the 
in  during  the  cold  weather, 
but  to  remove  them  in  warm  weather. 
The  lamb  being  dressed,  it  should  be 
“ set  back,”   which  consists  of  placing 
two  sharp  pointed  sticks  of  even 
length 
at  the  back 
in  the  shape  of  an  “ X, ”  
the  edges  of  the  skin  being  caught  back 
on  the  points,  thus 
leaving  the  inner 
surface  exposed  to  a  free  circulation  of 
air.  The  law  prohibits  boxing  or other­
wise 
inclosing,  but'  coarse  muslin  is 
often  drawn  over the  open  side.

It  is  customary  to 

lights 

In  dressing  veal,  the  calf  should  be 
split  from  throat  to  tail,  and  everything 
but  the  kidneys,  which  should  not  be 
disturbed,  removed.  The  lights  should 
never  be 
in.  The  head  and  feet 
should  also  be  removed.  The  dressed 
calf  must  not  be  boxed  or  otherwise 
in­
closed,  although some express companies 
require  a  piece  of  muslin  to  be tied over 
the  neck. 

George  C.  Hill.

left 

Dry-picked  poultry  sells  better  if  the 
picking  is  properly  done,  but  it  is  more 
difficult  to  do  well  and  takes  more  time. 
To  dry-pick  properly,  the  work  should 
be  begun  immediately  after  the  bird  is 
killed  and  while  the  blood  is  still  flow­
ing,  as  after  the  body  gets  cold  it  is  al­
impossible  to  avoid  tearing  the 
most 
skin. 
In  packing, 
the  head  may  be 
placed  under the  wing,  but the  body  and 
legs  should  be  straightened  out.  Pack­
ages  holding  from  too  to  200  pounds sell 
most  readily.  The  birds  should  be 
packed  tightly  to  avoid  any  slipping 
in 
the  package.

The  best  method  of  picking  ducks 
and  geese  is  to  steam  them. 
is 
impracticable,  they  may  be  dipped  into 
very  hot  water  the  same  as  chickens,

If  this 

P a ck in g   In crease  in  O m aha.

The  annual  summary  of  business  at 
Omaha  stock  yards  is  interesting,  as  an 
evidence  of  the  great 
increase  in  the 
packing  and  stock  yards  industry  there. 
During  1898  the  packing  house  product 
represented  $90,000,000.  Last  year  the 
business  represented  $100,000,000.  The 
packers  employ  11,200  people,  and  the 
wages  for  the  year  amounted  to $5,800,- 
is  now  on  foot  to 
000.  A  movement 
have  a 
located  at  the 
yards.

large  tannery 

Set  F ire   to   H is  P o rk .

W.  B.  Holmes,  a  grocer  of  Danville, 
K y .,  a  few  days  ago  became  convinced 
that  the  selling  of  pork  and  lard  was 
contrary  to  the  Scripture,  and  his  stock 
of  both  was  carried  to  the  street  and 
ignited.  He  is  a  Presbyterian.

B E A N S

We  are  in  the  market  for  all  kinds, white  or 
colored, good or poor,  car lots or less;  also
C U LL  BEANS  AND  SC R EE N IN G S

If any to sell  send  good size sample, state quan­
tity,  and  we will  make bid  for them.
ALFRED  J.  BROWN  SEED  CO.

2 4   A ND   2 6   N.  D IV IS IO N   S T ..
G R A N D   R A P ID S .  M IC H .

S

W A N TED

Five  hundred  bushels  first  quality  1898

2 T 0   PEARL  S T R E E T . 

C L E V E L A N D .  O HIO

rice popcorn  shelled  or on  ear.
GEO.  G.  WILLARD

BEANS

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

Always  in  the  market.

W H O L E S A L E   D EALER   IN

2 6 - 2 8 - 3 0 - 3 2   OTTAW A  ST.,  GRAND  RAPIDS 

MILLER Sl TEASDALE CO.. S T .  LO U IS .  MO.

Write  us  what  you  have  to  offer.

Receivers and  Distributors of  Fruits and  Produce  in  car lots.

J.  W.  LANSING,

M O SELEY  BROS.
Seeds,  Beans,  Potatoes,  Onions,  Apples.
M AKE  A  NOTE  OF  IT.  WE  W ANT

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The question  of "Foods”  has become one of the very  first  importance of the 
present  day and  one  in  which every Grocery and  Provision  dealer is deeply 
interested, because he  is  called  upon  to supply  his  patrons  with  the  very 
best at the  most  reasonable prices.  To aia  you  in  this we wish to call atten­
tion  to some  of our products  in  this  line.  You  have  dyspeptics  among  your 
customers and our  Whole  Wheat Crackers will  furnish  excellent food  to aid 
in  restoring  the weak  stomach and  preserving  the strong one.  They furnish 
work for the teeth, flavor for the  palate and nourishment  for the  entire  sys­
tem.  New  Era  Butter Crackers  (creamery butter shortened),  a high  grade 
cracker for soups, etc.  Gem Oatmeal Biscuits, a good seller, and Cereola, the 
king of Health Foods.  See price list for prices.  Address all communications to

BUTTER  AND  EGGS

R E FE R E N CE S:
I’iiHalo Cold Storage Co.. RuDallo, N. Y. 
Peoples Hank, Buttalo, N.  Y.

HEALTH  FOODS

I want all the roll butter I can get.  The market is  firm  at  from  seventeen  to  twenty 

cents, according to quality.  Send  me your shipments, for I can sell your goods.

BATTLE  CREEK  BAKERY,  Battle  Creek,  Mich.

B U FFA LO ,  N.  Y.

Dun or Hradstreet. 
Michigan Tradesman.

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handle only goods of V ALUE.
If you are satisfied to remain at 
the tail end, buy cheap unreliable  jQ 
goods.

Good  Yeast  Is  Indispensable.

FLEISCHMANN  &  CO.

H. 

U nder  T heir  Y E L L O W   L A B E L   O ffer  the  B E S T  I
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Grand  Rapids  Agency,  39 Crescent Ave.
Detroit Agency,  111  W est Larned  St.

Not How Cheap

But How Good.”

Ask  for  the  ** V .  C .”   brand  of  pure  Apple  Jelly,  fla­
vored  with  lemon,  for  a  fine  relish.  W atch  for  our 
Orange  Marmalade.  W e  cater  to  the  fine  trade. 
.

. 

6rai>4  R ap i4 s,  V^ich.

Valley  City  Syrup Co.  *

Be  Alive

and
handle

Advance
Cigars
Long Havana 

Filled

for 5 cents.

The  Bradley

Cigar Co.,

Greenville, Mich.

Gold

and
Friends
are made through ' 

selling

Improved

‘W.H.B’

Hand  Made 

Cigars.

10c,  3  for  25c.

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GOTHAM  GOSSIP.

News  F ro m   th e   M etropolis—Index  to   th e 

Special Correspondence.

M arket.

New  York,  Jan.  13— The  greatest  d i­
versity  of  opinion  seems  to  exist  among 
“ eminent  authorities”   as  to  the  condi­
tion  of  the  coming  coffee  crop  in  Santos 
and  Rio.  They  conflict 
in  the  most 
positive  manner  and  one  can  back  up 
any  kind  of  assertion  with  “ the  very 
latest  news.”   So,  with  such  diversity 
of  opinion, 
it  would  seem  that  time 
alone  can  determine  the  true  state  of 
affairs.  Thursday  came  a  report  of 
plague  at  Rio  and 
the  market  here 
seemed  to  believe  it  to  be true;  at  least, 
there  was  quite  a  sharp  advance,  which 
was  fairly  well  held.  No.  7  closed  firm 
at  8c.  with  the  market  decidedly  firm. 
In  store  and  afloat  there  are  1,136,646 
bags,  against  1,232,321  bags  at  the same 
time 
last  year.  Mild  grades,  in  sym­
pathy  with  other  sorts,  have  shown  some 
is  firm  and 
advance  and 
steady.  Good  Cucuta 
ioj^ 

the  market 

is  worth 

@ioj£c.

The  sugar  market 

is  firm,  but  the 
actual  volume  of  business  is  small,  as 
might  perhaps  be  expected  at  this  sea­
son.  Jobbers  seem  to  be  pretty  well 
supplied  and  all  hands  are  in  a  sort  of 
“ waiting  mood.”   The  address  of  Mr. 
Havemeyer  to  his  stockholders  has  been 
read  with  a  good  deal  of  interest  ¿nd 
seems  to  show  a  willingness— after  a 
g<xxl  deal  of  prodding— to  permit  the 
stockholders—and, 
the 
public—to  have  some  knowledge  of  the 
manner  in  which  the  “ masheen”   is . be­
ing  conducted.  Heretofore  it  has  been 
none  of  the  stockholders’  business.

incidentally, 

At  the  auction  sales  of  teas  there  was 
less  animation  arid  the  general  run  of 
prices  was  somewhat  lower  than  previ­
ously.  Still  the  Street  shows  a  fairly 
good  undertone  and  there  is  a  feeling 
of  confidence  in  the  future.  Buyers  are 
not  taking  large  lots,  but  the  aggregate 
foots  up  well.

Rice  is  steady.  The  market  is in good 
shape  and  holders  seem  to  be  confident 
that  things  “ will  come  their  w ay.”  
Choice  head 
is  worth  5^@6j^c.  For­
eign  sorts  are  quiet,  but  have  been  in 
pretty  good  request  during  the  past 
three  days  and  close  firm  at  previous 
rates.

While  some  spice  jobbers  report  some 
business, 
the  general  run  of  trade  is 
very  quiet.  The  market,  however,  is 
firmly  held  and  dealers  seem  to  be  very 
unwilling  to  make any concessions.  Sin­
gapore  pepper,  1I^@I2J^C.

For desirable  grades  of  molasses  there 
has  been  a  fair  enquiry  and,  as  stocks 
are  decidedly  light,  there  is  every  pros­
pect  of  a  firm  market  for  some  time  to 
come.  Full  values  are  asked  and  read­
ily  obtained 
for  the  small  lots  of  syrup 
that  are  offered.  Prime  to  fancy  sugar 
goods  are  worth  from  2o@27c.
The  canned  goods  market 

is  quiet. 
There  is  little  doing in futures,  as  pack­
ers  are  unwilling  to  commit  themselves, 
and  some  of  the 
largest  “ shops”   in 
Maine,  Maryland  and  New  York  have 
not  sold  a  case  of  any  kind  of  goods  for 
future  delivery. 
It  is  generally  thought 
that  Maine  com  will  enter  the  market 
at  qoc,  as  some 
few  sales  have  been 
made  at  that  figure.  Tomatoes are  worth 
77J^@85c  for  standard  New Jersey pack ; 
Maryland,  65c  there.  Salmon  is  quiet 
and  some  concession 
is  made  rather 
than  miss  a  sale.  Red  Alaska  can  be 
purchased  from  § 1.12j£@i. 15.

Since  Christmas  the  market  for  all 
sorts  of  dried  fruits  has  been  dull  and 
there 
is  hardly  a  thing  calling  for  re­
mark.  Prices  remain  practically  un­
changed.  There  has  been  a  little  call 
for  peaches,  but  buyers  and  sellers  are 
too  far apart  to  arrive  at  an  agreement. 
There  is  some  export  demand  for  evap­
orated  apples,  which  are  selling  from 
8j4@9C.

Lemons  are  lower  and  the  situation  is 
comparatively  quiet  for  these,  as  well 
as  oranges.  Sicily 
lemons  range  from 
S>2.3o@3.25.  Florida  oranges  are  worth 
S3.5o@4  for  brights  and  $2.75 @3  for 
russets.

is  so  high 

in  price  that  de­
creased  consumption  has  set 
in,  as  it 
always  does  as  soon  as  butter touches the 
30c  mark.  The  market  generally  is  not

Butter 

it 

as  active  as  last  week  and  some  hesita­
tion  is  felt  in  taking  more  than  enough 
stock  for  daily  wants.  Fancy creamery, 
30c;  thirds  to  first,  2$ @ 2q c ,  with  every 
fraction  between;  imitation  creamery, 
ig@23c,  with  fancy  stock  up  to  25c; 
fresh  factory,  2o@23c;  rolls,  I7@ 2ic.

There  is  practically  no  change  in  the 
cheese  situation.  The  demand  is  light 
and  quotations  are  almost  exactly  as 
last  week.  Exporters  aie  showing  some 
interest  and 
is  barely  possible  the 
tide  may  turn  within  a  fortnight  and 
prices  take  an  upward  twist.

The  demand 

for  eggs  is  sufficient  to 
keep  the  market  well  cleaned  up  and 
the  outlook 
just  at  the  moment  is  for 
well-sustained  quotations  for  some time. 
Fresh  gathered  Western  stock  is  worth 
20c.

is  a  steady  bean  market  and 
increasing  strength  is  shown  every  day. 
Choice  marrow,  $2.15@2.25;  choice  me­
dium,  $2.05;  Michigan  pea,  $2.02^ 
@2.05.

Western  potatoes  are  meeting  with 
good  call  and  are  worth  $i.5o@2  per  180 
pounds.

There 

K new   th e   Voice.
lady  who 

A   dear  old 

lived  upon 
Cherry  street  died  suddenly  the  other 
day.  Her  death  was  completely  unex­
pected— in  fact,  the  evening  before  she 
died  she  had  been  persuaded  to  speak 
into  the  receiver of  a  phonograph owned 
by  her  son-in-law. 
It  turned  out  to  be 
a  remarkably  good  record,  for the  old 
lady  had  a  peculiarly  shrill  voice,  and 
as  she  sang  her  favorite  hymn 
into  the 
phonograph  the  reproduction  was  per­
fect.

Now,  there  is  a  colored  girl 

in  the 
•family  who  possesses  all  the  supersti­
tions  of her race.  A   couple  of  days  after 
the  funeral  she  was  dusting the furniture 
in  the  sitting  room  when  she  inadvert­
ently  turned  the  switch  that  started  the 
phonograph.  As 
luck  would  have  it, 
the  cylinder  was  the  one  containing  the 
old 
lady’s  hymn,  and  it  rang  out  with 
startling  distinctness.  The  colored  girl 
stood  rooted  to  the  spot,  gasping  for 
breath.  It  was  fully  a  minute  before  she 
quite  recovered  her  faculties,  and  then, 
with  a  yell  of,  “ Foh  de  good  Lawd’s 
sake!  Missy 
’ Liza’s  com eback!”   she 
ran  down  stairs.  No  amount  of  explain­
ing  could  convince  her  that  there  was 
nothing  supernatural  about 
it,  so  she 
took  her  clothes  and  went.

A ll  R ig h t  B u t th e   Nam e.

A  salesman 

in  H.  Leonard  &  Sons’ 
establishment  is  responsible  for the  fol­
lowing :

“ A  day  or  two  ago,”  said he,  “ a  lady 
came  in  the  store  and  began  to  examine 
some  fine  cups  and  saucers.  Nothing 
suited  her.  At  last,  however,  she  found 
some  that  pleased  her,  and,  smiling  in­
nocently,  said: 
these  are  very 
nice,  and  I  like  the  way  they  are  made, 
with  different  names  on  them. 
If  I 
could  find  some  with  the  names  I  want,
I  would  take  them,  but  all  I  see  read 
“ Tom  and  Jerry.”   ’  ”

‘ Now, 

A n  E conom ical  H usband.

An  Owosso  dentist  had  a  peculiar  ex­
perience  the  other  day.  A   man  called 
at  his  office  and  requested  the  loan  of  a 
pair  of  forceps,  saying  he  wanted  to 
draw  his  wife’s  teeth.  The  dentist  re­
fused  to 
lend  his  forceps,  but  the  man 
was  not  satisfied  and  going  to  a  hard­
ware  store  bought  a  pair  of  common 
pinchers,  with  which  he  endeavored  to 
draw  the  teeth.  The  woman’s  face  was 
badly  lacerated  and  her gums  were  in  a 
fearful  condition  when  she  called  upon 
the  dentist  the  next  day  to  have  the  job 
finished  up.  The  husband's  idea  was 
economy.

U nsuspected  U tility   D iscovered.

A  well-known  woman  in  Muskegon, 
while  skating  on  Muskegon  Lake,  fell 
through  the  ice,  and  when  her  husband 
pulled  her  out  she  found  a  trout  caught 
in  the  wire  meshes  of  her  bustle,  which 
had  served  as  a  kind  of 
life  preserver. 
It  pleased  her  husband  greatly,  as  he 
thought  he  had  found  a  way  to  catch 
trout  without  bothering  with  bait.  He 
requested  her to  go  back  into  the  water 
ana  “ be  set  over  again,”   as  he  said, 
but  she  declined, 

.

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17

Council  and  taken  from  us  our  beloved 
brother,  J.  P.  Reeder.  While  he  had 
been 
ill  for  some  time,  his  demise  was 
unexpected.  We  cherish  the  belief  that 
he  has  at  last  found  eternal  rest  in  the 
arms  of  his  Maker  and  that  “ a  smile  of 
vine  approval  was  his  final  reward.”  

Adam  Dubb.

G ripsack  B rigade.

int  Aniba  has  engaged 

to 
gars  for  G.  F.  Faude,  of  Ionia.
Z.  D.  Barnhart  &  Son  have purchased 
the  hotel  at  Butternut,  remodeled  it  and 
added  new  furniture  throughout.  They 

sell 

ill  run  a  livery  in  connection.
John  R.  Van  Keppel,  who  has  been 
salesman  for  the  Walsh-DeRoo  Milling 
Co.  (Holland)  for  three  years,  has  taken 
the  management  of  the  new  roller  mill 

Zeeland.
An  Escanaba  correspondent  w rites: 
eorge  Walz,  who  has  until  recently 
been  employed 
in  this  city  by  W.  W. 
Oliver,  has  taken  a  position  with  the 
arshall  Wells  Hardware  Co.,  of  Du­

luth,  as  traveling  representative.

Chas.  H.  Smith,  who  was  with  the 
fells-Stone  Co.  for  nine  years  and 
for 
the 
last  three  years  with  Phipps,  Pen- 
oyer  &  Co.,  has  entered  the  employ  of 
Wm.  Barie  &  Son,  wholesale  dry  goods 
dealers  at  Saginaw,  as  credit  man.

Fred  Glass,  Jr.,  formerly druggist and 
chemist  at  151  South  Burdick  street, 
Kalamazoo,  has engaged to  represent  the 
^ange-Ross  Co. 
(Chicago),  manufac­
turer  of  pharmaceutical  products,  per­
fumes  and  toilet  requisites,  in  the  ca­
pacity  of  traveling  salesman,  his  terri­
tory  embracing  the  entire  State of Mich- 
gan.

Hudson  Gazette:  A.  J.  Colvin,  wh< 
has  been  representing  the  well-known 
grocery  house  of  Phelps,  Brace & Co.,  of 
Detroit,  in  Michigan  and  Indiana  for 
the  past  eight  years,  resigned  his  posi 
ion  January  1,  and  will  in  the  future 
devote  his  entire  attention  to  the  inter 
ests  of  the  drug  and  grocery  firm  of  E, 
).  Clarke  &  Co.,  of which he  is  a  mem 
ber.

G rand  Rapid**  R etail Grocer** A**ociation.
At  the  regular  meeting  of  the  Grand 
Rapids  Retail  Grocers'  Association held 
Tuesday  evening,  Jan.  16,  Vice-Presi­
dent  Winchester  [»resided.

The  special  Committee  on  Sunday 
Closing reported  progress  and  was  given 
further  time.

