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Number  868

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Page.
2.  Growth  of the  Batter Business.
4.  Around  the  State.
5.  Grand Rapids Gossip.
The  Produce  Market.
6.  The  Buffalo  Market.
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NOSE  OUT  O F   JO IN T .

Like  most  momentous  matters 

the 
item  was  crowded 
into  a  little  space. 
A   single  sentence  announced  the  fact  in 
the  fewest  possible  words:  A  cargo  of 
grain  has  been  discharged  at  Liverpool 
straight  from  the  Chicago  elevator. 
It 
had  been 
long  talked  of,  but  had  been 
pronounced  a  pretty  lively  dream  with 
“ a  difference  in  the  morning.”   To-day 
there  is  a  change.  Chicago wakes up  to 
find  herself  the  peer  of  any  city  upon 
the  Atlantic  coast  and,  with  the  wide­
awake  determination  to  turn  the  fact  to 
practical  account,  is  looking  the  matter 
over.  She  has  already  reached  con­
clusions  and  a  direct  line  of  steamers 
from  the  inland  metropolis  of  the  M id­
dle  West  will  soon  be  plying  its  fre­
quent  periodical  voyage  to  the  English 
port.  The  boats  will  be  of  the  Weliand 
Canal  size,  with  a  capacity  of  75,000 
bushels  of  wheat  on  a  draft  of  fourteen 
feet.  Negotiations  are  going  on  be­
tween  Chicago  and  Montreal  by  which 
freight  can  be  transferred  at  that  point 
and  save  the  lake-ship  the voyage across 
the  Atlantic.  There 
is  every  prospect 
of  carrying  out  the  project,  which,  once 
entered  upon,  will 
furnish  New  York 
another  powerful  reason  for  “ wishing 
she  hadn’t. ”

For  years  Chicago  has  been  crying 
with  Sterne’s  starling :  “ I  want  to  get 
1  want  to  get  out!”   but  the  A t­
out! 
lantic  port  gates  of  the  continent  did 
not  open.  A   city  a  thousand  miles 
from  sea-water  must  not  get 
into  its 
head  strange  notions.  The  possible  had 
limits  which  even  Western  commercial 
enterprise  was  bound  to  respect,  and 
what  that  Middle  Western  world  must 
do is  to make the most  of  the  ample  rail­
road  facilities  furnished and  go  right  on 
in  the  same  old  way. 
In  the  open  sea­
son  the  Lakes  and  the  Erie  Canal might 
furnish  a 
let-up  on  freights,  but  the 
railroad  was  the  agent  to  be  relied  upon 
and,  although  somewhat  costly,  it  was 
the  only  and  so 
it  had  to  be  the  best 
way;  and, 
this  sage  counsel  having 
been  delivered,  the  daughter of  Old  Rip 
Van  Winkle  went  to  sleep.

responded, 

But  not  Chicago  nor  the  boundless 
interests  centering  there. 
country  with 
“ Not 
if  we  know  ourselves!”   roared 
the  waves  of  Michigan  as  they  angrily 
struck  the  Chicago  docks. 
“ What  does 
she  take  us  for?”   snarled  the  Missis­
sippi  as  the  waters  of  the  ship  canal 
reported  the  selfish  story. 
“ We  won’t 
it! "   murmured  the 
do  a  thing  about 
winds,  as  they  swept  down 
from  the 
wide  Northwestern  wheat  fields,  and  the 
big  uncounted  com  patches  of  the  Mid­
dle  prairies 
“ No,  we 
won’t ! ”   But  New  York  did.  A 
little 
more  sleep,  a  little  more  slumber,  a  lit­
tle  more 
folding  of  the  hands  to sleep, 
and  then  between  naps  she  thought  that 
the  Erie  Canal  might  be  widened  and 
deepened  and  she  would  see  what  the 
folks  thought  about  it.  They  thought 
it  might  and  Canada,  with  her  Welland 
Canal,  thought  it  might  not and Chicago 
and  her  far-reaching  clientage  thought 
so,  too;  and  now,  with  the  new  ocean 
line  established  and  the grain  trade  thus 
early  started,  the  gateway  of  the  West­
ern  world,  basking  contentedly 
in  the 
Land  of  the  Sometime,  finds  her  nose 
out  of  joint  and  her  coffers,  which  once 
overflowed  with  the  freight  rates  of  the 
grain  transportation,  as  empty  as  the 
docks  deserted 
the  grain-laden 
steamers  now  on  the  Atlantic  for  Liver­
pool.  No,  they  are  not  doing  a  thing! 
But  the 
lake  waves  are  placid  now, 
there  seems  to  be  a  brighter  green to the 
growing  wheat  of  the  Northland  and  the 
sprouting  corn  is  unsheathing  its  blade 
with  more  than 
flourish, 
while  the  messengers  of  the  growing 
crops  between  the  Alleghanies  and  the 
Rockies  are  telling  of  a  larger  acreage, 
of  a  most  promising  harvest  and  so  of  a 
thriftier  foreign  trade  between  Liver­
pool,  the  chief  emporium  of  Great  Brit­
ain,  and  Chicago,  the  principal  em­
porium  of  the  United  States.  •

its  wonted 

by 

More  hemp  will  be  raised 

in  Ken­
tucky  than  has  been  raised  there  in  a 
great  many  years.  It  is  very  suggestive. 
It  is  doubtful,  however,  if  there  will  be 
for  home  consump­
more  than  enough 
tion.  Another  objection,  which 
is 
hoped  will  be  overcome,  is  that  hereto­
fore  the  hemp  there  has  not  been  raised 
high  enough  for  the  best  practical  pur­
pose,  a  fault  which  should  he  corrected.

it 

Coal  has  been  selling  in  Austria at $10 
a  ton,  and  some  of  the  German  schools 
have  been  closed  for  lack  of  fuel.  E x­
ports  of  American  coal  to  Europe  are 
becoming  common.  An  English  syndi­
cate 
for 
2,000,000 tons  of  Alabama  Coal  to be for­
warded  by  way  of  New  Orleans.

to  have  contracted 

is  said 

The  value  attaching  to  good  general­
ship  has  been  so strikingly demonstrated 
recently  through  a  conspicuous  want  of 
it  that  governments  hereafter  may  be 
content  to  let  merit  rather  than 
favorit­
the  selection  of  com­
ism  determine 
manding  generals.

is 

Silk 

likely  to  go  up  in  price,  on 
account  of  an  epidemic  among  the  Ital­
ian  and  French  silkworms.  They  re­
fuse  to  eat  and  are  dying  by myriads  on 
their  mulberry  leaves.

G E N E R A L   T R A D E   R E V IE W .

Wall  Street  dealers  are  now  taking 
their  punishment  for  the  crooked  deals 
in  some  of  the  leading  stocks,  in  a  de­
gree  of  dulness  almost  without  prece­
dent.  The  buying  public  seems  to  be 
thoroughly  frightened  away  and  opera­
tions  are  confined  to  a  quiet  buying  on 
the  part  of  the  strong  operators,  who 
is  as­
seem  to  think  that  the  situation 
sured  by  the 
condition  of 
strength  and  industrial activity  through­
out  the  country.  Latest reports  indicate 
an 
increase  of  activity,  but  at  the  ex­
pense  of  further  decline.

general 

Naturally  the  work  of  price  adjust­
ment  in  iron  and  steel  and  the  apparent 
need  of  it  in  some  other  lines  serve  to 
cause  some  uneasiness  and  pessimistic 
predictions,hut  that  these  are  warranted 
is  strongly  contradicted  by  the  unpre­
cedented  transportation  business,  by  the 
in  the  Center, 
vast  volume  of  trade 
South  and  West  as 
indicated  by  the 
increasing  reports  of 
remarkable  and 
clearing  house  business  and  by  the  fa­
vorable 
condition  of  export  trade. 
Heavy  gold  exports  are  thought  to  be  a 
cause  of  uneasiness,  but  that  is  abund­
antly  accounted  for  by  the  demands  of 
England  for  her  war  and  the  extraor­
dinary  needs  of  other  nations.

The  general  tendency  of  prices  in  the 
iron  and  steel  trades  is  toward  a  lower 
and  more  healthy  basis.  The  only  ex­
ceptions  are 
schedule, 
fully  sustained,  with  a  pros­
which 
pect  of  further  advance,  and 
in  the 
price  of  rails,  steel  beams,  angles  and 
tinplates.

the  sheet 

in 

is 

The  fact  that  some  prices  are yielding 
in 
is  made  a  pretext  for  careful  buying 
industries.  Thus 
many  of  the  great 
boot  and  shoe  shipments  from  Boston 
are  declining 
for  the  reason  that  many 
are  looking  for  yielding  prices.  Hides 
and  some  kinds  of  leather  are  slightly 
lower  in  Chicago.  The  tendency  in  the 
great  textile  staples 
lower 
values,  favorable  crop  reports  having 
brought  cotton  down  a  cent.  The  period 
of  high  prices  has  naturally 
increased 
the  manufacture  until  some  works  are 
compelled  to 
lessen  production.  And 
the  same  may  be  said  substantially  of 
the  wool  situation. 
In  both  branches 
the  aggregate  of  business  is  wonderfully 
large,  but  the  time 
in  which  demand 
can  keep  the  lead  is  inevitably  short.

is  toward 

in  putting  down  pavement 

The  workman  who  can  select  quickly 
the  size  of  stone  or  brick  needed  to  fit 
spaces 
is 
better  educated  than  the  writer  who 
chooses  big  words  that  are  a  misfit  in 
conveying  the  meaning  of  his  small 
ideas. 

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It  is  in  the  joyous  springtime 

that  a 
man  reads  on  the  fences  how  torpid  his 
liver  is,  how  bad  his  blood  is,  and  feels 
how  sure  he  is  to  die  soon  unless  he  in­
vests  in  the  medicine  so strongly recom­
mended  by  board  fences.

The  most  troublesome workingmen are 
those  who  have  no  time  to  work.  On 
the  same  line,  the  lawyers  who  are  con­
stantly  stirring  up  strife  are  those  who 
have  no  clients  and  no  business 
in 
court.

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Produce

Growth  and  Importance  of  the  Butter 

Business.

Butter  as  a  food  appears  to  be  as  old 
as  history.  We  have  record  of  the  use 
of  butter  as  early  as  2,ooo  years  before 
Christ.  The  Bible  is  interspersed  with 
references  to  butter,  the  product  of  milk 
from  the  cow. 
In  Genesis  we  read  that 
when  Abraham  was  on  the  plains  of 
Maure,  he  entertained  the  three  angels 
who  appeared  unto  him  as  men,  as  he 
sat  in  his  tent,  and  he  said  to  Sarah  to 
take  three  measures  ot  meal  and  knead 
it  quickly  and  make  cakes  upon  the 
hearth ;  and 
is  said  that  he  went  to 
the  herd  and  fetched  a  calf  tender  and 
good  and  gave  it  to  be  dressed,  and  he 
took  butter  and  milk  and  the  calf  which 
he  had  dressed,  and  set  it  before  them 
and  they  did  eat.

it 

Thus 

it  will  be  seen  there  is  divine 
authority  for  the  statement  that  butter  is 
a  fit  food  for  the  angels.  Not  only  has 
it  been  regarded  from  time  immemorial 
as  a  food  fit  for  the  gods,  but 
its  use 
appears  to  have  been  divinely  recom­
mended,  and  its  users  promised  certain 
immunities  against  evil.

in  Isaiah  7:15,  it 

instance, 
is 
For 
said: 
“ Butter  and  honey  shall  he  eat 
that  he  may  know  to  refuse  the  evil  and 
choose  the  good,’ ’  while 
in  the  22d 
verse  of  the  same  chapter  it  is  further 
stated  that  “ He  shall  eat  butter,  for 
butter  and  honey  shall  everyone  eat  that 
is 
is 
left  in  the  minds  of  the  readers in either 
case  as  to  the  kind  of  butter  meant,  be­
cause  it  is  referred  to  as  from  milk.

left  in  the  land.’ ’  -And  no  doubt 

In  Judges  5 125,  butter  is  referred  to 
it  was 
in  a  manner  which  proves  that 
regarded  there  as  a  favored  food. 
“ He 
asked  for  water, ’ ’  reads  the verse,  * ‘ and 
she  gave  him  milk :  she  brought  forth 
butter  in  a  lordly  dish.”

And  not  only  is  butter  spoken  of  as  a 
favored  food,  but  it  was  used  as  an 
in­
strument  for  the  performance  of  mir­
acles. 
I 
washed  my  steps  with  butter  and  the 
rocks  poured  me  out  rivers  of  o il.”

Job  2p:6  reads: 

“ When 

What  other  food  has  such  sacred  en­

dorsement  and  history?

It  is  presumed  that  in  four  thousand 
years  there  has  been  considerable  of  an 
improvement  in  the  manufacture  of but­
ter,  although,  of  course,  we  know 
little 
more  of  the  method  by  which Sarah pro­
duced  this  butter  for the  angels  than  we 
know  of  the  means  employed 
in  the 
construction  of  the  pyramids.

The  earliest  details  of  method of man­
ufacture  are  derived  from  the  Arabs and 
Syrians,  who  appear  to  be  as  well  satis­
fied  with  the  original  process  of  making 
butter  as  they  are  with  other  habits 
which  have  remained  unchanged 
for 
centuries  with  the  Arabs.  To-day,  as 
was  the  original  practice  so 
far  as 
known,  the  Arabs  and  Syrians  use  for 
a  churn  a  vessel  made  from  goat  skin. 
The  animal  is  skinned,  the  skin  sewed 
up  tight,  leaving  an  opening  only  at 
the 
leg,  where  the  cream  is 
poured  in.  Then  the  “ chum”   is  sus­
pended  from  the  tent  poles  and  swung 
until  the  “ butter  comes.”   This  is  the 
earliest  known  process  of  making  but­
ter. 
In  Mexico  only  a  few  years  ago 
cream  was  placed  in  a  bag  by  the  na­
tives,  the  whole taken  behind  the  saddle 
of  a  spirited  horse,  and  a  tour  of  a  few 
miles  horseback  undertaken  by 
the 
rider.  When  the  journey  was  at  an  end, 
the  churning  process  was  supposed  to 
be  finished.

left  fore 

Not  all  butter  made  to-day  can  be

it 

is  a 

said  to  be  “ fit  for  the  gods.”  
It  may 
be  that  in  the  days  of  Abraham  butter 
was  produced  which  even  the  angels 
might  have  turned  up  their  noses  at. 
But 
fact,  however,  that  75  per 
cent,  of  the  butter  made  to-day  by  our 
modem  methods 
is  of  better  quality 
than  the  exclusive  25  per  cent,  of  fifteen 
years  ago,  because  there have  been  tre­
mendous  strides  in  the  manufacture  of 
butter  the  past  fifteen  years,  not  only  as 
to  quality,  but  from  the  point  of  econ­
omy  of  production.  Up  to  this  time  the 
very  primitive  method  of  farm  dairying 
little 
appears  to  have  been 
followed, 
improvement  upon  which  had 
been 
known  for  a  century.

the  historical 

lacteal  fluid  according  to 

The  great  progress  in  buttermaking 
alluded  to  as  having  taken  place  during 
the  past  fifteen  years  has  been  brought 
about  largely  through  the 
introduction 
of  the  centrifugal  cream  separator  and 
the 
invention  of  a  simple  method  by 
which  the  exact  butter  value  of  milk 
may  be  ascertained  by  the  creamery 
operator,  the  use  of  which  test  enables 
the  creamery  man  to  pay  for this  vary­
ing 
its  fat 
value,  and  thus  take  from  the  grasping 
farmer 
temptation  to 
“ water”   his  milk.  Before  the  day  of 
this  Babcock  test,  when  milk  for  the 
separator  creameries  was  purchased 
in 
the  bulk,  regardless  of  its  fat  value,  the 
farmer  who  had  the  deepest  well  upon 
his  place  appears  to  have  been  the  most 
successful  dairyman.  It  is  not so to-day.
The  separator  has  proven  both  a  fat 
saver  and  quality  producer.  By  the  old 
method  of  setting  milk  and allowing  the 
cream  to  rise,  fully  10  per  cent,  of  the 
butter  fat  remained  in  the  skim  milk. 
The  modern  separator  will  take  prac­
tically  all  this  out,  thus  practically in­
creasing  the  yield  of  the  cow  to  that  ex­
tent.  With  the  method  now  employed 
by  the  separator  creamery  of  receiving 
sweet  the  whole  milk  and  separating  it, 
the  buttermaker  has  under  his  control 
the 
important  process  of  ripening  the 
cream,  wherein  lies  the  secret  of  flavor, 
which  is  quality.

is 

There 

little  necessity  for  alluding 
to  the  minor  details  of  the  business  as 
they  exist  to-day. 
It  is  known  that  at 
present  the  butter  business  is  in  rather 
a  complex  state. 
Its  future  is  shrouded 
in  uncertainty.  We  do  not  know  what 
the  coming  year  may  bring 
forth. 
There  are  conditions  and 
influences 
prevalent  which  the  most  astute  can  not 
fathom.  The  trade  had  about  accepted 
the  general  impression  that  the  day  of 
30  cent  butter  had  passed. 
In  late  for­
mer years,  when our markets had reached 
25  cents,  there  had  been  reactions  of  a 
disastrous  nature,  but  the  past  year  has 
proven  exceptional.  New  York  went  to 
30  cents  last  January.  Chicago  touched 
29  cents,  and  we  were  reminded  of  old­
en  times  when  there  appeared  a  close 
similarity  between  the  value  of  a  tub  of 
butter  and  a  keg  of  gold.

You  ask  what  has  brought  this  about? 
This  question  has  puzzled  the  best  in­
formed.  Some  say  increased  consump­
tion.  Others  say 
lighter  production. 
Still  others 
lay  the  condition  to  a  con­
spiracy  to  run  butter  up  to  an exorbitant 
figure  at  that  time  to  influence  Congress 
adversely  in  the  matter  of  legislation  to 
be  asked for for the protection of the pub­
lic  against  fraud.

is  a 

It  appears  most  plausible,  however, 
that  there 
little  of  something  in 
each of  th e  first  tw o ex p lan atio n s.  T h ere 
is  no  d oubt 
th a t  the  p rosperous  tim es 
of  th e  p ast  tw o  years,  esp e c ia lly   d u rin g  
1899,  hav e 
in creased   co n su m p tio n   of 
pure  butter,  or  I  might  sav,  have  en-

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Tomatoes,  Cucumbers,  Onions,  Radishes,  Spinach,  Lettuce,
California Celery,  Cabbage, etc.  Fancy Navel,  Seedling  and 
Blood  Oranges.  Lemons,  Dates,  Figs and  Nuts.  Maple Sugar 
and  Syrup.  Careful attention given mail orders.

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Clovers 
Grass Seeds

Lawn  Grass 
Flower  Seeds

Seed Corn 
Peas
Beans, Etc.

Seeds

Largest  stocks,  best  quality,  lowest 
prices,  prompt  service.  Our  stocks 
are  still  complete.  All  orders  filled 
quickly  day  received.  Let  your  or­
ders come.

Garden  Seeds  in  Bulk. 

ALFRED J.  BROWN  SEED  CO.

Seed  Growers  and Merchants

24  &   26  North  Division  St. 

Grand  Rapids, Mich.

COLD S T O R A G E

W e   do  a  gen eral  storage.  W e   are  in   th e  field 
for  b u sin ess and so licit  you r  p atro n age.  C o rre s­
pon d en ce so licited . 
S econ d  season  in   operation .

GRAND RAPIDS COLD STO RA G E CO.
SEED   P O TA TO ES

GRAND  R A P ID S .  M ICH.

A bushel of T H E   D EW EY   POTATOES to be given away with every  tenth  order. 
The largest yielder, best eater, and the coming market potato.  Send for circular.

W.  B.  STOPPARD  &  CO.,

245  W e st  F a y e tte   S t., 

S y ra c u se ,  New   Y o rk .

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

Timothy,  Redtop,

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increase 

abled  people  to  follow  the  market  up 
higher  than  in former  years.  There  has 
in  consumption,  be­
been  no 
cause  production  has  been 
curtailed 
through  this  same  prosperity.  During 
the  past  year  New  York’s  receipts  of 
butter were  20,000  packages  lighter  than 
in  1898,  and  the  receipts  at  Chicago 
fell  off  50,000  packages. 
It  is  probable 
that  receipts  at  other  points  were  short 
in  proportion.

Of  course  this  appears  strange  in  face 
of  the  fact  that  prices 
in  New  York 
have  averaged  2  cents  higher  and  in 
Chicago  3  cents  higher  for  the  year 1899 
than  for  the  year  preceding,  and  during 
the  latter  part  of  the year  values  showed 
an  increase  of  5  cents,  or  about  20  per 
cent.  The  matter  of  producing  butter 
is  not  the  question  of  a  day  or  a  week. 
It 
is  the  question  of  years.  During 
1896,  1897  and  1898,  values  of  butter 
were  very 
low ;  in  fact,  they  at  many 
times  were  below  cost  of  production. 
Farmers  held  on  only  because  other 
farm  products  were  equally  low  in  price 
or  short  in  yield.  But  when  live  stock 
and  grains  went  upward, 
the  farmer 
lucrative,  attractive  and 
found  more 
less  arduous  fields  for  his  labor,  and 
abandoned  the  cow  by  thousands.  He 
had  no*  way  of  knowing  that  the  year
1899  would  bring  forth  fabulous  prices, 
and  was  not  prepared  to  produce  milk 
when  those  prices  came.  He  was 
like 
the  foolish  virgins;  there  was  no  oil 
in 
his  lamp  when  the  bridegroom  came.

Statistics  show  that  the  dairy  busi­
ness,  so  far  as  cows  are  concerned,  has 
not  progressed  the  past  ten  years. 
In 
1890,  with  our  62,622,250  population,  we 
had  15,952,883  milch  cows,  or about  264 
cows  to  every  thousand  population. 
In
1900  we  have  no  more  cows  with  our 
gain  of  at  least  10,000,000  population, 
so  that  to-day  we  have  not  more  than 
228  cows  for  every  1,000  population,  in­
stead  of  264,  as  ten  years  ago. 
In  fact, 
in  actual  numbers  we  have  to-day  more 
than  a  half  million  less  cows  than  we 
in  1894,  when  the  records  showed 
had 
16,504,000 against  15,998,000 
in  1899. 
And  the  high  prices  of  beef  the  past 
year  have  tempted  the  sale  of  more 
milch  cows  than  have  been  sold  for 
slaughter  in  many  years  past.

We  have  heard a great  deal  during  the 
past  few  years  about  an  export  trade  for 
our butter  in  England  and  the  Orient. 
We  have  sent  considerable  butter abroad
the  past  three  or  four  years.  It  has  gone 
almost  wholly  to  England,  the  great 
butter consuming  country.  Secretary  of 
Agriculture  Wilson  has  spent  a  great 
deal  of time  in  an  effort  to  develop  the 
foreign  market. 
In  1894  our  exports  to 
England  were  valued  at  $125,947;  in 
1895,  $271,776;  in 
1896,  $617,525;  in 
1897,  $633,549,  while  in  1898 they  fell  to 
$285,309,  as  a  result  of  higher  prices  in 
this  country  brought  about  by  a  de­
crease  of  production.  The  statistics  for 
the  past  year’s  exports  have  not  yet 
been  published,  but  during  the  months 
of  August  and  September there  was  a 
phenomenal  demand  for  our butter  from 
England,  which  took  all  our  surplus  and 
more  than  we  were  able  to  spare  and 
supply  our  domestic  trade  at  the  former 
level  of  prices.  A   scorching  drouth  all 
through  England  and  Europe,  which 
lately  spread  to  the  Western  hemi­
sphere,  was  responsible  for  the  demand 
from  England,  in  whose  regular  pro­
ducing  counties  the  make  of  butter  was 
tremendously  reduced.

is  a  very  doubtful  question  as  to 
whether the  United  States  will  be  a  reg­
ular  exporter of  butter  to  any  great  ex­
tent.  The  large  exporters  of  butter  to­

It 

instance,  with 

day  as  a  rule  are  those  countries  with 
small  population  and  many  cows ;  great 
producers  and  small  consumers.  Den­
mark,  for 
its  2,000,000 
people, 
sends  England  $37,000,000 
worth  of  butter.  The  people  of Denmark 
ship  their  butter  and  eat  oleomargarine, 
consumption  of  that  substitute  aggre­
gating 
for  its  2,000,000  people  almost  a 
third  of  the  amount  consumed  in  Amer­
ica  by  our  75,000,000  of  population. 
Canada 
is  a  natural  dairy  country,  a 
heavy  producer  and  light  consumer,  as 
are  Ireland  and  Australia.  The  secret  of 
their  success  is  the  fact  that  they  are  al­
ways  producing  more  than  they  can 
consume,  consequently  always  have  a 
supply 
for  their  trade.  Steadiness  of 
supply 
in  the  English 
is  a  necessity 
market,  and  something  we  can  hardly 
expect  to  attain.  Our  population  re­
quires  too  near  our  entire  production  to 
enable  us  to  have  a  steady  supply  for 
export. 
the 
heaviest  export  business  for  years  was 
done ;  yet  the  exports  amounted  to  not 
more  than  1  per  cent,  of  our  production. 
A   shrinkage  of  1  per  cent,  in  produc­
tion  or  an 
increase  of  1  per cent,  in 
consumption  at  home  wipes  out  our  sur­
plus.  Therefore  we  are  but  an irregular 
shipper  abroad  and  never  get  an  oppor­
tunity  to  get  the  advantage  secured  by 
those  who  are  regular  patrons  of  the 
Englishmen.

instance, 

in  1897, 

For 

Our  export  trade  with  other  countries 
than  England  amounts  to  little.  There 
is  some trade with  the  tropical  countries 
and  the  Orient.  One  Boston  firm  quite 
well  known 
to  the  trade,  Simpson, 
McIntyre  &  Co.  by  name,  are  about  the 
only  people  who  do  an  extensive  busi­
ness  with  the  tropics.  Their  butter  is 
all  tinned  and  is  said  to  give  excellent 
In  fact,  it  has  been  my 
satisfaction. 
personal  experience  that 
it  stands  up 
better  in  flavor  after  being  opened  than 
the  Danish  tinned  butter,  and  I  have 
eaten  both  in  South  America.

in  showing  up 

But  why  should  we  spend  our  time 
looking 
for  markets  abroad  when  our 
own  markets  are  being  wrested  from  us 
by  the  greatest  fraud  of  the  century? 
It 
is  my  opinion  that  if  as  much  time  and 
money  had  been  spent  by  the  AgricuL 
ture  Department 
the 
fraudulent  methods  by which pure butter 
is  being  crowded  out  at  home  as  have 
been  devoted  to  an  effort  to  get  a  mar­
ket  established  abroad  for  our  surplus, 
industry  would  be  far  better  off. 
the 
There 
is  five  times  as  much  oleomar­
garine  sold  as  butter  every  year  in  this 
country  as  we  export  butter.  We  have 
simply  been  yielding  our  own  markets 
to  the  fraud  and  meekly  looking  for 
some  place  else  to  sell  at  a  reduced 
price. 

T.  C.  H.  Wegeforth.

Every
Piece

Inspected

In  our  harness  department  no 
piece of  leather  can  get  into  a 
harness  without  being 
in­
spected. 
If there  is  any  doubt 
about  its  quality  it  is  thrown 
out  and  only  the  good  part  is 
in  some  other  kind  of 
used 
work. 
In this way we  are  per­
fectly  sure  that  our  make  of 
harness 
is  all  right  in  every 
particular.  W e  sell 
it  with 
this understanding.  The  price 
will suit  you, also.

Brown &   Sehler

Grand Rapids, Mich.

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Geo.  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.

WE  B U Y  FO R  CASH

Eggs  and  Butter

IN  A N Y   Q U A N T ITY . 

Hermann  C.  Naumann  &   Co.,

353  R u sse ll  S t.,  O pp.  E a s te rn   V eg etab le  M a rk e t,  D etro it,  Mi  h .  P h o n e s  1793.

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We are always in the market for  Fresh

B U TTER   AND  EG G S 

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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  SCH A N Z& CO .

WHOLESALE  PRODUCE

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

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

D.  O.  WILEY  &  CO.

COMMISSION  MERCHANTS

DETROIT,  MICH.

E ST A B L ISH E D   1868.

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

References, Dun or Bradstreet. 

Consignments  Solicited. 

Please  Mention Tradesman.

WE  P A Y   C A S H

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

HARRIS  Sl  FRU TCH EY,  D e t r o i t .  M ic h .
A L L   G R O CER S

W h o   d esire  to  g iv e   th eir  cu stom ers  the  b est  vin e g a r  on  the 
m arket  w ill  g iv e   them   R f.d  S t a r   B r an d  C id er  V in eg a r. 
T h e se   good s  stand  for  pu r it y  and  are  the  b est  on  th e  m arket. 
W e   g iv e   a  G u a ran tee  B on d   to  e v e ry   custom er. 
Y o u r  order 
so licited .

THE  LEROUX  CIDER  &  VINEGAR  CO.,

Fibre  Butter  Packages

Toledo,  Ohio.

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

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Around  the State

Movements  of Merchants.

Bristol— Sutton  &  Holcomb  are  erect­

ing  a  new  store  building.

Lansing— The  Lansing  Awning  & 

Tent  Co.  has  sold  out  to  John  Oram.

Port  Huron— Wm. 

Simpson 

has 

opened  a  grocery  store  on  Erie  street.

Williamston— James  N.  Leasia  suc­
ceeds  Leasia  &  Piper  in  the  drug  busi­
ness.

Monroe— Henry  Hermann 

succeeds 
in  the  meat  busi­

Duval  &  Hermann 
ness.

South  Haven—Cording &  Merson have 
engaged  in  the  grocery  business  at  this 
place.

Ionia—W.  K.  Wilson has  sold  his  gro­
cery  stock  to  Wallace  Haight and  David 
Jepson.

D ice— Edward  J.  Geddes  has  sold  his 
dry  goods  and  grocery  stock  to  George 
Russell.

Tecumseh—J.  A.  Maus  and  Fred 
Waring  have  opened  a  furniture  store  at 
this  place.

Homer— Harmon  &  Allen  announce 
that  they  will  shortly  retire  from  the dry 
goods  business.

Grand  Ledge— Spencer  &  Hall  have 
purchased  the  boot  and  shoe  stock  of 
George  L.  Coryell.

Allenville— J.  D.  Erskine  has  added 
lines  of  crockery,  glassware  and  tinware 
to  his  general  stock.

Clarksville— R.  H.  Goodfellow  has 
purchased  the  drug  and  wall  paper 
stock  of  R.  C.  French.

Elkton—Aldrich  Bros, 

bert  J.  Aldrich  and  David  E.  Winer 
the  hardware  business.

succeed  A l­
in 

Sault  Ste.  Marie— Gowan  &  Pickford 
are  now  located  in  their  new  hardware 
store  and  are  ready  for  business.

Coldwater— H.  C.  Simons  &  Co.  is 
the  name  of  the  new  firm  which  suc­
ceeds  H.  C.  Simons  in  the  jewelry  busi­
ness.

Reed  C ity—J.  W.  Patterson  has 
bought  the  grocery  stock  of  Johnson  & 
Gingrich  and  will  continue  the  business 
at  the  same  location.

Caro— L.  A.  Phelps  has  sold  his  gro­
cery  stock  at  this  place  and  removed  to 
Canton,  Ohio,  where  he  will  engage 
in 
the  cold  storage  business.

Petoskey— Ramshaw  &  Doherty  have 
opened  a  new  grocery  store.  Both  gen­
tlemen  were 
in  the 
grocery  business  at  Cheboygan.

formerly  engaged 

Owosso—W.  H.  Bell  has  closed  out 
his  stock  of  groceries  and  crockery  and 
expects  to  go  to  Detroit  to  open a  furni­
ture  and  house  furnishing  store.

South  Haven—A.  G.  Harrison,  who 
recently  disposed  of  his grocery  stock  to 
Cook  6c  Son,  has  engaged  in  the  whole­
sale  butter,  egg  and  fruit  business.

Detroit— Frederick  J.  Todd  and  D. 
W.  H.  Moreland  have  opened  a  drug 
store  on  Woodward  avenue  under the 
style  of  the  Central  Drug  Store  Co.

Boyne  Falls— Herman  Mazidsohn,
general  dealer  at  Elkton,  has  opened  a 
branch  store  at  this  place  under  the 
management  of  Abraham  Assersohn.

Paw  Paw—The  Thompson  Furniture 
Co.  is  the  name  of  the  new  firm  which 
has  put  in  a  stock  of  furniture  and  un­
dertaking  goods  in  the  O ’ Dell  building.
Alpena— The  firm  of  Owens  &  Fritz 
has  been  dissolved  by  mutual  consent, 
Mr.  Owens  continuing  the  undertaking 
business  across  the  river.  Mr.  Fritz 
will  retain  the  Second  Street  store  and 
will  continue  the  undertaking,  picture 
frame  and  a rt  business.

MICHIGAN  TRADESM AN

Newberry— F.  B.  Stade  has  closed 
out  his  business  at  this  place  and  re­
moved  to  Mass  City,  where  he  will  en­
gage 
in  the  dry  goods  and  clothing 
business.

Manton— J.  M.  and  P.  F.  Wolfe,  for­
merly  of  Fife  Lake,  have  purchased  the 
jewelry  stock  of  W.  G.  Crawford  and 
will  continue  the  business  at  the  same 
location.

Charlotte— V.  C.  Roblin has purchased 
the  interest  of  Albert  Murray 
in  the 
shoe  firm  of  V.  C.  Roblin  &  Co.,  and 
will  continue  the  business  under  the 
same  firm  name.

Charlotte—J.  W.  Bower,  of  this  place, 
and  Arthur  Bailey,  of  Belding,  have 
organized  a  company,  with  a  capital 
stock  of  $2,500, 
to  be  known  as  the 
Charlotte  Baking  Co.

Charlotte— Mr.  Watson,  of  the  dry 
goods  firm  of  Watson  &  Newman,  has 
sold  his  interest  in  the  business  to  his 
partner  and  will  engage  in the dry goods 
business  at  Charlevoix.

Manistique— The  First  National  Bank 
has  been  organized  with  a  capital  stock 
of  §35,000. 
It  will  succeed  to  the  busi­
ness  of  the  Citizens’  Bank,  which  was 
started  about  six  months  ago.

Petoskey— Two  grocers  of this city en­
joy  the  honor  of  having  horseless  car­
riages— Ad.  Fochtman  &  Son,  who  have 
a  mule  on  their  delivery  wagon,  and  I. 
Goldstick,  who  utilizes  a  push  cart  in 
the  delivery  of  goods.

Saginaw— Vem  J.  Wolcott,  of  Albion, 
has 
leased  the  store  building  at  412 
Court  street,  and  will  occupy  it  with  a 
stock  of  dry  goods,  doing  business  un­
der 
the 
style  of  the  Wolcott  Dry 
Goods  Co.

Detroit—The  Berkey  Cash  Jewelry 
Co.  has  been  organized  with  a  capital 
of $5,000,  of  which  50  per  cent,  is  paid 
in.  Charles  A.  Berkey  holds  350  shares,
E.  P.  Goulding 
100,  and  Merton  E. 
Rowley  50.

Eaton  Rapids— Hartson  &  Vaughan, 
who  have  been  in  the  furniture  and  un­
dertaking  business,  have  dissolved  part­
nership.  J.  J.  Vaughan will  continue  the 
business  with  his  brother,  D.  G. 
Vaughan,  and  the  firm  will  be  known 
as  Vaughan  Bros.

Ann  Arbor— F.  L.  Wilber,  of  Char­
lotte,  has  purchased  an  interest 
in  the 
Goodspeed  shoe  stock  here  and  will 
have  charge  of  the  business.  Mr.  W il­
ber  was  for eight  years  a  boot  and  shoe 
merchant  in  Ypsilanti.

Otsego— Frank  McCall,  of  this  place, 
and  Bert  McCall,  of  Hickory  Comers, 
have  purchased  the  grocery  stock  of 
Herbert  McCall  and  will  continue  the 
business  at  the  same  location  under  the 
style  of  McCall  &  McCall.

Adrian— H.  W.  Glover,  of  Ypsilanti, 
who  was  the  principal  owner  of  the 
stock  of  the  Cash  Dry  Goods  Co.,  of 
this  city,  has  turned  the  stock  over  to
F.  H.  Goadly,  representing  H.  B. 
Claflin  &  Co.,  of  New  York.

Traverse  City— J.  W.  Slater  has 

just 
completed  a  new  store  building  at  Elk 
Rapids,  26x100  feet  in  dimensions,  two 
stories  high,  which  he  will  occupy  with 
his  branch  undertaking  business  and 
house  furnishing  goods  stock.

Fennville— R.  S.  Shiffert,  dealer  in 
general  merchandise,  and  W.  E.  Shiff­
ert,  dealer  in  dry  goods  and  groceries, 
have  consolidated  their  stock  and  will 
continue  business  at  the  R.  S.  Shiffert 
iocation  under the  style  of  R.  S.  Shiffert 
&  Son.

Ypsilanti— The  Sullivan-Cook Co.  has 
been  organized  with  a  capital  stock  of 
$7,500  to  engage 
in  the  clothing  and 
men’s  furnishing  goods  business.  The

stockholders  are  Henry  S.  Platt,  Arthur 
S.  Sullivan  and  George  A.  Cook,  each 
of  whom  owns  250  shares  of  stock.

Detroit— Customers  of  Pardridge  & 
Walsh,  dry  goods  dealers,  will  hereafter 
only  have  to  pay  I2j£  cents  for  a  shill­
ing’s  worth  of  goods,  the  firm  having 
adopted  an  aluminum  half-cent,  good 
for  trade 
in  their  store,  to  be  used  in 
making  change.  Pardridge  &  Walsh 
are  first  to  adopt  the  scheme  in  D e­
troit,  although 
it  has  been  in  use  suc­
cessfully  in  other  cities  for  some  time.
Ishpeming-  -The Finnish Co-operative 
Store  is  now  a  reality,  having purchased 
the  grocery  stock  of  Kaugas  &  Co.  for 
$3,000. 
late  with 
Braastad  &  Co.,  is  book-keeper  for  the 
new  Co-op  and  F.  Lassenius,  late  with 
Hendrickson  &  Skoglund,  will  manage 
it. 
The  meat  market  conducted  by 
Oscar  Forsberg  has  been  purchased  and 
in  the  store,  Mr. 
will  be  incorporated 
Forsberg  continuing 
in  charge  of  the 
business.

Jacob  Kaminen, 

Manufacturing Matters.

Paris— A.  M.  Sanford  has  purchased 
it  three 

the  Nye  sawmill  and  moved 
miles  south  of  Careyville.

Bay  City— The  mill  property  of  the 
South  End  Salt  &  Lumber  Co.  has  been 
sold  to  A.  F.  Bartlett  &  Co.,  of  Sagi­
naw,  the  consideration  being  $10,000.

Coldwater— J.  D.  Payne  and  E.  H. 
cigar  manufacturers,  have 
Williams, 
formed  a  copartnership  and  will  con­
tinue  the  business  under  the  style  of 
Payne  &  Williams.

Detroit— Articles  of  association  have 
been  filed  by  the  Jarrait  Paint  &  En­
amel  Co. 
Capital  stock,  $7,500,  of 
which  $2,700  is  paid  in.  Stockholders, 
John  B.  Jarrait,  Joseph  Belanger  and 
Harvey  F.  Belanger.

Allegan— The  Allegan  Wheel  Co.  has 
purchased  the  building 
formerly  occu­
pied  by  John  M.  Heath as  a foundry and 
machine  shop,  together  with  all  of  the 
patterns,  tools  and  machinery.  Brown 
&  Danner  have  purchased  an  interest 
in  the  company.  Mr.  Danner  will  as­
sume  personal  charge  of  the  business.

Port  Huron—James  R.  Burgess,  a 
Port  Huron  inventor  who  has  perfected 
a  new  idea  in  cook  stoves,  is attempting 
to  organize  a  company  of  local  capital­
ists  to  place  the  stove  on  the  market. 
The  members  of  the  Port  Huron  Mer­
chants  &  Manufacturers’  Association 
have  interested  themselves  in  the matter 
and  will  aid  in  its  promotion.  John  G. 
O ’ Neill  has  agreed  to  take  $5,000  of  it.
Cheboygan— The  horse  collar  factory 
is  at 
last  an  assured  thing.  A   stock 
company,  with  a  capital  of  $4,000,  has 
been  organized.  The  incorporators  are 
J.  M.  Nichols,  Egbert  A.  Smith,  Geo. 
E.  Frost,  Dr.  S.  A.  St.  Amour,  P.  L. 
Lapres  and  O.  M.  Clark.  The  com­
pany  is  looking  for  a  suitable 
location 
to  begin  manufacturing 
and  expects 
next  month.  Mr.  Nichols 
is  confident 
that 
less  than  a  year  the  company 
will  furnish  employment  to  fifty  men.

in 

Caro— The  Peninsular  Sugar  Refining 
Co.  has  brought  suit  against  James 
Speyer,  Ferdinand  Herman  and  Martin 
Erdman,  bankers  of  New  York  City,  to 
recover $300,000  on  a  bond  which,  it  is 
claimed,  was  forfeited.  The  complain­
ant  alleges  that  at  Detroit  on  January 
31,  i8gg, it  was agreed between the plain­
tiff  and  the  Wernicke  Co.,  of  Germany, 
that  the 
construct  and 
equip  for  the  Peninsular  Sugar  Refin­
ing  Co.,  for $400,000,  a  beet  sugar  fac­
tory  for the  manufacture  of  white  gran­
ulated  sugar  ready  for  consumption  and 
that  the  factory  could  be  doubled  to  the

latter  should 

corporation, 

capacity  of  1,000  tons  of  beets  per  day 
at  a  minimum  cost.  To  complete  the 
contract  the  Wernicke  Co.  furnished,  it 
is  claimed,  the  bond  of  the  defendant 
bankers 
in  the  penal  sum  of  $300,000. 
The  complaint  further  says  that  the 
plaintiff 
in  accordance 
with  the  agreement,  paid  $300,000,  and 
that  the  remaining  $100,000  was  to  be 
paid  by  first  mortgage  bonds  as  soon  as 
the  factory  should  have  been 
in  opera­
tion  thirty  days  and  should  have  pro­
duced  standard  granulated  sugar  at  an 
average  cost  of  three  cents  a  pound. 
is  claimed,  was  not 
This  contract,  it 
carried  out,  and 
it 
is  claimed  that  the 
Wernicke  Co.  is  liable  for  damages  to 
the  amount  of  $450,000.  The  penalty  on 
the  alleged 
forfeited  bond  is  therefore 
sued  for.
Should  Be  Held  Down  to  a  Cash  Basis.
Some  time  ago  the  attention  of  the 
Tradesman  was  called  to  the  question­
able  methods  of  the  Union  Fruit  & 
Grain  Co.,  of  Detroit.  Upon investiga­
tion 
it  was  learned  that  there  is  a  gang 
of  fellows  operating  under  different 
firm  names  in  different  parts  of  Detroit 
and  working  into  each  other’s  hands. 
The  Union  Fruit  &  Grain  Co.,  run  by 
Samuel  Tucker;  the  Tucker  Produce 
Co.,  also  run  by  Tucker;  the Manhattan 
Fruit  and  Grain  Co.,  run  by  a  Mr. 
Crawford;  the Crawford Fruit'and  Prod­
uce  Co.,  also  run  by  Crawford,  and  the 
Wolverine  Fruit  and  Produce  Co.,  run 
by  Crawford’s  son.  Jas.  Boyce  is  sup­
posed  to  work  for  Crawford. 
Investiga­
tion  discloses  the  fact  that  Wick  Hath­
away  is  a  fictitious  name  and  that  such 
a  man  does  not  exist.

Bush  Bros.,  47  Woodbridge  street, 
Detroit,  are  sending  out  circular  letters 
to  the  trade,  offering  to  pay  u j^ c  for 
eggs  on  track  and  return  cases  free. 
The  Detroit  market  does  not  justify  any 
dealer  in  paying  such  prices.  The  firm 
is  not  rated  by  R.  G.  Dun  &  Co.

The  Tradesman  feels  called  upon  to 
warn 
its  readers  to  beware  of  R.  J. 
Jones,  of  Norfolk,  V a.,  who  is  ordering 
goods  of  all  kinds— from  cigars  to  ashes 
— from  Michigan  merchants  and  ship­
pers.  He  is  a  rank  fraud  and 
is  now 
the  defendant 
in  several  suits  which 
may  result  in  landing  him  behind  the 
prison  bars.

from  Michigan  and 

Frank  B.  Hancock,  who  purports  to 
be  a  commission  merchant  at  Casky, 
Kentucky,  is  also  ordering  goods  indis­
criminately 
In­
diana  dealers  and  has  thus  far  failed  to 
establish  a  reputation  for  prompt  pay­
ment.  He  should  be  treated  with  due 
caution,  pending  further  investigation 
on  the  part  of  the  Tradesman.

Meeting a Cordial  Reception.

The Cappon &  Bertsch Leather Co.  has 
fitted  up  three  floors  for  the  reception 
of  its  saddlery  hardware  stock  and  will 
immediately  enter  upon  the  work  of  fit­
ting  up  a  fourth jioor  for  the  same  pur­
pose.  Manager  Otis  announces  his 
in­
tention  of  carrying  a  full  line  of  sad­
dlery  goods,  from  A   to  Z,  which  he  will 
sell  at  prices  which  will  command  the 
attention  and  patronage  of  the  trade. 
The  reception  accorded  the  new  depart­
ment  has  been  hearty  beyond  expecta­
tion,  giving  grounds  for the  belief  that 
this  departure  will  prove  to  be  one  of 
the  most  popular  moves  ever  made  by 
the  company.

D.  Harris,  butter  and  egg  dealer, 
D elray:  Like  your  paper.  Good  mar­
ket  reports.

For  G illies’  N.  Y. 

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

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5

Orand  Rapids  Gossip

Milo  Bolender,  whose  drug  stock  at 
Hubbardston  was  recently  destroyed  by 
fire,  has  resumed  business.  The  new 
stock  was  furnished  by  the  Hazeltine  & 
Perkins  Drug  Co., 
the  order  being 
placed  before  the  fire  was  entirely  ex­
tinguished.

Edward  Fitzgerald  has  resigned  the 
position  of  manager  of  the  Michigan 
Barrel  Co.  to  accept  the  management  of 
lumber  busi­
Mitchell  Bros.’  extensive 
ness,  which  has 
its  headquarters  at 
Cadillac.  The  resignation  took  effect 
May  i  and  Mr.  Fitzgerald  entered  upon 
the  duties  of  his  new  position  May  7. 
He  will  continue  to  reside 
in  Grand 
Rapids,  making  Cadillac  his  headquar­
ters  and  making  frequent  trips  over  the 
territory  in  which  the  firm  is  operating.

It  is  reported  that  the  management  of 
the  Royal  Furniture  Co.  will  shortly 
pass 
into  new  hands,  a  controlling  in­
terest  having  been  purchased  by  A lex­
ander  W.  Hompe,  Robert  W. 
Irwin 
and  Ralph  Tietsort.  Mr.  Hompe  is  al­
ready  Vice-President  of  the  corporation 
and  has  been  identified  with  the  busi-. 
ness  for  several  years.  Mr.  Irwin  has 
been  superintendent  of  the  Grand  Rap­
ids  School  Furniture  Works  for  several 
years  and  will  relinquish  that  position 
to  take  the  office  management  of  the 
Royal.  Mr.  Tietsort  has  been  on  the 
road  for  the  Royal  for  several  years  and 
will  continue  in  that  capacity.

transacting 

John  Smyth,  local  representative  for 
Fleischman  &  Co.,  was  stricken  with 
paralysis  while 
business 
with  the  storekeeper  of  the  Peninsular 
Club  Monday  morning  and  is  still  in  a 
precarious  condition,  although  Dr.  Ful­
ler  is  hopeful  of  his  ultimate  recovery. 
The  attack  is  confined  to  the  right  side, 
but  it  is  so  severe  that  speech  is  impos­
sible.  Ludwig  Winternitz  was  sum­
moned  from  the  deathbed  of  a  relative 
to  take  temporary  charge  of  the  office 
and  will  remain  here  until  there 
is  a 
change  for  the  better.  He  is  in  excel­
lent  health  as 
trip 
through  Mexico  and  a  more  recent 
“ bridle  tour.”

the  result  of  a 

The  Produce  Market.

Apples— Baldwins  and  Ben  Davis 

command  $4.25@4.50  per  bbl.

Asparagus-—65c  per  doz.  hunches. 
Bagas— 35c  per  bu.
Bananas— The  banana  market 

is 
firm  but  unchanged.  It  is  reported  from 
Cuba  that  heavy  shipments  of  bananas 
will  be  made  from  the  Island  to  this 
country  in  June.  This,  in  conjunction 
with  the  arrivals  expected  from  Jamaica 
at  that  time,  may  oversupply  the  mar­
ket  and  break  the  backbone  of  the  pres­
ent  ruling  high  prices.

