Volume XVII. 
The  Rosedale  Pattern

QUAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25,1900. 

Contents  of Our

Original  Crate  Assortment

Number 566

“ You can’t  tell  it from  French  China”

of modern  pottery is from  the  renowned  English  potter,  Alfred  Meakin. 
The  grace­
ful  outlines  and  symmetrical  shapes  combine  practicability  as  well  as  sightliness. 
The design of pink blossoms  and  green  sprays  with  gray  tinted  shading  is  a  most 
effective  execution  of transfer work,  and  it  is  the  soft  rich -finish  thus  imparted  that 
at  once  distinguishes  the  Rosedale  as  the

Most Beautiful of All

Delicate  gold  tracery  lends  additional  tone  to  the  pattern.

Our new catalogue  is ready for  mailing.

Are you on our  mailing list?

30 sets Teas,  handled.................................... __per set.
4 sets Coffees, handled................................ —  i>er set.
l doz  Plates, « inch...................................... __per doz.
13 doz  Plates, 7 inch...................................... —  per doz.
5 doz  Plates, <> Inch......................................
.  .  per doz.
7 doz  Plates, 5 inch......................................
.... per doz.
l doz  Soup  Hates. 7 inch,  coupe...............
.... per doz.
G doz  Fruit Saucers. 4 inch........................
.... per doz,
14 doz  Spoon  Holders................................... __per doz.
1 doz  Oatmeals.............................................
.... per doz.
4 doz  Individual  Butters............................. __per doz.
% doz  Sugars.................................................
. . .  per doz.
54 doz  Cream s............................................... —  per doz.
l-G doz  Bread  Plates....................................... —  per doz.
lA doz  Bowls, 30s........................................... __per doz.
l-G doz  Dishes. 8 Inch.................................... —  per doz.
% doz  Dishes, 10 inch.................................. __per doz,
54 doz  Dishes, 12 inch..................................
...  per doz.
l-fi doz  Dishes, 14 inch...................................
...  per doz,
l doz  Bakers, 3 Inch.................................... __per doz.
54 doz  Bakers, 7 inch...................................... —  per doz.
54 doz  Bakers, 8 inch.................................... __per doz.
54 doz  Scollops, 7 Inch................................... __per doz,
54 doz Scollops, 8 Inch................................... —  per doz.
^■doz  Covered  Dishes, 8 inch.....................
.... per doz,
1-6 doz  Covered Casseroles, 8 inch..............
.... per doz.
5a doz  Butters, 6 inch................................... —  per doz.
54 doz  Sauce Boats......................................... __ per doz.
H doz  Pickles................................................ __per doz.
H doz  Htchers, 12s........................................ —  per doz.
54 doz  Pitchers, 24s.......................................
.... per doz.
54 doz  Pitchers, 30s........................................ __per doz,
54 doz  Htchers, 3«s....................................... —  per doz.
1 doz Oyster Bowls, 30s................................ —  per doz.

$  90
I  05
1  09
1  40
1  24
1  01
1  46
68
3 GO
1  3G
45
5 40
2  70
2 70
1  80
2 25
4  Of ;
6 75
» 46
1  58
2 70
4  05
2 70
4  05
10  80
12  15
8  10
3  GO
2 70
5  40
3  15
2  70
2  25
1  80

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

Crate and cartage__

Save an  Extra  10  per cent.

$27  00
4  20
1  69
18  98
6  20
7 07
1  46
4  08
»0
1  36
1  80
1  80
90
45
»0
38
1  35
2  25
1  58
1  58
1  35
2  02
68
2 03
3  GO
2 02
2 7«
1  20
90
1  35
78
so
1  12
1  80 
$108  38
10 83 
$ 97  55
2 50 
$100  05

by buying  in original  assortments.  Note  that  the  articles  are 
nicely proportioned as to quantity, and  many  undesirable  arti­
cles eliminated from the list.

O ur AftHortmentH are m ade up in a  w ay th a t w ill  pleaae you.

42-44  Lake  Street, 

Chicago.

r The People Want!

them.  Do you carry

Royal  Tiger  10c 
Tigerettes  5c

— A  SM O K E R ’S  SM O K E — in  stock? 
If  not  you’re 
going to lose  a  portion  of  your  cigar  trade.  The  other 
fellow has them  and  he’s  going  to  get  your  trade  if  you 
don’t carry them.  “A word to the  wise is sufficient.”
PH EL PS,  B R H 6E   &  6© .,  D etroit,  Mich.

I

P.  B.  BUSHMAN.  M anager.

“ The  Largest Cigar Dealers in the  Middle West.”

p r  y y t  r r r n r r n r Y T  y t t t w

j»  “Sunlight” 

3

Important  to  Scale  Users

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

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Walsh-De  Roo Milling Co.,  3
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Holland,  Mich. 

:JL2JLJLU.JUUlJLOJLJLO.JL9JLJUULà

For that tired, de= 
pressed and languid 
state of spring trade
We  offer  the  following 
formula,  put up  in this 
invigorating  a s s o r t ­
ment.
This  package 
is  all 
White  Semi-Porcelain 
the latest shapes, every 
piece  guaranteed. 
Shipped  from  factory.

Large  H.  &  H.  A ssortm ent.
20 sets handled Teas, fancy shape...............29
10 sets 6 inch Plates.......................................29
10 sets 7 Inch Plates.......................................33
4 sets Soup Plates.........................................39
6 nests Vegetables Dishes, G to 8.............. 51
12 nests Kound Nappies, 6 to 8.....................59
6 only Footed Bowls.....................................13
7 only Gravy Bowls..................................   .09
G each Dishes, 7 inch. .05;  9 inch, .09....
6 each Dishes, 10 inch, .17;  11 inch, ,29..
6 only Yt gallon Jugs.................................... 17
6 only 3 quart Jugs.......................................?8
4 only large Sugars.................................25
6 only Creams............................................... 09
4 only 8 inch Covered  Dishes.................. 42
4 only Cake Plates........................................ 13
6 only large Covered Chambers...... ...........39
6 only large Open Chambers.......................27
4 pairs large fancy Bowls and Pitchers..  .59

Package at cost

18  Houseman  Building, 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Hall  &  Hadden,

C itizens  P hone,  2218.

$5.80
2.90
3.30
1.56
3.06
7.08
.54
.84
2.76
1.02
1.68
1.00
.54
1.68
.52
2.34
1.62
2.36
$41.38
1.90
$43.28

Save  time  and  money  by  using  the  S t i m p s o n  
C o m p u t i n g   S c a l e ;  gives weight and  money  value  by 
the  movement of one poise.

It  has hardened steel pivoted  bearings  throughout 
the platform  construction,  which  insures  strength  and 
durability where  most needed.

Remember  our  scales  are  sold  on  easy  monthly 

payments.

W.  F.  STIMPSON  CO.,  Detroit.

OflG

ADESMAN

Volume XVII.

GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25,1900.

IM PORTANT  FEATURES.

C rockery  and  G lassw are  Q uotations.

Page.
2.  Getting:  th e   People.
3.  Unprofitable  Goods.
4.  A round  th e  State.
5.  G rand  R apids  Gossip.
T he  P roduce  M arket.
6.  T he  B uffalo  M arket.
7.  Men  o f M a rk .
8.  E d ito rial.
9.  E d ito rial.
10.  D ry  Goods.
11.  Clothing:.
12.  Shoes  and  h eath er.
14.  C lerks’  C orner.
15.  P io n eer  G rand  R apids.
16.  W om an’s  W orld.
18.  O bservations  by  a  G otham   Egg  Man,
19.  G otham   Gossip.
20.  My  Shop  G irl.
22.  H ardw are.
23.  H ard w are  P rice  C urrent.
24.  The  M eat  M arket.
25.  C om m ercial  T ravelers.
26.  D rugs  and  C hem icals.
27.  Drug:  P rice  C urrent.
28.  G rocery  P rice  C urrent.
29.  G rocery  P rice  C urrent.
30.  E xtensive  Im p ro v em en t  P lan.
31.  Something:  A bout  H inges.
32.  Low  Ceilings.

IN TERN ATIO N A L  CHARITY.

It 

from  this  country. 

The  people  of  India  are  starving  and 
it 
is  stated  that  the  Navy  Department 
will  charter  a  vessel  to  carry  a  cargo  of 
food 
is  a  good 
deed  and  only  commendation  should  be 
heard;  but  the  opportunity  has  been 
taken  to  wonder  if  this  is  the  best  thing 
to  be  done. 
Is  it  not  a  good  plan,  with 
hunger  going  on  nearer  home, to look out 
let 
first  for  these  neighbors  of  ours  and 
the  Indians  look  out  for  themselves? 
If 
England  can  afford  to  add  enormously 
to  her  debt  for  the  sake  of  carrying  war 
into  Africa  with  the  sorrow  and  the  suf­
fering  attending  it  would  it  not  be  well 
to  let  her  take  care  of  the  starving  m il­
lions  in  India?  She  has,  indeed,  if  we 
may  believe  the  report,  contributed  to 
the  relief  of  the  sufferers,  but not enough 
to  stay  starvation,  much  less  remove  it. 
Let  every  nation  take  care  of 
its  own 
and 
let  the  United  States  feed  her  own 
children,  in  Puerto  Rico,  for  instance, 
and  at  the  earliest  moment  make  an  at­
tempt  to  organize  an  international  char­
ity,  so  that  one  of  these  days  if  famine 
comes  to  this  country,  the  countries  we 
have  benefited  may  have  a  chance  to 
practice  the  “ turn  about  rule’ ’  so  com­
mendable  in  every  way.

There 

In  time  it 

is  nothing  to  be  said  against 
It  will  and 
the  proposed  organization. 
is  to 
does  commend  itself. 
it  will  take  form  and 
be  hoped  that 
itself  the  blessing  it  promises  to 
prove 
be.  A   world-wide  organization 
like 
that,  backed  by  the  nations  of  the eafth, 
would  do  much  to  strengthen  the  idea 
of  the  early coming millennium. 
In  the 
meantime,  if  the  starving  millions  are 
to  be 
It 
may  be  a  good  thing  to  talk  about  the 
unfortunates  dying 
the 
shadow  of  our  home  chimneys,  but  it 
would  be  a  much  better  thing  to  say  not 
a  word  and  instead  to  take  a  carload  or 
even  a  good-sized  market  basket  of  pro­
visions  right  over  to  the  home  sufferers 
without  a  thought  of  where  charity  be­
gins  or  ends. 
In  the  midst  of  suffering 
relief  is  the  only  commendable  thing  to 
think  of  and  he  who  parleys  then or hes­

fed  now  is  the  time  to  do  it. 

food 

for 

in 

itates  to  do  what  the  commonest  charity 
urges  will  not  be  found  at  any  time  to 
be  over  generous  with  anything  but 
advice. 
It  is  the  old  story :  The  char­
ity  that  begins  at  home  stays  there ;  so 
effectually  so  that  the  sufferer  at  home 
and  abroad  never  knows  of  its  existence 
and  dies  unaided  in  a  land  of  plenty.

It 

to  teach 

feudal  walls. 

There  is  in  the  old  charity  maxim  too 
much  of  the  old-tiine  narrowness  and 
selfishness  which  shut  themselves  up be­
hind  the  old 
is  the 
spirit  of  the  middle  ages  haunting  the 
new  order  of  things;  and  it  is  a  part  of 
the  modern  idea  which  has  come  with 
the  old  the 
Republican  life 
blessing  of  the  new. 
Ireland  was  hun­
gry  and  America  fed  her  by  the  ship­
load.  Russia  was  cursed  with  famine, 
which  the  harvest  fields  of  the  New 
World  averted. 
is  holding  out 
her  hands  for  relief  and  America  fur­
nishes  it.  Always  America,  Republican 
America,  who  stands  at  her  open  door 
as  the  bread  giver  of  the  famishing 
world  and  so  teaching  the  dead  past 
its 
living  duty  and  so  showing  that  while 
charity  does  begin  at  home  it  can  also 
and  should  extend 
its  helping  hand  if 
need  be  to  the  remotest  corner  of  the 
earth.  It  is  a  part  of  this  country’s  mis­
sion  to  be  a  dispenser  of  her  good 
things.  Let  us  hope 
interna­
tional  charity  through  her  example  may 
soon  become  an  established  fact.

India 

that 

in  consequence  of  which 

Some  years  ago  Binghamton,  N.  Y ., 
came  to  the 
front  as  a  cigar  manufac­
turing  center  of  commanding  import­
ance.  A little  later  on  the  cigarmakers’ 
union  was  permitted  to  gain  the  upper 
hand, 
the 
manufacturers  were  constantly 
inter­
rupted  with  strikes  and  unjust  demands 
by  the  walking  delegates  of  the  organ­
ization.  As  a  result  of  the  business 
being  turned  over  to  the  union,  it  has 
degenerated  to  such  small  proportions 
that  Binghamton  no  longer  cuts  any  fig­
ure  as  a  cigar  manufacturing  center;  in 
fact, 
is  seldom  mentioned  among 
cigar  dealers  because  of  the  insignifi­
cance  of  its  output,  as  compared  with 
that  of  markets  which  have  refused  to 
lend  a  willing  ear  to  the  persuasive 
blandishments  of  the  walking  delegate.

it 

The  members  of  the  Kansas  Women’s 
Press  Association,  meeting 
in  Topeka 
recently,  resolved  against  the  use  of  the 
figure  of  a  woman  in  objectionable  ad­
If  this  means  advertisements 
vertising. 
of  union  suits,  the  men  will 
join  in 
urging  the  reform.  A  woman’s  figure  in 
a union suit looks a good  deal  worse  than 
if  she  were  taken  in  "the  altogether.’ ’ 
The  picture  of  “ Faith  Clinging  to  the 
Cross”   would  pull  down  the  Christian 
religion 
if  she  were  clad  in  a  union 
suit.  The  fact  is,  women without clothes 
are  not  pretty.  Dry  goods  make  the 
womei)  handsome.  We  hope  the  Wom­
en’s  Press  Association  will  next  attack 
dry  goods  stores  showing  night  gowns 
on  female  wax  figures.

A  man  may  be  known  by  the  com­
pany  he  keeps ;  but  the  ability  of a state 
can  only  be  guessed  at  hy the delegation 
it  sends  to  Congress.

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R eferences : 

K O LB & SON are the oldest and most  ♦  
reliable  wholesale  clothing  manufactur-  J  
ers  in  Rochester, N. Y.  Originators  of  f  
the three-bntton cut-away frock—no  bet-  ♦  
ter fitting garments,  guaranteed  reason-  J  
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, until  Saturday,  April  28, 
after which time he will  be  at  our ware­
house in  Rochester,  N.  Y.  for  a  week. 
Mail orders will receive  his  personal  at­
tention.

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"Take a Receipt for " 

Everything

It  may save you a  thousand  dol­

lars, or a lawsuit, or a customer.

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

BARLOW BROS,

K.  GRAND  RAPID5,  MICHIGAN. 
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Established 1841.

r. o. dun & co.

Wlddlcomb Bld’g, Grand Rapids, Mich. 

Books arranged with trade classification oi names. 
Collections made everywhere. Write for particulars. 
— A. I. C. High Grade Coffees • -

L. P. WITZLEBEN.  flanager.

have increased coffee sales  for  hundreds 
of the  leading  retailers  throughout  the 
United  States,  why  not  for  you?  For 
particulars,  address,  -  - -   - -   - -   -

A. I. C. Coffee Co.,

21  and 23 River Street, Chicago.
Save  Trouble. 
Save  Money. 
S ave  Tim e.

Number 866

6 ENKRAI,  TR A D E  REVIEW .

in 

The  two  most  notable  incidents  in  the 
world  of  trade  since  the  last  issue  of  the 
l radesinan  are  the  reaction 
indus­
trial  stocks  and  the  decline  in  the  price 
of  certain  steel  products.  While  these 
are  two  distinct  incidents  there 
is  nat­
urally  a  relation  between  them 
in  that 
the  decline  in  stock  values  was  precip­
itated  and  probably  caused  by 
the 
course  of  the  trust  management.  The 
explanation  of  the  break  in  the  price  of 
nails  and  other steel  products  is  simply 
the  reaction  from  a  condition  in  which 
the  prices  had  been  carried  too  high. 
During  the tremenduous  demand  of  last 
year  prices  were  carried hy the premium 
on  early  delivery  far  above  their  nat­
ural  level.  This  circumstance  was,  of 
course,  taken  advantage  of  hy  the  com­
binations  to get  all  they  could  out  of  it. 
As  soon  as  it  transpired  that  the  pres­
sure  of  demand  became  more  normal 
stocks  began  to  pile  up  instead  of  sell­
ing.  To  restore  the  trade  prices  were 
lowered  to  a  parity  with  other  condi­
tions  and  present  quotations  will  yield 
abundant  returns,  as  the  cost  of  manu­
facture  did  not  warrant  any  such  ad­
vance  as  had  taken  place.  The  reac­
tion 
is  a  matter  for congratulation,  as 
it  removes  the  danger  of  more  violent 
disturbance.

it. 

is  shown 

The  general  strength  of  the  business 
situation 
in  the  fact  that  so 
great  a  reaction  in  the  average  of 
in­
dustrial  stocks  could  occur  with  so 
lit­
tle  effect  on  the  other  branches  of  trade. 
The  reaction  last  December  was  a  little 
greater,  but  that  was  classed  as  a  panic 
stocks  along 
and  took  transportation 
with 
is 
scarcely  noted  and  the  average  of  the 
transportation  list  is  nearly  maintained. 
it  happen  that  the  speculating 
Should 
is  afraid  to  return  to the  mar­
public 
ket  and  a  period  of  dullness 
in  specu­
lation  should  follow  there  need  be  no 
uneasiness  while  the  general  tide  of 
actual  business  flows  on  without  sign  of 
abatement.

I’his  time  the  reaction 

Eastern  cities  continue  to  show  a  de­
cline 
in  the  volume  of  clearing  house 
reports,  but  in  all  other  localites— West 
and  South— all  records  are  being  brok­
en.  One  explanation  of  this  condition 
is  the  great 
increase  in  manufactures 
nearer  the  markets.  During  recent 
months  the  building  up  of  new  enter­
prises 
in  the  nearer  parts  of  the  coun­
try  has  progressed  with wonderful  rapid­
ity, thus obviating  the  need  of  transport­
ing  materials  to  the  East  and  the  prod­
ucts  back  again.  The  fact  that  this  de­
velopment  has  no  apparent  effect  on  the 
tonnage  of  the  great  trunk  lines  argues 
the  general  development  of  the 
that 
country  more 
for 
the  changing  conditions.

than  compensates 

The  man  who  was  born  great  is  al 
ways  a  modest  man.  The  man  who 
achieves  greatness 
is  apt  to  have  his 
head  swelled  in  his  efforts.  The  man 
who  has  greatness  thrust  upon  him  is 
an  accident,  unclassified  and  not  reli­
able.
It 

is  bad  policy  to  stretch  the  truth. 

It  makes  the  story  look  too  thin.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

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Getting  the  People

P lain   T alk   and  Some  of  Its  A dvantages.
S.  Maudlin  &  Co.,  of Bridgman,  have 
sent  in  another  of  their big  circulars  for 
criticism.  There  are  few  of  the  regular 
contributors  to  this  column  whose  work 
has  shown  such  a  marked  improvement 
as  the  work  of  this  firm.  Their  last 
circular  is  almost  above  criticism.  It  is 
well  printed,  the  cuts  are  attractive,  the 
display  is  well  balanced  and  the  word­
ing  is  attractive  and  convincing. 
I  re­
gret  that  the  limited  space  allowed  me 
does  not  permit  of  its  reproduction. 
One  portion  will  give  the  hint  of  the

Now  is  the  time  for  laundries  to  talk  of 
the  advantages  in  their  method  of  laun­
dering  shirt  waists,  negligee  shirts  and 
the  Jike  and,  while  the  laundry  adver­
tiser’s  list  of  arguments 
is  necessarily 
limited,  he  can  at  the  same  time  make 
his  advertising  effective  by  keeping  it 
up  to  date  by  advertising  branches  of 
his  work  in  which  the  public  are 
inter­
ested.

*  *  *

The  advertisement  of  Wells  &  Mor­
two 
gan,  Lansing,  which 
inches,  single  column,  shows  how  effec­
tive  a  proper  use  of  display  can  make 
even  a  small  advertisement.  The  two 
display  lines  and  the  heavy  rule  border

occupies 

NOTICE

We want Sunday Rest

Hereafter this store will not be opened

for business  on Sunday

1— Because we firmly believe that the public can, 
without any inconvenience to themselves, buy 
enough goods to last over Sunday.
seven with our wives and children.
day of rest.

Because we want to spend one day  out  of  the 
Because we want to respect  the  Sabbath  as a 

2— 
3— 

How  You  Can  H elp  Vs.

of Sunday.

By doing your shopping on  Saturday  instead 
By patronizing those who observe Sunday.

1— 
2— 
3— By inducing others to observe the day of  rest. 
We trust our friends will  consider  this  favor­
ably and  co-operate  witli  us  in  remedying  the 
present conditions.  During  the  fruit  season  it 
may lie necessary for us  to  be  open  on  certain 
hours, but at this time it is  unnecessary  and  in­
jurious to the entire community.

Yours very truly,

S.  MAUDLIN & CO.

style  in which  the  circular  is written and 
at  the  same  time  will  mark  the  inaugu­
ration  of  a  movement  which  should  cer­
tainly  receive  cordial  support.  As  a 
general  thing,  the  American  people  do 
not  take  enough  rest.  Many  of  them  do 
not  observe  Sunday  at  all.  This  is  the 
greatest  of  mistakes.  Leaving  out  the 
religious  point  of  view  entirely,  from 
the  standpoint  of  common  sense  and 
good  health  a  man  should 
take  rest 
from  business  troubles  at  least  one  day 
in  the  week.  Rest  is  necessary  to every-, 
one  and  the  change  and  relaxation  of 
getting  out  of  harness  on  Sunday  will 
make  a  man  more  ht  for  his duties when 
he  takes  them  up  on  Monday. 
It  is  not 
so  much  the  physical  exertion  as  it  is 
the  everlasting  grind  that  wears  a  man 
out,  and  I  am  glad  to  see  that  Messrs. 
Maudlin  &  Co.  are  taking  a  decided 
stand  in  the  matter  by  asking  their  pa­
trons  to  do  their  shopping  on  Saturday 
let  them  rest  on  Sunday.  The  no­
and 
tice 
is  worded 
in  such  a  way  that  no 
one  need  take  offense  at  it  and  at  the 
it  is  thoroughly  decided  in 
same  time 
its  tone. 
I  trust  that  the  movement 
will  meet  with  every  success.

♦   *  *

The  advertisement  of  the  Electric 
Steam  Laundry,  Kalamazoo,  reproduced

Shirt W aist Beauty
Depends on the laundering.  We  have  a 
special  department  for  shirt  waists—a 
department that understands doing them 
up to look  their  best.  You  don’t  know 
what shirt waist  beauty  and  comfort  is 
unless we have done yours.  Costs a trifle 
more than the ordinary way but  is worth 
more than it costs.

Electric  Steam  Laundry,

T orry J . S liy to n ,  Prop.

117 South E dw ards Street,
B oth  Phones 286.

herewith,  is  thoroughly  good  in  appear­
ance  and  in  wording.  More  than  this, 
it  is  timely  and  the  combination  of 
its 
qualities  should  make a decided success.

A  NOTABLE  (Ameri< *an)
WATCH  MOVEMENT

Fifteen jewel watch movement in a beau 
tifully  engraved  gold-filled  case;  war­
ranted for  20 years;  open  face  or  hunt­
ing, for only

TEN  DO LLARS 

. 

. 

.

We have only a few and we don't need to 
argue  the  case  or  the  movement,  for 
either is worth wtiat we ask for  both.

W ELLS  &  MORGAN

give  a  distinctiveness and prominence to 
the  advertisement  that  is  rarely found  in 
such  small  space.  The  wording 
leaves 
nothing  to  be  desired. 
It  is  crisp,  con­
cise  and  convincing. 
It  is  easy  enough 
to  make  a  large  advertisement  stand  out 
with  prominence.  The  very  fact  of  the 
space  being  large  enables  the  large  ad­
vertisement  to  command  attention.  To 
make  a  small  advertisement  distinct 
enough  to  draw  attention and interesting 
enough  to  hold  it  is  quite  another  prob­
lem,  and  one  which  Wells  &  Morgan 
seem  to  have  solved  very  satisfactorily.

W.  S.  Hamburger.

T he A ttitu d e  o f Labor.

From the New York Commercial.

As  we  take  a  running  glance  at  the 
labor  situation,  the 
increases  of  wages 
everywhere,  either  with  or  without 
coercive  measures  on  the  part  of  the 
unions,  the  militant  champions  of  labor 
in  Chicago  and  the  Winchester-armed 
strikers  at  Croton  Dam,  we  somehow 
feel  as  if  the  poem  “ The  Man  with  the 
Hoe”   were  a  trifle  overdrawn.

in 

Nor  does 

Whatever  his  condition 

feudal 
Europe,  where  might  was  right  for cen­
turies,  and  the  man  who  was  weaker  in 
mind  or  body  was  compelled  by  the 
stronger  to  bear  the  heavier  burdens, 
even  as  the  noble  red  man  in  America 
made  his  squaw  the  drudge  of  his  w ig­
wam,  the  condition  of  “ The  Man  with 
the  Hoe”   in  Republican America to-day 
does  not  justify  poetical  effluxes  of  the 
Markham  order.
it 

justify  any  fear that  the 
growing  momentum  of  capital  (“ Gross- 
capitabsmus,”   our  German  friends  tell 
it)  will  bear  labor  down  farther and 
farther toward  absolute  slavery  until  the 
terrible  cartoons  of  the  trusts  which 
some  of  our  festive contemporaries serve 
up  daily  to  their  readers  have  some  ac­
tual  foundation  in  fact  and  capital  has 
really  become  an  antediluvian  giant, 
hairy  and  horrid,  swinging  the  club 
which  makes  the  world  afraid  and  driv­
ing  labor  before  it  like  dumb  cattle  to 
the  slaughter.

As  nearly  as  we  can  judge  from  the 
reports  which  reach  us  from  the  West, 
labor  has  become  the  terrorizer,  and  has 
so  far turned  the  tables  that  it  will  soon 
be  in  order  for  another  Markham  to  rise' 
and  write  another  poem,  not 
in  behalf 
°f 
The  Man  with  the  H oe,”   but  in 
behalf  of  “ The  Man  with  the  Money.”

A  Serious  Occasion.

Stella— I  was  awfully  nervous  when 

Jack  proposed.

Maude—Was  it  such  a  surprise?
Stella— No;  I  was  afraid  some  one 

would  come  in  and  interrupt  him.

Cannon  B reech  Screw  D oor  B ank 
Safe, with anti-concussion  dead  lock  de­
vice.

Can  Not  be  opened  by  the  jarring 

process.

A bsolute  P ro o f  against 

the  intro­

duction of L iquid or D ry explosives.
safe.

L ocking  A ction  the  quickest  of any 

D oor and J a m   perfect circular  form, 
ground  metal  to  metal  finish  and  her­
metically scaled  fit.

Not a Single  Case  on  Record where 
one  of  these  safes  lias  ever  been  bur­
glarized.

More than  twenty-five  banks  in  Cleve- 
and.  Ohio,  using  these  safes,  and  hun­
dreds of other banks from Maine  to  Cal­
ifornia testify to  the  absolute  perfection 
of the mechanism and security.

Estimates  furnished  on  ail  kinds  of 

safe and  vault work.

Office and Salesroom ,

129 Jefferson  Ave., 
D etro it, M idi.

W. M.  HULL. Manager.

How to 
Advance

We  might  proceed  to  some  length  in  ex­
plaining all  about  how  our  cigars  are  made, 
by referring to the  extreme  care  we  use  se­
curing just the proper  fillers,  with  the  right 
flavor, of the even  burn  of  the  wrapper  and 
binder.  However,  if  the  cigar  did  not  hap­
pen to suit  your  trade  it  might  just  as  well 
be made from clover hay, yet  the  quality  we 
have produced in'the

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Brokers and Jobbers, 

Vinegar 

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will  make  a  steady  customer  every  time. 
Unquestionably  the  best.  Competitors  con­
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Manufacturers of the

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are  always  fresh,  the  baking  powder 
strong,  requiring 
less,  and  the  extracts 
purer and  of better  flavor.  Careful  and 
tactful  substitution  of  such  goods  will 
give  a  valuable  good  will  and  name.—
F.  H.  Hendryx 
Journal.

in  Topeka  Merchants 

Incom petency  th e   Cause  o f  F ailure.
Incompetency  in  buying, 
in  financing,
in  getting  and  keeping  customers, 
in  selling  on  credit.

Reverse  this-  The  man  who  buys 

stocks  judiciously—

— the  kind  the  people  want 

— no  more  than  he  can  sell 
—-at  prices  which  will  give  him  a 
reasonable  profit— 
is  a  successful  buyer.
The man  who  can  make  his  capital  go 
far— get  it  back  again  with  an 
in­
crease —do
it  often  enough  and  meet 
his  payments  promptly,  is 
a  successful  financier.

The  man  who  can  get  customers  enough 

to  buy  all  he  buys, and  keep  them 
buying  from  him  and  increase  their 
number  constantly,  is  a  successful 
builder  up  of  business.

The  man  who  can  decide  what  people 

will  pay
if  trusted— how  much  to  trust  them— 
and  can  curtail  or  cut  off  when  they 
cease  to  be  good  risks,  is  a  good 

credit  man.

Many  business  men  can  do  three  or 
two  or  one  of  these  things  and  not  the 
is  appalling  to  think  how 
others. 
It 
in  business  can  do  none  of 
many  men 
them,  when  the  fact 
is  that  the  really 
successful  business  man  must  do  all  of 
them.

But  a  man  may  do  poor  buying,  poor 
financing,  poor  custom  building,  and 
yet  if  he  is  a  good  credit  man  he  may 
pull  through.

But  if  he  does  all  the  first  three  well, 
and  is  a  poor  credit  maker,  he is  almost 
sure  to  fail.

The  reason  is  that  he  loses  assets  by 
drops  when  he 
incompetent  in  the 
first  three  particulars,  where  he  losses 
by  bucketfuls  on  the  last.

is 

Your  clodhopper  running  the  country 
store  shrewdly  learns  this,  and  after  the 
first  year  carves  out  the  fellows  who 
do  not  pay,  and  by  and  by  gets  to  be 
the  money 
lender  of  the  v illag e;  or  if 
he 
is  not  quick  to  learn  it,  soon  goes 
back  to  the  plough  and  the  cow  milk- 
ng- 
The  country  fellow  has  the  instincts 

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of  business  in  him.

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No  Necessity  fo r  H a n d lin g   U nprofitable 

Goods.

Every  merchant  is  in  business  for  thé 
profit.  However  philanthropic  may  be 
his  personal  views,  his  mercantile  busi 
ness  is  expected  to  pay  him  something 
, over  the  expense. 
It’s  a  moral  ques­
tion  as  well  as  a  cold  business  fact. 
Self-preservation  makes 
it  an  absolute 
necessity.  Without  this  profit  the  cap­
ital  would  soon  be  impaired,  creditors 
would  be  clamoring  for  their money  and 
the  sheriff  would  close  the  doors.  This 
is  no  fancy  sketch ;  it  has  occurred 
in 
the  past,  in  fact, 
is  occurring  every 
day.

In  view  of  this,  it  seems  strange  that 
so  many  merchants  will  handle  goods 
that  bear them  no  profit— or  practically 
none. 
It  is  safe  to  say  I  could  step  be­
hind  the  counter of  every  one  who  reads 
these  words,  and 
lay  out  article  after 
article  on  which  the  per  cent,  of  profit 
received  does  not  equal  the  per  cent,  of 
expenses.  This 
is  especially  true  of 
the  grocer.  Almost  every  retail  gro­
cer  will  handle  many  package  goods  at 
an  actual  loss  to  himself.  When  he  does 
is  actually  putting,  not  only 
this,  he 
this  loss,  but  the  loss  of  his  own 
legiti­
into  the  pockets  of  some 
mate  profit 
large  and  rich  corporation.  He 
is  ac­
tually  paying  part of  the expenses  of  the 
manufacturer  out  of  his  own  depleted 
and  depleting  purse.

Let  me  illustrate.  The  manufacturers 
of  a  certain  breakfast  oats  advertised 
their  goods  extensively  at  io  cents  per 
package.  Merchants  felt  obliged 
to 
carry  the  oats,  as  there  was  a  demand 
for  them,  but  were  surprised  to  find  the 
oats  billed  to  them  at  $i. io  per  dozen. 
It  was  impossible  to  get  more  than  io 
cents  at  retail;  the  way  to  profit  then 
was  barred  by  the  manufacturers’  adver­
tisements.  To  handle  these  goods  then 
at  a  profit  of  9  per  cent,  was  the  only 
thing  to  do.  The  expenses  of  the  grocer 
do  not  fall  below  12  per  cent,  and  the 
majority  will  exceed  15,  and  often 
reache  18  or  20.  Every  grocer  handling 
those  oats  not  only  lost  his 
legitimate 
profit  above  expenses,  which  is  his  by 
moral  right  as  well  as  by  all  the  laws  of 
safe  and  correct  business 
life,  but  he 
was  actually  paying  from  3  to  6  per 
cent,  of  his  sales  on  these  goods  for  the 
privilege  of  handling  them.

There  are  other  package  cereals  that 
afford  the  grocer  no  better  results,  and 
certain  brands  of  baking  powder  for 
years  have  caused  the  retailer  no  end  of 
losses.  Package  teas  and  coffees  may 
be  put 
in  the  same  class.  Extracts, 
ammonia,  bluing,  etc.,  while  bringing 
a  goodly  profit,  are  not  the  profit  bring- 
ers  they  might  be.

bearing 

the  grocer’s 

The  wideawake  grocer  to-day  is  sub­
stituting  his  own  brands  for  these  non­
profit  bringers.  In  the  case  of  the  oats  a 
barrel  of  oat  flakes  (the  one  spoken  of 
above  was  nothing  else)  put  up  in  neat 
cartons, 
own 
name,  will  yield  over  100  per  cent, 
profit.  The  cartons  can  be  gotten, 
printed  with  the  grocer’s  own  label,  by 
the  hundred  at  any  box  manufactory. 
Better and  purer  baking  powder than for 
which  he  pays  $4.65  per  dozen  pound 
cans  he  can  put  up  himself  for $1.50. 
Five  cents’  worth  of  pure  hartshorn  in 
a  gallon  of  rain  water  will  retail  for  40 
cents.  This  will  cost  about  13  cents  put 
up  in  bottles  and  labeled.  Extracts  may 
be  made  at  half  the  wholesale  price.

The  merchant who sells his own brands 
advertises  his  own  name  and  place  of 
business.  He  should  put  up  pure  goods 
under  his  own  name,  guarantee  them, 
and  live  up  to  the  guarantee.  The  oats

Grand Baplds Agency,29Crescent Ave.  Detroit Agency, ill W. Lamed  St. 
Orders for yeast sent toeitherof the agencies will receive prompt attention.

I 

said  to  “ Tackbary:”  

“ John,  what 

do  you  think  of  raising  turkeys?’ ’
“ Good  business,’ ’  said  John. 

“ A 
turkey  don’t  eat  no  more’n  a  hen,  and 
you  can  get  a  dollar,  cash,  for  him.

‘ Why,  I  had  a  hen  turkey  that  come 
out  with  fourteen  chicks  in  the  spring, 
and  1  shet  ’em  all  up  together  in  a  kind 
of  a  fence  like.  But  the  chicks  all  got 
out  one  day  through  a  hole  under  the 
fence,  and. puty 'soon  the  old  hen  broke 
through,  too,  and  1  didn’t  see  any  on 
em  agin  all  summer.  But  the  day  be­
fore  Thanksgivin’  that  old  mother  bird 
come  back  with 
full-grown 
turkeys  follerin’  in  behind  her.

fourteen 

‘ Yes,  sir;  you  ken  trust  turkeys.’ ’ 
Wm.  C.  Cornwell.

E xtrem es  In  Dress.

‘ That  pretty  Miss  Reckless  is  an  ec­

centric  dresser.”

* I  should  say  she  w as!  Why,  she 
came  to  the  dub  masquerade  the  other 
evening  wearing  a  gown  that  was  cut 
rainy-day  at  both  ends!"

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Manufacturers of

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LANSING,  MICH. 

Around the State

M ovem ents  o f M erchants.

Hudson— Wm.  Friend,  baker,  has  sold 

out  to  A.  J.  Colvin.

Hemlock— R.  B.  Pettit  has  sold  his 

general  stock  to  F.  B.  Cole.

Elk  Rapids—S.  J.  Cromie  has  sold 

his  meat  market  to  P.  C.  Bailey.

Sherwood— A.  W.  Morris  has  sold  his 

dry  goods  stock  to  J.  C.  Seymour 

Woodville— T.  Harter  has  purchased 

the  grocery  stock  of  Hale  &  Stage 

Deckerville— Nathal  Purcell  continues 

the  meat  market  of  Miller  &  Purcell.

Petoskey— Verna  Myers  has purchased 
the  millinery  stock  of  Mrs.  K.  Smith.
Lowell— Campbell  &  Spraker  succeed 
Clark  &  Spraker  in  the  hardware  busi­
ness.

Carson  City— F.  S.  Caswell  has  pur­
chased  the  furniture  stock  of  G.  L. 
Shaw.

Horton— Milton  Reed  &  Son  have 
purchased  the  grocery  stock  of  John  E. 
Aldrich.

Cambria— W.  R.  McNaughton  has 
purchased  the  general  stock  of  Duguid 
E.  Clare.

Galesburg— Little  &  Durkee  succeed 
in  the  grocery  and  meat 

James  Little 
business.

Ed more— Swarts  Bros,  have  moved 
from  Blanchard  to 

their  general  stock 
this  place.

Bay  City— Sarah  C. 

(Mrs.  G.  C .) 
Beebe  succeeds  G.  C.  Beebe  in  the 
drug  business.

Evans—J.  Bird,  of  Cedar  Springs, 
general  stock  of 

has  purchased  the 
White  &  Story.

Holland— C.  D.  Smith,  of  Richland, 
will  shortly  open  a  drug  store  in  the 
Huizenga  block.

Coldwater— F.  L-  Drury  will  shortly 
in  the  grocery  and  meat  busi 

engage 
ness  at  this  place.

Charlevoix— J.  B.  Backe  succeeds  M. 
in  the  boot 

H.  (Mrs.  E.  E . )  Brooks 
and  shoe  business.

Lockwood— Charles  Carroll  and  sons, 
Don  and  O ’ Neil,  have  opened  a  general 
store  at  this  place.

South  Haven—Arthur  G.  Harrison 
has  sold  his  grocery  stock  to  Wm.  O. 
and  Walter J.  Cook.

Owosso— F.  G.  Oatman  has  purchased 
the  grocery  stock  of  W.  H.  Bell  and 
added  it  to  his  stock.

Sherman— Smalley  &  Hamptofi  have 
purchased  the  hardware  and  implement 
stock  of  Thos.  Wilson.

St.  Johns—A.  A.  Chick  has  assigned 
his  grocery  stock  to  E.  J.  Moinet.  The 
liabilities  are  about  $1,700.

Detroit— Wallace,  Bell  &  Co.,  gro­
cers,  have  dissolved  partnership,  David 
Wallace  &  Sons  succeeding.

Shelby— Edwards  &  Girard  have  pur­
chased  the  clothing,  boot  and  shoe  and 
dry  goods  stock  of  L.  D.  Allen.

E lk  Rapids— J.  D.  Slater,  of  the 
house  furnishing  and  undertaking  firm 
of  J.  W.  Slater  &  Bro.,  is  dead.

Charlotte—Fowler  &  Wilcox,  crockery 
and  bazaar  dealers,have  closed  out  their 
stock  and  dissolved  partnership.

St.  Joseph—John  Melscheimer  and 
Ted  Shear  have  engaged  in  the  men’s 
furnishing  and  dry  goods  business.

Dowagiac— W.  M.  Bryar  &  Co.  are 
successors  to  Lee  Bros.  &  Co.  as  own­
ers  of  the  White  Front  dry  goods  store.
Stanton  E.  S.  Hawley  has  merged 
his  general  merchandise  business  into  a 
stock  company  under  the  style  of  the 
E.  S.  Hawley  Co.  The  capital  stock  is 
$20,000.  The 
incorporators  are  E.  S. 
Hawley,  Clara  P.  Hawley,  F.  E.  Joy,
O.  Swanton,  all  of  Stanton.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Shaftsburg— Will  McCullough and Mr. 
Wright  have  formed  a  copartnership  to 
enSage 
in  the  grocery  business  at  this 
place.

Pine Creek— Sidney  W.  Clark has p 

chased  the  hardware,  implement,  cloth 
ing  and  grocery  stock  of  Charles 
DeBow.

I inlay  City— Malsbury  &  Odell,  gro 
cers,  have  dissolved  partnership.  The 
business  will  be  continued  by  Daniel 
Malsbury.

Olney— Smith  Bros,  have  sold  thei 

general  stock  to  Oliver  D.  Miller,  w 
has  consolidated  the  stock  with  his  gro 
eery  stock.

Cedar  Springs—L.  C.  Stage,  of  Wood 
ville,  and  E.  S.  Rose,  of  Solon,  have 
purchased  the  hardware  stock  of  S.  A 
Nickerson.

will  shortly  engage 
in  business  in  the 
McAuliffe  block,  handling  wood,  coal 
and  oil.

Cannonsburg— Dr.  Aaron  Clark  has 
sold  his  drug  stock  to  Benj.  F.  Whit­
more,  who  will  continue  the  business  at 
the  same 
location.  Mr.  Whitmore  has 
clerked  for  E.  E.  Lessiter,  at  Grattan, 
for the  past  six  months,  prior  to  which 
time  he  was 
identified  with  the  drug 
business  at  South  Haven.

Jackson— Peter  M.  Etchells,  the  Trai 
street  grocer,  has  recently  suffered  twice 
from  the  depredations  of  burglars.  Be­
ing  a  fine  mechanic,  Mr.  Etchells  made 
an  automatic  gun  to  intercept  the  next 
ntruder.  Tuesday  morning  he  was  the 
first  to  enter  the  store,  and  the  charge 
blew  his  right  hand  off  and  narrowly 
missed  entering  his  body.

Freesoil— Bennett  & 

Stephens  are 
erecting  an  addition  to  their  general 
store  building  to  be  used  as  a  hardwa 
d epartment.

Watervliet— R.  W.  Cochrane  has  sold 
his  stock  of  drugs  at  this  place  and 
closed  the  store.  He  will  join  his  fam 
ily  in  Kalamazoo.

Sawyer— W.  L.  Hogue  has  sold  out 

his  business  at  Hinchman  and  pu 
chased  a  general  stock  of  goods  and  es 
tablished  himself  at  this  place.

Traverse  City— The Grand  Union  Tea 
Co.  has  opened  a  store 
in  the  Huell 
mantel  building,  with  Mrs.  S.  Van 
Syckle,  of  Battle  Creek,  in  charge.

new  market 

O vid—Fred  Losey  has  opened  his 
in  the  Farmer  block.  W 
Johnson  occupies  the  south  portion 

of  the  block  with  his  harness  stock.

Jackson— Barnard,  Thurber  &  Fitz­
simmons  have  engaged  in  the  hardware 
business  at  123  West  Main  street.  Chas. 
E.  Barnard  was  for  many  years engaged 
by  Wells  &  Fuller  and  later  was  a  part­
ner  with  Hugh  L.  Smith.  Mr.  Thurber 
has  been  for  many  years  connected  with 
the  trade  as  traveling  representative  of
Detroit  house  and  Robert Fitzsimmons 
for  many  years  with  Barnard, 

was 
Smith  &  Co.

M annfacturinp  M atters.

Boyne  Falls— Guy  M.  Davis  has  pur­
chased  the  saw  and  shingle  mill  of  J.  J. 
Robbins.

Gladwin— The  creamery  and  cheese 
factory  at  this place was destroyed by fire 
Saturday.  The  origin  of  the  fire  is  un- 
nown.

Union  City— Clarence  Spore  is  again 
charge  of  the  news  and  feed  busi 
ness,  having  purchased  the  old  stand 
sold  to  George  Barnes  two  years  ago, 

Union  City—James  Hartford  has 
taken  a  partner 
in  the  person  of  J.  I 
Findley,  of  Concord,  who  has  purchased 
an 
in  the  meat  market  owned 
by  Hartford  &  Co.

interest 

Three  Rivers— H.  H.  Gage  has  sold 
his  interest  in  the  drug  store  to  J.  H 
King.  The  business  is  under the  man 
agement  of  W.  R.  Fraser,  who  was  for 
merly  engaged  in  the  drug  business  at 
Detroit.

Oak  Grove—John  S.  Smith,of Howard 
City,  has  engaged  in  general  trade  at 
this  place.  There 
is  a  prospect  of  a 
postoffice  being  established  here,  thus 
making  the  mail  route  direct  from  Cro­
ton  to  Newaygo.

Sault  Ste.  Marie—J.  J.  Masse,  of  De­
troit  and  A.  D.  Carpentier,  of  this  city, 
have  leased  a  portion  of  the  new  Roach 
building  and  will  open  a  drug  store 
therein  about  May  1  under  the  firm 
name  of  Masse  &  Carpentier.

Shelby— H.  T.  Compton  has  pur­
chased  the  harness  business  of  T.  T. 
Usborne  and  will  continue  the  business 
at  the  same  location.  Mr.  Usborne  will 
accept  a  position  as  traveling  sales­
man  for a  large  saddlery  house.

Fenton— H.  W.  Scott,  dealer  in  fruit, 
confectionery,  tobacco  and  cigars,  has 
opened  a  branch  store  at Linden  and  re­
moved  to  that  place  to  take  the  personal 
management  of  the  business.  His  son 
will  have  charge  of  the  store  here.

Mackinac  Island— The  dry  goods  firm 
of  Mulcrone  Bros.,  at  St.  Ignace,  will 
shortly  open 
its  doors  on  the  Island. - 
John  Mulcrone,  o  f  the  steamer  Colum­
bia,  has  retired  from  the  firm,  and  M.
F.  Mulcrone  is  now  sole  proprietor.

Albion— G.  W.  Perkins  and  F.  E. 
Steele,  of  the  firm  of  Perkins  &  Steele, 
have  dissolved  partnership.  Mr.  Steele 
will  continue  the  coal  and  feed  busi­
ness  at  the  old  stand,  and  Mr.  Perkins

Niles— Niles  bids  fair  to  secure 

large  brass  and  iron  works  which  m^y 
remove  here  from  the  East.  The  con­
cern  employs  500  men.

Allegan—James  H.  Fairfield  and  Al- 
bertus  Kolvood  have  purchased  the 
in­
terest  of  S.  A.  Guard  in  the  milling 
property  and  business  of  Guard,  Fair- 
field  &  Co.,  and  will  continue  the  busi­
ness  at  the  same  location.

'

Ann  Arbor— The  Michigan  M illing 
Co.  has  been  organized  with  a  capital 
stock  of  $225,000  to  engage  in  the  ele­
vator and  flour  business.  The  incorpo 
rators  are  H.  S.  Dean,  W.  C.  Stevens, 
Dean  and  J.  N.  Kyer,  all  of  this 

lace. 
Detroit— B.  N.  Firmen  will  start  a 
writing  ink  factory  in  Detroit.  He  has 
been  in  the  business  of  manufacturing 
writing  fluids  all  his  life,  and  his  father 
probably  the  oldest  inkmaker  in  the 
country.  Mr.  Firmen  has  been  making 
nk  in  St.  Louis  for  the  last  few  years.
Niles— This  place has recently secured 
three  factories  which  use  a  great  many 
paper  board  boxes,  and  J.  L.  Reddy,  a 
local  capitalist,  offers to  furnish  a  build 
ng  and  provide  financial  means  to  any 
man  who  will  go 
into  the  business  of 
making  paper boxes.  The  raw  material 
can  be  purchased  here.

Detroit— The Michigan Steel  & Spring 
Co.  has  commenced  the  erection  of  a 
large  factory  at  the  southwest  comer  of 
'ichigan  and  Hubbard  avenues. 
■
It 
¡11  have  a  frontage  of  425  feet  on  Hub­
bard,  and  126  feet  on  Michigan,  will  be 
constructed  of  brick  and  structural 
iron 
and  be  one  story  high. 
It  will  cost 
$25,000.  The  plans  were  prepared  by 
the  company’s  engineer,  who  will  su 
pervise  its  construction.

Three  Rivers— The  firm  of  Roberts, 
Throp  &  Co.  has  been  merged  into  a 
corporation  which  will  be  known  as  the 
Roberts  Car  Wheel  Co.  Cyrus  Roberts, 
John  A.  Throp  and  John  Cox  founded 
the  business 
in  the  ’50s.  During  his 
invented  many
lifetime,  Mr.  Roberts 

| agricultural 
implements,  which  were 
manufactured  by  the  firm.  The  stock­
holders  now  are  Horace  and  James Rob­
erts,  Gen.  Fred  H.  Case  and  his  wife, 
Carrie,  a  daughter  of  Mr.  Roberts; 
Henry  B.  Lathrop  and  James  Donovan. 
The  Donovan  hand  car is manufactured.

T he  Boys  B ehind  th e   C ounter.

Owosso— George  Post  has  taken  a  po­
sition  as  clerk  with  Mosely  &  Russell.
Ypsilanti— Clarence  Corbeil  has  en­
tered  the  employ  of  the  grocery  firm  of 
Fisk  &  Ferguson.

Sault  Ste.  Marie—James  Nichols  has 
taken  a  positon  with  the  hardware  firm 
of  Gowan  &  Pickford.

Lakeview—John  B.  King,  of  Howard 
City,  has  accepted  a  position 
in  the 
general  store  of  Eli  Lyons.  Mr.  King 
was  formerly  engaged 
in  business  at 
Howard  City,  but  more  recently  with 
Bradley  &  McGeorge  of  that  piace.

Kalamazoo— Louis  J.  Marsh  has  gone 
to  Kansas  City,  where  he  will  enter  the 
employ  of  Siebert,  Good  &  Co.,  of 
which  G.  H.  Raynor,  formerly  of  this 
city,  is  manager.  Mr.  Marsh  was  for­
merly  employed  by  the  Star  Paper  Co. 
and  was  connected  with  the  G.  H.  R ay­
nor  store  in  this  city.

Manistee-----P.  Pierson  has 

taken
charge  of  Will  A.  W aite’s  branch  gro­
cery  store,vice  Louis  Larsen.

Michigamme— It is  the  purpose  of  the 
members  of  the  newly-organized  Retail 
Clerks’  Association  to  ask  their employ­
ers  to  close  their  places  of  business  at  8 
o’clock  every  evening  except  Saturday, 
on  pay  nights  and  the  nights  preceding 
holidays.  Most  of  the  business  men 
allow  their  clerks  to  leave  the  stores  at 
8  o ’clock  now,  but  they  do  not  close 
their  places  at  that  hour.  The  clerks 
will  endeavor  to  arrange  an  agreement 
with  the  business  people  whereby  the 
key  will  be  turned 
in  the  doors  at  8 
o’clock.