The  special  Committee  on Banquet  re­
ported  that  everything  was  in  readiness 
for  the  second  annual  banquet,  which 
will  take  place  at  Sweet’s  Hotel  on  the 
evening  of  Jan.  29. 
Invitations  have 
issued  and,  from  present  indica­
been 
tions,  the  attendance  will  be  large.
A   communication  was  received 

from 
Wm.  H.  Porter,  Secretary  of the  Jackson 
Retail  Grocers’  Association,  stating  that 
the  ninth  annual  banquet  of  that  organ­
ization  would  occur  on  the  evening  of 
'an.  25  and  that  a  delegation  of  Grand 
Rapids  grocers  was  invited  to  attend.
—he  invitation  was  accepted  and  Peter 
Braun,  C.  W.  Payne  and  Homer  Kiap 
ere  selected  to  visit  Jackson  on  the 
ite  named.
B.  S.  Harris  called  attention  to  the 
»flowing  article  which  appeared  in  the 

Chicago  Herald  of  last  Sunday :

There  are  gratifying  indications  that 
the  best  organized  Sunday closing move­
ment  ever  inaugurated  in  Chicago  will 
culminate  successfully  to-day. 
If  all 
pledges  given  to  the  officers  of  the 
Butchers  and  Retail G r°cery Clerks'  As- 
iciation  are  faithfully  kept  the  entire 
ity  will  be  closed  as  tight  as  a  drum 
this  morning  so  far  as  the  sale  of  meats 
nd  provisions  is  concerned.
The  zeal  and  earnestness  displayet 
by  the  clerks’  associations  in  undertak 
ng  a  work  of  such  great  magnitude  ai 
hat  involved  in  the  closing  on  Sunday 
f  all  the  meat  markets  and  groceries  in 
city  the  size  of  Chicago  should  com 
mand  public  sympathy  irrespective  c 
the  questions  of  ethics,  morals  or  re
g 'on- 
.
So  far  as  the  clerks  are  concerned,  1
s  a  movement  for  a  seventh-da y  rest  tt 
which  they  are  fairly  entitled  along wit! 
'aborers  in  all  other  departments  of 
lustrial  activity.  With  them 
it  is  not 
ntirely  a  question  of  public  morals, 
but  a  question  of  human  rights. 
It  is 
Iso,  in  its  larger  aspects,  a  question  of 
ndustrial  economy 
that  may  properly 
ppeal  to  the  intelligent and  fair-minded 
ublic,  to  whose  indifference  and  neg­
lect  the  open  meat  market  and  grocery 
Sunday  morning  are  justly  charge­

, 

, 

able.

n  a  given  district  declined  to  close  on 
Sunday  and  customers  who  failed  to 
urchase  supplies  on  Saturday  could 
atronize  him,  Sunday closing  could  not 
succeed.

If  all  the  retailers  will  close  on  Sun­
day  the  public  will  be  compelled  to pur­
chase  on  Saturday.  The  movement  is 
n  the  interest  of  good  morals,  economy 
ind 
the 
hearty  co-operation  of  the  public.

fair  play,  and  should  have 

Mr.  Harris  also  called  attention  to  the 
rutchers’  ordinance  now  in  the  hands  of 
the  Common  Council  and,  on  motion  of 
.  Geo.  Lehman, 
the  chairman  ap- 
jointed  Messrs.  Lehman,  Brink  and 
Klap  to  appear  before  the Committee  on 
Ordinances  and  present  the  views  of  the 
Association  on  the  subject.

During  the  course  of  the  evening  it 
was  discovered  that  several  Grand  Rap- 
ds  grocers  had  been  victimized  by  the 
El wood  Manufacturing  Co.  on the  paper 
>ag  deal.

There  being  no  further business,  the 

meeting  adjourned.

H ides,  Pelts,  Furs.  Tallow   am i  Wool. 
Hides  are  lower,  with  a  demand  that 
takes  all  offerings.  The  market  is  well 
cleaned  up. 
Packers’  hides  remain 
firm  and  without  change.

Pelts  are 

in  good  demand,  with  no 

accumulation.

Furs  still  wait  for  the opening sales  in 
London  on  Jan.  14.  The  offerings  are 
double  in  volume  of  last  year.

Tallow  holds  its  advance  firmly,  with 
a  good  demand  for  all  grades.  The  ex­
port  trade  is  light.

Wool  holds  firm,  with an  upward  tend­
ency.  There  are  many  buyers  in  the 
market  looking,  while  the 
large  manu­
facturers  seem  to  be  well stocked.  ’I heir 
manufactured  goods  are  meeting  with 
good  results,  and  trade,  apparently,  will 
be  satisfactory  and  heavy.

Wm.  T.  Hess.

HOTEL FOR SALE

The well-known  Cushman  House,  at  l’e- 
toskey.  Is  now  offered  for  sale, one-half 
down,  security  for  balance.  Hotel  and 
furniture remodeled ;  new lavatories, tile 
flooring  there  and  In  office;  spacious 
veranda;  all-year-round  hotel;  commer­
cial men's headquarters;  one of  the  best 
paying  properties  in  Michigan:  steam 
heat and electric lights.  Reason for  sell 
ing, owners wish to retire  from  business. 
Address  Cushman & Le w is,  Petoskey< 
Mich.

M enom inee  G rocers  P ractically   a  IJi 

Menominee,  Jan.  15— The  Menominee 
Retail  Grocers'  Association  comprises 
all  the  merchants  who  sell  sugar  and 
coffee  and  staple  articles  in  small  quan 
tities,  with  the  exception  of  one  dealer 
Dennis  Charles,  the  Grand  avenue  gro 
cer,  claims  the  doubtful  honor  of  being 
the  obdurate  merchant  and  avows  that 
he  “ will  not  join  any  union  or  combine 
and  no  one  can  run  his  business  for 
him .”   The  purpose  of  the  Association 
s  for  protection  and  mutual  benefit  and 
not  to  regulate  prices  as  some  have 
ferred.  The  Association 
is  protected 
from  the  encroachments  of  wholesale 
grocers,  manufacturers,  etc.  The  new 
ly  elected  officers  are :

President— Frank  Despins.
Recording  Secretary— Bert  Bliss. 
Financial  Secretary— Jas.  F.  Pelnar 
Treasurer— Fred  Cota.
During  the  past  year  the  Association 
held  meetings  monthly  and  an  informal 
spread  usually  followed  each  gathering 
Sociablity  among  business  men  has 
been  encouraged.

James  J.  Hill,  President  of  the  Great 
Northern  Railroad,  says:  “ I believe  the 
prosperity  has  come  to  stay. 
I  look  for 
a  continuous  reign  of  good  times  for 
the  next  twenty  years.  Of  course  1  am 
an  optimist. 
I  never  yet  met  a  man 
who  amounted  to  anything  who  wasn 
an  optimist.  Hope,  nerve,  confidence 
all  go  together  to  make  success.  N 
malt  can  remain  in  my  employ  for  one 
hour  who  hasn’t  those  three  qualifica 
tions. ”

It  has  been  obvious  all  along  that  the 
success  of  a  Sunday  closing  movement 
was  merely  a  question  of  organization 
ind  education.  So  long  as  one  retailer
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Geo.  N.  Huff &  Co.

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BUTTER,  EGGS AND POULTRY 

74  Congress Street East,  Detroit,  Mich. 

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Michigan  Knights  of the  Grip

President,  E.  J.  Sc h r e ib e r ,  Bay  City;  Sec­
retary,  A.  W.  St it t ,  Jackson;  Treasurer, 
O.  C.  Gould, Saginaw.

President,  A.  Ma r y m o n t,  Detroit;  Secretary 

Michigan  Commercial  Tranlen’  Association 
and Treasurer, Ge o .  W. H i l l , Detroit.
United  Commercial  Tranlen  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  Tranlen’  Mutnal  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.

M ovem ents of U pper P en in su lar T raveling 

Men.

Marquette,  Jan.  15— Wm.  F.  Mitchell, 
who  has  covered  the  Lake  Superior 
country  for  Standart  Bros.  (Detroit)  the 
last  year,  has  signed  with  Hibbard, 
Spencer,  Bartlett  &  Co.  for  the  ensuing 
year.

W.  R.  Smith, who for several years  has 
represented  Hibbard,  Spencer,  Bartlett 
&  Co.  in  this  territory,  has  connected 
himself  with  W.  W.  Oliver  in  the  hard­
ware  business  at  Escanaba  under  the 
style 
the  Delta  Hardware  Co. 
“ B illy”   was  bom  with  a  hammer  in  his 
hand  and  has  been 
in  the  hardware 
business  ever  since;  and  to  those  who 
know  him,  success  is  an  assured  fact 
his  new  venture.

of 

F.  G.  Truscott,  who  for  several  years 
represented  Burnham,  Stoepel  &  Co.,  of 
Detroit,  has  associated  himself  with 
Finch,  Van  Slyck,  Young  &  Co.,  of  St 
Paul.  There  are  few  traveling  men 
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the  Upper  Peninsula  who  are  so  wel 
known  and  generally  well  liked  as  Fred 
is.  He  is the President  of  the  Lake  Su 
perior Commercial  Travelers’  Club  and 
makes  his  home  in  Marquette.  The  St. 
Paul  concern  is  lucky,  indeed,  to have 
secured  the  services  of  a  salesman  like 
Mr.  Truscott. 
is  a  conundrum  to  us 
to  understand  how any house could afford 
to  lose  his  services.

It 

E.  B.  Baldwin,  who  succeeded  A.  F 
Wixson  a  year  ago  to  this  territory  for 
the  Fletcher  Hardware  Co.,  of  Detroit 
has  severed  his  connection  and  gone 
with  the  Freeman,  Delamater  Co.,  to 
make  the  same  territory.

Chas.  Wheeler  succeeds  E.  B.  Bald 
win  for  Fletcher  Hardware  Co.  in  thi 
territory.  Charley  is  new  to  the  trade 
but  a  decidedly  old  slave  in  the  hard 
ware  business.  He  has  been  city  buyer 
for  the  Fletcher  Hardware  Co.  since  the 
/ear “ one.”
G rad u al  G row th  o f  th e   U nited  C om m er 

clal  T ravelers.

Grand  Rapids,  Jan.  15— Our  winter 
campaign  began  with  the  addition  of 
five  new  members.  Those  initiated were 
Herman  P.  Ernst,  E.  R.  Cherryman and 
Wm.  P.  Walsh.  T.  J.  Atkinson,  piano 
dealer  at  217  South  Division  street,  was 
accepted  by  transfer  card  from  Jackson 
Council,  No.  57,  and  Henry  A.  Brink 
representing  the  Worden  Grocer  Co 
who  was  unable  to  be  in  attendance  at 
the  meeting,  was  obligated 
Senior  Counselor  Keyes  and  Junior 
Counselor  Kolb.  Mr.  Ernst  represents 
the  Durfee  Embalming  Fluid  Co.,  M 
Cherryman  travels  for  the  Sweeperette 
Co.  and  Mr.  Walsh  is Southern salesman 
for  the  Aldine  Manufacturing  Co.  Th 
above  quintet  is  a  valuable  acquisition 
to  our  Council  and  we  want  more  just 
such  timber.

later 

Brother  Cherryman  was  the  lucky  one 
to  receive  the  honorary  degree  on  this 
occasion,  and  most  beautifully 
conduct  himself.

If  any  one  doubts  the  bravery  of  that 
they 
“ old  war  horse,”   Billy  Walsh, 
should  have  seen  him  travel  the  burn 
ing  sands  without  flinching.

Hereafter  each  candidate  will  be  pre 
inscribed 

sented  with  a  gold  button, 
with  the  emblem  of  the  order.

is  a  really  cheering  sight  to  see 
Brother John  G.  Kolb  out  after  his long 
and  painful  illness 

It 

The  Angel  of

v.

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in  Grand  Rapids  stop  at  the 
Death  has  visited  our'new   Hotel  Plaza.  First  class.  Rates,  $2,

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Drugs—Chemicals

M ichigan  State  B oard  o f P h arm acy

Term expires
- 
G ko.  Gu n d r u m , Ionia 
Dec. 31,1900
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L.  E.  R e y n o l d s,  St.  Joseph 
-  Dec. 31,1901 
H e n r y   H k i h , Saginaw 
- 
-  Dec. 31,1902
W ir t   P.  Do t y, Detroit - 
-  Dec. 31,1903
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A. C. Sc h u m a c h e r , Ann Arbor  -  Dec. 31,1904 

President,  G ko.  G u 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 
Grand Rapids—Mar. 6 and 7.
Star Island—.Tune 25 and 26.
Sault Ste. Marie—Aug. 28 and 29. 
I.ansing—Nov. 7 and 8.

S tate  P h arm aceu tical  A ssociation 

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

How  to  Succeed  in   th e  R etail  D rug  B usi­

ness.

It 

Rather 

location  of  your  store. 

A  good  start  in  any  business  is  neces­
sary  to  obtain  good  results— especially 
is  this  so  in  the  drug  business.  First  of 
all,  it 
is  very  necessary  to  have  some 
money  with  which  to  buy  your  opening 
stock.  You  should  be  able  to  discount 
your  bills  right  from  the  start.  The 
amount  necessary  depends  entirely  on 
the 
If  you  are 
in  a  country  town,  some  distance  from 
the  jobber  or  manufacturer,  you  will,  of 
course,  need  more  capital  than  you  will 
if  only  a  block  or two  from  him. 
is 
far better to  borrow  money  with  which 
to  discount  your  bills  than  to  wait  on 
returns  from  sales.  This 
is  not  only  a 
saving  in  dollars  and  cents,  but  it  gives 
you  a  good  commercial  rating,  so  ab­
solutely  necessary  in  these  days  of  close 
competition  and  small  profits.  When 
you  are  properly  located  and  have  made 
your  financial  arrangements,  you  should 
then  use  printer’s  ink  properly  and  let 
people  know  you  are  competent  to  con­
duct  your  business  and  desire 
their 
good-will  and  trade. 
In  buying  your 
opening  stock,  be  careful  to  buy  what  is 
absolutely  necessary.  Don’t  try  to  have 
for  at  once.  This  is 
everything  called 
impossible. 
lose  a  sale  oc­
casionally  than  fill  your  shelves  with 
stuff  that  is  a  constant  reminder  of  care­
less  buying. 
In  these  days  of  quick 
transportation,  it  is  by  far  better  to  buy 
oftener  and  in  smaller quantities.  My 
town  is  located  200  miles  from  the 
job­
ber  and  I  am  able  to  have  goods  laid 
down  in  my  store  in  less  than  two  days 
from  the  time  I  order them.  The  safest 
business  to-day  is  done  in  a  small  way.
We  are  often  tempted  to  buy  in  larger 
quantities  by  securing  additional  dis­
counts. 
is  well  enough  to  take  ad­
vantage  of  these  offers  if  you  have  the 
spare  m oney;  but  if  you  are  operating 
with  limited  capital,  it will do  you  more 
harm  than  good.  The  money  you  thus 
invest  is  needed  to  keep  up  your regular 
It  doesn’t  take  many  purchases 
stock. 
larger  quantities  to  make  an 
of  these 
additional 
investment  of  several  hun­
dred  dollars.  And  should  you  have  a 
month  or  two  of  dull  business,  you  will 
certainly  feel  the  shortage  in  your work­
ing  capital. 
1  have  carefully  watched 
this  matter,  and  find  such  to  be the case. 
Pharmacists  doing  business  in  country 
towns  generally  handle  paints,  glass, 
and  other  articles  that  require  the  in­
vestment  of  quite  an  extra  capital,  and 
the  temptation  to  buy  in  larger  lots  is 
very  great 
I  have 
last  few  years  bought  lead  and 
for  the 
in  such  quantities  only  as  1  knew  I 
oil 
could  dispose  of 
in  a  month  or  two; 
then  I  bought  again.

in  certain  seasons. 

It 

Another  absolutely  necessary  thing  in 
conducting  a  business  is  to  keep  a  set 
of  books  from  which  you  can at any time 
quickly  determine  the  condition  of  your

affairs.  You should be able to tell whether 
the  business  is  on  a  paying  basis  or not. 
You  may  apparently  be  doing  a  profit­
able  business,  and  yet  always  short 
in 
cash.  This  is  a  mystery  to  the  man  who 
can’t  trace  the  cause  of  the  condition 
through  a  set  of  well-kept  books.  You 
wil  discover  that  the  surplus  money  that 
you  ought  to  have 
in  cash  is  in  your 
stock,  and  that  you  are  carrying  a  much 
latger  amount  of  goods  than  necessary. 
This  is  poor  business.

A  man’s  success  in  merchandising 

is 
judged  by  the  amount  of  cash 
correctly 
he 
from  time  to  time  withdraws  from 
his  business.  In  my  opinion  a  hundred 
dollars  made  and  taken  out  of  the  busi­
ness  is  worth  two  hundred  dollars,  addi­
tional  stock.  Cash  will  hold  its original 
value,  and  merchandise 
is  subject  to 
shrinkage  and  deterioration.  Again  I 
repeat  that  the  keeping  of  a  clear,  con­
cise  set  of  books  is  as  necessary  in  con­
ducting  a  small  retail  store  as  it  is  in 
a  large  wholesale  establishment.

Having 

yourself 

established 

and 
gained  the  confidence  of  your  patrons, 
put  up  a  line  of  your  own  articles,  such 
as  are  most  generally  used,  and  push 
their  sale.  You  will  be  agreeably  sur­
prised  to  see  how  easy  it  is  to  get  your 
friends  to  use  these  preparations.  There 
are  so  many  things  that  an  educated 
pharmacist  should  never  think  of  buy­
is  certainly  very 
ing.  Your  education 
shallow,  or  else  you 
lack  the  proper 
amount  of  energy,  if  you  do  not  put  up 
such  articles  as  headache powders,  Seid- 
litz  powders,  herb  tea,  toothache  drops, 
liniment,  etc.  One  thing  especially  that 
I  am  proud  of 
in  my  store  is  a  small 
upright  showcase 
filled  with  articles 
put  up  by  me.  On  some  of  these  I 
have  established  such  a  reputation  that 
I  sell  them  exclusively.

The  practice  of  pharmacy  is  remuner­
ative  to-day, 
in  spite  of  the  general 
depression,  if  we  will  only  grasp  the 
situation  and  adapt  our  methods  of  ac­
tion to  present  conditions,  and  use  mod­
ern  commercial  tactics. 
In  short,  do 
business  with  the  smallest  amount  of 
cash  possible,  watch  your  purchases  as 
carefully  as  your  sales,  and  above  all, 
establish individuality by manufacturing 
and  selling  your  own  products.

Wm.  Mittelbach.

T he  D rug  M arket.

dull  but  steady  in  price. 

Opium— On  account  of  light  demand, 
It  is  be- 
ieved  that  a  good  demand  will  bring 
about  higher  prices.

Morphine— Has  been  advanced  by  all 

manufacturers  15c  per  ounce.
Quinine—-On  account  of 

the  high 
prices  at  the  bark  sale 
in  Amsterdam 
on  Thursday last.it has  advanced  so  that 
at  the  present  price  it  will  cost  over  30c 
to  manufacturers. 
All  manufacturers 
have  advanced  the  price— P.  &  W.  3c 
per  ounce  and  the  others  2c.  The  arti­
cle 
is  very  firm  at  the  high  price  and 
another  advance  would  not  surprise  any 
one.

Carbolic  Acid —The  market  continues 
very  strong  and  maufacturers  are  short 
of  stock.

Cocaine—The  market 
with  an  upward  tendency.

is  very  firm, 

Cocoa  Butter— Has  declined.
Ergot—Continues to  advance  in  price. 
is  a  small  crop  and  a  real  scar­

There 
city.

Sulphate  Zinc— Has  advanced.
Sassafras  Bark— Is  very  scarce  and,  as 
the  consuming  season  is  near  at  hand, 
higher  prices  will  rule.

Oil  Bergamot— On  account  of  large 

stocks,  has  declined.

Cassia  and  Anise— Are  firm  and  high­

er  prices  are  looked  for.