Beets—$1.25  per  3  bu.  bbl.  Choice 

stock  is  scarce.

Butter— Factory  creamery  is  stronger 
and  higher,  owing  to  scarcity  in  the 
Eastern  markets,  and  local  dealers  meet 
no  difficulty 
in  getting  19c.  Dairy 
grades  are  also  higher  and  in  better  de­
mand,  owing to  the  fact  that  many  deal­
ers  have  discontinued  handling  butter- 
ine.  Fancy  grass  butter  in  crocks  com­
mands  15c,  while  choice  stock 
fetches 
14c and  roll  is  weak  and sluggish  at  13c.
is  strong  at  S7 
per  crate.  Most  of  the  sales  are  for  half 
crates,  which  fetch  $4.

Cabbage— California 

California  Fruits— Grape  fruit,  §6  per 
b o x ;  tangerines,  $3.25(63.50  per  half 
box.

Carrots—$1.25  per  3  bu.  bbl. 
Cocoanuts—$3.25  per  sack  of  100. 
Cranberries—Jerseys  command  $io<6 

11  per  bbl.

Dressed  Calves— Fancy, 

common,  6@7c  per  lb.

7^<68c; 

E ggs— Storage  packers  pay  io # c   and

the 

return  caj^s  free.  Local  handlers  pay 
io ^ c  for  small  shipments  and  n c   for 
large  shipments  on  track,  cases  returned 
In  some  cases, 
at  owner’s  expense. 
where 
fine, 
slightly  higher  prices  are  paid.

is  especially 

stock 

Green  Stuff— Grand  Rapids  forcing 
lettuce,  I i@ i2c.  Onions,  10c  per  doz. 
Parsley,  30c  per  doz.  Pieplant,  5c  per 
lb.  Radishes,  20c  per  doz.  or  $1  per  bu. 
box.  Spinach,  50c  per  bu.

Honey— Fancy  white  is  now  in  mar­
is 
ioc,  while  dark  is 

ket,  commanding  141615c.  Amber 
still 
held  at  9c.

in  demand  at 

Lemons—The  market  is  firmer  on  all 
grades,  especially  for  fancy  300s,  which 
are  about  15c  per  box  higher.  The  fruit 
now  arriving 
is  in  good  condition  and 
there  is  an  active  demand.

Maple  Sugar— 8c  fur  imitation  and  9 

@ioc  for  genuine.

Maple  Syrup— Selling  at  80^900  per 

gal.,  as  to  quantity  and  quality.

Oranges  California  navels,  $3@4  per 

Parsnips—$1.75  per  3  bu.  bbl. 
Pineapples  -Jamaica  command  S i.75 

box.

per  doz.

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugars— Raw  sugars  have  advanced 
i- i6c  during  the  past  week,  but  on 
Monday  declined  I-2C,  making  the pres­
ent  price  4  7-16C 
for 96  deg.  test  cen­
trifugals,  with  the  market  weak  and  but 
little  business  being  done.  There  are 
in  the  Cape  Horn  fleet 
nineteen  ships 
which 
is  now 
loading  at  Hawaii  and 
which  will  bring part  of the  1900  crop  of 
sugar  to  the  United  States.  Owing  to 
the  stamping  out  of  the  plague  in  Hon­
olulu,  the  boats  can  now  get  clean  bills 
of  health.  The  fleet  will  carry  about 
62,800  tons  of  sugar.  The  refined  mar­
ket 
fair  demand. 
Owing  to  the  strength  of  raws  an  ad­
vance:  in  all  grades  of  refined  has  been 
for,  but  since  the  decline  on 
looked 
raws  Monday  no  advance  in  refined 
is 
expected. 
is  understood  that  nego­
tiations  to  bring  about  an  agreement 
among  the  refiners  will  continue  and 
it 
is  believed  the  same  will  ultimately  be 
successful,  as  refiners  are  anxious  to  do 
a  profitable  summer business.

is  unchanged  with 

It 

Potatoes-  Local  dealers  hold  old  at 

35c  and  new  at  $2.25  per  bu.

Poultry  -The  market  is  strong  and  re­
ceipts  are  not  sufficient  to  meet  the  con­
sumptive  requirements  of  the  market. 
For  live  poultry  local  dealers  pay as fol­
lows:  Broilers  weighing  1%  to  2  lbs. 
command  25c  per  lb.  Squabs,  $1.75(62 
per  doz.  Pigeons,  5067:600.  Chickens, 
Fowls,  7©8c.  Ducks,  qc  for 
8@gc. 
young. 
Turkeys, 
for  hens  and 
capons  and  9c  for  gobblers.  For  dressed 
poultry: 
11c.
ioc.  Ducks  are  taken  at 
Fowls  fetch 
n c. 
Geese  are  not  wanted  at  any 
price.  Turkeys  are  in  good  demand  at 
ioc  for  No.  2  and  12(613c  for  No.  1.

command 

Chickens 

toe 

clover,  good 

Seeds  -Mammoth  clover, 

recleaned, 
$5@5.25;  medium 
to 
choice,  $4.75(635.25 ;  Alsyke  clover, 
clover,  $6. 50(6 7.25; 
$6.50(67;  Alfalfa 
crimson 
timothy, 
prime  to  choice,  $1.20(61.40;  field  peas, 
to 
white,  75@90c;  red 
choice,  6oc@$i  ;  red  top,  clean 
from 
chaff,  $1.50(61.75;  orchard  grass,  $1.10 
@1.30;  blue  grass,  $1(61.40.

clover,  $4(6:4.50; 

top,  prime 

Strawberries— Tennessee stock  is  com­
ing  in  freely,  but  about  two  days  out  of 
three  the  receipts  are  streaked,  due  to 
the  unfavorable  weather  which  has  pre­
vailed  for  some  time  in  the  South.  The 
ruling  price  at  this  writing  for  fair 
stock  is  $3  per  crate  of  24  quarts.

Tallow  Common,  4^ c  per 

lb.  ;  ma­

chinery  grade,  5>£(65Jic- 

Tomatoes— Florida  stock  commands 

$3.50  per 6  basket  crate.

Turnips—$1.25  per  bbl.  and  scarce  at 

that.

Wax  Beans—$3.50  per  bu.  box.

Hides,  Pelts.  Tallow  and  Wool.

The  hide  market again  shows  a  weak­
ness  in  light  stock.  Packers’  values  are 
lower  and  are  expected  to  decline  still 
more,  as  buyers  are  holding  off.  There 
is  no  accumulation  of 
consequence, 
while  the  supply  is  ample.  Country  re­
ceipts  are  small  and  the 
light  stock 
shows  a  greater  decline  than  heavies.

Wool  pelts are  draggy  at  lower  prices, 
while  sheerlings  meet  a  ready  sale  at 
good  prices.

Tallow;  is  quiet,  with  a demand  for  all 
offerings  at  slightly  lower  values.  There 
is  no  accumulation  of  stocks.

Wool 

is  weak  and  last  year’s  prices 
are 
likely  to  prevail,  which  are  much 
lower  than  anticipated.  The  London 
in  progress,  which  were  ex­
sales  now 
pected  to  open  at  a  decline, 
have 
created  a  waiting  market  on  this  side. 
With  a  short  supply 
the 
world  the  offerings  at  the  sale  are  the 
largest  ever known.  English  and  Amer­
ican  mills  are  running  to  the  fullest  ca­
pacity,  with  only  sufficient  wool  for  im­
mediate  wants.  The  present  large  offer­
ings  make  a  weak  market,  for  the  pres­
ent at  least. 

Wm.  T.  Hess.

throughout 

interest 

Canned  Goods— The  market 

for  all 
varieties  of  canned  goods  remains  prac­
tically  unchanged.  There  is  no  demand 
and  no  movement,  although  holders con­
tinue  firm  in  their  views,  and,  with  the 
exception  of  tomatoes,  refuse  to  make 
concessions,  even if  it  would  bring busi­
ness.  There 
is  some  inttiest  in  future 
California  fruits  at  prices  to  be  named 
later,  which  will,  it  is  said,  range  from 
io@2oc  higher  than 
last  year’s  open­
ing.  The  packing  season  of  1900,  in 
Baltimore,  will  open  about  May 
10 
with  pineapples,  followed  by  peas and 
strawberries  around  the 
last  week  in 
May  or  first  of  June,  and  from  that  time 
on  the  other  articles  in  the  list  will  fol­
low 
in  rapid  succession,  with  small 
fruits,  early  string  beans,  lima  beans, 
etc.,  up  to  the  latter  part  of  July,  when 
the  tomato  packing  season  begins,  fol­
lowed  quickly  by  and  winding  up  with 
peaches,  peas,  com,  etc., 
lasting  until 
October  or  November.  '  The  jobbers  all 
over  the  country  are  beginning  to  take 
more 
in  future  goods  of  all 
kinds,  but  up  to  this  date  the  buying 
for  forward  delivery  has  been  extreme­
ly  light,  except  pineapples,  the  sales  of 
which  are  beyond  the  packers’  expecta­
tions. 
In  view  of  the  fact  that  there  is 
a  shortage  in  Cuba,  compared  with  or­
dinary  years,  the  demand  for  futures 
is 
heavy  and  opening  prices  are  likely  to 
be  the 
lowest  of  the  season.  The  spot 
tomato  market  shows weakness,  although 
there  has  been  no  recent  reduction  in 
prices.  Futures  are  still  untouched,  al­
though  buyers  are  said  to  have  asked 
for concessions  in  some  instances and  to 
have  received  them.  California  canners 
are  working  on  peas  and  report  a  good 
enquiry  at  previous  prices.  There  has 
been  a  reduction  on  old  stock  for  the 
purpose  of  attracting  trade  to  close  out 
everything  on  hand  before  the  new  sea­
son  opens.  The  present  holdings  are 
very  small.  Prices  on  new  pack  will 
come  late  this  season.  Corn  sells  fairly 
well  at  previous  ‘ prices. 
Stocks  are 
very  low  indeed  and  round lots  are  diffi­
cult  to  obtain.  The  salmon  situation  is 
very  strong.  The  pack  of  1899 
in  first 
hands  is  entirely  exhausted,  although  it 
was  the  largest  ever  made  on  the  Coast. 
One  of  the  factors  in  this ^exhaustion 
is 
the  large  purchase  made  by  the  United 
States  and  British  governments,  both  of 
which  now  make  canned  salmon  a  lead­
ing  article  in  their  military  commissary 
supplies.  This  active  market  has  in­
creased  prices  on  the rivers,  where 6@7C 
have  been  paid  to  fishermen  by  the  can­
ners 
companies,

storage 

cold 

and 

is 

looked  for 

Dried  Fruits— Dried 

against  5c  and  less  last  year.  The  run 
on  the  Sacramento  River 
is  next  to 
nothing.  The  catch  of  the  canneries  is 
said  to  be  fully  20  per  cent,  below  the 
corresponding  time  in  1899.  From  the 
Columbia  River  there  is  not  much  en­
couragement, 
for  the  Chinook  salmon 
average  small.  None  of  the  canneries 
pack 
full  time  on  account  of  not  being 
able  to  get  the  fish.  This  looks  bad, 
for  the  season  is  early,  owing  to  warm 
weather.  On  Puget  Sound  canners  con­
tinue  to  make  preparations  for  a  large 
if  the  fish  run.  No  advance  in 
pack 
sardines 
in  the  near  fu­
ture.  Jobbers  have  large  stocks,  bought 
at 
low  prices,  and  they  wish  to  close 
these  out  before  they  take  on  any  more, 
light.
consequently  the  demand  is  very 
is 
little 
fruit 
wanted  by  any  one  and  trade 
is  con­
fined  to  the  smallest  possible  quantities. 
There  are  no 
indications  of  improve­
ment  at  present,  owing  to  the  warm 
weather  and  the  competition  of  fresh 
fruits,  which  are  coming  forward  more 
freely  and  which  practically  shut  out 
sales  of  dried  fruits  during  the  summer 
months.  Trade  , is  probably  no  duller 
than  usual  at  this  season,  but  what  hap­
last  year  is  only  a  memory  now 
pened 
and  the  present  unsatisfactory 
trade 
seems  to  be  the  worst  ever  known. 
Opinions  as  to  the  damage  to  the  crops 
in  California  by 
frost  are  conflicting. 
While  some  estimate  the  damage  as  se­
rious,  others  contend 
frost 
helped  thin  out  a  superfluous  amount  of 
buds.  From  the  present  outlook,  the 
summer  crop  will  be  fully  as  large,  if 
not  larger  than  last  year.  Prunes  and 
raisins  are  selling  fairly  well  at  un­
changed  prices.  The  same  applies  to 
peaches.  Apricots  sell  very  slowly  in­
deed  on  account  of  their  scarcity  and 
extremely  high  price.  Currants  are 
in 
good  demand  at  unchanged  prices. 
There  is  a  decline  in  the  demand 
for 
figs,  but  as  some  stocks  still  remain  the 
tendency 
Late 
Smyrna  advices  speak  favorably  of  the 
new  crop. 
In  other  lines  there  is  prac­
tically  no  business  and  trade  is 
limited 
to  such  orders  as  are  required  for  the 
actual  requirements  of  every  day  busi­
ness.

in  buyers’ 

favor. 

that 

the 

is 

Rice— The  rice  market  is  very  firm. 
The  demand  continues  active 
for  the 
low  grade  of  domestic,  which  are  held 
at  extreme  prices. 
Supplies  of  this 
grade  are  very  light.  Holders  express 
a  decided  confidence  in  the  future  mar­
ket.  The  large  movement  from  Burmah 
to  the  famine  stricken  districts  of  India 
still  continues  and  no  abatement  thereof 
is  probable  until  the  incoming  of  the 
new  crop  in  July.

is 

Tea— The 

tea  market 

slightly 
higher  on  some  grades.  The  demand 
is  good,  especially  for  the  lower  grades.
Molasses— Offeri ngs  of  molasses  are 
I light,  due  to  small  stocks  in  first  hands, 
holders  showing  no  anxiety  to  press 
sales,  with  the  statistical  position ruling 
in  their  favor.  Prices  are  very  firm, 
with  a  strong  upward  tendency.

Nuts— The  market  for  such  California 
almonds  as  are  left  is  somewhat  firmer, 
although  the  movement  is  rather  quiet. 
Shelled  almonds  of  all  sorts  are  in small 
supply,  and,  with  higher  cables  from 
abroad,  the  advancing  tendency  of  the 
market 
is  still  prominent.  California 
walnuts  are  about  exhausted  and  what 
are  held  go  out  rather  slowly.  Present 
indications  are  for  a  moderate  crop. 
The  walnut  districts  have  had  copious 
rains 
in  the  past  few  days,  which  will 
help  the  crop  materially,  especially  the 
quality.  Naples  walnuts  are  in  stronger 
demand  and  prices  are  higher.  Gren- 
obles  are  neglected and  prices  are lower, 
with  only  moderate  stocks.

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The  Buffalo  Market

Accurate Index of  the  Principal  Staples 

Handled.

that 

Beans— Trade  is  getting  down  to light 
proportions,  but  with  no  fresh  receipts. 
inclined  to  hold  on  to  the 
Sellers  are 
price  when  small  lots  are  wanted. 
It  is 
possible,  however, 
considerable 
shading  could  be  effected  to  clean  up  a 
round 
lot.  Marrows,  $2.0532.25;  me­
diums,  $1.9532.10;  pea,  $1.9532.15; 
outside  prices  for  fancy.  Pea  are  taken 
in  preference  to  other  varieties.  Kidney 
quoted  at  $2.2032.35  Per bushel.

Butter— Market  has  gradually  gained 
strength,  but  it  was  hard  work  to  touch 
the  20c  mark  on  Saturday,  although 
U)Kc  was  easily  obtained 
for  the  best 
extras.  Quality  is  steadily 
improving 
with  considerable  show  of grass,  and  the 
best  class  of  buyers  are  finding  no  fault 
with  present  prices.  Lower  grades  of 
creamery,  however,  are  quiet,  the  trade 
preferring  dairies,  which  are  coming  in 
quite 
freely  and  of  excellent  quality. 
Crock  butter  sells  on  arrvial when fancy. 
Rolls  are  out  of  market.  The  opinion 
is  that  the  market  will  hold  firm  at  pos­
sibly  higher  prices  on  first-class  goods 
least.  Creamery 
for a  week  or  two  at 
i9>£@2oc;  firsts,  i8@ 
extras  quoted  at 
16317c;  dairy 
i8j£c; 
fancy, 
to  choice,  16317c; 
poor  butter,  all  kinds,  10312c.

fair  to  good, 
18c;  good 

Cheese— Lower;  demand  slightly  uet- 
ter  than  last  week,  but  still  too  h igh ; 
buyers  claim  to  expect  a  fairly  good 
business.  Fancy  small  full  cream  col­
ored,  i i 3 i i ^ c ;  good  to  choice,  io%@ 
11c;  skims,  5 3 7 c.  White  cheese  sells 
slow 
in  this  market  except  when  really 
fancy,  and  usually  about  }4 @ic  below 
colored.

Eggs— We  have  had  a  drooping  mar­
ket  for a  week  past  and  Saturday  quite 
a  good  business  was  done  at  12c  and 
buyers  claimed  quality  of  stock  was  all 
that  could  be  desired.  Still  I2>£c  was 
nearer  the  market  price,  with  selected 
occasionally  reaching 
13c.  Receipts 
have  been 
light  and  the  consumptive 
demand  is  only  fair.  Higher prices  are 
predicted  to-day  and  12 > ¿313c  is  bot­
tom  to-day.

Dressed  Poultry—The  few  lots  reach­
ing  this  market  are  not  of  desirable 
quality  and  it  is  difficult  to  quote  the 
market.  Choice  to 
iced 
stock,  would  command  strong  prices. 
Turkeys  quoted  at  12313c;  chickens, 
1 1 3 1 3 c ;  fowl,  10312c;  broilers,  18322c 
per  lb.  Ducks  nominal.

fancy,  well 

Live  Poultry— Quite  a  good  supply  of 
chickens  and  fowl  reached  the  market 
this  week  and  the  feeling  was  not  as 
firm  as  for  several  weeks  past.  Quality 
was  at  fault, 
fowls  being  too  heavy. 
Still  everything  cleaned  up  to-day.  The 
few turkeys brought  n%@ i2c\  chickens, 
113 12 c;  mixed  fowl  and  chickens,  11c; 
fowl, 
io ji@ n ^ c ;  ducks,  75c@$i.i5 
per  pair.
Apples— Stock  remaining  here  is com­
posed  of  Baldwins  and  Russets  and  is 
nearly  all 
in  the  hands  of  holders,  who 
have  a  market  for them  as  soon  as  they 
are  ready  to  accept  bids.  Baldwins  and 
Russets,  fancy,  $434*50;  No.  2,  $2.75 
3 3 ,* 25-
Strawberries—Carloads  were  received 
in  this  market  from  North  Carolina  on 
Friday  and  Saturday  and  while  there 
was  an  active  demand,  the  supply  was 
sufficient  to  go around  at  present  prices. 
Fancy  quarts  sold  at  18c;  choice,  153 
16c;  common  to  fair,  11312c.

Oranges—Active  demand  and  market 

firm.  Navels,  $3 3 3 -50.

Lemons— Choice  to  extra,  $2.8533.50;
Pineapples— Heavy  supply;  demand 
fair.  No.  1,  $14316;  small  and  me­
dium,  $8312  per  100.

Bananas— Firm  at  $1.5032.75  per 

bunch.

Potatoes— Receipts  were  liberal  and 
few  offerings  from  Michigan  and 
with 
throughout  this  State  and  only  a  light 
local  trade.  Prices  are 
lower.  Strictly 
fancy  stock,  however,  is  scarce  and  we 
believe  a  wider  range  will  be  made 
between  that  class  and 
the  present 
mixed  stock.  The  pressure  to  sell  is  at 
its  height  just  now,  but  as  soon  as  these 
offerings  are  cleaned  up  a  reaction  is 
expected.  Fancy  white  stock  on  track,

MICHIGAN  TRADESM AN

fancy  red,  40342c; 

43344c; 
fair  to 
good,  all  kinds,  35338c.  Store  prices 
233c  above  track.

New  Potatoes— Receipts  are  light,  but 
at  $ 5 3 7   Per bbl.  for  fair  to  good  pota­
toes  there 
is  little  prospects  of  a  rush­
ing  business  in  this  market.  New  Or­
leans  are  expected  in  a  few  weeks  and 
quoted  at  $4.5036  per bbl.

Onions— Market  firmer  for  sound  yel­
low  or  red  and  demand  good  at 70380c; 
anything  showing  sprout  must  sell  at 
low  prices,  say  from  3535°c  per bushel. 
White  onions  dull  at  40375c.  New 
Orleans  new  onions,  $4.5035  per  bbl. 
Havana 
$1.4031*50 
crate.  Green  onions,  5 3 7 c  per 
per 
doz.  bunches.  Onion  sets,  $2.5033*50 
per  bushel.  Garlic,  6 37c  per  lb.

and  Bermuda, 

Celery— Only  offerings  are  Florida 
fancy  sells  at 
and  New  Orleans.  Extra 
$1.2531*50;  choice  to  fancy,  65375c; 
fair to  good,  20340c  per  doz.

Asparagus— The  range  of  prices  has 
been  so  wide  that  it  is  useless  to  quote 
Southern.  Northern  grass 
fancy  sold 
at  $232.50  per  doz.  for  large  bunches; 
Illinois 
cases,  $1.2531*50  per  case; 
small  and  medium,  5oc3 $ i  per  doz. 
bunches.

Beans— New  green,  good  supply;  fair 
demand.  Wax,  $232.75;  green,  $1.25 
3 2   per  bu.  box.

Cabbage— Home  grown  scarce  and 
bring  $2.5034  per  bbl.  Southern  sold 
at  $3. 5034.25  per  crate.

Carrots— Old  20325c  per  bushel.
Cucumbers— No.  1  sell  at  $1.2531*35; 

No.  2,  75c3 $i.

Lettuce— Heavy  receipts,  but  demand 
was  active.  Only  a  few  lots  are  carried 
over.  Fancy  heads,  50360c  per  doz.  ; 
basket  lots,  20340c.
Pieplant— Market 

liberally  supplied 
with  Southern  boxes,  containing  40 to  45 
lbs.,  and  these  sell  at  $131*25.  Long 
fancy  plant  sold  at  40350c  per  doz.

Radishes— Receipts 

light;  good  de­
mand  and  market  firm.  Bushel  boxes 
long  sold  at  50375c;  round  fancy,  per 
doz.  bunches,  18325c.

Tomatoes— Fancy  Florida,  $4.5035 

per  carrier.

Peas— No  really  fancy  offered.  Best 

here  sold  at  $ i3 !* 25  per  box.

Spinach— Plenty  of  coarse  seedy  stuff. 
Fancy  scarce  and  brought  $1.5032  per 
bbl.

Watercress— Fancy  fresh  in  good  de­
mand  at  20325c  per  doz.  small bunches.
Mushrooms— Liberal  supply  offered  at 

35350c  per  lb.

Popcorn—Firm  at  2%@2%c  per  lb.
Maple  Syrup  and  Sugar— Light  re­
ceipts;  active  demand  for  fancy  syrup 
at  80385c  per  gallon  and  9310c  for 
light  sugar;  dark,  638c  per  lb.

Honey— A  few  lots  of  white  sold  at  16 

3 i8c  per  lb.

Dried  Fruits— Dull.  Evaporated  ap­
in  boxes ; 

ples,  537c  outside  for  fancy 
barrels,  4^35>£c.

M ACKEY  &  WILLIAMS.

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

6 2   W.  M ARKET  &  125  MICHIGAN  S T S . 

Dealers in

B U FFA LO ,  N.  Y.

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

Referen 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.

EG G S  WANTED  FOR  \ 
COLD STO R A G E

W e want  10,000 cases  fancy  fresh  eggs  within  the  next  ten  "  
days to fill our orders for cold storage.  W e pay spot  cash  de-  4 
For  further  information  \ 
livered  Buffalo  and  return  cases. 
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G LEA SO N   &  LA N SIN G , 

150  M ICHIGAN  S T .. 

B U FFA LO .  N.  Y. 

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

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General

Commission  Merchant

S P E C IA L T IE S

Butter  Eggs

Poultry  Beans

I  will buy all the  Fresh  Eggs  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.

C orresp o n d en ce solicited. 

References:  Bank of Buffalo and  Dun’s 

and Bradstreet’s Agencies.

154  Michigan  Street,

Buffalo,  New  York.

Is more  complete  and  attractive  than  ever  be- 
fore.  We are not in the Trust.  We want good 
agents everywhere.

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ARNOLD,  SCHWINN  & CO.,

Makers, Chicago, 111.

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

Bryan Show Cases

A lw a y s please.  W r ite  for 
han dsom e  new   catalo gu e.

Bryan  Show  Case  Works,

Bryan, Ohio.

Produces from  gasoline  a  quality 
of  gas  unsurpassed  for  lighting, 
heating,  cooking  and  mechanical 
purposes  Absolutely  safe,  prac­
tical and  economical.  A  new  de­
parture from the  old  st-  le  of  gas 
machines.  Write 
for  particulars 
and prices.

Ransom  Gas Machine Co.,

372 and 374 E. Water St., 
Milwaukee, Wis.

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7

The  dried 

market  together,  it  can  be  called  easier. 
New  York 
standard  corn,  75@8oc; 
Maine,  8o@g5c,  as  to  brand  and  qual­
ity-
fruit  market  generally  is 
very  quiet  and  orders  coming  to  hand 
are  for  small  lots.  Large  sized  prunes 
are  more  sought  for  than  anything  else 
and  for  these  there  is  a  better  feeling, 
although  prices  have  shown  no advance. 
Future  prices  will  depend  on  the  suc­
cess  of  the  combine.  Crops  of  prunes 
re  reported  fine  on  the  Pacific  coast. 
Lemons  are  steady  and  prices  are 
fruit  ranging 
ightly  higher,  Sicily 
from  $3(8)3.75  per box.  There  is  a  con­
tinued  good  demand  for  California  or- 
nges,  navels  selling  from  $3<84 -5°  per 
box,  and  seedlings,  $2.90(83.35.  Bana­
nas  still  “ rule  the  roost’ ’ and  are  quot­
able 
for 
firsts,  with  demand  active.  The  sup- 
light,  receipts  from  Jan.  1  to 
date  being  676,350  bunches,  against 
,244,430  bunches  during  the  same  time, 
last  year.

from  $1.70(81.95  per  bunch 

ly 

is 

Beans  of  all  kinds  are  quite  firm  and 
prices  are  well  sustained.  Choice  mar­
row,  $2.12^^2.15;  medium,  $2.15;  pea, 
$2.25;  red  kidney,  $2.05(82.07^.

Moderate  supplies  of  butter  have 
given  strength  to  the  market  and  the 
outlook  just  now  is  for  a  continuance  of 
at 
least  present  quotations  for  several 
days.  Extra  Western  creamery,  20c; 
thirds  to 
imitation 
creamery,  14(8170,  the  latter  for  fancy 
stock.  Factory,  I4@i5c.

i6@ igK c; 

firsts, 

The  cheese  market  is  in  fair  condi­
tion  for  new  and  hardly  as  firm  for  old, 
which  holders  are  disposed  to  shade 
in 
order  to  work  off  stocks  now  on  hand. 
Large  full  cream  new  cheese 
is  worth 
c  for  colored  and  ic% c  for  white 
is  worth 
Fancy  stock  of  old  full  cream 
2@I2%C.
Quality  counts  for  a  good  deal  in eggs 
just  now  and  the  supply  of  desirable 
stock  is  not  overabundant.  Select  West 
ern  stock,  storage  pack,  is  held  at  about 
13c  for  best  goods;  regular  pack,  I2@ 
I2^C.

ing  frog  legs  for  market  in a manner  su­
perior  to  ourselves  and  that  this  has 
brought  the  frogs  of  Canada  into  popu­
lar  favor.  The  Canadians  simply  have 
the  best  of  us  in  thoroughly  understand­
ing  the  art  of  skinning  and  preparing 
for  market,  while  our  frogs  are  superior 
both  in  size  and  flavor.

It 

in  raising 

is  the  belief  of  those  who  have 
given  the  matter consideration and study 
that  frog  farming  is  sure  to  become  one 
if  the  most  profitable  of  all  our  small 
ndustries,  and  already  quite  a  large 
number  are  engaged 
the 
‘ jumpers’ ’  for  market.
Of  the  forty  known  species  the  largest 
s  the  gigantic  “ bellower, ’ ’  found in  the 
swamps  of  Louisiana.  This  frog  grows 
to  four  pounds  weight  and  is  one  of  the 
choicest  for  table  use.  Next 
to  the 
‘ bellower’ ’  come  the  Potomac and  New 
York  frogs,  both  large  and  of  superior 
flavor. 
It  is,  however,  true  that  there 
s  scarcely  a  state  in  the  union  in which 
good  table 
frogs  can  not  be  found  in 
abundance.

It  is  claimed  that  the  “ ‘ pickings’ ’  on 
the  body  of  a  frog  is  just  as  good  as  the 
meat  on  the  legs,  but  it  is  said  that 
in 
the  days  before  the  deluge  frogs  grew  to 
such 
legs  fur­
nished  sufficient  meat  to  satisfy  all  de­
mands  without  eating  any  other portion, 
and  hence  the  custom  has  been  kept  up.

immense  size  that  the 

Who*e  llootfi  I)o  They  B la c k  T

Frederick  Douglass,  in  his  lecture  on 
John  Brown,  used  to  tell  the  following 
story,  which  well 
illustrates  Lincoln’s 
ready  wit  and  firm  belief  in  the  equal­
ity  of  m an:

The  President  was  blacking  his  boots 
one  day,  when  a  number  of  foreign dip­
lomats  were  unexpectedly  ushered 
in. 
One  of  them,  seeing  Lincoln’s  occu­
pation,  said  rather  sneeringly: 
“ Mr. 
President, 
in  the  countries  we  repre­
sent  our  chief  executives  do  not  black 
their  own  boots.’ ’ 
“ Is  that  so?’ ’  said 
Lincoln,  looking  up  with  apparent  sur­
prise  and 
interest,  “ whose  boots  do 
they  black?”

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interest 

New  York,  May  5— The  coffee  market 
has  taken  a  turn  tor  the worse and  prices 
are  down.  Very 
is  dis­
played,  either  for  spots  or  futures,  and 
jobbers  are  not  disposed  to  take  large 
supplies  in  the  present  state  of  affairs. 
The  decrease  in  the  world’s  visible sup­
ply,  it  was  thought,  would  be  very  con­
siderable ;  but  the  reverse 
is  the  case 
and,  as  a  result,  holders  have  been 
in­
clined  to  make  some  concession.  The 
spot  market  closes  rather  dull  and  No.
7  can  not  be  safely  quoted  at  above 
7^ c.  The  stock 
in  store  and  afloat  is 
not  far  from  as  great  as  last  year,  being 
1,020,483  bags  now,  against  1,201,752 
bags  then. 
In  the  mild  grades  neither 
buyer  nor  seller appears  to  be  much  in­
terested  and  the  situation  is  devoid  of 
interest.  Good  Cucuta  is worth g%@ioc.
No  staple  article  has  had  a  more 
wearisome  week  than  tea.  There  is  no 
change 
in  prices,  neither  is  there  any 
demand,  and  the  situation  is  almost  as 
dull  as  six  months  ago.  Offerings  at  the 
large  that  the 
auctions  have  been  so 
street  market  has  been 
unfavorably 
affected.
With 

increased  strength  in  the  mar­
ket  for  raw  sugars  there  is  an  improved 
feeling  for  raws  and,  while  quotations 
are  practically  the  same,  the  feeling 
is 
that  there  may  soon  be  an  advance. 
Some  very  fair  orders  for  future  deliv­
ery  have  been  placed  and jobbers gener­
ally  take  more  interest  in  the  situation.
Prices  of  rice,  especially  for the  lower 

Some 

in  fact  for 

grades,  are  firm  and 
grades  there  is  a  feeling  of  greater  con­
fidence. 
lots  have 
changed  hands  at  prices  which  give  no 
indication  of  weakness  and  the  under 
tone  of  the  market 
is  satisfactory  to 
sellers.

fair-sized 

With  the  exception  of  pepper  and 

cloves  the  spice  market  is  flat  enougl 
Of  the  former,  supplies  are  not  large 
and  the  market 
is  very  firm.  Sellers 
seem  to  be  determined  to  obtain  full 
rates  and  Singapore  black  is  generally 
held  at  I2|^c;  Zanzibar  cloves,  9@gtfc 
Amboyna,  iij^@ i2j£c.

While  molasses  prices  are  steady 
there  is  a  falling  off  in  the  demand,  as 
is  natural  at  the  approach  of  summer, 
and  orders  coming  to  hand  are  for  sma 
lots  to  repair  broken  assortments.  Good 
Centrifugal,  201828c;  prime,  30@37c 
open kettle,  44@55c.  Syrups are firm and 
for the  low  grades  exporters  are  quite 
liberal  purchasers,  taking  about  all they 
can  pick  up.  Prime  to  fancy  suga 
goods,  21 @2oC.
Canned  goods  packing  will  commence 
in  some  sections  by  May  15,  and  opera 
tions  have  been  going  on  for a  week  on 
the  Pacific  coast. 
in  futures 
this  year  has  not  existed.  The  buyers 
have  been  utterly  indifferent  ever  since 
the  first  of  January  and  prices  now  wi 
mostly  be  for spot  goods.  There  are  s 
many  conflicting  parties packing salmon 
that  the  situation 
in  that  article  wil' 
grow  more  and  more  interesting.  Corn 
peas  and  tomatoes  are  selling  rather  i 
buyers’ 
taking  the  whole

favor  and, 

Interest 

Frog Crop  Promises To  He  Large.

Washington,  D.  C .,  May  5— Forty 
species  of  frogs  are  known  in  the world, 
according  to  the  frog  man  of  the  Smith 
sonian  Institution,  who  has  given  the 
matter 
laborious  and  industrious  atten 
tion  and  whose  authority  is  the  highest 
obtainable.

As  this  is  the  frog  season  it  is 

inter­
esting  to  know  that  the  crop promises  to 
be  an  unusually  large  one  and  that  the 
market  price  will  not  be  exorbitant. 
Less  than  a  quarter  of  a  century  ago 
only  a  few  people  ate  frogs,  but  now 
almost  everybody  eats  them,  and  they 
have  become  a  regular  and  much  sought 
for  market  article  of  food.
The  Government’s  frog  man  will  not 
acknowledge  that  Canada  produces  finer 
frogs  than  does  our  own  country,  but 
contends  that 
in  the  marshes  along  the 
Potomac,  the  swamps  of  Louisiana,  and 
the  marshes and swamps of Pennsylvania
and  New  York  are  to  be  found  some 
is  con­
the  finest  and  largest  frogs. 
fessed,  however, 
our  Canadian 
neighbors  understand  the  art  of  prepar-

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poses  and  says  as  follows:

I  am  pressman 

in  the  office  of  the 
Tradesman  Company  apd have charge of 
the  presses  and  folding  machine  in  that 
establishment. 
I  printed  and  folded 
7,ooo  copies of the issue of  May  2,  1900, 
and  saw  the  edition  mailed  in  the  usual 
manner.  And  further  deponent  saith 
not. 

John  DeBoer.

Sworn  and  subscribed  before  me,  a 
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Mich.

THE  PARIS  EXPOSITION.

In  spectacular  splendor  the  French­
man  rules  the  world.  The  love  of  nov­
elty,  the  intense  determination  to  have 
only  the  best,  with  an  inborn  faculty  to 
turn  only  the  best  to  the  greatest  telling 
advantage,  are  qualities  readily  con­
ceded  to  him  and  the  World’s  Fair  E x ­
position 
in  the 
world  furnishes  an  occasion  for  the  dis­
play  of  his  talent.

in  the  finest  capital 

But  he  will  be  taken  somewhat  at  a 
disadvantage  this  year. 
In  spite  of  a 
great  deal  of  enthusiasm  it  must  bs  ad­
mitted  that  expositions  are,  on 
the 
whole,  tiresome.  There  is  such  a  thing 
as  having  too  much  of  them  and  hav­
ing  them  too  often.  The  glories  of  the 
White  City  have  not  yet  sufficiently 
faded  from  the  memory  of  men  for them 
to  have  much  interest  in  what  can  not 
be  greatly  excelled  so  soon.  There  will 
be  great  attractions,  but  with  them  will, 
be  too  many  reminders  of  the  “ has 
beens”   and  these,  to  those  who see them 
now  for the  first  time,  will  have  no  nov­
elty to  recommend  them.  The  splendid 
bridge  which  this  year  newly  spans  the 
Seine  will  be  a  beauty  in  architecture, 
therefore  a  joy  forever;  but  the  Eifel 
Tower  is  a  kept-over  wonder  and  will 
on  that  account  detract  from  what  is 
new.  The  Trocadero 
is  fine,  “ but,”  
long  known  in pictures,  “ who now wants 
to 
look  at  that  old  thing!”   Like  the 
Dewey  Arch  these  have  had  their  day 
and,  that  day  past,  it  is  doubtful  policy 
to  try  to  preserve  them  longer.

It 

It  is  not  going  too  far  to  say  that  the 
United  States  will  be  the  most  thronged 
department  at  the  Exposition. 
is 
gratifying 
to  state  that  this  country- 
stands  next  to  France  in  the  number  of 
exhibits,  something  to  the  number  of 
seven  thousand  having  been  sent  al­
ready. 
In  1889,  the  American  exhibit 
was  not  all  that  could  be  desired.  The 
one  place  that  was  always  full  but  never 
crowded  was  that  given  up  to electricity

Then,  however, 

and  the,  at  that  time,  defective  phono­
graph. 
the  Marble 
City  on  the  shore  of  Lake  Michigan had 
not  risen  “ like  an  exhalation”   to  the 
astonishment  of  the  world.  We  were 
then  only  a  people  industrious  and 
in­
offensive  and  rather 
inclined  to  self­
talk.  We  were  a  continent  of  screaming 
eagles  and  Rocky  Mountains  and  Lake 
Superiors— at 
least  we  said  so.  We 
made  filled  cheese  and  put  up  canned 
beef  and  sent  to  Germany  diseased  pork 
and  dried  apples.  We  pretended  to  be 
“ some”   in  inventing  machines  for  do­
ing  all  kinds  of  impossible work and the 
phonograph  was  only  an  amusing 
in­
stance  of  what  we  couldn’t  do.

All  that  is  changed  now.  The  phono­
graph  talks.  The  nation  talked  at  the 
Great  Exposition  and  the  world  heard 
what  it  had  to  say.  Since  then  our  guns 
have  been  talking,  and  they  have  so 
pounded  American  ideas  into  the stupid 
heads  that  up  to  that  time  never  had 
had  any  that  now  they  are  ready  to  be­
lieve  anything  that  is  said  to  be  done 
by  that  wonderful  Fighting  Republic. 
Whatever  is  American  will be marvelous 
in  their eyes now.  The raw  material  and 
the  manufactured  product  will  not  be 
passed  unseen,  while  the  machine  that 
has  done  the  work  will  be  the  greatest 
wonder  of  all.  The  Exposition  will  be 
written  down  in  history  as  French. 
It 
It  will  be 
will  be  that  only  in  name. 
in  fact  an  Exposition  of  Education, 
with  the  United  States  as  schoolmistress 
and  the  benches  crowded  with  the  peo­
ples  of  the  nations  who  have  come  to 
is  the  Great  Nation  towards 
learn. 
the  sunset  that 
is  teaching  them  now, 
and  they  will  learn.  They  will  see  and 
hear  and  feel  and  understand,  and  when 
home  again  they  will  say  to  the  crowds 
who  stand  with  eager  ears,  “ The  one- 
half  of  the  greatness  of  the  United 
States  was  not  told  us,  for  that  country 
exceedeth 
fame  we  have  heard 
of  it.”

the 

It 

It  will,  indeed,  be  a  never-forgotten 
object  lesson  and  the  expansion  of ttade 
to  this  country  resulting  from  it  will 
add 
trade 
story  whose  opening  chapter  is  so  full 
of  promise.

the  attractive 

interest  to 

just 

It  is  not  generally  known  that  a  great 
deal  of  the  paper money that is constant­
ly  circulating  about  gets  frequent  wash­
ings  in  the  same  way  as  the  housewife 
or  maid  goes  at  the  dirty  clothes  on  a 
Monday  morning. 
In  some  banks  there 
is  a  regular  washday  every  month,  usu­
ally  at  the  beginning,  when  a  clerk  may 
be  seen  bent  over  a  tub  and  rubbing 
real  money  up  and  down  a  washboard. 
The  dirty  greenbacks  that  have  been 
saved  up  for  a  month  are  soaped  and 
rubbed 
handkerchiefs  and 
socks,  and  are  run  through  a  wringer 
before  being  put  out .to  dry.  The  paper 
currency  may  be  handled  somewhat 
it  does  not  tear,  because 
roughly,  as 
there 
in 
it  a  great  deal  of  silk  and 
linen.  After the notes  have  been  passed 
through  the  wringer  they  are  hung  on  a 
line  stretched  in  the  bank  clerk’s  de­
partment.  Said  one  clerk  the  other  d a y :
‘ ‘ I  wash  about  a  hundred  notes  every 
month,  and  when  I’ m  done  you  can 
hardly  tell  them  from  new  money.  The 
washing  strengthens  as  well  as  cleans 
the  notes. ’ ’

like 

is 

The  woman  whose 

labors  begin  at 
dawn  and  last  all  day,  and  sometimes 
all  night  in  caring  for  a  sick  child,  has 
no  recourse  by  striking for an eight-hour 
la w ;  but  the  strong  man  who  wants  to 
gain  two  hours  more  time  for  sitting  in 
a  beer  saloon  is  all  right.

COMMERCIAL  SHORT  CUTS.

The  United  States 

is  a  nation  of 
haste.  The  “ Hurry  now!”   which  early 
becomes the  torment  of  American  child­
is  dinged  into  it  until  it  is  a  part 
hood 
of  the  child’s  very  being. 
“ Don’t  let 
the  grass  grow  under  your  feet”  
is  the 
maxim  of  youth,  and  manhood  adopts 
it  as  the  talisman  of  life.  The  child 
learns  to  cut  "cross  lots”   to  the  school- 
house.  The  fields  are  traced  with  short 
cuts  to  the  village  and  over  these  time­
saving  footpaths  are hurrying the young, 
the  middle  aged  and  the  old  “ just  as 
fast  as  the  Lord  will  let  them.”

lanes  of 

There  used  to  be  a  loitering  place 

in 
learning  when  the  little 
the 
child  began  to  learn  his  abe’s,  but  the 
drudgery  of  letter-learning  is done  away 
with.  The  child  learns  his  letters  now 
without  knowing  it.  He  learns  by  do­
ing. 
It  is  a  principle  of  pedagogy  that 
he  must  proceed  from  the  whole  to  a 
part.  The  word 
It  is 
learned  and  written  as  such,  and  so  not 
only  is  much  time  saved,  but  the  child 
sooner  gets  into  the  first  reader.

is  the  whole. 

lies 

It  is  not  to  be  inferred  that  the  short 
is  always  to  be  ignored.  Useless 
cut 
it  physical  or  mental,  should 
work,  be 
be  left  undone.  A   straight  line 
is  the 
shortest  distance  between  two  points 
and  wise  is  he  who  takes it— sometimes. 
The  wisdom 
in  knowing  when. 
is  too  much  of  the  short  cut  in 
There 
commercial  lines. 
It  is  hurry  and  cut 
from  the  cradle  to  the  grave.  The  baby 
is  forced  to  walk  too  soon  and  goes 
through 
life  bowlegged.  He  shuns  the 
alphabet,  never  learns  to  spell.  He  hur­
ries 
into  the  second  reader before  he 
finishes  the  primer.  He  studies  the 
multiplication  table  by  a  new  method 
and  never  learns  it,  and  to  the  end  of 
his  days  nine  times  eight  is  fifty-six(!) 
until  he  has  repeated  the  ninth  table  to 
eight.  He  is  allowed  to  drop  grammar 
because  it  is  not  practical,  and  there  he 
saves  time.  He  reaches  fractions  before 
he 
is  ready  for them.  He  finds  them 
nonsense  and  of  no  earthly  use,  runs 
away  from  school  to  get  rid  of  them  and 
soon  goes  “ into  business.”   He  begins 
on 
lowest  round  of  the  ladder, ’ ’ 
not  on  the  ground  be  it  understood,  and 
works  his  way  up;  Friends  boost  him 
long  years  of  hardship 
and  after  two 
and  struggle 
if  he  is  not  made  a  junior 
partner  in  the  firm  it  is  either  because 
he  is  not  appreciated  or  because  there 
is  somebody  in  the establishment “ down 
On  him .”

‘ ‘ the 

to  transact  his 

large  order;  but  he  could  find  no  one 
who  could  speak  English.  While  order­
ing  dinner  in  the  sign  language  a young 
German  came  to  his  assistance  who  to 
the  traveler’s  delight  spoke  English like 
an  educated  native,  through  whom  he 
business. 
was  able 
A 
the 
linguist  had  spent  four 
fact  that  the 
in  London  for his  English,  four 
years 
years 
in  Paris  for  French  and  three 
years  in  Rome  for  Italian,  in  order  to 
“ prepare  himself  for business,”   so  that 
he  had  a  thoroughly practical knowledge 
of  three  languages  besides  his  own.

little  questioning  brought  out 

Such  is  the  work  that  other  countries 
demand  of  the  men  who  cater  to  their 
export  trade,  and  the  commercial  trav­
eler would  have  learned,  had he  cared  to 
ask,  that  there  is  nothing  unusual 
in  a 
clerk’s  speaking  fluently  and  correctly 
three  languages  and  that  three  is  by  no 
means  the  limit.  A   similar  experience 
occurred  in  P aris:  A  middle  aged  Ger­
man  answered  in  the  purest  English  the 
questions  put  to  him  and  when  asked 
learned  his  English  re­
where  he  had 
plied,  “ It  was  in  London. 
I  was  there 
four years  to  learn  the  language.”   An­
other  case  in  point  is  that  of  a  man 
in 
charge  of  a  department  in  the  Agricul­
tural  building  at  the  World’s  Fair.  He 
was  master  of  seven  different languages, 
and  stated  that  they  were  all  necessary 
in  the  conduct  of  his  business.  There 
are  no  short  cuts  in  such  schooling.

One  thing  is  certain:  If  advantage  is 
to  be  taken  of  the  commercial  oppor­
tunities  presented  by  our  expanding 
foreign  trade  there  must  be  a  change  in 
the  training  of  the  American  agent 
if 
he  is  to  do  the  work.  The  short  cut 
is 
not  in  education  the  straightest  line  nor 
the  best  one.  The  boy  must  be  trained 
early  and  long  for  his  commercial  ca­
reer.  Hard  work  without  flinching  and 
no  shirking  from  early  childhood  must 
be  the  unchanging  law.  Not  five  years 
if  necessary,  is 
but  fifteen,  and  more 
the  time  for  preparing 
for  business, 
without  a  single  short  cut  during  all 
these  apprentice-serving  years. 
The 
American  merchant  is  holding  his  own 
fairly  well  on  the'field  of  trade  without 
these  men ;  with  them  he  would exclaim 
with  the  old  King  of  Epirus:  “ If  I 
had  such  soldiers  I  should  be  master  of 
the  world!”  
It  is  to  be  hoped, that  en­
terprising  America  some  day  will  have 
an  army  of  just  such  men.

fact 

Needless  to  dwell  on  the  foolishness 
of  this.  Experience  since  the  begin­
ning  of  time  has  been  repeating  the 
truism,  “ There 
is  no  royal  road  to 
learning.”   More  and  more  is  it  daily 
proven  that  commercial  ignorance is  the 
inevitable  forerunner  of commercial dis­
aster.  More  than  a  halting  knowledge 
of  the  multiplication  table  is  demanded 
to  manage  a  business  amounting  to  m il­
lions  and  this  underlying 
is  con­
tinually  asserting 
itself  in  the  rapidly 
increasing  foreign  trade  df  the  country. 
Our  business  men  are  constantly  finding 
themselves  hampered  by 
lack  of 
well-trained  agents.  The  short-cut  pol­
icy  of  the  country  has  made  a  dearth 
of  these  needed  men.  Business  offices 
are  crowded  with  applicants  for  the  va­
cant  positions  not  one  of  whom  knows  a 
foreign  language,  not  even  the  correct 
use  of  his  own,  and 
if  the  places  are 
filled  at  all  by  Americans  they  must  be 
filled  by  men  whose  education  has  been 
in  accordance  with  the  short-cut  policy.
Not  long  ago  an American commercial 
traveler  found  himself  in  a  North  Ger­
man  province  where  he  was  to  place  a

the 

into 

An  important  discovery  has  just  been 
made  by  an  Italian  officer,  Colonel  Cor- 
nara,  from  which  it  would  appear  that 
water has  a  very  high  explosive  power. 
Water,  if  subjected  to  great  compres­
sion  and  then  decomposed  by  means  of 
an  electric  current 
its  elements, 
oxygen  and  hydrogen,  explodes  with 
tremendous  force  in  the  process.  Col­
onel  Comara  succeeded  by  this  means 
in  producing  in  water an explosive force 
fifty-five  times  greater  than  that  of  or­
dinary  gunpowder,  and 
twenty-eight 
times  greater  than  that  of  dynamite. 
This  new  explosive,  to  which  he  has 
given  the  name  of  cosmos,  entails  ho 
danger  upon  the  person  using  it.  A 
company  has  been formed  at  St.  Marcel, 
close  to  Turin,  for  the  manufacture  of 
explosive  water  cartridges,  which, 
if 
the  experiments  are  to  be  trusted,  will 
play  an  important  part  in  war  and  com­
merce.

