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Volume XVII.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  MARCH  21,1900

Number 861

The  Royal  Worcester  Pattern

A  Rich,  Swell  Border  Design

on  A.  J.  W ilkin son ’s  high-grade  E n glish  ware.  T h is  dainty  creation  is  the  exact  copy  of  one of 
the  most  popular  patterns  from  the  famous

Royal  Worcester  Potteries

T h e  extrem e  richness  of  the  effect  and  the  artistic  sim plicity  of  the  shapes  and  design  will  ap­
peal  at  once  to  lovers  of  high-grade  wares.  T w o  gold  lines  add  brightness  to  the  soft  coloring 
produced  by  contrasting  shades  of  Florentine  green.  L iberal  gilding  on  the  knobs  and  handles 
and  all  large  pieces.

We sell to

dealers only

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EarogasaggaB

Original

Crate Assortment

sets Teas, handled, per set.......................$  874 
doz  Plates, 8 Inch, per doz.......................  164 
doz  Plates, 7 Inch, per doz.......................  1  42 
doz  Plates, 6 Inch, per doz........................l  20 
doz  Plates, 5 inch, per doz.................. 
98 
doz  Plates, 7 inch. Soup Coupe, per  d o z ........ 
doz  Fruit Saucers, 4 inch, per  doz...........  66 
doz  Oatmeals, per doz...................................... 
doz  Individual Butters, per doz............. 
44 
doz  Sugars, per doz......... ............... ........  5 25 
doz Creams, per doz........................... 
2 63 
doz  Bread Plates, per doz........................  2 63 
doz  Bowls, 30s, per doz............................   1  75 
doz  Dishes, 8 inch, der doz.......................2 19 
doz  Dishes, 10 inch, per doz....................   3 94 
doz  Dishes, 12 Inch, per doz.....................6  56 
doz  Dishes, 14 inch, per doz.....................  9 19 
doz  Bakers, 3 inch, per doz.............................  
doz  Bakers, 7 inch, per doz.......... 
......  2 63 
doz  Bakers, 8 inch, per doz.....................   3 94 
doz  Scallops, 7 inch, per doz...................   2 63 
doz  Scallops, 8 inch, per  doz....................  3 94 
doz  Covered Dishes, 8 inch, per doz...............  
doz  Covered Butters, 5 inch, per doz........ 7 88 
doz  Sauce Boats, per doz.........................   3 50 
doz  Pickles, per doz.................................   2 63 
doz Oyster Bowls, 30s. per doz........................  

Less 10 per cent.......................... 

Crate and Cartage....................... 

Save  io per cent, 

$26  25
3 28
17 04
4 80
7 84
1  42
5 28
1  31
2 64
2 63
l 32
66
88
55
1  97
328
2  30
1  53
1  32
1  97
1  32
1  97
10  50
3 94
1  75
1  32
1 75
$110 82
11  08
$ 99 74
2 60
$102  24

by  buying  in  original  assortm ents

42-44  Lake Street, 

Chicago.

1 ^ 1

B U S IN E S S

to make money.  You want to make it easy and to keep on making 
it;  that’s what you are  here  forj |We  want  to  help  you.  Put  in

YOU  ARE
RO YAL  TIGER 

10IC E N TS

5   C E N T S

A   SM O K E R ’S  SM O K E  and  watch  your  business  grow. 
It’ll 
surprise you the amount  of business the mere  fact  of  your  having 
these brands  in  stock will bring to you.  Try it  and  be  convinced.  -

PHELPS.  BRACE  &   CO..  D ETR O IT.  MICH

L A R G E ST   CIGAR  D E A LE R S  IN  THE  MIDDLE  W EST

F .   E .  B U S H M A N ,  M A N A G E R

JE N N E S S   &  McCURDY

STATE  AGENTS  FOR

JOHNSON  BROS.’  P. G.  "NEW  CENTURY”  SHAPE

71-75  JEFFER SO N   AVE.,  D ETR O IT,  MICH.

FURNITURE BY MAIL

FURNITURE BY MAIL

M a g a z i n e   P r i c e s   O u t d o n e

M a g a z i n e   P r i c e s   O u t d o n e

There's
pdis=
ddiorj

in  having our chair in 
your home.
After  you’ve  used  it 
for several years—given it 
all  kinds  of  wear— that’s 
the time to tell whether or 
not the chair is a good one.
Our  goods  stand  every 
test.  The longer you have 
it the  better you  like  it.

Arm  Chair or 

Rocker No. IMI.

Genuine hand 
buffed  leather, 
hair  filling, dia­
mond  or biscuit 
tufting.

Sent  to  you 
freight  prepaid 
on  approval  for

1 2 4 «

Compare the style, the workmanship, 
the  material  and  the  price  with-  any 
similar article.  If  it  is  not cheaper in. 
comparison, return  at our expense,  f

Oar  Desk  No.  261,  illustrated  above,  is 
50 in.  long,  34 in. deep and  50 in.  high; 
is  made of selected  oak, any finish  de­
sired.

The  gracefulness  of  the  design, the 
exquisite  workmanship, the nice atten­
tion  to  every  little  detail, will  satisfy 
your most critical  idea.

Is sent  on  approval,  freight prepaid, 
to  be  returned  at  our  expense  if  not 
found  positively the  best roll top desk 
ever  offered  for  the  price  or  even  25 
per cent  more.

Write for oar coa^lete Office Furniture 

Catalogne.

S a m p l e  Fu r n it u r e Co.
R e ta ile rs   o f   S a m p l e   F u r n i t u r e ,  
L Y O N   P E A R L   a  O T T A W A   S T S .
G r a n d   R a p i d s  M ic h .
House
BEFORE  BUYING  FURNI: 
HOLD
TURE  OF ANY KIND WRITE 
U SR )R  ONE  ORAUOFOUR 
FURs
“B IG   ^C A T A L O G U E SO F  
NITURE
HOUSEHOLD  FURNITURE
WE PREPAY FREIGHT

S a m p l e  Fu r n it u r e Co
R eta ile rs   o f   S a m p ie   Fu rn itu  re 
L Y O N   P E A  Ft L a  O T T A W A   S T S .
G r a n d   R a p i d s  M ic h .
HOUSE
BEFORE  BUYING  FURNI: 
HOLD
TURE  OF ANY KIND WRITE 
US FOR ONE  ORAUOFOUR 
pURsx
B IG   ^C A T A L O G U E SO F  
NITURE
HOUSEHOLD  FURNITURE
WE PREPAY FREIGHT

Are  you  buying 

at  Factory  Prices

We are selling the very swellest shape.'
We are selling  the  very best  semi-porcelain. 
No better than the best.
But better than the rest.
A small list of prices on staples:’

Majestic Teas.................... perdoz. $  .72
.72
St. Dennis Handled Teas..  per doz. 
Plates, 7 inch......................per doz. 
.58
Scollop Nappies, 8 in ch __ per doz.  1.62

The whole line as cheap.  Every  piece guar­
anteed.  Ask  for  illustrated  sheets.  When 
in the city call and see us.

Y T T  Y T T i n r ^ ^  

T T T T i n n p \

“Sunlight”

Is one  of  our  leading  brands  of 
flour,  and is as bright and clean as 
its  name.  Let us send you some.

Walsh=De  Roo Milling Co.

Holland, Mich.

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  MARCH  21,  1900.

ft good thing for  other

Why not  for you?  A. I.  C.  High  Grade 
Coffees  will  solve  your  coffee  problem.
For particulars address
A.  I.  C.  Coffee Co.,

21  and  23  River  Street,  Chicago.

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Prompt,  Conservative, Safe. 

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Gstablished 1841. 

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R. q.  dun & co.

Widdicomb Bld’g , Grand Rapids,  Mich. 

Books arranged with trade classification oi names. 
Collections made everywhere. Write for particulars. 

L.  P.  W ITZLEBEN .  flanager.

KOL.lt & SON are the oldest and most 
reliable wholesale  clothing  manufactur­
ers In  Rochester, N. Y.  Originators  of 
the three-button cut-away frock—no  bet­
ter fitting garments,  guaranteed  reason­
able In price.  Mail orders receive prompt 
attention.

Write  our  representative,  WILLIAM 
CONNOR, Box  346,  Marshall,  Mich.,  to 
call on you or meet him at Sweet’s Hotel, 
Grand Rapids, March  29  to 31  inclusive. 
Customers’ expenses paid.

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Omvo/òu>m. M/c/t.

419 Widdicomb Bid., Grand Bapids. 
D etroit  office,  817  Hammond  Bid.
T?  Associate offices  and  attorneys  in  every 
5   county in the  United  States and Canada.  ^  
S   Refer  to  State  Bank  of  Michigan  and  J  
2   Michigan  Tradesman. 
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Michigan  Fire  and  Marine 

Insurance  Co.

Organized 1SS1.

Detroit,  Michigan.

Cash  Capital,  $400,000. 
D. W h it n e y , J k .,  Pres.

Cash  Assets,  $800,000.
D. M. F e r r y ,  Vice Pres.

Net Surplus,  $200,000.

F. H. W h it n e y , Secretary.
M. W. O 'B r ie n , Treas.

E. J. B o o t h , Asst. Sec’y. 

D ir e c t o r s .

D. Whitney, Jr., D. M. Ferry, F.J. Hecker,
M. W. O’Brien, Hoyt Post, Christian Mack, 
Allan Sheldon, Simon J.  Murphy,  Wm.  L. 
Smith, A. H. Wilkinson, James Edgar,  H. 
Kirke  White,  H.  P.  Baldwin,  Hugo 
Scherer,  F.  A.  Schulte,  Wm.  V.  Brace, 
James  McMillan,  F.  E.  Driggs,  Henry  = 
Hayden,  Collins  B.  Hubbard,  James  D. 
Standish, Theodore D.  Buhl,  M.  B.  Mills,  ~ 
Alex.  Chapoton, Jr.,  Geo.  H.  Barbour,  S.
G.  Gas key,  Chas.  Stinch field,  Francis  F. 
Palms, Wm. C. Yawkey,  David  C.  Whit­
ney, Dr. J. B. Book, Eugene Harbeck, Chas.
F. Peltier, Richard P. Joy,  Chas.  C. Jenks.

Save  Trouble. 
Save  Money 
S ave  Ttaaa.

IMPORTANT  FEATURES.

Page.
2.  Shoes and  Leather.
3.  Changing  Values.
4.  A round  the  State.
5.  Grand  Rapids  Gossip.
'The  Produce  Market.
6.  The  RufTalo  Market.
7.  Fruits and  Produce.
8.  Editorial.
9.  Editorial, 
to.  I>ry  Goods.
11.  Strange Antics  of the  Chair.
12.  Woman’s W orld.
14.  Hardware.
15.  Selling Goods  by  Sample.
Hardware  Price Current.
16.  The  Meat  Market.
17.  Commercial Travelers.
18.  Drugs and Chemicals.
19.  D rug Price Current.
20.  Grocery Price  Current.
21.  Grocery Price  Current.
22.  Getting  the  People.
23.  Gotham Gossip.
24.  High  Prices  Ahead.

Crockery  and  Glassware  Quotation.
Business Wants.

AN  ACT  OF BLASPHEMY.

When  the  officers  sent  by  the  chief 
priests  and  Pharisees to  arrest  Jesus  had 
returned  from  the  temple  where  He  had 
taught,  to  the  marvel  of  the  Jews,  with 
unexecuted  warrant  and  were  asked, 
“ Why  have  ye  not  brought  H im ?" 
they  answered  simply,  “ Never  man 
spake  like  this  man.”

It  matters 

Yet  there  is  a  man  in  Kansas  who  as­
sumes  to  “ demonstrate  how'Jesus  would 
run  an  up-to-date  newspaper  were  He 
little  unto  his 
on  earth.’ ’ 
fellows  what  this  man’s  name  is. 
It 
matters  much  to  his  fellows  that  this 
man’s  vocation  is  that  of  a  minister  of 
the  gospel. 
Is  he  blasphemer  or  sensa­
tion  monger?  Much  of  both  and  little 
of  anything  else.  The  fact  that  he  is  of 
the  clergy  will  not  allow  immunity  from 
this 
indictment— rather  will  that  fact 
prejudge  him  guilty  on  the  dual  counts 
submitted.  Jesus,  if  on  earth,  would 
not  run  a  newspaper.  His  wondrously 
taught  doctrines  have  not  been  carried 
to  the  four  corners  of  the  world,  since 
He  died  for  them  a  finite  death  on  Cal­
vary,  through  such  an  instrumentality, 
nor  will  they  ever  be.  This  Kansas 
minister,  with  something  of  that  vulgar 
thirst  for  notoriety  that  gave  the  tem­
ple  of  Diana  to  the  ashes  of  consuming 
fire,  has  declared,  in  effect: 
“ If  Jesus 
were  on  earth  He  would  conduct  a  daily 
newspaper,  perhaps  at  Topeka,  Kansas, 
and  1  being  the  only  man  amongst  all 
the  multitude  of  men  on  earth  qualified 
for  the  employment,  He  would  make 
me  His  managing  editor.’ ’

it 

That  this  Kansas  minister  proclaims 
that  his  work  of  Jesus  in  the  role  of  a 
daily  newspaper  publisher  is  to  be  ren­
dered  without  compensation  does  not 
mitigate  his  offense  against  ministerial 
sanctity  and  conscience.  On  the  con­
trary,  it  enlarge  and  emphasizes  it 
in 
that 
leaves  no  apparent  motive  save 
that  of  an  unnatural  sacrilege.  We  look 
for  the  compensation  sought  and  can 
find 
it  nowhere  but  in  an  ill-conceived 
thirst  for  notoriety— the  most  pitiable 
reward  that  a  follower  of  the  Humble 
Nazarene  has  ever  craved  from  mortals 
pleading  to  be  shown  the  way  that  leads 
to  life  everlasting.

It 

is  bad  enough  for  men  to  scoff  at

faith 

the  creations  of  orthodoxy.  Few  do. 
These  few  find  incentive  for  blasphemy 
in  the  doings  of  the  pulpit,  oftener than 
not.  Strong  men  and  women  are  not 
swept  away  from  the  safe  anchorage  of 
abiding 
in  the  teachings  of  the 
Saviour,  and  the  supremacy  over  all 
created  things  of  the  Godhead,  by  the 
sensational  clatter  of  the  mountebanks 
and  Pharisees  of  the  ministry  and of  the 
church,  but  the  weak  and  superficial 
are.  Even  these,  however,  must  contem­
plate  with  feelings  of  revulsion  men  of 
the  ministry  who  cease  to  he  teachers  of 
the  word  to  become  chief  priests  in  the 
temples  of  sensationalism,  where naught 
that 
is  pure  can  thrive  and  whence 
truth  is  forever  fled.
charlatan 

blasphemer 
against  the  name  of  any  man,  whether 
laity,  who  assumes 
of  the  clergy  or  the 
to  speak,  write  or  act 
like  that  man 
who  made  His  enemies  wonder  at  the 
feast  of  the  tabernacles,  “ How  knoweth 
this  man  letters,  having never learned?" 
Such  have  no  lofty  purpose  and  do  no 
honor  unto  Him  for  whom  they  assume 
to  speak.

Write 

and 

THE  BRITISH  WAR  LOAN.

According  to  advices 

from  London, 
the  British  war  loan  of  $150,000,000  has 
been  subscribed  for  twenty  times  over. 
This 
loan  has  been  placed  on  the  mar­
ket  as  distinctively  a  war  loan  to  meet 
the  extraordinary  expenditures  resulting 
from  the  war  in  South  Africa. 
It  is  to 
run  for  ten  years,  and  is  to  bear  interest 
at  the  rate  of 
issue 
price  of  the  loan  is 98^.

per  cent.  The 

For  the  first  time  on  record,  a  Euro­
pean  government  loan  has  been  offered 
for  subscription 
in  this  country.  The 
Bank  of  England,  the  agent  of  the  Brit­
ish  government,  in  floating  the 
loan, 
authorized  a  prominent  Wall  Street  firm 
to  solicit  subscriptions  to  the  war 
loan 
in  New  York.  A  good  part  of  the  total 
issue  was  subscribed 
for;  but  as  the 
loan  has  been  so heavily over-subscribed 
in  Europe,  it 
is  hardly  likely  that  the 
American  bidders  will  receive  the bonds 
for  which  they  have  applied.  The  offer­
ing  of  government  bonds  on  the  Ameri­
can  market 
is,  nevertheless,  a  tribute 
to  the  growing  importance  of  New  York 
as  a  financial  center.

An  advertisement  is  something  like  a 
mechanic’s  tool.  You  should  not,ex­
pect  a  dull  saw  to  do  good  work,  nor  to 
bore  a  clean  hole  with  a  broken  auger. 
A  dull  pick  makes  slow  work,  a  plow 
that  does  not  scour  turns  up 
little  so il; 
so  a  meaningless,  unattractive  adver­
tisement  does  injustice  to  your  ability 
as  a  business  man,  narrows  your  sphe-e 
of  business,  and  is  unprofitable.-  -D.  T. 
Mallett.

Truth  tellers  will  be  more  in  demand 
when  more  people  wish  to  know  the 
truth. 

______________

People  who  can  sit  in  the  lap  of 

lux­
ury  never  want  to  take  a  walk  or  saw 
wood.

The  cost  of  experience  is  not  counted 

by  men  who  succeed.

Number  861

A  Sl’ItlG  OF  GREEN.

It  has  been  said  that  life  would  not 
be  worth  living  if  it  were  not  for  senti­
ment,  and  those  words  express  a  great 
truth.

If  man’s 

life  were  made  up  of  the 
gratification  of  the  merely  physical  ap­
petites,  he  would  be  upon  the  low 
level 
of  the  beasts  that  perish.  Fortunately, 
he  is  endowed  with  an  intellectual  and 
¡spiritual  nature  which  can  elevate  him 
to  sublime  heights  but  little  lower  than 
those  that  are  reached  by the angels.  No 
matter  how  humble  may  be  his  station, 
there  is  scarcely  a  human  being  that 
is 
incapable  of  having  kindled  in  his  soul 
a  spark  of  noble  and  generous sentiment 
that  proclaims  his  kinship  to  the loftiest 
and  the  proudest.

And  one  sympathetic  touch  will often­
it  to 
times  kindle  that  spark  and  cause 
into  some  grand  expression 
flame  up 
dedicated 
to  patriotism,  honor  and 
glory.  Such  is  the  sentiment  aroused on 
St.  Patrick’s  day  among  the  millions 
of  the  Irish  race  and  its  descendants  by 
the  display  of  a  simple  sprig  of  green 
foliage.

few   persons  to-day  have  any  definite 
ideas  concerning  the  missionary  priest 
who  taught  religion and civilization over 
fifteen  hundred  years  ago  to  wild  and 
warlike  tribes  of  barbarians;  nor  do 
they  give  any  special  heed  to  the legend 
which  tells  how  the  earth,  when  the 
great  messenger  of  Christianity  passed 
along,  became  starred  with  miniature 
crosses  of  verdure.  But,  all  the  same, 
on  the  morn  of  St.  Patrick's,  the  dis­
playing  of  a  spray  of  green 
foliage 
arouses  the  Irish  people  to  the  highest 
points  of  patriotic  enthusiasm.

The  reason  is  simple :  The  cruciform 
sprig  of  the  shamrock  has  come  to  stand 
in  the  minds  and  hearts  of  the  Irish 
people  for  the  entire  life  and  history  of 
their  Green  Island  and  the  wonderful 
race  of  people  who  have  illustrated  in 
every 
land  their  parliotism,  courage 
and  devotion,  and  have  made  the  ages 
resound  with  their oratory  and  poetry.

The  glory  and  the  greatness  of  the 
Irish  people,  their  sufferings,  their  de­
feats  and  their  misfortunes,  make  up  a 
thrilling  and  romantic  story  the  moving 
events  of  which  are  evoked  by  the  sprig 
of  green  on  St.  Patrick’s  day,  and  it 
shows  the  tremendous  power  of  a  sim ­
ple  suggestion  when  it  is  set  to  arouse 
the  enthusiasm  and  to  play  upon  the 
sympathies  of  the  human  heart.

It 

Sentiment 

is  the  mighty 

force  that 
produces  such  results,  and  it  proves 
its 
kinship  to  something  divine,  because  it 
can  raise  our  human  nature  to  such  sub­
lime  heights  of  imagination,  aspiration 
and  hope. 
is  sentiment  that  keeps 
alive  all  that  is  noble,  good  and  great in 
humanity. 
It  is  that  which  brings  us 
into  a  spiritual  harmony  with  divine 
things,  and  without 
it  man  would  be 
little  better  than  the  besats  of  the  field. 
It  is  through  such  ennobling 
influences 
that  the  sprig  of  green  is  dear to  the 
heart  of  the  Irishman  fifteen  centuries 
after  it  gained  its  first  significance  un­
der  the  ministrations  of  the  Apostle  to 
the  Irish  race.

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

Shoes  and  Leather
Trial» and Tribulation» of the Shoe Dealer.
“ In  1873,  when  I  commenced,  there 
were  only  one-half  the  number  of  job­
bers 
in  business  that  there  are  at  the 
present  day.  While  it  is  true  there  were 
not  so  many  dealers  to  sell  goods  to,  yet 
with  the 
increase  of  both  dealers  and 
jobbers  came  the  greater  increase 
competition,  and  the  harder  work  to  sell 
one’s  goods.  Mv salesmen found  it  much 
easier  to  sell  goods  twenty-five  years 
ago  than  they  do  to-day,  consequently 
1  did  not  find  myself  employing  s 
many  men,  and  mv  expenses  were  fully 
50  per  cent,  smaller.  You  might  say 
that  1  sell  more  goods  these  days  than 
1  did  then.  That 
in­
creased  expenses  and  the  smaller  mar­
gin  of  profits  of  to-day  prevent  my busi­
ness  paying  me  so  well  in  proportion  as 
it  did  in  the  days  gone  by. 
In  1873, 
for  ample  space  to  do 
my  annual  rent 
my  business  was  S i,200  per  year. 
In 
this  year,  1900,  1  am  paying  $5,500  per 
year,  or  nearly  five  times  as  much,  so  it 
is  but  natural  that  my  business  should 
necessarily  grow  to  a  very  great  extent 
in  order  to  make  enough  profit  to  pay 
my  extra  expenses.

is  true,  vet  the 

“ In  1873  we  could  carry  a  stock  to 
meet  the  requirements  of  our  trade  with 
one-third  the  capital  it  now  takes. 
In 
those  days  there  was  not  such  a  variety 
of  styles 
in  demand,  the  changes  did 
not  come  so  often  and  goods  that  sold 
one  spring  and  summer  found  a  market 
the  next  season,  in  case  we  were  un­
lucky  enough  to  carry  them  over.  There 
were  few  manufacturers  who  were  sell­
ing  the  retail  trade,  and  the  field  of  the 
jobber  was  a  greater  one  than  to-day, 
and  consequently  less  opposition  to  con­
tend  with.  In  this  year,  1900,  the  great­
er  part  of  the  shoe  manufacturers  are 
selling  the  retail  trade,  even  firms  who 
are  now  supplying  us,  so  we  have  tofig'- 
ure  on  every  discount  in  order  to  meet 
this  opposition.  1 here  is,  however,  just 
one  element 
in  our  favor,  that  is,  we, 
the  jobbers,carry  the  stock,  so  the  retai 
dealer  can  secure  his  goods  without  1 
day’s  delay.

“ Now,  our  troubles  do  not  cease  here 
We  have  to  put  up  big  fights  with  ou 
manufacturers.  When  they  present  to  us 
their  samples  and  we  order  them  for  oui 
salesmen, 
they  are  generally  perfect. 
These  samples  are  taken  out,  orders 
booked  from  them  and,  accordingly,  we 
place  our  orders.  What 
is  the  result? 
The  manufacturer  makes  the  goods  and 
ships  them  to  us;  we  fill  the  orders  for 
the  retail  dealer,  and  back  comes  word 
that  “ goods  are 
far  from  sample  and 
will not be accepted. ”   Twenty-five years 
ago  we  did  not  have  much  of  this  to 
contend  with,  consequently  we  could 
safely  stock  all  goods  received  by  us 
from  our  manufacturer.  But  times  have 
changed  in  these  twenty-five  years;  now 
we  are  obliged  to  keep  a  couple  of  ex­
aminers  and  go  through  nearly  every 
case  of  goods  we  receive  before  we  ship 
them  to  our  customers.  So  you  see  the 
manufacturer  is  not  the  only  one  in  our 
trade  who  has  troubles.

time 

“ But  I  do  not  stop  here.  We  have 
In  years  past  we 
still  a  greater  trial. 
had  a  comparatively  easy 
in 
handling  our  rubber  department.  We 
could  buy  from  whom  we  pleased  and 
sell  at  such  prices  as  we  pleased.  How 
is 
it  now?  Entirely  different.  Since 
the  organization  of  the  United  States 
Rubber  Co. 
they  have  placed  certain 
prices  on  their  goods,  allow  a  certain 
time  for  payment  and  make  certain  dis­

J WKi  _ 

the  sole 

'1 his  is  apropos  of  the 

‘ Then,  we  are  having  ten  times  as 
many  returned  goods  as  we  used to  have 
years  ago. 
‘ not- 
up-to-sample’  complaint.  Our  custom­
ers  show  less  backbone  to-dav than those 
of  a  quarter of  a  century  ago. 
If  a  cus­
tomer  of  theirs  comes  in  and  claims  to 
have  worn  a  pair  of  shoes  only  two  or 
three  weeks—and 
is  worn 
through  or  the  upper  broken—instead  of 
showing  this  customer  that  he  is  either 
designedly  or  unintentionally  untruth­
ful,  they  accept  his  story,  send the shoes 
back  to  us  and  demand  a  new  pair.  Of 
course  we  endeavor 
to  do  the  square
thing  in  the  matter  and  make  an  allow­
ance,  and  whenever  we  can  we  charge 
this  to  the  manufacturer,  but it  too  often 
happens  that  we  have  to  stand  the entire 
loss. 
People  were  not  so  particular 
twenty-five  years  ago,  and  business  was 
done  on  a  better  basis  than  it  is  to-day.
Ever since  I  have  been  in  business 
I  have  heard  the  cry  that  the  jobber 
must go.  But  I  haven’t  gone  yet,  nor  do 
I  expect  to  for  some  years  to  come.  De­
spite  the 
I 
have  to  do  a  much  larger  business,  with 
many  more  people,  at  smaller  profits 
and  with  much  greater  expenses, 
to 
make  a  living  than  was  the  case  when  1 
started  in  business.  But  1  believe  that 
there  is  a  place  for the  jobber,  and  that, 
notwithstanding  the  many  trials  which 
come  to  him,  he  will  be  a  necessary 
spoke  in  the  wheel  of  business  for  many 
years  to  come.

fact  that  I  am  getting  old, 

is,  our  profits  on 
counts.  The  result 
rubber  goods  are  very  much  curtailed. 
Then  we  have  another  opposition  this 
year  of  1900  that  we  did  not  have  in 
1875. 
In  those  days,  about  all  the  rub­
ber  manufacturers  sold  their  products 
through  the 
jobber,  now  the  new  com­
panies  organized 
in  recent  years  are 
selling  the  retail  trade  direct;  conse­
quently,  we  lose  a  vast  business  in  that 
way.

“ Twenty-five 

“ In  1875,  there  was  less  risk  in  sell­
ing  the  trade  than  the  present  day.  As 
a  general  rule,  the  financial  conditions 
of  dealers  were  better,  and  we  had  few­
er  failures  and  smaller 
losses,  but  how 
is  it  now?  The  most  important  person 
in  a  strong  jobbing  house  to-day  is  the 
credit  man. 
In  other  days,  this  honor 
was  accorded  to  the  business  man,  or 
the  head  and  front  of  the  house,- but  to­
day,  no  matter  how  smart  a  head  you 
have,  no  matter  how  much  business  he 
brings  you, 
the  financial  man  could 
wreck  the  whole  establishment 
if  he 
does  not  thoroughly  understand  his  role.
years  ago  we  never 
broke  a  case  of  goods,  be  it  a  12-pair 
case  of  men’s  shoes,  or  a  6o-pair  case 
of  women’s  goods.  The  cases  were  reg­
ular  sizes,  and  if  a  man  ordered  goods 
he  expected  to  take  them  as  they  came. 
To-day  our  establishment  is  almost  ten 
times  as  large,  because  we  have  to  carry 
broken  lots,  and  we  have  to  peddle  out 
in  single  pairs  just  what  our  customers 
demand.  We  are  doing  almost  a  retail 
business,  and,  in  fact,  we  carry  a  whole 
stock  for  many  of  our  city  and  suburban 
customers,  who  only  have  enough  goods 
their  shelves  to  make  a  show,  and 
who  buy  two  or  three  times  a  week  dup- 
icates  of  what  they  have  sold  since  the 
ast  order.  The  extra  expense  entailed 
by  this  method  is  enormous,  for in place 
of  simply  marking  a  case  and  sending 
t,  we  have  to  have  stock  clerks,  pack­
ers  and  shippers,  all  of  which  makes 
an  extra  cost  in  the  distribution.

“ The  shoe  manufacturer has his trials, 
but  many  of  those  trials  are  brought  up­
on  his  head  because  he  has  tried  to  be  a 
jobber  as  well  as  a  manufacturer. 
If 
he  would  stick  to  his  trade  he  would 
have  fewer  trials,  and,  his  competition 
removed,  the 
jobber  would  be  a  much 
happier  man.  However,  the  jobber has 
got  to  take  trade  as  he  finds  it  and  do 
the  business  he  can,  and  this  is  what  I 
am  doing  under  the  circumstances. ’ ’—  
Boot  and  Shoe  Recorder.

Our Styles for Spring

and  summer are fine. 
If  you  have 
not seen  them you ought to.  They 
will suit your  customers  and  make 
you  money.  W e  make  the  best 
River  Shoes  on  earth.  Try  them. 
Agent 
the  Boston  Rubber 
Shoe Co.

for 

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Rindge,  Kalmbach,  Logie  &  Co.,

10*22  North  Ionia Street,
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Fit and  M isfit

Shoes  that  fit  cost  no  more  than  shoes  that 
don’ t.  O ur  Fine  V ici  and  H orse  H ide  Shoes 
fit  perfectly. 
In  a  perfect  fit  there  is  comfort, 
in  com fort  there  is happiness.  People  will  al­
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ness. 
See  the  point?  O ur  shoes  are  Trade 
H olders.

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promptly.  The sizes and toes which  manu­
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are now in  stock.

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

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

8

CHANGING  VAI-(JES.

Resources  G reater  Than  (Inr  Require­
ments.
Written for the Tradesman.

Business  men  are  watching  with much 
interest  the  almost  unprecedented  ad­
vance 
in  prices  of  most  manufactured 
goods  and  many  natural  products  and 
there 
is  much  speculation  as  to  the 
probability  of  continued  advances,  the 
wisdom  of  buying  on present market and 
the  ultimate  effect  such  advances  may 
have.

As  regards  natural  products  the  price 
is  usually  regulated  by  supply  and  de­
it  should  be,  but 
mand,  which 
is  as 
whether  or  not  this 
is  equally  true  of 
manufactured  goods  is  a  question  which 
is  agitating  the  business  world  as  it 
never  did  before,  but  which  will  not  be 
discussed  here. 
1  wish  merely  to  ex­
press  an  opinion  concerning  the  present 
boom  in  prices  and  its  probable  contin­
uance  and  effect.

Upon  the 

list  of  advancing  natural 
products  the  most  prominent  items  are 
beans  and  broom  corn.  More  beans  are 
grown  in  Michigan  than  any  other  state 
in  the  Union  and  the  market  naturally 
centers  in  the  best  shipping points with­
in  the  State.  The  average  price  of 
beans  at  harvesting  time 
is  about  75 
cents  per  bushel.  This  season,  with  a 
fair crop,  they  have  advanced  to  more 
than  $2  per  bushel.  The  probabilities 
are  that  a  greater  acreage  will  be 
planted  this  year,  and  should  the  crop 
produce 
average  yield,  normal 
prices  will  be  the  result.

the 

Broom  com  is  grown  wholly 

in  Illi­
nois,  Kansas  and  California,  with  Chi­
cago  the  great  central  market  and  dis­
tributing  point.  The  average  price  is 
about  $75  per  ton.  Last  year the  crop 
light  and  a  company  of  jobbers 
was 
their 
combined 
interests  and  bought 
everything 
in  sight  and  have  advanced 
prices  to  more  than  $300  per  ton.  Here­
after,  when  there 
is  a  short  crop  the 
growers  will  refuse  to  sell  and  endeavor 
to  make  this  enormous profit themselves.
Wheat  seems  to  be  the  only  product 
that  has  not  advanced 
in  price,  and 
what 
it  will  or  will  not  do  is  wholly  a 
matter  of  conjecture, as  is  proven  by  the 
diversity  of  opinions  among  men  who 
really  are  good  authorities. 
It  is  a  safe 
guess,  however,  that  the  average  price 
of  wheat  will  be  higher this  year than 
it  was  last.

Com  and  oats  are  in  good  demand  at 
advanced  prices.  Millers 
in  Southern 
Indiana— one  of  the  best  of  corn  grow­
ing  sections— are  buying  com  in  Chi­
cago  and  Minneapolis  from  which  they 
manufacture  meal  and  feed.  Under  the 
present 
low  freight  rates  it  is  a  profit­
able  business.

All  manufactured  products,  with  the 
possible  exception  of  flour,  have  made 
strong  and  continued  advances  and  it 
seems  the  top  is  not  yet  reached.  Se­
lecting  cotton  goods  from  the  long  list 
of  manufactured  articles  which  have 
advanced,  note  the  strength  of  the  pres­
ent  market  and  the  lack  of  supplies  in 
the  hands  of  the  manufacturers,  then 
with  the  present demand, is  it  likely  that 
It  can  not  be 
prices  will  soon  decline? 
expected 
there  will  be  much 
change,  if  any,  before September.  Cot­
ton  goods  are  higher  and  in  greater  de­
mand  than  they  have  been  since  1893.

that 

One  of  the  most  puzzling  questions  a 
buyer has  to  contend  with,  in conditions 
like  these,  is  when  to  buy. 
is  safe 
to  say  that  every  man  Anally  uses  his 
own  judgment,  be  it  right  or  wrong, 
but  a  careful  observance  of  market 
changes  has  convinced  most  buyers  that

It 

it  is  wisest  to  purchase  on  an  advanc­
ing  market,  and  the  wisdom  of  this 
course  is  borne  out  by  the  fact  that  it  is 
also  much  easier to  sell  on  an advancing 
market  than  on  a  declining  one. 
It  is 
true,  too,  that  a  better  margin  of  proflt 
is  to  be  obtained  on  an  advancing  mar­
ket.  Trade  is  always  active  during  an 
advance  and  inactive  during  a  decline. 
The  time  to  do  business  is  when  it  can 
be  done,  and  usually  the  man  who  waits 
for  an  opportunity  lets  an  opportunity 
pass.

We  now  come  to  the  effect  of  high 
prices,  or  rather,  a  boom  in  prices. 
It 
is  quite  true  that  prices  are  like  a  kite, 
as 
it  rises  so  must  it  fall,  and  it  is  a 
noticeable  fact  that  whenever  prices 
advance  quickly  they  also  fall  quickly. 
After  each  period  of  unusual  activity 
in  the  business  world  there  comes  a  cor­
responding  season  of  dulness.  About 
every  ten  years  there  occurs  a  business 
depression  very  closely  approaching  a 
panic. 
It  usually  requires  about  one 
year  to  bring  about  this  condition  of 
affairs  and  about  five  years  to  recover 
from 
It  would  be  supposed 
that  these  things  would  teach  the  Amer­
ican  business  man  caution,  and  it  may 
in  some  cases,  but  as  each  cycle  of  ten 
years  passes 
it  witnesses  thousands  of 
fortunes  lost  and  but  few  regained.

its  effect. 

that 

It 

seems 
by 

wrought 
excessive 
Doubtless  “ competition 
trade,”   but  in  excess 
it 
death  of  trade.

these  changes  are 
competition. 
is  the 
life  of 
is  surely  the 

-Is 

it  not  a  fact  that  a  new  manufac­
turing  industry  is no  sooner  started  than 
capitalists  from  all  parts  of  the  coun­
try  rush  into competition?  Observe,  for 
instance,  the  beet  sugar  and  Portland 
cement  industries  of  this  State.  At  the 
present  rate  of  increase  in  the  number 
of  factories  being  built,  how  long  will 
it  be  before  the  business  is  unprohtable 
for  all?

Observe,  again,  the  cotton  mills  be­
ing  erected  in  the  South. 
In  a  year  or 
two  cotton  manufacturers  will  not  be un­
able  to  And  a  supply  for  the  demand,  as 
is  now  the  case,  but  will  be  unable  to
find  a  demand  for  the  supply.  Then 
manufactured  goods  become  a  glut  on 
the  market, 
throwing 
help  out  of  employment  and  the  country 
is  again  in  the  throes  of  a  business  de­
is  not  a  prediction  of 
pression.  This 
such  a  calamity,  but  a  statement  that 
it 
does  occur  periodically.

factories  close, 

It  would  seem  that  the  resources  of 
this  great  and  magnificent  country  of 
ours  are  greater  than  its  requirements.

L.  F.  Baker.

it 

is 

California 

W ill  Soon  Export  Lemons  to  Foreign 

Countries.
lemons  this  year  will  cut 
more  of  a  figure  in  the  markets  of  the 
United  States  than  ever  before.  The 
larger,  considerably  more  than 
crop 
previous  years,  and 
is  claimed  that 
the  quality  is  much  better.  The  pack­
ing  will  receive  more  attention,  and  un­
der  many  well-known  brands  will  ap­
pear  fruit  which  will  take 
its  place 
against  any  foreign 
lemons  received. 
We  are  likely  to  see  much  higher  prices 
on  California  lemons,  since  the  quantity 
lemons  afloat  from  foreign  ports  is 
of 
not  over  one-half  the  usual  amount  at 
this  season  of  the  year,  and  at  prices 
which  have  been  maintained  at  the  auc­
tions  in  New  Orleans,  Baltimore,  New 
York  and  Boston  during  the  past  month 
or  six  weeks,  it 
leaves  nothing  to  the 
grower  and  packer  and  offers  no  en­
couragement  for  increased  shipments. 
This 
favorable  point  in  the 
California  situation  and  no  doubt  C ali­
fornia  will  see  a  good  demand 
for  her 
best  lemons.

is  a  very 

History  is  repeating itself in the lemon 
industry  of  the  United  States.  Foreign 
prunes, 
foreign  raisins,  figs,  etc.,  and 
lines  of  foreign  dried  fruits
almost  all 

were  used  exclusively 
in  the  L^nited 
States  until  within  recent  years,  but 
California  has  been  able  to  produce  an 
article  equal,  in  fact  better.  The  time 
is  near  at  hand  when  we  will  be  export­
ing  lemons  to  foreign  countries.

These  facts  demand  more  than  pass­
lemon  industry  in 
ing  attention.  The 
the  United  States  is  but  in  its 
infancy. 
This  year  will  launch  it  on  a  Arm  basis, 
and  as  the  crop 
it 
certainly  will,since the  new  orchards  are 
beginning  to  bear 
in  California)  the 
supply  o f lemons  for  the  United  States 
will  come  from  the  Pad Ac  Coast  State, 
and  not  from  foreign  countries  as  here­
tofore.

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ones in stock.  Send  for samples.

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Fire  proof,  wind  proof, 
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Is not 
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Grand Rapids, Mich.

Flaked  Foods

Are the best  and  purest  food  products  known.  Our  Flaked 
Peas,  Flaked  Beans and  Rice  Flakes,  put  up  in  one-pound 
cartons,  produce  the  most  nourishing,  delicious  and  dainty 
dishes of any  product  sold  in a grocery  store.  Costs  no  more 
than ordinary  unflaked  goods. 
If  your  jobber  does  not  sell 
these goods, write  us.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

4

Around  the  State

Movements of Merchants.

Chesaning— Fred  J.  Storr  has  closed 

out  his  clothing  stock  at  this  place.

Tyre— A.  E.  Gunning  &  Co.  have  re­
moved  their  general  stock  to  Wolverine.
Detroit— John  Summerfield  has  pur­
chased  the  grocery  stock  of  Anthony 
Patch.

Three  Rivers— H.  P.  Hilton  has  pur­
chased  the  harness  stock  of  Mrs.  Mary 
Engle.

St.  Johns— George  C.  Robert,  baker 
and  confectioner,  has  sold  out  to  Ernest 
F.  Clark.

Mendon— Mrs.  E.  L.  Watson  succeeds 
Mrs.  Lucinda  M.  Riley  in  the  millinery 
business.

Hudson— The  Beach  Shoe  Co.  has I 
purchased  the  shoe  stock  of  Mrs.  Julia 
J.  Van  Leuvan.

Escanaba— A.  D.  Depius  and  Albert 
Moran  have  purchased  the  grocery  stock 
of  E.  F.  Bolger.

East  Jordan— The  Bridge  Hardware 
in  the 

Co.  succeeds  Bridge  &  Nicholls 
hardware  business.