Oil  Cedar— Is  very  scarce.  Specula­
tors  are  concentrating  the  oil,  which 
has  advanced  with  an  upward  tendency.
Oil  Wintergreen— Natural  is  very  firm 
at  the  high  price  now  ruling.  Artificial 

1  has  been  advanced  10c  per  pound. 
Arnica  Flower— Has  been  advanced. 
lit­

Stocks  are  very  scarce  and  there 
tle  in  the  primary  market.

is 

Paris  Green— Some  of  the  principal 
manufacturers  have  withdrawn  from  the 
market  for  the  present  and are  not  quot 
ng.  On account of  high  price  for crude 
material,  higher  price will be  asked  this 
year.

White  Lead— Is  very  firm-at  the  last 
in  the  paint  line 

advance.  All  goods 
will  be  higher.

Putty— Has  advanced,  on  account  of 

high  price  for  iinseed  oil and whiting.

Iron  Oil  Paints—Are  about  20  per 
cent,  higher  than  formerly,  on  account 
of  higher  price  for ore.

A dopted 

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C heck  P lan.

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Hancock,  Jan.  9— The  City  drug  store 
is  the  pioneer  in  the  Upper  Peninsula 
in  the 
introduction  of  the  numbered 
prescription  check  plan.  Simple  as  the 
plan  appears— and 
is  simple  in  the 
application—the  method  is  an expensive 
one,  but  the  expense  being  borne  by 
the  store,  the  public  reaps  the  benefit, 
which  is  considerable.

The  plan 

in  operation  calls 

for  a 
handsomely  lithographed  and automatic­
ally  numbered  check,  in  triplicate.  The 
first  part,  numbered  and  gummed,  is 
attached  to  the  prescription.  The  num­
bers  printed 
in  glaring  red  letters  by 
automatic  and  consequently  unerring 
machinery,  are  attached  to  the  prescrip­
tion.  The  second  portion,  also  gummed, 
goes  on  the  bottle.  The  third  portion, 
ungummed,  goes  to  the  purchaser  for 
future  reference.  At  any  future  time 
this  may  be  brought  to  the  drug  store, 
and  the  original  prescription  looked  up 
in  an  instant,  and  then  refilled  without 
possibility  of  error.  While  the  matter 
may  seem  a  trivial  one,  it 
is  by  no 
means 
It  means  dis­
patch,  method,  and  order.  It means  that 
no  mistake  can  be  made  ^unless  by  the 
most  gross  carelessness.

inconsequential. 

A.  T.  Ellsworth, 

the  prescription 
pharmacist  of the  City drug store,  claims 
especial  credit  for  his  plan.  By  dint  of 
application  and  argument  he  succeeded 
in  inducing  Mr.  Bram,  the  proprietor, 
to  adopt  this  method,  for  which  both 
proprietor  and  pharmacist  are  now  de­
voutly  thankful.

Not  R esponsible  for  P ro p rietaries.

A   suit  was  recently  brought  against 

Pittsburg  druggist  by  a  woman  who 
asked  $20,000  damage  for  the  death  of 
her  daughter,  which  she  claimed  was 
due  to  a  headache  powder  sold  by  the 
defendant.  The 
judge  non-suited  the 
case,  holding  that  the  druggist  was  not 
guilty  of  any  negligence  and  incurred 
no  responsibility  for  the  effects  of  the 
drug,  even  admitting  that  they  were 
such  as  were  claimed.  The  case  caused 
much  local  comment  and  the  question  i 
asked:  Who  is  responsible  if  the vendor 
is  not,  and  what  protection  has  the  pub 
lie  against  accidents  from  dangerous 
drugs  not  sold  as  such,  but  put  out  as 
harmless  remedies  for  self-prescription 
and  general  use?  The  general  opinion 
among  dealers 
in  drugs  appears  to  be 
that  the  seller  can  not  be  held  respon­
sible,  at  least  not  for  the  dispensing  of 
unbroken  packages  bearing  the  U.  S. 
revenue  stamps,  as  is  the  case  with  the 
copyrighted  and  proprietary  remedies.
Since  this  suit  was begun,  some  of  the 
Pittsburg  druggists  have  affixed  a  label 
disclaiming  responsibility  on  the  pack­
ages  of  proprietary  remedies,  and  they 
are  interested  to  learn  whether by  so  do­
ing  they  have  been  in  any  way  trans­
gressing  the  federal 
in  regard  to 
stamped  articles.  The  court's  action

law 

seems  to  place  responsibility,  if  any­
where,  farther  back  than  the  seller,  but 
the  case  may  be  carried  to  a  higher 
court,  and  the  questions  it  involved  are 
still  far  from  being  fully  settled.  As  far 
as  the  public  is  concerned 
it  has  one 
safeguard,  easy  to  apply,  that  is,  not  to 
buy  such  preparations. 
In  this  coun­
try,  more  than  in  any  other,  people  are 
supposed  to  look  out  for themselves,  and 
heretofore  this  has  seemed  to  be  the 
practical 
if  not  the  legal  principle  in 
these  matters.  Now  that  the  questions 
have  been  raised,  it  may  be  that  we 
shall  obtain  some  decisions  or  ultimate­
ly  some  legislation  for  the  public  pro­
tection  against  dangerous,  or  possibly 
dangerous,  popular  remedies,  secret  or 
otherwise.

Tw enty-five  o u t  o f Seventy-tw o.

The  State  Board  of  Pharmacy  held 
its  examination  session  at  Detroit 
last 
week  and  passed  seventeen  out  of  fifty- 
nine  applicants  for  registration  as  reg­
ular  druggists.  Eight  out  of  thirteen 
aspirants  secured  assistant  pharmacist 
japers.  The  next  meeting  of  the  Board 
will  be  held  in  Grand  Rapids,  March  6 
and  7.  The  new  registered  pharmacists 
are  as  follows:  J.  E.  McDonald,  G.  J. 
Borckoff,  J.  L.  Chauvin,  of  D etroit;  F. 
A.  Gillett,  Pontiac;  Alice  Stevens,  H.
D.  Harrington,  Ann  Arbor;  M.  E. 
Hanson,  Caro;  F.  G.  Lenno,  Y a le ;  F. 
Munson, 
Ithaca;  Robert  Patterson,  St. 
Johns;  G.  D.  DeRosia,  Bay  C ity;  Fred 
Smith,  Rom eo;  G.  F.  Bernard,  Battle 
C reek;  J.  T.  Carberry,  Big  R apids;  E.
E.  Faulkner,  Hastings;  Grove  Green, 
M arshall;  W.  R.  Gibbs,  Howard  City.
Assistant  pharmacists— E.  A.  Benson, 
C.  A.  Cassada,  D.  F.  Jones,  D.  E.  Per­
rin,  W.  J.  Wilson,  Detroit;  L.  O.  Cush- 
ng,  Ann  Arbor;  L.  M.  Delavan,  H ills­
dale ;  D.  N.  Gleason,  Lansing.

C om m only  E xpensive.

Pearl— So  your  friend 

is  from 

Key

West?

Ruby— Y e s ;  and  he  must  be  wealthy. 
Pearl— Why,  dear?
Ruby— Because  he 

told  me  when 
home  he  was  not  accustomed  to  bathe 
in  anything  but  Florida  water.

MfO. CHEMISTS,
. 

ALLEGAN, MIGH.

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.

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If not we should  be  pleased  to  have  you 
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Twenty-six leading factories represented. 
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Aceticum  .................$ 
75 
Benzoicum, German.  70®
16 
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Carbolicum..............  
46 
43®
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10
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14
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Oxallcum.................. 
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Tannicum.................
38®  40
T artaricum .............
A m m onia
Aqua, 16 deg.............
Aqua, 20 deg.............
Carbonas..................
Chloridum................
A niline

4®
6®
13®
12®

Black........ .
Brown.......
Ked...........
Yellow.......

2 00® 2  25 
80®  1  00 
48®  80
2 60®  3 00

60
2 oo

65©
40©
40@

Baccse

Cubebse........... po,l6  12©
Juniperus.......... . 
®©
Xanthoxylum.......... 
70©
B alsam  am
Copaiba....................... 
Terabln,  Canada.... 
T o lu ta n ...... . . . —  
Cortex
Abies, Canadian.......
Cassia:.......................
Cinchona  Flava.......
Euonymus atropurp.
Myrica Cerifera, po.
Prunus Virgin!........
Quillaia, g r d ...........
Sassafras  ...... po. if
Ulmus..  po.  15, grd
lSxtractum
24©
Glycyrrhiza  Glabra. 
Glycyrrhiza,  po......  
28®
Haematox, 15 lb. box  11©
Hiematox. is ...........  
13@
Haematox, 54s....... 
}4©
Haematox, 54s.......... 
166
F e rru
Carbonate  Precip...
Citrate and  Quinia..
Citrate  Soluble......
Ferrocyanidum Sol..
Solut. Chloride........
Sulphate,  com’l .......
Sulphate,  com’l,  by
bDl, per  cwt..........
Sulphate,  pure........
F lo ra

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

14@
72@
30@

F o lia

nevelly 

38@  40

25©
12©
8©

65 
45 
1
35 
©  28 
65 
14 
12 
30 
60 
30

Barosma..................  
Cassia Acutifol, Tin-
..........*
Cassia, Acutifol, Alx.
Salvia officinalis,  Ms
and 54s..................
UvaUrsi....................
G um m i 
Acacia, 1st picked...
Acacia,2d  picked...
Acacia,3d  picked...
Acacia, sifted  sorts.
Acacia, po................. 
456
Aloe, Barb. po.l8@20  12©
Aloe, Cape....po. 15. 
©
Aloe,  Socotri.. po. 40  @
Ammoniac................  
65©
Assaf uetida.... po. 30  28©
Benzolnum........ —   60®
©
Catechu, i s ............... 
Catechu, 54s.............  
@
16 
Catechu, 54s.............  
@
60 
Cam phor*............... 
85®
40 
Euphorbium... po. 35
©  1 00 
Galbanum.................
6«®  70
Gamboge............. po
®  30
Guaiacum.......po. 25
@  1  25 
Kino........... po. $1.25
®  60 
M astic.....................
@  40
Myrrh.............po. 45
Opil__ po.  4.70@6.00 3 45® 3 50
25@  35
Shellac...........*......... 
Shellac, bleached—  
40®  45
Tragacanth..............  
50®  80
H erb a

Absinthium. .oz. pkg 
Eupatorium..oz. pkg 
Lobelia........oz. pkg 
M aiorum__ oz. pkg 
Mentha Pip..oz. pkg 
Mentha Vlr..oz. pkg 
Rue............... oz. pkg 
Tanacetum V oz. pkg 
Thymus, V .. .oz. pkg 
M agnesia
Calcined, P a t...........  
Carbonate, P at........  
Carbonate, K. & M.. 
Carbonate, Jennings 

O leum

25
20
25
28
23
25
39
22
26

55@  60
18®  20
18®  20
18®  20

Absinthium.............   6 50® 6 75
Amygdalae,  Dulc—  
30®  50
Amygdalae,  Amarae.  8 00® 8  25
A nlsf.........................  l 
Auranti Cortex........   2 40® 2  50
Bergamil..................   2 
Cajiputi.................... 
80®  85
75®  -85
Caryophylli..............  
C edar.......................  
36®  45
Chenopadii............... 
@  2 75
Clnnamonll.............   1 
26®  1 35
35®  40
Oitronella................. 

85® 2 oo
40® 2 60

® 75
60© 60

50®  60
Conium Mac..
1  15®  1  25 
Copaiba........
90®  1  00
Cubebse .
Gxechthitos.............  1  00®  1  10
Erigeron..................  1  00®  1  10
G aultheria..............   2  60®  2 60
Geranium, ounce.... 
Gosslppil, Sem. gal,. 
Hedeoma..................  l  70®  l  76
Junipera ..................   1  60® 2 00
Lavendula  ............... 
90® 2 00
Limonls....................  1  36®  1  48
Mentha  Piper..........  1  26® 2 00
Mentha Verid..........  1  50®  l  60
Morrhu*, .gal..........  l  16®  l  25
M yrcia.....................   4 00®450
Olive........................  
78® 3 00
10® 
Picis Liquida...........  
12
@  35
Picis Liquida,  gal... 
Klcina...... ............... 
96®  1  05
Rosmarini................  
©  l  oo
Rosse, ounce.............  6 80® 8  80
S ucdnl.....................  
40®  46
90®  1  00
Sabina.....................  
San ta l.......................  2 60® 7  00
Sassafras.................. 
50«  56
©  65
Sinapis,  ess., ounce. 
Tiglil........................   1  50®  1  60
40©  60
Thyme....................... 
Thyme, opt............... 
@  1  60
Theobrom as...........  
15*  20
P otassium
Bi-Catb.....................  
15® 
18
15
13® 
Bichromate.............  
52®  57
Bromide  .................. 
Carb  ......................... 
12® 
15
Chlorate... po, 17 o 19  16® 
18
85®  40
Cyanide............  ..... 
Iodide.......................  2  40® 2 50
28®
Potassa, Bitart, pure 
Potassa, Bitart, com. 
@
Potass Nitras, opt...
7®
6®
Potass  Nitras..........
23® 26
Prussiate.
Sulphate  po............. 
15®

R adix

40

Aconitum.................. 
20®
Althae.......................  
22®
A nchusa.................. 
10®
@
Arum  po.................. 
Calamus.................... 
20®
12®
Gentiana........ po. 15 
Glychrrhiza.. .pv.  15  16®
®
Hydrastis  Canaden. 
®
Hydrastis Can., po.. 
Hellebore, Alba, po. 
12®
Inula,  po..................  
15®
Ipecac, po................   4 28® 4 35
35®  40
Iris  plox.. .po. 35@38 
Jalapa, p r................  
25®  30
Maranta,  Ms...........  
@  36
22®  25
Podophyllum,  po... 
Rhei..........................  
75®  1  00
Rhei, cu t.................. 
®  1  26
Rhei, pv.................... 
78®  1  35
Spigella........ 
35®  38
Sanguinaria... po.  15 
®  18
Serpentaria.............  
40®  45
60®  66
Senega.....................  
Smilax, officinalis H.  @ 4 0  
Smilax, M
. @
  25
Scili*............... po,  35 
10®  12
Symplocarpus, Foeti-
dus,  po.................. 
@  25
Valeriana, Eng. po. 30  @  25
Valeriana,  German. 
15@  20
Zingiber a ................  
16
12® 
Zingiber j .................. 
25®  27
Semen

Anisum............po.  15  @  12
Apium (graveleons).  13©  15
Bird, is .....................  
4@ 
6
n@   12
Carili.’. ............. po.  18 
Cardamon................   1  25®  1  75
Coriandrum.............. 
8@ 
10
Cannabis Saliva.......  454®  5
Cydonium................. 
75@  1  00
Cnenopodium.......... 
10®  12
Dipterix Odorate__   1  00®  1  10
Foeniculum  ............. 
10
@ 
Foenugreek, po........ 
7@ 
9
L in i...........................  354®  454
Lini, grd........bbl. 354 
4@  454
Lobelia..................... 
35®  40
Pharlaris Canarian..  454@ 
5
R ap a........................   454® 
5
Sinapis  Alba...........  
9® 
10
Sinapis  Nigra.......... 
11®  12
S piritus

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

liba.

Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage.................   2  50©  2 75
Nassau sheeps' wool
carriage..................  2 50® 2 75
Velvet extra sheeps’
1  50 
wool, carriage......
Extra yellow sheeps’
1  25
wool, carriage.......
Grass  sheeps’  wool,
@ l  oo
carriage................
@  75
Hard, for slate use..
Yellow  R e e f,  for
@  1  40
slate use................
Syrups
A cacia.....................
Auranti Cortex........
Zingiber....................
Ipecac.......................
Ferri Iod..................
Rhei Arom...............
Smilax  Officinalis...
Senega .....................
SclU»........................

@  50
@  50
@  50
@  60

50®
®

M IC H I G A N   TR A D E S M A N

19

@
@
@

Scillae  Co..................  
Tolutan..................... 
Primus  virg.............  
T inctures 
Aconitum Napellis R 
Aconitum Napellis F
Aloes ........................
Aloes and M yrrh__
A rnica......................
Assaf octlda...............
Atrope Belladonna..
Auranti Cortex........
Benzoin....................
Benzoin Co...............
B arosm a..,..............
Cantharldes.............
Capsicum........... ....
Cardamon................
Cardamon Co...........
Castor.......................
Catechu....................
Cinchona ..................
Cinchona Co.............
Columba..................
Cubebae.....................
Cassia Acutifol........
Cassia Acutifol Co...
Digitalis.................... 
Ergot........................ 
Ferri  Chloridum__  
G entian.................... 
Gentian Co.........  —  
G iliaca....................... 
Guinea ammon........  
Hyoscyamus.-.-........ 
Iodine..__ _ 
Iodine, colorless,... 
Kino  ......................... 
Lobelia..................... 
M yrthi................ ,... 
Nux V o m i c a . 6 o
Opii.....................,,-i. 
Opii, comphorated.. 
Opii, deodorized......  
Q uassia.................... 
Rhatany.................... 
Rhei..........................  
Sanguinaria............ 
Serpentaria.............  
Stramonium............. 
T olutan.................... 
Valerian  .................. 
Veratrum  Veride... 
Zingiber.................... 

M iscellaneous 

® 40

P aints  um., 

Linseed, pure raw...
Linseed, boiled........
Neatsfoot. winter str 
Spirits  Turpentine..

20® 22
@ 3 75 Seldlltz Mixture......
Menthol....................
@ 18
M o rp h ia ,P .&  W. 2 36®  2 GO Siuapis.....................
® 30 !
Sinapis.  opt.............
Morphia. 8..N .Y .Q .
&C. Co.................. 2 l6@  2 60 Sun II, Maccaboy, De
® 41  I
V oes.....................
Moschus  Canton__
i  n.
80 Snu If .Scotch. 1)«' \  o’s
MyHstlca, No. 1.......
@ 4111
e m
Red  Venetian..........  Hi
9® u
26® 30 Soda,  Boras, po.......
2  @ 8 
Os Sepia....................
2  @4 
Ochre, yellow  Man 
23® 25
Soda et  Potass  I art.
Pepsin Saac, H. & P.
2  @3 
Ochre, yellow Ber. 
1«
1H@ 2
@  1 00 Soda.  Carb...............
1)  Co.....................
2M®3 
l'utty,  commercial
5
Soda,  Bi-Carb..........
3®
IMeis Liq. N.N.54 gal.
23U@3
Putty, strictly  pure. 
254
4 1
@ 2 00 Soda,  Ash................
doz.........................
354®
Vermilion.  P r im e
2 i
@  1  00 Soda.  Sulphas..........
60 Picis Liq., quarts__
®
American.............
13® 
16
@ 2 60
® 85 Spts. Cologne...........
50 Picis Liq..  pints......
70®  76
Vermilion. English..
50® 55
@ 50 Spts. Ether  Co........
60 I’ll  Hydrarg. ..po.  80
Green,  Paris...........
13H®  1754 
@  2 00
® 18 Spts.  Myrcia Doni...
60 IMper  Nigra., .po. 22
Green, Peninsular...
16
13® 
© 30 Spts.  \ ini  Rect.  hhl.
60 Piper  Allia.. ..po. 35
®
7
65,® 
Lead,  red..................
@ 7 Spts. Vini Rect. 54bbl
®
60 Pilx  Hurgun.............
6‘ j® 
7 
I .fad.  white.............
10® 12 Spts. Vini Rect. lOgal
60 Plumbi Acet............
®
Whiting, white Span 
®  70
60 Pulvis Ipecac et Opii 1  30®  1 50 Spts.  \ in) Rect. 5 gal
@
@  90
Whiting. gi!d  rs’ —  
Strychnia, Crystal... 1  C5®  1 25
60 Pyrethruin. boxes 11.
®  I  00
White.  Paris, Amer. 
4
@ 75 Sulphur,  Subl..........
254®
60 & P.  1). Co., doz...
Whiting. Paris,  Eng.
25® 30 Sulphur, Roll...........
254®
50 Pyrethruni,  pv........
1
@  1  40 
cliff........................
8® 10
8® 10 Tamarinds...............
75 Quassia*....................
1  01®  I  15
Cuiversal  Prepared.
28® 30 1
34® 44 Terclienth  Venice...
50 Quinta, S.  1’. &  W ...
58
44 Theobromie..............
55@.
3
75 Quinta, S.  German..
Varn l»he.
32® 42 Vanilla..................... 9  00©1( (Ml
76 Quinia, N. Y.............
8
14 Zinci Sulph.............
7<ä
00 Rupia Ttnctorum....
No. 1 Turp  Coach...
18® 20
60 Saccharum Lactis pv
Oil«
Extra Turn...............
50 Salacln..................... 3  50®  3 (X)
Coach  Body.............
40© 50
60 Sanguis  Draconls...
No. 1 Turp Furn......
12® 14 Whale,  winter..........
60 Sapo.  W ....................
Extra Turk  Damar.. 
10® 12 Lard, extra...............
60 Sapo M.....................
Jap.Dryer.No.lTurp
© 15 1  Lard. No. 1...............
60 Sapo  G .....................
50
6o
6o
35
6o
6o
6o
60
6o
75
?6
6o
6o
6o
7s
6o
1  8o
6o
6o
5o
*  6o
6o
6o
6o
6o
5o
2o

Drugs

1  IC@  1  20
1  60®  1  70
2  75® 3 00 
1  00®  1  10 
1  55®  1  60
7(®  75

BBL.  GAL.
70
65
40

70
55
35

W e  are  Importers  and  Jobbers 
of  Drugs,  Chemicals  and  Patent 
Medicines.

