Volume  XVII. 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  FEBRUARY  21,  1900. 

Number 857

P r e t t y

O p a le s c e n t   N o v e l t i e s

Just  the  Thing  for  Special  Sale  Days

Opalescent

Novelty

Assortm ent

C on tain s  h alf  dozen   each   o f  th e 

tw ely e  article s  show n   in  th e  illu s­

tratio n ,  in 

th ree  assorted   co lo r­

in g s;  six   d o zen   in  th e  p a ck a g e   at

$ 6 . o o

No charge for the  package

B rig h te n   up  you r  stock. 

T h e se   q u ick   se llin g   m on ey  m akers 

w ill  do  th e  b u sin ess.

Candlesticks, height............
Vases, h e ig h t......................
Vases, height.......................
Vases, height.......................
Celery Holders, height.......
Card Receivers, diam eter..
Rose Bowls, diameter........
Bon Bons, length................

6H inches. 
.6*4 inches. 
.S'i inches. 
5 
inches. 
.6V, inches. 
.6'/% inches.
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inches. 
.5 
inches.

E x c e lle n t  for

P R E M I U M S   A N D   S O U V E N I R S  

and  th ey  w ill  sell  read ily  at

io,  15  and  25  cents

Opalescent

Card-Tray

Assortm ent
C on tain s  six   dozen   assorted ,  tw o 

sh ap es  and  th ree  colo rin gs,  for

$ 6.00

No charge for the package

42-44  Lake Street, 

Chicago.

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Royal  Tiger  10c,  Tigerettes  5c

on  th e  m ark et.  W e r e   lo o k in g   for  som eth in g  extra  good  for  our  ow n 
sm okes,  had  th e  best  facto ries  in  th e  cou n try  m ake  up  c ig a rs  for  us, 
fin ally  settled   on  our  ch o ice  and  w ere  so  w ell  p leased   w ith   them   th at 
w e  d ecid ed   to  h ave  them   put  up  under  our  ow n  brands;  th a t’ s  w hy 
th e y ’ re  so  p opular.  G o o d   enough  for  anyb ody.

A little better than anything else on the market for the same money. 

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PHELPS,  BRACE  &  CO.,  Detroit

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P. E. BUSHMAN,  Manager.

Largest Cigar  Dealers in  the  Middle  West.

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Importers and Jobbers of

China 

Crockery 

Fancy  Goods 

Glassware 

Lamps

Johnson  Bros,  celebrated  Porcelain  Century  Pattern,  decorated  and  plain, 

the  best  on  the market. 

It  leads  them  all.

Dinner  and  Tea  Sets  in  many  designs.  All  new.

See our samples before placing spring orders.  Write for list and prices.  We will please you.

71=75  Jefferson  Avenue,  Detroit,  Michigan

M I C A

A X L E

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

ILLUMINATING  AND 
LUBRICATING  OILS

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

STAN D A RD   TH E  W ORLD  O V ER

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p r r r s ' T T n f T n r n n r T y T Y i n s  m n r s

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Holland,  Michigan

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

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2 in. Rose Bowls 
D Salts and Peppers N T 
C Salts and Peppers P T 
Wine Glasses 
Claret Glasses 
Champagne Tumblers 
Table Tumblers

Bar Tumblers 
4l4 in. Comports 
4 Vi in. Square Nappies 
Individual Creams 
Individual Sugars 
Tooth Picks 
Egg Glasses

Goblets
Custards
5 in. handled Nappies
C in. Plates
5 in. Olives
414 in. round Nappies
Admiral No. 2  7 in. Gold Vase

21 dozen, 85 cents per dozen..................................$18.70

Hall  &  Hadden,

18  Houseman  Building, 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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3.  G etting  th e  People.
4.  A ro u n d   th e   State.
5 .  G r a n d   R a p iils   G o s s ip .
T he  P roduce  M arket.
6.  W om an’s W orld.
7.  F lan k   M ovem ent.
8.  E d ito rial.
9.  E ditorial.
10.  C lerks’  C orner.
11.  C rockery  and  Glass w are  Out »tat it» ns.
12.  Shoes  anti  L eather.
15.  G otham   Gossip.
10.  T he  B uffalo  M arket.
17.  O bservation» by  a  N.  Y.  Egg  Man.
18.  The  M eat  M arket.
19.  C om m ercial T ravelers.
20.  D rugs and C hem icals.
21.  D rug P rice C urrent.
22.  G rocery P rice  C urrent.
23.  G rocery  P rice  C urrent.
24.  H ardw are.
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D etro it  office,  817  H am m ond  Bid.
Associate  offices  and  attorneys  in  every 
county in the  United  States and Canada. 
Refer  to  State  Bank  of  Michigan  and 
Michigan  Tradesman.

Michigan  Fire  and  Marine 

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Insurance  Co.
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Cash Assets,  $800,000.

Cash Capital, $400,000. 

Nst Surplus, $200,000.

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E . J.  Bo oth,  A s s t  Sec’y.

D ir e c t o r s.

D.  W h itn ey , J r.,  D.  M. F erry , F .J . Hecker,
M . W . O ’Brien, H oyt P ost, C hristian  Mack, 
A llan  Sheldon, Simon J.  M urphy,  W in.  L. 
Sm ith,  A .  H .  W ilkinson, Jam es  E d g ar,  H . 
K irke  W hite,  H .  P .  Baldw in,  H ugo 
Scherer,  F .  A .  Schulte,  W m .  V.  Brace, 
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H ayden,  Collins  B.  H ubbard,  Jam es  D.  Ä 
Standish, Theodore D.  B uhl,  M.  B.  M ills, 
A lex.  Chapoton, J r.,  Geo.  H .  B arbour,  S.
G.  G askey,  Chas.  Stinchtield,  F rancis  F . 
Palm s,  W m .  C.  Y aw key,  David  C.  W h it­
ney, Dr. J.  B.  Book, E ugene H arbeck, Chas.
F.  Peltier, R ichard  P. Joy,  C has.  C.  Jenks.

Save  Trouble. 
Save  Money 
Sava Tima.

The  world  of  business 

Sensible  Suggestions  to  W orking  W om en.
is  a  school, 
but  one 
in  which  the  workers  are  paid 
for  the  novitiate  work  they  do.  Your 
employer  is  a  far  more  rigid  task  mas­
ter  than  your  teacher.

It 

is  of  the  greatest  importance  that 
you  should  be  able  to distinguish  your 
abilities  from  what  may  be  called  your 
tastes  or 
latter  are 
pleasanter  to 
follow  but  not  always 
profitable.

inclinations.  The 

It is  necessary  to  establish  health  on  a 
pedestal  as  a  vengeful 
little  god  who 
must  be  placated,  and  regard  the  care 
of  him  as  an  essential  but  impersonal 
matter. 
-If  you  have  not  health  you  can 
not  w ork;  if  you  can  not  work  then 
others  suffer.

Another  kernel  of advice  is  to be busi­
nesslike.  There  is  a  conviction  among 
men  that  women  are  generally  unpunc­
tual  and 
irresponsible.  It  takes  a  long 
period  of  virtuous  conduct  before  a  dog 
outgrows  a  bad  name.  Solely  because 
we  are  women  we  have  got  to excel  in 
being  businesslike,  that  we  may  mend 
a  reputation  which  was  acquired  during 
the  days  when  Adam  did  the  delving 
and  Eve  was  permitted  the  luxury  of 
simply  being  a  woman  with  womanly 
duties.

Business  may  be  congenial,  but  it  is 
not  taken  up  for  fun  except  in  cases  too 
uncommon  to  count,  and  those  who  be­
come  paid  workers  must  put  away  all 
thoughts  of  sex  and  realize  that  in  a 
contract  value  received  relates  to  both 
parties,  whether 
is  for  sale  or 
merchandise.  One  of  the  most  import­
ant  principles  of  business  is  prompt­
ness,  another  energy,  another  ambition 
and  another  an  undying  zeal  that 
is 
willing  to  sacrifice  the  lighter  things  of 
life  and  to  expend  all  time  and  strength 
upon  work.

labor 

“ What  comes  of  my  social  position?”  
ask  those  who  have  not  had  their  fill  of 
accustomed  gayeties.  The  question  set 
itself  by  changing  of  taste.  One 
ties 
who  has  lived  on  good  steak  no 
longer 
cares  to  feed  on  meringues,  although 
they  may  be  valued  as  a  dessert.

Caste 

is  not 

lost  by  earnest  employ­
ment ;  the  world  of  society  is  not  cruel 
enough  to  turn  a  woman  off  because  she

has  taken  up  a  serious  and  obvious 
duty;  hut  she  on  her part  needs her time 
and  strength  for  her  work,  and  so  there 
comes  divergence  of  interest  and  a  sep­
aration 
the  choicest 
friends.  But  the  compensation  lies  in 
this— that  the  pleasures  of 
labor  are 
keener  than  those  of  indolence  and  the 
lives  of  workers  are  full  and  rich  past 
comprehension  by  the  uninitiated.

all  save 

from 

Wheat 

longs  and  shorts,  argue 

T he  G rain  M arket.
is  rather  dull,  as  reports  are 
very  contradictory  as  regards the various 
positions  of  that  article.  Both  sides, 
the 
for  either 
lower  or  higher  values,  which  causes  the 
outside  dealers  to  take  a  waiting  mood 
and  see  what  the 
future  would  bring 
forth.  As  we  are  nearing  spring  we 
will  soon  see  what  damage  the  fly  and 
weather  have done.  If  the  predictions  of 
farmers  are  true  the  winter  wheat 
the 
i crop  will  be  as  short  as 
last  season, 
which  would  he  a  sad  calamity  in  the 
I winter  wheat  belt.  The  visible  made 
about  as  much  of  a  decrease  as  last 
week.  The world’s visible also  decreased 
about  one  and  a  half  million  bushels. 
Our  visible  would  show  a  greater  de­
crease  if  it  were  not  for  the  free  move­
ment 
from  country  elevators  in  Minne­
sota  and  the  Dakotas  to  escape  paying 
taxes,  which  made 
the) 
Northwest 
anticipated. 
This,  of  course,  will  have  an  end  soon, 
when  the  true  situation  will assert itself. 
Cash  wheat  is  extremely  strong,  owing 
to  its  scarcity.  We  do  not  look  for  much 
change,  so  far  as  the  quantity  is  con­
cerned,  until  next  harvest.

receipts 

larger 

than 

in 

Corn,  owing  to  the  easy  feeling  in 
wheat,  is  also  rather  tame.  Prices  have 
gone  off  a  trifle.  Were 
it  not  for  the 
general  apathy  in  trading,  prices  would 
be  enhanced  considerable.

The  same  can  be  said  of  oats.  Noth­
ing  is  doing,  so  prices  remain  the same.
There  is  nothing new  in  rye,  which  is 
slow  sale.  The  sellers  are  asking  fully 
as  much  as  before,  but  the  buyers  are 
rather  slow  to  accept. 
It  will  require 
more  exports  to  raise  the  market.

Beans  have  also  suffered  a  decline  of 

5c  and  $2  is  the  asking  price.

The  flour  trade  has  been  good.  The 
fair  runs  during 
mills  have  all  made 
the  entire  week.  Mill 
is  still  in 
good  demand  and  prices  are  held  up 
firm.

feed 

Receipts  during  the  week  were  as  fol­
lows:  wheat,  53  cars;  corn,  11  cars; 
oats,  13  cars;  flour,  1  c a r;  hay,  1  car; 
straw,  1  car.

Millers  are  paying  68c.

C.  G.  A.  Voigt.

P ort  H u ro n   B usiness  Men  Toueli  Elbows.
The  second  annual  banquet  of  the 
Merchants  and  Manufacturers’  Associa­
tion  of  Port  Huron,  which  was  heid  last 
Wednesday  evening,  was 
largely  at­
tended  and  proved  to  be  one  of  the most 
enjoyable  events  ever  held  in  the  Tun­
nel  City.  Speeches  pertinent  to  the  oc­
casion  were  made  by  about  a  dozen 
gentlemen,  interspersed  with  music  and 
other  entertaining  features.

Swinging  on  a  cemetery  gate 

dead  open-and-shut  game.

is  a 

Miui  Ho*  Prize  <On 11 m lruin.

it 

lion 

“  Man, ”  said  the  woman of experience 
to  the  debutante,  “ is  the  prize  conun­
drum  that  women  spend  their  lives  try­
ing  to  guess.  He 
is  made  up  of  as 
many  cap rices  as  a  vaudeville  show, 
and  as  many  contrasts  as  a  department 
store,  but  upon  getting  the  right  answer 
to  the  riddle  will  depend  much  of  your 
comfort  and  pleasure.  He  is  our  great­
est  blessing,  and  the  source  of  nine- 
tenths  of  our  woe,  and  both  of  us  are 
happiest  when  he 
is  kissing  away  the 
tears  he  has  made  us  shed.  He  is  as 
brave  as  a 
in  the  face  of  actual 
danger,  hut  he  thinks  himself  dying  if 
he  has  a  sick  headache  and  keeps a doc­
tor  and  three  nurses  on  the  jump,  trying 
to  alleviate  his  groans.  He  has  discov­
ered  all  the  new  countries  of  the  world, 
hut  he  can’t  find  a  pocket  handkerchief 
isn’t  the  top  thing  in  the  drawer. 
if 
He  will 
face  the  enemv  on  the  battle­
field,  but  he  makes  his  wife  discharge 
the  cook  and  speak  to  the  wash  lady. 
He  can  boss  an  army  of  employes,  but 
he  can’t  manage  his  own  baby.  He  will 
heroically  endure  to  he  martyred  for  the 
sake  of  an  opinion,, but  he  hasn’t  the 
courage  to  wear  a  last  year’s  style  straw 
hat. 
In  his  dealings  with  women  he  is 
even  more  paradoxical.  He  is woman’s 
most  relentless  critic  and  satirist,  yet 
he  never  loves  her  so  well  as  when  she 
justifies  all  his  gibes.  He  prides  him­
self  upon  being  governed  by  his  reason 
and  judgment,  yet  in  the  most  import­
ant  affair  of  his  life  he  throws  reason  to 
the  winds  and  marries  a  girl  because 
her  eyes  are  blue  and  her  cheeks  rosy. 
The  qualities  he  admires 
in  a  sweet­
heart  he  objects  to  in a wife.  He chooses 
a  girl  because  she 
is  a  butterfly,  and 
feels 
ill-used  because  she  isn’t  a  useful 
domestic  grub.  He  will  cheerfully  work 
himself  into  nervous  prostration  for  his 
family,  but  he  considers  it  an  imposi­
tion  to  have  to  bring  up  a  bucket  of 
coal.  He  trusts  his  wife  with  his  name 
and  his  honor,  hut  not  with  his  pocket- 
book.  At  16  he  falls 
love  with  a 
woman  old  enough  to  be  his  mother  and 
it  flatters  him  to  be  addressed  as  ‘ old 
man, ’  and  talked  to  as  a  man  of  the 
world.  At  60  only  debutantes  are young 
enough  for  his  taste,  and  he  likes  to  be 
treated  as 
if  he  were  a  boy.  He  com­
plains  of  the  matrimonial  noose,  yet  he 
is  never  happy  except  when  his  neck  is 
in  the  halter.  He  derides  a  woman’s 
logic,  but  adopts  her  conclusions.  He 
bemoans  the  senselessness  of  her  dress, 
but  he  admires  her  most  when  she wears 
the  most  frills  and  furbelows. 
In  his 
general  dealings  with  woman  he  calls 
her  an  angel  and  treats  her  like  she  was 
an 
idiot.  He  admires,  in  theroy,  an 
intellectual  goddess,  but  he  marries  the 
roly-poly 
little  woman  girl  who  weeps 
at  the  right  moment  on  the  second  but­
ton  of  his  waistcoat.  He can be as strong 
as  a  hero,  as  patient  as  a  saint,  as  wise 
as  a  seer,  and  at  the  same  time  get  into 
the  most  abominable  tantrum  because 
dinner  is  five  minutes  late.  No  woman 
ever  really  understand  a  man,  any  more 
than  a  man  ever  really  understands  a 
woman.  That’s  what  makes  us  of  per­
sonal 
The 
guessing  is  the  fun  of  the  game.

to  each  other. 

interest 

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D ry G oods

pelled  to.  Ginghams  are  strong  and  the 
market  is  bare  of  ready  supplies.

T he  D ry  Goods  M arket.

Staple  Cottons— This  department  of 
the  market  shows  no change  in  prices  or 
in  the  general  tone,  even  although  there 
has  been  somewhat  more  business  trans­
acted.  This  was  expected  for  the  past 
is  not  expected  to  be 
week,  and  there 
much  change 
for  another  week.  The 
local  business  has  been  of  an  average 
volume.  In  four-yard  brown  goods  there 
has  been  some  business  transacted  at 
prices  a  trifle  below  open  quotations  for 
forward  deliveries.  During  the  last  two 
or  three  days,  however,  this  has  been  to 
some  extent  checked.  There  are  enough 
enquiries  to  show  that  if  sellers  were  a 
little  easier to  deal  with  in  other  direc­
tions,  there  would  be  a  good  amount  of 
business  coming  forward at once.  Brown 
drills  are  another  line  showing  signs  of

few  exceptions  are  enabled 

Knit  Goods—The  advance  in the price 
of  knit  goods 
is  very  beneficial  to  the 
consumer,  as  well  as  to  the manufacturer 
and  retailer,  because  the  manufacturers 
with 
to 
maintain  the  higher  standard 
in  the 
in  the  manufacture  of 
materials  used 
their  goods.  This  is  especially  so 
in 
the  higher  class  of  goods,  where  the 
substitution  of  an 
inferior  material  is 
more  easily  detected.  One  manufacturer 
of  fashioned  underwear  makes  the  fol­
lowing  statement:  “ Anyone  of  my  cus­
tomers  is  at  liberty  to  search  the  market 
for  better  grades  of  silk  than  I  employ 
in  making  up  my  fashioned  underwear, 
and 
in  finding  a  better 
grade,  I  shall  buy  the  same,  use  it  in 
the  manufacture  of  my  underwear,  and 
not  charge  the  customer  a  cent  more

if  successful 

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An eye-arresting window, an  illustration  from  which our  readers  will  doubtless 
Taluablf   suggestions  is  that  of  a linen  exhibit, which was exe­
cuted by  Wade  Cadman,  decorator  for  D  M.  Christian,  Owosso.  Mr.  Cadman 
arranged the display as a  Thanksgiving exhibit of  linens,  but  as  it  is  one  of  those 
schemes  which  is germane to almost any season, and  as  linens  play  a  very  impor­
tant part  in  the window d icoratmg  plans  for  the  winter  months,  we  take  occasion 
to  reproduce  the  photograph  now.  The  decorator  has  tastefully  combined  table 
linens with the more decorative pieces  which  are  used  for  home  beautifying  and 
judging  from  the  photograph,  the  display  was  one  of  those  dignified  showings’
h »ue lmpnrSS,ed  th5  average  passerby  with  the  worthiness 
ot the fabrics handled by this store s  linen department.

lines  will 

weakness  and  it  would  not  take  much  to 
make  them  favor  the  buyers.  This  and 
one  or  two  other  points  show  the  ex­
treme  sensitiveness  of  the  market. 
If 
quotations  for  raw  cotton  show  growing 
strength,  these 
immediately 
harden,  but  if,  on  the  other  hand,  raw 
cotton  recedes,  cotton  goods  will 
follow 
immediately,  all  except  those  lines  well 
sold  ahead.  Bleached  cottons  show  no 
change,  and  thé  amount  of  business  for 
the  week  was  better  than  last.  Cotton 
flannels  and  blankets  are  strongly  situa­
ted  and  well  sold  ahead.  Denims  are 
They  are 
among  the  firmest 
scarce,  and 
is  upward. 
Ticks,  checks,  etc.,  are  firm,  and  the 
supply  is  behind  the  demand.

lines. 
the  tendency 

Prints  and  Ginghams— There  is  quite 
an  improvement  to  be  seen  in  the  num­
ber  of  orders  coming  to  hand for various 
printed  fabrics  and  the  outlook  is  most 
encouraging.  Manufacturers  criticise 
sharply  the  conditions  which  exist  in 
the  jobbing  houses with printed calicoes. 
jobbers  are  selling  at  prices  lower 
The 
than 
the  present  quotations 
first 
hands.  This  will  hold  business  back, 
for  the  jobbers  under  the  circumstances 
will  not  place  more  orders  until  com-

in 

is  now  paying  for the  goods. 
than  he 
This  statement 
is  made  as  a  guarantee 
of  the  fact  that  I  believe  that  1  use  the 
best  quality  of  silk  that  is  produced 
in 
the  market,-  and  satisfied  customers  are 
the  result.  While  there 
is  a  certain 
amount  of advertising  in  this  statement, 
nevertheless 
it  shows  that  the  tendency 
among  manufacturers  is  to  keep  their 
goods  up  to  their  usual  standard  of  ex­
cellence.

is  the 

Carpets— The  retailers  are  now  quite 
busy  cutting  up  carpets.  Some  of  them 
have  cleaned  up  old  stocks  at  greatly 
reduced  figures,  much  below  what  new 
goods  could  be  offered  for  to-day.  The 
latter are  also  receiving  more  attention. 
The  principal  complaint  from  retailers 
to-day 
reduced  discount  and 
shortening  of  dating.  They  complain 
of  the  fact  that  all  %  goods  on  which 
they  were  formerly  allowed  4  per cent, 
discount,  if  payments  were  made  in  ten 
days  from  April  1  dating,  have  since 
January  1  been  changed  to  3*^  per  cent, 
off  ten  days  from  March  1  dating,  3  per 
cent,  off  thirty  days,  2  per  cent,  off 
sixty  days,  or  four  months  net.  This 
holds  where  orders  were  not  placed  in 
the  fall 
for  March  1  dating,  and  as

through 

stated,  new  terms  went  into  effect  Jan. 
t.  Some  offer  old  terms  where  pay­
ments  are  anticipated  before  the  dating 
named.  The manufacturers  can  not  view 
it  in  the  same  light  as  the  retailers,  for 
they  have  been  forced, 
long 
years  of  depression  and  low  prices  for 
goods,  to  make  the  best  terms  possible. 
Now  the  conditions  have  changed  and 
the  manufacturer  knows  that  if  ever  he 
is  to  obtain 
live  and  let  live“   prices 
as  well  as  terms  for  his  goods  he  must 
insist  on  more  favorable conditions now, 
and  while  this  at  present  only  applies 
ingrain  manufacturers 
should  receive  the  same  benefits.  The 
manufacturers  are 
filling  orders, 
many  of  them  working  overtime.  They 
report  the  outlook 
favorable  to  a  very 
successful  spring  business.

H  goods,  the 

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from  hugging  a  delusion.

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Feb.  27,  28,  Mar. 
1 and 2.

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Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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display and some of  the  best values  In  Ladles’, 
Misses’ and Children’s hose that have ever  been 
offered Is  one  of  the  really  good  parts  of  our 
spring line.  The fact is, we believe there Is more 
good profit in  this  line  for  the  dealer  than  in 
any  other  and  for  this  reason  give  it  especial 
attention.  Buy now—delay means a loss  to  you. 
Prices  45 cents to $3 00  per  dozen.

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Herpolsheimer & Co.,

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for  shortness  of 

A   reliable  remedy 

cash.

price.

goods.

quality.

tive.

them.

them.

New  season  goods  at  an  old  season 

Your  ideas,  and  how  we  please  them.
Our  inducements  and  what they mean.
Winter  weather  but  we  show  spring 

Properly  clothed  means perfect health.
A 
limited  supply,  but  an  unlimited 

Always  ready  with  something  attrac­

You’ ll  know  how  good  when  you  see 

Goods  that  speak  for  themselves-  -see 

You  save  yourself 

if  you  let  us  save 

A  big  advance  in  quality— a  little  ad­

Not  too late  for  comfort— just  right  for 

your  money.

vance  in  price.

economy.

When  you  think  of  true  economy, 

these  are  the  natural  things  to  buy.

Getting the  People

G radual  Im p ro v em en t  in  H an n ah  &  hay’s 

A dvertising:.

Merritt  B.  Holley,  who  manages  the 
advertising  of  the  Hannah  &  Lay  Mer­
cantile  Co.,  at  Traverse  City,  writes 
me  as  follows:

Enclosed  you  will  find  some  of  our 
latest  advertisements.  Will  you  kindly 
look  them  over  and  give  them  a fair and 
frank  criticism  such  as  they  deserve.  1 
am  trying  to 
improve  the  tone,  under 
the  most  excellent  advice  that  you  are 
in  the  Tradesman  from  week  to 
giving 
week. 
I  take  that  page  and  file  it  away 
for  reference,  and  the  good  advice  helps 
me  wonderfully.

Mr.  Holley  sends  in  a  very  creditable 
collection  of  advertisements,  and  they 
all  show  great  improvement  over  any­
thing  1  have  previously  seen  from  his 
pen.  My  space  admits  of  the  reproduc­
tion  of  only  one  of  them,  but  this  can 
be  taken  as  a  fair  representative  of  the 
general  excellence 
show.  Mr. 
Holley’s  advertising  has  grown  more 
thoroughly  practical  as  his  experience 
has 
is  paying  more  at­
tention  to  the  question  of dollars  and 
cents  and  less  to  the  construction  of  odd

increased.  He 

they 

Holley  has  sent  in  and  I  trust  that 
Mr.
progress  will  be  as  marked  in  the
his
coming  year  as  it  has  been  in  the  past 
six  months.

ment 

I  am  in  receipt  of  a  clever  advertise­
from  Saginaw  in  the  shape  of  an
Anti-Profanity  Plasters.

A  customer  confessed  to  us  Saturday  that 
Schirmer’s Manic Corn  Plasters had cured him of 
swearing.  < >f course we knew how it  was.  The 
plasters had gotten at the  root  of  the  matter 
killed his corns, and so removed one great  cause 
of profanity.

So far, mighty good!  Who will be the  next?
We  say  to  you  that  Schirmer’s  Magic  Corn 
Plasters will remove corns in 24 to ts hours; that 
they are convenient to use; cause no  pain  If  di­
rections are carefully  followed,  and  cost  but  a 
trivial  10-cent  piece  for  a  package  containing 
enough to kill a dozen corns.
We are  so  enthusiastic  about  them  that  we 
agree to deliver them  by  mail  or  messenger  to 
any part of the city.  Send a dime or  stamps  by 
mail if you can't call.
We ask you  to  remember  what  a  good  pre­
scription  department  we  have. 
It’s  complete. 
Two competent regiftered pharmacists to attend 
to your wants.

Schirmer’s  Drug  Store,

Saginaw,  Mich.

Established 1883.
announcement  by  Schirmer’s  drug  store 
— one  that  should  lay  the  foundation  for 
excellent  results  along  the 
line  of  the 
article  advertised.  The  heading  is strik­
ing  enoujfh  to  attract  attention  to  the

Half

of
Your

Life

I s

Spent

in
Your
Office

REVOLVING  CH AIRS—great 

Then w hy not have a pleasant one?  Why  not  have  all  the 
conveniences possible?  Many  people  are  judged  by  their 
office surroundings.  The best is  none  too  good—remember 
that.  Ever stop to see how we can tit you out?
LINOLEUM   is  needed  for  the  floor.  We  have  all 
widths—yard, yard and a half and two yards square;  sell for 
25c to $1.50  the  square  yard.  We’ll  take  the  measure  and 
lay it for you.
tiig  elegant  easy 
chairs anv stvle you want.  Solid oak with high carved back 
or with low back upholstered in leather, or the plain w ood- 
prices all the way from $4.50, $5.25, $0.50 to $11.
ROLL  TOP  DESK—nothing  like  having  a  good  con­
venient desk  with  " a place  for  everything  and  everything 
in its place.”  Sell these  from  $12.75  to  $180.  Have  a  nice 
line of flat top desks from $4.50 up.
DESK  SU PPLIES—all the “ little things ”  that  are so 
necessary in the daily desk work.  Pens 10c a doz.;  Holders 
lc, 5c,  10c;  Erasers  lc,  5c,  10c;  Wood  Kulers  5c;  Rubber 
Rulers 30c to 40c;  Balls of  Pins  10c;  all  sizes  rubber  bauds, 
mucilage and white  paste.
IN K   and  IN K   STANDS—all sizes  of ink stands from 
15c in glass to the patent styles  at  75c.  Nothing  so  annoy­
ing as poor  ink—we  carry  the  best  makes:  Arnold’s.  Dia­
mond, Sanford, Stafford, Thomas.  Best quality  of  Red Ink 
in 10c bottles.
B LA N K   BOOKS—the  most  needed—a  big  assort­
ment—the large sized Ledgers and  Journals  in  the  best  of 
binding.  Miniature blank books  from  25c  up:  order  books 
and counter books from 5c up;  mems. at  5c,  10c,  up  to  50c; 
vest mems. 5c up; desk  pads 10c.
LE TT ER   BOOKS  and letter  presses,  keep  a  copy  of 
every  letter  written—save  you  many  dollars  in  a  year’s 
time.  Letter books from $1 up;  one of  the finest presses  at 
$6;  blotters, oil boards and carbon paper.

HANNAH  &  LAY  MERCANTILE  COMPANY

phrases,  and  the  advertiser  who  does 
this  shows  that  he  is  arriving  at  a  true 
conception  of  the  purpose  of  advertis­
ing.  The  style  of  display  used  in  all  of 
Mr.  Holley’s  advertising  shows  that  the 
claim  I  made some time ago was founded 
upon  fact:  “ That  anyone  could  get  the 
best  possible  kind  of  display  from  the 
local  newspaper  no  matter  how  small 
the  facilities  of  the  office  might  be.”  
Mr.  Holley  uses  but  two  styles  of  type 
in  most  of  his  advertisements,  with  the 
result  that  they  present  a  clean,  attrac­
tive  appearance  that  could  not  be  at­
tained  by  the  use  of  a  dozen  or  more 
different  styles. 
is  often  difficult  to 
get  the  local  compositor  out  of  the  old- 
fashioned  rut  in  which  he  has learned  to 
use  as  many  phases  of  display  type  as 
possible. 
in 
this  city,  and  I  know  what  hard  work  it 
is,  but. the  mere  matter  of display affects 
so  much  the  appearance  of  an advertise­
ment  that  it  will  pay  every  advertiser  to 
is  not 
make  the  effort.  While  display 
everything 
it 
is 
the 
point  which  strikes  the  reader  first,  and 
first  impressions  are  usually  the  strong­
est  and  the  most  enduring.  I  have  noth­
ing  but  praise  for  the  advertising  that

I  have  been  there  myself 

in  advertising, 

It 

body  of  the  advertisement  and  the  read­
ing  matter  is  worded  so  well  as  to  leave 
a  permanent  impression  that  Schirmer’s 
Magic  Corn  Plasters  are  a  good  thing. 
The 
idea  of  delivering  them  l?y  mes­
senger  or  by  mail  is  a  clever  one,  for  it 
goes  to  show  that  the  manufacturers  are 
enthusiastic 
enough  and  progressive 
enough  to  take  the  trouble  to  sell  a  io 
cent  article.  An  advertising  druggist 
who  advertises  as  well  as  Mr.  Schirroer 
is  so  rare  that  it  is  refreshing  to  come 
across  an  announcement  like  the  one  re­
produced  herewith.

W.  S.  Hamburger.

Opposed  to  Innovations.

For  some  time  the  younger  members 
of the  Quaker  congregation in Plainfield, 
introduce  steam 
N.  J.,  have  wished  to 
heat,  electric 
lights  and  other  modem 
comforts 
in  their  meeting  house,  and 
recently  brought  the  matter  up  in  meet­
ing.  After  an  earnest  debate  on  it  the 
congregation  decided  to  continue  with 
the  old-fashioned  boxwood  stove  and  oil 
lamps,  as  they  have  done  since  1777. 
Plainfield  is  evidently  not  a  good  town 
for  the  stove  business.

A   bad  memory  is  one  that  retains  al 
the  bad  things,  according  to  its  cultiva 
tion  by  a  bad  man  with  a  bad  mind.

!vertisi»j£  C atch  Phrases  G leaned  From  

E veryw here.

These  please.
A  trade  tonic.
Our  trade  event.
Weather  resisters.
One  will  convince.
A   chorus  of  praise.
A  season  of  saving.
A   forecast  of  spring.
Never  a  better  value.
The  time  for  buying.
Your  wants  satisfied.
Please  you,  of  course.
Price  not  the  criterion.
You’ll  save  and  profit.
A  saving  worth  having.
Long  life  to  your  dollar.
What  they  mean  to  you.
See  others  and  see  these.
A  thought  for  the  future.
Every  day  a  bargain  day.
Get  them  while  they  last.
The  one  you’ ll  appreciate.
A  price  at  which  you  save.
The  verdict  of  our  patrons.
Little  things  at  little  prices.
Early  styles  for  early  spring.
Our  thoughts  for  your  needs.
A   store  full  of  attractiveness.
A  long  value  at  a  short  price.
Rich  values  for  a  dull  season.
A  saving  and  how  to  enjoy  it.
A  cold  day  but  a  warm  value.
You’ve  a  want  we  can  satisfy.
A  new  way  to  fill  an  old  want.
We  do  this  to  get  your  interest.
It’s  all  said— 23c  for  any  of  ’em.
You  can’t  make  a  mistake  here.
Get  one  if  you  want  a  good  one.
No  chance  to  get  the  worst  of  it. 
Think  of  these  and  act  promptly. 
Others  are  good-  here’s  the  best. 
Winter  weights  at  old-time  prices. 
Making  prices that  make  goods  sell.
A  stock  that  blossoms  with  beauty.
We  make  prices  that  make  business. 
Early  to  buy  means  a  pleasing  start. 
When  you  want  the  best  come  here. 
Our  promises  and  what  they  mean. 
Every-day  needs  at  every-day  prices. 
Full  measure  at  half-measure  prices. 
We  build  reputation  by  giving values. 
How  we  watch  out  for  your  interests. 
Provide  for  to-morrow  by  buying  to­

Makes  business  and  gives  satisfac- 

Elegance  combined  with  low  priced - 

day.

ion.

ness.

Il<*  l.llOIK-d  IV ¡silo III.

James  Pyle,  who  died  in  New  York 
recently,  was  one  of  the  pioneers  of 
modern  business  methods  and 
spent 
millions  of  dollars  in  advertising.  He 
did  not. think  much  of  advertising  at 
first,  however.  Horace  Greeley,  of  the 
New  York Tribune,  who knew him,  tried 
for  a  long  time  to  get  Mr.  Pyle’s  adyer- 
tisement,  and 
to  him : 
‘ ‘ Here  is  the  Tribune  rate  card.  Use 
whatever  space  you  want  for  one  year. 
If  you  find  that  at  the  end  of  that  time 
it  pays,  pay  for  the  space  you  have 
taken. 
If  you  find  it  does  not  pay,  pay 
nothing. ”   Of  course  the space was paid 
for.
Alum inum   Money

finally  said 

Will Increase Your Business.

Cheap and Effective.

Senti for sam ples and  prices.
C.  H.  HANSON,

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Around  the State

M ovem ents  o f M erchants.

Hudson—James  Deems, 

tinner,  h 

sold  out  to  R.  W.  Armstrong.

Romeo— P.  F.  Heenen  has  purchased 

the  general  stock  of  M.  P.  Owen.

Standish— E.  M.  Ward  has  purchased 

the  harness  stock  of  Fred  F.  Dow.

Clio— Bernard  Runyan  has  purchased 

the  grocery  stock  of  Sanford  Hunt.

Lawton— F.  N.  Langdon  &  Son  have 

opened  a  grocery  store  at  this  place 

Vassar—J.  L.  Selling  &  Co.  have sold 

their  clothing  stock  to  Chas.  A.  Lewi 

Detroit— Butler  &  Stalker 

succeed 
E.  1.  Butler  in  the  tea  and  coffee  busi 
ness.

Fairgrove— Burrough  &  Wise  have 
purchased  the  bicycle  business  of  C.  C 
Hoff.

Holland— D.  J.  Sluyter  has  added 

line  of  clothing  to  his  furnishing  goods 
stock.

Breckenridge— A.  J.  Marks  has  pu 
chased  the  general  stock  of James  Red 
mond.

Allegan— J.  A.  W iley  will  shortly  re 
in  the  meat  business  at  thi 

engage 
place.

Durand— M.  C.  Terry  has  sold  hi 
clothing  stock  at  Coleman  to  F.  A 
Slater.

Posen—E.  A.  Hall  has  sold  his  dry 
goods  and  grocery  stock  to  Vincent  D 
Vincent.

Kalamazoo— Oliver  Bros,  have  pur 
chased  the  grocery  stock  of  Harvey 
Woodard.

Charlesworth— Rufus  Rose has sold hi 
stock  of  general  merchandise  to  F.  A 
Westgate.

Cass  City— J.  H.  Striffler  &  Co.  con 
tinue  the  implement  business  of  Striffler 
&  Wallace.

Pentwater— Mrs.  Mary  Bunnell  wi_. 
this  place 

open  millinery  parlors  at 
about  March  15.

Manchester-----Robinson  &  Koebbe
dealers  in  clothing,  will  dissolve  part 
nership  March  1.

Milan—Alderman  Bros,  continue  the 
meat,  grocery  and  produce  business  of 
Allen  &  Alderman.

Sagin aw -D .  Y.  Stewart  &  Co.  are 
succeeded  by  the  Stewart-Leesch  Co.  in 
the  grocery  business.

Harbor  Beach— Chas.  E.  Pettit  has 
purchased  a  store  building  and  removed 
his  drug  stock  therein.

Ovid— Chas.  H.  Misner  has purchased 
interest  of  his  partner  in  the  meat 

the 
firm  of  Misner  &  Losey.

Union  City— Whitney  &  Taylor  suc­
ceed  Whitney  &  Burroughs  in  the  gro­
cery  and  bakery  business.

Homer— Frank  W.  H ill,  dealer 

in 
clothing  and  men’s  furnishing  goods, 
has  sold  out  to  Buck  &  Robards.

Springport—Miss  Lou  Rull  and  Miss 
Ella  Mack  have  purchased 
the  dry 
goods  and  millinery  stock  of Mrs.  L.  R. 
Canfield.

Charlotte— Geo.  Bracket has purchased 
the  shoe  stock  of  Parmelee  Bros.,  at 
Lansing,  and  will  add  same  to  his  stock 
at  this  place.

Owosso— Frank  C.  Kneeland,  of  St. 
Louis,  has  opened  a  book  store  here. 
He  will  put  in  a  stock  of  from  9,000  to
10,000  volumes.

Stanton— Mrs.  E.  F.  Tidd  has  sold 
her  millinery  stock  to  Mrs.  G.  F.  Pot­
ter,  of  Grand Rapids,  who  will  open  the 
store  about  March  1.

Hudson— The  fifty  creditors  of  Whit- 
beck  Bros.,  whose 
claims  aggregate 
about  $3,100,  will  probably receive about 
20  cents  on  the  dollar.

South  Arm— Charles  Brabant  has  pur 
chased  the  general  stock  of  the  South 
Arm  Lumber  Co.  and  will  continue  the 
business  at  the  same  location.

Hart— Louis  Platt  has  purchased 
half  interest  in  the  shoe  business  of  h 
employer,  L.  P.  Hyde.  The  new  firm 
will  be  known  as  Hyde  &  Platt.

Ypsilanti— Henry  S.  Platt,  A.  I.  Sul 
livan  and  G.  Cook  have  purchased  the 
clothing  stock  belonging  to  the 
late  A 
L.  Noble  and  removed  the  same  to  th 
place.

St.  Louis— Chas.  Van  Denberg,  of 
Saginaw,  will  shortly  open  a  drug  store 
at  this  place 
in  the  building  formerly 
occupied  by  the  clothing  stock  of  L 
Lenhoff.

Calumet— The  Tamarack  Co-operative 
Association  has  declared 
its  ninth  an 
nual  dividend—-10  per  cent,  on the goods 
urchased  at  the  store  and  8  per  cent 

on  the  capital  stock.

E lsie —H.  W.  Tuttle  has  purchased 
the  grocery  stock  of  Lusk  &  Co.  and the 
meat  market  of  Sheldon  Bros.  Mr. 
Lusk  has  removed  to  Chilson,  where  he 
will  engage  in  business.

Allegan— J.  C.  &  J.  G.  Stein  have 
exchanged  their  stock  of  dry  goods  and 
store  building  at  Gobleville  for  the  frui_ 
farm  of  O.  B.  Griffith,  located  a  short 

stance  north  of  Fennville.
Dowagiac— T.  Cullinane,  who  former 
ly  succeeded  T.  Henwood 
in  the  shoe 
business  at  this  place,  and  who  is  re 
cently  from  South  Bend,  has  re-engaged 
‘n  the  shoe  business  at  this  place.

«  Sault  Ste.  Marie—John  A.  Gowan 
contemplates  opening  a  hardware  store 
in  this  city  soon,  but  as  yet  his  plans 
are  not  fully  matured.  Mr.  Gowan  was 
a  stockholder  in the Chippewa  Hardwa 
Co.'  and  thoroughly  understands  every 
branch  of  the  business.

Muskegon— A.  O.  Lemire and William 
and  H.  A.  Franke  have  engaged  in  the 
hat.capand men’s furnishing goods busi 
ness  at  105  West  Western  avenue  unde_ 
the  style  of  A.  O.  Lemire  &  Co.  The 
store  building  will  be  remodeled  and 
fitted  with  cases  of  Mr.  Lemire’s  man 
ufacture.

Traverse  City— H.  W.  Beecher  ha_ 
consolidated  his  book,  stationery  and 
wall  paper  stock  with  the  drug  stock  of 
F.  C.  Thompson  and  the  two  have 
formed  a  copartnership  with  Arthur  S. 
Hobart,  of  Big  Rapids.  The  new  firm 
will  be  known  as  Hobart,  Beecher  & 
Thompson.

Saginaw— James  Stewart  recently  dis 
posed  of  his  interest  in  the  James  Stew 
art  Co.,  Ltd.,  after  which  the  other 
members  of  the  company  decided  to 
dissolve the  company  and  enter into vol 
untary  liquidation,  and  elected  A.  T  
Bliss,  James  B.  Peter  and’ Alexande 
Drysdale  a  liquidating  committee.

Charlotte— J.  E.  Pennington  and  E 
Clyde  Harmon  have  purchased  the  shoe 
stock  of  Goodspeed  Bros,  and  will  con 
tinue  the  business  under  the  style  of 
Harmon  &  Pennington.  Mr.  Harmon 
will  have  charge  of  the. business  and 
Mr.  Pennington  will  continue  as  travel- 
ng  representative  for  the  Pope  Com 
pany.

Allegan— The  sale  of  the  Guard,  Fair- 
field  &  Co.  milling  property  to  C.  L. 
Harvey,  of  Ula,  which  was  announced 
bout  a  week  ago,  was  not  consum­
mated,  owing  to  a  hitch  in  the  proceed- 
ngs.
Sault  Ste.  Marie— Thos.  J.  Graham’s 
grocery  store  has  been  closed  by  the 
foreclosure  of  a  chattel  mortgage  Tun­
ing  to  P.  C.  Keliher.  Mr.  Graham 
expects  to  be  able  to  resume  business 
again  shortly.

Edmore— Frank  Dreese  has  sold  his 
brick  store  building  to  R.  M.  Miller, 
who  will  occupy  the  same  with  his  dry 
goods  and  clothing  stock.  Mr.  Dreese 
ill  remove  his  dry  goods  and  clothing 

stock  to  Cedar  Springs.