Northville-----Richardson  &  Brooks,
proprietors  of  the  Star  Clothing  House, 
have  removed  to  Holly.

Owosso— J.  R.  Ketchum,  of  Lockport, 
N.  Y .,  has  purchased  the  stock  of  gro­
ceries  of  E.  L.  Bunting.

Hinchman— Edward  E.  Evans  has 
purchased  the  grocery  and  dry  goods 
stock  of  David  S.  Evans.

Cedar  Springs— Fred  Bartholomew,  of 
Lake  City,  has  purchased  the  bazaar 
stock  of  Mrs.  J.  W.  Dunn.

Litchfield—J.  R.  Hadley  &  Co.  have 
purchased  the  harness  and  implement 
stock  of  Wanless  &  Preston.

Holland— Frank  DeLater,  proprietor 
of  the  Snag  Cigar  Co.,  has  sold  out  to 
the  O.  R.  Johnson  Cigar  Co.

Sherman—A.  S.  Moorland  &  Son,  re­
cently  of  Hadley,  now  residents  of  Sher­
man,  will  shortly  open  a  bank  here.

Mt.  Pleasant— Natzie Seitner  succeeds
M.  Seitner  &  Co. 
in  the  dry  goods, 
shoe  and  men’s  furnishing  goods  busi­
ness.

Hanover— Bert  Sanderson has removed 
from  Litchfield  to  this  place  and  en­
gaged 
in  the  dry  goods  and  grocery 
business.

Harrietta— C.  J.  Benbow,  dealer  in 
dry  goods,  clothing  and  shoes,  has  de­
cided  to  retire  from  business and is clos­
ing  out  his  stock.

Three  Rivers—A.  T.  Smith,  publisher 
of  the  Leader,  has  removed  to  Constan­
tine  and  engaged 
in  the  general  mer­
chandise  business.

St.  Joseph— Miss  Maude V.  Miller  has 
sold  her  millinery  stock 
to  Mrs.  A. 
Weston,  and  will  remain  with Mrs.  Wes­
ton  the  coming  season.

Homer— Fred  Booth,  of  Eckford,  the 
junior  member  of  the  meat  firm  of A.
N.  Booth  &  Son,  has  engaged  in  the 
meat  business  at  Quincy.

Springport— The  retail  drug  firm  of 
Doak  &  Orrison  has  been  dissolved. 
John  E.  Doak,  a member of the  old  firm, 
is  now  the  sole  proprietor.

Sears—-Rockwell  &  Brown,  formerly 
of  Brinton,  have  put  in  a  stock  of  gro­
ceries  at  this  place  and  will  add  a  line 
of  dry  goods  and  shoes  later on.

Laingsburg— The  Doty,  Webster  & 
Reed  Co.  has  purchased  the  general 
stock  of  Mrs.  Wm.  Dowden  and  has  al­
ready  taken  possession  of  same.

Three  Rivers—J.  J.  Carberry,  mer­
chant  tailor,  has  sold  out  to  A.  J.  Dell, 
of  Detroit,  and  removed  to  Detroit, 
where  he  will  engage  in  business.

Hastings—J.  S.  Goodyear  has  ad­
mitted  his  son,  Dwight,  to  partnership 
in  the  dry  goods  business  under  the 
firm  name  of  J.  S.  Goodyear  &  Son.

Pontiac— S.  H.  Reynolds,  of this city, 
has  formed  a  copartnership  with  his 
brother,  T.  J.  Reynolds,  of  Saginaw,  to 
engage  in  the  paint  and  glass  business 
here.

Ishpeming—The  committee  in  charge 
of  securing  stock  for  the  establishment 
of  a  Finnish  co-operative  store  at  this 
place  reports  pledges  to  the  amount  of 
$4,000.

Owosso— R.  N.  Wilson,  who  has  re­
cently  removed  to  this  place  from  Col- 
umbiaville,  has  associated  himself  with 
his  brother,  L.  D.  Wilson,  in  the  gro­
cery  business.

Berlin— A.  E.  McCulloch,  the  veteran 
druggist,  died  March  14,  at  his  home  in 
in  Berlin  in 
this  village.  He  settled 
1856.  Deceased 
leaves  a  widow  and 
three  children.

St.  Louis— L.  B.  Rumsey,  of  Leslie, 
has  purchased  the 
furniture  stock  and 
undertaking  business  of  J.  E.  Bush. 
He  is  a  graduate  of  the  Chicago  College 
of  Embalming.

Owosso— H.  A.  Blackmar  has  sold  his 
drug  stock  and  fixtures  to  B.  S.  Webb, 
of  Alma,  who  will  remove  them  to  the 
latter  place.  Mr.  Blackmar  is  unde­
cided  as  to  his  future.

Negaunee— Thomas  Dwyer,  for  sev­
eral  years  employed  in  the  Iron  Herald 
office,  has  engaged  in  the  confectionery 
business 
in  the  building  recently  va­
cated  by  W.  J.  Hodge.

St:  Joseph— Captain  H.  O.  Wilson  has 
purchased  the  fixtures  and  meat  market 
owned  by  Peterson  &  Wilson  and  has 
leased  the  building  and  will  continue 
the  business  at  the  same  location.

Union  City— A.  D.  Randolph has  sold 
his  cigar  stock  at  Eaton  Rapids  to 
Dodge  &  Corey  and  removed  to  this 
place  to  engage  in  the  bakery  and  res­
taurant  business  in  the  brick  block  re­
cently  erected.

is 

Constantine— L.  A.  Snow,  of  Three 
Rivers,  and  Mr.  Sevison,  of  this  place, 
have  purchased  the  J.  H.  Jones  hard­
ware  stock  and  also  the  block  in  which 
it 
located  and  have  already  taken 
possession  of  same.
,  Ann  Arbor— Fred  Wuerth  and  Robert 
Staebler  have  opened  a  clothing  store  in 
the  building 
just  vacated  by  Linden- 
schmitt  &  Apfel.  Ed.  Wolfel,  formerly 
with  the  Noble  Star  Clothing  House, 
will  be  with  the  new  firm.

Cassopolis— E.  E.  Allgier,  formerly 
in  the  employ  of  the  Michigan  Central 
Railroad  Company  at  this  place,  has 
opened  a  grocery  store  here  under  the 
style  of  E.  E.  Allgier  &  Co.  The 
name  of  the  partner  is  unknown.

Albion—The  Blue  Front  hardware 
stock  has  been  sold  by  Geo.  E.  Dean  to 
Earl  M.  Norton,  of  Lansing.  Charles 
Osborne  has  purchased  the  bicycle 
line 
carried  by  Mr.  Dean  and  has  opened 
a  bicycle  agency  and  repair shop.

Sault  Ste.  Marie— John  A.  Gowan  and 
Albert  F.  Pickford  have  formed  a  co­
partnership  to  engage  in  the  hardware 
business.  Both  gentlemen  were  formerly 
with  the  Chippewa  Hardware  Co.,  Mr. 
Gowan  being  a  member of  the  firm.

Plainwell— J.  R.  Schoonmaker  has* 
purchased  the  store  building  of  S.  B. 
Smith,  and  Mr.  Smith  has  purchased 
Mr.  Schoonmaker’s  stock  of  groceries 
and  added  them  to  his  bazaar  stock, 
and  will  remain  in  his  present  quarters 
for the  summer.  Mr.  Schoonmaker  will 
hereafter  give  his  entire  attention  to 
his  drug  business.

Eau  Claire— The  Business  Men’s  A s­
sociation 
is  at  work  trying  to  secure  a 
new  bank  as  well  as  other  industries. 
Coal  fields  have  been  discovered  on  the 
farm  of  Chauncy  Rees  and  a  company 
is  being  formed  to  exploit  the  deposit.
Shelby— C.  H.  Tuller  has  purchased 
furniture  stock  of  Ira  D.  Bridsall 
the 
and  will  consolidate 
it  with  his  own 
stock  and  will  occupy  the  brick  store 
building  in  the  Allen  block.  Mr.  Bird- 
sail  has  engaged  with  a  wholesale  house 
at  Grand  Rapids.

Menominee— Penberthy,  Cook  &  Co. 
have  begun  the  erection  of  a  cold  stor­
age  on  their  dock  property,  50x100  feet 
in  dimensions,  two  stories  high,  which 
will  cost  several  thousand  dollars.  Sev­
eral  tons  of  fruit  and  produce  can  be 
kept  in  this  cold  storage.

Sault  Ste.  M arie—James  H.  Mc­
Donald,  furniture  dealer,  and  Byron  C. 
Campbell,  dealer  in musical  instruments 
and  sewing  machines,  have  formed  a 
copartnership  under  the  style  of  Mc­
Donald  &  Campbell.  They  will  occupy 
the  building  in  which  Mr.  McDonald  is 
located  for the  present.

Houghton— The  stock  of 

furnishing 
goods  and  clothing  of John Gottstein was 
sold  by  the  sheriff  for  the  benefit  of 
creditors  represented  by  R.  T.  Looney 
and  Dunstan  &  Hanchette.  The  stock 
was  bid  in  by  L.  Miller at  $960. 
It  in­
ventoried  nearly  $2,000 and  the  claims 
represented  aggregated  about  the  same 
amount.

Dowagiac— Fordyce  Savage  and  L. 
C.  Huyck  have  purchased  the  grocery 
stock  of  Chas.  Redding  and  will  con­
tinue  the  business  under  the  style  of 
Huyck  &  Savage.  Mr.  Savage  was 
formerly  engaged 
in  the 
Zelner  block, but was lately in the employ 
of  the  Dowagiac  Manufacturing  Co. 
Mr.  Huyck  was  for  a  number of  years 
a  prosperous  farmer  residing  between 
Wakelee  and  Marcellus.

in  business 

the 

following 

Saginaw— The 

stockholders  of  the 
Saginaw  Produce  &  Cold  Storage  Co. 
have  elected 
officers: 
President,  Wm.  Barie ;  Vice-President, 
John  L.  Jackson;  Secretary  and  Treas­
urer,  Henry  M.  Schmidt.  The  officers 
with  George  Deindorfer  and John  Mead- 
er constitute  the  board  of  directors.  The 
location  has  not  yet  been  decided  upon, 
but  it  will  be  on  the  west  side.  A chem­
ical  refrigerating  apparatus  will  be  put 
in  and  it  is  expected  that  the  plant  will 
be  ready 
for  operation  within  ninety 
days.

M anufacturing Matters.

Ionia— A.  H.  Geek  has  engaged 

in 

the  manufacture  of  cigars.

Manton— The  Williams  Bros.  Co.  has 

purchased  the  O.  C.  Craft  sawmill.

South  Haven— Hiland  W.  Sweet, 
flouring  mill  operator,  has  sold  out  to 
Bishop  &  Smith.

Sturgis— The  Berridge  Shears  Co. 
succeeds  Thos.  B.  Berridge  &  Son  in 
the  manufacture  of  shears.

Croswell—A.  McAllister, 

proprietor 
of  the  cheese  factory  at  this  place,  has 
leased  the  creamery  at  Applegate  and 
will  operate  both  factories  during  the 
season.
^  Thompsonville— Alex.  Immerman,  the 
Sherman  general  dealer,  is  now  sole 
proprietor.of  the  Welden  Charcoal  Co. ’s 
business  at  this  place,  having  recently 
purchased  the  interest  of  his  partner.

Caro— The  Peninsular  Sugar  Refining 
Co.  has  begun  suit  against  the  A.  Wer­
nicke  Machinenban  Acten  Gesellschaft, 
of  Halle  and  Saale,  Germany,  for $500,- 
000 damages  for  alleged  breach  of  con­
tract  to  construct  a  beet  sugar  refining 
plant  at  this  place.

Delray— Articles  of 

incorporation  of 
the  Delray  Sash  &  Door  Co.  have  been 
filed  with  the  county  clerk.  The  capi­
tal  stock  is $25,000,  of  which  $16,300 
is 
paid  in.  The  stockholders  are  Paul  A. 
Wagnitz,  875 shares;  Henry  G.  Wormer, 
625  shares;  Alfred  C.  Wineman,  130 
shares.

Detroit—The  McArthur-Grafton  Co. 
has  been  incorporated,  for  the  manfac- 
ture  and  sale  of  lumber  and  buying  and 
selling  of  timber  land.  The  company  is 
capitalized  at  $21,000,  all  paid  in,  d i­
vided 
into 2,100  shares,  of  which  Peter 
McArthur  of  this  city  and  James  E. 
Grafton  and  George  Eastpn  of  Upper 
Sandusky  hold  700  shares  each.

Dowagiac— Mayor  Richey  has  pur­
chased  F.  L.  Colby’s  one-third 
interest 
in  the  Colby  M illing  C o.’s  State  Roller 
and  Crown  flouring  mills  here,  and  goes 
from  his  position  as  head  miller,  which 
he  has  held  for  fourteen  years,  into  the 
office  of  the  company.  Mr.  Colby  will 
move  to  Detroit  and  enter  into  the  m ill­
ing  business  as  partner with  a  leading 
firm.

Chairman,  E.  A. 

Kalamazoo— A   deal 

Boyne  City— Follmer  &  Stowe  have 
sold  a  third  interest  in  their  shingle and 
tie  mill  and  their tract  of  cedar  timber 
to  John  W.  Balcom,  formerly  engaged 
in  the  manufacture  of  shingles at  Seney, 
who  will  assume  the  active  management 
of  the  business.  Operations  will  be  car­
ried  on  under  the  style  of  the  Follmer 
&  Stowe  Co.,  Ltd.,  the  officers  being  as 
follows: 
Stowe; 
Treasurer,  C.  C.  Follmer;  Secretary 
and  General  Manager,  John  W.  Balcom.
is  on  which  will 
probably  result  in  the  sale  of  the  Kala­
mazoo  Casket  Co.  to  the  Globe  Casket 
Co.  The  Globe  Co.,  which  was  organ­
ized  and  owned  many  years  by  O.  M. 
Allen,  Sr.,  was  recently  reorganized  by 
a  company  of  gentlemen  who  bought the 
Allen  stock,  with  R.  D.  McKinney  as 
president  and  general  manager.  The 
Kalamazoo  company  has  been  owned 
and  operated  by  Lyman  Blakeslee.  Mr. 
McKinney  declines  to  give  the  details 
of  the  sale,  but  does  not  deny  that  it 
is 
contemplated.

Charlotte— There 

is  a  movement  on 
foot  among  the  stockholders  of  the Char­
lotte  Chair  Co.,  whose  plant  has  stood 
idle  for  some  years,  to  again  start  the 
wheels  of  the  factory.  For  several  days 
past  Geo.  C.  Perkins,  of  Detroit,  has 
been  in  the  city,  undertaking  to 
inter­
est  the  owners  of  the  plant  in  his  sani­
If  the  stockholders 
tary  refrigerator. 
and  others  interested  are  willing  to 
in­
vest  in  the  manufacture  of  the  refriger­
ator,  the  company  will  probably be capi­
talized  at  $50,000 and operations begin at 
once.  The  daily  capacity  would  be  150 
refrigerators.

The  Boys  Behind the  Counter.

Cadillac— A.  R. 

formerly 
manager  of  the  Leslie  &  Co.  dry  goods 
store,  is  now  engaged  as  salesman  with 
M.  J.  Present,  of  the  New  York  store.

Labbe, 

Sturgis— E.  A.  Randall,  of Dowagiac, 
has  taken  a  position  as  salesman  in  M. 
Estherson’s  dry  goods  store.

Hancock— Frederick  Laurin  has  been 
engaged  as  assistant  pharmacist  at  the 
City  drug  store.

Eaton  Rapids— E.  F.  Ford,  formerly 
with  Glascow  Bros.,  of  Jackson,  has 
taken  a  clerkship  in  the  dry  goods  store 
of  S.  Amdursky.

Battle  Creek—Robert Lattin  has  taken 
the  position  in  Leon  &  Jennings’  gro­
cery  made  vacant  bv  the  resignation  of 
Perry  Mykins.

Cadillac— Myron  Cooper,  who  had 
been  in  the  employ  of  E.  G.  Snider  & 
Co.,  the  Harristown  grocers,  for  several 
months,  has  gone  to  Duluth,  to  take  a 
position  in  a  grocery  in  that  city.

Grand  Rapids  Gossip

I

The  Produce  Market.

Apples— Carefully 

sorted  Baldwins, 
Jonathans  and  Spys  command  $4  per 
bbl.  Fancy  stock  easily  commands  50c 
additional.

Bagas— $1.35  per  3  bu.  bbl.
Bananas-----Have  advanced 

I5@25c
per bunch  and  trade  is  much  more  ac­
tive  than  last' week.  The  quality  of  the 
few  arrivals 
larger 
sales  are  made.  There  is  a  strong  feel­
ing 
in  all  varieties  and  an  impression 
prevails  that  there  will  be  a  further  ad­
vance  shortly.

improved  and 

is 

It 

Beans— The  market  for  city  picked 
stock  hovers  around $1.95  in  carlots,  but 
is  heavy  and  inactive,  due  to  the  deter­
mination  of  speculators  to  unload  a  por­
tion  of  their  holdings. 
is  estimated 
that  there  are  less  than  200  cars  of beans 
yet 
in  first  hands  in  this  State.  As  it 
requires  150  cars  for  seeding  purposes, 
the  surplus  yet  to  come  forward is small.
Butter— Butterine  appears  to  have  the 
call,  in  consequence  of  which  the  de­
mand  for  the  genuine  is  very  limited. 
Factory  creamery 
is  slow  sale  at  24c, 
while  dairy  rolls  command  20c  for  fancy 
and  18c  for  choice.  Most  of  the  receipts 
of  dairy  are  poor  in  quality.

Cocoanuts—$3.50  per  sack  of  100.
Beets—$1.25  per  3  bu.  bbl.
Cabbage— 85@95c  per  doz.  and  very 
scarce  and  hard  to  get.  California,  $4 
@4.50  per  crate.

Carrots—90c  per  3 bu.  bbl.
Celery—-California  stock 

commands 
6o@90c  per  doz.  Home  grown  will  not 
be  in  market  again  until  spring.

Cranberries— Jerseys  have advanced  to 

$ io@ i i  per  bbl.

Dressed  Poultry— The  market is strong 
and  active,  local  dealers  meeting  with 
much  difficulty 
in  obtaining  supplies 
sufficient  to  meet  their  requirements. 
Chickens  command  n@ i2c.  Fowls  are 
in  active  demand  at  io@ iic .  Ducks  are 
eagerly  taken  at  n@ i2c.  Geese  find  a 
market  on  the  basis  of  7@gc.  Turkeys 
are  in  good  demand  at  10c  for  No.  2 and 
12c  for  No.  1.

last  week  prevented  the  drop 

E ggs—The  continuance  of  cold weath­
er 
in 
prices  which  was  confidently  predicted 
by  dealers  early  in  the  week.  Receipts 
of  fresh  find  an  outlet  at 
I 5 @ i 6 c ,   with­
out  any  accumulation.

Green  Stuff— Grand  Rapids  forcing 
lettuce,  15c  per 
lb.  Onions,  20c  per 
doz.  Parsley,  30c  per  doz.  Pieplant, 
8c  per  lb.  Radishes,  35c  per  doz.

Hay— Market  rules  firm,  No.  1  T im ­
othy,  baled,  quoted  at  $11.50  per  ton  in 
carlots;  mixed,  $ io@i i .

Honey— Dark  is  in  moderate  demand 
in  fair  demand  at 
is  practically  out  of  the 

at  13c.  Amber  is 
14c.  White 
market.

Lemons— Sell 

fairly  well  at  steady, 
unchanged  prices,  except  for  the  best 
quality  goods,  which  appear  to  be  a  lit­
tle  firmer.  The  visible  supply  is  125,- 
000  boxes 
less  than  it  was  last  year  at 
this  time,  which  has  its  influence  in  en­
couraging  holders  to  remain firm in their 
views.  Also  the  season  is  approaching 
when  consumption 
increases  and  deal­
ers  are  preparing  for  a  larger  demand.
5o@6oc.
Squabs  still  fetch  $1.75  per  doz.  and  are 
scarce  at that.  Chickens,  9@ioc.  Fowls, 
8@9C.  Ducks,  gc  for  young.  Turkeys, 
lie  
for  gobblers. 
Geese,  9c.

Live  Poultry-----Pigeons, 

for  hens  and 

ioc 

Maple  Syrup— Selling  at  75@85c  per 

gal.,  as  to  quantity  and  quality.

for 

Nuts—Ohio  hickory  have  declined  to 
$1 
large  and  $1.25  tor small.  But­
ternuts  and  walnuts  are  in small demand 
at  60c  per bu.

Onions— Home  grown  command  50© 

60c,  according  to  quality.

Parsnips—$1.75  per  3  bu.  bbl. 
Pineapples— Florida  fruit  brings $3.75 

per doz.

3.50  per  box.

Pears— California  quoted  at  $3.25© 

Potatoes— The  market  is  without  par­
ticular  change.  Local  buyers  throughout 
the  State  are  paying  26©28c.  Locally 
sales  are  made  in  small  quantities at 40c 
per  bu.

Seeds—The  market  is  strong  and  de­
mand  is  good  for so  early  in  the  season.

prime 

clover, 

Mammoth 
recleaned,  $5.25© 
5.50;  medium  clover,  good  to  choice, 
$4@5.5o;  Alsyke  clover,  $6.75@7.5o; 
Alfalfa  clover,  $6@6.75 ;  crimson  clover, 
$4@4-6o ;  timothy, 
to  choice, 
$i.20@i.4o;  field  peas,  white,  85c©$i  ; 
red  top,  prime  to  choice,  6oc@$i  ;  red 
top,  clean  from  chaff,  $i.50@i.75;  or­
chard  grass,  $i. io@ i.3o ;  blue  grass,  75c 
@$1.10.

Straw— Carlots  of  baled  quoted  at 
$5.50  per  ton  for  wheat  and  oat  and  $7 
for  rye.  Last  named  very  scarce.

Sweet  Potatoes— Kiln  dried  Jerseys 

command  $4©4.25  per  bbl.

Tallow— Common,  4^ c  per  lb.  ;  ma­

chine^  grade.  53^©5^c.

Tomatoes— Florida  stock 

$3-75  Per  crate.

Turnips—$1  per  bbl.
Veal— Dressed  carcass,  7^@ gc  per 

lb.,  as  to  quality.

commands 

The  Grain  Market.

The  situation  in  wheat  values  has  not 
changed.  Weather  conditions 
favored 
an  advance,  but  the  amount  of  long 
wheat  dumped  on  the  market  was 
large 
and  prices  could  not  be  advanced.  Sat­
urday 
it  made  a  spurt  of  ic  gain,  but 
lost  it  all  on  Monday.  While  the  cry  is 
“ No  foreign  demand,”  and  we  find  that 
our  exports  are  not  as  large  as  last  year, 
they  are  large  enough  to  take  all the sur­
plus,  so  the  visible  does  not  gain  any, 
but  rather  declines  slowly.  As  the  roads 
are  breaking  up  and  the  interior  eleva­
in  the  Northwest  are  being  drawn 
tors 
on  heavily 
for  milling  purposes,  we 
think  the  receipts  will  fall  off  very  ma­
terially 
future.  As  the 
sleighing  has  been  good  locally,  our  re­
ceipts  have  been  somewhat  better. 
Farmers  have  sold  about  all  they  care 
to  sell  at  present  prices,  for what  small 
lots  are  yet  back  are 
in  strong  hands 
and  not  likely  to  come  onto  the  market 
unless  better  prices  can  be  obtained.
Com  has  eased  off  somewhat 

this 
week,  not  enough  to  make  any  percep­
tible  change,  only  that  prices  are  not  as 
strong,  but  all  that  is  offered  is  taken.

the  near 

in 

Oats  remain  firm  and  more  enquiry 

can  be  reported.

to*all  expectations.

Rye  has  advanced 

fully 

ic,  contrary 

There  is  an  active  enquiry  for  beans 
It  will  be  hard  work  to 

at  old  prices. 
raise  them  above  the  $2  mark.

Flour  is  very  firm,  as  the  demand  is 

some  better  for  all  grades.

Mill-feed  is  about  the  same  as 

it  has 
been  for  some  time,  as  the  mills  are 
sold  ahead  yet.  No  change  in  prices 
can  be  recorded,  $16  per  ton  being  the 
going  price.

Receipts  of  grain  have  been  large, 
being  79  cars  of  wheat,  21  cars  of  com, 
12  cars  of  oats,  1  car of  flour  and  5  cars 
of  potatoes.  When  a  car of  wheat  aver­
ages  700  bushels,  you  can  see  what  an 
amount  of  wheat  has  come  to  this  city. 

Millers  are  paying  68c  for  wheat.

C.  G.  A.  Voigt.

H er Strong  Point.
She has no dog to fondle.
She has no cat to pet;
She does not own a parrot,
She leads no social set;
She writes no learned papers 
To read where women meet.
But she can get up dishes 
Her husband likes to eat.
And they are saving money.
And find that life is sweet.

Becker  &  Bergeron  have  engaged  in 
business  at  659  South 
The  Ball-Bamhart- 

the  grocery 
Lafayette  street. 
Putman  Co.  furnished  the  stock.

Henry  Schaafsma  succeeds  Rosen- 
moom  &  Schaafsma 
in  the  hardware 
business  at  786  North  Lafayette  street.

For  G illies’  N.  Y. 

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

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

5

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugars— The  raw  sugar  market 

is  , 

it 

if 

for  refined 

stronger,  but  prices  show  no  change,  96 
deg.  test  centrifugals  being  still  offered 
at  4}ic.  The  demand 
is 
good  and  the  market  is  very  firm  at  the 
advance  of  five  points  on  all  grades 
which  took  place  on  Monday.  The  mar­
gin  between  raw  and  refined  sugar 
is 
now 
per  100  pounds,  which  nets
the  refiner  a  good  profit.  The  margin 
between  raws  and  refined  was  only  30c 
per  100  pounds  at  the  corresponding 
period 
last  year,  when  practically  the 
same  conditions  prevailed  as  at  present.
Canned  Goods— Not  for  many  years, 
if  ever  before,  has  the  canned  goods 
market  remained  quiet  so 
long.  There 
is  almost  no  demand 
for  futures  and 
spot  goods  move  only  to  fill  actual  re­
quirements.  The  demand  for  all  vari­
eties 
is  limited  to  the  needs  of  present 
consumption  and  buyers  show  absolute­
ly  no  disposition  to  anticipate  their 
wants  by  buying  for  possible  future  dis­
tribution.  First  hands  have  only  small 
supplies  of  anything  left,  except  toma­
toes  and  possibly  some  corn.  Tomatoes 
are  still  depressed,  both  spot  and  fu­
tures.  There 
is  little  or  nothing  doing 
in  any  grade  or  variety.  Com  is  firm, 
but  not  selling  briskly at present.  There 
is  a  small,  steady  consumptive  demand 
in  a  healthy 
which  keeps  the  market 
condition,  even 
is  quiet.  Many 
have  already  made  their  purchases  of 
future  com,  but  a  number  have  not,  and 
the  future  sales  of  this  article  for  this 
season  fall  considerably  short  of  pre­
vious  years.  The  situation 
is 
somewhat  puzzling,  owing  to  the  high 
prices  and  the  small  supply  on  the  spot. 
For  spot  goods  there  is  a 
fair  demand 
at  full  quotations,  but  prices  are so  high 
that  buyers  take  only  what  they  are 
actually  compelled  to  take  to  supply 
present  trade  requirements.  There 
is 
little  taking  of  futures,  partly  because 
buyers  think  the  price  is  too  high,  but 
more packers  are  afraid  of  the  pea  louse 
and  dare  not  sell  large  quantities. 
In 
small  fruits  about  the  average  amount 
of  business  for  the  season 
is  being 
transacted,  with  no  features  to  attract 
particular  attention.  There  is  consider­
able 
in  future  canned  pineap­
ples  and  a  number  of  sales  have  been 
made  during  the  past  week.  Salmon 
attracts  more  attention  as  the  demand 
for  the  spring  trade  increases.  Some 
varieties  are  scarce  and  the  enlarging 
demand  has  a  tendency  to  force  prices 
up,  although no  quotable  change  has  oc­
curred  as  yet.  There  is  a  fair  business 
in  lobsters,  but  the  supply  in  market 
is 
small  and  no  more  appears  to  be  pro­
curable  except  at  practically prohibitive 
prices.  The  destruction  has  been  so  se­
rious  during  recent  years  that  more 
stringent 
laws  for  their  protection  are 
being  enacted  and  the  close  season  has 
been  lengthened  materially.

in  peas 

interest 

Dried  Fruits— Still  more  business  is 
noted  in  the  dried  fruit  trade,  although 
scarcely  enough  to  increase  prices  ma­
terially.  The  additional  business serves 
encourage  holders,  however,  and 
to 
there 
is  a  stronger  feeling  in  all  lines. 
The  increase  is  in  the  number  of  orders 
in  the  size  of  individual 
rather  than 
demands.  The  outlook 
is  considered 
more  promising  and  an  upwa.d  tend­
ency  is  observable.  There  is  more  ac­
tivity  in  prunes  and  they  are  selling 
in 
constantly  increasing  quantities.  There 
is  sufficient  movement  to 
a 
healthy  feeling  and  to  change  the  price 
tendency,  so  that  it  is  probable  that  an 
advance  will  soon  take  place.  Raisins 
continue  dull,  with  only  small  sales.

create 

There  are  said  to  be  about  115  cars  in 
association  sweat  boxes,  but  most  of 
them  will  go  to  the  wineries.  The  bulk 
of  the  supply  is  composed  of  the 
lower 
grades,  Orientals  and  Pacifies,  and  the 
demand  for  them  is  light  at  present. 
It 
is  expected  that  there  will  be  a  better 
trade  later,  but  at  present  the  situation 
presents  no  encouraging  features.  The 
peach  situation  is  unchanged.  Several 
large  sales  of  cheap  peaches  could  be 
made 
if  the  stock  could  be  found,  but 
dealers  are  unable  to  find  it.  It  is  prob­
able  that  holders,  if  there  are  any,  will 
never  have  a  more  favorable  time  for 
disposing  of  any  cheap  goods  that  they 
have.  For  high  grade  peaches  the  de­
mand  at  present  is  light,  but  ail  stocks 
are  held  steady  and  conditions  are  im ­
proving.  The  prospect  for  active  trad­
ing  is  promising  and  holders  are  confi­
dent  of  enlarged  business  shortly.  A p­
ricots  are  wanted,  but  are  hard  to  find 
and  prices  are  too  high  to  permit  active 
trading.  Dates  are  steady,  with  per­
haps  a  slightly  increased  demand  since 
the  weather  became  more wintry.  Prices 
ate  steady  at  about  previous  range. 
There 
is  an  improved  demand  for  figs, 
March  generally  being  an  active  month. 
Currants  are  firm,  with  no  change  in 
price.  The  evaporated  apple  market  is 
practically  unchanged,  but  the  previous­
firmness  continues  and 
ly  mentioned 
there  are 
indications 
improved 
prices.  Sales  are  not 
large,  but  are 
numerous  and  the  steady  consumptive 
demand  is  having  its  influence  in  caus­
ing  a  firmer  feeling,  certain  to  result  in 
advanced  prices.

of 

Rice— Rice  remains  steady 

in  price, 
improved  demand, 
with  a  somewhat 
which 
is  expected  will  increase  as 
soon  as  the  regular  spring  buying  be­
gins.

it 

Molasses  and  Syrups-  There 

Tea— The demand  for  tea  is  consider­
ably  improved,  especially  for  the  better 
grades.  Prices  are  firmly  maintained, 
with  an  upward  tendency  to  the  market.
is  no 
in  the  molasses  market.  The 
change 
demand 
is  fair,  but 
is  somewhat  re­
stricted  on  account  of  the  high  prices. 
The  corn  syrup  market  has  advanced  ic 
per  gallon,  with  a  corresponding  ad­
vance  on  cases.  The  demand 
for  these 
goods  is  enormous,  particularly  for  the 
syrup  in  cans,  and  still  higher  prices  in 
the  near  futrue  are  very  likely.  The 
demand  has  been  so  large  that,  although 
the  refinery  has  been  running  night  and 
day,  it 
is  still  behind  on  its  orders  to 
the  amount  of  600  cars.

Hides,  Pelts,  Furs,  Tallow  and  Wool.
Hides  have  struck  bottom  and  are  on 
the  advance 
for  higher  values.  All 
stocks  are  closely  sold  up.  Buyers  are 
out 
in  force  and,  when  the  country  lots 
are  bought  up,  prices  will  be  more  and 
hides  a  scarce  article.

Sheep  pelts  are  largely  valued by wool 
on  them,  although  the  price  varies  as 
the  wool  market  indicates.  The  whole 
trade  is  controlled  by  packers.

Furs  are  quiet,  but  firm,  awaiting  the 

outcome  of  the  London  sales.

Tallow 

indicates  a 

lower  value  on  a 

fair demand.

Wools  are  strongly  held  in  the Eastern 
market,  with 
light  sales.  Manufactur­
ers’  requirements  are  supplied  on  such 
terms  as  can  be  made  for  the  time  and, 
in  some  cases,  on  small  lots,  a  conces­
sion  of  price  is  made.  One  requiring 
a  large  line  would  have  to  pay  full  val­
ues  as  quoted. 

Wm.  T.  Hess.

Mrs.  Gertrude  Quartell  has  sold  her 
grocery  stock  at  38  Maple  street  to  M. 
Van  Zee  &  Co.

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MICHIGAN

per

doz.  Thin 
bundle.

Accurate  Index  of  the  Principal  Staples 

Handled.
Beans— Market  shows 

little  strength 
owing  to  light  trade  and  a  desire  on  the 
part  of several  holders  to  clean  up.  The 
majority  of  sellers,  however,  are  con­
fident  of a firmer market  as  soon  as  these 
few 
lots  are  out  of  the  way.  Marrows 
are  selling  at  $2.i5@2.4o;  pea  $i.gc@ 
2.20;  medium  $2@2.24;  white  kidney 
$2@2.50.

Butter—A   weak  feeling  prevailed  last 
week  up  to  the  closing.  Buyers  took 
only  sufficient  to  supply trade necessities 
and  with  quite  a  liberal  supply  of  top 
grades  at  the  opening this  week  the  out­
look  is  not  encouraging.  Low  grades 
anything  which  would  sell at 20@22c.are 
wanted  and  all  such  offerings  are  dis­
posed  of  on  arrival.  Rolls are  especial­
ly  active  at  20c  for  fancy  and  i8@ioc 
for  good  to  choice.  Fancy  creamery 
was offered to-day at  25c; good to choice 
2,2@24c-  Dairy  20@23c  and  packing 
stock  i6@i7c,  crock butter  i6@22c.

Eggs— All  sorts  of  prices  prevailed 
last  week.  Early  figures  were  14c  and 
gradually  advanced  to  18c  on  Saturday. 
Receipts  expected  here  earlier  in  the 
week  failed  to  arrive  and  the  few  hold- 
ers  took  advantage  of  the situation ;  sev­
eral 
smart  ’  dealers  who  were  first  to 
break  prices  a  week  ago  on  a  few  hun­
dred  crates  have'been  made  to  eat  salt 
from  the  hands  of  those  who  had  eggs 
w  
.uere-  on  ,Fn'day  and  Saturday. 
Weather  is  considerably  warmer  to-day 
with  17c  extreme  on  fancy  fresh  and 
prospects  are  for  lower  prices  as  soon 
as  any  accumulation  is  shown.  Strict- 
y  fancy  sold  to-day  at  I7@ i8c,  storage 
! l @ i3c,  duck  eggs  2o@2ic.

Cheese— Very 

for  old 
cheese.  New  fancy  selling  fairly  well 
at  I2@ i2^c.  Old  quoted  at 
skims  8@ioc. 

light  demand 

J

fair  to  good  m @ i i ^ c. 

Dressed  Poultry— A  little  heavier  re­
ceipts,  but  barely  enough  to  go  around 
3u-  market  continues  strong.  Fancy 
chickens  cleaned  up  on  arrival  at  I2@ 
Fowl 
13c, 
fancy,  n ^ c , 
ioK @ iic ! 
fair  to  good 
old  roosters  8 K @ 9 ^ c;  turkeys,  fancy 
sma  1,  I2@ i 3c ;  fair to  good 
it@ n ^ c . 
I2@ i4c.  No  geese 
Ducks  scarce  at 
offered.  Broilers  will  bring  u@ n;c 
Capons  J3@i5c.

Live  Poultry— Receipts  fairly  liberal 
and  market  slightly  easier  at  the  close 
ot  the  week  owing  to  unfavorable weath­
er-  Outlook,  however,  is  for  continued 
high  prices  for  all  kinds.  Turkeys  n  
@ i i K c,  chickens  io^ @ i i c ;  broilers  i 3 
io@ iic ,  ducks  ooc@$i.ic 
@ i5c; 
per  pair,  geese  65c@$i  each.

fowl 

Apples  Strong,  good  local  and  ship­
ping  demand  and  offerings  light.  Fancy 
ruit  selling 
seconds 
$2@2. 75-

at  $3. 25@3.50, 

Strawberries— Good  demand  and  light 
fair  to  good 

fancy  $4o@45, 

receipts; 
$2 5 <®3o. 

6

^

and

Radishes— Scarce ;  per  doz.  j8@25c,
Pieplant— D u ll;  best  offered  at  50@ 

Carrots— Strong; 

fancy  $io@i2  ner 

60c  per  doz.

ton. 

Squash— Higher;  sound  selling  at  Sa 

per  100  pounds.

Vegetable  Oysters-----Scarce 

wanted ;  per  doz.  5o@6oc.

Horseradish—Stronger,  selling  at  $6 

«56.50  per  100  pounds.

Dried  Fruits—Apples  qu iet;  evapo­
fair  to  good  5@6i£c. 
lb.  Blackber­

rated  fancy,  8c, 
Raspberries  i 3@ h c   per 
ries  7@qc.

Dressed  Meats— Hogs  sold  at  $5  75® 
6.25,  veais,  prime,  8@8^c,  fair  to  good 
7W / 2c,  spring Iambs quoted at £4.50(^5.
in  good  request. 
Oat  and  wheat $7@7- 5°. rye  «8.50^9  per

Straw— Scarce  and 

Hay— Firm ;  prime  loose  baled  $14.75 
@15,  prime  tight  baled  $i3.5o@i4  25
No.  2  $n.5o@ i2. 
3

large 

History  of an  Egg  from  Iowa  to  Cuba.
Fort  Dodge,  la.,  March  10— This  city 
has  become  one  of  the  centers  of  the 
egg  and  poultry  business  for  the  West 
During  the  shipping  season  in  the  sum­
forces  of  girls  are 
mer  months 
employed  handling  eggs  taken 
from 
pickling vats  in  the  egg houses,  prepara 
tory  to  shipment.  One  of  the  girls  se 
lected  a 
large,  smooth  egg,  and,  in  ; 
moment  of  day-dreaming  wrote  her 
name  and  address  upon  it  with  an  in­
It  was  placed  in  a  case 
delible  pencil. 
with  277  others  and  shipped  to  New 
York,  where 
its  way  to  the 
warehouse  of  an  exporter  and  was one of 
the  first  shipments  of  American  eggs 
made  to  Cuba. 

it  found 

68

Weeks  slipped 

into  months  and  the 
young  lady  forgot  her  romantic  dreams 
of  summer  days  and  egg  shells,  but  the 
maiden  s  message  was  working  out  her 
destiny.  Early 
in  December  she  re- 
ceived  a  letter  which  bore  the  postmark 
01  Guiñes,  Cuba.  On  the  upper  right- 
hand  corner  of  the  envelope  were  the 
words  official  business. ’ ’  These  were 
carefully  cancelled  afid 
in  the  regula­
tion  place  was  a  maroon-colored  stamp 
On  opening 
it  she  found  the  followin¿ 
letter  enclosed: 
6
Guiñes,  Cuba,  Dec.  14,  1899— I  am 
sure  you  had  no  idea  into  whose  hands 
and  to  what  distant  lands  the  egg  upon 
which  you  wrote  your  name  would  go.
It  came  with  a  large  shipment  from  the 
United  States  and  was  purchased  by  ; 
Cuban  merchant  here,  who,  being  un­
able  to  read  English,  brought  it  to  me 
I  would  be  very  glad  to 
tor  translation. 
have  you  answer  this 
letter,  as  I  am 
curious  to  know  the  one  who  adopted 
I 
so  novel  a  method  of  correspondence 
have  a  camera  and  have  had  a  snapshot 
in  my 
taken  of  myself  with  the  egg 
hand. 
If  you  care  for  one  of  the  pic 
tures  let  me  hear  from  you.

Ut

Potatoes— Trade  has  been  quiet  this 
week  but  supply  is  only  fair  and  sellers 
are  only  slightly  easier  than 
last  week 
on 
fancy  round  stock.  Several  lots  of 
long  and  not  very  desirable  potatoes 
have  reached  this  market  lately,  which 
holders  are  rather  anxious  to  work  off.
I his  is  a  good  time  to  market  stock,  in 
the  opinion  of  the  best  traders  here,  as 
with  any  improvement  in  roads  a  heavy 
movement 
is  certain.  No.  1  white  is 
offered  at  5o@52c:  No.  1  red  49@coc •
No.  2  47@48c  on  the  track,  and  from  3 
to  5c  higher  from  store.

