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GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  MAY  30,1900.

Number 871

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Tigerettes 5c

for their many good  qualities,  their mild  and  soothing  taste,  their delicate  and  delicious  aroma  and,  in  fact,  for  the  satisfaction  they 

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5.  Because  the  retail  selling  price 

is  uniform.

6.  Because  the  manufacturers  are 
advertising its merits extensively 
to  consumers  and  you  are  en­
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trade and profit.

From a hygienic point of view  the  value  of  Egg 
Baking  Powder  cannot  be  over-estimated,  be­
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sustaining principles  of wheat,  and  the  leaven­
ing element of  eggs,  which  increase  the  nutri­
tive value of food while  rendering  it  more  easy 
of digestion.
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doesn t  he?  Now,  if  you  could  only  give  it  all  in  a  lump  sum  to  some  hospital  or  other

eleemosynary institution some one might perchance in after years speak of  such  institution  as
your monument;  but  you  lose  all this by giving it away  unconsciously  and  you’ll  never  get 
the credit for it.  The Money Weight System is a saving system. 

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is  determined  that  his  be­
with,  he 
nighted  brethren  of  European  civiliza­
tion  shall  learn  to  give  the  apple,  which 
he  buys  by  the  barrel,  its  proper  place 
and  make  it,  as  it  was  intended  to  be, 
not  an  article  of  food  to  be  shunned, 
but  a  daily  necessity.  Why,  he  was 
brought  up  on  apples.  His  home  was 
embowered  by blossoming  orchards  and, 
from  the  first  apple  that  ripened 
in 
early  August  until  the  last  Roxbury  rus­
set  or  still 
longer  enduring  genetan,
three  times  a  day and  between meals, ’ ’ 
the  omnipresent  apple  was  and  is  in  his 
ever eager  hands  and  between  his  never 
sated  teeth.  Unwholesome!  A 
long 
line  of  ancestry  dying  mosty  in  their 
ninth  decade  refutes  the  charge,  an  an­
cestry,  be  it  remembered,  whose diet in­
cluded  apples  from  their  earliest  recol­
lection  to  their  dying  day.

Not  long  ago  twenty  five  hundred bar­
rels  of  American  apples  left  New  York 
to  form  part  of  the  United States exhibit 
at  the  Paris  Exposition.  California  is 
to  send  a  carload  of  miscellaneous  fruit 
once  a  week  during  the  Exposition. 
The  fruit  will  be  taken  across  the  coun­
try  in  refrigerator  cars  and  in  cold  stor­
age  across  the  Atlantic.  The  purpose  is 
fruit  and 
to  show  the 
those 
teach 
prejudiced  people  how 
to  make  the 
most  of  it.  Uncooked 
it  can  make  its 
own  way  and  fight  its  own  battles  and 
it  remains  to  be  seen  if  the  American 
cook  can  not  do  much  to  make  it  ac­
ceptable  to  the  European  epicure.  The 
European  mind  can  understand  what 
is  good  for,  but  beyond  that 
the  grape 
there 
in  fruit  to  commend  it. 
The  peach,  the  pear,  the  plum,  are  so 
many  devices  of  Nature  to  produce  dis­
order  in  the  human  system,  and the  only 
reason  why  the  American  has  not  suc­
cumbed  long  ago  to  their  attacks  is  be­
cause  the  wild 
life  they  have  lived  in 
the  woods  for  so  many  generations  has 
made  them  invulnerable!

little 

is 

If the  fruit  at the  Exposition  be  right­
the  European  prejudice 
ly  managed, 
it  will  be  largely  overcome,  re­
against 
sulting 
in  a  double  benefit.  Another 
article  of  wholesome  food  will  be  added 
to  the  daily  menu  of  rich  and  poor  and 
America  will  extend  her  market.  The 
arrival  of  the  fruit  in  excellent  condi­
tion  will  be 
in  itself  a  commendation 
and  may 
lead  to  a  branch  of  marine 
transportation  which  only the American- 
built  ship  can  best  accomplish.

Blissfield  merchants  are  disheartened 
over the  blight  which  has  befallen  the 
trade  of  that  town  in  the  form  of  a  cut- 
rate  grocery  store,  conducted  by  Love 
Bros.,  who  are  advertising  all  kinds  of 
wild  prices  and  demoralizing 
things 
generally.  They  obtain  their  groceries 
from  Brown,  Davis  &  Warner,  of  Jack- 
son,  and  secure  their flour  from  the  To­
ledo  Grain  &  M illing  Co.,  of  Toledo. 
They  are  selling  flour  at  15  cents  per 
barrel  above  cost,  package  coffee  at  n  
cents,  six  pounds  of  crackers  for a quar­
ter  and  other things  in  proportion.

loaf 

Half  a 

is  better  than  no  bread, 
all  right;  but  there  are young men grow­
ing  up  who  want  turkey  all  the  time, 
and  one  continual  loaf.

Number 871

COMING  OF  THE  JAPANESE.

Within  a 

few  days  past  the  daily 
papers  have  had  occasion  to  remark  up­
on  the  sudden  and  large  influx  into  his 
country  of  the  lowers  orders of Japanese. 
So  far  as  can  be  ascertained,  these  peo­
ple  are  not  coming  under  contract,  the 
currently  accepted  explanation  being 
that  troubles  arising 
the  rapid 
labor  unions  in  Japan,  and 
growth  of 
fear  of  conscription 
into  the  army  in 
event  of  war,  which  now  seems  to  be 
impending  with  Russia,  are  driving  la­
borers  out  of  that  country.

from 

At  any  rate,  the  fact  remain  that  Jap­
anese  laborers,  whose  entrance  into  this 
country  is  not  restricted  by  any  law,  are 
coming  in  in  large  numbers.  It  appears 
that  these  people  are  being  extensively 
employed  on  the  Western  railroads,  dis­
placing  white  men,  whom  the  Asiatics 
are  able  through  their  frugal  habits  to 
underwork 
in 
which  they  are  employed.

every  department 

in 

The 

laborers 

influx  of  Japanese 

is 
something  new.  For  years  previous  to 
their  coming,  great  numbers  of  foreign 
laborers  from  the  south  of  Europe,  such 
as  Italians  and  Huns,  have  been  im­
ported  to  work  on  the  railroads  and 
in 
the  coal  and  iron  mines  of  the  Northern 
States,displacing  better  classes  of  white 
labor.  Twenty  years  ago,  or  more,  those 
mines  were  worked  principally  by  min­
ers  of  Welsh  and  Irish  descent,  while 
railroad  section  laborers  were  largely  of 
Irish  descent,  many  of  whom  were  not 
citizens  of  the  country.  Nevertheless, 
these  men  were,  or  became,  permanent 
residents  of  the  country,  and  their  earn­
ings  were  always  expended  or  invested 
in  ways  which  developed  the  country 
and  its  industries.

labor 

In late  years the situation has changed, 
for  Slavs,  Huns  and  Italians  have 
in 
large  measure  supplanted  the  old  class 
of 
in  the  mines,  and  in  some  of 
the  thickly  settled  parts  of  the  country 
they  have  driven  out  the  other  laborers; 
but  the  Italians  and  Slavs  are  for  the 
most  part  thrifty,  and  as  soon  as  they 
can  amass  a 
little  money  they  go  into 
some  sort  of  trade,  and  so  there  is  no 
permanent  reliable  low-priced  white  la­
to 
bor.  The  Asiatics  are  beginning 
supply  the  demand,  and  when 
it 
is 
known  that  they  can  readily  secure  em- 
ployent  at  wages  they  never  dreamed  of 
at home,  they  will  come  in  inconstantly 
increasing  numbers,  and  as  soon  as  the 
gate  shall  be  opened  in  peace  and  con­
fidence,  the  Asiatics  from  the  Philip­
pines  will  begin  to  pour  in  to  fill  the 
demand  for  cheap  labor.

The  Japanese  are  an  extremely  tem­
perate,  frugal and  thrifty  people,  and  as 
soon  as  they  can  gather a  little  money 
they  will  quit  the  ordinary  field  of  labor 
and  try  something  better,  making  a  cor­
responding  vacancy  in  the  departments 
for  which  the  new-comers  are  fitted,  so 
that,  before  the 
lapse  of  many  years, 
enormous  accessions  to  the  population 
from  Asia  will  not  only  be  counted  in 
the  census,  but  will  figure  in  the  enor­
mous  competition  of  business.

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AMERICAN  FRUIT.

One  of  the  hardest  things  to  overcome 
is  prejudice,  and  a  custom  that  has  re­
ceived  the  sanction  of  the  centuries  is 
hard  indeed  to  break.  We  find  the  fact 
especially  illustrated  in  our  endeavor  to 
induce  the  Old  World  to  accept  what 
we  have  found  good  and  in  every  way 
commendable  in  the  way  of  food.  Ra­
leigh  introduced  tobacco 
into  England, 
but  facts  are  not  wanting  to  show  that 
the  plant  met  with  violent  opposition. 
Our  Indian  com,  looked  at  askance  for 
years,  has  not  received  early  recogni­
tion as a better article of food than the  fa­
vorite barley  and  rye.  The  potato,  now 
a  necessity  everywhere,  was  obliged  to 
win  its  place  at  the  daily  meal  by  sav­
ing  Ireland  from  starvation;  and  so  all 
along  the  line,  tired  as  people  become 
of  eating  the  same  things  year  after 
year,  there 
is  still  a  reluctance,  if  not 
an  utter  refusal,  to  adopt  a  new  article 
of  food.

More  than  once  the  press  of  the  coun­
try  has  uttered 
its  protest  against  the 
treatment  that  American dried apple has 
received  at  the  hands  of Germany.  She 
declared  it  wormy. 
It  was  not  so.  She 
said  it  was  unwholesome.  There  was 
not  a  word  of  truth  in  the  statement. 
Prejudice  is  at  the  bottom  of  the  oppo­
sition  and  until  that  is  overcome  the 
sale  of  dried  apple  will  be  moderate 
in 
Germany. 
It  will  be  a  surprise  to  most 
Americans,  and  especially  to  those  who 
have  not  been  in  Europe,  to  be  told  that 
there  is  comparatively  little  fruit  eaten 
in  the  old  country.  The  English  table 
does  not  often  see  it  and  the  continent 
does  not  look  upon  it  with  much  favor. 
For  some  reason 
fruit  there  is  looked 
upon  much  as  the  tomato  was  looked 
upon  in  America  some  half  century ago, 
as  a  berry  pretty  enough  to  look  at,  and 
to  eat  if  one  wanted  to  run  the  risk  of 
being  poisoned.  At  all  events  it  is  un­
wholesome  and  on  that  account not often 
to  be  indulged  in.

To  the  American  who  considers  fruit 
leading  food  product  this  idea  is 
as  a 
difficult  to  understand; and,  so,  to begin

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MEN  OF  MARK.

D.  C.  Oakes,  the  Coopersville  Banker and 

Lumberman.

at 

law 

Dustin  C.  Oakes  was  born-at  Center­
ville,  Mich.,  June  18,  1853.  His  father, 
who  was  captain  of  Company  A,  Elev­
enth  Michigan  Infantry,  died  after  the 
battle of  Murfreesboro  from  an  attack  of 
typhoid  fever,  and  when  he  was 11  years 
of  age  he  lost  his  mother,  when  he  was 
taken  care  of  by  S.  W.  Cade,  a  farmer 
living  one  mile  north  of  Sturgis,  who 
was  appointed  his  guardian.  He worked 
on  the  Cade  farm  until  he  was  16  years 
of  age,  when  he  took  up  the  scientific 
course 
the  Agricultural  College, 
teaching  school  winters  and  attending 
college  summers.  On  graduating  from 
the 
institution,  he  took  the  principal- 
ship  of  the  Muir  school  for  a  year.  He 
then  bought  a 
farm  south  of  Lyons, 
which  he  conducted  for  five  years.  On 
selling  the  farm  he  removed  to  Ionia, 
where  he  took  the  position  of  Deputy 
County  Clerk,  studying 
in  the 
meantime 
in  the  office  of  H.  C.  Ses­
sions.  Conceiving  a  liking for the bank­
ing  business,  he  entered  the  banking 
house  of  Webber,  Just  &  Co.,  at  Muir, 
subsequently  forming  a  copartnership 
with  W.  H.  Churchill  and  S.  W.  Web­
ber  and  engaging  in  the  banking  busi­
ness  at  Shelby  under  the 
style  of 
Churchill,  Oakes  &  Co.  This  copart­
nership  lasted  eight  years,  when  he sold 
his  third 
in  the  firm  to  Mr. 
Churchill  and  purchased  the  fixtures and 
good  will  of  D.  O.  Watson  &  Co.,  at 
Coopersville,  where  he  opened  his  pres­
ent  bank  Jan.  1,  1S91. 
In  addition  to 
his  banking  business,  he  conducts  a  fire 
insurance  agency  and  a  conveyancing 
and  real  estate  office.  He  was  for  sev­
eral  years  Treasurer  of  the  Coopersville 
Creamery  Co.,  and  now  occupies  the 
same  position  with  the  newly-organized 
Co-operative  Creamery  Co.,  of 
that 
place.  He  engaged 
in  the  telephone 
business  about  two  years  ago,  assuming 
the management of the Mutual Telephone 
Co.,  which  has  constructed  a  line  from 
Coopersville  to  Allendale  and  Grand

interest 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

While 

Haven.  This  company  is  out of debt and 
will shortly pay a dividend from the earn­
ings,  notwithstanding  the  predictions  of 
the  officers  of  the  Bell  company  that  the 
line  would  never  pay  expenses.
living  on  his  farm 

in  Ionia 
county,  Mr.  Oakes  served  Lyons  town­
ship  two  years  in  the capacity  of  Super­
visor and  a  similar  period  as  Superin­
tendent  of  Schools.  While 
in 
Shelby  he  was  elected  village  President 
and,  since  residing  in  Coopersville,  he

living 

aged  16,  who  was  messenger  to  the 
Clerk  of  the  House  of  Representatives 
during  the 
last  session  of  the  Legisla­
ture.  He  attends  the  Methodist  church 
and 
is  a  member of. I.  O.  O.  F.  Lodge 
No.  376.

Mr.  Oakes  attributes  his  success  to 
his  faculty  to  keep  pounding  every  day. 
His  theory  is  that  a  man  is  better  off  to 
be  busy  and  have  cares  than  not  to  be 
busy  and  have  cares,  and  the  success  of 
his  banking  business  and  the  other lines 
of  business  to  which  he  has  given  his 
best  thought  and  advice  plainly  indi­
cates  the  practicability  of  his  theory. 
He 
is  public  spirited  to  a  marked  de­
gree  and  has  always  cast  the  weight  of 
his  influence  with  every  movement  hav­
ing  for  its  object  the moral and  material 
improvement  of  the  town  with  which 
he  is  identified.
Disappointed Over Her First Store Carpet.
The  following  letter,  received  recent­
ly  by  a  carpet  firm  in  a  certain  M ichi­
gan  town,  may- be  interesting  as  an 
il­
lustration  of  human  nature  as  it  is  seen 
in  the  retail  trade :

Two  weeks  ago  to-day  at  your  store  I 
most  foolishly  consented  to  take  a  car­
pet  which  was  the  choice  of  my  mother 
and  your  salesman  rather  than  my  own.
When  I  got  alone  where  1  could  think 
I  knew  I  did  not  want  that  carpet,  but 
the  salesman  had  already  cut  one  strip 
off.  When  I  saw  it  on  the  floor  I  dis­
liked  it  more  and  more  and  at  that  time 
came  very  near  taking  it  back  to  you, 
telling  you  to sell  it  at  some  price,  and 
that  if  I  could  not  get  money  to  buy  an­
other  I  would  rather use  my  old  rag  car­
pet ;  but  I  finally  drove 
in  the  tacks, 
hoping  that  when  partially  covered  with 
furniture  I  could  endure  it  better.  Now 
it  has  been  down  a  week,  troubling  me 
nights  so  I  sleep  only  to  dream  of  it, 
and  as  I  go  and 
into  the  room 
every  day,  trying  to  like  it,  I  can  only 
turn  away,  sick  and  disappointed.

If  I  had  or  could  get  the  money  I 
would  rather  give  the  vile  thing  away 
and  buy  one  that  suited  me  than  keep 
it,  or  even 
let  you  know  how  foolish  I 
was  to  take  it  when  I  liked  another  bet­
ter,  just  because  otners  thought  it  pret­
tier  and  just  the  thing.

look 

If  you  should  chance  to  know  or  find

has  been  a  member  of  the  Commdn 
Council.  He 
is  also  a  Justice  of  the 
Peace,  all  of  which  goes  to  show  the 
esteem  in  which  he  is  held  by  the  peo­
in  which  he  has 
ple  in  the  localities 
lived.  Mr.  Oakes  is  also  identified 
in 
a  financial  way  with  the  State  Bank  of 
Hammond,  Louisiana,  and 
is  also  a 
stockholder  in  the  Grand  Rapids  Bark 
&  Lumber  Co.,  having  recently  been 
elected  Vice-President  of  that  corpora­
tion.

Mr.  Oakes  was  married  on  Christmas 
day,  1876, 
to  Miss  Nora  Kelley,  of 
Lyons.  Two  children  grace  the  family 
circle— Ruby,  aged  18,  and  Archie,

likes  this  pattern  as 
a  customer  who 
much  as  my  mother  and  your  salesman 
did  and  as  much  as  I  dislike 
it— some 
one  who  would  be  willing  to  buy  it,  all 
made  as  it  is,  at  a  low  price— I  would 
deliver  it  at  your store  and  take  one  of 
the  piece  I  liked,  unmade.

If  I  expected  ever  to  have  another 
carpet  I  should  not  care  so  much;  but  1 
have  wanted  one  all  my  life  so  far,  and 
now  to  get  one  I  dislike,  and  be  com­
pelled  to  look  at  it  the  rest  of  my  days, 
is  no  trifling  matter to  me.

knows 

the  serious 

There  is  a  touch  of  pathos  in  the  ap­
peal  of  this  discontented  woman.  One 
who 
importance 
which  the  parlor  carpet  possesses  in  the 
mind  of  the  average  farmer’s  wife  can 
easily  imagine  the  unenviable  frame  of 
in  which  this  letter  was  written. 
mind 
It 
is  not  difficult  to. sympathize  with  a 
woman  who  has,  perhaps,  expended  the 
hard  earned  savings  of  many  years  on  a 
carpet  and  then  finds  in  its  possession 
only  disappointment  and  disgust,  but  it 
is  possible  that  the  carpet  is  not  really 
so  bad  as  this  woman  believes  it  to  be 
and  that  the  trouble  is  merely  one  result 
of  an  unhappy,discontented disposition. 
If  so,  one’s  sympathies  must  go  to  the 
mother,  who  will  probably  never  again 
offer  her advice  to any  one  on  the  pur­
chase  of  a  floor  covering,  and 
in  this 
connection  there 
is  a  lesson  for  many 
other  women  who  can  not  allow  a  friend 
or  relative  to  buy  a  carpet  without 
in­
terference  from  them.  Many  a  good 
sale  has  been 
lost,  and  many  a  carpet 
salesman’s  hair  has  turned  prematurely 
gray,  through  the  suggestions  and  crit­
icisms  of  these  outsiders.

Extrem es  Meet.

The  Blonde— I  don’t  feel  well  this 

afternoon.

The  Brunette— Maybe  it  is  something 

you  ate  for  luncheon.

I  think  not. 

devilled  crab  and  angel  cake.”

I  only  had 

some 

Some  men  simply  put  their  money in­
to  any  old  kind  of  advertising  and  trust 
to  luck  for  the  rest.  That’s  gambling. 
Others  make  a  reasonable  appropriation 
and  then  buy  the  kind  of  advertising 
best  suited  to  their  needs.  That’s  busi­
ness.

A  Cripple  Creek  Gold  Company

AT  GRAND  RAPIDS

Fully  Paid  and  Non-Assessable Stock  15  Cents  Per  Share

Capitalized  for  1,250,000  Shares—Par  Value  $1.00.

Nearly half the limited  number  of  shares  offered  are  already  sold!  A 
business investment, not a mining scheme.  A  local  company,  managed  in 
Grand  Rapids.  Property on  Raven  Hill, at the center of  the rich  gold dis­
trict, surrounded by  paying  mines  in  operation  Approved  by  bankers, 
large mine owners and business men.

Personally  Examined and Approved by

Dudley  E.  Waters

W .  O.  Hughart,  Jr.

$ 15  buys... ...  IOO  sbares
$ 3 0  buys... ...  2 0 0   shares
$ 4 5   buys  .. ...  3 0 0   shares
$ OO buys... ...  4 0 0   sbares
$ 75  buys... ...  5 0 0   shares
$ 1 5 0  buys...
.. IOOO  shares

$  3 0 0  buys
$  4 5 0  buys
$  6 0 0  buys
$  9 0 0  buys
$ 1 2 0 0  buys
$ 1 5 0 0  buys

2 ,0 0 0   shares
3 ,0 0 0   shares
4 ,0 0 0   shares
6 ,0 0 0   shares
8 ,0 0 0   shares
1 0 ,0 0 0   shares

Stocks of many companies in  that  vicinity  have  advanced  100  per  cent, 

to  1,000 per cent, in a  short time.

Make checks payable to “  Cyrus E.  Perkins, Trustee. ”

Judge Cyrus  E.  Perkins 
Col.  E.  Crofton  Fox 

Dr.  W.  A.  Dorland 

Alfred  O.  Crozier

And Mr.  D. J.  Duncan, their well-known mining expert.

The fourteen samples they took  from the shafts on the property averaged 

$279.70 per ton when assayed.  On 2 went $3,460.00.

Cripple  Creek  district,  about  three  miles  square,  has  produced  $69,- 

724,514 in eight years.

A  great opportunity.  Act promptly.  Stock offered  limited.

Alfred  O.  Crozier & Co.,

19-21  Fountain  St.

(Ground  Floor) Grand  Rapids Citizens  Phone 

2008

Prospectus  Free  on  Application  to  the  Stock  and  Bond  Offices  of

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

MERCHANT  PRINCES.

Recruited  From  the  Ranks  o f  Patient 

Plodders.

It  is  an  inexorable  law  of  nature  that 
nothing  can  remain  at  a  standstill 
There  must  be  a  movement,  either  for 
ward  or  backward,  and  if  it  is  not  for 
law 
ward  it  is  always  backward.  This 
I 
is  equally 
in  business. 
man  must  either  go  ahead  or  fall  back 
He  tan  not  remain  at  a  standstill  and 
certainly  can  not  be  successful unless  he 
goes  forward.

inexorable 

That 

is  why  the  steady  plodder  in 
business 
is  the  successful  one.  The 
man  who  is  exceedingly  brilliant  at  the 
beginning  and  is  so  startling  in  his  first 
accomplishments  somehow  gets  the  idea 
into  his  head  that  there  is  no  real neces­
sity _  of  trying  to  learn  any  more;  that 
Jie 
is  so  far  ahead  of  competitors  and 
companions  that  it  is  superfluous  on  his 
part  to  attempt  making  new  or  different 
moves,  in fact  he  thinks  that  he  already 
knows  it  all.  He 
is  the  kind  of  a  fel­
low  who  never  ripens  and  who  not  only 
fails  to  do  anything  really extraordinary 
in  actual  life,  but  slides backward  when 
he  is  congratulating  himself on  his  won 
derfully  superior  progression.

You  know  such  fellows  in  business 

succeeded? 

everybody  does-;  and  you  also  know 
their  peculiar  and  usual  endings.  They 
go  flat  some  day,  while  the  plodder,  the 
man  who  didn’t  know  very  much  to  be­
gin  with  and'was  looking  for chances  to 
learn,  has  made  a  success  and  keep 
pushing  ahead.  You  have  worked  be 
hind  the  counter  with  the  extraordinary 
young  man,  the  one  who  was  expected 
by  his  friends  to  become a brilliant mer­
chant.  Do  you  recall  any  of  those  men 
who  have  ever 
Perhaps 
their  failure  was  not  due  so  much  to 
their  lack  of  receptive  powers  as  to  the 
idea  in  their  heads  that  they didn’t have 
to  try  to 
learn,  it  would  all  come  to 
them  without  any  effort  on  their  part. 
They  are  the  supercilious,  patronizing 
fellows  aptly  termed  “ smart  A lecks.”  
They  are  the  fellows  who  are  born  to 
greatness  and  never  acquire  more  than 
that  which  was  bom  with  them.  They 
seldom  get  very  far 
in  merchandising, 
but 
if,  by  chance,  they  do  push  on 
through  any  amount  of  promotion  they 
ultimately  make  a  flat  failure  some 
where,  as  a  result  of  their overburden 
ing  knowledge.

Then  there  is  the  man  who  acquires 
smartness  of  the  extraordinary  kind. 
He 
is  the  feflow  who  was  anxious  to 
learn  when  he  started  in  and  was  not 
then  considered  of  the  extraordinary 
kind  by  either  himself or acquaintances. 
He  acquired  power  by  promotion  and 
he  can’t  stand  prosperity.  He  may  be 
the  head  of  a  firm,  he  may  be  a  super- 
intendént,  he  may  be  a  floor-walker  or 
chief  clerk 
in  an  ordinary  store.  You 
are  well  acquainted  with  him  wherever 
he  may  come 
into  contact  with  you.
is  of  the  extradrdinary  kind  now 
because  he  thinks  that  he  is  past  learn­
ing.  He  feels  self-assured  and  he knows 
a  great  deal  more  than  those  with  whom 
he  has  to  deal  and  he  considers 
it  a 
superfluous  effort  to  try  to  keep  ahead 
of  the  people  around  him.  He  elevates 
himself  to  the  high  condition  of  mind 
wherein  he  thinks  he  can  do  as  he 
pleases  with  everything 
in  his  charge 
and  really  does  not  need  to  ask  advice 
or  seek  information  from anyone— power 
oyer  others  makes  him  powerless  over 
himself.

He 

Some _ of  this  kind  of  extraordinary 
men  think  that  they  are  pursuing  a 
different  course  than  that  above  men­
tioned  because  they  ask  questions  and 
talk  over  politics.  The  fact  is  they  pay 
no  attention  to  what  they  learn  by  such 
means— they  simply  go  at  it  and  do  as 
they  please,  just  as  they  would  have 
done  without  such  action.

A   certain  merchant  who  was  fortunate 
in  the  selection  of  the  town  and the time 
in  which  to 
launch  his  new  business 
declared  that  he  would  engraft 
in  that 
business  the  best  things  that  he  found 
from  experience, 
from  contact  with 
others  and  from  the  co-operation  of  em­
ployes.  His  resolution  was  most  excel­
lent,  but  he  gradually  failed  in  its  exe­
cution,  because  he  persisted  in  doing  as 
he  pleased  after  going  through  what  he

called  a  system  of  finding  out  the  best 
things  to  do.  The  fact  was  he  made  up 
hjs  mind  what  to  do  before  he  began 
his 
investigations  and  never  changed 
it.  He  failed  to  see  his  mistake  and 
really  thought  that  he  was  pursing  a 
great  policy,  for  he  did  a  great  deal  of 
talking  about  his  superior  and  co-oper 
ative  plans  and  his  ways  of  always  do 
ing  the best  thing.

He  asked  his  employes  to  submit 
their 
ideas  and  suggestions  to  him  so 
that  he  might  have  an  actual  foundation 
of  everyday  experiences  on  which  to 
make  plans.  This  was  a  plan  which 
met  with  hearty  acceptance  from  the 
store  people.  They  had  many  ways  of 
doing  business  to  suggest  and  many 
changes  to  be  tried ;  but  somehow  those 
things  were  seldom  acted  on,  not  be­
cause  they  were all  bad,  but  because  the 
merchant  had  already  made  up  his 
mind.  The  natural  result  was  that  the 
employes  ceased  their  suggestions  and 
soon  began  finding  new  places in  houses 
where  they 
felt  that  their  efforts  were 
counting.  The  merchant  with  such  ex­
traordinary  ideas  played  a  losing  game 
and  wondered  why  it  was  so.

The  merchant  who 

is  willfully  non- 
receptive  and  has  fancied  independence 
because  of  his  supposed  extraordinary 
knowledge  is  no  worse than  the  one  who 
thinks  he 
is  pursuing  the  right  course 
and  continues  to  do  business  in  his  own 
unswerving  way.

Extraordinary  genius 

The  plodder  behind  the  counter,  the 
plodder at  a  place  of  responsibility  and 
the  plodder  who  directs  a  business  is 
the  man  who  makes  the  most  of  his  op­
portunities. 
is 
not  to  be  longed  for  by  the  young  man 
who  starts  out  with  the  expectation  of 
succeeding,  nor  can  he  expect  to  ac­
quire  it  from  short  experience.  He must 
learn  and  always 
be  always  ready,  to 
for  the  success  of  the 
ready  to  work 
business  that  he 
in  by  whatever 
strength  of  effort  that  may  lie  in  his 
power.

is 

The  moment  a  man  gets  above  actual 
work  that  moment  he  begins  to  slide 
backward and  shrink  in  his  proportions. 
It  is  work  that  counts,  the  work  that 
is 
not  selected  because  of  its  ease,  but  be­
cause  of 
its  bearing  on  the  results 
which  must  be  brought  out.

Those  who  can  not  pick  a  sheet  of 
paper  from  the  floor  but  must  send  for  a 
aoy  to  do 
it  instead,  who  sneak  away 
and  let  someone  else  put  up  stock,  who 
spend  as  much  time  straightening  and 
smoothing  their clothes  as  in  attending 
customers,  who  have  a  particular  aver­
sion  to  a  broom,  who  are  too  good  to 
dust  or  who  are  averse  to  multitudinous 
duties  which  they  are  always  shifting 
off  on  someone  else  and  have  a  superior 
opinion  of  their own  worth  are  among 
those  extraordinary  young  men  who 
shrink  when  the  test  of  actual  worth 
comes.

The  idea  of  some  wonderful  superior­
ity  which possesses the soul of some busi­
ness  men  does  not  prove  a  fact  when 
superiority  is  needed  in  them ;  their  ex­
traordinary  worth 
is  gone  when  that 
worth  is  most  needed.

The  fellow  who  plods  along  and  finds 
nothing  beneath  him  or  to  which  he 
should  not 
lend  his  strength  when  it 
counts  for  the  upbuilding  and  success 
of  business 
is  the  winner  every  time ; 
instead  of  shrinking  in  activity  he  ex­
pands  with  the  absorption  and  assimila­
tion  of  everything  which  he  can  turn  to 
usefulness.  He 
is  the  man  who  is  in 
business  to 
learn  all  he  can  and  never 
thinks  that  he  has  learned  or  is  capable 
of  knowing  it  all.— St.  Louis  Drygoods- 
man.

W hy  the  Cake  Was a  Failure.

Mrs.  Newlywed— I  was  going  to  have 
some  sponge  cake  as  a  surprise  for  you, 
dear,  but  I  confess  it  was  a  failure.

Mr.  Newlywed— What was  the  matter?
Mrs.  Newlywed— I  don’t  know  for 
sure,  but  I  think  the  druggist  sent  me 
the  wrong  kind  of  sponges.

W orth  Considering:.

Saleslady— This  glass  dipper 
strong  you  can  drive  nails  with  it.

Purchase  Agent— But  why  should  I 

want  to  drive  nails  with  a  dipper?

Saleslady— Mebbe  you  wouldn't,  but  I

is  so 

expect  your  wife  might.

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Around  the State

M ovements  o f Merchants. 

Shepherd— Wolcott  &  Co.  succeed 

Wolcott  &  Fouts  in  general  trade.

Fairport— H.  R.  Skeels  has  sold  his 

grocery  stock  to  W.  H.  Vandeburg.

Adrian— Thos.  Gafney  has  purchased 

the  grocery  stock  of  Wm.  H.  Gafney.

Bronson— Wm.  Blass  has  sold  his  dry 
goods  and  grocery stock to  Myron  Clark.
Lawrence—Arthur A.  Conklin has sold 
his  general  stock  to  F.  W.  Potter  &  Co 
Denmark— C.  D.  Ellison  has  pur 
chased  the  general  stock  of  Walter  E 
Maxwell.

Haslett—Chas.  Foster  has  purchased 

the  meat  market  belonging  to  Wm 
Allshouse.

Olivet— B.  W.  Pinch  &  Co.  continue 
the  grocery  and  meat  business  of  Mor 
ford  &  Evans.

Menominee— R.  W.  Chappell  is  now 
in  his  new  shoe  store  in  the 

located 
Crawford  block.

Trenton— James  H.  Morey,  dealer 

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groceries,  flour  and  feed,  has sold  out  t 
Bertha  Uelsmann.

Temperance— Anstead &  Steig succeed 
in  the  general  mer 

W.  H.  Anstead 
chandise  business.

Vanderbilt— Donald  M.  Sly  has  pu 

chased  the  hardware  and  harness  stock 
of  John  A.  Hixson.

Waldron— Wm.  F.  Barnes  succeeds 
John  T.  Peters  in  the  furniture  and  un 
dertaking  business.

Hamilton— H.  J.  Fisher,  druggist  at 
this  place,  has  recently  suffered  the  loss 
of  his  wife  by  death.

Montague— Win.  Kison  has  begun  the 
erection  of  his  store  building,  the  di 
mensions  being  20x42  feet.

Pittsford— Winslow  &  Searls,  dealers 
in  groceries  and  meats,  have  dissolved 
partnership,  the  latter  succeeding.

Traverse  City— J.  A.  Lemon  has  pur 
chased  the  interest  of  Mr.  Davis  in  the 
grocery  stock  of  Lewis  &  Davis.  The 
new  firm  will  be  known  as  Lewis 
Lemon.

Caledonia— The  Caledonia  Creamery 
its  factory 
Co.  has  recently  equipped 
with  machinery 
for  manufacturing 
cheese  and  expects  to  begin  operations 
by  June  1.

Boyne  City— A.  Ross  and  O.  Wigle 
have  opened  their  grocery  store  and 
bakery.  The  building  has  undergone 
an  extensive  overhauling  and  an  addi 
tion  has  been  made  thereto.

Kalamazoo— Susanna  (Mrs.  Clarence
A . )  Baker  and  Diver  &  Baker  have 
formed  a  copartnership  and  will  con 
tinue  the  grocery  business  under  the 
style  of  Baker,  Diver  &  Baker.

Dowagiac— Frank  Warren,  Harry  and 
Fred  Dewey  have  formed  a  copartner 
ship  and  opened  a  furniture  store  ad 
joining  the  Daylight  dry  goods  store 
Mr.  Warren  and  Harry  Dewey  will  con 
tinue 
in  the  employ  of  the  Daylight 
House  and  Fred  Dewey  will  assume  the 
active  management  of  the  business

Deerfield— A  member  of  the  firm  of
B.  &  V.  B.  Cannon,  hardware  dealers 
at  this  place,  recently  threw  a  match 
‘n  a  stove 
in  the  store  to  burn  out  ac 
cumulated  papers.  An  explosion  fol 
lowed  that  blew  out  the  front  of  the 
store  and  mixed  up  the  stock  generally 
Twelve  pounds  of  dynamite  was 
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stock,  but  miraculously  did  not explode
Kalamazoo— The  three  flouring  mills 
of  the  Merrill  M illing  Co.,  one at  Plain 
well  and  two  at  Kalamazoo,  were sold  at 
auction  May  29  by  order  of  the  board 
of  directors  of  the  company,  which  is 
to  be  dissolved.  The  Plainwell  mill 
was  sold  to  Grand  Rapids  parties  for 
$5,850;  the  Eagle  mill  in  this  city  was 
bid  in  by  the  Merrill  estate  for $10,000, 
and  the  other,  known  as  the  Merrill  and 
McCourtie  mill,  was  sold  to  Three  Oaks 
parties  for $3,575.

Saginaw—G.  A.  Alderton  &  Co.  have 
merged  their  wholesale  grocery  busi 
ness  into  a  corporation  under  the  same 
style.

Newaygo—Wesley  Pearson  has  leased 
a  store  building  of  the  Cement  Co.  and 
will  put  a  line  of  general  merchandise 
therein.

Coloma— M.  S.  Carney  has  removed 
his  drug  stock  into  his  new  store  build 
ing, 
thus  affording  him  more  com 
modious  quarters.

Hopkins  Station— Wm.  H.  Dendel 

is 
erecting  a  double  brick  store  building 
and will  occupy  both  sides  with his drug 
and  dry  goods  stock.

Paw  Paw— W.  J.  Porter  &  Sons  have 
begun  operations  at  the  new  basket  fac­
tory  with  a  force  of  fifteen  men.  The 
output  is  10,000  daily.

Luther— George  and Ward  Cutler  have 
purchased  the  store  building  and  gro­
cery  stock  of  the  Gardiner estate  and 
will  continue  the  business.

Bangor— J.  G.  Oppenheim  & Son, who 
have  been  engaged  in  general  trade  at 
this  place  for  the  past  twenty  years, 
have  sold  out  to  Levf  DeHaven.

Bronson— R.  D.  &  C.  H.  Powers  is 
the  style  of  the firm  which  continues  the 
dry  goods and  grocery  business  formerly 
conducted  by  R.  D.  &  F.  Powers.

Gladstone— M.  C.  Lawler  &  Son  have 
sold  their  stock  of  boots  and  shoes  to 
Wm.  McWilliams,  formerly employed  in 
the  dry  goods  store  of  David  Kratzen- 
stein.

Sault  Ste.  Marie— C.  J.  Brook  has 
purchased  the  interest  of  Mr.  Barrigan 
in  the  grocery  and  meat  business  and 
will  continue  the  business  in  his  own 
name.

Champion— The  Champion  Co-opera 
tive  Society’s  new  store  will  be  ready 
for occupancy  by  the  end  of  this  week 
The  place  is  a  model  of  neatness.  The 
fixtures  are  the  finest  money  can  buy 
and  when  all  are  in  position  it  will  be 
hard  to  find  a  more  attractive  store  any 
where.  Most  of  the  fixtures  for the  meat 
market  have  arrived,  but  part  of  the 
store  outfit  is  still  to  come.  Moving  the 
stock  will  be  started  soon  and  it  is  ex 
pected  that  within  ten  days  all  branches 
of  the  Society’s  business  will  be  con 
ducted  at  the  new  stand.

Houghton— Negotiations  are  in  prog 
ress  for  the  purchase  of  a  prominent 
street comer  in Houghton,  on  which  one 
of  the  well-known  business  men  of  the 
town  contemplates  the  erection  of  a 
large  department  store,  modeled  on  city 
lines  throughout.  The  copper  district 
now  has  three  department  stores  which 
would  be  considered  creditable affairs in 
any  city  of  a  hundred  thousand  or more, 
these  being the mammoth establishments 
of  Johnson  Vivian,  Jr.,  &  Co.,  at  Lau- 
rium  Vertin  Bros.,  at  Red  Jacket,  and 
Jacob  Gartner,  at  Hancock. 
In  addi­
tion  to  these  are  the  big  mercantile 
houses  of  Ryan,  Ruppe,  Hennes  and 
others,  which  are 
really  department
stores.

Good  Reason.

“ What  a  happy  dog  you  are!  Don’t 

you  ever borrow  trouble?’ ’

Nope!  Can’t  afford  to;  the  interest 

too  high.

is  to  be  courted 

Criticism,  when  made  with  kindly  in- 
than 
tent, 
avoided. 
It  shows  us  our  weak  points, 
thereby  giving  us  the  means  to strength­
en  them. 

rather 

6

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

MODEL  ORDINANCE.

Regulating  the  Operations  o f  Fruit  and 

Vegetable  Peddlers.

The  Tradesman  herewith  presents

model  ordinance  for the  govern m en t_
fruit  and  vegetable  peddlers,  adapted 
for  the  use  of  cities  of  any  size :

in 

Section  1.  No  person  or  persons  shall 
engage 
in  the  business  of  hawking  or 
pack  or  other  peddling  in  the  streets 
or  other  public  places  or  from  door t< 
door, 
in  the  city  of  Grand  Rapids, 
without  having  first  obtained  a  license 
to  do  so  from  the  Common  Council  o 
Mayor of  said  c ity :  Provided,  however, 
that  the  provisions  of  this  ordinance 
shall  not  apply  to  bakers  or to  persons 
*-ngagod 
selling  bread,  biscuits 
buns,  crackers  and  cakes  or  other  arti 
cles  of  food  commonly  made  by  bakers.
It  shall  not  be  lawful  for  any 
person  or  persons  to  engage  in  the  busi­
ness  of  selling  fruits,  nuts,  candies  or 
any  other  article  whatsoever  from  : 
stand,  stall,  cart,  wagon,  pack,  basket 
or  in  any  manner  on  any  of  the  publi 
streets,  parks,  grounds,  places  or  alley, 
in  said  city  without  first  having  ob 
tained  a  license  therefor  from  the  Com 
mon  Council  or  Mayor of  said  city.

Sec.  2. 

Sec.  3.  Any  person  desiring  to  exer 
cise  or  engage  in  any  calling  aforesaic 
shall  make  application  to  the  Common 
Council  of  said  city  for  a  license  there­
for.  Such  application  shall  state  the 
goods  or  merchandise  to  be  sold  and  the 
place  and  manner  of  selling  and  the 
time  said  applicant  desires  said  license 
to  run.

Sec.  4.  Upon  the  granting  of  such 
icense  by  said  Common  Council  or 
Mayor,  the  applicant  therefor  shall  pay 
into  the  treasury  of  said  city  the  sum 
of  $25  per  year 
in  advance  and  shall 
also  pay  the  Clerk  of  said  city  the 
further  sum  of  one  dollar  for issuing and 
recording  such  license.  Annual  licenses 
only  shall  be  issued.

Sec.  5.  This  ordinance  shall  not  be 
so  construed  as  to  apply  to  any  person 
or  persons  coming 
into  the  city  with 
teams  or  otherwise  writh  any  produce 
for  the  public  market  or to  any  person 
selling  vegetables  or  berries  or  other 
produce  of  their  own  farms  or  premises, 
Sec.  6.  Any  person  who  shall  exer­
cise  the  vocation  of a huckster or peddler 
by  means  of  a  wagon,  cart  or  other 
vehicle,  shall  place 
in  a  conspicuous 
manner a  bright  metal  plate,  five  inches 
long  by  three  inches  in  width,  on  each 
side  of  said  wagon  or  vehicle,  such 
metal  plate  to  have 
impressed  thereon 
the  number of  license  as  issued  and  the 
year of  issuing  such 
license,  the  City 
Clerk  to  provide  such  metal  plates  with 
out  cost.

Sec.  7.  All  persons  who  are  or  who 
may  be  licensed  by  said  Common Coun 
cil  or  Mayor  to  sell  their goods  or  mer 
chandise  from  the  wagon,  cart,  booth, 
stand  or  basket  shall  not  occupy  the 
street  or  sidewalk  in  such  a  manner  as 
to  interfere  with  or  interrupt  the  travel 
on  such  street  or  sidewalk.

Sec.  8.  No  person  or  persons  so 
censed  by  the  Mayor  or  Common 
Council  of  said  city  shall  sell,  expose 
for  sale  or  offer  for sale  in-any  public 
market  or at  any  place  within  the  limits 
of  the  city  of  Grand  Rapids  any  un­
sound,  stale,  rotten,  fermented,  nause­
ous  or  unwholesome  vegetables,  fruits, 
berries  or  other articles  of  food  or  pro­
vision  by  them  sold  under  their  license 
or  any  unwholesome  bread,  cake  or 
pastry,  or  any  bread,  cake  or  pastry 
manufactured  in  whole  or  in  part  from 
any  unwholesome  flour or  meal.

Sec.  9. 

It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the 
Health  Officer of  said  city  to  inspect  all 
vegetables,  berries,  fruits,  cakes,  bread 
or  pastry  as  shall  be  brought  to  him  for 
nspection  or  to  which  his  attention 
shall  have  been  called  by  any  person  or 
persons ;  and  for the  purpose  of  carry­
ing  out  the  provisions  of  this ordinance, 
the,  said  Health  Officer  shall  have  the 
power,  and  it  shall  be  his  duty,  to  enter 
’ "   and  upon  the  premises  of  any  person 
persons  and  detain  anv  and  all fruits, 
vegetables,  berries,  bread,  cakes  or  pas­
try  and  examine  and  see  that  the  same 
are  of  good  and  wholesome  quality.

Sec.  10. 

Each  application 

for  a

license  under  this  ordinance  shall  be 
accompanied  by  a  bond  in  the  sum  of 
$50,  signed  by  two  sureties,  who  shall 
be  approved  by  the  City  Clerk,  said 
bond  to  remain 
in  force  during  the 
term  of  the  license  and  serve  as  a  guar­
anty  of  good  behavior on  the  part  of  the 
licensee.

Sec.  11.  Any  person  or  persons  who 
shall  violate  any  of  the 
foregoing  pro­
visions  and  requirements  of  this  ordi­
nance,  on  conviction  thereof,  shall  be 
punished  by  a  fine  of  not  less  than  five 
dollars  nor  moie  than  one  hundred  dol­
lars  and  costs  of  prosecution  or  by 
im­
prisonment  at  hard 
labor  in  the  com­
mon 
jail  of  the  county  of  Kent,  or  in 
any  penitentiary,  jail,  workhouse,  house 
of  correction  or  almshouse  of  said  city, 
in  the  discretion  of  the  court  or  magis­
trate  before  whom  the  conviction  may 
be  had,  for  a  period  of  not  less  than  ten 
day*  nor  more  than  ninety  d ays;  and  in ‘ 
case  such  court  or  magistrate  shall  only 
impose  a  fine  and  costs,  the  offender 
may  be  sentenced  to  imprisonment  at 
hard  labor  in  the  common 
in  the 
county  of  Kent  until  the  payment  of 
such  fine  and  costs  for  a  period  of  not 
less  than  ten  nor  more  than  ninety days.

jail 

Hides,  Pelts, Tallow  and  W ool. 

Hides  are  not  plentiful,  the  demand 
is  not  strong  and  the  price 
is  much 
lower,  which,  altogether,  makes  a  de­
pressed  market  with  an  uncertain  end­
ing.  Prices  on 
leather  have  declined. 
Shoe  manufacturers  are  not  anxious 
buyers,  which  forces  tanners  to  be  in­
different 
the  purchase  of  hides. 
Manipulators  of  the  market  are  forced 
out,  being  unable  to  continue  their  for­
mer  tactics.  The  market 
is  therefore 
weak,  waiting  for some  stimulus.

in 

Pelts  are  an  unknown  article  and  are 
not  quotable,  on  account  of  the  lack  of 
offerings.

Tallow  is  lower;  in  fact,  it  is  back  to 
the  old  price,  where  it  shows  no  margin 
for a  handler.  The  trade 
is  dull  and 
lifeless.

Wools  have  settled  to  a  i6@2ic  basis, 
where  they  hold  firm,  with  no  anxiety 
to  buy  above  this  figure. 
Eastern  buy­
ers  do  not  care  to  exceed  this  price  and 
are  not  strong.  The  outlook  abroad 
is 
not  good.  Large  quantities  were  with­
drawn  from  the  sale  and  imports  are 
large.  The  present  supply  in  sight 
is 
an  apparent 
extremely 
shortage  in  the  world’s  clip.  The 
fu­
ture 
for  higher  prices,  but 
11  transactions  are  on  the  basis  of  to­
day,  with  no  speculative  tendency.

large,  with 

looks  good 

Wm.  T.  Hess.

Tli©  Boys  B ehind  the  Counter.

Lowell— Wilder  Wile  has  taken  the 
clerkship  left  vacant  by W illG .  Murphy 
at  J.  E.  Lee  &  Co. 's  store.

Port  Huron— D.  J.  McDougall,  of 
Point  Edward,  a  graduate 
the 
Toronto  School  of  Pharmacy,  has  taken 

from 

position  in  Bricker’s  drug  store. 
Houghton— Efforts  are  now  making 
toward  getting  some  system  about  the 
closing  of  the  Houghton  stores.  The 
clerks  are  certainly  entitled  to  a  part  of 
their  time  evenings  and 
is  to  be 
hoped  that  they  may  succeed  in  secur­
ing  an  agreement  with  the  merchants  to 
close  at  8  o’clock.

it 

Tekonsha— H.  N.  Parker  succeeds 

Paul  Goodhue  as  clerk  for J.  I.  Main.

Benton  Harbor— Harry  Plummer  and 
Wallace  Palmer  are  now  employed  in 
the  Fabry  drug  store.

Beware  of  the  man  who,  in  business 
-  private  life,  constantly  puts  himself 
forward  as  an  honest  man.  Such  a  man 
at  heart 
is  either  not  honest  or  he  be­
lieves  that  an  honest  man  is  rara  avis.

No  man  should  pride  himself  on  be­
It  is  every  man’s  duty  to 

ing  honest. 

honest.

Grand  Rapids  Oossip

The  Produce Market. 

Asparagus— 30@35c  per  doz.  bunches. 
Bananas— Prices  are  firm  and  show  a 
slight  advance.  The  market  is  almost 
bare  of  stock,  receipts  during  the  week 
having  been  very  light  and  unless  the 
receipts  for  next  week  are  more  liberal, 
for  a  further  ad­
the  probabilities  are 
vance.  Receipts  from  May 
io  to  16 
were  67,000  bunches,  against  106,000 
bunches  at  the  corresponding  time 
last 
year.

Beets— 4o@5oc  per doz.  bunches. 
Butter— Factory  creamery  is  stronger 
and  firmer  than  a  week  ago,  fancy  stock 
commanding  I9@20c.  Dairy grades  are 
coming  in  freely,  fetching  13c  for  pack­
ing  stock,  14c  for  choice  and  15c  for 
fancy.  The  receipts  are  heavy  and  the 
quality  of  the  receipts  has  greatly  im­
proved  during  the  past  two  weeks.

Cabbage— Mississippi 

$3@3- 50  per  crate.

stock 

fetches 

Cocoanuts—$3.25  per  sack  of  100. 
Cucumbers—40c  per  doz.  for  Southern 

and  50c  for  home  grown.

Dressed Calves— Fancy,  7>£@8c; com­

mon,  6@7c  per  lb.

Eggs— Local  dealers  pay 

io@ io>^c 
f.  o.  b.  shipping  point  for all receipts of 
good  eggs,  returning  cases  at expense  of 
owners.  Receipts  have  dropped  off  con­
siderably  during  the  past week.
Green  Peas—$1  per bu.  box.
Green  Stuff— Grand  Rapids  forcing 
lettuce,  io@i2c.  Onions,  10c  per  doz. 
for  evergreen  and  13c  for  silverskin. 
Parsley,  30c  per  doz.  Pieplant,  75c  for 
50  lb.  box.  Radishes,  10c  per  doz.  for 
long  and  8c  for  round.  Spinach,  35c  per 
bu.

Hay— Carlot  prices,  track Grand  R ap­
ids,  are:  No.  1  timothy,  $12.50;  No.  2, 
$11.50;  clover  mixed,  $11.50;  rye  straw, 
$7.50;  wheat  and  oat  straw,  $5-5o@6 
per ton.

Honey— Fancy  white  commands  I4@ 
15c.  Amber  is  in demand  at  10c,  while 
dark  is  held  at  9c.

in  the  market,  but 

Lemons— Show  an  advance  of  from  50 
@75c  per box.  Some  of  the  fruit  which 
arrived  last  week  was  in  very  poor  con­
dition  and  it  was  feared  would  cause  a 
decline 
supplies 
were  light  and  the  fruit  sold  well  at  full 
prices.  The  arrivals  of  lemons  so  far 
this  month  are  about  100,000  boxes 
less 
than  for  the  sajne  time  last  year.  The 
lemon  crop  in  Southern  California  is in­
creasing.  This 
is  mostly  due  to  the 
large  number  of  trees  that  will  come  in­
to  bearing  this  year  for the  first  time 
and  to  the  increased  yield  of  the  older 
trees.  At  present  from  San Diego county 
12  to  14  carloads  of  lemons  are  being 
shipped  weekly  by  rail  and  water,  and 
this  quantity  will  double  and  treble  as 
the  season  advances  and  more  fruit  rip­
ens.  From  year  to  year  the  lemon  crop 
will  increase  in  size  as  at  each  succeed­
ing  season  many  acres  of  trees  are  com­
ing  into  bearing.

