Volume XVII.

GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24,1900.

Number 853

Original  Crate  Assortment

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

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

Per set
36 sets Teas,  handled.........................................................................$  55
5 sets Coffees, handled  .................................................................... 
64
2 doz.  Plates, 8-Inch..........................................................................   1  03
15 doz.  Plates, 7-lnch...........................................................................  89
4 doz. Plates, 6-inch 
.............................. 
70
6 doz.  Plates, 5 Inch..........................................................................  62
1 doz. Plates, 7-inch soup coupe......................................................  
89
10 doz. Fruit Saucers, 4-inch............................................................. 
41
6 doz. Individual  Butters.................................................................. 
27V,
2 doz. Oys-ter Howls, 30s...............................  
.........................  1  10
3  30
*4 doz. Sugars, 30s.......................................................................  
Vt doz. Creams. 30s.............................................................................   1  05
1 doz.  Oatmeals................................................... 
83
1 doz.  Bowls, 30s.  ..............................................................................  1  10
doz. Spooners..................................................................................   2 20
14 doz. Dishes, s-inch. 
.  .............................................................  138
H doz. Dishes, 9-inch..........................................................................  1  65
H doz.  Dishes, 10-inch........................................................................   2 48
% doz. Dishes, 12-inch........................................................................4  13
doz.  Dishes. 14-inch........................................................................  5 78
2 doz. Bakers, 3-inch.................................................... ..................... 
96
H doz. Bakers, 7-inch........................................................................  1  65
*4 doz. Bakers, 8-inch.........................................................................  2  48
................................................................   3 30
H doz. Bakers, 9-inch 
% doz. Scollops, 5-inch  .....................................................................   1  10
*4 doz. Scollops, 6-inch  .....................................................................   1  38
!4 doz. Scollops, 7-inch.................................................................... 
1  (¡5
5  doz. Scollops, 8-inch  .....................................................................   2 48
H doz. Scollops, 9-Inch  .....................................................................   3 30
14 doz. Sauce Boats................. 
................................................2 20
!4 doz. Covered Dishes,  8-inch..........................................................  6 60
H do2. Casseroles, 8-inch....................................................................7 43
Vt doz. Covered Butters, 5-inch.........................................................  4 95
4  doz. Pickles............. 
..........................   1  65
Vt doz. Jugs, 12s 
......................................... 3 30
y  doz. Jugs, 24s...................................................................................  1  93
Vt doz. .lugs, 30s...................................... 
...................................  1  65
Vt doz. dllgs, 36s 
..............................................................................  1  38

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

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Less 10 per cent

Crate and cartage

Buy in original  packages and 

save  10 per cent

Perdoz
$19  80 
5  12 
2 06 
13 35 
3 04
3 72 
89
4  10
1  65
2 20 
1  <¡5
83 
I  10 
73 
34

2  07 
1  44 
1  92
41 
1  24 
83 
37 
46 
83 
1  24 
1  10 
I  10
3 30 
1  86

1  65 
48 
82 
69
$88  31 
8  83
79 48 
2 50
$81  »8

The Meteor Pattern

The Swellest W hite 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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THE  SPORTSMAN

Has  to  buy  gun,  powder,  ball  or  shot  before  he 
can  bring  down  the  game.  And  he  has  to  go 
after  H IS   G A M E ,  too.  He  doesn’ t  wait  for  it 
to  come  his  way,  and  then  blaze  away;  that’ s 
too  precarious;  too  Micawber  like.
The  best  way  to  be  prepared  for  Y O U R   G A M E  
is  to  get  in  a  supply  of

Royal Tigers,  10c

and Tigerettes, 5c

PH ELPS,  BRACE &  CO.,  Detroit.

The Largest Cigar  Dealers in the  Middle West.

F.  E  BUSHM AN,  Manager,

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and Keeping It

Plenty of specialties will sell  like wildfire for  a  time.  But  they  9 )  
won’t last.  People never ask  for them again.  They’re worthless  ( 0  
as a basis for substantial merchandising.

H M o o
BUTTER

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Sell  well  first, last, and all the time,  There’s  a  crisp, delightful  W  
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. 

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National  Biscuit Company, 

Grand  Rapids, Mich. 

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Walsh-DeRoo  Milling  Co.,

Holland,  Michigan

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

W a l s h - D e R o o   M i l l i n g   C o.

O J L J L O - ! U L 5 J U U I J L O J U L O J U U U ! _ 8 J L

I   A Business Man’s 
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Train

Save  time  in  travel  by  using  the  Detroit  New  York 
Special  and  trains connecting  therewith. 
It leaves  Detroit, 
M ic h ig a n   C e n t r a l   S t a t io n ,  daily  at  4:25  p.  m.,  arrives 
^ 5   Buffalo  10:10  p.  m.,  Rochester  at  midnight  and  New  York 
It  is  up-to-date  in  every  respect

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

MICA

AXLE

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

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Specially  Grateful  and

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Spld  in  Half-Pound  Tins  Only.

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Volume XVII.

GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24,  1900.

Number 853

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419 W iddicom b Bid., G rand R apid«.  9  
D etro it  office,  817  H am m ond  B id.  a
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Associate  offices  and  attorneys  in  every 
county in the  United  States and Canada,  ff 
Refer  to  State  Bank  of  Michigan  and 
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«   Michigan  Tradesman. 

For  Sale Cheap

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.

Spring and summer 1900 samples ready, 
and  still  have  for  present  use  Ulsters, 
Overcoats  and  Reefers  in  abundance. 
Don’t  forget  strictly  all  wool  Kersey 
overcoat $5.  KOLB & SON, oldest whole­
sale Clothing Manufacturers, R ochester, 
N.  Y.  Mail  orders  receive  prompt 
attention.  Write  our  Michigan  agent, 
W IL L IA M   CONNOR,  Box  346,  Mar­
shall, Mich., to call on you,  or  meet  him 
at Sweet’s hotel. Grand Rapids, February 
1  to  8  inclusive.  Customers’  expenses 
paid.
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Eooks arranged with trade classification oi names, 
Collections made everywhere. Write for particulars,

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50 W oodw ard Ave., D etroit.

Please mention Tradesman.

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C O F F E E S
Pay  a  good  profit.  Give  the  best  of 
satisfaction.  Handled  by  the  best 
dealers  in  Michigan.  For  exclusive 
agency, address

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2 1 -2 3   RIVER  S T .,  CHICAGO.  ILL.
Save  Trouble. 
Save  Money 
Save Time.

IM PORTANT  FEATURES.

Page.
3.  B ry   Goods.
3.  B irds  Should  Be  D ispensed  W ith.
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.
7.  A m ong  th e  Q uakers.
8.  E d ito rial.
9.  E d ito rial.
10.  C lerks’  C orner.
11.  C rockery  and  G lassw are  Q uotations. 
13.  Shoes  and  L eather.
13.  T he  B oom   Town  of W alk er’s Station.
14.  T he  M eat  M arket.
15.  W hy  B row n  Fggs  A re  P referred.
16.  G otham   Gossip.
17.  C om m ercial T ravelers.
18.  D rugs and C hem icals.
19.  D ru g  P rice C urrent.
30.  G rocery P rice  C arrent.
31.  G rocery P rice  C urrent.
33.  H ardw are.
33.  G etting  th e  People.

34.  In d ep en d en t T elephone M ovem ents. 

H ardw are  P rice  C arren t,
B usiness W ants.

ARTISTIC  LYING.

The  wisdom  of  the  old  adage  that 
“ What  is  worth  doing  at  all  is worth do­
ing  well”   never  has  a  more  forcible 
il­
lustration  than 
in  the  matter  of  lying. 
It  is  more  than  strange,  considering  the 
universality  of  this  practice,  that  so  lit­
tle  thought  should  be  given  to  doing  the 
thing  artistically  and 
in  a  way  that 
would  reflect  credit  upon  the  performer. 
All  of  us  number  among  our  acquaint­
ances  dozens  of  people  who  are  habitu­
ally  untruthful,  but  who  are  so  careless 
in  their  methods  and  so 
and  slouchy 
bungling 
in  the  way  they  seek  to  palm 
off  false  statements  that  they  do  not  de­
ceive  even  a  baby  and  had  iust  as  well 
speak  the  truth  at  once.  Of  course,  the 
true  liar,  like  the  genuine poet,  is  born, 
not  made.  With  a  natural  bent  in  that 
direction,  coupled  with  careful  cultiva­
tion  and  constant  practice,  so  much  may 
be  done  that  no  one  need  despair.  One 
point  that  the  amateur  liar  should  al­
ways  bear in  mind is  th?t  realism  counts 
for  as  much  in  a  lie  as  it  does  on  the 
stage.  Your  art  must  be  convincing  if 
it  has  any  heart  interest.  The  one  vital 
fact  may  be  a  falsehood,  but  it  must 
have  a  background  of  unimpeachable 
truths— real  trees  and  running  water,  so 
to  speak.  Another 
important  point  is 
to  concentrate,  not  scatter.  The  fluent 
liar,  who  has  a  lie  always  on  tap— who 
has  done  everything  and seen everything 
and  been  everywhere— is never believed, 
even  when  he  speaks  the  truth.  He  has 
drawn  out  his  reserve  and  exhausted 
his  forces.  The  universal  liar,  like  the 
universal  genius,  is  always  a  failure. 
In  contrast  to  him 
is  the  great  silent
liar,  who  simply poses and who is always 
believed.  Often  he 
is  a  dullard;  but 
he 
is  esteemed  profound  and  deep  be­
cause  he  says  nothing.  He  maintains 
the  reputation  of  being  a  philanthropist 
on  the  strength  of  a  generous  smile  and 
an  unctious  handshake,  without  ever 
giving  a  penny.  Ask  him 
if  he  has 
heard  the  scandal  about  So-and-so.  He 
may  not  have  heard  a  word,  but he looks 
unutterable  things  and  shakes  his  head 
knowingly,  as  if  he  might  say  volumes 
if  he  would.  The  silent  liar  can  never 
be  contradicted,  because  he  has  said 
nothing,  and  he  is  immensely  effective.

lie. 

“ A 

inserts  a 

in  which 

in  the  Senate, 

liar  is  one  who  lies  only 
The  artistic 
occasionally,  and  then  for  a  purpose. 
Sometimes  he  only  touches  up  the  truth 
little  to  make  it  the  color  he  desires. 
a 
lie  into  the  whole 
Again  he 
fabric  of  truth,  but  always  so  deftly 
it 
can  only  be  detected  with  the  greatest 
difficulty. 
It  takes  genius,  memory, 
seif-possession  and  a  knowledge  of  hu­
man  nature  to  do  this. 
It  is  beyond  the 
ability  of  most  of  us;  and  so  we  go  on, 
floundering 
in  the  ruck  of  mediocrity, 
neither  telling  the  whole  truth  nor  lying 
with  any  success.  An  interesting  point, 
in  this  connection,  has  been  established 
in  the  recent  trial  of  a contested election 
case 
it  was 
sought  to  establish  the  fact  that  a  lie  is 
not  always  a 
lie ,’ ’  said  the 
witness,  who  ought  to  have  known  what 
he  was  talking  about,  “ is  when  you 
state  a  falsehood  to  a  man  who  has  the 
right  to  know  the  truth ;  if  he  has  no 
right  to  know  the  truth,  it  is  not  a  lie .”  
This  is  a  cheering  view  of  the  subject, 
and  not  only  considerably  cuts  down  the 
number  of  liars,  but  removes  the  stigma 
from  the  reputation  of  gentlemen  ad­
dicted  to  telling  fishing  and  hunting 
stories  and 
to 
brag  about imaginary possessions.  When 
you  come  to  think  about  it,  we  haven’t 
the  slightest  right  to  know  these  partic­
ulars  or  to  resent  being  misinformed  on 
them.  These  are  fine  distinctions,  how­
ever,, that  are  hardly  worth  bothering 
about,  and 
it  really  seems  easiest  and 
best  to  either  make  up  your  mind  to  tell 
the  truth,  or  else  to  devote  the necessary 
time  to  acquiring  the  knack  of  lying 
gracefully  and  artistically.

ladies  who  are  wont 

is  no 

interest 

B ETTER   RAILW AY  CONDITION'S.
There 

in  the  country 
more  promptly  affected  by  trade  condi­
tions  than  the  railroads.  With  good 
crops  and  active  trading,  the  railroads 
prosper,  and  when  the  crops  are  poor 
and  business 
languishes  the  railroads 
are  the  first  to  feel  the  pinch  of  adver­
sity.  The  fact  that  very  few  roads  went 
into  the  hands  of  receivers  last  year  is 
a  most  excellent  indication  of  the  pros­
perity  which  has  prevailed  in  general 
trade.  According  to  the  Railway  Age, 
an  accepted  authority  on  the  subject, 
there  have  been  only  two  years  since 
1875  when  the  number  of  railway  re­
ceiverships  has  been  so 
in 
only  three  years  were  the  mileage  and 
capital  involved  so  small.

few,  and 

found 

According  to  the  Railway  Age,  the 
record  of  receiverships  in  1899  is  almost 
“ Only  one  road  of  im­
insignificant. 
portance 
is 
in  the  list,  the  new 
Kansas  City,  Pittsburg  and  Gulf,  which 
defaulted  in  its  obligations before  it  had 
time to demonstrate  its earning  capacity, 
and  was  placed  in  the  charge  of  receiv­
ers  early  in  the  year.  Of  the  nine  others 
in  the  list,  two  are  short  logging  roads, 
belonging  to  private  companies  and  not 
properly  to  be  enumerated  among  com­
mon  carriers;  one 
is  an  old  narrow- 
gauge  road  that  has  never  been  profit­
is  owned  by  a  great  railway 
able,  and 
company  which 
to 
straighten  out 
its  title  by  foreclosure, 
and  the  others  are short local  lines,  most­
in  the  experimental  stage.  The  to­
ly 

proposes 

now 

tals,  covering  all  these  conditions,  rep­
resent  ten  companies,  with  1,019 miles 
of  road  and  a  capitalization  of  a  little 
over $52,000,000.”

The  showing  of  1899  is  a  promising 
change 
from  the  dark  era  of  railroad 
bankruptcies  and  disasters  which  cul­
minated 
in  1893,  when  seventy-four 
companies,  with  nearly  30,000  miles of 
track,  were  handed  over  to  receivers. 
The  enormous  losses  and shameful  waste 
of  the  people’s  money  involved  in  rail­
road  bankruptcies  during  the  past  quar­
ter  of  a  century  will  be  readily  appre­
ciated  by  the  perusal  of  a  few  figures 
furnished  by  the  Railway  Age.  During 
the  period  mentioned,  618  roads,  repre­
senting  an  extent  of  112,110  miles  and 
securities 
aggregating  $6,310,500,000 
became  bankrupt,  and,  as  a  result of  the 
costly 
procedure  of  the  bankruptcy 
courts,  the  great  mass  of  the  money  in­
volved  was  lost  to the  investors.

There 

is  nothing  more  shameful  in 
the  history  of  American  financial  affairs 
than  this  record  of  railroad  waste.  No 
other  country 
in  the  world  could  have 
stood  the  shock  and  resultant  financial 
loss  as  this  country  has;  hut  it  does  not 
speak  well  for  our  financial  methods that 
such  scandalous  plundering  has  been 
possible. 
The  railroad  bankruptcies, 
more than  any  other  cause,  were  respon­
sible  foi  the  loss  of  confidence  in  Amer­
ican  securities  abroad  which  had  so 
much  to  do  with  the  financial  panic  of 
1893  and  the  depression  of  the  years  im­
mediately  following.

The  record  of 

foreclosure  sales  for 
1899,  furnished  by  the  Railway  Age,  is 
not  so  flattering;  but 
it  should  be  re­
membered  that 
foreclosure  sales  repre­
sent  past  conditions,  and  not  present 
influences.  The  foreclosure  sales  are 
the  clearing  away  of  the  wreckage,  and 
hence  are  part  of  the  curative  process 
which  has  produced  present  satisfactory 
conditions.  The 
foreclosure  sales  for 
the  year  included  thirty-two  roads,  with 
4,294  miles  of  track,  representing  $267,- 
000,000 of  invested  capital.  While  this 
is  not  as  small  as  could  be  desired,  it 
represents  a  great  improvement  over  the 
years 
immediately  preceding,  thus  in­
dicating  that  the  process  of  clearing 
away  the  wreckage 
is  progressing  to­
wards  the  end.

For  an  all-around  city  Boston  does 
pretty  well.  She  set  up  the  biggest 
organ 
in  the  country  once  on  a  time 
and  now  she  is  pluming  herself  over  a 
mammoth  machine  for  furnishing  power 
for  her  elevated  railway now  in progress. 
Its  maximum  efficiency  is  4,000,  capa­
ble  of  being  varied  12  to  15  per  cent, 
either  way.  The  engine  shaft  is  of  hol­
low  forged  steel,  27  feet  10  inches  in 
length,  32  inches  diameter  in  the  hear­
ings  and  37  inches  in  the  body  with  a 
17 «4 -inch  hole  through  its  length.  The 
weight  of  the  engine  shaft 
is  65,410 
pounds;  of 
crank  disc,  58,004 
pounds.  ______________

the 

So  long  as  Great  Britain  pays  liberal­
ly  for  goods  seized at Delegoa Bay,  other 
nations  than  Germany  and  the  United 
States  may  want  to  have  vessels  seized 
there.

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2

D ry  G oods

T he  I>ry  GowIk  M arket.

Staple  Cottons— This  market  shows 
no  particular  change  from  the  generally 
quiet  conditions  which  have  prevailed 
for  several  weeks.  The  demand  is  on  a 
moderate  scale,  although  aggregating  a 
fair  amount.  Brown  sheetings  and  drills 
have  moved  moderately  and  stocks  in 
all 
leading  brands  are  low.  Prices  re­
main unchanged.  All  four-yard sheetings 
are  quiet  at  prices  which  we  have  pre­
viously  quoted.

Prints  and  Ginghams— A   prediction 
was  made  some 
little  time  ago  by  the 
jobbers  that  the  wash  goods  business  for 
spring  of  1900  would  be  the  biggest  in 
the  history  of  the  business.  This  is  be­
ing  daily  verified  and  the  past  week has 
been  an  enormous  one,  so  far  as  orders 
are  concerned.  The  conditions  are  all 
such  as  to  demand  a  large  output 
from 
the  mills,  and  those  mills  making a spe­
cialty  of  cotton  dress  goods  are enjoying 
a  season  of  the  utmost  activity.  Domes­
tic  manufacturers  are  meeting with diffi­
culty  in  making  deliveries  as  promptly 
as  required  by  their  customers.  The  in­
creased  business  in  all  parts  of the coun­
try  has  filled  them  up  with  orders,  and 
the  buyers  are  calling 
for  especially 
early  delivery.  Cotton  crepons  are  one 
of  the  most  prominent  lines  of  cotton 
goods  for  the  summer,  and  promise  to 
be  a  big  feature.

in 

Dress  Goods— The  situaiton 

the 
dress  goods  market  is  much  the  same  as 
it  was  a  week  ago.  The  mills  are  mak­
ing  deliveries  of  spring goods as  rapidly 
as  possible,  but  not  as  quickly  as  buy­
ers  would  like,  and  there  is  a  succession 
of  kicks  being  made  in  consequence. 
Supplementary  business  is  offering  in  a 
considerable  volume  and  agents  have 
been obliged to turn down  several  orders, 
owing  to  the  large  volume  of  orders  yet 
facing  the 
looms.  This  difficulty  will 
be  further  enhanced  when  jobbers  begin 
to  send  in  duplicate  spring  orders.  The 
fall  dress  goods  season  is  drawing  near. 
In  fact,  on  staple 
lines  some  business 
has  already  been  done,  the  buyers  in 
some  instances  having  shown  an anxiety 
to  get  some  orders  placed.  On  fancy 
lines  no  business  has  yet  been  done, 
agents  not  yet  being  ready. 
There 
seems  to  be  a  growing 
impression  that 
the  fancy  goods  season  will  open  some­
what  earlier  than  usual,  Feb.  15  being 
fixed  by  some  as  the  probable  date 
when  fancies  will  begin  to  be  opened. 
Rough  wool  goods  of  the  homespun  and 
cheviot  variety  are  expected  to  make 
another  good  showing  in  heavyweights, 
and  the fancy back has many champions.
Underwear— The  fall  underwear  busi­
ness  is  rapidly  drawing  towards  a  close. 
It  will  be  but  a  week  or  two  now  before 
most  of  the  lines  are  sold  up for the  sea­
son.  The  advances  in  prices  have  had 
the  effect  of  making  buyers  anxious  to 
place  their  orders  early,  especially  for 
fleeces.  There  is  complaint  on  the  part 
of  buyers 
in  regard  to  the  sharp  ad 
vances  on  fleeced  lines,  but  there  seems 
to  be  no  good  reason  for  this.  The 
trouble  is  that  they  were  educated  to 
low  prices  and  no  profits  for  the  manu­
facturers,  and 
is  a  little  difficult  for 
them  to  understand  that  conditions  have 
entirely  changed  now,  but  the  market  is 
no  longer  at  the  mercy  of  the buyers and 
agents  fighting  among  themselves,  but 
it  has  been  raised  to  nearer  the  proper 
standard,  and  prices  are  much  nearer  a 
basis  of  equality,  buyers  must  under­
stand  that  it  is  possible  for them  to  re­
ceive  the  right  qualities  and  deliveries

it 

on  time  only  when  their  part  of  the  bar­
gain  is  comparatively  fair and  just. 
If 
they  are  getting the  goods  at  what it cost 
to  make  them  or  less,  as  was  often  the 
case  a  year  ago,  they  have  little  reason 
to  grumble 
are 
made,  the  qualities  fall  below  the  sam­
ples  or  the  deliveries  are  much  behind 
time.

if,  when  deliveries 

Hosiery—-Both 

foreign  and  domestic 
makes  have  had  a  large  sale,  and  most 
of  the  mills  are  behind  in  their  deliver­
ies.  The  fine  effects  which  are  obtained 
have  appealed  strongly  to  the  better 
class  of  trade,  and  the  added  durability 
has  appealed  to  all  consumers.  Half 
hose 
in  neat  designs  and  high  colors 
have  already  found  an  active  demand, 
and  retailers are encouraged  to  carry  full 
stocks.  Domestic  seamless  hosiery con­
tinues  to  be  active,  and  the  yams  are 
high  in  price,  and  limited  in  quantity. 
There  is  every  reason  for  believing  that 
advances  will  be  made  on  these  goods 
before  long.

largest 

Carpets— Several  of  the 

in­
grain  carpet  manufacturers  in  Philadel­
phia  have  notified  the  trade  of  a  further 
advance  of  2 % c  per  yard  on  ingrains, 
which  took  effect  Jan.  10.  As  the  initial 
orders  have  already  been  placed  to 
last 
for  several  weeks, 
the  advance  will 
affect  duplicate  orders  mainly.  Some  of 
the  carpet  manufacturers  realize  the  fact 
that  for  the  past  six  months  the  help 
employed 
been 
obliged  to  pay  a  large  increase 
for  the 
necessaries  of  life,  and  that  their  wages 
will  not  go  as  far as  formerly,  thus  little 
being  left  for  comforts,  including  car­
pets  and  other  furnishings,  and  they  are 
anxious  to  see  the  advance  on  goods 
made  sufficient  to  permit  the  employers 
of 
labor  to  pay  wages  in  proportion  to 
the  changed  conditions.

in  the  mills  have 

Smyrna  Rugs— These  goods  show  by 
their  sales  that  they  are  becoming  more 
popular.  A   great  number of  rugs  in  car­
pet  sizes  are  being  sold.  Wool  and  jute, 
of  which 
these  rugs  are  made,  are 
scarce,  and  it  is  only  a  question  of  time 
before  they  will  be 
almost  beyond 
reach,  and  prices  will  naturally  become 
higher.  Carpet  salesmen  have  returned 
from  their  first  trip,  and  report  business 
good  all  over  the  country.  They  have 
taken 
larger  orders  than  usual  at  this 
season.  They  will  start  on  their  second 
trip  for  duplicate  orders  about  the  m id­
dle  of  February.  Manufacturers  com­
plain  that  they  can  not  pay  any  more 
for  yarn  while  selling  goods  at  old  fig­
ures.

P rogress  in  E arly   Closing.

joined 

Hillsdale— The  grocery  stores  of  the 
city  have 
in  the  early  closing 
movement  and  close  each  evening  ex­
cept  Saturday  at  8  o’clock,while  the  dry 
goods,  clothing  and  hardware  stores 
close  at  6 o’clock.

Houghton— The  druggists  of  this  city 
have  entered  into  an  agreement  to  close 
their  places  of  business  during  the  re­
mainder  of  the  winter  months  at  9 
o’clock  each  evening.

Harbor  Springs— The  early 

closing 
scheme 
for  Harbor  Springs  seems  to 
be  a  failure.  Most  of  the business places 
were  closed  at  first,  but  some  did  not 
see  fit  to  close,  and  of  course  in  a  deal 
of  that  kind  it  must  be  all  or  none,  be­
cause  it  would  be  unfair  for  part  to  re­
main  open  and  part  closed.

When  the  founder  of  the  Anti-Poverty 
Society  died  recently  it  was  found  that 
he  owed 
sums  amounting  to  about 
$10,000.  His  friends  will  endeavor  to 
raise  funds  sufficient  to  liquidate  this 
indebtedness.

A n  A p t  C om parison.

“ This  coin  you  gave  me  reminds  me 
of  some  women,”   said  the  conductor, 
throwing  the  counterfeit  nickel  over  in 
his  hand.

“ How  so?”   asked  the  curious  passen­

ger.

“ Fare,  but 

other.

false,”   responded 

the 

T he  Boy  W as  H onest.

“ Haveyou any nicelight bread?” asked 
a  prospective  customer  in  a  bake  shop.
’ ’Yes’m, ”   replied  the  new  boy,  “ we 
have  some  nice  pound  loaves  that  weigh 
only  10  ounces. ”

The  W om an  o f It.

Husband— It  was  very  extravagant  of 

you  to  bu y  all  those  things.

Wife— But  I  didn’t  buy  them. 

1  had 

them  charged.

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3

T hree  R easons  W hy  B irds Should  Be Dis­

pensed  W ith.

Written for the Tradesman.

I  stepped  into  a  dry  goods  store  yes­
terday  to  call  on  a  business  acquaint­
ance  and  found  him  standing  by  the 
front  door,  his  hands  behind  his  back, 
looking  out  on  the  crowd  of  shoppers 
which  thronged  the  pavement.

It  was  a  bright,  sunny  day,  although 
rather  cool,  and  the  crowd  consisted 
principally  of 
ladies,  young  and  old, 
invariably  well  dressed  and 
looking 
bright  and  happy.  As  I  stopped  to 
shake  hands  with  my  friend  1  saw  that 
his  eyes  were  fixed  intently  on  the  pass­
ing  crowd and observed with amazement, 
not  unmixed  with  a  tinge  of  anger,  that 
he  coolly  motioned  me  away  with  his 
hand.

Just  as  I  was  about  to  move  away, 
however,  he  caught  me  by  the  arm  and, 
lifting  up  one  hand,  began,  with  ex­
tended  finger, 
to  count,  ducking  his 
like  a  well-sweep  at  every  num­
finger 
ber. 
I  wondered  if  the  fellow  was  go­
ing  crazy,  at  first,  then  saw  with  relief 
that  he  was  “ keeping  cases,’ ’  as  he 
afterwards  called  it,  on  something  going 
on  in  the  street.
‘ ‘ Twenty-one, 

twenty-
three  and  two  are  twenty-five,”   he  pres­
ently  said,  turning  to  me. 
“ What  do 
you  think  of  that?  Out of  a  total  of  fifty- 
four 
ladies  who  passed  this  store  just 
now  twenty-five  wore  bird  ornaments  on 
their  hats.  Absurd,  isn’t  it?”

twenty-two, 

“ 1  think  they  look  very  tasty,”   I  re­
marked,  not  knowing  what  else  to  say, 
and 
the  advice  of  Mark 
Twain,  who  says  that  when  in  doubt  the 
better  way  is  to  tell  the  truth.

following 

“ T asty,”   echoed  the  merchant,  tak­
ing  me  by  the  arm  and  leading  the  way 
back  to  the  office,  “ I  think  it  ridicu­
lous,  not  to  call  the  custom  by  a  harsher 
name.  The 
idea  of  a  lady  sticking  a 
dead  bird  on  her hat  seems  to  me  to  be 
repulsive  enough  to  stop  the  practice, 
even  if  it  did  not  bring  to  mind  other 
and  more  serious  objections.”

“ Doesn’t  your  wife  wear  them?”   1 

asked.

“ Not  much,”   was  the  reply,  “ and  1 
am  indebted  to  her  for the  ideas  I  have 
on  the  subject,  or  most  of  them,  at 
least. ”

“ For  instance?”   I  asked.
“ For 

ladies  are  held 

instance,”   said  the  merchant, 
it 
“ the  custom  is  not  becoming,  nor  is 
increase  the  respect  with 
calculated  to 
which 
in  all  civilized 
communities.  The  word  lady  brings  to 
my  mind,  and  to  the  mind  of  every 
in­
telligent  man,  the  thought  of  a  sweet 
and  kindly  nature,  of  a  warm  heart 
throbbing  with  love  and  sympathy,  and 
of  a  tender  conscience  and  a  delicate 
feminine  protective  quality  whfch  I’ can 
hardly  express 
in  words.  Now,  how 
image  compare  with  the 
does 
woman  striding  through  the  streets  with 
dead  birds  perched  on  her  hat?  Doesn’t 
the  bird  lower  the  woman  in  your  esti­
mation?  Don’t  you  think  she  might 
patronize  cruelty  and  endorse  crime  a 
little  less  openly?  Don’t  you  think  this 
bird-craze  has  much  to  do  in  destroying 
the  refining  influences  of  the  sex?”

this 

“ I  have  never  thought  of  the  matter 
in  that 
light,”   was  my  reply,  “ but  I 
think  that  your  notions  of  women  are 
too  exalted.  You  idealize  them.”

“ They  ought  to  be  all  I  imagine  them 
to  be, ’ ’  was the  reply. 
‘ * The world  out­
side  of  home  is  harsh  enough  and  cruel 
enough  to  wreck  and  kill  and  maim,  in 
the  struggle  for  supremacy,  without  re­
ceiving  assistance 
fireside. 
Ladies  used  to  wear  flowers  on  their

from  the 

hats— some do  now.  That  is 
in  keep 
ing  with  masculine  ideas  of  the  purity 
and  sweetness  of  the  sex  and  should  be 
encouraged.  But  now  it  is  birds,  and, 
who  knows,  it  may  be  rabbits  and  pet 
poodles  next!  What  a  fine  thing 
it 
would  be  for  Samantha  to  have  her  dear 
Dido  stuffed  and  placed  on  the  crown 
of  her  hat!  He  might  hold  up  one  side 
of  the  rim  with  one  paw  and  the  flap­
ping  front  with 
the  other!  His  tail 
might  be  useful  as  a  stickpin!  If  birds, 
why  not  poodles?”

“ You  always  were  inclined  to  carry 

things  to  extremes,”   I  said.

“ But  there  is  another  reason  why  the 
custom  should  cease,”   continued  the 
merchant. 
“ Who  catches  these  birds? 
Children,  of  course.  Who  teaches  them 
to  kill  and  torture  them?  The  men  who 
make  money 
in  the  traffic,  of  course. 
Now,  do  you  suppose  for  an  instant  that 
you  can  teach  a  child  to  be  cruel  in  one 
instance  and  not  in  another?  Decidedly 
not.  A   child  who  will  capture  a  bird 
for  a  hat  ornament  or  who  will  shoot 
one  for  a  county  reward  of  two  cents— or 
is 
it  three?— will  tie  two  cats  together 
by  the  tails  and  throw  them  over  a 
clothes 
line  to  torture  each  other  to 
death.  Oh,  the  law  is  doing  a  fine  thing 
in  paying  for  the  heads  of  sparrows! 
That  system  and  the  bird  craze  will 
breed  a  fine  lot  of  murderers  for  use 
in 
the  rope  industry  by-and-by.  The  world 
is  growing  wickeder, 
it?  Do  you 
wonder  at 
it?  Now,  I  do  not  know 
enough  about  this  bird  matter  to  know 
whether  the  birds  worn  are  foreign  or 
domestic,  but  that 
If 
the  urchins  of  our  own 
land  are  not 
catching  them,  the urchins  of  some  other 
lands  are,  and  some  day  these  foreign 
youngsters  wili  be  coming  over  here, 
with  little  gold  rings  in  their  ears,  and 
two-edged  stilettos  up  their  sleeves,  and 
be  holding  secret  meetings  in  the  back 
rooms  of  saloons  and  conspiring  to orna­
ment  the gate-posts  of the parks  with  the 
head  of  our  rulers.  You  don’t  believe 
it?  Well,  you  may  not 
live  to  see  it, 
but  your  children  w ill.”

immaterial. 

is 

is 

“ You  don’t  mean  to  assert  that  catch­
ing  birds  for  hats  will  bring  about  a 
revolution 
in  this  country?”   I  asked, 
with  a  laugh.

“ Of  course  not,  but  every  little  helps. 
Now,  here’s  another  point  of  view ,”  
continued  the  merchant. 
“ I  read  in  a 
newspaper  the  other  day  that human  life 
would  cease  on  the  earth  as  soon  as  bird 
life  became  extinct,  and  I  do  not  doubt 
it  a  bit.  Why,  drive  away  the  birds, 
and  all  the  sprays  and  the  patent  insect­
icides  and  the  poisons  and  the  adver­
tised  remedies  for  worms  and  bugs  and 
insects  of  every  grade  and  size  would 
not  be  sufficient  to  protect  our  grains, 
our  fruits  and  our  vegetables  from  de­
struction. 
is  estimated  that  about 
nine  years  would  do  the  business  for  us. 
Then  we  should  grandly  and  smilingly 
lie  down  and  die  from  want  of  food— 
to  bird-bounties  and  bird- 
victims 
trimmed  hats  and 
It  is 
enough  to  cause  a  man  to take  to the  tall 
timber  and  hide  himself 
from  his 
k in d !”

fool  hunters. 

It 

“ You  ought  to  be  a  great  admirer  < f 
birds,”   I  said;  “ do  you  arise 
in  the 
dewy  morning  and  go  forth  to hear  them 
sing?”

“ Scarcely,”   was  the  Feply. 

“ Some­
how,  I  do  not  admire  the  alleged  music 
of  birds.  Never  found  any  music  in  it, 
and  if  one  comes  screeching  at  my  win­
dow 
just  arise  and 
throw  stones  at  it  until  it  goes  and  sings 
under  some  one  else’s  window.”

in  the  morning,  I 

“ Throw  stones,”   I  repeated.  “ Not  at

little  birds?  You  must  have  little 

the 
gold  rings  in  your ears.”

‘ You  see,”   said  the  merchant  with  a 
smile,  “ I  was  taught  to  do  such  things 
in  my  younger days.  My  mother  wore 
dead  birds  on  her  best  hat and  my  father 
permitted  me  to  murder sparrows  for  the 
bounty!”  

Alfred  B.  Tozer.

Effect  o f Cookery  on  Moral*.

When  a  man  does  not  get  the  stimula­
ting  nourishment  which  his  nature 
craves,  he  resorts  to  liquor to supply  the 
want.  With  this  fact  staring  one  in  the 
face,  is  it  not  wise  to teach  that  unfail­
ingly  good 
food,  with  all  the  elements 
that  stimulate  and  nourish  the  body  and 
the  brain,  has 
its  moral  as  well  as  its 
physical  benefits?

There  are  cases  on  record  proving  the 
benefits  of  public  school  cooking,  where 
the  domestic  sky  has  been  perfectly 
cleared  of  clouds  because  good  food  was 
offered  where  before  it  had  been  badly 
cooked,  and  consequently  did  not  ’ prop­
erly  nourish. 
In  one  home  the  substitu­
tion  of  a  well  cooked  cup  of  cocoa  for 
the  sloppy,^herby  tea  that  had  become 
a  component  part  of  every  morning 
meal,  and  a  nice  Indian  cake  or  a  plate 
of  muffins  for  the  baker’s  dry  loaf,  be­
gan  a  work  of  reform.  The  father  was 
proud  of  the  daughter’s  skill  as  a  cook  ; 
the  mother,  who  had  grown  careless  and 
shiftless  and  indifferent,  was  shamed  by 
it.  The  consequence  was  better  pro­
vision on  the  part of one and more care in 
preparation  on  the  part  of  the  other.

The  mother  was  by  no  means  above 
turning  to  account  some  of  the  practical 
knowledge  the  daughter  had  acquired 
under  such  competent  training,  and  she 
began  also  to  brush  up  her  own  knowl­
edge  that  she  had  carelessly  allowed  to 
fall  into  disuse.  The  result  is  a  happy 
home,-a  united  family,  a  cheerful,  con­
tented,  busy  wife,  and  a  man  who  puts 
family 
into  the 
larder  what  formerly 
went  to  the  saloon.
How C ounterfeit Shoe*  Have Played  Havoc 
Correspondence Boot and  Shoe Recorder.

I  am  surprised  to  learn,  on  the  author­
ity  of  an  expert  shoe  man,  that  Massa­
chusetts  has  lost  40  per  cent,  of  its  shoe 
trade  during  the  past  twenty  years  be­
cause  unscrupulous  manufacturers  have 
foisted  spurious  goods  upon  the  public. 
That  is,  they  have  put  out  footwear pur­
porting  to  represent  certain  well  known 
and  widely  advertised 
lines.  My  in­
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Around  the State

M ovem ents  o f M erchants.

Empire— Rich  &  Rohr  have  engaged 

in  the  meat  business.

Marshall—John  J.  DeShane,  tailor,  is 

succeeded  by  A.  L.  Kieff.

Augusta— Fred  Black,  meat  dealer, 

has  sold  out  to  Wm.  Greer.

Owosso— M.  R.  Trumble  has  opened 

a  house  furnishing  goods  store.

Bear  Lake— Mrs.  D.  V.  Fish  has  sold 

her  general  stock  to  Geo.  A.  Barstow.

Petoskey— C.  W.  Fallas  succeeds  Co­
burn,  Hamer  &  Fallas  in  the  drug  busi­
ness.

Holland— Mrs.  John  Espie  has opened 
a  confectionery  store  at  84  East  Eighth 
street.

Hart—jesse  Crowner  succeeds  Geo. 
Gilpin  in  the  produce,  grocery  and  oil 
business.

New  Haven  Center— W.  H.  &  A.  M. 
Eveiest  succeed  W.  H.  Everest  in  gen­
eral  trade.

Mulliken— C.  H.  McCarger  has  sold 
his  drug  and  grocery  stock  to  Douglas 
McCarger.

Cassopolis— G.  L.  Smith  has  pur­
chased  the  general  stock  of  Geo.  M. 
Kingsbury.

Manistique-----Lindsley  &  Mosher,
dealers  in  groceries,  flour  and  feed  and 
meats, 
partnership, 
Frank  O.  Lindsley  succeeding.

have  dissolved 

Traverse  City— D.  Shanahan  has  sold 
his  grocery  stock  to  Elgin  Lewis  and 
Wm.  Davis,  who  will  continue  the  busi­
ness  under  the  style  of  Lewis  &  Davis.
Lowell— The  meat  firm  of  James  Mur­
phy  &  Son  has  been  dissolved,  James 
Murphy  retiring.  Tom  Murphy  will 
continue  the  business  at  the  old  stand.
Laurium— Wm.  Roberts,  formerly con­
nected  with  the  general  merchandise 
firm  of  J.  Vivian,  Jr.,  &  Co.,  will  short­
ly  embark 
in  the  drug  business  at  this 
place.

Spring  Lake— The  dry  goods  and shoe 
firm  of  S.  Falls  &  Co.  has  been  dis­
solved,  Samuel  Falls  purchasing  the  in­
terest  of  his  partner,  Barbara  Brong- 
ersma.

Muskegon— J.  O.  Jeannot  &  Co.,  pro­
prietors  of  the  New  York  Tea  Co.,  have 
added  an  extensive  line  of  wall  paper. 
John  Hilt 
in  charge  of  the  new  de­
partment.

is 

Battle  Creek— E.  F.  Barber  has  sold 
his  interest  in  the  Maple  street  grocery 
to  W.  J.  Henson  and  has  accepted  a 
position  with  the  Home  Life Publishing 
Co.,  of  this  place.

Detroit— John  Glynn 

continues  the 
formerly  conducted  by 

meat  business 
Glynn  Bros.

Newaygo—Chas.  A.  Anderson  &  C o. 
succeed  Chas.  A.  Anderson  in  the  gro­
cery  business.

North  Adams— Geo.  W.  Morehouse, 
hardware  dealer,  has  sold  his  stock  to 
Payne  &  Dean.

Metamora— Mathias  Caley  has  pur­
lumber  and  grain  business 

chased  the 
of  J.  H.  Johnson.

Homer— Chas.  A.  Buck  and  D.  J. 
Roberts  have  purchased  the  clothing 
stock  of  F.  W.  Hill. 

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Fowlerville— Spencer  &  Son 

is  the 
name  of  the  new  drug  firm  which  suc­
ceeds  J.  P.  Spencer.

Ovid— Quayle  &  Kay,  of  Corunna, 
have  engaged  in  the  grocery  business  in 
the  Swarthout  building.

Bay  City— Fred  H.  Woolson continues 
the  furniture  business  of  See,  Woolson 
&  Co.  in  his  own  name.

Marshall— Henry  M.  Ziegler  has  put 
in  a  stock  of  pianos,  organs  and musical 
merchandise  at  this  place.

Lucas— Ketchum  Bros,  have  opened 
a  grocery  store  at this place.  J.  Cornwell 
&  Sons  furnished  the  stock.

Coldwater—Chas.  S.  Wolcott,  of  H ills­
dale,  has  opened  a  music  store  and 
piano  warerooms  at  this  place.

Ann  Arbor— Wahr  &  Miller, 

shoe 
dealers  at  this  place,  have  dissolved 
partnership,  John  Wahr  succeeding.

Whitehall— Mrs.  F.  D.  Hollis  has 
purchased  the  dry  goods  and  millinery 
stock  of  E.  M.  .&  F.  May  Chapman.