H ides,  P elts,  F u rs,  Tallow   and  W ool. 
The  advance  on  hides  has  been 
checked.  The  late  take-off  sells  freely, 
as  the  quality  is  better.  Prices  are  at 
the  high  point  and  tanners  can  see  a 
margin  for  their  work  and  prefer  to 
hold  prices  where  they  are.

Pelts  and 

furs  cut  no  figure  in  the 
market,  neither  in  supply  nor  demand. 
Values  on  both  articles  are  lower.

Tallow 

is  again  active  and  in  good 
demand  at  %c  per  pound  advance.  The 
supply  in  sight  is  not sufficient, although 
an  advance  may  pull  out  a  hidden  sup­
ply  from  cellars.

Wool  has  settled lower in price.  There 
is  an  undercurrent  among  dealers  that 
wool  will  be  higher,  but  Eastern  mar 
kets  are  decidedly  quiet  and 
lower. 
The  May  London  sales  are  expected  to 
show  a  decline.  Holders  are  reluctant 
sellers  on  the  decline  and  the  demand is 
small.  It  js  a  time  of waiting  while  the 
new  clip  is  being  offered,  which  must 
open  at  a  lower  price  than  that  offered 
the  first  of  the  month.  The  extreme 
high  price  anticipated  is  not  likely  to 
be  realized. 

Wm.  T.  Hess.

In nocents  A broad.

They  stood  looking  in  the  window  of 
a  rubber  goods  store  on  Monroe  street 
and  from  their  general  appearance  one 
could  tell  that  they  hailed  from  Mill 
Creek.
,,  " S ila s ,”   she  said,  clutching  his  arm, 
‘ ‘ there  is  something  1  have  been  want­
ing  this 
long  tim e,”   and  she  pointed 
to  a  sign  which  read : 
‘ ‘ Rubber  garden 
” 1  think  I’ll  go  in 
hose  sold  here.”  
and  get  a  pair  or  two,  for  when  I  weed 
the  flower-beds 
in  the  spring  they’ l’ 
keep  my  ankles  from  getting  wet.”  

Then,  taking  a  tighter  grip  on  her 
led  him  into  the 

partner’s  arm,  she 
store.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

5

Grand  Rapids  Gossip

T he  P ro d ace  M arket.

Apples— Russets  command  $4.25  and 
Baldwins  fetch  $4.50  per  bbl.  Ben 
Davis  are  in  fair  supply  at  $4.25.  The 
quality  is  good,  considering  the  season.
Asparagus— Home  grown  commands 

$1.50  per  doz.  bunches.

Bagas—$1.35  per  3  bu.  bbl.
Bananas— Continue  strong  and  there 
has  been  a  slight  advance.  Some  of  the 
goods  now  coming  in  are  in  bad  condi­
tion,  but  as  stocks  are  so 
light,  they 
are  readily  sold.  The  demand  is  far  in 
excess  of  the 
Receipts  of 
bananas  in  New  York  for  the  week  end­
ing  Thursday  were  33,000  bunches, 
against  74,000  bunches  for  the  corres­
ponding  week  last  year.

supply. 

Beets—$1.25  per  3  bu.  bbl.  Choice 

stock  is  scarce.

increasing 

Butter  -Supplies  of  both  dairy  and 
creamery  grades  are 
and 
prices  are  softening.  Factory  creamery 
has  declined  to  18c  and  is  in a little bet­
ter  demand.  Choice  dairy  in  rolls  and 
crocks  commands  14c.  The  quality  has 
improved  very  materially  during  the 
past  week.

Cabbage  California 

is  strong  at  $6 
per  crate.  ¡Most  of  the  sales  are  for  half 
crates,  which  fetch  $3.  Home  grown  is 
very  scarce  at  $i@ i.io   per  doz.

California  Fruits— Grape  fruit,  $6  per 
box;  tangerines,  $3.25@3.5o  per  half 
box.

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

commands 

$1.10  per  doz.

Cocoanuts—$3.25  per  sack  of  100.
Cranberries—Jerseys  command  $io@ 

11  per bbl.

Dressed  Calves— Fancy,  7>^c;  com­

mon,  6@ 7c  per  lb.

Dressed  Poultry  The  demand  for all 
kinds  of  poultry  continues  extremely 
active  and  there  is  very  little  stock  in 
sight  to  satisfy 
it.  All  signs  point  to 
higher  prices.  Chickens  command  i i @ 
12)4c.  Fowls  are  in  active  demand  at 
io@ iic .  Ducks  are  eagerly  taken  at  11 
@i2c.  Geese  are  not  wanted  at  any 
price.  Turkeys  are  in  good  demand  at 
n c   for  No.  2  and  I2j£@i4c  for  No.  1.

Eggs— Despite  their  positive  state­
ments  that  they  would  not  pay  over  8c 
for  Michigan  eggs,  storage  buyers  ap­
pear  to  be  determined  to  obtain  April 
stock,  even  although  they  are  compelled 
to  pay  2@3C  per  doz.  more  than  they 
insisted  must  be  the  price  earlier  in  the 
season.  Grand  Rapids  buyers  are  pay­
ing  ioc  f.  o.  b.  and  ioj^c.  del.  for really 
desirable  stock  and  Yz@ ic 
for 
small  eggs  from  the  colony.

Grapes— Malagas,  $7.50^9  per bbl.
Green  Stuff  Grand  Rapids  forcing 
lettuce,  14® 15c.  Onions,  15c  per  doz. 
Parsley,  3c  per  doz.  Pieplant,  6c  per 
lb.  Radishes,  20c  per  doz.  or  $1.25  per 
bu.  box.  Spinach,  65c  per  bu.

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

less 

Honey— Dark 
at  13c.  Amber 
14c.  White 
market.

is  in  moderate  demand 
in  fair  demand  at 
is 
is  practically  out  of  the 

Lemons— The  warmer  weather  now 
prevailing  is  very  beneficial  to the green 
fruit  trade  and  lemons  have  advanced 
io@ i5c  per  box  during  the  past  week.
Live  Poultry— In  active  demand  at 
firm  prices.  Broilers  weighing  1%  to  2 
lbs.  command  25c  per  lb.  Squabs,  $2 
per  doz.  Pigeons  are  strong  at  60c. 
Chickens,  ioc.  Fowls,  9c.  Ducks,  9c 
for  young.  Turkeys,  n c   for  hens  and 
capons  and  9c  for  gobblers.

Maple  Sugar— 8c  for  imitation  and  9 

®ioc  for  genuine.

Maple  Syrup—Selling  at  8o@90C  per 

gal.,  as  to  quantity  ana  quality.

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

Onions— Home  grown  command  65® 

75c,  according  to  quality.

Oranges— California  navels,  ^3@3-25 

per  box.

2.25  per  doz.

Parsnips—$1.25  per  3  bu.  bbl.
Pineapples— Jamaica  command  $2@ 

Potatoes— The market  is  stronger,  due

to  the  poor  roads  and  the  inability  of 
growers  to  market  their  supplies.  The 
price  hovers  round  30c  in  carlots.  Ber­
mudas  command  $2.25  per  bu.

clover,  good 

Seeds— Mammoth  clover, 

recleaned, 
$5^5.25;  medium 
to 
choice,  $4.75@5.25;  Alsyke  clover,$6.50 
@7 ;  Alfalfa  clover,  $6.50^7.25;  crim ­
son  clover,  $4®4.50;  timothy,  prime  to 
choice,  $i.2o@ i.4o;  field  peas,  white, 
75@goc;  red  top,  prime  to  choice,  60c 
@$1;  red  top,  clean  from  chaff,  $1.50 
@ 1.75;  orchard  grass,  $ i.io@ i.3o;  blue 
grass,  $¡@1.40.

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

Strawberries— The  floods  in  the  South 
have  delayed  shipments  to  that  extent 
that  receipts  are  coming  in  rotten  or  so 
nearly  so  as  to  be  unsalable.  Shipments 
will  not  reach  normal  conditions  until 
the  latter  part  of  the  week.

Sweet  Potatoes— Kiln  dried  Jerseys 

command  $1.75  per  bu.  box.

Tallow— Common,  4^0  per  lb.  ;  ma­

chinery  grade,  5/4@5%c-

Tomatoes— Florida 
$4  per  6 basket  crate.

Turnips— 75c  per bbl.
Wax  Beans— $5.50  per  bu.  box.

stock  commands 

T he  G rain  M arket.

Wheat,  owing  to  the  very  fine growing 
weather,  has  sold  off  some 
for  futures. 
Cash  property  has  not  felt  the decline  as 
much.  When  any 
is  offered  they  ask 
the  same  price  as  they  did a month  ago. 
The  situation  has  not  changed  any  as 
regards  stocks  abroad  and  at  home.  Re­
ceipts 
in  the  Northwest,  where  most  of 
the  wheat  comes  from,  are  growing less, 
so  that  the  visible  begins to decrease.  It 
showed  a  decrease  of  about 
500,000 
bushels;  not  as  much  as  it  ought  to  be, 
but  then  it  will  be  more  later  on.  Re­
ceipts  in  the  winter  wheat  section  are 
very  small,  so  much  so  that  many  in­
terior  mills  are  shut  down  for the  want 
of 
it,  which  makes  them  bid  up  on 
wheat,  and  so  it  comes  that  farmers  to­
day  are  getting  about  Detroit  or  Toledo 
prices,  which 
the  proper 
thing,  but  then  it  helps  the  farmer.

is  hardly 

Corn  has  been  somewhat  irregular 

in 
price,  not  so  much  on  account  of  its 
real  values  as  the  whims  of  the  traders. 
May  com  sold  yesterday  at  38j^c  and 
to-day  at  39>^c.  The  cold  fact  is  corn 
is  scarce  and  wanted,  so  this  low  price 
will  not  hold.

Oats  are  very  steady.  No  change 
whatever  to  report.  Farmers  are  seed­
ing  more  ground  to  oats  than  last  year. 
Should  the  harvest  be  good  prices  may 
come  down  later.
Nothing  doing 

in  rye,  but  prices  are 

steady.

Beans have  shown  some  little  strength 
and  $2.08  is  asked,  while  October deliv­
ery  is  $i@ i. 10.

full  capacity. 

Flour  remains  steady.  The  mills  are 
running 
The  present 
problem  seems  to  be  where  the  wheat  is 
to  come  from  for  the  next  three  months 
to  keep  going  at  the  present rate.  While 
the  demand  for  mill  feed  is  good,  it  can 
not  be  said  to  be  as  pressing  as  it  has 
been  for  the  past  three months.  The  fine 
pasturage  accounts  for 
this.  Bran  is 
quoted  at  $15  per  ton;  middlings  $16® 
16.50,  according  to  quality.

Receipts  have  been  about  of  the  aver­
age,  being:  wheat,  50  cars;  corn,  14 
cars;  oats, 
15  cars;  flour,  1  car;  hay, 
7  cars;  straw,  2  cars.

Mills  are  paying  68c  for  wheat.

C.  G.  A.  Voigt.

Henry  Eaton,  druggist  at  565  Cherry 
street,  has  engaged  in  the  manufacture 
and  sale  of  a 
line  of  secret  remedies 
under  the  style  of  the  North  American 
Novelty  Co.

For  G illies’  N.  Y. 

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

T he  G rocery  M arket.

It 

is  ready 

it  seems  to  be 

Sugar— Raw  sugars are lower and  have 
declined  %c,  making  the  price  of  96 
test  centrifugals  now  \}ic.  The 
deg. 
refined  market  is  very  quiet,  with  only 
a  moderate  demand,  as  jobbers  seem  to 
be  well  supplied  for the  present.
Canned  Goods— The  market 

shows 
practically  no  change,  compared  with 
previous  reports.  The demand,  such  as 
it  is,  is  nearly  all  for  small  lots required 
for  immediate  consumption.  Few deal­
ers  have  the  courage  to  buy  any  consid­
erable  quantity 
for  future  needs.  The 
entire  market  can  be  characterized  as 
adopted  a  waiting  attitude, 
having 
which 
impossible  to 
break.  If,later,  there  is  any  increase  in 
demand,  particularly  if  it  comes  before 
for  delivery, 
the  fall  pack 
dealers,  as  a  whole,  will  welcome 
it 
with  more  pleasure  than  any  similar  re­
vival  for  some  time.  Jobbers and  brok­
ers  who  have  been  years  in  this  busi­
ness say they  never  saw  trade  duller  and 
more  unsatisfactory. 
The  conditions 
are  all  the  more  discouraging,  inasmuch 
as  they  follow  so  closely  upon  the 
fail­
ure  to  sell  the  usual  quantity  of  futures, 
a  trade  on  which  a  considerable  number 
of  packers  in  the  Eastern  section  of  the 
country  depend  for  their  business.  The 
present  dulness  and  the  previous  slow­
ness  of  futures  have  caused  some  un­
certainty  about  opening  some  canner­
ies  this  season,  particularly  those  which 
pack  largely  of  tomatoes  or  other  vege­
tables  which  are  generally  dependent 
on  future  sales.  The  heavy  carry-over 
of  tomatoes,  which,  by  the  way,  is  re­
ported  heavier  than  was  at  first  deemed 
possible,  has  a  tendency  to  discourage 
liberal  preparations 
for  packing  this 
season. 
is  probably  true,  howevei, 
that  there  will  be  enough  packed  to 
supply  all requirements,  including  what 
will  be  carried  over.  Whether  the  re­
ported  2,000,000  cases  will  be  disposed 
of  before  the  season  opens  remains  to 
be  determined,  but,  according  to  the 
views  of  some  of  the  most  prominent 
holders,  it  is  scarcely  possible.  A  pe­
culiar  feature  of  the  market,  when  the 
extreme  dulness 
is  understood,  is  the 
firmness  with  which  all  varieties  are 
held.  Holdings  are  small  and  chiefly  in 
second  hands,  otherwise  it  might  not  be 
possible 
this  attitude.  I 
There 
is  little  demand,  except  for  con­
sumptive  requirements,  and  those  are 
iarge  at  this  season  as  they  are 
not  as 
earlier  or 
in 
plenty,  principally  of  good  quality, 
cause  reduction  in  the  trade  in  canned 
sorts,  while  berries  and  other  varieties 
of  domestic  fruits  are  preferred  to  the 
canned  varieties.  With  the  arrival  of 
peas  and  pineapples  and  the  beginning 
of  the  canning  season  for  1900  will come 
a  better  tone  to  the  general  market  as  it 
will  give  the  packers  something  to  cal­
culate  upon  besides  the  absence  of  fu­
ture  contracts.  Corn  has  been  slightly 
more  active  of  late,  but  no  change 
in 
price  has  occurred.  Spot  stocks  are  held 
at  the  old  figures  and  futures  are  selling 
in  a  moderate  way  at  about  opening fig­
ures  for  all  grades.  There  has  been 
some  additional  business  in  peas,  par­
ticularly  the  cheaper  grades.  Holders 
are  anxious  to  close  out  what  they  have 
before  the  new  season  opens,  when  fresh 
packed  goods  will  have  the  preference, 
whatever  the  quality.  The  present  pros­
pects  are  for  a  full  average  pack  of peas 
this  season.  Tomatoes  are  selling  at 
about  previous  prices,  although  trade 
has  picked  up  slightly  within  a  week. 
The  season  on  the  Columbia  River  will 
open  in  a  few  days.  From  all  advices

later.  Fresh  vegetables 

to  maintain 

looks  as 

at  hand,  it 
if  the  output  of 
chinook  will  be  considerably  short  of 
1899,  but  no  definite  idea  can  be  formed 
as  to  the  output  of bluebacks.  The price 
of  fish  has  been  fixed  by  the  fishermen’s 
union  at  6  cents  a  pound.  This  means 
an  increased  cost  over  last  year's  open­
ing  of  22@25c  per  dozen,  as  fish,  cans, 
etc.,  cost  more  this  year.

to 

Dried  Fruits-  Dried  fruit  of  all  kinds 
is in  an  abnormal  state of dulness.  The 
jobber,  as  well  as  the  retailer,  seems 
afraid  to  buy  further  than  absolute daily 
needs,  and  even  then  is  reluctant  to  pay 
current  prices.  This  state  of  affairs  is 
liable  to  continue  until  the  warm weath­
er  begins,  when  a  general  revival  is  ex­
pected.  Prices  are  so 
low  that  sellers 
are 
losing  money  and  only  a  desire  to 
unburden  themselves  of  accumulated 
stocks  makes  them  offer at  quotations. 
The  news  of  a  larger  crop  of  raisins 
in 
California  than  last  year  makes  buyers 
wary  and  conservative 
in  their  pur­
chases,  ant^  although they are  convinced 
that  present  prices  are 
low,  they  are 
hopeful  of  further  concessions  from  sell­
ers  before 
they  venture  to  speculate. 
The  damage  caused  by  frost  appears  to 
have  been  great  exaggerated.  All  vari­
eties  of  fruit  trees  in  California  are  so 
full  of  blossoms  that  even  if  two-thirds 
lost,  the  remainder  is  more 
should  be 
than  sufficient 
for  an  abundant  crop. 
The  demand  for  prunes  is  light,  but,  as 
stocks  on  hand  are  much  reduced,  sell­
ers  are  not  anxious  to  push  sales  at  a 
It  is  claimed  that  there  will 
sacrifice. 
be  from 
160,000,000 
180,000,000 
pounds  of  prunes  in  California,  and  the 
Oregon  crop  will  also  be  a  big  one. 
They  are  working  hard  to  form  a  com­
pany  to  control  the  output,  but  if  there 
is  anything  like  this  quantity,  they  will 
sell  ] ire tty  low.  There  is  an  active  de­
mand  for  currants  and  it  is  thought  that 
prices  will  not  go  any  lower.  Sellers 
losing  heavily  at  present  figures, 
are 
which  are  below  cost. 
It  is  reported 
that  the  growing  crop  of  Smyrna  figs 
has  been 
injured  by  cold  weather,  but 
how  seriously  it  is  too  early  to state pos­
itively.  Experienced  observers  on  the 
spot  estimate  an  output  of  60,000  loads, 
or  about  a  normal  crop,  compared  with 
48,000  loads  in  1899  and  13,000  loads  in 
1898.  Dates  which  heretofoie  have  been 
limited  to  small  orders  for 
immediate 
consumption  are  showing  more activity, 
but  there  is  as  yet  no  change 
in  [»rice. 
Peaches  and  a [tricots  are  dull.  Stocks 
are  small  and  prices  are  firmly  main­
tained.

increase 

Rice  -There 

is  a  very  good  demand 
for  rice  at  firm  prices.  Stocks  of  the 
better  grades  are  decreasing  rapidly 
and,  with  an 
in  the  general 
demand,  prices  are  expected  to  advance 
from  Y@ /4 C 
in  the  near  future.  The 
in  stocks  of  the  better grades 
decrease 
is  caused  not  only  by  the 
increased 
home  consumption,  but also  by  the  large 
sales  to  the  Government  for  shipment  to 
Puerto  Rico.

Tea  There 

is  nothing  of  particular 
importance  in  the  tea  market.  The  de­
mand 
is  very  good  at  about  previous 
prices.

Molasses  and  Syrups-  Supplies  of  all 
grades  of  molasses  are  small  and  trade 
is  somewhat  restricted  by  the  high 
Instead  of  the  ex­
prices  now  ruling. 
pected  advance 
in  com  syrup,  it  has 
declined  ij£c  per  gallon,  with  a  corres­
ponding  decline  on  cases.

Nuts 

It  is  reported  that  the principal 
stocks  of  filberts  have  been  sold  during 
the  past  week  at  a  considerable  ad­
vance.  The  peanut  market 
is  weak, 
and  prices  have  declined  '/ic.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

well,  but  demand 
per  bbl. 
for  the 
offered.

is 
light  at $i.75@2 
best.  No  Southern

B eecher’s  H ard   L uck.

From the Ladies’ Home Journal.

6

The  Buffalo  Market

A ccurate  Index  o f  th e   P rin cip al  Staples 

H andled.

Beans—-We  have  had  an  active  trade 
for  the  past  few  days  and  supplies  are 
cleaning  up  with  more 
to 
prices.  Receipts,  too,  are  expected  to 
be 
light  and  we  can  only  see  a  firmer 
outlook  under  present conditions.  Mar­
rows,  $2.10^:2.30;  mediums,  $2@2.2o; 
pea,  $2@2.25  for good  to  fancy.

strength 

Butter— A  point  has  been  reached  at 
which  some  business  can  be  done  in 
fancy  creamery  and  dairy,  and  it  is pos­
sible  the 
low  point  has  been  reached, 
unless  receipts  should  increase  consid­
erably  over  present  expectations.  We 
are  done  with  renovated,  packing  stock 
and  other  stuff;  also  rolls  are  out  of sea­
son,  and  only  the  best  grades  will  sell 
now  as  prices  are  low  enough  to  suit  all 
classes  of  buyers.  Creamery,  Western 
fancy,  sold  regularly  at  18c;  State,  17c; 
dairy,  i6@I7c,  and lower grades between 
I4(&!i5c;  crocks,  I4@i6c.

Cheese—-Easy,  light  demand  and  sup­
liberal.  Fancy  full  cream, 
i i @ i i ^ c ; 

ply  fairly 
small, 
skims,  neglected,  2@8c  per  lb.

fair  to  good, 

12c; 

Eggs— There  were  buyers  of 

fancy 
cold  storage  stock  at  12c,  but  offerings 
were  not  of  that  class  as  a rule  and  local 
consumptive  business  was  considerably 
less  than 
last  week,  which  left  quite  a 
good  supply  on  hand.  That  class  sold 
at  n ^ c   and  occasionally  iij^c,  but  the 
tendency  seems  to  be  upwards  on  de­
sirable  goods  and  we  can  see  nothing  in 
the  position  at  the  moment  to  expect 
anything  but  an  advance.  Duck  eggs 
scarce  and  strong  at  20@22c  per  doz.

Dressed  •  Poultry-----Really  nothing
offered  the  past  week  and  with  an  ac­
tive  demand  at 
the  closing:  13(65140 
for  chickens  and  I2.@i3c  for  fowl  were 
possible  figures.  Broilers  sold  at  i8@ 
2oc,and for  something fancy  it would  not 
In 
be  difficult  to  exceed  that  price. 
fact,  a  higher  market  for  anything 
is 
almost  certain  this  week.

fancy  stock 

Live  Poultry— Scarce and high.  Fowls 
sold  at  n @ i2 c;  chickens,  n ^ ig j^ ^ c ; 
I5@i6c.  No  prospects  of 
springers, 
an  oversupply  or  any  decline  for  the 
next  few  weeks.
Apples— Some 

is  still 
is  easily  reached 
offered  and  $4.5o@5 
on  that  quality.  No.  1 
is  moving  off 
readily  at  $3.5°@4  and  there  is  an  easy 
sale  for  lower  grades  at $2.5o@3 per bbl.
Strawberries— The  light  supply  at  the 
close  of  last  week  sent  prices  up to $2.75 
for 
cases,  24  pints,  and  not 
enough  offered  at  that  price  to  meet  the 
demand.  Weather  has  been  decidedly 
favorable  for  this  fruit.

fancy 

Oranges— Firm er;  good  demand.  Na­

vels,  $3@3-50;  seedlings,  $2.5o@2.75. 

Lemons—Quiet  at  $2.75@3.5o. 
Bananas— Strong  with  increasing  de­
mand  and  light  receipts;  $2.5o@3  per 
bunch.

Cranberries— Dull  and  easy  at  $2.75 

@3.25  per  crate.

$I2@ 22  per  100.

Pineapples—Fair  supply;  steady  at 

Potatoes— Market  higher. 

Farmers 
are  busy  and  the  local  supply  is  light  at 
the  moment.  As  was  previously  men­
tioned,  these  times  of  scarcity  will  con­
tinue  for  a  week  or  two  and  shipments 
to  this  market  will  pay  the  best  prices 
on  the  remaining  crop.  There 
is  a 
heavy  supply  held  back  and  everyone 
knows  that  farmers  would  rather  plant 
than  sell  when  the  weather 
is  right* 
and  this  is  causing  the  present strength. 
Fancy  white  stock  sold  at  50^520;  fair 
to  choice,  46@48c  per  bushel  in  round 
lots.

New  Potatoes— Neglected  at  $4@7  per 

bbl.

per  bbl.

Sweet  Potatoes— Dull 

Onions— The  market 

at  $2.75@3- 75
is 
lower;  re­
ceipts 
liberal  and  demand  only  fair. 
Yellow  fancy  sold  at  6o@7oc;  white,  60 
@ 75c;  red,  i>5@7oc per bushel.  Sprouted 
stock  at  any  price.

Celery— Home  grown  about  done  for; 
best  lots  4o@5oc  per  doz;  Southern  sold 
at  5oc@$i  per  doz.,  according  to  qual­
ity.

Cabbage— Market  cleaned  up  fairly

Lettuce— Scarce  and  higher  under  ac­
tive  demand. 
Fancy  heads,  6o@75c 
per  doz.  ;  leaf  stock,  per  box,  3  to  4 
doz.,  75c@ $i.25.

Radishes— Heavy  supply  of  boxes 
from  Southern  points  and  demand  good 
at  75c@$i.  Home  grown  scarce  at i8@ 
20c  per  doz.  bunches.

Pieplant— Heavy  supply  but  with  a 
better  enquiry.  Market  firm  for  fancy 
at  8o@qoc  per  doz.  bunches.  Boxes  of 
Southern  sold  at  $2@2.25.

supply; 

firm  at 

Cucumbers— Light 

75c@$i.4o  per  doz.

Spinach— Fancy  scarce;  $i.25@i.50 

per  bbl.

bunches.

per bbl.

Vegetable  Oysters—25@4oc  per  doz. 

Horseradish— Scarce.  No.  1,  $7 (Si 8 

Watercress— i8@25c per  doz.  bunches.
Mushrooms— Scarce  at  40@50c  per  lb.
Maple  Sugar— Fancy  light  sugar  sold 
at  io@giic;  dark,  5@8c  per  lb.  Syrup, 
fancy  new,  80(^850  for  full  gallon  cans 
short  measure,  6o@65C.

Dried  Fruits— Quiet.  Apples,  evapo 
rated,6^@7c ;  sun  dried,  4@5.5^c;  rasp­
berries,  I3@i4c  per  lb.

Country  Dressed  Meats— No  hogs 
offered.  Calves,  6(r$8c  per  lb.  ;  spring 
lambs,  io@ i2c  per  lb.

Straw— Good 

firm. 
Wheat  and  oat,  $8@g;  rye,  $9@io  per 
ton  baled.

demand 

Hay— Light  receipts.  Prime,  $I5@ 
15.50;  No.  1,  $I4@I4.50;  No.  2,  $I2@I3 
per ton.

and 

A  H en’»  Preference  for  Colors.

Elkhart,  Ind.,  April  21— Hundreds  of 
Elkhart  shoppers have  been  amused  and 
considerably  interested  every  afternoon 
in  an  exhibition  which  re­
this  week 
vealed  a  decided  distinction 
in  regard 
to  color  by  a  fussy  hen,  which,  with  her 
brood,  has  been  displayed 
in  a  drug­
gist’s  window  as  an  Easter  egg  dye 
advertisement.

The  druggist  dyed  the  twenty  chicks, 
some  red,  some  brown,  blue,  violet, 
green  and  yellow. 
The  hen,  a  big 
Plymouth  Rock,  evinces  a  remarkably 
violent  dislike  for  the  little  fellows  who 
wear  the  red  and  brown  and  fights  them 
from  her.  She  regards  the  others  with 
varying  degrees  of  favor  and  is  particu­
larly  fond  of  the  violet-hued  offspring, 
although  it  would  he  natural  to  suppose 
that  the  yellow  ones,  being  nearer  the 
natural  color,  would  meet  with  the  most 
pronounced  favor.  As  night  comes  on 
and  the  difference  in  colors becomes less 
noticeable,the hen’s  antipathy  gradually 
lessens,  and  by  the  time  the  electric 
lights  are  turned  on  she  has  all  of  the 
twenty  snuggled  under  her  wings.  Day­
light,  however,  brings  on  a  renewal  of 
the  manifestations.

T he  F u tu re   o f P o u ltry .

From Farm and Home.

What the  future of  the poultry  industry 
will  bring  forth  is  purely  problematical, 
yet  in  the  face  of  the  past,  and  summa­
rizing  the  results  and  comparing  the  to­
tals  with  those  of  all  other  branches  of 
commercial  pursuits,  we  can  only  fore­
see  an  era  of  prolonged  prosperity— an 
era  wherein  one  may  hope  to  realize 
an  assured  return  for  the  outlay  of  capi­
tal  and  labor.

The  magnitude  of the  poultry 

indus­
try  of  to-day  exceeds  that  of  almost  any 
other  product  of  the  soil,  and  with  an 
increasing  demand  there 
is  no  reason 
why  the  next  few  years  should  not  be  a 
period  of  the  greatest  prosperity  for 
those  who  engage  in  poultry  raising  on 
a  business  basis— one  that  requires  cap­
ital,  brains  and  enterprise— exactly  as 
would  the  business  of  the  merchant  who 
sells  the  commodities  that  the  public 
consume. 

>

The  shape  of  the  egg  has  nothing  to 
do  with  the  life  germ  unless  the  egg  is 
deformed.  The  shape  of  the  egg  con­
forms  with  the  shape  of  the ovary,  hence 
we have long  eggs,  short  eggs  and  round 
eggs.  The  air cell  and  germ  are  in  the 
broad  end  and  if  this  part is smooth  and 
even  and  if  the  germ  is fertilized'that  is 
all  that  is  necessary  so far as shape;goes.

“ One  day  in  a  town  where  he  was  to 
lecture  Henry  Ward  Beecher  went 
into 
a  barber  shop  to  be  shaved.  The  bar­
ber,  not  knowing  him,  asked 
him 
whether  he  was  going  to  hear  Beecher 
lecture.

“ I  guess  so,”   was  the  reply.
“ W ell,”   continued  the  barber,  “ if 
you  haven’t  got  a  ticket  you  can’t  get 
one.  They’ re  all  sold,  and  you’ ll  have 
to  stand. ’ ’
“ That’s 

luck,”   said  Mr. 
just  my 
“ I  always  did  have  to  stand 

Beecher. 
when  I’ve  heard  that  man  talk.”

D.  Boosing

General

Commission Merchant

S P E C IA L T IE S

Butter  Eggs

Poultry  Beans

I  will  buy all the  Fresh  E ggs  I 
can get f  o. b.  your station  in  free 
cases at  io# c.

Dairy butter  is  selling  at  from 

16 to  17c.
If our market is  satisfactory,  ship.

Correspondence solicited. 

References:  Bank of Buffalo and  Bun’s 

and Bradstreet’s Agencies.

154 Michigan Street,

Buffalo, New York.

®®®®@®®®®®®®®®®®<i®®®® o®@®l

To  My  Many  Friends 

and  Patrons

For fourteen  years and  until  his  re­
tirement from  business,  I  was  head 
salesman  for  W.  C.  Dennison  at  his 
repository  on  S.  Division  Street. 
I 
have now associated  myself with  the 
Arthur Wood  Carriage  Co.,  as  sales­
man  at  their  repository  and  factory, 
33-37  Market Street,  where  I  shall  be 
pleased  to  meet  you  My  aim  has 
been,  is and  I  hope  always will  be, to 
represent good,  reliable  firms,  and  I 
believe you  will agree  with  me  that  I 
have  been  exceptionally  successful. 
When you are  in  the market for goods 
in  the  reliable line  I  shall  be  pleased 
to have you give me a  call.

Respectfully yours,,

N.  W .  B ark er.

MACKEY  dtWILLIAMS.

Dealers in

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

6 2   W.  M A R K E T  6,  125  M IC H IG A N   S T S . 

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

From now forward ship dairy butter packed in tubs,  30,  40  and  60  lb.  weight.  Dressed 
Inquiry  °  strong demand.  Fresh  eggs  wanted  for  storage.  Frncy  creamery  in  good

Be feren ces :  The City National Bank, Buffalo:  Berlin Heights Banking Co 
Berlin Heights,  Ohio:  National  Shoe  &  Leather  Bank,  New 
York;  Dun & Co. and Bradstreet Agencies.

Members of Produce Exchange. 

Established 1887.  Long Distance Phone Seneca 1081.

WE  BUY  EGGS

111 -2 C   D E L IV E R E D   B U FFA LO  

We  will  pay  n j^ c  for all  the  No.  1  fresh  laid 
livered  f.  o.  b.  Buffalo  we  can  buy  during 
ending April  28. 
If desired  cases  returned  at 
expense.  Write or wire  us.

i
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)

Eggs  de-  i  
the  week  ^ 
shipper’s  1

G LE A S O N   &   LA N S IN G ,

150  M ICHIGAN  S T .. 

B U FFA LO ,  N.  Y .

References, Merchants Bank, Buffalo, N. Y., Bradstreet or Dun Commercial Agency.

A L L   G R O C E R S

Who  desire  to  give  their  customers  the  best vinegar on  the 
market  will  give  them  R e d   S t a r   B r a n d   Cider  Vinegar. 
These goods  stand  for  p u r it y   and  are  the  best  on  the  market. 
We give  a  Guarantee  Bond  to  every  customer.  Your  order 
solicited.

THE  LEROUX  CIDER  &  VINEGAR  CO.,

Toledo,  Ohio.

Tradesman Company 

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M EN   O F   M A R K .

Jam e s  C ourt,  Senior  M em ber  o f  J .  C ourt 

&  Son.

James  Court,  only  son  of  James Court, 
was  born  November  26,  1839,  in  Berk­
shire,  England,  within  sight  of  Windsor 
Castle,  where  English  royalty  has  dwelt 
for  many  years.  His  father  died  when 
he  was  4  years  old  and  the  stern  side 
of  life  was  forced  upon  him  in  his  early 
years.  His  school  days  were  limited 
and  his  education  has  been  obtained 
in 
the  practical  training  school  of  life. 
While  a  young  man  he  was  employed  as 
a  gentleman’s 
livery  servant  by  Sir 
Robert  Palmer,  a member  of  Parliament 
from  Berkshire,  where  he  learned  much 
of  high  life  in  England.  He  was  sub­
sequently 
in  the  employ  of  Sir  John 
Watters,  formerly the  largest  stockholder 
of  the  London  Times.  Mr.  Court’s  de­
scription  of  Sir  John’s  estate  is  very  in­
teresting. 
is  called  Bearwood  Park 
four  miles  wi-de  by  eight  and 
and 
one-half  miles  long. 
It  contains  an  ar­

is 

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tificial 
lake,  covering  about  60  acres, 
and  water 
is  conducted  through  a  pipe 
from  the 
lake  to  a  large  70  foot  water 
wheel,  which 
furnishes  power  for  the 
dairy  machinery,  feed  cutters,  station­
ary  threshing  machines,  sawmill  and 
wood  working  machinery.  The  park  is 
set  with  trees  brought  from  many  parts 
of  the  world.  The  mansion  and  out­
buildings  cover  four  or  five  acres  and 
300  men  were  employed 
for  three  years 
to  construct  them.  The  dining  room  is 
125  feet  long.  The  different  rooms  are 
finished 
from 
all  parts  of  the  world.  Some  of  the 
picture  frames  are  made  of  sliced  wal­
nuts  inlaid  and  highly  polished.  There 
are  seven 
lodges  and  a  church  on  the 
estate,  a  village  called  Sinsom,  and  Sir 
John  paid  for  the  services  of  a  minister 
to  teach  his  people.  Hundreds  of  peo­
ple  were  employed  by  him,  and  were 
well  provided  for.

in  many  kinds  of  wood 

In  the  spring  preceding  the  election 
of  James  Buchanan,  Mr.  Court  and  his 
mother  boarded  a  cotton  ship,  and  in 
seven  weeks  and  four  days 
reached 
New  Orleans.  They  took  a  boat  up  the 
Mississippi  River  and  reached  Still­
water,  Minn.,  May  1.  There  Mr.  Court 
worked 
in  a  hotel  as  cook  and  waiter 
for  some  time.  As  the  Indians  at  that 
time  were  very  numerous  in  that  part  of 
the  country,  raids  and  massacres  fre­
quently  occurring,  he  decided  to  send 
his  mother to  Augusta,  Mich.,  where  he 
followed  her  in  the  fall.  He  had  saved, 
barely  money  enough  for  the  trip  and, 
as  the  boat  was  making  its  last  run  .for 
the  season,  its  owners  took  advantage 
of  the  opportunity  and  charged  double

it 

fare.  As  a  result,  he  reached  Chicago 
penniless.  There  he  sold  his  overcoat 
for  50  cents, which  paid  his  fare  to  Lake 
Station.  At  that  place  he  met  a  stock 
drover,  whom  he  assisted  and  who  paid 
his  fare  to  Niles,  which  he  reached  at  9 
o’clock  at  night,  with  only  10  cents  in 
his  pocket.  With  this  sum  he  purchased 
a  pie  to  appease  his  hunger,  as  he  had 
had  nothing  to  eat for twenty-four hours. 
He  intended  to  sleep  in  the  depot,  but 
was  driven  out  and  was  forced  to  beg  a 
night’s  lodging.  He  finally  succeeded 
in  finding  a  place  where  the  lady  of  the 
house  kindly  offered  to  put  a  featherbed 
on  six  chairs 
in  her  parlor,  which  he 
accepted  with  alacrity.  The  next  morn­
ing  he  hired  out  to  a  milk  man  to  ped­
dle  milk  and,  at  the  end  of  the  week, 
received  the  munificent  sum  of  $2, 
which  proved  to  be  counterfeit  when  he 
tendered 
in  exchange  for  a  ticket  to 
Augusta.  Th'e  milk  man  he  worked  for 
refused  to  give  him  a  good §2 bill unless 
he  promised  on  his  word  of  honor  to  re­
turn  to  work  for  him.  After  reaching 
Augusta  he  hired  out  to  do  wood  chop­
ping  and  after  some  time  he  purchased 
farm  of  Horace  Peck,  of  Kalamazoo, 
a 
near  Augusta,  which  he  tilled 
for  sev­
eral  years. 
in  the 
purchase  and  shipping  of  butter,  eggs 
and  poultry.  This  business  has  stead­
ily  increased  until  he  now  has  the  best 
equipped  establishments 
in  the  State, 
his  anhual  sales  averaging from $175,000 
to $200,000.  He  sold  one  man  $30,000 
worth  of  poultry  during  the  period  from 
Thanksgiving  to  Christmas  time.

In  1879  he  engaged 

Mr.  Court  was  married  Oct.  14,  1862, 
to  Miss  Selena  Williams,  of  Augusta. 
The  have  had  six  children, 
three  of 
living— Frank  W.  and 
whom  are  still 
Reuben,  who  are  engaged 
in  business 
with  their  father,  and  a  daughter.

Mr.  Court 

is  a  regular  attendant  of 
the  Presbyterian  church.  He is  a  mem­
ber  of  the  Board  of  Aldermen  of  Mar­
shall  and  is  very  active in advancing the 
interests  of  his  town.

Mr.  Court  and  his  two  sons  are  in 
business  together  at  Marshall.  They 
also  have  branch  houses  at  Allegan  and 
Bellevue.  They  have  men  employed 
buying  and  handling  poultry,  eggs,  but­
ter,  etc.  They  have  succeeded  by  hard 
work  and  twenty  years’  of experience  in 
building  up  a 
large  poultry  and  egg 
business  with  Eastern  parties.

in  the  Adirondacks 

S hort  Crop  o f M aple  S ugar  in   New  Y ork.
Lowville,  N.  Y .,  April  21— Hon.  M. 
W.  Van  Amber  is  at  present  taking  his 
annual  outing 
in  the  Adirondacks,  su­
perintending  the  manufacture  of  maple 
sugar.  He  has  5,800  trees,  which  were 
tapped  two  weeks  ago  and  upon  the  run 
of  sap  thus  far  secured  Mr.  Van  Amber 
bases  the  prediction  that  not  to  exceed 
one  and  a  half  pounds  of  sugar to  the 
tree  will  be manufactured this season.  A 
fair  yield 
is  two 
pounds  to  the  tree,  while on the uplands, 
where  the  orchards  are  less  dense,  from 
two  and  a  half  to  three  pounds  to  the 
tree  should  be  made.  But  in  all  locali­
ties  the  make  will  not  come  up  to  an 
average  yield  this  year.  Why  this  is 
so 
is  not  satisfactorily  explained,  but 
a  great  many  are  of  the  opinion  that the 
presence  of  worms  the  past  two  years 
is  the  direct  cause  of  the  shortage. 
Three  years  ago  an  average  yield  of 
sugar  was  secured,  but  the  past  two 
years  has  been  below  an  average.  Mr. 
Van  Amber  scoffs  at  the  report  that  the 
worms  have  thus  early  made'  their  ap­
pearance  this  spring,  but  there  are 
others  who  assert  that  they  have  found 
them  in  large  numbers.  From  the  5,800 
trees  Mr.  Van  Amber  has  thus  far  made 
between  4,000  and  5,000  pounds  of 
sugar.  There  are  several  persons  who 
have  equally  as  large  number  of  trees 
in  the  Adirondacks, from  which  they  are 
gathering  sap  and  making  sugar,  hut 
all  agree  that  the  crop  is  to  be  a  light 
one.  Lowville  shippers  continue to  pay 
from  8  to 9  Cents  per  pound,  the  latter 
price,  however,  for only  fancy  lots.

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LA15ASTINE 
is  the  original  and 
only durable  wall  coating,  entirely 
different 
from  all  kalsomines. 
Ready for use in  white  or  fourteen 
beautiful 
tints  by  adding  cold 
water.
ADIES  naturally  prefer  ALA- 
BASTINE 
for  walls  and  ceil­
ings,  because 
is  pure,  clean, 
durable.  Put  up  in  dry  powdered 
form. In  five-pound  packages, with 
full  directions.
LL  kalsomines.  are  cheap,  tem­
porary  preparations  made 
from 
whiting,  chalks,  clays,  etc.,  and 
stuck  on  the  walls  with  decaying 
animal  glue.  ALA BAHTINE 
is 
not a  kalsomlne
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.
IN  OFFERING  something 
ND 
he  has  bought  cheap  and  tries 
to  sell  on  ALABASTINE’S  de­
mands,  he  may  not  realize  the 
damage you will suffer  by  a  kalso- 
mine on your walls.
ENSIBLE  dealers  will  not  buy  a 
lawsuit.  Dealers  risk  one  by  sell­
ing  and  consumers  by  using  in­
fringement.  Alabastine  Co.  own 
right to  make  wall  coating  to  mix 
with cold water.
HE  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

should 

avoid 

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.
STABLISHE1)  In  favor.  Shun  all 
imitations.  Ask  paint  dealer  or 
druggist  for 
tint  card.  Write 
us  for 
interesting  booklet,  free. 
ALABASTINE CO., Grand Rapids, 
Mich.

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

National
Biscuit
Company
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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.

Y U S E A   M A N TLE S.

W e  are  the  distributing 
agents  for  this  part  of  the 
State  for  the  Mantle  that 
is  making such  a stir in  the 
world.

It gives  100 candle power, 
is  made  of  a  little  coarser 
mesh  and  is  more  durable.

Sells  for 50 cents.
Will  outwear  three  ordi­
nary  mantles  and  gives 
more light.

G R A N D   R A P ID S   G AS  L IG H T   CO., 

Grand  Rapids,  M ich.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

DESMAN

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No paper discontinued, except  at  the  option 
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Sample copies sent free to any address.

Entered at the Grand  Bapids  Post  Office  as 

Second Class mail  matter.

W hen w ritin g   to  any  o f  o u r  A dvertisers 
please  say  th a t  you  saw  th e   advertise 
m en t  in  th e  M ichigan Tradesm an.
E.  A.  STO W E,  E d it o r .

WEDNESDAY,  •  -  APRIL 25.1900.

ST A T E   OF  M ICH IG A N )  SS- 

County  of  Kent 

)

John  DeBoer,  being  duly  sworn,  de 

poses  and  says  as  follows :

I  am  pressman 

in  the  office  of  the 
Tradesman  Company  and have charge of 
the  presses  and  folding  machine  in  that 
establishment. 
I  printed  and  folded 
7,ooo  copies of the issue of April  18,1900, 
and  saw  the  edition  mailed  in  the  usua 
manner.  And  further  deponent  saith 
not. 
Sworn  and  subscribed  before  me,  ; 
notary  public 
in  and  for said  county 
this  twenty-one  day  of  April,  1900.

John  DeBoer.

Notary  Public  in  and  for  Kent  County 

Hemw  B.  Fairchild, 

Mich.

A  N EW   ROAD.

Were  the  sea  land  and  steamers  carts 
there  would  be  already  a  well-traveled 
road  between  New  York  and  South  Af 
rica.  As  these  columns  predicted  some 
time  ago,  so  long  as  the  war  there  goes 
on,  and 
irrespective  of  which  side  i 
victorious,  the  trade  between  that  coun 
try  and  this  will  increase,  and  when  the 
conflict  is  over  will  continue  to  go  on. 
To-day  England  is  buying  enormously 
provisions  for  her  troops.  Among  these 
there 
is  a  noticeable  demand  for  pota 
toes,  and  this  has  been  so  great  as  to 
suggest  a  rise  in  the  price  of  the  tuber 
in  the  American  market.  A  guess  based 
upon  a  fair  judgment  has  already  been 
made  to  the  effect  that  when  the  year  is 
over  England  will  pay  to  the  United 
States  a  provision  bill  of  $30,000,000.

Promptly  to  the 

Among  the  items especially noticeable 
are  hay  and  horses.  Within  the  last  six 
weeks  something  over  3,000  tons  of  hay 
have  been  delivered— and  thereby hangs 
a  ta le:  The  British  war  department, 
because  the  hay  is  to  be  transported  bv 
mules,  has  ordered  that  the  hay  should 
be  baled  100  pounds  to  the  bale.  This 
allows  two  bales  to  an  animal. 
It  was 
found,  however,  that  to  carry  out  the 
especially 
order  required  machinery 
constructed. 
front 
stepped  the  Yankee  inventor  and  forth­
with  has  appeared  a  contrivance  which, 
attached  to  a  hay-compressing machine, 
accomplishes  its  purpose  so  accurately 
that  all  parties are  satisfied.  Better  than 
that, 
the  new  method  of  baling  has 
brought  out  the  fact  that  a  little  less 
than  one-half  the  space  for  storage  in 
steamers  is  required,  and so  one-half  the 
number  of  steamers  for  carrying  the 
hay,  an  arrangement  which  saves  in 
freight  enough  to  pay  for  the baling  and 
leaves  a  pleasing  margin  besides.  The 
whole  amount  of  the  article  so  far  sold 
can  not  be  accurately determined.  From 
American  ports  more  than  300,000  tons 
have  already  been  exported  and  Canada

almost  equals  the  same  amount,  so  that 
during  the  year  it  is  safe  to  say  in  hay 
alone  the  Western  Continent will  furnish 
1,000,000 tons  of  hay  for  the  South  Afri 
can  war.

The  traffic  in horses  and other anima 
can  be  inferred  from  this  amount  of  ex 
ported  fodder. 
It  has  been  estimated 
that 
if  steamers  enough  could  be  ob 
tained  there  would  be  a  line  of  them 
between  New  York  and  South  Africa 
twenty-four  hours  apart  and  that  fifty 
of  these  vessels  would  be 
freighted 
with  horses,  50,000  of  which  are  soon  to 
be  shipped  from  this  country,  at  the  av 
erage  price  of  $100  a  horse.  The  mule 
in  spite  of  the  part  it  played  in  an early 
British  defeat,  is  not  despised.  From 
the  ports  of  the  South  35,000  mules,  for 
which  something  over  $2,500,000  has 
been  paid,  have been  shipped  and  if  the 
war  goes  on 
thi 
amount  will  be  materially  increased.

this  number  and 

It  had  been 

The  effect  upon  the  market  of  the 
filling  of  these  orders  has  already  been 
felt. 
feared  that  the  in 
creasing  use  of  electricity  had  impaired 
the  breeding  of  and  the  trade  in  the 
horse,  and 
the  West  especially, 
where  the  business  was  extensively  car 
ried  on,  there  was  no  inducement  to  gr 
nto  it.  This  sudden  call,  however,  has 
changed  the  condition  of  things  and  the 
exports  promise  to  exceed anything  ever 
before  reached  in  this  line.

in 

As  a  beginning  of  what  promises  to 
be  a  new  field  of  export  the  commercia 
aspect  of  our  relations  with  the  Dark 
Continent  is  certainly  promising.  The 
road,  a  new  one,  is  opened.  Trade  has 
been  established  and  the  goods,  by  the 
steamerful,  are  already  on  the  way.  For 
numerous  reasons  the  opened  market 
remain  ours.  For  many  years  to 
come  the  Boers will  not  encourage  trade 
with  England.  Without  the  prejudice 
sure  to  exist  the  English  import  would 
ave 
little  show  with  the  Boers;  with 
that  prejudice,  and  the  acknowledged 
superiority  of  the  American  production, 
the  trade  with  that  country will continue 
to  increase  and  when  peace  has  been 
secured  will  develop  in  wider  and  more 
¡verging  lines.  At  all  events  the  new 
road 
to  South  Africa  will  continue 
open.  The  American  product  will  con- 
nue  to  gladden  the  South  African  con­
sumer and  when  the  war  is  over,  while 
daily  steamer  may  not  ply  between 
these  distant  ports, 
the  increased  trade 
will  go  on  and  the  goods,  carried,  as 
they  doubtless  will  be,  in  American 
hips,  will  strengthen  the  commercial 
relations  between  the  two  continents,  to 
the  great  advantage  of  both.

It  Admiral  Dewey  has  one  thing  to be 
for,  more  than  another,  it  is 
thankful 
that  the  stand 
from  which  he  will  re­
view  the  seven  mile  procession  at  Chi­
cago  next  Tuesday  was  not  reared  by 
the  hands  of  union  labor— hands  reek­
ing  with  the  blood  of  innocent  men  who 
nsist  on  exercising  their  God-given 
ght  to 
live  and  breathe  and  support 
themselves  and  families  by  honest  toil. 
Admiral  Dewey  has  made  several  very 
serious  mistakes  since  he  became  a  de­
votee  at  the  shrine  of  an  ambitious 
daughter  of  Eve,  but  his  visit  to  Chi­
cago 
is  not  likely  to  be  marked  by  the 
unfortunate  features  which  marred  Pres- 
dent  M cK inley’s  visit  to  Chicago  last 
October,  when  the  official  head  of'the 
nation  accepted  an  honorary  member­
ship 
in  a  trades  union  and  disgraced 
mself  and  dishonored  his  office  by 
attending  a  meeting  of  trade  unionists 
who  have  conceived  and  executed  some 
the  most  infamous  crimes  ever  com­

mitted  in  this  country.

A LL  WOOD.