Onions— H igher;  better  demand  and 
really  sound  yellow  stock  is  moving  out 
quite 
freely  at  48@5oc ;  fair  to  good  40 
@42c,  red  45@48c,  white 6o@65c.  Green 
onions  io@i5c.

Celery— Small 

common  stuff 

is  in 
heavy  supply  and 
lower.  Fancy  was 
affected  by  this  and  it  was  difficult  to 
get  above  5o@6oc  for  the  best  on  offer. 
Small,  short  stuff  sold  at  io@i5c.

Cabbage  Higher,  active  demand  and 
very  light  supply.  Fancy  sold  at  $38@
40  per  ton  and  fair  to  good  at  $306535 
per  ton.  A  few  crate  of  California  were 
received  and  sold  at  $3.5°@4  per  crate.
Lej tuf e — Fair  supply  and  active  de­
mand  for  fancy  heads  at  5o@6oc  per

Charles  Percy  H.  Smith, 

i nis 

letter  was  promptly  answered, 
with  a  request  for  the  picture,  which 
arrived  in  due  time,  with  another 
let 
ter,  in  which  Mr.  Smith  gave  a  more 
detailed  personal  account  of  himself.

1  eedless  to  say,  this 

letter  was  an­
swered  as  the  first.  Uncle  Sam’s  excel­
facilities  assisted  the  voung 
lent  mail 
people 
in  overcoming  the  obstacles  of 
time  and  space.  Letters  followed  fast 
it  not  furious,  but  the  communications 
were  of  such  nature  that  the  public  is 
not  entitled  to  their contents.  Sufficient 
to  relate  that  the  results  have  been  so 
satisfactory  that  a  recent  letter  from  the 
Cuban  Isle  intimates  that Mr.  Smith will 
soon  secure  a  leave  of  absence  from  his 
g°y,efnmental  duties,  and  his  vacation 
will  be  spent  in  Iowa.

At  Least  One Valid  Objection.

^ M iss  Askew— So  your  marriage  is  put

Miss  Crummy— Y e s;  papa 

is  not  at 
all  satisfied  with  his  position ;  mamma 
fam ily  connections- 
doesn  t 
like  his 
auntie  thinks  he 
is  too  careless  in  his 
dress,  and  I  think—

Miss  Askew— Yes,  what  do  you think? 

that  is  the  important  thing.
Miss  Crummy— I  think 

wait  until  he  asks  me.

I  ought  to 

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Beport from  the  Representative o f  Mich 

igran  Grocers.

New  York,  March  15— I  have  the  hon 
or  to  acknowledge  receipt  of  my  creden- 
tials  as  representative  of  the  Michigan 
Retail  Grocers’  Association  to  the  Pure 
food  and  Drug  Congress  held  in  Wash- 
mgton,  D.  C.,  March  7  to 9, 
inclusive.
there  were  present  several  delegates 
from  other  interests 
in  Michigan;  but 
your  representative  was appointed on the 
most  important  committee  of  that  body 
— the  Committee  on  Resolutions— and 
was  enabled  to  carry  through 
every 
amendment  excepting  the  one  for  the 
substitution  of  Section  1  of  the  Babcock 
bill  for  Section  1  of  the  Brosius  bill 

It  is  all-important  that  your  Associa­
tion  should  be  keenly  alive  to  the action 
■ <t  Congress  and  see  to  it  that  the  guar- 
inty  proviso 
in  Sec.  6  of  the  Brosius 
bill  be  retained.  There  is  a  formidable 
°£P<?sl,tI°i1  to  this  provision  and  of  an 
official  character. 
I  advise  that  every 
member of  your Association  and  everv 
member  of  every  grocers’  association  of 
Michigan  write  their  Congressmen  in 
person,  in  favor  of  this  measure,  and 
avoid  sending  printed  petitions,  which 
are  only  thrown  in  the  waste  basket.

Frank  N.  Barrett.

D.  B o o sin g

General 

Commission  M erchant

SPECIALTIES

Butter  Eggs

Poultry  Beans

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Ruling prices on  the  Buffalo  mar­

ket Monday,  March  12;

dressed..........10H@U 

.................. 18  @20  c
Tub Butter..................18  @21  c
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geese..........................„   ^ 12  £
Gucks  .........................  @13  c
Turtieys.......................10  @13  c

If our market is  satisfactory,  ship.

Correspondence solicited.

References:  Bank of Buffalo and  Bun’s  ® 

3ud Bradstreet's Agencies.

154  Michigan  Street,

Accustom  yourself  to  think  and  act 
vigorously  and  be  prompt  and  decided 
tor  the  right  against  wrong.

Buffalo, New  York.

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MACKEY  A WILLIAMS.

Dealers in

BUTTER,  E G G S.  C H E E SE .  P O U L T R Y .  E T C .  

6 2   W .  M A R K E T   &   1 2 5   M IC H IG A N   S T S .  

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future 

is  verified.  But 

supplies  will  run 

Fruits  and  Produce.
Observations  by  a Gotham  Egg  Man.
When  Western  shippers  speculate  in 
eggs  at  this  season  of  year  by  ordering 
their goods  held  off  the  market  for  high­
er  prices  than  obtainable  on  arrival, 
and  when  such  withdrawals  from  sale 
result  in  a  considerable  accumulation 
of  stock  in  first  hands,  there  is  often  a 
lack  of  appreciation  of  the  inherently 
unhealthy  conditions  which  are  thus 
often  produced.  Of  course  this  with­
holding  from  sale  is  done  in  the  belief 
that 
light 
enough  to  afford  a  clearance  of  accumu­
lations  at  a  higher  range  of  prices,  and 
when  the  expectations  of  speculative 
holders  are  thus  realized  the  wisdom  of 
their  action 
fre­
quently  happens  that  shippers  who order 
goods  held  for  higher  prices  form  their 
judgment  as  to  future  trade  conditions 
from  too  narrow  a  range  of  informa­
tion.  Even  although  they  may  gauge 
the  prospective  supply  with  some  ac­
curacy,  they  fail  to  give  due  weight  to 
the  condition  of  the  demand  and  the 
effect  upon  the  consumptive  outlets  of  a 
change  in  price. 
It  often  happens  that 
the  advance  in  wholesale  prices  caused 
by  a  general  withdrawal  of  stock 
from 
sale 
reduces  the  consumptive  outlets 
considerably,  and if  the  decrease  in  cur 
rent  arrivals  is  not  so  great  as  antici 
pated,  it  follows  that  the  first  general 
effort  to  realize  on  the  holdings  in  store 
causes  a  sudden  and  serious  slump  in 
values.  This  is  the  condition  which  re 
suited 
in  so  serious  a  drop  in  prices 
last  week  and  although  the  drop  then 
effected  carried  prices  lower  than  could 
afterward  be  maintained,  it  showed  to 
what  wide  fluctuations  the  market  is  ex 
posed  when  considerable  quantities  of 
eggs  previously  withheld  from  sale  are 
sold.  Unfavorable 
suddenly  ordered 
weather  conditions  during 
latte 
part  of  February  gave  many  shippers  of 
eggs  an 
impression  that  our  market 
would  soon  run  short  of  eggs  and  thou 
sands  of  cases  accumulated  in first hands 
under  limits.  The  withdrawal  of  thii 
stock  from  sale  resulted  in  so  great  a re 
duction  of  offerings  as  to  cause  consid 
erable  advance  in  prices,  but  the  regu 
lar  consumptive  demands  were 
fully 
supplied  from  day  to  day,  and 
it  was 
perfectly  natural  that  any  considerabl 
effort  to  realize  on  accumulations  would 
overstock  the  consumptive  outlets  and 
throw  a  surplus  on  the  market  which 
could  only  be  sold  at  a  price  low enough 
to  attract  speculative  and  out-of-town 
buying.  This  brings  us  to  emphasize 
the  fact  previously  mentioned, that when 
prices  are  advancing  under  speculative 
holding  of  stock  actually 
in  hand  the 
time  to  begin  unloading  is  before  peo 
pie  generally  think  the  top 
is  reached 
When  the  tendency  is  upward  it  is  a 
ways  possible  to  sell.  When  everybody 
knows  the  top 
is  reached  there  is  no 
chance  to  force  any  unusual  quantity  to 
sale  except  at  a  more  or  less  serious 
decline.

the 

*  *  *
1  have  noticed  some 

irregularity 

the  price  of  Western  eggs  during  the 
past  week  because  the  quality  of  stock 
has  not  been  at  all  uniform  and  buyers 
have  shown  a  willingness  to  pav  more 
for  first-class  goods  than  fortheordina 
qualities.  Many  of  the  accumulations 
which  have  been  carried  along 
from 
week  to  week  have  been  of  very unsat i 
factory  quality  and  even  among 
fresh  arrivals  there  has  been  a  go« 
deal  of  difference  in  size  and  cleanness,

the 

so  doing 

has  been  somewhat  troublesome  to 
specify  these  different  qualities  in  mak- 
ng  quotations  so  that  they  would  be 
clearly  understood  by  ‘ shippers, 
and 
it  has  been  necessary  to 
resort  to  terms  which  are  not  entirely 
satisfactory because somewhat indefinite. 
Some  of  the  eggs  arriving  have  shown 
better quality  than  usual  because  ship­
pers  have  graded  them  to  some  extent, 
packing  the  very  small  and  dirty  sepa­
rately.  These  goods,  while  n«>t  graded 
closely  enough  to  come  under  the  E x­
change  requirement 
for  “ extra,”   have 
yet  been  better than  the  minimum  qual­
ity  passable  as  firsts  and  buyers  have 
preferred  them  at  a  slight  premium  in 
price.  The  expedient  has  been  therefore 
resorted  to  of  making  a  quotation  for 

selected  choice”   a  little  above  the  ru 
for  “ firsts”   in  order  to  cover 
ng  rate 
the  sales  actually  made.  But  this  is  not 
ltogether  satisfactory  because 
some 
goods  which  shippers  call  “ selected”  
do  not  show  quality  to  bring  the  pre­
mium,  while  occasional 
lots  which  are 
not  selected  run  fine  enough  to  sell 
about  as  high  as  any.  However  the  ar­
rangement  has  been  the  best  possible 
under  the  circumstances. 
I  am  more 
than  satisfied  that  if  shippers would give 
us  stock  to  meet  the  Exchange  require 
ments  of  “ extra”  
to  the 
rules  printed  here  two  weeks  ago)  and
authorize  their  agents  to  offer  them  as 
such  on 
’Change,  they  could  obtain  a 
very  substantial,  and,  I  believe,  profit 
able,  premium  for  that  quality.  Why 
doesn’t  somebody  try 
It  would  cost 
nothing  to  make  the  experiment.— N 
Y.  Produce  Review.

(according 

it? 

Unable  to Tell R ight  From  Wrong.

Win.  E. Curtis in Chicago Kecord.

famous  and 

There 
is  a  man  about  Washington— 
ou  see  him  at  the  capitol,  at  the  hotels 
and  at  some  of  the  clubs—who  used  to 
be 
influential,  but  is  now 
without  money  or  influence,and  lives  on 
loans  that  from  time  to  time  he 
is  able 
to  secure  from  more 
fortunate  friends. 
The  other  day  he  asked  a  certain  sena­
tor  for  $20,  whereupon  the  latter  said : 

‘ Tom, 

you  have  been  borrowing 
money  from  me  for  twenty-five  years, 
and  you  have  never  paid  me  back  a 
cent.  How  long  do  you  propose  to  keep 
it  up?”

‘ Until  you  get  me  something  to  <lo,  ”  

replied  the  borrower  frankly.

is 

‘ That 

impossible,”   replied 

the 
senator.  “ You  ought  to  understand  that 
a  man  of  your  record  cannot  obtain  an 
office  and  should  go  to  some place where 
people  don’t  know  you  and  seek  em­
ployment. ’ ’

‘ I  don’t  understand  it,”   replied  the 
borrower  bitterly.  “ Everybody  seems  to 
be  down  on  me  and  to  stand  in  my way. 
When  1 
first  knew  you,  senator,  I  was 
way  up  at  the  top  of  the  heap,  and  you 
were  a 
friendless  and  unknown  man  at 
the  bottom.  Now  you  are  at  the  top  and 
I’m  at  the  bottom;  and  1  can’t  under­
stand  how  it  has  happened. 
It  certain­
ly isn’t  my  fault. ”

“ N o,Tom ,”   said  the  senator,  kindly. 
isn’t  your  fault;  it’s  your  misfor­
“ It 
inscrutable  providence  gave 
tune.  An 
you  a  mind  which 
is  unable  to  tell 
right  from  wrong,  and  you  have  been  a 
blank  poor  guesse,. ”  ’

Expect  to  Knock  O at the  Law.

Detroit 

commission  merchants  are 
sanguine  that  the  legal  proceedings 
in­
stituted  against  Herbert  E.  Turnbull, 
having  for  their  object  the  enforcement 
of  the  new 
license  peddling  law,  will 
result  in  the  statute  being  declared  null 
and  void  by  the  Wayne  Circuit  Court. 
Such 
is  said  to  be  the  opinion  of  the 
attorney  of  the  Detroit  Produce  Ex 
change,  which  has  undertaken  the  de­
fense  of  Mr.  Turnbull  and  proposes  tt 
take  the  case  to  the  court  of  last  resort, 
if  necessary,  to  establish  the  validity  or 
constitutionality  of  the  law.

The  Bean  Market.

considering 

in  Michigan, 

Beans  at  present  are  being  depressed 
because  of  many  being  offered  by  spec­
ulators  who  bought  them  some  time  ago 
and  are  anxious  to  take  profits.  On  the 
>asis  of  to-day’s  market  beans  can  be 
in  Chicago to  better  advantage 
bought 
than 
the 
difference  in  freight.  We  believe,  how­
ever,  that  after  speculators  are  relieved 
of  their  stocks  we  will  see  a  better  mar­
ket  and  we  are  advised  that  vegetables 
the  South  have  been  killed  and  the 
crop  thus  put  back 
four  to  six 
weeks,  which  will  also  help  the  demand 
for  beans.  After  the  month  of  April  the 
bean  market  will  depend  a  great  deal 
upon  the  receipts  of  foreign  beans,  but 
I  can  not  see  how  Europe  will  have 
many  to  spare. 

E.  L.  Wellman.

from 

We  know  of  no  worse  sensation  than 
to  be  in  a  hurry  and  find  our  path  ob­
structed  by  some  one  who  is  very  slow.

WANTED—

Halloo  Baskets  dre  Best

Is  conceded.  Uncle  Sam  knows  it  and 

uses them by the thousand.

W e make all  kinds.

Market  Baskets,  Bushel  Baskets.  Bamboo  De­
livery Baskets, Splint Delivery  Baskets, Clothes 
Baskets.  Potato  Baskets,  Coal  Baskets.  Lunch 
Baskets,  Display Baskets, Waste  Baskets,  Meat 
Baskets,  Laundry  Baskets,  Baker  Baskets, 
Truck Baskets. 

•

Send for catalogue.

BALLOU BASKET WORKS, Belding.Mich.

Potatoes,  Onions,  Apples,  Cabbage,  Beans,  Honey,  Eggs,  etc 
any  to offer name  your  price, quality and quantity,  f  o.  b.  or delivered.

If  you  have 

Q.  A. 5CHANZ  x CO.

W H O LESA LE  PRODUCE

58 W. Woodbridge St.  and  2a  Market  St.,  Eastern  Market,  Detroit,  Mich. 

References:  Ward  L.  Andrus  &  Co. and City  Savings  Bank,  Detroit.

Poultry,  Eggs  and  Butter»-

Highest cash  price paid at all  times for small or carload lots.  The best 
equipped  poultry and egg  establishment  in  the state.  Write  for prices.

J.  COURT  &  SON,  Marshall,  Mich.

Branch  house at  Allegan.  Mich

References:  Dun or Bradstreet, First National Bank, Marshall, City Bank, Allegan.

Both Phones at Allegan.

FIELD  SEED S

Clover— Medium,  Mammoth,  Alsyke,  Alfalfa,  Crimson  Clover.  Timothy,
Red  Top,  Blue Grass, Orchard  Grass,  Fleld  Peas.
If have  Beans, carlots or  less,  Potatoes  carlots,  to  sell  write  or  telephone

M O SELEY  BROS.

26-28-30-32  OTTAW A  S T .,  GRAND  RAPIDS
Beans  and  Potatoes  Wanted

Wire,  ’phone or write us what  you  have  to  offer.  Mail  11s  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.

BEANS

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

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

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Tradesman  Company  and have charge of 
the  presses  and  folding  machine  in  that 
establishment. 
I  printed  and  folded
7,000  copies  of the issue of Mar.  14,1900, 
and  saw  the  edition  mailed  in the  usual 
manner.  And  further  deponent  saith 
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in  and  for  said  county, 

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Mich.

naces  for six  or seven  months  to  come, 
is  a  condition 
which  they  rightly  say 
entirely  unprecedented.  But 
it  is  also 
true  that  current  prices  are  made  not  by 
the  larger quantity  delivered  under  old 
contracts,  but  by  the  smaller  quantity 
which  has  to  seek  a  market  from  week 
to  week,  and  which, 
if  consumption 
does  not  increase,  may  not  find  the  mar­
ket  large  enough.  A   stronger  point  by 
far  is  that  a  great  part  of  the  Lake  ore 
for  the  coming  year  has  already  been 
sold  at  $5.50  a  ton  or  thereabouts,  sev­
eral  times  the  cost  last  year.and  there  is 
likely  to  be  a  scarcity  of  ore  suitable 
for  steelmaking,  which  will  operate  to 
sustain  the  price  of  steel,  even  if  iron 
not  fit  for  steel  production  should  de-* 
cline.

Notwithstanding  the  high  price  of cot­
ton,  the  export  movement  of  that  staple 
is  more  than  50  per  cent,  greater  than 
for the same time last year.  The yielding 
in  prices  of  wool  is still confined to what 
are called special transactions,  and  some 
defect  in  quality  or  condition  is  usually 
suggested  by  way of explanation,  but  the 
fact 
is  that  moderate  quantities  are 
actually  sold  at  prices  much  below those 
formerly  paid,  and  still  regularly  quoted 
by  many.  The  goods  market  is  at  pres­
ent  not  satisfactory  for  men’s  goods,  a l­
though  there  is  much  less  complaint  of 
In  spite  of 
cancellations  than  of  late. 
the  continued  decline 
in  the  Chicago 
hide  market, 
in  the  boot 
and  shoe  trade  is  more  encouraging  and 
prices  have  been  advanced 
in  some 
grades. 
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the  outlook 

ST A T E   OF  M ICH IG A N )  ss.

County  of  Kent 

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John  DeBoer,  being  duly  sworn,  de­

poses  and  says  as  follows:

I 

am  pressman 

in  the  office  of  the 

GENERAL  TRADE  REVIEW.

The  tide  of  business  seems  to  have 
settled 
into  a  steady,  even  flow,  influ­
ences  usually  causing  wide  fluctuations 
being  so  balanced  as  to  counteract  each 
other.  For  many  weeks  the  price  of 
transportation  stocks  has  varied  on  the 
average  but  a  few  cents,  and  industrials 
would  have  made  the  same  showing  had 
they  not  been  more  subject  to  the  man­
ipulations  of  professional  operators  and 
clique 
interests.  The  downward  tend­
ency  of  last  week  has  been  turned  to  the 
opposite,  the  average  of  changes  show­
ing  a  slight  gain.  Among  the 
influ­
ences  which  would  seem  to  warrant  a 
more  rapid  advance 
is  the  enactment 
of  the  new  currency  law.  While  there  is 
great  confidence 
in  its  ultimate  value, 
its  operation  is  necessarily  preceded  by 
some  months  of  preparation. 
As  a 
matter  of  fact 
its  passage  is  attended 
by  a  greater  stringency  in  the  money 
market  than  since  the  recovery  from  the 
December  panic.  Not  least  among  the 
restraining  and  depressing  influences  is 
the  approach  of  the  presidential  season. 
There 
is  nothing  which  will  more 
quickly  show  the  tim idity  of  capital 
in  political  matters, 
than  uncertainty 
and  while  there  may  be 
little  expecta­
tion  of  radical  change,  it  is  very  easy 
to  hesitate  on 
The 
volume  of  business 
large,  in  daily 
clearings  this  month  22.6  per  cent, 
larger  than 
in  1898,  although  16.1  per 
cent,  smaller  than  last  year.  New  York 
shows  the  greatest  decrease,  19.9  per 
cent.,  owing  to  speculative  inactivity, 
but  the  chief  outside  cities  average  7.3 
per  cent,  less  than  last  year,  the  Eastern 
cities,  St.  Louis and  Louisville  showing 
losses,  while  at  Chicago  the  gain  is 
in­
significant.

the  possibility. 

is 

Those  who  believe  that  iron  will  not 
decline 
in  price  materially  are  urging 
that  a  great  part  of  the  production  has 
already  been  sold  under 
contract  at 
about  current  prices,  covering  the  out­
put  of  70  per  cent,  or  more  of  all  fur­

Revival  of  the  industry  of  making  cut 
nails 
is  reported  from  Pittsburg.  The 
reason  assigned  is  a  demand  that  comes 
from 
farmers,  who  complain  that  the 
wire  nails  do  not  hold  shingles  in  place 
so 
long  as  the  old  cut  nails.  Shingles 
fastened  with  wire  nails,  it  is  said,  are 
blown  off  from  roofs  after  ten  years’ 
service,  while  those  held  by  cut  nails 
continue  to  hold.  The  acid  used  in  an­
nealing  the  wire  from  which  wire  nails 
are  made  conduces to  the  undoing  of  the 
nail,  the 
loosening  of  the  shingle  and 
consequent  damage.  The  demand  for 
cut  nails  that  reaches  the  Pittsburg  fac­
tories 
is  wholly  from  agricultural  sec­
tions  of  the  country.  As  the  wire  nail 
is  much  cheaper  and  preferred  by  car­
penters  the  nailmakers  are  hoping  to 
overcome  the  objection  to 
its  use  by 
turning  out  a  special  nail  thoroughly 
galvanized. 
lasting  properties  are 
guaranteed.  The  several  factories,  how­
ever,  are 
increasing  their  facilities  to 
meet  the  calls  for  cut  nails.

Its 

St.  Patrick’s  day  appears  to have been 
celebrated  this  year  with  far  more  en­
thusiasm 
in  England  than  in  Ireland. 
The  reason  for  it  is  that  the  victories  of 
the  Irish  generals,  Roberts,  Kitchener 
and  French,  in  South  Africa,  and  the 
valor displayed  by  the  Irish  soldiers 
in 
the  British  army  there  have  at  last 
touched  English  gratitude  and  brought 
English  character to  appreciative  hom­
age  of  the  finest  qualities  of  the  sons  of 
the  Emerald  Isle.  The  outcome  must 
needs  be  a  softening  of  race  hatreds 
and  a  redressing  of  Irish  grievances.

Marshall  Field,  the  greatest  merchant 
the  world  ever saw,  recently  remarked : 
“ I  would  rather  have  my  advertise­
ment 
in  one  paper  reaching  the  horqe 
than  in  forty  sold  on  the  street.”

The  man  who  has  been  there,  and 
lived  on  mule  meat,  knows  something 
about  war  that  he  does  not  gather  from 
magazine  writers.

HEADS OR  HEELS.

The  student  knights  of  the  gridiron 
of  the  Michigan  State  University  not 
long  ago  met  their  friend,  the  enemy,  of 
the  University  of  Pennsylvania  and 
came  home  with  their  visors  down. 
It 
was  heels  against  heels.  They  had  met 
the  enemy  and  were  theirs.  Early  in 
March  the  student  orators  of  the  same 
institutions  of  learning  met  on  the  for­
ensic  field  and  our  boys came home  with 
their  temples  bound  with  bay. 
It  was 
heads  against  heads.  This  time  “ We 
have  met  the  enemy  and  they are ours 
and  the  Tradesman  takes  this  opportu­
nity  to  extend  to  the  victors  its  hearty 
congratulations.

Aside  from  the  subject  which  is  es­
is  pleasing  to 
sentially  commercial,  it 
note  that  the  contest  was  free 
from  the 
taint  and  the  accompaniments  of  gate 
money.  A  congressman  presided  and 
was 
introduced  by  the  Provost  of  the 
University.  The  audience  was  made 
up  of  Philadelphia’s  best 
in  all  that 
pertains  to  education  and  refinement. 
Society  did  not  forget  that  this  was  a 
function  where  grace  and  beauty  and 
position  received  rather  than  extended 
courtesy  and  honor  and  brightened  the 
occasion  with  her  presence.  The  West­
ern  Reserve  University  sent  its  Presi­
dent ;  Harvard  a  professor,  and  New 
York  a  distinguished 
physician  as 
judges.  There  was  the  usual  rendering 
of  college  songs  with  mandolin  and 
banjo  and  a  reception  for  the  disput­
ants  at  the  University  when all was over, 
and  college  and  city  and  town and coun­
try  can  not  help  believing  and  saying 
that  these  are  the  academic  honors  that 
are  best  worth  striving  for and  that  in 
these  contests  of  heads  or  heels  between 
university  and  university,  in  the  minds 
of  those  whose  opinion  is  valuable  the 
heads  have  the  better  of  it  one  hundred 
to  one.

In  making  this  sweeping  assertion the 
Tradesman  does  not  forget  all  that  is  or 
can  be  implied  in  ‘ ‘ a  sound  mind  in  a 
sound  body.”   The  commercial  world, 
its 
immediate  realm  of  effort,  furnishes 
too  many instances where  an active mind 
in  a 
frail  body  has  been  hopelessly 
wrecked  upon  the  schools  of  trade  to  be 
unmindful  of  how  much success depends 
upon  the  physical 
in  business;  but  if 
remembers  as  well  that  this  physical  to 
be  worth  anything  must  have  a  well- 
trained  brain  to  control  it.  There,  if 
anywhere,  is  the  training  needed. 
“ It 
is  the  mind  that  makes  the  body  rich,”  
and  the  thought  is  almost  too  trite  to  re­
peat,  that a  strong  body  with  no  mind  is 
pure  animalism.  That  is  the  one  touch 
of  nature  which  makes  the  sporting 
world  k in ;  and  when  brawn  is  king, 
the  prize  fighter  is  a  prince  of the blood. 
Not  that  the  sinew  is  to  be  looked  down 
upon,  not  that  bodily  strength  and  vigor 
are  unessential;  but,  at  their  best,  they 
are  only  strong  servants  of  a  stronger 
master,  who  knows  that  he  is  master 
and  when  to  use  his  strength.  There 
are  still  Augean  stables  to  ciean  and 
only  Hercules  can  clean them;  but while 
the  task  is  one  requiring  the  strength  of 
a  god,  that  strength  is  powerless  unless 
the  brain  of  a  god  directs  it.  Too  often 
the  brain  of  Hercules  is  lost sight  of and 
his  physical  development  alone  consid­
ered ■  worthy  of  esteem ;  and  when  that 
condition  prevails, 
the  athlete  of  the 
arena,  although  he 
lay  aside  the  garb 
of  the  scholar,  is  on  a  level  with  the 
big-necked  brute  with  which  he  fights, 
and  with  the  brute  receives  the  plaudits 
of  the  animal 
the 
benches  of  the  amphitheater,  as  his 
muscle  shows  him  to be  the  better beast.

that  crowds 

life 

than 

then, 

When, 

the  boys  came  home 
from  the  contest  with  paeons  upon  their 
lips,  and  the  Isthmian  pine  leaves  in 
their  hands  their  alma  mater  and  the 
State  upon  whose  strong  arm  she 
leans 
had  every  reason  to  rejoice  over  the 
splendid  result. 
It  was  brain  against 
brain  and  the  Michigan  Horatii  can  lay 
no  happier  garlands  upon  their  cherish­
ing  mother’s  shrine 
those  they 
brought  with  them  from  that  forensic 
strife. 
In  the  first  place  it  was  a  manly 
battle  of  men  with  men.  Manhood  pre­
sided  and  all  that  is  best  in  womanhood 
looked  on  with  smiles  and  cheers. 
In 
the  whole  multitude  not  a  satyr  was 
seen.  The 
law  was  not  called  upon  to 
preserve  the  peace.  No  money  changed 
hands  upon  the  outcome  and  no  bach- 
analian  feast  disgraced  the  close.  From 
classic  halls  the  three  went  out  with 
their  shields,  determined  to  come  back 
with  them  or  on  them ;  and  those  same 
shields  to-day,  the  pride  of  the  Univer­
sity  and  the  State,  bear  ample  testi­
mony  to  the  fact  that  mind  is  still  mas­
ter  of  matter and  that  now  as  always,  in 
Michigan  at  least,  it  is  the  prevailing 
opinion  that,  in  a  question  of  heads  or 
heels,  the  heads  have 
it  a  hundred  to 
one.

clown 

is  no 

is  wanted 

There  is  something  else :  The  world 
to-day 
is  wanting  more  and  more  that 
kind  of  victorious  manhood  which  the 
Ann  Arbor  victors  represent.  More 
and  more  as  the  years  roll  by the trained 
head 
in  every  life-calling. 
This  is,  indeed,  the  country  of  the  ma­
chine,  but better than  that  it is  the  coun­
try  of  the  man  behind  it.  The  shoe­
maker  must  stick  to  his  last,  but,  unless 
the 
last  and  the  shoe  made  on  it  show 
marks  of  thoughtful  handling,work  and 
workman  are  alike  nothing.  During  the 
last  twenty-five  years  no  calling  has 
been  oftener enriched by the well-trained 
college  graduate  than  that  of  the  trades 
man  and  during  that  same  period  no 
company  of  men  have  shown  greater ad­
vancement.  A  
longer 
wanted  at  the  corner  grocery.  Men  with 
brains  are  sought  for  for  the  department 
store.  The  traveling  man  who  wants  a 
day  off  to  meet  his  classmates  at  the 
Commencement  dinner  is  no  longer  a 
curiosity.  Heads  of  commercial  houses 
are  making  places  in  the  ranks  of  their 
workmen  for  their  sons,  graduated  or 
soon  to  be  graduated.  Men  with  the 
business  harness  on  are  constantly  ex­
changing  greetings  with their classmates 
and,  business  over,  grow  young  again 
by  reliving  the  old  college  days.  The 
country  from  one  end  to  the  other  is 
permeated  with  their  influence and  from 
one  end  of  the  country  to  the  other  they 
are  constantly  called  upon  to  fill  places 
of  public  trust.  Not  a  city  to-day  is 
suffering  from  trickery  and 
ignorant 
mismanagement  which  does  not  feel  the 
need  of  this  head  training  to  counteract 
and  subdue  the  heel 
training  of  the 
preceding  generation’s  riotous  boyhood. 
This 
is  the  country’s  want  to-day,  and 
the  Tradesman,  in  a  position  where  it 
sees  how  widespread  that  want  is,  joins 
heartily  with  State  and  University  in 
the  rejoicing  at  the  home-coming  of 
these  prize-bearing  boys,  because  it  sees 
here  a  convincing  proof  that  the  time  is 
not  far-distant  when  the  heels  shall  give 
way  more  to  the  head  and  the  head shall 
assume  its  rightful  place  in  the manage­
ment  of  the  world’s  business.

When  a  girl  says  she  will  be  a  sister 
to  a  fellow  she  has  turned  down,  she 
means  she  will  borrow  his  hats  and 
coats  and  neckties  and  things, 
to  wear 
out  with  the  young  man  she  has  ac­
cepted.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

9

KLONDIKE OB  NOME?

History 

is  repeating  herself,  and  re­
cent  history  at  that.  The  startling  story 
of  ’49  now  from  the  Distant  Northwest 
has  been  told  to  eager  hearers,  and  that 
part  of  communities  who have been com­
plaining  that  they  never  had  a  chance 
are  sure  now  that  the  chance  has  come 
and  that 
in  the  Klondike  or  at  Nome 
they  .are  going  to  pick  up  the  nuggets 
of  gold  at  the  rate  of  nobody  knows  how 
many  dollars  an  hour;  and  a  year  from 
now  they  will  be  walking  the  streets  of 
their  native  town, 
the  nabobs  of  the 
place  and  so  at last admitted to  be  some­
body.  Just  now  these  future  millionaires 
are  halting  between  two,  not  opinions, 
but  places.  Shall 
it  be  Klondike  or 
Nome  that  will  disgorge  to  them  its 
enormous  treasure?  The latter  will  prob­
ably  be  the  choice  because  there  the 
least  exertion  will  be  called  for  to  un­
cover  the  precious  metal. 
It  can  be had 
for  the  picking  up.  One  man— the 
statement  is  not  to  be  questioned— in  an 
hour  picked  up  seventeen  dollars'  worth 
of  gold.  Ten  hours  of  toil —the  eight 
hour  law  has  not  there  been  passed— is 
a  day’s  work  worth  doing.  There  is 
money  in  i t ;  but  even  this  amount  per 
diem  to  the  large  majority  who  are  go­
is  much  too  small  and  it  involves 
ing 
It  is  the  man  with  the 
too  much  labor. 
brain  that  scoops 
in  the  ducats— the 
other  fellow  does  the  work.  So  then 
when  the  gold  field  has  been  reached  all 
that 
is  to  “ watch  out"  and 
pretty  soon,  without  the  movement  of  a 
muscle,  the  money  comes  rolling  in  and 
presto!  home  we  go  millionaires.

is  needed 

do.  He  can  dig  at  home ;  and  on  that 
“ d ig”   the  whole  matter  rests.  The  man 
who  can  go  out  into  the  wilderness  and, 
grappling  with  nature  as  he  finds  her, 
wrest  from  her  a  fortune  is  the  man  to 
go  to  Klondike  or  Nome  or  stay  at 
home.  Wherever  chance  or 
circum­
stance  puts  him,  there  he  pitches  his 
tent  and  goes  to  work.  Fortune  may 
frown  and  he 
laughs  at  her.  Nature 
turns  to  him  the  cold  shoulder  and,  un­
dismayed,  he  studies  her  and  by  his 
push  and  pluck  wins  her  favor.  No  cad 
is  he.  No  lout  is  he— no  thing  of  cir­
cumstance.  So  the  world  wants  him 
and  greets  him  with  extended  hands. 
The  Klondike  and  Nome  urge  him  with 
beckoning  finger  to  come  to  them.  He 
goes  or  stays  with  the  same  result—»suc­
cess.

It  is  not  the  place,  then,  that  fixes  the 
fortune,  but  the  man.  There 
is  some­
thing  in  adventure;  a  new  country  with 
new  experiences  may  stir  into  wakeful­
ness  what  has  been  asleep.  Danger  may 
call  forth  qualities  until  then  unknown; 
but  the  manhood  so  brought  out  will  not 
be  found  incompetent,  the  very  charac­
ter  which  the  responsible  places  of  the 
world  do  not  want  and  .will  not  have. 
Without  doubt  Manila  has  golden  prizes 
for  the  right  kind  of  m en;  but  the  man 
who  is  a  failure  at  home  is  not  the  one 
to  win  them.  The  keen,  the  bright, 
the  active,  the  smart,  the  ready  brain 
and  the  willing  hand— these  are 
the 
elements  of  success  and  there  is  no  need 
of  taking  them  to  Alaska  to  set  them  to 
work.

This  kind  of  idea  makes  good  mate­
rial  for  some  very  poor  day-dreams,  and 
for  nothing  else,and  would  not  be  worth 
the  writing  here  if  it  were  not  a  fairly 
accurate  statement  of-w hat  is  actually 
going  on 
in  the  minds  of  too  many  of 
these  men  who  can  always  get  rich  or 
at  least  make  a  good  living  if  they  can 
only  get  somewhere  else.  Like  old 
Langworthy’s  cow  they  are  not  con­
tented  until  they  get  on  the  other side 
of  the  fence  and  then  bellow  until  they 
get  back  again.  At  home  there  is  no 
inducement  to  do anything.  Everybody 
is  against  them  and  when  mankind 
is 
disposed  to  assist,  nature  comes  in  and 
puts  a  stop  to  it.  This  year  it  was  a 
flood.  Last  year  the  drought  played  the 
mischief  with  the  crops.  The  year  be­
fore  the  grasshopper  was  a  burden. 
Next  year  the  Klondike  or the  Nome 
will  settle  things.

Is  trade  good? 

Ever  since  Dewey  threw  open  the 
golden  gates  of  the  morning,  this  class 
of  men  have  been  curious  to  know 
if 
there  is  any  chance  for  a  man  to  get  on 
in  the  Philippines. 
Is 
there  a  chance  for  a  man  with  a  little 
money  to  forge  ahead?  Are  the  natives 
shrewd?  What  sort  of  business  would 
be 
likely  to  pay  best?  Say  a  man  had 
five  hundred  dollars;  how  could  he 
double 
it  soonest  with  the  least  effort? 
There  are  other questions;  but,  near or 
remote,  they  all  circle  around  that  cen­
ter  where  with  the  smallest  amount  of 
energy  the 
largest  returns  are  to  be 
found.  It  is  still  Klondike  or  Nome  and 
the  question  will  be  settled  by  choosing 
the  place  where  is  the  least  to  be  done.
The  attempt  to  better  one’s  self  is  not 
a  new  one.  Here 
individual  history  is 
the  world’s  history;  and  it  is  as  true  to­
day  as  it  always  has  been  that  success 
or  failure  depends  on  the  man more than 
on  anything  else.  Will  he  who  never 
did  a  stroke  of  work  in  his  life  go  to 
the  gold  fields  and,  when  he  finds  that 
the  gold  there  must  be  dug  for,  dig  for 
It  is the  last thing  he  will
it?  Not  he. 

if 

it  need  establishing. 

This  busy  city  of  Grand  Rapids  has 
more  than  one  instance  to  establish  the 
fact, 
Right 
here  where,  to  the  homebom,  there  was 
no  chance,  the  aspirant  for  making  his 
way  in  the  world  took  off  his  coat  and 
went  to  work.  Misfortune  blocked  his 
way.  He  thrust  her  from  his  path.  Fire 
burned  what  little  he  had  earned.  He 
swept  the  hot  ashes  from  the  ground 
and,  without  wincing,  laid  there  on  the 
hot  earth  the 
foundations  of  a  future 
fortune.  How  that  man  has  fought  in 
the  very  face  of  fate!  How  he  “ while 
his  companions  slept  was  toiling  up­
in  the  night. ”   How  unkindness 
ward 
and 
indifference— by  far  the  worse— 
misused  him ;  and  how  fearlessly  and 
manfully—there’s  the  secret  of  it— he 
has  kept  bravely  on  until  now,  with  the 
world  ashamed  of  herself,  he  points  to 
the  work  he  has  done  and,  with  com­
mendable  pride,  declares  to  her,  ‘ * In 
spite  of  you !”

It 

is  always  so. 

It  is  not  the  field. 
It  is  the  man.  The  mountain  sides  of 
Klondike  and  the  water  courses of Nome 
may  gleam  with  gold  and  the 
incompe­
tent  will  remain 
incompetent  within 
touch;  but  he  who  goes  to  work,  asking 
no  odds  and  receiving  none,  will 
find 
his  field  in  his  dooryard  and  will  make 
that  dooryard  an  inspiration  to  others as 
it  has  been  to  him  and  will  enable  them 
to  be  as  indifferent  as  he was to locality. 
Klondike  or  Nome  or  Grand  Rapids!

There 

is  a  time  for  all  things.  The 
man  who  marries  at  leisure  may  repent 
in  haste.  ______________

The  cream  of  society  has  not  been 
skimmed  from  the  milk  of  human  kind­
ness. 

______________

The  days  of  small  things  are  not  to  be 

despised.  They  are  nursery  days.

A  congregation  will  stick to a preacher 

who  sticks  to  his  text.

Russia  prepares  for  peace  or  war by

building  railroads.

Here  It  Is!

The Holmes Generator

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ua"T “ 4  '*Q"'"’ “  “
After  10  months  this  statement  is  made 
by one who has  used  the  Cline Machine, 
which  is  made  only  by  the  Alexander 
Furnace  &  Mfg Co.  of  Lansing,  Mich.

lone, Cal., Feb. 1st, 1900. 
Alexander Furnace & Mfg Co., Lansing, Mich.
Dear  Sirs:  The  Cline  Acetylene  Gas  Ma­
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Rank  in  March,  1899,  was  received  and  set  In 
operation on the fifth  of  April  and  has  been  In 
nightly use ever  since,  and  has  never  failed  to 
give  the  nearest  approach  to  daylight  of  any 
machine or  light  yet  brought  to  my  attention. 
It works automatically  and  to  my  entire  satis­
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months’ use for electricity or any other  artificial 
light. The machine shows no signs of wear,  It Is 
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years. 

Yours respectfully,

A.  Li.  A d a m s, M.  I>.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

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Dry Goods

The  Dry  Goods  Market.