Owosso  The  Owosso  Cold  Storage 
Co.  has  been  organized  with  a  capital 
stock  of $25,000.  The  incorporators  are
F.  Dudley,  Anna  L.  Dudley,  W.  H. 
Avery,  A.  D.  Whipple  and  H.  S. 
Hadsall,  all  of  this  city.

Albion— The  Austin  &  Smith  hard­
ware  stock,  owned  by  Henry  D.  Smith 
nd  the  estate  of  Chas.  F.  Austin,  has 
been  purchased  by  Stephen  A.  Welling, 
Detroit,  and  Geo.  P.  Griffin,  of 
Mason.  The  firm  name  will  be  Welling 

Griffin.
Owosso— F.  E.  Mosely,  the  West  Side 
grocer  and  butcher,  has  taken  a  partner 
the  person  of  Frank  Russell.  The 
market  will  be  located  in  an  addition  in 
the  rear of  the  building  and  the  front  of 
the  store  will  be  devoted  to  the  grocery 
department.

Benton  Harbor— The  clothing 

and 
furniture  firm  of  Enders  &  Young  has 
been  reorganized  under the  style  of  the 
Enders  &  Young  Co.,  it  having  taken  a 
number  of 
its  employes  into  the  busi­
ness.  The  capital  stock  has  been  in­
creased  to $50,000.

Menominee— Ludwig  H.  Larson,  of 
Marinette,  has  purchased  the  stock  of 
the  Pauli  Mercantile  Co.  and  will  con­
tinue  the  business  at  the  same  location.
He  will  dispose  of  the  crockery  stock 
and  continue*the  clothing  and  dry goods 
business  exclusively.

Elk  Rapids— W.  J.  Mills  has  sold  his 
drug  stock  to  Frank  and  Henry  A.  Mix, 
who  will  continue  the  business  under 
the  style  of  Mix  Bros.  Frank  M ix  is  a 
registered  pharmacist  and  graduate  of 
the  Chicago  College  of  Pharmacy  and 
Henry  A.  Mix  has  for  some  time  past 
been  engaged 
lumbering  busi­
ness  at  Manistique.

in  the 

Laurium— Zephram  Ethier,  who  re­
cently  purchased  the  comer  lots  at  the 
junction of  Fourth  and  Hecla  streets,has 
decided  to  erect  a  large  building  there­
on  as  soon  as  the  weather  will  permit, 
'"he  building  will  be  three  stories  high, 
the  ground  floor  being  used  for  business 
purposes  and  the  two  upper  stories 
laid 
out  for  flats.

Lansing— A.  M.  Donsereaux  has
merged  his  business  into  a  stock  com­
pany  under  the  style  of  the  Donsereaux 
Clothing  and  Grocery  Co.,  with  a  paid 
capital  of  $20,000.  His  associates  in 
the  company  are  David  E.  Brackett and 
Geo.  Monroe.  The  former  will  manage 
the  clothing  department,  while the  latter 
will  manage  the  grocery  department.

located 

Sault  Ste.  Marie— Branigan  &  Brook 
are 
in  their  new  quarters  on 
Ashmun  street.  The  front  portion  of  the 
store 
is  fitted  as  a  grocery  and  is  in 
charge  of  C.  J.  Brook,  the  junior  part­
ner.  At  the  rear  of  the  store,  separated 
by  a  glass  partition, 
the  Central 
meat  market,  which  has  been  removed 
from its  location  across  the street.  This 
department 
in  charge  of  Al.  Brani­
gan.

is 

is 

Ithaca—J.  B.  &  F.  M.  Scott  have 
formed  a  copartnership  and  purchased 
the 
furniture  stock  and  undertaking 
business  of  F.  P.  Merrell.  J.  B.  Scott, 
who  will  assume  the  active  management 
of  the  business,  has  been  for  six  years 
employed 
in  the  Ithaca  Savings  Bank. 
His  father,  F.  M.  Scott,  will  continue 
with  the  Lemon  &  Wheeler  Company 
in  the  capacity  of  traveling  representa­
tive.  He  formerly  conducted  a  success­
ful  boot  and  shoe  business  at  this  place.

M an u factu rin g  M atters.

Medina— C.  C.  Colvin  has  sold  his 

cheese  factory  to  Warren  Farnsworth.

Crisp— The  Crisp  Creamery  Co.  has 
declared  a  dividend  of  10  per  cent, 
from  the  profits  of  1899.

Overisel— At  the  annual  meeting  of 
the  Overisel  Creamery  Co.,  a  dividend 
of  17  per  cent,  was  declared.

Tower— G.  E.  Kuchle  has  purchased 
the  interest  of  his  partner  in  the  stave, 
heading  and  lumber business  of  Street­
er  &  Kuchle.

South  Ottawa— The 

South  Ottawa 
Cheese  Co.  declared  a  dividend  of  18 
per  cent,  at  a  recent  meeting  of  the 
stockholders.

Owosso— Francis  Korff,  of  Eureka,  is 
negotiating  with  Owosso  gentlemen  to 
engage 
in  the  manufacture  of  his  new 
acetylene  gas  generator.

Kalamazoo— The  American  Broom 
Co.,  which  was  recently  organized  in 
this  city,  will  shortly  erect  a  factory 
building  and  greatly  increase  its output.
Charlotte— Henry  Levy  has  purchased 
the  interest  of  his  late  brother,  Emanual 
Levy,  in  the  clothing  firm  of  Greenman 
&  Levy.  The  firm  name  will  remain  as 
formerly.

Boyne  City— Follmer  &  Stowe  have 
purchased  the  saw  and  shingle  mill  of 
Kemp  Bros,  and  will  operate  same  in 
connection  with  their  tract  of  cedar tim­
ber 
in  the  valley  between  Boyne  City 
and  Boyne  Falls.

Kalamazoo— The  partnership  between 
.  B.  Lehman  and  Louis  Isenberg 
in 
the  shoe  business  has  been  dissolved, 
the  latter  succeeding.  Mr.  Lehman  has 
associated  himself  with  a company man­
ufacturing  suspenders.

Hillsdale— Seth  H.  Smith  has  applied 
for  a  patent  on  a  veneered  barrel  head­
ing  and  has  associated  himself  with  his 
three  brothers— A.  P.  Smith,  of  Bel­
levue,  O h io;  Nelson  Smith,  of  Traverse 
"ity,  and  Abel  S.  Smith,of  this  p la c e - 
under  the  style  of  S.  H.  Smith  &  Bros., 
nd  will  soon  begin  the  manufacture  of 
barrel  hoops  and  veneered  headings.

One  W ay  to   C u rtail  F ak e  A dvertising.
Ypsilanti,  Feb.  20— At  the  last  meet- 
_ng  of  the  Ypsilanti  Business  Men’s A s­
sociation, 
the  following  officers  were 
elected  for  the  ensuing  year:

President— O.  E.  Ainsworth. 
Vice-President— G.  M.  Gaudy. 
Secretary—Guy  E.  Davis.
Treasurer— W.  H.  Sweet.
Executive  Committee— D.  L.  Davis.
.  L.  Quirk,  Jr.
Attorney— D.  C.  Griffin.
The  annual  dues  of  members  for the 
ensuing  year  were  remitted  by  vote  of 
the  Association.  The  Association passed 
a  resolution  recommending  the  appoint­
ment  of  a  night  watchman  to  remain 
on  the  street  all  night.  The  two  night 
watchmen  for  the  year  past,  Charles 
Caine  and  Andrew  Gibson,  on  account 
of  their  faithful  and  entirely  satisfac­
tory  work  during  the  year,  were  each 
voted  a  present  of $15.

the 

It ^ was  also  voted  that  the  Secretary 
furnish  each  member  with  a  list  of  all 
those  who  have  paid  for  the  support  of 
the  night  watchmen  and  for  sprinkling.
Another  matter  to  which  the  Associa­
tion  directed  its  attention  was  fake  ad­
vertising.  Under  the  rules  of  the  A s­
sociation  no  member  is  to  go 
into  any 
of 
foreign  advertising  schemes 
which  are  properly  designated  “ fake”  
advertising  without  the  approval  of  the 
Executive  Committee.  When 
such 
schemes  are  presented  to  members  they 
dispose  of  the  solicitors  by  referring 
them  to  the  Committee  which  has  the 
matter  in  charge.  The  solicitor  is  told 
that  he  can  see  the  Executive  Commit­
tee,  and 
if  his  project  meets  the  ap­
proval  of  that  Committee,  then  it  will 
not  be  necessary  to  explain  «it  to 
in­
dividual. members,  and  vice  versa.  By 
this  means,  much  money 
is  saved  to 
the  members.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Grand  Rapids  Qossip

T he  G rocery  M arket.

foot  up 

Sugars— The 

raw  sugar  market 

is 
somewhat  weaker  and  prices  have  de­
clined 
i - i 6 c ,  making  the  price  of  q 6  
centrifugals  now  4  7-16C. 
deg. 
test 
Stocks  of  raws 
152,700  tons, 
compared  with  105,000  the  correspond­
ing  period  last  year.  Néw  York  holds 
over one-half  of  these  stocks,  with  Bos­
ton  next.  Arrivals  of  raws  are  expected 
to  be  small  the  coming  week.  Advides 
from  Cuba  report  that  the  grinding  of 
cane  has  been  interfered  with  by  rains 
in  some  sections.  The  demand  for  re 
fined 
is  fair,  with  prices  unchanged. 
During  the  month  of  January  there  was 
received  at  the  nine  beet  sugar  factories 
of  Michigan  35,395  tons  of  beets,  from 
which  7,431,108  pounds  of  sugar  was 
manufactured.  Up  to  February  1  an 
aggregate  of  30,106,113  pounds  of  sugar 
was  manufactured.

It 

in  the 

low  and  trade 

Canned  Goods—While  nothing  has  oc 
curred 
in  the  trade  to  attract  any  par 
ticular  attention  of  late,  it is certain that 
there  has  been  a  steady  consuming  de 
mand,  which  has  reduced  stocks  and 
left  the  trade 
in  such  a  position  that 
increasing  business  will  cause  increased 
prices  and  put  the  market  in  a  better 
position  than 
it  has  been  inf  or  years 
There  was  a  distinct  improvement  in 
the  future  canned  goods  market  during 
the  week  and  the  volume  of  sales  was 
larger than  for  any  preceding  week  dur 
ing  the  season.  The  bulk  of  the  buying 
was  limited  to  tomatoes,  corn  and  peas 
with  tomatoes 
lead,  but  there 
were  fairly  liberal  sales  of  all  varieties 
Corn 
is  unchanged  in  price,  but  there 
is  more  demand  and  trade  is  upon 
somewhat  better  basis.  Spot  supplies 
are 
is  more  or  less  re 
stricted 
in  consequence.  Futures  se 
about  as  they  have  heretofore. 
improve 
thought  that  there  will  be  an 
ment 
in  the  situation  now  that  the 
packers  have  met  and  know  what  is  be 
ing  done  in  all  parts  of  the  country, 
is  known  that  some  canners  in both New 
York  and  Maine  are  practically  sold 
out;  at  least,  they  have  sold  what  they 
consider  their  probable  output. 
It 
stated  that  Maryland  com  will  be 
much  higher  grade  this  year  than  in  the 
past,  for  the  reason  that  the  packers 
have  been  unable  to  compete  with  some 
of  the  other  states  and  have  demanded 
that  growers  improve  the  quality  of  pro 
duction  and  much  better  results  are  ex 
pected.  Spot  tomatoes  are  quiet.  N 
very  large  sales are made  and everythin 
is  held  firmly  up  to  quotations.  Future 
tomatoes  are  steady  at  previous  prices 
and  some  sales  are  in  progress  most 
the  time.  There 
is  increased  activ 
in  peas,  particularly the  cheaper  grades 
and  the  supply  will  be  exhausted  in 
short  time  at  the  present  rate  of  buying 
Prices  are  held  firm  at  quotations  and 
holders  are  more 
inclined  to  advance 
prices than  they  are  to  shade  them.  The 
entire  supply  will  be  cleaned  up  long 
before  the  new  crop  is  ready  for  distri­
bution.  The  situation increases the  firm­
ness  in  futures  and  there  is  heavy  buy­
ing  in  this  line.  Small  fruits  are  quiet, 
with  prices  unchanged.  Baltimore  quo­
tations  are  about  steady,  but  the  market 
is  weak  and  the  movement  is not active. 
Distributers  buy  in  small  lots  only  and 
trade  is  limited  to  the  requirements  of 
actual  consumption. 
Pineapples  are 
unchanged,  but  the  supply  is  small  and 
all  stocks  are  firmly  held.  Packers  are 
beginning  to  arrange 
for  the  coming 
season,  but  so  far  no  opening  prices

have  been  made.  There  is  only  a  small 
antity  left  in  any  position and  holders 
re  not  anxious  to  dispose  of  them,  ex­
cept  at  full  prices.  Other  lines  are  un­
changed  and  business  is  limited  to  com­
paratively  small  orders.  Holders  are 
firm 
in  their  views,  and  buyers  take 
ly  what  they  are compelled by circum­
stances  to  take  to  supply  the  wants  of 
their  customers.

for 

call 

in  small 

considerable 

interest,  without 

Dried  Fruits—While 
hole,  is  no  better  than  it  has  been 

trade,  as  a 
for 
some  weeks,  there  is  a  better  feeling  in 
lines  and  holders  appear  to  be 
some 
somewhat  firmer 
in  their  views.  No 
quotable  advances  are  noted  as  yet,  but 
the  probability  is  that  an 
improvement 
some  varieties  will  occur  before  very 
3ng.  Conditions  are  more  favorabl 
nd  early  changes  are  expected.  Prunes 
re  selling  readily 
lots  and 
ade  is on a  more  stable  basis,  althougl 
no  quotable  change 
in  price  has  oc 
curred.  Exporters  are  said  to  be  show 
ing  more 
increasing 
their  orders.  The  quantity  left  in  first 
hands  is  problematical,  but  is  believed 
to  be  comparatively  small.  Some  ex 
ress  the  opinion  that  the  entire  supply 
ill  be  cleaned  up  before  the  new  crop 
comes  in.  All  sizes  are  firmly  held,  as 
they  have  been  for  the  past  month  or 
more,  although  the  preference 
is  fc 
small  sizes  still.  There  are  plenty  o 
xcellent  quality 
large  sizes  to  be  had 
but  they  are  not  wanted,  and  frequently 
for  customers.  There  has 
go  begging 
been 
100-11 
,  runes,  but  the  supply  of  that  size  i 
not  large  and  holders  are  not  particulai 
ly  anxious  to  dispose  of  what  they  have 
Raisins  are  quiet.  All  supplies  in  first 
hands  are 
firmly  held  up  to  quotations 
and  the  tendency  is  upward.  Seeders 
have  been  looking  over  the  field  with 
view  of  securing  such  supplies  as  a 
needed,  but  are  reported  to  have  been 
disappointed  to  find  stocks  so  low  and 
so  firmly  held.  Trade  is  on  a  firm  basi 
and  stocks  work  out  from  second  hands 
with  moderate  firmness,  although 
small 
one  of  confidence  and  there  are 
tions  that  everything  available  will  be 
exhausted 
ready 
changed,  but  the  buying  season 
preaching  and  the  trade  anticipate  ac 
tive movement.  The  general  conditions 
are  quite  satisfactory  and  all  suppl' 
are  held  up  to  quotations,  with  confi 
dence  that  buyers  will  have  to  pay  the 
prices  asked.  The  supply  in  first  hands 
is  known  to  be  closely  controlled  and 
holders  are  said  to  be  in  position  to  ex 
act  the  last  fraction  in  making  sales, 
is  believed  by  many  that  the  dema 
will  be  sufficient  to  carry  out  everythi 
available  at  the  high  prices;  they  the 
fore  do  not  shade  prices  at  all.'Apricots 
are  steady,  but  trade  is  largely  of  a 
tail  character  and  confined  to  such 
ders  as  are  needed  to  cover  present  con­
sumptive  requirements.  Prices  are  high 
and  held  stiff  because  of 
scarcity. 
There  is  some  improvement  in  the  de­
mand 
for  currants  and  a  fair business 
has  been  done  during  the  past  week. 
There 
in  price,  but  the 
market  is  firm.  Dates  are  unchanged, 
but  are  moving  moderately  well  under 
fairly  strong  demand.  Figs  are  quiet, 
but  there 
is  some  demand,  chiefly  for 
small  lots.  The  evaporated  apple  mar­
ket  does  not  seem  to  improve  as  rapidly 
as  was  expected  a  few weeks ago.  While 
is  no  quotable  change  in  prices 
there 
there  is  some  improvement 
in  demand 
and,  as  stocks  are  getting  cleaned  up  in 
the  country,  there 
is  some  prospect  of

lots.  The  feeling  in  the  trade 
indie 

Peaches  are  un 
is  a 

long  before  the  new  croj 

is  no  change 

to  harvest. 

in 

the 

near 

advance 

future. 
Rice— There  has been an exceptionally 
good  trade  in  rice  during  the  past week.
rices  have  remained  unchanged,  but 
„re 
firm,  with  an  upward  tendency. 
Stocks  of  the  good  grades  are  light  and 
holders  do  not  seem  particularly anxious 
dispose  of  their stocks,  as  they  antic- 
iate  higher  prices  later.
Tea— A  fair  business  was  done 
as.  Prices  are  held  steady 
■ ades,  with  enquiries  chiefly 
)w  and  medium  grades.
Molasses— Molasses 
is  unchanged  in 
rice,  but  the  market  is  steady.  Buyers 
continue  to  confine  themselves  to  pur­
chases  to  meet  regular  requirements, 
raying  full  values.

in 
for  all 
for  the 

Fish— Advices  from  Gloucester  report 
continued  scarcity  of  codfish.  Stocks,
1  view  of  the  approaching  season  of 
mproved  demand,  are  firmly  held  at 
notations.
Nuts— The  spring  trade in  nuts,  which 
begins  about  this  time,  is  lacking  so  far 
in- 
this  year  and  the  market  shows  few 
ications  of  approaching  activity.  Sup- 
lies  on  hand  are  not  burdensome,  but 
re  ample  to  satisfy all  requirements and 
i  the  business  in  a  fairly  healthful 
condition.  Trade 
limited  to  small 
orders,  but  there  are  some  additional 
enquiries  for  a  few  lines,  which  may  be 
the  beginning  of  the  spring  demand. 
European  stocks  of  walnuts  are  reported 
very  low  and  what  are  left  are  held firm 
ly  up  to  reported  prices.  Almonds  at­
tract 
former 
prices.  There 
is  only  a  light  demanc 
for  most  varieties.  Jordan  shelled  are 
comparatively  scarce,  and  prices  have 
been  advanced  a  little.

little  attention  at  about 

is 

H ides,  P elts,  F urs,  T allow   and  Wo« 
Hides  are  on  the  down  grade  and  all 
kinds  are  easier  in  value.  Every  tanner 
gives  them  a  kick.  They  realize  that 
there 
the  high  price,  and  now,  as  the  quality 
is  poor,  they  use  it  to  lower  prices.  The 
ast  offerings  show  a  shade  lower  and 
ight  sales.

is  not  a  hide  more  on  account 

Pelts  are  slow  sale  at  any  increase  of 
price  and  are  left  in  dealers’  hands  at 
any 
former  quotations 
While  the  grade  is  better,  there  are  but 
few  at  best.

price  above 

Furs  are  scarce  in  Northern  Michig. 

and  prices  are  good  on  account  of  a 
brisk  demand.

looked 

The  tallow  market 

is  strong  on  ac­
count  of  London  advices  that  all  offer­
ings  were  taken.  This  demand  has 
been 
long  that  dealers 
were  discouraged  and  sold  out.  The 
advance  in  freight  rates  has  also  forced 
up  the 
foreign  market,  in  order  to  se­
cure  supplies.

for  so 

indications  are  that 

Wool  is  dragging  and  is  slow  of  sale. 
Prices,  while  not  quotably  less,  can  not 
readily  be  obtained. 
It  is  claimed  that 
is  off  from  2@3C  per  pound. 
the  price 
The 
if  sales  are 
effected  of  any  magnitude  they  will  be 
made  at  a  less  price,  although  holders 
are  firm 
in  their  views  and  hang  on, 
thinking  the  advance  will  come  later.
Wm.  T.  Hess.

Henry  J.  Vinkemulder  has  sold  his 
grocery  stock  to  Robert  Shoemaker  and 
Wm.  Taylor,  who  will  continue 
the 
business  at  the  same  location  under  the 
style  of  Shoemaker  &  Taylor.  The  sale 
of  his  retail  stock  will  enable  Mr.  V in ­
kemulder to  devote  his  entire  attention 
to  his  wholesale  fruit  and  produce  busi­
ness. 

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For  G illies’  N.  Y. 

tea,  all  kinds, 
grades  and  prices,  Visner,  both  phones.

5

The  Produce  Market.

Apples— Spys,  Baldwins  and  Jona­
in  good  demand  at  $3.50@4 

thans  are 
per  bbl.

Bananas— Are  firm,  with  prices  re­
maining  the  same.  There  are  more  in 
the  market,  but the  quality  is  better  and 
there  is  an  increased  demand.

Cabbage— 75©90c  per  doz.  Califor­

nia,  $4©4.50  per  crate.

Carrots—$1  per  3  bushel  bbl.
Celery  25c  per doz.  bunches for home 
grown.  California  stock  commands 60 
@90c  per  doz.

Cranberries—Jerseys have  advanced  to 

$8.501059  per  bbl.

Butter  -Factory  creamery 

is  easy  at 
25c.  The  next  turn  in  the  market  will 
probably  be  downward.  Receipts  of 
dairy  grades  are  liberal  and  the  quality 
improvement.  Dealers 
shows  a  great 
meet  no  difficulty 
in  securing  i 8@20c 
'Dr  choice  to  fancy  roll  stock.

Dressed 

Poultry— The  market 

is 
strong  and  active  on  chickens  and 
ucks,  but  turkeys  are  easy  and 
in 
ilentiful  supply.  Chickens  command 
1 o@ lie.  Fowls  are 
in  demand  at  g@ 
ioc.  Ducks  command  n@ i2c.  Geese 
find  a  market  on  the  basis  of  9@ioc. 
Turkeys  are  in  good  demand  at  lie   for 
No.  2  and  12c  for  No.  1.

Eggs— Receipts  are  heavy,  but  none 
too  large  to  meet  the  consumptive  de­
mands  of  the  market.  The  price  hovers 
1 round  13c,  at  which  figure  stock  moves 
aromptly. 

Game— Rabbits  and  squirrels  are  in 

,

iair  demand  at  75c@$i  per  doz.

Honey— Dark  is  in  moderate  demand 
at  13c.  White  is  practically  out  of  the 
narket.
Lemons— Are  firmer  and  prices  have 
advanced  2510530c  per  box.  The  demand 
has 
increased  slightly  during  the  past 
few  days  and  the  excellence  of the goods 
now  coming  in  has  caused  this advance. 
The  quality  of  the  fruit  is  so  unusually 
good  that  there 
is  little  difference  be­
tween  the  price  of  the  varying  sizes.

Live  Poultry— Squabs  still  fetch  $1.75 
per  doz.  and  are  scarce  at  that.  Chick­
ens,  7@ 8 c.  Fowls,  6@ 7c.  ^ Ducks,  8c 
for  young  and  7c  for old.  Turkeys,  gc 
for  young.  Geese,  9c.

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

Onions— Home  grown  command  50c. 
Parsnips—$1.35  per  3 bu.  bbl.
Potatoes— The  market  is  a  little weak­
er than  a  week  ago  and  prices  are  a  lit­
tle  easier  in  consequence.

Squash— Hubbard  command  1 J^c  per 

Sweet  Potatoes— Kiln  dried  Jerseys 

pound.
are  slow  sale  at $4.50©4-75  Per bbl- 

Turnips—$1  per  bbl.

Frank  N.  Barrett,  the  veteran  editor 
of  the  American  Grocer,  New  York,  was 
in  town  a  couple  of  days  last  week,  ac­
companied  by  Mrs.  Barrett.  This  was 
the  first  time  they  had  visited  Grand 
Rapids  since  1893  and  both  improved 
the  opportunity  to  renew  old  acquaint­
ances  and  shake  hands  with  old  friends. 
They  spent  a  half  day  at  the  retail sales­
room  of  the  Berkey  &  Gay  Furniture 
Co.,  after  which  Mr.  Barrett  lunched  at 
the  Peninsular  Club  with representatives 
of  the  wholesale  and  retail  grocery  trade 
who  had  been  invited  to  meet  him  and 
who  were  charmed  by  his  modest  man­
ner  and  the  quiet and unostentatious way 
in  which  he  expressed  himself.

McDuff  &  Co.  are  sending  out 

letters 
to  the  trade,  soliciting  shipments  of 
butter  and  eggs.  The  firm  is  composed 
of  Wm.  McDuff  and  Geo.  Krause,  each 
of  whom  claim  to  have  $200  in  cash. 
The  office  of  the  firm 
is  located  in  a 
residence  at  n o  North  Division  street. 
The  Tradesman  advises  the  trade  to  use 
due  caution  in  dealing  with  the  firm,  as 
it  carries  no  bank  account  and  has  not 
been  established  long  enough  to  enable 
the  observer  to  form  a  conclusion  as  to 
the 
intentions  and  experience  of  the 
young  men  composing  the  firm.

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W om an’s W orld
T roubles  W hich  R esu lt  from   M eddling 

w ith   O th er’s  Affairs.

The  other  day  a  cultured  woman  of 
rather  sentimental  tendencies  asked  me 
what  I  thought  was  the  greatest  art  in 
the  world.

She  stared, 

“ The  art  of 

letting  other  people 
alone,”   I  answered,  and  then  I  said, 
“ and  it’s  the  least  understood.”
then  smiled,  as 

if  she 
thought  I 
intended  to  be  funny,  but  I 
was  never  more  deadly  in  earnest  in  my 
life. 
I  have suffered,  you  have  suffered, 
the  whole  world  has  groaned  under  a 
martyrdom  at  the  hands  of  those  who 
would  not  let  us  alone,  but  who  insisted 
on  regulating  our 
lives  according  to 
their  own  notions  and  without the slight­
est  regard  for  any  prejudices  we  might 
have  in  the  opposite  direction.

I  am  loath to  confess  it,  but these well- 
generally 
meaning  persecutors 
are 
women.  Men  are  so  busy 
trying  to 
make  both  ends  meet  in  their  own  busi­
ness  that  they  have  scant leisure to  med­
dle  in  the  affairs  of  their  neighbors.  A 
shoe  merchant  may  do  business 
for 
twenty  years  next  door  to  an  insurance 
agent  without  attempting  to  show  him 
how  to  write  out  a  policy  or  conduct  his 
office.  A  woman,  on  the  other  hand, 
can  never  see  anybody  do  anything 
differently  from  the  way  she  does  it 
without  burning  with  a  frantic  desire  to 
correct  them  and  set  them  right. 
If 
Mrs.  A .’s  own  children  wear  flannel 
she  can  no  more  help  worrying  over  the 
B.  children  having  on  cotton  than  she 
can  help  breathing.  Every  woman  in 
her  heart  believes  that  she  is  the  only 
human  being  who  possesses  the  real  se­
cret  of  economy,  the  true  religion,  and 
an  infallible  gift  for  managing,  and  be­
ing  so  perfectly  convinced  of  the  cor­
rectness  of  her  point  of  view,  it  seems 
to  her  actually  criminal  to  let  you  alone 
and  permit  you  to  do  your  own  way 
in­
stead  of  hers.

is 

inherent 

As  a  matter  of  fact  the  passion  for  re­
forming  things 
in  the  sex 
and  we  can’t  help  it.  We  were  bom 
that  way.  In  its  violent  and  insane form 
it  makes  dear,  sweet,  refined,  angelic 
girls  throw  themselves  away  on  disgust­
ing,  drunken  brutes  whom  they  marry, 
expecting  to  reform  them  and  lift  them 
out  of  the  gutter  into  respectability.  No 
woman  escapes  the  fascination  of  the 
idea  entirely,  and  the  very  first  thing  a 
girl  thinks  of  after  she  gets  engaged  is 
what  a  perfectly  delightful  time  she 
is 
going  to  have  reforming  her  husband 
just  as  soon  as  she  gets  him.  Some­
times  it’s  his  politics  and  religion  that 
she  means  to  have  him  change,  some­
times  it’s  merely  the  shape  of  his  collar 
or  the  cut  of  his  hair,  but  she’s  always 
bent  on  reforming  something. 
If  there 
could  be  a  perfect  man  he  would  have 
to  live  and  die  a  bachelor.  There  isn’t 
a  woman  living  whom  he  would 
inter­
est,  because  there  would  be  nothing  to 
change  about  him.

Men  seldom  suffer  from  this  peculiar 
mania.  When  a  man  first  falls  in 
love 
with  a  girl  he  thinks  that  everything 
about  her  is  absolutely  perfect,  and  by 
the  time  he  gets  over that  to  a  degree 
and  gets  a  sober  second  view  of  her,  he 
is  too  wise  to  undertake  the  job.  He 
has  found  out  that  there  is  nothing  mu­
tual 
in  a  woman’s  idea  of  reform,  and 
that  she  most  emphatically  objects  to 
the  process  being  tried  on  her,  and  he 
lets  it  alone.  Women  seldom learn that, 
and  so  we  are  continually  treated  to  the 
spectacle  of  women  who  have  waged  an

unsuccessful  war  against  their husbands’ 
smoking 
for  twenty  years  and  who  are 
still  hammering  away  at  the  same  re­
form,  instead  of  letting  them  smoke  in 
peace.  It  is  doubtful  if  tobacco  is  harm­
ful.  Certainly  it  can’t  be  as  bad moral­
ly,  physically  or  mentally  as  a  perpet­
ual  argument  on  the  subject.  Only fancy 
what  we  should  think  of  a  man  who  was 
forever  harping  on  the  injurious  effects 
of  chocolate  creams  or  nibbling  between 
meals  or  ice  cream  soda !  Our  own  es­
pecial  vices  are  the  only  ones  that  never 
need  reforming.

and 

‘ Why, 

‘ You  never  used  to. 

There  isn’t  much  doubt  that  the  great 
domestic  problem  is  going  to  be  solved 
when  women  make  up  their  minds  to let 
their  husbands  alone  a  little  more— to 
take  them  as  they  are,  faults  and  virtues 
included, 
indissolubly  mixed. 
Many  a  man  must  have  sighed  for  sin­
gle  blessedness  when  he  found  out  that 
his  wife  had  apparently  married  him  to 
correct  his  pronunciation  and  his  table 
manners  and  to 
interfere  with  all  his 
old  ways  and  habits.  A  young  bene­
dict  was  telling  me  not  long  ago a  funny 
story  about  his  experience  along  this 
line. 
“ When  we  were  first  married,”  
he  said,  “ Mary  began  to  develop  her 
ideas.  First  thing  of,  course, 
reform 
she  began  on  my  smoking. 
1 
didn’t  know  you  objected  to  smoking, ’
I  said. 
In  fact, 
you  used  to  say  you  liked  a  good cigar. ’ 
‘ Well,  1  didn’t  object,’  she  replied, 
‘ but  I  didn’t 
feel  responsible  for  you 
then. ’  Then  she  remembered  two  or 
three  of  my  other  pet  weaknesses  that 
she  thought  it  her  duty  to  police,  and  I 
began  to  get  scared.  Finally  I  sa id :
* Look  here,  my  dear, 
I  see  you  are 
right,  and  it’s  our  duty  to  climb  up  to 
a  high  level  and  stay  there,  but  I  don’ t 
feel  equal  to  going  by  myself.  What  is 
sauce  for  the— I  mean  if  it’s  your  duty 
to  help  me,  it’s equally  my  duty  to assist 
you,  and  I  don’t  intend  to  shirk  it.  So 
I  will  mention  a  few  little  faults  of 
yours  that  must  be  given  up.  Of  course,
1  have  noticed  them  before,  but I  should 
you 
never  have  spoken  of  them 
hadn’t 
She 
‘ Now,’  I  said, 
winced,  but  I  went  on: 
‘ Why,  1 
there’s  high-heeled  shoes— ’ 
thought  you  said  I  had  the  prettiest | 
foot  in— ’  she  began  in  dismay. 
‘ So  I  ! 
d id ,’  I  returned,  ‘ but  this  is  no  time  for 
pampering  vanity.  We  must  give  up 
all  such  weaknesses  now.  Then  there’s 
corsets,  you must discard them. ’  ‘ W hat!’ 
she  cried,  ‘ and  go  about  with  a  waist 
like  a  washwoman’s!  Not  if  I  know  it .’ 
‘ They  must  g o ,’  I  continued firmly,  ‘ and 
frizzes.’ 
look  like  a  fright!’  she 
‘ Do  away  with  them  all, ’  I 
exclaimed. 
‘ You  start  the  reform 
went  on  sternly. 
procession  and  I  will 
follow.’  Well, 
that  ended 
it,  and  she  has  let  me  alone 
ever  since  about  my  faults.  She  wasn’t 
so  keen  about  reforms  when  there  was 
a  prospect  of having  to  join  in  the game 
herself. ”

if 
the  exam ple.’ 

set  #  me 

‘ And 

The  virtue  of  letting  alone  is  equally 
applicable  to  children.  What  modern 
children  suffer  from 
is  altogether  too 
much  attention.  We  are  so  afraid  that 
they  will  hurt  themselves  that  we  keep 
them  padded  up  in  cotton  wool  as 
long 
as  we  can  and  thus  deprive  them  of  the 
great 
lessons  experience  teaches,  and 
finally,  when  they  will  bear  coddling 
and  leading  strings  no  longer,  and  they 
do  make  a  break  for  liberty,  we sit down 
and  bemoan  their  lack  of  filial  reverence 
and  gratitude. 
starts 
out  with  a  delusion  that  her  children 
are  simply 
like  so  much  blanc  mange 
that  she  can  mold  into  any  sort  of  curl­
icues  she  pleases.  Her  ideal  of  a  per­

Every  mother 

fectly  satisfactory  fam ily  is  one  where 
the  mother  picks  out  the  husbands  for 
the  girls  when  they  get  grown  and  se­
lects  the  professions 
for  the  boys,  and 
places  them  into  them  whether they  are 
misfits  or  not,  as  if  that  kind  of  wishy- 
washy  people  ever  amounted  to  any­
thing in  the world.  Our theory  of  doing 
the  best  we  can  for our  children  is  al­
ways  to  be  doing  something.  We  never 
think  that  the  very  highest  best— if  one 
may  use  the  phrase— is  to 
let  them 
alone,  and 
let  them  find  out  for them­
selves  what  they  are  and  what they  want 
to  be.  It  is  a  piece of  monstrous  vanity, 
anyway,  to  want  one’s  children  to  be 
just  like  one’s  self.

The  art  of  letting  alone  never  seems 
so  admirable  and  so  unattainable  as 
when  we  deplore  its  absence  in  our  as­
sociates.  Nothing  else  is  so  fatal  a  bar­
rier  to  friendship. 
It  is  not  possible  to 
be  on  terms  of  any sort of  intimacy  with 
one  woman 
in  a  hundred  without  her 
trying  to  more  or less  supervise  your  en­
tire  affairs.  It  isn’t  enough  for  a  woman 
to  be  satisfied  with  her  own  superlative 
infallible  doctor.  She 
dressmaker  and 
is  miserable  until  she 
foists  them  on 
every  one  of  her  friends,  and  then  when 
she  falls  out  with  those  paragons she  ex­
pects  you  to  change  with  her.  All  sorts 
of  reasons  have  been  given  for  the  scar-

in  your  own  way. 

city  of  friendship  between women.  The 
real  explanation  is  right  here  in  a  nut­
shell.  Just  as  soon  as  your neighbor gets 
beyond  the  call-on-your-day  state  she 
simply  can’t  stand  by,  hands-off,  and 
see 
you  manage  your  children  and 
husband 
“ Do  you 
let  your  Bobby  eat  chicken  salad  and 
fried  oysters?”   she  demands 
in  an 
awful  voice. 
“ My  children  were  raised 
on  health  foods  until  they  were  6  years 
old ;”   or  she  asks  in  tones  that  simply 
if  your  hus­
reek  with  disapprobation 
late  for  dinner, 
band 
and  then  adds,  “ I  always 
insist  on 
promptness  at  meals. ”   Of  course,  you 
feel 
like  telling  her  that  it  isn’t  any  of 
her  business,  but  you  don’t.  You  just 
let  her  go,  because  no 
is 
worth  buying  at  the  price  of your liberty 
to  do  as  you  please,  unvexed  by  any­
body’s  criticism.

isn’t  very  often 

friendship 

into 

This  inability  of  women  to  let another 
person  alone  also  affords the explanation 
of  why  women  are  so  loath  to  take  an­
other  woman 
their  homes.  Not 
long  ago  I  was  discussing  the  case  of  a 
gentlewoman  who  was  in  sore  need  of  a 
home.  She  was  gentle, 
refined,  cul­
tured,  but  with  no  knowledge  of  any 
business  by  which  she  could  make  a 
living. 
“ I  should think, ”   I said,  “ that 
such  a  woman  would  be  a  perfect  god-

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send  to  any  mother,  especially  a  woman 
who  went  out  much  in  society  and  who 
had  little  children  she  was  unwilling  to 
leave  entirely  to  the  care  of  servants.”  
‘ ‘ So  she  would,”   exclaimed  my  friend, 
‘ ‘ if  she  could  only  be 
induced  to  let 
other  people  alone,  but  she  couldn’t  be 
in  any  one’s house,  to  save  her  life,  two 
hours  without  wanting  to  reconstruct  it. 
Once  she  paid  me  a  visit,  and  at  din­
ner  she  almost  had  a  fit  because  we  had 
wine  on  the  table.  She  raised  a  perfect 
storm  every  time  we  went  to  the  theater 
because  she  happened  to  disapprove  of 
lectured  my  husband  about 
that.  She 
belonging 
to  clubs  and  the  children 
about  reading  what  she  called  trash  and 
kept  everything  in  a  perfect  ferment  by 
doing  what  she  considered  her  duty. 
I 
never  was  so  glad  of  anything  in  my 
life  as  when  I  saw  her  depart.  Nobody 
on  earth  would 
live  with  her  if  they 
could  help 
it.”   And  there  it  is,  and 
there  are  millions  like  her.

like  a 

joke,  but 

It  sounds 

it’s  the 
sober  truth  that  a  woman  has  to  reach 
the  very  highest  pinnacle  of  unselfish­
ness  and  generosity  before  she is willing 
to 
let  others  do  their  own  way,  and  be 
happy  after  their  own  taste,  instead  of 
hers,  but  how  charming  and  delightful, 
how  perfect  and  incomparable  she  is  in 
every  relation  of 
life  when  she  does 
master  the  art  of  letting  others  alone.
Dorothy  Dix.

T he  W h ite  W om an’s  B urden.

if 

impossible  and  that 

One  of  the  things  that  would  be  in­
tensely  amusing, 
it  were  not  als( 
tragic,  is  the  terrible  tyranny  of  tradi 
tion  that  demands  that  every  woman 
shall  be  beautiful.  Of  course  we  all 
know  from  the  outset  that  such  a  thing 
is 
it  is  the  very 
height  of  absurdity  to  expect  it.  Nature 
settled  all  that  when  she  bestowed 
certain  kind  of  hair,  eyes,  complexion 
and  features  upon  us,  and  we  ought  to 
accept  her  decision  as 
final,  but  we 
don’t.  We  have  been  taught  to  believ 
that  to  tamely  submit  to  being  homely 
merely because  we  were born  that  way  i 
a  giving 
in  to  defeat  that  is  little  less 
than  cowardly,  so  those  of  us  who  are 
plain  of  face  wage  a  war  against  the 
inevitable  from  the  cradle  to  the  grave 
It  is  not  too  much  to  say  that  the  white 
woman’s  burden  may  be  summed  up  ¡1 
her  efforts  at  how  to  be  beautiful,  al 
though  ugly.

In  all  sober  truth,  when  one  realize: 
the  stress  that  we  place  upon  a  woman’ 
looks  we  are  amazed  at  the  extent  to 
which  we  are  dominated  by a mere idea 
Poets  and  romancers  have  set  the  pace 
for  us.  No  woman,  in  a  novel,  inspires 
a  deathless  passion  except  a  creature 
who  is  radiantly  beautiful.  When  a  man 
goes  off  to  do  great  deeds  and  dare 
great  dangers  for  a  woman’s  sake,  we 
know  at  once  that  the  description  i 
going  to  say  that  “ Gwendolin  drew  her 
slight,  svelte  figure  up  to 
its  queenly 
height  and  looked  at  him  with  the  tears 
drowning  her  purple  eyes,  with  thei 
long,  dark,  curling 
lashes,  while  he 
golden  hair  shone  like  a  nimbus  about 
her  perfectly-shaped  head,  and  a  soft 
blush  dyed  her  cheek,  where  the  lily 
mingled  with  the  rose. ’ ’  And,  more 
the  pity,  we  feel  that  things  are  just  as 
they  should  be,  and  that  nobody  could 
expect  a  man  to  do  anything  in  particu 
lar  for  a  dumpy 
little  woman  with 
snub  nose  and  carrotty  hair,  no  matter 
what  sort  of  a  soul  she  might  have.

Of  course 

it  wouldn’t  greatly  matter 
about  this  devotion  to  beauty  in  the  ab 
stract.  Paper  heroines  had  just  as  well 
be  good-looking  as  not— it  all  comes

the  price— but  it  is  aggravating  when  it 
demanded  of  real  people.  Announce 
that  you  are  going  to  have  a  young  lady 
come  to  visit  you,  and  the  first  ques- 
is:  “ Is  she  pretty?”  
on  asked  you 
fo  one 
to  know 
hether  she  is  intelligent  or  talented  or 
entertaining  or 
Enquire 
what  sort  of  person  is  Miss  A.?  The 
answer  invariably  starts  out  with  a  de­
scription  of  her  looks.

apparently  cares 

charming. 

it 

life 

Is  a  woman  seeking  for  work?  Even 
then 
it  will  profit  her  more  to  have  a 
peachy  complexion  than  ability  to  do 
the  thing  she  proposes  to  do. 
The 
hole  world  has  a  natural,  spontaneous 
desire  to  help  along  beauty  in  distress. 
When  a  thing 
is  held  up  continually 
before  one  as  the  most  desirable  thing 
n 
is  perfectly  natural  that  one 
should make  a  frantic  effort  to  obtain it, 
hence  the  money  women  waste  on  com- 
exion  specialists  and  beauty  doctors, 
ind  the  weary  massaging  and  cold 
creaming  and 
frizzing  and  grace-pro­
ducing  exercising  that  makes  life  a bur­
den  to  so  many  of  us,  and  that  is  so 
futile.  Really,  after  all, 
is  love’s 
labor  lost.  One  ends  by  looking  as  one 
id  at  the  beginning,  and one might  just 
as  well  have  indulged  in  the  luxury  of 
being  as  ugly  as  she  was  born.

it 

for  beauty 

A   curious  side  light  is  thrown  on  this 
indi 
subject,  moreover,  that  seems  to 
cate  that  our  demand 
ii 
woman  is  merely  an  ideal  and  does  not 
really  affect  our  practical  actions.  The 
women  we  admire  most  and  who  are  the 
most  popular  in  society  are  seldom  even 
pretty,  and  even  men  who  most  strenu 
usly  insist  on  beauty  in  the  abstract  do 
not  display  any  overwhelming  desire  tt 
marry  it,  which  is,  of  course,  a  comfort 
to  the  ugly  woman.  More  than  that,  i 
might  suggest  to  us  that  it  is  high  time 
look  at  things  sensibly  and  to  qui 
to 
worrying  ourselves 
in  trying  to  effect 
mpossible changes  in  our  looks.  There 
are  other  things  besides  beauty.

