Volume XVII.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY, JUNE  20,1900

Number 874

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handle  and recommend

Royal Tiger 10c

A   Sm oker s  Smoke

They're  sold  in  a ll o f the  leading  hotels,  clubs,  cafes, 
cigar stands  and grocery  stores.

Phelps,  Brace  &   Co.,  Detroit,  M ich.

Largest  Cigar  Dealers  in  the  M iddle  West.

F .  E .  Bushman,  Manager. 

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SECOND  1

SUMMER  SESSION

Begins  July  2nd.

Fall  Term  begins  Sept.  3d. 

Send  for  catalogue.

W.  N.  Ferris,

Principal and  Proprietor.

Cadillac Fine Cut and Plug

THE  BEST.Ask for it

MADE BY  THE NEW SCOTTEN TOBACCO CO. 'Ä S E S T "

AGAINST  T H E   TRUST.  See  qu o tatio n s  in   P rice  C urrent.

“Sunlight
Is one  of  our  leading  brands  of 
flour, an,d ¡s as bright and clean as 
its  name.  Let us send you some.

WaIsh=De  Roo Milling Co.,

H o lla n d ,  M ic h .

WHY
YOU
SHOULD
SELL
EGG
BAKING
POWDER

1.  Because  it  is  better  and  more 
desirable  than  any  of  the  old- 
process  powders.

2.  Because  the  Bitter  or  Baking 
Powder  taste  is  absent  in  food 
prepared  with  it.

3 .  Because  your  customers will  ap­
preciate  its  purity  and  whole­
someness.

4.  Because it pays you a good profit.
5.  Because  the  retail  selling  price 

is  uniform.

6.  Because  the  manufacturers  are 
advertising  its  merits extensively 
to  consumers  and  you  are  en­
titled  to  a  share  of  the  retailer’s 
trade  and  profit.

From a hygienic point of view  the  value  of  Egg 
Baking  Powder  cannot  be  over-estimated,  be­
cause it is prepared from phosphates, the health- 
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.
A ll in q u iries from  M ichigan, Ohio  and I n ­
dian a, in clu d in g  requests fo r free  sam ples, 
etc., should be addressed to

D.  H.  Naylor,  Jr.,

Manager,

186 Seneca St.,  Cleveland,  Ohio

Offices in Cleveland, Cincinnati, Columbus, 
Indianapolis and Detroit.

Home Office,  New York City.

One-third  of it is spent at your desk— if you’re 
an  office man.  W hy  not  take  that  one-third 
as  comfortably  as  you  can?  First  in  impor­
tance  is  your  desk;  have  you  one  with  con­
venient  appliances— have  you  a  good  one? 
If not you want one— one  built for wear, style, 
convenience and  business.  Dozens  of  differ­
ent patterns  illustrated  in  catalogue  No.  6— 
write for it.

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Retailers  o f  S a m p le   Furniture
L Y O N   P E A R L   A   O T T A W A   S T S .
G r a n d R a p id s  M ich.

We issue  ten  catalogues  of  H OU SEH OLD  F U R N IT U R E — one  or 
all to be had for the asking

Scale  Perfection

Do  you  want  it?  Our  book  of  testimonials,  or  one 
look at the  scales, will prove to you that there are none 
equal to

The Stimpson 
Computing Grocers’ Scales

No guess  work  in this.  The move of one  poise, which 
registers both weight  and  money  value,  is  a  winner 
everywhere.

Easy monthly terms put them within  reach of all.

THE  W.  F.  STIMPSON  CO.,  Detroit,  Mich.

Volume XVII.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY, JUNE  20,1900.

Number  874

DESMAN

The sensation of the coft'ee trade is'

A. I. C. High Grade Coffees
They  succeed  because  the  quality  is  right,  and 
the plan of selling up to date.  If there is  not  an 
agency in your town, write the

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nice line spring and summer suits.
KOLB & SON, Wholesale  Clothing  Man­
ufacturers,  Rochester, N. Y.  Only  stict- 
ly all wool Kersey $5.50 Overcoat  in  mar­
ket.  See  Kplb’s  original  and  improved 
cut frock coat, no other house has it.
Meet  our  Michigan  representative, Wil­
liam  Connor,  at  Sweet’s  Hotel, Grand 
Rapids, July  7 to  14  inclusive.  Custom­
ers’ expenses allowed.  Or write Box 346, 
Marshall, Mich.,  and  he  will  call  upon 
you.  If  you  don’t  see  what  you  want

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN, 

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2.  F ed eratio n   o f W om en’s  Clubs.
4.  A round  th e   State.
5.  G rand  R apids  Gossip.
6.  T he  Buffalo  M arket.
7.  G rocers  in  C onference.
8.  E d ito rial.
9.  E d ito rial.
lO.  Shoes and  L eather.
12.  W om an’s  W orld.
13.  B abe’s  D isobedience  and  th e   R esult. 
C rockery  and  G lassw are  Q uotations.
14.  C lothing.
15.  D ry  Goods.
16.  H ardw are.
17.  H ard w are  P rice  C urrent.
18.  C lerks’  C orner.
19.  F r n it  F arm   for  Sale.
20.  Eggs.
21.  T he  B elgian  H are.
22.  T he  New  Y ork  M arket.
23.  M aking  S au erk rau t.
24.  T he  M eat  M arket.
25.  C om m ercial  T ravelers.
26.  D rugs  and  C hem icals.
27.  D rug  P rice  C urren t.
28.  G rocery  P rice  C urrent.
29.  G rocery  P rice  C urren t.
30.  G etting  th e   People.
32.  Coin P ictu res B arred.

OUR TR A D E  W IT H   T H E   O RIEN T.
The  great  and 

increasing  demand 
from  Japan  for  raw  cotton  should  serve 
to  give  the  people  of  the  United  States 
some  faint  idea  of  the  vast  possibilities 
for  trade  which  exist 
in  the  Orient. 
From  not  being  a  customer  at  all  a  few 
years  ago,  Japan  now  purchases  more 
cotton  than  some  of  the  important Euro­
pean  countries,  and  that,  too, 
in  the 
face  of  costly  transportation  over  many 
thousand  miles,  by  rail  and  steamer.  If 
Japan,  with  less  than  50,000,000  people, 
is  already  an 
important  customer,  how 
much  more  extensive  a  purchaser  will 
China  be  with  her  400,000,000  and  more 
people,  when 
is  fully  opened  up  to 
commerce,  as  that  country  will  certain­
ly  be  in  a  few  years.

it 

The  clever Japanese  prefer  to  make 
the  manufacturer’s  profit  at  home,  hence 
mainly  import  cotton  in  the  raw  state. 
It  is  probable  that  the  Chinese  will  not 
only  import  raw  cotton,  but  large  quan­
tities  of  manufactured  cotton  besides. 
Already  China  is  no  mean  purchaser  of 
American  cotton;  but  trade  with  that 
country  is only  in  its  infancy,  compared 
with  what 
in  a  few  years, 
when  the  traditional  exclusiveness  of 
the  Chinese  has  been  overcome.

it  will  be 

When  China 

is  fully  opened  up  to 
Western  trade,  there will  be  an  immense 
demand  for  machinery,  agricultural  im­
plements,  railroad  iron  and  many  other 
articles which  this  section  of  the  United 
States  can  easily 
furnish.  A   country 
so  vast  and  thickly  populated  as  China 
can  not  be  a  small  purchaser  once  the 
people  have  been  aroused 
from  their 
lethargy  and  an  era  of  progress  has 
been  inaugurated.

It  would  be  extremely  unfortunate 

if 
these  glowing  trade  possibilities  were 
destroyed by  the  dismemberment  of  the 
Chinese  Empire  by  the  European  pow­
ers.  England,  indeed,  would  probably 
permit  unrestricted 
intercourse 
with  that  part  of  China  which  would 
fall  to  her  share;  but  we  know,  by  past 
experience, 
that  Russia,  France,  and 
even  Germany,  would  claim  an  ex­
clusive  right  to  trade  within  their  re­

trade 

spective  spheres  of  influence,  a  policy 
which  would  shut  out  American  com­
merce.

It 

is,  therefore,  manifestly  to  our  in­
terest  to  oppose  the  dismemberment  of 
China  and  to  endeavor  by  every  means 
in  our  power  to  prevent  such  a  result. 
The  business  possibilities  which  would 
be 
lost  to  us  by  the  parceling  out  of 
China  among  the  powers  are  simply  in ­
calculable,  and  we  would  be  extremely 
weak  as  a  nation  to  permit  the 
foreign, 
powers  a 
their 
will  in  China  without  exhausting  every 
possible  endeavor  to  prevent  the  con­
summation  of  their  plans.  With  China 
divided  up  by Russia,  Germany,  France 
and  Great  Britain,  half  the  advantages 
of  constructing  the  Nicaragua  Canal 
would  be 
lost,  and,  consequently,  the 
vast  sum  which  this  country  proposes  to 
put 
into  the  construction  of  the  canal 
would  be  largely  wasted.

free  hand  in  working 

With  these  considerations  in  view,  the 
Government  at  Washington  should  keep 
a  most  watchful  eye  upon  the  progress 
of  events 
in  China  and  not  hesitate  to 
bring  every  possible  pressure  to  bear  to 
prevent  the  consummation  of  plans  for 
dividing  up  that  empire.

Color 

is  one  of  the  various  matters 
which  must  be  studied  by manufacturers 
who  would  cater  to  the  foreign  trade. 
An  American  firm  sent  some  electrical 
goods,  which  were  decorated  green,  to 
Japan.  They  did  not  sell  any.  No 
Japanese  would  bring  such  things 
into 
invitation 
his  house;  it  would  mean  an 
to  the  evil  deities.  Green 
is  an  evil 
color  in  Japan.  What  a  Japanese  wants 
in  the  articles  he  buys  is  red.  A  Ger­
man  employer  objected 
to  American 
machines  because,  although  they  per­
formed  their  work  perfectly,  they  de­
moralized  his  men.  They  were  painted 
in  dark  colors, and  with  no  bright  parts. 
The  men  who work  around the  machines 
do  not  have  any  brass  to  keep  clean  or 
any  surfaces  to  rub,  and  they  get  lazy. 
The  German  workman  needs  to  be  kept 
busy  with  things  of  this  sort.  People 
on  the  Isthmus  of  Panama  will  not  pur­
chase  anything  with  blue  spots  on  it.

spirit  or  equipment 

If  the  Chinese  rise  as  a nation against 
the  foreigners  it  will  take  a  much larger 
army  than  the  internationals  now  have 
in  the  East  to  restore  the  old  conditions 
in  the  empire,  notwithstanding the  want 
of  military 
in 
China.  To  subdue  even  a  mob  of  400,- 
000,000  people 
in  a  country  practically 
without  railroads  or  telegraph  and  with 
a  vast  interior  which  can  not  be reached 
by  the  naval  arm  of  the  powers  would 
be  a  most  stupendous  job  and  one  that 
would  probably  tax 
the  energies  of 
Christendom— particularly  so  with  an 
acute  jealousy  existing among  the  Euro­
pean  nations.

Merchants  trying  to  do  business  in St. 
Louis,  and  peaceful  people  trying  to 
live  there,  must  face  the  fact  in  connec­
tion  with  the  murderous  car  strike  that 
the  great  city  of  the  Southwest  is  a  v ic ­
tim  of  trades  union  mob  rule  that  has 
no  regard 
life  and 
property.

for  the  rights  of 

T H E   BUILDING  O F  DIG  .SHIPS.

The  building of mammoth steamships, 
which  began  not  so  very  many  years 
back,  continues  to  be  a  most  interest­
ing  development 
in  the  world’s  ocean 
transportation  system.  The  keen  com­
petition  to  provide  cheap  freights  is  the 
direct  cause  of  the  enlargement of ships, 
and  there 
is  no  indication  that  the  full 
development  of  the  tendency  has  yet 
been  reached.

The  tendency  to  build record-breakers 
in  the  way  of  speed  has  dwindled  to 
some  extent  and  the  speed  problem  is  at 
about  a  standstill;  but  the  size  of  ships 
continues  to 
increase  steadily.  For  a 
it  was  believed  that  the  size  of 
time 
ships  would  always  be 
limited  by  the 
enormous  weight  of  the  engines  and 
boilers  of  the  big  vessels.  Owing  to  the 
improvements  in  engines  and  machin­
ery  generally, 
the  horse-power  of  a 
given  weight  of  machinery  has  been 
greatly  increased,  so  that  it  is  possible 
to  run  immense  ships  with  engines  and 
boilers  which  absorb  but  a  moderate 
amount  of  the  ship’s  space.

Of  course,  with  larger  ships  has  come 
a  deeper  draft  for  such  vessels,  and 
ports,  in  order  to  maintain  their  com­
mercial  prestige by accommodating large 
tonnage,  have  been  compelled  to  deepen 
their  channels.  A  ship  400 
in 
length  was  a  novelty  but  a  few  years 
back,  while  ships  500 
long  and 
more  are  now  becoming  plentiful.

feet 

feet 

is 

steamship. 

The  great  White  Star  Liner  Oceanic 
is  the  most  conspicuous  sample  of  the 
modern  mammoth 
That 
monster  ship 
longer than  the  Great 
Eastern  and  can  carry  passengers  and 
cargo  in  numbers  and  amounts  that  are 
astonishing,  compared  with  the  steam­
ship  achievements  of  other  days.  Some 
of  the  new  German  transatlantic 
liners 
are  marvels  of  vastness  and  speed,  be­
ing 
smaller  than  the  Oceanic 
and  her  superior  in  speed.

little 

large  ships 

Recent  consular  reports  give  details 
of  other 
just  built  on  the 
other  side  of  the  Atlantic  which  deserve 
to  be  reckoned  among  the  list  of  mam­
moth  ships.  Thus  there  is  the  Grosser 
Kurfuerst,  of  the  North  German  Lloyd 
Company,  which  has  a 
length  of  585 
feet.  The  new  ships  Minneapolis  and 
Minnehaha,  of  the  American  Transport 
Company,  just  completed,  are  630  feet 
long.  Two  more  ships  of  the  same  size 
are  building  for  the  same  company. 
Two  new  Cunard  ships  have  just  been 
built  which  are  60O  feet  in  length.

Large  as  these  ships  are,  there  is  no 
reason  to  suppose  that  they represent the 
culmination  of  the  big-ship idea.  These 
vessels  have  been  found  profitable,  and 
can  be  as  readily  handled  and  operated 
as  smaller  ships  and  at  much  reduced 
cost  proportionately;  hence  there 
is 
every  inducement  to  still further develop 
the  ideas  underlying  their  building.

Those  ports  which  desire  to  retain  a 
high  position 
in  the  shipping  trade  of 
the  world  will  have  to  maintain  deeper 
channels  to  their  harbors  than  formerly. 
Ports  which  can  only  accommodate 
small  vessels  must  soon  cease  to  play 
an  important  part  in  the  world’s  com­
merce.  .

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FE D ER A TIO N   O F  WOMEN’S CLUBS.

Pen  P ictu re  o f  th e  F ifth   B iennial  Con­

vention  a t  M ilw aukee.

represents 

While  the 

fifty-sixth  Congress  at 
Washington,  which 
the 
noblest  and  most  intellectual  people  on 
this  broad  earth,  was  completing  its  ar­
rangements  for  final  adjournment— hav­
ing  considered  the  new  financial  bill  for 
refunding  the  public  debt, 
territorial 
government  for  the  Hawaiian  Islands,  a 
code  of  laws  for  Alaska,  temporarv  gov­
ernment  for  Puerto  Rico,  and 
in  one 
hundred 
thirty-seven  days  receiving 
12,152  bills,  passing  1,215  °f  them,  ap­
propriating  §709,729,476  for  carrying  on 
the  machinery  of  the  United States Gov­
ernment  and  its  newly  acquired  posses­
sions— four  thousand  women  were  meet­
ing 
in  Milwaukee,  representing  every 
state,  and  some  of  the  territories,  in  the 
Union,  to  consider,  some  of  the  great 
problems  for  the  bettering  and  uplifting 
of  the  human  race  present  and  future.

and 

their 

The  picture  presented  at  the  Alham­
bra  Theater  on  the  morning  of  June  5 
can  never  be  effaced  from  the  memory 
of  those  who  were  fortunate  enough  to 
be  present.  There  were  women  dressed 
in  Paris  gowns,  with  diamonds  fit  for  a 
queen,  there  were  other  women  whose 
attire  was  severely  plain,  but  there  was 
no  difference  in  the  attire of their ideas : 
the  members’  words  were  sincere,  logi­
cal  and  convincing 
faces 
bright  and  sparkling.  The  stage  of  the 
theater  was  set  with  a  garden  scene, 
made  attractive  with  palms  and  flower­
ing  plants.  Mrs.  Lowe,  the  President 
of  this  great  assembly,  called  the  meet­
ing  to order.  Miss  Sabin  offered  prayer. 
The  Mayor,  Mr.  Rose,  welcomed  the 
convention, 
followed  by  Mrs.  Peck, 
Chairman  of  the  local  committee,  who 
added  words  of  cordial  welcome  from 
the  clubs  of  Milwaukee,  and  Mrs.  Ne­
ville  for  Wisconsin.  Mrs.  Decker,  of 
Denver,  responded  to  these  kind  words 
of  greeting  and  after  officers’  reports the 
President  delivered  her  address,  and  lo, 
the  Fifth  Biennial  was  in  active  opera­
tion.  And 
for  what  purpose,  do  you 
ask?  Let  me  go  back  and  explain :

In  1890  Sorosis  Club,  of  New  York, 
celebrated  its  twenty-fifth  anniversary 
by  inviting  the  women’s 
literary  clubs 
of  this  country  to  visit  them  and  organ­
ize  a  General  Federation.  Sixty-three 
clubs,  representing  eighteen  states,  re­
sponded  and  another  great  association, 
to  meet  once  in  two  years,  took  its place 
among  myriads  of  others  in  the  United 
Its  First  Biennial  was  held  at 
States. 
in  1892,  with  representatives 
Chicago 
from  100  or  more  clubs. 
Its  second  met 
at  Philadelphia,  its  third  at  Louisville, 
its  fourth  at  Denver,  and 
its  fifth  at 
Milwaukee  with  900  regular  delegates,
197  alternates-----representing 
165,000
women—-and  a  daily  attendance  of  be­
tween  three  and  four  thousand. 
In  its 
its  object 
is  stated  to  be : 
constitution 
“ To  bring 
into  communication  with 
one  another  the  various  clubs throughout 
the  world,  that  they  may  compare  meth­
ods  of  work  and  become  mutually  help­
fu l;’ ’  and  Mrs.  Clymer,  the  first  Presi­
dent,  said  in  her  opening  address:  “ In 
this  wonderful  country  we  drink  free­
dom 
in  the  air.  We  are  ‘ for  God  and 
home  and  every  land. ’  The  American 
woman  of  the  Nineteenth  Century  has 
set  her  face  towards  that  lost  Garden  of 
Eden  and  she  is  not  going  to  stop  until 
she  arrives  at  her  goal,  to  make  the 
kingdoms  of  this  world  become 
the 
kingdoms  of  our  Lord  and  Savior Jesus 
Christ. ”

At  the  First  Biennial  the  time  was 
largely  taken  up  with  reports  from  in­

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

free  kindergartens, 

dividual  clubs,  but  at  Milwaukee 
indi­
viduality  disappeared  and,  while  still 
cherishing  the  fondness  for  Longfellow 
and  Bryant,  Whittier  and  Shakespeare, 
Browning  and  George  Eliot,  the  all- 
absorbing  topics  were  practical  ones. 
From  Maine  to  Florida,  Washington  to 
Texas,  the  District  of  Columbia  to  Cal­
ifornia,  women  told  of  village  improve­
ment,  growth  of  sanitation,  protection 
of  trees, 
public 
parks, 
teachers, 
carpetweaving  in  the  mountains  of Ken­
tucky  and  Tennessee—every  feature  of 
public  welfare,  civic  improvement,  ed­
ucation  and  philanthropy  has  been 
is  the  only  ‘ ism’ 
helped. 
that 
is 
‘ ics’  and  ‘ isms’ 
and  ‘ ologies’  which have  made  women’s 
clubs  a 
in  time 
past;’ ’  and  how  can  I  give  you  a  better 
idea  of  the  thoughts  presented  than  to 
give  a  quotation  from  some  of  the  sub­
jects?

“ Altruism 
left  of  all  the 

training  schools  for 

to  husbands 

‘ bogy’ 

is  the  governing 

President  Lowe,  Georgia— “  Remem­
ber  the  Federation  was  organized  for 
service,  not  for  dominence, ”   said  Mrs. 
Brown,  our  first  President.  The  most 
significant  feature  of  the  two  years  just 
past 
interest  of  the 
women  of  the  Federation  in  the  women 
and  children  who  are  wage-earners  in 
America.  For  the  future,  “ Only  as  we 
serve  shall  we  deserve,”   for  through 
service  alone  can  the 
individual,  the 
in  us,  grow  to  its  full  stature  and 
God 
become  perfect  even  as  God  is  perfect.
Miss  Margaret  J.  Evans,  Minnesota
—The  child  has a  right  for a  complete
full  development,  not  only  of  its  phys­
ical  and  mental  nature,  but  its  moral 
nature  as  well.

Mrs.  Charles  F. 

Flagg,  Maine— 
Women  have  no  more  right  to  complain 
of  defects  in  the  schools  than  men  have 
to  complain  of  dishonest  political  gov­
ernment  when  they  do  not 
take  the 
trouble  to  do  their  duty  as  citizens.

Mrs.  W.  H.  Kistler,  Denver— I be­
lieve  that 
it  will  not  be  through  men 
alone,  nor  women  alone,  but  through 
their  united  hands,  each  for  the  other, 
both  for  all,  that  our school  systems  will 
eventually  be  brought  to  the  highest 
possible  degree  of  perfection.

Mrs.  W.  M.  Neal,  Arkansas— It  has 
been  estimated  that  during  the  first 
fif­
teen  years  of  his  life  the  average  child 
spends  as  much  time  in  play  as in study 
and  work.  To  disregard  the  possibili­
ties  of  this  part  of  his  life,  to  make  no 
attempt  to  build  up 
in  all  ways  by 
means  of 
it,  to  suppress  the  play  in­
stinct  or allow  it  to  become  a demoraliz­
ing 
is  wasteful,  even  criminal. 
Lieutenant  Kroll,  of  Chicago,  says: 
“ Since  the  establishment  of  the  public 
playground 
juvenile  arrests  have  de­
creased  fully  3 3 per  cent.  Young  boys 
of  13  and  16  who  loaf  around  street  cor­
ners  have  no  place  to  go— get  into  sa­
loons,  annoy  passers-by  or  form  crowds 
and  finally  are  arrested.  They  are  per­
mitted  to  come  in  here  and  they  give  us 
no  trouble. ’ ’

force, 

Miss  Annie  W.  Williams,  Philadel­
phia— The  Vacation  School  project  may 
be  presented  from  three  points— philan­
thropic,  educational  and social.  Despite 
the  work  of  the  Country  Week  Associa­
tion  and  Fresh  A ir  Fund  many  children 
can  not 
leave  the  city  during  the  hot 
summer.  Time  hangs  heavily  on  their 
hands  and the  Vacation  School  can  do  a 
great  work.

Mrs.  Charles  A.  Perkins,  Tennessee— 
C ivil  service  reform  is  not  a  matter  of 
politics  alone. 
It  concerns  our  moral 
life,  our  moral  responsibilities.  There 
is  no  way  to  purify  our  political  life

except  by  taking  from  our  politicians 
this  great  bribery  fund  of  offices  to  give 
in  return  for  party  service.  To  the 
out 
strong  and  unscrupulous  man 
is  a 
power  for  evil,  to  the  weaker  man  a 
temptation  to  sin.

it 

Mrs.  Florence Kelly,  N.  Y .— The Con­
sumers’  League 
is  an  organization  of 
persons  who  strive  to  do  their  buying  in 
such  a  way  as  to  further  the  welfare  of 
those who  make  or  distribute the  articles 
bought.

Mrs.  Corinne  S.  Brown,  Chicago— All 
the  states  are  agitating  a  child-labor 
law,  fixing  the  age  for  child  labor  and 
length  of  the  working  days.

Mrs.  Hamlin  Garland,  Chicago—  
Among  other  things  Mr.  Fuller based 
his  assertion  upon  the  ugliness of Amer­
ican  cities,  not  only  upon  their  lack  of 
good  art,  but  upon  their  examples  of 
bad  art.  Compare  the  beauty  of  towns 
like  Amiens  and  Chartres,  Rouen  and 
Blois,  containing  beautiful  churches, 
interesting  fountains,  with  the  barren­
ness  of  American  towns.  What  have 
you  in  your  city  that  is essentially beau­
tiful?  The  first  step  towards  a  change 
is  the  appointment  of  Municipal  Art 
Commissions,  which  should  include  and 
express  the  highest  and  not  the  popular 
taste  of  your  town.  Let  taste  alone  rule.
George  Kriehn,  Ph.  D.,  Chicago— 
Municipal  art 
is  as  old  as  art  itself. 
The  art  of  the  Greeks,  of  the  Middle 
Age,  of  the  Italian  Renaissance,  was 
an  art  of  cities.  The  aim  of  municipal 
art  is  to  realize  that  dream  of  the  artist 
and  poet,  the  City  Beautiful.  This  it 
does  by  application  of  art  to  all  parts 
of  the  city— from  the  slum  alley  to  the 
boulevard, 
the  cottage  to  the  palace, 
from  the  hamlet  to  the metropolis.  First 
things  to  remove  are  dirty  streets  and 
smoky  atmosphere,  then  the  high  un­
sightly  billboards  covered  with  glaring, 
vulgar  posters.  Make  business  signs 
works  of  art.  Erect  groups  of  statuary. 
Attention  should  be  given  to  tree  plant­
ing.  Residences  and  grounds  should 
be  artistic  and  there  should  be  clean 
broad  streets.

in 

Mrs.  A.  C.  Ewing,  Salt  Lake  City— 
The  happier  people  of  the  rising  City 
Beautiful  will  grow 
love  for  it,  in 
pride  in  it.  They  will  be  better  citizens 
instructed.  Woman’s 
because  better 
purpose  stands 
in  need 
of  man’s 
strength  to  form  a  combination  working 
out  the  highest  good  of  the  people:
“ Two heads in council, two beside the hearth; 
Two in the tangled business of the world;
Two in the liberal offices of life;
Two  plummets  dropped  for  one  to  sound  the 
Of science and the secrets of the mind.”

abyss

Mrs.  H ill  P.  Wilson,  Kansas— The 
housekeepers  in  homes  such  as  yours  or 
mine  are  not  the  only  people  who  need 
domestic  science  schools.  The  Domes­
tic  Science  School,  I  believe,  will  solve 
the  servant  girl  question.  Young  girls 
risk  happiness,  health  and  virtue  in  do­
ing  poorly  paid  work  of  unskilled  laboi 
where 
they  might  have  comfortable 
homes  and  good  wages  if  only  they were 
trained.

Mrs.  Esther  F.  Noble,  Connecticut— 
idle  we  assume  a  portion  of 
If  we  are 
the  savings  of  others— some  one  must 
work  the  harder to  make  up  for our idle­
ness  and  worthlessness.  Work  is  not  the 
highest  earthly  good. 
It  is  the  means 
by  which  the  highest  earthly  good  can 
be  obtained.

Margaret  H.  Welch, 

of  Harper’s 
Bazar,  in  “ Flashlights  on  the  Press,’ ’ 
touched  briefly  upon  the  question  as  to 
whether  the  press  was  what  the  public 
desires  and  told  of  a  publisher’s  idea  of 
a weekly  paper,  namely,  to  have  a  small 
paper,  in  which  every  item  of  news  and

every  topic  discussed  should  be  by  men 
of  letters,  where  all  social  news  should 
be  eliminated  except  such  as  was  of  a 
public  nature,  and  ‘ the  person  element 
should  be  entirely  ignored.  She  looked 
forward  to  the  time  when  such  a  paper 
should  be  successful.  There  should  not 
be  a  page  for  women  any  more  than  a 
page  for  blue-eyed  people !

Mrs.  E.  G.  McCabe,  of  Atlanta, 
Georgia,  presented  “ The  Needs  of  the 
South  in  Educating  Colored  Children.”
Mrs.  L.  A.  Coonley  Ward,  of Chicago, 
in  Dress.”  
discussed  “ Individuality 
Freedom 
in  clothing  helps  spiritually. 
We  need  to  dress  as  tastefully  in private 
as  in  public.  We  can  not  be  ill  dressed 
two-thirds  of  the  time  and  well  dressed 
one-third.  Color 
is  an  expression  of 
mental  condition.  When  we  are  melan­
choly  we  ought  to  put  on  our  gayest 
clothes;  when  we  are  sad  we  should 
never  wear  black,  the  symbol  of  hope­
less  grief.  The  mourning  garb  has  a 
disastrous  spiritual  effect  on  the  wearer, 
the  family  and  friends.

it ; ’ ’ 

But  I  must  close  this  brief  (if  I  con­
sider  what  I’ve 
left  out)  synopsis  of 
the  thoughts  expressed  at  the  Fifth  B i­
ennial.  Remember  such 
fragments  as 
these:  “ Treat  her  as  if  she  were  your 
“ Have  an  opinion  and  ex­
mother;”  
press 
“ Don’t  break  the  child'"s 
will— divert  it.’ ’  O  the  wonderful  flow 
of  wit  on  Authors’  Night— Kate  Upson 
Clark,  of  Brooklyn,  Mrs.  Brotherton's 
poem  on  “ The  Present  Hour,”   Octave 
Thanet’s  views  of  “ The Unappreciated, 
Moderate  Man,”  the  reading  of  “ Child 
and  Mother”   by  Mrs.  Stetson,  of  C ali­
fornia,  together  with  many  other  gems 
of  thought.

The  business  part  of  the  sessions—  
including  the  discussions  and  action  re­
garding  the  reorganization amendments, 
and  the  election  of  officers— was  con­
ducted  as  well  if  not  better  than  similar 
organizations  composed  only  of  men. 
The  two  suggestions  that  should  be  em­
phasized  strongly  are :  All  men’s  and 
women’s  voices  should  receive  special 
training  and  cultivation,  not  only  for 
the  benefits  to  be  derived 
from  such 
care 
in  the  home,  but  in  public  life  so 
that  they  can  make  themselves  heard 
and  not  be  obliged  to  resort  to  screech­
ing  in  order to  receive  recognition ;  and 
all  men  and  women  should  refrain  from 
whispering  to  their  neighbors  when 
some  one  else  is  speaking,  or  trying  to 
speak,  remembering  that  many  whis­
pers  make  a  big  one  that  sometimes 
drowns  the  speaker’s  remarks.

O 

the  royal  hospitality  of  the  citi­

the  Athenaeum, 
and 

zens  of  Milwaukee! 
It  w ill  never  be 
forgotten.  The  Citizens’  League  and 
women’s  clubs  all  did  their  part  with 
generosity  unbounded.  Receptions  at 
the  Plankinton, 
the 
Deutscher  Club 
twelve  private 
homes  left  a  remembrance  of  beautiful 
homes  by  the 
lake,  gorgeous  and  lux­
uriously  furnished  drawing  rooms,  pro­
fusions  of  flowers,  music,  ices  served 
by  charming  young 
ladies  and  kind 
words  by  the  genial  hostesses.  There 
was  the  ride  by  the  lake  to  Downer  Col­
lege,  where  we  were  delightfully  enter­
tained.  All  these,  together  with  innu­
merable  other  courtesies extended by our 
Milwaukee 
friends,  place  them  forever 
in  the  storehouse  of  our  memories;  and 
as  the  many  pleasant  incidents  are  re­
called  one  can  better  appreciate  the  joy 
and  pleasure  and  profit  of  those  that 
went  up  yearly  to  the  feast at Jerusalem. 
Long  may  the  General  Federation  live; 
and  may  each  club  woman  do  her  part 
to  sustain  it and,  if it has not yet reached 
perfection,  do  her  part  toward  making 
it  so. 

Loraine  Immen,

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Powder

f   PURE  ^

Royal  is  the  baking  powder  o f 
highest  character  and  reputa­
tion,  the  favorite  among  house­
keepers.  The  cheapest  to  con­
sumers,  the  most  profitable  for 
dealers  to  handle.

Those  grocers  who are most successful  in  business— who  have 
the  greatest  trade,  highest  reputation,  the  largest  bank  ac­
counts— are  those  who  sell  the  highest  quality,  purest,  best 
known  articles.

It  is  a  discredit  to  a  grocer  to  sell  impure,  adulterated 
and  unwholesome  goods;  nor  is  the  sale  of such  goods,  even 
though  the  profits  on  a  single  lot  may  be  larger,  as  profitable 
in  the  long  run  as  the  sale  of  pure,  wholesome,  high-class 
articles  at  a  less  percentage.

Trade is won  and held  by the  sale  of the  best, the  highest

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grade,  the  most  reliable  goods.

ROYAL  BAKING  POWDER  CO.,  100  WILLIAM  ST.,  NEW  YORK.

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Around  the State

M ovement»  o f M erchants.

Bay  City— Kinney  &  Co.  succeed  M. 
Kinney  in  the  hardware  and  paint  busi­
ness.

Dowagiac— The  Daylight  Furniture 
Co.  has  lately  been  established  at  this 
place.

Iron  Mountain— Edward  H.  Eaton  & 
Co.,  meat  dealers,  have  sold out to  Kull- 
gren  &  Larson.

East  Jordan— E.  A.  H.  Cole  has 
leased  a  building  and  opened  a  bazaar 
store  at  this  place.

Tecumseh— The  Conklin  Coal  Co. 
in  the  coal 

succeeds  C.  A.  Conklin 
business  at  this  place.

Fremont— Pearson  &  Reber  will  add 
a  line  of men’s  furnishing  goods  to their 
clothing,  carpet  and  millinery  stock.

Gaylord— Kinnee  Bros.  Co. 

is  the 
name  of  the  new  firm  which  succeeds 
George  Kinnee  in  the  harness  business.
Homer—J.  H.  Kingman,  of  Jackson, 
will  open  his  new  furniture  store  in  the 
Anson  building  about  the  first  of  next 
month.

Hart— V.  C.  Wolcott  has  closed out his 
grocery  stock  and  removed  to  South 
Haven,  where  he  will  engage 
in  the 
same  trade.

Plainwell— C.  E.  Spencer  has  pur­
chased  the 
interest  of  his  partner,  Jay 
Sherwood,  in  the  meat  business  of  Sher­
wood  &  Spencer.

Adrian  -James  M.  Holloway  has  pur­
chased  the 
interest  of  Edward  Robins 
in  the  grocery  and  meat  firm  of  Robins, 
Holloway  &  Robins.

Petoskey— R.  R.  Atkins  &•  Son  have 
in  the  grocery  and  bakery 
in  the  store  building  formerly 

engaged 
business 
occupied  by  A.  B.  Thompson.

Cedar— S.  Sarasohn  &  Co.,  of Detroit, 
have  opened  a  branch  dry  goods  and 
men’s  furnishing  goods  store  here  under 
the  management  of  A.  H.  Sarasohn.

Sault  Ste.  Marie— The  new  Greely 
block  is  ready  for  the  roof.  One  of  the 
stores  will  be occupied  by W.  A.  Rudcll 
on  July  15  with  a  line  of  drugs  and  sun­
dries.

Mesick— J.  A.  Evitts  has  sold  his 
hardware  stock  to  Fred  Cooper and  Ed. 
Wilson,  who  will  continue  the  business 
under  the  style  of  the  Mesick  Hard­
ware  Co.

Nashville— H.  C.  Glasner  has  pur­
chased  a  dry  goods  and  grocery  stock  at 
Centerville,  where  he  will  engage  in  the 
general  merchandise  business  at  that 
place.

Big  Rapids— Geo.  A.  Roof,  who  re­
from  the  boot  and  shoe  business 
tired 
later  was 
here  seven  years  ago,  and 
chief  clerk 
in  the  postoffice,  has  re­
engaged  in  the  same  line  of  business  at 
his  old  stand.

Menominee— The  Menominee  Busi­
ness  Men’s  Association  was  organized 
last  Wednesday  evening  with  fifty  char­
ter  members.  The  purposes  of  the  A s­
sociation  are  many,  but  principally  to 
promote  good  legislation.

recently  organized  at 

Fruitport—John  H.  Westover  has  sold 
his  general  merchandise  stock  to  a stock 
company 
this 
place,  to  be  known  as  the  Fruit  Supply 
Co.,  consisting  of  F.  F.  Bolles,  Jas. 
Christopher,  A.  Coumyer  and  D.  J. 
Gilhula.

Berlin— The  administrator of  the  es­
tate  of  the 
late  A.  E.  McCullock  has 
sold  the  drug  stock  to  Raymond  Car­
penter,  who  will  continue  the  business 
at  the  same 
location.  Mr.  Carpenter 
has  clerked  several  years  for  Muir  & 
,Co.,  of  Grand  Rapids.

W1 Iliamston— A.  C.  Karr  has 

intro­
duced  a  novelty  in  store  closing  and  re­
maining  closed  over  Sunday  which  is 
worth  noticing.  He  has  put  a time lock 
on  his  store  door,  which  locks  on  Satur­
day  night  at  10:30  o’clock  and  does  not 
open  until  7  o'clock Monday morning.

Marshall— C.  W.  Casper  has  received 
an  invitation  from  the  Michigan  Hard­
ware  Association  to  read  a  paper-before 
the  convention  which  is  held  in Detroit, 
July  11  and  12.  The  subject  assigned 
to  him  is  “ Catalogue competition :  what 
should  the  retail  dealer  do  to  meet  it?”  
Jackson— W.  W.  Todd  has  merged  his 
business 
into  a  stock  company  under 
the  style  of  the  Central  drug  store,  the 
other  stockholders  being  D.  W.  H. 
Moreland  and  Frank  C.  Andrews,  of 
Detroit,  and  Frederick  J.  Todd,  of  this 
place.  Frederick  J.  Todd  will  have  the 
management  of  the  business.

Mount  Morris—J.  Lyman  was  recently 
arrested  on  complaint  of  the State Board 
of  Pharmacy  for  being  an  unregistered 
proprietor  and  not  having  a  registered 
person 
in  charge  of  his  store.  He 
pleaded  guilty  to  the  charge,  paid  fine 
and  costs  amounting  to  $12.50,  and 
promised  to  place  a  registered  person 
in  charge  or close  the  store.

Charlotte— Chas.  Bennett,  administra­
tor  of  the  estate  of  the  late  Geo.  W. 
Foote,  has  sold  the  drug  stock  to  Arthur 
F.  Vickery  and  Frank  H.  Beard,  who 
will  continue  the  business  at  the  same 
location.  Mr.  Vickery  has  been  em­
ployed 
for  the  past  three 
years.  Mr.  Beard  was  formerly  engaged 
in  the  drug  business  at  Battle  Creek.

in  the  store 

Sault  Ste.  Marie— The  new  block  of 
Alois  Goetz,  which  has  been  in  process 
of  construction  since 
last  fall,  is  now 
ready  for  the  interior  finish.  The  build­
ing 
is  artistic  from  an  architectural 
point  of  view  and  the  work  thorough 
and  substantial.  The  front  is  of  white 
pressed  brick  and  cut  stone  and  the 
body  of  building  of  stone  from the water 
power canal.

Otsego— The  grocers  of  Otsego recent­
ly  appealed  to  the  Attorney  General  to 
put  a  stop  to  the  peddler business.  Gro­
cers  from  Kalamazoo,  Cooper  and  other 
places  scour  the  country,  greatly  to  the 
detriment  of  home  dealers.  The  Attor­
ney  General,  in  answering  the  commu­
nication,  enclosed  a  copy  of  the  law  re­
lating  to  hawkers  and  peddlers  and  ad­
vised  them  to  lay  the  matter  before  the 
prosecuting  attorney.

Sault  Ste.  Marie— B.  Blumrosen,  who 
is  one  of  the  Soo’s  most  successful  dry 
goods  merchants,  is  planning  to  erect  a 
25-foot  addition  to  his  block on  Ashmun 
street,  as  well  as  to  add  another  story 
to  the  whole  building. 
The  entire 
ground  space  will  be  occupied  by  Mr. 
Blumrosen  and  the  second  floor fitted  up 
into  offices.  Work  will  be  commenced 
as  soon  as  satisfactory  plans  can  be 
drawn  and  contracts  let.

M anufacturing  M atters.

Sanford— The  new  cheese  factory  has 

begun  operations  for  the  season.

Clare— The  Herrick 

Full  Cream 
Cheese  Co.  is  turning  out  400  pounds  of 
cheese  per  day.

Hubbardston-----Wm.  Langdon  and
Henry  Fitzpatrick,of  Carson  City,  have 
opened  a  new  cheese 
factory  at  this 
place.

Port  Huron— Smith  Bros.,  manufac­
turers  of  boiler  machinery,  have  sold 
out  to  the Tunnel  City  Boiler Works,  in­
corporated.

Caledonia—The  Caledonia  cheese fac­
tory 
is  turning  out  about  500  pounds  of 
cheese  per  day.  Charles  Webb  is  man­
aging  the  business.

operations 

Bay  City— Another  new  industry  has 
begun 
in  Bay  City— the 
planing  mill  and  box  factory  of  Joseph 
F.  Bindner. 
It  has  begun  operations 
with  a  working  force  of  fifty-one  men, 
and  twenty  more  will  be  needed  when 
all  the  machinery  has  been  installed.

interest 

Grand  Ledge— John  Butts,  of  Oneida, 
has  purchased  a  half 
in  the 
flouring  mill  business  of  J.  L.  Cupit 
and  the  firm  name  will  be  Cupit  & 
Butts.  Extensive  improvements  will  be 
made  in  the  plant,  including  the  addi­
tion  of  a  vibrating  bolt,  which  will  en­
able  them  to  manufacture  three  grades 
of  flour.

T he  Boys  B ehind  th e   C ounter.

Bay  Shore— Robert  Rosenberger,  for­
merly  of  Ashland,  Wis.,  has  taken  a 
position  as  manager  of  the  Bay  Shore 
Lime  Co. 's  store.

Petoskey— L.  E.  Whiteman,  formerly 
with  the  Morse  Dry  Goods  Co.,  of 
Grand  Rapids,  has  taken  charge  of  the 
dress  goods  department  of  S.  Rosenthal 
&  Son’s  department  store  and P.  J.  Jus­
tin,  of  Toledo,  and  George  Greenshaw, 
of  Detroit,  have  been  employed 
in  the 
clothing  department.

Mackinac  Island— Geo.  Hoban,  who 
has  been  at  work  in  Cheboygan  the  past 
winter,  is  again  in  the  employ  of  Doud 
Bros.
St. 

Ignace— Louis  Yolamstein,  of 
Gould  City,  is  helping  L.  Winkelman 
in  his  general  store  here.
Albion— Loren  Colton 
J.  B.  Hartwell’s  grocery.

is  clerking  at 

Alpena— Retail  Clerks’  Union,  No. 
75»  W*P  shortly  give  an  excursion  to 
Bay  City.

Albion— Clarence  Flinn is clerking for 

Richter  &  Wilson.

H ides,  P elts,  T allow   an d   W ool.

The  hide  market  remains  quiet  and 
steady.  The  demand  is  up  to  the  sup­
ply,  but  no  higher.  Prices  can  be  an­
ticipated.  Trade  is  good  and  offerings 
are  freely  made  and  readily  taken.

Pelts  are  in  good  demand  at  low  val­

ues.  Offerings  are  light.

Tallow  is  quiet  and 

lower.  The  de­
mand  is  light,  with  an  accumulation  of 
soaper’s  stock.