Staple  Cottons— It  has  been  expected 
lines 
for  some  little  time  that  certain 
of  bleached  cottons  would  be  advanced, 
but  these  advances  did  not  materialize, 
and  the  break 
in  raw  cotton  has  un­
doubtedly  spoiled  the  prospects  of  any 
immediate  advances.  The  only  change 
that  has  come  over  them  is  the  placing 
of  quotations  “ at  value.”   This  is  con­
sidered  by  many  as  a  positive  sign  that 
the  goods  are  on  the  point of advancing, 
but  others  argue  that  while  it  was  ex­
pected  that  they  would  advance, 
the 
changes  that  have come  over  the  mar­
ket  for  raw  cotton  would  decidedly  hin­
der  this.  The  demand  for  goods 
for 
quick  delivering  is  something very large 
in  all  grades,  and  even  advanced  prices 
are  offered  where  there 
is  any  possi­
bility  of  getting  the  goods  at  once. 
Brown  sheetings 
all 
weights  show  no  changes  in  condition 
and  the  same  is  true  of  wide  sheetings, 
cotton  flannels,  blankets,  etc.  The  de­
mand 
ticks,  plaids  and 
coarse  colored  cottons  generally 
is  lim ­
ited  only  by  the  disposition  and  ability 
of  sellers  to  accept  contracts.  There 
is 
almost  nothing  available  for quick  sup­
plies,  and  few  sellers  are  willing  to  ac­
cept  contracts  for  distant  dates.

for  denims, 

and  drills 

in 

it 

is 

in  a  smooth 

Dress  Goods— The  dress  goods  market 
this  week  lacks  anything  in  the  way  of 
snap. 
Buyers  are  proceeding  about 
their  business  in  a  leisurely  fashion  and 
do  not  appear  to  be 
in  any  hurry  to 
get  through.  From  present  indications, 
it  is  likely  that  the  season  will  be rather 
an  extended  one.  Business  is  running 
channel,  without 
along 
in  re­
showing  any  unique  preference 
gard  to  style.  Many  different 
lines 
seem  to  be  about  equal,  as  far  as  choice 
is  concerned,  and  the  buyers  are  cov­
ering  a  wide  range  of  styles.  The orders 
throughout  are  moderate,  but  of  a  nature 
indicating  that  they  will  be  substantial. 
Prices  of  all  wool  or  worsted  goods  are 
naturally  very  high,  and  buyers  have 
hesitated  a  long  time  over  plunging  up­
on  the  fine  grades.  Cheap  goods  have 
frequently  shown  by  far  the  better  busi­
impossible  to  say 
ness.  As  yet 
whether  plain  goods  or 
fancies  will 
predominate.  The  buyer  himself  is  in 
doubt  as  to  what  he  shall  d o ;  whether  it 
will  be  a  plain  goods  or  a  fancy  goods 
season.  Some  of  them,  to be  sure,  have 
made  up  their  minds,  and  have  placed 
orders  for  fancies  very  heavily.  The 
greatest  difficulty  that  confronts the buy­
er  to-day 
It 
has  been  customary  for  him  to  have  cer­
tain  goods  at  certain  prices  year  after 
year,  but  the  great  changes  that  have 
come  over the  market  this  season  often 
make 
impossible  to  carry  out  this 
condition,  and  the  result  is  that  he  must 
break  the  custom,  and  charge  more  for 
these  goods,  or 
lose  his  profit  in  order 
to  retain  his  reputation,  which  too  fre­
quently 
is  based  upon  just  this  matter. 
A  dry  goods  firm  dislikes  very  much  to 
upset  an  established  custom;  in  fancy 
goods  it  matters  very  little,  but  in  plain 
goods  it  is  a  serious  problem  for  the  re­
tailer;  for  in  these  goods  the established 
prices  are  more  often  to  be  found.  On 
the  higher  priced  goods  the  situation 
is 
easier,  because  there  is  more  confidence 
in  the  actual  values.  The  buyer  feels 
more  sure  that  he  can  secure  the  right 
prices  than  he  does  on  the  so-called 
manipulated  lines.  This question  of  set 
prices  has  been  met  by  the  mills,  by 
putting  into  such  fabrics  enough  cotton

is  the  question  of  price. 

it 

to bring  them  out  at  the  proper  prices, 
and  as  a  rule  it  has  not  been  necessary 
to  make  enough  change  in  the  make-up 
to  affect  the  appearance  of  the  goods. 
Thus  the  retailer  is  in  many  cases  en­
abled  to  meet  the  demands  of  his  cus­
tomers,  if  not  with  the  same  goods  that 
he  has  sold  them  in  past  years,  at 
least 
with  goods  that  look  the  same,  and  that 
will  probably  give 
satisfaction. 
That  these  goods  will  give  satisfaction, 
however,  is  not  sure,  and  the  merchant 
may  find 
it  a  little  difficult  to  dispose 
of  all  he  buys.  The  buyer  fully  realizes 
this,  and  this  is  the  cause  of  his  hesi­
tancy  and  extreme  deliberation.

fair 

Knit  Goods— Any  manufacturer  who 
has  any  available  goods  on  hand  will  be 
able  to  sell  them  at  a  much  higher  fig­
ure  than  they  commanded  during  the 
preceding  season.  The demand  for  bal- 
briggans  has  reached  enormous  propor­
tions,  and  has  caused  the  market  to  be 
practically  bare  of  them.  The  demand 
has  not  subsided,  but  has  to  go  un­
satiated.  The  only  goods  that  may  still 
be  obtained  are  some  lines  of  flat  wool 
goods.  These 
lines  as  a  rule  sell  more 
slowly  than  most  other  lines,  but  this 
year  a  great  deal  larger  business was ac­
complished,  and  the  variety  left  is  not 
nearly  as  large  as  is  usually  the  case  at 
this  time  of  the  year.  There  have  been 
times  during  the  past  season  when  the 
business  transacted  in  the  lower  grades 
of  these  goods  was  very  small,  but  of 
late  there  has  been  an 
increased  de­
mand  for  them,  and the  chances  are  that 
the  full  capacity  of  the  mills  will  soon 
be  under  orders.

is  still  very 

Hosiery— There 

little 
in  the  hosiery  situation,  condi­
change 
tions  remaining  almost 
identical  with 
those  in  the  underwear business.  There 
fact,  the 
is  very  little  cancellation. 
In 
manufacturers  would  not  mind 
if  there 
were  more  of  it,  as  they  could  sell  the 
goods  at  a  big  advance. 
In  one  case 
that  came  to  our  notice,  a  well-known 
hosiery  house  had  only one cancellation ; 
a  few  minutes  after  the  order  was  can­
celled  the  goods  were  sold  at an advance 
of  20  per  cent.  The 
lines  of  seamless 
hosiery  are  selling  fairly  well,  but  if  the 
prices  charged  fully  covered  the  ad­
in  raw  material,  much  fewer  or­
vance 
ders  would  have  been 
The 
chances  are  in  favor  of  a  rising  market, 
as  hosiery  yarns  are  steadily  rising, 
and  the  manufacturers  will  be  forced  to 
raise  prices  as  well.  Importers  have  had 
a  very  busy  week  in  hosiery,  and  have 
booked  a  large  number  of  orders.  They 
are  greatly  handicapped  by  the  slow­
ness  of  the  deliveries  by  the  foreign 
manufacturers.  Prices  are  very 
firm. 
One  of  the  chief  reasons  for the  delay in 
delivering  goods 
is  on  account  of  the 
great  coal  strike  in  Germany,  which  se­
riously  handicaps  the  working  of  the 
machinery.

taken. 

Carpets—The  large  houses  claim  that 
the  retail  trade 
is  two  weeks  behind. 
Some  do  not  expect  any  active  busi­
ness  on  new  goods  before  the  first  of 
April,  when  the  usual  spring  house­
cleaning  time  begins.  Some  large  de­
partment  and  smaller  retail  stores  have 
this  year  as  usual  held  their  regular 
clearing  sales  of  old  stocks  during  Feb­
ruary  and  March.  The  retailers,  hav­
ing  anticipated 
last  advances  on 
carpets,  placed  orders  early  with  the 
jobbers  and  manufacturers,  and  it  is  not 
expected  that  the  duplicate  business 
will  be  very 
large.  As  a  result,  the 
advances  will  be  harder  to  obtain. 
From  a  wholesale  standpoint  the  carpet 
situation  is  in  a healthier  condition than 
it  has  been  for years.  All indications are 
that  there  will  be  no 
jobs  on  the  mar­
ket  at  the  end  of  the  season.

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Strange  Antics  of the  Chain.

Written for the Tradesman.

There  was  recently  witnessed 

in  a 
Northern  Michigan  village an exhibition 
which  entitles 
it  to  be  called  strange, 
being  nothing  less  than  an  ordinary  iron 
linked  chain  climbing  a  pole  planted 
centrally  in  the  village  square.

As  the  entertainment  was  about  to  be­
gin,  the  fact  was  heralded  by  a  merry 
jingling  of  the  chain  as  it  was  slowly 
creeping  up  the  smooth  surface  of  a 
strong  pole  about  a  dozen  feet  high,  the 
very  strangeness  of  which  act  riveted 
the  feet  of  passers-by,  even  those  who 
were  on  business  bent  remaining  to 
watch.

loosely,  allowing 

The  seemingly  unnecessary  coinci- 
'dence  was  that  at  each  end  of  the  chain 
a  heavy ring  was  secured,  one encircling 
the  pole 
it  freely  to 
follow  the  chain  up  or  down,  while  to 
prevent  its  being  slipped  over  the  top 
there  was  securely  nailed,  with  its  open 
chine  up,  a  barrel,  to  the  top  of  which 
the  chain  entertainer  climbed,  poised 
its  weight  there  a  moment,  then  noisily 
tumbled  into  the  barrel.

utilized  the  top  of  the  box  as  a  halfway 
landing.

f  beer!  This  was 

While  quiet  was  maintained 

for  a 
space  of  half  a  minute,  it  was  asserted 
by  those  standing  near  that  this  was  a 
regular  daily occurrence.  Then the chain 
raightened  rigidly  out  towards  the  by- 
nders,  one,  of  whom  placed  within 
reach  of  the  free  end  of  the  chain  a  bot- 
instantly  seized 
md  elevated 
fully  four  and  a  half  feet 
from  the  ground  and,  although  no  hu­
man  hand  was  near,  that  beer  was  slow- 
poured  through  the  iron  ring  at  the 
outer  free  end  of  the  chain,with  motions 
lmost 
identical  with  what  would  have 
been  witnessed  had  an  old  toper  been 
ving  an  object  lesson  about  the  ways 
and  means  of  settling  the  drink  ques- 
on  by  removing  the  source  of  tempta- 
on.
Simultaneously  wkh  the  dropping  of 
the  bottle  began  as  rapid  movements  of 
that  chain  as  though  a  full-grown  boy 
was  celebrating  Halloween  by  shaking 
its  free  end  up  and  down  on  the  metal 
roof  of  some  convenient  building.

irly  danced—now  in,  now  out,now  u 

The  chain  soon  reappeared  at  the  top 
and,  carefully 
following  the  outer  rim 
of  the  barrel,  proceeded  with  a few turns 
to  wind  its  entire  length about the  same 
when  it  retraced  its  way  until  unwound 
again,  then  threw 
its  entire 
length  down  on  to  the  top  of a very large 
box  fastened  to  the  foot  of  the  pole,  up 
which 
its 
length.  The  rattling  caused  could read 
ily  have  been  heard  two  blocks  away.

it  extended  fully  one-half 

itself 

in 

In 

its  caperings  about  the  top  of  thi 
box  it  fell  off  the  side  farthest  from  the 
pole,  where  its  length  was  not  sufficient 
to  reach  the  ground,  but  its strength  was 
enough  to  prevent  breaking. 
started  to  creep  back  up  the  smooth side 
of  that  box,  which  feat  it  actually 
complished,  aided  to  some  extent  no 
doubt  by  the  short  cleats  nailed  there 
apparently  for  that  purpose.

So 

if  ashamed  of 

The  chain  now  took  several 

turns 
about  the  top  of  the  box,  when,  incau 
tiously  getting  too  near,  it  fell  over  the 
edge  and  all  in  a  heap  on  the  ground 
Then,  remaining  stationary  but  a  mo 
ment,  as 
its  own' awk 
wardness  it  sullenly  crawled  its  farthest 
limit  inside  the  box,  a  hole  in  one  cor 
ner  forming  a  means  of 
ingress.  But 
the  inside  air evidently  did  not  suit  h 
chainship,  for  it  came  out  again  almost 
immediately,  and  with  many  a  noisy 
jingle  and  rattle  went  as  far  around  the 
big  box  as  its  end,  still  attached  to  the 
pole,  would  allow 
it  to  go,  then  back 
again  and  around  the  other  way,  as  if  to 
test  the 
length  and  strength  of  the  ti 
that  bound  it  to  its  post  of  duty.  Re 
turning,  it  ascended  partly  up  the  pole 
only  to  fall 
in  a  jangling  heap  at  i 
foot,  from  which  it  started  off  in  a  tan 
gent  as  far  from  the  pole  as  it  cou 
possibly  extend 
line 
Maintaining a stiff  rigidity,  it  described 
a  true  circle  with 
its  outer  end,  the 
center  of  which  was  the  pole,  unti 
further  progress  that  way  was  stopped 
by  the  box,  which  only  caused  the  cha 
to  turn  and  go  as  far the  other  way 
the  trio— its  length,  the box  and  the  pole 
—would  permit.  The  while 
its  enti 
length  had  more  the  appearance  of 
solid  bar  of  iron  than  a  chain  with 
i 
many  interlocking  links.

in  a  straight 

Now  forward  and  backward  a  full 
itself  back 

dozen  times,  only  to  double 
to  the  foot  of  the  pole  again,  up  whi 
it  seemed  to  glide  snake  fashion  until 
went  over  into  the  barrel  with  a  merry 
rattle.  Thence  out  once  more  and  ker 
flop  down  to  the  ground,  after having

now  down,  now  flat  on  the  earth;  again 
in  the 
its  merry 
its 

p  the  pole,  on  top,  around  and 
box,  continuously 
angle  as  though  highly  pleased  at 
own  antics.

jingling 

Anon  a  stick  of  wood  was  seized  as 
though  by  human  hands,  thrust  through 
the  outer  ring  and  twisted  hard  one  way 
until  the  chain,  from  seeming  exhaus­
tion,  fell  on  the  ground  as  one  might 
if 
choked  almost  to  strangulation.  This 
ras  repeated  again  and  again  until  the 
fell  outside  the  circle  the  chain 
stick 
moved 
in,  when  the  tensely  tightened 
chain  fell 
the 
ground,  whence  with  a  heartless  jingle 
t  slunk  off  into  the  box  out  of  sight  of 
men,  as  though  it  realized  it  was  drunk 
and  ought  to  hide 
links  from  the 
public  gaze.

lifeless  on 

limp  and 

its 

Let  us  now  look  more  closely  for  the 
cause  of  these  “ Strange  Antics  of  the 
Chain.”   If  we  do  we  shall see that there 
i  neck  inside  the  outer  ring— which 
accounts  for  where  the  beer  went,  as  all 
necks  are  built  that  way.  A  head  was 
on  one  end  of  this  neck,  while  a  body 
held  attachment  to  the  other  end,  a com 
bination  of  impediments  to  prevent  its 
its  environment.  That 
slipping  out  of 
neck, 
that  body  were  the 
component  parts  of  a  halfgrown  beat— 
which  ends  our  story  with  its  title  head, 
fullest  measure  all  these 
explaining 
recorded  and  most  ,  truly 
“ Strange 
Antics  of  the  Chain.”

that  head, 

in 

L.  A.  Ely.

From the  Kansas  City Journal.

Buyer of Bad  Bills.

is  to  buy  bad  debts,  sue 

J.  J.  Bick,  a  Monroe  county  man,  has 
a  peculiar  way  of  making  a  living.  His 
plan 
the 
debtor,  get 
judgment,  and  then  wtach 
for  an  opportunity  to  force  a  settlement. 
He  has  been  snubbed,  slighted,  made 
a  target  for  ancient  eggs  and  cabbage 
and  the  like,  but  he  goes  serenely  on 
piling  up 
judgments  against  thirty  or 
more  persons  at  one  term  of  court  and 
figuring  on  the  prosperity  he  will  enjoy 
when  he  collects  the  ¿50,000  he  has 
been 
in  the  last  few 
years. 

legally  promised 

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From  the  W oman’s  Standpoint.

From the Western Club Woman.

Dr. 

Shrady  says:  “ The  curse  of 
American  men  is  striving  after  luxuries 
for  their  w ives.”   Any  one  who  has 
traveled  across  the  country  and  watched 
the  rise  of  big  bams  alongside  of  little 
houses,  or  noted  the  presence  of  sulky 
plows  and  mowers  where  wringers  and 
washing  machines  are  considered^  a 
luxury,  will  believe  his  statement  im­
plicitly.

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Woman’s World

for 

How  Women  Can  Make  the  City  Great.
It  is  deplorably  true  that  women,  as 
a  general  thing,  have  very  lax  and  hazy 
ideas  of  their  duty  as  citizens.  They 
criticise  and  regret  the  shortcomings  of 
their  town,  bnt  it  seldom  occurs  to  them 
that  they  are 
in  any  way  responsible 
for the  faults  they  condemn.  A  woman 
will  grow  eloquent, 
instance,  de­
nouncing  the  filthy  conditions  of  the 
streets,  yet 
let  her  own  sidewalk  go  un­
swept,  and  permit  her  servants  to  throw 
trash 
in  the  gutters,  and  to  leave  her 
garbage  can  on  the  back  porch  to  smell 
to  high  heaven  and  offend  every  passer­
by. 
In  the  same  way  she  may  deplore 
the  lack  of  prosperity  and  of  enterprise 
its  dis­
in  her  town  and  contrast  it 
advantage  with  the  progressive 
and 
thrifty  cities  of  other  sections  of  the 
country,  yet  tell  you  in  the  next  breath 
that  she  always  buys  her  clothes  in  New 
York,  and  her  silverware  and  china 
in 
Chicago.  Moreover,  she  does  this  with 
a  serene  faith  in  her perfect consistency. 
She  never  dreams  that  she  is  to  blame 
or that  she  has  failed  in  her  duty 
citizen,  whatever other  people  may  have 
done.  When  things  go  wrong  it 
ways  somebody  else’s  fault.  Not  hers, 
thank  goodness!

to 

Not  all  women  are 

like  this,  fortu 
nately,  and  a  notable  example  of  the
woman  whose  patriotism  really  means 
something  was  given  last  week  when 
Kansas  City  girl  presented  an  object 
lesson  to  the  women  of  her  city  that  the 
women  of  other  places  may 
learn  to 
their  profit.  There  was  a  masquerade 
ball  given  in  that  town,  and  this  up-to- 
date  young  woman,  instead  of  going  to 
it  attired  to  represent  “ Marie  Stuart,”  
or  “ A   Lady  of  the  Time  of Louis IY \,”  
or  something  equally  romantic  and  far­
fetched,  appeared  as  a  maid  who  was 
made  in  Kansas  City.  Every  article  of 
her  costume  was  composed  of  things 
manufactured 
in  that  city  and  bore  the 
name  of  the  manufacturers  and  plants 
at  which  they  were  made.  On  her 
wrists  she  wore  bracelets  of  twist  to­
bacco,  manufactured  there,  her  hat, 
frock  were  all  of  home 
gloves,  shoes, 
little  box 
product,  and  she  carried  a 
from  which  she  distributed 
chewing 
gum  and  candy,  all  “ made 
in  Kansas 
City. ”  
is  unnecessary  to  say  that 
she  was  the  success  of  the  evening,  and 
more  than  that,  she  was  a  revelation  to 
all  the  other  women  present  that  their 
own  town  made  everything  a  woman 
actually  needed  for  her  attire.

It 

The  Kansas  City  girl  is  the  kind  of 

woman  who  is  a  good  citizen,  and  who 
helps  build  up  a  town,  and  her  example 
is  one  that  should  peculiarly  commend 
itself  to  the  women  of  Grand  Rapids 
There 
is  no  one  thing  that  keeps  this 
city  back  more  than  the  fact  that  we 
have  so  few  women  who  “ are  made 
sending  away 
Grand  R apids.”   The 
is  a  worse  blight  on 
shopping  habit 
it 
trade  than  a  quarantine,  but  we  have 
so  badly  that  even  many  women  who 
have  their  clothes  made  here  are  snobby 
enough  to  pretend  that  they  are  made  in 
the  East.  Only  fancy,  if  all  the  women 
here  who  have  money  to  spend  were 
made  in  Grand  Rapids  instead  of  New 
York  and  Chicago,  what  a  boom  to  the 
retail  trade  it  would  be,  what  splendid 
factories  we  might  build,  what  a  big, 
rich,  progressive  city  we  should  have!

honor 
in  his  own  country  as  with  us. 
Our  writers  have  to  make  their reputa­
tion  elsewhere  before  we  will  take  the 
trouble  to  read  what  they  write.  Our 
song  birds  have  to  spread  their  wings 
and  fly  away  from  home,  and  it  is  only 
liter  they  have  come  back  with  a  laurel 
wreath  they  got  elsewhere  that  we  add 
our  little  sprig  of  green  to  it.

Then  there  is  the school question.  We 
have  a  magnificent public school system, 
yet  numerous  good  citizens  act  on  the 
theory  that  a  Grand  Rapids  education 
not  good  enough  for  their children 
and  that  they  must  send  them  off  to 
school  or  else  they  haven’t  done  their 
full  duty  by  them.  They  have  to  come 
back  with  the  unmistakable  stamp  of 
some  Eastern  college  on  their  education 
or  else  we  are  suspicious  of  it.  To 
obtain  this  is  always  a  sacrifice  of  the 
sweetest  vears  of  one’s  children’s 
lives 
—the  years  that  alone  belong  to  us  be­
fore  the  world  claims  them;  often  it  is 
a  terrible  sacrifice  of  comforts  if  the 
parents  are  of  small  means,  and  it  is 
pitiful  to  think  of  so  much being  offered 
up  on  the  altar  of  a  mere  illusion. 
Ninety-nine  times  out  of  a  hundred  the 
money  and  the  child  could  both  be  bet­
ter  kept  at  home. 
It  is  distance  that 
robes  the  far-off  college  in  its  haze  of 
superior  scholarship,  and  the 
school 
around  the  corner  is  every  whit  as good, 
and  capable  of  teaching  Reginald  and 
Sophia  a 
lot  more  than  they  will  ever
learn.

the 

intimacy 

There  is  also  another  side  to  this mat 
ter,  and  one  well  worthy  of  considera 
tion.  Youth 
is  the  time  of  making 
friends. 
It  is  only  when  the  heart  is  at 
the  springtime  of  life  that  it  throws  out 
tendrils  that  cling  about  another  heart 
Many  of  the  most  advantageous  social 
and  business  connections  are  formed  on 
the  playground  and  in  the  schoolroom 
There  boys  and  girls  come  to  know 
each  other,  and 
thus 
formed  they  carry  out  into  the  world  of 
affairs.  The  boy  who  knows  that  Tom 
could  always  be  trusted  to  play  fair, 
that  Bob  would  cheat  and  lie  and  that 
Dick  was  slow  but  sure  has  an  intimate 
working  knowledge  of  the  character of 
the  men  with  whom  he  is  going  to  do 
business,  when  he  gets  grown  and  starts 
out  for  himself,  that is  about  as  valuable 
a  piece  of 
information  as  any  college 
could  impart  to  him.  The  girl  who  has 
found  out  through  many  years  of  going 
to  school  with  her  that  another  girl 
thoroughly  sweet  and  sympathetic  is  not 
going  to  drop  her because  of  any  little 
difference  in  social  standing  or  wealth 
and  many  a  poor  girl  owes  a good match 
to  having  gone  to  school  with  her  future 
husband’s  sister.  All  of  these  pleasures 
and  advantages  the  boy  and  girl  lose 
who  are  sent  off  from  home  to  school 
However  devoted  they  are 
thei 
chums,they  part  at  the  schoolroom  door, 
seldom,  if  ever,  to  meet  again,  and  then 
with  hearts  and  lives  estranged  by  dis 
tance  and  difference 
in  pursuits  and 
pleasures.  Except  under  very  peculiar 
circumstances  the  education 
made  in  Grand  Rapids  is  good  enough 
for  the  girls  who  expect  to  marry  here 
and  the  boys  who  expect  to  do  business 
here.

that 

to 

In  some  of  its  phases,  this  depreca 

that 

is  made 
tion  of  everything 
Grand  Rapids  and  the  glorification 
everything  that  has a foreign  trade-mark 
are  very  amusing, 
makes  us  a  bright  and  shining  mark  for 
every  kind  of  a pretentious humbug.  We 
take  strangers  at  their  own  valuation 
and  have  an  especial  weakness  for  buy 

fo r   one  thing, 

literary  gold  bricks

All  that

It  is  a  burning  shame,  but 
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is  civic
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sweet enough,  just g in - 
>  g ery   enough)  and  the 
^  sealed,  air  tight  package 
keeps it just right until eaten. 
Ordinary  ginger  cakes  and 
cookies,  sold  in  the  usual  way, 
get moist and soggy in damp weather 
and  hard  and  tough  in  dry  weather.

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necessary 
is  for the  seller to  wear  eye­
glasses,  and  have  a  New  England  ac­
cent,  and  the  nerve  to  assure  us  that 
they  are  the  greatest  thing  alive,  and  all 
the  rest 
is  dead  easy.  We  furnish  the 
faith  to believe  anything.  It  would  take 
volumes  to  tell  the  times  we  have  been 
taken  in  and  done  for,  the  unknown  and 
spurious 
idols  before  which  we  have 
burned  incense  and  the  receptions  and 
djnners  we  have  bestowed  upon  lions 
who  had  never dared  to  roar  at  home.  I 
recall  one  particular  case  of  a  woman, 
some  years  ago,  who  posed  around  for 
several  months  and  who  was  spoken  of 
in  bated  breath  as  “ a  distinguished 
authoress  from  — . ”   Nobody  seemed 
able  to  recall  the  titles  of her  books,  but 
we  didn’t  blame  her  for  that.  With 
characteristic  humility,  we  attributed 
our  ignorance  to  our  unfamiliarity  with 
what 
is  best  in  literature  until  one  ad­
venturous  spirit  asked  her  plump  out 
what  her  books  were  about. 
‘ * Oh, ’ ’  she 
“ I  haven’t  wrtitten 
replied  sweetly, 
anything  yet,  but  I 
intend  to  write  a 
book  sometime.”   Wasn’t  that  a  deli­
illustration  of  our  peculiarity? 
cious 
Home  talent  has  to  be  able  to  read 
its 
title  clear,  but  with  strangers  it’s  an­
other  story.

We  also  want  more  opinions  made 

in 
Grand  Rapids.  We  don’t  want  to  ac­
cept  Boston’s  opinion  of  us,  or  New 
York’s  opinion,  or  Chicago’s,  or  San 
Francisco’s.  We  have  been  altogether 
too  much 
in  the  way  of  agreeing  with 
them  when  they  were  kind  enough  to 
point  out  our  faults  to  us..  What  we 
want  to  do  is  to  be  more  assertive of  our 
virtues.  We  need  to  appreciate  our 
blessings  and  call  other  people’s  atten 
tion  to  them.  Find  a  progressive  city 
and  you  will  find  one  whose  citizens 
spend  their  lives  from  the  cradle  to  the 
grave  chanting  paeans  of  praise  in  its 
honor. 
It  may  be  truthfully  urged  that 
women  have  neither  the  money  nor  the 
training to build factories and inaugurate 
great  enterprises,  or  even  to  make  and 
enforce  laws  for  the  good  of  their  town 
but  no  one  will  deny  they  do  most  of 
the  talking.  That  is  their  opportunity 
and  every  woman  who 
is  firmly  con 
vinced  that  she  lives  in  the  only  town 
on  earth, and  doesn’t  mind  saying  so,  is 
worth  her  weight  in  gold  as  a  good  cit 
izen.  Too  long  have  we  taken  the  good 
dollars  that  were  made  in Grand  Rapids 
and  spent  them  elsewhere.  It is  time  for 
the  women  to  realize  that  they  have 
something  to do  with  the  prosperity  of 
a  town  as  well  as  the  men,  and  when  we 
have  more  women  of  the  Kansas  City 
girl’s  type,  who  are  “ made  in  Grand 
R apids,”   we  shall  have  the  great  city 
of  which  we  dream. 

Dorothy  Dix.

Some of the Overpraised Virtues.

Sometimes 

it  must  occur to  even  the 
most  casual  observer  that  good  women 
are  often  the  victims  of  their  own  vi 
tues  and  that  many  of  the  precepts 
la 
down  for their  guidance  are  more  hon 
ored  in  the  breach  than  the  observance 
Take,  for  instance,  the  old  adage  that 
“ What 
is  worth  doing  at  all  is  worth 
doing  well. ’ ’  That apparently  unassai’ 
able  maxim  has  slain  its  thousands  and 
sent  its  tens  of  thousands  to  insane  asy 
lums  and  sanitariums.

A   woman  brought  up 

in  that  faith 
feels  it  nothing  short  of  a  crime  to baste 
a  thing  up,  if  she  can  put  out  her  eyes 
and  get  a  backache  putting  in  little 
close  stitches,  although 
the  basting 
might  answer every  purpose just as well 
She  considers 
it  her  duty  to  make  < 
burnt  offering  of  herself  over the kitchen 
stove  preparing  fancy  dishes  for  her

family,  although  she  knows  perfectly 
well  she  might  save  herself,  and  they 
would  be  better  off 
if  she  gave  them 
plain  food  to  eat.  She  grows  old  before 
her  time  sweeping,  dusting  and  polish­
ing  up  her  over-clean  house,  but  she 
despises  the  woman  who  gives  her house 
cleaning  a  lick  and  a  promise  and  then 
goes  off  to  enjoy  herself,  yet between  the 
latter  has  the  truer  philosophy 
two  the 
of  life.  There 
is  an  art  of  slighting 
work,  as  well  as  doing  it,  that  is  worth 
learning.

it 

suit. 

Then  there 

se  cain  about 

is  patience.  Patience  is 
to  be  a  good 
universally  believed 
long 
A  reasonable 
woman’s 
amount  of 
it  is,  without  doubt,  highly 
to  be  commended  and  recommended, 
but 
is  a  virtue  that  is  very  easily 
overdone.  Truth  compels  one  to  admit 
that  woman’s  patience  is  at  the  bottom 
a  good  many  of  the  crying  evils  of 
the  day.  It  is  never the  patient  mistress 
who  has  good  servants.  It  is  the  woman 
whose  eagle  eye  is  going  to  see  every 
is  going  to 
neglected  duty  and  who 
it  who  gets  her  table­
cloths  put  on  straight  and  her  beds 
swept  under. 
is  the  patient  friends 
who  can  be  counted  on  to  forgive  who 
have  to  exercise  that  virtue  seventy  and 
seven  times. 
impatient  woman 
isn’t  going  to  be  put  off  with  any 
who 
is  treated  with  respect,  and 
old  thing 
doesn’t  have  anything  to  forgive. 
It  is 
the  patient  woman,  moreover,  who  is  re­
sponsible  for nine-tenths  of  the  drunken 
husbands. 
is  because  there  are  no 
patient  husbands  who  sit  up  with  a 
saintly  smile  to  let  drunken  wives 
into 
the  house  at  unseemly  hours  that  keeps 
women  in  the  paths  of  sobriety  and  de­
cency.

The 

It 

It 

Another thing  is  unselfishness.  Vol­
umes  have  been  written  to  exploit  this 
crowning  virtue  of  womanhood.  Ro­
mance  and  poetry  hold  it  aloft  as  the 
beacon 
light  towards  which  the  entire 
sex  should  struggle.  Yet  there have been 
more  useless  suffering  and  idiotic  self- 
sacrifice  committed  in  its  name  than  for 
all  other  causes  in  the  world  combined. 
The  perfectly  unselfish  woman 
is  the 
instigator  of  selfishness  in  others.  The 
deally  unselfish  wife  makes  a  tyrant  of 
her  husband  before  he  knows  it.  She  is 
always  willing  to  give  away  without  a 
word,  and  he  lets  her  do  it.  She  is  al­
ways  anxious  for  him  to  have  the  best 
of  things,  and  he  takes  them. 
It  is  the 
woman  who  has  a  proper  degree  of 
selfishness  and  who  asserts  and  gets  her 
shaie  of  the  good  things  of  life  that  re­
mains  her  husband’s  companion  and 
friend.  The  unselfish  mother  is  the  one 
who  drops  out  of  her  set  in  society  to 
rock  her babies  to  sleep— who,  when her 
in  a  shabby 
children  are  older,  goes 
turned  frock  to 
let  her  girls  have  real 
lace  and  bangles,  and  who  stays  in  the 
kitchen  to  serve  the  meals,  instead  of 
sitting  at  the  head  of  her  own  table.  Of 
course,  such  devotion,  such  angelic  self 
sacrifice,  make  her  the  object  of  adora 
tion  in  her  family?  Not  at  all. 
Invari 
ablv  her children  despise  her.  No  one 
ever  saw  a  perfectly  unselfish  mother 
whose  children  didn’t  have  a  contempt 
for her. 
is  the  selfish  mother  who 
has  good  and  admiring  children.  The 
truth  is  that  there  are  many  good  qual­
ities  that  we  need  to  season  life,  but  we 
want  to  use  them  with  forbearance  and 
judgment.  Salt  is  a  necessity,  but  too 
much  of  it  ruins  a  dinner.

It 

Cora  Stowell.

No  trade  is  so  well  established  that  it 
can 
ignore  advertising  and  no  trust  is 
so  strong  that  it can  defy  competition.

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How  to  Build  up  Trade  by  Advertising.
After  thinking  about  the  matter  I con­
cluded  that  if  there  was  any  one  thing 
in  my  business  experience  in  which  1 
had  no  method 
it  was  in  advertising. 
This  brought  the  question  up  as  to  the 
meaning  of  the  word  advertising,  and, 
on 
looking  up  different  definitions  for 
it,  I decided  that  “ Making  public  what 
you  wish  others  to  know”   was  about  the 
best  definition  that  I  could  find.  This 
means,  keep  the  public  talking  about 
you  and  about  what  you  are  doing  and 
what  you  have  to  sell.  Ben  Butler  once 
said  that  he  would  rather  people  would 
talk  mean  about  him  than  say  nothing 
about  him,  and  sometimes  I  think  the 
business  man  who  goes  along  quietly  in 
the  even  tenor  of  his  way  and  says noth­
ing  himself  and  has  no  one  else  saying 
anything  about  him  would  better  have 
somebody  talking  mean  about  him  than 
saying  nothing.

is  by  personal  letters. 

I  have  tried  various  means  of  publish­
ing  to  the  people  with  whom  I  wished 
to  do  business  the  fact  that  I  had  the 
goods  they  wanted  in  sufficient  quanti­
ties  to  supply  their  needs  and  at  prices 
at  which  they  could  afford  to  buy  them.
I  think  one  of  the  best  ways to  reach  the 
trade 
I  have  a 
list  of  all  the  farmers  in  my  county  and 
some  names  in  adjoining  counties,  not 
only 
including  the  landowners,  but  the 
better class  of  renters also,  and  I  mail  to 
least  three  times  a  year, 
them,  at 
personal 
letter  calling  their  particular 
attention  to  certain  lines  of  seasonable 
goods,  both  in  the  hardware  and  imple 
ment 
if  I  have  any  specia 
bargains  to  offer  I  mention  them  and 
quote  prices  on  them.

lines,  and 

article. 
In  the  implement  business  es­
pecially  stick  to  good  reliable  goods, 
manufactured  by  factories  with standing 
reputation  and  capital,  even  if  you  can 
not  make  as  much  profit  on  the  sale  of 
their goods  at  the  time  as  you  could  on 
some  outside  brand.

in  your 
If  you  can  get  the  people 
county  to  believe  that  a  certain 
line  of 
plows,  cook  stoves  or  wagons  are  the 
best  goods  of  their kind  made  and  thus 
build  up  a 
large  trade  on  them,  your 
business,  to  that  manufacturer,  is  worth 
more  and  they  can  afford  to  give  you 
lower  prices  than 
if  you  handle  a  half 
dozen  different  kinds  of  implements  or 
stoves  and  try  to  tell  the people that they 
re  all  equally  good.  There  can  only  be 
one  best  thing.  Satisfy  yourself  who 
makes  the  best  thing  in  each  line  you 
handle, 
from  a  pocket  knife  up  to  a 
threshing  machine,  then  go  to  work  for 
that  line  and  continue  to  handle  it  from 
ear to  year as  long  as  you  are  satisfied 
that  it  remains  at  the  head.  Ask  a  fair 
legitimate  profit,  and  no  more,  on  these 
nes  and  then  maintain  your  prices 
without  regard  to  what  competitors  ask 
for  similar  goods.

lines,  without  regard  to  what 

Make  good  to  your  customers  every 
statement  and  warrant  made  on  your 
best 
it 
costs  you.  Meet  competitors’  prices  and 
heat  them  on  some  other  lines  bought 
for  that  purpose,  even  if  you  lose money 
on  these  other  lines.  Keep  posted  on 
what  your  competitors  are  selling  and if 
they  are  getting  more  trade  on  any 
line 
than  you  are,  find  out  the  reason,  then 
rect  your advertising  so  as  to  change 
this  state  of  affairs  as  soon  as  possible.

E.  A.  Rea.
One  Good Turn  Deserves  Another.

In  addition  to  this  1  have,  for sev 
eral  years,  sent  out  calendars  the  first 
of  the  year  to  my  farmer  customers,  be 
ing  careful  to  send  nice  ones  that  they 
will  keep  during  the  year.

I  advertise  quite  largely,  both  by  di 

seasons  of  the  year 

play  advertisements  and  locals,  in  both 
the  newspapers 
in  our  town,  and  at 
in  othe 
some 
papers  published  in  other  towns 
in  the 
f   aim  to  change  my  display 
county, 
least  once  every  two 
advertisement  at 
weeks  and  often  every  week. 
1  think  it 
is  very 
important  in  advertising  to  be 
honest  with  your  customers.  Avoid  the 
stereotyped  statements  that  you  see in so 
many  advertisements,  “ that  our  stock 
this  spring  is  larger  than  ever  before,’ 
“ our  prices  are  lower  than  ever,”   and 
a  number  of  others  of  very  similar char­
acter.' I  do  not  mean  by  this  that  in  ad 
vertising  a  person  should  not  claim 
first,  be 
the  advantages * he  has,  but, 
sure  that  you  have  advantages. 
If  you 
know  that  you  own  a  certain  line  of 
goods  at  a  lower  price  than  your  com 
petitors  are  paying 
for  them,  explai 
this  to  your  customer  and  take  all  the 
credit  for  looking  after  his  interest  that 
you  can,  and,  if  you  are advertising that 
you  are  making  special  prices  or  offer 
ing  special  bargains 
line  of 
goods,  be  very  sure  that  your  prices  are 
special  and  that  the  bargains  you  are 
offering  are  really  better  than  your  cus 
tomer  can  get  at  other  stores  in  your 
neighborhood.

in  any 

1  believe  a  man  to  be  a  good  adver 
tiser  must,  first,  be  a  good  buyer;  sec 
ond,  he  must  be  thoroughly  honest  with 
his  trade.  This  naturally  brings  up  the 
question  of  quality 
in  goods  we  han 
die. 
If  you  have  a  second-class  article 
in  stock  that  you  have  bought  at a  low 
figure  do not  advertise  it  as  a  first-class

<’rom the Muskegon Chronicle.

A  Muskegon  commercial  traveler once 
found  himself  stalled 
in  a  snowdrift. 
On  board  was  a  miscellaneous  collection 
of  passengers,  but  the  wailing  which 
most  attracted  his  attention  was  that  of 
lady  who  thought  she  could  be 
an  old 
contented 
if  she  only  had  a  “ cup  of 
tay. ”   The  gallant  drummer  had  some 
tea  samples 
in  his .  grip  and  a  happy 
thought  struck  him.  He  climbed  intc 
the  baggage  car  and  got  a  lamp  and  a 
pan  and  made  some  fairly  presentable 
tea.  But  he  had  reckoned  without  hi 
host  or  his  tea.  One  cup  was  the  match 
that  set  aflame  an  appetite  for  tea  that 
should  have  been  a  subject  for  the 
late 
for  more  tea 
Dr.  Keeley.  She  called 
and  the  drummer’s  precious  Oolong 
samples  disappeared  like  the  snowdrifts 
ahead  didn’t.  Eventually  a  smile  stole 
across  the  woman’s  face,  but  took  noth 
ing  else 
in  particular.  The  drummer 
and  his  gripsack  sank  exhausted.  Then 
an  old  man  across  the  aisle  broke  in 
with  a  timid,  “ Now,  you  haven’t  a  drop 
of  whisky  wid  you,  have  you?”   The 
drummer had  something  traveling  under 
that  alias,  a  brand  of  Baldwin  whisky 
guaranteed  to  kill  at  a  hundred  yards 
He  passed  the  bottle  over.  The  fellow 
passenger took  a  long  pull  and  said :

“ Thank  ye,  sir.  You  have  saved  me 

‘ ‘ And, ’ ’  the  drummer  murmured 

life.”
he  gazed  at  the  empty  flask,  “ length 
ened  m ine.”

He  Had the Cash.