Maple  Sugar— 8c  for  imitation  and  9 

@ioc  for  genuine.

Maple  Syrup— Selling  at  8o@goc  per 

gal.,  as  to quantity  and  quality.

Oranges—Mediterranean sweets,$3.50; 
fancy  seedlings,  $3.50;  bloods,  $3.5o@4 
per  box.

Pineapples— Havanas  and  Jamaicas 
command  $i.25@i.5o  per  doz.  Floridas 
fetch  $2@2.25  per  doz.

Plants— Cabbage,  sweet  potato  and 
tomato,  75c  per box  of  200.  Celery,  90c 
per box.

Potatoes—$1.40  for  new  and  35c  for 

old.

Poultry— The  market  is  in  better  con­
dition  than  a  week  ago,  receipts  having 
increased  to  a  considerable  extent.  For 
live  poultry  local  dealers  pay as follows: 
Broilers  weighing  1%  to  2  lbs.  com­
mand  i8@20c  per  lb.  Squabs,  $1,751^2 
per  doz.  Pigeons,  50c.  Chickens,  7@8c. 
Fowls,  6@7c.  Ducks,  8c 
for  young. 
Turkeys,  10c  for  hens  and  capons  and 
9c  for  gobblers.  For dressed  poultry : 
Chickens  command  10c.  Fowls  fetch  9c. 
Ducks  are  taken  at  10c.  Geese  are  not 
wanted  at  any  price.  Turkeys  are  in 
good  demand  at  10c  for  No.  2  and  i2@ 
13c  for  No.  1.

Strawberries— Illinois stock commands

$2@2.2g  for  24  qt.  case.  St.  Joe  stock 
is  beginning  to  arrive  freely,  fetching 
$i.7§@2  per  16  qt.  case.  Although  the 
receipts  are  large,  the  demand  is  in  ex­
cess  of  the  supply  and  this  condition 
will  probably  prevail  until  home  grown 
begin  to  come 
in,  which  will  be  next 
week.

String  Beans—$2  per  bu.  crate;  $1.50 

for  %  bu.

Tomatoes— Florida  stock  commands 

$3  per 6  basket  crate.

Turnips— 75c@$i  per  bu.
Wax  Beans—$2  per  bu.  crate;  $1.50 

for  %  bu.

The  cloven  hoof  of  the  Michigan 
(Bell)  Telephone  Co.  is  nowhere  more 
plainly  shown than  the  manner in  which 
it  attempts  to  divert  traffic  from  the  in­
dependent  lines  from  Detroit  to  Grand 
Rapids.  Those  who  have  occasion  to 
talk  with  Detroit  from  this  end  of  the 
line  obtain  excellent  service,  but  when 
it  is  necessary  to  reverse  the  process  the 
employes  of  the  New  State— now  owned 
by  the  Bell— company  pretend  that  it 
is 
impossible  to  make  connections  and 
advise  the  enquirer to  resort  to  the  use 
of  the  Bell  lines.  The  claim  that  good 
service  can  not  be  obtained  over  the  in­
dependent 
is  groundless  and,  in 
resorting  to  such  desperate  expedients 
to  divert  business,  the  Bell  company  is 
clearing  violating  the  State  law  on  the 
subject  of  common  carriers  and  laying 
up  trouble  for the  future.

lines 

Henderson  &  Son,  whose  general 
stock  was  recently  destroyed  by  fire  at 
Rapid  City,  have re-engaged  in the  gro­
cery  business  at  that  place.  The  Mus- 
selman  Grocer  Co.  furnished  the  stock.
in 
the  grocery  business  at  St.  Johns.  The 
stock  was  furnished  by  the  Musselman 
Grocer  Co.

Miss  Harriett  Wells  has  engaged 

Harland  &  Wharton  have embarked in 
the  grocery  business  at  Coldwater.  The 
stock  was  furnished  by  the  Musselman 
Grocer  Co.

August  Reinhart  has  engaged  in  the 
grocery  business  at  Stroh,  Ind.,  pur­
chasing  his  stock  of  the  Worden  Grocer 
Co. 

_________

G.  H.  Mason  has  engaged  in  the  gro­
cery  business  at  Montague.  The  stock 
was  furnished by the  Worden  Grocer  Co.

J.  B.  Vincent  &  Son  have  opened  a 
grocery  store  at  Belding.  The  Worden 
Grocer  Co.  furnished  the  stock.

Grand  Rapids at  Cripple  Creek.

Dudley  E.  Waters,  W.  0 .  Hughart, 
Jr.,  Judge  Cyrus  E.  Perkins,  Alfred  O. 
Crozier,  Col.  E.  Crofton  Fox  and  Dr. 
W.  A.  Dorland,  who  visited  Cripple 
Creek,  Colo.,  recently,  as  stated  in  the 
announcement  on  page  two  of  this  is­
sue,  are  among  the  most  prominent 
business  men  in  Grand  Rapids.

They  are  all  enthusiastic  over  the 
outlook.  They  have  placed  the  stock  at 
the  nominal  price  of  15  cents  per  share, 
so  their  friends  can  “ take  a little  flyer”  
and  at  the  same  time  get  in  on  the 
“ ground  floor.”

Nearly  half  the  stock  offered  has  al­
ready  been  taken  and  they  expect  to 
have  the  balance  placed  in  a  few  days.
The  inside  location  of  their  property 
on  the  top  of  Raven  Hill,  at  the  very 
center  of  the  four  mile  district,  which 
has  produced  $69,723,514  in  gold  within 
nine  years,  makes  these  gentlemen  feel 
that  this  is  a  business  enterprise  rather 
than  a  mining  scheme.

For  G illies’  N.  Y. 

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

The Grocery  Market.

Sugar— Refined  grades  have  been  ad­
vanced  %c  during  the  past  two  weeks, 
which  gives  ground  for  the  belief  that 
the 
long-time  fight  between  the  trust 
and  the  independent  refiners  has  been 
settled.

it 

Canned  Goods— The  firmness  of  spot 
is  the  feature  of  the  canned 
tomatoes 
goods  market  and 
imparts  a  better 
feeling  to  the  whole  market,  although 
actual  sales  are  not  numerous.  Toma­
toes  have  been  gaining  strength  the past 
two  weeks  and  now  there  is  an  advance 
of  2^ c  per dozen  for  Maryland  stand­
ards,  with  demand  good  at the advanced 
price.  The  outlook  now 
is  for a  big 
peach crop  and  that  will  curtail the pack 
of  tomatoes  very  considerably.  Many 
packers  of  tomatoes  who  packed  last 
year,  it  is  expected,  will  not  pack  this 
season,  for  the  reason  that  they  have 
sold  no  futures.  The  tendency,  there­
fore,  seems  to  be  toward  slightly  higher 
prices.  Com  is  very  quiet,  the  differ­
ence  between  packers’  and buyers’  ideas 
as  to  price  being  considerable.  The 
expectation 
is  that  the  pack  of  peas 
will  be  very  large  this year,  conditional, 
of  course,  on  the  extent  of  the  ravages 
of  the  pea  louse.  Many  think  that  the 
damage 
from  the  insect  will  not  be  so 
extensive  as  has  been  feared  in  some 
quarters.  The  prospects  are  for  an 
in­
in  the  price  of  peas,  due  to  the 
crease 
greater 
cost  of  manufacturing  cans. 
There 
is  an  excellent  demand  for  the 
highe."  grades  of pineapple at unchanged 
prices.  Although  the  opening  of  the 
season,  in  accordance  with  law,  for  the 
packing  of  sardines 
in  Maine  has  ar­
rived,  the  actual  packing  will  not  com­
mence  until  the  beginning  of  July,  as 
packers  have  learned  from  past  experi­
ence  that  the  fish  caught  before  then  are 
unsuitable  for  sardine  purposes.  Pres­
ent  stocks 
first  hands  have  been 
greatly  reduced,  on  account  of  the  large 
lately  received,  and  which  are 
orders 
still  coming 
in,  so  that  the  outlook  is 
that  there  will  be  a  bare  market  before 
the  arrival  of  the  new  pack.  Reports 
of  the 
light  stocks  of  Red  Alaska 
salmon  tend  to  brace  up  the  market  for 
these  goods  and  the  price  will  almost 
certainly  be  advanced  several 
cents 
within  a  few  days.  There  are  not  over 
30,000  cases  in  first  hands  and  the  en­
tire  supply  is  in  the  hands  of  a  few con­
cerns.  Last  year  at  the  corresponding 
time  the  Alaska  Packers’  Association 
had  65,000  cases  on  hand  and  the 
inde­
pendent •  dealers  considerably  more. 
The  Association  to-day  has  very  few 
cases 
left  and  there  is  already  a  good 
demand  for  the  available  supply  in  the 
hands  of  the  three  or  four  concerns 
which  have  the  salmon.  With  the  hot 
summer  months  coming  on,  there  is  lit­
tle  doubt  that  the  present  supply  will be 
cleaned  up  earlier  than usual,  especially 
at  the  present  price.  Efforts,  however, 
are. under  way  to  advance  the price,  and 
the  expectation 
is  that  they  will  suc­
ceed.  Nothing  definite  regarding  prices 
on  the  new  pack  of  salmon  is  heard, 
but  it  is  believed  that  the  present  week 
will  end  the  uncertainty.  Reports  from 
the  Columbia  R iver  are  of  light  catches 
during  the  last  two  weeks,  the  fish  aver­
aging 
less  than  in  any  former 
season  in  April  and  May.

in  size 

in 

Dried  Fruits— The  dried  fruit  market 
is  generally  unchanged  and  dull,  all 
business  done  being  what  may  be  de­
scribed  as  the  hand-to-mouth  order. 
Reports  of  good  crops  keep  coming 
from  all  sides,  and  with  them  the  desire 
to  buy  seemingly  falls  off  daily.  The 
only  thing  at  all  interesting  is  prunes.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

5

is  practically 

impossible  to  fill. 

The  market  is  firm  and  there  is  a  good 
demand,especially for  40-503  and 50-603. 
The  smaller  sizes  have  practically  dis­
appeared  from  the  market  and  many  or­
ders  for  them  are  being  received  which 
it 
If 
the  present  demand  continues  it  is  ex­
pected  that  prices  of  the  large  sizes  will 
in  a  few  days.  The
advance 
demand  for  evaporated  apples  has 
in­
creased  somewhat,  being  largely  for  ex­
port  purposes.  Spot  stocks  are  moving 
out  fairly  well  and  it  is  expected  that 
stocks  will  be  well  cleaned  up before the 
new  goods  come 
in.  Raisins,  apricots 
and  peaches  are  all  dull  and  meet  with 
only  small  sales.

is 

Rice— The  rice  market 

in  good 
condition,  with  prices  firm.  Holders 
having  moderate  stocks  prefer to  hold 
same,  anticipating  still  higher  prices. 
What  few  lots  of  low  grades  are  still 
in 
the  market  are  held  at  such  extremely 
high  prices  that  few  sales  are  made. 
General 
indications  are  that  exporters, 
being  unable  to  purchase  at  prices  bid, 
will  sooner  or  later  purchase  rice  of  the 
better  grades,  as  prices  are  lower,  con­
sidering  the  quality.

Tea— The  tea  market  is  quiet  with  no 
change 
in  price.  The  total  deliveries 
of  tea  at  New  York  for  the  month  of 
April  were  3,148,000  pounds,  showing  a 
material  decrease  compared  with  March 
deliveries.

Molasses  and  Syrups— The  molasses 
market  continues  firm,  but  only  small 
transactions  are  made,  as  buyers  prefer 
to  carry  light  stocks,  as  the  demand 
is 
light  during  the  summer  months.  The 
com  syrup  market 
is  rather  weak  and 
prices  show  a  decline  of  ic  per gal., 
with  a  corresponding  decline  on  cases.
looked  as 
though  the  California walnut  crop  would 
be  almost  double  what 
it  was  a  year 
ago,  but  since  then,  owing  to  weather 
conditions,  it  looks  as  if  the  crop  would 
be  even  less  than  that  of  last  year,  con­
sequently  the  crop  will  probably  be very 
short  and  high  in  price.

Nuts—Some  time  ago  it 

into 

Soap— On  account  of  lower  prices  on 
the  raw  materials  entering 
the 
manufacture of  soap,  manufacturers  con­
template  a  general  reduction  in  prices, 
in 
which  will  probably  be  promulgated 
the  course  of  a  couple  of  weeks. 
In  the 
meantime 
list  prices  are  being  shaded 
by  factory  salesmen  in  the  case  of  cash 
buyers.

fine 

The  American  Sugar  Refining  Co.  is 
still  supplying  granulated  in  5  pound 
cotton  bags,  packed  in  too  pound  sacks 
and  in  barrels,  but  has  discontinued  its 
practice  of  packing 
granulated 
sugar 
in  5  pound  cartons.  The  Trust 
was  never  enamored  of  the  cartons,  and 
no  doubt  relinquishes  the  sale  of  the 
5-pounders  with  the  greatest  w illing­
ness.  The  use  of  the  carton  was  prac­
tically  forced  upon  the  Trust  by  the  en­
terprise  and  audacity  of  the  Arbuckles, 
who 
introduced  the  carton  as  a  sugar 
package  and  thus  threw  down  the gaunt­
let  to  the  Trust  and  precipitated  the  re­
finers’  war.

Apparently  the  American  com  kitch­
en  which  has  been  opened  at  the.  Paris 
exposition  to  show  Frenchmen  what  a 
variety  of  excellent  dishes  may  be  con­
structed  on  a  basis  of  corn  meal  will 
prove  to  be  a  taking  part  of  the national 
exhibit.  As  the  food  is  prepared  free 
of  charge  an  additional  enticement  is 
added  to  novelty  and  appetite.  As  a 
result  American  com  is  getting  a  great 
advertisement,  and  there  is  a  good  pros­
pect  of  a  better  future  demand 
for  ex- 
| port.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

a

BRITISH  POULTRY  MARKETS.

Countries  Competing  for  England’s Poul 

try  and  Egg Trade.

M.  de  Loverdo  recently  read  before 
the  Société  Nationale  d ’Agriculture  de 
France  an  article  on  the  importation  of 
into  Great  Britain,  in  which  he 
eggs 
says  that  the 
importation  of  eggs  into 
Great  Britain  last  year  was  valued  at 
$24.548,227,  while  the  poultry  and  game 
figures  were  $3,821,633,  an  outlay  of 
$28,369,860  in  addition  to  that  for  the 
poultry  and  eggs  produced 
Britain.

in  Gree 

M.  de  Loverdo  describes  the  specia. 
cars 
in  use,  which  are  so  made  that 
chickens  for  this  market  can  be fattened 
during  the  transport,  one  attendant  be 
ing  able  to  care  for  a  number  of  cars. 
Young  Russian  chickens  bought  at 
low 
prices  are  thus  prepared  for  the English 
market  and  ? reach  there  alive,  and  the 
same  system  has  been  followed with sue 
cess  in  Italy.^  Belgium  has  been  fortu 
nate  enough  in  establishing  a  specialty, 
not  only  for the  London  market,  but also 
in  Paris,  with  its  “ petit  poussin,”   for 
which  restaurant  keepers  in  both  places 
willingly  pay  48  cents  apiece.  They 
are  ready  for  the  table  in  six  weeks, 
the  particular  breed  of  Flemish  fowls 
which 
furnishes  these  early-maturing 
chickens  being  known  as  the  Braekel, 
which  has 
famous  for  its 
precocity.  French  poultry  breeders  are 
urged  to  exhibit  the  attractive Mans and 
La  Bresse  chickens  at  the  Smithfield 
dead-chicken  show,  held  annually 
in 
London.

long  been 

England 

for.  The  Normandy  turkey 

is  credited  with  but  a  small 
production  of  turkeys,  and,  in  spite  of 
the  supplies  from  the  county  of  Norfolk 
and  more  recently  from  Ireland,  impor­
tations  from  abroad  have 
increased 
enormously  in  late  years,  as  the 
liking 
for  turkeys  is  greatly  on  the  increase  in 
England._  The  British  market  is  sup 
plied  chiefly  from  Italy  and  France, 
Canada  and  part  of  Eastern  Europe 
ranking  next.  M.  de  Loverdo  does  not 
mention  the  United  States  as  sending 
poultry  to  that  market.  France  sends 
two  kinds  of  turkeys— from  Solonge  and 
Normandy  respectively.  These  used  to 
find  a  ready  market,  but  latterly  have 
found  formidable  rivals  in  the  Irish tur­
keys,  which  are  better  fattened  and 
cared 
is 
more  precocious  than  the  Solonge  and 
fattens  very  readily.  The  flesh  is  juicy 
and  of  an  exquisite  flavor,  and  com­
mands  about  4c  a  pound  more. 
It  is 
suggested  that  the  Normandy  turkey 
might  with  advantage  be 
introduced 
into  the  French  midlands.  Next  to  the 
Norfolk 
turkey,  which  occupies  the 
place  of  honor  in  the  English  market, 
those  from  France  and  Ireland  are  most 
valued,  but  more  turkeys  are  received 
from  Italy  than  from  France.  The Ital­
ian  turkey  possesses  a 
flavor  almost 
equal  to  the  Normandy  birds,  although 
their  weight  does  not  often  exceed  a 
dozen  pounds. 
exports  an­
nually  60,000  turkeys,  while  Italy  ex­
ports  from  600,000  to  800,600;  but  the 
birds  from  beyond  the  Alps  find  their 
way  not  only  to  London,  but  to  Leipzig 
Dresden,  Frankfort,  Berlin  and  Ham­
burg,  and  they  realize  higher  prices 
in 
those  German  towns  than  in  England. 
During  the  last  three  years,  Canada  has 
made  extraordinary  efforts  to  establish 
a  turkey  trade  in  England,  the  greatest 
care  being  bestowed  upon  the  transport 
in  cold  storage ;  but  while  these  Cana­
dian  birds  have  no  lack  of  quality  and 
easily  attain  the  weight  of  20  pounds,  it 
is  said  the  refrigeration  they  are  sub­
jected  to  does  not  improve  the  flavor  of 
the  flesh.  The complaint about refrigera­
tion 
is  based  on 
prejudice.

in  Great  Britain 

France 

In  continuation  M.  de  Loverdo  says 
that,  so  far as France is concerned,  Cana­
dian  competition  need  not  be  regarded 
as  disquieting.  Hungary  and  Servia 
have furnished  some  indications  of abil­
ity  to  supply  the  London  market  with 
turkeys,  but  owing  to  the  great  overland 
distance  the  dead  birds  do  not  arrive  in 
the  best  of  condition,  while  the  use  of 
refrigerators  would  put  them  in  prac­
tically  the  same  category  as  those 
from 
Canada.

Geese  are  less  in  favor  with  the  Brit­
ish  public  than  formerly,  but  there  is  a

% 

demand  in  excess  of  the  home  supply, 
especially  at  Christmas  time, 
and 
France  reaps  this  benefit  almost  ex­
clusively,  it being estimated  that  100,000 
to  150,000 are  sold  in  London in Decem­
ber,  while  the  other  cities  in  England 
also  furnish  advantageous  markets  for 
geese.  Sarthe  geese  have  the  highest 
reputation  in  London,  the  giant  birds 
of  Toulouse  finding 
less  favor.  Geese 
should  not  exceed  9  to  12  pounds  each 
in  weight,  so  the  tendency  to  produce 
in  excess  of  this  size  is 
Sarthe  geese 
discouraged. 
Southern  Hungary  has 
in  recent  years  produced  fine  birds  to 
compete  when  dressed  with  the  French 
geese  in  London,  but  there are a redden 
ing  of  the  skin  and  a  sensible  deprecia­
tion  in  quality,  due  to  the  length  of  the 
transport.  Russia  has  made  some  at­
tempts,  but  only  produces  a  mongrel 
which  fattens  with  difficulty.

from 

French 

Great  Britain 

1899.  Many  Russian 

imported  16,000,000 
great  hundreds  (1,920,000,000)  of  eggs 
in 
eggs  are 
credited  to  Germany,  although  origin­
ally  coming  from  Russia,  and  many 
Italy  are  credited  to 
coming 
France  and  Belgium. 
eggs 
would  seem  specially  fitted  for  prompt 
consumption,  on  account  of  the  short 
transport;  but  unfortunately 
for  the 
French  producers,  an  unwise  practice 
has  been  adopted  by  many  farmers,  es­
pecially  in  Normandy,  of  keeping  eggs 
many  days  or  even weeks  in  the  hope  of 
getting  better  prices,  and  as  a  result 
the  eggs  have  not  reached  London  in 
perfect  condition,  and French  eggs  have 
secome  discredited,  and  one  large  firm 
is  quoted  as  spending  not  more  than 
$150  a  week  where  formerly  $5,000  a 
week  was  spent,  and  this  discrediting 
of  French  eggs  has  happened  when 
other  countries  are  perfecting 
thei 
methods.
Monroe  County  Shippers  Commend  the 

Exposures.

Monroe,  May  26—-Your  statement con 
ceming  the  Crawford  Produce  Co.,  the 
Tucker  Produce  Co., 
the  Manhattan 
Fruit  and  Grain  Co.  and  the  Union 
_  ruit  &  Grain  Co.,  of  Detroit,  is  true 
but  too  mild.  They  have  roped  in  a 
number  of  Monroe  county  fruit  growers, 
who  are  still  waiting  the  promised  re­
turns,  their  attorney  being  unable 
to 
collect  the  accounts.  To  guard  against 
loss,  the  shipper  should  require  a  cer­
tified  check  deposited  in  his  home  bank 
before  shipping  any  produce  to  these 
people.  The  proper  thing  to  do 
is  to 
make  it  impossible  for  them  to  continue 
their questionable  methods. 
If  there  is 
‘   way to get  at  them  our  shippers  would 
furnish 
money  or affidavits  toward  prosecution.

it.  They  will 

ke  to  know 

Carl  Franke.

Not Enough  to  Pay  Court  Fees.

The  Tradesman is in receipt of a  letter 
from  Nathaniel  A.  Prentiss,  Referee  in 
Bankruptcy  of the  United  States  Court, 
VTew  York,  stating  that  T.  B.  Truesdell 
Co.,  who  recently  filed  a  voluntary 
petition  in  bankruptcy,  show  assets  of 
$128,  with  liabilities  of  $19,826.25.  As 
the  expense  of  putting the estate through 
bankruptcy 
in  excess 
of  this  amount,  it  is  quite  evident  that 
Truesdell  &  Co.  will  not  only  be  un­
able  to  pay  their  creditors  anything, 
but  will  owe  the  officers  of  the  United 
States  Court,  to  whom  they  will  be  com­
pelled  to  pay  the  remainder  due  before 
they  can  obtain  a  discharge  from  bank­
ruptcy.

is  considerably 

Light  and  H elp  Needed.

A   burglar  who  had  entered  a  minis­
ter’s  house  at  midnight  was  disturbed 
by  the  awakening of  the  occupant  of  the 
room  he  was  in.  Drawing  his  knife,  he 
sa id :

“ If  you  stir  you  are  a  dead  man.  I’m 

hunting  for  money. ”

“ Let  me  get  up  and  strike  a  light,”  
said  the  minister,  “ and  I’ll  hunt  with 
you. ’ ’

Took  Her  at  Her  Word.

Mrs.  Newwed  (handing  tramp  several 
biscuits)— Here,  my  poor  man,  are some 
of  my  home-made  biscuits.  You  will 
find  the  saw  and  ax  in  the  woodshed.
(closely  examining  the  bis­
cuits)—Are  they  as  bad  as  that,  mum?

Tramp 

D.  Boosing

General

Commission  Merchant

S P E C IA L T IE S

Butter  Eggs

Poultry  Beans
EGOS WANTED

I am paying spot cash for eggs In car lots 
or less.  I also want dairy butter, packed 
in 30 and  40  and  60  pound  tubs,  selling 
from  14c  to  17c,  according  to  quality. 
Dressed poultry in good demand,  selling 
from lie to 12c.  Any further Information 
you  wish  write  or  wire  me  and  I will 
answer promptly.

Correspondence solicited. 

References:  Bank of Buffalo and  Dun's 

and Bradstreet’s Agencies.

154 Michigan Street,

Buffalo, New York.

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Grand  Rapids.

-Butter and  Eggs- 

-Wanted-

We  are  in  the  market  for 
large  quantities  of  fresh 
eggs  and  all  grades  of 
dairy  butter. 
Highest 
market  price paid on track 
shipping point.
Get  your  money  out  of 
your low  grade  butter and 
write us  for prices.

STROUP &  SICKELS,

38 So. Division St„
Qrand  Rapids,  Mich.

Both phones. 

Ballou  Baskets  Hre  Best

Is  conceded.  Uncle  Sam  knows  it  and 

uses them by the thousand.

W e make all kinds.

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

Send for catalogue.

BALLOU BASKET WORKS, Belding.Mich
A.  M.  Dean Company,

White Lead 
and Color Works

230 and 232 E. Kalamazoo Ave., 

Kalamazoo, Mich.

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

in every town.

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We want  too,000 lbs. of dairy butter either ladles or packing stock with-
1?,  e next iew days-  W e are always  in the market to buy  fresh  eves
W e pay spot cash, f. o  b.  Buffalo.  For  further  information  write  or 
wire us.

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MACKEY  &   WILLIAMS.

Dealers in

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From now forward ship daily butter packed in tubs,  30,  40  and  60  lb  weieht  Dressed 
gmUtry in strong demand.  Fresh  eggs  wanted  foi  storagr  Fmcy  crealerir  in  g^ d

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

Members of Produce Exchange.  Established 1887.  Long Distance Phone Seneca 1081.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

DOG IN  THE  HANGER.

Perfidious  P olicy o f the  Persistent  Price 

Cutter.

It 

is  unfortunate  that  in  every  com 
munity  there  is  a  retailer who  is  willing 
to  disturb  the  harmony  of profit-making 
for  some 
little  selfish  or  petty  reason 
Minneapolis  is  unfortunate  enough  to 
have  one  or  two  of  these  disturbers  in 
her  camp,  hence  there 
is  trouble  for 
the  moment  in  the  sugar  department  of 
the  retail  business.

One  of  the  local  grocers 

insisted  on 
selling  three  pounds  more  of  sugar  for 
a  dollar  than  the  card  rate  called  for. 
This  meant  an  actual  loss  on  handling 
the  sugar.  The  officers  of  the  Retail 
Grocers’  Association 
to 
bring the  recalcitrant  into  line  but  with­
out  effect.  The  Association  resolved  at 
once  to  throw  the  market  on  sugar  wide 
open,  hence,  for  the  first  time  since  the 
sugar card  was  instituted 
in  Minneap­
olis  several  years  ago,  all  dealers  are 
selling  three  more  pounds  of  sugar  for  a 
dollar  than  the  card  called  for.

endeavored 

The  Association  proposes  to  give  a 

cutters  a  chance  to  drink  their  fill  at  the 
fountain  of  price-cutting. 
Just  what 
will  be  gained  by  this  attempt  on  the 
part  of  one  or two  dealers  to  gain  a  lit­
tle  cheap  notoriety  of  an  advertising na­
ture 
is  not  now  clear.  One  thing  is 
clear,  however,  the  retailers  of  Minne­
apolis,who  have  spent  years  in  building 
the  retail  business  on  a  basis of prosper­
ity  for  all  who  are  engaged  in  it,  do  not 
longer  and  mince 
propose  to  sit  by 
words  with  this  class  of  cutters. 
If  they 
want  to  sell  sugar at  a  loss  they  will  all 
try  a  hand  at  the  game.

But  why  do  this  thing  at  all?  Why 
resort  to  price-cutting  methods  when  it 
is  the  sheerest  nonsense  to  do  so?  The 
most  ambitious  retailer  of  groceries  can 
maintain  the  schedules  and  increase  his 
business  by  other  means  than  this.  It  is 
too  bad,  we  say,  that  any  dealer  is  w ill­
ing  to 
jeopardize  the  prosperity  of  the 
trade  in  the  hope  of  realizing  a  tem­
porary  benefit  from  so  doing.

The  penalty  will  have  to  be  paid. 
Just  in  proportion  as*any  line  is  cut just 
to  that  extent  will  the  dealer  who  cuts 
lose  money.  And  with  a  general  trade 
war  in  force  the 
large  dealer  would 
suffer  his  share  of  loss  with  the  small 
dealer.  Those  who  have  taken  the 
in­
itiative 
in  the  price-cutting  business 
had  better  admit  frankly  their error  and 
to  be  restored. 
permit  the  schedule 
There  will  not  be  a  thing  gained  by 
quarreling.  Every  pound  of  sugar  sold 
now  is  sold  at  a  loss.  Does  this  pay?

If  any  grocer  dares  to  say  the  method 
of  the  Association  is  dictatorial,  he  is 
merely  resorting  to  whistling  methods

to  justify  his  course.  The  dealer  who 
says  that  knows  better.  To  enforce  a 
schedule  of  prices  there  must  needs  be 
a  display  of  firmness.  But  this 
is  not 
dictation ;  it 
is  enforcement  and  to  this 
the  dealers  have  agreed.

Because  there  is  an independent sugar 
refiner  around  with  his  wares,one or  two 
of  the  dealers  feel  they  can  play  with 
the  card  list  and  not  be  subjected  to 
punishment,  because  if  the  jobbers  re­
fuse  to  sell  them  sugar,  surely  the  inde­
pendent  refiner  can  be  depended  on  to 
furnish  supplies.

This  is  a  poor  defense and not a  frank 
way  of  doing  business.  The  man  who 
is  not  satisfied  to  do  business  on  a  basis 
that  has  behind  it  the  confidence  of  the 
public  had  better go  out  of  the business. 
The  people  have  come  to  believe  in  the 
regularity  of  prices.  They  are  in  the 
position  of  the  shipper  of  merchandise 
who  prefers  a  steady  rate  to  a  constant 
changing  of  schedules.  There  is  noth­
ing  in  the  cut  rate  policy  to  defend. 
It 
is  as  much  behind  the  times  as  the  old 
omnibus  traffic  that  once  found  its  way 
across  the  plain.

The  price  cutter 

is  an  abnormal 
tradesman.  He  blocks  the  way  for  all 
who  wish  to  conform  to  a  standard  of 
equality  and  steadiness,  and  is  in  every 
way  a  misfit.  Let  the  price-cutting  go 
on  until  the  one  or  two  mighties  drink 
their 
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The  keynote  of  business  to-day  is  to 
give  as  much  as  possible  for  a  dollar. 
The  keynote  of  all  business  methods 
under  older  business methods  was  to  get 
as  much  profit  out  of  a  sale  or  out  of  a 
dollar  as  possible.  The  differences  are 
as  wide  as  midday  and  midnight.  The 
competition  developed  by  modern  trade 
and  industry  has  brought  about  the  con­
dition  of  things  which  makes  it  wiser 
and  more  enlightened  policy  for  the 
manufacturer  or  shopkeeper to  give  as 
much  as  possible 
for  one  dollar,  one 
dime,  or  one  cent.

The  greatest  merchants  of  to-day  are 
those  who  study  to  give  their  customers 
all  they  can  for the  money  paid  to  ren­
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sible  respect;  not  merely  to  take  dol­
lars  over  the  counter,  but  to  see  that 
the  customer  on  the  other  side  of  the 
counter 
is  pleased  and  served,  and  is 
made  to  feel  that  the  seller  is  interested 
not  only  in  the  transfer of  an  article  for 
a  given  sum,  but  that  he  is  actuated  by 
a  broader  and  deeper  motive  than  the 
mere  fact  of  making  a  sale.

The  whole  trend  of  modern  society*  is 
in  that  direction. 
It  is  an  evidence  of 
our  modern  progress.  It  is  a  measure  of 
it.  Mere  buying  and  selling  is  an  in­
cident  of  life.  The  human  mind  is  en­
larging,  and 
comprehends  that  there 
is  something  else  in  the  world  besides 
making  money  and  doing  business.

This  may  seem  somewhat  moralizing, 
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In  every 
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in  goods  rather  than 
wards  superiority 
competition 
is  a 
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reputation  for  square  dealings,  which 
is  pleasing  and  encouraging,  no  matter 
from  what  standpoint  we  look  at  it.

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GENERAL TRADE  REVIEW.

It 

Slight 

recoveries 

in  stock  market 
values,  to  be  followed  by  still  greater 
declines  thus  slowly  pushing  the  aver­
age  downward,  describes  the  condition 
in  Wall  Street.  While  this  situation 
is 
attributed 
largely  to  the  uncertainties 
of  the  presidential  year,  there  are  those 
who  see  as  great  a  factor  in  the  recov­
ery  from  over-capitalization. 
is  to 
be  noted  that  the  most  steady  stocks 
are  the  preferred,  which 
in  many  in­
stances  fully  equal,  if  they  do  not  ex­
ceed,  the  cash  values  of  the  assets of the 
corporations  concerned.  Thus  the  com­
mon  stock  becomes  almost  purely  a 
speculative  element  and  it  is not strange 
it  should  suffer  the  more  severely 
that 
in  the 
inevitable  coming  to  a  business 
basis.  The  sensation  of  an  otherwise 
quiet  week  was  the  $15,000,000  failure 
of  a  cotton  firm,  which served  to  demon­
strate  the  general  strength  underlying 
legitimate  business.  Ordinarily  a  fail­
ure  of  this  magnitude would be expected 
to  cause  quite  a  flurry,  or  even  precipi­
tate  a  panic.  On  the  day  of  the  failure 
there  was  a  slight  decline,  such  as  had 
been  occurring  every  few  days,  and  the 
next  day  there  was  prompt  recovery  of 
all  the  loss.  Apparently  the  failure  was 
without  effect  in  the  market.

The  price  changes  have  been  in  the 
direction  of  a  lower  range,  but  the  con­
tinued  activity  in  most  lines  indicates 
that  with  a  normal  price  basis  the  tide 
will  maintain  its  volume.  An  analysis 
of  the  situation  shows  that  the  combina­
tions  are  as  prompt  to  meet  the  condi­
tions  as  the  outside 
lists.  Thus  the 
iron  products  which  are  not  controlled 
are  the  last  to  react,  for the  reason  that 
the  causes  of  their  advance  last 
longer.
leather  combinations 
have  not  prevented  a  general  decline  in 
leather,  which  has  averaged 
prices  of 
over 
per  cent,  during  the  last  week 
and  about  8  per  cent,  since  January. 
The  boot  and  shoe  makers  are  thus  en­

several 

The 

fall 

abled  to  reduce  by  about  2^   to  5  cents 
a  pair  the  prices  asked  two  months  ago, 
and  the 
in  hides  at  Chicago  has 
been  about  20  per  cent,  since  the  year 
began.  It  will  be  fortunate  for  the  man­
ufacture 
if  this  reduction  encourages 
traders  throughout  the  country  to  put  in 
the  orders  which  have  been  for  a  long 
time  so  largely  held  back,  as  the  ship­
ments  from  the  East  have  fallen'  below 
those  of  five  of  the  last  seven  years.

it 

it  was 

Price  changes  in  the 

iron  and  steel 
markets  are  being  made  to  meet  the 
conditions 
in  the  outside  world.  It  is 
significant  that  the  coming  to  a  normal 
basis  is  attended  by  the  placing  of some 
very  heavy  export  orders.
In  the  textile  market 

is  notable 
that  the  two  great  staples  keep  very 
close  to  the  high  price  they  have  main­
tained.  Even  with  the  great  failure 
mentioned  above  the  decline  of  cotton 
is  very  slight,  new  holders  apparently 
persuading  themselves  that  after 
the 
chief  bull  firm  has  been  forced  into 
bankruptcy  it  is  just  the  time  for  other 
people  to  succeed. 
The  commercial 
stocks  of  American  held  abroad  have 
decreased  nearly 
200,000  bales  this 
month, 
in  spite  of  227,962  bales  ex­
ported  from 
this  country  in  May  thus 
far,  against  270,433  last  year.  Further 
increase  of  mill  stocks  abroad  is  clearly 
indicated,  as 
in  April,  but  the 
point  is  not  far  distant  at  which  the  re­
duced  consumption  of  foreign  mills  will 
be  well  provided  for to  the  end  of  the 
crop  year,  as  the consumption  in  North­
ern  mills 
is  already,  by  mill  holdings. 
The  goods  market  has  shown  some 
weakness,  but  mills  have  been  wise 
in 
making  their  largest  concessions  in  the 
grades  of  goods  most  heavily  exported.
The  outgo  of  wheat  and  also  of  corn 
continues  in  May  thus  far to  exceed  last 
year’s,  and  the  forward  movement  from 
the  farms,  in  wheat 
last 
year  and 
in  com  nearly  as  large,  de­
prives  even  the  most able-bodied rumors 
of  much  power over  prices.  The  mer­
chandise  exports  from  New  York  have 
been  19  per  cent,  larger  in  May  than  in 
the  same  month  last  year,  while  the  im­
ports  in four  weeks  at the same port have 
been  $40,653,881,  against  $40,944,811 
last  year.  Meanwhile, 
the  volume  of 
domestic  trade  is  sustained  in  the  most 
remarkable  manner,  excepting  close  to 
the  seaboard. 
In  New  England  and 
the  Middle  States  exchanges  through 
the clearing  houses  in  May  thus far have 
been  8.4  per  cent,  smaller  than 
last 
year,  but  in  all  the  rest  of  the  country 
the 
last  year  is  about 
$84,000,000,  or  8.4  per  cent.

increase  over 

larger  than 

firm 

The  Government  has  just  awarded  a 
contract  to  a  Massachusetts 
for 
10,000  white  marble  headstones,  at $1.28 
each.  These  stones  are  to  be  used  to 
mark 
graves  of  United  States 
soldiers  and  marines,  and  will  be  dis­
tributed  upon  application  of  Grand 
Army  posts,  or  of  relatives  of  those  who 
lie  in  unmarked  graves,  upon  applica­
tion  to  the  War  Department.

the 

The  Japanese  government  protests 
against  the  treatment  of  Japanese  in 
this  country  otherwise  than  we  treat 
all 
foreigners.  The  Japs  were  shrewd 
enough  to  place  themselves  by  treaty  up 
among  the  white  folks  and  are  strong 
enough  to  make  their  protests respected.

One  fashion  journal  is  out  with  an  il­
lustration  of  a  cream-colored 
lady’s 
yachting  costume.  After  she  has  been 
on  the  sea,  under  the  sun,  for a  couple 
of  days,  the  cream-colored 
lady  will 
have  a  tan  color  on.

THE  INCOMING TIDE.

but 

immigrant, 

One  of  the  unimstakable  proofs  of 
Am erica’s  era  of  prosperity  is  the  un­
numbered  multitudes  that  are  crowding 
to  her shores.  She  is  the  central  point 
to  which  all  thoughts  converge.  Once  it 
was  the  gate  opening  towards  the  sun­
rise  that  received  all  sort  and  condition 
of 
that  has  been 
changed.  The  East  is  dividing  the  la­
bors  of  reception  committee  with  the 
South  and  West  and  nowhere  are  they 
idle.  By  the  thousands  daily  they  are 
for 
pouring  in  as  they  have  been  doing 
years  with  no  questions  asked  and  it 
is 
getting  to  be  a  serious  question  what  is 
to  be  done  with  them?  There  was  a 
time— would  that  it  would  come  again— 
when  the 
immigrants  that  came  to  us 
were  ready  with  trained  hand  and  earn­
est  purpose  to  step  at  once  into  places 
waiting  for  them  and  so  were  absorbed 
early  by  our  American  life.  That  time 
has  gone.  Shipload  after  shipload  is 
dumped— the  word  is  used  advisedly— 
upon  the  American  docks  exactly  as  the 
refuse  of  New  York  has  been  dumped 
into  the  bay  and  for  the  same  reason. 
Europe  has  got  tired  of  them,  Asia  has 
got  tired  of  them,  cartage 
is  cheaper 
than  support  and  they  are  brought  from 
one  plague-blighted  alley  to,  blight  an­
other,  a  pest  to  the  locality  that  harbors 
them.

That  is  the  fact.  What’s  to  be  done 
about 
it?  These  pestilential  germs  of 
the  worst  disease  that  has  ever  cursed 
mankind  have  come  in  and  taken  pos­
session  of  the  United  States.  Left  to 
themselves  there  can  be  but  one  result. 
Taken  in  hand  they  can  be  checked;  so 
the  question  becomes  one  of  method. 
The  Hawaiians  resorted  to  fire  to  ex­
tirpate  the  bubonic  ailment  that  threat­
ened  them.  Some  years  ago the  Asiatic 
cholera  reached  New  York  and grappled 
with  the  continent  for  possession.  The 
line  was  drawn  in  both  places  and  the 
plague  was  driven  back  into  the  sea. 
Fire  is  a  heroic  treatment  and  can  not 
be  resorted  t o ;  but,  with  the  same  de­
termination  awakened  that  this  thing  is 
going  to  be  stopped,  there  wili  be  dis­
covered  ways  and  means,  and  the  dis­
covery  can  not  be  made  too  soon.

One  of  the  first  measures  to  be  taken 
is  the  careful 
inspection  of  the  ship­
load  and  a  prompt  return  of the material 
which  ought  to  be  sunk  in  midocean. 
Let 
it  once  be  known  that  we  are  not 
going  to  have  thrown  into  our seaports 
any  more  Old  World  garbage 
from  the 
East  or the  West  and  the  source  of  sup­
ply  will  be  cut  off.  How  can  smallpox 
be  checked  with  new  cases  coming in  at 
the  rate  of  five  thousand  a  day?  With 
the  flood-gates  shut  there  is  some  hope 
territory. 
of  reclaiming  the 
Until  that  is  done  the  rest  is  an 
impos­
sibility.

flooded 

Another  fact  which  ought  to  be looked 
full  in  the  face  is  that  those  immigrants 
who  are  not  and  never  can  be  good  ma­
terial  for  American  citizenship  should 
be  sent  back  in  short  order  where  they 
came  from.  Their  one 
idea  is  to  get 
the  living  which  they,  with  the  rest  of 
their class,  insist  the  world  owes  them. 
They  have  been  led  to  believe  that  the 
American  living  is better  and  they  have 
is  the 
come  here  to  demand 
“ land  of  the  free” — lunch— and  that 
is 
the  only  part  of  the  National  song  they 
care  to  or  intend  to sing. 
“ Free, “ to 
them,  is  only  another  word  for 
lawless­
ness,  an  idea  which  monarchy  has  fos­
tered  and  they  come  here  to  practice. 
to 
They  have  not  a  single  quality 
recommend  them.  Lazy,  they 
live  in 
dirt  and  filth  and  vermin  with  soft

it.  This 

water  all  about  them  and  toilet  soap  at 
a  cent  a  cake. 
Idle,  they  are  like  flies 
on  garbage  and  when  disturbed  will 
rise 
in  buzzing  swarms  to  settle  down 
again  on  the  same  or another  stench­
steaming 
swill-barrel— if  a  decaying, 
long-unburied  rat  does  not  invite  them 
to  a  daintier  feast.  For  decades  Havana 
was  the  pest-pool  of  yellow  fever. 
It 
was  a  menace  to  the  lands 
lying  along 
our  Southern  coast  and,  folding her arms 
in  despair,  that 
loveliest 
land  that  gladdens  those  summer  seas, 
resigned  herself  to  her  fate.  Havana 
to-day  is  no  longer the  pest-spot  of  the 
West  Indies  and  everybody  knows  why. 
The  remedy 
is  the  one 
needed  for  the  United  States;  and  un­
less  the  remedy  is  resorted  to,  the  exist­
ence  of  this  country  and  this  Govern­
ment  will  be  that  of  the  old 
life  o 
Havana  on  a  larger  scale.

for  Havana 

island,  the 

in 

hand. 

cleansing 

vigorously 

Thinned  out,  the  remainder should  be 
taken 
The 
Hawaiian  method  should  be  resorted  to 
for 
their  disease-bree’ding 
abodes.  They  should  be  compelled  to 
be  decent.  They  should  be  forced  to 
work  and  to  learn  to  read.  They  should 
be  made  to  understand  that  freedom 
means 
living  according  to  established 
law,  with  a  willingness  to  live  for  the 
country,  and  die  for  it  if  need  be. 
If 
they  be  found  amenable,  good;  if  not, 
straight  back  to  the 
land  that  bred 
them  should  they  be  sent  and  the  spot 
they  infested  fumigated  and  turned  over 
to  a  more  desirable  tenant.  This— or 
something  better—should  be  done,  and 
done  at  once.  Public  safety  demands  it 
and  the  authority  longer  neglecting 
its 
unquestioned  duty  does  so  at  its  own 
and  the  Nation’s  peril.

The  grocers  of  Springfield,  Mass.,  are 
facing  a  hard  proposition.  The  grocery 
clerks  of  that  city  recently  organized  a 
union  and  immediately  resorted  to  the 
usual  union  tactics  by  demanding  the 
recognition  of  the  union,  the  discharge 
of  all  non-union  help,  the  sale  of  union 
goods  exclusively  and  the  signing  of  an 
iron-clad  agreement  which  would  take 
the  management  of  every  store  out  of 
the  hands  of  the  owner  and  transfer  it 
to  the  walking  delegate.  The  grocers 
very  naturally  revolted  and  war  has 
been  declared  by  the  union,  whose  de­
mands  are  supported  by  all  the  other 
unions  of  the  city.  Some  of  the  grocers 
have  signed  the  agreement  and  those 
who  refuse  to  do  so  have  been placed  on 
the  boycotted  list  by  the  trades  unions. 
The  walking  delegates  assert  that  they 
will  ruin  the  business  of  any  merchant 
who  does  not  acceed  to  their  demands. 
The  usual  result 
in  such  cases  is  that 
the  boycotted  institution  thrives,  while 
the  union  concern  goes  broke  because 
of  the  burdens  laid  on  it  by  the  unions.

trade. 

If  it  is  a  fact  that  the  sugar  fight  is  at 
an  end— and  all  the  indications  point 
to  that  conclusion— there  is  occasion  for 
rejoicing  on  the  part  of  both  the  whole­
sale  and  retail  grocery 
The 
wholesale  grocer  has  been  compelled  to 
handle  sugars  on  greatly  reduced  mar­
gins  ever  since  the  sugar  war  started 
and  the 
independent 
sugars  has  demoralized  the  sale  of  sug­
ars  at  retail  to  a  considerable  extent. 
If  the  cessation  of  hostilities  is  accom­
panied  by  the  restoration of  the  equality 
plan,  there  will  be  additional  cause  for 
rejoicing.  ______________

introduction  of 

There  were  no  “ William  T e ll,”   no 
“ Barbara 
“ Sheridan’s 
Frietche;”   but 
there  was  a  George 
Washington  once,  and  he  should  not  be 
forgotten.

R id e,”   no 

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0

GRAVES GREEN  AND  HOLY.

lover,  home-borne 

The  Nation  to-day  will  give  herself 
up  to  tears.  From  sunrise  to  sunset  she 
will  pass  from  grave  to  grave  and  she 
will  place  with  reverent  hands above her 
cherished  dead  the  sweetest  blossoms  to 
be  found  in  field  and  garden.  She  will 
not  go  alone.  Men  bent  with  age  and 
lame  with  wounds  will 
follow  her on 
crutches  and  while  she  hangs  the  mar­
ble  shaft  and  the  humbler  stone  with 
garlands  will  tell  the  thrilling  story  how 
the  brave  sleepers  died.  Women  with 
grief  which  even  love  of  country  can not 
lighten  will  strew  from  brimming  bas­
kets  the  “ graves  green  and  holy’ ’ where 
husband,  son  or 
in 
his  country’s 
flag,  lay  down  to  rest. 
Young  men  and women,fresh-lipped and 
beautiful  as  the  fair  May  morning,  will 
join  the  countless  throng  and,  standing 
at  these  green  graves,  the  altars  of  their 
native  land,  their  hearts  throbbing  with 
purposes  unknown  before,  will  conse­
crate  themselves  to  preserve  unstained 
and  unimpaired  the  priceless  legacy  for 
which  their  fathers  died.  Childhood, 
strangely  silent  and  clinging  to  parental 
finger  and  gown,  will  be  stirred  by 
bugle-blare  and  drum-beat  and  will 
plead  with  outstretched  hands  for  blos­
soms  to  scatter  above  the  heroes  at  their 
feet.  The  winds  will  whisper  all  day 
long 
the  dead  men’s  nam es;  in  city, 
town  and  country  graveyard  the  flag 
they  died  for  will  wave  above  them 
from  reveille  to  tattoo,  and  memory,  in 
the  twilight  aglow  with  the  deeds  these 
men  have  done,  will  sit  by  their  low 
green  tents 
long  after  the  stars  with 
lighted  tapers  shall  have  come  to  guard 
“ the  bivouac  of  the  dead.’ ’

’76  told  -by 

How  all  that  is  sacred  in  the  storied 
past  centers  around  this  d a y !  To  those 
whose  heads  are  white  come  back  the 
stories  of 
lips  older  than 
theirs  are  now.  The  old  musket  or  the 
rusty  sword  that  father’s  gran’ther  car­
ried  has  been  the  stirring theme of many 
a  winter  night  since  it  has  hung  above 
the  mantel.  From  that  old  gun  was 
“ fired  the  shot heard  ’round the  world. ”  
It  stood  its  ground  at  Bunker  Hill. 
It 
crossed  the  Delaware  and  wintered  at 
Valiev  Forge.  It  played  its  part  at  Sar­
atoga  and  saw  the  surrender  at  York- 
town,  the  boast  of 
its  bearer  and  the 
pride  of  sons  unborn.

War  came  again,  and  mother  and 
maid  again  sent  out  all  that  was  best 
and  dearest  for  the  country’s  good.  The 
white  haired  regiment  remains  to  tell  of 
the  determined  foe  and the  shock  of  war 
and  the  dead-covered  battlefield.  Earth 
never  saw  before, and  may  she  never  see 
again,  a  war  like  that.  From  ocean  to 
ocean  brother  fought  with  brother  and 
when  men  fell  they  of  their  own  house­
hold  killed  them.  They  were  heroes, 
though.  Lexington  and  Concord  and 
Bunker  H ill  were  not  disgraced 
at 
Shiloh.  Antietam  and  Gettysburg  and 
the  powder  horn  and  flintlock  which had 
won  the 
independence  of  the  colonies 
found  proud  companionship  with  rifle 
loyal  hearts  and 
and  canteen  which 
conquering  hands  brought  back 
from 
Appomattox.