Wool  can  be  said  to  be  lower,  as  there 
is  no  trading.  Eastern  agents  are  so­
liciting  consignments,  but  are  not  buy­
ing  to  any  extent,  as  the  Eastern  mar­
kets  will  not  warrant  prices  paid  in 
Michigan.  Local  buyers are well stocked 
at  a  price  which  will 
leave  them  no 
margin  at  the  present  Eastern  market 
price.  Some  small  bunches,  properly 
bought,  are  changing  hands.  Generally 
speaking,  it  is  a  waiting  process,  with 
considerable  wool  in  growers’ hands and 
no  kick  to  the  trade.  Wm.  T.  Hess.

P relim in ary   P lan s  fo r th e   Jn b ilee.
Bay  City,  June  18— The  officers  and 
members  of  the  Grocers  and  Butchers’ 
Jubilee  and  Pure  Food  Exhibit  aie 
working  industriously  to make  the  affair 
a  success.  Already  several  valuable 
concessions  have  been  disposed  of,  but 
there  still  remain  some  choice locations 
in  the  line  of  booths,  etc.  Committees 
have  been  placed 
in  charge  of  these 
matters  and  are  in  readiness  to  receive 
calls  from  those  who  desire  to  make  ex­
hibits.  John  D.  Whalen  has  charge  of 
the  sale  of  the  booths  in  the  merchants 
and  manufacturers’  building,  and  the 
same  gentleman  is  chairman  of the com­
mittee  on  merchants  and  manufacturers’ 
like  to  hear  from 
parade  and  would 
those  who  propose  getting 
line. 
The  grocers  and  butchers’  parade  will 
take  place  on  the  first  day  of  the  jubi­
lee,  the  procession  to  be  headed  by  the 
queen,  who  will  be  chosen  by  vote. 
There  will  also  be  a  flower  parade  and 
other  attractive  ieatures.

into 

M IC H I G A N   TR A D E S M A N

T he  G rain  M arket.

Wheat  at  last  has  been soaring.  Prices 
have  advanced  very  fast— fully  10c  per 
bushel.  The  trade  has  at  last  come  to 
realize  that  there  is  a  large  shortage 
in 
frequently 
winter  wheat,  as  has  been 
dwelt  upon  in  these  articles.  As  regards 
spring  wheat 
in  Minnesota  and  North 
and  South  Dakota,  there  will  not  be 
half  a  crop,  as  they  have  had  no  general 
rains  and  now  it  is  too  late  even  if  rain 
comes.  The  wheat  is  heading  out  with 
the  stalks  only  six  to  ten  inches  high, 
and  the  writer  has  received  letters  from 
in  these  States  to  the 
reliable  sources 
effect  that,  under  the  most 
favorable 
weather  conditions  from  now  on,  a  half 
crop  only  can  be  expected— probably 
not  over  100,000,000  bushels,  where  a 
short  time  ago  a  crop  of  200,000,000 
bushels  was 
It  looks  now 
as  if  the  top  of  the  market  has  not  been 
reached.  We  may  expect  that  wheat 
will  be  selling  considerably  higher  yet. 
However,  for  the  present  we  think  it  is 
time  to  call  'a  halt,  as  the  market  can 
not  always  be  going  up,  so  a  rest  at 
present  prices  is  in  order.

looked  for. 

Corn  has  not  followed  wheat,  but  has 
kept  at  about  the  same  price  as  it  has 
been.  However,  the  trend  of  the  market 
is  for  higher  prices  in  the  future,  as  the 
com  crop  is  not  made  yet  by  any means 
and  present  stock  is  not  in  over  abund­
ance.

Oats  remain  passive.  As  the  outlook 
for  a  large  crop  is  very flattering,  prices 
will  remain  steady  at  about present quo­
tations.

As  usual,  there 

is  nothing  doing  in 
rye.  Prices  hold  steady  at  about  60c  per 
bushel 
for  choice  rye,  and  nothing  but 
choice  is  wanted.

Receipts  were  as  follows :  38  cars  of 
wheat,  7  cars  of  com,  5  cars  of  oats,  1 
car  of  rye,  1  car of  beans  and  1  car  of 
potatoes.

Mills  are  paying  73c  for  wheat.

C.  G.  A.  Voigt.

G rand  B apids  B etail G rocers’ A ssociation.
At  the  regular  meeting  of  the  Grand 
Rapids  Retail  Grocers’  Association, 
held  on  Tuesday  evening,  June  19, 
President  Dyk  presided.

The  special  Committee  on  Berry 
Boxes  reported  that  it  had  sent  a  com­
munication  to  the  Board  of Health,  ask­
ing  that  the  circular  prepared  by  the 
Association  be  endorsed  by  the  Board 
of  Health,  which  request  has  been  com­
plied  with,  and  that  10,000 copies  of  the 
circular  had  been  printed  and  placed 
in  the  hands  of  city  grocers,  calling  at­
tention  to  the  action  of  the  Board  of 
Health 
in  advising  the  destruction  of 
all  old  boxes.  The  report  was  accepted 
and  the  Committee  discharged.

The  Committee  on  .Arrangements  for 
the _ annual  picnic  reported  progress, 
stating  that  matters  were  being  held 
in 
abeyance  for  the  present,  pending  the 
outcome  of  the  invitation  extended  the 
Jackson  grocers  to  hold  their  annual 
picnic 
in  this  city.  The  meat  dealers 
of  the  city,  through  their  Association, 
have 
their  willingness  to 
change  the  date  of  their  picnic  to  a date 
which  will  be  acceptable  to  the  Jackson 
grocers.

signified 

L.  John  Witters  offered  the  following 
resolution,  which  was  unanimously 
adopted:

Whereas— The  hand  of  death  has  en­
tered  the  household  of  our  steadfast 
friend,  Stephen  A.  Sears,  and  removed 
his  beloved  w ife;  therefore 

Resolved— That  we  hereby  extend  our 
bereaved  friend  our  heartfelt  sympathy 
in  the  great  loss  he  has  sustained  in  the 
death  of  Mrs.  Sears,  whose memory  will 
ever  be  cherished  because  of  her good 
deeds  and  her  sunny  disposition  and 
exemplary  character.

On  account  of  the  next  meeting  com­
ing  on  July  3,  it  was  decided  to  hold 
the  next  meeting  on  Tuesday  evening, 
July  10.

There  being  no  further  business,  the 

meeting  adjourned.

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

5

Grand  Rapids  Oossip

The  G rocery  M arket.

test  centrifugals. 

Sugar— The  raw  sugar  market  is  very 
firm,  but  quotations  are  still  \% c  for 96 
deg. 
Supplies  are 
very  limited  and  this  fact,  together  with 
the  strength  of  the  refined market,  keeps 
the  raw  sugar  market  very  firm,  with  a 
tendency  to  advance.  Many  look  for  an 
advance  of  1-32C 
in  the  near  future. 
The  feature  of  the  refined  market  is  the 
advance  of  10  points  for the  entire  list 
of  refined  sugars, which  was  a  great  sur­
prise  to  the  trade  in  general.  A  large 
business  has  been  done  and  the  market 
is  very  firm  and  a  still  further  advance 
is  not  unlikely.  The  margin  between 
the  price  of  raw  and  refined  sugar  is 
now  widened  to  %c  per  pound.

in  all 

is  certainly 

Canned  Goods— The 

canned  goods 
market 
in  a  much  better 
condition  now  than  for  a  number  of 
weeks  past.  The  hotels  and  summer 
resorts  are  absorbing  good  quantities  of 
canned  goods  and  much  of  the  recent 
gradual  improvement  in  business  is  due 
to  the  opening  of  the  resorts.  Hotel 
men,  almost  without  exception,  are 
looking  to  one  of  the  best  summer  sea­
sons 
in  years.  That  the  change  in  the 
canned  goods  market  has  come  to  stay 
is  evidenced  by  the  change  in  the 
feel­
ing  of  all  holders  of  canned goods  and it 
is  thought  that  there  will  be  a  steady 
improvement 
lines  of  canned 
goods  the  remainder  of  the  year.  The 
packing  of  new  peas  is  practically  over 
in  Baltimore  and  that 
it  has  been  a 
very  unsatisfactory  season  ¡swell  known 
to  every  one.  Seldom  does  anything 
take  place 
in  the  packing  industry  to 
mar  the  plans  of  the  packers  more  than 
the  outcome  of  the  pea  pack  has  done 
this  year.  The  sugar  or  marrowfat  peas 
are  almost  an  entire failure.  There  will 
be  very  few  of  them  and  prices  will  be 
higher  than  they  will  be  for  the  Early 
Junes.  No  great  amount  of  actual  busi­
ness  is  done,  buyers generally preferring 
to  take  their chances  at  supplying  their 
needs  from  the  Western  pack  than  pay 
for  Baltimore 
the  high  prices  asked 
peas.  The  prospect 
is  for  a  big  pack 
of  peas  in  Wisconsin.  This  fact  is  re­
sponsible  largely  for  the  present  feeling 
in  the  trade  that,  in  spite  of  the  failure 
of  the  Baltimore  pack,  all  will  be  well 
and  that  there  will  be  enough  peas  to 
go  around  in  the  end.  The  tomato  mar­
ket 
is  booming  and  prices  have  ad­
vanced  2 J^c  per  dozen.  The  corn  mar­
ket  still  continues  quiet  and  shipments 
are,  as  a  rule,  in  small  lots. 
It  may  be 
that  the  strength  developed 
the 
tomato  market  will  benefit  spot  com, 
as  they  usually  act  in  sympathy.  The 
growing  crop 
looks  well,  but  it  is  too 
early  yet  to  say  much  about  it.  The 
packing  of  strawberries  will  end  next 
week.  The  crop  has  been  a  good  one 
and  the  canned  article  is  selling  well. 
The  consumption  of  pineapples  prom­
ises  to  exceed  that  of  last  year  and,  tak­
ing  everything 
it 
looks  as  though  to-day’s  prices  will  be 
the 
lowest  of  the  season.  The  unex­
pectedly  high  prices for California fruits 
named  by  the  Association  have  as'yet 
in  any  business  worth 
failed  to  result 
speaking  of,  where 
last  year  the  first 
twenty-four  hours  after  prices  were 
named  sales  mounted  up  to  a  good 
total.  The  feeling  seems  to  be  that  the 
quotations,  particularly  as  to  peaches, 
are  too  h ig h ;  at  least,  they  are  higher 
than  many  had  expected. 
is 
nothing  very  encouraging  to  say  about 
sardines.  The  opinion  among  the  fish­

into  consideration, 

There 

in 

ermen,  packers  and  others  interested  is 
that  we  have  now  passed  out  of  a  cycle 
of  abundant  seasons  and  that  we  shall 
experience  two  or  more  years  of  com­
parative  scarcity.  Advices  continue  to 
light  run  of  salmon 
report  a 
for  this 
time  of  the  year.  The  water 
in  the 
River  is  said  to  be  high,  but  it  is  quite 
clear,  which  admits  of  the  fish,  even 
if 
they  run  free,  dodging  to  a  consider­
able  extent  the  nets,  traps  and  wheels. 
The  total  number  of  cases  of  Columbia 
River  salmon  packed  up  to  June  1  is 
estimated  to  be  about  58,000  cases.  Of 
this  amount  it  is  claimed  that  the  Col­
umbia  River  combine  has packed  16,000 
cases.  Some  of  the  packers  are  doing 
very  little  and  have  about  given  up  try­
ing  to  do  any  more  this  season.

It 

in  Greece 

further  advance. 

Dried  Fruits—The  strength  of  the 
is  the  most  important 
currant  market 
feature  of  the  dried 
fruit  market  this 
week.  Prices  have  advanced  fully  ic 
per  pound,  and  everything  tends  to  a 
still 
is  not  likely 
that  prices  will  go  any  lower  until  there 
is  some  certainty  as  to  the  harvesting 
of  the  growing  crop,  as  the  stock  re­
maining 
is  very  small  and 
has  evidently  been  concentrated  into  a 
very  few  hands.  The  reports  as  to  the 
serious  damage  to  the  growing  crop  ap­
fully  confirmed,  but  it  is 
pears  to  be 
hoped  by  some,  at 
least,  that  the  de­
struction  is  but  partial.  The  rapid  ad­
vance  of  the  market  for  currants  appar­
ently  has  stimulated  interest  in  raisins. 
There 
is  more  enquiry  for California 
raisins  and  any  fair quality  goods  are 
taken  at  full  prices.  Advices  from  Cal­
ifornia  state  that  raisin  matters  are  get­
ting  into  better  shape  now  and  the pros­
pects  are  that  all  will  work together har­
moniously  and  a  great  deal  will  be  ac­
complished  this  year.  Prunes  are  still 
in  fair  demand  from  the trade.  Orders, 
however,  are  mostly  for  small  quanti­
ties.  Spot  peaches  and  apricots  are  very 
dull.  It  is  claimed  that  the  apricot  crop 
this  year  will  be 
large,  but  the  fruit 
may  be  rather  small.  Apricot  growers 
of  Alameda  county,  California,  declare 
they will  dry  their  crops  rather  than  sell 
at  the  prices offered  by  the  canners—$20 
to  $25  per  ton.  The  Alameda  crop, 
which,  it  was thought last  month  would 
be  a  failure  on  account  of  frosts,  prom­
ises  to  be  a  record-breaker. 
It  will  be 
remembered  that  last  year  most  of  the 
apricots  were  taken  by  the  canners  and 
very  few  dried,  but 
it  looks  now  as  if 
things  would  be  reversed  this  season. 
Advices  from  Smyrna  continue  to  report 
a  very  fair  crop  outlook 
for  figs  and 
commencing  to  name 
shippers 
prices.  As  present  quotations  are  con­
siderably 
last  year,  buyers 
are  holding  back,  expecting  still  lower 
prices.  If their  expectations are  realized 
California  will  have  to  name  very  low 
prices  on  figs  to  be  able  to  sell.  There 
is  very  little  being  done  in  evaporated 
apples  as  stocks  are  nearly  cleaned  up 
and  what  few  are  left  are  in  cold  stor­
age.  Prices  are  unchanged,  but  de­
mand  is  light  at  present.

lower  than 

are 

R ice—There  is  practically  no  change 
in  the  rice  situation.  Prices  are  firm 
and  stocks  are  continually  growing  less. 
is  a  good  demand  for  most  all 
There 
grades.  Stocks 
in  the  South  are  down 
to  a  minimum,  scarcely  more  than  suffi­
cient  for 
local  requirements.  General 
crop  reports  are  unfavorable  and  a  de­
crease  of  25  per  cent,  in  the  crop  is  ex­
pected.

Tea— In  tea  a  general  improvement  is 
noted.  Business 
last  week  was  better 
than  for  the  past  few  weeks,  with  pros­
pects  for  greater activity  in  the  near  fu­

ture  and  holders  continue  to  have  full 
confidence  in  the 
future  market.  The 
total  shipments  of  Ceylon  tea  from  Jan.
1 
to  May  16  to  America  amount  to 
2,053,598  pounds,  against 876,003 pounds 
during  the  same  period  last  year.

Molasses  and  Syrups— The  molasses 
market  is  quiet,  but  prices  are  well- sus­
tained.  Supplies  in first  hands  are  mod­
erate  and  many  dealers  are  not  offering 
their  goods,  preferring  to  hold  off  until 
the 
latter  part  of  August,  when  a  re­
newal 
in  the  demand  is  expected.  On 
account  of  the  strength  of  the  corn  mar­
ket,  an  advance  in  corn  syrup  is 
likely 
to  take  place  almost  any  day.

Nuts— The 

foreign  almond  crop  this 
year  is  practically  a  total  failure  and  a 
number  of  cars  of  California  nuts  have 
been  shipped  abroad.  The  market  on 
filberts  is  strong  and  prices  are  consid­
ered  very  high. 
In  some  parts  of  Cali­
fornia  there  are  prospects  that  there will 
be  two  thirds  more  nuts  this  year  than 
in  1899.  Hard-shell  nuts  alternate  with 
a 
light  crop  one  year  and  heavy  the 
next,  and  this  is  their  heavy  year.  The 
nuts  promise  to  be  of  good  size  and 
unusuallv  good  quality.  There 
is  a 
good  demand  for  peanuts  at  unchanged 
prices.

Tli©  P roduce  M arket.

situation 

Asparagus— 3<>@35c  per  doz.  bunches.
is 
Bananas-  The  banana 
the 
considered  unusually  strong  and 
market  continues  active,  notwithstand­
ing  the  competition  of  deciduous  fruits, 
which  generally 
force  banana  prices 
down  at  this  season.  The  consumption 
of  bananas  depends  upon  the  weather 
largely,  as  a  rule,  but  this  season  ap­
pears  to  have  been  an  exception.

Beets— 20c  per  doz.  bunches.
Butter— Factory  creamery  is  stronger 
than  a  week  ago,  fancy  stock  command­
ing  18c.  Dairy  grades  are  coming  in 
freely,  fetching  13c  for  packing  stock, 
14c  for  choice  and  15c  for  fancy.  The 
receipts  are  heavy,  running 
largely  to 
packing  stock.

Cabbage— Caro  stock  commands  90c 
fetches 

per  crate.  Mississippi  stock 
$2.75  per  crate.

Cauliflower—$1.25  per  doz.  heads.
Celery— New  crop 
is  beginning 

to 
in  and  finds  ready  sale  at  20c  per 
is  medium  size,  but  the 

come 
bunch.  This 
quality  is  fine.

Cherries—-Sweet  command  S i.40  per 
16  qt.  crate.  Sour  fetch  Si  for  same 
quantity.  Early  Richmond  command 
S2  per  bu.  The  crop  is  short,  but  the 
quality  of  the  receipts  thus  far  is  fine.

Cocoanuts—$3  per  sack  of  100.
Cucumbers— 35@4oc  per  doz.  for home 

grown.

is 

Eggs— The  market 

Currants—$1  per  16 qt.  crate  for  red. 
The  crop  is  large  and  the  price  is likely 
to  go  lower  in  the  course  of  a  few  days.
completely 
cleaned  up  and  dealers  meet  some  diffi­
culty 
in  securing  supplies  sufficient  to 
meet  their  requirements.  The  price  is 
steady  at  11c  for  candled  stock  and  the 
loss  ranges  from  %  dozen  to  a  dozen per 
case.

Gooseberries—$1  per  16  qt.  crate.
Green  Peas— 75c  per  bu.
Green  Stuff— Lettuce,  50@6oc  per  bu. 
for  outdoor  stock.  Onions,  10c  per  doz. 
for  evergreen  and  12c  for  silver  skin. 
Parsley,  30c  per  doz.  Pieplant,  5o@6oc 
for  50  lb.  box.  Radishes,  10c  per  doz. 
for  long,  8c  for  round  and  12c  per  doz. 
for  China  Rose.  Spinach,  35c  per  bu.
Hay—Carlot  prices,  track  Grand  Rap­
ids,  are:  No.  1,  timothy,  §12.50;  No. 
2,  $11.50;  clover  mixed,  $11.50;  rye 
straw,  $7.50;  wheat  and  oat  straw,  $5-5° 
@6  per  ton.

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

Lemons— The  lemon market is heavily 
overloaded  and  prices  show  a  decline  of 
about  25c  per  box.  There  has  been  but 
very  little  lemon  weather  so  far  in June, 
which  has  somewhat  curtailed  demand. 
There  is,  however,  a  fairly  good  busi­
for  this  time  of  year  and
ness  done 

with  the  advent  of  warmer  weather,  the 
demand  is  expected  to  greatly 
improve 
and  prices  will  probably  go  higher.

Maple  Sugar— 8c  for  imitation  and  9c 

@ioc  for  genuine.

Maple  Syrup  -Selling  at  8o@90c  per 

gal.,  as  to  quantity  and  quality.

Pineapples— Floridas fetch $2.25@2.50 

per  doz.

Plants— Cabbage,  sweet  potato  and 

tomato,  75c  per  box  of  200.

Fowls, 

i 8@2oc  per 

live  poultry 

lbs.  command 

Potatoes—65c  for  new  and  45c  for old.
Poultry— The  market 
is  stronger  and 
slightly  higher  on  broilers  and  young 
stock.  For 
local  dealers 
pay  as  follows :  Broilers  weighing  1 % 
to  2 
lb. 
Squabs,  $i.75@2  per  doz.  Pigeons,  50c. 
Chickens, 
6@7c. 
Ducks,  8c  for  old  and  I2j£c  for  spring. 
Turkeys,  10c  for  hens  and  gc  for gob­
blers.  For  dressed  poultry:  Chickens 
command  10c.  Fowls  fetch  9c.  Ducks 
are  taken  at  10c.  Turkeys  are 
in  fair 
demand  at 
lie   for  No.  2  and  12c  for 
No.  1.

7j^@8c. 

Strawberries— The  receipts  are  enor­
mous,  but  the  demand  is  fully  equal  to 
the  supply,  being  the  heaviest  ever 
known  at  this  market.  Prices  range 
from  75C@$i  per  16 qt.  crate,  with  no 
prospect  of  a  lower  range of values.  The 
berries  run  very  large  as  to  size  and  are 
in  sac­
fine  lookers,  but  are  deficient 
charine  matter,  owing 
to  the  cold 
weather  which  has  prevailed  for  several 
weeks  and  the  lack  of  sunshine.

String  Beans—$1  per  bu.
Tomatoes— Mississippi 

mands  $1.25  for  4  basket  crate.

Turnips— 75c  per  bu.
Wax  Beans— $1  per  bu.

stock  com­

Ileath  of M n .  Sear».

The  announcement  on  Monday  morn­
ing  that  Mrs.  Stephen  A.  Sears  had 
passed  away  during  the  preceding night 
was  a  severe  shock  to  the  community. 
While  she  had  been  ill  since  the  first  of 
June,  the  illness was not considered  dan­
gerous  until  a  few  days before her death.
Mrs.  Sears  was  born  in  Romeo,  Jan­
uary  10,  1867.  She  went  to  Elk  Rapids 
in  eariy  childhood,  with  her  parents, 
where  she  resided until grown to woman­
hood.  In  1891,  she  came  to  Grand  Rap­
ids  and  was  married  to  Mr.  Sears  No­
vember  11,  1893.  A  bright 
little  boy, 
nearly  5 years old, is left to mourn the loss 
of  a  mother’s  love.

Mrs.  Sears  had  a  beautiful  home  and 
was  surrounded  with  the  comforts  of 
life  as  well  as  delightful  environment  of 
love  and 
friendship.  She  was  gifted 
with  a  happy,  sunny  disposition  which 
had  gained 
for  her  the  many  friends 
who  mourn  her  loss.  Mrs.  Sears  early 
joined  the  Methodist  church,  but  joined 
the  Park  Congregational  church  after 
removing  to  this  city,  and  was  promi­
nent 
in  the  charitable  and  religious 
work  of  the  organization,  giving  her 
time 
in  unstinted  measure  to  the  work 
thus  voluntarily  assumed.

The 

funeral  was  held  at  the  family 

residence  Tuesday  afternoon.

The  Belknap  Wagon  Co.  has 

just 
completed  a  novel  camping  wagon  for 
R.  M.  Morse,  of  Ganges.  The  wagon 
is  fitted  with  springs,  which  makes it  as 
easy  riding  as  a  carriage.  The  box 
is 
extra  wide,  covered  with  canvas  and 
fitted  with  wide  seats,  which  can  be 
utilized  as  bunks  if  necessary.  Drawers 
for  the  reception  of  food  and  supplies 
are  numerous,  giving  the  vehicle  the 
appearance  of  a 
traveling  peddling 
wagon. 

____ _________

E.  E.  Godfrey  has  engaged 

in  the 
grocery  business  at  Mesick.  The  Mus­
sel man  Grocer  Co.  furnished  the  stock.

Sidney  F.  Stevens  (Foster,  Stevens 
&  Co.)  and  wife  are  spending  a  month 
at  the  Oakland,  St.  Clair.

For  G illies’  N.  Y. 

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

6

The  Buffalo  Market

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

H andled.

Beans— Offerings  are  quite  liberal and 
demand  is  rather  slack.  Market  is  eas­
ier  for  all  varieties  except  pea,  which 
are  held  firm.  Marrows,  good  to  fancy, 
$2.io@2.25;  medium,  $2@2.2o;  pea, 
$2.io@2.25 I  white  kidney,  $2.20@2.3o; 
yellow  eye,  $2@2.25 ;  red  kidney,  $1.75 
@2.25  per  bushel.

Butter—Although  sellers  were  forced 
to  accept  about  ic  less  than  a  week  ago, 
there  was  no  pressure  to  sell  at  the  de­
cline,  in  fact,  quite  a  number  of  receiv­
ers  refused 
less  than  20c  at  the  close 
last  week  for  extra creameiw.  Both  State 
and  Western  dairies  are  still  scarce  and 
with  a  good  demand  our  prices  are  eas­
ily  obtained.  Very  little  low grade but­
ter  coming  in ;  active  enquiry.  Out­
look  seems  to  favor  the  seller.  Cream­
ig@ ig % c;  firsts,  i8@i8j£c; 
ery  extra, 
I7@ i 8c ;  fair  to  good,  i6%@ 
choice, 
17c;  dairy,  choice  to  extra,  I7>¿@i8j¿c; 
fair  to  good, i6@ 17c;  poor  to  common, 
all  kinds,  I3@i5c  per  lb.

for  small 

Cheese— Fair  trade 

full 
cream  grass  or  partly  grass,  but  com­
mon  to  fair  fodder  and  skims  are  dull 
with  prices  almost  to low too quote.  Full 
cream  fancy  small,  10c;  good  to  choice, 
8K@ 9K c ;  common  to  fair,  4@6c.

Eggs— Market 

is  strong  under  light 
receipts  and  a  fairly  good  demand  for 
strictly  fresh.  Although  13c  has  been 
top  for  the  finest  stock  thus  far,  an  ad­
vance 
is  expected  this  week.  Warm 
weather  is  having  considerable  effect  on 
Western  shipments  and  closer  candling 
is  necessary  to  bring  quality  up  to  pres 
ent  demands.  Strictly  fresh  candled 
13c;  Western,  i2% c;  good  to  choice, 
@ i2c;  seconds,  q@ ioc.

Poultry— Receipts  were  quite  libera, 
during  the  latter  part  of  iast  week,  but 
all  good  stock  sold  readily.  A  few  bar­
rels  of  choice  old  stock  came  in  too  late 
for  Saturday’s  early  trade  and  sold  at 
a  shading.  On  the  whole,  the  market 
is 
for 
springers.  Fowl, 
fancy,  sold  at  10c 
good  to  choice,  9@ 9% c;  fair,  8@ 8>ác, 
old  roosters,  7@ 8 c;  broilers.  I7@ i8c  for 
choice  to  fancy;  turkeys  dull  at  io@ 
12c;  no  young  ducks  offered.

good  shape,  particularly 

in 

Live  Poultry—Although  there  was  a 
good  demand  for  old  hens  the  supply 
was  about  sufficient  to  go  around,  while 
broilers  were  scarce  and  sold  well  uj 
to  last  of  week.  Early  in  the  week 
i: 
the  best  time  to  ship  live  stock  as  re­
ceipts  can  be  held  over  if  nceessary  for 
a  day  or  two,  but  at  the  close  of  the 
week  buyers  have  about  filled 
their 
wants  and  prices  must  be  shaded  to 
move 
anything  except  exceptionally 
fancy  coops.  The  few  turkeys  in  mar­
ket  this  week  sold  slow  at  from  7@ioc: 
io@ io .j¿ c ;  fair  to  good, 
fowl, 
9@ ioc;  broilers,  20@22c,  with  a  few 
extra  at  25c.  No  ducks  in  market.
light 

last 
week  from  all  sections  and  with  an  ac­
tive  demand  higher  prices  were  paid, 
extra 
fancy  selling  at  12c,  fancy  10c 
and  good  to  choice  8@gc  per  quart. 
To-day  the  supply  was  heavy,  but  trade 
was  again  active  and  with  quality  gen 
erally  desirable  about  everything  was 
cleaned  up  at  strong  prices  for  fancy, 
while  soft  stuff  sold  down  to  5@6c  and 
fairly  good  at  7@8c  per quart.

Strawberries— Supply  was 

fancy, 

Oranges— Q u iet;  stock  is  of  only  fair 
proportions  and  quality  as  a  rule  only 
good  at  the  best.  California  navels, 
S3-25@4;  seedlings,  $3@3.25  per  box.
Lemons— Light  trade.  Extra  fancy, 
$5@5- 5° :  choice  to  fancy,  3.50(^4.50 
per  box.

Pineapples— Although  there  was  an­
other  heavy  supply  it  was  soon  cleaned 
up  and  the  market  is  stronger on  fancy 
large.  Fancy  cases,  $3-75@4 !  choice, 
$3@3-25-  Bulk  lots,  fancy $13^15 ;  No.
1,  $ n @ i2 ;  No.  2,  §9@ io;  No.  3,  $6@8 
per  100.

Bananas— Steady.

Fancy,  $2.25© 
2.50;  No.  1,  $i.75@2;  No.  2,  75c@Si 
per  bunch.

California^  Fruit— Is 

in  good  supply 
and  only  fair  demand.  Cherries  sold 
at  $i.5o@2  per case,  when  fancy.  A p­
ricots,  $i.25@2.  Peaches,  $1.25(^1.75.

quart.

Cherries— Fancy  sold  at  8@ioc  per 
Peaches—A  few  Georgia  in  market, 
but  not  of  good  quality.  Choice  sold 
at  $i.75@2  per  carrier.

Currants—A   few  crates  of  red  sold 

8c  per  quart,  the  first  of  the  season.

Muskmelons— Florida  crates  are 

market  and  selling  ftell  at $2.5o@3  per 
crate,  according  to  quality.

Watermelons— A  few  were  sent  to  test 
the  market  and  brought  65@75c each  for 
medium  size.

Cocoanuts— Active  and  firm  at  $2. 

Gooseberries—Offered  at  5@8c  per 

@3  per  100.

quart.

Potatoes—Old  potatoes  are  practically 
out  of  the  market.  There  are  any  num­
ber of  carloads  on  which  no  bids  can 
be  obtained.  Fancy  white  are  selling 
from  store  at  30@35c 
in  a  small  way 
and  there  is  some  good  to  choice  stock 
offered  down  to  20@25c.  New  potatoes 
are  coming  in  liberally  and selling down 
as  low  as  oo@7oc  per  bushel  in sacks for 
good  to  choice.  The  best  barrels  are 
offered  at  $2.25@2.50;  common  to  fair 
stuff  sells  at  $i@ i.5o  per bbl.,  and  there 
's  a  heavy  stock unsold.

Onions— Receipts  light  but  there 

sufficient  to  meet  the  demand and  prices 
are  only  steady  on  good  dry  stock 
Southern  selling  at  $2.75@3  per  barrel 
Bermuda 
asked 
Egyptian,  per  sack,  2.5o@2.75.  Garli 
sold  at  7c  per  lb.

dull;  $i.3o@ i.40 

Asparagus— Fancy  large  sold  quickly 
at  $i-75@2  per  doz.  About  all  of  the 
offerings  are  seedy  or  otherwise  poor 
and  hard  to  sell  at  any  fair  price.

Cabbage— Lower  and  in  good  supply. 
Stale  stock  is  neglected  and  fancy  green 
brings  only  $i.25@i .5o  per  large  crate 
pony crates,  75c@$i.

Cucumbers— Supply  light  the  past  few 
days  from  Southern  poi nts  and  nearby 
green  sold  to  better  advantage,  some 
fair  to 
fancy 
good,  25@35c  per  doz;  Southern, 
in 
barrels,  sold  all  the  way  from  $1. co@ 
2.75  per  bbl.

lots  bringing  45@5oc; 

Cauliflower—Heavy  receipts; 

lower 
Fancy  large,  $1.50;  small  and  medium, 
5oc@$i.25  per  doz.

Tomatoes— —Mississippi 

are 
liberal  quantities  at 
offered 
Si.25@i.5o  and  Florida  are  weak  at 
$2@3  per  carrier.

in  fairly 

flats 

Peas— Home  grown  are  plenty  and 
for  bag  of 

cheap.  Best  sales,  75c@$i 
1%   bushels.

String  Beans— Fair  supply; 

fancy 
yellow  or  green,  75c@$i  per  bu.  box  or 
hamper.

Popcorn— Quoted  at  2X @ 2^c  per  lb. 
Maple  Syrup and Sugar— Dull.  Syrup, 
65®7°c  per  gal.  for  fancy.  Sugar,  7@gc 
per  lb.
I5@ i6c;  No.  2,  I2@i4c  per  lb.
large 

Honey— Dull  and  easy.  No.  1  white, 

Squash— Marrow,  per 

crate, 

$2.5o@3.

Hay— Good  demand; 

firmer.  Loose 
baled  Timothy  prime,  $17;  tight  baled, 
S16@16.50;  No.  1,  <j15@15.50  per  ton 
on  track.

Straw— Scarce  and  strong ;  active  en­
quiry.  Wheat  and  oat  on  track,  $8.50 
@9  per ton.

R ich  F r u it  G row ers.

The  New  York  correspondent  of  the 
Chicago  Tribune  recentlv  sent  out  the 
following:

In  a  short  time  a  colony  of  fifty  rich 
English  bachelors  will  settle  at  St. 
James,  L.  L,  They  will  build  a  model 
clubhouse  at  great  cost  and  teach  the 
farmers  of  Long  Island  how  to  cultivate 
fruit  and  garden  produce  on  scientific 
principles.  The  colony  is  open  to  bach­
elors  only. 
It  is  a  pet  scheme  of Joseph 
C.  W.  Willis,  of  Phillimore  Gardens, 
Kensington,  London.  W illis  is  a  rich 
sheep  owner  of  Australia.  Associated 
with  him 
is  Enderby  Dunsford,  of 
Torquay,  Devonshire.

These  men  recently  paid  $75,000  for
,000  acres  of  land  at  St.  James.  They 
will  arrive 
in  New  York  next  month  to 
perfect  details  of  building.  Cottages 
will  be  erected  at  once,  fitted  with  mod­
em  conveniences.  Active  farming  will 
begin  in  the  fall.

The  colony  will  be  similar  to  the 
in  Tennessee.  The

Rugby  settlement 

M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N

Mr.  Dunsford 

land,  which  was  chosen  on  account  of 
its  proximity  to  New  York,  will  be  im­
proved  from  time  to  time.  All  earnings 
will  go  toward  this  end.
is  author of  a  standard 
work  on  scientific  farming.  Among  the 
young  English  members  of  the  colony 
are  two  sons  of  the 
late  Sir  Richard 
Creasey,  author  of  the  “ Twelve  Decis­
ive  Battles  of  the  W orld.”

A  D ifficult  F eat.

The  Giant—What  has  become  of  the 

strong  man  that  could  lift  a  horse?

The  Midget— I  don't  know. 

.The  last 
time  I  saw  him  he  was  trying  to  raise  a 
dollar.

Lambert's
New
Process
Salted
Peanuts

Made from choice, hand  picked, Spanish 
Peanuts.  Thoroughly cooked.  They are 
delicious.  Keep  fresh.  No  rancid  ani­
mal fats used.  Put  up  in  attractive  ten 
pound boxes, a  measuring  glass  in  each 
box.  A nice package  to  sell  from.  One 
hundred per cent, profit for  the  retailer. 
Ask  your  wholesaler  for  them.  If  he 
does not keep them, send us his  address. 
Will send you samples if you  desire.  No 
better selling article,  and  none  on which 
you  can  make  as  much  profit  as  our 
Salted  Peanuts.  Manufactured  by  the
Lambert  Nut 
Food  eb„

B a ttle   G reek ,  M ich.

Wheat
Meat

A  delicious,  crisp and pleasant 
health food.

D.  Boosing

General

Commission  Merchant

S P E C IA L T IE S

Butter  Eggs

Poultry  Beans

EGGS  W ANTED

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.

¡Paris 
¡Oreen 
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The  Paris Green  season  is  at  ®
.  hand  and  those  dealers  who  S  

break  bulk  must  label  their $
packages  according  to 
law.  •

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labels which meet the  require-
® 
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ments of the law, as follows:
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5  

lOO labels, 25 cents
200 labels, 40 cents 
500 labels, 75 cents
IOOO labels,  $ 1.00

Labels  sent  postage  prepaid  jg
where  cash  accompanies  or-  ®
der.  Orders  can  be 
sent  *
through any  jobbing  house  at
the Grand  Rapids market.

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If your jobber does not handle order sample case of 

KALAMAZOO  PURE  FOOD  CO.,  Kalamazoo,  Mich. 

Absolutely  the  finest  flavor  of  bYj 
any Food Coffee on the market  gK 
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M ACKEY  &  W ILLIAM S,

Dealer^ in

BU TTER , E G G S,  C H E E S E ,  PO U LT R Y ,  e t c . 

6 2   W .  M A R K E T   &   1 2 5   M I C H I G A N   S T S .  

From now forward ship dairy butter packed in tubs,  30,  40  and  60  lb.  weight  Dressed 
inquiry.*11 Str°Dg demand-  Fresh  e^ s  wanted  for  storage.  Frncy  creamery  In  good

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

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Berlin Heights,  Ohio:  National  Shoe  &  Leather  Bank,  New 
York;  Dun & Co. and Bradstreet Agencies.

Members of Produce Exchange. 

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

7

GROCERS  IN   CONFERENCE.

M eeting  of  th e   E xecutive  C om m ittee  of 

th e   State  O rganization.

A   meeting  of  the  Executive  Com­
mittee  of  the  Michigan  Retail  Grocers’ 
Association  was  held  at  the  office  of  the 
Michigan  Tradesman  on  Wednesday, 
June  13,  Chairman  Bates  presiding.

Secretary  Stowe  presented  a  report  of 
the  financial  condition  of  the  Associa­
tion,  showing  a  comfortable  balance  on 
the  right  side  of  the  ledger.

The  first  matter  taken  under  advise­
ment  was  a  series  of  communications 
from  a  certain  town  in  Southern  M ichi­
gan,  which 
is  undertaking  to  solve  the 
problem  of  meeting  the  competition  of 
a  grocery  cutter.  The  matter  was  dis­
cussed  at  considerable 
length,  resulting 
in  the  adoption  of  a  definite  line  of  ac­
tion,  which  will  be  carried  out  in  the 
name  of  the  Association.

Under  the  head  of  legislative  work,  it 
was  decided  to  undertake  to  secure  the 
enactment  of  a  township  peddling  law 
in  the  Lower  Peninsula,  to  supersede 
very  unsatisfactory  and 
the  present 
seldom-enforced  State  law. 
It  was  also 
decided  to throw  the influence  of  the  As­
sociation  toward  the  enactment  of  an 
equitable  exemption  law,  providing  the 
campaign  is  conducted  without the crea­
tion  of  a  corruption fund  in  the  shape  of 
contributions  from  merchants.

Under  the  head  of  cheaper  insurance 
rates,  several  suggestions  were  made  by 
the  different  members  of  the  Committee 
present,  and 
it  was  finally  decided  to 
refer  the  matter  to  Chairman  Bates,  who 
will  correspond  with  several  companies 
is  on  familiar 
with  whose  officers  he 
terms,  with  a  view  to 
ascertaining 
whether  the  plan  proposed  by  the  Com­
mittee  is  practicable.

The  subject  of  co-operative  buying 
was  discussed  at  considerable  length, 
resulting  in  the  conclusion  that  it would 
not  be  well  to  take  decisive  action  on 
the  subject  until  more  definite  informa­
tion  is  at  the  command  of  the  Commit­
tee. 
It was  decided  that  the  other mem­
bers  should  collect  such  detailed 
infor­
mation 
in  regard  to  the  matter  as  they 
could  obtain  and  refer  same  to  Mr.  -Lit­
tle  for  collaboration.

One  of  the  members  of  the  Committee 
suggested  extension  of  the  scope  of  the 
organization  to  include  other  dealers  as 
well  as  grocers.  This  matter  was  dis­
cussed  at  some  length,  resulting  in  the 
conclusion  that  it  would  be  best  to leave 
the  membership  plan  as  it 
is  for  the 
present.

Several  other  matters  of  vital  interest 
to  the  trade  were  discussed  at  length

and  were  referred  to  different  members 
of  the  Committee  for  further 
investiga­
tion  and  report.
M ercantile  R atin g   W hich 

Is  P alpably 

W rong.

The  Tradesman  feels  called  upon  this 
week  to  warn 
its  readers  to  use  due 
caution  in  dealing  with  E.  P.  Williams, 
the  produce  and  commission  merchant 
of  Albany,  N.  Y .  Mr.  Williams 
is 
rated  as  worth  ¿35,000  to  $50,000  and  as 
having  good  credit,  by  R.  G.  Dun  & 
Co.  ;  and  while  he  may  be  worth  all  he 
is  reported  to  be  by  the  mercantile 
agency,  he  is  not  entitled  to  the  credit 
accorded  him  by  Dun  &  Co.  Three 
valued  patrons  of  the  Tradesman  have 
had  unpleasant  dealings  with  him,  and 
two  at  least  have  been  unable  to  obtain 
full  restitution.

In  one  case,  the  shipper  paid  a  visit 
to  Albany  and  presented  his  claim  in 
person,after  having  made  numerous  en­
deavors  to  get  a  response  from  Mr.  W il­
liams,  without  result.  The  claim  was 
paid  without  parley.

In  another  case  the  shipper  was  paid 
less for  his consignment  of  produce  than 
the  traveling  representative  of  Mr.  W il­
liams  agreed  he  should  receive,  and 
there  was  also  a  further  deduction  for 
alleged  shortage.  Mr.  Williams  paid 
no  attention  to  the  shipper’s  letters,  but 
when  the  account  was  placed 
in  the 
hands  of  Dun  &  Co.  he  paid  the  differ­
ence  between  the  agreed  price  and  the 
price  stated  in  his  returns,  but  refused 
to  make  good  the  deduction  for  alleged 
shortage.

In  the  third  case  the  shipper  has  been 
unable  to  get  any  reply  whatever,  al­
though  frequent  efforts  have  been  made 
to  secure  an  adjustment  by  mail.

One  of  the  three  cases  was  referred  to 
the  Tradesman,  with  the  request  that 
the  matter  be  pressed  to  an  issue,  but 
Mr.  Williams  paid  no  attention  to  the 
enquiries  of  thé  Tradesman,  utterly  ig­
noring  courteous  appeals  to  him  as  a 
business  man  and  a  gentleman.  The 
Tradesman  therefore  feels called upon  to 
warn  the  trade  to  exercise  great  caution 
in dealing  with  him,  because  it  believes 
that  he  is  not  disposed  to  treat  his  ship­
pers  fairly  and  honorably.

P roblem   of th e   Sm all  Town.

Even  a  casual  observer,  traveling over 
the  country,  East or  West,  would  be  im­
pressed.  with  the  lack  of  vitality  which 
characterizes 
so  many  of  our  small 
towns.  While  some  of  them  give  one 
impression  of  a  quiet,  healthy  and 
the 
vigorous 
life,  many  others  bear  the 
marks  of  stagnation.  Sidewalks  are  de­
fective,  gates  hang  on  ropes,  slovenly 
boys 
loiter  around  street  corners,  and

A  V aluable  I.esnon.

‘ ‘ And  what  does  the  story  of  the prod­
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‘ ‘ It  teaches  us  how  to  get  the  fatted 
calf,”   was  the  prompt  reply  of  the  bad 
boy  at  the  foot  of  the  class.

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the  whole  presents  a  down-at-the-heels 1 
appearance.  To  be  sure,  in  every  town,  I 
no  matter  how  dull,  one  can  find  people 
who  are  wide-awake,  even  highly  cul­
tured;  but  these  believe  themselves  so 
greatly 
in  the  minority  that  they  lose 
heart  and  give  up  in  despair.  A  feel­
ing  of  pessimism  seems  to  bear  them 
like  a  cold,  wet  blanket.  This 
down 
feeling 
is  frequently  due  to  previous 
failure  of  plans  which  they  had  hoped 
to  carry  out,  with  the  view  of 
infusing 
new  life  into  their  respective  communi­
ties.  In  many  instances,  the  enthusiasm 
of  these  leaders  was  not  dampened  un­
til  repeated 
to 
their  satisfaction  the  utter  futility  of 
additional  efforts.  A  widespread  feeling 
of  pessimism 
this 
pessimism  we  may  discover one  of  the 
most  discouraging  features  of  the  prob­
lem  of  the  small  town.

failures  demonstrated 

is  the  result. 