He lacked  refinement, culture, grace. 
He had no charm of form or face,
To see him read would pain your sight. 
’Twas misery for him to write.
And yet, like all that’s human, he 
Had one trait of humanity—
And that the best, I might here state— 
At making money he was great.
Wherefore around him all men flocked. 
And women, too, and were not shocked 
At things he’d do or things he’d say,
In his rough, coarse and brutal way. 
They merely smiled indulgently.
And said:  “ How free from guile is he! 
He doesn’t have to try to please—
We love his eccentricities,”

Fasting  is  a  hungry  fad  that  does  not 

last.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

YOU
ARE
LOOKING

for a paint that will  sell.  We 
are  looking  for  a  hustling 
dealer  in  your  town.  You 
know where  we  are.  I,et  us 
know where you  are  and  we 
will do the rest.
Tbe Pattersop- 
Sargeijt Co.

Manufacturers of B PS Paints 
and Varnishes.

CLEVELAND, 
CHICAGO, 
NEW YORK.

F. J.  Sokup

Manufacturer of
Galvanized
Iron
Skylight
and
Cornice
Work

Gravel, Tin,  Steel, and  Slate  Roof­
ing and  Roofing  Materials at  mar­
ket  prices.  Write  for  estimates.
121 S. Front St., Opposite Pearl. 
Qrand Rapids, Mich.

Bell and Citizens Phones 261.

Syrup  and

Write for prices.

Wm.  Brummeler 
&  Sons,

Manufacturers of

TIN W A R E  AND 

S H E E T   M E TA L 
GOODS.

249-263 S.  Ionia  St., 
Qrand Rapids, Mich.

C A R   S T O V E S

$ 2 .5 0   EACH

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FO STER,  ST E V E N S  &   CO.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Four Kinds oi coupon boots 

are manufactured by us and all sold on the same basis, 
irrespective  of  size,  shape  or  denomination.  Free 
samples on application.

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15

Hardware  Price  Current

Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire

Nails

Selling  Good«  by  Sample—The  Butterine 

Written lor the Tradesman.

Question.

for  the  customers  of  his  own  locality  at 
least,  his  general  trade  will  soon  in­
crease  and  many  times  over  repay  for 
the  stamps  and  stationery  used.

lose 

dimes 

three  to 

pay. 
! not

instead  of  dollars  go— often 

The  longest  pole  takes  the  our  prophecy! 

The  tendency  of  mercantile  trade is  to 
recede  a  century,  in  one  respect— that 
is,  in  keeping  on  hand  almost  every 
article  required  about  the  farm,  house  or 
shop,  in  city  or  country.  The  writer 
predicts  that  the  next  generation  will 
hardly  see  a  retail  establishment  with 
one  single  line  of  goods,  for  the  reason 
goods  will  be  produced  at  a  price 
that
iw  that  any  single  line  “ will  not 
’  Make  a  note  of  that,  as  we  do 
'xpect  to  be  here  to  remind  you  of

I  am  interested  in  the  proceedings  of 
the  seventh  annual  convention  of  the 
Michigan  Retail  Grocers’  Association, 
and  notice  that  the  trend  of  remarks 
made  by  different  speakers  was  that 
is  very  sharp  in  all  lines 
competition 
and'in  all  localities. 
It  would  seem  as. 
if  parties  controlling  a  less  capital  than 
from 
five  thousand  dollars 
would  do  well  to  think  twice  before  en­
gaging 
in  a  general  retail  trade.  The 
standard  motto  of  Missouri  and  Ken­
tucky  should  be  constantly  borne 
in 
mind,  that
persimmons;”   and  in  this  age  of  trusts 
The  remarks  of  B.  S.  Harris,  of 
the  honest  man  may  be  a  competitor I Grand  Rapids,  before  the  convention 
with  thieves.  At  the  present  time  the I on  “ Should  the  Sale  of  Butterine  be 
lines  seem  deter-  Prohibited?”   is  emphatically  a  timely 
larger  dealers  in  all 
mined  to freeze out all those whose  purses I and 
important  article.  Wherever  the 
limited.  They  fre-  writer  finds  it  for  sale  he  appoints  him- 
are  known  to  be 
quently  commence  by  selecting a certain I self  “ a  committee  of  one 
to  examine 
number  of  standard  necessities  in  every I it  closely  and  in  very  many  cases, 
less  winter,  finds  it  superior  in  both  appear- 
family  and  selling  them  at  a  trifle 
than  they  have  paid 
in  the  original I ance  and  flavor  to  most  of  the  small  and 
packages,  and  in  the  smallest  quantities | occasional  churnings  of  butter  brought 
in  from  the  country.  The  best  butter 
asked  for.  Being  able  to  buy  in  much
makers 
in  the  country,  among  farmers, 
larger 
lots  than  the  suburban  stores, 
place  comparatively  small  amounts  on 
they 
less— if  anything—than  their 
the  market  during  the  winter,  as  they 
suburban  neighbors,  even  should  they 
re  aware  that  it  will  not  grade  with  the
attempt  to  meet  their  prices,  and  the
is  those  w h o   count  their  wealth  grass-fed  article,  hardly  any  two  churn-
result 
ings  being  alike,  the  result  being  to 
with  a  sigh  of  regret— from  the  store  of  their  disadvantage,  while  others  who 
an  old  friend  to  the  store  of  a  stranger  only  milk  one  or  two  cows,  and  scrimp 
where  the  dimes  will  buy more.  I  notice  their  own  table  to  make  a  few  really 
in  the  absence  of 
from  the  remarks  of  one  general  deal-  necessary  purchases 
er  in  a  small  town  that  he  has  used  the I cash,  can  not  be  expected  always 
to 
ils  occasionally  to  a  limited  extent  bring  the  quality  up  to  standard  under 
It  will  be  perforce  a 
in  sending  samples  of  dry  goods  to  his  these  conditions. 
possibly  others— with I second  grade  article  and  quite  gener- 
customers— and 
good  results.  The  writer  would  enlarge  ally 
inferior  to  butterine.  The  points 
upon  this  idèa  of  using  the  mails  to  a lare  well  taken  by  Mr.  Harris  that  But- 
certain  extent  in  exhibiting  samples  of  terine  is  a  pure,  sweet,  clean  and  nutri- 
goods,  and  give  a  good  reason  why,  ftrous  article  of  food ;  and  for  cooking 
the  place  of
under  certain  restrictions,  it  should  be | purposes  alone, 
and  other
much  objectionable 
resorted  to : 
is  a  boon  to  the  cooks  of  our 
grease,  it 
country,  and  any  legislation  toward 
its 
suppression  in  the  open  market,  even  as 
a  shortening,  would  be  in  the  nature  of 

How  to  Smoke  a Cigar.
igniting  a  cigar,  it  is  neces

days  ago  I  listened  to  a 
in  which  a  middle-aged 
conversation 
lady  remarked  that  a  certain 
store, 
where  she  made  most  of  her  purchases 
of  dry  goods,  was  So  badly  lighted  that 
it  was  hardly  possible  accurately  to  ex­
amine  the  texture,  and  more  particular­
ly  the  color,  of  dress  goods,  and  when 1 Sary  to  its  complete  enjoyment  to  secure 
that  fact  was  mentioned  and  she  had  a  draught  through  it.  This  is  done  by
asked  fo ra   small 
» T fe h S e l  S f f S J
and  examine  in  a  good 
a  kn5fe  or  the  teeth>  or>  as  some  pre 
aid  of  her  glasses,  she  was  courteously I fer>  by  pjnching  the  end  off  between  the 
but  firmly  told  that  they  did  not  give  nails  of  the  thumb  and  of  the  second 
out  samples.  She  then  went  to  a  bet-  finger of  the  right  hand,  the  cigar  being 
«   lighted  stem  , ad  made her J - J - J .  M
She  further  said : 
|eft.handed.  The  end  of  the  cigar  hav-
prised  to  find  a  lady  friend  wearing the 
same  goods 
is  carried
jng  been  removed,  the  cigar 
I  had  first  examined, and 
was  refused  a  sample  of,  which  in  the  to  the  mouth.  Hold  the  exterior  end 
broad 
day,  on the  street, 
pre- 
light  of 
u  j, 
and  suck  at  the  cigar  more  or  less  vig-
’ 1 
oroau  ugm  v« 
This
sented  the  most  lovely  colors  even  b
ig 
ter,  to  my  taste,  than  anything  1  had | wj|j  cause  the  tobacco  to  become 
purchased.  “  Now, if merchants  in  cities I nited,  and  the  resultant  smoke  will 
fol- 
from  two  to  five  hundred  miles  away I low  the  vacuum  produced  by  the 
inhal-
into  the  mouth.
find  it  profitable  to  send  samples  to  en-  mgj 
continued  in­
tire  strangers,  it  is  pertinent  to  ask  why  J ™ .* " “
r  has  burned 
ips 
the  proprietor  t)f  the  village  or  even | so  short  that  your  mustache  or  your
’he
the  crossroads  store  should  not,  upon  re-  are  ¡n  danger  of  getting  scorched, 
ceiving  new  stock  w hich  may  be  m ail- len d   of  the  cigar  has  not  to  be  kept  be- 
teeth  all  this  tim e.  On  the
able,  proceed  at  once  to  send  more  or  tween 

and  so 
  “ V t h e   _ 

I  was  afterward  sur- 1 gong 

as  the  case  demands. 

Frank  A.  Howig.

light,  with  the 

Only  a  few

taking 

Before 

crime. 

T “
,

to  a 

 £ *

lard 

the 

e

“

t

-

¡ess  sam ples,  with  W t e   -****- S

 2 ^  'SZSSfH 25 

is  must  be  taken  not  to  keep 
tim e that 

they  will  want  sooner o r | mouth  for  so  long  a 

knowing  most  of  the  parties  well,  he 
almost  certain 
later.  The  fair  sex  are  known  to  be  wjil  go out. 
gregarious  and  in  the "broad  sunlight  of | 
theirownhomes  will  examine  admire 
and  talk  over  with  their  neighbors 
pros  and  cons  and 
then  go  or send 
“ some  of  those  goods.”   And  it  is  rea- 
sonable  to suppose  that,  if the  merchant I neighbors;  they  think 
4»  capable  of  selecting  with  judgment | very old  and  decrepit.

G ^ T s ^ a tl 

*   *  *

the  ^   ¿Q^net?  Why>  j  think  the one you
for K ,  

yery  becoming.

jyjrs_  Growells— Yes,  and  so  do  the 
is  becoming 

it 

¡t  out of the
the  fire

want  a

7 oo
it  50
13 oo
16 50 
30 00

50
$4 00

60
40&10

>4 In.
6V4
7H

65

66 
1  26 
40&10
308.10
25
70&10
70
00&10

17

40&10
50&10

60&10

K5&
85&10

33H
40&10
70
60&10
50&10
50&10
50&10
40&10

70
20&10

A ag u n   and  Bit*

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

Axes

Barrows

First Quality, S. B. Bronze................
7irst Quality, I). B. Bronze...............
First Quality, S. B. S.  Steel...............
First Quality,  D. B. Steel..................
Railroad.............................................
harden...............................................net
Bolts
Stove ..................................................
Carriage, new  11=*' 
...........................
Plow ........... 
...........................
Buckets
Well, plain.........................................
Cast Loose Pin, figured....................
Wrought Narrow..............................

Butts,  Cast

Cartridges

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

Chain

tt in. 

5-16 in.
Com..............  8  c.  ...  7  c.
BB................  9 
BBB.............   9*4 
Cast Steel, per lb................................

Crowbars

...  7\
...  8*

tt In. 
6  C. 
6M 
7%

Caps

Ely’s 1-10, per m.................................
Hick’sC. F., perm ............................
(J. D.,perm.......................................
Musket, per m....................................

Chisels

Socket Firmer  ..................................
Socket Framing.................................
Socket Corner....................................
Socket Slicks......................................
om. 4 piece, 6 in., per doz................net
orrugated, per doz...........................
Adjustable.........................................dis

Elbows

Expansive  Bits

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

Files—New  List

New American..................................
Nicholson’s.........................................
Heller’s Horse Rasps.........................
Nos. 16 to 20;  22 and 24;  25 and 26;  27,
-Jst  12  13 
16.

Galvanized  Iron

14 

Discount, 70

15 
Gas  Pipe

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

Gauges

Glass

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

Hammers

Maydole & Co.’s, new list................... dis
Yerkes & Plumb’s ...............................dis
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.............. 30c list
Gate, Clark’s 1,2,3.............................dis

Hinges

Hollow  W are

Pots..........................................' ........
Kettles...............................................
Spiders...............................................
Au Sable............................................ dis
Putnam............................................... dis
House  Furnishing Goods
Stamped Tinware, new list.................
Japanned Tinware..............................

Horse  Nails

Iron

c rates
Bar Iron.............................................   3 
Light Band........................................   Jttc rates
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings..........
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings........

Knobs—New  List

1  00

.

Mattocks

Metals—Zinc

Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s.............dis
Adze Eye................................$17 00.. dis
600 pound casks. 
Per pound.
Miscellaneous
Bird Cages.................................
Pumps, Cistern...........................
Screws, New List.......................
Casters, Bed and Plate...............
Dampers, American...................
Molasses  Gates
Stebbins’ Pattern.......................
Enterprise, self-measuring................ 
Fry, Acme..........................................
7U6W
Common,  polished............................. 
Patent  Planished Iron 
“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27  10 75 
"B” Wood’s patent planished. Nos. 26to 27  9 75

40
70
80
50&10&10
50

60&10
■5*’

Broken packages ttc per pound extra.

Pams

Planes

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

050 
3 65 
Base

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

UV4

50

25 00

1  60 
1  85

8 60 
8  10

66

$ 8 50 
8 50 
» 76

7 00
7 00
8 50 
8 50

10

75
40&10
65&lb 
15 
1  25
60 
60 
50&10 
50&10 
40 
4 30

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

Rivets

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

Roofing  Plates

14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean...................
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Dean...................
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean...................
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway  Grade...
14x20IX,Charcoal, Allaway  Grade.
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Allaway  Grade.
20x28IX,Charcoal, Allaway  Grade...

Ropes

Sisal, tt inch and larger,...................
Manilla...............................................

1st acct.  19, ’86.................................dis

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

Sand  Paper

Sash  W eights

Sheet Iron

com. smooth.

com. 
$3 00 
OS. 10 to 14.................................$3 ‘30
3 00 
OS. 15 to 17.................................  3 20
3 20 
OS. 18 to 21.................................   3 30
3 30 
OS. 22 to 24 .................................   3   40
3 40 
OS. 25 to 26 .................................  3 50
3 50
O. 27..................... a ...................  3 60
All Sheets No.  18 and  lighter,  over  30  Inches 
wide, not less than 2-10 extra.
oaded with Black  Powder.............. dis
,oaded with  Nitro  Powder..............dis

Shells—Loaded

40&10

Shot

Drop...................................................
B and  Buck....................................
Shovels and  Spades
First Grade,  Doz..............................
Second Grade, Doz............................

Solder

^ fh e  prices of the many other qualities of solder 
in the market indicated by  private  brands  vary 
according to composition.

Squares

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

Tin—Melyn  Grade

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

Tin—Allaway  Grade
10x14 IC, Charcoal..............................
14x20 IC, Charcoal..............................
10x14 IX, Charcoal..............................
14x20 IX, Charcoal....................•••••■  _
Each additional X on this grade, $1.60 
Boiler  Size Tin  Plate 
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The  Meat Market

Advertising  Holiday  Poultry  in  March.
I  crossed  one  of  the  ferries  to  Jersey 
City  a  few  days  ago,  and  from  the  up­
per  deck  looked  down  at  the  wagons  be­
ing  driven  off  the  boat. 
I  noticed  that 
among  them  were  two  butcher  wagons, 
and  that  they  belonged  to  wide  awake 
men.  The  top  of  each  wagon  was  let­
tered  in  large  characters,  calling  atten­
tion  to  the  fact  that  Mr.  So-and-So  was 
prepared  to  furnish  the  finest  meats  at 
“ right  prices.”  
“ Now,”   I  said  to  my­
self,  “ the  Jersey  City  butchers  must  be 
hustlers  and  plumb  up to date. ”   But the 
idea  was  rudely  shattered  when  I  got  on 
a  trolley  car  and  saw  this  sign :

GO  TO  BROW N’S 
for  your  Holiday 

Poultry.

The 

idea  of  Brown,  or  «ny  one  else, 
advertising  holiday  poultry  in  March 
was  so  absurd  that  I  made  a  memoran­
dum  of  this  address,  and  in  the  course 
of  the  day  called  upon  him. 
“ Mr. 
Brown,”   1  said,  “ I  am  one  of  those 
them­
inquisitive  mortals  who  make 
selves  disliked  by  meddling 
in  other 
people’s  affairs,  laboring  under  the  im­
pression  that  they  are  doing  their  fel­
low  men  a  good  turn. ’ ’  Brown was look­
ing  at  me  through  a  cloud  of  tobacco 
smoke  that  went  up  in  a  straight  line 
from  what  appeared  to  be  a  very  poor 
cigar.  He  was  puzzled. 
I  could  see 
that  at  the  start  he  took  me  for  an  agent 
of  some  kind,  but  later  his  expression 
changed  and  he  had  made  up  his  mind 
that  I  was  a  beggar  with  a  new  brace 
game.  “ You,”   I  continued,  “ arethrow­
ing  away  money,  by  using  advertising 
space  in  a  way  that  makes  your  name  a 
joke,  and— "

Brown’s  patience  had  run  its  limit  by 
this  time,  and  he 
interrupted  me  to 
say :  “ Will  you  be  so  good  as  to inform 
me  what  you  are  coming  to?”   “ W hy,”
I  asked,  “ do  you  not  advertise  spring 
lamb  instead  of  holiday  poultry,  as  you 
light  of 
are  doing,  in  the  cars?”   A 
amusement  broke  over  Brown’s  face. 
I 
detected  a  merry  twinkle  in  his  eyes. 
“ W ell,”   he  said  slowly,  as  he  looked 
straight  at  me,  “ I  might  say  a  lot  of 
things  about  that.  Suppose  I  tell  you  I 
am  now  advertising  for  the  next  Christ­
mas  holiday  trade?  Suppose  I  say  I 
haven’t  had  time to substitute something 
for the  last  Christmas  advertising?  Sup­
pose  I  say  the  advertisement  refers  to 
the  coming  holiday— St.  Patrick’s  Day 
— and  that  I  am  trying  to  introduce  the 
style  of  eating  poultry  on  that  day?  Or 
suppose  I  say  I 
leave  that  advertise­
ment  up  to  make  talk  and  attract  atten­
tion,  as  I  have  attracted  yours?  There 
are  some  guesses  for  you.”

Before  I  could  recover  from  the  con­
fusion 
into  which  he  had  thrown  me, 
Brown  retired 
into  his  ice  house.  An 
English  butcher  who  had  been  listening 
smiled  at  me  knowingly,  so  I  said  to 
him :  “ Why  does  Brown  leave  that  ad­
vertisement  up?”  
“ You  can  blow  me 
if  1  know ,"  replied  the  Englishman. 
He  didn’t  know,  so  I  didn’t  “ blow”  
him. 
I  am  going  to  Jersey  City  again 
some  day  to  get  Brown’s  secret  out  of 
him .—Stroller  in  Butchers’  Advocate.

Serious  Outcome  of  a  Foolish  Remark.
Fifteen  cents’  worth  of  liver is  said  to 
be  the  direct  cause  of  a  suit  for  $15,000 
recently  begun  against  Edward  D.  Pel- 
ton,  a  Cleveland  meat  dealer.

A   son  of  a  customer walked  into  Pel- 
ton’s  shop  and  asked  for  15  cents’  worth 
of  liver.  Pelton  wrapped  the  meat  in

paper,  and,  handing  it  to  the  boy,  re­
marked,  in  a  jocular  manner,  “ This  is 
nigger  steak.”   The  boy  went  home  and 
told  his  mother.  She  was  offended  at 
Pelton’s 
joke,  and  determined  to 
have  a  personal  interview  in  regard  to 
it.  She  sailed  into  the  shop,  and  before 
Pelton  had  the 
inkling  of  what 
was  coming,  he  says,  she  let  fly  several 
missiles.

little 

least 

He  succeeded 

in  putting  her  out  of 
the  shop,  and  she  continued  the  bom­
bardment 
from  the  street.  To  protect 
his  windows  from  being  smashed  he 
went  out  and  drove  her away  and  was 
obliged  to  push  her  several  times,  but 
used  no  unnecessary  violence.

The 

lady  avers,  in  her  petition  for 
in  the  amount  of  $10,000, 
damages, 
that  Pelton  kicked  her,  inflicting bruises 
that  have  required  the  attention  of  a 
physician  ever since.  Her  husband 
is 
of  the  opinion  that  he,  too,  has  cause 
for  action  against  Pelton,  because  his 
wife  is  unable  to  perform  her  household 
duties.  He  asks  for $5,000.

How  to  Hake  Prim e  and  Pure  Lard.
Prime  Steam  Lard :  One  of  the  es­
sentials  to  turning  out  a  choice  article 
is  that  the  stock  be cooked immediately. 
Allowing 
it  to  accumulate  from  day  to 
day  until  enough  is  available  to  fill  the 
tanks  results  in  something  inferior.  The 
best  results  are  obtained  by  having  the 
tanks  in  readiness  prior to  killing,  and 
then  placing  the  stock  in  them  as  soon 
as  possible.  The  cooking  process  should 
last  for  from  7^   to  8  hours,  under  a 
sixty  pound  steam  pressure. 
At  the 
start,  and  for an  hour  and  three-quarters 
after,  cook  it  with  plenty  of  water,  and 
after  allowing 
it  to  settle  draw  off  the 
water,  after  which  finish  the  cooking 
with  fresh  water.  Be  sure  to  have  the 
cocks  so  arranged  that  gases will escape. 
The  water  should  be  let  into  the  tanks 
slowly  and  from  the  bottom,  which 
makes  the  drawing  off  of  the  lard  easy.
Pure  Kettle  tendered  L ard :  Take 
i t ; 
the  leaf  lard  from  the  hog  and  hash 
jacket  kettle  and 
then  run 
heat 
it  for  six  hours,  at  a 
i t ; 
temperature  of  240  degrees.  The  kettle 
must  have  an  agitator  which  will  stir 
or  turn  the  stock  constantly.  While 
cooking  use  10  pounds  of  salt  to  2,500 
pounds  of  leaf  lard.  Having  run  off  the 
pure  kettle  rendered 
lard,  put  the  re­
maining  stock  into  the  tanks  for  prime 
steam.
Only  the  Sluggard  Has  Cause  For  Com­

it 
cook 

into  a 

plaint.

T.  F.  Sotham says that with a decrease 
of  30  per  cent,  in  the  number  of  beef 
cattle  in  ten  years;  with  an  increase  of 
30  per  cent, 
in  the  population  of  our 
meat-eating  country;  with  prosperity 
installed  in  every industry;  with foreign 
demand  increasing  and  foreign  nations 
dependent  upon  u s;  with  a  balance  of 
trade  annually 
in  our  favor  amounting 
to  $12  per  capita 
increase  in  the  cur­
rency  of  the  country ;  without  a  cloud 
in  the  sky  to  obscure  the  sunshine  from 
a  happy, 
industrious  and  prosperous 
people,  only  the  sluggard  and  the  igno­
rant  have  cause  for  complaint,  and  the 
cattleman  who  is  not  successful  has only 
his  own  neglect  to 
lay  hold  of  the 
abounding  essential  of  success  to  blame 
for  his  failure.

A   Frenchman  has  been  granted  a  pat­
ent  for  a  new  process  for  sterilizing 
meat,  consisting  of  grating  the meat and 
mixing  it  with  a  quantity  of  flour,  after 
which 
is  subjected  to  a  sterilizing 
bath  composed  of  vinegar,  salt,  ginger, 
spices  and  acetate  of  potash.

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All  Grades  of  Dairy  Butter

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

Stroup &  Carmer,

Citizens  Phone  2530 

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

Geo.  N.  Huff &   Co.,

WHOLESALE  DEALERS IN

Butter, Eggs, Poultry, Game, Dressed Meats, Etc.

COOLERS  AND COLD  STORAGE ATTACHED.

Consignments  Solicited. 

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SYRACUSE,  NEW  YORK.

W.  B.  STOPPARD &  CO.,

B e  prepared  to  answer  “ yes”   when  a  cus­
tom er  asks  if  you  have  pure  and  whole­
some  Spices  or  B aking  Powder. 
T h e 
” N.  R.  &  C .”   brand  Spices  and  the  Queen 
Plake  B aking  Pow der  are  the  best  and 
cheapest,  quality  considered.

Northrop,  Robertson  &   Carrier,

Lansing,  M ichigan.

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Wholesale  Fruits, 

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Commercial T ravelers

Michigan  Knights of the Grip

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

Michigan  Commercial  Traiders’  Association 
President,  A.  Ma r y m o n t,  Detroit;  Secretary 
and Treasurer, Geo.  W. Hi l l , Detroit.
Dmtod  Commercial  Trarelen of Michigan 

Grand  Counselor,  J n o.  A.  Mu r r a y ,  Detroit; 
Grand  Secretary,  G.  S.  V a l m o r e ,  Detroit; 
Grand Treasurer, W.  S.  Must, Jackson.

Grand  Rapids  Conncil No.  131,  D.  C.  T.

Senior Counselor,  J ohn  G.  Kolb;  Secretary- 

Treasurer, L. F. Baker.
Michigan  Commercial Travelers’  Mutual  Accident  Association 
President, J.  Bo yd  Pa n t l in d ,  Grand  Rapids; 
Secretary  and  Treasurer,  G e o.  F.  Ow e n , 
Grand Rapids.

Gripsack  Brigade.

Fred  Gray,  representing  Walter  Buhl 
&  Co.,  is  showing  his  line  at  the  Mor­
ton  House  this  week.

Fennville  Herald:  Chas.  H.  Barker 
is  packing  up  his  stock  of  bazaar  goods 
and  expects  to  start  in  the  spring  as  a 
traveling  salesman.

Sault  Ste.  Marie  News:  Gilbert  H. 
Moore  has  taken  a  position  as  traveling 
salesman 
for  the  Delta  Hardware  Co., 
of  Escanaba.  Mr.  Moore  will  begin  his 
new  duties  about  April  i.

H.  F.  Campbell,  formerly  engaged  in 
the  drug  business  at  Sherman,  has  se­
cured  a  position  with  the  Parmelee 
Medicine  Co.  as traveling salesman.  His 
territory  will  be  in  this  State.

John  D.  Mangum,  who  resided  in 
Grand  Rapids  several  years  ago  while 
employed  as  traveling  salesman  for  S. 
A.  Welling,  but  who  has  been  engaged 
in  the  clothing  business  at  Marquette 
several  years,  has  been  nominated  for 
Mayor  of  that  city.

Eaton  Rapids  Journal:  George  E. 
Ganiard,  who  has  been  clerking  for  the 
Knapp  Grocery  Co.  for  some  time  past, 
has  gone  to  Chicago,  to  take  a  position 
as  traveling  salesman  for  the  wholesale 
grocery house  of  W.  J.  Quan  &  Co.  He 
will  travel  in  Southern  Michigan.

Evart  R eview : 

Charlie  Morford, 
who  has  been  in  the  employ  of the Evart 
Hardware  Co.  for the past  six  years,  has 
taken  a  situation  as  traveling  represen­
tative  of  The  A.  G.  Harbaugh  Co.,  of 
Cleveland,  Ohio,  dealers  in  paints,  oils, 
lubricators,  etc.  Mr.  Morford’s  terri­
tory  will  be 
from  Saginaw  to  Luding- 
ton,  and  north  of  the  F.  &  P.  M.  line.

Buy as  Ton  Need—Pay  as Tou Go.

The 

contribution  on  “ Speculative 
Buying,”   which  appeared  on  the  edi­
torial  page  of  last  week’s  Tradesman, 
attracted  considerable  attention  and  was 
the  occasion  of  frequent  comment,  judg­
ing  by  the  following:

in 

your 

issue. 

Grand  Rapids,  March 

iq— In  regard 
to  the  subject  of  “ speculative  buying,”  
as  applied  to  the  retail  trade,  I  am  very 
sorry  that  I  have  not  the  time  to  write 
you  at  length  on  this  important  matter; 
neither  do  I  think  it  necessary  to  say 
any  more  than  that  I  most  heartily  con­
cur  in  the  sentiments  expressed  by  the 
writer  on  this  subject 
last 
It  seems  to  me  that  he 
week’s 
thoroughly  covers  the  field,  and 
if  I 
should  write  an  article  for  you  on  the 
subject 
it  would  be  only  to  emphasize 
the  strong  points  in  that  article.

I  think 

it  goes  without  saying 

that 
no  jobber  would  encourage  speculative 
buying,  even  by  the  best  of  the  trade, 
were 
it  not  that  he  feared  “ the  other 
fellow”   would  stock  them  up. 
It  has 
been  the  policy  of  this  company  to  dis­
courage 
the  principle  of  speculative 
buying  and  only  to  advise  the  purchase 
of  goods 
in  anticipation  of  regular 
wants  on  certain  staples  which  the  re­
tailer 
in  the  natural  course  of  trade 
would  dispose  of  in  two  or three months. 
We  believe  that  anything  further  than 
this 
is  not  attended  with  satisfactory

results  to  the  retairdealer.  Quick  sales, 
moderate  profits,  prompt j  payment  and 
prompt  collections,  are  watchwords  that 
we  keep  constantly  before  our  minds.
Amos  S.  Musselman.

Grand  Rapids,  March  20— I  read  with 
much  pleasure  the  article  on  “ Specula­
tive  Buying”  
in  the  Tradesman  of 
March  14  and  I  think  the  writer  hits  the 
nail  on  the  head. 
I  have  always  con­
tended  that  the  smaller  and,  therefore, 
fresher,  brighter  and  more  up-to-date  a 
retailer  keeps  his  stock,  the  better  he  is 
off.  I  have  in  the  past  bought  fifty  cases 
of  corn  in  the  fall,  paid  for  it  long  be­
fore 
it  was  sold,  and  in  the  latter  part 
of  winter  or  spring  paid  the  same  or 
less  price 
few  cans  of  the  same 
goods, despite  the  assurance  of  the  agent 
that  it  would  surely  be  higher.  Now,  if 
a  retailer  loads  up  at  the  twenty-five  or 
fifty  can  rate  on  all  kinds  of  canned 
goods,  soap,  etc.,  he  soon  finds  he  has 
quite  a 
I  do  not  favor 
buying  futures  to  any  extent,  and  think 
the  dealer  who  keeps  his  stock  well 
in 
hand  and  discounts  his  bills  will  be  the 
successful  one. 

E.  D.  Winchester.

load  to  carry. 

for  a 

Commenting  on  this subject the Amer­
ican  Artisan  remarks:  The  Michigan 
Tradesman  of  recent  date  contained  a 
strong  communication  from  a  Detroit 
jobber  protesting  against 
speculative 
buying,  and  urging  a  hand-to-mouth 
policy  on  the  retailer.  We  will  warrant 
that  more  attention  would  be  given  to 
this  article  after  markets  had  been  go­
ing  down  for  a  year  than  in  this  year, 
which  has  witnessed  so  steady  an  up­
ward  movement  in  prices.  Unquestion­
ably  thousands  of  retailers,  in  common 
with  manufacturers  and 
jobbers  have 
made  handsome  profits  out  of  what  this 
Detroit  jobber  characterizes  as  “ specu­
lative  buying,”   although nearly  all  buy­
ing  is  more  or  less  speculative  for  that 
matter.

The  stove  concerns  that  paid  the  fat­
test  dividends  last  year  were  those  that 
loaded  up  with  pig  prior  to  December, 
’98.  The 
jobbers  who  are  planning  to 
erect  new  residences  are  those  who  in­
vested  very  heavily 
in  goods  early  in 
’99  confident  that  prices  would  rise.

The  retailers  who,  like  the  dealer at 
one  hardware  convention,  complained 
that  they  sold  at  $2.50  nails  they  bought 
at  $1.35  when  the  wholesale  price  was 
$2.75  made  good  money,  although  not  as 
much  as  their  foresight  in  speculative 
buying  would  have  given  them  had  they 
taken  full  advantage  of  the  selling  side 
of  the  question.

is  safer  against 

The  man  who  runs  his  business  on the 
24  hour  plan 
losses 
caused  by  shrinkages  of  values  than  the 
speculative  buyer,  but  at  the  same  time 
chance  of  making 
large  profits  is  im­
less,  as  the  man  who  buys 
measurably 
in 
large  quantities  for  a  rise  has  the 
leverage  of  reduced  prices 
material 
made  on 
large  quantities  of  goods  in 
his  favor.

The Jolly  Traveling;  Man.
I kind o' like to see ’em come.
They look so mighty smilin’;
They sort o’ liven up the town 
An’ keep the pot a-bilin’;
The landlord hurries in an’ out,
An’ has a brisker walk.
An’ all the loafers stan’ about 
An’ grin to hear ’em talk.

They ask the merchant o’ his health,
An’ if the trade is pleas’n’,
An’ take an’ shake his hand as if 
They’d never leave off squeezin’;
An’ then with grip a-standin’ nigh, 
A-tradin’ an’ a-lyin’,
The merchant vows the goods are high, 
But still he can’t help buyin’.
An’ if there’s any news a-shore. 
They’re sure to bring it to ye:
An’ when they meet ye in the store, 
They act as if they knew ye;
We alius like to see ’em come.
It sets us all a-smilin’.
Because they liven up the town 
An’ keep the pot a-bilin’.

One  day  an  Irishman  when  passing 
through  a  street 
in  a  certain  city  saw 
in  a  baker’s  window  the  words:  “ E x ­
cellent  Pies  Sold  W ithin.”   He  went 
in  and  bought  one.  He  tasted  it  before 
he  left  the  shop  and  complained  to  the 
baker  of  its  being  hard  and  dry.  The 
baker  replied: 
I 
made  pies  before  you  were  born.”  
“ W ell,”   said  Pat,  “ this  must  be  one 
of  them,”   and  he  left  the  shop  with  in­
dignation.

“ Get  away,  man, 

MEN  OF  MARK.

H.  G.  Harris,  the  D etroit  Produce  Com­

mission  Merchant.

Herbert  G.  Harris  was  bom  at  New 
Haven,  Macomb  county,  May  15,  1867. 
His  father  and  mother  were  both natives 
of  the  Empire  State,  the  former  having 
been  a  stationary  engineer  by  occupa­
tion.  Mr.  Harris  resided 
in  New  Ha­
ven  until  he  was  14  years  of  age,  when 
the 
family  removed  to  Junction  City, 
Kas., 
locating  on  a  farm,  where  they 
remained  three  years.  When  he  was  17 
years  of  age,  Mr.  Harris  sought  and 
obtained  a  clerkship  in  a  grocery  store 
at  Junction  City,  where  he  remained  a 
year.  Actuated  by  a  desire  to  see  more 
of  the  country,  Mr.  Harris  went 
farther 
West,  finally  locating in Colorado,  where 
he  clerked  a  year  in  a  general  store.  He 
then  returned  to  Detroit  and  entered  the 
employ  of  his  father,  G.  W.  Harris, 
who  was  then  engaged 
in  the  grocery 
business  at  405  Ferry  street,  where  he 
remained  eighteen  months.  On  the  de­

then  worked 

struction  of  the  store  by  fire,  he  worked 
eighteen  months  in  the  Peninsular  Car 
Works,  laying  out  work  in  the  carpenter 
department.  He 
three 
years  for  H.  E.  Turnbull,  the  Cadillac 
Square  produce  dealer,  taking  charge  of 
the  butter  and  egg  departments.  He 
then  formed  a  copartnership  with Joseph 
Frutchey,  engaging  in  the  commission 
business  at  350  High  street,  under  the 
style  of  Harris  &  Frutchey.  Four  years 
later the  firm  opened  another  store  at  60 
Woodbridge  street,  west, 
the  partners 
dividing  their  time  between  the  two 
stores.

Mr.  Harris  was  married  Jan.  16,  1894, 
to  Miss  Flora  Griffin  and  has  one 
child,  a  daughter  four  years  old.  He 
is  a  member  of  Protective  Home  Circle, 
a  fraternal  insurance  organization,  and 
he  has  found  time  to  identify  himself 
with  several  organizations  having  for 
their  object  the  moral  and  material  ad­
vancement  of  the  people.

Mr.  Harris  attributes  his  success  to 
hard  work  and  rigid  economy.  He  has 
always  aimed  to  make  his  word  as  good 
as  his  bond  and  has  never  defaulted  on 
his  bond.  He  enjoys  the  confidence 
and  respect  of  the  trade  to  an  unusual 
degree  for  one  so  young  in  years  and 
has  every  reason  to  be  satisfied  with  the 
success  he  has  achieved  and  the  pros­
pects  the  future  has  in  store  for him.

Couldn’t Leave  His Business.

There  is  a  moral  taught  by  the follow­
ing  which  it  might  be  well  for  many  a 
father  to  take  unto  him self:

“ Mamma,”   said  3-year-old  Freddy, 
“ are  we  going  to  heaven  some  day?”  
“ Yes,  dear,  I  hope  so,”   was  the  reply. 
“ I  wish  papa  could  go,  too,”  continued 
the  little  fellow. 
“ Well,  and  don’t  you 
think  he  w ill?”   asked  his  mother.
“ Oh,  no,”  
’ ’ he 
couldn’t  leave  his business. ”

replied  Freddy, 

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Have  You  Played  Crokinole?

It’s t h e game of the year. 
TRIUMPH  Crokinole  Boards 
are best.  Send for our handsome 
catalogue.  It explains all.

Dillenbaugh-Altoo  Mfg C o, Portland, Mich.

Mixed  Paints

Guaranteed  most  durable 
paints  made. 
Sell  well. 
W ear  well.  One  agent 
wanted 
town. 
W rite to the manufacturers

in  every 

A.  M.  Dean  Co.,

230*232 E. Kalamazoo Ave., 
Kalamazoo,  Mich.

We  are  the  sole  agents 
for the new Welsbach man- 
tle—the  Y U SE A .

It  gives  100  candle  pow­
er,  can  stand  a  little  more 
and  only costs 50 cents.

We  will  put  it  on  for  you 

without  charge.

(¿RAND  RAPIDS  GAN  LIGHT  CO., 

Pearl  and  Ottawa Strvrta.

A
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LABASTINE  is  the  original  and 
only durable  wall  coating,  entirely 
different 
from  all  kalsoinines. 
Ready for use in  white or fourteen 
beautiful 
tints  by  adding  cold 
water.
A DIES  naturally  prefer  ALA­
BASTINE 
for  wails  and  ceil­
ings,  because  it  is  pure,  clean, 
durable.  Put  up  in  dry  powdered 
form, in  five-pound  packages, with 
full directions.
I.L  kalsoinines  are  cheap,  tem­
porary  preparations  made  from 
whiting,  chalks,  clays,  etc.,  and 
stuck  on  the  walls  with  decaying 
animal  glue.  ALABASTINE 
is 
not a kalsomine.
EWARE  of 
the  dealer  who 
says  he  can  sell  you  the  “same 
thing” as ALABASTINE or “some­
thing just as  good.”  He  is  either 
not  posted  or  is  trying  to deceive 
you.
ND 
IN  OFFERING  something 
he  has  bought  cheap  and  tries 
to  sell  on  A LARA STINE’S  de­
mands,  he  may  not  realize  the 
damage you will suffer  by  a  kalso­
mine on your walls.
ENPIBLE  dealers  will  not  buy  a 
lawsuit.  Dealers  risk  one  by  sell­
ing  and  consumers  by  using  in­
fringement.  Alabastlne  Co.  own 
right to  make  wall  coating  to  mix 
with cold water.
IIE  INTERIOR  WALLS  of  every 
church and school should be coated 
only with  pure,  durable  ALABAS­
TINE.  It safeguards health.  Hun­
dreds of tons  used  yearly  for  this 
work.
N  BUYING  ALABASTINE,  cus­
tomers 
getting 
cheap  kalsomines  under  differ­
ent  names. 
Insist  on  having  our 
goods in packages and  properly la­
beled.
UISANCE  of  wall  paper  Is  ob­
viated  by  ALABASTINE. 
It  can 
be  used  on  plastered  walls,  wood 
ceilings, brick or  canvas.  A  child 
can brush it on.  It does not rub or 
scale off.
STABLISHED in  favor.  Shun all 
Imitations.  Ask  paint  dealer  or 
druggist  for 
tint  card.  Write 
us  for  interesting  booklet,  free. 
ALABASTINE CO., Grand Rapids, 
Mich,

should 

avoid 

1 8

Drugs—Chemicals

Michigan  State  Board  of Pharm acy

Term expires
-  Dec. 31,1900
- 
Geo.  G u n d r u m , Ionia 
-  Dec. 31,1901 
L.  E.  Re y n o l d s,  St. Joseph 
-  Dec. 31,1902
He n r y   He im , Saginaw 
- 
Wih t  P.  Do t y, Detroit - 
Dec. 31,1903
A. C. Sc h u m a c h e r, Ann Arbor  -  Dec. 31,1904 

President,  G eo.  Gu n d r u m ,  Ionia.
Secretary, A.  C.  Sc h u m a c h e r,  Ann Arbor. 
Treasurer, H e n r y   He im , Saginaw.
Exam ination  Sessions 

Star Island—June 25 and 26.
Sault Ste. Marie—Aug. 28 and 29. 
Lansing—Nov. 7 and 8.