It  needed  one  war  more  to  place  our 
native  land,  so  won  and  so  preserved, 
in  the  van  of  nations. 
It  came.  Out 
in  the .  East  where  the  new  day  begins 
and  down  where  the  gem  of  the  Antilles 
brightens  the  waters  of  the  Spanish 
the  cry  of  helpless 
main  there  came 
servitude.  The  pleading  was  not 
in 
vain.  A  word,  a  warning  and  a  blow 
and  the  tyranny  of  centuries  was  over. 
For  a  second  time  an  army  of  the  Old 
World  was  driven  from  the  New,  beaten

*>  I  >

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!  f

and humiliated,  and the  Republic,known 
and  acknowledged  as  a  power,  a  leader 
is  first  and  best  in  life  and 
in  all  that 
living,  reigns  an  uncrowned  queen 
in 
the 
liberty,  loving  hearts  of  mankind. 
There  were  white  cheeks  and  quivering 
lips  when  there  came  the  call  for  men, 
but  not  a  faltering  heart.  Firm  as  the 
hills  that  had  reared  them,  the  boys  in 
blue,  mother-kissed,  with  the  same  look 
on  their  faces  their  fathers  wore  in 
’61, 
went  out  to  fight. 
“ Come  home  with 
your  shields  or  on 
them !”   was  the 
father’s  parting  as  they  marched  away. 
They  did.  They  fought  as  men  always 
fight.  They  came  home 
conquerors. 
Some  died.  There  are  tears  in  many  a 
home 
form 
which  will  be  seen  on  earth  no  more. 
The  grave  green  and  holy  out  there  on 
the  hillside 
is  the  altar  whose  vestal 
fire,  memory-kept,  shall  never  go  out. 
The  sleeper came  home, not  bringing  his 
shield  but  on  it,  and  while  he sleeps  the 
sleep  that  knows  no waking,  his shield— 
the  pledge  of  his  patriotism— is  placed 
by  the  same  earnest  hands  that  tenderly 
bound  his  sash  with  the  musket  and  the 
rifle  which  his  great  grandfather  and 
father 
inheri­
tance  to  those  who  bear  their  name.

the  manly 

face  and 

precious 

as  a 

left 

for 

joy  that  hers 

Through  the  tears she  sheds to-day  the 
Nation  will  see  these  sacred  relics.  She 
will  grieve  for  the  heroes— her  heroes— 
but,  twining  these  mementos  of  noble 
deeds  with  the  choicest  blossoms  that 
the  springtime  brings,  she  rejoices  with 
exceeding  great 
is  the 
grateful  privilege  to  offer  the  grandest 
pledges  of  undying  love  and  devotion of 
self  to  country  which  patriotism  has 
ever  received.  She  knows  the  whole  of 
the  past’s  endearing  story,  but 
she 
points  to  her  own  proud page— the glow­
ing  record  of  only a hundred years— with 
a  jubilant  “ See  here!  There  are  Mar­
athon  and  Leuctra,  but  what  are  they? 
There 
is  the  plain  of  Tours  and  the 
is  he? 
hammering  Martel,  but  what 
There 
field  of 
Naseby  with  his  foot  upon  monarchy 
dethroned;  there  is  Arnold  von  Winkel- 
ried  gathering  to  his  breast  the  sheaf  of 
victorious  spears,  but  what 
is  he,  and 
what  are  they  all  when  compared  with 
my  boys,  living  and  dead,  whose  un­
dying  deeds  I  embalm  with  these loving 
remembrances  this  glorious  Memorial 
D a y !”

is  Cromwell  on 

the 

The  sun’s  march  to-day  is  a  trium­
it  be  from  grave  to 
phal  one,  although 
grave. 
Its  radiant  banner  is  greeted  in 
the  birthplace  of  the  morning  by  the 
flag-marked  resting-place  of  the  Amer­
ican  soldier.  The  waves  of  the  Atlan­
tic,  glad  to-day  as  when,obedient  to  the 
commands  of  the  American  sailor,  they 
sunk the Seraphis, rejoice  at  his  coming. 
The  spire  of  the  old  North  Church, 
catching  the  first  red  glimmer  from  the 
beacon  on  Bunker  Hill,  flashes  the  ex­
pected  signal  and  the  echoes  of  Boston 
Bay  are  shouting,  “ Yankee  Doodle.’ ’ 
“ We  have  met  the  enemy  and  they  are 
ours,’ ’  call  out  the  exultant  ripples  of 
Lake  Erie  and  the  dying  pean  gives 
way to  “ John  Brown’s  body  lies  mould­
ering  in  the  grave.’ ’  With  arms  re­
versed  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Republic 
marches  westward,  not  a  grave  un­
marked nor unvisited,  and  on  the  shores 
of  the  Golden  Gate  they  send  greeting 
to  Hawaii,  who,  firing  her  sunset  guns 
into  the  western  twilight where the day’s 
march 
innumerable 
throng  of  the  Great  Republic  encircling 
the  world  and  singing,

ends, 

joins 

the 

“My country, ’tis of thee!”

Aguinaldo  may  be  a  good  soldier; 

but  he  has  never been  caught  at  it.

THE  FOUNDATION  FACT.

Tradition 

friend  admiring  her 

is  not  yet  tired  of  telling 
the  story  of  the  mother’s  indignation 
three 
when  a 
is 
months’  old  baby  remarked,  “ He 
really  beginning  to  notice  the 
light.”  
Transferred 
from  the  home  to  the  Na­
tion,  the  same  righteous  wrath  is  felt, 
and  expressed,  when  the  Englishman 
solemnly  declares  that  the  American 
workman,  especially  in  the  line  of  ma­
chinery,  shows  signs  of  marked 
intelli­
gence.  Thankful 
for  this  concession 
and  curious  to  see  what  the  man  is driv­
ing  at,  it  is  pleasant  to  find  that  he  has 
reached  the 
fact  of  differ­
ence  between  the  old  Anglo-Saxon  and 
the  new  and  that  the 
latter  structure 
resting  upon  that  foundation reveals this 
difference  in  every  form  of  its  develop­
ment.

foundation 

The  English 

farm  hand,  known  and 
liked  at  home,  is  turned  loose  in  the 
American  fields  and  stands  helpless. 
He  may  miss  the  English  hedge  bright 
with  blossom  and  sweet  with  fragrance, 
the  grass  may  be  heavier  in  the  British 
meadows  and  so  harder  to  cut,  the 
is  the  implement  his  stout  hand 
scythe 
is  used  to  and  he 
fears  to  tackle  the 
mowing  machine.  Cultivators  and  horse 
rakes  are  all  right,  but  how  is  he  to  use 
them?  and 
in  the  midst  of  plenty  he 
stands  perplexed.  He  does  not  know 
what  to  do.  He 
looks  at  the  machine 
and  at  the  work  he  is  to  do  with  it  and 
scratches  his  head.  No  modern  Saxon 
this  side  of  the  Atlantic  does  that. 
If 
the  machine  was  made  to  go  and  there 
is  a  seat  on  it  he  climbs 
into  the  seat 
and  takes  up  the  reins.  That  may  be 
his 
last  ride  and  it  may  go  straight  to 
Kingdom  Come,  but  his  hat  is  tipped 
upon  one  side  and,  indifferent  to  con­
sequences,  he  starts  off.  His  seat  is  un­
certain  but  he  clings  to  it.  The  end  of 
the  swath 
is  distant  but  he  gets  there. 
The  blanked  machine  cuts  up  like  the 
Somebody  or  other  but  the  man  con­
quers  it. 
It  is  a  regular  tussle  of  mind 
with  matter  for  the  first  fifteen  minutes, 
if  not  for  all  day,  but  to  the  question  at 
night,  “ How’d  you  get  on?”   the  cheer­
ful,  “ All  right”   is  the  expected  answer 
and  nothing  more  is  said  or  thought  of 
the  day’s  experiences.  There  has  been 
mind  enough,  and  a  trained  one  at that, 
to  adapt  itself  to  the  unusual,  the  pecul­
iarity  which  makes  the  American  the 
superior.

Because  this  part  of  creation  does  not 
to  have  regiments  of  well-built 
care 
manhood  stand  holding  a  gun 
for  the 
rest  of  the  Nation  to  support  and  insists 
that,  with  the  weapon  of  warfare handy, 
the  citizen  soldier  shall  support himself, 
the  crowned  imbecility  on  the  other side 
concluded  that  the  ignominious  Yankee 
could  whittle  and  swap  horses  but  could 
not  fight.  Spain,  with  the  courage  of 
her  convictions,  was  woefully  worsted 
when  she  put  the  matter  to  the  test; 
but  Spain’s  thinking  was  Europe’s 
thinking,  and  the  most  amusing  feature 
of  that  onesided  war  was  the  expression 
on  the  faces  of  Spain’s  royal  brothers 
and  sisters  when  they  waited  for  Spain 
to  come  out  of  the  fight  at  Manila  and 
found  out  why  she  did  not 
when  they 
“ Donnerwetter!”   growled  the 
come! 
Kaiser 
in  his  deepest  gutteral  as  he 
glared  at  the  paper  that  told  him  the 
terrible  story;  and  “ Donnerwetter!”  
answered  the  echoes  from  as  many  d i­
rections  as  there  are  dialects.  When 
the  surprise  was  over  and  astonished 
Europe  had  time  to think,she found  that 
mechanical  discipline  is  one  thing,  that 
reliance  upon 
individual  training  and 
is  quite  another  and  that
intelligence 

the  American  soldier,  with  the  thinking 
cap  on  which  he  never 
lays  aside,  is 
ready  for  “ Fire  when  you  get  ready!”  
which  no  other  general  on  the  face  of 
the  earth  except  the  American  would 
think  of  saying  to  a  subordinate.  It was 
the  American  mind  behind  the  gun,  not 
the  Spanish  machine  behind  it,  that  did 
the  business,  and,  with  that  there,  the 
man  can  whittle  and  swap  horses  until 
bugle  call  and  then  have  time  enough 
to  sink  the  ships  of  the  enemy.

This  same  adaptability  shows  itself in 
trade.  There  is  no  careful  sitting  down 
with  the  American  drummer and a  pain­
ful  going  over  with  the  what  and  the 
how  of  business  details. 
“ Can  you  sell 
goods?”  
“ You  bet!”   That  is  all  and 
the  drummer 
in  his  own  way  with  his 
own  wits  works  out  his  own  salvation. 
There  is  no  doubt  that  many  times if he 
knew  more  he  could  more  easily  accom­
plish  his  purpose,  but,  with  the  Na­
tional  mind  and  the  National  character­
istics,  there  is  an  inborn  “ know  how”  
that  inspires  him  and  makes  him  ready 
for  the  unexpected  with  an  intense  de­
If 
sire  to  grapple  with 
it  downs 
him,  good. 
it,  that  is  a 
part  of  the  business  to  brag  over  until 
the  next  chance  comes. 
It  is  only  an­
in  another  way  of  the 
other 
foundation 
fact  which  is  getting  to  be 
more  and  more  acknowledged,  that  the 
common  American—and  that  means  all 
of  them  -and  the  common  Englishman 
in  this,  that  the  American 
are  unlike 
has  a  mind  and  uses 
it  and  the  Eng­
lishman  has  one  which  somebody  else 
directs;  and  the self-used article  behind 
the  plow,  the  gun  and  the  bargain  is 
why  the  American  Nation  is  ahead.

it. 
If  he  downs 

instance 

industry 

The  petroleum 

in  Japan  is 
developing  rapidly,  and  the  Echigo  oil 
wells  have  received  an  impetus  on  ac­
count  of  the  opening  of  the  Hoko  Etsu 
Railway,which  enables  the  producers  to 
send  the  petroleum  direct  to  Tokio  and 
Osaka.  A  large  amount  of .piping  to  be 
used  at  these  wells  has  been  ordered 
from  the  United  States  and  Europe,  and 
the 
industry  is  apparently  in  a  promis­
ing  condition.  The  number of  gallons 
of  kerosene  imported  into  Japan  in  1899 
was  considerably  less  than 
in  1898,  the 
imports  from  the  United  States  and  the 
Dutch  Indies 
in  particular  showing  a 
decrease,  while  the  amount  procured 
from  Russian  Asia  was  greater  than 
in 
the  previous  year.

.  The  Akron  pottery  workmen  are  out 
on  strike.  This  gives  the  manufactur­
ers  in  a  dull  time  opportunity  to  reduce 
expenses  and  work  off  old  stock  at  bet­
ter  prices,  instead  of  paying good wages 
all  summer  to  men  who  are  not  anxious 
to  work.

Consul-General  Winslow,  at  Stock­
holm,  informs  the  State  Department  at 
Washington  that  in  a  recent 
inspection 
of  pork  by  the  Health  Department  in 
that  city  all  pork  of  American  origin 
was  found  healthy.

There  is nothing  too  good  for  the  cus­
tomer  who  pays  his  grocery  bills ;  but 
the  dead  beat  is  generally  most  extrav­
agant  in  his  purchases.

The  working  man  who  will  not  work 
when  ordered  by  walking  delegates  to 
be 
idle  can  consider  himself  a  self- 
elected  slave.

The  man  who  drinks  beyond  his  sal­
in  a  way  to  have  his  salary  re­

ary 
is 
duced.

The  successful  merchant  is  a  tireless 

worker.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

IO

Dry Poods

The  Dry  Goods  Market.

Staple  Cottons— There  has  been  a 
moderate  demand  for  coarse  colored cot­
tons,  although  there  is  considerable  ir­
regularity  shown  in  spots.  For instance, 
denims,  in  spite  of  their  recent  strength 
and  present  scarcity,  are  reported  as 
unsteady.  Ticks  and  cheviots  are  slow, 
but  held  firm.  Bleached  goods  are  quiet 
in  all  directions.  Prices  are  firm,  and 
buyers  are  making  careful  enquiries 
here  and  there,  which  seems  to  show 
that  they  are  preparing  to  place  orders.
Prints  and Ginghams— There  is  a  bet­
ter  business  in  progress in staple printed 
goods  than  for  the  past  two  or  three 
weeks  and  a  fair  amount  of reordering is 
under  way. 
In  some  cases  large  quan­
tities  are  said  to  have  been  contracted 
for,  although  the  sellers  are  reticent 
about  giving  the  details  of  the  transac­
tions. 
is  no  question  about 
prices,  either  for  goods  for  immediate 
delivery, or  for  the  fall.  Light  weights 
are  becoming  pretty  well  cleaned  up, 
and  such  goods  as  remain  on  hand  are 
moving  easily,  although  in  small  quan­
tities,  and  sellers  are  easy  to  deal  with. 
There  is  comparatively  little  left,  how­
ever,  to  dispose  of.  Dark  goods,  per­
cales, 
flannelettes,  domets  and  other 
woven  patterned  napped  lines  have  sold 
well 
for  fall,  although  at  the  present 
writing  business  is  rather quiet.  Stocks 
of  ginghams  are  small  and  both  staples 
and  dress  styles  are  steady  and  quiet  in 
demand.

There 

Cotton  Linings— Show  a  quiet  busi­
immediate  consumption,  with 
ness  for 
hardly  enough  to  take  care  of  the  sup­
plies  coming  to  hand.  This  makes  the 
market  easy  for  buyers.  Silesias  are 
showing  a  decline  from  top  prices  of 
one-fourth  to  one-half  of  a  cent  a  yard, 
both  for  stock  business  and  for  futures. 
Kid  finished  cambrics  are  quiet,  only  a 
few  orders  coming  to  hand  at  the  pres­
ent  time,  and  these  are  for  small  quan­
tities.  Mercerized and similarly  finished 
camhrics  have  been  in  good  request,  al­
though  in  blacks  and  colors.  The  cloth­
ing  trade  has  continued  doing  a  small 
business.  The  market  is  barely  steady 
in  several  directions.

it 

Dress  Goods—While 

the  events  of 
the  past  week  do  not  bring  to  light  any 
enlivening  features,there  has  been  noth­
ing  in  the  developments  to  cause  one  to 
alter  his  confidence 
in  the  position  of 
the  market.  The  market  continues  in  a 
waiting  position.  There  is  a  small busi­
ness  under  way,  both  on 
light  and 
heavyweights,  but 
is  not  worthy  of 
much  mention.  The jobber is  not  pick­
ing  up  goods  in  any  quantity,  for  the 
reason  that  he  desires  to  lighten  stocks 
now  in  hand  before  providing  ahead  for 
future  requirements.  The  retailer 
is 
pursuing  a  similar  course.  At  the mills 
all  is  activity;  with  many  mills  it is not 
easy  to  keep  up  with  delivery  require­
ments,  even  although  their  full  comple­
ment  of  machinery  is  running more than 
the  regular  scheduled  time.  The  do­
mestic  manufacturer  has  every  reason 
to  feel  satisfied  with  the  plain  goods 
market.  The  foreign  manufacturer  has 
done  a  very  fair  business  on  high-class 
novelties  and  fine  piece  dyes.  The  av­
erage  plain  goods  manufacturer  can 
afford  to bide  the development  of  the  re­
peat  order business,  owing  to  the  orders 
in  hand  for  Venetians,  cashmeres, 
now 
broadcloths,  homespun,  serges,  etc. 
In 
some 
instances  agents  profess  to  see 
signs  of  an  improved interest in fancies, 
especially  on  the  part  of  the  Western

to  begin,  and 

trade. 
It  must  be  remarked,  however, 
that  these  signs  of  increased interest are 
not  yet  of  a  very  positive  nature.  But 
here’s  hoping  for  the  sake  of  the  fancy 
goods  manufacturer.
Knit  Goods— In 

the  heavyweight 
branch  of  the  knit  goods  industry  man­
ufacturers  are  busy  turning  out  the 
It  is  early  for  the 
goods  under  orders. 
duplicate  season 
the 
chances  are  that  the  number  of  reorders 
placed  will  be  small  in  volume.  A  large 
majority  of  the  mills  have  had  enough 
goods  ordered  during  the  preliminary 
season  to  keep  their  mills  busy 
for 
months  to  come,  and  hence  would  not 
be  able  to  receive  duplicate  orders  to 
any  great  extent. 
It  will  be  interesting 
to  note  whether  there  will  be  any  ad­
vance  to  speak  of  in  fleece  goods.  The 
rumors  that  there  will  be  a  weakness 
can  not  as  yet  be  substantiated,  but  _ 
there 
is  a  belief  among  many  jobbers 
and  agents  that  there  is  likely  to  be  a 
slight  break,  and  this  belief  has  been 
somewhat  heightened  by 
recent 
in  wool  and  the  belief  that 
weakness 
the  demand  for  fleece  goods  was  not  as 
great  as  anticipated. 
is  also  said 
that  there  are  a  number  of  fleece  goods 
manufacturers  who  are  willing  to  take 
orders  at  prices  lower  than  those  estab­
lished  by  the  association.

the 

It 

Hosiery— Seamless  cotton  hosiery 

is 
having  a  very  large  run.  Enough  orders 
have  been  booked,  it 
is  said,  to  keep 
the  mill  that  manufactures  this line busy 
until  the  fall.  Prices  are  very  firm,  and 
are 
liable  to  remain  so.  The  demand 
for  mercerized hosiery  is  also very great. 
This  line  of  goods  is  one  line  that  finds 
more  favor 
in  the  domestic  make  than 
it  does  in  the  foreign.  The  patterns  are 
more  quiet  than  those  of last year.  Solid 
colors  with  polka  dots,  large  or  small, 
are 
in  great  demand  in  both  women’s 
and  men’s  hosiery.  Wool  and  worsted 
hosiery 
in  a  satisfactory  condition. 
Prices  are  firm,  and  enough  orders  are 
at  the  mills  to  keep  them  busy  until 
next  year.  Fleece  hosiery,  on  the  other 
hand,  is  quiet.

is 

Carpets— The  condition  of  the  market 
is  still  firm  with  no  indication  of  a  re­
duction 
in  price.  The  manufacturers 
last  season  supplied a very  large  amount 
of  carpets  but  at  unremunerative  prices, 
but  now  that  the  raw  material  and  yarn 
are  at  such  a  high  figure,  the  buyers 
must  expect  to  pay  more for their goods. 
Those  who  entertain 
ideas  to  the  con­
trary  will  do  well  to  fook  into  the  mat­
ter  and  they  will  see  that  all  conditions 
not  only  warrant  an  advance  but  com­
pel 
it.  Owing  to  the  backward  retail 
trade  which  has  continued  to  prevail, 
the  fall  opening  will  necessarily  be later 
than  usual,  which,  under  the  circum­
stances,  however,  will  be  better  for  the 
trade. 

____
is  the  name  of  a 
Chicago  restaurant  conducted  on  Bible 
Its  proprietor  is  a reformed 
principles. 
drunkard,  and  he 
is  making  a  success 
of  his  novel  enterprise.  He  has  deco­
rated  his  walls  with  scriptural  quota­
tions,  holds  gospel  meetings  on  Satur­
day  evenings,  and  closes  the  place  on 
Sundays.  The  bill  of  fare  bears  famil­
iar  texts.

“ The  Christian”  

____  

A  growing  demand 

for  California 
prunes 
is  reported  from  France,  where 
ihe  excellence  of  the  American articlq is 
recognized.  But  owing  to  the  lightness 
of  the  wood  employed  for  boxing a large 
percentage  of  a  recent  shipment  was 
lost.  The  United  States  Consul  at 
Nantes  calls  attention  to  the  need  of 
guarding  against  this  trouble  in  the  fu­
ture.

Duck  Coats

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

The  Ideal Clothing Company

Grand Rapids,  Michigan.

Qrain  Bags

16 ounce  Stark.

16 ounce  Sherman.

16 ounce  American.

14 ounce  Hermitage.

12 ounce Phawhatan.

Good time to buy now.  Write for prices.

P.  Steketee  &  Sons,  Wholesale  Dry  Goods

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan

A  NEW  L O T

of  shirt  waists 
just  received. 
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 E IM E R   &   C O ..

W H O LE 6A LE   DRY  G O O D S . 

G R A N D   R A PID S .  M IC H .

Solid  Comfort

Ladies',  Misses’, Children’s

Hose Supporters

Are

suspended

from
the

shoulders.

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

ivt ATIAMK C. F. SALISBURY, 

B attle  Creek,  Mich.

$

We carry a complete stock of 

Untrimmed I 
I
1

Straw 
Hats 

For  Ladles,  Misses  and  Children, from  ^  
$2.00  per  dozen  upwards.  We  are  also  W 
showing a large assortment  of  Ready-to-  9 
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

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

11

Clothing

Status  o f Neckwear,  Underwear  and  Hat 

Business.

The  retail  haberdashers  have  been 
disappointed  in  their  spring  business  so 
last  couple  of  weeks 
far,  although  the 
have  shown  some 
improvement.  Why 
the  spring  business  was  not  better  i  s 
one  of  those  things  that  no  man  can  tell 
absolutely ;  it  is  laid  to  various  causes, 
any  one  of  which  may  have  had  some 
effect,  or 
it  may  have  been  something 
entirely  different.  One  of  the  causes  to 
which  this  condition  is  ascribed,  and  it 
seems  to  be  fully  as  plausible  as  any,  is 
the  fact  that shapes in neckwear changed 
so  very 
little  during  the  past  two  sea­
sons,  but  even  this  would  not  have  had 
quite  as  much  effect,  we  believe,  as  we 
have  actually  seen. 
It  is  true  that  the 
shapes  for this  season  are practically the 
same  as  for  last  season,  the  only  differ­
ence  being  in  minor  details,  which  do 
not  affect  to  any  extent  the  general  pub­
lic.  The  person  who  buys  a  50  or  75 
cent  scarf  cares  very 
little  whether  the 
length  of  the  apron  or the  width  varies 
one-half 
inch  or  an  inch  or  none  at  all 
as  long  as  the  general  shape  suits  him,
is  safe  to  say  that  the  broad  end 
scarfs 
in  the  general  style  of  the  Eng­
lish  squares  will  have  the  biggest  sale 
large  shapes,  while,  of  course, 
of  the 
the  ties  will  be 
full  as  plenty  for the 
warm  weather  as 
in  past  seasons,  and 
the  batwing  shape,  with  either  square 
or  pointed  ends,will  have  the  call.  This 
is  not  only  our  own  opinion,  but  seems 
to  be  proven  by  the  purchases  that  the 
retailers  have  made,  and  also  by  what 
the  consumers  have  done  up  to  the  pres­
ent  time.  There  seems  to  be  an  increas­
ing  demand  for  narrow  ties  in  the  four- 
in-hand  shapes,  and  some  entirely  new 
styles  have 
introduced  rn 
consequence.

lately  been 

It 

The  Rumchundas  in  finest  grades  are 
going  to  be 
important  features  of  the 
warm  weather  business  this  year.  Some 
beautiful 
combinations  of  colors  are 
shown  in  these  goods  that  sell  at  $1  and 
over.  Cheap  “ Rumchundas”   are  not 
seen  in  anything  like  the  same  variety 
that  they  were  last  summer  and  the  sea­
son  before,  although 
they  are  plenty 
enough.

It 

is  confidently  expected  that  this 
style  of  scarf  will  be  actually  the  swell 
thing  for  this  season. 
In  these  Rum­
chundas,  the  patterns  largely  run  to  the 
small  squares,  one-quarter  or  three- 
eighths of an  inch  across  or  in  groups  of 
squares.  Some  polka  dots  are  seen,  but 
aside  from  these,  there  is  very  little  of 
interest  to  be found.  These Rumchundas 
are  in  ascots,  four-in-hands and  batwing 
bows.
¡^Stocks  of  all  kinds  are  to  be  seen  in 
the  haberdashers’  cases,  but  the  demand 
has  been  very  limited  to  date.  They, 
however,  will  undoubtedly  tell  a  differ­
ent  story  in  another  month.

In  all  lines  of  summer  underwear,  the 
retail  trade  has  been  very  quiet,  with 
the  exception  of  balbriggans,  and  of 
these  goods  they  can  not  get  enough. 
The  mills  have  been  pressed  on  every 
hand  to  turn  out  sufficient  quantities  to 
supply  their  regular  customers;  while  it 
is  a  fact  that  the  customers  of  many 
other  mills  have  applied  repeatedly  for 
balbriggan  underwear.  This  state  of 
affairs  seems  to  exist  for  all  grades.  A l­
most  anything  that 
is 
wanted,  and  wanted  quickly,  and  so  far 
the  supply  has  not  been  equal  to  the 
demand.  There 
is  also  a  growing  de­
mand  for  the  open  or  cellular  woven

is  balbriggan 

goods  on  account  of  the  comfort  and 
hygienic  qualities.

There 

is  a  somewhat  better  demand 
for  union  suits,  although 
is  taking 
time  for  the  public  to  become  educated 
to  these  garments.

it 

The  hat  trade,  while  not  a  complete 
disappointment,  is  still  far  behind  what 
was  expected  this  season.  Duplicate 
orders  have  been  coming  to  hand  very 
slowly,  and  they  drag  along  as  though 
the  season  were  to  be  a  long  one. 
It  is 
due  to  the  fact  that  considerable  stock 
was  carried  over  from 
last  season,  and 
the  merchants  not  only  wish  to  dispose 
of  this,  but  they  do  not  want  to  buy 
more  than 
is  absolutely  necessary  for 
this  «eason.  As  the  shapes  this  year 
show  quite  a  difference  from 
last  year, 
it 
is  only  wise  for  the  retailer  to  dis­
pose  of  the  old  goods  first,  and  as  soon 
as  that  is  done,  he  will  take  hold  of  the
new  and  fill  up  where  necessary.

can  be  done 

While  there  are  still  conflicting  opin­
ions  as  to  the  shapes  that  will  be  most 
popular,  it  does  not  seem  as  though  the 
most  radical  ranges that  some  manufac­
turers  introduced  will  secure  very  much 
popularity.  More 
in 
changing  the  styles  by  doing  it gradual­
ly  than  by  making  sudden  jumps.  Hats 
individuals 
that  have  been  imported by 
show  high  tapering  crowns,  and  this 
is 
indication  of  what  our  styles  will 
an 
probably  come  to.  Nevertheless, 
the 
American  people  do  not  adopt  a style  of 
that  kind,  except  by  easy  stages.  The 
sale  of  soft  hats  for  this  spring  has been 
quite  good,  both  for  the  regular  alpine 
shape  and  for the  low  crowns.

The  salesmen  are  now  well  on  the 
road  with  their  fall  samples,  but  as  yet 
it 
is  too  early  to  determine  what  this 
season  will  bring  forth.  There  will  be 
but  little  change  in  the  prices  from  the 
last  season,  because  the  raw  materials 
have  stayed  in  about  the same condition 
as  to  pi-ices.  All  shapes  and  styles  of 
derbys  and  soft  hats  are  being  shown  ; 
the  manufacturers,  however,  have  taken 
the  spring  tendencies  to  go  by,  and  are 
not  showing  very  much  that  could  be 
called  extreme.  A  little  later  some  spe­
cials  will  be  brought  out.  Most  of  the 
manufacturers  believe 
to 
the  rather  low  flat 
crowns,  although 
some  ventures  are  made  on  the  higher 
styles,  that  seem  to  be  in  demand  with 
the  more  exclusive  hatters.

in  sticking 

They  have 

If  we  have  a  good,  warm  summer,  the 
straw  hat  business  will  beat  its  record. 
Last  season  went  far  beyond  expecta­
tions,  and  very  few  retailers  carried  a 
single  hat  over. 
been 
obliged  to  order  more 
liberally  than 
usual  on  this  account,  having  no  stock 
whatever  to  fall  back  upon,  and  this 
means  that  if  the  business  is  up  to  the 
average  this  year,  their  sales  of  this 
year’s  styles  will  be  larger than  ever. 
The  retailers  have  all  got  their goods, 
or  at 
least  enough  of  them  to  open  up 
with.  Many  of  the  manufacturers  have 
filled  their  orders  completely,  and  are 
waiting  now  for  the  reorders.  There 
will  be  very  little  that  is  absolutely  new 
this  season  in  straws,  most  of  the  man­
ufacturers  sticking  to  the 
that 
were  popular  last  summer.  The  brims 
will  be  a  little  narrower,  and  the  crowns 
a  little  lower  for  those  who  are 
fastid­
ious,  but  that 
is  practically  the  only 
change.  The  alpine  straw  which  was 
placed  on  the  market  last  summer  by 
one  or  two  has  been  adopted  by  a  num­
ber  of  manufacturers  this  year,  and  a 
great  deal  is  expected  of  it.

lines 

The  golden  opportunities  of  the futui 
may  vanish,  but  the  present  is  yours  t 
utilize  to  advantage.

The Willard K. Bush Co.,

Lansing,  Michigan.

Makers of the “W. K. B.” Brand of Pants, 
Overalls,  Jackets,  Shirts,  Duck  Coats.

Special  garments  to  order.  Direct  from 
factory.  “Uneeda" stock of our goods to in­
crease your business. 
It  will be to your  in­
terest to  write  to  us.  You  will  always  re­
ceive a  prompt  and  courteous  reply.  Mail 
orders given  prompt  attention.  Our  mail 
order department  is a  special  feature  with 
us.  Terms  and  discounts  on  application.

Mention  Michigan  Tradesman.

R  Record  Breaker

Is  the  black  Clay  Worsted  heavy  weight  suit  which  we  are 

offering  at

Write  for  sample  to  convince yourself  that  nothing  has  been  of­

Would you like 
to see our complete 
line?
If so, drop us a 
postal.

fered  to you  like  it  for  such  money.
m .w iu

for  Men,  B oys 

a n d   C h ild ren .

Buffalo,  N.  Y.

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“  Better  Quality fo r  Less  M oney."

If  It’s Good  Trade You’re  After

It’s  “ H.  Bros.  Correct Clothes ”  you want.
Lookers  become buyers  and  buyers  steady 
customers. 
It’s  a  sure  case  of  making 
friends and  money  at  the  same  time.  Our 
fall  line  is  now  ready— it  will  pay  you  to 
look  it over. 
It’s clean and  right  from  start 
to finish,  not  a dead one  in the lot.

Men’s fall  overcoats  from  $3.75  to  $16

In long, medium  and  short  box  styles,  in 
Kerseys,  Coverts,  Oxfords  and  Vicunas; 
also, close fitting  Kerseys.
Men’s fall suits from $3.75 to $14

In  Cheviots,  smooth  finish  Cassimeres,
Oxfords, fine fancy  Worsted,  and  nobby ef­
fects  in  rough goods.
For boys

The line  is unusually choice and complete, 
in three-piece  Suits,  Children’s  Vestee  and 
Double  Breasted  School  Suits,  etc.
Dealers

From  Maine  to  California  buy  of  us  and 
make  money  on  their  purchases,  a  point 
that  Michigan  trade  will  appreciate.  Our 
salesmen are now out and will  be pleased to 
call by appointment.

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Shoes  and  Leather

Furnishing  a  Store  and  A rranging  the 

Stock.

Taking 

for  granted  that  we  have  se­
lected  a  store  of  suitable  size  and 
loca­
tion,  let  us 
look  first  to  the  shelving. 
Commencing  at  the  floor,  have  a  base­
board  of  5 
inches,  then  a  panel  of  n  
inches.  Above  this  have  drawers  of  15X 
14 
inches  front  by  30  inches  long,  with 
bronze  drawer  pulls  which  have  a slot  to 
hold  the  label  explaining  what it in each 
drawer.  Have  these  drawers  extend 
liack  about  three-fourths  the  length  of 
the  store  while 
in  the  other  quarter  I 
would  have  shelves.

Above 

the  drawers  have  a 

ledge 
about  34  inches  from  floor  and  18  inches 
wide,  a  good  height  for  tall  or  short, 
and plenty of  room  for displaying  goods. 
ledge  commence  with  our 
On  this 
shelves.  These  should  be  12 
inches 
inches  apart,  just 
wide  and  about  7 
room  enough  for  two  tiers  of  ladies'  car­
tons.  Have 
seven  of  these 
shelves ; as  that  brings  the  top  shelves 
within  easy  reach  with  the  aid  of  small 
ladders  that  reach  from  floor  to  ledge. 
They  are  light  and  can  be  carried  about 
easily.

about 

For  men’s  shelves  have  12 inch boards 
inches  apart  and  five  or  six  shelves 
9 
ladies’ 
high— about 
shelves, 
for 
ladies'  goods  and  the  other  for  men’s 
goods.

this  gives  us  one  side 

saime  height  as 

In  front  of  store  have  a  small  case 
with  four  drawers  on  one  side  and  pan­
els  on  the  others.  On  this  table  have  a 
glass  case  suitable  for  displaying  fancy 
slippers,  infants’  soft-soles,  etc.  Back 
of  this  case  have  a  double  settee  made 
of 
light  quartered  oak,  polished,  the 
seats  upholstered  with  red  plush.

feet 

This  brings  us  to  the  center  of  the 
store.  Have  here  a  small table or counter 
about  5 
long  by  26  inches  wide. 
This  will  hold  your  cash  register,  paper 
and  twine  and,  being 
in  the  center  of 
store,  would  make 
it  handy  to  tie  up 
bundles  and  make  change.  Back  of  this 
have  another  settee  same as above.  This 
leaves  a  little  floor  space,  say  just  about 
enough  to  have  a  case  5  or  6  feet  square 
and  4  feet  high.  This  case  could  have 
drawers  on  both  sides  and  lots  of  room 
on  top.

Now  the  show  windows.  These  of 
course  would  be  about  as  they  were 
built,  unless  one  changed  front  to  suit 
his  taste,  but  .the  inside  I  would  paint 
white,  have  a  mirrow  on  the  side,  place 
pretty  drapery 
in  the  background  and 
use  brass  display  rods,  clips,  nickel 
and  glass  stands,  etc.

In  the  store  proper  I  would  have  a 
steel  ceiling  if  possible,  if  not  I  would 
have  it  pure  white  and  the  walls  tinted. 
The  shelves  and  woodwork  I  would 
have grained  light,  for  it wears  well  and 
is  much  easier  to  keep  clean,  and  goes 
well  with  oak  settees,  etc.  The  ledge  I 
would  have  either  oak,  or  some  other 
wood  polished  a  mahogany  shade ;  the 
trimmings  same  as  ledge.  I should  have 
the  best 
lights  that  the  place  could 
give,  and  have  enough  of  them  to  make 
the  store  bright  and  cheery.  We  have 
some 
idea  now  of  how  store  would  be 
arranged.  Let  us  look  at  the  next  part.
For  quick  selling,  not  so  much  to 
for  fixing  up,  but  for  sell­

spend  time 
ing  shoes  quickly.

In  front  of  store  I  should  commence 
in  first  section  with  best  boots first,  hav­
ing  the  section  just  wide  enough  to hold 
s^ven 
ladies’  cartons;  two  tiers  high  of 
course,  putting  sizes  together,  that  is,

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

commencing  at  top  put  all  the  2s  to­
gether,  A,  B  and  C,  etc.,  so  on  down 
through  the  section. 
These  sections 
will  hold  a  few  pairs  over  all  sizes  and 
widths  in  lace  and  button,  so  this  would 
give 
it  to  us  right  in  a  small  area  as  to 
width,  just  what  we  need  in  that  one 
shoe.  Follow  this  up  until  we  com­
mence  on  ladies’  oxfords  and  slippers, 
putting  these  the  same  as  boots.

In  the  rear  of  ladies’  side  put  misses’ 
in  rear  of 
and  children’s  goods,  and 
little 
men’s  side  boys’,  youths’  and 
gents’  goods,  also  men’s  slippers.  That 
will  about  fill  up  the  shelves.  Now  in 
the  drawers  on  men’s  side  put  bulk 
rubbers  and  leggins,  etc.,  in  rear  have 
the  shelves  beneath  the  ledge  for  men’s 
carton  rubbers.  On 
ladies’  side  use 
the  drawers  for 
ladies’  carton  rubber 
goods.  They  would  hold  twenty-four 
pairs,  also  for  misses’  and  children’s 
rubbers,  arctics,  etc. 
In  the  slot  of 
each  drawer-pull  have  the  label explain­
ing  contents  of  drawer.  On  our  table 
in  the  rear  we  would  put  goods  that  we 
find  do  not  go  very  well,  thus  keep­
ing  them  before  us  all  the time.

In  drawers  of  the  case  which  we  have 
in  front  of  the  store  we  could  have shoe­
strings,  soles,  button  hooks,  etc.

As  for  stock  cartons  all  labeled  the 
same,  for quick  selling  I  think  I  should 
leave  them  out,  and  take  the  cartons  as 
they  come,  for  the  manufacturers  and 
jobbers  are  using  good  labels  and  car­
tons,  and  do  very  well.  With  stock 
cartons,  if  we  should  have  to  have  a 
new  clerk  or  two  it  would  take  some  of 
our  quick  selling  time  to  explain  things 
to  them,  and  again  we  would  be 
liable 
to  forget  some  things  oursleves.

Now  get  the  clerks  into  shape,  open 
the  doors,  and  I  think  we  would  be able 
to  please  the  public— quickly.— Maurice 
F.  Bragdon in  Boot  and  Shoe  Recorder.

Try  Few er Styles.

it 

The  success  of  some  of  the  shoe  de­
large  stores,  who  handle 
partments 
in 
an  advertised 
line 
like  the  Sorosis  or 
Regal  exclusively,  has  demonstrated  the 
fact  that 
is  not  at  all  necessary  for 
the  retailer  to  carry  so  many  colors  and 
styles,  for  these  lines  as  a  general  thing 
are  made  up  in  not  over three styles and 
two  colors.  A  certain  shade  of  tan  is 
selected  and  used  altogether,  and 
in 
lines  of  men’s 
some  well  advertised 
shoes  one  style 
last 
is  used  straight 
through  the  line.

It  has  been  our  experience  that  the 
more  styles  and  colors  you  show  the 
trade  the  harder  it  is  to  make  a  sale.

If  the  merchant  will  carefully  select 
two  style  lasts  in  black  and  some  good 
color  and  stick  to  them,  he  will  find 
it 
easier  to  make  a  sale  than  when  he 
offers  some  eight  or  ten  styles  and  col­
ors.  You  can  educate  your  trade  the 
same  as  the  specialty house does;  try  it.

Shows  on  the  Face.

“ The  evidence,”   said  the 

judge, 
“ shows  that  you  threw  a  stone  at  this 
man. ’ *

“ Sure,”  

replied  Mrs.  O ’ Hoolihan, 
“ an’  the  looks  av  the  man  shows  more 
than  that,  yer  honor. 
It  shows  thot  Oi 
hit  him. ”

W hat  She  Wanted.

Clerk— What  do  you  wish,  ma’am?
Mrs.  O ’Toole— Oi  want  to  sae  some 

mirrors  fit  to  give  as  a  gift.

Clerlj— Hand  mirrors?
Mrs.  O ’Toole— No,  some  thot  ye  kin 

sae  yer  face  in.

It  is  well  enough  to  watch  your  com­
petitors,  but  don’t  lose  sight of your own 
business  while  doing  so.

JAX

That Is the name  of  our  leather  top 
rubber—the best wearing shoe on the 
market  The tops are made  of  first 
quality oil grain  and  the  bottoms 
are the Boston  Rubber Shoe Com­
pany’s  Snag  Proof  Over  and  we 
put them  together.  Price  no  higher 
than others.  Buy the Ajax  and  you 
will be  suited.  More  sold  last  year 
than any one kind  in  Grand  Rapids. 
See them before  you  place  your  fall 
order for Rubbers.

Rindge,  Kalmbach,  Logie  &  Co.,

10-12  No.  Ionia  street,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

The “Gold Seal
Lincoln”

With  or without  Leather  Tops. 
Best  and  most  popular  Lumber­
men’s  Shoes  ever  made.

Goodyear
Rubber
Co.,

Milwaukee,
Wis.

W.  W. W allis,

Manager.

It s an Old Saw

that says  “ Nothing  Succeeds  Like  Success."  We  can  say 
the same  thing  about  our  Leather  Tops. 
They  are  a  suc­
cess.  That's  the  reason  they  succeeded  so  phenominally 
last season.  When  you  consider  that  out  o f   more  than  a 
thousand cases  not  a pair  ripped,  came  back  or  caused  dis­

satisfaction  in  any  way— well, judge fo r  yourself.

O U R   P R I C E   $ 2 . 0 0   P E R   PAIR

Herold-Bertsch Shoe  Co.,

M akers  o f Shoes,
G ran d R apids,  M ich.

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13

How  a  Successful  Healer  Arranges  H is 

W indow  Display.

I  have  often  advised  the  use  of  cheese 
cloth  as  a  background  for  special  dis­
plays,  but  right  here  a  word  of  admoni­
tion.  Don’t  become  a  slave  of  “ cheese 
cloth.”  
I  wonder  how  many  unneces­
sary  backaches,  how  much  unnecessary 
effort  and  how  much  extravagance in the 
use  of  “ gray  matter”   can  be  directly 
to  the  over-use  of  our  over­
traced 
worked 
friend,  cheese  cloth?  Some  of 
my  readers  doubtless  spend  many hours, 
in  concentrated  thought,  trying to devise 
some  new  arrangement  of  their  cheese 
cloth  background  when  the  use  of 
it,  at 
all,  is  entirely  unnecessary.  This  again 
brings  us  back  to  the  question  of  mir­
rors— we  believe 
indispensable. 
With  mirrors  for,  at  least,  the  lower  half 
of  your  background  and  with  a  ceiling 
and  the  balance  of  your  background  of 
hard  wood,  half  of  your  labor  is  done. 
Then  with  a  practical  display  fixture 
and  the  usual  complement  of  stands, 
your  window  trim  would  resolve  itself 
simply  into  the  proper  arrangement  of 
shoes.  To  have  a continuous,ever chang­
ing  panorama  of  attractive  displays  it 
is  only  necessary  to  take  out  the  old 
lot,  re-arrange  some  fresh  styles,  put  in 
a  new  card  and  the  thing  is  done.

them 

No  agonizing  puffing  (both  of  your 
,  own  and  of  the  cheese  cloth),  no  elabo­
rate  effects  over  which  to  “ labor  and 
travail,”   none  of  the  extravagance  of 
time  and  thought  that  the  old  cheese 
cloth  regime  necessitates.  You  simply 
change  your  display  of  shoes,  not  the 
display  of  cheese  cloth.  Of  course  this 
old  friend  of  all  decorators  can  be  used 
to  advantage  at  times,  but  don’t  abuse 
him.  Used  occasionally  and,  when 
used,  used  tastefully,  the  result  is  often 
pleasing  in  the  extreme.
*  *  *

In  arranging  your  window  displays 
fact  that  they  are, 
don’t  overlook  the 
primarily,  for  the  display  of  shoes. 
In 
conjuring  up  the  artistic  effects  that 
are  so  dear  to  the  hearts  of  most  of  the 
members  of  our  profession,  don’t  pro­
duce  an  effect  that  will  in  any  way  de­
tract 
your 
wares.  The  elaborate  effects,  that  we 
sometimes  tell  about,  are  only  to  be 
strived 
for  on  very  special  occasions—  
they  are  only  to  give  added  tone  and 
dignity  to  your  store.  They  have  very 
little  direct  selling  influence.

the  prominence  of 

from 

*  *  *

How  do  you  prepare  your  shoes  for 
your  window  display?  Do  you  use  any 
effort  to  see  that  every  curve  shall  be 
displayed,  that  the  natural  heauty 
lines 
of  each  model  shall  be  seen  to  best  ad­
vantage?  What  agency  do  you  employ? 
The  writer 
in  his  early  days  used  to 
stuff  his  shoes  with  paper to fill them out 
and  give  them  the  proper  symmetry— 
but  what  a  wanton  waste  of effort it was! 
To  take  out,  “ unstuff,”   prepare  and 
“ restuff”   the  ordinary  display  of  shoes, 
required  fully  a  whole  day’s  continuous 
effort  and  consumed  all  the  stray “ waste 
paper”   in  that  district.  Get 
lasts— the 
little  papier  mache  shoe  lasts.  They  are 
light, 
inexpensive  (comparatively  so), 
durable,  easy  to  use,  save  time,  and 
give  a  much  better,  a much  neater  effect 
than  the  most  careful  “ stuffing”   ever 
could.  My,  but  under  what  a  handicap 
some  of  us  are  working !  What  would 
you  think  of  a  skillful  surgeon who tried 
to  amputate  a 
limb  with  nothing  but  a 
hatchet  and  a  meat  saw  to  do  it  with? 
He  might  succeed 
in  getting  your  leg 
off,  after  a  fashion,  but  it  would  be  un­
necessarily  painful  and  laborious,  and 
likely  think  him  the  most
you’d  very 

Possibly, 

stupendous  jackass  on  record.  Yet,  mv 
dear  friends,  many  of  you  are  doing  al­
most  the  very  same  thing.  You  are  try­
ing  to  do  good  work  with  almost  ab­
solutely  no  equipment. 
if 
you  are  trimming  for  yourself,  you  may 
consider  these  conveniences  a  bit  of  ex­
travagance,  or,  if  you’ re  trimming  for 
‘ ‘ boss, ’ ’  he  may  have  the  same 
your 
view  of 
it— but  never  was  an  idea  a 
more  mistaken  one.  You  are,  now,  not 
only  making  an  extravagant  use  of  your 
time 
in  useless  and  unnecessary  work, 
but  you  are  extravagantly throwing away 
opportunities  for  results  that,  collective­
ly,  will  amount  to  ten  times  the  amount 
necessary  to  procure  the 
things  you 
need.  Get  out  of  the  old  hatchet-and- 
saw  method  of  surgery  and  get  a  full 
complement  of  instruments.

*  *  *

The  manager  of  the  shoe  department 
in  one  of  our  big  department  stores  has 
originated  a  simple  yet  very  effective 
way  of  displaying  shoes  in  his  depart­
ment.  The  fixture  he  uses  is  exceed­
ingly  simple  yet  could  be  perfectly  de­
scribed  only  with  a  camera. 
It  is  a  lit­
tle  wire  arrangement  very  much  like the 
wire  hook  arrangements  we  use  to  hang 
our  coats  and  hats  on  only  it  is  longer—  
extends  out  farther  from  the  ’ wall.  On 
the  top  of  this  is  a  clamp  for  the  sole  of 
one  shoe  (about  where  you’d  hang  your 
hat)  and  at  the  bottom 
is  a  place  to 
suspend  the  other  (about  where  the  coat 
would  hang).  He  had  these  simple  ar­
rangements  fixed  to  the  standards  that 
divide  his  shelves  and  altogether  it  is 
the  most  effective  simple  way  of  show­
ing  shoes  that  we  have  seen  for  some 
time.

*  *  *

There 

is  no  little  thing,  that  we  can 
think  of,  that  will  add  to  or  detract 
from  the  appearance  of  your  window 
as  much  as  price  cards. 
A  neatly 
printed,  fresh,  clean  card,  of  rational 
size,  will  improve  any  window,  while  a 
soiled,  carelessly  executed  one  creates 
about  the  same  impression  as  would  a 
daub  of  dirt  on  a  high  colored painting. 
The  simplest  solution  of  the  matter  for 
you,  that  we  know  of, 
is  th is:  Get 
about  a  hundred  sheets of cardboard  (the 
man  who  sells  you  wrapping  paper will 
sell  it),  have  your  printer  cut  it  up  into 
the  proper  sizes  (he  has  a  paper  cutter 
and  will  do  it  w illingly)  and  that  part 
of  the  matter  will  be  over  with.  Have 
the  cardboard  cut 
into  small  sizes  for 
price  cards  and  large  for  general  cards. 
If  you  can  not  letter  neatly  with  brush 
and  paint  get  a  rubber  stamping  outfit. 
These  may  'be  had  in  various  styles  of 
type  faces  (any  one  of  which is neat and 
appropriate)  and  in  several  sizes.  We 
should  say  one  style  with  three  sizes  of 
letters  and  figures  would  be  all  that 
you  will  require.  You  sometimes  use 
a 
full  sheet  of  card  and  maybe  you’re 
aggravated  by  the  continual  curling  up 
of  these  big  fellows.  To  obviate  this 
have  some  neat  oak  frames  made  (just 
like  picture 
frames)  of  the  proper  size 
and  in  these  your  cards will be protected 
from  dirt,  contortions  and  the  other 
evils  that  usually  befall  window  cards. 
— Shoe  and  Leather  Gazette.

The  Fastest Train  to  New  York.

The  Detroit-New  York  special  is  very 
popular,  leaving  Michigan  Central  sta­
tion  (Detroit)  at  4:25  p.  m.  daily, 
reaching  Buffalo  at  10:10  p.  m.  and 
Grand  Central  station  (New  York)  at  10 
a.  m. 
the  following  day,  making  the 
run  in  16  hours  and  35  minutes.

It  is  composed  of  a  buffet,  library car, 
New  York  sleepers,  dining  car and  ele­
gant  day  coach. 
If  you  ever  go  to  New 
York  do  not  miss  this  excellent  service.
All  lines  have  connecting  trains.  873

Leather Top Lumbermen’s Rubber Shoes

We  have  the  best  Leather  Top  Lumbermen’s  Rubber 
Shoes  that  are  made— not  one  pair  of  these  Leather 
Tops  cracked  in  1899.  We  can  furnish  them  in  Boot 
Heel  Duck  Rolled Edge, 6 inch tops,  at $24 per dozen pair. 
Boot  Heel  Gum,  not  rolled  edge,  at  $22.20 per dozen  pair. 
Order  a  sample  case  and  get  your order  in  early.
Write  for  price  on  Sock  Combinations  in  Captains, 
Eries  and  Pacs.  We offer bargains  in  these  lines.
We  carry the  best  and  most  complete  line  of  Socks, 
Gloves  and  Mittens  of  any  one  in  Michigan,  and  while 
you are about it order samples of Mackinaws and Kerseys.
We  are offering great  bargains  in  Men’s  and  Women’s 
Mackintosh  garments.

Studley  &  Barclay,

4  Monroe  Street,

Grand  Rapids, Mich.

the 

These cuts  show two  of  the  most 
popular  styles  of 
famous 
A M E R IC A N   R U B BE R S— high­
est 
in 
style and  fitting  perfectly.
W e  deal  exclusively  in  Rubber 
Footwear;  five different  brands:

in  quality,  most  elegant 

Americans
I’aras
Woonsockets 
Rhode  Islands 
Colonials

Write for prices.

PRIN CESS

SE N SIB LE   OVER

A.  H.  KRUM  &  CO.,  Detroit,  Mich.

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.

Geo.  H .  Reeder  &  C

19  South  Ionia  Street, 
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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B A I L E Y ’ S 

Patent  Ribbed  Back  Rubber 

Three  reasons  why  Bailey’s  Patent  Rubber  must  commend  itself  to  all  who  wear 
rubber shoes:
1.  The  heel  having  a  ribbed  back, it  protects  the  clothing  from  becoming  wet  or 
soiled on the under surface  by  breaking  the  suction  which  two smooth  surfaces  create 
when wet.  2.  The ribs, being near together at the top and spreading over the heel to the 
bottom, serve to bold the rubber securely on to  the  boot  anil  prevent It from  slipping  at 
the heel.  3.  It prevents the breaking of the rubber at the heel,  where  It  first  gives  out. 
and a short fit can not be forced on the wearer.  It  also  secures  the  shape  of  the  rubber 
until worn out.

Agents for  Goodyear  Glove  Hoods  and  Old  Colony  Rukbkks,

HIRTH,  KRAUSE  &  CO.,

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.

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14

W om an’s W orld

Intellectual  Poverty  o f  t.he  One  Word 

Woman.