In 

is  no  single 

Perhaps  there 

factor 
which  has  contributed  more  to  bring 
about  this  apparently  hopeless  situation 
than  the  lack  of  co-operation  among  the 
various  intellectual  and  religious  organ­
izations 
in  the  town.  Every  town  of 
considerable  size  presents  a  variety  of 
organizations,  the  constituencies  of  each 
perhaps  crossing  and  recrossing  one  an­
other 
in  the  most  complex  manner. 
What  town  has  not  its  woman’s  club! 
And  an  impartial  estimate  of  the  work 
of  these  women  would  place  their  ac­
complishments  very  high. 
In  many 
towns  the  woman’s  club  presents  prac­
tically  all  the  real  and  vital  intellectual 
and  moral 
force  which  exists  in  the 
community.  Then  there  are  history  and 
science  clubs;  musical  societies  and 
philosophic  circles;  the  busy bodies and 
do-nothings;  the  golden  gossips,  and— 
the  ordinary  gossips!  The  citizens  of 
small  towns  are  often 
too  ambitious 
with  respect  to  the  number  of  organiza­
tions  to  be  maintained  by  them.  The 
woman’s  club, 
is  often  modeled 
after  the  highly  differentiated  depart­
larger  cities,  usually 
mental  clubs  of 
with  a  corresponding  sacrihce 
in  its 
efficiency.  But  the 
fact  at  which  the 
writer  has  been  aiming  is  that  not  only 
do  these  various  organizations— clubs 
and  circles,  schools  and  churches— not 
always  co-operate,  but  they  frequently 
work  at  cross  purposes.

too, 

Could  Sym pathize.

“ This  climate  doesn’t  agree  with  me 
very well, ”   remarked  the passenger with 
the  cough.

“ Well,  to  tell  the  truth, ”   responded 
the  chance  acquaintance 
in  the  next 
seat,  “ there  are  times  when  it  disagrees 
with  me, 
in  the  most  provoking 
and  ridiculous  manner. 
I’m  the  man 
who  makes  the  official  weather  predic­
tions.’ ’

too, 

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agents everyw here.

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M akers, Chicago,  III.

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Qrand Rapids, Mich.

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$4.25,  original condition. 
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GENERAL  TR A D E  R EV IEW .

While  the  eyes  of  the  country  are 
toward  Philadelphia  they  are 
turned 
more  or  less distracted  from  business. 
There  is  nothing  in  the  political  situa­
tion  there  which  in  any  way  can  have 
adverse  effect— it 
is  simply  that  when 
the  public  mind  is  occupied  by  a  pres 
idential  convention  other  matters  are 
apt  to  be  crowded  out.

it 

The 

long  period  of  dulness  in  Wa.. 
Street  trade  culminated  last  week  in  a 
degree  of  stagnation  exceeding  any 
since  the  depths  of  the  financial  depres­
sion.  Of  course it was  expected  that  this 
condition  would  continue  through  the 
convention  week,  but 
is  the  unex 
pected  that  happens,  and  this  week 
starts 
in  with  a  degree  of  activity  ex­
ceeding  any  for  many  weeks  past.  To 
be  sure  there  is  no  material  advance  in 
most  lines,  much  of  the  activity  on  ac 
count  of  liquidation  operating  to  further 
declines,  although  on  the  whole  there  is 
a  feeling  of  confidence  in  the  soundness 
of  the  situation. 
‘Much  of  the  activity 
is  doubtless  an  effect  of  the  Chinese 
complications— the  general  feeling  of 
uncertainty  tending  to  bring  a  “ slow 
down.’ ’  The  principal  bear  activity 
seems  to  be  directed  against  railway 
stocks.  Not  that  there 
is  anything  in 
the  situation  to  warrant  it,  but  there  is 
much  talk  of  shrinkage  in  earnings  to 
take  place  in  the  future,  and  the  usual 
fear  of  the  presidential  depression.

An 

indication  that  business 

is  not 
in  quantities  as  much  as 
falling  off 
is  seen  in  the  report  of 
many  suppose 
furnaces 
in  blast  by  the  “ Iron  A g e ,’ ’ 
making  the  weekly  output  296,376  tons, 
only  1,638  tons smaller  than  on February 
i,  when  the  output  was  greatest.  This 
is  the  more  remarkable  because  the 
in 
crease  of  unsold  stocks  to  339,480 tons 
was 
large  enough  to  manifest  a  great 
deal  of  faith  on  the  part  of  manufactur­
ers  that  the  demand  for  finished  prod­
ucts  would  not  long  be  restricted.  The

M IC H IG A N   TR A D E S M A N

reduction  of  $7  a  ton  by  the  structural 
combination  brings 
its  output  more 
nearly 
into  harmony  with  that  of  the 
Steel  and  Wire  Company  since  its  re­
duction  of  $20  a  ton  for  the  latter  had 
in 
fact  demanded  exceptionally  great 
advances.  The  Tin  Plate  Company  does 
not  yet  yield,  and  the  rail  manufactur­
ers,  having  their  output  virtually  sold 
for  the  rest  of  the  year,  may  not  until 
midwinter.  But 
in  all  other  lines  the 
ron  works  are  adjusting  prices  rapidly 
to  the  necessity  of  encouraging  a 
full 
demand  for  finished  products.

called 

“ irregularity”  

The  tendency  to  a  lower  basis  in  the 
textile  trades 
is  also 
in  evidence,  al­
though  there 
is  apparent  reluctance  to 
actually  change  quotations.  What 
is 
politely 
in 
prices,  of  which  much  has  appeared  of 
late, means that  a great  proportion  of  the 
goods  of  substantially  the  same  grades 
or qualities  is  being  sold  at  lower prices 
than  those  still  obtained  for  the most  fa­
vored  staples,  of  which  scarcely  any 
producing  capacity  remains  that  can  be 
sold.  No  further  yielding  appears  in 
prices  of  wool  since  the  first  week  in 
June,  and  speculation  has  again  ad­
vanced  cotton  a  shade.  But  in  hides  a 
rather  more  wholesome  readjustment 
is 
seen.  With  some  reduction  in  the  cost 
of  imported  hides  at  the  seaboard,  there 
has  been  steady  reduction  at  Chicago, 
abundance  of  supply  proving  more  po­
tent  than  any  combinations  of  holders, 
so  that  the  fall  since  January  3  has  been 
nearly,  although  not  quite,  20  per  cent. 
Thus  far the  reductions  made 
in  boots 
and  shoes  of  all  classes  have  not  gone 
beyond  3  per  cent.  Further  reductions 
reported  last  week,  it  is  hoped  by  some 
makers,  may 
larger  business, 
but  many  seem  determined  to  fight  as 
ong  as  possible  for  the  higher  prices

induce 

IN   T H E   W ORLD’S  FINANCES. 

England  has  been 

looking  over the 
business  account  of  the  United  States 
and  Germany  has  been  looking  over  her 
shoulder.  In  nine  months  they  find  that 
the  American  exports  amount to $1,053, 
820,680.  They  find  that  30  per  cent,  of 
it  was  manufactures,  which 
is  an  in­
crease  of  4  per  cent,  of  what  it  was  for 
the  same  months  of  the  year  before. 
For  March  alone  manufactured  exports 
from  this  country  amounted  to  $44,767, 
190  more  than  the  total 
for  any  pre­
ceding month  in  the  history  of  the coun 
try  and  for  that  same  month  the  ex 
ported  manufactures  were  double  the 
amount  for  the  same  time  four  years 
ago— mark  that

it 

If  these  manufactures  were  only  in 
some 
line  where  the  readers  were  not 
hit  they  might  be  a  trifle  envious  and 
let  it  go,  but  they  are  exactly  the  goods 
which  the  same  countries  can 
best 
make.  What  England  can  not.  make 
out  of  iron  and  steel  nobody  can  make 
and 
is  a  regular hairlifter  for  her  to 
see  that  we  shipped  $49,925,199  worth 
of  goods  out  of  the  country  during  nine 
in  March,  1898,  and  in 
months  ending 
1900  $86,912,155.  How 
the  shivers 
raced  up  and  down  the  English  spina 
column  at  the  rise 
in  copper  exports 
from  $23,040,000  to $40,598,399;  at  the 
ncrease 
from 
$13,230,467 in  1898 to $18,587,434 in 1900; 
at  the  difference 
in  our  favor  for  two 
years  of $5,799,247  in  farming  tools  and 
at  a  gain  in  leather  for  the  same  period 
of  $5,412,432!  And  then, 
to  put  the 
button  on,  that  same  account  states  that 
while  from  $661,976,710  in  1893  our  ex­
ports  to  Europe  increased  to  $936,602,- 
093 in  1899,  during  those  same  six  years 
we  sent  goods to Asia  at  the  following 
rate: 
In  1893,  $27,421,000;  1899, 
235,000,  an  increase  of $50,814,000.

in  cotton  manufacture 

The  sympathy  of  the  trade  will  go 
loss  he 
out  to  Stephen  A.  Sears  in  the 
has  sustained  in  the  death  of  his  wife, 
which  occurred  Sunday  night.  Although 
the  deceased  had  been  a  resident  of  the 
city  only  about  nine  years,  she  was  sur­
rounded  by  hosts  of  friends  who  were 
charmed  by  her  personality  and  the 
quiet  and  unobtrusive  manner  in  which 
she  discharged  the  duties  devolving  up­
on  her.

These  proverbial  June  weddings make 
temporarily  happy  and 
many  girls 
many  others  temporarily  despondent. 
But  there’ll  come  another  June !

Fashion  is  getting  down  fine  when  a 
swell  girl wants postage stamps  to  match 
her  complexion  and 
tells  the  stamp 
clerk  what  color  she  prefers.

When  the  Chinese, 

fighting  among 
themselves,  have  broken  up China,  other 
powers  of  the  world  expect  to  pick  up 
some  of  the  pieces.

Missouri  feels  the  effects  at  St.  Louis 
of  having  a  governor  so  small  that  he 
rattles  around 
in  his  office  instead  of 
filling  the  position.

The  Chinese  need  not  come  to  this 
country 
looking  for trouble.  They  can 
stay  at  home  and  have  trouble  with 
themselves.

The  ruling  passion  is  strong  in death, 
and  the  dying  man  fears  being  ruled 
out  of  the  place  his  life has been against 
gaining.

A   man  who  owns  no  property is doing 
a  safe  business  when  he  gets  commis­
sions  for going  on  appearance  bonds  at 
court.

That  was  what  did  the  business  for 
Germany.  She  went  straight  home  and 
into  a  fit,  and  the  notorious  Black  F ri­
day  in  commercial  circles  has  been  sur 
planted  by  Black  Week, a  term  to  be  as­
sociated  hereafter  with 
the  Berlin 
Bourse.  Twenty  years  have  not  seen  a 
week 
like  that.  The  most  substantial 
ron  shares  fell  twenty-five  points  and 
the  coal  shares  followed  them. 
In  the 
midst  of  these  panicky  conditions  came 
the  rumor  that  the  American  iron  mar­
ket  was  glutted  by  overproduction  and 
the  mills  were  closing,  all  of  which 
meant  to  the  excited  German  mind 
that  the  American  overplus  was  to  be 
poured  upon  the  German  market,  a  fear 
which  has  been  shadowing  the  soul  of 
Germany  a  good  deal  longer  than  she  is 
willing  to  admit.

German  self-satisfaction  has 

been 
whistling  for  a 
long  time  to  keep  its 
courage  up  and  has  insisted  that  there 
are  limits  for  this  American  aggressive­
ness. 
It can not  compete  with  Germany 
in  dyeing,  she  will  never  equal  her 
manufacturing  wool  and 
in  respect  to 
ron  there  need  be  no  fear.  With  that 
written  down  as  a  fact,  the  report  comes 
with  a 
jar  that  a  Westphalian  firm  has 
bought  12,000  tons  of  American  open 
hearth  from  a  London  house  and  that 
American  foundry  iron  has  been  offered 
Berlin  for  $3.56^;  the  supremacy 
of  the  German  dye-stuff  has  been  pro­
nounced  a  myth  and  the  best  American 
tailors  are  talking  no  longer  about  the 
superiority  of  the  German  woolens.

We  have  been  reading  a  good  deal 
lately  about  the  meat  bill  and  things  of 
that  sort  and  of  the  need  of  retaliation 
to  bring  the  German  agrarian  to  his 
senses;  but  the  agrarian  is  not  the  only 
one  disturbed.  Western  Germany  has  a

band  of  manufacturers  organized 
for 
fighting  American  enterprise  in iron and 
steel  goods,  and  the  prospects  are prom­
ising  for  the  formation  of  a  rolling  mill 
syndicate  to 
include  all  Germany  be­
cause  of  the  weakening  of  the  Silesian 
iron  market  due  to  the  news  from  the 
United  States.  The  Tradesman  has  al­
lack  of  coal  and  this, 
ready  noted  the 
with  the  decline 
in 
iron  shares,  has 
heavily  affected  othei  securities.  Take 
it  all  in  all,  there  is  gloom 
in  the  Va- 
terland  and  the  country  has  taken  her 
place  beside  England 
in  the  financial 
management  of  the  world.

Human  nature  is  the  same  in  a  farm­
er  that 
it  is  in  anyone  else,  with,  per­
haps,  a  little  more  of  the  real human na­
ture  and  less  of  the  artificial.  On  that 
account  the  • farmer  will  always  trade 
with  those  who  trouble  themselves  the 
most  to  help  him  in  the  disposition  of 
his  own  agricultural  products.  The  city 
which,  by  the  various  business  ways  of 
the  present  time,  goes  down  to  the  farm 
and  helps  prepare  the  conditions  by 
which  that  farm  will  yield  better  profits 
is  the  city  which  will  win  that  section’s 
favor.  That  is  why  some  regions  have 
attached  themselves  to  a  totally  alien 
city.  Discerning  business  men  have 
long  since  learned  that  the  best  way  to 
win  the  good  will  of  the  farmer  is  to 
lock  hands  with  him  and  help  him  in 
the  problem  of  developing  his  affairs.

If  anyone  has  any  doubt  as  to  the  ex­
act  meaning  and  ultimate  outcome  of 
trades  unionism,  he  has  but  to  study the 
events  of  the  past  six  weeks  at  St. 
Louis, where seventeen persons have been 
killed  and  over  200  persons  assaulted 
and  injured  by the  red-handed  murder­
ers  who  masquerade  under  the  guise  of 
labor  leaders.

Recognition  of  the  union”   means 
the  exaltation  of  the  walking  delegate 
40  the  rank  of  a  tyrant  and  the  debase­
ment  of  the  member  who  pays  the  dues 
to  the  position  of  a  cringing  slave.

A  general  gossip  soon  comes  to  be- 
eve  what  he  says  and  he  only  lasts  un­

til  a  better  liar  comes  along.

You  can  not Judge  of  the  mental  at­
tainments of  a  young lady by  the  quality 
of  her  graduating  gown.

Cherries  to  be  preserved  are  to  be pit­
ted.  If  they  are  not,  those  who  eat  them 
are  more  to  be  pitied.

A   woman  most  anxious  to  shine  at 
watering-place  balls  has  been  under  a

Each  succeeding  summer  is  as  beau­
tiful  as  the  one  before  it,  and  so  is  the 
summer  girl.

The  honest  girl  who  mashes  potatoes 
in  the  kitchen  is  not  much  troubled  by 
mash  letters.

The  man  who  gets  married  is  looked 
upon  by  the  bride  as  the  best  man  at  a 
wedding.

The  man  who  follows  the  races  for  a 
living  is  apt  to  have  a  sheriff  following 
him.

White  hair  goes  well  with  a  bald 
It  makes  a  becoming  trimming.

head. 

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The  man  who  is  somebody  else  ought 

to  be  glad  when  he  is  himself  again.

I  *

The  man  who  offers  to  bet  on  all  oc­

casions  uses  the  fool’s  argument.

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

9

TH A T  GERM AN  AGRARIAN.

is 

in 

the 

One 

it.  The  facts 

led  to  believe  on  reading  the 
German  side  of  the  meat  question  that, 
if  the  German  patience  should  become 
exhausted  so  far  as  to  cease  being  a vir­
tue  and  a  hostile  tariff  should  be  placed 
upon  American  meats, 
financial 
fate  of  this  country  is  sealed.  Chaos 
would 
immediately-  follow  the  act  and 
the  Western  World  would  sink  into  the 
sea  from  which  the  genius  of  Columbus 
lifted 
the  case  are 
these :  The  threatened  tariff  would  shut 
out  of  Germany,  the  food  products  she 
must  have  or  starve  to  death.  What 
America  gets  from  Germany  are articles 
which  she “ just as  lief”   have  if  they  do 
not  cost  too  much. 
it  should  be  a 
question  of  need  and  the  German  sup­
ply  should  be  cut  off,  the  home  produc­
tion  of  the  same  articles  would  begin 
and  that  would  be  the  end  of  -it.  This 
the  German  agrarian  does  not  see.  Re­
cause  the  American  for  a  change  sends 
to  Germany  for  an  occasional  sip  of 
wine, 
that  agrarian  has  made  up  his 
mind  that  the  fruit  of  the  German  vin­
tage  has  become  to  the  American  what 
lager  is  to  the  German  and  if  we  may 
trust  to  the  statement  of  a  certain  Ger­
man  newspaper  the  German  government 
has  been  called  upon 
‘ to  show  its  teeth 
to  the  Americans”   and so  frighten  them 
from  entering  upon  a  tariff  war.

If 

furnishing 

While  the  figure  may  be  apt  enough 
from  the  German  standpoint,  the  Amer­
ican  naturalist  does  not  so  consider  it. 
The  carnivora  from  man  down  does  not 
show  its  teeth  to  the  hand  that  feeds  it.» 
Even  a  beast,  fat  as  the  average  Ger­
man,  would  not  exhibit 
its  canines  to 
one 
its  favorite  daily  food; 
and  yet  the  brainiest  nation  on  the  face 
of  the  earth 
is  pictured  by  one  of  its 
race  as  a  dog  snarling  at  the hand  offer­
ing  the  meat-covered  bone  it  covets. 
The  merest  self-interest  ought  to  sug­
gest  to  both  dog  and  nation  that  a  ces­
sation  of  commercial  intercourse  would 
hurt  Germany  twice  as  much  as  it  does 
this  country,  for  the  simple  fact  that 
while  we  are  not  importing  from  Ger­
many  anything  we  can  not  do well  with­
out— a  luxury  is  never  a  necessity— she 
needs  what  she  imports  from  us  to  keep 
bodty-and  soul  together.'

Suppose  that  the  showing  of  the  Ger­
man  teeth  accomplishes  its  purpose  and 
th^  tariff  war  begins.  No  more  wine 
comes  from  the  German  ports  to  the 
United  States. 
The  California  wine 
grower  would  read  the  declaration  with 
composure.  At  last  his  countrymen  will 
find  out,  what  he  has  long  tried  to make 
them  believe,  that  there  is  not  a  better 
wine  made  in  the  whole  of  that  vine­
bearing  country  than  his  own  vineyards 
produce;  that  his  wine, the  better article 
if  the  truth  be  known,  will  be  appreci­
ated  at  last, and  now  that  opposition  has 
ceased  ^n  that  quarter  the  price  might 
as  well  be  advanced.  That  would  be 
the  result  on  this  side  of  the  Atlantic. 
The  tariff  would  affect  a  few— mostly 
Germans— while  the  American  masses 
wouldn’t  be  at  all  disturbed.  On  the 
other  hand  suppose  we  stop  sending 
coal  to  the  Fatherland.  American  wheat 
finds  a  more  profitable  market 
else­
where.  Sausage 
is  shut  off  from  the 
German  breakfast  table  or  comes  there 
at  an  advanced  price.  Meat in  any  form 
no 
longer  reaches  the  German  ports 
from  these  shores,  not  an  apple,  dried 
or  undried,  is  sent  there  and  American 
cheese,  filled  or  unfilled,  seeks  a  more 
appreciative  market.  That  for  one side 
to  balance  the  other  which  a  little  wine 
is  to  offset,  and  fancy  a  nation  of  hun­
their  teeth  to
gry  Germans  showing 

America  for  giving  them  something  to 
e a t!

introduced 

Representative  Bailey,  of  Kansas, 
has 
the  House  a  bill 
which  will  probably  bring  the  German 
consumer  of  American  products  to  his 
senses. 

It  reads:

in 

Whenever  the  President  of  the  United 
States  shall  be 
informed  that  the  gov­
ernment  of  the  German  empire  has 
passed  a  law  imposing  prohibitory  du­
ties  on  American  meat  products  which 
may  be  imported  into  that  country  from 
the  United  States  he  shall  issue  a  proc­
lamation  fixing  a  time  when  all  articles 
produced  or  manufactured  in  the  Ger­
man  empire,  when  entered  for consump­
tion  at  the  ports  of  the  United  States, 
shall  pay  a  duty  of  io  per  cent,  in  ex­
cess  of  the  duties  imposed  thereon  prior 
to  the  passage  of  this  a c t;  and  all  such 
products  and  manufactures,  when  so 
entered  for consumption,  after  said time 
fixed  by  the  President,  shall  pay  such 
increased  duties.

If  there  is  to  be  a  showing  of  German 
teeth  to  the  Americans  there  should  be 
a  good  display  and  a  good  reason  for 
it.  This  the  bill  furnishes.

it 

The  manufacturers  of  funeral  wreaths 
in  Paris  have  drawn  up  a petition which 
will  be  presented  to  the  chamber  where­
by  they  object  to  an  attempt  on  the  part 
of  the  church  authorities  to  render  un­
popular  floral  displays  at  funerals.  For 
some  time  there  has  been  a  campaign 
carried  on  by  certain  of.the  Parisian 
clergy  deprecating  the  money  spent  on 
outward  show  at  funerals.  They  have 
made  no  secret  of  the 
fact  that  their 
chief  objection  to  the  extravagance  is 
the  fact  that 
lessens  the  number  of 
masses  ordered  by  the  relatives  of  de­
ceased  persons.  What  the  petition  of 
the  wreath  manufacturers  actually  asks 
is  to  make  the  saying  of  masses a  pun­
ishable  offense  in  order  to  protect  their 
own 
interests.  The  petition  ascribes 
the  movement  “ which  is  intended to de­
prive  them  of  the  means  of  making  an 
honest 
livelihood”   to  the  Jesuits,  and 
then  continues  by  criticising  the  arch­
bishop  of  Paris,  “ a  state-paid  function­
ary,”  who has  dared  to  use  his  influence 
for  the  suppression  “ of  the  ancient  and 
touching  custom  of  offering  flowers  and 
funeral  wreaths  in  homage to the dead. ”  
Finally  the  signers  of  the  petition  im­
plore  the  intervention  of the chamber  on 
the  grounds  that  the  clergy  are  trying  to 
obtain  money  by  faJse  pretenses  when 
they  advise  that  sums  spent  on  wreaths 
should  be  devoted  to  masses. 
“ Masses 
have  no  efficacy, ’ ’  concludes  the  docu­
ment,  “ and  those  who  pay  for  them  are 
deluded  by  persons  who  assume 
im agi­
nary  powers  and  credit  with  a  view  of 
creating  the  belief  that  they  can  bring 
about  chimerical  events” — acts,  which 
the  petitioners  point  out,  are  prohibited 
and  punished  bv  the criminal code.  The 
comic  papers  have  taken  sides  in  the 
matter  and  lampoon  the  wreath  manu­
facturers  as  well  as  those  of  the  clergy 
who  have  identified  themselves  with  the 
matter. 

______________   •

The  effects  of  the  short  oats  and  hay 
crop  in  the  southern  part  of  Sweden  last 
year  are  now  being  felt.  From  all  sides 
are  heard  the  complaints  of  the farmers. 
The  scarcity  of  forage  is  very  trying, 
and  he  is  lucky  who  has  enough  of  any 
sort  of  straw  or  roots  to  keep  his  stock 
until  next  harvest.

There  is  no  time  like  fly  time.  When 
is  comparatively  nothing  to  do, 

there 
the  fly  keeps  man  and  beast  busy.

A  man  prone  to  evil  may  be  old 
enough  to  know  better  or  he  may  be  old 
enough  to  pass  for  an  old  fool.

TW ENTY  YEARS  AGO.

Since  the  concluding  year  of  the  cen­
tury began the temptation has  often  been 
indulged  in to  compare  the  present  con­
dition  of  the  United  States  with  what  it 
was  a  hundred  years  ago  and  to  make 
some  rather  boastful  statements  in  re­
gard  to  a  people  who  have  been  able  to 
accomplish  so  much  during  a  hundred 
years.  As  an  offset  to  this  it  may  be  a 
relief  to  consider  only  a  fifth  of  that 
period  and  by  comparing  a  few  of  the 
lines  of  industry  be  able  to  get  a 
fair 
idea  from  these  few  of  the  many 
indus­
tries  which  radiate  from  them.

to  that  business 

The  recent  and  unexpected  failure  of 
the  European  coal  fields  and  the  conse­
quent  orders  for  American coal  naturally 
call  attention 
first. 
Statistics  show  that  in  1880,  41,000,000 
tons  of  bituminous  coal  was  mined  in 
the  United  States.  The  amount  mined 
last  year  was  198,000,000  tons,  and  this 
was  before  the  European  call  for  coal 
began.  With  that 
for  a  leading  state­
ment  we  are  ready  to  read  that  in  1879 
the  production  of  pig  iron  was  less  than
3.000. 
14.000. 000  tons.  Remembering here  the 
generally  admitted  statement 
that  as 
iron  and  steel  thrive  so  thrive  the  other 
business 
interests  of  the  country,  it  is 
easy  to  see  the  relation  existing between 
the  first  four-fifths  of  the  Nineteenth 
Century  and  the  last.

in 

Early  in  the  century  John  Slater  built 
at  Pawtucket,  R.  I.,  the  first  cotton  fac­
tory  in  America.  That  it  filled  a  want 
immediate  and 
was  evident  from 
its 
continued  prosperity. 
Rhode 
Island 
soon  became  dotted  with  cotton factories 
and  throughout  New  England  wherever 
there  was  a  v\jaterfall  large  enough  a 
mill  wheel  turned 
it  to  practical  ac­
count.  Steam  made  the  waterfall  un­
necessary  and  the  manufacture  of cotton 
extended  all  over  the  country,  so  that 
twenty  years  ago  there  were 
the 
United  States  something  like  11,000,000 
cotton  spindles  at  work.  From  the  date 
of  the  first  cotton  mill  in  1795  until  1880 
a  period  of eighty-five  years  was  needed 
to  establish  that  number,  by  no  means 
insignificant,  but  as  an  offset  to  this  we 
have  the  statement  that  during  the  next 
twenty  years  the 
increase  of  cotton 
spindles  was  7,000,000,  a  good  account 
for  that  branch  of  national  industry.
. Thexe  is  the  same story  to  tell  of  the 
material  which 
these  spindles  spin. 
When 
its  cultivation  on  the  Western 
continent  began  no  one  can  tell.  There 
is  a  story  afloat  that  the  natives  of  Y u­
catan  gave  Cortes  cotton  garments  and 
cotton  cloth 
for  covering  his  hut  early 
in  the  Fourteenth  Century,  and  spread­
ing  northward 
it  entered  the  United 
States  soon  after  the  Revolution,  in ­
creasing  yearly  in  cultivation  until,  in 
1880,the  production  was  5,700,000  bales. 
Last  year  the  crop  amounted  to  11,200,- 
Qpo  bales,  almost  doubling  in  that  year 
the  amount  raised  the  twentieth year be­
fore.

in 

first 

that 

invested 

No  record  is  found  of  the  amount  of 
cotton 
capital 
It  was  not  a  large  establishment; 
mill. 
but 
from  that  unpretending  beginning 
the  capital  invested  grew  until,  in  1880, 
it  was $2,790,000,000,  an  amount  which 
became  ten  years 
later  $6,500,000,000, 
with  every  promise  of  amounting  this 
year  to  at  least  $10,000,000,000.  What  is 
quite  as  important  to  state  is  the  matter 
In  1880  these  came  to  $947,- 
of  wages. 
000,000,  which  will  be 
found  in  this 
year’s returns to be $3,500,000,000.  In the 
30’s  the  mill  hands  went  to  work  at  five 
o’clock 
in  the  morning.  A   half-hour 
was  given  for  breakfast,  a  longer  period

000  tons  and  that  last  year  it  was

for  dinner,  a  half  hour  for  supper  and 
the  day’s  work  ended  at  half past seven. 
Compare  that 
length  of  a  day’s  work 
with  the  present  and  it  will  be  easy  to 
see  what  the  advance 
in  favor  of  the 
operative  has  been.

fair 

The  transportation  of  the  raw  mate­
rial  and  the  manufactured  product  finds 
here  a 
fitting  place  for  consideration. 
Not  the  car  but  the  boat  was  the  princi­
pal  agent,  a  fact  which  made  Charles­
ton,  S.  C.,  the  metropolis  of  the  South. 
This  condition  of  things  could  not 
long 
It  was  too  slow.  The  railroad 
remain. 
displaced 
it  and 
in  1880  business  had 
so  far  made  use  of  this  modern  civilizer 
that  there  was  a  mileage  of 92,147.  That 
number  now  has  become  190,000,  and  is 
a 
indicator  of  the  progress  this 
country  has  made  in  all  directions  dur­
ing  the  last  twenty  years  of  the  century. 
How  the  United  States  stands  in  her  re­
lations  with  the  rest  of  the  world  in  re­
gard  to  railroads  a  German  paper  at 
hand  may  be  relied  on  for  the  facts. 
The  total  miles  of  railroad  already  con­
structed 
is  466,539.  Of  these  186,245 
is  in  the  United  States.  This  country 
has  18,735  miles  mote  than  all  Europe 
and  7.521  miles  more  than  all  Europe 
and  Africa  and  4,245  miles  more  than 
all  Europe  and  Australasia.  From  the 
same  source  we  find  that  in  matters  of 
new  mileage  the  increase  in this country 
during  the 
last  four  years  was  only  3.9 
per  cent,  while  for  the  rest  of  the  world 
it  was  9.4  per  cent.

line  of 

industries  which  the 

With  the  activity  going  on  in  these 
leading 
records 
show,  it  is  readily  understood  what  the 
is  of  the  progress  which  this 
cause 
country  has  made.  Every 
in­
dustrial  development  has  taken  a  new 
lease of  life  and  pushed  its  advantage 
to  the  limit.  Our  natural  resources  are 
hardly  yet  entered  upon.  Mine  and soil 
are  alike 
limitless  and  if  but  three  of 
the  productions  can  produce  the  great 
changes  of  the 
last  twenty  years,  the 
possibilities  of  this  country  when  all are 
considered 
It  is  no 
wonder  that  the  countries  of  the  Old 
World  stand  amazed.  They,  like  their 
coal  mines,  have  reached  their  lim it; 
we, 
like  ours,  have  hardly  begun,  and 
if  the  next  twenty  years  shows  as  much 
as  the 
shown,  more 
than  ever  will  this  country  be  looked 
upon  as  the  wonder  of  the  world.

last  twenty  has 

inconceivable. 

is 

|  The  supreme  court  of  Pennsylvania 
has.  held  that  it  is  the  duty  of  those  in 
charge  of  a  moving  car  to  stop 
it,  and 
take  a  chiid  who 
is  stealing  a  ride 
either  inside  the  car,  or  else  to  stop  the 
car  and  put  him  off. 
In  the  case  in 
point  the  company  was  held  liable  for 
injury  to  a  child  who  was  riding  on  the 
step,  who,  on  being  frightened  by  the 
conductor,  fell  off  and  was  injured.

Edward  Everett  Hale’s  opinion  of 
The  Hague  peace  conference  may  be 
gathered from  his  remark  that  those  who 
expect  that  it  will  prevent  wars  may  as 
well  go  to  a  coal  yard  to  buy  a  yard  of 
green  satin.  A  peace  conference  is  a 
good  thing  for  the  members  of  the  con­
ference,  but  when  the  last  one  met  the 
world  was  full  of  fight,  and  it  has  been 
worse  since.

Baking  powders  have  gone  to  Con­
gress,  and  Hon.  Billy  Mason,  the  busy 
man  of  unbounded  sympathy,  has  risen 
to  the  occasion  and  made  a  flowery 
speech  on  baking  powder  legislation.  It 
should  be  remembered  that  baking pow­
ders  are  absolutely  pure,  and  no one 
ever  thought  they  would  get  into  Con­
gress.

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

I O

Shoes  and  Leather

How to A ct and W hat to Do in Case o f F ire.

What  is  the  lesson  of  a  big  fire?
Beginning  away  back 

in  the  ages 
when  fire  was  a  sacred  object  kept  only 
in  the  temples  for  purposes  of  worship, 
it  was  not  a  teacher  to  any  considerable 
extent,  but  as  it  became  more  common 
its  power  as  an  instructor  became  great­
er.  For  ages  and  ages  it  was  mostly 
god  and  master,  but  modern  civilization 
has  reduced  it to the  position  of  servant. 
Still  the  old  mastery  breaks  out  once  in 
a  whiie,  and  the  “ fire fiend”   holds sway 
over  a  greater or  less  area  until  either 
everything 
is  consumed,  or 
human  skill  succeeds  in  again  subduing 
the  great  element  of  destruction.

in  reach 

Heretofore 

the  two  objects  sought 
after  in  relation  to  fire  have  been “ How 
can 
it  be  utilized?”   and  “ How  can  it  I 
be  managed  and  kept  within  bounds?”
There  seems  to  be  no  limit  to  the uses 
it  may  be  put.  Power  of  all 
to  which 
kinds  has  its  origin  in  heat,  and  fire 
is 
equally  necessary  to  run  a  refrigerating 
plant  as  to  move  a  locomotive.  And 
modern  means  and  methods  have  re­
duced  the  danger  from  the  destructive 
force  to  as  near  a  minimum  as  one  can 
well  expect.  Contrast  the  fire  apparatus 
of  the  present  day  with  what  was  in  use 
fifty  years,, or  even  ten  years,  ago. 
It 
is  difficult  to  conceive  more  perfect 
means  than 
is  now  in  use,  although  of 
course  the  next  ten  years  may  show  as 
much  advance  as  has  the  last  decade.

Still  a  large  fire  in  the “ shopping dis­
trict”   should  not  pass  without  pointing 
a  moral  of  some  kind,  hence  the  ques­
tion,  “ What 
lesson  of  a  big 
fire?”   especially  to  the  shoe  trade.

is  the 

The  stock  and  fixtures  of  a  retail  shoe 
store  are  such  that  a  fire  very  seldom 
starts  in  such  quarters.  The  writer  does 
not  recall  a  single 
instance  of  a  fire,  | 
great or  small,  having  its  origin  in  a  re­
tail  shoe  store.  Of  course  such  a  case 
might  happen,  but  the  chances  are  very 
slight,  and,  the  present  fire  department 
system  being  as  near  perfection  as  pos­
sible,  fire  seldom gets  far  from  the point 
of 
its  origin.  Unless  it  acquires  great 
headway  before  an  alarm  is  given  it  is 
confined  within 
circumscribed 
limits,  and  the  loss  by  fire  is  practical­
ly  within  the  same  limits.

very 

But  the  means  used  for  quenching and 
conquering  the  fire  is  another  destruc­
tive  element,  water.  How  often  do  we 
see  the  statement  in  the  press  after  a 
fire,  "the  damage  by  water  was  much 
greater  than  that  by  fire,”   and  this 
damage 
is  not  restricted  by  the  same 
method  as  the  fire. 
If  a  fire  occurs  in 
the  upper  portion  of  a  building,  the 
water  will  naturally  flow  down  through 
the  lower  floors,  causing  damage  wher­
ever  it  goes.

A  shoe  store  then,  being  usually  lo­
cated  on  the  street  floor  and  unable  to 
select  its  neighbors  on  the  upper  floors 
of  the  building,  is  subjected  to  risks 
from  damage  by  water  much  greater 
than  that  by  fire,  and*not  covered  by 
ordinary  fire 
insurance,  and  the  ques­
tion  now  arises,  if  this  risk  cannot  be 
entirely  obviated,  how  can  the  possible 
damage  be  reduced  to  the minimum?

Can  anything  be  done  in  this  line, 
and  have  retail  dealers  given  the  mat­
ter  the  thought  and consideration due  it? 
There  should  be  some  simple,  feasible 
means  of  reaching  the  matter  and  the 
first  that  comes  to  mind  is  that  adopted 
and  used  by  the  Protective  Department, 
namely,  covering  the  stock  so  far  as 
possible  with  water-proof  blankets.

“ That’s  easy,”   say  you,  and  yet  are 
you  prepared  with  the  blankets  to  cover 
your  stock  or  are  you  keeping  the 
lock 
simply  ready  to  put  on  the  door  after 
the  horse  has  been  stolen?

The  Protective  Department  may  not 
arrive  on  the  scene  until  after the  Fire 
Department  begins  work,  and  there  may 
be  others  to  be  protected  as  well  as 
yourself  and  the  covers  may  be 
insuffi­
cient  in  numbers  to  go  around.  Then 
it  will  be  apparent that  a  little  foresight 
would  have  been  worth  a  good  deal  of 
hindsight,  so  it  would  be  well  to  be  in­
dependent  of  that  organization,  valuable 
as  its  services  are.

A 

If  the  shelving  is  not  fitted 

little  pains  and  a  little  expense  in 
fitting  up  a  retail  store  will  accomplish 
much. 
the  walls  perfectly  water-tight 
there 
should  be  a  water-proof  backing  of  oi 
cloth,  rubber  or  other  material  to  pre 
vent 
leakage  from  that  direction.  Th 
can  be  arranged  when  the  shelves  are 
erected  with  practically  no  trouble,  and 
in  place  can  be  allowed  to 
when  once 
remain  permanently. 
It  can  be  kept 
painted  and  cleaned  as  are  the  shelves 
themselves.  Then  assuming  that 
the 
shelves  are  made  with  waterproof  end 
joints,  the  whole  tier  of  shelving  can  be 
made  practically  proof  against  water 
coming  from  the  upper  floors  by  arrang 
ing  a  curtain which  can  be  lowered  over 
the  whole  front  at  a  moment’s  notice. 
This  should  be  so  weighted  that  it  will 
hold 
its  position  in  the  face  of  a  strong 
current  of  air  and  even  against  a  con 
siderable  water  pressure.  Probably  the 
best  way  would  be  to  attach  a metal  rod. 
something 
like  gas  pipe,  to  the  lower 
edge,  which  would  assure  a  certain  de 
gree  of  rigidity  throughout  the  lengtl 
and  breadth  of  the curtain*  Such a  pro 
tecting  curtain  could  be  rolled  up  and 
kept  out  of  sight  at  the  top  of  the  shelv 
ing  during  the  day,  and  should  be  let 
down  at  night  just  as  regularly  as  locks 
and  other  means 
for  the  protection  of 
goods  from  fire,  moth  and  rust,  and 
thieves  who  break  through  and  steal, 
are  called  into  requisition.  Curtains  in 
front  of  shelving  are  no  novelty,  but 
are 
they  ordinarily  waterproof,  and 
next, would  it  not  be  better to have  them 
waterproof?

Show  cases  can  be  quickly  and  thor­
oughly  protected  against  water  by  keep­
ing  on  hand  in convenient  places  rubber 
or other  waterproof  blankets  which  can 
be  put  in  place  in  a  very  minute  space 
of  time.

is 

The  window  display  seems  to offer the 
greatest  resistance  to  the  general scheme 
with  the  compensating 
idea  that  the 
less  there  from  water coming 
risk 
from  above,  and  also  the  comparatively 
small  value  of  goods.  The  means  would 
vary  as  size,  shape  and  location  of  win­
dow,  and  every  dealer  would  be  obliged 
in  a  measure  to  work  out  his  salvation 
on  individual  lines.

Stock,  whether  kept  on  the  street  floor 
or 
in  the  basement,  should  be  elevated 
sufficiently  to  preclude  the  possibility 
of  wetting  from  beneath,  and might  well 
be  kept  permanently covered with water­
proof  material.  As  this,  however,  might 
have  a  tendency  to  retain  any  atmos­
pheric  moisture  which  might  come  in, 
it  would  be  well  to  have  the  covering 
raised  slightly  by  a 
light  framework 
which  could  be  easily  and  readily  re­
moved  and  replaced.

Of  course,  other  methods  of  protec­
tion  will  suggest  themselves  as  equally 
feasible  and  effective  and  perhaps  even 
more  so.  The  object  of  this  paper 
however,  is  not  to 
lay. down  hard  and 
fast  rules  as  to  how  shoe  stores  shall  be

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from  this  danger,  but  to  call 
attention  that  they  may  be  protected but 
are  not;  and  if  it  shall  be  the  means  of 
bringing  even  one  dealer  to  providing 
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How  to   W in  Success  as  a   Shoe  Salesm an.
To  win  success  as  a  retail  shoe  sales­
man  you  have  to  travel  a  road  fraught 
with  many obstacles and pitfalls.  There­
fore,  in  starting  on  this  course  in  life  it 
is  fitting  that  you  look  well  ahead  and 
having  decided  this  is  to  be  your  road 
to  success,  keep  your  eyes  fixed  con­
stantly  on  the  goal,  and  unmindful  of 
what  someone  else 
is  doing  in  another 
line,  steadily  press  forward  with  your 
attention  ever  on  your  own  business, 
and  >make  shoes—what  they  are,  how 
they  are  made  and  the  best  way  to  sell 
them— your  constant  study.  Fall  in  love 
with  your  business  and  stick  to  it  early 
and  late  if  necessary  until  you  feel  it  is 
a  part  of  and  unseparable  from  you.

Never  grumble  and  complain. 

If  you 
long  face  take  it  off  when  you 
have  a 
get  up 
in  the  morning,  and  go  about 
your  business  with  a  cheerful  manner, 
being  ever  ready  to  wait  on  a  customer 
pleasantly  and  send  him  away  glad  he 
has  met  you.

in 

if  you  keep 

Study  your business,  which  is  not  dry 
goods,  notions  or  hats,  but  simply 
shoes— shoes  all  the  time.  The  line  is 
large,  varied  and  constantly  changing, 
and 
fully  abreast  of  the 
times 
it  you  will  do  well  to  do  this 
You  must  not  only  know  your  own 
goods,  but  must  be  conversant  with 
other  manufacturers’  and  dealers’  lines 
so  as  to  talk  intelligently  and  gain  the 
confidence  of  such  customers  as  have 
been  buying  other  makes  and  know 
nothing  of  those  you  handle.

for  he  will  surely  treasure  it  against 
you.

for  old  age,  that  winter  of 

This  brings  us  to  the  last  step,  on 
lay  special  emphasis 
which  we  would 
and  urge  that  you  live  within  your 
in­
come,  laying  aside  something  day  by 
day 
life 
which,  God  willing,  must  come,  and 
for  which  we  should  strive  to  prepare in 
the  days  of  youth  and  vigor,  so  that 
when 
is  reached  and  we  are  pushed 
aside  by  younger  hands  we  may  sit 
down  in  the  consciousness  of  duty  done 
and  view  with  satisfaction  our  struggle 
to  win  success  as  a  retail shoe salesman.

it 

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Ju d g ed   By  T h eir  Tunes.