Muskegon— Callan  &  Dratz,  clothiers, 
have  dissolved  partnership.  The  busi­
ness  will  be  continued  by  T.  B.  Callan.
Clarksville— S.  E.  Bevier has  sold  his 
implement  business  at 
interest 
this  place  to  Volney  Strong,  of  Saranac.
Houghton—V.  V.  Tuckey  &  Co.,  of 
Milford,  will  engage  in  the  clothing and 
furnishing  goods  business  at  this  place 
about  Feb.  1.

in  the 

St.  Joseph— E.  J.  King  has  purchased 
a  site  on  Main  street  and  will  at  once 
erect  a  building  in  which  he will engage 
in  the  grocery  business.

Traverse  City— Wm.  Watson,  who  has 
been  conducting  a  shoe  store 
in  the 
Beadle  block,  has  sold  his  stock  to 
Arthur  Rosenthal,  of  the  New  York 
store,  and  retired  from  trade.

Port  Huron— E.  J.  Hardy  has  pur­
chased  the  Chas.  Thompson  bankrupt 
stock  of  furniture  for  $730.  The  stock 
inventoried  $ 1,600.  Mr.  Hardy  will 
add  to  the  stock  and  reopen  the  store.

Hastings— S.  E.  Phillips,  who  has 
long  been 
identified  with  the  grocery 
interests  of  this  city,  has disposed  of  his 
grocery  stock  to  Frank  Horton,  who 
will  continue  the  business  at  the  same 
location.

Edmore— It  is  A.  P.  Curtis  who  has 
sold  his  meat  market  to  W.  A.  Court- 
wright,  of  Greenville,  instead  of  Alfred 
E.  Curtis,  dealer  in  hardware,  boots 
and  shoes,  as  stated  in  the  Tradesman 
of  last  week.

South  Haven— Chas.  E.  Abell, 

the 
druggist,  has  purchased  the  property  in 
which  he  is  now  located.  He  will  make 
extensive  improvements 
in  the  build­
ing,  including  the  fitting  of  the  second 
story  for  office  purposes.

Alma— O.  W.  Rogers  has  purchased 
the  grocery  stock  of  B.  C.  Button, 
renovated  the 
interior  of  the  store  and 
added  to  the  stock.  Mr.  Button  has  en­
gaged  as  traveling  solicitor  for  the  Port 
Huron  Building  and  Loan  Association.
Charlotte— Chas.  Bennett,  administra­
tor  of  the  estate  of  George  W.  Foote  has 
sold  the  Foote  drug  stock  to  Dr.  L.  F. 
Weaver,  of  Detroit, 
late  of  Nashville, 
and  Peter  Shute,  of  Charlotte,  who  will 
continue  the  business  at  the  same 
loca- 
ton.

Edmore— Skarritt  &  Sack have formed 
a  copartnership  and  opened  a  wholesale 
and  retail  meat  market  and  packing 
rooms 
in  the  building  lately  occupied 
by  J.  Snyder.  Both  gentlemen  have  had 
extensive  experience  in  the  meat  busi­
ness.

Sault  Ste.  Marie—Al.  Branigan,  meat 
dealer  at  this  place,  and  C.  J.  Brooks, 
formerly  engaged 
in  the  grocery  busi­
ness  at  Thompson,  have  formed  a  co­
partnership  and  opened  a  grocery  and 
meat market  under  the  style  of Branigan 
&  Brooks.

Albion— F.  C.  Headington  &  Co.,  of 
Portland,  Ind.,  have  purchased  the  dry 
goods,  cloak  and  carpet  stock  of  F.  H. 
Goadby,  the  business  being  under  the 
personal  supervision  of  F.  C.  Heading- 
ton.  This  firm 
is  a  veteran  in  the  dry 
goods  business,  having  at  present  three 
stores  in  Indiana.

Jackson—Chas.  E.  Barnard has retired 
from  the  hardware 
firm  of  Barnard, 
Smith  &  Co.  The  business  will  here­
after  be  conducted  by  Hugh  L.  Smith, 
S.  W.  Winchester and  R.  W.  Smith  un­
der the  style  of  the  Smith  &  Winchester 
Hardware  Co.
Detroit—A  

special  partnership  has 
been  formed  between  Edwin  S.  George 
and  Oren  Scotten  to  carry  on  a  fur  busi­
ness  under  the  name  of  Edwin  S. 
George,  Oren  Scotten  being  a  special 
partner  and  contributing  $20,000  to  the 
capital  of  the  concern.  The  partnership 
is  to  last  five  years.

Cass  City— The  business  men  of  Cass 
City  held  a  meeting  last  Tuesday  night 
and  decided  that  after  March  1,  1900, 
they  will  discontinue  the  giving or offer­
ing  of  any  and  all  kinds  of  premiums 
for trade.  T h is  agreement  is  supported
by  every  business  man  in  Cass  City  and 
will  be  strictly  lived  up  to.

South  Haven— Wm.  Jacobs  has  sold 
his  meat  market  and  all  of  his  property 
in  South  Haven  to  J.  E.  Westfall,  of 
Bangor,  for  about  $9,000  in  cash.  The 
sale includes the meat market on Phoenix 
street,  the  two-story  brick  building  in 
which  the  market  is  located,  a  lot  next 
acres 
to  David  R eid’s  livery  stable, 
of 
the 
slaughter  house.  John  Hunt,  who  has 
been  employed  by  Mr.  Jacobs,  will  re­
main  with  him  and  he  will  also  employ 
another  butcher.

land  northeast  of  town  and 

Ishpeming— Blumentahl  &  Ruttenberg, 
proprietors  of  the  State  Savings  Bank 
and  dealers  in  clothing  and  men's  fur­
nishing  goods,  have  been  closed  by 
their  creditors,  who  are  represented  by 
the  D.  W.  Ferguson  Adjusting  Co.,  of 
Chicago.  The  stock  will  be  closed  out 
at  once  and  converted  into  cash,  with 
the  voluntary  consent  of  the  proprietors. 
Slack  business  and  a  desire  to  wind  up 
the  affairs  of  the  concern  is  the  reason 
stated  for this  method  of settling  the  big 
claims  against  the  stock.

M an u factu rin g   M atters.

Detroit— Fisk  &  Olde  succeed  Wm. 
T.  Fisk  in the  manufacture of  shoes  and 
uppers.

Alpena— Kenneth C.  McLean  succeeds 
McLean  &  Mills  as  proprietor  of  the 
Alpena  Mattress  Works.

Dowagiac— Farmers  residing 

in  the 
vicinity  of  Cushing’s  Corners  will  build 
a  cheese  factory 
in  the  spring.  The 
company  has  béen  organized  with  a 
paid-up  capital  of  $1,000.

Pontiac— The  Pontiac  Sheet  Metal 
Manufacturing  Co.  has  been  organized 
for  the  manufacture  and  sale  of  the 
Sherman  dish  cleaner.  The  new  corpo­
ration  has'a  capital  stock  of $40,000.

Vernon— The 

large  box  factory  here, 
which  has  been  idle  for  some  time  past, 
will  be  converted  into  a  cooperage plant 
and  go 
into  operation  as  soon  as  the 
alterations 
About 
seventy-five  men  will  be  employed.

completed. 

are 

Detroit— The  Detroit  Barrel  Co.  has 
filed  articles  of  incorporation.  The  cap­
ital 
is  $10,000,  fully  paid  in,  and  the 
stockholders  are  David  Stott,  Robert 
Henkel,  George  Beck,  Henry  Haendle 
and  S.  T.  Douglas,  trustee,  200  shares 
each.

Detroit— Carl  E.  Schmidt  has  found  a 
new  system  of  staining  leather and  has 
purchased  an  interest  in  the  tannery  of 
C.  Kaiser  &  Son  at  311  Riopelle  street. 
He  proposes  to  experiment  with  the new 
system 
and  will  manufacture 
stained  leather extensively  if it  is  a  suc­
cess.  He  says  that  there  is  no  plan  on 
to  consolidate  the  tannery  with his  other 
one.

there 

Niles— Niles 

is  assured  of  a  factory 
that  will 
in  a  few  days  remove  from  a 
neighboring  town  and  employ  twenty- 
five  hands.  This 
is  said  to  be  only  a 
small  beginning  for  Niles  in  the  factory 
line,  as  several  big  concerns  are  ex­
pected  to  locate  here  this  year.

Detroit— The 

interest  of  Chas.  H. 
Greene  in  the  Michigan  Chemical  Co. 
has  been  acquired  by  A.  R.  Thayer,  the 
other  partner,  and  the  office  of  the  com­
pany  has  been  removed 
from  Bates 
street  to  587  Michigan  avenue.  D.  L. 
Greene  is  local  manager  of the business.
Detroit— C.  T.  Rogers  &  Sons  have 
been 
incorporated  to  manufacture  and 
sell  condensed  milk,  butter  and  other 
dairy  products.  The  capital  stock  is 
$100,000,  fully  paid 
in,  and  the  share­
holders  are:  C.  T .  Rogers,  3,334shares; 
J.  W.  and  R.  R.  Rogers,  3,333  shares
each.

Benton  Harbor— The  Board  of  Trade 
has  decided  to  accept  the  proposition  of 
locate  their 
J.  V.  Farwell  &  Co.  to 
overall,  shirt  and  coat 
factory  in  this 
is  to  furnish  a  suitable 
city.  The  city 
building 
factory 
will  employ  500  women  and  will  start  in 
two  weeks  with  10  machines.

for  five  years. 

.The 

Millington— The  annual  meeting  of 
the  Millington  Cheese  Manufacturing 
Co.  was  held  at  the  Bank  of  Millington 
last  week  and  the 
following  directors 
were elected:  C.  B.  Clough,  J.  L.  Ward, 
Squire Curtis,  M.  L.  Baker,  C.  A.  Valen­
tine. 
there 
had  been  manufactured  during  the  run­
ning  season  34,200  pounds  of  cheese, 
and  that  the  company  had  paid  to  pat­
rons $2,120.31.

The  report  showed  that 

Ravenna— The  report  of  the  Ravenna 
Creamery  shows  that  the  total  receipts 
last  year  were  $7,114.44;  expenditures, 
$6,969.01;  balance  on  hand,  $145.43. 
The  new  officers  elected  are  S.  L.  A l­
berts,  President;  J.  A.  Thompson,  Sec­
retary ;  E.  E.  Bartholomew,  Treasurer; 
directors,  John  Price,  Arthur  Scholes, 
E.  Young,  Jr.,  James  Thompson,  John 
Young  and  E.  Balcom.  The  directors 
have  engaged  Fred  Bargwell  as  butter- 
maker.

T he  Boys  B ehind  th e   C ounter. 

Menominee— Walter  Gander  has  been 
promoted  to  the  position  of  city  sales­
man  for  Penberthy,  Cook  &  Co.  Chas. 
Anderson 
is  filling  Mr.  Gander’s  place 
as  shipping  clerk.
Kalamazoo—W. 

S.  McKnight  has 
taken  a  position  with  the  Brownson  & 
Rankin  Dry  Goods  Co.  He  is  spend­
ing  a  few  days  at  his  old  home  in  Ver­
non  before  taking  up  his  new  duties.

Bath— George  McGonigal  has  been 
engaged  by  D.  McGrath  to  clerk  in  his 
drug  store.

Harbor  Springs— Chas.  Goodrich,  of 
in  Wm. 

Fennville,  is  the  new  clerk 
J.  Clark  &  Son’s  grocery  department.

Central  Lake— Frank  Poquette  is  no 
longer  in  the  employ  of  J.  Hirshman, 
having  Severed  his  connection  as  clerk 
last  week.  Mr.  Hirshman  expects  Ed 
Carroll,  who  served  McFarlan  for  so 
long,  to  be  here  in  a  short  time  to  take 
Poquette’s  place.

Owosso— Roy  Rose  is  clerking  in  the 

grocery  store  of  W.  S.  Hunt.

Saginaw— Miss  Agnes  Roberts,  of 
Porteous,  Mitchell  &  C o.’s  millinery 
department,  has  resigned  her  position 
to  take  the  management  of  a  millinery 
department  for  the  Martin  Dry  Goods 
Co.,  Cedar  Rapids,  la.  Miss  Roberts 
has  been 
in  the  employ  of  Porteous, 
Mitchell  &  Co.  for the  past  six  years.

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Sugars—The  market  for  both  raw  and 
refined  sugar  is  very  strong,  there  hav­
ing  been  an  advance  of  i- i6c  on  raws, 
making  the  price  of  q6  deg.  test  cen­
trifugals  now  4^c.  On  the  19th  an  ad­
vance  of  ioc  on  all  grades  of  refined  oc­
curred.  This  advance  on  raws  was 
caused  by  a 
large  cargo  of  Hawaiian 
sugar  being  held  up  at  San  Francisco 
because  of  the  bubonic  plague  in  Hon­
olulu.  There  is  every  reason  to  believe 
that  there  will  be  some 
in 
the  receipts  of  Hawaiian  sugars  on  ac­
count  of  the  plague.  The  first  shipments 
have  iust  been  made  from  Honolulu  to 
this  country  and  among  them  was  the 
cargo  held  in  quarantine.  The  United 
States  imports over  250,000  tons  of  sugar 
annually  from  Hawaii  and  any interrup­
tion 
in  the  receipts  from  that  country 
must  have  an  effect  on  the  local  raw 
in 
sugar  market.  With 
the  plague 
Brazil,  Australia,  Manila  and 
the 
Hawaiian  Islands,  there  is  every  reason 
to  believe  that  the  raw  sugar  market 
will  be  very  strong  for  some  time  to 
come.  Trade 
in  Michigan  beet  sugar 
has  been  very  good  this  season  and  the 
business  is  now  well  established.  Most 
of  the  factories  have  closed  for  the  sea­
son  and  the  remainder  will  do  so  with­
in  a  week  or two.

is 

states  where 

Canned  Goods— Prices  on  all  futures 
are  firmer  than  a  week  ago  and the tend­
ency  is  upward.  Packers  are  indisposed 
to  accept  anything  below  the 
figures 
named  and  most  of  them  are  inclined 
to  force  prices  up  more  or  less.  Spot 
trading 
light,  partly  because  stocks 
are  small,  but  probably  more  because 
buyers  do  not  feel  like  paying  the  price 
asked  by  the  average  holder.  Practical­
ly  everything 
is  gone  from  first  hands 
and  second  hands  are  not  heavy  hold­
ers.  The  market  remains  firm  at  full 
prices,  with  the  tendency  upward  • on 
about  every  variety  offered.  Corn  has 
sold  more  briskly  in  the  East  than  any 
other  sort  of  canned  goods  and  some 
packers  report  sales  of  their  full  pros­
pective  pack.  New  York  canners  have 
not  done  as  well  as  some  of  the  Maine 
men,  but  there  have  been  active  sales  in 
all 
corn  canning  has 
reached  any  considerable  proportions. 
The  outlook 
is  very  encouraging,  in­
deed,  at  present  and  packers  are  under 
the  impression  that  prices  will  increase 
rather  than  decline.  Tomatoes  are  un­
changed,  although  the  firmness  of  spot 
goods  continues  and  there  are  indica­
tions  of  an  advance 
in  prices  later. 
There  is  considerable  buying  to take the 
place  of  futures.  There  are  indications 
that  futures  will  rule  higher,  relatively, 
than  spot  goods,  and  buyers  are  anxious 
to  secure  supplies  at  low  figures,  hence 
the  increased  sale  of  spot  goods.  There 
appears  to  be  a  somewhat  stronger  con­
sumptive  demand,  too,  although  so  far 
it  is  too  slight  to  exert  much 
influence 
on  the  market.  Futures  are  advancing. 
The  sharp  advances  in  canmakers’  ma­
terials  have  made 
it  absolutely  neces­
sary  to  hold  all  goods  higher.  There 
has  been  an  advance  of  2j^c  in  some 
markets  and,  with  the  advancing  tend­
ency  as  pronounced  as 
is  now,  a 
further  increase isjikely this week.  Peas 
have  sold  freely  and  some  of  the  largest 
New  York  State  packers  are  entirely 
cleaned  up.  This  is  also  true  of  other 
canning  sections  and  the  market  is  in  a 
very  satisfactory  position. 
is 
said  about  beans,  but  there  has  been  a 
good  business  in  this  article  and  prices

Little 

it 

indifferent,  knowing 

In 
have  ruled  higher  than  last  season. 
other  lines  there  is  no  change.  Fruits 
are  held  firm  because  of  their  scarcity 
and  buyers  are  reluctant 
to  pay  the 
prices  asked.  On  the  other  hand,  hold­
ers  are 
that  the 
consuming  demand will be heavy enough 
to  compel  purchases  later  in  the  season, 
and  that,  too,  at  higher  prices  than  are 
asked  now.  The  minor  vegetables  are 
unchanged,  but  are  held  firmly  up  to 
quotations  and  there 
is  no  probability 
of  a  decrease 
in  price  until  the  new 
pack  is  ready  for  distribution.  Salmon 
and  sardines  are  in  good  demand  at  un­
changed  prices.

Dried  Fruits—There 

is  little  change 
in  the  dried  fruit  situation.  Trade  in 
all  lines  is  quiet,  but prices are  firm  and 
holders  are  confident  that  there  will  be 
better  business  a 
little  later.  Sales  of 
prunes  have  not  been  heavy  of  late,  but 
there  has  been  a  fair  average  of  busi­
ness.  Sizes  from  70-80S  down  are  most 
wanted,  particularly  by  exporters,  but 
last  few  days  have  developed  some 
the 
trade 
in  40-50S.  Holders  will  be  glad 
to  see  that,  because  so  far this  season 
large  sizes  have  been  poor  property. 
Stocks  in  hrst  hands  are  light  and  there 
is  no  question  about  the  ultimate  clean­
ing  up  of  the  entire  yield,  an  unprece­
dented  condition 
in  the  history  of  the 
California  dried  fruit  business.  Raisins 
are  steady,  but 
liberal  buying  would 
lead  to  higher  prices.  There are  no  sup­
plies  in  first  hands  and  second hands are 
In  Cal­
not  urgent  sellers  at any  figure. 
ifornia  loose  muscatels  trade  is 
limited 
to  small  lots  required for immediate con­
sumption  or  wanted  by  seeders.  All 
dealers  appear  to  be  well 
stocked. 
Peaches  continue  quiet,  with  trade  con­
fined  to  small  quantities.  Prices  are 
held  firm,  partly  because  of  scarcity  and 
partly  because  there  is  promise  of heavy 
buying  in  the  near  future.  Apricots are 
unchanged, with  movement  slow  because 
holders are  so  stiff  in  their  views.  Dates 
are  firmer,  but  no  actual  change  has 
taken  place. 
Stocks  are  heavy,  but, 
considering  quality  and  probable  de­
mand,  they  are  not  thought  excessive. 
Figs  are  easy  and  sales  comparatively 
small,  and  prices  are  unchanged  and 
trade  is  barely  steady.  Although  there 
is  no  increase  in  price,  the  evaporated 
apple  market 
is  very  firm,  with  some­
what  improved  demand.  If  this  demand 
continues,  it  will  undoubtedly  cause  an 
increase  in  prices  soon*  Other  lines  are 
unchanged  but,  notwithstanding 
the 
comparative  quiet  of  the  market,  there 
is  a  firm  feeling  in  all  departments  and 
dealers  express  full  confidence  in  the fu­
ture.

Molasses— Stocks  of  molasses  in  first 
hands  are  rapidly  decreasing,  with  the 
undertone  strong  for  all  grades.  Ad­
vices  from  New  Orleans  report the  crops 
practically  closed,  with  no  receipts  of 
importance.  Prices  show  no  change, 
but  continue  firm  with  an  upward  tend­
ency.

small  sales  at 

Rice— The  demand  for  rice  continues 
moderate,  with 
full 
prices.  There  seems  to  be  a  little  better 
demand  for  domestic  Japan  than  for 
anything  else  in  the  line.  Supplies  are 
limited  and  an  improvement  in prices is 
looked  for  in  the  near  future.

Green  Fruits— Trade 

in  green  fruits 
is  not  as  good  as  could  be  expected  at 
this  time  of  the  year.  The  price  of 
lemons 
low  and  the  de­
mand  is  very  light,  trade  being  chiefly 
of  a  hand-to-mouth  character.  Bananas 
are  firmer  and  trade 
im ­
proved,  Some  grades  have •  advanced

is  somewhat 

is  unusually 

and  there  is  a  better  feeling,  which  will  ' 
to  an  advance  on  all  j 
probably 
grades 
if  good  shipping  weather  lasts 
a  few  days.

lead 

is 

Nuts— The  supply  of  Grenoble  wal­
nuts 
light  and,  notwithstanding  the 
holiday  trade 
is  over,  there  is  a  fairly 
active  demand.  Prices,  owing  to  the 
scarcity,  are  firm.  Jordan  shelled  al­
monds  have  moved  freely  under  an  un­
usually  heavy  demand,  and  there  are 
prospects  of  a  further  advance.  Othep 
varieties  are  in  fair  demand  at  previous 
prices.

T he  P roduce  M arket.

Apples— Selected  cold  storage  fruit  is 
fair  sale  on  the  basis  of 
meeting  with 
S3.5°®3*75  per  bbl.  for  Spys  and  Bald­
wins  and  $4  per  bbl.  for  Jonathans.

Beets—Si  per  3  bushel  bbl. 
B u tter-F actory  creamery 

is  weak  at 
25c  and  will  probably  go  lower  unless  a 
cold  wave  comes  along.  Dairy  grades 
i6@20C,  but  most  of  the  re­
command 
ceipts  are  inferior  in  quality.
Cabbage— 75@qoc  per  doz.
Carrots—Si  per  3  bushel  bbl.
Celery— 25c  per  doz.  bunches.
Cranberries— Jerseys  are 
in 

fair  de­

mand  at  S6-75@7  per  bbl.

Dressed  Poultry— The  market  is  about 
the  same  as  a  week  ago.  Spring  chick­
in  moderate  demand  at  9c. 
ens  are 
Fowls  are 
in  demand  at  8c.  Ducks 
command  11c  for  spring  and  10c  for old. 
Geese  are  not  coming 
in  at  all,  but 
would  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  ioc  for  No.  1.

Eggs  -Fresh  stock  readily  brings  18c. 
Local  storage 
stock— there  are  only 
about  500  cases  remaining  in  the  local 
warehouse— commands  16c,  while  Chi­
cago  storage  eggs  are  offreed  at  n@ i2c.
Game— Rabbits  have  been  something 
of  a  drug  on  the  market,  due  to  the 
warm  weather  which  has  prevailed  for 
the  past  two  weeks,  during  which  time 
the  fiaying  price  has  receded  to  90c  per 
doz.  Squirrels  are  in  fair  demand  at  Si 
per  doz.

Honey—-White  clover  is  scarce  at  15@
16c.  Dark  amber  and  mixed  command 
13^140.

Live  Poultry— Squabs,  S i.20  per  doz. 
Chickens,  6@7C. 
Fowls,  5/3@6jic. 
Ducks,  6>£c  for  young  and  6c  for  old. 
Turkeys,  8c  for  young.  Geese,  8c.

Nuts—Ohio  hickory  command  S i.25 
for  large  and  $1*50  for  small.  Butternuts 
and  walnuts  are  in  small  demand  at  60c 
per  bu.

Onions— Spanish  are  steady  at  S i.75 
per  crate.  Home  grown  are  higher  and 
stronger,  having  advanced  to  45c  for 
Red  Weatherfields,  Yellow  Danvers  and 
Yellow  Globes  and  50c  for  Red  Globes.

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

weaker,  but  local  handlers  pay  35c 
ca riots  and  find  an  outlet 
around  40c.

for 

Squash— Hubbard  command  ij£c  per 

slightly 
in 
stock 

pound.

Sweet  Potatoes— Kiln dried Jerseys are 

slow  sale  at  84-50(^4.75  per  bbl.

Turnips—Si  per  bbl.

it 

The  Battle  Creek  Health  Cigar  Co. 
has  placed 
in  the  factory  of  the  G.  J. 
Johnson  Cigar  Co.  at  Grand  Rapids, 
Mich.,  an electric  machine  which  elim i­
nates  the  nicotine  from  the  tobacco,  so 
far  as 
is  possible  to  do  so  and  still 
retain  the  cigar  flavor.  This  company 
has  already  contracted  with  the  Johnson 
Cigar  Co.  to  manufacture  one  million 
Paz  de  Oro  5  cent  cigars,  which  will  be 
made 
from  tobacco  which  has  been 
treated  in  this  manner.  By  this  method 
of  manufacture  all  of  the  aroma  is  pre­
served,  while  the  wholesomeness  of  the 
cigar  is  maintained.  With  each  cigar 
go  full  directions  as  to  when  cigars 
can  be  smoked  with  the  least  injury. 
The  Battle  Creek  Health  Cigar  Co.  has 
placed  this  machine— which  is  kept  un­
der 
lock  and  key— in  charge  of  W.  J. 
Mickel,  who  will  devote  his  attention  to 
the  production  of  this  brand.  It  remains 
to  be  seen  whether  the  experiment  will 
be  a  success.

6

The  (train  Market.

it 

for  a 

fair  crop 

Wheat  seems  to  be  gaining  strength 
for  various  good  reasons.  Damage  to 
the  French  crop  has  caused  an  advance 
of  about  6c  per  bu.  on  the  Paris  E x ­
change,  while  India,  where  the  crop 
was  a  failure,  will  have  to  import  wheat 
to  keep  the  large  population  from  starv­
ing.  Also  on  account  of  the  South A fri­
can  war,  the  Boers  and  the  states  ad­
joining  will  have  to  import  flour.  Our 
own  winter  wheat  section  is  getting bare 
of  wheat,  as  the  small  amount  received 
here  will  show  how  scarce 
is.  The 
same  may  be  said  of  Indiana,  Illinois, 
Ohio,  Missouri  and  Nebraska,  while 
Kansas  has  some  wheat,  but  her  surplus 
goes  South  at  better  prices  than  can  be 
realized  by  shipping  to  Chicago.  The 
outlook 
in  Michigan, 
Indiana  and  Ohio  is  also  very  dubious. 
The  visible  showed  an  increase  of  only 
3,000  bushels,  which 
is  very  insignifi­
cant,  taking  the  small  export  into  ac­
count.  To  sum  the  whole  thing  up,  we 
can  only  come  to  one  conclusion—that 
prices  must  go  higher.  While  we  do  not 
think  that  they  will 
jump,  we  think 
there  will  be  a  gradual  advance  from 
now  on.  The  export  shipments  from all 
sections  have  been  nearly  2,000,000 
bushels  below  the  usual  amount  and that 
will  have  to  be  made  up  in  the  near  fu­
ture,  and 
leading 
question.  We  have  about  58,000,000 
bushels  in  sight,  but  with  the  small  re­
ceipts  this  amount  will  melt  away  be­
fore  we  begin  to  realize  it.  Many  mills 
are  running  only  half  time  in  this  and 
neighboring  states,  while  some  are 
ly­
ing  still  for  want  of  wheat  to  grind.

from  where 

is  the 

Corn  is  fairly  active.  While  no  ad­
vance  can  be  recorded  the  supply  is  not 
growing,  as  was  expected,  as  bad  roads 
have  curtailed  receipts,  and  farmers  are 
putting  more  corn  into  pork,  as  better 
prices  are  obtainable  for  feeding  pur­
poses  than  to  sell  the  corn—all  of  which 
will  tend  to  enhance  prices  from present 
low  level.

Oats  are  strong  and  are  being  picked 
up  as  fast  as  offered.  Fully 
ic  ad­
vance  can  be  recorded.  Receipts  will 
have  to  increase  in  order to  fill  the  de­
mand,  so  there  is  no  chance  at  present 
for  a  reduction  in  price.

is  offered 

In  rye  there  is  no  change.  What 

lit­
tle 
is  being  taken  at  old 
prices.  We  see  nothing  to  enhance  the 
price,  but  look  for  a  gradual 
lowering.
that  is 
booming.  They  are  sought  after  and 
prices  are  well  sustained  at  S2.08  for 
handpicked  and  $2 for  machine screened 
beans.

Beans  are  the  only  article 

The  flour trade  has  picked  up  consid­
erably  in  the  last  few  days,  owing  to  the 
advance  in 'wheat.  The  trade  begins  to 
realize  the  situation  of  the  shortness  of 
the  winter wheat  crop.  Local  and  do­
mestic  enquiry  has  been  very  good  and 
the  millers  have  booked 
fair  orders. 
Foreigners  are  also  making  bids  at  an 
advance.  Millfeed  is  in  good  demand ; 
in  fact,  the  mills  are  sold  ahead  for  the 
present.

Receipts  for  the  week  w ere:  25  cars 
of  wheat,  10  cars  of  corn,  no  oats,  2 cars 
of  rye  and  1  car  of  beans— rather a  slim 
showing.

Millers  are  paying  65c  for wheat— 2c 

up  from  the  low  point.

C.  G.  A.  Voigt.

A  woman  painting  the  face  of  herself 
in  front  of  a  hand  mirror  is  not  holding 
the  mirror  up  to  nature.  Nature is truth ; 
the  painted  woman  is  a  fraud.

Wm.  Judson,  Treasurer  of  the  Olney 
&  Judson  Grocer  Co.,  is  in  New  York 
this  week  He 
is  accompanied  by  his 
family.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

0

Woman’s World

How  Professional  Jealo u sy   Im p a irs  I>o- 

niestie  H appiness.

When  the  woman  of  the  world  went  to 
see  little  Mrs.  Newlywed,  the  other day, 
she  found  that  young  person 
a 
crumpled  heap  on  the  couch  bedewing 
her  best  sofa  cushion  with  her tears,  and 
surrounded  by  a  wreck  of  newspapers.

in 

“ Goodness  gracious,”  

cried 

the 

woman  of  the  world,  “ what  on  earth 
the  matter?  Has  the  cook  left?  Or  was 
the  steak  burned  at  breakfast?”

“ It’s  wo-wow-orse  than  that,”   sobbed 

“ I've  been  trying 

the  little  bride. 
study  up  the  market,  so that  I  could  ta 
to  Jack  about  the  things  he  is  interested 
in,  and  I  can’t  make  heads  or  tails  out 
of  it,  although  1  used  to  be  considered 
good  at  working  out  puzzles  and  things 
I  don’t  believe 
like  that. 
it’s  true, 
either,  for 
it  goes  on  and  talks  about 
things  which  1  can  not  get  through  my 
head,  and  I  don’t  know  what  I’m  going 
to  do  about  it. ”

“ Do  nothing,”   suggested  the  olde 

woman  comfortingly.

“ Why,  what  do  you  mean?’ ’  asked 
little  bride,  sitting  up  and  wiping 

the 
her eyes.

“ Just  what  1  say,”   returned  the  worn 
an  of  the  world. 
“ Don't  try  to  meddl 
with  Jack’s  specialty.  The  woman  wb 
tries  to  know  as  much  about  her  hus 
band’s  specialty  as  he  does  is  playing 
with  a  loaded  bomb  that  may  go  off  and 
blow  her  up  any  moment.  My  dea 
child,  the  very  foundation-stone  of  do 
mestic  bliss  rests  upon  a  man’s  belie_ 
it  all.  Shake  this  and 
that  he  knows 
the  whole  edifice 
liable  to  come 
tumbling  down  about  your  ears.  Never 
undeceive  him  on  this  important  point 
It  is  far  better  for  your  married  happi 
ness  to  believe that  the  moon  is  made  o_ 
green  cheese  than  it  would  be  for  you  to 
be  able  to  engineer  a comer in futures. ’ 
“ But  I  thought  a  wife  should  alway 
study  up  on  things  her husband knows,’ 
put 
in  the  bride,  “ so  that  she  can  be
able  to  talk  to  him  about  t h e m . __
sure  that’s  what  all  the  books  of  advice 
to  brides  say,  and— ’ ’

is 

Fudge!”   cried  the  woman  of  the 
world  scornfully. 
“ The  people  whc 
write  them  are  old  maids,  who  never 
had  a  chance  to  know  a  real  man,  much 
less  any  experience  in  managing one.  A 
man  doesn  t  want  to  listen  to  what  you 
think  about  his  business  or  his  hobby. 
He  wants  to  discourse  to  you  about 
them,  and  the  more  you  listen  and  the 
less  you  say,  the  better  pleased  he  is. 
That’s  nothing but human nature,  either. 
Who  are  the  most  entertaining  people 
we  know?  The  people  who  tell  us  sto­
ries,  who 
inform  us  of  the  wonderful 
things  they  have  done  and  the  adven­
tures  they  have  met  w ith;  the  people 
who  describe  their  travels  to  us?  Not 
at  all. 
It  is  those  delightful  creatures 
who  sit  and  listen  interestedly  while  we 
meander on  and  on  and  who  think 
it 
was 
just  perfectly  wonderful  that  we 
should  have  been  able  to  manage  so 
beautifully  in every  way,  and just always 
do  the  right  thing  at  the  right  time. 
Personally  I  have  only  met  with  one  or 
two  of  these  kind  of  people,  but  I  have 
never  let  them  get  away  from  me.  They 
are  the  kind  of 
individuals  that  you 
grapple  to  your soul  with  hooks  of  steel.
Now,  just  apply  this  theory  to  your 
husband. 
is  that  a 
man  and  his  wife,  to  be  thoroughly con­
genial,  ought  to  have 
the  j 
same  interests  and  know  identically  the 
same  things.  N ever  was  a  greater  mis­
take  made.  When  Jack  comes  home

I  know  the 

identically 

idea 

and  tells  you  that  he  has  engineered  _ 
big  deal  through,  and  talks  learnedly 
and  familiarly  about  points  and  puts 
and  calls  and  things  that  are  Greek  to 
you,  you 
are  naturally  overwhelmed 
with  the  cleverness  of  it  all.  You  think 
him  a  regular  Napoleon  of  finance;  and 
don’t  hesitate  to  say  so  and  give  hi 
the  little  subtle  flattery  that  is  dear to 
all.  But,  suppose  you  met  him  on  an 
other  ground.  Suppose,  instead  of  hav 
ing  to  count  up  your  change  on  your fin 
gers,  you  were  a  shrewd  financier and 
had  the  whole  game  at  your  finger ends 
You  would  see  where  he  had  blundered. 
You  would  perceive  moves 
that  he 
missed  and, instead  of being a Napoleon 
he  would  be  a  Jonah 
in  your  eyes. 
Criticism  would take  the  place  of  praise 
and  your  superior  financial  knowledg 
would  bring  neither  of  you  any  happ 
ness.

“ Every  now  and  then  we  hear about 
some  woman  who  has  studied  a  profes­
sion  marrying  some  man who  is engaged 
n  the  same profession.  Everybody says, 
How  nice  -for  them  to  be  able  to  work 
together!’  Nonsense.  My  word  for 
those  kind  of  people  are  going  to  keep 
the  road  to  the  divorce  court  hot. 
It' 
going  to  add  professional  jealousy  to  a 
the  other  kinds  of  jealousy  with  which 
human  nature  is  afflicted,  and  that’s go 
'ng  to  be  the  worst  of  the  lot.  Plai 
Dr.  John  Smith  may  be  delighted  and 
flattered  when  his  wife,  Dr.  Mary 
Smith,  wins  a  reputation  as  the  finest 
diagnostician 
in  the  city  and  gets  the 
biggest  and  most  fashionable  practice. 
But  when  patients  begin  to  say that they 
will  wait  and  see  Dr.  Mary,  she  is  so 
clever  about  such  operations,  and  has 
been  so  successful, ’  and  Dr.  Mary  gets 
called  into  consultations  where  he  is  ig ­
nored,  Dr.  John  Smith  begins  to  feel 
that 
it  was  all  a  mistake  to  open  the 
profession  of  medicine  to  women  any­
way.  Suppose  Dr.  John  and  Dr.  Mary 
differ,  too,  about  the  proper  treatment 
of  a  case?  Dr.  Mary  would  say, 
if  he 
were  not  her  husband,  that  ‘ the  rival 
physician  was  a  mossback,  who  ought 
not  to  be  licensed  to  doctor  a  sick  cat. 
Dr.  John  would  call  the  other  man  a 
chump  and  no  particular  harm  would  be 
done,  but  when  two  married  people  get 
to  entertaining  this  sort  of  opinion  of 
each  other’s 
there’s 
trouble 
coming,  and  don’t  you  forget  it.

intellect 

it’s 

line. 

You  can  see  how 

it  would  work  all 
long  the 
If  a  man  and  his  wife 
ere  preachers  or  lawyers  or  writers,  or 
anything  of  the  kind  where  they  were 
both  appealing  to  the  public  for  support 
and  patronage  and  popularity  for  the 
same  work 
just  bound  to  drag  in 
rivalry.  No  man  can  ever see  his 
ife  exceed  him  in  success  or  money­
making  without  feeling  that  every  one 
must  be  saying  that  she  is  the  better 
man  of  the  two,  and  the  angel  wings 
will  have  begun  to  sprout  on  him  before 
he  rises  to  the  generositv  of  accepting 
that  state  of  affairs  gracefully  and  re­
joicing 
far  as 
omen  are  concerned  we  are  so  used  to 
ving  away  to  men  and  deferring  be­
fore  them  and  seeing  them  surpass  us 
that  a  woman 
less  apt  to  be 
jealous  of  her  husband  professionally 
than  he 
is  of  her,  but  still  a  woman 
never  studies  a  profession  unless  she 
feels  some  especial  fitness  for  the  work 
and  has  a  grim  determination  to  suc­
ceed  that  makes  her  take  it very serious­
ly*  The  married  woman  who  is  in  the 
same  profession  as  her  husband  is  very 
much  in  the  same  position  you  are 
in 
in  a  game  of  cards,  when  you  are  mad 
i with  him  if  he  beats  you,  and  furious

in  her  triumph. 

is  much 

So 

with  him 

if  he 

lets  you  beat  hi 

into  the  story  of  her  husband 

“ This  isn’ t saying that married people 
should  not  have  the  same  interests  and 
tastes. 
It  is  only  suggesting  one  of  the 
dangers  that  may  come  from a too  literal 
adherence to  the  affinity-of-taste-and-oc 
cupation  theory.  The  woman  who  can 
enter 
business  without  knowing  enough 
criticise  his  mistakes  and  the  man  who 
can  admire  his  w ife’s  talents  without 
putting  his  own  into  competition  wL 
them  are  on  a  much  safer ground  than 
those  who  follow  the  same  calling  and 
are  brought  into  daily  rivalry.”

‘ But  I  wasn’t  thinking  of  going 

into 
business, ”   interrupted  the  little  bride 

trifle  wonderingly.
“ Oh, 

that’s  all  right,”   put 

in  the 
woman  of  the  world  with  a genial laugh.
‘ I  only  wanted  to  impress  on  you  that 
the  best  way  to  keep  the  peace  was  for 
each  one  to  keep  to  his  own  trade.  Lis­
ten  and  believe,  when  Jack  tells  you 
what  a  financier  he  is,  but  don’t  think 
for  a  moment  that  it  would  add  to  you 
happiness  to  be  able  to  give  him  points 
about  the  state  of  the  market.  Remem 
ber,  also,  that this rule  works  both  ways. 
There  may  be  worse  husbands,  but 
there  are  no  more  aggravating  and  try­
ing  ones  than those who  think  they know 
more  about  how  to  keep  house  and 
spank  a  baby  and  cook  a  dinner  than 
you  do.  What  I  call  a  good,  satisfac­
tory,  comfortable  husband 
is  the  man 
who  follows  the  Bible  admonition  and 
eats  what 
is  set  before  him,  asking  no 
questions  for conscience’s  sake,  and who 
doesn’t  meddle  with  the  household  ma­
chinery  any 
further  than  paying  the 
bills.

at  the 

ings  a 

“ For  my  part  I  am  always  astonished 
lack  of  wisdom  of  those  women 
ho  encourage  their  husbands  in  learn 
ng  to  cook  on  the  chafing  dish. 
It’s 
just  a  fatal  mistake.  I  know,  for  I  have 
been  all  along  there.  My  dear old  Tom 
and  I  have  been  married 
for  twenty 
years,  you  know,  and  all  that  time  we 
have  lived  in  the  greatest  peace. 
I’ve 
admired  him  and 
secretly  wondered 
why  on  earth  the  Government  hadn’_ 
called  on  him  to  be  Secretary  of  the 
Treasury  or settle  the  currency  question 
or some  of  the  other  muddles  they  seem 
to  get 
into  at  Washington,  and  he’s 
thought  I  was  the  best  housekeeper  in 
town  and  praised  my  pies  and  said  I 
cooked  better  than  his  mother.  Then, 
about  two  years  ago  the  chafing  dish 
mania  struck  him. 
It  hit  him  hard  and 
he  went  about  with  his  pockets  stuffed 
full  of  clippings  about  how  to  make 
la  John  Chamberlain  and  a  la 
Newberg,  and  he  compounded  unspeak­
able  things 
‘ golden 
bucks’  and  Welsh rarebits that were like 
saddle  skirts. 
I  could  have  stood  all  of 
that,  dyspepsia  included,  but  he  got  to 
wearing  a  coldy  critical  air  at 
the 
table  that  was  simply  maddening.  He 
would  take  a  mouthful  of  anything, 
assume  the  air and  expression  of  an  ex­
pert  taster  and  remark,  ‘ I  think,  Maria, 
that  a  dash  of  tobasco  would  have 
im­
proved  this,’  or 
‘ I  always  use  a  little 
paprika,’  or  ‘ when  I  make  a  salad  I  al­
ways  do  so  and  so.’  At  first  I  didn’t 
know  what 
it  was  that  provoked  me  so 
uch-  Then  I  bethought  me  that  it 
was  professional  jealousy.  He  was  as­
suming  to  know  more  about  my  busi­
ness  that  I  knew  myself— to  be  a  pro­
fessional  and  regard  me  as  a  bungling 
amateur— and  it  was  too  much. 
I  pre­
sented  that  chafing  dish  to  my  deadliest 
enemies,  the  Blanks— ”

that  he  called 

‘ The  Blanks  who  were  divorced  last

spring?”   cried  the  wondering 
bride.

little 

“ The  same,”   replied  the  woman  of 
the world  impressively.  “ Mind,  I  don’t 
say  the  chafing  dish  did  it,  although  I 
have  my  suspicions.  There’s  nothing 
so  dangerous  to'domestic  happiness  as 
professional  jealousy.”