Humanity  hates  to  be  cheated.  N 
realm and  no  inhabitant  thereof have yet 
been  found  where  or  with  whom  deceit 
meets  with  favor.  To  be  attracted  b, 
the  pleasing,  to  become 
its  delighted 
owner  and  then  to  find  out  that  with 
our supposed  experience  and  keenness 
we  have  been  unmistakably 
imposed 
upon  goes  against  the  grain.  The  one 
condition  worse  than  this  exists  when, 
acknowledging 
ignorance  and  trusting 
im plicitly  upon  the  man  of  whom  we 
buy,  we  find  the  goods  not  only  not 
yard  wide  but  not  anywhere  near  the 
“ all  wool”   strenuously  declared  by  the 
cheating  salesman.  The  man  who  goes 
into  a  horse  trade  with  hi s  eyes  wide 
open  knows  what  to  expect. 
It  is  cheat 
against  cheat  and  he  can  afford  to  laugh 
i s ;  but  the 
no  matter  what  the  outcome 
great  trading  world 
is  not  engaged  in 
that  sort  of  traffic;  when  it  buys  shoddy 
it  wants  shoddy  and  when  it  buys  a 
wool,  all  wool 
it  wants  and  the  cheat 
will  find  out  his  mistake  when he  suffers 
the  unavoidable  penalty  of  his  mean 
ness.

A  much  needed  machine  as  a  com 
plement  to  the  wheel  has  been  lately 
put  upon  the  market. 
It  was  just  the 
thing  and  went  straight  to  the  cyclist’ 
heart.  The  price  was  especially  rea 
sonable  and  the  invention  found  ready 
buyers.  Then  came  the  reaction,  the 
thing  would  not  work,  and  the  refuse 
barrel  and  the  ash-heap  are  bright  with 
the 
invention  used  once  and  with  im 
precations  thrown  away.

The  illustration,  in  itself  of  little  im 
portance,  will  serve  to  show  what  has 
not  been  the  cause  of  the  enormous 
in­
crease  which  has  turned  towards  the 
United  States  the 
trade  of  the  whole 
“ It  was  the  guns  in  the  bay  of 
earth. 
M anila,”   says  one. 
“ When  they  found 
out we can  and  will  fight  they  wanted  to 
trade  with  us.”   “ It  is something new, ’ 
“ Whenthe  novelty  wears 
says  another. 
off  that  will  end 
it.”   They  are  both 
wrong,  as  well  as  the  wiseacre  who 
ffirms  that 
is  only  a  boom  in  the 
commercial  world  soon  to  be  over  and 
leave  trade  as  flat  as  it  found 
soon  to 
it. 
“ The  fact  is  the  American  trader 
entered  foreign  ports  in  the  wake  of  the 
gunboat  and  made 
the  most  of  his 
chance. ’ ’

it 

It 

is  not  the  fact,  however.  Admit 
that  the  gunboat  battered  down the doors 
of  trade 
in  the  East.  Grant  that  the 
American  trader  took  advantage  of  the 
opportunity  and  did  his  best  to  push 
sales  in  the  foreign  markets.  He  found 
the  merchants  of  other  countries  ahead 
of  him.  He  found  their  goods  in  the 
markets  and  in  the  hands  of  their  cus­
tomers.  He 
found  the  omnipresent 
drummer  chuckling  over  his  supposed 
'¡scomfiture,  but— and  here is  where  the 
whole  matter  hinges— the  American 
could  see  that  he  had  the  best  goods. 
What 
if  the  market  was  crowded?  So 
much  the  better  chance  to  make  a  dis­
if  the 
play  of  something  new.  What 
goods  already 
introduced  had 
found 
favor?  Where  was  the  market  and 
where  were  the  people  unwilling  to  be 
benefited  when  it  could  be  done  without 
So  the  American  bales  were 
cost? 
opened.  So  the 
foreign  eyes  were  at­
tracted.  So  the  conscious  finger  of  the 
curious  customer  came  in  contact  with 
the  Western  fabric.  A  purchase  was 
the  result  and  the  end  was  not  yet.

It  soon  came,  however. 

In  spite  oft 
the  reputation  of  the  Yankee,  the  goods 
— and  not  the  buyer— were  sold.  They 
were  what 
they  were  sold  for— “ all 
showed
wool.”   Actual  measurement 

them  to  be  a  full  yard  wide. 
If  they 
were  warranted  to  wear  well  they  wore 
well.  The  work  the  American  machine 
was  declared  to  do  was  done  and  well 
done.  The  product  of  the  American 
loom,  placed  side  by  side  with  other 
products  from  other countries,  was found 
to  be  the  better. 
It  was  honestly  made 
of  honest  material  and  so  surpassed  the 
English  goods. 
It  was  made  fine  in 
quality  and  workmanship  and  so  ex­
celled  the 
Its 
color 
fadeless  properties 
challenged  the  expert  and  so  was proven 
the  superior  of  the  German  dye-tub. 
Asking  no  odds  and  receiving  none,  the 
American  product  stood  upon  its  own 
merits,  and  rested  there  its  case.

loom  work  of  France. 

in  tint  and 

The  astounding  expansion  of  Am eri­
can  exports  is  the  pleasing  result.  Read 
a'single  statement:  The  domestic  ex­
ports  of  the  United  States  in  1898  were 
233,558,140;  in  1899 they amounted to 
$1,252,903,087,  a  result  not  due  to  boom- 
ng,  not  due  to  the  tireless  activity  of 
the  aggressive  American  drummer, 
neither  to  the  shattering  shots  of  the 
American  gunboat,  but  to  real  excel­
lence 
in  quality  and  workmanship. 
These  are  qualities  which  stay.  They 
are  appreciated  everywhere.  There 
is 
no  cheat  about  them.  They  are  all 
wool.  They  are  what  they  claim  to  b e ; 
and  the  market,  domestic  or  foreign, 
which  expands  for  that  reason  has  no 
’ im it to  its  expansion.

insured 

just  been  decided 

A  suit  of  some  interest  to  the business 
community,  and  especially  to  insurance 
circles,  has 
in  the 
city  of  San  Antonio,  Tex.  The  suit  was 
the  result  of  the  refusal  of  an  insurance 
company  to  pay  a  loss  under  a  policy. 
Thomas  Brady,  a  wealthy  property 
holder,  was 
in  the  Georgia 
Home  Insurance  Company,  and  upon 
the  destruction  of  his  property  made 
claim  against  the  company 
the 
amount  of  the  policy.  The  company 
denied 
judgment  went 
against  the  company.  Mr.  Brady  then 
‘nstituted  suit  against 
insurance 
company  for  $150,200  damages,  claim- 
ng  that  the  defense  set  up  by  the  com­
pany  was  libelous  and  malicious.  This 
case  was  tried 
in  San  A n ­
tonio,  and  resulted  in  a  verdict  in  favor 
of  the  company.

liability  and 

last  week 

the 

for 

The  fight  against  the  consumption  of 
the  cigarette  by  the  youthful  smoker  is 
still  going  on  and  increasing 
its  terri­
tory.  A  board  of  education  has  recently 
decided  that  no  cigarette  smoker  shall 
receive  a  diploma from its hands.  Good. 
Now,  then,  if  cigarette  smoking  is  the 
pest  that  everybody  believes  it  to  be, 
why  not  give  a  little  attention  to  the 
maker of  the  article?  A   case  of  scarlet 
fever calls'for a  placard  announcing  the 
danger,  smallpox  and  leprosy  are  quar­
antined,  but  the  cigarettemaker,  sup­
posed  to  be  a  bigger  death-dealer than 
11  three,  smiling  and  happy,  keeps 
ght  on  with  his  business  at  the  same 

old  stand.

liquor 

Vermont  has  a 

lavir  prohibiting  the 
sale  of 
in  any  town  unless  the 
citizens  vote  for  it,  and  then  it  must  be 
ispensed  by  a  town  agent  for  medical 
purposes  or  use  in  the  arts.  Northfield, 
town  of  3,000,  has had such an agency, 
and  its  receipts  have  been  so  large  that 
the  temperance  people  have  had  a  law 
passed  requiring  the  publication  of  the 
purchasers’  names.

In  some  poor 

thickly-settlec 
places  a  census  is  about  all  there  is  left 
I to  take.

and 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

PA Y IN G  T H E   FID D L E R .

-  There  are  growls  of  discord  from  the 
voices  of  harmony.  For  some  reason  or 
other  opera  in  this  country  has  ended  in 
failure.  With  400,000  Germans  in  Chi­
cago  to  the  music-manor  bom  and  a 
goodly  array  of  Americans  who  are  de­
voted  to  music,  or  declare  they  are,  the 
opera  season  has  come  and  gone and left 
a  big  deficit  which  some  generous  men 
and  women  with  long  purses  have  been 
kind  enough  to  make  up. 
In  the  mean­
time  there 
is  a  wondering  going  on  as 
to  whether  the  American  nation  is  not 
relapsing into barbarism.  “ When Music, 
heavenly  m aid,”   was  younger it was not 
so.  Night  after  night  the  opera  houses 
throughout  the  country  were  thronged. 
Artists  came  and  went,  filling  the  land 
with  melody,  and even  the  man  with  the 
tin  pail  and  the  hoe  gladdened  his  toil 
with  the  sweet  snatches of operatic song. 
Now  a  change  has  come.  Wealth  and 
fashion  and  beauty  drop  in  for a  while 
when  the  performance 
is  at  its  height 
for  a  bit  of  sprightly  conversation  and 
then  depart  for  the  next  function.  So­
ciety  discusses  the  singer’s  wardrobe 
and  diamonds  and  the  implements  of 
industry  are  accompanied  by  some  live­
ly  whistling  of  the  last  gem  of  the  min­
strels.

Are  we  as  a  nation  degenerating? 

Is 
it  true  that  “ Lo!  the  poor  Indian”   who 
yields  to  the  sweet  influences  of  song  is 
getting  ahead  of  us?  Apollo  by  his 
music  moved  the  stones  and  the  trees  to 
his  feet  to  listen  to his vibrating strings; 
are  we 
less  susceptible  to  music  than 
they?  There  can  certainly  be  no  fault 
found  with  the  singing.  With  a  com­
pany  whom  New  York  had  paid $1,000,- 
000,  a  well-known  musical 
director 
came  to  Chicago  to  find  himself  out  of 
pocket.  The  singing  was  the  best;  the 
opera  was  the  best.  Not  an  opera house 
in  Europe  had  as  many  first-class  sing­
ers,  with  Mme.  Calve  at  the  head,  and 
yet  the  expenses 
largely  exceeded  the 
receipts.  The  Middle  West,  the  unpar­
alleled,  enterprising,  aggressive,  intel- 
Mgent  and  cultured  Middle  West,  was 
not  civilized  enough  to  support  a  sea­
son  of  first-class  opera,  and all  the  world 
wonders  why.

It  is  not  the  first  time  in  the  musical 
history  of  this  country  when  the  same 
.condition  of  things  has  existed,  and 
without  any  beating  around  the  bush 
the  Tradesman  ventures  the  opinion 
that  it  is  a  mere  question  of  cost.  When 
Jenny  Lind,  under  Bamum’s  manage­
ment  sang  to  the  delighted  crowds  at 
Castle  Garden,  singer  and  song  were 
novelties and  this  country,  appreciating 
both, paid  for  them  right  royally.  It  was 
The  novelty,  however, 
worth  while. 
has  gone.  A  
long 
line  of  remarkable 
singers  have  followed  in  the  footsteps  of 
the  “ Swedish  nightingale”   and  gone 
back  to  their  nests  richly  burdened. 
Others  take  their  places,  and  while  now 
the  singers  in  the  music  market  are  nu­
merous  the  same  exorbitant  salaries  are 
demanded.  New  York  paid  $5  for  a 
ticket.  Chicago  charged  $3.5°  and  a* 
the  reduced  rate,  with  prosperity  flood­
ing  the  country,  the  management  would 
have  been 
in  debt  had  not  generosity 
come  to  the  rescue.

Now,  $5  and  $3.50  are  too  much  to 
pay  for that  kind  of  amusement.  The 
patrons  of 
it  do  not  get  the  worth  of 
their  money.  The  singers  do  not  earn 
it.  A  false  value  has  been  put  on  it, 
and  the  general  public  has  submitted 
to  the 
just  as  long  as  it  is 
going  to.  These  singers,  like  other  toil­
ers  for  their  daily  bread,  before  the  ad­
vent  of  Jenny  Lind  were  satisfied  with

imposition 

the  reasonable  amount  they  received. 
Now  nothing  satisfies  them.  They  are 
monarchs  of  everybody  and  everything 
they  survey.  A  whim  seizes  a  singer 
and  not  a  note  for  love  nor  money  can 
be  coaxed 
from  her  rebellious  throat, 
although  the  opera  house  be full  to  over­
flowing  with  people  who  have  come 
from  far  and  near to  hear  that  particu­
lar  “ star;”   and  more  than  once  has  an 
audience  gone  away  protesting  against 
being  cheated  out  of  their  money  by 
that  class  of  people  in  that  kind  of way. 
New  York  may  be  used  to 
it  and  so 
be  willing to put  up  with  it.  The  rest  of 
the  country  are  tired  of  it,  and  it  seems 
left  to  the  Middle  West  to  call  a 
to  be 
halt.  Genius 
is 
something  and  these  with  good  hard 
work  amount  to  a  great  deal  more,  but 
when  a  prima  donna  charges  a  thousand 
dollars  or  more  for  singing  a  song,  it  is 
as  preposterous  as 
it  was  for  Coal  Oil 
Johnny  to  use  twenty-dollar  bills  for 
cigar  lighters.

is  something, 

talent 

Let  us  be  honest  then  and  say  that 
opera  comes  too  high.  We can not  afford 
it.  We  do  not  get  satisfaction  enough 
out  of  it.  For  a  people  wanting  to  pay 
its  own  way,  it  takes  too  long  to  earn 
the  price  of  a  ticket,  and  coming  right 
down  to the  fact  there  is  more  real  soul­
stirring  melody 
in  the  simple  heart- 
songs,  sweetly  sung,  of  the  people  than 
there  is 
in  all  the  screaming  and  air­
beating  and 
that  have  been 
crowded  upon  the  operatic  stage  from 
Marco  di  Zanobi  da  Goghano  to  Wag­
ner.

uproar 

SNAP.

Short  and  sharp,  the  word  is  an  apt 
sign  of  the  thought  for  which  it  stands. 
The  yae  and  the  nay  which  the  speech 
should  be  in  trade  and  out  of 
it  find 
here condensed their pent-up force.  With 
no  waste  of  breath,  with no  wish  or  time 
to  be  curt  or  coarse,  it  goes  straight  to 
the  point,  says 
and 
stops.  With  no  hitch  in  the  march  of 
business,  the  clear,  quick  brain  sees 
in 
advance  the  need  not  yet  asked  for, 
supplies  it  and  the 
line  goes  by 
without  a  halt  from  the  beginning of  the 
business  day  to  its  close.

its  say  plainly 

long 

training  can  supply 

Conceding  without  protest  that  speech 
reveals  character  and  that  character  is 
innate,  it  is  a  much  discussed  question 
whether 
either 
where  it  is  wholly  lacking.  A  boy  born 
to  drive  oxen  with  a  brain  as  sluggish 
as  his  muscles  can  hardly  be  expected 
to  direct  great  enterprises  and  where 
is  the  character 
this 
which  must  be  dealt  with. 
“  I  can’t 
make  my  reading  class  say 
‘ O h!’ 
wailed  the  teacher  of  a  class  of  boys. 
“ Nothing  easier,”   sharply  replied  the 
expert. 

“ Jab  a  pin  into  them !”

is  undertaken 

it 

late 

The  business  world 

is  full  of  men 
who  should  have  had  that  treatment  be­
fore  they  entered  it.  They  are  sluggish. 
They  do  not  think  and  they  do  not  want 
to  think.  The  Spanish  “ to-morrow”   is 
the  besetting  sin  of  their  lives  and  it  is 
constantly  getting  the  better  of  them. 
They  wake  up 
in  the  morning. 
They  are  down  late  to breakfast.  They 
late  at  the  store. 
are  a  few  minutes 
They  are 
fault  with 
their  “ hind  sight.”   They  like  to  loiter. 
They  are  given  to  dreaming.  They  take 
comfort  in  the  fact  that  Rome  was  not 
built  in  a day  and  that the making of the 
world  took  seven.  Then  “ why  should 
the  spirit  of  mortal  be” — “ up  and  do­
ing  with  a  heart  for  any  fate !”   This 
[everlasting  flying  around  and  tearing 
one’s—raiment  is  not  what  it  is  cracked 
In  a  word  the  man  has  no
up  to  be. 

forever 

finding 

snap.  His  speech  declares  it  and  his 
place  in  business  and  in  the  estimation 
of  men  affirms  it.

Whether  even  pin-jabbing  can  effect 
a  permanent  change 
is  a  question  not 
easy  to  answer.  For  this,as  in  genuine 
training  generally,  a  man’s  grandfather 
is  the  place  to  begin.  The  sterling 
qualities  of  character  and  so  of  trade 
are  no  more  the  result  of  a  single  gen­
eration’s  care  and  cost  than  the  big 
trees  of  California  are  the  result  of  a 
single 
century’s  sunshine  and  rain. 
Back  of  present  conditions,  down  there 
where  the  real  life lives, behind  the  bark 
and  the  wood  where  the  heart  is  and 
throbs  with  nourishing  sap  is  where  the 
question  must  be  settled. 
If  there,  hid­
den  from  the  eyes  of  men  and  often 
from  the  man  him self,lies  dormant  only 
the  germ  of  that  snap  which  made  suc­
cessful  the  generations  before  him,  the 
pin-thrust  may  accomplish  its  purpose. 
Without  that  the  effort  is  useless.  Phys­
ical  pain  and  vigorous  protest  are  only 
so  many  lively  manifestations  of  exist­
ing  discomfort,  soon  to  pass  and 
leave 
no  sign.

Much  has  been  said  of  late  of  men’s 
growing old  and  useless  and  being  com­
pelled  to  give  place  to  younger  men, 
and  a  distinguished  divine  has  asked  if 
the  old  man  had  not  better  be  put  to 
death  and  so  settle  the  question.  These 
columns  have  already  stated  that  age 
does  not  necessarily  mean  decay,  much 
less  uselessness,and  it  need  be  only said 
now  that  just  so  long  as  that  snap which 
has  made  men  and  circumstances  yield 
to 
its  influence  is  alive,  the  white  hair 
and  the  wrinkles  are  only  the  signs  of 
experience,  matured  by  time,  tempered 
by  thought,  ready  for  greater demands 
and  emergencies  and  knowing  better 
how  to  meet  them  than  when  rashness 
and  impulse  were  master.  It  is  only  an­
other  word 
for  life,  vigorous  life,  with 
no  thought  of  death  about  it,  life  with  a 
purpose,  and  that  a  good  one,  together 
with  an  unyielding  determination  for 
its  early  accomplishment;  and  he  who 
at  twenty  or  sixty  or  eighty  has  no  such 
purpose  and  no  such  determination  has 
lost  whatever  snap  was  once  his, 
is 
ready  for  burial  and  should  be  promptly 
accommodated.

A   contemporary  remarks  that  one  of 
the  remarkable  things  about  British rule 
in  India  is  that  the  longer  it  continues 
the  more  intense  and  frequent  grow  the 
famines.  To  this 
it  may  be  answered 
that  famine  and  plague  are  hard to com­
bat  by  any  form  of  rule  with  a  people 
who  deem 
it  a  religious  obligation  to 
drink  the  water  of  a  river  into  which 
empty  the  sewers of  a  great city,  and re­
ject  assistance 
from  hands  whose  own­
ers  are  not  of  the  proper  “ caste.”   Na­
tive  custom  rather than  British  rule 
is 
responsible  for  most  of  the  ills  of  India. 
It 
is  our  good  fortune  that  in  none  of 
our  new  possessions have we the “ caste”  
problem  to  wrestle  with.

The  Prussian  minister  of  railways  has 
expressed  a  favorable  opinion  of  the 
American 
locomotives  that  have  been 
tried  in  Bavaria.  He  says :  “ Notwith­
standing  their  faultless 
construction, 
they  cost  considerably  less  than  locomo­
tives  of  similar style of Prussian make.”
And  now  comes  a  report  of  a  plug  of 
tobacco  stopping  a  bullet  in  front  of  the 
heart  of  a  soldier  in  the  Philippines. 
The  pack  of  cards,  the  sweetheart’s  pic­
ture  and  the  New  Testament  are  not  the 
only  pebbles  on  the  life-saving  beach.

The  way  of  the  transgressor  and  the 

tramp  must  be  made  hard.

e

OUNCE  VS.  POUND.

In 

The  trade  that  has  followed  the  flag 
to  the  Philippines  seems to  have  lost  its 
head. 
its  intense  desire  to  start  in 
early  and  make  the  most  of  the  fine  hay 
weather  it  has  forgotten  that  there 
is 
something  to  be  thought  of  besides  the 
money  to  be  made  out  of  the  undertak­
ing.  Every  form  of  gain  in  these  new 
possessions  has  been  considered  legiti­
mate  and,  while  enterprise 
received 
every  encouragement  to  keep  full  the 
army  canteen,  it  has  not  been  able  to 
understand  why  the  canteen,  introduced 
by  the  flag  for  the  sustenance  of  its  sup­
porters,  should  not  be  passed  around  to 
these  new  countrymen  of  ours  and  thus 
early  give  them  a  taste  of  Western  c iv ­
ilization.  The  result  of  passing  the  bev­
erage  is  a  matter  with  which  trade  nor 
the  laws  regulating  it  have  anything  to 
do— that 
is  a  matter  purely  personal. 
Given  a  merchantable,  article  and  a 
ready  market, 
the  conditions  of  ex­
change  are  satisfied  and  the  world,apart 
from  the  parties  to  the  transaction,  is 
expected  to  mind  its own  business.

them. 

This  wide-gauge  view  of  the  situation 
the  meddlesome  world  does  not  take— 
like  Antonio’s  bond  there  is  something 
[else.  The  following  of  the  flag  gives  no 
right  to  be  a  purveyor  of  death.  To 
peddle  goods  to  the  Philippines 
im ­
plies  no  right,  certainly  no  privilege,  to 
kill 
In  uncivilized  Gaul  mer­
chants  were  not  allowed to bring in those 
things  which  tend  to  make  men  weak 
and  womanish  and  wine was prohibited. 
There  will  be  trouble  enough  to  tax 
every  energy  in  dealing  with  our distant 
islanders  even  when  they  are  sober.  To 
Americanize  them— unless,  indeed,  our 
American  drinks  are  our  surest  and 
quickest  civilizers— they  must  be  taken 
at  their  best.  What 
is,  perhaps,  more 
to  the  point,  they  must  find  us  at  ours; 
and  it  is  insisted  that  the  saloon  is  not 
the  center  from  which  must  radiate  all 
that  is  best  in  America.  Of  that  center 
the  less  they  know  the  better  and  meas­
ures  have  been  taken  to  avert  the  great­
est  mischief  which  can  happen  to  them. 
An  ounce  of  prevention 
is  worth  a 
pound  of  cure  and  a  bill  has  been  pre­
sented  to  the  House  of  Representatives 
importation,  sale  or 
to  prohibit  the 
manufacture  of  intoxicating 
in 
Puerto  Rico,  Hawaii  and  the  Philip­
pines.

liquors 

the 

sale  of 

It  was  needed.  The  Philippines  al­
ready  show  signs  of  demoralized  c iv ili­
zation.  The  saloon  came 
in  with  the 
conquering  troops  and  at  once  went into 
business.  The  new  drinks  please  them 
and  they  are  making  the  most  of  their 
opportunities.  Since  the  coming  of  the 
intoxicating 
Americans 
liquors  has  largely 
increased  and  with 
the  increase  have  followed  those  evils, 
certain  if  not  necessarily  so,  which  cir­
cle  around  the  saloon. 
It  has  been  said 
that  Europe’s  acquaintance  with  Amer­
ica  was  characterized  by  an  exchange  of 
poisons, 
alcohol  and  nicotine,  and 
America  has  already  shown  her  good 
will  by  passing  to  Asia  what  her  Euro­
pean 
for  her. 
Among 
the  American  Indians  “ fire 
water’"  did  more  to  conquer  and  kill 
than  powder  and  b a ll;  and  if 
is  the 
purpose  of  the  Government  to  rid  the 
Philippines  of  the  natives  a  more  effec­
tive  agent  can  not  be  found  than  the 
saloon-filled  canteen.  Thai  that  is  not 
the  purpose  the  bill  before  the  House 
plainly  shows.  The 
islands  are  not  to 
be  given  up  to  this  destruction  that 
wasteth  at  noonday ;  and,  that  the  ounce 
of  prevention  may  preclude  the  pound 
of  cure,  the  friends  of  the  islanders  and 
the  enemy  of  the  evil  have  determined­
ly  begun  thus  eariy  to  protect  them from 
the  curse  of  the  saloon.

friendship  has  secured 

it 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Young Ladies

who ride bicycles, play tennis, attend gymnasium 
go boating or horseback  riding  should wear  our

Peerless Corset Substitute

We carry a complete stock  of

Untrimmed 1 

Straw 
Hats 

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in

Dry Goods

T he  D ry  GoodH  M arket.

Staple  Cottons— Strictly  staple  goods 
share  the  general  dulness,  and both  buy­
ers  and  sellers  show indifference  to  each 
other.  For  home  business  as  well  as 
export  business,  brown  sheetings  are 
very  quiet. 
If  the  sellers  show  a  dis­
position  to  make  little  concessions,  they 
will  be  able  to  dispose  of  large  quanti­
ties,  but  at  present  writing  there  ha 
been  none  of  these  shown.  For  brown 
sheetings  the  sellers  are  willing  to  ac 
cept  bids  at  the  present  quotations,  but 
stand  firm  on  that  basis.  There  is  very 
little  to  report  in  regard to  bleached cot 
tons,  the  demand  being  small  for  any 
grade,  although  prices  remain  unaltered 
leading  tickets,  and  only  he. 
in  the 
and 
in  unticketed  goods  ma; 
slight  concessions  be  found  in  the  way 
of  discounts  and  tradings.  Ducks  and 
osnaburgs  remain  without  change  in any 
direction. 
low  grade 
bleached  cottons  there  may  be  found 
little 
irregularity,  prices  varying  per 
haps  one-quarter of  a  cent.  Wide  sheet 
ings,  cotton  flannels,  blankets,  etc.,  are 
quiet,  but  firm.  Coarse  colored  cottons 
are  in  fair  demand,  and  prices  solid 
all  directions.

In  some  of  the 

there 

Prints  and  Ginghams— There  has 
been  but  little  demand  during  the  week 
for  calicoes  of  any  description.  The 
orders  are  small  and  there  are  not  very 
many  of  them,  while  the  fancy  division 
has  been  almost  neglected,  staples  tak 
ing  nearly  all  the  business  that  can  be 
found.  Staples,  such  as  blues,  turkey 
reds,  mournings,  etc.,  are 
in  excellent 
condition,  and  supplies  small.  Prices 
are  very  firm.  Fancy  calicoes  show  a 
small  business  and  more  irregularities.
A  
large  number  of  the  spring  goods 
have  been  disposed  of  and  only  some  of 
the 
lighter  remain  to  be  sold.  These, 
however,  may  be  secured,  if  taken  in 
several  quantities,  at  some  little  conces­
sion.  Ginghams are  steady  in  both  sales 
and  prices,  but  show  little  change  over 
our  report  of  last  week.

stationary, 

Underwear— Manufacturers  are  mak­
ing  preparations  for  the  spring  season 
of  1901.  There  will  not  be  any  amount 
of  business  transacted 
in  same  until 
sometime 
in  June,  as  manufacturers  do 
not  know  what  prices  to  put  on  goods.
As  one  knit  goods  man  puts  it: 
“ Who
can  tell  what  the  price  of  yam  will  be 
in  six  months  from  now?”   With  yarns 
advancing  and  strong,  the  price  of  both 
wool  and  cotton  underwear  must  open 
at  a  big  advance,  but  how  great  the  ad­
vance  will  be  is  at  present  only a matter 
of  conjecture.  Even  if  yams  should  re­
main 
the  manufacturers 
would  have  to  advance  prices,  as  they 
have  no  stock  left  which  was  purchased 
when  yarns  were  cheaper,  and  as  yarns 
will  go  up,  it  must  be  seen  that  the 
prices  of  underwear  for  the  spring  of 
1901  must  soar  to  heights controlled  only 
by  the  laws  of  supply  and  demand,  and 
the  unwillingness  of  the  jobbers  to  pay 
any  abnormal  prices.  This  spring  im­
porters  have  contracted  a  very 
large 
volume  of  business.  Their  orders  have 
been  coming  in  fast,  but  they  are  find­
ing  a  great  deal  of  difficulty  in  deliver­
ing  them  on  time,  as  goods  are  coming 
in  very  slowly  from  European  manufac­
turers. 
I hey  are  preparing  their  sam­
ples  for  the  advance  light-weight  busi­
ness  for  1901,  and  promise  a  number of 
salable  novelties.  There  has  been  an 
increased  demand  for  fancies,  and many 
importers  expect  to  double  the 
large 
amount  of  business  transacted 
in  1900 
during  1901.

Hosiery— There  are  still  a  number  of 
complaints  heard  about  the  backward­
ness 
in  the  delivery  of  cotton  hosiery. 
1 he  mills  still  use  the  same  excuse, 
difficulty  in  getting  yarns.  This  is  the 
only  worry  that  the  manufacturers  have, 
as  the  capacity  of  their  mills is  sold  up’ 
not  only 
in  cotton,  but  also  in  cotton 
fleeced  and  wool  hosiery.  There  is  • 
large  demand  for  full  fashioned hosiery, 
especially  when  it  is  available  for  early 
delivery,  as  there  is  a  scarcity  of  spot 
goods,  caused  by  slow  deliveries  from 
Chemnitz  and  other  European  centers, 
Carpets— The  retail  trade reports busi 
ness  slow  during  the  past  week,  in  part 
due  to  the  continued  cold  weather  and 
the  intervention  of  the  Faster  holidays. 
Jobbers  have  done  a  fair  business,  con- 
dering  the  fact  that  the  season  has 
nearly  closed.  Some  manufacturers  of 
in  some  instances  about 
carpets  have 
completed 
initial  orders,  placed  early 
n  the  season,  while  others  have  enough 
business, 
taken  at  old  prices,  to  last 
them  up  to  June  1.  A  fair  amount  of 
duplicate  orders  has  also  come  in  re­
cently,  and  manufacturers  refuse  to  ac­
cept  them  unless  at  2^ c  advance  over 
rices  ruling  in  the  earlier  part  of  the 
season.  To-day  standard  extra  super 
ngrains  are  held  at  50c.  The  former 
»rice  was  47^ c.  Some  second  grades 
were  taken  at  one  cent  per  yard  less. 
Manufacturers  of  all  grades  of  carpets 
re  very  hopeful  of  the  future.
Smyrna  Rugs— 1 here  is an  effort  mak- 
ng  for  additional  trade  discounts,  but 
as  the  summer  season  is  coming  on,  the 
manufacturers,  are  opposed  to  making 
any  concessions,  as  there 
is  no  lower 
rice  for  stocks  from  which  the  goods 
re  made.

Cam e  U nfastened.

Marjorie  never  cries  when  any  little 
mishap  befalls  her  and  has  been  known 
sustain  without  shedding  a  tear sev 
vere  bumps  that  have  rapidly  acquired 
a  black  and  blue  aspect;  but  the  other 
loved  and 
day  Araminta,  her  dearly 
tenderly  cherished  doll, 
into  the 
open  grate  and  received  a  contusion  of 
the  nose  which  was  most  unpleasant  to 
contemplate.  Marjorie  winked 
very 
hard 
for  a  few  minutes,  and  then,  run­
ning  with  her  injured  Araminta  to  her 
mother,  she  buried  her  head  in  her  lap, 
sobbing,  “ Oh,  mamma,  I  don’t  want  to 
cry,  but  my  tears  have  all  come  un 

fell 

stened !’ ’

•Established « 80.

Walter Baker & Go.

Dorchester, Mass.
The Oldest and 

Largest Manufacturers of

fHRE,HieHGRUE
COCOAS
CHOCOLATES

AND

on this Continent.

Trmde-M«3

their manufactures.

No  Chemicals  are  used  in 
. 5 *   Breakfast  Cocoa  is  absolutely  pure, 
delicious,  nutritious, and costs less than one 
cent a cup.
Their Premium  No.  1  Chocolate, put up in 
Bine Wrappers and Yellow Labels, is the best 
plain chocolate in the market for family use.
Their  German  Sweet  Chocolate fa  good  tc 
eat a nd good  to drink.  I t is palatable, nutri 
anc*  healthful ;  a  great  favorite  with 
children.
Buyers should ask for and be sure that they 
get the genuine goods. The above trade-mark 
is on every package.
W alter Baker &  Co.  Ltd. 

Dorchester,  Mass.

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For  Ladies,  Misses  and  Children, from  I  
$2.00  per  dozen  upwards.  We  are  also  ffi 
showing a large assortment  of  Ready-to-  1  
Wear Hats for  Ladies,  ranging  in  prices  1  
from $9.00 to $36.00 per  dozen.  Write  for  m 
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samples and prices. 
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Corl,  Knott &  Co. 

Jobbers of  Millinery • 
Grand Rapids, Michigan 

The Artistic Dress Reform Bodice

A combined Waist.  Bust,  Skirt  and  Hose  Sur»- 
sldes'  Abso,ute,y  healthfiih 
An agent wanted In every town.  Write  for  cat­
alogue and prices to

M ADAM E  C.  F.  SALISBURY,

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in  workman-  ^  
ship  and  durability.  Every  ^  
pair  guaranteed. 
Write  us  and  our  agent  ^  
will call on you.

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Michigan 
Suspender 
Company,

Plalnwell, Mich.

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Waiting too  long  in  placing  your  order  for 
summer underwear.  We are in a position to 
show you one of the  most  complete  lines  in 
Michigan In  Gents’,  Ladies’  and  Children’s 
Underwear.  Ladies’ underwear we  have  in 

long  sleeves,  short  sleeves  and  sleeveless. 
Children’s  underwear  in  long  sleeves  and 
short  sleeves.  Gents’  underwear  in  jersey  1 
ribbed  and  balbriggan  in all  grades  and  <
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prices.  Write for samples. 

P. STEKETEE & SONS, 

Wholesale  Dry Goods, 
Grand  Rapids, Mich. 

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Two 
Dollars

Buys a dozen  Hand  Bags  like  this  cut. 
Looks as good  as  the  kind  usually  sold 
at a half dollar. 
good black  satine  top,  leather  handles 
and  sides and on  each  side  a  neat  gilt  GM 
ornament.  This  makes  a  splendid  ar- 

It is well  made,  has  a  §55 

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tid e  to  use  as  a  trade winner.  Order soon, as the quantity is limited.  ®

Voigt,  Herpolsheimer  &  Co.,

W holesale  D ry  Goods, 

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Clothing

F a ll  an<l  W in ter  Styles  in  Shirts.

A  month  hence  and  the  buyer  will
stand,  notebook  in  hand,  before  the  vast 
array  of  fall  and  winter  shirts.  He  has 
but  a  few  days  in  which  to  settle  all  the 
momentous  questions  which  naturally 
confront  the  man  who 
is  compelled  to 
invest  his  money  in  goods  that  must  be 
purchased  purely  on  judgment.  Fortu­
nately  the  trend  of  the  mode  is  not  un­
certain.  We  can,  if  we  leave  personal 
prejudices  aside,  clearly  trace  the  drift 
of  those  influences  that  shape  the  tones 
and 
later  on  become  the 
dominant  factors  of  the  season’s  mar­
ket.

forms  which 

favor 

the  popular-priced  shirts  up-and-down 
stripes.  The  conservative  buyer  will 
undoubtedly 
the  up-and-down 
stripe,and  nearly  every  prominent  man- 
facturer  will  give  principal  attention 
to  the  vertical  stripe.  From  interviews 
the 
and  from  observations  made 
holesale  trade,  we  notice  an  over­
helming  tendency  toward  the  up-and- 
down  stripe.  The  buyer  can  draw  his 
own  conclusions.  He  will  see  at  once 
hen  the  stocks  are  opened  how  the 

in 

stripes  are  to  be  placed.

A  Good  Many  Orders

Followed  our 
last  week’s  announcement—  
we  can  handle  a  few  more  if they come quick. 
W e’ve  still  a complete  range  of sizes  in  those

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Men’s  Fancy 
Worsted  Suits

For  Immediate  Delivery

You  can  have  them  in  stripes  and  small 
checks,  in  either  single  or  double  breasted 
styles  with  double  breasted  vests. 
They 
are  the  kind  that  sell  on  sight  at  good profits. 
They  are  all  new— some  still  in  making— ele­
gantly  tailored  and  right  in  every  way  like  all 
of  “ H.  Bros.  Correct  Clothes.”  Guaranteed 
untouchable  anywhere  at

$7.50,  $8.50,  $10.00,
$12.00  and  $13.00

HEAVEN RICH  BROS.,

“CORRECT  CLOTHES”

DETROIT,  MICHIGAN

Chicago  Office,  803  M edinoli  T em ple. 

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Mackintoshes;

We  will  make  low- 
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Mill Supplies, 
4 Monroe Street, 
Grand Rapids, Mich.

Studley &  Barclay, 

Duck  Coats

W e  are  offering  a  New  Duck 
Coat  for the year  1900 that  is  first 
class ,  in  every  particular,  water­
proof,  and  no  mistake  about 
it. 
Dealers will  find  it  to  their  inter­
ests to see our Coat before placing 
orders  for next season.

The  Ideal Clothing Company

Orand Rapids, Michigan.

The  growing  demand for colored shirt- 
ngs  for  the  use  of  men,  women  and 
children  has  created  a  demand  for  cot­
ton  that  has  made  itself  felt  from  the 
field  to  the  finished  product.  The  cotton 
crops  have  been  normal  for several years 
past,  with  the  exception  of  the  years 
897-98,  and  1898-99,  when  they  were 
very 
large,  but  prices  for  the  raw  ma­
terial  have  steadily  risen.  This  is  es­
pecially  true  of  the  higher  grades  of 
cotton  which  enter  into  the  better grades 
of  fabrics,  now  so  popular.  The  first 
outcome  of  this  increased  demand  was 
in  the  eager  competition  of  the 
seen 
spinners,  which  served  to  stiffen 
the 
prices  of  the  product  for  which  they 
were  bidding  and  to  urge  them  upward. 
The  weavers  responded  by  increasing 
the  number  of  looms  to  such  a point that 
it  is  conservatively  estimated  that  there 
are  from  33 
per  cent,  to  50  per  cent, 
more  looms  now  active  than  ever  before 
the  history  of  this  industry.  There 
were  corresponding  rises  in  the  prices 
of  cloths,  but  the  retailer  who  handled 
the  finished  article  found  himself unable 
to  make  a  proportionate  advance.  Cus­
tomers  are  accustomed  to  pay  certain 
prices  for  certain  kinds  of  goods  and 
they  have  these  standards  so  well  fixed 
in  their  minds  that  they  are  deaf  to  ar­
guments  that  mean  the  expenditure  of 
more  money,  no  matter  what  the  trade 
conditions  may  happen  to  be.  Unques­
tionably  the  cotton  grower  has  had  the 
best  of  it  thus  far,  but  it  would  be  un­
fair to  assume  that  the  prices  have  been 
kept  up  by  any  conditions  other  than 
the  natural  laws  of  supply  and  demand. 
A  significant  fact  in  reviewing  the  sit­
uation 
is  the  improvement  in  the  con­
dition  of  the  Fall  River  weavers and the 
consequent  advance 
in  wages  paid  to 
employes.  These  facts  should  be  borne 
in  mind  a  month  hence,  when  the  fall 
samples  will  be  ready  for  inspection.

O pening  of  th e   P o p u la r  G rand  H aven 

R oute.

in 

the 

connection  with 

On  Monday,  April  9, 

the  Grand 
Haven  route  was  opened  between  Grand 
Haven  and  Milwaukee  for  the  season  of 
1900.  The  line  comprises  the  fine  pas­
senger  steamers,  Nyack  and  Naomi, 
which, 
fast 
steamboat  express  of  the  Detroit,  Grand 
Haven  &  Milwaukee  Railway  division 
of  the  Grand .Trunk  Railway,  forms  the 
line  for  the  season  of  1900.  Train  serv 
ice  and  steamers  are  about  the  same  as 
last  year.  The  fast  steamboat  express 
leaves  Grand  Rapids  at  10  p.  m.  daily 
except  Sunday,  arriving  at  Milwaukee 
at  6 ‘.30  a.  m.  Returning  steamer leaves 
Milwaukee  at  9  p.  m.  daily,  except 
Saturday,  connecting  with  train  leaving 
Grand  Haven  at  5 45 a.  m.  and  arriving 
at  Grand  Rapids  at 6140  a.  m.  These 
fast  trains  have  new  buffet  parlor  cars 
seats  only  25  cents.  Tickets  and  berth 
reservations  can  be  had  at  Grand  Trunk 
city  office,  or  at  the  depot.

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

S trategy  in   th e   P u lp it.

“ How  did  you  gather  such  a  large 
congregation  of  old  and  middle-aged 
people?”   asked  the  young  minister  of 
the  old  one.

*41  advertised  a sermon to the young,

was  the  latter’s  reply.

In  preparing  to  buy  shirts  the  buyer 
has  two  very 
important  questions  to 
answer:  When  to  buy  and  what  to  buy. 
The  first  must  be  answered  by  prevail­
ing  conditions.  The  s^ate  of  the  mar­
kets  from  which  the  raw  materials  are 
drawn,  the  conditions  of  the  output  of 
the  mills,  and  the  conditions  surround­
ing  the  shirt  factories  must  all  be  taken 
into  consideration. 
If  it  is  a  bad  sea­
son  profitable  buying  comes  late ;  if  it 
is  a  good  season  profit  accrues  to  him 
who  buys  early.  A  careful  Review  of 
all  the  economic  conditions  surrounding 
soil,  mill  and 
factory  and  a  careful 
study  of  natural  conditions  in  all  lines 
of  trade  reveal  causes  which  strengthen 
in  the  permanency  of  pros 
our  belief 
perity.  There 
is  nothing  short  of  na 
tional  calamity  that  can  upset  the  mar 
ket  to  such  an  extent  that  existing  con 
ditions  will  be  materially  changed  for 
the  worst.  Faint  heart  never  won  fai 
lady,  and  the  buyer  to  win  must  take 
hold  of  things  as he finds them.  Coward 
ice 
in  the  face  of  firmly  established 
conditions  is  an  inexcusable  sin.  The 
market  is  firm,  it  is  going  to  stay  firm 
Reports  reveal  no  conditions  that  would 
in  entertaining  pessimistic 
justify  us 
feelings.  Assuming  our  faith 
in  the 
permanency  of  conditions,  as  we  find 
them,  to  be  well  founded,  we  would  ad 
vise  the  buyer to  buy  just  as  soon  as  he 
can  lay  his  hands  on  the  sample  lines o 
the  representative  manufacturers.  He 
that  buys  early  and  buys  largely  assures 
in  which  variety 
to  his  shop  a  stock 
the  keystone  to  success,  is  not 
lacking 
The  haberdasher  that  makes  an  earb 
show  and  a  strong  one  has  gained  the 
intrenched  position,  and  the  enemy  i 
badly  handicapped.  Now,  as  to  the 
second  proposition.  Here  we  must  dea 
with  Fickle  Fashion.  This  season  that 
term 
is  an  anomaly.  Fashion  is  well 
established,and her  variations  are  based 
on  reason,  not  on  whims.  Colored  shirts 
will  be  the  principal  feature  of  the  sea 
son.  Stripes  in  madras  and  percale  will 
play  the  star  parts.  The  standard  tones, 
such  as  pinks,  oxblood,  blues,  helios 
and  blacks,  will  take  up  the  major  por­
tion  of  the  numbers  in  each  line.  White 
goods  will  be  strong  and  will  be  nec­
it  would  be  good 
essary.  We  think 
policy  to  treat  whites 
liberally.  The 
stripes  will  be  made in  the up-and-down 
and  in  the  crosswise  ways.  The  ultra 
styles  will  figure 
ip  the  thwart  stripe 
bosoms.  The  custom  shirtmakers  seem 
to  be  divided 
in  their  allegiance  be­
tween  thwart  and  up-and-down  stripes. 
Now  on  the  point  of  how  stripes  should 
run,  the  trade  has  always  been  rather 
It  must  be  one  way  or the 
other.  No  matter whether a  shirt  cost  $i 
or  $3.50  the  stripes  must  be  the  same. 
We  think  there  should  be  a  difference. 
It  might  be  a  good  idea  for  the  high- 
priced  shirts  to  have  thwart  stripes,  and

•  obstinate. 

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W in  SuccegH  as  a   fie ta il 

Salesm an.

Shoe

The  salesman  is  the  most 

In  all  cases  this  may  not  be 

important 
factor  in  the  success  of  a  retail  shoe 
store. 
lit­
erally  true,  individually,  hut collectively 
it  is  absolutely  true.  There  is  a  differ­
ence  between  a  good  salesman  and  a 
poor  salesman,  and  I  will  endeavor  to 
suggest  a  few  things  that  will  aid  a  per­
son  in  becoming  a  successful  shoe sales­
man.

its  salesmen. 

I  trust  that  the  salesmen  who  read 
this  will  do  so  carefully  and  then  think 
hard,  for  by  so  doing  1  befieve  that they 
can 
increase  their  usefulness  and  ad­
vance  their  own  interests.  To  sell  shoes 
requires  unity  of  action  on  the  part  of 
all  those  who  perform  the  necessary  du 
ties.  A  shoe  store  is  almost  wholly  de­
pendent  on 
In  order to 
be  successful  in  business  a  dealer  must 
first  purchase  his  shoes  at  a  rock  bottom 
figure.  What  he  buys  must  be  in  d e­
mand  and  the  dealer  must  exercise 
good  taste.  Then  the  goods  must  be 
well  advertised  and  the  last  thing  and 
the  hardest  thing  to  do  is  to  sell  them, 
and  this  duty  falls  on  the  salesman.  He 
it  is  who  has  the  important  work  of  fa­
vorably  impressing  the  people  and  mak­
ing  them  regular  patrons.

Any  sale 

lost  through  inefficiency  or 
indifference  of  a  clerk  is  irretrievable.
If  a  customer 
is  once  slighted  he  will 
refuse  to  call  again.  One  of  the  first 
requirements  of  a  good  shoe  salesman, 
then,  is  affability.  Each  clerk  should 
make  it  a  part  of  his  duty  to  be  pleas 
ing  and  courteous  under  any  and all cir­
cumstances.  The  treatment  a  customer 
receives  creates  either  a  favorable  or  an 
the 
unfavorable  feeling. 
politeness  of  a  clerk,  the  impression 
is, 
favorable,  a  permanent  patron 
is 
cured  and  the  new  patron,  whenever 
the  name  of  the  house  is  mentioned,  at 
home  or  abroad,  will  probably  couple 
it  with  some  such  comment  as,  “ and 
they  have  such  polite  and  obliging 
clerks.”   When  these  words  are  sincere 
ly  spoken  they  are  worth  columns  of  ex 
pensive  newspaper  space.

through 

If, 

in 

At  all 

fact,  it 

times  “ no  trouble  to  show 
goods”   should  prevail  wherever  shoes 
are  sold.  This  spirit  should  be  earnest 
and  not  assumed.  Courteous  willing­
ness 
indelibly  stamps  itself  upon  peo­
it  generally 
ple  and 
is  conducive  to 
If  a  customer  does  not  buy  to­
success. 
day  he  may  buy  to-morrow. 
If  he  is 
undecided  in  his  choice  and  feels  that  a 
salesman  resents  being  put  to  a  little 
trouble  he  will  probably  go  elsewhere.
This  attitude  of  “ no  trouble  to  show 
goods”   should  be  cultivated  by  each 
clerk ; 
is  an  essential  re­
quirement.  When  a  salesman  shows 
himself  perfunctory, 
inattentive  and 
unobliging,  or  displays  lack  of 
interest 
or  enthusiasm,  the  business  which  he 
serves  suffers  correspondingly.  Do  not 
be  short  and  abrupt.  A   good  salesman 
will  exhibit  some  interest  in  the  pros­
pective  customer  and  try  and  engage 
him  or  her 
in  conversation—advance 
some  reason  why  a  particular  shoe  is 
sold  at  a  certain  price  and  say  some­
thing regarding  its desirability or cheap­
ness,  and  then  get  very  busy  showing 
bther  and  better  styles.  Nine  times  out 
of  ten  a  sale  will  be  made  in  this  way.
A   customer  is  easily  nettled  by  indiffer­
ence,  so  that  it  won’t  do  for  a  salesman 
to  carry  on  a  conversation  with  a  fellow 
salesman,  chew  gum  voraciously  and  do 
several  other  things  at  the  same  time

friends  he  makes. 

A  salesman’s  value 

is  measured  by 
the  amount  of  his  sales.  The  stock  in 
trade  of  every  salesman  is  weighed  by 
the 
Friends  that 
hunt  you  up  when  they  want  to  buy  can 
be  cultivated  only  through  the  medium 
of  politeness  and  perpetual  willingness 
to  serve  them  on  all occasions.  While  a 
salesman  should  not  be  over  persuasive* 
he  should  bear 
in  mind  that  shoes  do 
not  sell  themselves,  and 
that  the  con­
summation  of  a  sale  can  often  be helped 
by  the  right  kind  of  an  argument.

Another  important  th in g:  Remem 
ber that  no  extraordinary  credit 
is  due 
you  for selling specially-advertised,  low- 
priced  goods.  These  goods  are  sold,  or 
nearly  sold,  when  application 
is  made 
for  them,  and  it  is  always  possible  to 
sell  something  better,  carrying  a  greater 
percentage  of  profit,  although you should 
not  betray  any  prejudice  against  any 
styles  that  are  advertised.  They  must 
be  sold,  too,  but,  as  a  rule,  when  you 
can’t sell anything  of  a  higher grade.

No  matter  what  provocation  you  may 
have,  never  allow  your  temper to  get 
the  better  of  you,  and  never  under  anv 
circumstances  give  a  customer a  sharp 
answer  or  back  talk.  You  are  paid  for 
treating  all  persons  with  civility  and 
you  are  expected  to  do  so  at  all  times. 
Keep  your  eyes  open  and  do  not  stand 
around  without  giving customers prompt 
looking  for 
attention.  Clerks  who  are 
sinecures  ’  are  the  ones  who  never get 
along.  When  you  see  a  man  inspecting 
shoe,  do  not  have  to  be  told  to  wait 
on  him,  but  go  to  him  without  being 
told.  Always  remember  that  the  d ig ­
nity  of  labor  is  the  greatest  of  all  d ig­
nities,  and  that 
integrity 
are  cardinal  requisites  to  certain  and 
honorable  success.  Also  remember  that 
success  is  not  in  time,  place  or  circum­
stance,  but 
in  the  man,  and  that  there 
s no direct  road  to  it  except  that  of  un 
remitting  toil.

industry  and 

Some  salesmen 

look  upon  a  possible 
customer  who  interrupts  a  pleasant  con­
versation  or  dreamy  reverie  as  a  posi­
tive  nuisance,  to  be  suppressed  at  all 
hazards,  and  they  are  the  salesmen  who 
never advance.

the 

A  good  salesman  should  make himself 
advertisements  of 
familiar  with 
competitors.  A  salesman  who 
is  well 
posted  on  the  doings  of  his  own  house 
and  also  of  the  other  houses  can  answer 
questions  more  intelligently than anyone 
who 
is  too  frivolous  or  habitually  too 
tired  to  exert  himself.