In  New  England  the  abandoned farms 
are  being  planted  with  nut  trees,  and 
the  worked-out  ground  is  found  to  fur­
nish  enough  nourishment  for the walnut, 
butternut  and  chestnut  to  flourish  abun­
dantly.

MICHIGAN  TRADESM AN

A  SAD  CASE.

little 

The  Ameer  at  Cabul,  the  capital  of 
Afghanistan,  is  in  a  quandary.  Leagues 
to  the  south  of  his 
kingdom 
stretches  the  vast  tefritory  of  British 
Ind ia;  to  the  east  lie  the  vaster  posses­
sions  of  the  Chinese  Empire  and  to  the 
north,  vastest  of  all,  are  the  Siberian 
steppes  of  the  Russian Bear.  He knows, 
weak  as  his  country  is  and  little  as  it 
is,  that 
it  stands  between  two  of  the 
strongest  powers  on 
earth,  < but  he 
knows,  too,  how  valuable  his  friendship 
is  for  both  and  how  necessary  for  his 
own  existence 
it  is  that  he  remain  the 
neutralest  of  the  neutral.  From  the  top­
most  rail  of  diplomacy  he  sees  the  mo­
mentous  moves  that  are  made  upon  the 
political  chessboard  and  he  has  learned 
how  helpless  he  is  to  take  part  in  the 
game  or  even  to  suggest  by  word or sign 
an  idea  concerning  it.

It 

is  this  utter  neutrality  which  oc­
casions  the  distress  of  the  Ameer.  He 
has  had  a  most  wholesome  respect 
for 
the  determined  power  between  him  and 
the  Indian  Ocean.  The  paw,heavy  and 
black,  of  the  beast  on  the  north  is  work­
ing 
its  claws  towards  Herat  and  now 
that  the  lion  has  its  fangs  in  the  flesh 
of  the  South  African  Boer  and  can  not 
be  drawn  from  its  prey  the  Mahomme- 
dan  pawn,  with a  pawn’s  indifference,  is 
rather  inclined  just  now  to be reconciled 
to  be  put  where 
it  can  threaten  the 
English  queen.

the  elevated 

The  cause  of  this growing indifference 
is  what  draws  the  attention  of  the  civ il­
ized  world  to  this  nabob.  His  country 
is  threatened  upon  every  side  by  the ag­
gressive  spirit  of  Twentieth  Century 
progress.  Already  across  the  dreary 
wastes  of  northern  desolation  is  heard 
the  heavy  foot  of  the  engine  as  it  treads 
whistling 
its  mighty  way  through  ice 
and  snow.  There  are  wires  girdling  the 
continent, 
footpath  hung 
upon  the  air  for  the  lightning-sandalled 
feet  of  the  modern  news  carrier.  Be­
hind  them  are  pressing  those  innova­
tions  which  have  cursed  Europe,  made 
America  a  terror  and  are  pressing  hard 
against  the  barriers  of  his  southern  bor­
der.  The  claws  of  the  bear  already  emit 
electric  sparks..  Too  near  have  come 
the  rumbling  Siberian  trains  and  if  his 
powerful  ally,  the  government  of  India, 
does  not  stop  pressing  upon  him  and 
protect  him  from  these  coming  evils,  he 
will  feel  no  longer  under  obligations  to 
remain  neutral  and  must  lend  his  influ­
ence  to  the  power  which  promises  most. 
In  a  word  the  Ameer  finds  the  edge  of 
the L  rail  he  has  been  sitting  on  so long 
too 
sharp  for  comfort  and  appeals 
with  something  of  a  threat  to  England 
to  help  him  or she  will  wish  she  had.

'Down 

Uncomfortable  as  the  position  of  the 
Ameer  is,  there  is  every  indication  that 
it  will  not  improve.  He  and  his  coun­
try  may  continue  to  declare  that  they 
can  never  consent  to  the  construction  of 
railroads  and  telegraphs in Afghanistan, 
but  the  railroad  and  the  telegraph  will 
notwithstanding  go  in.  The  iron horses 
of  civilization  will  course  over  those 
deserts. 
from  the  forest-girded 
mountains  they  will  drag  the  treasures 
of  the  woods  and  along  the  winding 
river  courses  of  the  fertile  valley  they 
will  with  panting  breath  pull  the 
freighted  car. 
The  conscious  wires 
will  throb  there  with  the  intelligence  of 
the  earth  and  the  Ameer,  even  if  he  be 
not 
find  his  markets 
filled  with  goods  and  their  vhtues  ex­
tolled  by  fair-haired  and  fair-tongued 
strangers  from,  to  him,  the  land  of  the 
sunrise.  Then  will  come  his  deluge. 
His  harem  doors  will  open  and  woman­

long-lived,  will 

hood  unveiled  will  walk  forth  into  the 
free  and  his  acknowledged 
sunshine 
equal. 
In  time  a  school  house  will  sur­
prise  the  Afghanistan  landscapes cross- 
crowned  church  will  rise  beside 
it,  the 
sewing  machine  will  fill  the 
land  with 
its  music  and  the  spirit  that  conceievd 
and  brought  it  forth  will  so  infuse  itself 
into  the  semi-civilized  of  the  East  that 
the  West,clasping  her  hand, will  so com­
plete  the  circle  of  civilization  and  em­
pire  which  the  ages  so  long  ago  began. 
It 
is  a  sad  condition  of  things  for  the 
complaining  Ameer  but  a  joyful  one  for 
the  rest  of  mankind,  and  the  joy  is  all 
the  greater  from  the  fact  that  the  soon 
dawning  century  promises  to  see  all 
this  before  its  course  is  halfway  run.

OUR CHANGED  RELATIONS.

One  of  the  most  conspicuous results  of 
the  war  with  Spain  is  the  changed  as­
pect  of  our  foreign  relations.  Up to  the 
outbreak  of  that  war the  United  States 
was  practically  isolated  from  other  na­
tions  of  the  world.  We  had  no  common 
interests  with  them,  and  our  interests 
did  not  conflict  with  theirs.  As  a  con­
sequence  there  was  no  ground  for  quar­
reling  with  any  of  them,  and  disputes 
were  of  rare  occurrence.

Since  the  war  with  Spain  our  terri­
torial  expansion  policy,  as  well  as  the 
great  increase  in  our  foreign  trade,  has 
made  us  many  rivals  and  not  a  few 
enemies. 
People  who  formerly  were 
indifferent  to  us  are  now  covertly  our 
enemies  because  of  conflicting interests. 
We  now  have  an  interest  in  everything 
it 
which  happens  in  the  Far  East,  and 
is  actually  difficult  to  avoid 
interfering 
in  every 
international  dis­
pute  which  arises.

important 

Our  new  position  as  a  world  power 
makes  our  old-time  contention  that,  ac­
cording  to  the  Monroe  Doctrine,  no 
European  power  must  intervene  or  ac­
quire  territory 
in  the  Western  Hemi­
a  much  more  serious  matter 
sphere 
than 
it  formerly  was.  Until  within  a 
few  years  European  powers  attached  no 
very  serious  importance  to  our  Monroe 
Doctrine  contention.  Now,  however, 
the  case  is  different,  as  it  is  now  recog­
nized  that  we  possess  power,  as  well  as 
the  inclination,  to  enforce  our demands.
fact 
the  Monroe 
that  the  maintenance  of 
Doctrine  is  sure,  eventually,  to  get  us 
into 
European  powers  are 
casting  wistful  glances  in  the  direction 
of  Central  and  South  America.  They 
are  secretly  coveting  portions  of  the 
rich  continent 
to  the  south  of  us,  and 
the  only  obstacle 
in  their  path  is  that 
which  we  are  able  to  place  there.

It  would  be  well  to  recognize  the 

trouble. 

In  order  to  maintain  our  pretensions 
with  respect  to  the  Western  Hemisphere 
we  must  have  a  large  naval  force.  At 
the  present  time  our  fleet  does  not  com­
pare  with  the fleets of the first-class naval 
powers  except  Germany,  and  even  that 
power  is  endeavoring  to  make  large  in­
creases  to  its  fleet.  Unless we  can  main­
tain  a  fleet  sufficiently 
large  to  cope 
with  any  other  power  than  England,  we 
will  some  day  be  in  danger  of  failing 
to  enforce  the  Monroe  Doctrine.  Secre­
tary  of  War  Elihu  Root  sounded  a  note 
of  warning  a 
few  days  ago  which  the 
country  would  do  well  to  heed.  At  the 
present  time  we  have  not  a  sufficient 
fleet  and  by  no  means  sufficient  officers 
and  men  to  man  even  the  ships  we 
have.

Unless,  therefore,  we  are  content  to 
risk  disaster  and  humiliation  we  must 
prepare  for trouble  or  promptly  resign 
our  pretensions  to  a  practical  protecto­
rate  over  all  of the Western Hemisphere.

A  TOUCH  OF THE TUDOR.

The 

journey 

The  Queen  of  England  has been visit­
ing  her  Irish  subjects.  For  three  weeks 
or  more  she  was  the  honored  guest of the 
kindest  hearted  people  on  the  face  of 
the  earth.  From  the  moment  that  her 
foot  gladdened  the  Emerald  sod 
royal 
until 
the 
farewell  echoes  of  the  guns 
faded  along  the  shores  the  Saxon  and 
the  Celt  stood  hand  to  hand  and  heart 
to  heart,  glad  that  the  strained  relations 
were over  and  gladder  to  know  that both 
had  hearts  and  that  these  were  beating 
again  together. 
from 
Windsor  and  the  return  was  worthy  of 
the  English  Queen  and  the  people  who 
crowded  and  cheered  her  progress. 
Throughout  their  history  the  British 
isles  have  seen  nothing  grander  and 
nothing  that  so  surely proclaims the  love 
of  the  English  people  for  the  worthiest 
queen  and  the  womanliest  woman  on 
earth.  There  were  those  who  thought 
that  the 
land  of  the  shamrock  would 
greet  her  with  folded  arms.  The  skies 
were,  indeed,  forbidding  and  the clouds 
dropped  rain  upon  the  royal  yacht  at 
Kingston,  but  the  shores  were  packed 
with  welcoming  crowds  and  in  smiles 
brighter  than  the  sunshine  which  came 
at  last  the  good  Queen  began  her 
long 
ride  to  Dublin.

Those  who  have  seen  the  beautiful 
street  through  the  heart  of  the  Irish cap­
ital  can  well  understand  how  easily  it 
was  transformed into  a royal  road  which 
only  the  real  royal  should  travel.  Not 
a  house  stood  unadorned.  The  tri-colors 
of  the  Isles were everywhere.  The sham­
rock,  the  rose  and  the  thistle  bound  to­
gether  looked  out  from  among  the  flags, 
repeating  the  story  of  love  and  devotion 
which hatred and  malice  and  all  unchar­
itableness  were  insisting  had  been  long 
forgotten,  and  when  down  through  that 
municipal  magnificence  rode  the royalty 
of  more  than  a  thousand  years  the 
loy­
alty  of  the  generations  from  Egbert  the 
Saxon  found  utterance  in  the  heartfelt 
rejoicing  which  greeted 
noble 
woman  on  every  hand.  Whatever  of 
remissnessr 
intended,  had 
been  hers,  whatever  of  wrong  and  slight 
could  be  laid  to  her  charge,  was  forgot­
ten  and  throughout  those  miles  of  regal 
greeting  aside  from  resounding  cheers 
was  only  heard: 
“ She  comes.  She’s 
here.  She’s  past.  May heaven  go  with 
her!”

fancied  or 

that 

There  has  been  some  vigorous  shak­
ing  of  heads  the  world  over  in  regard  to 
the  Queen’s  visit  to  Ireland. 
It  was  a 
matter  of  pure  policy.  Nobody  has 
been  deceived.  The  war 
in  South 
Africa  was  what  led  to the visit.  Troops 
have  come  to  be  a  matter  of  some  im­
portance  and  Irishmen  are  wanted  for 
the  Boers  to  kill. 
It  will  save  so  many 
lives.  For  thirty-nine  years 
English 
Ireland  has  been  snubbed  by  the Queen. 
She  has  wanted  nothing.  Why  should 
she  be  disturbed  by  the  Irish  rabble,  as 
unreasonable  and  as  turbulent  as  the 
Irish  Sea?  But  now!  So  the  ill  will 
shows 
itself  and  Victoria  comes  and 
goes  when  the  right  time  comes,  re­
ceiving  the  blessings  that  she  knows 
belong  to  her  and  scattering  the  bless­
ings  that  her  royal  hand  alone  can  give. 
Faction  stands  powerless  in  that  mighty 
presence. 
the 
cheering  crowds  to  hide  his  hateful 
head.  Selfishness  for  a  moment  forgets 
himself  and  rejoices  with  the  rest;  and 
now  that  all  is  over  and  the  good  Queen 
is  again  at  home,  the  kingdom 
is  at 
is  abroad,  rancor  is 
peace,  harmony 
dead,  enmity 
is  no  more,  grievances 
have  been  laid  aside,  the  golden  age  in

Intrigue 

slinks 

from 

9

England has  again  returned  and “ all the 
world  wonders.”

family,  revealed 

It  should  not.  It  is  an  old  story  many 
times  repeated.  The  Tudors  are  respon­
sible  for  it. 
“ Good  Queen  Bess”   was 
joy  of  her  subjects  and  one  strong 
the 
trait  in  her  character  was  to  know 
just 
when  to  act.  Imperious,  willful,  a  tyrant 
when  she  saw  fit,  she  knew  enough  to 
stop  when 
it  was  time  and  to  yield  at 
the  right  moment.  Her  father,  Henry 
VIII.,  bluff  and  beastly,  was  blessed  in 
the  same  way  and  Henry  V II.,  the 
founder  of  the 
the 
happy  faculty  of  always “  stopping when 
he  got  there.”  
In  modern  parlance  a 
Tudor  never  “ slopped  over.”   There 
have  been  times  when  the  prejudiced 
mind  would  call  it  exactly  that,  but 
it 
is  a  mistake;  and  this  g6od  queen,  this 
grandchild,  for  thirteen  generations  has 
inherited  this  happy  trait. 
is  the 
Tudor  touch  and  the  blessings which are 
to  follow  this  visit  of  the  English Queen 
to  Ireland,  already  begun,  will  increase 
as  the  years  go  on  and  be  put  down  as 
one  of  the  brightest  and  kindliest  ep i­
sodes  in  her  long  and  glorious  reign.

It 

LET  US  FOSTER  T H E   NAVY.

The  naval  appropriation  bill  which 
was  recently  disposed of in  the  House  of 
Representatives  was  for  the  first  time  in 
years  used  to  further  political  ends. 
It 
is  true  that  the  bill  went  through  finally 
in  practically  the  shape  provided  by  the 
Naval  Affairs  Committee,  but  the  de­
bate  developed  the  fact  that  there  were 
members  in  Congress  prepared  to  dam­
age  the  best  interests  of  the  naval  serv­
ice  to  further  their  own  ends.

The  bill  as  passed  provides  for  sev­
eral  additional  ships, 
including  two 
battle-ships;  but  no  provision  is  made 
in 
for  increasing  the  number  of  officers 
the  navy,  although  such  an 
increase 
is 
sorely  needed.  Owing  to  the  existing 
scarcity  of  officers,  it  is  impossible  to 
provide  adequate  complements  for  those 
ships  in  commission,  and  it  is  entirely 
out  of  the  question  to  commission  ships 
now  ready  which  the  Navy  Department 
earnestly  desires  to  utilize.  Take,  for 
instance,  the  crusier  Atlanta,  which  has 
been  recently  entirely  renovated.  This 
ship  has  been  ready  to be commissioned 
for  some  time,  but  it 
impossible  to 
spare  officers  and  men  sufficient  to  form 
the  complement  required  for  a  ship  of 
the  Atlanta’s  size.

is 

Several  propositions  have  been  pre­
sented  to  Congress 
looking  to  an  in­
crease  in  the  number of  officers,  but  all 
have  been  ignored  so  far.  All  the  plans 
proposed  call 
for  the  appointment  of 
more  cadets  to the  Naval  Academy  and 
the  reduction  of  the  course  from  six  to 
four  years. 
It  is  believed  in  this  way  a 
sufficient  supply  of  officers  could  be  se­
cured  in  the  course  of  time.  While  the 
change  proposed  does  not  hold  out  the 
least  hope  of  an  immediate  relief,  it  at 
least  has  the  merit  of  providing  for  fu­
ture  needs.

Whether or  not  the  proposed 

increase 
in  the  number  of  cadets  at  the  academy 
will  meet  the  demand  for  more  officers 
is  a  problem  naval  officers  themselves 
can  best  solve. 
If  all  the  officers  re­
quired  can  be  secured  through  the acad­
emy  at  Annapolis,  well  and  good;  but 
if  that  can  not  be,  the  Naval  Affairs 
Committee  should  take  other  steps  to 
meet  the  requirements  of  the  situation. 
No  consideration  should  for a  moment 
be  permitted  to  stand  in  the  way  of  the 
true  efficiency  of  the  fleet.  Officers  must 
be  had  promptly,  and,  if  they,  can  not 
be  got in  one  way,  they  must  be  secured 
in  another.

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W om an’s W o rld

Deserves  to  Rank  as  a Female  Moses.
Women  everywhere  will  read  with 
awed  delight  of  the  stand  a  certain  rich 
and  courageous  society  woman  of  New 
York  has  taken  against  the  tyrant  dress­
maker.  The  lady  in  question.it  seems, 
ordered  a  waist  of  a  fashionable modiste 
and  when  the  garment  was  sent  home  it 
did  not  fit.  The  bill  of  indictments 
against 
It 
hitched  up  in  the  back  nntil  it made the 
It 
wearer 
hunchback. 
wouldn’t  fasten  across  the  breast. 
It 
choked 
It  was  too  tight 
in  the  armholes.  Three  times  was  it 
sent  back  to  the  maker  for  alterations, 
with  the  final  result  that 
its  last  estate 
was  worse  than  its  first.

it  was  full  and  complete. 

in  the  collar. 

like  a 

look 

It 

So  far  there 

is  nothing  uncommon 
about  the  story. 
is  one  that  every 
woman  can  duplicate  times  out  of  num­
ber  out  of  her  own  experience,  but  the 
difference  comes  in  in  the  sequel.  The 
rest  of  us,  in 
the  end,  have  always 
meekly  accepted  the  botched  garment 
and  paid  the  dressmaker  for  spoiling 
our  good  cloth.  The  rich  woman  re­
fused  to  pay,  and  when  sued,  actually 
had  the  audacity  to  go  into  court  and 
assert  her  right  to  get  good  work  in  ex­
change  for good  money.  It is  a  boldness 
so  incredible  as  to  seem  actually revolu­
tionary.  From 
immemorial  the 
dressmaker  has  been  a  law  unto  . herself 
and  none  have  dared  to  question  her 
right  to  do  as  she  pleased.  She  has 
been  a  modem 
She-Who-Must-Be- 
Obeyed,  who  has  calmly  defied  every 
rule  of  trade,  whose  customers  have 
come  as  suppliants  and  not  as  orderers, 
and  who  took  what  they  could  get,
.  when  and  how  they  could  get  it  and 
knew  that  the  only  certain  thing  about 
it  was  that  they  would  have  to  pay, 
pay,  pay.

time 

Is  this  autocratic  sway to  be  broken at 
last? 
Is  the  dressmaker  to  be  called 
down  and  forced  to  conform  to  the  laws 
that  govern  other  business  transactions? 
Has  she  got  to  guarantee  the  quality  of 
her  goods  and  make  them  come  up  to 
the  specifications  and the time-limit like 
the  grocer  and  the  carpenter  and  the 
other  tradesmen  and  artisans  with whom 
we  deal?  The  question 
is  one  of  pro­
found  interest  to  the  entire  sex.

As  it  is  now.  the  dealings between  the 
average  dressmaker  and  her  patrons  are 
carried  on  with  all  the  mystery  and  un­
certainty  that  hangs  around  a  lottery 
shop.  You  take  your  expensive  mate­
rial  to  a  modiste  and  deliver  it  over 
with  fear and  trembling,  never  knowing 
is  to  be. 
what  the  result 
It  may  be  a 
miracle  of  art. 
It  may  be  the  greatest 
botch  ever  turned  out  by  careless  and 
incompetent  workers. 
that  the 
dressmaker  will  commit  herself  to  is  a 
dark  and  mysterious  hint  that  she  hopes 
that  she  will  have  good  luck  with  your 
gown.  Further  than  commending  it  to 
fate  she  virtually  washes  her  hands  of 
all  responsibility  in  the  matter.

AH 

Perhaps 

luck  was  against  you  and  a 
is  sent  home  to  you 
lop-sided  garment 
that 
is  short  enough  in  the  skirt  for  a 
ballet  dancer  and  tight  enough  in  the 
waist  for  a  straight-jacket.  You  screw 
your  courage  to  the  sticking  point  and 
take  it  back  to  its  author.  The  dress­
maker  receives  you  with  a  welcome  that 
would  make  the  frigid  zone  seem  trop­
ical  and,  after  examining  the  defects, 
says  that  she  thinks  maybe  she  can  fix 
it  so  you  can  wear  it,  if  you  will  buy  a 
few  yards  of  chiffon  and  some  velvet 
and  passementerie  to  hide  where  it  was

Of  course,  we  have  all  known  that 
men  didn  t  do  that  way. 
If  a  man  or­
ders  a  suit  and  it  doesn’t  fit  he  throws 
it  right  back  upon  the  bungling  tailor, 
but 
it  never  seems  to  have  occurred  to 
women  that they  could  do  the same way. 
We  haven’t  even  asked  ourselves  why 
the  dressmaker  should  be  superior to 
the 
laws  that  govern  other  branches  of 
trade.  Perhaps  she  isn’t.  Perhaps  when 
she  has  ill-fitting  garments  thrown  back 
upon  her  hands  and  has  to  pay  for  the 
cloth  she  ruins,  she  will  put  more  faith 
in  science  and 
If  the 
New  York  woman  can  succeed  in  get­
ting  any  recognized  business  basis  es­
tablished  upon  which  to  deal with dress­
makers  she will deserve to  be  considered 
a  female  Moses  who  has  led  her sex  out 
of  the  wilderness 
into  the  promised 
lan<h 

Dorothy  Dix.

luck. 

less 

in 

The  Working Woman’s Worst Foe.
I he  most  deadly and dangerous enemy 
that  the  workingwoman  has  is  not  the 
man  with  whom  she  must  compete  in 
the  working  world,  nor  yet  the  rich  and 
idle  woman,  who,  living  in  luxury  her­
self, is  forever  lamenting  the tendency  of 
the  modem  woman  to  earn  her  bread 
and  butter  outside  of  her  home  when 
she  has  neither bread  nor  butter  inside 
of  it.  The  working  woman’s  worst  foes  “ 
are  those  of  her  own household—the  fool 
women 
in  the  working  ranks,  who  dis­
credit  woman’s  labor  in  the  market  by 
their  silly  and  senseless  demands.

its  way  to  granting  _

A   pertinent  example of this is afforded 
by  the  women  employes  of  the  census 
office  who  have  appointed  a  committee 
to  wait  on  Director  Merriam  and  de­
mand  of  him :  First,  a  refrigerator  for 
their  lunches;  second,  a  better  quality 
of  soap;  third,  mirrors  that  will  not 
make  them  look  like  frights;  fourth,  a 
supply  of  hairpins  for  the  toilet-room ; 
fifth,  a  place  to  heat  curling  tongs; 
sixth,  a 
locker  for wraps;  seventh,  the 
opportunity  of  fixing  up  before  going  to 
work.

it 

The  beauty  of  American  women  has 
long  been  our  proudest  boast,  and  with 
a  view  to  sustaining  the  national  repu­
tation,  a  benevolent  and  paternal  Gov­
ernment  may  see 
these  aids  to  good  looks  among 
its  fe­
male  servants,  but  what  a  scathing  com­
mentary 
is  on  the  earnestness  and 
purpose  of  woman’s  work ! 
Imagine,  if 
you  can,  such  a  thing  in  the  working 
world  of  men.  Fancy  a  railroad  threat­
ened  with  a  tie-up  of  its  entire  system 
because  it  didn’t  furnish scented soap  to 
the  brakemen.  Picture  a  horny-handed 
delegation  of  mechanics  filing 
into  the 
President’s  office  and  gravely  demand­
ing  pomade  for  their  mustaches.  Think 
of  the  crew  of  a  merchant  ship  forcing 
the  captain  to  give  them  mirrors  that 
would  present  their  reflections  in  a  flat­
tering  manner.

It 

is  this  dilettante  kind  of  working 
woman,  who  works  with  one  eye  on  the 
clock  and  the  other  on  the  mirror on her 
desk  and  no  eye  at  all  on  her  work,  who 
is  the  deadly  enemy  of  every  woman 
is  really  trying  to  do  good,  honest
who 

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patched  and  pieced.  She  does this  with 
an  air  that  plainly 
indicates  what  an 
undeserved  favor  she  is  bestowing  upon 
you.  She  never  does  it  as  your  right, 
and  the  very 
idea  of  making  good  to 
you  the  material  that  she  has  spoiled 
would  strike  her  dead.  More  than  that, 
at  the  end  of  the  month  she  sends  in 
her bill  just as  serenely  for  ruining  your 
dress  as  if  she  had  made  a  howling  suc­
cess  of 
it,  and  such  is  the  simple  and 
sheeplike  quality  of  women  that  they 
pay  it.

It  p a ys  an y  d ealer  to  h a v e  th e  re p ­
u tation   of  k eep in g   pu re  goods.
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Putting  Tiling»  Away  for  tlie  Summer.
The  time  of  the  year  is  upon  us  now 
when  all  womankind  are  going  through 
the  annual  ordeal  of  putting  the  winter 
things  away. 
In  every  house  you  enter 
there  is  a  ghastly  odor  of  moth  balls  or 
the  spicy  fragrance  of  camphor  or  cedar 
shavings 
in  the  air— according  to  the 
faith  in  which  we  have  been  reared  - 
and  clothes  are  being  brushed  and  aired 
and  folded  preparatory  to being  packed 
away  in  chests  and  trunks  to  make room 
for  our  new  spring  belongings.  Gone 
are  the  heavy  cloths  and  velvets  and 
silks;  gone  the  wraps  and  furs.  Enter 
the  filmy  muslin,  the  flower-wreathed 
hat,the  chiffons  and  airy  frivols  of  sum­
mer.  The  king  is  dead!  Long  live  the 
k in g !

Familiar  as  is  this  yearly  task,  she  is 
less  than  woman  who 
still  something 
does  not  find  something  pathetic 
in 
putting  things  away.  Who  is  so  happy 
and  so  fortunate  as  not  to  know  that 
awful  putting  away  of  the  things  of  the 
dead?  Ah,  me,  the  heart  break  when 
we  packed  away  the  garment  whose 
every  fold  seemed  to  breathe  with  the 
very  personality  of  the  loved  and  lost, 
and  when  memory  stabbed  us  with  a 
thousand  fond  recollections  of  how  she 
looked  when  last  she  wore  it.  Or  per­
it  was  a  little  child’s  clothes— the 
haps 
little 
half-worn  shoes, 
the 
crumpled 
white  Irock,  the  tiny 
jacket  with  the 
pocket  still  bulging  with  a  boy’s  treas­
ures.  How  our  hands  trembled  at  their 
task  and  how  the  tears  dropped  like  a 
bitter  rain  upon  them !

Even  with  our  own belongings there is 
a  certain  sentiment  and  suggestiveness 
about  every  garment  that  makes  us 
lin­
ger  over  it  and  that  gives  to  each  asso­
ciations  that  make  them  almost  human. 
How  much  of  good  health,  of  high 
spirits,  of  thrilling  center-rushes  on  the 
bargain  counters,  of  charming  walks 
with  the  friend with whom  we  delight  to 
commune,  we  seem  to  be  packing  away 
with  our 
frock!  What 
memories  of  dances,  of  whispered  words 
of 
love,  of  the  throb  of  a  heart  and  the. 
perfume  of  a  rose  we  put  away  in  the 
glitter  and 
laces  of  every  ball  gow n! 
Does  not  the  very  spirit  of  music— the 
goiden  aria  of  the  diva," the  passionate 
lilt  of  the  tenor’s 
love  song— seem  to 
cling  to  the  brocade  of  an  opera  wrap 
like  the  incense  about  an  altar?  We 
have  only  to  glance  at  it  to  see  again

tailor-made 

for  wages 

work,  and  to  elevate  the  work  of her  sex 
to  a  plane  where  it  will  be  worth 
paying  for. 
If  she  was  confined  to  the 
Washington  departments  she  wouldn’t 
be  so  dangerous,  but  she  is  everywhere. 
Sometimes  her  peculiar brand  of  idiocy 
consists  in  believing  that  she  is  still 
in 
society  at  a  pink  tea,  instead  of  work­
ing 
in  somebody’s  office  or 
store.  She  gets  huffy  if  a  man  keeps  his 
in  her  presence.  She  has  con­
hat  on 
niption 
fits 
if  anybody  smokes  before 
her.  She  weeps 
if  her  work  is  crit­
icised.  She  has  a  romantic  past  on 
which  she  dwells,  and  a  vague  future 
in  which  she  trusts  to  somebody to come 
and  rescue  her  from  the  work  she  never 
learns  to  do,and  you  are  never surprised 
when  she  is  superseded  in  her  job  by  a 
freckled-faced  boy  with  red  hair  who 
has  neither  a  past  nor  a  future.

Sometimes  she  is  the  woman  who  be­
lieves  that  there  is  some  special  dispen­
sation  of  Providence  to  woman’s  work 
that  makes  any  kind  of bungling and  in­
accurate  performance  go  if  it  only  bears 
that  cabalistic  label.  She  can  see  that 
if  a  merchant  hires  a  man  clerk  tie  is 
right  to  demand  that  he  be  on  time, 
but  she  thinks  it  rank  tyranny  to  dock 
a  woman 
for  strolling  in  half  an  hour 
late.  She  can  understand  why  a  man 
stenographer  or  confidential  clerk  who 
gave  up  and  stayed  away  from  work 
every  time  he  felt  bad  or  wanted  to  go 
to  a  picnic  wouldn’t  be  any  value,  but 
she  can’t  see  for  the  life  of  her  why  a 
woman  shouldn’t  be  permitted  to  knock 
off  when  she  feels  like  it  and  write  the 
letters  and  keep  the  books  at  any  old 
time. 
In  a  word,  she  demands  the  im­
possible.  She  wants 
the  salary  of  a 
working  man  and  the  privileges  of  an 
idle  woman.  Of  course,  it  is  always  a 
matter of  a  short  time  until  her  serv­
ices  are  dispensed  with,  but  the  wrong 
she  has  done  doesn’t  stop  with  her.  Just 
as  far  as  she  was  able  she  has  branded 
woman’s  work  as  utterly  worthless  and 
unreliable.

intentions 

year.  Their 

Allied  with  these  silly  women  are 
their  injudicious  friends,  who,  with  the 
very  best 
in  the  world,  can 
do  the  real  working  woman  more  harm 
in  a  minute  than  malice  can  invent  in 
a 
ill-directed  sympathy 
takes  the  fatal  form  of  demanding  that 
women  shall  be  granted  unusual  holi­
days  and  short  hours  and  heaven  knows 
what  concessions  until  the employers are 
scarcely  to  be  blamed 
if  they  grow 
weary  of 
it  and  hire  only  men  who 
don’t  expect  anything  on  account  of 
their  sex,  and  who  can  do  the  work 
for 
which  they  are  paid  ^without  any  fuss 
and  feathers. 
In  several  states  the  fool 
friends  of  the  fool  working  woman  have 
gotten  so  many 
laws  passed  guarding 
and  cherishing  the  woman  worker  that 
they  have  cherished  her almost  entirely 
out  of  a  job.  The  real  working  woman 
who  has  sense  enough  to  hold  down  a 
good  place  is  amply  qualified  to  deal 
with  her  employer,  and  the  well-mean­
ing  meddlers  between  them  do  her  only 
harm.

It 

is  against  these  women  that  the 
earnest  working  women,  who  are  trying 
to  raise  woman’s  work 
to  the  plane 
where 
it  will  have  no  sex,  but  be  only 
good  work,  offer  up  their  most  fervent 
prayer  for deliverance.  Dorothy  Dix.

Paper  bags  can  be  readily  and  se­
curely  closed  by  a  new  fastening  device 
which  is  formed  by  a  loop  of  soft,  pli­
able  wire  of  sufficient  length  to  extend 
beyond  the  folded  and  flattened  mouth 
of  the  sack,  being  slipped  over  the 
folded  mouth  and  twisted  to  wind  up 
the  loose  portion.

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11

the  glittering  horseshoe,  the  dazzle  of 
the  stage  and 
feel  the  tense  excitement 
while  the  singer’s  voice  held  the  house 
in  the  breathless  pause, 
followed  by 
the  storm  of  applauding  hands.  All 
this  we  are  putting  away  with  the  gar­
ment,  with  that 
little  chill  at  the  heart 
— the  undefined  fear  that  maybe  never 
again  will  life  be  so  sweet  to  us  and  so 
well  worth  living.

idea 

Sometimes  this  little  familiar  domes­
tic  duty  of  putting  away  the  winter 
clothes  seems  to  suggest  that  it  would 
be  a  good 
if  we  could  carry  the 
process  into  spiritual  things  as  well  as 
material.  What  a  pity  that  we  can’t 
pack  away  old  ideas  and  worn  out  hob­
bies  and  unlovely  grudges  like  we  do 
our  discarded  garments  and  get  a  brand 
new  outfit,  ciean  and 
fresh  and  sweet, 
every  now  and  then.  There’s  the  old 
enmity  that  we  have  been  cherishing  so

long.  Surely,  it 
is  high  time  to  fold 
that  away  and  pack  it  down  in  the  very 
bottom  of  our  recollection  where  we 
won't  see  it  every  day.  There’s the  fad 
that  we  have  worn 
into  frazzles.  Why 
not  hang  it  up  in  the  lumber-room  and 
at  least  adorn  ourselves  with  a  new  one 
that  is  up  to  date?  There  are  little  slip­
shod  ways  of  temper  and  speech  that we 
have 
into  the  way  of  indulging 
ourselves  in,  just  as  we  have  in  an  un­
tidy  wrapper,  and  we  might  well  pack 
both  of  them  away  together  to  make 
I room  for  something  more 
in  keeping 
with  the 
freshness  and  loveableness  of 
the  spring.  Let’s  pack  away  all  of  the 
disagreeable  old  things  of  the  winter 
with  the  winter  clothes  and  take  a  fresh 
start  in  life. 

Cora  Stowell.

fallen 

Probably  the  real  germ  of  a  woman’s 
fact  that 

hatred  of  old  bachelors  is  the 
thev  always  call  a  baby  “ it.”

|  J  hey  all  say w  

----  

|
“It’s as good as  Sapolio,”  when  they try to sell you  Z^  
their  experiments.  Your  own  good  sense  will  tell 
you  that they are only  trying to get you  to  aid  their 
new  article. 

l 

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i 
Who  urges you  to  keep  Sapolio? 

l 
Is  it not  the Z^  
public?  The  manufacturers,  by constant and judi- —^  
cious advertising, bring customers to your stores whose 
very presence creates  a demand  for other articles. 

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12

Clothing

Spring and  Summer  Styles  in  Furnishing 

Goods*

it 

In  looking  over  the  various  styles  of 
spring  derbies  there  are  not  any  radical 
changes  from  those  worn  during  the 
winter  months.  The  crowns  are  made 
slightly 
lower  and  the  brims  a  little 
more  curled  and  closer.  There  are  not 
as  many  of  the  lighter  shades  shown 
usual,  black  being  the  predominating 
color.  Many  men,  who  go  to  the  same 
store 
for  years  for  their  hats,  find  out 
exactly  what  style  of  derby  is  most  he 
coming  to  them,  and  always  wear  the 
same  style  year  after  year,  taking  no 
notice  of  the  small  changes  that  always 
take  place.  This 
is  not  a  bad  idea  to 
follow,  as 
is  better to  follow  a  style 
that  one  knows  is  becoming  than  to  ex­
periment  with  other  forms  that  may 
not  look  nearly  as  well.  From  present 
indications  the  hat  that  will  be  worn 
most  during  the  coming  spring  and 
summer,  supplanting  to  a  great  extent 
even  the  ever-popular straw  hat,  is  the 
light  alpine.  This hat  looks  exceeding­
ly  well  with  negligee  attire  and 
light 
colors  that  are  always  worn  during  the 
spring  and  furthermore 
is  cooler  than 
the  straw  hat  and  more  comfortable.  | 
Another  advantage  that  it  has  over  the 
latter  is  that  it  is  not  liable  to  blow  off, 
and  therefore  does  not  need  any  of those 
string  attachments  that  look  so  clurn 
when 
fastened  onto  the  buttonhole 
keep  the  straw  from  showing  which  w; 
the  wind  blows. 
The  most  popul 
colors  will  be  the  various  shades of lig.__ 
gray  and  pearl,  with  browns  and  tans 
following  in  the  rear.  There  will  be  _ 
good  many twisted bands  worn  in  bright 
colors  of  all  descriptions,  giving  them 
very  brilliant  and  summery  appear 
ance.

The  black  alpine  will  be  worn  with 

it 

It 

dinner coats  more  than  last  year. 
about  the  most  becoming  hat  that  can 
be  worn  with  same,  as 
is  somewhat 
of  a  lounge  hat,  just  as  the  dinner  coat 
is  somewhat  of  an  informal  lounge  coat 
A  derby  does  not  look  well  with  a  tux 
edo,  and  a  straw  hat  can  only  be  worn 
for a  few months.  The  Easter  styles  for 
silk  hats  are  very  becoming,  having  low 
crowns  and  brims  rather  narrow. 
be  more  definite,  the'  most  becoming 
hats  of  this  kind,  for  a  man  of  average 
height  and  build,  have  a  crown  5^ 
inches  high  and  a  ij^-inch  brim.

Although  many  dealers  are 

introdu 
cing  novelties  in  the  neckwear  line,  the 
old 
favorites  will  predominate  during 
the  coming  season.  Gay  colors  will  find 
much  favor  in  ties  of  all  kinds,  care  be- 
ing  taken  that  they  should  not  be  loud. 
One  of  the  chief  factors  that  determine 
the  appearance  of  a  tie  is  the  care 
in 
choosing  a  cravat  that  will  look  well 
with  the  rest  of  your  attire.  While  this 
is  true  with  every  visible  article  of 
is  especially  so  in 
wearing  apparel,  it 
regard  to  neckwear,  and  therefore 
in 
ch(x)sing  a  cravat  it  becomes  necessary 
to  make  up  your  mind  what  style  and 
color of  shirt,  suit,  etc.,  you 
intend  to 
wear  during  the  coming  season.  As 
negligee  and  colored  shirts  will  be  w'orn 
and 
light-colored  suits,  nearly  all  the 
ties  one  sees  in  the  windows  of  the  re­
tailers  are  either  light  colored  or  some 
solid  color  that  goes  well  with  gray  or 
light  brown;  for  example,  red  or dark 
blue.  As  is  usually  the  case,  string  ties 
and  batwings  will  be  worn  more  exten­
sively  than  any  others.  They  will  be 
worn  mostly  with  the  high  turn-down 
collar.  They  will  be  tied  rather  loosely,

with  a  small  knot,  and  the  ends  will  be 
inclined  to  be  pointed.  The  retailers 
are  displaying  a  very  large  number of 
rumchundas.  As  yet  it  is  impossible  to 
predict  if  they  will  be  worn  extensively 
or  not.  They  give  more  scope  as  re­
gards  designs  to  the  manufacturer,  and 
while  some  of  them  are  marked  by  a 
tasteful  and  pretty  design,  others  are  of 
such  awful  combinations  that 
it  would 
take  a  man  of  courage  to  be  seen  wear­
ing  them.

in  a 

The  four-in-hand  that  will  meet  with 
the  most  approval  will  be  narrow,  and 
tied 
loose  knot.  De  Joinvilies, 
which  are  steady  favorites,  will  not  lose 
any  of  their  popularity,  and  English 
squares  are  finding  as  much  favor 
ever.  These  ties  are  temporarily  sup 
planting  puffs  and 
imperials  of  apron 
and  blanket  effects,  which  are  used
more  as  winter  ties.  Stripes  w___
more  used  in  four-in-hands  than  is  usu 
ally  the  case,  the  grounds  as  a  rule  be 
ing  of  some  light  color,  with  medium 
sized  stripes  of  darker  shades  running 
through,either  horizontally  or  at  a  slant 
A  number  of  very  pretty  effects 
hecks  of  purple  and  black  are  to  be 
noticed,  while  there  are  any  number  of 
grays  in  many  styles  and shades.  Solid 

alors  of  red,  dark  blue  and  white  w 

be  worn  a  great  deal  with  high  turn 
down  collars.  The  newest  colors  are 
lilac  and 
various  shades  of  purple, 
cherry,  which  ought  to 
look  well  with 
some  of  the  negligee  shirts  that  are  now 
displayed  by  the  retailers.

As  is  always  the  case,  colored  negli 
gee  shirts  will  be  worn  almost  exclu 
sively  during  the  day.  The patterns  of 
the  two  above-named  shirts  are  found 
to  be  very  similar.  The  most  correct 
dressers  will  wear  shirts  with  plain 
stripes  running  vertically' and  without 
any  figure.  A  neat  shirt  has  thread-like 
lines  of  black  on  a  plain  white  back 
ground.  The  color  that predominates  is 
avender,  with  various  shades  of  rose 
and  pink  a  close  second,  and  blue  and 
yellow  finding  some  admirers.  The  best 
establishments  have  nothing  very  star- 
tling  to  offer,  the  simple  effects  being 
the  most  favored.  Of  course,  there  are 
some  who  like  to  bring  forth various  in 
novations, 
thinking  because  they  are 
new'  they  must  sell  well.  One  of  those 
‘ new "  spring  shirts  has  a  body  of  red 
or  pale  yellow,  and  has  stripes  of  con­
trasting  colors,  about  one-quarter  of  an 
inch  wide,  on  which  are  placed  small, 
well-spaced  stars.  The  only  thing  in 
this  shirt’s  favor  is  that  it  is  original, 
as  it  is  not  pretty,  and  outrages  the  best 
dictates  of  good  taste.  The  most  com­
fortable  shirt,  although  rather  expen­
sive,  is  a  negligee  of  soft  silk  with  a 
pleated  bossom, 
fastened  with  three 
pearl  buttons  of  moderate  size.

Very  shiny  patent  leather  shoes  will 
not  be  worn  during  the  spring.  The 
dark  tans  will  be 
the  most  favored j 
shade,  the 
light  yellow  and  other  very 
bright  shades  not  being  considered  the 
very  best  form.

W e’ll  tell  you  about 
our  Fall  line of 
“ Correct  Clothes”

in  a  week  or  two—and  we’ll 
give you talk  that’s  well  worth 
listening  to.  Keep  your  ears 
to the ground.

Heavenrich  Bros.,

Detroit, Mich.

MICHIGAN  TRAD ESM AN

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Dealers will  find  it  to  their  inter­
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The  Dry  Goods  Market.

Staple  Cottons— There  has  been  no 
in  the  situation  for 
noticeable  change 
staple  cottons  this  week,  and  business 
has  been  on  a  small  scale  only. 
If  con­
cessions  should  be  made,  some  good 
sized  contracts  could  be  taken,  but  sell­
ers  feel  too  much  confidence  in  the mar­
ket  to  accept 
less  than  quoted  prices. 
They  will  not  accept  a  contract  at  even 
one-quarter  of  a  cent  below  quotations, 
even  although  many  pieces  could  be 
disposed  of  by  so  doing.  The  princi­
pal  irregularity  noticed  in  the  market  is 
in  brown  goods  unticketed.  Standard 
lines  are  all  firm.  Ducks  and  osnaburgs 
are  quiet,  and  there 
is  some  tendency 
on  the  part  of  sellers  here  and  there  to 
give  slight  concessions,  provided  they 
can  get  a  contract  for  a  large  enough 
quantity.  Wide  sheetings,  cotton  flan­
nels,  blankets,  etc.,  are  firm  but  quiet. 
Stocks  are  still  small,  and  very  little 
is  desirable  can  be  found.  Coarse 
that 
colored  cottons  are  behind 
in  demand, 
as  far  as  quick  deliveries  go,  and  as  a 
consequence  prices  are  very firm,  but for 
distant  deliveries  the situation  is  easier, 
although  prices  remain  steady.

Prints— All  printed  goods  have  been 
dull  this  week,  both 
in  the  house  and 
mail  orders.  Agents  are  pushing  off 
their  fancy  calicoes,  and  as  a  conse­
quence,  prices  here  and 
there  show 
some  irregularities.  This,  however,  is 
to  be  expected  of  this  season,  and  it 
is 
gratifying  to  note  that  the  irregularities 
the  stocks 
are 
affected  are  smaller.  There 
is  a  fair 
business  coming  to  hand 
for  staple 
lines, 
indigoes,  turkey  reds,  etc.,  and 
there  is  a  chance  to  do  business  for  fall 
at  to-day’s  prices,  fall  datings,  if  buy­
ers  will  accept  business  in  that  way.

less  than  usual,  and 

Fancy 

the  outlook 

Dress  Goods— The  same  old  stereo­
typed  conditions  prevail 
in  the  dress 
goods  market  as  a  week  ago.  The  de­
mand  in  the  primary  market  is  for  such 
goods  as  are  already  in  a  very  well  sold 
position.  The  manufacturer  of  plain 
dress  goods  has  certainly  no  cause  for 
complaint  as  regards  the  business  done 
to  date,  and  the  disposition  of  buyers  to 
still  further  add  to  their  purchases  is  a 
strong  index  of  the  strength  of  that  de­
partment  of  the  market.  Fancies  are 
dependent  upon  the  future,  the  present 
demand  being  small. 
goods 
agents  continue  to  express  strong  ex­
for 
pectations  regarding 
fancy  lines,  but  the  good  news 
is  alto­
gether  in  the  prospective  stage. 
In  job­
bing  circles  business  has  quieted  down 
to  a  very  appreciable  extent  during  the 
past  two  or  three  weeks,  but  in  view  of 
the  business  that  the  average  jobber  has 
done 
in  the  past  several  weeks,  this  is 
not  surprising,  and  should  the  duplicate 
business  not  develop in any considerable 
volume,  and  present  orders  represent 
their  full  season’s  business,  it  will  still 
be  reckoned  as  a  very  good  season. 
Light  woolens,  such  as  henriettas,  flan­
nels,  mohairs,  armures,  crepes,  etc.,  are 
in  strong 
fair  sex  for 
form  of  waists 
summer  wear,  in  the 
and  complete  costumes. 
It  is  probable 
that  such  fabrics  will  be  a strong feature 
during  the  present  spring  season,  and 
many  manufacturers  will  be  prepared  to 
show  some  handsome  effects  therein.

favor  with  the 

Underwear— While  the  decreased  de­
mand  and  the  feeling  among  jobbers 
that  they  have  overbought  have  some­
what  eased  the  situation  in  this  respect, 
the  fact  remains  that  many  mills  are  so 
far  behind 
lines

in  the  most  popular 

that  they  may  have  to  drop  some  orders 
entirely.  These  mills  wish  that  a  few 
cancellations  would  come  in,  but  such 
has  not  been  the  case.  The 
jobbers 
know  that  goods  that 
they  ordered 
some  time  ago,  if  they  sent  in  any  or­
ders  to  cancel  same,  would  cost  them  a 
much  larger  sum  to  replace.  Of course, 
the  mills  that  do  their  own  spinning 
are  better  off 
in  this  regard,  but  it  is 
not  all  plain  sailing  with  them  either. 
The  high  price  of  raw  material  and 
la­
bor  and  other  factors  as  well  throw  al­
most  as  many  stumbling  blocks  in  their 
way  as  the  mills  who  have  to  buy  their 
yarns.  It  is  a  question  whether  a  manu­
facturer  of  underwear  will  in  the  end 
derive  enough  benefit 
from  operating 
his  own  yarn  plant  to  warrant his chang­
ing  from  his  present  way  of  doing  busi­
ness  by  purchasing  the  yarn he requires. 
It 
is  natural  that  a  manufacturer  who 
has  devoted  his  time,  energy  and  capi­
tal  solely  to  the  manufacture  of  yarns 
will  be  able  to  buy  yarns  cheaper,  be­
cause  he  buys  them  in  larger  quantities, 
and  will  be  able  to  manufacture  better 
and  turn  out  more,  because  he  has  bet­
ter  and 
larger  facilities  for  doing  so, 
than  the  manufacturer  who  determines 
to  make  his  own  yarns,  and  therefore 
builds  a  small  plant  in  addition  to  his 
knitting  plant,  a  plant  just  large enough 
for  the  needs  of  his  own  factory.