Oh,  ’  cried  the  little  bride,  picking 
up  the  financial  journals  with  the  tongs, 
“ I’ll  never  read  another  money  article. 
Just  think  what  an  escape  1  have  had.”  

Dorothy  Dix.

T he  C apable  Woman«

If  a  monument  is  ever  reared  to  com­
memorate  the  virtues  of  the  woman  who 
has  done  the  most  for  the  world 
it  will 
not  be  erected  to  the  woman genius—the 
poet,  painter,  writer  or  reformer,  valu­
able  as  their  services  have  been. 
It will 
be  built  in  honor of  the  capable  woman, 
the  woman  who  possesses  what  our  New 
England  cousins  call  “ faculty,”  
the 
woman  of  ability,  adaptability 
and 
capability,  who  has  met  every  situation 
in  life  and  filled  it  with  credit  to herself 
and  comfort  to  others. 
The  capable 
woman  springs  from  no’ peculiar  social 
conditions,  and  is  the  result  of  no  es­
pecial  environment.  She  may  be  the 
daughter of  luxury  or the  child  of  pov­
erty.  You  may  find  her  taking  degrees 
n  college  halls,  or  uneducated  and  un­
cultivated,  living  her  lowly 
lot  in  the 
backwoods,  but  wherever,  she  is.  she  is 
listinct  from  the  women  about  her  and 
s  making  her  influence  felt.

If  she  is  rich  she  is  a  leader  in  fash- 
ons  and  society.  Her  dinners  are  the 
most  talked  of,  fier parties are recherche, 
her gowns  are  the  most  distinctive.  She 
may  not  spend  a  penny  more  than  her 
sister  who  bungles  everything  and  never 
achieves  anything  but  mediocrity,  but 
her  affairs  are  always  the  successes  of 
the  season,  simply  because  she  is  a cap­
able  manager. 
If  she  is  a  poor  woman 
her  talents  shine  even  more  refulgently. 
She  knows  all  the byways of thrift.  Give 
her  the  barest  attic  and  the  scantiest 
means,  and  yet  she  manages  to  make 
some  sort  of  a  habitable  abiding  place 
and  breathes  into  it  the  spirit  of  home. 
She gets  her  children  educated  somehow 
and  started  out  in  life,  and if the  records 
of  our  self-made  men  could  be  made 
known,  nine  times  out  of  ten  we  would 
find  that  every  one  who  raised  himself 
from  a  district  messenger  or  bootblack 
to  some  place  of  credit  and  honor  had  a 
mother  who  was  a  capable  woman  and 
who  gave  him  his  first  push  upward.

The  capable  woman 
is  a  good,  all­
round  worker.  There is  no  department 
of  woman’s  work  that  she  can  not  do 
thout  fuss  and  worry.  She  is  the  envv 
her  neighbors,  because  she  always 
has  good  servants,  and  her  servants  are 
good  because  they  have  a  clear  head  to 
diiect  them  and  capable  hands  to  teach 
them  the  proper way  of  performing their 
duties.  She  knows  how  to  shop  and 
neither 
fritters  her 
money  away  on  senseless  bargains.  She 
can  direct  a  dressmaker,  or  if  need  be 
make  herself  a  gown  that  does  not  bear 
the  stamp  of  the  amateur  seamstress  so 
that  she  who  runs  may  read 
it  from 
a£a u  ®e^er  still,  she 
is  past  mistress 
■   the  art  of  patching  and  darning.

stints  herself  or 

It  is  the  capable  woman  to  whom  we 
in  time  of  need.  She  never  faints 
turn 
in  de­
just  when  her  services  are  most 
mand  or  goes  off 
into  hysterics  in  an 
emergency.  On  the  other  hand,  she 
quietly  and  calmly  takes  command  and 
everything  straightens 
itself  out  as  if 
by  magic.  She  is  always  mistress  of  the 
situation,  and  knows  just  what  to  do, 
whether  it  is  repairing  the suddenly torn 
ball  gown  of  a  young  girl,  making coffee 
and  washing  the  dishes  and  cooking  the 
sum er  in  the  same  pot  over  a camp fire 
or  doing  just the  right  thing  for the baby 
who  has  devoured  half  a  box of matches.
The  list  of  her  virtues  is  as  infinite as 
our  needs.  She  is  a  tower of  refuge  to 
which  we  fly  in  trouble  and  secure  help 
snd  counsel  which 
is  not  onlv  wise 
practicable.  Blessings  on  the capa­

ble  woman.  May  her tribe  increase.
Cora  Stowejl,

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

AMONG  T H E   QUAKERS, 

P leasan t

R em iniscences  of 

W ith   Friends.

Written for the Tradesman.

Sabbath

to 

In  a 

former  contribution 

the  place  where  1 

the 
Tradesman  I  gave  a  little  history  of  my 
acquaintance  with 
the  members  of  a 
Quaker  settlement  situated  a  few  miles 
from  the  village  of  Canandaigua,  New 
learned  the 
York, 
rudiments  of  an  old-fashioned  mercan­
tile  education,  from  store  sweeping  and 
cleaning  oil 
lamps  all  the  way  up  to 
first  place  behind  the  counter  as  confi­
dential  clerk  whose  advice  was  often  so­
licited  by  my 
generous  employer, 
Nathaniel  Gorham.  It  was  while  I  was 
in  his  employ  that  1  laid  a  plan  to  con­
centrate  and  control  for  my  employer’s 
benefit  the  patronage  of this rich  Quaker 
community.  The  means  I  used  would 
be 
in 
these  days  of  business  hustle,  but  at  that 
time  (1840)  were  considered  an  innova­
tion  and  subjected  the  writer  to  some 
harsh  criticism  from  the other merchants 
of  the  village.  My  plan  succeeded  and 
our  store  secured  a  monopoly  of  the 
Quaker  trade.

considered  entirely 

legitimate 

full 

The 

interest 

Among  this  community,  or  Friends 
Society  as  they  called  themselves,  there 
lived  a  family  by  the  name  of  Heren- 
deen.  They  were  our  best  customers, 
because  they  were  the  wealthiest,  and 
it  was  in  a  great  measure  through  their 
influence  that  we  were  able  to  get  and 
hold  the  bulk  of  the  Quaker trade  of  the 
entire  community. 
the 
writer  had  manifested 
in  keeping  in 
line  of  women’s  wear of 
stock  a 
suitable  shades  and  quality 
the 
Quaker  trade  had  given  me  the  name 
among  my  fellow  clerks  of  “ the  Quaker 
saleseman’ ’  and  either  Mr.  Gorham  or 
myself  always  waited  on  them  when 
they  came  to  purchase.  They  always 
addressed  us  the  same  as  they would one 
of  their  own  people.  They  called  me, 
“ Friend  W illiam ,”   and  Mr.  Gorham, 
“ Friend  Nathaniel,"  always  using  the 
Quaker  “ thee"  and  “ thou”   in  conver­
sation  with  us,  and  they  were  always 
pleased  when  we  addressed 
their  own  dialect.

them 

for 

They  had  frequently  given  me  earnest 
invitations  during  the  four  years  of  ou 
acquaintance  to  make  them  a  visit  on 
some  Sunday.  They  would  say,  “ We 
can’t  expect  thee  to  leave  thy  business 
to  visit  us,  but  thee  can  come  on  the 
Sabbath.  We  Friends  do  not  regard  i 
sinful  to  visit  on  Lord’s  Day,  although 
we  always  attend  meeting  a  part  of  the 
day  when  in  good  health.”

One  Saturday  the  last  of  June,  1843, 
"we  had  enjoyed  a  very  profitable  trade 
with  the  Quakers.  They  had  come  to 
town  in  unusual  numbers  and  we  had 
been  kept  busy  all  day.  Friend  Heren- 
deen,  his  wife  and  two  lovely  grown-up 
daughters  had  been  liberal  purchasers. 
leaving  the  store  for  home  after 
On 
making  their  purchases, 
it  was  their 
custom  to  indulge  in  handshaking  with 
us. 
I  had  noticed  the  family  in  consul­
tation  before  their departure  and  whpn 
Friend  Herendeen  took  my  hand he said 
to  me,  “ Friend  William,  we  have  often 
asked  thee  to  visit  us  on  Lord’s  Day 
and  we  should  be  particularly  pleased 
if  thee  could  come  out  to-morrow.  A 
Friend  from  Philadelphia  is  staying  in 
our  community  for  a  few  days  and  if 
the  spirit  moves  she  will  speak  to  us 
and  we  are  sure  that  thee will be pleased 
and  instructed  at  what  thee  hears.  She 
is  what  the  world’s  people  call  a  sort 
of  m issionary  and  on  her  return  home
she  will  report  upon  the  spiritual  condi­
tion  and  needs  of  all  the  Friends  Soci­

eties  in  the  West.  She 
is  very  learned 
and  earnest.  We  think  thee  will  be 
greatly  moved  to  hear  her.”  
I  had 
iften  wanted  to  accept  their  friendly  in­
vitations,  but  something  had  always  in­
tervened  to  prevent,  but  this  time,  when 
the  kindly-worded  invitation  was  sec­
onded  by  the  stately  Quaker  lady  by  his 
side  and  the  smiles  of  their  two  beauti­
ful  daughters,  I accepted their  invitation 
Then  Friend 
for  the 
Herendeen  added, 
“ It  will  be  very 
warm ;  thee  must  come  early.  If  thee  is 
an  early  riser  come  out  and  take  break­
fast  with  u s;  the  day  won’t  seem  too 
long.  Thee  can 
farm 
and  the  domestic  animals  with me in the 
morning  and  we  will  go  to  the  meeting 
it  was  ar­

the  afternoon;”   and  so 

following  day. 

look  over  the 

ranged.

Before  the  sun  had  riTsen  the  following 
day  I  was  on  my  way  to  the  house  of 
I  will  not  stop  to 
my  Quaker  friends. 
describe  the  charm  of  that 
long-ago 
delightful  summer  morning. 
It  is  said 
that 
in  youth  everything  in  Nature  is, 
or  should  be,  beautiful.  Nor  will  I  at­
tempt  a  pen  picture  of  my 
friends’ 
plain  substantial  Quaker  home.  They 
were  at  the  gate  to  welcome  me  and  as 
I  entered  that  abode  of  plenty  the aroma 
of  ham  and  eggs  and  coffee  that  greeted 
me  was  very  pleasant  to  an  appetite 
sharpened  by  a  seven-mile  ride  in  the 
bracing  morning  air.  Seated  at  the 
table,  the  mute  blessing  over,  in  which 
all  were  supposed  to  be  in  thankful  si­
lent  communion  with 
the  Bountiful 
Giver  of  all  good  gifts,  the  substantial 
breakfast  was  begun.  Then,  in  com­
pany  with  my  genial  host,  I  set  out  for 
my  promised  view  of  the  farm  and  its 
cherished  domestic  animals. 
Every­
thing  seemed  in  harmony  with  the  quiet 
repose  that  characterized  the  customs 
and  habits  of  these  peculiar  people. 
Even  the  domestic  animals,  so sleek and 
fat,  lowed  a 
friendly  welcome  as  we 
passed  and  the  geese,  in  their  separate 
pasture,  cackled  their  morning greeting 
I  asked  my  companion  how  it  was  that 
these  cattle  and  other  animals,  old  or 
young,  seemed  to  exhibit  no  fear  at  ou: 
approach.  Stranger  as  I  was,  they  ac 
cepted  my  caresses,  seeming  in  no  more 
fear  of  me  than  of  him.  His  character 
istic  reply  was,  “ We  govern  them  al 
from  their  infancy  by love and kindness, 
We  sometimes  have  one  that  shows  a 
vicious disposition, but nearly always  ou 
friendly  treatment  subdues  them  at  last 
incapable  of  being  sub 
If  they  prove 
dued  by  kindness  they  are 
removed 
from  the  herd  and  sold  at  any  sacrifice 
for,”   continued  he,  “ animals  are  as 
susceptible  to  example  as  are  men.  W 
never  use  a  cross  or  angry  word  to  them 
nor  beat  them ;  so  you  see  they  have 
really  nothing  to  make  them  afraid.

In  this  way  we  spent  the  morning  and 
after an  early  lunch  of  bread  and  cheese 
and  milk  we  started  for  the  meeting 
in  company  with  my  portl 
house,  I 
host,  the 
ladies  following 
in  silence 
Not  a  word  was  spoken  and  I  realized 
that  the  hush  of  the  Quakers’  holy  Sab 
bath  was  over  all.  A  short  walk  brought 
us  to  the  meeting  house,  a  large  square 
building  without  ornament  of  any  kind 
with  only  one  door 
in  the  center  and 
small  windows  high  up  on  the  sides 
Everything  was  severely  plain 
and 
cheerless  inside  and  I  marveled  at  the 
marked  contrast  between  the  Friends 
house  of  worship  and  their  cheerful 
homes.  One  broad  aisle  in  the  center 
led  to  the  rear,  on  each  side  of  which 
were  seats,  one  raised  slightly  above  an 
other as  they  receded  towards  the  sides. 
A t  the  rear  end  was  a  slightly  raised

<!>

¡*1.

i  tt •

She  was 

platform,  with  a  plain  bench  along  the 
wall  and  a  small  table  in  front.  On  the 
ght,  as  we  passed  in,  were  seated  all 
the  men,  in their broad-brimmed  Quaker 
hats;  on  the  left  the  women  took  their 
seats, without  rustle or noise,and the still­
ness  of  death  pervaded  the  place.  No 
um  or  moving  of  the  feet.  It  was  awe- 
nspiring  silence  that  could  be  almost 
felt.  The  time  for admitting  any  one to 
this  their  Holy  of  Holies  passed  for  the 
day  and  the  door  was  closed.  Knowing 
my  own  temperament,  I  expected  to  feel 
nervous,  but  the  holy  calm  that  sur­
rounded  me  seemed  to quiet  instead  of 
xcite  me.  Every  one  assumed  the  at- 
itude  of  thoughtful  meditation.  This 
asted 
for  half  an  hour  or  more,  when 
my  ear  caught  a 
faint  rustling  and, 
glancing  towards  the  raised  platform,  I 
beheld  the  stately  form  of  a  Quakeress 
in  the  plainest  and  softest  of 
gowned 
Quaker  raiment. 
tall,  ap- 
the  middle  age,  as  the 
arently  past 
white  hair  that  showed  under  her  close 
Quaker  bonnet  attested.  With 
eyes 
closed  and  hands  crossed  upon  her 
breast,  she  resembled  an  exquisitely 
Iraped  and  moulded  statue.  How  long 
she  remained 
in  that  attitude  before 
opening  her 
lips  I  can  not  tell.  The 
first sound  I  heard  came  in  aclearm usi- 
voice  these  words,  “ God  is  love.”  
My  first  emotion  was  that  of  venera­
tion,  but  as  she  portrayed,  in  simple 
love  to  all 
mankind  she  seemed 
inspired.  Her 
theme  was,  * * Brotherly  Love  and  Love 
D ivine.”   She  repeated,  with  wonderful 
athos,  the  Savior’s  prayer  at  the  cross 
for  his  enemies,  “ Father,  forgive  them 
for  they  know  not  what  they  do,”   and 
portrayed,  in  language  that  brought  the 
whole  tragic  scene  in  panoramic  view 
before  us,  the  scene  at  the 
tomb  of 
Lazarus  when  “ Jesus  wept”   and  his 
disciples,  standing  around  about,  said 
to  one  another,  “ Behold  how  he 
loved 
him .”   For a  full  hour  she  poured 
into 
the  ears  of  that  silent  listening  band  of 
Friends  what  seemed  to  me  the  simple 
language  of 
'through  all 
this 
long  discourse  not  a  sound  had 
broken  the  stillness  except  the  deep 
respiration  of  the  audience  that  attested 
to  the  presence of the Spirit she invoked. 
Her  voice  seemed  gently  to  die  away 
ike  an  expiring  echo  and  she  left  the 
jlatform  as  quietly  as  she  came upon  it. 
Gradually  the  silent  emotion  subsided, 
when  all  arose  and  left  the  house  in  the 
same  order  as  they  came.  Outside  the 
scene  was  changed  to  kindly  greetings 
and  friendly  words  of  love  and  solici­
tude 
for  each  other.  This  ended,  all 

aquence,  God’s  boundless 

inspiration, 

ursued  their  homeward  way.
On  reaching  the  home  of  my  hospi­

late 

like  the  meeting? 

table  friends,  I  was  surprised  to  find 
how 
it  was  and  intimated  my  in­
tention  to  start  homeward  at  once;  but  I 
found  that  1  was  expected  to  partake  of 
the  substantial  supper already  in  course 
of  preparation.  At  the  table  my hostess 
said  to  me,  “ Friend  William,  how  did 
thee 
I  thought  thee 
seemed  quite  interested.  Some  of  the 
world’s  people  who  visit  us  get  nervous 
and  uneasy,  others  whisper  or  laugh  at 
our  mode  of  worship,  but  thee  behaved 
like  one  of  us,  and  1  thought  thee 
seemed  to  feel  the  S p irit.”  
I  did  not 
say  so  to  her,  but  if  to be entranced with 
what  I  saw  and  heard  was  to  “ feel  the 
Spirit, ’ ’  I  “  felt  the.Spirit. ”   One  thing 
I  knew  and  felt— that  I  had  exchanged 
my  faith 
from  the  old-fashioned  theo­
logical  God  of  vengeance and anger,  and 
the  dogmas  of  everlasting  torment  in 
hell  I  had  been  taught  in  my  childhood 
to  revere,  for  a  Redeemer,  a  God  of 
love,  mercy  and  forgiveness.

The  supper  ended,  with  hearty  hand­
shakings and the benediction," The  Lord 
speed  thee  on  thy  way,”   I  set  out  on 
my  twilight  homeward  ride,  conscious 
of  being  wiser and  better  for that  Lord’s 
Day  visit  to  my  Quaker  friends.

W.  S.  H.  Welton.

The  survival  of  the  fittest  will  happen 
in  South  A frica;  but 
it  is  not  yet  de- 
| cided  which  fighters  are  the  more  fit  to 

ive.

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County  of  Kent 

J

John  DeBoer,  being  duly  sworn,  de 

poses  and  says  as  follows:

I  am  pressman 

in  the  office  of  the 
Tradesman  Company  and have charge of 
the  presses  and  folding  machine  in  that 
establishment. 
I  printed  and  folded 
7,ooo  copies  of  the issue of Jan.  17,1900, 
and  saw  the  edition  mailed  in  the  usual 
manner.  And 
further  deponent  saith 
n°t. 

John  DeBoer.

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

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this  twentieth  day  of  January,  1900.

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7

Mich. 

GENERAL  TR A D E  REV IE W .

While  there 

iron  production  has 

is  no  diminution  in  the 
general  volume  of  business  of  the  coun­
try,  which 
is  greater than  ever  known, 
there  are 
indications  that  the  highest 
level  has  been  reached  in  some  indus­
tries.  Thus 
in­
creased  through  the  stimulus  of  the  long 
pressure  of  demand  until  the  output  of 
recent  weeks 
is  greater  than  was  ever 
consumed  during  a  corresponding  time. 
This,  of  course,  can  only  mean  that 
competition 
for  business  must  call  a 
h alt;  and  it  is  well  that  the  advance  be 
stopped  before  the  prices  are  so  far 
above  the  parity  with  those  of  the  world 
as  to  unduly  affect  our  position  in  for­
eign  markets.

ceeds  the  greatest  quantity  ever  used  in 
a  week,  while  part  of  the  consuming 
works  formerly  employed  to  the  utmost 
are  now  seeking  more  business  and  low 
ering  prices  in  order  to  get  it,  seems  tc 
be  producing  a  readjustment  of  prices 
to  the  needs  of  the industry.  The steadi­
ness  of  copper  after  an  output  of 262,206 
tons  last  year,  greater  by  53^  per  cent, 
than  in  1895,  ¡s  also  encouraging.

illustration  $2,189,677 

The  textile  industries  were  the  slow­
est  to  respond  to  the  return  of  prosper­
ous  conditions,  and  are  the  slowest  to 
reach  the  culmination  of  activity  and 
high  prices.  The  opening  of  the  heavy 
weight  season  has  brought  general  satis­
faction.  Sales  have  been  liberal  in  spite 
of  a  considerable  rise  in  prices,  which 
has  not  been  excessive.  Not  only  the 
great  corporations  but  the  smaller  mills 
re  getting  a  good  business.  Foreign 
competition  amounts  to 
little,  all  im­
ports  of  woolen  goods  at  New  York  in 
three  weeks  having  been  only  $868,859 
n  value,  against  $798,270  last  year,  and 
for 
in  the  same 
weeks  of  1893.  Sales  of  wool  at  some 
concessions  indicate  that  speculators be 
gin  to  realize  that  the  mills  are  on  the 
hole  better  supplied  than  many  had 
supposed.  A few  lrage  sales  at  prices  1 
to 3  cents  below those  asked  early  in De­
cember  show  that  demands  then  were 
iased  rather  upon expectations of further 
advance  abroad  than  upon  sober  calcu- 
ation  as  to  American  supplies  remain- 
ng,  and  the  decline  at  the  opening  of 
mdon  sales  has  brought  many  orders 
sell  consignments  previously  held  off 
the  Eastern  markets  by  Western  opera­
tors.  No  estimate  of  consumption  last 
year 
large  enough  to  clear away  the 
supply  remaining 
in  mill  and  trading 
stocks,  and  after  only  three  months  an­
other  and  larger  clip  will  begin  to  come 
forward. 
Thus  the  apprehension  of 
rices  so  high  as  to  cripple  the  manu­

is 

facture  is  appreciably  diminished.

Boot  and  shoe shipments,280,258  cases 
three  weeks,  have  been  larger than 
any  previous  year,  but  many  works 
are  almost  or  quite  out  of  orders  and 
buying  is  greatly  hindered  by belief that 
last  year’s  advance  of  19  per  cent,  in 
leather can  not  be  sustained.  Hides  still 
slowly  yield  at  Chicago,  although  as  yet 
only  3.1  per  cent,  from  their  highest 
point  December  13.

The  situation  in  Wall  Street  indicates 
that  manipulation— refunding, 
recapi­
talizing,  etc.— has  so  far  anticipated  the 
situation  as  to  prevent  any  material  ad­
vance.  The  week  has  been  reported  as 
one  of  a  strong  undertone,  with  assur­
ance  of  a  speedy move upward,  but  with 
a  little  pressure  of  outside  selling on  ac­
count  of  the  African  situation  there is  at 
the  last  a  decided  decline  again.  Spec­
ulators  figure  that  with  a  volume  of  rail­
way  business  never before  recorded  and 
with  all  other  industries  at  the  highest 
piessure  of  activity  there  must  bean ad­
vance.  These  conditions  give  assurance 
of  the  maintenance  of  values,  or  of  lit­
tle 
injury  from  such  a  reaction  as  that 
of  December,  but  the  doubling  up  of 
stock 
in  so  many  of  the  great 
combinations  is  an  element  which  must 
require  considerable  time  to  be  elim i­
nated  by  the  natural  increase  of  busi­
ness.

issues 

Iron  and  steel  production is now  at  the 
highest  ever  known.  Sales  of  10,000 
tons  of  anthracite  pig  at  lower  prices 
are  reported  in  New  York,  with  quota­
tions  for  No.  1  Lehigh  Si  lower than  in 
December,  although  Bessemer  and  Grey 
Forge  at  Pittsburg  are  not selling.  The 
certainty  that  the  weekly output  now  ex­

Boston  has  shown  to  the  envious world 
that  she  knows  beans  and  she  is  now 
showing  unmistakable  signs  of  an  inter­
est  in  wheat.  From  1893,  when  she  ex 
ported  3,934,125  bushels,  to  1899,  when 
the  number  of  bushels  was  11,567,847, 
she  has  so  far  shown  her  interest  in  that 
cereal  that  her  business  in  this  line  has 
been  constantly  gaining,  while  New 
York,  Philadelphia,  Baltimore  and New 
line  show  a  de­
Orleans 
cline.  Surprise 
is  called  for  at  the  re­
turns  from  Baltimore  and  New  Orleans, 
but  the  condition  of  things  in  the  other 
two  cities  was  to  have  been  expected. 
Boston  has  figured  before  as  a  place  of 
it  may  be  that  her  old  su 
export  and 
in  matters  maritime  is  to  re­
premacy 
turn. 
It 
looks  as  if  it  might,  for  any­
thing  that  New  York  can  do  about  it.

in  the  same 

The  New  Jersey  bureau  of  labor  finds 
in 
that  there  are  fifteen  company  stores 
that  State  where  the  person  obliged  to 
deal  at  them  pays  13  per cent,  more 
than  if  he  could  buy  where  he  wishes- 
a  pleasing  fact  for  the  company  store.

Amsterdam,  Holland,  is  happy  over  a 
grain  elevator  that  can  discharge  44,000 
pounds  an  hour  and  deliver  two  kinds 
of  grain  at  the  same  time.

T H E   SAME  OLD  BASIS.

During  the  past  year different sections 
of  the  country  have  been  shocked  by 
instances  of 
financial  embarrassment 
and  failure.  Washington  is  the  field  of 
contention,  in  which  a  United  States 
Senator  has  been  shut  out  of  the  Senate 
Chamber  for  certain  well-defined  rea 
sons;  and  a  man  elected  by  his  State  as 
member  of  the  National  House  of  Rep 
resentatives  has  been  refused  a  seat 
i 
that  body  for  a  certain  other  notorious 
reason.  The  Tradesman  has  nothing  to 
do  with  the  details  in  any  of  these  in­
stances,  except  to  refer  them  all  to  one 
common  cause  and  to  remark that,  while 
they  serve  as  instances  in  business,  pol­
itics  and  religion,  they  all  stand  on  the 
same  old  basis  of  honesty  and  can  be 
dealt  with  accordingly.

In  the  everlasting  fight  for  the  A l­
mighty  Dollar,  where 
in  the  intensity 
of  the  struggle  there  is  not  only  “ Fair 
field  and  no  favor,”   but  finally  “ Fach 
for  himself  and  the  Devil  take  the hind- 
ermost, ”   it  is  not  surprising  that  men 
forget  everything  but  self  and  resort  to 
every  subterfuge  for  coming  out  ahead. 
The  old  humdrum  way  of doing business 
too  slow  and  backwoodsy  in  these 
days  of  steam  and  electricity.  Hustle 
and  push  and*  jam  are  now  the  only 
agents  amounting  to  anything,  especial­
ly  in  the  business  world.  Courtesy  has 
long  been  relegated  to  the  rear  and 
means  once  strongly  condemned  is  now 
if  not  contemplated  with 
winked  at 
composure. 
the 
rest  is  easy.  The  cares  of the  world  and 
the  deceitfulness  of  riches  and  the  de­
termination  to  have  them  at  all  hazards 
assume  control  and  bv  and  by  the  com­
munity 
is  startled  to  learn  that  a  bullet 
has  ended  what  was  found  to  be  one  of 
the  most  dishonest  careers  on  record. 
True,  business 
is  business;  but  a  busi­
ness  founded  upon  anything  other  than 
the  eternal  rock  of  uprightness  and  hon­
esty  is  sure  to  fall,  and  great  is  the  fall 
thereof.

This  point 

reached, 

it  shows 

The  same  truth  underlies  all  govern­
ment  and  whatever  pertains  to  it.  Po­
litical  unsoundness  travels  the 
same 
road  to  the  same  graveyard.  Just  as  sor­
did  as  the  dishonest  tradesman  and  just 
as  selfish,  the  unprincipled  politician  is 
worse  than  he,  and  far  more  dangerous 
because  the  evil  he  practices  and  fos­
ters  saps  not  only  his  own  life  but  that 
of  the  nation. 
It  is  more  appalling  be­
cause 
the  distemper  to  be 
widespread.  Chosen  for  public  office,  in 
the  worst  sense  of  the  term  he  is “ a rej 
resentative  man.”   He  stands  for the 
element 
that  has  elected  him ;  and 
where  the  majority  elects,  the  election 
has  a far-reaching significance.  It means 
rottenness,and  rottenness  in  government 
means  overthrow.  For  a  good  many 
years  one  of  the  Middle  States  has  been 
politically  rotten-specked.  There  have 
been 
crimination  and  recrimination, 
and  the  specks  not  only  grew  larger  but 
increased 
There  was 
trouble  with  the  ballots  and  there  was 
trouble  behind  the  ballots.  There  were 
pulls  and  counterpulls,  but,  with  the 
certainty  of  existence  when  the  election 
clouds  rolled  by, 
the  same  unsavory 
candidate  with  smiling  face  read  the 
returns  and 
time 
walked  down  the  aisle  to  his  seat  in  the 
highest  council  of  the  Nation,  a  peer 
among  peers. 
the 
country  at  large  has  been  having  some­
thing  to  say  about  it. 
look 
if  all  the  people  were  being  fooled 
all  the  time  and  that  the  rottenness  in 
Denmark  would  never  come  to  an  end.
But  it  has.  Far  down  below  the  surface

In  the  meantime 

the  appointed 

in  number. 

It  began  to 

at 

the  same  old  basis— the  basis  of  com­
mon  honesty— has  again  been  found,  the 
Senate  door  has  been  shut  in  the  face  of 
the  offensive  member  and  the  country  is 
breathing  freely  again.

for  a  seat 

Politics,  in  the  garments  of  religion, 
bold  and  determined,  with  credentials 
from  Utah,  asked 
in  the 
House  of  Representatives  at  the  bar  of 
that  branch  of  the  General  Government. 
There  is  little  need  of painting the scene 
or  relating  the  circumstances. 
From 
one  end  of  the  country  to  the  other  has 
thundered  the  determined  No!  Vice 
may  skulk  in  the  darkness. 
In  purple 
and  fine 
linen,  but  in  decency,  it  may 
enjoy  the  sunshine  common  to  the  just 
and  the  unjust. 
It  may  hide  its  head  in 
the  alleys  and  dens  of  wickedness,  but 
insists 
that  he  who  wears  the  honors  of the state 
and  sits 
in  her  council  halls  shall  be 
worthy  of  the  honor  so  far  as  in  her 
ies.  On  the  same  old  basis  of  upright­
ness  and  honesty  must  the  morality  of 
this  country  rest  if  it  is  to  hold  its  place 
among  the  nations  of  the  earth  and 
prove 
it  claims  to  be,  the 
worthiest  leader  of  them  all.

ublic  opinion  has  declared  and 

itself,  as 

As  the  world  goes,  there  are  times 
when  it  seems  as  if  everything  were  go- 
ng  to  pieces. 
Iago’s  “ Put  money  in 
thy  purse.  Go  make  money”   has  be­
come  the  motto  and motive  of humanity. 
In  the  pursuit  of  that  every  nerve  is 
strained,  every  energy  bent.  The  mer­
chant  must  get  it— honestly,  if  he  can, 
by  cheating  if  he  must.  The  statesman 
must  not  be  above  his  business  if  he 
is 
to  take  some  day  the  high  place  his am­
bition  covets,  and  have  it  he  must  even 
if  the  honor  be  somewhat  smirched  in 
the  getting.  So  with  other  hopes  and 
aims.  The  Almighty  Dollar 
is  what 
pays  for  all  of  them.  With  that,  no 
matter  how  obtained,  the  rest  is sure  to 
follow. 
It  often  seems  so;  and "yet  un­
der  the  surface,  far  down  where  men  so 
often  forget  to  look,  there  lies  the  same 
old rockbed  of  honesty  and goodness and 
truth.  Cheating  may  flourish  for  a time ; 
but,  as  sure  as  the  world  stands  to-day, 
they  who  build  upon  any  other  founda­
tion  will  find  that  they  have  built  upon 
the  sand  and  when  the  structure  which 
cheat  and 
its  brotherhood  have  built 
falls,  it  “ falls,  like  Lucifer,  never  to 
rise  again. ’ ’

The  people  of  Dawson  City  have  got 
tired  of  stone-breaking  for  the  criminal 
and  have  adopted  that  terror  of  boy­
hood,  the  woodpile.  A  man  convicted 
of  an  offense 
is  forced  to  saw  wood. 
Ten  hours  a  day  until  his  sentence  ex­
pires 
is  the  decree.  The  weather  is 
not  allowed  to  interfere.  Like  taking 
whisky,  he  saws  wood  in  the  intensest 
cold  to  keep  warm  and 
in  the  hottest 
weather to  keep  cool.  Drenching  rain 
is  not  allowed  to  discourage  him. 
If 
the  short  days  of  winter  are  not  light 
lantern  furnishes  the  needful 
enough,  a 
light.  The  result 
is  all  that  could  be 
desired .  There  are  no  wife-beaters  in 
Dawson  City,  there  are  no  tramps.

An  exchange  says  that  Denver 

is 
growing  as  a  place  for hogs.  People 
who  have  been  there  say  that  the  idea 
is  all  right,  but  that  the  grammar  is 
wrong.  Not  “ is  growing,”   but  “ is”  
and  “ always  has  been”   are  the  correct 
verbal  forms— especially  when  speaking 
of  the  two-legged  species.

Dr.  Gerold,  a  professor of  Halle  Uni­
versity,  Germany,  has  discovered  an 
antidote  for  nicotine. 
It  remains  to  be 
seen  what  the  effect  will  be  upon  the 
ranks  of  the  cigarette  fiends.

■ 1V

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

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CARRYING  COALS  TO  NEWCASTLE.
It  begins  to  look  as  if  another  of  the 
world’s  wise  sayings  had  lost  its  force, 
to  be  tossed  as  worthless  rubbish  upon 
the  waste  heap  of  the  past.  Time  out  of 
mind  “ carrying  coals  to  Newcastle" 
has  been  the  acknowledged  apothegm, 
expressing  best  the  folly  of  a  foolish 
action.  A  few 
in  the  coal  trade 
are  suggestive  that  the  figure  has lost  its 
force  and  that,  if  conditions  remain  un­
changed,  there  will  be  a  literal  carry­
ing  of 
town 
on  the  banks  of  the  Tyne,  to  the  great 
comfort  of  its  inhabitants.

that  English 

facts 

coal 

to 

Great  Britain  has  been  the  greatest 
coal  producer  of  the  world.  That  state­
ment  stood  unchallenged  until  the  clos­
ing  year  of  the  Nineteenth  Century. 
Then  the  United  States  took  the  lead  in 
that  industry  and  asserts  her  claim  by 
figures  which  can  not  be  rightfully ques­
tioned.  Here  are  some  of  them : 
In
1898,  this  country  produced  195,000,000 
tons  of  coal ;  in  1899,  245,000,000  tons, 
that  being  a  gain  of  50,000,000  greater 
than  during  the  preceding  year  and  the 
largest  output  of  any  other  nation  on 
the  globe,  in  a  single  year.

from 

With  the  United  States  in  the  lead  as 
a  coal  producer,  England  stands  second, 
Germany  third  and  France  fourth. 
In
1899,  this  country  produced  three  times 
more  coal  than  in  1870  and  all the  others 
have  increased  theirs  since  that  period, 
Germany  taking  the  lead  with  a  much 
increase  proportionately  than  that 
less 
of  this  country.  The  outlook 
indicates 
a  further  increase  in  1900  and  from  that 
standpoint 
it  may  be  well  to  state  that 
while  in  this  country  the  coal  deposits 
are  to  all 
intents  and  purposes  lim it­
less,  the  same 
is  not  the  fact  in  regard 
to  the  Newcastle  mines.  Those  mines 
like  the  country  are  not  exhaustless  and 
it  is  not  unreasonable  to suppose that the 
time  will  come  when  coal 
the 
American  mine  will  be  one  of  the  Eng­
lish  imports  at  the  docks  of  Newcastle.
That,  so  far  as  this  country  is  con­
cerned,  is  not  the  most  important  fea­
ture  of  the  coal  question.  Closely  con­
nected  with 
it,  and  the  real  reason  for 
its  phenomenal  increase,  is  the  fact  that 
the  amount  of  pig  iron  produced  in  1899 
was  13,650,000  tons,  an  amount  greater 
by  1,900,000  tons  than  the  production  of 
1898.  It  does  not require  much  reflection 
to  conclude  that,  with  practically  lim it­
less  deposits  of  coal  and  iron,  the  basis 
of  any  country’s  prosperity,  and  the 
acknowledged  ability  to  turn  to  prac­
tical  account  this  desirable  condition  of 
things,  this  country  is  sure  to  keep  the 
lead 
in  the  production  and  the  manu­
facture  of  both  these  natural  products. 
For  more  than  twenty  years  the  United 
States  has  surpassed  Great  Britain  in 
the  extent  and  the  excellence of its man­
ufactures,  and  within  the 
last  decade 
that  country  has  yielded  the  palm  of 
supremacy  to  this  in  the  amount  of  iron 
produced.  Ahead  in  these  leading  lines 
of  industry  and  the  distance between her 
and  her  competitors 
increasing  every 
day,  there  will  be  a  constant  repetition 
of  what  has  taken  place  during  the  past 
few  years.  The  American machine  will 
continue  to  supersede  the  European. 
It 
into  corners  of  the 
will 
world  before  unknown. 
It  will  bring 
us into  closer  relations with  peoples  now 
strangers  to  us  and  it  will  lead  the  way 
for  that  greater 
the 
stronger  is  sure to  exert  over the weaker, 
so  that  the  carrying  of  coals  to  New­
castle,  when 
it  becomes  a  fact,  will  be 
only  repeating  in  another  form  what  is 
going  on  to-day  outside  of  the  coal busi­
ness.  England,  once  the  world’s  engine

influence  which 

its  way 

find 

maker,  is  importing  the  American  en­
gine.  France,  the  home  of  silk 
indus­
try,  has  been 
invaded  by  American 
silks.  Germany,  whose  woolens  are 
known everywhere,and favorably  known, 
is  buying  American  woolens;  and  so 
one  after  another  the  countries  of  the 
Old  World,  their  best  outdone  and  de­
feat  acknowledged,  have  made  a  virtue 
of  necessity  and  are  receiving  from  the 
United  States  goods 
importing 
of  which  would  once  have  been  as  ab­
surd  as  is  to-day  the  carrying  of coals  to 
Newcastle.______________

the 

T H E   ER A   O F  LARGE  BANKS.*

The  fashion  changes  in  banking,  as 
well  as  in  all  other  things.  There  was 
a  time,  not  so  long  ago,  when 
it  was 
thought  advisable  to  encourage  the  or­
ganization  of  a  large  number  of  banks 
of small  capital,  and  it  was  also  deemed 
wise  policy  to  equip  banks  with  moder­
ate  capital  and  seek  to  build  up  a 
large 
surplus,  thereby  greatly  enhancing  the 
value  of  the  stock  and  adding  a  great 
degree  of  visible  strength  to  the  corpo­
ration.  This  was  the  fashion  for  a  long 
time,  but  the  fashion  is  now  changing.
Within  the  past  year  or  two  the  tend­
large 
ency  has  been  towards  banks  with 
capital  and  correspondingly 
large  re­
sources.  Such  banks  are  being  organ­
ized  not  by  new  incorporations,  but  by 
a  process  of  consolidation  of institutions 
already  well  established  that  find it more 
profitable  to  join  their  forces  and  oper­
larger  scale  than  to  maintain 
ate  on  a 
separate  careers. 
It  has  been  found  that 
in  this  era  of  acute  competition  and 
large  financial  transactions  those  banks 
which  have  the  largest  resources  are  in 
better  position  for  earning  good  profits. 
The  financing of great enterprises,  which 
is  now  such  a  common  thing  in  the 
financial  world,  can  be  accomplished 
only  by  financial 
institutions  of  very 
large  resources.

A  very  large  bank  is  in  a  position  to 
earn 
larger  profits,  because  its  running 
expenses  proportioned  to  its  capital  and 
resources  are  smaller than  the  expenses 
of  minor  banks.  Again,there  are  many 
classes  of  transactions  which 
small 
banks  are  in  no  position  to  handle,  but 
which  the  large  banks are able to manip­
ulate  at  a  profit.

A   recent  consolidation  in  New  York 
of  two  prominent  banks  has  served  to 
draw  general  attention  to  this  growing 
tendency  in  banking.  This  consolida­
tion  will  give  the  new  bank  a  capital 
and  surplus  several  times 
larger  than 
anything  yet  known  in  the  way  of bank­
ing 
in  this  country.  Should  our  new 
colonial  possessions be developed as they 
ought,  there  will  be  needs 
large 
banks,  as  colonial  trading requires  much 
banking  capital.

for 

Although  it  is  not  to  be  supposed  that 
many  consolidations  among  the  banks 
will  take  place,  the tendency  to  banks  of 
larger  capital  and  resources  is  unmis- 
takabhr  strong,  and  the  consolidations 
will  go  on  from  time  to  time  until  there 
are  a  number  of  large  banks  where  now 
there  are  but  few.

Swell  society  in  New  York  is  finding 
excellent  cause  to  regret  the  Metropoli­
tan  Opera  House  there  was  recently  the 
scene  of  a  pet  dog  show.  When  the 
dogs  were  taken  away  they  left  behind 
in  the  hangings  of  the  boxes  and  in  the 
cushioned  seats  a  large  and  exceedingly 
active  army  of  fleas.  Many  of  these 
have  since 
found  resting  places  in  the 
decollete  gowns  of  fair  ones  who  at­
tended  the  opera,  and  as  a  result  there 
has  been  much  commotion.

In  the 

T H E   RISING   T ID E .
lumber  regions  advantage  is 
taken  of  the  swollen  springtime  streams 
to float  the  logs  to  market. 
It  not  un- 
frequently  happens  that  a  stick  of  tim­
ber 
is  caught  by  some  obstruction  and 
log  is  piled  upon  log  until  the  accumu­
lated  timber  is  as  high  as  the  surround­
ing  hills.  When  the  first  obstructing  log 
is  loosened  and  the  whole  mighty  mass 
rushes  roaring  downstream,  a  boom 
is  on  and  every  man  is  on  the  alert  to 
take  advantage  of 
it  to  see  that  every 
piece  of  timber  possible  is  forced  into 
the  descending  flood.  Once  the  boom  is 
over,  the  place 
is  dead  until  another 
comes.

last  the 

From  time  to  time  the  press  of  the 
country  is  pleased  to  speak  of  the  pros­
perity  which  has  come  to  us  as  a  boom.
At 
log  of  business  which  has 
blocked  everything  behind  it  has  been 
loosened  and  the  treithendous  energy  so 
long  pent  up  has  started  on  its  way  to 
prosperity.  Old  manufacturing places on 
the  mountain  side,  left  high  and  dry  by 
a  preceding  boom,  have  been  reached 
and  are  rushing  on  with  the  rest,  rejoic­
ing  over the  good  times  returned.  New 
industries  are  started  and  the  booming 
water  courses  are  alive  with  men  mak­
ing  the  most  of  the  unparalleled  oppor­
tunity  to  better  their  condition.