State  Pharm aceutical  Association 

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

Some  Window  Displays  That  Have  Paid.
Somebody  has  aptly  said  that  “ dress­
ing”   a  window  well 
is  doing  a  big 
business  on  a  small  capital,  and  it  is 
very  evident  that  druggists  are  begin­
ning  to  realize  this,  for  all  over  the 
country  they  are  taking  a  great  deal 
more  interest  in window decorating  than 
ever  before. 
People  can  be  reached 
through  the  medium  of the  show window 
who  could  never  be  reached  in  any other 
way.  They  may  have  never  entered 
your  store,  but  some  day  a  glance  at 
yuor  window,  attractively  arranged  with 
some  article,  reminds  them  that  they 
need  just  that  article,  and  in  they  come. 
Then  comes  in  the  part  of  the  salesman 
to  please  the  customer  by  the  proper 
treatment  necessary  to  gain  a  regular 
patron.

from  any  other. 

Below  I  give  a  description  of  several 
windows  which  have paid me handsome-; 
ly.  This  1  know’  positively  by  direct 
results,  and  by  the  crowds  which  have 
congregated 
in  front  of  the  windows. 
All  these  displays  are  very  inexpensive, 
and  can  be  easily  arranged  by  an y  one 
with  small  amount  of  trouble  and  time. 
I  always  regard  what  money  is  spent  on 
window  dressing  as  one  of  the  best 
kinds  of  advertising,  and  find  that  I  al­
ways  get  more  results  from  this  source 
than 
is  always  a 
good  point  to  let  your  newspaper  adver­
tisement  and  your window  “ talk”   about 
the  same  thing.  And  I  have  found  that 
the  more  often  we  dress  windows,  the 
easier 
is  to  get  up  really  good  dis­
plays.
The 

following  Easter  display  I  con­
ceived  and  carried  out  a  year  ago,  and 
it  proved  wondrously  successful. 
It  is 
safe  to  say  that  fully  four-fifths  of  the 
people 
in  town  came  to  see  it,  and  by 
special  request  of  quite  a  number  of 
people 
it  was  kept  in  the  window  for a 
week  after  Easter.

It 

it 

falling 

into  a 

The  bottom  of  the  window'  was  cov­
ered  with  real  grass-covered  sod.  In  the 
right  rear  comer  a  hill  was  piled  up  to 
the  wall,  and  in  about  the  middle  of  the 
hill  was  a  pretty,  natural  spring  of 
water,  which  was  continually  running 
and 
lake  at  the  foot  of 
the  hill. 
In  the  lake  were  a  lot  of  gold 
fish,  small  terrapin,  and  several  China 
ducks  at  the  edges;  and  around  the 
edge  of  the  lake  was  a  border  of  rocks, 
fishing  places,  and  Easter  eggs.  Sev­
eral  frogs  were  arranged  in  the  position 
of  fishermen  with  hooks  and 
lines ;  and 
in  the  lake  were  two egg-shell boats with 
daintily  dressed  dolls  in  each. 
In  each 
front  comer  was  a  true  hen’s  nest  con­
taining  colored  eggs,  and  a  white  rabbit 
was  near one  of  the  nests  as  if going  in. 
Near  the  front  of  the  window  was  a 
funeral  party  arranged  around  a  coffin, 
in  which  was  laid  a  plain  egg 
labeled 
“ Egg  D ies.”   All  of  the  funeral  party 
had  handkerchiefs  to  their  eyes.  Next 
to  the  party  was  a  beautiful  egg ^colored

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

by  the  paper  dye  labeled  “ Egg  D yed.”
A  little  to  the  left  of  the  center  of  the 
window  was  a  very  black  “ cullud”   girl 
with  a  dress  of  many  colors,  holding  a 
sign,  “ Every  color  of  the  rainbow  for  5 
cents.”   Near  her was  a  small  merry-go- 
round  with  pickaninnies  in the egg-shell 
carriages.  The 
left  rear  comer  had  a 
large  palm  for  the  first  day,  and  then  I 
putin  a  dozen  large  calla-iilies.  Around 
the  edges  of  the  pond  were 
several 
bunches  of  fresh  violets  and  hyacinths. 
And  all  around  the  window 
in  promi­
nent  places  were  stones  having  painted 
on  them  the  sign,  “ Egg  D yes;”   also 
dozens  of  eggs  dyed  all colors and styles. 
The  effect  was  very  pretty.  On  one  of 
the  rocks  near  the 
lake  was  a  small 
stuffed  alligator  with  a  little  negro  baby 
in  his  mouth;  and  around  on  the  hill  in 
places  were  small  cotton  cranes,  ducks 
and  chickens.  On  top  of  the  hill  was  a 
large  stone  painted  “  Paas  Dyes,”   and 
above this  a  United  States  flag  with  this 
card  attached  to  both  stone  and  flag, 
“ Colors  that  never  run.”   The 
large 
in  the  rear  of  the  window  was 
wheel 
decorated  with  cheese-cloth 
in  every 
color of  the  rainbow,  and  was  kept  turn­
ing,  making  a  beautiful  harmony  of 
colors.  This  was  a  bicycle  wheel,  and 
was  kept  revolving  by  a  large  clock­
work.  The.  upper  part  of  the  window 
was  decorated  with  cheese-cloth  curtain 
of  yellow  and  pink,  and  the  sloping  top 
was  a  board  frame  covered  with  white 
and  strips  of  every  color  of  the  rainbow 
crossing  each  other.  A  large  red  cut  of 
an  egg  formed  the  center.

The  spring  was  supplied  from  a  large 
tank  of water,  rubber  tubing  being  used 
to  run  the.  water  in,  and another  tube 
was  used  to  carry  off  the  water  and  thus 
prevent 
it  from  running  over.  A   large 
pan  of  tin  was  used  for  the  lake,  and  its 
sides  were  concealed.  The  merry-go- 
round  was  run  by  clockwork  as  was  the 
color  wheel.

A  yellow  kid  sitting  on  the  side of the 
mountain  was  constantly  nodding  his 
head  to  and 
in  his  hand 
this  card,  “ Paas  Egg  Dyes,  defines’ 
dat  eber  happened,  5  cents."

fro,  holding 

in 

in 

front; 

Another  window  unique 

its  way : 
Cover  the  bottom  of  the  window  with 
lumps  of  coal  placed  on  black  paper, 
and  build  up  a  hill  in  one  comer  with 
large 
lumps;  fix  a  road  running  across 
the  front  of  the  window;  at  the  side  of 
the  window,  and  at  the  end  of  this road, 
large  toy  house  with  a  sign  of 
put  a 
“ Drug  Store”  
tack  on  the 
sides of  this  house  signs  of  “ White  Pine 
Cough  Cure,  25  cents,”   “ One-day  Cold 
Cure,  25  cents,”   etc.  Have a  doll  stand­
ing 
in  the  door  dressed  as  a  man,  and 
along  the  road  going  to  the  drug  store 
have  several  dolls  dressed  as  both  men 
and  women,  with  wraps  around  their 
necks;  in  several  places  on  the coal field 
and  the  hill,  put  bottles  and  boxes  of 
your  cough  and  cold  cure,  and  on  the 
top  of  the  hill  stand  a  United  States 
flag;  at  the  back  of  the  window  put  a 
large  sig n :
YOUR  COUGH  CAN  BE  STO PPED  

for  25  cents.

YOUR  COLD  CAN  BE  CU R ED  

for  25  cents.

You  ought  to  try  these  remedies.

They  are  Guaranteed.

Cover  the  floor  of  the  window  with 
large  packages  of  stock food,  all  of  one 
size;  then  build  up  a  wall  of  packages 
to  form  a  horseshoe,  having  each  tip 
rest  against  the  front  glass.  This  looks 
well  when  formed  with  the  largest  sizes 
on  the  bottom,  medium  sizes 
in  the 
It
middle,  and  small  sizes  on  the  top. 

gives  an  appearance  of  being  a  very 
deep  window,  and  the  effect  is  beauti­
ful.  Now  hang  a  small  wire  from  the 
ceiling,  and  fix  on  this  an  improvised 
pair  of  scales;  make  these  scales  by 
fastening  a  long  stick  horizontally to  the 
wire,  letting  a  string  fall  down  from 
each  end  of  this  stick,  and  placing  a 
in  each  string  to  form  the  scale 
saucer 
pans.  Then  place 
in  one  pan  a  three- 
pound  package  of  stock  food,  together 
with  the  sign,  “ Quality  H igh ;”   on  the 
other  pan  put  a  three-pound  weight,  a 
50-cent  piece,  and  the  sign,  “ Price 
Low,  3  pounds  50  cents. ’ ’  Let  this  pan 
just  a  little  heavier  than  the  other. 
be 
Make  a  small 
ladder,  and  label  each 
step  of  this  with  such 
legends  as  “ 3 
pounds  50  cents,”   “ Best  Q uality,”  
“ Price  Low ,”   etc.  On  the  top  rung  of 
the  ladder have  the  legend  “ Success;”  
and  on  this  rung  also  place  a  package 
of  the  stock  food  and  put  a  Brownie  on 
it,  holding  the  sign,  “ Ithas  readied  the 
top  rung  of Success ;  3 pounds 50 cents. ’ ’ 
Make  a  small  cattle-pen  and  put  into 
it 
several  toy  horses,  cows,  hogs,  chick­
label  the  pen  with  the 
ens,  etc.,  and 
sign, 
fat  and 
healthy;  3  pounds  50  cents.” — Leslie 
Newman  in  Bulletin  of  Pharmacy.

“ It  makes  them  all 

The  D rug  Market.

Opium— The  growing  crop  is  reported 
severely  damaged  by  frost  and  unfavor­
able  weather,  causing  an  advance  in  the 
primary  markets  and  a  20c  advance  in 
this  market.  Should  reports  of  damage 
bg  confirmed,  higher  prices  will  rule.

Morphine— Is  unchanged.
Quinine— P.  &  VV.  have  reduced  their 
price  4c  per  ounce.  German  is  as  yet 
unchanged.

Carbolic  Acid— Is 

and  lower.

in  better  supply 

Salicylic  Acid— Has  also  declined.
Alochol— Has  been  advanced 

ic  per 

gallon.

Cod  Liver Oil— Was  steadily  declin­
ing,  but  cable  received  notes advance  of 
$2  per  barrel  in  the  primary  market,  on 
account  of  small  catch.  The  market 
is 
at  present  unsettled.

Glycerine— Another  advance  is  looked 
for,  on  account  of  small  stocks  and 
higher  prices  for  crude.

Cuttle  Fish  Bone— Is  very  firm  at  the 

late  advance.

Lycopodium-----Stocks 

are  getting
smaller  and  prices  have again advanced.
Sulphuric  Ether— Has been  advanced, 
on  account  of  higher  prices  for  alcohol.

Balsam  Peru— Has  declined.
Oil  Cloves—-Has  been  advanced,  on 

account  of  higher  prices  for  spice.

Canary  Seed— Is  tending  higher,  on 
account  of  unfavorable  reports  of  the 
growing  crops.

German  Quince  Seed— Is 

getting 

scarce  and  has  advanced.

Cloves— Are  steadily  advancing  and 

higher  prices  are  looked  for.

Linseed  Oil— Has  advanced  2c  per

gallon.

Some  Whys  For  Druggists.

Why  the  retail  druggist  is  not  more 
particular  about  the  quality  of  drugs  he 
buys?

Why  he  does  not  systematize  his  buy­
ing  that  he  may  get  the  best  goods  at 
the  lowest  market  price,  instead  of  d ig­
ging  up  a  few  shorts  every  day  or  two 
for  Tom,  Dick  or  Harry,  as  the  case 
may  be?

Why  he  kicks  about  cutters  and  will 
not  help  out  the  people  who  try  to  pro­
tect  him?

Why  he  stays  behind  the  prescription 
case  doing  nothing,  while  the  patient 
drummer  waits  out  in  front  to  see  him,

post  him  up,  and,  if  possible,  get  his; 
order?
.  Why  he  does  not  take  advantage of the 
market  before  an  advance  and  lay  in  a 
supply?  The  argument  is  mighty  poor 
that  “ when  he  pays  more  he  charges 
more. ’ ’

Why  he  buys  goods  from  the  specialty 
men  who  sell  department  stores  and 
kicks 
the 
same  thing?

if  the  drug  salesman  does 

Why  he  does  not  solicit  trade  of  the 
laundries,  dye  works,  barber  shops  and 
candymakers  in  his  town?

Why  he  does  not  carry  a  better  assort­
ment  of  physicians’  supplies,  such  as 
fever thermometers, hypodermic syringes 
and  needles?

Rubber Cover  for Mortars.

A   German  pharmacist  uses  a  rubber 
cap  for  mortars  containing  a  sleeve  in 
the  center  which  fits  over the  pestle. 
The  outer  rim  of  the  cap  is  provided 
with  an  elastic  band  which  enables  it  to 
clasp  firmly  the  top  of  the  mortar.  Suffi­
cient  play  is  given  to  the  pestle  to  en­
able  the  operator  to  powder  the  drug 
contained  in  the  mortar  without  any  ac- 
■ cess  of  air.  The  cap  is  said  to  be  very 
useful  in  pulverizing  hygroscopic  sub­
stances.

\ Have  You  Bought 
\ Wall  Paper
t  For the coming season? 
t  samples.  We  will  express  them 
tis the best  shown  on  the  road  to­

If  not,  it 
would  pay  you  to  send  for  our

day.  Twenty-six different factories 
.  represented.

to  you  prepaid.  Our  assortment

1  Could you ask for a better assortment?
■   Of course we guarantee our prices, 
J  terms, etc.  Write us.
| Heystek  & Canfield Co.,
f  
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.
1 The Michigan Wall Faper Jobbers.

b e t t e r  t h a n  e v e r ,  sold b y  a l l  j o b b e r s 

MANUFACTURED BY

H.  V AN   T O N G E R E N ,

HOLLAND,  MICH.

MF6. CHEMISTS, 

ALLEGAN, MICH

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

F1M IIG  EX T R K IW D H m U IID R IE S

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

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ÌSALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

Conium Mac............  50®  60
Copaiba..................  l  is®  l  25
Cubetae..................   90®  1  oo
Exechthitos............  1  00®  1  10
Erigeron................   1 00@ 1  10
Gaultheria.............   2 00®  2  10
Geranium, ounce....  @  75
Gossippli, Sem. gal.. 
50®  GO
Hedeoma................   1  65®  1  70
Junípera................   l  50® 2 00
Lavendula  .............  
90® 2 oo
Llmonis..................  l  35®  1  45
Mentha Piper.........  1  25® 2 00
Mentha Verid.........  1  50®  1  60
Morrhuse, ¡gal........ 
l  10®  1  15
Myrcia...................   4 00® 4 50
Olive......................   75® 3 00 I
Picis Liquida......... 
10®  12
Picis Liquida,  gal... 
®  35
Ricina..................... 
96®  1  05
Bosmarini...............  @  1  00
Bosse, ounce............  6 50® 8 50
Succlnl...................   40®  45
Sahína...................   90®  l  oo
Santal.....................  2 75® 7  00
Sassafras................  
50®  55
(ft  65
Sinapis, ess., ounce. 
Tiglii......................   1  50®  1  60
40®  50
Thyme..................... 
Thyme, opt.............  
®  l  60
Theobromas  ..........  
15®  201
Potass! Din
15®  18
Bi-Carb.................... 
Bichromate............ 
13®  15
Bromide................  
52®  57
Carb  ....................... 
12®  15
Chlorate... po. 17 " 19  16®  18
Cyanide..............'...  35®  40
Iodide.....................  2 65® 2  75
Potassa, Bitart, pure  28®  30
Potassa, Bitart, coni.  @  15
10 j
7® 
Potass Nitras, opt... 
Potass  Nitras......... 
8
6® 
Prussiate................  
23®  26
Sulphate po............ 
15® 
18
Radix
Aconitum................   20®  25
Althse.....................  22®  25
Anchusa................  
10®  12
Arum  po................   @  25
Calamus..................  20®  40
Gentiana........po.  15  12®  15
Glychrrhiza.. .pv.  15 
16®  18
®  75
Hydrastis  Canaden. 
Hydrastis Can., po..  @  80
Hellebore, Alba, po. 
12@ 
15
Inula,  po................  
15®  20
Ipecac, po...............  4 25®  4 35
Iris  plox.. .po. 35®38  35®  40
Jalapa, pr............... 
25©  30
Maranta,  14 s..........  
®  35
Podophyllum,  po...  22®  25
Bhei........................  75®  1 00
Bhei, cut................   @ 1  25
Bhei, pv..................  75®  1  35
Spigelia.................. 
35®  38
Sanguinaria., .po.  15 
®  18
Serpentaria............ 
40®  45
Senega...................  
60@  65
Smilax, officinalis H. 
®  40
Smilax, M...............   @  25
Scillae............. po.  35  10®  12
Symplocarpus.Fceti-
dus,  po................  @  25
Valeriana,Eng.po.30 
®  25 
15®  20
Valeriana,  German. 
Zingiber a ............... 
12®  16
Zingiber j................   25®  27
Semen

8@ 

4® 

Anisum.......... po.  15  @  12
Apium (graveleons).  13®  15
Bird, is...................  
6
Canil...............po.  18  11©  12
Cardamon...............   1  25@  1  75
Coriandrum............. 
10
Cannabis Sativa......  4H®  5
Cydonium...............  75®  1  00
Chenopodium......... 
10® 
12
Dipterix Odorate__  1  00@  1  10
Foeniculum.............  @ 
10
Foenugreek. po.......  
7® 
9
Lini........................   3V4®  4V4
4@  4
Lini, grd......bbl. 3 Vi
Lobelia...................
35@
Pharlaris Canarian.. 4V4©
Rapa......................
4V4®
Sinapis  Alba..........
9@
Sinapis  Nigra.........
11®
Spiritug

Frumenti, W. D. Co. 2 00® 2
Frumenti,  D. F. B.. 2 00®  2
Frumenti................ 1  25®  1
Juniperis Co. (). T... 1  65® 2
Juniperis  Co.......... 1  75® 3
Saacharum  N. E __ 1  90® 2
Spt. Vini Galli......... 1  75® 6
Vini  Oporto............ 1  25®  2
Vini Alba................ 1  25® 2
Sponges
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage............... 2 50® 2
Nassau sheeps’ wool
carriage................ 2 50® 2
Velvet extra sheeps’
wool, carriage......
Extra yellow sheeps’
wool, carriage......
Grass  sheeps’  wool,
carriage...............
Hard, for slate use. 
Yellow  B e ef,  for
slate use...............
Syrups
Acacia....................
Auranti Cortex.......
Zingiber..................
Ipecac.....................
Ferri Iod................
Bhei  Arom.............
Smilax  Officinalis...
Senega ...................
Sclllse......................

®  60 
®  50
®  50
50®  60
®  50

@  1  so

@
©
@

Miscellaneous 

Scili:«*  Co.............
Tolutan...............
Primus  virg.........
Tinctures 
Aconitum Napellis B 
Aconitum Napellis F
Aloes..................
Aloes and Myrrh...
Arnica..................
Assafcetida............
Atrope Belladonna.
Auranti Cortex......
Benzoin...............
Benzoin Co...........
Barosma...............
Cantharides.........
Capsicum.............
Cardamon............
Cardamon Co.......
Castor..................
Catechu...............
Cinchona.............
Cinchona Co.........
Columba.............
Cubebce................
Cassia Acutlfoi__
Cassia Acutifol Co.
Digitalis...............
Ergot....................
Ferri  Chloridum..
Gentian...............
Gentian Co..........
Guinea..................
Guinea ammon__
Hyoscyamus.........
Iodine  ..................
Iodine, colorless__
Kino  ......................
Lobelia...................
Myrrh.....................
Nux Vomica............
Opii.........................
Opii, comp hora ted..
Opii, deodorized......
Quassia__ Í ...........
Bhatany..................
Bhei........................
Sanguinaria...........
Serpentaria............
Stromonium............
Tolutan  ..................
Valerian  ................
Veratrum  Verlde...
Zingiber..................
.Ether, Spts. Nit. 3 F  30@ 
A£ther, Spts. Nit. 4 F  34®
Alumen..................  2V4®
3®
Aiumen,  gro’iL.po. 7 
Annatto...................  40®
Antimonl. po..........  
4®
Antimoni et Potass T  40@
Antipyrin...............   @
Antifebrin  .............  
®
Argenti Nitras, oz... 
®
Arsenicum.............. 
10®
Balm Gilead  Buds.. 
38®
Bismuth S. N..........   1  60®
Calcium Chlor .
©
Calcium Chlor.,  ‘As..
Calcium Chlor.,  Vis.. 
® 
12 
Cantharides, Bus.po 
®  75
Capsici Fructus, af..
®  15
@  15
Capsici  Fructus, po.
@  15
Capsici Fructus B, po 
12®  14
Caryophyllus. .po. 15
@ 3 00 
Carmine, No. 40......
50®  55
Cera Alba...............
40®  42
Cera  Flava..............
®  40
Coccus  ...................
®  35
Cassia  Fructus.......
Centraria.................
® 
10@  45
Cetaceum................
55®  60
Chloroform............
@  1  10 
Chloroform, squibbs
Chloral Ilyd Crst__
1  65®  1  90 
20®  25
Chondrus................
Cinchonidine.P. & W  38© 
Cinchonidine, Germ.  38@  48
Cocaine..................  5 30®  5 50
Corks, list, dis.pr.ct. 
70
Creosotum...............  @  35
Creta............bbl. 75
Creta, prep.............
@
9®
Creta, precip..........
Creta, Rubra..........
®15®
Crocus  ....................
Cudbear..................
Cupri Sulph............  6V4® 
8
Dextrine................  
7@ 
10
75®  90
Ether Sulph......■.... 
Emery, all numbers.
@
Emery, po...............
®85®
Ergota.......... po. 90
Flake  White..........
12®
Gal la ......................
@8®
Gambler................
Gelatin. Cooper......
®35®
Gelatin, French......
75  &  10 
Glassware,  Hint, box
70
Less than box......
Glue, brown............
11@15®
Glue,  white............
28
Glycerina................
@  25
Grana  Farad ¡si..
Humulus................  
25®  55
Hydrarg  Chlor  Mite  @  95
Hydrarg  Chlor Cor..  @  85
Hydrarg  Ox  Bub’m.  @ 1  05 
®  1  17 
Hydrarg  Ammoniati 
llydrargUnguentum  50®  60
K rgyrum......... 
®  80
’obolla.  Am...  65®  75
Indigo..................... 
75®  1 00
Iodine,  Uesubi.......   3 90® 4 00
Iodoform................   @400
Lupulin...................   @ 5 0
Lycopodium............
Macls.....................
Liquor Arsen et  Hy­
drarg Iod.............
Liquor Potass Arsinit
Magnesia, Sulph__
Magnesia, Sulph,bbl 
Mannta, S.  F ........... 

10®
2®
50®

65®
65®

8
76
16
40
SO
6
1014
16
70
6
0040
6
8
16
14

26
00
60
00
14
8
80

66
86
45
45
18
12
18
30
20
12
12
15
15
26
30
12
14
15
17
15
25
75
40
15
2
80
7
16
25
35
40
25
30
2010
65
45
35
28
65
14
12
30
6030
13
14
16
65
40
0070
30
25
60
40
50
35
45
80

25
20
25
28
23
25
3»
2225
60
20
20
20
75
50
25
0030
60
85
85
45
76
36
40

Menthol..................
Morphia, S., P. & W. 
Morphia, S., N. Y. Q.
&C. Co.................
Moschus  Canton__
Myrtstica, No. 1......
Nux Vomica...po. 15
Os Sepia..................
Pepsin Saac, H. & P.
1»  Co...................
Picis Liq. N.N.'A gal.
doz......................
Picis Liq., quarts__
Picis Liq.,  pints......
1*11 Hydrarg... po. 80 
Piper  Nigra.. .po. 22
Piper  Alba__po. 35
Piix Burgun............
Plumb! Acet............
Pulvis I|>ecac et Opii 
Pyrethruin, boxes 11.
& P. Ü. Co., doz...
Pyrethrum,  pv.......
Quassia1..................
Qutnla. S. P. &  W.. 
Quinia, S.  German..
Quinta, N. Y............
Rubia Tinctorum__
Saccharum Lactls pv
Saiacin...................
Sanguis  Draconls...
Sapo, W..................
Sapo M...................
Sapo G...................

@ 3 25  Seidlltz Mixture.
2 35® 2 60  Sinapis..............
Sinapis,  opt............
2 25® 2 50  Snuff, Maccaboy, De
@  40  Voes....................
66®  80 { Snuff,Scotch,De Vo's
@  10  Soda, Boras...........
30®  35  Soda,  Boras, po....
Soda et Potass Tart
@  1  00 ! Soda,  Carb............
Soda,  Bi-Carb.......
2 00  Soda, Ash.............
1  00  Soda, Sulphas........
Spts. Cologne.........
Spts. Ether  Co......
Spts. Myrcia Dom.. 
Spts. Vint Beet.  bbl. 
7  Spts. Vini Beet. Hbbl
12  Spts. Vini Beet. lOgal
1  30®  1  50  Spts. Vini Beet. 5 gal 
Strychnia, Crystal...
Sulphur,  Subl.........
Sulphur, Boll..........
Tamarinds.............
Terebenth  Venice...
Theobromae.............
Vanilla...................
Zincl Sulph............
O ils

@ 
10® 

20®  

22 
@  18 
@  30
@  41
@  41
9®  11
9®  11
23®
25
1V4®
3® 
5
3H® 
4
2 @ 2 60 
@ 
50®  55
@ 2 00

1  06®  1  25 
4 
2 Vi® 
2 Vi©  3 Vi 
8®  
10 
28®  30
52®  55
9 00@16 00 
7® 
8

Whale, winter......... 
7o 
Lard, extra.............   55 
Lard, No. 1.............  
35 

BBL.  OAL.
70
65
40

25® 
8® 
35® 
37® 
33® 
12® 
18® 
6  00® 
40® 
12® 
10® 
@

Linseed, pure raw. 
61 
Linseed, boiled.......  62 
Neatsfoot, winter str  54 
Spirits Turpentine.. 
61 

64
65
60
67
P a in ts  BBL.  LB.
1Ü  2  @8 
1«  2  @4 
UK  2  ®8 
2 Vi  2Vi@3 
2 Vi  2\@3
15
13® 
70® 
14® 
13® 
6Vi® 
6! -@

Bed  Venetian... 
Ochre, yellow  Mars 
Ochre, yellow Ber., 
Putty,  commercial. 
Putty, strictly  pure. 
Vermilion,  P rim e
American...........
Vermilion, English
Green,  Paris.......
(•reen, Peninsular.
Lead,red.............
Lead,  white...........
Whiting, white Span
Whiting, gliders’__
White, Paris, Amer. 
Whiting, Paris, Eng.
cliff......................
Universal Prepared
Varnish«

©  1  40 
1  00®  1  15

No. 1 Turp  Coach...  1  10®  1  20
Extra Turp.............   1 60®  1  70
Coach  Body...........   2 76® 3 00
No. 1 Turp Furn......  1  00®  1  10
Extra Turk Damar..  1  66®  1  60 
Jap.Dryer.No.lTurp  70®  7E

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(Q)  many  flattering  congratulations  from  our  friends  and  custom- 
$   ers,  who  are  much  pleased  with  the  fact  that  they  will  be 
4P  able  to  purchase  this  class  of  goods  from  us  in  connection 
<$  with  D rugs  and  D ruggists’  Sundries.

We  now  have  in  stock and offer for sale—

Fine  Bulk  Stationery  of  all  weights, qualities  and  sizes,  with 

Envelopes to  match.

Box  Paper,  Writing and  Pencil  Paper  Tablets,  Blank  Books, 
Counter  Books,  Memorandums,  Exercise  Books,  Office  Scratch 
Books.

Faber,  Eagle,  American and  Dixon  Pencils.
Spencerian,  Esterbrook,  Gillott,  Sheffield  and  Standard 

Steel  Pens.

Penholders,  Slates and  Slate  Pencils,  Black  Board  and  Rub­

ber Erasers,  Rubber Bands,  School  Rules,  Pencil  Boxes.

Notes,  Drafts and  Receipts.
Dennison  Roll  Crepe,  French  and  American  Tissue  Paper, 
Japanese  Napkins, Gold  and  Silver  Paper,  Ordinary  and  Lace 
Shelf  Paper.

Shipping and String Tags, Gum  Labels, etc.
Specie  Purses,  Gents’  Wallets, Ladies’  Wallets, Bill Books, etc.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

GROCERY PRIG® GURRRNY.

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

CONDENSED  MILK

4 doz in case.

Gail Borden Eagle.................. 6 75
Crown......................................6 25
Daisy....................................... 5 75
Champion................................4 50
Magnolia.................................4 25
Challenge................................4 00
Dime........................................3 35

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 
Above quotations are for either
Tradesman, Superior, Economic 
or  Universal  grades.  Where
1.000 books are ordered at a time 
customer receives  sp ecially  
printed  cover  without  extra 
charge.

Credit Checks 

Coupon  Pass  Books 
Can be made to represent any 
denomination from $10 down.
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
DRIED  FRUITS—Domestic 
Sundried........................@ 6M
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes.7@  7M 
Apricots........................  ©15
Blackberries..............
Nectarines.................
Peaches.....................10  @11
Pears..........................
Pitted Cherries........... 
Prunnelles.................
Raspberries.............
100-120 25 lb. boxes.......   @4
90-100 25 lb. boxes.......   @454
80 - 90 25 lb. boxes........  @5
70 - 80 25 lb. boxes.......   @ 5M
60 - 70 25 lb. boxes 
50 - 60 25 lb. boxes 
@ 7V 
40 - 50 25 lb. boxes 
@ 8
30 - 40 25 lb. boxes
M cent less in 50 lb. cases 

California Prunes

California F ruits

Apples

7M

Raisins

2  00

Citron

Cnrrants

London Layers 2 Crown.
London Layers 3 Crown.
Cluster 4 Crown............
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 
8M
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown 
L. M., Seeded, choice ...
10
L. M., Seeded, fancy__
10M
DRIED  FRUITS—Foreign 
Leghorn..................................11
Corsican.................................12
Patras, cases........................  6M
Cleaned, bulk......................  6M
Cleaned, packages..............   7M
Citron American 19 lb. bx... 13 
Lemon American 10 lb. bx.  10M 
Orange American 10 lb. bx.  10M 
Sultana 1 Crown..................
Sultana 2 Crown.................
Sultana 3 Crown..................
Sultana 4 Crown..................
Sultana 5 Crown..................
Sultana 6 Crown..................
Sultana package................

Raisins

Peel

doz.  gross

AXLE GREASE
Aurora........................56 
Castor  OH....................60 
Diamond................  ..50 
Frazer’s ...................... 75 
IXL Golden, tin boxes 75 

6 00
7 00
4 25
» 00
9 00

Mica, tin boxes.........75 
Paragon.....................56 

BAKING POWDER 

9 00
6 00

Absolute

Acme

It lb. cans doz...................   45
V4 lb. cans doz....................  85
1 
lb. cans doz.................... 150
M lb. cans 3 doz.................  45
*4 lb. cans 3 doz.................  75
l 
lb. cans 1  doz................. 100
Bulk....................................   10
6 oz. Eng. Tumblers............  85
M lb. cans per doz.............  75
% lb. cans per doz............ 1  20
1 
ib. cans per doz............ 2 00
>4 lb. cans, 4 doz. case.......   35
<4 lb. cans. 4 doz. case.......   55
1 
Ib. cans. 2 doz. case.......   90

El  Purity

Arctic

Home

JAXON

Peerless

Jersey  Cream

% lb. cans, 4 doz. case.......   45
*4 lb. cans, 4 doz. case.......   85
1 
lb. cans, 2 doz. case....... 1  60
l lb. cans, per doz............... 2 00
9 oz. cans, per doz...............1  25
6 oz. cans, per doz...............  85
1 lb. cans.............................  85
3 oz., 6 doz. case..................2 70
6 oz., 4 doz. case..................3 20
9 oz., 4 doz. case..................4 80
1 lb., 2 doz. case..................4 00
5 lb., 1 doz. case..................9 00
American............................  70
English................................  80

BATH  BRICK

Queen  Flake

BLUING

C o n d e n s e d

BROOMS

Small 3 doz..........................  40
Large, 2 doz........................  75
Arctic, 4 oz, per gross....... 4 00
Arctic, 8 oz, per gross.......   6 00
Arctic, pints, per  gross 
9 00
No. 1 Carpet....................... 3 00
No. 2 Carpet....................... 2 75
No. 3 Carpet....................... 2 50
No. 4 Carpet....................... 2 05
Parlor  Gem....................... 2 75
Common Whisk..................  95
Fancy Whisk......................l 25
Warehouse.........................3 75
Electric Light, 8s................. 12
Electric Light, 16s................1214
Paraffine, 6s.........................1134
Paraffine, 12s....................... 1214
Wicking..............................20

CANDLES

CANNED  GOODS 

Beans

Apples
3 lb. Standards........ 
Gallons, standards.. 
Baked.....................  
Red Kidney............ 
String.....................  
Wax........................  
Blackberries
Standards...............  
Blueberries
Standard...................  
Cherries
Red  Standards........... 
White........... 
.......... 
Clams.
Little Neck, l lb.....  
Corn
Fair.........................  
Good....................... 
Fancy.....................  
'if 
•  H om iny 
Standard.........__  

90
2 65
75©l  30
75@  85
80
86
75
85
85
l 15
i 10
75
85
95
85

65@1 85

70
80
l  00
1  00
160
25@2 75
35@2 26

Peas

Mushrooms

65
75
85
90
1  35 
95

1  85 
3  10
2 25
1  75
2 80
1 75
2 80
1 75
2 80
18@20
22@25
90 
1  55

Lobster
Star, H lb................
Star, l  lb.................
Picnic Tails.............
Mackerel
Mustard, lib ...........
Mustard, 2 lb...........
Soused, 1 lb.............
Soused, 2 lb............
Tomato, l lb............
Tomato, 2 lb............
Hotels......................
Buttons....................
Oysters
Cove, 1 lb.................
Cove. 2 lb................
Peaches
P ie..........................
Yellow....................  1 
Pears
Standard................. 
Fancy......................  
Marrowfat............ 
Early .June.............. 
Early June  Sifted.. 
Pineapple
Grated....................  1 
Sliced.......................  1 
Pum pkin
F air........................  
Good....................... 
Fancy.....................  
Raspberries
Standard.................. 
Salmon
Red Alaska.............
Pink Alaska............
Sardines
@4
Domestic, Ms..........
Domestic,  Mustard.
@8
French....................
8@22
85 
Standard.................
1  25
Fancy.....................
Succotash
90 
Fair.... 
Good .. 
1  00 
Fancy.
1  20
Tomatoes
80
F air... t ..................
90
Good.......................
1  15
Fancy.....................
2 35
Gallons....................
CATSUP
Columbia,  pints..................2 00
Columbia, % pints.............. 1
CH EESE
Acme.......................
Amboy...................
Elsie.......................
Emblem..................
Gem........................
Gold Medal.............
Ideal.....................
Jersey.....................
Riverside................
Brick......................
Edam......................
Leiden...................
Limburger...............
Pineapple...............  50
Sap  Sago.......... .
CHICORY
Bulk................................
Red............................
CHOCOLATE 
Walter Baker & Co.’

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@15
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@1314@14
@14
@12@90
@17
@13
@75
@18

St raw berries

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COCOA

German  Sweet...................   23
Premium.............................  35
Breakfast Cocoa..................  46
Runkel Bros.
Vienna Sweet............
Vanilla.............................
Premium..........................
H. O. Wilbur & Sous.
Capital Sweet.....................  21
Imperial Sweet...................   22
Nelson’s  Premium.............   25
Sweet Clover, ms................  25
Sweet Clover, Ms.................  27
Premium Baking................   33
Double Vanilla....................  40
Triple Vanilla.....................  50
Webb.................................  30
Cleveland...........
Epps 
Van Houten, Ms.
Van Houten, Ms.
Van Houten, Ms.
Van Houten,  is.
Colonial, Ms  ----
Colonial, Ms......
Huyier..............
Wilbur, Ms........
Wilbur. Ms........
COCOA SHELLS
20 Ib. bags.....................  
2M
Less quantity................. 
3
Pound packages............ 
4
CLOTHES  LINES
Cotton, 40 ft. per doz.......... l 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..........l  80
Jute, 60 ft. per doz.............   80
Jute, 72 ft. per doz.............   95

12

CIGARS 

The Bradley Cigar Co.’s Brands
Advance.............................. $35 00
Bradley................................  35 00
Clear Havana Puffs.........   22 00
“ W. H.  B.” ..........................  55 00
“ W. B. B.” ......................   55 00
Fortune Teller................   35 00
Our Manager...................   35 00
Quintette..........................  35 00
G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand.

H. & P. Drug Co.’s brands.

 

 

S. C. W.............. 
35 00
Phelps, Brace & Co.’s Brands.
Royal  Tigers.............55@ 80 00
Royal Tigerettes.......35
Vincente Portuondo .. 35@ 70 00
Ruhe Bros. Co............25@ 70 00
Hilson  Co.................. 35@U0 00
T. J. Dunn & Co........ 35@ 70 00
McCoy & Co...............35® 70 00
The Collins Cigar Co.. 10@ 35 00
Brown  Bros.............. 15@ 70 oo
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@no oo
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.................. 65@300 00
Manuel  Garcia.......... 80@375 oo
Neuva Mundo............ 85@175 00
Henry Clay.................85@550 oo
La Carolina................96®200 oo
Standard T. & C. Co.. .35®  70 00

COFFEE
Roasted

___ HIGH GRADE

Coffees

Rio

Jav a

Santos

Maracaibo

Special Combination..........   20
French Breakfast...............  25
Lenox.................................   30
Vienna................................  35
Private Estate.....................   38
Supreme..............................  40
Less 33M  per  cent,  delivered. 
F air....................................   9
Good...................................  10
Prime.................................   12
Golden................................  13
Peaberry...........................   14
F air....................................   14
Good...................................  15
Primé.................................   16
Peaberry..............................  18
Prim e.................................   15
Milled.................................   17
Interior...............................   26
Private  Growth..................  30
Mandehling........................   35
Imitation...........................   22
Arabian...............................  28
PACKAGE  COFFEE. 
Below  are  given  New  York 
prices  on  package  coffees,  to 
which the wholesale dealer adds 
the local freight from New York 
to buyers shipping point, giving 
buyer credit on the  invoice  for 
the  amount of freight  he  pays 
from  the  market  in  which  he 
purchases to his shipping point 
These prices are further sub 
ject  to  manufacturer’s  regular 
rebate.
Arbuckle............................1200
Jersey.....................................12 00
M cLaughlin’s XXXX 
McLaughlin’s  XXXX  sold  to 
retailers  only.  Mail all  orders 
direct  to W.  F.  McLaughlin & 
Co., Chicago.
Valley City M  gross............   75
Felix M gross............................1 15
Hummel’s foil M gross........  85
Hummel’s tin M  gross.......1 43

E xtract

Mocha

Pearl  Barley

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

Grits

Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s Brand.

FLY  PA PER

Perrigo’s Lightning, gro.. 
Petrolatum, per doz.........

.  2 50
..  75
Sage................................. ....15
Hops................................ .... 15

HERBS

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

Peas

Sago

Rolled  Oats

Green, Wisconsin, bu..........1  30
Green, Scotch, bu.................... 1 35
Split, bu..............................   3
Rolled Avena, bbl....................3 75
Steel Cut, M bbls......................2 05
Monarch, bbl...........................3 50
Monarch, M bbl....................... 1 95
Monarch, 90 lb. sacks._____1  75
Quaker, cases................    .3 20
Huron, cases............................2 00
German..............................  4
East India...........................  3M
F. A. McKenzie, Quincy, Mich.
36 two potmd packages__  3 60
18 two pound packages__  1  85
Flake..................................  5
Pearl...................................  5
Pearl, 241 lb. packages......6%
Cracked, bulk.....................  3%.
24 2 ft. packages..................... 2 50
FLAVORING EXTRACTS 

Salus Breakfast Food 

Tapioca

W heat

DeBoe’s

Vanilla D. C......
Lemon D. C 
...
Vanilla Tonka...

2 oz.
.1  10
..  70
..  75

4 OZ.
1  80
1  35
1  45

FOOTE & JENKS’

JA X O N

Highest  Grade  Extracts
Lemon
Vanilla

I_________
1 oz full m. 1  20 
2ozfull m.2 10 
No.3fan’y.3  15

lozfullm .  80 
2 oz full m  1  25 
No.3fan’y  1  75

Vanilla 

Lemon

2 oz panel  . 1  20  2 oz panel.  75
3 oz taper.  2 oo  4 oz taper.  1  50

INDIGO

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

JELLY

V. C. Brand.

LICORICE

15 lb. pails........................ ..  35
30 lb. palls........................ ..  62
Pure apple, per doz......... ..  85
Pure................................ ..  30
Calabria........................... ..  25
Sicily................................ ..  14
Root................................. ..  10
Condensed, 2 doz............. ..1  20
Condensed, 4 doz.............. ..2 25
Diamond Match Co.’s brands.