Hosiery—-There 

is  very  little  change 
to  note  in  the  hosiery  market.  There is 
a  scarcity  of  staples  and  fancies  alike, 
caused  by  the  slowness  of  foreign  de­
liveries.  The  demand  for  cotton  hosiery 
is  very  great,  and  the  prices  of  same 
remain  firm.  Matters  are  very  quiet  in 
regard  to  fall  hosiery.

largest 

among 

Carpets—-The  carpet  trade  still  con­
tinues  dull  and  the  retailers  feel  very 
much  disappointed.  There  is  even  less 
activity 
the  manufacturers’ 
agents.  The  mills  are  still  running  on 
old  orders  and  will  continue  to  do so  for 
some  time.  Some  of  the 
in­
grain  carpet  manufacturers  have  com­
pleted  their  samples  of  goods  for  the 
fall  trade  and  are  showing  them  in their 
New  York  salesrooms.  All  the  manu­
facturers  (except those who have finished 
their  samples)  are  now  working on them 
and  expect  before 
long  to  have  them 
ready to  show.  All  the  mills  will  have 
samples  ready  by  the  latter  part of May, 
and  the  manufacturers’  agents  will  be 
started  on  the  road  shortly  after.  A l­
though the  manufacturers  state that there 
will  be  advances  made  on  the  goods  for 
the 
fall  trade,  they  are  not  willing  to 
say  how  much  those  advances  will  be. 
Some  report  that  they  have  already  set­
tled  on  the  price  for  fall  goods.  Manu­
facturers  of  cotton  ingrains  claim  that 
they  would  be  obliged  to  advance  their 
goods  »for  the  coming  season  fully  5@ 
7/ic  per  yard  in  order  to  reach  the  pro­
portionate  advance  on  cotton 
chain 
yarns,  as  compared  with  the  first  of  last 
season,  but  whether  the  goods  will  be 
advanced  that  much  remains  to  be seen. 
During  the  past  month  some  of  the 
in­
grain  manufacturers,  as  they  had  com­
pleted old business,  have shut down their 
looms.

Smyrna  Rugs— Have  experienced  a 
very  active  season,  and  manufacturers 
of  this  class  of  goods  say  that they could 
have  sold  three  times  as  many  if  they 
had  been  able  to  produce  that  number.

The  modern  line  of  household  refrig­
erators  can  hardly  be  improved  upon. 
It  suits  all  classes  and  all  tastes,  but, 
of  late,  the  better  demand  seems  to  fall 
to  devices  which  are  detachable,  and 
thus  admit  of  practical  ventilation  and 
cleaning.

MICHIGAN  TR A D ESM A N

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For summer wear is  now  in  good  demand;  better  not  le 
your stock  get  low  as prices are almost sure to advance in the 
near future.  We are showing the  very  best  at  prices  and 
quality that defy  competition.  Write  us  for  sample  order 
and  price list before buying  elsewhere.

P.  STEKETEE  &  SONS,

W h o le s a le   D ry   G o o d s , 

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A  NEW  LOT

just  received. 
of  shirt  waists 
This  lot  includes  some  very 
pretty  numbers  in  the  all  white 
which  promise  to  be  the  big 
sellers this summer.
Prices $4.50 to  $9.00 per  dozen.

V O IG T,  H E R P O L S H EIM ER  &  C O ..

W H O L E S A L E   D R Y   G O O D S .

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

We carry a complete stock  of

Untrimmed

Straw
Hats

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

Corl,  Knott &  Co.

Jobbers of  Millinery 
Grand Rapids, Michigan

Solid  Comfort

Ladies’,  Misses’, Children’s 

Hose Supporters

Are

suspended

from
the

shoulders.

Sell rapidly  and  net  a  good  profit  to  the  mer­
chant.  W rite for catalogue and prices.

MADAME  C.  F.  SALISBURY, 

Battle  Creek,  Mich.

M ICHIGAN  TRADESM AN

living? 

I  haven't  any  dead  to  visit 
came  up. 
to-morrow,  and  with  all  these  flowers, 
too.  But  why  not  give  some  of  them  to 
I  am  sure  I  should  rather 
the 
have  flowers  while 
I  have  a  nose  to 
smell  them  and  eyes  to  see  them  than 
after  I  have  been  under  the  ground  five 
or  ten  years.  I’ll  begin  by  taking  some 
downstairs  this  evening.’ ’

She  gathered  together  a  bunch  of  the 
lilacs  and  took  to  the  dining  room.  L it­
tle  Miss  Hendricks’  face brightened and 
it  was  suiprising  how  deftly  her  stiff 
fingers  arranged  the  flowers  in  a  celery 
glass.

Why,  dear  me,  I  have  not  seen  so 
many  lilacs  since  my  lover went  to  war 
and  was  killed.  That  was  before  your 
time,  but 
is  as  fresh  in  my  memory 
as  though  it  were  yesterday.  He brought 
me  a  bunch  of  white 
lilacs  when  he 
came  to  say  good  bye.  They  are  more 
beautiful  to  me  than  roses.’ ’

it 

A C 6 t y l 6 f l C   O f l S  

^ e ^ e r  

ELECTRIC  LIGHT  a n d  

In  Q u a lity   N ex t 

to

After  10  months  this  statement  is  made 
by one who has  used  the  Cline Machine, 
which  is  made  only  by  the  Alexander 
Furnace  &  Mfg Co.  of  Lansing,  Mich.

lone. Cal., Feb. 1st, 1900. 

Alexander Furnace & Mfg Co., Lansing, Mich.

Dear.  Sirs:  The  Cline  Acetylene  Gas  Ma­
chine which I bought from you  through  E.  Carl 
Bank  in  March,  1899,  was  received  and  set  in 
operation on the fifth  of  April  and  has  been  in 
nightly use  ever  since,  and  has  never  failed  to 
give  the  nearest  approach  to  daylight  of  any 
machine or  light  yet  brought  to  my  attention. 
It works automatically  and  to  my  entire  satis­
faction and  I  would  not  exchange  it  after  ten 
months’ use for electricity or any other  artificial 
light.  The machine shows no signs of wear,  it  is 
made from the best of material and  will  last  for 
years- 

Yours respectfully,

A.  L.  Adams, M. D.
Write  the  A le x a n d er  F u rn a c e   &  M fg  Co..  L a n s in g .  M ich.,  for  full  information.

14

How  the  Book-keeper  Disposed  of  Her
W ritten for the Tradesman.

Decoration  Day  Flowers.

Phebe  Gilmore  was  returning  from 
her  day’s  work.  She  was  employed  as 
assistant  book-keeper  in  the  dry  goods 
firm  of  Perkins  &  Parker  and  she  spent 
her  time  over  long  columns  of  figures.

She  was  the  picture  of  health  as  she 
mounted  the  stairs  toward  her  ha 11-bed­
room  on  the  third  floor.  A  year  in  the 
city  had  not  robbed  her  of  her  pretty 
country  color.  Her  broad, 
fore­
head,  firm  mouth  and  square  chin  be­
spoke  strength  of 
Every 
movement  manifested  energy  and  de­
cision.  Still  she  hesitated  a  moment 
before  attempting  the  last  flight.

character. 

low 

“ Gracious,  but  I  would  give  a  good 
deal  to  be  this  minute  on  old  Jim's 
back  and  have  a  canter over  the  fields. 
Why,  I  have  sat  so  steadily  in  one  po­
feel  as  cramped  and 
sition  to-day,  I 
twisted  as  a  bud 
just  ready  to  burst. 
And  the  air  fairly  stiffles  me  with  the 
dust  and  smoke.  But  I’m  not  sorry  1 
came.  Mother  and  Father  have  done 
enough,  dear  souls,  and  they  adopted 
me.  Why,  if  I  were  their  own  child 
they  could  not  have  done  more  for  me. 
If  I  only  succeed  and  can  help them pay 
off  the  mortgage  on  the  farm  I  shall  be 
so  glad. ”

Here  she  reached  her  room.  There 
on  the  table  lay  a  large  box  and  a 
let­
ter.  Both  were  from  home.  She  opened 
the  box,  to  discover  a  mass  of  flowers. 
There  were 
lilacs  and  syringas  and 
other old-fashioned  blossoms  which  she 
knew  so  well.  Every  variety  called  up 
some  association.  She  hugged  them, 
she  kissed  them,  and  then  she  had  to 
fall  on  her  bed  and  have  a  good  cry 
letter  which  said 
before  she  read  the 
so  much  to  her. 
for 
them  to  write.  Every  word  meant  an 
effort,  and  took  so  much  longer  than  for 
her  to  read :

It  was  hard  work 

Spring  Grove  May  the  29th. 

Dear  Phebe.

We  ain't  goin’  to  surprise  you  to­
morrow.  We have  been  lotting  on  visit­
ing  you on  decoration day  all  winter  but 
Pa  he  had  another  bad  spell  with  his 
heart  Friday  and  he  is  still  too  poorish 
to  go  so  far. 
I  ain’t  spry  myself  after 
the  spring  cleanin'  but  1  manage  to  get 
round. 
I  have  papered  your  room  with 
some  paper  I  got  down  to  Griggs a  spell 
ago. 
1  s’ pose  you  won’t  think  it  pretty 
any  more, now  you  have  seen  so  much in 
the  city,  but  it  is  clean  and  whole.  Pa 
he  painted  the  kitchen  drab  and  I  am 
makin’  a  carpet  for  the  south end.  The 
Wilders  are  painting  their  house  and 
they  have  made  a  new  stoop  on  the 
north  side  by  the  pump.  Jim  says  he 
is  goin’  down  to  the  city  and  try  his 
luck  at  findin’  work.  Mebbe  you  will 
see  him  before long.  Sarah Green wasn’t 
to  church  Sunday  and  they  say  she  is 
goin’ 
It  will  be  hard  on 
the  children  but  Julia  is  a  likely  girl 
and  must  be  nigh  onto  fifteen.  We  have 
picked  the  lilacs  for  you  an’  send  them 
to-day. 
leave  the  last  page  for 
Pa.  Please  excuse  mistakes.

in .a   decline. 

1  must 

Yours  truly,

Mrs.  Susan  Jane  Gilmore. 

The  other  ran  as  follows:

Dear  Phebe.
.  I  s’ pose  Ma  told  you  All  the  news  So 
lie  pay  my  Respects  and  git  off.  we 
have  ten  Hens  settin’  and  old  speckels 
Comes  off  the  nest  Saturday.  The  Cows 
are  m ilkin'  well  this  spring.  The  crop 
is  fair  To  m idlin’  and  will  be 
Of  hav 
reddy  to  cut  in  a  cupple  of  weaks. 
1 
ain’t  strong  so  I  won’t  write  no  more 
This  time. 
I  must  hitch  up  Jim  and 
take  the  box  of  posies  Your  Ma  has 
Picked.

Your obedient  servant.

Philip  S.  Gilmore.

P-  S .— When  you  cornin’  home?

My,  but 

it’s  good 

to  hear  from 
I  felt  almost  lonesome  when  1

home! 

“ So  Miss  Hendricks  must  have  been 
young  sometime,  although  now  her  hair 
is  white  as  snow.  Perhaps  the  sad  eyes 
and  the  queer  little  wrinkles  about  her 
mouth  have  not  all  come  by  trying  to 
make  a  living  out  of  boarders.’ ’

Just  then  Mr.  Smith  and  his  wife 
came 
in.  They  were  quiet,  undemon­
strative  people  who  seemed  to  have  set­
tled  down  to  take  life  as  it  came  each 
day.  Mr.  Smith  stopped  still  on  the 
threshold  and  gave  a  low  whistle.

“ I  was  not  expecting  this,  were  you, 
Em ily? 
I  have  not  seen  such  a  sight 
since  little  Annie  was  with  us.  Do  you 
remember  how  she  loved  lilacs?’ ’

Mrs.  Smith’s  cheeks flushed  and  there 
were  tears 
in  her  eyes,  but  she  smiled 
as  she  said,  “ That  was  a  happy  time, 
wasn’t  it,  Dwight?  But  perhaps  she  is 
happier  than  we  have  ever  been.  But 
we  can  be  thankful  for  the  memory  of 
her  sunshine. ’ ’

The  other  boarders  came  in  singly  or 
in  pairs.  The  last  to  appear  was  Sam­
uel  Hicks— “ Old  H icks,”   as  he  was 
nicknamed  when  he  was  not  around. 
He  was  the  crank  of  the  house.  His 
hair  was  generally  in  wild  disorder,  his 
clothes  were  unbrushed  and  his  tie— 
when  he  wore  one—was  always  awry. 
He  was 
late  and  grumbled 
about  everybody  and  everything.

invariably 

looked 

Strange  to  say,  this  evening  his  pep­
its 
pery  old  tongue  seemed  to  have  lost 
longingly  toward  the 
fire.  He 
lilacs  during  the  meal.  He  actually 
smiled  and  spoke  about  what  a  fine  day 
they  had  been  having  (although  every­
body  else  remembered  the  thunderstorm 
at  noon).  What  was  more,  he  passed 
the  bread  twice  of  his  own  accord.  He 
loitered  near  his  chair  while  the  other 
boarders  moved toward the parlor.  When 
he  thought  no  one  was  looking  he  broke 
off  a  tiny  spray  of  lilac.  As  he  drew 
out  his  pocketbook  an  old-fashioned 
photograph  dropped  to  the  floor.  It  was 
the  picture  of  a  sweet-faced  girl.  His 
cheeks  flushed  and  the  tears  started  as 
he  stooped  to  pick 
it  up  and  then  he 
disappeared  down  the  long  dark  hall.
Z.  E.  Udell.

Not  Worth  Mentioning.

A   clergyman  was  called  upon  to  per­
form  a  marriage  ceremony  for  a  couple 
in  middle  life. 

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Have  you  ever  been  married  be­
the 

fore?”   asked  the  clergyman  of 
bridegroom.
“ No,  sir.”
“ Have  you?”   to  the  bride.
“ Well,  yes, 

I  have,”   replied 

laconically;  “ but 

the 
bride 
it  was  twenty 
years  ago,  and  he  was  killed  in  an  ac­
cident  when  we’d  been  married  only  a 
week,  so  it  really  ain’t  worth  mention­
in g.”

¡The 
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Imperial
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Fully covered  by U. S.  Patents

T h e   Im p erial  G a s  L a m p   is  a ck n o w l­
ed ged   to  be  th e  m ost  han dsom e  fixture 
on  th e  m arket.

T h e   Im p erial  G a s  L a m p   h as  fu lly   e s ­
tab lish ed   itse lf  as  th e  m ost  econom ical. 
It  burns  gaso lin e.

T h e   Im p erial  G a s  L a m p   h as  p roven  
its  lig h t  to  be  th e  m ost  b rillian t,  m ost 
stead y  and  m ost  satisfactory.

T h e   Im p erial  G a s  L a m p   is  gen erally 
con ced ed   to  be  th e  b est  valu e,  all  th in g s 
con sid ered . 

S atisfa ctio n   assured.

W rite   for  catalo gu e.

The  Imperial 
G as  Lam p  Co.,

132 and  134  Lake St., 
Chicago,  111.

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Their  Debts.

The 

Port  Huron,  May  I— At  the  last  meet­
ing  of  the  Merchants  and  Manufactur­
ers’  Association,  A.  B.  Carlisle,  the 
Tunnel  City  Boiler  Works,  E.  S.  Moak, 
Charles  E.  Busby  and  C.  B.  Stockwell 
were  admitted  to  membership.

special 

committee  appointed 
some  time  ago  to 
look  over  the  plant 
of  George  Pedler,  relative  to  raising 
capital  to  establish  him  in  business,  re­
ported  very 
favorably,  but  on  account 
of  the  class  of  goods  and  the  high  price 
of  the  material  used  in  the  construction 
of  pianos  and  organs,  the  committee 
was  unable  to  recommend 
anything 
which  would  be  of  material  assistance 
to  Mr.  Pedler.

President  E.  N.  Akers  read  a  com­
munication  from  W.  F.  Tripp,  princi­
pal  stockholder  and  purchasing  agent 
for  a  stave  and  hoop  factory  now  lo­
cated  in  Detroit.  Mr.  Tripp  submitted 
a  very  fair  proposition  for  the  members 
of  the  Association  to  consider,  to  in­
duce  him  to 
locate  here.  Mr.  Tripp 
proposes  to  purchase  his  own  site  and 
erect  three  large  buildings.  His  plant 
will  employ  from  thirty  to  fifty  men and 
will  have  a  monthly  pay  roll  of  $i,ooo. 
The  factory  will  expend  from  $10,000  to 
$12,000  each  year. 
locat­
ing  here  the  company  asks  that  the  city 
furnish  it  with  a  bonus  of $3,000,  to  be 
paid  as  the  city  desires,  either  on  time 
or  any  other way, and  not  to  be  paid  un­
til  the  buildings  are  erected  and  the 
plant  in  working  order.  The  Secretary 
was  instructed to  communicate  with  Mr. 
Tripp  and  have  him  explain  his  plan  a 
little  clearer  and  then  some  action  will 
he  taken.

In  return  for 

A   resolution  was  adopted 

instructing 
the  Secretary  to  have  cards  printed  and 
sent to  the  different  stores  and  factories 
with  a  circular,  asking  that  the  cards 
be  placed 
in  some  conspicuous  posi­
tion.  On  the  card  the  attention  of  the 
employes  will  be  called  to  the  fact  that 
the  employers  are  members  of  the  A s­
sociation  and  desire  them  to  pay  their 
bills.

Nottingham  Curtains  in  America. 

From the New York Commercial.

It 

is  still 

is  only  fifteen  years  ago  that  the 
first  Nottingham  lace  curtain  was  made 
in  America.  In  1885,  John  Willoughby, 
an  Englishman,  erected  a  small  build­
ing  at  Fordham,  N.  Y .,  where  he  in­
stalled  a  lace  curtain  machine  which  he 
brought  over  from  Nottingham.  This 
machine 
in  use  at  Tariffville, 
Conn.  Willoughby did  not  have  enough 
capital  to  conduct  the  business  alone 
and  took  as  his  partner  a  Mr.  Wilson, 
the  firm  becoming  Wilson  &  Willough­
by.  After  a 
few  years  Frank  W ilkin­
son,  of  Nottingham,  England,  bought 
the  plant  and  removed  it  to  Tariffville, 
where  he  added  a  number  of  machines, 
which  mill  is  still  in  active  operation, 
although  Mr.  Wilkinson  is  dead.

factory  another 

Soon  after  the  establishment  of  the 
Fordham 
one  was 
started  and  this  has  become  one  of  the 
most  promising  in  this  country  despite 
the  many  disadvantages  connected  with 
it.  Not  only 
it  difficult  to  secure 
skilled 
labor,  but  the  English  people 
work  so  much  cheaper  than  they  do 
here,  and  furthermore  all the machinery 
is  imported  from  Nottingham.  Despite 
these  great  difficulties,  the  Americans 
are  fast  driving  the  English-made  cu r­
tains  out  of  this  market,  and  only  a 
small  proportion  of  foreign-made  cur­
tains  are  now  being  sold  in  the  United 
States.

is 

Shoe  Stretching  a  New  Occupation  For 

Women.

When  the  woman  said  she  wanted  a 
pair  of  shoes  the  hollow-eyed  clerk  did 
notask,  “ What size, madam?”   but said, 
instead,  ‘ ‘ New  or  second-hand?”

The  woman  hesitated,  not quite grasp­
ing  the  significance  of  the  question. 
‘ ‘ Why,  new,  of  course,”   she.  said  at 
length.

‘ ‘ The  reason  I asked, ”   said  the  clerk, 
‘ ‘ was  that  we  have  several  pairs  of 
shoes  of  different  sizes  that  have  been 
worn  a 
just  enough  to  stretch 
them,  and  1  didn’t  know  but  that  you 
would 
like  a  pair  that  your  feet  would

little, 

slip  right 
have  any  trouble  w ith.”

into  and  that  you’d  never 

The  woman’s  interest  had  plainly  got 
“ Have  you  any 

started  by  that  time. 
such?”   she  asked.

foot. 

‘ ‘ if  I  had  a 

thinking  of  making 

‘ ‘ A   few  pairs,as  I  just  said ,”   replied 
the  clerk. 
“ They  have  been  worn  long 
enough  by  professional  shoe  stretchers 
to  take  the  stiffness  and  newness  away. 
We  are 
these 
stretched  shoes  a  permanent  and  promi­
nent  feature  of  our  stock.  Why,  do  you 
know,”   he  continued  with 
increased 
earnestness, 
foot  that  1 
could  expand  or  contract  at  will,  ac­
cording  to  circumstances,  I  could  make 
a  pile  of  money  by  just  trying  on  shoes. 
Anybody  who  has  ever  endured  the  tor­
ment 
incident  to  stretching  a  new  pair 
of  shoes  would  be  willing  to  pay  50 
cents  more  a  pair  in  order  to be relieved 
of  the  discomfort  of  getting  them  set  to 
the 
The  custom  of  offering 
stretched  shoes  to  patrons  has  already 
been 
into  several  stores  in 
it  certainly  ought  to  become 
town  and 
very  popular.  Judging  by  present 
in­
dications,  it  will  not  be  long  until  every 
shoe  store  of  any  pretensions  will  em­
ploy  people  with 
feet  of  the  standard 
sizes  to  wear  new  shoes  for  a  day  or  so 
to  break  them  in. 
It  will  certainly  be 
a  good  investment,  for  patrons  will  buy 
shoes  oftener  when  the  horror  of  setting 
them  has  been  removed,  and  thus  more 
money  will  accrue  to  the  dealer.  Shoe 
stretching  is  a  calling  that  will  not  per­
mit  its  followers  to  tread  on  flowery 
paths  of  ease,but  the  possibility  of  buy­
ing  shoes  that  are  comfortable  from  the 
start  opens  up  a  view  of  elysium  for  the 
wearer. ’ ’

introduced 

Drummers  in  No  Danger of Trust».
Arthur  Gray,  who  publishes 

‘ ‘ The 
World  Is  Mine”   for  commercial  trav­
elers,  is  himself  a  commercial  traveler, 
and  knows  as  much  about  the  hopes, 
fears  and  aspirations  of  the  drummer, 
including  his  haunts  and  habits,  as  any 
ordinary  mortal.  He  does  not  agree 
with  the  view  that  trusts  are  going  to 
destroy  the  drummer,  for  the  reason  that 
the  drummer  is  indestructible.  He  says 
that  while  great  trusts  may  destroy  each 
other,  the  man  with  the  grip  can  take 
care  of  himself,  even  amid  the  wreck  of 
matter  and  the  crash  of  worlds.  He 
fully  agrees  with  Secretary  Hoge  of  the 
Commercial  Travelers’  and  Hotel  Men’s 
League,  in  one  thing,  namely,  that  the 
time  has  come 
for  a  great  novel  to  be 
written  around the drummer.  If  Kipling 
or  Howells  or  Laura  Jean  Libby  will 
not  undertake  it,  he  may  do  it  himself.

Yellow  Pine  Industry.

From the American Lumberman.

The  time  when  yellow  pine  was  the 
basis  for  a  contracted  and  impoverished 
industry  has  passed  away,  and  now  in 
it  is  the  leading  branch 
some  respects 
lumber 
of  the 
industry  of  the  United 
is  now  one  that  develops 
States. 
It 
new 
ideas  and  new  features.  Particu­
larly  has  it  been  the  field  for  legitimate 
business  combination— not  trusts  nor 
price  combinations,  but  those  which 
come  about  by  the  influence  and  the  in­
vestment  of  capital  of  strong,  forceful 
and  far-seeing  men. 
It  is  the  home  of 
joint  selling  agency,  where  a  num­
the 
ber  of  mills  will  economize  in  this 
im­
portant  and  difficult  branch  of  the  busi­
ness  by  placing  their  product  on  the 
market  through  one  house,  perhaps  or­
ganized  for  the  purpose.

The  Sport of Millitmaires.

“  It  must  be'a  source of  great satisfac­
tion to  you,”   remarked the  millionaire’s 
friend,  “ to  be  able  to  give  these 
large 
sums  to  struggling  institutions  of  learn­
in g.”

“ You  notice,”   replied  the  million­
aire,  “ my  gifts  are  generally  made  on 
condition  that  the  beneficiaries  raise 
an  equal  sum  within  a  certain  time. ”

“ Y e s.”
‘ ‘ Well,  I  think  I  get more  satisfaction 
from  seeing  the  managers  shin  around 
after  that  money  than  I  do  from  any­
thing  else. ”

When  a  man’s  heart  is  hurt,  his  ‘first 
is  to  hide  him self;  a  woman’s 

instinct 
first  instinct  is  to  bide  the  hurt.

Crockery  and  Glassware

AKRON  STONEWARE. 

Butters

54 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........................  

 

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

Milk pans

54 gal. flat or rd. hot., per doz............. 
1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each..................  
F ine Glazed M ilk pans
54 gal. flat or rd. hot... per doz.............  
1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each.................. 

54 gal. fireproof, ball, per  doz............. 
1 gal. fireproof, ball, per  doz............. 

Stew pans

Ju g s

54 gal., per  doz...................................... 
14 gal. per  doz.......................................  
1 to 5 gal., per  gal................................. 

T om ato  Ju g s

54 gal., per  doz...................................... 
1  gal,, each........................................... 
Corks for 54 gal., per doz............................  
Corks for  1  gal., per doz............................  

P reserve  J a r s   and  Covers

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

5 lbs. in package, per  lb....................... 

Sealing  W ax

FR U IT   JA R S

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

DAMP  BURNERS

No. 0 S u n ..................................................... 
No. 1 Sun....................................................... 
No. 2 Sun................................................ 
No. 3 Sun...................................................... 
Tubular................................................... 
Security, No.  l ............................................. 
Security, No.  2............................................. 
Nutmeg.......................................................... 
DAMP  CHIMNEYS—Seconds

Per box of 6 doz.

1 45
1 54
2 25

1 50
1 so
2 45

2  10
2  15
3  15

2  75
3  75
3  95

3 70
4 70
4 88

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

Com m on

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

F irst  Q uality

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

XXX  F lin t

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

Da  B astie

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

R ochester

No. 1 Lime (65c  doz)............................ 
No. 2 Lime (70c  dozj............................ 
No. 2 Flint (80c  doz) ■ • *•...................... 

E lectric

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

OID  CANS

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

P u m p   Cans

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

DANTERNS

No.  0 Tubular, side lift....................... 
No.  1 B Tubular................................... 
No. 13 Tubular, dash............................  
No.  1 Tubular, glass fountain............  
No. 12 Tubular, side  lamp.................... 
No.  3 Street lamp, each...................... 
DANTERN  GDOBES 
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 laoz. each 

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The  National  Safe 
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C annon  B reech  Screw  l>o*»r  Bank 
Safe, with antl-concusslou  dead  lock  de­
vice.

Can  Not  tie  opened  by  the  jarring 

process.

A bsolute  P ro o f  against 

the  intro­

duction of Diqiiid or D ry explosives.
“  Locking  A ction  the  (piickest  of any 
safe.
11 D o o r and J a in   perfect  circular  form, 
ground  metal  to  metal  finish  and  her­
metically sealed fit.

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

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

Estimates  furnished  on  all  kinds  of 

safe and  vault work.

Office and Salesroom ,

129 Jefferson  Ave., 
D etroit, M idi.

W. M. HULL. Manager.

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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 
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Unquestionably  the  best.  Competitors  con­
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T h e  B ra d le y  G ig a r Go.

Manufacturers of the

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Butter  and  Eggs
O bservations  by  a  G otham   Egg  M an.
A  large  egg  receiver asked  me into  his 
store  one  day  last  week  to  look  at  some 
eggs  which  he  had  received  from  the 
Middle  West.  The  stock  was  of  very 
good  quality  and  would  have  been  quite 
desirable  had  it  been  properly  packed ; 
but  how any one  in his sober senses could 
have  used  such  fillers  was  a  mystery  un­
solved.  They  were  made  of  strawboard, 
but  the  stuff  hardly  deserved  the  name 
flimsy,  rotten,  not  fit  to  pack 
— weak, 
I  asked  my  friend 
wooden  eggs 
how  much  he  supposed 
the  sbippe: 
saved  by  buying  those  fillers.  He  sair 
he  didn’t  know  but 
if  the  chap  got 
them  for  nothing  he  had  a  dearbarga 
And  I  could  readily  see  that  it  was 
exaggeration.  Taking  off  the  covers 
and  top  packing  the  contents  of  the case 
’ were  seen  to  have  settled,  the  fillers  be­
ing  so  weak  as  to  offer  no  adequate sup­
port  for  the  weight  of  the  eggs,  and  the 
breakage  was  something  serious.  This 
lot  of  eggs 
if  properly  packed  and  in 
perfect  order  would  have  sold  at  S3.75 
per  case;  as  it  was 
it  brought  S3  per 
case  owing  to  the  loss 
in  breakage— 
rather  a  dear  price  to  pay  for  the  priv­
ilege  of  saving  a  few  cents  in  the  first 
place.

*  *  *

I  took  some  trouble  to  enquire 

in 
other  places  as  to  the  use  of  these  mis­
erable  fillers  and  found  that  a  number 
of  receivers  were  complaining  about 
them.  They  should  he  abandoned  en­
tirely. 
If  a  packer  gets  a  lot  of  these 
flimsy  things  when  he  orders  a  good 
article  he  Should  send  them  back  to  the 
‘ maker  or  dealer  forthwith;  if  he  buys 
them  knowingly  with  the  idea  of  saving 
in  cost  he  makes  a  great  mistake,  for 
he  is  pretty  certain  to  lose  more  than  he 
saves.

My  attention  has  also  been  recently 
called  to  a  very  undesirable  style  of  egg 
case  in  use  by  some  of  the  Illinois ship­
pers. 
I  did  not  recognize  the  wood  but 
it  looked  as  if  it  might  be  some  variety 
of  maple. 
It  had  a  red  color  and  these 
cases  were  very  rough  and  uncouth  look­
ing  decidedly unattractive.  The  white 
wood  case  has  come  to  be  identified 
with  first-class  Western  goods  and  odd 
looking  cases,  especially  when  made  of 
rough,  splintery 
lumber,  make  a  bad 
impression  upon  buyers  and  retard  sell-

they  are  repacked 

Desiring  to  get  some 

information  as 
to  the  practicability  of 
establishing 
weight  standards  for  the different grades 
of  eggs  as  fixed  by  trade  rules,  I  asked 
the  egg  inspector  of  New  York  Mercan­
tile  Exchange,  John  Borland,  how  he 
handled  the  eggs  when  inspecting.  He 
informed  me  that  when inspecting a car­
load  of  eggs  all  the  eggs  in  twenty cases 
were  taken  out  and  examined  carefully. 
As  fast  as  the  eggs  are  taken  from  one 
case 
in  another. 
“ Then,”   I  remarked,  “ it  would  be  a 
perfectly  simple  matter  to  weigh  each 
empty  case  and  the  fillers  and  packing, 
weigh  again  when  filled  and  record  the 
net  weight  of 
cases.”  
“ Y e s,”   he  replied,  “ that  would  add 
very  little  to  the  work  of 
inspection.”  
“  Don’t  you  think, ”   I  suggested,  “ that 
this  would  give  a  much  more  practical 
method  of 
judging  of  size  than  any 
other?”   “  I certainly do, ”   said  Mr.  Bor­
land, “ and  it  would  be  much  better  than 
leaving  the  judgment  as  to  size  merely 
to  the  eye  of  the  inspector.”

twenty 

the 

to  42  lbs. 

In  regard  to  the  weight  specifications 
which  might  properly  be  made  for  the 
different  grades  the  matter  would  of 
course  require  considerable  investiga­
tion  by  the  egg  committee,  but it should 
be  comparatively  easy  to  arrive  at  sat­
isfactory  requirements.  Such  investiga­
tion  as  I  have  been  able  to  make  (not 
very  extensive)  would  indicate  that  for 
average  good 
lots  of  Western  new  laid 
eggs  the  net  weight  per  30  dozen  ranges 
from  about  41 
In  selected 
goods  which  are  graded  according  to 
size  as  well  as  cleanness  it  reaches  45 
lbs.  cjuite  frequently  and  sometimes  a 
shade  more. 
If  the  spirit  of  our  pres­
for  “ extras”   was  carried  out 
ent  rule 
and  the  stock  made 
from  “ all 
small”   eggs  the  weight  per 30  dozen 
ought  to  come  pretty  close  up  to 48 lbs.  ; 
but  it  is  very  rare  that  packers  grade  as 
close  as  this. 
If  it  should  ever  be  de­
cided  to  make  a  trial  of  the  weight  sys­
tem  for  grading  eggs  it  would  of  course 
have  to  be  considered  that  refrigerator 
lose  weight  and  that  goods  which 
eggs 
to  case  in 
went 
into  storage  45 
April  might  weigh  only  41 @43 
lbs. 
when  taken  out  late  in  the  year;  a  d if­
ferent  scale  might  be  necessary  for  “ re­
frigerator”   and  for  “ fresh  gathered”  
goods. 
It  would  seem  that  the  weight 
system  ought  to  work  well  in  the  fall, 
when  any  serious  mixture  of  shrunken 
country  holdings  by  reducing  the  net 
weight  would,  as  it  should,  throw  the 
stock  off  grade.— N.  Y.  Produce  Re 
view.

free 

lbs. 

Yellow  Meated  Poultry.

From the American  Cultivator.

it 

It 

The  public  demand  for  yellow-meated 
md  yellow-legged  poultry  just  compels 
one  to  heed  the  fancies and whims of  the 
consumers. 
is  difficult  to  say  why 
certain  market  demands  for  farm  prod­
ucts  arise,  but 
is  sufficient  for  the j 
producer  to  meet  the  demand.  Yellow- 
meated  birds  are  no  better  in  flavor or 
tenderness  than  the  white-meated  ones, 
but  it  is  difficult  to  convince  city  con­
sumers  of  that.  The 
idea  has  gained 
ideal  poultry  should  have 
round  that 
both  yellow  legs  and  yellow meat.  D is­
play  fowls  on  the  same  stand  at  once for 
sale,  and  the  yellow-meated  birds would 
sell  for  the  highest  quotations,  while  the 
white-meated  chickens  would  drag  and 
be  finally  knocked  down  at  a  discount. 
Knowing  this,  it  is  a  waste  of  time  to 
raise  birds  for  market  that  do  not  have 
both  yellow  legs  and  yellow meat.  For­
tunately  two  of  our  best  breeds  meet 
this  requirement,  and 
in  addition  to 
furnishing  the  right  kind  of  meat,  they 
are  good  layers  and  setters.  Both  the 
Plymouth  Rocks  and  the  Wyandottes 
have  the  necessary  requisites  for good 
meat  poultry,  and  they  are  also  such 
good 
all-round 
profitable  birds.

layers  that 

they  are 

These  two  breeds  are  hardy  enough  to 

suit  almost  any  climate  and  situation 
this  country,  and  with  a  fair  amount  of 
care  they  will  yield  good  returns.

From the Boston  Herald.

A  Talented  Hen.

They  have  a  wonderful  hen  down 
in  Rhode  Island.  At  least  they  are  tell­
ing  wonderful  tales  of her achievements, 
among  which  may  be  mentioned  that  of 
laying  a  dozen  eggs  a  day.  Her  fame 
has  spread  abroad,  and  her  coop  is  now 
being  watched  by distinguished students 
of  the  miraculous.  But  here 
is  where 
the  trouble  comes  in.  She  is'a  modest 
hen,  and  apparently  not  a  seeker  after 
notoriety.  She  is  willing  to  lay  twelve 
eggs  a  day  for  the  enrichment  of  the old 
lady  who  has  given  her  a  parlor  bed­
room,  but  she  refuses to gratify  the  curi­
ous  people  who  come  to  see  her  perform 
the  feat.  So  she 
is  now  resting  for a 
time  in  order  to  show  that  a  watched 
hen  never  lays.

Some  people  excuse  stealing  on  the 
plea  that  they  wished  to  anticipate  the 
other  party  to  the  steal.

BUTTER  WANTED

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small  shipments.  We  are  the  largest  packers  of  Imitations  or 

Ladles in  Michigan.H.  N.  RANDALL.  T eko n sh a,  Mich.

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

Buyers and  Shippers of

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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, MarshaU, City Bank, Allegan. 

Both Phones at Allegan.

Branch  house at Allegan,  Mich.

•  F.  C U T L E R  &  SONS,  Ionia, Mich.

WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

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References.

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Branch  Houses.

New York, 874 Washington st.

jjjromjjtly.

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

Brooklyn, 225  Market avenue.

W. R. Brice.  Established In Philadelphia 1852.  C. M. Drake.

W.  R.  Brice  &   Co., 

WHOLESALE

9 and  11  North  Ionia  St.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

References:

Corn  Exchange  National  Bank,  Philadelphia.
Western  National  Bank,  Philadelphia.
W.  D.  Hayes, Cashier  Hastings  National  Bank,  Hastings,  Mich. 
Fourth  National  Bank, Grand  Rapids,  Mich.
D. C.  Oakes,  Coopersville,  Mich.
E.  A.  Stowe,  Michigan Tradesman.

T o   our  m an y  frien d s  in  M ich igan ;

W e   a g ain   tak e  p leasu re  in  in fo rm in g  you   th at  w e 
h a v e   op en ed   our  bran ch  h ouse  in  G ran d   R a p id s,  and  are  in 
th e  m a rk et  for  la rg e  q u an tities  o f  fine  fresh  E g g s   and  coun- 
try   B u tter.  N o   d o u b t  m an y  of  you   h a v e  sold  us  y o u r  e g g s 
in  form er  y e a rs ,  and  yo u   h a v e   a lw ay s  fou nd  us  fair  and 
sq uare  in  our  d e a lin g s.  W e   p a y   sp o t  cash ,  and  w hen   sh ip ­
p in g   us  yo u   run  no  risk,  as  w e  are  an  old -estab lish ed , 
th o r­
o u g h ly   reliab le  house,  and  sh ip m en ts  sen t  to  us  w ill  be  p aid  
for  p ro m p tly.  W r ite   for  p rices.

Y o u rs  for  b u sin ess,

W .  R .  B R I C E   &  C O .

Proper  Style  of  Packing  Butter—Trying 

Season  to  Buttermakers.

In  company  with  a  large  buyer on this 
into  one  of  the  butter 
market  1  went 
stores 
last  week  and  while  the  jobber 
was  purchasing  a  number  of  lots  that 
had  just  come 
in  we  talked  over  the 
matter  of  qualities,  style  of  packing, 
etc.  Finally  1  left  him  with  the  sales­
man  to  settle  the  question  of  price,  and 
I  walked  across  the  store  to  examine  a 
shipment  of  butter  that  had  before  at­
tracted  my  attention. 
It  was  one  of  the 
well-known  Western  creameries,  but 
the  buttermaker  evidently  had  some  er­
roneous  ideas  of  packing. 
I  remarked 
to  the  porter  that  the  tubs  were  not 
paper 
lined,  and  he  assured  me  that  1 
was  wrong.  But  there  was  not  a  scrap 
of  paper  to  be  seen  and  I  persisted  that 
he  was  mistaken  in  the  lot,  that  there 
were  no  linings  in  those  tubs. 
“ Look 
here,  and  I’ ll  strip  a  tu b,"  he  added, 
and  in  a  half  minute  the butter had been 
turned  out.  To  my  surprise  the  paper 
was  on  the  sides,  but  instead  of  putting 
it  on 
in  the  right  way  the  lining  was 
folded  over  in  the  bottom  of  the  tub  at 
least  three 
inches,  and  the  upper  edge 
of  the  paper  did  not  come  within  a  half 
inch  of  the  top  of  the  tub. 
It  was  a 
most  peculiar  method  of  using  the  lin­
ings  and  instead  of  having  anything  to 
commend 
is  con­
demned  by  everyone  familiar  with  good 
packing.  For  the  benefit  of  the  butter- 
maker,  and  possibly  some others,  I  wish 
to  say  that  as  there  is  a  bottom  circle 
of  paper  in  the  tub  the  side  linings  do 
not  need  to  fold  over  much  on  the  bot 
tom ;  they  should  be  so  placed  in  the 
tubs  as  to  reach  about  half  an  inch 
above  the  top  of  the  tub.  When  the  but 
ter  is  packed  nicely  and  the  top  evened 
off  smoothly,  the  paper  should  be  folded 
over  the  top  of  the  butter,  and  then  a 
cloth  circle  should  be  placed  neatly  on 
top  of  this. 
if  well 
done,  is  strictly  up-to-date  and  is  ap 
preciated  by  buyers  and  sellers  alike.

it,  the  whole  style 

Such  packing, 

I  was  conversing  with  a  well-known 
Reade  street  butter  merchant  on  Mon 
day  about  inconsistencies  of  some  mer 
chants  and  buttermakers,  especially  the 
latter.  He  referred  to  a  make  of  goods 
he  had 
in  for  three  consecutive  weeks, 
but  which  he  had  difficulty  in  selling 
until  last  week  and  then  he  did  not  get 
top  price  as  the  goods  were  poor.  He 
made  his  returns  for  the  three 
lots  and 
this  week  got  a  letter  from  the Secretary 
of  the  creamery  refusing  to  accept  the 
check  in  settlement  in  full  for the goods 
He  wrote  that  the  butter  came 
in  here 
on  a  20c  market  and  the  merchant  was 
not  instructed  to  hold  the goods,  but  was 
supposed  to  sell  them  day  of  arrival  at 
top  market  price  at  least.  The merchant 
told  me  that  at  the  time  this  butter  ar 
rived,  in  fact,  for  three  weeks,  the  mai 
ket  weakened  considerably,  declining  to 
18c.  There  was  no  demand  for  the  but 
ter  at  the  time  and  he  couldn’t sell when 
the  goods  arrived  to  as  good  advantage 
for  the  creamery  as  he  did  later— last 
week— as  he  finally  found  a  purchaser 
who  needed  just  that  kind  of  butter  and 
was  willing  to  pay  more,  probably  than 
“ The  idea  seems 
any  one  else  for  it. 
to  prevail 
in  some  creamery  sections, 
or  at  least  in  the  minds  of  some  cream 
ery  men,  that 
if  their  good  don  t  sell 
promptly  on  arrival  at  highest  price 
quoted,  or  at  a  premium  over  this  quo 
tation, 
then  the  house  receiving  the 
goods  should  make  up  the  difference be 
tween  the  price  received  for  the  goods 
and  the  top  price  quoted,  notwithstand 
ing  the 
fact  that  their  butter  is  not  up 
in  quality;  and  in  the  case  just  referred

MICHIGAN  TR A D ESM A N

17

the  creamery  never  has  made  fancy 
butter  with  any  degree  of  regularity. 
Certainly  we  can’t  afford  to  put  up  any 
loss,  although  there  may occasionally  be 

case  where  such  a  thing  is  done.’ ’

*  *  *

as 

This 

is  the  season  of  year  generally 
trying  on  buttermakers  as  it  is  between 
iay  and  grass.  Warm  weather the  cows 
are  turned  out,  and  in  a  good  many  sec­
tions  are  fed  “ any  old  thing”   that hap­
pens  to  be  left  over  from  previous  sea­
son.  Cows  thus  fed  do  not,  of  course, 
produce  as  good  milk  as  when  fed  a 
first-class  balanced  ration,  and  it  is  in 
handling  this  poor milk that the patience 
of  buttermakers  is  tried. 
I  was  speak- 
ng  of  this  matter  to  a  Warren  street 
dealer the  other day  and  he  said his firm 
in  receipt  of  a  letter  from  one  of 
their  buttermaker  friends  in  which  he 
poke  of  the  difficulty  he  was  experi­
encing  in  securing  a  supply  of  milk  fit 
for  fancy  buttermaking.  He  said  that 
the  feed  supply  was  low  on  many  farms 
and  dairymen  were  not  inclined  to  pur­
chase  much  feed  as  prices  were  high ; 
they  prefer  to  feed  their  dairy  cows 
most  anything  they  may  have 
left  over, 
is  fit  for  milk  production  or 
whether 
it  won’t  be  long  now,”   re­
not. 
marked  the  merchant  as  I  was 
leaving 
iim,  “ when  the  cows  will  have  good, 
oreen  grass  to  feed  on,  and  then  our 
buttermaker  friends  should  be  able  to 
regain 
Y. 
Produce  Review.

equilibrium .” — N. 

it 
“ But 

their 

Extremes to  Be  Avoided.

“ We  ought  to  be  very  careful  in  our 

choice  of  a  clergyman. ”

“ Have  you  had  any  trouble?”
“ Y es;  if  we  get  an  energetic  man  he 
works  us  to  death;  and  if  we  get  one 
without  energy  we  have  to  work  our­
selves  to  death.”

YOUR

CUSTOMER

Can’t  help  but  see  the  difference  between  ordi­
nary butter  salt and

DIAMOND C R Y ST A L 

BU TTER  S A LT

Anybody  can  see  the  difference. 
dairymen  will  not use ordinary  salts  after

Intelligent 

“ The  Salt That’s  All  S a lt”

is once introduced. 
If you  think  a  pleased  cus­
tomer  is  a  good  advertisement;  if  you  think  it 
really pays  to  keep  what  the  best  buyers want; 
if you  desire to  be  known  as  a  first-class  grocer, 
we  shall  expect to hear  from you.

DIAMOND CRYSTAL  SALT CO.,  St.  Clair,  Mich.

-Butter and  E ggs 

-W anted-

W e   are  in  th e  m arket  for 
la rg e  q u an tities  of  fresh 
e g g s  and  all  grad es  of 
d a iry   bu tter. 
H ig h e st 
m arket  p rice p aid  on track 
sh ip p in g   point.
G e t  you r  m on ey  out  of 
you r  low   grad e  b u tter  and 
w rite  us  for  p rices.

STROUP &  SICKELS
38  S o . D ivision  S t., 
G ran d   R apids,  M ich

B oth  p h o n e s.

Is  conceded.  Uncle  Sam  knows  it  and 

uses them by the thousand.

W e make all kinds.

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

•  Send  for catalogue.

BALLOU BASKET WORKS, Belding, Mich.

Star Green  C igar

We have our own Straw Board Mills, carry heavy 
stock.  Prompt shipments.  Write for  prices. 
FLINT  EGG CASE  AND  FIU.K B CO., 

Flinty Michigan.

H,  Van  Tongeren,  Maker,

H olland,  M ich.

For Sale by All Jobbers.

SALTED
PEANUTS
N E W   PR O C E SS

G u aran teed   to  k eep   fresh  for 
six ty   d ays. 
D elicio u s,  A p ­
p e tizin g ,  N u tritiou s.

C R YSTA L
NUTS

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

fru its  and 
M ad e  from   nuts, 
grain s 
com b ined , 
care fu lly  
th orou gh ly  cooked ,  rea d y  to 
be  served   at  once.  S am p les 
of  the  ab ove  sen t  free  on  a p ­
p lication .

Lambert Nut  Food  Company,

Battle Creek, Mich.

18

Hardware

Piratic  Nature  of Department  Store Com­

petition.

A   great  deal  has  been  said  and  writ­
ten  upon  the  piratic  nature  of  depart­
ment  stores  and  catalogue  houses. 
I  am 
in  hearty  accord  with  most  of  these 
views.  Results,  however,  have  demon- 
strated  that  the  public  has  little  interest 
in  issues  whose  sole  argument  appears 
to  be  prompted  by  motives  of  self-inter­
est  and  we  have  possibly  been  directing 
our  efforts  against  the  symptoms  of  a 
public  disease  while  we  should  have 
applied  the knife  to  the  canker  gnawing 
at  the  heart  of  our  republic. 
If  the 
propositions  I  am  about  to  establish  are 
true,  which  I  believe  they  are  and  will 
stand  the  test  of  every  thinking  man’s 
moral  convictions,  then  the  responsibil 
ity  of  the  evil  does  not  rest  alone  witl 
the  men  who  are  taking  undue  advan­
tage  of  circumstances,  but  a  consider­
able  amount  of  it  may  be  charged  to 
the  public  blindness  and  indifference 
which  unwisely  creates  or  tolerates  con­
ditions  under  which  either  individuals 
or  classes  may  take  improper  opportun­
ities  to  so  great  an  extent  as  to  effect  a 
decaying  condition  of  the  moral  forces 
cementing  our  body  politic,  and 
its 
remedy  will  call  for  a  more  efficient  de­
gree  of  patriotism  than  that  of  firing 
bombs  on  Fourth  of  July  and  occasion­
ally  cheering  the  mention  of great men’s 
names.