ACther, Spts. Nit. 3 F  30®  36
dither, Spts. Nit. 4 F  31®  38
Alum en....................  254®
Alumen,  gro’d..po. 7 
3®
Annatto..................... 
40®
4©
Antimoni, po............ 
Anti mon i et Potass T  40®
®
Anti uyrin................. 
@
Antiiebrin  ............... 
@
Argenti Nitras, oz... 
Arsenicum............  . 
10®
Balm  Gilead  Buds.. 
38®
Bismuth S. N ,.......  1  40®  1  50
Calcium Chlor.,  is ...  ©
Calcium Chlor.,  54*..  @
Calcium Chlor.,  54* 
®
Cantharldes, Rus.po  @
Capslci Fructus, a f..  @
15 
@
Capsid  Fructus, po. 
@  15
Capsici Fructus B, po 
12®  14
Caryophyllus. .po. 15
@ 3 00 
Carmine, No. 40.......
50®  55
Cera  Alba................
40®
Cera  Flava...............
Coccus  .....................
@
Cassia  Fructus........
@
Cent rar ia..................
®
@
Cetaceum.................. 
Chloroform.............  
50®
Chloroform,  squibbs @  1  10
Chloral Hyd Crst .  .. 1  65©  1  90
Chondros.................  
20®  25
Clnchonidine.P. & W  38®
Cinchonidiue, Germ.  38®
Cocaine....................  6 56®  6
Corks, list, dis. pr. ct.
Creosotum................  
@
@
C reta.............bbl. 75 
@
Creta, prep............... 
Creta,  precip...........  
9®
Creta, Rubra...........  
@
Crocus.....................  
15®
@
Cudbear.................... 
Cupri  Sulph.............   654®
Dextrine.................. 
7®  10
Ether Sulph............. 
75@  90
Emery, all numbers.
®
Emery, po.................
@
85®
E rg o ta........... po. 90
12®
Flake  W hite...........
@
Galla.........................
8®
G am bler..................
Gelatin,  Cooper.
©
Gelatin, French....... 
35®
75  &
Glassware,  flint, box 
I,ess than box.......
Glue, brown.............  
11®
Glue,  white.............  
15®
Glycerina..................  
16®
Grana Paradisi........ 
®
Humulus..................  
25®
Hydrarg  Chlor  Mite  @
Hydrarg  Chlor Cor..  @
Hydrarg  Ox Rub’m. 
@ 1
Hydrarg  Ammoniati 
@ 1
HydrargUnguentum 
50®
Hydrargyrum.......... 
@
IchthyoDolla,  Am... 
65®
Indigo....................... 
75®  1
Iodine,  Resubi........   3 60® 3
@ 3
Iodoform. 
Lupulin.
@
Lycopodium.............  
60®
M acis.......................  
65®
Liquor Arsen et  Hy­
drarg Iod...............
Liquor Potass Arsinit
Magnesia,  Sulph__
Magnesia, Sulph, bbl 
Mannla, S.  F ............

io®

60®

W e  are  dealers  in  Paints,  Oils 

and Varnishes.

W e  have  a  full  line  of  Staple 

Druggists’  Sundries.

W e  are  the  sole  proprietors  of 
Weatherly’s  Michigan  Catarrh 
Remedy.

W e always  have  in  stock  a  full 
line  of  Whiskies,  Brandies,  Gins, 
Wines  and  Rums  for  medicinal 
purposes only.

W e  give  our  personal  attention 
to mail  orders  and  guarantee  sat­
isfaction.

All  orders  shipped  and  invoiced 

the same day we receive them.

Send a trial order.

Hazeltine  &  Perkins 

Drug  Co.

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan

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M IC H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N

GROCERY PRICE CURRENT.

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

A X LE  GREASE
A urora.......................... 55 
Castor  Oil......................60 
Diamond.......................50 
Frazer’s ........................ 75 
1XI. Golden, tin boxes 75 

doz.  gross
6 oo
7 oo
4 ¡¡5
9 00
9 00

M ira, tin boxes..........75 
Paragon...................... 55 

9 00
6 00

A cm e

A bsolute

BA KIN G   PO W D ER  
\  lb. cans doz.....................
4  lb. cans doz.....................
1 
lb. cans doz...................... 150
14 lb. cans 3 doz..................   45
4  lb. cans 3  doz...................  75
1 
lb. cans l  doz.......... .......1  oo
Bulk........................................  10
6 oz. Eng. Tumblers.............   85
4  lb. cans per doz..............
4  lb. cans per doz..............1  20
lb. cans per doz..............2 00
l 
4  lb. cans, 4 doz. case........  35
4  lb. cans, 4 doz. case........  55
1 
lb. cans, 2 doz. case........   90

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O ur Leader

Jerse y   Cream

>4 lb. cans, 4 doz. case... 
4 lb. cans, 4 doz. case... 
1 
lb. cans. 2 doz. case... 
1 lb. cans, per doz............
9 oz. cans, per doz............
6 oz. cans, per doz............
14 lb. cans.......................
4  lb. cans.......................
1 
lb. cans.......................
1 lb. cans...........................
3 oz., 6 doz. case...............
6 oz., 4 doz. case...............
9 oz., 4 doz. case...............
1 lb., 2 doz. case...............
5 lb.,  1 doz. case...............
BA TH   BRICK
American..........................
English..............................

Queen  F lak e

P eerless

.  45 
.  85 
.1  60
.2  00 
.1  25 
.  85

.  85
.2 70
3 20
4  80 
4 00 
.9 00
.  70 
80

BLUING

C tpasD
< 1 P P A D P w

CANNED  GOODS

Small 3 doz...........
....  40 
....  75
Large, 2 doz..................
BROOMS
No. 1 Carpet..................
....3  00 
No. 2 Carpet..................
....2  75 
No. 3 Carpet..................
....2   50 
No. 4 Carpet..........
....2 05 
Parlor  Gem..........
__ 2 75
Common Whisk............ ....  95
Fancy  Whisk.................
....1  25
Warehouse....................
....3  75
CANDLES
Electric Light, 8s..........
....  94
Electric Light, 16s..... ....104
Paraffine, 6s..........
....11%
Paraffine, 12s.......... ....124
Wicking.............. ...2 0
A pples
3 lb. Standards.....
Gallons, standards..
B eans
Baked  ............
Red  Kidney........
String.............
Wax...............
B lackberries
Standards........ .
B lueberries
S tandard....... ....
C herries
Red  Standards.......
W hite......... ......
Clams.
Little Neck, 1 lb...
Corn
F air................
Good..............
Fancy.......................

90
2 65
75® 1  30
75®  85
80
85
75
85
85
1  15
1  10
75
85
95

Peas

1  00 
1  00

1  85 
3  10
2 25

1  25 
@1  65

M ushroom s

R aspberries

1  25(3.2  75 
1  35@2  25

2  80 
1  75
1  75
2 80
14@16
20@25

H om iny
S tandard..................
Lobster
Star, H lb................
Star, l  lb..................
Picnic Tails..............
M ackerel
Mustard, lib ............
Mustard, 2 lb............
Soused, l i b ...............
Soused, 2 lb.............
Tomato, l i b .............
Tomato, 2 lb.............
Stems.........................
Buttons.....................
Oysters
Cove, 1 lb..................
Cove, 2 lb ..................
Peaches
P ie ............................
Yellow.....................
P ears
Standard..................
Fancy........................
M arrowfat...............
Early .June...............
Early June  Sifted..
P ineapple
G rated............
Sliced...............
P u m p k in
F a ir..........................
Good.........................
Fancy.......................
Standard...................
Salm on
Bed Alaska..............
Pink Alaska.............
Sardines
Domestic, 4 s ..........
@4 
Domestic,  Mustard.
@8 
French.....................
8@22
Standard ..................
85 
Fancy.......................
1  25
Succotash
Fair............................
90 
Good.........................
1  00 
Fancy .......................
1  20
F a ir__
80 
Good... 
90
F a n c y .. 
1  15
Gallons.
2 35
Columbia,  pints...................2 00
Columbia, 4  pints................l  25
Acme..................
@14
Amboy...............
@14
E lsie..................
@15
Emblem.............
@14
Gem....................
@14
Gold Medal........
@13
Id eal..................
@14
Jersey....
Riverside...........
@14
B rick..................
©12
Edam .................. .... 
@70
Leiden............... .... 
@17
Limburger..........
@13
Pineapple.......... ....  50  @75
Sap  Sago...........
@17
Bulk......................................  
R ed......................................... 

S traw berries

CHICORY

CHEESE

CATSUP

__  
---  

5
7

CHOCOLATE 

Walter Baker & Co.’s.

CIGARS

Columbian Cigar Co’s brand.

German  Sweet.......................   23
Premium.................................   35
Breakfast Cocoa.....................   46
The Bradley Cigar Co.’s  Brands
Advance  .............................$35 00
B radley..............................   35 00
Clear Havana  Puffs...........  22 00
“  W. H.  B.” ........................  55 00
“ W. B. B.” .........................   55 00
Columbian..........................   35 00
Columbian Special............   65 00
Detroit Cigar Mfg. Co.’s Brands
Green  Seal..........................$55 00
Green Seal Boquet............   60 00
Green Seal Regalia............  65 00
Maceo’s  Dream.................  35 00
Dispatch.......................  ..  33 00
No Name.............................  32 00
Medal de  Reina.................   28 00
Fortune Teller...................  35 00
Our M anager..,.................   35 00
Quintette.............................  35 00
G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand.

H. & P. Drug Co.’s brands.

8. C. W................................  35 00

Phelps. Brace & Co.’s Brands. 
Royal  Tigers. 
56® 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...................... 16©  70 00
Bernard Stahl Co.........35® 90 00
Banner Cigar  Co.........10®  35 00
Seidenberg  & Co.........55© 125 00
Fulton  Cigar  Co.........10®  35 00
A. B. Ballard 81 Co...  35@175 00 
E. M. Schwarz & Co.  35(3110  00
San Telmo......................... 35®  70 00
Havana Cigar Co.........18®  35 00
C. Costello & Co.......... 35®  70 00
LaGora-Fee Co..........  35® 70 00
8.  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. JohnsonCigarCo.35® 70 00
Maurice Sanborn  __ 503175 00
Bock & Co....................65®300 00
Manuel  Garcia........... 80@375 00
Neuva Mundo..............85®175  00
Henry Clay................   85@560 00
La C arolina..................... 96® 200 00
Cotton, 40 ft.  per doz........... 1  00
Cotton, 50 ft.  per doz........... 1  20
Cotton, 60 ft.  per doz..........  1  40
Cotton, 70 ft.  per doz........... 1  60
Cotton, 80 ft.  per doz...........1  80
Jute, 60 ft. per doz...............  80
Jute, 72 ft. per doz.............   95

CLOTHES  LINES

CO FFEE
R oasted

_ _   HIGH GRADE
Coffees

Special  Combination...........   20
French Breakfast.................  25
Lenox....................................   30
Vienna..............................  35
Private Estate.......................   38
Supreme........ .......................   40
Less 33M  per  cent,  delivered. 

Rio

«Java

Santos

M ocha

M aracaibo

PACKAGE  CO FFEE. 

Good.................................
Prim e................................
Golden..............................
Peaberry...........................
F a ir...................................
Good.................................
Prim e...............................
Peaberry............................
P rim e.............................
Milled...............................
Interior.............................
Private  Growth...............
Mandehling......................
Imitation.......................
Arabian.........................

..  10
..  12
13
14
..  14
..  15
..  16
..  18
..  15
..  17
..  26
..  30
..  35
99
..  28
Below  are  given  New  York 
prices  on  package  coffees,  to 
which the wholesale dealer adds 
the local freight from New York 
to buyers shipping point, giving 
buyer credit on the  invoice  for 
the  amount of  freight  he  pays 
from  the  market  In  which  he 
purchases to his shipping point.
These prices are  further  sub­
ject  to  manufacturer’s  regular 
rebate.
Arbuckle.............................11  50
Jersey..................................11  50
M cL aughlin’s XXXX 
McLaughlin’s  XXXX  sold  to 
retailers  only.  Mail  all  orders 
direct  to  W.  F.  McLaughlin  & 
Co., Chicago.
Valley City 4   gross.............   75
Felix 4  gross........................ 1  15
Hummers foil 4  gross........  85
Hummel’s tin 54 gross........ 1  43

E x tra ct

COCOA

Jam e s E pps A Co.’s

CONDENSED  M ILK

Boxes, 7 lbs...........................   40
Cases, 16 boxes......................  38
COCOA  SHELLS
20 lb. bags.......................  
24
Less quantity.................. 
3
Pound packages.............  
4
4 doz in case.
Gall Borden Eagle............. 6  75
Crown.................................... 6  25
Daisy......................................5 75
Champion............................. 4 50
Magnolia...............................4  25
Challenge..............................4,25
Dime......................................3 35

COUPON  BOOKS 
T radesm an  G rade 
50 books, any  denom...
100 books, any  denom...
500 books, any  denom...
1.000 books, any  denom...
Econom ic  G rade 
50 books, any  denom...
100 books, any  denom...
500 books, any  denom...
1.000 books, any  denom...
S u perior G rade 

1  50
2 50 
11  50 
20  00
1  50
2 50 
11  50 
20  00
50 books, any  denom...  1  50 
100 books, any  denom...  2 50 
500books,any  denom...  li  50
1.000 books, any  denom...  20 00
1  50
2 50 
11  50 
20  00
2 00
3 00 
5 00

50 books, any  denom 
100 books, any  denom 
500 books, any. denom
1.000 hooks, any  denom
C redit  Checks 
500, any one denom........
1.000, any one denom........
2.000, any one denom........
Steel  punch.......................

U niversal  G rade 

74

A pples

C alifornia  F ru its

CREAM   TARTAR

Coupon  Pass  B ooks 
denomination from $10 down.

Can be made to represent any 
20  books.........................  1  00
50  books.........................  2  00
100  books.........................  3  00
250  books.........................  6  25
500  books.........................  10  00
1.000  books.........................  17  50
5 and 10 lb. wooden  boxes...... 30
Bulk in sacks............................29
D R IE D   FRUITS—D om estic 
Sundried..........................   @ 64
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes.8®  84 
Apricots......................  @15
Blackberries...............
Nectarines..................
Peaches.......................10  @11
Pears............................
Pitted Cherries...........
PrunneUes ..................
Itaspherrles................
C alifornia  P ru n es
100-120 25 lb. boxes____  (
90-100 25 lb. boxes........   (
80 - 90 25 lb. boxes 
70 - 80 25 lb. boxes 
60 - 70 25 lb. boxes 
50 - 60 25 lb. boxes 
40 - 50 25 lb. boxes 
30 - 40 25 lb. boxes

@ 54 
@ 6
© 8
4  cent less in 50 lb. cases 
London Layers 2 Crown. 
1
s
London Layers 3 Crown. 
Cluster 4 Crown.............  
5
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 
8 4
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown 
84
L. M., Seeded, choice ...
10
L. M„ Seeded, fancy__  
10b
D R IE D   FRUITS—F oreign 
Leghorn..............................
Corsican.............................
Patras, cases.....................
Cleaned, b u lk ....................
Cleaned,  packages...........
Citron American 19 lb. bx. 
Lemon American 10 lb. bx 
Orange American 10 lb. bx 
Sultana 1 Crown................
Sultana 2 Crown...............
Sultana 3 Crown.................
Sultana 4 Crown................
Sultana 5 Crown................
Sultana 6 Crown................
Sultana package...............

C u rran ts

R aisins

R aisins

.12
64

C itron

Peel

B eans

F a rin a

C ereals

FARINACEOUS  GOODS 
Dried Lima...........................   54
Medium Hand Picked  2 00@2  15
Brown Holland.....................
Cream of Cereal......................  90
Grain-O, sm all.......................1 35
Grain-O, large........................2 25
Grape Nuts.............................1 35
Postum Cereal, sm all............1 35
Postum Cereal, large........  2  25
241 lb. packages....................1 25
Bulk, per 100 lbs.....................3 00
36  2 lb. packages....................3 00
B arrels....................................2 50
Flake, 50 lb. drums................ 1 00
M accaroni  an d  V erm icelli
Domestic, 10 lb. box...............  60
Imported, 25 lb. box.............. 2 50
Common.................................
C hester..................................2  50
Empire.................................... 3 00

H ask ell’s W h eat F lakes

P e a rl  B arley

H om iny

Jen n in g s’

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

N orthrop  B rand
2 oz. Taper Panel__   75 
20Z. Oval..................   75 
3 oz. Taper Panel. 
.1  35 
4 oz. Taper Panel.... 1  60 

I).  C. Lemon
2oz.........  75
3 oz,........1  00
4 0Z..........1  40
6 0Z......... 2  00
No.  8....2  40
No. 10....4  00
No. 2 T ..  80
No. 3 T ..125
No. 4 T  .150
Lem.  Van.
1  20
120
2 00
2 25
Van.  Lem. 
doz. 
doz. 
XXX, 2 oz. obert.... 1  25 
75
XXX, 4 oz. taper__ 2 25 
1 25
XX, 2 oz. obert........1  00
No. 2,2 oz. o bert 
  75
2 25
XXX D D ptchr, 6 oz 
1 75
XXX D D ptchr, 4 oz 
K. P. pitcher, 6 oz... 
2 25
Perrigo’s Lightning,  gro___2 50
Petrolatum, per doz.............  75

FLY  P A P E R

P errig o ’s

GUNPOW DER 
Rifle—D upont’s

Choke  B ore—D upont's

Kegs........................................ 4 00
Half Kegs............................... 2 25
Quarter K egs.........................1 25
1 lb. cans...............................   30
4  lb. cans........................... 
18
Kegs........................................ 4 25
Half K egs.......... .................. 2  40
Quarter K egs................ 
1  35
1  lb. cans...............................   34
K egs........................................8 00
Half Kegs...............................4 25
Quarter K egs........................ 2 25
1 lb. can s................................  45

E agle  D nck—D up o n t’s

G rits

Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s Brand.