MATCHES

LYE

No. 9 sulphur.......................... 1 65
Anchor Parlor.........................1 50
No. 2 Home..............................1 30
Export Parlor..........................4 00
Wolverine................................ 1 50

MOLASSES 
New  Orleans

Black........
F air.........
Good........
Fancy
Open Kettle......................25@35

11

Half-barrels 2c extra 
MUSTARD

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

PICKLES
Medium

Small

Barrels, 1,200 count.................5 90
Half bbls, 600 count.................3 46

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

PIPES

POTASH 

48 cans in case.
Babbitt’s ...............................4 00
Penna Salt Co.’s..................3 00

RICE

Domestic

Carolina head.......................6H
Carolina  No. 1 ......................5
Carolina No. 2 ......................4
Broken................................. 354

Im ported.

Japan,  No. 1................5%@6
Japan,  No.  2................4%@5
Java, fancy head..........5  @5%
Java, No. 1...................5  @
Table..............................   @

SALERATUS 

Packed 60 lbs. in box. 

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

SAL  SODA

Beans

Farina

Cereals

FARINACEOUS GOODS 
Dried Lima.........................  554
Medium Hand Picked 2 15@2 25
Brown Holland...................
Cream of Cereal..................  90
Grain-O, small.........................1 35
Grain-O, large..........................2 25
Grape Nuts......................... 1 35
Postum Cereal, small..........1  35
Postum Cereal, large.......  2 25
241 lb. packages......................1 25
Bulk, per 100 lbs.......................3 00
36  2 lb. packages......................3 00
Barrels.................................... 2 50
Flake. 50 lb. drums...................l 00
Rice Flakes, 3 doz pkg case 2 85 
Flaked Peas, 3 doz pkg case 2 85 
Flaked Beans,3dozpkgc’se 2  85 
35 Chene St., Detroit, Mich. 
Maccaroni  and Vermicelli
Domestic, 10 lb. box............  60
Imported, 25 lb. box.................2 so

Lauhoff Bros. Flaking Mills, 

Haskell’s W heat Flakes

Hominy

Jennings’

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

D. C. Lemon
2 oz......
3 OZ.....
1  001 40
4  OZ..........
6 oz......
2  00 
No.  8... 
2 40 
No. 10... 
4 00
No. 2 T. 
80 
No. 3 T. 
1 25
No.'4 T.
1 50
Northrop  Brand 
Lem.
Van. 
2 oz. Taper Panel....  75
1  20 
2 0Z. Oval.................  75
1  20
3 oz. Taper Panel__1 35
2  00 
4 oz. Taper Panel.... 1  60
2 25
Van.
Lem.
doz.
doz.
XXX, 2 oz. obert__1  25
75 
XXX, 4 oz. taper__2 25
1  25
XX, 2 oz. obert....... 1 00
No. 2,2 oz. obert 
  75
XXX D D ptchr, 6 oz 
XXX DDptchr,4oz 
K. P. pitcher, 6 oz...

Perrigo’s

2 25
1  75
2 25

SALT|

Diamond Crystal 

Common  Grades

Table, cases, 24 3 lb. boxes..1  40 
Table, barrels, 1003 lb. bags.2 85 
Table, barrels, 40 7  lb. bags.2 50 
Butter, barrels, 280 lb. bulk.2 50 
Butter, barrels,20 I41b.bags.2 60
Butter, sacks, 28 lbs............  27
Butter, sacks, 56 lbs______  62
100 3 lb. sacks........................... 2 15
60 5 lb. sacks........................... 2 05
28 10 lb. sacks.......................... 1 95
40
56 lb. sacks....................... 
281b. sacks.......................  22
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 
561b. sacks..........................  25
Granulated  Fine...................... 1 00
Medium Fine.............   ..... 1  05

Solar Rock
Common

Ashton
Higgins

Warsaw

SALT  FISH 

Cod

Georges cured............  @5
Georges genuine.......   @ 54
(leorges selected.......   @  b%
Strips or  bricks.........  6  @ 9
I’ollock.......................  @3 4

Halibut.
Strips......................................14
Chunks.................. 
ifi
H erring

Holland white hoops,  bbl.  H  00 
Holland white hoops 4bbl.  t> (X) 
Holland white hoop,  keg.. 
7S
Holland white hoop inclis. 
85
Norwegian......................
Round ioo lbs...................   3 oo
Round 40 lbs..................... 
l  75
Scaled.................. 
......   164
Bloaters............................  1  50

Mackerel

Mess 100 lbs......................  17  00
Mess  40 lbs......................  7  10
Mess  10 lbs......................  1  85
Mess  8 lbs...................... 
I  51
No. a ioo lbs......................  15 oo
No. 1  40 lbs......................  6 30
No. 1  10 lbs.  ..................  1  «5
No. 1  8 lbs......................  1 35
No. 2 100 lbs......................  10  50
No. 2  40 lbs......................  4 50
No. 2  10 lbs......................  1  15
No. 2  8 lbs......................  1  00

Trout

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

Whitefish*

100 lbs..........  
40  lbs..........  
10 lbs_____  
8 lbs........... 

No. 1  No. 2  Fam
7  25 
2 75
3 20  1  40
43
88 
37
73 
SAUERKRAUT

Barrels  ...............................5 00
Hall barrels........................ 2 75

SEEDS

................................  9
Anise 
Canary, Smyrna..................  4
Caraway.............................  8
Cardamon, Malabar............60
Celery.................................. 10
Hemp,Russian....................  44
Mixed Bird..........................  44
Mustard, white...................   5
Poppy..................................10
Rape...................................  44
Cuttle Bone......................... 15
Scotch, in bladders.............   37
Maccaboy, in jars...............   35
French Rappee, In jars......   43

SNUFF

SOAP

JAXON

Single box............................ 3 00
5 box lots, delivered............2 95
10 box lots, delivered............2 90
JAS.S  KIRK  SCO ’S 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 It lb............. 3 00
Klrkoline............................. 3 50
Eos................ _ .......... '.__ 2 50

ioo 12 oz bars----

SILVER

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

SapoHo, kitchen, 3 doz........ 2 40
Sapolio, hand, 3 doz.............2 40

Scouring

SODA

Boxes..................................  54
Kegs, English.....................   4*

SPICES 

Whole Spices

AllspiCt............................ 
11
Cassia, China in mats...... 
12
25
Cassia, Batavia, in bund... 
38
Cassia, Saigon, broken__ 
Cassia, Saigon, in rolls__ 
55
15
Cloves, Amboyna.............. 
13
Cloves, Zanzibar............  . 
55
Mace................................ 
55
Nutmegs,  75-80................. 
Nutmegs,  105-10...............  
45
Nutmegs, 115-20................ 
40
Pepper, Singapore, black.  154 
Pepper,  Slngagore, white. 
23
Pepper, shot.....................  164
Pure Grouud in B ulk
Allspice.*.......................... 
15
Cassia, Batavia................. 
28
Cassia, Saigon..................  
48
16
Cloves, Zanzibar............... 
15
Ginger, African...............  
18
Ginger, Cochin................. 
25
Ginger,  Jamaica............. 
66
Mace................................. 
Mustard...........................  
18
Pepper, Singapore, black. 
17 
Pepper, Singapore, white. 
25
Pepper, Cayenne.............  
20
Sage.................................  
15

Kingsford’s Corn

SUGAR

Diamond

Common Corn

40 l-lb. packages...............  6
20 l-lb. packages...............  64
Kiugsford’s Silver Gloss
40 l-lb. packages..............
6ïi
6 lb. boxes......................
74
64 10c packages................
5 00
128 5c packages................
5 00
30 10c and 64 5c packages.. 5 00
20 l-lb.  packages.............
4%
40 l-lb.  packages.............
44
Common G I ohs
l-lb. packages..................
44
3-lb. packages..................
44
6-lb.  packages..................
5
40 and 50-lb. boxes............
34
Barrels............................
34
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  tne  invoice  for  tne  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 40
Cut Loaf...........................  5 55
Crushed...........................  5 55
Cubes...............................  5 30
Powdered........................  5 25
Coarse  Powdered............  5 25
XXXX  Powdered............  5 40
Standard  Granulated......  5  15
Fine Granulated...............   5  15
Coarse Granulated. 
5 30 
Extra Fine Granulated.
5 30
Conf.  Granulated.............  5 40
2 lb. cartons Fine  Gran
5
5 25 
2 lb. bags Fine  Gran__
5 lb. cartons Fine  Gran. 
5 25 
5 25
5 lb. bags Fine  Gran...
Mould A...........................  5 40
Diamond A .....................  5  15
Confectioner’s A.............   4 95
No.  1, Columbia A..........   4 80
No.  2, Windsor A............  4 80
No.  3, Ridgewood A.......   4 80
No.  4, Phflenix  A............  4 76
No.  5, Empire A.............   4 70
No.  6................................  4 65
NO.  7................................  4 60
No.  8...............................   4 55
NO.  9................................  4 50
No. 10................................  4 45
No. 11................................  4 40
No. 12...............................   4 35
No. 13...............................   4 35
No. 14..............................  4 35
No. 15...............................   4 35
NO. 16...............................   4 35

SYRUPS

Corn

Barrels................................174
Half bbls............................194
1 doz. 1 gallon cans............ 3  15
1 doz. 4  gallon cans............1  85
2 doz. 4  gallon cans............1  oo
Fair....................................   16
Good...................................  20
Choice  ................................  26

Pure  Cane

TABLE 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..  74 
Malt White Wine, 80 grain.. 11
Pure Cider, Red Star......... 12
Pure Cider, Robinson........12
Pure Cider,  Silver..............li
WASHING  POWDER

VINEGAR

.20
.25
.35
.55

Baskets

WICKING

Rub-No-More, 100 12 oz__ .3 50
No. 0, per gross.................
No. 1, per gross................
No. 2, per gross................
No. 3, per gross................
WOODENWARE
.1
Bushels............................
.1  10
Bushels, wide  band.........
.  30
Market............................
.7 00
Willow Clothes, large......
Willow Clothes, medium.. 6 50
.5 50
Willow Clothes, small......
.1  80
No. 1 Oval, 250 in crate....
No. 2 Oval, 250 In crate__ .2 00
No. 3 Oval, 260 In crate__ .2 20
No. 5 Oval, 250 In crate....
.2 60
Boxes, gross boxes...........
.  65

B utter P lates

Clothes Pins

Fresh  Meats

B e e f

Carcass....................  54@ 74
Forequarters.........  6  @ 64
Hindquarters......... 
7  @9
Loins No. 3.............  
9  @14
Ribs........................ 
8  @14
Rounds...................   64@ 7
ChucKs...................  
6  @ 64
Plates..................... 
4  @5

Pork

Dressed..................  
Loins......................  
Boston  Butts..........  
Shoulders............... 
Leaf  Lard............... 
Mutton
Carcass................... 
Spring Lambs......... 

V e a l

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

@ 64
@ 84
@7
@ 74
@ 74

7  @8
9  @10

74@ 9

The  National  Biscuit 

quotes as follows:

B utter

Soda

Oyster

Seymour..........................
New York........................
Family.............................
Salted..............................
Wolverine........................
Soda  XXX.......................
Soda, City.......................
Long Island Wafers.........
Zepnyrette.......................
Faust...............................
Farina..............................
Extra Farina 
................
Sal tine  Wafer..................
Sweet Goods—Boxes
Animals...........................
Assorted  Cake................
Belie Rose........................
Bent’s  W ater..................
Buttercups... 
..........
Cinnamon Bar..................
Coffee Cake,  Iced............
Coffee Cake, Java............
Cocoanut Taffy................
Cracknells......................
Creams, Iced..................
Cream Crisp.....................
Crystal Creams................
Cubans.............................
Currant  Fruit..................
Frosted Honey................
Frosted Cream................
Ginger Gems, lg. or  sm..
Ginger Snaps, XXX.........
Gladiator........................
Grandma Cakes...............
Graham Crackers............
Graham  Wafers..........
Honey Fingers............
Imperials.....................
Jumbles, Honey..........
Lady Fingers...............
Lemon  Wafers............
Marshmallow..............
Marshmallow Walnuts.
Mixed Picnic...............
Milk Biscuit.................
Molasses  Cake............
Molasses Bar...............
Moss Jelly Bar............
Newton........................
Oatmeal Crackers........
Oatmeal Wafers...........
Grange Crisp...............
Grange  Gem...............
Penny Cake..................
Pilot Bread, XXX........
Pretzels, hand  made...
Sears’ Lunch...............
Sugar Cake..................
Sugar Cream, XXX__
Sugar Squares............
Sultanas......................
Tutti  Fruttl.................
Vanilla Wafers............
Vienna Crimp..............

124
8
124
11414
15
16 
114
74
8
9
I2412

124
16414
8

Fish  an l  Oysters

Fresh  Fish

Per lb.

Whitefish..................  @  9
Trout..........................  @  9
Black Biass................   8@  11
Halibut......................  @  15
Ciscoes or Herring__  @  5
Bluett sh .....................  @  H
Live  Lobster.............   @ 30
Boiled  Lobster__....  @  30
Cod.............................  @  11
Haddock...................   @  9
No. 1 Pickerel............   @  8
Pike...........................  @  74
Perch.........................  @  5
Smoked  White..........   @  9
Red  Snapper.............   @  10
Col River  Salmon......  @  14
Mackerel...................   @  18
35
F.H . Counts........... 
F. J. D. Selects.......  
30
25
Selects.................... 
F. J. D. Standards. 
22
Anchors.................. 
20
Standards............... 
18
Favorite.................. 
16
Bulk. 
gal.
F.H.Counts......................  2 00
Extra Selects.....................  1 75
Selects...............................   l  35
Anchor Standards............  l  20
Standards..........................1  10
Shell Goods.
Clams, per 100............  
1  00
Oysters, per 100......... 1 oo@i  25

Oysters lu Cans.

21

Candies
Stick Candy

Standard.........
Standard H.  11 
Standard  Twist.
Cut Loaf............
Jumbo, 32 lb........... 
Extra H. H .............  
Boston Cream......... 
Beet Root.......... 

bbls .  pails 
@ 74 
@  74
i@ 8
@  84
@ 64
@ 84
@io
@ 7

Mixed Candy

Fancy—lu  Bulk 

Grocers...................  
@6
Competition............ 
@ 64
Special....................  
@7
Conserve................. 
@ 8G
@ 74
Royal.....................  
@ 84
Ribbon.................... 
Broken...................  
@ 74
@ 84
Cut Loaf.................. 
English Rock..........  
@ 84
Kindergarten......... 
@ 84
French Cream......... 
@9
@ 84
Dandy Pan.............. 
Hand  Made  Cream
mixed..................  
@14
Nobby..................... 
@ 84
Crystal Cream mix.. 
@12
San Bias Goodies....  @11
Lozenges, plain...... 
@9
Lozenges, printed... 
@9
Choc. Drops............ 
@11
Eclipse Chocolates... 
@13
Choc. Monumentals. 
@13
Gum Drops............. 
@ 5
Moss  Drops............ 
@ 84
Lemon Sours..........  
@9
@ 94
Imperials................  
Ital. Cream Bonbons
351b. palls............ 
@11
Molasses  Chews,  15
lb. palls................  
@13
Jelly  Date Squares.  @104
Iced Marshmellows.........  14
Golden Watties.......  
@11
Fancy—In 5 lb. Boxes
Lemon  Sours........ 
@50
Peppermint Drops. 
@60
Chocolate  Drops.... 
@65
@75
H. M. Choc. Drops.. 
H. M. Choc.  Lt. and
Dk. No. 12............ 
@90
Gum Drops.............  
@30
Licorice  Drops.......  
@75
@50
A. B. Licorice Drops 
Lozenges,  plain...... 
@55
@55
Lozenges, printed... 
Imperials................  
@56
Mottoes.................. 
@¿0
Cream  Bar.............. 
@55
Molasses Bar..........  
@56
Hand Made Creams.  80  @90 
Cream Buttons, Pep.
and  Wlnt.............  
@66
@60
String Rook............  
Burnt  Almonds......1  25  @
Wlntergreen Berries 
@65
Caramels
No. 1 wrapped,  3  lb.
boxes....................
Penny Goods...........
F ru its
Oranges
Fancy  Navels
Extra Choice..........
Seedlings................
Fancy Mexicans__
&
jamalcas................
&
Lemon*»
Strictly choice 360s..
@3 00
Strictly choice 300s..
@3 25
@3 50
Fancy 300s...............
Ex. Fancy  300s.......
@3 76
Extra Fancy 360s ....
@3 50
Bananas
Medium bunches 
  1  50@l  75
Large bunches.......   1  76@2 25

3 25@3 50
3 00&3 25
2 50@2 75

<%50
55@60

Figs

Dates

lb.  cases, new...... 

Foreign Dried Fruits 
Californias,  Fancy.. 
@10
Cal. pkg, 10 lb. boxes  @ 8
Extra  Choice,  10  lb. 
boxes, new Smprna  @13
Fancy, 12 lb. boxes new  @14
Imperial Mikados, 18
Id. boxes............... 
@
Pulled, 6 lb. boxes...  @
Naturals, in bags....  @ 54
Fards In 10 lb. boxes  @10
Fards In 60 lb. cases.  @ 6
Persians,  P. H. V...  @ 54
@ 54
Salrs, 60 lb. cases....  @5
_ _ _ _ _ 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 b u ...
Peanuts 
Fancy, H. P., Suns.. 
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Flags
Roasted...............
Choice, H. P., Extras 
Chotce, H. P., Extras 
Roasted  .............
Span. Shelled No. 1..

64® 7

5  @

@ 64
@
m

5174

@1 75

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN
Grains and  Feedstuffs 

Mop  Sticks  .

Trojan spring..................... 9 oo
Eclipse patent spring.........9 00
No l common...................... 8 00
No. 2 patent brush holder ..9 00 
1?  n. cotton mor> heads  ...  1  25 

Palls
hoop Standard.
2- 
hoop Standard.
3- 
2- 
wire,  Cable....
3- 
wire,  Cable....
Cedar, all red, brass  bound
Paper.  Eureka...................
Fibre................................. .

Tubs

20-inch, Standard, No. 1........7 00
18-inch, Standard, No. 2....... 6 00
16-inch, Standard, No. 3........5 00
20-inch, Dowell,  No. 1.......... 3 25
18-inch, Dowell,  No. 2.......... 5 25
16-inch, Dowell,  No. 3...........4 25
No. 1 Fibre...........................9 45
No. 2 Fibre............. 
7  95
No. 3 Fibre...........................7 20

 

Wash  Hoards

Bronze Globe.............
Dewey......................
Double Acme..............
Single Acme...............
Double  Peerless.........
Single  Peerless...........
Northern Queen.......
Double Duplex..........
Good Luck.................
Universal...................
Wood  Bowls

11 In. Butter........................
13 in. Butter.........................l
15 in. Butter.........................l
17 In. Butter.........................2
19 in. Butter.........................3
Assorted 13-15-17  .  .  ...........1
Assorted 15-17-19.................2

YEAST  CAKE 

Yeast Foam, 14  doz.
Yeast Foam, 3  doz__
Yeast Cre  m, 3doz...
Magic Yeast 5c, 3 doz.........l  oo
Sunlight Yeast, 3 doz............l 00
Warner’s Safe, 3 doz............l oo

Provisions
Barreled  Pork

Mess........................
Back.....................
Clear back...............
Short cut................
P ig..........................
Bean........................
Family.................. :

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

Dry  Salt  Meats
 
Smoked  Meats 

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

64
64
54

Hams, 12 lb. average.  @114
Hams, 14 lb. average.  @
11
Hams, 16 lb. average.  @
104 
Hams, 201b. average.
104 
Ham dried  beef......
@  14 
Shoulders (N. Y. cut)
~  74 
Bacon, clear............   84@
94 
California hams......  @
74 
Boneless  hams.......   @
94 16 
Boiled Hams.......... 
@.
Picnic Boiled Hams  @
« 4  
Berlin  Hams......... 
@
84
Lards—In Tierces

64

Wheat..............................  

68

W inter  W heat  Flour 

Local Brands

Patents............................  4 20
Second Patent..................  3 70
Straight............................  3 50
Clear................................  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
Diamond 4s.....................  3 60
Diamond 4 s ....................   3 60
Diamond 4 s.....................  3 60

Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand

Quaker 4s........................  3 60
Quaker 4s........................  3 60
Quaker 4s........................  3 60

Spring  W heat  Flour

Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brand
PUlsbury’s  Best 4 s .........  4 25
Plllsbury’s  Best 4 s .........  4  15
Plllsbury's  Best 4 s .........  4 05
Pillsbury’s Best 4s paper.  4 05 
Plllsbury’s Best 4s paper.  4 05
Ball-Barnhart-Putman's Brand
Duluth  Imperial  4s........   4 20
Duluth  Imperial 4s........   4  10
Duluth  Imperial 4 s........   4 00
Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s Brand
Gold Medal 4 s ................   4 oo
Gold Medal 4 s ................  3 90
Gold Medal 4 s ................   3 80
Parisian  4 s.....................  4 oo
Parisian  4 s .....................  3 90
Parisian  4 s .....................  3  80

Olney & Judson’s Brand

Ceresota 4 s.....................  4  20
Ceresota 4 s .....................  4  10
Ceresota 4 s .....................  4 00

Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand

Laurel  4s. 
Laurel  4s. 
Laurel  4s.

Bolted.......
Granulated.

4  10 
4 00 
3 90

1  90
2  10

Feed and  Millstuflrs

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

Corn

Oats

Com, car  lots............
Less than car lots......

. ..  41

Car  lots.......
..  29
Car lots, clipped......... ....  31
Less than car lots......
No. 1 Timothy car lots ....  12 00
No. 1 Timothy ton  lots ....  13 00

Hay

Compound...............
Kettle......................
Vegetole *.............
55 lb. Tubs.. advance 
80 lb. Tubs.. advance 
50 lb. Tins... advance 
20 lb. Pails, .advance 
10 lb. Pails.. advance 
5 lb. Pails.. advance 
3 lb. Pails.. advance
Sausages
Bologna..................
Liver ......................
Frankfort...............
P o rk ......................
Blood............................
Tongue...................
Headcheese.............
Beef
Extra Mess.............
Boneless..................
Rump.....................
Pigs’  Feet
Kits, 15 lbs..............
4  bbls., 40 lbs.........
4  bbls., 80 lbs.........
Tripe
Kits, 15 lbs..............
4  bbls., 40 lbs.........
4  bbls., 80 lbs.........
Casings
P o rk .......................
Beef rounds............
Beef middles.........
Sheep......................
Butterine
Rolls, dairy.............
Solid, dairy.............
Rolls, creamery.
Solid, creamery......
Corned beef, 2 lb__
Corned beef, 14 lb...
Roast beef, 2 lb.......
Potted ham,  4 s ......
Potted ham,  4 s ......
Deviled ham, 4 s __
Deviled ham, 4 s __
Potted tongue,  4s..
Potted tongue,  4s..

Canned  Meats

10 00 
11 50 
11  50

@ 7
@ 6
@ 5
@ 84
@ 9
@ 74
@ 84
50@1  25
@ 44
@ 34
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

Hides  and  Pelts
The Cappon & Bertsch Leather
Co., 100 Canal  Street,  quotes  as
follows:
Hides
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
Calfskins .cured No. 2
Pelts
Pelts, each..............
.Tallow
No. 1........................
No. 2........................
Wool
Washed, fine..........
Washed,  medium...
Unwashed,  fine......
Unwashed, medium.
Furs
Cat,  wild.................
Cat, house...............
Fox, red..................
Fox, g ray ..............
Lynx.......................
Muskrat,  winter.  ..
Mink.......................
Raccoon..................
Skunk 
..........
13413
Oils
19
184
Barrels
Eocene ......................
2 70 Perfection..................
19 50 XXX W.W. Mich. Hdlt
2 70 W. W. Michigan.......
55 Diamond White.........
1  00 -I).. S.  Gas..................
55 Deo. Naphtha............
1  00 Cylinder.....................
55 Engine......................
1 00 Black, winter.............

@134
@12
@12
@114
@11
@124
@124

80
1  50
2 75
70
1  25
2 25

@10*

22

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Getting  the  People

Some  Good  Advertisements  and  Some Not 

So  Good.

P.  H.  Brumm,  of  Nashville,writes  as 

follows  under  date  of  March  15 :

Enclosed  find  a  sample  advertisement 
which  I  have  clipped 
from  our  local 
paper,  the  Nashville  News,  and  send 
I  read  your  criti­
you 
for  criticism. 
cisms  every  week 
in  the  Tradesman 
with  great  interest  and  have  gained 
some  valuable 
information  with  refer­
ence  to  advertising. 
1  am  also  send­
ing  two  circulars  which  I  ran  in  our  lo­
cal  paper  during 
the  holidays— the 
lamps  one  week  and  the  china  next— 
each  week  having  three  hundred  circu­
lars  printed  identical  with the advertise­
ment  and  the  same  as  samples  enclosed, 
which  1  distributed  around 
in  farmers’ 
wagons  and  places  where  the local  paper 
would  not  reach  all.

Mr.  Brumm’s  advertisement  is  taste­
little

fully  set,  but  the  wording 

is  a 

Correct Buying Enables 
Us to  sell a t

Correct  Prices!

.

. 

l>on’t blame us  if you  do  not  get 
thebenetitof some of our bargains.
A harvest of bargains.  Yours  if  they  satisfy. 
«mr store fs the field.  Ours if they don’t.
The public the reaper...........................• 
. 
The quality is always  there.  The 
price is always right.  You  might 
pay more.  You  can’t  get  better
values...................................... . 
.

none better.

85 per cent, pure buckwheat.

Cream of Wheat  Flour, ohly..................  SO cents
Self Rising Buckwheat Flour, per  pkg.. .10 cents 
Pure Buckwheat, 10 lb. sack, only.......... 30 cents
Our Special Blend Coffee, only................ 25 cents
Dried Peaches,  only  ..............................10 cents
We always pay cash for Butter and Eggs.

you will never buy any other if you try this.

absolutely pure.

very flue.

P .  h   BRUM M ,  th e   G rocer.

lacks 
bit  stilted  and,  in  consequence, 
The  heading, 
convincing  quality. 
“ Correct  Buying  Enables  us  to  Sell  at 
Correct  Prices”   is  a little  indefinite  and 
the  whole  advertisement  sounds  as 
Mr.  Brumm  were  talking  at  his  readers 
rather  than  to  them.  This  is  a  mis 
take.  The  more  direct  and  personal  an 
advertisement  can  be  made  the  stronger 
it  is. 
If  you  can  write  an  advertise 
ment  that  will  make  each  reader  feel  ai 
if  it  was  intended especially  for  him  the 
better  its  chances  are  of  success. 
In 
other  words,  to  repeat  the  advice  I  have 
already  given  many  times before,  "T a lk  
in  each  advertisement  as  you  would  to 
a  customer  on  the  other  side of the coun 
ter.”   Mr.  Brumm'sadvertisement  does 
not  conform  to this  standard.

The  two  circulars  submitted  are  at 
tractive  in  appearance,  but  they  are  full 
of  technical  descriptions  of  the  lamps 
and  china,  evidently  reproduced  direct 
from  the  jobber’s  catalogue.  One  thing 
in  particular  I  strongly  object  to— the 
use  of  stock  numbers— for  instance,  No 
A-64-641.  This  is the  way  Mr.  Brumm 
designates one  of  his  lamps.  What  does 
John Jones,  who looks over this circular, 
care  whether  the  lamp  is  No.  A-64-64 
or Q-41-144? 
Ii 
other  words,  it  is  unessential;  it  does 
not  add  weight  to  the description  and 
.therefore,  it  is  useless.  A  stock  num 
her  has  a  place  in  the  jobber’s catalogue 
because  it  is  used  in  ordering. 
It  has 
no  place  in  a  circular  addressed  to  the 
people  whose  only  means  of  getting  the 
goods  advertised  are  to  come  in  and 
purchase  them  direct  over  the  counter, 

It  is  nothing  to  him. 

*  *  *

John  A.  McClelland,  of  Portland,  en 
closes  a  circular  which 
is  reproduced 
herewith.  The  wording  is  good,  but  the 
In  the  nine
display 

is  decidedly  poor. 

display 
lines  there  are  seven  different 
kinds  of  type,  which,  with  the  body 
type,  make  eight.  Two  kinds  would

Something  New  for  Portland

SPECIAL  SALE
Ladies’  Tailor=Made  Suits  Friday  After* 
noon,  Mar.  9;  All  day  Saturday,  Mar.  10

We have arranged with one of the largest 
and best cloak and suit  manufacturers in 
the United States, who will be at our store 
on  above  dates  with  his  entire  line  of 
Tailor-Made Suits.
LADIES—If you want a new  suit  this 
spring  you  Must  Not  Miss  seeing  this 
Elegant Line.  There will be Hundreds of 
styles  to select  from. 
In  Fact,  it  is  a 
rare  thing  to see  such  a  mammoth  line 
as  this,  even  in  the  largest  cities,  and 
now you have the opportunity to see  this 
very large line right here at home where 
you can take plenty of time to select  Just 
What You  Want  and  at  a  Great  Saving 
in Price.
Don’t’Forget Dates, Friday and Saturday. 
Mar. Sth-lOth.  Come, and tell yourfriends 
to tell their friends to tell their friends to 
Come.  We  want  you  to  see  this  line 
whether you buy or not. 

.

John  a .  McCl e l l a n d .

have  sufficed  and  three  would  have  been 
ife  limit.  The  body  of  the  circular 
attractive 
in  its  wording,  but  would 
have  been  much  stronger  if  the  heading 
had  not  taken  up 
the 
room.

twoThirds  of 

*  *  *

is  fairly  good  and 

The  circular  of  Spanier’s  Market, 
should 
ansing, 
produce  results.  While 
contains 
nothing  but  prices,  the  prices  are  the 
most 
important  point  in  a  meat  adver-
W hat Cash Will  Do  W ith  Meats 

it 

a t the Cadillac  M arket.
Pork  Steak  Ham  ..........................  
  10  c
Pork Chops............................................10  c
Pork  Roast............................................10  c
Pork  Steak...........................................  8  c
Pork  Side................................................. 8  c
Pork  Strip............................................   8  c
Porter House  Steak........................... i2j£c
Sirloin Steak.........................................I2^c
Round  Steak........................................... 10  c
Shoulder Steak......................................  8  c
Beef Stew.........................................5, 6,  7  c
Kettle Roast................................... 6 ,7 ,8   c

THIS IS  AT

SPANIER’S  MARKET,

133 Michigan Ave. Bast.

in  the  neighborhood. 

tisement.  The  man  who  runs  a  meat 
market  should  be  a  steady  advertiser, 
both in  the  newspapers  and  by  means  of 
circulars.  Every  bundle  that  he  sends 
out  should  contain  a  circular  quoting 
prices  and,  in  addition  to  this,  circulars 
liberally  among 
should  be  distributed 
the  houses 
It 
might  be  a  good  plan  for  a  meat  dealer 
is  not  a  grocer  to  make  some  ar­
who 
rangement  with  a  grocer,  who 
is  not  a 
meat  dealer,  for  each  to  distribute  the 
other’s  circulars  in  their  packages. 
In 
this  way  both  would  possibly  gain  new 
customers  and  neither  one  would  be 
harmed. 

W.  S.  Hamburger.
Questionable  Method  of Advertising.
A  questionable  advertising 

scheme 
was  recently  employed  by  a  firm  in  a 
Southern  city.  The 
junior  partner  of 
the  firm  swore  out  a  warrant  for the  ar­
rest  of  the  senior  partner  on  the  ground 
that  he  was  selling  goods  below cost,and 
that  the  firm  was 
losing 
money  thereby.  The  case  came  up  in 
court,  and  the  counsel 
for  the  senior 
partner  asked  for  a  postponement  in 
order to  have  more  time  to  prepare  his 
case.  The  judge  granted  the  request, 
bail  was  fixed,  and  the  senior  member 
released.  As  he  left  the  courtroom  the 
junior  partner  arose  and  exclaimed,  “ If 
he  is  released  the  sacrifice  will  go  on!”  
The  news  soon  spread,  and  the  firm  did 
a  better  business.  When  the  case  was 
again  called  no  plaintiff  appeared,  and 
the  charge  was  dismissed.  The  firm  had 
succeeded 
in  their  object— advertise- 
ment.

constantly 

The  Inyentor of Pepsin  Gum.

Ten  years  ago  Miss  Nellie M.  Horton, 
to  whom  George  A.  Manning, of  Boston, 
was  married 
last 
week,  was  a  stenographer  in  Cleveland.
less 

To-day  she  is  reputed  worth  riot 

in  Elmira,  N.  Y ., 

than  $300,000.

This  she  made  herself,  as  the  inventor 

of  a  chewing  gum.
At  the  time  Miss  Horton  had  her 
“ idea”   she  was  employed  in  the  office 
of  a  pepsin  manufacturer.  She  had  al­
ways  been  fond  of  chewing  spruce  gum. 
One  day  when  arranging  her  papers  for 
the  day’s  work  she  said  to  her  employ­
er,  “ Don’t  you  think  it  would  be  a good 
idea  to  put  pepsin  in  gum?”   A  
laugh 
was  the  only  reply.

Then  the  matter  dropped,  but  Miss 
Horton  had  started  to  think  of  the  pos­
sibilities  of  a  gum  containing  pepsin  as 
a  digestive  agent.  She  experimented 
first  with  her  favorite  spruce,  but  soon 
rejected  it  as  unsuitable.

Some  other  agent  for  the  pepsin  was 
evidently  needed,  and  after  each  day’s 
work  was  over,  Miss  Horton  in  her  own 
room  planned  and  experimented  to  get 
the  proper  substance.  After  many  fail­
ures  she  was  at 
last  successful.  The 
p  esent  pepsin  chewing  gum,  the  com­
panion  of  a  nation  of  school  girls,  and 
international 
invented 
and  Miss  Horton  was  the  Edison.  Had 
she  but  known  it  her  fortune  was  made 
from  that  day.

fad,  had  been 

With  characteristic  energy,  she  lost  no 
time  in  placing  the  result  of  her  experi­
ments  before  the  man  she  worked  for. 
This  time  he  did  not laugh.  Instead,  he 
(laid  the  bright  young  woman  $50,000 
for  the  formula  and gave  her  an  interest 
n  the  business.

Never  had  an  idea  caught  the  public 
so  quickly  before.  A  nation  of  pepsin 
gum  chewers  soon  developed,  and 
it 
really  seemed  as  if  for  years  the  country 
had  waited  for  some  one’s  fertile  brain 
to  conceive  the  idea  of  such  a  chewing 
gum. 
in  real­
ity,  and  in  consequence  Miss  Horton’s 
hank  account  grew  and  grew.

It  filled  a  longfelt  want 

■ M I M M I M I M H M M H M

SALTED
PEANUTS

N E W   P R O C E SS

Guaranteed  to  keep  fresh  for 
sixty  days.  D elicious,  A p ­
petizing,  Nutritious.

1

CRYSTAL
NUTS

T H E   I D E A L   F O O D  

carefully 

Made  from  nuts,  fruits  and 
grains 
combined, 
thoroughly  cooked,  ready  to 
be  served  at  once.  Sam ples 
of  the  above  sent  free  on  ap­
plication.

Lambert Not Food Company,

Battle Creek, Mich.

n m m m wmmmm m m g m sm g m

ENLIGHTENMENT 

|

incident  to  the  “ Tw entieth  Century”   upon  wholesome  and  ¡stt 
nutritious  food  products  elicits  special  appreciation  for  our  ffl 
m atchless  quality  of  B U T T E R IN b.

>  1   >

i

4 V

f t ]

“ P U R I T Y ”   B utterine  is  better  than  butter. 
It  is  a  revela­
tion,  because  “ W e  H ave  Perfected  the  A rt  of  Butterine 
M aking  in  the  U nited  S tates.”

If  you  desire  a  “ M oney  M aker”,  and  “ Trade  W inner”  

you’ve  a  want  we  can  satisfy.

t . i i

THE  CAPITAL  CITY  DAIRY  CO.,

COLUMBUS,  OHIO 

Correspondence  solicited.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

23

GOTHAM  GOSSIP.

N ew s  Krom   th e   M e tro p o lis— In d e x   to   th e  
Special Correspondence.

M a r k e t.

New  York,  March  17— The 

coffee 
market  during  the  week  has  shown some 
improvement. 
Reports  from  Europe 
show  a  hardening  tendency  there  and, 
as  receipts  at  Rio  and  Santos  have  been 
quite  small,  the  market  here  has  shown 
a  good  degree  of  firmness  and  dealers 
are  disposed  to  regard  the  situation  as 
very  encouraging.  Rio'  No.  7  closes  at 
8 l4c  and  is  not  sold  for  less  in  any  case 
that  your  correspondent  can 
learn  of. 
Futures  rule  stronger  and  the  whole tone 
is  decidedly  firmer  than  last  week.  The 
amount  of  Brazil  coffee 
in  store  and 
afloat  now  aggregates  1,256,042  bags, 
against  1,296,202  bags  at  the  same  time 
last  year.  Sellers  of  mild  coffees  are 
not  showing  any  anxiety  to  part  with 
holdings  upon  present  values  and,  upon 
the  whole,  the  market  is  comparatively 
quiet.  Good  Cucuta  is  quotable  at  11c. 
East  India  growths  have  shown  little 
movement  and  remain  at  about  un­
changed  rates.

There 

is  simply  an  everyday  sort  of 
movement  in  the  sugar  market  and  the 
whole  trade  seems  to  be  waiting  for  the 
coming  of  spring—or  something.  Prices 
have  not  been  moved  during  the  week 
and,  as  a  rule,  dealers  seem  to  have  on 
hand  sufficient  stocks  to  meet 
immedi­
ate  demands,  so  the  outlook 
is  for  a 
very  “ m ild”   market  for  some  time  to 
come. 
In  the  stock  market  there  seems 
to  be  a  bettter  feeling  over  sugar and  an 
advance  of  a  few  points  has taken place.
Precious  little  is  doing  in the tea busi­
ness  and  quotations  have  become  some­
irregular.  Buyers  seem  to  have 
what 
fair 
supplies 
taking  only 
enough  to  keep  up  broken  assortments. 
The  auction  sale  will  take  place  Wed­
nesday  of  next  week,  but  the  offerings 
will  be  small  and  the  general  market 
will  be  slightly  affected.

and  are 

While  trading  in  rice  is  not  especial­
ly  active,  it 
is  perhaps,  all  that  could 
be  expected  at  this  time  of  year.  Prices 
are  well  sustained  and  holders  are  con­
fident  that  the  future  will  be  favorable. 
Little 
is  doing  in  foreign  rice,  which 
rules  steady  at  recent  rates.

The  spice  market  is  firm  and  quota­
tions  are  generally  too  high  to  meet  the 
approval  of  buyers.  Jobbers  report  a 
fair  trade  at  full  values.

Offerings  of  molasses  are  light.  So  is 
the  demand,  which  continues  to  be  of  a 
hand-to-mouth  character.  Prices,  how­
ever,  are  well  sustained  and  the  situa­
tion  is  not  without  some  encouragement 
that  a 
later  there  will  be  visible 
improvement.  New  Orleans  prices  are 
comparatively  above  those  of  New  York 
at  the  moment.  Good  centrifugal  mo­
lasses  is  quoted  within  the  range  of  20 
@28c ;  prime  30@37c.  Syrups  remain 
pretty  much  as  they  have  for a  month, 
although  there  seems  to  be  a  firmer 
feeling  every  day. 
fancy 
sugar,  2o@2jc.

Prime  to 

little 

Not  a  ripple  of  excitement  exists  in 
canned  goods.  Fish,  flesh  and  fowl  are 
alike  pretty  much  unheeded  if  in  cans. 
Baltimore  brokers  report  a  similar  sit­
uation  there  and,  unless  a  change  comes 
soon,  all  the  prophecies  that  have  been 
made  during  the  past  month  by  “ those 
who  are 
in  a  position  to  know”   will 
have  to  be  taken  with  a  grain  of  salt. 
Futures  are  higher,  as  a  general  thing, 
than  at  the  beginning  of  the  year  and 
yet  there  seems  to  be  a  good  deal  of 
hesitancy  on  the  part  of  buyers  to  take 
hold  with  animation,  nor  do sejlers seem 
to  be  especially  anxious,  thinking,  per­
haps,  that  sufficient  unto  the  day  is  the 
evii  thereof. 
Spot  prices  are  about 
identical  with  previous  quotations.