In  concluding,  I  would  warn  any  per­
son  who  intends  to  become  a  successful 
shoe  salesman  to  guard  himself  against 
lapsing  into  lackadaisical  habits.  The 
world  to-day  wants  good men and is con­
stantly  on  the  lookout  for  young  men  of 
magnetic  personalities  and  quick  gen­
eralship.  This  is  an  age  of  civil-service 
promotion,  and  the  salesman  who  hopes 
to  better  his  condition  must  strive  to 
deserve 
“ fame 
comes  onlv  when 
*•  ..„j  »1__
comes  only  when  deserved,”   and  then 
it 
is  as  inevitable  as  destiny,  for  it  is 
destiny. 
I Weekly,

it,  remembering  that 

in  Boots  and  "*

'   — Umber 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Make  painstaking  efforts 

to  make 
goods  and  prices  attractive.  Modern 
competition 
is  so  keen  that  no  house 
can  afford  to  keep  a  salesman  who  puts 
on  autocratic  and independent airs.  The 
successful  shoe  salesman  is  diplomatic 
and  never  loses  an  opportunity  to  make 
a  praton  feel  welcome,  and  by  suavity 
of  manner  and  speech  never  fails  to 
convince  a  customer  that  the  house  ap- 
ireciates  his  trade,  and  wants  his  con 
tinued  patronage.

“Gold  Seal” 
Rubbers

Pure
Para
Rubber

Goodyear Rubber Co.
382 and 384 East Water St., 
Milwaukee, Wis.

IT’S A QUESTION
of success. 
If you want  to  be  successful  in 
the shoe business you must  have  shoes  that 
are 
in  themselves  a  success.  W e  make 
such  shoes.  Our Men’s,  Boys’ and  Youths’, 
Womens,  Misses’ and Children’s  lines  made 
up  m various style» and prices will strengthen 
your busyness, they will make you successful 
Write us for a trial  order.

HEROLD-BERTSCH SHOE CO.,

M akers o f Shoes, 

G rand R apids, M ich.

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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 

Rindge,  Kalmbach,  Logie  &  Co.,

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

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Shoes  That Sell

W e  know  what  the  Michigan  trade 
demands  in  shoes—and  we  have  it.
Not an  undesirable  line  in  our  spring 
and summer offerings— not a  style  but 
what you can sell easily.
Our  travelers  will  be  in  to  see  you 
If you defer ordering  until  thev 
soon. 
come, we’ll get your order. 
7

Geo.  H.  Reeder  &   Co.

19  South  Ionia  Street,
Grand  Rapjds,  Mich.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

13

T he  Lady  and  th e   T eeth.

” 1  was  called  one  day  to  a  certain 
hotel  to  give  chloroform  to  a  young 
woman  who  was  about 
to  undergo  a 
slight  surgical  operation  to  remove  a 
morbid  growth 
in  the  ear,”   said  a 
physician. 
“ The  patient,  as  it  devel­
oped  on  my  arrival,  had  been  married 
only  a  few  days  before  and  was 
in  the 
city  with  her  husband  on  their  bridal 
tour.  Although  quite  handsome,  she 
was  no  longer  exactly  in  her  first  youth, 
and  she  was  very much  averse  to  having 
her  husband  present  at  the  operation. 
However,  he 
insisted,  and  she  finally 
agreed  that  he  should  stay,  but  1  no­
ticed  that  she  seemed  very  nervous  and 
preoccupied.

“ The  operation,  as  I  said  before,  was 
trifling.  She  took  the  chloroform  easily 
and  all  went  well  until  she  was  just  re­
gaining  consciousness  when  she  opened 
her  mouth  and  out 
fell  a  set  of  false 
teeth.  She  had  said  nothing  about  that 
detail,  and  the  truth  was  that  she  had 
hoped,  poor  woman,  to  pass  through  the

ordeal  without  the  fact  of  her  wearing 
such  things  being  known  to  her  hus­
band.

“ But  the  effect  on  that  individual was 
entirely  unexpected.  He  gave  one  hor­
rified  glance  and  then  rushed  at  the  old 
surgeon  and  seized  him  by  the  throat. 
‘ You  infamous  scoundrel!’  he  yelled. 
’ You  have  broken  my  poor  darling’s 
ja w !’

“ At  that  stage  of  affairs  I  beat  a  re­
treat. 
learn  exactly  what 
the  husband  thought  had  happened,  or 
what  sort  of  explanation was offered.”

1  never  did 

In<*reHM€i>  of C rim e.

Judge  Jackson  of  the  United  States 
Circuit  Court  took  occasion  to  say  at 
Wheeling  the  other  day  that  the  world 
is  growing  worse.

“ My  experience  on  the  bench,”   he 
said,  “ has  not  been  a  limited  one,  and 
I  regret  to  say  that  crime  in  this  coun­
1  am  unable  to 
try 
determine  whether 
it  is  a  result  of  in­
creasing  population  or  of  the  lowering
if  the  standard  of  public  morality.

is  on  the  increase. 

^ i m m n r  r r r  Y T T T r Y T T T T T i r i  i Q  

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B00TS& SHOES

C E L E B R A T E D

HE  BIGGEST BOOT  IN  THE  WORLD

TRADE MARK COPYRIGHTS
If you  buy

B R A D L E Y   &   M E T e A L F   6 0 .

B O O T S   AN D   S H O E S

You  buy  the  best.  Made  in  Milwaukee.

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operate  this  display  may  be  a  small  boy 
hidden  from  view.

In  some  conspicuous  place display the 

key  to  your trim :

HOW  WE

D R IV E   DOWN  PR ICES

On......
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♦  

cards 

These 

This  is  the  season  for  window  cards 
and  they  can  be  used  very  effectively  in 
calling  attention  to  the  new  line  of 
If 
spring  goods  in  your  show  window. 
an  elaborate  display 
is  attempted 
it 
should  be  accompanied  by  an  assort­
ment  of  tasty  window  cards  to  properly 
emphasize  the  merits  of  the  goods  dis­
played. 
It  is  not  enough  that  the  price 
of  the  shoes  alone  should  be  on the card, 
for  that  does  not  sufficiently  impress  the 
should  an­
passerby. 
nounce  some  pertinent 
terse 
language.  Have 
it  in  such  a  way  that 
it  can  easily  be  read  at  a  glance,  and 
you  can  do  the  necessary  talking  after 
your  prospective  buyer  has  come  into 
the  store.  A   window  card 
is  a  bait 
on ly!  You  must  be  the  hook  to  land 
your  fish  after  he  has  nibbled  at  the 
card  from  the  outside. 
If  you  can  not 
afford  the  luxury  of  a  professional  win­
dow  dresser,  you  can  frequently  make 
adaptations  of  the  best  of  the  ideas  de­
veloped  in  the  trade  papers.— Shoe  and 
Leather  Gazette.

fact 

in 

The  shoe  dealer 

Use o f th e  P ile D riv er in   W indow  D isplay.
in  the  small  town 
which  only  boasts  of  weekly  newspapers 
has  really  more  need  to  pay  strict  and 
careful  attention  to  his  window  displays 
than  the 
larger  and  more  pretentious 
towns  and  cities.

The  merchant  in  the  small 

town  has 
just  as  much  need  to advertise  his  wares 
in  the  larger  cities,  and  it  is 
as  those 
clear  that  he 
is  under  obligations  to 
himself  to  develop  such  facilities  as  he 
possesses  to  give  publicity  to  his  goods 
as  in  places  where  the  advertising  re­
sources  are  more  varied.

“ No-  town 
in 

liveth  unto  itself.”   The 
merchants 
it  come 
in  competition 
with  those  of  the  larger towns and cities. 
People  may  be  attracted  by  the more ag­
gressive  advertising  of  the  merchants  in 
the 
larger  places  to  buy  their  wares 
there,  although  the  dealers  at  home may 
be  able  to  satisfy  their  wants  just  as 
well.

The  dealer  who  can  not  appeal  to  his 
local  public  daily  through  the  medium 
of  the  press,  but  must  depend  on  week­
ly  doses,  has  in  his  windows  a means  of 
making  up  the  deficiency  to  a  great  ex­
tent.

He  should  seize  every  opportunity  to 
attract  the  passerby  by special offerings. 
Do  not  wait  for  your  newspapers  to 
come  out,  but  make  your  announcement 
in  advance  through  your  windows.  By 
this  method  the 
town  dealer 
will  be  able  to  produce  the  impression 
on  the  people  of  his  town  that  he  is  in 
touch  with  all  the  new  things  in  the 
trade  and  is  just  as  able  to  give  them 
price  and  quality  advantages  as  the 
metropolitan  dealer.

small 

*  *  *

T he  D om estic  B arom eter.

Stranger— Well,  I  hope  times  are  bet­
ter  among  you  than  they  were  a  few 
years  ago.

Native— They  are,  mister.  My  w ife’s 
demandin’  a  $50  set  of  furs  this  year  as 
against  nothin’  but  a  ball  of  yam  for 
darnin’ 
for  the  corresponding  perid  of 
last  year.

Red  Cross 
Protection

17 inches high

Before  negotiating  for  your 
Lumberman’s  Overs  for  the 
coming season  do  not  fail  to 
first investigate the  merits  of 
our
Red  l b   Cross 
Protections
The  rubber is  the  Goodyear 
Glove  Brand  Duck  (will  not 
snag.)  Roll  sole,  best  oil 
grain  and  attached to  this  is 
a  warm 
lined  waterproof 
duck,  making  the  best  foot­
wear ever offered to the  pub­
lic.  Write  for prices.

Hirth,  Krause & Co.

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

in 

following 

Cut  sales,  as  a  rule,  are  almost  over 
with  shoe  dealers  in  general,  but  even
at  this 
late  date  we  feel  confident  that 
there  are  merchants  among  our  many 
readers  who  would  like  one  more 
idea 
to  assist  them  in  making  a  clean sweep. 
We  will  give  you  an  idea  that  is  quite 
appropriate  and  may  be  constructed  at 
no  great  expense:  Have  a  carpenter 
erect  a  pile  driver,  following  the  usual 
proportions  of  this  fam iliar  structure. 
Let  it  be  high— the  higher the better— so 
that  the  spectators 
the 
course  of  the  driver  as  it  rises  and  falls 
must  of  necessity  see  the  goods  that  are 
placed  on  the  top  and  background.  Let 
the  frame  be  painted  a  brown  or  dark 
color  so  as  to  have  the  appearance  of 
being  weather beaten.  The  driver  may 
be  made  of  wood  and  if  necessary  you 
can 
lead  and  fit  it  to  the 
in  the  upright.  The  grooves 
grooves 
should  be  greased  with  soap,  the  pulleys 
must  run  without  a  squeak  and  the 
small  cord  or  rope  should  be  of  soft 
woven  cotton.  At  the  bottom  of  the 
upright,  saw  a  round  hole  in  the  floor. 
Let  this  aperture  be  sufficiently  large  to 
permit  the  passage  of  the  supposed  pile 
driver.  The  pile  may  be  inexpensively 
painted  to  resemble  a 
log,  having  a 
piece  of  paper  fastened  to  it bearing the 
words:

it  with 

load 

We  Have  Struck 

R O C K   B O T T O M  

And  Can  Not  Go  Lower.

As  the  driver  strikes  this  pile  in  its 
descent  the  pile  is driven almost through 
the  floor,  but  when  the  driver  receives 
its  weight  the  former  resumes  its  posi­
tion  for  another  blow.

This  action  may  be  obtained  by 
strong  rubber  bands  fastened  to  the floor 
of  the  window  and  to  the  lower  edge  of 
the  pile,  which  is  prevented  from  sink­
ing  too 
low  by  cords  fastened  between 
the  elastic  bands.  The  motive power to

14

Clerks’  Corner.

T am e  C at  C lerks  W ho  W arm   K itchen 

C hairs.

This 

is  going  to  be  a  short,  fatherly, 
I  am 
plain  talk  with  grocery  clerks. 
going  to  point  out  to  these  clerks  the 
liability  of  falling 
into  the  tame-cat 
habit,  and  what  it  means  when  they  get 
there.

By  the 

tame-cat  habit  I  mean  the 
habit a good many  grocery  clerks  get  in­
to  of  loafing  about  kitchens  and  gossip­
ing  with  the 
cook— sometimes  even 
with  the  lady  of  the  house.

in  my  time. 

I  have  known  a  whole  lot  of  grocery 
clerks 
1  have  neve 
known  one  who  had  any  ambition  after 
he  reached  that  stage.  He  seemed  to 
gradually  grow  content  with  warming 
seat 
in  the  kitchens  where  "he  went  for 
orders,  and  if  he  ever  had  had  any  idea 
of  rising  above  a  grocer’s  clerk,  he 
lost 
it— content  to  serve  out  the  balance 
of
his  days  as  a  grocer’s  clerk,  and  part 
the  time  each  day  to  be  a  tame  cat  in 
customer’s  kitchen.

I  have  one  of  these  tame-cat  clerks 
in  mind  now.  H e’s  past  40  years  old 
but  he’s  still  a  clerk.  He  always  will 
be  a  clerk.  H e’s  been  one  of  the 
lazy 
tame-cat  variety  of  clerks  for  twenty 
years,  and  as  soon  as  he  got  there  he 
lost  ambition,  just  as  all  of  them  do.

This 

fellow  makes  regular  rounds 
every  morning  for orders.  He  shows  up 
about  8  o’clock  and  the  people,  o 
course,  all  know  him.  He  squats  him 
self  on  a  chair  and  talks.  There  isn’t  a 
piece  of  neighborhood  gossip  that  he 
doesn’t  know,  nor  a  neighborhood  scan 
dal  that  he  doesn’t  have  at  the  end  of 
his  tongue.  He  gets  his 
information 
through  the  back  end  of  the  house—the 
kitchens—on  the  trading  process.  He 
trades  a  piece  of  news  for another piece, 
and 
this  way  gets  quite  a  stock. 
Maybe  these  bits  of  gossip,  retailed 
with  great  gusto,  help  him  to  get  or 
ders,  I  don’t  know.

in 

I  knew  a  boy  once— a  bright,  keen 
fellow— who  went  into  the  grocery  busi 
ness.  He  went  into  it  to  learn  it,  with 
the 
idea  of  becoming  a  business  man 
himself.  He  was  a  sociable  little  fel­
low  and  he  thought  the  proper  thing  to 
do,  when  he  went  into  a  lady’s  kitchen 
to  get  her order,  was  to  talk  either  with 
her  or  her  servants.  He  didn’t  do  it  for 
love  of  gossip,  but  honestly  because  he 
thought  it  would  help  him  in  his  busi­
ness.

Well,  that  was  about  five  years  ago. 
Inside  of  a  year  after that  boy  started 
he  was  a  confirmed  scandal-monger—  
rolled  sweet  morsels  of  gossip  under  his 
tongue  from  pure  love  of  it.

I  was  breakfasting 

in  a  house  once 
where  he  came  for  an order.  He reached 
the  house  about  as  we  finished  and,  as  I 
had  known  him,  I  strolled  back  in  the 
kitchen  to  say  how-d’ye-do.

There  he  sat,  fat,  lazy  and  greasy— 
the  typical  man-gossip.  He  was 
just 
in  the  midst  of  telling  some  bit  of 
neighborhood  news  when  I  appeared, 
and  he  was  so  intent  on  telling  it  that 
he  scarcely  greeted  me.

The  lady  of  the  house  just  then  came 

back.

“ Hear about  Mrs.  W ilkins’  bad  luck, 
Mrs.  Jones?’ ’  he  asked,  eagerly.  Mrs. 
Jones  was  the  lady  of  the  house.
said. 

I  didn’t ,’ ’  she 

“ No, 

But, 

womanlike,  she  wanted  to  all  right.

“ You  know  her  aunt  that  used  to visit 
’em  every  fall  an’  stay  three  weeks? 
Had  money,  you  know,  and  the  W il­
kinses  has  always  been  nice  to  her 
’cause  they  'spected  to  get  some  of  it.

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<® Does 

It

i  Satisfy?

If the harness you  sell  to  your 
customer satisfies him, you have 
done about all you could.  -  - 
You can do a great deal towards 
insuring the good wishes of your 
customers  by  selling  them  a 
harness you can  guarantee.  - 
We stand  squarely  behind  you 
when our harness is In question. 
It is worth every penny we ask, 
and  more—not  only  to  us  but 
to  y o u .....................................

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<$>  Brown & Sehler,
jj?  Grand  Rapids,
¡8  Mich.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Well,  she  up  an’  died  last  week,  an’ 
left  all  her  money  to 
some  orphan 
’sylum.  H e!  H e!  He!  A in ’t  that 
rich,  though?”

The  fellow  was  disgusting  to  me.  He 
these 
had  degenerated 
things  that  would  rather  glaver  over 
other  people’s  doings  and  characters 
than  eat.

into  one  of 

“ Oh,  I  most  forgot!”   said  the  clerk 
“ Mrs.  Billings  got  word  last  night  that 
her  daughter  Mary— you  know  Mary 
had  had  twins,  both  boys!  What  d’ ye 
think  o ’  that?”

longer!  The  bright,  quick 

I  left  the  kitchen— couldn’t  stand 

it 
any 
little 
fellow  that  I  had  known  once  as  a  boy 
with  the  ambition  of  making  something 
of  himself  had  degenerated  into  a  mere 
tabby—a  tame  cat  who  warmed  kitchen 
chairs  and  regaled  hired  girls  and  such 
of  their  mistresses  as  would  listen  to 
him  with  the  bits  of  silly  gossip  he 
could  pick  up.

Later  in  the  day  I  went  into  the  store 
of  the  grocer  who  employed  this  fellow.
I  tackled  him  about  George,  as 
if  I 
knew  nothing  of  him.

“ See  here,”   I  said,  “ whatever  be­
came  of  George  Boyd?  The  last  time  I 
knew  anything  of  him  he  was  clerking 
with  you.”

“ H e’s  still  here,”   said  the  grocer.
“ How’s  he  making  out?”   I  asked.
“ Pretty  w ell,”   said  the  grocer,  “ he’s 
a  good  boy,  George  is,  but  he  ain’t  got 
as  much  ambition  as  he  used  to  have.”  
Don’t  you  see  that  it  turned  out  ex­
actly  as  1  say?  George  had  become  a 
tame  cat.  He  had 
into  the 
kitchen-gossiping  habit  and  had lost  his 
ambition.  Somehow  keen,  hustling  am­
bition  and  the  habit  of  loafing  around 
back  kitchens  and  exuding  news  don’t 
seem  to  go  together,  and  in  every  one 
of  a  great  many  cases  1  have  known  the 
ambition  got  the  worst  of  it  and  gave 

fallen 

*y.
Clerks,take  warning.  Be  sociable  and 
friendly  by  all  means,  but  don’t  get 
gossipy.  For  as  sure  as  you  do,  mark 
fat  and  sleek. 
my  words,  you’ll  get 
Your  mustache, 
if  you  have  one,  will 
grow  to  look  like  a tame cat’s.  You’ll be 
simply  a  tame  kitchen  cat*. without  an 
mbition  except  to  keep  warm  aftd  gab­
ble.— Stroller  in  Grocery  World.

L ike  C ontractors  Do.

Wiggs^-1  actually  haven’t  the  courage 

to  ask  Miss  Snapper  to  marry  me.

Diggs— Why  don’t  you  send  her  a 
sealed  proposal?”

Crockery and Glassware

A K RO N   STONEW ARE. 

B u tters

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

2 to e gal., per  gal....................
Churn Dashers, per doz..........
M llkpans
'A gal. flat or rd. hot., per doz 
1 gal. flat or rd. hot., each___

F lu e G lazed M llkpans

V4 gal. flat or rd. hot., per doz.
1 gal. flat or rd. hot., each..........

Stew pans

Vi gal. fireproof, ball, per doz...
1 gal. fireproof, ball, per  doz...........!

Ju g s

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

T om ato Ju g s

V4 gal., per  doz.................
1  gal., each......................
Corks for yt gal., per doz. 
Corks for  1  gal., per doz.,

Preserve Jars  and  Covers

Vt gal., stone cover, per doz.........
1 gal., stone cover, per doz..........
Sealing  W ax
> lbs. in package, per  lb................
FR U IT  JA R S

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

LA M P  BURNERS

No. 0 Sim...........................
No. 1 Sun...................................' “
No. 2 Sun.......................
No. 3 Sun............................
Tubular................................. ...............
Security, No.  1....................
Security, No.  2...................................
Nutmeg.......................... V.............

LA M P  CHIMNEYS—Seconds

Per box of 6  doz.

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

No. 0 Sun. 
No. t  Sun. 
No. 2 Sun.

Com m on

F irst  Q uality

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

XXX  F lin t

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

L a  B astie

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

R ochester

No. 1 Lime (66c  doz).....................  
No. 2 Lime (70c  doz)............................ 
No. 2 Flint (80c doz)1-” .....................  

• 

E lectric

No. 2 Lime (70c  doz).....................  
No. 2 Flint (80c  doz)......................4  40

O IL  CANS

1 gal.  tin cans with spout, per doz__  
1 gal. galv. iron with  spout, per doz!. 
2 gal. galv. iron with  spout, per doz.. 
3 gal. galv. iron with  spout, per doz.. 
5 gal. galv. iron with  spout, per doz.. 
3 gal. galv. iron with faucet, per doz. 
5 gal. galv. iron with faucet, per doz.. 
5 gal. Tilling cans................ 7  ¡5
5 gal. galv. Iron  Nacefas.....................  
P u m p   Cans

5 gal. Rapid steady stream ............. «. 
5 gal. Eureka, non-overflow.............  ' 
3 gal. Home Rule...............................  
5 gal. Home Rule............................' 
5 gal. Pirate King..........................!.'.'.’! 

LANTERNS
No.  0 Tubular, side lift............ 
No.  XB 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 

2  10
2  15
3  15

2  75
3  75
3  95

3  70
4  70
4 88
go

90
1  is
j  35
1  go

3  so
400
470

4 nn

1  40
1  75
3  00
3  75
4  85
4  25
5  so
9 00

8 50
mao
u  or
n   «

9 go

sob
7 50
7 so
44 00

3 75

45
4fi
2 00
1  25

i t   t   î   r

DONT
JUDGE
A
MAN

by  what  he  says  of 
himself. 
If,  however, 
he  has  the  confidence
of those who know him 
best,  and  if  on  better 
acquaintance  you  find 
him  in  all  respects  up 
to  standard,  you  may 
safely  give  him  your 
confidence.

I 

It is the same  with  a 
brand  of  flour.  Don’t 
rely entirely upon what 
the  miller  says,  but  if 
his 
flour  has  main­
tained  a  high  reputa­
tion  for  a  long  time 
and  in  all  leading mar­
kets,  you  may  safely 
conclude that  its  repu­
tation  is based on qual­
ity and  not on talk.

Ceresota  is  a  recog­
nized  leader  in  every 
market. 
It  has  stood 
the  test and  proven  its 
reliability. 
Competi­
tion  only  makes its po­
sition  more secure.

Olney & Judson 
Grocer Company,

Western  Michigan 
Distributors,

Grand  Rapids, 
Mich.

T he  N orthw estern  C onsolidated 
M illing  C om pany,  M inneapolis.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

15

P IO N E E R   GRAND RA PID S.

Influence  o f F o u r  D evoted  D ivines  on  Its 

E arly   H istory.

and 

industry, 

integrity, 

The  writer  recalls  the  names  of  four 
men  that  were so  intimately  linked  with 
the  early  history  of  Grand  Rapids  and 
the  Grand  River  Valley  as  to  deserve 
at  the  hands  of  the  people  an  enduring 
monument  to  their  memory.  They  were 
men  whose  Christian  lives,  pious  teach­
ing, 
remarkable 
foresight  and  executive  ability did more 
than  the  talents  of  any  other  four  men 
in  their  day  to  make  Grand  Rapids  the 
second  city  in  the  State.  From a  social, 
moral,  religious  and  business  stand­
point  each  made  his  individual  mark 
upon  the 
future  destiny  of  the  Valley 
City  as  spiritual  teachers,  public  edu­
cators  and  business  men.  Each  repre­
senting  a  different  creed  of  Protestant 
faith,  they  enjoyed  each  other’s  con­
fidence 
friendship,  working  to­
gether  as  a  band  of  brothers  for  the 
spiritual  and  material  benefit  of  the 
entire  community.  No  history  of  Grand 
Rapids  would  be  complete  without 
fre­
quent  mention  of  the  Rev.  James  Bal­
lard  of  the  Congregational  Church,  Dr. 
Francis  H.  Cuming 
St.  Marks 
the  Rev.  Wm.  M. 
Episcopal  Church, 
Ferry  of  Grand  Haven,  and 
last,  not 
least,  Father  Van  Raalte  of  the  Dutch 
Reformed  Church  of  Zeeland,  Ottawa 
county,  the  spiritual  guide  and 
friend 
who 
led  that  band  of  pious  Christian 
pilgrims  from  the  Netherlands  to  their 
Land  of  Promise 
in  the  Grand  River 
Valley,  whose  descendants  now  occupy 
so  prominent  a  place  in  the  population 
and  history  of  Kent  and  Ottawa  coun­
ties.
It 

is  not  the  intention  of  the  writer, 
nor  would 
it  be  within  the  limits  of 
this  paper,  to  attempt  an  extended  bio­
graphical  sketch  of  this  quartette  of  de­
voted  Christian  missionaries. 
I  would 
only  remind  the  present  generation  of 
Grand  Rapids  citizens  of  the  debt  of 
gratitude  they  owe  to  the  memory  of 
these  earliest  of  pioneers  for the  part 
they  took  in  laying  the  foundations  of 
the  prosperous  and  beautiful  city  of 
which  they  are  now  so  justly  proud.

of 

The  time  and  place  of  my 

introduc­
tion  to  the  Rev.  James  Ballard  are  very 
fresh  in  my  memory.  Having  occasion 
to  visit  the  office  of  the  then  venerable 
John  Ball  (in  June,  1850),  I  found  him 
I 
in  consultation  with  Mr.  Ballard. 
record  below  the  characteristic 
intro­
duction  to  Mr.  Ballard  I  received  from 
the  eccentric  John  B a ll:

“ Mr.  Welton,  allow  me  to  make  you 
acquainted  with  the  Rev.  James  Bal­
lard,  who  has  been  fighting  the  Devil 
in  our  midst  for  many  years,  besides 
in  many  other 
making  himself  useful 
ways— for  instance,  he  united  me 
in 
marriage  to  my  w ife.”

Any  one  who  ever  enjoyed  the  friend­
ship  of  John  Ball  w ill  realize  the  in­
imitable  drollery  with  which  he  de­
livered  this  introduction.

Mr.  Ballard’s  courteous  retort  was  no 

less  characteristic:

“ Mr.  Welton,  I  assure  you  it is one  of 
my  most  pleasing  recollections. 
I  only 
regret  that  it  did  not  occur  twenty  years 
earlier. ”

Mr.  Ballard’s  unbounded  hospitality 
and  devotion  to  the  spiritual  and  ma­
terial  welfare  of  Grand  Rapids  were 
proverbial.  The  last  time  I  recollect 
seeing  him  was  some  years 
later,  when 
he  was  assisting  Mr.  Childs  to  plant  a 
•row  of  maple  trees  in  front  of  the  Con­
gregational  Church  at  what  is  now  the 
corner  of  Monroe  and Commerce streets.
Dr.  Francis  H.  Cuming,  rector  and

founder  of  St.  Marks  Episcopal Church, 
was  possessed  of  remarkable  energy  and 
executive  ability.  A  devout  churchman 
and  earnest  champion  of  the 
faith,  he 
was  never  bigoted  nor 
intolerant  of 
others.  To every  enterprise  that  offered 
material  benefit  to  Grand  Rapids  he 
was  among  the  first  to  give  encourage­
ment.  His 
ideas  of  the  future  of  the 
Valley  City  were  clear  and  comprehen­
sive  and  he  shaped  his  course  accord­
ingly.  To  eke  out  his  limited  salary 
he  was  for  many  years  agent  for  life  in­
surance.  Together  with  the  Rev.  Mr. 
Ferry  of  Grand  Haven  he  laid  out  and 
platted  Cuming  &  Ferry’s  addition  to 
Grand  Rapids  (West  Side).  At  one 
time  he  contemplated 
founding  St. 
Marks  College  and  a  preparatory school 
was  opened  in  a  small  building  built 
at  his  own  expense  on  Division  street, 
nearly  opposite  St.  Marks  Church.  He 
was  loved  and  honored  by  all  who  knew 
him.

Of  the  Rev.  Wm.  M.  Ferry  it  may  be 
said  that  he  occupied  the  same  exalted 
position  in  the  affections  of  the  people 
of  Grand  Haven  as  did  Dr.  Cuming 
in 
the  hearts  of  the  pioneers  of  Grand 
Rapids.  For  many  years  he  was  the 
only  Gospel  herald  in  that  sparsely  set­
tled 
lumbering  village.  He  was  not 
only  a  devoted  Christian  missionary, but 
his  example  and  industry  left  an 
indel­
ible  mark  upon the  future  of  the  present 
thriving  city  of  Grand  Haven.  His 
benevolence  was  extended  and  his  char­
ities  were 
liberal.  The  positions  of 
trust  and  confidence  that  have  been  be­
stowed  by  the  people  upon  members  of 
his family  bear  evidence  of his domestic 
virtues.

I  first  met  Father  Van  Raalte  at  my 
own  store,  comer  of  Canal  and  Bronson 
streets,  where  he  called  to  visit  our  late 
lamented  friend,  Paul  Steketee,  who 
was  then  in  my  employ.  He  impressed 
me  as  a  man  of  strong  convictions  and 
iron  will  whose  life  was  devoted  to  the 
spiritual  welfare  of  his  band  of  exiles 
from  the  Fatherland.  His  teachings 
and  example 
left  no  room  for  agnos­
ticism  to  take  root.  Devoted  piety  and 
unwavering  faith  in  God’s  promises and 
his 
inspired  word,  at  this  day  such 
prominent  characteristics  of  the  Hol- 
land-American  citizen,  were  the  fruit  of 
his  faithful  teaching.  His  labors  and 
sacrifices  were  great,  but  he  found  his 
reward 
love  and  veneration  of 
that  band  of  exiles  and  their  descend­
ants.

in  the 

Such  men  should  be  kept  in  grateful 
remembrance  by  those  who have profited 
by  their  sacrifices.  Would  it  not  be  a 
their  heroic, 
graceful  recognition  of 
self-sacrificing 
lives  for  the  Historical 
Society  of  Grand  Rapids  to  erect  an  en­
during  monument  in  John  Ball  park,  or 
some  central  point 
in  the  city,  upon 
which  to  record  their  names  and  keep 
their  good  works  in  perpetual  remem­
brance? 

W.  S.  H.  Welton.

A.  M.  Dean Company,

White Lead 
and Color Works

230 and 232 E. Kalamazoo Ave., 

Kalamazoo, Mich.

Manufacturers  of the  most  durable 
paint  made.  Every  gallon  war­
ranted  to  wear  as  good  and look  as 
well  as  any  paint  made  and  better 
than  pure  white  lead.
Write for prices and terms.  One  agent  wanted 

in every town.

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 A T E R   W H IT E   H E A D L IG H T   O IL  IS  T H E  

S T A N D A R D   T H E   W O R LD   O V E R

H I G H E S T   P R I C E   PA ID   F O R   E M P T Y   O A R B O N   A N D   G A S O L I N E   B A R R E L S

S T A N D A R D   O IL   C O .

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jacfîor)

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. INI.

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

Sent  to  you 
freight  prepaid 
on  approval  for

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

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is  made  of selected  oak, any finish  de­
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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.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

16
Woman’s World

S ettling  Some  o f  th e   Vexed  D om estic 

Problem s.

In  many  of  the  cities  where  the  do­
mestic  sciences  have  been  introduced 
into  the  public  schools,  the  boys  are  be­
ing  taught  to  sew  and  cook  as  well  as 
the  girls.  To  the  generality  of  women 
this  may  seem  a  doubtful  blessing. 
It 
is  an  invasion  of  the  sphere  particularly 
our  own. 
It  is  an  attack  on  the  one 
field  of  labor  where  we  have  been  per­
mitted  to  work  without  anybody  ques­
tioning  our  right  to  delve  in it and,  with 
a  prospect  of  papa’s  pies 
rivaling 
mother’s  bread,  we  may  well  feel  that 
there  is  danger of  a  time  coming  when, 
like  Othello,  our  occupation  will  be 
gone.  Worse  still,  it  is  a  palpable  blow 
at  matrimony.  The  man  who  can  sew 
on  his  own  buttons  and  patch  his  own 
trousers  and  cook  things  just  as  he  likes 
them  will  have  one 
incentive  to 
marry  than  the  man  who  depends  on 
some  woman  to  finally  rescue  him  from 
the  clutches  of  his 
laundress  and  the 
nightmare  of  boarding  around.

less 

in 

apprenticeship 

But  all  these  objections,  it  seems  to 
me,  are  more  than  offset  by the  dazzling 
prospects  offered  to  the  fortunate wOmen 
lucky  enough  to  draw  these 
who  are 
in  the  matrimonial  lottery,  and 
prizes 
we  may 
look  hopefully  forward  to  the 
future  when  neither  the  millionaire  nor 
the  swell  will  be  the  object of  pursuit  of 
managing  mammas,  but  the  youth  who 
has  taken  the  blue  ribbon  in  the  cook­
ing  school  will  be  universally  regarded 
as  the  catch  of  the  season.  Nor  does 
this  imply  that  women  have  any 
inten­
tion  of  abandoning  the  cooking  stove 
long  been  our  most  potent 
that  has  so 
ally. 
It  merely  means  that  we  shall 
recognize  that  the  man  who  has  served 
his 
the  cooking 
schools,  who  has  wrestled  with  the  fry­
ing  pan  and  been  up  against  the  pots 
and  the  kettles,  will  be  able  to  extend  a 
heart-to-heart  sympathy  and 
compre­
hension  to  his  wife  when  the  steak  is 
tough  and  the  potatoes  watery,  of  which 
the  unculinary,  half-baked  man 
is  ut­
terly 
incapable.  Dickens  says,  some­
where  in  one  of  his  stories,  that  no  ed­
ucated  man  ever  looks  at  even  the  back 
of  a  book  like  an  ignorant  person  does, 
and 
is  precisely  the  same  way  in 
housekeeping.  The  man  whose  whole 
experience  in  cooking  consists  in  offer­
ing  gratuitous  criticisms  every  time 
anything  is  underdone  or  overdone  can 
never  behold  a  dinner  with  the  same 
exquisite  perception  of  all  the  time  and 
labor  and  worry 
it 
that  the  man  will  show  who  knows  from 
personal  experience  of  the  deceitfulness 
of  butchers’  meat  and  the  iniquity  of 
the  kitchen  stove.

it  took  to  produce 

it 

As  it  is  now,  the  average  man  is  like 
the  military  experts  who  sit  in  their 
offices  and  theorize  about  how  the officer 
in  command  ought  to  carry  on  a  cam­
paign  in  a  country  of  which  they  know 
next  to  nothing  and  whose  difficulties 
they  habitually  underestimate.  As  the 
husband  figures  it  out,  all  the  domestic 
trials  that  his  wife  considers  mountains 
are  merely  kopjes  that  anybody  ought 
to  take  with  one  hand  tied behind them. 
All  that  she  has  to  do  is to march double 
quick  upon  the  enemy  intrenched  in  the 
kitchen,  storm  the  garrison,  rout  her 
with  slaughter,  set up  a  new  government 
that  she  expects  the  vanquished  to  hail 
with  rapture,  and  white-winged  peace 
It 
will  hover  forever  over  the  scene. 
doesn’t  even  occur  to  him 
that 
the 
in  her  own  country  and  that
enemy 

is 

she  is  armed  to  the  teeth  with  bombs  in 
the  shape  of  leaving  without  warning, 
and  that  at  the  very  first  hint  of  attack 
she  would  execute  a  successful  trek  out 
of  the  front  gate,  leaving  the  breakfast 
things  in  the  sink  and  the  clothes  soak­
ing  in  the  tub.

from  experience 

He  has  nothing but  contemptuous  pity 
for  the  female 
intellect  that  can  not 
manage  two  servants  without  getting 
gray  hairs  and  wrinkles  in  the  process, 
while  he  bosses  half  a  hundred  em­
ployes  without  turning  a  hair.  The 
man  who  has  been  through  the  domestic 
mill  on  his  own  account  will  never 
adopt  that  tone  of  voice  with  his  wife. 
He  knows 
that  no 
rules  that  apply  to  other 
labor  have 
any  bearing  on  the  servant  girl  ques­
tion.  Like  the  wind  she  cometh  and  she 
goeth  as  she 
listeth  and  no  man  or 
woman  knows  when  or  why  or  for  how 
long  she  is  going  to  list.  Neither  will 
this  paragon  make  unfavorable  com­
ments  on  the  culinary  products of Dinah 
and  Mary  Jane.  He  will  eat  what  is  set 
before  him,  asking  no  questions 
for 
sympathy’s  sake,  and  reflecting,  when 
things  go  awry,  that  perhaps  he  would 
get  no  better  results  in  his  own  affairs 
f  he  had  to  depend  for  all  his  help  on 
ignorant  and  unreliable  people  who 
neither  wanted  to 
learn  their  business 
nor  desired  to  keep  their  places.

of 

the  woman’s  point 

In  all  good  truth  teaching  boys  how 
to  cook  seems  to  me  to  be  the  most 
practical  and  helpful  suggestion  that 
has  yet  been  offered  towards  settling 
some  of  the  vexed  domestic  problems. 
It  is  the  first  effort  that  has  ever  been 
made  to  make  men  see  domestic  life 
from 
view. 
Ninety-nine  times  out  of  a  hundred  the 
trouble  between  men  and  women 
is 
caused  by  their  not  comprehending  the 
difficulties  with  which  the  other  has  to 
cope,  and  anything  that  makes  them  see 
life  from  the  other’s  standpoint 
just 
that  much  advance  towards  happiness. 
Without  doubt  the  man  who  knows  how 
to  cook  will  make  a  more  patient,  a ten­
derer and  a  more  sympathetic  husband 
than  the  one  who  believes  that  meals 
are  conjured  on  the  table  at  the  striking 
of  a  clock  by  some  sort  of  sleight  of 
hand  performance  that  is  no  trick  at  all 
for  a  woman  to  perform  and 
for  which 
she  deserves  no  credit.

is 

if 
For  precisely  the  same  reason  that 
as  a  woman,  were  contemplating 
matrimony,  I  would  search  through  the 
length  and  breadth  of  the  land  until  I 
found  a  man  who  was  a  graduate  of  the 
cooking school, for  a husband,  if I were  a 
man  I  would  choose  a  woman  whp  had 
had  business  training,  for  a  wife,  in 
preference  to  one  who  had  led  nothing 
but  a  doll  baby  existence,  without 
thought  or  care  or  responsibility.  The 
reason  why  the  business  woman  is  a 
preferred  risk 
in  matrimony  is  almost 
too  obvious  to  need  pointing  out.  For 
one  thing,  she  will  be  more  careful 
about  money.  No  woman  who  has  ever 
looks  at  one  like  the 
earned  a  dollar 
woman  who  has  always  had  all 
the 
life  drop  into  her  lap 
good  things  of 
without  question. 
it  means 
something  that  comes  easy  and  goes 
easy— an  added 
luxury  that  she  has 
coaxed  out  of  husband  or  father.  To 
the  other 
it  represents  toil,  weariness, 
sometimes  the  very  life  blood,  if  not  of 
herself,  of  some  other.  She  knows  how 
is  to  win,  how  hard  to  keep, 
hard 
and  all  the  anxiety  and  humiliations 
it 
means  to  be  without  it,  and  she  spends 
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SUNLIGHT................

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by one who has  used  the  Cline Machine, 
which  is  made  only  by  the  Alexander 
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DearJ  Sirs:  The  Cline  Acetylene  Gas  Ma­
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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 
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years. 

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little  nest  egg  tucked  away  for  a  rainy 
day.

Another  thing  that  the  man  who  mar­
ries  a  business  woman  may  count  on 
is 
getting  a  sympathy  in  his  work  that  the 
other  woman  is incapable of  through  her 
very  ignorance  of  extending.  The  av­
erage  woman,  down  in  her  soul,  regards 
her  husband’s  business  as  a  kind  of 
picnic.  Her  idea  of  having  a  thorough­
ly  good  time  is  going  for  a  morning’s 
debauch 
in  the  dry  goods  stores  and 
ending  up  by  eating  ice  cream  and soda 
water;  and  to  save  her 
life  she  can’t 
help  feeling  that  his  going  down  town 
every  day  is  just  the  same  kind of hilar­
ious  enjoyment.  No  woman  who  has 
sat  behind  a  typewriter  day  after  day 
and  taken  part 
in  the  daily  grind  of 
business,  who  knows  all  the  disappoint­
ments  and  vexations,  the  anxiety  about 
notes  that  are  coming  due  with  no 
money  to  meet  them, 
the  promising 
schemes  that  turned  to  failures,  that 
burden  most  men’s 
lives— no  woman 
who  has  been through  that  cherishes any 
illusions  about  business  being  fun.  She 
knows  it 
for  the  heart-wearing,  nerve- 
wearing  thing  it  is,  and  her  comprehen­
sion  of  his  trials  keeps  her  from  inflict­
ing  many  of  the  unconscious  cruelties 
that  the  woman  who  is  totally 
ignorant 
of  business  practices  upon  her  long- 
suffering  spouse.

that  he  might 

front  door  with 

It  is  this  same  knowledge  that  keeps 
the  business  woman  from  burdening  her 
already  overburdened  husband  with 
errands  she  can  do  herself  or  unpleasant 
communications 
be 
spared.  She  remembers  how,  when  she 
came  home  at  night,  with  nerves  fretted 
to  fiddle  strings,  it  seemed  to  her that 
just  one  more  calamity  would  strain 
things  to  the  breaking  point.  You  may 
be  sure  that  the  woman  who  has  been 
all  along  there  never  meets  a  weary man 
at  the 
the  glad  an­
nouncement  that  Jenny  has  swallowed  a 
pin  and  the  butcher  didn’t  send  the 
roast  and  there  isn’t  any  meat  for  din­
ner  and  Bobby  broke  the  new  plate 
glass  window  and  the  plumber  sent 
in 
it’s  perfectly  outrageous 
his  bill  and 
and  the 
laundry  man  has  lost  the  new 
shirts  and  the  gas  meter  is  leaking  and 
so  on  and  so  on.  Neither  does  she  ex­
pect  a  man  with  weighty  affairs,  and 
whose  time  is  money,  to stop  down  town 
and  match  tape  and  hunt  through  a  de­
partment  store  to  get  a  spool  of  pink 
silk.  All  of  these  pleasing  vagaries be­
long  to  women  who  do  not  intentionally 
make  martyrs  of  their  husbands,  but  do 
it  through  sheer  ignorance,  just  exactly 
as  so  many  husbands  are  nothing  less 
than  brutal  to  their  wives  about  things 
that  they  do  not  understand  and  diffi­
culties  they  do  not  appreciate.

To  my  mind  the  most  hopeful  augury 
for  future  happiness  in  the  home  lies  in 
this  teaching  boys  to  cook  and  girls 
something  about  business.  When  that 
is  accomplished  we  have  a  common 
plane  of  mutual  understanding 
and 
helpfulness  on  which the sexes can meet. 
We  will  not  only  know  the  trials  and 
tribulations  under which  each  other  la­
bor,  but  be  able  to  sympathize  and  re­
frain 
to  each  other’s 
troubles.

from  adding 

There’s 

just  one  more  thing  that 
I  should  like  to  see  added  to  the  men’s 
department  study,  and  that  is  a  course 
of  domestic  finance,  with  especial  refer­
ence  to  women. 
I  should  like  to  see  a 
from  personal  experience 
man 
what 
is  to  have  his  wife  dole  out  a 
quarter to  him  on  Monday  and  when  he 
tim idly entreats for more on  Friday  ask 
him  what_on  earth  he  did  with  what  she

learn 
it 

I  should 

gave  him. 
like  to  see  him 
start  to  ask  a  friend  to  drink,  and  then 
remember  he  didn’t  have  any  money 
forgetting 
and  have  to  tell  a  fib  about 
his  pocket-book. 
I  should  like  him  to 
know,  for  his  own  soul’s  sake,  how  per­
fectly  enchanting  it  is  to  have to  go  like 
a  beggar to  somebody  for  every  cent  he 
has.  For  I  am  convinced  it  is  only  be­
cause  men  know  nothing  of  what  these 
things  are 
like  that  they  make  their 
wives  and  daughters  do  anything  so 
humiliating.  With  personal  knowledge 
reform  would  come,  and  then  indeed 
the  mutual  sympathy  and  benefit  com­
pany,  with  unlimited  happiness  as 
its 
dividends,  would  be  a  reality  and  not 
a  dream. 

Dorothy  Dix.

T he  W idow s  W ho  N ever  W ed.

looked  too 

Among  the  most  pathetic  figures  with 
which  we  are  familiar  is  that  of  the  old 
maid  whose  sweetheart  was  killed  in 
the  war  between  the  North  and 
the 
South,  and  who  has  been  described 
with  a  kind  of  ghastly  humor  as  a  war 
widow.  As  we  know  her  best,  she  is 
generally  a  faded  old gentlewoman,  with 
hair  that 
is  whitening  very  fast  these 
days,  and  a  certain  expression  of  w ist­
in  her  eyes,  as  of  one  who 
ful  sadness 
has 
long  upon  the  face  of 
grief  and  loss.  Her  bereavement  is  so 
old  now  that  people  have  half-forgotten 
it. 
It  seems  as  if  she  must  always  have 
been  a  gentle  little  creature,  looking  on 
at  other  people’s  happiness  through  a 
gray  haze  of  melancholy  memories,  and 
like 
to  hear  the  story  of  hen romance  is 
reading  an  old-fashioned  book 
in  the 
twilight,  that  is  still  fragrant  with  dead 
leaves  that  have  been  pressed  be­
rose 
tween 
its  covers.  Old  people  will  tell 
you  that  Mattie  or  Laura  was  a  beauty 
and  a  belle,  and  about  how  her  bold 
young  lover  rode  away  in  the  morning 
sunlight,  gallant  and  gay,  at  - the  head 
of  his  company,  to  join  the  army.  He 
was  coming  back  so  soon,  covered  with 
glory  and  honor  and  victories  to  make 
her  his  wife,  and  he  kissed  away  her 
tears  and  unloosed  the  arms  that  clung 
about  his  neck,  and  was  gone  with  the 
rose 
from  her  hair  folded  safe  against 
his  heart.  But  the  days  went  by  and  he 
did  not  come.  Weeks  crawled 
their 
weary  way  into  endless  months and  then 
there  came  a  day  when  a  white-faced 
woman  knew  that  never,  never,  so 
long 
as  the  world 
lasted,  would  he  come  to 
her  again.  They  brought  her  a  bit  of 
blue  cloth,  and  a  blood-stained  rose  that 
they  took  from  above  a  quiet  heart,  and 
that  was  all.  The  years  have  come  and 
gone  since  then.  The  tender  hands  of 
the  grass  have  knit  up  the  wounds 
in 
the  scarred  battlefields  and  white  lilies 
of  peace  have  bloomed  spring  after 
spring  above  the  graves  of  the  nation’s 
heroes,  but  for  her  life  could  bring  no 
more  springtime  of  love  and  joy.  That 
was  gone,  and  so  she  took  her  place 
among  the  saddest  of  all  widows— the 
widows  who  were  never  wed.

Looking:  A head.

A   North  Omaha  Sunday  school  super­
intendent  always  conducts  the  lesson  re­
view 
in  his  school.  He  spends  about 
five  minutes 
in  explaining  the  lesson, 
and  then  ask s:

“ Now,  has  any  one  a  question  to 

ask?’ ’

ask?”

Last  Sunday  he  explained  the 

lesson 
as  usual,  dwelling  at  length  on  its  chief 
thoughts,  and  wound  up  with  the  usual 
question:

“ Now,  has  any  one  a  question  to 

A  member  of  the  boys’  junior  class 

raised  his  hand.

the  superintendent.

“ Well,  what  is  your question?”  asked 

“ Please,  sir,  are  we  going  to  have  a 

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operator  in  eggs?  A  statement  from  the 
cold  storage  warehouses  from  week  to 
week  would  now  be  of  the  utmost  value 
in  enabling  operators  in  eggs  to  judge 
of  the  merits  of  the  position;  without 
it  they  are  largely  “ going  it  blind.’ ’  If 
there  were  any  class  of  egg  men  who 
could  get  this 
information  for  them­
selves  I  could  understand  a  reason  for 
their opposition  to  the  compilation  of  it 
for  public  purposes.  But  this  is  entire­
ly  impossible.  The  storage  of  eggs 
is 
now  scattered  over  such  a  wide  territory 
that  even  the  best  informed  operators 
can  not  gain  any  knowledge  of  the  ex­
tent  of  inward  movement,  and  their  op­
position  to  the  publication  by  the  stor­
age  houses  of  the  quantity  accumulating 
is  as  much  contrary  to  their  own 
inter­
ests  as  to  those  of  their competitors.

*  *  *

I 

found  a 

I  have  been  urging  the  necessity  for 
this  reform  for  a  long  time  and  during 
the  past  year  made  extensive  enquiries 
among  egg  men  and  storage  houses  to 
ascertain  the  general  views  of  the  sub­
ject. 
large  majority  of  the 
egg  storers  anxious  to  have  the  public 
warehouses  make  weekly  reports  as  to 
quantity  on  hand— only  a  very  few  be­
ing  opposed— but  while  most  of the stor­
age  people  were  in  sympathy  with  the 
movement,  and  seemed  entirely  willing 
to  make  the  reports  so  far  as  they  them­
selves  were  concerned,  many  of  them 
said  they  would  “ have  to  be  guided  by 
the  wishes  of  their  customers. ’ ’  This 
means,  as  I  suppose,  that  if  a  customer 
objected  they  would  not 
include  his 
goods 
in  their  statement— which  would 
make  the  statement  inaccurate  and  con­
sequently  worse  than  useless.

*  *  *

I  can  not  see  why  a  public  cold  stor­
age  house  should take this position.  The 
knowledge  of  their  total  holdings  is  cer­
tainly  their  own,  to  do  what  they  like 
with ;  if  the  trade  at  large  from  whom 
their  custom  is  derived  desire  the 
in­
formation  it  is  unreasonable  that  one  or 
two  of  their  number  can  prevent  them 
from  obtaining  it.  The  patron  of  a  stor­
age  house  has  an  undoubted  right  to 
maintain  secrecy  as  to his own holdings, 
but  with  the  total  in  the  warehouse  he 
clearly  has  nothing  to  do.  The  prin­
ciple  is  the  same  in  collecting reports of 
deliveries  by  railroad  freight  lines;  at­
tempts  of 
their 
shipments  withheld  from  the  report  of 
total  deliveries  by  a 
line  have  drawn 
forth  the  strongest  condemnation  from 
the  trade  at  large,  both  upon  the  freight 
line  and  the  shipper.

individuals  to  have 

trade  as  a  whole,  and publish  from  week 
to  week  the amount of eggs accumulated, 
which  they  have  an  undoubted  right  to 
do  so  long  as  they  do  not  divulge 
indi­
vidual  holdings,  will  gain  popularity 
among  egg storers  at  large  which will be 
to  their  material  advantage.— N.  Y. 
Produce  Review.

Coops  and  Cases.