Any  suggestion  that  women  need  to 
acquire  more  words— considering 
the 
reputation  the  sex  bears  for  fluency  of 
speech— is  bound  to  savor of  sarcasm  to 
a  certain  extent,  yet,  nevertheless,  it  is 
amazing  how  poverty-stricken  the  ma­
jority  of  women  are  in  the  matter  of  a 
vocabulary.  Take  note  of  the  ordinary 
conversation  that  you  hear  about  you 
every  day  and  you  shall  be  divided  be­
tween  wonder  at  the  incredibly  small 
number  of  words  actually 
in  use  and 
admiration  that  with  such  limited  facil­
ities  for  expression  they  stiil  should  be 
able  to  express  themselves  so  volumi­
nously  and  so  continuously. 
It  is  not 
number  of  words  they  lack,  but  variety.
the  average  woman 
seems  to  be  as  tone  deaf,  when  it comes 
to  using  words,  as  Trilby  was  about 
music.  She  has  no  nice  discrimination, 
no  subtle  shading,  no  fine  values  in  her 
employment  of  them. 
is  a  case  of 
“ all  coons 
look  alike”   to  her  and  the 
word  that  comes  handiest  serves  her 
purpose.  She  has  only  a  few  at  her 
command  and  these  she  makes  do  yeo­
man’s  service,  never  dreaming  that  she 
is  overworking  them  remorselessly  and
outraging  them   m ost  abom inably.

Unfortunately, 

It 

This  reliance  on  a  few  words  and  the 
guileless  belief  that  they  can,  upon  oc­
casion,  be  made  to  mean  anything  and 
to  adapt  themselves  to  any  situation 
is 
not  confined  to  the  uneducated  and  illit­
erate,  either.  Many otherwise intelligent 
people  are  guilty  of  the  offense,  simply 
because  they  have  been  too  lazy  and  too 
themselves  with  a 
careless  to  provide 
flexible 
vocabulary 
that  was  varied 
enough  to  meet  the  emergencies  of  life. 
The  result 
in  conversation  is  precisely 
as  awkward  and 
inadequate  as  if  one 
had  only  one  frock  in  her  wardrobe  and 
must  come  down  to  breakfast 
in  a 
decollete  gown  because  she  only  pos­
sessed  a  ball  dress,  or  must  appear at  a 
ball in  her  Mother  Hubbard  because  she 
had  nothing  to  wear  but  a  dressing 
gown.

it  comes 

No  woman  would  be  guilty  of  such  a 
solecism  in  dress.  Rather  than  come  to 
breakfast 
in  a  trailing,  low-cut  gown 
she  would  stay  in  bed  all  day,  and  she 
would  foreswear balls  for  the  balance  of 
her  natural  life  rather  than  not  be  suit­
ably  attired  when  she  did  go,  but  she 
has  no  such  fine  sense  of  the  fitness  of 
things  when 
to  the  use  of 
words.  She  hasn’t  the  slightest  com­
punctions  about  dressing  up  her  ideas 
in  any  sort  of  misfit  clothes  and  sees 
nothing 
in  the  result.  Just 
how  ridiculous,  as  well  as  exasperating, 
this 
impressed  upon  me  not 
long  ago  in  the  street car, when  I  sat  be­
hind  two  young  girls  and 
listened,  per­
force,  to  their  edifying  conversation. 
They  were  pretty  and 
look­
ing  and  beautifully  dressed  and  they 
greeted  each  other  with  enthusiasm.

intelligent 

is  I  had 

ludicrous 

lovely  time. 

“ Oh,  Mame!”   said  one,  “ I  have  just 
I 
had  such  a  perfectly 
went  to  Edith’s  to 
lunch  and  we  just 
had  the  loveliest  things  to  eat— lobster 
Newberg,  that  was  the  loveliest  thing  I 
ever  tasted,  and  perfectly  lovely  choco­
late  cream  and  cakes.  Then  Edith  and 
I  went  to  the  matinee.  Say,  you  ought 
to  see  that  play. 
It’s  just  too  lovely  for 
anything.  I  cried  all  the  time.  It’s  per­
lovely  to  cry  at  a  play,  isn’t  it? 
fectly 
And  the 
leading  man,  in  that  lovely 
scene,  you  know,  where  he  kills  the 
heroine  because  he  thinks  she  is  in  love

it’s 

live 

with  somebody  else,  he’s  just  too  lovely 
for  words!  I  just  love  the  theater,  don’t 
“ Indeed,  I  do,”   responded  the 
you?”  
other  girl,  “ I  think 
just  perfectly 
lovely,”   and  as  I  listened  I  could  only 
groan  and,  paraphrasing  the  words  of 
the  poet,  wonder  “ has  the 
language 
played  out  and  is  education  a  failure?”
If  it  was  only  school  girls  who  so mis­
used  words  and  harped  upon  a  single 
adjective  until  they  had  worn  it  thread­
bare,  we  might 
in  the  faith  and 
hope  that  time  and  experience  would 
bring  enlightenment  and  discretion,  but 
the  fault 
is  just  as  common  with  their 
elders.  Who,  for  instance,  has  been  so 
fortunate  as  not  to  know  the  woman 
whose  whole  descriptive  capital  was 
comprised 
in  the  one  word,  “ awful?”  
She  never  meets  any  one  who  isn’t 
“ awfully”   sweet,  or  “ awfully”   good, 
or  “ awfully”   bad. 
storms  of 
heaven 
and  the  pie  at  dinner  are 
equally  “ awful,”  and  her  entire  conver­
sation  is  one  awful  assault on her mother 
tongue. 
It  may  be  “ grand”   that  is  the 
prop  and  stay  of  her  vocabulary.  The 
new  paint  on  her  front  fence  is  perfect­
ly  “ grand.”   The  baby  is  “ grand.”  
Niagara  is  “ grand. ”   The  comic  actor 
was 
just  “ grand”   in  that  scene  where 
he  turns  a  somersault  and  sits  in  the 
old woman’s  lap,and she caps the climax 
of  her  efforts  to  make  herself  agreeable 
to  you  by  telling  you  that  your  new 
basque  fits  you  “ just  something  grand”  
in  the  back. 
I  have  often  trembled  to 
think  what  would  happen  if  some  catas­
trophe  should  occur to  these  words,  so 
that 
for 
further  use. 
I  am  persuaded  that  in 
that  event  a  large  proportion  of my most 
loquacious  sisters  would  be smitten with 
sudden  dumbness  and  that  a  silence  of 
desolation  would  reign  over  the  land.

they  would  be 

invalidated 

The 

Perhaps 

if  we  realized  more 

fully 
what  a  distinguished  charm  and  grace  a 
good  vocabulary  gives  a  woman  we 
should  pay  this  subject  the  attention  it 
deserves.  For  one  thing,  it  would  en­
able  us  to  avoid  many  of  those  social 
blunders  that  partake  of  the  nature  of 
crimes,  because  they  cause  us  to  need­
lessly  wound  the  self-love  of  innocent 
people.  Most  of  us  have  suffered  this 
in  our  own  experience,  and  know  the 
deadly  chill  of  disappointment  with 
which well-meaning people have damned 
us  not  with  faint  praise,  but with  wrong 
praise.  Did  you  ever— now  honestly—  
read  aloud  before  your  club  a  paper 
in 
which  you  poured  out  your  whole  heart 
in  a  passionate  protest  against  some 
wrong  without  having  some  woman  who 
meant  to  pay  you  a  florid  compliment 
bustle  up  and  tell  you  how  “ sweet”  
long  to 
your  essay  was?  D idn’t  you 
throttle  her? 
it 
was  strong  or  that  you  had  struck  some 
note  of  truth,  how  pleased  you  would 
have  been.  But  “ sweet” — when  you 
meant  to  blister!  Faugh!  The  word  is 
an  abomination  to  you  and  you  show  it, 
and  she  goes  off  huffy  and  tells  other 
people  that  she  didn’t  see  anything  in 
your  old  paper,  anyway,  so  remarkable 
you  need  give  yourself  airs  about  it.

If  only  she  had  said 

It  is  the  same  way  if  you  have  writ­
ten  some  airy  little  verses,  gay  and  ten­
der,  with  a 
laugh  and  a  sigh  in  every 
line.  It  would  warm  the  cockles  of  your 
heart  for  some  one  to  tell  you  that  they 
are  graceful  or  dainty,  but  when  the 
thinks  one  adjective 
blunderer,  who 
doesn’t  differ  from  another 
in  glory, 
comes  along  and  says,  “ Say,  that  was  a 
magnificent  poem  you  had  in  the  paper 
last  w eek.”   you  can’t  help  feeling  that 
you  have  gotten  a  slap  in  the  face  and 
wonder  if  it  is  sarcasm  or  merely  igno-

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stuck  on  the  walls  with  decaying 
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is 
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Y U S E A   M A N TLE S.

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

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

Sells for 50 cents.
Will  outwear  three  ordi­
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Butter.

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1 to 6 gal., per  gal..........
8 gal. each.......................
to 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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Foolish  People

say  advertising  doesn’t 
pay.  Our  experience 
is  that 
it  does;  but 
then  our  Cigars  áre  of 
a  quality  that  back  up 
all  we  say.

Try Our

The  Woman  W ho  Has  Nothing'  to  Do.
It  has  been  one  of  the  cherished 
theories  of  the  world  that  woman  was 
never 
intended  to  work.  There  have 
even  been  those  who  have  not  hesitated 
to  point  out  that  when  our  first  parents 
were  driven  out  of  Eden  the  curse  of 
work  was  directed  solely  against  man. 
It  was  Adam  who  was  ordered  to  earn 
his  bread  by  the  sweat  of  his  brow. 
Nothing  was  said  about  the  way 
which  Eve  was  to  get  hers,  and  so  con­
vinced  have  we  become  of  the  correct­
ness  of  this  point  of  view  that  when, 
through  force  of  circumstances,  a  wom­
is  called  upon  to  become  a  bread­
an 
winner 
it  is  universally  felt  that  she  is 
an  object  of  commiseration.

the 

What  tears  we  had  to  shed  we  have 
been  called  on  to  shed  for  the  working 
woman.  The  woman  behind  the  counter 
and  the  woman  before 
cooking 
stove,  the business woman  and  the  house 
mother  have  all  come 
in  for  so  much 
it  has  made  us  overlook  the 
sypmathy 
one  who, 
in  reality,  has  the  greatest 
claim  upon  our  sympathy—the  poor rich 
woman  who  has  nothing  to  do.  The 
time  flies  by 
for  the  working  woman, 
whose  hours  are  filled  to  the  brim ;  the 
days  are  all  too  short  for  the  duties  and 
interests  of  the  busy  mother.  They  have 
the  physical  work  that  outranks  all  the 
physical  culture  on  earth  in  building  up 
health.  They  have  no  time 
to  grow 
morbid  thinking  of  their  souls  or  diges­
tions.  They  have  that  greatest  topic 
and 
incentive  ever  offered  humanity—  
the  knowledge  that  they  are  of  use,  that 
they  are  wanted,  that  they  are  filling 
some  niche,  however  small,  in  the  great 
world.

Consider  the  forlorn  case  of  tthe  rich 
woman  with  nothing  to  do.  There  is  no 
particular  reason 
for  her  to  get  up  in 
the  morning.  None  whatever  for  her 
to  do  any  especial  thing.  Her  whole 
ife 
in  the  tedious  pursuit  of 
killing  time,  and  time  is  a  paradoxical 
jade  that  delights  in  tormenting  us. 
If 
lightning  swift,  and 
we  need  it  it  goes 
f  we  don’t  know  what  to  do  with 
it 
is  as  slow-footed  as  a  snail.

is  spent 

it 

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Churn Dashers, per doz..

M ilkpans 
Vi gal. flat or rd. bot., per doz. 
l gal. flat or rd. bot.,each__

Eine Glazed M ilkpans

H gal. flat or rd. bot., per doz. 
1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each___
Stewpans
'/i gal. fireproof, bail, per  doz. 
1 gal. fireproof, ball, per  doz.

Jugs

H gal., per  doz.
gal. per  doz................................
1 to 5 gal., per  gal.........................
Tomato Jugs
H gal., per  doz..............................
1  gal., each..............................
Corks for % gal., per doz........
Corks for  1  gal., per doz........

Preserve  Jars and  Covers

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

Sealing  Wax
5 lbs. In package, per  lb................
FRUIT JARS
Pints.................................. .......
Quarts.
Half Gallons.
Covers.........
Rubbers.......

DAMP  BURNERS

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No. 1 Sun................................
No. 2 Sun.................................' " "
No. 3 Sun.................................
Tubular......................................
Security, No.  i ...........................
Security,No.  2......................
Nutmeg........................................

DAMP  CHIMNEYS—Seconds

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

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

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ranee  that  makes  a  person  say  a  thing 
like  that.  Or,  it  may  be  that  you  show 
in  which  you  have  tried  to 
a  picture 
paint  all 
the  unutterable  agony  of  a 
mother  bending  above  the  dead  body  of 
her  first  born.  You  mean  it  to  be  trag 
edy  in  all  its naked hideousness.  “ What 
a  pretty  picture,”   says  some  good 
natured  soul,  anxious  to  do  the  right 
thing  in  the  way  of  flattering  you.  You 
turn  the  picture  to  the  wall. 
If  they 
had  thought  a  year  they  could  not  have 
said  anything  that  would  seem  such 
It  takes  all  your  for 
biting  criticism. 
titude  to  recognize  the  good 
intentions 
of  the  speaker  and 
forgive  the  break 
and  you  gnash  your  teeth  to  think  that 
anybody  could  make such  a  heart-break 
ing  mistake 
for  the  lack  of  the  right 
word  in the  right  place.  I  knew  a  whole 
family  disrupted  because  a  simple  old 
woman  to  whom  a  doting  mother  had 
sent  the  first  baby’s  first  picture  wrote 
back  that 
it  seemed  a  nice,  healthy 
child,  instead  of  saying  it  was  “ mag 
nificent, ”   and  upon  my  word,  I  think 
there  have  been  plenty  of feuds with.less 
real  provocation. 
is  so  aggravating 
for  people  to  say  the  wrong  thing,  when 
they  might  just  as  well  say  the  right.

It 

There  is  no  excuse  for going  through 
life  making  these  mistakes. 
If  one  is 
born  with  a  snub  nose  and  little  fishy 
eyes,  one  is,  of  course,  bound  to  hi 
infirmities  and  can  not  escape  from 
them,  but  any  one  can  acquire  a  good 
working  vocabulary,  and  the  best  use 
that  any  young  woman  can  make  of  her 
time  is  to  put  in  some  good  hard  study 
on  the  dictionary. 
In  that  interesting 
and  affording  volume,  she  will  find  out 
the  difference  between  a  grand  choco 
late  cream  and  a  grand  mountain,  and 
she  may,  at  least,  acquire  an  accumu 
lation  of  adjectives  that  will  enable  her 
to  deal  out  the  right  one  to  everybody, 
instead  of  lumping  all  talents  and  every 
attainment 
indiscriminate  mass 
of  “ prettiness”   and  “ sweetness”   as  the 
one-word  woman  does.

in  an 

It 

This  is  the  most  elementary  aspect  of 
the  matter. 
is  merely  a  business 
suggestion  that  it  pays  to  lay  in  a  suffi­
cient  working  capital  of  words  to  carry 
on  daily  intercourse  with  ease  and facil­
ity,  instead  of  making  packhorses  of 
few  words  and  forcing  them 
into  serv­
ice  for  which  they  were  never  intended. 
Beyond  all  this 
lies  the  great  field  of 
the  English 
language,  where  the  great 
craftsmen  of  literature  have  planted  and 
watered  and  pruned  until  it  blossoms 
like  a  meadow  with  beautiful  words, 
into  garlands  to 
waiting  to  be  woven 
.adorn  our  speech. 
Is 
it  not  passing 
strange  that  any  woman  should  be  con­
tent  with  her  poverty  of  vocabulary, 
when  so  much  richness  and beauty are to 
be  had  for  the  taking?  Dorothy  Dix.

B eginning Early.

Visitor  (viewing  the new baby)— H e’s 

the  very  image  of  his  father.

Proud  Mother— Y e s ;  and  he  acts  just 

like  him,  too.

Visitor— Is  it  possible!
Proud  Mother— Y e s ;  he  keeps  me  up 

nearly  every  night.

Know  W hat They Are  About.

Simpell— Funny  thing  about  women. 
They  often  read  the  last  page  of a news­
paper  first.

Duplex—You  see  the  big  advertise­
ments  are  usually  on  the  last  page  of  a 
newspaper.

The  Parlor  W ill  Do.

Mistress— And  remember,  Mary, 

I 
never  allow  my  girls  to  entertain  their 
beaux  in  the  kitchen.

New  Servant— Very  well,  ma’am. 
What  nights  does  your  daughter  use  the 
parlor?

5 cent  Cigar

Finer  than  silk.

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Mfrs of the

Hand  “W.  H.  B.”  made

Improved  io center. 

Greenville, Mich. 

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The  National  Safe 
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Cannon  Breech  Serew  Door  Bank 
Safe, with anti-concussion  dead  lock  de­
vice.

Can  Not  be  opened  by  the  jarring 

A bsolute  Proof  against  the  Intro­

duction of Liquid or Dry explosives.

Locking:  Action  the  quickest  of any 

process.

safe.

Door and Jain  perfect  circular form, 
ground  metal  to  metal  finish  and  her­
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Not a Single  Case  on  Record where 
one  of  these  safes  has  ever  been  bur­
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More than  twenty-five  banks  In  Cleve- 
and,  Ohio,  using  these  safes,  and  hun­
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ifornia testify to  the absolute  perfection 
of tbe mechanism and security.

Estimates  furnished  on  all  kinds  of 

safe and  vault work.

Office and Salesroom,

129 Jefferson Ave., 
D etroit, Mich.

W. M. HULL, Manager.

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2 45

2  10
2  15
3  15

2 75
3 75 
3 95

3 70
4 70 
4  88

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Sometimes  we  are  disposed  to  make 
fun  of  the  expedients  by  which  the 
woman  with  nothing  to  do  fills  in  her 
time,  but  surely  they  are  pathetic  as 
well.  They  are  imitation  interests 
in­
stead  of  real,  and  down  in  her  soul  she 
knows  them  for the  husks  they  are.  We 
laugh  at  the  foolish  fads  of  women,  at 
the  absurd  societies,  the 
inane  clubs, 
where  they  go  and  read  each other  long- 
winded  papers  out  of  the  encyclopedia, 
the  ridiculous  reforms  and  the  idiotic 
philanthropies.  We  should  sigh,  rather 
than  smile,  if  we  remembered  oftener 
that  these  are  nearly  always  the  desper­
ate  devices  of  the  women  with  nothing 
to  do  trying  to  make  work  for  them­
selves.

The  truth 

is  that  women,  as  well  as 
men,  must  have  work  if  they  would  be 
happy,  and  no  greater  mistake  is  ever 
made  than  to  class  work  as  a  curse. 
It 
is  our  greatest  blessing,  and  the  happi­
est  people  are  the  busiest  people.  When 
task  and  talent  are  in  tune,  when  one 
does  the  work  that  in  itself  is  its  own 
greatest  pay,  iife’s  sweetest  chords  are 
touched.  There 
is  no  sense  of  weari­
ness  in  it.  One  goes  to  it  with  joy  and 
leaves  it  with  regret,  and  they  who  miss 
this,  whether  they  be  man  or  woman, 
have  missed  the  greatest  boon  fate  has 
to  bestow. 

Cora  Stowell.

When  your  trade  falls  below  the  mark 
which  you  think  it  should  attain,  it  is 
time  to  begin  a  thorough  investigation. 
The  cause  may  lie  in  your  business sys­
tem. 
Internal  causes  are  sometimes 
as  destructive  as  external.

First  Quality 

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

XXX  F lint

No. 0 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab 
No. 1 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 
No. 3 Sim, crimp top, wrapped & lab.
CHIMNEYS—Pearl Top
No. l Sun, wrapped and labeled........
No. 2 Sun, wrapped and labeled........
No. 2 Hinge, wrapped and labeled__
No. 2 Sun,  “Small  Bulb,”  for  Globe
I Amps...........................................

I.a  Bastie

No. 1 Sim, plain bulb, per doz.............
No. 2 Sun, plain bulb, per doz.............
No. 1 Crimp, per doz...........................
No. 2 Crimp, per doz......................„ ”

Rochester

No. I Lime (65c  doz)__ •......................
No. 2 Lime (70c doz)...........................
No. 2 Flint (80c  doz) • • • • ..................

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

Electric

OIL,  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.....................

Pum p  Cans

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

LANTERNS

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

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Hardware

How  to  Make  the  Show  Window's  Adver­

tise the  Store.

in  the 

Every  merchant’s  front  window  is  a 
It  always 
free  advertising  medium. 
The 
occupies  a  preferred  position. 
public  is  constantly  brought 
in  contact 
with  it,  for  it  is  continually  staring  the 
public 
face.  The  merchant  is 
obliged  to  have  the  light,  so  as  an  ad­
vertising  medium  it  costs  nothing  but  a 
little  time  and  thought,  and  it  brings 
greater  returns  for  the 
investment  than 
any  other  method  of  advertising.  No 
merchant,  however  strongly  he  may  in­
sist  that  he  does  not  believe 
in  adver­
tising,  but  what  is  contradicted  by  his 
front  windows.  The  mere  fact  that  he 
has  placed 
in  his  window  different  ar­
ticles  which  he  has  for  sale,  designed  to 
attract  the  attention  of  the  passerby, 
shows  that  he  believes  in  advertising, 
although  his  window  may  not  advertise.
The  one  purpose  of  any  kind  of  ad­
vertising 
is  to  sell  goods,  and  the  wise 
merchant  keeps  this  fact  in  mind  when 
he  makes  a  window  display. 
The 
stranger,  whom  you  wish  to  become 
your  business 
judges 
largely  of  the  character  of  your  store 
from  the 
impression  made  upon  him 
through  your  front  windows.  If  this  im­
pression  is  pleasing,  he  will  remember 
your  store  when  in  need  of  anything 
in 
your  line,  and  particularly  anything  he 
has  seen  displayed  in  your  window. 
If 
then,  the  show  window  is  an  advertis­
ing  medium,  which  it  is,  and  the  pur­
pose  of  all  advertising  is  to  sell  goods, 
which 
is,  we  come  to  the  practical 
question  of  how  to  make  window  adver­
tising  sell  goods.

acquaintance, 

it 

In  the  first  place,  the  front  windows 
should  be  kept  clean.  The  merchant  is 
careful  to  greet  his  customers  every  day 
with  a  clean  face;  why  should  he  not 
do  likewise  with  clean  windows?  Dirt 
in  either  case  leaves  the  same 
impres­
sion.

If  you  wish  your  goods  to  be  seen 
from  the outside,  you  must  make  it  pos­
sible 
for  people  to  see  through  your 
windows. 
In  arranging  a  window  the 
best  results  are  secured  by  exhibiting 
one  thing  at  a  time,  or  several  articles 
of  the  same  kind  or  class  of  goods.

When  a  single  article 

is  brought  to 
it 
one’s  attention,  the  eye  can  catch 
it 
quickly,  and  the  memory  will  retain 
where 
it  would  become  confused  were 
several  articles  entirely  different  to  be 
shown  together,  and  the  effect  would  be 
largely  diminished. 
The  nearer  the 
merchant  can  keep  to  the  idea  of  one­
ness  in  window  displays  the  more  satis­
factory  will  be  this  source  of  advertis­
If  any  merchant  w ishes  to  verify 
ing. 
this  proposition 
let  him  purchase  a 
dozen  granite  wash  basins,  or  anything 
else  that 
is  commonly  used  (1  merely 
suggest  wash  basins  by  way  of 
illustra­
tion)  ;  arrange  them  upon  a  clean  con­
trasting  background  of  cloth  or  paper, 
in  a  conspicuous  spot, 
place  a  card 
naming  a  reasonable  price, 
for  one 
week,  and  I  assure  him  that  he  will  re­
order  the  same  goods  from the first sales­
man  that  comes  along.

But  fully  75  per  cent,  of all  merchants 
(including  hardware  merchants) 
follow 
just  the  opposite  plan,  and convert  their 
front  windows 
into  a  sort  of  sampling 
place,  where  are  collected  a  conglomer­
ation  of  nearly  every  kind  of  goods  car­
ried  in  stock,  without  regard  to  order 
or fitness,and  there  it  remains  until  it  is 
almost  lost  to  sight  under the  dust  that 
accumulates  upon  it.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

lack  of  room. 

In  visiting  a  hardware  store 

in  a 
few  days  ago  I 
neighboring  town  a 
counted  no 
less  than  thirty  different 
kinds  of  goods  represented  in  one  small 
window,  and  the  only  reason  there  were 
not  sixty  was  the 
It 
looked  as 
if  the  merchant  had  placed 
there  a  sample  of  everything  he  had  in 
his  store  and  in  some  instances  the  en­
tire  stock  of  some  articles.  You  might 
as  well  have  asked  a  person  to  tell  the 
colors  he  saw 
in  a  revolving  kaleido­
scope  as  to  teil  what  goods  were  dis­
played 
in  that  window.  The  window, 
as  a  means  of  advertising,  was  practic­
ally  a  failure.

If  you  wish  to  exhibit  a  steel  range, 
have  nothing  else  in  the  window  to  d i­
vert  the  attention  from  this  particular 
object;  to  give  naturalness  to  it  place  a 
tea  kettle  or  a  few  other  pieces  of  stove 
furniture  upon  it,  while  a  pan  of  nicely 
browned  biscuits  drawn  half  way  out  of 
the  oven  would  cause  many  people  to 
stop  and  look  who  otherwise  might  give 
it  no  attention.  Place  a  card  by  it, 
stating  that  “ with  one  of  our  ranges 
your  biscuits  will  look  as  n ice," or  any­
thing  else  appropriate. 
If  it  is  a  hard 
coal  stove,  carpet your  display  floor,  put 
down  a 
cloth 
and  a  zinc  board ;  set  up  the  stove,  us­
ing  your  best  Russia  pipe,  and  place  a 
candle  or 
lamp  inside  at  night  to  give 
the  appearance  of  fire;  then  if  you  wish 
to  have  about  six  people  looking  at  it 
where  you  had  one  before,  make  up  a 
dummy  sitting  in  a  rocking  chair  with 
her  stocking  feet  upon  the 
foot  rest, 
with  a  card  reading,  “ Her  feet  are  al­
ways  warm  at  night.”

sample  of 

your  oil 

Borrow 

A  clothes  wringer  will  not  make  a 
very  artistic  exhibit,  but 
it  can  be 
made  an  attractive  one.  Place  one  of 
your  packing  boxes 
in  your  window, 
upon  which  put  a  tub,  to  which  attach  a 
wringer. 
from  your  grocery 
merchant  one  of  his  life  sized  dummies 
(showing  a  woman  washing  with  a  cer­
tain  kind  of  soap),  place  this  behind 
the  tub  with  a  real  washboard  in  front 
of  the  woman;  place  a  pile  of  dirty 
clothes  on  the  floor,  with  a  garment  go­
ing  through  the  wringer  on  its  way  into 
a  basket,  with  a  card  bearing  the  an­
nouncement, 
“ This  Wringer  wrings 
dry,  price  only  S3,”   and  you  will  sell 
wringers.

Nickel  goods  always  make  an  attrac­
tive  windo.w,  whether  shown  as  a  class 
or  as 
individual  articles,  upon  black 
cloth,  with  black  background;  nothing 
else  should  go  in  with  them,  and  a  card 
should  be  conspicuous stating that “ they 
are  solid  copper  and  will  never  rust,”  
or  something  else  as  suggestive.  Add 
a  price  to  your  card  when  practicable. 
One  effective  way  of  arranging  nickel 
is  to  place  a  few  small  boxes  ir­
goods 
regularly 
in  the  window,  not  so  many 
that  they  will  seem  crowded;  cover 
these  over  with  black  calico,  which  can 
be  purchased  for  a . few  cents ;  let  the 
cloth  drop 
loosely  between  the  boxes, 
covering  the  entire  display  floor,  then 
place  a'  single  article,  a  tea  kettle  or 
coffee  pot,  or  whatever  it  may  be,  upon 
each  box,  and  no  more;  stretch  a  black 
curtain  behind,  high  enough  to  form  a 
background,  place  a  card  where 
it  can 
be  read,  and  you  will  sell  nickel  goods 
to  people  who  did  not  know  before  that 
you  kept  them.  When  the  whole  line  of 
nickel  goods  is  displayed,  step  shelves 
can  be  arranged  covered  with  contrast­
ing  cloth,  and  a  row  of  similar  articles 
in 
placed  on  each  shelf.  Any  display 
motion  is  attractive.  People  will 
look 
at  an  object  in  action  that  would  not  be 
noticed  in  a  state  of  rest.

Buckeye  Paints,  Colors  and  Varnishes

are  unsurpassed  for  beauty  and  durability.  Do  not 
place your orders until  our  Mr.  Carlyle calls.

Buckeye  Paint &  Varnish  Co.,

Toledo,  Ohio.

Granite

The best plastering 
material  in  the world. 
Fire proof, wind  proof, 
water proof. 
Is not 
injured by freezing.
No Glue, no acid. 
Ready for immediate 
use by adding water.

Office and works:  West Ful­
ton and L. S. & M. S. R. R.

Gypsum  Products  Mfg Co.,

Manufacturers and Dealers in

Mill and Warehouse:  200 South Front Street. 

Calcined Plaster,  Land Plaster,  Bug Compound, etc. 
Office:  Room 20, Rowers’ Opera House Block. 

Grand Rapids, Mich.

An enterprising agent wanted in »very town.  Send for circular with references.

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W e  are  the  manufacturers  and  make  a full  line.

WM.  BRUMMELER  & SONS,

M A N U FR S .  O F   TIN W A R E   A N D   S H E E T   M E TA L  G O O D S , 

249  to  263  South  Ionia  St.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

40 
40 
40
^   A m erican

Babcock

. 

T

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,
<g>  1 riumph
40

A cm e

40
40
40
40
40
40

Corn  Planter

Send in your orders 

at once.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

17

Place  a  chum 

in  your  town  reproduce 

in  your  window  and 
how  many  people  would  give  it  a  pass­
ing  notice?  Give  it  a  motive  power  and 
they  would  go  a  block  to  see 
it.  This 
idea  will  be  left  for  the  ingenious  mer­
chant  to  develop.  An  occasional  exhibit 
without  any  display  of  goods  will  repay 
one 
for  his  efforts;  something  relating 
to  some  local  event  or  circumstance,  if 
not  overdone,  will 
interest  the  people. 
For  illustration :  If  the  farmers  hold  an 
institute 
in 
miniature  a 
farm  scene,  the  barnyard 
with  its  buildings,  sheds,straw  and  hay­
stacks,  and  a  few  toy  animals  in  differ­
ent  places,  with  the  yard  fenced.  Cot­
ton  batting  makes  a  good  substitute 
for 
snow,  and  a 
little  coal  soot  will  make 
tracks  for  the  bam  and  sheds  in  differ­
ent  directions,  and  along  the  road.  A 
grove  of  willows  could  be  used  for  a 
background  with  good  effect.  A  window 
of  this  kind  will  keep  people  standing 
in 
it  in  zero  weather.  There 
are  many  things 
in  a  hardware  store 
that  can  be  arranged  into  amusing  and 
interesting  exhibits,  and  anything  that 
will  make  the  people  laugh  without  dis­
gusting  them  advertises. 
The  trade 
journals  publish  from  time  to  time  cuts 
of  various  creations,  as  turkeys,  loco­
motives,  bicycles,  boats,  men, 
and 
many  other  things,  constructed  from  ar­
ticles  taken  from  different  parts  of  the 
store.  People  will  always  look  at  these 
and  talk  about  them.

front  of 

However  attractive  a  display  may  be 
it  should  never  be  allowed  to  remain 
longer  than  one  or  two  weeks  without 
change,  even 
if  the  same  thing  has  to 
be  arranged  in  a  different  way.

Window  advertising,  like  newspaper 
advertising,  to  bring  the  best  results, 
should  carry  with 
it  that  phrase  with 
which  all  hardware  merchants  have  be­
come  familiar  the  past  year: 
“ Subject 
to  change  without  notice,”   and  the  re­
tailer  should  be  as  alert  in  making these 
changes  as  the  manufacturers  have  been 
in  making  theirs.

If  hardware  merchants  would  give 
more  attention  to  this  free  advertising 
medium,  bring  to  the  notice  of  the  peo­
ple  the  dozens  of  useful  things they have 
for  sale  by  an  attractive  window  dis­
play, with an  attractive  price  card  where 
practicable,  I  doubt  not  but  many  or­
ders  for  goods  that  are  kept  for  sale 
in 
the  local  hardware  store  would  never  go 
away  to  a  catalogue  house.

To  make  window  advertising  a  suc­

cess :

Keep  the  eyes  of  your  store  bright.
Hold  to  the 

idea  of  oneness  in  your 

display.

Make  frequent  changes.
Attach  a  price  card  when  possible.
C.  M.  Doxsee.

Lessons  to  Be  Learned  From  Biography. 
Written for the Tradesman.

From  the  child  on  the  knee  to  the  tot­
tering  old  man  everybody  loves  biog­
raphy.  The  small  boy  or  girl  wants  a 
real  true  story  of  Mamma  or  Papa  to 
extend  his  own 
limited  experience, 
while  the  whitehaired  man  is never hap­
pier  than  when  he  can  recount  the  ex­
periences  and  incidents  in  his  own  life 
or  in  the  lives  of  his  friends.

More  and  more  is  the  study  of  history 
the  grouping  of  events  of  the  various 
periods  around  the  great, the  representa­
tive  men  of  those  times.  And,  what 
is 
more,  although  these  men  may  follow 
various  paths,  as  generals,  rulers  or 
simply  men  of  mark  in  the  common 
walks  of 
life,  yet  they  possess  many 
elements  of  character  in  common.  What 
are  some  of  these  qualities? 
In  the  first 
place  the  truly  great  man  wants  to stand

alone ;  in  other  words  he  is  self-poised. 
That  does  not  mean that  he  actively  op­
poses  other  people,  but  that he  works for 
his  ideals  even 
if  the  popular  side  of 
sentiment  runs  the  other  way.

Next,  he  does  not  sit  down  and  wait 
for  something  to  turn  up.  He  finds  or 
makes  his  own  opportunities  and  they 
are  stepping  stones  to  higher  things.

He  is  willing  to  attempt  hard,  nay  al­
most 
impossible  tasks.  He  may  not 
complete  them  to  his  own  satisfaction, 
but  he  has  accomplished  more  than 
if 
he  had  not  made  the  attempt.  Few  peo­
ple  really  know  their  worth  until  they 
are  put  to  the  test.

He 

is  not  easily  discouraged.  He 
may  fail  over  and  over  again,  but  when 
he  feels  himself  on  the  right  track  he  is 
not  daunted,  but  gains  strength 
from 
his  falls  until 
finally  his  efforts  are 
crowned  with  success.

But  if  he  does  make  a  failure  and  his 
guiding  star  does  not  light  the  way  to 
better  things  he  is  willing  to  start  over 
at  something  else  for  which  Nature  or 
his  environment  better  fits  him.

He  is  sure  of  his  own  strength.  His 
is  generally 
an  optimistic  nature, 
which  finds  the  best  in  everything.  His 
very  hopefulness  helps  him  to  conquer 
baffling 
frustrated 
plans.

circumstances 

or 

His  is  a  growing  nature.  He 

learns 
from  each  person  he  meets  and  from  his 
failures  and  his  successes.

If  he  has  but  little  strength  he  uses 
that  to  the  best  advantage.  He  does 
not  bury  his  one  talent  in  the  ground 
and 
interest  accrues  until  he  makes  of 
himself  quite  another  individual.

He 

is  not  fluctuating  in  action.  He 
does  not  act  in  fits  and  starts.  He  does 
each  day’s  tasks  without  dissipating his 
energy.

He  does  not  waste  his  time  over need­
less  details;  as  some  one  has  put 
it,  he 
does  not  scour  the  nailheads 
in  the  at­
tic.  Thoroughness  can  not  be  too  high­
ly  commended,  but  there  are  times  and 
places  for  the  overtaxed  man  when 
shirking  is  a  virtue. 
It  is  the  wise  man 
who  systematizes  his  work,  knows  what 
effort  counts  and  when  to  shirk  and 
how.
He 

is  willing  to  assume  responsibil­
ity.  He  does  not  shove  his  load  off  on 
to  some  one  else,  nor, on  the  other  hand, 
does  he  assume  a  martyr-like  air  if  he 
has  much  to  bear.

He  has  high  ideals  and  works  toward 
them.  He  may  at  first  need  to  do  hum­
ble  tasks  and  glorify  distasteful  tjrudg- 
ery,  but  he  may  thus  gain  the  needed 
discipline  to  develoj)  him  into  a  man 
built  on  a  large  plan.

He  is  always  looking  ahead  and  pre­
paring  for  more  difficult,  more  complex 
tasks,  so  that  when  the  hoped-for  open­
in 
ing  comes  he  is  prepared  to  succeed 
his  new  place.  He  outgrows  his 
ideals 
from  time  to  time  to  replace  them  with 
larger  and  better  ones.

He  does  not  feel  that  the  world  owes 
him  a  living,  but  that  he  owes  much  to 
the  world. 
It  is  his  duty  and  privilege 
to  be  in  line  with  progress  and  to  help 
the  world  to  be  a  better  place  for  his 
having  lived  in  it.

He  does  not 

look  off  at  life  to  see 
what  it  offers,  but examines himself.  He 
can  not  be  some  one  else,  but  he  can 
find  out  his  own  capacities.  He  can 
overcome  his  deficiencies  and  develop 
his  talents.

And  thus  the  days  go,  working  with­
out  haste  and  without  rest.  He  does  not 
look  for  fame,  but  it  comes  unsolicited, 
for 
standards 
high  and  striven  to  live  up  to  his  high­
est  ideals. 

has  made  his 

Zaida  E.  Ud.ell.

he 

Hardware  Price  Current

Augurs  and  Bits

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

Axes

First Quality, S. B. Bronze.................. 
First Quality, D. B. Bronze................  
First Quality, S. B. S.  Steel................. 
First Quality,  D. B. Steel.................... 
Railroad.................................................. 
Garden...................................................net 

Barrows

Bolts
Stove......................................................  
.............................. 
Carriage, new  B«d 
Flow ...........  
 
Buckets

Well, plain............................................. 

 

Butts,  Cast

Cast Loose Fin, figured....................... 
Wrought Narrow................................. 

Cartridges

Rim Fire................................................ 
Central Fire.......................................... 

60
26
50

7  00
11  50
7  76
13 00
18  00
30 00

50
50  10
50

$4  00

65
60

404410
20

Chain

H in. 

Com...............   8  c.  ....  7  c. 
BB.................   9 
BBB...............  9H 

...  7« 
...  814 

5-I6 in.  % in.  H In.
... 6  c.
... 6H
... 714

... 6  c. 
... 6% 
... 7H 

Crowbars

Caps

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

Ely’s 1-10, jper m..................................... 
Hick’s C. F.. per m...............................  
G. I>.. perm........................................... 
Musket, per m....................................... 

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

Chisels

Elbows

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

66
126
404410

Expansive  Bits

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

Files—New  List

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

Galvanized  Iron

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

14 

13 

Discount, 65 10

16 
Gauges

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

Glass

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

Hammers

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

Hinges

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

H ollow   Ware

Pots..............................................*......... 
Kettles...................................................  
Spiders.................................................... 

Horse  Nails

Au Sable................................................dis 
Putnam...................................................dis 

House  Furnishing Goods
Stamped Tinware, new list..................  
Japanned Tinware................................. 

Iron

Knobs—New  List

Bar Iron................................................. 2 76  c rates
Light Band............................................   3‘4c rates
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings...........  
86
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings......... ' 
1  00
6 25
6 00

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

Lanterns

Levels

Mattocks

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

Adze Eye...................................$17 00..dis 
600 pound casks...................................... 
Per pound..............................................  

Metals—Zinc

M iscellaneous

40
Bird Cages............................................. 
Pumps, Cistern.....................................  
70
80
Screws, New List................................. 
Casters, Bed and Plate........................   50&10&10
50
Dampers, American..........:................. 
60&10
Stebbins’ Pattern.................................. 
Enterprise, self-measuring.................. 
30

Molasses  Gates

Fry, Acme..............................................   60&101410
Common,  polished...............................  
70146
Patent  Planished  Iron 

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

Broken packages He per pound extra.

Planes
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy.. , ...................... 
Sciota  B ench....,................ 
 
Sandusky Tool  Co.’s, fancy................. 
Bench, first q
y

u

a

t

l

i

Pans

2 65
2 65
Base
5
10
20
30
45
70
15
26
36
26
35
45
85

50
45

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

n u
17

60

40
404410

1  50
1  75

8 60 
8  10

Advance over base, on both Steel and  Wire.

Nails

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

Rivets

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

Roofing  Plates

14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean.....................  
14x20 IX,Charcoal, Dean.....................  
20x28 1C, Charcoal, Dean...... 
13 
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway  Grade... 
14x20IX.Charcoal, Aliaway  Grade... 
20x28 IC, Charcoal. Allaway  Grade... 
20x28 IX. Charcoal. Allaway  Grade... 

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

Ropes

6

66
66
46
75

66
66
66
66

List acet.  19, ’86.................................... dis 

Sand  Paper

Sash  W eights

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

25 00

Sheet  Iron
com. smooth. com.
Nos. 10 to 14.................................
$3  20
$3  00
Nos. 15 to 17.................................... 3 20
3 00
Nos.  18 to 21.........................
3 30
3 20
Nos. 22 to 24...............
3 40
3 30
No. 27.................................
.  3 60
3  50
over  30 inches
wide, not less than 2-10 extra.

Ail Sheets No.  18  and  lighter, 

Shells—Loaded

Loaded with Black  Powder....
......dis
Loaded with  Nltro  Powder........ ...... dis

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

Sliovels  anti  Spati«**

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

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The prices of the many other qualities of solder 
In the market Indicated by  private  brands  vary 
according to composition.

Squares

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

Tin—Mel.vn  Grade

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

Each additional X on this grade, $1.25.

Tin—A llaw ay  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
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14x56 IX, for No. 9 Boilers, j per P°und •• 

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Steel,  Game...........................................  
Oneida Community,  Newhouse’s.......  
Oneida  Community,  Hawley  44  Nor­
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Mouse, choker, per doz.......................  
Mouse, delusion, per doz.....................  

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

W ire  Goods

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

W renches

Baxter’s Adjustable, Nickeled........... 
Coe’s Genuine........................................ 
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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

18

FLOWERS  IN  DEAD  HANDS.

A  Veteran  W ho  Found  Hi«  Friends  at 
Last.
Written for the Tradesman.

There  were  a  number  of  ladies  at  the 
cutlery  counter  as  I  entered  the  hard­
ware  store  that  Decoration  Day morning 
and  the  proprietor  was  bustling  about 
unpacking  goods.  He  had arranged with 
his  wife  to  attend  the  G.  A.  R.  services 
at  the  cemetery  in  the  afternoon and was 
slightly 
irritated  at  the  deliberation 
with  which  everything  about  the  place 
was  moving.

As  I  stood 

looking  about  the  store  I 
heard  a  slight  scream from  the  direction 
of  the  cutlery  counter  and  saw  a  man 
slip  on  the  small  incline  at  the  entrance 
and  fall  against  a  package  of  garden 
tools  which  stood  among  the  display 
stock  in  front.

“ The  man  is  drunk!”
“ Oh,  why  doesn’t  someone  call  the 

police?”

“ What  a  shame!  And  he  looks 

an  old  soldier,  too!”

like 

The  merchant,  with  an  angry  flush  on 

his  face,  hastened  to  the  door.

What’s  the  trouble  here?”   he  de­

manded,  in  no  gentle  tones.

“ H e’s  got  a  ja g !”   declared  a  young 

clerk,  rushing  forward.

there  are  so  many  impostors.  We  don’t 
forget  the  boys  who  carried  the  flag  on 
that  awful  day,  and  I  give  you  this  in 
memory  of  those  who never came back. ’ ’ 
lady  took  a  rose 
from  her  bosom  and  fastened  it  above 
the  Grand  Army  badge  on  the 
lapel  of 
the  man’s  coat,  at  the  same  time  slip­
ping  a  dollar  into  his  hand.

As  she  spoke  the 

The  clerk  laughed  stridently  and  the 
lady’s  companions  emitted  faint  little 
screams  as  her dainty fingers touched the 
faded  coat.

“ He  may  have  some  awful  disease,”  

one  of  the  shoppers  said.

The  lady  hastened  toward  the  rear  of 
the  store— I  thought  to  escape  the  heart­
less  remarks  of  her  friends— and  the  old 
man  went  feebly  down  the  incline  and 
turned  up  the  street.  As  he  walked  he 
staggered,  as 
if  from  weakness,  and 
now  and  then  he  stopped  and  put  his 
hand  to  his  bleeding  face.  When  I  went 
back 
into  the  store  tfie  merchant  stood 
talking  with  the  lady  who  had given  the 
rose  to  the  soldier.

“ I’m  sorry  I  acted  so  like  a  brute,”  
he  was  saying. 
“ I'd  give  a  ten  dollar 
note  to  have  him  back here  this  minute. 
He  may  be  deserving  and  in  want.”

“ I  am  certain  of 

it,”   was  the  low 

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The  man  who  had  caused  this  little 
ripple  of  excitement  arose  paihfully  to 
his  feet  and  leaned  against  the  counter. 
There  was  a  wound  on  his  forehead, 
where  he  had  fallen  against a rake-tooth, 
and  the  blood  was  flowing  down  his 
face 
in  a  little  stream  and  dripping  on 
a  worn  and  faded  army  coat,  at  the 
lapel  of  which  shone  a  Grand  Army 
button.

“ Don’t 

lean  on  that  case,”   growled 
the  merchant,  “ you’ll  break  the  glass. 
Something  you  want?”

The  man,  who  was  old  and  gray,  with 
a  pitiful  stoop  at  the  shoulders,  wiped 
the  blood  from  his  face  with  the 
inside 
of  his  hand  and  turned  toward the  street 
again.

“ Look  out,  there!”   cried  the  fresh 
young  clerk,  “ you’ll  take  another  tum­
ble.  Whew !  but  you’ve  got  a  precious 
package!”

One  of  the  ladies  now  came  forward. 
“ Are  you  hurt?”   she  asked.
‘ ‘ I  lost  more  blood  than  that  at  Mal­
vern  H ill,”   said  the  old  man,  with  a 
faint  smile.  “ I  am  weak  and  ill,  that’s 
a ll.”

“ Oh,  he  wants  a  quarter to  get  home 
with, 
“ The  bums  all 
wear  blue  coats  and  Grand  Army  but­
tons  on  Decoration  D ay.”

said  the  clerk. 

“ I’m  no  bum,”   said  the  old  man, 
into  the  door­
stepping  angrily  back 
way,  “ and  I’m  not  drunk,  but  I  do 
need  a  little  money  to  get  home  with. 
I’ m  rather  lost,  wandering  about  in  the 
crowd. ”

“ I  told  you  so,”   cried  the  clerk.
“ I’ll  let  you  have  money  to  get  home 
said  the 
lady  who  had  spoken 
“ My  father  was  killed  at  Mal­

with, 
before. 
vern  H ill.”

“ How  foolish!”
“ H e’ll  only  buy  more  drink  with it!”  
The 
lady  turned  a  stern  face  toward 
her  companions  and  stepped  nearer to 
the  old  man.

How  much  do  you  require?”   she 

asked.

‘ ‘ Anywhere  from  a  dime  to  a dollar,”  

said  the  clerk  with  a  laugh.

“ Twenty  cents,I  think,”   said  the  old 
man.  “ I’ve  asked  in  several  places  this 
morning  and  been  refused.  They  are 
saving  their  money  for flowers  to  give 
the  dead,  I  presume.”

No, 

said  the 

lady,  kindly,  “ only

The  clerk  who  had  done  so  much 
talking  came  up  and  attempted  to  say 
something.

Say, 

said  the  merchant, 

turning 
fiercely  upon  him,  “ if  I  ever  hear of 
your  talking  that  way  again  to  a  person 
in  my  store,  drunk  or  sober,  I ’ll  dis­
charge  you.”

The  clerk  went  away  grumbling.
At  the  cemetery  that  afternoon  there 
were  many  old  soldiers  wandering  aim­
lessly  among  the  graves.  They  talked 
to  each  other  of  swift  battle  charges 
where  Death  took  three  and  left  one,  of 
lonely  nights  on  picket  duty  where  the 
closing  of  the  eyes  for an  instant  in­
vited  death,  of  days  in  Southern  pris­
ons,  where  men  wasted  away  to  skele­
tons  and  died  at  last  with images of cool 
Northern  homes  and  singing  streams  in 
their  despairing  brains.

There  was  a  little  commotion  at  one 
of  the  graves  as  I  walked  up  the  flower- 
embowered  avenue  with  my  friend  of 
the  morning  and  some  one,  calling  out 
that  a  soldier  had 
fainted,  asked  for 
water.

Pressed  forward  by  the  curious  crowd 
to  the  very  spot  whence  the  call  had 
come,  my  friend  bent  over a  man  who 
lay  with  his  face  upon  a  great  bunch  of 
lilies  which  decorated 
an  officer’s 
grave.  When  he  arose  his  face  was 
whiter  than  the  face  of  the  man  who 
lay  there.

lady’s 
is 

“ My  G od!”   he  said. 

“ The 

rose  is  still  upon  his  badge  and  he 
dead!”
The 

The 
soldier  had  ascended  a  mightier  em i­
nence  than  that  of  Malvern  H ill!

long  march  was  ended. 

“ If  I  had  but  known,”   said  my 
friend,  sadly. 
“ If  I  had  but  known!  I 
shall  see  his  face  forever— his  face  with 
the  blood  running 
from  it  as  I  turned 
him  aw ay!”

The  old  soldiers  recognized  the  body 
as  that  of  a  faithful  soldier  who— ill and 
old  and  heartbroken— had  sought  the 
grave  of  his  captain  to  make  the  last 
great  surrender,  and  buried  it  with  m il­
itary  honors.  And  many  in  the  city said 
with  my  friend  that  n igh t:

“ I  might  have  prevented  it. 

I  might 
have .,seen  how  ill  he  was  and  cared  for 
hlm- 

Alfred  B.  Tozer.

Remember  that  buyers  flock  to  the 
invit­

stores  where  it  is  made  the  most 
ing  and  interesting  for them,

PLENTY TO  PENURY.

Change  W rought  in  a  W eek  by  Fire  and 

Death.

This 

is  going  to  be  a  sermon  on  the 
folly  of  a  man’s  not  protecting  himself, 
his business and his fam ily— a sermon on 
the  folly  of  expecting  the  sun  to  always 
shine  and  Fortune  to  always  smile.

I  knew  Archer— this 

is  not  his  real 
name— for  about  thirty  years.  He  was 
a  man  who  turned  things  into  money.
■  He  wasn’t  an  especially  good  business 
man,  but  everything  he  did  prospered. 
Money  came  to  him.

I  believe 

in  luck  to  some  extent,  for 
that  is  the  only  explanation  to  make  of 
Archer’s  case.

Archer  had  a  grocery  and  dry  goods 
business  in  a  small  city  of  about  10,000, 
and  he  had  been  there  since  he  com­
menced  business.  He  had  the  largest 
stock 
in  the  place,  employed  the  most 
clerks  and  did  the  most  business.  His 
business  career  was  smooth  and  exceed­
ingly  sunny.  So  far as  1  know,  he  never 
had  a  break, 
last. 
When  people  would  talk  hard  times, 
Archer  would  smile  quietly  and  say  he 
had  no  reason  to  complain.  And  he 
hadn’t.

is,  until  the 

that 

Now,  I’m  going  to  tell  you  something 
that  will  surprise  you  business  men  who 
believe  in  taking  care  of  yourselves.