In  the 

of  this  is  the  report  of  the  comptroller 
of  the  currency  on  the  business  of  the 
savings  banks 
last  year.  There  are  942 
of  these  banks;  only  287  of  them  are 
:stock  concerns,  and  the  remainder  are 
operated  without  capital  stock  by  the 
trustees  exclusively  for  the  mutual bene­
fit  of  depositors. 
latter  class 
there  is deposited $1,960,709,131,  the av­
erage  deposit  being  $386.  The  total 
amount  of  savings  deposits  of  the  942 
banks 
is  $2,179,468,299,  which  amount 
belongs  to  5,523,602  depositors,  the  av­
eraging  savings  of  each  depositor thus 
being  $395.  T h is$395  in  the  bank  is  net 
profit  on  the  owner’s  labor,  not  coming 
from  interest  or  money  loaned,  or  from 
capital 
invested  in  business ;  and  when 
the  wage  earners  of  the  country  save 
nearly  $2,180,000,000  in  cash,  as the sav­
ings  banks  alone  show  that  they  have 
done,  it 
is  an  unmistakable  proof  that 
the  existing  prosperity  is  due  to  no 
boom ;  that  it  is  widespread  among  the 
masses;  that  high  tide  has  not  been 
reached,  for  the  rising  is  still  going  on, 
that  high  tide,  when 
it  comes,  will 
bring  a  prosperity never before attained ; 
and  that  when  the  ebbing  begins  it  will 
not  be  attended  by  the  desolation  which 
is  sure  to  follow  in  the  path  of  the  de­
ceptive  boom.

long  run 

This  is  all  very  w e ll;  but  if  the  boom 
is  the  figure  which  best  represents  the 
business  condition  of  the  country,  it  is 
very 
important  that  the  country  should 
understand  this,  that  it  may  govern  it­
self  accordingly.  Once the  rush is  over, 
desolation  comes,  and  of  all  desolate 
places  the  path  of  the  spent  boom  is  the 
most  despairing.  The  best  logs  in  the 
lot  are  often 
left  beyond  the  reach  of 
help  and  the  hot  sun  of  many  a  summer 
and  the  soaking  snow  of  as  many  win­
ters  will  make  them  worthless;  so  that 
the  boom,  a  benefit  so  far  as  it  goes,  in 
the 
is  not  the  blessing  it  is 
often  thought  to  be.
#From  certain  indications  it  is  becom­
ing  more  and  more  evident  that 
the 
boom  does  not  represent  the  general 
condition  of  things  to-day.  The 
im­
provement 
in  business  has  been  too 
gradual  and  too  sure.  Unlike the boom, 
its  continued  rise can be depended upon, 
as  well  as 
its  duration,  and  when  the 
decline comes,  as come it  must,  that,  too, 
can  be  calculated  and  so  prepared 
for. 
The  boom  is  a  condition  of  things  due 
to  an  accident  and  accident  is  never  the 
It  is  local  and  so 
basis  of  calculation. 
lumberman’s 
limited. 
in 
the 
camp,  it  is  restricted  in 
its  application 
and  can  not  fitly  represent  an  outside 
idea  that  is  finding  ex­
idea,  the  one 
in  mountain  and  plain  the 
pression 
country  over.  New  England 
is  hum­
ming  it  with  her whirring spindles.  The 
Middle  States  are  proclaiming 
it  by 
their  resounding  trip  hammers.  The 
South 
from  her  plantations,  white  with 
cotton,  is  offering  her  convincing  testi­
mony.  The  prairies  upon  whose  lim it­
less  stretches  are  beating  the  stupendous 
billows  of  wheat  and  corn  are  murmur­
ing  it;  and  the  miners 
from  the  coal 
fast­
fields  in  the  East  to  the  mountain 
nesses  of  the  precious  metals 
in  the 
W est.  are  clamorous  with  their  noisy 
assent. 
It  is  the  rising  tide  of  prosper­
ity,  not  the  descending  boom  of  chance, 
that  represents  the  real  condition  of 
things  and  the  country  is  proving  this 
in  numberless  ways.

Born 

The  prosperity  of  the  railroads,  by 
their  rapid  increase  of  traffic  and travel, 
has  been  noted  as  an  unerring  sign  of 
wholesome  financial'  success,  that  has 
indicator
come  to  stay;  but  a  far  better 

Egg  producers  ought  to  be  grateful  to 
the  department  of  agriculture 
for  com­
piling  in  its  official  literature  the  vari­
ous  and  the  best  ways  of  treating  eggs 
that  are  put  away  during  the  summer 
months,  when  they  are  plentiful  and 
cheap.  Of  twenty  German  methods  of 
preserving  eggs  the  three  which  proved 
the  most  effective  are  coating  the  eggs 
with  vaseline,  preserving  them  in  lime 
water  and  preserving  them 
in  water 
glass.  There  is a drawback  to the  water 
glass  method :  the  shell  easily  bursts 
in 
boiling  water.  This,  however,  may  be 
prevented  by  piercing  the  shell  with  a 
strong  needle.  This  objection  having 
been  conceded,  the  water  glass  method 
heads  the 
list,  as  varnishing  the  eggs 
with  vaseline  takes  a  great  deal  of  time 
and  treating them with  lime  water  is  apt 
to  give  them  a  disagreeable  odor. 
In 
most  packed  eggs  the  yolk,  sooner  or 
later,  begins  to  settle  on  one  side  and 
the  egg  at  once  begins  to  depreciate. 
This  does  not  happen  when  water  glass 
is  used  and  the  eggs  retain  a  surprising 
j freshness. 
found 
that  a  10  per  cent,  solution  of  water 
glass  preserved  the  eggs  so  effectually 
that  at  the  end  of  three  and  a  half 
months  eggs  that  were  packed  on  Aug.
1  appeared  perfectly  fresh.  A  gallon  of 
water  glass,  which  will  cost  50  cents, 
will  make  enough  solution  to  preserve 
fifty  dozen  eggs.

In  one  test 

it  was 

licensed 

Isidore  Cohen,  of  New  York  City,  has 
introduced  a  bill  in  the  New  York  Leg­
islature  requiring  all  hacks,  cabs  and 
automobiles 
for  hire  by  the 
public  to  be  equipped  with  a cyclometer 
or  other  automatic  device  for measuring 
and  recording  the  distance  traveled,  the 
machine  to  be  placed  in  such  a  way  as 
to  be 
in  plain  sight  of  the  passenger. 
The  purpose  of  the  bill  is  to  prevent 
hackmen  from  overcharging  patrons.

The  merchant  who  always  sells  at  cost 
and  yet  grows  wealthy  must  either  steal 
his  goods  or  his  statements.

To 

judge  by  orders  for  steel  rails, 
itself  miles 

prosperity  has  railroaded 
ahead  of  the  new  year.

Something 

for  nothing  is  nothing  for 

something  in  wildcat  parlance.

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Clerks’  Corner.

C lo s e   C o n i p an  io n s liip   B e tw e e n   M a n a g e ­
Written for the Tradesman.

m e n t  a m i  e m p lo y e s .

It  was  my  good  fortune  recently  to  be 
large  general  store,  centrally  lo­
in  a 
cated 
the  State,  where  the  fellow 
in 
feeling  of  close  companionship  among 
employes  was  fostered  by  the  manage­
ment  seeking  to  keep  in  sympathy  with 
the  associates  in  store  life  by setting one 
evening  each  week  apart  for  what  was 
termed  “ a  meeting  for  mutual  improve­
ment  of  our business  and  selves.”   That 
evening  in  particular  was  to  be  devoted 
to  hearing  from  a  traveling  man  some 
ideas  gathered  by  him 
in  his  travels 
among  similar  establishments  and  was 
looked 
forward  to  by  the  manager  and 
employes  as  an  opportunity  to  spend  a 
profitably  pleasant  evening.  To 
this 
meeting  I  was  invited,  as  a  special  fa­
vor  from  the  manager,  whose  school 
companion  I  had  chanced  to  be  in  “ the 
days  gone  b y ,”   when  we  had  often  dis­
cussed  the  relation  an  employer  should 
hold  towards  his  help,  in  the  dual  role 
as  manager  and  man,  both  of  us  natur­
ally 
theory  that 
“ man’s  humanity  to  man  best  estab­
lishes  his  claim  to  human  sympathy and 
support,”   always  maintaining 
that 
should  Fate  or  Fortune  ever  place  us  in 
position  to  demonstrate  our  views  we 
would  maintain  as  close  a  semblance  to 
true  comradeship  among  ourselves  and 
associates 
in  business  as  the  environ­
ments  of  that  position  allowed,  and  1 
must  confess  that  on  leaving  the  store 
after this  meeting  I was  impressed  with 
the  wisdom  of  my  friend’s  attitude  to­
ward  those  over  whose  business  actions 
and  time  he  nominally  held  control.

leaning  toward 

the 

The  store  closed  at  6  p.  m.  and at 7 ¡30 
we  were  all  assembled 
in  an  upstairs 
room,  the  carpet department,  where com­
fortable  seating  arrangements  were  pro­
vided  for  all.  The  manager quietly  se­
cured  order  by  simply  ascending  the 
single  step  to  the 
improvised  rostrum, 
where  in  a  few  well-chosen  words  he  re­
called  previous 
similar  gatherings, 
speaking  particularly  of  the  personal 
pleasure  to  be  derived  from  the  present 
meeting  together  of  friends,  on  whose 
material  welfare  a  mutual  interest  was 
staked.  Then,  after  prophetically  add­
ing,  “ The  future  good  to  us  singly  and 
collectively  must  .depend  on  ourselves, 
and  knowing that  interdependence  tends 
to  strengthen  human  sympathy,  I  feel 
no  fears  for our  business  welfare.”   He 
then  pleasantly 
introduced  the  speaker 
to  his  good  natured  audience.

It  is  not  my  purpose to tell  this  travel­
ing man  s  name  nor  the  place  where  the 
therefore  I  will  re 
meeting  occurred, 
produce  his  words  only,  and  submit 
it 
all  without  comment.

On  taking  his  stand  before  us,  genial 
good  will  beamed  from  his  face  and  we 
felt  that  he  was  in  sympathy  with  his 
audience,  therefore  we  were  in  a  recep­
tive  mood  when  he  began  to  address  us 
as  follows:

f  riends  and  fellow  workers. 

It  is 
with  feelings  of  deepest  pleasure 
to 
think  that  I  am  thus  accorded  the  hon­
ored  privilege  of  aiding  your  manager 
to  maintain  towards  you  the  feelings  of 
good  will,  and  I  trust  to  further  his 
efforts  of  making  this  goodly  assembly 
more  closely  united  in sympathy through 
the  few  remarks  I  shall  make  this  even­
in g ;  and 
looking  upon  these  animated 
faces,  I  can  conceive  of  nothing  more 
appropriate  than  the  title  I  have  chosen 
for  my  address,  ‘ Sunshine  and  Nature 
in  Store  L ife .’
is 

in  Nature  nothing  more 
universal  than  light,  and  light  is,  in  all

“ There 

“  My  general  advice  to you as personal 
friends  woyld  be  as  follows :  Be  pleas­
ant ;  be  cheerful;  be  friendly  among 
yourselves  and  towards  your  employer’s 
patrons,  but  never  chummy.  Smile,  but 
do  not  simper.  Let  sunshine  diffuse 
from  a  happy  face  with  radiance  that 
felt  as  well  as  seen.  Laugh 
may  be 
when  occasion 
requires,  but  refrain 
from  giggling.  Let  these  occasions  be 
well  timed  and  have  the  appearance  of 
spontaneity,  but  never 
forced.  Talk, 
but  don’t  lecture;  let  what  you  say  ap­
pear  in  harmony  with  the  atmosphere  of 
self  and  surroundings ;  let  your  language 
emphasize  the  sunlight  of your presence. 
Strive  to  enter 
into  the  sympathy  of 
your  customer,  even  as  the  sunlight  of 
Nature  enters  into  the  life  and  growth 
of  the  flower,  unobtrusively  yet  with  a 
life-giving  force  which  can  not  be  de­
nied.

“ Can  anyone  among  you  doubt  the 
results  on  trade  should  this  feeling  per­
meate  at  all  times  the  working  force? 
Most  assuredly 
it  would  be  for  good. 
But  storms  must  at  times  dash  over  the 
face  of  Nature,  even  as  matters of  a  mo­
mentarily  disagreeable  nature  will  cross 
all  our 
liv e s;  yet  did  you  never  note 
that  after  the  storm  the  first  rays  of  suh- 
light  are  seemingly  the  brightest  and 
are  the  most  welcome?  Y qu  ask,  What 
are  these  necessary  business storms? and 
I  answer  that  the  most  frequent  are  dis­
agreeable  customers;  but  smiles  and 
pleasant  manners  will  dissipate 
the 
worst  of  these  storms  and  after  these 
have  sped  by  our horizon  we all welcome 
a  genial  ray  of  store  sunlight.  Yes,  all—  
the  proprietor, 
the  manager,  the  cus­
tomer  even ;  our  associates  in  work  and 
we  ourselves  feel  the  benign  influence 
of  sunshine,  even  though  from  ourselves 
it  emanates.  Why  should  I  call  this  a 
necessary  part  of  store  life?  Because 
no  trait  of  character  is  developed  with­
out  use,  any  more  than  a  muscle  without 
work ;  and  no  one  thing  is  better  fitted 
to  create  store  sunshine  than  patience, 
which  this  storm’  particularly  calls into 
being  and  develops.  All  sunshine  with 
no  rain  causes  destroying  droughts,  but 
when  rightly  proportioned  to  Nature’s 
needs  the  best  results  obtain;  so  I  hold 
the  opinion  that  a  well-developed  bump 
of  patience  is  one  of  the  most  valuable 
possessions  a  clerk  can  have,  and  the 
higher  degree  of  patience  developed  the 
greater  value  attaches  to  that  clerk’s 
work.  Again,  a  storm  may  be  raised 
by  your  manager,  who  on  going  his 
round  of  inspection  finds,  as  I  suppose 
he  does  sometimes,  some  place  where 
his  rules  of  business  have  not been lived 
up  to.  But  again  I  ask,  Do  you  not 
note  how  much  sooner  this  storm  passes 
when  a  ray  of  sunlight  is  struggling 
in 
that  particular  department  to  equalize 
the  forces  of  nature? 
It  may  be  a  quiet 
smile  of  assenting  approval  to  the  nec­
essary  and 
justified  criticism  of  the 
manager;  but  the  result  is  a  calm  after 
the  storm,  more  pleasant  from  the  mere 
fact  of  comparison  than  it  would  be  had 
there  been  sunshine  all  the  time.  But 
were  any  of  you  ever  witness  to  a  cy­
clone  or  a  whirlwind?  You  know  that

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

its  senses,  a  direct  product  of  the  sun 
a  reflex  therefrom  or  an  imitation.  Sun 
life,  darkness  death,  and 
shine  means 
only 
in  the  constant  conflict  between 
these  great  forces 
lies  our  chance  to 
gather  the  fragments  and  become  the 
power 
in  business  circles  each  one  has 
heirship  to.  But  what  is  sunlight  in  a 
store?  Not  that  effulgence  of  the  direct 
rays  from  the  sun,  from  which  we  must 
protect  our  wares  or  see them deteriorate 
in  value,  but  the  sunlight  of  the  soul 
shining 
from  the  faces  of  cheerful  em­
ployes  serving  the  public.  The  man  or 
woman,  boy  or  girl,  in  a  store  who  is 
always  pleasant  about 
everyday 
duties,  with  a  smile  of  welcome  to  the 
customer,  sheds  sunshine  about  the  es­
tablishment  to  such  a  degree  that  life  is 
possible  and growth  assured  in  that  par­
ticular  department,  while 
its  reflex  ac­
tion  will  be  felt  in  all  departments  of 
the  store.  But  shall  we  call  this  the  d i­
rect  or  the  reflex 
light?  Some  would 
call  it  the  direct  light,  but  I  would  pre­
fer to  call  it  a  reflex  light,  one  reflecting 
the  pure 
from  a  satisfied  inner 
self,  the  true  self,  diffusing  pleasantly 
without  a  painful  glare.

light 

the 

, 

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their  destructive  tendency  is  caused  by 
two  storms  meeting  and  both  trying  to 
prove  title  to  right  of  way  through 
strength  of  blowing.  Thus  we  would 
compare  an  open  resistance  or  noisy 
explanation  of  an  employe  to  the  man­
ager  during  the  storms. 
It  often  re­
quires  a  long  time  and  much  sunshine 
to  patch  up  the  face  of  Nature  in  the 
case  of  a  whirlwind,  and  the  same  may 
well  be  said  of  store-storm,  where  opin­
ions  clash;  and  yet  these  same  whirl­
winds  sometimes  aid  Nature  in  remov­
ing  some  obstruction  necessary  to  a 
more  perfect  view  of  surrounding  coun­
try,  eventually 
face  of 
Nature,  even  as  these  conflicting  storms 
ofttimes  clear out  opaque or nondevelop­
ing 
from  the  working 
force,  to  the  apparent  betterment  of  all 
concerned.

light  characters 

improving  the 

“ Again,  in  Nature,  were there  neither 
wind  nor  storms  the  pollution  of  the  air 
would  cause  death  to  all  forms  of  life, 
because  the  unstirred  air  would  thus  be­
come  dead,  even  as  store  life,  in  alto­
gether  too  many  instances,  would  flag, 
falter  and  die  save  for  these  tours  of  in­
spection  by  the  manager,  and  a  happily 
valuable  acquisition  to  a  store’s  force 
is  he  who  can  be  found  fault  with  and 
still  smile  and  strive  with  good  natured 
learn  what  is  wanted,  correct 
effort  to 
the  error  and  all 
through 
cheerfulness,  diffuse  store  sunshine  on 
the  work,  the  business, 
the  manage 
and  himself.  Still  further  would  I  draw 
this  storm  comparison  by  noting  a  fierce 
storm  at  sea  which,  with  the  regular 
tides,  agitates  the  waters  of  the  sea  to 
its  very  depths,  without  which  its  stag­
nation  would  be  death  to  every  form  of 
life  beneath,  on,  or  even  immediately 
over 
its  surface ;  so  what  at  times  ap­
pears  to  be  a  cruel  fate  proves  to  be  a 
benefit,  perhaps  not  to  the  individual, 
but  to  the  world  at  large,

time, 

the 

it 

is  wanted 

“ Let  us  liken  the  regular  tides  to  the 
inventory  and  spring  and  fall 
annual 
These  are  necessary, 
store-cleaning. 
but  what 
is  the  occasional 
general  stirring-up  of  everybody  and 
everything,  for the universal  good— when 
a 
general  overhauling  occurs  which 
changes  the  entire  topography  of  the 
store.  Some  will  object  to  this  on  ac­
count  of  disarranging the  calculations  of 
customers;  but 
is  my  opinion  that 
patrons  enjoy  the  novelty  of  changes  of 
stocks  as  well  as  changes  of  the  items 
that  go to  make  up the stocks;  therefore, 
do  not  shut  out  of  your  lives  the  sun­
shine  of  store  life  through  objections  to 
carrying  out  any  changes  suggested  by 
your  manager,  but  cheerfully  bend  every 
energy  towards  carrying  out  the  will  of 
the  powers  that  be,  and  do Jthis  without 
even  a  frown  on  your  face.  _  Thus 
life 
for  each  individual  helper  will  broaden 
out,  the  store 
life  will  take  a  deeper 
hold  on  the  public  and  all  be  given  a 
stronger  hold  on  the environments which 
go  so  far  in  our  business  to  make 
life 
worth  living.

invigorating 

“ Some  storms  assume  the 

form  of 
dews,  and  oh  how  gently  yet persistently 
they  fall.  What 
life  fol 
lows  these  pleasant  storms  of  Nature 
and  how  aptly  they  apply  toyourd-u-e 
to  your  store:  First,  due  respect  to 
constituted  authority;  second,  due  re 
gard  for  the  feelings  of  associate  work 
ers;  third,  due  appreciation  of  the  right 
of  your  employers  to  receive  everything 
due  them 
from  you— your  time,  your 
strength,  your  mind,  and  of  course  what 
is  due  them  from  sales  of  merchandise 
in  your  care.  Only  on  the  systemat 
falling  of  these  dues  can  long-continued 
(store) 
life  be  assured,  on  which  rest 
your  chances  of  employment;  and  re 
member,  these  dews  of  Nature  are  paid 
the  day  they  fall  due,  not  next  day. 
It 
is  said  that  plenty  of  dew  and  regular 
sunshine  would  keep  all  Nature  dressed 
in  summer  green ;  and  how  truly  I  may 
add,  if  y o u r   employers receive the above 
dues,  and  store  sunshine permeates  their 
business,  thoroughly lighting up  all  dark 
corners,  its  continuity is dependent  only 
on  the  will  of  those  who  rule,  because 
such  a  store  will  have  the confidence and 
trade  of  the  public,  insuring  long  life 
and  continued  prosperity.

“ And  now,  my  friends,  in  conclusion 
I would  say  to  each one,  don’t place your 
in  such  shape  as  to
own  personality 

it  cast 

have 
its  shadow  on  your  sur­
roundings ;  but  rather  as  a  polished  sur­
face  of  solid  sterling  silver  reflect  onto 
your  associates  and  surroundings  what­
ever  sunlight  there  may  possibly  be. 
You  know  that  Nature’s  sunshine 
is 
divisible 
into  rays,  each  one  bearing  a 
separate,  distinct  color  and  nam e;  so 
may  storeshine  (if  we  may  be  allowed
coin  a  word)  be  divided  into rays —in 
this  case  spelled  r-a-y-s,  not,  as  some 
might  think,  r-a-i-s-e,  prefixed  to  the 
phrase,  “ of  salary"— which  rays  are 
known  and  named :  cheerfulness,  timely 
aughter,  agreeable pleasantness,  6miles, 
good  will,  patience  and  the  suffering  of 
self-sacrifice,  if  need  be,  all  well  min­
gled  with  hard  work,  deep  thought  and 
thorough  honesty  of  purpose.  And  if 
you,  my  young  friends,  will  stand firmly 
by  these  colors  neither  you,  your  em­
ployer,  your  manager,  your  associates, 
the  store,  nor  your  friends  will  ever  turn 
from 
forsake  you,  but  call  you 
blessed,  even  as  Nature’s  sunlight  is 
called  blessed  in  all  lands.”

or 

L.  A.  Ely.

L iability of R esta u ra te u r  For Loss of (l

A   case  which  has  just  been  decided 
by  the  appellate  term  of  the  Supreme 
Court  of  New  York  has  been  the  cause 
in  the  metropolis 
of  much 
chiefly  among  that 
large  class  of  men 
who  take  their  meals  in  restaurants.

interest 

A   New  Yorker  named  Marcus  M, 
Montgomery,  who  had  taken  his  dinne 
jt  a  restaurant  kept  by one John  Lading 
found  when  he  had  eaten  and  paid 
for 
is  dinner  that  his  overcoat,  which  he 
ad  hung  up  with  his  own  hands  on  ; 
ieg  close  to  his  table,  had  disappeared 
'he  proprietor,  on  being  appealed  to 
isclaimed  all  responsibility  for  the  loss 
if  the  coat,  on  the  ground  that  neithe 
he  nor  his  waiters  had  been  intrusted 
with  the custody of  it.  Mr.  Montgomery 
demanded  a  return,  or the  value  of  th 
rment  from  the  restaurateur;  and,  o: 
Boniface’s  refusal  to  comply  with  the 
demand,  he  brought  suit  against Lading 
n  a  municipal  court  for  the  amount.
The 
found 
claimed,  but  the  restaurateur  was  i 
vised  not  to  pay,  and  he  declined 
lay,  and  appealed.

judge 
for  the  plaintiff 

in  the  municipal  cou 

in  the  amount 

The  appellate  term  of  the  Supreme 
Court  has  just  decided  the  case,  revers 
ng  the  judgment  of  the  lower  court  and 
holding  the  original  plaintiff  liable  f 
costs.  The  appellate  court,  after  pass 
ng  in  review  many  cases  of  a somewh 
similar  nature,  says  in  its  decision:

liable 

The  rule  to  be  adduced  from  all  these 

cases  is  that,  before  a  restaurant-kee 
will  be  held 
for  the  loss  of  an 
overcoat  of  a  customer  while  such  cus 
tomer  takes  a  meal  or  refreshments, 
must  appear  either  that 
the  overcc 
was  placed 
in  the  physical  custody 
the  keeper  of  the  restaurant  or  his  serv 
ants,  or  that  the  overcoat  was  necessari 
ly  laid aside  under  circumstances  show 
ing  at  least  notice  of the  fact and of such 
necessity  to  the  keeper  of  the  restaura 
or  his  servants,in  which  there  is  an  im 
plied  bailment  or  constructive  custody; 
or  that  the  loss  occurred  by reason of the 
insufficiency  of  the  general  supervision 
exercised  by  the  keeper  of the restaurant 
for  the  protection of customers’ overcoats 
temporarily  laid  aside.  After  all,  each 
case  must  largely  depend  upon  its  own 
particular facts  and  circumstances,  for  it 
is  well  known  that  there  are  all  kinds 
of  restaurants. 
In  some  of  them  good 
taste  and  etiquette  require  that  a  cus­
tomer  should  remove  his  hat  and  over­
coat  while  eating  a  meal  of  refresh­
ments,  while  in  others,  especially  in  so- 
called  quick  lunch  establishments,  cus­
tomers  remove  neither  hat  nor  coat.

There  is  a  great  deal  of  good  common 
sense  in  this  decision;  and  restaura­
teurs  and their customers would probably 
not  do  amiss  to  govern  themselves  in 
accordance  with  it.

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6 gal. galv. Iron with  spout, per doz.. 
3 gal. galv. Iron with faucet, per doz.. 
5 gal. galv. iron with faucet, per doz.. 
5 gai. Tilting cans..................................
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P u m p   Cans

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Batters

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to 6 gal., per  gal...............................
gal. each.............................................
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gal. meat-tubs, each.........................
gal. meat-tubs, each.........................
gal. meat-tubs, each.........................
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to 6 gal., per  gal............................
huru Dashers, per doz..................

M ilkpans

gal. flat or rd. hot., per doz...... .
I gal. Hat or rd. hot., each............
F in e Glazed M ilkp«
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S tew  p an s

4 gal. fireproof, bail, per  doz......
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4 gal., per  doz......................................
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T om ato  Ju g s

% gal., per  doz......................................
1  gal., each...........................................
’orks for Vt gal., per doz.....................
iorks for  l  gal., per doz.....................

P reserve  J a r s   and  Covers

4 gal., stone cover, (ter doz................
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Sealing  W ax

i lbs. in package, per  lb.......................

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Shoes and  Leather

Un<ler  W h at  CircuinstanceH  a   Shoe  C lerk 

Should  M arry.

He  should  be  sure,  of  course,  that  the 
idea  of 
woman  of  his  choice  has  some 
the  cost  of  living  and  of  the  everyday 
duties  of  a  housekeeper. 
In  the  cost 
living  and  the  regular  weekly  ex­
of 
pense  there  enters 
largely  a  personal 
element.  A   woman  who  has  been  reared 
in 
luxury,  accustomed  to  have  every 
wish  gratified,  will  naturally  hesitate  a 
long  time  before  accepting  from a young 
man  of  meager  means  (unless  she 
loves 
him  very  dearly)  attentions which might 
result  seriously. 
I here  are,  however,  j 
brave,  true-hearted  young  women,  both 
rich  and  poor,  who  would  readily  con­
form  to  conditions  resulting  from  the 
new  relation  and  her  husband’s  income, 
be  it  great  or  small.  The  niggardly  cus­
tom  of  doling  out  stated  sums  to  the 
expenses 
wife  for  household 
should 
If  the  dollars  have 
never  be  practiced. 
lay  aside  regularly 
to  be  husbanded 
every  week  a  proportionate  sum 
for 
lig h t;  if  any  surplus  is 
rent,  fuel  and 
left  from  the  preceding  week 
it  might 
wisely  be  used  for  purchase  of  neces­
sary  clothing,  articles  for  beautifying 
the  home  and  the 
like.  Although  at 
first  glance  the  expense  of  housekeeping 
might  appear greater  than  boarding,  the 
young  clerk  should,  not  marry  until  he 
has  his  house  (even  although  it  may  be 
a  rented  one)  comfortably  furnished, 
suitable  for  habitation.  The  house  need 
not  be  elaborately or  elegantly  furnished 
in  order  to  insure  a  cozy,  happy  home. 
After 
laying  aside  the  weekly  amount 
for  regular  monthly  or quarterly  charges 
for  rent,  light  and  heat,  the  balance  of 
money  for  current  expense  might  be 
placed 
in  a  box,  accessible  for  both 
husband  and  wife.  From  this  general 
fund  each  could  extract  from  day  to  day 
the  sum  necessary  for  their  separate  ex­
penses. 
If  either  one  could  not  trust 
the  other  to  that  extent  they  had  better 
not  marry.

This  procedure  obviates  the  necessity 
of  the  wife  appealing to  her  husband  re­
peatedly  for  money  when  he  thinks  she 
should  already  be  possessed  of  some,  or 
of  the  husband  requesting  a  loan  from 
his  wife  to  enable  him  to reach his place 
of  business  after  spending  more  than  he 
should  have  spent  and  running  short  of 
funds.

The  necessity  of  either  asking  the 
other  for  money 
is  embarrassing  and 
humiliating  and  often  is  the  forerunner 
of  open  rupture  and  may  cause  for some 
time  to  come  strained  relations  between 
those  who  should  each  extend  to  the 
other  the  most  cordial,  frank  and  sim­
ple  confidence.  The  young  clerk  should 
never  deceive  his  wife  as  to  the  amount 
of  his  income  or  the  status  of  his  busi­
ness  affairs.  It  is  astonishing  how  little 
expenditure,  for  a  man,  is  really  neces­
sary.  The  average  man  rides  to  his 
work,  even  although  the  distance  is  not 
great;  he  buys  one  or two  newspapers, 
which  he  often  leaves  in  the car or tosses 
into  the  waste  basket,  which  his  wife 
would 
if  taken  home  at 
night,  even  although  the  news  were  a 
few  hours  old.  After  reaching  the  store 
is  permitted,  a 
or  office,  if  smoking 
cigar  or  two 
the 
addition  of  a  little  fruit  or  sweetmeats, 
or  possibly  a  social  glass  or  two.  This 
is  often  repeated  during  the  afternoon.
At  noon  the  hour  is  passed  with kindred 
spirits  and  often  an  elaborate  luncheon 
is  taken, 
frequently  one  man  settling 
the  entire  bill.  Such  expenses  should

is  consumed,  with 

appreciate 

facts. 

The  credit  system,  with  its  dangerous 
whirlpool  of  "debt  for  the  buyer,  has 
swamped  thousands  of  people,  who  be­
come  hopelessly  involved  through  pay­
ing  enormous  profits  to  the  merchant 
simply  because  credit  is  offered.  Extra 
profits  are  added  by  the  merchant,  who, 
spider  like,  weaves  the  web  tighter  and 
tighter  around  the  credit  customer  (who 
is  the  fly).  As  the  customer  remains  in 
debt  to  the  merchant  the  next  shoes  he 
buys,  and  the  next,  he  thinks  the  price 
too  high,  but  he  owes  the  merchant  a 
bill  already  and  he  hasn’t  the  “ gall”   to 
try  to  “ jew  him  down”   on  the  price 
when  he 
is  getting  credit.  The  credit 
merchant,  on  the  other  hand,  instructs 
the  clerks  to  charge  high  for  the  goods 
as  the  customer  owes  a  bill  already  and 
is  going  to  buy  on  credit,  no  matter 
what  the  shoes  cost.  These  are  undis­
puted 
If  you  buy  on  credit  it 
“ hits”   you;  you  know 
it;  you’re  sick 
of  being  “ worked”   by  the  credit  mer­
chant.  Break  away  now.  Let  the  credit 
merchant  who  has been so kind to accom­
modate  you  with credit  by selling  you  $3 
shoes  for $4  wait  a  while  and  take  your 
next  pay  day’s  money,  look  around—  
you’re a  free  man— cash  works  wonders; 
puts  you  on  a  level  with  the  merchant 
you’ re  dealing  w ith ;  keeps  you 
from 
feeling 
like  a  slave;  be  a  man.  Quit 
letting  people  work.you ;  look  around, 
use  your  reasoning  powers.  Here’s some 
prices  from  a  cash  house— cash,  cash, 
cash  house;  120  pairs  of  men’s §2  tan 
shoes,  plain  toe,  light  weight,  sizes  6, 
(i'/z,  for $1.25  a  pair  cash ;  216  pairs fine 
regular $2. 75  quality, 
tan  vici  shoes, 
sizes  5,  5^   and  6,  in  lace  or  gaiters, 
S i.60  a  pair  cash ;  light  weight,  plain 
toe,  every  pair  are  warranted;  210  pairs 
men’s  fine  Russia,  heavy  winter weight, 
lace,shop-made,  calf-lined  $4  goods,  for 
S2.50;  all  sizes;  261  pairs men’s $5 shoes 
for $3.25  cash;  every  style 
imaginable. 
See  our  show  window  for  cash  values.

M utual  E nvy.

The office boy who sweeps the floor 
Envies the owner of the store 
The boss who hears the youngster’s songs 
Thinks of his own great cares and longs 

And doth the baskets toss 
And longs to be the boss.
And laughs of youthful  joy 
To be the office boy.

An  U npleasant  F eatu re.

“ I  couldn’t  stand  her  father;  he  was 

everlastingly  talking  shop.”

Telling  you  about  his  prosperity 

in 

business.”

N o ;  talking  about  the  business  he 

thought  I  ought  to  get  into.”
T ak in g   No  R isks.

Customer— Have  you  the  same  razor 

you  shaved  me  with  two  days  ago?

Barber  (flattered)— Yes,  sir;  the  same 

identical  one.

please.

Customer— Then  chloroform  me  first, 

Little

Czarina

No" la' B r e u n suh^ tyP’ ^ r THnuned, 1’at- heatherFoxed, l to 4, perdoz.,  $4 80 
No  n   w« 
t   T  ft' * VJ Trimmed, Brown Kid Foxed, 1 to 4, per doz.,  4.80
if.  Quilted Silk Top, t  ur Trimmed, Red Foxed..............1 to 4  ner do7  4 «n
£r° 
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.

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., Orand Rapids, Mich* 

Agents Boston Rubber Shoe Company.

YOU  NEED  THEM

sHOES that will fit.

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

W E  MAKE  THEM

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

be  carefully  watched  by  the  ambitious 
clerk  who  desires  to  amass  something 
for the  future  and  unnecessary  extrava­
gance  carefully  guarded  against.  He 
might  easily  entrench  himself 
safely 
against  the  wiles  of  extravagant  com­
panions,  careless  of  their  expenditure, 
by  reviewing  each  night the proceedings 
of  the  day  in  this  connection  and resolv­
ing  that  the  next  day  should  see  an 
absolute  curtailing  of  unnecessary  ex­
pense.  Above  all  have  the  moral  force 
and  conscientious  courage  to  cut  loose 
from  companions  who  would  drag  you 
down  to  penury  and  poverty  in  your  en­
deavor to  keep  abreast  of  them and their 
expensive  habits.— Shoe  and  Leather 
F acts.

Bidding*  F or  a  Cash  Business.

A  Nashville,  Tenn.,  shoe  dealer  pre­
sents  the  following  arguments  why  cash 
should  supersede  credit  in  his  establish­
ment :

Lycomings Jm Die Best M  
! 
I Keystones Hie ite tesi Second  1

W e  are  now  prepared  to  fill  all  orders  I 
promptly.  The sizes and toes which manu-  1 
facturers could  not furnish prior  to  Nov.  i,  I 
are now in stock. 
I

1. 1  REEDER & 60., 6raM RaoiDS.

Not  Forgotten.

Did 

your  grandmother  remember 

you  in  her  w ill?”

Yes,  she  had  a  clause  in  there  in­
structing  the  executors  to  collect  all  the 
loans  she  had  made  me. ’ ’

H E R O L D -B E R T S C H   S H O E   C O .,

MAKERS  OF  SHOES, 
GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

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T he  Boom   Tow n  o f W alk er’s  Station. 

Written for the Tradesman.

lived 

faults.  So 

It  was  not 

far  as 
it  would,  in 

Walker’s  Station  was  not  an  elaborate 
in  reason  to  expect 
affair. 
It  was  young,  it  was 
that  it  would  be. 
also  ugly,  but  those  who 
there 
hoped  that  it  would  some  day  outgrow 
its  youth  was 
these 
concerned 
the  nature  of 
things,  leave  that  behind;  but,  as  to  its 
ugliness,  that  was  problematical.  The 
natives,  as  they  passed  each  other  on 
the  road,  spoke  of  “ goin’  to  town  to  git 
the  m ail,”   or,  “ to  do  a  little  tradin’ , ”  
while  the  Sentinel,  published 
semi­
in  the  county  town  fourteen 
monthly 
miles  away,  referred  to  Walker’s Station 
as  “ the  sister  city  on  the  plains.’ ’  On 
the  plains"  did  very  well,  for  the  town 
site  was  composed  of  one  entire  section 
of  railroad  land  laid  out  in  blocks  and 
streets;  each  street  had  a  name  of  its 
own.  A   city  one  mile  square  might 
surely  be  spoken  of  as  a  “ sister  city .’ ’ 
As  a  matter of  fact  the  “ city "  consisted 
of  a  stole,  a  blacksmith  shop  and  two 
dwelling  houses.

How  so  few  buildings  could  give  such 
an  appearance  of  ugliness  to  an  other­
wise 
lean,  lonely  prairie  is  a  mystery. 
They  had  the  air  not  of  having  been 
built  upon  this  solitary  vastness,  but  of 
having  squatted  upon  it.  They  wore  a 
sort  of  wind-blown,  twisted  look,  as  if 
they  were  afraid  to  stand  up  squarely 
and 
the 
dreariness  around  them.

face,  with  undaunted  mein, 

It 

Another  curious  thing  was  calling  the 
place  Walker’s  Station.  True,  the  rail­
road  ran  for  one  straight  mile  along  the 
southern  end  of  the  town  site ;  but  the 
railroad  company  had  never  had  a  sta­
tion  there. 
is  said  that  a  train  had 
never  been  known  to stop  there  until  the 
laid  out  and  the  streets 
town  site  was 
were  named.  Si  Clay, 
the  man  who 
owned  the  buildings,  as well  as  the  town 
site,  could  never  give  a  satisfactory  ex­
planation  as  to  why  he  called  the  place 
Walker’s  Station,  and  the  reason was  the 
cause  of  as  much  speculation  to  the  na­
tives  and  settlers  in  that  locality  as  was 
“ Pudd’nhead  Wilson’s’ ’  wish  that  he 
“ owned  half  of  that  dog”   to  the  natives 
of  Dawson’s  Landing.  Walker’s  Station 
it  was,  and  so  it  remained  as  it  pursued 
the  even  tenor  of  its  way.  One  conver­
sant  with  the various  events which  made 
up  the  history  of  that  little  settlement 
would  be  of  the  opinion,  however,  that 
the  tenor  of 
its  way  and  been  uneven 
rather  than  even.

Si  Clay  believed  that  there  was  a 
future  in  store  for  the  town.  He 
great 
factories, 
saw  mills,  grain  elevators, 
stores,  paved  streets,  electric  lights  and 
a  thousand  other  things  that  were  to 
grow  up  on  his  town  site.  This  was 
not  strange,  after  all,  for  Si  Clay  had 
tried 
for  five  years  without  success  to 
grow  corn  and  wheat  and  a  dozen  other 
farm  products  upon  this  same  town  site. 
Nobody  but  a  man  who  has  come 
through  five  such  years  of  earnest  en­
deavor  in  just  such  a  country  could  ever 
have  seen  what  Si  Clay  saw. 
It  was  a 
country  without  a  hill  or  a  tree.  Look 
in  whatever  direction  you  would,  you 
saw  only  a  great  circle  where  the  earth 
and  sky  met.

Before  he  migrated  to  Kansas  Si  Clay 
had  been  a  well  tQ  do  farmer  in  a  coun­
try  where  it  rained  once  in  a  while.  He 
had  been  persuaded,  by  a  man  with  an 
ax  to  grind,  to  locate  just  where  he  did. 
The  man  with  the  ax  got  S i’s  little 
Michigan  farm  and  Si  got  640  acres  of 
land  without  a  stone  or  a  hill  or  a  bit  of 
brush  upon  it. 
“ It  was  an  endless  pic­
n ic,”   said  the  man  with  the  ax,  “ to

farm 

work  on  a 
like  that—no  roots  to 
grub,  no  stones  to  gather,  no  hills  to 
clim b.”   He  might  truthfully  have 
added,  “ no  crops  to  harvest.”   After 
five  years  of  unrewarded  labor  Si  had 
converted  his  non-producing  farm 
into 
a  town  site  and  his  various  farm  build­
ings  into  the  town  buildings  referred to. 
With  his  little  remaining  capital  he  put 
in  a  small  stock  of  general  merchandise 
and  proceeded 
to  do  business.  His 
methods  would  have  bankrupted  a  much 
more  capable  business  man.  He  had 
not  the  heart  to  refuse  credit  to  his  old 
neighbors.  “ It  wasn’t  their  fault  if  they  _ 
weren’t  able  to  pay. 
They  couldn’t 
make  rain  and  the  crops  wouldn’t  grow 
without 
they  would 
square  up  as  soon  as  they  got  a  crop  of 
wheat  or  corn ;  but  Si  had  tried  for  five 
years  without  getting  such  a  crop.  He 
ran  the  store  in  a  sort  of  way  by  taking 
butter  and  eggs  in  part  payment  for  his j 
merchandise.  These  scanty  farm  prod­
ucts  he  shipped  East,sometimes making 
a  small  profit,  but  as often  making  noth­
ing.  Despite  the  fact  that  he  was  run­
ning 
in  debt  and  that  the  blacksmith 
shop  remained unoccupied, Si'still  clung 
to  the 
idea  of  future  greatness  for  his 
town  site,  and  consequent  wealth 
for 
himself.

it.”   He  knew 

When  S i’s  double  venture  of  town 
owner  and  store-keeper  was  two  years 
old  his  finances  had  grown 
into  such 
shape  that  he  couldn’t  tell  whether  he 
owned  the  town  or  whether 
it  owned 
him. 
This  perplexing  question  was 
rather  suddenly  answered  for  him  when 
the  sheriff  walked  in  and  in  the  name  of 
the 
law  took  possession.  A  few  days 
later  the  little  stock  of  goods,  the  town 
and  the  town  site  were  sold  to  the  high­
est  bidder.  Poor  Si  was  left  without  a 
single  worldly  possession  except 
the 
clothes  on  his  back— a  poor,  bewildered, 
broken-hearted  pauper. 
It  was  more 
than  tired  nature  could  stand  and  Si  be­
came  an 
inmate  of  the  insane  ward  at 
the  county  poorhouse.