Cora  Stowell.

M orphine  in  M iners’  Outfits, 

rom the Washington Evening  Star.
‘ ‘ When  I  was  in  the  Northwest during 
last  October,”   said  a  gentleman  with 
some  money  invested  in  mines,  “ I  em 
ployed  a  prospector  to  go  out  into  the 
mountains  looking  for  properties  which 
had  been  recommended  to  me.  One da 
he  was  to  have  gone  from  our  camp ove 
nto  a  very  rough  and  rocky  district,  but 
when  evening  came  he  reported  that  he 
hadn’t  made  the  trip.

“   ‘ Why  not?’  I  enquired.
”   ‘ Because  1 didn’t  have my morphine 
with  m e,’  he  responded  in  a  very  mat 
ter-of-fact  manner.

"   ‘ Morphine?’  said  I, 

in  astonish 
ment. 
‘ What has  that got  to  do  with  it 
You  are  not  a  morphine  fiend,  are  you?
* *  * Not  as  much  of  a  one  as  you  are 

tenderfoot, ’  he  laughed,  and  proceeded 
to  inform  me  that  every  prospector  who 
knew  his  business  always  carried  with 
him  enough  morphine  to  kill  a  ma 
easily,  and  that  he  did  so  in  order  to 
end  himself  quickly  in  case  of  an  acci 
dent  which  would  disable  him  far  awa 
from  assistance.  There  were  many  in 
stances  of  prospectors  falling  over  cliffs 
and  crippling  themselves,  or  breaking 
a  leg  in  a  hole  among  the  rocks,  or  ren 
dering  themselves  helpless  in some othe 
way,  and  death  was  sure  to  follow  by 
starvation  or  freezing,  or  in  some  sec 
tions  by  being  devoured  by  wolves,  or 
other  wild  animals. 
In  order  to  prevent 
such  a  horrible  death as  any  of  these  the 
prospector  simplified  matters  by  always 
carrying  a 
little  packet  of  morphine 
which  not  only  quieted  the  pain  of  the 
hurt  he  had  sustained,  but  put  him 
sleep  pleasantly  to  wake  no  more  on 
earth. 
It  struck  me  at  first  as  uncanny 
not  to  say  wicked,  but  I  got  over  that 
feeling  after  a  narrow  escape  or  two 
and  I  carried  my  little  tin  box  just 
like 
a  veteran  would. ’ ’

FLA NK   MOVEMENT.

T rad in g  Stam p C om panies B eaten at T fieir 

Own  Game, 

rom the Topeka Merchants’ Journal.
This  week  the  trading-stamp  com­
mies  in  Topeka  have  run  up  against  a 
ard  proposition.  J.  S.  Sproat,  pro- 
rietor  of  the 
largest  cash  grocery  in 
opeka,  put  a  flaming  advertisement  in 
the  newspapers  this  week  offering  to  ex­
change  groceries 
for  premium  stamps, 
is  the  advertisement  as 

he  following 
appeared:

W AN TED

All  day  Friday  the  Blue  and  Green 

PREM IUM   STAM PS 

In  exchange  for 
G R O C E R IE S

At  our  well-known  Spot  Cash  Prices.
The  Premium  Stamp  in  Topeka  will 
soon  be  a  thing  of  the  past.  Be  quick 
and  cash  your  stamps  on  hand.  We 
will  pay  25  cents  (in  trade)  per hundred 
for  stamps  all  day  Friday.  We  prefer 
>  buy  Premium  Stamps  of  Topeka  peo- 
le  rather  than  pay  our  good  money  to 
the  stamp  companies,  who  take  every 
liar  they  get  out  of  town.  To-morrow 
we  will  pay  for  your  Premium  Stamps 
more  than  we  have  to  pay  the  stamp
concerns. 

_____
A  LA D Y

Said :  “ I  took  forty  pages  of  stamps 
,000 
in  all)  to  the  stamp  store  the 
rther  day and  received  a  vase  which  my 
husband  says  is  worth  40  cents.”  

To-morrow  she  could  have  bought  $5 
01th  of  Groceries  of  us  with  her 2,000 
just  one  condition: 
in  good 

stamps.  There 
The  stamps  must  be  loose  and 
condition.

is 

You  can  buy  20  cents’  worth,  or  $20 
worth  -just  as  you  like.  But  the  stamps 
must  be  loose  and  in  good  condition.

200  Premium  Stamps  to-morrow  will 
buy  a  pound  can  of  Dr.  Price’s  Baking 
’owder  and  3  cakes  of  Yeast  Foam.
400  Premium  Stamps  to-morrow  will 
buy  this  b ill:  5  lbs.  Granulated  Sugar, 
25c;  6  lbs.  Rice,  25c;  %  lb.  can  Price’s 
Baking  Powder,  20c;  1  pk.  Potatoes, 
io c ;  2 cans  3-lb.  Tomatoes,  15c;  2 sacks 
Salt,  5c.  Total  Value,  $1.
No  guessing  at  the  values  of  gilde< 
Clocks,  “ Decorated”   China  or  “ Cut’ 
Bass.

in  your  Premium  Stamps  and 
exchange  them  for  Groceries  at  Known 
Prices.

Bring 

We  will  continue  as  heretofore  t<: 
Premium  Stamps  with  all  Cash 
chases.

STA R   G R O C E R Y 

J.  S.  Sproat.

give
Fur

Premium  Stamps,  both  Blue 

Green,  buy  Groceries  here  to-morrow.

New  Customers  as  welcome  to-morrow 

and

is  old  ones.

This  move  on  the  part  of  Mr.  Sproat 
will  undoubtedly  create  consternation 
in  the  camp  of  the  trading  stamp  men. 
The  premium 
stamp  has  heretofore 
been  used  as  an  advertising  scheme  by 
many  Topeka  merchants,  but  now  the 
fact  that  their  customers  can  take  the 
stamps  and  go  to  another  store  and  buy 
goods  with  them  will  take  away  all  the 
virtue  there 
in  the  little  stickers  as 
an  advertising  method.  Mr.  Sproat’s 
move  is  a  bold  one  and  one  which  may 
possibly  cost  him  several  hundred  dol­
lars,  but  he  can  well  afford  to  spend  the 
money,  for he  will  get  plenty of advertis­

is 

ing  and  will  undoubtedly  succeed  in 
drawing  a  large  number  of  new  custom­
ers  to  his  store.  Mr.  Sproat  says  that 
he  has  been  buying  trading  stamps  for 
from  $150  to  S200  per  month  for  several 
months,  having  been  forced  into  giving 
stamps  by  other  merchants  using  them. 
He  now  proposes  to  buy  his  stamps 
from  the  people  who  have obtained them 
from  other  merchants  as premiums,  pay­
ing  them  exactly  what  he  is  asked  by 
the  stamp  companies.

The  Merchants’  Journal  believes  that 
this  move  will  .come  nearer  solving  the 
premium  stamp  question  than  anything 
which  has  yet  been  brought  forward  as 
remedy  for  the  evil.  Grocers  who  • 

have  been  giving  stamps  will  not  take 
nuch  pleasure  in  seeing  their  customers 
;ake  the  stamps  they  have  handed  out to 
the  store  of  a  competitor for redemption. 
They  will  be  forced,  as  a  plain  business 
proposition,  to  redeem  the  stamps  them­
in  goods;  and  then  consumers 
selves 
who  are  asking 
for  stamps  will  see 
through  the  whole  thing. ”

K eep  Y our T em per.

it 

in  every  walk  of 

Be  good-tempered. 

It  pays,  in  every 
w a y;  it  pays,  if  you  are  an  employer; 
it  pays,  if  you  are  an  em ploye; 
is 
profitable 
life.  And 
this  is  taking  the  most  selfish  view. 
You  owe  it  to  others  to be good-natured ; 
you  owe  it  to  your  own  manhood, 
to 
your  own 
In  making 
others 
comfortable,  you  are  making 
things  agreeable  for  yourself;  you  are 
gaining  and  keeping  good-will,  which 
may  be  of  value  and  help  to  you  here­
after ;  you  are  accumulating  a  capital 
of popularity and good report,  which may 
be  used  to  advantage,  perhaps,  in  a 
critical  time.  Good  temper  is  a  great 
factor  in  success.

self-respect. 

DON’T BUY AN AWNINO  until  you  get 

our  prices.

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S T A T E   OF  M ICH IG A N }  ss>

County  of  Kent 

)

John  DeBoer,  being  duly  sworn,  de­

poses  and  says  as  follows :

I  am  pressman 

in  the  office  of  the 
Tradesman  Company  and have charge of 
the  presses  and  folding  machine  in  that 
establishment. 
I  printed  and  folded
7,ooo  copies  of the  issue of  Feb.  14,1900, 
and  saw  the  edition  mailed  in  the  usual 
manner.  And 
further  deponent  saith 
not. 

John  DeBoer.

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

notary  public 
this  seventeenth  day of February,  1900.
Henry  B.  Fairchild, 

Notary  Public  in  and  for  Kent  County, 

it 

in  view 

introduced 

German,  in  the  public  schools,  affirms 
the  same  fact.  With  the  hope  of  trans­
planting  a  bit  of  the  old  fatherland  to 
this  country  and  of  perpetuating 
it,  the 
German  population  had  the  study  of 
German 
into  the  schools. 
The  American,  entertaining  the  fond 
hope  that  his  children  were  to 
learn  to 
speak  it,  did  not  object;  but it is  doubt­
ful  if  a  dozen  children  can  be found,  the 
country  over,  not  of  German  parentage, 
who  can  speak  German  and  who  have 
acquired  the  ability  to  do  that  in  the 
public  schools  of  this  country.  As  one 
of  the  necessary  studies  for college prep­
aration 
it  should  have  its  place  in  the 
secondary  schools,  but  with  any  other 
end 
is  time  and  money 
thrown  away  and  never  should  have 
been  introduced  into  the 
lower  grades. 
And  that,  it  is  safe  to  say,  will  be  the 
fate  of  the  study  of  Spanish  in  Chicago.
in  Cuba  call 
for,  not  the  study  of  Spanish  by  the 
people  of  the  United  States,  but  the 
study  of  English  by  the  Cubans.  The 
rule  of  Spain  in  that  island  ended  when 
peace  was  declared;  and  then  ended, 
the  supremacy  of  the  Spanish 
also, 
tongue. 
It  will  gradually  give  way  to 
English  as  the  other  languages  are  giv­
it.  With 
ing  way  to 
this  country’s 
trade,  rapidly 
increasing,  will  come  to 
the  Cuban  a  greater need of the language 
of  our  country.  That  need  is  already 
felt— it  is  already  expressed— and  active 
measures  already  have  been  adopted  to 
remove  this-  bar  to  the  intercourse  be­
tween  the  two  peoples.

Again,  the  conditions 

Mich.

list  of 

A  COMMERCIAL,  FO RERUNNER.
The 

treaty  of  peace  between  the 
United  States  and  Spain  was  hardly  an­
nounced  when  Chicago  added  Spanish 
languages  in  the  public 
to  the 
schools  of  that  city. 
increased 
commercial  relations  between  Cuba  and 
the  United  States  should  be  looked  after 
and  nothing  would  be  surer  to  make 
for  the 
those  relations  valuable 
young  American  to  be  on 
speaking 
terms  with  his  Cuban  neighbor.

than 

The 

The  announcement  was  received  with 
lifted  eyebrows.  How  trade  with  Cuba 
was  to  be  benefited  by  setting  the  chil­
dren  of  Chicago  to  studying  the  tongue 
of  the  Cuban  was  not  apparent.  Such 
an  acquisition  is  not  to  be  attained  in  a 
few  weeks  under  the  most  favorable  cir­
cumstances  by  those  most  gifted  in  the 
learning of language  and,  admitting  that 
as  a  possiblity  after  a  year  even  of  such 
study,  would  the  boy  at  that  age  be  sent 
to  Cuba  to  practice  in  the  interests  of 
trade  his  newly  acquired  accomplish­
ment? 
If  not  the  city  of  Chicago  has 
made  a  mistake;  if  so  then  the  rest  of 
the  country  is  in  error.

It 

under 

is,  in  the  first  place,  a  fact  that  a 
practical  use  of  a  living  language  can 
not, 
existing  conditions,  be 
in  the  American  schoolroom. 
learned 
Everything 
is  against  it.  The  classes 
large  and  this  precludes  the  possi­
are 
bility  of  individual  instruction. 
If  the 
language  taught  be  the  teacher's  native 
tongue  the  chances  are  strongly  against 
efficient  teaching,  it  being  a  generally 
admitted 
fact  that  only  an  American 
knows  how  to  teach  American  children. 
The 
is  limited  to  forty-five 
minutes  a  day,  the  pupil between recita­
tions  rarely  hearing  spoken the language 
he 
is  supposed  to  be  learning.  With 
these  facts  it  is  submitted  that  not many 
pupils— it  is  doubtful  if  one  does— will 
learn  to  talk  Spanish 
in  the  Chicago 
schools  fluently  enough  to  warrant  the 
expectation  of  making 
it  of  any  prac­
tical  use  in  Cuba.

instruction 

in  the  schools. 

One  of  the  most  encouraging  features 
existing  to-day 
in  Cuba  under  Am eri­
can  supervision  is  the  progress  made 
by  the  public  schools.  At  first  there 
>yere  strong  objections  to  the  American 
methods  of  education;  but  these  same 
opponents  are  now  asking  that  more 
English  be  taught 
If 
this  be  granted,  and  the  knowledge  of 
the  English  language  becomes  general, 
the  future  of  the  island  will  brighten  as 
it  never  has  before ;  and  with  that  Eng­
lish  speech  will  follow  a  train  of  bless­
ings  which  will  surplant  the  evils  suf­
fered  so  long  and  be  the  foundation  of  a 
form  of  government  which  will  ensure 
safety  and  progress  and  liberty,  three 
elements  of  civilization  which  Cuba 
never  has  known.

Another 

fact  has  been  ruthlessly 
placed  by  the  hands  of  science  in  the 
realm  of  fancy :  The  inside  of  the earth 
is  not  a  liquid  any  more.  On  account 
of  the  enormous  pressure  the  earth at the 
center  is  harder,  if  anything,  than  the 
crust  is.  Thus  another  doll  is  found  to 
be  stuffed  with  sawdust!

The  Reed  C ity  Cla rion  is  making  a 
determined  fight  against 
the  parcels 
post  bill  and  is  entitled  to  the  gratitude 
of  the  trade  for  the  energetic  manner  in 
which 
is  undertaking  to  arouse  the 
merchants  of  Osceola  county  to  the  peril 
which  awaits  them 
in  case  the  bill 
should  become  a  law.

it 

The  fat  in  the  frying  pan  can  get 

lit­
tle  comfort  from  that  in the  fire ;  and yet 
the  United  States,  with  a  debt  of  some­
thing  over  $900,000,000,  is  inclined  to 
look  with  complacency  upon  England’s 
indebtedness,  amounting  to $2,000,000,- 
000.  So  runs  the  world.

Have  you  written  your  Congressman 
and  Senator,  requesting  them  to  record 
a  negative  vote  against  the  patcels  post 
bill  when  it  comes  up  in  Congress? 
If 
not,  you  have 
failed  to  do  your duty, 
both  to  yourself and  your  neighbors  in 
trade.

G EN ERA L  TR A D E   R EV IE W .

While  there  has  seemed  to  be  a  feel­
ing  of  uncertainty  as  to  maintenance  of 
prices  on  the  supposition  that  the  sum­
mit  of  values  has  been  passed  in  many 
lines,the  week  has  developed  additional 
elements  of  strength 
in  nearly  every 
quarter.  There  have  been  a  number  of 
reports  from  the  great  iron  and steel cor­
porations  indicating  unexpected  profits 
and  values  and  showing  that  there  has 
never  been  a  time  when  these  great 
in­
dustries  were  so  prosperous  and  when 
they  made  so  liberal  returns  both  to 
in­
vestors* and  wage  earners.

The  general  strength  of  the  situation 
in  the  stocks  slowly 
has  forced  values 
in  spite  of  dulness  in  trading 
upward 
and  strong  professional  bear  movement. 
A  number  of 
important  non-dividend 
stocks  have  been  placed  in  the  paying 
list,  including  such 
industrials  as  the 
common  stock  of  the  Federal  Steel Com­
pany  5  per  cent,  and 
in  transportation 
several 
important  railways  are  put  into 
the  paying  list.

fact 

The 

that  general  business 

is 
larger  than  ever  known  at  this  season  of 
the  year  upsets  the  calculations  of  the 
prophets  of  reaction.  With  general 
in­
dustries  prospering  as  never  before,rail­
way  earnings  breaking  all  records  and 
with 
foreign  trade  running  heavily  in 
our  favor there  is  little  on  which  to base 
the  croakings  of  pessimism.

The  iron  industry  showed  a  slight  de­
in  prices  during  the  closing  two 
cline 
last  year,  but  so  far  in  1900 
months  of 
in  nearly 
prices  have  been  maintained 
all 
finished  products,  while  there  is  a 
slight  decline,  about  1.4  per  cent,  in pig 
iron.  This decline  is  in  anticipation  of 
the  starting  of  several  large  furnaces 
which  must  eventually  increase  the  out­
put  at  the  expense  of  continuing  the 
scarcity  which  has  so  long  prevailed 
in 
the  raw  material.

increase 

The  recent  heavy  snow  storms  which 
have  prevailed  over  an  unusually 
large 
portion of  the  country  have  been of value 
in  stimulating  the  trade  in  heavy  wool­
ens  and  other  winter  wear.  There  was 
an 
in  the  activity  of  the  wool 
trade  on  the  same  account,  but  not 
enough  to  affect  prices,  which  seem  to 
have  passed  the 
limit  for  the  season. 
Cotton  is  still  booming,  having  reached 
8 %  cents,  and  activity  is  without prece­
dent,  especially 
in  Southern  factories. 
There  is  better  feeling  in  the  boot  and 
shoe  trades  on  account  of  the  decline  in 
hides,  which  has  amounted  to  4  or  5 
per  cent,  in  the  Chicago  market.  Ship­
ments  from  the  East  have  continued 
larger than  in  any  other  year.

these 

facts, 

William  is  solicitous  about  is  secured. 
Austria  and  Italy  are  in  no  position  at 
all  to  pick  a  quarrel  with  England, 
while  Russia  would  scarcely  attack  the 
British  unless  assured  of  France’s  help, 
something  not  to  be  counted  on  during 
the  exposition  year.
Notwithstanding 

how­
ever,  Russia  has  been  making  certain 
military  moves  that  are  disquieting  and 
can  not  be  regarded  with indifference by 
Great  Britain,  even  although  no  imme­
diate  outbreak  of  hostilities  is 
involved 
instance,  we  hear 
in  them.  Thus,  for 
of  Russia’s  successful  diplomacy 
in 
Persia,  promising  an  outlet  on  the  Per­
sian  Gulf.  Again  it  is  announced  that
50,000  Russian  troops  are  to  be  gathered 
at  Port  Arthur.  And  again 
is  ru­
mored  that  a  Russian  force  has  been 
rendezvoused  within  easy  striking  dis­
tance  of  Herat,  the  capital  of  Afghan­
istan.

it 

All  these  movements,  while  not  nec­
essarily  implying hostilities,  undoubted­
ly  form  part  of  a  fixed  plan,  having  for 
its 
ultimate  aim  the  possession  of 
Afghanistan  and  Persia  and  the  firm  es­
tablishing  of  Russian  power  in  China. 
All  such  movements  are  directly  inim i­
cal  to  Great  B ritain ;  therefore  the  anx­
iety  felt  in  London  is  not  without  good 
cause,  even  although  no  immediate dan­
ger  of  hostilities  is  involved.

It 

A  new  feature  has  been  added  to  the 
course  of  study  at  the  State  Normal  and 
Industrial  College  at  Greensborough,  N. 
C. 
is  a  dairy  farm.  The  college 
owns  160  acres  of  fine  farming  land  and 
it  with  5°  head  of  fine  Jersey 
stocked 
cows.  These  are  to  be  milked  by  the 
college  girls. 
It  is  hoped  that  the  dairy 
will  not  only  be self-supporting,  but  will 
bring  money  to the  college  from  the  but­
ter  made  by  the  student-maidens.  The 
butter  wiil  have  the  college  stamp  on  it, 
and  orders  for  the  butter  have  begun  to 
come  in  already.

fixing 

responsibility. 

Paris  has  lately  given  to the  world  her 
A  
method  of 
building  collapsed  and  killed 
eight 
workmen.  The  disaster  was  found  to  be 
due  to  the  fact  that  the  building was im ­
properly  planned  and  constructed  and 
the  courts  have  sentenced  the  architect 
and  masonry  contractor  to  eight  months’ 
imprisonment  and  two  other  contractors 
to  two  months.  A ll  four  were  compelled 
in  paying  an  indemnity  to  the 
to 
relatives  of  the  victims. 
It  is  easy  to 
conclude  that  a  similar  misfortune  will 
not  soon  again  occur  in  the  French  cap­
ital.

join 

T H E   EA STERN   QUESTION. 

Although  there 

is  no  direct  evidence 
that  the  powers  of  continental  Europe 
contemplate  taking  advantage  of  Great 
Britain’s  preoccupation  in  South Africa, 
several  moves  recently  made  by  Russia 
have  caused  no  little  uneasiness  in Eng­
land.  There 
is  no  disguising  the  fact 
that  Great  Britain  is  thoroughly  isolated 
in  Europe,  as  far  as  sympathy  and 
actual  help  go,  but  it  is  equally  certain 
that  none  of  the  continental powers  have 
yet  seen  fit  to  allow  their  dislike  and 
animosity  to  go  the  length  of  open  hos­
tility.

As  France  will  be  preoccupied  with 
the  great  exposition for  the  next  year,  it 
is  not  likely  that  she  will  pick  a  quarrel 
with  anybody  until  that  enterprise  is 
brought  to  a  successful  conclusion.  Ger­
many  hopes  to  profit  by  England’s 
course  in  South  Africa  and,  in  any case, 
will  not  be  ready  for  an  aggressive 
movement  until  the  large  navy  Emperor

The  world’s  output  of  block  tin  is 
about  77,000  tons  a '  year.  Cornwell, 
England,  furnishes  about  6  per  cent,  of 
th is;  the  British  Straits  Settlements,  60 
per  cent,  and  the  Dutch  East  Indies 
about  20  per cent.  Forty  years  ago  the 
Cornish  mines  produced  half  the world’s 
production  of  tin  and  they controlled the 
m arket;  but  now  the  mines  of  the  Far 
East  are  the  controlling  factor.

The  Swiss  government  has  revoked  a 
gives 
general 
former  decision  and 
authorization  for  the 
importation  of 
American  dried  fruits.  The  importation 
of  fresh  fruits  is  also  authorized  on  con­
dition  that  they  are  examined  at  Basle 
and  found  to  be  exempt  from  parasites.

Samuel  Gompers  has  been  doing  mis­
sionary  work 
in  Cuba,  and,  as  a  result, 
fourteen  thousand  men  are  out  on  strike 
in  Havana. 
there  are  not 
idlers  in  the  land  that  is  to  be 
enough 
taught  American  progress  and  industry.

It  seems 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

8

A  B ILLIO N   DOLLAR  COUNTRY.
The  statepient  has  more  than  once 
been  made  that  the  United  States  is  a 
billion  dollar  country.  As  time  goes 
by  and  the  financial  condition  of  the 
United  States  becomes  more  generally 
known  there  seems  to  be  more  fact  than 
fancy  in  this  statement  and  a conviction 
that  there 
is  “ much  reasoning  in  the 
saying.”   The  country  has  oiltgrown  the 
garments  of 
It  takes 
more cloth  for  a  suit  of  clothes and,  with 
the 
increased  financial  ability  which 
comes  to  a  responsible  manhood,  there 
is  the  natural  tendency  to  purchase  a 
finer  quality  as  well  as  a  larger  quantity 
of  goods.

its  childhood. 

With  this  as  a  key  to  the  situation,  it 
is  well  enough  to  look  over  the  books  of 
the  country  and  see 
just  how  the  ac­
counts  stand:  From  authentic  sources 
is  found  that  the  foreign  commerce 
it 
of  this  country 
in  1899  amounted  to 
$2,074,345,242  and  that  the  total  money 
in  circulation  on  February 
1  was 
$2,003,149,355.  The  amount  of  money 
in  the  savings  banks  is  $2,230,366,954. 
The  total  resources  of  all  banks 
in  the 
United  States  are  $5,196,177,381,  and 
the  December  clearing  house  returns  of 
all  cities  outside  of  New  York  are 
$3,102,896,144,  and  those  of  the  City  of 
New  York  $5,348,285,867.  There  are 
other  returns  which  might  be  quoted, 
but  these  amounts  are  enough  to  show 
that  the  country  has  grown  rapidly,  that 
its  expenses  have 
increased  and  that 
these  have  amounted  to  billions  of  dol­
lars.  As  an  actual  fact  this  is  a  billion 
dollar  country.

is 

aragua  to  swing  open  her  rocky  gates  to 
the  oceans  clamoring  to  pass  through. 
It 
jflanning  to  join  Alaska  and  the 
Philippines  to  Western  Civilization  by 
cable  lines  and  Hawaii  is  to  be  a  gan­
glion  of  San  Francisco, 
throbbed  and 
thrilled  by  the  electric  nerve  which 
binds  those  islands  to  the  far  off  conti­
nent.

This 

It  has  been  placed 

is  the  work  of  a  billion  dollar 
country  and  this 
is  the  only  country 
which  can  carry  on  successfully  the  bil­
lion  dollar work  of  the  world.  That  this 
work  will  be  done,  and  well  done,  there 
in 
need  be  no  fear. 
capable  hands.  The  hands  and 
the 
brain  aqd  the  heart  that  control  them, 
alive  to  the  far-reaching  interests  and 
influences  involved,  will  so  labor  for  the 
universal  good  that,  when 
is  done, 
more  than  ever  will  the  world  wonder, 
and  more  than  ever  will  the  truth  come 
home  that  the  United  States  is  a  billion 
dollar  country  and  that  on  that  stupen­
dous  scale  she  is  doing,  and  will  do,  the 
work  which  her  willing  hands  have 
found. 

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it 

The  overhauling  of  vessels  by  the 
British  navy  does  not  realize  encoura­
ging  results.  Uncle  Sam’s  flour  is  go­
ing  right  on  to  its  destined  port  and  the 
seizure  of  the  German  vessel  has  been 
disposed  of  with  a  respectful  “ Pardon 
m e.”   Of  course  the  war  of  1812  has 
nothing  to  do  with  this  question,  but  it 
does  suggest  the  thought  that  another 
century  may  find  Great  Britain  more 
careful  than she  is now to keep her  hands 
off  other  nations’  navies,  no  matter  how 
great  the  seeming  provocation.

With  these  astounding  figures  comes 
the  assurance  that  the  National  fortune 
has  been  amassed ;  and  it  remains  to  be 
seen  what  the  disposition  of  it  shall  be. 
Is  the  nation  to  repeat  the  disgusting 
history  of  the  “ new  rich”   and  make  it­
self  offensive  by  a  lavish  and  uncalled- 
for  display  of  a  full  pocketbook  and  an 
empty  head?  Will 
the  billion  dollar 
country  plod  on  in  the  even  tenor  of  its 
way  remaining  the  simple,  unpretend­
ing,  well-to-do  nation  that  it  has  been 
up  to  this  day,  industriously  earning 
more  than  it  spends  and  caring  little  for 
the  pomp  of  courts  and  the  pride  of 
kings?  With  abundant  means  at  com­
it  do  what  it  can  to  bring 
mand,  will 
back  the  Golden  Age? 
It  was  the  first 
nation  to lead  mankind  from  the  shadow 
of*princely  power;  to  challenge  the  pre­
tended  right  of  kingship;  to  grapple 
with  it,  to  wrest  the  right  to  rule  from 
the  hand  that  had  maliciously abused it; 
to  write  “ Upharsin”   with  the  glowing 
finger  of  fate  upon  the  castle wall and on 
the  throne  of  monarchy itself;  to breathe 
into  the  soul  of  oppressed  and  suffering 
manhood  the  spirit of individual liberty, 
and  to  nerve  the  heart  and  the  arm  of 
that  manhood  to  make  that  liberty  its 
unquestioned  own.  With  this  for 
its 
struggling  past,  its  future  can  be  easily 
foretold. 
That  youth  and  that  early 
manhood  is  not to  be  cursed  by  a billion 
dollar  Treasury.  The  wealth  so  won  is 
not  to  be  turned  from its legitimate uses. 
Manhood,  unshackled,  by its  means  is  to 
enter  upon  a  higher'and  a  wider  career 
of  usefulness.  That  manhood,  uplifted, 
uplifts the nation  and  the  nation,  break­
ing  away  from  the  traditional  selfish­
ness  of  crowns,  enters  upon  its  mission 
of  universal  enfranchisement  and  en­
lightenment.  Already  its  plans  are  com­
in  extent  and  usefulness  to 
mensurate 
its  enormous  wealth. 
It  has  staid  the 
merciless  hand  of  Spain  descending 
upon  long-suffering  Cuba. 
It  has  freed 
the  Philippines  from  the  cruelty  of  the 
It  has  commanded  N ic­
Middle  Ages. 

It  begins  to  be  evident  that  the  good 
as  well  as  the  bad  is  catching.  England 
lately  bought  a  lot  of  American  locomo­
tives,  found  them all  right— as everybody 
knew  she  must— and  has  been  priding 
herself  on  her  shrewdness.  Now France 
has  caught  the  same  infection  and  has 
decided  to  place  orders  for  railway  en­
gines  in  this  country.  An  excellent mar­
ket  for  United  States  machinery  of  all 
kinds  already  exists  in  France  and  with 
this  for  a  center  the  sale  of  such  mer­
chandise  is  full  of  promise.

Nobody  ever  heard  of  a  Jewish  beg­
gar,  or  of  a  Jew  suffering 
for  anything 
which  charity  can  relieve.  When,  then, 
it  is  stated  that  in  Chicago  all  Jewish 
charities are  to  be  placed  under the  con­
trol  and  management  of  one  organiza­
tion,  with  a  central  committee  which 
will  receive  and  distribute  every  dollar 
of  funds  raised among the Jewish  people, 
it  is  barely  possible  that  the  rest  of  the 
charitable  world  may  find  something 
in 
the  statement  which  may  be  turned  to 
practical  account.

The grand summing up of foreign com­
merce  of  the  United  States  for  1899  is 
more  than  $2,000,000,000.  The  exports 
were  $1,275,486,641,  the  imports  $799,- 
834,620,  giving  a  balance  in  our  favor 
of  $475,652,021.  With  such  returns  no 
demagogues  are  needed  to  inform  “ the 
masses”   of  the  prosperity  of  the  coun­
try. 

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Building  operations  are  reported  from 
all  parts  of  the  country.  During  last 
year  the 
for 
twenty-one  cities,  an 
increase  over  ’98 
of  $66,000,000.  Fifteen  cities have  gains 
varying  from  20  to 74  per  cent.

total  was  $229,900,000 

There  are  about  one  thousand co-oper­
ative  dairies  in  Denmark  and  butter  to 
the  amount  of  27,000,000  pounds  is  ex­
ported  annually.

O VERW HELM ING  D ISA PPO IN TM EN T.  1 
For  some unaccountable reason Europe 
long  ago  made  up  her  mind  that  Amer­
ica,  and  especially  that  part  of  it  occu­
pied  by  the  United  States,  is,  and  by 
right  and  reason  ought  to  be,  her  agri­
farm.  With  Europe’s 
cultural  supply 
acknowledged  superiority 
in  manufac­
tures  and  the  arts,  the  result of centuries 
of  training  and  patient,  plodding  work­
manship,  it  was  a  natural  inference  that 
she  should  go  on  with  her  hardearned 
leadership  and  leave  the simpler  toils  of 
life  to  ruder  hands.  That  had  been  her 
experience.  Her  hands  once  fitted  nat­
urally  to  the  plow,  the hoe and the spade. 
The  raising  of  sheep  and  kine  was  her 
acknowledged 
‘birthright  and  this  she 
turned  to  such  practical  account  that  the 
leading  continent  became  that  through 
the  tireless and  exhaustless energy  of her 
thought-directed  fingers.  The  way  had 
been  long  and  rocky;  but  it  had  led  to 
success.  Woods  had  been  cut  down, 
brambles  had  been  cleared,  swamps  had 
been  reclaimed,  in  a  word,  the earth  had 
been  wrested 
from  savagery  and  been 
forced  to  yield  her  increase  to  the  phys­
ical  needs  of  man.  That  done,  thought 
took  an  upward  step  and  fashioned  into 
beauty  the  earth’s  increase.  She  still 
spun  - and  wove,  but  deftness  crept  into 
her  fingers  and  the  harsh  and  coarse 
gave  place  to  the  soft  and  fine.  She 
still  delved’and  hoed,  but  the  spade  and 
the  hoe  were  no 
longer  clumsy  and, 
bent  into  pleasing  forms,  made  the work 
less  pleasing  and 
done  by  them  no 
healthful  and  far  more  profitable, 
l’he 
results  of  her  handcraft  followed  the 
rumors  that  preceded  them to other lands 
and  when  the  demand  warranted  the 
outlay  she  wrested  from  the  woods  their 
timber,  made 
it  into  ships  and,  taking 
advantage  of  the  willing  winds,  scat­
tered  her  goods  broadcast  over  the 
world.  So  the  Netherlands  sprang  into 
life.  So  Germany  became  a 
industrial 
worthy  competitor. 
So  the  woolsack 
climbed 
into  the  seat  of  the  lord  chan­
cellor  of  England.

It  had,  however,  taken  fourteen  cen­
turies  to  do  this  work  and  Europe  had 
had  the  advantage,  if 
it  were  an  ad­
vantage,  of  Asiatic  training and culture. 
History  a ¡ways  repeats  itself  and  Amer­
ica  would  plod  through  the  same  pain­
ful  experiences  to  the  same grand  results 
during  the  same 
lagging  centuries  of 
time.  With  progress 
in  the  arts  and 
sciences,  the  world  was  passing  from 
the  general  to  the  particular  and  more 
and  more,  even 
the 
specialist is  called  for.  So Europe would 
be given  up to do  the  world’s  best  think­
ing  and  skillful  doing  and  America 
would  take  the  place  Nature  had  fixed 
for  her  as  the  world’s 
and 
feeder.  That  thought 
in  the  mind  of 
Europe  soon  crystallized  into  fact  and, 
once  crystallization  takes  place,  there 
can  be  no  change.  With  the  bread  and 
butter  question  thus  settled,  the  rest  was 
easy  and  Europe  had  only  to  give  her­
self  wholly  up  to  the  grander  career 
marked  out for her.

in  national 

farmer 

life, 

In  reasoning  herself  to  this  conclusion 
two  important  elements  were  not  taken 
into  account:  the  civic  conditions  of the 
world  at  the  two  periods  and  the  genius 
of  the  American  people. 
If  Europe  be­
gan  her  work  where  Asia  left  off  Amer­
ica  had  only  to  follow  her  example,  and 
from  Europe 
did,  taking  her  existence 
and  developing  that  existence 
in  the 
traditionless  environment of a new hemi­
sphere.  Both  were  offshoots,  but  with 
what  a  difference—the  one  a  scion  of 
Attila,  “ the  scourge  of  God,”   before 
European civilization  btgan,  the  other  a

child  born  under  gentler 
influences, 
with  manhood  as  a  birthmark  inefface- 
ablv  stamped  upon  him.  There  was  a 
difference,  too,  of  stock.  The  old  Ro­
life  died  of  degeneracy,  with  just 
man 
vitality  enough 
left  to  give  life  to  the 
new  offspring.  America  sprang  from  a 
parentage  as  vigorous,  mentally  and 
physically,  as  Minerva’s.  When,  then, 
this  new  life  began  its  work  brain  and 
brawn-,  from  the  beginning,  worked  to­
gether;  and  the  advance  has  been  swift 
and  sure.  They  seized  the  winds  and 
the  streams  and  set  them  to  work.  They 
grappled  with  steam  and,  harnessing 
it 
it  the  pack- 
to  cart  and  car,  made 
horse  of  mankind.  They  coaxed 
the 
lightning  from  the  clouds  to become first 
the  letter  carrier  and  then  the  general 
workman  of  its  taskmasters ;  and,  with 
these  helpers  to  do  his  bidding,  the 
American  has  been  able  to  do  the  work 
of  a  decade  in  a  day.  So  his 
limitless 
acres  are  pouring  into  the  earth’s  gran­
aries  uncounted  harvests  of  wheat  and 
com,  thus  realizing  the  hope  of  Europe 
as  an  agricultural  nation ;  but,  with  that 
work  done,  the  same  keen  brain  and 
eager  hand  have entered  into  the  higher 
fields  of  effort  and  are  reaping  there  the 
richest  returns.  England,  the  first  man­
ufacturer,  is  first  no 
longer.  Germany, 
once  hopeful  of  outstripping her  English 
rival,  finds  herself  third  where  she  ex­
pected  to  be  first.'  In  every  department 
where  European  thought  and  skill  were 
supposed  to  he 
insuperable  the  Ameri­
can  stands  first,  or  so  nearly  as  to  make 
the  attainment  a  mere  question  of  time.
is  this  country  is  an  over­
whelming  disappointment 
entire 
Europe.  She  had 
it  and 
labeled  it  as  “ the  country  of  the  hay­
seed” — the  Yankee 
farmer  to  furnish 
the  rest  of  the  earth  with  potatoes  and 
garden  truck.  From  here  were  to  come 
to  her  the  cotton  and  the  wool  for  her 
spindles  and  her  looms.  Her  workshops 
were  to  make  our  machines.  She  was 
to  build  our  ships  and  carry  our goods. 
In  her  mind  we  were  agricultural;  and 
she  was  determined  to  keep  us  so,  for­
getful,  as  it  has  been  said,  of  the  prog­
ress  the  world  has  made  and  of  the 
genius  of  the  American  people.  We 
have 
unpardonable 
offense  of  setting  up  our  own  workshops 
and,  with  our  superior  machines  and 
workmanship,  of  crowding  her  goods 
out  of  the  market,  whether  that  market 
be  in  the  wilds  of  Africa,  the  steppes of 
Russia,  in  China  or,  what 
is  more  to 
the  point,  in  the  trade  centers  of  her 
own  territory.  We  are,  in  fact,  an  over­
whelming  disappointment,  the  one  and 
the  only  word  which,  in  the  present 
condition  of  things,  expresses  the  ex­
act  idea.

to 
looked  at 

committed 

The 

fact 

the 

The  Samoan  treaty  has  been  ratified. 
Now  let  American  trade  follow  the  flag 
to  that  distant  island  and  go  into  busi­
ness  under  the  shadow  of 
it.  Trading 
is  better  than  quarreling  and  fighting 
any  day  and  a  favorable commercial bal­
ance 
is  much  pleasanter  to  look  upon 
than  a  soldiers' burying-ground.  Here’s 
for  the  Samoan  trade !

The  total  amount  of  gold  produced 
in  this  country  in  1899  was  $72,483,055, 
an 
increase  of  almost  half  a  million 
dollars  over  that  of  1898.  Colorado  takes 
the 
lead,  with  California  second,  South 
Dakota  third  and  Alaska  fourth.  Cape 
the 
Nomo 
placers 
Yukon 
$2,000,000.______________

furnished  $3,000,000  and 

the  American 

on 

If  an  American  girl  marries  a  count, 
she  must  expect  to  support  him  in  the 
way  he  has  been  accustomed  to  live.

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Clerks’  Corner.

T he  Secret  o f  th e   C lerk’s  W ell-k ep t  A p­

pearance.

looked  at  him  from  head 

Brinsmade 

to  foot.

“ We  don’t  exactly  need  an extra man, 
but  if  you  want  to  be  a  fifth  wheel  for  a 
while  we’ ll  give  you  S3  a  week.  Will 
that  do?”

“ It  will  if  there’s  anything  the  fifth 
wheel  can  do  to  earn  the  money. 
I 
could  do  up  bundles  until  something 
better  came  along. 
Is  there  a  chance 
for  that?”

The  manager  laughed. 

If  there  was 
one  thing  that  he  insisted  on  it  was  that 
nothing  but  a  comely  package  should 
leave 
the  establishment,  and  at  the 
young man’s  remark  he fancied  what  the 
package  would  be 
like ;  but,  yielding 
to  the  desire  for  a  little innocent  amuse­
ment,  he  took  the  young  fellow  to  the 
package  department.

“ Rogers,”   he  said  to  the  boy  whose 
hands  were  deftly  wrapping  goods, 
“ show  this  young  man  how  you  do 
that.  He  has  come  to  Work  and  we  want 
to  make  the  most  of  him.  See  that  he 
is  properly  instructed.

Rogers,  not  at  all  liking  to  be  inter­
rupted  in  his  work,  waited  until  Brins­
made  “ got  out  the w ay.”  
“ There ain’t 
no  showing  about 
it,”   he  said,  “ all 
you've  got  to  do  is  to  make  a good-look­
ing  bundle  and  not  be  all  day  about 
it. 
Take  that  last  lot  and  see  what* you  can 
do.  Don’t  be  in  too  much  of  a  hurry— 
you’ ll  get  along  better  if  you’re  not. 
The  old  man’ll  be  down  on  you  like  a 
thousand  of  brick  if  you  make  a  muss 
of  it;  and  I’ll  tell  you  right  now  that 
the 
chances  are  he’s  watching  you. 
There’s  your  place  and  there  are  your 
goods— go  ahead. ’ ’

Rogers,  with  something  of  the  spirit 
of  the  manager,  kept  watch  out  of  the 
corner  of  his  eye.  Like  a  flash  thè  cloth 
was  whisked 
into  the  brown  paper, 
which  seemed  to  understand  that  there 
was  to  be  no  fooling  about  it,  the  pack­
age  assumed  the  firm  and  even  respect­
ability  which  belongs 
to  upper-class 
bundledom  and,  when the string fastened 
the  whole  without  a  mark  of  clumsi­
ness about it and  the  package  was  tossed 
in  front  of  the  teacher,  that 
individual 
ja y !”   made  more 
with,  “ You’ re  no 
room  for  the 
fellow  that  needed  no 
teaching 
line  and  a  feeling  of 
respect  sprang  up  for  him.

in  that 

Brinsmade  at  a  distance  saw  and won­
dered.  He  came  nearer  to  get  a  better 
look  at  the  surprise.  He  saw  with  de­
light  that  Rogers  held  second  place  and 
that  the  new  fellow  would  get  the  first 
chance  at  promotion. 
If  that  was  the 
kind  of  fellow  he  had  on hand the quick­
er he went ahead  the better.  ‘ * Good look­
ing  fellow,”   he  thought  as  he  took  him 
all  in.  A   heavy  shade  of  tan  told  of  a 
summer  in  the  sun,  but  it  took  nothing 
from  the  hat-protected  forehead,  white 
as  milk,  broad  and  not  too  high.  The 
eyes,  black  and  keen,  displayed  an 
ability  to  see  at  a  glance  what  was  to  be 
seen,  and  the  teeth,  which  at  that  min­
ute  were  helping on the smile  at  Rogers’ 
astonishment,  were  white  and  even  and 
clean.  The  face  was  round  and  pleas­
ing.  The  head,  covered  with  shining 
black  hair,  but  parted 
in  the  middle, 
was  well  placed  upon  the  manly  shoul­
ders  and  the  genral  outline  of  the  boy 
was  that  of  an  Apollo—or of  a  well-built 
healthy 
fellow  of  the  United 
States,  as  the  reader  may  choose.  He 
wore  a  collar  too 
large  for  him  and  a 
discouraged-looking  necktie  and  the  fit

young 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

of  his  coat  made  Rogers  laugh  to  him­
self— until  he  found  himself  beaten. 
Take  him  as  he  found  him,  Brinsmade 
was  satisfied  and  walked  away.