Archer  never,  so 

long  as  he  lived, 
carried  a  cent  of  life  insurance,  a  cent 
of  fire  insurance,  a  cent  of  accident 
in­
surance ;  he  never  belonged  to  a  build­
ing  association  or  a  beneficial  order. 
He  didn’t  see  the  need  of  these  things; 
he  had  lots  of  ready  money  and  he  had 
a  good  business ¡»life  was  easy,  plenty 
of  time,  and  so  on,  and  so  on.

laugh 

fatalist— believed  that 

His  friends,  and  his  wife,  and  his 
children  used  to  argue  long  and  vigor 
ously  with  Archer  about  these  things— 
it  off.  For  one  thing,  he 
he’d 
was  a 
certain 
things  had  to  be  anyhow  and  that  there 
was  no  use  monkeying  with  the  buzz 
saw  of  creation.  His  reason  for  not 
getting  his  life  insured  he  used  to  give 
everybody  very  frankly.  A   friend  of  his 
who  had 
himself  perfectly 
sound  made  application  for  life 
insur 
ance  and  went  up  for  medical  exami 
nation.  The  examination  disclosed  the 
fact  that  he  had  Bright’s  disease  well 
It  was  a  frightful  shock  and 
advanced. 
the  man  brooded  over  it. 
In  a  very 
short  time  he  died,  and  the  doctors  said 
that  worry  shortened  his  life  five  years

thought 

Archer  always  said  he  was  afraid  to 
undergo  a  medical  examination  for  just 
this  reason. 
It  was  a  poor  excuse;  in 
fact,  it  was  no  excuse  at  all,  but  1  can 
easily  understand  how  such  a  dread  of 
a  possible  revelation  could  stand  in  the 
way  of  a  man of sentimental disposition

As  for  fire  insurance,  Archer  had  no 

It  was  simply 

excuse  whatever. 
weak  putting  of  the  thing  off.  To  save 
my  life,  I  have  never  been  able  to  un 
derstand  how  a  man  could  be  content  to 
live  with  a  sword  hanging  over his head 
like  this.  Archer  owned  his  home  and 
he  owned  his  storebuilding.  Together, 
these  stood  him  about  $19,000,  and a  fire 
in  either  of  them  meant,  of  course,  that 
the  loss  would  fall  on  him  alone.

I  talked  the  need  of  insurance  to  him 
many  times  and  one  argument  I  ad 
vanced was  that  the carrying  of  good  in 
surance  was  really  an  asset.  A   man 
creditors, 
I  said,  would  grant  him 
larger  line  of  credit  when  he  was  pro­
tected  by 
I  can  hear  now 
what  he  sa id :

insurance. 

“ But  I  don’t  want  a  larger  line  of 

credit. 

I  pay  my  bills  as  I  g o .’ ’

I  have  known  lots  of  men  who  didn’t

go  in  for  insurance  and  such  things,  but 
every  one  of  them  but  Archer took  it 
out  in  saving  money.  They  would  pile 
way  every  cent 
they  had  and  they 
thought  that  that  plan  was  much  better 
than  gambling,  as  they  called 
it,  on 
their  house  burning  down  or  their  life 
snuffing  out.

let 

it  burn,  and 

I  once  knew  an  old  lady  who  had  con­
scientious  scruples  against  fire  insur­
ance. 
“ If  the  Lord  wants  my  house  to 
burn  down,”   said  the  dear,  pious  old 
soul,  “ he  will 
it’s 
wicked 
for  me  to  take  chances  on  it.”  
The  time  came,  however,  when  this  old 
ady  needed  to  borrow  money  on  her 
house.  Nobody  would 
lend  her  a  cent 
on  an  uninsured  house,  so  smash  went 
her  conscientious  scruples  and  up  went 
the  good  old  soul  and  took  the insurance 
ike  a  little  man.
Well, 

to  Archer.  He 
wasn’t  one  of  those  who  saved  money. 
He  not  only  didn’t  take  out  protective 
nsurance,  but  he  spent  like  water  the 
money  that  might  have  protected  him  if 
he  had  saved 
it.  He  gave  his  wife 
and  his  daughters  everything  they  could 
want.  They  lived  up  with  the  best  peo- 
le  in  the  town.  They  kept  their  own 
team—always  two  horses  and  sometimes 
three.  One  year  his  wife  and  one 
daughter  went  to  Europe.  That  must 
have  cost  Archer  a  thousand  dollars  if 
t  cost  him  a  cent,  yet  he  handed  it 
over  without  a  murmur.

to  get  back 

To  make  a 

long  story  short,  Archer 
didn’t  do  the  best  thing  with his money, 
but  he  got  a  whole  heap  of  pleasure  out 
of  it  while  it  lasted.

Now,  I’m  going  to  end  this  story 

in 
i  very  hackneyed  way.  There  happened 
to  Archer  precisely  what  you  would  ex­
pect  to  happen— he  went  to  bed  one 
night  worth  $19,000  in  real  estate,  and 
some  $12,000  or  $15,000 
in  stock,  and 
he  awoke  in  the  morning  without a cent.
It  was  a  windy  night  in  March—only 
a  few  weeks  ago.  The  house  adjoined 
the  store  on  the  main  street  of  the  town. 
They  believed  that  the  stove  in  the store 
tipped  over  and  scattered  a  whole 
bushel  of  burning  coals on the floor.  The 
building  was  of  frame,  and  the  flames 
leaped  to  heaven  in  an  instant.  Archer 
and  his  family  were  awakened by smoke 
and  flame  in  their  home.  They  got  out 
as  quickly  as  they  could,  and  by  that 
¡me  the  firemen  were  there,  but  noth­
ing  could  make  any  headway  against 
It  was  a  bad 
that  hurricane  of  wind. 
wind  for  a  man  who  had  no 
insurance.
Well,  the  property  was  burned  to  the 
ground— house  and  furniture,  store  and 
stock— and  there  wasn’t  one  single  cent 
of  insurance  on  any  of  it.  The  flames 
had 
licked  up  over  $30,000  worth  of 
property  in  a  few  hours.

Archer  was  penniless,  but  there  is 
worse  to  tell— much  worse.  Archer  went 
out  to  give  what  little  aid  he  could  to 
fight  the  fire.  Accidentally,  he  got 
in 
range  of  a  stream  of  icy  water  from  the 
hose  and  was  drenched  from  head  to 
foot.  He  didn't  change  his  clothes.  All 
night  he  stood  in  the  fierce  wind,  half 
frozen,  thinking  only  that  a  few heaps of 
burned  brick  and  timbers  represented 
the  work  of  thirty  years.

The  next  day  Archer  was  sick  in bed, 
in  a  neighbor’s  house.  He  developed 
pneumonia— died  in  two  days.

Now 

just  mark  the  difference  one 
in  a  man’s  financial 
week  can  make 
condition.  At the beginning  of  the  week 
of  the  fire  Archer  was a man of property. 
He  had  probably  $35,000 
in  house, 
household  goods,  store  and  stock,  and 
he  had  a  business  that  was  paying  him 
at  least  $5,000 a  year.  He  was  in  good 
health,  strong  and  happy,  and  saw  no 
need  for  either  life,  fire  or beneficial  in­
surance.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

At  the  beginning  of  the  next  week  he 
was  dead— in  a  neighbor’s  house.  He 
hadn’t  had  even  a  bed  of  his  own  to  die 
on.  He  had 
lost  every  dollar,  every 
stick  of  furniture,  every  cent’s  worth  of 
stock  and  his  business.  His  family 
were  penniless,  his  wife  a  widow,  his 
children  fatherless.  And  the  astound­
ing  feature  of  the  case  is  that  every  one 
of  this  overwhelming  series  of  misfor­
tunes  came  solely  from  Archer’s  short­
sighted  idea  that  protection  to  his  prop­
erty  and  his 
family  was  one  of  the 
things  that  would  do  to-morrow  just  as 
well  as  to-day.
Before  1  decided  to  write  this  article 
1  wrote  to  a  friend  in  Archer’s  town, 
asking  what  had  become  of  the  widow. 
He  wrote  back  that  she  was  a  sort  of 
housekeeper 
in  a  rich  relative’s  house 
in  Kansas  City.  One  of  the  daughters 
is  a|pensioner  on  the  bounty  of  an  aunt, 
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Butter  and  Eggs

Observations  by  a Gotham  Egg  Man.
Practically  the  selling  of  eggs by com 
mission  merchants  is  governed  to  some 
extent  by  the  Exchange  rules,  but  it 
noticed  that  during  the  past  few  years 
there  has  been  an  effort  to  sell  more and 
more  of  the  egg  receipts  on  a  case count 
basis,  even  during  the  loss  off  season 
and  now  about  the  only  goods  whic 
are  ordinarily  sold 
loss  off  are  the 
regular  packings  of  ungraded  or  im 
properly  graded  eggs  which  contain  1  
sufficient  percentage  of  fine 
fresh  eggs 
to  satisfy  the  better  class  of  jobbing 
trade,  but  which  also  contain  so  many 
defective  and  worthless  eggs  as  to  make 
it  difficult  to  determine  their  real  value 
on  a  case  count  basis  without  taking  a 
the  stock  out.  Of  course  this  class  of 
large  proportion  of 
stock  comprises  a 
is  also  a  large 
the  receipts,  but  there 
quantity  of  stock 
for  which  receivers 
have  been  able  to  establish  case  count 
sales  at  all  seasons.  These  comprise 
(at  this  season)  such 
fancy  selected 
goods  as  show  very  light  and  very  uni 
form  losses  and  for  which  packers  have 
established  a  reputation  among  buyers 
second,  all  sorts  of  cull  eggs— dirties 
checks,  etc.  ;  third,  all  such  regula. 
packed  eggs  as  are  too  poor  in  quality 
to  give  satisfaction  to  a  good  class  of 
trade  even  on  a 
loss  off  basis,  and 
which  have  to  seek  outlets  among  the 
buyers  of  cheap  eggs.

In  considering  the  merits  and  de 
loss  off  system  the  first 
merits  of  the 
feature  that  strikes  the 
impartial  ob 
server  is  the  virtual  control  of  price 
which  the  system  throws  into  the  hands 
of  the  egg  buyer.  This 
is  not  to  say 
that  the  egg  dealers  as  a  rule  are  not  to 
be  trusted  in  point  of  honesty.  There 
are  doubtless  some  among  them  who 
use  the 
loss  off  power  dishonorably, 
but  these, soon  get  a  bad  reputation  and 
have  difficulty  in  buying,  and  as  a  class 
there 
is  no  reason  for  considering  the 
egg  dealer  as  less  scrupulous  than  any 
other  class  of  merchants.  But  even 
where  the  character of  the  dealer  is  un­
questionable 
is  found  that  losses  on 
the  same  eggs  are  variable;  and  this  is 
perfectly  natural.  There  are  various 
standards  of  quality  and  methods  of 
candling,  and  one  dealer,  with  perfect­
ly  honorable 
intentions,  will  candle 
much  closer  than  another. 
In  this  way 
a  number  of  dealers,  buying  stock  at  a 
uniform price, will obtain,after candling, 
various  grades  of  eggs,  some  of  which 
are  intrinsically  worth  more than others. 
Again, 
in  very  unfavorable  weather, 
increase  from  day  to  day, 
when 
loss  off  system  throws  the  brunt  of 
the 
deterioration  upon  the  shipper 
for  a 
time  even  after  the  buyer has  purchased 
the  stock.

losses 

it 

*  *  *

It 

is  probable  that  some  grades  of 
eggs,  sold  to  some  dealers,  will  really 
net  more  when  sold  loss  off than  when 
sold  at  mark ;  this  is  because  if  buyers 
were  compelled  to  buy  at  mark  they 
would 
insist  upon  the  price  being  low 
enough  to  cover  probable  loss  on  goods 
of  doubtful  quality,  whereas  the  actual 
loss  might  prove 
less  than  estimated. 
But 
is  quite  certain  that  if  all  eggs 
were  sold  at  mark  actual  merit,  as  con­
trolled  by  the  method  of  selection  and 
packing  in  the  country,  would  be  better 
appreciated  and  paid  for and this would 
soon  induce  a  closer grading  at  primary 
points. 
is  hard  to  see  why  dealers 
should  seriously  object  to  the  case count 
method  of  selling;  probably  most  of

It 

it 

if 
them  would  as  soon  buy  in  this  way 
they  could  be  sure  of  getting  practically 
perfect  goods  or  goods  packed  in  such 
careful  manner  as  to  make  the  loss 
very  light  and  uniform,  and  if  the  sys­
tem  were  adopted  the  supply  of  such 
goods  would  undoubtedly 
increase  by 
reason  of  the  greater variation  in whole­
sale  price  and  the  fact  that  full  value 
could 
be  realized  only  on  properly 
packed  eggs.

*  *  *

I  am  inclined  to  think  that  one  of  the 
in  the  way  of  selling 
chief  obstacles 
average  prime  eggs  at  mark 
in  the 
warm  season  is  the  effort  on  the  part  of 
receivers  to  return  “ outside quotations”  
and  the  insistance  of  shippers  upon  this 
conformity  between  sales  and  top  pub- 
ished  rates.  Of  course  much  irregular 
ty  of  quality  is  compensated  by various 
losses  and  irregular  grades  of  eggs  are 
salable  at  a  uniform  price  per  dozen 
when  the  loss  is  allowed  after  the  price 
s  agreed  upon.  Taking  various  lots  of 
eggs 
in  which  the  good  are  of  equa. 
quality  and  the  loss  varies  from  say  one 
to  three  dozen,  if this  loss  is  allowed  the 
goods  may  all  sell  at  a  uniform  price, 
but 
if  sold  case  count  the  price  would 
have  to  vary  perhaps  a  cent  a  dozen 
nd 
impossible  to  return 
the  heavier  loss  lots  at  a quotation based 
m  the  value  of  the  better goods. 
If 
shippers  want  to  encourage  mark selling 
they  will  have  to  cultivate  a satisfaction 
th  sales  at  irregular  prices— strictly 
n  accordance  with  quality  and  condi­
tion  and 
is  this  very  irregularity 
hich  would  tend  to  encourage  closer 
;rading  and  the  establishment  of  repu­
tation  for  the  brand.

it  would  be 

it 

♦  *  *

I  saw  a  truckload  of  eggs  going  out 
of  a  Harrison  street  store  the  other  day 
on  which  were  many  cases  whose  covers 
rere 
black  as  the  ace  of  spades. ’ ’ 
What’s  the  matter  with  those  cases?”  
asked  of  the  merchant. 
“ They’ve 
been  smoked, ’ ’  he  answered. 
It  seems 
that  the  car  containing  these  goods  had 
been  part  of  a  train  which  met  with  an 
accident  in  transit  in  which  part  of  the 
rs  had  been  destroyed  and  burned  ; 
the  trouble  occurred  in  a  tunnel  and  the 
moke  penetrated  this  car,  depositing  a 
u:ck  layer  of  soot  on  the  top  cases  and 
permeating  the  packing  of  all. 
It  was 
car  of  storage  packed  eggs  and  the 
smoke  so  flavored  the  eggs  that the price 
had  to  be  shaded  to  1 ic  to  find  a  buyer. 
Smoked  eggs  ate  not  in  as  high  favor 
smoked  hams.— New  York  Produce 

Review.

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Match  Co.,  said  sale  having  been  made 
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vote  she  took  her  little  girl  to  school 
did  one  day  s  marketing,  cast  her  ballot 
and  got  home  inside  of  twenty  minutes.
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HOW  TO  TELL  GOOD  BUTTER.

Things  W orth K now ing About That Great 

From the New York Sun.

Staple.

Denmark 

is  the  great  butter  produc­
ing  country  of  the  world,  but  the  United 
States  is  a  good  second,  and  the  cream­
ery  industry, which  declined  a  few  years 
ago  on  account  of  a  fall  in butter prices, 
is  once  more  booming.  Twenty  years 
ago  the  United  States  knew  very  little 
about  scientific  buttermaking.  The  New 
York  butter  supply  came  from  the  small 
dairies  of  the 
farmers  throughout  the 
State,  and  its  quality,  depending  large­
ly  upon  the  mood  and  skill  of  the  farm­
ers’  wives  and  daughters,  was  as  vari­
able  as  March  weather.  Anything 
like 
a  uniform  quality  was  practically  an 
impossibility.

“ Occasionally,”   said  the  butter  buy­
er  for  one  of  New  York’s  largest  retail 
grocery  firms  to  a  Sun  reporter,  “ a  man-. 
— the  same  man  who  talks  about  the 
pies  his  mother  used  to  make— bewails 
the  passing  of  the  good  old  purple  tubs 
of  Orange  county  butter.  Now,  the  fact 
is  that  we  couldn’t  to-day dispose  of  the 
kind  of  butter  we  used  to  sell.  Our 
customers  wouldn’t  have  it.  They  are 
used  to  uniformly  good  butter,  and  they 
will  not  put  up  with  any  lowering  of the 
quality.  Of  course,  there  is  bad  butter 
on  the  market.  Some  of  the  creameries 
turn  out  an  inferior  article.  So  much 
depends  upon  the  breeding  of  the  cows 
and  their  care,  the  kind  of  pasture,  the 
skill  of  the  workers;  and  those  things 
vary.  A  short  time  ago  competition  in 
the  creamery  business  was  so  great  and 
profit  so  small  that  a  good  many  cream­
eries  tried  to  cut  down  expenses  by  hir­
ing  cheap  workmen.  The  effect  was 
seen 
in  the  quality  of  the 
butter.  Just  at  this  season  there’s  a 
fault  in  much  of  the  butter  that  is  a  re­
sult  of  carelessness  or  false  economy  on 
the  part  of  the  farmers.  The  pasturage 
is  still  very  scanty ;  but  in  order  to  save 
heavy  feeding  and  to  improve  the  color 
of  the  butter  the  cows  are  turned  out  to 
grass.  There’s  very 
little  grass,  but 
there’s  plenty  of  wild  garlic,  and  the 
cows 
it.  The  people  who  use  the 
milk  and  cream  and 
butter  don’t. 
There’s  the  difficulty.  Much of  the but­
ter  in  market  has  more  or  less  what  we 
call  the  onion  flavor  and  is  objection­
able  on  that  account.  Either  the farmers 
should  have  the  pasture  examined  care­
fully  and  the  wild  garlic  rooted  out  or 
the  cows  should  be  fed  until  the  pasture 
is  more  luxuriant.  After  the  clover  and 
thick  grass  come  the  cow  will  turn  up 
her  nose  at  the  garlic.

immediately 

like 

is  at 

“ June  is  the  best  month,  because  the 
pasture 
its  best  then;  and,  as  a 
consequence,  the  butter  made  then  has 
better  keeping  qualities  than  any  other. 
Almost  all  the  butter  stored  for  winter 
use  and 
for  purposes  of  speculation  is 
June  butter.  Of  course,  the  price  is  low 
in  June;  that’s  another  reason  why  June 
butter  is  bought  for  speculation.  There 
are  a  good  many  kinds  of  fancy  butter 
on  the  market— butter  put  up  in  small 
pats  by  certain  creameries  and supposed 
to  be  extra  good.  The  cows  used  by 
these  dealers  are  fed  with  special  care 
on  clover  hay,  Indian  meal,  etc.,  and 
the  butter  is  put  up  in  attractive  shape 
and  sold  at  a  fancy  price.  I  don’t  know 
that,  as  a  rule,  it  is  any  better  than  the 
regular  creamery  butter;  but  some  of 
it 
our  customers  will  have  it.  Mo^  of 
farmers.  As 
comes  from  Pennsylvania 
a  general  thing,  though,  the 
individual 
farmer  can’t  compete with the creamery.
is  an  exact  science 
now  and  the  farmer’s  wife  who  thought 
she  knew  all  about 
it  isn’t  in  it  with 
the  centrifugal  machine,  and  the weigh­
ing  machine,  and  the  Pasteurizing  ap­
paratus. 
It’s  a  good  cow  that  can  pro­
duce  a  pound  of  butter  a  day  for  nine 
months  out  of  the  year.  Now  take  the 
cost  of  keeping  and  feeding  the  cow, 
the  cost  of  making  the  butter,  the  cost 
of  the  tubs,  the  cost  of  shipping,  and 
the  profits  of  the  wholesale  and  retail 
dealers.  Add  all  those  items  together, 
and  remember  that  butter  is  selling  for 
25  cents  a  pound.  Where are  you  going 
to  figure  out  any  profit  for  the  small 
farmer?  So  to-day,  buttermaking  must 
be  done  on  a  large  scale  and  by  scien-

”  Buttermaking 

Illinois, 

too  conservative 

tific  methods  in  order  to  be  profitable.”
The  West  is  the  home  of  the creamery 
industry  to-day. 
Iowa,  M in­
nesota,  Nebraska  and  neighboring  states 
produce  85  per  cent,  of  the  butter  on  the 
market,  and  the  market  price 
is  deter­
mined  by  the  Chicago  Board  of  Trade, 
although  New  York  City  is  the  greatest 
distributing  center.  The  Eastern  farm­
ers,  who  originally  had  control  of  the 
to 
industry,  were 
adopt  the  scientific  methods 
introduced 
in  Denmark. 
with  admirable  results 
The  West  saw 
its  opportunity.  Large 
creameries  were  established  in  the  Mis­
sissippi  States.  Denmark  methods  were 
closely  copied,  and  the  Eastern  farmer, 
finding  that  buttermaking  had  gone  out 
of  his  hands,  fell  back  upon  milk  and 
cheese.  Recently,  however,  the  wave 
that  surged  westward  has been receding, 
and  the  East,  New  York  in  particular, 
having  at  last  awakened  to  a  realization 
that  the  new  methods  are  necessary,  has 
been  setting  up  a  number  of 
large 
creameries.

Although  the  West  has  been  doing  the 
business,  the  East  can  console 
itself 
with  the  thought  that 
it  has  at  least 
been  furnishing  the  science.  The  fes­
tive  germ  has  had  a  great  field 
in  but­
ter.  Over  in  Denmark  scientists  made 
amazing  and unappetizing discoveries in 
regard  to  the  bacteria  in  butter,  and  a 
Pasteurizing  process  was  promptly  ap­
plied.  That  settled  the  bacteria,  but  it 
also  settled  the  butter.  Germless  butter 
proved  sadly  without  flavor.  The  scien­
tists  went  to  work  once  more  and  found, 
by  experiment,  just  what  bacteria  were 
a  feature  of  the  best  butter.  These  aris­
tocrats  among  germs  were  then  propa­
gated  carefully  and  introduced  in 
judi­
cious  quantities 
into  the  butter,  after 
Pasteurization  had  wiped  out  all  ple­
beian  bacteria.  The  up-to-date  cream­
eries  all  use  the  process  now. 
The 
cream 
is  subjected  to  a  temperature  of 
160  degrees,  and  then  is  inoculated with 
pure  culture.  For  any  butter  eater  who 
objects  to the  idea  the  only  consolation 
to  be  offered  is  that  of  the  Wonderland 
March  Hare  at  the  Mad  Tea  Party. 
“ I 
told  you  butter  wouldn’t  suit  the  works 
of  your  watch,”   growled  the  Hatter. 
“ It  was  the  best  butter,”   said 
the 
March  Hare,  plaintively.
One  of  the  greatest  authorities  on  the 
culture  of  bacteria  for  butter  is  a  Bos­
ton  man,  who  develops  the  culture  in 
his 
laboratory  and  sells  it  all  through 
the  West.  So  new  laurels  are  due  Bos­
ton.  She’s 
inoculating  even  the  butter 
of  the  land  with  pure  culture.
The  centrifugal  machine 

is  another 
in  modem  buttermaking. 
great 
Through 
the 
is  separated 
from  the  milk  more  thoroughly than  was 
ever  possible 
in  the  old  process.  Not 
five-tenths  of  1  per  cent,  cream  remains 
with  the  milk.  Ordinarily  a 
large 
creamery 
is  a  co-operative  affair,  the 
farmers  of  the  neighborhood  having  a 
share  in  it  and furnishing the  milk.  The 
farmer  brings  his  milk  to  the  front  of 
the  building  where 
is  accurately 
weighed.  Then  he  drives  around  to  the 
back  of  the  building  where  the  milk 
is 
delivered  to  him  again,  having 
in  the 
meantime  passed  through the centrifugal 
machine  and  been  separated 
from  the 
cream.  The  skim  milk  is  taken  back  to 
the  farm  and  fed  to  the  stock.  Almost 
all  butter  has  a  small  percentage  of  col­
oring  matter— the  winter  butter  contain­
ing  more  because  it  is  naturally  whiter 
than  butter  made  during  the  summer 
when  the  cows  are 
in  pasture.  Less 
coloring  matter  is  used  than  formerly, 
and  the  public  has  been  educated  to  a 
lighter-colored  butter.

factor 
it 

cream 

As  for  the  adulteration  of  butter, 
stringent 
laws  have  practically  done 
away  with  it.  Oleomargarine  is  on  the 
market  in  large  quantities,  but  the 
law 
requires  that  it  shall  be  stamped as oleo­
margarine.  Moreover,  there 
law 
in  New  York  forbidding  under  severe 
penalty  the  use  of  any  coloring  matter 
in  oleomargarine,  which,  in  its  natural 
condition,  is  white  and  easily  distin­
guished  from  butter.  Some  unscrupu­
lous  retail  dealers  do  sell  oleomargarine 
as  butter,  but  the  risk 
is  now  so  great 
that  few  are  willing  to  take  it.

is  a 

it 

The  successful  butter  buyer needs long 
experience  and  a  marvelously  educated

If  there 
in 

palate.  He  must  be  able  to  judge  the 
grain  of  the  butter,  its  keeping  quality 
and  the  amount  of  coloring  matter  used 
in  it. 
is  the  slightest  foreign 
flavor 
it  he  must  know  to  what  it  is 
due,  and  how  it  will  affect  the  butter  in 
course  of  time.  The  expert  can  give  a 
shrewd  guess  at  the 
food  of  the  cows 
from  whose  milk  the  butter  has  been 
made,  and  can  detect  in  a  second  any 
carelessness  in  the  making.  Much  of 
the  fault  in  butter  as  served  on  the table 
is  due  to  the  handling  and  storing, 
rather than  to  the  making.

“ If  we 

could  only  accomplish  a 
lightning  transfer  from  the  wholesale 
house  to  the  table,”   said  a  well-known 
retail  dealer,  “ there  would  be  less  com­
plaint  about  butter.  By  the  time 
is 
brought  from  the  wholesale  to  the  retail 
house,  cut  up  and  stored  here,  taken  out 
and  carted  around  in  delivery  wagons 
with  all  sorts  of  other  packages,  care­
lessly  handled  and 
lying  around 
the  kitchen  at  the  house  where  it  is  de­
livered,  tucked  away 
in  a  refrigerator

left 

it 

The 

exportation 

with  watermelon  and  meat  and fruit,and 
finally served from a  hot,  smelly kitchen, 
even  the  best  butter  has 
lost  a  good 
deal  of  its  purity  and  sweetness.”
of  butter 

is,  of 
course,  governed  by  the  price  prevail­
ing  here;  but 
large  figures 
each  year.  Last  year  115,000  tubs  of 
butter were  sent  to  Europe and 5,500,000 
tubs  to  the  West  Indies and South Amer­
ica.

it  reaches 

Made  Crazy  liy  Illriudied  Hair.

She  Do  you  believe  that  bleaching 

the  hair  will  drive  a  person  insane?

He—Sure  thing.  Why,  I  know  two 
fellows  who  are  crazy  over 

or  three 
bleached  blondes.

It 

too 

light-  that 

is  a  great  deal  better  to have  your 
expenses 
is  to  cut  off 
some  things  that  you  really need— rather 
than  to  have  them  too  heavy.  Expenses 
are  something  that  can  not  be  attended 
to 
just  once  or  twice  a  year;  but  they 
require  constant  watching,  day  after 
day.

Poultry,  Eggs  and  Butter--

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

J.  COURT  &  SON,  Marshall,  Mich.

Branch  house at Allegan,  Mich.

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

Both  l’hones at Allegan.

BUTTER  WANTED

Roll or packing stock.  Write for  prices.  Cash  f.  o. b.  car  lots  or 
small  shipments.  We  are  the  largest  packers  of  Imitations  or 
Ladles in  Michigan.

H.  N.  RANDALL,  T eko nsha,  M ic h.
C OL D   S T O R A G E

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

GRAND RAPIDS COLD STORAGE CO.

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

50,000  Pounds of  Butter  Wanted

To  be  packed  in  syrup  or  molasses  barrels  or  well-soaked 
sugar  barrels,  for  which  we  will  pay  the  highest  market 
price.  We  are  also  in  the  market  for  FRESH   EGGS.
Write  or  wire  us  for  prices.

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

J.  W.  FLEMING,  Belding. 

THE  VINKEMULDER  COMPANY
N E W   G R E E N   S T U F F

Headquarters for

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.

14  O TTAW A  STR E E T,  GRAND  R APIDS,  M ICH.

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Produce

Saving a  Penny  and  Lotting  a Pound.
At  this  season  of  year  between  spring 
and  summer  dressed  poultry  dealers  ex­
perience  much  trouble  owing  to  the  fact 
that  stock  arrives  out  of  condition  and 
large  amounts of  money  are  lost  because 
of 
low  and  unprofitable  prices 
realized  for  this  poor-conditioned  poul- 
try.

the 

During  cold  weather  shippers  send 
their  dressed  poultry  dry-packed,  but 
as  soon  as  the  weather  becomes  warm 
the  poultry  is  iced,  and  there  seems  to 
be  great  difficulty  at  times  in  getting 
the  iced  poultry  through  in  fine  condi­
tion.  The  stock  will  arrive  with  ice  al­
most  melted  off  and  often  entirely gone, 
and  the  poultry  more  or  less  out  of  con­
dition.  There  seems  to  be  more  poultry 
spoiled  in  transit  during  this  season  of 
year  than  any  other time,  the  quantity 
even  exceeding  amount  damaged during 
the  very  warm  weather,  and  the  natura 
is  that  the  fault  lies  with  thi 
inference 
shipper  and 
is  largely  due  to  careless 
ness.

If  poultry  can  be 

iced  and  brought 
here 
from  the  West  or  South  in  good 
condition  during  midsummer  there  cer 
tainly  should  be  no  difficulty  in  placing 
it  on  the  market  in  the  spring in  perfect 
condition,  as  the  weather  is  much  cool 
er  then  than  during  the  summer. 
it 
always  difficult  to  get  the  animal  heat 
entirely  out  of  poultry,  as  well  as  other 
meat,  and 
is  thought  that  much  of 
the  stock  which  arrives  out  of  condition 
has  not  been  thoroughly  cooled  before 
icing,  the  comparatively  cool  weather 
doubtless  causing  packers  to  give  this 
than 
important  matter 
they  should.  But  the  main  trouble 
is 
the  lack  of  ice  used  by  shippers.

less  attention 

It 

it 

During  really  hot  weather  the  shipper 
ices  the  stock  thoroughly  and  it  usually 
comes  through  all  right,  but  while  the 
weather  is  cool,  as  at  present,  shippers 
use  less  ice  to  carry  the  stock  and  while 
it  reaches  here 
in  good  shape  if  the 
weather  keeps  cool,  every  warm  spell, 
or  in  fact  every  warm  day,  that  appears 
rapidly  melts  the  ice  and  the  poultry  is 
ruined  before  it  reaches  the  market,  so 
far  as  top  market  prices  are  concerned, 
as  it  has  to  be  forced  off  to  cheap  trade 
for  what  it  will  bring.

It  is  a  certainly  pennywise  and  pound 
foolish  policy  for  shippers  to  try  and 
save  a  little  on  their  ice  accounts  at  the 
expense  of  their  poultry.  The  loss 
in­
curred  every 
few  shipments  by  having 
their  stock  arrive  out  of  condition  is 
much  greater  than  the  cost  of  a  little 
more  ice  with  each  shipment,  and  it 
is 
hoped  that  some  effort  will  be  made  by 
shippers  to  remedy  this  long-time  evil, 
which  is  a  drain  on  thfe  larger  and  reg­
ular  shippers  as  much  if  not  mote  than 
on  the  smaller  shippers.  With 
care 
loss  could  be  avoided  by  operators 
this 
and 
it  would  be  a  great  saving*to  the 
shipper  and  receiver  of  both  annoyance 
and  money.

All  last  week  many  receivers  reported 
stock  arriving  out  of  condition  and  so 
far this week  the same  complaint is  gen­
eral.  Commission  receivers  complain 
that  while  the 
fault  is  entirely  that  of 
the  shipper  it  is  very  difficult  to  satisfy 
him  with  the  necessarily 
low  price 
which  must  be  accepted  for the  stock.—  
New  York  Produce  Review.
Inereasing Consumption  o f Coffee  in  This 
From the New  York  Commercial.

Country.

The 

importations  of  coffee  into  this 
country,  chiefly  from  Brazil,  have  near­
ly  doubled  in  twenty  years.  They  were

in  pounds 

809,000,000  pounds  in  1897,  804,000,000 
in  1898  and  878,000,000  in  1899.  All  the 
imports  of  coffee,  however,  are  not  for 
domestic  use,  as  25,000,000  pounds  a 
year  are  reshipped  to  foreign  countries. 
These  are  the  figures  of  importations  of 
coffee 
in  the  years  named, 
with  the  population  of  the  country  ap­
proximated  for  the  same  time,  which 
shows  the  extent  to  which  the  American 
consumption  of  coffee  has  been  increas 
ing:
Year 
Pounds 
•874..............................285,000,000 
•880..............................446,000,000 
•890.............................. 499,000,000 
•892.............................. 640,000.000 
•893.............................. 563,000.000 
•897.............................. 809,000,000 
•898.............................. 804,(XX),000 
•899.............................. 878,000,000 

Population
42,000,000
50,000,000
60,000,000
65,000 (XX)
67,000,000
72,000,000
74,000,000
76,000,000
is  the  chief  port  for  the 
its  closest  rival 
shipment  of  coffee, 
years  ago,  being  Baltimore, 
twenty 
which  received  20  per  cent,  of  all  the 
coffee  imported  into  this  country,  New 
York  getting  60,  and  the  remaining  20 
per  cent,  being  divided  between  the 
Pacific,  Gulf  and  New  England  ports. 
Hojland,^  Belgium, 
the 
United  States  and  Germany  are  the  five 
countries  in  which  there  is  the 
largest 
per  capita  consumption  of  coffee,  and 
the  figures  for  Germany,  the  partiality 
of  whose  inhabitants  for  coffee  drink­
ing  is  very  marked,  would  probably  be 
higher  than  they are but for the extensive 
use  of ^ substitutes. 
imports  of 
coffee 
into  Germany  were  to  the  value 
of  845,000,000  last  year.

Switzerland, 

New  York 

The 

The  consumption  per  capita  of  coffee 
in  the  United  States  has  been  steadily 
increasing  of  very  recent  years. 
It  is 
now  40  per  cent,  greater,  according  to 
the  Treasury  figures,  than 
it  was  ten 
years  ago,  and  the  popularity  of  tea,  so 
great 
in  England  and  Russia,  is  grad­
ually  diminishing.  Cuba,  Puerto  Rico 
and  Hawaii  all  export  coffee,  and  the 
quality  of  the  Puerto  Rico  coffee  is  cer­
tain  to  secure  for  it  a  larger market  in 
the  United  States  in  the  future.

To  a  very  considerable  extent  coffee 
s  the  drink  of  cities,  as  tea  is  of  the 
rural  districts,  and  one  probable  reason 
for  the  vast  increase  in  coffee  drinking 
during  the  past  few  years,  entirely  apart 
from  a  more  general  appreciation  of  the 
best  methods  of  preparing  it,  is  to  be 
found  in  the  increase  of  urban  popula­
tion  and  the  extension  of  city  ways  tc 
minor towns.

The  Child’s  Sym pathy.

A 

little  girl  of  five  or  six  years,  with 
big  blue  eyes  that  were  full  of  tears, 
came  to  Bellevue  Hospital  the  other 
day.  She  carried a  cat in  her  arms.  The 
cat  had  been  wounded  by  a  street  car, 
and  one  leg  was  badly  mangled.

At  the  gate  the  girl'told  Tom,  the  big 

policeman,  that  the  cat  was  hurt.

I want  a  doctor  to  help i t !' ’ she said. 
Tom  took  her to  the  receiving  ward, 
where  there  was  a  doctor  who  had  noth- 
'ng  else  to  do.

Here  s  a  case,  doc, ”  said the police­

man.

I  ain’t  a— , ”  the doctor began.  Then 
“ Let  me  see,’ ’ 

he  saw  the  girl’s  eyes. 
he  continued.

Pretty  bad, ’ ’  was  the  doctor’s  com­
ment.  The  he  got  some  knives,  a  little 
bottle  of  chloroform  and  some  band­
ages. 
“ You  must help  m e,’ ’  he  said  to 
the  girl.

She  aided  bravely,  although  it  made 
her  very  pale  to  see  the  sharp  knives 
amputating  the  leg. 
In  a  few  minutes 
it  was  all  over and  the  cat  was  partly 
recovering  from  the  anaesthetic.

“ Now  you  can  take  your  kitty  home 

with  you,’ ’  said  the  doctor.

“ It  ain’t  m ine,’ ’ the  girl  said. 

“ I 
des  found  it.  Now  00  take  care  of  it. 
Dood-bye. ”   The  policeman  and  doctor 
made  faces  at  each  other,  then  sent  the 
cat  to  the  Society  for  the  Prevention  of 
Cruelty  to  Animals.

Its  Peculiar  Merit.
is  your  favorite  recitation?”  

“ What 

asked  the  hostess.

“   ‘ Curfew Shall Not Ring To-night. ’  ”  
answered  Mr.  Blykins  with  a  prompt­
ness  which  was  almost  defiant.

‘ ‘ Why,  nobody recites that any more !”
“ That’s  why  I  like  it.”   ^

Walker 

Egg&Produce Co.,

54-56 Woodbridge  Street, W.  24 Market  Street.  484 18th Street,  Detroit, Mich.

150 King Street,  161-163 King Street, Chatham, Ontario.

Commission Merchants and

Wholesale  Butter and  Eggs.

W e are  in  the market for

200,000  lbs. Dairy Butter,  100,000 doz.  Eggs.
Write us for prices.  We pay CASH   on arrival.  We handle in  our  Detroit 
stores a full  line of Country  Produce,  Fruits, Cheese,  Beans, Peas, etc.  W e 
can  handle your  consignments  promptly  and  make  satisfactory  returns. 
Send  us your shipments.  Established  15  years.

References:  Any  Detroit or Chicago bank.

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General  Produce and  Dairy  Products. 

Quotations on our market furnished promptly upon  application

Wholesale  Fruits, 

B U FFA LO .  N.  Y . 

O ar Vinegar to be an A B S O L U T E L Y  P U R E  A P P L E  JU ICE V IN ­
E G A R .  T o  anyone  who  will  analyze  it  and  find an y deleterious 
acids, or anything that is not produced from the apple, we  will forfeit

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W e  also  guarantee  it  to  be  of  full  strength  as  required  by  law .  W e  w ill 
Prosecute  any  person  found  using  our  packages  for  cider  or  vinegar  without  first 
removing  all  traces  of  our  brands  therefrom.

J . ROBINSON. Manager:

Benton  H arbor.M ichigan.

¿S-*— ( S r -

You 
Can’t 
Afford

to buy other vinegar at even 
price with  Silver Brand.  It 
pleases  customers,  more 
than  complies  with 
the 
Food  Laws,  and  you  have 
the satisfaction  of  knowing 
that you are  handling  hon­
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New«  From   the  M etropolis—Index  To  the 
Special Correspondence.

Market.

New  York,  May  26— There  is  a  sort 
in 
of  an  uneasy,  uncomfortable  feeling 
business 
the  situation  which  causes 
men  to  ask  whether  we  are  not  begin­
ning  to  have  a  little  let-up  in  the  rush 
that  has  been  upon  us  for  a  year.  Pos­
sibly  the  first  rumblings  of  the  Presi­
dential  campaign  are  beginning  to  be 
manifest  and  the  business  world  begins 
to  act 
in  a  more  conservative  manner. 
A  thirteen-million  dollar 
failure  on 
Thursday  did  not  add  to  the  cheerful­
ness,  but  the 
losses  are  probably  more 
on  paper  than  elsewhere.  However,  it 
may  be  well  to  take  in  sail  a  little.

Coffee  jobbers  have  had  a  rather  more 
active  trade  than  last  week  and  quite  a 
good  deal  of  coffee  might  have  changed 
hands  had  the  views  of  buyers  and  sell­
ers  not  been  so  far  apart.  The  latter 
would  not  concede  anything  from  77/&c, 
and  the 
former  would  not  offer  more 
than  7%c.  Orders  have  come  quite 
freely  from  the 
interior  for  small  lots 
and  altogether  there  was  a  fair  aggre­
gate. 
In  store  and  afloat  there  are  933,- 
353  bags,  against  1,201,192  bags  at  the 
same  time  last  year.  There  has  been  a 
better  demand 
for  West  India  growths 
and,  in  fact,  the  improvement  is  quite 
marked,  but  whether 
it  will  continue 
remains  to  be  seen.  West  India  sorts, 
too,  are  doing  fairly  well  and quotations 
are  strongly  adhered  to.

interest 

The  demand  for  tea  is  very  light  and 
in  searching  the  market  hardly  a feature 
of 
is  to  be  picked  up.  Sales 
are  of  the  smallest  and  prices  are  nom­
inal.  Some  samples  of  new  crop  Japans 
— basket  and  sun  fired— have  been  re­
ceived  and  the  better  sort have been sold 
at  a  price  said  to  be  35@38c,  duty paid.
There  appears  to  be  a  better  teeling 
in  the  sugar  trade  and  quite  a  fair 
amount  of  business  has  been  transacted. 
Buyers  begin  to  think  now  that  lower 
rates  will  not  prevail  and,  as  they  must' 
have  stocks,  they  are  taking  hold  with 
more  freedom.  Softs  have  been  shaded 
about  5  points.  Raw  sugars  are  firm 
and  sellers  are  rather 
indifferent.  The 
interest  in  the  sugar  war  has  been trans­
ferred  to  Toledo,  Arbuckle  being  a  lit­
tle  ahead.

There  has  been  some  little demand for 
the  lower  grades  of  rice,  but  the  market 
generally  is  “ wrapped  in  solitude”   and 
neither  buyer  nor  seller appears  to  care 
whether  anything  “ happens”   or  not. 
Prices  are  practically  without  change 
and  the  situation  remains  about  as 
last 
week.  Japan  rice  is  quotable at  4|^@5c.
Pepper  remains  firm,  with  black  Sin­
gapore  at  I2f6c.  The  market  otherwise 
is  very  quiet  and  buyers  show  hardly 
any 
interest  beyond  taking  small  lots 
for  everyday  wants.

Grocery  grades  of  molasses  are  firm 
and  without  change.  The  demand  is 
not  very 
lively,  but  the  supply  is  not 
large  and  the  one  about  balances  the 
other.  Prices  same  as  last  week.  There 
is  quite  a  firm  market  for  foreign  sorts, 
with  Puerto  Rico  worth  from  34@4oc. 
Syrups  are  firm  and  the  quotations  show 
a  slight  advance,  prime  to  fancy  sugar 
being  worth  2i@28c.

In  canned  goods,  all  hands  are  wait­
ing  to  see  what  will  happen  “ later  in 
the  season.”   Columbia  River  salmon 
threatens  to  go  to  a  point  which  will 
curtail  consumption. 
Consumers  are 
very  unwilling  to  pay  over  15c for  a  can 
of  1  lb.,  and  will  take  in  preference  one 
of  a  number  of  other  things.  Maine 
and  California  are  both  hard  at  work 
trying  to  prohibit  the  use  of  the  names 
of  these  States  on  canned  goods  put  up 
in  Baltimore  and  somebody  will  get 
“ hurt”  
is  not 
stopped.  All  sorts  of  reports  as  to  crops 
come  from  the  Peninsula,  and  between 
failure”   and 
a  “ total 
“ magnificent 
is  hard  to  get  at  the  exact 
yields”   it 
truth.  Harford  county  com 
is  worth 
57J^@6oc  for  No.  2  and  N.  Y.  State 
standard  brands  command  75c;  Maine, 
85@95c.

if  the  counterfeiting 

In  lemons  and  oranges,  there  has  been 
a  good  demand  all  the  week  and  prices 
are  well  sustained.  Sicily  lemons  com­
mand  $4,  all  the  way  up  to  §5.25  for 
strictly  fancy  fruit.  California  oranges

for  navels,  and 
are  worth  $4.25@5.25 
$3-75@4  for  seedlings. 
Bananas  are 
firm  and  prices  high,  but  there  are  five 
cargoes  on  the  way  and  something  is 
likely  to  happen  when  they  arrive.

The  dried  fruit  market  is  slow.  Cur­
rent  wants  are  being  supplied,  but  buy­
ers  are  taking  none  ahead.  Prices  are 
nominal  and  the  demand  is  mostly  of  a 
jobbing  character.

firsts, 

With  an  improving  demand  the  butter 
market  is  strong  and  the  quotation  of 
20c  for  best  Western  creamery  is  easily 
obtained. 
The  supply,  while  about 
sufficient  to  meet  requirements,  is  not 
excessive  and  matters  are  in pretty good 
iójá@i9>£c; 
shape.  Thirds  to 
i6@ i8c ;  Western 
imitation  creamery, 
I5@ i8c, 
factory, 
latter  for  fancy. 
“ Fancy”   renovated 
butter  has  quite  an  ornamental  sound.
The  market  for  full  cream  cheese  is 
steady  and  quotations  are  rather  better 
than  a  week  ago.  Really  desirable  full 
cream 
lower
grades fall off rapidly in  price.  Exporters 
are  doing  a  little,  but  there  is  room 
for 
improvement  in  this  direction.

1 5 1 6c ;  renovated, 

is  worth 

but  the 

Desirable  Western  eggs  fetch  about 
14c  at  the  outside,  and  are  hard  to  find. 
Nearby  will  bring  15c,  but  this 
is  top.
little  if  any  change  to  note 
in  the  bean  market  and  the  general  run 
of  quotations  is  practically  the  same  as 
last  week.  Choice  marrow,  $2.20; 
choice  medium,  $2.12j^@2.15;  choice 
pea,  $2.25;  choice  red  kidney,  $2.
The  M iddleman  a  Necessity.

There 

is 

From the New York Commercial.

it 

Every  little  while  somebody  makes  a 
proposition  to  do  away  with  the  so- 
called  “ middleman”   who  stands  be­
tween  the  producer  of  some  article  of 
trade  and  the  consumer;  but  after  about 
just  so  much  discussion  of  the  matter 
it  is  dropped,  and  the  middleman  flour­
ishes  just  as  he  flourished  before.

This  would  seem  to  prove  that,  after 
all,  the  middleman  is  not  so  unneces­
sary  a  piece  of  commercial 
furniture 
as  some  people  are  wont  to  suppose.  A 
little  examination  of  the  matter  proves 
that  he  simply 
is  not  an  arbitrary 
tribute-taker  who  somehow  manages  to 
block  the  channels  through  which  goods 
would  otherwise  flow  unhindered  from 
producer  to  consumer,  but  that  he  has 
a  real  office  to  perform  in  the economies 
of  trade,  and  that  on  the  whole  he  is  a 
blessing  and  not  the  opposite  to  all  the 
millions  of  people  in  a  city  or state  who 
receive  goods  at  his  hands.  Theoretic­
ally 
is  all  very  pretty  to  imagine 
things  going  straight  from  the  shop  to 
the  home  of  the  consumer,  who  is  con­
sequently  required  to  pay  no  more  per 
pound  or  yard  on  a  purchase  of  a  single 
unit  of  measure  than  the  middleman 
otherwise  would  have  paid  had  he  pur­
chased  by  the  ton  or  piece,  but  some­
how  in  practice  the  thing  has  its  draw­
backs.

In  order  that 

factory  may  be 
quickly  unburdened  of 
its  output  and 
room  afforded  it  for  another  run,  some­
one  must  come 
forward  and  buy  in 
large  quantities  and  act  as  warehouse­
man ;  and  here  is  where  the  wholesaler 
and  jobber  get 
in  their  work,  to  the 
benefit  not  only  of  the  factory,  but  of 
the  petty  purchaser  at  the  store  counter.
It  seems,  after  all,  the  simplest  and 
most  satisfactory  way  of  adjusting  the 
matter.  Some  great  Socialistic  scheme 
may  some  day  be  hit  upon  which  will 
alter  the  case,  but  under  present  cir­
cumstances  the  middleman  is  not  only  a 
convenience,  but  a  necessity.

the 

Less  than  two  years ago Grant  Gillette 
was,  perhaps,  the  leading  cattle  dealer 
and  speculator  in  Kansas.  He was worth 
millions  and  bade fair to practically own 
all  the  herds  in  that  State.  Just  before 
Thanksgiving, 1898,  he collapsed through 
over-speculation.  Cattlemen  and  banks 
are  now  fighting  over the  remains  of  his 
once  vast  estate  and  Gillette 
is  now 
peddling  shirt  waists  to  the  señoritas  of 
Chihuahua,  Mexico.

A  New  York  woman  has  chosen  as her 
profession  that  of  professional  packer 
for women  who  are  about  to  move,  and 
who  are  willing  to  pay  for the advantage 
and  comfort  of  having  nothing  to  bother 
about.

t R A D E   M A R K

S E E D S

Blue  Grass, Orchard Grass Seeds.

FIELD   PEA S

Phelps,  Brace  &  Co.,

Produce

Commission  Merchants

Specialties:  Eggs,  Butter and  Honey. 

Correspondence and general shipments solicited. 

E.  A.  BRIDGE,  Detroit,  Mich.

Both Long Distance Phones 111.

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

Timothy,  Redtop,

Can  fill order quickly at  right  prices.

MOSELEY  BROS.,

2 6 - 2 8 - 3 0 - 3 2   O TTAW A  S T..  GRAND  RAPIDS

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.

C O M B IN A T IO N   C A S E

Description Measurements, 42 inches high, 27 inches wide.  Upper  space,  14  inches  high;  lower, 
20 Inches high.  Top glass  inlaid  on  feit.  Fancy  hand-carved  brackets.  Write  for  new,  hand­
some catalogue.

BKYAN  SHOW  CASK  WORKS.  Bryan,  Ohio.

HOUR'S
COFFEES
MAKE  BUSINESS

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The Meat Market

How  Two  Butehers  Were  B elieved  of I

B ig  Head.

It 

long  way  from  New  York 
is  a 
St.  LouiSi 
I  haven’t  been  there  recent 
ly,  but  a  story  about  Gus  Brecht,  of  that 
city,  has  fallen  into  my  hands,  and 
its  chief  point  is  the  fact  that  Brecht 
whose 
friends  credit  him  with  having 
ordinary  sense,has  proved  himself  to  be 
either 
ignorant  of  the  common  laws 
a  victim  of  “ big  head,”   I  shall  th 
week  ask  my  readers  to  spend  a  few 
moments in study  of  this  individual  and 
one  other  who  came  to  grief  through 
thinking  himself  of  some  importance 
Brecht,  it  appears,  was  summoned 
f< 
jury  service.  Now,  everyone  know 
that  no  American  citizen 
is  exempt 
from  such  duty,  except  newspaper  men 
I  do  not  know  that  anyone  ever  su 
pected  him  of  being  qualified  to  class 
ification  under  that  title,  and  if  he  had 
any  such  idea  himself  he  smothered 
for  when  he  was  brought  into  the  Court 
of  Criminal  Correction,  he  tried  to 
plain  matters  with  the  plea  that  he  i 
consul 
little  island  or  other 
and  that  he didn’t know  he was expected 
to  act  as  a  juror.  Had  I  been  the  judg 
I  would  have  spoken  to  him  kindly  and 
given  him  over  to  his  friends  to  be 
cared  for  tenderly.  His  confession  < 
the 
law  would  hav 
been  accepted  by  me  as  proof  that  he 
was  not  qualified  to  serve.  The 
judge 
of  the  Court  of  Criminal  Correction 
however,  fined  him  S25,  and  rather  than 
linger  in  a  cell,  he  paid  it.  Now,  the 
question  is,  was  Brecht  really  as 
igno 
rant  on  the  point  as  he  professed  to  be 
or  did  his  insignificant consular position 
make  him  think  he  was  a  bigger  man 
I  am 
i 
than  any  other  in  St.  Louis? 
1  think 
dined  to  the 
latter  belief. 
was  a  case  of  ignorance 
and  “ big 
head”   combined  and  that  by  this  time 
the  swelling  has  gone  down  until  his 
hat  would  rest  on  his  shoulders  were 
not  for  his  ears.

ignorance  of  the 

for  some 

*  *  *

his  discomfiture.  It  was  they,  of  course, 
who  had  put  up  the  game  to  take  some 
of  the  conceit  out  of  the  “ big  headed”  
salesman. 
The  story  of  his  trouble 
with  his  wife,  together  with  the  other 
one  of  his  treatment  of  butchers,  got  to 
headquarters,  and  the  peacock  had  to 
walk  the  plank.  He  had  run  his  race, 
and  was  the  laughing  stock  of  the trade, 
just  as  Gus  Brecht 

is  to-day.