The  new  owner  of  Walker’s  Station 
never  gave  a  thought  to  what  the  place 
had  cost.  He  got  it  for  almost  nothing 
and  was  well  pleased  with^his  bargain. 
The  seven  years  of  time,  the  hot  sweaty 
labor,  the  vain  hopes,  the  broken  heart, 
the  ruined  mind  were  nothing  to  him. 
He  had 
for  several  months  before  the 
sheriff  sold  the  place  been  operating  a 
steam  drill  not  only  on  S i’s  town  site 
but  in  many  other  places.  He  told  the 
natives  he  was  “ drilling  for  water.’ 
They  believed  him  and  when  he  offered 
to  buy  their  land  were  only  too  willing 
to  sell.  He  bought  all  of  the  land  he 
wanted  at  his  own  price  and  then  sunk 
a  shaft.  The  natives  discovered  when 
it  was  too  late  that  it  might  have  been 
water  he  was  after,  but  that  it  was  coal 
he  found.  The 
irony  of  fate  was  truly 
exemplified.  Walker’s  Station  began  to 
grow. 
in  demand. 
Stores,  shops  and  dwellings  sprang  up 
on  the  very  ground  where Si  had labored 
for  years  and  raised  nothing.  The  rail­
road  company  built  roundhouses  and 
machine  shops  there,  because  coal  was 
so  handy.  Manufacturing  concerns  of 
many  kinds 
located  there  for  the  same 
reason,  and  Walker’s  Station  became  all 
that  Si  Clay  had  dreamed— a  thriving, 
throbbing  center  of  industry.

lots  were 

Town 

Mac  Allan.

M other  Goose  Up  to  Date.
There was a man in our town 
Invested all his health,
With madly avaricious aim.
To win tlie goal of wealth;
And when the same he had attained, 
With all his might and main.
He vainly lavished all his wealth 
To get his health again.

H . M.  Reynolds  &  Son,

Manufacturers  of

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

Qrand  Rapids, Mich.

Office, 82 Campau st.
Factory,  ist av.  and  M. C. Ry.

E S T A B L IS H E D   1868

Detroit, Mich.
Foot  ist St.

We
Sometimes 
Lose a 
Customer

But  it  is  usually  under  circumstances  like 
those  recently  related  by an  old  patron who 
returned to  us after  some  bitter  experience 
elsewhere.  He  was  teased  by  a  smooth 
solicitor of another concern  into buying cou­
pon  books at a  low price, but when  he  real­
ized  that he had given  an  order  four  times 
as large  as  usual  and  discovered  when  the 
goods  were  delivered  that  they  were  so 
slovenly  bound  and  so  incorrect  in  count 
that  his 
customers  became  prejudiced 
against  the  system,  because  they  assumed 
that  it was devised  to  swindle  them,  he  de­
cided that  it  pays  to  give  a  fair  price  for 
honest goods and  deal  with  a  house which 
stands back of its  product  by  paying  $1  in 
cash  for every book  found  to  be  incorrectly 
counted.  For this reason  his  name  is  again 
on  our  list  of  customers. 
If  yours  is  not 
there also, we should be pleased to have you 
send  for samples and  quotations.

Tradesman  Company,

G ran d   R a p id s,  M ich.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

neck  insert  your  finger  at  the  base of  the 
neck  and 
loosen  the  heart,  liver  and 
gizzard  by  working  it  around  until  you 
can  fell  they  are  clear  and  do  not  stick 
to  the  sid es;  then  cut  a small hole  at  the 
other  end,  just  large  enough  for the  giz­
zard  to  come  through,  and  the  skin  can 
be  readily  drawn  together and  sewed, 
with  barely  a  trace  remaining  where  it 
has  been  cut.  To  complete  a  clean piece 
of  work,  take  a  thick  slice  of  larding 
pork  cut  down  to  the  rind,  but  not 
through 
i t ;  open  the  two  slices  as  the 
leaves  of  a  book,  and  lay  it 
lengthwise 
on  the  turkey’s  breast,  with  the  rind 
iart  down  so  the  pure  white  larding 
pork  shows  entirely;  then  fasten  secure­
ly  at  the  four  comers  with  toothpicks 
(skewers  would  tear  the flesh).  Mrs.  B. 
and  her  cook  will  be  pleased  at  the  at­
tention.  The  slice  of  larding  pork  does 
not  cost  you  much,  and  a  cook’s  influ­
ence 
is  considerable,  as  some  of  you 
may  know.  Then  when  the  turkey  is 
brought  to 
lady 
friends  of  the (hostess  see  how  carefully 
t  has  been  dressed,  they  go  into  rap 
tures  (trust  a  woman  to  see  all  these  lit 
tie  details). 
is  your  butcher, 
Mrs.  B .?  M y!  he  does  know  how  to 
dress  a  turkey!’ ’  And 
it’s  dollars  to 
doughnuts  that  Mrs.  B .’s  butcher  gets  a 
new  customer  or  two  the  next  day,  par­
ticularly  as  the  slice  of  larding  pork 
adds  a  most  delicious  flavor  to  the  finest 
turkey,  and,  of  course,  the  butcher  gets 
the 
is 
pleased,  the  company 
is  pleased,  and 
the  butcher  has  pleasure and profit there­
by.  Chickens  are  dressed  in  precisely 
the  same  way,  but  it  is  much  easier  as 
most  of  the 
intestines  can  he  drawn 
through  the  neck;  and  with  a  very  little 
ractice  a  chicken  can  be  drawn  so 
scientifically  that  the  customer  has  to 
look  twice  to  see  if  it  is  really  drawn.—  
Leon  Alexandre  in  Butchers’  Advocate.

the  table,  and 

The  customer 

credit  of 

“ Who 

the 

it. 

>"  to  M ake  a   Crow n  Roast.

Much  skill  is  not  necessary  to  make  a 
crown  roast,  yet  a  well-made  one  always 
attracts  attention  and  sells  at  a  good 
.rice.  Take  two  plump  racks  of  lamb 
that  have  no  blade  chops  on,  and  knick 
each  one  about  the  same  as  you  would 
chop  roast  loin  pork,  but  not  too  deer 
Run  your  knife  from  one  end  of  the 
rack  to  the  other,  on  both  sides,  about 
two  inches  from  the  top.  Skin  the  lowe 
part  the  same  as  you  would  French 
chops,  then  cut  off the  fat where  you  cut 
across  the  rack.  The 
two  racks  are 
then  placed  end  to  end  and  sewed  to- 
gether.  Then  roll  the  whole  together,  so 
that  the  ribs  curve  outward.  They  form 
^   crown.  A   piece  of  heavy  cord  is 
then  tied  around  the  center,  and  the 
tighter the  cord  is  drawn  the  more  will 
the  ribs  curve  out.  Then  take  the  caul 
of  a  calf,  and  place  it  around  the  base 
of  the  meat 
like  a  collar.  The  meat 
taken 
from  between  the  ribs  should  be 
chopped  quite  fine,  and  placed  inside 
the  crown,  or  ribs,  and  some  parsley 
scattered  on  it.  Colored  paper,  knicked 
with  scissors,  and  placed  around 
the 
crown,  helps  the  effect.  Another  good 
decorative  scheme 
is  to  place  a  grape 
on  the  end  of  each  of  the  ribs  foiming 
the  crown. 
®

R ig h t  and  W rong  W ay  to   D ress  P oultry 
When  I  say  that  not  one  in  twenty 
butchers  knows  how  to  dress  a  turkey  or 
I  am  making  an 
chicken  properly, 
assertion  that  can  be  easily verified. 
In 
my  experience  of  over  twenty  years  I 
have  come 
in  contact  with  thousands 
of  butchers  and  at  rare  intervals  I  have 
seen  a  first-class  poultry  dresser.  The 
few  who  did  know  were  quite  proud  of 
their  ability,  and  with  reason.  Now, 
let’s  get  down  to  facts:

it  has  been  handled.  He 

Mrs.  B.  wants  a  fine  large  turkey  for 
her  Sunday  dinner;  she’s  going  to  have 
company  and  is  filled  with 
importance. 
After  much  fuss  she  selects  a  fine  16  or 
18-pound  bird— a  handsome,  dry-picked 
flaw  or  break  in  the 
turkey  without  a 
skin,  young  and  tender,  and 
leaves  it 
for  the  butcher  to  dress  and  send  home. 
When  he  gets  ready  to  draw  it  he  grabs 
it 
like  a  ton  of  coal  or  a  chunk  of  ice 
and  slams  it  on  the  block,  chops  off  the 
legs  and  head,  picks  up  his  knife,  cuts 
the  skin  open  from  the  top  of  the  breast 
down  to  the  end  of  the  neck,  takes  hold 
of the  skin  on  both  sides  of the cut,  pulls 
it  apart,  and,  after  much  pulling  and 
hauling,  finally  gets  the  craw  out.  The 
whole  breast 
is  torn  and  ragged,  and 
from  hauling  over the  block  the  skin  on 
is  broken  and 
the  back  and  sides 
is  only  natural  after  the 
bruised,  which 
way 
then 
makes  a  cut  from  the  end  of  the  breast 
bone  to  the  tail  end  of  the  carcass  and 
shoves  a  fist  as  big as  a ham  into the tur 
key,  grabs  the  intestines  and  hauls them 
out,  leaving  a  hole 
in  the  body  like  a 
cave,  with tom  and ragged  edges.  Eight 
times  out  of  ten  the  gall  is  broken,  but 
that  is  Mrs.  B .’s  affair;  she”s  going  to 
eat 
it,  not  he,  so  he  doesn’t  care;  he 
fires  it  into  a basket,  and his  part  is  fin 
ished.  Then 
it  goes  to  Mrs.  B.  Of 
course,  she’s  going  to  stuff  it.  She  or 
her  cook  commence  operations; 
the 
breast  is  all  torn,  so  she  can’t  put  stuff 
ing  there;  they  put  the  stuffing  in  the 
other  end  and  sew 
it  up  as  best  they 
can;  half  the  time  the  thread  breaks 
through  while  the  bird  is  roasting,  and 
when  brought  to  the  table  the  stuffing 
is 
protrudes, 
the  breast 
invariably 
in  shreds  and 
burned,  the  skin  hangs 
patches,  and  it  has  (to  use  a  forcible 
if 
not  elegant  expression)  a sloppy-weather 
appearance.  Mrs.  B. 
is  dissatisfied, 
and  the  butcher gets  a  hauling  over  the 
coals  the  next  day  for  his  slovenly work, 
and 
it  serves  him  right.  He  brags  to 
his  friends  what  an  exert  butcher  he  is, 
And he  doesn’t  know  how  to  draw  a  tur 
key!  Nine  times  out  of  ten  he’s  even 
more  careless  with  a  chicken;  thinks 
any  old  way  is  good  enough  as  long  as 
he  finishes  his  work  and  gets  his  orders 
out  on  time.

Now  to  the  proper  w ay: 

Instead  of 
chopping  off  the  feet  let  him  draw  the 
sinews— it  only  takes  two  or  three  min­
utes  longer.  Then  let  him  take  a  sharp 
knife  and  slit  the  skin  along  the  back 
of  the  neck  and  draw 
it  out  and  the 
craw  can  be  removed  readily  and  in  one 
piece,  not  in  sections,  and  much  easier. 
Afterwards  the  skin  can  be  wrapped 
around  the  neck,  and  a  piece  of  twine 
tied  once  around  it  at  the  extreme  end, 
which 
ten  or 
twelve  stitches  would  be,.and  when  the 
bird 
its  back  the  breast  is 
whole  and  no  opening  can  be  seen. 
When  this 
is  properly  done  it  appears 
as  though  the  craw  was  not  removed  at 
all.

is  more  effective  than 

laid  on 

is 

Before  wrapping  the  skin  around  the

To the Retail Grocers of Michigan

Call  and  see  us  when  you  attend  the  Grocers’  Association. 
W e  want  to  say  a  word  about  B U T T E R   A N D   E G G S . 
Remember,  we  buy  all  grades  of  dairy  butter  on  track.

Stroup &  Carmer,

38  S.  Division  St.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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BUTTER,  EGGS AND  POULTRY

74 Congress Street East, Detroit, Mich.

Telephone No. 2189

.OYSTERS

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

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F. J.  DETTENTHALER,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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i/ew  / ears  ago  a  retailer  out  in 
Omaha  advertised  to  throw  off  the  roof 
of  his  building  on  Christmas  Day 
twenty-five  turkeys. 
The  first  turkey 
was  torn  to  pieces  bv  the  multitude 
the  second 
little  child •  the 
remainder  were  carted  off  to  the  police 
station  in  a  patrol  wagon,  with  the  re­
tailer and  a  couple  of  policemen  as com 
pany

injured  a 

V ery  C onsiderate.

What  a  lovely  waste  basket  the  edi- 

toi  has.

Yes,  he  s  so  kind  hearted  he  means 
faU  in  Pleasant

laces°“   S  meS  ShaU 

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.

PO TTER & WILLIAMS

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other  similarities  and  dissimilarities 
between  the  hen  and  the  editor,but  they 

not  come  to  mind  just  now.

W hy  B row n  Eggs  A re P referred  to W hite 

Ones.

There  are  several  reasons  why  brown 
eggs  are  preferable  to  white  ones.  The 
great  bulk  of  the  surplus  from  the  pro­
ducing  states  is  marketed  in  the  thickly 
populated  districts  of  the  East,  where 
brown  eggs  take  the  preference  over 
white  ones.  They  are  not  only  attractive 
in  appearance,  but  are  larger.  A   case 
of  all  browns  weighs  from  two  to  four 
pounds  more  than  a  case  of  all  whites, 
and  will  show  a  smaller  per  cent,  of 
breakage  because  the  shells are stronger. 
They  also  evaporate  less  in  storage  than 
white  eggs  under the  same  atmospheric 
loss  by  evaporation 
conditions.  The 
during  eight  months 
in  storage  was 
found  to  be  three  per  cent,  on  all  white 
eggs,  two  and  eight-tenths  per  cent,  on 
mixed  colors  and  two  and  four-tenths 
per  cent,  on  all  brown  eggs.  The  tests 
were  made  under  conditions  calculated 
to  reduce  evaporation  to  the  safest  pos 
sible  minimum,  and  with  April  stock 
Some  idea  of  the  volume of water thrown 
out  by  the  still  force  of  nature  may  be 
gained  when  it  is  stated  that  the amount 
of  vapor  which  escapes 
in  this  way 
from  the  eggs  during  the  entire  season 
in  the 
in  thi 
country  amounts  to  about  2,800  barrels 
of  water. 
It  must  not  be  supposed  that 
this  represents  the  loss  of  nourishment 
from  the  egg  meat ;  only  water  and  gas 
escape,  and  the  solids  (food  products 
remain  within  the  delicate  lining  unde 
the  shell.  There 
is  every  inducement 
to  encourage  the  production  of  brow 
eggs  for  the  additional  reason  that  n< 
only  the  eggs,  but  the  poultry  produc 
ing  them,  are  preferable  for  market, 
has  been  claimed  that  brown  eggs  are 
sweeter  than  the  white  ones,  but  thi 
assertion  rests  on  the  unstable  found« 
tion  of  the  consumer’s 
imagination 
Analytical  examinations  have  shown  the 
constituents  to  be  similar,  both  in  cha 
acter  and  proportion,  but  the  facts  th; 
they  are  larger,  stronger,  more attractive 
and  preferred  by  the  trade  are  sufficient 
reason  to  encourage  the  production.— 
Egg  Reporter.

largest  storage  center 

T he  H en  and  th e   E ditor.

A   hen  sets  on  her  nest  and  lays  eggs 
An  editor  sits  on  his  office  chair  and 
lies  in  his  bed—or  in  his  paper.  The 
hen 
“ feathers  her  nest;”   the  editor 
does  not— he  cuts  his  own  throat  by  do 
ing  business  for  nothing  simply  to  keej 
his  competitors  from  getting  it. 
Ih< 
hen  cackles  after  she  has  laid  a  good 
fresh  egg ;  the  editor  cackles  about  wh 
he 
intends  to  do,  but  seldom  does  i 
Sensible hen.  The  hen  scratches  for  he 
living ;  so  does  the  editor.  The  hen 
often  covers  up  bad  eggs ;  so  does  the 
editor.  The  hen  hatches  chickens  that 
come  to  some  good ;  most  editors  hatch 
schemes  that  never  amount  to  anything. 
The  hen  presents  her  bill  when  she 
wants  something,  and  usually  gets  it ; 
the  editor  presents  his  bill,  and  hardly 
ever  gets  anything.  The  hen  has  a 
comb,  which  she  doesn't  use ;  the  editor 
may have a comb,  and  use  it  sometimes, 
but  not  always.  The  hen  has  wings ;  the 
editor  has  none  and  never  will  have. 
The  hen  isn’t  a  high  flyer;  the  editor  is 
— sometimes.  The  hen  broods  and raises 
a 
large  family ;  the  editor  broods  oyer 
how  he  is  going  to  raise  the large family 
he  already  has,  as  well  as  over  wasted 
energies  and 
lost  opportunities.  The 
hen  is  a  rooster  when  she  sleeps—that’s 
queer ;  the  editor  is  a  queer  rooster  all 
the  time.  The  hen  often  gets  cooped ; 
too,  some­
the  editor  gets  (s)cooped, 
times.  The  hen  often  gets 
in  the 
neck ;  so  does  the  editor.  Sometimes  the 
hen  crows,  but  why  nobody  knows ;  the 
editor  crows  almost  all  thé  time,  but  no 
one  ever  knows  why.  There  may  be

it 

from 

>r  stock 

keep  all  poultry 

V aluable  H ints  on  P ack in g   P o u ltry .
We  urge  upon  you  the  importance  of 
lling  nothing  but  fat  stock ;  turn  all 
in  and  poor  stock  out  to  fatten  for  fu­
ture  use;  it  will  pay  you  to  do  so,  as 
is  a  drug  on  the  market. 
Scalded  stock,  head  and 
feet  off,  are 
more  salable  on  this  market,  and be sure 
feed  from 
twelve  to  eigheen  hours  before  killing 
me.  When  the  craws  are  full  of  feed, 
not  only  imparts  a  sour  flavor  to  the 
stock,  but  the  craws  soon  turn  black, 
nd  detract 
from  the  appearance  and 
ale  of  same.
See  that  all  animal  heat  is  entirely 
radicated  before  packing  your  poultry 
jr   shipment.  Use  nothing  but  dry, 
clean,  sweet  packages;  under  no  cir­
cumstances  use  pine  or  any  other  kind 
of  wood  that  is  likely  to  impart  an  ob­
jectionable  flavor  to  the  poultry;  use  no 
straw  in  packing;  if  you  will  insist  up- 
jn  using  paper,  use  parchment  paper, 
and  under  no  circumstances  use  news-
papers. Mark  the  cc ntents of  package
nal inly on  the  side or  to ),  number ol
pieces, and  the  net  weight of  same. 
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you  wi 11  heed  our suggestions  in  this
line,  w feel  confident  that you  will  not
bave  any  cause  to regret having  done
so.

G. M.  Lamb.

New'  M ethod  of  K eeping  Eggs.

its  simplicity. 

A  method  of  preserving  eggs  without 
the  use  of  chemicals  or  cold  storage  so 
that  they  will  keep 
for  an  indefinite 
period  as  fresh  as  they  were  taken  from 
the  nest  has  been  invented  by  a  New 
Yorker. 
The  chief  merit  of  the  inven- 
Its  principle  is 
is 
ion 
merely  that  the  eggs  shall  be  arranged 
on  racks  in  peculiarly  constructed cases, 
so  that  the  air  will  have  free  circulation 
around  them.  A  case  built  upon  the 
new  plan  costs  no  more  than  the  ordin­
ary  packing  cases  now  in  use,  yet  the 
inventor  thinks  a  cargo  of  eggs  placed 
in  them  can probably  be  sent  around  the 
world  and  come  back  to  the  starting 
point  ready  to  be  cooked  and  put  upon 
the  table  of  an  epicure.

Kgic  Case  Stock  Scarce.

Egg  case  stock  is  scarce  and  the  big 
demand  continues.  Nearly  every  egg 
case  manufacturer  has  more  orders  than 
he  can  fill.  The  enormous  consumption 
of  lumber  for  boxes  in  all  lines  of  trade 
in  1899  has  used  up  all  accumulations 
and  mills  are  taxed  to  their full capacity 
to  fill  current  orders.  When  high  water 
comes 
in  the  spring  hundreds  of  mills 
in  the  Cairo  district  will  have  to  shut 
down  and  an  egg  case  famine  may  be 
one  of  the 
features  of  the  business  in 
1900. 

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I.a<ly  B u tch er  Gives  I t  Up.

A  lady  butcher has  given  up the strug­
gle.  She 
is  Miss  L.  F.  McCarthy,  and 
had  a  market  in  Hopkinton,  Mass.  A 
position  which  promises  more  profit 
was offered  her and she  accepted  it,  clos­
ing  her  market.

Some  of  the  dressed  poultry  received 
in  the  Chicago  and  New  York  markets 
from  prominent  shippers  in  the  favorite 
poultry  sections  for  the 
later  holiday 
trade  showed  careless dressing and pack­
ing,  and  many  marks  would  not  have 
retailed  at  market  prices  even  had  they 
arrived  in  perfect  condition.

The  two  eggs  laid  by  a  pigeon  almost 
invariably  produce  male  and 
female. 
Some  curious  experiments  as  to  which 
of  the  eggs  produces  the  male and which 
the  female  have  resulted  in showing  that 
the  first  egg  laid  is  the  female  and  the 
second  the  male.

Following  a  disastrous  year in  the egg 
business  there  is  just  a  shade  of  prob­
ability  that  eggs  will  be  bought  at  rea­
sonable  prices  this  spring  and  a  reason­
able  quantity  put  away.

J.  W.  LA N SIN G .

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

B U T T E R   AND  E G G S

B U F F A L O ,  N.  Y .

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

cents, according to quality.  Send  me your shipments, for 1 can sell your goods.

REFERENCES
Buttalo Cold Storage Co., ButTallo, N. Y. 
Peoples Bank, Buffalo, N.  Y.

I >un or Bradstreet. 
Michigan Tradesman.

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M AKE  A  N O TE  O F  IT.  W E  WANT

P O T A T O E S

Write  us  what  you  have  to  offer.

M ILLER & T E A S D A L E  CO .. S T .  LO U IS.  MO.

Receivers and  Distributors of  Fruits and  Produce  in  car lots.

BEANS

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

M OSELEY  BROS.

Always  in  the  market

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

Seeds,  Beans,  Potatoes,  Onions,  Apples.

B E A N S

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T   If any to  sell  send  good size sample, state quan-  ®  
;|y  tity, and we will  make bid  for them. 
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H E A L T H   F O O D S

The question  of “ Foods” has become one of the yery  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 aid  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 

BATTLE  CREEK  BAKERY,  Battle Creek, Mich.

44 N o t   H o w   C h e a p

B u t   H o w   G o o d . "

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.

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GOTHAM  GOSSIP.

News  P ro m   th e   M etropolis—In dex  to   th e  
Special Correspondence.

M arket.

New  York,  Jan.  20— Sellers  of  coffee 
are  holding  on  to  their  stocks  and  seem 
to  know  no  such  thing  as  making  con­
cessions.  Advices  from  abroad 
indi­
cate  a  good  degree  of  strength  and  this 
market  closes  steady  and  firm.  Roasters 
are  said  to  be  taking  all  they  can  ar­
range 
for  at  prevailing  rates,  although 
this  may  be  taken  with  some  allowance. 
The  fact  remains,  though,  that  buyers 
are  taking  quite  liberal  allowances  and 
seem  to  take  it  for  granted  that they will 
gain  nothing  by  waiting  or  by  shopping 
around.  There  is  a  more  active  specu­
lative  market  than  usual  and  a  decided 
gain  has  been  made  during  the  week  in 
quotations.  Rio  No.  7  closes  strong  at 
In  store  and  afloat  there  are 
1,016,268 bags,  against  1,330,050  bags  at 
the  same  time  last  year.  Mild  grades 
have  ruled  very  high  and  the  supply 
is 
moderate. 
instances  second 
hands  were  selling  West  India  growths 
below  the  rate  asked  by 
importers.  At 
the  close  good  Cucuta  was  quoted  at 
ioK c.

In  some 

While  the  volume  of  teas  changing 
hands  this  week  has  not  been  large,  the 
market 
is  firm  and  dealers  look  ahead 
with  a  good  degree  of  confidence.  Quo­
tations  practically  unchanged.

A  stronger  market  for  raw  sugars  ex­
erted  an  influence  over  refined  and 
for 
the  past  two  days  there  has  been  quite 
a  volume  of  business  going  forward. 
Quotations  have  been  changed,  standard 
granulated  being  listed  Friday  at  5:15, 
instead  of  5.05.  Concessions  on  softs 
have  been  withdrawn.

The  amount  of  rice  business  has  been 
very 
light  and  it  is  said  that  relatively 
quotations  on  domestic  were  lower  here 
than  in  New  Orleans.  Quite  a  fair trade 
has  been  done 
in  Japan,  the  price  of 
from  4% @ 4% c.  Prime  to 
which 
choice  southern,

is 

Sellers  and  buyers  of  spices  appear  to 
be  unable  to  agree  and  their  difference 
of  opinion  has  extended  over  several 
weeks.  The  result 
is  that  little  busi­
ness  has  been  done.  Quotations  are 
firm  on  almost  every  article.

As  spring  approaches  there 

is  de­
cidedly  more  enquiry  for  spot  canned 
goods  and  an  awakening  as  to  the  situa­
tion  for  futures.  Hardly  an  article  can 
be  mentioned  that 
is  not  firmly  held, 
unless 
it  be  tomatoes,  on  which,  per­
haps,  some  concessions  have been made, 
and 
if  prices  have  made  no  particular 
advance,  the  tendency  is  certainly  up­
ward.  The  situation 
in  the  Baltimore 
is  said  to  be  very  strong  and 
market 
some  good  business 
is  going  forward. 
While  the  pack  of  tomatoes  was  so  large 
as  to  abundantly  supply  all  wants,  it 
grows_  more  and  more  evident  that  by 
the  time  new  goods  come  to  hand,  the 
market  will  be  almost  bare  of  many  ar­
ticles.

Lemons  have  sold  at  lower  prices  and 
the  demand 
for  oranges  is  less  active, 
sales  being  of  very  small  lots.  Sicily 
lemons,  300s,  $2^2.75;  360s,  $2.35© 
2.75.  Oranges,  Jamaica,  repacked  bar­
rels,  are worth $6@6.75 ;  Florida brights 
$2.75@3.25 ;  russets,  $2.75@3:  Califor­
nia  navels,  $2 .5o@3.25 ;  seedlings,  $2 
@2.50.

The  dried 

fruit  market 

is  very 
quiet  so  far  as  actual  transactions  are 
concerned,  the  dealings  being  of  the 
smallest  possible  amounts.  Holders 
however,  seem  to  think  more  activity 
will  soon  prevail  and  accordingly  prices 
are  firm. 

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The  butter  market 

The  molasses  market  presents  few,  if 
any,  features  of 
interest,  buyers  seem­
ing  to  have  sufficient  supply  to  last  for 
some  time,  and sales  being  of  very small 
quantities.  Syrups are  selling  with  some 
degree  of  freedom  at generally full rates 
is  still  well  sup- 
P*ie“   with  g°°d  goods  and  while  de­
mand  has  shown 
improvement 
there  has  been  no  advance  over  the  25c
mac^e  f°r  best  Western  creamery. 
Thirds 
imitation 
creamery,  i8@23c,  the  latter  for  fancy 
stock.  Western  factory,  ig@ 2 ic:  rolls 
i6@i9C. 
’
is  a  better  demand  for  cheese, 
There 
both  from  exporters  and  the  home trade,

firsts,  2i@24c; 

some 

to 

the  former  business  amounting  to  a  re­
spectable  total.  Prices  are  unchanged.
Arrivals  of  desirable  stocks of eggs are 
light  and  firm,  and  the  situation  at  the 
moment  is  in  favor of  the  seller.  There 
has  in  fact  been  an  advance  in  Western 
goods  to  a  21c  rate  for  best  goods,  with 
fair  to  good  20c.

The  bean  market  exhibits  a  good  de­
gree  of  strength  and  choice  Michigan 
pea  beans  are  quotable  at  §2. io@2.15 ; 
red  kidney,  choice,  $2.20(812.25.

the 

W as  Not  le g a l  A dvisor  to  th e  Booth»
Belding,  Jan. 

19—An  article  in  the 
Michigan  Tradesman  of  Jan.  17,  rela 
tive  to  the  injunction  served  upon  me, 
is  rather  misleading. 
In  the  first  place] 
I  never  met  the  firm  of  W.  D.  &  I.  J. 
Booth,  or  Fremont  Booth,  until  a 
few 
days  before  the  mortgage  was  executed. 
I  have  only  had  a  slight  acquaintance 
with  their  father,  who  has  managed  the 
Belding  store,  and  never  have  been  em­
ployed  by  him  or  by  or  for any  of  them. 
A  few  days  before  the  mortgage  was 
given,  the  Booths  came  to  me  and  said 
they  were  hopelessly 
involved,  and 
wished  to  turn  their  two  stocks  of  goods 
over  to  their  creditors. 
I  suggested  a 
trust  mortgage  and  asked  them  if  they 
had  any  one  whom  they  preferred  to  act 
as  trustee.  They  replied  that  their only 
concern  was  that  the  creditors  should  be 
honestly  dealt  with,  and  that  any  good 
man  would  be  acceptable  to  them. 
1 
then  obtained  permission  to  act  in  that 
capacity.  After  filing  the  mortgage,  I 
conferred  with  some  of 
leading 
creditors  as  to  the  best  method  of  man­
aging  the  business  and  was  guided  by 
them in outlining  my  policy  and  execut­
ing  my  trust. 
In  fact,  I  supposed  that 
my  course  was  approved  of  by  all  until 
two  Grand  Rapids  creditors  petitioned 
to  have  the  firm  declared  bankrupt  and 
to  have  me  restrained  from  selling  the 
goods  until  a  receiver  could  be  ap­
pointed.  This  application  for  an 
in­
junction  contained  allegations  of  fraud, 
conspiracy  and  other  high  crimes  and 
misdemeanors  on  my  part— all  of  which 
I  denied  in  my  answer  and  do  now most 
emphatically  deny.  Judge  Severens,  in 
granting  the  order to  have the temporary 
injunction  made  permanent,  said  that 
his  action  in  so  doing  was  not  to be con­
strued  as  any  criticism  on  the  trustee  or 
in  disparagement  of  him,  but  that  he 
held  that  the  givin g  of  such  a  mortgage 
for  the  benefit  of  all  creditors,  of  all  of 
mortgagors’ 
their  stocks, 
itself  an  act  of  bankruptcy  and 
was 
that 
followed  that  a  receiver 
ought  to  be  appointed. 
I  also  object  to 
the  following  statement  in  your  paper: 
“ Other  creditors  prefer  to  see  him 
(the  trustee)  continue  in  charge  of  the 
properties,  in order  that the winter goods 
in  both  stocks  may  be worked  off during 
the  cold  weather.”

in 
it  then 

interests 

in 

in  value 

In  my  answer  I  made  a  showing  that 
the  stock  ought  to  be  disposed  of at once 
for  the  reason  that  the  winter  goods 
would  depreciate 
if  carried 
over to  another  season.  What  the  influ­
ential  creditors  did  say  was  that  thev 
were  satisfied  that  1  had  acted  honestly 
in  the  matter,  and  they  thought  that  I 
was  the  proper  party  to  be  appointed 
receiver.  The  inference  from  vour  state­
ment 
is  that,  notwithstanding  all  pos­
sible  conspiracy  on my part,  some  of  the 
creditors  preferred  to  see  me  continue 
in  charge  “ in  order  that  the  winter 
in  both  stocks  might  be  worked 
goods 
off 
I  have  always 
guarded  my  professional  honor  and  I  do 
not  care  to  be  misrepresented  or  wrong­
fully  accused. 
It  matters  very  little  to 
Lme  who 
is  appointed  receiver  of  the 
Wooth  stocks,  but  it 
impor­
tance  that  all  statements  made  concern- 
ing  my  connection  with  said  business 
should  be  absolutely  true.

in  cold  weather." 

is  of  vital 

H.  L.  van  Benschoten

A   German  paper gives  the  following 
method  of  detecting  small  cracks 
in 
steel  tools :  The  tool,  near  the  cutting 
edge,  is  to  be  dipped 
in  petroleum, 
which  must  be  rubbed  off  clean  and  thé 
surface  then  wiped  with  chalk.  The i 
petroleum,  which  has  entered  the  fine 
cracks,  sweats  out  on  the  chalk,  and  the 
rent  is  visible  in  its  whole  extent.

P re tty   N ear  th e   D anger  Line.

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Just  at  present  the  chief  interest of the 
people  of  North  Adams,  Mass.,  centers 
around  a  controversy  between  two 
lead- 
ing  meat  dealers.  Both  have  out  carts 
to  make  their daily  rounds  and  a  pretty 
keen  rivalry  has  developed  between  the 
two,  that  has  come  finally  to  be  a  very 
wordy  and  long-drawn-out  controversy.
One  of  them  is  a  newcomer  and  started 
out  by  tackling  the  other,  who  has  been 
at  the  business  a  good  deal  longer,  and 
accusing  him  of  being  the  agent  of  a 
wholesale  firm.  The  old  settler got  back 
at  the  newcomer  by  telling  the  public  I   W R IT E   TH EM   FO R  PR ICE S 
that  his  rival’s  stock  couldn’t  get  a  I ,  
clean  bill 
from  the  easiest  board  of 
health  that  ever  looked  after  meat  mar­
kets  and  other  matters  of  concern  to  the 
public  health ;  that  his  goods  were  ver­
tuberculosis 
min-laden, 
and  other 
in 
short,  unfit  for  consumption.  Unless 
some  sort  of  truce  is  patched  up  it  looks 
as  though 
it  might  be  necessary  to  put 
one  of  the  reserve  police  on  special duty 
to  see  that  the  matter  doesn’t  end  in 
murder.

GfiO. E Ellis

tainted  with 
fearful  diseases,  and, 

Phone  432

An  O ptical  Illu sio n .

Optician-—1  can  not  sell you spectacles 
for  your  husband.  He  must  come  for 
them  in  person.  What  is  the  nature  of 
his  visual  defect?

Woman— A  five  cent  piece  looks  big­
ger  to  him  than  a  five  dollar  bank  note 
to  other  people.

An  K pitom e  of a  C en tu ry ’s  Progress.
Professor— Miss  Ilavilla,  mention  a 
in­

few  of  the  most  wonderful  scientific 
ventions  of  the  Nineteenth  Century.

Miss  Flavilla—Yes, 

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and  ice  cream  soda.

sir; 

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is  the  fifth  time,  sir, 

I’ve  brought  you  this  bill.

Customer— Well,  haven’t  I  always  re­

ceived  you  affably?

Collector— I  don’t  want  affability,  sir; 

I  want  cash.

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John B. Heydlauff',  R epresenting B urley A 

T yrrell,  of Chicago.

John  B.  Heydlauff  was  bom in Detroit 
in  1854.  His  father,  Andrew  H.  Heyd­
lauff,  who was  a  carpenter  and  joiner  by 
trade,  came  to  this  country  from  Wur- 
temburg,  Germany,  when  he  was  17 
fears  old  and  settled  in  Detroit.  Later 
he  met  in  Dearborn  Miss  Mary  A.  Low- 
rie,  whose  parents  were  English,  and 
whom  he  married 
in  1852.  They  had 
one  daughter  and  three  sons,  the  eldest 
f  whom  was  John. 
l.ate  in  the  fifties 
they  moved  to  Muir,  Ionia  county,  and 
the 
in  1861  the 
Twenty-first  Michigan 
in 
which  he  served  with distinction.  At the 
close  of  the  war  he  returned  to  Muir, 
where  he  died  shortly  after.  Upon  John 
and  his  mother devolved  the  responsi 
bilities  of  supporting  the  family,  and 
after  spending  nine  years  in  the  public 
schools  he  began  his  business  career  at

in 
Infantry, 

father  enlisted 

BHIH

the  age  of  15  as a clerk in Stevens  Bros 
general  store  at  Muir,  remaining  with 
them  a n d   their  successors  until  1883 
when  he  decided  to  remove  to  Jackson 
and  accept  a  position  with  Tuomey 
Bros.,  dealers  in  dry  goods,  cloaks,  etc 
by  whom  he  was  employed for two years. 
He  then  resigned  to  accept  a  more  re­
sponsible  position  with  L.  H.  T ield, 
with  whom  he  remained  for  three  years.
When  Mr.  Field  changed  his  store  to 
the  departmental  plan,  Mr  Heydlauff 
tendered  his  resignation  to  accept  a 
more  desirable  and  remunerative  posi­
tion  with  the  wholesale  and  retail crock­
ery  house  of  the  Trank  B.  Taylor  Co., 
of  Jackson.  For  twelve  years  he  re-

mained  with  this  firm,  traveling  and 
selling  its  goods  in  a  large  part  of  Cen­
tral  and  Southern  Michigan.  When  Mr. 
aylor  retired  from  business  in January, 
ortune  again  smiled  on Mr.  Heydlauff, 
ind  he  was  engaged  as  Michigan  repre­
sentative  for  the  wholesale  china,  glass- 
ire  and  crockery  house  of  Burley  & 
Tyrrell,  of  Chicago,  their  business  in 
this  State  having  expanded  to  such  an 
xtent  as  to  render  this  move  necessary. 
While  Mr.  Heydlauff  resided  in Muir, 
he  met  Miss  Hattie  E.  Hall,  of  St.
ihns,  and they  were  united  in  marriage 
Sept.  15,  1875.  They  have  two  daugh­
ters, both  graduates  of  the Jackson public 
schools.  One 
is  married  and  lives  in 
D etroit;  the  other  is  still  at  home.

Mr.  Heydlauff  is  a  prominent  mem­
ber  of  the  Michigan  Knights  of  the 
rip,  having  served  as  a  member  of  the 
Board  of  Directors  for  one  year.  He  is 
ilso  a  member  of  the  U.  C. 
I .  and 
Royal  Arcanum  and  has  taken  the  Blue 
Lodge,  Royal  Arch  and  Council  degrees 
jf  Masonry.  His  successful  business 
is 
-areer 
largely  the  result  of  his  hon­
esty, 
perseverance,  conscientiousness 
and  continued  application.  He  has  al­
ways  enjoyed  the  confidence  of  his  em­
ployers  and  customers  and  has  always 
been  employed  by  houses  of  such  high 
standing  as  to  make 
condition 
possible.  He  has  not  lost  a  day’s  time 
in  twenty  years  and  hopes  to  be  able  to 
ake  the  same  statement  twenty  years 

this 

hence. 

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Kalamazoo  Telegraph:  G.  C.  Tenny, 
of  this  city,  traveling  representative  for 
the  Richmond  Gas  Co.,  of  Richmond, 
Indiana,  has  given  up  the  eastern  half 
of  his  territory 
in  New  York,  in  ex­
change  for a  territory  of  forty  towns 
in 
Northern  Indiana.  This  change  will 
enable  Mr.  Tenny  to  be  at  home  more 
than  during  the  past  two  years  of  his 
connection  with  the  company.

When 

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

is  regarded  as  an  insult  to  a  loafer
busy  man  to  get  rich.

for

HOTEL  FOR  SALE

The well-known  Cushman  House,  at  Pe- 
to sk ey ,  is  now  offered  for  sale,  one-half 
dow n,  security  fo r  b alan ce.  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.

STYLE
And

QUALITY
GUARANTEED.

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Commercial T ravelers

Michigan  Knights  of th«  Grip

President,  E.  J.  Sch r eik k r,  Bay  City;  Sec­
retary,  A.  W.  St it t,  Jackson;  Treasurer, 
O.  C.  Gould, Saginaw.

President,  A.  Marymont,  Detroit;  Secretary 

Michigan  Commercial Ttaielers’  Association 
and Treasurer, Geo.  W. H il l,  Detroit.
United  Commercial  Traielers of Michigan 

Grand  Counselor,  J no.  A.  Murray,  Detroit; 
Grand  Secretary,  G.  S.  Valm ore,  Detroit; 
Grand Treasurer, W.  S.  Mest, Jackson.

Grand  Rapids  Conncil  No.  131

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

Treasurer, L. F. Baker.
Michigan  Commercial Traielers  Mutual  Accident  Association 
President, J.  Boy’D  Pa n tlin d,  Grand  Rapids; 
Secretary  and  Treasurer,  Geo.  F.  Ow en, 
Grand Rapids.

S t a n d in g ;  o n   t h e   T h r e s h o ld .