Later 

in  the  day  when  work  was  not 
so  pressing  the  manager  strayed  around 
there  again.  He  found  both  boys  busy 
in  rearranging  “ the  coop”   and  “ fixing 
things.”   That  was  a  good  sign,  “ hav­
ing  things  shipshape”   being  a  hobby 
with  the  general  manager  and  one  he 
mounted  the  minute  a  new  man  came 
into  the  store.  He  was  now  even  more 
interested.  He 
felt  as  if  he  wanted  to 
know the youngster and took  out the mem­
orandum  book  where he  had  written  his 
read. 
name. 
“ Well, 
in  names 
there’s  the  right  sort  of  a  chap  behind 
that  one. 

“ Nelson  Dane,”   he 

if  there’s  anything 

I’ ll  watch.”

He  did,  and  felt  paid.  He  made  op­
portunities  and  found  out  by  improving 
them  that  the  boy  was  bright  and  smart 
because  he  had  to  be—he  was  born  so. 
His  home  training  had  made  him  satis­
fied  with  what  he  had  done  only  when 
it  was  his  best.  He  had  had  good  train­
ing 
in  doing  up  goods  in  the  village 
store,  but he  felt  the  place  too  small  and 
had  come  to  the  city  because  he  wanted 
to  get  more,  for  which  he  expected  to 
work  harder.

That  last  did  the  business for both  boy 
and  man;  on  the  boy’s  side  because  it 
was  evident  that  he  wasn’t  bn  the 
look­
out  for  “ soft  snaps;”   on  the  man’s  side 
because  he  was  always  on  the  lookout 
for  just  that sort  of  boy.

it.  Rogers 

found  he  couldn’t 

At  the  end  of  the  first  week  there  was 
a  vacancy  at  the  linings  counter— Dane 
filled 
looked  daggers  and 
said  things  that  wouldn’t  look  well  in 
print,  but  for  all  that  the  new  boy  had 
the  place  and  he  proceeded  to  fill 
it  to 
the eminent  satisfaction  of  the  manager. 
Dick  Somebody  had  been  there  time 
out  of  mind  and,  finding  that  he  would 
stay  there 
for  the  rest  of  his  life,  con­
cluded  to  quit.  Linings  counters  are  not 
generally  considered  especially  desir­
able  or  responsible  places,  but  one 
wouldn’t  have  thought  so  had  he  seen 
Nelson  Dane  after  he  got  behind  that 
counter.  What 
is  the  use  of  a  fellow’s 
trying  to  sell  goods  if  he  doesn’t  know 
what  he  has  to  offer?  Brinsmade thought 
he’d  give  him  a  week.  A t  the  end  of 
the  first  day  he  went  to  the  linings 
counter  and 
feaze 
him.  At  the  end  of  the  second  day  by 
rearrangmeent  it  had  the  appearance  of 
a  new  department.  The  dust  was  gone, 
the  goods 
looked  new,  and  whether  on 
shelf  or  counter  they  had  a  freshness 
about  them  which  made  every  blessed 
woman  who  went  by— and  that  meant 
all  of  ’em— want  to  touch them,  and they 
did.  Never 
in  that  establishment  had 
it  been  looked  upon  as  an art  to  sell  lin­
ings. 
It  was  a  necessity  and  was  only  a 
matter of  so  many  yards  and  measuring 
them  off,  but  not  now.  One  would  have 
thought  that  the  fate  of  empire  hung  on 
the  choice  of  a  lining. 
It  was  easy  to 
account for,  Brinsmade  thought,  when  a 
girl  was  the  purchaser,  for  Dane  was 
handsome  and  that  eye  of  his  and  the 
unconscious— was 
it  unconscious,  con­
found  h im !— way  he  used  it  was  enough 
to  set  any  girl’s  heart  a  flutter;  but, 
when  mothers  and  grandmothers  halted 
between  two  opinions  and  turned  their 
gray  heads  this  way  and  that  way  while 
he  held  up  the  goods,  the  manager  sim­
ply  gave 
laughed  softly  to 
himself.

it  up  and 

He  early  concluded,  however,  that  it 
was  a  pity  to  waste  that  kind  of  talent 
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expectation  of  an  increased  amount  of 
sales,  he  put  the  new  boy  at  the  silk 
counter  when  one  of  the  clerks  there was 
sick.  Brinsmade  was  on  the  watch  and 
when  the  day’s  work  was  over he walked 
into  the  office  with  a  satisfied  face  that 
was  well  worth  looking  at.

no  business  to  spend  his  money  in  that 
way,  unless  he  was  willing  to  be  always
clerk,  and  that  sort  of  man  he  didn’t 

want  anything  to  do  with.

“ I’ ll  ride  up  with  you  in  the  car,  if 
you  don’t  mind,  Dane,”   said Brinsmade 
that  night. 
“ I’ ve  something  I  want  to 
say  to  you.”

’ I’ve  a 

once  opened  fire.

So  they  walked,  and  the  manager  at 

“ You’ ll  have  to  walk,  Mr.  Brins­
made;  1  can’t  afford car fare.  I wouldn’t 
like  to  have  you think  I’m  stingy,  but  a 
nickel  saved  is  good  as  a  nickel  earned, 
and  I  save  mine  that  w ay.”

“ I’ll  tell  you  what,  gentleman,”   he 
broke  out  with,  “ that  Dane’s  a  corker!
I  put  him  at  the  silk  counter  to-day  to 
see  what  he  could  do  and  he  hasn't 
lost 
a  customer! 
I  never  saw  anything  like 
it.  The  way  he*approached  those  wom­
en  was— I  don’t  know  what.  Had  they 
been  queens  with  crowns  on  he  couldn’t 
little  fault  to  find  with  you, 
have  shown  more  deference  and  yet 
Dane.  You’ re  getting  a  little  too  dud- 
there  was  a  manliness  about  it  which 
You  part  your  hair  in  the  middle
kept  it  from  even  a  hint  of  the  servile.  I ish.
Why,  goodness  gracious!  there  was  that I and  you  look  too  bandboxy.  Your  hat 
old  hen,  Mrs.  Kempworthy,  the  terror  and  your  gloves  are  always  new.  Your 
of  the  whole  store,  who  went  off  with  a  hair  shows  the  barber’s  work  too  often 
black  silk  in  her  hands.  Think  of  that!  and  your  trousers  show  daily  contact
There  hasn’t  been  such  a  day  at  the silk  with  the  tailor’s  goose. 
I  like  to  see
counter  since  I’ ve been  here  and  1  don’t  you  neat  and  careful  of yourself,  but  you 
see  any  better  way  than  to  keep  the  fel-  are  spending  your  money  foolishly  and 
for  your
low  there.  H e’s  earned  his  salary  sev-1 too  much  of  it  and  I  want  you  jr" 
eral  times  over  to-day  and  I’ve  a  notion  own  good,  to  stop  it.”  
X-rays  never  did 
v
to  keep  him  at  it  and  pay  him what he’s I  He  didn’t  go  on. 
Nelson  Dane’s  sharp
worth.  Are  you  willing  I  should  try it?”   better  work  than
There  was  no  objection  and  Dane’s I eyes  for  an  instant.  Then,  convinced 
salary-increase  began  with  his  first  day  that  Brinsmade  meant  only  kindness,  he 
at  the  silk  counter. 

said  with  a  laugh,  “ I  think,  Mr.  Brins

The  confidence  was  not  misplaced,  made,  I  must  tell  you  how  I  do 

it,  you 
1  can 
His  sales  had  the  usual  ups  and  downs,  lean  • judge  better,  then,  whether 
n  the
but  at  the  end  of  the  month Dane always I afford  i t :  My  hair  parts  naturally 
stood  ahead  and  was  looked  upon  as  the  middle  and  won’t  stay  parted  anywhere 
I  brush  my  hat  when  I  take  it  off
best  salesman  in  the  store. 
it  was Iand  am  generally  careful  not  to  sit down

of  salary 

else. 

soon  noticed  that  Nelson Dane was mak-  on  ,t.  1  find  that  I  can  easily  keer 
great  changes  in  his  personal  gloves  clean  with  a  preparation  1 

With  the 

increase

Is 

appearance.  Brinsmade’s practiced  eye  twenty-five  cents  for,  if  1  don  wait  un 
I  ve only  one  hat 

irked  it  first  and  the  owner  thereof  re-  til  they  get  too  dirty. 

it  going  to  be  the I Jim  Jackson  rooms  across  the  hall 

it  too  freely? 
It  won  t  if 
it  and  when  I  see  that  he

“ Now,'then,  1  wonder  - b u t   a  good  on e-and  one  pair 

fleeted  upon  it. 
H  that  bright  fellow  is  going  to  make  a  gloves  and  I  expect  to  wear them a year
fool  of  himself. 
from
me  and  we  barber  each  other  every Sun 
same  old  story  of  too  much  money  and 
day  morning.  That  saves  twenty-five 
spending 
cents,  and  I  put  by  a quarter  every  time 
can  help 
I  save  it.  Then  I  shave  myself.  When
reaching  dudedom 
of
doesn’t  seem  to  be  silly  enough  for  that  I  had  my  suit  made  I  had-two  pairs  c 
and  he  sha’n’t  be  if  a  word  from  me  trousers  from the  same  piece.  They  w,
will  prevent  it.”   So  the  manager,  his 
last  twice  as  long  and  cost  proportion
I  found  that  the  tailor  would
, 
,  - 
heart  interested  in  the  brightest  boy  ne 
, 
for  pressing 
had  ever  come 
in  contact  with,  kept 
both  eyes  wide  open.

hn'ahtpct  hov  he  ately  less. 

it.  H e .  , 

1  11  stop 

,  _  . 

___, 

.  . 

i  ,

r 

f 

.

He  looked  at  the  new  suit  and  com­
mended  it.  There  was  handsome  mate 
rial  and  there  was  style. 
It  was  money 
well  spent 
if  that  sort  of  suit  were  not 
indulged  in  too  often.  One fact  pleasing 
to  notice  was  the  extreme  neatness  and 
appropriateness,  with  not  a  hint  of  the 
loud  anywhere.  From  hair  cut  to  the 
it  was  handsome  and  not 
shapely  shoe 
intelligent  face  simply 
showy  and  the 
confirmed  the 
idea,  gentleman,  which 
the  rest  suggested.

just 

charge  a  dollar  a  month 
and  I  couldn’t  afford  that,  so  when 
take  my  trousers  off  at  night  I 
smooth  them  out  nicely  and  put  the 
between  the  mattresses.  Then  I  slee 
on  them  and  leave  them  there  until  the 
next  night,  when  the  second  pair  tak 
their  place.  So  you  see  I  do  my  own 
pressing  and  that’s  how  it  happens  th 
they  are 
fresh  every  morning.  That 
saves  a  dollar  a  month  and  that  dolla 
goes  every  month  into  the  savings bank 
That’s  all  there 
it,  Mr.  Brins­
made.  My  father  always  told  me  to  buy 
the  best  because  it  will  make  up  better 
and  last  longer,  if  I  take  care  of  it,  and 
I find  he’s right.  My  suit  cost  $io  more 
than  Williamson's,  but  I  had  the  two 
pair  of  trousers  and  a  good  tailor,  and 
it 
is  going  to  last  twice  as  long  as  his 
and  look  better  because  it  is  better.  So 
I  guess,  take  it  altogether,  I  can  afford 
to  keep  right  on  with  the  fresh  crease in 
my  trousers  every  day— don’t  you?”  

is  to 

just  so 

So  far  so  good;  but 

it  seemed  to 
Brinsmade  that  there  was  a  care  for 
certain 
incidentals  which  bordered  on 
the  ovemice.  The  daily  shave  was  all 
right— he  wished  the  rest  of  the  clerks 
would  follow  closely  that  worthy  exam 
pie. 
It  was  plain  that  the  whisk  broom 
did  good  service  every  morning 
Dane’s  apartment,  but  the  hair  was  al­
ways 
long  and  the  black  mus­
tache  had  always  the  same  length  and 
the  same  curl  and  every  morning 
sure  as  Dane  came  into  the  store,  those 
trousers  showed 
they  had  been
pressed,  and if  those  shoes  ever  got dirty  thought 
they  had  to have  a  through-going  clean-  was  against  him,  and  told  me. 
ing  and  Nelson  Dane’s  hands  never 
in- 
dicated  aay  acquam^nce  with  any  such
work  as  that. 
thg  sun  rjseSj  when  he  gets  ready  for 
however,  except  the  mustache  and  the h t  and  wants  to,  that  boy’s  going  to  be 
crease  in  the  trousers.  That 
indicated  a  member  of  the  firm  for  which  he  is 
the 
wouldn’t  have  in  the  store.  A   clerk  had l 

Why— er—  yes.  S a y !  Dane !  if  you 
won’t  tell  anybody  what  I  said  to  you 
about  this  I’ ll  buy  your  next  hat,  and  it 
shall  be  a  good  one.”

It  was  a  bargain;  but  Brinsmade
it  too  good  to  keep,  even  if  it 
I’m  go­
ing  to  add,  on  my  own  account,  that

incipient  dude,  and  a  dude  he  now selling  silk, 

Richard  Malcolm  Strong,

It  was  all  well  enoug  ,  I 

that 

Crockery  and  Glassware

AKRON  STONEW ARE. 

B uttern

gal., p e r  d o z ................
1 to 0 gal., per  gal......
8 gal. each.......  ..........
10 gal. each....................
12 gal. each....................
15 gal. meat-tubs, each. 
22 gal. meat-tubs, each. 
25 gal. meat-tubs, each. 
30 gal. meat-tubs, each.

to 6 gal., per  gal..........
hurn  Dashers, per doz.

51 Ilk pans
gal. flat or rd. bot., per doz. 
gal. flat or rd. bot., each—

F ine Glazed M Ukpans
gal. flat or rd. bot., per doz............
gal. flat or rd. bot., each.................

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

Stew pans

JujfS

gal., per  doz__
gal. per  doz......
to'5 gal., per  gal.

T om ato  Ju g s

gal., per  doz.................
.  gal., each......................
iorks for % gal., per doz. 
orks for  1  gal., per doz.

P reserve  J a r s   and  Cc»vers

_ gal., stone cover, per doz. 
Î gal., stone cover, per doz.

Sealing  W ax
lbs. In package, per  lb................
FR U IT   JA R S
Ints.................................................
Quarts..............................................
Half Gallons....................................
overs............................. ................
Rubbers...........................................

LAM P  BURNERS

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

LA M P  CHIMNEYS—Seconds
Per box i

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

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

F iret  Q uality

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

XXX  F lin t

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

L a  B astle

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

R ochester

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

E lectric

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

O il.  CANS

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

P u m p   Cans

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

LANTERNS

No.  0 Tubular, side lift.......................
No.  IB  Tubular...................................
No. 13 Tubular, dash............................
No.  1 Tubular, glass fountain............
No. 12 Tubular, side  lamp....................
No.  3 Street lamp, each......................
LANTERN  GLOBES 
No. 0 Tub., cases 1 doz. each, box, 10c. 
No. 0 Tub., cases 2 doz. each, box, 15c. 
No. 0 Tub., bbls 6 doz. each, per bbl.. 
No. 0 Tub,, bull’s eye, cases 1 aoz. each

a 

Name 

\
i
Guaranty  ] 
!

of 

Excellence

than 

flour  of 

Ten  years  ago  Ceresota 
was  an  uncoined  word. 
Now  more 
twenty- 
five  thousand  sacks of flour 
under  this  brand  are  used 
every  day. 
It  goes  to 
every  important  flour  mar­
ket of the world. 
It is used 
by  more  than  a  million 
It  is  the  stand­
families. 
ard  bread 
the 
world,  and  so  recognized 
by  competitors  as  well  as 
consumers. 
It  is  as  near 
absolute  uniformity as flour 
can  be  made,  for  we  have 
every  manufacturing  facil­
ity  that  money  can  buy, 
ingenuity  suggest  and  ex­
perience  approve.  Cere­
sota  on  a  sack  of  flour 
means  the same as the gov­
ernment  stamp  on  a  coin. 
It  guarantees  the  fineness 
and  weight  and  makes  it 
redeemable in gold.  Some 
things  must  be  seen  to  be 
appreciated,  but  Ceresota 
must  be  baked. 
It  would 
be hard  to  select  the  best 
flour  by  reading  the  adver­
tisements. 
Strong  state­
ment  is  a  specialty  with 
most  advertisers;  but  you 
may  safely  rely  upon  the 
opinion  of  consumers.  Buy 
enough  Ceresota  for  your 
customers  to  try  and  if  it 
suits  them  buy  more.

Olney  &  Judson 
Grocer Company,

Western Michigan Distributors,
Grand Rap!ds, Mich.

^  T he N orthw estern Consolidated 
I  M illing C om pany, M inneapolis.

12

Shoes and  Leather

U njust  Concession»  D em anded  by  Those 

W ho  R etu rn   Goods.

instrumental 

A  great  deal  ha?  been  said  and  writ­
ten  of  late  in  regard  to  what 
is  termed 
the  “ return  goods  e v il,”   and  manufac­
turers  and  wholesalers  who  have suffered 
at  the  hands  of  unscrupulous  dealers 
in  perfecti  t 
have  been 
an  organization 
for  their  protection 
Like  all  stories,  there  are  two  sides 
this  one.  That  there  are  unscrupulous 
dealers  who  do  not  hesitate  to  take  ad 
vantage  of  the  wholesaler  whenever the 
opportunity  offers  them 
is  no 
denying,  but  there  are  others,  and  the 
number of  dishonest  manufacturers  and 
wholesalers  are  as  great  as  the  retailers 
in  proportion  to  the  number  engaged 
Human  nature 
is  the  same  the  world 
over  and  crops  out  in  all  walks  of  li. 
from  preaching  to  pugilism,  and  sharj 
practice 
the  retailers  by  any  means.

is  not  confined  to  the  ranks 

there 

It 

is  almost 

impossible  for  a  manu 
facturer  to  send  out  goods  which  a., 
open  up  just  as  nice  as  the  samples  and 
dealers  should  not  expect  it.  A  reason 
able  allowance  must  be  made.  We  have 
dealt  with  some  houses  a  number ( 
years,  using 
in  that  time  many  thous 
ands  of  pairs  of  shoes,  and  never  had 
any  complaints  to  make.  Some  houses 
have  a  reputation  of  sending  out  bette. 
goods  than  their samples  and  there  are 
others  who  ship  out  goods  that  are  so 
unlike  the  samples  from which they were 
purchased  that  the  dealer  can  not  recog 
nize  them.  The  editor  of  a  shoe  trade 
paper  who  recently  toured Europe  wrote 
several  articles  on  this  subject  to  the 
effect  that  certain  Eastern manufacturers 
had  given  the  export  shoe  business  i 
black  eye  by  shipping  shoes  so 
inferio 
to  the  samples  shown  that  the  foreign 
factor  was  compelled  to  dispose  of  them 
at  a  loss.

*  *  *

Not  long  ago  one  of  our  customers, 
who  is  a  well-to-do  farmer,  brought  to 
us  a  pair  of  boots,  one  of  which  had 
been  badly  burned,  and  said: 
“ Here 
are  those  boots  I  gave  you  {§4  for  less 
than  six  weeks  ago  and  the  leather 
rotten.”   We.showed  him  they  had  been 
burned,  but  he 
insisted  he  had  never 
been  near  the  fire  with  them  as  he  al 
ways  changed  his  boots  for  slippers  be 
fore  entering  the  house.  We  offered  to 
abide  by  the  decision  of  any  of  our 
competitors or any shoemaker  in  the  cit\ 
leather  had  been 
as  to  whether  the 
burned  or  not.  He  said 
in  case  they 
it  was  before  he  got  them 
were  burned 
and  suggested  we  return  them  to  the 
manufacturer  and  get  a  new  pair  for 
them  as  another  dealer  had  done  for  a 
neighbor  of  his.  We  of  course  refused 
to  make  any  concession  and  he  left  in 
high  dudgeon,  saying  he  would  never 
spend  another  cent  at  our  store  and 
would  see  that  his  neighbors  didn’t.  A 
short  time  after that  one  of  his  neigh­
bors  visited  the  store  and  in  the  course 
of  conversation  asked  if  Jones  had  com­
plained  about  the 
leather  in  his  boots 
being  rotten.  We  replied  that  he  had. 
“ W ell,”   said  the  neighbor,  “ he  was 
helping  me  scald  hogs  and  spilled  a  lot 
of  boiling  water  on  them.  I  told  him  at 
the  time  I  was  afraid  he  burned  his 
boots,  but  he  said  he  guessed  not.”  
It 
wasn  t  very  long  before  Jones  was  back 
buyihg  goods  as  though  nothing  had 
ever  happened.  He  is  still  a  good  cus­
tomer  and  the  burned  boot  episode  has 
never been  referred  to  by  either  of  us.

*  *  *

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

T

The  salesman 

The  following  conversation  was  re­
cently  overheard  between  a  salesman 
and  a  party  who  had  returned  a  pair  of 
shoes  which  he  claimed  were  worthless. 
He  said  he  had  hardly  worn  them  at 
all  notwithstanding  the  fact  that  they 
gave  every  evidence  of  rough  usage. 
The  heels  were  worn  off  almost  to  the 
counters  and  the  inner  soles  were almost 
entirely  gone. 
looked 
them  over  critically  and  then  asked, 
“ Whom  do  you  suspect?”  
" I   don’t 
know  what  you  mean,”   said  the  owner 
of  the  shoes. 
“ W hy,”   answered  the 
salesman, 
you  said  you  hadn’t  worn 
them  and  it  is  very  evident  some  one 
has,  and  he  hasn’t  been  very  particular 
about  how  he  used  them  either.  Now  I 
would  advise  you  to  lock  your  wardrobe 
at  night  for  some  one  else 
is  surely 
wearing  your  shoes.”   The  complainant 
saw  the  point;  the  salesman  made  a 
slight  reduction  on  another  pair  and  the 
matter  was  amicably  adjusted.

Hogs fie me lest Firsts 
Keystones lie me lest secones

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

0

t o . | .  IEEDEI  i  60.,  6 M  IM S,  H I .

imposed  upon 

honest  and  conscientious 

You  will  occasionally  find  a  retailer 
who  does  business  in  a  weak  way,  and 
thinks  to  curry  favors  with  his  custom­
ers  by  making  unjust  allowances  and 
charging  it  up to the manufacturer.  This
s  a  fatal  error  on  his  part,  for  even 
rogues  respect  an  honest  man who know 
s  rights  and  is  not  afraid  to  stand  u] 
for  them,  and  the  dealer who allows him 
self  to  be 
is  bringing 
down  upon  his  head  no  end  of  trouble 
and  loss  of  business.  As  all  dealers  of 
experience  know,  it 
is  something  re 
markable  how  people  who  are  apparent 
in  othe 
things  will  deliberately 
lie  about  the 
wear  of  a  pair of  shoes.  Nine  out  of 
ten  persons  who  burn  a  shoe  w*ill  never 
acknowledge 
leather  may  be 
burned  so  hard  and  crisp  that  it  can  be 
picked  off 
in  chips,  but  they  solemnly 
assert  they  haven’t  heen  within  ten  feet 
a  stove  or  any  other  place  to  have 
been  burned.  These  people  must  be 
dealt  with  kindly  but  firmly.  Once  the 
merchant  gives  in  he  is  lost.  The  first 
thing  he  knows  he  has  drifted  into  giv- 
ng  concessions  here  and  there  until 
it 
amounts  to  such  a  sum  that  he  does  not 
feel  like  standing  it  all  himself  and  in­
vites  the  manufacturer  to  chip in.— Shoe 
nd  Leather  Gazette.

it.  The 

C urious  Shoe  T rust, 

that 

rom the Philadelphia  Record.
Doylestown  has  four  odd  characters 
rho  pool  their  issues  in  buying  shoes. 
They  all  have  the  same  sized  feet  and 
each  regards  this  fact  in  the  nature  of  a 
libel  perpetrated  upon  him  by  the  other 
three.  Every  year each  one of the quar­
tet  chips  in  $18,  and  the  fund  of  §72 
is 
expended  for  shoes.  Buying  them  in 
such  quantities,  there  is  naturally  a  re­
duction  in  price.  One  would  think  that 
there  would  be  an_equal  division  of  the 
shoes,  but 
isn’t  their  little  game. 
The  shoes  are  owned  collectively,  share 
and  share  alike,  and  when  not  being 
worn  they  are  kept 
in  a  closet  in  the 
the  general 
express  office,  which 
If  one 
lounging  place  of  the  quartet. 
man  wants  to  wear  new  shoes,  he  goes 
the  express  office  and  puts  them  on. 
he  wants  to  change  off  to  a  pair  that 
has  already  been  broken  in  he  does  so. 
If  he  wears  russets  in  the  daytime  and 
wants  to  wear  patent 
in  the 
evening  he  goes  to  the  express office and 
makes  the  change. 
They  have  been 
doing  this  for  several  years,  and  claim 
they  wouldn’t  wear  shoes  in  any  other 
" ’ay.

leathers 

is 

With  49, 000,000  people  of  India  now 
affected  by  the  famine  and  with  the 
enormous  amount  of  wheat  and com har­
in  the  United  States,  it  does 
vested 
seem  as 
if  more  ingenuity  ought  to  be 
expended  in  bringing  together these  re­
mote  extremes.

Little

Czarina

A Quick Seller.  Order now.

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

Knit or  Felt  Boots with 

Duck or Gum  Perfec  ions.

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

Rindge,  Kalmbach,  Logie & Co.,

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

Agents Boston Rubber Shoe Company.

HER OLD BERTSCH SHOE CO.

M AKERS  OF SHOES,
GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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13

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PASTE IT IN YOUR HAT.

PH ELPS,  BRACE  &  CO.,  Detroit,  Mich.

The  Largest  Cigar  Dealers  in  the  Middle  West.

w h o l e s a l e :  p r i c e   l i s t -  o f -  c i g a r s .

IMPORTED  CLEAR  HAVANA  CIQARS. 
Carolinas

Lagora

(Lagora-Fee  Co.)

(T. J.  Dunn  & Co.) 

Regalia Perfectos 
Majors 
Bock & Co.’s
Henry Clay

Panatellas 

Conchas Especial  Exfras 

Nuevo  Mundo

Regalia  Deliciosos 

Manuel García 

185.00
100.00

100  130.00

50  102.00

50 

98.00

Selectos

97.00
NOTE—The prices given above  are  quoted  subject  to 
change.  No two shipm ents of cigars being alike  in  weight 
th e prices necessarily fluctuate.

50 

KEY  WEST  CIGARS.

(A.  B.  Ballard &  Co.,  Tampa,  Florida.) 

Prlncesa Louisa
Invincibles
Perfecto Grande
Perfecto Chicos
Rothschilds
Bouquets, Extra
Diplomáticos
Puritano Finos
Londres Finos
Panatellas
Principes
Regalia del  Principes
Conchas  Finos
Selectos
West Superior
(Seidenberg &  Co.,  Key West,  Fla.) 

25 175.00
25 120.00
25 105.00
50 100.00
25
90.00
25
85.00
50
80.00
75.00
100
5Q 75.00
25
70.00
50
65.00
50
60.00
•50
55.00
40.00
100

La Rosa Española

Belmont
Magnifico
Rothschilds Extra
Puritanos
Conchas  Especial

CLEAR HAVANA.
(T. J.  Dann  &  Co.) 

Zenda Bouquet
Conchas 
Panatellas 
Puritano Finos 
Medium  Perfectos 

Padrona

Jockey Club 
Puritano Finos 
Rothschilds 

25 120.00
50 100.00
50 .  90.00
50
75.00
50
60.00

5<
51
5<
2<

$60.00
70.00
70.00
85.00

51
51
5<

65.00
75.00
75.00

Puritano Chicos(2 bundles)  50 
100
Puritano  Especial 
Puritano  Regalia  (13 top)  50 
50
Puritano Cans 
50 and 100 
Puritano  Wood 

SEED AND HAVANA.

H o q a l c J i q g L

American Inventors

Bouquet 
Concha Especiáis 
Rothschilds 
Perfectos 
Invincibles 

Bouquet 
Conchas Especial 
Deliciosos 
Deliciosos 
Puritanos 
Perfectos 
Invincible 

(The  Hilson Co. ) 

Hoffman House Bouquet

•Conchas  Espcl. 
Eurekas,  banded 
Jockey Club 
Olympias,  3 in  foil 
Victorias,  fancy tin box 
Perfectos,  banded 
Rothschilds 
Vicente Portuondo

50
Conchas,  banded
50
Puritanos
25
Bouquet,  banded
Londres Grande,1  bundle 100
25
Perfectos
(Celestino Costello &   Co.) 

Barrister

$68.00
68.00
68.00
70.00
70.00

55.00
55.00
68.00
70.00
80.00

55.00
60.00 
60.00
65.00
65.00
70.00
85.00

55.00
62.00 
65.0Q
65.00
65.00
70.00
70.00

50.00
55.00
60.00
65.00
70.00

55.00
55.00
60.00 
68.00 
70.00

55.00
55.00
70.00
70.00

50
50
50
50
25

50
50
50
,25
59
50
25

50
50
100
50
25 
50
50

50
50
50
50
25

50
50
50
50

Robert JTantell

50
Regalia  Chico 
50
Invincible  Extra 
(Maurice  Sanborn,  Key West.) 

Pond Lily

Conchas  Especiáis 
Magníficos 

MISCELLANEOUS.

Capitol

UNION  LA B EL 

Crawford

Seniors— UNION  LABEL 

Carmenclta

Banners

Concha Especiáis 

Concha Especiáis 

Royal Banners 

Loose 
Hemmeters

50
Concha  Especiáis 
50
Big 
HIGH  GRADE  DOMESTIC

(Ruhe  Bros.)

Majesties
Regulars
Tampas

Crown Five
Captain Corker
Club  Five
Cuban Hand flade
Generals
Little Peggy
Knight  Pythias
nr. Thomas
Signal Five
Silver Cross
Crawford

Juniors— UNION  LABEL  50 

Vicente Portuondo

50 
Chicos,  banded 
Londres Chico, 1  bundle.  100 
100 
Opera Reina,  1  bundle 
100 
Panateilas,  2 bundles 
100 
Petite,  2 bundles 
50 
Sublima 
50 
Veguero 

50
50

50

50

50

50

50

50
50
100

50
50
50
50
50
50
50
50
50
50

$55.00 
70.00

50.00
55.00

Little  Barrister 
Artie
New York Life 
Lillian  Russell 
Puritano 
Aristocrat 
La Flor de Dunn 
Gloria
White Beauty 
La Flor Cubana 
Hoffmanettes Junior 
Hoffmanettes 
Robert  Emmett
Jolly Tar

Tin  box  with lock 

50  $35.00 
35.00
50 
50 
35.00

50 
50 
50 
50 
50 
50 
50 
100 

50  a n d :

35.00
35.00
85.00
35.00
35.00
35.00
35.00
35.00

50 

35.00

Exquisite 
Conchas 
Red Rooster 

Exquisite 
Conchas

Hemmeters’ Champion 
S, C. W.

Less than  500 
500 or over 
1000 or over 

Temple of Commerce

Large,  UNION  L A B E L  
Small, 

“  

“

,

Union  Label 

Prime 
Fontello

Detroit Free Press 

Perfectos 
Puritano  Finos 
Reina  Especials 

50 
fi
5
50 
5
50 
50 
5
DOMESTIC  CIGARS. 
10
5 
5
5
5
5
5
10
10
10
5
10
5
10
5

Paradise,  2 bundles 
Counsellor,  UNION  LA B E L 
New  Wonder 
Royal  Club,  1  bundle 
Great Five 
Lady  F ly 
The  Verdict 
First  Pick 
Pink  o f Perfection 
Little  Havanas 
Lucke’s Rolled  Cigar 

“  
O.  K . 
Our Leader (Sweepers) 
K ey  West Choice 

“  

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50 
50 

50 
50 
50 

50 
50 

50 

35.00
85,00

35.00
35.00
35.00

33.00
32.00 
31  00

35.00
35.00

35.00

35.00
84.00
33.00
38.00

30.00
30.00
28.00 
28.00 
28.00
25.00
25.00
25.00
23.00
20.00 
18.00 
17.50 
16.00
15.00
15.00

55.00
70.00

35.00
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Cuban Star 
50  $15.00 
Countess 
15.00 
50 
Village Belle 
12.00' 
50 
Happy  Days
50 
12.00
LITTLE  CIGARS,  CIGARETTES  AND 

CHEROOTS.

250
Uncle Sam  Cheroots
Silver 5s  (Cheroots)
100
Old Mexico, pap. c’rt’n, 5 for 10c 250
Early York,  C h er’t, foil 5 for 10c 100
Cuban  Dainties
100
Old  Virginia  Cheroots,  5c  pkg.
250
Key  West H avana Cher’ts, tin cans 100
New  Rival,  large size,
100
Hoffman  House  Magnums
100
Blue  Points  (Stogies)
100
It’s a  Smoke  (Stogies)
100
Ideal  (Tobies)
100
Monopole,  Casino,  20 in package

with  Gold  Tips,  in cartons

Monopole,  C aiio ,  10  in package

with mouthpiece,  in  carton 500
500

Between the  A cts
Little Hoffman  House,  10 in pap.

500

cartons

Lucke’s Rolls
New  Rival,  L ittle  Havana Cigars
10 in tin  box,  250 in  carton,
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New  Light
Benedicts
Sweet Caporal  Little Cigars
Sweet Caporal  Cigarettes  10s
Fairest W heel,  New Pattern
Globe Cash Register
L. A. W. Bicycle Slot Machine
Electric Cigar Lighter
Figure 2 ,  Style A

Royal Tiger Electric Cigar
Lighter and Clipper,

250
100
500
500

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GOTHAM  GOSSIP.

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

Special Correspondence.

M arket.

New  York,  Feb.  17— The  coffee  mar­
is  hardly  as  active  as  a  week 
ket  here 
ago.  Advices 
from  Europe  were  of  a 
weaker  character  and,  while  Brazil  re­
mained  firm  all  the  week,  the  supplies 
there  were  reported  rather  larger  than 
usual,  so  that  altogether the  condition  is 
not  quite  as  bright  as  a  week  ago.  Rio 
No.  7  closes  at  8>g@8^c,  jobbers  quite 
generally  insisting  on  the  outside figure. 
There  has  been  quite  a  lot  of  specula­
tion  during  the  week  on  the  Exchange, 
but  at a  lower  range  than  last  week. 
In 
store  and  afloat  the  aggregate  amount  of 
coffee  is  1,300,375 bags,  against  1,388,326 
bags  at  the  same  time  last  year.  Mild 
grades  of  coffees  are  meeting  with  less 
attentiion,  both  from  jobbers  and  roast­
ers.  The  supply,  however, 
is  rather 
moderate  and  holders  refuse  to make any 
concessions.  Prices  are  firm,  with  Good 
Cucuta  worth  n c.  East  India  coffees 
are  firm  and  higher.  Padang  Interior 
fetches  23^®25c 
invoice  w ay; 
Mochas,  I7@ ig^c.

in  an 

The  sugar  market  has  remained  prac­
tically  unchanged  day  after  day  and 
there  is  little  to  call  for  comment.  List 
prices  seem  to  be  adhered  to  generally, 
although  a  Philadelphia  refinery  is  said 
to  be  selling  at  5  points  less.  Raws  are 
quiet,  but  steady.

The  tea  market  is  steady,  but  there  is 
very 
little  doing  except  the  everyday 
business.  Dealers  are  not  disposed  to 
make  concessions  and  quotations  are 
well  sustained.  Not  much  doing  in  an 
invoice  way.

Stocks  of  medium  grades  of  rice  are 
in  fair  supply,  but  the  very  low  grades 
and  head  are  not  so  much  in  evidence. 
The  market 
buyers 
seemingly  being  disposed  to  let  things 
drift  along  as  they  are  for  awhile  and 
take  only  enough  to  meet  the  everyday 
call.  Prices  for  both  foreign  and  domes 
tic  are  practically  unchanged.

is  very  quiet, 

Pepper  shows  a  little  advance  agaii 
and  closes  firm.  Singapore,  I2^@i2|^c. 
Cloves  are  well  held  at  8j1sfe8>£c  for 
Zanzibar.  Other  spices  are  also  very 
firm  and  the  market  generally  is  in good 
shape.

Grocery  grades  of  molasses  have  been 
in  very  light  request,  most  of  the  orders 
being  to  sort  up  broken  stocks. 
If  th 
call  has  been  light,  the  supply  is  in  tl 
same  condition  and,  as  a  result,  we have 
a 
fairly  firm  market.  Good  to  prime 
centrifugal  has  a  wide  range  -say  from 
Open  kettle,  44
20@35c  or  even 
@55c.  Syrups  are 
in-rather  light  sup 
ply  at  practically  unchanged .quotations 
The  demand  is  light.

Take  the  most  careful  observation 

.

it 

is  firm,  however,  and 

Lemons  and  oranges  have  sold  with 

the  canned  goods  situation  possible  and 
it  will  be  hard  to  find  a  place  where 
there is  anything  going  on more  than the 
most  ordinary  business.  Brokers  tell 
that 
is  “ between  hay  and  grass. 
They  are  not  expecting any  trade  and 
are  not  disappointed.  Futures  are  ab 
solutely  motionless  and  quotations  on 
spot  goods  are  practically  unchanged 
The  market 
i 
there  has  been  no  advance  there  is  cer 
tainly  no  weakness,  and  within  a  week 
or  so  we  shall  see  a  good  amount  0 
business  going  forward  in  all  probabil 
ity. 
fair  degree  of  freedom,  but  the  market 
for  the  former  all  the  season  has  been 
rather  upset.  California  seems  able  ti 
supply  the  demand  from  the  West  and 
as  time  goes  on,  the  products  of  th 
Golden  State  will  encroach  more  and 
more  into  the  territory  heretofore
cupied  by  the  Sicily fruit.  Sicily lemons 
are  worth,  as  to  size  and  condition  r 1 
fruit,  from  $2. io@ 2. 6o.  Oranges,  Cal. 
fornia,  are  worth  $2.45(^3.90,  the  latter 
of  course,  for  fancy  fruit.  Fancy  Flor 
idas,  $4@5  per  box  for  brights  and  $3@ 
4  for  russets.  Bananas  are  firmer  and 
about  5@ioc  higher  per  bunch  for  firsts.
The  dried  fruit  market  is  quiet  and 
yet  matters  might  be  worse.  Orders  for 
small  lots  have  been  frequent  and  prices 
generally  are  very  well  maintained. 
California  fruits  are  meeting with  better 
request  every  day  and  evaporated apples

large 

are  doing well,  especially the sort packed 
in  cartons.

factory 

little  time, 

imitation  creamery, 

The  butter  market  has  been  fairly  ac­
tive  and,  while  quotations  are  not  any 
higher  than  last  week,  there  is  a  firmer 
feeling  and,  as  arrivals  are  not  likely  to 
be  very 
for  several  weeks,  it  is 
firm  basis  for 
likely  we  shall  have  a 
trade  for  some 
fo r  best 
Western  creamery  25c  is  still  the  quota­
tion,  with  thirds  to  firsts  from  21 frc24c. 
Western 
i7<f$22c, 
jssibly  a  fraction  more for really  desir- 
>le  stock.  Western 
from  17c 
rough  every 
fraction  to  19c  for  best 
des.  Roll  butter  is  quiet  within  the 
nge  of  I7@19C.
There 

is  a  firmer  feeling  in  cheese 
„nd  the  call  is  more  active,  both  from 
exporters  and  home  dealers.  Exporters 
are  said  to  have  offered  I2j^c  for 
large 
ize  full  tr.-am  without  securing  any 
mount.  The  quotations  for  such  cheese 
from  I25^@I3C-  From  this  the 
nge 
nge  is  down  to  io(?5iic  for  part skims. 
light  and  the 
Receipts  of  eggs  are 
...arket 
is  strong  and  improving  every 
hour.  How  much  of  the  improvement  is 
ue  to  speculation  it  is  hard  to  say,  but 
feeling  all 
ere 
is  certainly  a 
1 rough  the  market. 
fresh  Western 
;>ods  are  worth  from  14 >£@150.
It  has  been  rather  a  quiet  week  in  the 
bean  market  for  all  sorts  of  beans.  But 
the  feeling  is  firm  and  quotations  have 
not  declined,  unless  the  rate  for  per 
beans  be  an  exception,  as these  are  a lit 
e  lower,  Michigan  in  bags  being  worth

firm 

There 

is  some  activity  in  the  call  for 
maple  syrup  and  sugar,  the  former  be 
ng  quotable  at  io@i2c per lb,  and syriq 

75 (a 85c.
Apples  are  firm  within  the  range  ol 
,2.50(^3.50  per  bbl.,  as  to 
variety 
Cranberries  are  strong.  The  supply  i: 
very  moderate  and  prices  are  well  held 
^ersey  berries,  per  bbl.,  $7^8.25;  Cape 
Cod,  $7.53^/8.50
R uin in g   th e   Stom ach  by  E atin g   Too  Fast
“ I  tell  you,’ ’  said  a  West  Side  mer 
chant  who 
is  a  crank  on  the  subject  o 
mastication,  “ the  trouble  with  the  pea 
le  of  the  United  States  is  that  they  ea 
30  fast.  Unless  there  is  a  reformation 
n  the  matter  of  eating,  the  next  gene 
ation  will  be  a race of dyspeptics.  There 
will  be  enough 
country  to  almost 
if  not  entirely  upset 
the  Government.  , Look  at  the  English 
man.  He  doesn't  eat  any  more  on  tl 
average  than  the  American,  but  it  take 
him  twice  as  long  to  finish  the  job.  The 
load  a  mass 
average  American  will 
stuff 
into  his  stomach  and  let  it  do  « 
the  work  which  should  be  done  with  h 
teeth  and  salivary  glands.  When  he 
young  and  hearty  he  doesn’t  seem 
mind  it  much,  but  when  he  strikes  mi 
ile 
like  they  used  to.  A  lpt  of  things  th 
he  used  to  eat  and  enjoy  he  can’t  eat 

life  he  finds  that  things  don’t  taste 

irritable  cranks  in  tl 

and  he  comes  to  imagine  that  whe 
a  man  begins  to  age  his  appetite  natu 
ally 
fails.  Or  else  he  commences 
grumble  at  the  cook,  imagines  that  his 
wife  can’t  cook  like  his  mother  used  to, 
and  then  trouble  commences  in  the  fam­
ily.  He  is  to  blame  for the  whole  thing 
himself. 
'T he  cooking  is  all  right,  but 
he,  like  a  fool,  has  ruined  his  digestion 
and  his  poor  wife  or  the  cook has to take 
the  blame.  A  man  ought  to  be  as  hearty 
at  50  as  he  was  at  25.  He  ought  to  en­
joy  a  meal  as  well  at  60 as  he  ever  did. 
If  he  had  made  a  practice  of  taking  at
least  forty  minutes  to  eat  a  meal,  in­
stead  of  cramming  it  down  in  about  ten 
minutes,  as  the  average  American  does, 
he  would  live  twenty  years 
longer  and 
he  wouldn’t  be  such  a  blamed  nuisance 
to  himself  and  his  friends.  He  wouldn’t 
go  about  growling  and  grumbling  at  the 
groceryman  and  the  butcher  and  all 
the  people  who  sell  him  things  to  eat, 
and  quarreling  with  his wife  because his 
stomach  is  out  of  order.  He  would  act 
like  a  Christian  and  a  white  man  ought 
to  act. ’ ’

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The  Buffalo  Market

A ccurate  Index  o f  th e  P rin cip al  Staple» 

H andled.