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, Su................................. 
3
Rolled Avena, bhl.................3 75
Steel Cut, 4  bbls...................2 05
Monarch, hbl.........................3 40
Monarch, 4  bbl..........................1 88
Monarch, 90 lb. sacks...........1  68
Quaker, cases........................3 20
Huron, cases......................... 2 00
German.................................  
4
East India...............................34
Sains 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..  74®   8
Lemon Biscuit............  74®  8
64
New Era Butters...... 
W holew heat..............  
64
Cereola, 48  l-lb. pkgs. 
4 00
F lak e.....................................5
P earl......................................5
Pearl,  241 lb. packages...... 64
Cracked, bulk.......................   34
24 2 1b. packages....................... 2 50
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS 
4 OZ.
1  80
1  35
1  45

2 OZ. 
Vanilla I). C............1  10 
........   70 
Lemon  I>.  C 
Vanilla Tonka........  75 

DeBoe’s

Tapioca

W heat

H ER B S
Sage.......................................... 15
.................................15
H ops 
INDIGO

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

JE L L Y  
V. C. Brand.

LICO RICE

15 lb. pails..............................  35
301b. pails..................................62
Pure apple, per doz.............   85
P u re.......................................  30
Calabria..........................  
25
Sicily.............................. 
i4
Root........................................  10
Condensed, 2 doz................... 1 20
Condensed, 4doz.................’.2  25
Diamond Match Co.’s brands.
No.  9 sulphur........................ j 65
Anchor P arlo r....................' j  50
No. 2 Home...................... 
1  30
Export Parlor...................    A  00
Wolverine...............................j 50

MATCHES

LYE

MOLASSES 
New  O rleans

Black...................... 
11
F a ir............................................14
Good.................................... 
20
Fancy.................... 
24
Open K ettle...................... '25@35

Half-barrels 2c extra 
MUSTARD

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

PIC K L ES
M edium

Sm all

Barrels, 1,200 count..............5 90
Half bbls, 600 count..............3 45

Barrels, 2,400 cou n t............. 6  90
Half bbls, 1,200 count...........3 95
Clay, No. 216........................... 1  70
Clay, T. 1)., full count..........  65
Cob, No. 3..............................  85

P IP E S

POTASH 

48 cans In case.

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

B IC E

D om estic

Carolina  head......................... 64
Carolina  No. 1 ....................."5
Carolina  No. 2 ......................4
B roken................................... ’34
Japan,  No.  1..................54@6
Japan,  No.  2..................44@5
Java, fancy head...........6  @54
Java, No.  1.....................5  ©
Table.................................   @

Im p o rted .

SALERATUS 

Packed 60 lbs. in box. 

Church’s Arm and Hammer.3  15
Deland’s.................................. 3 00
Dwight’s  Cow........................ 3 15
Emblem.................................. 2 10
L.  P ......................................."3 00
Sodio....................................... 3 15
Wyandotte, 100  4  s ................ 3 00
Granulated,  bbls................. 
80
Granulated, 100 lb. cases....  85
Lump, bbls........................... 
75
Lump, 145 lb. kegs.................  80

SAL  SODA

SALT

D iam ond C rystal 

Com m on  G rades

Table, cases, 24 3 lb. boxes.. 1  40 
Table, barrels, 1003 lb. bags.2  85 
Table, barrels, 40 7  lb. bags.2  50 
Butter, barrels,'280 lb. bulk.2  50 
Butter, barrels, 20 I41b.bags.2 60
Butter, sacks, 28 lbs.............   25
Butter, sacks, 56 lbs.............  60
100 31b. sacks.............................. 2 10
60 5 lb. sacks...............................1 95
28 10 lb. sacks.............................1 so
56 lb. dairy In drill bags.......  30
28 lb. dairy in drill bags.......  15
56 lb. dairy in linen sabks...  60 
56 lb. dairy in linen sacks...  60 
56 lb.  sacks............................   22
Granulated  Fine........................1 50
Medium Fine.........................1  06

A shton
_  ,  H iggins

Solar  Rock
Com m on

W arsaw

SALT  FISH  

Cod

Georges cured.............   @ 5
Georges  genuine........   @ 54
Georges selected........   @ 54
Strips or  bricks..........  6  @ 9
Pollock.........................  @ 34
Strips...........................................
Chunks.......................................15

H alih u t.

Herrings

Holland white hoops,  bbl. 
Holland white hoops Vibbl.  6  50 
Holland white hoop,  keg.. 
85
Holland white hoop mens. 
95
Norwegian.........................
Hound 100 lbs.....................   3  GO
Round 40 lbs.......................  1  75
Scaled........ ,.....................  
15
1  45
Bloaters......................
M ackerel
15 00 
Mess 100 lbs................
6 30 
Mess  40 lbs................
1  65
Mess  10 lbs................
l  35
Mess  8 lbs........................ 
No. l  ioo 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........................  10 50
4 50 
No. 2  40 lbs.................
1  15 
No. 2  10 lbs.................
No. 2  8 lbs.................
1  00
No. l ioo lbs.................
No. l  40 lbs.................
No. 1  10 lbs.................
No. 1  8 lbs.................
W hiteflsh

T ro u t

No. 1 No. 2 Fam
2  60
1  35
41
36
9

ioo  lbs__ ....  7  50 6  50
40  lbs__ ....  3 30 2 90
80
.... 
90
10  lbs...
66
75
8  lbs__ .... 
SEEDS
Anise 
.....................
Canary, Smyrna......
C araw ay..................
.60
Cardamon,  Malabar.
Celery.....................................  io
Hemp, Russian......................  4VA
Mixed Bird............................  4V4
Mustard, white.....................   5
Poppy......................................10
R ape......................................  4VA
Cuttle Bone.............................15
Scotch, in bladders...............  37
Maccaboy, in jars.................  36
French Rappee, in  jars.......  43

SNUFF

SOAP

j a X o n

. ..3 oo 
...2  95 
...2 90

Single box.........................
5 box lots, delivered___
10 box lots, delivered__

(IS.  S.  KIRK  l CO.’S BRANDS.

American Family, wrp’d... .2 66
Home.......................................2 75
Cabinet....................................2 20
Savon....................................... 2 50
White  Russian.......................2 35
White Cloud, laundry...........6 25
White Cloud, toilet............... 3 50
Dusky Diamond, GO 6 oz...... 2 10
Dusky Diamond, 50 8 oz........3 00
Blue India, 100 %  lb.............. 3 00
Kirkollne................................3 50
Eos..........................................2 50
Sapolio, kitchen, 3  tioz........ 2  40
Sapolio, hand, 3 doz............. 2 40
Boxes.....................................   5VA
Kegs, English.......................   434

Scouring

SODA

SPICES 

W hn’e Spices

Allspice........  
............ 
Cassia, China  ■  . m ats....... 
Cassia, Batavia, I! i bund... 
Cassia, Saigon, broken__  
Cassia, Saigon, in rolls —  
Cloves, Amboyna............... 
Cloves, Zanzibar................  
M ace................................... 
Nutmegs,  75-80.................. 
Nutmegs,  105-10................. 
Nutmegs, 115-20.................. 
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.................................... 
Mustard.............................. 
Pepper, Singapore, black. 
Pepper, Singapore, white. 
Pepper, Cayenne............... 
Sage....................................  

STOVE  PO LISH

H
12
25
38
55
15
13
56
55
45
40
15
23
16
15
28
48
16
16
18
25
65
18
17
25
20
16

No. 4,3 doz. in case, gross. 
No. 6,3 doz. in case, gross. 

SYRUPS

Barrels.............................
Half bbls.........................
l doz. 1 gallon cans........
l doz. 54 gallon cans.......
2 doz. 54 gallon cans.......

F a re   Cane

Good................................
Choice............................

M ixed

...17
...19
...3  15
...1  85
. . . 1   00

...  20
...  25

V. C. Syrup Co.’s Brands.
Valley City.........................i6i
V. C., fancy  flavored....... 184

/ -

'.X 'S »

« f

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‘ r
I

<s  |<*

i
1
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A l i

4*.

;resh  Meats

Carcass.....................
Forequarters..........
Hindquarters..........
Loins No. 3...............
Ribs..........................
Rounds.....................
Chucks.....................
Plates.......................
P o rk

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

554@ 8
5V4@ 6
7 @  9
9 @14
8 @14
6 @  7
6 @ <!'
4 @ 5

@  6
@  8
@ 6
@  7
6 @  7
7/M   8

Crackers

The  National 
quotes as follows

Biscuit  Co.

B u tte r

Seym our............................... 
New  York.............................  
Family................................... 
Salted.................................... 
Wolverine..........................  

6

5V4
5VA
554
6V4

Soda

Soda  XXX......................... 
6
Soda,  City......................... 
8
il
Long Island Wafers.......... 
Zephyrette.........................  10

O yster

7
6

5V4
6V4

Faust..................................  
Farina.................................... 
.................. 
Extra Farina 
Saltine  Wafer....................... 
Sweet Go
ods—Boxes
Animals..........
10V
Assorted  Cake..................   10
Belle Rose........................... 
9
Bent’s  W ater....................  15
Buttercups... 
............  13
'innamou Bar.................... 
9
'offee Cake,  Iced.............   10
¡offee Cake, Java.............   10
„'ocoanut Taffy..................  10
Iracknells...........................  1554
’reams, Iced.................... 
8VA
’ream Crisp.......................  
9
—   10
’rystal Creams.. 
Cubans..................................  1154
’urrant  Fruit.................... 
il
Frosted  Honey....................  1254
Frosted Cream.................. 
9
Huger Gems, lg. or  sin 
9
linger Snaps, XXX.......... 
8
Jlauiator...........................  10
Grandma Cakes................. 
9
Graham Crackers.............  
8
Iraham  Wafers................   10
Honey Fingers....................   1254
Im perials...........................  
8
Jumbles, Honey..................   1254
Lady Fingers.......................   1154
Lemon  Wafers..................   14
Marshmallow....................  15
Marshmallow W alnuts__   16
Mixed  Picnic__
Milk Biscuit..........
Molasses  Cake...
Molasses B ar.......
Moss Jelly  B ar...
Newton..................
Oatmeal Crackers 
Oatmeal Wafers..
Orange Crisp.......
Orange  Gem.......
PennyCake
Pilot Bread, XXX............. 
Pretzels, hand  made........ 
Sears’  Lunch.....................  
Sugar Cake......................... 
Sugar Cream, XXX.......... 
Sugar Squares  ..
Sultanas.............
Tuttl  Frutti.......
Vanilla Wafers..
Vienna Crimp...

7
754
754
9
8

1154
754

1254
1654

10

Fish  an i  Oysters

F resh  F ish

White fish.................. ■  @ 10
Trout.......................... .  @ 9
Black  Bass................ ..  8@ h
Halibut...................... ..  @ 15
.  @ 5
Ciscoes or H erring..
Hlueflsh..................... ..  @ 12
23
Live  Lobster............. .
25
Boiled  Lobster.......... •
Cod................................  @ 10
9
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...........
30
F. J. D. Selects........
25
Selects ......................
22
K. J. D. Standards..
20
Anchors....................
18
Standards................
16
Favorite....................
gal.
B u lk . 
F. H. Counts........................  2 00
Extra Selects...................
Selects..................................   1  36
Anchor Standards.............. 1  25
Standards............................ 1  20

O ysters In Cans.

Shell Goods.
Clams, per 100.............  
l  00
Oysters, per 100..........1  25@l  GO

Candies
Stick  Candy

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

bbls.  pails
^  @  7V4
7  @754
7V4@ 8
@ 854
cases 
@  6‘i 
@ 854 
@10

Mixed Candy

@11 
@ 9 
@  » 
@11 
@13 
@13 
© 5 
@ 854 
@ 9 
@ 954
@11
@13
@1054

@ 6 
@  654 
© 7 
@ 8 
@  754 
@  854 
@  754 
@  854 
@ 854 
@  854 
@  9 
@ 854
@14 
@  854 
@12

Grocers.....................
Competition.............
Special.  ...................
Conserve...................
R oyal.......................
Ribbon .....................
Broken .....................
Cut Loaf.............
English Rock...........
Kindergarten..........
French Cream..........
Dandy  Pan...............
I  Hand  Made  Cream
m ixed....................
Nobby.......................
Crystal Cream mix..
Fancy—In  Bi
San Bias Goodies__
Lozenges, plain.......
Lozenges, printed...
Choc. Drops.............
Eclipse Chocolates.  . 
('hoc.  Monumental».
Gum  Drops..............
Moss  Drops.............
Lemon Sours............
Imperials..................
Ital. Cream Bonbons
35 lb. pails.............
Molasses  Chews,  15
lb. palls..................
Jelly  Date  Squares. 
Iced  Marshmellows.
Golden Waffles...... .
lb. Duxes 
Fancy—I 
Lemon  Sours 
@50 
Peppermint  Drops..
@60 
Chocolate  Drops__
@65 
H. M. Choc.  Drops.. 
@75
il.  M. Choc.  I.t.  and
@90
Gum Drops..............
@30
Licorice  Drops__
@75
A. B. Licorice Drops
(&250
Lozenges,  plain.......
@55
Lozenges, printed...
@55
Imperials..................
@66
Mottoes...............
<££60
Cream  Bar...............
@55
Molasses Bar...........
@55
Hand  Made Creams.  80 @90
Cream  Buttons, Pep.
and  Wlnt..............
@65
String  Rock.............
@60
Hurnt  Almonds.......l  25 @
Wintergreen Berries
@55
Caram elli
No.  1 wrapped,  3  lb.
boxes.....................
Fruits
O ran gen
Fancy  Navels
@3 50
Extra Choice...........
@3 25
Seedlings
@2  75
Fancy M exicans__
<C£
Jam aicas..................
@
I.«moil*
@3  75
1 Strictly choice 360s..
@3 75
Strictly choice 300s..
|  Fancy 300s................
@4  00
|  Ex. Fancy  300s........
@4  25
@4 10
Extra Fancy 360s....
Banana*
!  Medium bunches__  
l OOfffil  25
I  Large  bunches........   1 50@1  75

Dk. No. 12...'

@50

F oreign  D ried F ruit*

Figs

@
@
@  5V4
@10
@  6
@  6
(Ob  6
@ 5

@13
(  alifornias,  Fancy..
@12
| Cal. pkg. 10 lb. boxes
Extra  Choice,  10  lb.
boxes, new Smprna
(413
1  Fancy, 12 lb. boxes new @14
I Imperial Mikados, 18
1  16. boxes................
Pulled, 6 lb. boxes...
Naturals, In bags....
Dates
Fards In 10 lb. boxes
Fards In 60 lb. cases.
Persians,  P. U. V ...
lb.  cases, new.......
1 Salrs, 60 lb. cases....
Nuts
Almonds, Tarragona
Almonds,  Ivtca......
Almonds. California,
soft shelled...........
Brazils, new.............
Filberts....................
Walnuts, Grenobles.
Walnuts, soft shelled
California No. 1...
Table Nuts,  fancy...
Table  Nuts,  choice..
Pecans,  Med...........
Pecans, Ex. I^trge.
Pecans, Jumbos......
Hickory Nuts per bu.
Ohio,  new.............
Cocoanuts, full sacks
Chestnuts, per  bu ...
Peanut*
Fancy, H. 1\, Suns..
Fancy,  H.  I\,  Flags
Roasted.................
Choice, H. P., Extras
Choice, H.  P„ Extras
Roasted.................

@17
<5
@15V4
@ 7V&
@13
@15
©12V*
@12 VA
@11
@  9
@12
@13
@1  75
@3  50
@

i  @6VA
@ 6V4
(g>
@

GAN  T R A D E S M A N
Grains and  Feedstuffs1
(

P ails

.

'

..1  60
2-hoop Standard...............
.1   70
3-hoop Standard...............
.1  60
2-wlrè,  Cable....................
..1  85 
3-wire.  Cable....................
Cedar, all red. brass  bound.l  25
..2 25
Paper,  Eureka................
..2 40
Fibre................................

Tubs

20-inch, Standard, No. 1.. ...700
18-iuch, Standard,  No. 2.. ...600
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
..9  45
No. 1 Fibre.......................
..7 95
No. 2 Fibre.......................
..7 20
No. 3 Fibre.......................
W ash  B oards
Bronze Globe.................... ...2 50
D ewey.............................. ..  1  75
Double Acme....................
Single Acme..................  .
..3 00
Double  Peerless...............
Single  Peerless................ ...250
Northern Q ueen............. ...2  50
Double Duplex................. . .  3 00
Good Luck....................... ..  2 75
•2 25
Universal..........................

W in ter  W heat  F lo u r 

Ix>cal Brands

•atents...............................  4 20
lecond  Patent....................  3  70
itraight..............................  3 50
Hear..................................   3 00
ìraham ..............................  3  50
iuckwheat........................   6 00
tye......................................  3 25
Subject  to  usual  cash  dis- 
ount.
Flour In bbls., 25c per  bbl. ad- 
litlonal.
Kall-1 tarn hart-Putman's  Brand 
id  Vis.......................  3 50
liamond  Vis.......................  3  50
Worden Grocer Co.'s  Brand
tuaker Vis..........................   3  60
juaker 54s..........................  3  GO
Quaker Vis..........................  3  60

Spring  W heat  F lo u r 

'lark-Jewell-Wells  Co.’s  Brand
Plllsbury’s  Best Vis..........  4  26
Pillsbury’s  Best 54s..........  4  15
Pillsbury’s  Best Vis..........  4  05
Pilisbury's Best Hs paper.  4  05 
Plllsbury’s Best 54s paper.  4  05 
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand

7

K ingsford’s  Corn
40 l-lb. packages................
20 l-lb. packages................
K lngsford’s Stlv
40 l-lb. packages......
6 lb. boxes......................... 
D iam ond
64 10c packages..................  5 00
128 5c packages..................  5 00
30 10c 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................................ 

Com m on Corn

SUGAR

P r o v i s i o n s

W ood  Bowls
11 In. B utter....................
...  75
...1  00
13 in. Butter....................
..1  GO
15 in. Butter....................
...2 00
17 in. Butter....................
19 in. Butter..................... ...2  50
VEAST  CAKE
Yeast Foam, 154  doz__ ...  50
...1  00
Yeast Foam. 3  doz........
Yeast Cream, 3 doz........
...1  00
...1  00
Magic Yeast 5c, 3  doz...
Sunlight Yeast. 3 doz__ ...1  00
Warner’s Safe, 3 doz__ ...1  00

4VA
4V4
4V4
5
3H,
354
Below  are  given  New  York 
prices  on  sugars,  to  which  the 
wholesale dealer adds  the  local 
freight from New  York  to  your 
shipping point, giving you credit 
on  the  invoice  for  the  amount 
of freight  buyer  pays  from  the 
market  in  which  he  purchases 
to his  shipping  point,  including 
20 pounds tor the  weight  of  the 
barrel.
llomino...............................  5 30
Cut  Loaf.............................   5 45
Crushed..............................  5 45
Cubes..................................  5 20
Powdered..........................   5  15
Coarse  Powdered 
..........  5  15
XX XX  Powdered.............   5  15
Standard  Granulated......   5 05
Fine Granulated.................  5 05
Coarse Granulated.. 
6 20
Extra Fine Granulated....  5 20
Conf.  Granulated..............  5 30
2 lb. cartons Fine  G ran...  5  15 
2 lb. bags Fine  Gran 
..  5  15 
5 lit  cartons Fine  G ran...  5  15
5ib  bags Fine  Gran........   5  15
Mould A..............................  530
Diamond  A .......................   505
Confectioner’s  A ...............  4  85
No.  1,  Columbia A..........  4  70
No.  2,  Windsor A .____ ____________________________________________  4 70
No.  3,  Ridgewood  A.......  4  70
No.  4,  Phfcnix  A ............  465
No.  5,  Empire A .............   460
No.  6..................................   4  55
No.  7...................................  4  50
No.  8...................................  4  45
No.  9............. .'...................   4 40
No. 10...................................  4 3£
No. 11...................................  4 30
No. 12..................................   4  2E
No. 13..................................   4 2E
No. 14................................. 
4 2£
No. 15..................................   4 21
No. 16...................................  4 25

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

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

@ u  ro
@12  00
@11  75
@11  50
@15 00
@10 00
@12  25

L ards—In Tierces

D ry  Salt  M eats

Sm oked  M eats

B arreled  P o rk

6%
554

.. 