Several  months  ago  the  produce  deal­
ers  of  St.  Louis  decided  to  abandon  the 
practice  of  furnishing  coops  and  cases 
to  shippers  of  poultry  and  eggs.  At 
first  there  was  some  kicking  on  the  part 
of  shippers,  but  when  they  found  that 
the  decision  was  strictly  adhered  to  by 
all  the 
leading  houses  along  the  street, 
they  made  the  best  of  it,  and  proceeded 
to  stock  up  with  coops  and  cases  nec­
essary  to  transport  their  shipments  of 
poultry  and  eggs  to  market.  The  result 
is  that  during  the  months  that  have 
elapsed 
there  have  been  more  new 
coops  and  cases  seen  along  Third  street 
than  ever  before  in  the  same  length  of 
time.  They  come  in  now  marked  with 
shippers’  names,instead  of  the  dealers’, 
and 
it  is  to  the  shippers  they  are  to  be 
returned  when  empty.

So  far  as  the  street  is  concerned,  the 
dealers  are  more  than  satisfied  with  the 
change.  Some few  lost  regular  shippers 
for  a  time,  after the  decision  went 
into 
effect,  but  the  majority  say  the'  change 
has  saved  them  money.  One 
large  egg 
dealer  said 
it  had  saved  his  house 
$1,000  so  far  this  year.  This  is  an  item.
Two  or  three  houses,  as  a  bid  for 
shipments,  still  stick  to  the  old  plan  of 
furnishing  coops  and  cases,  but  it  is  a 
dead 
idea  on  the  market,  and  now  that 
regular  shippers  have  secured  cases  and 
coops  sufficient  to  keep  their  shipments 
moving  freely,  it 
if  even 
they  would  consent  to  a  restoration  of 
the  old  method.— Kansas  City  Packer.

is  doubtful 

We have our own Straw Board Mills, carry heavy 
stock.  Prompt shipments.  Write for  prices. 
FL IN T   EGG CASE  AND  F IL L E R   CO.,

F lin t,  M ichigan.

Announcement.

Stroup  &  Carmer  have  taken  into 
partnership  A  L.  Sickles  of  Elsie, 
Mich.,  who for the last fifteen years 
has  been  known  as  one  of the  reli­
able  carload  egg  and  produce  ship­
pers  of  the  state.  This  firm  has 
large  orders  for  storage  eggs,  and 
dealers  who  have  butter  and  eg,gs 
to  sell  would  do  well  to  get  their 
prices  and  particulars.

Stroup & Sickles Co.,

Both Phones. 

38 S. Division Street, 
Qrand Rapids, Mich.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

I  am  very  strongly  convinced  that 
storage  houses  which  will  consider  the 

demands  and  the  welfare  of  the  egg COLD S T O R A G E

We  do  a  general  storage.  We  are  in  the  field 
for  business and solicit your  patronage.  Corres­
pondence solicited.  Second season in operation.

GRAND RAPIDS COLD STORAGE CO.

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

Fibre  Butter  Packages

Convenient and  Sanitary

Lined with parchment paper.  The best class 
of  trade  prefer  them.  Write  for  prices  to 
dealers.

Gem Fibre Package Co.

Detroit,  Michigan

Oeo.  N.  Huff & Co.,

WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

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

COOLERS  AND  COLD  STORAGE  ATTACHED.

Consignments  Solicited. 

74 East Congress St., Detroit, Mich.

W A I T E D

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?   36  Market  Street. 

We are always in the market for Fresh

BUTTER  AND  EGGS

R.  H IR T,  JR .,  Detroit,  Mich.

WANTED—

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 

G.  A. 5CHANZ & CO.

58 W. Woodbridge St.  and  22  Market St.,  Eastern  Market,  Detroit,  Mich.

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

WHOLESALE  PRODUCE

D.  O.  WILEY  &  CO.

DÉTROIT,  MICH.

COMMISSION  M ERCH ANTS

E ST A B L ISH E D   1868.

B U TTE R ,  EGGS,  FRU IT,  PR O D U C E

References, Dim or Bradstreet. 

Consignments  Solicited. 

Please  Mention Tradesman.

W E   P A Y   C A S H

,F.  O.  B.  your  station  for  EGGS  and  all 
grades of  B U TTE R . 
It  will  pay  you  to 
write or wire  us before you sell.

HARRIS  &  FRUTCHEY,  D e t r o it .  M ic h .

We  want to buy your

Butter  and  Eggs  for  Cash

FOR  SA LE — Second-hand  butter  crocks,  ones 
and  twos.  3c  per gal.  f  o.  b.  Detroit.

Hermann  C.  Naumann  &  Co.,

353 Russell St., Opp. Eastern Vegetable Market, Detroit, Mich.

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After the  oil  is  extracted  the  cake which 
remains 
is  sold  for  $30  a  ton  in  Ger­
many  and  fed  to  cattle  and  sheep.  Pea­
is  one  of  the  latest  uses  of 
nut  butter 
the  peanut. 
It  is  made  by  grinding  the 
nuts  very  fine  and  reducing  the  mass  to 
pasty  substance,  a  portion  at  least  of 
the  oil  being  removed.  Salt  is  added  as 
flavoring.

for 

the 

in  storage  eggs  throughout 
last  season  was 

Wisconsin  papers  estimated  that  the 
that 
loss 
from 
State 
$60,000  to  $65,000.  Milwaukee  had
4.000  cases  stored,  and  there  were  about
50.000  cases  throughout  the  State.  The 
eggs  cost  in  the  coolers  about  13^  cents 
and  quite  a  few  of  them  were  sold  at  6 
cents,  while  some  brought  1 0 cents. 
None  of  them  brought  cost  price.

Commission 
Merchants 

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Fort  Wayne,  Ind. 

Jobbers  of 

Write us for prices. 

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F. CUTLER & SONS, Ionia, Mich.

WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

B U T T E R ,   E G G S   A N D   P O U L T R Y ,

W riteoi^w ir^o^highes^ash^ric^^o^^j^oui^station^W ^rem itj)rom £tl^r.

Branch  Houses.

New York, 874 Washington st.

Brooklyn, ‘¿25  Market avenue

ESTABLISHED  188«.

References.

State Savings Bank, Ionia. 
Dun’s or Bradstreet’s Agencies.

i   WLi

GOTHAM  GOSSIP.

New»  F ro m   th e   M etropolis—In d ex   To  th e 

Special Correspondence.

M arket.

New  York,  April  21— Hotels  are  so 
crowded  that  cots  have  to  be  used  and 
the  contingent  of  country  buyers  here  is 
enormous.  Jobbers  are rushed and every­
thing  is  simply  humming.

The  coffee  market 

is  full  of  ups  and 
downs  and  can  best  be  characterized  as 
unsettled.  The  shadow  of  a  story about 
plague  at  Rio  set  prices  tending  up­
ward,  and  then  a  reaction  came  and  at 
the  close  the  market  is  dull  with  No.  7 
worth  in  an  invoice  way  8%c,  although 
Arbuckles  are  said  to  have  bought  5,000 
bags  at  8%c. 
In  store  and  afloat  there 
are  1,072,531  bags,  against 
1,072,531 
bags  at  the  same  time  last  year.  For 
mild  grades  the  demand  is  of  an  every­
day  character  and  quotations,  Good 
Cucuta  moving  at  io@ ioXc.  East 
ln- 
dias  quiet.

The  undertone  for  refined  sugar  is 
firm  and  the  volume  of  trade  is  fairly 
satisfactory.  Jobbers  seem  to  be  fairly 
well  supplied  and  most  of  the  business 
is  of  a 
jobbing  character  rather  than 
from  refineries.  Quotations  remain  un­
changed.

The  week  has  been  a  duller  one in  tea 
than  dealers  like  to  see,  very  few  orders 
coming  to  hand  and  those  for  supplies 
only  sufficient  to  repair  broken  stocks. 
Prices,  however,  are  pretty  well  sus­
tained  and  the 
feeling  on  the  part  of 
sellers  is  that  no  concessions  are  neces­
sary.  Scarcely  anything  has  been  done 
in  an  invoice  way.

There  has  been  a  fairly  satisfactory 
in  rice  and  the  outlook  seems 
trade 
promising 
for  rather  higher  prices. 
Foreign  sorts  are  firm,  with  new  crop 
Japan  selling  at  4?^@5c.  A   Govern­
ment  contract  for  2,400,000  pounds  of 
rice  for  Puerto  Rico  will  be  awarded 
next  week,  and  this  is  attracting  some 
attention. 
It  will  materially  reduce 
stocks  and  tend  to  harden  prices  all 
around.

In  spices  some  business  has  been 
done 
in  pepper  and  cloves,  and  more 
might  have  been  had  prices  not  been 
above  the  views  of  buyers.  The  general 
run  of  trade  has  been  very  quiet  and 
the  outlook  is  not especially encouraging 
for  the  moment.

In  molasses  the  grocery  grades  of 
New  Orleans  have  been  firmly  held  and 
the  prices  closely  up  to  “ top  notch”   of 
the  season.  The  demand,  however,  is 
not  especially  active  and  orders  are  of  a 
hand-to-mouth  character.  Supplies  do 
not  seem  to  be  excessive,  but  there  is 
enough  to  go  around.  Syrups  are  firm 
and  meeting  with  fair  sale.

It  begins  to  look  as  if all the “  future”  
business 
in  canned  goods  this  year 
would  be  done  when  the  spot  goods  are 
here.  No  one  can  recall  a  season  when 
there  was  so  little  doing  in  future  goods 
and  the  chances  are  that  everyone  will 
be  just  as  well  pleased.  Spot  trading  is 
light  and  few  lots  of  any  size  are chang­
ing  hands.  New  Jersey  standard  toma­
toes  are  moving  slowly  at  about  72^@ 
75c,  buyers  seeming  to  be  indifferent  as 
to  whether  they  get  any  or  not.  Reports 
are  coming  in  every  day  of  prospective 
good  crops  and  also  a  good  crop  of  new 
canneries.  A  couple  of  leading  Maine 
packers are  here  this  week trying  to  stop 
by  legal  methods  the  habit some packers 
in  Illinois  and  other  Western  States 
have  of  putting  a  Maine  label  on  West­
ern  corn,  to  the  disadvantage  of  the 
Pine  Tree  State.  May  they  meet  with 
success.  Let  every tub  stand  on its  own 
bottom.

Lemons  and  oranges  are  meeting with 
good  demand  and  prices  are  well  sus­
tained.  Sicily  fruit  ranges  from  $3@ 
3.75  per  box.  California  oranges  sell 
freely  and  prices  are  about  as 
last 
quoted— Navels  from  $3@4.25  and  §4-75 
for  fancy.  Seedlings,  $3. i5@3-50.  Ban­
anas  are  still way  up,  but  really  seem  to 
have  reached  the  top.  The  demand 
is 
active  and,  as  the  supply  is  light,  there 
seems  some  reason  aside  from  specula­
tion 
for  the  quotations  given.  Firsts, 
per bunch,  Aspinwalls,  $ i . 6o@ i . 65.

In  dried  fruits  there  has  been  a  better 
demand  for  evaporated  apples and fancy 
stock  will  command  about  8c.  Califor­

nia  dried  fruits  are  moving  in  the  slow­
est  manner 
Large  sized 
prunes  are  pretty  well  sold  up,  but  the 
market  generally  contains  room  for  im­
provement.

imaginable. 

improvement  and 

The  bean  market  for  marrows  shows 
some 
prices  are 
steady.  Choice,  $ 2 .1^ 2 .17^ 0 ;  choice 
medium, 
pea, 
Michigan  in  bbls.,  $2.17^@2.20;  bags, 
$2.15;  choice  red  kidney,  $2.10.

$i.go@ 2.10; 

large  portion  of  stock 

The  time  of  year  has arrived when  the 
quality  of  eggs becomes a little ‘ * shaky' ’ 
so  far  as  a 
is 
concerned,  and  buyers  are  becoming  de­
cidedly  critical.  Even  near-by 
fancy 
stock  will  not  bring  over  14c.  Selected 
Western,  13c.  Western  duck  eggs,  I7@
18c.

choice 

In  butter  there 

is  a  fair  trade,  but 
prices  are  no  higher  and  are  hardly  as 
strongly  held  as  a  week  ago. 
Best 
Western  creamery  is  worth  18c.  Thirds 
to  firsts, 
imitation 
creamery,  16c;  firsts, 
I4>£@i5c;  rolls, 
prime  to  fancy,  I3@ i6 ^ c.

I5^ @ i7c;  fancy 

There  is  a  fair  demand  for  cheese  but 
the  call  is  not  loud.  The  home  trade  is 
taking  small  size,  old,  full  cream  stock 
at  I2@I3C.  Some  new  full  cream  stock 
is  now  arriving,  and  exporters  are  tak­
ing  some  at  about  n)4c.

How  Peanut»  A re  G row n  and  Prepared 

for  M arket.

from  Africa  and  India 

The  peanut  crop  of  1899  is  nearly  a 
million  bushels  heavier  than  the  crop  of 
the  preceding  year.  The total crop  will, 
it 
is  thought,  reach  nearly  4,500,000 
bushels  of  22  pounds  each.  The  bulk 
of  the  crop  is  produced 
in  Tennessee, 
Virginia  and  North  Carolina. 
It  is  not 
generally  known  that 
the  American 
yield  constitutes  but  a  small  proportion 
of  the  peanut  crop  of  the  world;  the  ex 
portation 
tc 
Europe  is  nearly  400,000,000  pounds  an 
nually,  half  of  which  goes  to  Marseilles 
to  be  made  into  oil.  The  running  va­
riety  is  a  typical  American  peanut. 
Its 
vines  are  large,with  spreading  branches 
growing  flat  on  the  ground.  The  pods 
are 
large  and  white.  There  are  many 
more  varieties  grown,  some  of  them  be­
ing  upright  bushes 
instead  of  vines. 
The  so-called  Spanish  nuts  are  used 
principally  by 
They 
have  small,  round  kernels  and  are  very 
fine.  The  crop  averages  annually  150,- 
000  bags  of  n o   pounds  each. 
It  is  only 
within  the 
last  few  years  that  peanuts 
have  been  shelled  by  machinery.  With 
the 
increase  of  their  production  ma­
chines  have  been  taking  the  place of the 
old  slow-going  methods.

confectioners. 

To  grow  peanuts  successfully  requires 
a  calcareous  soil  without 
too  much 
lime,  and  under  such  conditions,  the 
yield  runs  from  thirty  to  forty  bushels 
per  acre.  There  are  about  twenty  pea­
nut  factories  in  America  and  the capital 
required 
for  starting  a  mill  is  small. 
One  factory  handles  hve  tons  of  peanuts 
daily,  producing  235  gallons  of  refined 
oil, 
175  gallons  of  crude  oil,  3,680 
pounds  of  flour  and  meal  and  -3,3°° 
pounds  of  stock 
food.  An  extensive 
grower  does  not  take  the  trouble  to  sep­
arate  peanuts 
from  the  vines  and  dirt 
when  he  has  dug  his  crop,  but  sends 
everything  to  the  factory.  _ They  are 
put 
into  the  mill,  vines,  dirt  and  all, 
and  are  then  placed  in  a  hopper  and 
fed 
into  a  revolving  cylinder  which 
cleans  them  by  friction,  the  dirt,  leaves 
and  vines  being  taken  out  by  a  suction 
pipe.  The  nuts  remain  in  the  cylinder 
and  they  are  fed  out  upon  a  revolving 
slat-table,  the  slats  resting  upon canvas, 
from  which  negro  women  pick  out  those 
of  the  first  grade,  which  are  known  as 
“ fancy.”   The  selected  nuts  are  fed 
from  the  table  into  chutes  and  then  into 
bags.  The  remainder  are  run  over  a 
into 
second  revolving  slat-table, 
chutes  and  packed 
labeled 
“ extras.”   Four  grades  are  sorted,  the 
first  three  being  sold  to  dealers  and  the 
fourth  to  confectioners  for  making burnt 
almonds  and  cheap  candies.  America 
does  a  heavy  export  business  to  Europe 
in  peanuts. 
eat 
them  as  Americans  do,  but  grind  them 
into  meal.  They  also  make  oil  of  them, 
which  is  resold  to  Americans  as  olive 
oil.  The  nuts  are  very  rich  in  oil,  40 
per  cent,  of  the  shelled  nut  being  oil.

Foreigners  do _ not 

in  bags 

fed 

Mammoth,  Medium,  Alsyke,  Alfalfa,  Crimson,  White  Clover.

Blue  Grass, Orchard  Grass Seeds.

Timothy,  Redtop,

S E E D S

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Can  fill order quickly at  right prices.

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Blood  Oranges.  Lemons,  Dates,  Figs and  Nuts.  Maple Sugar 
and  Syrup.  Careful attention given mail orders

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small  lots, write for prices. 

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MV  SHOP  G IR I»

She  was  a  shop  girl.  How  did 

E fforts  to   U p lift  W hich  Cam e  to  N aught.
I 
know  it?  By  the  tired  sigh  that  escaped 
her  as  she  sank  into  a  seat;  by  the  ill- 
fitting  boot  that  threatened  to  burst  at 
any  moment;  by  the  pitiful  attempts  at 
respectability  in  a  shiny  old  black dress 
which  showed  the  careful  mending  it 
had  received;  by  the  gloves,  darned and 
redamed  and  turned  over  at  the  ends.

The  man  who  entered  at  the  same 
time  as  my  shop  girl,  and  who  attracted 
my  attention  by  his  efforts  to  attract 
hers,  had  the appearance  of  any  well-to- 
do  New  Yorker,  worldly,  well  dressed, 
with  a  certain  air of  comfort  about  him 
which  gives  one  a  sense  of  security  and 
delight.  I  could  not  watch  his  face  from 
where  I  sat,  but  I  watched  hers.  She 
tried  not  to  notice  him.  She  studied  the 
advertisements,  she  studied  the  passen­
gers,  collectively  and  individually,  and 
then  I  knew  he  had  made  some  effort  to 
have  her  recognize  him,  for  I  saw  her 
blush  a  blush  that  seemed  like  the  com­
ing  in  of  a  crimson  tide,  for  it  came  up 
and  up  from  the  collar  of  her  shabby 
gown  to  the  roots  of  her  soft  brown 
hair.  The  tears  sprang  quickly  to  her 
eyes.  Fortunately 
the  car 
stopped,  which  gave  me  an  opportunity 
to  step  across  and  take  a  seat  beside 
her.  A  sudden 
jolting  of  the  car  gave 
me  an  excuse  to  open  the  conversation, 
and  I  began  to  talk  to  her  in  a  quiet 
way,  and  as  I  saw  her  tears  dry,  I 
chatted  on  and  on,  not  of  co-education 
or  of  the  war  situation,  but  of  ribbons 
and 
laces  and  the  latest  way  of  doing 
the  hair  and  of  a  dozen  other  nothings 
that  I  felt  she  knew  all  about.  At  the 
end  of  ten  minutes  her tears  had  van­
ished  and  the  smile  on  her  lips  was  a 
real  one,  as  she  told  me  of  a  gown  she 
had  seen  the  day  before.

just  then 

“ Are  you  fond  of  pretty  gowns?”   I 

asked.

She,  however,  had  become  really 

“ Oh,  my,  y e s,"  and  her  eyes  fairly 
beamed. 
“ I  have  often  thought  how  it 
would  seem  to  be  inside  of  a  silk  petti­
coat,  with a  fine cloth  gown  over  it  lined 
with  silk—how  much  easier  one  could 
walk  and  what  a  rest  it  would  be  for 
one’s  nerves,  just to hear its soft  rustle. ’ ’ 
The  man  across  the  way  was  listen­
ing,  too,  and  not  wishing  to  continue 
and  be  overheard  by  him,  I  leaned  my 
head  back  and  feigned  fatigue 
and 
thought  how  when  one’s  head  ached 
and  one’s  heart  ached  the  rustle  she  so 
longed  for  was  enough  to drive one mad.
in­
terested 
in  my  conversation  by  this 
time,  and,  ignoring  my  efforts  to  be 
quiet,  told  me  of  many  of  her  experi­
ences  behind  the  counter;  and  I  no­
ticed  that  the  man  opposite  leaned  for­
ward  on  his  umbrella  ostensibly  to  rest, 
but,  in  reality,  I  knew,  to  draw  a  little 
nearer  to  us  and  hear,  if  possible,  what 
we  were  saying.  The  brakeman  called 
my  street,  but  I  took  no  notice  of  it. 
The  passengers  began  to  thin  out,  and 
soon  she  signaled  the  conductor. 
I  fol­
lowed,  as  did  also  the  man  across  the 
aisle.  She  caught  the  next  car  and  we 
were 
just  behind  her.  After  we  were 
seated  she  looked  at  me  in astonishment 
and  asked:  “ Are  you  going  this  way?”  
I  knew  what  the  intonation  meant,  and 
I  also  knew  to  what  part  of  New  York 
we  were  going,  but  I  smiled  at  her,  and 
answered :  “ Yes,  I am  going  this  way. ”  
the 
man  across  the  aisle  pulled  the bell rope 
and  she  arose  and  walked  toward  the 
door.  As  soon  as  I  could  recover  from

Ten  minutes  passed  and  then 

the  shock  of  his  signaling  for  her  I 
stumbled  after  her.

I  shuddered  as  I  looked  about  me,  but 
followed  as  closely  as  I  Could  after  the 
girl  in  whose  life  I  had  suddenly  taken 
so  great  an  interest. 
It  was  very  dark 
and  a  cold  drizzle  added to  the  gloom  of 
the  night,  the  wind  swept  around  the 
comers  with  a  savage  whirl  and  the 
street 
lamps  shone  out  with  a  ghostly 
glimmer,  but  I  shut  my  lips  tightly  to­
gether  and  said,  “ Won’t  vou  wait  for 
me?”

We  went  along 

in  silence  until  she 
‘ ‘ What 
bent  tf)  the  ground  with  a  cry. 
is  it?”   I  asked. 
“ Oh,  my  shoe!  it  has 
burst,  and  to-day  is  only  Tuesday  and 
my  wages  are  overdrawn;  it  is  so  bad 
to  be  poor,  to  be  half  starved  and  half- 
clothed  and—and  then  the  temptations. 
Oh,  my  God,  the  temptations!”

The  man’s  face 

in  the  car  came  to 
me 
in  a  new  way  now,  and  I  said,  “ I 
am  a  wife  and  a  mother,  and I  want  you 
to  tell  me  frankly  all  your  troubles  and 
your  temptations,  and  then  perhaps  I 
can  help  you. ”

We  sat  down  on  a  curb  stone,  in  spite 
of  the  drizzle,  and  she  told  me.  The 
woman  in  me shrieked  at the  indignities 
offered  to  our  sex  and  the  mother  in  me 
long  to  take  that  poor,  tired 
made  me 
child 
in  my  arms  and  hold  her  close, 
while  the  divine  spark  that  is  in  every 
one  made  me  promise  to  uplift  and help 
her— just  how,  I  did  not  know,  I  left 
that  to  God.

“ And  this  man,”   she  continued,  “ he 
follows  me  everywhere,  and  one  night 
he  followed  me  close  and  put  something 
into  my  pocket  and  walked  away. 
I 
screamed  for  fright  and  then walked  un­
der  a 
lamp  post  and  cautiously,  very 
cautiously,  put  my  hand  in  my  pocket; 
it  was  a  note. 
In  it  was  $20  and  these 
words: 
like  your  face;  with  me  are 
luxury  and  comfort,  without me  are pov­
erty and misery ;  choose. ’  ’ ’

‘ I 

My  face  grew  like  marble,  but  by  a 
superhuman  effort  I  said,  “ Without  him 
are  honor  and  a  good  name.”  
“ Yes, 
interrupted,  “ I  told  him 
yes,”   she 
that.”  
“ You  told  him?  What  did  he 
say?”

“ Oh,  he  said  that  was  baby  talk.”
1  drew  her  hands  in  mine  and  prayed 
for  her,  as  I  had  never  prayed 
aloud 
before.  As  I 
left  her  I  pressed  a  bill 
into  her  hand— very  precious  dollars 
they  were  to  me, 
too— dollars  I  had 
saved  from  other  things  to  buy  a  few 
trifles  my  heart  longed  for.

I 

left  New  York  the  next  day,  but  I 
wrote  her  often;  wrote  her  when  body 
and  soul  cried  out  against  any  more  ex­
ertion;  wrote'her 
long,  cheerful,  hope­
letters,  when  my  own  soul  yearned 
ful 
for  sympathy  and  support. 
I  sent  her 
from  my  own  slender  store,  now  $5,  now 
$10,  as  I  could,  but  I  tried  to  make  it 
regular.  Now  and  then I  sent  her  a  box 
of  dainty 
feminine  belongings,  things 
which  cost  so  much  and  seem so little.

Then  two  years  dragged  their  weary 
length  across  my  horizon  and  one  day, 
having  a  surplus  from  the  daily  needs,
I  sent  it  to  her. 
1  counted  out  the  days 
when  the  reply  would  come to  me.  The 
sight  of  her  familiar  handwriting  when 
the  letter  was  placed  in  my  hand  made 
me  joyful. 
Inside  was  the  money  I  had 
sent  her  and  the  chatty  letter  explained 
that  she  had  a  better  position  now  and 
no  longer  needed  my  sacrifices,  but  she 
loved  me,  and  when  she  went  to  sleep 
at  night  two  faces  always  came  to  her— 
her  mother’s  and  mine.

I  was  not  glad  that  she  no  longer 
needed  me.  Perhaps  a  mother,  when 
she  feels  for  the  first  time  that  her

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babies  no  longer  need  to  be  put  to  bed 
in  the  old  way,  feels  something  of  the 
in  those  first  few  days.  A 
pain  I 
few  wandering 
letters  passed  between 
us,  and  then  no  answers  came  to  my 
anxious  enquiries.  One  day  a  note 
came  from the  Roosevelt  Hospital,  writ­
ten  by  a  nurse,  saying  that  my  shop  girl 
had  been,  and  was  still,  very  ill,  and 
would  l  not  write  her  a  letter  in  the  old 
way?

She  was 

in  my  hand: 

ill,  and  she  needed  me. 
What  a  blessed  thing,  I  thought,  to  have 
someone  need  you !  As  1  look  back  now 
it  seems  that  part  of  myself  went  with 
that  letter  and  never  returned.  I  waited 
for  an  answer,  patiently  at  first,  and 
then  the  flood  of  work  swept  down  upon 
me,  and  when  1  again  woke  to  the 
world,  I  found  it  was  six  weeks  since 
I  had  heard  from  my  shop  girl. 
I 
rushed  to  the  telegraph  office  and  wired 
the  hospital. 
In  three  hours  an  answer 
lay 
“ Discharged  three 
weeks  ago.”   Then  1  wrote  her  a  letter 
of  real  thanksgiving  for  her  convales­
cence. 
I  wrote  again  and  again,  but  no 
answer  came.  One  day  when  the  pain 
of  uncertainty  was  greater  than  usual  1 
took  the  matter to my  husband.  ‘ * I  have 
been  waiting  for  you  to  come  to  me 
with  this, ”   he  said,  quietly,  “ and if you 
will  be  real  brave  1  will  tell  you  what  I 
think.  1  think  your  shop  girl  is  dead. ”  
It  had  come  to  me  before,  the  horrible 
dread,  but  I  could  not  bear  to  hear 
it 
even  from  him.  Another  six  weeks,  and 
another,  and  no 
letter.  Then  I  dug  a 
grave  in  my  heart  beside  the others,  and 
wept  bitter tears  over  it.
‘  Some  weeks  afterward,  quite  unex­
1  went 
pectedly,  I  went  to  New  York. 
first  to  the  store  where  she  had  been em­
ployed,  but  beyond  the  fact that  she  had 
been  very  ill  they  could  tell me nothing. 
I  went  to  the  hospital.  She  had  been 
discharged;  her  bill  was  paid,  and  she 
was  gone.  The  nurse  told  me  that  she 
lived  somewhere 
in  New  York,  and 
perhaps I could find her.  “ Somewhere in 
New  Y o rk !”  
it  over  and 
over  to  myself.  She might  as  well  have 
said  somewhere  in  the  world,  and I gave 
her  up.

I  repeated 

One  night  at  the  opera  I  was  inter­
ested 
in  a  couple  who  sat  in  front  of 
my  companion  and  myself,  a  little  to 
the  right.  The  man  somehow  looked 
strangely  familiar,  but  the  woman!  She 
was  gorgeously  dressed,  or undressed,  in 
a  gown  of  purple  velvet,  with  here  and 
there  a  dash  of  white  satin.  She  was 
very  stout  and  had  an  air of  discomfort, 
as  if  the  flesh  had  been  lately  acquired, 
for  it  ran  all  over  above  and  below  the 
tightly  drawn  bodice.  Jewels  gleamed 
on  her  neck  and  her  com-colored  hair 
was  literally  stuffed  with  feathers,  until 
she  looked  like  a  barbarian  queen.  Her 
face  was  powdered  to  an  ashy, white­
ness,  her  lips  and  cheeks  were  crim­
son,  while  her  eyebrows  and 
lashes 
were  steeped 
The  whole 
make-up  gave  her  the  appearance  of  a 
newly-made  ash  heap.  My  companion 
smiled  as  he  noticed  my  scrutinizing 
gaze,  but,  remembering  that  after  all 
she  was  a  woman,  I said :  ‘ ‘ How can you 
I  think  it  is  a  time  for tears.”
laugh? 
fell  we  rose  with  the 
others  and  the  couple  in  front  of  us  rose 
also.  As  she  turned  for  her  companion 
to  arrange  her  cloak  she  faced  me.  A 
dart  of  recognition  shot  from  her  eyes 
into  mine  and  I  gasped.  A  blush  quick­
ly  rose  from  the  depths  of  that  decollete 
gown  and  mounted  faster  and 
faster  to 
the  roots  of  her  corn-colored  hair.  The 
room  swam  and  I  clutched  the  arm  of 
my  friend  for  support.  He,  thinking  1

As  the  curtain 

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was  fainting,  gathered  me  up  in  his 
arms  and  put  me  into  a carriage.  Then 
the  pent-up  suspense  and  anxiety  of 
months  burst  forth in  one  cry : 
“ Great 
heavens!  that  ash  heap  was  my  shop 
g irl!”  

Ruth  Ward  Kahn.

T he  D angerous  A rgum ent.

Any  one  who  has  the  privilege  of 
visiting 
in  many  houses  at  such  times 
as  the  families  are  off  dress  parade  and 
have  on  their  everyday  manners  as  well 
as  their  everyday  clothes  must  have 
impressed  with  the  fact  that  the 
been 
most  dangerous 
foe  that  threatens  the 
peace  of  any  home  is  the  argument.  By 
the  side  of  that 
insidious  and  deadly 
enemy,  the  things  that  we  have  been 
accustomed  to  consider  as  the  greatest 
menace  to  domestic  peace  and  concord 
become  as  innocuous  and  harmless  as an 
in­
exploded  bomb.  Drunkenness  and 
fidelity  and 
cast 
their  blight  on  hundreds  of  homes,  but 
the  argument  is  daily  making  millions 
of  homes  a  good 
imitation  of  Dante's 
“  Inferno. ”

extravagance  may 

that  liberality  and  tolerance  that  grant 
to  every  other  person  the  same  rights 
that  one  arrogates  to  himself.  Neith­
er  is  it  necessary  to  precipitate  those 
perfectly  unnecessary  domestic 
argu­
ments  about  household  affairs  which 
every  woman  feels  that  she  understands 
better than  her  husband  does.  Ninety- 
nine  times  out  of  a  hundred  she  could 
save  the  argument  and  get  better results 
if  she  did  the  thing  first  and  then  dis-

cussed  it  afterwards. 
If  she  hasn't  the 
courage  to  do  that,  then  the  least  she 
can  do  in  the  interest  of  peace  and  har­
mony 
is  to  accept  his  decision  on  the 
subject  without  provoking  any  words. 
The  woman  who  can  barricade  her 
house  against  an  argument  has  fortified 
it  against  foes  from  within  and  without.

Cora  Stowell.

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Like  the  poor,  we  have  the  argument 
with  us  always. 
In  the  homes  where  it 
is  permitted  to  flourish  one  can  always 
be 
furnished  at  a  moment’s  notice. 
Like  an  orchid,  it  feeds  on  air,  and  re­
quires  nothing  to  support  it.  Let  one 
member of  a  family  make  an  assertion, 
and 
is  equivalent  to  throwing  down 
the  gage  of  battle.  Some  one  is  sure 
to  take  it  up,  and  a  free-for-all  war  of 
words  ensues.  There 
is  nothing  upon 
which  they  will  not  argue.  Politics,  re­
ligion,  books,  the  drama,  are  of  course 
always  fruitful  themes,  but  the  list  can 
be 
in 
indefinitely  extended 
everything  under  the  sun.

to  take 

is  an 

The  right  of  free  speech  in  the 

fam­
ily,  like  the  right  of  free  speech  in  the 
Government,  is  one  of  the  things  that  is 
admirable  in  theory,but  of  doubtful  vir­
tue 
in  practice.  Of  course  we  can  al­
ways  defend  ourselves  by  saying  that 
our  argument 
intelligent  inter­
change  of  views,  but  the  truth  is  that 
there 
isn’t  one  time  in  a  hundred  that 
an  argument,  no  matter  how  sanely  be­
it  was  at  the 
gun,  or  how  temperate 
start,  doesn’t  end 
loss  of  temper, 
and  more  or 
less  bitter  personalities. 
None  are  so  stupid  as  those  who  do  not 
think  just  exactly  as  we  do,  and  we  are 
apt  to  clinch  our  arguments  by  some 
reference  to  the  mental  status  of  our  op­
ponent  that  we  are  sorry  to  remember 
half  an  hour  later.

in 

The  most  surprising  thing  about  our 
clinging  to  this  prolific  mother  of  strife 
is  that  nobody  ever  accomplished  any­
thing  by  it  or  carried-a point.  “ A  man 
convinced  against  his  will 
is  of  the 
same  opinion  still,”   says  the  old adage. 
Likewise  a  woman.  Only  more  so.  Let 
her  have  to  martial  all  her  resources  to 
combat  you 
in  an  argument,  and  you 
change  what  was  before  merely  an  im­
pression 
into  a  conviction  she  is  ready 
to  defend  with  her  life.  The  effect  of 
this  on  home 
life  is  nothing  less  than 
disastrous.  It  makes  the  hearthstone  the 
scene  of  perpetual  wrangles,  the  dining 
table  a  bloody  battle  ground,  where 
•every  question  is  fought  out  to  a  finish, 
and  the  nursery  a  place  where  the  chil­
dren  quarrel  and  fight  over  their  games 
like  little  savages.

It  is  not  too  much  to  say  that 

family 
jars  and  disagreements  would  be  almost 
if  the  argument  could  be 
impossible 
eliminated 
from  daily  life.  Nor  does 
this  refusal  to  discuss  subjects  upon 
which  one  knows  one  differs  from  the 
other  members  of  a  family  indicate  any 
weakness. 
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In  the  year  1865,1  had  no  sooner  been 
permitted  to  sign  the  firm  name  with 
the  characteristic  flourish  I  had  decided 
indicated  dignity,  than  I  became  firmly 
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ju­
nior  partner to  do  was  to  lay  out  a  route 
and  add  traveling  for  trade  to  his  many 
other  accomplishments.

You  see,  1  had  been  held  back  by  the 
foxy  partner  1  succeeded  and  was  given 
no  opportunity  to  make  an experimental 
trip,  either  nearby  or  far  away,  in  order 
to  show  in  my  career  how  1  could  avail 
myself  of  the  goodness  of  Dame  For­
tune  and  demonstrate  to  those  about  me 
that  I  was  worthy  of  the  elevation  to 
which  an  admiring  and  indulgent  head 
of  the  firm  had  pushed  me.

Then,  again,  I  was  a  little  afraid  the 
departing  partner  would 
“ flimflam”  
some  other  hardware  house  into  believ­
ing  he  was  a  good  salesman  and of com­
mercial  value.  This  was,  I  must  con­
fess,  extremely  questionable,  to  those 
who  had  previously been associated  with 
him,  but  a  decision  had  to  be  made 
that  if  we  were  going  to  hold  the 
fairly 
developed  Western  trade,  which natural­
ly  at  that  time  was  a  large  asset  in  the 
good  will  of  the  business,  it  was  im­
portant  for  me  to  try  and  ascertain  for 
myself  whether  I  was  any  good  out  on 
the  filing 
line,  my  predecessor,  before 
referred  to,  never  having  permitted  me 
to  wait  upon  any  of  the  large  buyers 
who  made  our  house  their  hardware 
headquarters  when  in  the  city.

In  making up  my  itinerary  I  included 
a  number  of  towns  from which  a  mail 
order trade  had  been  established,  with­
out  having  seen  the  men  who  pulled  the 
wires  to  which  we  gladly  responded; 
and  there  were  also  a  number  of  places 
from  which  good  buyers  had  strayed  in­
to  our  store,  picking  up  odd  lots  of  im­
ported  goods,  and  who  had 
informed 
me  that  while  their  stocks  were  of  gen­
eral  merchandise,  their  line  of  hardware 
was  usually  purchased 
in  some  place 
nearer  their  town  than  New  York.  I was 
selected  to  act  as  the  buying  member 
of  my  own  firm  and,  as  is  frequently 
the  case,  had  my  own 
idea  of  the 
amount  of  stock  it  was desirable to carry 
in  order  to  make  all  the  profit  possible 
and  divide  with  nobody. 
1  felt  a  tirfle 
fresh  and  thought  my  predecessor  had 
in  his  views. 
been  too  conservative 
The  prices 
in  the  spring  had  been  fa­
vorably 
low  and  my  orders  for  spring 
and  fall  trade  were  more  than  usually 
liberal  in  consequence.  I  was  confident, 
even  with  a  fair  demand,  goods  would 
stiffen  in  price,  and  events  justified  the 
conclusion  thus  arrived  at.  All  the  old 
stagers  in  business,  within  a  few  blocks 
of  our  location,  and  there  were  a  num­
ber  of  them  I 
laying  in 
light  stocks,  and  business  in  those  days 
in  1865— was  a 
— remember  this  was 
good  deal 
like  buying  a  ticket  in  the 
Louisiana 
lottery— you  had  to  wait  un­
til  the  end  of  the  trip  to  know  if  any 
dividends  were  in  sight.

found,  were 

Well,  being  the  buyer  of  the  house, 
as  I  mentioned,  I  had  to  get  everything 
all  ordered  up  before  I  dared  think  of 
leaving  my  partners  to  buffet  the  tide 
of  traffic  alone  for  six  or  seven  weeks. 
Finally 
in  the  latter  part  of  June,  with 
a  zinc  trunk  full  of  samples  and  a  big 
Russell  &  Erwin  Manufacturing  Co. 
($25)  catalogue,  all  priced  up,  as  well 
as  it  could  be  in  those  difficult  days  to 
obtain  several  thousand  quotations,  I

bought  a  ticket  as  far  as  Chicago  and 
started  on  my  maiden  trip.

Chicago  was  a  good  many  hours 
further  off  than  it  is  now,  so  I  took  the 
privilege  of  stopping  off,  which  1  did  at j 
a  place  called  New  Brighton,  Pa.,  a 
short  distance  out  of  Pittsburg.  1  had  a 
customer  there  to  whom  1  felt  confident 
I  could  sell  my  first  bill.  The  firm  was 
named  C.  U.  Meyer  &  Co.  1  remember 
it  well. 
in  the 
evening  and  the  zinc  trunk, into  which  I 
had  crowded  all  the  plunder  I  thought 
essential  for  success,  was  so  chunky and  . 
so  solid  the  Irish  porter  for  the  hotel  at j 
asked: 
which 
stopping 
“ Murther!  is  it  goold  ye  have 
in  your 
zincograph?”

1  landed  at  the  station 

intended 

I 

“ N o,”   I  said  very  sanguinely,J “ not 

gold,  but  the  making  of  it.”

I  remember  that 

first  hotel  well—  
everything  but  the  name.  At  supper  1 
had  hard  work  to  get  even  a  glass  of 
milk,  until  I had  sent  for  the  aged  clerk 
and  told  him  I  was  willing  to  buy  a 
cow,  if  necessary,  in  order  to  obtain  it, 
and  then  he  sent  out  and  bought  some— 
not  cows,  but  milk.

When  my  trunk  reached  my  room  and 
I  opened  it  a  suspicious  aroma  filled 
the  air. 
In  packing  my  “ duds”   I  had 
used  the  top  compartment  of  the  trunk 
in  a  fair  stock  of  linen  and 
to  pack 
other  supplies,  when,  fearing 
in  some 
localities  I  visited  I  might  find  a  brand 
of  water  the  healthful  quality  of  which 
could  not  be  vouched  for  by  the  local 
board  of  health,  I  had  deliberately  and 
snugly  tucked  away  between  the  large 
supply  of  the  aforesaid  linen  a  bottle  of 
Hostetter’s  bitters.  Before  the 
large 
audience  I  am  now  confiding  in  I  want 
to  be  conscientious  in  my  recollections, 
and  even  at  this  late  day  1  am  willing 
to  make  affidavit  that  it  was  the  square 
shape  of  the  bottle  that  made  me  decide 
in  its  favor  when  I  selected this microbe 
destroyer.

Well,  the  aroma  was  unmistakable. 
Upon  investigation  my  worst  fears  were 
realized— that  miserably-made  bottle 
had  played  me  a 
low-down  trick  and 
“ busted  on  m e.”   Not  a  drink  did  I 
have  for  a  dividend  and  every  piece  of 
wearing  apparel  in  the compartment had 
to  go  in  the  wash  at  once  in  order to  get 
them  the  next  day.

1  saw  my  customers  in  the  morning. 
junior  partner  was  a  Mr.  Smith, 
The 
lame,  but  an  old- 
unfortunately  quite 
time  gentleman 
in  his  characteristics. 
Mr.  Meyer  looked  after  the  mechanical 
part  of  the  business—the  tin  shop,  etc. 
— and  Mr.  Smith  ordered  the  goods.

They  gave  me  an  order amounting  to 
nearly  $400,  which  at  once  came  near 
making  my  hat  a  size  too  small  for  my 
head. 
In  connection  with  that  bill  I 
remember  a  blunder  I  made  undetected, 
which  materially 
lessened  the  profits. 
How  easy  it  is  to  remember  our  blun­
ders,  especially  the  unprofitable  sort!

Screws  at  that  time  were,  I  think, 
sold  at  a  list  price,  from  which  the  reg­
ular discount  would  be  40  to  40  and  7^  
per cent,  for  a  close  price.  I  found  they 
were  buying  in  Pittsburg,  or  had  been, 
at  3Q  and  10,  and  as  they  had  all  their 
costs  of  every  size  figured  at that price  I 
gave  them  net  prices  at  40  per  cent., 
which  by  comparison  seemed  low,  say­
ing  nothing  at  all  about discount.  When 
I  sent  the  order  in,  to  make  it  easy  for 
the  entry  clerk,  as  1  had  put  all  the 
prices  in  my  order  book,  I  placed  these 
net  prices  over the  sizes ;  and  then,  oh, 
strange  fatality— no  Hostetter’s  bitters 
in  this— also  placed  40  per  cent,  in  the 
discount 
line.  Who  could  believe  that 
such a  stupid  bull  as  this  could  pass  un-

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Hardware  Price Current

Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire

N alls

A u g u r,  and  B it.

Snell’s ..................................................... 
Jennings  genuine.................................  
Jennings’ fmitation...............................  

A xe.

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

B arro w .

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

B o lt.
Stove......................................................  
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Carriage, new  li«* 
Plow ............ 
 
B u ck e t.
Well, plain................................................... 

 

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

B utts,  Cast

C artrid g e.

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

C hain

!4 In. 

5-16 In. 

Com...............   8  c.  ...  7  c. 
BB.................   9 
BBB...............  9)4 

...  7X 
...  8)4 

x   In. 

)4 in.
... 6  c.  ...  6  c.
... 6M 
. . . 6%
... 754 
...  7)4

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

R ivets

60
26
50

7  00
7  75

11 50
13 00

10 50

30 00

50
50
50
$4 00

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

Rooling  Plates

66
60

408(10
20

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

Ropes

Sisal, )4 Inch and larger....................... 
Manilla................................................... 

detected,  but 
it  did,  and  the  bill  clerk 
rushed  off  the  heart-breaking  invoice 
charged  in  that  fashion.

“ They  were 

I  smile  at  this  very  moment 

It  was  only  when  I  returned  from  my 
trip,  that  in  looking  over  the  bus*ness 
of  the  past,  I  discovered  it.  Of  course, 
as  any  self-respecting  salesman  natural­
ly  would  do,  although  it  was  six  weeks 
old,  I  notified  Meyer  &  Co.  of  the  error 
of  the  entry  desk,  explaining  how  they 
had  been  given  an  unearned  dividend 
and,  of  course,  enclosing  a  “ corrected 
b ill.”  
in 
remembering  their  extremely  ingenious 
reply: 
indeed  doubly 
sorry;  they had  noticed  the  price  was  40 
per  cent,  lower  than  I  had  quoted,  and 
40  and  5  per  cent,  lower  than  in  Pitts­
burg ;  but  they  thought  that  a  big  drop 
had  taken  place 
in  prices,  and  had 
conscientiously  marked  all  their  selling 
prices  down  to  meet it, in  fear  of  a  com­
petitor,  and  were  actually  and  kindly 
saving  all  their  screw  orders  for  us  to 
fill,  for  being  so  honest  with  them. ”  
W ell,well!  I  hadn’t  a  word  to  say;  but, 
as  an  old  sport  would  remark  to-day, 
there  was  no  doubt  that  1  was  “ it.” —  
Hardware.

Low  P rices  on  C utlery.

Prices  .on  pocket  cutlery  have  moved 
in  a  very  moderate  degree  as 
upward 
lines  carried  by 
compared  with  other 
hardware  dealers. 
In  speaking  of  this 
matter,  one  of  the  largest  makers  of  fine 
goods  is  thus  quoted :

their  entire  business 

Many  manufacturers  say  they  have 
seen  no  such  rush  of  business  before 
during 
career. 
Some  of  them  are  working  as  though 
they  did  not  believe  they  would  again 
see  such  a  revival  of  business  as long  as 
they  lived.  The  cutlery  manufacturers 
are  enjoying  the  prosperity,  and 
in 
some  ways  they  have  a  decided  advan­
tage  over other  producers.  What  I  mean 
is  that  the  material  used 
in  cutlery 
amounts  to  such  a  small  sum  that  prac­
tically  the  only  heavy  expense  in  the 
cutlery  business  is  labor.  Take  an  extra 
fine  pocket  knife  and  there  is  less  than 
five  cents’  worth  of  steel  in  it.  When 
you  consider  that  the  knife  probably 
sells  for  $1.50  or  more,  you  can  readily 
see  the  advantage  in  favor  of  the  manu­
facturer  of  small  goods.  We  are  affected 
so  little  by  the  raise  in  the  price  of  ma­
terial  that  we  can  offer  customers  goods 
at  about  the  same  price  as  two  or  three 
years  ago.  The  very  idea  that  there  has 
practically  been  no  raise  in  the  price 
seems  very  attractive  to  the  customer 
and  results  in  heavy  orders.

The  average  increase  in  price  in  the 
past  year  has  not  been  beyond  10.per 
cent.,  while  other  lines  have  practically 
doubled 
in  value.  This  condition  has 
been  of  practical  advantage  to  the  re­
tailer.  When  customers  complain  of 
high  prices 
in  general,  the  dealer  can 
show  by  comparison  that  pocket  cutlery 
has  not  advanced  proportionately  be­
cause  the  cost  of  the  steel 
is  a  very 
small  consideration,  and  that  higher 
prices  in  other  goods— wire,  nails  and 
heavy  hardware  generally— are  caused 
by  the  fact  that  the  cost  of  the  material 
is  at  least  equal  to the  cost  of  the  work 
in  their  manufacture. 
In  addition  to 
this,  the  relatively  low  prices  on  cutlery 
have  induced  large  purchases,  and  it  is 
known  as  a  fact  that  the  sales have  been 
very  heavy  during  the  past  year.

H er  F ears  Confirm ed.

“ I  suppose,”   said  the  woman  who 
had  sampled  every  kind  of  candy  she 
could  reach  by  thrusting  her  arm  over 
the  protective  railing,  and  finally  had 
bargained  for  five  cents’  worth  of  but­
ter  scotch,  “ all  this  is  adulterated.  You 
couldn’t  sell  it  so  cheap  if  it  wasn’t.

“ Yes,m a’am ,”   returned  the  salesman 
solemnly,  “ its  all  adulterated. 
“ That 
butterscotch  you’ re  getting,for instance, 
has  mighty 
little  butter  and  not  a  bit 
of  Scotch. ’ ’

T he  Life  of a  Stove.

In  daily  use  to-day  are  stoves  built 
forty  years  ago  and  which  are  still  cap­
able  of  performing  their ordinary  func­
tions. 
In  all  necessary  respects  they 
are just  as  good  performers  as  when  first 
set  up,  the  only  difference  being  that 
some  of  the  parts  have  been  replaced  as 
necessity  required.

Within  a  stone’s  throw  of  where  these 
old-timers  are  maintaining  the  reputa­
tion  of  their  makers  are  stoves  of  the 
same  type  and  line  which  have  been  in 
service  not  one-tenth  so  long  as  the 
others,  which  were  better  stoves  because 
later  make,  and  yet  by 
they  were  of 
comparison  with 
those  of  an  earlier 
manufacture  are  scarcely worth the  price 
of  their  old  iron.  They  are  flat  failures 
for  present  use,  no  matter  how  capable 
when  first  installed.

lack  of  merit  is  commonly  at­
tributed  to  the  makers,  but  they  have 
nothing  to  do  with  it.  The  fault  is  with 
the  users.  They  have  abused  the  stove 
until  all 
its  usefulness  has  departed, 
and  then  blame  the  makers  instead  of 
admitting  that  the  fault  is  in  their  own 
ignorance.  A  stove 
like  a  human 
being  in  that  it  requires  careful  treat­
ment  or  else  will  lose  its  usefulness.

This 

is 

the  dealer  who  sold 

As  has  been  repeatedly  said  in  this 
connection, 
the 
stove  was  primarily  responsible  for  this 
wearing  out 
in  an  unnecessarily  short 
time.  He  may  have  acted  on  the  theory 
that  the  quicker  the  stove  wore  out  the 
better  would  be  his  chances  for  making 
a  second  sale  to  the  same  customer. 
Such  a  theory  is  not  only impracticable, 
for  obvious  reasons,  but 
is  manifestly 
dishonest.  Stoves  are  built  on  and
backed  by  the  reputation  of  the  maker, 
and  if  the  dealer  sells  them  with  the 
idea  that  their abuse  and  practical  de­
struction  will  work  to  his  benefit  he 
commits  an  assault  on  this  reputation 
which 
its  holders  will  not  be  slow  to 
resent.

L o v e r  Freight.  K ates—Test  W ell—B uild- 

in g   an  A rm ory.