Here  are  six  propositions  upon  which 
I  base  my  views  against  department 
store  system s:

1.  The  ruinous  influence  their under 
selling  process  has. upon  quality of man­
ufacture,  as  demonstrated  during  the 
past  ten  years  in  goods  which  are  now 
but  a  semblance  or  shadow  ofnheir  for­
mer quality.

2.  The 

improper 

advantage 

they 
take,  under  lax  laws,  to  ruin  and  drive 
out  of  market  lines  of  goods  by  selling 
for  less  than  cost  of 
them  as  “ baits”  
manufacture,  until 
their 
commercial 
value 
is  ruined  and  their  manufacture 
must  practically  be  discontinued.

3;  The  discouraging 

influence  such 
actions  have  upon  the  higher  ambition 
of  mechanical  minds  to  excel  destroys 
an  essence  to  which  we  must  concede 
considerable 
importance  as  a  factor  in 
attaining  our  present  commercial  stand 
ard.

4-  Their  method  of  wrecking 

the 
small  merchant’s  business  by  continua.- 
ly  harassing  him  in  unloading  upon  the 
market  goods  at  less  than  cost  and  prey­
ignorance  of  society  to 
ing  upon  the 
balance 
these 
losses 
inferior 
qualities  and corresponding advance of 
prices  in  other goods.

through 

5.  Their  tendency  towards  changing 
the  opportunities  and  privileges  of  in­
dependent  support  into  a  system  of  un­
derpaid  labor,  a condition  whose  natural 
result  enforces  celibacy  and  encourages 
the  accompanying  crime  of  infanticide, 
thus  establishing  like conditions  under 
which  France  is  known  to  be 
fast  fall­
ing  into  decay.

6.  Their  influence  in  establishing  a 
standard  of  wages  which  from 
force  of 
circumstances  must  be  followed  by  all 
kindred  lines  of  retail  trade,  inadequate 
to  respectably  support  the  woman  whose 
labor  is  her  only  support,  and  too  often 
calls  for  virtue  to  be  thrown  into  the 
scale  to  balance  accounts.

I  have  the  highest  regard 

for  any 
woman  who  has  the  courage  to  honestly 
make  her  own  living  whenever  circum­
stances  oblige 
it,  and  accord  to  her

to  enter  upon 
every  honorable  right 
whatever calling  her  tastes  and  talents 
it  be  a  profes­
are  suited  for,  whether 
sion,  a  clerkship  or  a  trade. 
If  a  rail­
road  company  has  a  switchman  at  some 
important  crossing  who  is  incapable  or 
too  dissipated  to  fill  his  position proper­
ly,  and  his  wife  or  daughter  can  and 
will  fill  the  place  with  greater  safety  to 
the  public  and  more  satisfactory  to  the 
company,  let  her take  the  place,  and  as 
long  as  the  act  is  without 
injury  to  the 
many 
little  importance  to  the 
ublic  which  one  earns  the  bread  for 

is  of 

it 

the  family.

the 

But 

scale 

if  her  four  daughters  determine 
to  enter  the  same  calling  and,  from  the 
sufficiency  of 
living  at  home,  peddle 
their  labor to  the  company  at  less  than 
it  is  worth,  and  are  hired  by  the  com­
pany  to  supplant  the  four  voung  men 
who  should  become  husbands  and  heads 
of 
families, 
established 
through  the 
influence  of  an  unwise  act 
which  has  reduced  the  wages  of  the  po­
sition  to 
less  than  the  requirements  of 
decent  family  support,  even  if  the  four 
men  could  again  get  these  places,  puts 
marriage  out  of  the  question,  and  dem­
onstrates  two  social  evils  effected  by 
the  act;  the  one  of  influence  wielded  in 
the  wage  scale  upon  all  the  employes, 
and  the other the enforcement of celibacy 
and  its  accompanying  evils.  The  wag 
might  ask,  Why  don’t  the 
four  young 
men  combine,  marry  the  four  girls  and 
control  the  market?  and  in  the  ordinary 
commercial sense this has its weight.  But 
marriage,  we  must  admit,  is  not  entire­
ly  based  upon  commercial  methods. 
First,  the  proper  affinities  to  such  end 
might  be  lacking.  Second,  the  question 
involves  a  condition  of  assurances  from 
the  society  of  which  they  are  a  com- 
ponent  part  that  another  four  equally  as 
rash  women  will  not  immediately  ap­
ply  for  and  be  placed  in  the  position 
and 
leave  the  four  couples  to  live  on 
“ love  by  the  wayside.”   So  that  the 
society  assurance  implied  by  the  ques­
its 
tion  rather  assists  us  in  establishing 
importance  as  a  political  issue. 
I  hope 
this  is  sufficiently  plain  to  demonstrate 
the  injuries  inconsistency  of  labor  pro­
duces  for  itself,  by  which  no  one  profits 
but  the  rich,  and  from  which,  sooner  or 
later,  society  at 
large  will  reap  the 
moral  effects.

in  a  measure 

Advocates  of  these  institutions  assert 
that  the  conditions  of  female  labor  in 
these  establishments  are  largely  due  to 
girls  of  the  reasonably  well  to  do classes 
offering  their  services  for  whatever  they 
can  get  as  a  little  side  money.  This, 
however,  would  not  mitigate  qor  excuse 
the  evil  influence  of  the  act  upon  our 
social  fabric,  but,  if  true,  simply  adds
enormity to the  deed.  Another  theory 
is  often  advocated,  that the  “ demands
of society  inducing  women  to  dress  be­
yond  their  means  is  largely  responsible 
for  these  conditions. ”  
If  this  be  true, 
and 
it  may  be  so,  yet 
taken as  a  whole  I  dispute  the  inference 
or  conclusions  to  be  deducted  from  such 
an  allegation,  and  whatever  the  extent 
of  her  implication  in  the  bringing about 
of  these  conditions,  I  am  here  to  say, 
the  spirit  of American woman,which  has 
ennobled  her  sex  with  deeds  of  patriot­
ism  and  charity— by  responding  to  the 
call  of  distress,  whether  from  battlefield 
or  nursery,  from  home  or  prison,  from 
palace  or slum,  from  midst  the  dangers 
of a  Klondike  or  the  fever-infested  In­
dies,  and  by  her  untiring  missionary 
work  proved  so  prime  a  factor  in  break­
ing  the  shackles  of  slavery  for  an  unfor­
tunate  race,  and  under all  circumstances 
has  proven  herself  above  any  fear  or

MICHIGAN  TRADESM AN

limitation  when  the  interests  of  human­
ity  demanded  it— is  a  spirit  above  the 
intentional  crime  from  which 
guilt  of 
lowest  creatures  might  suffer. 
even  the 
And 
if  she  has  given  moral  aid  and 
financial  support  by  her  patronage  to  so 
great  an  evil  as  the  various  phases  of 
these  conditions 
imply,  then  she  has 
done  it  through  her  ignorance  of  facts, 
for  which  you  and  I  are  responsible.

The 

great  warfare 

the  American 
woman  has  conducted,  even  under  the 
most  blighting  ridicule  of  man,  in fight­
ing  the  evils  of  intemperance,  and  by 
her  persistent  devotion  and  social  influ­
ence  has  done  more  to  abate  the  evil 
than  all  the  laws  man’s  mind  could  de­
vise,  will  not  knowingly  abet  an  eco-

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19

here  I  give  him  another  surprise  party. 
He  will  wonder  with  astonishment 
where  I  got  it  from  and  will  begin  to 
size  me  up.  We  will  now  start  to  talk 
business. 
I  will  say  to  him  that  if  he 
will  give  me  the  same  price  on the same 
class  of  goods  as  the  catalogue  quotes, 
with  freight  added,  that  that  is  enough 
irofit  for  me  and  I  will  be  pleased  to 
meet  any  legitimate  quotations  he  may 
have  to  offer.  Sometimes  I  surprise 
them  by  going  them  one  better,  if  in 
my judgment  he  is  a  man  who  is  appre­
ciative  and  whom  I  can  not get at in any 
other  way.  Have  patience,  try  this  two 
r  three  times  and  you  will  succeed. 
Never  deceive  him  and  do  always  as 
you  agree  to  do  and  you  have  not  only 
gained  a  customer,  enriched  your  purse, 
but  have  also  made  a  lifelong  friend.

I  will  now  proceed  to  give  you  a  taste 
of  how  I  get  along  with  my 
local  com­
petitors  at  home,and I  am  a  firm  believ­
er that  some  of  its  principles  are correct 
and  that  the  same  should  be  followed 
more  closely  by  merchants  generally  as 
a  rule  at  home.  You  have  nothing  to 
lose,  but  everything  to  gain.  On  the 
subject  of  local  competition  there  is  no 
question  but  what  you  will  all  agree 
with  me.  That 
is  a  subject  we  do  not 
care  to  read  very  loud  when  our  com­
petitors  are sitting within a stone’s throw 
of  us.  Who  will  read  this  for  me? 
Look  out,  here  she  goes. 
In  the  first 
place,  I  can  congratulate  myself  upon 
the 
fact  that  1  have  only  gentlemen  as 
competitors  to  deal  with ;  men  who  are 
business  men  in every sense of the word ; 
men  who  have  not  gone 
into  trade  to 
seek  health,  but  who  invested  money  in 
the  hardware  business  to  make  money. 
It  undoubtedly  may  seem  strange  to  you 
that  my  competitors  and  myself  are  on 
speaking  terms; 
that  we  smoke  and 
eat— but  do  not  drink  together— or  that 
our  families  will  visit  one  another  and 
that  they,  too,  will  eat  and  drink —but 
will  not  smoke  together.

foxy 

When  I  forget  myself  and  try  to  get 
a  little  gay,  they  will  call  my  hand  and 
I  have 
meet  my  prices.  Then  I  stop. 
learned  one  thing,  and  that 
is  this 
That  I  can  not  sell  all  the  hardware 
there  is  to  be  sold  in  our  city,  either  by 
getting 
in  cutting  prices  or  by 
making  unkind  remarks  and  insinua­
tions  against  them. 
It  does  not  take 
long  to  find  out  that  your  competitors 
have  as  much  money,  brains and  friends 
as  you  or  that  they  will  hesitate  to  meet 
competition;  understanding  one  another 
thoroughly  on  these  particular  points, 
will  be  frank  enough  to  admit,  is  mak 
ing  me  money,  as  also  for  my  competi 
tors,  as  I  am  informed  on  very  reliable 
authority  that  they  are  discounting  al 
of  their  bills  right  along.  Whethe 
this 
is  the  proper  feeling  that  should 
exist  between 
not  say,  but  will 
this  question  to  my  readers.

local  competitors,  I  wi 

leave  the  solution  of 

o .,

nomic evil  which  destroys woman’s hope 
of  a  home 
for  man’s  lack  of  means  to 
support  a  family,  and  reduces  her to  a 
wage  scale  which  too  often  enforces  a 
crime  against  her  soul,  fills  the  streets 
with  young  men  without  hope  or  a 
chance  of  useful  occupation,  and  feeds 
the  very  flames  against  which  she  is  d i­
recting  her  moral  energy.

labor 

is  worth,  and 

If  woman  must  enter  commercial  pur­
suits,  let  her  do  so  under  the  moral  law 
she  owes  her  fellow  beings,  and  let  the 
survival  of  the  fittest  govern  the  situa­
it  that  she  gets 
tion.  Let  her  see  to 
what  her 
let  the 
public  assist  her  by  establishing  social 
and  political 
conditions  or  circum­
stances  that  will  enforce  it.  Let  society 
discountenance  women  of  well  to  do 
circumstances  peddling  their  labor  for 
less  than  men  should  have  for the  same 
services,  and  avoid  establishing  an  un­
balanced  condition  of 
labor  from  this 
source. 
Then  patronize  houses  who 
pay  a  living  wage  scale,  although  they 
may  not  offer  the  “ bargains”   made pos­
sible  by  a  commercial  system  which  in­
volves  the  hope  of  home  and  family, 
too  often 
jeopardizes  the  soul,  and  is 
fostering  an  unwise  and  unjust  heritage 
on  our  progeny.  A  great  deal  more 
might  be  said  upon  this  moral  phase, 
but  I  will  pass  it  with  the  volumes  con­
tained  in  this  sentiment:

Less  S3  women;  more  $15  men.
Less  millionaire  merchants;  more 

happy  homes.

Less  demagogism,  more  politics  from 
whose  influences  men  and  women  will 
learn  a  higher  appreciation  of American 
patriotism. 

Z.  T.  Miller.

Meeting tlie  Competition of tlie  Catalogue 

House.

As  hardware  dealers,  we  have  not 
only  the  catalogue  houses,  department 
stores,  steel  range  peddlers,  etc.,  and 
last,  but  not  the 
least,  also  our  local 
competitor  to  compete  with.  Some  of 
you  may  wonder  what  disposition 
I 
may  make  to  overcome  some  of  this 
competition. 
I  go  at  it  in  this  way,  in 
regard  to  catalogue  houses,  etc.  : 
In 
the  first  place,  1  have  on  file  all  the 
leading 
lists 
which  are  issued,  up  to  date,  and  keep 
posted  on  their  prices.

catalogues  and  price 

To  meet  this  class  of  competition  I 
always  keep  a  little  of  the  Cheap  John 
ware  on  hand,  which  I  virtually  sell  at 
cost  price.  However, 
I  always  show 
them  the  better  class  of  goods  first,  and 
if  they  hesitate  on  the  price  I  reason 
with  them  and  endeavor  to  show  them 
the  folly  of  buying  the  cheaper  class  of 
articles,  and  I  most  always  meet  with 
success.  One very  essential  pointnvhich
we  must  not  overlook  is  this,  that  we 
must  also  keep  a  close  check  on  those 
who  purchase  through  these  various  me 
diums.  Your  own  drayman  is  the  best 
man  I  know  of  to  keep  you  posted  on 
these  shipments.  We  will  suppose  that 
here  comes  one  of  those  fellows  now ;  ] 
shake  his  hand,  say  “ how  do  you  do,’ 
etc.,  with  all  due  respect  and  courtesy 
This  possibly  is  something  he  did  not 
expect  and 
is  not  one  of  those 
chilly  icemen  we  read  about,  I  have  by 
this  kind  of  a  reception  made  half  the 
sale.  He  undoubtedly  was  astonished 
and  expected  a  good  brown  roast,  but 
fooled  him.  Do  you  realize  my  gain 
Now  he  starts  to  buy. 
I  give  him 
prices.  He  says  he  can  buy  this  and 
that  cheaper,  but  will  not  let  on  where 
it  is.  So  I  question  him  a  little  closer 
and  then  I  will  tell  him  these  prices  are 
from  such  and  such  a  place,  get  out  my 
catalogue,  which  is  the  same  as  his,  and

if  he 

i \

H.  F.  Strehlow.

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

Wrestling: Scripture.

“ M aria,”   said  Mr.  Smart,  “ whenever 
I  go  to  the  club  I  always  think  of  the 
verse, 
‘ Where  the  wicked  cease  from 
troubling  and  the  weary  are  at  rest.' 
alter  one  word 
happy. ”

feel  perfectly 

and 

“ Which  word  do  you  change?”   asked 

M iscellaneous

600 pound casks...................................... 
Per pound...........................................
Bird Cages........................................
Pumps, Cistern.................................
Screws, New L ist............................
Casters, Bed and Plate........................   50&10&10
Dampers, American.............................  
BO

754

M olasses  Gates

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

60&10
30

Mrs.  Smart.

“  I say : ‘ Now,  1  am  *‘ where the women 
cease  from  troubling  and  the  weary  are 
at  rest. ”   '  ”

“ John  Smart,”   said  his  wife  severe 
ly,  ‘ ‘ you  should change a  word  in the last 
part  of  that. 
‘ Where  the 
women  cease  from  troubling  and  the 
wicked are  at rest!’  ”

It  should  be : 

P ans

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

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

Broken packages 54c per pound extra.

P lanes

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

*

... 6  c. 
... 634 
... 754 

% in.
... 6  c.
... 654
... 7*

A ugurs  and  B its

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

Axes

Hrst Quality, 8. B. Bronze.................. 
Hrst Quality, 1). B.  Bronze................. 
rirst Quality, 8. B. 8.  Steel................. 
*’irst Quality,  D. B. Steel.................... 

B arrow s

tail road........................................... ...... 
Jarden...................................................net 

Stove................................................. 
arriage, new  li«* 
“lo w ............ 
 
Well, plain...........................................

B olts
.............................. 
 
B uckets

 

B u tts,  Cast

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

C artridges

Rim F ire ..............................................
entral F ire ........................................

C hain

14 In. 

6-16 in. 

om...............   8  c. ...  7  c. 
BB.................   9 
BBB...............  954 

...  754 
...  854 
Crow bars

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

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

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

Caps

Chisels

Elbow s

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

E xpansive  B its

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

Files—New  C ist

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

G alvanized  Iro n

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

13 

14 

Discount, 6510

16 
Gas  P ip e

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

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

Gauges

Glass

CO
26
SO

7  00
11  BO
7  75
13  00

16 80
30 00

BO
80
B0
$4 00

40&10
20

6

66
68
45
75

65
65
66
6B

66
126
40&10

30&10
26

70&10
70
60&10

28

60&10

Single  Strength, by box....................... dis  86&
Double Strength, by box.......................dls  85&10
By the Light.................................. dls  80&10

H am m ers

Maydole & Co.’s, new list......................dls 
3354
Yerkes & Plumb’s .................................. dls  40&10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel................30c list 
70

H inges

H ollow   W are

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

Pots..............................................*......... 
K ettles...................................................  
Spiders...................................................  

50&10
bo&io
50&10

H orse  N ails

Au S able................................................. dis  40&10
Putnam.....................................................dis 
6

H ouse  Furnishing; Goods
Stamped Tinware, new list.................. 
Japanned Tinware................................. 

70
20&10

Bar Iron...................................................  3  c rates
Light Band............................................   35ic rates

K nobs—New  C ist

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

Iro n

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

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

L antern§

Levels

M attocks

M etals—Zinc

86
1  00

60

Advance over base, on both  Steel and  Wi

N ails

Steel nails, base....................................
Wire nails, base....................................
20 to 60 advance....................................
10 to 16 advance.....................................
8 advance..............................................
6 advance..............................................
4 advance..............................................
3 advance..............................................
2 advance..............................................
?ine3 advance......................................
'as ing 10 advance................................
lasing 8 advance...................................
lasing 6 advance...................................
■’inish 10 advance.................................
finish 8 advance...................................
finish 6 advance.................................. '
Barrel  % advance.................................

Rivets

Iron  and  Tinned..................................
lopper Rivets  and  Burs.....................

Roofing  P lates

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

Ropes

Sisal, 54 inch and larger.......................
Manilla...................................................

Sand  P ap er

L>Ist acct.  19, ’86.................................... dis

Sash  Weights

Id  Eyes, per ton.............................

Sheet  Iron

6  50
7  60 
13 005 60
6 BO 
11  00 
13  00

1154

50

25 00

com. smooth,  com.
). 10 to 14......................................$3 20
$3 00 
I. 15 to 17.....................................   3 20
3 00 
S. 18 to 21......................................  3 30
3  20 
i. 22 to 24 ....................................   3  40
3 30 
3  40 
i. 26 to 26 ....................................   3  50
3  50
27.................................................  3 60
11 Sheets No.  18  and  lighter,  over  30  Inches 
e, not less than 2-10 extra.

Shells—Loaded

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

40
40&10

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

1 60

186

Shovels  and  Spades

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

8 60
8 10

Solder

54@54......................................................  
20
The prices of the many other qualities of solder 
in the market indicated by  private  brands  vary 
according to composition.

66

$850

8 50
9 76

7 00
7 00
8 50
8 50

,0
10

75
40&10
65&10
16
1  25

60 
60 
50&10 
50&10 
40 
3 30 
3  15

Squares

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

T in—M elyn  G rade

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

Each additional X on this grade, $1.25.

Tin—Allaway  Grade

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

Each additional X on this grade, $1.50

Boiler Size  Tin  Plate 
14x56 IX, for No. 8 Boilers, ) 
DOund 
14x56 IX, for No. 9 Boilers, ] per pouna" 

Traps

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

Wire

Bright Market.........................  ............
Annealed  M arket.................................
Coppered Market..................................
Tinned  Market......................................
Coppered Spring Steel.....................
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Is a great  seller 
and  will  please 
your  customers 
and  make you a 
n i c e   p ro fit. 
Write for  price.

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Ft. Wayne, Ind.

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20

Shoes and  Leather

Scheme  to  Cope  With  the  Dreaded  De­

partment Store.

There’s  one  thing  I 

like  about  the 
business  men  of  Lasterville,  in  the  shoe 
trade  or  in  other  lines:  No  matter  how 
much  they  are  rivals  in  ordinary  busi­
ness  times, 
they  are  always  ready  to 
stand  together to  fight  trouble.

When  the  Central  Syndicate  Co., 
which  established  a  store  in  Upperville, 
and  has  since  been  paralyzing  trade 
for  the  special-line people,  began  to  feel 
around  for  a  foothold  in  Lasterville,  you 
can  bet  that  there  was  mounting  in  hot 
haste. 
It  was  the  topic  in  every  store, 
and  the  general  feeling  was  that  noth­
ing  could  be  done  to  keep  the  big  de­
partment  store  away,  and  that  just  as 
certain  as  the  store  opened  in  Laster­
ville,  just  so  certain  would  business  be 
ruined  for  a  large  proportion  of  the  reg­
ular dealers.

All  sorts  of  schemes  were  talked  of, 
but  they  all  seemed  so  silly  and  futile, 
and 
like  the  party  who  tried  to  sweep 
the  sea  back  with  a  broom,  that  no  plan 
could  be  decided  upon  which would ren­
der  the  new  competition  powerless.

Things  were  blue  among  the  dealers 

for  a  time  now  I  tell  you.

I  thought  that  even  my  mammoth 

in­
tellect  would  fail  on  a  scheme  and  old 
man  Laster  gave  it  up  from  the  start. 
But  then,  old  Mr.  Laster  has  a  pretty 
good  sock  lining,  as  you  might  call 
it, 
saved  up,  and 
if  business  all  went  to 
the  dogs  he  would  still  be  able  to  get 
his  three  square  meals  a  day  and  be 
able  to  drive  his  two  steppers  out  after 
supper  for  an  hour  up  and  down  the 
River  road.

The  old  man  saw  that  I  was  horribly 
worried,  and  one evening  he says  to  me : 
“ Fitem, ”   he  says,  “ you  ought  to  be 
able  to  get  up  some  plan  to  fight  this 
thing,  although  I’ m  blessed 
if  I  can. 
Go  home  and  dream  over  it,  and  get  up 
some  scheme  to  knock  the enterprise  out 
before  it  comes.  You  can  never  do 
it 
after  the  store  is  opened.’ ’

“ But  what  can  I  think  of?’ ’  I  asked. 
“ Everybody  making  a  big  cut-price, 
sale now, or  after  they  get  started,  would 
only  temporarily  harass  them  at  the 
start;  they  would  know  we  could  not 
keep 
course,  we
couldn’t. ”

it  up— and, 

of 

“ Yes,  that’s  so,”   the  old  man  said, 
“ but  there  is  one  thing  to  take into con­
sideration,  the  merchants  are  all  inter­
ested,  no  matter  what  they  sell.  Re­
member  that. 
I  presume  that  you  and 
all  of  the  rest  of  the  dealers  have  been 
craving  sympathy  from  everybody,  but 
in  thinking  of  plans  to  stop  the  thing 
have  only  thought of  how  it  would  affect 
their  own  particular  trade. 
Isn’t  that 
so?”

I  was  obliged  to  admit  that  I  sup­

posed  it  was.

“ Well,  now,  go  home  and  dream  like 
a  good,  broad-minded  boy  and  I ’ll  bet 
you’ll  think  of  something.”

Of  course, with  such  a  pat  on  the  back 
as  that  I  simply  had  to  think  of  some 
just  when  I  was  ready  to 
scheme,  and 
go  to  sleep  an  idea  came  over  me 
like 
a  flash  and  I  actually  got  out  of bed  and 
wrote  a 
lot  of  things  down  so  that  I 
wouldn’t  forget  them.

I  presume  that  there  are  not more than 
a  hundred  towns  in  America  where  the 
defense  could  be  put  up  aS  we  are  go­
ing  to  put 
it  up  here,  but  that  is  our 
good  fortune.  Our  store  is  now  located 
in  the  Laster  block,  owned  by  old  man 
Laster and  his  wife.  The  other  tenants

of  the  block  and  of  the  big  opera  house 
block  adjoining 
include  some  of  the 
leading business  places  in  town.  Draper 
&  Co.,  the 
leading  dry  goods  dealers 
here,  have  the  big  double  corner  store 
in  the  opera  house  block,  we  are  next 
with  our  boot  and  shoe  store, then  comes 
the  biggest  clothing  store  we  have, 
Cotes  Bros.  Beyond  them  is  the  Laster­
ville  pharmacy,  a  first-class  drug  store, 
keeping  a  full  line  of  novelties,  and  the 
last 
in  our  block,  on  the  corner,  is  a 
big  double  store  used  by  Lemon  & 
Coffee’s  big 
grocery  establishment, 
which  also  has  a  meat  market  attached. 
Back  of  the  dry  goods  store  on  the  side 
is  Files  &  Things’  hardware 
street 
store,  the 
in  the  place,  with  a 
toy  store  next,  and  Dresser’s  Furniture 
Emporium  has  the  rest  of  the  Laster 
block  on  the  other  side  street. 
In  the 
second  stories  are  a  swell  barbershop,  a 
millinery 
photog­
rapher,  a  tailoring  establishment  and 
the  only  decent  restaurant  in the village. 
You  see  that  the  business  places  I  have 
mentioned  occupy  exactly  one-half  of 
the  square,  and  we  have  the  finest  loca­
tion  in  town.

establishment, 

largest 

a 

that 

Well, 

The  only  thing 

is  remarkable 
about  all  of  this  is  that  not  a  trade  is 
duplicated  in  the  two  blocks.

I  presume  that  you  see  my 
scheme  by  this  time,  but  for  fear  you 
don’t  I’ll  tell  you.  The 
idea  I  evolved 
was  to  form  a  co-operative  business  as­
sociation  among  all  of  these  merchants 
and  connect  them  all  into  one  big  co­
operative 
institution.  My  first  hair­
brained  thought  was  to  combine  them 
all  into  a  stock  company,  but  I  saw  im ­
mediately  that  this  would  be  simply 
bringing,  in  another  form,  into  the  town 
the  thing  we  were  trying  to  avoid,  and 
besides,  the  different  business  calibers 
are  too  diverse.

it 

I  unfolded  the  scheme  to  Laster and 
he  was  tickled  to  death,  and  then,  one 
by  one,  we  explained 
to  the  other 
dealers. 
It  took  them  some  time  to 
grasp  the  idea,  in  several  instances,  but 
they  were  all  so  scared  that  they  were 
bound  to  take  an  interest  in  it,  and  as 
a  result  before  the  end  of  the  first  day 
the 
landlords  had  been  consulted,  and 
they,  being  somewhat  scared themselves 
readily  assumed  the  expense  of  making 
alterations,  and  before  night  carpenters 
and  masons  were  at  work  cutting  arches 
between  the  stores  all  through  the  two 
blocks.  Big  iron  fireproof  doors,  which 
close  automatically 
in  case  of  fire  and 
which  are  closed  and  double-locked 
each  night,  are put  in  the  fire  wall open­
ings,  but  during  business  hours  a  cus­
tomer  who  enters  any  one  of  the  stores 
can  visit  all  of  the  others  without  going 
out  of  doors.  Then  the  second  story 
establishments  have  been 
connected 
with  the  inside  stores  in  the  same  way, 
so  £that  the  whole  fourteen  establish­
ments  are  easily  accessible,  or  rather 
are  to  be, ”   for  the  thing  hasn’t  been 

formally  sprung  yet.

It  took  a  whole  lot  of  discussion  be­
fore  the  best  plan  was  decided  upon, 
but  we  decided  eventually  that  the  best 
dea  was  to  run  each  establishment  sep­
arately so  far  as  ownership,  buying  and 
selling  were  concerned,  but  to  help  each 
other  in  every  way  possible,  and  to  ad­
vertise  as  though  the  whole  fourteen 
businesses  were  combined  and  operated 
one  establishment.  Each  business 
was  assessed  on  a  satisfactory  basis  for 
the  advertising  expense,  and  I  was 
chosen  to  act  as  advertising  manager. 
The  second  day  after  our  plan  was 
formed_ I  had  half  of  a  page  in  our 
lit­
tle  daily  and  a  quarter  of  a  page  in 
each  of  the  weeklies,  announcing  the 
great  business  combination,  and  it  at­
tracted  immense  attention.  We  haven’t 
had  a  formal  opening  yet,  but  expect  to 
close  for  two  days  soon,  and  then  open 
up  with  a  band  of  music  and  throw  the 
inside  doors  open  simultaneously.

Of  course,  there  will  be  all  sorts  of 
obstacles  to  overcome,  but  thus  far  we 
haven’t  encountered  any  that  worry  us 
at  all.— I.  Fitem 
in  Boots  and  Shoes 
Weekly.

“Gold  Seal” 
Rubbers

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Rubber

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M ilw au k ee,  W is.

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Send for Catalogue.

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 
soon. 
If you defer ordering until  they 
come,  we’ll get your order.

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If  you  have 
not seen  them you  ought to.  They 
will  suit your  customers  and  make 
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21

Where the  Shoe  Pinched.

Miss  Martynia  Martin  was  a  sufferer 
from  corns.  She  was  also  afflicted  with 
for  worlds,  however, 
a  bunion.  Not 
would  she  have  acknowledged  the 
fact 
of  her  infirmities,  for  she  was  possessed 
of  any  amount  of  pride,  and  corns  and 
bunions  were  the  natural  woes  of  the 
rude  and  vulgar.

Mr.  Hawkins,  proprietor  of  the  v il­
lage  store,  prided  himself  upon  being 
able  to  supply  all  the  wants  of  his  cus­
tomers,  from  tea,  tacks  and  nutmegs  to 
nux  vomica,  boots  and  bicycles.

He  had  just  succumbed  to  the  wiles 
of  the  insinuating  Mr.  Babcock,  travel­
ing  salesman  for  a  boot  and  shoe  house 
in  tfie  city,  and  handed  him  an  order 
with  a  sigh,  saying :

Mr.  Hawkins,  bachelor,  had 

“ I  don’t  want  any  footgear  any  more 
than  a  dog  wants  two  tails. 
I've  any 
amount  on  hand  yet,  but  seein’  it’s  you, 
why, 
I  s’ pose,  of  course,  etc.” — when 
Miss  Martynia  appeared  upon the scene.
long 
been  cherishing  the  hope 
that  Miss 
Martynia  Martin,  spinster— who  had 
waited  long  and  patiently  for  him to  say 
so— would  some  day  become  convinced 
of 
the 
mistress  of  his  heart  and  belongings.  It 
would  be  so  convenient.  When  he  was 
obliged  to  be  away  on  matters  of  busi­
ness,  it  would  be  handy  to  have  some­
one  around  who  could  keep  one  eye  on 
the  shop  while  the  other  was  occupied 
with  the  housekeeping  department  in 
the  rear.

the  desirability  of  becoming 

Miss  Martynia  had  given  no  sign  as 
yet  that  she  was  willing  to  respond  to 
his  strong,  if  unuttered,  desires. 
In­
deed,  he  was  so  extremely  retiring  and 
modest 
in  his  demeanor,  that  he  had 
never  so  much  as  even  dared  to  hint  of 
them  with  what  is  vulgarly  termed  a 
‘ ‘ sheep’s-eye. ”

alacrity,  while 

‘ ‘ What  can  I  do  for  you  this  morning, 
Miss  Martin?”   he  asked  with  deferen­
tial 
drummer 
drummed  with  his  fingers  on  the  bench 
placed  for the  convenience  and  comfort 
of  customers  along  the  outside  of  the 
counter.

the 

” 1 came to  see  if  you  had  anything  in 
the  way  of  a  pair  of  shoes  that  will 
fit 
m e,”   answered  the  lady  with  a  coquet­
tish  simper. 
“ Something  soft and com­
fortable,  please. ’ ’

“ Oh,  yes.  To  be  sure. 

I  think  so. 
Certainly. 
Perhaps,”   responded  Mr. 
Hawkins  with  incoherent  eagerness  and 
blushing  amiability,  as  he  dived  into 
the  gloomy  recesses  of  the  store,  where 
he  rummaged  restlessly  for a  space.

Miss  Martynia  sat  in  severe  and  pa­
tient  propriety  at  the  other  end  of  the 
bench.  Mr.  Babcock  surveyed  her  out 
of  the  comer  of  his  near  eye,  while  he 
continued  his  tattoo.

“ What  size  did  you  say?”   asked  Mr. 
Hawkins,  emerging  out  of  chaos,  with 
anxiety  plainly  printed  upon  his  glow- 
jn g   countenance.

“ Four  and  a  half, ”   was  the 

reply.

laconic 

into 

recreated 

Mr.  Hawkins 

the 
depths,  reappearing  presently  with  sev­
eral  pairs  of  shoes,  and  an  empty  nail- 
keg.  The  latter  he  turned  bottom  end 
upward and,  seating  himself  upon  it  be­
fore  the 
lady  prepared  to  try  on  the 
boots.

With  a  blush  and  simper,  Miss  Mar­
tynia  modestly  divested  her  right  foot 
of 
its  covering  and  submitted  to  the 
operation.  But  Mr.  Hawkins’  efforts 
were  not  to  be  crowned  with  success. 
Not  one  could  he  prevail  upon  to  slip 
on  to  his 
lady-love’s  fairy  foot.  He 
fugged,  and  strained,  and  struggled.

Miss  Martin  would  not  hear of  trying  a 
larger  size.  Four  and  a  half  was  her 
size,  and  that  was  all  there  was  to  it. 
She  did  not  propose  to  wear a  No.  5. 
The  id ea!

“ Allow  me,  madam,”   said  Mr.  Bab­
cock,  gallantly  rising  to  the  occasion. 
Gracefully  he  seated  himself  upon  the 
keg,  which  the  nervous  and  crestfallen 
Mr.  Hawkins  had  vacated 
in  his  de­
spair.  After  a  deal  of  careful  manipu­
lation  he  managed  to  get  the  boot  on. 
Her  face  was  crimson  with  pain,  which 
she  endured  with  Spartan-like  determi­
nation  for  a  few  moments.  Then  she 
succumbed.
“ 1  guess 

it’s  a  little  tight, ”   she  re­

marked,  with  compressed  lips.

“ I’m  awfully  sorry,”   said  Mr.  Haw­
kins, falteringly,  “ but  I’m  afraid  I can’t 
do  any  better,”   glancing  resentfully  at 
the  traveling  man,  who,  with  a  tender 
air,  was  askin g:

“ Where  do  you  feel  it most,madam?”  
leaning  toward  her in  an  engaging man­
ner.

As  she 

indicated  the  great  toe  joint, 
where  the  knobby  protuberance  pro­
claimed  the  presence  of  the  unsightly 
bunion,  the  nail-keg  gave  way  beneath 
him,  and  his  two  hundred  pounds avoir­
dupois  came  down  with  a  crash.  She 
screamed.  He  looked  up  with  a comic­
ally 
then  he 
roared.

astonished  expression, 

“ I  can’t  go  any  further  than  the floor, 
comfort,”   he  said,  and 
astonishing 

that’s  one 
picked  himself  up  with 
agility,  considering  his  size.

“ 1  will  have  the  goods  shipped  imme­
diately,”   he  said,  turning  to  Mr.  Haw­
“   There  will  likely  be  something 
kins. 
in  the 
lot  to  fit  the 
I  will  be 
around  this  way  before  long,  again,  and 
will  enquire  about  it,”   and  as  his  horse 
was  in  waiting,  he  took  himself  off.

lady. 

Mr.  Hawkins,  devoured  by 

jealousy, 
read  volumes  of  amorous  meaning 
in 
that  gentleman’s  innocent  remark,  and 
the  elegance  of  his  departing  bow  filled 
his  soul  with  despairing  envy.  What 
might  not  happen  when  the  fascinating 
drummer  came  back?  Commercial  trav­
elers  were  notorious 
It 
would  never  do  to  risk  it.

lady-killers. 

Miss  Martynia  was  gazing  pensively 
after the  retreating  figure  and,nerved  by 
his  fears,  Mr.  Hawkins  then  and  there 
summoned  up  courage  to 
lay  himself 
and  merchandise  at the  feet  of  the  cause 
of  all  this  mental  turmoil.

His  charmer,  wondering  what  had 
brought  him  to  the  point  at  last,  grac­
iously  consented  to  receive  the  offer­
ing,  and  made  him  happy  with  the  sug­
gestive  remark :

“ Those  boxes  of  shoes  want  a  good 
sorting  over.  You  can’t  make  head  nor 
tail  of  them  as  they  are.  T hey’ re  in  a 
terrible  jum ble.”

He  realized  that  she  had  indeed taken 
him  into  her  care  and  keeping— boots, 
shoes  and  the  rest  of  the  merchandise, 
to  have  and  to  hold  until  the  end  of  the 
chapter.— Nancy  Nettleton.

Only  Asked  for  the  Hand.

Old  Crusty— You  ask for my daughter? 
Why,  young  man,  at  your  present  sal­
ary  you  could  not  even  dress  her.

Suitor— Oh,  yes,  sir;  I could  keep her 

in  gloves.

to 
only  wear  gloves?

Old  Crusty— G loves!  Do  you  mean 
insinuate  that  my  daughter  would 
Suitor— Pardon  me,  sir;  1  asked  only 

for  her hand.

A  woman’s  greatest  weakness  is  that 
she  thinks  she  can  make  a  man  believe 
anything,  when  he  is  only  pretending to 
believe.

Have you ever sold the “ Vulcan”  Rubber 
Boots  with  Vulcanized  Leather  Inner 
Soles,  manufactured  by Woonsocket Rub­
ber Co.?  They do  not  sweat  or  draw the 
feet.  They are lighter,  easier  to  the  feet, 
more durable, do not crack,  will  wear  long­
er than  any  Rubber  Boots  made.  A  new 
outer sole  is  easily  fastened  to  the  leather 
inner sole after the  first  is  worn  out.  For 
firemen  it  is a safeguard against nails  enter­
ing the bottom of the feet  at  fires—is  more 
quickly  put on and holds  its shape  better.

Mark the  prediction:  The  Rubber  Boot 
of the future  is  the  “ Vulcan.”   No  argu­

ment about  this whatever.

Men’s Vulcan  Dull  Finish  Short 
Boot,  made  in  “ Wool,”   “ Fusion” 
and  “ Rubber” 
linings,  widths  F 
and  W.

Order a case and give them a trial.

A.  li.  K ru m  &  Co.

161=163  Jefferson  Ave.,  Detroit,  Michigan

Western  Agents,

Red Cross

Protections

17 Inches High

Before  negotiating  for  your  Lumber­
man’s Overs for the  coming  season  do 
not  fail  to  first  investigate  the  merits 
of our R E D  CROSS PR O TECTIO N S.
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 footwear  ever  offered  to  the 
public.  Write for prices.

Hirth,  Krause &  Co.,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

If you  want the agency for, 
or  want  for  private  use,  a 
good  reliable  vehicle  built 
on  a  “how  good”  and  not 
‘‘how  cheap”  plan,  write  to 
us  for  our  1900  catalogue 
and price list.  No trouble to show goods and when you 
are  in  the city shall  be pleased  to  have you  call  on  us.
ARTHUR WOOD CARRIAGE CO., Grand Rapids, Mich.

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MICHIGAN  TRAD ESM AN

The  Meat Market

Some  Specimens  of Good  Advertising:  for 

Butchers.

tion  to  them  in  his  meat  advertisement

he  can  not  do  it  successfully  by  using 
the  general  term  of  “ everything  else. 
Then  he  says:

There’s  No  Short  Cut
to perfection.  Only by buying

M EAT

which  we  know  is  of  excellent  quality 
and by supplying it in good condition and 
full weight we can hope  to  give  satisfac­
tion to our customers.

As our business is  dependent  upon  the 
approval of our patrons, we take no risks- 
Everything  we  oiler  is  of  the  primest 
quality.

GEORGE  H.  DEINZER,

6.4  Dennis Street.

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•HO*

Besides, 

The  next  advertisement 

I  consider the  above  one  of  the  most 
cleverly  worded  butcher  advertisements 
ever  composed.  It  seems  to  hit  the  nail 
on  the  head.  Reading  it  over  hastily 
one  would  discover  no  especial  merit 
in 
it,  but  the  more  it  is  studied— like 
Shakespeare’s  tragedies— the  better  it 
becomes.  Mr.  Deinzer’s  advertisement 
is  worthy  of  a  place  in  your  scrap  book.
is  that  of 
Charles  Paulus. 
I  think  he  has  permit­
ted  the  printer  to  use  too  much  space 
in  the  head,  and not enough  to  bring  out 
the  fact  that  meat  is  the  article  under 
discussion. 
advertisements 
should  be  truthful.  Even  when  making 
a  misstatement 
that  can  do  no  one 
harm,  an  advertisement  loses  its  force. 
“ Just  got  your  neighbor  tak­
He  says: 
ing  our  meats.”  
I’m  quite  certain  Mr. 
Paulus  has  got  no  neighbor  of  mine  to 
take  his  meat,  because  he  has  never 
tried.  Even  if  he  had,  that  would  not 
influence  me.  If  I  read  that  Mr.  Paulus 
sold  the  best  quality  and  sold  it cheaper 
than  anyone  else,  and  read  something  to 
convince  me  of 
it,  I  should  give  him 
my  trade,  and  would  not  care  a  conti­
nental 
if  he  had  “ ‘ got  m y’neighbor”  
or  not.  His  careless,  “ might  as  well try 
us, ’ ’  would  have  no  effect on me,  either.
I  should  want  a  reason  for  trying  him.
I  advise  Mr.  Paulus  to  prepare  new 
copy  for  his  space.

J u s t   G o t  
Y o u r   N e i g h b o r

taking  our

M E A T S

Now we want you.
Might as well try us.
Meats the best.  Service the best. 
Prices  right.

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it  shall  have  a  border. 

One  of  the  most  enterprising  butchers 
I  re­
at  Union,  N.  Y .,  is  S.  Skillman. 
produce  his  advertisement  exactly  as 
it 
appears  in  his  local  paper,  except  that 
I  have  had  a  border  put  around 
it. 
Right  here  I  wish  to  advise  that  when 
placing  an  advertisement  always  give 
orders  that 
It 
improves  the  appearance  of  the  adver­
tisement  greatly,  and makes  it  stand  out 
prominently  among  others  that  have  no 
borders.  But  to  get  back  to  Mr.  Skill- 
man. 
If  I  were  he  I  would  devote  some 
space  to  naming  what  he  means  by 
“ everything  else.”  
I  confess  that  I 
do  not  know. 
If  he  sells  other  things 
besides  meat,  and  wishes  to  call  atten­

We  Can  Please  You!

IN  M EA TS

as  well  as  in  everything  else.  Quality 
best, service  best,  delivery  prompt.  We 
quote  pure  home-made  sausage.  Here, 
too, you’ll find  the  best  Beef,  State  and 
Western  Pork,  Veal,  Lamb  and  Poultry 
at lowest market  prices.

S.  SKILLMAN.

“ We  quote 
pure  home-made  saus 
age. ’ ’  The  proper  place  for the  quota 
tions  are 
in  the  advertisement.— Jona 
than  Price  in  Butchers’  Advocate.

Best Method of Smoking Hams and Bacon.
The  smokehouses  in  some  large  cities 
throughout  Great  Britain  where  hams 
and  bacon are  dealt  with in considerable 
quantities  are  generally  built  of  fire 
bricks  in  the  form  of  arches  or  kilns, 
each  of  which  is  capable  of  holding  up 
wards  of  five  tons  of  bacon.  After  be 
ng  well  washed  and  dusted  over  with 
>ea  meal,  the  hams  and  bacon  are  sus 
pended  from  the 
iron  crossbars  which 
are  built  across  the kilns  at  a convenient 
height.  The fires  are  generally  made  of 
oak  chips,  over  which  is  thrown  a  con­
siderable  quantity  of  sawdust,  for  the 
urpose  of  creating  a  dense  smoke, 
which  is  so  essential  for  giving  the  rich 
brown  color  which  is  so  much  desired; 
the  kilns  are  then  closed  and  the  bacon 
s allowed to remain  therein  from  two  to 
four  days  according  to  depth  of  color 
required.

its 

is  3  yards 

The  smokehouses  used  in  this  country 
are  constructed 
in  a  different  manner 
iltogether  and  are  considered  far  supe 
for  the  purpose,  the  bacon  and 
rior 
hams  being  hung 
in  an  upper  room, 
while  the  fire  is  either  on  the  ground 
floor  or  in  the  cellar.  The  smoke,  hav- 
ng  to  ascend  some  distance  before 
reaching  the  smokeroom,  is  condensed 
and  purified  from 
impurities  by 
assing  through  a  grating  formed  of 
fine  wire  gauze.  The  fires  are  made 
from  different  kinds  of  wood,  oak  or 
beech  being  considered  the  best,  with 
the  addition  of  a  few  sticks  of 
juniper, 
which  greatly  improves  the  flavor.  The 
meat  requires  a  longer  time  to  smoke, 
owing  to  the  smoke  being  somewhat 
cooled,  but  has  a  far  superior  flavor  to 
that  of  Great  Britain.  A   useful  size  of 
for  doing  in  small  quanti­
smokehouse 
ties 
long  by  2  broad,  and 
about  7  feet  in height,  with  4  or  5  cross­
bars  from  which  the bacon is suspended ; 
the  roof  should  be  made  in  such  a  man­
ner  as  to  prevent  the  smoke  from  es- 
aping,  with  a  small  chimney  at  one 
end  fitted  with  damper,  so  that  it  can 
be  opened  or  closed,  as  desired.  The 
floor  should  be  of  firebrick  and  the  door 
must  be  so  fitted  as  to  prevent  the  es­
cape  of  smoke.  The  flitches  should  al­
ways  be  hung  with  the  shoulders  down­
ward.  After  the  articles  have  been 
placed 
lay  underneath  a 
layer  of  dry  straw,  next  a  quantity  of 
shavings,  then  a  good  layer  of  sawdust 
(oak  wood  sawdust  is  the  best  if  it  can 
be  had)  and  cover  the  whole  of  these 
with  a  thick 
layer  of  wet  straw;  this 
will  cause  the  fire  to  smouldej:  for a con­
siderable  time,  and also cause  it  to  emit 
a  deal  of  smoke  without  burning  away 
too  rapidly.  A  few  handfuls  of 
juni­
per  berries  scattered  on  the  above  will 
greatly  improve  the flavor  of  the  smoked 
articles.

in  position, 

Might  Have  Known  It.

An  austere-looking 

lady  walked  into 
a  furrier’s  the  other  day  and  said  to  the 
salesman:

* * I  would  like  a  muff. ’ ’
“ What  fur?”
‘ ‘ To  keep  my  hands  warm,  you 

idiot!”   exclaimed  the  lady.

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Butterine

Made  in  our wholly  original  and 
scientific  manner is  a  food  prod­
uct superior to  butter.

“ Purity”  Butterine

Is a  “money saver”  for  the  con­
sumer and  a “money  maker”  for 
the  dealer.  The  great  loss  and 
inconvenience  occasioned  by but­
ter becoming  strong  and  rancid 
during warm weather are  entirely 
overcome in  our “perfect”  butter­
ine,  which  makes  it  more  of  a 
summer product than  butter.  A 
“leader”  with  all  leading  grocers.

THE  CAPITAL  CITY  DAIRY  CO.,

COLUMBUS,  O.

Coupon  Books for Meat  Dealers

We manufacture four kinds of coupon  books and  sell them 
all  on  the same  basis,  irrespective  of  size,  shape  or  de- 
nomination.  Free samples on application.

Tradesman Company,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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TREES AND  EGGS.

Their Relation  Described  by  a  Commis­

Written for the Tradesman.

sion  Merchant- 

Did  you  come  down  Grove  street 
this  morning?”  asked  the  newsdealer, 
as  the 
in 
for  his  morning  paper.

commission  man  dropped 

The  commission  man  nodded. 
“ What’s  new  on  Grove  street?”   he 

asked.

“ Oh,  there's  another  job  for  the  fool- 
killer  there.  Some  farmer  has  bought 
the  comer  place  at  the  foot  of  the  h ill.”  

“ Well?”
“ Well,  the  farmer  probably  thinks  he 
is  clearing  up  a  new  farm.  At  any  rate, 
he  is  cutting  down  the  row  of  oaks  that 
gave  the  street  its  name.”