“ Talking  about  the  queer  ways  some 
people  have  of  sizing  up  a  man’s  capa­
bilities  for  a 
job,’ ’  said  a  resident  of 
the  West  Side  the  other  day,  “ there  re- 
centy  died  in  my  town  a  boss  carpenter 
named  Hebart,  who  had  one  question 
which  he  always  asked  of  journeymen 
who  applied  to  him  for  employment.  If 
the  applicant  was  found  to  possess  all 
the  other necessary qualifications  Hebart 
would  ask :

“ What  are  your  favorite  tunes?’ ’
“ Why  what  you  want  to  know  that 

for?”

“ You  whistle  and  sing  some  at  your 

work,  don't  you?”

* ‘ Oh,  yes. ’ ’
“ Well,  what  tunes  do  you  generally 

whistle  or  sing?”
there’s 

“ Oh, 

‘ Auld  Lang  Syne’  and 
Weeping  W illows,’  and— ”

’ Old  Hundred’ 

and 
‘ Down  by  the 

“ That’s  enough!”   the  boss  carpenter 
would  exclaim.  “ You  won’t  do  for  me. 
These  tunes  are  too  slow  for  me.  Good 
day. ”

On  the  contrary,  if  the  applicant  an­
swered,  “ Oh,  I  generally  whistle  ‘ Yan­
kee  Doodle,’  or  ‘ The  Fisher’s  Horn­
pipe,’  or  something  of  that sort,  the  car­
penter  would  say  at  once :

think  you’ ll  do!  Take  off  your 

“ ‘ I 

coat  if  you  want  to  and  go  to  work.”

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Order  a  sample  case  and  get  your  order  in  early.
Write  for  price  on  Sock  Combinations  in  Captains, 
Eries  and  Pacs.  W e  offer  bargains  in  these  lines.
W e  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.
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Never  run  down  or  speak  in  a  depre 
eating  way  of  your  competitors.  Speak 
not  of  them  at  all  if  you  can  avoid  it 
but  when  you  do,  let  it  always  be  in  a 
complimentary  manner. 
Comparisons 
are  odious,  so  do  not  make  them,  but 
rather  sell  your  shoes  by  pointing  out 
,  the  beauty  and  good  points they possess 
Be  always  prompt,  courteous  and  up 
right  in  your transactions,  bestowing  the 
same  care  on  the  poor  as  is  given  the 
if  they  both  give  you  thei 
rich,  for 
trade  your  obligation 
is  the  same  to 
both.

Study  closely  human  nature  and  as­
siduously  cultivate  tact,  so  as  to  read 
your  customers  and  adapt  yourself  to 
their  dispositions,  handling  each  one 
with  all  the  dispatch  consistent  with  the 
case.

Keep  thoroughly  posted  on  the  sizes, 
widths  and 
location  of  your  stock  on 
hand,  always  remembering  to  put  the 
odd  sizes  and  old  goods  well  front,  so 
as  to  work  them  whenever  it  is possible. 
The  money  of  the  business  is  made 
in 
cleaning  out  the  odds  and  ends,  and  you 
can  never  be  valuable  to  yourself  or  an 
employer  by  neglecting 
this  class  of 
goods  and  selling  only  newest  and  most 
salable  stuff.

Dress 

in  accordance  with  your  sur­
roundings,  and  when  you  make  a  cus­
tomer  try  and  fit  and  treat  him  in  such 
a  way  as  to  permanently  hold  his  trade. 
Honesty  and  good  treatment  is,  I  be­
lieve,  the  only  true  way  to  do  this. 
It 
may  not  seem  to  pay  at  first,  but  will 
three  times  over  in  the  end.

Be  careful  of  your  promises  and  make 
none  which  can  not be fulfilled to the let­
ter.  You  may  think  a  promise  easily 
made  is  easily  forgotten,  and  it  may  be 
with  you,  but  not  so  with  your customer,

How  a   T e tte r  M ay  l>e  Kecalteil.

that 

telegraph 

letter  after 

Many  times  people  would  like  to  re­
call  a 
it  has  been  mailed. 
This  can  be  done,  even  if  the  letter  has 
reached  the  postoffice  at  its  destination. 
At  every  postoffice  there  are  what  are 
called  “ withdrawal  blanks.”   On  appli­
cation  they  will  be  furnished,  and  when 
a  deposit  is  made  to  cover  the  expense 
the  postmaster  will 
to  the 
postmaster  at  the  letter’s  destination 
asking 
it  be  promptly  returned. 
The  applicant  first  signs  this  agree­
m ent:  “ It  is  hereby  agreed  that,  if  the 
letter 
is  returned  to  me,  I  will  protect 
you  from  any  and  all  claims  made 
against  you  for  such  return,  and  will 
fully  indemnify  you  against any  loss you 
may  sustain  by  reason  of  such  action. 
And  1  herewith  deposit  $—  to  cover  all 
expenses 
incurred,  and  will  deliver  to 
you  the  envelope  of  the letter returned. ”  
In  many  cases  persons  have  made  re­
mittances  to  fraudulent  parties  or  irres­
ponsible  firms,  not 
learning  their  true 
character  until  after  the  letter  had  gone, 
and  have 
it. 
There 
instance  where  a  Kansas 
City  merchant  had  remitted  a  dishonest 
traveling  man  a  draft  for  $175,  and  by 
means  of  a  withdrawal  rescued  the  draft 
just  in  time.

in  recalling 

succeeded 

is  an 

C ountry  G irls  in  Factories.

A  Buffalo  firm  intends  to  build a large 
clothing  factory  near  that  city  and  em­
ploy  only  country  girls.  They  believe 
that  they  can  do  more  efficient  work and 
can  stand  more  work  on  account  of  hav­
ing  lived  in  the  open  air  than  their  city 
sisters.  Another  reason  is  that  the  coun­
try  girl  is  not  liable  to  be  influenced  by 
trades  unions  as  much  as  city employes. 
We  doubt  whether  a  country  girl  is  well 
fitted 
large  per­
centage  of 
factory  hands  have  been 
brought  up  to  that  kind  of  a  life,  and 
while  they  are  not  as  healthy  as  the 
country  girls,  they  are  used  to  factory 
labor,  and  can  endure  more  than  a  girl 
who  has  been  in  the  fields  all  her life.

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W oman’s World

S tudy  o f  D om estic  Science  in  th e   Pub] 

Schools.

in  the  public  schools  trained 

We  have  training  schools  for  nurses 
training  schools  for  teachers  and  trai„ 
ing  schools  for  cooks,  but  the  very  latest 
fad  of  the  advanced  woman  thinker  is 
training  school  for  husbands.  The  Ch. 
cago  Woman’s  Club  wants  to  have  the 
boys 
domestic  science.  The  theory  is  that  .. 
boys  learn  the  elements  of  cookery  they 
will  see  how  difficult  the art is  and  wha 
obstacles  environ  the  successful  com 
pounding  of  culinary  recipes  and  w i„ 
thereby  learn  a  great  lesson  of  patience 
that  will  stand  them  in  good  need  when 
“ It  will  be 
they  come  to  be  married. 
great  advanatge, 
says  a  leading  mem 
ber  of the  club,  Mrs.  Marion  F.  Wash 
bume,  when  the  husband  understands 
something  of  the  trials  of  the  kitchen, 
and 
in  order  to  train  a  husband  you 
must  begin  early— you  must  begin  with 
the  boys— therefore,  the  Chicago  Wom­
an  s  Club  desires  to  have  the  science  of 
cookery 
in  the  schools  for 
boys. ’ ’

introduced 

leading  educational 

The  subject  has  occasioned  no  end  of 
discussion  in  school  circles,  and  many 
of  the 
journals, 
acknowledging  the  great  influence  that 
the  Chicago  Woman  s  Club  possesses  in 
that  great  metropolis  of  the  West,  and 
fearful  that  the  question  will  be serious­
ly  taken  up  by 
the  Chicago  school 
board,  devote  time  and  space  to  a  dis­
cussion  of  the  subject.

At  a  recent  lecture delivered in Brook­
lyn  a  prominent  woman 
lecturer  sa id :
* ‘ We  have  the  new  woman,  the new  boy, 
why  not  the  new  husband?  The  new 
boy 
is  a  revelation;  he  can  make  his 
own  bed,  sew  on  his  buttons,  cook  his 
own  breakfast  and  wash  the  dishes,  if 
necessary,  and  he  is  no 
longer  consid­
ered  mamma’s  boy  or  a  sissy  for  so  do­
ing-  The  new  boy  can successfully carry 
on  a  bachelor’s  establishment  for  his 
father  and  him self;  he  can  make  out 
the  menus,  hire  the  domestics,  and  can, 
with  pride,  grace  the  parlor  as  well  as 
the  kitchen.  We  must  go  further  in  this 
training  and  fit  him  to  be  a  husband  in 
every  qualification  necessary for the suc­
cessful  prosecution  of  domestic  science 
as  regards  cookery. ”

It  might be  added  here  that  this ques­
tion  of  “ the  new  boy”   and  of  “ hus­
bands  in  the  kitchen”   is  the  result  of  a 
growing  belief  among  educators that  do­
mestic  training  is  just  as  good  for  boys 
3s  girls.  They  argue  that  a  domestic 
trained  boy  makes  the  best  kind  of  a 
husband  and  that  the  brother  who  is 
obliged  occasionally  to  make  his  own 
bed  or  boil  an  egg  will  not  look  down 
upon  his  sister 
for  doing  the  same 
thing.  Again,  the  advocates  of  domes­
tic  training 
for  boys  say  that,  while 
there  will  always  be  a  division  of  occu­
pations 
in  society, 
there  is  this  difference  in the fam ily:  In 
those  occupations  that  relate  to  the com­
life  there  ought  to  be  a  common 
mon 
performance,  else  the  division  of 
labor 
will  result 
in  a  division  of  feeling  and 
thought.  Therefore,  it  is  well  tg  intro­
duce  the  science  of  cookery  in  public 
schools  for  boys  in  every  state 
in  the 
union,  for  such  training  means  better 
husbands  for  the  future,  a  new  husband 
totally  different  from  the  husband  of  the 
past,  one  capable  of  entering  into  and 
understanding  all  a  woman's  woes,  and 
especially  the  trials  which  beset  house­
keeping.

family,  as 

in  the 

Feeling  that  a  question  which  seems

at 

for 

id  he, 

them ;  with 

to  have  acquired  such  vital  proportions 
must  certainly  be  interesting  to  the  pa­
trons  of  our  public  schools,  a  prominent 
member  of  the  school  board  was 
inter­
viewed  this  week  and  asked  for  an  ex­
pression  of  opinion.  He  raised  his 
hands  in  horror,  and,  after giving  vent 
to  his  supreme  indignation,  he  calmly 
reached  this  conclusion:  That  while 
without  doubt  the  early  training  of  hus­
bands  is  desirable,  from  the enthusiastic 
manner  in  which  many  leading  centers 
of  reform  were  discussing  the  subject, 
it  was  ridiculous  to  speak of introducing 
the  study  of  domestic  science 
in  the 
public  schools.  From  time  immemorial 
the  kitchen  has  been  held  the  sacred do­
main  of  woman,  and,  as  for  the  ladies 
Grand  Rapids,  he  was  sure  they
would  be  the  very  first  to  resent  the 
dea  of  sending  their  boys  to  school  in 
order  that  they  might  learn  how  to cook. 
While  without  doubt  it would  be  an  ex 
in  a  school  for girls,  and 
cellent  thing 
parents  would  generally  sanction 
it,  he 
ras  sure  there  would  be  an  outcry  of in- 
ignation  if  such  a  thing  were  proposed 
n  connection  with  the  public  schools. 
And  then,  in  a  hland  way,  he  said  that 
men  are  not  without  conceit,  as  it  is, 
nd  would 
it  be  wise  to  give  them  the 
mpression  that  they  knew  all  about 
cookery?  Husbands  are  bad  enough," 
least  so  the  women  seem 
think,  since  they  want  to  organize 
training  schools 
this 
new acquisition  they  would  be  unendur- 
ble.  As 
long  as  men  know  only  the 
rough  cooking  of  the  camp  and  boat,  or 
the  amiable  facilities  of  the  chafing 
dish,  all  is  well,  but  once  rear  them  in 
the  housekeeping  business  and  famil- 
rize  them  with  the  mysteries  of  the 
tchen,  and  ruin  is  sure  to  ensue.
When  told that a  certain  philanthropic 
oman  had  become  so  imbued  with  the 
dea  that  she  intends  to  found  a  special 
collegiate  department,  in  which  the  de 
gree  of  B.  H.  H.,  Bachelor  of  House­
keeping  and  Husbandry,  will  be  given, 
he  sneeringly  remarked  that  the  world 
is  full  of  cranks,  and he  is  not  surprised 
at  this  latest  revelation. 
is 
a  little  knowledge  more  dangerous  than 
in  cookery.  The  pretense  of  it  hurts  no 
one  and  deceives  no  one;  but  once 
smear  a  boy  with  a  smattering  of  cook­
ery,  once  give  him  a  “ dabbling  knowl­
edge"  of  domestic  science  and,  said he, 
with  a  look  of  triumph,  “ the  very  ends 
these  women  seek  to  gain  will  be  sub­
verted ;  farewell  peace  and  welcome 
domestic  war.  You will hear this  trained 
cook  of  a  husband  crying  out: 
‘ Jose 
phine,  my  dear,  that  canvasback  duck 
should  have  been  taken  out  one  minute 
and  a  half  ago;  it  is  now  utterly spoiled 
for  eating! 
‘ Faugh,  Marguerite!  the 
smell  of  that  cauliflower  is  all  through 
the  house;  why  didn  t  you  remove  the 
cover  or  put  a  little  piece  of  charcoal 
nto  the  water  while  boiling?' 
‘ Now,  I 
told  you  that  rice  was  cooked  wrong; 
when  I  was  at  school  we  were  never  al­
lowed  to  boil  rice  more  than'— ,  and  so 
on,  ad 
infinitum,  one  will  hear  the 
steady  outpouring  of  masculine  wisdom 
until  the  weary  wife  will  wish  that there 
was  never  such  a  thing  as  a  training 
school  for  boys  where  they  may  be 
‘ taught  the  domestic  science  which  will 
fit  them  to  be  good  husbands.'  We  have 
many  newfangled  ideas  in  our  public 
schools,  fads  and  fancies  and  frills,  as 
the  public  often  dubs  the  innovations 
but,.)Ye  have  to°  much  regard  for  the 
stability  and  happiness  of  the  home  to 
Uce  a  firebrancl  of  this  character 
A  home  with  a  trained  cook  for a  hus'- 
band  would  not  be  a home. 
It would  be 
little  short  of  a  private lunatic asylum.  ’ 

In  nothing 

Dorothy  Dix.

Just as the goods come from our ovens with  p a r t ic u l a r   c a r e   in  baking  and 
p a r t ic u l a r   c l e a n l in e s s   and  n e a t n e s s  in  packing,  they  are  delivered^ over 
your counter,  to  your  customers  in  these  most  p a r t ic u l a r   air-tight,  moisture, 
dust, and germ-proof cartons.

Seym our  B u tte r

Small Cartons, 2 doz. in case.............
Family Cartons, 1% doz. in  case
G raham   C racker 
Small Cartons, 2 doz. in case__

per 
doz. 
....$   70 
__   2  in

G inger  Snap

Small Cartons, 2 doz. in case............. ....  1  00

L ong  Islan d   W afer 

Small Cartons, 2 doz. in ease..
Select  Soda

Small Cartons, 2 doz. in case...

1  45

90

Soda, XXX

Small Cartons, 2 doz.  in case....
75
Family Cartons, 1V4 doz. In case........ ...  2 20

... 

uoz.
Special Cartons, 2 doz. In case.................   i  45

V anilla  W afer 

H and  H ad e  F retzelette

Small Cartons, 2 doz. In case....................  90

A m erican  B eau ty  G inger  Snap

Small Barrels, 1 doz. in  case....................  2 40

Small Cartons, 15 packages in  case........  

F au st  O yster

90

U needa J in je r   W ayfer.

Special Cartons, 3 doz. in case................   1  00

U needa  B iscu it

Special Cartons, 3 doz. in case................  
L ong  Isla n d   G raham   W afer 

Small Cartons, 2 doz. in case....................j  45

50

SEA R S  BAKERY

N A T I O N A L   B I S C U I T   C O M P A N Y

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

B abe’s  D isobedience  an d   th e  R esult. 

Written for the Tradesman.

“ Now,  Babe,  'ou  must  be  a  ’eal  dood 
dog.  Me  an’  mamma  doin’  down  town. 
'Ou  mus’  ’tay  ’ ight  here  an’  take  care 
of  dollie  till  we  tome  home.’ ’

The  little  girl  stroked  the  glossy  coat 
of  the  curly  spaniel  and lifting  him  ten­
derly  placed  him  in  the  crib  beside  the 
doll.  The  black  eyes  of  the  dog  looked 
pleadingly  into  the  blue  ones  of  his 
lit­
tle  mistress  as  if  to  say,  “ Do  take  me 
with  you.”   Their  language  was  under­
stood  by  the  child,  for  she  continued, 
“ No,  Babe,  'ou  tan't  tome. 
‘ Ou  must 
’tay  wif  dollie.  She  be  ’eal  lonesome 
wifout  ’ou, ”   and  with  a  parting hug  the 
little  girl  ran  out  to  join  her  mother  at 
the  gate.

Babe’s  mistress  was  no  sooner  out  of 
sight  than  he  sprang  from  the  crib  and 
began  to  search  for  an  exit  from  the 
house.  Upstairs  and  down  he  scam­
pered ;  but  without  success.  At  last 
in 
despair  he  set  up  a  vigorous  barking. 
This  at  once  attracted  the  maid  at  work 
in  the  kitchen,  who,  running  in  to  see 
what  the  trouble  was,  thoughtlessly 
left 
the  door  ajar.  Here  was  Babe’s  good 
chance.  Like  a  flash  he  sprang  past 
her  and  was  out  of  the  open  back  door 
and  over  the 
low  front  gate  before  she 
recovered  from  her  astonishment.

“ Bless  me  sowl,  but  that  dog  bates 
anything  I  ever  saw.  The  misses’ ll  be 
angry  wid  me 
fur  lavin’  him  git  out. 
What’ll  I  do,  what’ ll  1  do?”   exclaimed 
the  girl  as  she  ran  out  to  the  sidewalk, 
only  to  see  the  little  spaniel  scampering 
down  the  street  as  fast  as  his  short 
legs 
could  take  him.

As  chance  would  have  it  the  car  was 
delayed  which was  to  have taken  Babe’s 
little  mistress  and  her  mother  down 
town.  They  were  waiting  upon  a  cor­
ner  when  Babe,  all  out  of  breath,  but 
supremely  happy  and  expectant,  dashed 
up  to  them.  He  barked  vociferously 
and  danced  around  his  mistress,  wag­
ging  his  tail  and  saying  as  plainly  as 
words  could  have  done,  “ I  told  you  1 
was  coming.  You  can’t  send  me  back 
now,  for  I  won’t  g o .”   The  child  petted 
him  and  then,  remembering  that  dogs 
were  not  allowed  on  the  street  cars,  be­
gan  to  reprove  him.

’e 

“   ’Ou 

’eal  bad  doggie,  Babe. 

'Ou 
should 
’tayed  wif  dollie.  She  ty  her 
eyes  out  wif  lonesome,  wif  bofe  me  an’ 
’ou  don.  What  we  do  wif  him,  Mamma, 
'ductor  man  won't  let  him  'ide? 
if 
H im 'll  follow  de  tar  an’  det 
los’ ,  tause 
him  tan’t  teep  up.  Oh,  Babe,  'ou  ’eal 
naughty,  ’ou  is. 
'eal 
’till,  an’  me’ ll  put  ’ou  on  e ’ 
dood  an’ 
seat  wif  Mamma  an’  me  an’  tover  'ou 
w if  my  dess  so  ’e  'ductor  man  tan’t  see 
’ou. ”

’Ou’ll  have  to  be 

The  dog  seemed  to  feel  the  anxiety  of 
his  mistress’  voice,  for he  stopped  bark­
ing  and  sat  down  and  eyed her lovingly. 
When  the  car  came  along  the  child 
took  the  little  dog  in  her  arms,  carefully 
trying  to  hide  him  from  the  eyes  of  the 
conductor  with  the 
little  parasol  she 
carried.  The  mother lifted them on to the 
car  and  they  found  a  seat  in  the  open 
compartment. 
The  child  placed  the 
dog  between  her  mother  and  herself, 
where  he  was  completely  hidden  from 
sight.  The  car  sped  swiftly  along  and 
everything  would  have  been  w e ll;  but 
when  the  conductor  came  along  and  in 
a  harsh  voice  said,  “ Fare,  please,”  
Babe’s  little  head  popped  up 
from  the 
folds  of  the  skirts  and  he  gave  a  quick 
sharp  bark  at  the  strange  man.

“ You’ll  have  to  put  that dog  off. 

It’s 
against  the  rules  to  carry  dogs  on  the 
cars,”   said  the  same  harsh  voice.

Babe  barked  again  and  the little girl’s 
eyes  filled  with  tears,  while  her mother's 
face  flushed  with  vexation.  The  con­
ductor  lifted  the  dog  gently  enough  and 
when  the  car  stopped  at  the  next  cross­
ing  set  him  off  on  the  ground.  Babe 
barked  frantically  to  be taken  up  again ; 
but  it  was  of  no  use.  The  car  moved 
on  and  he  found  himself obliged to exert 
every  muscle  in  order  to  keep  up.  The 
apprehension  of  the  child  increased  as 
the  distance  between  her  pet  and  the car 
gradually  widened.

’ou  fink 

With  wide  troubled  eyes  she looked up 
at  her  mother  and  in  tearful  voice  en­
quired,  “ Do 
’e  will  det  lost, 
Mamma?  Me so ’ fwaid somefing happen 
to  him.  T an ’t  we  det  off,  Mamma,  an’ 
walk  'e  rest  of  ’e  way?  Me  not  t i’ed. 
Look,  Mamma!  Babe  tan’t  teep  up. 
Him ’s  a  long  way  behind  a ’weady. ”

Poor  Babe  was  having  a  hard  time  of 
it.  He  was  learning  that  the  way  of  the 
transgressor  is  truly  hard.  He  was  too 
fat  for  fast  running.  His  tongue  was 
hanging  and  he  was  almost  out  of 
breath. 
It  was  no  easy  task  to  dodge 
street  cars  and  wagons  and  at  the  same 
time  keep  an  eye  on  the  car  containing 
his  much-loved  mistress.  Babe,  who had 
never  known  anything  but  to  be  loved 
and  petted  and  to  love  in  return,  began 
to  be  confused.  He  had  several  narrow 
escapes  from  the  trampling  hoofs  of 
fast-driven  horses  and  then  the  natural 
enemy  of  small  dogs,  a  small  boy, 
caught  sight  of  him.  The  enemy  shied 
a  sharp  stone  from  his  slingshot,  which 
caught  poor  Babe  on  one  of  his  front 
legs.  The  little  creature  yelped  with 
the  stinging  pain,  but  trotted  bravely on 
on  three 
injured  member 
the 
In  his  pain  and 
dangling  uselessly. 
lost  sight  of  the  many 
fright  the  dog 
dangers  surrounding  him. 
Limping 
painfully  and  slowly  along  on  the  car 
track,  he 
failed  to  hear  the  car  ap­
proaching  behind  him.  The  motorman 
rang  his  bell 
in  warning.  He  might 
also  have  dropped  the  safety  fender,  but 
what  was  the  use,  ’twas  only  a  stray 
dog?  There  was  a  cry  of  almost  human 
agony  and  the  car  passed  swiftly  on, 
leaving  poor  Babe mangled  and  dead  on 
the  rails  behind.

legs, 

The  child  did  not  see  the  accident— 
she  was  pleading  with  her  mother  to get 
off  and  wait  until  Babe  caught  up—but 
the  mother  saw  it.  Her  face  showed  the 
distress  she 
felt  as  she  put  her  arm 
around  the  little  girl  to  keep  her  from 
seeing  the  sickening  sight.  Was  she  to 
blame 
if  she  deceived  the  child  with  a 
false  hope?

“ No,  dear,  it  will  be  of  no  use  get­
ting  off,  for  I  think  Babe  has  gone 
back.  It’s  more  than  likely  we  will  find 
him  at  home  when  we  return.”

The  mother  and  child 

“ Do  ’u  weally  fink  so,  Mamma?  Will 
’e  fin’ 
’e  way  back  so  far?  Mamma, 
Mamma,  what  would  me  do  if  Babe  dot 
los’ ?  Dollie  an’  me  be  so  lonesome.”
left  the  car 
it  reached  the  transfer  point  in 
when 
I  did  not  follow 
the  heart  of  the  city. 
them 
further,  my  heart  was  too  sore; 
but  I  know  there  were  many  days  of 
anxious  waiting  for  Babe  to  come  back. 
There  were  many  trips  made  to  the  low 
front  gate  by  a  little  girl,  with  her  doll 
in  her  arms,  who 
looked  with  tearful 
eyes  up  and  down  the  street  in  fond 
hope  that  Babe  might  appear,  and  there 
were  many  sorrowful  talks  to  dollie  and 
many  tears  shed.  But  poor  Babe  never 
came  home. 

Mac  Allan.

Do  not  rest  satisfied  in  the  belief  that 
you  control  the  trade  and  that  it  is  sure 
to  remain  with  you  without  effort.

Crockery  and  Glassware

A KRON  STONEW ARE. 

Butters

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

C hurns

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

M ilk p a n s

Vz gal. flat or rd. hot., per doz.............. 
l gal. flat or rd. hot., each..................  
F in e Glazed M ilkpans
V4 gal. flat or rd. bot., per doz.............
1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each..................

Stew pans

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

Ju g s

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

T om ato  Ju g s

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

P reserve  J a r s   and  Covers

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

S ealing  W ax

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

FR U IT  JA R S

Pints........................................................
Quarts.....................................................
Half Callous...........................................
Covers....................................................
Rubbers..................................................

LA M P  BURNERS

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

40
5
44
85
66
l  06
l  40
2 00
2 40

5%
H4

40
6

60
554

85 
1  10

56
45
654

55
614
20
30

2

5 50

2  75 
25

35 
45 
65 
1  00 
45 
60 
80 
60

LA M P  CHIMNEYS—Seconds

Per box of 6  doz.

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

Com m on

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

F irst  Q uality

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

XXX  F lin t

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

Lamps.................................... 

L a  B astie

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

R ochester

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

E lectric

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

O IL  CANS

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

P u m p   Cans

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

LANTERNS

No.  0 Tubular, side lift....................... 
No.  IB  Tubular................................... 
No. 13 Tubular, dash............................  
No.  1 Tubular, glass fountain............  
No. 12 Tubular, side  lamp.................... 
No.  3 Street lamp, each...................... 

LANTERN  GLOBES

No. 0 Tub., cases 1 doz. each, box, 10c. 
No. 0 Tub., cases 2 doz. each, box, isc. 
No. 0 Tub., hbls 5 doz. each, per bbl.. 
No. 0 Tub,, bull’s eye, cases laoz. each 

]  45
l  54
2 25

l  50
1  60
2  46

2  10
2  15
3  15

2  75
3 75
3 95

3 70
4  70
4  88
80

90
115
1  35
1  60

3  50
4  00
4  70

4 oo
4  40

1  40
1  75
3 00
3  75
4  85
4  25
5  50
7  25
9 00

8 50
10 60
9 96
11  28
950

6 26
7  50
7  50
7  50
14 00
3  75

45
45
2  00
l  25

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ground  metal  to  metal  finish  and  her­
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Not a Single  Case  on  Record where 
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Clothing

S im ilarity   in   th e   Clothe»  of  To-day  and 

P ast  Ages.

large  as 

When  we  come  to  the  matter  of  attire 
worn 
for  protection,  there  is  a  decided 
similarity  between  the  armor worn  by 
knights,  in  the  days  of chivalry,  in  both 
war  and  sports,  and  the  various  articles 
worn  to-day 
in  games,  to  protect  the 
wearer  against  injurv.  Protective  armor 
is  not  worn  to-day 
in  battle,  as  it  is 
useless  against  the various death-dealing 
devices  that  man’s 
ingenuity  has  de­
vised,  and  so  its  only  scope  at  the  pres­
ent  is  on  the  field  of  sport,  where,  al­
though  the  number  of  dead and wounded 
is  not  as 
in  battle,  in  some 
cases,  like  football,  the  amount  of  gore 
spilled 
is  sometimes  almost  as  great. 
Observe  the  attire  of  the  catcher,  and 
see 
if  you  do  not  notice,  in  the  appli­
ances  he  puts  on  to  protect  himself 
against  being  hit,  a  similarity  towards 
armor  worn  at  different  times.  Take 
his  mask  as  an  example  Does  not  that 
correspond  to  the  visor of  the  helmet, 
worn  to  guard  the  face  against  a  sud­
den  blow? 
In  the  olden  days,  it  would 
have  been  a  speedy  arrow,  or  a  battle 
axe  wielded  by  powerful  arms,  that  the 
armor  would  guard  against. 
In  modern 
days  it  is  a  speedy  ball,  delivered  with 
the  speed  of  an  arrow,  or  a  bat  wielded 
by  arms  as  powefrul  as  those  that  for­
merly  swept  everything  before 
them 
with  the  death-dealing  axe.  Notice  the 
similarity  between  the  chest  protector 
that  stops  the  big,  white  bullet  that  the 
pitcher  throws  at  the  man  behind  the 
bat,  and  the  buff  shields  worn  by  the 
early  settlers,  at  the  time  of  the  inven­
tion  of  the  matchlock,  to  protect  them­
selves  against  the arrows  of  the  savages. 
The  armor  worn  by  football  players  is 
so  similar  to  that  worn  by  knights  in 
battle  that  this  fact  must  often  be  no­
ticed  by  the  lookers  on.  The  nose  piece 
resembling  the  visor  of  the  helmet,  the 
rubber 
shoulder  protector  coinciding 
with  the  iron  shoulder  blades,  as  well  as 
the  similarity  of  the  knee-protectors,  all 
show  what  a  likeness  there  is  between 
the  armor  of  to-day  and  that  of  the 
Fourteenth  Century, 
the  one  worn  so 
that 
injury  shall  not  occur  to  friends 
participating  in  games  bringing  out  all 
man’s  best  manhood  and 
cementing 
feeling,  and  the  other  worn  by 
good 
men 
in  the  prime  of  manhood  to  pro­
tect  themselves  against  blows  dealt  in 
deadly  hate. 
It  seems  an  example  of 
the  progress  of  the  world,  this  fact  that 
attire  that  was  formerly  used  only  in 
battle  is  now  used  only  in  sports.

There  is  no  article  of wearing  apparel 
that  has  had  more changes and has found 
favor  and  lost  it  again  more  often  than 
trousers.  The  ancient  Britons  wore  a 
leg  covering  that  was  a  sort  of  trouser. 
When  they  were  conquered  by  the  Ro­
mans,  this  trouser-like  garment  disap­
peared  gradually  until  the  coming of the 
Normans,  who wore  a  loose  garment  fas­
tened  with  a  garter,  and  not  unlike 
those  worn  by  the  old  Britons.  These 
gradually  became  tighter  and  tighter, 
and  the  result  was  tightly  fitting  hose 
and  slashed  trunks.  About  the  time  of 
the  French  Revolution,  trousers  began 
to  be  worn,  the  first  ones  that  could 
really  be  called  trousers,  although  they 
were  worn  so  loosely  that  they  resem­
bled  a  pair  of  sacks.  Gradually  they 
became  tighter,  until  they  were  worn 
skin  tight  again.  About  thirty  years 
ago,  they  became  almost  as  wide  as 
those  worn 
in  the  French  Revolution’s 
time.  Since  then  they  have  become  nar­
rower,  but  every  year  finds  some  slight

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

change 
in  their  width.  For  instance, 
last  summer’s  trousers  were  worn  rather 
tight,  and  this  summer they  follow  out 
the  cut  of  other  garments,  and  are  worn 
much  wider.

These  are  only  a  few  of  the  sim ilar­
ities  between  the  clothes  of  nowadays 
and  the  clothes  of  years  gone  by. 
If 
you  observe  closely,  you  will  notice  a 
hundred  and  one  little  details  that  were 
worn  years  ago.  When  R ip  Van  Winkle 
awoke 
from  his  long  slumber  of  a  hun­
dred  years  no  doubt  he  recognized  some 
of  the  styles  worn as the identically same 
fashions  as  were  worn  before  his  sleep, 
and  welcomed  them  as  old  friends.

Statu»  o f th e   C lothing  M arket.

There  is  a  better  feeling  in  the  trade 
than  there  was  a  short  time  ago,  due  to 
favorable  reports  from  the  men  on  the 
road.  A  great  many  firms  express  the 
belief  that  the  season’s  business  will  be 
better  than  that  for 
last  year,  basing 
heir  conclusions  on  the  showings  al­
ready  made.  There  is  also  a  very  brisk 
reordering  of  outing  flannel  suits  and 
summer  weight  serges.  The  best  seller 
on  the  retail  market  just  now  is  light 
weight  blue  serge  that  retails  from  $6  to 
$10  a  suit,  and  of  this  class  of  stuff  the 
retailer  does  not  seem  to  be  able  to  get 
enough.  Serge 
is  also  very  popular  in 
the  orders  that  are  coming  in  for  fall 
goods,  and  the  mill  men,  who  ever 
complain  of  the  business  methods of  the 
clothing  manufacturers,  have  no  com­
plaints  to  make  of  any  cancellations  on 
serges.

As 

is  usual  at  this  time  of  year the 
great  bulk  of  the  stuff  that  is  being 
made  up  is  of  the  cheap  grade,  and  the 
sweatshops  are  therefore  busy.  The  fa­
vorable  reports  from  the  salesmen,  how­
ever,  will  start  the  machines  on  the  bet­
ter  class  of  garments.

The  clothing  manufacturers  have been 
doing a  great  deal  of  cancelling,  largely 
they  saw  lower 
because 
prices  ahead,  but 
is  less  of  this 
just  now  than  for  some  time.

thought 

there 

they 

B utto n s  a t  th e   Back.

frock 

coat  have 

The  English  walking  coat,  cutaway 
and 
two  buttons 
placed  side  by  side  on  the  back,  just 
above  the  skirts.  Although  they  are 
placed there only  for  show  at  the  present 
time,  there  was  a  time  when  they  were 
placed  there  for  use.  They  date  back 
before  revolutionary  times,  when  nearly 
all  noblemen  wore  swords,  and  conse­
quently  sword-belts. 
These  buttons 
were  placed  as  a  resting  place  for  the 
sword-belt,  which  often  had  holes  that 
would  button  onto  them.  Soldiers  on  a 
long  tramp  utilized 
these  buttons  to 
catch  the  skirts  of  the  coat  back.  After 
the  fashion  among  the  nobility  of carry­
ing  swords  was  dropped,  there  was  still 
a  use  found  for  these  buttons,  in  keep­
ing  the  skirts  back  while  walking,  and 
thus  a  man’s  limbs  would  be given more 
free  play.  This  is  one  of  the  resem­
blances  that  the  workings  of nature have 
to  the  various  evolutions of fashion.  Just 
as  a 
fashion  is  introduced  at  first  only 
for  use,  then  only  for  looks  and  at  the 
end  disappears  altogether,  so  does  na­
ture 
introduce  various  organs  which, 
after they  perform  no  function,  gradual­
ly  vanish.  Witness  the  appendix,  which 
has  no  known  duty  to  perform,  except 
to  swell  the  surgeon’s  pocket  book,  and 
which 
is  growing  smaller  with  every 
generation,  and  which  a  great  many 
authorities  assert  will 
in  time  vanish 
entirely.

Advertising 

is  not  an  exact  science." 
Neither  is  medicine  nor  housekeeping. 
But  we  rely  upon  the  doctor’s  opinion 
because  he  has  given  his  time  and  all 
his  ability  to  the  study  of  medicine. 
We  depend  upon  our  home-makers  for 
limitless  comfort  and  happiness. 
So 
also  the  people  who  have  made  a  study 
and  a  business  of  advertising  form  a 
class with whom it is profitable to reckon.

F em in in e  F o resig h t.

“ I  will  consent  to  run  for President, ”  
said  the  Advanced  Woman,  “ upon  one 
condition.’ ’

“ Name  it,”   said  the  committee.
“ That  you  hire  a  man  to  nail  the 

campaign  lies.”

Although  she  was  an  Advanced  Wom­
an,  she  had  not  advanced  to  that  point 
where  she  could  drive  a  nail  without 
cutting  the  fingers  out  of  her  glove  the 
next  morning. 

«

A  C rying  Need.

“ Oh,  yes,  her  father  is  rich.  He  got 
his  money  through  an 
invention  that 
was  designed  to  obliterate  one  of  the 
crying  needs  of  the  tim e.”

“ What  was  it?”
“ An 
bottle. ’ ’

improved  nozzle 

for  a  nursing 

A   great  many  more  men  would  be 
it  to  be 

if  they  really  believed 

good 
profitable.

Bunting and  Muslin Flags, 
Flag  Poles  and  Holders, 
Large  Umbrellas,  Awn­
ings,  Tents,  Seat  Shades.

ii  Pearl  Street,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Dress Coats 
of Duck

W e  make  the  Duck  Coats  with 
“ all  the  little  fixings.”   They 
are  the  highest  grade  goods  in 
the  country.  They  cost  you 
the  same  a s «  inferior  goods. 
Ask  for  samples  prepaid.

|  Michigan  Clothing Co.,

Ionia,  Mich.

CHARACTER

That’s  w hat  they’re  looking  for

That’ s  what  your 

trade  demands. 
There’ s  nothing  on  the  market  that  will 
give  character  and  tone  to  your  line  like 
“   H.  Bros.  Correct  Clothes.”  This  is 
especially  true  of  our  fall  overcoats  for 
men;  they’re  the  kind  your  trade  wants; 
in  style,  new  and  natty; 
in  workman 
ship,  equal  to  custom  tailoring;  in  fit—  
perfection.  They  look  well,  they  wear 
well— not  only  for  a  day,  but  for  the  en­
tire  season. 
The  same  we  can  say 
about  our  suits;  they’re  trade  bringtrs, 
trade  makers  and  trade  holders  every 
time.  They’ re  about  the next best thing 
to  custom  made  clothing  on  the  market; 
“  Better  quality  for less money ” — that’s 
the  point.  W e’re  showing:

Men’s  Fall  Overcoats  from  $3.75 
to $16;
Men’s  Fall  Suits  from  $3.75  to 
$14-
Also, a complete line of Boys’ and 
Children’s Suits at popular prices.

Let  us  send  you  samples;  you’ll  find 
them  even  better  than  we  say.

fjeffl/eprich firos-ffi

M IC H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N
S o lid   C o m fo rt

son  of  1899.  Floods,  which  are  always 
good  for  the  fertility  of  the  soil,  took 
place  in  1897  and  1898,  and 
left  a  rich 
sediment  that  yielded  an  excellent  har­
vest  to  cotton  producers  in  1899. 
is 
thought,  however,  that  the  productive­
ness  of  the  soil  resulting 
from  these 
floods 
is  used  up  to  a  great  extent  and 
that  the  production  per  acre  will  be  ap­
preciably  less  for  the  new  cotton  crop.

It 

Carpets— Manufacturers  of 

tapestry 
for 
and  velvet  carpets  report  that  trade 
the  fall  season  has  opened  up  fairly well 
for  their  lines,  and  that  they  have  noth­
ing  to  complain  of.  Many  of  the  man­
ufacturers  received  the  usual  orders,  al­
though  generally  speaking,  the 
jobbers 
loading  up  quite  as  heavily  as 
are  not 
they  did  last  spring.  Body  Brussels  are 
being  taken  up  again,  although 
for  a 
time  (on  account  of  the  comparative 
price)  axminsters,  tapestries and  velvets 
took  their  place,  but  now  the  high 
prices  of  the  latter  have  turned  more  at­
tention  to  body  Brussels,  which  show  a 
prosperous  condition  of  affairs.  The 
best  trade  realize  that  body  Brussels  can 
not  be  replaced  (for durability)  by  other 
lines  of  carpets,  and  now  a  fair demand 
is  reported  for  them.  Manufacturers  re­
port  a  fair  demand  for  all  lines  of  car­
pets.  Jobbers  believe  that  the  price  of 
carpets  has  had  some  tendency  to  re­
tard  sales,  especially 
in  the  wholesale 
trade,  but  the  high  prices  for  all  ma­
terial  entering 
into  their  manufacture 
necessitated  all  the  advance  that  was 
made.  It  was  even  expected  that  prices 
at  the  opening  of  the  season  would  be 
higher 
figures  announced. 
After  the 
fall  retail  trade  opens  up  a 
very  good  business  should  be  done  in 
all  grades  of  carpets,  as  very  little  busi­
ness  was  done  among  the  retailers  this 
spring,  the  trade  having  been  unusually 
backward.

than 

the 

Ladies’,  Misses’, Children’s

Hose Supporters

Are

suspended

from
the

shoulders.

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

M ADAM E  C.  F.  SALISBURY, 

B attle  C reek,  M ich.

We carry a complete stock  of

Untrimmed 

Straw 
Hats

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

C orl,  K n o tt &   C o.

Jobbers of  Millinery 
Grand Kapids, Michigan

Dry Goods

T he  D ry  Goods  M arket.
Staple  Cottons— Ducks  and 

brown 
osnaburgs  show  no  feature  worthy  of 
special  mention.  Sales  are  slow  and 
prices  irregular.  Bleached  cottons  show 
some  small  sales,  but  the  aggregate  has 
been  considerably  below  normal,  even 
for  this  season  of  the  year.  Quotations 
on 
remain  un­
changed,  and  outside  of  them,  the  mar­
ket  is  in  the  buyers’  hands.  T icks  and 
denims  are  quiet  and  slightly  irregular. 
Other  coarse,  colored  cottons  show  a 
very  small  demand,  but  such  as  it  is, 
sellers  are  able  to  meet  it.  Wide  sheet­
ings,  blankets,  cotton  flannels,  etc.,  are 
quiet  and  prices  without  change.

leading 

tickets 

the 

Prints  and  Ginghams— In 

common 
with  other  lines  of  cotton  goods,  prints 
seem  to  have  no  interest  as  far  as  pres­
ent  season’s  goods  are  concerned.  The 
agents 
feel  that  they  can  hope  for  no 
more  orders,  nor  are  they  anxious  for 
them,  preferring  to  devote  their  atten­
tion  to  new  season’s  lines.  There  are 
some 
lines  that  are  exceptions  to  this 
rule,  such  as  staple 
lines  of  indigoes, 
turkey  reds,  etc.,  but  this  is  not  enough 
to  be  of  any  great  account. 
In  addition 
to  this,  there  have  been  orders  placed 
for fair quantities for next season.  Prices 
continue  firm  all  along  the 
line.  Fine 
printed  goods  are  very quiet  everywhere 
for  this  season,  but  for  the 
future  there 
has  been  considerable  done  for  delivery 
in  1901,  and  for  that  time  prices  are 
firm.  Fine  woven  patterned  goods  also 
show  a  good  business  for the  coming 
season,  and  a  slow  buying  for  the  pres­
ent.

jobbers. 

Dress  Goods— There 

is  nothing  new 
to be  noted  in  dress  goods,  either  in  the 
primary  market  or  among 
In 
each  case  the  amount  of  business  being 
done  is  very  small,  but  this  is  not  unex­
pected  after  the  business  that  has  been 
done.  The  market  is  in  a  good  condi­
tion,  and  while  some  fear  is  expressed 
regarding  impending  cancellations,  it  is 
not  general. 
that 
have  come  forward  so  far  have  not  been 
of 
to  make  any 
trouble. 
It  is  the  opinion  of  the  con­
servative  and  solid  men  of  the  trade 
that  the  orders  in  the  hands  of  manufac­
turers  are  good.  The  market  certainly 
shows  no  weakening  tendency. 
The 
only  unsatisfactory  end  of  the  market  is 
the  fancy  goods  department,  where  the 
business  done  to  date  has  been  very 
light,  and  the  prospects  are  obscure.