Pigs’  F eet

574
754
%
54
54
%
%
1
1%
554
6
754
754
654
9
6

@  11
@  1054
@  10 Si
@  1054
@  14
@  7
@  7
@  9

Hams, l2lb. average.
Hams, 14 lb. average.
Hams, 16 lb. average.
Hams, 20 lb. average.
Ham dried  beef.......
Shoulders (N. Y. cut)
Bacon, clear.............   754@  854
Californla|hams.......
Boneless  hams........
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.........................
Frankfort.................
Pork  ........................
Blood ........................
Tongue.....................
Headcheese..............
B eef
Extra Mess...............
Boneless....................
R um p.......................
Kits, 15  lbs...............
54 bbls., 40 lbs..........
54 bbls., 80  lbs..........
T ripe
Kits, 15  lbs...............
54 bbls., 40  lbs..........
54 bbls., 80 lbs..........
Casings
P o rk .........................
Beef rounds.............
Beef  middles..........
Sheep........................
B u tterin e
Rolls, dairy...............
Solid, dairy...............
Rolls, creamery.......
i  Solid,  creamery.......
Corned  beef, 2 lb __
Corned beef, 14 lb ...
Roast beef, 2 lb......
Potted ham,  54s.......
Potted ham,  54s.......
Deviled ham,  54s__
Deviled ham, 54s__
Potted tongue,  54s..
j{  Potted tongue.  54s..
“ 
Oils
X » 
,
D 
D 
B arrels
@13
D  Eocene ........................
>  Perfection.................... @12
XXX W.W. Mich.Hdlt @12
)  W. W. M ichigan........
@1154
Diamond W hite.......... @1054
@1254
)  1)., S.  Gas....................
)  Deo. Naphtha.............
@1254
)  Cylinder....................... 29  @34
)  Engine.........................11  @2354
i  Black, winter............... @1014

10 00
11  75
11  75
75
1  50
2 70
70
1  25
2 25
20
3
10
60
1354
13
19
1854
2 35
16 00
2 25
50
90
50
90
50
90

Canned  M eats

Olney & Judson’s Brand

Worden Grocer  Co.’s Brand

Duluth  Imperial  Vis.........   4  25
Duluth  Imperial  54s.........  4  15
Duluth  Imperial  Vis.........   4  05
Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s Brand
Gold Medal  V»s..................  4  i5
Gold Medal  54s..................  4  15
Gold Medal V?s..................  4  05
Parisian  Vis.......................   4  25
Parisian  54s.......................  4  15
Parisian  VAs.......................  4 05
Ceresota 54s.......................   4  25
Ceresota 5*s.......................   4  15
Ceresota V4s.......................   4  06
Laurel  5As..........................   4  10
Laurel  5*s...........................  4  00
Laurel  54s..........................   3  90
Bolted.................................  1  90
Granulated........................   2  10
St. Car Feed, screened__   16 00
No. 1 Corn and  Oats........  15 60
Unbolted Corn  Meal........  14  50
Winter Wheat Bran..........  14 00
Winter Wheat  Middlings.  16 00
Screenings.........................  14  00
Corn, car  lots....................  33
Less than car lots.............
Car  lots...............................  27
Car lots, clipped................   29V
Less than car lots.............   31
No. 1 Timothy car  lots__   11  oo
No. 1 Timothy ton  lots__   12  50

Feed  and  M i list lift's

M eal

Corn

Oats

H ay

@ 854

H ides

@ 8
@ 7
@654
© 954
@854
@10
@11
@954
50@1  25

Hides  and  Felts
The Cappon & Bertsch Leather 
Co., 100 Canal  Street,  quotes  as 
follows:
Green  No. 1.............  
Green  No. 2.............  
Bulls..........................  
Cured  No. I ............. 
Cured  No. 2.............  
Calfskins.greeu No. 1 
Calfskins .green No. 2 
Calfsklns.cured No. t 
Calfskins,curedNo.2 
P elts
Pelts,  each............... 
Tallow
No. 1..........................  
No. 2..........................  
Washed,  line...........  
Washed,  medium... 
Unwashed,  fine....... 
Unwashed, medium. 
Cat,  wild...................... 
Cat, house..................... 
Fox, red.................... 
Fox, gray  .................... 
Lynx 
...................... 
Muskrat,  fall............ 
Mink  ........................ 
Raccoon.................... 
Skunk.......................  

10© 71
6@ 2
50@2  50
10@
©6  oo
3@  1:
20@2 00
10@1  00
16@1  40

@ 4
@ 3
22@24
25@27
18@20
20@22

W ool

F u rs

TA B LE  SAUCES
LEA & 
PERRINS’ 
SAUCE

G enuine 
W  orcestersh ire.
Lea & Perrin’s,  small.......  2  5
Halford, large....................  3 7
Halford, small....................  2 2
Salad Dressing, large.......  4  5
Salad Dressing, small.......  2  7
Malt White Wine, 40 grain..  75 
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

VINEGAR

Rub-No-More.... 
Pearline, 72 8 oz.

W IC K IN G

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

W OODENW ARE 

B askets 

Bushels..................................l

Willow Clothes, large.

B a tte r  P lates

C lothes  P ins
Boxes, gross boxes........
Mop  Sticks
Troian spring.................
Eclipse patent spring...

M IC H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N

22

Hardware

Kight  Rules  Applicable  to  Advertising  a 

Hardware  Store.

I  believe  in  Bamum’s  motto— Adver­
I  have  not  succeeded 
tise  and  get  rich. 
in  getting  rich  yet,  but  I  have  made 
some  good  money  for  the  store  that  I 
have  the  honor  to  represent. 
I  consider 
it  an  honor  to  be  in  the  hardware  busi­
ness,  and  I  think  there 
is  no  more 
worthy  trade  than  it.  Judicious  adver­
tising  in  the  newspapers  is,  I  think,  the 
best  method  of  reaching  the  people,  for 
they  will  read  the  papers,  and  the  edi­
tors  are  striving  hard  to make the papers 
interesting  to  read. 
I  think  that  all 
good  men  are  not  hardware  dealers,  but 
all  hardware  men  are  or  should  be  good 
men,  and  they  will  do  just  as  they  ad­
vertise  to  do. 
I  feel  gratified  with  the 
result  that  I  have  obtained  by  news­
paper  advertisements. 
I  change  my 
advertisements  often  and  keep  track  of 
prices,  or  rather  keep  track  of  the 
“ trusts,”   and  then  I  go  and  change  my 
advertisement  again.

I  trv  to  make  my  advertisements  so 
that  they  will  be  interesting,  and ask  the 
printer  to  keep  changing  the appearance 
of  my  advertisement,  and  1  must  say 
that  1  think  this  is  the  best  way. 
In 
the  first  place  we  must  have  our  store 
nicely  arranged  and  have  everything 
neat,  and  then  we  must  have  a  good 
hearty  handshake  for  all  our  customers.
I  am  a  Methodist,  and  I  believe  in  the 
old-fashioned  Methodist  hand-shake; 
and  then,  why  not  shake  their  hands? 
They  are  a  part  of  us,  and  we  must 
keep  them  coming 
if  we  would  live. 
We  spent  $75  last  summer  advertising 
in  the  papers  for a  cooking  exhibition, 
and  put  a  large  range  in  our  wagon  and 
drove  all  over  town  and  had a large cow­
bell,  and  would  pull  the  string  and have 
it  ring.

I  also  had  some  circulars  and  some 
posteis  put  on  the bridges,  hut  I  can  not 
help  but  think  the  paper advertisements 
were  the  most  useful,  by  long  odds.  We 
made  it  a  point  to  see  that  every  man, 
woman  and  child  got  a  biscuit  and  a 
cup  of  hot  coffee. 
It  paid  us.  We 
must  ask  our  customer  how  is  Mary- 
Jane  and  Peggy-Ann,  and  how  are  the 
crops,  etc.?  We  must  be 
interested  in 
their  welfare.  One  of  the  best  things 
that  I  know  of  is  to  keep  up  a  hot  fire 
in  winter  and  a  good  tank  of  ice  in 
summer.

I  think  that 

it  pays  to  get  a  special 
line  of  good  goods  and  talk  them  and 
speak  of  them  in  the  paper.  Then  get 
another  special 
line  and  keep  up  the 
everlasting,  persistent  advertising  that 
will  keep  the  people  coming,  and  keep 
up  that  good  old  hand-shake,  and  keep 
in  the  winter  and  the 
u;>  the  h 't  fire 
good 
ice  water 
in  the  summer.  Do 
what  you  say  you  will  do  in  yout  adver­
tisements.  Be  sure  that  you  say  some­
thing  that  will  cause  them  to  think  of 
your store  all  the  time.  Buy  goods  only 
from  houses  that  will  protect  you  and 
take  occasional  trips  to  market  to  ac­
quire  new  ideas  on  display  of stock  and 
methods  of  handling  customers.  Well, 
let  me  say,  in  conclusion,  that  I  think 
the  following  ideas  are  the  best  methods 
of  advertising  our  business :

1.  Good  fresh  advertisements  every 

few  days  in  the  paper.

2.  Keep  a  neat,  clean,  up-to-date 

stock,  well  bought.

3.  Remember 

that 

old-fashioned 

4-  Keep  up  the  fire  and  don’t  forget 

hand-shake.

the  ice  water.

5.  Have  your whole  life  (except your 

soul)  in  your store.

take  the  family.

6.  Go  to  church  every  Sabbath  and 

7.  Keep  plenty  of  money  on  hand  to 

cash  checks  and  make  change.

8.  Be  sure  and  keep  money  on  hand 

to  pay  your bills  promptly.

S.  J.  Gilbert.

Not the  Stove’s  Fault.
From Stoves and Hardware Reporter.

Complaints  are  quite  often  received 
by  manufacturers  regarding  some  stove 
or  range  which  the  writer  has  sold  and 
then  taken  back  because  it  did  not  give 
satisfaction  to  the  purchaser. 
It  did 
not  draw,  or  its  baking  qualities  were 
deficient,  or  it  failed  to  give  out  suffi­
cient  heat,  or  there  was  some  other  fatal 
defect  in  design  or  workmanship  which 
the  dealer  could  not  remedy,  because,  as 
he may  sarcastically  say,  he  is'  not  run­
ning  a 
foundry  but  is  engaged  in  the 
business  of  selling  stoves  and  must have 
the  right  kind  or  else  go  out  of  busi­
ness.

Letters  of  this  kind  are  always  absurd 
to  those  who  are  acquainted  with  the 
methods  of  stovemaking. 
It  is  safe  to 
say  that  any  stove  which  goes  out  from 
a  modern  foundry  will  perform  its  work 
satisfactorily 
if  only  accorded  the  right 
treatment.  When  a  hundred  stoves,  for 
instance,  are  made 
from  one  pattern 
and  ninety-nine  do  good  work  while  the 
remaining  one 
is  complained  about,  it 
naturally  follows  that  the  fault  is  not 
with  the  maker  but  with  the 
individual 
who  uses  it.

A deficient  draft is  probably  caused  by 
an  improper  method  of  setting  up.  The 
pipe  may  be  too  small  or  be  run  too  far 
into  the  flue,  or  the  flue  itself  may  not 
be  up  to  requirements. 
Improper  set­
ting  up  or  operation  will  cause  trouble 
with  any  stove,  no  matter  how  perfect 
it  would  otherwise  be  in  operation,  and 
unless  the  dealer  conveys his own knowl­
edge  to  the  purchaser  he  is  quite  apt  to 
receive  complaints. 
If  he  does  not  pos­
sess  such  knowledge  he  can  readily  ob­
tain  it  from  the  maker,  who  would  also 
in  reminding  him  politely 
be 
that  one  part  of  the  dealer’s  business 
is 
to  instruct  his  customers  how  to  use  the 
articles  they  purchase.

justified 

Karl y  Closing; By  Hardware Stores. 

From the American  Artisan.

The  Menominee  Hardware  Co.  de­
serves  congratulations  for  acting  as  pio­
neers  in  closing  business  at  6  p.  m.  dur­
ing  the  winter.  It  is  said  the  other  mer­
chants  of  that  place  will  follow  the  ex­
ample.  While  few  firms  have  the  inde­
pendence  to  take  so  praiseworthy  a  step 
as  this  of  their  own  individual  accord, 
yet  more  dealers  could  do  it  than  think 
they  could,  as  the  volume  of  daily  sales 
would  show 
less  falling  off  than  they 
think  they  would.

While  it  may  be  a  mooted  point  as  to 
the  advisability  of  dealers  taking  this 
step  in  their  individual  capacity,  there 
can  be  no  question  of  the  ease  with 
which  it  can  be  accomplished  by  united 
effort.  One  of  the  most  signal  triumphs 
of  the  Chicago  Retail  Hardware  Deal- 
crs  Association  in 
infancy  was  its 
bringing  about  earlier  hours  of  closing 
allowing 
trade 
needed  time  for  rest  and  recreation,  of 
which  they  had  been  robbing themselves 
owing  to  the  intensity  of  mutual  com­
petition.

local  hardware 

the 

its 

Hardware  dealers  as  well  as  other 
classes  of  merchants  can  derive  more 
benefit  from  coming  to  a  proper  under- 
standing  with  each  other  than  from  any 
other  source,  and  such 
is  the  general 
sound  sense  of  the  retail  business  world 
that  I  have 
little  doubt  that  if  a  few 
courageous  hardware  dealers  would  set 
the  pace  of  early  closing  it  would  be­
come  quite  general  in  their  respective 
communities,  to  the common good  of all. 
Barring  drug  stores  there  is  no  reason 
why  all  retail  lines  should  not  close  at 
6 o  clock.

Defective  Judgment.
.you  kissing  my  daughter. 

,  “ J 
don’t  like  it,  s ir .”
- 
sir. 

I 
,Then  you  don’t  know  w hat’s  good 
’

6 

Substitute  For Iron.

Experiments 

in  the  Sibley  laboratory 
at  Cornell  University  have  shown  that 
an  alloy  of  aluminum  and  zinc possesses 
is  white  and 
remarkable  qualities. 
It 
takes  a  fine  .finish,  and 
is  equal 
in 
iron,  but  superior  in 
strength  to  cast 
elasticity.  On  the  other  hand  it  melts 
low  a  temperature  that  it  can  be 
at  so 
liquefied 
ladle  over  an  open  fire. 
In  the 
liquid  form  it  fills  a  mold,  run­
ning  into  all  the  small  parts  much  bet­
ter  than  brass,  but 
is  more  brittle 
Its  use  does  away  with  the 
than  brass. 
foundry  furnace,  and 
its  technical  ad­
vantages  are  obvious.  The  strength  of 
this  metal  is  50,000  pounds  to  the square 
inch,  according  to  the  authority  making 
the  announcement.

in  a 

it 

Continual  Orind.

“ I  asked  a  scissors  sharpener 
other day  what  he  thought  of  life .”  

“ What  did  he  reply?”
“ That  it  was  one  continual  grind.”

the 

How  Do  You  Know
That all the money goods sell  for  gets  Into  your 
till?  You can know this if you will,  flow do your 
that  mistaken  credits  and 
customers  know 
charges don’t  effect  the  amount  of  their  bills? 
They can know this, if  you  will.  How  00  your 
clerks  know  that  suspicion  can  not  wrongfully 
be held against them by you or  your  customers?
They  can  know, if 
you will.  How can 
your  creditors 
know  their  exten­
sion of credit is not 
abused?  They can 
know if  you  will, 
s   How  can  your 
VJ competitors know 
that  you  are  on 
your feet solid and  to stay?  They  can  know  ii 
you will.  How can toe world at large know that 
you are prosperous  and  progressive?  They  can 
know if  vou  will.  WILL  WHA1 ?  If  you  will 
put  in  the  Egry  Autographic  Register  System 
adapted to your needs.  This system insures every 
dollar sold saved.  Makes forgotten  charges and 
wrong  credits  impossible.  Causes  suspicion  of 
clerks to disperse.  Forces competitors to recog­
nize your business judgment.  Leads  to  greater 
confidence  in  your  creditors,  and  satisfies  the 
world at large, on whose opinion your success de­
fends, that you  are  prosperous  and  up-to-date, 
[f you will let us help you write for particulars to 

L.  A.  ELY.  Alma. Mich, 

j

£

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  ft  CO..

Makers,  Chicago,  III.

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

Aluminum  Money

Will Increase Your Business.

Cheap and Effective.

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

44   S.  Clark  St.,  Chicago.  III.

Air
Tight
Stoves

W rite 
for 
Price 
List. 

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FOSTER, 
STEVENS, 
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&  CO., 
GRAND RAPIDS.  3

The  Grand  Rapids  Paper  Box  Co.

Manufacture

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

GRAND  RAPIDS  PAPER BOX CO.,  Grand  Rapids, Mich

M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N

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Hardware  Price  Current

Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire

N alls

SUCCESSFUL  SALESMEN.

Hugh  G.  Hoffman,  Representing Ctipples 

Wooden ware  Co.

Hugh  G.  Hoffman  was  born  in  K ala­
mazoo,  Aug.  3,  1874.  He  attended  the 
public  schools  of  that  place,  graduating 
from  the  high  school  at  the  age  of  17  on 
the  Latin-German  course.  He 
then 
worked  one  year  for  Edwards  &  Cham­
berlin,  hardware  dealers  of  Kalamazoo, 
when  he  accepted  a  position 
in  the 
Michigan  National  Bank  of  Kalamazoo 
as  collector  and  correspondence  clerk, 
which  position  he  occupied 
five 
years.  At  the  end  of  this  time  he  went 
on  the  road  for  his  father,  John  A.  Hoff­
man,  in  the  interest  of  the  Kucher  & 
Gibbs  Plow  Co.,  of  Canton,  Ohio,  and 
F.  E.  Myers  &  Bro.,  of  Ashland,  Ohio, 
covering  the  States  of  Ohio,  Indiana

for 

scribed  the  degradation  of  spirit  which 
rested  with the habitual drinker  and  how 
if  that  spirit  was  not  destroyed  mere 
signing  of  the  pledge  would  not redeem. 
He  pleaded  for  exercise  of  will  power, 
more  potent  in  effecting  reform  than  all 
the  drugs  and  medicines  in  the  world. 
This  was  but  developing  the  minds  of 
his  hearers  for  a  climax.

Suddenly  he  swung  one  arm  high 

in 

the  air  and  shouted :

fall 

“ A   drunkard  and  his 

to  the 
depths  of  everlasting  hell 
is  like  the 
man  who  climbs  to  the  top  of St.  Peter’s 
n  Rome.  He 
is  on  the  very  summit 
of  the  great  dome,  the  blue  sky  above 
and  the  world  far,  far beneath.  He looks 
down  from  his  perch,  and  having  noth- 
ng  to  grasp,  to  hold  to,  grows  dizzy.
“ Everything 

is  whirling  now  before 
him.  His  senses 
is 
swooning.  His  feet  slip.  He  is  off  of 
the  dome.  He  is 
is 
falling—-

in  the  air.  He 

leave  him.  He 

* ‘ Down!
* ‘ Down!
* ‘ Down!
“ To  the  earth  beneath  and the  ruin  of 

himself.