Cheboygan,  April  23— At  the 

last 
meeting  of  the  Cheboygan  Business 
Men's Improvement Association  Messrs. 
Moloney  and  F rost  made  a  report  of 
their  trip  to  try  and  arrange  with  the 
Michigan  Central  for  satisfactory  rates 
for  Keeney  &  Son,  in  regard  to locating 
a  seed  potato  plant  in  Cheboygan.  The 
report  was  not  very  encouraging.

the  casing  pipe  not  what 

The  matter  of  building  an  armory 

President  Smith  read  a  letter received 
from  the  contractors  for  sinking  the  test 
salt  well.  They  claimed  to  have  been 
buncoed,  that  the  conditions  of  the  ma­
terial  to  be  penetrated  were  misrepre­
sented, 
it 
should  have  been,  etc.,  but  they  are 
willing  to  resume  work  this  spring  if 
satisfactory  arrangements  can  be  made 
as  regard  price  to  be  paid  for  the work.
in 
the  city  was  brought  up  and,  on  mo­
tion,  it  was  unanimously  voted  that  the 
President  and  Secretary  sign  a  petition 
asking  the  Common  Council  to  appro­
priate  money  to  aid  in  the  securing of  a 
site  and 
the  erection  of  a  building. 
After  the  President  and  Secretary  had 
signed  the  petition, it was passed  around 
and  signed  by  all  present  except  the 
aldermen 
in  attendance,  who,  while  fa­
voring  the  project,  did  not  think  it  con­
sistent  with  their  position  to  sign  the 
paper.

D idn’t   L ike  A ir  C ar..

From the New  York  Sun.

The  New  York  man  was  showing  the 
visiting  merchant  from  Kansas  the com­
pressed  air  cars  in  Twenty-ninth  street, 
and  after  one  of  those  lucid  explana­
tions  for  which  a  New  Yorker  is  fa­
mous,  he  asked  the  Kansan  to  take  a 
ride  with  him.

“ Not  much!”   protested  the  visitor, 

pulling  back  like  a  steer  on  a  rope.

“ Why  not?”   expostulated  the  New 

Yorker.

“ Because,  by  G ravy!”   explained  the 
Kansas  man,  “ I’ve  been  moved  two  or 
three  times  by  a  cyclone,  and  I’ve  got 
all  I  want  of  i t !”

C row bars

Caps

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

Ely’s 1-10, per m ..................................... 
Hick’s C. F., per m ...............................  
G. 1)., p erm ...........................................  
Musket, per m.......................................  

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

Chisels

Elbows

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

E xpansive  B its

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

F iles—New  L ist

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

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Gas  P ip e

Black.......................................................
Galvanized new list..............................

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

Gauges

Glass

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

.dis
dis
.dis

H am m ers

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

HingeH

Gate, Clark’s 1,2,3............................

H ollow   W are
Pots..............................................
K ettles................................................
Spiders................................................

H orse  N ails

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

H ouse  F u rn ish in g  Goods

Stamped Tinware, new list...............
Japanned Tinware.............................

Iro n

Bar  Iron,.............................................
Light Band.........................................
K nobs—New  L ist
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings........
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings......

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

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

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

M etals—Zinc

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

M iscellaneous

Bird Cages.............................................
Pumps, Cistern.....................................
Screws, New L ist.................................
Casters, Bed and  Plate........................
Dampers, American.............................

M olasses  G ates

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

Pans

L anterns

Levels

M attocks

6

65
55
45
76

65
65
66
65

65
125
40&10

308(10
25

708(10
70
608(10

28
17

608(10

85&
858(10
80 & 10

33)4
408(10
70

50&10
508(10
508(10

408(10
5

70
208(10

85
1  00

5 26
6 00

70

60
7)4
8

40
70
80
508(108(10
60

608(10
30

608(108(10
70&Ö

.dis

608(10

.  3 c rates
.  3 y,e rates

Fry, Acme..............................................
Common,  polished...............................
P a te n t  P lanished  Iro n  

“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27  10 76 
“B” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 25 to 27  9 75

Broken packages V»c per pound extra.

P lanes

265
2 66
Base
5
10
20
30
45
70
16
25
36
25
35
46
86

50
45

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

11)4
17

50

25 00

40
40&10

1  60
1  86

8  GO
8  10

G6

$ 8 50
8  50
9 75

7  00
7  00
8  50 
8  50

10

75
40&10
658Gb
15
1  25

GO
60
50&10
50&10
40
3  30
3  16

75
75
75
76

30
30

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

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

Sand  P ap er

Sash  W eights

Sheet  Iro n

com. smooth,  com.

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

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

Shells—Loaded

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

Shot

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

Shovels  and  Spades

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

Solder

)4f§i)4...... .......................................... 
20
The prices of the many other qualities of solder 
in the market indicated by  private  brands  vary 
according to composition.

Squares

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

Tin—M elyn  G rade

10x14 IC, Charcoal.................................
14x20 IC, Charcoal.................................
20x14 IX, Charcoal...........   ..................

Each additional X on this grade, $1.25.

T in—A llaw ay  G rade
10x14 IC, Charcoal.......................... .
14x20 IC, Charcoal.................................
10x14 IX, Charcoal.................................
14x20 IX, Charcoal.................................

Each additional X on this grade, $1.50

B o iler  Size  Tin  P la te

14x56 IX, for No.8 Boilers, 
14x56 IX, for No.9 Boilers, per pound..

T raps

Steel,  Game...........................................  
Onelaa Community,  Newhouse’s.......  
Oneida  Community,  Hawley  8i  Nor­
ton's..................................................... 
Mouse,  choker, per doz................ 
Mouse, delusion, per  doz.....................  

W ire

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

W ire  Goods

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

W  ranches

 

 

Baxter’s Adjustable, Nickeled........... 
Coe’s Genuine........................................ 
Coe’s Patent Agricultural,¡Wrought..708(10

The  Rocker Washer

Is a great  seller 
and  will  please 
your  customers 
and make you a 
n i c e   p ro fit. 
Write for  price.

The  man  to  have  about  and  be  useful 
is  one  who  knows  what  to  do  and  when 
to  do  it.

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

ROCKER  WASHER CO., 
Ft. Wayne, Ind.

50
60
60
N

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

The  Meat  Market

How  to  M ake  and  Use  German  Sangage 

Seasoning.

5  lbs.  ground  white  pepper.
4  ozs.  saltpeter.
io%  ozs.  fíne  salt.

No.  i.

No.  2.

3  lbs.  ground  white  pepper.
3  ozs.  saltpeter.
3  ozs.  nutmeg.
i}4  ozs.  sage.
7  lbs.  salt.

No.  3.

4  lbs.  ground  black  pepper.
4  ozs.  saltpetre.
3  ozs.  cayenne.
9  lbs.  salt.

No.  4.
6  lbs.  ground  pepper.
6  ozs.  nutmeg.
12  ozs.  coriander.
14  lbs.  salt.

No.  5.
lbs.  black  pepper.

It 

2 
2  ozs.  saltpeter.
%  oz.  bruised  garlic.
4%  lbs.  salt.
These  recipes  have  been  proved  by 
many  years’  practical  experience  to  be 
of  the  very  best  for their  given purpose. 
It  would,  however,  be  a  matter  of  im­
possibility  to  season  an  article  to  please 
each  and  every  one,  for  the  simple  rea­
son  that 
individual  tastes  differ,  and 
what  may  be  pleasant  to  the  palate  of 
one  person  may  be  equally  disagreeable 
to  that  of  another.  The  greatest  care 
should  be  paid  to  the  weighing  out  of 
the  various  ingredients  for  seasonings, 
for  too  little  of  one  spice  or  too  much  of 
another  invariably  means  spoiling  the 
is  advisable 
seasoning  completely. 
for  each  and  every  manufacturer 
to 
show  the  most  persistent  care  to  pur­
chase  the  various  ingredients  required 
from  some  firm  who  will guarantee  their 
goods  to  be  genuine,  for,  no  matter  how 
good  a  recipe  may  be,  a  satisfactory 
result  can  neither  be  obtained  nor  ex­
pected  if  the  ingredients  used  are  of  an 
inferior  quality  or  made  up  from  old 
stocks  of  herbs  and  spices,  and  every 
its  own 
article  well  seasoned  carries 
It 
recommendation  all  the  world  over. 
would,  however,  be  a  matter  of 
impos­
sibility  to  suggest  any  particular  class 
of  seasoning  to  suit  each  and  every 
in­
dividual  maker  without  knowing  some­
thing  of  the  nature  of  class  of  trade  he 
does;  for 
instance,  one  would  hardly 
expect  a  cheap  sausage  to  be  as  nicely 
flavored  as  an  expensive  one.  The  same 
remarks  also  apply  to  the  making  up  of 
the  various  other  articles  made  up  by 
the  trade.  A  grave  mistake  is  made  by 
for  the 
using  cheap  seasonings  even 
commonest  class  of  article,  as  it 
invar­
iably  proves  far better  and  more  profit­
able  in  the  long  run  to  use  a  better class 
of  one  and  less  of  it  instead  of  making 
them  almost  unpalatable  by  the  use  of 
cayenne,  rice  flour,  and  common  salt. 
is  always  advisable  not  to  allow  the 
It 
stock  of  seasoning  to  run  too 
low,  for 
is  not  always  an  easy  matter  to  pro­
it 
cure  the  various  articles  required  at  a 
moment’s  notice.

It  is  also  most  essential  that  all  sea­
sonings,  herbs,  spices,  etc.,  must  be 
kept  in  air-tight  tins  or  canisters,  for  if 
they  be  exposed  to  the  air  for  ever  so 
short  a  time  they  invariably  lose  a great 
percentage  of  their  strength  and  flavor.
Half  an  ounce  of  seasoning  should  be 
used  to  every  pound  of  fresh  meat,  but 
when  salt  pork,  beef  or  heads  are  used 
the  seasoning  must  be  used  entirely 
in  which  case  four
without  salt,  and 

ounces  of  seasoning  will  be 
found  am­
ply  sufficient  for  each  twenty  pound 
block  of  meat,  except  in  the  case  of for­
eign  sausages,  which  are  generally  re­
quired  to  be  kept  for  a  considerable 
length  of  time,  in  which  case  it  would 
be  advisable  to  use  six  ounces  of  sea­
soning  to  every  twenty  pound  block  of 
meat.— Butcher’s  Advocate.

Boom ing  Saturday  Trade  in  Meat.

J.  E.  Morris,  proprietor  of  the Frank­
lin  Market,  Santa  Clara,  Cal.,  has  in­
troduced  some  new advertising methods, 
which  have  proven  to  be  very  success­
ful,  and 
is  now  busy  remodelling  a 
large  building  in  San  Jose,  Cal.,  which 
he  will  open  as  a  general  market. 
It 
will  be  one  of  the  handsomest  on  the 
Pacific  coast  and  will  be  pushed  in  the 
same  method  as  regards  advertising  as 
has  made  his  Santa  Clara  establish­
ment  the  most  talked  about  market  in 
California.  He 
is  a  firm  believer  in 
timely  announcements,  and  has  found 
the  following  scheme  to  work  advanta­
geously :

T E N   ROASTS  F R E E  

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.

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

Both Phones at Allegan.

Branch  house at Allegan,  Mich.

J.  W.  FLEMING,  Belding
J.  W.  FLEMING  & CO.,  Big  Rapids

Buyers and Shippers of

EGGS, BUTTER, POULTRY AND PRODUCE

We are prepared to pay the highest market price  and  guarantee  prompt  returns.

We  will  make  a  present  of  ten  roasts 
(each  roast  worth  50  cents)  to  our  Cash 
customers  on  Saturday.

Each  of  the  following  numbers  won  a 

seventv-five  cent  roast  Sept.  30,  1899: 

44— 210— 255— 316— 335 

Bring  winning  tickets  to  the  Market 
and  get  your  roasts.  Low  prices  still 
maintained.

F R A N K LIN   M A R K E T  

Santa  Clara.

The  success  which  the  free  roast  idea 
is  told  in  the  next  week’s  ad­

brought 
vertisement :

$74.52

This  represents  the  increase 
in  our  sales  Saturday  last  over  corres­
ponding  Saturdays  of  last  year.  It shows 
that  the  people  appreciate  Fair  Deal­
ing,  Good  Treatment  and  Low  Prices. 
It  also  shows  that  the  wave of prosperity 
has  struck  this  Valley  and  that  the 
fall 
will  be  a  wonderfully  good  one.  Come 
and  see  us.

F R A N K LIN   M A R K E T,

Santa  Clara.

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E S T A B L IS H E D  1876. 

I  CHAS. RICHARDSO N 1
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GENERAL 

Wholesale  Fruits, 

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General  Produce and  Dairy  Products.

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5 8  A N D   6 0   W.  M A R K E T  S T . 
121  A N D   123  M IC H IG A N   S r . 

B U FFA LO ,  N.  Y . 

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Unquestioned responsibility and business standing.  Carlots a specialty, 

Quotations on our market furnished promptly upon  application

Mens  Pork  A lm ost  a  Nom inal  Affair. 

From the National Stockman and Farmer.

To  those  who  are  unacquainted  with 
the  situation,' the  statement  that  only  a 
few  thousand  barrels  of  mess  pork  are 
among  the  stocks  of  provisions 
in  this 
incomprehensible. 
country  is  well-nigh 
Millions  of  hogs  slaughtered  and  less 
than  40,000 barrels  of  pork  at  Chicago ! 
Yes,  that  is  not  only  possible  but a fact. 
Making  mess  pork  is  nowadays  a  very 
small  part  of  the  business  of  manufac­
turing  hog  products. 
It  is  still  an  ar­
ticle  of  speculative  trade,  but  it  is  not 
a  great  staple  in  the  world’s  markets  as 
it  used  to  be.  The  demand  for  it  has 
decreased  to  very  small  proportions. 
Our  readers  have  doubtless  wondered 
why  pork  has  been  much  of  the  time  of 
in 
late  years  cheaper  in  the  barrel  than 
the  hog.  Manifestly  this  would  be 
im­
possible  for  any  length  of time  were  it 
really  a  staple  article  made  and  used  in 
great  quantities.  The  changed  condi­
tions  of  the  provision  trade  have  made 
mess  pork  almost  a  nominal  affair  aside 
from  the  speculative  markets,  and  that 
is  why 
it  neither  follows  nor  leads  the 
market  for  hogs  to  a  very  great  extent.

A   Butcher’s  Epitaph.

An  English  paper gives  the  following 
as  copied  from  the  tombstone  of  the  fa­
mous  John  Higgs,  at  Cheltenham :

Here  lies  John  Higgs,
A   famous  man  for  killing  pigs ;
For  killing  pigs  was  his  delight.
Both  morning,  afternoon  and  night, 
Both  heats  and  colds  he  did  endure, 
Which  no  physician  e ’er  could  cure. 
His  knife  is  laid,  his  work  is  done,
I  hope  to  heaven  his  soul  has  gone.

Neighborlinegg.

Mr.  Moveoft— Well,  my  dear,  how  do 
you  find  the  neighbors  here— sociable?
Mrs.  Moveoft— Very.  Three  or  four 
of  them  have  sent  in  to  ask  if  I  would 
allow  their  children  to  use  our  piano  to 
practice  on.

Thousands  of dollars  are  year­
ly lost  to  merchants  from  lack  of 
investigation.  How  can  you  de­
ter nine  upon  the  merits  of  an  ar­
ticle  without  inspection  and  test? 
Do  you  know  that

“ Purity”
Butterine

It  is  better 
is  better  that  butter? 
for both  dealer  and  consumer. 
Its 
quality  is  uniform;  it  never  gets 
rancid; the dealer enjoys a profit on 
each  ounce  purchased,  and  it  re­
mains  perfectly  sweet  and  whole­
some  until  used.

If you  are  n o t   a  dealer  let  us 
s t a r t   you. 
If  you  a r e   a  dealer 
then you  should  have  our butterine 
to enjoy  a  successful  and profitable 
business.

The

Capital City Dairy Co.  (
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Columbus, 0. 

had  happened.  The  train  had  jumped 
the  track  and  was  at  that moment bump­
ing 
its  way  over  the  ties,  preliminary 
to  heaven  only  knew  what  kind  of  a 
plunge.  We  were  at  that  time 
in  a 
is  full  of  ravines 
part  of  Kansas  that 
and  gullies,  and  short bridges  are  of  fre­
quent  occurrence.  That  disquieting  fact 
flashed  into  our  minds  simultaneously. 
‘ Bet  y ’  a  hundred  we’ re  on  a  trestle!’ 
yelled  the  Louisville  man,  above  the 
pounding  of  the  wheels. 
‘ Take  y ’  !’  I 
yelled  back,  and  with  that  the  coach 
gave  a  sickening  lurch  and  rolled  com- 
letely  over.  When  I  extricated  myself 
from  a  broken  window  I  found  we  had 
level  ground,  and  while 
stopped  on 
everybody  was  more  or 
less  cut  and 
bruised,  no  one  was  killed.  I  encoun­
friend  wandering 
tered  my  Kentucky 
about  the  wreck 
and  he  promptly 
handed  me  a  hundred-dollar  bill.  ‘ What 
made  you  take  me  up  so quick?’  he 
asked. 
if  we  had  been  on  a 
trestle  we  would  all  have  been  killed,’  I 
replied,  ‘ and  you  couldn’t  have  col­
lected  the  bet. 
I  stood  to  win,  but  not 
‘ That’s  so,’  he  said,  regret­
to  lose.’ 
fully. 
‘ Next  time  this  happens  I’ll 
take  the  other  end. ’  ’ ’

‘ Because 

W om an’*  Industry  Causes  Strike. 

Lowell,  Mass.,  April  21— Three  hun 
dred  weavers  employed  by  the  Lowel 
Manufacturing  Company,  one  of  the 
concerns 
in  the  Bigelow  Carpet  Com 
pany,  are  on  a  strike  because  one  of 
their  number,  Mrs.  Jessie  Derrick,  per 
sists  in  turning  more  work  off  her 
loom 
than  is  permitted  by  the  regulations 
the  Carpet  Weavers’  Union.  The union 
has  decided  upon  a  maximum  product 
f  two  and  one-half  pieces,  but  Mrs 
Derrick  has  her 
loom  speeded  up  so 
high  that  she  can  turn  off  three  pieces 
day.  On  account  of  this  the  union  sent 
word  to  the  agent  of  the  company  and 
sked  that  he  compel  her  to  reduce  he 
production,  but  he  refuses  to  stop  the 
woman  from  earning  all  the  money  she 
s  able  to.  The  strike  began  last  Tues 
Jay  and  threatens  to  involve  the  entire 
working  force 
in  the  mills,  about  si 
hundred  hands.

Mrs.  Derrick  says  that  the  assertions 
f  the  Weavers’  Union  are  mostly  un 
founded,  and  that  she  does  not  get  off 
more  work  on  the  average  than  the  rest 
of  the  weavers  and  that  her  loom  is  not 
speeded  up  higher  than  any  other  in  the 
mill. 
“ About  two  weeks  ago,”   sa iJ 
Mrs.  Derrick,  “ the mark  on  my  piece of 
carpet,  indicating  the  end  of  the  cut 
came  up  about  half  an  hour before  the 
time  required  by  the  union.  Miss 
O ’ Brien,  the  President  of  the  union 
came  up  and  asked  me 
to  slip  my 
loom,  but  1  refused.  Then Miss O ’ Brie 
went  to  the  overseer  and  asked  whom  1 
was  working  for,  the  union  or  the  com­
pany.  The  overseer  told  me  to  keep  my 
loom  running,  and  I  did  so.”

The  work  of  Mrs.  Derrick  attracted 
the  attention  of  the  other  operatives  and 
they  remonstrated  with  her.  Some  of 
them  are  as  capable  of  getting  off  as 
much  work  as  she,  but,  as  the  union  has 
decided  it  is  unwise  for  them  to  do  so, 
they  all  comply  with  the  rule 
limiting 
the  maximum  product  of  each  operative 
to  two  and  a  half  pieces.  Mrs.  Derrick 
was  a  member  01  the  Weavers’  Union, 
but  her  refusal  to  obey the  commands  of 
the  President  caused  her  expulsion.

CommercialTravelers

Michigan  Knights of the  Grip

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

President,  A.  Ma by m o st,  Detroit;  Secretary 

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

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

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

Senior  Counselor,  J ohn  G.  K olb;  Secretary- 

Treasurer, L. F. Baker.
Michigan  Commercial  Travelers’  Mutnal  Accident  Association 
President, J. Boyd  Pa n tlin d,  Grand  Rapids; 
Secretary  and  Treasurer,  Geo.  F.  Ow en, 
Grand Rapids.

Gripsack  Brigade.

C.  D.  Brewer,  of  Battle  Creek,  has 
secured  a  position  as  traveling salesman 
for  the  Puritan  Corset  Co.,  of  Kalama­
zoo.

W.  M.  Reynolds, 

formerly  engaged 
in  the  grocery  business  at  Belding,  has 
engaged  to  travel  for  the  cigar  depart­
ment  of  Phelps,  Brace  &  Co.

H.  V.  Hughes,  formerly  on  the  road 
for  Geo.  A.  Alderton  (Saginaw),  is  now 
in  the  employ  of  the  Computing  Scale 
Co.,  of  Dayton,  Ohio,  covering  North­
ern  Illinois.  He 
is  connected  with  the 
Chicago  office.

John  Hurley, 

Southern  Michigan 
salesman 
for  Lee  &  Cady  (Detroit), 
was  recently  married  to  Miss  Del  N. 
Gore,  of Battle  Creek,  the  ceremony tak­
ing  place  at  Cincinnati.  The  happy 
couple  will  take  up  their  residence 
Jackson,  where  a  furnished  home  awaits 
them.

Traverse  City  H erald:  George  Na 
varre,  for  the  past  threfe  years  salesman 
in  the  clothing  department  at  the  Bos 
ton  store,  has  severed  his  connection 
with  that  firm  and  entered  the  employ 
of  Wm.  Beitner.  After 
learning  the 
stock  Mr.  Navarre  will  go  out  on  the 
road  for  the  well-known  firm,  his  first 
trip  to be  in  the  West.

Kalamazoo  Gazette :  The  local 

lodge 
of  the  United  Commercial  Travelers 
met  Saturday  evening  in  E lks’  hall  for 
one  of  their  regular  round-ups.  After 
the  disposal  of  the  regular  business 
Harry  Hill  and  Otis  Baker  were  “ put 
through  the  territory.”   After  the  can 
didates  had  been  given  a  report  of  thei 
trip  through  the  new  country  the  party 
sat  down  to  a  luncheon  and  dancing  fol 
lowed.  The  committee  in  charge  of  the 
function  was  Messrs.  W.  Watkins,  Fred 
Zander  and  Lawrence  Verdon.

of 

“ I 

am 

New 

Orleans 

the  most 

Times  -  Democrat 
“ Speaking  of  railroad  accidents,”   sai< 
a  veteran  commercial  traveler  at  the 
Cosmopolitan  yesterday, 
minded  of  a  curious  experience,  and  in 
incorrigible 
cidentally 
gamblers  1  ever  met  in  my  life. 
I  was 
going  West  over  the  Atchison,  Topeka 
and  Santa  Fe  some  years  ago,  and  one 
of  my  fellow  passengers  in  the  Pullman 
was  a  race  horse  man  from  Louisville 
He  was  an  interesting  fellow  and  a good 
story  teller,  but  his  conversation  was 
marred  by  his  habit  of  leading  every 
thing  up  to  a  proposition  to  make 
wager.  Every  statement  he  made  was 
clinched  by  an  offer  to  back  it  with 
money,  and  finally  the  thing  became 
rather  tiresome,  and  I  made  some  ex 
cuse  for  avoiding  his  society.  Our  sec 
tions  in  the  sleeper  happened  to  be  d 
rectly  opposite,  and  that  night  we  were 
sitting  on  the  edge  of  our  respective 
lower  berths  preparing  to  retire,  when 
all  of  a  sudden  the whole car was  shaken 
by  a  series  of  swift  and  heavy  concus 
sions.  We  both  realized  instantly  what

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

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.Status  o f  Pharm acy  in  the  Bay  Cities. 
A.  E.  Ewing,  attorney  for  the  M ichi­
gan  Board  of  Pharmacy,  has  sent  Sec­
retary  Schumacher the  following  report 
f  the  condition  of  pharmacy  in  Bay 
lity  and  West  Bay  C ity:
Bay  City.

Dr.  J.  P.  Gariepy,  Proprietor.  Reg. 
232.  Son,  clerk,  unregistered.
Werner  Von  Walthausen,  Prop.  Reg. 
182.  Wife,  clerk,  reg.  asst.,  73. 
Charles  P.  Hemstead,  Prop.  Reg. 

631.  No  clerks.

No  clerks.

Charles  N.  Ghent,  Prop.  Reg.  290. 
J.  K.  Mead,  Prop.  Reg.  4610. No

clerks.

clerk, 

Geo A.  Layerer, Prop.  Reg. 1279.
R.  W.  Pearce,  cle rk,  reg.  4557.
W. L  Stevenson, Prop.  Reg.
reg.

1511.
4118.
Geo. M.  Gaukel,
Claud McKeowen,  clerk,  unregiste red.
Reg. 3330- E.
35°3- W. H.
Reg. 1150. M.
stereo1.  H. H

J.  H.  Fenner,  Prop.
W.  Goff,  clerk,  reg.
Blome,  clerk,  reg.  4452.

G.  A.  Swaby,  Prop.

Presser,  clerk,  unregi 
Bruner,  clerk,  unregistered.

J.  K.  Mason,  Prop.  Reg.  785.  L.  F. 
Beach,  Prop.  Reg.  786.  M.  Van  Vleit, 
clerk,  reg.  3625.

J.  E.  Knapp,  Mngr.  Reg.  4140.  O. 

Barber,  Prop.  Unregistered.

A.  W.  Herrick,  Prop.  Reg.  3559. 
.  Wife, 

Tracy  Wales,  clerk,  reg. 
clerk,  unregistered.

F.  A.  Tepoorten,  Prop.  Reg.  2241. 

No

Reg.

No  clerks.

clerks.

G.  C.  Beebe,  Prop.  Reg.  1084.  No 

F.  Bateman,  Prop.  Reg.  1097.  J. 

W.  Adamson,  clerk,  reg.  2518.

O.  W.  Ballard,  Prop.  Reg.  695.  No 

clerks.

J.  F.  Martin,  Prop.  Reg.  4245.  Al- 

bertine  Martin,  clerk,  unregistered.

D.  B.  Perry,  Prop.  Reg. 

Ostrander,  manager.  Reg.  3599.

G.  W.  Milligan,  Prop.  Reg.  3354. 

S.  Rivet,  clerk,  unregistered.

O.  R.  Lloyd,  Prop.  Reg.  2962. 

.  J. 

clerks.

E.  D.  Gudschinsky, 

Prop.

1219.  No  clerks.
dead).  Louisa  T.  Harris,
Reg.  1407.  No  clerks.

A.  J.  Harris,  Prop.  Reg.  1363  (now 
Manager.

D.  B.  Perry,  Prop.  Reg.

T.  Jones,  Manager.  Reg.
McMullen,  clerk.  Reg.
Fenton,  clerk,  unregistered.

Mrs.  H.  Carrier,  Prop.  Unreg.
W.  Landis,  Manager.  Reg.  3755. 
Carrier,  clerk,  unregistered,

J.  J.  LaCroix,  Prop.  Reg.  1770.

L.  Carey,  Prop.  Reg.  3945.
West  Bay  City.

E. 
.  H. 
T.  W.

G.
A.

C.

E.  H.  Vedders,  Prop.  Reg.  -----.

No  clerks.

H.  H.  Burdick,  Prop.  Reg.  911.  H. 

C.  Hargadon,  clerk.  Reg.  4393.

E.  T.  Boden,  Prop.  Reg.  3247.  H. 

Hudson,  clerk.  Reg.  asst.  1205.

F.  C.  Warner,  Prop.  Reg.  asst.  830. 
W.  E.  Belcher,  Manager.  Reg.  2776. 
C.  M.  LaRue,  Prop.  Reg.  713.  A.

J.  Grenny,  clerk.  Reg.  3063.

A.  E.  Benson,  Prop.  Unreg.  W.  F.

Benson,"  Manager.  Unregistered.  E. 
C.  Benson,  clerk,{unregistered. 
(Have 
now  quit  the  drug  business.)

R.  W.  Brown,  Prop.  Unregistered. 
F.  L.  Tupper,  Prop.  Reg.  641.  P. 
Ralston,  clerk,  unregistered.

W.  H.  Keyes,  Prop.  Reg.  1083.  No 

clerks.
N.  Kinney,  clerk.  Reg.  3754-

D.  B.  Perry,  Prop.  Reg.  568.  J. 

W.  T.  Eldridge,  Prop.  Reg.  3862.
H.  Charters,  clerk,  unregistered.
Geo.  C.  Ray,  Prop.  Reg.  396.  No 

clerks.

Summary.

Registered  proprietors,  31;  unregis­
tered  proprietors,  3;  registeredclerks, 
17 ;  unregistered  clerks,  u8 ;  'registered 
assistants,  3.

Drug  stores  without  clerks,  16;  drug 
stores  with  one  pharmacist,  23;  drug 
stores  with  two  pharmacists,  10;  drug 
stores  with  three  pharmacists,  2;  drug 
stores  with  no  pharmacists, 
1  ;  drug 
stores  with  one  unregistered  clerk,  6; 
drug 
two  unregistered 
clerks,  1.

stores  with 

The  one  store  without  a  registered 

pharmacist  has  retired  from  business.

M.  Struik  has  engaged 

in  general 
trade  at  Ellsworth.  Rindge,  Kalmbach, 
Logie  &  Co.  furnished  the  shoes,  the 
| Olney  &  Judson  Grocer Co.  supplied  the 
groceries  and  Voigt,  Herpolsheimer  & 
Co.  sold  the  dry  goods.

A 

little  thing 
has  been  known 
woman  when 
it 
woman.

like  an  Easter  bonnet 
to  turn  the  head  of  a 
is  worn  by  another

50  Cents 
Muskegon 
Sunday 
Q.  R.  &  I.

Train  leaves  Union  Station  at 9:1s  a.  m. 
Returning, leaves  Muskegon,  5:30  p.  m. 
50 cents round  trip.
The Climax Wall  Paper  Cleaner
will clean your  old  smoked  paper and  make  it 
like new.  ' Every box  guaranteed.
Advertising agents, ladies or gents, in every city, 
town  or  village.  Big  money  for  right  people.

Glovei 
8-9 T one

»  Whole 
Block.

i*  ¿Vleri’fiaiidiH«1 
tiram i  Rapititi

Cu

Bad Debts Our  system of Collection 

Forcers  for 
the  retail 
trade will aid you  in  col­
lecting a very large percentage of your bad debts. 
Tlie set consists  of  three  rubber  stamps  to  be 
used on statements until bill  is  collected.  Price 
for complete set 75c prepaid.  Ask for  catalogue 
of rubber stamp supplies.
F.  K.  B A B B   A  Co.,  Battle  Creek,  Mich.

Takes  No  Stock 

in  the  Current  Super­
stition.

“ Some  men  have  scruples  about  oc­
cupying  room  number  13,”   said  Mr. 
Howe,  clerk  of  the  Hibbard  House  at 
Jackson  to  Allan  D.  Grant,  as  the  latter 
placed  his  Spencerian  autograph  on 
the  register. 
“ I  have  none,”   replied 
I  have  mocked  at 
the  only  Allan  D. 
death  in  every  form. 
I  joy  at  the  post 
of  danger  and,  so  far  as  hard  luck  is 
concerned,  I  feel  fully  acquainted  with 
the  gentleman.  Room  number  13 
is 
I  am  very  tired. 
good  enough  for  me. 
Our  factory  is  away  behind  orders.  Call 
me  at  6  o’clock.  Good  night.”

Manufacturers  of  all  kinds of  interior finish,  counters,  show cases, 
grills,  fret-work,  mantels,  stair  work,  desks,  office  fixtures,  church 
work,  sash  and  doors.  Write  for  prices  and  estimates  to  the

McORAFT  LUMBER  CO.,  Muskegon,  Michigan

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Drugs—Chem icals

M ichigan  State  B oard  o f P harm acy

Term expires
- 
G eo.  Gu n d r u m , Ionia 
-  Dec. 31,1900
L.  E.  Re y n o l d s,  St.  Joseph 
-  Dec. 31,1901 
He n r y   He im , Saginaw 
- 
-  Dec. 31,1902
W ir 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 e o.  Gu n d r u m ,  Ionia.
Secretary, A.  C.  Sc h u m a c h e r,  Ann Arbor. 
Treasurer, He n r y   He im , Saginaw.
E x am ination  Sessions 

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

State  P h arm aceu tical  A ssociation 

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

Seven  Successful  W indow   D isplays  for 

D ruggists.

Toward  one  side  of  the window space, 
on  a  pink  or  white  carpet  of  paper  or 
cheese-cloth,  erect  a  sort  of  distilling 
apparatus 
from  various  vessels,  tubes, 
etc.  Let 
it  be  somewhat  complicated. 
People  put  a  greater  estimate  on  things 
that  puzzle  them.  Partly  fill  some  of 
the  containers  with  water  so  colored  as 
to  simulate  violet  ammonia.  About 
the  appliance  strew  artificial violets  and 
let  there  be  a  pile  of  these  near  by. 
In 
the  vessel  that 
is  the  supposed  still 
proper,  mingle  some  of  the  flowers  with 
the  colored  water.  Now  let  the  little  fig­
ures  of  men  be  distributed  about  in gro­
tesque  attitudes  amid  the  apparatus  and 
flowers.  See  that  they  are  peeking  into 
things,  pulling  at  a tube or pushing a leg 
of  a  tripod;  have  one  or  more  of  them 
smelling  from  a  bottle  of  this  toilet  aid, 
and  have  others  bringing  flowers  to  the 
“ factory.”   In  the  vacant  window  space 
pile  bottles  of  violet  ammonia of various 
sizes  and  prices,  and  let  price  cards  be 
very  much  in  evidence.  Having  a  vine 
of  smilax  or 
ivy  trained  over  and  be­
tween  the  bottles,  and  a  few  clusters  of 
artificial  violets  here  and  there,  would 
add  beauty  to  the  trim  and  enhance 
its 
selling qualities.  For  a  placard  use  the 
following  words:  “ Violet  Ammonia 
Factory. ”

A  successful  exhibit of  cough  drops  or 
lozenges,  and 
liquid  cough  banishers, 
can  be  realized  in  this  wise :  Upon  an 
elevation 
in  the  center  of  the  window, 
made  from  empty  boxes  covered  with 
white  paper,  set a  number  of  bottles  and 
other  vessels  filled  with  medicaments 
common  to  this  class  of  remedies,  viz., 
horehound, 
licorice,  wild  cherry,  tar, 
squills,  tolu,  honey,  glycerin,  sugar,  etc. 
F ill  a  large  glass  vessel  with  horehound 
tops  and 
leaves,  loose  or  compressed, 
and  other  vessels  with  licorice  in  pow­
der,  root  and  “ stick,”   and  syrup  of 
licorice  (?).  Let  still  other  vessels  con 
tain  wild  cherry  bark  and  syrup. 
In 
this  way  elaborate  the  exhibit  by  dis 
playing  cough-cure  ingredients,  in  their 
various  official 
forms.  Let  each  and 
every 
labeled. 
Now  to  the  left  of  this  pile  of  stuff  as­
semble  the  devices  at  command 
for 
molding  troches  and  tablets.  A   some­
what  pretentious  tablet  machine  would 
be  of  most  service  as  an  eye-catcher and 
an  advertisement,  but  if  such  a  contriv­
ance  be  not  accessible,  place  at  this 
point  whatever  you  can  in  the  way  of  a 
tablet  compressor.  If  thought  advisable, 
then,  in  order  to  elaborate  the  display 
and  enhance  its  worth,  resort  to  a  little 
deception  by  exhibiting  an  ensemble  of 
irrelevant  but 
practical  mechanism. 
Make  as  great  pretensions  as  appur­
tenances  will  permit! 
Scatter  some 
tablets  about  the  compressor  and  let  a 
dish  rest  near  it  filled  with  a  powder 
ready  for  the  press.  On  the  right  side 
of  window  stage  make  a  careful  display

container  be  plainly 

of  cough  drops, 
troches,  and  syrups, 
with  prices  plainly  written  on  each.  By 
means  of  a  card  to the  public  call  atten­
tion  to  the  exhibit  of  your  cough-cure 
ingredients,  and  to  the  significant  fact 
that  opium  and  allied  drugs  are  asbent 
from  the  display.

A   practical  but  modified  utilization 
idea  would  be  to  put 
of  the  foregoing 
the  tablet  compressor 
in  the  center  of 
window,  set  on  a  level  with  the  eye  of 
pedestrian  and  amid  a  fallen  shower  of 
finished  tablets.  Have  cough-drop  in­
gredients  to  the 
left  and  a  pile  of  the 
boxed  article  to  the  right.  By  a  clever 
arrangement  have  the  tablets  apparently 
being  made  by  the  mites  of  men 
from 
former  trims.  They  may  be  seen  fetch­
ing  medicaments  to  the  press;  stacking 
boxes;  one might  be  shoveling  the  loose 
disks  into  the  cartons.  Paste  this  pla­
card  to  the  window  pane:  “ Use  our 
cough  drops  and  drop  that  cough.”  

Procure  a  small  keg  and  stand  it  in 
the  center of  the  display  space,  bottom 
up ;  lay  over  this  bottom a  layer of whit- 
ng  to  look  as  though  you  were  present- 
ng  a  full  keg  of  the  substance.  Build 
from  sponges  a  circular  pile  around 
about  this  small  barrel,  making  the  top 
latter  the  apex  of  pile.  Begin 
of  the 
vith 
large  sponges,  and,  as  the  build- 
ng  proceeds  upward,  let  the  sponges 
diminish  in  size.  Possibly the  keg  will 
need  to  be  elevated  somewhat.  About 
the  base  of  the  sponge  heap  form  a  gir­
dle  from  the  bottles  of  ammonia.  Just to 
the 
left  of this  design  stand  a  box  hid­
den  beneath  a  mantle  of  pink  cheese­
cloth,  on  which  place  a  large  bottle  of 
water  labeled  “ Benzine.”   To  the right 
of  the  keg 
is  put  a  similar  pedestal 
supporting  a  huge  bottle  of  “ Turpen 
tine.”   About  the  base  of  each  box 
group  a  varied  assortment  of  polishing 
agents  to  clean  silver,  brass,  etc.  Space 
not  accounted  for 
in  this  description 
should  be  utilized  for  the  display  of  in 
sect  annihilators,  packages  of  whiting 
of  different  sizes  and  prices,  furniture 
polish,  etc.  Fashion  a  background  by 
stretching  a  cord  across  the  rear  of  the 
window, upon which hang  many  chamoi: 
skins.  Put  price  cards  upon  these  va 
rious  articles.  “ House-cleaning  helps’ 
may  be  the  wording  of  one  placard.

A   translation  of  a  spring  episode 
would  be  the  following : 
In  the  center 
of  the  window  have  this  placard :  “ A 
cold  and  a  cough.”   Have  an  umbrella 
and  a  new  pair  of  overshoes  rest  on  the 
left  side,  accompanied  by  a  card  say 
ing :  “ The  cause.”   A  goodly  stock  of 
your  bottled  cough  and  cold  cure  should 
be  assembled 
in  the  unoccupied  space 
to  the  right,  on  which  appears  this  no 
tic e :  “ The  cure. ”   Tell  the  price  of 
the  cure.

few 

Cover  the  window  flooring  to  a  depth 
of  some 
inches  with  clean,  sweet 
straw.  Stand  erect  in  the  center  of  the 
space  a  well  preserved  bundle  of  the 
same.  An  appropriate  distribution  of 
your  cough  and  cold  cure  should  be 
made  upon  this  carpet  of  straw.  Upon 
the  bundle  should  be  affixed  a  card  on 
which  is printed :  “ The last  straw  broke 
the  camel’s  back. ”   Have  another  pla­
card  appear  in  a  suitable  position  bear­
ing  these  two  sentences,  one  beneath 
the  other:  “ Break  that  cough  to-day. 
To  wait  a  day  is  dangerous!”

An  exhibit  of  the  ingredients  or  some 
toilet  powders  would  increase interest  in 
a  trim  made  from  such  an  item  of  toilet 
stock.  Fancy  bottles  and  vessels  of 
glass  could  be  made  to  contain  such 
substances  as 
rice-flour,  corn-starch, 
talc,  orris,  precipitated  chalk,  extracts 
jasmine,  violet,  and
of  rose,  vanilla; 

musk,  oil  of  almonds,  etc.  Lots  of  peo­
ple  would 
like  to  know  of  what  this 
class  of  preparations  are  composed. 
Paste  a  placard  on  the  window-pane 
telling  a  simple  story,  and  twine  some 
rtificial  vine 
in  and  out  amongst  the 
vessels  and  over  the  packages  of  the 
preparation  you  are  advertising.  Label 
matter  displayed  and  put  prices  on 

packages.

Put  a  large  placard  on  which  appear 
these  two  words,  “ Chapped  skin,”   in 
the  center  of  the  window.  On  either 
side  of  the  window  space  heap  high  a 
pile  of  “ skin  cream”   or  other  emollient 
or  lotion.  Upon  one  pyramid  put  this 
card:  “ A   p e r v e n t iv e o n   the  opposite 
one  this:  “ A   cure.”   Give  prices.

Red  is  a  very  pronounced  and  catchy 
color,  especially  to  the  feminine  eye. 
When  you  display 
skin  beautifiers, 
drape  the  window  in  red  cloth  or  crepe 
>aper.  Then  hang  a  placard  with  this 
query: 
“ Is  your  skin  red  and  rough?”  
The  public  will  see  and  admire  such  a

long 

cover 

Completely 

modification  of  this  trite 

loud”   trim.
We  have  all  seen  a  goodly  supply  of 
tooth-brushes  made most  manifest  to  the 
eye  by  suspending  them  on 
lines 
of  twine  from  the  window  top.  Here  is 
idea :  Se­
cure  a  large  hoop  of  wood ;  also  one  of 
the  same  material  that  will  fit within the 
leave  three  or  four  inches  in 
first  and 
tervening. 
these 
bands  with  pink  or blue  paper  or  cloth. 
Lay  the  smaller  hoop  within  the 
larger 
one,  and  equal  distance  apart  at  all 
points,  and  fasten  both  together  by 
means  of  several  strips  of  thin  wood 
board  or  pasteboard.  Rest  the  tooth 
brushes  across  the  two  hoops 
in  lines 
from  the  center,  much  as  the 
radiating 
spokes  of  a  wheel,  and 
fasten  with 
twine.  Let  there  be  a  sufficient number 
of  brushes  to  make  the  device  look  well 
and  not  appear  skimped.  Now attach  a 
heavy  piece  of  cord  to  the  outer  ring 
and  suspend  the  device 
laden  with 
brushes 
in  the  center  of  the  window 
space,  about  midway  between  the  upper 
and 
lower  boundaries  of  the  window 
pane,  so  that  from  all  points  it  will  ap 
pear  to  passers-by  to  be  in  the  center of 
the  window.  At  an  opposite  point  from 
which  the  first  cord  was  fastened,  at 
tach  another  and 
it  down  to the 
window  floor,  and  secure  it  after  pull 
ing  it  taut.  Now  with  these 
lines  and 
the  conceit  described  as  a  guide  and 
foundation,  design  with  cord  a  sort  of 
cobweb.  The 
lines  that  diverge  from 
the  center  will  answer without  the  inter 
secting  shorter  ones.  This  fabric  fin 
ished,  hang  tooth-brushes  from  each 
and  every  line  that  forms  it.  While  thi 
method  of  exhibiting  tooth-brushes  is  ; 
little  more  elaborate  and 
labor-consum 
ing  than  its  predecessor,  certainly  “ the 
game 
candle.” — Joseph 
Hostelley  in  Bulletin  of  Pharmacy.

is  worth  the 

lead 

A  W histle  Sixty-live  M iles  Dong'. 

From the  Milwaukee Sentinel.

An  odd  incident  occurred  on  the  Chi 
cago  &  Northwestern  Railway  Sunday 
forenoon  at  Highland  Park,  111.  As  the 
engineer,  of  the  train  which  reaches 
Milwaukee  at  n  o’clock blew the whistle 
the  valve  broke  and  he  was  unable  to 
shut  off  the  steam  from the noise-maker, 
From  Highland  Park  to  Milwaukee, 
distance  of  about  sixty-five  miles,  there 
was  not  a  moment  when  the  whistle  was 
not  sounding  full  strength. 
It  could  be 
heard  for  miles  away  as  the  train  came 
on  in,  a long continuous shrill sound,  and 
at  every  city  and  village  people  ran  to 
their  doors  to  learn  what  was  happen 
ing.  While  the  whistle  was  blowing  the 
fireman  was  straining  every  nerve  to 
keep  the  steam  up  to  the  running point 
and  succeeded  in  bringing  the  train  in 
to  the  station  on  time.

The  D ru g  M arket.

Opium— Is  steady  at  unchanged  price 

and  is  firm  at  the  primary  markets.

Morphine— Competition  among manu­
facturers  has  brought  about  a  third  de­
cline  of  ioc  per  ounce,  making  a  reduc­
tion  of  30  cents  in  two  weeks.

Codeine— Has  declined.
Castor  O il— The  market  is  very  firm, 
on  account  of  reports  of  short  crop  of 
seed.

Cocaine— Is  very  firm  at  the  advance 

noted  last  week.

Cocoa  Butter— Is  weak  and  lower,  al­
though  advices  from  abroad  would  in- 

icate  higher  prices  later on.
Cod  Liver  O il— Advices  from  abroad 
continue  firm  and  the  catch  is  reported 
small.  Notwithstanding  this  fact,  prices 
are  lower  in  this  country.

Glycerine—Owing  to  the  strong  posi­

tion  of  crude,  is  very  firm.

Gum  Camphor— Is  in  active  demand 
is  again  higher 
looked  for 

and,  as  the  crude 
abroad,  another  advance 
n  this  market.

Hemp  Seed— Has  declined.
Linseed  Oil— Is  very  firm  at  the  ad- 
ranced  price.  A   70  cent  price  is  freely
talked. 

____ _ 

____

is 

G am e  tw o  Can  P lay   A t.

At  this  moment  something  came  burl- 
the  gallery  and  narrowly 

.ng  from 
missed  the  gifted  tragedian.

Instantly  he  advanced  to  the 

foot- 

ights.
“ That  is  a  gam e,”   he  said  in  a  deep 

voice,  “ that  two  can  play  at.”

And  he  took  an  egg  from  his  pocket 

and  threw  it  with  all  his  might.

It  struck  one  of  the  pillars  of  the  gal­
lery  and  scattered  itself  impartially over 
fifteen  or  twenty  hoodlums.

He  took  out  another  egg,  but  did  not 
have  to  throw  it*.  The  first  one  had  done 
the  business.

Receipt  for  clearing  a  gallery :  Same 
as  for  clearing  a  pot  of  ¿offee— use  an
egg- 

> t > ___

E asy  Escape.

“ How  did  you  finally  get  rid  of  that 
man  who  wanted  you  to  become  a  m il­
lionaire  by 
letting  him  put  you  in  on 
the  ground  floor  of  a  mining  scheme?”  
‘ Oh,  I  gave  him  25  cents  to  buy  a 

lunch. ”

MfG. CHEMISTS,
. 

ALLEGAN, MIGH

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

FUNM G EttMCIS HD DRUGGISTS’ SUNDRIES

jA   Better  Line 
Jof W all  Paper
t ls not shown by any house than we 
show this  season.  We  have  care-
t fully selected the best patterns that 
twenty-six of the  leading  factories
t make 
If your stock needs sorting 
up write  us and we will gladly send 
you  samples  by  express  prepaid, 
ft  Our prices  are  guaranteed  to  be 
"  identically  the  same  as  factories
t represented.  Better  write  us  to­
day and see  an up-to-date  line  of 
£  Wall Paper.
J Heystek &  Canfield  Co.,

Grand Rapids, Mich. 

R 

The Michigan Wall Paper Jobbers.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

Atl van ceti - 
Declined—

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

27

20® 22 1
@  3  25 Seldlltz Mixture......
Menthol....................
@ 18
Morphia, S., P. & W.  2  05®  2  30 Sinapis.....................
@ 30
Sinapis,  opt.............
Morphia, S..N.Y. Q.
& C. Co.................. 1  95®  2  20 Snuff, Maccaboy,  lie
@ 41
V oes.....................
@ 40
Moschus  Canton__
© 41
65® 80 Snuff,Scotch,De Vo’s
Myrlstlca, No. 1......
9® Il 1
@ 10 Soda, Boras.............
Nux Vomica...po. 15
9® 11
30® 35 Soda,  Boras, po.......
Os Sepia....................
23® 25 1
Soda et Potass T art.
Pepsin Saac,  H. & P.
lk@ 2 I
®  1 00 Soda,  Carb...............
Soda,  Bi-Carb..........
Picis Liq. N.N.k gal.
5
3 ®
4
@  2  00 Soda,  Ash................
doz........................
3 k ®
@ 2
©  1  00 Soda, Sulphas..........
Plcls Liq., quarts__
85 Spts. Cologne...........
(51  2  60
50® 55
® 50 Si>ts. Ethel*  Co........
Pll Hydrarg. ..po.  80
@ 2 00
@ 18 Spts.  Myrcla Dom...
Piper  Nigra.. .po. 22
@ 30 Spts. Vini Rect.  bbl.
Piper  Alba.... po. 35
@
@ 7 Spts. Vini Rect. kblil
n ix   Burgun.............
@
10® 12 Spts. Vini Rect. lOgal
@
Plumbl Acet.............
Pulvls Ipecac et Opil 1  30®  1 50 Spts. Vini Rect. 5 gal
@
Strychnia, Crystal... 1  05® 25
Py rethrum. boxes H.
S u lp h u r .  Subl..........
& P. D. Co., doz...
® 75
2 k ®
30 Sulphur, Roll...........
Pyrethrum,  pv........
25®
2 k @ 3 k
8© 10
8® 10 Tam arinds...............
Quassia*....................
28© 30
43 Terebeuth  Venice...
Quinta, 8. P. &  W...
33©
50© 54
43 Theobromie..............
Qulnia, 8.  German..
33©
43 Vanilla..................... 9  (XXftllG  00  I
¡uinla, N. Y.............
33®
8
14 Zinci Sulph.............
;ubla Tlnctorum__
7 ®
12®
18® 20
Saecharum I.actis pv
OH«
Salacin..................... 6 00®  6  25
40® 50
Sanguis  Draconis...
12® 14 Whale,  winter..........
8apo,  W....................
10® 12 Lard, extra...............
8apo M .....................
@ 15 Lard, No. 1...............
Sapo  G .....................

B BL.  G A L.
72
70
50

70
60
45

4 1

50
50
50

60 
50 
60 
60 
6o 
50 
60 
80 
60 
Bo 
80 
75 
So 
75 
75 
1 Oo
Bo
Bo
60

Linseed, pure raw... 
Linseed, boiled........