Beans— Demand  continues  active  and 
supply  only  equal.  Sellers  are  firm  in 
their  views.

Butter— Market  shows  some  weakness 
on  all  grades  of  creamery,  although  the 
demand  is  better  than  expected.  Buy­
ers  are  expecting  a  decline  and  are 
working  in  as  small  a  way  as  possible. 
Dairy  is  scarce  and  wanted.  Rolls  are 
in  good  request  and  firm ;  few  really 
fancy  arriving  and  would  probably  ex­
ceed  quotations. 
Creamery,  Western 
extras,  25c;  creamery,  Western  extras, 
firsts,  2^(ff;2^c;  creamery,  State 
and 
Pennylvania 
extra,  24 j£ c;  creamery, 
State  and  Pennsylvania  extra,  choice, 
22>^@23c;  creameiy,  State  and  Penn­
fair  to  good,  2o@2ic; 
sylvania  extra, 
creamery, 
i 6 @ i 8 c ;  cream­
ery,  ladles,  I5@i6c;  dairy,  extra  State, 
22@23c;  dairy,  Western  extra,  2i@22c; 
dairy,  choice,  20@2ic;  dairy, 
fair  to 
good,  i6@i8c;  dairy,  common,  I 5 @ i 6 c ; 
crock  butter,  fancy,  2i@22c;  crock  but­
ter,  fair  to  good,  1 5 1 8c ;  rolls,  fancy, 
i8@iq c;  rolls,  fair  to  good,  i6@i7c.

imitations, 

Cheese—Quiet  and  only  steady.  Offer­
ings  fair  of  fancy  full  cream;  common 
scarce.  Full  cream,  small,  fancy,  12 
@ i3c;  fair  to  choice,  n @ i2 c;  skims 
and  partly  skims,  io @ i i c .

Eggs— Market  unsettled  and 

lower 
after  our  last  report,  but  ruled  strongly 
toward  the  close  of  the  week  and  14c 
was  generally  obtained for  strictly  fresh, 
with  storage  best  at 
inside 
price  bid.  Prospects  are  steady  under 
present  weather  conditions,  15c  being 
the  market 
fancy 
(nearby),  15c;  Western  and  Southern, 
fresh,  I4^ @ i5c;  cold  storage, 
strictly 
fancy, 
i i @ I 2 c ;  cold  storage,  good  to 
choice,  8@ioc;  No.  2,  5@7c.

to-day.  Newlaid, 

io(f/;iic, 

io @ i i c ; 

io @ i i c ; 

fancy,  small,  12c; 

Dressed  Poultry— Receipts  of  turkeys 
were 
liberal,  considering  the  light  de­
mand,  and  the  market  was weak.  Chick­
ens,  especially  fancy,  scarce  and 
in 
good  request.  Fowls  firm,light  receipts 
and  all  sold  readily.  Few  ducks  and 
only  a  fair  enquiry.  Geese  are  dull. 
turkeys, 
Turkeys, 
turkeys,  good 
large,  young, 
to  choice, 
turkeys,  thin  and 
coarse,  9c;  turkeys,  Old  Tom,  8^@ gc; 
turkeys,  poor  order,  8@gc;  Capons, 
large,  fancy,  I4@i5c;  Capons,  medium, 
fancy,  13^140;  Capons,  small and  slips, 
I2@i2j^c;  chickens,  choice 
to  fancy, 
u @ i2 c;  chickens,  fair to  good,  g@ ioc; 
chicks  and 
io@ 
n c ;   broilers,  I4@ i5c;  fowls,  choice  to 
fancy, 
io@ ioj^c;  fowl,  poor  to  good, 
S(qgc ;  old  roosters,  7@8c ;  ducks,  choice 
to  fancy,  I3@ 14c;  ducks,  poor  to  good, 
11 <pH 12 c;  geese, 
fancy,  g@ ioc;  geese, 
fair  to  good,  8@gc.

fowls,  mixed, 

fancy, 

Live  Poultry— Another active  demand 
for  chickens  and  fowl  and  the  market  is 
strong.  Turkeys  and  ducks  scarce,  and 
but  little  enquiry  for  the  former.

fancy, 

Turkeys,  choice  to  fancy, 

i o @ i i c ; 
io@ io^ c;  chickens, 
chickens, 
fair  to  good,  g@ ioc;  chickens 
fancy, 
and  fowl,  mixed,  gtf^ioc;  broilers,  I3@- 
15c;  fowl, 
fancy,  9 ^ @ ioc;  fowl,  poor 
to  good,  8@ gc;  ducks,  fancy,  per  pair, 
8oc@$i  ;  ducks,  small  and  medium,  65 
@75C;  ducks,  old,  9@ ioc;  geese,  each, 
¿5@8oc;  pigeons,  per  pair,  2o@25c.

Apples— Stronger  on 

improved  de­
mand  and  a good  clearance of  No.  2  and 
lower  grades.  January  trade  was  enor­
mous,  and  it  is  figured  that  if  shipments 
the  next  two  weeks  of  this  month  show 
up 
in  proportion,  stocks  here  will  be 
wiped  out.  At  all  events  holders  are 
not  worrying  over  the  situation.

Potatoes—The  present  cold  snap  has 
held  back  receipts  and  prices  have 
steadily  advanced.  Stocks  of  fancy  are 
exceedingly  light  and  firmly  held  at  60c 
from  store  in  a  small  way.  We -believe 
it  will  take  a  few  weeks  to  change 
present  conditions.'

Sweet  Potatoes— Easier;  quote 

trade.
Potatoes,  No.  1  Rural  and  white  stars, 
57@5^c i  No.  1  Hebrons  and  other  red, 
56@57c ;  fair  to  good  of  all  kinds,  52® 
55c;  Bermuda,  per  bbl.,  $6@7;  Jersey, 
per  bbl.,  D.  H.,  $2.y5@3;  small  and 
medium,  per bbl.,-$1.50© 1.75.

light 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

steady 

Onions— Only 

for  ordinary 
stock,  but  fancy  sound  show  a  firmer 
tendency.

Onions,  yellow, 

fancy,  42@45c ;  yel­
low,  fair  to  good,  38@40c;  red,  fancy, 
45c;  white,  5o@6oc ;  green,  per  dozen 
bunches,  8@i2c;  Bermuda,  S2.35@2.5o; 
Havana,  §2.15@2.25 ;  Spanish,  per crate, 
$1.5o<®i.75.

Vegetables— Cabbage  is  firmer.  Let­
tuce 
is  in  heavy  supply  from  all  points 
and  weak.  Squash,  weak.  Spinach  in 
good  demand.  Tomatoes  firm  for fancy ; 
others  neglected.  New  beans  dull  and 
weak.  Horseradish  higher.

P ip e  L ine  for  S ugar  Ju ices.

Pipe 

lines  for  gas,  water,  steam  and 
oil 
long  ago  demonstrated  some  of  the 
attractive  possibilities  of  the  pipe  line 
method  of  fluid  transportation and  made 
it  familiar  to  all,  with  evidences  of  it 
abounding 
in  every-day  life.  And  yet 
one  is  impressed  with  a  tinge  of  novelty 
in  a  recently  circulated  newspaper  waif 
which  tells  of  a  25-mile  pipe  line  for 
conveying sugar-house syrup.  At Spring- 
field,  Utah,  it  appears,  there  is  a  plant 
for  slicing  sugar  beets  and  extracting 
the  sugar-laden  juice  by  diffusion,  and 
then 
this,  with 
“ piped”   to  a  beet-sugar 
factory  at 
Lehi,  there  to  be  treated  and  refined  by 
the  usual  processes.  Enquiring further, 
however,  it 
learned  that  the  same 
system  of  piping  sugar  juices  has  been 
in  vogue  in  France  and  Germany  for  a 
number  of  years,  and  in  the  latter  coun­
try,  too,  pipe  lines  have  been  used 
in 
potteries  to  carry  much-thinned  clay 
paste  from  one  department  to  another.

impurities, 

its 

is 

is 

Cleaning;  E nam eled  Saucepans.

Wash  them  thoroughly  inside  and  out 
with  hot  soda  and  water,  and  if,  as  is 
usually  the  case,  any  hard  substance ad­
heres  to  the  interior  scrub  the latter with 
a  brush  made  especially  for the purpose. 
This  brush  should  have  a  long  handle, 
and  should  be  fitted  at  the  end  and  up 
one  side  with  a  number of  short  hard 
bristles.  After  the  brush  has  been  used 
rinse  the  pan  well  in  clean  water  and 
dry  it  thoroughly.  The  brush  should  be 
rinsed  in  hot  soda'and  water  and  hung 
up  to  dry.  We  need  scarcely  say  that 
the  saucepan 
lids  should  be  as  well 
washed  and  dried  as  the  pans  them­
If  anything  has  been  burned  in 
selves. 
them  boil 
the  pans,  before  washing 
some  soda  and  water 
in 
them,  and 
then  rub  them  inside  with  sand  nearly 
dry,  until  quite  clean.

The  time  has  gone  by  when  a  com­
mission  house  can  get  along  without  ad­
vertising.  Houses  conducting their busi­
ness 
in  the  old  way  will  have  to  come 
to  modern  methods  if  they  are  to  hold 
their  own  with  the  up-to-date  houses 
that  advertise.

IF  Y O U   A R E
S H I P P I N G
P O U L T R Y

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

I P O TTER  & WILLIAMS

14-4.  146,  148  M ICHIGAN  S T .,
B U F F A L O ,  N.  Y .

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General  Produce and  Dairy Products. 

Quotations on  our market furnished  promptly upon  application.

Wholesale* Fruits, 

B U F F A LO ,  N.  Y . 

J.  W.  LANSING,

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

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Poultry  Beans

Ruling  prices on  the  Buffalo  mar­

ket  Monday,  Feb.  19:

Boll Rutter......................17 @20  c
Tub B u tte r.................... 17 @20  c
Fowls,  dressed........... 10  @lO)4c
Chickens....................... 10!4@12  c
Geese.............................. 11 @12  c
Ducks 
12  @13  c
Turkeys............................9 @11  c

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If our market is  satisfactory,  ship.

Correspondence solicited.

154 Michigan Street,

Buffalo, New York.

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  twenty 

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

REFERENCES:
Buffalo Cold Storage Co., Buffallo, N. Y. 
Peoples Bank, Buffalo, N. Y.

Dun or Bradstreet. 
Michigan Tradesman.

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Dealers in

B U T T ER , E G G S , C H E E S E ,  P O U LT R Y ,  e t c .

6 2   W.  M A R K ET  &  125  M ICHIGAN  S T S . 

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

W e want Dairv Butter hoth packed and in rolls.  Fancy stock  i 8@ 20C.  Fancy 
Creamery good demand.  Fresh Eggs steady.  Poultry firm, excellent demand.

Re fe r e n c e s:  The City National Bank, Buffalo:  Berlin Heights Banking Co., 
Berlin Heights.  Ohio:  National  Shoe  &  Leather  Bank,  New 
York;  Dim & Co. and Bradstreet Agencies.

Members of Produce Exchange. 

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to  be 

changes  the  speculative disposition,  sur­
is  ordered  sold,  and  the  sale  is 
plus 
found 
impossible.  The  same 
considerations  which  induce  an  offering 
of  the  surplus  induce  buyers  to  hold  off 
— which  they  are  enabled  to  do  by  rea­
son  of  previous  purchases  beyond  needs 
— the  bubble  of  speculative  advance  is 
pricked  and  prices  fall  back  immedi­
ately.  My  observation  is  that  those  who 
sell 
freely  each  day  during  these  tem­
porary  and  speculative  advances  make 
the  best  average. 
is  generally  pos­
sible  to  sell  at  each  upward  step  while 
if  stock  is  held  for  the  “ top  notch”   the 
general  offering  often  causes  a  material 
reaction  before  any  important  quantity 
can  be  moved.— New  York  Produce 
Review.
W hy  Com m ission  M erchant 
B onding  Law.

UiKlike  th i

It 

"

The  commission  men  ought  to  be  ab 

Benton  Harbor,  Feb.  17— If  it  is  true 
that  after  the  commission  men  withdgaw 
their  solicitors  the  fruit  will  go  to  them 
just  the  same,  only  more  so,  can  any 
person  tell  why  those  gentlemen  have 
not  long  ago  voluntarily  dispensed  with 
their  useless  solicitors  and  given  the 
fruit  grower  the  benefit  of  that  3  P^r 
cent. ? 
to  offer  other  reasons  for  hiring 
'lawyers 
to  fight  this  law  than  that  the  law,  if en 
forced,  will  result  in  the  ruin  of  Michi 
gan  hotel-keepers  and 
livery-men  and 
increase  the  shipments  of  fruit t| 
will 
Chicago,  and  will  relieve  the  cominii 
on  men  of  the  burden  of  sending  sf 
citors  after  the  fruit  and  thereby  save 
themselves the  3  per  cent,  which  they 
ave  been  in  the  habit  of  paying  the" 
licitors,  and  will,  in  reality,  be a  got 
ing  for  the  commission  men.
There 

is  not  and  has  not  been  any 
occasion  for  friction  between  the  honest 
fruit  grower  and  the  honest  commissioi 
merchant.  They understand  and  appre 

O bservation»  by  a  G otbam   E gg  M an. 
While  the  refrigerator  and  limed  eggs 
shipped  to  Europe  this  season  have 
been  sent  out  at  a  basis  ef  price  which 
means  a  heavy  loss  to  the  original  hold­
ers,  the  movement  has  been  sufficient  to 
afford  considerable  relief  to  our  heavily 
overstocked  markets, 
and  has  un­
doubtedly  exercised  a  favorable  influ­
ence  upon  the 
local  trade,  preventing 
as 
low  a  wind  up  as  would  otherwise 
have  occurred.  For  several  years  past 
there  have  been  occasional  shipments  of 
States  eggs  to  Great  Britain,  some  of 
which  have  been  profitable  and  some 
decidedly  unprofitable,  but  never  be­
fore  has  there  been  so  liberal  a  move­
ment  as  during  the  past  four  or  five 
weeks.  Since  the  first  of  January  over 
25,000  cases,  chiefly  of  refrigerator  eggs 
but 
including  a  number  of  limed,  have 
left  New  York 
for  British  and  Conti­
nental  ports,  chiefly  the  former.  The 
conditions  which  have  led  to  this  move­
ment  have,  however,  been  exceptional: 
in  Europe  the  winter  has  been  unusual­
ly  cold  while  here  it  has  been  remark­
ably  m ild ; 
ruled 
above  the  average,  with  lightly  stocked 
markets,  while  here  we  have  had  un­
usual  quantities  of  held  stock  and  rela­
tively 
is  possible  that 
with  our  great  egg  producing  capacity 
there may be occasional  opportunities for 
the  profitable  exportation  of  eggs  to 
Great  Britain,  but  it  does  not  seem  like­
ly  that  these  will  arise  with  any  regu­
larity. 
If  they  should,  however,  a  spe­
cial  style  of  case  would  be  desirable  as 
the 
in  use  here  are  far  too 
flimsy  to  stand  the  handling  given  in 
ocean  transportation.

there  prices  have 

low  values. 

light  cases 

It 

There  has  lately  been  a  very  marked 
improvement  in  the  quality  of  the  fresh 
gathered  eggs  arriving  in  this  market. 
Many  of  the  shipments  from  central  and 
southerly  sections  of  the  West,  and  from 
the  South  also,  are  now  practically  all 
new 
laid  and  differences  in  quality,  in 
such  cases,arise  chiefly  from  differences 
in  size,  cleanness  and  style  of  packing.
In  this  respect  there  is,  however,  room 
for  much 
improvement,  and  there  are 
still  occasional  lots  arriving  as  fresh 
which  show  more  or  less serious  mixture 
with  stale,  shrunken  stock.  A  receiver 
who  handles  many  Southern  eggs  called 
me 
in  the  other  day  to  look  at  a  line 
of  Texas  eggs  which  he  had  just  re 
ceived ;  they  were  very  unsttrsctive^ii 
general  appearance  and  about  one-third 
of  them  were  “ shakers;’ ’  13c  was  the 
best  price  obtainable  at  a  time  when 
prime  Southern  were  easily  salable  at 
15c  at  mark  and  the  lot  was  well  sold  at 
that,  as  at  least  10  doz.,  to  the  case  had 
no  intrinsic  value  above  about  10  or  I2r 
and  the  actual  loss  would  reach  5  dozen 
The  receipts  of  fresh  eggs  in  the  New 
York  market  have  lately  been  largely  ir 
excess  of  the 
consumptive  demand 
Whenever  this  condition  occurs  at  thi 
season  of  year  the  natural  course ^ of 
prices 
is  downward  and  the  declining 
tendency  is  checked  only  by  speculative 
operations.  When  shippers  notice  a 
change  in  weather conditions which they 
consider  likely  to  materially  reduce sup­
plies  they  frequently  step  in  to  prevent 
the  natural  decline  by  ordering  then 
goods  off  the  m arket;  this  is  often  done 
to  such  an  extent  as  to  force  a  recovery 
in  prices  at  the  expense  of  a  large  ac­
cumulation  of  eggs  in  receivers’  hands 
at  a  nominal  price  above  their  selling 
value.  The  same  considerations  which 
cause  shippers  to  limit their_goods  often 
result  in  some  speculative  bidding  here, 
and  generally 
induce  dealers  to  buy 
more  stock  than  their current  needs  re­
quire.  These  conditions  very  often  re 
suit 
in * an  unnatural  stimulation  o 
price,  which  can  be  sustained  and  made 
healthy  only  by  a  full  realization  of  the 
expectations  upon  which  the speculation 
was  based.  But 
in  a  majority  of  in­
stances  these  expectations  are  not  real­
ized.  A   change  of  weather  quickly

ate  each  other.
Undoubtedly  this  new 

law  was  nt 

law 

enacted  without  good  reason.  _  It  is  not 
ntended  to  embarrass  nor  in  any  way 
njure  any  man.  But,  like  many  othe 
aws,  it  has  for  its  object  the  regulation 
‘  those  who  require  regulation,  and 
,,.s  class  are  the  only  ones  who could be 
xpected  to  raise  objections  to  the 
law. 
in  question  requires  of  the 
The 
commission  man  “ the  faithful  perform­
ance  of  the  trust  reposed  in  him as  com­
mission  man  or  broker,  and  to  pay  over 
>11  moneys  to  the  proper  parties  coming 
nto  his  hands  by  virtue  of  his  agency 
>r  trusteeship,  by  virtue  of  his  receiv­
ing  the  goods  and  produce  aforesaid 
which  shall 
justly  belong  to  any  per­
son. ”
“ Every  such  commission  broker  man 
ohall  be 
liable  upon  his  bond  for  all 
moneys  received  by  him  from  the  sale 
of  such  goods  and  produce,  and  for  the 
faithful  performance  of  his duties  in  the 
premises.’ ’

Only  that  and  nothing  more.  The only 
object  of  the  law  is  to  protect the grower 
against 
and 

“ crooked“  

solicitors 

crooked"  commission  men.
It  is  true  that  some  of  the  more  reck­
less  among  the  commission  men  have 
threatened  to  “ retaliate"  by  charging 
15  per  cent,  commission,  saying  they 
can  not  afford  to  do  business  for  10  per 
cent.  But 
in  what  predicament  does 
this  claim,  or  rather  admission,  place 
these  gentlemen?  Business  men  never 
do  what  they  can  not  do. 
If  it  were 
true  that  they  can  not  do  a  legitimate, 
honest  business  on  a  10  per  cent,  com­
mission,  how  are  we  to  avoid  the  in 
ference  that  during  all  these  years  they 
have  been  pretending  to  handle  our 
fruit  for  10  per  cent,  commission  they 
have, 
in  reality,  been  doing  business 
on  a  commission  of  10  per  cent.,  which 
the  shippers  have  known  about  and 
agreed  to,  plus  an  indefinite  amount  of 
appropriation,  which  the  shippers  have 
not  known  about  and  have  not  agreed 
to? 
I do  not  make  this  charge,  but  only 
say  that  their  pretense  that  they  can  not 
do  business  for  10  per  cent,  carries  this 
inference  with  it.

Of  all  the  men  objecting  to  this  law, 
not  one  has  a  suggestion  to  offer as  to 
how  the  fruit  growers  may  protect  them­
selves  against  dishonest  commission 
men  other  than  through some such  law as 
this. 

A.  J.  Knisely.

Highest  Market  Prices  Paid.  Regular Shipments  Solicited.

98 South Division Street, 

Q™ d Rapids’ Mich’

BEANS

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

M O SELEY  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.______

Beans  and  Potaotes  Wanted

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

The  Vinkemulder  Company,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

TRY  IT! 

IT’S  GOOD.

QUALITY GUARANTEED.

Made from selected Apple«, Gran- 
u'atcd  Sug  r and  Pure Sp ces.

“ Y .   brand

M ICH I  AN   A P P L t   B U T T I  R

VALLEY  CITY  SYRUP  COMPANY

ORANO  RAPIDS,  MICH.

'sE E ^ U O T A T IO N S   IN  PRICE  CURRENT.

LAUHOFF  BROS.

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B E A N S

We  are  in  the  market  for  all  kinds, white  or 
colored, good or poor, car lots or less,  also
C U L L   B EA N S  AND  S C R E EN IN G S  

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GRAN D   R A P ID S ,  M ICH.

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R aising.

T ry in g   to  In a u g u ra te   an  E ra   of  C attle 

In stru c t  Y our  C ustom ers  H ow   To  Cook 

Haras.

as  much  money  as  my  neighbors. 
It 
was  only  when  this  fight  for  Sunday 
closing  was  taken  up  that  I  realized 
how  much  of  a  slave  I  was. 
It  didn’t 
take  me  long  to  figure  that  the  little  ex 
tra  money  1  might  make  by  seven-day 
drudgery  wasn't  worth  what  it  cost,  so 
January  14  I  closed  my  doors  for  the 
first  time.  You  can  not  appreciate  how 
much  more  contented  and  better  satis­
fied  I  am,  now  that  1  have  a  whole  day 
to  myself  every  week.  Why,  1  look  for­
ward  to  it  as  the  youngster  does  to  va­
1  wouldn’t  go  back  to  the 
cation  time. 
old  conditions 
if  all  the  stores  in  town 
reopened  Sundays,  and  there  are  hun­
dreds  of  others  who  would  express  a 
similar  verdict.”

When  about  to  boil  a  ham,  care  must 
be  taken  after  it  has  been  trimmed  and 
the  bone  removed  that  it  be  put  to  soak 
in  a  large  pan  filled  with  cold  water, 
the 
length  of  time  it  should  remain  in 
soak  depending  partly  on  its  degree  of 
moisture,  partly  whether 
it  be  new  or 
well  seasoned.  If  the  ham  readily  yields 
to  the  pressute  of  the  hand  it  is  new, 
and 
for  such  as  these  a  few  hours  will 
suffice ;  but  should they be well seasoned, 
they  should  be  soaked  at  least  twenty- 
four  hours.  Foreign  hams  require  to  be 
soaked  much  longer,  varying  from  two 
Timothy  L.  Miller,  formerly of  Illinois 
to  four  days  and  nights.  Be  sure  to 
and  now  of  Florida,  who  has  been  inter­
change  the  water  once  every 
twelve 
ested  all  his  long  life  in  the  breeding  of 
cattle,  is  trying  to  inaugurate  an  era  of 
in  winter  and  twice  during  that 
hours 
cattle-raising 
in  the  South,  which  may 
time 
in  summer. 
It  is  necessary  to  be 
be  a  formidable  rival  of  the  West.  He 
particular  in  scraping  off  the  slimy  sur­
says  that  the  climate,  water,  and 
feed 
face  from  the  ham  previous  to  replacing 
of  Florida  are  capable of  producing  the 
it  in  the  fresh  water to  finish  soaking.
finest  quality  of  beef.  The  feed  on 
it  has  been  trimmed  and  soaked, 
After 
which  the  breeders  are  said 
to  base 
their  claims  and  future  hopes is cassava 
it  for  one  hour,  then  scrape  and 
boil 
It  is  a  luxuriant,  many-branched  shrub, 
wash 
in  clean  cold  water;  place  it  in 
which 
is  produced  to  the  extent  of  six 
a  braizing  pan  with  two  carrots,  two 
tons  per  acre,  and  is  said  to  be  die 
onions,  a  head  of  celery,  two  blades  of 
nutritious  feed 
cattle,  hogs  arid 
mace,  and  four  cloves,  moisten  with 
horses.  Mr.  Miller  says  that  between 
the  Chattahoochie  River  and  Pensacc 
sufficient  common  broth  to  float  the  ham 
land 
there  are  500,000,000  acres  of 
and  set 
it  on  the  stove  to  braize  very 
finest  cattle 
which  may  become 
gently  for  about  four  hours.  To  obtain 
ranges 
these 
in  the  world,  and  that 
tenderness  and  mellowness,  so  essential
icres,  stocked  with  Hereford  cattle  to
in  a  well-cooked  ham,  it  must  never  be  j their  capacity  to  furnish  feed,  would  be 
equal  to  500,000,000  acres  in  Illinois 
allowed  to  boil,  but  merely  simmer  very 
The  climate 
is  such  as  to  require  no 
gently  by  a  slow  fire. 
This  rule  ap­
shelter,  so  that  cattle  may  run  the  yea 
plies  also  to  all  salted  or  cured  meats, 
around.  The  experiments  so  far  made 
particularly  corned  or  smoked  beef 
show  that  the  beeves  are  finished  to  the 
tongues.  When  the  ham  is  done,  draw 
top  of  the  market.  Cassava  brings  them 
to  this  condition.  .  Such 
is  used 
the  pan  in  which  it  has  braized  away 
two  months 
in  winter,  and  the  rest  of 
from  the  fire  and  set  it  to  cool 
in  the 
the  year  the  stock  feeds  on  native  grass.
open  air,  allowing  the  ham to  remain  in 
the  braize.  By  this  means  it will  retain 
all 
its  moisture,  for  when  the  ham  is 
taken  out  of  the  braize  as  soon  as  done 
and  put  on  a  dish  to cool,  all  its richness 
exudes  from  it.  The  ham'having  been 
partially  cooled 
in  its  braize,  it  should 
be  taken  out  and  placed  in  a  pan  with 
some  of  its  own  stock,  and  about  three- 
quarters  of  an  hour  before  dinner  put  in 
the  oven  or  on  a  slow 
ire.  When 
warmed  through  place  on  a  baking  dish 
in  the  oven  to  dry  the  surface.  Now  put 
it  on  a  dish  and  garnish  with  well-
dressed  spinach,  placed  around 
in 
tablespoonfuls,  shaped 
like  so  many 
eggs.  Pour  some  sauce  around  the  base 
and  to  add  to  its  appearance  put  a  ruffle 
of  bright  colored  paper  on  the  bone  and 
serve.  After  your  customer  has  cooked 
a  ham  like  that  once,  every 
friend  she 
has 
in  the  world  will  hear all  about  it, 
and  you  won’t  be  able  to  keep  up  to 
your  ham  orders,  and  can  sell at  a  better 
profit  than  before ;  because there is noth­
ing  so  delicious  in  the  world  as  a  ham 
well  cooked.  This  is  only  one  of  sev­
eral  ways,  each 
just  as  simple  and 
effective.

Butchers  would  do  well to look at some 
of  the  clothing  stores,  dry  goods  stores 
and  other  retail  stores  on  some  of  the 
avenues  and  see  how  brightly  they  aie 
lighted  up. 
It  may  cost  a  trifle  more, 
look  at  what  it  brings  a  man  in  the 
but 
end. 
is  anything  people  like 
to  see,  it  is  a  well 
I 
hope  butchers  will  take  this  little  piece 
of  advice  and  profit  by  it.

It’s  a  sad  sight  to  pass 

behind  the  times  on,  it  is  lighting  u 
markets. 
market,  especially  on  a  street  where 
there  is  lots  of  traffic,  and  see  a  window 
full  of  nice  cuts  of  beef,  mutton  and 
poultry,  and  see  one  or  two  little 
lights 
burning 
in  the  window,  giving  it  the 
apnearance  of  an  undertaker’s  shop.

If  there  is  anything  some  butchers  are 

Correspondence Butchers’ Advocate.

T he  H ig h   P rice  of Veal  Calves.

P le a   for  P len ty   o f L ight. 

From the Drovers’  Journal.

lighted-up  store. 

If  there 

feed 

it 

The  advance  of  the  calf  market  to  the 
highest  point  on  record  places  the  value 
of  these  young  critters  far  above  their 
natural  level.  Calves  are  $i@ i.5o  high­
er  than  a  year  ago,  while  matured  cat­
tle  of  all  kinds  are  selling  in  practical­
ly  the  same  notch.  Scarcity  of  good 
veal  calves  is  responsible  for  this  flight 
of  prices,  and  the  scarcity  in turn is  due 
partly  to  the 
fact  that  the  supply  of 
breeding  cows  in  the  dairy  sections  has 
been  greatly  reduced  during  the  past 
year,  and  that  farmers  have  made  an 
effort  to  retain  as  many  calves  at  home 
as  possible  to  grow  into  beef. 
It  would 
to  have  current 
not  seem  reasonable 
prices  hold  up 
long,  yet  the  available 
marketable  supply  of  calves  is  small.

C hinese  P a rtn e rsh ip   D issolution.

This 

is  the  way  the  almond-eyed 
Celestial  advertises  a  dissolution  of 
partnership: 
‘ ‘ Chin  Sing  has  bought 
out  Li  Look  of  Wah  Lung  &  Co., 
Chinese  grocers  at  No.  8 Burrill street! 
All  money  coming  to  Li  Look  as  his 
share  will  be  paid  at  12  o’clock  Mon­
day,  Jan.  29.  After  that  time  he  will 
have  nothing  to  do  with  the  firm.”

in  Chicago,  it 

for  when  their  fight 

They  I,ook  Fi 
Less  than  7

rw ard  to  Sunday  Now. 
per  cent,  of  the  butcher
shops 
is  estimated,  are 
now  open  Sundays,  a  condition  more 
favorable  than  the  clerks and dealers had 
hoped 
for  better 
working  hours  and  Sunday  rest  began 
about  six  weeks  ago. 
It  was  thought  at 
the  time  that  if  go  per cent,  of  the  deal­
ers  could  be  induced  to  close  one  day in 
limit  of  success  would  be 
seven  the 
reached. 
‘ ‘ For  twelye  years,”   says  one 
of  the  Sunday  closing  force,  ‘‘1  have 
been  in  business,  and  outside  of  our  an­
nual  picnic  or  days  when  I  have  been 
too  ill  to  work,  I  have  stood  behind  my 
It  got  so  that  time  was  hardly 
block. 
given  me 
for  my  meals,  for  like  other 
dealers  1  became  avaricious  and,  led  by 
cut-throat  competition,  sought  to  make

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Butter,  Eggs,  Poultry and  Country  Produce.

w.  B .   S T O P P A R D   S i  O O .

C O M M I S S I O N   M E R C H A N T S  

Prices by wire on request. 

S y r a c u s e ,  n .  y . 

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Geo.  N.  Huff  &  Co.,

S  Butter, Fggs, Poultry, Game, Dressed Meats, Etc.  !

WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

COOLERS  AND COLD  STORAGE  ATTACHED.

Consignments  Solicited. 

74 East Congress St., Detroit, Mich.

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We are always in  the market for  Fresh 

BUTTER  AND  EGGS 

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All  Grades  of  Dairy  Butter

Bought at  a  stated  price  on  track. 
If  you 
have any to offer write to-day  for prices  and 
particulars.

Citizens Phone 2530 

Stroup  &  Carmer.

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

.OYSTERS

IN  CANS  AND  BULK,

F.  J.  DETTENTHALER,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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.

MILLER Sl TEASDALE CO ,  s t .  l o u i s .  m o .

Receivers and  Distributors of  Fruits and  Produce  in car lots.

B u s i n e s s   H e l p s

The  “ N.  R.  &  C.”   brand  S p ic e s   and 
Q u e e n   F l a k e   B a k in g   P o w d e r   are 
business  helps  of  the  highest  value. 
They  are  guaranteed  pure  and  are 
sold  only  by  the  manufacturers,

Northrop,  Robertson  &  Carrier,

Lansing,  Michigan.

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G rand  R apids  R etail G rocers’ A ssociation
At  the  regular  meeting  of  the  Grand 
Rapids  Retail  Grocers’  Association, 
held  Tuesday  evening,  Feb.  20,  Presi­
dent  Dyk  presided. 

Orvill  Rickert,  grocer  at  119  Plain- 
for  membership 

field  avenue,  applied 
n  the  Association  and  was  accepted.

The  following  communication  was  re­
ceived 
from  the  Secretary  of  the  Jack- 
son  Retail  Grocers’  Association  and  ac­
cepted  and  placed  on  file :

_ 

.

listed  and  the 

At  a  special  meeting  of  this  Associa­
tion,  held  Feb.  16,  it  was  decided  to  is­
sue  a  schedule  of  prices  on  the  follow­
ing  articles:  Granulated  sugar,  White 
Russian,  Lenox,  Jackson  and  Queen 
Anne  soaps, 
lard,  Lion,  Arbuckle  and 
X X X X   coffees,  Water  White,  Eocene 
and  Palacine  oils,  gasoline,  patent,  half 
patent  and  standard  flour.  These  ati 
cles  were 
lists  were 
to  take  effect  Feb.  20 
mailed  to-day, 
We  are  not  trying  to  raise  prices,  but 
hope  to  make  them  steady  and  uniform 
The  matter  of  employing  an  attorney 
with  whom  the  members  of  the  Associa 
tion  may  consult  on  matters  involving 
legal  questions  was  referred  to  a  com 
mittee  composed  of  M.  H.  Barber,  J 
Geo.  Lehman  and  L.  John  Witters.
The  following  communication  was  re 
ceived  from  C.  C.  Shay,  city  salesmai 
for  the  Worden  Grocer  Co.  :

trade  by  res.—

ng  in  hundreds  of  free  phones  in  resi- 
nces  and  then  inducing  grocers  to  put 
the 
lone  business  which  did  not  material- 

_.d  phones  to  accommodate 

and 

, 

, 

,

Whereas— The  Bell  Co.  has  had  no 
ttled  policy  except  the  injury  of  the 
ndependent  company  and  the  annoy­
ance  of  the  patrons  of _ the 
local  enter­
itself  against  the 
prise,  thus  arraying 
it 
an  object  of  detestation  by  every,  patri- 

st  interests  of  the  city  and  making 

ic  citizen;  therefore 
Resolved  That  we  extend  to  the  Cit- 
zens  Telephone  Co.  our  hearty  thanks 
ir  the  heroic  manner  in  which  it  has 
ithstood  the  assaults  of  an  alien  corpo- 
ation  which  has  resorted  to  desperate 
measures  to  accomplish 
its  ends,  and 
it  on  the  victories  it  has 
achieved 
in  spite  of  the  underhanded 
methods  and  guerrilla warfare of the  Bell

ingratulate 

Resolved  That  we  welcome  the  day 
hen  the  Bell  Co.  is  compelled  to  retire 
rom  the  field  which  it  has  too  long  dis­
graced  by  its  presence,  and  stand  ready 
to  enter 
into  any  alliance  which  will 
serve  to  hasten  the  time  when  one  tele­
hone  system  will  prevail  in  all  parts of
the  city. 
meeting  adjourned.

There  being  no  further  business,  the 

. 

..

, 

, 

. 

Commercial Travelers

Michigan Knights of the Grip

President,  E.  J.  Schreiber,  Bay  City;  Sec­
retary.  A.  W.  Stitt,  Jackson;  Treasurer, 
O. C.  Gould, Saginaw.

President,  A.  Marymont,  Detroit;  Secretary 

Michigan Commercial Traielers’  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.  Valmore,  Detroit; 
Grand Treasurer, W.  S.  Mbst, Jackson.

Senior  Counselor,  D.  E.  Keyes;  Secretary- 

Grand Rapids Council No. 131

Treasurer, L. F. Baker.

Michigan Commercial Traielers’  Mutual  Accident  Association 
President, J.  Boyd  Pa n tlin d,  Grand  Rapids; 
Secretary  and  Treasurer,  Geo.  P.  Ow en, 
Grand Rapids. 

_____________

and  passes 

‘ ‘ Come,  Jack ! 

church 
the  contribution 
plate.  Mr.  Koster 
invariably  makes  a 
perceptible  pause  at  Mr.  Harvey  s  pew, 
gently  inclines  his  head with  an  impres­
sively  murmured, 
ac­
companied  with  a  significant  glance  of 
those  black  eyes  of  his,  and  “ Jack 
is 
held  up  to  the  tune  of  a  round  dollar 
every  time.  Then  with  a  low, 
I hank 
you,  Jack,"  he  moves  unconcernedly 
down  the  aisle. 
Inasmuch  as  Mr.  Har­
vey  pays  his  pew  rent  in  advance,  man 
fashion,  it  would  seem  to  a  casual  ob­
server  a 
little'  hard  that  he  should  be 
thus  victimized  by  a  brother  traveler 
simply  because  that  brother  happens  to 
be  in  a  position  to  shake  the  contribu 
tion  box. 

_____

The  B oys  B ehind  th e   C ounter.

G ripsack  Brigade,
Journal :
Rapids 
' 
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Herbert

XL* d IUU 
Eaton

Pentwater— The  Sands  &  Maxwel
rClllWtUCl  A 11V, 
Knapp  started  out  on  his  maiden  trip as I  Lumfoer  Co.  has  engaged  F.  F.  Ward
rtf  tVlPI
a  traveling  man  last  Monday  morning. 
He 
is  representing  the  Dodge  &  Corey 
cigar  factory.

of  Kalamazoo,  to  take  charge  of  their 
dry  goods  department,  succeeding  Mr. 
Edwards.

______ _  1 „ r-f  Mrmdnw  fYlSYTti 1 TIC?.  I  r 

tjctiiuo

ir  I 

I 

0.  F.  Jackson,  who has traveled  sev
eral  years  for  the  Saginaw  Hardware 
Co.,  has  engaged  'to  travel  for  Foster, 
Stevens  &  • Co.,  covering  the  trade  of 
Northern  and  Eastern  Michigan.  Mr. 
Jackson  has  resided  at  Ithaca  for several 
years,  but  will  remove  his  family  to  this 
city  as  soon  as  spring  opens

Traverse  City  Herald:  C.  F.  W il­
liams, 
lately  of  Chicago,  has  been 
placed  on  the  road  for  Straub  Bros.  & 
Amiotte  of  this  city,  taking  the territory 
south  of  here,  while  Mr.  Amiotte  con 
tinues  to  see  to  the  trade  north  of  the 
city.  Mr.  Williams  has  had  much  ex­
perience  as  a  traveling  man,  having  re 
centlv  been  employed  by  the  tea  and 
coffee  house  of  H.  C.  Fisher.

Howard  City—Joseph  Taylor and  Don
Denton,  who  were 
identified  with  the 
rocery  store  of  Alex.  Denton  for  sev­
eral  years,  will  retain  their  former  posi­
tions  with  the  new  firm  of  Crittenden  & 
Co.

Belding— Glenn  Pope,  who  has  been 
n  charge  of the  People’s  shoe  store,  has 
taken  a  position  with  A.  &  I).  Fried 
man,  the  clothiers.

Otsego—Earl  Mansfield  is  clerking  in 

E.  A.  Dunwell’s  drug  store

Port  Huron— The  retail  clerks  have 

local  organization  into 

merged  their 
union,  electing  Fred  W.  Woods  Presi­
dent  and  Timothy  O ’ Brien  Financia 
and  Recording  Secretary.

It 

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

Big  Rapids— Verne  Hobart  is  now 

in  the  City-by-the-Bay,  but  dition  to  the  force, 

Sault  Ste.  Marie— Under  the  reorgan-
George  Gane,Michigan  representative
for  the  Washburn,  Crosby  Co.,  finds  it 
ization  of  the  Chippewa  Hardware  Co., 
necessary  for  him  to  live  nearer  the cen-  C.  W.  Given,  of  the  old  company,  has 
ter  of  the  territory  and  will  accordingly  been  retained  as  accountant,  and  Clem
remove  his  family  from  Traverse  City  ent  Sylvester  and  Harry  Stratton also re-
to  Grand  Rapids  as  soon  as  spring  main 
in  the  store.  Forrest  Robbins, 
opens.  Mr.  Gane  owns  a  handsome I formerly  with  P.  M.  Church,  is  an  ad 
residence 
says  he  will  meet  with  no  difficulty  in 
finding  a  purchaser  because  his  home | charge  of  the  Hobart  Mercantile  Co.,
owing  to  the  removal  of  his  father  to 
is  thoroughly  modern  and  is  located 
Traverse  City  to  take charge  of  the  book 
an  excellent  residence  district
and  stationery  department  of  the  new 
house  of  Hobart,  Beecher  &  Thompson. 
O.  S.  Percy  succeeds  Chas.  Sowers  as 
assistant  clerk 
in  the  same  establish­
ment.

is  understood  that  David  C.  Smith 
and  E.  E.  Wooley  have 
formulated 
plans  for  the  reoganization  of  a  Pre­
varicators’  Club  and  that  they  wi 
ply  for  a  charter  which will  enable  them 
to  issue  licenses  to  such  members  of  the
intro-
fraternity  as  they  think  are  entitled  to I duced 
jnto  Thomas  A.  Carten’s  store  a 
special  recognition  by  reason  of  their I system  Qf daily  reports,  showing  sales  in 
in  handling  the  truth  in  an I eacj1  Qj  ^jje  twenty  departments  by  each 
proficiency 
elastic  manner.  It  is  reported  that  Hub I 
¡n  tjie  store.  These  daily  reports
K“" t  nn  I  ^   condensed  on  books  specially  made
Baker  and  Bert  Peck  are  both  bent  on 
obtaining  the  first  license  issued  by  the 
for  the  purpose.  The  purchases  are 
new  organization.
similarly  classified  and condensed.  This 
shows  the  exact  cost  on  any  day  of  the 
goods  remaining 
in  any  department 
and  the  exact  daily  work  of  each  clerk 
It  simplifies  the  work  of  inventory  and 
shows  the  amount  of  business,  with  the 
rofits  and  losses,  in  each  day  or  week 
and  in  each  separate  department.  The 
blanks  and  books  seem  admirably  de­
for  the  purpose,  and  were  pre­
signed 
pared  by  Mr.  Cutler,  partly  from 
large 
city  department  stores,  and  adapted  to 
the  special  requirements  of  the  Carten 
s t o r e . ______ 

Boot  and  Shoe  Recorder:  Traveling 
men  who  visit  the  retail  trade  at  West 
ern  and  Southern  points  are  putting 
in 
a  good  deal  of  time  in  aranging samples 
and  preparing 
for  their  trips  another 
season.  Before  March  1  the  advance 
guard  of  shoe  salesmen  will  take  their 
departure  with  fall  samples. 
It  is  need­
less  to  say  that  prices  will  be  higher  all 
along  the  line.  The  boys  will  give  their 
justomers  to  understand  that  they  must 
either  pay  more  for  next  season’s  goods 
or  consent  to  take  a  good  deal  less value 
for  the  same  money.

Ionia— Fred  Cutler,  Jr.,  has 

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1 

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i 

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. 