“ Thus  descends  the  drunkard  -
‘ ‘ Down!  D ow n!  Down !
“ To  the  fires  of  hell  and  the  ruin  of 

his  soul !'■ *

The  whole  exclamation  was  accom- 
>anied  with  such  use  of  his  right  arm 
nd  body  as  to  bring  the  fearful  descent 
mmediately  to  the  eye  of  the  mind.
A  shudder  ran  over  the audience.  The 
sobs  of  women  were  heard.  Men  felt 
uncomfortable.  Men  and  women  are 
iving  to-day  who  still  feel  the  power  of 
that 
lips  long 
since  cold.

illustration,  uttered  by 

Not an  Open  Boor.

and  methods 

A  German  manufacturer,  who  recently 
visited  Pittsburg,  was  greatly surprised, 
says  an  exchange,  in  the  difference  in 
he  welcome  he  received  eight  years ago 
and  at  the  present  time.  At  the  former 
>eriod  the  manufacturers 
entertained 
the  foreign  visitors  lavishly  and  showed 
them  all  the  wonders  of  natural  gas  and 
the  resources  of  their  plants.  All  this  is 
now  changed.  He  requested  permission 
to  inspect  certain  mills  and  see  the  im­
proved  machinery 
in 
vogue.  He  was  surprised  to  hnd  that  it 
impossible  to  obtain  the  required 
was 
permit.  Other 
foreigners  have  suc­
ceeded 
in  entering  some  of  the  mills, 
but  the  manufacturers  are  becoming 
more  and  more  chary  in  granting  facili­
inspection  of  their  plants. 
ties  for  the 
There  was  a  time,  and  it  is  not  so 
long 
ago,  when  foreigners  did  not  care  to 
enter  the  m ills;  but  at  the  present  time 
they  are  very  anxious  to  do  so. 
It 
should  be  remembered  that  abroad  in 
very  few  cases  are  foreigners  ever  al­
lowed  to  inspect  plants,  and  there  is  no 
reason  why  we should  grant favors which 
we  can  not  receive  in  return.

Two-Cent Revenue  Stamps.

is 

A   writer  in  a  New  York  paper  con­
tends  that,  although  the  present  money 
stringency 
largely  due  to  excessive 
capitalization  of  industrial combinations 
and  to  great 
increase  of  business  and 
higher prices,  one  of the  chief causes  has 
been  overlooked— the  little two-cent  rev­
enue  stamp.  He  points  out  that  where 
formerly  workmen  were  paid  in  checks 
now  they  are  almost  invariably  paid 
money.  This  practice  makes  it  neces­
sary  for  the  banks  throughout  the  coun 
try to  keep  more  of their cash  reserves on 
hand  and  to 
less  at  the  money 
centers,  and  the  money  thus  being  scat­
tered  out  gets  back  slowly.  Business 
men  keep  more  money  on  hand  and  pay 
less  with  checks,  and  farmers when get­
ting  pay  for  their  products,  instead  of 
depositing  in  hanks  and  checking  out 
as  before,  now  carry  their  money  home.

leave 

Mentioned  as  Usual.

Clara— Did  the newspapers notice your 

papa  at  the  banquet?

Freddie—Yes.
Clara— Well,  mamma  said  she  could 

not  see  his  name  in  the  list.

Freddie— N o ; but  the  list ends up with 
“ and  others.-”   That  means  papa.  They 
always  mention  him  that  way.

and Michigan.  November  I,  1898,  he en­
gaged  to  travel  for  the  Samuel  Cupples 
Woodenware  Co.,  of  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  the 
largest  house  of  its  kind  in  the  United 
States.  His  territory  embraces  both  the 
wholesale  and  retail  trade  of  Illinois, 
Wisconsin  and  Michigan,  whom  he  calls 
upon  once  a  year.

Mr.  Hoffman  is  an  attendant  upon  the 
First  Presbyterian  church of Kalamazoo. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Kalamazoo  Clul 
and  is  affiliated  with  Kalamazoo  Lodge 
No.  22,  F.  and  A.  M.  ;  Kalamazoo 
Chapter,  R.  A.  M.  ;  Peninsular Com 
mandery,  No.  8,  K.  T.  ;  Saladin Temple 
of  the  Mystic  Shrine  of  Grand  Rapids 
Post  K,  Michigan  Knights  of  the  Grip 
He  is  a  charter  member  of  Kalamazoo 
Council,  No.  156,  United  Commercia 
Travelers,  serving  that  organization  in 
an  official  capacity  as  a  member  of  the 
Executive  Committee.

Mr.  Hoffman  attributes  his  success  as 
a  salesman  to  patient  work  and  constant 
effort  along  well-defined  lines,  together 
with  the 
inherent  qualities  of  a  travel 
ing  salesman  inherited  from  his  father, 
John  A.  Hoffman,  who  has  carried  a 
salesman’s  grip 
twenty-six 
years.

for  over 

lectured  before 

few  gestures  and 

Climax  Which Thrilled  His  Hearers.
Twenty-three  years  ago  this  winte 
; 
John  B.  Gough 
crowded  house 
in  the  Fountain  street 
Baptist  church.  His  speech  was  slow 
at  first,  with 
fewer 
illustrations.  He  told  something  of  his 
own 
life,  of  the  misery  brought  by 
laws  of  self-denial  and 
drink,  of  the 
self-sacrifice.  He  was 
intense  at  all 
times,  and  this  intensity  bore  down  up 
on  the  listeners  until  he  had  made  them 
one  with  himself.  He  made  some  slight 
comment  on  the  condition  of  a  drunk­
ard’s  family— the  want  which came upon 
loss  of self-respect.  He  de-
them,  the 

3  50 
3 65 
Base

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

11K

Steel nails, base.......................... .........
Wire nails, base....................................
20 to 60 advance....................................
10 to 16 advance.....................................
8 advance..............................................
6 advance..............................................
4 advance.............................................
3 advance..............................................
2 advance.............................................
Fine 3  advance.........................................
lasing 10 advance.................................
lasing 8 advance...................................
lasing 6 advance...................................
Finish 10 advance.................................
Finish 8 advance...................................
Finish 6 advance..................................
Barrel  7i advance...............  ...............

Rivets

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

Roofing  Plates

14x20 IC, Charcoal,  Dean.....................
14x20 IX,Charcoal, Dean.....................
20x28 IC, Charcoal,  Dean.....................
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway  G rade...
14x20 IX,Charcoal, Allaway  G rade...
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Allaway  G rade...
20x28IX,Charcoal, Allaway  G rade...

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

Ropes

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

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

Sand  P ap er

Sash  W eights

Sheet  Iro n

126
40&10

30&10

70ltl0
60&10

40&10

60&10

com. smooth.

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

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

Shells—Loaded

Loaded with Black  Powder................dls 
Loaded with  Nitro  Powder................dls 

Shot

Drop............................................................... 
B B and  Buck..............................................  

Shovels  and  Spades

First Grade.  Doz......................................... 
Second tirade.  Doz...................................... 

40
40&10

1 50
1 75

8 60
8 10

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

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 

R u iler  Size  Tin  P late 
14x56 IX, for No. 8 Boilers, i n„P 
14x56 IX, for No.9 Boilers. J per pouna 

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

6 25
6 00

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

W reaches

70

60

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

65

$850

8 60
9 76

7 00
7 00
8 50
8 50

10

40&1066&10 

15 
1  25

GO
60
50&10
50&10
40
4  30
4  16

75
75
75
75

30
30&10

16 50 
30 00

$3  75

%  in. 
6  c.
O’.i
7H

K in.

.  6  C. . 6K 714

Augur* and  Hits

Snell’s .....................................................
Jennings’ genuine.................................
Jennings’ imitation...............................

Axes

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

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

Harrows

Bolts

Stove .....................
Carriage, new  list. 
F lo w .....................

Buckets

Well, plain...................................
Butts,  Cast
Cast Loose Pin, figured.............
Wrought N arrow .......................
Cartridges
Rim F ire ......................................
Central F ire ................................

Chain

14 In. 
8  C.

5-16 In.
7  C.

Com.
BB...
BBB.

Cast Steel, per lb.

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

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

Caps

Chisels

Elbows

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

E xpansive  Bits

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  Iron 

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

14 

13 

Discount. 70

15 
Gas  I’ipe

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

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

Gauges

Glass

Single  Strength, by box.........................dis  86&10
Double Strength, by box....................... dls  85&10

By the Light.................................dls  85

H am m ers

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

H inges

H ollow   W are

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

Pots..............................................■......... 
K ettles...................................................  
Spiders...................................................  

50&10
50&10
50&10

H orse  N ails

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

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

70
20&10

Iro n

Bar  Iron..................................................   3  c rates
Light Band............................................   354c rates

K nobs—New  L ist

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

85
1  00

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

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

L anterns

Levels

M attocks

Adze Eye.................................. $17 00.. dls 

M etals—Zinc

600 pound casks. 
Per pound.

M iscellaneous

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

Molaffses  Gates

Stebblns’ Pattern.................................. 
Enterprise, self-measuring.................. 

60&10
30

Fry, Acme..............................................   60&10&10
70&5
Common,  polished...............................
P a te n t  P lan ish ed   Iro n  

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

Broken packages He per pound extra.

10 75 
9 75

Fans

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

CONTENTMENT
make four grades of books 

in tAe  different denominations.

samples” ON INQUIRY
t r a d e s m a n 6w M _ _ _ * ch

M IC H I G A N   TR A D E S M A N

24

COMING CONVENTION.

Preliminary  Programme  Arranged  For 

Next  Week’s  Meeting.

is 

in  session. 

Jess  Wisler,  of  Mancelona,  President 
of  the  Michigan  Retail  Grocers’  Asso­
ciation,  was  in  town  last  week 
in  con­
sultation  with  Secretary  Stowe  relative 
to  the  programme  of  the  seventh  con­
vention  of  the  Association,  which  will 
be  held  in  this  city  Thursday  and  Fri­
day  of  next  week. 
It  was  decided  to 
hold  the  convention  at  the  parlors  of  the 
Military  Club,  which 
admirably 
adapted  for  the  purpose  and  which  will 
be  reserved  for  the  exclusive  use  of  the 
members  during the  time  the convention 
is 
Instead  of  holding  an 
evening  session  Thursday  and  starting 
the  banquet  at  9  or  10  o’clock  in  the 
evening,  it  was  decided  to  have  the 
banquet  at  6  o’clock,  so  that  no  one 
need  fear  an  attack  of  indigestion as  the 
result  of  putting  a  six  course  banquet 
on  top  of  a  regular  supper. 
It  was  de­
cided to  ask  Mr.  Amos  S.  Musselman  to 
preside  at  the  banquet  as  toastmaster 
and  to  him  has  been  entrusted  the  work 
of  selecting  and  making  up  the  pro­
gramme for  that  occasion.  The  conven 
tion  portion  of  the  programme,  so  far  as 
arranged,  will  be  as  follows:

Thursday  Morning—9  o’clock.

Call  to  order  by  President.
President’s  address.
Secretary's  report.
Treasurer's  report.
Report  of  standing  committees. 
Appointment  of  special  committee  on 
President’s  address,  peddling  law,  reso­
lutions.

What  steps  should  be  taken  to  secure 
the  re-enactment  of  the  township  ped­
dling  law?— Samuel  W.  Mayer,  Holt.

Some  rules  which  egg  shippers  should 
always  observe— C.  H.  Libby,  Grand 
Rapids.

Should  the  retail  grocer  favor the  en­
actment  of  a  law  creating  inspectors  of 
weights  and  measures?— F.  A.  Sweeney, 
Mt.  Pleasant.

Some  requisites  to  success  as  a  grocer 

— O.  P.  DeWitt,  St.  Johns.

Effect  of  city  competition  on  country 

towns— Frank  E.  Pickett,  Wayland.

Parcels  post  a  deathblow  to  the  coun­
try  merchant— Frank  B.  Watkins,  Hop­
kins  Station.

Why  it  was  necessary  to  raise  freight 
rates—E.  C.  Leavenworth,  Grand  Rap­
ids.

What  attitude  should  grocers  assume 
toward  trust  goods?— Geo.  F.  Cook, 
Grove.

Thursday  Afternoon— 1  30 o ’clock.
The  proper  method  of handling fruit—  

Wm.  K.  Munson,  Grand  Rapids.

My  experience 

in  shipping  produce 
outside  of  Michigan— E.  E.  Hewitt, 
Rockford.

Mutual  relations  of  grocer  and  fruit 
grower— Hon.  Chas.  W.  Garfield,  Grand 
Rapids.

Value  of  equality  to  the  retail  grocer 
— H.  P.  Sanger,  Secretary  Michigan 
Wholesale  Grocers’  Association.

Should  the  sale  of  butterine  be  pro­
hibited?— B.  S.  Harris,  Grand  Rapids.
Is  the  basket branding  law  a  desirable 

one?— John  W.  Densmore,  Reed  City.

Is  it  desirable  to  pay  cash  for produce 

instead  of  store  trade?

The  dead-beat— New  thoughts  on  an 

old  subject.

Co-operative  buying  among  grocers. 
How  to  circumvent  fraudulent  com­

mission  merchants.

Exemption  legislation.
Conducting  a  dairy  business  in  con­

nection  with  a  store.

What  effect  has  the  sale  of  butterine 

on  the  price  of  dairy  butter?

Catalogue  house  competition.

Thursday  Evening—6 o’clock. 

Informal  banquet  tendered  the  mem­
bers  of  the  Association  and  the  whole­
sale  grocery  and  allied  trades  by  the 
Michigan  Tradesman  at  the  Military 
Club.

At  the  conclusion  of  the  repast  Mr. 
Amos  S.  Musselman  will  assume  the

duties  of  toastmaster  and  present  an  ... 
teresting  programme  of  sentiments  and 
responses.

Friday  Morning—9 o'cloak.
Reports  of  special  committees.
Miscellaneous  business.
Unfinished  business.
Election  of  officers.
Appointment  of  committees.
New  business.
Adjournment.
In  case  it  is  found  desirable  to  close 
up  the  work  of  the  convention  Thurs 
day,  this  session  can  be  dispensed  with 
and  the  work  set  forth  on the programme 
can  be  crowded  into  the  closing  session 
Thursday.

The  Boys  Behind  the  Counter. 

Pentwater— Chas.  W.  Edwards,  wh< 
for  seventeen  years  has  been  buyer  and 
head  clerk  in  the  dry  goods  department 
of  the  Sands  &  Maxwell  Lumber  Co., 
tendered  his  resignation 
last  Saturday 
night.  Mr.  Edwards  has  not  fully  de 
cided  what  his  future  may  be,  but  will 
continue  with  the  firm  to  the  end  of  this 
month,  and  will  then  take  a  rest  for  a 
time.

Big  Rapids— Ed  Smith,  who  recently 
severed  his  connection  with  Joslin’s 
clothing-store,  has  gone  to  St.  Ignace  to 
take  a  position  in  the  mercantile  estab­
lishment  of'  Joseph  H.  Steinberg,  who 
in  dry  goods,  men’s  furnishings, 
deals 
clothing,  hoots  and  shoes, 
furniture, 
carpets  and  crockery.

Boyne  City— Nurko  &  Frazer  have 
engaged  Miss  Edith  Bruce,  of Harrison, 
to  take  charge  of  their  millinery  depart­
ment.

for  some 

Belding— Ed  Peck, 

time 
past  with  E.  Vincent  &  Co.,  has  taken 
a  similar  position  with  Lamb  Brothers.
Owosso—Wade  Cambum,  for  the  past 
six  years  proscription  cleik  for  Parkill 
&  Son,  has  purchased  a  drug  stock  in 
Battle  Creek,  and  is  already  in  posses­
sion.

Union  City— Geo.  Merritt  has  taken  a 
position  as  head  clerk  in  Rowley’s  dry 
goods  store.

Traverse  City—Jack  Broadfoot  is  em­
in  the  grocery  store  of  J.  I. 
ployed 
Brezina, 
taking  the  place  of  George 
Thirlby,  who  has  gone  into  the foundry.
Ludington— A.  F.  Keseberg  has  re­
signed  his  position  as  clerk  in the Sands 
&  Maxwell  grocery  store  at  Pentwater 
and  removed  to  this  city  to  take  a  posi­
tion  as  book-keeper  for  the  Bert  Smith 
pin  factory.

Owosso— Frank  Reed 
Fred  Carpenter’s  grocery.

is  clerking  in 

Quincy—Lee  O.  Burch  has  taken  a 
position  with  the  Ueering  Harvester 
Co.  and  commenced  work  for  them 
last 
week.  He  will  work  the  adjacent  ter­
ritory.  For  some  time  past  Mr.  Burch 
has  been  salesman  in  the  F.  E.  Powers 
clothing  store.

Big  Rapids— Fred  A.  Knapp,  son  of 
M.  H.  Knapp,  ex-President  of  the 
Michigan  Funeral  Directors’  Associa- 
ion  and  member  of  the  firm  of  Knapp 
&  Smith,  Owosso,  has  taken  charge  of 
John  Wiseman’s  undertaking  business 
at  this  place.  Mr.  Knapp  is  a  graduate 
of  the  Chicago  College  of  Embalming 
and  has  had  several  years’  practical  ex­
perience  with  his  father  at  Owosso.

Milford— Floyd  Babcock,  who  has 
been  with  Burch  &  Skinner,  groceries 
and  crockery,  has  severed  his  connec­
tion  with  them,  having  accepted  a  posi­
tion  as  assistant  postmaster  at 
this 
place.  He  entered  upon  his  duties  on 
Jan.  1.

A  college  education  spoils  a  fool;  but 
it  shows  an  intelligent  young  man  how 
to  acquire  knowledge  that  may  be  use­
ful  to him.

Meeting:  of  Michigan  Produce  Dealers 

Association.

The  semi-annual  meeting  of the Mich 
igan  Produce  Dealers’  Association  was 
held 
in  this  city  last  Wednedsay,  with 
about  forty  members in attendance.  Sec 
retary  Bane  had  prepared  an  interesting 
programme,  but  few  of  the  gentlemen 
who  had  been  assigned  the  work  of  pre 
paring  papers  on  topics  of  vital 
inter 
est  to  the  trade  put  in  an  appearance.

The  meeting  adjourned  to  meet  agai 

in  Detroit  in  August,  the  exact  date  to 
be  set  by  Secretary  R.  R.  Bane,  of  that 
city.  Mr.  Bane  stated,  before  the  ad 
joumment,  that  at  the  Detroit  meeting 
it  was  believed  it  would  be  practical  to 
organize  a  national  association  which 
would  benefit  the  whole  country.  A 1 
ready  the  potato  shippers  of  the  North 
west  are  organized  and Mr.  Bane  has re 
ceived  letters  from Maine and New  York 
stating  that  before  the  August  meeting 
they  would  be  organized  and  ready  for 
a  national  body.  When  such  an  organi 
zation  is  in  existence  it  is  believed  that 
in  blacklisting 
great  good  can  be  done 
irresponsible 
receivers 
produce, 
which,  as  understood  by  the  Michigan 
Shippers’  Association,  consists  of  pota 
toes,  onions,  beans  and  cabbage.  There 
is  a  national apple shippers’  association 
as  there  is  also  a  national  creamery  as 
sociation.  The  members  of  this  Asso 
ciation  deal  very  little  in  anything  out 
side  of  the  produce  mentioned.  They 
are  mostly  potato  shippers.  During  the 
meeting  quite  a  number  of  receivers  of 
potatoes  who  were  complained  about  by 
members  of  the  Association  were  dis 
cussed  and  were  placed  before  the Asso 
ciation  as  receivers  who  should  be 
avoided  and  not  patronized.

of 

It  was  voted  by  the  Association  that 
each  member  write  to  the  Congressman 
n  his  district  and  also  to  the  Senators 
from  this  State  and  urge  that  no  change 
be  made  in  that  part  of  the 
inter-state 
commerce  law  which  treats  of  pooling. 
It  was  stated  by  G.  C.  Freeman,  of Pon­
tiac,  who  has  given  the  matter  close 
study,  that  the  railroads  were  in  a  pool 
to  try  and  have  the  joint  rates  or  pool- 
'ng  rates  changed  and  several  bills  were 
already  introduced  for  that  purpose. 
It 
the  theory  of  Mr.  Freeman  that  an 
initial  road  is  responsible  for a  claim  of 
loss  or damages  and  that  after  the  pool­
ing  clause  is  changed  it  will  be  a  detri­
ment  to  the  shippers  and  an  advantage 
to  the  roads. 
In  speaking  of  this  prop­
osition  Mr.  Freeman  presented  a  paper 
outlining  a  law  which  should  be enacted 
by  the  next  Legislature  bearing  directly 
on  this  point.  The paper was  referred  to 
the  Legislative  Committee  with  instruc­
tions  to  have  it  properly  drawn  up  and 
presented  to  the  next  Legislature  for 
passage.