Paints  HB!..  I.B.
lk   2  @8 
IK  2  @4 
IK  2  @3 
2k  2k®3 
2k  2K@3
13®
70®
14®
13®
6k®
6k@
@
©
@  1  00
@  1  40 
00®  1  15

Red  Venetian..........
Ochre, yellow  Mars. 
Ochre, yellow B er... 
Putty,  commercial.. 
Putty, strictly  pure. 
Vermilion.  P r im e
American.............
Vermilion, English..
Green,  Paris...........
Green, Peninsular...
Lead,  red..................
Lead,  white.............
Whiting, white Span 
Whiting, gilders’ —  
White, Paris, Amer. 
Whiting. Paris,  Eng.
cliff.........................
Universal Prepared.
Varnish««

No. 1 Turp  Coach...  1  10®  1  20
H aL   Turp...............  1  60®  1  70
Coach  Body............   2 75® 3 00
No. 1 Turp Fura......   1  00®  1  10
Extra Turk  Damar..  1  56®  1  60 
I Jap.Dryer.No.lTurp  70®  75

Acidum

Aceticum  .................$ 
6@$
Beuzotcum, German.  70®
@
Boraci«...................... 
Carbolicnm..............  
37®
Gltiicum.................... 
45®
3®
Hydrochlor..
8®
Nitrocum..............
1014
12®
Oxalicum...............
15
Phosphorium,  dii. 
®
65®
_______________________ _  70
Salicylicum
Sulphurlcum...........   1K@ 
6
90®  1  00
Tanulcum................. 
T artaricum .............  
38®  40
Am m onia
Aqua, 16 deg................. 
Aqua, 20 deg................. 
Carbonas.................. 
Chlorldum...................  

4®  6
6@  8
13®  15
12®  14

A niline

Black.........................  2  00® 2 26
Brown.......................  
80®  1 00
Red...........................  
«@   „ “
Yellow.......................  2  50® 3 00

Baccte
Cubebae........... po, 15 
Junt perns.................. 
Xauthoxylum.......... 
Balsam  am

Copaiba....................
Peru  .........................
Terabin,  Canada —
Cortex
Abies, Canadian......
Cassile.......................
Cinchona  Klava.......
Kuonyinus atropurp. 
Myrica Cerifera, po.
Prunus Vlrgini........
QuiUaia, grrd ...........
Sassafras........po. 18
Ulmus.. .po.  15, gr’d
Kxtractum
Glycyrrhiza  Glabra.

Hæmatox, i s .
Hwmatox, k s ..........
F e rru
Carbonate  Preclp...
Citrate and  Quinta..
Citrate  Soluble........
Ferrocyanidum Sol..
Solut. Chloride........
Sulphate,  com’l .......
Sulphate,  com’l,  by
bDl, per  cwt..........
Sulphate,  pure........  
F lo ra

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

F o lia

12© 
14
8
6© 
75©  80

50®  55
fi  1  85
40® 45
40® 45

18
12
18
30
20
12
12
15
15

24© 25
28© 30
H© 12
13© 14
14© 15
16© 17

15
2  25
75
40
It

80
7

Jf
22®  25
35
30© 

Barosma...................  
38@  40
Cassia Acutlfol, Tin-
nevelly.................. 
20®  25
Cassia, Acutlfol, Alx.  25©  30
Salvia officinalis,  k s
and k s .................. 
12®  20
10
8® 
 
UvaUrsi............  
G um m i
Acacia, 1st picked... 
®  65
Acacia, 2d  picked... 
@  45
Acacia, 3d  picked... 
@  35
Acacia, sifted  sorts. 
@  28
45®  65
Acacia, po................. 
Aloe, Barb. po.l8@20  12® 
14
Aloe, Cape— po. 15. 
© 
12
©  30
Aloe,  Socotrl..po.40 
Ammoniac................  
55®  60
30
Assafoetida.. ..po. 30  28® 
Benzolnum............... 
50®  65
13
Catechu, is ............... 
® 
Catechu, k s .............
16 
Catechu, k s .............
69 
Camphoric...............
40 
Euphorbium... po. 35
®  1  00 
Gatbanum................
65®  70
Gamboge.............po
®  30
Gualacum.......po. 25
@  1  25 
Kino........... po. $1.25
®  60 
Mastic  .....................
@  40
M yrrh.............po. 45
Opil__ po.  4.60@4.90 3 50®  3 60
25@  35
Shellac.....................  
Shellac, bleached.... 
40@  45
Tragacanth.............. 
50®  80
H erb a

65®

25
20
25
28
23
25
39
22
25

Absinthium..oz. pkg 
Eupatorium..oz. pkg 
lo b e lia ........oz. pkg 
M ajorum __ oz. pkg 
Mentha Pip..oz. pkg 
Mentha Vlr. .oz. pkg 
Rue............... oz. pkg 
Tanacetum V oz. pkg 
Thymus, V .. .oz. pkg 
M agnesia
Calcined, P a t............ 
55@  60
Carbonate, P at........ 
18®  20
Carbonate, K. & M..  18®  20
larbonate, Jennings 
18®  20

O leum

Absinthium.............   6 50® 6 75
Amygdalae,  Dulc—  
30®  50
Amygdalae,  Amarae.  8 00® 8 25
Anlsf.........................  l  80®  1 90
Auranti Cortex........   2 25®  2 30
Bergamii..................   2 40®  2 60
Cajlputi.................... 
80®  85
CaryophylU..............  
80®  85
C edar.......................  
35®  45
Chenopadii............... 
® 2  75
Clnnamonli.............   1  15®  l 25
Citronella................. 
35®  40

36®  1 45

00® 4 60

Conium Mac............. 
50®  60
Copaiba....................  1  15®  1  25
Cubebae.................... 
90®  1  00
Exechthitos.............  1  00®  1  10
Erigeron..................  1  00®  1  10
G aultheria..............   2 00®  2  10
Geranium, ounce.... 
@  76
Gosslppii, Sem. gal.. 
50®  60
Hedeoma..................  l  66®  1  70
Junípera..................  1  50® 2 00
Lavendula  ............... 
90® 2 00
Limonis.....................  1 
Mentha Piper..........  1  25® 2 00
Mentha Verid..........  1  50®  1  60
Morrhuae, |gal..........  l  20®  1  25
M yrcla......................   4 
76® 3 00
Olive......................... 
Plcls Liquida.......... 
10® 
12
®  35
Picis Liquida,  gal... 
Ricina........................  1  C0@  1 08
Rosmarinl................. 
@  1  00
Rosie, ounce.............  6 60® 8 50
Succini.....................  
40®  46
90®  1  00
Sabina.....................  
Santal.......................  2 75®  7 oo
Sassafras.................. 
50®  55
®  65
Sinapis,  ess., ounce. 
Tiglii.........................  1  50®  1  60
Thyme....................... 
40@  50
Thyme, opt............... 
@  1  60
Theobrom as...........  
15 
20
P otassium
Bi-Carb.....................  
15®  18
15
13® 
Bichromate.............  
52®  57
B rom ide.................. 
12® 
Carb  ......................... 
15
Chlorate., .po. 17^19  16® 
18
Cyanide.................... 
35®  40
Iodide......................   2 65® 2 75
Potassa, Bitart, pure  28®  30
®  15
Potassa, Bitart, com. 
7@  10
Potass Nitras, opt... 
Potass  Nitras.......... 
6® 
8
Prussiate.................. 
23®  26
Sulphate  po.............  
15®  18

R adix

Aconitum.................. 
20®  25
Althae.......................  22®  25
A nchusa.................. 
10®  12
Arum  po.................. 
®  25
Calamus.................... 
20®  40
G entiana........po. 15 
12@  15
Glychrrhiza.. .pv.  15  16®  18
®  75
Hydrastis  Canaden. 
®  80
Hydrastis Can., po.. 
Hellebore, Alba, po. 
12®  15
Inula,  po.................. 
15®  20
Ipecac, po................   4  25®  4 35
Iris  plOX.. .po. 35®38  35®  40
Jalapa, p r................  
25®  30
Maranta,  k s ...........  
®  35
Podophyllum,  po...  22®  25
75®  1  00
Rhei........................... 
Rhei,  cut.................. 
@  1  25
Rhei, l)V.................... 
75®  1  35
Spigelia.................... 
35@  38
Sanguinaria., .po.  15 
18
Serpentaria.............  
40®  45
60®  65
Senega.....................  
@ 4 0
~  "  —  - 
-   — 
Smilax, officinalis H.
Smilax,  M................. 
@  25
Scillae............... po.  35 
10®  12
Symplocarpus.Foeti-
dus,  po.................. 
®  25
Valeriana, Eng. po.30  @  25
Vaierlana,  German. 
15®  20
Zingiber a ................  
12® 
16
Zingiber j..................  
25®  27
Semen

® 

Anisum............po.  15  @  12
15
Apium (graveleons).  13® 
Bird, Is.....................  
6
4® 
Carui................ po.  18 
11®  12
Cardamon.................  l  25®  1  75
Coriandrum.............. 
8®  10
Cannabis Sativa.......  4  ®  5
Cydonium................  
75®  1  00
12
10® 
Cnenopodium.......... 
D'pterlx Odorate....  1  00®  1  10
Foeniculum  .............  
® 
10
Fcenugreek, po........ 
7® 
9
L in i...........................  3k©   4k
Lini, grd........ bid. 3k 
4@  4k
Lobelia..................... 
35®  40
Fharlarls Canarian..  4  @ 
5
5
R ap a.........................  4k®  
Sinapis  Alba............ 
9®  10
Sinapis  Nigra.......... 
11®  12
S plritus 

Frumenti, W. D. Co.  2 00® 2  50 
Frumenti,  D. F. R ..  2 00®  2 25
Frum enti.................   1  25®  1  50
Juniperis Co. O. T ...  1  65® 2 00
Juniperis  Co.......  ..  1  75®  3 50
Saacharum  N. E __   1  90®  2  10
Spt. Vini Gall!..........  1  75® 6  50
Vini  Oporto.............   1  25® 2  00
Vini Alba..................  l  25© 2  00

Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage................  2 50® 2  75
Nassau sheeps’ wool
carriage..................  2 50® 2  75
Velvet extra sheeps’
@  1  50
wool, carriage....... 
Extra yellow sheeps’
wool, carriage....... 
@  1  25
Grass  sheeps’  wool,
carriage................. 
@ 100
" @  75
Hard, for slate use.. 
Yellow  R e e f,  for
slate use................. 
@ 140
Syrups

A cacia............
Auranti Cortex
Zingiber..........
Ipecac.............
Ferri Iod.
Rhei Aram.............
Smilax  Officinalis..
Senega ....................
Scillae.,,  ................

50®
I
©

Scillae  Co..................
Tolutan.....................
Prunus  virg.............

T inctures 
Aconitum Xapellis R 
Aconitum Napellis F
Aloes ........................
Aloes and Myrrh —
A rnica......................
Assafoetida...............
Atrope Belladonna.,
Auranti Cortex........
Benzoin....................
Benzoin Co...............
Barosma....................
Cantharides.............
Capsicum.................
Cardamon................
Cardamon Co...........
Castor.......................
Catechu....................
Cinchona..................
Cinchona Co.............
Columba..................
Cubebae.....................
Cassia Acutlfol........
Cassia Acutifol Co...
Digitalis....................
Ergot.........................
Ferri  Chlorldum__
G entian....................
Gentian Co...............
Guinea.......................
Guinea ammon........
Hyoscyamus.............
Iodine  ....................
Iodine, colorless__
Kino  .........................
Lobelia.....................
M yrrh.......................
Nux Vomica.............
Opil............................
Opil, comphorated..
Opil, deodorized......
Q uassia....................
Rhatany....................
Rhei..........................
Sanguinaria............
Serpentarla.............
Stramonium.............
T olutan....................
Valerian  ..................
Veratrum  Verlde...
Zingiber....................

BÒ
35
So
6o
So
6o
5°75 
75 BO 
So 
Bo 
Bo 
75 Bo 
1  So

BÖ
&
Oo
B«BÖ
20

M iscellaneous 

dither, Spts. Nit. 7  F  30® 
dither, Spts. Nit. 4 F  34®
A lum en....................  2k®
Alumen,  gro’d..po. 7 
3®
50
40®
Annatto..................... 
Antimoni, po............
40®  50
Antimoni et Potass T
Antipyrln.................
@ 
20 
Antiiebrin  ...............
@  48
Argenti Nitras, oz...
10® 12
38® 40
Balm  Gilead  Buds..
50® 60
Bismuth 8. N...........
Calcium Chlor.,  Is...
@
Calcium Chlor.,  ks..
©
Calcium Chlor.,  k s.. 
©
© 7Î
Cantharides, Rus.po 
Capsici Fructus, a f..
©
3
Capsicl  Fructus, po.
Capsici Fructus B, po 
@12®
Caryophyllus. .po. 15
Carmine, No. 40.......
@ 3
50®
Cera  Alba................. 
40®
Cera  Flava............... 
Coccus  .....................  
@
©
Cassia  Fructus........  
©
Centraria..................  
Cetaceum..................  
®
Chloroform.............  
55@
Chloroform,  squibbs  @  l
Chloral Hyd Crst....  1  65@  1
Chondrus.................. 
20®
Clnchonidine.P. & W  38®
Cinchonidine, Germ.  38®
Cocaine....................  5 30®  5
Corks, list.dis.pr.ct.
®
Creosotum................. 
C reta............. bbl. 75  @
Creta, prep............... 
@
Creta, precip...........  
9®
Creta, Rubra...........  
@
Crocus...................... 
16®
@
Cudbear.................... 
Cuprl  Sulph.............   6k©
D extrine..................  
7®
Ether Sulph.............  
75@
Emery, all numbers. 
®
Emery, po..........  ... 
@
E rg o ta..........po. 90  • 85@
Flake  W hite...........  
12®
Galla..................
@
8®
G am bler...........
Gelatin,  Cooper
@
Gelatin, French....... 
35®
75  &
Glassware,  flint, box 
Less than box......
11@
Glue, brown............. 
Glue,  white.............  
15®
Glycerina.................. 
17®
Grana Paradis!........  
®
Humulus..................  
25®
Hydrarg  Chlor  Mite  @
Hydrarg  Chlor Cor..  @
Hydrarg  Ox Rub’m . 
@ 1
Hydrarg  Ammoniati 
@ 1
HydrargUnguentum 
50®
Hydrargyrum.......... 
@
Ich thy obol la.  Am... 
65®
Indigo....................... 
75®  l
Iodine,  Resubt........   3 90@  4
@ 4
Iodoform..................  
Lupulin.....................  
@
Lycopodium.............. 
65®
65®
M acis.......................  
Liquor Arsen et  Hy­
@
drarg Iod............... 
LiquorPotassArslnlt 
10® 
Magnesia,  Sulph—  
2®
Magnesia. Sulph, bbl  @ 
Mmnnla.S.  F ............ 
60®

Seasonable
Blue  Vitriol 
Paris  Green 
Insect  Powder 
White  Hellebore 
Moth  M s  
Gum  Camphor 

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

GROCERY PRIG© CURRENT.

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

A L A B A S T IN E

White in drums.................... 
9
Colors in drums....................  10
White in packages...............  10
Colors in packages...............  11

Less 40 per cent discount.

doz.  gross

A X L E   G R E A S E
A urora..........................55 
Castor  Oil.....................60 
Diamond...................... 50 
Frazer’s ........................75 
IXL Golden, tin boxes 75 

6 00
7 00
4 25
9 00
9 00

A cm e

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

B A KIN G   PO W D ER  

9 00
600

A rctic

>4 lb. cans 3  doz..................   45
% lb. cans 3  doz..................   75
1 
lb. cans l  doz.................. l  00
Bulk........................................  10
6 oz. Eng. Turn biers.............   85
>4 lb. cans per doz..............   75
>4 lb. cans per doz............. 1  20
1 
lb. cans per doz............. 2 00
14 lb. cans, 4 doz. case........  35
<4 lb. cans, 4 doz. case........  55
1 
lb. cans, 2 doz. case........   90

E l  P u rity

Home

Queen  Flake

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

BA TH   B RICK

BLU IN G

C O P ^ D
B tu ífíG

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........................1  25
Warehouse........................... 3  75
Electric Light, 8s...................12
Electric Light, 16s..................¡2‘4
Paraffine, 6s........................... 1134
Paraffine, 12s..........................1214
Wlcking.................................20

CANDLES

CANNED  GOODS 

B eans

A pples
3 lb. Standards........  
Gallons, standards.. 
B aked.......................  
Red  Kidney.............  
S tring.......................  
W ax........................... 
B lackberries
Standards................. 
B laeb erries
S tandard..................... 
Bed  Standards............ 
W hite............ 
Clams.
Little Neck, l lb ___ 
C o ra
F air............................ 
Good.........................  
Fancy..................  
H om iny
Standard.»...............  

C herries

90
2 65
75@i  30
75®  85
80
85
75
85
85
1 
i 10
75
85
96
86

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

 

2 80

70
80

Peas

18@20

65
75
85
90

Oysters

P in eap p le

22@25
95
170

1  85
3  10
2 25
175
2  80
1  75
2 80
175

L obster
Star, H lb.................. 
Star, 1  lb..................  
Picnic Tails..............  
M ackerel
Mustard, lib ............ 
Mustard. 2 lb............ 
Soused, 1 lb............... 
Soused, 2 lb .............  
Tomato, 1 lb.............  
Tomato, 21b.................... 
M ushroom s
Hotels......................... 
Buttons........................... 
Cove, 1 lb................... 
Cove, 2 lb ..................  
Peaches
P ie ............................
Yellow........................  1  65@1 85
Pears
Standard.................  
Fancy........................  
M arrowfat...................... 
1 00
Early June...................... 
1 00
Early June  Sifted 
1 60
G rated........................  1  25@2 75
Sliced...........................  1  36@2 25
P u m p k in
F a ir........................... 
Good......................... 
Fancy.......................  
R aspberries
Standard...................  
Salm on
Bed Alaska.....................  
Pink Alaska............. 
Sardines
Domestic, 348........... 
Domestic,  M ustard. 
French...................... 
Standard..................  
Fancy..............................  
Succotash
90
Fair............................ 
Good......................... 
1  00
Fancy.......................  
1  20
Tom atoes
80
F a ir........................... 
Good.........................  
90
Fancy.......................  
1  15
Gallons...................... 
2 35
CATSUP
Columbia,  pints.................... 2 00
Columbia, V4 pints................. 1  25
CHEESE
Acme......................... 
@1234
Amboy........................... 
@12
E lsie..............................  
©
Emblem......................... 
@12
@12 ^
Gem................................ 
©lit*
Gold Medal............... 
@12
Id eal.............................  
Jersey............................  
©12
@12
Riverside.......................  
B rick.............................. 
@12
Edam .............................  
@90
Leiden........................... 
@17
Limburger...................... 
@13
Pineapple................   50  @75
@18
Sap  Sago....................... 
5
Bulk........................................ 
R ed......................................... 
7

@4
@8
8@22
85

Straw berries

CHICORY

1 25

1 35

95

CHOCOLATE 

Walter Baker & Co.’s.

COCOA

Runkel Bros.

H. O. Wilbur & Sons.

German  Sweet.....................   23
Premium...............................   35
Breakfast Cocoa....................  46
21
Vienna Sw eet..................... 
Vanilla...................................  28
Premium........................  
 
31
Capital Sweet........................  21
Imperial Sweet.....................  22
Nelson’s  Premium.....................'. 25
Sweet Clover, 34s ..................  25
Sweet Clover, 3»s..................  27
Premium Baking..................  33
Double Vanilla......................  40
Triple Vanilla 
....................  50
W ebb.................................... 
30
Cleveland...............................   41
Epps 
....................................  42
Van Houten, 34s...................   12
Van Houten, 34s ...................   20
Van Houten, 34s ...................   40
Van Houten,  is  ........  
72
Colonial, 34s  .........................  35
Colonial, 34s...........................  33
H uyler...................................  45
Wilbur, 34s............................   41
Wilbur. 34s ............................   42
COCOA  SHELLS
20 lb. bags.......................  
234
3
Less quantity..................  
Pound packages.............  
4
15
CLOTHES  LIN ES
Cotton, 40 ft.  per doz........... l  00
Cotton, 50 ft.  per doz........... l  20
Cotton, 00 ft.  per doz..........  1  40
Cotton, 70 ft.  per doz........... 1  60
Cotton, 80 ft.  per doz...........1  80
Jute, 60 ft. per doz...............  80
96
Jute, 72 ft. per doz.............  

C IG A R S

The Bradley Cigar Co.’s  Brands
A dvance................................. $35 00
B radley...................................  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 ..36@ 70 00
Ruhe Bros. Co.............25@ 70 00
Hllson  Co.................... 35@110  00
T. J. Dunn & Co.........35©  70 00
McCoy & Co................35@ 70 00
The Collins Cigar Co.. 10@ 35 00
Brown  Bros................15@ 70 00
Bernard Stahl Co....... 35@ 90 00
Banner Cigar  Co........10@ 35 00
Seidenberg  &Co........55@125 00
Fulton  Cigar  Co........10@  35 00
A. B. Ballard & Co... ,35@175 00 
E. M. Schwarz & Co..  35®no 00
San Telmo...................35@  70 00
Havana Cigar Co....... 18@ 35 00
C. Costello & Co......... 35@ 70 00
LaGora-Fee Co..........  35@ 70 00
S. I. Davis & Co..........35@185 00
Hene & Co..................35@ 90 00
Benedict & Co..........7.50@  70 00
Hemmeter Cigar Co...35© 70 00
G .J. Johnson Cigar Co.35@ 70 00
Maurice Sanborn  ___ 50@175  00
Bock & Co.................... 65@300 00
Manuel  Garcia........... 80@375 00
Neuva Mundo..............85@175  00
Henry Clay...................85@550  00
La Carolina..................96@200 00
Standard T. & C. Co.. .35©  70 00
H.  Van Tongeren’s Brands.
S tar G re e n ..................... 35  OO

C O F F E E
R oasted

___HIGH GRADE

Coffees

Rio

J a v a

Santos

M ocha

M aracaibo

Special Combination...........   20
French Breakfast.................  25
Lenox....................................   30
V ienna...................................  35
Private Estate.......................   38
Supreme.................................  40
Less 3334  per  cent,  delivered. 
F a ir........................................  10
Good......................................   11
Prim e.....................................  13
Golden...................................  14
Peaberry..............................  
15
F a ir................................. ■....  14
Good......................................   15
Prim e.....................................  16
Peaberry................- ..............  18
P rim e....................................   15
Milled....................................   17
Interior..................................   26
Private  Growth....................  30
Mandehling...........................  35
Imitation..............................  22
Arabian..................................   28
Below  are  given  New  York 
prices  on  package  coffees,  to 
which the wholesale dealer adds 
the local freight from New York 
to buyers shipping point, giving 
buyer credit ou the  invoice  for 
the  amount of  freight  lie  pays 
from  the  market’  in  whicn  he 
purchases to his shipping point.
These prices are  further  sub­
ject  to  manufacturer’s  regular
rebate.
Arbuckle..............................12 00
Jersey...................................12 00
M cLaughlin’s X X X X  
McLaughlin’s  XXXX  sold  to 
retailers  only.  Mail  all  orders 
direct  to  W.  F.  McLaughlin  &
Co., Chicago.
Valley City 34  gross.............   75
Felix 34 gross.........................1  15
Hummel’s foil 34 gross........   85
Hummel’s tin 34 gross........ 1  43

P A C K A G E   C O F F E E .

E xtract

Pearl  B arley 
Common.......................
Chester..................................2 50
Empire..................................3 00

Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s Brand.

Grits

Peas

R olled  Oats

24 2 lb. packages..................1  80
100 1b. kegs............................2 70
200 lb. barrels.......  ............. 5  10
Green, Wisconsin, bu...........1  30
Green, Scotch, bu...................... 1 35
Split, bu.................................  
3
Rolled A vena, bbl......................3 75
Steel Cut, 34 bbls........................2 05
Monarch, bbl..............................3 50
Monarch, 34 bbl..........................1 95
Monarch, 90 lb. sacks...........1  75
Quaker, cases.............................3 20
Huron, cases......................... 2  00
German.................................. 
4
East India.............................   334
S alas B reak fast Food 
F. A. McKenzie, Quincy, Mich.
36 two pound packages__ 3  60
18 two pound packages__   1  85
F lak e....................................  5
Pearl .*....................................  5
Pearl,  24 1 lb. packages.......654

T apioca

Sago

W heat

Cracked, bulk.......................  334
24 2 fl>. packages..................2  so
F L A V O R IN G   E X T R A C T S 

DeBoe’s

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

4 OZ.
1  80
135
145

F O O T E   &   J E N K S ’

JA X O N

Highest.  Grade  Extracts
Lemon

Vanilla 

1 oz full m . 1  20  1 oz full  m .  80
2 oz full m .2  10  2 oz full m . 1  25 
No.3fan’y,3  15  No.3fan’y .i  75

Vanilla 

Lemon

2 oz panel.. 1  20  2 oz panel.  75
3 oz taper. .2 00  4 oz taper.. 1  50

CONDENSED  M ILK

COUPON  BOOKS 

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
50books,any  denom...  1  50 
100 hooks, 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 receiv es  s p e c ia lly  
printed  cover  without  extra 
charge.

A pples

C redit  Checks 

Coupon  Pass  Books 
denomination from $10 down.

Can be made to represent any 
50  books.........................  X  50
100  books.........................  2  50
500  books.........................  11  60
1.000  books...........................20  00
500, any one denom........   2 00
1.000, any one denom........  3 00
2.000. any one denom........   5 00
Steel  punch....................... 
75
CREAM   TARTAR
5  and 10 lb. wooden  boxes....30
Bulk In sacks.............................29
D R IE D   FRUITS—D om estic 
Sundried..........................   @634
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes.7@  734 
Apricots......................   @15
Blackberries...............
Nectarines..................
Peaches.......................10  @11
Pears............................
Pitted Cherries...........  
Prunnelles..................
Raspberries..............
100-120 25 lb. boxes........   @ 4
90-100 25 lb. boxes........   ©4M
80 - 90 25 lb. boxes........   @ 5
70 - 80 25 lb. boxes........   © 534
60 - 70 25 lb. boxes........   © 6
50 - 60 25 lb. boxes........   © 734
40 - 50 25 lb. boxes........   @ 8
30 - 40 25 lb. boxes........
li cent less in 50 lb. cases 

C alifornia P ru n es

C alifornia  F ru its

734

C itron

C urran ts

1  75 
London Layers 2 Crown. 
2 00
London Layers 3 Crown. 
Cluster 4 Crown............. 
2  25
734 
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 
834 
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 
8% 
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown 
L. M., Seeded, choice ... 
10
L. M.. Seeded, fancy__  
1034
D R IE D   FRU ITS—F o reig n  
Leghorn.....................................11
Corsican....................................12
Patras, cases...........................634
Cleaned, b u lk .......................   634
Cleaned,  packages...............  734
Citron American 19 lb. bx... 13 
Lemon American 10 lb. b x .. 1034 
Orange American 10 lb. bx.. 1034 
Sultana l Crown...................
Sultana 2 Crown..................
Sultana 3 Crown....................
Sultana 4 Crown....................
Sultana 5 Crown....................
Sultana 6 Crown....................
Sultana package..................

R aisins

Peel

R aisins

Beans

Farina

Cereals

FARINACEOUS  GOODS
Dried Lima...........................   5X
Medium Hand Picked  2 15@2  25
Brown Holland.....................
Cream of Cereal....................  90
Grain-O, sm all........................... 1 35
Grain-O, large............................2 25
Grape Nuts............................1  35
Postum Cereal, sm all...........1  35
Postum Cereal, large........  2  25
241 lb. packages........................1 25
Bulk, per 100 lbs.........................3 00
36,2 lb. packages........................3 00
B arrels........................................2 50
Flake, 50 lb. drums.....................1 00
Rice Flakes, 3 doz pkg case  2  85 
Flaked Peas, 3 doz pkg case  2  85 
Flaked Beans,3dozpkgc’se 2  85 
35 Chene St., Detroit, Mich. 
M accaroni  and V erm icelli
Domestic, 10 lb. box.............   60
Imported, 25 lb. box.............2  50

Lauhoff Bros. Flaking Mills, 

H askell’s W heat Flakes

Hom iny

Jennings’

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

D.  C. Lemon
2 OZ....... .  75
3 OZ....... .1  00
4 oz....... .1  40
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  BrandLem. Van.
1  20
.  75
1  20
.  75
2 00
.1  35
.1  60
2 25
Van. Lem.
doz.
doz.
.1  25
75
XXX, 2 0Z. obert..
.2 25
1  25
XXX, 4 oz. taper..
XX, 2 oz. obert__ .1  OO
No. 2. 2 oz. o b ert..
.  75
XXX D D ptchr, 6 oz
XXX D D ptchr, 4 oz
K. P. pitcher, 6 oz.

2 oz. Taper Panel..
2 oz. Oval...............
3 oz. Taper Panel..
4 oz. Taper Panel..

P errig o ’s

2 25
1  76
2 25

FLY  P A P E R

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

Sage......................................
..15
H ops..................................... ...15

H ER B S

IN D IG O

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

JE L L Y

V. C. Brand.

LICO RICE

15 lb. palls  .......................... .  35
30 lb. pails...............
Pure apple, per doz........... .  85
P ure..................................
.  30
Calabria..............................
.  25
Sicily..................................... .  14
Root...................................... .  10
Condensed, 2 doz................ .1  20
Condensed, 4 doz..........
.2  25
MATCHES

LYE

Diamond Match Co.’s brands.
No.  9 sulphur..................... .1  65
Anchor Parlor ...
.1  50
No. 2 H om e......................
.1  30
Export Parlor....................
.4 00
Wolverine....................
.1  50
MOLASSES
New  O rleans
Black............................
11
F a ir...........................
14
Good...........................
20
Fancy.........................
24
Open K ettle..................... 25@35
Half-barrels 2c extra
MUSTARD

Horse Radish, 1 doz.........
Horse Radish, 2 doz........
Bayle’s Celery, 1 doz........

.1  75
.3  50
.1  75

PIC K L E S
M edium

Sm all

Barrels, 1,200 co u n t..........
Half bbls, 600 count........

.5 90
.3  45

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

P IP E S

POTASH

48 cans in case.

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

R IC E

D om estic

..6H
.5
. .4
-.3«

Carolina  head....................
Carolina  No. 1 ..................
Carolina  No. 2 ..................
Broken ...............................
Japan,  No.  l ..................5*4@6
Japan,  No.  2..................434@5
Java, fancy head........... 5 @5H
Java, No. i ..................... 5 @
Table................................. @

Im p o rted .

SALERATUS

Packed 60 lbs. in box.
Church’s Arm and Hammer. 3  15
Deland's..............................
.3 00
Dwight’s  Cow....................
.3  15
Emblem..............................
.2  10
.3 00
L.  P .....................................
Sodio................................... ..3  15
Wyandotte, 100  54s............
.3 00
Granulated,  bbls............... ..  80
Granulated, 100 lb. cases.. ..  85
Lump, bbls.........................
75
Lump, 145 lb. kegs............. ..  80

SAL  SODA

SALT

D iam ond C rystal

Table, cases, 24 3 lb. boxes ..1  40
Table, barrels, 100 3 lb. bags.2  85
Table, barrels, 40 7  lb. bagS.2 50
Butter, barrels, 280 lb. bull 1.2  50
Butter, barrels,20141b.bags.2  60
Butter, sacks, 28 lbs..........
.  27
Butter, sacks, 56 lbs..........
.  62
Com m on  G rades
100 3 lb. sacks..................... ..2  15
60 5 lb. sacks..................... ..2 05
28 10 lb. sacks.................... ..1  95
56 lb. sacks.......................
40
28 lb. sacks.......................
22
56 lb. dairy in drill bags... ..  30
28 lb. dairy in drill bags... ..  15
56 lb. dairy in linen sabks. ..  60

W arsaw

A shton

H iggins

56 lb. dairy in linen sacks. ..  60
56 lb.  sacks......................... ..  25
Granulated  Fine............... ..1  0G
Medium Fine...................... .1   05

Solar  Rock
C om m ok

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V  1  •’f

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SALT  FISH  

Cod

H errin g

H alibut.

Georges cured.............  @ 5
Georges  genuine........   @  54
Georges selected........  @ 54
Strips or  bricks..........  6  @ 8
Pollock........................   @ 34
Strips............................  ..........14
Chunks..................................... IB
Holland white hoops,  bbl.  11  00 
Holland white hoops4bbl.  6 00 
Holland white hoop,  keg.. 
75 
Holland white hoop mchs. 
85
Norwegian.........................
Round 100 lbs.....................   3 60
Round 40 lbs.......................  1 7B
164
Scaled...............................  
Bloaters............................... 
l 50
Mess 100 lbs............ ..........  17
00 
Mess 40 lbs............. ..........   7
10
Mess 10 lbs............ ..........  1
Mess 8 lbs............ ..........  1
No. 1 100 lbs............ ..........  15
No. 1 40 lbs............ ..........  6
No. 1 io lb s ........... ..........  1
No. 1 8 lbs............ ..........  1
loo lbs............ ..........  9
No. 2 40 lbs............ ..........  44  10
No. 2  10 lbs........................  1  10
No. 2  8 lbs........................ 
91
No. 1 100 lbs........................
No. 1  40 lbs........................
No. 1  10 lbs...........  ..........
No. 1  8 lbs........................

M ackerel

Trout

. W hiteflsh

SEEDS

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

100  lbs............  8  00  7  25
40  lbs...........   3 60  3 20
10  lbs...........   1  00 
88
8  lbs...........  
73
84 
SAUERKRAUT

No. 1  No. 2 Fam
2 75
1  40
43
37
.......... .................. ..5 00
Barrels 
Half barrels....................... ..2  75
..  9
Anise 
Canary, Smyrna................ ..  4
Caraway  ............................ ..  8
Cardamon,  Malabar.......... ..60
Celery.................................. .10
Hemp, Russian.................. ..  44
Mixed Bird......................... ..  44
Mustard, white.................. „  6
Poppy.................................. ..10
R ap e................................... ..  4 y%
..15
Cuttle Bone.......................
Scotch, in bladders.. , ....... ..  w
..  35
Maccaboy. in jars............
..  43
French Rappee, in  ja rs .. 

SNUFF

SOAP

J A  X O N
MS. S  KIRK S CO  S BRANDS.

Single box................................... 3 00
5 box lots, delivered............2  «5
10 box lots, delivered............2  90

American Family, wrp’d... .3 no
Dome...........................................2 80
Cabinet........................................ 2 40
Savon........................................... 2 80
White  Russian...........................2 80
White Cloud,.............................4 00
Dusky Diamond, 50 6 oz.......2  00
Dusky Diamond, 50 8 oz.......2 50
Blue India, 100 & lb. ............ 3  00
Klrkoline.................................... 3 50
Eos...............................................2 65

100 12 oz bars.......................... 3 00

SEARCH-LIGHT
100 big Twin Bars...................3 65
5 boxes.................................3 60
10  boxes................................ 3 55
25  boxes............................ -- 3 45
5 boxes or upward delivered free

S I L V E R

Single box.................  
2 95
Five boxes, delivered........... 2 90
Scouring
Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz..........2 40
Sapolio, hand, 3 doz...............2 40

 

SO DA

Boxes.............................
Kegs,  English.......................   45i

SPICES 

W hole Spices

Allspice............................... 
12
12
Cassia, China in m ats....... 
25
Cassia, Batavia, in bund... 
38
Cassia, Saigon, broken.... 
55
Cassia, Saigon, in rolls.... 
Cloves, Amboyna............... 
16
14
Cloves, Zanzibar................. 
M ace...................................
55
Nutmegs,  75-80.................. 
Nutmegs,  105-10................. 
45
40
Nutmegs, 115-20 — ........ 
Pepper, Singapore, black.  154
Pepper,  Singagore, white. 
23
Pepper, shot.......................   1614
P u re  G round In B u lk
Allspice............................... 
if
Cassia, Batavia..................  
28
48
Cassia, Saigon.................... 
17
Cloves, Zanzibar................  
Ginger,  African.*..............  
15
Ginger, Cochin..................  
18
28
Ginger,  Jam aica............... 
Mace.................................... 
66
Mustard.............................. 
18
Pepper, Singapore, black. 
18
Pepper, Singapore, white. 
25
20
Pepper, Cayenne............... 
S a g » ....^ !:..................... 
»

K ingsfurri’s  Corn
40 l-lb. packages................   64
20 l-lb. packages................ 
694
6 lb. packages................  
7 4
K ingsford’s Silver Gloss
7
40 l-lb. packages................. 
74
6 lb. boxes......................... 
20 l-lb.  packages............... 
494
40 l-lb.  packages............... 
4V4
C om m on Gloss
  44
l-lb. packages................ 
3-lb. packages.................... 
44
6-lb. packages.................... 
5
34
40 ana 50-lb. boxes............. 
Barrels...............................  
34

’  Com m on Corn

SUGAR

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 tor 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  16
Coarse  Granulated............  5 30
Extra Fine Granulated__  5 30
Conf.  Granulated..............  5 40
2 lb. cartons Fine  G ran...  5 25
2 lb. bags Fine  G ran........  5 25
511*. cartons Fine  Gran...  5 25
5 lb. bags Fine  Gran........   5 25
Mould A ..............................  5 40
Diamond  A.........................  5  15
Confectioner’s  A ...............  495
No.  1, Columbia  A...........   4 80
No.  2, Windsor A.............  4 80
No.  3. Ridgewood A ........   4 80
No.  4, Phoenix  A .............  4 75
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. II...................................  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.................................. 17
Half bbls.............................. 1«
1 doz. 1 gallon cans..............3  15
1 doz. 4  gallon cans............l  85
2 doz. *4 gallon cans.............   92
F a ir........................................  16
Good......................................   20
Choice  ...................................  25

P u re   Cane

TA B LE  SAUCES
LEA &
PERRINS’ 
SAUCE

T h e  O rigin al and 
Genuine 
W orcestersh ire.

Lea & Perrin's, large........   3 76
Lea & Perrin’s,  small.......  2  50
Halford, large....................  3 76
Halford, small....................  2  25
Salad Dressing, large.......  4 55
Salad Dressing, small.......  2  75
Malt White Wine, 40 grain..  8 
Malt White Wine, 80 grain.. 11
Pure Cider, Red Star...........12
Pure Cider, Robinson......... 12
Pure Cider,  Silver................11
W A SH IN G   P O W D E R

V IN E G A R

W 1C K IN G

Rub-No-More, 100 12 o z ...... 3 50
No. 0, per gross......................20
No. l, per gross................... .,.25
No. 2, per gross......................35
No. 3, per gross......................55

W O O D E N W A R E

B askets

Bushels........................................1 15
Bushels, wide  band................... l 25
M arket..................................   30
Willow Clothes, large...........7  00
Willow Clothes, medium...  6 50
Willow Clothes, small.......... 5 50

B u tte r P lates

No. l Oval, 250 in crate.........l  80
No. 2 Oval, 250 in crate.........2 00
No. 3 Oval, 250 In crate.........2 20
No. 5 Oval, 250 In crate.........2 60
Boxes, gross boxes...............  66

Clothes  Pins

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN
Grains and Feedstuffs

Mop  Sticks

Troian spring........................9  00
Eclipse patent spring..........9 oo
No 1 common........................ 8  00
No. 2 patent brush holder . .9 00
12 lb. cotton mop heads 
1  25

* 

P alls
hoop Standard..1  50 I
2- 
hoop Standard..1 70
3- 
2- 
wire,  Cable...... 1 60
3- 
wlre,  Cable...... 1 85
Cedar, all red, brass  bound. 1  25
Paper,  Eureka......................2 25
Fibre...................................... 2  40

T ubs

20-inch. Standard, No. 1....... 7  00
18-inch, Standard, No. 2.......6 00
16-inch, Standard, No. 3....... 5 00
20-lnch, Dowell,  No. l ...........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

W ash  B oards

Bronze Globe......................... 2 50
D ewey......................................   1 75
Double Acme.............................. 2 75
Single Acme................................2 25
Double  Peerless......................... 3 20
Single  Peerless...........................2 50
Northern Q ueen....................... 2 50
Double Duplex...........................3 00
Good Luck..................................2 75
Universal.................................... 2 25

W ood  Bow ls

11 in. B utter..........................  75
13 in. Butter................................ 1 00
15 in. Butter................................ 1 75
17 in. Butter................................2 50
IP in. Butter................................3 oo
Assorted 13-15-17....................... 1 75
Assorted 15-17-19  .................2  50

YEAST  CAKE

Yeast Foam, 1 Vi  doz...........   50
Yeast Foam, 3  doz.....................1 oo
Yeast Cre  m, 3 doz.................... 1 00
Magic Yeast 5c, 3  doz...........1  00
Sunlight Yeast, 3 doz............ 1  00
Warner’s Safe, 3 doz............ 1  00

Provisions
B arreled  P o rk

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

D ry  Salt  M eats

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

Sm oked  Meati*

Hams, 12 lb. average.
Hams. I4lb.average.
Hams, 16 lb. average.
Hams, 20 lb. average.
Ham dried  beef.......
Shoulders (N. Y. cut)
Bacon, clear.............
California hams.......
Boneless  hams........
Boiled Hams...........
Picnic Boiled Hams 
Berlin  Hams..........

L ards—In Tierces

@13 00
@13  75
@13  50
@13  21
@16 00
@11  00
@13  75

8V2
8V4
74

@  114
@  114
@  114
@  11 
@  13Vi 
@  7 Vi 
@  10 
@  84 
@  9Vi 
©  16 
@  13 
@  8Vi

6*8

54
6
7V9
74
64
9
6

10 00
11  50
11  25

80
1  50
2 75

70
1  25
2  25

20
3
10
60
134
13
19
184
2  70
19 50
2  70

Compound................
Kettle........................
Vegetole................
55 lb. Tubs.. advance 
80 lb. Tubs.. advance 
50 lb. Tins... advance 
20 lb. Palls, .advance 
io lb. Pails.. advance 
5 lb. Pails.. advance 
3 lb. Pails.. advance
Sausages
Bologna....................
Liver .........................
F rankfort................
Pork  .........................
Blood........................
Tongue.....................
Headcheese..............
B eef
Extra Mess...............
R um p.......................

P igs’  F eet

Kits, 15  lbs...............
4  bbls., 40  lbs..........
4  bbls., 80  lbs..........
T ripe
Kits, 15  lbs...............
4  bbls., 40  lbs..........
4  bbls., 80 lbs..........
Casings
P o rk .........................
Beef  rounds.............
Beef  middles...........
Sheep........................
B u tterin e
Rolls, dairy...............
Solid, dairy...............
Rolls, creamery.......
Solid,  creamery.......
Corned beef, 2 lb __
Corned beef, 14 lb ...
Roast beef, 2 lb........
Potted ham,  4 s .......
Potted ham,  Vis.......
Deviled ham,  4 s __
Deviled ham,  Vis__
Potted tongue,  94s.. 
Potted tongue,  Vis..

C anned  M eats

Fresh  Meats

B eef

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

P o rk

Dressed.................... 
Loins ......................... 
Boston  Butts...........  
Shoulders................. 
Leaf  laird................. 
M utton
Carcass..................... 
Spring Lambs.......... 

Veal

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

6  @  s
6  @ 6Vi
8  @ 9
9  @14
9  @14
7Vi@  8
6  @ 6Vi
4  @ 5

@694
@ 9
@ 8
@794
@794

7 @ 8
9 @10

7Vi@ 9

The  National  Biscuit  Co. 

quotes as follows:
B u tte r

 

Soda

O yster

Seym our............................... 
5Vi
New  York.............................  
5Vi
Family................................... 
54
Salted................................. 
54
Wolverine.............................  
6
Soda  XXX...........................  
6
Soda,  City.............................  
8
Long Island  Wafers..........  11
rette...........................  10
7
6

Faust.....................................  
Farina....................................  BVi
Extra Farina 
..................... 
Saltine  Wafer.......................  BVi
Sweet  Goods—Boxes
lOVi
Animals.............................. 
Assorted  Cake....................   10
Belle Rose.............................  
9
Bent’s  W ater......................  15
Buttercups... 
..............  13
Cinnamon Bar......................  
9
Coffee Cake,  Iced.............  10
Coffee Cake, Java.............   10
Cocoanut Taffy....................  10
Cracknells...........................  154
Creams, Iced.......................  
84
Cream Crisp.......................... 
9
Crystal Creams....................  10
Cubans...........................  
Currant  Fruit......................  11
Frosted Honey..................   124
Frosted Cream..................... 
9
Ginger Gems, lg. or  sm. 
9
Ginger Snaps, XXX.......... 
8
G ladiator.............................  10
Grandma Cakes...................  
9
Graham Crackers................ 
8
Graham  Wafers..................   10
Honey Fingers....................   124
Im perials............................ 
8
Jumbles, Honey..................   124
Lady Fingers.......................   114
Lemon  W afers..................  14
Marshmallow....................  15
Marshmallow W alnuts__   16
Mixed  Picnic.......................   114
Milk Biscuit.......................... 
74
Molasses  Cake..................  
8
Molasses B ar.....................  
9
Moss Jelly Bar....................   124
Newton...............................   12
8
Oatmeal Crackers.............  
Oatmeal Wafers................   10
Orange Crisp.....................  
9
8
Orange  Gem...................... 
8
Penny Cake......................... 
Pilot Bread, XXX............. 
7
Pretzels, hand  made........  
74
Sears’  Lunch.....................  
74
Sugar Cake......................... 
8
Sugar Cream, XXX.......... 
8
Sugar Squares..................  
8
Sultanas................................  124
Tuttl  Fruttl.........................   164
Vanilla Wafers..................   14
Vienna Crimp.................... 
8
Fish  and Oysters

F resh   F ish

White fish............. ....  @ 9
Trout...................... ....  @ 9
Black  Bass........... ....  8@ 11
Halibut.................. ....  @ 17
Ciscoes or Herring ....  @ 5
Bluefish ................. ....  @ 11
Live  Ixibster........ ....  @ 25
Boiled  Lobster__ ....  @ 27
Cod......................... ....  @ 11
Haddock............... ....  @ 9
No. 1  Pickerel....... ....  @ 9
Pike....................... ....  @ 7!
Perch..................... ....  @ 5
Smoked  White__ ....  @ 8
Red  Snapper........ ...  @ 10
Col River  Salmon. ....  @ 14
....  © 18
Mackerel..............
F. H.  Counts........
40
32
F. J. D. Selects__
Selects.....................
F. J. D.  Standards..
Anchors....................
Standards.................
Favorite....................
Bu lk.
F. H. Counts.................
Extra Selects................
Selects............................
Anchor Standards........
Standards......................
Shell Goods. 
l oo
Clams, per 100.
Oysters, per 100..........l  oo@i  25

O ysters In Cans.

W in ter  W heat  F lo u r 

Local Brands

Patents...............................  4  10
Second  Patent....................  3 60
Straight...............................  3 40
C lear...................................  3 00
Graham ..............................  3 30
Buckwheat........................   5 oo
Rye......................................  3 26
Subject  to  usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour in bbls., 25c per  bbl. ad­
ditional.
Ball-Rarnhart-Putman's Brand
Diamond  Vis.. 
3  60 
3  60 
Diamond 4 s.. 
Diamond  Vis..
3 60

Worden Grocer Co.’s  Brand

Quaker Vis..........................   3 60
Quaker V4s..........................  3  60
Quaker Vis..........................  3  60

S pring  W h eat  F lo u r

Clark-Jewell-Wells  Co.’s  Brand
Plllsbury’s  Best Vis..........  4  25
Pillsbury’s  Best 4 s ..........  4  15
Pillsbury’s  Best ‘i s ..........  4 05
Pillsbury’s Best Vis paper.  4  05 
Pillsbury’s Best 4 s paper.  4 05
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand
Duluth  Imperial  Vis...
...  4  no
Duluth  Imperial 4s...
...  3  90
Duluth  Imperial vis...
...  3  80
Lemon & Wheeler ( '0. s Brand
Parisian  '«s.............
4  10
Parisian  4 s ..................
4 00
Parisian  4 s .................
3 90

Gluey & .liaison's 1 rand

Ceresota 4  s.................
Ceresota 4  s.................
Ceresota 4 s .................

...  4  15
...  4  05
...  3  95

Worden Grocer  Co.’s Brand
Laurel  4  s....................
Laurel  4 s ..................
Laurel  4 s ....................

...  4  10
...  4  00
...  3 90

M eal

Bolted..........................
Granulated..................

...  200
...  220

Feed  and  MillstuflTs

St. Car Feed, screened ...  17 00
No. 1 Corn and  O ats..
...  16  50
Unbolted Corn  Meal..
...  16 00
Winter Wheat Bran...
...  15  50
Winter Wheat  Middlings.  15  50
Screenings..................
...  15 00

Corn

Corn, car  lo ts............
Less than car lots....

...  43

Oats

Car  lots........................ ....  294
Car lots, clipped..........
__   32
Less than car lots.......

H ay

No. 1 Timothy car  lots ....  12 00
No. 1 Timothy ton  lots ....  13 00

Hides  and  Pelts

The Cappou & Bertsch Leather 
Co.. 100 Canal  Street,  quotes  as
follows:

H ides
Green  No. 1.............
@ 7
@ 6
Green  No. 2.............
Bulls..........................
@  5
Cured  No. 1.............
@  84
Cured  No. 2.............
@  74
Calfskins,green No. 1 @10
Calf skins, green No. 2
@  84
Calfskins .cured No. 1
@11
Calfskins.cured No. 2
@  94

P elts

Pelts,  each...............
Tallow
No. 1..........................
No. 2........ . ...............
W ool

Washed,  flue............
Washed,  medium...
Unwashed,  fine.......
Unwashed, medium.

50@1  25

@ 4
@  3

22@24
26@28
18@20
20@22

Oils
Barrels

Eocene........................   @13
Perfection............   @114
XXX W. W. Mich. Hdlt  @114
W. W. Michigan........   @11
Diamond W hite...........  @104
D., 8.  Gas.............  @12V(
Deo. Naphtha......  @124
Cylinder....................... 29  @34
E nv'ne..................1»4@234
Black, winter....... 
< 3 ll\

29

Candies
Stick  Candy

M ixed Candy

F ancy—In  B ulk 

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

bbls.  pails 
7  @ 7 Vi
7  @ 74 
74@ 8 
@  84 
cases 
(§1  6 4  
@ 84 
@10 
@  7
@ 6 
Grocers.....................
Competition.............
@ 64 
Special......................
@  7 
Conserve...................
@   8 
R oyal.......................
@  74 
Ribbon......................
@  84 
Broken.....................
@ 74 
Cut Loaf....................
@ 84 
English Rock...........
@  84 
Kindergarten..........
@  84 
French ('ream..........
@  9 
Dandy  Pan...............
@  84
Hand  Made  (’ream
m ixed....................
@14 
Nobby.......................
@  84 
Crystal Cream m ix..
@12
San Bias Goodies....
@11 
Lozenges, plain.......
@ 9 
Lozenges, printed...
@ 9 
Choc. Drops.............
@11 
Eclipse Chocolates... 
@13 
Choc.  Monumental».
@13 
Gum Drops..............
@ 5 
Moss  Drops.............
@ 84 
Lemon Sours...........
@ 9 
Imperials..................
@ 94
Ital. Cream Bonbons
35 lh. palls.............
@11
Molasses  Chews,  15
lb. pails..................
@13 
Jelly  Date  Squares.
@104 
Iced  Marshmellows........
.  14
Golden Waffles___ _
@11 
Fancy—I  
5 lb.  Boxes 
Lemon  Sours 
@50 
Peppermint Drops 
@60 
Chocolate  Drops..
@65 
H. M. Choc. Drops 
@75
H. M. Choc.  Lt.  and
@90
Gum Drops.............
@30
Licorice  Drops__
@75
A. B. Licorice Drops
@50
Lozenges,  plain......
@55
Lozenges, printed.  .
@56
Imperials..................
@55
Mottoes....................
@60
114
Cream  Bar.............
@55
Molasses Bar............
@55
Hand  Made Creams. 80  @90
Cream  Buttons, Pep.
and  Wint..............
@65
String Rock.............
@60
Burnt  Almonds.......1 25  @
Wlntergreen Berries
@65
Caramel**
No. 1  wrapped,  3  lb.
boxes.....................
Penny Goods............