The  cancellations 

sufficient 

volume 

Underwear—Manufacturers  of  under­
wear,  both  those  that  purchase  their 
yam  and  those  that  do  their  own  spin­
ning,  are  very  much 
interested  in  the 
various  developments  of  the  new  cotton 
crop  and  are  anxious  to  note its strength 
and  weakness. 
It  has  been  estimated 
that the  increased  acreage  in  the  United 
States  amounts  to  9.76  per  cent.  A  few 
months  ago  there  was  almost  a  cotton 
famine.  Now  the  situation  is  entirely 
different.  While  the  present  season  will 
end  with 
less  stocks  of  cotton  on  hand 
than  has  been  the  case  for  years,  it  is 
also  true  that  the  high price has checked 
the  demand  to  a  very 
large  degree. 
This  high price  obtained during the  1899 
season 
is  the  cause  of  the  increased 
amount  of  acreage.  While  there  have 
been  certain  signs  of  weakness  for  the 
new  crop,  we  note,  on  the  whole,  more 
steadying  influences  at  work.  Although 
there  is  a  much  larger  space  devoted  to 
the  growing  of  cotton,  it  has  also  been 
estimated  that  the  production  per  acre 
will  not  be  as  great  as  during  the  sea­

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Detroit, Michigan.

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Cash  Asssts,  $800,000.

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Straw  Matting— Has  been  rather  quiet 
the  last  week  or  ten  days.  The  retailers 
expected  a 
large  demand,  and  conse­
quently  most  of  them  bought  heavily. 
They  did  not  sell  as  much  as  they  an­
ticipated,  and  therefore  have  quite  a 
stock 
Importers,  who 
brought  too  much  into  the  country,  still 
have  a  large  stock,  and  are  now  offering 
it  at  lower  figures  than  at  the  first  of  the 
season.

left  on  hand. 

Oil  Cloth—The  manufacturers  of  floor 
oil  cloth  and  linoleum  held  a meeting  in 
Philadelphia  last  Tuesday.  A  general 
discussion  of  the  present  conditions 
in 
the  market  took  place,  and  it  was  de­
cided  to 
leave  the  prices  where  they 
were,  for  the  present  at  least.

T he  “ B ourbon  R ed”  T urkey.

The  “ Bourbon  Red’ ’  turkey  gets 

its 
name 
from  having  been  domesticated 
mostly  in  Bourbon  county,  K y.,  says  an 
exchange.  They  are  descendants  of  a 
wild  turkey 
formerly  common  in  Ken­
tucky,  Southern  Iowa  and  Missouri  and 
Northern  Arkansas. 
The  prevailing 
color,  of  course, 
is  red,  with  white 
wings  and  tail,  with  two  narrow  black 
stripes  on  the  body  feathers.  They  are 
a  pure  breed,  resembling  the  bronze 
turkey 
in  size,  shape  and  weight,  but 
more  hardy,  better  layers  and  less liable 
to  wander  from  home.  They  are  also 
heavier breasted  than  the  bronze turkey.

F r u it  by  th e   T rainload.

From  the Delta,  Colorado, Independent.

A   trainload  of  fruit  a  day  is  the  pros­
pect  ahead  of  the  fruit  growers  of  Delta 
county.  Two  years  ago,  with  an  or­
dinary  crop,  three carloads  a  day  during 
the  height  of  the  season  was  the  record. 
This  year  there  is  certainly  four  or  five 
times  the  amount  of  fruit  we  then  had, 
which  means  twelve  or  fifteen  carloads 
a  day.  Packers  and  haulers  will  be  in 
demand  this  year,  and  the  commission 
men  will  have  their  hands  full  taking 
care  of  it.

And  all  thin  goods  to  close  at 
special  prices  next  two  weeks.

P .  S T E K E T E E   &   S O N S ,  G ran d   R a p id s,  M ich .

<jjjj> Two  Bargains in 
|  

#
Umbrellas  and  Parasols,  §

One lot of men’s 30 inch fast black  with  natural 
stick handles at $4.75 p er dozen.

One lot of Ladies’ 26 inch fast black  serge,  steel 
rod with sliver mounted  Handles  at  $4.75  per 
dozen.

If your stock Is low sort up now.  Our line Is one 
of the best we have ever shown.

V O I G T ,   H E R P O L S H E I M E R   &   C O . .  
W HO LESALE  DRY  G O O D S .
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Hardware

Some  Thing«  th e   Jo b b e r  Should Consider.
It  has  seemed  to  me  that  the  sub­
joined  views  are  woithy  of  expression, 
because  of  a  deep-rooted  conviction  on 
my  own  part  that  competition  in  the 
sales  department  is  gradually,  but  sure­
ly,  depriving  the  jobber  of  the  compen­
sation  to  which  his  mental  and  physical 
labor  is  entitled.

I  beg  to  ask  if  the  jobber  is  not  pay­
ing  the  “ fixed  charges”   against  his  in­
vestment,  practically,  for  the  glory  of 
buying  and  selling 
large  amounts  of 
goods.

In  other  words,  is  the  actual  net  profit 
resulting  from  the  jobbers’  business  any 
greater  than  the  legal  interest  the 
job­
bers  could  draw  on  their  net  cash  capi­
tal,  without  mental  or  manual  exertion?
The  jobber  pays  taxes,  license,  house 
in­
rent,  furniture,  fixtures,  insurance, 
terest, 
transportation,  R.  G.  Dun  & 
Co.,  clerk  hire,  express,  telegraph,  pos­
tal, 
telephone,  gas,  electric  light  bills, 
lawyers’  fees,  court  costs,  fuel,  traveling 
men,  their  salaries  and  traveling  ex­
penses,  to  beg  the  retail  merchants  to 
accept  his  capital  without  security.

This  process  of  distributing  capital  is 

called  “ merchandising.”

If  some  one  comes  to  your  (the  job­
ber’s)  office— paying  his  own  expenses 
— and  asks  for  the  use  of  some  of  your 
capital,  on  personal  or  real  security,  it 
is  a  different  process  of  distribution, 
and  is  called  “ lending.”

Remember,  I  do  not  bring  these  two 
methods  of  employing  your  capital  face 
to  face  because  they  are  unfriendly  to 
each  other.  They  are  dependent  one 
upon  the  other,  and  I  am  pleading  for 
friendly  co-operation.

When  you employ your capital by lend­
jus­
ing  it,  you  either  get  security  that 
tifies  you 
in  overlooking  the  character 
and  the  assets  of  the  borrower,  or  you 
select  a  borrower  whose  character  and 
assets  justify  you  in  overlooking  secur­
ity ;  and  the  borrower  neither  expects 
nor  gets  any  of  your  labor  in  addition 
to  the  loan.

You  reserve  all  your  mental  and phys­
ical  liberty,  and  if  anyone  employs your 
services  you  are  paid  for the  same  as  if 
you  had  not  loaned  your  capital.

Let  us  see  how 

it  is  with  the  other 

process,  merchandising.

justifies  you 

When  you  “ sell”   $10  o r$ i,o o o “ on 
credit, ”   how  often  do  you  get  security 
that 
in  overlooking  the 
character  and  assets  of  the  purchaser?
How  often  do  you  select  a  purchaser 
whose  character  and  assets justify you in 
overlooking  security?

How  often  do  you  select  a  purchaser 
who  has  swindled  you  once,  or  whose 
assets  are  less  than  the  law  of  his  state 
exempts?

Perhaps  you  will  tell  me,  as  I  have 
always  been  told,  that  neither the jobber 
nor  the  retailer 
is  dealing  in  m oney; 
that  they  are  dealing  in  “ goods;”   and 
that  if  you  were  dealing  in  money  you 
would  stop  the  above-mentioned  twenty- 
one  fixed  charges  upon  your  capital, 
and  take  things  easy,  as  the 
lender 
does;  and-1  am  told,  also,  ’ ‘ that  we  can 
not  handle  boots  and  shoes,  dry  goods, 
groceries  and 
iron  as  we  could  handle 
money. ’ ’

This  is  the  same  as  saying  there  is  a 
difference  between  goods  and  money. 
Everyone  knows  there 
is  a  difference 
between  money  and  goods  as  far as their 
purpose  and  appearance  are  concerned, 
but  may  1  ask  you  what  difference  there 
tender
js  between  a  dollar 

in_  legal 

M IC H I G A N   TR A D E S M A N

In  other  words,  what 

money  and  a  dollar’s  worth  of  your 
goods? 
is  the 
difference  between  the  money  you  pay 
for  a  stock  of  goods  and  the  stock  of 
goods  you  buy  for the  money?

Is  the  value  of  the  money  you  paid 
greater  to  you  than  the  value  of  the 
goods  you  received  for  the  money?

If  you  answer  yes,  may  I  ask  why  you 

made  the  exchange?

If  you  answer  no,  don’t  you  admit 
that  the  money  and  the  goods  are  of  the 
same  value,  or  concede  that  the  goods, 
(the  things  you  are  dealing 
in)  are 
worth  more  than  the  money?

Therefore  (even  if  you  were  not  deal­
ing  in  money),  are  you  justified  in  dis­
tributing  your  goods less cautiously  than 
the  lender  distributes  something  which, 
according  to  your  actions,  is  less  valu­
able  than  your  goods?

But  the  writer  respectfully  avers  that 

you  are  dealing  in  money.  Why?

When 

any  one  of  your  customers 
comes 
into  your  office  and  asks  your 
book-keeper  how  much  he  (your cus­
tomer)  owes  you,  will  your  book-keeper 
teli  the  customer  that  the  latter owes you 
ten  bags  of  coffee,  or  ten  tons  of  iron?

If  your  book-keeper  gives  the  usual 
answer to  your  customer’s question,  con­
sistency  would  suggest  that  you  dis­
charge  your  book-keeper  for  breaking 
the  eighth  commandment, 
for  we  all 
know  that  the  retailer  can  not  owe  the 
jobber  something  the  retailer  did  not 
buy  and  that  the 
jobber  did  not  se ll; 
and  we  all  know  that  he  (the  retailer) 
could  not  buy  and  that  you  (the  jobber) 
could  not  sell  something  that  neither  of 
you  deals  in.

representative  of 

Consistency  would  suggest  that  the 
borrower  say  neither  he  nor  the  lender 
is  dealing 
in  money,  because  the  bor­
rower  received  a  check  and  the  lender
received  a  note,  and  no  money  passed 
between  them ;  for  the  check  and  the 
note  are  no  more  representative  of  the 
lender’s  money  than  the  goods  and  the 
account  are 
your 
money.  Consequently,  the  goods  and 
the  account  are  none  the  less representa­
tives  of  money  than  the  check  and  the 
note,  as  long  as  you  retain  the  owner­
ship  of  the  goods  they  represent,  to 
you,  the  number  of  dollars  you  paid,  or 
promised  to  pay, 
for  the  goods.  As 
soon  as  you  part  with  the  ownership  of 
the  goods  they  cease  to  exist,  for  the 
sale  has  cancelled  the  purchase,  and 
the  difference  between  the  number  of 
dollars  you  paid,  or  promised  to pay,  as 
compared  with  the  number  of  dollars 
you  received,or  expect  to receive,  is  the 
interest  on  the  money  you  invested  in 
the  goods,  plus  your  salary  or  compen­
sation  for  your  labor  and  talent.

J.  T.  Jenkins.

A m biguous  E p itap h s. 

'Washington Correspondence Chicago Record.

Speaking  of 

ambiguous  epitaphs, 
Robert  Christy,  Esq.,  of this  city,  says 
that  he  found  three  in  an  old  cemetery 
near  New  London,  Conn.,  which  he 
considers  satirical.  They  are  at  least 
subject  to  a  double  construction.  The 
first  expresses  the  sentiments  of  a  sea 
captain  upon  the  death  of  his  fourth 
wife,  as  follows:

Behold, ye living mortals passing by,
How thick the partners or one husband lie; 
Vast and unsearchable the ways of God, 
Just, but severe, His chastening rod.
These  lines,  however,  are  not  quite  so 
clear  as  two  couplets  from the Scriptures 
which  were  engraved  by  another  double 
widower  upon  the  tombs  of  his deceased 
partners.  Under the  epitaph  of  the  first 
wife  w as:

The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken  away;
Blessed be the name of the Lord.
On  the  tombstone  of  the  second  wife, 
which  stands  beside  the  other,  is  th is: 

I called upon the Lord and He heard me 
And delivered me out of all my troubles.

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V aried  E xperience  o f a  H ardw are B roker.
The  eventful  second  day  of  May  was 
drawing  to  a  close.  Seated  before  a 
small  roll-top  desk,  Grindstone  looked 
contentedly  at  a  number of entries which 
the  light  from  a  bracket  lamp  attached 
to  the  desk  side  revealed  in  a  long  nar­
row  book  lying  open  before  him.  T ilt­
ing  back 
in  his  chair  until  the  proper 
poise  permitted  an  easy  rocking motion, 
he  gave  himself  up  to  the  vistas  of  un­
checked,  expanding  conquest,  stretching 
away  in  every  direction.

Visionary  messenger  boys  arrived  in 
quick  succession,  adding their telegrams 
to  the  stack  of  mail  orders  on  his  desk, 
while  a  phantom  typewriter  was  busy 
clicking  away  at  his  dictation.  Appli­
cations  for  positions  from  unfortunate 
hardware  clerks  were  not  deposited  in 
the  waste  basket.  A  continued  stamp­
ing  on  the  landing  outside shattered this 
mental  picture,  and  the 
long  surveyor 
entered,  spraying  everything 
in  reach 
as  he  brushed  the  melting  snow  from 
his  overcoat.

“ I  am  queen  of  the  May,  mother!”  
he  sang  sarcastically,  drawing a  chair to 
the  cannon  stove,  in  which  was  blazing 
a  good  fire  of  soft  coal. 
“ Grindstone, 
are  you  the  weather  Jonah?”   he  con­
tinued.

“ I  wish  I  was,”   laughed  Grindstone, 

“ as  it  suits  me  to  a  T .”

“ How’s  that?”   questioned  the  sur­
“ You  can’t  sell  hose  this  kind 

veyor. 
of  weather. ’ ’

“ Indeed  1  can,”   replied  Grindstone. 
“ If  we  had  genuine  spring  weather 
my  name  would  be  Dennis,  for  then  the 
people  would  have  gone  to  the hardware 
stores 
in  April  to  buy  their  hose.  As 
it  is  they  have  given  their  hose  require­
ments  no  thought,  and  the  store  people 
have  done  no  soliciting.  You  may  be­
lieve  1  watched  that  pretty  closely  the 
last  month.  Just  listen  to  th is,”   read­
ing  from  the  book  on  the  d esk:

“ Judge  Patterson,  ioo  feet  woven  cot­
ton  hose,  coupled,  $14.20;  Dr.  Layton, 
50  feet,  $7.10;  and,  let’s  see,  here  are 
six  others,  50  feet  each,  besides  old  Joe 
Buck. ’ ’

“ You  didn’t  get  old  Joe,  did  you?”  

Noticing  this  the  surveyor  said  sym­
pathetically,  “ Yes,  I  know;  it  makes 
you  feel  as  though  you  were  of  some  ac­
count— as  though  you  had  done  some­
thing. ”

“ That’s 

it  exactly,  French,”  

ex­
claimed  Grindstone. 
“ You  express  my 
meaning  with  mathematical exactness. ”  
“ But  see  here,”   enquired  French, 
from  the  stove,  “ where 
I  don’t  see 

moving  back 
have  you  stored  the  hose? 
any  around.”

“ Why,  that’s  the  beauty  of  the  whole 
thing,”   Grindstone  replied,  walking 
back  and 
forth  between  the  stove  and 
the  alcove.  “ I have a  quotation  on  1,000 
feet  and  taken  orders  for  500.  The doc- 
i tor,  old  Joe  and  the  rest  understand 
there  must  be  enough  club  members 
(this  with  a  smile)  to  get  1,000  feet,  so 
they  are  nearly  as  much  interested  as  1 
am  to  secure  subscribers  for  the  re­
maining  500. 
I  put  up  no  money  at  all 
in  the  deal.  The  hose  people  wanted 
reference,  so  the  cashier  at  the  National 
said  I  could  refer  to  his  bank  and  he 
would  fix  that  part.  This  means 60  days 
in  which  to  make  my  collections,  and 
there  is  no  risk  with  the  club  members, 
as  they  are  as  good  as  gold. 
If  I  had 
the  ready  cash  I  could  take the ten days’ 
like  the  idea  of 
discount,  but  1  don’t 
borrowing,  and 
isn’t  really  neces­
sary. ’ ’

it 

“  You mentioned  receptions  a  moment 
ago,”   said  French.  “ Do  you  think  be­
ing 
in  society  helps  one  in  his  busi­
ness?”

“ Suppose,”   replied  Grindstone,  “ we 
look  around  at  some  of  our  townspeople 
and  see.  There is  Mr.  Burnside. ’Years 
ago  he  made  the  first  of  his  lathes  in his 
blacksmith  shop,  working  at  them  at 
night,  and,  while  now  he  entertains 
quite  often,  it 
is  evident  he  is  bored, 
but  makes  the  sacrifice  for  his  daugh­
ter’s  sake,  and,  as  the  entire  product 
of  the  works  is  shipped away,  entertain­
ing  townspeople  doesn’t  help  his  busi­
ness.  Then  there 
is  Steele,  of  the  old 
hardware  firm.  He  never  has  had  but 
one  or  two  strangers  at  his  house 
for  a 
meal,  and  they  were  horse  buyers;  yet 
he  is  successful  and  respected.”

interrupted  the  surveyor.

“ Yes,  I  d id ,”   replied  Grindstone. 
“ Here  he  is,  down  for  50  feet.  You  see, 
he  joined  our  club.  Old  Joe,  you  know, 
won’t  buy  anything  unless  he  thinks 
he’s 
in  on  the  ground  floor,  so  when  I 
saw  him  I  used  the  same  argument  that 
was  successful  with  the  others.”

“   ‘ Now,  Mr.  B uck,’  I  said,  ‘ if  you 
haven’t  made  any  arrangement  for  the 
hose  you  will  want when  the water works 
is  done,  it  may  be  possible'for  you,  to 
join  a  club  we  are  getting  up  to  get 
good  hose  at  the  1,000  foot  price.’  Of 
lots  of  questions,  but 
course  he  asked 
the  proposition  on 
its  face  seemed  so 
plausible  that  he  ordered  with  less  hesi­
tation  than  I  really  expected.  Besides, 
he  was  taken  with  that 
five-year-old 
relic.  You  know  Burns  cut  off  about  a 
foot  and  gave 
it  to  me  for  a  sample. 
His  expiring  kick  was  against  the  odd 
10  cents  for  the  couplings,  but  the  list 
of  names  I  showed  him 
settled  that. 
Therefore  I  say  with  the  Little  Tycoon, 
‘ Never  mind  the  weather,’  as  I  will  net 
about  $14  out  of  my  day’s  work.

“ Do  you  know,  French,”   he  contin­
ued,  as  he  put  away  the book and  closed 
the  desk,  “ there  is  an  exhilarating  feel­
ing  after  a  day 
like  this  that  I  enjoy 
more  than  going  to  parties  and  recep­
tions.  And  it’s  not the money altogether, 
It’s  more  like— ”   he  hesitated, 
either. 
at 
loss  for  words  to  express  a  sensation 
but  ill  defined.

F rench.

answered 

Grindstone, 

“ There  might  be  an  exception  in  his 
case,”  
“ his 
business  dealings  being largely  with  the 
ladies.  They  buy  wall  paper,  art  goods 
and  such  things  to  decorate  the  house, 
and  I  dare  say  it  pays  him  to  cultivate 
the  entertainers,  especially  in  a  town  of 
this  size. 
In  fact,  I  know  he  considers 
it  a  good  advertisement  to  be  seen  at 
the  different  houses,  and  when  he  meets 
strangers,  especially  new  residents,  he 
has  himself  introduced  as  Mr.  Thomp­
son,  the  artist,  so  that,  in  the  explana­
tion  which  ensues,  the  stranger  knows 
who  he 
is,  where  his  store  is  and  all 
about  the  goods  he  has  to  sell.”

“ How  is  it  in  the  case  of  the  hard­
ware  broker?”   asked  French,  as  Grind­
stone  put  on  his  coat.

“ Myself?  Oh, 

I  haven’t  been  one 
long  enough  to  find  out. 
I  think  I  may 
be  able  to  answer  that  question  to-mor­
row,  as  father  will  have  Mr.  Burnside 
and  some  more  of  these  substantials  at 
the  house  this  evening,  and  I  think  in 
the  hour  of  relaxation  Grindstone,  Jr., 
may  be  able  to  benefit  by  the  kindly 
sentiment  established  throygh  the  hos­
pitality  of  Grindstone,  Sr.  So  good 
night.” — Iron  Age.

Reputation 

outside.  Character 
the  dark  or  in  the  heart.

is  what  you  are  on  the 
in 

is  what  you  are 

“ How  about  Thompson?”   enquired 

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

Hardware  Price  Current

Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire.

Nails

A ugurs  and  B its

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

60
26
60

Axes

First Quality, S. B. Bronze......................... 
First Quality, I). B. Bronze....................... 
First Quality, 8. B. S.  Steel................  
First Quality,  D. B. Steel.......................... 

B arrow s

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

B olts
Stove....................................................... 
.............................. 
Carriage, new  li«* 
P lo w ...........  
 
B uckets

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

 

7  75

7 00
11 60
13 00

18 00

30 00

50
50  1C
50

$4 00

 

Steel nails, base....................................  
Wire nails, base.................................... 
20 to 60 advance....................................  
10 to 16 advance..................................... 
8 advance..............  
 
6 advance.............................................. 
4 advance.............................................. 
3 advance.............................................. 
2 advance.............................................. 
Flne3  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

65
60

40&10
20

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

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

Ropes

2 60
2  60
Base
6
10
20
30
46
70
15
25
36
25
35
46
85

50
45

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

10H
16

60

25 00

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

B utts,  Cast

C artridges

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

C hain

...7 %  
...  834 
Crow bars

Caps

14 in. 

5-16 In. 
Com...............   8  c.  ...  7  c. 
BB..................  9 
BBB...............  9H 

X In. 
... 6  c. 
.. . 634 
... 7H 

14 In.
... 6  c.
... 6H
... 73<

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

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

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

Chisels

Elbow s

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

E xpansive  B its

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

F iles—New  List

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

G alvanized  Iro n

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

13 

16 

14 

Discount, 65 10

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

Gauges

Glass

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

H am m ers

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

H inges

H ollow   W are

Pots.......... ...................................•......... 
K ettles.................................................... 
Spiders.................................................... 

H orse  N ails

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

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

Iro n

6

65
56
45
76

65
66
66
66

65
126
40&10

30&10
26

70&10
70
60&10

28
17

60&10

80&20
85&10
80&10

33H
40&10
70

60&10

50&10
50&10
50&10

40&10
5

70
20&10

Bar Iron.................................................2 75  c rates
Light Band............................................   334c rates

K nobs—New  L ist

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

85
1  00

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

6 25
f  00

L an tern s

Levels

M attocks

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

Adze Eye...................................$17 oo..dis 

M etals—Zinc

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

M iscellaneous

70

60

7H
8

40
Bird Cages............................................. 
70
Pumps, Cistern...................................... 
Screws, New L ist.................................  
80
Casters, Bed and P late........................   50&10&10
Dampers, American.............................  
50

M olasses  G ates

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

60&10
30

F ans

Fry, Acme..............................................   60&10&10
Common,  polished...............................  
70&5
P a te n t  P lan ish ed   Iro n  

“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........................... 
Sdota Bench.......................... 
 
Sandusky Tool  Co.’s, fancy................. 
Bench, first quality...............................  

50
60
50
*o

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

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

Sand  P ap er

Sash  W eights

Sheet  Iro n

com. smooth,  com.

$3 00
3 00
3 20
3 30
3 40
3 80
All Sheets No.  18 and  lighter,  over  30  inches 

NOS. 10 to 14  ...................................$3 20 
NOS. 15 to 17 ....................................   3 20 
Nos. 18 to 21.....................................  3 30 
Nos. 22 to 24,..................................   3 40 
Nos. 25 to 26.....................................  3 50 
No. 27................................................  3 60 
wide, not less than 2-10 extra.

Shells—Loaded

Loaded with Black  Powder..................dls 
40
l»aded with  Nitro  Powder..................dis  40&10

Shot

Drop........................................................ 
B Band  Buck........................................ 

Shovels  and  Spades

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

1  50
176

8  60
8  10

Solder

Squares

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

Steel and  Iron............... , ....... ; ............  

T in—M elyn  G rade

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

Each additional  X on this grade, $1.25.

T in—A llaw ay  G rade

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

Each additional X on this grade, $1.60

B o iler  Size  Tin  P late 
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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

18
Clerks’  Corner.

H ow   Jo h n   B lu n t T au g h t  th e  Shoe  C lerk 

Written for the Tradesman.

a   Lesson.

“ Talking  about  slick  tricks,”   said 
one  of  three  men  who  was  waiting  his 
turn  in  a  barber  shop  the  other  evening, 
“ you  never  saw  anything 
to  beat  a 
trick  that  was  played  on  me  when  I  was 
a  youngster  and  clerking 
in  a  shoe 
store.

“ In  those  days  we  didn’t  have  the 
early  closing,  but  kept  open  at  night 
anywhere 
from  9  until  11.  Our  boss 
was  a  pretty  good  sort  of  an  old  chap 
and,  except  on  Saturdays,  never  came 
back  to  the  store  after  supper,  This 
gave  us  fellows  a  good  chance  to  fix 
things  to  suit  ourselves  and  we arranged 
to  take  night  about  going  home  early. 
There  never  was  any  great  rush  during 
the  evening  and  one  clerk  could  handle 
the  trade  easily  enough.

“ It  had  been  raining  to  beat  the  band 
for  the  greater  part  of  the  day  and  after 
Old  Dull,  as  we  boys  called  him,  had 
taken  his  departure  for  home,  Jim,  the 
other  clerk,  dug  out  and  left  me  to  take 
care  of  the  store  for the  remainder of 
the  evening.  Well,  l  lighted  one of Old 
Dull’s  cigars  and  for  a  time  made  my­
self  as  comfortable  as  I  could  in  his 
chair,  with  my  feet  on  his  desk.  I had  a 
sort  of 
‘ I’m-monarch-of-all-I-survey’ 
feeling,  as  I  sat  there and listened to  the 
rain  splashing  against 
the  windows. 
Old  Dull  smoked  the  very best of cigars, 
so  I  punished  a  couple  of  them  before  I 
quit. 
It  was  about  9  o’clock  and  I  was 
thinking  about  closing  the  store  when  1 
suddenly  remembered  that  there  Was  an 
invoice  of  boots  in  the  back  room which 
Old  Dull  had  told  me  to  unpack  and 
mark. 
If  I  left  them  until  morning  he 
would  be  sure  to  find  fault  with me,  so  I 
got  the  bill  and  proceeded  to  open  the 
cases. 
In  those  days  we  sold  a  great 
many  boots.  They  were  just  as  much 
in  demand  then  as  shoes  are  now  for 
men’s  wear.  We  had  a  rod  down  the 
middle  of  the  store  hung  with  a  dozen 
pairs  of  boots, 
the 
pulls.  It was quite a handy  arrangement, 
as  the  size  wa$  marked  on  the  Sole  of 
each  boot  and  you  could  select  what you 
wanted  at  a  glance.  I  never  thought  for 
a  minute  that  a  customer  would  come 
out  in  such  a  rain,  so  I  worked  away  in 
the  back  room  and  left  the  store  to  take 
care  of 
I  must  have  made  a 
good  deal  of  noise  while  taking  the  tops 
off  of  the  cases,  for  otherwise  I  should, 
have  heard  anyone  who  came  into  the 
store.  At  any  rate  the  one  customer  of 
the  evening  came  in  without  my  hear­
ing  him. 
in  the  back 
for  fully  half  an  hour.  When  1 
room 
re-entered  the  store  room,  invoice 
in 
hand,  there  stood  a  slouchv  looking  fel­
low  with  a  pair  of  boots  slung  across 
one  of  his  shoulders.  He  accosted  me 
with,  ‘ Say,  youngster,  ye  don’t  seem  to 
keer  whether  ye  wait  on  yer  customers 
er  not.  I’ ve  ben  a  prancin’  around  here 
fer  half  an  hour  tryin’  to  find  some  one 
to  fit  a  pair  of  rubbers  on  these  here 
boots. 
in  town ; 
but  thar  ain ’t  none  of  ’em  got  rubbers 
big  enough  to  fit  ’em. ’

I’ve  tried  every  store 

tied  together  by 

I  was  at  work 

itself. 

Oh ! that  s what  you  want,  is  it?’ 

I 
said.  ‘ I ’m  sorry  to  have  kept  you  wait­
ing,  but  I  think  I  can  fix  you  all  right  ’
I  got  the  biggest  pair of  rubbers  we had 
in  the  store,  fitted  them  on  to  the  boots, 
played  smart  by  charging  him  a  dollar 
for  them,  when  the  price  was  only  7c 
cents,  and  the  fellow  left  the  store,  evi­
dently  well  pleased.  He  had  been  gone 
about  five  minutes  when  I  discovered

that  there  was  a  pair  of  boots  missing 
from  the  rod  in  the  middle  of  the  store. 
We  never  had  more  than  twelve  pairs  of 
boots  on  this  rod  at  a  time  and  I  had 
filled  it  late  that  afternoon. 
I  had  been 
so  very  smart  that  I  had  fitted  a  pair  of 
rubbers  onto  a  pair of  our  own  four  dol­
lar  boots.  The  fellow  had  taken  ad­
vantage  of  my  absence  to  secure  the 
boots  and  then  played  a  slick  trick  on 
me  besides.  You  could  have  knocked 
me  down  with  a  feather.  What  would 
1  was 
Old  Dull  say  when  I  told  him? 
worried  and  greatly  put  out ;  but  it  was 
useless  to  think  of  following  the  fellow, 
so  I  closed  the  store  and  went  home.

over  his  shoulder. 

“ The  next  morning  I  was  telling  Jim, 
my  fellow  clerk,  how  the  country  jay 
had  fooled  me,  when  Old  Dull  walked 
in.  He  had  a  grin  as  broad  as  a  wash- 
tub  on  his  face  and  he had that identical 
pair  of  boots  and  those  same  rubbers 
slung 
I  almost 
dropped  dead,  for  I  saw  through  the 
whole  thing.  The  old  man  had  fixed 
himself  up  and  done  a  littie  investi­
gating.  He  didn’t  say  a  word,  but hung 
the  boots  up  on  the  rod,  pulled  the  rub­
bers  off,  and  put  them  into  the  drawer 
where  they  belonged  and  went  back  to 
his  desk.  For  about  ten  minutes  you 
could  hear  Old  Dull’s  pen  scratching 
in  that  store  and  then  he 
anywhere 
called  my  name. 
I  went  back  to  his 
desk  and,  without  a  word,  he  handed 
me  my  wages  up  to  date.  He  also  gave 
me  a  written  recommendation  which 
read  as  follows :

“ To  whom  it  may  coiicerfi!  William 
Smartly  has  beën  in  my  employ  for  One 
is  a  good  salesman  when  he 
year.  He 
is  watched.  He 
is  also  honest  under 
the  same  conditions. 
If  you  have  time 
to  be  always  watching  him,  hire  him; 
if  you  haven’t,  don’t.

lifetime  to  me. 

“ It  was  a  slick  trick,  but  it  was  the 
lesson  of  a 
I  got  em­
ployment  after  a  while  in  a  neighboring 
city;  but  you  can  bet  I  attended to busi­
ness  from  the  word  go. 
I truly  consider 
that  I  owe  my  success  in  business  to the 
lesson  which  John  Blunt  taught  m e," 
MàcÀilaii:

T në  Successful  B uyer,  F inan cier, B u ild er 

and  C redit  Ulan.

The  man  who  buys  stocks  judiciously 
— the  kind  the  people  want— no  more 
than  he  can  sell— at  prices  which  will 
give  him  a  reasonable  profit— is  a  suc­
cessful  buyer.

The  man  who  can  make  his  capital 
go  far—get 
it  back  again  with  an  in­
crease— do  it  often  enough  and  meet  his 
payments promptly,  is a successful finan­
cier.

The  man  who  can  get 

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

The  man  who  can  decide  what  people 
will  pay  if  trusted— how  much  to  trust 
them— and  can  curtail  or  cut  off  when 
they  cease  to  be  good  risks,  is  a  good 
credit  man. 

W.  C.  Cornwell.

A   well-known  business  man 

in  Chi­
cago  has  this  to  say  about  advertising :
I  must  advertise  if  I  would  get  results 
from  the  men  on  the  road.  Before  I 
advertised,  my  travelers,  on  entering  an 
office,  would  be  told: 
‘ We  are  not  ac­
quainted  with  your  firm,’  and  in  many 
cases  found  they  could  not  secure  recog­
nition  from  the  people,  but  as  soon  as  I 
begmn  to  advertise  I  had  a  different  ex­
perience.  My  men  found  it  was  equiv­
alent 
to  a  letter  of  introduction  from  a 
m utual  friend.  ‘ Oh,  yes,  we  have  noted 
your  advertisement,  and  feel  acquainted 
with 
influence 
aion  e  our  advertisement  pays,  whether 
we  {  »et  direct  orders  or  not.”

your  house.’ 

this 

In 

MICA 

AXLE

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

ILLU M IN A TIN G   AND 
LU BR IC A TIN G   OILS

W ATER  WHITE  HEADLIGHT  OIL  IS  THE 

STA ND A RD   THE  W ORLD  O V ER

HISHSST  PRICK  PAID  FOR  EMPTY  OARBON  AND  OASOLINB  BARRELS

STA ND A RD   OIL  C O .

HEMLOCK  BARK

0 4

Highest Cash 
prices  paid  and 

bark  measured 

promptly  by  ex­

perienced  men. 

Cal)  on  or  write 

us.

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G r & p d   R a p i d s  

B & r K   & i? d  

L u r p b e r  

C o n j p a i j y

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

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

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

19

FR U IT   FA RM   FO R  SALE.

B erries  in  th e   Dew  and  F lu sh   o f  Y outh. 
Written for the Tradesman.

The  day  was  yet  young,  and  we  were 
smoking  cigars 
in  the  little  glass  den 
which  was  sacred  to  the  accounts  and 
the  personal  affairs  of  my  friend,  the 
fat-faced  commission  man.

In  the  big  wareroom  outside,  clerks 
and  porters  were  pushing  goods  in  on 
trucks  and  out  on  trucks,  and  the  eleva­
tors  were  shooting  up  and  down  their 
dark  shafts  with  the regularity of piston- 
rods  set  up  on  end.

Into  this  whirl  of  industry  came  from 
the  street  a  tall,  lean,  solemn-faced man 
of  middle  age,  stoop-shouldered  and  at­
tired 
funereal  black,  although  the 
morning  was  warm,  with  a  foggy  and 
sticky  atmosphere  that  one  could  almost 
squeeze  water  out  of,  like  a  sponge.

in 

Looking  through  the  glass  partition, 
we  saw  this  new  arrival  talking  with  a 
clerk  here  and  a  porter  there,  getting  a 
good  many  bumps  and  very  few  re­
sponses  to  his  enquiries.  He  reminded 
me  of  a  man  standing  in  a  mile-wide 
trainyard,  trying  to  engage  in  conversa­
tion  with  the  locomotives  as  they  pick 
their  way  over  the  network  of  tracks.

“ I  wonder  what  that  chap  wants?”  
said  the  merchant,  presently. 
‘ ‘ I  sup­
pose  I’ ll  have  to  go  out  there  and  find 
out.  The  boys  are  pretty  busy  this 
morning. ’ ’

Just then  one  of  the  busy men outside, 
who  had  bumped  the  stranger’s  shins 
with  a  crate  of  berries,  pointed  to  the 
in  a  moment  the  man 
office  door,  and 
stood  rapping  upon 
it,  his  eyes  fixed 
apprehensively  on  a  procession  of  bar­
rels  that  had  just  started  down  the ware- 
room  floor.

‘ ‘ Come  in ,”   said  the  merchant,  open­
ing  the  door  with  a  pleasant  smile  on

“ Occasionally. ”
“ I  thought  so. 

to  sell.”

I’ve  got  one  I  want 

his  face. 
myself  now.  The  boys  have 
minutes  to  do  thirty  minutes'  work 
and  they  have  started 
Something  I  can  do  for  you?”

‘ ‘ I  wouldn’t  dare go  out  there 
just  ten 
in, 
in  to  win  out. 

The  stranger  threw  himself 

into  a 
chair  and  mopped  the  sweat  from  his 
face  with  a  big  white  handkerchief  that 
reminded  me  of  a  flag  of  truce.

“ Y es,”   he  said,  “ I  want  you  to  do  a 
favor  for  me.  Do  you  ever  meet  people 
who  want  to  buy  fruit  farms?”  

“ Where  is  it?”
The  stranger  named  a  little  station 

not  far  away.

it,  he  can  have 

“ What  do you  ask  for  it?”
“ Oh,  if  you  know  of  any  one  that 
wants 
it  at  his  own 
price  and  pay  for  it when  he  gets ready. 
But  he’s  got  to  take  it off my hands right 
away.  Yes,  right  away.  Before  any­
thing  else  gets  ready  for  market.”  

like 

“ Don’t 

eh?”  
asked  the  me  chant,  with  a  merry  twin­
kle  in  his  eyes.

farming, 

fruit 

lived 

“ W ell,”   was  the  slow  reply.  “ I  think 
in  my 
there’s  other  things  rather  more 
line.  You  see.  I’ve  always 
in 
large  cities,  selling  goods  at  retail,  and 
keeping  books,  and  such  like. 
I  was 
reared  in  the  country,  and  always  clung 
to  the  hope  that  some  day  I  would  have 
a 
little  place  of  my  own,  with  a  shady 
orchard  back  of  the  house,  and  a  brook 
running  through  it,  and  birds’  nests  in 
the  maples  in  front,  and  climbing  roses 
trailing  over  a  wide  porch,  and  hens  to 
greet  the  rising  sun  with  their  merry 
clatter.  You  understand?”

“ I  think  I  do.  And  you  finally  got 

such  a  place?”

“ And  when  I  used  to  sit  down  in  a 
city  restaurant  to  eat  a  meal  in  the  as­
sortment  of  atmospheres  coming 
from 
the  basement,  and  the  kitchen,  and  the 
street,  and  the  other  customers,  I  used 
to  dream  of  smiling  fields  with  emerald 
lines  drawn  about  them  by  the  hand  of 
the  Master,  and  apples  shining  through 
the 
leaves  of  great  trees,  and  berries 
with  the  dew  and  the  first  flush  of  youth 
upon 
Yes,  and  waving,  rustling 
corn,  and  tomatoes  ripening  in  the  sun. 
Oh,  I  had  it  all  figured  out.”

’em. 

“ And  finally  it  all  came  true?”   asked 

the  merchant.

“ Well,  I  worked  and  saved  until  I 
got  the  place,  and  I  moved  on  it  last 
spring.  That’s  the  place 
to 
sell.”

I  want 

bug 

that 

“ How  are  the  crops  coming  on?”
“ Oh,  the  crops  are  all  right,  such  as 
they  are. 
I'm  harvesting  a  bushel  of 
potato  bugs  a  day,  and  there  is  a  little 
green,  gentlemanlylike 
is 
coming  on  well. 
I'm  using  something 
green  on  the  potatoes,  something  blue 
on  the  plums,  and  something  brown  on 
the  currant  bushes.  The  cherries  will 
be  all  one-sided,  like  a  boxing-glove, 
because  I  used  the  wrong  color on them. 
They  have  to  have  something  blue  from 
a  barrel.  The  apples  are  all  stung,  and 
the  currants  are  doing  the  best  they  can 
without  any 
I 
don’t  want  any  more  smiling  fields  with 
emerald  lines  about  them.”

leaves  to  shelter  them. 

“ But  the  strawberries  ought  to  be  all 

right.”

“ Yes,  there’s  lots  of  strawberries. 

I 
in  the  morning  and  go  out  car­
get  up 
in 
rot ing  a  merry  song  and  seize  them 
the 
first  flush  of  youth,  just  as  I  had 
it  figured  out.  The  birds  echo  the  song 
from  the  tree,  and 
freight  man

the 

knocks  the  bottoms  out  of  the  boxes. 
And  1  guess  he  puts  trunks  on  top  of 
the  crates,too,  for  the  berries  in  the  last 
boxes  that  were  sent  back  to  me 
in  a 
damaged  condition  were  not  as  thick  as 
the  fruit  in  a  Canal  street  pie.

”  I  came  to  town  and  got  some  pick­
ers,  but  they  were  all  boys,  and  it  took 
them  so  long  to  steal  my  eggs  and  chase 
the  calf 
into  the  swamp,  and  wade  in 
the  brook  and  get  sick,  and  walk  on  the 
vines,  and  stone  the  birds,  and  ride  on 
the  pigs,  and  milk  the  cow  in  the  mid­
dle  of  the  day,  that  they  couldn’t  pick 
many  berries.

“ You  paid  me  four  cents  a  quart  for 
| some  of  the  berries,  so  I  am  not  very 
much  out  on  them. 
I  brought  another 
load  into  town  to-day,  on  my  wagon,  to 
freight,  and  a  man  down  here 
save 
offered  me 
for 
them."

three  cents  a  quart 

“ Did  you  sell  them?”
“ N o,”   was  the  reply,  “ I  drove  down 
here 
in  the  crowded  tenement  district 
and  piled  them  up  on  the  pavement. 
Then  I  told  a  lot  of  boys  to  watch  them 
and  came  away.  When  they’ve  had 
time  to  steal 
’em  all  I’m  going  back 
there and ask  the  boys  down  to  the  farm 
so  they  can  pick  their  own  fruit. 
If 
you’ll  send  a  man  out  there  to  buy  the 
place,  I’ ll  give  you  half.”

face  and  went  away. 

The  stranger  arose  with  a  perfectly 
I  didn’t 
left,  too,  for  the 

grave 
want  the 
merchant  made  a  low  offer, on  it.

farm,  so  I 

Alfred  B.  Tozer.

A  GeneniHK  Offer.

“ Didn’t  I  promise  you  a  whipping  if 
you  disobeyed  me?”   asked  his  mother.
“ Yes;  but  I’ ll  release  you  from  the 
promise,  m a,”   replied  Johnnie,  diplo­
matically.

It’s  a  Mighty  Pleasant  Feeling

S  To  sit  at  home  in  the  evening  after  a  hard
H  day’s  work  and  know  that  your  business  is
H  making;  you  money!  W ouldn’t  you  like  to
¡9  experience this sensation of making your busi-
II  ness  pay— making  it  earn  dividends?  You 
~~
m   - ...................................................... 
H  can  if you will  only  put  the  Money  W eight
H  S ystem  in  your  store— for  the  whole  secret
lies  in  weighing  your  goods  in  their  money
p||  value  and  making  your  customers  pay  you 
exactly  what  they  are  worth.  Have  you 

... 

¡1  talked with  our  salesman  lately?
H  Our scales are sold on easy monthly payments.