Jack  Harvey  (Burnham,  Stoepel  & 
C o.)  does  not  attend  the  Presbyterian 
church  at  Grand  Haven  as  frequently  as 
he  did  formerly.  The  explanation  he 
gives  of  this  lapse  is  that  it 
impos­
sible  for  him  to  attend  that  church with­
out  being  sandbagged by  his good  friend 
and  fellow  traveler,  Louis  J.  Koster, 
who  happens  to  be  a  trustee  of  the

is 

Men  are  every  day  declining  to  be 
candidates 
for  the  Vice-Presidency. 
Those  who  want  the  job  are  not  asked 
to  run.

Cotton  at  nine  cents leads  to the  belief 
that  calico  will  be  expensive  enough  to 
be  fashionable 
for  women’s  wear  some 
day.

Knowing  that 

for  some  time  past  1 
has  been  the  desire  of  your  Associatlo 
to  secure  some  means  whereby  the  cui 
rent  expenses  of  the  organization  migt 
be  more  easily  met,  1  would  be  pleasec 
to  present  to  a  committee  a  proposition 
which,  if  adopted,  will  secure  a  perm; 
nent  and  substantial 
you  may  make  arrangements  whereby 
may  meet  said  committee  in  the  ne 
future.

income. 

1  trust 

,

_ 

The  matter  was  discussed  at  some 

A   communication  was  received  trt 

length  and  referred  to  the  Executi 
Committee. 
the  National  Pure  Food_  and  Drug 
Congress  asking  the  Association  to  c 
the  weight  of 
its  influence  in  favor 
the  food  bills  now  before  Congress,  an 
the  Secretary  was 
instructed  to  wrii 
Congressman  Smith  and  both  of  tr 
United  States  Senators,  requesting  the 
to  give  the  measure  the  benefit  of  the 
influence  and  affirmative  votes.

The  oil  question  was  then  taken  up, 
on  the  report  of  the  Secretary  that  Sco­
field,  Shurmer 
it  Teagle  were  circu-
lating  a  petition among the grocers of the
city,  having  for  its  object  the  raising  of
the  price  of  Palacine  oil  from  13  to  *4 
cents  per  gallon. 
In  the  discussion 
which  ensued,  it  appeared  that  this  fi™11 
had  entered  into  an  agreement  with  the 
Retail  Grocers’  Assóciation  by  which 
the  Committee  on  Trade  Interests  was 
authorized to  establish  the  price  of  oil at 
retail.  This  has  been  done 
for  some 
months  past  and,  inasmuch  as  Scofield, 
Shurmer  &  Teagle  have  given  no  notice 
of  their  desire  to  terminate  the  agree 
ment,  it  was  very  generally  concedei 
that in circulating a  petition  in  violation 
of  that  agreement  they  were  aritagomz 
ing  the  Association  and  committing  an 
act  for  which  they  should  be  properly 
reprimanded.  On  motion,  the  action  o' 
Scofield,  Shurmer  &  Teagle  in  circu 
lating  the  petition  above  referred  tc 
was  disapproved.

The  President  asked  F.  W.  fu ller  to 
prepare  a  paper on  the  pure  food 
laws 
of  the  State  for  presentation  at  the  next 
meeting,  which  he  agreed  to  do.

The  special  Committee  on  Typewriter 
was 
instructed  to  purchase  a  Blickens- 
dorfer  machine  on  the  best  terms  pos-

,

. 

Whereas— The 

S1 Homer  Klap  introduced  the  following 
resolutions,  which  were  unanimously 
adopted : 
extortionate  charges 
and  arbitrary  attitude  of  the  Bell  Tele­
phone  Co.  rendered  it  necessary  for  the 
citizens  of  Grand  Rapids  to  engage  in 
the  telephone  business  on  their  own  ac­
count ;  and 
furnished  by
the  local  company is entirely satisfactory
and  40  per  cent,  below  the  rates charged 
by  the  Bell  Co.  prior to  the  advent  ot 
the  independent  company ;  and

Whereas— The  service 

Whereas— The  attitude  of  the  Bell  Co. 
re^al  § roc*

has  bepfj  antagonistic  J9 

.  , 

, 

,

run  across.  The 

L ook!  L ike  a  Cane  of  False  P retenses.
C.  N.  Addison,  the  Grand  Haven  dry 
goods  dealer,  favors the  Tradesman  with 
ane  of  the  most  ingenious  appeals to the 
generosity  of  the  people  which  it  has 
been  the  good  fortune  of  the  Tradesman 
letter  purports  to 
come  from  the  Ten  Girl  Company,  823 
Schiller  building,  Chicago,  and  at  the 
top  of  the  circular  appears  a  halftone 
plate,  showing  the  picture  of  ten  very 
ordinary-looking  girls,  who are supposed 
to  be  the  members  of  the  concern. 
It 
expressly  states  that  the  girls  are  not 
objects  of  charity,  but  are  obliged  to 
make  their  own  living  and,  in  line  with 
this  programme,  ask  the  recipient  of the 
letter  to  send  them  3°   cents  for  a  dozen 
gold-plated  handy  pins.  Mr.  Addison 
rites  that  these  pins  can  be  purchased 
at  wholesale  for  80 cents  a  gross,  so  that 
there 
in 
selling  them  at  the  rate  of  $3.60  a  gross. 
Resort  to  the  mercantile  agencies  dis­
poses  the  fact  that  the  Ten  Girl  Com­
pany  is  a  myth  and  that  all  connection 
with  the  ten  young  ladies  ends  when  the 
icture  is  printed  on the stationery.  The 
room  given  as  the  headquarters  of  the 
Ten  Girl  Company  is  one  of  the  rooms 
occupied  by  the  Bicycle  Gum  Co.,  and 
the  woman  in  charge  of  the  business de­
clines  to  give  any  information  as  to  the 
ownership  of  the  Ten  Girl  Company, 
the 
identity  of  those  connected  with  it 
or  the  capital  employed.

is  a  very  comfortable  profit 

Kruger  once  cut  an obstreperous molar 
from  his  head,  and  now  it  is  reported 
that  Mrs.  Kruger  cuts  the  President’s 
hair  with  a  pair  of  sheep shears,  and yet 
there  are  some  people  who  vainly 
im­
agine  that  the  Boers  are  not  heroic!

When  an  army 

is  cut  off  from  tele­
is  easy  to 
graphic  communication,  it 
imagine 
it  has  won  a  great  victory. 
When  it  is  cut  off  from  its  base  of  sup­
plies,  it  is  easy  to  guess  it  is  hungry.

With  the  Samoan  treaty  ratified  and 
the  United  States 
in  possession  of  the 
Island  of  Tutuila,  it  is  to  be  hoped  that 
no  more  trouble  will  be  reported  from 
that  quarter.

Bread  cast  upon  the  waters  will return 
again—if  the  water  does  not  freeze  too 
quickly  and  stay  ice  too  long.

Frick 

is  not  giving  away 

public 
libraries;  but  he  wants  some  of  Carne­
gie’ s  millions.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

M ichigan  State  B oard  o f P h arm acy

_ 

r , - .   „ ___  
, 
p E2-  Gundrum, Ionia 
Hkim. Saginaw 

Term expires
-  Dec. 31,1900
-  Dec. 31,1901
-  Dec. 31,1902
Wirt  P.  Doty, Detroit - 
-  Dec. 31,1903
a . c. Schumacher, Ann Arbor  -  Dec. 31,1904 

N° U^S' .§*•  Joseph 
- 

- 
- 

President,  Geo.  Guxdrum,  Ionia.
Secretary, A.  C.  Schumacher,  Ann Arbor. 
Treasurer, Hexry  Heim, Saginaw.
E xam in atio n   Sessions 
Grand Rapids—Mar. 6 and 7.
Star Island—June 25 and 26.
Sault Ste. Marte—Aug. 28 and 29. 
Lansing—Nov. 7 and 8.

State  P h arm aceu tical  A ssociation 

President—O.  Euerbach, Ann Arbor. 
Secretary—Chas.  F.  Maxn, Detroit. 
Treasurer—J.  S.  Bexxett,  Lansing.

It 

Punishm ent,  for  S ubstitution.
is  gratifying  to  note  that  those 
druggists  who,  unfortunately,  still  per 
sist 
in  practicing  the  fraud  of  “ substi 
tution”   are  being  punished  by  the 
courts.  This 
is  an  offense  for  which 
is  absolutely  no /excuse.  While  _ 
there 
druggist  is  unqualifiedly  permitted  to 
draw  the  attention  of  his  customers  t< 
his  own,  or  some  other  particular  prep 
aration,  and  may  use  every  légitimât«: 
means  to  dispose  of  any  particular prep 
aration  which  he  believes  has  merit,  the 
practice  of  some  druggists  of  urging 
customers  to  accept  a  substitute  for  an 
article  that  has  been  particularly  called 
for  is  reprehensible.

But  this  not  the  worst  side  of  the  sub 
If  a  physician  pre 
stitution  problem. 
scribes  a  preparation  of  a  certain  man­
ufacturer and distinctly specifies  it,  even 
although  it  be  a  preparation  of the  phar­
macopeia,  the  druggist  who  will  substi­
tute  his  own  or  some  other  manufac­
turer’s  preparation 
is  guilty  of  a  pe­
culiarly  insidious  and contemptible form 
of  crime.

f t

is  used 

If  a  physician  wishes  the  preparation 
of  a  particular  manufacturer  used,  he 
does  so,  it  must  be  assumed,  because  he 
is  familiar  with  its  therapeutic  value, 
and  know's  what  results  to  expect  from 
If  another  prepara­
its  administration. 
tion 
instead,  the  druggist  not 
only  deceives  the  physician  and  de­
frauds  the  manufacturer,  but  the  act 
may  bring  disastrous  consequences  to 
the  patient. 
It  is  not  sufficient  that  the 
druggist  believes  his  preparation  to  be 
equal  or  superior  to  the  one  specified 
the  physician’s 
the 
druggist’s,  must  be  relied  upon.  Now 
that  some  of  those  druggists,  and  thei 
number,  we  believe, 
is  comparatively 
few,  wbo  are  willing  ter sacrifice honesty 
for 
convenience,  or  pecuniary  gain 
have  been  taught  a  lesson  by  thé  law,  i. 
is  to  be  hoped  that  the  practice will  find 
no  further  lodgment  in  pharmacies  pre 
tending  to  be  honest  and  respectable.'- 
Westem  Druggist.

judgment,  not 

Is  W ater a  M ineral

fancy, 

first  suggest 

Prof.  Loomis  says: 

If  one  were  to 
friends  what  mineral  we  are 
ask  his 
most  familiar  with  and  most  commonly 
used  as  food,  the  answers  would  prob­
ably  be  both  varied  and  amusing.  Salt 
would,  I 
itself  to 
many,  and  to  those  whose  training  in 
physiology  and  hygiene  has  not  been 
neglected,  no  doubt  the  claims  of  lime, 
and 
in  one 
form  or  another  we  use  with  food  to 
build  up  bone  and  brawn,  would  be 
amply  urged.  But,  after all,  it  is  water, 
for water  is  a  mineral— a  fused  mineral! 
You  will  find  it  described  as  such  along 
with  quartz  and  topaz  and  the  diamonds 
in  books  on  mineralogy,  or  in  treatises 
on  stones.

iron,  and  carbon,  which 

We  usually  think  of  minerals  as  solid

in  a  fluid 

The  difference  between 

things,  such  as  metals  and  rocks  and 
jewels  and  various  chemical  salts,  but 
when  we  consider  the  matter a  little  we 
see  that  all  these  things  if  melted  by 
strong  heat  are  minerals  still,  only  they 
instead  of  a  solid 
are  now 
state. 
these 
minerals  and  water  is  that  water gets 
fluid  at  a 
lower temperature  than  they 
do,  and,  like  quicksilver,  stays  melted 
at ordinary  living  heat.  But  in  those old 
ice  ages  which,  one  after  another,  have 
swept  now  over  the  Northern and  now 
iver  the  Southern  hemisphere,  bringing 
ruin  and  desolation, 
the  natural  and 
common  condition  of  water  was  that  of 
solid— ice—as  it  largely  is  to-day  out 
of-doors 
in  winter  when  not  kept  fused 
by  the  stored-up  heat  of  the  soil  and 
rocks,  or  melted  by  the  sun.— Popular 
Science  News.

A n  Im itatio n   W ine  for  In eb riety .

Prof.  Slikbile  says  an  imitation  wine 
can  be  made  which  drunkards  will 
drink  while  being  weaned  of  their  crav­
ings  for alcohol.  The  idea  is  that  they 
must  have  some  sort  of substitute liquor 
and  one  that  reminds  them  of  the  intox 
icants  they  are  to  abandon.  Such  a  one 
is  made  in  the  following  manner:  white 
sugar,  brown  sugar,  hulled  barley,  cori- 
inder  seeds,  hops,  extract  of  violets, 
elder  flowers,  vinegar  and  water  in  the 
roportion  of  2%  pounds  of  the  first  to 
an  equal  part  of  the  second,  half  as 
nuch  of  the  third,  465  grains  troy  of  the 
fourth,  an  equal  amount  of  the  fifth, 
587 'A  grains  troy  of  the  sixth,  1%  pints 
>f  the  seventh,  and  a  trifle  under  11 gal- 
ons  of  the  eighth.  These  are  all  put 
nto  a  suitable  cask  with  a  square  hole 
at  the  bung  4  to  5 
inches  wide,  the 
ngredients  being  thoroughly  mixed  in 
t  cask  with  a  paddle  before  the  water  is 
idded,  and  the  sugar being  put  in  first 
•f  all.  After  eight  days  of  infusion  the 
mixture 
into  bottles  and 
trongly  corked.  Four  days  after  it  is 
ready  for  use.  To  the  moderate  drinker 
t  suggests  nothing  very  agreeable,  but 
the  mixture  is  said  to 
like  white 
ne  and  taste  much  like  champagne. 
The  man  who  has  sworn  off  drinks 
it 
ith  relish  and  no  harm  follows.  The 
cost  of  the mixture  is  less  than  2  cents  a 
quart.

is  strained 

look 

M ethylic  T in ctu re  o f  Iodine.

Apropos  of  the  use  of  methyl  alcohol 
in  the  preparation  of  the  tincture  of 
iodine,  Prof.  Scoville  observes  that  sev­
eral  writers  have  recommended  that  this 
preparation  be  made  with  wood  alcohol, 
and  a  number of  pharmacists  have  tried 
it.  The  iodine  dissolves  more  quickly 
in  this  medium  and  all  appears  well. 
But  when  the  ordinary  cheap  grades  of 
wood  alcohol  are  employed,  the  tincture 
develops  a  very  penetrating  odor and 
becomes  so  irritant  as  to  make  it  unsal­
able.  This  does  not  appear  when  the 
purified  alcohol  is  used.  Samples  pre­
pared 
from  purified  methyl  and  ethyl 
alcohols  which  have  stood  a  year  and  a 
half  show  no  marked  change  in  either 
case,  and  can  not  be  distinguished  ex­
cept  by  the  odor.

C obalt  F ly   P ap er,

Quassia  chips,  150  parts.
Cobalt  chloride,  to  parts.
Tartrate  antimony,  2  parts.
Tincture  pepper,  80  parts.
Water,  400  parts.
Boil  the  chips  in  the  water  until  the 
volume  of the  latter  is  reduced  one-half 
¡strain,  and  add  the  other  ingredients' 
frn™ 
is  that  made 
Io” S  red  garden  pepper,  and 
should  be  strong  (1:4).  Saturate  com­
mon  unsized  paper  with  the  liquid  and 
dry  m  the  ordinary  way.  The  paper  is 
used  moist. 

CtUire  ° f  PePPer 

r  r  

1

T he  D ru g   M arket.

Opium— Is  dull  and  weak  and 

quotably  lower.

is 

Morphine— Is  unchanged.
Quinine— Is 

in  a  very  firm  position 
by  reason  of  the  late  advances  for  for­
eign  and  the  advance  of  2c  by Powers  & 
Weightman  on  the  17th.  Higher  prices 
are  looked  for this  week.

Acetanilid— Has  declined,  on  account 
of  strong  competition  among  manufac­
turers.

Carbolic  Acid— It  is  believed  that  the 
English  government  will  soon  permit 
export  shipments  for  medicinal  pur 
poses,  which  will  relieve  the  situation.
Citric Acid  -Has been again advanced 
by  manufacturers  3c  per  pound  and,  as 
crude  material 
higher  prices  are  looked  for.

is  scarce  abroad,  sti 

Castor  Oil— Is  very  firm  at  the  ad- 

vance  noted  last  week.

Cocaine  On  account  of  lower  prices 

abroad,  has  declined  75c  per  ounce. 

Cuttle  Bone— Is  very  firm  and  has

powder,  and  macerate  for three  days 
in 
a  portion  of  the  alcohol  and  water.  Per­
colate  with  the  remainder  of  the  alcohol 
and  water,  and run  enough water through 
the  percolator  until  5  gallons  of  the  per­
colate  are  obtained.  Filter and  add  the 
syrup.
(2)  Gentian,  4  ozs.

Peruvian  bark,  2  ozs.
Roman  chamomile  flowers,  1  oz. 
Quassia,  y   oz.
Celery  seed,  2  ozs.
Orange  peel,  y   oz.
Dilute  alcohol,  1  gal.

Reduce  the  crude  drugs  to  a  coarse 
powder.  Add  the  alcohol,  and  macerate 
for  seven  days.  Express  and  filter.
(3)  Cinchona  bark,  4  ozs.

Coca  leaves,  4 ozs.
Caraway  seed,  4  ozs.
Celery  seed,  8  ozs.
Gentian  root,  2  ozs.
Orange  peel,  12  ozs.
Water,  3#   gals.
Syrup.  K   gal.
Alcohol,  q.  s.

I been  advanced.
Menthol— Is 

lower.

in 

better  supply  and 

Essential  Oi 

Is— Anise 
higher.  Cloves  are  firm 
advance.

is

Gum  Camphor— Has  been  advanced 
ic  per  pound  by  the  manufacturers, 
with  a  higher  tendency,  and  as  the  Jap­
anese  government  is  holding  the  crude 
it 
ments.

is  difficult  for  refiners  to get  shij 

E xtem pore  P rep a ra tio n   o f  B ottled  Effer­

vescent  D rinks.

To  put  up  quickly  and  without  the 
slightest  trouble  any  carbonated  drink 
where  the  carbonic  acid  is  derived  from 
the  decomposition  of  sodium  or  potas­
sium  carbonate  or  bicarbonate  with 
citric  or  tartaric  acid,  prepare  your 
drink,  add  the  acid  ingredient,  and 
let 
it  dissolve.  Then  into  one  or  more  large 
capsules,  as  may  be  necessary,  pack 
your  alkaline 
it  or 
them 
tie 
down.  You  can  perform  the  corking 
and  tying  comparatively  at  your leisure, 
before  the  capsule  dissolves  and  allows 
the  carbonate  to  get  in  its  work.

into  the  bottle,  cork,  and 

ingredient, 

:drop 

P o u ltry   R estorative  Tonic. 

Sulphate  iron,  5  ozs.
Dilute  sulphuric  acid,  2V>  ozs 
Caramel,  i y   ozs.
Water  to  1  gal.

.  ^issolye  the  sulphate  of  iron  in  one- 
halt  gallon  of  water  to  which  the  acid 
has  been  added.  Mix  the  caramel  with 
the  rest  of  the  water,  and  add  to  the 
iron  solution. 
over 
night,  and  decant  from  any  sediment.

Allow  to  stand 

This  is  an  excellent  tonic  for chickens 
during  the  moulting  period  and  in  the 
winter  season.  A   teaspoonful  of  it  is  to 
be  mixed  with  two  quarts  of  water and 
the  mixture  put  in  the  fowls’ drinking 
troughs. 
It  should  be  renewed  three 
times  a  week  on  alternate  mornings.

A n  E x p ecto ran t  M ixture. 

Apomorph.  hydrochlorate,  2  grs. 
Dilute  hydrochloric  aci«i,  20  ms. 
Simple  syrup,  2  ozs.
Distilled  water,  6  ozs.
For  an  adult,  one,  two  or  three  teas- 
poontuls  of  this  mixture  may  be  taken 
every  two  or  four  hours,  or  a  small 
coffee-spoonful  may  be  given  to  a  child 
equally  frequently.  The  idea  is  to  givé 
enough  to  cause  the  expectorant  effect 
without  nausea  and  vomiting.

C elery  Tonic  B itters.

( I )  Orange  peel,  8  ozs.

Coriander  seed,  1  oz.
Gentian,  %  oz.
Ginger,  j   oz.
Celery  seed,  4  ozs.
Alcohol,  2  gals.
Water,  3  gals.
Syrup,  yi  gal.

Percolate  the  crude  ground  drugs  with 
gallons  alcohol  and  water.  Add  the 
simple  syrup  and  enough diluted alcohol 
to  make  the  crude  product  measure  7 V. 
gallons.

Cough  M ixture  for  A dults.

Spt.  chloroformi,  %  dr.
Acid,  phosphoric,  d il.,  1  oz.
Tr.  senegae,  1  oz.
Vin  ipecacuanhae,  1  oz.
Liquor  cocci,  i  oz.
Tr.  camphorae  co.,  2  ozs.
Syrup,  mori,  3  ozs.
Syrup  scillae,  8  ozs.
Glycerini,  8  ozs.
Mix.  After  standing  for  a  few  days 
decant  from  the  sediment 
into  4  oz. 
round-shouldered  white-flint  bottles. 
Label:  One  teaspoonful  to  be  sippe«} 
slowly  three  or  four  times  a  day,  or 
when  the  cough  is. very  troublesome.'

U n im e n t  fo r  R heum atism . 

According  to  Dunglison  a  good  appli­
cation  for  rheumatism  is  made  bv  m ix­
ing  the  following:

Tincture  camphor,  1  oz.
Tincture  opium,  1  oz.
Spirit  ammonia,  1  oz.
Olive  oil,  2  ozs.

Young  men  who  go  out  on  a  lark 
sometimes come home  in a police wagon.

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Aceticum  .................$
Benzoicum, German.
Boracic.....................
Carbolicum..............
Cltricum....................
Hydrochlor.............
Nitrocum..................
Oxallcum..................
Phosphorluro,  dll...
Sallcylicum  .............
Sulphuricum...........
Tannicum.................
T artarlcum .............
A m m onia
Aqua, 16 deg.............
Aqua,‘¿0 deg.............
Carbonas..................
Cbloridum................
A niline

Black..........
Brown.......
R ed...........
Yellow......

Baccrn
Cubebae........... po, 15
Juniperus..................
Xantnoxylum..........
B alsam  um

Copaiba....................
Peru  ........................
Terabln,  Canada....
Tolutan.....................
Cortex
Abies, Canadian.......
Cassia*.......................
Cinchona  Flava.......
Euonymus atropurp. 
Myrlca Cerlfera, po.
Prunus Virgini........
Quillaia, gr’d ...........
Sassafras........po. Jf
Ulraus...po.  15, gr d 

Conium Mac.............
Copaiba....................
Cubeb* ....................
Exechthitos.............
Erigeron..................
G aultheria..............
Geranium, oimce.... 
Gossippii, Sent. gal..
Hedeoma..................
.Junipera..................
Lavendula  ...............
Limouis....................
Mentha  Piper..........
Mentha Verid..........
Morrhuae, .gal..........
M yrcia.....................
Olive.........................
Picis Liquida..........
Picis Liquida,  gal...
Ricina.......................
Rosmarini...............
Rosae, ounce............
Succini....................
Sabina....................
Santal......................
Sassafras.................
Sinapis,  ess., oimce 
Tiglii
Thyme....................... 
Thyme, opt 
Theobromas

50®  60
1  15®  1  25 
90®  1  00
1  00®  1  10 
1  00®  1  10
2 40®  2  50
@  75
50®  60
1  65®  1  70 
1  50® 2  00 
90® 2 00 
1  35®  1  45 
1  25® 2 00 
1  50®  1  (X)
1  10®  1  15 
4 00® 4  50
75® 3  00 
10®  
12 
®  35
96®  1  05 
®  1  00 
6 50® 8  50 
40®  45
90®  1  00
2  50®  7  00
50®  55
®  65
1  50®  1  60
40® 50 
®  1  60 
15®  20

P otassium
15®
Bi-Carb...................... 
13®
Bichromate.............  
B rom ide..................  
52®
Carb  ......................... 
12®
Chlorate... po. 17 « 19  16®
Cyanide.................... 
35®
iodide.......................  2 65® :
Potassa, Bitart, pure  28® 
Potassa, Bitart, com.  @ 
7@
Potass Nitras, opt... 
Potass  Nitras.......... 
6®
Prussiate..................  
23®
Sulphate  po.............  
15®

R adix

E x tractu m  

14®
22@
30®

24@28®
11@
13®
14®
16®

38®  40
20®  25
25®  30
12®  
20 
8®  
10

Glycyrrhiza  Glabra. 
Glycyrrhlza,  po 
, box
Hiematox, 15 lb.
Hiematox, is ............
Haematox,  14s..........
Haematox, 14s..........
F e rru
Carbonate  Precip... 
Citrate and  Quiuia..
Citrate  Soluble........
Ferrocyanidum Sol..
Solut. Chloride........
Sulphate,  com’l.......
Sulphate,  com’l,  by
bbl, per  cw t..........
Sulphate,  pure........
F lo ra
Arnica......................
Anthemis..................
Matricaria................
F olia
Barosma...................
Cassia Acutifol,  Tin-
nevelly..................
Cassia. Acutifol, Alx. 
Salvia officinalis,  14s
and 14s..................
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 
® 
12 
Aloe, Cape— po. 15. 
®  30
Aloe,  Socotri.. po. 40
55®  60
Ammoniac.................
28®  30
Assaf cetida.... po. 30
50,®  55
Benzoinum...............
®  13
Catechu, is ...............
14
® 
Catechu, 14s.............
@  16 
Catechu, U s.............
62®  65
Camphor®...............
®  40
Euphorbium...po. 35
®  1  00 
Galbanum................
65®  70
Gamboge............. po
®  30
Guaiacum......po. 25
@  1  25 
Kino........... po. $1.25
®  60 
Mastic  ......................
®  40
Myrrh..........  .po. 45
Opii  ...po.  4.60®4.90 3 30®  3 35
Shellac............. . 
Shellac, bleached...
Tragacanth.............
H erba 
Absinthium. .oz. pkg 
Eupatori um. .oz. pkg
lo b e lia ........ oz. pkg
M ajorum__ oz. pkg
Mentha Pip.  oz. pkg 
Mentha Vir  .oz. pkg
Rue............... oz. pkg
Tanacetum V oz. pkg 
Thymus, V...oz.pkg 
M agnesia
Calcined, P a t............ 
Carbonate, P a t........  
Carbonate, K. & M-.  18®  20
Carbonate, Jennings  18®  20

25®
U fi
40©
50® 80

55@
18®

O lenm

50® 6 75

Absinthium.............   6 
Amygdalae,  Dulc__  
30@  50
Amygdalae,  Amarae.  8 00® 8 25
Anisf.........................  1 
Auranti Cortex........   2 25® 2 30
Bergami!..................   2 
80®  85
Caiiputi.................... 
Caryophylll..............  
80®  85
C edar.......................  
35®  45
Chenopadil............... 
@ 2 75
Cinnamonil  .'...........  1  25®  l  35
35®  40
Ci trancila................. 

85® 2 00
40®  2 60

10® 

®
13®
4®h 
11®
1  25®  1
8®
10
414®  5 
75®  1  00 
12 
10®  
1  00®  1  10 
10 
9

Aconitum.................. 
20®
22®
Alttue.......................  
A nchusa..................  
10®
Arum  po.................. 
®
Calamus.................... 
20®
Gentiana........po. 15 
12@
Glychrrhlza... pv.  15  16®
® 
Hydrastis  Canaden. 
®
Hydrastis Can., po.. 
Hellebore,  Alba. po. 
12©
Inula,  po.................. 
15®
Ipecac, po................   4  10® 4 25
Iris  plOX.. .po. 35@38  35®  40
Jalapa, p r................  
25®  30
Maranta,  U s...........  
®
Podophyllum,  po... 
22®
75®  1  00
Rhei........................... 
Rhei,  cu t.................. 
®  1  21
Rhei, pv.................... 
75®  1  35
Spigelia.................... 
35®
Sanguinaria.. .po.  15 
®
Serpentaria.............  
40®
Senega...................... 
60®
©  40
Smilax. officinalis  H. 
Smilax,  M................. 
©  25
S cill*............. po.  35 
12
Symplocarpus, Fieti-
dus,  po.................. 
©  25
Valeriana.Eng.po.30  @  25
15®  20
Valeriana,  German. 
Zingiber a ................  
16
12® 
Zingiber j ................ 
  25®  27
Semen
Anlsum..........po.  15
Apium (graveleons).
Bird, is .....................
Carni..............po.  18
Cardamon.................
Coriaudrum..............
Cannabis Sativa.......
Cydonium................
Chenopodium..........
Dipterix Odorate....
Foeniculum  .............
Ffenugreek, po........
L in i...........................
Lini, grd...... bbl. 314
Lobelia.....................
Pharlaris Canarian..
R ap a.........................
Sinapis  Alba............
Sinapis  Nigra..........
S piritus 
2 00® 2  50 
Frumenti, W. I). Co. 
2 00®  2 25 
Frumenti,  ID. F. R ..
1  25®  1  50 
Frum enti..................
1  65® 2 00
luniperis Co. O. T
.luniperis  Co...........   1  75® 3  50
1  90®  2  10 
Saaeharum  N.  E
1  75® 6  50 
Spt. Vini Galli..........
1  25® 2  00 
Vini  Oporto.............
1  25® 2 00
Vini Alba...........
Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage................
Nassau  sheeps’ wool
carriage..................
Velvet extra sheeps’
wool, carriage.......
Extra yellow sheeps’
wool, carriage.......
Grass  sheeps’  wool,
carriage.................
Hard, for slate use.. 
Yellow  R e e f,  for
slate use................
Syrups
A cacia......................
Auranti Cortex........
Zingiber....................
Ipecac.......................
Ferri Iod..................
Rhei  Aram...............
Smilax  Officinalis...
Senega .....................
Scillae........................

@  
7® 
314®
4®
35®
4y,@
4*4®
9®
11®

®
8
@
®
@
®50®
®
@

®   1  00 
®  75
@  1  40

I
I
!

1

1

@ 
Scillae  Co.................. 
Tolutan.....................  @ 
Prunus  virg............. 
@ 
T inctures 
Aconitum Napellis R 
Aconitum Napellis F
Aloes........................
Aloes and M yrrh....
A rnica......................
Assaf cetida...............
Atrope Belladonna..
Auranti Cortex........
Benzoin....................
Benzoin Co...............
Barosma....................
Canthartdes.............
Capsicum.................
Cardamon................
Cardamon Co...........
Castor....................... 
Catechu....................
Cinchona..................
Cinchona Co.............
Columba..................
lubebse......................
Cassia Acutifol........
Cassia Acutifol Co...
Digitalis....................
Ergot.........................
Ferri  Chloridum__
ien tian ....................
'Ientian Co...............
Duiaca.......................
Suiaca ammon........
ilyoscyamus.............
Iodine.....................
Iodine, colorless—
Kino  .........................
.o b e lia .........................
M yrrh.......................
Nux Vomica.............
Dpii............................
Opii, comphorated..
Opii, deodorized......  
Q uassia....................
Rhatany....................
Rhei..........................
Sanguinaria............
Serpentaria.............
Stramonium.............
T olutan....................
Valerian  ..................
Veratrum  Veride...
Zingiber....................

M iscellaneous 

®  1 
1  65®  1 

yEther, Spts. Nit. 3 F  30® 
Either, Spts. N it. 4 F  34®
Alum en....................  254®
Alnmen,  gro’d..po. 7 
3®
Annatto..................... 
40®
Antimoni 
: Potass T
Antimonie
Antinyrin................
Antifebrin  ...............
Argenti Nitras, oz...
Arsenicum...............
Balm Gilead  Buds..
Bismuth S. N...........
Calcium Chlor..  is ... 
Calcium Chlor.,  14s.. 
Calcium Chlor.,  V4S.. 
Cantharides, Rus.po 
Capsici Fructus, a f.. 
Capsici  Fructus. po. 
Capsici Fructus B, po 
Caryophyllus. .po. 15
Carmine, No. 40.......
Cera  Alba.................
Cera  Flava...............
Coccus  .....................
Cassia  Fructus........
Centraria..................
Cetaceum..................
Chloroform  .............
Chloroform,  squibbs 
Chloral  Hyd C rst..,.
20®
Chondrus.................
38®  48
Cinchonidine.P. & W 
38®  48
Cinchouidine, Germ.
5 30®  5  50 
Cocaine....................
70
Corks, list.dis. pr.et.
®   35
Creosotum................
@ 
2 
C reta............. bbl. 75
5
® 
Creta, prep...............
9®  11
Creta, precip...........
@ 
8 
Creta,  Rubra...........
15®  18
Crocus  .....................
©  24
Cudbear....................
614® 
8
Cupri  Sulph.............
7®  10
D extrine..................
75®  90
Ether Sulph.............
8 
® 
Emery, all numbers.
6 
© 
Emery, po.................
85®  90
E rg o ta..........po. 90
12®  15
Flake  W hite...........
@  23
G alla.........................
8® 
9
G am bler..................
®  60 
Gelatin,  Cooper.......
35®  60
Gelatin, French.......
75  &  10 
Glassware,  flint, box
70
Less than box......
11®
Glue, brown.............
15®
Glue,  white.............
17@
Glycerina..................
©
Grana  I’aradisi.
Humulus.................. 
25®  65
Hydrarg  Chlor  Mite  @
Hydrarg  Chlor Cor..  @
® 1
Hydrarg  Ox Rub’m. 
® 1
Hydrarg  Ammoniati 
50®
HydrargUnguentum 
©
Hydrargyrum.......... 
65@
Ichthyobolla,  Am... 
75®  1  00
Indigo....................... 
Iodine,  Resubi........   3 90©  4  00
@ 4  01)

Liquor Arsen et  Hy-
ararg Iod............... 
LiquorPotassArslnit 
Magnesia,  Sulph —  
Magnesia, Sulph, bbl 
Mannta, S.  F ............ 

_
2®
®
60®

10® 12

Having just added  an  up-to-date 
D e p a r t m e n t ,  which 
S t a t i o n e r y  
will  be conducted upon the same high 
plane as  has  characterized  the  other 
tranches of our business, we can now 
supply  our  customers  who  wish  to 
more  fully concentrate  their  business 
with  us  with  Staple  Stationery  for 
Home, School and Office use.  Every 
article purchased  for this  department 
is from the leading manufacturers and 
of the highest standard  of  excellence 
in  its class,  and  as these goods will be 
sold  at  New York  and Chicago prices 
and  can  be  shipped  in  most  cases 
with other goods at  a great saving  of 
freight  and  express  charges  to  our 
customers,  we  consider  that  this will 
be one  of  our  most  popular  depart­
ments.

Our  Mr.  W.  B.  Dudley,  who  is 
well  known to the trade, will call upon 
you soon with a complete line of sam­
ples of these goods in connection with 
our line of  D r u g g i s t ’ s   S u n d r i e s ,  to 
which we have made many additions. 
As we are  in  a  position  to,  and  will 
promptly supply our customers’ every 
want in either of these lines for a  sin­
gle article or complete stock of D r u g ­
g i s t ’ s   S u n d r i e s   and  S t a p l e   S t a ­
t i o n e r y ,  please  reserve  your  orders 
until  you  inspect  our  line.

Our  Mr.  Hagy, an expert  in  this 
line, has selected an exceptionally de­
sirable line of  Paint  Brushes, samples 
of which will  be shown upon this  trip 
by our representative-
Hazeltine &  Perkins
Drug Company,

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.

2 2

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

QROCBRY PRICE CURRENT.

S£ces  quoted  in }^is 
f They are P^Pared just before going to press and are an accurate index of the local market. 

for the trade only, in such quantities as are usually purchased  by retail
It is im- 
possible to give quotations suitable for all conditions of purchase, and those below are given as representing av- 
5£af f  PrLCe\ f° r avera^e conditions of purchase.  Cash  buyers or those of strong credit usually buy closer fhan
.  w  °   have  poor  credit.  Subscribers are earnestly requested to point oiit any errors or omissions  as it is 
our aim to make this feature of the greatest possible use to dealers. 
omissions, as it is

A P P L E   BUTTER 
V. C. Brand in tin cans

2  doz 24 Hi cans..................390
X  doz5 
lb cans..................370
!4 doz 10  II) cans..................3 35
doz.  gross

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

6 00
7 00
4 25
9 00
9 00

A bsolute

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

B A K IN G   PO W D ER  

9 00
6 00

Acm e

4  lb. cans doz.....................   45
4  lb. cans doz......................  85
1 
lb. cans doz...................... 150
54 lb. cans 3 doz..................   45
4  lb. cans 3 doz..................   75
1 
lb. cans 1  doz...................too
Bulk........................................  10
6 oz. Eng. Tumblers.............   85
54 lb. cans per doz..............   75
54 lb. cans per doz............. 1  20
1 
lb. cans per doz..............2 00
54 lb. cans, 4 doz. case........   35
54 lb. cans, 4 doz. case........   55
lb. cans, 2 doz. case........   90
1 

E l  P u rity

A rctic

H om e

JA X O N

4

P eerless

Jerse y   Cream

54 lb. cans, 4 doz. case........   45
54 lb. cans, 4 doz. case........   85
1 
lb. cans. 2 doz. case........ 1  60
1 lb. cans, per doz................2 00
9 oz. cans, per doz................1  25
6 oz. cans, per doz.................  85
1 lb. can s...............................   85
3 oz.. 6 doz. case....................2  70
6 oz., 4 doz. case....................3  20
9 oz., 4 doz. case....................4  80
i lb., 2 doz. case....................4 00
5 lb.,  1 doz. case....................9 00
American...............................  70
English...................................  80

BATH  B RICK

Q ueen  F lak e

BLUING

ÇOBBaSED
B L u iMG

FLY  P A P E R

H ER B S

Perrigo’s Lightning,  gro.. ..2 50
Petrolatum, per doz.............  75
Sage........................................... ..
H ops............................................
Madras, 5 lb. boxes................. 55
S. F., 2,3 and 5 lb.  boxes........50

IN D IG O

JE L L Y  
V. C. Brand.

 

LYE

151b. palls.........................  
35
301b. pails............................ ‘  62
Pure apple, per doz.............   85
LICO R IC E
P u re.......................................  30
Calabria.................... 
 
25
Sicily..............................  
f 4
Root............................................J?
Condensed, 2 doz..................1  20
Condensed, 4 doz........  
'  "2  25
MATCHES
Diamond Match Co.’s brands.
1  65
1  so
” 1  30
.........400
.........\  ¿5

No.  9 sulphur................... 
Anchor P arlo r.............  
No. 2 H om e................. 
Export Parlor.......... 
Wolverine................. 

MOLASSES 
New  O rleans
Black........................... 
<1
F a ir............................................ 14
Good...........................  
’"  
20
Fancy...................... . . . ” ' 
24
Open K ettle.................. 28@35

Half-barrels 2c extra 
MUSTARD

Sm all

Horse Radish, 1 doz..............1  75
Horse Radish, 2 doz. . . .  
3 50
Bayle’s Celery, 1 doz.. 
PIC K L E S 
M edium

Barrels, 1,200 co u n t..............5 90
Half bbls, 600 count.............[3  45
Barrels, 2,400 co u n t............. 6  90
Half bbls, 1,200 count.. 
Clay, No. 216........................ ....  79
Clay, T. D., full count__ ." 
65
Cob, No. 3............ 
«5
PO T A S H ..........
48 cans in case.

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

P IP E S

1 75

3 95

R IC E

D om estic

64
5
.......... 4

Carolina  head................. 
Carolina  No.  1 .............j 
Carolina  No. 2 ... 
B roken......................'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.3%
Japan,  No.  1..................54@6
Japan  No.  2 
............4H@5
Java, fancy head...........6  @54

Im p o rted .

G rits

Walsh-DeRoo  Co.’s Brand.

^ L W

V*1  « 

*

24 2 lb. packages............. ...1   80
100 lb.  kegs....................... ...2 7(1
200 lb. barrels.................. . .5   10

Peas

Green, Wisconsin, bu__ . ..1  30
Green, Scotch, bu............ . ..1  35
Split, bu............................. ... 
3

R olled  Oats

Rolled Avena, bbl............ ...3 75
Steel Cut, 4  bbls.............
Monarch, bbl.................... ...3  50
Monarch, 4  bbl...............
.1   95
Monarch, 90 lb. sacks__ ..1  76
Quaker, cases................... ...3  20
Huron, cases.................... ..  2 00

Sago

Sal us R reak fast Food

(lerm an.............................
4
East India......................... ... 3 4
F. A. McKenzie, Quincy Mich.
36 two pound packages  ..
.  3 60
18 two pound packages  ..
.  1  85

Tapioca

F lak e................................
P earl.................................
Pearl,  24 1 lb. packages..

..  5
..  5
..  64

W heat

Cracked, bulk..................
..  34
24 2 ft. packages.............
..2  50
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS 

DeBoe’s

2 OZ.
Vanilla I). C....... .  .110
... ...  70
Lemon D.  C 
Vanilla Tonka... ...  75

4 oz.
1  80
1  35
145

FOOTE  &  JE N K S ’

JAXON

|  H ighest.  G rade  E x tracts 

|

Vanilla 

Lemon

1 oz full m  1  20  1  oz full  m .  so
2 oz full m  2  10  2 oz full m  1  25 
No.3fan’y,3  15  No.3fan’y  1  75

Vanilla

2 oz panel  . 1
3 oz taper.. 2

Lemon

2 oz panel.  75 
4 oz taper.. 1  50

18@20
22(5,25

1  65©2  00

1  00 
1  00 
1  60
1  25©2  75 
1  35® 2  25

Peas

P u m p k in

M ushroom s

Fair........
Good__
Fancy...
H om iny
Standard
L obster
Star, 54 lb..................
Star, 1  lb..................
Picnic Tails..............
M ackerel
Mustard, lib ............
Mustard, 2 lb............
Soused, 1 lb...............
Soused, 2 lb.............
Tomato, 1 lb.............
Tomato, 2 lb.............
Hotels.........................
Buttons......................
O ysters
Cove, 1 lb...................
Cove, 2 lb..................
Peaches
P ie ............................
Yellow  ...
Standard............. 7.,
Fancy........................
M arrowfat...............
Early June...............
Early June  Sifted..
P in eap p le
Grated 
Sliced.
Fair . 
Good
POUUJ.......................
Standard...................
Salm on
Red Alaska..............
1’ink Alaska.............
Sardines
Domestic, 4 s ...........
Domestic,  Mustard.
F’rench..................
Standard..................
Fancy.......................
Succotash
Good.........................
1  00
Fancy.......................
1  20
Tom atoes
F a ir...........................
80
Good......................
90
F’ancy.......................
1  15
Gallons......................
2 35
CATSUP
Columbia,  pints.............
...2 00
Columbia, 4  pints..........
...1  25
CHEESE
Acme......................... 
@14
Amboy.....................  
@14
E lsie......................... 
@15
Emblem.................... 
@14
@1454
Hem........................... 
Gold Medal............... 
@134
Id eal.......................  
@14
Jersey.......................  
@14
Biverside.................. 
@14
Erick......................... 
@12
Edam........................  
@70
Leiden.....................  
@17
Limburger................  
@13
Pineapple................   50  @75
Sap  Sago................. 
@17
CHICORY

@4
@8
8@22
85
1  25

S traw berries

R aspberries

SO
90
1  35
95

R ed........................  