@50
5S@60

O

F r u i t s
Orange»

Fancy  Navels
3  75@3  9l
Extra Choice............ 3  50@3 75
Seedlings..................
2  75@3 0D
Medt. Sweets...........
(c¿ 3 25
Jamaica»..................
@
Lemon»
Strictly choice 360s..
@3 50
Strictly choice 300s ..
@3 50
Fancy 300s................
@3 75
Ex. Fancy  300s........
@4  00
Extra Fancy 360s. . .
@3 76
Kanana»
Medium bunches__ 1  75(0.2  00
Large  bunches........
2  00@2  25

Foreign  D ried Kruit»

Figs

@
@
@  64
(«10
ta  6
@  5
@  5
@  5

California»,  Fancy..
@10
Cal. pkg, 10 lb. boxes
@  8
Extra  Choice,  10  Il>.
boxes, new smprna
(®12
Fancy, 12 lb. boxes new  @13
Imperial Mikados, 18
lb. boxes................
Pulled, 6 lb. boxes...
Naturals, in bags....
Date»
Fards in in lb. boxes
Fards in 60 lb. cases.
Persians,  P. H. V ...
lb.  cases, new.......
Sairs, 60 lb. cases....
Nuts
Almonds, Tarragona
Almonds,  Ivlca.......
Almonds, California,
soft shelled...........
Brazils, new.............
Filberts....................
Walnuts. Grenobles. 
Walnut 
-oft shelled 
California No. 1... 
Table Nuts,  fancy... 
Table  Nuts,  choice..
Pecans,  Med...........
Pecans, Ex. Large...
Pecans, Jumbos......
Hickory N uts 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 
Choice, H. P„ Extras
...............
Span. Shelled No.  1..

@17
@
@154 
@ 7 
@13 
@15
@13
@124
@11
@ 1 0
@124
@
@1  75 
@3  25 
@
5  @

Roasted 

64®  7

30

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

Endorsed an Extensive Im provem ent Plan.
Port  Huron,  April  24— At the  last  reg­
ular  meeting  of  the  Merchants  and 
Manufacturers’  Association,  C.  E. 
Chambers, 
J.  M.  Gleason,  Lewis 
Lavigne,  O.  Stewart  and  Geo.  T.  Cop- 
pemoll  were  elected  to  membership.

land 

The  committee  appointed  to 

investi­
gate  the  plan  submitted  by  Frank  A. 
Peavey  reported  as  follows:

Your  committee,to whom  was  referred 
the  matter  of  examining  and  reporting 
upon  the  plan  submitted  by  Frank  A. 
Peavey  and  others,  respectfully  reports 
that  upon  careful  examination  of  the 
plan  we  understand 
it  to  be  briefly  as 
follows:

That  a  land  company  shall  be  organ­
ized  which  shall  own  and  control  a large 
tract  of 
in  the  neighborhood  of 
the  southern  city 
limits,  and  that  the 
land  company  will  erect  a  plant  for 
another  company  to  be  organized,  and 
to  be  called  the  Port  Huron  Manufac­
turing  Co.

The  revenues  of  the 

land  company 
will  arise  principally  from  the  sale  of 
its  land,  and  from  the  rentals  paid  to  it 
by  the  Port  Huron  Manufacturing  Co.

The  revenues  of  the  Port  Huron  Man­
ufacturing  Co.  will  arise  from  the  usual 
operations  carried  on  by  such  com­
panies.

We  believe  there  is  a  reasonable  as­
surance  that  from  the  organization  of 
these  companies  will  result  the  erection 
of  factories  employing  fifty  people  in 
one  year,  one  hundred  in  two  years,  and 
one  hundred  and  fifty  people  in  three 
years;  that  a  considerable  territory  will 
be  provided  with  macadamized  roads; 
that  a  city  park  or boulevard  will  be 
provided 
the 
southern  part  of  the  c ity ;  that  better 
school facilities will  be  provided  in  that 
locality  and  that  there  will  be  an  im ­
proved  system  of  sewers  and  drainage. 
In  addition  to  these  features,  there  will 
also  undoubtedly  result  the  benefits  usu­
ally  accruing 
in  the  neighborhood  in 
which  a  large  manufacturing plant  is in­
stalled.

inhabitants  of 

for  the 

We  find  that  the  gentlemen  interested 
in  the  project  are  citizens  well known  to 
be  excellent  business  men,  and  of  high 
personal  character.

The  concessions  asked  by  these  gen­
tlemen,  from  the  city  of  Port  Huron, 
are  that  it  shall  bind  itself,  in  view  of 
the  guaranty  given  by  the  proposed 
company  on  the  other  hand,  that  when 
the  company  is  organized  and  has  pro­
ceeded  far enough  with  the  erection  of 
its  plant  to  justify  the  people  in  believ­
ing  that  the  project 
is  to  be  in  good 
faith  carried  out,  the  city  will  provide 
a  new  park  or  boulevard,  beginning  on 
St.  Clair  River  near  Moak  street,  and 
running 
in  a  westerly  direction  about 
one-half  mile,  to  be  about  two  hun­
include  in  all 
dred  feet  wide,  and  to 
about  twelve  acres  of 
land,  and  also 
that  the  city  shall  erect  about  200  feet 
of  dock  on  the  St.  Clair  River  at  the 
foot  of  the  park,  and  shall  expend  not 
to  exceed  $400  in  macadamizing  roads 
in  the  park. 
is  estimated  that  the 
land  for the  park,  including  200  feet  of 
river  bank, can  be  bought  by  the  city  at 
less  than  $5,000,  and  that  a  macada­
mized  road  can  be 
the 
edges  of  the  park  for  $4,000,  and  that 
the  erection  of  the  dock  and  other  im­
provements  by  the  city  will  cost  not  to 
exceed  $3,000,  making  a 
total  invest­
ment  by  the  city  of  $12,000.

laid  around 

Your  committee  is  informed  that  the 
new  companies  will  have  as  directors 
the  same  gentlemen  who  are  now  acting 
as  directors  of  the  Engine  &  Thresh­
er  Co.

As  a  result  of  the  investigation  made 
by  your committee  v e   do  hereby  heart­
ily  recommend  that  this  Association  ap­
prove  the  plans  of  Mr.  Peavey  and  his 
associates,  and  that  the  Association  by 
every  means  within  its  power  assist  in 
bringing  the  same  to  a  successful  issue.
The  report  was  accepted  and  placed 

It 

on  file.

By  a  unanimous  vote  it  was  decided 
to  ask  the  Common  Council  to  grant  the 
necessary  funds  to  meet  Mr.  Peavey’s 
proposition.  The  Mayor  and  several 
aldermen  were  present  at  the  meeting.
E.  S.  Post,  C.  C.  Casler  and  W.  D. 
Smith  were  appointed  a  committee  to

Lawn  and  Park 
Vases and Settees, 
Roof  Crestings, 
Carriage Steps, 
Hitching  Posts, 
Iron,  Brass  and 
Aluminum Casting
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Foundry Co.,

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examine  the  plant  of  George  Pedlar, 
and 
if  found  advisable  to  report  a  plan 
for  enlisting  capital  in  aid  of  the  enter­
prise.

It  was  voted  to  admit  milk  dealers  to 

membership  in  the  organization.

Geo.  W.  Palmer,  General  Secretary  of 
the  Excursion  and  Convention  League, 
appeared  before  the  meeting  and  said 
the  Star-Cole  line  of  steamers  had  pub­
lished  a  pamphlet  which  it  was  scatter­
ing  broadcast  over  the  country.  He  said 
the  pamphlet  contained  a  map  which 
showed  the  route  of  the  boats  to be  from 
Toledo  to  Port  Huron,  yet  nowhere  be­
tween  the  two  covers  of  the  book  did 
the  words  “ Port  Huron’ ’  appear.  Mr. 
Palmer  was  of  the  opinion  that  the  Star 
line  people  were  discriminating  against 
town.  He  said  the  merchants 
the 
would  be  untrue  to  themselves 
if  they 
patronized  a  line  which mentioned every 
other  town  on  the  route  except  Port 
Huron.  The  matter  was  referred  to  the 
complaint  committee,  consisting of  Fred 
J.  Dixon,  Chas.  Wellman  and  M.  V. 
Benzinger. 

J.  T .  Percival,  Sec’y.

Value  o f a  Good  Name.

There  has  been  much  said  and  writ­
ten 
in  regard  to  the  value  of  a  good 
name,  but  the  subject  is  one  of  so  much 
importance  that  it  can  not be exhausted. 
Solomon  was  eminently  correct  when  he 
wrote  that  “ a  good  name  is  rather to  be 
chosen  than  great  riches.’ ’

No  better  proof  of  the  fact  that human 
nature  remains  practically  unchanged 
through  the  ages  can  be  found  than 
in 
the  way  this  and  other  precepts  of  the 
ancients  fit  into  the  methods of the pres­
ent  day.  Every  business  man  must 
come  sooner  or  later  to  recognize  that  a 
good  commercial  reputation 
is  an  ex­
ceedingly  valuable  asset.  The  houses 
which  are  in  the  highest  esteem  are 
those  which  hold  as  thing  sacred  the 
honor  of  their  dealings,  rendering to  the 
utmost  farthing,  and  they  are  also  as 
scrupulous  in  their  exactions. 
It  is  the 
prevalence  of  honor  in  trade  and  the 
recognition  in  the  worth  of  a  good name 
that  make  such  a  large  percentage  of 
business  transactions  possible 
the 
form  of 
individual  checks  and  bank 
drafts  as  substitutes  for  Uncle  Sam’s 
currency,  and  which  form  the  basis  of 
the  credit  system. 
is  this  that  has 
injected  into  commerce that  most  potent 
influence  called  “ confidence.”

in 

It 

A   good  name  is  like  credit— of  value 
until  it  is overworked.  When a business 
man  uses  his  fair  fame  as  a  spur to  a 
still  higher  commercial  standard,  it  is 
a  blessing  to  those  with  whom  he  has 
to  do.  When  he  misuses  it,  he  sooner 
or  later  sinks  in  commercial  importance 
and  esteem.

It  not 

infrequently  happens  that 
houses  which  for  a  long  series  of  years 
have  enjoyed  an  enviable 
reputation 
suddenly  lapse  in  this  respect,  because 
those  who  originated  the  business  and 
looked  after  it  carefully  during the years 
of  its  greatest  growth  recognized the im­
portance  of  commercial  honor,  whereas 
some  of  the  younger  heads  who  after­
ward  displaced  them  had  an  erroneous 
idea  that  the  reputation  of  the  house 
would  carry  through  sharp  practices 
and  that  it  was  not  necessary  to  pay any 
great  attention  to  dealing  scrupulously 
and  dealing  honorably  with  small  cus­
tomers.  Whenever  such  an 
idea  be­
comes  prevalent  in  a  business  house,  no 
matter  what 
its  previous  record  may 
have  been,  the  era  of  decadence  has  set 
in,  and  it  is  only a  question  of  time  un­
til 
lose  much  of  its  best  trade. 
It  may  hang  along  on  past  reputation 
for  a  series  of  years,  but  one  of  the  sor­
riest  sights 
in  the  business  world  is 
when  the  spark  of  honesty  and  square 
dealing  which  formerly  gave  the  house 
its  vitality  and  advantage  has  died  out 
and  nothing  but  the  skeleton  remains.

it  will 

Another  Mean  Man.
“ Stimson  is  a  mean  man.”
“ Why  so?”
“ He’s  got  a  way  of  keeping  his  wife 
for 

from  going  through  his  pockets 
loose  change.”

“ How’s  that?”
“ He  spends 

home. ’ ’

it  all  before  he  gets 

four 

buildings  are  constructed  of  slabs  of 
basaltic  rock,  a  species  of  black  mar­
ble,  almost  as  hard  and  heavy  as 
iron.
A  Mr.  Porter,  a  traveler,  describes  the 
door  of  a  house  in  Burak,  one  of  these 
deserted  cities,  as  follows :  * ‘ The  outer 
door  was  a  slab  of  stone  four  and  a  half 
feet  wide  and  eight 
feet  high, 
nches  thick. 
It  hung  upon  pivots 
forming  two  projecting  parts  of the slab, 
working  in  the  lintel  and  threshold,  and 
Ithough  so  massive  I  was  able  to  open 
and  close  it  with  ease.’ ’  A  Greek 
in­
scription  on  one  of  these  buildings  bore 
the  date  of  306  B.  C.,  being  more  than 
,000  yeais  old. 
These  projections 
were  prolongations  of  a  perpendicular 
ine  through  the  door  itself.

itself. 

During  the  Middle  Ages  hinges  were 
made  ornamental  as  well  as  useful;  but 
improvements  were  effected  in  the 
no 
This  ornamenting 
mechanism 
the  attachments 
was  by  means  of 
upon  the  door,  which  were  worked 
into 
graceful  designs.  Real 
improvements 
n  hinges  themselves  are  far  more  mod­
em,  say  within  the  eighteenth  century. 
The  best  patents  on  hinges  have,  how­
ever,  been  issued  much  later.  Some  of 
these  are 
for  sloping  flanges,  which 
cause  the  door  to  rise  a  little  as  it opens 
and  to  slide  back  or  close  by  its  own 
weight.  Others  are  for  combinations  of 
latest  and 
greatest  advance 
in  the 
‘ American  spiral  spring  butt,’ ’  being 
a  combined  spring  and  hinge,  which  is 
so  placed  and  fastened  that  as  the  door 
opens  the  spring  is  forcibly  in  part  un­
coiled  by  being  turned  or  pushed  back­
ward 
in  the  direction  of  the  coil.  Of 
course,  the  door  again 
the 
spring  returns  to  its  original  position, 
it.  Like  most 
driving  the  door  with 
other  really  valuable 
inventions  many 
worthless  imitations  of  these  best hinges 
are  already  on  the  market  and  a  skilled 
mechanic  should  be  consulted  before 
purchasing. 

spring  and  hinge.  The 

Frank  A.  Howig.

is  embodied 

left  free, 

Stuck.

“ And  you  are  stuck  on  your  last  hus- 
faltered,  wishing  to  seem 

band?”   we 
very  sympathetic.

The  beautiful  woman  burst  into  tears.
“ 1  never  was  so  badly  stuck  on a  hus­
band jn  all  my  life!”   she  sobbed. 
“ I 
supposed  he  was  worth  a  million,  and 
he  isn’t  worth  anything!’ ’

In  our  material  age,  the  word  stuck 
has  lost  much  of  its  tenderly  sentimen­
tal  significance,  and  is  mostly  used,  as 
here,  in  its  technical  commercial  sense.

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♦

Som ething  A bou t  Hinges—Their  M echan­

ism  T aught  B y   Lower  Anim als. 

Written for the Tradesman.

Webster  tells  us  that  man  is  an  ani­
is  called  man  to  distinguish 

mal,  and 
him  from  all  other  animals.

learn  many 

We  contend  that  man  may  learn,  has 
learned  and  can 
things 
from  the  so-called  lower  animals.  Man 
has  been  taught  mechanism  by  the  bee, 
the  spider,  the  beaver  and  other  lower 
animals.  We  say  “ taught  by  them,”  
because  the 
lower  animals  were  un­
doubtedly  in  the  world  long  before  man 
and,  being  in  existence,  were  subject  to 
all  laws  of  improvement  and  evolution.
looking  over  the  many  kinds  and 
varieties  of  hinges  a  few  days  ago,  my 
thoughts  naturally  reverted  to  “ what  I 
know  about  them,”   and  with  your  per­
mission  I  will  talk  briefly  on  the  sub­
ject :

On 

I  was  at  one  time  a  resident  of  Cali­
fornia.  While  there  I  was  quite  aston­
ished  to  find that,  with  all man’s boasted 
ingenuity  and  wisdom,  hinges  were 
made  and  used  by  animals 
long  before 
man  had  any  use  for  them.  Entering  a 
drug  store  one  day  in  San  Francisco, 
my  attention  was  called  to  a  glass  jar 
upon  the  counter,  containing  a 
large 
species  of  spider— the  tarantula  of  trop­
ical  climates— with  its  nest  or  dwelling 
also.  As  the  nest  was  for  sale  I  was 
permitted  to  handle  and  examine 
it 
closely. 
It  was  difficult  to  realize  that 
this  ungainly  animal,  weighing  prob­
ably  half  an  ounce  only,  constructed 
this  really  beautiful  and  ingenious  resi­
dence  for  itself.  This  nest  was  dug  out 
of  the  earth  about  twelve 
inches  below 
the  surface,  the  spider,  being  out  for  a 
walk,  being  first  captured.  The  nest 
was  constructed  of  grass  and  stems  of 
wild  flowers. 
It  was  about  four  inches 
in  diameter  and  lined  with  a  silky  sub 
stance  closely  resembling  the  “ down’ 
from  our  common  thistle  and sufficiently 
thick  to  be  soft  and  warm.  On  one  side 
of 
it  was  a  door  having  an  upper and 
lower  hinge,  the  door  opening  outward 
only.  These  hinges  were  a  curiosity 
in  themselves.  They  were  quite  simila 
to  the  old-fashioned  withe  hinge,  made 
and  used  by  farmers  on  doors  of  rude 
buildings  for  cattle,  pigs  or  chickens 
during  the  first  quarter  of  the  last  cen 
tury.  There  was  also  an  old-fashioned 
latch  upon  this door,  quite similar  to  the 
old  “ wooden  string  latch,’ ’  which  many 
old  people  can  call  to  mind.  But  the 
very  acme  of  perfection  was  reached  by 
a  soft  and  nearly  square  door  mat— it  ii 
said  for  the  animal  to  wipe  his  feet  up 
on  before  entering ! 
I  had  seen  cuts  of 
these  spiders'  dwellings  with  the  door 
hinged  at  the  top  and  opening  upward, 
but  believed  this to have been the  imagi 
nation  of  the  artist  on ly;  but  I  saw  sev 
eral  others  after  the  one  described  and 
all  were  constructed  substantially  alike 
The  most  ancient  Egyptian  hinges 
were  pieces,  of  leather  or  rawhide,  fas 
tened  to  both  the  door  and  the  doorpost 
It  is  in  Egypt  that  we  find  the  earliest 
record  of  the  substitution  of  the  actual 
hinge 
place  of  a  merely  flexible  material.  The 
Egyptian  doors  turned  on  wooden  or 
bronze  pins  projecting  upward 
and 
downward  from  the  top  and  bottom  of 
the  back  of  the  door  into  sockets  in  the 
lintel 
Similar  pegs 
were  used  for  hinges  on  the  lids  of 
boxes  also.  A   most  curious  style  of 
hinge 
in  the  ruins  of  the  Kingdom  of 
Bashan  on  the  eastern  boundary  of  Pal­
estine  is  found  in  some  of  the  deserted 
towns  where  a  few  of the  old  dwellings 
are  still  habitable.  These  very  ancient

idea,  viz.,  a  pivot  or 

threshold. 

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their  experiments.  Your  own  good  sense  will  tell 
you  that  they  are  only  trying  to  get  you  to  aid  their 
new  article. 

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and  children  who  want  to  earn  a  gold
m atrli  in  nnp  Hav  qcllinu  m a n  
w atch  in  one  d ay  sellin g   soap 
friends.  Just  pull  ’em  up  to the  ceiling 
and  send  for  the  poilce.  Call  in  and 
see  m e.”

to 
to 

left  the  merchant,  pencil  in  hand, 
drawing  a  diagram  of  a  white  bulldog 
trying  to  eat  a  yard  of  plaster  off  a low 
ceiling,  with  a  cat  making  faces  at 
him  from  the  top  of  a  framed  motto 
reading:

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“ Bless  our  Furnished  Room.”

Alfred  B.  Tozer.

The  Fashionable  and  Favorite  Fruit. 

From the Topeka Merchants Journal.

I  notice, 

“ Speaking  of  apples,”   said  the  Kan­
fact 
sas  groceryman,  “ it  seems  to  be  a 
that  the  apple  is  getting  to  be  the  most 
fashionable  and  favorite  fruit. 
It  has 
come  to  be  the  common  thing  for  Con­
gressmen  and  Senators, 
to 
lunch  on  apples. 
1  have  more  calls  for 
good  apples  in  my  business than  for any 
other  kind  of  fruit.  The only  trouble  is 
to  get  enough  apples  to  supply  the  de­
mand.  As  to  this  talk  about  their  being 
especially  healthful,  that 
largely  a 
fad.  Eating  raw  apples  agrees  with 
some  people  and  with  some  it  does  not. 
The  people  of  this  country  are  full  of 
fads.  The  fact  is,  you  can  not  measure 
up  all  stomachs  by  one  standard.  One 
man’s  meat 
is  another  man's  poison. 
What  agrees  with  one  stomach  does  not 
agree  with  another  at  a ll.”

is 

G E N E R A L
JpO R   SALE  CHEAP—$33,000
stock of  hardware,  farm  implements,  wag­
ons, buggies,  cutters,  harnesses,  in  good  town
th e ir  and'good farming  country.  Reason  for  selling, 
tn e ir  other business.  Address No.
320, care  Michigan
Tradesm an.___________________________320
H‘
OTEL  AND  BARN  TO  EXCHANGE  FOR 
merchandise;  twenty-five  rooms  in  hotel; 
esort 
region;  a  money-making  investment. 
Address No. 318. care Michigan Tradesman.  318
POR  SALE—BOOT  AND  SHOE  BUSINESS 
'  in good Central Michigan town of 6,000.  Best 
location  and  business  in  city.  Guarantee  the 
business to net $1,000 per year.  Good reason  for 
selling.  Address No. 323, care Michigan Trades­
man. 
323
WANTED—TO EXCHANGE GOOD  HOUSE 
and lot, farm,  vacant  lots  or  unimproved 
lands for clean stock of dry goods.  G. H. Klrtland 
Co., 1169 So. Division S t, Grand Rapids.  326 
ASH  PAID  FOR  GENERAL  STOCK  OF 
merchandise.  Address  B.  Cohen,  Lake 
pOR SALE—SHINGLE MILL MACHINERY, 
1  all complete, ready to set  up.  Having  com­
pleted our cut, we offer our plant cheap, if taken 
311 
at once.  Perry & Bentley, Tustin, Mich. 
O  RENT—A  STORE  IN  CEDAR SPRINGS, 
centrally located.  A  good  live  hustler  can 
sell from $25,000 to $30,000 cash  per  year  with  a 
general stock.  Rent moderate.  Box  298. Cedar 
Springs, Mich. 
$3,500  TO  $4,000  HARDWARE 
F o r   s a l e -
Very  best
of  farming  country  around."  Best  location  in 
town.  Rent low.  Best reason  for  selling.  Ad­
dress B. I., care Michigan Tradesman. 
.''OR  SALE—A  NICE  CLEAN  STOCK  OF 
'  drugs, wall paper, soda fountain  and  school 
supplies, invoicing $2,000, located on main  street 
in a new brick block.  The only drug store in the 
town,  and  no  opposition  in  any  of  the  above 
mentioned  lines.  Population  800  Good  trade. 
Will sell for all or part cash, and at a  liberal dis­
count if taken  at  once.  Address  Box  380,  New 
Buffalo, Mich._________________________ 308

stock in live town of 800  people.

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Odessa, Mich. 

310

309

LO W   C EILIN G S.

How  an  Ingenious M erchant W ould  Clean 

House.
Written for the Tradesman.

“ The  next  house  I  build,’ ’  said  a 
boot  and  shoe  dealer  to  me  the  other 
day,  “ will  be  the  kind  of  a domicile the 
world  has  been  crying  for  for  two  thous­
and  years.  The  ceilings  will  be  hut 
seven  feet  high  and  there  will  be  a  pat­
ent  pulley  above  every  article  of  furni­
ture  in  the  house. ’ ’

“ I  should  judge,”   I  said,  “ that  you 
have  been  through  the  annual  agony  of 
house  cleaning.”

The  merchant  rubbed  a  quantity  of 
arnica  on  a  sprained  wrist  and  smiled 
wearily.
“ Yes, 

sir,”   he  said,  “ I’ve  been 
cleaning  house.  The  piano  is  out  in 
the  woodshed,  the  coal  stoves  occupy 
conspicuous  positions  on  the  front porch 
and  the  back  yard  is  full  of  chairs  and 
tables.  We  are  sleeping  in  hammocks 
and  eating  out  of  the  coal  bin.  We  lost 
the  baby 
last  night  and  found  him  in 
the  top  drawer  of  the  dresser,  along 
with  the  stove  polish  and  a  §5°  edition 
of  Gibson’s  pen-and-ink  work.”  
“ Enjoying  himself,  1  suppose?”
“ Oh,  yes,  of  course.  A  combination 
of  stove  polish,  baby  and  art  is  one  cal­
culated  to  produce  results.  The  young­
ster  had 
innocently  revised  a  good 
many  of  the  drawings  and  the  stove 
polish  had 
interfered  with  the  baby 
until  he  resembled  a  rag  doll  left  over 
night 
in  the  charcoal  bag  by  mistake. 
Most  of  the  canned  fruit  is  leaking  out 
on  the  bedding,  but  we  hope  to get back 
to  the  old  routine  in  a  month  or  tw o.”  
“ But  about  this  new  house,”   I  sug­

job. 

and  cuss  words  and  other  things  went 
up  to  the  ceiling.  My  wife  said  that  if 
had  had  the  gumption  to  get  right  up 
then  and  put  the  paper  on  before  the 
paste  on  the  ceiling  got  dry  I’d  have 
made  a  good 
I  think  I  made  a 
good  job  of  it  as  it  was.  The  paper—  
me  of  these  soft,  dreamy  tints  of  pink, 
ike  an  Italian  sunset  on  a  cigarette  box 
—somehow  got  into  a  mix-up  with  the 
paste  and  formed  a  rare  pattern  on  the 
floor.  When  I  tried  to  walk  on 
it  my 
feet  went  out 
from  under  me  and  I 
ipped  over  the  parlor  table.  Now  our 
looks  like  a 
family  photograph  album 
city  directory  in  a  drug  stoie,  and 
in 
the  pictures  our  dear  ones  have  a  blue 
and  pink  complexion,  like  the  figures 
n  a  modern  story  paper  with fifty thous­
and  million  circulation  and  colored 
il­
lustrations. ’ ’

The  merchant  hobbled out  to  the  front 
f  the  store,  sold  three  pair  of  shoe­
strings  for a  nickel  and  came  back.

“ Did  you  get  the  paper  on  at 

last,”
I  asked,  in  order  to  get  him  started 
again.

I 

lot. 

“ Oh,  yes,  I  got 

it  on,”   was  the  re­
ply. 
“ What  I  didn’t  get  on  the  seat 
of  my  trousers  I  got  on  a  wheelbarrow 
and  pushed  out  to  a  vacant 
left 
a  cow  eating  wall  paper  hash,  a  beau­
tiful  blue  and  pink  hash,  and  I’ve  been 
expecting  to  see  high  art  milk  adver- 
sed.  When  I  get  my  house  with  seven 
foot  ceilings,  I  won’t  have  to  use  a  par­
achute  to  do  my  papering.  I  can  stand 
on  the  floor  and  sing  merrily  at  my 
work.  And  the  complexions  of  those 
who 
album 
won’t  resemble  lithographic  tints  taken 
from  pine  cigar  boxes.

inhabit  our  photograph 

gested.

“ I’m  coming  to  that,”   was  the  reply. 
“ We  got  things  all  tom  up  and  sent  for 
the  paper  hanger  to  come  and  change 
the  complexion  of  our  walls.  He  said 
he’d  be  up  the  next  day  with  a  gang  of 
men  and  put  the  job  right  through.  He 
came  up  the  third  day,  did  a 
lot  of 
measuring,  smoked  cheap  cigars  until 
the  house  smelled  like  a  ward  caucus, 
and  went  away.  The  first  of  the  next 
week  he  came  to  the  store  and  said  that 
there  was  a  strike  on  over  at  the  boiler 
shops  and  he  didn’t  know  but  it  might 
be  catching,  but 
if  I’d  give  him  time 
he’d  do  me  a  good  job.

“ I  waited  another  week,  during which 
time  the  pantry  shelves  broke  down  on 
account  of  having  the  best  part  of  a 
nickel-plated  cook  stove  packed  up 
there  to  get  it  out  of  the  way,  and  broke 
a  $50  set  of  china.  The  broken  crock 
ery  somehow  inserted  itself  in  the  syrup 
jar  and  didn’t  agree  with  little  Johnny 
who  thought  he  had 
found  a  mine  of 
rock-candy  and  was  working  it  for  all 
he  was  worth  when  discovered  sitting in 
his  night  dress  on  the  garbage Jbox  in 
the  alley.  The  doctor  says  he  will 
live 
if  he  didn’t  get  too  much  of  the  china 
into  his  little  lungs.

I  went  home 

‘ ‘ Last  Monday 

and 
tackled  the  wall  paper  myself.  Our ceil­
ings  are  ten  feet  high  and  I  had  to  buy 
a  step  ladder. 
1  got  one  with  patent 
slides  and  catches.  Anyhow,  that’s what 
the  hardware  man  explained  to  me,  but 
I  didn’t  see  any  catches  when  I  slid  off 
into  a  pail  of  paste. 
It  was  a  good 
large  pail  of  paste,  and  I  fell  fourteen 
thousand 
it  and  went  to  the 
bottom.  Yes,  sir,  I  fell  fourteen  thous­
and  feet  in  a  ten  foot  room.  You  know 
that  there  are  times  when  the  mind  is 
superior  to  all  physical conditions.  This 
was  one  of  the  times.

into 

feet 

“ When  I  squashed 

into  the  paste  a 
fountain  of  flour  and  water  and  brushes

“ I  went  out  to  look  at  the  piano  this 
morning. 
It  looks  like  a  freight  car  in 
a  head-on  wreck,  but  I  guess  it  can  be 
tinkered  up  if  it  will  hold  together  un­
til  I  get  it  down  to  the  blacksmith shop.
I  reckon  the  children  have  been  play­
ing  circus  with  it.  When  I  get  my  pul­
ley  system 
into  operation  nothing  will 
have  to  be  moved  out  of  the  rooms when 
we  clean  up  in  the  spring.  Just  tie  the 
furniture  up  with  ropes  and  hoist  it  up 
to  the  ceiling.  Eh?  I  may  have  to  put 
an  electric  motor  into  the  basement  to 
get  the  power,  but  that  will  be  better 
than  for  me  to  acquire  a  habit  of  shoot­
ing  through  the  air 
like  a  wireless 
telegram.

* ‘ I  presume  I  can  invent  a  telescopic 
stovepipe  that  will  shut  up  when  I  ele­
vate  the  heater.  Oh,  I’ll  have  things 
fixed  all  right  when  I  build  my  new 
house.  Think  of  getting  up  carpets 
without  ripping  the  buttons  all  off  your 
clothes  liting  things.  The  moral  effect 
will  also  be  desirable.  Last  night  when 
I  was  coaxing  the  bookcase  along  with 
a  crowbar  my  wife  got  on  her  things 
and  said  she’d  go  home  to  her  mother 
before  she  would 
listen  to  such  talk. 
Huh?  Well,  I  wasn’t  to  blame  if  the 
cat  did  eat  two  of  her  canaries  when  I 
knocked  the  cage  off  an  old  chromo  of 
the  resurrection  morning.

“ The  paper  hangers  are  coming  in 
the  morning,  so  the  strike  at  the  boiler 
shop  must  be  off.  The  plsatering  is  off 
the  west  wall  where  the  stove  fell  down 
and  broke  the  dog’s  leg,  but  I  reckon 
they  can  patch 
it  up  some  way.  Of 
course,  if  they  slip  up  on  the  soft  soa 
1  spilt  on  the  parlor  floor  that 
lookout. ’ ’
“ When 

you  get  your  new  house 
done,”   I  said,  “ I’d  like  to  have  a  look 
at  it. ”

is  their 

“ It  will  be  on  exhibition,”   was  the 
reply.  “ The  patent,  self-acting  pulleys 
ought  to  make  a  hit.  I’m  going  to  have

learn 

Examine  the  methods  of  your  rival 
who  has  achieved  a  quick  success.  You 
may 
candid 
enough  to  admit  to  yourself  that  you  do 
not  know  it  all,  and  study  the  successful 
examples.

something. 

Be 

Hero  worship  is  a  hollow  fraud  while 
the  hero 
lives.  Let  a  hero  aspire  to 
bold  a  high  office  and  he  will  find  the 
worshippers  jumping  on  him  and  tread­
ing  him  into  the  mud.

It  seems  foolish  to  borrow  trouble 
when  so  many  people  are  trying  to  be 
rid  of  it.

The  hardest  thing  for  a  man  to  swal­

low  is  his  pride.

Advertisem ent*  w ill  be  inserted  nnder 
this  head  for  two  rents  a  word  the  first 
nsertlon  and  one  cent  a  word  for  e.i 
subsequent  insertion.  No  advertisements 
taken  for  less  than  25  cents.  Advance 
payments.

BUSINESS  CH A N CES.

319

IT'OR SALE—A GILT-EDGED BAKERY AND 
i 1  restaurant;  doing  fine  business;  In  hand 
somest village of 1,200 in State;  good  reason  for 
selling;  price,  $1,000.  Shaffmaster  &  Locke 
Bronson, Mich. 
327
Ba k e r y   f o r   s a l e —g o o d   l o c a t io n
for a good baker.  Reason for selling, cannot
stand inside work, 
Address No. 326, care Michi 
gan Tradesman.
326
IJAOR  SALE-FURNITURE  AND  UNDER 
1  taking stock in a hustling town  of 3,000  pop 
illation;  a  fine  farming  country  from  nine  to 
fifteen miles to draw from ; must be sold.  Write 
for particulars to No. 319, care Michigan  Trades­
man. 

have  several  stores 

I7»OR  SALE—$3,000  HARDWARE  STOCK 

1  paying about $1,600 yearly  profit;  no compe­
tition;  will  sell  or  rent  building;  terms,  part 
cash,  balance  on  time.  Address  S.  J.  Doty 
Harrietta, Mich. 
317
B USINESS  CHANCES  AT  MUSKEGON 
in  good  locations  at 
Muskegon for grocery or other  business.  There 
are more people here than ever before  and  only 
half as many groceries as formerly  and all doing 
well.  Will  sell  or  rent  cheap.  M.  C.  Kelley 
Muskegon, Mich.  _ 
315
F o r   s a l e —a n  o l d   e s t a b l is h e d   e g g , 
butter  and  poultry  business  in  Michigan 
Handled over $140,000 business in  1899.  Address 
314
No. 314, care Michigan Tradesman. 
I7»GR  SALE—THE HASTINGS DRUG STORE 

’  at  Sparta.  One  of  the  best  known  drug 
stores  in  Kent 'county;  established  twenty-six 
years;  doing a prosperous business; brick build 
Ing;  central  corner  location;  reasonable  rent 
long lease;  belongs to an  estate;  must  be  sold 
M  N. Ballard, Administrator,  Sparta,  or  M. H 
Walker,  Houseman  Building,  Grand  Rapids 
Mich. 

■   FIRST-CLASS  DEPARTMENT  STORE 

new and up to date, for sale at a  bargain,  in 
a town of 3,000  inhabitants;  rent  low;  good  liv­
ing apartments if desired;  stock  invoices  about 
$1,800.  Good  reason  for  selling.  Address  No, 
321, care Michigan Tradesman. 

322

321

_ 

F~ vOR  SALE—SMALL  GENERAL  STOCK 
cheap for cash.  Good town,  good  location.
Address No.  300, 
cheap rent.  Might exchange, 
300
care Michigan Tradesman.
w ANTED—LOCATION  FOR  STOCK  OF 
general merchandise  in  live  town  of  one 
to  two  thousand  inhabitants.  Will  purchase 
stock.  Address N, care Michigan  Tradesman.
299
STOCK  FOR  SALE,  INVOICING 
Dr u g
in  town  of  4,500;  good  established 
$1,500,
trade;  a paying Investment for right party.  Ad- 
dress Box 900, Dowagiac, Mich.___________290
S"  HOE  STOKE  FOR  SALE—SPLEN DID  Op­
portunity for live man to purchase  old-estab­
lished  business;  forty-three  years’  existence: 
good trade, which can easily be  increased;  good 
store, steam heat, reasonable rent.  Address No. 
¿97, case Michigan Tradesman.__________   297

tr»OR  SALE —  NICE  CLEAN  STOCK  OF 

1  drugs, about $3,000, in  the  best  town  of  its 
size in the State.  Reasons for selling.  Will  sell 
or  rent  brick  store  building.  Enquire  of  the 
Hazeltine  &  Perkins  Drug  Co.,  Grand  Rapids.
298
L'OR  SALE—GENERAL  STOCK,  LOCATED 
r  at good  country  trading  point.  Stock  and 
fixtures will inventory about $2,000;  rent  reason­
able;  good place  to  handle  produce.  Will  sell 
stock  complete  or  separate  any  branch  of  it. 
Address No. 292, care Michigan Tradesman.  292
V \T  ANTED—I WANT TO EXCHANGE SOME 
V v  very desirable Grand Rapids city  property 
for  a  well-locatad  stock  of  hardware.  W.  H. 
filbert. 67 Pearl St., GrandRapids.____ 265_
Pa r t ie s "h a v in g  s t o c k s o f  g o o d s  o f
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. 
|/O R~SA LE—FLOUR  AND  FEED  MILL— 
F   full  roller  process—in  a  splendid  location. 
Great  bargain,  easy  terms.  Address  No.  227, 
care Michigan Tradesman.______________227
$3,000  GENERAL 
lj'O R   SALE,  CHEAP 
.  . 
r   stock and  building.  Address  No.  240,  care
_________ 240
Michigan Tradesman. 
______
PLATE GLASS 
gT O R E   ROOM  FOR  RENT.
front: furnace  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.  ______________________ 238
I V
f   good  town  of  5,000  inhabitants.  Stock  in 
ventories  about  $2,000.  Cash  sales  $17,000  foi 
1899.  A  bargain  to  the  right  party.  Address 
H. M. L., care Michigan Tradesman.______ 200
SPOT  CASH  PAID  FOR  STOCK  OF  DRY 
goods,  groceries  or  boots  and  shoes.  Must
Address A. D., care Michigan Trades- 
be cheap, 
130
man.
Fo r  s a l e  o r  e x c h a n g e  f o r  g e n e r a l
Stock  of  Merchandise—60  acre  farm,  part 
clear, architect house  and  barn;  well  watered. 
I also have two 40  acre  farms  and  one  80  acre 
farm to exchange.  Address No. 12,  care  Michi- 
gan Tradesman._________________________12

No.  240, 

259

M ISCELLAN EO U S.

cist.

WANTED-A 
REGISTERED  PHARMA- 
Good  chance  for  right  man.  Ad­
dress No. 316, care Michigan Tradesman. 
316
W ANTED—WORK  ADDRESSING  ENVEL- 
opes by an inmate  of  the  Masonic  Home 
who is unable to pursue  his  regular  occupation. 
Address John  M.  Raper,  Masonic  Home,  Paul 
P. O.,  Mich.  __________________________ 324
TX7 ANTED—A  REGISTERED  PHARMA- 
T T  cist, one who is familiar with general stock 
in  small  town,  young  married  man  preferred. 
Address, stating  salary  and  references,  X.  Y„ 
care Michigan Tradesman.________-______ 313

W ANTED—SITUATION  BY  REGISTERED 

Address No. 274, care  Michigan 

druggist.

Tradesman.

274

We make showcases. 
We  make them  right. 
We  make prices right.

Write us when in the market.

Kalamazoo Kase & Kabinet Ko.,

Kalamazoo, Mich.

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Positively  guaranteed  to do  a perfect washing,  without boiling 
the  clothes,  or  money  refunded.  Saves  labor,  time,  fuel,  the 
hands  and  clothes. 
“ SEAR CH -LIG H T”  SOAP  makes  two 
bars of hand  toilet  soap  that  can’t  be  beat  for  removing  dirt, 
grease,  grime  and  stains,  leaving  the  hands  soft  and  smooth.
Show card and circulars packed in each box for advertising.  Nearly 40 per cent, proflt. 
Try a box with next order.  Sold by O lney & Ju d so n  G rocer  Co.,  G rand  R apids, 
M ich.; Jack so n   G rocery Co., Jack so n , M ich.; T he S m a rt*  Fox Co., Saginaw , 
M ich.; J . F. H alladay & Son, B attle C reek, M ich., o r any  W holesale G rocery 
H ouse in  D etro it, M ich.

It  is  the  coming  warm  weather  laundry and  toilet soap.

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Granite

The best plastering 
material  in the world. 
Fire proof, wind  proof, 
water proof. 
Is not 
injured by freezing.
No Glue, no acid. 
Ready for immediate 
use by adding water.

Office and works:  West Ful­
ton and L. S. & M. S. R. R.

Gypsum  Products Mfg Co.,

Manufacturers and Dealers in

Mill and Warehouse:  200 South Front Street. 

Calcined Plaster,  Land Plaster,  Bug Compound, etc. 
Office:  Room 20, Powers’ Opera House Block. 

G rand R apids, M ich.

An enterprising agent wanted in every town.  Send for circular with references.

WALL  PAPER

SEA SO N  1900.

MERCANTILE  ASSOCIATIONS

Mlchigaa Retail Grocers’ Association 

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 , Ciare.  _______

Grand  Rapids  Retail Grocers’  Association 

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

K l a p ;  Treasurer, J. Ge o r g e  L e h m an
Detroit  Retail  Grocers’  Protective  Association

President,  W i.  Bl e s s e d ;  Secretaries.  N.  L.
K o e n ig   and  F.  H.  Co z z e n s;  Treasurer,  C. 
H.  F r i n k .

Kalamazoo  Retail Grocers’ Association 

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

Hyman.

Bsj  Cities  Retail Grocer»’  Association 

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

L it 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   Hk l m e r ;  Secretary,  W 

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

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

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

Saginaw  Retail Merchants’  Association 

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

P h e r s o n ;  Treasurer, R. A. HoRR.
Traverse  Ci tv  Business  Men’s  Association 
Ho l l y ;  Treasurer,  C.  A.  Ham m o n d.

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

Owoiso Business  Men’s Association 

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

Ca m pb el l;  Treasurer,  W.  E. Co llin s.
Pt.  Huron»  Merchants’  and  Manufacturers’  Association 
P e r c iv a l . 

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

______

Alpena  Business Men’s  Association 

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

Pa r trid 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.  P e r c y ; Treasurer, Cl a r k   A.  P u tt.

IVrry  Business  Men’s  Association

President,  H.  W.  Wallace;  Secretary,  T.  E.

H e d d i.e . 

_________

Grand  Haien  Retail  Merchants’  Association

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

Ho e k s. 

______

Yale  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,  Ph il ip  

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

For  Sale Cheap

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

E.  A.  Stowe,

Blodgett Building, 
Grand Rapids.

DON’T BUY AN AWNIN0 until  you  get 

our prices.

Travelers* Time  Tables.
Pere Marquette

Railroad

Chicago.

v. 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  *11:00pm
Ar. G. Rapids, 1:25pm  5:05pm 10:55pm  *6:20am 

T raverse City, C harlevoix and'Petoske

4:00pm 
9:10pm 
11:25|>m 
11:55pm

north  at  2:40pm,

Lv. G.  Rapids, 7:30am 
Ar. Trav City, 12:40pm 
Ar. Charlev’x,  3:15pm 
Ar. Petoskey,  3:45pm 
Trains  arrive  from 
and 10:00pm.
Detroit.
Lv. Grand Rapids__   7:10am
Ar. Detroit................11:50am
Lv. Detroit................   8:40am
Ar. Grand Rapids__   1:30pm

2:05pm
4:05pm
1:10pm
5:10pm

5:30pm 
10:05pm 
C :00pm 
10:45pm

Saginaw,  A lm a  and  Greenville.

Lv Grand Rapids..........................7:00am  5:20pm
Ar Saginaw...................................11:55am  10:15pm
Lv Saginaw..............................  
7:00am 4:50pm
Ar Grand  Rapids.........................11:55am  9:50pm
Parlor cars on all trains  to  aud  from  Detroit 
and Saginaw.  Parlor  ears  on  afternoon trains 
to aud from Chicago.  Pullman sleepers on night 
trains.  Parlor  car  to  Traverse  City  on  morn­
ing train.

•Every day.  Others week days  only.

H.  F.  Moeller, Acting Gen.  Passgr. Agt.

Grand  Rapids, Mich.

January 1, 1900.

f t D A N I R   Ksplds  A  Indiana  Railway
U l y A l  l U  

December  17,  1899.

N orth ern   D ivision. 

Going 
From
North  North

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

Soutliern  D ivision 

From
Going 
South
South 
Kalamazoo,Ft.  WayneCln. 
t   7:ioam 
t   9:45pm 
Kalamazoo and  Ft. Wayne, 
t   2:00pm  + 2:00pm 
Kalamazoo, Ft. Wayne Cin.  •  7:00pm  *  6:45am 
Kalamazoo aud  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  train,  sleeping  car  and  coach  to 
Chicago.

Chicago  T rains.

T O   C H IC A G O .

F R O M   C H IC A G O

t2 00pm  *11  30pm
Lv.Grand  Rapids...t7 10am 
Ar. Chicago..............  2 30pm 
8 45pm 
7  00am
Lv.  Chicago............................... +3 02pm 
Ar. Grand Rapids.....................  9 45pm 
Train leaving Grand  Rapids 7:10am has coach; 
ll:30pm train has coach  and  sleeping car;  train 
leaving Chicago 3:02pm  has  coach;  11:32pm  has 
sleeping car for Grand Rapids.

M uskegon  T rains.

*11 32pm
6 45am

G O IN G   W E S T .

9 00am 

2 50pm 

Lv. Graud  Rapids___t7  35am  +1 35pm  +6 40pm
Ar. Muskegon........  
7 00pm
Sunday  train  leaves  Grand  Rapids  9:15am; 
arrives Muskegon at 10:40am.  Returning  leaves 
Muskegon5:30pm; arrlvesGrand Rapids,6:50pra. 
G O IN G   E A S T .
Lv.  Muskegon....t8  10am 
t4 00pm
Ar. Grand Rapids...  9 30am 
5 20pm
tExeept Sunday.  »Daily.

tl2  15pm 
1 30pm 

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

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

M A N K T P P   4   Northeantera Ry.
l Y l / \ i  1 I O   1   L i L w   Best route to M anistee.

Via C. & W. M. Railway.

Lv. Grand Rapids.......................  7  30am 
..........
..........
Ar. Manistee............................... 12 05pm 
Lv. Manistee..............................   8 40am  3 55pm
Ar. Grand  Rapids.....................   2 40pm  10 00pm

Michigan  Fire  and  Marine 

Insurance Co.
Detroit, Mlchigaa.

O rga n ized   1SS1.

Cos/1  C apital,  $400,000. 

Nat Surplus, t200,000.

Cash Assrta, $800,000.

D .  W h it n e y , J r .,  Pres.

D .  M .  F e r r y ,  V ic e  P res.

F .  H .  W h it n e y ,  S ecretary.
M .  W .  O ’ B r ie n , T reas.

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

D ir e c t o r s .

D .  W h itn e y , Jr.,  D .  M . F e rry , F .J . H ecker,
M . W . O ’ B rien, H oyt P ost, C hristian  M ack, 
A lla n   Sheldon,  Sim on J.  M urph y,  W m .  L . 
Sm ith,  A .  H .  W ilk in so n , Jam es  E d g a r,  H . 
K irk e   W h ite ,  H .  P .  B a ld w in ,  H u g o  
Scherer,  F .  A .  S chulte,  W m .  V .  B race, 
Jam es  M cM illan ,  F .  E .  D r i p s ,   H enry 
H ayd en,  C ollin s  B.  H ubbard,  Jam es  D. 
Stand ish, T h eod ore  D .  B u h l,  M .  B.  M ills, 
A le x .  Chapoton, J r.,  G eo.  H .  B arbour,  S.
G .  G ask ey,  C has.  Stinchheld,  F ra n c is  F . 
P alm s,  W in .  C .  Y a w k e y ,  D avid   C .  W h it­
ney, D r. J.  B.  B ook, E u g en e H arbeck, C h a s.
F.  P eltier, R ich ard  P . J oy,  C h a s.  C . Jenks.

The  Best  Selected  Stock 
in  Michigan. 
Sample  books  now  ready—will  be  sent  to 
dealers or  paper  hangers  on  receipt  of  re­
quest, freight paid.  Send name and address 
at once.  State priced papers you handle.

T H E   M IC H IG A N  W A L L   P A P E R   C O .,  L IM IT E D ,

2 0 2  R A N D O LPH   S T ..  D E T R O IT . M IC H .

CHAS. A. COYE,

11 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids,  Mich. 

Send for prices.

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Sealed

Sticky Fig Paper

Catches the  Germ  as  well  as  the  Ply. 

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

Order from Jobbers.

Pulley and Clasp Buckles

We have  a  splendid  line  of ready sellers  at very modest 
prices  to  retail  at  25c,  50c,  75c,  $1. 
It  will  pay you  to 
handle  them.  Send  for  samples  on  approval.

The  Grand  Rapids  Paper  Box  Co.

Manufacture

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

GRAND RAPIDS PAPER BOX CO., Grand Rapids, Mich

Pulley  rings  in  bright  and  dull  silver  and 
gold finish, per dozen pairs,  75c.

“ENTERPRISE”  Blue  Flame  Oil  Stoven

In  Roman  or  rose  gold.  French 
gray  or imitation  cut  steel  finish, 
a dozen different styles and  prices 
per dozen $3 and up.

Superior to any on the market.

The most economical, the simplest  in 
arrangement,  the  quickest  heater;  is 
perfectly odorless and gives an instan­
taneous blue flame as soon as lighted.
$ 5.60
No.  77,2 burner, low,  8 inch wicks.. 
No.  78,3 burner, low,  8 inch wicks.. 
7.35
No. 105, 2 burner, low, 12 inch wicks.. 
6.65
No. 107, 3 burner, low, 12 inch wicks.. 
7.35 
No. ill, 3 burner, high, 12 inch wicks.
10.15
For full list of oil and  gasoline  stoves 
U see pages 92 and 93  of  our  catalogue 
No.  152.  If  you  haven’t  received  it 
ask for it.

H.  LEONARD  &  SONS,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

CURB  C H A IN   BRACELETS—With lock and key.  Silver and gold  finish,  on  tissues 
or pads, per dozen, $2.25.  Sterling silver and 14  karat  gold  filled,  warranted  five  and 
ten years, per dozen, up from $9.
We  also handle  a beautiful line  of  brooches,  waist  sets,  breast 
pins,  stick pins,  chains and rings.  Write for samples and prices.
AMERICAN  JEWELRY  COMPANY,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Only Exclusive Jewelry Jobbers In Western Michigan.

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