The  old  year  has  closed  and  a  new 
one  commenced.  We  stand  upon  its 
threshold,  solemnly,  hesitatingly.  For 
who  can  look  into  the  future?  Who  can 
tell  what 
it  will  bring  to  us,  what  joy 
and  blessings  or  woe  and  misery?  Who 
knows  whether  prosperity  will  smile up­
on  him  and  hopes  long  deferred  will  be 
realized  or  if  adversity  and  reverses will 
overtake  him?  This 
is  a  time  for  re­
flection,  an  occasion  for  thinking  over 
all  that  we  have  done  and  left  undone 
during  the  past  and  for  considering  our 
present  situation,  the  causes  which  have 
led  up  to  it,  and  then  we  must  draw 
our  conclusions,  being  either  satisfied 
or  dissatisfied  with  ourselves  and  the 
past.  Everybody,  more  or  less,  makes 
New  Year  resolutions,  swears  off  from 
this  or  that  habit,  but  none  of  these  res 
olutions  will  or  can  last  for  any  lengtl 
of  time,  unless they  have  been  prompted 
by  reflection.  The  “ outer  man”   must 
carry  out  what  the  “ inner  man”   has 
found  for  good.  Nothing which  is  done 
on  the  spur  of  the  moment  has  a  lastin 
effect.  You  can  not  build  a  house  where 
there  is  no  foundation  and  when  we  try 
to  shape  our  destiny  our  inner  life  must 
be  the  foundation.

Howell  Republican: 

The  genial
salesman,  Will  F.  Griffith,  has  com­
menced  his  nineteenth  year  with  Far- 
rand,  Williams  &  Clark.  The  company 
seems  to  know  a  good  thing  when 
it 
see  it.

The  joint  meeting  of  the  old  and  new 
Board  of  Directors  of  the  Michigan 
Knights  of  the  Grip,  which  was  to  be 
held  at  Lansing  last  Saturday,  was  post­
poned  until  Jan.  27,  on  account  of  the 
death  of  Secretary  Saunders’  mother, 
which  occurred  at  Buffalo,  N.  Y .,  last 
Thursday.

frequently  happens,  he  says, 

Boot  and  Shoe  Recorder;  A  sales­
man  who  travels  for  a  well-known  shoe 
manufacturing 
concern  was  speaking 
the  other  day  of  the  tendency  on  the 
art  of  many  traveling  men  to  recom­
mend  widely  advertised  lines  of  shoes.
that 
dealers  question  a  salesman  who is visit­
ing  them  with  a  line  of  women’s  foot­
wear,  as  to  what  line  of  men’s  shoes  he 
thinks  is  best  for  them  to  use  at  certain 
prices.  This  salesman  says  that  men  to 
horn  this  question  is  put  get  into  the 
habit,  thoughtlessly  perhaps,  of  giving 
the  names  of  firms  who  do  a  large  busi­
ness,  and  perhaps  have  all  the trade that 
they  need.  The  dealer  who  takes  the 
idvice  which  is  given  in  this  way  will, 
perhaps,  be  influenced  to  make a change 
lines  of  shoes  which  he  is 
carrying.  This  salesman  thinks  that  a 
traveling  man  who  is  asked  a  question 
if  this  kind  should  let  the  dealer  make 
his  own  choice,  rather  than  throw  down 
some  of  his  fellow  salesmen  who  need 
business.  The  foregoing  is  right  enough 
from  the  point  of  view  of  the  salesman, 
but,  on  the  other  hand.it  is  an  excellent 
irgument  for  those  firms  whose  lines  are 
well  known  through  advertising.  This 
mouth-to-mouth  advertising  of  which  he 
complains  can  only  be  given  to  such 
firms  as  have  spent  a good deal of money 
pushing  their  goods  by  the  use  of 
printer’s  ink.  There’s  no  getting  away 
from  that  fact.

certain 

Travelingm en  are  easy-going  people 
As  a  rule,  they  are  honorable,  energetic 
and  generous.  At  the  same  time  they 
are  not  as  strict  in  every  respect  as  they 
might  be  at  all  times.  They  Often  do 
not  take  care of the *‘ morrow”   as well 
of “ to-day,”   and  many disappointments 
and  tribulations  are  due  to  this  fault 
When  we 
look  back  over  the  past  we 
find  where  we  have  made  mistakes 
where  we  could  have  done  better  by 
looking  ahead.  We  discover  this  in  our 
private 
it  in  our  business 
But  the  world  moves  on 
relations. 
and 
in  time  everything  repeats  itself 
There  will  be  chances  to  retrieve  lost 
opportunities  and  grasp  those  which 
offer  themselves  to  us,  and  if  we  enter 
the  new  year  with  the  firm resolve “ look 
ahead, ’ ’  we  are  bound  to  pass  through 
it  unharmed.

life,  we  see 

May  1900  be  a  good  and  prosperous 
for  all  of  us,  may  its  joys  be  many 
one 
and 
its  sorrows 
few,  so  that  when  we 
shall  have  a  wish  in  the  future it maybe 
for  another  vear  like  1900. 

Vindex.

G ripsack  B rigade.

John  M.  Fell  has  engaged  to  travel 
for  Geo.  H.  Reeder  &  Co.,  covering  the 
trade  of  Southwestern  Michigan.

Kalamazoo  Gazette :  Waldo  A.  Forbes 
hastakena position as traveling salesman 
for  the  Waterbury  Locking  Hat  Rack 
Co.,  of  Waterbury,  Conn.  He will travel 
in  Michigan  and  Indiana.

S.  V.  DeGraff,  for  several  years  past 
city  salesman  for  the  Jennings  Flavor­
ing  Extract  Co.,  has  engaged  to  repre­
sent  Foote  &  Jenks,  of  Jackson, 
in 
Grand  Rapids and surrounding territory.

T ribute  to  th e  T rav eler  by  One  o f  'E m .
The  walking  delegate  of  trade  is  on 
for  1900,  and  everywhere 
the  warpath 
finds  the  doors  wide  open  for commerce.
The  successful  salesman  of  the  day 
must  be  a  hustler  who  can  study  and 
understand  human  nature;  size  up  a 
man  while  talking  with  him ;  have  an 
open  hand 
in  greeting  and  an  open 
purse  for  the  needy  and  weak,  a  cheery 
word,  a  hearty 
laugh  and  a  howdy  for 
everybody.  At  the  same  time,  perhaps 
some  one  is  sick  at  home— perhaps sales 
are’exceedingly  bad  or  horribly  good 
perhaps  he  gets  a  telegram from the con­
cern:  “ Come  home  first  train,”   a fore­
runner  of  the  great  American  bounce— 
a  discharge— yet  he  must  look  pleasant 
and  be  gay.

it 

When  the  drummers  gather together  in 
is  a  gathering  of  the 
convention, 
smartest,  brainiest,  nerviest  and  most 
practical  self-made  men  on  top  of  the 
globe.  They  work  when  others  sleep. 
They  are  great  actors  on  the  stage  of 
life.  When  they  preserve  that  clam-like 
silence  which  is  so  golden,  they  make 
signs  for  others  to  read  and  learn.  They 
are  never  known  to  drink—too  much 
water.  They  sell  goods  and  try  so  hard 
to  tell  the  truth.  Take  them  in  a  bunch, 
for  good  or  bad,  and  they  will  pass 
in­
spection  any  time  and  anywhere.  A   set 
of 
jolly  good  fellows,  who  kick  at  any 
and  everything,  but  make  the  most  of 
it  while  it  lasts.  Give  them  a  through 
ticket  to  heaven,  and  they  will  make  a 
kick  for  a  sleeper  and  a  lower  berth. 
Of  course,  some  people  would  be  satis­
fied  with  a  cross-tie  ticket,  but they have 
not  learned  the  art  of  kicking.

Dudley  Selph

f u v a j-u e

This cut represents spnng shape of our extreme,y popuAar Agency Hat. 

Write  for  prices  to  the  trade.

Q.  H.  Oates  &  Co.,

143 Jefferson Ave., 

Detroit, Michigan.

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Drugs=-Chem icals

M ichigan  State  B oard  o f P harm acy

Term expires
-  Dec. 31,1900
- 
Geo.  Gundbum, Ionia 
-  Dec. 31,1901 
L.  E.  R e y n o l d s ,  St.  Joseph 
H en ry  He im , Saginaw 
-  Dec. 31,1902
- 
Dec. 31,1903
Wik t  P.  Doty, Detroit - 
A. C. Schum acher, Ann Arbor  -  Dec. 31,1904 

President,  Geo.  Gundkum,  Ionia.
Secretary, A.  C.  Schum acher,  Ann Arbor. 
Treasurer, H en ry  He im , Saginaw.
E x am ination  Sessions 
Grand Rapids—Mar. 6 and 7.
Star Island—June 25 and 26.
Sault Ste. Marie—Aug. 28 and 29. 
Lansing—Nov. 7 and 8.

State  P h arm aceu tical  A ssociation 

President—O.  Eberbach, Ann Arbor. 
Secretary—Chas.  F.  Ma n n, Detroit. 
Treasurer—J.  S.  Ben n ett,  Lansing.

P h arm aceu tical  Dont’s.

Don’t  buy  cheap  corks  for  the  pre­
scription  counter.  The  best  are  not  al­
ways  perfectly  satisfactory.

Don’t  keep  deliquescent  salts  in  tin 

cans  or  wooden  boxes  or  drawers.

Don’t  use  any  water  in  compounding 

prescriptions  but  distilled  water.

Don’t  permit  a  deposit  to  accumulate 
on  the  shelf  bottle  containing  tincture 
of  ferric  chloride.

Don’t  use  a  Wedgewood  mortar  for 
ointments  or  oleaginous  mixtures.  Glass 
is  more  easily  cleaned.

Don’t  use  shelf  bottles  for  castor  oil 
and  glycerin;  small  cans  with  a  pump 
are  cleaner and  much  more  convenient.
Don’t  send  out  a  refilled  prescription 
in  a  soiled  bottle.  Use  a  new  bottle  or 
cleanse  the  former  one,  and  put  on  a 
fresh  label.

Prepare  medicated  waters 

in  quanti­
ties  to 
last  for a  short  time,  and  don’t 
dispense  them  after a  flocculent accumu­
lation  is  seen  floating  about.

in 

Don’t  put  small  quantities  of essential 
oils 
large  shelf  bottles,  where  they 
speedily  deteriorate  and  become  worth­
less.  Buy  these  oils  in  small  amounts. 
Keep  them 
in  the  original  bottles  in  a 
cool,  dark  place.

Soda  W ater  Not  a  M edicine.

for 

Over  in  Canada  the  authorities  are 
apparently  not  so  lenient  with  druggist 
breakers  of  the  Sunday  laws.  In Toronto 
the  other  day,  a  druggist  sold  ice  cream 
and  soda  water  on  Sunday.  He  was 
prosecuted 
it,  and  was  fined  one 
dollar  and  costs,  or  ten  days  in  jail. 
in  delivering  his  judg­
The  magistrate 
ment  said: 
“ I 
find  upon  the  evidence 
that  soda  water  and  ice cream  are  some­
times  sold  as  medicines.  In  my  opinion 
the  sale  of  these  articles  mentioned  was 
not made  as  a  sale of medicine,  although 
nothing  was  said  by  either  party  on  the 
subject. ”

We  have  known  a  druggist 

in  the 
States  to  plead  that  tobacco  was  a  medi­
cine,  and  therefore  he  was  justified  in 
selling  cigars  on  Sunday,  but  this  is  the 
first  time,  to  our  recollection,  that  the 
plea  has  been  made  that  ice  cream  soda 
water  is  a  medicine. 
It  would  be  inter­
esting  to  have  this  question  debated and 
see  all  the  arguments  the  druggist  could 
advance  in  support  of  the  proposition. 
We  have  not  the  nerve  over  here  to 
make  such  a  plea.

A bating  a   N uisance.

The  distribution  by  “ patent  medi­
cine  manufacturers  of  free  samples  of 
headache  powders,  pills,  etc.,  around  on 
door-steps  has  grown  to  be  a  consider­
able  evil.  Only  the  other  day  a  colored 
in  Philadelphia,  aged  n   years, 
girl 
died 
from  the  effects  of  eating  a  pack­
age  of  sample  pills  which  she  had found 
and  which  she  had  believed  from  the 
sweetness  of  their first  taste  to  be candy. 
A   few  months  ago  we  chronicled  the

unhappy  results  which  followed  the  eat­
ing  by  a  number  of  children  of  sample 
“ liver  pills’ ’  which had been distributed 
freely  about  on  the  door-steps  of  a  Phil­
adelphia  town.  Other  cases  have  been 
reported  from  time  to  time.  This  has 
led  to  the  passage  of ordinances in many 
cities  forbidding  the  distribution  of 
medicines  about  the  streets.  Philadel­
phia,  Harrisburg,  and  Cleveland  have 
taken  the  lead  in  this  respect,  and  other 
cities  are  now  considering  the  advis­
ability  of  taking  similar  action. 
It  is 
that  soon  prohibitory  ordi­
expected 
in  every  city  in 
nances  will  be  passed 
Northern 
Indiana,  a 
locality  which 
seems  particularly  subject  to  this evil.

T he  D rug  M arket.

Opium— Is  dull  at  unchanged  price.
Morphine— Is  firm  at 

the 

advance 

noted  last  week.

Quinine— Has  again  advanced  and  is 
very  firm.  Better  prices  are  obtained 
for  bark  at  each  sale.

Carbolic  Acid— The  English  govern­
ment  has  forbidden  further  exports  from 
England,  and,  as  supplies  are  short 
in 
this  country,  extreme  prices  will  rule 
this  season.

Salicylic  A cid—On  account  of  the  ad­
vance  in  carbolic  acid,  is  very  firm  and 
tending  higher.

Chloroform— On  account  of  the  higher 
price  of  chloride  of  lime,  has  been  ad­
vanced  sc  per  pound.

Salicin— On  account  of  scarcity,  has 

been  advanced  and  is  tending  higher.

Balsam  Copaiba— Has  declined,  on 
account  of  large  stocks  and  strong  com­
petition.

Cloves— Have  been  advanced  and  are 

tending  higher.

Acetic  Acid— Has  been  advanced  by 

manufacturers.

The  B est  B ay  R um .

The  bay  rum  which  is  considered  the 
best' is  made  by  distilling  the bay leaves 
with  spirit,  but  much  of  it  is  made from 
the  essential  oil  prepared from the leaves 
by  distillation  in  water.

The  oil 

is  not  very  freely  soluble  in 
such  spirit,  but  the  difficulty  is  over­
come  by 
filtration  through  magnesia, 
which probably  causes  a  slight  chemical 
as  well  as  molecular  change  in  the  oil. 
The  following  formula  gives  a  good 
product:

Oil  of  bay  leaves,  3  drs.
Oil  of  orange  peel,  ^   dr.
Tincture  o f orange  peel,  2  ozs.
Carbonate  of  magnesium, 
oz.
Alcohol,  4  pts.
Water,  4  pts.
Triturate  the  oils  with  the  carbonate, 
gradually  adding  the  other  ingredients 
previously  mixed,  and  filter.

Poison  in  Potatoes.

According  to  the  Sanitary  Home  po­
tatoes  contain  a  poison  known  as  so- 
lanin.  New  potatoes  contain  compara­
tively  little  of  it  unless  they  grow  above 
the  surface  of  the  ground  and  have  a 
green  skin,  when  they  are  generally 
known  to  be  poisonous. 
It  is  not,  how- 
*-ver>  generally  known  that  old  potatoes 
contain  much  more  of  this  poisonous 
principle— solanin— and  many  cases  of 
serious  poisoning  have  occurred  in 
late 
summer,  when  old  potatoes  are  used. 
In  1892 and  1893  there  was almost whole­
sale  poisoning  among  the  troops  of  the 
German  army. 
The  symptoms  were 
frontal  headache, colic,  diarrhoea,  vomit­
ing,  weakness,  and  slight  stupor,  and  in 
some  cases  dilatation  of  the  pupils. 
Meyer 
investigated  the  case  and  found 
in  old  potatoes,  kept  in  a  damp  place, 
and  beginning  to  sprout, 
twenty-four 
times  as  much  solanin  as  in  new  pota­
toes.  When  using  the  old  potatoes  in 
J,u.ne, an<l  July  it  will  be  well  to  keep 
this  fact  in  mind.

D oable  C heck  E very  P rescrip tio n .
John  A.  Dadd  &  Son,  the  Milwaukee 
slip 

druggists,  enclose  the 
with every  prescription  they  send  out :

following 

in  calling 

in 
judgment 

importance  to  using  your 
Next 
sound 
the  best 
available  physician  or  surgeon,  in  case 
of 
illness  or  accident,  is  the  selection 
of  your  druggist.  After  the  physician 
has  diagnosed  the  case  and  written  the 
prescription,  where  will  you  have  it 
filled,  is  the  question.  You  want  to  take 
it  where  you  will  have  no  doubt  as  to 
accuracy 
in  compounding  or  purity  of 
ingredients.

We  double  check  our  prescriptions ; 
that 
is,  one  registered  druggist  com­
pounds  the  medicine  and  when  finished 
calls  another ^druggist,  who  compares 
the  bottles  containing  the  ingredients 
with  the  written  prescription,  verifies 
the  quantities  of  each  and  re-reads  the 
directions.  This insures  you  against  any 
possible  error,  as  two  heads  are  better 
than  one.  Our  prescription  department 
is  under  the  strictest  supervision  of  a 
registered  pharmacist,  and  none  but  reg­
istered  men  are  employed.

Our  reputation  for  fresh  drugs  and 
pure  chemicals  is well known,  extending 
oyer  a  period  of  forty-nine  years  in  this 
city.  We  also  carry  a  full  line  of  sick 
room  necessities,  from  a  medicine drop­
per to  a  fever  thermometer,  and  from  a 
sick  feeder  to  a  hot  water  bottle.  Prices 
the  lowest.

A n  Id eal  B ak in g  Pow der.

The  nearest  practical  approach  to  an 
ideal  baking  powder  seems  to  be  the 
one  made  of  sodium  bicarbonate  and 
potassium  bitartrate  (cream  of  tartar). 
This  powder  leaves  a  slight  residue  of 
alkaline  tartrates  in  the  bread—an  ideal 
powder  would  leave  none  whatever.  A 
formula 
for  this  powder  proposed  by 
Crampton,  of  the  United  States  Depart­
ment  of  Agriculture,  as  the  result  of  an 
investigation 
leading  baking 
powders  of  the  market  is  as  follows:

of  the 

Potassium  bitartrate,  8  ounces.
Sodium  bicarbonate,  4  ounces.
Com  starch,  4  ounces.
The  addition  of  the  starch  answers 
the  double  purpose  of  a  “ filler’ ’  to  in­
crease ' weight  and  a  preservative,  the 
chemicals  not  keeping  well  when  mixed 
alone.

The  stability  of  the  powder 

is  in­
creased  by  drying  each  ingredient  sepa­
rately  by  exposure  to  a  gentle heat,  mix­
ing  at  once  and  immediately  placing  in 
bottles  or cans,  and  excluding  access  of 
air  and  consequently  of  moisture.

P hysicians  M ust  P ay   a   D ealer’s  Tax.
Washington,  Jan.  4— The  Commission­
er  of  Internal  Revenue  has  decided  that 
a  physician  who  prescribes  whisky, 
brandy  or  any  alcoholic  liquor  which  is 
not  compounded  with  any  drug  or  me­
dicinal  substance,  for  the  purpose  of 
forming  a  remedy,  shall  be  required  to 
pay  the  special  internal  revenue  tax  of 
$25  a  year as  a  retail  liquor  dealer,  pro­
vided  he  acts  as  a  dispenser  as  well  as 
a  physician.  The  ruling 
is  to  apply 
even 
in  cases  where  the  liquor  is  pre­
scribed  strictly  as  a  medicine  and  so 
used  by  the  patient.  The  decision  of 
the  Commissioner was  brought  forth  by 
the  case  of  a  doctor  in  West  Virginia 
who  keeps  a  drug  stoie.  This  doctor 
prescribes 
liquor  for  patients  and  dis­
penses  it  from  his  store.  He  appealed 
to the  Commissioner of Internal Revenue 
when  the  local  collector held  that  he was 
liable  to  pay  a  dealer’s  tax.

Collapse  o f a   C hronic  C utter.

Louisville,  K y.,  Jan.  5— W.  E.  Klus- 
meyer,  the  original  cut  rate  druggist  of 
Louisville,  has  been  made  defendant  in 
a  petition  of 
involuntary  bankruptcy 
in  the  Federal 
filed  by  his  creditors 
Circuit  Court.  Klusmeyer  assented 
in 
writing  to  the  petition.  He  says  his  in­
solvency 
is  due  to  the  war  made  upon 
him  by  other  retail  men,  who  made  it 
so  difficult  for  him  to  buy  goods  that 
he  purchased  them  in  larger quantities 
than  he  could  sell.  He  says  his  stock  is

worth  $20,000,  and  his  liabilities  are  not 
over $15,000.  Actions against Klusmeyer 
for  $89,  due  the  Rumford  Chemical 
Co.  ;  for $80,  due  T.  H.  Slocum  &  Co.  ; 
for  $130,  due  the  National  Sponge  & 
Chamois  Co.,  and 
for $130  due  Dr.  R. 
H.  Kline,  have  already  been  tried  in  a 
Magistrate  Court. 
In " all,  eight  or  ten 
executions  have  been  issued  and 
levied 
on  the  stock.

D on’t   M onkey  W ith   D rugs.

From the Woonsocket Call.

The  number  of  people  who  monkey 
with  drugs  is  much  larger  than  it should 
be.

There  are  altogether  too  many  trying 
to  doctor themselves  for  real  or  fancied 
complaints.

If  you  don’t  feel  well,  see  a  reputable 

physician  and  get  a  prescription.

Don’t  trifle  with  drugs  and  endanger 

your  life.
1  have 

in  mind  a  man  who  had  got 
accustomed  to  taking  a  certain  drug 
and  thought  he  knew all  about  it,  but  he 
didn’t.  As  he  continued  to  use  it,  he 
grew  careless,  but  the  drug  didn’t.  One 
day,  being  in  a  hurry,  he  took  an  over­
dose.  Soon  he  began  to  have  pains  and 
rushed  to  a  druggist  for  an  antidote. 
It 
was  given  him,  but  didn-’t  work.  He 
died  soon  afterward.

Don’t  monkey  with  drugs.

H obby  o f a   M em phis  D rnggist.

A   Memphis  pharmacist  has  a  cozy 
corner 
in  his  store,  supplied  with  easy 
chairs,  where  patrons  waiting  for  pre­
scriptions  may  rest  comfortably  and 
read  the  daily  papers,  which  he  sup­
plies.  Said  he:  “ Every  morning  dur­
ing  the  summer  I  have  a  large  fresh 
bouquet  of  flowers  placed  on  the  center 
table,  and  a  fresh,  clean  sign  appears 
every  day 
in  the  year  calling  attention 
to  some  of  our specialties,  a  sample  or 
two  of  which  are  tastily  displayed  so 
that  our waiting  customers can see them. 
You  would  be  surprised  to  note 
the 
amount  of  calls  and  sales  thus secured. ’ ’
Pharmacists  who  have  been  for any 
time 
in  their  business  acquire  quick 
wits.  From  reading  unintelligible  notes 
asking  for  unheard  of  remedies  their 
senses  of  sight  and  reasoning  respond 
readily  to  almost  any  call,  but  a  Detroit 
druggist  was  for  some  time  at  a  loss  to 
find  the  right  article  to  answer  a  de­
mand  on  his  sense  of  smell.  A   young 
man  said: 
“ I  want  to  get  a  bottle  of 
my  g irl’s  favorite  scent  for  a  Christmas 
I  don’t  know  the  name,  but 
present. 
you  will  know  it. 
It  smells  like  cedar 
pencils.”   Frangapanni  filled  the  bill.
A   man  with  mouth  awry  and  a  gen­
eral  look  of  one  in  great  pain  rushed in­
to  a  Detroit  drug  store  and  demanded 
something  for  a 
Blank’s 
toothache  plugs  were  recommended  as 
a  sure  cure.  He  departed,  but  soon  re­
turned,  anger  and  "pain  struggling  for 
the  mastery.  “ Say,  1  whittled  that  plug 
down  to  a  toothpick  point,  but  it  didn’t 
do  my  tooth  a  bit  of  good.”   The clerk 
tried  hard  not  to  smile.  He  had 
inad­
vertently  given  the  customer a  wooden 
window  dummy  wrapped  the  same  as 
the  bottles  which  contained  the 
real 
article.

toothache. 

N.  G.  Pearce,  druggist,  E lsie: 

“ I 
enclose  check 
for  $1,  for  which  please 
send  me  the  Michigan  Tradesman  for 
one  year. 
1  have  received  a  number of 
sample  copies  and  am  favorably  im­
pressed  with  the  paper.”

MiG. CHEMISTS, 

ALLEGAN, MICH.

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

W RING r a n  AND DRUGGISTS’ SUNDRIES

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

A dvanced— 
D eclined—

® 

Voes

Co
&C.  ~

Seldlltz Mixture......  
@  3 75
Menthol.................... 
Slnapis.
Morphia, S., P.& W.  2  36®  2 60
Siuapis,  opt.............
Morphia, S., N. Y. Q.
5® 2  50 j Snuff, Maccaboy, De
Moschus  Canton
Snuff .Scotch, De Vo’s
66®  80
Myristica, No. l ....... 
Soda, Boras..............
10
Nux Vomica...po. 15 
Soda,  Boras, po.......
25®  30
Os Sepia.................... 
Soda et Potass Tart.
Pepsin Saac, H. & P.
Soda,  Carb...............
@  l  oo
I)  Co.....................  
Soda,  Bi-Carb..........
Picis Llq. N.N.M gal.
Soda,  Ash................
@ 2 oo
doz......................... 
Soda, Sulphas..........
Picis Liq., quarts__ 
@  l  00
Spts. Cologne...........
Picis Liq.,  pints....... 
@  85,
Spts. Ether  Co........
Pll Hydrarg. ..po.  80  @  50
Spts. Myrcia Dom... 
®  18
Piper  Nigra., .po. 22 
Spts. Vini Rect.  bbl. 
Piper  Alba.. ..po. 35 
@  30
Spts. Vini Rect. Mbbl 
Pilx Rurgun.............  
® 
7
Spts. Vini Rect. lOgal 
Plumbl Acet............. 
10®  12
Spts. Vini Rect. 5 gal 
Pulvis Ipecac et Opii  1  30©  1  50 
Strychnia, Crystal...
Pyrethnim, boxes H.
Sulphur,  Subl..........
®  75
& P. D. Co., doz... 
Sulphur, Roll...........
Pyrethrum,  pv........ 
26®  30
Tam arinds...............
8® 
Quassi*.................... 
10
Terebenth  Venice...
34®  44
Quinla, S. P. &  W ... 
Theobroma*..............
31®  44
Quinla, S.  German.. 
Vanilla.....................
Quinla, N. Y............. 
34@ 
44
Zinci Sulph.............
Rubia Tlnctorum__  
12® 
14
Saccharum Lactis pv 
18®  20
Oils
Salacin..................... .4  50® 4  60
40®  50
Sanguis  Draconls... 
Sapo M .....................  
12
10® 
Sapo  G .....................  
®  16

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

19

20®

41

®
9®
9®
23®
1M®  
2
3® 
5
3M@ 
4
® 
2 
® 2 60 
50®  55@ 2 00 
@
@
@
@
1  05®  1  25 
4
2M@ 
2M@  3M 
8®  
10 
28®  30
65®  58
9 00® 16 00 
7® 
8

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

Paints  BBL.  LB.
Red  Venetian..........  Hi  2  @8
Ochre, yellow  Mars.  1M  2  ®4 
Ochre, yellow B er...  Hi  2  @3 
Putty,  commercial..  2M  2M®3 
l*utty, strictly  pure.  2M  2M@3 
P r im e
Vermilion,  P r im e
Amertean.............
13® 
........... 
15
Vermilion. English..
70® 
75
Green,  Paris...........
13M®  17M 
Green, Peninsular...
IS 
13® 
Lead, red..................
6M® 
7
Lead,  white.............
6V,@ 
7
Whiting, white Span 
@ 
70
@  90
Whiting, gilders’ —  
®  1  00
White, Paris, Amer. 
Whiting. Paris, Eng.
@  1  40 
cliff.........................
Universal Prepared.
1  00®  1  15
V arnishes

No. 1 Turp  Coach...  1  10®  1  20
Extra Turp...............  1  60®  1  70
Coach  Body.............   2  76® 3 00
No. 1 Turp Funi......   1  00®  1  10
Extra Turk  Damar..  1  55®  1  60 
Jap.Dryer.No.lTurp  70®  75

r u g s

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

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

A cidum
Aceticum  ................$
Benzoicum, Ciermau.
Boracic.................... '
Carbolicum..............
Citricum....................
Hydroehlor.............
Nitrocum..................
Oxallcum......
l’hosphorium
Salicylicum  .............
Sulphuricum...........
Tannicum.................
T artarlcum .............

dll.

6@$ 
8 
70®  75
@  16 
32®  35
43®  46
3® 
5
8®  
10 
12®  14
®  15
50®  60
1%@ 
6 
90®  1  00 
38®  40

A m m onia 

Aqua, 16 deg
Aqua, 20 deg.............  
Carbonas.................. 
Cbloridum..
A niline

4® 
6
«©
"9?12®  14
2  00®  2 25 
Black.
80®  1  00 
Brown
45®
Yellow.!... . . ■ ■ ■ ■ • ■ •  2 50® 3 00 

12®
6@
20®

6 0 |
@  2 00 
40®  45
40®  45

24®
28®
U®
13®
14®
16®

Baccse
Cubeb®........... po, 15
Junlperus.................
Xauthoxylum..........
B alsam  um
Copaiba.................... 
Peru 
.......
Terabin,  Canada —
Tolutan.....................
Cortex
Abies, Canadiau......
Cassia;— . . .............
Cinchona  rlav a.......
Euonymus atropurp.
Myrica Cerifera, po.
ITunus Virgiui........
Quillaia, g r d ........ .
Sassafras  ...... P°-
Ulmus.. .po.  15. g rd
E x tractu m
Glycyrrhiza  Glabra. 
Glycyrrhiza,  p o ......
ILeinatox, 15 lb. box
H*matox, is ...........
Hmmatox,  Ms..........
Hsematox, Ms..........
F e rru

Carbonate  Precip.. •
Citrate and  Quinia..
Citrate  Soluble......
Ferrocyanidum sol..
Solut. Chloride.........
Sulphate,  com 1..•• •
Sulphate,  com’l,  by
bbl, per  cwt..........
Sulphate,  pure........
F lo ra

Arnica...........
Anthémis......
Matricaria.

14®
22®
30@

38@  40
20®
25®
12®
8®

F o lia
Barosma...............
Cassia Acutifol,  Tin-
nevelly............• • •■
Cassia, Acutifol, Alx. 
Salvia officinalis,  Ms
and M s..................
UvaUrsi....................
G uim ni 
@  65
Acacia, 1st picked... 
@  45
Acacia, 2d  picked... 
@  35
Acacia, 3d  picked... 
@  28 
Acacia, sifted  sorts.
45®  65
Acacia, po............
12®  14
Aloe, Barb. po.l8@20 
I  
12
Aloe, Cape —  po. 15. 
@  30
Aloe,  Socotri.. po. 40
55®  60
Ammoniac.............
28®  30
Assafoetida.. ..po. 30
50®  55
Benzoinum...............
@  13
Catechu, i s ........... .
®  14
Catechu, 54s.............
®  16 
Catechu, Ms.............
55®  66
Cam phor*............. ■
®  46@  1  00 
Euphorbium... po. 35
65®  ■
Gamboge.............P?
®  30
Guaiacum.......po. 25
®  1  25 
Kino........... po. $i-25
®  60 
Mastic  .................. .
®
Myrrh.............PP- 45
Opii__po.  4.70@5.00  3 45®  3  50
25®
Shellac —
40®
Shellac, bleached.  ..
50®
Tragacanth..'...........
H erb a 
Absinthium. .oz. pkg 
Eupatorium. .oz. pkg
lo b elia........oz. pkg
Majorum  — oz. pkg 
Mentha Pip.oz. pkg 
Mentha Vir  .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..
'arbonate, Jennings 
O leum

55®  60
18®
18®

39

25

Absinthium.............   6  50@ 6 75
Amygdalae,  Dulc.... 
30®  50
Amygdalae,  Amarae.  8 00® 8  25
A uisi.........................  1  85® 2  uu
Auranti Cortex........   2 40@ 2  50
Bergamii..................   2 40®  2  60
Cajiputi.................... 
30®  85
75@  85
Caryophylli..............  
C edar.......................  
35©  45
Chenopadii............... 
@ 2  75
Cinnamonil............... 1  25®  l  35
35®  40
Gitronella................. 

50®  60
Contimi Mac.. 
1  15®  1  25 
Copaiba 
90®  1  00
Cud«
eba
1  00®  1  10 
Kxechthitos.............
1  00®  1  10
Erigeron..................
2 50®  2  60
G aultherla..............
®  76
Geranium, ounce...,
50®  60
Gosslppii, Sein. gal.
1  70®  1  75 
I led coma................
1  50® 2 00 
Junipera..................
90® 2  00 
Lavendula.............
1  35®  1  45 
Limonis..................
1  25®  2  00 
Mentha  Piper........
1  50®  1  60 
Mentha Verld........
1  15®  1  25 
Morrbu®, .gal........
4 00® 4  50 
M yrcia....................
75® 3 00 
Olive.......................
Picis  Liquida..........
10®  
12 
®  35
Picis Liquida,  gal..
96®  1  05 
Kicina.....................
®  1  00
Rosmarin!...............
Rosse, ounce.............  6 50® 8  50
Succini.....................  
40®  46
Sabina.....................  
90®  l  00
Santal.......................  2 50® 7 00
Sassafras.................. 
50®  65
®  66
Siuapis,  ess., ounce. 
Tiglil........................   1  50®  1  60
Thyme....................... 
40®  50
Thyme, opt............... 
@  1  60
Theobromas  ...........  
15(0  20
Potassium
Bi-Carb.....................  
15®  18
Bichromate.............  
13® 
15
Bromide  .................. 
52®  57
Garb  ........................  
12®  15
Chlorate... po. 17 >i 19  16® 
18
Cyanide.................... 
35®  40
Iodide.......................  2 40® 2 50
Potassa, Bitart, pure  28®  30
Potassa, Bi tart, com. 
®  15
7® 
Potass Nitras, opt... 
10
Potass  Nitras.......... 
6® 
8
Prussiate.................. 
23®  26
Sulphate  po................ 
15@  18

R adix

Scillae  Co......................  
Tolutan......................... 
Primus  virg.................. 

T inctures
Aconitine Napellis R 
Aconitine  Napellis F 
Aloes........................  
Aloes and Myrrh —
A rnica.....................
Assafietida...............
Atrope  Belladonna..
Auranti Cortex........
Benzoin....................
Benzoin Co...............
Barosma...................
Cantharldes.............
Capsicum.................
Cardamon................
Cardamon Co...........
Castor....................... 
Catechu....................
Cinchona..................
Cinchona Co.............
Columba..................
Cubebae.....................
Cassia Acutifol........
Cassia Acutifol Co...
Digitalis..................
Ergot.........................
Ferri  Chloridum —
Gentian....................
Gentian Co...............
G uinea...........................
Guia«» ammon........
Hyoscyamus.............
Iiñline.....................
Iodine, colorless—
Kino  .........................
Lobelia.....................
M yrrh.......................
Nux Vomi«».............
Opii............................
Oi>ii,  comphorated..
Opii, deodorized......  
Q uassia....................
Rhatany....................
Rhei..........................
Sanguinaria............
Serpentaria.............
Stramonium.............
T olutan....................
Valerian  ..................
Veratrum  Verlde...
Zingiber....................

@ !
® ¡
® I

1
I
{

1

1

.... 

20®  25
Aconitum.................. 
22®
A lth * ..........
10®
A nchusa__
Arum  po__
®
20®
Calamus.................... 
12®
Gentiana........ po. 15 
16®
Glychrrhiza.. .pv.  15 
Hydrastis  Canaden.
®
Hydrastis Can., po..
@
12®15®
Hellebore, Alba, po. 
inula,  po..................... 
15®  20
Ipecac, po................   4 25® 4 35
35®
, 
■ .   ..i.... 
in
Iris  plox. ,.po. 35@38
'ju 
25®
Jalapa, p r................
@
Maranta,  Ms...........
22®
odophyllum,  p o ...
75®  1  00 
Rhei..........................
®  1  25 
Rhei,  cut..................
75®  1  35
Rhei, p v ...................
38
35®
Spigelia....................
' inguinaria... po.  15
@
40®
Serpeutaria.............
60®
Senega .....................
Sinilax, officinalis H.
®
Smilax,  M................
®
10®
Scillie............. po.  35
Symplocarpus, Foeti-
dus,  po..................
T aleriana.Eng. po. 30 
Valeriana,  German
Zingiber a ................
Zingiber j .................. 
Semen
Anisum..........po.  15
13®
Apium (graveleons).
4®
Bird, is .....................
11©
iarui..............po.  18
1  25®  1
Cardamon.................
oriandrum.............. 
8®  10
Cannabis Sativa.......  4M®  5
Cydonium................  
75®  1  00
12
Cnenopodium.......... 
10® 
Dipterix Odorate__   1  00®  1  10
Freniculum..............  
@  10
7® 
Foenugreek, po........  
9
L in i...........................  3M@  4M
Lini, grd.......bbl. 3M 
4®  4M
Lobelia..................... 
35@  40
Pharlaris Canarian..  4M@ 
5
5
R ap a.........................  4M® 
Siuapis  Alba...........  
9® 
10
Siuapis  Nigra.......... 
11®  12
S piritu s

®
15®
12®
25@

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

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,
@  1  00 
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  Aram...............
Smilax  Officinalis...
Senega .....................
Scili*........................

50@
@

©

M iscellaneous 

6 55®  6

1  40®  1  50 I

© 3 00 
50®  551
40®
@
®
®
@
55®
©  1  10 I 
1  65®  1  90 
20©  251
38®
38®  481
70 I

Either, Spts. Nit. 3 F  30® 
ACther, Spts. Nit. 4 F  34@
Alum en....................  2M@
Alumen,  gro’d..po. 7 
3®
Annatto..................... 
40®
4®
Antimoni, po...........  
Antimoni et Potass T  40®
Antipyrin................  
®
A ntlfebrin...........
®
Argenti N itras, oz.
10®
Arsenicum............
38®
Balm  Gilead  Buds
Bismuth S. N........
Calcium Chlor.,  is...
65
^   Calcium Chlor.,  Ms..
251 Calcium Chlor.,  Ms..
12 I  Cantharides, Rus.po 
Capsici Fructus, a f..
Capsicl  Fructus, po.
Capsici Fructus B, po 
Caryophyllus. .po. 15 
Carmine, No. 4^ —
Cera  Alba................
Cera  Flava...............
Coccus  .....................
Cassia  Fructus........
Centraría..................
Cetaceum..................
Chloroform.............
Chloroform,  squibbs 
Chloral Hyd C rst....
Chondrus.................
Cinchonidine.P. & W 
Cinchonidine, Germ.
C«x»ine....................
Corks, list.dis.pr.ct.
®
Creosotum................
®
C reta............. bbl. 75
®
Creta, prep...............
9®
Creta, precip...........
®
Creta, Rubra...........
15@
Crocus...................... 
Cudbear.................... 
@
Cupri  Sulph.............   6M@
D extrine..................  
7®
Ether Sulph.................. 75@
Emery, all numbers. 
@
@
Emery, po................. 
E rg o ta..........po. 90  85®
12®
Flake  W hite...........
@
G alla.........................
8®
G am bler..................
Gelatin,  Cooper.......
@
Gelatin, French.......
Glassware,  flint, box
Less than box......
Glue, brown.............  
Glue,  white.............  
Glycerina.................. 
Grana Paradisi........ 
Humulus..................  
Hydrarg  Chlor  Mite 
Hydrarg  Chlor Cor..
Hydrarg  Ox Rub’m.
Hydrarg  Ammoniati 
HydrargU nguentum
Hydrargyrum..........
Iclithyobolla,  Am...
Indigo....................... 
Iodine,  Resubi........   3 60®  3 701
Iodoform.................. 
Lupulin.....................  
Lycopodium.............  
M acis.......................  
Liquor Arsen et  Hy-
ararg lo d ............... 
Liquor Potass A rsi nit 
Magnesia,  Sulph —  
Magnesia, Sulph, bbl 
Manilla, S.  F ...........  

75®  1  00
® 3 ”
©
60®
66®
@
10®
2®
®
60®

35®11®

,
15@
16@
®
25®

T
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i

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

GROCERY PRICE CURRENT.

The  prices  quoted  in  this  list  are  for the trade only, in such quantities as are usually purchased  by retail 
It is im­
dealers.  They are prepared just before going to press and are an accurate index of the local market. 
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 
IXL Golden, tin boxes 75 

doz.  gross
6 oo
7 00
4 ‘25
9 00
9 00

A bsolute

Mica, tin boxes.........75 
Paragon......................55 

B A KIN G   PO W D ER  

9 00
600

Acme

la lb. cans doz.....................   45
34 lb. cans doz.....................   85
1 
lb. cans doz..................... 1  50
14 lb. cans 3 doz..................   45
34 lb. cans 3 doz..................   75
1 
lb. cans l  doz.................. l  oo
Bulk........................................  10
6 oz. Eng. Tumblers.............   85
14 lb. cans per doz..............  75
54 lb. cans per doz..............1  20
1 
lb. cans per doz..............2 00
14 lb. cans, 4 doz. case........   35
14 lb. cans, 4 doz. case........   55
1 
lb. cans, 2 doz. case........  90

E l  Purity-

A rctic

Hom e

 

O ur  Leader

Jerse y   C ream

14 lb. cans, 4 doz. case........  45
14 lb. cans, 4 doz. case........  85
1 
lb. cans. 2 doz. case........1  60
1 lb. cans, per (loz................. 2 oo
9 oz. cans, per doz..................1 25
6 oz. cans, per doz................   85
14 lb. cans..................... 
  45
14 lb. cans............................  75
1 
lb. cans............................1  50
1 lb. cans...............................   85
3 oz., 6 doz. case.....................2 70
6 oz., 4 doz. case.....................3 20
9 oz., 4 doz. case.....................4 80
1 lb., 2 doz. case.....................4 00
5 lb.,  1 doz. case.....................9 oo
American...............................  70
English...................................  80

BATH  BRICK

Q ueen  F lak e

Peerless

BLUING

CONDENSA)

6 l u im G

Small 3 doz....................
....  40
Large, 2 doz..................
....  75
BROOMS
No. 1 Carpet..................
.. ..3 00
No. 2 Carpet..................
....2  75
No. 4 Carpet.................. __ 2 05
9 75
Parlor  Gem..................
Common Whisk............ __   95
Fancy  Whisk.................
.... 1  25
Warehouse....................
.. ..3  75
CANDLES
Electric Light, 8s.......... .......9*4
Electric Light. 16s.........
.... 10%
Paraffine, 6s.................. __ \l%
Paraffine, 12s................. .......12*4
Wicking.........................
.. ..20  "

CANNED  GOODS

A pples
3 lb. Standards........
Gallons, standards..
Beans
Baked  .......................
Red  Kidney.............
String.......................
Wax......................
B lackberries
Standards................
B lueberries
Standard.....................
C herries
Red  Standards............
W hite...........................
Clam s.
Little Neck, 1 lb ......
Corn
F air............................
Good.........................
Fancy.......................