CHOCOLATÉ 

Walter Baker & Co.’s.

?

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........10® 35 00
A. B. Ballard & Co... .35® 175  00 
E. M. Schwarz & Co..  35®110 00
San Telmo...................35®  70 00
Havana Cigar Co........18® 35 00
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
Hemmeter Cigar Co 
.35® 70 00 
G. J. JohnsonCigarCo.35@ 70 00
Maurice .Sanborn  ___ 50®175  00
Bock & Co.................... 65fft300  00
Manuel  Garcia........... 80®375 00
Neuva Mundo..............85@175  00
Henry Clay...................85®550  00
La Carolina..................96@200 00

C O FFEE
R oasted

_ 

*NKH GRADE

Coffees

Special  Combination...........   20
French  Breakfast.................  25
Lenox.....................................  30
V ienna...................................  35
Private Estate.......................   38
Supreme.................................  40
Less 3354  per  cent,  delivered. 

R io

F a ir........................................  9
Good......................................   10
P rim e............................... 
 
12
Golden...................................  13
Peaberry.............................. 
14

Santos

F a ir........................................  14
Good..................................      15
P rim e....................................    ig
Peaberry.................................... 18

M aracaibo

P rim e.................... 
15
Milled.........................................X7
J a v a

Interior..................................   26
Private  Growth................        30
Mandehling..........................    35

M ocha

Above quotations are for either 
Tradesman, Superior, Economic 
or  Universal  grades.  Where
1.000 books are ordered at a time 
customer receiv es  s p e c ia lly  
printed  cover  without  extra 
charge.

C redit  Checks 

Coupon  Pass  B ooks 
denomination from $10 down.

Can be made to represent any 
50  books.........................  1  50
100  books.........................  2  50
500  books...................         11  50
1.000  books.........................  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
CREAM   TARTAR 
5 and  10 lb. wooden  boxes. 
30 
Bulk in sacks........................... ^29
D R IE D   FRUITS—D om estic 
Sundried 
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes.7®  74 

A pples
....................... @ 64

C alifornia  F ru its

Apricots......................   @15
Blackberries...............
Nectarines..................
Peaches.................
Pears.....................’__
Pitted Cherries.  ...!.”
Prunnelles..................
Raspberries............"

@11

C alifornia P ru n es 

100-120 25 lb. boxes....
90-100 25 lb. boxes ....
80 - 90 25 lb. boxes .
70-80 25 lb. boxes ...!
60 - 70 25 lb. boxes__
50 - 60 25 lb. boxes__
40 - 50 25 lb. boxes ...
30 - 40 25 lb. boxes ....

@ 4 
@ 44 
@ 5 
@ 54 ® 6 
@ 74 
@ 8

54 cent less in 50 lb. cases 

R aisins

]
5

]
]

London Layers 2 Crown. 
London Layers 3 Crown.
Cluster 4 Crown.............  
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown 
L. M., Seeded, choice ... 
L. M., Seeded, fancy__  
D R IE D   FR U IT S 

C itron
Leghorn.....................
Corsican.....................
C u rran ts

Patras, cases.......................
Cleaned, b u lk ................. '
Cleaned,  packages.............

P eel

-F oreign

Imitation..............................  22
Arabian......................................28

PA CK A G E  CO FFEE. 

Citron American 19 lb. bx.. 
Lemon American 10 lb. bx 
Orange American 10 lb. bx.

R aisins

Sultana 1 Crown..................
Sultana 2 Crown.................
Sultana 3 Crown...............
Sultana 4 Crown..................
Sultana 5 Crown..................
Sultana 6 Crown..................
•• •••• ••

Below  are  given  New  York 
prices  on  package  coffees,  to 
which the wholesale dealer adds 
the local freight from New York 
to buyers shipping point, giving 
buyer credit on the  invoice  for 
the  amount of  freight  he  pay
from  the  market  in  which  he  G itana package'.......
liner nnmt 
purchases to his shipping point. 
These prices are  further  sub-
ject  to  manufacturer’s  regul... 
rebate.
Arbuckle................. 
12 00
Jersey............................I.” 12 00
M cL aughlin’s XXXX 
McLaughlin's  XXXX  sold  to 
retailers  only.  Mail  all  orders 
direct  to  W.  F.  McLanghlin  & 
Co., Chicago.

Dried Lima...........................   55^
Medium Hand  Picked  2 15@2  25
Brown Holland.....................

FARINACEOUS  GOODS

C ereals

B eans

0 

* 

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
Postuni Cereal, large........  2  25

4 00 
6  00 
9 00

..2  50 
..2 05

90 
2 65
5® 1  30 
5@  85

BROOMS

Small 3 doz.........................
Large, 2 doz.....................
Arctjc, 4 oz, per gross......
Arctic, 8 oz, per gross......
Arctic, pints, per  gross... 
No. 1 Carpet.......................
No. 2 Carpet.......................
No. 3 Carpet.......................
No. 4 Carpet.......................
Parlor  Gem.......................
Common Whisk............  .
Fancy  Whisk......................
Warehouse.................
CANDLES
Electric Light, 8s.............
Electric Light, 16s__
Paraffine, 6s.......................
Paraffine, 12s ....................
Wlcking..................
A pples
3 lb. Standards  .......
Gallons, standards..
B eans
Baked  .......................
Bed  Kidney.............
S tring....................
W ax.........................
B lackberries
Standards 
...............
B lueberries
Standard.....................
C herries
Bed  Standards............
W hite...........................
Clams.
Little Neck.  1 lb......

CANNED  GOODS 

E x tra ct

CIGARS

German  Sweet.....................   23
Premium.............................."  35
Breakfast Cocoa.............. 
46
CLOTHES  LINES
Cotton, 40 ft.  per doz............1  00
Cotton, 50 ft.  per doz............ 1  20
Cotton, 60 ft.  per doz..........  1  40
Cotton, 70 ft.  per doz............ 1  60
Cotton, 80 ft.  per doz............1  80
Jute, 60 ft. per doz...............  80
Jute, 72 ft. per doz.......... 
95
The Bradley Cigar Co.’s  Brands
A dvance................................. $35 00
B radley...................................  35 00
Clear Havana  Puffs..........  22  00
“ S ’ H -B .” ............................  55 00
w . B. B.” ..............................  55 00
H. & P. Drug Co.’s brands.
Fortune  Teller.......................  35 00
Our Manager..........................   35 00
„  
4 doz in case.
Quintette.................................   35 00
Gail Borden Eagle . 
6  75
G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand.
crown........................................ 25
Datey .......................................5 75
Champion....................... 
4  50
Magnolia............... 
4 or
 
Challenge.................. .'. ..'I i.4 00
Dime........................................

Valley City 4   gross............ 
75
Felix 4  gross................  
1  15
Hummers foil 4 gross.......  85
Hummel’s tin 4 gross........ 1  43

COCOA  SHELLS
20 1b. bags.......................  
Less quantity..................  
Pound packages........ . ’. 

CONDENSED  H^ILK
_ 

24
3
4

_  

. 

[ 8. 0. W................................   35 00

COUPON  BOOKS 

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

F a rin a

241 lb. packages.................1  25
Bulk, per 100 Tbs....................3 00
36  2 lb. packages.................. 3 00

H ask ell’s W h eat Flakes

H om iny

Lauhoff Bros.  Flaking Mills, 

B arrels........................................2 50
Flake. 50 lb. drums.....................1 00
Rice Flakes, 3 doz pkg case  2  85 
F’laked Peas, 3 doz pkg case  2  85 
F’laked Beans, 3 doz pkg c’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

P e a rl  B arley

Common  ...............................
Chester.................................  2  50
Empire........................................ 3 00

Jen n in g s’

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

6 OZ.......
No.  8... 
No. 10... 
No. 2 T. 
No. 3 T. 
No. 4 T.
N o rth ro p   B rand 
Lem.
2 oz. Taper Panel....  75
" oz. Oval..................   75
3 oz. Taper Panel.... 1  35
4 oz. Taper Panel.... 1  60

.1 00 

Lemon 
....  75 
.1  40
.2  00 
.2  40 
4 00 
80 
1  25
1  50

Van. 
1  20 
1  20
2  00 
2 25

P errig o ’s

Van. 
doz.
XXX, 2 oz. obert__ 1  25
XXX, 4 oz. taper__ 2 25
XX, 2 oz. obert........1  00
No. 2,2 oz. o b ert 
  75
XXX D D ptchr, 6 oz 
XXX D D ptchr, 4 oz 
K. P. pitcher, 6 oz...

SALERATUS 

Packed 60 lbs. in box. 

Church s Arm and Hammer.3  15
Deland's......................... 
300
Dwight’s  Cow............  * 
3 15
Emblem................................'2  10
L - P ............................................. 3 00
Sodio.......................................    15
Wyandotte, 100  Sis......... 
3  00
Granulated,  bbls..................   so
Granulated, 100 lb. cases...  85
Lump, bbls........................... 
75
Lump, 145 lb. kegs............"  
80
D iam ond C rystal 

SAL  SODA

SALT

Com m on  G rades  ”

Table, cases, 24 3 lb. boxes.. 1  40 
Table, barrels, 1003 lb. bags.2  85 
Table, barrels, 40 7  lb. bags.2 50 
Butter, barrels, 280 lb. bulk.2  50 
Butter, barrels, 20141b.bags.2 60 
Butter, sacks, 28 lbs.... 
07
Butter, sacks, 56 lbs.............   62
100 3 lb. sacks.........................     15
60 5 lb. sacks............
............2 05
28 10 lb. sacks..........
............1  95
56 lb. sacks.............
.......... 
36
28 lb. sacks  ............
.........  20
W arsaw
56 lb. dairy in drill bags.......  30
28 lb. dairy in drill bags,... 
15
56 lb. dairy in linen sabks..
60
56 lb. dairy in linen sacks...  60
56 lb.  sacks............................   22
1  00
Granulated  Fine.............  
Medium Fine................. 
1  05
SALT  F ISH  

A shton
H ig g ii 
■ in linen
S olar  Rock
C om m on

Cod

Georges cured.............   @ 5
Georges  genuine........   @ 54
Georges selected........   @  53k
Strips or  bricks..........6  @  9
Pollock.........................   @ 34
Strips.............................. 
14
chunks..............................; ; ; ; -i5

H alib u t.

ilk
%

\f

H errin g

M ackerel

Holland white hoops,  bbl.  10 SO 
Holland white taoops54bbl.  6  75 
Holland white hoop,  keg.. 
78
Holland white hoop mchs. 
86
Norwegian.........................
Round 100 lbs.....................   3 60
Round 40 lbs.......................  1  75
Scaled...............................  
1614
Bloaters..............................   1  50
Mess 100 lbs........................  15 00
Mess  40 lbs........................  6  30
Mess  10 lbs........................  1  66
Mess  8 lbs........................  1  35
No. 1 100 lbs........................  13  26
NO. 1  40 lbs........................  5  60
No. 1  10 lbs........................  1  48
No. 1  8 lbs........................  1  20
No. 2 100 lbs........................  10  so
No. 2  40 lbs........................  4  50 I
No. 2  10 lbs........................  1  15
No. 2  8 lbs........................  1  00
No. 1 100 lbs........................
No. 1  40 lbs........................
No. 1  10 lbs........................
No. 1  8 lbs........................

T ro u t

W hitefish

SEEDS

SAUERKRAUT

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

No. 1  No. 2  Fam
2 76
1  40
43
37
Barrels 
................................6 00
Half barrels...........................2 75
Anise 
...................................  9
Canary, Smyrna....................  *
C araw ay...............................   8
Cardamon,  Malabar.............60
Celery.....................................10
Hemp, Russian........................454
Mixed Bird... .......................   4V4
Mustard, white.....................   5
Poppy.....................................10
R ap e......................................  4Vi
Cuttle Bone............................15
Scotch, in bladders...............  37
Maccaboy, In jars.................  35
French Rappee, in  jars.......  43

SNUFF

SOAP

JA X O N

.3 00 
.2  95 
.2  90

Single box......................
5 box lots, delivered...
10 box lots, delivered...

JUS.  8  KIRK 8  CO ’8 BRANDS.

American Family, wrp’d... .2 66
Dome.......................................2 75
Cabinet.................................... 2 20
Savon....................................... 2 50
White  Russian....................... 2 35
White Cloud, laundry........... 6 25
White Cloud, toilet................3 50
Dusky Diamond, 50 6 oz........2 10
Dusky Diamond, 50 8 oz........3 00
Blue India, 100 % lb .............. 3 oo
Kirkoline................................3 50
Eos.......................................... 2 80

10012 oz bars..

S I L V E R

Single box..............................2 95
Five boxes, delivered..........2  90

Scouring
Sapolio, kitchen, 3  doz 
Sapolio, hand, 3 doz...
Boxes.....................................   5V4
Kegs, English......................... 4M

...2 40 
...2  40

SODA

SPICES 

W hole Spices

AllspiCt............................... 
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,  Singagore, white. 
Pepper, shot.......................  
P u re  G round in  B u lk
Allspice............................... 
Cassia, Batavia..................  
Cassia, Saigon.................... 
Cloves, Zanzibar................  
Ginger,  African................. 
Ginger, Cochin..................  
Ginger,  Jam aica............... 
Mace.................................... 
Mustard.............................. 
Pepper, Singapore, black. 
Pepper, Singapore, white. 
Pepper, Cayenne............... 
Sage..................................... 

G
12
25
38
55
15
13
85
55
46
  40
16
23
16
15
28
48
16
15
18
25
65
18
17
25
20
16

STOVE  PO LISH

SYRUPS

Corn

Barrels............................
Half bbls.......................
1 doz. 1 gallon cans.......
1 doz. 54 gallon cans
2 doz. 14 gallon cans
P u re   Cane
F a ir...............................
Good..............................
Choice..........................

STARCH

3  15 
.1  85 
.1  00
.  16 
.  20 
.  25

SUGAR

D iam ond

Com m on Corn

C om m on Gloss

K ingsford’s  Corn
40 l-lb. packages................
6VÍ
20 l-lb. packages................
K lngsford’s Silver Gloss
654
40 l-lb. packages................
7
6 lb. boxes.........................
5 00 
64 10c packages..................
128 5c packages..................
5  00 
5 00
30 10c and 64 5c packages..
4%
201-lb.  packages............... 
40 l-lb.  packages............... 
454
l-lb. packages.................... 
4%
4Vi
3-lb. packages.................... 
6-lb. packages.................... 
5
40 and 50-lb. boxes............. 
314
Barrels...............................  
314
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 for the  weight  of  the 
barrel.
Domino...............................  5 45
Cut  Loaf..............................  6 60
I Crushed..............................  5 00
j Cubes..................................   5 35
Powdered...........................  5 30
Coarse  Powdered 
..........  5 30
XXXX  Powdered.............   5  35
Standard  Granulated.......  5  20
Fine Granulated.................  5 20
Coarse  Granulated............  5 35
Extra Fine Granulated....  5  35
Conf.  Granulated..............  5 45
2 lb. cartons Fine  G ran...  5 30
2 lb. bags Fine  G ran........   5  30
5 lb. cartons Fine  G ran...  5  30
5 lb. bags Fine  G ran........   5  30
Mould A ..............................  5  45
Diamond  A.........................  5 20
Confectioner’s  A ...............  5 00
No.  1, Columbia  A...........   4  85
No.  2, Windsor A.............  4  85
No.  3, Ridgewood A........   4  85
No.  4, Phoenix  A .............  480
No.  5, Empire A ...............  4 76
No.  6...................................  4  70
No.  7...................................  4  66
No.  8...................................  4 60
No.  9...................................  4  55
No. 10...................................  4 50
No. 11...................................  4  45
NO. 12...................................  4  40
NO. 13..................................   4  40
No. 14.................................  
4 40
No. 15...................................  4  40
No. 16...................................  4 40

TA B LE  SAUCES
LEA & 
PERRINS’ 
SAUCE

The Original and 
Genuine 
Worcestershire.

Lea & Perrin’s, large........  3 75
Lea & Perrin’s,  small.......  2  50
Halford, large....................  3 75
Halford, small....................  2  25
Salad Dressing, large.......  4  55
Salad Dressing, small.......  2  75
Malt White Wine, 40 grain..  7V4 
Malt White Wine, 80 grain. . 11
Pure Cider, Red Star..........12
Pure Cider, Robinson........12
Pure Cider,  Silver.............. ll
W ASHING  PO W D ER

VIN EG A R

W IC K IN G

Rub-No-More, 100 12 o z .......3 50
No. 0,  per gross.....................20
No. l,  per gross.....................25
No. 2,  per gross.....................35
No. 3,  per gross.....................56

W OODENW ARE 

B askets

Bushels.................................. 1
Bushels, wide  band...............l 10
M arket..................................   30
Willow Clothes,  large........... 7 00
Willow Clothes, medium...  6  50
Willow Clothes,  small...........5 50
No. 1 Oval, 250 in crate........ 1  80
No. 2 Oval, 250 in crate........ 2
No. 3 Oval, 250 in crate........ 2 20
No. 5 Oval, 250 in crate........2 60

B u tte r  P lates

.5 25 
.4  25 
.9  45

W ash  B oards

Trojan spring........................ 9 00
Eclipse patent spring...........9 00
No 1 common......................... 8 00
No. 2 patent brush holder .  9 00
12  th. cotton rone heads 
. .  1 26
P ails
2- 
hoop Standard......1 50
hoop Standard......1 70
3- 
2- wire,  Cable...............................l 60
3- 
wire,  Cable...........1 85
Cedar, all red, brass  bound . 1  26
Paper,  Eureka........
.2  40
Fibre.........................
00
20-inch. Standard. No. 1... 
18-inch, Standard.  No. 2... 
16-inch, Standard. No. 3...
20-inch,  Dowell,  No. 1.......
18-inch, Dowell,  No. 2.......
16-inch.  Dowell,  No. 3.......
No. 1  Fibre.........................
No. 2 Fibre.........................
No. 3 Fibre.........................
Bronze Globe.....................
D ewey...............................
Double Acme.....................
Single Acme.......................
Double  Peerless................
Single  Peerless..................
Northern Q ueen..............
Double Duplex..................
Good Luck .........................
Universal..........................
11 in. B utter.......................
13 in. Butter.......................
15 in. Butter......................
17 in. Butter......................
19 in. Butter......................
Assorted 13-15-17  ............
Assorted  15-17-19  ............
YEAST  CA KE
Yeast Foam, 154  doz.......
Yeast Foam, 3  doz........
Yeast Cream, 3 doz..........
Magic Yeast 5c, 3 doz----
Sunlight Yeast, 3 doz.......
Warner’s Safe, 3 doz.......
Provisions
B arreled  P ork

W ood  Bowls

.2  50 
.3 00

3 00 
2 75

Sm oked  Meats

D ry  Salt  M eats

L ards—In Tierces

@11  oo 
Mess..........................
@12  75 
B ack.......................
@12  50 
Clear back.................
Short cu t..................
@12  00 
@15 00 
P ig ............................
Bean..........................
@10  00 
@12  25
Fam ily.....................
6%
Bellies.......................
6V4
Briskets...................
65i
Extra shorts.............
Hams, 12lb. average.  @11*4 
@ 11
Hams, 141b. average. 
@ 10?4
Hams, 16lb. average. 
@ 10V4
Hams, 20 lb. average. 
Ham dried  beef....... 
@  14
@  7Vi
Shoulders (N.Y.cut) 
Bacon, clear.............   8Ví@  9V4
California hams....... 
&  7%
Boneless  hams........ 
@  9V4
Boiled  Hams..........  
@15
@ 11 Vi
Picnic  Boiled Hams 
©  854
lierliu  Hams 
Compound................  
6V4
6%
Kettle........................ 
Vegetóle................
»
56 lb. Tubs.. advance 
80 lb. Tubs.. advance 
V»
50 lb. Tins... advance 
H
20 lb.  Pails, .advance 
%
advance
5 lb.  Pails., ad vanee
3 lb. Pails.. advance
Saunage*
Bologna....................
Liver.........................
Frankfort................
P o rk ........................
Blood .........................
Tongue.....................
Headcheese..............
Beef
Extra Mess...............
Boneless....................
R um p.......................
Kits, 15  lbs...............
V4 bbls., 40 lbs..........
Vi bbls., 80 lbs..........
T ripe
Kits, 15  lbs...............
Vi bbls., 40  lbs..........
Vi bbls., 80 lbs— . ..
Casings
P o rk .........................
Beef  rounds.............
Beef  middles...........
Sheep........................
B u tterin e
Rolls, dairy...............
Solid, dairy...............
Rolls, creamery.......
Solid,  creamery.......
Corned beef, 2 lb —  
Corned beef, 14 lb...
Roast beef, 2 lb........
Potted ham,  Vis.......
Potted ham.  Vis.......
Deviled ham,  Vis —  
Deviled ham,  Vis —  
Potted tongue,  V4S.. 
Potted tongue.  Vis..
Oils
B arrels

Canned  M eats 

•
1
554
6
7V4
754
654
9
6

P igs’  F eet

10 00
11  50

70
1  25
2  25

13Vi
13
19
18Vi
2  70 
19  50 
2  70 
56 
1  00 
55 
1  00 
55 
1  00

Eocene.........................  @43V4
Perfection....................  @f2
XXX W.W. Mich. Hdlt  @12
W. W. M ichigan........   @1154
Diamond  White..........  @D
D., S.  Gas....................  @12V<
Deo. Naphtha..............  @l2Va
Cylinder............; ......... 29  @34
Black, winter...............  @10X

No. 4,3 doz. In case, gross.  4 50 | 
No. 6,3 doz. In oase, gross.  7  20  Boxes, gross boxes...............  60

C lothes  P ins

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN
Grains and Feedstuffsj

Mop  Sticks

23

Candies
indy
S tic k   Ci
I Standard..........  .
... 
Standard  H.  H. 
... 
Standard  Twist. 
...  7Vi® 8
Cut  Loaf.............
Jumbo, 32 lb.............
Extra H. H ..............
Boston Cream..........
Beet Root..................

bbls.  pails 
7  @ 7V4 
7  @ 7Vi 
@ 8 Vi
cases 
@  6 Vi 
8 Vi 
@10 
@ 7

M ixed Candy

F ancy—In  B ulk 

©  6 
@  6Vi * 
@  7 
@ 8 
@  7 Vi 
@  8 Vi
@ 7 Vi 
@. 8 Vi 
© 8 Vi 
@ 8 Vi 
@  9 
@  8 Vi
@14 
@  8 Vi 
@12

Grocers.....................
Competition.............
Special......................
Conserve...................
R oyal.......................
Ribbon......................
Broken.....................
Cut Loaf....................
English  Rock...........
Kindergarten..........
French Cream..........
Dandy  Pan...............
Hand  Made  Cream
m ixed....................
Nobby.......................
Crystal Cream m ix..
San Bias Goodies....
@11 
@ 9 
Lozenges, p lain.......
@ 9 
Lozenges, printed...
Choc. Drops.............
@11 
Eclipse <Chocolates... 
@13 
@13
Choc.  Monumentals.
<fo  5
Gum  Drops..............
Moss  Drops.............
©  8V4
@  9
Lemon Sours............
Imperials..................
@  9V4
Hat. Cream Bonbons
35 lb. pails.............
@11
Molasses  Chews,  15
@13
lb. palls..................
@1054
Jelly  Date  Squares.
....  14
Iced  Marshmellows..
Golden Waffles........
@ii
Fancy—In 5 lb. Boxes
@50
Lemon  Sours.........
@60
Peppermint Drops..
@65
('hbcoiate  I u ops__
@75
H. M. Choc.  Drops..
H. M. Choc.  I.t.  and
@90
Dk. No. 12.............
<&30
Gum  Drops...............
@76
Licorice  Drops........
@50
A. B. Licorice Drops
@55
Lozeuges.  plain.......
@55
Lozenges, printed...
(^55
Imperials..................
@50
Mottoes....................
@56
(Team  Bar...............
(i$55
Molasses Bar...........
Hand  Made Creams. 80  (¿90
(Team  Buttons, Pep.
@65
and  Wlnt..............
@60
String  Rock.............
Burnt  Almonds.......) 25  @
@56
Wlntergreen Berries
C aram els
No. 1 wrapped.  3  lb.
boxes.....................
Penny Goods............
Fruits
Orange*
©3 00
Fancy  Navels
@2  90
Extra ( holce...........
Seedlings..................
@
Fancy  Mexicans  —
Jam aicas..................
©
■ .«‘liions
@3  50
Strictly choice 360s..
©3  25
strictly choice 300s..
(a 3  50
Fancy 300s................
@3  76
Ex. F ancy  300s........
@3 75
Extra Fancy 360s
Italiana*
Medium bunches__   1 50@1  75
Large  bunches........  1 75®2  25

(e&ÖO
55@60

Foreign  D ried  F ruits

Fresh  Meats

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

Dressed.......
Loins...........
Boston  Butts 
Shoulders... 
Leaf  Lard...

Carcass........
Spring  Lambì

5?j@ 8
6  @   6Vi
7  @ 9 
9  @14
8  @14 
6 Vi®  7 
6  ©  6 Vi 
4  @  5

© O' 
@ 8 
© 7 
@ 7
@ n

@  8 
© 10

Crackers

The  National  Biscuit  Co. 

quotes as follow's :

B u tte r

Soda

O yster

Seym our.....................
New York.................. .
Family........................
Salted.........................
Wolverine..................
Soda  XXX.................
Soda.  City..................
Long Island  Wafers..
Zephyrette.................
Faust...........................
Farina.........................
Extra  Farina 
..........
Saltine  W afer............
Sweet  Goods—!
Animals.....................
Assorted  Cake..........
Bell- Rose..................
Bent's  W ater...........
Buttercups...
Cinnamon Bar...........
Cotfee Cake,  Iced 
Coffee Cake, Jav a ...
Cocoanut Taffy........
Cracknells..............
Creams, Iced...........
Cream Crisp.............
Crystal Creams........
Cubans.....................
Currant  Fruit..........
Frosted  Honey........
Frosted Cream........
Ginger Gems, lg. or  i 
Ginger Snaps,. 
io
ator  ..........................  
Gladiaf
Grandma Cakes................. 
9
8
Graham Crackers.............. 
Graham  Wafers.................  10
Honey Fingers.................. 
I2V
Im perials............................ 
8
Jumbles,  Honey..........
Lady Fingers...............
Lemon  Wafers...........
Marshmallow.............
Marshmallow Walnuts
Mixed  Picnic...............
Milk Biscuit................
Molasses  Cake..................  
8
Molasses B ar.....................  
9
Moss Jelly  Bar..................   12
Newton...............................   12
Oatmeal Crackers.
10
Oatmeal Wafers........
Orange Crisp.............
Orange  Gem.............
Penny Cake................
Idiot Bread, XXX....
Pretzels, hand  made.
Bears’  Lunch.............
Sugar Cake.................
Sugar Cream, X X X ..
Migar » q u art» ...........
Tutti  F rutti.................
Vanilla Wafers............
Vienna Crimp.............

1*2 ü
16V4
14
8

@
@
@ 554
@10
@ 6
@  5V4
Cat  554
@ 5

F ig s
@10
Californias,  Fancy
@10
Cal. pkg.  io II). boxes
Extra  Choice.  10  lb.
@13
boxes, new Smprna
Fancy, 12 lb. boxes new @14
Imperial Mikados, 18
lb. boxes................
Pulled, 6 lb. boxes...
Naturals, in bags....
Dates
Fards in 10 lb. boxes
Fards in 60 lb. cases.
Persians,  P.  H. V ...
lb.  cases, new.......
Salrs, 60 lb. cases....
Nuts
Almonds, Tarragona
Almonds,  Ivtca.......
Almonds, California,
soft shelled...........
Brazils, new.............
Filberts....................
Walnuts, Grenobles. 
Walnuts, soft shelled 
California No. 1... 
Table Nuts,  fancy... 
Table  Nuts,  choice..
Pecans,  Med...........
Pecans, Ex. Large...
Pecans, Jumbos......
Hickory Nuts per bu.
Ohio,  new— •.......
Cocoanuts, full sacks 
Chestnuts, per  bu ...
P ean u ts 
Fancy, H. F., Suns.. 
Fancy,  11.  P.,  Flags
Roasted................
Choice, H. P., Extras 
Choice, H. P„ Extras 
Roasted.................

@17 Vi 
@
@15 V4 
@ 7 Vi 
@13 
@15
@13 
@11Vi 
@11 
@10 
@12V4

@1  71
@
@
@
@ 6
@

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

F resh   F ish

Per lb.
White fish.................... @ 9V4
Trout............................ @ 8i4
Black  Bass.................. 8@ 11
Halibut........................ @ 15
Cisc«)es or H erring... @ 5
Bluefish....................... © h
Live  Lobster............... @ 28
(m 30
Boiled  Lobster...........
Cod............................... @ 11
Haddock..................... @ 9
No. 1  Pickerel............. @
Pike.............................. <& 7 Vi
Perch........................... @ 5
Smoked  W hite........... @ 8
Red  Snapper............... @ 10
14
Col River  Salmon....... u
Mackerel..................... @ 18
O ysters In Cans.
F. H.  Counts............
F. J. D. Selects........
Selects......................
F. J. D.  Standards..
Anchors....................
Standards.................
Favorite....................
B ulk.
F. H. Counts...................
Extra Selects..................
Selects..............................
Anchor  Standards..........
Standards.......................
Shell Goods.
Clams, per 100.............  
1  0®
Oysters, per 100..».... 1 00@l  25

1  35 
1  20 
1  10

16
gal.

W heat

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

W in ter  W heat  F lo u r 

68

Local Brands

Patents...............................  4  20
Second  Patent....................  3 70
Straight...............................  3 50
C lear...................................  3 00
Graham ..............................  3  50
Buckwheat.........................  6  00
Rye......................................  3 25
Subject  to  usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour in bbls., 25c per  bbl. ad­
ditional.
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand
3 50 
Diamond
....  3 50 
Diamond Vas__
...  3  50 
Diamond  'As.... 
Brand 
Worden Groe«
....  3 60 
Quaker ‘is ........
....  3 60 
Quaker Vas........
__   3  60
Quaker Vis........

Spring  W heat  F lo u r 

Clark-Jewell-Wells  Co.’s  Brand
Plllsbury’s  Best Vis..........  4  25
Pillsbury’s  Best Vas..........  4  16
Plllsbury’s  Best Vis..........  4  05
Pillsbury’s Best Vis paper.  4  05 
Pillsbury’s Best Vas paper.  4  05 
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand

Olney & Judson’s Brand

Worden Grocer  Co.’s Brand

Duluth  Imperial  'is .........   4
Duluth  Imperial *as.........   4
Duluth  Imperial Vis.........   4
Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s Brand
Gold Medal Vis..................  4  10
Gold Medal Vis..................  4  00
Gold Medal Vis..................  3  90
Parisian  Vis.......................   4  10
Parisian  V4s.......................   4  00
Parisian  Vis.......................   3  90
Ceresota Vis.......................   4  26
Ceresota Vis.......................   4  16
Ceresota Vis.......................   4  05
Laurel  Vis..........................   4  26
Laurel  Vas...........................  4  16
Laurel  Vis...........................  4  06
Bolted.................................  1  90
Granulated.........................  2  10
St. Car Feed, screened —   16 00
No. 1 Corn and  Oats........  15  50
Unbolted Corn  Meal........  14  50
Winter Wheat Bran..........  14 00
Winter Wheat  Middlings.  15 00 
Screenings.........................  14  00
Corn, car  lots...............
Less than «sir lots.........
Car  lots..........................
Car lots, clipped............
Less than car lots.........
No. 1 Timothy car  lots. 
No. I Timothy ton  lots.

Feed  and  M illstuffs 

M eal

Oats

H ay

12  00 
13 00

36

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 
Calfskins,cured No. 1 
Calf skins,cured No. 2 
P elts
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 
@  954 
@  854 
@ 10 
@ 8V4 
@11 
@ 9V4
60@1  25
@ 4 
@ 3
22@24
26@28
18@20
20@22
10@  75 
5@  25 
50@3 50 
10@  75 
@5 00 
3@  12 
20@2  00 
10@1  00 
15@1  40

24

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

level  of  the 

tirely,  else  you  might  get  the  reputation 
of  being  a  high-priced  man.  To  pre 
vent  the  possibility  of  getting  a  reputa 
tion  for  high  prices,  keep a well assorted 
stock  of  “ cheap  goods”  
in  the  back 
ground  and  sell  them  cheaper  than  the 
cheapest  when  necessary,  relying  on  the 
better  grades  for  a  reasonable  profit. 
A  merchant  should  always  first  offer  the 
best  of  any  article  called  for  and  should 
that  prove  too  expensive,  then  show  the 
next  best  and  so  on  down,  until  he 
reaches  the 
customer's 
purse.  This  course  will  often  result  in 
the  sale  of  a  better  article  than  the  pur­
chaser  originally 
intended.  There  are 
exceptions,  as  when  the  customer  knows 
just  what  he  wants  and  asks  for  it,  in 
which  case 
if  you  are  busy  it  is  better 
not  to  detain  him,  but  to  give  him 
what  he  asks  for.
Anrther  very 
important  assistant  in 
ncreasing  your  business  is  good  adver­
tising.  Your  local  papers  are,  perhaps, 
the  best  medium  through  which  to  reach 
the  trade;  engage  a  good  space  and 
change  your  advertisements  regularly, 
shall  not  attempt  to  tell  you  how  to 
dvertise,  as  the  trade  papers  are  filled 
with  good  suggestions  regarding  it. 
I 
know  it  pays,  and  the  better the  adver­
tising,  the  better  it  pays.

Hardware  Merchants,  Attention!

Never  before  has 
there  been 
such  a  demand  for  a  cheap  bag 
holder  and  at  the  price  the 
“ Morton”  is  sold  at  no  farmer 
can  afford  to  be  without  one  or  two.  Most 
convenient and desirable holder made.  Hooks 
on  the  side  of  bin  or  on  a  common  nail  or 
screw driven  in  a  post  or  side  of wall.  Al­
ways  ready.  Thousands  in  use.  Order  now 
and  be  in  on  the  ground  floor.  Prices  to 
dealers: 
1  doz.,  $2;  2  doz.,  $3.75;  3  doz., 
$5-25>  net  cash.  Retail at  40 cents  each. 
STAR MANUFACTURING CO., Kalamazoo, Mich.

CAR  S T O V E S

Hardware
To  Increase  th e   V olum e 

B usiness.

i>f  You

To 

taki 

increase  your  business,  you  must 
sell  more  goods.  How  many  merchants 
are  contented  to  drift  along, 
only  the  business  that  comes  to  them 
without  making  an  effort  to  increase 
their  trade?  The  merchant  who  wou 
increase  his  business  should  everlast 
ingly  study  the  needs  of  the  publi 
keeping  himself  well  informed  in regard 
to  all  the  new  and  practical  articles  be 
ing 
keeping 
will  prove  good  sellers  while  they 
new  to  the  trade.

in  view  any  novelties  which 

the  market; 

introduced 

in 

He  must  advertise  and  display  these 
in  a  judicious  manner  in  order  to  find 
purchasers  for  them ;  for  many  articles 
in  the  hardware  line  can  be  sold  to  peo 
pie  that  take  a 
fancy  to  them,  whc 
would  otherwise  get  along  very  well 
without  them.  There  are 
line  as  well  as  in  others  and  less 
our 
money 
in  staple  goods;  but  here  good 
judgment should  be exercised in buying 
small  sample 
lots  should  first  be  pro 
cured  to  see  how  they  will  take  with  the 
trade.  Should  they  prove  poor  sellers 
they  can  more  easily  be  closed  out  and 
with  very  little  loss.

luxuries 

let  a  customer 

Keep  a  varied  and  good  assortment 
don’t 
leave  your  store 
with  unsupplied  wants— if  you  can  hel[ 
it.  To  be  able  to  supply  almost  every 
thing  in  demand  will  materially  assist 
in  increasing  your  business. 
It  is  pos 
sible  to  do  this  without  filling  your  store 
with  dead  stock  and  you  can not  sell 
goods  unless  you  have  them.  You  can 
close  out  unsalable  goods  by  specia 
sales 
in  a  way  that  may  be  advanta 
geous.

Keep  your  store  attractive,  so  that 
your customers  will  want  to  come  again 
— people  are  not  afraid  to  enter  a  nice 
looking  store  provided  the  right  kind  of 
a  man  is  in  it.

Employ  good  salesmen  and  see  that 
each  customer  is  pleased  as  he goes  out.
A   good  salesman  will  earn  his  salary for 
himself  and  a  dividend  for  his  employ­
is  worth  more  to  you  than  four 
er;  he 
four  times  their  salary. 
poor  clerks  at 
He  will  materially  assist  in 
increasing 
your  business.

A   good  way  to  increase  the  cash  re­
ceipts  is  to  educate  the  trade  to  a  better 
class  of  goods. 
Push  and  advertise 
good  goods ;  quality is  remembered  long 
after  price 
is  forgotten  and  people  are 
proud  possessors  of  things  worth  hav­
ing.  Selling  good  goods  gives  a  man 
a  good  business  reputation  and  helps  to 
establish  a  high  class  trade.  While there 
will  always  be  a  demand  for  a  cheap 
grade  of  goods,  they  are  usually  unsat­
isfactory  and  competition  on  them  is 
keen.  They  pay  a  smaller  percentage  of 
profit,  and  cost  a  greater  percentage  to 
handle,  unless  the  volume  of  sales  is 
large. 
Is  the  merchant  benefited  by 
selling  the  cheapest  grades  of  goods? 
The  customer  usually  condemns  them 
after  he  has  bought  them  and  frequently 
returns  them  in  an  unsalable  condition, 
with  a  demand  that  they  be  exchanged 
or the  money  refunded.  The  manufac­
turer  disdains  to  take  them  back,  hav­
ing  sold  them  on  the  strength  of  a  low 
price.  The  dealer  must  either  take  the 
stuff  back  and  stand  the  loss  or lose  a 
customer.

How  many 

‘ cheap stores’ ’ have estab­
lished  a  permanent  and  profitable  busi­
ness  in  your  own  town?  Yet  you  must 
not  discard  cheap  grades  of  goods  en­

There 

is  much  more  which  might  be 
said  upon  the  subject,  but  a  whole  ser­
mon  on  selling  goods  may  be  found-  in 
these  few  words,  “ Practice  the  Golden 
Rule  in  your  business  dealings  with 
others.”  
If  you  do  this  and  have  a 
good  location,  proper  ability,  sufficient 
capital  and  a  good  character,  you  can 
not  fail  to  increase  your business.

H.  F.  Schlegelmilch.

O il  on  Files.

All 

files  when  they  leave  the  manu 
factory  are  covered  with  oil  to  prevent 
them 
from  rusting.  While  this  is  not 
objectionable 
for  many  uses  to  which 
the  file  is  put,  there  are  cases  where  the 
oil  should  be  thoroughly  removed,  as 
when  the  file  is  to  be  used  for finishing 
large  cast 
iron  surfaces  of  a  glassy  na­
ture.  The  principal  difficulty  in  such 
work  is  to  make  the  file  “ bite”   <?r  keep 
sufficiently  under  the  surface  to  prevent 
glazing. 
If  the  oil  is  not  removed  the 
action  not  only  hardens  or  burnishes  the 
surface  of  the  work, but dulls the extreme 
points  of  the  file  teeth, 
thus  working 
against  the  desired  end  in  both  direc­
tions.

Oil  may,  however,  be  used  to  good 
advantage  on  new  files  which  are  put 
immediately  to  work upon narrow fibrous 
metals  of  harder nature. 
In  such  cases 
s  not  uncommon  among  good  work­
men  to  fill  the  teeth  with  mixed  oil  and 
chalk.
Oil 

is  also  useful  on  fine  files  in  the 
finishing  of  wrought  iron  or  steel,  as  by 
its  use  the  teeth  will  not  penetrate  to 
the.same  degree  and  the  disposition  to 
pin  and  scratch  the  work  is material­
less  than  when  the  file  is  used  dry.

C heap  M ethod  o f H ard en in g   Steel.
A   company  has  been  organized  with 
Thomas  A.  Edison  at  its  head  to  treat 
steel  by  a  new  process  and  it  is  claimed 
greater 
that  the  product  will  have 
im­
strength  and  elasticity  than  that 
parted  by  either  the  Harvey  or 
the 
i n  a  recent  interview 
Krupp  proec^. 

large 

r.  Edison  sa id :
‘ I  have  spent  more  time  on  this  in­
vention  than  any  other.  Actual  experi­
ments that  have  been  carried  on In  most 
of  the 
iron  plants  of  the  country 
show  that  the  tensile  strength  of  iron 
and  steel  has  been  greatly  increased  bv 
our system.  We  raise  the  standard  of 
steel  above  its  original  state  by  adding 
to  its  tensile  strength  about  5  per  cent 
and  to  its  elastic  limit  30  per  cent,  and 
decrease  the  expansion  some  15  per
CCni ”  ifS *uh° n n L,by  tbe  Physical  tests 
made  by  the  Bethlehem  Iron  Company
v  y
on  steel  we  treated  for  it. ”  

$ 2 .5 0   EA C H

|   All  complete  with  Pipe,  Elbow  and  Collar  only 
|  
«  Best made  stove  for  the  purpose  on  the  market.
| 
• 

FOSTER,  S T E V E N S   &   CO.,

QRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

•We
a f e

F i g h t
H e r e

Where  we  can  be  reached  by  tele­
phone, letter,  or  you  can  see  us  per­
sonally  should 
there  be  anything 
wrong with any

HARNESS

you buy of us.  Every  set  is  our  own 
make—we  guarantee  them,  and  you 
can guarantee them to your customers.

Write for New Price List.

BROWN  &   SEHLER, 
Grand  Rapids,  Mich

Our line of

WORLD

Bicycles for 1900

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

ARNOLD, SCHWINN & CO., 

Makers, Chicago, 111.

4 dams & Hart, Michigan Sales Agents. 
Orand Rapids, Mich.

Tradesman  Company 

Grand  Rapids.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

25

Hardware  Price  Current

Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire.

N ails

7  00
11  50 
7 75 
13 00

Steel nails, base...................................
Wire nails, base.................................. .
20 to 60 advance....................................
10 to 16 advance...................................
8 advance............................................
6 advance............................................
4 advance............................................
3 advance............................................
2 advance............................................
Fines advance.....................................
Casing 10 advance................................
Casing 8 advance.................................
Casing 6 advance.................................
Finish 10 advance................................
Finish 8 advance.................................
Finish 6 advance.................................
Barrel  \  advance................ ...............

Stories  Told  by  a  H ard w are  Salesm an.
In  1867,  when  I  “ made”   Northern 
Iowa  by  team,  I  used to  go to  many  very 
small  towns.  At  some  of  them  I  was 
the  only  hardware  man.  making 
the 
in  the  store  would  say 
town;  the  boys 
on  my  arrival,  “ Hello,  here’s  the  hard­
ware  m an.”  
I  remember  of  striking  a 
certain  town  on  a  holiday  (they  had  a 
church  holiday  there  in  those days  about 
once  a  week,  and  sometimes  oftener). 
When  I  reached  there,  I  saw  that  my 
like  an 
customer’s  store  was  crowded 
auction  room 
in  olden  times. 
I  could 
see  my  customer  in  the  rear  end  of  tht 
store,  but' couldn’t  get  to  him ;  couldn’t 
squeeze  through 
jabbering  and 
jostling  women  in  the  store,  who  wert 
doing  more  visiting  than  buying. 
1 
concluded,  however,  to rush  matters  all  1 
could,  so  I  walked  the  whole  length  of 
the  store  on  the  counters,  and  getting  at 
the  buyer,  told  him  I  must  see  him  and 
get  through  before  dinner. 
I  said, 
“ Some  of  your  customers  are  quite 
noisy.”   “ Y es,”   he  said,  “ some  of 
them  they  buy  for  five  cents  goods,  und 
they  make  for  ten  dollars  noise.”

the 

ish  dot?’