Lemons  are  active  and  the  sale  at 
auction  the  other  day  was  as  lively  as 
could  be  desired.  Prices showed  an  ad­
vance  of  about  25c  per  box.  Sicily fruit, 
300s,  are  worth  from  $3.50@2.40  per 
box;  360s,  $2.40(813.25.  Oranges  are 
active  and  prices 
firmly  adhered  to. 
Florida  brights  are  worth  $4@5  and  up 
to $6 or  more  for  fancy  stock.  Califor­
nia  navels,  $2.65@3-75.  Bananas  are 
firm  and  higher,  running  up  as  high  as 
$1.60  per  bunch  for  firsts.  Aspinwalls, 
g i.4o@t.45.

is  an 

There 

increasing  enquiry  for 
nearly  all  grades  of  really  desirable 
dried  fruits  and  prices  are  firmly .held at 
full  quotations.

Best  Western  creamery  butter  is  gen­
erally  held  at  25c,  although  it  is  said  a 
trifle  more  was  obtained 
in  some  in­
stances.  The  demand 
is  fairly  active 
and,  with  light  receipts,  the  situation  is 
one  of  firmness.  Thirds  to  firsts,  cream­
ery,  20@24C ;  imitations, 
i 8@22c ;  fac­
tory,  17(83200;  rolls,  i8@20c .

jobbers  report  quietude,  as  a 
rule,  and,  as  receipts  have  been  en­
larged  by  stock  coming 
from  many 
points,  the  market  is  hardly  satisfactory 
as  a  week  ago.  Fancy  small  size  is 
worth  13^0,  but  this  is  top.

Cheese 

The  demand  for  eggs  is  quite  active, 
especially  for  good  goods  and  prices  are 
firmly  maintained.  Nearby  stock  is  held 
at  about  17c,  with  best  Western 
at 
I5 @ i6c .

Beans  are  quiet,  with  choice  pea 
quotable  at  $2. io<8)2.12^ 
for  Michigan 
in  barrels  and  $2.07^  in  bags.  Choice 
medium,  $2.10;  marrow,  $2.15@2.20.
Should  Draw  the  Line  at  the  Grave. 

From the Chicago Tribune.

The  woodworkers’  unions  of  this  city 
have  appointed  a  committee  to  unionize 
the coffin factories, following the action of 
the  annual  convention  of  woodworkers 
held  recently  at  Grand  Rapids.  When 
they  have  succeeded  in  unionizing  the 
factories  they  then  propose  to  unionize 
the  grave-diggers.  When  this  is  accom­
plished  the  grave-diggers  will  refuse  to 
inter  a  body  unless  it  is  brought  to  its 
last  resting  place 
in  a  casket  or  coffin 
with  a  union  label  on  it.  To  make  their 
job  complete  they  should  unionize  the 
doctors,  druggists,  nurses,  undertakers, 
and  embalmers,  and  see  to  it  also  that 
the 
funeral  baked  meats  and  brewed 
drinks  and  the  floral  tributes  bear  the 
union  label.  Why,  indeed,  should  they 
not  go  so  far  as  to  declare  that  a  non­
union  corpse  shall  not  be  allowed  Chris­
tian  burial?

The  three  great  events  of  life  are 
birth,  marriage  and  death.  The  unions 
may  yet  control  the  environments  of  all 
three.  The  secretary  of  the  woodwork­
ers’  unions  says:  “ We  already  have 
the  union 
label  on  all  cradles  made,”  
which  makes 
it  necessary  for  the  non­
union  father  to  walk  the  floor  with  the 
non-union  babe. 
If  the  coming  genera­
tion  must  be  rocked  in  union  cradles,or 
not  at  all,  why  should  it  not  be  married 
by  a  union  priest  with  a  union  labeled 
license,  and  a  union  mandolin  band, 
arrayed  in  union  trousseau,  and  receive 
no  gifts  not  bearing  the  union  label? 
Born  with  a  union 
label  and  married 
with  a  union  label,  it  follows  that  one’s 
shroud  should  bear  the  union  label  also, 
and  that  the  grave-diggers,  with  union 
labeled  spades,  should  sternly  refuse  to 
perform  their  offices.for  any  person  not 
brought  to  them  in  a  union  casket,  with 
affidavits  setting  forth  that  he  was  at­
tended  by  union  doctors  and nurses,  that 
he  took  only  union  labeled  drugs,  and 
was  prepared  for  his  last  rest  by  union 
embalmers.  And  then 
let  the  unions 
complete  their  work  by  demanding  that 
the  stone  which  marks  his  grave  shall 
bear  the  union  label  also,  with  an  epi­
taph  approved  by  the  unions.

Having  unionized  us  all,  from  the 
cradle  to  the  grave,  will  the  unions  stop 
even  there?  Will  they  extend  their  au­
thority  over  the  resurrection  and  refuse 
to  rise  if  Gabriel  should  summon  them 
with  a  non-union  trumpet?  And  will 
they  decline  to  enjoy  the  delights  of 
paradise  because  the  angels  are  playing 
on  non-union  harps?.  The  tyrannical 
exercise  of  authority  by  the  unions  is 
getting  to  be  not  only  intolerable  but 
It  will  soon  be  difficult  fora 
ludicrous. 
man  to  live  unless  he  has  union 
labels 
upon  himself  and  all  his  belongings. 
is  dead  and  outside  of  all 
After  he 
earthly 
jurisdiction  it  is  indecorous,  as 
well  as  grewsome,to  insist  upon  plaster­
ing  his  grave  with  union  labels.  Union 
control  should  stop  with  life.

I t W orks  Both  Ways.

“ Personal  appearance  is a helpful  fac­

tor  in  business  success.”

“ Yes,  and  business  success  is  a  help­

ful  factor  in  personal  appearance.”

Crockery  and  Glassware

AKRON  STONEWARE. 

R utter.

H gal., per  doz................................... 
to 6 gal., per gal......................... 
1 
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......................  

Churns

2 
to 6 gal., per gal.......................... 
Churn Dashers, per doz..................... 

Milkpans

% gal. flat or rd. bot., per doz...........  
1 gal. flat or rd. bot.,each................  
Fine Glazed Milkpans
Vt  gal. flat or rd. bot., per doz............ 
1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each................  

Stew pans

Jugs

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

Vi gal., per doz..................................  
K gal. per  doz.................................... 
1 to 5 gal., per gal.............................. 

Tomato  Jugs

Vt gal., per doz................................... 
1  gal., each.......................................  
Corks for Vi gal., per doz...................  
Corks for  1  gal., per doz.................... 
Preserve Ja rs  and  Covers
Vt gal., stone cover, per doz............... 
1 gal., stone cover, per doz.............. 

Sealing  Wax

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

FRUIT JARS

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

CAMP  BURNERS

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

45
514
4#
£0
72
1  05
1  40
2 00
2 40

«
84

45
6%

60
t>%

85
1  10

so
40
f,

so
«
20
30

75
1  00

2

4 50
4 75
6 50
2 00
25

36
45
65
1  00
45
60
80
50

UAMP  CHIMNEYS—Seconds

Per box of 6 doz.

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

Common

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

First Quality

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

XXX  F lint

No. 0 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 
No. 1 Sim, crimp top, wrapped & lab/ 
No. 3 Sun. crimp top, wrapped & lab. 
CHIMNEYS—Pearl Top
labeled.... 
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and 
No. 2 Sun, wrapped and 
labeled.... 
No. 2 Hinge, wrapped and labeled.... 
No. 2 Sim,  “Small  Bulh,”  for  Globe
Lamps.......................................  

La Bastie

No. 1 Sun, plain bulb, per doz...........  
No. 2 Sun, plain bulb, per doz............ 
No. 1 Crimp, per doz.......................... 
No. 2 Crimp, per doz.........................  
No. 1 Lime (65c doz).......................... 
No. 2 Lime (70c  doz).........................  
No. 2 Flint (80c  doz)— .................... 

Rochester

Electric

1 45
1 54
2 25

1 60
1 60
2 45

2  10
2  15
3  16

2  75
3  75
3  »5

3 70
4 70
4  88
80

do
1 15
1 35
1 60
3 50
4 00
4 70

Four  s 
Years  1 
Ago

in 

flour 

We  secured 

the 
f t   agency  for  Ceresota 
f t   Flour.  Prior to  that 
f t   time  the  brand  was 
f t   unknown  in  this  ter-  w 
f t   ritory,  but  we  satis-  ^  
f t   fied  ourselves  that 
f t   the  flour was the best 
A   money 
could  buy, 
f t   and  we  so  guaran- 
f t   teed  it to our custom- 
f t   ers. 
(It  is  easy  for 
fa  millers  to  claim,  as 
fa  many  of them do, the 
fa  best 
the 
fa  world,  but  that  is  no 
proof of quality.) Our 
opinion  of  Ceresota 
is not  based  on  what 
th e  manufacturers 
A   say  of  it.  W e  rely 
(ft  upon  the  testimony 
f t   of  those  who  use  it 
those 
f t   rather 
f t   who  make 
it.  We 
f t   know  by  the  enor- 
f t   mous  increase  in  our 
f t   sales,  by  the  repeat- 
f t   ing  orders,  and  by 
f t   the  reports of  expert 
f t   bakers  that Ceresota 
f t   has 
extraordinary 
f t   merit.  Ceresota nev- 
f t   er comes  back  to the 
f t   grocer  who  sells  it, 
f t   because  it  never  dis- 
f t   appoints  the  house- 
f t   keeper  who  uses  it. 
f t   We  don’t  ask  you to 
f t   believe.  Give  your 
f t   customers  an  oppor- 
f t   tunity  to  try  Cere« 
f t   sota,  and 
it  will 
f t   speak  for  itself, 
f t  
If you  are not  sup-  W 
f t   plied  with  advertis-  W 
f t   ing matter,  ask for it.

than 

OIL  CANS

No. 2 Lime (70c doz).......................... 
No. 2 Flint (80c doz).......................... 
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. irdn with  spout, per doz.. 
5 gal. galv. Iron with  spout, per doz.. 
3 
5 gal. galv. Iron with faucet, per doz.. 
5 gal. Tilting cans............................... 
5 gal. galv. iron  Nacefas...................  

4 00
4 40
1  40
1  75
3 00
3 75
4 85
gal. galv. Iron with faucet, per doz..  4 25
5 50
7 25
9 00

. 

Pum p  Cans

5 gal. Rapid steady stream................  
5 gal. Eureka, non-overflow............... 
3 gal. Home Rule................................ 
5 gal. Home Rule...............................  
5 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 5 doz. each, per bbl.. 
No. 0 Tub,, bull’s eye,cases 1 doz. each 

8 60
to 50
9 95
11  28
9 50

5 25
7 50
7  50
7 50
14 00
3 75
45
45
2 00
1  25

S?  Oloey  &  Judson 
k   Grocer Company,

Western  Michigan  Distributors, 
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

2 4

HIGH  PRICES  AHEAD.

Strong Situation  in  Cheese  at  Home  and 

Abroad.

It 

About  six  weeks  remain  of  what  is 
usually  understood  as  the  trade  year  for 
cheese. 
is  true  that  there  is  often  a 
demand  for old  stock  during  May,  and 
numerous  sales  are  sometimes  made  at 
satisfactory  prices,  but  as  a  rule  most 
holders  like  to  close  out  and  start  a  new 
deal  by  May  I.

is  unusually 

But  short  as  the  remaining  season  ap­
pears  to  be  there 
is  time  enough  to 
effect  a  very  close  clearance  of  stock, 
and  at  the  highest  prices  that  the  trade 
have  known  for  some  years  past. 
It  is 
seldom  that  the  middle  of  March  shows 
such  a  strong  position  as  exists  to-day. 
Throughout  every  producing  or  con­
suming  country  of  the  world  the  stock 
of  cheese 
light,  and  the 
severity  of  the  weather  and  heavy  snow 
storms  will  prevent  the  making  of  new 
cheese  any  earlier  than  last  year,  and 
possibly  the  season  may  be  a little later.
Looking  back  to  the  first  of  January 
when  there  was  a  compilation  of  visible 
stocks  of  cheese  it  was  shown  that  the 
in  sight  was  about  153,000 
quantity 
boxes 
less  than  on  the  same  date  in 
1899.  To  what  extent  the  dealers  in  this 
country  and  England  had  stocked  up 
was  not  generally  known,  but 
it  has 
since  been  demonstrated  that  because  of 
the  high  prices  ruling  during  the  fall 
and  winter  they  did  not  buy  much 
ahead,  and  have  consequently  been  on' 
the  market  since  almost 
constantly. 
New  York  merchants  have  reported  an 
exceedingly  good  distributive 
trade 
right  along,  and  although  the  buying 
has  been  conservative  and  for  current 
use  the  consumption  has  been  remark­
ably 
free  considering  the  high  prices 
ruling.  The  upward  turn  to  values  has 
come  steadily  but  gradually,  and  the 
advances  have  not  seemed  to  check  the 
movement  to  anything 
like  the  extent 
that  it  has  in  some  former  years.

But  the 

large  and  somewhat  unex­
pected  export  demand  has  undoubtedly 
been  the  main  source  of  strength.  Brit­
ish  markets  have  been  stiffening  ever 
since  the  turn  of  the  year  and  stock  has 
sold  much  faster  than  most  operators 
had  any  thought  of.  The  reduced  hold­
ings  in  England  led  to  large  buying 
in 
Canada  until  that  country  was  nearly 
drained,  and  about  a  month  ago  atten­
tion  was  turned  this  way.  At  that  time 
a 
few  of  our  local  dealers  wanted  to 
lighten  their  stocks  somewhat  and  they 
met  shippers  on  the  basis  of  n ^ @ i2 c  
for  finest 
full  cream,  at  which  about
15,000  boxes  were  taken  in  a  very  short 
time.  Since  then  there  has been constant 
buying,  and  exporters  have  followed  the 
market  up  to  13c  for  large  sizes,  at 
which  several  fancy  parcels  have  been 
taken,  with  one  line  of  gilt  edge  qual­
ity  purchased  within  a  few  days  at  close 
to  I3 # c-  The  chief  demand,  however, 
has  been  for  underpriced  goods,  and 
stocks  of  these  are  now  nearly  ex­
hausted.  Among  the  recent  purchases 
of  these  for  export  were  various  sized 
lines  of  100 boxes  up  to  700 boxes  at  a 
cost  of,  say  n ^ @ i2 c,  with  a  little  bet­
ter grade  at 
Shippers  still
want  this  class  of  goods  as  they  are very 
If  the 
scarce  across  the  water. 
foreign 
demand  continues,  and 
it  seems  quite 
likely  to,  nothing  can. prevent  a  further 
advance  here  as  there  are  no  more 
cheese  left  in  this  country than the home 
trade  can  take  care  of.  Present  high 
prices  are  naturally  causing  a  search  for 
stock  and  the  country  is  being  scratched 
with  a  fine  tooth  comb.  We  have  seen 
some  lots  that  must  have  been  hidden

away  for  more  than  a  year ;  but  no  mat­
ter  what  the  condition  or  quality  every­
thing  sells  now.  It  is  merely  a  guess  as 
to  the  quantity 
left  in  this  city  at  the 
present  writing,  but  the  most  reliable 
estimates  are  placed  at  25,000  to  30,000 
boxes,  including  both 
large  and  small 
sizes,  with  a  very 
large  proportion  of 
the  latter.  Sales  are  being  effected  at 
13XC  for  fancy  small  white,  and  I3X@  
l3/4 c 
indications 
pointing  to  a  14c  quotation  before  the 
close  of  the  season.— N.  Y.  Produce  Re­
view.
Circular  Letter  Sent  Out  by  Bay  Cities 

colored,  with 

for 

Grocers.

Bay  City,  March  19—At  the  last  reg­
ular  meeting  of  the  Association, 
the 
following  resolutions  were  unanimously 
adopted :

Resolved— That  it  is  the  sense  of  this 
meeting  that  the  Bay  Cities  Retail  Gro­
cers’  Association  unite with the  Bay City 
Butchers’  Association  in  holding  a  mid­
summer  carnival  this  summer;  and

Resolved— That  the  present  Carnival 
Committee  of  this  Association  prepare 
and  present  at  the  next  regular  meeting 
a  final  report  of 
last  year’s  carnival ; 
and

Resolved— That  a  new  committee  be 
elected  at  the  next  regular  meeting  to 
take  the  carnival  in  hand  in conjunction 
with  a  similar  committee  of  the  Butch­
ers’  Association  to  be  appointed.

The  fact  that  the  Bay  Cities]  Retail 
Grocers’  Association  will  next winter  be 
called  upon  to  entertain  the  annual  con­
vention  of  the  Michigan  Retail  Gro­
cers’  Association,  at  which  we  hope  to 
see  some  four  or  five  hundred  represen­
tative  grocers  of  the  State,  many  of 
whom  will  be  accompanied  by 
ladies, 
will  make  it  necessary  for  our  Associa-' 
tion  to  have  a  considerable 
fund  on 
hand  at  that  time.

It 

is  our  earnest  desire  that  the  new 
committee  be  a  very  representative  and 
efficient  one,  and  to  obtain  such  an  one 
it  will  be  necessary  to  have  a  large  rep­
resentation  at  the  next  meeting  Tuesday 
evening,  March  27.

Be  sure  to  come  and  bring your neigh­
bor  grocers  with  you.  To  avoid  some 
of  the  mistakes  and  disappointments  of 
last  year’s  efforts,  we  must  get  our 
shoulders  to  the  wheel  early.  A   great 
success  was  scored 
last  year,  but  with 
the  experience  then  acquired  we  should 
be  able  to  produce  an  attraction  this 
year  that  will  eclipse  anything  of  the 
kind  ever  attempted  in  the city.  Be  sure 
to  come,  whether  a  member  of  the  A s­
sociation  or not.  E.  C.  Little,  Sec’y.

Do  Not Take  K indly  to  Trading:  Stamps.
Hastings,  March  17— We  had  a  repre­
sentative  here 
last  week  who  said  he 
was  from  Grand  Rapids,  trying  to  in­
troduce  the  trading  stamp  scheme.  He 
said  there  were  over  150  merchants  in 
Grand  Rapids  giving  out  stamps. 
I 
told  him  I  did  not  think  there  were  that 
many  fools  here  and  that  he  could  not 
find  them,  as  I  have  seen  most  of  the 
merchants  since  and  no  one  whom  I  saw 
bit  at  his  bait. 
I  told  him  that  he  must 
think  I  was  a  blank  fool  and  that  I
would  report  him  to 
the  Michigan 
Tradesman,  which  I  happened  to  be 
reading  at  the  time  he  called.  He 
asked  if  the  Tradesman  had  said  any­
thing  about  trading  stamps. 
I  told  him 
that  it  had  said  enough,  so  he  left.

Phin  Smith.

Reware  of Lowenstein  Bros.

Traverse  City,  March  17— Geo.  W. 
Lardie  has  received  a  draft  from  his  at­
torneys  in  Pittsburg  in  settlement  of  his 
claim  against  Lowenstein  Bros.,  whom 
he  caused  to  be  arrested  on  a  charge  of 
It  is  probable  that  the  case  will 
fraud. 
now  be  dropped,  as  Mr.  Lardie 
is  not 
now  likely  to  appear against  them  at  the 
trial,  inasmuch  as  he  has  received  his 
money.

The  Tradesman  has  heretofore  cau­
tioned 
its  readers  to  have  no  dealings 
with  this  house  and  is  disposed  to  re­
peat  the  warning,  because  the  partners 
appear to  be  utterly  devoid  of  integrity.

Hors«  Meat  Business  Rapidly  Increasing:.
United  States Vice-Consul  Blom writes 

from  Copenhagen  as  follows:

Several  years  ago  1  called  the  atten­
tion  of  the  Danish  dealers  in horse  meat 
to  the  American  supply.  1  have  now  to 
report  that  the  busines 
increasing 
rapidly,  and  the  meat  from  the  United 
States  gives  satisfaction.  The  consump­
tion  of  horse  meat  in  Denmark  is  com­
paratively  large.  Copenhagen  is  a  dis­
tributing  port 
for  Sweden,  Norway, 
Finland,  Russia,  and the German Baltic.

is 

The  average  self-made  man 

is  so 
proud  of  his  maker  that  he  brags  about 
him.

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

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

heat,  electric  light,  hardwood  floors. 
good  condition  and  a  good  opening.  Address 

267

276

275

I^OR  SALE,  CHEAP —ONE  FOURTEEN 
foot and one eighteen foot oak  top  counter; 
one ten foot show case; one Crandall typewriter. 
279
D.  Christie,  Muskegon,  Mich. 
F'OR  SALE—DRUG  STOCK  ABOUT  $3,000, 
within 50 miles of  Grand  Rapids.  Wiil  sell 
or rent building..  Enquire  Hazeltine  &  Perkins 
Drug Co., Grand Rapids._______________278
DRUGGIST,  MIDDLE  AGED,  LARGE  Ex­
perience,  good  references,  would  like  the 
management or position of dispenser  in  a  drug 
store with the privilege of buying if satisfactory. 
No objection  to  small town.  Address  276,  care 
Michigan Tradesman. 
|X )R   SALE—MODERN  60 BARREL  FLOUR- 
F  ing mih; steam power; located in  line  town 
Southern Michigan;  splendid  trade;  no  opposi­
tion; might consider  improved  farm  with  good 
buildiugs in exchange.  Address Box 172,  Jones- 
viile, Mich. 
Ho te l  f o r   sa l e  o r  r e n t, 
stea m 
In 
No. 272, care Michigan Tradesman. 
272
i IM)R SALE—PENTWATER DRIVING PARK 
1  and four well-bred  mares  in  fold  and  eight 
Shetland  ponies.  F.  0.  Gardner,  Pentwater, 
Mich. 
270
WANTED — POSITION  BV  DRUGGIST 
(assistant);  Scandinavian  and speaks Fin­
nish  and  Swedish  languages;  eight  years’  ex­
perience;  good  references  furnished.  Address 
269
L, Box 60, Bessemer, Mich. 
W ANTED—I WANT TO EXCHANGE SOME 
very desirable Grand Rapids city properly 
for  a  well-locatod  stock  of  hardware.  W.  H. 
Gilbert. 67 Pearl St., Grand Rapids. 
265
NEW CLOTHING  AND  MEN’S  FURNISH- 
ing  Goods  stock  for  sale  in  best  town  of
6.000 
in Northern Michigan; best location;  doing 
big  business.  Address  267,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
TX> RENT—SPACE  IN  OUR DEPARTMENT 
JL  store suitablefor millinery, ladies’ underwear 
or druggists’ sundries or shoes.  Splendid chance 
for some one.  May’s  Department  Store,  47-53 
Canal St., Grand Rapids. 
\irA N TE D —HARDWARE  STOCK,  ABOUT 
» v  $2.000. in  good  town  or  location  for  new 
stock.  Address No. 280,  care  Michigan  Trades­
man. 
280
TEWETER—GOOD  OPENING  AND  LOCA- 
f I  tion in liveliest town  in  Michigan.  Address 
at once, Dunwell, the  Druggist,  Otsego,  Mich.
281
Fr»OR SALE—NEARLY  NEW  CAR-SHAPED 
hearse made by  Rock  Falls  Manufacturing 
Co.;  also runners for same.  Will sell  at  a  bar­
262
gain.  Box 426, Shelby, Mich. 
A TTENTION!  FOR  SALE—FINEST  COR- 
ner grocery and  market  in  Chicago.  Good 
opportunity  for  the  right  man.  Big  business. 
Address A. Rueter, Garfleld and Seminary Ave.,
Chicago, 111. 
 
P A R T IE S  HAVING STOCKS OF GOODS  OF 
I   any kind, farm or city property or  manufac­
turing plants, that they wish to sell or exchange, 
write us for our free 24-page catalogue of real es­
tate and business chances.  The Derby & Choate 
Real Estate Co., Lansing, Mich. 
259
Dry goodsstore tcTlet, caro, mich-
igan, from  April  1;  best  stand  in  Tuscola 
county;  growing town;  rich country;  large beet 
sugar factory.  Enquire of Burnham &  Co., Lan­
258
sing, Mich. 
SIDE LINE SALESMAN WANTED ON COM- 
mission to carry a line of suspenders.  Spiral 
257
Manufacturing Co., Kalamazoo,  Mich. 
Fj>OR  SALE—GOOD  OPENING  FOR  PRAG 
tical dry goods and clothing man;  new stock; 
best country.  Address J. S. Bicknell, Shepherd, 
264
Mich. 
For  sale—country  store  in  south
Central Michigan  on  railroad;  stock  about 
$3,000;  a line paying business  the  year  around; 
very small expense;  will pay  40  per  cent,  clear 
profit every year;  owner going into  larger  busi­
ness;  easy terms;  a snap for  the  right  person. 
Address No. 256, care Michigan Tradesman.  256
i7<OR  SALE—WELL-ESTABLISHED  IMPLE- 
'  ment business in live town of 2,500 in  South­
ern Michigan. Clean stock, which invoices $1,000. 
Small competition.  Payment must be part cash. 
Address Lock Box 295, Otsego, Mich. 
FpOR SALE—WELL-ESTABLISHED RETAIL 
1  lumber  and  fuel  business  in  a  live  town. 
Stock inventories about $4,000.  Wm.  Sebright & 
Co., Otsego, Mich. 

249

204

266

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

251

135

245

246

243

253

QA-ACRE  FARM.  60 ACRES  IN  FRUIT;  600 
JU  apple trees, 3,000 peach trees, 150 pear trees, 
400 plum trees, 400 cherry trees,  10 acres  grapes, 
80 quinces;  fine house and barn;  214  miles north 
of  Fennville.  Will  exchange  for  dry  goods  or 
general store.  Address,  Lock  Box  27,  Allegan, 
Mich. 
Ij'OR  SALE—FLOUR  AND  FEED  MILL— 
X1  full  roller  process—in  a  splendid  location. 
Great  bargain,  easy  terms.  Address  No.  227, 
care Michigan Tradesman. 
227
¡To r  r e n t  o r  sa l e- h o te l,  w it h
r   barn in connection;  doing good  business  all 
the year;  resort region.  Address  No.  135,  care 
Michigan Tradesman. 
|?OR  SALE—FIRST  CLASS  STOCK  OF 
P   hardware;  good location in one  of  the  best 
towns  in  Michigan.  Address  Lock  Box  2395, 
Battle Creek, Mich. 
IVOR SALE—DRUG STORE IN GOOD TOWN 
T   in  Southern  Michigan;  well  stocked;  good 
paying business and reasonable rent.  Good rea­
sons for selling.  Address No. 243, care Michigan 
Tradesman. 
Ij 'OR SALE—CASH REGISTER, FIREPROOF 
l 1  safe and  computing  scales,  all  new;  a big 
bargain;  will separately.  Address  Box  363, De­
troit, Mich. 
252
A lu m in u m  comb fa cto ry  f o r  sa le—
Complete  facilities  for  manufacturing  alu­
minum comhs.  Machinery all  in  first-class  con­
dition.  For  particulars  address  Bartlett  Bros., 
Bankers, Mich. 
L 'O E   SALE—S P L E N D ID   BU SIN ESS 
F   chance.  General stock, hustling village 2,000 
people;  good farming country Central Michigan. 
Reason  for  selling,  other  business.  Address 
No. 253, care Michigan Tradesman. 
|j'OR  SALE  OR  RENT—STORE  BUILDING 
l 1  with dwelling  attached.  Good  opening  for 
a general  store.  Also large warehouse suitable 
for hay and feed  business.  For  particulars  ap­
ply to ,J. C. Benbow, Harrietta, Mich. 
|T'OR  SALE,  CHEAP — $3,000  GENERAL 
I*  stock and  building.  Address  No.  240,  care 
Michigan Tradesman. 
STORE ROOM  FOR  RENT.  PLATE GLASS 
front; furnaee  heat;  counters  and  shelving 
all in and up to date in style  and  finish;  22  feet 
wide and 90 feet long; centrally located in a good 
town for trade.  For terms address Box 37, Car- 
son City, Mich. 
<-|'0 EXCHANGE—TWO 40 ACRE FARMS  IN 
A  the Fruit Belt of Oceana county  for  a  clean 
stock of dry goods and  groceries.  Address  Box 
333, Saranac, Mich. 
Ij'OR  SALE—STOCK  OF  GROCERIES  IS 
r   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 
II. M. L., care Michigan Tradesman._____ 200
Ij'ORJ3ALE  AT  A  BARGAIN-TWO  THOU- 
r   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. GoS, Fife Lake, Mich. 
159
S'POT CASH  PAID  FOR  STOCK  OF  DRY
0   goods,  groceries or  boots  and  shoes.  Must
be cheap.  Address A. D., care Michigan Trades­
man. 
130
Ij'OR SALE OR EXCHANGE FOR GENERAL 
A  Stock  of  Merchandise—60  acre  farm,  part 
clear, architect house  and  barn;  well  watered.
1  also have two 40  acre  farms  and  one  80  acre
farm to exchange.  Address No. 12,  care  Mlchi- 
gan Tradesman._______________________ 12
rpH E   SHAFTING,  HANGERS  AND  PUL- 
X  leys formerly used  to  drive  the  Presses  of 
the Tradesman are for sale  at a  nominal  price. 
Power users making  additions  or  changes  will 
do  well  to  Investigate.  Tradesman  Company, 
Grand Rapids, Michigan.______________ 983
Mo d er n  c ity  r e sid e n c e  a n d  l a r g e
lot, with bam, for sale cheap on easy terms, 
or will exchange for  tract  of  hardwood  timber. 
Big bargain for some one.  Possession given any 
time.  Investigation  solicited.  E. A. Stowe,  100 
N. Prospect street, Grand Rapids._______993

240

208

237

238

MISCELLANEOUS.

274

SITUATION  WANTED  AS  REGISTERED 
pharmacist  or  physician  on  salary  or  per­
centage;  capable  and  best  of  references  fur­
nished.  Address No. 277, care Michigan Trades­
man_______________________________277
ANTED—SITUATION  BY  REGISTERED 
druggist.  Address No. 274, care  Michigan 
260

 
Tradesman._____________________  

t»EGISTERED  PHARMACIST  WISHES  P0- 
t   sition where there will be an  opportunity  to 
purchase  one-half  interest  or  stock  later  on. 
Address Pharmacist, care Michigan Tradesman.
273
WANTED—POSITION  IN  SHOE  STORE.
Capable of managing the same.  Manager 
of store  for  three  years  past.  A 1 references. 
Address Box 609, Marshall, Mich.________ 271
W ANTED—POSITION  AS  TYPEWRITER 
or clerk by young lady of  good  character; 
Al references furnished.  Address,  stating  sal- 
ary, Box 125, Kalkaska, Mich.___________268
A LL ROUND  Al  REGISTERED  PHARMA- 
dst wishes  position;  fifteen  years’  experi­
ence; can do buying  and  managing,  if  desired. 
Address No. 282, care Michigan Tradesman.  282
W A N TED —SITUATION  IN  WHOLESALE 
or retail  grocery;  ten  years’  experience; 
first-class references.  Address Box 714, Durand, 
Mich. 

244

WHOLESALE

SUGARS  AND  COFFEES

Get our Prices 

Before  Buying Elsewhere 
M O SE L E Y   &   S H E L B Y

No. 25 Tower But. 

GRAND RAPIDS

Travelers' Time  Tables. MERCANTILE  ASSOCIATIONS
Pere Marquette

Michigan Retail Grocers’ Association 

Railroad

Chicago.

Lv. G.Rapids, 7:10am  12:00m  4:30pm  *ll:50pm
Ar. Chicago,  1:30pm  5:00pm 10:50pm  *7:06am 
Lv. Chicago,  7:15am  12:00m  5:00pm  *11:50pm
Ar. G.Rapias, 1:25pm  5:05pm 10:55pm  *6:20am 
Traverse City, Charlevoix and’t'etoskey. 
Lv. G. Rapids, 7:30am 
Ar.TravClty, 12:40pm 
Ar.Charlev’x, 3:15pm 
Ar. Petoskey,  3:45pm 
and 10:00pm.
Lv. Grand Rapids___ 7:10am  12:05pm  5:30pm
Ar. Detroit................ 11:50am  4:05pm  10:05pm
Lv. Detroit................  8:40am  1:10pm  6:00pm
Ar. Grand Rapids__   1:30pm  5:10pm  10:45pm

Trains  arrive  from  north  at  2:40pm,  and 

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

Detroit.

Saginaw,  Alm a and  Greenville.

Lv Grand Rapids.......................   7:00ara  5:20pm
Ar Saginaw...............................ll :55am  10:16pm
Lv Saginaw.................................7:00am  4:50pm
Ar Grand Rapids....................... 11:55am  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.

Ge o. De Ha v e n , General Pass. Agent.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

President, C. E. Wa l k e r ,  Bay City;  Vice-Pres­
ident,  J.  H.  Ho p k in s,  Ypsllanti;  Secretary, 
E. A. St o w e, Grand Rapids;  Treasurer, J.  F. 
Ta t m a n , Clare.  ______

Grand  Rapids  Retail Grown’  Association 

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

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

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

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

Kalamatoo  Retail Grocers’  Association 

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

H y m a n .

Bay  Cities  Retail Grocen’  Association 

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

Lit t l e .

Muskegon  Retail  Grocers’  Association 

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

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

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

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

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

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

Saginaw  Retail Merchants’  Association 

President, M. W. Tanner;  Secretary,E. H. Mc­

Pherson;  Treasurer, R. A. Horr.
Traiene  City  Business  Men’s  Association 

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

Ho l l y ;  Treasurer,  C.  A.  Ham m o n d.

Owoiso  Business  Men’s Association 

President,  A.  D.  W h i p p l e ;  Secretary,  G.  T. 
Ca m p b e l l ;  Treasurer, W. E. Co l l in s.
Pt.  Hurons  Merchants’  and  Mannfactnren’  Association 
P e r c iv a l .

President, Ch a s.  W e l l m a n ;  Secretary,  J.  T. 

Alpena  Business  Men’s  Association 

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

Pa r t r id g e .

St.  Johns Business  Men’s  Association 

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

A.  Pe r c y ; Treasurer, Cl a r k  A. Pu t t.

Perry  Business  Men’s  Association 

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

He d d le . 

______

Grand  Haien  Retail  Merchants’  Association 

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

Ho e k s. 

______

Tale  Business  Men’s  Association 

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

Pu t n e y . 

______

Grand  Rapids  Retail  Meat  Dealers’  Association 

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

Hi l b e r ;  Treasurer, S. J. Hu f f o r d .

DON’T BUY  AN  AWNING  until  you  get 

our  prices.

January 1, 1900.

y

GRAND Rapids  ft  Indiana  Railway
Going  From
North  North

N orthern  Division. 

December  17,  1899.

Trav. City, Petoskey, Mack,  t 7:45am  t 5:15pm 
Trav.City, Petoskey, Mack,  t  2:10pm  ti0:l5pm 
Cadillac Accommodation...  t 5:25pm  110:45am 
Petoskey & Mackinaw City  til:00pm  t  6:20am 
7:45am and 2:10pm trains, parlor cars; 11:00pm 
train, sleeping car.

Southern  Division 

Going  From
South
South 

Kalamazoo,Ft. WayneCln.  t  7:10am  t 9:45pm 
Kalamazoo and Ft. Wayne,  t 2:00pm  t  2:00pm 
Kalamazoo, Ft. Wayne Cin.  * 7:00pm  * 6:46am 
Kalamazoo and  Vicksburg.  *11:30pm  * 9:10am 
7:10am  train  has  parlor  car  to  Cincinnati, 
coach to Chicago;  2:00pm train has parlor car to 
Fort Wayne;  7:00pm train has sleeper to Cincin­
nati;  11:30pm  tram,  sleeping  car  and  coach  to 
Chicago.

Chicago Trains.

T O   C H IC A G O .

F R O M   C H IC A G O

Lv.Grand  Rapids...t7  10am  t2 00pm  *11 30pm
Ar. Chicago............  2  30pm  8 45pm 
7 00am
Lv.  Chicago.............................t3 02pm  *11 32pm
Ar. Grand Rapids...................  9 45pm 
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.

Muskegon  Trains.

G O IN G   W E S T .

G O IN G   E A S T .

Lv. Grand Rapids___t7 35am  tl  35pm  t6 40pm
Ar. Muskegon............  9 00am  2  50pm  7 00pm
Sunday  train  leaves  Grand  Rapids  9:15am; 
arrives Muskegon at 10:40am.  Returning  leaves 
Muskegon5:30pm ; arrives Grand Rapids, 6:50pm.
Lv.  Muskegon........t8 10am 
tl2  15pm  t4 00pm
Ar. Grand Rapids...  9 30am 
1  30pm  5 20pm
tExcept Sunday.  *Daily.

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

Gen’l Pass’r and Ticket Agent.
Ticket Agent Union Station.
M A N K T F F   4  Northeastern Ry.
i T l i & i  1 1 0   1  IL* L4  Best route to Manistee.

Via C. & W. M. Railway.

Lv. Grand Rapids.....................  7 30am 
.........
.........
Ar. Manistee.............................12 06pm 
Lv. Manistee............................  8 40am  3 55pm
Ar. Grand  Rapids...................   2 40pm  10 00pm

T radesman 

Itemized Ledgers

SIZE—8  1-a  x   14.
TH REE  COLUMNS.

2 Quires,  160 pages........... $2  00
3 Quires, 240 pages............  2  50
4 Quires, 320 pages  ..........  3  00
5 Quires, 400 pages............  3  50
6 Quires, 480 pages...........   4  00

INVOICE  RECORD  OR  BILL  BOOK

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

Tradesman  Company

Grand Rapids,  Mich.

CHAS.  A.  COYE, 

li  Pearl  Street, Graad  Rapida,  Mich. 

Send for prices.

For  Sale Cheap

Residence property at 24  Kellogg 
street, near corner  Union  street. 
Will sell on long time  at low  rate 
of Interest.  Large lot, with barn. 
House equipped  with  water,  gas 
and all modern improvements.

E.  A.  Stowe,

Blodgett  Bnllding, 
Grand  Rapids.

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Ip
It

It  pays  any  dealer  to  have  the  rep­
utation  of  keeping  pure  goods.
It  pays  any  dealer  to  keep the S ey­
m ou r  C r a c k e r.
T here’ s  a  large  and  growing  sec­
tion  of  the  public  who  w ill  have 
the  best,  and  with  whom  the  m at­
ter  of  a  cent  or  so  a  pound  makes 
no im pression. 
It’ s not how cheap 
with  them ;  it’ s  how  good.
F o r  this  class  of  people  the  S ey­
m ou r  C r a ck er  is  made. 
Discrim inating  housewives  recog­
nize  its  superior  flavor,  purity,  de­
liciousness,  and  will  have  it.
If  you,  Mr.  D ealer,  want  the  trade 
of  particular  people,  keep  the  S ey­
m our  C r a c k e r.  Made  b y

N ational
Biscuit
Company
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

MICA 

AXLE

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

ILLUMINATING  AND 
LUBRICATING  OILS

W ATER  WHITE  HEADLIGHT  OIL  IS  THE 

STAN D AR D   THE  WORLD  O VER

H IO H B 8 T   P R IC E   P A IO   P O R   E M P T Y   C A R B O N   A N D   O A B O L IN E   B A R R E LS

STAN D AR D   OIL  CO .

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IMPORTERS  AND  JOBBERS

F or  an
Old  Tim e

Modern  Make
W orth  a  Dim e 

(no  fake) 
C IG A R

The

Advance

L E A D S

Pure,  sweet

T obacco  flavor
O nly  5  cents.
Yum !  Yum !

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T en  cent
Sm okers

N E V E R   K IC K

when  they 
can  get  the
IM P R O V E D
“ W .  H . B”

The Bradley
Cigar Co.,

Greenville, Mich.
W ill  furnish
these  brands.

OPALESCENT  ASSORTMENT GLASS  NOVELTIES. 

6 Dozen Articles—12 Kinds—for $6.00 

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A “sure cure” for dull days.  One of the foremost leaders In attractive glass novelties.  '9 ' 
•0*  Contains one-half dozen each of the twelve articles illust ated above in three assorted 
colors, crystal, blue and canary opalescent, many of which will sell readily for 25 cents.
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£   H.  LEONARD & SONS, Grand  Rapids,  Mich.  *

No. 562 Card Receiver. 
No. 563 Card Receiver. 
Klondike Card Receiver. 
Intaglio Footed Jelly. 

No. 562 Vase. 
No. 561 Vase. 
No. 521 Vase. 
Trough  Bon Bon. 

No. 562 Rose Bowls. 
Opaline Brocade Celery.
Ruby Opaline Rose Bowls. 
Pump Vase.

A bargain for 19c special sale. 

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Sealed 
Sticky

Fin Paper

Catches  the  Germ  as  well  as  the  Fly. 

Sanitary.  Used the world over.  Good profit to sellers. 

Order from Jobbers.

The  Grand  Rapids  Paper  Box  Co.

M anufacture

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

GRAND  RAPIDS PAPER BOX CO., Grand  Rapids. Mich

Isn’t It a Curious nm

That  a  man  will  cling  so 
tenaciously to a bad  habit? 
These  men  are  inspecting 
the Money Weight System. 
Have  you  looked  into  it? 
When  are  you  going  to 
throw away  that bad  habit 
—that old pound and ounce 
scale and invest in the prof­
it saving system—the Mon­

ey Weight  System.  Sit  right  down  and write  us W H E N .

THE  COMPUTING  SCALE  CO.,  Dayton,  Ohio