90
2 65
75@1  30
75@  85
80
85
75
85
85
1  15
110
75
85
95

Peas

M ush room s

R aspberries

H om iny
85
Standard  ..................
Lobster
1  85
Star, 34 lb..................
3  10
S tar,1  lb..................
Picnic Tails..............
2 25
M ackerel
Mustard, lib ............
1  75
2  80
Mustard, 2 lb............
1  75
Soused, l i b ...............
Soused, 2 lb.............
2  80
Tomato, l i b .............
1  75
2  80
Tomato, 2 1b.............
14@16
Stems.........................
Buttons.....................
20@25
O ysters
90
Cove, 1 lb..................
Cove, 21b..................
1  50
Peaches
P ie ............................
1  25
Yellow......................
@1  65
Pears
Standard  ..................
70
Fancy........................
80
M arrowfat...............
1  00
Early June...............
1  00
Early June  Sifted..
1  GO
Pineapple
G rated.....................   1 25@2 75
Sliced.........................  1 35@2  25
P u m p k in
F a ir..........................
65
Good.........................
75
Fancy.......................
85
Standard...................
90
Salm on
Red Alaska..............
1  35
Pink Alaska............
95
Sardines
Domestic, Vs...........
Domestic,  Mustard.
French.....................
Standard ..................
Fancy .......................
Succotash
Good.........................
1  00
Fancy.......................
1  20
Tom atoes
F a ir...........................
80
Good....................-...
90
Fancy.......................
1  15
Gallons......................
2 35
, 
CATSUP 
Columbia,  pints............. ....2  00
Columbia, 34 pints.......... .... 1  25
CHEESE
Acme.........................
@14'4
Amboy.....................
@14
Elsie  ........................
@15
Emblem....................
@14
Gem..........................
@1434
Gold Medal...............
@1334
Id eal.......................
@14
Jersey.......................
@14
Riverside..................
@14
Edam ........................
@70
Leiden.....................
@17
Limburger................
@-13
Pineapple................   5C @75
Sap  Sago.................
@17
Bulk................................. ... 
R ed..................................
CHOCOLATE

@4
@8
8@22
85
1  25

S traw berries

CHICORY

Walter Baker & Co ’s.

5

CIGARS

Columbian Cigar Co’s brand.

German  Sweet............... __   23
Premium........................
....  35
Breakfast Cocoa............. ....  4G
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 oo
Green Seal Boquet...........   60  oo
Green Seal Regalia...........   65 00
Maceo’s  Dream.....................   35 00
Dispatch.................................  33 00
No Name.................................  32 oo
Medal de  Reina......................  28 00
Fortune  Teller.......................  35 00
Our Manager..........................   35 00
Quintette.................................  35 00
G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand.

H. & P. Drug Co.’s brands.

S. C. W................................  35 00

Phelps, Brace & Co.’s Brands. 
Royal  Tigers. 
.  55@  80 00
Royal  Tigerettes........35
Vincente Portuondo ..35@ 70 00
Ruhe Bros. Co.............25® 70 00
Hilson  Co.................... 35@110  00
T. J.  Dunn & Co..........35@ 70  00
McCoy & Co.................35® 70 00
The Collins Cigar Co.. 10®  35 00
Brown  Bros................ 15@ 70 00
Bernard Stahl Co........35@ 90 00
Banner Cigar  Co........10®  35 00
Seidenberg  & Co........55®125 00
Fulton  Cigar  Co........I0fi>:  35 00
A. B. Ballard & Co . ..  35®175  00 
E. M. Schwarz & Co...35®U0 00
San Telmo...................35® 70 00
Havana Cigar Co........18® 35 00
C. Costello & Co..........35®  70 00
LaGora-Fee Co..........  35®  70 00
S. I. Davis & Co..........35®.185 00
Hene & Co..................35® 90 00
Benedict & Co____ .7.50®  70 00
Hein meter Cigar Co 
.35®  70 00 
G. J..JohnsonCigarCo.35@ 70 00 
Maurice Sanborn  ....  50@175 00
Bock & Co....................65® 300 00
Manuel  Garcia........... 80@375 00
Neuva Mundo..............85®175  00
Henry Clay................   85® 550 00
La Carolina.................96(5 200 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  LIN ES

CO FFEE
Roasted

HIGH GRADE
Coffees

 

Rio

J a v a

Santos

M ocha

M aracaibo

Special  Combination_____  20
French Breakfast.................  25
Lenox....................................   30
Vienna...................................  35
Private Estate.......................   38
Siipreme.................................  40
Less 3334  per  cent,  delivered. 
F a ir............................ 
9
Good......................................  10
Prim e....................................   12
Golden...................................  13
Peaberry.............................. 
14
F a ir........................................  14
Good......................................  15
Prim e....................................   16
Peaberry................................   18
P rim e....................................   15
Milled....................................   17
Interior..................................   26
Private  Growth....................  30
Mandehling...........................  35
Imitation..............................  22
Arabian..................................   28
Below  are  given  New  York 
prices  on  package  coffees,  to 
whicli the wholesale dealer adds 
the local freight from New York 
to buyers shipping point, giving 
buyer credit ou 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 Vt  gross.............   75
Felix Yt gross........................1  15
Hummers foil 34 gross........   85
Hummel’s tin  (4 gross........ 1  43

PACKAGE  CO FFEE. 

E x tract

COCOA

Jam e s E pps & Co.’s

CONDENSED  M ILK

Boxes, 7 lbs...........................   40
Cases, 16 boxes......................  38
COCOA  SHELLS
20 1b. bags.......................  
2*4
Less quantity .................. 
3
Pound packages............. 
4
4 doz in case.
Gail Borden Eagle...............6 75
Crown.................................... 6 25
Daisy......................................5 75
Champion............................. 4 50
Magnolia...............................4 25
Challenge..............................4o25
Dim e.............. .......................3 35

COUPON  BOOKS 
T radesm an  G rade 

C redit  Checks 

S uperior G rade 

U niversal  G rade 

Econom ic  G rade 

50 books, any  denom...  1  50 
100 books, any  denom...  2 50 
500 books, any  denom...  11  50
1.000 books, any  denom...  20 00
50 books, any  denom...  1  50 
100 books, any  denom...  2  50 
500books,any  denom...  11  50
1.000 books, any  denom...  20 00
50 books, any  denom...  1  50
100 books, any  denom...  2  50 
500 books, ahy  denom...  11  50
1.000 books, any  denom...  20 00
50 books, any  denom...  1  50 
100 books, any  denom...  2 50 
500 books, any  denom...  11  50
1.000 books, any  denom...  20 00
500, any one denom........   2 00
1.000, any one denom........   3 00
2.000, any one denom........  5 00
Steel  punch....................... 
75
Coupon  Pass  Books 
Can be made to represent any
denomination from $10 down.
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   FRU ITS—Domestic- 
Sundrled........  ...............@ 614
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes.8®  814 
Apricots......................  @15
Blackberries...............
Nectarines..................
Peaches.......................10  @11
Pears............................
Pitted Cherries...........  
Prunnelles..................
Raspberries................
100-120 25 lb. boxes........   @ 4
90-100 25 lb. boxes........  @454
80 - 90 25 lb. boxes........   @ 5
70 - 80 25 lb. boxes........   @514
60 - 70 25 lb. boxes........   @ 6
50 - 60 25 lb. boxes........   © 714
40 - 50 25 lb. boxes........  @ 8
30 - 40 25 lb. boxes........
14 cent less in 50 lb. cases 

CREAM  TARTAR

C alifornia P ru n es

C alifornia  F ru its

A pples

714

R aisins

C itron

C u rran ts

1  75
London Layers ‘/Crown. 
2  00
London Layers 3 Crown. 
Cluster 4 Crown............. 
2  25
714
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 
8I4
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 
834
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown 
L. M., Seeded, choice ... 
10
L. M., Seeded, fancy__  
1014
D R IE D   FRU ITS—F o reig n  
Leghorn..................................... 11
Corsican....................................12
Patras, cases.........................  614
Cleaned, b u lk .......................   634
Cleaned,  packages.............  714
Citron American 19 lb. bx... 13 
Lemon American 10 lb. bx.. 10*4 
Orange American 10 lb. bx.. 1014 
Sultana l Crown...................
Sultana 2 Crown..................
Sultana 3 Crown....................
Sultana 4 Crown....................
Sultana 5 Crown....................
Sultana 6 Crown....................
Sultana package..................

FARINACEOUS  GOODS

R aisins

Peel

F a rin a

C ereals

Dried Lima...........................   534
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
Rice Flakes, 3 doz pkg case  2 85 
Flaked Peas, 3 doz pkg case 2  85 
Flaked Beans,Sdozpkgc’se 2  85 
35 Chene St., Detroit, Mich. 
M accaroni  and V erm icelli
Domestic, 10 lb. box.............  60
Imported, 25 lb. box.............2  50

Lauhoff Bros. Flaking Mills, 

H ask ell’s W h eat F lakes

H om iny

B eans

P earl  B arley

Common.................................
C hester................................2 50
Empire.................................. 3  00

G rits

Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s Brand.

Peas

Sago

R olled  Oats

Green, Wisconsin, bu........... 1 35
Green, Scotch, bu..................1 40
Split, bu.................................  
3
Rolled Avena, bbl..................3 75
Steel Cut, 34 bbls................... 2 05
Monarch, bbl......................... 3 40
Monarch, 34 bbl..................... 1 88
Monarch, 90 lb. sacks........... 1 68
Quaker, cases........................ 3 20
Huron, cases......................... 2  00
German.................................  
4
East India.............................   334
Salus B reak fast Food 
F. A. McKenzie, Quincy, Mich.
36 two pound packages__ 3 60
18 two pound packages__   1  85
B attle C reek C rackers. 
Gem Oatmeal Biscuit..  734@  8
Lemon Biscuit............  734® 8
6l4
New Era Butters ...... 
W holew heat.............. 
634
Cereola, 48  l-lb. pkgs. 
4  00 
F lak e.....................................  5
P earl..............................„___5
Pearl,  24 1 lb. packages......   6%
Cracked, bulk.......................  334
24 2 lb. packages..................2  50
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS 

T apioca

W heat

D eBoe’s

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

4 OZ.
1  80
135
145

Je n n in g s’

D.  C. Vanilla 
2  oz..........1 20
3 oz..........1 50
4 oz......... 2 00
6  OZ...........3 00
No.  8.. ..4 00 
No. 10.. .  6 00 
N0.2  T ..1  25 
No. 3  T. .2 00 
N0.4  T ..2 40

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

I).  C. Lemon
2oz........   75
3 0Z..........1  00
4 OZ..........1  40
6OZ..........2  00
No.  8__ 2  40
No. 10. . .  4 00 
No. 2 T ..  80 
No. 3 T . .1  25 
No. 4 T . .1  50
Lem.  Van. 
1  20
1  20
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 b ert__   75
XXX D D ptchr, 6 oz 
XXX D D ptchr, 4 oz 
K. P. pitcher, 6 oz... 

P errig o ’s

2 25
1  75
2 25

FLY  P A P E R

Perrigo’s Lightning,  gro__ 2 50
Petrolatum, per doz............  75

GUNPOW DER 
Rifle—D upont’s

Kegs....................................... 4
00
Half Kegs.............................. 2
25
Quarter K egs........................1
25
1 lb. cans...............................
30
34 lb. cans..............................
18
Choke  B ore—D up o n t’s
Kegs.......................................4 25
Half K egs............................. 2 40
Quarter K egs.......................1 35
1  lb. cans...............................   34

E agle  D uck—D upont’s

Kegs ...  ................................8  00
Half Kegs...................... 
  4  25
Quarter K egs........................ 2 25
l lb. can s................................  46
Sage............................................15
H ops..........................................15

H ERBS

INDIGO

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

JE L L Y  
V. C. Brand.

LYE

LICO RICE

15 lb. pails.............  
.......—   35
30 lb. pails.  ..................... ...  62
Pure apple, per doz........ ...  85
P u re.................................. ...  30
Calabria............................ ...  25
Sicily.................. -............. ...  14
Root.................................
...  10
Condensed, 2 doz............. . ..120
Condensed, 4 doz............. ...2 25
MATCHES
Diamond Match Co.’s brands.
No.  9 sulphur...............
...1  65
Anchor P arlo r..........
. .1   50
No. 2 Home..................
...1  30
Export Parlor.....  .......... ...4 00
Wolverine......................... . ..1  50

MOLASSES
New  O rleans
Black.................................
F a ir................................
Good................................
Fancy ...............................
Open Kettle..................
Half-barrels 2c extra
MUSTARD
Horse Radish, 1 doz........ . -.1  75
Horse Radish, 2 doz........ ...3 50
Bayle’s Celery, 1 doz....... ... 1  75

11
14
20
24
25@35

PIC K L ES
M edium

Sm all

Barrels, 1,200 count........ ...6 90
Half bbls, 600 count........ ...3 45
Barrels, 2,400 co u n t........ ...6  90
Half bbls, 1,200 count__ ...3  95
Clay, No. 216..................... ...1  70
Clay, T. D., full count__ ...  65
Cob, No. 3.......................
...  85

P IP E S

48 cans in case.

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

POTASH

R IC E

D om estic

Carolina  head.................. ....634
Carolina  No. 1 ................ ....5
Carolina  No. 2 .......................4
B roken................................... 3%
Japan,  No.  1.................. 534@6
Japan,  No.  2.................. 434@5
Java, fancy head........... 5  @534
Java, No.  1..................... 5  @
Table.................................  @

Im p o rted .

SALERATUS 

Packed 60 lbs. in box.

Church’s Arm and Hammer. 3
Deland's......................... .......3
Dwight’s  Cow............... .......3
Emblem......................... .......2
L.  P ..............................
...  3
Sodio.............................. .....3
Wyandotte, lOO  lis ....... .......3
SAL  SODA
Granulated,  bbls...........
Granulated, 100 lb. cases
Lump, bbls......................
Lump, 145 lb. kegs..........

3 00 
3  15 
3 00
80

80

D iam ond C rystal 

Table, cases, 24 3 lb. boxes.. 1  40 
Table, barrels, 100 3 lb. bags.2  85 
Table, barrels, 40 7  lb. bags.2 50 
Butter, barrels, 280 lb. bulk.2  50 
Butter, barrels,20 141b.bags.2 60
Butter, sacks, 28 lbs..........
Butter, sacks, 56 lbs..........
60
Com m on  G rades
100 3 lb. sacks.....................
2  10 
60 5 lb. sacks.....................
1  95 
2810 lb. sacks.................. .
1  80
56 lb. dairy in drill bags...
30
28 lb. dairy in drill bags... 
56 lb. dairy in linen sabks. 
56 lb. dairy in linen sacks.
561b. sacks....................  ..
Granulated  Fine...............
Medium Fine.....................

Solar  Rock
Com m on

A shton
H iggins

W arsaw

1  00 
1  05

SALT  FISH  

SALT

Georges cured.............   @ 5
Georges  genuine........   @534
Georges selected........   @  5%
Strips or  bricks..........  6  @ 9
Pollock.........................   @334
Strips..........................................14
Chunks.......................................15

H alib u t.

Cod

H errin g

....... 

M ackerel

Holland white hoops,  bbl. 
Holland white ho6ps4bbl.  6  50 
Holland white hoop,  keg.. 
85
Holland white hoop mchs. 
95
Norwegian.........................
Round 100 lbs.....................   3 60
Round 40 lbs.......................  1 75
Scaled.................... 
15
Bloaters...............................  1 45
Mess 100 lbs........................  15 00
Mess  40 lbs........................  6  30
Mess  10 lbs........................  1  65
Mess  8 lbs........................  1  35
No. 1100 lbs........................  13  25
No. 1  40 lbs........................  5  60
No. 1  10 lbs........................  1  48
No. 1  8 lbs........................  1  20
NO. ‘3 100 lbs........................  10  50
No. 2  40 lbs........................  4  50
No. 2  10 lbs........................  1  15
No. 2  8 lbs........................  1  00

T ro u t

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

W hitelish

100  lbs............  8  50 
40  lbs........ .  3 90 
10  lbs...........   1  00 
8  lbs...........  
83 
SEEDS

No. 1  No. 2  Fam
2 75
1  40
43
37
Anise 
...................................  ®
Canary, Smyrna...................   4
Caraway  ............................... J*
Cardamon,  Malabar............ 60
Celery.....................................19
Hemp, Russian........................4H
Mixed B ird..  .......................   4*4
Mustard, white.....................   5
Poppy.................................... I®.
R ap e......................................  4/*
Cuttle Bone...........................15
Scotch, in bladders...............  37
Maccaboy, in jars.................  35
French Rappee, in  jars.......  43

SNUFF

SOAP

J A X O N

.3 oo 
.2 «5 
.2  90

Single box.........................
5 box lots, delivered.......
10 box lots, delivered.......
JS, t  KiiuUMtft
American Family, wrp’d.
Dome.................................
Cabinet..............................
Savon.................................
White  Russian...........................2 35
White Cloud, laundry...........6 25
White Cloud, toilet....................3 50
Dusky Diamond, 50 6 oz.......2  10
Dusky Diamond, 50 8 oz.......3 00
Blue India, 100 4  lb ...................3 00
Kirkoline.................................... 3 50
Eos...............................
Scouring
Sapolio, kitchen, 3  doz 
Sapolio, hand, 3 doz...
Boxes.....................................   5V4
Kegs, English....................... 44

......................2  50

SODA

..2  40

SPICES 

W hole Spices

Allspice..............................
Cassia, China in m ats......
Cassia, Batavia, in 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,  Slngagore, white.
Pepper, shot.............
P u re  G round i
Allspice.....................
Cassia, Batavia........
Cassia, Saigon........
Cloves, Zanzibar----
Ginger,  African —
Ginger, Cochin.......
Ginger,  Jam aica............... 
Mace...................................
M ustard............................
Pepper, Singapore, black 
Pepper, Singapore, white
Pepper, Cayenne.............
Sage...................................
STOVE  PO LISH

B u lk

gnam eiine

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

SYRUPS

Corn

Barrels............................. ....17
Half bbis......................... ....19
1 doz. 1 gallon cans........ ...  3  15
1 doz. 4  gallon cans....... ....1  85
2 doz. 4  gallon cans....... __ 1  00
F a ir................................. ....  16
Good................................ __   20

P u re   Cane

M ixed

V. C.  Syrup Co.’s Brands.

Valley C ity .................
V. C., fan e/ flavored...

.. 16@17
. .18@24

SUGAR

D iam ond

Com m on Corn

Com m on Gloss

6
61
K i ngsfnrd’s Silver Gloss
61
7

K i n g s t o n ! ’»  C o r n
40 l-lb. packages................  
20 l-lb. packages................ 
40 l-lb. packages................. 
6 lb. boxes......................... 
64 10c packages..................  5 00
128 5c packages..................  5 00
30 10c and 64 5c packages..  5 00 
44
20 l-lb.  packages............... 
40 l-lb.  packages............... 
44
l-lb.  packages.................... 
414
3-lb. packages.................... 
4*4
5
6-lb. packages.................... 
40 ana 50-lb. boxes.............  
314
34
Barrels...........................  
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 lor the  weight  of  the 
barrel.
Domino...............................  5  40
Cut  Loaf.............................   5 55
Crushed..............................  5  55
Cubes..................................  5  30
Powdered..........................   5  25
Coarse  Powdered.............  5  25
XXXX  Powdered.............   5  30
Standard  Granulated.......  5  15
Fine Granulated.................  5  15
Coarse Granulated........  
5  30
Extra Fine Granulated....  5 30
Conf.  Granulated..............  5  40
2 11). eartons Fine  Gran  ..  5 25 
2 lb. bags Fine  Gran  . . . .   5 25 
5 lii  cartons Fine  G ran...  5 25
5 lb. bags Fine  Gran........   5 25
Mould A ..............................  5  40
Diamond  A.........................
Confectioner’s  A ...............
No.  1, Columbia A...........
No.  2, Windsor A.............
No.  3, Ridgewood A........
No.  4, Phoenix  A.............
No.  5, Empire A ...............
No.  6...................................
No.  7...................................
No.  8...................................
No.  9...................................
No. 10...................................
No. 11...................................
No. 12...................................
No. 13..................................
No. 14.................................
No. 15...................................
No. 16..................................
TA B LE  SAUCES
LEA &
PERRINS’
SAUCE

11

38

55

25

4  50 
7  20

The Original and
» .e n u ln e  
Worcestershire.

VINEGAR

W ASHING  PO W D ER

3 75 
Lea & Perrin’s, large.
2  60
Lea & Perrin’s,  small
Halford, large....................  3 75
Halford, small....................  2  25
Salad Dressing, large.......  4  55
Salad Dressing, small.......  2  75
Malt White Wine, 40 grain..  74 
Malt White Wine, 80 grain. . 11
Pure Cider, Red Star............12
Pure Cider, Robinson...........12
Pure Cider,  Silver.................11
Kirk’s Eos..........................   2 00
Wisdom..............................  3 76
Roseine...............................   3  26
Nine  O’clock.....................   3 60
Babbitt’s 1776.....................   3  12
Gold  Dust..........................   4 25
Johnson’s ...........................  3 60
Swift’s  ...............................   2 88
Rub-No-More.....................  3 50
Pearline, 72 8 oz................   2  90
Pearline, 36 is ....................  2 85
Snow  Boy...........................  2 35
Liberty................. 
..........   3 90
No. 0, per gross......................20
No. 1, per gross......................25
No. 2, per gross......................35
.55
No. 3, per gross..................
W OODENW  A B E 

W IC K IN G

B askets

B u tte r P lates

Bushels...................................I
Bushels, wide  band..............l  10
M arket..................................  39
Willow Clothes, large.......... 7  00
Willow Clothes, medium...  6 60
Willow Clothes, small.......... 5 50
No. 1 Oval, 250 in  crate.........1  80
No. 2 Oval, 250 in crate.........2 00
.2 20 
No. 3 Oval, 250 In crate.
.2 60
No. 5 Oval, 250 In crate.
C lothes  P ins
50
Boxes, gross boxes.......
Mop  Sticks
Trojan spring........................9 00
Eclipse patent spring.......... 9 00
No 1 common.........................8 00
No. 2 patent brush holder.. 9 00 
12 k . cotton mop heads....... l  25

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN
Grains and Feedstuffs

P ails
hoop Standard..1 50
2- 
hoop Standard..l 70
3- 
2- wire,  Cable.......................... l 60
3- 
wire,  Cable...... 1 85
Cedar, all red, brass  bound. 1  25
Paper,  Eureka...........................2 25
Fibre........................................... 2 40
20-inch, Standard, No. l ....... 7  00
18-lnch. Standard, No. 2............6 00
16-inch, Standard, No. 3....... 5 00
20-lnch, Dowell,  No. 1.......... 3 25
18-inch, Dowell,  No. 2.......... 5 25
16-inch, Dowell,  No. 3.......... 4 25
No. 1 Fibre.............................9 45
No. 2 Fibre.............................7 95
No. 3 Fibre.............................7  20

Tubs

W ash  H oards

Bronze Globe......................... 2  50
Dewey.................................   1  76
Double Acme......................... 2 75
Single Acme...........................2  25
Double  Peerless....................3 00
Single  Peerless......................2  50
Northern Q ueen...................2  50
Double Duplex......................3 00
Good Luck.............................2 75
Universal.................................... 2 25

W ood  Bowls

11 in. B utter..........................  76
13 in. Butter............................1 00
15 in. Butter............................ 1 60
17 in. Butter............................2 00
19 in. Butter...........................2 50

YEAST  CA KE

Yeast Foam, 1*4  doz...........   50
Yeast Foam, 3  doz.....................1 oo
Yeast Cream, 3 doz.................... 1 00
Magic Yeast 5c, 3  doz...........1  00
Sunlight Y east, 3 doz............ l  oo
Warner’s Safe, 3 doz............ 1  00

W h e a t

65

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

Local Brands

W in ter  W heat  Flou 
Patents...............................
Second  Patent....................
3 50 
Straight..............................
3 00 
Clear ...................................
3  50 
Graham ..............................
6  00 
Buckwheat.........................
3 25 
Rye................................... •
dis-
Subject  to  usual  cash 
count.
Flour in bbis., 25c per  bbl. ad­
ditional.
Ball-Barnhart-Putman's Brand
Diamond  4 s ............. 
  3  50
Diamond 4 s .......................  3  59
Diamond %s.......................  3  50
Quaker 4 s....................... ..  3 55
3  55
Quaker 4 s .......................
Quaker 4 s ....................... ..  3 55
Clark-Jewell-Wells  Co.’*i  Brami
Pillsbury’s  Best 4 s ....... ..  4  26
4  15
Pillsbury's  Best 4 s ■. 
Pillsbury’s  Best 4 s ....... ..  4 05
Pillsbury’s Best  4 s'paper. 
Pillsbury’s Best 4 s paper.  4  05 
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand

Worden Grocer Co.'s  Brand

Spring  W heat  F1«m r

•

 

B arreled  P ork

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

D ry  Salt  Meats

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

Sm oked  M e a ts

@11  00
@12  00
@11  75
@11  60
©15 00
@10 00
@12  25

6%
64
54

©  n
©   104
©  10 '»
@  104
©  14
©  7
74@  84
©  7
©  9

.... 10
In Tierce!

Hams, 12 lb. average.
Hams, 14 lb. average.
Hams, lGlb.average.
Hams, 20 lb. average.
Ham dried  beef.......
Shoulders (N. Y. cut)
Bacon, clear.............
California|hams.......
Boneless  nams........
Cooked  ham.
L ards
Compound................
Kettle........................
56 lb. Tubs.. advance 
80 ib. Tubs.. advance 
50 lb. Tins... advance 
20 ib.  Pails, .advance 
10 ib. Palis.. advance 
5 ib. Pails.. advance 
3 lb. Pails..advance 
Sausages
Bologna....................
Liver.........................
Frankfort.................
Pork  .........................
Blood..........  ............
Tongue.....................
Headcheese..............
B eef
Extra  Mess...............
R um p.......................
Pig»’  F eet
Kits, 15  lbs...............
4  bbis., 40 lbs..........
4  bbis., 80 lbs..........
T ripe
Kits, 15  lbs...............
4  bbis., 40  lbs..........
4  bbis., 80 lbs..........
Casings
P o rk .........................
Beef  rounds.............
Beef  middles...........
Sheep........................
B u tte ri ne
Rolls, dairy...............
Solid, dairy.
Rolls, creamery......
Solid, creamery......
Corned beef, 2 lb —  
Corned beef, 14 lb ...
Roast beef, 2 lb.......
Potted ham,  4 s ......
Potted bam,  4 s ......
Deviled ham, 4s —  
Deviled ham, 4s —  
Potted tongue,  4s.. 
Potted tongue.  4s..
Oils
B arrels

Canned  M eats 

10 00
11  75
11  50
75
1  50
2 70
70
1  25
2  25
20
3
10
60
134

2  35 
16  oo 
2 25

Eocene......................   @134
Perfection..................   @12
XXX W.W. Mich. Hdlt  @12
W. W. Michigan.......   @114
Diamond White.........  @11
D., S.  Gas..................   @124
Deo. Naphtha............   @124
Cylinder...................... 29  ©34
Engine........................H  @234
Black, winter...............  @104

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Olney & Judson’s Brand

Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand

Duluth  Imperial  4 s.........   4  25
Duluth  Imperial 4 s .........  4  15
Duluth  Imi>erial  *4s.........   4  05
Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s Brand
Gold Medal 4 s ..................  4  25
Gold Medal 4 s ..................  4  15
Gold Medal 4 s ..................  4  05
Parisian  4 s .......................   4  25
Parisian  4 s .......................   4  15
Parisian  4 s .......................  4  05
Ceresota 4 s .......................   4  35
Ceresota 4 * .......................   4  25
Ceresota 4 s .......................  4  15
Laurel  4 s ..........................   4  35
Laurel  4 s ...........................  4  75
Laurel  4 s ..........................   4  15
Bolted.................................  1  90
Granulated.........................  2  10
Feed  and  M illstuft'
16  oo 
St. Car Feed, screened__
15  50 
No. 1 Corn and  Oats........
14  50
Unbolted Corn  Meal........
14  00
Winter Wheat Bran..........
15 00 
Winter Wheat  Middlings.
14  00
Screenings.........................
Corn, car  lots..  ...............
Less than car lots..  ........
Car  lots...............................
Car lots, clipped................
Less than car lots.............
No. l Timothy car  lots—   11  50 
No. l Timothy ton  lots —   12  50

M eal

Com

Oats

H ay

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Hides  and  Felts
The Cappon & Bertsch Leather 
Co., 100 Canal  Street,  quotes  as
follows:
H ides
Green  No. 1.............
Green  No. 2.............
Bulls..........................
Cured  No. 1.............
Cured  No. 2.............
Calfskins.green No. 1 
Calfskins.green No. 2 
Caifskins.eured No. 1 
Calfskins.cured No. 2 
Felt»
Pelts,  each...............
Tallow
No. 1...........................
No. 2..........................W ool
Washed,  fine...........
Washed,  medium...
Unwashed,  fine.......
Unwashed,  medium.
F u rs
Cat,  wild..................
Cat, house.................
Fox, red....................
Fox, gray  ................
Lynx.........................
Muskrat,  fall............
Mink  ........................
Raccoon....................
Skunk.......................

@ 8 
@ 7 
@ 6 
@  94 
@ 84 
@10 
@ 84 
@11 
@ 94
50@1  25
@ 4 
@ 3
22@24 
26@28 
18@20 
20®  22
10©  75 
5©  25 
50@2 50 
10©  75 
@5 00 
3@  12 
20@2  00 
10@1  00 
15@1  40

•resh  Meats

Carcass...........
Forequarters  . 
Hindquarters
Loins No. 3__
Rib!
Rounds.....................
CIiucks.....................
Plates.......................
F o rk

Dressed....................
Loins........................
Shoulders.................
Leaf  Lard.................

5*4® 8 
54©  6
7  @ 9 
9  @14
8  ©14
6  &  7
6  <& 6*
4  <& 5

@  (>
@  8
@ 6!
@ 7:

Carcass........
Spring  Lami):

Crackers

2 1

bbis.  pails
7  © 7*4 
7  ©  7*4 
7*4© 8

© 6 
® 64 
© 7 
© 8 
© 74
©  84

Candies
Stick  Candy

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Standard..............
Standard  H.  H ......
I Standard  Twist  .. 
Cut Loaf................
Jumbo, 32 lb ............
Extra H. H ...........
I  Boston Cream.......
B eet R oot.................
M ixed Ca
Grocers.....................
Competition.............
Special.  ...................
Conserve...................
Royal  .......................
Ribbon.....................
Broken.....................
Cut Loaf....................
English  Rock...........
Kindergarten..........
French Cream.........
Dandy  Pan...............
I  Hand  Made  Cream
m ixed....................
Nobby.......................
Crystal Cream m ix..

The  National  Biscuit  Co. 

quotes as follows:

B u tte r

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

Soda

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

O yster

64
54
64
54
6

6

10

15*

Faust..................................
Farina.................................
Extra Farina 
..................
Saltine  W afer....................
Sweet  Goods—Boxes
Animals..............................
Assorted  Cake..................
Belle Rose..........................
Bent’s  W ater....................
Buttercups... 
............
Cinnamon Bar....................
Coffee Cake,  Iced.............
Coffee Cake, Java.............
Cocoauut Taffy..................
Craeknells.........................
Creams, Iced....................
Cream Crisp..........
Crystal Creams,. 
.  —
Cubans...............................
Currant  Fruit....................
Frosted Honey..................
Frosted Cream..................
Ginger Gems, lg. or  sin..
Ginger Snaps, XXX..........
G ladiator..........................
Grandma Cakes.................
Graham Crackers.............
10
Graham  Wafers................
I2i
Honey Fingers.................. 
Imperials..............................  
8
Jumbles, Honey.................  12'
Lady Fingers........................  U
Lemon  Wafers..................  14
Marshmallow....................  15
Marshmallow Walnuts —   16
Mixed  Picnic.......................   11
Milk Biscuit.......................  
7
Molasses  Cake..................  
9
Molasses B ar.....................  
9
Moss Jelly Bar..  .............   12
Newton.................................   12
< latmeal Crackers.
Oatmeal Wafers........
10
Orange Crisp...........
Orange  Gem............
Penny flake...............
Pilot Bread,  XXX...
Pretzels, hand  made
Sears’  Lunch...........
Sugar Cake...............
Sugar Cream,  XXX.
Sugar Squares........
Sultanas....................
Tuttl  F rutti.............
Vanilla Wafers........
Vienna Crimp..........

©12

Fancy—In   B ulk 

@11 
© 9 
©  9 
©11 ©13 
©13 
©  5 
©  84 
© 9 
© 94
©11
@13 
@104 
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©50 
©60 
@65 
@75
©90
©30
@75
@60
@55
@55
@55

San Bias Goodies....
Lozenges, plain.......
Lozenges, printed...
Choc. Drops.............
Eclipse Chocolates.  .
Choc.  Mouumcntals.
Gum Drops..............
Moss  Drops.............
Lemou Sours...........
Imperials..................
ltal. Cream  Bonbons
35 lb. pails.............
Molasses  Chews,  15
lb. pails..................
Jelly  Date  Squares.
i  Iced  Marshmellows......
Golden Waffles........
Fancy—In  5 lh.  Bo
Lemon  Sours.........
Peppermint Drops..
Chocolate  Drops__
II. M. Choc.  Drops..
!  II.  M. Choc.  Lt.  and
Dk. No. 12.............
Gum  Drops...............
Licorice  Drops........
;  A. B. Licorice Drops
1  Lozenges,  plain.......
Lozenges, printed...
imperials..................
Mottoes....................
■  Cream  Bar...............
!  |  Molasses Bar............
Hand  Made Creams
and  W lnt..............
String  Rock.............
Burnt  Almonds.......1 25  ©
Wlntergreen Berries
Cttrainelrt
No. 1 wrapped,  3  lb.
boxes.....................
Penny floods............
Fruits
Orange»
@3
Fancy  Navels
©3
Extra Choice............
Seedlings..................
©
Fancy Mexicans  —
@
.lamalcas..................
©
Lemon»
Strictly choice 360s..
@3
@3
Strictly choice 300s..
@3
Fancy 300s................
@3
Ex. Fancy  300s........
©4
Extra Fancy 360s
Banana»
Medium bunches__ 1  00@1
.  1  50© 1
Large  bunches... 
1  F ruit»
F o r e i g n   D r i Fig»

80  @90
@66
@60
@55

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Fish  and Oysters
Per 1
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..  © 9
..  8© h
..  © 15
..  © 6
..  © 11
(& 25
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..  © 27
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...  @ 10
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35
30
25
22
20
16
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White Ash.............
Trout......................
Black  Bass...........
Halibut..................
Ciscoes or Herring
Blueflsh .................
Live  Lobster........
Boiled  Lobster —
Cod.........................
Haddock...............
No. 1 Pickerel.......
Pike.......................
Perch.....................
Smoked  White —
Red  Snapper........
Col River  Salmon.
Mackerel...............
F. H.  Counts............ 
F. J. D. Selects........  
Selects.....................  
F. J. D.  Standards.. 
Anchors.................... 
Standards................
Favorite........ ...........  
B ulk. 
F. H. Counts.........................  2 00
Extra Selects........................  1  75
Selects...................................   *
Anchor Standards...............l  25
Standards.............................1  20

O ysters In Cans.

Shell Goods.
Clams, per 100.............  
\ 00
Oysters, per 100..........l  25@i  50

@13
Californias,  Fancy.. 
Cal. pkg. 10 lb. boxes 
@12
I  Extra  Choice,  10  lb.
@13
boxes, new Sinpriia
Fancy, 12 lb. boxes new @14
Imperial Mikados, 18
@
lb. boxes................
Pulled, 6 lb. boxes...
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@ 54
Naturals, in bags....
Oaten
@10
Fards in 10 lb. boxes
Persians,  P. H. V ... @ 6
@  6
Fards in 60 lb. cases.
@ 6
lb.  cases, new.......
© 5
Salrs, 60 lb. cases....
Nuts
Almonds, Tarragona
Almonds,  Ivica.......
Almonds, California,
soft shelled...........
Brazils, new.............
Filberts....................
Walnuts, Grenobles.
Walnuts, soft shelled
California No. 1...
Table Nuts,  fancy...
Table  Nuts,  choice..
Pecans,  Med...........
Pecans, Ex. Large...
Pecans, Jumbos......
Hickory Nuts per bu.
Ohio,  new.............
Cocoanuts, full sacks
Chestnuts, per  bu ...
F'ancy, H. P., Suns..
F’ancy,  H.  P.,  Flags
Choice,  H.P. , Extras
Choice, H. P.,, Extras

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

view  the  fact  that  a  good  display  is  al­
ways  a  good 
investment  as  an  adver­
tisement,  especially  with  an  article  that 
may  be  considered  a  side  line.  You 
can  take  charge  of  the  sewing  machine 
department  yourself,  or,  as  a great many 
merchants  do,  place  it  in  charge  of  one 
of  the  employes,  allowing  a  small  com­
mission  on  each  sale  as  an  incentive  to 
take  an  interest  in  it.

The  hardware  dealer  should  handle 
but  one  make  of  machine,  unless  it 
seems  necessary  to  have  both  high  and 
low-priced  goods, 
in  which  case  he 
should  have  but  one  of  each.  However,
I  am  of  the  opinion  that  he  will  do  bet­
ter  with  one  fairly  good  machine  than 
with  the  best  half  dozen.  But  it  must 
be  a  good  machine.  No  dealer  can  do 
well  with  poor  machines 
anywhere. 
He  should  study  the  need  of  his  terri­
tory  and  confine  himself  to  supplying 
the  principal  demand  rather  than  to  try 
to  catch  the  stray  customer  who  wants 
something  much  out  of  the  common run.
The  extravagant  price  charged for cer­
tain  sewing  machines  has  nothing  to  do 
with  their quality  or  the  cost  of  making 
them.  Unnecessary  and  often  extrava­
gant  expenditures are  added  to  the  price 
without 
in  the 
slightest  degree.  Besides  this,  many 
people  are  willing  to  pay  an  extra  price 
as  a  premium  for the  sake  of  a  fashion­
able  name ;  but  there  are  fewer  of  these 
people  than  formerly.  At  the  present 
time  the  great  majority  of  thoughtful 
people  who  purchase  a  sewing  machine 
care  more  for  its  actual  merits  than  for 
its  name.  They  are  perfectly  willing 
to  pay  for quality,  but  for quality  only.
Finally,  serve  all  customers  a lik e ; 
have  but  one  time  price  and  one  cash 
price  to  all.  Don’t  sell  too  cheap.  Keep 
prices  up  on  your  machines. 
Then 
keep  your  guarantees  good  and  conduct 
your  business  so that  you  deserve  the re­
spect  of  the  community,  and  the  confi­
dence  and  good  will  of  your customers, 
and  you  will  find  the  sewing  machine 
business  satisfactory  and  profitable.— G. 
H.  Dirhold  in  Hardware.

improving  the  quality 

Saw   th e   P o in t  a n d   S ettled .

The  Grand  Rapids  Paper  Box  Co.

Manufacture

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

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

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STEVENS, 
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GRAND RAPIDS.  3

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Hardware

S ale  o f   S e w in g   M a ch in e s 

in  H a rd w a re  

Stores.

In  considering  the  sale  of  sewing  ma­
chines,  I  desire  to  especially  impress 
upon  the  hardware  dealer’s  mind  that  a 
knowledge  of  the  general  construction 
of  sewing  machines  is  not  essential  to 
the  successful  sale  of  them.  The  con­
struction  of  some  machines  is  so  simple 
the  carefully  worded  and 
illustrated 
book  that  goes  with  each  machine  en­
ables  anyone  to  use  it  without  special 
instructions.

The  day  is past when sewing machines 
were  classed  as  a  luxury.  They  have 
now  become  a  recognized  necessity  in 
every  family,  no  household  being  com­
plete  without  one.  When  a  family  be­
gins  housekeeping,  along  with  the  bed, 
stove  and  so  forth  comes  a  sewing  ma­
chine,  and 
impossible  in 
these  days  to  keep  house  without 
it. 
The  sewing  must  be  done  either  by  the 
housewife  or  the  seamstress,  and 
in 
either  case  a  sewing  machine  is  a  ne­
cessity.

it  would  be 

Formerly  sewing  machines  were  sold 
through  agents  and  canvassers,  while 
to-day  they  are  sold  through  hardware 
dealers  and  other  merchants  almost  ex­
clusively.  A   hardware  dealer 
can 
handle  sewing  machines  to  better  ad­
vantage  and  w ith  more  profit  than  an 
agent,  because,  as  a  rule,  he 
is  perma­
nently  established,  is  well  and  favorably 
known 
in  his  community  and  has  the 
confidence  of his  acquaintances  and  cus­
tomers,  most  of  whom  would  prefer to 
buy  a  sewing  machine  from  him  rather 
than  from  a  canvasser  or  stranger,  be­
lieving  they  will  get  a  better  article  and 
at  a  more  reasonable  price,  it  also  ap­
pearing  more  proper that  the dealer  who 
supplies  their  other  wants  should  also 
furnish  them  a  sewing  machine.  There 
is  no  side  line  the  possibilities  of which 
can  be  counted  with  more  certainty. 
The  business 
is  beyond 
the 
fashion  or  caprice. 
Change  of  season  requires  no  change  of 
stock.

influence  of 

is  stable. 