*  *  *

A  gentleman  who  will  sail  for  Europe 
to-day  tells  me  that  about  fifty  of  his 
friends  have  asked  him  to  bring  home 
various  articles  and  that  if  he  spends 
his  time  in  making  purchases  for  them 
he  will  not  have  an  opportunity  to  see 
I  asked  him  how  many  of 
the  sights. 
them  had  given  him 
the  necessary 
money  to  pay  for  the  articles  and  his 
answer  was  what  I  expected.  He  had 
not  received  a  cent,  which  reminds  me 
jf  a  true  story  about  an  old  butcher, 
now  dead.  One 
time  he  announced 
that  he  was  going  to  Europe,  and  his 
army of  friends at  once  loaded  him  with 
orders  for  gloves,  canes  and  various 
>ther  articles.  A  Mr.  Brown  was  the 
>nly  one  who  gave  him  the  necessary 
money— a  $5  gold  piece—to  buy  the  ar- 
icle  he  desired.  When  the  old  butcher 
came  home,  the  friends  flocked  into  his 
cabin  and  asked  him  where  the  things 
they  expected  were.  He  handed  Mr. 
3rown  a  package  and  said: 
is 
“ But  where  are  ours?”   asked 
yours.”  
the 
“ Why  is  Mr.  Brown  only 
“ I’ll  tell  you  how  it 
remembered?”  
happened,”   said  the 
butcher. 
‘ When  I  arrived  at  my  hotel  in  Paris  I 
took  out  the  lists  of  things  I  was  to  buy 
nd 
laid  them  on  the  table.  On  Mr 
Brown’s  list  1  laid  the  $5  gold  piece  he 
had  given  me.  A  gust  of  wind  swept 
through  the  room  and  carried  the  un­
weighted 
lists  out  of  a  window.  Mr. 
Brown’s  did  not  move.”   They  took  the 
lint. 
I  recommend  that  people  who 
re  about  to  go  abroad  and  are  ¡pestered 
n  the  usual  way  tell  the  above  story  tc 
those who  wish  to  make  buyers  of  them. 
-Stroller  in  Butchers’  Advocate.

friends. 

“ Here 

old 

But  Mr.  Brecht  is  not  the  first  man 
who  has  made  himself  more  ridiculous 
than  usual  by  permitting  himself  to 
swell  up  with  imaginary  importance. 
I 
once  knew  a  Chicago  butcher  who  was 
made  manager  of  a  wholesale  meat  de­
pot.  The  first  thing  he  did  to 
impress 
his  fellowmen  with  his  importance  was 
to  buy  the 
loudest  suit  of  clothes  he 
could  find.  He  strutted  about  his  cooler 
like  a  peacock  on  a  sunny  day  and  any 
butcher  who  got  up  the  courage to speak 
to  him  was  treated 
like  a  dog.  The 
foolish  man  thought  that  was  the  way  to 
get  trade.  The  butchers  soon  learned 
to  keep  away 
from  him  and  as  they 
passed  his  cooler  would  peep  in  at  him 
much  the  same  as  if  he  were  a  monkey- 
in  a  cage.  One  day  he  received  a  let­
ter  signed  with  a  lady’s  name,  asking 
him  to  meet  her  at  a  certain  corner  at  a 
certain  hour.  The  lady  said  in  the  let­
ter  that  she  had  long  admired  him;  he 
was  the  “ ideal  of  her  e y e ;”   she  could 
not 
live  without  him.  That  day  he 
strutted  more  vainly  than  ever and  at 
the  appointed  hour  sneaked  away  to 
meet  her.  When  he  got  there  he  found 
his  wife.  She  had  received  a  letter  say­
ing  her  husband  was  a  flirt and advising 
that  she  put  him  to  the  test.  The  letter 
he  had  received  was  the  result.  And 
there  he  stood  confronted  by  his  irate 
wife.  There  was  a  war  of  words  for  a 
time  and  soon  she  got  her  hands  in  ac­
tion. 
In  five  minutes  fo'rty  or  more 
butchers  were  standing  around  enjoying

W illie  the  Sire n.

It 

is  a 

In  one  of  the  packing  houses  in  Kan­
sas  City  a  goat  is  employed  to  entice 
sheep  from  the  stock  yards to the killing 
pens. 
long  distance  from  the 
yards  to  the  house,  through  streets,  over 
river  and  a  railroad  yard  by  bridge, 
nd  through  lanes.  Without  an  animal 
to 
lead  them  it  would  be  very  difficult 
to  get  a  large  flock of  sheep  home  safely 
-nd  expeditiously.

The  goat’s  name  is  Willie,  and  he 

the  cleverest  beast  of  his  kind.  He  cost 
less  than  $2,  but  does  work 
that  « 
5,000  a  year  clerk  could  not  do  half  so 
-ell,  if  at  all.  The  sheep  follow  Willie 
ith  implicit  confidence,  and  he 
leads 
hundreds  of  them  to  their  doom  every 
ly.  When  the  sheep  buyer goes  about 
the  stock  yards  buying  the  animals, 
Willie  follows  him.  The  yards  are  di- 
into  pens  by  fences.  On  top  of 
each  pen 
is  a  footooard,  along  which 
the  buyer  walks,  inspecting  the  animals 
that  he  desires  to  buy.  W illie  walks  the 
fences  with  the  buyer  and  climbs  up 
nd  down  the  steps  with  ease.

ded 

Queer  Men,  Queer W omen.

Call  a  girl  a  chick  and  she  smiles; 
call  a  woman  a  hen  and  she  howls. 
Call  a  young  woman  a  witch  and  she  is 
pleased ;_call  an  old  woman  a  witch 
nd  she  in  indignant.  Call  a  young  girl 
it;  call  a 
kitten  and  she  rather  likes 
, 

woman  a  cat  and  she’ll  hate  you. 

Women  are  queer.
If  you  call  a  man  a  gay  dog  it  will 
flatter  him ;  call  him  a  pup,  a  hound, 
cur  and  he  will  try  to  alter the 
map  on  your_  face.  He  dosen’t  mind 
ing  called a  bull  or  a  bear,  and  yet  he 
11  object  to  being  mentioned  as  a 

calf  or  a  cub.

Men  are  queer.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Detroit,  Mich. 

Hammond,  Standish  &  Co.,  I
I
Pork  Packers  and  Wholesale  Provision  | 
Dealers,  Curers of the celebrated brands,  1 
“A pex” and Excelsior Hams,  Bacon and  |  
Lard,  Cooked  Boned  Hams,  Sausage  |  
and  warm  weather delicacies of all kinds.  I
Our  packing  house  is  under  U.  S.  Government  inspection.

Don’t Lose Your Tem per

Your time or  your  dollars  by  endeavoring  to  keep 
palatable,  during this  hot  weather,  “ old  fashioned” 
butter.  Advocate advanced  ideas  by substituting for 
it our inimitable quality of BUTTERINE, which  is a  per­
fect summer product. 
It never gets strong or  rancid; 
will  keep  perfectly  sweet  and  wholesome,  qualities 
which should at once be  appreciated  and  taken  ad­
vantage of  by every  judicious  dealer  and  consumer.

T he  C a p i t a l   City  D a ir y   Co.,

C o l u m b u s ,   O h i o ,

Can serve you  better than any other  manufacturer  in 
the United  States, offering  in the world-famous

P U R I T Y ,
S I L V E R   L E A F ,  
B U C K E Y E ,
C.  C.  P R I D E

grades all  that  is superb,  excellent and commendable 
in the art of  BUTTERINE  making.

Highest  Market  Prices  paid 

Regular  shipments  solicited.

98  South  Division  Street.__________________________________Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.

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.

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Commercial Travelers

Michigan  Inighti  of the Grip

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

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

Michigan  CMunereial  Trailers’  Association 
and Treasurer, Ge o.  W. Hi l l , Detroit.
United  Connercisi Trawlers of Michigan 

Grand  Counselor,  J.  E.  Mo o r e,  Jackson; 
Grand  Secretary,  A.  K e n d a l l ,  Hillsdale; 
Grand Treasurer, W.  S.  Me s t, Jackson.

Grand Rapids  Council No.  131,  0.  C. T.

Senior  Counselor,  John  G.  Kolb;  Secretary- 

Treasurer, L. F. Baker.
liekiran Commercial Trawlers  Mutoal  Accident  Association 
President, J.  B o y d   Pa n t l in d .  Grand  Baplds; 
Secretary  and  Treasurer,  Ge o.  F.  Ow e n , 
Grand Baplds.

AS  HE  OUGHT TO  BE.

Pen  Picture  o f  tlie  Ideal  Commercial 

Traveler.

There  are  some  commercial  travelers 
who  almost  make  a  profession  of  jest­
ing.  Let 
it  suffice  to  say  of  these  peo­
ple  that 
is  beneath  the  dignity  of  a 
it 
man  of  good  sense  to  play  the  buffoon 
perpetually.  Such  clowns  must  not  ex­
pect to  win  the  respectful  regard of those 
with  whom  they  associate.  For the  trav- 
-eling  merchant  to  gain  admission  into  a 
patron’s  family  by  means  of  some  tal­
ent,  as  skill  in  music,  singing,  or  the 
art  of  recitation,  to  visit  his  customer’s 
club-room,  his 
lodge,  or  society,  if  in­
vited  to  do  so,  is  certainly  not  objec­
tionable,  but  to  entertain  a  crowd  of 
clerks 
in  the  stores  or  warerooms,  or 
waiters  and attendants in hotel corridors, 
is 
far  from  being  advisable.  Such  an 
excellent  wit  ten  to  one  neglects  his 
business  and  wastes  his  time,  and  the 
probability 
is  that  the  house  he  repre­
sents  will  sooner  or  later  think  it wise to 
look  out  for  a  less  busy  but  more  occu­
pied  man  than  he.

it 

In  conversation  with  persons  whose 
is  desirable  to  obtain,  do  not 
favors 
forget  the  fact  that  average  people  pre­
fer  to  be  entertained  rather  than  to  be 
instructed.  The  number  of  individuals 
who  can  bear being  treated  as  a  class  of 
Instead 
children  is  exceedingly  small. 
of  trying  to  shine  as  an 
instructor  and 
oracle 
the  man  with  an  object  to  gain 
from  them  prefers  to  give  his  auditors 
the  opportunity  of  showing  themselves 
to  advantage.  Far  be 
it  from  me  to 
recommend  the  practice  of  flattery,  al­
though  it  often  happens  that  courtesies 
which  savor of  this  feature  of  discourse 
are  of  the  greatest  value  to  him  who 
tenders  them.

Be  it  remembered,  however,  that com­
pliments  can  only  have  the  desired 
effect  when  bestowed  with  tact  and  del­
icacy. 
It  may  be  observed  that all per­
sons  possess  at  least  one  good  point,and 
if  the  complimentary  treatment  of  that 
particular  feature 
is  done  cleverly  and 
in  the  right  way  it  can  not  fail  to  have 
a  good  effect. 
Indeed,  to  adopt  such 
means  in  order  to  make  one’s  self  liked 
and  appreciated 
is  not  only  permis­
sible,  but  the  laws  of  good  breeding  in­
the  other 
culcate  the  practice.  On 
hand,  mean 
and  deceitful 
praises  serve  only  to  make  those  using 
them  very  justly  contemptible.

flatteries 

The  commercial  traveler  must  not 
consider  his  personal  appearance  a  sec 
ondary  matter.  It  is  rightly  expected  of 
every  well-bred  person  that  he  have  full 
command  over  his  features  and  move 
ments.  No  one  can  question  that  it  is 
very  bad  taste  to  gesticulate  violently 
while  engaged  in#conversation,  to “  but 
tonhole”   people  or  to  talk  them  down 
Let  your  bearing  be  quiet  and  dignified 
and  look  with  an  honest  directness,care­

fc  -

•1  f   *

society,  because 

fully  avoiding  a  rude  stare  into  the  face 
interlocutor.  Nice  manners 
of  your 
carry 
the  approbation  of  every  one. 
Even  the  uneducated  can  not  help  be­
ing  fascinated  by  them. 
I  can  not  too 
highly  recommend  the  habit  of  closely 
following  the  laws  and  rules  prescribed 
by  good 
they  are 
founded  on  mutual  respect  and  good 
will.  With  equal  emphasis  I  condemn 
the  rudeness  of  those  agents  who  seem 
to  think  they  have  the  right  to  act  and 
speak 
just  as  they  please.  These,  of 
course,  expect  to  transact  business,  but 
I  am  convinced  that  those  in  competi­
tion  with  them  whose  manners  are  at 
times  proper  will  have  the advantage 

in  securing  trade.

An  unfortunate  quality  in  an  agent  is 
bashfulness,  not  a  common  one, you  say. 
It  is,  however,  to  be  found.  Shy  man­
ners  are  most  generally  the  result  of  a 
faulty  education,  but  are  sometimes  in­
born,  and  caused  by  a  lack  of  self-con­
fidence  and,  in  a  measure,  by  overesti­
mation  of  others.  Moreover,  hashful- 
ness  is  oftener  met  with  among  highly 
cultivated  persons  than  among  the  com­
paratively  ignorant.  Some  very  intelli­
gent  people  are  almost  childlike  in their 
tim idity;  and  as  the  world 
is  apt  to 
judge  more  by  the  exterior  than  by  the 
true  perception  of  worth,  it  is  not  an 
easy  task 
for  such  persons  to  keep  up 
with  or  to  reach  the  social  standing 
which  their  capacities undeniably merit. 
On  the  other  hand,  a  person  destitute  of 
superior  worth  or  excellence 
is  often 
seen  to  have  the  best  of  them,  and  they 
lose  the  advantage  and  profits  which 
life  offers  to  those  who  have  the  confi­
dence  to  seize  them.  Very  sensitive 
people  could  never  he  successful  as 
drummers.  When  bashfulness  is  inborn, 
it 
to 
overcome 
it,  even  by  the  only  means 
which  might  be  tried  with  the  expecta­
tion  of  success,  namely,  that  of  contin­
ually  mixing  with  other  persons.

is  difficult,  almost 

impossible, 

While exaggerated modesty and  tim id­
ity  are  undesirable  qualities  in  a com­
mercial  traveler,  arrogance  and  haughti­
ness  are  no  less  objectionable  and  have 
a  very  detrimental  effect  on  business 
transactions.  An  overbearing,  insolent 
person  is  never  well  liked  wherever  he 
may  go.  He  is  treated  with  impatience 
or contempt  if  obliged  to  he  tolerated  at 
all,  and  he 
is  gotten  rid  of  as  soon  as 
possible.  Furthermore,  presumption  is 
generally  a  sign  of  stupidity.  My young 
fellow-travelers  may ask  themselves  how 
they  would  feel  if  ah  insolent  prig 
in­
troduced  himself  to  them.  Now-a-days 
store-keepers  have  many  and  various 
means  of  keeping  themselves  supplied 
with  gtiods  and  are  almost  overwhelmed 
with  applications  for  orders;  and,  be­
yond  question,  only  those 
in  the  long 
list  of  commercial  travelers  who  under­
stand  the  art  of  making  themselves  ap­
preciated  can  hope  to  be  prosperous.

The  commercial  traveler can not afford 
to  disregard  the  obligation  of  strict  po­
liteness.  True  courtesy  is  appreciated 
always  and  is everywhere  sure  to win fa­
vor  from  others  and  to  earn  their  steady 
good  will, 
is  a  sign  of  good 
breeding  and the  pleasing  indication  of 
an  affable  disposition.  Courtesy  costs 
nothing  to  anybody;  why  should  some 
people  be  so  sparing  of  it?

for 

it 

The  Goat Is  in  Readiness.

Grand  Rapids,  May  29—The  next 
regular  meeting  of  Grand  Rapids  Coun­
cil,  No.  131,  United  Commercial  Trav­
elers,  will  meet  Saturday  evening,  June 
2.  A  large  class  of  candidates  is  ready 
for  initiation  and  much  business  of  im­
portance  is  to  be  transacted.  The  usual 
smoker  will  be  held.  All  members  will 
please  attend. 

L.  F.  Baker,  Sec’y.

G O N E   B E Y O N D .

John  Smyth,  Local  Agent  Fleinchmann 

&  Co.

John  Smyth,  local  representative 

for 
Fleischmann  &  Co.,  who  was  stricken 
with  paralysis  some  weeks  ago,  died  at 
the  family  residence  last  Saturday  fore­
noon.  He  made  a  desperate 
fight 
with  death  and  everything  which  the 
foremost  medical  skill  of  the  city  could 
suggest  was  done  to  prolong  his  life. 
The  funeral  was  held  at  the  family resi­
dence  Tuesday  afternoon  under 
the 
auspices  of  Doric  Lodge,  the  interment 
being  in  Oak  Hill  cemetery.

Mr.  Smyth  was  born  in  Philadelphia 
Sept.  27,  1855,  being  the  next  oldest  of 
a  family  of  four  boys.  He  attended  the 
public  schools  of  Philadelphia  and  was 
afterwards  employed  by  the  Reading 
Railway.  He  came  West 
in  1879,  lo­
cating  in  Tecumseh,  securing  a  position 
in  the  grocery  store  of  Henry  McClure, 
where  he  remained  until  1883,  when  he

his  employers  and  devoted  to  his  wife, 
the  deceased  will  long  be  remembered 
by  all  who  enjoyed  the  pleasure  of  his 
acquaintance.

Gripsack  Brigade.

Byron  S.  Davenport  (Olney  &  Judson 
Grocer  C o.)  was  called  to  Reed  City 
this  week  by  the  death  of  a  brother. 
His  route  is  being  covered  in  the mean­
time  by  Geo.  Williams.

Ludington  Appeal;  Guy W.  Vaughan, 
who  has  been  in  the  employ  of  the  But­
ters  &  Peters  Co. 
for  a  long  time  and 
for  several  years  past  engaged  as  buyer 
for their  store,  has  resigned his  position 
to  go  on  the  road  for  Roundey,  Peck- 
ham  &  Co.,  of  Milwaukee.

1st  seven  years 

Manistee  Advocate;  N.  C.  Arseneau, 
who  has  been  representing Cudahy Bros. 
Co.,  meat  dealers  of  Milwaukee,  for the
in  Manistee,  will  be 
relieved  at  this  point  by  W.  F.  Schade. 
Mr.  Arseneau  will  go  to  the  southerh 
part  of  the  State  for  the  same  firm,  with 
headquarters  at  Ann  Arbor.

Ernest  G.  Wilson,  who  is  introducing 
the  product  of  the  Crushed  Cereal Coffee 
Cake  Co.,  Ltd.,of  Marshall,  assisted  by 
four  demonstrators,  has  completed  his 
nvass  of  this  city  and  will  devote 
lake  shore 
about  a  week  to  each  of  the 
towns, 
taking  Muskegon,  Ludington, 
Manistee,  Traverse  City  and  Petoskey 
in  rotation.

Geo.  Blass,  who  traveled  in  Northern 
and  Central  Michigan  four  years  for 
Daniel  Lynch,  but  who  has  been  con­
nected with the  Hotel  Albion as  clerk  for 
the  past  fifteen  months,  has  engaged 
with  the  new  proprietor  of  that  hotel 
and  will  continue  to  welcome  the travel­
ing  men  who make  it  their  headquarters 
while  in  Albion.

Now  For  the Jubilee.

Bay  City,  May  28— The  Bay  Cities 
Grocers’  and  Butchers’  jubilee  and pure 
food  exhibit  will  he  held 
in  the  fair 
grounds  August  14,  15  and  16.  The 
railroad,  of  the  State  have  granted  a 
rate  of  fare  and  a  third  for  the  occasion 
and  the  event  promises  to  be  more  suc­
cessful  than  the  one  held  in  1899.  The 
Association  is  now  fully  organized  and 
committees  are  busy  making  plans  for 
the 
is  not  yet  possible  to 
give  a  list  of  attractions,  but  they  will 
be  many  and  varied.  There  will  be  a 
parade  during  the  afternoon  of  one  of 
the  days  and  an  effort  will  he  made  to 
get  every  merchant  and  manufacturer 
into  line.

jubilee  will  be 

advertised 
throughout  the  State,  and  it 
is  antici­
pated  that  the  attendance  will  be  enor­
mous.

jubilee. 

The  following  officers  and  committees 

The 

It 

will  have  charge  of  the  jubilee:

President  Jacob  F.  Boes.
First  Vice-President--Edward  West.
Second  Vice-President— C.  A.  Gun- 

termann.

General  Secretary  -E.  C.  Little.
Financial  Secretary— G.  A.  Fuller.
Treasurer—C.  E.  Walker.

Because  They  Are  Jolly  Good  Fellows.
Mayor  Perry  granted  the  U.  C.  T. 
permission  to 
in  a  parade  on 
the  streets  of  Grand  Rapids  on  the  oc­
casion  of  their  recent  convention,  in the 
following  words:

indulge 

Permission  is  hereby  given  to  James 
Burlingame  Mclnnes  and  his  associates 
to  parade  with  bands,  bandboxes  and 
bags,  or  such  other  accoutrements  as 
they  deem  fit,  in  the  city  of  Grand 
Rapids,  until  thoroughly  tired.  Recom­
mended  by  the  fact  of  their  being 
jolly 
good fellows.

George R.  Perry,  Mayor.

Florida  expects  to  get  $2  per  box  for 
1,000,000  boxes  of  oranges  this  season. 
It  is  better  than  a  crop  of  politics.

A  man  of the world is one who is alive.

for 

removed  to  Grand  Rapids  and  entered 
the  grocery  store  of  his  brother,  Jas.  A. 
Smyth.  At  the  end  of  a  year  he  iden­
tified  himself  with  the  Riverside  Yeast 
Co.,  which  was  then  managed  in  this 
city  by  L.  Wintemitz  and 
some 
months  acted  in  the  capacity  of  adver­
tising  man.  At  the  end  of  this  time  he 
was  placed 
in  charge  of  a  wagon  and, 
on  the  promotion  of  Mr.  Wintemitz  to 
a  higher  position,  he  was  made  local 
agent 
for  the  Riverside  Yeast  Co., 
which  position  he  held  until  about  three 
years  ago,  when  he  was  offered  and  ac­
cepted  the  position  of 
local  agent  for 
Fleischmann  &  Co.,  which  he  occupied 
at  the  time  of  his  death.

Mr.  Smyth  was  married  Sept.  30, 
1886,  to  Miss  Lizzie  Watters,  of  Lisbon, 
who  survives  him.  He  also  leaves  three 
brothers— Jas.  A.  and  David  H.,  of  this 
city,  and  Daniel  G .,  of  Philadelphia. 
He  was  a  member  of  Doric  Lodge,  F. 
and  A.  M.,  B.  P.  O.  E.  No.  48,  and 
the  Michigan  Knights  of  the  Grip.

Mr.  Smyth  was  a  faithful  worker  and 
a  conscientious  gentleman  who  enjoyed 
the  respect  and  friendship  of  all  who 
knew  him.  He  was  methodical  to  an 
unusual  degree  and  when  he  was  sud 
denly  stricken  with  the  malady  which 
caused  his  death  the  representative  of 
Fleischmann  &  Co.  who  was  sent  here 
the  next  day  to  take  temporary  charge 
of  the  office  found  that  every  entry  on 
his  books  was  carried  forward  to  the 
hour  of  his  illness  and  that  his  accounts 
checked  to  the  penny.  Genial  in  man­
ner,  courteous 
in  his  dealings  with 
others,  loyal  to  his  friends,  faithful  to

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

M ichigan  State  Board o f Pharm acy

,  

n ____  
Term expires
. 
-  Dec. 31,1800
- 
Oeo.  Gundrum, Ionia 
-  Dec. 31,1901 
L.  E.  Reynolds,  St.  Joseph 
Henry  Heim, Saginaw 
-  Dec. 31,1902
- 
-  Dec. 3l| 1903
Wirt  P.  Doty, Detroit - 
- 
A. C. Schumacher, Ann Arbor  -  Dec. 31,1904 

President,  Geo.  Gundrum, Ionia.
Secretary, A.  C.  Schumacher,  Ann Arbor 
Treasurer, Henry  Heim, Saginaw.
Exam ination  Session«)
Star Island—June 25 and 26.
Sault Ste. Marie—Aug. 28 and 29. 
Lansing—Not. 7 and 8.

State  Pharm aceutical  Association 

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

It 

How  to  Make  and  M ount  Transparencies 
The  making  of  transparencies  __  _ 
very  interesting  and  fascinating  branch 
of  photography. 
is  also  a  pleasure 
to  know  that  the  best possible  work  may 
be  accomplished  with  no  special  a, 
paratus.  Any  one  who  does  his  ow. 
developing  and  printing  has  all  the par 
aphernalia  needed.  The  necessary  out 
includes  hypo  fixing  bath  (same  _ 
fit 
for  negatives),  developer, 
that  used 
graduate,  developing 
printing 
frame,  dark-room  lamp,  and  a  few  un 
exposed  dry  plates. 
not  one  of  the  kind  provided  with  _ 
hinged  door,  or  if  your  light  is  one  that 
is  supplied  from  the  outside  of  the  dark 
room  through  a  window,  it  will  be  nec 
essary  to  add  a  candle,  either  wax  or 
tallow,  to  your outfit. 
Its  use  will  be 
described  later on.

If  your  lantern 

tray, 

the  camera.  No  special  developer  is 
required ;  the  same  formula  you  use  for 
your negatives  will  answer.  Carry  the 
development  as  far  as  you  do on  the 
negative,  and  fix  and  wash  as  usual.

When  the  plate 

is  dry  the  work  is 
finished  except  for  framing.  This  can 
be  done  by  buying  some  of  the  metal 
frames  made  for  this  work  and  to  be 
found  at  some  of  the  supply  stores,  or 
by  making  a  frame  yourself  in  the  fol­
lowing  manner:  At  a  hardware  store 
buy  some  brass  chain,  as  much  as  is 
needed  and  of  the  size  you  desire  (the 
smallest  size  is  strong  enough),  and also 
four  brass  rings,  for each  transparency 
you  are  going  to  frame,  about  three- 
quarters  of  an  inch  in  diameter.  Close 
and  bend  the  rings  to  fit  the  comers  of 
the  transparencies  so  that  they 
look 
something  like  a  crescent.  Place  these 
oyer  the  comers  of  the  positive,  and 
with  a  pair  of  pliers  separate  as  much 
chain  as  is  needed  to  connect  one  ring 
with the  other  and  to  draw them  so  tight 
that  the  comer of  the  transparency  pro­
trudes,  being  thus  held  in  place.  Sep­
arate  another  piece  of  chain  and 
fasten 
an  end  to  each  of  the  two upper comers, 
thus  forming  a  loop  by  which  it  may  be 
suspended. 
If  desired,  a  piece  of  rib 
bon  may  be  substituted  for  this purpose. 
If  one  wishes  he  may  varnish  these 
transparencies  when  dry,  and  they  are 
then  easily  kept  clean  and  not  so  read 
'ly  scratched.

frame, 

in  the  printing 

So  far  this  work 

The  method  of  procedure 

is  as  fol 
lows:  Having  selected  the  negative  or 
negatives,  which  should  be  of  medium 
density,  from  which  you  desire  to  make 
the  transparencies,  and  having  cleaned 
the  glass  side  thoroughly,  proceed  to 
the  dark  room  with  your outfit.  Place 
the  negative  in  the  printing  frame,  film 
up,  just  as  though  you  were  going  to 
make  a  print.  Then  take  a  plate  from 
your  box,  and  having  dusted 
it  place 
it 
film  side 
against  the  film  of  the  negative,  exactly 
as  you  would  a  sheet  of  printing  paper.
is  done  with  the 
protection  of  the  ruby  or  orange 
light 
and  after  taking  the  plate  from  the  box 
it  is,  of  course,  covered  again  to  pro 
tect 
it  from  the  white  light  which  we 
are  about  to  use.  After  I .have  filled  the 
frame,  I  have  a  pasteboard  box  with  a 
cover 
large  enough  to  hold  the  frame 
while  lighting  the  candle  or  opening the 
door  of  the  lantern.  If  you  use  the  can 
die,  wait  until  the  flame  has  reached  its 
height  before  you  reach  for your  frame.
If  the  lantern  is  used  open  the  door,  get 
the  frame  and  expose  the  negative  to 
the  white 
light  for  about  ten  seconds, 
taking  care  that  each  part  of  the  nega­
tive  is  evenly  exposed.  This  is  easily 
accomplished  by  moving  the  frame  so 
that  each  part  will  receive  its  share.

The 

length  of  exposure  depends  of 
course  on  the  density  of  your  negative 
and  on  the  strength  of  your  light.  Be­
fore  completing  this  article  I  took  three 
negatives,  one  very  thin,  one 
very 
dense,  and  one  about  midway  between 
these  two,  and  experimented  with  ex- 
posure.  The  resulting  positives  were 
of  about  equal qualities,  although slight­
ly  in  favor of  the one  produced  from  the 
negative  of  medium  density.  The  thin 
negative  required  an  exposure  of  five 
seconds  before  the candle,  the  dense  one 
twenty  seconds,  and the  medium  one  ten 
seconds.

Haying  exposed  your  plate  and  ex­
tinguished  your  candle  or  closed  the 
door  of  the  lantern,  proceed  to  develop 
the  plate  as  you  would  one  exposed 
in

Thus  far  I  have  not  mentioned  the 
plates  which  are  made  especially  for 
this  work.  They  are  made  on  ground 
glass—that  is,  one  side  is  ground  glass 
snd  the  other  is  coated  with  emulsion. 
These  plates  add  very  much  to  the looks 
of  a  good  transparency  and  also  slightly 
to  its  cost,but  if  one  has  a  choice  nega­
tive  and  he  wants  to  make  a  present  of 
an  equally  nice  positive,  these  are  the 
plates  to  use.  Excellent  work  can  be 
roduced,  however,  on  the  ordinary 

dry  plate.

If  you  desire  to  still  further  embellish 
your  work,  you  can  make  your transpar­
encies  on  plates  larger than  your  neg­
ative,  in  this  way 
leaving  a  margin 
around  the  picture.  By  cutting  out  a 
paper  mask  as  large  as  the  plate you are 
going  to  use,  with  an  aperture  small 
enough  to  block  out  the  white margin on 
the  negative  made  by  the  rabbet  of  the 
printing  frame,  a  perfectly  clear  border 
may  be  obtained.— Spatula.

T h e Drug:  M arket.

Opium— Is  easier  and,  under  favor­
able  weather  conditions  for the  growing 
crop,  lower  prices  are  looked  for. 

Morphine— Is  unchanged.
Quinine— Is  unchanged.
Alcohol— Has  declined  3c  per  gallon. 
Salicylic  Acid— Manufacturers’  prices 
are  8c  above  those  of  the  second  hand 
holders.  The  tendency  is  lower.

Citric  Acid— Is  very  firm.  An  ad­
vance  in  price  is  looked  for on  account 

the  article  being  higher  abroad.
Oil  Almonds 

that  the 
Government  will  assess  25  per  cent,  on 
all 
importations  and  higher  prices  will 
rule.

is  noted 

It 

Balsam  P eru -H as  declined,  on  ac­
count  of  large  stocks  and  a  pressure  to
sell.

Essential  O ils-Bergam ot  has  ad­
vanced  ioc  per  lb.  Lemon has  advanced 
5c  per  lb.  Pennyroyal  is  in  small  sup­
ply  and  very  firm  in  price.

Gum  Camphor—Is  very  firm  at  the 

advance  noted  last  week.

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sounds 
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in  Business”  

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scriDrionla iwaPn alinnCy 
Boxes  of  every  de-
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C lh E iiW   p i   j  
Clippings,  Powders,  etc.,  etc.  Gold  and  Silver  Leaf work  and  Special 
Die Cutting done  to suit.  Write for prices.  Work guaranteed.  P

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Action  o f A lkalies  on  the  Hair.

There 

is  a  wide-spread  notion  that 
the  repeated  application  of  alkalies, 
including  sodium  bicarbonate,  will 
exert  a  bleaching  effect  on  the  growing 
hair.  How  far  this  is  true  we  are  not 
prepared  to  say,  but  rather  incline  to 
the  opinion  that  to  a  certain  extent  the 
assertion  is justified.  The  change,  if  it 
does  occur,  would  rest  upon  the  chem­
ical  action  of  alkalies  on  the  pigment 
of  the  hair. 
In  this  connection  we  re­
call  the  fact  related  by  Roman  histo­
rians  that  the  women of the ancient Teu­
tonic  tribes  sought  to  emphasize  the  red 
hue  of  their  luxuriant  flowing  tresses  by 
treating  them  with  urine,  the  supposi­
tion  being  that  the  ammonia  produced 
by  the  putrefactive  process  from  that 
fluid  lightened  the  color of  the  hair.

It  is  more  than  likely,  of  course,  that 
the  removal  by  the  soda  of  the  natural 
grease  also  contributes  to  the  lightening 
of  the  color  of  the  hair. 
It  may  be  ex- 
planed  that  the  query  was  suggested  by 
the  fact  that  a  certain 
lady  who  had 
been  applying  a  sodium  bicarbonate 
solution  to  her  scalp  for  falling  of  the 
hair,  after  about  three  weeks  observed 
her  dark  hair  changing  to  a  reddish 
hue.
How  Mach  Pharm acy Should a Physician 

Know ?

such  a  form  as  to  be  easily  taken  and 
to 
impress  the  patient  with  his  ability 
to  compound  medicines.  For  this  rea­
son  it  is  necessary  that  he  should  have 
a  working  knowledge  of  the  means  by 
which  each  one  of  the  official  prepara­
tions  of  the  U.  S.  Pharmacopoeia is pre­
pared,  and  there 
is  no  better  way  of 
teaching  him  this  than  by  allowing  him 
to  prepare  a  representative  of  each  class 
during  the  early  days  of  his  medical 
college  career.  The  mere  manipulation 
fixes  the method  in  his  mind  more  firm­
ly  than  any  description  or  book  study 
can  do,  and  prevents  him  from  making 
those  ludicrous  and  oftentimes  embar­
rassing  errors  which  are  met  with  by 
those  who  have  not  been 
fortunate 
enough  to  have  such  training  in  their 
student  days.

Beyond  this  amount of pharmaceutical 
teaching  we  do  not  believe  that  it  is  the 
function  of  the  medical  college  to  go. 
If  a  physician  desires  to  be  thoroughly 
equipped  as  a  pharmacist,  he  should 
gain  such  information  from  a  college  of 
pharmacy, for  a  full  grasp  of  the  charac­
ter  of  information  which  we  have  out­
lined  will  certainly  be  sufficient  for his 
necessities  as  a  practitioner  of  medi­
cine.— Therapeutic  Gazette.

in  the  country  districts. 

Years  ago  there  can  be  no  doubt  that 
a  considerable  amount  of  pharmaceu­
tical  knowledge  was  of 
inestimable 
value  to  the  practitioner,  particularly  to 
one  who  intended  to  follow  his  profes­
sion 
It  was 
necessary  for  him  to  know  the  appear­
ance  of  growing  and  dried  medicinal 
plants,  and it  was  also  necessary  that  he 
should  prepare  from  these  plants  the 
various  medicaments  which  he  knew  by 
experience  would  prove  useful 
in  his 
practice.  To-day  this  function  of  the 
in  the  country  and  city 
phvsican  both 
has  become  entirely  obsolete. 
The 
manufacturing  chemist  provides  each 
practitioner  with  official  products 
in 
solid  and  liquid  form  at  small  cost  and 
of  such  reliability  that  it  is  futile  for an 
individual  to  attempt  the  preparation 
of  medicines  for  himself,  Eor this  rea­
son  a  certain  amount  of  the  pharma­
ceutical 
im­
parted  to  students 
is  no  longer  neces­
sary,  and  the  facts  which  he  wishes  to 
know  deal  rather  with  finished  products 
than  with  crude  materials. 
im­
portant  to  the  physician  of  to-day  that 
he  should  know  about  pharmaceutical 
and  chemical 
incompatibility;  that  he 
should  not  prescribe  fluid  extracts  in 
watery  solutions;  that  he  should  not  or­
der  salts  to  be  dissolved  to  the  point  of 
saturation 
in  any  of  the  official waters 
which  already  have  in  solution  a  cer­
tain  amount  of  medicinal  substances; 
large 
that  he  should-  not  order  such 
quantities  of  bulky  materials  placed 
in 
pills  that  these  pills  become  boluses  too 
large  to  be  swallowed. 
In  other  words, 
he  must  know  enough  about  pharmacy 
to  be  able  to  write  with  ease  a  prescrip­
tion  which  will  not  only  contain  the  in­
gredients  needed  by  his  patient,  but 
which 
is  capable  of  being  put  up  in

information  heretofore 

is 

It 

Autobiography  o f a D rug Clerk.

At  a  recent  examination  held  by  a 
board  of  pharmacy  the  applicants  were 
required  to  write  a  short  essay  on  some 
subject 
in  order  to  show  their  use  of 
English,  their  capacity  to  spell,  etc., 
etc.  One  of  the  applicants  thereupon 
wrote  the  following,  which  we  regret 
not  being  able  to  reproduce  in  the  orig­
inal  handscript:

Born  in—   of  good  old  scotch  Parents, 
the  value  of  the  stock  having  run  out 
by  the  time  I  was  bom, judging from the 
anxiety  I  have  caused  my  good Parents, 
finally  culminating  in  my taking  up  thé 
study  of  Pharmacy  and  getting Married, 
which  is  a  fate  terrible  enough  with  do­
ing  the  deed  while  a  mere  Drug  clerk 
at  8  per  and  17  hours  a  day.  Hoping 
to  end  it  all  by  passing  this  Examina- 
f,on  I  am  yours  truly----- .

Johnson’s  Test  Eor  Sugar in  Urine.
Urine  containing  sugar when  heated 
with  picric  acid  and  potassium  hydrate 
solution  gives  a  deep  red  color.  To 
remove  such  reducing  substances  that 
nterfere  with 
reaction,  Johnson 
recommends  the  addition  of  mercuric 
chloride  first  to  precipitate  uric  acid 
and  creatinin ;  after  standing  for  awhile 
the  excess  of  sublimate  is  removed  by 
the  addition  of  aqua  ammonia,  then 
picric  acid  may  be  added.

the 

Wm.  Mixton.

MFG. CHEMISTS,
m ra ,i

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

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W HOLESALE  DRUG  PRICE  CURRENT

Advanced—Gum Camphor, Oil Bergamot, Oil Lemon. 
Declined—Alcohol, Balsam Peru.

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Copaiba....................
Peru  .'.......... ...........
Terabln,  Canada....
Tolutan.....................
Cortex

fT Abies, Canadian.......

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Acetlcum.................$
Benzoicum, German.
Boracic.....................
Carbolicum..............
Citricum....................
Hydrochlor.............
Nitrocum..................
Oxalicum..................
Phosphorium,  dll...
Salicylicum  .............
Sulphuricum...........
Tartaricum................ 
A m m onia
Aqua, 16 deg............. 
Aqua, 20 deg.............  
Carbonas...,............ 
Chloridum................... 
A niline

6@$
70®
@
35®
45®
3®
8®
12®
@
65®
IK®

38®  40

4® 
6
6® 
8
13@  15
12®  14

Black.........................  2 00® 2 26
Brown.......................... 
80® 
46®  60
Bed..............................  
Yellow.......................  2 60® 3 00

‘Baecse
Cubebae............po, 16
Junlperas..................
Xanthoxylum..........
Balsam nm

14

12@
6@
75@

40@  45

35

8@

25@  30

24@  26
11@13@
1G@  17

Cinchona  Flava.......
Euonymus atropurp. 
Myrica Cerifera, po.
Prunus Virgini........
Quillaia, gr’d ............
. Sassafras........po. 18
Ulmus...po.  15, gr’d
Extractum
Glycyrrhiza Glabra.
Glycyrrhiza,  po......
Haematox, 15 lb. box
Haematox, is ............
Haematox, V4s..........
Haematox, V4s..........
Ferru
Carbonate  Precip...
Citrate and  Quinia..
Citrate Soluble........
Ferrocyanidum Sol..
Solut. Chloride........
Sulphate,  com’l.......
Sulphate,  com’l,  by
bDl, per  cwt..........
Sulphate,  pure........
Flora
Arnica.......................
Authemis..................
Matricaria................
Folia
Barosma...................
Cassia Acutifol,  Tin-
nevelly..................
Cassia, Acutifol, Alx. 
Salvia officinalis,  Vis
and V4s..................
UvaUrsi....................
Gumrni
Acacia, 1st picked... 
Acacia,2d  picked... 
Acacia, 3d  picked...
Acacia, sifted  sorts
45®
Acacia, po................. 
Aloe, Barb. po.l8@20  12®
Aloe, Cape— po. 15. 
®
Aloe,  Socotri.. po. 40 
®
55®
Ammoniac................. 
Assafoetlda__ po. 30 
28®
Benzolnum............... 
50®
Catechu, is ............... 
@
Catechu, V4s.............
16 
Catechu, !4s.............
#68@
72 
Camphor;«...............
40 
Euphorbium... po. 35
@  1  00 
Gatbanum.................
65®  70
Gamboge.............po
®  30
Guaiacum...... po. 25
@  1  25 
Kino........... po. $1.26
@  60 
Mastic  ......................
@  40
Myrrh.............po. 45
Opii__ po.  4.50@4.80 3 30®  3 40
Shellac...................... 
Shellac, bleached—  
Tragacanth..............  
Herba 
Absinthium. .oz. pkg 
Eupatorium..oz. pkg
lob elia__ -..oz. pkg
Majorum__ oz. pkg
Mentha Pip..oz. pkg 
Mentha Vfr..oz. pkg
Rue............... oz. pkg
Tanacetum V oz. pkg 
Thymus, V .. .oz. pkg
M agnesia
Calcined, Pat............
Carbonate, Pat........
Carbonate, K. & M..
’arbonate, Jennings
Oleum
Absinthium............. 6  60® 6 75
Amygdalae,  Dulc__
35®  60
Amygdalae,  Amarae. 8 00® 8 25
Anisi......................... 1  80®  1  85
Aurantl Cortex........ 2 25® 2 30
Bergamli.................. 2 60® 2 60
Cajiputi....................
80®  85
Ca’ryophyUl..............
76®  80
Cedar .......................
35®  45
Chenopadli...............
@ 2 75
Ctnnamonli............. 1  10®  l  20
36®  40
Cltronella.................

65®  60
18®  20
18®  20
18®  20

25@
40®
50®

60® 

Conium Mac............. 
50®  60
Copaiba....................  1  16® 1  25
Cubebae.................... 
90®  1  00
Exechthitos.............  1  00®  1  10
Erigeron..................  l  00®  1  10
Gauitheria...............  2 00®  2  10
Geranium, ounce__ 
®  75
Gossippii, Sem. gal.. 
60
Hedeoma..................  1  70®  l  75
Junipera..................  1  50® 2  00
Lavendula  ............... 
90® 2 00
Limonis....................  1  40®  l  50
Mentha Piper..........  1  25® 2 00
Mentha Verid..........  1  50®  1  60
Morrhuae, ¡gal..........  1  20®  1  25
Myrcia.....................   4 oo® 4 50
75® 3 00
Olive......................... 
Picis Liquida.......... 
10® 
12
®  35
Picis Liquida,  gal... 
Ricina.......................  1  CO®  1  08
Kosmarinl................. 
@  1  00
Rosae, ounce.............  6 50® 8 50
Sucdni.....................  
40®  45
Sabina.....................  
90®  1  00
Santal.......................   2  76®  7  00
Sassafras..................  60®  65
®  65
Sinapis, ess., ounce. 
Tiglll.........................  1  60®  1  60
Thyme....................... 
40® 
so
Thyme, opt............... 
@  1  60
Theobromas............ 
15®  20
Potassium
16@ 
18
Bi-Carb...................... 
Bichromate.............  
15
13® 
Bromide..................  
52®  57
12® 
Carb  ......................... 
15
Chlorate., .po. 17® 19  16®  18
Cyanide.................... 
35®  40
Iodide............................  2 66® 2 75
Potassa, Bitart, pure  28®  30
®  15
Potassa, Bitart, com. 
7® 
Potass Nitras, opt... 
10
Potass  Nitras.......... 
8
6® 
Prusslate.................. 
23®  26
Sulphate  po............. 
16® 
18

1 00

Radix

Aconitum.................. 
20®  25
Althae.......................   22®  25
Anchusa.................. 
10® 
12
Arum  po.................. 
@  25
20®  40
Calamus.................... 
Gentiana........po. 15  .  12®  15
18
Glychrrhiza... pv.  15  16® 
®  75
Hydrastis  Canaden. 
®  80
Hydrastis Can., po.. 
Hellebore, Alba, po. 
12@  15
Inula,  po.................. 
16®  20
Ipecac, po................   4 26®  4 35
Iris  plox.. .po. 35@38  35®  40
25®  30
Jalapa, pr................  
@  35
Maranta,  14s...........  
22®  25
Podophyllum,  po... 
Rhei..........................  
75®  1  00
Rhei,  cut.................. 
@  1  25
Rhei, pv.................... 
75®  1  35
Spigella.................... 
35®  38
Sanguinaria.. .po.  15 
18
40®  45
Serpentaria.............  
60®  65
Senega...................... 
®  40
Smilax, officinalis H. 
Smilax, M................. 
®  25
10®  12
Scillse...............po.  35 
Symplocarpus, Foeti-
dus,  po.................. 
@  26
Valeriana,Eng.po.30 
®  25
Valeriana,  German. 
15®  20
Zingiber a ................  
16
12® 
Zingiber].................. 
25®  27
Semen

® 

Anlsum........... po.  15 
®  12
Apium (graveleons). 
13@  15
Bird, is .....................  
4® 
6
Oarul...............po.  18  11®
Cardamon.................  l  25@  1  75
Coriandrum.............. 
8@  10
Cannabis Sativa.......  4  @  5
Cydonlum................. 
76®  1 00
10@  12
Cnenopodium.......... 
D'pterix Odorate__   1  00@  1  10
Foeniculum  ............. 
@  10
7® 
Foenugreek, po........ 
9
L ini...........................  3V4®  4V4
Lini, grd........ bbl. 3% 
4®
Lobelia..................... 
35®  40
Pharlaris Canarian..  4  @
5
Rapa.........................  4(4® 
Sinapis  Alba...........  
9®
Sinapis  Nigra.......... 
11®   12
Spirltus 

Frumenti, W. D. Co.  2 00® 2  50 
Frumenti,  D. F. R..  2 00® 2  25
Frumenti.................   1  25@  1  60
Juniperis Co. O. T...  1 65®  2 00
Juniperis  Co............  1  75® 3 50
Saacharum  N. E __   l  90@ 2  10
Spt. Vini Galli..........  l  75® 6  ~
Vini  Oporto.............   1  25®  2
Vini Alba..................  l  25® 2 00

Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage................  2 50® 2 75
Nassau sheeps’ wool
carriage.................   2 50® 2 75
Velvet extra sheeps’
wool, carriage....... 
®  1  50
Extra yellow sheeps’
wool, carriage.......  @  l  25
Grass  sheepsr wool,
carriage................. 
® 100
®  75
Hard; for slate use.. 
Yellow  R e e f,  for
slate use................. 
® 1 4 0
Syrups
A cacia.....................  
®  50
Aurantl Cortex........  
@ 5 0
@  50
Zingiber.................... 
@  60
Ipecac....................... 
@  50
Ferri Iod.................. 
Rhei Arom............... 
@  50
50®  60
Smilax  Officinalis... 
@  60
Senega.....................  
Sclllae.........................  @  50

Sclllae  Co....................... 
Tolutan.........................  
Prunus  virg.................. 
Tinctures 
Aconitum Napellis R 
Aconitum Napellis F
Aloes ........................
Aloes and Myrrh__
Arnica.....................
Assafoetlda...............
Atrope Belladonna..
Aurantl Cortex........
Benzoin....................
Benzoin Co...............
Barosma..-................
Cantharides.............
Capsicum.................
Cardamon................
Cardamon Co...........
Castor.......................
Catechu....................
Cinchona..................
Cinchona Co.............
Columba..................
Cubebae.....................
Cassia Acutlfol........
Cassia Acutifol Co...
Digitalis....................
Ergot.........................
Ferri  Chloridum__
Gentian....................
Gentian Co...............
Guinea.......................
Guinea ammon........
Hyoscyamus.............
Iodine  ....................
Iodine, colorless....
Kino  .........................
Lobelia .....................
Myrrh.......................
Nux Vomica.............
Opii............................
Opii, comphorated..
Opii, deodorized......
Quassia....................
Rhatany....................
Rhei..........................
Sanguinaria............
Serpentaria.............
Stramonium.............
Tolutan....................
Valerian  ..................
Vera tram  Veride...
Zingiber....................

M iscellaneous 

.Ether, Spts. Nit. 7 F  30®  35
¿Ether, Spts. Nit. 4 F  34®  38
Alumen....................  2&® 
3
3®
Alumen,  gro’d..po. 7 
Annatto..................... 
40®  50
4®
Antimoni, po............ 
Antimoni et Potass T  40®  50
@  25
Antipyrin................. 
Antiiebrin............... 
@  20
Argent! Nitras,oz... 
@  48
Arsenicum............... 
10®
38®
Balm Gilead  Buds.. 
Bismuth S. N...........   1  50@  1  60
Calcium Chlor.,  Is...  @ 
9
Calcium Chlor.,  Vis..  @ 
Calcium Chlor.,  Vis..  @ 
Cantharides, Rus.po  @ 
Capsici Fructus, af.. 
@
Capsici  Fructus, po.  @ 
Capsici Fructus B, po  @  15
Caryophyllus. .po. 15 
12® 
14
Carmine, No. 40....... 
® 3 00
50®  55
Cera Alba................. 
Cera  Flava............... 
40®  42
®  40
Coccus.....................  
Cassia Fructus........ 
@  35
Centrarla..................  
®  10
Cetaceum..................  @ 4 5
Chloroform.............  
55®  60
Chloroform,  squibbs  @  1  10 
Chloral Hyd Crst  ...  l  66®  1  90
Chondrus.................   20®  25
Cinchonldine.P. & W  38@  48
Cinchonidine, Germ.  38®  48
Cocaine....................  5 30®  5 60
Corks, list, dis. pr. ct. 
70
Creosotum................  
@ 3 5
@
Creta............ bbl. 75 
Creta, prep...............  @
Creta, precip...........  
9®  11
Creta, Rubra...........  
@
Crocus...................... 
is®
Cudbear.................... 
@  24
Cupri  Sulph.............   6 Vi®
Dextrine.................. 
7@  10
Ether Sulph............. 
75®  90
Emery, all numbers.  @
Emery, po................. 
@
Hr go ta ......... po. 90  85®
Flake  White...........  
12® 
15
Galla.........................  @  23
8®
Gambler.................. 
@  60
Gelatin, Cooper....... 
35®  60
Gelatin, French....... 
75  &
Glassware,  flint, box 
Less than box......  
70
11®  13
Glue, brown.............  
Glue,  white.............  
15®  25
Glycerina.................. 
17®  28
Grana Faradisi........   @  25
Humulus.................. 
25®  55
Hydrarg Chlor  Mite  @  95
@  85
Hydrarg Chlor Cor.. 
@ 1  05
Hydrarg Óx Rub’m. 
@ 1  17
Hydrarg  Ammoniati 
50®  60
HydrargUnguentum 
Hydrargyrum.......... 
@  85
IchthyoDolla,  Am... 
65®  70
Indigo....................... 
75®  1 oo
Iodine,  Resubi........   3 90® 4 00
Iodoform.................. 
@  4 00
Lupulin.....................  
@ 5 0
Lycopodium.............  
M acis........................ 
Liquor Arsen et  Hy­
drarg Iod............... 
LiquorPotassArslnit 
Magnesia,  Sulph__  
Magnesia, Sulph, bbl 
Mannla, S.  F ............ 