“ Too  bad.”
“ It’s  a  strange  thing  to  me  that  a 
man  from  the  country  always  wants  to 
chop  down  shade  trees.  Why,  our  an­
cestors  knew  the  value  of  the  trees  be­
fore  they  understood  the  use  of  fire. 
I 
thought  sure  you  would  see  what  was 
going  on  when  you  came  down.”

“ To  tell  the  truth,”   said  the  com­
mission  man,  “ I was  thinking  about  the 
egg  market  and  didn’t  see  a  thing  all 
the  way  down  town.”

“ What’s  the  matter  with  the  egg mar­

ket?”

“ Oh,  everything 

is  the  matter  with 
the  egg  market.  Did  you  find  out  what 
that  fool  up  on  Grove  street  is  cutting 
the  trees  for?”

“ He  thinks  they  breed insects  and  rot 

the  shingles  on  his  house.”

“ I  didn’t  know  but  he  wanted  the 

trees  for  wood. ’ ’

“ That  may  be  the  true  reason,  after 
all. 
I  know  a  man  that  bought  a  cot­
tage  out  at  the  lake last summer— a cool, 
shady,  breezy  place  at  the  top  of  the 
hill— and  cut  all  the  shade  trees  into 
firewood.  Great  nice  oaks  a  hundred 
years  old !  Think  of  i t !  Such  a  man 
ought  to  be  tied  to  a  stake  in  the  mid­
dle  of  the  African  desert  and  broiled 
alive.  What  with  the  electric  light  and 
telephone  wires,  the  trees  have  hard 
times  enough  without  every  fool 
farmer 
that  moves 
into  town  going  at  them 
with  an  ax  and  a  cross-cut  saw.

“ That  chap  must  have  a  beauty  of  a 
summer  resort  now..  His  cottage  prob­
ably  is  like  a  hencoop  in  the  midlde  of 
a  base  ball  field. 
I  hope  it  will  be  hot 
enough  this  summer  to  bake  what  few 
brains  he  has  left.”

The  commission  man  sat  down  to 
glance  over  the  headlines  of  his  paper 
and  the  newsdealer  went  on :

“ It  makes  me  swearing  m ad,”   he 
said,  “ to  see  the  way  people treat  shade 
trees  and  vines.  A  man  out  my  way 
is 
pulling  down  a  fine  grape  arbor  because 
some  boys  went  there  one  night  last 
year  and  stole  a  few  bunches  and  made 
a  noise.  Why,  if  1  had  that  arbor  on 
my  place  1  wouldn't  take  a  hundred dol­
lars  for  it.

“ I’ ve  planted  maples  and  elms  in 
front  of  my  house  every  spring  for  ten 
years,  and  I  haven't  got  much  shade 
yet,  all  on  account  of  the  fool  popula­
tion.  Every  idiot  of  a  schoolboy  that 
comes  along  swings  around  them  and 
chases  cats  up  into  the tops  and  cuts  in­
to  them  with  his  knife  to  see  if  the  sap 
is  running,  and  every  delivery  wagon 
runs  over  them.  A  cat  will  run  three 
miles  to  get  into  my  trees  anyway;  and 
the  dogs  come  from  all  over  the  coun­
try  to  howl  at  the  cats. ’ ’

“ I  reckon,”   said 

man,  “ that  you  got  out  of  bed  left 
first  this  morning.”
“ I  guess  that’s 

it,”   said  the  news­

the  commission 
foot 

dealer. 
“ We’ ll call  it  that,  at  any  rate. 
The  girl  in  the  next  house  began  play­
ing  rag-time  music  at  daylight  and  I 
got  up  pretty  early,  just  in time  to  see  a 
man  trimming  up  lawn  trees  until  the 
tops looked  like a  tuft  of hair on  a pig’s 
tail.  The city  tree-trimmer  is  headed 
for  my  street  and  if  he  hacks  away  at 
my  trees  as  he 
is  doing  at  others  I’ ll 
blow  the  top  of  his  head  off.  The mayor 
is  an  old 
fool  or  he  would  discharge 
him.  He  went  at  some  shade  trees up on 
Cleveland  street  the  other  day  and  the 
lady  of  the  house  dosed  him  with  boil­
ing  water. ”

“ I  presume,”   said  the  commission
just  get  out  and  hump 

man,  ‘ ‘ that  you 
yourself  on  arbor  day?”

“ You  bet  1  do,”   was  the  reply. 

“ A 
man  who  won’t  plant  trees  would steal  a 
dog 
from  a  blind  beggar.  Why,  in  a 
certain  number  of  years,  I don’t remem­
ber just  how  many  now,  the  human  race 
will  die  out  because  there  won’t  be  any 
trees  to  purify  the  air  for  us.”

“ Do  you  think  that  will  be  much  of  a 

loss?”   asked  the  commission  man.

“ To  tell  the  truth,  I  don’t  think  it 

w ill,”   was  the  savage  reply.

“ There  are  a  few  egg  dealers  that  we 
might  spare  right  now,”   said  the  com­
mission  man. 
“  They  never  would  be 
missed. ”

“ For  instance?”
“ For  instance,  the  fellows  that  quote 
prices  above  the  market— prices  they 
can  not  pay  and  meet  their  own  obliga­
tions. ”

“ That  helps  the  farmers,”   said  the 
newsdealer,  “ our tree-cutting  farmers.”  
“ Oh,  yes,  it  helps  the  farmers!  They 
ship  their  eggs  and  wait  for  their  pay. 
Some  of  them  have  been  waiting  since 
last  spring.  They  will  wait  forever. 
In  the  meantime,  the  eggs  are  drawn 
awa"v  from  this  section  and  our  custom­
ers  howl  because  we  can’t  send  them 
on  Tuesday  eggs  deposited  on  Mon­
day. ’ ’

in  this  morning. 

“ W ell,”   said  the  newsdealer,  “ I’m 
glad  you  came 
I 
thought  1  was  the  only kicker on earth. ”  
“  You’ ll  kick  harder  than  ever  when 
you  pay  forty  cents  a  dozen  for  eggs, ’ ’ 
was  the  reply. 
“ And  you’ ll  blame  the 
commission  men,  too.”

demanded 

“ Why  don’t  folks  eat  eggs 

in  season 
and  get  along  without  them  at  other 
times?”  
the  newsdealer. 
“ This  packing  and  canning  and  dry­
ing  gives  me  a  pain.  Why,  the  hairy 
men  who  first  inhabited  the  earth  could 
give  us  points  on  living.  When  they 
ran  down  a  deer  they  devoured  what 
they  wanted  and  left  the  remainder  for 
the  next  comer.

“ There  wasn’t  any  commission  man 
in  those  days  to  go nosing around,  pack­
ing  away  what  was  left  and  making  a 
profit  on  it.  No,  sir.  And  when  an  ape 
with  a  forehead  like  a  corn-fed  porker 
and  arms  that  hung  down  to  his  knees 
found  a  tree  that  was  big  enough  for ten 
fathers  of 
he  didn’t  charge  rent  to  the 
large 
there 
first. ”

families  because  he  got 

“ We’ ll  have  the  world  made  over,”  
said  the  commission  man,  with  a  smile, 
“ and  let  you  boss  the  job.”’

“ The 

“ There  would  be  a  lot  of  things  left 
out,”   said  the  newsdealer. 
in­
stinct  of  accumulation  would  be  abol­
ished,  for  one  thing.  Even  our  dogs 
bury  bones  now,  just  to  keep  them  away 
from  the  hungry  cur  that  comes  dashing 
down  the  street  with  a  teakettle  tied  to 
his  tail.  And  farmers  spoil  our  streets 
by  robbing  them  of  shade  anil  bees  are 
thrown  out  of  employment  by  men  who 
manufacture  honey. 
I  saw  in  the  paper 
the  other day  that  forty  thousand— ”
The  newsdealer  hesitated  and 
commission  man  made  for the  door.

* .W ait,”   yelled  the  former,  “ I’ve  got 
a  lot  of  suggestions  to  make  yet  about 
this  new  world  you’ re  going  to  let  me 
set  up.' ’

the 

But  the  customer  was  gone  and  the 
in  a  chair  and 

newsdealer  sat  down 
laughed  until  his  sides  shook.

Alfred  B.  Tozer.

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Manufacturers of 

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dainty a  flavor  as  is ever found  in  the  best bread.

Build  it  on  a  biscuit  basis— a  U n e e d  cl  basis. 
Use  any  kind of  a  relish,  but  one kind  of  a  founda­
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Lunch
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have started  the  thoughtful  housewife crackerwards. 
In  Uneeda  Biscuit  sh e  finds  food  novelty 
without loss  o f  nutritive  value;  a  complete,  satisfy­
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fresh,  always  dainty.  These  are  the  reasons  why 
Uneeda  Biscuit make  the ideal  lunch  for  the 
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Clerks’  Corner.

An Employer's Courtesy Saves Clerk From 

Written for the Tradesman.

Temptation.

“ Well, 

‘ Constant  dropping  wears  a 
stone’  and  I’m  going  to  try 
it.  Brins- 
made’s  eternally  harping  upon  the  idea 
and  there  may  be  something  in  it. 
I 
suppose  I  ought  to  be  made  up  differ­
ently,  but  I  have  seen  so  much  of  the 
cussed  side of  the  man  behind  the  coun­
ter  that  I  do  anything  like  this  half­
heartedly,  and I guess  the  trouble  begins 
right  there.  Why,  Mary,  you  know what 
both  of  us  tried  to  do  for  Jim  Ferris. 
Your  knowing  his  folks  away  off  in  the 
East  somewhere  and  their  asking  us  to 
keep  an  eye  out  for the  fellow  made  us 
both  think  that  we  should  win  our  en­
trance 
into  Paradise  by  adopting  him 
Well,  we  won’t  go  over  all  that,  on  __ 
when  Jim  Ferris  chucked  down  into  the 
rut  that  carried  him  plump  to  perd 
tion,  I  got  it  fixed  in  my  mind  that  that 
should  be  the 
last  time  that  I’d  waste 
any  more  good  intentions  and  the  worry 
that  backs  them  upon  any  more  Ji 
I  got 
Ferris  this  side  of  the  kingdom. 
it  so 
enough  of  it  and  so  did  you,  and 
eternally  soured  me  on  the  whole  detest 
able  pack  that  I’ve  given  ’em  a  wide 
berth  ever  since.  Once 
in  a  while, 
when  Brinsmade  walks  into  me  I  feel 
kind  o’  sorry  and  think  I’m  carrying 
the  thing  too  far  and  then  the  face  of 
that—that  reprobate  comes  up  ta me and 
I  get  to  swearing  and  that  ends  it.’ ’ 

that 

idea.  Penrose  thought 

the  new  man  has  been  here  Penrose  has 
been  calling  him  ‘ Sissy’  on  the  quiet 
and  the  way  the  fellow  has  been 
fond­
ling  his  necktie  has  helped  to  carry  out 
that 
the 
others  were  with  him  and  when  they 
were  going  after their coats and hats  last 
night  Standford  got  in  Penrose’s  way. 
‘ Get  out  o’  my  way,  Sissy!’  says  Pen­
rose  and,  I  guess,  gave  the  other  fellow 
a  sort  of  a  shove.  Standford  turned 
around  and  saw  that  Penrose  meant  it 
and  the  next  minute  Penrose  was  flat  on 
the  floor,  with  Standford with  fists  ready 
if  they  should  be  called  for.  Without  a 
word  Penrose  got  up  and  walked  off. 
Then  Standford  without  a  word went out 
too,  after  he’d  straightened  his  neck­
tie !”

“ Good  for him.  Do  you  want  him  to 
come  to  dinner  to-night?  Your  favorite 
pudding  is  good  enough  for  that  fellow, 
and  I  shall  make  the  ice  cream  myself. 
Now,  don’t  let’s  jump  all  over this  boy 
at  once  and  conclude  to  adopt  him  un­
der  a  week  at  least.  Let’s  find  out  who 
his  great-grandfather  was. 
I’m  con­
vinced  that  his  ancestors  on  both  sides 
came  over  in  the  Mayflower.  You'd  bet­
ter  stop  on  your  way  down  town  and  get 
tickets  for  the  play.  We’ll  do  what  we 
can  to  show  the  boy  we  are  on  his  side 
and  then 
if  that  Penrose  undertakes  to 
pay  him  off  for  his  knock-down  the  boy 
will  be  encouraged  to  go  ahead  and pol- 
"sh  him  off. ”

“ Well,  now,  precious,  don’t  waste 

in 

time 

any  more  valuable 
comin 
straight  to  the  point.  You  need  it  i 
your  business.  Who 
is  the  fellow  thi 
freckled-faced 
time-  that 
gnarly, 
forlorn-looking  piece 
chuckle-headed, 
of  seven  by  nine  intelligence  that 
look 
after  the  shirts  and  the  neckties?”

Now,  see  here,  Mary,  you  don’ 
want  to  talk  like  that.  He  doesn’t  hap 
pen  to  be  the  man  I  have  in  m ind;  but 
even  if  he  were  what’s  the  use 
let 
ting  your  prejudices  run  away  with youi 
good  sense.  Young  Wilkins  can’t  helj 
his 
looks  and  I ’m  going  to  tell  you 
right  here  that  six  months  is  going  to 
fellow  so  that  you  won’ 
change  that 
know  him.  That’s 
like  a  worn 
an. 

just 

I— ”

in 

“ Never  mind  the  rest,  precious, 

know 
it  all  by  heart  and  will  put  i 
down  to  your  credit.  Who 
is  the  fine 
young  gentleman  this  time  who  is  tt 
have  a  chance  to  get  a  boost  up  the 
commercial 
least  two  good 
rounds  by  your  earnest  efforts?”

ladder  at 

I  don’t  know  whether  you  have  seen 
him.  H e’s  at  the  counter  at  the  right 
of  the  main  entrance  going  in.  Rather 
tall,  with  an  oval  face,  blondish  and  a 
rather  earnest  moustache  of  the  same 
color;  blue  eyes  and  hair  parted  in  the 
middle ;  broad  shoulders  and  shapely; 
a  coat  that  was  made  for  him  and  fits 
h im ;  and  a  nectkie  that  he  dotes  on— 
the  only  weak  thing  about  him  that  I 
can  see. ’ *

When  Griswold  was  going  around  to 
Standford’s  counter  he  saw  a  rather 
flashily-dressed  woman  leaving 
it  and 
Standford  reading  a  note  which  he  had 
just  received. 
evidently 
Something 
bout  the 
female  stamped  her  as  one 
who  had  been  seen  talking  to  Penrose 
and  Griswold  made  up  his  mind  that  he 
would  watch  developments.  The  boy 
slipped  the  paper 
into  his  pocket  and 
ooked  at  the  retreating  woman  with  a 
good  deal  of  astonishment  showing 
it­
self  in  his  staring  eyes.  The woman  on 
reaching  the  door  turned  and  gave  the 
fellow  a  glance  with  an  expression  on 
her  face  which  was  enough  to  condemn 
her. 
the  morning  saw 
Standford  frequently  reading  the  note 
and  Griswold  watching  him.  By  noon 
that  gentleman  had  reached  conclusions 
and  as  Standford  was  on  his  way  for  his 
at  to  go  for  his  luncheon  the  manager 
ntercepted  him.
“ Get  your  hat  and  come  with  me  to 
luncheon,  Standford,  I’ve  something  I 
ant  to  say  to  you, ’ ’  and  the  two  left 

The  rest  of 

the  store  together.

Seated  at  the  table,  Griswold  began : 
“ What  part  of  the  East  do  you  hail 

from,  Standford?”

“ Baltimore. ”
“ Any  related  to  the  Calverts?”
There  was  a  swift  glance  into  Gris- 
old’s  face  and  a  reluctant,  “ Well,  yes. 
My  mother  was  a  Calvert.  How  did 
you  come  to  think  of  that?”

“ Oh,  I’m  not a  stranger to  Baltimore 
nd  I 
resemblances, 
hat  s  a  pretty  good  family  to  belong

thought 

I  saw 

M ICHIGAN  TRADESM AN

fancy  to  him. 

don’t  find  that  fellow  roped  in  by  any 
good-for-nothing  adventuress  who  takes 
a 
I’m  ready  to  bet  my 
last  dollar  on  that  fellow  no  matter  what 
the  temptation 
is.  Somehow  he  isn’ t 
quite  ready  to  break  off the family chain 
of  integrity  and  when  both  sides  of  the 
house  are  made  up  of  the  same  kind  of 
material  the  result  is  doubly  sure.  Isn't 
that  so?”

“ That’s  the  way  we  all  look  at  it  and 
I  think  it’s  about  right.  A   boy  away 
from  home,  though,  in  a  big  town 
like 
is  strongly  tempted  sometimes. 
this 
I’ve  been  here 
long  enough  to  know 
that.  You  see— ”

‘ You  needn’t  try  to  tell  me  anything 
In the first  place  he  gets  lone 
about  it. 
some.  That  s  as  far  as  I’m  going  now, 
for  I  took  this  chance  to  ask  you  to 
come  home  to  dinner  with  me  to-night, 
thinking  you  in  just  that  condition.  My 
wife  told  me  to  be  sure  to  make  the  in­
vitation  strong, for  she  had  made  up  her 
mind  to  have  you  come  and  she 
is  go 
ing  to  hold  me  responsible. 
1  want  you 
to  say  that  you’ll  come  and  then  I’ll tell 
you  the  rest. ’ ’

‘ Why,  I  thank  you  a  thousand  times 
but 
it  so  happens  that  I’m  about  the 
same  as  booked  for  this  evening,”   and 
in  saying  this  Standford  made  a  move 
for  his  pocket  as 
if  not  quite  certain 
about  the  hour,  which  the  note  would 
set  right. 
“ If  I  could  be  excused  by 
nine  o’clock  I  could  come.”

“ At  nine  o’clock,  Mr.  Standford,  you 
will  be  seated  between  my  wife  and  me 
at  the  theater  in  one  of  the  best  seats  in 
the  dress-circle.  That’s  all  there  is  to 
that.  There  are  some  engagements  it  is 
better  to  break  than  to  keep.  This  one 
with  me  I  urge  you  to  make  and  keep. 
That  one 
in  your  pocket  is  the  other 
sort.  You  are  not  the  Calvert  to  become

the  missing  link,  if  I  know  m yself;  and 
if  you  have  any  more 
invitations  from 
that  sort  of  humanity  who  compro­
mised  you  this  morning,  you’d  better 
settle  back  on  the  family  dignity  and— 
well,  look  at  her  as  your grandfather 
would  have!  Have  a  cigar.”

“ Thank  you,  Mr.  Griswold. 

I  accept 
invitation  to 
just 
I’ll  ring  your  front  doorbell 

all  three:  the  cigar,  the 
dinner  and  the  advice.  They  came 
in  time. 
promptly  at  quarter  to  seven.”

There  was  a  small  party  of  three  sat 
down  to  dinner that evening at 7 o’clock. 
They  had  a  fine  dinner,  with  English 
plum  pudding  and  some  royal  ice cream 
for dessert.  They  went  to  the  theater 
and  enjoyed  one  of  the  prettiest  com­
edies  that  Shakespeare  has  blessed  the 
world  with.  They  went  home  afterwards 
and  had  one  of the daintiest suppers that 
an  interested  woman  can  get  up.  Then 
the  men  of  the  party,  late  as  it  was,  had 
some  cigars  and  Griswold  showed  the 
young  man  his  room.  After  the  good- 
nights  were  exchanged  and  Griswold 
turned  to  go,  Standford,  with  a  great 
deal  of  unnecessary  earnestness,  ex­
claim ed:  “ Mr.  Griswold, 
I  want  to 
thank  you 
for  what  you  have  done  for 
myself— and  for  my  grandfathers  as  far 
back  as  I have any !  Again,  goodnight. ”  
remarked  Griswold 
the  next  time  he  saw  him,  “ that  dinner 
business  of  yours  works  pretty  well—  
sometimes. ”

“ Brinsmade,”  

Richard  Malcolm  Strong.

The  custom  of  women 

in  Tapan  at 
marriage  giving  their  teeth  an  everlast­
ing  coating  of  blacking 
is  practiced 
now  by  only  a  small  percentage,  but 
there  are  still  seen 
in  the  cities  hun­
dreds  of  women  hideous  with  black 
ivory  and  dentists’  showcases  contain 
sets  of  black  teeth.

G r a p d   R a p i d s  

B a r K

L u r p b e r

C o r p p a p y

Hemlock  Bark, 
Lumber,  Shingles, 
Railroad Ties, 
Posts,  Wood.

We  pay  Highest  Market 
Prices in Spot cash and mea­
sure bark when loaded.  Cor­
respondence solicited.

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Trust Building, 
Grand Rapids.

W . A . P h elps, P resident,
C. A- Phelps, S ec'y  6- Tr«a$.

W ORLD’S   B E S T

“ If  you’d  said  dark  hair  and  brown 
eyes  I  should  have  thought  you  meant 
Ferris.  Are  his  eyes  close  together  and 
his  finger  joints  bunchy?  What’s  he 
been  doing  to  start  you  off?  The  way 
you  spoke  of  his  broad  shoulders  hints 
of  a  bit  of  muscle-using.  Has  he  been 
straightening  anybody  out?”

Griswold 

laughed  and  pushed  his 

chair  back  from  the  breakfast  table.

“ What  a  woman  you  are,  Mary! 
There  was  a  sort  of  a  scrap  at  the  store 
last  night.  This  man  Standford  some­
how  struck  Penrose  as  a  kind  of a ‘ Mary 
it  seems  that  for  the  week
Jane’  and 

“ Well,  we  think  so.”
“ It’s  always  been  a  hobby  with  me 
that  a  man  with  a  name  to  be  proud  of 
has  one  of  the  strongest  reasons  to  keep 
straight  that  he  can  possibly  have.  A 
fellow  without  any  ancestry  has a chance 
but  no 
inducement  except  on  general 
principles  of  decency  to  hold  his  head 
up  and 
insist  on  being  clean  clear 
through,  but  with  the  other  fellow  it’s 
fferent.  There’s  his  father  and  then 
his  grandfather  and  one  or  two  behind 
him  all  straight  for  some  four  genera­
tions  and  with  that  to  brace  him  up  you

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President,  E.  J .  Sc h r e ir e k ,  Bay  City;  Sec­
retary,  A.  W.  St i t t ,  Jackson;  Treasurer, 
O.  C.  Go u ld, Saginaw.

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

Michigan  Commercial  Trarelen’  Association 
and Treasurer, Ge o.  W. Hi l l , Detroit.
United  Commercial  Trawlers  of Michigan 

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

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

Senior  Counselor,  J oh n  G.  K o l b ;  Secretary- 

Treasurer, L. F. Baker.

Michigan  Commercial  Travelers  Mutual  Accident  Association 
President, J.  Bo y d   Pa n t l in d ,  Grand  Rapids; 
Secretary  and  Treasurer,  Ge o.  F.  Ow e n , 
Grand Rapids.

Gripsack  Brigade.

*  Lieut.  John  Lane, 
formerly  on  the 
road  for Corl,  Knott  & Co.,  has  engaged 
to  take  up  road  work  July  i  for the  Cap- 
pon  &  Bertsch  Leather  Co.  He  will 
spend  May  and  June  in  the store posting 
up  on  the  saddlery  hardware  line.

Thos. -  R.  Petrie,  who  has  transferred 
his  allegiance  from  the  Simmons  Hard­
ware  Co.  (St.  Louis)  to  Foster,  Stevens 
&  Co.,  has  moved  his  family  from  K al­
amazoo  to  Traverse  City,  which  city  he 
will  make  his  headquarters  hereafter.

Guy  McDonald,  who  has  had  charge 
of  J.  F.  Muffley’s  shoe  store  at  Dowa- 
giac  until  recently,  has  engaged  to 
travel  for the  Herold  Bertsch  Shoe  Co., 
covering  the  trade  of  Northern  Indiana. 
Mr.  McDonald  will  reside  at  Ft.  Wayne 
and  make  that  city  his  headquarters.

D.  C.  Clapp,  traveling  representative 
for the  Michigan  Furniture  Co.,  of  Anm 
Arbor,  shot  himself  May  4  in  the  office 
of  the  Hotel  Hattell  at  Goshen.  He 
had  bought  the  revolver 
in  Goshen, 
walked 
into  the  hotel  and  sent  a  bullet 
through  his  brain.  No cause is assigned. 
He  was  51  years  of  age.  The  remains 
were  taken  to  Owosso  for  interment.

Greenville  Daily  C a ll:  Wm.  B.  Bur­
ris  has  sold  his  interest  in  the  Bradley 
Cigar  Co. 
to  L.  W.  Hyde  and  H.  F. 
Sigler.  Mr.  Burris  has  not  yet  decided 
where  he  will  go  into business,  but  this 
much  we  know,  that  wherever  he  goes 
he  will  be  as  much  respected  and 
liked 
as  he  is  here.  He  is  an  enterprising, 
active  and  a  business  method  young 
man  and  we  are  sorry  he  feels  it  his 
duty  to  locate  elsewhere.
Gradual  Growth of Grand Rapids Council, 

No.  131.

Grand  Rapids,  May  6— There 

is  a 
principle  or  faculty  natural  to  nearly  all 
successful  traveling  salesmen  and  which 
others  soon  recognize  and  acquire before 
they  become  successful:  To  suppress 
themselves  and  emphasize  others,  while 
keeping  their  light  from  under  a  bushel 
and  letting  it  shine  with  all  the  wisdom 
and  goodness  there  are  in  it,  for the  en­
lightenment  and  advancement  of  all 
with  whom  they  come 
in  contact,  sup­
pressing  every  indication  of  egotism  or 
self-conceit  and  at  the  same  time,  em­
bracing  every  opportunity  to  emphasize 
the  virtues  of  their fellow  associates,  re­
membering  the  man  is most popular who 
makes  the  most  people  think 
them­
selves  of  most  consequence  and,  with no 
intention  of  flattering,  well  knowing 
that  flattery 
is  not  popular  under  the 
name  of  flattery,  but,  when  properly 
used,  it clears from  thorns  many  a  weary 
pathway  and  strews  it  instead  with flow­
ers.  Of 
just  such  gifted  salesmen  the 
U.  C.  T.  Council,  No.  131,  of  this  city, 
is  composed.  We  have  no  big  I’s  and 
little  you’s  in  our  council.  They  are  all 
"big  you’s— the  I’s  don’t  count.  We  look 
at  each  other  through  the  telescope  of 
brotherly  love,  with the  small  end  point­
ing  towards  ourselves  and  the  large  end 
towards  our  brother  members,  magnify­
ing  their  many  virtues 
in  our  own 
hearts.  The  results  are  harmony,  peace 
and  prosperity,  supported  by  the  strong

MICHIGAN  TRADESM AN

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pillars  of  unity,  charity  and  temper­
ance.

We  added  further  luster  to  our  Coun­
cil  Saturday  evening  by  initiating  three 
of  Grand  Rapids  popular  salesmen— 
W.  S.  Bums,  Frank  E.  Rogers  and 
Chas.  W.  Jones.  Bums  was  especially 
honored  with  the  much-appreciated  (by 
the  lookers  on)  honorary  degree  of  Im­
presario;  and 
just  before  the  “  Royal 
Bumper”   was  led  forcibly away,  I heard 
Burns  faintly  murmur:

Oh, zephyrs, blow more  lightly.
Don’t caress me quite so tightly (Bang!)
Gee whiz, boys, stars shine brightly!
Pick me up, but handle me lightly."

Chas.  P.  Irish,  of  this  city,  and  Her­
bert  Griffith,  of  Traverse  City,  have 
also  been  enrolled  with  us  since  our 
April  meeting.

J.  B.  Mclnnis,  chairman  of  the  Com­
mittee  on  Arrangements  for  the  enter­
tainment  of  the  Grand  Council  May  18 
and  19,  gave  us  an  exhaustive  report  of 
the  progress  made  by  the  various  sub­
committees,  and  if  all  arrangements  are 
carried  out  successfully— and  they  will 
be,  weather  permitting  -our  visitors 
is  no 
will  leave  us  feeling  that  there 
place 
like  the  Furniture  City 
for  a 
hearty  welcome  and  right  royal  good 
time.  We  are  going  to  give  the  boys 
the  key  to  the  city,  but  we  will  keep 
them  so  busy  that  they  won’t  carry away 
anything  but  a  full  stomach,  light  heart, 
our  royal  good  will  and  a  feeling  of  re­
luctance to leave us.  W.  R.  Compton.

T h e  B o ys  B eh in d   th e  Counter.

Eaton  Rapids— Bert  Green,  who  has 
been  clerking  or  A.  W.  Annis  for  some 
time,  has  secured  a  position  with  the 
Knapp  Grocery  Co.

Flint—John  Farer, 

formerly  with 
Crampton  &  Litchfield,  has  taken  a  po­
sition  with  Stephen  M.  Hegel,  druggist 
at  Goodrich.

South  Haven— John  Ghent,  who  for 
the  past  two  years  has  been  employed 
in  Chas.  H ill’s  drug  store,  has  taken 
the  position  of  registered  pharmacist  in 
Mrs.  J.  J.  Fabey’s  drug  store  in  Benton 
Harbor.

Dowagiac— W.  L.  Brenneman, 

for­
merly  with  Gilmore  Brothers,  of  Kala­
mazoo, is the  new  salesman  at  the  White 
Front  to  succeed  Henry  J.  Bruen.

Charlotte— Arthur  Roblin,  clerk  in  the 
shoe  store  of  Albert  Murray,  and  Fred. 
Murray,  clerk  in  the  shoe  store  of  V. 
C.  Roblin  &  Co.,  have  exchanged  posi­
tions.

Dowagiac— Guy  McDonald  has  re­
signed  the  management  of  the  J.  F. 
Muffley  shoe  store  to  take  the  position 
of  Indiana  traveling  representative  for 
the  Herold-Bertsch  Shoe  Co.,  of  Grand 
Rapids.

D earth   o f G enuine  M ocha  Coffee.

Wm. E. Curtis in Chicago Record.

C.  H.  Conrad,  of  Chicago,  denies  my 
statement  in  a  recent  letter  that  there  is 
no  genuine  Mocha  coffee  in this market, 
and  asks  a  correction.  There  has  al­
ways  been  a  certain  quantity  of  genuine 
Mocha  coffee  imported  into  the  United 
States,  but  of  late  years,  since  the  trees 
were  destroyed  by  the  plague,  it  has 
been  so  small  that  it  does  not  appear 
in  the  reports of  the  Bureau  of  Statis­
tics.  An  enquiry  at  the  Custom  Bureau 
discloses  the  fact  that  the  imports  of 
coffee  from  Turkey  and  Asia  during  the 
last  year  amounted  to  3,676,567  pounds, 
out  of  a  total  importation  of  831,827,063 
pounds.  The  supply  of  Mocha  coffee is 
so  small  that  it  is  not  sold  in  the  gen­
eral  market  and  is  not  quoted  in  the  or­
dinary  price  lists. 
It  is  handled  only 
by_a  few  houses  for  the  gratification  of 
epicures.

A   man  has  nerve  when  he  announces 
himself  as  a  candidate  for  any  office 
subject  to  the  action  of  any  party  that 
will  nominate  him.

The  Admiral  was  great  at  Manila 
when  the  occasion  offered.  He  was  also 
foolish,  later  on,  when  he  had  a  chance 
to  be.

in 

POLITICAL,  c o r r u p t io n   i n   c it ie s.
Honesty  in  the  administration  of  mu­
is  the  most  important 
nicipal  affairs 
element 
the  politics  of  any  city. 
The  public  official  who  steals  money 
out  of  the  people’s  treasury  is  usually 
regarded  as  the  worst  sort  of  man  pos­
sible 
in  public  affairs;  but  there  are 
many  far  worse.  He is  only  a  thief  and 
his  peculations  are  sure  to  be  found 
out  and  brought  to  an  end.

But  the  public  official  who  uses  his 
position  and  the  power  intrusted  to  him 
to  make  corrupt  bargains  with  private 
parties  to  barter  away  the  rights  and 
property  of  the  people  for  his  personal 
gain  and  advancement  is  not  so  easily 
found  out.  He  may  carry  on  his  corrupt 
operations  until 
they  become  of  enor­
mous  extent,  involving  many  persons 
and  vast  interests  and  endangering pub­
lic  order and  the  prosperity  of  the  city 
itself.  Such  a  man  becomes  a  public 
enemy,  a  foe  to  the  preservation  of  so­
ciety  and  an  underminer  of  public  and 
private  honesty  and  morals.

Whenever  and wherever the knowledge 
of  corruption  in  public  places  is  spread 
through  the  business  community,  per­
sonal  honesty  and 
integrity  will  be 
weakened  just  as  surely  as  slow  poison 
saps  the  vitality  of  the  human  body. 
Let  the  impression  go  abroad  that polit­
ical  influence  will  obtain  business  ad­
vantages,  and  the  first  impulse  aroused 
is  a  determination  to  ”  hustle”  
for  the 
favors.  A 
favor  granted  is  an  obliga­
tion  created.  A  business  advantage  ob­
tained  from  a  politician  calls  for  a cam­
paign  contribution,  and  the  next  favor 
is  too  often  a  cash  transaction.

The  people  of  Grand  Rapids  are  by 
no  means  unacquainted  with  that  sort  of 
official  corruption,  as  the  result  of  the 
criminal  methods  pursued  in  obtaining 
the  present  street  railway franchise some 
years  ago  and  the  questionable  methods 
by  which  other  concessions  have  since 
been  obtained  at  the  hands  of  the  Com­
mon  Council.

in 

Bird  S.  Coler,  the  Comptroller  of  the 
its  fore­
City  of  New  York  and  one  of 
the  esteem  and 
most  public  men 
affection  of 
the  people— an  affection 
won  by  his  vigorous  and  successful 
efforts  to  block  and  prevent  the consum­
mation  of  corrupt  and  rascally  schemes 
against  the  people  whose  servant  he  is 
— in  an  article  in  the  May Munsey says :
The  modern  political corruption  is  far 
more  dangerous  than  that  of  thirty years 
ago.  The  old  way  led  to  exposure  and 
disgrace,  the  new  leads  to  wealth  and 
political  power.  Where  men  can  be 
corrupt  in  public  business  and  yet  keep 
within  the  letter of the  law the rewards of 
honesty  become  mere  ashes  of  young 
hopes  compared  with  the  gains  of  polit­
ical  plundering.

The  City  of  New  York  is  robbed  to an 
extent  difficult  to  estimate,  robbed  in'a 
legalized  way  and  often  by  men  who 
would  resent  any  question  as  to  their 
personal  honesty,  all  because  corruption 
in  politics  has  been  tolerated  too 
long. 
This  fact  is  bad  enough,  but  its  evil  re­
sults  are  spreading  through  every  chan­
nel  of  trade  and  slowly  but  surely  un­
dermining  business  integrity  and 
inde­
pendence.

It  is  no  answer to  this  assertion  to  say 
that  the  charge 
is  general  or  vague. 
There  are  few  men  in  the  city  engaged 
in  large  business  or  financial enterprises 
who  have  not  had  evidence  of  its  truth. 
Not  long  ago  I asked  an  officer  of  one of 
the  largest  financial  corporations  in  the 
city  to  assist  me 
in  a  certain  public 
matter.  He  apologized  for  his  refusal 
with  this  explanation:  ‘ ‘ I  know  you  are 
right,  but  I  must  protect  the  interests  of 
my  company  and  can  not  afford  to  an­
tagonize  certain  political  interests. 
If I 
did,  we  should  be  annoyed  and  op­
pressed  in  a  variety  of  ways.”

Mr.  Coler  well  remarks  that  whenever

such  methods  can  be  adopted  with 
im­
punity  the  poison  of  corruption  in  pol­
itics  has  begun  to  spread  through  the 
community, public spirit  has  been  weak­
ened,  and  business  honor  is 
imperiled. 
If  the  officers  of  all  the  great  financial 
and  business  corporations 
in  most  of 
the  large  cities  should  compare  notes  in 
confidence, 
little  doubt  that 
many  a  one  could tell  a  story  of  politi­
cal  blackmail,  oppression  or  annoyance. 
Some  there  are,  perhaps,  who  could 
tell,  if  they  would,  of  valuable  favors 
obtained  through  the  medium  of  politi­
cal 
influence,  but  some  day  they  will 
realize  that  the  debts  incurred  in  that 
way  may  become  a  burden  greater  than 
they  can  bear.

there 

is 

Business  men  who  engage  in  dishon­
est  transactions  with public officials  may 
excuse  themselves  on  the  ground  that 
they  did  not  create  the  condition  which 
inures  to  their benefit.  As  a  matter  of 
fact,  they  are  wholly  responsible 
in  so 
far  as  they  create  temptations  that  are 
too  strong  for  the  weak  man 
in  public 
life  to  resist. 
It  is  difficult  to  find  any 
excuse  for  the  man  who  knowingly  buys 
goods  from  a  thief  because  they  are 
cheaper than  the  price  in  the  open  mar­
ket  of  honesty  and  publicity.

B la c k listin g   H rld  to  B e  L eg al  in  Canada.
A  case  of  much  interest  to  retail  gro­
cers  was  tried 
in  Hamilton,  Ont.,  re­
cently.  At  the  assizes  there  William 
Harper,  a  street  car  conductor,  brought 
suit  against  the  Hamilton  Retail  Gro­
cers’  Association  for 
libel.  The  evi­
dence  brought  out  that  Mr.  Harper  had 
run  up  bad  accounts  with  several  gro­
cers.  He  owed  Mrs.  Murphy,  a  mem­
ber of  the  Association,  $7.58,  and  was 
sent  a  notice  to  the  effect  that  if  his  ac­
count  with  Mrs.  Murphy  was  not  settled 
in  ten  days  his  name  would  be  reported 
to  each  member of  the  Association.  As 
he  did  not  pay  up,  his  name  was 
printed,  with  others,  on  a  circular  with 
the  following  heading :  “ Hamilton Re­
tail  Grocers’  Association.  The  follow­
ing  names,  having  been  dealt  with 
through  the  collection  department,  are 
found  to  be  unworthy  of credit,  and  cash 
dealings  are  advised. ”   The  plaintiff 
told  the  court  that  the  list  was  shown 
him  by  a  grocer,  and  he  also  saw  it  on 
a  street  car.  He  said  it  had  been  diffi­
cult  at  times  for  him  to keep  all  ac­
counts  paid  up.  After being  out three 
hours,  the 
jury  delivered  a  verdict  for 
the  defense.

J o in t  Meeting:  o f  Com m ittees  a t  Lan sin g.
Ann  Arbor,  May  8— The  Michigan 
Board  of  Pharmacy  will  hold  a  special 
meeting  at  Lansing  May  22.  The  object 
of  this  meeting  is  to  meet  with  the Leg­
islative  Committee  of  the  State  Phar­
maceutical  Association  in  order to  dis­
cuss  or  recommend  important  changes 
to  be  made  in  the  pharmacy  law  of  this 
State. 
I  will  undertake  to  furnish  you 
with  the  particulars  of the  meeting  as 
soon  as  possible, giving you  the  changes 
recommended  as  well  as  other  points 
that  may  come  before  the  meeting.

A.  C.  Schumacher,  Sec’y. 
------- ---------------- .

The  enthusiastic  ovations  to  Admiral 
Dewey  by  thousands  of  school  children 
might  suggest  to  him  the  propriety  of 
curbing  his  presidential  aspirations  for 
yet  a  few  years.  Not  all  of  these  school 
children  are  girls.

An  old  fellow  like  Uncle  Sam who has 
had 
just  claims  pending  against  him 
for  nearly  a  hundred  years  ought  not  to 
talk  too  saucily  to  Turkey.

A   man  who  says  he  is  driven  to  drink 
looks  at  himself  as  a  donkey  or  an  ox 
that  may  be  so  driven.

If  men  could  always  borrow,  few of 
them  would  buy  umbrellas  to  lay  up  for 
a  rainyday.

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CHIGAN  TRADESMAN

and 

As  the  operations of the  cutter were  felt 
first 
in  the  East,  particularly  around 
Boston,  whence  the  evil  spread  West 
and  South,  so  the  first  efforts to with­
stand  the  engulfing  tide  were  made 
I there.  So  far as  I  know,  Essex  county 
Mass.,  is entitled to  the  credit  of  mak 
tng  the  first  organized  effort  in  the  wa> 
of a  county  association  and  price  list, in 
iSjq.  Local  associations  soon  sprang 
into existence  in  Salem,  Lynn,  Haver­
hill,  Lawrence  and  elsewhere. 
The 
State  association  followed  as a  natural 
sequence, 
the  National  Retail 
Druggists  Association  < the  forerunner 
of  the  X.  A.  R.  D .» was founded shortly 
after.  Each  had  their brief  dav,  albeit 
some  lived  for  a  number of  years,  and 
went  their  way,  all  save  .he  State  asso­
ciation.  which  was  not  based  solely  on 
trade  lines.  \\ ith  these  various  organi 
rations  came  many  attempts to secure 
full  prices on  patents.  The  first  one  of 
national  moment  was  that  styled  the 
Campion  plan,  whereby  the  manufactur­
er and  jobber  were  to  refuse  to  supply 
those  who  would  not  sign  a  contract  to 
sell  all  proprietary  goods at  full  marked 
prices. 
It  was  a  good  plan—an  ideal 
plan,  1  might  say—on  paper, and  it will 
work 
in  the  future  when 
trade  is  based  on  honesty  and  the  gold­
en  rule,  instead  of selfishness  and  over­
reaching— in the  millennium.  The rea- 
ron  it  met  disaster  was dollars to dough­
nuts  as  between  the  manufacturer,  the 
jobber and  the  retailer,  although  repre 
sentativesof the several classes shouted to 
the other  Tu quoque. ’ '  Some were more 
ready  to  preach  than  to  practice.  After 
few  months  of  battling  for life  this 
epitaph  was  duly 
inscribed  upon  its 
tombstone:  "  If 1 was  so  soon  to  be  done 
f°r-  What  was  I  so  soon  begun  for?”  
Following  its  demise 
appeals  were 
lade  year after year to  the  manufactur­
ers and  jobbers  to extend  the  protection 
afforded  the  jobbers  to the  retail  trade. 
These  appeals  were  made  to the  twin 
national  associations.  Did  our ap|«eals 
avail  aught?  Let  historv  answer.

sometime 

T®  Se*-«rr  th e   T r a d e   la  S pice« an d  F la v o r  

ins  Extrarts.

it 

flavoring  extracts,  etc., 

How  to  secure  the  family trade  in 
spices, 
is  a 
question  which  ought  to  interest  every 
retail  druggist  throughout  the 
land. 
Spices  which  are  used  for  fam ily  pur­
poses  are  also  used  to a  great  extent 
in 
many  of  our  pharmaceutical  prepara­
tions;  therefore 
is our duty  to  know 
the  good  kind  from  the  adulterated  ar­
ticle ;  it  should  he  part of our learning 
We,  as  pharmacists,  should  be  able  to 
tell  our  patrons » here  spices come from, 
and 
in  fact  all  about  them.  We  m ny 
know  also  » hat  adulterants  are  used  in 
preparing  spices  for the  regular  trade 
the  grocery  trade.  At  present  the  gro­
cer sells the  most  spices  because be sell: 
them  cheap ;  with  him  it  is  not  quality 
but  quantity,  that  draws the  trade.  To 
offset  this  buy  your  spices  from  a  repu­
table  firm.  Always  be  careful  to specify
the  best.  When  you  obtain  vour 
goods  make  a  thorough  examination  of 
them,  try  them  for yourself on  your own 
table,  and  make  other tests,  such  as  vou 
may  find  quoted  in  your books or  in  the 
pharmaceutical  journals. 
If thev  stand 
all  these  tests and  prove  to be thé Simon 
pure  article,  then  place  them  on  sale  at 
your pharmacy.  Go  through  this same 
course  with  each  lot  vou  receive. 
It 
may  seem a  lot  of trouble  to  vou  at  first, 
but  the  returns  you  obtain  from  the  sale 
of the goods  will  amply  repay  vou.  Try 
also and  obtain  some  adulterated goods ; 
a  very  small  lot  will  be  sufficient ;  put 
these 
label 
them  exactly  what  they  are,  so  vou  will 
be  able  to  show  them  to  your  j matrons, 
and  explain  the  difference  between  vour 
pods  and  cheap  goods.  Don't  tell  a 
;ood  story 
in  order to try  and  make  a 
sale ;  at  all  times  be  truthful  in  vour 
■ tatements,  and  have  the  facts  at  hand 
to  prove  your assertions.  Mention  the 
fact  that  a  number of  states  have  strin­
gent  laws  regarding  the  sale  of adulter­
ated  food  products,  that  tradesmen  .are 
prosecuted  whenever caught  selling  in­
ferior goods.

in  »ide-mouthed  bottles, 

Acetanilid— It 

is  reported  that  the 
manufacturers  are  getting together and 
that  prices  will  be  higher.

Carbolic  A cid— Is  unchanged  and 

steady.

Cocoa  Butter— Is  scarce  and  has  ad­

vanced.

Glycerine—Crude is scarce and higher, 
is  as  yet  unchanged. 

although  C.  P. 
Higher prices are  looked  for.

Naphthaline  Balls—Higher,  on  ac­

count of  scarcity.

Pennyroyal—fs  very  firm  and  will  be 
in,  as 

higher  when  the  demand  sets 
stocks are  limited.

Linseed  Oil— Has  advanced 

gallon.

ic   per 

A   really good  woman  is  never able  to 
decide  which  is dearer to  her— her  hus­
band's  love or her own  reputation.

KG. MISTS.um.m

Periigo’s Headache Powders, Per- 
rigo’s Mandrake Hitlers,  Pemgo’s 
Dyspepsia  Tablets  and  Penigo*s 
Qamme Cathartic Tablets are gam­
ing new triends every day.  If jxm 
haven’t already a good  sapptv  on. 
write ns for prices.

FUV0RIR6 EXTSKfS MD DRI66ISTS' S0IDR1ES
Alum inum   Money

WtH tecrrase Y w  fta i i i   11

A   A
v l | p r

Cheap and Effective 

Scad foe samples and prices.
C .  H .  H A N S O N ,

44  S.  Clark  St..  Chicago.  111.

M irhipm   State  Board  o f  P k a r o a r r

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„  
Term expires
-  Dm . 31. isoo
- 
<>»>. w s » * n i .  Ionia 
L.  E.  Re y n o l d«,  St.  Joseph 
-  Dee. a .  u n  
Hxnky  Hkim. Saginaw 
-  D ee.». 1902
- 
W iw   P.  Doty. Detroit  - 
-  Dee. a .  was
- 
A. C. Schcjeachrr. Ann Arbor  -  Dev.si. iam 

PiwMent,  G so. Q tuuH um ,  Ionia.
Secretary. A. C. Sc h i haohkr.  Ann Arbor. 
Treasurer. Hen ry  Hkim. Saginaw.
Kxatuinaiion  Segeskuas
Star lsiand—June »  and as.
Sault Ste. Marie  Aug. as and as.
Lansing—Not. t and s.

State  I'h an u H T R lk al  A ssociation 

President—tl.  Kbkrkach. Ann Arbor. 
Sew stiy-C H A S.  F.  Ma s s . Detroit. 
Treasurer—J .  S. Hk s s k it .  Lansing.

Plans

Proposed  for  the  Prevention  of 

Price  C atting.

A s  the  young  man  with  incteasin 
years  looks  forward  hopefulIv  to  the  fu 
ture,  picturing  to  himself  victories 
to  be  achieved,  so  he  of  declining  vears 
may  be  )uidonol  for  indulging  in retro 
spective  tnusings.  As the  youth  rarelv 
attains  the  heights  he  has  aimed  u 
reach,  even  so the  elder,  as  he  casts 
life's  ashes  ami 
look  backward  upon 
withered 
infrequently  ex 
leaves,  not 
tracts comfort  and  satisfaction  from  the 
thought  of  difficulties  surmounted  and 
even  slight  measures  of success.

A s  Aeneas,  in  relating  to  Dido the 
story
of  the  defense  and  sacking  of 
Troy.
added  force  to  his store by telling 
how
he  was  a  part  of  it,  so  1  would 
modestly  claim  some  pan  in  the  effort 
that  have  been  made  during  the  past 
quarter  of  a  century  or  more to  place 
the  business  side  of  pharmacy  on  a  bet 
ter and  more  remunerative  basis.  Havt 
we  yet  gained  the  hoped  for meed  of 
success?  Assuredly,  no.  To  manv  ii 
would  seem  as  if we  had  lost,  insteae 
of  gained,  ground.  Yet  this  is  not  true, 
since  all  our efforts  have  not  gone  for 
nothing.  We  have 
laid  a  foundation 
that  our successors  mav  some  day  build 
upon.  We  have  made  history;  perhaj 
a  history  of  errors,  wherebv  it  mav  he 
that  those  who  succeed  us,  yea,  perhap; 
those  who  have  already taken our places 
may  bring  about  better things.  A s  the 
pendulum  swings  over  the  same  arc 
from  one  extreme  to  the  other,  neve 
stopping  unless  time  itself  ceases  to  be 
recorded, let  us try  if  we  can  discover at 
which  point  of  the  arc  we  are  now lo­
cated.