It 

like 

We  are  sometimes  asked 

if  every­
body  has  not  already  got  a  sewing  ma­
chine.  No 
indeed!  About  the  same 
number  are  and  have  been  made  each 
year  for  the  past  twenty  years.  Sewing 
machines, 
furniture,  wear  out. 
New  improvements  are  being  made  and 
new  families  are  coming  on,  so that  the 
demand  is  just  about  equal  to the supply 
from  one  year’s  end  to  the  other.  The 
present  outlook  for  a  good  trade  in  sew­
ing  machines  was  never  more  encourag­
ing.  Compared  with  other  lines,  we 
see  many  favorable  aspects.  Wages  are 
good  and the masses  are spending money 
freely.  The  tendency toward lower prices 
and  cheaper  goods  that  has  had  a  run  in 
all  lines  of  trade  has  reached  its 
limit 
in  our  line,  and  we  know  we have struck 
bottom. 
is  now,  more 
than  in  the  past,  for  a  sewing  machine 
that  carries  a  substantial  guarantee  and 
affords  a  fair  profit.

The  demand 

is  net  and  clear. 

There  is  no  extra  expense  in  the  way 
of  rent,  fire,  lights  nor  help,  so  that  any 
profit 
Increased  in­
come  reduces  general  expenses,  and 
there  is  nothing  a  hardware  dealer  can 
add  to  his  already  established  business 
that  will  net  a  better  profit,  with  as 
lit­
tle  trouble,  as  a  first-class  sewing  ma­
chine.  The  business  does  not  require 
much  room.  A   small  space  set  off  in 
the  front  end  of  the  store,  away from the 
screw  counter  and  away  from  the  nail 
in
bin,  is  all  that 

is  needed,  keeping 

A   gentleman  recently  entered  a  store 
where  he  had  been  buying  his  morning 
paper  for a  number  of  years.  The  pro­
prietor, 
besides  selling  papers  and 
books,  has  a  candy  and  peanut  counter. 

“ Good  morning,  Mr.  B— . ”
“ Good  morning,  Mr.  L— . ’ ’
The  paper  was  handed  him,  and  he 
was  about  to  depart,  when the  proprietor 
remarked:

“ By  the  way,  Mr.  L— ,  I  have  a  lit­

tle  bill  against  you.”

“ A   bill  against  me?  That  must  be  a 

mistake.”

“  I  think  not. ”
“ Let  me  see  it.”
The  bill  was  handed  to  him. 
“ For  peanuts,  $2.15,”   it  read.
“ How  is  this?”   blustered  the  gentle­

j 

man.

“ Well,  sir,  every  morning  for  the  last 
four  years  you  have  taken  two  peanuts 
when  you  left  the  store.  That  would  be 
12  peanuts  a  week,  not  counting in  Sun­
day.  when  your  paper 
is  delivered  at 
your house,  624  peanuts 
in  a  year and 
2,496  peanuts 
in  four  years.  *  I  have 
figured  there  are  57  peanuts  in  a  pint. 
Fifty-seven 
into  2,496  goes  about  45 
times.  Multiplying  by  five  cents,  the 
price  of  peanuts  per  pint,  I  find  the  to­
tal  $2.15.  Are  my  figures  correct?”

The  gentleman  was  so  dazed  that  he 

paid  the  bill  without  a  word.

Is a delightful  occupation,  but  the  merchant who 
uses Coupon  Books instead of pass books has  the 
satisfaction  of  seeing  the  dollars  roll  into  his 
coffers  in  a  steady  stream.  The  merchant  who 
uses coupon books has everything in  his favor; his 
accounts are never muddled;  he  never  forgets  to 
charge anything;  his  business  is  conducted  on  a 
cash basis.

Let us explain it to you,  Mr. Credit Merchant.

Spain  is  not  disposed  to  allow  Am eri­
can  goods  to  be  imported  and  sold  in 
that  country,  but  the  prejudice  has  not 
reached  far  enough  to  cause  Spanish 
merchants  to  refuse  to  send  their goods 
to  this  country  to  be  sold,  although  this 
country  might  easily learn  to  do  without 
them.

Tradesman  Company,

Grand Rapids,

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Getting the  People

T h e   G e n e ra l  A d v e r tise m e n t,  an d  W h y   I t  

Is   W e a k .

Every  issue  of  every  newspaper  prob- 
ably  contains one or more advertisements
of  the  nature  of  the  specimens  repro­
duced  herewith.  They  look  well,  read 
smoothly,  and  yet— they  are  not  good 
advertising.  Their  trouble 
lies  in  the 
fact  that  they  deal  in  generalities.  A 
general  advertisement  does  not  appeal 
to  anybody 
It  does  not 
make  any  effort  to  supply  an  existing

in  particular. 

Í 

s It  Is  Not  Easy

to fit a man  properly  with  a 
suit  of  clothes. 
It’s  often 
much harder to fit  his  pock­
et-book. 
fit  both  every 
time.  My  shelves  are  full 
to the ceiling with new goods.

I 

A.  L.  McLean,

M anistee,  Mich.

It 

demand. 
the  old  theme  “ we 
whatever  the  article  may  be.

is  merely  a  variation  on 
sell— shoes,’ ’  or 

Advertising  should  do  more  than  this. 
It  should  tell  of  some  particular  article 
in  a  stock,  describe 
it,  and  give  its 
It  should  do  just  what  a  sales­
price. 
man  should  do. 
it  does  less,  it  is 
weak.

If 

Suppose,  Mr.  Merchant,  you  are  sit 
ting  in  your  store,  and  a drummer walks 
in  and  greets  you  something  like  this
' * I  represent  Brown  &  Jones,  whole 
salers  of  men’s  clothing.  We  have  the 
largest  stock, 
the  greatest  variety,  and 
the  lowest  prices.  Our  line  embraces  all 
the  desirable  cloths,  cut 
in  the  latest 
styles. ’ ’

You  would  say,  most  likely,  “ Well 
what  of 
it?  Get  down  to  business 
young  man.  Show  me  your goods  and 
tell  me  how  much  you  want  for  them

G arters
and
Neckwear

suitable  between. 

are a  long way  apart,  but  we 
can “furnish”  you  with  every­
thing 
It 
costs  no  more  to  be  stylishly 
dressed  with  the  best  goods, 
well  fitting, well  made, lasting, 
out  of  our  stock,  than  to  be 
dressed like a jay out  of  some 
other stock. 

It’s true, too.
Bidelman &  Lane,

Manistee, Mich.

*  4

I’ve  no  time  to  fool  around  all  day 
tening  to  long-winded  harangues.”

And  yet,  Mr.  Merchant,  you  are  the 
very  man  who  will  turn  around  and  talk 
in  your  own  advertisements  just  as  the 
drummer  did.

The  whole  point  of  the  matter  is  thi 
Advertising  generalities  may  sell goods 
but  you  have  no  earthly  way  of  telling 
whether  it  does  or  not.  Advertising 
definite  goods  and  prices  will sell goods 
and  you  can  tell  pretty  closely  how 
much  good  it  is  doing  you.

It  all  depends  on  the  point  of  view. 
If  you’re  advertising  for  a  speculation, 
advertise  generalities;  if  you’ re  adver­
tising  for  results,  advertise  in  the  way 
that  will  bring  them.

Advance over base, on both Steel and  Wire.

Nalls

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.................
Casing 10 advance............
Casing 8 advance.............
Casing 6 advance.............
Finish 10 advance...........
Finish 8 advance.............
Finish 6 advance.............
Barrel  % advance...........
K lv
Iron  and  Tinned...........
Copper Rivets  and  Burs 
Rooting

Mate

14x20 IC, Charcoal,  Dean...............
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Dean..................
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean..................
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway  Grade 
14x20 IX,Charcoal, Allaway  Grade 
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Allaway  Grade 
20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway  Grade 

Ropes

Sisal, H inch and larger..................
Manilla..............................................

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

Sand  P ap er

Sash  W eights

Sheet  Iro n

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

3 65 
Base

13 00
5 50
6  60 
11  00 
13 00

dis

22  00

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 60
No. 27................................................  3 60
wide, not less than 2-10 extra.

Shells— Load eil

Loaded with  Black  Powder. 
Loaded w ith   N itro   Powder.

...dis 
... dis

40
40&10

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

Hliovels  and  Spades

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

1 60
1 75

8 60
8 10

20
V4@!4............................................... 
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 IC, Charcoal................................. 
20x14 IX, Charcoal................................. 

Eacb 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................................. 
B oiler  Size  Tin  P late 

Each additional X on this grade, $1.50 

14X56 IX, for No.8Boilers, 1 r DOUI1(i 
14x56 IX. for No.9 Boilers. \ per po,lnu" 

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

T raps

W ire

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

W ire  Goods

Bright.................................................... 
Screw Eyes............................................. 
Hooks...................................................... 
(late Hooks and Eyes..........................  

W renehes

Baxter’s Adjustable, Nickeled........... 
Coe’s Genuine........................................ 
Coe’s  Patent Agricultural.  Wrought..7C&10

85
1  00

5 25
6 00

70

60

65

$850
8 50
#76

7 00
7 00
8 50
8 50

,0
lu

75
40&10

66« It
15
1 25

60
60
50&10
50&10
40

4 30
4 15

76
75
75
75

30
30&1Q

Shi Her  Brothers,  of  Reese,  send  an­
other  of  their  bright  circulars  for  criti­
cism,  and  for  it  I  have  nothing  but 
praise.  Their  advertising  has  shown 
remarkable  progress 
few 
months,  and  they  seem  to  have  reached 
a  thorough  understanding  of  the  under­
lying  principles  of  profitable  publicity.

in  the 

last 

W.  S.  Hamburger.

Hardware  Price Current

A u g u n t  a u d   Hit*
Snell's..............................................
Jennings’ genuine..........................
Jennings' imitation.........................

A x e s

rst Quality, S. B. Bronze............
rst Quality, 1). B.  Bronze..........
rst Quality, S. B. S.  Steel..........
irst Quality,  D. B. Steel.............

C u sto m   o f   N ew   C le r k s  
From the New  York  Sun.

C a n d y   Store».

Railroad. 
irden..

to  eat  all 

that,  substantially,  there 
custom 
eating  of  candy  by  the  salespeople. 

There  is  an  old  story  to  the  effect  that 
is  a  custom  in  candy  stores  to  tell  the 
new  clerk 
the  candy  she 
wants,  the  result  being  that  she  is  soon 
surfeited  and  wants  no  more  candy  for 
long  time.  The  fact  appears  to be 
is  no  rule  or 
in  candy  stores  regarding  the 
It 
of  course,  required  that they shall not 
eat  candy  in  the  presence  of  customers;
might  be  possible  that  a  new  clerk 
who  developed  an  inordinate  fondness 
for  candy  would  require  a  gentle  hint; 
but  clerks  are  not  told  when  they  begin 
ork  that they may or may not eat candy ; 
nothing 
is  said  about  that  at  a ll;  and 
they  do  as  they  please  about  it,  and  eat 
what  they  want,  governing  themselves, 
is  to  be  presumed,  by  discretion  and 

common  sense.

liking 

It  was  also  the  common  testimony that 
people  do  not  get  tired  of  candy  by  be 
ng  always  in  the  midst  of  it;  and  thi 
seems  to  apply  alike  to  those  engaged 
the  manufacture  of  candy  and  the 
handling  of  it  by  wholesale,  and  to  the 
clerks  engaged 
in  the  constant  actua 
handling  of  candy  in  the  sale  of  it at  re 
tail.  Those  who  are  fond  of  candy, 
men  as  well  as  women,  are  not  surfeited 
by  the  sight  of  it  in  quantities  constant 
ly  surrounding  them ;  if it is  good  candy 
they  keep  on 
it  just  the  same 
and  enjoy  eating  what  they  want  of  it 
As  to  whether  men  or  women  like  candy 
better  there  was  some  difference  in  the 
xpressed  opinion.  At  some  places  i 
was  said  that  men  and  women 
liked 
candy  equally  w ell;  it  was  said,  for  in 
stance,  that 
in  a  little  company  of  men 
and  women eating  candy,  the men  would 
eat  as  much  as  the  women.  At  one 
place  where  the  opinion  was  exptesse 
that  men,  take  them  altogether,  do  nc 
ike  candy  so  well  as  women  do,  it  was 
said  that  if  a  man  was  fond  of  candy 
he  was  likely  to  be  very  fond  of 
it,  s 
that  he  might  eat  a  quantity  of  it  at 
time. 
that 
among  children  boys  and  girls are alike 
n  their  love  for  candy;  but  taking  into 
account  expressions  of  people  outside 
the  business  as  well  as  of  those  in  it  the 
weight  of  opinion  seemed  to  be  that 
among  grown  persons  there  are  more 
women  with  a  sweet  tooth  than  men 
that  is  to  say  that  men  are  not  so  fond 
of  candy  as  women.

It  was  everywhere  said 

in  the 

While  the  customers 

candy 
shops 
in  the  shipping  districts  of  the 
city  are  almost  exclusively women,  there 
may  be  found  in  the  city  candy  stores  ~ 
very 
large  proportion  of  whose  many 
customers  are  men.  These  shops 
found  downtown  in  the  region  devoted 
to  trade  and  finance  and  occupations 
which  men  are  more  commonly  engaged 
and  interested.  These  men,  however, 
are  buying  mainly  for  home  consume 
tion,  in  city  or  suburbs;  and  in  these 
later  years  there  has  been  seen  among 
the  purchasers  here  an  increasing  per­
centage  of  women  customers,  due  to  the 
increasing  number  of  women  employed 
in  this  part  of  the  city.

introduc 
the 

Russia  has  discouraged  the 

tion  and  use  of  typewriters  on 
ground  that  they  would facilitate nihil 
of
tic  communications,  but  the  needs 
commerce  and  business  have  become  so 
urgent  that  it  is  now  disposed  to  admit 
them,  a  concession  which  will  be  of 
benefit  to  the  empire as well  as  to  Amer­
ican  trade  in  these  instruments.

Let  a  man  marry  a  woman  because 
she  has  fetching  clothes  and  he  must 
expect  to  be  fetching  money  home  in 
quantities  years  after 
to  keep  her 
style up.

Stove ................
arriage, new  U 
lo w ............

B u c k e ts

11, plain....................................

B u tts,  Cast

ast Loose Bin, figured..............
rought N arrow .........................

C a r tr id g e s
Rim F ire ......................................
Central F ire ................................

Chain

U In. 

5-16 in.

last Steel, per lb...................................

Caps

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

Chisels

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

Elbows

!om. 4 piece, 6 in., per doz................. net
Jorrugated, per doz..............................
Adjustable.............................................dis

E xpansive  B its

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

Files—New  L ist

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

G alvanized  Iro n  

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

13 

14 

Discount, 70

15 
Gas  P ipe

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

Gauges

Glass

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

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

H am m ers

Maydole & Co.’s, new list.....................dis
Verkes & Blumb’s ................................. dis
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel................30c list

H inges

late, Clark’s 1,2,3...............................dis

H ollow   W are

Pots..............................................’.........
K ettles...................................................
Spiders...................................................

H orse  N ails

Au S able.................................................dis
Putnam....................................................dis

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

Iro n

16 50 
30 00

H in.

30&10
25

70&10
70
60&10

85&10
85&10
85

33 H 
40&10

50&10
50&10
50&10

70
20&10

3  c rates
Bar  Iron........................................
Light Band............................................   3V4c rates

K nobs—New  L ist

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

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

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

L an tern s

Levels

M a tto c k s

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

M etals— Z in c

7%
600 pound casks.....................................
»
Per pound............................................... 
Bird Cages...................  
4p
Pumps, Cistern.....................................  
70
Screws, New L ist.................................
Casters, Bed and  Plate........................   60&10&10
60
Dampers, American.............................  

M iscella n e o u s
 

 

M olasses  G ates

Stebbins’ Pattern.................................. 
Enterprise, seif-measuring.................. 

60&10
30

P a n s

Fry, Acme..............................................   60*ll2S>1?
Common,  polished...............................  
708ifl
P a te n t  P lan ish ed   Iro n  

“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27  10  75 
“B” Wood’s patent planished. Nos. 26 to 27  9  75

Broken packages He per pound extra.

Planes

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

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i the . different  denominations.

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In d e p e n d e n t  T e le p h o n e  

M o v em e n t.

The  statement  of  President  Glidden, 
of  the  Erie  Telephone  Co.,  to  the  effect 
that  all  the  independent  telephone  com­
panies 
in  the  State  are  falling  over 
themselves 
in  the  attempt  to  get  into 
the  Bell  bandwagon,  is  undoubtedly  a 
fiction,  conceived  in  the  cunning  brain 
of  one  of  the  most  fertile  strategists 
in 
the  telephone  business.  Mr.  Glidden 
came  to  the  city  last  week  and 
inserted 
interviews 
in  the  daily  papers  to  the 
effect  that  he  was  here  to  receive  propo­
sitions  for  the  purchase  of  the  Citizens 
Telephone  Co.  He  hung  around  two 
days,  throwing  out  covert  hints  to  the 
effect  that  he  was  receiving  numerous 
propositions  from  the  independent  tele­
phone  companies  of  Western  Michigan, 
but  as  he  was  not  approached  by  any 
officer  or  stockholder  of  the  local  com­
pany,  he  left  the  city  in  disgust.

The  Tradesman  is  authorized  to  state 
that  no  negotiations  are 
in  progress 
looking  toward  the  sale  of  the  local  ex­
change  and  that,  contrary  to  all  state­
ments  which  may  be  made  by  Bell  offi­
cials,  no  response  whatever  has  been 
made  to  the  overtures  of  the  Bell people. 
This  statement  will  also  probably  hold 
true  as  regards  the  local  exchanges  in 
other  parts  of  the  State,  very  many  of 
which,  the  Tradesman  is  assured,  have 
received  overtures  from  the  Glidden 
crowd,  but  that  no  negotiations  what­
ever  have  been  entered  into.  As  a  re­
sult  of  the  false  and  misleading  state­
ments  constantly  put  out  by  the  Bell 
people,  a  meeting  of  the  local  telephone 
companies  was  held  in  this  city  yester­
day,  resulting 
in  an  iron-clad  compact 
being  entered  into,  by  which  the 
inde­
pendent  companies  agree  to  make  no 
sale  whatever of  their  plants  or any  por­
tion  thereof  to  emissaries  of  the  Bell 
Co.  This  will  tend  to  solidify  the  in­
dependent  movement, 
agreement 
having  been  entered  into  by  all  of  the 
independent  companies  except  those  at 
Saginaw,  South  Haven,  Three  Rivers 
and  Allegan,  which  were not represented 
at  the  meeting.

the 

While  the  sale  of  the Detroit telephone 
properties  is  a  direct  slap  to  the  rest  of 
the  State  and  an  exhibition  of  treachery 
which  would  not  be  tolerated 
in  any 
other city,  it  is  not  nearly  so  serious  as 
it  appear. 
the  Bell  people  would  make 
When  the  purchase  was 
completed, 
Mr.  Glidden  announced  that 
it  repre­
sented  70  per  cent,  of  the  independent 
business  of  the  State. 
Figuring  by 
phones  and  miles  of  toll  lines,  the  De­
troit  properties  represented  exactly  27 
per  cent,  of  the  independent  telephone 
systems  of  the  State  and,  while  the  sale 
was  a  blow  to  the  independent  move­
ment 
in  Michigan  and  should  be  re­
sented as a  species  of treachery unworthy 
of  a  great  market,  yet  the  circumstances 
were  such  that  it  is  hardly  fair  for retail 
merchants  throughout  the  State  to  carry 
out  the  talk  of  retaliation  against  the 
wholesale  trade  of  that  market,  because 
very  few  representatives  of  the 
jobbing 
trade  were 
interested  in  the  company, 
the  organizers  being  professional  pro­
moters,  who  apparently  organized  the 
companies  solely  for the  sake  of  sand­
bagging  the  Bell  company.  The  most 
unfortunate  feature  of  the  whole  situa­
tion 
in 
which  it  leaves  the  minority  stockhold­
ers, who  will  probably  never  realize  any­
thing  whatever  from  their  investment.

is  the  unprotected  condition 

The  officers  of  the  Citizens  Telephone 
Co.  of  Grand  Rapids  could  not  afford  to 
sell  out  the  Citizens  Co.  until  every 
other  independent  company in Michigan

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

is  due 

was  first  acquired  by  the  Bell  company, 
because 
it  has  been  built  by  leading 
citizens,  including  members  of  the  job­
bing  trade,  and much  of  the  energy  with 
independent  movement  has 
which  the 
been  prosecuted  elsewhere 
to 
the  influence  and  example  of  the  Grand 
Rapids  exchange,  and  the  promises  of 
co-operation  held  out  by  it.  To  sell  the 
local exchange under such circumstances, 
until  every  other  local  independent  ex­
change  in  the  State  has  been  swallowed 
up  by  the  Bell  octopus,  would  be  to  in­
vite  a  boycott on  the  part  of  every  retail 
merchant  doing  business  with  Grand 
Rapids 
jobbers,  which  would  give  the 
trade  of  the  town  a  blow  from  which  it 
would  be  a  long  time  in  recovering.

O b je ct  to   G iving;  a  F iv e -th o u sa n d   D o lla r  

If  Chicago 

B o n d .
commission  merchants 
have  their  wishes granted  the  law  which 
compels  them  to  take  out  bonds  before 
they can Solicit shipments of produce from 
Michigan  will  be  a  detriment  to  the 
growers  and  a  benefit  to  the  merchants. 
At  a  recent  meeting  South  Water  street 
dealers,  it  is  said,  decided  they  would 
be  compelled  to  comply  with  the  new 
Michigan  act,  and  they  therefore  de­
cided  they  would  raise  the  10  per  cent, 
rate  of  commission  to  15  per  cent.  They 
also  decided  to  fight  the 
law,  in  the 
hope  of  having  it  declared  unconstitu­
tional,  and  have  already  retained  G.  J. 
Diekema,  of  Holland,  who 
is  under­
stood  to  have  given  the  law  careful  con­
sideration  and  reached  the  conclusion 
that 
it  is  radically  defective.  The  en­
actment  of  the 
law  is  regarded  by  the 
Chicago  commission  men  as  a  direct  at­
tack  on  them.  Local  commission  mer­
chants  appear  to  be  unconcerned  over 
the  law  and  it  is  understood  that Detroit 
merchants  have  reached  the  conclusion 
that  it  would  be  cheaper  to  execute  the 
bond  required  by  the  act  than to attempt 
to  have  the law declared unconstitutional 
— especially  as  the  expense  of  testing 
the  law  is  to  be  undertaken  by  the  Chi­
cago  dealers.

R a p id ly   G aining;  G ro u n d .

Saginaw,  Jan.  22— The  recently-or­
ganized  Business  Men’s  Association will 
probably  hold  a  meeting  within  a  few 
days,  as  the  committees  on  constitution 
and  by-laws  and  rooms  have  practically 
prepared  their  reports.  The  Associa­
tion  adjourned  subject  to  the  call  of  the 
Secretary,  who  has not  yet fixed  the  date 
of  the  meeting.  The  membership  roll 
has  been  swelled  to  80,  a  gain  of  ten 
members  since  the  last  meeting,  and  it 
is  expected  that  more  than  ioo  business 
men  will  associate  themselves  with  the 
organization  before  the  charter  roll  is 
closed.  That  hearty co-operation  on  the 
part  of  those  who  have  many  interests 
in  common  can  accomplish  much  goes 
without  saying,  and  if  the  new  organi­
zation  be  so  fortunate  as  to  secure  this 
it  will  rank  among  the helpful  factors  of 
the  new  year.

P o n tia c  G rocers  in   L in e.

Pontiac,  Jan.  22— Local  grocery men 
have  formed  an  association  for  common 
benefit  to  its  members.  Out  of  sixteen 
grocery  firms,  fourteen  joined  the  Asso­
ciation.  The object  will  be  to  maintain 
better  business  relations,  stop  selling 
goods  below  actual  cost  and  to  further 
the  interests  of  the  grocerymen  in  every 
way.  Another  scheme  which  the  Asso­
is  one  to  prevent 
ciation  has  adopted 
their  losing  on  bad  accounts. 
The 
officers  elected  are  D.  C.  Lewis,  Presi­
dent;  W.  J.  Fisher,  Vice-President,  and 
W.  B.  Anderson,  Secretary  and  Treas­
urer.

M a r sh a ll  B u sin ess  M en  O rg a n ize .

Marshall,  Jan.  22— At  a  public  meet­
ing  of  the  business  men  of  this  city,  it 
was  decided  to  organize  the  Marshall 
Improvement  Association  to  make  an 
attempt  to  boom  the  city  by  securing 
more  manufacturing  companies  to locate 
heie. 
following  officers  were 
elected :  President,  W.  J.  Blood ;  Vice- 
President,  S.  F.  Dobbins;  Secretary 
and  Treasurer,  G.  H.  Southworth.

The 

H id es,  P e lts ,  F u rs,  T a llo w   a n d   W oo l.
The  decline  of  price  on  light  hides 
has  been  checked.  The  stocks  on  hand 
were  all  cleaned  up, 
leaving  a  bare 
market,  with  a continued demand.  The 
quality  of  goods  offered  has  much  to  do 
with  this  decline.  Prices  were  too  high 
to  afford  a  margin  to  tanners  on  their 
output.

The  market  on  pelts  holds  firm,  with 

little  change  in  values.

Furs  of  some  grades  are  firmer,  on  ac­
count  of  reported  operations  in  London. 
The  London  sales.now  going  on  will  be 
reported  this  week,  which  will  establish 
values  for  the  balance  of  the  season.

Tallow  remains  strong at  the  advance, 

with  light  offerings.

Wools  hold  strong  at  former  values. 
Sales  are  not 
large.  The  importation 
of  coarse  grades  are  of some  magnitude. 
in  sight  are  lower  than  at  the 
Supplies 
same  time 
last  year,  with  all  factories 
at  work  at  their  fullest  capacities.

Wm.  T.  Hess.

Daniel  S.  Minogue,  formerly  of  this 
city,  but  now  employed  by  Leland, 
Wood  &  Sheldon,  at  Sisson,  Cali., 
writes  the  Tradesman  as  follows:  .“ If 
you  see  any  of  the  old  boys  who  were 
schoolmates  with  us,  please  tell  them 
that  I  am  alive  and  well  in  the  Golden 
West,  with  the  beautiful scenery and  un­
paralleled  climate.  Also  tell  them  that 
if  they  are  coming  this  way  they  can 
get  plenty  of  the  Golden  West,  w’ith 
beautiful  scenery,  etc.,  but  they  can  not 
live  on  it,  as  the  Almighty  Dollar  is  as 
hard  to  get  here  as  it  is  in  Grand  Rap­
ids. ’ ’

Minneapolis  turns  with  complacency 
from  an  examination  of  her  yearly  ac­
is  no  particular  reason 
counts.  There 
why  she  shouldn’t. 
’98  she  “ did 
herself  proud’ ’  with  an  output  of 
14,232,595  barrels  of  flour  and  finds  that 
in  1899  she  has  broken  the  record,  with
14,291,780  barrels.

In 

A d v e r tise m e n ts  w i ll  b e  in serted   u n d er 
th is  h ea d   fo r   tw o   cen ts  a   w o rd   th e   first 
in sertio n   an d  o n e  c e n t  a   w o rd   fo r  each  
su b seq u e n t  in sertio n .  N o  a d v ertisem en ts 
ta k e n   fo r  
less  th a n   25  cen ts.  A d v a n c e  
p a y m en ts.

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

i9i

LXMt  SALE—HARNESS BUSINESS.  GRAND 
F   location, with long  established  family  influ­
ence  to  help  build  up  big  trade.  Town  over 
6.000;  excellent  farming  country;  store,  22x70, 
situated near farmers’ sheds;  small competition, 
none near;  rent  low  in  order  to  assist  anyone 
looking for excellent spot to start  in  business  in 
Southern Michigan.  Address, at once.  William 
Connor, Room 82, Sweet’s  Hotel,  Grand Rapids, 
Mich. 
(j'O R   SALE  CHEAP—A  RACKET  STORE; 
r   only one in thriving town of  800  inhabitants.
M.  Grinnell, Shepherd, Mich. 
188
IpOR  SALE—THE  ONLY  GENERAL  STOCK 
in  small  town;  good  surrounding  country 
and good established trade.  Reason  for  selling, 
poor health  Address  Box  56,  Alto,  Kent  Co., 
Mich. 
190
F'OR SALE—ABSOLUTELY CASH GROCERY 

business;  sales, $20,000 last year; established 
t'Vo years; large possibilities; admirably located, 
moderate  rent;  $2,000  stock,  $400  fixtures,  con­
sisting of scales, safe, etc.;  town of 10,000  to  12,- 
000 inhabitants;  county seat and  large  manufac­
turing center;  large farming  districts  surround­
ing.  Owner has other  business.  Address  Cash 
Grocery, care Michigan Tradesman. 
189
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
I J'OR  SALE  —  CLEAN  NEW  STOCK  OF 
clothing and furnishing goods; only stock  in 
town;  great  chance;  small  capital;  reason  for 
selling,  ill  health.  Address  K,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
OR SALE OR EXCHANGE—A TWO-STORY 
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. 
S O  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, 1151 
180
South Division St., Grand Rapids. 

184

175

177

160

176

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, 
Benton  Harbor, Mich., Rural Delivery. 
185 
1 1 / ANTED-SECOND-HAND  ENGINE AND 
v *  boiler, forty horse power.  State  price and 
condition.  A. Kimball, Mancelona,  Mich.  179
P'OK SALE OR EXCHANGE—STORE BUILD 
ing and small general stock in good Michigan 
town.  Might exchange part.  Address  No.  177, 
care Michigan Tradesman. 
F'OR  SALK  OR  EXCHANGE—NEW  EIGHT 
hundred dollar grocery stock in Port Huron; 
established  trade;  good  location.  Owner  has 
other business.  Address  No. 176, care Michigan 
Tradesman. 
F'OR  SALE—DRUG  STOCK  IN  TOWN  OF 

2,000.  Established 25years.  Invoices nearly 
$4.000.  No competition within a radies of twenty 
miles.  Sales last year, $11.000.  < )wner has other 
business  which  demands  his  attention  else­
where.  A  gold  mine  for  a  good  pharmacist. 
Address No. 174, care Michigan Tradesman.  174 
rp O   EXCHANGE—CITY  LOTS  AND  80 
1 , acre farm, all free and clear,  and some  cash 
forstockof merchandise.  Address Wm. Springer, 
425 Straight St., Grand  Rapids, Mich. 
171
i [H)R  SALE—RACKET  STORE,  DOING  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. 
161
L'OR  SALE—IMPROVED  FARM  IN  GOOD 
r   locality;  good  shape,  well  cared  for:  good 
buildings;  good  water,  etc.  A.  &  O.  Baxter, 
Muskegon, Mich. 
iT'ORSALE  AT~A  BARGAIN—TWO  THOU- 
F   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. Golf, Fife Lake, Mich. 
liiOR  SALE—FINE  HOTEL  AND  SMALL 
F   livery barn;  doing  good  business;  terms  to 
suit.  Address  No.  135,  care  Michigan  Trades­
man 
135
SPOT  CASH  PAID  FOR  STOCK  OF  DRY 
goods,  groceries  or  boots  and  shoes.  Must 
be cheap.  Address A. I)., care Michigan Trades­
man. 
Ex c h a n g e —f o u r  g o o d  h o u s e s , f r e e
and clear, good location, for a  stock  of  dry 
goods or clothing, either in or out of  city.  Reed 
&  Osgood,  32  Weston  building,  Grand  Rapids. 
127
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F'OR  s a l e —g e n e r a l   s t o c k   i n   g o o d
country trading point.  Terms  to  suit  pur­
chaser.  Will  rent  or  sell  store  building.  Ad­
dress No. 116, care Michigan Tradesman. 
116
Br y s o n   b r ic k   s t o r e   a t   o v id , m ic h ..
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. 
Large  stocks  preferred.  Address  A.  P.,  care 
Michigan Tradesman. 
f/ORSALE OR EXCHANGEFOR GENERAL 
Stock  of  Merchandise—60  acre  farm,  part 
clear, architect house  and  barn;  well  watered. 
1 also have two 40  acre  farms  and  one  80  acre 
farm to exchange.  Address No. 12,  care  Michi­
gan Tradesman. 

F'OR  SALE—NEW  GENERAL  STOCK.  A 

splendid farming country.  No  trades.  Ad­
680 
dress No. 680, care Michigan Tradesman. 
'T 'H E   SHAFTING,  HANGERS  AND  PUL- 
X.  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. 
Mo d e r n   c it y   r e s id e n c e   a n d   l a r g e
lot, with barn, for sale cheap on easy terms, 
or will exchange for  tract  of  hardwood  timber. 
Big bargain for some one.  Possession given any 
time.  Investigation  solicited.  E. A. Stowe,  100
N.  Prospect street. Grand Rapids. 

983

159

993

130

114

107

12

M IS C E L L A N E O U S .

ANTED —  POSITION  AS  G R O C E RY  
clerk.  Have  had  one  year’s  experience; 
have also  had  two  years’  experience  as  book­
keeper since leaving college.  Best of  references 
furnished.  Address  No.  192,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
192
I- N  A.  RANDALL  WISHES  A  SITUATION 
>•  as  salesman  with  first-class  dry  goods 
house.  Has had plenty  of experience;  at  home 
in any department.  Address,  care  Lee  Bros.  & 
Co., Dowagiac, Mich. 
193
W ANTED=REGISTERED  PHARMACIST, 
recommended-single man  preferred.  Ad­
187
dress C. W. Fisher, Shelby, Mich. 
Y o u n g   m a n ,  e x p e r ie n c e d   s t e n o g -
rapher, bookkeeper and  general  office  man 
desires  position.  Good  references.  Address 
183
box 40, West Campbell, Mich. 
W ANTED—POSITION  AS  MANAGER  OR 
head clerk in  general  store;  15  years’  ex­
perience  as  buyer  and  manager.  Good  refer­
ences.  Address No. 181, care  Michigan  Trades­
man. 
181
Ex p e r ie n c e d   d r u g g is t   w a n t s   fflf:
nation.  Address  No.  178,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
A N T E D  —E X PE R I EN C ED   CEMENT 
manufacturer  at  once.  Address,  stating 
age, salary, etc., No. 182,  care  Michigan  Trades­
man. 
ANTED —AN  EXPERIENCED  SALES- 
man to sell groceries for an old established 
firm  in  Michigan.  None  but  an  experienced 
man need apply.  References required.  Address 
letters to X., care Michigan Tradesman. 
170
W ANTED—EXPERIENCED CIGAR SALES- 
man for Southern  Michigan  and Northern 
Indiana.  Trade well  established.  Cigars,  good 
sellers.  Good salary to right man.  Address No 
169
169, care Michigan Tradesman. 

178

182

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

Michigan  Business  Men’s Association 
retary, E. A. Sto w e, Grand  Bapids.
Michigan  Retail Grocer»’  Association 

President,  J.  Wish er,  Mancelona;  Secretary, 

E. A. Stow e, Grand  Rapids

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

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

Grand  Rapids  Retail Grocen’  Association 

President, F r a n k   J. Dy k ;  Secretary,  Ho m er 

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

Saginaw  Mercantile Association 

President,  P.  F.  Tr e a n o b ;  Vice-President, 
J ohn  McBr a t n ie ;  Secretary, W.  H. L e w is,

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

Jackson  Retail  Grocers’  Association 
H. Po 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.  F. 

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

Muskegon  Retail Grocers’  Association 

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

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

Bay  Cities  Retail Grocers’  Association 

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

L it t l e . 

______

Kalamazoo  Retail Grocers’ Association 

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

Hy m a n . 

_____

Traverse City  Business  Men’s  Association 
Ho l l y ;  Treasurer,  C.  A.  Ham m o n d.

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

0wos8O  Business  Men’s Association 

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

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

Alpena  Business  Men’s  Association 

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

Pa r t r id g e . 

______

Grand  Rapids  Retail  Meat  Dealers’  Association 

President,  L.  M.  W il s o n ;  Secretary,  P h il ip  

Hi l b e r ;  Treasurer,  S. J. Hu f f o r d .
St.  Johns Business  Men’s  Association 

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

Hf.d d le. 

______

Grand  Haren  Retail  Merchants’  Association 

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

Ho e k s. 

______

Tale  Business  Men’s  Association 

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

P u t n e y .

T R A V E L

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F.  &   P.  M.  R.  R.

AND  8T IA M S H IP   U N IS  

TO   A LL  PO IN TS  IN  MIOHIQAN

H.  F .  M O E L L E R ,  a . a.  p .  a .

Ordinary  ginger 

T h e  new  wafer  is  just  right 
(just  crisp  enough,  just 
sweet  enough,  just  ginr 
>  gery   enough)  and  the 
r  sealed,  air  tight  package 
keeps it just right until eaten. 
cakes  and 
cookies,  sold  in  the  usual  way, 
get moist and soggy in damp weather 
and  hard  and  tough  in  dry  weather.

Uneeda

keeps fresh and deliciously crisp and 
tender. 
Its  high  quality  is  assured 
by  the  fact  that  it  comes  from  the 
ovens  which  bake  U n eed a  Biscuit«
Made by N A T IO N A L  BISCUIT COMPANY, 

which  owns  the  reglatered  trade  mark  U n e e d a .

Business  Helps

The  “ N.  R.  &  C .”  brand  S pices  and 
Q u e e n  F l a k e  B a k i n g  P ow d er  are 
business  helps  of  the  highest  value. 
They  are  guaranteed  pure  and  are 
sold  only  by  the  manufacturers,

Northrop,  Robertson  &   Carrier,

Lansing,  Michigan.

Travelers'Time  Tables.

MERCANTILE  ASSOCIATIONS

Pere  M arq u ette

Railroad

C h ica g o .

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

T r a v e r se  C ity , C h a r le v o ix  a n d 'l'e to sk e y .

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

Trains  arrive  from  north 

D e tr o it.

4:00pm 
9:10pm 
11:25pm 
11:56pm
at  2:40pm,  and

Lv. Grand Rapids___  7:10am  12:05pm  5:30pm
Ar. Detroit................. 11:50am  4:05pm  10:05pm
Lv. Detroit.................   8:40am 
1:10pm  6:00pm
Ar. Grand Rapids____1:30pm  5:10pm  10:45pm

S a g in a w ,  A lm a   a n d   G r e e n v ille .

Lv Grand Rapids.........................   7:00am  5:20pm
Ar Saginaw................................... ll:55pm 10:15pm
Lv Saginaw........................  
7:00am  4:50pm
Ar Grand Rapids  — ..................ll:55am  9:50pm
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.

Geo. De Ha v en, General Pass. Agent.
Grand Rapids, Mich

January 1, 1900.

QRAND Trunk  Railway  System

Detroit and Milwaukee Div

(In eifect Oct 19,1899.)

Going East.

Leave 

Arrive
Saginaw, Detroit & N. Y ........ t  6:50am  + 9:55pm
Detroit and E ast......................tl0:l6am  t  5:07pm
Saginaw, Detroit & E ast........+ 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 ana Int. P ts.........tl2:58pm  +  3:19pm
Gd. Haven and Milwaukee... .t  5:12pm  +I0:llam 
Eastbound 6:50am train has  new  Buffet parlor 
car to Detroit,  eastbound  3:27pm  train  has  new 
Buffet parlor car to  Detroit.
•Daily.  tExcept Sunday.

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

97 Monroe St., Morton House

QRAND Rapids  &  indiana Railway

December  17,  »899.

N o r th e r n   D iv isio n .

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

S outhern  D ivision 

From 
Going 
South 
South
t  9:45pm 
Kalamazoo, Ft. W;ayne Cin.  ■h 7:10am 
t   2:00pm
Kalamazoo and Ft. Wayne.  + 2:00pm 
* 6:45am 
Kalamazoo, Ft. Wayne Cin.  •* 7:00pm
9:10am
Kalamazoo and  Vicksburg.  *11:30pm 
--------
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;  11:30pm  tram,  sleeping  car  and  coach  to 
Chicago.

Chicago  Trains.

T O   C H IC A G O .

8 45pm 

F R O M   C H IC A G O

Lv. Grand  Rapids.. .+7  10am  +2 00pm  *11 30pm
Ar. Chicago........   2 30pm 
7 00am
'Lv.  Chicago............................... +3 02pm  *11 32pm
Ar. Grand Rapids.....................  9  45pm 
6 46am
Train leaving Grand 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.

M uskegon  T rains.

G O IN G   W E S T .

Lv. Grand Rapids... .+7 35am  +1  35pm  +5 40pm
Ar. Muskegon............  9 00am  2 50pm  7  00pm
Sunday  train  leaves  Grand  Rapids  9:15am; 
arrives Muskegon at 10:40am.  Returning  leaves 
Muskegon 5:30pm ; arrives Grand Rapids, 6:50pm 
Lv.  Muskegon........ +8  10am  +12  15pm  +4 00pm
Ar. Grand Rapids...  9  30am 
1  30pm  5  20pm 
tExcept Sunday.  »Daily.

G O IN G   E A S T .

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

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

MANISTEE ft  Northeastern  Ry 

Best route to Manistee.

Via C. & W. M. Railway.

Lv. Grand Rapids.................................   7 30am
Ar. Manistee................................12 05pm 
.
Lv. Manistee...............................   8 40am  3 56pm
Ar. Grand  Rapids........................2  40pm  1,0 oopm

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Grand  Rapids,  Mich

I ' V a l e n t i n e s

for  1900

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

AN  ANGLO-AMERICAN  ALLIANCE! 

Uncle Sam  is  giving  John  Bull 

a lesson in economy.

W e can give  our  cousins  lots  of 
pointers  and  they  are  not  slow  to 
adopt  them  either;  even  the  delib­
erate  conservative  Englishman  has 
adopted  “The  Money  Weight  Sys­
tem.”

He knows  a  money maker when 

he sees it.

Must we  carry  you  clean  across 

the ocean  for an object lesson?

Don’t  you  see  the  point,  don’t 

you realize your position?

Drop us a card.  Remember  our
scales are sold  on  easy  monthly  pay­
ments.

THE  COMPUTING SCA LE  CO  D A Y T O N .  OHIO

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