70®
65®
@
10®
2®
@  lVi
60®  00

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20® 22
& 18
@ 30
@ 41
@ 41
9® 11
9® 11
23® 25
1V4@ 2
3®
5
3V4® 4
@ 2
60 I
SO® 56
@ 2 00
@
@
@
@

Menthol....................
@ 3 26 Seldlltz Mixture......
Morphia, S., P.& W.  2  05®  2 30 Sinapis.....................
Morphia, S., N. Y. Q.
Sinapis,  opt.............
&C. Co.................. 1  95®  2 20 Snuff, Maccaboy, De
Moschus  Canton__
® 40
V oes.....................
65® 80 Snuff,Scotch,I)eVo’s
Myristica, No. 1.......
@ 10 Soda, Boras.............
Nux Vomica...po. 16
Os Sepia....................
30® 35 Soda,  Boras, po.......
Pepsin Saac, H. & P.
Soda et Potass Tart.
D  Co.....................
@  1 00 Soda,  Carb...............
Soda,  Bi-Carb..........
Picis Liq. N.N.V4 gai.
doz.........................
@ 2 00 Soda,  Ash................
@  1 00 Soda, Sulphas..........
Picis Liq.,quarts__
<& 85 Spts. Cologne...........
Picis Liq.,  pints....
Pil Hydrarg. ..po.  80
@ so Spts. Ether  Co........
© 18 Spts. Myrcia Dom...
Piper  Nigra.. .po. 22
Piper  Alba.... po. 35
@ 30 Spts. Vini Rect.  bbl.
7 Spts. Vini Rect. Hbbi
Piix Burgun.............
©
Plumbi Acet.............
10® 12 Spts. Vini Rect. logal
Pulvis Ipecac et Opii 1  30®  1 50 Spts. Vini Rect. 5 gal
Strychnia, Crystal... 1  05®  1 25
Pyrethrum, boxes ll.
2V4@ 4
& P. D. Co., doz...
© 75 Sulphur,  Subl..........
34
Pyrethrum,  pv........
25@ 30 Sulphur, Roll...........
8® 10
8® 10 Tamarinds...............
Quassia;.....'...........
28® 30
33® 43 Terebenth  Venice...
Quinia, 8. P. &  W...
62® 55
33® 43 Theobromap..............
Quinia, S.  German..
Quinia, N. Y.............
33® 43 Vanilla..................... 9 00®16 00 !
Bubia Tinctorum__
12@ 14 Zincl Sulph.............
7®
8
Saccharum Lactls pv
18® 20
Salacin..................... 6 Ob®  6 25
40® 50
Sanguis  Draconls...
12® 14 Whale, winter..........
Sapo, W....................
10® 12 Lard, extra...............
Sapo M.....................
Sapo G.....................
@ 15 Lard, No. 1...............

BBL.  G\ It,
70
70
50

70
60
45

Linseed, pure raw...  66 
Linseed, boiled........ 
67 
Neatsfoot, winter str  54 
Spirits  Turpentine..  55 

69
70
60
60
Paints  BBL.  LB.
Red  Venetian..........  IK  2  @8
Ochre, yellow  Mars.  IK  2  @4 
Ochre, yellow Ber...  IK  2  @3 
Putty,  commercial..  2K  2Vi@3 
Putty, strictly  pure.  2Vi  2K@3 
Vermilion,  P rim e
American............. 
13® 
15
76
Vermilion, English..  70® 
14®  18
Green,  Paris............ 
16
Green, Peninsular...  13® 
Lead, red..................  6V4@ 
7
Lead,  white.............  6Vi® 
7
Whiting, white Span 
®  70
Whiting, gilders’__   @  90
@  1  00 
White, Paris, Amer. 
Whiting,  i’arls,  Eng.
cliff........................  
@  1  40
Universal Prepared.  1  00®  1  15

Varnishes

No. 1 Turp  Coach...  l  10®  l  20
Extra Turp...............  1  60®  l  70
Coach  Body.............   2 76® 3 oo
No. 1 Turp Furn......   1  00®  1  10
Extra Turk  Damar..  1  56®  1  60 
Jap.Dryer.No.lTurp  70®  76

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GROCERY  PRICE  CURRENT

Guaranteed correct at time of issue, 

with any jobbing house.

Not  connected

ADVANCES

Sugars
California Prunes
Lemons
< »ranges
Boneless Hams

DECLINES

Cheese
Whitefish
Corn Syrup
Illuminating Oil
Lards

ALA B ASTI N E

White in drums.................... 
9
Colors in drums....................  10
White in packages...............  10
Colors in packages............... 
li
Less 40 per cent discount.

AXLE GREASE
Aurora.......................... sc 
Castor  Oil..................... 60 
Diamond.......................60 
Frazer’s ........................ 76 
IXI. Golden, tin boxes 76 

doz.  gross
6 00
7 oo
4 26
9 00
9 00

9 00
6 00

Mica, tin boxes.........76 
Paragon...................... 66 

BAKING  POWDER 
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Acme 

Arctic

14 lb. cans 3 doz..................   46
14 lb. cans 3 doz..................   76
I 
lb. cans l  doz.................. 1 oo
Bulk........................................  10
6 oz. Eng. Tumblers..............  86
14 lb. cans per doz..............   76
H lb. cans per doz............. 1  20
l 
lb. cans per doz............. 2 00
14 lb. cans, 4 doz. case........   36
14 lb. cans, 4 doz. case........   56
lb. cans, 2 doz. case........   90
1 

£1  Parity

Home

Queen  Flake

14 lb. cans, 4 doz. case........   46
14 lb. cans, 4 doz. case........  86
1 
lb. cans. 2 doz. case........l  60
3 oz., 6 doz. case.......,........... 2 70
6 oz., 4 doz. case....................3 20
9 oz., 4 doz. case....................4 80
1 lb., 2 doz. case....................4 oo
6 lb.,  1 doz. case....................9 00

Royal

10c size__  86
14 lb. cans  1  30 
6 oz. cans.  1  80 
H lb.  cans  2  40 
lb. cans  3 60 
1 lb.  cans.  4 66 
a  31b. cans.12 76 
5 lb. cans.21  00

BATH  BRICK

American...............................  70
English...................................  so

BLUING

g B g

BROOMS

Small 3 doz...................... 
40
Large, 2 doz.............................. 75
Arctic, 4 oz, per gross.......... 4 00
Arctic, 8 oz, per gross.......... 6 00
Arctic, pints, per  gross___ 9 00
No. 1 Carpet................................3 00
No. 2 Carpet................................2 75
No. 3 Carpet................................2 60
No. 4 Carpet................................2 05
Parlor  Gem...........................2 76
Common Whisk...................  95
Fancy Whisk.............................. 1 26
Warehouse.............................3  75
Electric Light, 8s ...................12
Electric Light, 16s..................1214
Paraffine, 6s ........................... jiv
Paraffine, 12s ..........................1214
Wlcking................................. 20

CANDLES

CANNED  GOODS 

Beans

Apples
3 lb. Standards........  
Gallons, standards.. 
Baked.......................  
Bed  Kidney.............  
String.......................  
Wax........................... 
Standards................. 

Blackberries

so
2 60
75@1 30
75®  86
go
85
75

i  00 
1  60
86 
1  16
76
86
96

Peas

Gooseberries

86
1  86
3  10
2 26
175
2 80
1  76
2 80
175
2 80
18@20
22@25
95
170

Blaeberries
Standard.....................
Clams.
Little Neck, 1 lb......
Little Neck, 2 lb___
Cherries
Bed  Standards............
White...........................
Corn
Fair............................
Good.........................
Fancy..
Standard.................
Hom iny
Standard
Lobster
Star, V4 lb.................. 
Star, 1  lb..................  
Picnic Tails..............  
Mackerel
Mustard, lib ............ 
Mustard, 2 lb............ 
Soused, 1 lb............... 
Soused, 2 lb.............  
Tomato, lib .............  
Tomato, 21b.............  
Mushrooms
Hotels......................... 
Buttons...................... 
Oysters
Cove, 1 lb..................  
Cove, 2 lb..................  
Peaches
P ie ............................
Yellow........................  1 66@i  85
Pears
Standard..................  
70
Fancy........................  
80
Marrowfat............... 
1  00
Early .Tune............... 
1  00
Early June  Sifted.. 
160
Pineapple
Orated........................  1 28@2 76
Sliced..........................   1 36@2  26
Pum pkin
66
Fair........................... 
Good......................... 
75
Fancy.......................  
86
Raspberries
Standard.................... 
90
Salmon
Red Alaska..............  
1  35
96
Pink Alaska............. 
Shrimps
Standard.................. 
1  50
Sardines
Domestic, 14s...........  
4
Domestic, ,5 s .......... 
8
Domestic,  Mustard. 
8
California, 'As.......... 
17
French. }4s............... 
22
French, V4s............... 
28
Standard..................  
86
Fancy.......................  
1  26
Succotash
Fair............................ 
90
1  00
Good......................... 
1  20
Fancy.......................  
Tomatoes
Fair........................... 
80
Good.........................  
90
Fancy.......................  
1  15
Gallons...................... 
2 35
CATSUP
Columbia,  pints................... 2 00
Columbia, % pints................1  26
CHEESE
Acme......................... 
@ 9
@  9V4
Amboy.....................  
Carson City..............  
@9
Emblem.................... 
@9
@in
Gem..........................  
Gold Medal.............. 
@9
Ideal.......................  
©9
Jersey....................... 
@9
Riverside.................. 
@ 9^4
Brick......................... 
@12
Edam........................ 
@90
Leiden.....................  
@17
Llmburger................  
@11
Pineapple................   60  @75
Sap  Sago................. 
@17
Bulk................................. 
Red......................................... 
CHOCOLATE 
Walter Baker & Co.’s.

Strawberries

CHICORY

5
7

Runkel Bros.

H. O. Wilbur & Sons.

German Sweet......................  23
Premium...............................   35
Breakfast Cocoa....................  46
Vienna Sweet.....................  21
Vanilla..................................  28
Premium...............................   31
Capital Sweet........................  21
Imperial Sweet.....................  22
Nelson’s Premium...............  25
Sweet Clover, 34s..................  26
Sweet Clover, Hs..................  27
Premium Baking................   33
Double Vanilla.................. 
40
Triple Vanilla.......................   50

COCOA

Webb....................................  30
Cleveland...............................  41
Epps.......................................  42
Van Houten, 54s...................   12
Van Houten, 54s...................   20
Van Houten, 54s...................   40
Van Houten,  is ...................   72
Colonial, J4s  .........................  35
Colonial, 54s..........................   33
Huyler...................................  45
Wilbur, 54s ............................  41
Wilbur. 54s............................   42

CIGARS

The Bradley Cigar Co.’s  Brands
Advance................................. $36 00
Bradley...................................  35 00
Clear Havana  Puffs..........  22 00
“ W. H.  B.” ............................  66 00
“ W .B. B.” ..............................  66 00

H. & P. Drug Co.’s brands.

Fortune  Teller.......................  36 00
Our Manager..........................  36 00
Quintette.................................  36 00
G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand.

S. C. W..............................  36 00
Phelps. Brace & Co.’s Brands.
Royal  Tigers. 
.  56© 80 00
Royal Tigerettes........ 36
Vincente Portuondo ..35@ 70 00
Ruhe Bros. Co.............26® 70  00
Hilson  Co....................35® 110  00
T. J. Dunn & Co..........36® 70  00
McCoy & Co.................36® 70  00
The Collins Cigar Co..l0@ 35 00
Brown  Bros................ 15® 70  00
Bernard Stahl Co........35© 90  00
Banner Cigar  Co........ io@ 35  00
Seidenberg  & Co........ 56@125  00
Fulton  Cigar Co........ 10® 35  00
A. B. Ballard & Co.. ..36@175 00 
E. M. Schwarz & Co... 35@110 00
San Telmo.........................35® 70 00
Havana Cigar Co......... 18@ 36 00
C. Costello & Co.......... 35@ 70 00
LaGora-Fee Co............35@ 70 00
S. I. Davis & Co..........35@185 00
Hene&Co........................ 36® 90 00
Benedict & Co--------7.50® 70 00
Hemmeter Cigar Co.. .36®  70 00 
G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.35@ 70 00 
Maurice Sanborn  .... 50@175 00
Bock & Co.................... 65@300 00
Manuel  Garcia........... 80@375 00
Neuva Mundo...................85® 175 oo
Henry Clay...................86(5:550 00
La Carolina..................96©200 00
Standard T. & C. Co.. .35@ 70 00
Star Green..................... 35  OO

H. Van Tongeren’s Brand. 

COFFEE

_

  HIGH GRADE.

Coffees
Special Combination..........  20
French Breakfast.................  25
Lenox............................  
30
Vienna........... .'............. 35
Private Estate.......................   38
Supreme.................................  40

Less 3354  per  cent.

Rio

Common................................tow
Fair................................ 
xi  *
choice....................... ” ” ;;;;i3
Fancy.................................... 15

n
16
..........J3

.12

Santos
Common.................. 
Fair............................
Choice.........................
Fancy........................]
Peaberry.................. 
Fair__ Maracaibo
Choice................
Choice.. M exican
Fancy.....................
Choice.. Guatemala
African.
O. G.
P. G.

Java

Arabian.

Farina

Hom iny

H askell’s W heat Flakes

241 lb. packages........................1 26
Bulk, per 100 Tbs......................... 3 00
36  21b. packages........................3 00
Barrels....................................... 2 60
Flake, 60 lb. drums.....................1 00
Maccaroni  and Verm icelli
Domestic, 10 lb. box.............  60
Imported. 26 lb. box............2 60
Common...............................
Chester........................................2 50
Empire........................................ 3 00

Pearl  Barley

Grits

Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s Brand.

PACKAGE  COFFEE. 

’ 
Below  are  given  New  York 
prices  on  package  coffees,  to 
which the wholesale dealer adds 
the local freight from New York 
to buyers shipping point, giving 
buyer credit on the  invoice  for 
the amount of  freight  he  pays 
from  the  market  in  which  he 
purchases to his shipping point.
These prices are further sub­
ject  to  manufacturer’s  regular 
rebate.
Arbuckle................................... 12 00
Jersey........................................ 12 00
M cLaughlin’s XXXX 
McLaughlin’s  XXXX  sold  to 
retailers  only.  Mail  all  orders 
direct  to  W.  F.  McLaughlin  & 
Co., Chicago.
Valley City 54  gross.............   75
Felix 54 gross.............................. 1 15
Hummers foil 54 gross........   85
Hummel’s tin  % gross . 
... 1  43 
20 lb. bags
Less quantity
Pound packages............. 
CLOTHES  LINES

COCOA  SHELLS 

Extract

4

Cotton, 40 ft.  per doz............1  00
Cotton, 60 ft.  per doz............ 1  20
Cotton, 60 ft.  per doz............1  40
Cotton, 70 ft.  per doz............1  60
Cotton, 80 ft.  per doz............1  80
Jute, 60 ft. per doz...............  80
Jute. 72 ft. per doz.............   95
_ __  
4 doz in case.
Gail Borden Eagle............... 6 75
Crown.....................................6 26
Daisy...................................... 5 75
Champion..............................4 50
Magnolia............................... 4 25
Challenge ..............................4 00
Dime...................................... 3 36

CONDENSED  MILK

COUPON  BOOKS 

50 books, any  denom...  1  60 
100 books, any  denom...  2 50 
500 books, any  denom...  11 50 
1,000books,any  denom...  2000 
Above quotations are for either 
Tradesman, Superior, Economic 
or  Universal  grades.  Where
1.000 books are ordered at a time 
customer receives  sp e c ia lly  
printed  cover  without  extra 
charge.

Coupon  Pass Books 
Can be made to represent any 
denomination from $10 down.
50  books.........................  1  50
100  books.........................  2 50
500  books.........................  11  60
1.000  books.........................  20  00

Credit  Checks 

600, any one denom.........  2 00
1.000, any one denom........   3 00
2.000, any one denom........   5 00
Steel  punch....................... 
75
CREAM TARTAR 

Apples

California  Fruits

5 and 10 lb. wooden  boxes....  30
Bulk in sacks............................29
D R IED  FRUITS—Domestic 
Sundried..........................   @654
Evaporated, 60 lb. boxes.7@  754 
Apricots......................  @15
Blackberries...............
Nectarines..................
Peaches.......................10  @11
Pears............................
Pitted Cherries...........  
Prunnelles..................
Raspberries..............

754

California Prunes

100-120 25 lb. boxes........   @
90-100 26 lb. boxes........  @454
80 - 90 26 lb. boxes........   @ 5
70 - 80 26 lb. boxes........   @554
60 - 70 25 lb. boxes........   @ 6.
50 - 60 25 lb. boxes........   @654
40 - 50 25 lb. boxes........   © 7
30 - 40 25 lb. boxes........  
854
54 cent less in 50 lb. cases 

Raisins

Citron

Currants

1  75 
London Layers 2 Crown. 
2 00
London Layers 3 Crown. 
2 25
Cluster 4 Crown................. 
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 
754
854
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown 
854
L. M., Seeded, choice ... 
10
L. M., Seeded, fancy__  
1054
D RIED  FRUITS—Foreign 
Leghorn.............................. 
11
Corsican....................................12
Patras, cases.........................  ev
Cleaned, bulk.......................   63k
Cleaned,  packages...............  75»
Citron American 19 lb. bx... 13 
Lemon American 10 lb. bx.. 1054 
Orange American 10 lb. bx.. 1054 
Sultana 1 Crown...................
Sultana 2 Crown..................’
Sultana 3 Crown....................
Sultana 4 Crown...................
Sultana 5 Crown....................
Sultana 6 Crown...............
Sultana package.............   .

Raisins

Peel

Beans

FARINACEOUS GOODS 
Dried Lima..........................  654
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
Possum Cereal, small............1 35
Postum Cereal, large........  2  25

Cereals

Peas

Rolled  Oats

24 2 lb. packages.................1 80
100 lb.  kegs...........................2 70
200 lb. barrels......................5  10
Green, Wisconsin, bu.........1  30
Green, Scotch, bu............... 1  35
Split, bu.................................
Rolled A vena, bbl............... 3 45
Steel Cut, 54 bbis................. 1
Monarch, bbl....................... 3  26
Monarch,  54 bbl...................1  75
Monarch, 90 lb. sacks.........1  55
Quaker, cases...................... 3  20
German.................................
East India............................... 354
Flake...................................  5
Pearl......................................  5
Pearl,  24 1 lb. packages.......654
Cracked, bulk.......................   354
24 2 lb. packages................. 2 50
FLAVORING EXTRACTS 
4 OZ.
1  80
1  36
1  45

2 OZ. 
Vanilla D. C............110 
Lemon D.  C  __   .  70 
Vanilla Tonka........  75 

D eBoe’s

Tapioca

W heat

Sago

FOOTE & JENKS’

J A X O N

^Htighes^Grad^Extracts
Lemon

Vanilla 

lozfullm .120 
lo zfu llm .  80 
2 oz full m.2  10  2 oz full m  l  25 
No.3fan’y,3  15  No.3fan’y.l  75

Vanilla

2 oz panel..1  20
3 oz taper..2 00

Lemon 

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

Jennings’

D.  C. Vanilla
2 oz........ 1  20
3 oz........ 1  50
4 OZ........ 2 00
6 OZ........ 3 00
No.  8.. .  4  00
No. 10. . .  6 U0
No. 2  T..1  25
No. 3  T..2 00
No. 4  T..2 40

D.  C.  Lemon
2 oz__ .  75
3 oz_ 1  no
4 oz__ .1  40
6 oz__ .2 00
No.  8..
.2 40
No. 10..
.4 00
No. 2 T .  80
No. 3 T .1  25
No. 4 T .1  50
Lem. Van.
1  20
1  20
2  00 
2 25
Lem.
doz.
75 
1  25

Perrigo’s

FLY  PA PER

Northrop  Brand
2 oz. Taper Panel__   75
2 oz. Oval.......... .......  75
3 oz. Taper Panel.... 1  35
4 oz. Taper Panel__1  60
Van. 
doz.
XXX, 2 oz. obert__ 1  25
XXX, 4 oz. taper__ 2 25
XX, 2 oz. obert........ 1  00
No. 2, 2 oz. obert__   75
XXX D D ptchr, 6 oz 
XXX D D ptchr, 4 oz 
K. P. pitcher. 6 oz.
Perrigo’s Lightning,  gro______
.2 50
Petrolatum, per doz.............  75
Sage............................................15
Hops..........................................15
Madras, 5 lb. boxes.................55
S. F., 2,3 and 6 lb. boxes......... 50
51b. pails...........................  190
15 lb. pails..............................  35
30 lb. palls..............................  62
Pure.......................................  30
Calabria.................................   25
Sicily......................................   14
Root........................................  10
Condensed, 2 doz..................1  20
Condensed, 4 doz..................2 26

LICORICE

INDIGO

HERBS

JELLY

LYE

MATCHES

Diamond Match Co.’s brands.
No.  9 sulphur.....  ................1  66
Anchor rarlor.......  ............ 1  50
No. 2 Home...........................1  30
Export Parlor....................... 4  00
Wolverine.............................  1 60

MOLASSES 
New  Orleans

 

PA PER   BAGS

xx
Black................................... 
Fair..................................... 
14
Good.................................... 
20
Fancy........................ 
  24
Open Kettle...................... 25@35
Half-barrels 2c extra 
MUSTARD
Horse Radish, 1 doz............. 1  76
Horse Radish, 2 doz.............3  50
Bayle’s Celery, 1 doz............1  75
Union 
Square 
53 
66 
88 
1 08 
1  36 
1  58
1  84
2  16
2 58 
2 82
3 32
4 48
4  86
5 40

....................1 06
8...................... 1 28
10......................1 38
12...................... 1  60
14......................2 24
16....................2 34
20......................2 52

Satchel 
Bottom 
...  28

PICKLES 
M edium

Sm all

Barrels, 1,200 count...................6 25
Half bbis, 600 count..............3  13
Barrels, 2,400 count............. 6 28
Half bbis, 1,200 count......... [3 62
Clay, No. 216................................ 1 70
Clay, T. D., full count..........  65
Cob, No. 3............................   85

PIPES

POTASH 

48 cans in case.

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

RICE

Dom estic

Carolina head......................... 6 ¡4
Carolina No. 1 ........................5
Carolina No. 2 ........................4
Broken................................... '354
Japan,  No.  1................. 5K@6
Japan,  No.  2..................4%@5
Java, fancy head...........5  @54
Java, No. 1.....................5  @
Table................................  @

Imported.

SALERATUS 

Packed 60 lbs. in box. 

Church’s Arm and Hammer. 3  16
Deland’s...................................... 3 00
Dwight’s  Cow.............................3 16
Emblem...................................... 2 10

........................................ 3 00

SAL  SODA

Wyandotte, 100 its.................... 3 00
Granulated,  bbis..................   80
Granulated, 100 lb. cases....  85
Lump, bbis........................... 
75
Lump, 145 lb. kegs.................  so

SALT

Diam ond Crystal 

Common  Grades

Table, cases, 24 3 lb. boxes.. 1  40 
Table, barrels, 100 3 lb. bags.2 85 
Table, barrels, 40 7  lb. bags.2 60 
Butter, barrels, 280 lb. bulk.2 60 
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 
66 lb. dairy in linen sacks...  60 
66 lb. sacks............................  26
Granulated  Fine..................  96
Medium Fine........................... 1 00

Ashton 
H iggins 
Solar  Rock
Common

Warsaw

SOAP

JAXON

Single box................................... 3 00
5 box lots, delivered............2 95
10 box lots, delivered............2 90
<illS.  $  KIRK  i   CO.'S BRANDS.
American Family, wrp’d__ 3 no
Dome...........................................2 80
Cabinet.................. : .............. 2 40
Savon........................................... 2 80
White Russian...........................2 80
White Cloud,............................. 4 00
Dusky Diamond, 50 6 oz.......2 00
Dusky Diamond, 60 8 oz.......2 50
Blue India, 100 3k lb...................3 00
Kirkoline.................................... 3 50
Eos...............................................2 66

10012 oz bars.........................3 00

100 big bars (labor saving). .3 60

SEARCH-LIGHT
SILVER

Single box............................... 3 00
Five boxes, delivered........... 2 95

Scouring

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

SALT  FISH 

Cod

Herring

Halibut.

Georges cured.............   @ 5
Georges  genuine........   @  554
Georges selected........   @  5%
Grand Bans..................  @454
Strips or  bricks..........6  @  9
Pollock.........................   @  3)4
Strips..........................................14
Chunks......................... ,............15
Holland white hoops,  bbl.  11  00 
Holland white hoops54bbl.  6 00 
Holland white hoop,  keg.. 
75 
Holland white hoop mens. 
85
Norwegian.........................
hound 100 lbs.....................   3  60
Round 40 lbs.......................  1  75
Scaled................................ 
1654
Bloaters...............................  1  50
Mess ioo lbs........................  17  oo
Mess  40 lbs........................  7  10
Mess  10 lbs........................  1  85
Mess  8 lbs........................  1  61
No. 1100 lbs........................  15 00
NO. 1  40 lbs........................  6  30
No. 1  10 lbs........................  1  66
No. 1  8 lbs........................  1  35
No. 2 100 lbs........................  9 50
No. 2  40 lbs........................  4  10
NO. 2  10 lbs........................  1  10
No. 2  8 lbs........................ 
91
No. 1100 lbs........................
No. 1  40 lbs........................
No. 1  10 lbs........................
No. 1  8 lbs........................

M ackerel

Trout

W hite fish

No. 1 No. 2 Fam
2 35
1  25
38
33
..9
..  4
..  8
..60
.10
..  454
..  454
..  5
..10
..  454
..15

7  00
100  lbs............7  50
40  lbs...........   3 30 3  10
85
10 lbs...........  
90
71
8 lbs...........  
75
SEEDS
Anise.........................
Canary, Smyrna......
Caraway..................
Cardamon, Malabar.
Celery........................
Hemp. Russian........
Mixed Bird...............
Mustard, white........
Poppy........................
Rape.........................
Cuttle Bone...............
SNUFF
Scotch, In bladders...............  37
MAccaboy, in jars.................  35
French Rappee, In jars.......  43
Boxes......................................  554
Kegs, English..........................4k

SODA

SPICES 

W hole Splees

12
Allspice............................... 
12
Cassia, China in mats....... 
25
Cassia, Batavia, in bund... 
Cassia, Saigon, broken__  
38
55
Cassia, Saigon, in rolls —  
Cloves, Amboyna............... 
16
14
Cloves, Zanzibar................. 
Mace................................... 
56
Nutmegs,  75-80.................. 
55
Nutmegs,  105-10................. 
45
40
Nutmegs, 115-20.................. 
Pepper, Singapore, black.  1554
Pepper,  Singagore, white. 
23
Pepper, shot.......................   1614
Pure Ground in B ulk
Allspice............................... 
16
Cassia, Batavia..................  
28
48
Cassia, Saigon.................... 
17
Cloves, Zanzibar................. 
Ginger,  African................  
15
Ginger, Cochin..................  
18
Ginger,  Jamaica............... 
25
Mace.................................... 
65
Mustard.............................. 
18
Pepper, Singapore, black. 
18
25
Pepper, Singapore, white. 
Pepper, Cayenne............... 
20
Sage...................... 
 
20

 

STARCH

SUGAR

Below  are  given  New  York 
prices  on  sugars,  to  which  the 
wholesale dealer adds  the  local 
freight from New York  to  your 
shipping point, giving you credit 
on  the  invoice  for  the  amount 
of freight  buyer  pays  from  the 
market  in  which  he  purchases 
to his  shipping  point,  including 
20 pounds for the  weight  of  the 
barrel.
Domino.................................  5 65
Cut  Loaf..............................  5 80
Crushed..............................  5 80
Cubes..................................  5 55
Powdered...........................  5 50
Coarse  Powdered...............  5 50
XXXX Powdered...............   5 55
Standard  Granulated.......  5 40
Fine Granulated.................  5 40
Coarse Granulated............  5 55
Extra Fine Granulated....  5 50
Conf.  Granulated.........   ..  5 65
2 lb. cartons Fine  Gran...  5 50
2 lb. bags Fine  Gran........  5 60
5 lit. cartons Fine  Gran...  5 50
5 lb. bags Fine  Gran........   5 50
Mould A ..............................  5 65
Diamond  A...........................  5 40
Confectioner’s  A ...............  5 20
No.  1, Columbia A...........   5 05
No.  2, Windsor A.............  5 05
No.  3, Ridgewood A ........   5 05
No.  4, Phoenix  A .............  500
No.  5, Empire A ...............  4 95
NO.  6...................................  4 90
No.  7...................................  4  85
No.  8...................................  4 80
No.  9...................................  4 76
No. 10...................................  4 70
No. 11...................................  4 65
No. 12...................................  4 60
No. 13..................................   4  60
NO. 14................................. 
4  60
No. 15...................................  4  60
No. 16...................................  4  60

SYRUPS

Corn

Barrels...................................20
Half bbls...............................22
1 doz. 1 gallon cans............. 3  20
1 doz. 54 gallon cans.............l  95
2 doz. k  gallon cans.............   95
Fair........................................  16
Good......................................  20
Choice  ...................................  26

Pure  Cane

TABLE  SAUCES
LEA & 
PERRINS’ 
SAUCE

The Original and 
Genuine 
Worcestershire.

Lea & Perrin’s, large........   3 75
Lea & Perrin's,  small.......  2 50
Halford, large....................  3 76
Halford, small....................  2 25
Salad Dressing, large.......  4 65
Salad Dressing, &mall.......  2 76

TEA
•Japan

Sundried, medium.......
....27
Sundried, choice..........
...3 0
Sundried, fanev........   .
....40
Regular, medium.......... __ 28
Regular, choice............
....30
Regular, fancy .............
....40
Basket-tired, medium  . --- 26
Basket-fired, choice__ ....35
Basket-fired, fancy......
....40
Nibs............................... __27
Siftings..........................
--- 19
Fannings.......................
.... 20
Gunpowder

Moyune, medium................. 26
Moyune, choice.....................35
Moyune, fancy......................60
Pingsuey,  medium................25
Pingsuey,  choice...................30
Pingsuey, fancy.....................40

Young Hyson

Choice. 
Fancy..

Oolong

Common Corn

Kingsford’s  Corn
40 l-lb. packages................. 
654
20 l-lb. packages................ 
6k
754
6 lb. packages................  
Kingsford’s Silver Gloss
40 l-lb. packages................  
7
6 lb. boxes......................... 
714
20 l-lb.  packages............... 
4%
414
40 l-lb.  packages............... 
l-lb. packages.................... 
414
3-lb. packages....................  
414
6-lb. packages.................... 
5
40 ana 50-lb. boxes............. 
314
Barrels...............................  
314
STOVE  POLISH

Common Gloss

Formosa, fancy.................... 42
Amoy, medium.................... 25
Amoy, choice........................32

E nglish Breakfast

Medium.................................27
Choice....................................34
Fancy.....................................42

India

TOBACCO

Ceylon, choice......................32
Fancy.................................... 42
Scotten Tobacco Co.’s Brands.
Sweet Chunk plug.............. 34
Cadillac line cut....................57
Sweet Loma line cut........... 38
Malt White Wine, 40 grain..  8 
Malt White Wine, 80 grain.. 11
Pure Cider, Red Star........... 12
Pure Cider, Robinson..........12
Pure Cider, Silver................. 11
WASHING  POW DER

VINEGAR

No. 4,3 doz in case, gross..  4 50 
No. 6,3 doz in case, gross..  7 20

WICKING

Rub-No-More, 100 12 o z .......3 50
No. 0, per gross...................... 20
No. 1, per gross...................... 25
No. 2, per gross...................... 35
No. 3, per gross...................... 56

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN
Grains and Feedstuffs 

WOODENWARE

Baskets

Tubs

Palls

B utter  Plates

Clothes  Pins
Mop  Sticks

Bushels................................ 1  15
Bushels, wide  band............ 1  25
30
Market.................................
Willow Clothes, large........ 7 00
Willow Clothes, medium... 6  50
Willow Clothes,  small........ 5  50
No. 1 Oval, 250 in crate....... 1  80
No. 2 Oval, 250 in crate....... 2 00
No. 3 Oval, 250 in crate....... 2  20
No. 5 Oval, 250 In crate....... 2  60
65
Boxes, gross boxes  ............
Trojan spring...................... 9 00
Eclipse patent spring........ 9 00
No 1 common...................... 8 00
No. 2 patent brush holder . 9 00
12 lb. cotton mop heads__ 1  25
2-hoop Standard.................. 1  50
3-hoop Standard.................. 1  70
2-wire,  Cable....................... 1  60
3-wire,  Cable....................... 1  85
Cedar, all red, brass  bound 1  25
Paper,  Eureka.................... 2 25
Fibre.................................... 2  40
20-inch, Standard, No. 1__ .7  00
18-lnch, Standard, No. 2__ .6 00
16-inch, Standard, No. 3— .5 00
20-inch, Dowell,  No. 1........ 3 25
18-inch, Dowell,  No. 2........ 5 25
16-inch, Dowell,  No. 3........ 4  25
No. 1 Fibre........................... 9 45
No. 2 Fibre........................... .7 95
No. 3 Fibre........................... 7  20
Bronze Globe....................... .2 50
D ewey................................. 1  76
Double Acme....................... .2 75
Single Acme......................... .2 26
Double  Peerless.................. .3 20
Single  Peerless.................... .2 50
Northern Queen................. .2 50
Double Duplex.................... .3 00
Good Luck........................... 2 75
Universal..................... ........ .2 26
76
11 in. Butter.........................
13 in. Butter......................... .1  00
15 In. Butter......................... .1  76
17 In. Butter......................... .2 50
19 In. Butter......................... .3 00
Assorted 13-15-17................. .1  75
Assorted 15-17-19................. .2 50
Yeast Foam, 154  doz.......... .  50
Yeast Foam, 3  doz............. .1 00
Yeast Cre  m, 3 doz............. .1  00
Magic Yeast 5c, 3 doz......... .1  00
Sunlight Yeast, 3 doz.......... .1  00
Warner’s Safe, 3 doz.......... .1  00

YEAST  CAKE

Wash  Boards

Wood  Bow ls

Crackers

 

 

Soda

Oyster

B utter

The  National  Biscuit  Co. 

quotes as follows:
554
Seymour............................  
554
New York........................... 
Family................................  
554
654
Salted.................................  
6
Wolverine........................... 
Soda  XXX.........................  
6
Soda,  City........................... 
8
Long Island Wafers..........  11
Zephyrette.........................  10
7
Faust................................... 
Farina.................................  
654
Extra Farina 
.................. 
6
Sal tine  Wafer.................... 
554
Sweet Goods—Boxes
Animals..............................  10*4
Assorted  Cake..................   10
Belle Rose........................... 
9
Bent’s  Water....................  15
Buttercups......... 
13
Cinnamon Bar.................... 
9
Coffee Cake,  Iced.............   10
Coffee Cake, Java.............   10
Cocoanut Taffy...................  10
Cracknells.........................  1554
Creams, Iced.................... 
854
Cream Crisp.......................  
9
Crystal Creams..................  10
Cubans..........................’...  1154
Currant  Fruit......................  11
Frosted Honey..................   1254
Frosted Cream..................... 
9
Ginger Gems, lg. or  sm... 
9
Ginger Snaps, XXX.......... 
8
Gladiator...........................  10
Grandma Cakes................. 
9
Graham Crackers................ 
8
Graham  Wafers..................   10
Honey Fingers..................   1254
Imperials................. .......... 
8
Jumbles, Honey................   12¡4
Lady Fingers.....................   11 54
Lemon Wafers..................   14
Marshmallow....................  15
Marshmallow Walnuts__   16
Mixed Picnic......................  1154
Milk Biscuit.......................  
754
Molasses  Cake..................  
8
Molasses Bar.....................  
9
Moss Jelly Bar..................  1254
Newton...............................   12
8
Oatmeal Crackers.............  
Oatmeal Wafers................   10
Orange Crisp.....................  
9
Orange  Gem.....................  
8
8
Penny Cake......................... 
Pilot Bread, XXX............. 
7
Pretzels, hand made........  
714
Sears’ Lunch......................  7%
Sugar Cake......................... 
8
Sugar Cream, XXX.......... 
8
Sugar Squares.................. 
8
Sultanas..............................  1254
Tutti  Frutti.......................   1654
Vanilla Wafers..................   14
Vienna Crimp.................... 
8

W heat

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

W inter  W heat  Flour 

68

Local Brands

Patents...............................  4 10
Second Patent....................  3 60
Straight...................   .........  3 40
Clear...................................  3 00
Graham..............................  3 30
Buckwheat.....................   5 00
Rye......................................  3 25
Subject  to  usual  cash 
dis­
count.
Flour in bbls., 25c per  bbl. ad­
ditional.
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand
Diamond 5*s.......................   3 60
Diamond k s .......................  3 60
Diamond 54s.......................  3 60

Worden Grocer Co.’s  Brand

Quaker ks..........................   3 60
Quaker 54s..........................  3 60
Quaker 54s..........................  3 60

Spring W heat  Flour 

Clark-Jewell-Wells  Co.’s  Brand
Plllsbury’s  Best 54s..........  4  15
Pillsbury’s  Best 54s..........  4 05
Pillsbury’s  Best 54s..........  3 95
Pillsbury’s Best 54s paper.  3 95 
Pillsbury’s Best 54s paper.  3 95
Ball-Bamhart-Putman’s Brand
...  4  00
Duluth  Imperial 54s...
...  3 90
Duluth  Imperial 54s...
...  3 80
Duluth  Imperial 54s...
Lemon & Wheeler Co. s Brand
3  90
Wingold  54s.................
3 80
Wlngold  54 s .................
3 70
Wingold  54s.................

.. 

Olney & Judson's Brand

Ceresota 54s.................
Ceresota k s .................
Ceresota 54s.................

...  4  15
...  4  06
...  3 95

Worden Grocer  Co.’s Brand

Laurel  54s....................
Laurel  k s ....................
Laurel  54s ....................
Laurel ks and  ks paper 

...  410
...  4  00
...  3 90
3 95

Meal

..  2 00
...  2 20

Feed  and  Millstuffs

Bolted..........................
Granulated..................
St. Car Feed, screened ...  17 00
...  16 50
No. 1 Corn and  Oats..
...  16 00
Unbolted Corn  Meal..
...  15 00
Winter Wheat Bran...
Winter Wheat  Middlings.  15 50
...  15 00
Screenings ..................

Corn, car  lots..  .........
Less than car lots.......

Car  lots........................
Car lots, clipped..........
Less than car lots.......

Corn

Oats

Hay

...  42

...  2954
...  82

No. 1 Timothy car lots ...  12 00
No. 1 Timothy ton lots ...  13 00

Hides  and  Pelts
The Cappon & Bertsch Leather
Co.. 100 Canal  Street,  quotes  as
follows:
Hides
Green  No. 1.............
Green  No. 2.............
Cured  No. 1.............
Cured  No. 2.............
Calfskins,green No. 1
Calf skins.green No. 2
Calfskins,cured No. 1
Calfskins,cured N0.2

@7
@ 6
@  8
@  7
@10
@  854
@11
@ 954

50@1  10

@  45t
@ 354

Pelts
Pelts,  each...............
Tallow
No. 1..........................
No. 2..........................
W ool
Washed, fine...........
Washed,  medium...
Unwashed,  fine.......
Unwashed,  medium.

20@22
22@24
14@l5
18@20
Fish  and Oysters

Fresh  Fish

Per lb.
White fish................. ..  @ 9
Trout......................... ..  @ 8
Black  Bass............... .  9@ 10
Halibut..................... ..  @ 13
Ciscoes or Herring.. ..  w 4
Bluefish.................... ..  @ 11
Live  Lobster........... ..  @ 16
(& 18
Boiled  Lobster........
Cod............................ ..  @ 10
Haddock.................. ..  @ 7
No. 1 Pickerel.......... ..  w 8
Pike........................... ..  w 7
Perch........................ ..  @ 5
Smoked  White........ ..  @ 8
Red  Snapper............ .  w 9
Col River  Salmon... ..  @ 10
Mackerel.................. ..  @ 18
40
F. H. Counts............
F. J. D. Selects........
Selects......................
F. J. D. Standards..
Anchors....................
Standards.................
Favorite....................
Clams, per 100.. 
Oysters, per ioo

Oysters in Cans. 

Shell Goods. 

l oo 
1  00@1  25

Fresh  Meats

B eef
Carcass.....................
Forequarters..........
Hindquarters..........
Loins No. 3...............
Ribs..........................
Rounds.....................
Chucks.....................
Plates.......................
Pork

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

654@ 8
6  @ 654
8  @ 9
10  @14
10  @14
@ S
554® 6
4  @  5

@ 654
@  8 %
®  754
@  7k
@ 7%,

7  @ 8
@16

754® 9

Provisions
Barreled  Pork

Mess..........................
B ack.......................
Clear back................
Short cut..................
F ig............................
Beau....................
Family.....................

@12 76
@13 50
@13  OO
@13 00
@16  50
(gli 1  fio
@13 75

Dry  Salt  Meats

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

Smoked  Meats

6k
854
7k

Hams, 12 lb. average.
Hams. 14 lb. average.
Hams, 16 lb. average.
Hams, 20 lb. average.
Ham dried  beef.......
Shoulders (N. Y. cut)
Bacon, clear.............
California hams.......
Boneless  hams........
Roiled  Hams..........
Picnic Boiled Hams
Berlin  Hams..........
Mince Hams..........

@  11 Vi
@  u k
@  n
@  10k
@  1354
@  754
9  @  10
@  7k
@  11
@  16
@  1254
@  9
@  954

Lard»—In Tierces

Compound................
Kettle........................
Vegetole.................
55 Id. Tubs.. advance
80 lb. Tubs.. advance
50 lb. Tins... advance
201b. Palls..advance
10 lb. Pails.. advance
5 Hi.  Palis.. advance
3 lb. Palls.. advance
Sausages
Bologna....................
Liver .........................
Frankfort.................
Pork  .........................
Blood.........................
Tongue.....................
Headcheese..............
B eef
Extra Mess...............
Boneless....................
Rump.......................

Pigs’  Feet
Kits, 15 lbs...............
54 bbls., 40 lbs..........
54 bbls., 80 lbs..........
Tripe
Kits, 15  lbs...............
k  bbls., 40 lbs..........
54 bbls., 80 lbs..........
Casing*
Pork.........................
Beef  rounds.............
Beef  middles..........
Sheep........................
B otterlne
Rolls, dairy...............
Solid, dairy...............
Rolls, creamery.......
Solid,  creamery.......

Canned  Meats

Corned beef, 2 lb__
Corned beef, 14 lb...
Roast beef, 2 lb........
Potted ham,  k s .......
Potted ham,  54s.......
Deviled ham, k s __
Deviled ham,  54s__
Potted tongue,  k s ..
Potted tongue.  54*

63h
754
ek
54
54
k
k
%
1
1

5k
6
754
754
654
9
6

10 75
11  00
10  50

80
1  50
2  75

70
1  25
2 25

20
3
10
60

1354
13
19
1854

2  40
17  50
2  40
45
85
45
85
45
85

Oils
Barrels
Eocene .......................
@1254
Perfection..................
@11
XXX W.W. Mich. Hdlt  @11
W. W. Michigan.......
@1054
Diamond White........
@10
D., S.  Gas..................
@ nk
Deo. Naphtha............
m m
Cylinder...................... 29  @34
Engine....................... 19  @23
auk
Black, winter.............

29

Candies
Stick Candy

. 

Mixed Candy

Fancy—In B ulk 

bbls.  pails
7  &L
Standard.................. 
7  @754
Standard H. H........  
Standard  Twist....... 
754@ 8
Cut Loaf.................... 
@854
cases
. 
@654
Jumbo, 32 lb............ 
K xtrall.il.............  
@ 854
@io
Boston Cream.......... 
Beet Root.................  
@ 7
@ e
Grocers..................... 
Competition.............  
@654
Special...................... 
@ 7
Conserve.................  
@8
g o y a l.......................  
@754
gibbon......................
@754
Broken.....................  
@854
C«t L o a f-..............  
English Rock...........  
@854
Kindergarten.......... 
@854
French Cream.......... 
@9
Dandy Pan............... 
@ yu
Hand  Made  Cream
mix«*!.................... 
@14
@ 854
Nobby.......................  
Crystal Cream mix.. 
@12
San Bias Goodies.... 
@11
Lozenges, plain....... 
@9
Lozenges, printed... 
@9
Choc. Drops.............  
@11
Eclipse Chocolates...  @13
Choc. Monumentais.  @13
Gum Drops..............  
@ 5
@854
Moss  Drops.............  
Lemon Sours............ 
@9
Imperials.................. 
@954
ltal. Cream Opera.  .  @11
ltal. Cream Bonbons
36 lb. palls............. 
@11
Molasses  Chews,  15
@i3
............ 
lb. palls. 
Pine Apple Ice........ 
@1254
Iced Marshmallows........  
14
Golden Waffles........ 
@11
Lemon  Sours.......... 
@ao
Peppermint Drops.. 
@60
Chocolate  Drops__  
@65
H. M. Choc. Drops.. 
@76
H. M. Choc.  Lt.  and
@go
Dk. No. 12.............  
Gum Drops............... 
@30
Licorice  Drops........  
@75
A. B. Licorice Drops 
@00
Lozenges,  plain....... 
-@55
Lozenges, printed... 
@55
Imperials..................
Mottoes.................... 
@60
Cream  Bar............... 
@55
Molasses Bar............ 
@65
Hand Made Creams.  80  @90 
Cream Buttons, Pep.
@66
and  Wlnt............... 
String Rock.............  
@30
Burnt  Almonds.......1  25  @
Wtntergreen Berries 
@66
Caramels 
No. 1 wrapped,  3 lb.
„boxes...................... 
@80
lenny Goods............ 
55@60
_______Fruits______
Oranges
Fancy  Navels 
.......
Extra Choice............
Seedlings..................   3 25@3  60
Medt. Sw eets........ 
@3 50
@
Jamaicas.................. 
Lemons
@4  50
Strictly choice 360s.. 
@4  50
Strictly choice 300s.. 
Fancy 300s................  
@4  75
Ex. Fancy  300s........  
@5 <0
Extra Fancy 360s.... 
@6 00
Bananas
Medium bunches__   1  76@2 00
Large  bunches........   2 00@2  25

Fancy—In ff lb. Boxes

Foreign  Dried Fruits 
Callfornias,  Fancy.. 
@10
Cal. pkg, 10 lb. boxes  @ 8
Extra  Choice,  10  lb. 
boxes, new Smprua  @12
■ Fancy, 12 lb. boxes new  @13
Imperial Mikados, 18
lb. boxes................  
@
Pulled, 6 lb. boxes... 
@
Naturals, in bags.... 
@ 554
Fards in 10 lb. boxes  @10
Fards in 60 lb. cases.  @ 6
Persians,  P. H . V ... 
@ 5
lb.  cases, new....... 
@ 5
Sairs, 60 lb. cases.... 
@ 5
Nuts
Almonds, Tarragona
Almonds,  ivlca.......
Almonds, California,
soft shelled...........
Brazils, new.............
F ilb e rts ......................
Walnuts, Grenobles. 
Walnuts, soft shelled 
California No. 1... 
Table Nuts,  fancy... 
Table Nuts,  choice..
Pecans,  Med............
Pecans, Ex. Large...
Pecans, Jumbos......
Hickory N uts per bu.
Ohio,  new.............
Cocoanuts, full sacks 
Chestnuts, per  bu...
Peanuts 
Fancy, H. P., Buns.. 
Fancy,  H.  F.,  Flags
Roasted.................
Choice, H.P., Extras 
Choice, H. P„ Extras
Roasted.................
Span. Shelled No. 1..

@17
@
@1554
tills
@15
@13
@1254
@11
@10
@1754
@
@1  75 
@3 26 
@
5  @

@   6 
@

754® 7ii

Figs

30

Petting the  People

Some  Good  Advertising—Value  o f  W hite 

Space.

Carl  Dice,  of  Wyandotte,  does  some 
decidedly  original  advertising.  In  a  re­
cent  issue  of  the Wyandotte Independent 
he  takes  a  space  of  three  full  columns 
to  advertise  his  groceries.  His  prices 
seem  remarkably 
low  and  account,  in 
a  measure,  for  the  wonderful  success 
which  Mr.  Dice 
is  said  to  have  met. 
The  heading 
advertisement 
(which  is  reproduced  herewith)  is  de-

of  his 

At  the  Mammoth  Low  Price  Cash  Provision

House.

WE TRUST NO ONE.

That is, speaking in  a  general  way,  and  after 
looking over our prices  quoted  below,  you  will 
agree with us when we say, if you buy  your  gro­
ceries and provisions at our  store,  you  will  not 
be compelled to ask for trust, for in a short  time 
we will save you enough money to pay off  all old 
debts and start life over again on an equal basis. 
That is something you could not have  done  had 
you stayed with  the  man  who  trusts  and  gets 
trust prices—why not commence at  once  to  get 
even and keep so when the remedy is so simple? 
We are opposed to trusts and  try  to  push  anti­
trust goods.  Boycott the trust, that’s the cry.
Way to drive them to ttie wall:  Quit  the steel 
trust—be honest.  Quit  the  soap  trust  and  go 
dirty.  Boycott  the  tobacco  ana  chewing  gum 
trust—chew the rag.  Quit the sugar trust—don’t 
get sweet on anybody, male or female.  Quit the 
whiskey trust—drink buttermilk and  catnip  tea. 
Quit the oil trust and go to bed at dusk.  Boycott 
the coal trust—the next world will be hot enough 
to make up for any chilliness in this.

improved 

it 
cidedly  unique,  to  say  the  least,  but 
seems  to  me  that  a  little  more  business 
and  a  little  less  attempted  humor  would 
have 
it.  Of  course,  an  ad­
vertisement  with  the  prices  offered  by 
Mr.  Dice  could  never  be absolutely bad, 
and  I  am  of  the  opinion  that  it  is  Mr. 
D ice’s  prices,  rather than  his  advertis­
ing,  which  have  been 
instrumental  in 
making  his  success.

*  *  *

Here  is  a  decidedly  attractive  adver­
tisement  from  Manistee.  The  display 
is  excellent,  the 
liberal  use  of  white 
space  giving  prominence  to  each  im-

Fedora  Hats
$1.29  Wednesday.

Regular Hatters $2.00 Values.

Dunlap,  Knox  and  Youman  shapes  in  shades. 
Black,  Brown  and  Tan,  Pearl,  etc.  This  is  a 
special  price  for  Wednesday  and  if  you  can’t 
come yourself it will pay you to  have  your  wife 
buy one for you.  These hats are styles that  sell 
and a price that w ill sell them doubly fast.

CORNER OF  LOW  PRICES.

LIVELY JAKE,  The Clothier.

In  its  original 

portant  part,  and  the wording  is  concise 
and  forcible. 
form  the 
advertisement  occupies  ten  and one-half 
inches,  double  column,  but  it  stands  out 
on  the  page 
like  the  proverbial  “ sore 
thumb.”   Decidedly  it  should  sell  hats. 

*  *  *

As  a  contrast  to  the  above  advertise- 
ment, 
the  one  of  Wells  &  Morgan, 
Lansing,  shows  how  effective  a  small 
two  inch,  single  column,  advertisement 
can  be  made.  The  only  suggestion  1 
would  offer  would  have  been  the  dis­
play  of  the  price,  $4.35,  in  black-face

Cut Glass Cut

We have  an  overstock  of  Fine  Cut 
Glass.  Until  June  1  we  offer  any 
piece in the stock at  much  below  its 
real value.  Among the bargains is  a 
beautifully  cut  and  finished  Water 
Set.  consisting  of  a  bottle  and  six 
tumblers, at four dollars  and  thirty- 
five cents.

WELLS  &   MORGAN.

figures.  This  would  be  a  better  plan 
than  spelling  the  words  out  in  the  regu­
lar  body  type.  A   displayed  price  is  al­
ways  interesting  and  always  attracts  at­
tention because  it  appeals  to  the  univer­
sal  human  failing  of  curiosity.  Apart

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

from  this  criticism,  Wells  &  Morgan 
have  produced  an  exceptionally  good 
small  advertisement.