THE  COMPUTINO  SCALE  CO.,  Dayton,  Ohio

M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N

20

Eggs

, 

Observations  b y  a  Gotham  E gg  Han
I  came  across  some  more  washed  eggs 

It  is  a  pity  the  packer  w 

last  week. 
not  there  to  see  them.  He  would  have 
quit  this  seductive  and  ruinous  practi 
of  trying  to  make  dirty  eggs  clean.  The 
weather  had  been  warm  and  the  effect 
on  the  washed  stock  was  “ somethi 
fierce.”   The  eggs 
and 
clean  when  the  cases  were  opened,  but 
the  smell  was  strong  enough  to  pull 
train,  a 
large  proportion  of  the  stock 
being  rotten  with  a  big  R.  These 
goods  sold 
for  a  song;  had  they  bee 
left  dirty  and  unwashed  they would ha 
been  worth  much  more.  This  is  one 
the  few  cases  where  the  use  of  water  for 
cleaning  must  be  condemned.

looked  nice 

It 

As  for  egg  grading  it  is  well  for ship 
pers  to  consider  that  the  summer  season 
brings  a  greater  discrimination  -in  egg 
qualities  than  any  other.  When  it  gets 
warm  and  most  of  the  eggs  arriving 
contain  a  large  proportion  of  sunstruck 
and  heated  eggs,  dealers  who  have  first 
class  trade  have  considerable  difficulty 
in  getting  stock  to  suit  their  best  cus 
tomers. 
is  then  that  there  is  nearl 
always  a  demand  for  better qualities  c 
eggs  than  can  easily  be  found  and  there 
are  buyers  who  would  pay  a  substantia, 
advance  over  the  price of  usual qualities 
could  they  find 
just  what  they  want 
There 
is  a  grade  specified  by  the  rules 
of  the  Exchange  called  “ extra;”   its  re 
quirements  at  this  season  are  80  per 
cent,  fresh,  reasonably  full,  strong  and 
sw eet;  balance,  other  than  the loss,  may 
be  slightly  defective 
in  strength  and 
fullness,  but  must  be  sw eet;  loss  must 
not  be  over  i  dozen  per  case  to  sell  at 
m ark;  must  be  free  from  small  or  dirty 
eggs. 
I  am  inclined  to  think  a  shippei 
in  a  good  section  of  the  country  wh( 
could  put  up  stock  to  meet  these  re 
quirements  would  find  it  profitable  to do 
so.  Even 
if  so  close  a  grading  is  not 
adopted  we  should  strongly  advise  ship 
pers  to  throw  out  more  of  the  dirty, 
small  and  defective  eggs  than  they  gen­
erally  do.  Sales  of  eggs  are  ranging 
fully  2% c  per  doz.  on  usual  receipts 
on  a  case  count  basis  and  the  top  re 
suits  are  enough  higher  than the average 
to  make  even  a  partial  grading  profit 
able.

*  *  *

eggs which  are  too  weak  to  go  in  No.  i, 
but  not  badly  heated,  and  all  the  large 
sound  dirties  of  good  strength.

Third  grade,  weak  dirties  of  good 

size,  but  not  badly  heated.

Fourth  grade,  sound  checks,  all  very 
small  eggs  whether  clean  or  dirty,  and 
such  larger  clean  and  dirty  as  are  badly 
heated  but  still  good  enough  to  ship  at 
all.

Rots  should  be  carefully  kept  out  of 
even  the 
lowest  grades  and  no  checked 
eggs  should  be  packed  which  are  not 
sound  to  begin  with  or  which  are  so 
much  broken  as  to. leak.

As  to  packing 

it  should  be  remem­
bered  that  a 
little  loss  from  breakage 
amounts  to  as  much  as  the  whole  cost  of 
the  fillers.  Good,  sound  and  substan- 
ial  fillers  should  be  used  exclusively, 
even  for  the 
in 
act,  for  cracked  and  checked  eggs  a 
strong  filler  is  especially  necessary  and 
adds  materially  to  the  condition  and 
value  of  this  class  of  stock.

lower  grades.  And, 

Of  course  the  relative  value  of  the 
above  grades  would  vary  according  to 
the  closeness  of  the  assortment,  but  I  am 
quite  sure  that  the  total  amount  realized 
would  be  more  than  if  all  were  packed 
together  or 
if  only  two  grades  were 
made  aside  from  the  checks.  And  stock 
packed  after  that  formula  could  be  sold 
at  mark  all  the  time. 
In  grading  to 
make  extras  the  Exchange  rules  should 
be  carefully 
complied  with.— N.  Y 
Produce  Review.

Cood  A dvice  to  t l ie   F a rm ers, 

rorn the Orange  Judd  Farmer.
An  abuse in  the agricultural  trade  that 
ought  to  be  stopped 
is  farmers'  long- 
Mme  notes.  Farmers  can  not  afford  to 
ive  notes  for  the  purchase  of  imple 
ments,  fertilizers  and  other  supplies, 
because  they  can  usually  get  money  at 
ess  cost. 
If  you  borrow  $1,000  at  6  or 
per  cent,  per  annum,  so  as  to  get  the 
lowest  possible  spot  cash  price  for what­
ever  you  have  to  buy,  you  will  probably 
save  at 
least  io  per  cent,  on  your  pur 
chases  over  and  above  interest.  Thi 
far  more  prudent  than  to  give  note* 
high  rates 
for  goods 
bought  at  long  prices.  Yet  many  farm­
ers  utter  the 
latter  form  of  notes  who 
would  hesitate  to  borrow  money  at  a 
bank  or  of  a 
forms 
u 
ar^  equally  an  obligation  tha
the  farmer  must  meet.  Agents and  man­
ufacturers  are  partly  to  blame  for  this 
abuse  and  would  gladly  welcome  any 
’■“ form  that  would  get the business closer 
a  cash  basis.  The  latter  way  of  doing 
business  is  better  for  all  concerned,  ai 
"*  vastly  reduces  expenses  and  losses.

local  lender.  Both 

in  payment 

New  Im age  o f Tim e.

There  are  all  sorts  of  ways  adopted  in 
making  second  and  third  grade eggs and 
the  value  of  them  varies  a good  deal  ac­
cordingly.  The  aim  should  be  to  pack 
together  all  such  eggs  as  would  have  by 
themselves  about  the  same selling value. 
In  making  a  close  assortment  of  eggs  in 
the  spring  of  the  year,  when  nearly  all 
eSSs  are  ffcsh and  sound,  the  separation 
is  simplified,  the  different  grades  con­
sisting  simply  of  large  and  small,  with 
clean  and  dirty  of  each,  and  checks. 
But  in  hot  weather  we  have  these  differ­
ent  qualities  multi pled  by  the  various 
conditions  of  the  stock.  Any  shipper 
desiring  to  candle  and  grade  very  close­
ly  for  the  New  York  market  will  find 
it 
necessary  to  make  at  least  four grades— 
including  the  checks—and  the  best  re­
sults  will  be  obtained  by  putting in each 
all  those  eggs  which  have  about  the 
same  value.  After  talking  with  some 
practical  egg  sellers  about  this  matter  I 
think  the  relative  value  of  the  different 
qualities  should 
induce  grading  about 
as  follows:

First  grade,  all  good-sized  clean  eggs 

of  good  to  perfect  strength  and  body. 

Second  grade,  all  good-sized  clean

said 

Here, 

little  Arthur’s  father, 
you  ve  made  a  blunder  in  this  pic­
ture.  Your  figures  are  well  drawn,  but 
you  have  made  a  horse  with  wings  to 
represent  Time.  That  isn’t  right.  The 
horse  with  wings  is  Pegasus,  the  steed 
which  the  poet  is  supposed  to  ride, 
me  should  be  represented  bv  an  old 

man  with  a  scythe.”

often  say  Time  flies,’  don’t  thev?”

“ Well,’ ’  the  boy  replied,  “ people 
* Yes. ”
And  then  there’s  something  about 
isn’t 
taking 
there. 
If  time  isn’t  a  horse  with  wings 
how  can  it  fly  and  be  taken  by  the  fore­
lock?

time  by  the  forelock,’ 

P ick in g   C hickens  by  E lectric  P ow er 

From the Kansas City Times.

the  employes  at  Cudahy’s 
packing  house  has  invented  a  device for 
extracting  the  feathers  from  chickens 
Ik 
' I f   considerable  improvement  over 
the  old  way  of  picking  them  by  hand. 
Ihere  is  a  receptacle  in  which  the  fowl 
is  placed  after  being  killed  and 
into 
this  are  turned  several  cross  currents 
ot  air  from  electrical  fans  revolving  at 
the  rate  of  5  000  revolutions  per minute. 
If.the  twinkling  of  an  eye  the  bird  is 
stripped  of 
its  feathers,  even  to  the 
tmiest  particles  of  down,  and  the  ma­
chine  is  ready  for another.

D.  0.  WILEY  &  CO.

DETROIT,  MICH.

COMMISSION  M ERCH ANTS

E ST A B L ISH E D   1868.

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

References, Dun or Bradstreet.

Consignments  Solicited.

W E   P A Y   C A S H

Please  Mention Tradesman.

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

H A R R IS  &   F R U T C H E Y .  D e t r o it.  M ich.

Geo.  N.  Huff & Co.,

WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

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

COOLERS  AND  COLD  STORAGE  ATTACHED.

Consignments  Solicited. 

74 East Congress St., Detroit, Mich.

WE  B U Y   FOR  CA SH

Eggs  and  Butter

T X T  

IN  A N Y   Q U A N T IT Y .

A  \ T \ 7   S~\ T  T  a   \  T n n T 'T 'T   r

Hermann  C.  Naumann  &  Co.,

353  Russell  St., Opp. Eastern  Vegetable Market,  Detroit, Ml  b.  Phones 1793.

For Spot Cash

and  top  market  prices  ship  your  B U T T E R   A N D   E G G S   to

R.  Hirt, Jr.,

Wholesale  Dealer in  Butter,  Eggs and  Produce.

34 and  36  Market  S t.,  Detroit,  Mich. 

Cold  Storage,  435-437-439  Winder  St.

Rererences:  Dun or Bradstreet, City Savings Bank.

High  Prices

All other markets are easier, but we  are  getting 
good prices.  We want 600  crates  of  Eggs  every 
week to supply our trade, at lie  delivered.  The 
place to ship is where they  need  the  goods  and 
can sell on arrival and send returns.

Butter
Is ip demand at good prices.  All choice stock is 
selling on arrival at 16@icc.
Don’t fail to make us at  least  a  trial  shipment, 
as we can save  you money.

PHELPS,  BRACE  &  CO.,  Detroit

E.  A.  BRIDGE,  Manager  Produce  Department

__ _

T r a d e   m a r k

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.

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

2 1

T H E   B ELG IA N   H A RE .

B reeding th em  Becoming: » Craze T h ro u g h ­

o u t th e  C ountry.

Quite  a  large  number  of  persons  have 
engaged 
in  Belgian  hare  breeding 
throughout  the  country,  and  the  breed­
ers  are  well  distributed. 
It  is  a  very 
popular  occupation 
in  California  and 
there  are  also  a  considerable  number  of 
breeders  in  the  East,  and  especially 
in 
New  York.  In  fact,  nearly  every  North­
ern  and  Western  State  has  become  the 
home  of  the  Belgian  hare  to  a  consider­
able  extent.  A  National  Belgian  Hare 
Club  of  America  has  been  organized, 
and  has  adopted  a  score  card  goifig 
fully  into  the  details  of  Belgian hare ex­
cellence.  Much  has  been  written  on  the 
in  the  magazines  and 
subject  recently 
agricultural 
substance  of 
which  is  in  part  the  following :

press, 

the 

The  Belgian  hare  differs  materially 
from  all  other  hares  or  rabbits 
in  a 
number  of  important  particulars:  Their 
ears  are  longer,  there  is  a  greater  length 
of  head  and  the  meat  is  lighter;  they 
are  nearly  three  times  as  large  as  the 
common  rabbit,  they  bear  confinement 
well  and  thrive  admirably 
close 
quarters. 
In  color  they  are  a  rich  rufus 
red, which  is  carried  well  down  the sides 
and  hindquarters,shading  into  a  golden 
tan,and  they  are  plentifully  “ ticked” — 
that  is,  the  tips  of  the  hairs  are  black, 
which  gives  a  wavy  appearance  to  the 
coat.

in 

While  Belgian  hare  culture  at  present 
partakes  a  good  deal  of  the  nature  of 
pet  stock  growing,  the  hare  nevertheless 
Its  ability 
has  a  high  economic  value. 
to  stand  close  confinement  makes 
it 
thrive  even  in  back  yards  of city homes. 
It  is  cleanly,  easily  kept,  very  prolific 
and  its  meat  is  one  of  the  choicest  table 
delicacies.  The  meat  has  been  charac­
terized  as ‘ ‘ the rich man’s luxury and the 
poor  man's  friend,”  so  that  the  culture 
of  the  hare  seems  to  have  a  solid,  eco­
nomic  basis  in  a  business  way.  When 
raised 
for  market  purposes  it  is  most 
profitably  killed  at  the  fifth month,  when 
it  ought  to  weigh 
six 
In  flavor  it  is  said  to  surpass 
pounds. 
poultry  and  there 
is  no  waste,  all  the 
flesh  being  eatable.  Being  grain  fed, it 
is  without  the  strong  gamey  flavor  pe­
culiar  to  the  wild  rabbit.  It  is  said  that 
a  single  doe  will  raise  from  four  to  five 
litters  a  year,  with  an  average  of  eight 
is  subject  to  few  dis­
to  the 
It 
eases  and  until 
it  matures,  at,  say, 
about  six  months,  grows  very  rapidly.

from  five  to 

litter. 

Several  enquirers  ask  advice  whether 
it  would  be  wise  to  engage  in  the  busi­
ness  of  breeding  the  hare.  This  is  a 
point  upon  which  we  have  no  personal 
experience,  and  therefore  are  not  able 
to  speak  positively  about  it.  If  half that 
is  told  concerning  the  work  by  those 
who  have  been  engaged  in  it  be  true,  a 
great  deal  of  money  has  already  been 
made 
in  Belgian  hares,  the  sales  of 
some  breeders  being  fully  equal  to  those 
made  by  many  prominent  breeders  of 
pure  bred  cattle.  We  are  without  statis­
tics  in  regard  to  the  number of the breed 
in  this  country.  Warning,  however, 
has  already  been given  in  some  quarters 
that  there  will  be  a  good  many  hares  of 
impure  breeding— grade,  we  might  say 
—offered  to  the  public  during  the  com­
ing  season.  We  therefore  advise  those 
of  our  readers  who  are  meditating  in­
vestment  in  the  work  to  be  particularly 
cautious  in  dealing  only  with  reputable 
breeders,  whose  assurances  about 
the 
breeding  of  what  they  have  for  sale  can 
be  relied  upon  as  true.

There  is,  however,  another  side  to  the 
Belgian  hare  question,  which  is  con-

tained 
by  us 
Fur  Co.,  of  Minneapolis,  Minn.  ;

in  the  following  letter  received 
from  the  Northwestern  Hide  & 

immense 

We  have  received  an 

immense  num­
ber  of  enquiries  to  know  what  we  are 
paying  for  Belgian  hare  skins.  Thous­
ands  of  farmers  throughout  the  country 
are  being  humbugged  by  being  induced 
to  go  into  the  Belgian  hare  business. 
The  press  has  been  imposed  upon  by 
the  shrewd  manipulators  of  this scheme. 
They  say  that 
fortunes  are 
made  by  raising  the  hares  for  market. 
They  inform  the  press  that  the skins  are 
worth  from  50c  to $2  each  and  that  the 
meat  finds  ready  sale  in  all  the 
leading 
markets of  our  country  at  20c per pound. 
There 
is  no  demand  whatever  for  the 
skins  and  there  is  no  regular  market  for 
them  in  any of the cities  of  this  country. 
The  fur  in  this  country  is  used  only  for 
hatters’  stock,  worth  1  to  2  cents  each. 
Belgian  hare  skins  from 
foreign  coun­
tries  can  be  dressed  and  dyed  for  less 
than  one-fourth  what  these  humbugs 
claim  the  raw  skin  is  worth  here. 
It  is 
the  poorest  and  cheapest  of  all  furs,  be­
ing  so  tender  that  there  is  no wear  to  it. 
There  is  one  part  of  this  in  which  there 
is  no 
is  the  wonderful 
way  in  which  they  increase  in  numbers. 
We  prophesy  that  in  less  than  ten  years, 
when  those  who  have  the  animals  now 
turn  them 
loose,  they  will  multiply  so 
fast  that  they  will  become  a  pest  as  bad 
as  the  rabbits  are  now 
in  Australia. 
Then  the  states  will  be  called  upon  to 
pay  a  bounty  to  get  rid  of  them.
The  Kansas  City  Journal  says:
Butchers  have  started  selling  Belgian 
hare  meat. 
They  are  asking  25c.  a 
pound 
for 
it.  The  Belgian  hare  men 
say  hotels  will  take  all  they  can  get  at 
that  price.  The  meat 
is  good;  it  is 
white,  it 
is  tender,  it  is  rich,  and  the 
rabbits  will  be  slaughtered  instead  of 
It  costs  no  more  to  feed  a  big 
bred. 
than  a  small  one  (cotton 
rabbit  (hare) 
tail),  and 
four  to  ten  times  the 
weight 
is  secured.  The  Belgian  hare 
men  say  the  craze  is  general,  but  that 
there  is  no  fear  of  the  rabbits  becoming 
a  pest.

fake,  and  that 

from 

Silk  from   a   S pider’s  W eb.

One  of  the  most  novel  exhibits  at  the 
is  a  complete  set  of 
Paris  Exposition 
bed  hangings  manufactured 
in  Mada­
gascar  from  silk  obtained  from  an  enor­
mous  spider  known  as  the  halabe,  that 
is  found 
in  great  numbers  in  certain 
parts  of  the  island.  The  French  have 
been  investigating  the  value  of this fibre 
at  their technical  school at Antananarivo 
and  have  reached  the  conclusion that the 
production  of  silk 
from  this  spider  is 
worthy to  become  an important industry.
Mr.  Nogue,  the  head  of  the  school, 
says  that  each- spider  yields  from  300  to 
400 
yards  of  silk  thread.  After  the 
thread  has  been  taken  from  the  spider  it 
is  set  free  and  ten  days  later  is  ready  to 
furnish  another  supply.  The  silk  is  of 
is  finer 
a  brilliant,  golden  color  and 
than  that  of  the  silk  worm,  but 
its 
tenacity  is  remarkable.  It  can  be  woven 
without  the  least  difficulty.

P aw nbroker»  in  th e   Storage  B usiness. 

From the New York Sun.

Storage  of  household  effects  in  New 
York  is  not  as  remunerative  as  former­
ly,  according  to  the  statement  of  one 
in  the  business. 
“ This  season,”   he 
continued,  “ we  have  the  pawnbrokers 
for  competitors.  Many  persons  who 
have  small  lots  of  silverware  and  a  few 
articles  for  winter  wear  of  value  pawn 
instead  of  storing  the  same. 
It  is  not 
because  such  persons  are  hard  up,  but 
in  doing  this  they  have  the  use  of  the 
money  and  obtain  storage  at  the  same 
time.  They  do  not  hypothecate  with 
idea  of  getting  as  much  as  they 
the 
can ;  on  the  contrary, 
for 
small  amounts.  The  people  who  do 
this  would  never’  admit  pawning  any­
thing.  They  call  it  storing. 
It  is  done 
under  a  pawnbroker's 
license,  just  the 
same. ’ ’

they  pawn 

Always  remember  that  your  best  cus­
tomer  consults  his  own  interests  in deal­
ing  with  you.  Few  persons  are  so  gen­
erous  as  to  prefer  others  before  them­
selves.

^  

E STA B LIS H E D   1876. 

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General  Produce and  Dairy  Products. 

5 8   A N D   6 0   W .  M A R K E T   S T .  
1 2 1   A N D   1 2 3   M I C H I G A N   S T .  

Wholesale  Fruits, 

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

g —  Unquestioned  responsibility and business standing.  Carlots a specialty, 

Quotations on our market furnished  promptly  upon  application

^iUiUiUiUiUiUiUiUlUlUiUiUiUlUlUiUiUiUlUlUittittiUil^
i F. CUTLER & 50N S, Ionia, Mich.

WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

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

Writ^>i^irtnoi^ughes^asl^inct^^)H)jourj>tation^jytMjemi^>rom|)tb£.

Branch  Houses.

New  York, 874 Washington st.

Brooklyn, 226  Market avenue

ESTABLISHED  1886.

References.

State Savings Bank. Ionia. 
Dun's or Bradstreet's Agencies.

Poultry,  Eggs  and  Butter==

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

J.  COURT  &  SON,  Marshall,  Mich.

Branch  house at  Allegan,  Mich.

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

Both  Phones at Allegan.

Fibre  Butter  Packages

Convenient  and  Sanitary

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

Gem Fibre Package Co.

Detroit,  Michigan

ALL  GROCERS

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

THE  LEROUX  CIDER  &  VINEOAR  CO.,

Toledo,  Ohio.

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.  W e  are  also  in  the  market  for  F R E S H   E G G S .
Write  or  wire  us  for  prices.

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

J.  W.  FLEMING,  Belding.

The  Qrand  Rapids  Paper  Box  Co.

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Clippings,  Powders, etc., etc.  Gold and  Silver  Leaf work  and  Special 
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The New York Market

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th e  G rocery  and  P roduce 

Special Correspondence.

Trades.

New  York,  June  16— The  coffee  mar­
interesting  one  to 
ket  has  been  an 
“ those  whom 
it  may  concern“   during 
the  week  and  the  close  sees  a  firm  and 
advancing  situation.  Advices  intimat­
ing  a  good  deal  of  damage  to crops have 
been  received  and  they  appear  to  come 
from  generally  reliable  sources.  The 
estimated  next  crop  of  Rio  is  given  as 
2,250,000  bags,  and  of  Santos  5,000,000. 
Sellers  are  not  at  all  anxious,  if  one  can 
judge  by  appearances, 
to  part  with 
holdings,  and  buyers  are  apparently 
realizing  that  they  might  as  well  take 
fair-sized 
lots  at  quotations.  Rio  No. 
7  is  worth  8}£@8%c.  In  store  and  afloat 
the  amount  aggregates  736,734  bags, 
against  1,161,356  bags  at  the  same  time 
last  year.  Mild  coffees  are  very  firm, 
although  the  volume  of  business  is  not 
larger than  usual.  Good  Cucuta  is  held 
at  ioj^c.  East  India  sorts  are  firm, 
but  with  no  great  amount  of  business 
going  forward.

Little,  if  any,  change  is  perceptible 
in  teas,  but  there  still  seems  to  be  a 
feeling  that  the  present  is  a  good  time 
to  buy.  Stocks  are  not  large,  apparent­
ly,  and  no  one  knows  what  the  uyshot 
of  the  trouble  in  China  may  be,  and  al­
together  the  trend 
is  upward.  Buyers 
are  not  falling  over  each  other  to  lay  in 
large  supplies,  however,  and  conserva­
tism  rules.

Sugars  are  booming.  There  is  now 
said  to  be  a  difference  between  the  cost 
of  raw  and  the  selling  price  of  refined 
amounting  Ri  88c  and  the  trust  will  pay 
a  good  big  dividend.  Granulated  was 
marked  up  another  10  points  on  Thurs­
day,  making  the 
list  5.70.  The  raise 
was  made  by  all  refiners  and  they  claim 
to  be  oversold  two  or  three weeks.  Raws 
are  firm.

There  have  been  a  number  of  orders 
received  for  Japan  rice,  mostly  from  the 
West,  but,  taking  the  situation  “ by  and 
large,”   there 
little  doing. 
During  the  fore  part  of  the  week export­
ers  were  doing  a  little,  but  as  they  seem 
to  have  supplied  their  wants,  there  is 
nothing  going  on.  Prices  are  practically 
unchanged.

is  precious 

Offerings  of  molasses  are 

The  spice  market  is  qu iet;  sellers  are 
confident  and  not  inclined  to  make  con­
cessions.  Singapore black pepper  is well 
held at I2^@i2j^c.  Cloves have met with 
a 
little  better  demand,  but  the  market 
generally  shows  room  for  improvement 
and  this  is  not  immediately  looked  for.
light  and 
prices  are  firmly  adhered  to.  There 
is 
little  demand,  however,  for  the  better 
sorts,  most  of  the  enquiries  being  for 
cheap  grades,  and  even  for  these  there 
is  no  great  rush,  buyers  seeming  to  pre­
fer  to  wait  and  get  along  with  the 
least 
possible amount through the  hot  months. 
Quotations  are  identical  with  those  pre­
vailing  for  several  weeks.  The demand 
for  syrups  is  light  and  the general  situa­
tion  unchanged.  Prime  to  fancy  sugar, 
2i@28c.

large 

The  pea  pack  is  proving  very  disap­
in  Maryland,  and  Western 
pointing 
is  said,  are  withdrawing 
it 
packers, 
from  the  market 
in  hopes  of  realizing 
better  prices  in  the  future,  as  will  quite 
likely  be  the  case.  Salmon  shows  rather 
more  activity,  but  buyers  are  not  yet  in 
a  mood  to  take 
lots  and  there 
seems  no  particular  anxiety  on  either 
side.  Tomatoes  are  meeting  with  more 
favor  and  are  quite  firmly  held  at  re­
cent  quotations.  Com  is  about  the  dull­
est  article  on  the  market  and  No.  2 
standard  New  York 
is  worth  not  over 
75c.  Maine,  85@goc.

In  dried  fruits  nothing  of  interest  has 
been  noted  during  the  week.  Currants 
little  firmer,  but  there  has  been 
are  a 
in  prices. 
scarcely  any  appreciation 
The  trade  is  awaiting  with  some 
inter­
est  the  future  of  the  Pacific  coast  com­
bine  and  prices  are  hardly  firmly  fixed. 
Give  California  a  good  high  tariff  and 
a  solid  combine  and  she  will  ask  for 
nothing more— unless  it  be  higher  tariffs 
and  a  more  solid  combine.

Lemons  and  oranges  are  both  meeting 
with  readv  sale  and  the  market  is  firm

lemons  range  from 
all  around.  Sicily 
$3-75@4-75-  Bananas are  a  little  lower, 
but,  as  supplies  are  not  very  large,  it  is 
likely  there  will  be  no  further  decline. 
Aspinwalls  are  worth, 
for  firsts,  per 
bunch,  S i.35.  Pineapples  at  the  mo 
ment  are  rather  quiet,  but  prices  are 
firm  and  Florida  reds  are  worth  from 
$2-75@3-75>  as  to  size.  Havanas,  8@i4c 
each,  and  Puerto  Rico,  35@5oc  each.
The  bean  market  during  the  week  has 
been  quiet  for  nearly  all  sorts.  A r­
rivals  are  not  very 
large.  Marrows, 
choice,  $2.20;  medium,  choice,  $2.12%  ; 
pea,  choice,  $2.27 ^ @ 2 .30 ;  red  kidney, 
S2.12j£@2.15 ;  white*  kidney,  $2.30. 
Green  peas  are  quiet  at  $ 1.12 %   in  bags 
and  $i.i7J£  in  barrels.

The  butter  market  has  had  its ups  and 
downs,  but  the  close  sees  prices  ad­
vanced  over the  beginning  of  the  week 
and,  with  a  fairly  satisfactory  demand, 
the  situation  favors  sellers.  Best  West­
ern  creamery  is  held  quite  generally  at 
iq c   and  stock  not  quite  so  good  is  firm 
at  18c,  with  thirds  to  seconds  i6@I7J^c. 
Exporters  have  been  doing  quite  a large 
business,  and  could  they  have  made 
purchases  at  a  little  less  than  they  are 
really  obliged  to  pay,  it  would  have 
been a  banner  week.  There  is  no undue 
accumulation  and  the  outlook  is  quite 
satisfactory  to  the  seller.  Western  im i­
tation  creamery,  I5@ i7c;  factory,  14^ 
6®i6c.

The  cheese  market  is  practically  un­
changed,  although  possibly  the  tone  is 
rather  firmer  than  a  week  ago.  Quota­
tions,  however,  are  about  nominal.  The 
country  markets  are  generally  reported 
firm  and  prices  there  are  so  high  that 
they  necessarily  affect  the 
situation 
here.  Large  size,  full  cream  cheese, 
New  York  State  make,  is  held  at  9^c.
invariably 
show  deterioration  and  stock  sells  for 
very  small  figures. 
Really  desirable 
goods  of  Western  production  will  bring 
14c,  but  this  is  probably  top.

Arrivals  of  eggs  almost 

Georgia  peaches  are  expected  in large 
supply  by  the  end  of  next  week  and, in­
deed,  are  quite  largely  “ in  evidence”  
now.  Two  cars  Thursday  sold 
from 
$i.75@2  for  large  and £ i @ i . 50 for small. 
A  car  of  tomatoes  from  Mississippi  sold 
at  auction  from  75@goc  per crate  F ri­
day.  This 
is  a  new  departure  in  the 
method  of  disposing  of  tomatoes,  as 
only  two  cars  have  been  so  sold.

Raising;  B ro ilers  F o r  M arket. 

Correspondence  Massachusetts  Ploughman.

One  must  be  more or less  of  a  special­
for 
ist  to  raise  broilers  successfully 
market,  and  unless  the  business 
is 
thoroughly understood it is discouraging. 
I  would  not  advise  anyone  to  start  in 
this  work  without  a  long  course  of  prep­
aration.  That  can  come  only  through 
general  experience  with  poultry,  and 
then  by  attempting  to  raise  a  few  broil­
ers  each  year  for  market,  increasing  the 
output  year  by  year,  and  making  addi­
tional 
improvements  as 
the  returns  warrant  it.  To  hatch  out  a 
chick  and  make 
it  grow  to  the  broiler 
size 
just  when  the  market  demands  it 
must  all  be  accomplished  through  arti­
ficial  methods. 
It  is  going  contrary  to 
all  of  nature’s  rules,  from  the  time  you 
put  the  egg  in  the  incubator  until  you 
kill  and  pluck  the  bird for market.  Con­
sequently  we  must  understand,  not  the 
laws  of  nature,  but  the  rules  that  all 
have 
learned  through  long  years  of  ex­
perience.

facilities  and 

In  every 

lot  of  young  broilers  some 
will  grow  much  faster  than  others,  and 
it  will  he  necessary  to  make  an  early 
classification  of  the  strong  and  weak. 
Otherwise  the  strong  will  crowd  down 
the  weak  ones,  take  most  of  the  food, 
the best  of  everything,  and actually  keep 
them  from  growing  properly  through 
fear  and  intimidation.  Keep  the  weak 
ones  together  and  the  strong  chicks  by 
themselves,  and 
it  may  be  even  a  third 
division  will  improve  matters.  Grow­
ing  chicks  should  never  be  crowded, 
and  when  the  days  are  warm  enough 
they  should  be  given  all  the  outdoor 
exercise  possible.  When  thev  have  to 
work  for their  food  they  have’ a good  d i­
gestion,  and  when  they  have  that  few 
troubles or  diseases  will  bother  them.

Early  responsibility  makes  one  think.

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M AK IN G   SA l'E K K R A I T.

G erm an  M ethods  Closely Follow ed in th is 

C ountry.

A  recent  official  communication  from 
the  United  States  Vice-Consul  at  Mag­
deburg,  Germany,  brought  sauerkraut, 
one  of  the specialties  of  the  place,  to the 
attention  of  the  reading  public. 
In  this 
report  the  Vice-Consul  says  that  efforts 
to  ascertain  how  the  sauerkraut  was 
manufactured  were unsuccessful, because 
the  concerns  where  he  asked  for 
infor­
mation  look  upon  their  process  as  a val­
uable  business  secret  which 
is  their 
chief  stock  in  trade,  and  then  he  gives, 
as  near  as  he  could  ascertain,  the  proc­
ess  of  manufacturing  this  popular  Ger­
man  food  article:

Take  a  number of  heads  of  white  cab­
bage,  as  fresh  as  pbssible,  and  cut  them 
into  fine,  long  shreds.  Place  in 
layers 
in  barrels  or  kegs,  strewing  salt  over 
each 
layer,  using  one-half  a  pound  of 
salt for  each  twenty-five cabbages.  Press 
the  mass  down  with  clean 
feet,  wooden 
shoes  or  a  heavy  stamper.  Place  a  cover 
on  the  barrel  and  upon  this  lay  a  heavy 
stone. 
sauerkraut 
more  and  conserves  it better.  The sauer­
kraut  must  then  be  allowed  to  ferment 
in  a  cellar  for  from  three  to  eight  days, 
according  to  the  temperature  of 
the 
room.  The  barrel  should  then  be  tightly 
closed  and  kept  in  a  cool  place,  prefer­
ably  in  a  cellar.

This  presses  the 

Fancy  grades  are  produced by pouring 
white  wine 
into  the  barrels  after  they 
are  filled,  and  apples,  chopped  very 
fine,  are  also  sometimes  mixed  with  the 
cabbage.

A  local  dealer  who  sells  large  quanti­
ties  of  sauerkraut  says  that  the  process 
as  described  is  correct,  except  the  bare 
feet  part.  That  is  an  old  fable  that  had 
its  origin  on  the  minstrel  stage,  where 
it  took  well.

left  behind. 

“ The  German,”   said  the  delicatessen 
man,  “ when  he  came  to  this  country  in 
large  numbers  in  the  forties,  did  all 
in 
his  power  to  make  his  new  home  like 
the  one  he 
It  was  not 
enough  to  have  German  churches,  turn- 
vereins,  singing  societies  and  schools ; 
they  had  to  have  their  lager  beer  and 
their  sauerkraut,  which  was  dearer  to 
them  than  baked  beans  and  hard  cider 
were  to  their  neighbors.  As  the  Ger­
man  population 
increased  the  cabbage 
became  a  better  source  of  income for the 
farmer,  because  nearly  every  German 
family 
its  stock  of  sauerkraut 
every  fall.  Men  made  it  a  business  to 
do  the  cutting,  and  with  their  board,  in 
which  knives  were  inserted,  made  the 
rounds,  preparing the  cabbages  for  their 
customers.  This  man  was  known  as 
‘ Der  Krauthobler. ’  The  article  was  so 
distinctively  German  that 
in  the  days 
of  Know-Nothingism  it  was  not  unusual 
to  hear  the  term  ‘ Sauerkraut  Dutchman’ 
used.

laid 

in 

“ But  the  American  became,  a  con­
sumer  of  the  fermented  cabbage  as  well 
as  of  the  German’s  lager  beer,  and 
the 
Krauthobler  worked  for  himself and sold 
his  product  by  the  quart,  as  his  custom­
ers  wanted 
‘ like 
mother  used  to  make, ’  and  to satisfy the 
fastidious  Germans  the  homemade  ar­
ticle  was 
imported  from  Europe,  and 
the  Magdeburg  sauerkraut  became  a 
popular  article  in  the  American  grocery 
business. ”

it  wasn’t 

But 

it. 

There  are  several  large  manufacturers 
in  New  York,  one  of 
of  the  article 
“ We  have  the  same  cut­
whom  said : 
ting  and  pressing  machinery  here  as 
they  have  in  Europe,  but  the  quality  of 
the  cabbage 
is  not  quite  up  to  that  of 
the  German  article.  When  we  can  get 
Long  Island  cabbage  at  from  $5  to $7  a 
ton  we  can  make  sauerkraut  here  to  sell 
at  15  cents  a  gallon,  and  at  that  price

can  keep  out  the  German  article ;  but 
when  the  raw  material  costs  more  than 
that,  the  German  kraut  gives  us  a  hard 
rub,although there is an  import  tax  of  40 
per  cent,  on  it. ”

The  European  article  is  imported  in 
large  casks  and  repacked  here  in  small 
in 
barrels,  and  one  dealer  puts 
pound  cans,  which  contain  also  a 
few 
small  pieces  of  German  sausage  each.

it  up 

“ Empty  one  of  these  cans 

into  a 
pot,”   he  said,  “ and  put 
it  on  a  hot 
stove,and  the  smell  will  make  you think 
you  are  in  Dorfkneipe,  but  it  may  also 
induce  your  neighbors  to  call 
in  the 
Board  of  Health.”
R ussian  R egard  for  Eggs  as R aster Souve­

n irs.

Easter 

is  celebrated 

in  Russia  with 
great  ceremony,  and  the  custom  of  g iv ­
ing  elaborate  Easter  eggs  has  been  car­
ried  to  extrat'agance  by  the  wealthy  and 
aristocratic  people 
in  St.  Petersburg; 
but  no  other  Russian  women  have  such 
collections  of  Easter  eggs  as  the  young 
Czarina  and  the  Dowager  Empress.

it 

considerable  misgivings, 

It  has,  for  many  generations,  been  a 
court  custom 
for  the  reigning  Czar  to 
give  his  wife  at  Easter  time  an egg con­
taining  some  handsome  gift,  usually  a 
souvenir  of  some  particular  event,  and 
the  present  Czar  and  his  father,  Alex­
ander  III.,  have  always  observed  the 
old  custom.  The  two  Empresses  have, 
with 
is 
said,  allowed  their  Easter  egg  collec­
tions  to  go  to  Paris  and  be  placed  on 
exhibition  in  the  Russian  section  of  the 
Exposition,  and  the  French  dramatic 
temperament 
is  deeply  stirred  and 
moved  by  this  testimony  to  the  intimate 
and  cordial  relations  between  the  two 
nations.  From  the  Easter  eggs  are  be­
fraternal  sentiments  and 
ing  hatched 
touching  enthusiasm  with  regular 
incu­
bator  expedition  and  despatch.  Many 
of  the  eggs  are  exceedingly 
interesting 
as  objects  of  art.

is  a 

The  first  received  by 

the  present 
Czarina  was  given  to  her  in  the  year  of 
It 
her  coronation. 
iarge  golden 
egg,  enameled 
in  rose  color,  and  con­
tains  a  tiny  and  perfect  model  of  the 
state  carriage  in  which  the  young  bride 
rode  to  the  Moscow  cathedral  on  her 
wedding  day.  The  coach 
is  of  gold, 
cushioned  in  red  enamel  and  hung  with 
tiny  silver  curtains  which  can  be  drawn 
on  gold  wires.  The  Imperial  crown 
in 
beautiful 
the 
panels.

diamonds  ornaments 

The  last  Easter  egg  added to the Czar­
ina’s  collection  was  presented  this  year 
and  encloses  a  splendid  jeweled  heart 
set  in  rare,  many  colored  gems  and  sur­
rounded  by  twenty-five  tiny  miniatures, 
portraits  of  the  member*  of  the  Rus­
sian  royal  family.

Among  the  collection  of  the  Dowager 
Empress  is  one  egg  that  commemorates 
a  family  storm  and  a  royal  problem. 
Nicholas  II.,  the  present  Czar,  when  a 
boy,  had,  as  all  the  world  knew,  a  most 
irrational  and  vehement  love  affair.  So­
ciety  was  shocked,  the  heir  apparent’s 
fond  parents  were  distressed,  and  alto­
gether  there  was  very  interesting  exhi­
bition  of  the  tempest  that  Cupid  can, 
upon  occasion,stir  up  in  a  royal  family. 
Nicholas  was  hurriedly  sent  around  the 
world  to  complete  his  education  and, 
as  usual,  time  and  absence  reduced  the 
royal  heart  to  its  normal  condition,  but 
the  Empress  grieved  greatly  over  the 
separation  from  her  son,  and  on  Easter 
of  that  year  the  Czar  gave  her  an  egg, 
inside  of  which  was  a  model  of  the  ship 
in  which  her  rebellious  lad  was  sailing 
away  from  heart  entanglement.  A  gold­
smith  of  famous  skill  had  spent  ten 
months  making  the  ship,  which  was 
solid  gold,  mounted  on  a  beryl  stone, 
and  was  complete  and  accurate  in  every 
detail,  down  to  the  smallest  cable.

Keep Your 
Eye  on 
Silver Brand 
Vinegar

T hese  goods  are  the 
best  offered  on  the 
m arkets of M ichigan 
to-day.

GENESEE  FRUIT  CO.,  Makers,  Lansing,  Mich.  |

O ar Vinegar to be an ABSOLUTELY PURE APPLE JUICE VIN 
EGAR.  To anyone  who  will  analyze  it  and  find any deleterious 
acids, or anything that is not produced from the apple, we will forfeit

O N E ^ m i m m ^ i Q L i A R S

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.

B enton  H arbor,M ichigan.

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We make  them  right. 
We make  prices right. 

Write  us when  in  the market. 

Kalamazoo  Kase &  Kabinet  Ko., 

Kalamazoo,  Mich.

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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.
\Ve make a  specialty  of  heating  and 
ventilating stores, residences, churches 
and schools.  Write for catalogue and 
prices.

We  are  also  manufacturers  of  the 
Cline Automatic Acetylene  Gas  Light  Ma­
chine,  which  is  the  safest  and  most 
economical acetylene gas  machine on 
the market.
Alexander Furnace & Mfg  Co.

Lansing,  Michigan

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The Meat  Market

E x cellent  A dvertisem ents  for  R etail M eat 

M arkets.

Here  are  some  advertisements,  gath­
ered  from  different  sections  of  the  coun­
try,  which  should  have  a  place  in  your 
scrapbook,  if  you  keep  one,  and  I  pre­
sume  that  you  do  if  you  are  interested 
in  the  subject  discussed  every  week  un­
der  the  above  heading.  James  J.  Wel­
don,  of  Pittsburg,  uses  from  a  quarter

FRESH  MEAT

i  
T   Bolling Beef, per lb..............................  4c
▼  Bound  Steak, per lb............................11c
J   Tenderloin Steak, per lb.....................15c
•   Sirloin Steak, per  lb............................14c
▼  Rib Roast, per l b .................................18c

SMOKED  MEATS
per  lb..............................................n*!.,c
per  lb..............................................30  c
to see it.  Per lb................   ...... 19  c

llani,  home  cure  regular  hams,
Boiled  Ham,  home  style,  slices,
Dried Beef,  chipped  to  order:  ask

JAS.  J.  WELDON,

Corner  Market  St.  and Third Ave„ 

PITTSBURG,  PA.

to  a  full  page  of  space  in  the  Pittsburg 
Press  every  day,  and  has  made  such  a 
success  of 
it  that  he  recently  opened  a 
branch market at Sharpsburg,  Pa.,  which 
In 
will  also  be  advertised  every  day. 
addition  to  his  three  markets 
in  Pitts­
burg,  he  has  five others  in Pennsylvania. 
Each  of  the  other  advertisements  here 
reproduced 
is  reduced  from  ones  oc­
cupying  much  larger  space  in  the  origi­
nal.  The  New  Brunswick,  N.  J.,  adver­
tisement  has  an  illustration  of  a  lamb 
frisking  over  a  hill. 
It’s  a  copyright 
picture,  so  we  have  to  omit  it.  An  ad­
vertiser  of  long  experience,  in  speaking 
of  this,  his  favorite  subject,  gives  some 
advice  that  may  be  useful.  “ In  writing 
advertisements,”   he  says,  “ study  the 
rhetorical  and  grammatical  points  of 
your  language 
fully  as  much  as  you  do 
the  typographical  appearance  of  your 
advertisement  or  the  force  of  your  argu­
ment.  Have  no  fear  that  your  language 
will  be  above  the  appreciation  of  your 
readers. 
If  you  think  you  have  a  com­
mand  of  English  that  is  above  the  ap-

Spring  Lamb

Is now a favorite In the  dinner  bill  of 
fare.  It's our specialty, and trying to 
beat  us  Is  as  alisurd  as  starting  to 
town after the race is over.  When we 
lead,  we’re  followed  because  being 
with us is  making  a  trip  to  satisfac­
tion.  Keep an eye on  your  table, be­
cause  you  get  your  living  from  it. 
Also the best Beef. Veal and  Mutton, 
Broilers and Squabs.