177

175

170

W ANTED-SECOND HAND  ENGINE AND 
boiler, forty horse power.  State price and 
condition.  A. Kimball, Mancelona,  Mich.  179 
L'O R SALE OR EXCHANGE—STOKE BU1LD- 
I  
Ing and small general stock in good Michigan 
town.  Might exchange part.  Address  No.  177, 
care Michigan Tradesman. 
L/'OK  SALE  OR  EXCHANGE—NEW  EIGHT 
1   hundred dollar grocery stock in Port Huron; 
established  trade;  good  location.  Owner  has 
other business.  Address  No. 176, care Michigan 
Tradesman. 
Fo r s a l e  o r e x c h a n g e —a  t w o -s t o r y
brick business block in  a  Central  Michigan 
town;  double  room,  40x60  feet;  rental  value, 
$600 per year;  price, $5,000;  or will exchange  for 
stock of clothing, boots and shoes.  Address No. 
175, care Michigan Tradesman. 
\A/ANTED-LOCATION  FOR  FIRST-CLASS 
V ,  shoe  store-  Will  buy  stock  if  necessary. 
Address A. B., care Michigan Tradesman.
|TOR  SALE—DRUG  STOCK  IN  TOWN  OF 
I   2,000.  Established 25 years.  Invoices nearly 
$4.000.  No competition within a radies of twenty 
miles.  Sales last year, $11,000.  Owner has other 
business  which  demands  his  attention  else­
where.  A  gold  mine  for  a  good  pharmacist. 
Address No. 174, care Michigan Tradesman.  ~
npO   EXCHANGE—CITY  LOTS  AND  80 
1   acre farm, all free and clear,  and some  cash 
for stock of merchandise.  Address Wm. Springer, 
425 Straight St., Grand Rapids, Mich. • 
JT °R   SALE—RACKET  STORE,  DOING  A 
A  good exclusive cash business  at  county  seat 
of 6,000 population.  Stock invoices $3,000.  Poor 
health reason for selling.  Address Box 801, War­
saw, Ind. 
L'OR  SALE—IMPROVED  FARM  IN  GOOD 
1 
locality;  good  shape,  well  cared  for;  good 
buildings;  good  water,  etc.  A.  &  O.  Baxter, 
Muskegon, Mich. 
F’OR SALE  AT  A  BARGAIN—TWO  THOU- 
sand  dollar  stock  of  groceries,  feed,  etc., 
also store, fixtures, millinery store and stock  ad­
joining;  also  large  warehouse  beside  railroad 
track.  Profits last year, two thousand five hun­
dred dollars.  Proprietor wishes  to  retire.  Ad- 
dress E. D. Goff, Fife Lake, Mich. 
||10R   SA LE-FIN E  HOTEL  AND  SMALL 
A. 
lively barn:  doing  good  business;  terms  to 
suit.  Address  No.  135,  care  Michigan  Trades­
man_________________ ________________ 135
SPOT CASH  PAID  FOR  STOCK  OF  DRY
i.iil
— — 
goods,  groceries  or  boots  and  shoes.  Must 
be
cheap.  Address A. D., care Michigan Trades-
man.
I¡EXCHANGE—FOUR GOOD HOUSES, FREE 
'J  and clear, good location, for a  stock  of  dry 
"roods or clothing, either in or out of city.  Reed 
i  Osgood,  32  Weston  building,  Grand  Rapids.
127
¡TOR  SALE—GENERAL  STOCK  IN  GOOD 
F   country trading point.  Terms  to  suit  pur­
chaser.  Will  rent  or  sell  store  building.  Ad- 
dress No. 116, care Michigan Tradesman.  116

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| 

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*  -

160

159

171

i d

‘ 

114

RYSON  BRICK  STORE  AT  OVID, MICH., 
to exchange for  timbered  land or  Improved 
farm or  stock  of  goods.  Address  L.  C.  Town- 
send, Jackson, Mich. 
SPOT  CASH  DOWN,  WITHOUT  ANY  DE- 
lay,  will  be  paid  for  stocks  of  dry  goods, 
shoes  or  general  merchandise,  at  a  discount. 
Correspondence  positively  held  confidential. 
— ------------pre------
Large  stocks  preferred.  Address  A.  P.,  care
Michigan Tradesman.
107
I7»OR SALE OR EXCHANGE FOR GENERAL 
Stock  of  Merchandise—60  acre  farm,  part 
clear, architect house  and  barn;  well  watered. 
I also have two 40  acre  farms  and  one  80  acre 
farm to exchange.  Address No. 12,  care  Michi- 
gan Tradesman. 
i?OR  SALE—NEW  GENERAL  STOCK.  A 
splendid farming conntry.  No  trades.  Ad­
dress No. 680, care Michigan Tradesman.  680
Th e   s h a f t in g ,  h a n g e r s   a n d   p u l -
leys formerly used  to  drive  the  Presses  of 
the Tradesman are for sale  at  a  nominal  price. 
Power users making  additions  or  changes  will 
do  well  to  investigate.  Tradesman  Company. 
Grand Rapids, Michigan. 
ODERN  CITY  RESIDENCE  AND  LARGE 
lot, with barn, for sale cheap on easy terms, 
or will exchange for  tract  of  hardwood  timber, 
Big bargain for some one.  Possession given any 
time.  Investigation  solicited.  E. A. Stowe,  10« 
N. Prospect street, Grand Rapids. 

983

993

12

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

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

x»4

LTOR  SALE  — CLEAN  NEW  STOCK  OF 
I   clothing and furnishing goods; only stock  in 
town;  great  chance;  small  capital;  reason  for 
selling,  ill  health.  Address  K,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 

W ANTED—STOCK  OF  HARDWARE  IN 

voicing $1.500 to $2,000 in  town  of  1,000  to 
3,000  inhabitants,  with  well-established  trade. 
Good reasons for  selling  that  I  can  buy  right. 
Address L. C., 137 Superior St., Toledo, Ohio.
186
Fo r   s a l e   o r  t r a d e —m o d e r n   e ig h t - 
room house and two large lots  in  Muskegon 
Heights.  Would take grocery stock as part pay­
ment.  For particulars address Mrs. M. A. Lundy. 
185
Benton Harbor, Mich., Rural Delivery. 
TO  RENT—GOOD  STORE,  FINE  LOCA- 
tion for dry goods  or general  stock.  A  live 
man with good stock can  do a very  satisfactory 
business;  rent, reasonable.  G. H. Kirtland, 1161 
South Division St., Grand Rapid? 

180

MISCELLANEOUS.

DUNG  MAN,  EXPERIENCED  STENOG 
—  rapher, bookkeeper and  general  office  mar 
desires  position.  Good  references.  Address 
box 40, West Campbell, Mich.____________ 183
'117'ANTED—POSITION  AS  MANAGER  OI 
vv  head clerk in  general  store;  15  years’  ex 
perience  as  buyer  and  manager.  Good  refer 
ences.  Address No. 181, care  Michigan  Trades 
man._________________________________ i8i
Ex p e r ie n c e d   d r u g g is t   w a n t s   s it
uation.  Address  No.  178,  care  Michigai 
17g
iradesm an. 
A N T E D  —E X P E R IE N C E D   CEMENI 
manufacturer  at  once.  Address,  statins 
age, salary, etc., No. 182,  care  Michigan  Trades 
man. 

WA N T E D -A N   EXPERIENCED  SALES 

WANTED—EXPERIENCED CIGAR SALES 

man to sell groceries for an old establishes 
firm  in  Michigan.  None  but  an  experiences 
man need apply.  References required.  Address 
letters to X., care Michigan Tradesman. 
170
man for Southern  Michigan  and Northen 
Indiana.  Trade well  established.  Cigars,  goos 
sellers.  Good salary to right man.  Address No 
169, care Michigan Tradesman. 
169
W AN T E D—POSITION  AS  8TENOGRA 
pher  or  as  salesman  in  clothing  store 
Good  references  furnished.  Address  No.  168 
168
care Michigan Tradesman. 
W ANTED—POSITION  AS  REGISTEREI 
twelve  years’  experience 
best of references  furnished.  Address  No.  165 
care Michigan Tradesman. 

pharmacist; 

182

165

Travelers’ Time  Tables.
Pere M arquette

Railroad
Chicago.

Lv. G.Rapids, 7:10am  12:00m  4:30pm  *11:50pm
Ar. Chicago.  1:30pm  5:00pm 10:60pm  *7:05am 
Lv. Chicago,  7:15am  12:00m  5:00pm  *11:50pm
Ar. G. Rapids, 1:25pm  5:05pm 10:55pm  *6:20am

Traverse City, Charlevoix and'i'etoskey.

Lv. 6 . Rapids, 7:30am 
Ar. Trav City, 12:40pm 
Ar. Charlev’x, 3:15pm 
Ar. Petoskey,  3:45pm 
and 10:00pm.

Detroit.

4:00pra
9:10pm
11:25pm
11:55pm

Trains  arrive  from  north  at  2:40pm,  and 

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__   l :30pm  5:10pm  10:55pm

Saginaw,  Alma and  Greenville.

Lv Grand Rapids..........................  7:00am  5:10pm
Ar Saginaw....................................11:30pm  9:45pm
Lv Saginaw......................... 
7:00am  5:00pm
Ar Grand Rapids  .......................11:45am  9:40pm
Parlor cars on all trains  to  and  from  Detroit 
and Saginaw.  Parlor  cars  on  afternoon trains 
to and from Chicago.  Pullman sleepers on night 
trains.  Parlor  car  to  Traverse  City  on  morn­
ing train.

•Every day.  Others week days  only.

Ge o . De H a v e n , G eneral Pass. Agent.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

January l, 1900.

/ i n   i   jkjrv  Trank Railway System 
v l K A 1 N  U  -  Detroit and Milwankee Dtv

(In effect Oct 19, 1899.)

Going East.

Leave 

Arrive
Saginaw, Detroit & N. Y ........ t   6:50am  t  9:55pm
Detroit and E ast......................ti0:i6am  t  5:07pm
Saginaw, Detroit & East........ +  3:27pm  tl2:50pm
Buffalo, N. Y., Toronto,  Mon­
treal & Boston, Ltd Ex..*  7:20pm  *10:16am 
Going West.
Gd. Haven Express................. *l0:2iam  * 7:15pm
Gd. Haven and Int. P ts..........+I2:58pm  + 3:19pm
Gd. Haven and Milwaukee— t   5:12bm  +I0:llam 
East hound 6:50am train has  new  Buffet  parlor 
car to Detroit,  eastbound  3:27pm  train  has  new 
Buffet parlor car to  Detroit.
tExcept Sunday.

•Daily. 
•  C. A. J u s t in , City Pass. Ticket Agent,

97 Monroe St., Morton House.

n D A I S i n  
U K A m U  

*  Indiana Railway

December 17,  1899.

I %

N o rth ern   D ivision. 

From
Going 
North  North
Trav. City, Petoskey, Mack,  t  7:45am 
t   5:15pm 
Trav.City, Petoskey, Mack,  t  2:10pm  tl0:l5pm 
Cadillac Accommodation...  + 5:25pm  tl0:45am 
Petoskey & Mackinaw  City  +11:00pm  + 6:20am 
7:45am and 2:10pm trains, parlor cars;  11:00pm 
train, sleeping car.

Southern  Division 

Going  From
South
South 
Kalamazoo, F t .'VayneCin.  +7;l0am  t 9:45pm 
Kalamazoo and Ft. Wayne,  t  2:00pm 
t 2:00pm 
Kalamazoo, Ft. Wayne Cln.  * 7:00pm  * 6:46am 
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;  li:30pm  train,  sleeping  car  and  coach  to 
Chicago.

Chicago  Trains.

TO CHICAGO.

8  45pm 

FROM  CHICAGO

Lv.Grand  Rapids...t7  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 Giand Rapids 7:10am has coach; 
11:30pm train has coach  and  sleeping  car;  train 
leaving Chicago  3:02pm  has  coach;  11:32pm  has 
sleeping car for Grand Rapids.

Muskegon  Trains.

GOING  WEST.

Lv. Grand Rapids___+7  35am  tl  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. 
Lv.  Muskegon........ +8  10am  +12  15pm  +4 00pm
Ar. Grand Rapids...  9  30am 
l  30pm  5 20pm
tExcept Simday.  *Daily.

GOING  EAST.

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

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

MANISTEE &  Northeastern  Ry. 

B e st m u te to M anistee.

Via C. & W. M. Railway.

Lv. Grand Rapids........................  7 00am
Ar. Manistee................................ 12 05pm
Lv. Manistee...............................   8 30am
Ar. Grand  Rapids......................   1 00pm

4  10pm 
9 55pm

MERCANTILE  ASSOCIATIONS

Michigan  Business  Ben’s Association 
retary, E. A. St o w e, Grand  Rapids.

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

Michigan  Retail  Grocer«’  Association 

President,  J .  W i s l e r .  M ancelona;  Secretary, 

E. A. St o w e , G rand  Rapids

President, 

Detroit  Retail  Grocers’  Association 
Ma kes ;  Treasurer, C  H.  F r i n k .

J o s e p h   K n ig h t ;  Secretary,  E. 

Grand  Rapids  Retail Grocers’  Association 

President, F r a n k   J. D y k ;  Secretary,  H o m e r 

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

Saginaw  Mercantile  Association 

President,  P.  F.  T r e a n o r ;  Vice-President, 
J o h n   McBr a t n ie ;  Secretary, W.  H. L e w is .

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

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

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

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

Muskegon  Retail  Grocers’  Association 

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

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

Baj  Cities  Retail Grocer«’  Association 

President,  C.  E.  W a l k e r ;  Secretary,  E.  C. 

Lit t l e . 

_______

Kalamazoo  Retail  Grocers’ Association 

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

H y m a n. 

_______

Traverse  City  Business  Men’s  Association 

President,  T ho s  T.  Ba t e s;  Secretary,  M.  B. 

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. 

P a r t r id g e . 

_______

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  Association 

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. Pu t t.

Perry  Business  Men’s  Association 

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

H e d d l e . 

_______

Grand  Haven  Retail  Merchants’  Association 

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

H o e k s. 

' _______

Tale  Business  Men’s  Association 

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

P u t n e y .

T R A V E L

VIA

F.  & P.  M.  R. R.

AND  STBAM8HIP  U N IS  

TO  ALL  POINTS  IN  MICHIGAN

H.  F.  MOELLER,  a. q. p. a.

E s ta b lis h e d  1780.

Walter Baker & Ga.

Dorchester, Mew*.
The Oldest and 

Largest Manufacturers of

PURE,HIGH GRADE
COCOAS
CHOCOLATES

AND

on this Continent.

No  Chemicals  are  used  in 

their manufactures.

Tnde-MarE. 
Their  Breakfast  Cocoa  is  absolutely  pure, 
delicious,  nutritions,  and  costs  less  than one 
cent a cup.

Their Premium  No.  1  Chocolate, put up in 
Blue Wrappers and Yellow Labels, is the  best 
plain chocolate in the market for family nse.
Their  Oerman  Sweet  Chocolate  Li  good  tc 
eat and good  to  drink.  It is palatable, nntn 
tious, and  healthful;  a  great  favorite  with 
children.

Buvers should ask for and be sure that  they 
get the genuine goods. The above trade-mark 
is on every package.
W alter  Baker &   Co.  Ltd. 

Dorchester,  M ass.

Business  Helps

The  “ N.  R.  &  C .”  brand  S pices  and 
Q ueen  F lake  B aking  P owder  are 
business  helps  of  the  highest  value. 
They  are  guaranteed  pure  and  are 
sold  only  by  the  manufacturers,

fj 

Northrop,  Robertson  &   Carrier,

Lansing,  Michigan.

THE VILLAGE  OF WHITEHALL

Is one of the most beautiful  villages in the  State, and  a  good  op­
portunity is now afforded  for  the  establishment  of  some  kind  of 
manufacturing  The  village  owns  a  two-story  building,  83x30; 
with an annex  16^x16,  and  a building  adjoining 29x15.  There  is 
an  engine  room  12x22,  in  which there  is a 60  horse  power  engine 
and boiler  in good  repair and  ready  for use 
In  the  main  build­
ing there  is a quantity of  shafting  which  could  be  used.  These 
buildings are  in good  repair and  the  use  of  them  will  be  given 
free to any  reliable  party who  will  establish  a  manufacturing  en­
terprise and agree to  employ a  number  of  hands.  The  buildings 
are near the C.  &  W.  M.  depot and  only two blocks from  a  steam­
boat 
landing,  making  the  shipping  facilities  very  convenient. 
Labor is reasonable  and  reliable  help  can  be  secured.  During 
summer and  until  navigation  closes  Whitehall  has  the  advantage 
of a daily boat line  to  Chicago  and  Milwaukee.  The  village  is 
situated  at the  head  of  White  Lake,  one  of  the  most  beautiful 
lakes in the  State, and  only  fr.  nines  from  Lake  Michigan. 
It 
is tbo  most promising of  Michigan’s  many  resorts.  Address with 
references.

E.  R.  M ORTON,  Sec’y Whitehall  Board of Trade,

Whitehall,  Mich.

Said  the  Grocer

«I’ll  have  to  get  a  barrel  to  keep  the 
nickels in.”
“What's the matter?” .
“Uneeda  B iscuit!  The new delicacy. 
Costs only 5 cents for a package.
Enough for a meal, too.
Just look at that package for 5 cents! 
Royal purple and white.
Dust proof 1  Moisture proof!  Odor proof! 
Keeps in the goodness.
Keeps out the badness.
Everybody wants

Uneeda 
Biscuit

The thorns which I  have  reaped 
Are of the tree I planted

Those  old-fashioned  pound  and  ounce 
scales  will  never  bring  forth  good  fruit; 
abandon  them  before  the  evil  habit  of 
giving  over-weight 
takes  away  your 
profit  and  robs  your  family  of  a  just 
heritage.  Remember  our  scales  are sold 
on  easy  monthly  payments.

THE  COMPUTING  SCALE  CO.,  Dayton,  Ohio

Valentines

for  1900

M ICA

AXLE

February  14th  is  Valentine  day.  N O W   is  the  time  to  buy. 
Our  line  comprises  all  the  old  standard  kinds,  as  well  as  the 
new  and  up  to  date  novelties

The  following  kinds  will  be  found  in  our  line:

C O M IC S  
L A C E  
B O O K L E T S   F A N C Y   N O V E L T IE S

C A R D   M O U N T S
C A R D   A S S O R T M E N T S

W e  will  send  an  illustrated  price  list  of  valentines  on  request.

H.  Leonard  &   Sons,

Grand  Rapids, Mich

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

ILLUMINATING  AND 
LUBRICATING  OILS

W ATER  W HITE  H EA D LIG H T  OIL  IS  THE 

S TA N D A R D   TH E  W O RLD  O VER

HIGHEST  PRICK  PAID  FOR  EMPTY  CARBON  AND  GASOLINE  BARRELS

S TA N D A R D   OIL  CO.