*  *  *

The  advertisement  of  C.  D.  Wood­
bury,  also  of  Lansing,  is  another 
illus­
tration  of  the  value  of  white space  when 
It  would  have  been 
properly  used. 
possible  to  condense 
into  a  much 
smaller  space,  but  to  do  so  the  effect 
would  have  been  sacrificed  and  the  at-
A  Leader

it 

Fine  Vici  Kid—medium  weight  soles—nar­
row. medium and wide coin toe—lace or  but­
ton—cloth top or all kid—perfect fitting—flex­
ible yet strong enough  to  please  those  who 
give  their  shoes  considerable  hard  wear. 
Compares favorably with many  three  dollar 
shoes. 

Price $2.50

C.  D.  Woodbury,

Hollister Block.

It 

lost. 

If  there 

tractiveness  entirely 
is  very 
difficult  for  the  inexperienced advertiser 
to  realize  that  blank  space  in  a  paper 
is  quite  as  valuable  to  him  as  the  space, 
that  is  occupied  by  the  type  matter. 
I 
know  of  many  who  think  it  a  reckless 
extravagance  to  allow  the  smallest speck 
of  white  to  appear  in  their advertise­
ments. 
is  a  little  unoccupied 
corner  they  must  straightway  fill  it  up 
with  wording  of  some  kind  or  other. 
White  space,  if  properly  used,  is  the 
most  valuable  means  of  giving  promi­
nence  to  an  advertisement.  The  whole 
principle  underlying  display  is contrast, 
and  white  space, 
together  with  bold 
type,  gives  the  very  strongest  kind  of 
contrast  possible.  The  few  who  realize 
this  fact  are  the  ones  who  are  getting 
business  because  their  advertising 
is 
being  read.  The  many  who  do  not 
realize  it  are  the  ones  who  advertise  be­
cause 
is  customary  or  those  who  do 
not  advertise  because  they  say it doesn’t 
pay. 

W.  S.  Hamburger.

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Sparing o f Her  Remedy.

From the Chicago Times-Herald.

There  is  at  least  one  woman  in  Ken­
wood  who  believes  thoroughly 
in  the 
efficacy  of  prayer.  About  a  year  ago 
her  husband  engaged  in  a  business  ven­
ture  that  looked  rather  uncertain.  But 
his  wife  had  strong  faith  that  it  would 
turn  out  well.

“ Go  ahead,  John,”   she  said,  “ and 
let  us  put  our trust  in  the  Lord.  1  pray 
every  night  that  we  mav  have  no  reason 
to  regret  the  risk  we  are  taking.”

The  affair  seemed  to  turn  out  pretty 
well  right  from  the  start.  Handsome 
dividends  were  paid  all  through  the 
summer  and  during  the  winter,  and 
great 
joy  was  in  the  home  of  this  man 
and  the  sharer of  his  fortunes.

But  there  came  a  turn  about  a  month 
ago.  The  business  ceased  to  pay,  and 
since  then  the  losses  have  been  increas­
ing  ever  day.  Nothing  was  said  about 
it  at  the  fireside  around  which  so  much 
happiness  had  centered  during  the  last 
year  until  the  other  day,  when  it  was 
suggested  by  the  worried  husband  that 
it  would  be  well  to  cut  down  expenses. 
Questions  followed 
as  a  matter  of 
course,  and  then  it  had  to  be  confessed 
that  the  business  was  not  going  well.

“ Dear  m e!”   exclaimed  the  distressed 
woman,  when  all  the  truth  had  been  re­
vealed  to  her,  “ I  must  begin  praying 
again  to-night!”

A   German  authority  has  recently  an­
nounced  the  discovery  of  a  tree  in  the 
forests  of  Central  India  which  has  most 
curious  characteristics:  The  leaves  of 
the  tree  are  of  a  highly sensitive  nature, 
and  so  full  of  electricity  that  whoever 
touches  one  of  them  receives  an  electric 
shock. 
It  has  a  very  singular  effect  up­
on  a  magnetic  needle,  and  will influence 
it  at  a  distance  of  even  seventy  feet. 
The  electrical  strength  of  the  tree varies 
according  to  the  time  of  day,  it  being 
strongest  at midday and  weakest  at  mid­
In  wet  weather  its  powers  dis­
night. 
appear  altogether. 
Birds  never  ap­
proach  the  tree,  nor  have  insects  ever 
seen  seen  upon  it.

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Sweet Loma

T uet  t o b a c c o .

NEW   SCOTTEN  TOBACCO  CO. 

(Against  the  Trust.)

S O   C I G A R

S O L D   B Y   A L L   J O B B E R S

Alexander  Tubular

Furnaces

Before buying a  new  furnace  investi­
gate  fully  the  Alexander’s  points  of 
excellence:
1.  They have a larger  radiating  sur­
face than any other furnace.
2.  For economy of fuel  they  are  un­
surpassed.
3.  They  have  double 
casings.
4.  They have revolving duplex grates.
5.  All  cleaning  can  be  done  direct 
from the door.
We make a  specialty  of  heating  and 
ventilating stores, residences, churches 
and schools.  W rite for catalogue and 
prices.
Alexander Furnace  & Mfg  Co.

ventilated 

Lansing, Michigan

{ Faps For-»
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Nothing  is  more  appre­
ciated on  a hot  day  than 
a substantial  fan.  Espe­
cially is this true of coun­
try  customers  who  come 
to  town  without  provid­
ing  themselves  with  this 
necessary adjunct to com­
fort.  We  have  a  large 
line  of  these  goods  in
fancy shapes  and  unique 
designs,  which  we  fur­
nish printed  and handled 
as follows:
100....................... $  3  00
200.......................   4  50
300...........  
5  75
400.......................   7  00
500.......................   8  00
1000.......................   15  00

 

 

We can fill orders on five hours’ notice, if necessary, but  don’t ask  us 
to fill an order on such short notice if you can avoid  it.

Tradesman Company

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan

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M A D E   H IS  H E A D   SO FT.

M agic  E ffect  o f a  C elebrated   H a ir R estor­

ativ e.

Paw’s  gitten  Balld  Hedded,  so  he  red 
in  the  paper  About  sumthing  What 
would  make  the  Hare  gro  on  a  Looken 
glass  if  it  Got  the  Chanct,  and  He  sent 
ter a  Bottel.

“ If  I  was  proud  like  some  peeple,’ ’ 
paw  told  maw,  “ I  woulden’t  Care  to 
Git  Enny  Hare  on  mi  Hed  Becoz  tha 
say  a  purson  what  Gits  Balld  Has 
Branes.  That  shows  why  the  Wimmin 
Dan’t  Git  Balld  very  often.  Wimmin 
ain’t  Got  as  menny  Branes  as  men  Be­
coz  thy  wasen’t  enny  Left  when  Eve 
was  maid. ’ ’
But  you  Don’t  Haft  to  Go Around 
Balld  Heded  to  Let  peeple  no  you Have 
Branes,  Do  you?’ ’  maw  Says.

“ I  Don’t  think  So,’ ’  paw  told  Her. 
“ That’s  the  reeson  I  might  as  Well 
Keep  frum  Loosen  mi  Hare  as  not.”

“ If  Wimmin  ain’t  Got  no  Branes,”  
maw  says,  “ How  Does 
it  Come  so 
menny  of  them  are  gitten  up  in  the 
Wurld?  You  sed  the  other  Da  they  was 
Taken  the  Place  of  men 
in  offeses. 
Don’t  that  sho  thay  Got  Branes?”

“ No,”   paw  Says. 

“ It  shos  thay 
Don’t  no  Enuff  to  stick  to  the place they 
was  made  fer.  Look  at  the  Way  Wim­
min  put  powder on  their  Fais!  If  they 
had  Branes  they  would  Have more Sentz 
than  that.  And  Look 
in  the  Stores. 
They  sell  Bussels  and  lots  of  other  Stuff 
to  make  Wimmin  Have  Shaips  they 
ain’t  Got  no  right  to.  That  Don’t  sho 
thay  Got  menny  Branes  Duz  it  or thay 
woulden’t  Ware  them  Kind  of  Things. 
Look  How  thay  Frizz  thare  Hare,  Too, 
tryin’  to  Have  Curls  when  thay  no  thay 
ain’t  Got  a  rite  to them.  Wimmin  are 
the  worst  Fools  I  Ever seen,”   paw  Say. 
“ All  you  Got  to  Do  is  to tell  them  they 
are  purty  and  that  Settles  it.  They  ain’t 
a  Wumman  I  Ever  seen  Yit  what 
wouldden’t  Ruther  Be  Told  she  was  Jus 
too  Sweet  than  to  Have  Branes  Enuff  to 
Be  the  Presadunt  of  a  Colledge.  If they 
Had  Enny  Branes  thay  woulden’t  al­
ways  Be  tryin’  to  make  Themself  Look 
from  what  nature  made 
Diffarunt 
Them. ”
“ Yes,”   maw  says,  “ 1  no  thay  Do 
I  Even  no 
Lots  of  foolish  Things. 
Some  rite  now  What  are  yoosen  stuff  to 
Keep  thare  Hare  from  Comin  out  when 
thay  ot  to  no, if they  Had  Enny  Branes, 
nature  Diden’t  make  thare  Hare  Gro  to 
Stay  whare  it  was  ferever. ”

Paw  He  got  Bizzy  Reedin  His  Paper 
Then  and  a  Fu  Daze  after That the 
Hare  medasun  Cum,  But  me  and 
little 
albert  Was  Looken  to  See  what  kind  of 
Stuff  it  Was  and  Got  the  Kork  out  and 
Split  it  on  the  Bath  room  flore. 
I  new 
thay  Wood  be  trubble  if  paw  found  it 
Out  and  I  got  maw’s  mashean  oil  and 
pored  it  in  paw’s  Hare  medasun  bottle 
and  rapped  it  up  agin.

Paw  tried  it  that  nite  and  me  and  lit­
tle  albert thot  about  Every  minit  thay 
Would  Be  an  erth  Quaik  Er sumthing. 
But  paw  Diden’t  say  nothin.

The  next  nite  He  put  on  sum  more 
Machean oil  and  Kept  it  up  rite  a  Long 
fer  neerly a  Week  now.  This  morning 
at  Breckfust  He  felt  his  Hed  and  says 
to  maw:

“ Thay  ain’t  no  yoose  tawken  that’s 
Grate  stuff.  Mi  Hed’s  Gittin  nice  and 
soft  and  I  Kin  feel  the  new  Hares  Be- 
ginnen  to  Sprout.”

Maw  went  over and  Rubbed  Her hand 

on  His  Balld  place  and  Sed:
__  “ Yes,  thay  ain’t  no  Dout  Yoor Hed is 
Soft,  But  I  Don’t  feel  the  new  Hares.”

Then  little  albert  sed :
‘ ‘ Paw. ”
“ What?”   paw  ast.
‘ ‘ Do  you  Think  the  Medasun  made 

Yoor  Hed  soft?”

I’m  afrade  little  albert  is  agoin  to  Git 
mixt  up  in  the  fly  wheel  sum  of  These 
daze.

M en  Not.  W anted   in   L a b o r  Unions. 

Deacon in Furniture Journal.

I  have  seen  some  things  in  these  lat­
ter  days  that  miike  me  think  the  man 
in  a  dugout  on  Coyote  Buttes,  cooking 
his  com  bread  on  a  fire  of  steer chips 
and  meeting  no one  but  his  dog  and  his 
bunch  of  cattle  for  three  months  run­
ning,  is  blessed  high  above  the  city

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mechanic who  hears the band  in  the  city 
park  every  evening  during  the  summer 
months  and  goes  to  the  Bijou  theater 
every  Sunday  afternoon.

lonesome,  but  he 

cowboy  of  Coyote 
The  lonesome 
Buttes  may  be 
is 
spared  the  fatigue  of  having  a  walking 
delegate  walk  over  him;  tell  him  not 
to  begin  work  until  8  o’clock  in  the 
morning,  and  fine  him  $io  if  he  picks 
up  a  tool  at  7159 a.  m.  He  does  not 
have  to  drop  his tools  like  a  hot  potato 
at  12  m.  and  leave  them  like  a  hot  iron 
where  they  fell  until  1  p.  m.,  then  fling 
them  down  at  5  P-  m-  for  fear of  an­
other fine.  This  cowboy  doesn’t  have  to 
put  up  with  a  sneaking  spy  at  his  el­
bow  to tell  him  not  to  hurry  when  he  is 
riding  to  head  off  a  refractory  steer. 
He  does  not  have  to  loaf  from  3  p.  m. 
to  5  p.  m.  because  he  rode  his  horse 
above  regulation  speed  early  in  the day.
Not  much !  The  cowboy  who  wouldn’t 
let  daylight  through  the average walking 
delegate  in  ten  minutes  after he  was  in­
troduced  to  him  is  not  a  cowboy  to  be 
trusted  with  a  bunch  of  steers  in  the 
Coyote  Buttes  country.  Out there  under 
the free  sunshine  and  in  the wide atmos­
phere  is  room  for  men  to  grow. 
From 
these  wide  sections  of  our  sub-arid 
country  come  men  who  can  do  things 
and  think. 
If  our  labor  union  machin­
ery  continues  to work  harmoniously  and 
well,  the  only  thing  that  can  live  in  a 
city  henceforth  is  a  bloated  monopolist, 
a  walking  delegate  and  a  thing  with  a 
sheep’s  head  on  its  shoulders  and  a  me­
chanic’s  tool  in  its  hand.  Men  are  not 
wanted  in  labor  unions.  Provisions  are 
made  for  bosses  and  babes  only.
H ow   L in o leu m   Is  Made.

removed. 

Few  people  have  the  slightest  concep­
tion  of  now  this  floor  covering,  which  is 
now  almost  a  necessity  in  the  average 
Indeed,  there  are 
household,  is  made. 
hundreds  of  people  selling 
linoleums 
who  have  just  as  little  idea  of  the  man­
ufacture  of  it  as  have  their  customers. 
A  short  sketch  of  its manufacture  should 
be  of  interest  to  readers  of  this  depart­
ment.  The  two  principal  materials  used 
linseed  oil  and  cork,  to  which  is 
are 
added  kauri  gum 
in  small  quantities. 
in  manufacturing  cork  stop­
The  waste 
pers  for  bottles  forms  the  chief  source 
of  supply  for  linoleum  work. 
It  under­
goes  a  process  whereby  all  dust  and for­
eign  substances  are 
The 
pieces  are  reduced  to  very  small  par­
ticles,  about  the  size  of  buckshot.  Ex­
pensive  special  machinery 
is  used  in 
reducing  the  cork  to  particles  and  any­
one  who  has  ever tried  cutting  cork  can 
easily  realize  how  soon  the  edge 
is 
taken  off  the  best  tempered  steel knives. 
After  passing  through  the  breaker  the 
cork  goes  on  to a  grinding  mill,  where 
it  is  reduced  to  a  powder. 
In  this 
process  rough  stones  such  as  sandstone 
and  lava  stones  are  used.  The  cement 
is  then  prepared,  which  is  formed  prin­
cipally  from  oxidized  linseed  oil.  By  a 
is  formed 
process  of  solidifying  the  oil 
into  a  solid  resinous  mass. 
It  is  first 
boiled  and  all  impurities  and  sediment 
removed.  After  it  has  been  clarified  the 
oil  is  pumped  to  a  considerable  height 
and  allowed  to  flow  down  pieces  of  cot­
ton  fabric  known  as  “ scrim.”   The 
temperature  is  maintained  uniformly  at 
one  hundred  degrees  Fahrenheit,  so that 
in  the  course  of twenty-four hours  the 
oil  becomes  solidified.  This  operation 
is  continued  until  the  oxidizeef oil  has 
attained  to  a  thickness  of  one-half  inch, 
when 
is  removed,  cut  down,  and 
ground  between  rollers.  It  is then mixed 
with  resin  and  kauri  gum,  and  a  sticky 
mass  is  formed.  The  cork  dust  is  added 
to  it  and  the  whole  rolled  on  a  backing 
of  jute,  the  evenness  of  surface  being 
insured  by  pressing  between  two  cylin­
ders.  The  pattern  is  then  printed.

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Aluminum  stoppers 

for  bottles  are 
now  being  made  at  the  rate  of  several 
thousand  pounds  a  week.  The  blanks 
are  cut  from  sheet  metal,  and  after 
shaping  rubber gaskets  are  forced  over 
them.  Such  stoppers  have  retained  the 
gas  of  effervescent  fluids  for  four  years, 
while  they  are  cheaper  than  cork  and 
easily  removed.

Even  the  man  with  a  “ pull 
tle  use  without  some  * * push.' ’

is  of  lit­

Chas.

Coye,

Manufacturer and Jobber  of

Bunting  and  Muslin  Flags, 
Flag  Poles  and  holders, 
Large  Umbrellas, 
Awnings,  Tents,
Seat  Shades,

ii  Pearl  Street,
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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We  have  23  patterns  of  plain 
Morale lap robes, all fringed, that
run In price from 13 cents to $1.00.
And 43 patterns of lap robes, hand
embroidered,  some  In  the  high  ^ 9
colors and others  more  sulidued.  ^ 2  
They cost  from  15 cents  to  $1.75. 
Besides these we have linen robes  ^ 9  
in plain and  fancy;  horse  sheets
and covers and all kinds of fly nets.
Can give prompt shipment on any 
of them. 

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Michigan  Fire  and  Marine 

Insurance Co.
Organized  18S1.
Detroit, Michigan.
Cash  Assets,  $800,000.

Cash  C apital, $400,000.  N it  Surplus,  $200,000.

D.  Whitney, J r., Pres.

D.  M.  F erry, V ice Pres.

K.  H.  W hitney, Secretary.
M.  W . O ’B r ie n , T reas.

E. J.  Booth, A s s t  Sec'y. 

Directors.

D.  W hitney, Jr.,  D.  M. Ferry, F .J. Hecker, 
M. W . O ’ Brien, Hoyt Post, Christian Mack, 
Allan Sheldon, Simon J.  Murphy,  Win.  L. 
Smith,  A .  H.  W ilkinson, James  Edgar,  H. 
Kirke  W hite,  H.  P.  Baldwin,  Hugo 
Scherer,  F.  A .  Schulte,  W m.  V .  Brace, 
James  McMillan,  F .  E.  D riggs,  Henry 
Hayden,  Collins  B.  Hubbard,  James  D. 
Stan dish, Theodore D.  Buhl,  M.  B.  Mills, 
A lex.  Chapoton, Jr.v  Geo.  H.  Barbour,  S. 
G.  Gaskey,  Chas.  Stinch field,  Francis  F. 
Palms,  Wm.  C.  Y aw key,  David  C.  W hit­
ney, Dr. J.  B. Book, Eugene Harbeck, Chas. 
F.  Peltier, Richard P. Joy,  Chas.  C. Jenks.

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Crushed  Cereal  Coffee  Cake. \
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^  More healthful than coffee, 
ft  Costs the consumer less.

{ Affords the retailer larger profit.

Send for sample case. 

d   See quotations in  price current.

Crushed  Cereal  Coffee  Cake  Co. 
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Marshall,  Mich.

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Grand  Rapids, Mich. 

Our  line of

WORLD

Bicycles for 1900

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

ARNOLD, SCHWINN & CO., 

Makers, Chicago, III.

Adam* & H art, Michigan Sales Agents, 
Qrand 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.

No.  ê —Concord  Wagon

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Wheat
Meat

Golden
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A delicious, crisp and pleasant 
health food.

Absolutely  the  finest  flavor  of 
any Food Coffee on the market 

If your jobber does not handle order sample case of

KALAMAZOO  PURE  FOOD  CO.,  Kalamazoo,  Mich.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

DISHONESTY  DECREASING.

Radical changes  are  rarely  swift  ones. 
Growth  and  decay  are  slow.  The  pa­
tient  whom  fever  has  left  at  the  doors 
of  death  creeps  slowly  back  to  life  and 
he  finds  that  the  first  sign  of  his  coming 
illness  antedated  its  culmination  by  al­
most  as  many  weeks  of sluggish decline. 
Moral  disease  has  the  same  character­
istic. 
It  is  slow  in  its  development 
and,  if  not  found  to  be  chronic,  slower 
in  its  cute.  The  theft  that  shocks  the 
community  is  not 
the  outgrowth  of 
chance  nor the offspring of impulse;  and 
the  convicted  thief  is  never again  en­
trusted  with  the  funds  of  the  firm  whose 
till  he  has  robbed.

Admitting  so  much,  it 

is  still  sub­
mitted  that  dishonesty  as  a  disease  is on 
the  decline  and  in  spite  of  instances  to 
the  contrary  business men  are more  hon­
est  at  heart  than  they  were  a  century 
ago.  The  world  has  been  growing  better 
not  worse  for a  hundred  years  and  dis­
honesty,  the  disease  that  has  been  a 
curse  to  humanity  since  time  began,  has 
declined  with  the  others.  A  better  en­
vironment,  a  better  parentage,  better 
instruction  and  extended  training,  to­
gether  with  the  certainty  of  detection 
and  punishment,  have  all  been  working 
together  and  these,  going  on  as  they 
have  been  for  a  hundred  years,  have 
been  making  progress.  The  child 
early  developing  a  tendency  to  steal 
is 
not 
left  so  much  to  his  own  devices. 
Every  temptation  possible  is  removed 
and  every  tendency  towards  the 
inborn 
inclination  is  subjugated  during  the 
years  of  irresponsibility  and  when  the 
time  comes  for  the  boy  to  put  on  his 
manhood  and  the  girl  her  womanhood, 
they  go  out into the world  no  longer dis­
honest  at  heart  and  ready  to  meet  un­
flinching  the  temptation  when  it  comes.
Among  a  good  many  instances  here  is 
one:  The  boy  was bom  of questionable 
parentage. 
inherit  the 
tendency  to  steal  the  father  was  certain­
ly  not  to  blame.  A  blessed  orphanage 
early  removed  him  from  debasing  in­
fluences  and,  taken  into  a  family  who 
were  willing  to assume  the  responsibil­
ity,  the  child  grew  to  manhood.  He 
soon  showed  the  dreaded  inheritance, 
but  it  was  looked  upon  as  an  inherited 
disease  and  so  treated.  Line  upon  line 
and precept upon  precept,  here  a little, 
there a  great  deal,  was the  unremitting 
treatment  that  followed,  and  the  young 
man  has  yet  to  show  that  environment 
and  wholesome  care  are  not  preventives 
of  crime.

If  he  did  not 

Moral  training  has  its  counterpart  in 
the  physical,  upon  which  in  many  in­
stances  it  largely  depends.  The  gamin 
will  be  the  gamin  so  long  as  he  lives  in 
the  slums  and  feeds  on  garbage.  The 
potato,  not  its  skin,  must  be  the  food  of 
first-class  citizenship  and  he  is  the  real 
man-trainer  who  makes  the  needed 
change.  What  has  been  done 
in  this 
respect  during  the  last  century  it  would 
take  too  long  to tell;  but  the  first  thing 
which  the 
immigrant  who  is  worthy  of 
his  new  birthright  does  is  to  change 
his  food  and  clothes.  Black  bread  and 
beer  may  be  all right  for the  unthinking 
European  peasant,  but  a  forehead  that 
freedom-loving  America  has  kissed, 
tanned  although 
it  be  by  the  sun  and 
beaded  with  sweat,  to be  true  to  itself 
must  feed  on  better  fare.  The  smock 
and  the  wooden  shoe  may  still  be  the 
garments  of  toil,  but  the  collar and  the 
cuff,  the  insignia  of  modem 
life  and 
civilization,  are  put  on  as  soon  as  the 
wearer  finds  out  what  his  new 
life 
means.

So  dishonesty,  under  improved  phys­

ical  conditions,  is  forgetting  to  be  dis­
honest. 
It  is  getting  to  be  more  and 
more  the  common  thought  that  the  hon­
est  way  is  not  only  the  best  but  the  only 
way  for gain-getting.  That  new  meth­
ods  of  business  furnish  more  chances 
to  cheat  and  steal  can  not  be  denied, 
but 
it  is  denied  that  the  American 
tradesman  is  making  the  most  of  these 
chances.  He,  with  the  rest  of  man­
kind,  has  grown  better and  this  growth 
refutes  the  idea  that he  has  not  a  higher 
ideal  of  honesty  than  his  kinsman  of  a 
century  ago  and  is  not  living  up  to that 
ideal.

The Grain  Markets

The  wheat  market  is  purely  and  sim­
ply  a  weather  market.  The  statistics 
of  supply  and  demand  are  relegated  to 
the  background,  as  the  atmospheric 
condition,  seem  to  have  control  of  the 
markets  and  heavy  reductions 
from 
previous  estimates  will  have  to  be  made 
for  the  coming  crop.  Part  of  the  Da­
kotas  and  large  sections  of  Minnesota 
are  still  without rain,  which,  unless  soon 
relieved,  will  cut  the  crop  materially 
short,  while  the  winter  wheat  sections 
are  having  too  much  moisture.  The  for­
eign  crops,  as  in  France,  Hungary  and 
part of  Russia,  are  not  improving,  so to 
say  the  least  the  world’s  outlook  for  an 
average  wheat  crop  will  be  curtailed 
considerably.  The  crop  of  Indiana  and 
Ohio  is  counted  very  inferior  to  last 
year. 
In  our own  State  the  wheat  is 
probably  some  above  last  year’s  small 
crop,  but  we  should  not 
lose  sight  of 
the  fact  that  we  have  not  a  bountiful 
crop  to  fall  back  on,  as  we  had  in  i8gg. 
Prices  have  remained  about  the  same 
as  last  week—around  67c  for spring July 
wheat,  while  cash  winter wheat  remains 
very  stationary  around  7334'c  in  Detroit 
and  July  holds  fast  around  72j£c.  The 
visible  made  a  decrease  of about  1,500,- 
000  bushels,  which  was  about  what  was 
expected.  Should  more  speculators take 
hold,  wheat  would  be  at  least  10c  high­
er,  but  the  Chicago  crowd  are  holding 
prices  down.  The  question  arises,  can 
they  always  do  it?  The  bears  claim  a 
100,000,000  bushel  crop  of  wheat 
in 
Kansas  on  5,000,000  acres,  but this  is 
misleading,  as  the  average  can  not  be 
20 bushels  per acre.  Kansas  will  have 
a 
large  crop,  weather  permitting,  but 
about  50,000,000  bushels  will  be  about 
right.  Nebraska  was  never counted  as 
a  wheat  producing  State,  but  as  a  com 
State.

Com  remains  about  the  same in price, 
with  a  seeming  strong  undertone.  Trad­
ers  point  to the large acreage put  in,  but 
the  com  gathering  is  far off yet,  as  it 
has  only  been  planted  a  short  time  and 
it  will  take  six  months  before  new  com 
will  be  available.  With  the  small  stocks 
in  cribs,  the  exports  and  the 
large 
amount  used  for  feeding  for fattening 
hogs  and  cattle,  where  will  the  amount 
necessary  until  new  com  is  fit  for  mar­
ket  come  from?  We  think  corn 
is  a 
good  investment,  the  same  as  wheat.

Oats  have  sagged  about  ic  per bushel. 
Prices  are  not  as  firm,  owing to the  gen­
erally  good  outlook  for  a  large  crop,  as 
many  wheat  fields  have  been  plowed  up 
and  put  to oats;  so  lower  prices  will  be 
the  rule. 

*

There  is  nothing  doing  in  rye.  How­
ever,  as  the  German  rye  crop  is  in  a 
very  poor  condition  the  exports  will  in 
all  probability  be  larger,  which  may en­
hance  prices  some.

Beans  remain  steady  for the  present, 
but  the  drop  will  come,  as  the  demand 
is  not  as  large  as  it  was.  There  is  also 
a  larger acreage  put  in  than  last  season,

owing  to  the  large  price  now  being 
paid.

Receipts  have  been  about  as  usual— 
58 cars of  wheat,  5  cars  of  com,  6 cars of 
oats,  2  cars  of  flour,  1  car of  hay,  1  car 
of  straw  and  1  car of  potatoes.

C.  G.  A.  Voigt.
Ludington  Grocers To Touch  Elbows.
Ludington,  May  28—A  meeting  of  lo­
cal  grocers  was  recently  held  for  the 
purpose  of  forming  a  grocers'  associa­
tion.  The  Fourth  ward  and  upper  end 
of town  were  well  represented,  but  not 
many  were  there  from  down  town.  The 
grocers  are  agreed 
in  recognizing  the 
advantages  of  such  an  association. 
Temporary  officers  were  appointed  un­
til  another  week,  when  a  constitution 
will  be  adopted  and  more  permanent 
arrangements  made.  Such  matters  as 
extensions  of  credits,  deals  with  whole­
sale  houses, manufacturers  and  transpor­
tation  companies  are  to  be  considered 
by  the  proposed  organization.

CASH  PAID  FOR  GENERAL  STOCK  OF 

merchandise.  Address  B.  Cohen,  Lake 
Odessa. Mich. 
312
OR  SALE-THE ARCADE  CIGAR  STORE 
and billiard hall at Lansing.  A good  paying 
business.  For particulars  write  T.  K  Jeffreys. 
Lansing, Mich. 
LpOR  SALE—ACETYLENE  L IG H TI N G-  
1   plant  furnishing  excellent  white  light  at 
nominal cost;  capacity,  seventy-five  32  candle 
power burners;  as good as hew, at  a  great  bar­
gain;  especially adapted for store or  hotel.  Ad- 
dress Ed. Schuster &  Co., 560  12th  St.,  Milwau­
kee, Wis. 
POR^ALE-FIRST-CLASS  RESTAURANT 
A  and  billiard  parlor  in  the  best  town  in 
Northern  Michigan.  Address  John  C.  Fair 
Cadillac, Mich. 

353

355

357

361

Fo r   s a l e  

f o r   c a s h — n i c e ,  c l e a n
stock dry goods, notions,  boots, shoes, cloth- 
jng, etc., invoicing $3,5(10  to  $5.000.  Good  estab­
lished  business.  Annual  sales  about  $12,000. 
Best of  reasons  for  selling.  Address  No.  361, 
care Michigan Tradesman 
1 1 7 ANTED—TO  LEASE  A  NEW  BRICK 
v v  store building, next door to postoffice, best 
location in town;  furnace  heat;  lighted  by  elec- 
hnd up to date in  every  way; population, 
1,600  Would prefer to  sell  electric fixtures and 
would sell any part of  the  present  stock-cloth- 
ing and inen’s furnishing goods—as I wish  to es­
tablish a department store in another oity.  Onlv 
one other stock  of the  kind  in  town.  Address 
No. 348, care Michigan Tradesman. 
IPOR  SALE—FLOUR  AND  FEED  MÏLLI 
A,  roller process;  in a good  location;  good bar- 
jam.  C. E. Packard,  Flushing*, Mich. 

348

353

37g

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

trally located; formerly used for  drug  store, 

later for grocery store.  Dr. John Leeson.  377

F o r   s a l e   o r   e x c h a n g e   f o r   s t o c k

Mich.  If taken at once, this is a rare chance for 

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

FpORSALE—A  NICE,  CLEAN  STOCK  OF 
general  merchandise in  one of the  liveliest 
towns in Michigan of 400  inhabitants;  stock  in­
ventories $0,000; good  farming all around ;  good 
reasons for selling.  Address H. & B., care Mich­
igan Tradesman. 

STORE  TO  RENT  IN  CADILLAC;  CEN- 
FOR  SALE—STOCK  OF  MEN’S AND BOYS’ 
clothing;  big discount for cash;  in  good  or­
der.  Address  No.  374,  care  Michigan  Trades­
m an_______________________ __ _______ 374
F'OR  SALE—I  WILL  SELL  THE  BOSTON 

of Groceries—Forty acre farm  one-half  mile 
irom railroad;  all  clear;  good  house  and  bam- 
good peach, plum  and apple  orchards,  all bear­
ing-  Fruit  crop  this  year  wili  average  $1,000. 
Address No. 337, care Michigan Tradesman.  337 
XpOR  RENT—DOUBLÉ  STÖRET- EITHER 
"   whole or half of it, 40x65;  plate  glass  front- 
modern  fixtures;  electric  lights;  sewer  connec­
tion;  water;  centrally located, with postoffice  in
same block.  Address Box 32, Vicksburg, Mich.  336
LpOR  SALE—STOCK  OF  GROCERIES  IN 
1  good  town;  doing  good  business.  Reason 
for  selling,  other  business.  Address  No.  339 
339  *
care Michigan  Tradesman. 
OTEL  AND  BARN  TO  EXCHANGE  FOR 
merchandise;  twenty-five  rooms  in  hotel* 
resort region;  a money-making investment.  Ad- 
dress No. 318, care Michigan Tradesman.  318 
Ij'OR  SALE—THE HASTINGS DRUG STORE 
1  at  Sparta.  One  of  the  best  known  drug 
stores  in  Kent  county;  established  twenty-six 
years;  doing a prosperous business;  brick build­
ing;  central  corner  location;  reasonable rent- 
long lease;  belongs to an  estate;  must  be  sold 
M. N. Ballard, Administrator,  Sparta,  or  M  H 
Walker,  Houseman  Building,  Grand  Rapids'. 
Mich. 
322
y 'O R   SALE  CHEAP—$33,000  G E N E R A L  
M  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 
3^
Tradesman. 
Jj'OR  SALE—GENERAL  STOCK,  LOCATE 
A  at good  country  trading  point.  Stock  an 
fixtures will inventory about $2,000;  rent  reasoi 
able;  good place  to  handle  produce.  Will  se 
stock  complete  or  separate  any  branch  of  l 
Address No. 292, care Michigan Tradesm an 
-
Fo r  s a l e—d r y   g o o d s  a n d   n o t io n
ARTIES  HAVING  STOCKS  OF  GOODS 
i*-  . °f,any kind, farm or city  property  or  manu­
in  Southern  Michigan; 
facturing plants,  that  they  wish  to  sell  or  ex 
about 3,000 population;  stock  clean  and  mostly 
change, write us for our free 24-page catalogued 
staples;  invoices  about  $6,000;  profitable  busi­
real estate and business chances.  The Derby  & 
ness;  good opening  for  live  merchant;  enquire 
Choate Real Estate Co., Lansing, Mich. 
at once;  good reason for selling.  Address  J.  C 
B„ care Michigan Tradesman.____________370
C'OR  SALE—FLOUR  AND  FEED  MILL— 
A 
full  roller  process—in  a  splendid  location. 
W r it e   to  n o .  36»,  c a r e  Mic h ig a n  
Great  bargain,  easy  terms.  Address  No.  227 
Tradesman, if you wish  to  buy  a  country 
care Michigan Tradesman. 
store and farm  in connection;  good  trade  and a 
|(K)R  SALE  CHEAP — $3,000  GENERAI 
369
nice home, well and pleasantly located, 
-A  stock and  building.  Address  No.  240,  cart 
For  sa l e—f ir s t -class  m ea t  m a r-
Michigan Tradesman. 
240
ket;  good trade;  good  modern  fixtures;  ice 
r^OR SALE OR EXCHANGE FOR GENERA 
box,  two norse power motor, electric  fans,  cash 
I  Stock  of  Merchandise—60  acre  farm,  pai 
register, horses and wagons; doing good business. 
clear, architect  house  and  barn;  well  waterec 
Harry Holmes, Jackson, Mich.___________ 368
I also have two 40 acre  farms  and  one  80  act 
A  GOOD LITTLE MILLINERY STOCK a ND 
farm to exchange.  Address No. 12,  care  Mich 
gan Tradesman.___________  
12
business for sale very cheap.  A  good  thing 
for a young  milliner.  Mrs.  Modeland,  Lisbon, 
Mich.___________________________  
F'OR  SALE-ONE  PARKE,  DAVIS  &  CO.’S 
drug  identification  case  for  $15;  good  as 
new;  cost $25.  B. F. Scott, Lake City, Mich.  366
FOR  SALE-UP-TO-DATE,  CLEAN  DRUG 

bakery and  confectionery  store  at  Holland, 
alive  man;  no  trades.  If  you  mean  business, 
call  on  J.  VanderVeen,  Kent  County  Bank, 
Grand Rapids, or write J. A.  VanderVeen,  Hol- 
land. Mich.____________________  
372
IPOR  SALE—A  STOCK  OF HARDWARE IN- 
voiclng from $7,000 to $8,000  in city  of  20.000 
in  Southern  Michigan;  all  bought  within  the 
last  three  years.  D.  D.  Ford,  Battle  Creek, 
Mich. 

_____________________  

stock;  best  town 

M ISCE LL A N E O U S.

259

227

367

371

stock in  best  town  of  25,000  population  in 
Michigan;  good location;  elegant soda fountain; 
no  cut  prices;  satisfactory  reasons  for  selling. 
Address No. 364, care Michigan Tradesman.  364
F or  s a l e—t h e   o n l y  r e t a il  l u m b e r 
business in village  of  800  population;  trade 
well established;  stock about $1,500;  yard  can be 
rented.  Other business takes owner’s time.  Ad- 
359
dress  No. 359, care Michigan Tradesman. 
IjMJR SALE—Al CLOTHING  STOCK,  MEN’S 
1  furnishings and  men’s  and  boys’  shoes;  lo­
cated in large  manufacturing  town  in  Southern 
Michigan  with  fine  surrounding  country;  2,500 
population;  best location in city;  will  sell  cloth­
ing  and  furnishing  goods  stock  separate  from 
shoes;  cash  only.  Address  M.,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman.___________________________362

FOR SALE—CHOICE  STOCK  OF  GROCER- 

ies  in  manufacturing  town  of  5,000,  sur­
rounded by best farming  country  out  of  doors; 
Southern Michigan;  best  location;  finest  store; 
modern  fixtures; 
largest  trade;  all  cash;  a 
moneymaker;  sales  $40,000;  no  trades;  a  rare 
chance for  one  who  means  business.  Address 
Lock Box 53, Niles, Mich._______________ 345
W A N T E D - S E V E R A L   FIRST-CLASS 
salesmen  for  Ohio,  Indiana,  Illinois  and 
Michigan to sell the largest  and  strongest  lines 
of rubbers on the  road.  Salary  or  commission. 
Write for particulars, giving references.  The L. 
A. Dudley Rubber Co., Battle Creek, Mich. 346

W '^ ,JE D --l>GbITIC)N  AS  SHOE  CLERK, 
billing  clerk  or  assistant  book-keeper  bv 
young man of 18 who has good education and can 
produce  exceptional  references.  Address L  A 
Jaquith, 304 Jefferson Ave., Grand Rapids.  376 
O V IN O   TO  BUSINESS  CHANGES  A 
y   thoroughly  competent  and  experienced  of­
fice man-will be open for  an  engagement  about 
Aug. l.  Capable of taking full  charge  of  an  of­
fice,  conducting  correspondence,  passing  on 
credits  or  conducting 
finances.  First  class 
book-keeper.  Could  make change earlier if  de­
sired.  No objection  to  leaving  city.  Best  of 
references and bond if required.  Address G  P 
O. Box 418, Grand Rapids, Mich. 
363  ‘
DRUG CLERK  WANTS  POSITION;  HA\ 
had two and one-half  years’  experience 
both country and city;  six  months  to  serve  1 
fore  can  take  examination;  understands  so 
fountain dispensing;  can furnish  best  of  ref 
ences.  Address Box 101, Muskegon, Mich  371
ANTED—REGISTERED  DRUG  CLERI 
w
Enquire Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co.  36 
ANTED—A  COOK  FOR  WOODS  CAM] 
w
■ 
aTn<J.  men  accustomed  to  handling  ceda 
logs.  John W, Balcom, Boyne City, Mich.  373 
Y \T ANTED—POSITION  AS  BOOK-KËËFE] 
V T  or assistant by a young man of  good  refei 
enee.  Address Box 116, Elkton, Mich. 
W  ANTED—SITUATION  AS  BOOK-KEEI 
m.arried woman who is highly recorr 
mended by W. N. Ferris, Principal of  the  Ferri 
Institute.  Wages secondary  to permanent  am 
progressive  situation.  Apply  to  A.  G.  Girs 
berger,  Storekeeper  Peninsular  Club,  Gram 
Rapids, Mich. 

356

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MERCANTILE  ASSOCIATIONS

Michigan Retail Orocers’ Association 

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

flraud  Rapids  Retail Grocers’  Association 

President, F r a n k   J. Dy k  ;  Secretary,  Hom kr 

K l a p ;  Treasurer, J. Gk o ro r  L e h m an
Detroit  Retail  Grocers’  Protective  Association 

President,  Wm.  Bl e s s e d ;  Secretaries,  N.  L 
K o e n ig   and  F.  H.  Co z z k n s;  Treasurer,  C 
H.  F r i n k .

Kalamazoo  Retail Grocers’ Association 

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

Hy m a n . 

_____

Bay  Cities  Retail Grocers’  Association 

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

L it t l e . 

______

Muskegon  Retail  Grocers’  Association 

President,  H.  B.  Sm it h ;  Secretary,  I),  A 

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

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

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

President,  A.  C.  Clark;  Secretary,  E.  F, 

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

Saginaw  Retail Merchants’  Association 

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

P h k r s o n ;  Treasurer, R. A. Ho r r .
Trarerse  Cits  Business  Men’s  Association 
Ho l l y ;  Treasurer, C.  A.  Ham m o n d.

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

Owosso  Bnsinosn  Men’s Association 

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

Ca m p b e l l ;  Treasurer, W.  E. Co l l in s.
Pt.  Aurons  Merchants’  and  Manufacturer!’  Association 
Pe r c iv a l .

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

Alpena  Business Men’s  Association 

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

Pa r t r id g e . 

______

St.  Johns Business Men’s  Association 

President, T hos. B r o m l e y ;  Secretary,  F r a n k  

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

Pony Business  Men’s  Association 

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

He d d le . 

______

Grand  Hann  Retail  Merchants’  Association 

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

Ho e k s. 

______

Tale  Bnsiness Men’s  Association 

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

Pu t n e y . 

______

Grand  Rapids Retail Moat Dealers’  Association 

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

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

Aluminum  Money

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MICA

AXLE

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

ILLUMINATING  AND 
LUBRICATING  OILS

W ATER  W HITE  H EA D LIG H T  OIL  IS  THE 

S TA N D A R D   TH E  W O RLD  O VER

H lt H I S T   M I O !   PAIO  POR  EM PTY  OARBON  ANO  Q ABO LINB  BARRELS

STA N D A R D   OIL  CO.

FURNITURE BY MAIL
M a g a zin e  P r ic e s  O u td o n e

FURNITURE BY MAIL
M a g a zin e  P r ic e s  O u td o n e

FREIGHT
PRE*
RAID.

Oar  Desk  No. 2il, 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 1er oet complete Office. Furnitare 

Catalog«.

R e t a i l e r s   o f   S a m p l e   F u r n i t u r e  
L Y O N   P E A  R L Q  O T T A W A   S T S .

Sa m p l eFu rn itureCo.
G r a n o  R a p i d s  M ich.
House
BEFORE  BUYING FURNC 
TURE OFANY KIND WRITE 
HOLD
JJS FOR ONE OR ALL OF OUR 
F U R s
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HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE
NITURE
WE  PREPAY  FREIGHT

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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.

Aril Chair or 

Rocker No. Nil.
Genuine hand 
buffed leather, 
hair  filling, dia­
mond or biscuit 
tufting.
Sent  to  you 
freight  prepaid 
on approval  for

1 2 4 «

R e t a i l e r s   o f   S a m p l e   F u - n i t u r e  
L Y O N   PE A R 1_ Q  O T T A W A   S T S .

Compare the style, the workmanship, 
the  material  and  the  price  with  any 
similar article.  If  it  is  not cheaper ia 
comparison, return at our expense, *
Sa m ple Fu r n itu r e Co.
G r a n d   R a p i d s  M ich.
HOUSE
BEFORE  BUYING FURNI: 
TURE OFANY KIND WRITE 
HOLD
US FOR ONE ORALLOFOUR 
pURss
hIG ^CATALOGUESOP 
HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE
NITURE
WE  PREPAY  FREIGHT

Travelers’ Time Tables.
P ERE  M ARQUETTE

C h icago T rain s.

Lv. G. Rapids, 7:10am  12:00m  4:30pm  *ll:S0pm
Ar. Chicago,  1:30pm  8:00pm 10:60pm  * 7:06am 
Lv. Chicago.  7:15am  12:00m  5:00 pm  *11:50pm
Ar. G. Rapids, 1:25pm  5:05pm 10:56pm * 6:20am 

M ilw au kee  V ia   O ttaw a  B each .

Lv. Grand Rapids, every  day...................10:10pm
Ar.  Milwaukee............................................  6:30am
Lv. Milwaukee.............................................10:00pm
Ar. Grand Rapids, every  day..................   6:55am

T raverse C ity and  Petoskey.

Lv. Grand Rapids.......7:55am  1:45pm  5:30pm
Ar. Traverse City........1:15pm  6:25pm  10:45pm
Ar. Petoskey  ...............4:10pm  9:20pm 
............
Trains arrive  from  north  at  10:50am,  4:15pm 
and ll:00pm.

I.u<lington  and  M anistee,

Lv. Grand  Rapids.........   7:55am  1:45pm  5:30pm
Ar. Ludington.................12:05pm  5:20pm  9:26pm
Ar. Manistee...................12:28pm  5:50pm  9:55pm

D etro it  and  Toledo  Trains.

Lv. Grand Rapids. .* 7:10am  12:05pm 
Ar. Detroit.............  11:40am 
Ar. Toledo.............  12:35pm 
Lv. Toledo...............  7:20am  11:55am 
Lv.  Detroit.............  8:40am 
Ar. Grand Rapids..  1:30pm  5:10pm 

5:30pm
4:05pm  10:05pm
................
4:15pm
1:10pm  * 5:15pm
10:00pm

Saginaw   and  B a y   C ity  Trains.

Lv Grand Rapids........................ 7:00am 
6:20pm
Ar Saginaw..................................11:50ano  10:12pm
Ar. Bay City................................12:20pm  10:45pm
Ar. from Bay City & Saginaw. .11:55am  9:36pm
Parlor cars on  all  Detroit,  Saginaw  and  Bay 
City trains.
BulTet parlor cars  on  afternoon  trains  to  and 
from Chicago.  Pullman sleepers on night trains. 
Parlor car to Petoskey on 1:45pm train.
'Every day.  Others week days  only.
May 13, 1900. 

H.  F.  MOELLER,
Acting General Passenger Agent, 
Grand Rapids, Mich.

QRAND Rapidi  ft  Indiana Railway 

May  37,  1900.

Northern  D ivision. 

Going 
From
North  North

Trav. City, Petoskey, Mack,  t 7:45am  t 6:15pm 
Trav.City, Petoskey, Mack,  t  2:10pm  tio:15pm 
Cadillac Accommodation  ..  t 5:25pm  tl0:45am 
Petoskey & Mackinaw City  tiooopm  t 6:00am 
7:45am and 2:10pm trains, parlor cars; 11:00pm 
train, sleeping car.

Southern  D iv is io n  

Going 
South 

From
South

Kalamazoo, Ft. Wayne Cln.  t 7:10am  t 9:45pm 
Kalamazoo and Ft. Wayne,  t  1:50pm  t 2:00pm 
Kalamazoo, Ft. Wayne Cln.  * 7:00pm  * 6:45am 
Kalamazoo and  Vicksburg.  *11:30pm  * 9:10am 
7:10am  train  has  parlor  car  to  Cincinnati, 
coach to Chicago;  1:50pm train has parlor car to 
Fort Wayne;  7:00pm train has sleeper to Cincin­
nati;  11:30pm  train,  sleeping  car  and  coach  to 
Chicago.

C h icago  Trains.

TO  CHICAOO .

FRO M   CHICAGO

Lv. Grand  Rapids.. .t7  10am  tl  50pm  *11 30pm
Ar. Chicago..............   2 30pm  8  45pm 
7 ooam
Lv.  Chicago....................................t3 02pm *11 32pm
Ar. Grand Rapids.........................  9 46pm  6 46am
Train leaving Grand Rapids 7:10am has coach; 
ll:30pra train has coach  and  sleeping car;  train 
leaving Chicago 3:02pm  has  coacn;  11:32pm  has 
sleeping car for Grand Rapids.

M uskegon  Trains.

G O IN G   W EST.

Lv. Grand Rapids___+7 35am  tl  36pm  t5 40pm
Ar. Muskegon............   9 00am  2 50pm 
7 00pm
Sunday  train  leaves  Grand  Rapids  9:15am; 
arrives Muskegon at 10:40am.  Returning  leaves 
Muskegon 5:30pm ; arrives Grand Rapids, 6:50pm. 
G O IN G   EA ST.
Lv.  Muskegon....t8  10am 
tl2  15pm  t4 00pm
Ar. Grand Rapids...  9 30am 
l  30pm 
5 20pm
tExcept Sunday.  'Daily.

C.  L.  LO CKW OO D , 
W. C.  BLAKE,

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

Tradesman

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SIZE—8  M  x 14.
THREE  COLUMNS.

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2  INVOICE  RECORD  OR  BILL  BOOK

a Quires,  160 pages... 
...$200
3 Quires, 240 pages...............   a  50
4 Quires, 320 pages...............3  00
S Quires, 400  pages...............  3  50
6 Quires, 480 pages.............  4  00

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80 double  pages,  registers  2,880
invoices............. .................... 8200

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Grand Rapids, Mich.

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MANKTFF
I T l l a i  H O  1 

Best route to Manistee.

Via C. & W. M. Railway.

Lv. Grand Rapids.......................  7 30am 
..........
Ar. Manistee............................... 12 05pm 
..........
Lv. Manistee...............................  8 40am  3 56pm
Ar. Grand  Rapids.....................   2  40pm  10 00pm

50 Cents 
Muskegon 
Sunday 
G. R. & I.

Train  leaves 'Union  Station at 9:15 a. m 
Returning, leaves Muskegon,  5 ¡30  p.  m. 
50 cents round trip.

Something 
for a Leader

Big  Value  in  a 
Handsome 
German  China 
Coffee  Cup 
and  Saucer

Large  in  size,  superior  in  quality, 
decorated  in  large  sprays  of  flowers 
and  leaves  in  natural  colors  and  gold 
lines  on  edge  and  handle.  A  fine 
trade  winner  to  use  either  as  a 
special or premium.

Price  per Gross,  $15.

Case  Lots  of 50  Dozen  $13.50  per  Gross.

7ÌMrfy.

Illu stra tio n   Is  an   E x a c t  C opy  in   Sizev  Shape  an d  Décoration*

IM P O R T E R S   KINNEY  & LEVAN  JOBBERS
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C R O C K E R Y ,  G LA SS,  LA M P S ,  H O U SE  FU R N ISH IN G   GOODS

C LE V E LA N D ,  OHIO

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Order now and  boom your trade  dur­
ing  the  quiet  summer months.

Boom  Your  Glassware

Here Is a  Flyer lor Your

Bargain  Day  Sale
No.  80  N appy  Assortment

This package contains

Eight  Dozen 6 inch  Nappies

of six different  beautiful  designs.  Each  one  of  these  Nappies 
will  make a new customer for you.

Price  $3.50  per bbl.

No charge  for package.

Sold only in full assortments.

The  Daudt  Glass  &  Crockery  Co.,

236 Summit and 230, 232, 234 aad 236 Water St.,

Toledo,  Ohio.

Sealed

Sticky Fly Payer j

Catches the  Germ  as  well  as  the  Fly. 

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

Order from Jobbers. 

•

H.  Leonard & Sons

A   Stimulating  Tonic

for a healthy summer trade:

“ New  Century”   Assortment 

Lemonade Sets

The  cheapest and  largest  selling  assortment  of 
colored  glass  lemonade  sets  on  the  market.
The assortment comprises:  One  dozen  sets  in 
three  assorted  styles,  optic  effect,  and  each 
style  in  three  assorted  colors,  crystal,  emerald 
and  blue.  They  will  readily  sell  for  double  their  cost.  Sold  by  package  only. 
Price  per package of one dozen  sets  (no  charge for barrel):

H.  LEONARD  &  SONS,  Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.

$6.00.

T A L K We buy this  space  to  talk  to  you  L 

about  J E W E L R Y .  W e  tell  you 
there  is  more  profit  to  be  made
on this  line  for the amount, of money  invested  than  in  any other department 
of your store.  Make  it  bright  and  attractive  with  new  goods,  every-day 
sellers,  from  our latest selections.  Now talk  back  quick.  T ry  it.
|   A M ER jC A N   JE W E LR Y   C O .,  grand rapids

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