Valentine  Schmidt,

340 George St.  New Brunswick, N. J.

so? 

preciation  of your average customer,  you 
will  be  very  badly  mistaken— yes,  very 
indeed.  What  reason  on  earth 
badly 
have  you  to  suppose 
You  are 
spending  your  whole  time  watching 
your  expense  account,  engrossed  with 
business— what 
is  your  average  house­
wife  doing?  She  is  reading  good  litera­
ture  at  every  spare  moment— you’ll  find 
a  half  dozen  good  magazines 
in  her 
house  right  now,  and  ten  to  one  she  be­
longs  to  some 
literary  club.  Don’t  be 
afraid ;  all  the  good  English  that  you 
may  command  will  be  appreciated.  Use 
it,  and  the  best  of  it,  on  all  occasions— 
it  will  offend  the  cul­
the  absence  of 
tured,  while  the  most  illiterate  will 
in­

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

it  due  respect.  Good 
stinctively  give 
rhetorical  English 
is  the  refinement  of 
language—did  you  ever  see  anyone,  no 
matter  how  boorish  he  might  be,  who 
couldn’t  appreciate  politeness?’ ’

To  this  I  wish  to  add  that  too  much

Washington Market

Jos.  N e w m a n ,  Proprietor 

816  Walnut  Street,

KANSAS  CITY,  MO.
In order  to  make  you  thoroughly  ac­
quainted  with  our  store  and  stock,  we 
quote you the following low prices on the 
best goods:
We  handle  only  the  choicest  meats, 
and take special pains  in  cutting  to  suit 
taste.
Hamburg  Steak, per l b ..................... lOc
Loin or 1’orterhouse Steak, per lb .... 15c 
Legs of Lamb, per lb............................ 15c
Round Steak,  lO c;  Shoulder  Steak.  2 
lbs. for  15c;  5-lb. pail Swift’s Lard, 50c; 
io n«, pail, 90c.

language  is  the  fault  of  some  advertise­
ments.  To  be  effective  the  body  of  any 
advertisement  should  be  short,  crisp and 
snappy.— Jonathan  Price 
in  Butchers’ 
Advocate.

Census  F acts  from   a  B ath   Tub.

One  of  the  young  men  who  are  call­
ing  upon  the  public  for  statistics  for  the 
United  States  census  met  with  an  amus­
ing  incident  Tuesday.  His  district 
is 
in  the  suburbs  of  this  city,  and  calling 
at  one  house  he  rang  the  bell  several 
times  without  obtaining  any  response. 
As  he  was  going  out  by  the  yard,  how­
ever,  he  noticed  that  the  windows  were 
open  but  screened,  and  as  he  passed  by 
one  of  these  a  feminine  voice  called :

“ Who’s  there?  What’s  wanted?’ ’
“ I’m  taking  the  United  State  cen­

sus, “   replied  the  enumerator.

“ I’m  taking  a  bath,”   came  the  quick 

response  of  the  unseen  voice.

Somewhat  disconcerted  by  this  reply 
the  enumerator  announced  that  he would 
call  again.

“ But  can’t  I  answer  your questions 

from  here?”   continued  the  bather.

Finding  that  there  were  only  two 

in 
the  family  the  enumerator  thought  that 
she  could.  So,  sitting  down  on  the 
grass  beneath  the  window,  with  his 
book  spread  out  upon  his  knees  for  a 
table,  he  asked  the  required  questions 
through  the  window  and  as  the  answers 
came  from  behind  the  curtain  they  were 
entered  upon  his  schedule.  The  two 
questions,  “ Are  you  white  or  black?”  
female?”   were  answered 
“ Male  or 
with  a  tone  that 
the 
enumerator  ought  to  know  without  ask­
ing.  But  then  what  could  the  poor  fel­
low  do?  He  couldn’ t  see  the  fair  re­
spondent.

indicated  that 

Ita lia n   Sausage  Seasoning.

No.  3.

4  lbs.  pepper.
8  ozs.  coriander.
7  ozs.  pimento.
io  lbs.  salt.

lbs.  pepper.
3 
ozs.  mace.
6 
ozs.  thyme.
6 
i A   ozs.  garlic, 

lbs.  salt.

No.  4.

No.  5.

lbs.  pepper.

5 
3%  ozs.  saltpeter.
9 
ozs.  pimento.
i A   ozs.  bay  leaf.
2 A   lbs.  salt.

lb.  pepper.
ozs.  coriander.

1 
3 
A   oz.  cloves.
Yt  oz.  garlic.
2 A   lbs.  salt.

No.  6.

Gratitude

Is said to be  a  lively expectation  of  future  favors. 
You  have  some  grateful  customers  that  will  be 
more  watchful  of  your  store  if  you  introduce 
D ia m o n d   C r y s t a l   S a l t — “The  salt  'that’s  all 
salt.” 
It  is  the  only  thoroughly  healthful  table 
salt;  the  only perfect  dairy salt.

Diamond  Crystal 

Salt

There  is  solid  satisfaction  for  the  purchaser  in 
every ounce  of  D ia m o n d   C r y s t a l   S a l t   and  its 
purity and cleanliness are a standing advertisement 
for the  grocer  that  handles  it.  Get  the  people 
into  the  habit  of  looking  to  you  for  the  best 
things in the trade.

Can we send you our Salt Booklet?

Diamond  Crystal Salt Co., St.  Clair,  Mich.

Detroit,  Mich. 

|   Hammond,  Standish  &  Co.,  i
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I   Pork JJackers  and  Wholesale  Provision  I  
m  Dealers,  Curers of the celebrated brands*  |  
||  “Apex” and Excelsior Hams,  Bacon and  i  
H  Lard,  Cooked  Boned  Hams,  Sausag^, || 
|   and  warm  weather delicacies of all kinds.  1
s\jj  Our  packing  house  is  under  U.  S.  Government  inspection.  II

Butter Wanted

I  will  pay spot cash  on  receipt of goods  for 
all  grades of butter, including packing stock.
f *  
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Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

98 South  Division  Street,

Coupon  Books for Meat  Dealers

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

Tradesman Company,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich,

CommercialTravelers

Michigan  Knights of the  Grip

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

Michigan  Commercial  Trawlers’  Association 
President,  A.  Marymont,  Detroit;  Secretary 
and Treasurer, Geo.  W. Hil l , Detroit.
United  Commercial Travelers of Michigan 

Grand  Counselor,  J.  E.  Moore,  Jackson; 
Grand  Secretary,  A.  Kendall,  Hillsdale; 
Grand Treasurer,  W.  S.  M k st, Jackson.

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

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

Treasurer, L. F. Baker.
Michigan  Commercial Travelers’  Mutual  Accident  Association 
President, J .  B o y d   P a n t l i n d ,  Grand  Rapids; 
Secretary  and  Treasurer,  G e o .  F.  O w e n , 
Grand Rapids.

AS  H E   OUGHT  TO  RE.

Pen  P ic tu re   o f  th e   Id eal  C om m ercial 

T raveler.

The  commercial  traveler  should  make 
his  offers  with  a  cheerful  countenance 
and  in  a  distinct  voice,  condensing  his 
words  as  much  as  possible,  and  exert 
himself  to  show  off  to  the  best  advan­
tage  the  profits  he  is  authorized to grant.
If  he  has  any  samples  to  exhibit,  let 
his  aim  be  to  have  them  so  looked  at  as 
to  direct  the  attention  of  the  buyer  first 
of  all  to  the  cheapest  and  most desirable 
article  in  his  possession.  If  he succeeds 
in  having  goods  examined,  all  will  be 
clear  sailing. 
In the  meantime  remarks 
made  by  the  buyer,  to  which  he  should 
pay  strict  attention,  are  sure  to 
furnish 
him  a  key  to  his  other  wants.  Then,  as 
soon  as  he  has  gained  his  point  with  re­
spect  to  articles  upon  the  purchase  of 
which  a  decision  has  been  reached, 
without 
loss  of  time  he  should  set  to 
work  to  arouse  interest  in  behalf  of  the 
article  of  which  he  believes  his  custom 
er  to  be 
in  need,  making  him  under 
stand  that  his  house  can  let  him  have 
the  goods  cheaper,  or  at 
least  just  as 
cheap  as  any  one  else;  that  the  new 
business  connection  would  be  greatly 
appreciated  and  everything  be  done  to 
retain  the  good  will  of  the  new  custom 
er. 
In  a  word,  convince  your  patron 
that  every  possible  advantage  would  be 
granted  him,  and  that  he  would  never 
have  cause  to  regret  having  opened 
account  with  your  house

and 

If  he 

At  the  stores  of  retailers,  wives  and 
daughters,  salesmen  and  saleswomen  in 
many  instances  have  considerable  influ 
ence  when 
it  conies  to  giving  orders 
The  commercial  traveler  should  ascer 
tain  whether  this  is  so  or  not  as  soon  as 
he  can. 
is  a  quick  observer  he 
will  easily  learn  his  way  to  do  this 
Glances  and  remarks  passed between the 
proprietor 
the  above-mentioned 
persons,  perhaps  a  certain  nervousness 
on  his  part,  if  his  wife  has  the  uppe 
hand  or  a  formidable  clerk  has  much  to 
say in  the  business  of the house,suggests 
the  best  way  to  act  in  order  to  reach  the 
desired  results. 
In  all  such  cases  the 
commercial  traveler  must  shape  his con­
duct  according  to  circumstances.  He 
will  do  wisely  to  direct  his  attention  al­
most  exclusively  to  the  persons  whose 
influence  will  help  him  to  gain  his  pur­
pose,  but  not  to  such  a  degree as  to  give 
offense  to  the  head  of  the  firm.  Should 
the  principal  himself  introduce  him  to 
the  women  of  the  establishment,  he 
ought  to  be  strictly  on  his  guard  against 
contradicting  their 
Let  him 
praise  whatever  they  admire,  at 
the 
same  time  not  forgetting to point  out  the 
excellence  of  other  articles  among  his 
im­
samples.  Should  he  find  that  it  is 
possible  to  get  an  opening 
for  his 
goods,  he  had  better  drop  talk  about 
them  for  a  while,  and  change  the  dis-

tastes. 

impression  and 

course  in  the  manner  to  make  it  appear 
that  all  thoughts  of  business  have  been 
abandoned.  Now is  the  opportunity  for 
smart,  well-bred young man  to play the 
miable  and  show  himself  in  the  best 
ight.  Let  your  customer  have  a  good 
laugh  with  you  and  much  is  already  ac­
complished.  Then  carry  on  the  conver­
sation  with  great  policy,  proceeding 
until  you  think  that  you  have  made  a 
favorable 
inspired  a 
certain  confidence.  Gradually  take  up 
the  abandoned  thread  of  business  talk, 
and,  when  it  appears  to  you  that  the 
right  moment  has  come  for renewing the 
proposition  which  proved  a  failure  a 
while  ago,  it 
improbable  that, 
notwithstanding  the  first  refusal,  you 
have  the  satisfaction  of  obtaining 
orders.  Are  the  conditions  favorable, 
the  commercial  traveler ought  to  set  to 
work  earnestly,  but  without  being  in­
decently  urgent 
I 
if  he  follows  these  instruc­
think  that 
tions  he  will  be  gratified  with  a  success 
won  by  his  tact  and  good  management 
of  adverse  circumstances. 
There  is  a  vast  difference  between  get­
ting  but  a  very  small  order  and  no order 
at  all,  for  the  difficulty  of  opening  a 
new  account  with  a  firm  has  been  suc­
in  the  first  men­
cessfully  overcome 
tioned  case,  and  this 
is  an  important 
point  gained.

in  his  solicitations. 

is  not 

spite 

Although  occasionally  it  might  prove 
of  value  for  the  commercial  traveler  to 
hint  in  an  off-hand  way  that  he  has  re­
ceived  orders  from  other  firms  in  the 
same  town,  still  it  would  be  the  height 
of  stupidity  to  tell  the  fact  right  out,  as 
many  of  the  brotherhood  are 
in  the 
habit  of  doing,  that  Mr.  John Smith,  for 
example,  has  to-day  bought  goods  at 
such  or  such  a  price,and  mentioning  all 
the  particulars  of  the  sale,  with  the 
addition  that  the  man  solicited,  if  he 
give  the  order,  shall  get  the  same 
articles  at  a  much  lower  rate.  Any  one 
who  has  an  eye  to  business can  in  a mo­
ment  see  what  this  talk means.  Besides, 
the  commercial  traveler who adopts such 
mistaken  measures  in  his  attempt  to  do 
business  will  certainly 
lose  the  con­
fidence  of  the  man  addressed,  for  no 
sensible  person  can  think  otherwise 
than  that  the  agent  would  say  exactly 
the  same  thing  to  a  third  and  fourth 
customer  as  to  the  first  and  second. 
Without  doubt  a  customer  has  the  right 
to  feel  sure  that  the  amount  of  his  order 
and  the  prices  he  paid  for  goods  will 
not  be  made  known  to  any  business 
competitor,  and  he  certainly  would  be 
little  disposed  to  give  his  orders  to  an 
agent  who  shows  a  readiness  to  gossip 
about  the  affairs  of  neighboring  mer­
chants.  The  commercial  traveler  who 
is  wise  will  either avoid  talk  about  pur­
chases  made  of  him  in  the  place  where 
he 
is  doing  business,  or  will  say  very 
little,  always  avoiding,  in  this  case,  the 
mention  of  details.  And  this  even  when 
questions  are  asked  about  them,  for,  al­
though,  it  may  be,  pleased  for the  mo­
ment  at  having  their  curiosity  satisfied, 
people  will,  as  a  rule,  look  with  sus­
picion  upon  the  imprudent  discloser  of 
other  people’s  business,  believing,  and 
not  unjustly,  that  such  a  man  would 
manifest  the  same  willingness  to  reveal 
their  secrets  to  others.  Discretion  in 
business matters  will  always have  its  re­
ward 
in  the  esteem  of  others,  which 
readily  develops  into  their  confidence.

Fred  J.  Ephlin  has  resigned  his  po 
sition  with  the  Dunwoody,  Bros.  Co.,  of 
Denver,  and  resumed  his  connections 
with  Lautz  Bros.  &  Co.,  of  Buffalo, 
covering  Western  Michigan,the  same  as 
before.  Mrs.  Ephlin 
is  with  her  par­
ents  at  La  Porte,  Ind.,  in  very  feeble 
health.

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

25

Having:  F an   W ith   H onest  Jo h n .

•  Kalamazoo,  June  18— At the last  meet­
ing  of  Kalamazoo  Council,  United  Com­
mercial  Travelers,  the  following  resolu­
tions  were  unanimously  adopted:

Whereas— Our  brother,  the  venerable 
counselor  of  our  order,  for  reasons  un­
known  to  this  order  and  for  his  personal 
advancement,  has  seen  fit  to  associate 
himself with  those  who  have  been  bereft 
of  reason,  and  we,  as  fellow  counselors, 
believe  he  has  himself  become 
insane 
over  the  subject  of  office  and  kindred 
matters  and 
for  our  personal 
safety  and  the  good  of  the  order;  there­
fore  be  it

fearing 

Resolved— That  this  order,  having 
worked  for  his  advancement 
in  office, 
and  feeling  that  he  has  used  the  same 
for political  pull,  detrimental  to  the  best 
interests  of  the  fraternity,  do  render  a

it  was  all  right. 

romised  her.  She  took 

took  half  a  dozen  of  the  handkerchiefs. 
When  Saturday  night  came  and  she  was 
paid  her  salary,  she  received  a  sum 
much  in  advance  of  that  which had been 
it  at  once  to 
the  head  of  her  department,  thinking 
there  must  be  a  mistake,  but  she  was 
assured 
“ Do  you  re­
member  selling  a  half  dozen  handker­
chiefs  to  one  gentleman,  the  first  mom- 
ng  you  were  here?”   he 
enquired. 
‘ Why,  yes,  I  remember,”   she  replied, 
‘ but  what  has  that  to  do  with  it?”  
‘ Simply  this—that  was  the  head  of  the 
firm ;  and  he  was  so  pleased  that  he  en­
quired  about  you  and  said  that  any  girl 
who  could  sell  his  own  goods  to  a  pro­
prietor  was  worth  a  good  salary  and  a 
steady  place,  so  he  ordered  you  put  on 
the  pay  roll  at  the  wages  I  have  just 
given  you,  with  the  promise  of  a  raise 
as  soon  as  it  is  possible.”

A  thing  like  this  isn’t  likely  to  hap­
pen  every  day,  perhaps,  but  of  one 
thing  you  may  rest  quite  assured,  my 
dear  girls,  simple  eye  service 
is  noted 
more  frequently  than you imagine,  while 
the  honest,  hearty  rendering  of  duty 
long  ago  a 
will  find  the  reward.  Not 
prominent  business  man  said 
to  the 
writer,  when  we  were  talking  over  the 
reason  why  so  few  young  men  really 
succeed,  some 
things  that  will  bear 
repetition  for  the  girls  who  think  se­
riously  of  a  business  ilfe. 
“ The  boys”  
— and  he  might  have  said  the  girls, 
too— “ in  the  store  whose  watches  are 
always  on  time  at  the  dinner  or  closing 
hour  are  the  ones  who  will  not  advance 
in  business;  while  those  who  are  asking 
for  more  to  do,  instead  of  making  apol­
ogies  for  work  not  finished,  are  those 
who  find  room  at  the  top  of  the  ladder 
and  who  do  not  complain  of  the  crowd 
at  the  foot.”   It  is  the  Bible’s  own  “ in- 
season-and-out-of-season”   work 
that 
brings  good  results.  Perhaps  another 
reason  why  women  do  not  oftener  attain 
a  high  nosition  in  mercantile  life  is  be­
cause  they  do  not  “ learn  the  business”  
as  a  boy  does.  When  a  girl  seeks  a  po­
sition 
in  a  store  she  expects  a  living 
salary  at  once.  The  immediate  need  of 
money 
is  the  force  which  impels  her  to 
work;  she  must  be  her  own  bread-win­
ner.  A  boy  expects  to  give  a  certain 
¡me  to  learning  the  details  of  business 
and takes a  place  at  first  with  very  small 
remuneration  and  works  his  way  to  the 
more  profitable  position.

Cora  Stowell.

Suprf i

C ourt  K ills  Law  R equiring 

$5,000 Bond.

bill  to  him 
efforts.

for  time  spent 

such

Resolved— That  we  have  him  exam­
ined  before  a  board  of  three  compete  t 
physicians, 
the 
chair,  to  ascertain  his  mental  equilib­
rium,  and 
if  he  be  found  deficient  to 
ask  him  to  resign  or  to  compel  him  to 
set  them  up  to  the  order.

to  be  appointed  by 

Resolved— That  the sympathies of this 
order  be  extended  to  the  family  of  the 
demented  brother,  and  that  we  extend 
the  right  hand  of  fellowship  of  our  or­
der  and  request  that  they  guarantee  his 
dues  and  assessments.

Resolved— That  these  resolutions  be 
spread  upon  the  rolls  of  the  order,  and 
one  sent  to  the  bereaved  family  and  the 
same  be  published  in  each  of  the  daily 
papers. 

Laurence  Verdon,
E.  F.  Zander,
C.  W.  Ihling, 

Committee  on  Resolutions.

W herein  G irls  A re  H am pered  in  a   B u si­

ness  C areer.

The  success  of  anyone  in  any  line  of 
work  depends  upon  the  spirit  in  which 
she  takes  it  up.  The 
following  story, 
which  came  under  notice  recently,  and 
which  is  true,  will  illustrate  this  better 
than  any  explanation:

A  young  girl  had  tried  for  a  long time 
to  get  a. position  in  one  of  the 
leading 
dry  goods  stores  in  a  big  city.  Finally 
her  persistence  was  rewarded  by  the 
promise  of  a  trial.  She  was  put  at  the 
handkerchief counter  during  a 
‘ bargain 
sale.”   The  first  morning  she  was  there 
a  gentleman  came  by  and  stopped at the 
handkerchief  counter,  looking  carelessly 
at  the  goods  and  the  prices  which  were 
marked  on  each  box.  She  did  not  wait 
for  him  to  ask  for  anything  special,  but 
she 
immediately  drew  his  attention  to 
some  handkerchiefs  which  were  really  a 
“ fine  bargain.”   He  did  not  seem  in 
dined  to  buy,  but  she  was  so  interested 
to  make  the  sale  and  talked  so  intelli­
gently  about  them  that  the  customer

Lansing,  June  14— The  commission 
men  and  produce  brokers  won  a  signal 
victory 
in  the  Supreme  Court  to-day 
when  the  law  passed  at  the  last  session 
of  the  Legislature  requiring  them  to 
give  a  bond  of  §5,000  for  honest  deal­
ing  with  shippers  was  held  unconstitu­
tional.

The  law  was  passed  in  obedience  to  a 
demand  from  the  Fruit  Growers’  Asso­
ciation, but  the  commission  men  refused 
to  comply  with 
it,  and  as  a  result  the 
fruit  raisers  of  the  southern  part  of  the 
State  have  sustained  a  considerable  loss 
on  their  strawberry  crop  through  the 
failure  of  brokers  to  take  hold  of  it.

An  action  was  brought  in  the  Berrien 
County  Circuit'  Court,  resulting  in  the 
law  being  declared  unconstitutional,and 
the  decision  of  the  Circuit  Judge  was 
to-day  practically  affirmed  by  the  Su­
preme  Court.  No  opinion  was  filed, 
but  the  Court  announced  that  the  law 
was  contrary  to  the  provisions  of  the 
constitution.

There  are  now  forty  pearl  button 

fac­
tories  in  Iowa,  working  up  shells  pro­
cured  from  the  river beds.  Nearly  1,5°° 
people  are  employed 
in  the  factories 
alone.

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

be  ample  for  consumption.  On  account 
of  new  dealers  entering  the  market 
competition  has  reduced  the  price  2yi 
per  lb.

Morphine— Is  unchanged.
Quinine— Is  very  firm.  The  present 
price 
is  below  the  cost  of  production. 
Good  demand  would  probably  advance 
the  price  from  3@5c.

.Acetanilid— Is  firm  at  the  advance 
and manufacturers  are  quoting a uniform 
price  and  maintain  it.

Carbolic  A cid— Has  declined  and 

now  down  to  prices  ruling  before  the 
war  in  South  Africa.

Citric  Acid— Is  very  firm  at  the  ad 

vanced  price.

Cuttle  Fish  Bone— Is  very  firm.  The 
reports  from  this  season’s  catch  are very 
conflicting,  but  would  indicate  a  small 
catch.  Prices  are  likely  to  rule  higher

Menthol— Is  firm  and  has  advanced.
Oil  Anise  and  Cassia— Are  very  firm 
ii 

although  it  is  believed  the  trouble 
China  will  not  affect  the  price.

Oil  Wintergreen—Small  stocks  are  re 
ported  and  holders  are  firm  and  asking 
higher  prices.

The  same  may  be  said  of  oil  sassa 

fras.

Linseed  Oil— Is  unchanged.

C hinese  Q uackery.

There  are  quacks  in  China  as  well  as 
n  other  countries,  and  during  a  short 
risit  I  paid  to  the  Temple  of  Horrors, 
had  ample  opportunities  to  see  how  the 
masses  are  gulled. 
In  this  place  are 
many  small  sections,  showing  malfor 
mations  of  the  human  body and  life-size 
figures,  picturing  the  punishment  for 
violation  of  laws,  human,  national  and 
religious. 
In  front  of  these  small  sec 
tions  would  be  some  learned  man,  who, 
for  a  small  consideration,  would  fix  up 
your  eyes,  pull  a  tooth,  reform  your 
morals,  or  prognosticate  your  future. 
The  place  was crowded  with  humanity 
and 
it  was  a  sight  to  see  the  look  of 
reverence  on  the  face  of  the  patient  as 
the 
learned  man  gave  him  instructions 
as  to  his  complaint.  The  fortune  tellers 
were  doing  a  land  office  business.—W. 
A.  P.  in  Era.

E xam ination  Session  o f  th e   B oard  of 

P harm acy.

Ann  Arbor,  June  18— The  Board  of 
Pharmacy  will  hold  a  meeting  for the 
examination  of  candidates  for  registra­
tion  at  the  Star  Island  House,  St.  Clair 
Flats,  on  Monday  and  Tuesday,  June 
25  and  26,  commencing  at  8  o’clock 
p.  m.  on  the  25th.  All  candidates  must 
be  present  at  this  hour.  The  examina­
tion  will  occupy  the  evening  of  the  25th 
and  the  morning,  afternoon  and  evening 
of  the  26th.

Candidates  must  file their applications 
with  the  Secretary  at 
least  one  week 
before the  examination,  and  furnish  affi­
davits  showing  that  they  have  had  the 
practical  experience  required.

Applications 

for  examination  and 
blank  forms  for  practical  or  college  ex­
perience  may  be  obtained  from  the  Sec­
retary.

Applications  must  be  made  out  from 
in 

town,  village  or  place 

some  city, 
Michigan.

Other  examinations  will  be  held  dur- 
ng  the  year  as  follows:
Sault  Ste.  Marie,  August  28  and  29, 

commencing  at  9 o’clock  a.  m.

Lansing,  November  7  and  8,  com­

mencing  at  9  o’clock  a.  m.

A.  C.  Schumacher,  Sec’y.
A n  O pium   W ar.
From the New  York  Commercial.

Opium  is  responsible  for  a  good  deal 
of  crime  in  the  world,  and  if  there  is  a 
great  war  that 
leaves  China  dismem 
bered  and  bleeding  it  will  not  be  diffi 
cult  to  trace  it  to  this  drug.  Whether 
more  blame  will  rest  upon  the  Chinese 
for  using  opium,  or  upon  England  as  a 
nation  for  pushing  the  traffic  in the Em ­
pire,  is  a  question  which  need  not  be 
discussed  now.
China  has 

long  been  the  market  for 
the  opium  which  England  raised  in  In­
dia,  and  it  can  not  be  denied  that  this 
trade,  infamous  or  otherwise,  has  been 
maintained  against  the  wishes  of  the 
Chinese  government. 
it  was 
formal  protest  of  China  against  the 
the 
opium  traffic  which 
to 
make  her  first  demand 
for  an  “ open 
door.’ ’  This  demand  was  ostensibly 
for  a  broader  commerce,  but  really  that 
the  exportations  of opium  from  India, 
a  trade  that  was  valuable,  should  not  be 
restricted.

led  England 

Indeed, 

Then  came  the  complications  over  the 
illing  of  missionaries,  in  which  other 
nations  were  interested.  This  was  the 
beginning  of  China’s  trouble  with  the 
Powers,  and 
looks  as  if  it 
might  result  in  her  ending.  Before this 
new  war  for  humanity 
is  too  far  ad­
vanced 
is  well  enough  to  recall  its 
origin  and  inspiration.

it  certainly 

it 

is  to  be  changed  as  little  as  possible. 
Assay  processes  and  tests  for  purity, 
identity,  etc.,  will  be  increased. 
Intro­
ductions  of  general  formulas  for  classes 
of  preparations  were  suggested.  Metric 
system  in  weights  and  measures  will  be 
retained.  The  scope  of  the  work  is  to 
be  enlarged  so  as  to  include  many  of 
the  new  synthetic  remedies,  but  prepa­
rations  having  unlimited  proprietary  or 
patent  rights  are  to  be  excluded.  The 
convention  decided  to  organize  perma­
nently  as  a  corporation.  Dr.  Charles 
Rice  was  again  elected  chairman,  and 
it  is  expected that the new pharmacopeia 
will  be  out  a  little  earlier  than  has  been 
customary.

P h o sp h o ru s  and  M orphine  Poisoning.
Potassium  permanganate has been pro­
posed  as  an  antidote  for  these  poisons, 
the  effect  depending  upon  the  powerful 
oxidizing  action  of  the  salt.  Since  large 
doses  of  potassium  salts  are  toxic,  the 
remedy  can  not  always  be  used  in  suffi­
cient  quantity 
for  this  reason 
Schreiber  substitutes  sodium  perman­
ganate. 
animals 
showed  this  to  be  as  effective  as  the  po­
tassium  salt  and  applicable without dan­
ger  in  larger  doses.  The  author  recom­
mends 
in  cases  of  poisoning  by  phos­
phorus  or morphine to  irrigate  the  stom­
ach  with  a  0.2  per cent,  solution  and  to 
leave  at  the  end  a  pint  of  the  solution 
in  the  stomach.

Experiments  with 

and 

Lead  in   a  S iphon  H ead.

is  present 

The  testing  of  siphon  heads  or other 
articles for  the  purpose of determining if 
lead 
is  a  very  simple  one 
and  may  be  satisfactorily  done  by  any 
on e:  The  modus  operandi 
is  as  fol­
lows :  On the  surface  place  a little strong 
nitric  acid,  and  with  a  splinter  of  wood 
rub 
large  as  a 
twenty-five  cent  piece,  allow  it  to  dry, 
then  two  drops  of  potassium 
iodide 
should  be  dropped  on  the  same  place. 
If  the  tin  contains  lead,  a  bright  yellow 
crust  of  iodide  of  lead  will  form  on  the 
spot.  The  test  is  a  very  simple  one,yet 
thoroughly  reliable,  and  is  decisive.

it  over  a  surface  as 

T he  Use  o f A rom atics.

Dr.  Sharpsnel  says  the  use  of  aro­
matics  in  prescriptions  is  for the follow- 
’ng  six  reasons:

1.  To  contribute  a  pleasant  taste.
2.  To  induce  an  agreeable  odor.
3.  To  produce  a  desirable  color.
4.  To  conceal  the  identity  of  drugs.
5.  To  prevent  changes  by  decompo­

sition.

6.  To  enhance,  harmonize,  or  modify 

the  action  of  certain  drugs.

26
Drugs—Chem icals

M ichigan  State  B oard  o f P h arm acy

Term expires
- 
Dec. 31,1900
- 
G e o .  G d n d e u m , Ionia 
L.  E .  R e y n o l d s ,  St.  Joseph 
-  Dec. 31,1901 
-  Dec. 31,1902
H e n r y   H e i m , Saginaw 
- 
  Dec. 31,1903 
.
W i r t   P.  D o t y , Detroit .
.
A. C. Sc h u m a c h e r , Ann Arbor  -  Dec. 31,1904 

President,  G e o .  G u n d r u m ,  Ionia.
Secretary, A.  C.  Sc h u m a c h e r ,  Ann Arbor 
Treasurer, H e n r y   H e i m , Saginaw.
E x am ination  Sessions 

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

State  P h arm aceu tical  A ssociation 

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

Coarse  P ap er  for  P ow der  Pud's.

Every  woman 

in  beautifying  has  a 

in  New  York  to-day 
who  aims  to  keep  up  with  the  latest 
processes 
little 
package  of  square  papers  pasted  like  a 
book  between  two  pasteboard  covers,  to 
be  torn  out  for  use  whenever they  are 
needed.  A  woman  living  on  the  upper 
west  side 
invented  the  substitute  for 
powder  and  powder  puff,  and  a  knowl­
edge  of  its  convenience spread  so  rapid­
ly  that  she  can  hardly  supply  the 
little 
books  rapidly  enough.  Over  the  face  of 
brittle  brown  paper  is  thinly  scattered 
an  almost  imperceptible  layer  of  pow­
der. 
It  is  not  that,  however,  which  ac­
complishes  the  result  secured  by  the  use 
of  the  powder,  but  some  medicinal 
quality  said  to  be 
imparted  to  every 
sheet  by  the  invention  of  the  maker.  A 
piece  of  the  paper  rubbed  over  the  face 
gives  the  clear  look  of  the  constant  use 
of  the  powder  puff,  although  no  trace  of 
the  ccsmetic  is  noticeable,  and  for  that 
reason  this  new  substitute 
is  particu­
larly  useful  when  time  is  short.

What  the  papers  really  seem  to  do  is 
to  absorb  all  the  grease  in  the  skin  and 
this  combined  with  the  small  amount 
of  powder  which  the  papers  contain 
gives  a  woman the  fresh  and  spotless 
look  to  be  expected  just  after  she  has 
left  the  toilet  table. 
If  any  one  sees  a 
woman  rubbing  her  face  with  a  small 
square  of  brown  paper,  it  is  not  to  be 
attributed  to  any  eccentricity  on  her 
part  nor  to  economy  nor  a  desire  to save 
her  handkerchief;  it 
is  for  the  sake  of 
the  freshness  that  comes  from  the  use  of 
the  absorbent  paper  and  the  faint 
layer 
of  mauve  colored  powder  applied  to  it.

• 

D e p ila to r y   C r e a m .

A   depilatory  cream  which 

is  used 
in  the  New  York  hospitals  for 
largely 
the  removal  of  hair  from  the  skin  pre­
vious  to  operations  has  the  following 
formula :

Barium  sulphide,  3  parts.
Starch,  1  part.
Water,  q.  s.
The  mixed  powders  are  to  be  made 
into  a  paste  with  water,  and  applied  in 
a  moderately  thick  layer  to  the  parts  to 
be  denuded  of  hair,  the  excess  of  the 
latter  having  been  previously  trimmed 
off  with  a  pair of  scissors.  From  time 
to  time  a  small  part  of  the  surface 
should  be  examined,and  when  it  is  seen 
that  the  hair  can  be  removed  the  mass 
should  be  washed  off.

The  barium  sulphide  should  be  quite 
fresh. 
It  can  be  prepared  by  making 
barium  sulphate  and  its  own  weight  of 
into  a  paste  with  linseed  oil, 
charcoal 
rolling  the  paste 
into  the  shape  of  a 
sausage,  and  placing  it  on  a  bright  fire 
to  incinerate.  When 
it  has  ceased  to 
bum,  and 
is  a  white  hot  mass,  remove 
from  the  fire,  cool  and  powder.

T he D ru g   M arket.

Opium—-There 

primary  market  and  the  new  crop 

is  no  change  in  the 
.will

Chocolate  E m ulsion  o f Cod  L iver  Oil.
The  following  was  contributed  by  a 
member  of  the  Kings  County  Pharma­
ceutical  Society  several  years  ago :

Decoc.  Irish  moss  (2  to  100),  5  ozs.
Cod  liver oil,  8  ozs.
Glycerin,  2  ozs.
Powdered  chocolate,  1  oz.
Essence  vanilla,  3  drs.
Triturate  the  powdered  chocolate  with 
mucilage,  and  heat  until  a  uniform 
mixture 
is  obtained.  When  cold,  add 
the  cod  liver  oil  and  glycerin  and  beat 
up  with  an  egg  beater.  Wm.  Mixton.

F lo ren tin e  H a ir  Tonic.
The  following  is  often  used :
Alcohol,  12  ozs.
Castor  oil,  2  ozs.
Cantharides  tincture,  1  oz.
Orris  root  tincture,  1  oz.
Clove  oil,  20  m.
Lemon  oil,  20  m.
Bergamot  oil,  1  dr.
Color,  if  desired,  with  a  little  alkanet 
root.  Some  add  two  grains  quinine  to 
the  ounce. 

Martin  Neuss.

Lotion  fo r  C happed  H ands.

Quince  seed,  4  drs.
Salicylic  acid,  2  grs.
Glycerin,  8  ozs.
Eau  de  cologne,  2  ozs.
Distilled  water,  16  ozs.
Mix  the  quince  seed  with  enough 
water  to  form  a  mucilage,  macerate  and 
strain.  Dissolve  the  salicylic  acid  in 
the  cologne  water,  add  the  glycerin  and 
the  remainder of  the  water.

is  found 

C arbonated  W ater  to  R elieve  H u n g er.
Water  charged  with  carbonic  acid  gas 
-in  other  words,  soda  water— is  now 
prescribed  as  a  pallative  for  hunger,  es­
pecially  for  an  abnormal  sense of hunger 
due  to  disease.  Carbonic  acid  gas  has 
the  singular  property  of  lessening  the 
sense  of  hunger,  and  may  profitably  be 
remembered 
in  dealing  with  cases  of 
diabetes, 
in  whch  bulimia  (abnormal 
hunger)  is  a  prominent  symptom.  The 
seat  of  hunger 
in  the  solar 
plexus.  By  the  use  of  water  charged 
with  carbonic  acid  gas  the  branches  of 
the  solar  plexus  distributed  through  the 
mucous  membrane  of  the  stomach  are 
nfluepced  in  such  a  way  that the abnor- 
nal 
irritation  of  the  plexus,  which  is 
the  foundation  for  the  ravenous  hunger 
in  diabetes  and  certain 
often  present 
indigestion,  may  be  greatly 
forms  of 
mitigated, 
if  not  wholly  appeased. 
Water_  charged  with  carbonic  acid  gas 
may  likewise  be  employed  with  advan­
in  many  cases  of  hyperpepsia,  in 
tage 
which  there 
is  a  sensation  present  in 
the  stomach  described  by  the  patient 
a  gnawing  sensation,  “ goneness,’ ’ 

emptiness,  etc.

T he  P h arm aco p eia  R evision.

The  convention  which  meets  once  in 
ten  years  to  adopt  rules  and  arrange  for 
the  revision  of  the  United  States  Phar­
macopeia  held  their  sessions  in  Wash­
ington  recently.  A  number  of  new  fea­
tures  were  decided  upon.  Average 
doses  are to be added.  The nomenclature

An  English  Pharmacopeia.

Efforts  are  being  made  to  harmonize 
the  American  and  English  pharmaco­
peias  so  as  to  make  them  more  uniform 
and  secure  greater  harmony  throughout 
English  speaking  parts  of  the  world. 
This  is  a  very  important  movement  and 
there  is  no  good  reason  why  they  should 
not  be  substantially  uniform  on  all  im­
portant  matters.

Among  the  employes  in  the  Treasury 
Department  at  Washington  are  three  or 
four  blind  women  typewriters,  and  so 
satisfactory  has  their  work  been  that 
it 
is  proposed  to  engage  more  next  year. 
Their  work  is  as  good  as  the  best  of  the 
operators  with  full  sight,  it  is  said,  and 
has  forced  their  superiors  to  expect  as 
much  from  them  in  dictation  and  copy­
ing  as  if  they  were  in  complete  posses­
sion  of  their  faculties.

NFG. CHEMISTS, 

ALLEGAN. UGH

P errig o ’s  H eadache P ow ders,  P er- 
rigo’s  M andrake B itters,  P errig o ’s 
D yspepsia  T ab lets  and  P errig o ’s 
Q uinine C athartic T ablets are gain­
ing new  triends every  day. 
If  you 
haven’t already a  good  supply  on, 
w rite us for prices.

FLAVORING EXTRACTS AND DRUGGISTS’ SUNDRIES

WHOLESALE  DRUG  PRICE  CURRENT

A dvanced—
D eclined—Carbolic Acid.

A cidum

Aceticum  .................$ 
6@$  8
Benzoicum, German.  70®  75
@  16
Boracic.....................  
27@  39
Carbollcum.............. 
45®  48
Cltricum.................... 
Hydrochlor.............  
3® 
5
8®  10
Nitrocum.................. 
Oxallcum..................  
12®  14
Phosphorlum,  d ll... 
@  15
Salicylicum.............  
65®  70
5
Sulphuricum...........   1%® 
Tannicum................. 
90®  1  00
T artaricum .............  
38®  40
A m m onia
Aqua, 16 deg.............  
Aqua, 20 deg.............  
Carbonas.................. 
Chloridum................  
A niline
Black.........................  2 00® 2  26
Brown.......................  
so®  l  oo
Red............................  <6®  80
Yellow.......................  2  50® 3 00

4® 
6
6® 
8
13®  15
12®  14

50®  55
@ 180
40®  45
40®  45

¡Baccse
Cubebae........... po, 16  12® 
14
Juniperus.................  
6® 
8
Xanthoxylum.......... 
75®  80
B alsam nm
Copaiba.................... 
Peru  ......................... 
Terabtn,  Canada.... 
Tolutan..................... 
Cortex
Abies, Canadian....... 
Casslae.......................
Cinchona  Klava....... 
Euouymus atropurp. 
Myrica Cerifera, po. 
Prunus Virginl........ 
Quillaia, grrd ............ 
Sassafras  ...... po. 18 
Ulmus...po.  15, gr’d 
K xtractum

18
18
30
20
12
12
15
15

4 50

® 35

Conium Mac........
50® 
60
1 15® 1 25
.. 
90®  1 00
Cubebae...............
Exechthttos........
.. 
1 00® 1 10
Erigeron.............
1 10
.. 1  00@ 
.. 2 00®  2 10
Gaultheria..........
Geranium, ounce 
75
@ 
50®  GO 
Gossippii, Sem. gal. 
Hedeoma
1  70@  1  75
Junípera..................  1  50® 
2 00
90® 2 00
Lavendula  ............... 
Limonis....................  1  40® 
1 50
Mentha  Piper..........  1  25® 2 00
Mentha Verid..........  1  50® 1  60
Morrhuae, ¡gal..........  1  20® l  25
M yrcia.....................   4  00® 
Olive......................... 
75® 3 00
Picis Liquida.......... 
10®  12
Picis Liquida,  gal... 
Kicina.......................  1  C0@  l 08
Rosmarin!................. 
@ 100
Rosae, ounce.............  6 50® 8  50
Succlni.....................  
40®  45
90®  l  00
Sabina.....................  
Santal.......................  2  76® 7 00
Sassafras.................. 
5016  55
Sinapis,  ess., ounce. 
@ 65
Tiglll........................   1  50®  1 GO
40®  50
Thyme....................... 
Thyme, opt............... 
@  1  60
Theobrom as...........  
15®  20
P otassium
Bl-Carb.....................  
16® 
18
13®  15
Bichromate.............  
52@  67
Brom ide.................. 
12® 
Carb  ......................... 
15
Chlorate., .po. 17® 19  16® 
18
Cyanide.................... 
35@  40
Iodide.......................  2  65® 2 75
Potassa, Bitart, pure  28®  30
®  15
Potassa, Bitart, com. 
7® 
Potass Nitras, opt... 
10
Potass  Nitras.......... 
8
6® 
Prussiate.................. 
23®  26
Sulphate  po.............  
15® 
18

R adix

Scillse  Co...............
Tolutan..................
Prunus  virg..........

T inctures 
Aconltum Napellis R 
Aconitum Napellis F
Aloes........................
Aloes and M yrrh__
A rnica.....................
Assafoetlda...............
Atrope Belladonna..
Auranti Cortex........
Benzoin....................
Benzoin Co...............
Barosma....................
Cantharides.............
Capsicum.................
Cardamon................
Cardamon Co...........
Castor.......................
Catechu....................
Cinchona..................
Cinchona Co.............
Columba..................
Cubebae.....................
Cassia Acutifol........
Cassia Acutifol Co...
Digitalis....................
Ergot.........................
Ferri  Chloridum__
G entian....................
Gentian Co...............
Guiaca.......................
Guiaca ammon........
Hyoscyamus.............
Iodine  ....................
Iodine, colorless__
Kino  .........................
Lobelia.....................
M yrrh.......................
Nux Vomica.............
Opii............................
Opii,  comphorated..
Opii, deodorized......
Q uassia....................
Rhatany....................
Rhei..........................
Sanguinaria............
Serpentaria.............
Stromonium.............
T olutan....................
Valerian  ..................
Veratrum  Veride...
Zingiber....................

<*>

*0>

'Va*

V i*

' 

Glycyrrhiza  Glabra
Glycyrrhiza,  po. 
-  
' ■> lb. 1
Hsematox, 15 lb. box 
Hsematox,  is ...........  
Haematox,  Vis.......... 
Heematox,  Vis.......... 

F e rru
Carbonate  Precip... 
Citrate and  Quinta..
Citrate Soluble........
Ferrocyanidum Sol..
Solut. Chloride........
Sulphate,  com’l .......
Sulphate,  com’l,  by 
bbl, per  cwt—   ..
Sulphate,  pure........
F lo ra

Arnica......
Anthémis..
Matricaria.