Many  years  ago  1  succeeded  in  busi 
ness  to  almost  the  counterpart  in  per­
sonal  appearance  of the  apothecary  de­
scribed  by  Shakespeare— he  who 
is  so 
often  quoted  at  us  on  festive  occasions, 
although  seldom  by  us.  Like  Taddeo 
Saddi's bridge,  celebrated  by  Longfel 
low,  he  was  old,  so old. 
He  could 
remember almost  the  dawn  of  pharmacy 
in our country.  He  told  me  of the  first 
appearance  in our midst of  the  strictlv 
proprietary  medicines.  It  was,  if  I  mis­
take  not.  an  English  pill,  and  was  sold 
in bar  rooms,  taverns  and 
in  general 
stores.  True,  pharmacies,  strictlv  such, 
were  not so common as  now,  but  those 
that did  exist  stuck  closely  to their own 
trade and  would  have  none  of  the  nos­
trums.  Proprietaries  increased  slowlv 
but  surely  in number.  As  drug  stores 
also  increased  in  number thev  gradual­
ly  added  proprietaries to their  stock 
in 
trade,  and  thus  laid  the  foundation  for 
trouble  for  their  descendants.  Once 
more  the  pendulum  seems  to  be  swing­
ing  back  to  its  starting  point,  with  the 
sale  of  certain  proprietary  medicines 
being  urged  in  bar  rooms  and  general 
stores.  As  it  reaches  the  perpendicular 
may  it  not  bring  us  once  more  the  boon 
of  prosperity?  Let  us  hope  so at  least.

It  was a  case  on  the  part  of  manufac­
jobbers  of  Codlln’s  vour 
turers  and 
friend,  not  Short!”   There  is  no  doubt 
they  fully  intended  to  help  the  retailer, 
sometime,  provided  they  were  not  al- 
lowed 
it.  but  some  plan  that 
forget 
would 
suitable 
in  heaven  must  be 
found 
be  applied  on  this  sinful
earth.

to
be
to

Yen? 

Then  came  the  guild,  with  its  semi- 
oovcott  reversed,  that  of giving  all  vour 
trade  to the  jobber who  helped  you  1 or 
did  not  get caught  in  doing  otherwise 1.
is  dot  barty now?”   Perhaps  it 
made  a  “ touch  down. ”  
I  do not know. 
The  Interstate  League  was  its  successor 
and  gave  promise  of  being  a  winner, 
hut— .  During the  past  two  vears  an­
other attempt  is being  made  by the  Na­
tional  Association  of  Retail  Druggists 
along some  different  lines,  the  mistakes 
of the  past being  avoided.  The  execu­
tive  committee  of the  latest  national  or­
ganization  seems  to  be  working  with 
greater  unanimity  of  action  and 
is 
avoiding  the  greatest  fault  of all  past 
work—being  disunion  and  lack  of  har­
mony.  God  grant  to the  X.  A.  R.  D. 
the  highest  meed  of success all  over our 
land;  it  has  proved  successful  already 
local 
forces  have  been  able  to eliminate  the 
cutter,  although the  baleful  influence  of 
the  one  man  power has  proved  too great 
yet  in  too  many  others.—J.  W.  Col- 

many  places,  wherever 

the 

cord  in  American  Druggist.

It 

isn  t  the  noise  of  the  powder that 

penetrates  but  the  force.

neat 

As  to  flavoring  extracts,  1  would  ad- 
ise  you  to  buy  the  best  quality  of 
vanilla  beans,  oil  of  lemon,  and  other 
essential  oils  and  drugs which  are  used 
in  preparing  the  extracts.  Prepare  the 
extracts or essences  with  as  much  care 
as  you  exercise 
in  compounding  pre­
scriptions.  \\ hen  they  are  ready  for  use 
see that they are  nice  and  clear.  Use  a 
clean panel bottle to put them  up  in ;  use 
label  and  finish  off  with  a  nice 
cork  top.  G ive  a  few samples to  some 
of your  patrons  who know  a  good  thing 
when they try  it.  You  will  be  surprised 
at  the  results.  Also  mention  it  in  vour 
monthly or qOarteriy circular;  state  the 
fact  that  all  spices and flavoring extracts 
are sold  under a  guarantee  that  they  are 
the  best that  can be  obtained,  and  that 
all  spices are  thoroughly tested  by  vou 
before  being  placed  on  sale  at  your 
pharmacy.

This  course  will  increase  vour sales of 
pure  cream  of tartar,  sodium  bicarbon­
ate,  and  many  other substances that  are 
used  by the  housewife  for preparing our 
eatables. 

G.  H.  J.  Andreas.

T h e   D r u s   M a r k e t.

Opium-  Has  declined.  The  prospect 
for a  crop  of 6,000  cases,  which will  be 
an  average  one,  weakens  prices,  which 
were  advanced  on  account  of  reported 
damage.

Morphine— Is  unchanged.
Quinine— At  the  Amsterdam  auction 
last  Tuesday  prices  were  a  trifle  higher 
for bark,  but  manufacturers  of  quinine 
have  as  yet  made  no  change.

A.  M.  Dean Company,

White  Lead 
and  Color  Works

2J&  and 222  E. 

Kalamazoo.  Mich.

A re ,

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? tor prices and tcimx.  One  agem  Tinted 

in e r m  town.

show this  season.  We  have  care- 
-d  fully selected the best patterns that 

I   twenty-six of the  leading  factories
If your stock needs sorting 
up write us and we will gladly send

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Our prices  are  guaranteed  to  be 
identically  the  same  as  factories

day and see  an  up-to-date  line  erf 
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Linseed, pure raw... 
65 
Linseed,  boiled........ 
66 
Neatsfoot, winter str  54 
Spirits  Turpentine.. 
56 

68
69
60
60
P a in ts  BBL.  LB.
Bed  Venetian..........  14i  2  @8
Ochre, yellow  Mars, 
IM  2  @4 
Ochre, yellow B er...  1%  2  @3 
I’utty,  commercial..  2M  2M®3 
Putty, strictly  pure.  2M  2St@3 
Vermilion,  P r im e
American..  ........ 
13® 
15
70®  76
Vermilion, English  . 
Green,  Paris...........  
14® 
18
Green,  Peninsular... 
13®  16
Lead, red..................  6M@ 
7
Lead,  white.............  6H@ 
7
Whiting, white Span  @  70
Whiting, gilders’__  
®  90
White, Paris, Amer.  @ 100 
Whiting, Paris, Eng.
@  1  40
C lif f .................................... 
Universal  Prepared.  1  00®  1  15 

V arnishes

No. 1 Tnrp  Coach 
i  10®  1  20
Extra Turp..............   1  60®   1  70
Coach  Body.............   2 75® 3 00
No. 1 Tnrp Furn......   I  H A  1  10
Extra Turk  Dsmar..  1  55®  1  60 
.lap.Dryer.Xo.lTurp  70®  77

MICHIGAN  TRADESM AN

25 I  Seidlltz Mixture......
20® 22
30 j Sinapis.....................
@ 18
| Sinapis,  opt.............
@ 30
20 | Snuff, Maccaboy,  De
40 |  Voes  .....................
@ 41
80  Snuff,Scotch,De Vo’s
@ 41
10 1  Soda, Boras.  ...........
9® 11
35 |  Soda,  Boras, po.......
9® 11
I  Soda et  Potass Tart
23® 25
00  Soda,  Carb...............
1M@ 2
I  Soda,  Bi-Carb..........
3®
5
00 |  Soda,  Ash................
4
3M®
00  Soda, Sulphas..........
% 2
85 i  Spts. Cologne...........
% 2 60
50  Spts.  Ether  Co........
50® 56
18 |  Spts.  Myrcia Dom...
® 2 00
30  Spts. Vfni  Rect.  bbi.
@
7 !  Spts. Vinl Rect. Mbbl
@
12 |  Spts. Vini Rect. lOgal
@
50 1 Spts. Vint Rect. 5 gal
@
i Strychnia, Crystal...  1  05®  I  25
75 1 Sulphur,  Sub]..........  214® 
4
30  Sulphur. Boll...........   2M®  3M
10 ! Tam arinds............... 
8® 
10
28®  30
43  Terebenth  Venice... 
43 | Theobromse.............. 
52®  56
43 i  Vanilla.....................   9 00®16 00
14 j Zinci Sulph.............  
8
7® 
251 
SO j 
14 j  Whale, winter........... 
7o 
12 |  Lard, extra................  60 
15 |  Lard, No. 1................ 
45 

BBL,  «At,.
70
70
50

° ‘U

Menthol.................... 
@ 3
Morphia, 8., P. & W.  2 05® 2 
Morphia, 8„ N. Y. Q.
&C. Co..................  1  »5® 2
Moschus  Canton__  
@
Myristica, No. 1.......  66®
Nux Vomica...po. 15  @
Os Sepia.................... 
30®
Pepsin Saac, H. & P.
D  Co.....................  
@ 1
Plcis Liq. N.N.M gal.
doz......................... 
@ 2
Picis Liq., quarts__   @ 1
Picis Liq.,  pints......  
®
Pil Hydrarg. ..po. 80 
®
Piper  Nigra., .po. 22  @
Piper  Alba.. ..po. 35  @
Piix Burgun.............  
®
Plumb! Acet.............  
10®
Pulvis Ipecac et Opli  1  30®  1 
Pyrethnim, boxes H.
®
& P. D. Co., doz... 
Pyrethnim,  pv........ 
25®
Quassia*.................... 
8®
33®
Qninia, 8. P. &  W ... 
Quinta, S.  German..  33®
Quinta. N. Y.............  
33®
Kubia Tinctonim__  
12®
18®
Saceharum Lactis pv 
Salacin.....................   6 00®  6
40®
Sanguis  Draconis... 
Sapo, W.................... 
12®
Sapo M ...................... 
10®
Sapo  G...................... 
@

®  50
@  50
@ 5 0

60 
80 
60 
60 
80 
80 
60 
80 
60 
80 
SO 
75 
80 
75 
75 
1  00 
SO 
So 
60 
90 
So 
So 
So 
So 
So 
35 
So 
60 
So 
6© 
So 
75 
75 
So 
So 
So 
2° *5
So
1  So
So
So
So
§»So
<0
So
So

Scillæ  Co..................  
Tolutan..................... 
Prunus  virg.............  
T in ctures
Aconitum Napellis K 
Aconitum  Napellis F
Aloes........................
Aloes and M yrrh__
A rnica......................
AssafaeMda...............
Atrope Belladonna..
Auranti Cortex........
Benzoin....................
Benzoin Co...............
Barosma....................
Cantharides.............
Capsicum..................
Cardamon................
Cardamon Co...........
Castor.......................
Catechu....................
Cinchona..................
Cinchona Co.............
Columba..................
Cubebse......................
Cassia Acutifol........
Cassia Acutifol Co...
Digitalis....................
Ergot.........................
Fern  Cbloridum__
G entian.....................
Gentian Co...............
Guiaca.......................
Guiaca ammon........
Hyoseyamus.............
Iodine  ....................
Iodine, colorless....
K in o .........................
Lobelia ................. ...
M yrrh.......................
Xux Vomica.............
Opll............................
Opli. camphorated..
Opii. deodorized........
Q uassia....................
Rhatany.____......
Bhei...........................
Sanguinaria............
Serpentaria..............
Stromminm...........
T olutan__ _______
V alerian..................
Veratrum  Veride
Zingiber....................

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W H O L E S A L E   P R IC E   C U R R E N T .

Advanced— 
Declined—

Acidum
Aceticum .................$
Benzoicum, German.
Boracic.....................
Carbolicum..............
Citrlcum....................
Hydrochlor.............
Nltrocum..................
Oxalicum..................
Phosphorium,  dll...
Salicyllcum.............
Sulphuricum........... Hi®
Tañnicum................
T artaricum .............

8
6@$
70® 76
@ 16
35® 40
48® 48
3®
5
8® 10
12® 14
@ 15
68® 70
6
90®  1  00
38® 40

4®
6
8
6®
13® 15
12® 14

A m m onia
Aqua, 16 deg.............
Aqua, 20 deg.............
Carbonas..................
Chloridum.................
Aniline
Black.........................  2 00® 2  28
Brown.......................  
80®  l  00
B ed............................  48®  »
Yellow.......................  2 80® 3 00

14
12«
6@ 8
75© 80

55
@  1  86
45
45

,Baecw
Cubebae............po, 15
Juníperos..................
Xanthoxylum..........

Balsamum

50«
Copaiba....................
Peru.....................
Terabin.  Canada — ¥)*£
4005
Tolutan.....................
Cortex
Abies. Canadian......
Cassia*.......................
Cinchona  Flaxa.......
Euonymus atropurp.
Mvrica  Cerifera. po
Primus \  lrgim........
Quiilaia. gr’d ............
Sassafras.......po. 18
po.  lA g rd
Ulmus 
E itr a r tn w
Glycyntaiza Glabra.
Glycyrrhira.  no  —  
n  1 iii»1ot  15 lb. box
H raaW x. is ...........
H x w sn x .  ;*s..........
Haamaifflx, Ms--------

IS
12
1»
30
2D
12
12
15
15

S
30
12
‘i f
14 !
r a i
15
5 §
1m it ;
15
2 3
75
49
IS
2 1
m

45«
12g

16
14«
22@ 25
30«
35

40
38«
20«
25
25@ 30
20
12«
8«
10

F r m
. arbooxte  Pierip ...
Citrate and  q n a
Citrate SatnMe........
Ferrocvanidiam 80L
Soiut. Clitori&e.-----
Sulphate,  oooaT.......
Sulphate,  c o a l,  by 
bN, per cw t..........
Sulphate.,  pure.........
F lo ra
A rn ica-....................
An tbemis..................
M atricaria................
F o lia
Barosma  ..................
Cassia Acutifol,  Tin-
nevelly..— .........
Cassia, Acutifol, Alx. 
Salvia officinalis,  Ms
and M s..................
OvaUrsi....................
G u in in i
A 65
Acacia, 1st picked...
45
Acacia, 2d  picked...
I
(a 35
Acacia, 3d  picked..
(CL 28
Acacia, sifted  sorts
65
Acacia, po.................
14
Aloe, Barb. po.l8«20
& 12
Aloe, Cape__ po. 15.
& 30
Aloe,  Socotri  po. 40
55@ 60
Ammoniac.................
30
28#
Assaf (Ktida— po. 30
55
sos
Benzoinum...............
13
Catechu, is ...............
& 14
Catechu, Ms.............
16
Catechu, Ms.............
6»
Camphors-...............
40
Eupnorbtum... po. 35
1 no
Gafbanum................
70
Gamboge.............po
® 30
Guaiacum....... po. 25
®  1 25
Kino........... po. $1.25
@ «0
Mastic  .....................
® 40
Myrrh............. po.  45
Opli  .  ,pO.  1.60@4.90  3 40®  3 50
25^
35
Shellac.....................
40® 45
Shellac, bleached.  ..
30® 80
Tragacanth ..............
H erb»
Absinthium  .oz. pkg
Eupatorium. .oz. pkg 
Lobelia........oz. pkg
M ajorum__ oz. pkg
Mentha Pip.  oz. pkg
Mentha  Vfr  .oz. pkg
Rue.............. oz. pkg
Tanacetiim V oz. pkg
Thymus,  V.. .oz. pkg
M agneiia
Calcined. P at...........
Carbonate,  P at........
Carbonate.  K .4 M   .
arbonate, Jennings
Of «mm

25
20
25
28
23
25
39
22
26

58® 60
18® JO
18® 20
18® •m

@

J

..................  1

Absinthium............. 6 50® 6  75
30® m
Amygdalae;  Dole
Amygdalae,  Amarae  8 00® 8  25
1 m
A nisi 
Auranti Cortex........  2 25®  2 30
Bergamii  ................  2 10® 2 «
30®. 85-
1 ’aiipotl
1 ’atyonhvlll  .
30® 85-
38® 4$“
1 ’«tar
Chenopadii
m-z 75-
........   1 3®. 1 1»
OlnnamonU 
Ultrnnen*
¡m> 49

80® 60
Conium Mac.............
Copaiba....................
1  IS®  1 25
90®  1 00
Cubebae....................
Exechthitos............. 1  00®  1 10
Erigeron.................. 1  00®  1 10
G aultherta............... 2 00®  2 10
Geranium, ounce__
@ 75
Gossippii. Sem. gal..
50® 60
Hedeóma.................. 1  66®  1 70
Ju n ip ers.................. 1  50®  2 00
Lavendula  ...............
90® 2 00
Limonls.................... 1  35®  1 45
Mentha Piper.......... 1  25® 2 00
Mentha Ve’rid.......... 1  50®  1 60
Morrhuae, !gal.......... 1  20®  1 25
M yrcia..................... 4 00® 4 50
Olive.........................
75® 3 00
Picis Liquida..........
10® 12
® 35
Picis Liquida,  gal  ..
Bicina....................... 1  (0®  1 08
Rosmarini................
®  1 00
Rosa*, ounce............. 6 50® 8  50
Succtni.....................
40® 45
Sabina.....................
90®  1  00
Santel....................... 2 75®  7 00
Sassafras..................
50® 55
Sinapis,  ess., ounce.
@ 65
Tiglii........................ 1  50®  1  60
Thyme.......................
40® 50
Thyme, opt...............
@ 1  60
Thèobrom as...........
15® 20
P otam ium
Bi-Carb......................
15@ 18
Bichromate.............
13® 15
Bromide  ..................
57
C arb .........................
12® 15
Chlorate., .po. 17® 19
16® 18
40
Cyanide....................
35£$.
Iodide...................... 2 65® 2 *9
Potassa, Bitart, pore
28® 30
Potassa. Bitart. com.
15
*$•
Potass Xitras. opt..
10
$
Potass  Xitras..........
6®
Pressiate..................
23® 36
Sulphate po.............
13® 1%
K adix
Aeonitum ......... ......
20® 35
Altha*  ...................
Ü® 25
Aneli u s a ..................
IO® 13
i® 35
Arum  po..................
CAtamus.
20® 40
GenDana  __po. 15
12® 15
•¡¡rd u iiu n   pv.  15
16® 13
Hydrastis  Caxàden
«9
Hydrastis Can_ po
® m
12® 15
HHMxxr. Alba. po.
Inula,  po............
15® 39
I pecac, po................ 4 2S® 4 35
Iris  p3ox._JPQ. 35®3S ¡■Al
49
Jalapa. p r................
30
35
MarautiL  M*............
PodophyUmm.  po...
23® 25
B b d ..........................
m
Bhei. cu t ..................
@  1 25
Bhei. p v................
75®  1 35
SpigeQa_________
35® 38
Sanfruinaria.  . po.  15
@ 18
Serpentaria.............
40©.
45
Senega .....................
60® 65
Smilax. officinalis H.
@ 40
Smilax, M ................
@ 25
Sedute.............po.  35
10® 12
Symplocarpus, Fcefi-
dus,  p o ..................
@ 25
\  aleriaiia,Eng. po. 30
® 25
15® 20
Valeriana,  German.
Zingiber a ................
12® 16
Zingiber j..................
25® 27
Semen
Anisum..........po.  15
® 12
13® 15
Apinm (graveleons).
B ird,is.....................
4®
6
Carol...............po.  18
11® 12
Cardamon................ 1  25®  1 75
Coriandrum.......
8® 
10
4  ®
Cannabis Sattva.......
6
75®  I no
Cydonium................
Chenopodium..........
10® 12
1  00®  1 10
D'Ptenx Odorate__
Foeniculum  .............
® 10
Foenngreek, po........
9
7®
Uni  ..........................
3M@ IM
Uni, grd...... bbi. 3M 4® IM
35® 40
Lobelia.....................
Pharlaris Canarian.. 4  ®
5
R ap a........................
5
4M®
Sinapis  Alba...........
9® 10
Sinapis  Nigra..........
11® 12
S p i r i t o »

Frumenti, W. D. Co. 2 00® 2 50
Frumenti,  D. F. R 2 00® 2 25
50
Frum enti.................
I  25®  I 
Juniperis Co. O. T ...
no
1  65® 2
Junlperis  Co...........
I  75® 3 50
Saacnarum  X. E __
1  90®  2 10
50
Spt. Vini Galli.  . 
. 1  75® 6 
Vini  Oporto.............
00
I  25® 2
Vini A lb a................
I  25®  2 00
8pong^H
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage................
Nassau  sheeps’ wool
carriage..........
Velvet extra sheeps’ 
wool, carriage 
Extra yellow sheeps’
wool, carriage 
Grass  sheeps’  wool,
carriage
Hard, for slate use 
Yellow  R ee f,  for
slate use;..........  ..
Symips

2 50®  2 7»
2 50®  2 75
®   1 50
®  I 2S
(%  Í 00
75
®   1 i#

Acacia
Auranti Cortex
Zingiber
Ipeeae 
Ferri Iod.
Rhei  vrom
Smilax  Offleinaliff
i s f f l a r ...................

® rm
® 50
® m
m
w
®* rm
50*
»

TO®

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|

.£tber. Spite. N it.'  F   39® 
.Ether. Spits. Ntt. 4 F  34®
A lum «  ................ 
  2**®
3®
i l i u m .   gro'd_po.7 
Annatto-...................  40®.
Asthnooi. po...........  
4®  m
Antinxaaiet Potass T  40®  90
Anti pyrin  ...............   @ 
Aufifebrin  ............... 
@
Argents Niitras, oz.  . 
@
Arsenienm............... 
10®
38®
Balm Gilead  Buds.. 
Bismuth S. X ...........  1  50®  1
®
Calcium Chlor..  Is... 
®
Calcium Chlor..  M*-- 
® 
Calcium Chlor.,  M s- 
® 
Cantharides, Rus.po 
Capsiei Fruetus. at 
@ 
Capsid  Fruetus. po. 
® 
Capsiei Fruetus B. po 
® 
12®
Caryqphyllns  . po. 15 
Carmine, No. 40....... 
®  3
50®
Cera  Alba................. 
Cera  Flava............... 
40®
Coeeus.....................  
®
®
Cassia Fruetus........  
Centraria..................  
®
Cetacemn.................. 
®
Chloroform.............  
55®
Chloroform,  squibbs 
®  1 
Chloral  Hyd C rst....  1  65®  I
Chondros.................. 
20®
Cinehonidine.P. & W  38® 
Cinchonidine, Germ.  38®
Cocaine....................  5  30® 5
Corks, list. dis. pr.et.
®
Creosotum................. 
C reta............ bbi. 75 
®
Creta, prep............... 
®
9®
Crete, preeip...........  
®
Crete, Knbra...........  
Croens  .....................  
15®
Cudbear.................... 
@
Cupri  Sulph.............   6M®
7®
Dextrine.................. 
Ether Sulph............  
75®
Emery, ait numbers 
®
Emery, po................. 
®
Ergote  ......... po. 90  85®
12®
Flake  W hite...........  
®
G aiia......................... 
G am bler.................. 
8®
®
Gelatin,  Cooper 
.. 
Gelatin,  French......  
38®
75  &
Glassware,  flint, box 
Less than  box......
Glue, brown.............  
II®
Glue,  w h ite ........... 
16®
Glycerin».................  
17®
Grana  Parodist........ 
®
FTumnlus  .........  
25®
 
if yd rarg  Chlor  Mite  @ 
®
Hydrant Cftior Cor  . 
Hydrarg Ox  Kub’rn 
®  i 
Hydrant  Ammonfati 
®   i 
50® 
HydrantC ngsientum 
®
Hydrargyrum. 
os®
rchthyonolla,  Am 
Indigo.......................  7Km  i
iodine;  ftesnbl 
3 so® 4
Iodöförm 
®  *
®
Lupulin;.................... 
Lycopodium 
rft®
waefs 
.................. 
85®.
Llrmor Arsen eg ffy- 
... 
•m n ried . 
l .tquerPötassArsihit 
(fagBecta.  sulph 
iflggMNHt sulp« bW*

1 o®. 
A

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. 
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It is im-
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9 00
6 00

1  35 
96

Arctic

1  25@2 75

1  65©1  85

El  Purity

Pineapple 

Raspberries 

St m w  Ik* r  ries

Q ueen  F lake

BATH  BRICK

Less 40 per cent discount. 

1  75
2 80
1  75
2 80
1  75
2 80
18@20
22@25

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

JAXON

AXLE GREASE
dot.  gross!
A urora..........................55 
6 00
7 00
Castor  Oil..................... 60 
Diamond.......................50  4 25,
Frazer's........................ 75 
9 00
IXL Golden, tin hoses 75 
9 00

■a lb. cans. 4 doz. case........   45
H lb. cans. 4 doz. case........   85
1 
lb. cans. 2 doz. case........ 1  1»
3 oz., 6 doz. case....................2 70
6 oz.. 4 doz. case....................3 20
9 oz., 4 doz. case....................4 SO
1 lb.. 2 doz. case....................4 00
5 lb.. 1 doz. case....................9 00
American...............................  70
English...................................  80

BAKING  POWDER 
lb. cans s doz...................  45
H lb. cans 3 doz..................   75
lb. cans 1  doz.................. 1  00
1 
Bulk........................................  10
6 oz. Eng. Tumblers.............   85
la lb. car7  per doz..............   75
*4 lb. cans per doz „ ...........1  20
1 
lb. cans per doz............. 2 00
’a lb. cans. 4 doz. case........   35
H lb. cans. 4 doz. case........  55
1 
lb. cans. 2 doz. case........   90

M ackerel
White in drums......................  
9 j
Mustard, lib ............
Colors in drum s......................  10
Mustard. 21b
White in packages................  10!
Soused. 1 lb..  ..........
Colors in packages.................  11
Soused. 2 lb.............
Tomato, l i b .............
Tomato. 2 lb.............
M ushroom s
Hotels.........................
Buttons.....................
O ysters
Cove. 1 lb..................
Cove. 2 1 b .................
Pie
Yellow
Standard
Fancy
Marrowfat
Early.lime...............
Early June  Sifted.
G rated......................
Sliced.
Pumpkin
F a ir... 
Good.. 
Fancy.
Standard...................
Salmon
Red Alaska..............
Pink Alaska............
Sardines
Domestic, 4 s ..........
@4
Domestic,  Mustard
@S
French.....................
8@22
Standard..................
85
Fancy.......................
1  25
Succotash
Fair............................
90
Good.........................
1  00
Fancv.......................
1  20
Tom atoes
F a ir...........................
80
Good.........................
90
Fancy.......................
i  15
Callous......................
2 35
CATSUP
Columbia,  pints.............
...2 00
Columbia, 4 pints..........
...1  25
CHEESE
Acme.........................
® n
Amboy.....................
@114
Carson City..............
® n
E lsie.........................
@
©104
Emblem....................
Gem..........................
@12
Gold  Medal...............
@11
Id eal.......................
@104
Jersev.......................
@11
Riverside..................
@114
Brick.........................
@12
Edam ........................
@90
Leiden.....................
@17
Llmburger................
@13
Pineapple................   50 @75
Sap  Sago.................
@18
Bulk.................................
R ed..................................
CHOCOLATE
Germau  Sweet...............
23
Premium.........................
...  35
Breakfast Cocoa.............
...  46
Runkel Bros.
\ lemia Sw eet............. 
. .. 
21
Vanilla............................
...  28
Premium........................... ...  31 I
Capital Sweet.................
...  21
99
Imperial Sweet................
Nelson's  Premium........
...  25
Sweet Clover. 4 s ............. ...  261
97
Sweet Clover.  4s.............
Premium Baking...........
...  33
Double Vanilla................ ...  40
Triple Vanilla.................. ...  50
Webb.................................
30
Cleveland.......................... ...  41
Epps 
...  ____  _
\  an Houten, 4 s ...................   12
Van Houten, 4 s ...................   20
Van Houten, 4 s ...................   40
Van Houten,  is .......... 
...  72
Colonial, 4 s  .........................  35
Colonial, 4 s ..........................   33
H’jy le r...................................  45
Wilbur, 4 s ............................   41
Wilbur. 4 s ............................   42
COCOA SHELLS
20 lb. bags.......................  
24
Less quantity..................  
3
Pound packages............. 
4
CLOTHES  LINES
Cotton, 40 ft.  per doz........... 1  00
Cotton, 50 ft.  per doz........... 1  20
Cotton, 60 ft.  per doz........... 1  40
Cotton, 70 ft.  per doz........... 1  60
Cotton, 80 ft.  per doz...........1  80
Jute, 60 ft. per doz...............  80
Jute, 72 fL per doz...............  96 >

Small 3 doz............................   40
Large. 2 doz..........................   75
Arctic. 4 oz. per gross.......... 4 00
Arctic. 8 oz. per gross.......... 6 no
Arctic, pints, per  gross 
9 no
No. 1 Carpet......................... 3 00
No. 2 Carpet......................... 2 75
No. 3 Carpet........................ . 2 50 I
No. 4 Carpet......................... 2 05
Parlor  Gem..........................2 75 I
Common Whisk....................  95
Fancy Whisk...............................1 25
Warehouse................................. 3 75
Electric Light. 8s...................12
Electric Light, lfls..................12>4  I
Paraffine, 6s ............................. 114 I
Paraffine, 12s ..........................124
Wlcklng..............................  
'20
CANNED  GOODS 

A pples
3 lb. Standards........  
Gallons, standards.. 
B aked....................... 
Red  Kidney.............  
String.......................  
W ax........ .................. 
B lackberries
Standards................. 
B lueberries
Standard..................... 
Red  Standards............ 
W hite........................... 
Clams.
Little Neck, 1 lb...... 
Corn
F air............................ 
Good......................... 
F ancy...................... 
H om iny
S tandard.................. 
L obster
Star, 4  lb.................. 
Star, 1  lb..................  
Picnic Tails..............  

ts@i  30
75®  85
so
85
75
85
85
1  15
1  10
75
85
95
85
1  85
3  10
2  251

Walter Baker & Co. s.

li. O. Wilbur & Sons.

CANDLES

CHICORY

BROOMS

BLUING

C herries

COCOA

B eans

so!
2 65

5
7 I

CIGARS

The Bradley Cigar Co.’s  Brands
| A dvance................................. $35 00
I B radlev...................................  35 00
Clear Havana  Puffs.........   22 00
|" W .H .  B.” .......................  56 00
“ W . B. B.” ..............................  55 00
For time Teller.......................  35 00
1 Our Manager..........................   35 00
Quintette.................................  35 00
G . J . Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand.

H. & P. Drug Co.'s brands.

CONDENSED  M IL K  

4 doz in case.

„   „ 
; Gail Borden Eagle . . .  
6 75
I Crown..........................................6 25
Daisy........................................... 5 75
! Champion...................................4 50
Magnolia...............................4 25
i Challenge................................... 4 00
| Dime........................................... 3 35

COUPON  BOOKS 

C redit  Checks

50 books, any  denom . ..  150 
100 books, any  denom...  2 50 
500 books, any  denom 
11 go
20 00
;  1.000 hooks, any  denom 
|  Above quotations are for either j 
Tradesman. Superior. Economic 1 
or  Universal  grades.  Where 
11.000 books areordered at a time ! 
I customer receiv es  s p e e ia llv  j 
I printed  cover  without  extra ! 
: charge.
Coupon  Pass  Books 
S. C. W..................................35 00
I  Can be made to represent any 
Phelps. Brace A Co.’s Brands.
denomination from $10 down.
Royal  Tigers. 
.  .  55® so 00
50 books..........................  1 go
i 
Royal  Tigerettes__   .35
100  books...........................  2 50 |
Vincente Portuondo . .35® 70 00
j 
500 books.........................  n   50 |
Ruhe Bros. Co.............25® 70 00
i  1,000 books..........................20 00
Hilson  Co.........................35® 110 00
T. J. Dunn & Co..........35® 70 00
500. any <me denom........   200
McCoy & Co......................35® 70 00
1.000. any one denom........   3 00
The Collins Cigar Co..10® 35 00
! 2.000. any one denom........   5 00
Brown  Bros................... ..15® 70 00
| Steel  punch....................... 
75 :
Bernard Stahl Co........35® 90 00
Banner Cigar  Co.........10® 35 00
CREAM   TARTAR
Seidenberg  & Co.........55® 125 00
! 5 and 10 lb. wooden  boxes__ 30
Fulton  Cigar Co.........io@.  35 00
j Bulk in sacks..........................29 j
A. B. Ballard & Co  ...35®175 00 
1  D R IE D   FRUITS—D om estic 
E. M. Schwarz & Co. .  35®J 10 00
San Telmo......................... 35® 70 00
! Sundried..........................   @ 64  j
Havana Cigar Co.........18® 35 00
]  Evaporated. 50 lb. boxes  7®  74  j 
C. Costello A C o .........35®  70 00
LaGora-Fee Co............35® 70 00
1 Apricots......................   @15
S. I. Davis A Co..........35®1S5 00
] Blackberries...............
Hene A Co.........................35® 90 00
Nectarines..................
Benedict A Co...........7.50®.  70 00
!  Peaches.......................10  @11 
Hemmeter Cigar Co.. .35® 70 00
Pears............................
G. 
|  Pitted Cherries............ 
74
Maurice Sanborn  ___ 50®175 00
i  Prunnelles..................
Bock A Co...............».  65@300 00
; Raspberries...............
Manuel  Garcia........... so®375 00
Neuva Mundo..............S5®175 00
100-120 25 lb. boxes.......
Henry Clay...................S5®550 00
i  90-100 25 ib. boxes.......
La Carolina.................. 96@200 00
;  SO-90 25 lb. boxes.......
Standard T. A C. Co 
.35®  70 00
|  70 - 80 25 lb. boxes ...  .
H.  Van Tougeren’s Brands.
S tar G re e n ..................... 35  OO

J. Johnson Cigar Co.35® 70 00

C alifornia  P ru n es

C alifornia  F rn its

A pples

@ 44
@ 5 
@ 54 
60 - 70 25 lb. boxes........   w  „
@6
50-60 25lb. boxes........   @ 74
!  40-50 25 lb. boxes........   @8
30- 40 25 lb. boxes........
4  cent less in 50 lb. cases 

C O FFEE
Roasted

|

R aisins

C itron

C u rran ts

London Layers 2 Crown.
1  75
London Layers 3 C r o w n . ___
2 25
Cluster 4 Crown............. 
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 
74
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 
84
s?,
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown 
L. M., Seeded, choice ... 
10
L. M.. Seeded, fancy__  
104
D R IE D   FRUITS—F o reig n  
Legborn..................................... 11
Corsican............. ..................... 12
Patras, cases...........................64
Cleaned, bulk......................... 64
Cleaned,  packages...............  7V
Citron American 19 lb. bx... 13 
Lemon American 10 lb. bx.. 104 
Orange American 10 lb. bx .. 104 
Sultana 1 Crown....................
Sultana 2 Crown..................
Sultana 3 Crown....................
Sultana 4 Crown....................
Sultana 5 Crown....................
Sultana 6 Crown....................
Sultana package..................

R aisins

P eel

_ _   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 33S   per cent,  delivered. 
F a ir........................................  10
Good......................................   u
Prim e....................................   13
Golden...................................  M
Peaberry.............................. 
15
F a ir........................................  14
Good......................................   15
Prim e....................................  
ie
ig
Peaberry................................  
P rim e.............................. 
15
Milled...................................     17
Interior..................................   26
Private  Growth....................  30
Mandebling...........................  35
Imitation..............................  22
Arabian..................................   28
Below  are  given  New  York 
prices  on  package  coffees,  to 
which the whoiesaledealerailds 
the local freight from New York | 
to buyers shipping point, giving 
buyer credit ou the  invoice  for 
the  amount of  freight  he  pavs 
from  the  market  in  which  he I 
purchases to his shipping point.
These prices are  further  sub­
ject  to  manufacturer’s  regular 
rebate.
Arbuckle................................... 12 00
Jersey........................................ 12 00
M cL aughlin’s XXXX 
McLaughlin’s  XXXX  sold  to 
retailers  only.  Mall  all  orders 
direct  to  W.  F.  McLaughlin  A 
Co., Chicago.
Valley City 4   gross.............   75
Felix 4  gross.............................. 1 15
Hummers foil 4  gross........   85 ,
Hummel’s tin 4  gross.........1  43

PA CK A G E  C O F F E E  

E x tra ct

Pearl  Barley

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

Grits

Walsh-DeRoo  Co.’s Brand.

24 2 Ib. packages......................... 1 80
100 *>. kegs....................................2 70
200 !>. barrels...............................5 10
Green. Wisconsin, bu............1 30
Green. Scotch, bu........................1 35
| Spilt bn....................................  3

Peas

Rolled  Oats

Rolled A vena, bbl....................... 3 65
Steel Cut, 4  bbls..........................1 so
Monarch, bbl.......................... 3 30
Monarch. 4  bbl............................1 so
Monarch. 90 lb. sacks............1 GO
Quaker, cases...............................3 20
Huron, cases...........................2 00

Sago

Sains Breakfast Food 

German....................................  4
East India...............................   34
F. A. McKenzie. Quincv, Mich. 
36 two pound packages' 
3 GO
18 two pound packages__  1  85
Flake..........................................5
Pearl.......................................5
Pearl, 241 lb. packages.........64

Tapioca

Wheat

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

DeBoe’s

40Z.
1  so
1  35
1 45

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

FOOTE A JENKS’

JAXON

Highest  Grade  Extracts
Vanilla 

Lemon

1 oz full m  l  20  1 oz full  m  80
2 oz full m.2  10  2 oz full m  1  25 
Xo.3fan’y  3  15  Xo.Sfan’v.i  75

Vanilla 

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

FLY  P A P E R

! 
| Perrigo’s Lightning, gro.. .  2 50
Petrolatum, per doz.............  75

H ER B S

INDIGO

JE L L Y

1**«..................................... .
1 H ops.......................................... 15

! Madras. 5 Ib. boxes.................55
j S. F., 2.3 and 5 Ib. boxes........so

 

 

V. C. Brand.

! 
; 15 lb. pails...............   .... 
35
301b. pails..................................g>
I Pure apple, per doz..............  as
¡P u re.......................................   30
j Calabria............... 
«
| Sicily....................  
5
Root............................... I " "   10
LYE

LICO RICE

Condensed, 2 doz...  . 
j  20
I Condensed, 4 doz............." '2  $
MATCHES

Diamond Match Col’s brands
! No. 9 sulphur................. 
j   gg
: Anchor P arlor......................... go
j No. 2 H om e............... ” 1"  "  1  30
’ Export Parlor.......... ' ..........4 00
Wolverine................. _ "* * j 
¡4

MOLASSES 
New  O rleans

; Black................. 
1,
'F a i r ............................................£
I Good............................ 
«
Fancv..........

Half-barrels 2c extra 
MUSTARD

. 

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

: Barrels. 1.200 count............. 5 90
i Half bbls, goo count............[3 45

Sm all

P IP E S

[ Barrels. 2,400 co u n t..............6 90
I Half bbls, 1,200 count........... 3 95
Clay, No. 216............................j 70
Clay, T. D., full count... 
65
Cob, No. 3............................ ’  85
POTASH 
>  48 cans in case.
B abbitt's...................... 
400
Penna Salt Co-’s.............. ”  '3 00

R IC E

$4

"5
"4

D om estic
Carolina head........ .  . 
Carolina  No. 1 ..........  
j Carolina  No. 2 ... 
; B roken..................*“ * ” [3^
Japan.  No.  1..................54@6
Japan.  No. 2..................44@5
Java, fancy head........... 5  @54
Java, No. 1..................... 5  ®
Table..................................  @

Im p o rted .

SALERATUS 

Packed 60 lbs. in box. 

Church’s Arm and Hammer . 3  16
Deland’s...................................... 3 00
Dwight’s Cow................... ’.[3  is
Emblem...................................... 2 10
L.  P .............................................3 00
Sodio........................................... 3 15
Wyandotte. 100 4 s .................... 3 00
Granulated, bbls..................   80
Granulated, 100 lb. cases__   85
Lump, bbls........................... 
75
Lump, 145 Ib. kegs................   so

SAL  SODA

B eans

F a rin a

Cereals

FARINACEOUS GOODS 
Dried Lima............................  54
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 so I
Flake. 50 lb. drums................. 1  00 I
Rice Flakes, 3 doz pkg case  2  85 
Flaked Peas, 3 doz pkg case  2  85 < 
Flaked Beans, 3 doz pkg c’se 2  85 
35 Chene S t, Detroit, Mich. 
M accaroni  an d  V erm icelli
Domestic, 10 lb. box.............  eo
Imported, 25 lb. box..........  2 GO

Lauhoff Bros. Flaking Mills. 

H ask ell’s W h eat F lakes

H om iny

Jennings’

D.  C. Vanilla 
2 oz........ 120 
3 oz.........1 50 
4 oz.........2 00 
6 o z........3 00 
No.  8.. ..4 00 
No. 10..  .6 00 
N o .2 T .1 2 5  
N o .3 T .2  00 
No. 4  T ..2 40 

D.  C.  Lemon
2 oz.........   75
3oz.......... 100
4oz..........140
6oz.........2 00
No.  8...  2 40
No. 10....4 00
X0. 2 T..  80
N o .3 T .1 2 5
No. 4 T ..150
Lem.  Van.
1  20
120
2 00
2 25
Van.  Lem.
doz.
doz. 
XXX, 2 oz. obert__ 1  25 
75
XXX, 4 oz. taper__ 225 
T25
XX, 2 oz. obert........ 1  00
No. 2,2 oz. o bert__   75
XXX D D ptchr. 6 oz 
XXX D D ptchr, 4 oz 
K . P . p itc h e r, 6 o z ... 

Northrop  Brand
2 oz. Taper Panel__   75 
2oz. Oval....................   75 
3 oz. Taper Panel.... 1  35 
4 oz. Taper Panel.. ..1  60 

Perrigo’s

2 25
1  75
2  251

SALT

D iam ond C rystal 

C om m on  G rades

Table, cases, 24 3 lb. boxes.. 1  40 
Table, barrels, 1003 lb. bags.2  85 
Table, barrels, 40 7  lb. bags.2 50 
Butter, barrels, 280 lb. bulk.2 50 
Butter, barrels. 20141b.bags.2 60
Butter, sacks, 28 lbs.............   27
Butter, sacks, 56 lbs.............   62
100 31b. sacks..........................2 15
60 51b. sacks..........................2 05
2810 lb. sacks.........................1 95
561b. sacks......................... 
40
281b. sacks.........................   22
56 lb. dairy In drill bags.......  30
28 lb. dairy in drill bags.......  15
56 lb. dairy In linen sabks...  60 
56 lb. dairy in Unen sacks...  60 
56 lb.  sacks............................   25
Granulated  Fine.................... 1 00
Medium Fine.........................     os

Solar  Rock
C om m on

A shton
H iggins

W arsaw

T

1   v

, f

A.  k  >

0

SALT  FISH  

C o d

H errin g

Georges cured.............   @ 5
Georges  genuine........   &  5%
Georges selected........   &  5■&
Strips or  bricks_____6  <&. 9
Pollock..................... 
igi 3% !
H alibaL
Strips........................................14
Chunks..........  .....   .................15
Holland white hoops,  bbl.  ll  SO 
Holland white boops%bM.  6 00 
Holland white hoop. keg.. 
75 
Holland white hoop mchs. 
85
Norwegian.........................
Bound 100 lbs.......................  3 SO
Bound to lbs......................... 
l 75
Sealed...............................  
16%
Bloaters—  ...........................  1 30
Mess 100 IbS........................  17 00
Mess  10 lb s.___________   7 10
Mess  10 lbs................. 
  1  85
Mess  3 lbs........................  151
No. 1100 lbs........................  15 00
No. 1  40 lbs..........................  6 30
No. 1  10 lbs..........................  1 65
No. 1  8 lb s......................   135
No. 2 100 lb s......................   9 50
No. 2  40 IbS......................   4 10
No. 2  10 lb s......................   1  W
Xo. 2  8 lb s....................... 
91
No. 1 100 lbs........................
No. l  40 Ibs.......................
No. 1  10 Ib s.......................
No. 1  8 lbs. ______ ____

M ackerel

T ro u t

 

W hite fish

SEEDS

No. 1  No. 2  Fam
2 75
100 lbs............8 €0  7 25 
1  40
10 lbs............  3 80  3 20 
10 Ibs............  1  00 
43
88 
73 
37
8 IbS............  84 
S A l E R K K A I T
___5 00
Barrels  --------------------
__ 2  «»
Half barrels..................
Anise.  ............................ ....  9
Canary. Smyrna.............___  4
Caraw ay.........................___  $
Cardamon.  Malabar...... ......60
Celery............................... ..  10
Hemp, Russian............... ....  4%
Mixed Bird..................... ......  4%
Mustard, white.....................  5
Poppy.....................................10
R ap e....................  ........ .....  4%
Cuttle Bone..................... ___15
Scotch, in bladders........
Maccaboy. in jars..........
French Bappee. in jars. 

SNUFF

SOAP

JAXON

3 W

Single box...................... 
5 box lots, delivered.................2 96
10 box lots, delivered.................2 90

MS. S  KIRK i 60'SBMIDS.

American Family, wrp'd— 3 fO
Dome...........................................2 M
Cabinet........................................2 46
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, too a  lb...................3 oo
Kirkoline.................................... 3 50
Eos.............. 

2 65

 

 

 

too 12 oz bars.............................. 3 oo

SEARCH-LIGHT
100 big Twin Bars.......................3 65
5 boxes.....................................3 60
10 boxes.....................................3 55
25 boxes.....................................3 15
5 boxes or upward delivered free

SILV ER

Scouring

Single box................................... 3 00
Five boxes, delivered.......... 2 96
Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz.........2 40
Sapolio, hand, 3 doz.................. 2 40
Boxes......................................  5%
Kegs, English.......................   4*»

SODA

SPICES 

W hole Spices

12
Allspice........ ..................... 
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.................. 
56
Nutmegs,  105-10................. 
45
Nutmegs, 115-20...............-  
40
Pepper, Singapore, black.  15%
Pepper,  Singagore, white. 
23
Pepper, shot.......................   16%
P u re  G round in  B ulk
16
Allspice............................... 
Cassia, Batavia..................  
28
Cassia, Saigon.................... 
48
17
Cloves, Zanzibar................. 
15
Ginger,  African................. 
Ginger, Cochin..................  
18
Ginger,  Jam aica............... 
25
66
Mace.................................... 
M ustard.............................. 
18
Pepper, Singapore, black. 
18
Pepper, Singapore, white. 
25
Pepper, Cayenne............... 
20
20
Sage..................................... 

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aNMOnuRPT» No. $
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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

tresna f

Mop SViebe
Trojan spring 
Eclipse patent spring
......
No I common 
No. 2 patent brush holder
1? 6 . cotton mop beads 

Pails

2-hoop Standard.
3-hoop Standard.
2-wire. Cable................. . 
rm- niui
3-wire.  Cable
Cedar. ail red. brass  bound  ]1  JSh l»W'Hidf 1
Paper.  Eureka
Fibre..

L  Jfr WtHH
1 
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3í  *ü
1
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;  m ttm r

Wiwi

•-cranaar
iTuehwh*—

.fisfonaf.

»ih;eet  ai
FToor j# Ml 

06  Rye
•  
•   sn sL
26 
26 
1 *   SaR-Bamb*
M  fdnmend  — 
Diamond,  — 
rdamnad --»s.

K ia p fo n F ft C om
10 Hb. packages................  
201-lb. packages..............  
;  6 lb. packages................  

e%
9%
7%

 

Com m on Com

C om m on Gloss

40 i-lb- packages...............  
S lb.boxes.......  ............... 
2» Mb.  packages............... 
48 Mb.  packages 
Mb.  packages.................... 
34b. packages.................... 
64b. packages 
............... 
40 and 50-lb. boxes............. 
Barrels.................... 
 
S tG A K

K ingsfnrd’s Silver Gloss
7
7'-.
45J
«%
4%
4%
5
v .
3%
Below  are  given  New  fo rk  
prices  on  sugars,  to  which  the 
wholesale dealer adds  the  local 
freight from New  York  to your 
shipping point, giving yon ered it 
on  the invoice  for  the  amount 
of freight  buyer  pays from  the 
market  in  which  he  purchases 
to Ins shipping  point,  including 
20 pounds for the  weight  of  the 
barrel.
Domino 
Cot  Leaf.
Crushed
Cubes ................................   »30
Powdered  ........... ......
Coarse  Powdered 
XXXX  Powdered 
Standard  Granulated 
Fine Granulated___   ...
. Coarse Granulated 
Extra Fine Granulated 
I Coni.  Granulated.
2 D>. cartons Ffeie Gran 
2 lb. bags Fine  <¿ran 
5 lb. cartons Fine  Gran
5 lb. bags Fine G ran__
Mould A .......................
Diamond  A.
Confectioner's  A 
No.  1. Columbia A.
No.  2. Windsor A.
No.  3. Ridgewood  A__
No.  4. F h m ii  A  __
No.  5. Empire A ...........
No.  L ..............................
No.  7............................... .
No.  3— . . . . _____ ____
No.  9.............................
No. 10.
No. U ..................................  4 •
4 36
No. 12.  ............................ 
No. 13.................................   4 35
No. 14- 
4 35
..........................  
No. 15..................................  4 36
No. 16.............................. 
4 36

5 m

s t e t p s

C on

S B  

Puré Cune

Barréis....................................c
Hall bbis........................ 
i9
........3  16
1 doz. i  gallón can* 
.1  «
1 doz. % gallón eans 
2 doz. % gallón eans 
K
F a ír........................................  M
Good......................................  20  yjjfa
Cholee........ ......................