“ Shoe  blacking;  vot 

Well,  I  got  out  my  catalogue  and  or 
der  book  and  took  down  what  he  had  on 
his  want  book,  and  turning  over  my 
to  wringers.  He 
catalogue, 
I  came 
said:  “ For  what 
is  dot?”  
I  said 
“ For  wringing  the water out of clothes. ’ 
He  said,  pointing  out  of  the  window 
“ Dot’s  the  onliest  kind  of  wringers  da 
I  looked  out  and  saw  three 
haf  here.”  
or  four  women  standing 
in  the  creek 
wringing,  with their hands,  some  clothe; 
they  were  washing in the creek.  I  hadn’ 
any  wringers  of 
that  kind.  Next  we 
came  to  stove  polish  and  shoe  blacking 
He  ordered  one  dozen  stove  polish  and 
said: 
I  replied:  “ To  black  your  shoes.”   He 
said,  throwing  up  one  hand  and  shrug 
ging  his  shoulders:  “ Och! 
I  plack 
twice  my  shoes  in  seventeen  years, 
turned  over  my  catalogue  and  came  to 
“ How  much  you  throw 
carriage  bolts. 
off  on  de  polts?”  
“ The  discount  from 
the  list,”   I  said,  “ is  80  per  cent.”   He 
replied,  “ No,  dot  voodent  pay. 
I  puy 
in  Dubuque  for  70  per  cent,  und  dot  10 
freight. 
per 
Further  on  we  came 
to  hoes.  H 
thought  he  might  need  some  hoes 
* ‘ Send  me  a  quarter  of  a  dozen.' 
“ Socket  or  shank,”   said  I. 
“ Oh,  mi 
dem, ”   said  he.  Smiling  to  myself 
said,  “ Two  shank  and  one  socket,  or 
two  socket  and  one  shank?”   He looked 
perplexed  for  awhile,  and  after thinking 
it  all  over,  decided  that  he  had  better 
not  take  any  at  all.  After  that  I  didn 
suggest  any  options.

cent,  dot  makes  de 

“ No. 

“ Was  everything  all  right  on  the 

last 
order?”   said  1. 
I  ordered  one 
gross  canopies  (a  small  piece  of  tin  for 
putting  on  end  of  wash  basin  handles 
etc.),  and  they  sented  me  a  gross  of  can 
openers.  The  other  time  I  ordered  one 
hundred  bolts 
i ^ x X  und  they  sented 
me  i% x }4 ;  dey  voodent  go in Spillville, 
und  I  sented  them  back. ’ ’  I had to make 
everything  all  right  with  him  before 
leaving.

At  another  little  town  I  sold  a  bill  to 
an  old  Englishman— an  old  bachelor— 
old  Benny  Hustler  they  called  him.  He 
gave  me  an  order  for  about  $90  worth 
of  goods,  and  when  I  had  figured  up 
amount  of  same,  he  drew  an  old  stock­
ing  from  out  of  a  closet  and  paid  me 
in  advance  for the  goods.  While  I  was 
figuring  up  amount  of order,  he drew  out 
a 
little  tin  pan  from  under  his  work 
bench  and  set  it  with  its  contents  on  the 
stove  to  warm 
looked  like 
something  for greasing boots;  but  later  I

it  up. 

It 

eating 

it. 

I  was  walking 

For  heaven’s  sake,  who  is  moving 

w  him  dip  some bread  in  it  and  begin 
Turning  to  me  he  sa id : 
Ira  (their  man  Owland)  hover  the 
’es  going  to  run  me  hout  of 
ay  says 
business 
inside  of  one  year;  now,  Ira, 
hit  honly  costs  me  15  cents  a  day  to  live 
now,  and  if  necessary  I  can  live  on  10, 
nd  at  that  rate  hive  got  enough  money 
m  and  now to keep me ninety years ;  you 
an never  run  me  hout.
Several  years  later  I  was making some 
mall  towns  in  Southern  Wisconsin.  1 
ras  carrying  two  trunks  and  three  or 
>ur  grips  that  trip.  At  the  store  where 
expected  to  show  my  samples  they had 
new  clerk  who  had  a  good  deal  to  say. 
’he  store  was  small  and  crowded  with 
goods,  and  it  was  about  all  the  drayman 
could  do  to  get  my  trunks  inside  the 
door;  just  as  he  had  gotten  inside,along 
ame  the  new  clerk. 
in 
carrying  three  satchels  and  a small teles­
cope.  He 
looked  at  the  baggage  and 
then  at  me,  and  going  to  Mr.  M—  said 
ii 
here  now?  That  feller  with  his  packs 
looks  like  the  traveling  brass  band  man 
that  1  saw  down  to  Coney  Island  last 
ummer. ’ ’
In  1875,  or  about,  I  was calling  on  the 
jobbing  trade— representing  an  Eastern 
firm— I  was 
in  the  office  of  a  hardware 
jobber  at  St.  P aul;  there  were  three  or 
four  other travelers  ahead  of  me  await 
ng  an  audience  with  the  buyer. 
1  took 
my  place  intending  to  await  my  turn— 
was  standing  nearest  the  door— when  ir 
bounced  a  young  man  with  a  sample  o 
some  kind  of  flour  sifter  in  his  hands.  ! 
learned 
later  that  he  was  from  Boston 
ind  that  this  was  his  first  trip  and  that 
he  had  come  to  St.  Paul  direct  from 
Boston  and  was  arranging  to  work  all 
the  jobbing  points  on  his  way  home 
This  was  his  first  call.  He  walked  up 
to  me,  held  the  sifter  out  in  his  hand 
and  said :  “  It is  not  the  duty  of  a  trav
cling salesman to inform  a  buyer  what  i 
I  have  here— “ Hold 
on,”   says  I,  “ you  are  talking  to  the 
wrong  man. 
I  am  not  the  buyer;  I’m 
trying  to  get  a  chance  to  sell  Mr.  H 
some  sifters  m yself.”  
“ Excuse  me! 
he  said,  in  a  loud  voice,  and  deliberate 
ly  walked  to  Mr.  H.  (the old gentleman 
and  began :  “ Is  this  Mr.  H. ?”  
“ Yes, 
sir.”   He  then  elevated  his  sample 
sifter  and  began:  “ It  is  not  the  duty 
of  a  traveling salesman  to  inform  a  buy 
er  what 
is  a  salable  article” — “ Hold 
on,”   says  Mr.  H.,  ‘ ' you will have to  see 
my  son,  who  does  the  buying.”  
H.  pointed  over  to  his  son.)  Nothing 
daunted,  the  kid  salesman  strode  over 
to  the  buyer  and  started  in:  “ It  is  not 
the  duty  of  a  traveling  salesman” — but 
on 
on  five  or  six 
realized  that  he’d  better  come  in 
He  had  a  patent  sifter  to  show  and 
patent  speech  to  make,  which he seemed 
to  think  would  do  the  whole  business 
everywhere. 

faces  present  he  at  last 
later, 

looking  around  and  seeing  the  gri 

salable  article. 

Henry  S.  Gay.

(M 

A dvised  to   Can  F ru its.

The  Northwest  Fruit  Growers’  Asso 
ciation  met  at  Tacoma  recently  and 
heard  a  report  from  the traffic committee 
which  showed  the  Association had  failed 
in 
lower  rates 
from  the  railroads.  The  officials 
advised  the  growers  to  can  fruits  rathe 
than  attempt  to  ship  green  fruits 
Eastern  markets.

its  attempts  to  secure 

Im p ro v ed   M ethods.

“ We  took  milk  of  the  same  milkman 

for  ten  years.”

“ Why  did  you  change?”
“ We  found  out  the  new  man  had  a fil­

ter  attached  to  his  pump. ”

A ugur»  and  B its

Axes

Snell’s .....................................................
Jennings’ genuine.................................
Jennings’ imitation...............................
irst q u a lity , S. B. Bronze.............
irst Quality, I). B. Bronze.................
' rst Quality, S. B. S.  Steel................
rst Quality,  D. B. Steel....................
ailroad.................................................
arden...................................................net

B ar rows

B olts
Stove ......................................................
..............................
arriage, new  B«* 
lo w ............ 
...............................
B uckets
ell, plain.............................................

Cast Loose Pin, figured.......................
"rought N arrow .................................

B utts,  Cast

C artridges

Kim F ire ................................................
entral F ire ..........................................

Com.
BB..

Ü in.
8  C.

5-16 in.
, 7 c . .

X  in. 
H in.
6  C.  ...  6  C.
...  6H 
...  7H.

7H 

ast Steel, per lb.

Ely’s 1-10, per m __
Hick’s C. F., per m .
6.1)., per m ............
Musket, per m........

Caps

C hisels

Elbow s

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

om. 4 piece, 6 in., per doz.................. net 
bnrugated, per doz.............................. 
Adjustable.............................................dls 

E xpansive  B its

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

F iles—New  L ist

New American...................................... 
Nicholson’s ............................................. 
Heller’s Horse Hasps............................ 

G alvanized  Iro n

Jos. 16 to 20;  22 and 24;  25 and 26;  27, 
.1st  12 
16. 
Discount, 70

13 

14 

16 
Gas  P ip e

Black........ *............................................. 
Galvanized............................................. 

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

Gauges

Glass

65
65
65
65

66
1  26
40&10

30&10
25

70&10
70
G0&10

28
17

40&10
50&10

60&10

Single  Strength, by box..........................dls  85&  5
Double Strength, by box........................dis  85&10

By the Light.................................dis  85

H am m ers

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

H inges

H ollow   W are

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

>ots..............................................•......... 
K ettles......................................................... 
Spiders.................................................... 

50&10
50&10

50&10

H orse  N ails

Au S able..................................................dls  40&10
utnam .....................................................dls 
6

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

70
20&10

Iro n

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

K nobs—New  L ist

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

86
1  00

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

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

L anterns

Levels

M attocks

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

60

600 pound casks. 
Per pound.

M etals—Zinc

M iscellaneous

Bird Cages.......
Pumps, Cistern 
Screws, New List
Casters, Bed and  Plate........................   60&10&10
Dampers, American.............................  
50

M olasses  G ates

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

60&10
30

Fry, Acme..............................................   60&10&10
70&6
Common,  polished...............................
P a te n t  P lan ish ed   Iro n  

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

Broken packages He per pound extra.

10 75 
9  75

P ans

P lanes
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy..........
Sclota  Bench.........................
Sandusky Tool  Co.’s, fancy. 
Bench, first quality...............

060 
3  66 
Base

R 50 
7  50 
13 00 
6 50 
6  50 
11  00 
13  00

11 Vi 
17

Iron  and  Tinned...........
Copper Kivets  and  Burs

Booting  Plates

14x20 IC, Charcoal, Bean.....................
14X20IX, Charcoal, Dean.....................
20x28 IC, Charcoal,  Dean.....................
14x20 IC, Charcoal. Allaway  (trade...
14x20IX,Charcoal, Allaway  (¡rade...
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Allaway  (¡rade...
20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway  G rade...

Ropes

Sisal, H Inch and larger.......................
Manilla...................................................

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

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

Sand  P aper

Sash  W eights

Sheet  Iro n

com. smooth.

com. 
$3 00 
3 00 
3 20 
3 30 
3  40 
3 50 
over  30  Inches

Nos. 10 to 14..................
Nok  IR to 17..........  . ...

................ $3  20
..................  3 20
........ 3 40
Nos. 25 to 26....................................  3 50
No. 27............................ ..................  3 60
wide, not less than 2-10 extra.

All Sheets No.  18  and  lighter, 
Shel Is— Load ed
.oaded with Black  Powder........
.oaded with  Nitro  Powder........

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

Sho

¡•Is  and  Spades

i'irst Grade,  Doz...
Second Grade, l)oz..
H@H......................................  
,  »
The prices of the many other qualities of solder 
in the market indicated by  private  brands  vary 
according to composition.

Bolder

8  60 
8  10

.dis
.dis

1  60 
1  85

65

$ 8  50
8  50
9 75

7  00
7  00
8  50 
8  50

10

75
40&10
66&U1 
15 
1  25

60 
60 
50&10 
50&10 
40 
4  30 
4  15

Squares

Each additional X on this grade, $1.25.

Steel and I r o n . ...............................
T in — M e ly n   G rad e  *
10x14 IC, Charcoal.................................
14x20 IC, Charcoal.................................
20x14 IX, Charcoal.................................
T in — A ll a w a y   G rad e
10x14 IC, Charcoal.................................
14x20 IC, Charcoal.................................
10x14 IX, Charcoal.................................
14x20 IX, Charcoal.................................
list 70
B oiler  Size  Tin  P late 
14x56 IX, for No. 8 Boilers, ) 
.  uound 
14x56 IX, for No.9Boilers, 5 per pouua"

Each additional X on this grade, $1.50 

Tra p »

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

W ir e

Bright Market......
Annealed  Market. 
Coppered  Market- 
Tinned  Market.
Coppered Spring Steel..................... .*.
Barbed Fence, Galvanized..................
Barbed Fence, Painted........................

W ire  Goods

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

5 25
6 00

W renches

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

 

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

26

QUEER  CATTLE.

P o rte r  H ouse  Steak  F ro m   Nose  to  Tail. 
Written for the  Tradesman.

The  hardware  merchant  sat  at  his 
desk  as  1  entered  the  store  and  there 
was  an  ugly  look  on  his  face.  To  say 
the 
least,  he  did  not  seem  to  me  to  be 
in  an  approachable  mood,  so  I  took  a 
seat  by  the  stove  and  waited.

I  could  hear  him  muttering  to  himself 
and  growling  like  an  enraged  bear  as 
he  ran  his  pencil  up  and  down  long 
columns  of  figures,  and  I  observed  that 
the  clerks  dodged  every  time  they  came 
near  the  desk— dodged  and  turned  to me 
with  a  sly  wink.

and 

Presently  he  threw  the  pad  he  had 
been  figuring  on  at  the  cat,  which  sat 
purring 
looking  surprised  and 
grieved  on  an  office  chair,  and  came 
and  stood  by  the  stove.  After  rattling 
the  keys 
in  his  pocket  for  a  time  and 
poking  at  the  ruddy  coal  fire  until  it 
glowed  again,  he  broke  out:

for  a 

‘ ‘ I’ve  got  a  son 

io  years  old  whose 
chief  ambition  at  the  present  time  is  to 
become  a  highway  robber. 
I’ve  argued 
and  reasoned  with  him,  mentally  and 
physically, 
time  without 
making  much  of  an  impression  on  him, 
if  I  except  physical 
impressions  made 
in  the  woodshed  after  sunset,  in  the 
dark  of  the  moon,  and  now  I ’m  going 
to  adopt  a  different  course. 
I’m  going 
to  compromise  the  matter  with.  him. ”

long 

The  merchant’s  face  was  so  grave  and 
little  show  of 
stern,  and  there  was  so 
humor  coupled  with 
the  extravagant 
statement,  that  I  could  not  help  laugh­
ing  heartily.

“ Compromises  are  sometimes  neces­
sary,’ ’  I  said,  “ but  I  hardly  see  what 
thing  you  can  offer  this  youth  in  ex­
change  for  a  black  horse,  a  lonely  road 
on  a  dark  night,  a  wide  hat,  a  mask 
and  a  gun. 
If  he’s  anything  like  some 
boys  I  know  of— mind  you,  I  don’t  say 
they  are  my  boys!— you  can’t  buy  him 
off  with  a  toy  bank  and  a  foreign  mis-1 
sionary  collection.”

“ Oh,  that’s all  right,”   was  the  reply. 
“ I ’ve  got  it  all  studied  out. 
I’m  going 
to  make  him  a  butcher  and  set  him  up 
in  the  meat  market  business  just  as soon 
as  he  gets  old  enough. ”

“ The  meat  market  business!”   I  re­
peated,  in  amazement. 
“ What  has  the 
selling  of  beef  and  pork  and  all  that 
sort  of  thing  got  to  do  with  a  thirst  for 
highway  robbery?”

“ It's  a  kindred  employment,”   said 
the  merchant,  gravely.  “  The two trades 
can  be  worked 
interchangeably.  The 
highway  robber  would  make  a  first-class 
meat  clerk,  and  the  average  meat  clerk 
could  give  the  old-time  highway  robber 
cards  and  spades  and  beat  him  out  at 
his  own  game.  Have  you  bought  any 
meat  lately?”

I  replied  that  I  bought  meat  nearly 

every  day  when  at  home.

“ Ever  go 

“ Then  you  ought  to  know  something 
about  what  I  am  suggesting, ’ ’  was  the 
reply. 
in  and  ask  for  a 
couple  of  pounds  of  nice  thick  round? 
Eh? 
If  you  have  you’ve  seen  the  rob­
ber  behind  the  counter  cut  it  an  inch 
thick  at  the  bone  and  muscle  section 
and  about  the  thickness  of  a  postage 
stamp  where  the  good  meat  is  supposed 
to  be.  You’ve  seen  him  weigh  half  a 
pound  of  hand  with  a  pound  and  a  half 
of  meat  and  charge  you  for  two  pounds 
without  delivering  the  half  pound  of 
hand. 
it  the  other 
day  and  asked  him  why  he  didn’t  de­
liver  the  rest  of  the  meat.  Well,  sir,  he 
pretended  not  to . understand  me,  and, 
although  I had just  paid  for half a  pound

I  watched  one  do 

of  his  hand,  he  put  it  in  his  pocket  and 
walked  off  to  wait  on  another  customer 
— probably 
that  hand  over 
again .”

sell 

to 

The  clerks  were  gathering  about,  with 
sly  grins  on  their  faces,  and  the  mer­
chant  warmed  to  his  subject.

“ I  ordered  a  neck piece  not  long  ago, 
to  aid 
in  the  composition  of  mince 
meat,  and  told  the  robber  who  waited 
on  me  that  I  wanted  the  best. 
I  don’ 
kick  on  price,  mind  you,  but  I  want 
what  I  order  and  pay  for.  He  said  he’d 
send  me  a  piece  that  would  make  pies 
fit  for  a  plumber  or  a  United  States 
senator,  and  I  went  home  thinking I had 
at  last  struck  a  market  man  with  a  con 
science ;  but  my  dream  was  soon  over. 
The  meat  was  mostly  bone  and  my  wife 
insisted  that  she  had  never been  taught 
how  to  make  bone  pie. 
I  got  an  axe 
and  chopped  the  meat  up  just  as  it  lay 
and  told  her  to  make  a  big  pie  of  it 
bone  and  all. ”

The  clerks  began  to  back  away.
A   fleshy, 

red-faced  man  who  had 
been  buying  nails  at  the  front  end of the 
store  walked  back  to  the  vicinity  of  the 
stove  and  stood 
the 
in  his  pockets  and 
counter,  his  hands 
an  amused 
look  on  his  good-natured 
face.

leaning  against 

“ Yes,  sir,”   continued  the  merchant 
and  my  wife  did  it.  Then  I  carrie< 
that  pie  to  the  butcher. 
If  I’d  been  as 
big  as  Samson  I’d  made  him  eat  it, 
bone  and  all.  He  wanted  to  know  what 
wanted  done  with  the  pie,  and  I  said 
I  wanted  to  leave  it  in  the  window  on 
exhibition,  just  to  show  what  sort  of 
ince  meat  careful  attention  to business 
i  the  part  of  the  butcher would  pro­
duce.  They’ve  called  him  ‘ old  bones’ 
ever  since,  and  I  begin  to  think  he 
doesn’t  like  it,  for  the 
last  mince  beef 
he  sent  up  to  my  place  my  wife  tried 
jut for suet  before  she  learned the  differ­
ence. 
I ’m  going  up  there  to-night  and 
order  a  horn  steak,  just  to  see  if  I  can 
really  get  what  I  buy.  Why,  sir,  when 
’   made  a  slight  kick  the  other  day  on 
the  quantity  of  bone  on  a  porter house 
steak  the  ruffian  swore  up  and  down 
that  the  proportion  of  bone  and  meat 
was  rather  in  favor of  the  meat.”

The  red-faced  man  drew  nearer  and  1 
could  see  him  chuckling  softly  to  him­
self.

“ When  I  got  home,”   continued  the 
the  bone  and 
merchant,  “ I  cut  out 
weighed 
it  apart  from  the  meat.  A c­
cording  to  my  figures,  made  honestly 
and without  prejudice,  1 then discovered 
that  if  what  the  butcher  said  about  the 
proportion  was  true  he  had  been  cutting 
p  an  ox  that  would  have  made  its  own- 
r  rich  as  a  museum  freak. 
If  he  was 
bone  and  meat  in  the  exact  proportion 
that  my  piece  of  him  was,  he  must have 
been  bone  clear  back 
to  within  two 
nches  and  three-quarters  of  the  roots  of 
his  tail.  What  do  you  think  of  that,  sir? 
Must  have  fed  him  on  plaster  of  Paris 
and  Portland  cement  to  keep  him  in 
proper condition. 
If  I  could  buy  cattle 
like  that  by  the  hundred  I ’d  start  a  but­
ton  factory—would,  for  a 
fact— or  you 
might  grind  him  up  and  use  him  for 
fertilizer. ”

“ T hey’ve  found  a  new  kind  o f' cattle 
said  the  red-faced  man,  “ and 
now, 
’em  exclusively. 
they  re  going  to  use 
isn’t  a  bone  in  a  carload  of  'em 
There 
and  they’re  porter  house  steak  from  the 
nose  back  to  the  tail.  T hey’re  con­
structed  of  alternate  streaks  of  fat  and 
lean  and  the  meat 
is  so  juicy  that  it 
ruins  a  critter to  bruise  the  skin  when 
alive.  The 
juice  all  runs  out.  There 
inwards
ain  t  any 

lights  or 

liver  or 

whatever,  so  there 
is  no  waste  and  the 
meat  can  be  sold  for  three  cents a pound 
and  the  butcher  get  rich.”

The  hardware  merchant  began  to snort 

and  move  away.

you  see, 

“ I’ve  been  thinking  of  investing 

in 
these  cattle, ”   continued  the  red-faced 
man,  “ only  I  haven’t  got  the  right  sort 
of  a  place  to  keep  ’em  in.  Being  with 
out  bones, 
they  crawl  out 
through  any  old  place  and  escape.  Man 
down  the  country  bought  one  and  i 
crawled  out  through  a  knot-hole  in  th 
barn,  coming  out  all  right  on  the  other 
side, 
like  a  bologna  sausage 
This  was  a  cow  and  the  milk  was  ii 
one  series  of 
links  and  the  butter  and 
cheese 
I  don’t  think  the 
farmer  put  the  critter  together again, 
but 
into  town  as  she 
was.  H e’d  been  feeding  her  clover  hay, 
and  the  meat  smelled  like  honey  and  a 
swarm  of  bees  followed  him  into  town 
and— ’ ’

just  brought  her 

in  another. 

looking 

The  merchant  gave a  shout of  laughtei 
and  made  for  the  back  door,  the  red 
faced  man  in  full  pursuit.
“   “ That’s  a  queer  combination,”  
said,  turning  to  the  clerks,  “ who  is  that 
fat  man?  Crazy,  eh?”

“ Not  much,”   was  the  reply. 

“ He’s 
the  man  our  boss  buys  his  meat  of.  Got 
even,  didn’t  he?  T hey’re  both  kick 
ers. ’ ’

And  I  went  away  without  an  order.
Alfred  B.  Tozer.

is  safe 

A  man 

in  asking  a  young 
woman  to  share  his  lot  with  him  when 
she  knows  he  has  money  to  build  on 
it.

The  valentined  maiden  must  steel  her 
heart  to  prevent  some  man  from  steal­
ing  it.

A dvertisem ents  w ill  be  in serted   u n d er 
th is  h ead  for  tw o  cents  a  w ord  th e   first 
insertion  and  one  cen t  a   w ord  for  each 
subsequent  in sertio n .  No  ad vertisem ents 
tak en   fo r  less  th a n   25  cents.  A dvance 
paym ents.

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

tf'OK  SALE—A  WELL-ESTABLISHED  MID 

linery  business.  Stock  worth  about  $1,000 
iteason for selling, a desire  to  retire  from  busi­
ness.  Mrs. A. W.  Nicholson,  Newberry,  Mich.
f i'OR.  SALE—ROOD  $2.000  DRUG  STOCK, 
doing good business;  well  located  in  city  of
•25,000.  Good opportunity  for  right 
dress 220, care Michigan Tradesman. party.  Ad 
220
SPLENDID  OPPORTUNITY  TO  BUY  OUT 
good business—good  clean  stock  dry  goods, 
notions, meu’s furnishings  and  shoes;  well  es­
tablished trade;  best  location  in  town  of  3,000- 
best tanning country in Central  Michigan.  Will 
sell store fixtures jyith stock.  Address  219,  care 
Michigan Tradesman. 

tpOR  SALE-FOUR  MILLION  FEET  VIR- 

gin hardwood and hemlock  timber,  all  in  a 
bunch, four miles from  railroad,  one  mile  from 
river.  Price, $0,00«.  Address No. 222, care Mich­
igan Tradesman. 

219

222

223

225

FpOR  SALE—FIVE  THOUSAND  TONS  ST.

Louis white lead, laid down at  your  station, 
freight prepaid, at five cents per pound;  also gas 
and gasoline mantles, burners, chimneys, shades 
by-passes,  mica  goods,  etc.  Write  for  quota- 
tions.  F ifty  sales  people  wanted  at  once 
Hovers  Wholesale  Merchandise  Co.,  Grand 
Rapids. Mich. 
W ANTED-----------------
HARDWARE STOCK, $1.500  TO
v*  $2,000 in town of 1,500 to
„---- . . .  .ownof 1,500 to  2,500  inhabitants;
d o ing  good  b u sin ess.  A d d re ss  No.  223.  c a re  
M ichig an  T rad esm an . 
JEWELRY 
store in best town  in  Michigan;  good  farm­
ing and lumbering;  store and fixtures,  $500;  rea­
son for  selling,  poor  health.  Address  box  12 
Central Lake, Mich. 

IpOR  SALE — ESTABLISHED 

CJ.RAND  LOCATION  FOR  HARNESS  BUSI- 

I   ness, fortified by long established  family  in- 
nuence  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,  I.  H.. 
care Michigan Tradesman. 
For  sale or Exchange—for a hard-
ware  stock.  Wjll  pay  difference  if  any.
t,,-,  v--- .— ,---- 
.  .r“ J  uincicutc  11  ally.
•Jewelry  stock,  material,  tools  and  fixtures  in- 
voice $1,20°.  Located in good  town in  Northern 
Michigan; county seat: population 1.500; no com­
petition.  Address D. G., care  Michigan Trades- 
man. 
214-

216

211

0 

. 

212
LARGE  BRICK

F'OR  SALE—STOCK  OF  DRY  GOODS  AND 

C1ASH  WILL  GET  ONE  OF  THE  BEST 

clothing; country  town;  best  farming  coun­
try; opposition light;  good business;  $1,000  cash 
sales; connected with arch doors to grocery  and 
shoe store; grocery store gives  due  bills  to  the 
amount of $75 per month in  dry  goods;  store  in 
good location; rent, taxes  and  insurance  cheap. 
Snap for  good man.  Requires about $4,000 cash. 
Address No.  213, care  Michigan  Tradesman.
________________________ ___________213
>  bargains in a  hardware  stock  in  the  State. 
Investigation as to location and  reason  for  sell­
ing  solicited.  Address  A.  S.,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
^yA N T K D -
--------- PARTNER. 
store,  44x126  feet,  $7.000  stock hardware, 
furniture  and  bicycles.  City  35,000,  Central 
Michigan.  Address  II,  care  Michigan  Trades­
man.
218
r T '0 EXCHANGE-
, —-----. .. . —,  TWO 40 ACRE FARMS  IN
—  the Fruit Belt of Oceana county  for  a  clean 
stock of dry goods and  groceries.  Address  Box 
333, Saranac. Mich. 
DIOR SALE-ON ACCOUNT OF THE DEATH 
-I  of  the  proprietor,  I  am  instructed  by  the 
court to dispose of the Foote drug stock and  fix­
tures. inventorying about $7,000.  The store has a 
good trade and is paying well.  Charles Bennett, 
Administrator, Charlotte, Mich. 
U'OR SALE—WELL-ESTABLISHED RETAIL 
* 
lumber  and  fuel  business  in  a  live  town. 
Stock inventories about  $4,000.  Win.  Sebright & 
Co., Otsego, Mich. 

FjJOR  SALE—STOCK  OF  GROCERIES  IN 

204
good  town  of  5,000  inhabitants.  Stock  in 
ventories  about  $2,000.  Cash  sales  $17,000  foi 
1899.  A  bargain  to  the  right  party.  Address 
H. M. L , care Michigan Tradesman. 

ii'O R   S A L E  — B O A R D I N G   H OUS E ,   14 

rooms,  6  acres  land,  one-third  mile  from 
postoflice,  and  other  property,  all  valued  at 
$5,000, at Brazil,  Ind.;  will  sell  cheap.  Address 
Daniel Hunt, Benton Harbor, Mich. 

IpOR  SALE—THE  (INLY  GENERAL  STOCK 

in  small  town;  good  surrounding  country 
and good established trade.  Reason  for  selling, 
poor health  Address  Box  56,  Alto,  Kent  Co. 
Mich. 

208

200

206

190

199

“  

175

159

17HJR 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  foi 
stock of clothing, boots and shoes.  Address No 
175, care Michigan Tradesman. 

Address  No.  135,-----i W t a  

FpOR SALE  AT  A  BARGAIN—TWO  THOU"- 

sand  dollar  stock  of  groceries,  feed,  etc., 
also store, fixtures, millinery store and stock  ad­
joining;  also  large  warehouse  beside  railroad 
track.  Profits last year, two thousand five hun­
dred dollars.  Proprietor wishes  to  retire.  Ad- 
dress E. D. Goff, Fife Lake, Mich. 
DIOR  SALE—FINE  HOTEL  AND  SMALL 
A 
livery barn;  doing  good  business;  terms  to 
suit.
i
care  Michigan  Trades- 
man
135
SPOT CASH  PAID  FOR  STOCK  OF  DRY 
goods,  groceries  or  boots  and  shoes.  Must 
be cheap.  Address A. D., care Michigan Trades­
I»,
man. 
Exchange—four good houses, free
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.
F-’OR  SALE—GENERAL  STOCK  IN  GOOD 
country trading point.  Terms  to  suit  pur­
chaser.  Will  rent  or  sell  store  building.  Ad­
dress No. 116, care Michigan Tradesman. 
116
Bryson  brick  store  at  ovid, mich.,
to exchange for  timbered  land or  Improved 
farm or  stock  of  goods.  Address  L.  C,  Town­
send. Jackson, Mich. 
fpOR SALE OR EXCHANGE FOR GENERAL 

Stock  of  Merchandise—60  acre  farm,  part 
clear, architect house  and  barn;  well  watered. 
I also have two 40  acre  farms  and  one  80  acre 
farm to exchange.  Address No. 12,  care  Michi- 
gan Tradesman.
T 'H E   SHAFTING,  HANGERS  AND  PUL- 
JL  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, 
urand Rapids, Michigan. 

Modern  city  residence  and  large

lot, with barn, for sale cheap on easy terms, 
or will exchange for  tract  of  hardwood  timber. 
Big bargain for some one.  Possession given any 
time.  Investigation  solicited.  E. A. Stowe,  100 
N. Prospect street. Grand Rapids. 
MISCELLANEOUS.

993

933

114

224

W ANTED—EXPERIENCED CEDAR OPER- 
ator to take charge of shingle and  tie  mill 
and  lumber  tract  of  cedar  timber.  Excellent 
opening for right man—one  who  would  take  an 
interest in the  business  preferred.  Timber can 
be floated to mill, which lias outlet by both water 
and  rail.  Address  No.  224,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
ANTED—A  FIRST-CLASS  SALESMAN 
for grocers’ specialties, canned  goods,  etc. 
Send references and full  particulars  to  Dimkley 
Celery & Preserving Co., Kalamazoo, Mich. 210
WANTED—POSITION  AS  SALESMAN  IN 
wholesale or retail store.  Seventeen years 
experience  in  general  store,  Address  No.  216. 
care Michigan Tradesman 
TS7’ ANTED—REGISTERED  PHARMACIST, 
▼ ”  one  who  understands  work  in  a  general 
store preferred.  State age, experience  and  sal­
ary expected.  Address No.  209,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
T y  ANTED—HUSTLING  GROCERY  SALES- 
» v  man in every  city  to  send  name  and  ad­
dress;  profitable  side  line.  Al,  care  Grocery 
World, 306 Chestnut St., Philadelphia.  Pa.  —205
\ \ 7  ANTED — POSITION  AS  REGISTERED 
” »  pharmacist.  Have had  twenty  years’  ex­
perience in drug business;  married; 40  years  of 
age;  out of employment  on  account  of  fire  de­
stroying  building  and  stock.  Address  No. 203, 
203
care Michigan Tradesman. 

209

216

Travelers' Time  Tables. MERCANTILE  ASSOCIATIONS
Pere  Marquette

Michigan Retail Grocers’ Association 

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 raverse City, C harlevoix am l't'etoskey. 

4:00pm
9:10pm
11:26pm
11:55pm

Trains  arrive  from  north  at  2:40pm,  and 

L v .G . Rapids, 7:30am 
Ar.Trav City. 12:40pm 
Ar. Charlev’x, 3:15pm 
Ar. Petoskey,  3:45pm 
and 10:00pm.
D e tr o it.
Lv. Grand R apids....  7: loam  12:05pm  5:30pm
Ar. Detroit................11:50am 
4:05pm  10:05pm
Lv. Detroit...................8:40am 
i:iopm  6:00pm
Ar. Grand R apids....  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.....................11:55pm  10:15pm
7:00am  4:50pm
Lv Saginaw......................... 
Ar Grand Rapids 
.................. ii: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. DeH av en, General Pass. Agent.

,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

January l, 1900.

GRAND Rapids  ft  indiana Railway 

December 17,  1899.

N orth ern   D ivision. 

From 
Going 
North  North
Trav. City, Petoskey, Mack,  t  7:45am 
t   5:15pm 
Trav.City, Petoskey, Mack,  t  2:10pm  +I0:i5pm 
Cadillac Accommodation 
.  15:25pm  +I0:45am 
Petoskey & Mackinaw  City  til :00pm  +  6:20am 
7:45am and 2:10pm trains, parlor cars;  11:00pm 
train, sleeping car.

S outhern  D ivision 

From
Going 
South
South 
Kalamazoo,Ft. WayneCin.  +  7:i0am 
t  9:45pm 
Kalamazoo and Ft. Wayne, 
t   2:00pm  +  2:00pm 
Kalamazoo. Ft. Wayne Cin.  *  7:00pm  *  6:45am 
Kalamazoo and  Vicksburg.  *11:30pm  * 9:10am 
7:10am  train  has  parlor  car  to  Cincinnati, 
coach to Chicago;  2:00pm train has parlor  car to 
Fort Wayne;  7:00pm train has sleeper  to Cincin­
nati;  ll:30pm  train,  sleeping  car  and  coach  to 
Chicago. 

_  

C h ic a g o   T ra in s.

,
TO  CHICAGO.

8  45pm 

FROM  CHICAGO

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

45pm 

  9 

M uskegon  T rains.

GOING  WE8T.

Lv. Grand Rapids... .+7 35am  +1  35pm 
t5 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.

GOING  EAST.

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

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

President, C. E. Wa l k er,  Bay City;  Vice-Pres­
ident,  J.  H.  Ho p k in s,  Ypsllanti;  Secretary. 
E. A. Stow e. Grand Rapids;  Treasurer,  J.  F. 
Tatman, Clare.  _______

Gr&ud  Rapids  Retail Grocers’  Association 

President. Fran k  J .D y k ;  Secretary,  Homer 

K l a p ;  Treasurer, J. George  Lehman

Detroit Retail  Grocers’  Association 
.Joseph  K n ig h t;  Secretary,  E. 
Ma r k s;  Treasurer, C  H.  Fr in k .

President, 

Kalamazoo  Reta.l  Grocers’  Association 

President, W.  H.  J ohnson;  Secretary,  Ohas. 

H yman.

Baj  Cities  Retail Grocer«’  Association 

President,  C.  E.  Wa l k e r ;  Secretory,  E.  C 

Little. 

_____

Muskegon  Retail  Grocers’  Association 

President,  H.  B.  Sm ith;  Secretory,  D.  A. 

Bo e lk in s;  Treasurer,  J.  W.  Caskadon.

President,  J.  Fra n k  Helm e r;  Secretory,  W 

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

President,  A.  C.  Cl a r k :  Secretory,  E.  F. 

Cleve la n d; Treasurer,  w m . C. Koehn

Saginaw  Retail  Merchants’  Association 

President, M. W. Ta n n e r;  Secretary, E.  H. Me 

Ph erson;  Treasurer, R. A. Horr.
Traverse  City  Business  Men’ s  Association 

President,  T hos’  T.  Ba te s;  Secretory,  M.  B. 

Ho l l y;  Treasurer,  C.  A.  Hammond.

Owoszo  Business  Men’s Association 

President,  A.  D.  Wh ip p l e;  Secretary,  G.  T. 

Ca m p b e ll;  Treasurer,  W.  E. Collin s.
Pt.  Hurons  Merchants’  and  Manufacturers’  Association 
Pe r c iv a l. 

President, Ch as.  Wellm a n;  Secretary,  J.  T. 

_____

Alpena  Business  Men’s  Association 

President, F. W. Gilc h r ist;  Secretory,  C.  L. 

Partridg e. 

_____

St.  Johns  Business  Men’s  Association 

President, Thos. Brom ley;  Secretary,  Fran k 

A.  Pe r c y; Treasurer, Cla r k A. Putt.

Perrj  Business  Men’s  Association 

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

Heddle. 

_____

Grand  Haren  Retail  Merchants’  Association 

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

Hoeks.

Yale  Business  Men’s  Association 

President,  Chas.  Rounds;  Secretary,  Frank 
Pu tn ey. 

_____

Grand  Rapids  Retail  Meat  Dealers’  Association 

President,  L.  M.  Wilson;  Secretary,  P h ilip 

Hil b e r ;  Treasurer,  S. J. Hufford.

W H O LE SALE

S U G A R S   A N D   C O F F E E S

Get our  Prices 

Before  Buying  Elsewhere

M OSELEY  AND  SH E LB Y

No. 25 Tower  Bl k.

GRAND  RAPIDS

Excelsior Bolls  Wanted

We are  in  the  market  for  1,000 cords of Basswood  Excelsior Bolts, for 
which we will pay spot cash on delivery.  For further particulars address

§  

8 3   to   9 7   S ix t h   S tr e e t.  G rand  R ap id a.  M ich ig a n .

I  pia t e ’  Supplies

Write for prices.

Wm.  Brummeler 
&  Sons,

Manufacturers of

TIN W A R E  AND 

S H E E T   M ETA L 
GOODS.
249*263  S.  Ionia S t., 
Grand Rapids, Mich.

Michigan 
Wall  Paper 
Co.,  Ltd.

Dealers  in

Wall  Paper, 
Painters’  Supplies 
and  Window 
Shades

202  Randolph  St.,
Detroit,  Mich.

Agents Wanted for Villages and  Towns.

W e can  furnish anything  that  Paper  Hang­
ers  and  Painters  need  in  their  business; 
lowest prices
Send  your  name  and  address  for  sample 
books of this season’s  W all  Papers.

MANISTEE Best route to Manistee.

Via O. & W. M. Railway.

Lv. Grand Rapids........................   7 30am
Ar. Manistee.........................»■  -12  05pm
Lv.  Manistee  ...............................  6 40am
Ar. Grand  Rapids......................   2 40pm

3 55pm 
10 00pm

Tradesman

Itemized 1 edgers
4 Quires, 320 pages  ..........1 00
5 Quires, 400  pages.......... 3 5°
6 Quires, 4S0 pages...........  4  00

2 Quires,  160 pages........... $2  oo
3 Quires, 240 pages...........   25°

SIZE—8 i-a x  14.
THREE  COLUMNS.

INVOICE RECORD  OR  BILL  BOOK

80 double  pages,  registers  2,880 
invoices  ............................$2  00

Tradesman  Company

Grand Rapids,  Mich.

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"Take a Receipt for 

Everything

It  may save you a  thousand  dol- 

ifl  lars, or a lawsuit,  or a customer.

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

BARLOW  BROS,

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,

B odgett Bnllding, 
Grand Rapids.

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IMPORTERS,

MANUFACTURERS 

AND  JOBBERS

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Have Yon Received Our Spring Catalogue?

If  not,  write  for one. 
It  will  save  you money.  Old contracts 
and  heavy  stocks  enable  us  to  avoid  advanced  prices  and 
keep  them  down  to  the  minimum.  Look  over  the  list  below 
and  send  us  a  trial  order.  Small  orders receive  as prompt at­
tention  as large ones.  We  handle:

Glassware 
Lamps 
Lamp Goods 
Lanterns 
Crockery
Druggists’ Sundries 
Pins and Combs 
Handkerchiefs 
Shoe  Laces 
Thread and  Hose 
Books
Stationers’  Sundries 
Bazaar Novelties 
Account Books 
Express Wagons 
Children’s Carriages 
Pictures
And  many other lines.  Let  us  hear from  you.

Silver  Platedware
Jewelry
Furniture
Carpets
Curtains
Matting
Rugs,  Etc
Draperies
Telescopes
Valises  &  Trunks
Leather Goods
Clocks
Screen  Doors 
Window  Screens 
Paper &  Twine 
Hammocks 
Marbles

• 

Brooms 
Stove Boards 
Refrigerators 
Gasoline  Stoves 
Oil  Stoves 
Stoves  &  Ranges 
Shelf  Hardware 
Tinware 
Enameled Ware 
Cutlery 
Brushes
Paints  & Frescoes 
Wall  Paper 
Wringers 
Woodenware 
Bicycles- 
Bicycle  Sundries

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It pays  any  dealer to  have  the  rep­
utation of  keeping  pure  goods.
It pays any  dealer to  keep the S ey­
mour  C racker.
There’s  a  large  and  growing  sec­
tion  of  the  public  who  will  have 
the  best,  and  with  whom  the  mat­
ter of a cent or  so  a  pound  makes 
no impression. 
It’s not how cheap 
with  them;  it’s  how  good.
For  this  class  of  people  the  S ey­
mour  C racker  is  made. 
Discriminating  housewives  recog­
nize  its  superior  flavor,  purity,  de­
liciousness,  and  will  have  it.
If you,  Mr.  Dealer,  want  the  trade 
of particular people,  keep  the  S ey­
mour  C racker.  Made by

N ational
Biscuit
Company
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

It’s  a  Big  Question

It’s  a  serious question.  W hat  am  I
IN  BUSINESS  FOR?

The  Money  Weight  System 
teaches  you  what  you  are  in  busi­
ness for.

Put  Money  Weight  Scales 

in 
your  store  and  see  if  your  profits 
won’t increase.

Good  honest  profit  on  every 
ounce  of  merchandise  weighed  over 
our Money Weight Computing Scales.

Who sells this system?

The Computing Scale  Co.

Dayton,  Ohio

How  do  they  sell  them?  On 

easy payments.