TABLA 8ACCF.8a  LEA  & 

PERRINS’ 
SAUCE

The Orlyitttit sumI
fiewame
&  
Wotu a mbirg.
Lea ft Perrin's, large. 
3 73
Lea ft Perrin's,  small  __  2 »
Halford, large...................   3 73
Halford, small................... 
i  3
Salad Dressing, targe 
4 55
Salad Dressing, small  __   2 73
TOBACCO
Seotten Tobacco C o.*« Brand«
I Sweet C hunk ping
! Cadillac fine e a t............. 
57
| Sweet Loma fine cut—  
->
Malt White Wine. 40 grabs.  ‘ 
Malt White Wine, so grain.  11
Pure O der. Red Star...........12
Pure Oder. Robinson  ........tl
Pure Oder.  Silver..............11
W ASHING  PO W D ER

V INEGAR

W ICK ISO

;  Bub-No-More. 10012 o z __ 3 30
I No. 0, per gross.  ...................20
i No. 1, per gross..................... 25
| Xo. 2, per gross.....................36
! No. 3, per gross......................35

WOODEN W A RE 

Basket*

Bushels................................. I  13
Bushels, wide  band  ........... 1  S
M arket..................................   *
1  Willow Clothes, large......... 7 OS
Willow Clothes, medium...  6 M
|  Willow Clothes, small.........5 M
j  No. 1 Oval. 250 in crate....... 1  81
I  No. 2 Oval. 250 in crate.......2 *
| No. 3 Oval, 250 in crate....... 2 I
! No. 5 Oval. 250 in crate....... 2 81
Boxes, gross boxes...............   61

B u tte r  P lates

C lothes P ia s

Tats*

20-ineh. standard. No. t . . 
1-Mnrh. standard!  No. t  
(6-ineb. standard.  No.  í 
20-inch, Dowell.  Ño. t . ... 
PMneh. Dowell.  No. 2 
id-inch. Dowell.  No. .2
No I Fibre . ......................
No. 2 Fibre 
No. 3 Fibre

W ash   Bnantu

Bronze Globe.
Dewey
Double Acme.
Single Acme.  ..
Double Peerless.
Single  Peerless. 
Northern Queen 
Double Dapiex.
Good' Laefc.,
Universal....... .......

H m S   B ssete 

H in. Butter 
is tn. Batter.
15 in. Butter..
>7 in.  Butter 
EMm. Butter 
Assorted 53-I5-E7 
Assorted 161746

TRAS0T  C .4 H I 

Toast Foam. 
hur 
le a st Foam. 3 4 u  
T e a s e s i.3 < & w .. 
. 
Magic le a st 3c.  1 4nr 
SrmRgftC TeasC.  i4m 
Warner'« Safe,  th n r

Sack  ......
clear imefc.

¡ 
**4

D ry  OsH  Mear* 
Bellies 
.
Brisket« 
Extra «horte.

.

Sm»h<»iiS  Hi» —

Rasas. BW .areram  
Hama. Hlh. arernte. 
Hams, fitlh. arerage 
Bams. jH h.avnm »
Ham dried  beef 
should» rs<N. T a t i  
Bueoa.eSear 
Í CaRforwa hams 
Bane teas  hams 
Boded  ib a n  
Píente Boded  Haar« 
Berfin  R uin

ImrtSs.la T o
Compound.
KetSc-.....................
Vegetóle
16 fb. Tabs  advance 
h   h   T ;le  advance 
56 n>. Tins,  ufeawe 
-26 ¡h. Fafte  adramos 
m  b.  mu*  advance 
51b. Fasti*  advance 
:  31b. M b   advance

Bologna 
Live* ..  .
Frankfort 
Fork 
Blood 
Tongue.
Headcheese-

Reef

Feet

Extra Mesa.
Banefea*.
Kmup
Pigs'
Kite. 15 Aa  ..
% bMs„ rn 9m
> % bid«-. «6 Ra  ......
T d y »
K Ms. a   B a.......  ....
. % bhhi.. SO ihn  ...  ..
% Md».. 86 lha  .........
C ai'InM*
Pork  ................. ......
Beef  rmmds 
Beef  middles. 
...
S heep.......................
B atte r lae
Rolls. dairy  ........
Solid, dairy.............
Kails, i r* sme ry 
Solid, fTurnery
Corned beef. z lb. 
Corned beef. 14 lb 
Roastbeef. zlb- 
Potted ham.  %»
Potted ham. %*......
Deviled hast. %s 
Deviled ham. %*.... 
Patted tongue,  h i 
Potted tongas.  %s~

C anned  he*» 

30

Qetting the  People

Kt'vit'w  uf  S»»uu*  Ktnvut  VtUvr-

tUliMK*

H,  M,  Kifiif m.xu  \   Soft,  of  Kaxvkaw- 

lin,  write  a»  follows;

\\Y  have  always  taken  great 

\\Y  cnclixs«-  oiw'  of  o«f  advcrttsittg 
hills,  which  kindly  hwik  over  ami  crit­
icise, 
in­
terest  in  reading  yo«r cxxlnmns ami  fowl 
it  hel|»s  us  wnnderfully,  \\Y  issue  hills 
similar to this  eight  times  pet  annum, 
hut  hegin  to  feel  that  it  ts imx often, 
Please  give  your opinion,

I 

is 

The  circular submitted  hy  my  entfes- 
f «indents 
is  not  especially  will  printer! 
and  the  display  ertuld  he  improver!  up­
on,  hut  the  great objection  to  it  is  that 
the  matter  is  not interesting 
it contains 
almost  nothing  hut  prices,  without  any 
introductory  remarks,  making  it  rather 
dull.  My  advice  to  Messrs,  Koftrnan  & 
Son  is  to endeavor to put a  little "sn a p " 
into  the  advertising,  in  order  to  make 
it  mote  readable.  Eight  times  a  year 
is  not  often  enough  to  issue  a  circular. 
Even  if  a  circular 
issued  once  a 
month,  without  any  other  advertising 
intervening,  it  gives  the  opportunity  to 
the  public  of  forgetting  the  store  and 
to  be  forgotten  is  almost  as  fatal  as  to 
If  it  .is  not  advis­
go  out  of  business. 
able  to 
large  circular  every 
week,  l  should  advise  the  use  of  three 
smaller  circulars,  followed  by one larger 
one.  The  constant  pounding  away  at  a 
series  of  names  is  bound  to  produce  the 
desired  effect  in  time,  and  not  such  a 
very 
The  prices 
in  the  circular  seem  to  be  low 
quoted 
enough,  but  the 
fact  that  the  reading 
matter  is  not  interesting will  undoubted­
ly  affect  the  pulling  power of  the  ad­
vertising.  "M ore  advertising  and  more 
ginger"  is my prescription for  this  case.

long  time  at  that. 

issue  a 

MICHIGAN  TRADESM AN

W,  1.  Benedict,  of  Beldiug,  encloses 
a  circular  and  two advertisements,  all 
id  high  praise, 
id  which  are  worthy 
[They  are  bright,  interesting  and,  at  the
sting  and,  at  the | So  far  as the  wording 

Harmon  ik  Pennington,  of  Charlotte, 
seud  in  a  large  advertisement  for  crii- 
j k'ism,  which  is  reproduced  herewith, 
is  concerned,  l 
have no objection  to make,  but  the  dis- 
I play 
is  mu  well  balanced ;  in  other 
I words,  the  heavy  distdav 
lines  are  so

I Sprit)  Vrnir Fruit Trees

The apple mvhanb  id  Western  New  York 
surprise owe hy their  number,  swe  awd  the
rare rake« id  theui.  Vs  a  result  the  trees 
w itt he tended to the hraakius point w ith per­
fect apples.  The farmers there cultivate the 
ground  between  the  treea  and  spray  with 
huixteauv Yhvnwe,  in some  villasi's  a  var-- 
toad id swtphate id  XNxpper  is  sold  them  for 
that purposes  It pays ihem  -it will pax  you 
trie ttssvs wtu as lasity tiear  (issl  apples  as 
some that are stuns and almost stwdted,  It's 
inouex in your pocket to spray  a  nr  4  times 
with tionli'aux Mixtuti' made after  this  toe 
mula •  s lln  sulphate ot eoppru',  t  lbs,  lime 
and  s  ounces  pari-  ¡green  to  yw  sallows  of 
water,
lYiris Rtx'en tse, in a  Its  tots 
lie,  Sulphate ot eepjiee, Aittv tots  at  iq e  
in in llv. lots at ie,  houdou purple, she pnuml, 
YYe'll tell you nuire atwwtt it if you'll call,

A few  price hints; 

W .  I,  BENEDICT,  b r a s s  1st.

m  SAID!

What  it  Cares.

last Saturday a ewslomer asked tor  a  hot tie 
ol Husy bee loothaehe Props,  As we hamletl 
it to him  lie  said  "several  years  age  when 
there was a dentist up stairs I  w anhdatooth 
pulhsi hut he was not in  his  office,  I  put  a 
little ot busy  bee Toothache Props  on  some 
cotlxm and pushed  it  into  the  teoth 
it  has 
never ached or bothered me since."  toe InuUe. 

A  cohrIi  following  "ttrippe"  often  is  not 
helped hy  the  old  proprietary  cough  enres 
and  ex|»'etorauts  -   because  these  patents 
nearly  all  contain  opiates  or  narcotics  hi 
some form, which dry  up the  secretions and 
make the trouble worse Instead of hotter, 
busy Bee t'oiigh  Money relieves the  air  pas 
sage of all  nmienlthy  secretions  and  heals 
any throat irritation.  10c size holds 15doses, 
(50 doses in the 25c size.

W.  I. BENEDICT,  Druggist.

same  time,  have  an  air of  candor  about 
them  which  adds  greatly  to  their  effect.
I  reproduce  the  advertisements and  hope 
that  they  will  be  of  benefit  to  some 
others  of  my  readers  and  also  to  demon­
strate  that  good  advertising  is  only  a 
matter  of  telling  the  truth  and  telling  it 
in  an  interesting  and  attractive  fashion.

A n   E n tir e  T r a n s fo r m a tio n   S c e n e

Pur■ stmc has umtcrstme a  xvouihsrfnt  ehause 
tti'sh pamt, new  cctliim, new  shtc walls,  new  h r 
Pints, everythin« terns a m u sed  Just as«  shnnW 
tie iii piopem   hcnsi'  aint  display  our  rucomhis 
pmvhSM'v  ill  NEYY  sP b tN il  PiniTYVEAtl 
rach ilay  twins', a new  greet ins  of  what  is  test 
ami ihsw'mtat'tv in Shoes, hearnis cur miamntve 
tsiekisl Kv the maker,  fn   make m   vor these 
new  goods we haxe  inansctnhd  ami  lux He  yen 
pi share in a

CI.EAN  SW EEP  SALE

nt the  balance et  tile  liissispmsl  stuck,  heshv 
iiing on mist SaPiwtay  morning, April as,  eontrn 
mug two weeks.  We might arid right  here  that 
the ituanppes are small amt  prices uuoted mean 
ipiiek work,

A lt #4 am t fCLAO Shoes, fw.
A ll tpl Shoes, ♦a.a.v 
A ll ♦>i..Yrt Shoes, t'i.
A lt i t  Shoes,

These and manv other  bargains  can  he  had  in 
iHitn laities  ami  gentietmm's  shoes.  We  want 
yon to mspeet the  genuineness  of  this  c i.E yn 
SWEEP SAI.Ej  We want yen hi  Inspeet  the  at- 
traettO'ness of our  NEW  SI'BIN't,  SIXH'K.  We 
AN P 's'ee'' 
mui  at  lowest  prices.  CALL

HARMON  ,v  »'RNNINtB’rON

close  that  one  kills  the  effect  of  the 
other. 
If  the  heading  had  been  made 
heavier  and the  lines  in which the prices 
are  quoted  had  been  made  lighter or 
in 
smaller  type  the  effect  would  have  been 
much  better.  An 
inch  of  white  space 
all  around  the  advertisement would have 
served  to  relie\re  the  apparently  over­
crowded  condition  of  the advertisement. 
These  criticisms  may  seem  far-fetched, 
but,  if  I  could  show  you  the  advertise­
ment  reconstructed  as  I  have  suggested, 
you  would  admit  that  the  point  was 
well  taken.

Charles  H,  Coy,  manager of  the  Coy 
Mercantile  Co.,  of  Alden,  writes as  fol­
lows;

!  mail  von  under another- 'cover  copy 
of  advertisement  for  this week.  Kindly 
point  out  the  weak  points,  Put  thè 
"h o o k s"  into it,  for  we ate  anxious  to 
improve  our  advertising.  Some  m er­
chants  say  that  it  dors not  pay  to ad­
vertise  in  small  towns.  We  hud  it  pays 
and  pays well,  provided  we  change  fre­
quently,  advertise seasonable  goods am! 
throw !ife  into the axfx'ertisements.  We 
find  also that  it  pays to  use  cuts,  They 
are  like  red  neckties  sure  Px  be  no­
ticed.

The  advertisement 

is 
handicapped  hy  being  set  up  in  several 
styles of  ugly  and  antiquated  type,  ami 
yet 
is,  in  the  main,  a  good  axlver-

in  question 

it 

Say,  Mister?

le t us RiT Hglu down n> tmstness and brass taeks 
amt «sure with yen  en  sines.  Slues  that  wilt 
stand baivi wear amt lets ¡of hanging.  YVe  knew 
amt yen knew that a   shoe  to  stane  up  in  this 
sandy country has mu te le   built  just  right,  et 
geo«, honest, iturahle  lea tie r.  The  tetlow  who 
hail swallowed the fifteen cents' did It te  have  a 
j change, ) 
lYrhaps yen have leen  litsapiufintei) 
in the  wearing  qualities  et  yenr  shoes,  W  so, 
swallow yenr disappointment ami  change  on  to 
our lines;  we know we will please yen,

(Prices)

The Coy  flercantile Co.,

AMpMx  Mitch*

tisement. 
I  must,  however,  enter a  se­
rious  protest  against  the  attempted  joke 
in  the  introductory  paragraph. 
It  is  a 
good  plan  in  advertising  not  to say  any­
thing  funny  unless  you  are  quite  sure  it 
is  very 
funny  and  then  only  when  its 
connection  with  the  article  advertised 
is  clear  and  unmistakable.  This  sup­
posedly  humorous  paragraph 
is  rather 
deep  for  the  average  intellect  and  its 
relation  to  shoes  is  decidedly  obscure. 
Otherwise, 
is  thor­
oughly  good  and  deserves  a  great  deal 
of  credit. 

the  advertisement 

W.  S.  Hamburger.

«

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Don’t  Trade  “Sight  Unseen”

Make  your  customer  pay  full  value  for 
what  he  gets.  You  are  entitled  to  a  j u s t  
profit and  the  only  reason  you  don’t  get 
it—you  are  trading  “sight  unseen;”  your 
old-fashioned  scales  will  beat  you  every 
time,  for  you  can’t  stand  to  give  down 
weight;  it  means  loss  on  every  weighing, 
and  a total  loss of all  the  capital  you  have 
invested  in  business.  The  Money Weight 
System will  insure you a profit.  Our scales 
are sold  on  easy monthly payments.

The Computing  Scale Company,

Dayton, Ohio.

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pie.  He  says the  rent  from those  signs 
nearly  pays his  rent.
If  Ï  were  a  grocer»  1  should:  j udge 
every  sign  by  the  prone  paid  bv  rile 
gpeefe  it  re presents»  and  by  that  alone-. 
Sotne  manufacturers  '•ill argue this way

"W hy.  my  dear  sir.  otte  goods  tre  so 
it's  i

well 
and  so  goed  shut 
credit  t\v your  store  to  -teep  then*.

Posh ;  W ill  "cred it  tv-  the  store 

pay  tent?

Others  wilt  sav  : 

' Wbx.  these  signs

!.

Urs  lu* 

ghee*:; 

we'tv  giving  yvtt ate  the  teesc  heattctfil i 
etvutiotts  that  were  w ee  urachr. 
Thee  :

IVslhi »»gain t 

JEsi: 
lbette  sitgns do 
up,  th e  -»tore»  h u t  a   gyvd  y eves 
it  up,  «tore-..  N<-  m att» ’  »i  the  govcib  a tv  ; 
w ell  Xu»«*«  a n d   stam dUtd ee the  sig n s 
a re   juvttv»  if  there-  isn  't  a   g-.vci  vrves  ¡»  j 
'em»  th e ir  sig n s  sh o u ld   » /t  h a w   a   juifaw j 
y>n  m y  walls»

I'he  lUher da\  a  gtocev  was  rwMMHg  ; 
ih>wn  a  brand  of  l u l u g   powder  ïo we» I 
He  eoukln't  sav  enough  against  it 
didn't  pay  any  jirofit,  its  maaniacTaivTs I 
didn't  haw   any  us*  hw  the  m a il  gr.-~ 1 
cer»  and  so on,

I  g la word  atound  awl  there  was  a sign ] 
¡»w.ier  <w  his 1 
arlwrtism g  this  same 
its  threat 1 
wall,  He  was  trying  to  out 
with  one  hand  and  pushing  it  w ith  the J 
other  using  his  mouth  to  damn  it  and 
his  walls  to  advertise  it.

There  are  plenty  of  g.xxis  that  pay the j 
grocer  a  profit,  and  the  manufacturers j 
>f  a  lot  of  them  get  out 
just  as  pretty 1 
signs  as  anybody.  Those  are  the  sort j 
if  signs  the  grocer  ought  to save  his 
walls  for 
the  kind  that  help  him  to  sell 
the  goods  he  wants  to  sell  because  they 1 
pay  him  a  profit.

In  this  day  it’s  got  to  be  a  clear  ease I 
’ ’ you  tickle  me,  I'll  tickle  you.”  

if 
Stroller  in  Grocery  World.

Glover’s  Unbreakable  Mantles

am the best, but we carry a complete  line  of 
Gas and Gasoline Mantles 1 of all makes 1  and 
Chimneys. Shades, Burners.  Mica Got ids. etc. 
Keep in line and  use  Glovers'  Unbreakable 
Mantle.
8-9 Tower Block. 

Glover's Wholesale  Merchandise  U »

Grand  Rapids, Mich.

R U B B ER  S T A M P S
B U SIN ESS  STAM P  W ORKS.
49 and 50 Tower Block,  Grand  Rapids.  Slick. 

You can do business with.
Write now to

I

Catalogue for the asking.
Both  Phones 22S&.

M O S ELEY   &  S H E L B Y ,

SUGAR  B R O K ER S,

m   s o   m o m .

.U v v rtk iitjE   S)x«>  W h w k  t lu ttv r  l  t>  >k« 

St<WWv

The  time  has  come  » V b  the  retailI, 
¡¡neer  vntght  to  weigh  every  uK>ve  he ; 
makes 
in  the  scale  oi  this question: 
"D o es  it  pay  me  a  living  profit?"

If  a  given  move  A v s b 'i  pay  hit«  a | 
living  profit»  he  »mghtn't  to tnahe the I 
nmve»

This  looks  radical  at  first  glance.  A | 
U* of  pwqxlv  will  say  that  there  is  a« 'I 
other  factor besides  pt\>fit t  "W ill  this I 
tloi me crvelit  as a  hnsiness  tttan  ami  he I 
a  gocul  arlvertisement  for my hnsiness?" I 
l  admit that  that  is umptestomahly pres  | 
ent,  hnt»  after  all» 
is  the I 
stnmger  thing»  hecause 
it  goes  right  I 
down  to the  bottom  of  things»  A  man I 
may  he  doir^g a  whole  lot  of  things  that I 
are  a  credit  to him as a  hnsiness  man»  I 
but 
it  he  doesn't  make  a  profit  he'll I 
very  soon  not  he  a  hnsiness  man»

the  profit 

Now  w e'll  draw  this 

little  serrmm  I 
right  down  to the  question  of  the  retail I 
grocer  displaying  the  manufacturers' 
signs  in  his  store.  That's  the  text  this! 
morning,  brethren,  and  we'll  see  what j 
we  will  make  of  it»

I  see  a  whole 

lot  of  manufacturers 
beginning  to  squirm  a 
little.  Never 
fear,  gentlemen;  if  you  are  doing  the 
square  thing  by  the  retailer,  this  little 
talk  of  mine  can  only  do  you  good.

You  go 

into  any  grocery  store,  no 
matter  where  it  is,  and  you’ ll 
find  the 
walls  plastered  and  the  posts  covered 
with  signs. 
"Q uaker  Oats,  the  World’s 
Breakfast;”   "F rien d s’  Oats  Nature’s 
Breakfast,”   and  a  whole 
lot  of  other 
stuff  just  like  it.  Why,  I  was  in  a  coun­
try  store  the  other day  where  a  grocer 
refused  to  post  a  public-sale  hill  in  his 
store  because  “ there  wasn’t  room.”  
And  there  wasn’t, 
the  walls 
were  covered  with  advertising  signs and 
the  sale  bill  had  to  go.

either; 

All  these  signs  advertise  specialties 
that  the  grocer  sells,  but  all  of  them 
don’t  advertise  specialties  that  he wants 
to  sell.

And  there  you  have  the  root  of  the 
whole  matter.  The  grocer  should  help 
the  goods  that  help  him.  He  should 
post  the  signs  that  advertise  the  goods 
that  pay  him  a  profit,  and  he  should 
throw  out  those  that  don’t.

A   good  many  manufacturers  have  got­
ten  extremely  arrogant  about  this  sign 
business,  and the  retailer has  educated 
them to be.

A   few  weeks  ago  I  was  standing  in  a 
retail  grocery  store  about  twenty  miles 
from  Philadelphia,  when  a  salesman, 
with  a  big  grip,  came  in.  The  grocer 
was  busy,  and  while  waiting  for  him, 
what  did  his  salesmanship  do  but  reach 
in  his  bag,  pull  out  a  tin  sign,  and  tack 
it  up.

W ouldn’t  that  jar  you?
For all  I  know,  it  was  a  good  sign  to 
have  there.  The  goods  that  it  adver 
tised  may  have  been  profitable goods.  It 
is  the  nerve  of  the  salesman  in  putting 
it  up  without  as  much  as  " b y   your 
leave”   that  riles  me.

In  a  way,  a  grocer’s  walls  and  posts 

are  an  advertising  medium,  just  like 
newspaper.  The  grocer  has  as  much 
right  to  charge  for  space  in  his medium 
as  a  newspaper  publisher  has  to  charge 
for  space  in  his.  I  know  a  grocer  in  the 
suburbs  of  Philadelphia  who  will  allow 
a  manufacturer  to  paint  a  sign  on  his 
outside  wall,  but  only  for a  considera 
tion.  Altogether,  he  makes  about  $50 
a  year out  of  his  walls. 
I  know  another 
grocer  on  Market  street  who  rents  out 
the  space  on  his  roof to  some  other  peo

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on this Continent.

their m anufacture«.

No  Q w k-als  are  used  in 
Trmdc-MarE. 
Their  Breakfast  Coca*  fa  absolutely  pare, 
delicious,  nutritions, and costs  less  than  one 
cent a cup.

Their Premium  Ns.  f  Chocolate,  pot  op  in 
Blue Wrappers and Yellow Labels, fa the  best 
plain chocolate in the market for family use.

Their  German  Sweet  Chocolate  Lt  good  tc 
eat and good  to drink.  It fa  palatable, nntri 
tions, and  healthful;  m  gnat  favorite  with 
children.
Bayers should ask for and be sure that they 
get the genuine goods. The above tradr  mark 
is on every package.

W alter Baker &  Co.  Ltd.

Dorchester,  Mass.

]   G EN ESEE  FRUIT  CO.,  Maker*.  Lan^m*.  Micfc.

Manufacturers  of  a ll  k iw is   of  interior  iwwsh.  easstess,  tluv»  :as* 
grills,  fret-w o rk ,  mantels,  stair  w ork,  desk».,  o S c e   assures.,  cfcir 
work,  sash  and  doors.  Write  for  prices  and  estimates  :o  she
I  McGRAFT  LUMBER  CO.,  Muskegon.  Michigan

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H IG H   W A TER  M ARK.

Loan«  mul  D iscounts  L arg er  T hau  Ever 

Ref«» re.

The  bank  statements 

just  rendered, 
showing  the  condition  April  26,  are'very 
satisfactory.  The  loans  and  discounts 
for  all  the  banks,  including  the  trust 
companies,  are  §11,155,485.59  and  this 
establishes  a  new  high  watermark.  The 
national  banks carry  §7,741,782. 32 of this 
amount,  the  savings  banks  §3,051,032.96 
and the trust companies §362,670.31.  The 
best  previous  record  of  the  national 
banks  shown  in  the  February  statement 
did  not  reach 
level  by 
$400,000,  and  the  savings  banks  have 
$220,000  more  than  ever  before.  As 
compared  with  April  5  one  year  ago  the 
national  banks  have 
in  round  figures 
$750,000  more  loans  and  discounts  and 
the  savings  banks  have  §675,000  more 
The 
is  about 
$1,800,000.

in  two  years 

the  present 

increase 

In  stocks,  bonds  anil  mortgage  ac­
counts  the  national  banks  carry  §337, - 
661.66,  the  savings  banks  $2,320,875.59 
and  the  trust  companies  $454,269.84. 
This  is  not  far  different  from  the  Feb­
ruary  statement,  but  as  compared  with 
a  year  ago,  shows  a  falling  off  in  the 
national  banks  of  §170,000,  and  in  the 
savings  banks  of  §80,000.  The  banks 
are  finding  more  profitable  investment 
for  their  funds  than  in  low  interest  se­
curities.

Since  the  February  statement  the  Old 
National  has  increased 
its  government 
bond  holdings  from  $50,000  to  §207,000, 
the  latter  including  premiums.  These 
bonds  will  he  used  as  the  basis for addi­
tional  circulation,  the  order  for  which 
has  already  gone  in.  The  National  City 
has  "written  off"  its  premium  on bonds 
as  an  asset  and  the  holdings  now  ap­
pear at  par.

are 

The  national  banks 

carrying 
§1,034,889.73  in  outside  banks,  the  sav­
ings banks §609,796.04 and the trust com­
panies  §284,585.70.  These  are  slightly 
smaller  balances  than  usual,  but  not 
enough  to  be  noticeable.

The  cash  items  in  the  national  banks 
in  the  savings 
aggregate  $670,335.15, 
banks  §339,928.67  and  in  the  trust  com­
panies  §26,930.08.  These  are  about  the 
average  amounts.

The  surplus  accounts  in  the  national 
banks  show  §609,634.86,  an  increase  of 
$53,086.27  since  February  13.  The  sav­
ings  banks  have  §206,234.17,  an  increase 
of  $24,225.52  since  February  13.  The 
average  net  earnings  in  the  ten  weeks 
on  the  capital  stock  of  the  banks  is  2.66 
per  cent.  As  compared  with  April  5, 
1899,  the  national  banks  have  increased 
their  surplus  by  §54,244  and  the  savings 
banks  §48,597.  All  but  one  of  the  banks 
show  substantial  increase  in  the  surplus 
account,  with  the  Kent  leading  with  an 
increase  of  §35,000  within  the  year. 
One  of  the  national  banks  shows  a  de­
crease  of  $30,000.

The 

total 

commercial  deposit 

is 
$3,980,728.71,  which  show's  a  decrease 
of  $19,000  since  the  February  statement 
and  about  §20,000  less  than  a  year  ago.
The  certificates  and  savings  aggre­
is  §40,000 
gate  §7,794,631.54,  which 
in  February  and  $845,000 
more  than 
more  than  a  year  ago. 
In  the  year  the 
national  bank  certificates  have  run  up 
nearly  $300,000  and  the  savings  banks 
savings  and  certificates  have  increased 
nearly  $650,000.
I^The  bank  deposits  aggregate  $1,163,- 
is  somewhat  below'  the 
536.83,  which 
average 
last  two  years.  The 
banks  tributary  to  this  market  and 
which  deposit  here  have use  for a  large

for  the 

amount  of  money  at  home,  which  ex­
plains  the  slight  slump.

The  total  deposits,  including  the  trust 
companies,  is $13,957,584.54.  The  na­
tional  and  state  banks,aggregating  $13,- 
134,569.06,  show  a  decrease  of  about 
§3,000  as  compared  with  February  13 
but  compared  with  a  year ago the  in 
crease 
is  §891,448,  and  with  tw’o  yean 
ago,  $2,000,000.

Three  of  the  banks  show  rediscounts 

or  bills  payable  to  a  total  of  §261 
Seven  years  ago,  when  nearly  every 
bank  had  rediscounts,  it  was  due  to  the 
heavy  shrinkage  in  deposits,  but  now  ¡1 
is  on  account  of  the  brisk  home  demand 
for  money.  The  Old  National  alone  ha 
$174,300 
in  rediscounts,  but  as  soon  as 
its  new  circulation  is  issued  this  will  be 
taken  up.

♦   *  *

The  Old  National  Bank  wrill  occupy 
the  offices  of  the  Peninsular  Trust  Com­
pany  while  the  rebuilding  of 
its  bank­
ing  house  is  in  progress.
*  *  *

Harvey  J.  Hollister  recalls  that  it  was 
just  fifty  years  ago  last  Saturday  that  he 
arrived 
in  Grand  Rapids.  The  town 
then  did  not  much  resemble  the  city  of 
to  day.

*  *  %

The  bank  clearings  Monday  reached 
$47'»,33--0 1.  which 
is  very  near  if  not 
the  high  water  mark.  The  heavy  clear­
ance  was  due  to  the  transfer  of  the  city 
money  from  the  Kent  Savings  Bank  to 
the  Grand  Rapids  National.  Last  Sat­
urday  Cashier  Verdier,  of  the  Kent,  ex­
ecuted  a  certified .check  for §241,000,  the 
amount  to  be  transferred,  and  sent  it 
with  his  compliments 
to  the  Grand 
Rapids  National.  This  quarter  of  a 
million  dollar  bit  of  paper went  through 
the  clearing  house  Monday,  and  the bal­
ances  to  be  settled  on  all  the  business 
of  the  day  reached  §242,766.54.  The 
its  adverse  balance  with 
Kent  settled 
Detroit  and  Chicago  exchange 
and 
checks  on  the  local  banks  where  it  car­
ies  deposits.  The  clearing  house  set- 
led  with  the  Grand  Rapids  National 
with  New'  York,  Chicago  and  Detroit 
xchange  and  §40,000  in  gold  and  cur­
rency.  This  §40,000  represented  prac- 
ically  all  the  real  money  handled  in the 
big  transfer,  the  remaining  §200,000  be- 

ig  passed  in  the  book-keeping.

♦   %  *

Secretary  George  E.  Hardy,  of  the 
Michigan  Trust  Company,  has  gone 
to  Denver,  and  while  there  will  attend 
the  annual  meeting  of  the  Denver  Gas 
Co.,  in  which  Grand  Rapids  capital 
is 
nterested  to  the  amount  of  §300,000  or 
§400,000— par value.

T he  G rain  M arket.

Wheat  has  ruled  very  steady  in  the 
spring  wheat  markets,  the  visible  show- 
ng  a  decrease  of  2,647,000  bushels, 
which  ordinarily  would  be  a  very  strong 
argument  for  an  advance.  However, 
the  exceptionally  fine  growing  weather 
In the  winter  wheat  mar­
held  it  down. 
kets  wheat  has  gained 
in  price,  owing 
to  the  scarcity  of  that  kind.  For  the 
present  we  see  nothing  to  either  depress 
or  elevate  prices,  so  the  market  is  in  a 
waiting  mood.

Corn  has  declined,  contrary  to  all  ex­
pectations.  The  visible  showed  a  de­
crease  of  4,750,000  bushels.  Stocks  are 
farmers  are  not  selling.  E x ­
low  and 
ports  have  been 
large  and  still  prices 
have  sagged  about  ic  per  bushel.  Un­
less  there  is  more  offered  prices  will  be 
better.

Oats  have  been  very  steady,  the  de­
mand  absorbing  all  offerings.  The  vis­
ible  made  a  decrease  of  900,000  bush­
els.  Should  this  decrease  continue  a

few  w eeks it  w ould  run  th e  v isib le   dow n 
to  a  very 
low  p o in t,  as  th e re   are  only 
7, 891.000  bushels  in   sig h t.

Rye  has  sold  off  ic  per  bushel.  About 
is  all  that  choice  rye  is  worth  at 

55c 
present.

Beans  remain  very  quiet  at §2.08 

carlots.

Flour  has  ruled  strong,  in  sympathy 
with  winter  wheat.  Prices  will  prob 
ably  go  up  a  little,  in  accordance  with 
wheat.  Mill  feed  has  been  reduced  50c 
per  ton  for  both  bran  and  middlings.

Receipts  of  grain  have  been  rathe 
small,  being  34  cars  of  wheat,  4  cars  of 
corn,  16  cars  of  oats,  1  car  of  flour, 
car of  straw  and  5  cars  of  potatoes.

Millers  are  paying  68c.

C.  G.  A.  Voigt.
T he  T y p ew riter  Good  F o r th e  Eyes.
Oculists  say  that  the  typewriter  is  < 
boon  for  the  eyes,  the  machine  strain 
in  the 
ing  them  less  than  the  pen  both 
writing  and  the  reading. 
It  is  said that 
a  person  can  typewrite  for  eight  hours 
consecutively  with  little  or  no  fatigue

Some  men  are  unreasonable  enough  to 
want  to  marry  an  angel  and  expect  to 
possess  a  wife  who  can  cook.  They  for 
get  that  the  fires  and  cooking  are  not  in 
heaven.

A dvertisem ents  w ill  be  inserted  u n d er 
th is  head  fo r  tw o  cents  a   w ord  th e   first 
insertion  and  one  cent  a   w ord  fo r each 
subsequent  in sertio n .  No  ad vertisem ents 
taken  for  less  th a n   85  cents.  A dvance 
paym euts.

331

333

339

Tj’OR  SALE—STOCK  OF  GROCERIES  IN 
1?  good  town;  doing  good  business.  Reason 
for  selling,  other  business.  Address  No.  339, 
care Michigan Tradesman. 
y O R  SALE—STORE BUILDING AND STOCK 
A  consisting of shoes, clothing, dry  goods, gro­
ceries and small amount  of  hardware;  stock  in­
voices about  $3,0UU;  store  building  worth  about 
$2,000;  annual sales  about  $14,000;  a hustler  can 
easily do $20,000  business;  located  on  railroad; 
population, 600;  good  farming  country;  no com­
petition.  Will sell for casb, cheap, and give good 
reasons for selling.  Address No. 331, care  Mich- 
igan Tradesman. 
WANTED—$2,500  DRUG  OR  SHOE  STOCK.
If drug stock,  must  be  doing  good  legiti­
mate business;  no joint;  cash.  Address No. 328, 
care Michigan  Tradesman. 
328
i fOR  SALE—NICE  CLEAN  S T OCK   OF 
drugs,  invoicing  $2,000;  well  located;  ex­
penses light;  full prices;  April  cash  sales  $475; 
cheap for cash.  Address  E.  F.  G.,  care  Mich­
igan Tradesman. 
i pOR SALE—A GILT-EDGED BAKERY AND 
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
Ho t e l   a n d   b a r n   t o   e x c h a n g e   f o r
merchandise;  twenty-five  rooms  in  hotel; 
region;  a  money-making  investment. 
resort 
Address No. 318. care Michigan Tradesman.  318
AKERY  F’OR  SALE—GOOD  LOCATION 
for a good baker.  Reason for selling, cannot 
stand inside work.  Address No. 326, care Michi- 
gan Tradesman. 
IpOR  SALE—$3,000  HARDWARE  STOCK, 
'  paying about $1,500 yearly  profit;  no compe­
tition;  will  sell  or  rent  building:  terms,  part 
cash,  balance  on  time.  Address  S.  J.  Doty, 
Harrietts, Mich. 
317
|>OK  SALE—THE HASTINGS DRUG STORE 
I   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  Rapid6, 
Mich. 
OK  SALE  CHEAP—$33,000  G E N E R A L  
stock of  hardware,  farm  implements,  wag­
ons. buggies,  cutters,  harnesses,  in  good  town 
and good farming  country.  Reason  for  selling, 
other business.  Address No. 320, care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 

322

320

326

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

344

345

largest 

I^OK  SALE  OR  EXCHANGE  FOR  STOCK 
*  of Groceries—Forty acre farm  one-half  mile 
from railroad:  all clear;  good  house  and  barn 
good  peach, plum and apple  orchards,  all  bear 
ing.  Fruit  crop  this  year  will  average  $1,000 
Address No, 337, care Michigan Tradesman.  337 
j/V ft  ’  KENT—0013RLE  STOKE,  EITHER 
I   whole or half of it,  40x05;  plate  glass  front; 
modern  lixtures;  electric  lights;  sewer  connec­
tion;  water;  centrally located, with postoflice  in 
same block.  Address Box 32. Vicksburg. Mich.  336
W  ^
 1 FI)—HARDWARE  STOCK, $1,500 TO 
t v  $2,000, m town of 1,500 to  2,500  inhabitants; 
doing  good  business.  Address  No.  3«,  care 
Michigan Tradesman. 
\A f A N T E D  — S E V E R A L   FIRST-CLASS 
t v , salesmen  for  Ohio,  Indiana,  Illinois  and 
Michigan to sell the  largest  and  strongest  lines 
of rubbers on  the  road.  Salary  or  commission 
\\ rite for particulars, giving references.  The  L 
l)ll<lley Rubber Co.. Battle Creek. Mich.  346
h  OK  SALE  CHEAP—DRUGGIST’S  PRE- 
1 
scription  case, good size;  good  as new;  two 
sets scales.  Address E. E. Day &  Co., Wayland 
Mich. 
343
IT'Olv SALE—CHOICE  STOCK  OF'  GROCER 
A 
ies  in  manufacturing  town  of  5,000,  sur 
ounded by best farming  country  out  of  doors 
southern Michigan;  best  location;  finest  store'; 
modern  fixtures; 
trade;  all  cash;  a 
moneymaker;  sales  $40,000;  no  trades;  a  rare 
chance for  one  who  means  business.  Address 
Lock Box 53, Niles, Mich. 
L'OK  SALE—WHOLE  OR  HALF  INTEREST 
A 
in  dry  goods  and  clothing  store;  country 
town;  no trades.  Address  No.  342,  care  Michi­
gan Tradesman. 
342
PPARMACIST 
_______   __
WISHES  SITUATION  IN
live  town.  Best  references.
—. 
— -it  references.  Address  No.
 
341. care Michigan  Tradesman. 
341
L'O lt  SALE-DRUG  STOKE;  BEST  STOCK 
-I  and location In  city;  $6,000  year  trade;  low 
rents;  population 5,000;  sickness  cause  for  sell­
ing;  will not trade.  Murray Waltman, Dunkirk, 
Ind. 
TTiOR SALE—FORTY-THREE  ROOM HOTEL, 
a 
fully  furnished  and  enjoying  large  patron­
age.  House cleared $1,500 during 1899 and  twice 
as much can be made.  Address  Wm.  J.  Lewis 
Proprietor Lewis House. Boyne City, Mich. 338
KH)K SALE-FIRST-CLASS MEAT  MARKET 
*  ¿n  the  best  town  of  10,000  inhabitants  in 
Michigan.  This is a bargain if  taken  in  twenty 
Address  C.  A.  Miller,  Benton  Harbor, 
Mich.
T}M)R  SALE—FIRST-CLASS  CIGAR  CASE 
A  and  prescription  case,  stock  of  druggist’s 
shelf  bottles,  soda  charging  outfit,  druggist’s 
counter scales.  Address  R.  C.,  201  N  Burdick 
St., Kalamazoo, Mich. 
IT 0 ®  SALE—103  ACRES.  ONE-QUARTER 
A  mile front  on  Lake  Michigan;  35  acres  im­
proved;  house, bam. orchard, Al  well;  no hills- 
about nine and one-haif  miles  from  Muskegon; 
all good roads.  Address No.  329,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
Bu s in e s s   c h a n c e s  a t   m u s k e g o n —*
-I
in  good  locations  at 
Muskegon for grocery or ether  business.  There 
are more people here than ever before  and  only 
„ a s m,a,ny groceries as formerly  and all doing 
well  Will  sell  or  rent  cheap.  M.  C.  Kelley, 
Muskegon, Mich. 

have  several  stores 

315

335

3^9

340

330

 

312

303

& Co., 1159 So. Division S t, Grand Rapids.  325
CASH  PAID  FOR  GENERAL  STOCK  OF 
merchandise.  Address  B.  Cohen,  Lake 
Idessa, Mich. 
y O R   SALE—A  NICE  CLEAN  STOCK  OF’ 
1  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. 
y O R   SALE  —  NICE  CLEAN  STOCK  OF 
i.  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
OR  SALE—GENERAL  STOCK,  LOCATED 
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
ANTED—I WANT TO EXCHANGE SOME 
very desirable Grand Kapids city  property 
for  a  well-locatod  stock  of  hardware.  W.  H.
PARTIES HAVING STOCKS OF GOODS  OF 
any kind, farm or city property or  manufac­
turing plants, that they vnsh to sell or exchange, 
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Real Estate Co., Lansing, Mich. 
y O R   SALE—FLOUR  AND  F'EED  MILL— 
A 
full  roller  process—in  a   splendid  location. 
Great  bargain,  easy  terms.  Address  No.  227, 
care Michigan Tradesman. 
227
ifiOR  SALE,  CHEAP — $3,000  GENERAL 
stock and  building.  Address  No.  240,  care 
Michigan Tradesman. 
STORE  ROOM  FOR  RENT.  PLATE GLASS 
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.__________________ 

____________ 240

238

259

POT CASH  PAID  FOR  STOCK  OF  DRY 
goods,  groceries  or  boots  and  shoes.  Must 
be cheap.  Address A. D., care Michigan Trades­
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. 

130

12

MISCELLANEOUS.

W  ANTED-THOROUGHLY EXPERIENCED 
j v   grocery salesman to travel  south  and  east 
of Grand Rapids for  an  old-established  grocery 
house.  One acquainted with  that  territory  pre­
ferred.  Good salary to  a  hustler.  None  other 
need  apply.  Address  No.  347,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
\ \ T ANTED—WORK  ADDRESSING  ENVEL- 
V"  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. 
XXJANTED—SITUATION  BY  REGISTERED 
care  Michigan 
TV  druggist.  Address No. 274,
Tradesman.

324

347

274

MERCANTILE  ASSOCIATIONS

Travelers’

I MICA 

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

STAN D A RD   TH E  W ORLD O V E R

HlttHSST  rato«  PAID  POR  EMPTY  OAftBON  AND  «ASOLIMB  BARRELS

STAN D A RD   O IL  C O .

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Stowe. Grand Rapids; Treasurer, 3.  F.
E. A.
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President. F u n   3. D ra;  Secretary,  d o w n  Ì 

President.  W i.  Bliw w d;  Secretaries.  S .  L i 
K o csifl  and  F.  H. C o z zisi;  Treasurer.  C. 
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Secretary,  E.

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President.  H.  B.  S a m ;  Secretary,  D. 
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in  having our chair in 
your home.
After  you’ve  used  it 
for several years—rgiven 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.

Atm  Chair or 

Rocker No. INI.

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

Sent  to  you 
freight  prepaid 
on approval  for

$24»

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

S A  M  PL E Fu R  N ITU R E CO
Retailor«',  of  Sample  Fu-niturç 

FURNITURE BY MAIL
Magazine  Pr ic es  Outdone

FREIGHT
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RAID.

Oar  Desk  No. 211,  illustrated  above,  is 
50 in.  long,  34 in. deep and  50 in.  high; 
is  made  of selected  oak, any finish  de­
sired.

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

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

Write for oor cowplrto Office Furnitsre 

Cntalofae.

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Retailers  o'*'  Sneipte  Furniture

L N ' O N   P E A R L S   O T T A W A   S T S .
G r a n d   R a p i d s   M i c h .

BEFORE  BUYING FURNC 
TURE OF ANY KIND WRITE 
US FOR ONE ORMLOFOUR 
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President,  Chas.  Bo c x m ;  Secretary.  Frame 

F m i r .  

Srart Rapids Retail  l o t  Deafen*  Inirnfin 

President,  L   M.  Wilsox;  Secretary,  P h i l i p   I  , ,  

Hil b e b ;  Treasurer, 8 .3. B r r r o to .

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CHAS. A. COYE,

II Pearl Street, Grand Rapida,  Mkh. 

Send for prices.

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Chrysanthemum  Assortment  I

Embossed  pattern,  made  of  porcelain,  fine  spray  flower 
decoration and gold  lines.  All  large  sizes.
Extra fine bargains for your  io,  15 and  25  cent  counters.

Big Values.  Nice Goods.  Sell on Sight

m

Contents of our Chrysanthemum  Assortment.

%  doz.  Cable Jugs,  36s 
doz.  7  inch  Nappies 
doz.  8  inch  Dishes 

1  doz.  5  inch  Nappies 
1  doz.  30s Bowls

2 doz.  Large  Handled  Teas
1  doz.  Fancy  Handled Teas
2 doz  7 inch  Plates
3 doz.  6 inch  Plates 
1  doz  5  inch  Plates

12 dozen pieces for  $ 1 0 * 2 0   N E T   No charge for package.

We have many more such  bargains  and  solicit 
your correspondence.

THE  DAUDT GLASS & CROCKERY  COMPANY,

236  Summit  Street and
230, 232, 234 and  236 Water Street,

TOLEDO,  OHIO

HEMLOCK  BARK

99

Highest Cash 

prices  paid  and 

bark  measured 

promptly  by  ex­

perienced  men. 

Call  on  or  write 

us.

09

T i p

M IC H IG A N   B A R K  & L U M B E R  C O ., f f i Ä S f f S g r “

Sealed 
Sticky

Fin Paper

Catches the  Germ  as well  as the  Fly. 

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

Order from Jobbers.

The  Grand  Rapids  Paper  Box  Co.

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  W rite for prices.  Work guaranteed.

Choice of above  %   pint Tumblers

19c  per dozen

Shipped  from  Cleveland  with  a  charge  of  35c 
for each barrel.  Packed 22 to 25 dozen  in  barrel. 
This  offer  is  good  for  one  week.  Orders  ac­
cepted  for shipment any time during  May.

Terms 60 days or 2 per cent, discount  10 days.

Mail  Order  Department

KINNEY  &  LEVAN, Cleveland, Ohio

Importers and Jobbers

China,  Glassware,  Lamp  Goods,  House  Furnishing  Goods.

99  per cent.

of  your  customers  wear  jewelry  of  some  kind.  W hy  don’ t  you 
get  in  line  to  supply  them?  W e  are  the  only  people  in  W est­
ern  Michigan  that  make  a  study  of  selecting  the  latest  things 
in  jewelry  that  people  want.  You  can  handle  our  goods  with  a 
very  small  outlay,  make  handsome  profits,  get  the  reputation 
for being  progressive  and  add  lots  of  new  customers.

Write  us— we’ll  instruct  our  travelers  to  call  on  you.

AMERICAN  JEW ELRY  COMPANY,

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

k!  U

Now  Is  the  Time

to buy your stock of

Screen  Doors  and 
W indow   Screens

and we are the people that can supply you at the lowest prices. 
C om m on  D oors, any  size,  4  Inch  stile,  %  inch  thick, %
dozen in crate, per  dozen.........................................................?....... $  7.95
Fancy  D oors, any  size,  made  of  select  pine,  finished  in 
natural wood, 4 inch stile, 6  inch  bottom  rail,  %  inch  thick,  Yt.
dozen in crate, per dozen..................................................................$11.90
“ W o lv e rin e ”   A d ju sta b le  W in d ow   Screens,  adjusted  by long 
metal clips which guide the frame.  Put up l dozen in crate:
1 Dozen
$1.70
1*95
2.55

Open 
34% 
34V4 
34J4 

Number  High 

40 
41 
42 

Our  New  Catalogue  No.  154,  comprising  our  entire  line,  will  be

Closed 

20 
20 
20 

16 
18 
20 

mailed in a few days.

GRAND  RAPIDS  PAPER BOX CO., Oraud  Rapids, Mich

H.  LEONARD  &  SONS,  Grand  Rapids.