24®
28®
11®
13®
14®
16®

14®
22®
30®

F o lia

@  65
@  45
@  35
@  28
45®  65
14
12
30
55®  60
28®  30
50® 
55
13
® 

Barosma...................  
30
Cassia Acutifol,  Tin-
uevelly.................. 
20®  25
Cassia, Acutifol, Alx.  25®  30
Salvia officinalis,  54s
and V4s.................. 
12®  20
10
8® 
 
UvaXJrsi............. 
G um m i
Acacia, ist picked... 
Acacia, 2d  picked... 
Acacia, 3d  picked... 
Acacia, sifted  sorts. 
Acacia, po................. 
Aloe, Barb. po.l8@20  12® 
Aloe, Cape— po. 15.  @ 
Aloe,  Socotri..po.40  @ 
Ammoniac................  
Assafoetlda__ po. 30 
Benzoinum............... 
Catechu, is ............... 
Catechu, Vis.............
Catechu, 54s.............
Camphora“...............
Euphorbium... po. 35
Galbanum................
Gamboge.............po
Guaiacum.......po. 25
Kino........... po. $0.76
Mastic  ......................
Myrrh.............po. 45
Opii__ po.  4.50@4.80  3 30®  3  40
Shellac.....................  
25@  35
Shellac, bleached.... 
40@  45
Tragacanth..............  
50@  80
H erb a

68®
®
65@
@

@

25
20
25
28
23
25
39
22
25

Absinthium. .oz. pkg 
Eupatorium..oz. pkg 
lo b e lia ........oz. pkg 
M ajorum__ oz. pkg 
Mentha Pip..oz. pkg 
Mentha Yfr..oz. pkg 
Rue............... oz. pkg 
Tanacetum V oz. pkg 
Thymus, V .. .oz. pkg 
M agnesia
Calcined, P a t...........  
55®  60
Carbonate, P at........ 
18®  20
Carbonate, K. & M..  18®  20
'arbonate, Jennings  18@  20

O leum

Absinthium.............   6  00® 6  25
Amygdalae,  Dulc__  
35®  60
Amygdalae,  Amarae.  8 00® 8  25
Anisi .........................  1 
Auranti Cortex........   2  25® 2  30
Bergamil..................  2 
80®  85
Cajiputl.................... 
75®  80
Caryophylli..............  
C edar.......................  
35@  45
Chenopadil............... 
@ 2 75
Clnnamonii.............   1 
10®  1 20
36®  40
Cltronella................. 

85®  1 90
50® 2 60

® 

Aconitum.................. 
20®  25
22®
Althae.......................  
10®
A nchusa..................  
Arum  po.................. 
@  26
Calamus.................... 
20®  40
Gentiana........po. 15 
15
12@ 
Glychrrhiza.. .pv.  15  16®  18
@  75
Hydrastis  Canaden. 
@  80
Hydrastis Can., po.. 
Hellebore, Alba, po. 
12®  15
Inula,  po.................. 
15®  20
Ipecac, po.................  4 25®  4 35
Iris  plox.. .po. 35®38  35®  40
25®  30
Jalapa, p r................. 
Maranta,  14s...........  
@  35
22®  25
Podophyllum,  po... 
Rhei..........................  
75®  1  00
Rhei,  cu t.................. 
@  1  25
Rhei, pv.................... 
75@  1  35
Spigelia.................... 
35®  38
Sanguinaria.,  po.  15 
18
Serpentaria.............  
40®  45
60®  65
Senega.....................  
Smilax, officinalis H.  @ 4 0
Smilax,  M................. 
@  25
Scillse.............po.  35 
12
Sy m plocarpus, Foeti-
dus,  po.................. 
@  25
Valeriana,Eng. po. 30  @  25
Valeriana,  German. 
15®  20
Zingiber a ................  
12@ 
16
Zingiber j..................  
25®  27
Semen
@  12
Anisum..........po.  15 
13@  15
Apium (graveleons). 
Bird, is .....................  
4@ 
6
11©  12
Carui...............po.  18 
Cardamon.................  1  25®  1  75
Coriandrum.............. 
8® 
10
Cannabis Satlva.......  4  @  5
Cydonium................. 
75@  l  oo
Chenopodium.......... 
12
10® 
D'pterix Odorate....  l  00®  l  10
Foeniculum  ............. 
@  10
Foenugreek, po........ 
7@ 
9
L in i...........................  3vì@  4Vi
Lini, grd.......bbl. 3Vi 
4®  4Vi
Lobelia..................... 
35®  40
5
Pharlaris Canarian..  4  @ 
R ap a........ . 
4Vi® 
5
Sinapis  Alba............ 
9®  10
Sinapis  Nigra.......... 
11®  12
S plritus

10@ 

Frumenti, W. 1>. Co.  2 00® 2 50 
Frumenti,  L).  F.  K..  2 00®  2  25
Frum enti.................   1  25®  1  50
Juniperis Co. O. T ...  1  65@  2  00
Juniperls  Co...........   1  75® 3 50
Saacnarum  N. E __   1  90®  2  10
Spt. Vini Galli..........  1  75® 6  50
Vini  Oporto.............   1  25® 2  00
Vini Alba..................  1  25® 2  00

Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage................  2 50®  2  76
Nassau sheeps’ wool
carriage.................   2  50@ 2  75
Velvet extra sheeps’
wooi, carriage....... 
©  1  50
Extra yellow sheeps’
@  1  25
wool, carriage....... 
Grass  sheeps’  wool,
carriage................. 
@ 10 0
Hard, for slate use.. 
@  75
Yellow  R e e f,  for
slate use................. 
@ 140
Syrups
Acacia  * . ................. 
Auranti Cortex........  
Zingiber.................... 
Ipecac.......................  
Ferri Iod..................  
Rhei Arom............... 
Smilax  Officinalis... 
Senega...................... 
Scillse........... ............. 

@  60
@  50
@  50
@  60
©  50
@  50
50®  60
@  50
@  50

M iscellaneous 

40
1  50®  1  60

dither, Spts. Nit. 7 F  30® 
dither, Spts. Nit. 4 F  34®
Aium en....................  214®
3®
Alumen,  gro’d..po. 7 
Annatto..................... 
40®
4®
Antimoni, po............ 
Antimoni et Potass T  40®
Antipyrin................. 
@
Antiiebrin  ............... 
@
@
Argenti Nitras, oz... 
Arsenicum............... 
10@
38®
Balm  Gilead  Buds
Bismuth S. N...........
Calcium Chlor.,  Is...
@
@
Calcium Chlor.,  V4s..
Calcium Chlor.,  Vis.. 
@
Cantharides, Rus.po 
@
Capsid Fructus, af..
©
Capsid  Fructus, po.
®
Capsid Fructus B, po 
@
12®
Caryophyllus. .po. 15
@ 3 00 
Carmine, No. 40.......
50®  55
Cera  Alba................
40®
Cera  Flava...............
@  40
Coccus.....................  
@
Cassia  Fructus........  
@
Contraria..................  
Cetaceum..................  
@
Chloroform.............  
55®
Chloroform,  squibbs  @  1  10 
Chloral Hyd Crst....  1  65®  1  90
Chondrus.................. 
20®  25
Cinchonidine.P. & W  38®  48
Cinchonidine, Germ.  38® "  48
Cocaine....................  5 30®  6 50
Corks, list, dis. pr.ct.
Creosotum................  
@  35
C reta.............bbl. 75
Greta, prep...............
9®  11
Creta, precip............ 
Creta, Rubra.
Crocus...................... 
15®
Cudbear.................... 
@
Cupri  Sulph.............   6V4@
7®
Dextrine .
Ether Sulph............. 
75®
@
Emery, all m unta.*.
Emery, po.................
®
85® 90
E rg o ta........... po. 90
Flake  W hite...........  
12© 
15
G alla......................... 
@
8®
G am bler..................  
@
Gelatin,  Cooper....... 
Gelatin, French....... 
35®
75  &
Glassware,  flint, box 
Less than box.......
Glue, brown.............  
li@
Glue,  white.............  
15@
Glycerina.................. 
17@
Grana Paradisl........ 
@
Humulus..................  
25®  55
Hydrarg  Chlor  Mite  @ 
Hydrarg  Chlor Cor..  @  85
Hydrarg  Ox Rub’m. 
@  1  05 
Hydrarg  Ammoniatl  @  1 
HydrargUnguentum  50®
Hydrargyrum.......... 
@  85
65®  70
IchthyoDolla,  Am... 
Indigo....................... 
75®  1  00
Iodine,  Resubi........   3 90®  4  00
Iodoform.................. 
@ 4  oo
@
Lupulin.....................  
Lycopodium.............  
70®
66®
M acis.......................  
Liquor Arsen et  Hy­
drarg Iod............... 
©
LlquorPotassArslnlt  10® 
Magnesia,  Sulph.... 
2® 
Magnesia, Sulph, bbl 
®   1V4 
Mannia, S.  F ............ 
50®

M IC H I G A N   TR A D E S M A N

2 ?

@  50
50 
@  50

Menthol....................
Morphia, S., P.& W. 
Morphia, S., N. Y. Q.
& C. Co..................
Moschus  Canton__
Myristlca, No. 1.......
"‘ux Vomica...po. 15
)s Sepia....................
"Bpsln Saac, H. & P.
1)  Co.....................
1cis Liq. N.N.V4 gal.
doz ..; ....................
ids Liq., quarts__
Id s Liq.,  pints.......
11 Hydrarg. ..po.  80 
Iper  Nigra., .po. 22 
Iper  Alba.... po. 35
llx Burgun......
'lumbl Acet.......
'ulvis Ipecac et Opii 
’y rethrum, boxes H 
& P. D. Co., doz..
“yrethrum,  pv__
Quassia*................
Quinta. S. P. &  W. 
Quinta, S.  German
Quinta, N. Y..........
Kubla Tinctorum.. 
Saccharum Lactis pv
Salacln.................
Sanguis  Draconls
Sapo, W...............
Sapo M.................
Sapo  G .................

@  3  26 
2 05®  2  30
1  95®  2  20 
@  40
65®  80
@ 
10 
30®  35
@  1  00
@ 2 00 
@  1  00 
@  
85
50
@ 
@  18 
30
@  
@ 
7
10®  
12 
1  30®  1  50
@  76
25®  30
8®  
10 
33®  43
33®  43
33®  43
12®  14
18®  20 
6 00®  6  25 
40®  50
12®  14
10®  
12

Seidlltz Mixture......
Sinapis.....................
Sinapis,  opt.............
Snuff,  Maccaboy. De
V oes.................... i
Sun If, Scotch, 1 >e V o’s
I  Soda, Boras.............
Soda,  Boras, po.......
Soda et Potass Tart.
Soda,  Carb...............
Soda,  Bi-Carb..........
Soda,  Ash.................
Soda, Sulphas..........
Spts. Cologne...........
Spts. Ether  Co........
Spts. Myrcia Dom... 
Spts. Vlni Kect.  bbl. 
Spts. Vlnl Kect. Hbbl 
Spts. Vini Kect. lOgal 
Spts. Vfni Kect. 5 gal 
Strychnia, Crystal...
Sulphur,  Subl..........
Sulphur, Roll...........
Tam arinds...............
Terebenth  Venice...
Theobromae..............
I  Vanilla.....................
Ziucl Sulph..............
Oils

20®  
22 
®   18 
@ 
30
@  41
@  41
9®
11
9®
23®  25
1V4® 
2
5
3® 
3V4® 
4
@ 
2 
@ 2  60 
50®  55@ 2 00
@
@
®
®
1  05®  1  25 
4
2 V4@ 
2 Vi®  3V4 
8®  
10 
28®  30
62®  65
9 00@16 00 
7® 
8

Whale, winter.......... 
Lard, extra............... 
Lard, No. 1............... 

BBL.  GAL.
70
70
50

7o 
60 
45 

Linseed, pure raw... 
66 
67 
Linseed, boiled........ 
Neatsfoot, winter str  64 
Spirits  Turpentine.. 
66 

>9
70
60
60
Paint«  BBL.  LB.
144  2  @8 
1%  2  @4 
\%  2  @3 
2Vi  2V4@3 
2V4  244@3
13® 
15
70® 
14® 
13® 
6V4® 
6 Vi® 
@ 
@
@  1  00
@  1  40 
1  00®  1  15

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

No. 1 Turp  Coach...  1  10®  1  20
Extra Turp...............  1  60®  1  70
Coach  Body.............   2  75® 3  00
No. 1 Turp Furn......   1  00®  1  10
Extra Turk  Damar..  1  56®  1  60 
Jap.Dryer.No.lTurp  70®  7F

Insect  Powder 

I Seasonable
Hi
|  Blue  Vitriol 
|  Paris  Green 
| 
I 
|  White  Hellebore 
I 
|  Moth  Balls 
I 
I  Gum  Camphor 
I 
I  Alabastine 
I
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Drug Co.,
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

prices guaranteed. 

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

GROCERY  PRICE  CURRENT

Guaranteed correct at time of issue.  Not  connected 

with  any jobbing house.

ADVANCED

P e ttijo h n  B reak fast Food 

P in k  Salm on

Sugars 
C u rran ts 

Solar Salt 

F lo u r
B eans

Candy

DECLINED

Shot
Tapioca
Queen A nne Soap
L ard

ALABASTINE

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

A X LE  GREASE
..........55
A urora............
..........60
Castor  Oil......
Diamond........
..........50
.......... 76
F razer's..........
IXL Golden, tin boxes 76

B lackberries
Standards .................
B lueberries
Standard.....................
Clams. 
Little Neck. 1 lb ....
Little Neck, 2 lb___
C herries
doz. gross Red  Standards............
6 00 White...........................
7 00
4  26 F air............................
9 00 Good.........................
9 00 Fancy....................

Corn

G ooseberries

1  00 
1  60
86
1  15
76
85
96

 

Salm on

M ushroom s

86
1  86 
3  10 
2  26

18@20
22@25
96
l  70

66
76
86
90
l  95®2  00
1  35 
1 00

H o u iin y
Standard.
L obster
Star, % lb..................
Star, l  lb..................
Picnic Tails..............
M ackerel
Mustard, lib ............
Mustard, 2 lb............
Soused, 1 lb...............
Soused, 2 lb.............
Tomato, 1 lb.............
Tomato, 2 lb.............
Hotels.........................
Buttons.....................
Oysters
Cove, l lb..................  
Cove, 2 lb ..................  
Peaches
P ie ............................
Yellow......................  1  66@1  85
P ears
Standard..................  
70
80
Fancy......................  
Peas
M arrowfat............
1  00 
Early .Tune............
i  oo 
Early June  Sifted
1  60
,  P ineap p le
25@2 75
G rated...................... 
l 
Sliced.........................  1 
35@2 26
P u m p k in
F a ir........................... 
Good......................... 
Fancy.......................  
R aspberries
Standard...................  
Columbia River........ 
Red Alaska.
Pink Alaska.............
Shrim ps
Standard..................
Sardines
Domestic, 
...........
Domestic, % s..........
Domestic,  Mustard.
California, (4s..........
French, HS...............
French, (4s...............
Standard..................
85
Fancy.......................
1  25
Succotash
Fair...........................
90
Good.........................
1  00
Fancy.......................
1  20
Tom atoes
F a ir...........................
80
Good.........................
90
Fancy.......................
1  15
Gallons......................
2 35
CATSUP
Columbia,  pints............ .......2 00
Columbia, % pints........ .......1  25
CHEESE
Acme.........................
©  3(4
Amboy.....................
©  8(4
Carson City..............
© 8*4
Emblem....................
©  8W
Gem..........................
@  9
Gold Medal...............
©  8
Id eal........................
© 8 
Jersey.......................
© 8TÍ 
Riverside..................
© 9 
B rick.........................
© 9 
Edam ........................
@90 
L eiden............. ; __
©17 
Limburger................
©10 
Pineapple.................  50
@75 
Sap  Sago..................
@16
Bulk........................................ 
R ed......................................... 

S traw berries

CHICORY

5
7

CHOCOLATE 

Walter Baker & Co.’s.

Runkel Bros.

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

H. O. Wilbur & Sons.

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

9 00
6 00

A cm e

A rctic
Egg

BA KIN G   PO W D ER  
lb. cans 3 doz..................   45
$4 lb. cans3doz..................   76
lb. cans 1  doz.................. l  00
1 
Bulk........................................  10
6 oz. Eng. Tumblers.............   86
H lb. cans,  4 doz. case.........3 75
14 lb. cans,  2 doz.case.........3 76
1 lb. cans,  1 doz. case..........3 76
61b. cans, (4 doz. case......... 3 00
>4 lb. cans per doz..............   76
H lb. cans per doz................1 20
1 
lb. cans per doz................2 00
X  lb. cans, 4 doz. case........  36
*4 lb. cans, 4 doz. case........   66
1 
lb. cans, 2 doz. case........  90

£1  P u rity

H om e

JA XO N

Q ueen  F lak e

M lb. cans, 4 doz. case........  46
V4 lb. cans, 4 doz. case........   85
1 
lb. cans. 2 doz. case........1  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.,  l doz. case....................9 00

R oyal

ioc size__  86
Î4 lb.  cans  1  30 
6 oz. cans.  1  80 
Vi lb.  cans  2  40 
% lb.  cans  3 60 
l lb.  cans.  4 66 
3 lb.  cans. 12  75 
5 lb. cans.21  00

BATH  B RICK

BLUING

American...............................  70
English...................................  80

CONB0«ED
g S l i i ;

Small 3 doz............................  -w
Large, 2 doz...........................  75
Arctic, 4 oz, per gross.........  4 00
Arctic, 8 oz, per gross.........  6 00
Arctic, pints, per  gross__ 9 oo
No. 1 Carpet.........................3 00
No. 2 Carpet.........................2 75
No. 3 Carpet.........................2 50
No. 4 Carpet.........................2  06
Parlor  Gem......................... 2 75
Common Whisk....................  96
Fancy Whisk....................... l  25
Warehouse...........................3 75
Electric Light, 8s.................12
Electric Light, 16s............... ¡2(4
Paraffine, es.......: ................ list
Paraffine, 12s .........................
Wlcklng................................20
CANNED  GOODS 

CANDLES

BROOMS

A pples
3 lb. Standards........  
Gallons, standards.. 
B aked.......................  
Red  Kidney.............  
String.......................  
W ax........................... 

B eans

80
2 60
75@i  30
75©  85
so
85

COCOA

Webb................................... 
30
Cleveland...............................   41
Epps.......................................  42
Van Houten, Tés...................   12
Van Houten, >£s...................   20
Van Houten, H s...................   38
Van Houten,  is ...................   70
Colonial, 14s  .........................  35
Colonial, Tés...........................  33
H uyler...................................  45
Wilbur, T4s............................  41
Wilbur. T48............................   42

CIGAR8

The Bradley Cigar Co.’s  Brands
Advance  ............................ $35 00
B radley..............................  36 00
Clear Havana  Puffs..........  22 00
"W . H.  B.” .......................  65 00
“ W. B. B.” .........................  65 00

H. & P. Drug Co.’s brands.

Fortune  Teller..................  35 00
Our Manager.....................   36 00
Quintette...........................  35 00
G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand.

S. C. W................................  35 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®no 00
T. J. Dunn & Co.........35@  70 00
McCoy & Co................36©  70 00
The Collins Cigar Co.. 10@ 35 00
Brown  Bros................15@  70 00
Bernard Stahl Co.......36©  90 00
Banner Cigar  Co....... 10©  35 00
Seidenberg  & Co....... 66@125 00
Fulton  Cigar  Co....... 10©  35 00
A. B. Ballard & Co... ,35@175 00 
E. M. Schwarz & Co...35@ll0 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...................35® 90 00
Benedict & Co..........7.50©  70 00
Hemmeter Cigar Co.  .35© 70 00 
G .J. Johnson Cigar Co.35© 70 00
Maurice S anborn__ 50@175 00
Bock & Co.................... 65@300 00
Manuel  Garcia........... 80@375 00
Neuva Mundo..............85@175 00
Henry Clay...................85@550 00
La Carolina..................96@200 00
Standard T. & C. Co. ..35© 70 00
S tar G reen ..................... 35  OO

H. Van Tongeren’s Brand. 

CO FFEE 
R oasted 

*

_   HIGH GRADE.
Coffees

Special Combination...........   20
French Breakfast.................  25
Lenox....................................   30
V ienna...................................  35
Private Estate.......................   38
Supreme.................................  40

Less 33T4  per  cent.

Rio

Common................................. 1054
F a ir........................................ 11
Choice............................. 
13
Fancy......................................15

Santos

Common................................. 11
F a ir........................................ 14
Choice..................................... 15
F ancy..................................... 17
Peaberry................................ .
F a ir........................................ 12
Choice..................................... 16

M aracaibo

M exican

Choice...................................  16
Fancy.....................................’ 17

Choice.................................... ..

G uatem ala

J a v a

African.............:................... 1214
Fancy A frican............... 
17
P- G.........................................£

Arabian...................... 

M ocha

 

.,,,21

PA CK A G E  CO FFEE. 

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 of 76c per 100 lbs.
Arbuckle.............................. 12 60
Jersey................................... 12  50
M cL aughlin’s XXXX 
McLaughlin’s  XXXX  sold  to 
retailers  only.  Mail  all  orders 
direct  to  W.  F.  McLaughlin  & 
Co., Chicago.
Valley City (4  gross.............   75
Felix (4 gross......................... 1  15
Hummel’s foil % gross........   85
... 1  43 
Hummel’s tin  % gross . 
COCOA  SHELLS
20 1b. bags.......................  
2(4
Less quantity..................  
3
Pound packages.............  
4
CLOTHES  LIN ES

E x tra ct

Cotton, 40 ft.  per doz............ 1  00
Cotton, 50 ft.  per doz............ 1  20
Cotton, 60 ft.  per doz..........  1  40
Cotton, 70 ft.  per doz............ 1  60
Cotton, 80 ft.  per doz............1  80
Jute, 60 ft. per doz...............  80
Jute. 72 ft. per doz.............  
95
CONDENSED  M IL K
4 doz in case.

Gall Borden Eagle.................... 6 75
Crown..........................................6 25
Daisy........................................... 5 75
Champion...................................4 50
Magnolia....................................4 26
Challenge................................... 4 00
Dime........................................... 3 36

COUPON  BOOKS 

50 books, any  denom...  1  60 
100 books, any  denom...  2 60 
500books,any  denom...  11  50
1.000 books, any  denom...  20 00 
Above quotations are for either
Tradesman, Superior, Economic 
or  Universal  grades.  Where
1.000 books areordered at a time 
customer receiv es  s p e c ia lly  
printed  cover  without  extra 
charge.

Coupon  Pass  Books 
denomination from $10 down.

Can be made to represent any 
50  books.........................  1  50
100  books.........................  2  50
500  books.........................  11  50
1.000  books...........................20  00

C redit  Checks 

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

A pples

C alifornia  F ru its

5 and 10 lb. wooden  boxes.......30
Bulk in sacks............................ 29
D R IE D   FRUITS—D om estic 
Sundried.......................... 6© 6(4
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes.6(4@  7 
Apricots..........................  @15
Blackberries...............
Nectarines..................
Peaches.......................10  @11
Pears............................
Pitted Cherries...........  
Prunnelles..................
Raspberries..............

7(4

C alifornia P ru n es

100-120 25 lb. boxes........   @
90-100 25 lb. boxes........   @4%
80 - 90 25 lb. boxes........   @ 5
70 - 80 25 lb. boxes........   @5(4
60 - 70 25 lb. boxes........   @ 6
50 - 60 25 lb. boxes........   @6(4
40 - 50 25 lb. boxes........   © 7
30 - 40 25 lb. boxes........  
8(4
X  cent less In 50 lb. cases 

R aisins

C itron

C urran ts

1  75 
London Layers 2 Crown. 
2 00
London Layers 3 Crown. 
Cluster 4 Crown............. 
2  25
7(4
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 
8T4
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown 
8%
L. M., Seeded, choice ... 
10
L. M.. Seeded, fancy__  
10(4
D R IE D   FRU ITS—F o reig n  
Leghorn..................................... 11
Corsican....................................12
Patras, cases.........................  6(4
Cleaned, bulk.......................  7T4
Cleaned,  packages...............  8
Citron American 19 lb. bx... 13 
Lemon American 10 lb. b x .. 104 
Orange American 10 lb. bx.. 10(4 
Sultana 1 Crown...................
Sultana 2 Crown..................
Sultana 3 Crown....................
Sultana 4 Crown....................
Sultana 5 Crown....................
Sultana 6 Crown....................
Sultana package..................

R aisins

P eel

B eans

FARINACEOUS  GOODS 
Dried Lima...........................   64
Medium Hand Picked  2 25©2 35
Brown Holland.....................
Cream of Cereal....................  90
Grain-O, sm all....................... 1 35
Grain-O, large........................2 25
Grape Nuts............................1  35
Postum Cereal, sm all............1 35
Ppstum Cereal, large........  2  25

C ereals

F a rin a

H om iny

H ask ell’s W h eat F lak es

241 lb. packages........................1 26
Bulk, per 100 Tbs......................... 3 00
36  21b. packages........................3 oo
B arrels....................................... 2 50
Flake, 50 lb. drums.................... 1 00
M accaronl  and V erm icelli
Domestic, 10 lb. box.............  60
Imported. 25 lb. box............2  50
Common...............................
Chester.............., ..................2  50
Empire........................................ 3 00

P e a rl  B arley

G rits

Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s Brand.

Peas

d R olled  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.................................  
3
Rolled Avena, bbl......................3 60
Steel Cut,  bbl.............................4 00
Monarch, bbl.............................. f 35
Monarch, 4  bbl..........................1 80
Monarch, 90 lb. sacks...........1  55
Quaker, cases............................. < 20
German.................................  
4
East India.............................  34
F lak e.....................................  44
P earl......................................  44
Pearl,  241 lb. packages.......64
Cracked, bulk.......................   34
24 2 lb. packages........................2 60
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS 
Vanilla D. C. .2 oz 1  10  4 oz l  80 
Lemon D. C...2 oz  70  4 oz 1  35 
Van. Tonka.  .2 oz  75  4 oz 1  45

T apioca

D e B o e ’s

W h eat

Sago

FOOTE  &  JE N K S ’

JA XO N

H ig h est  G rade  E x tracts
Lemon
Vanilla 

1 oz full m . 1  20  1 oz full  m .  80
2 oz full m .2  10  2 oz full m . 1  25 
No.3fan’y.3  16  No.3fan’y.l  75

Vanilla

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

Jen n in g s’

P errig o ’s

N o rth ro p   B rand

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

D.  C. Lemon
2oz.........  75
3 0Z.........1  00
4 OZ.........1  40
6 OZ.........2 00
No. 8....2 40
NO. 10....4 00
No. 2 T..  80
No. 3 T.. 125
No. 4 T. . 150
Lem.  Van.
2 oz. Taper Panel_  75 
1  20
2oz.Oval..............  76 
120
3 oz. Taper Panel___1  35  2 00
4 oz. Taper Panel.... 1  60  2 25
Van.  Lem. 
doz.
doz. 
XXX, 2 oz. obert__ 1  25 
75
XXX, 4 oz. taper— 2 25 
1  25
XX, 2 oz. obert........ 1  00
No. 2,2 oz. o b ert__   75
2 25
XXX D D ptchr, 6 oz 
175
XXX D D ptchr, 4 oz 
2  25
K. P. pitcher. 6 oz.. 
Perrigo’s Lightning,  gro.. ..2 50
Petrolatum, per doz...........   75
Sage........................................15
H ops.............................  
Madras, 5 lb. boxes............. 55
S. F., 2,3 and 5 lb. boxes........ 50
5 lb. pails...........................  190
15 lb. pails............................  35
30 lb. pails............................  62
P u re.....................................  30
Calabria...............................  25
Sicily....................................  14
Root.....................................   10
Condensed, 2 doz..................1  20
Condensed, 4 doz..................2 26

FLY  P A P E R

LICO RIC^f

INDIGO

H ER B S

JE L L Y

LYE

15

 

MATCHES

Diamond Match Co.’s brands.
No.  9 sulphur........................1  66
Anchor P arlo r........   ..........1  60
No. 2 H om e........................... 1  30
Export Parlor........................4 00
Wolverine.............................. 1  50

MOLASSES 
New  O rleans

Black................................... 
11
14
F a ir..................................... 
Good.................................... 
20
Fancy.................................  
24
Open Kettle........................25@35

Half-barrels 2c extra 
MUSTARD

Satchel 
Bottom 

P A P E R   BAGS

Horse Radish, 1 doz............. 1  75
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

X ............ ............  28
V*............ ............  34
1............ ............  44
2 ............ ............  54
3 ............ ............  66
4 ............ ............  76
5 ............ ............  90
6 ............ ............1  06
8 ............ ............1  28
10............ ............1  38
12............ ............1  60
14............ ............2  24
16............ ............2  34
20............ ............2  52

PIC K L E S
M edium

Sm all

Barrels, 1,200 count............ 6  25
Half bbls, 600 count............ 3  13
Barrels, 2,400 co u n t............6  26
Half bbls, 1,200 count......... 3  62
Clay, No. 216......................... 1  70
Clay, T. D., full count..........  65
Cob, No. 3..............................  85

P IP E S

48 cans in case.

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

POTASH 

R IC E

D om estic

Im p o rted .

Carolina  head........................ 7
Carolina No. 1 .......................5(4
Carolina  No. 2 .......................4
B roken.................................... 3(4
Japan,  No.  1..................5(4@6
Japan,  No.  2..................4(4@5
Java, fancy head........... 5  @5Ti
Java, No. 1..................... 5  @
Table.................................  ©
Packed 60 lbs. in box. 

SALERATUS 

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

SAL  SODA

SALT

D iam ond C rystal 

Com m on  G rades

Table, cases, 24 3 lb. boxes.. 1  40 
Table, barrels, 100 3 lb. bags.2  85 
Table, barrels, 40 7  lb. bags.2 50 
Butter, barrels, 280 lb. bulk.2  50 
Butter, barrels, 20 I41b.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
40
561b. sacks......................... 
281b. sacks......................... 
22
56 lb. dairy in drill bags.......  30
28 lb. dairy in drill bags.......  15
56 lb. dairy in linen sabks...  60 
56 lb. dairy in linen sacks...  60 
56 lb.  sacks............................   28
Granulated  Fine........................ 1 no
Medium Fine.............. 

Solar  Rock
Com m on

A shton
H iggins

W arsaw

1  06

 

SOAP

JA XO N

Single box............................... 3 00
5 box lots, delivered.............2 95
10 box lots, delivered.............2 90
¿AS.  S  KIRK  &  CO.’S  BRANDS.
American Family, wrp’d... .3 00
Dome.......................................2 80
Cabinet....................................2 40
Savon....................................... 2 80
White  Russian.......................2 80
White C loud,.........................4 00
Dusky Diamond, 60 6 oz........2 00
Dusky Diamond, 50 8 oz........2 50
Blue India, 100 X lb ...............3 00
Kirkoline................................ 3 50
Eos...........................................2 6_
ffiufrz/falifcw
10012 oz bars.......................... 3 00
SEARCH-LIGHT
SILVER

100 big bars (labor saving). .3 60

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

S couring

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

>JI

«>

1

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

29

SALT  FISH  

Cod

H e rrin g

H alib u t.

Georges cured.............   @ 5
Georges  genuine........   @  6%
Georges selected........   @5%
Grand Bank..................  @4%
Strips or  bricks..........  6  ©  9
Pollock.........................   @3%
Strips..........................................14
Chunks...........................  
15
Holland white hoops,  bbl.  11  00 
Holland white hoops%bbl.  6  00 
Holland white hoop, keg.. 
75 
Holland white hoop mens. 
85 
Norwegian
Round'lOO lbs.................. ..  3  60
Round 40 lbs.................... ..  1  75
Scaled..............................
16%
Bloaters............................ ..  1  50
Mess 100 lbs..................... ..  17  00
Mess  40 lbs..................... ..  7  10
..  1  86
Mess  10 lbs....................
Mess  8 lbs.................... ..  1  61
No. 1100 lbs.................... ..  15  00
..  6  30
No. 1  40 lbs...................
No. 1  10 lbs.................... ..  1  65
No. 1  8 lbs.................... ..  1  35
No. 2 100 lbs.................... ..  9  50
No. 2  40 lbs.................... ..  4  10
No. 2  10 lbs.................... .. 
1 1 0
NO. 2  8 lbs.....................
91
No. 1100 lbs.................
No. 1  40 lbs.................
No. 1  10 lbs.................
No. 1  8 lbs.................
W hite fish

M ackerel

T ro u t

No. 1 NO. 2 Fam
2 35
.  7  50 7  00
1  25
.  3 30 3  10
38
85
90
. 
33
71
75
SEEDS

8  lbs.......

Anise......................................  9
Canary, Smyrna....................  4
Caraw ay...............................   8
Cardamon, Malabar..............60
Celery......................................10
Hemp, Russian........................4%
Mixed Bird............................   4%
Mustard, white.....................   5
Poppy...................................... 10
R ape......................................  4%
Cuttle Bone.............................15
Scotch, in bladders...............  37
Maccaboy, in jars.................  35
French Rappee, in  jars.......  43
Boxes......................................  5%
Kegs,  English.......................   4%

SNUFF

SODA

SPICES 

W hole Spices

12
Allspice............................... 
12
Cassia, China in m ats....... 
25
Cassia, Batavia, in bund... 
Cassia, Saigon, broken__  
38
55
Cassia, Saigon, in rolls —  
16
Cloves, Amboyna............... 
14
Cloves, Zanzibar................. 
M ace................................... 
55
Nutmegs,  75-80..................  
55
Nutmegs,  105-10................. 
46
40
Nutmegs, 116-20.................. 
Pepper, Singapore, black.  15% 
Pepper,  Slngagore, white. 
23
Pepper, shot.......................   16%
P u re  G round In B u lk
Allspice............................... 
16
Cassia, Batavia..................  
28
Cassia, Saigon.................... 
48
Cloves, Zanzibar...............
Ginger, African...............
Ginger, Cochin.................
Ginger,  Jam aica.............
Mace..................................
Mustard............................
Pepper, Singapore, black 
Pepper, Singapore, white
Pepper, Cayenne.............
Sage...................................

STARCH

C om m on Corn

K ingsford’s  Corn
40 l-lb. packages................  
6%
20 l-lb. packages................ 
6%
7%
6 lb. packages................  
K ingsford’s Silver Gloss
40 l-lb. packages................  
7
6 lb. boxes......................... 
7%
4%
20 l-lb.  packages............... 
40 l-lb.  packages............... 
4%
l-lb.  packages.................... 
4%
4%
3-lb. packages.................... 
5
6-lb. packages.................... 
40 and 50-lb. boxes.............  
3%
Barrels...............................  
3%
STOVE  PO LISH

Com m on Gloss

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

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 
Cut Loaf..............................  6  10
Crushed................................  6 10
Cubes....................................  6 85
Powdered............................   6 80
Coarse  Powdered 
............  5 80
XXXX Powdered...............   5 85
Standard  Granulated.......  5  70
Fine Granulated.......... ....  5 70
Coarse  Granulated__ '....  5 85
Extra Fine Granulated....  5 80
Conf.  Granulated................  5 95
2 
2 lb.  bags Fine  Gran........  5  80
5 11>. cartons Fine  G ran...  5 80
5 lb. bags Fine  Gran........   5 80
Mould A ................................  5 95
Diamond  A...........................  5 70
Confectioner’s  A.................  5 50
No.  1, Columbia A...........   5 35
No.  2, Windsor A.............  5 35
No.  3, Ridgewood A........   5 35
No.  4, Phoenix  A .............   530
No.  5, Empire A ...............  5 26
No.  6...................................  5 20
No.  7...................................  5  15
No.  8...................................  5  10
No.  9...................................  5 06
No. 10..................................   E  00
No. 11..................................   4 95
NO. 12..................................   4 90
No. 13..................................   4  90
No. 14................................. 
4  90
No. 15..................................   4 90
No. 16..................................   4  90

lb. cartons Fine  Gran...  5 80

SYRUPS

Corn

Barrels....................................19
Half bbls............................... 21
1  doz. 1 gallon cans............3  20
1 doz. % gallon cans............. l  95
2 doz. % gallon cans.............
F a ir........................................  16
Good......................................  20
choice  ...................................  25

P u re   Cane

TA B LE  SAUCES
LEA & 
PERRINS’ 
SAUCE

W OODENW ARE 

B askets

95

Tubs

P ails

B u tte r  P lates

C lothes  P lus
Mop  Sticks

Bushels...................................1  15
Bushels, wide  band............. 1  25
M arket..................................  30
Willow Clothes, large..........7 00
Willow Clothes, medium...  6 50
Willow Clothes,  small...... ..5  60
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
Boxes, gross boxes  .............  66
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............... l 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-inch, Standard, No. 2............6 00
16-inch, Standard, No. 3............6 00
20-inch, Dowell,  No. 1............... 3 25
18-inch, Dowell,  No. 2............... 6 26
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 75
Double Acme.............................. 2 75
Single Acme................................2 25
Double  Peerless.........................3 20
Single  Peerless...........................2 50
Northern Q ueen....................... 2 60
Double Duplex...........................3 00
Good Luck..................................2 76
Universal.................................... 2 26
11 in. B utter..........................   '76
13 in. Butter................................ 1 00
15 in. Butter................................ 1 75
17 in. Butter................................2 50
19 in. Butter................................3 00
Assorted 13-15-17.........................1 75
Assorted 15-17-19....................... 2 50
Yeast Foam, 1%  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

W ash  B oards

W ood  Bowls 

Crackers

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  55
Salad Dressing, small.......  2  76

TEA
Ja p a n

Sundried, medium...............27
Sundried, choice..................30
Sundried, fancy....................40
Regular, medium................. 28
Regular, choice....................30
Regular, fancy.....................40
Rasket-fired, medium  ........26
Basket-fired, choice.............35
Basket-fired, fancy..............40
Nibs....................................... 27
Siftings..................................19
Fannings...............................20

G unpow der

Moyune, medium................26
Moyune, choice................... 35
Moyune,  fancy.....................50
Pingsuey,  medium..............25
Pingsuey,  choice........; ........30
Pingsuey, fancy...................40

Y oung  H yson

Choice. 
Fancy.

Oolong

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

E n g lish  B reak fast

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

In d ia

VINEGAR

TOBACCO

Ceylon, choice...................... 32
Fancy.....................................42
Scotten Tobacco Co.’s Brands.
Sweet Chunk plug.............. 34
Cadillac fine cu t....................57
Sweet Loma fine 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
W ASHING  PO W D ER
fflu fa fa z /ffo te
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..................... 55

W IC K IN G

Soda

O yster

B u tte r

5%
5%
6%
5%

The  National  Biscuit  Co. 

quotes as follows:
Seym our............................... 
New York.............................  
Fam ily................................... 
Salted.................................... 
6
Wolverine........................... 
Soda  XXX......................... 
6
Soda,  City.........................  
8
Long Island Wafers..........  11
io
Zephyrette......................... 
Faust................................... 
1
6%
Farina.................................... 
Extra Farina 
.................. 
6
Saltine  Oyster......................  
5%
Sweet  Goods—Boxes
Animals................................  10%
Assorted  Cake..................   10
Belle Rose........................... 
9
Bent’s  W ater....................  15
Buttercups... 
............  13
Cinnamon Bar.................... 
9
Coffee Cake,  Iced.............   10
Coffee Cake, Java.............   10
Cocoanut Taffy...  ............  10
Cracknells...........................  15%
Creams, Iced.......................  
8%
Cream Crisp.......................  
9
Crystal Creams............. 
10
Cubans.................................   n%
Currant  Fruit......................  11
Frosted Honey..................  12%
Frosted Cream..................... 
9
Ginger Gems, lg. or  sm ... 
9
Ginger Snaps, NBC.......... 
8
G ladiator...........................  10
Grandma Cakes................. 
9
Graham Crackers................ 
8
Graham  Wafers..................   10
Grand Rapids  Tea...........   12
Honey Fingers....................  12%
Iced Honey  Crumpets —   10
Im perials................ 
8
Jumbles, Honey..................   12%
Lady Fingers.......................   11%
Lemon W afers..................  14
Marshmallow....................  15
Marshmallow W alnuts__   16
Mary  Ann..........................  
8
Mixed Picnic.......................   11%
Milk Biscuit.......................... 
7%
Molasses  Cake..................  
8
Molasses B ar.....................  
9
Moss Jelly Bar....................  12%
Newton...............................    12
8
Oatmeal Crackers.............  
Oatmeal Wafers................   10
Orange Crisp...................... 
9
Orange  Gem...................... 
8
Penny Cake......................... 
8
Pilot Bread, XXX.............  
7
Pretzels, hand  made........  
7%
Sears’ Lunch.....................  
7%
Sugar Cake......................... 
8
Sugar Cream, XXX.......... 
8
Sugar Squares.................. 
8
Sultanas................................  12%
Tuttl  Frutti.........  ..............  16%
Vanilla W afers..................   14
Vienna Crimp.................... 
8

 

 

Grains and Feedstuffs I 

W heat

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

W inter  W heat  Flour 

73

Local Brands

Patents...............................  4  ro
Second  Patent....................  4 00
Straight...............................  3 75
C lear...................................  3 40
Graham ..............................  3 75
Buckwheat.........................  4  60
Rye..................... *...............  3 25
Subject  to  usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour in bbls., 25c per  bbl. ad­
ditional.
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand
Diamond %s.......................  3 75
Diamond %s......................   3 75
Diamond %s.......................  3 75

Worden Grocer Co.’s  Brand

Quaker %s................ .........  3 80
Quaker %s..........................  3  80
Quaker %s...-.....................   3  80

Spring  W heat  Flour 

Clark-Jewell-Wells  Co.’s  Brand
4  85 
PUlsbury’s  Best %s... 
4  76 
Pillshury’s  Best % s..
4  66 
Plllsbury’s  Best %s..........
4  65 
Plllsbury’s Best %s paper. 
4 65
Plllsbury’s Best %s paper.
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand
4  80
Duluth  Imperial  %s.........
4  70
Duluth  Imperial %s.........
4  60
Duluth  Imperial %s.........
Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s Brand
4  60
Wingold  %s.....................
4  50
Wingold  %s.....................
4  40
Wingold  %s.....................

Olney & Judson’s Brand

Ceresota %s.......................
Ceresota %s.......................
Ceresota  %s.......................

4  80
4  70
4  60

Worden Grocer  Co.’s Brand

4  75
Laurel  %s..........................
Laurel  %s........................... 4  66
4  55
Laurel  %s..........................
4  55
Laurel %s and %s paper

M eal

2  20

Granulated........................

Feed  and  M illstuffs

St. Car Feed, screened__   17 50
No. l Corn and  Oats........   17  oo
Unbolted Corn  Meal........  16  50
Winter Wheat Bran..........  15 00
Winter Wheat  Middlings.  16  50
Screenings.........................  15  00

Corn, car  lots....................  44
Less than car lots.............

Car  lots...............................  29
Car lots, clipped................   32
Less than car lots.............

Corn

Oats

H ay

No. l Timothy car  lots__   12 oo
No. i Timothy ton  lots__   13 00

Hides  and  Felts

H ides

The Cappon & Bertsch Leather 
Co., 100 Canal  Street,  quotes  as 
follows:
Green  No.  1........... 
@ 7
@ 6
Green  No.  2...........  
@ 8
Cured  No.  1........... 
Cured  No.  2........... 
@ 7
@10
Calfskins,green No. 1 
Calfskins,green No.2  @8%
Calfskins,cured No. l  @10%
@ 9 
Calfskins,curedNo.2 

Pelts,  each............... 

No. 1................ 
No. 2........................... 

P elts

Tallow
 
W ool

50@l  10

  @ 4
@ 3

Washed, fine...........  
Washed,  medium... 
Unwashed,  fine....... 
Unwashed, medium. 

20@22
22@24
I4@i5
18@20
Fish  and Oysters

F resh   F ish

White fish....................  @ 9
Trout......................... .  @ 8
Black  Bass............... .  9@ 10
Halibut...................... ..  @ 13
Ciscoes or H erring.. @ 4
Bluefish.................... • •  @ 11
Live  Lobster........... ..  @ 17
Boiled  Lobster........ ..  @ 19
..  @ 10
Haddock.................. ..  @ 7
No. 1 Pickerel.......... • •  @ 8
P ike........................... ..  @ 7
Perch........................ --  @ 5
Smoked  W hite........ ..  @ 8
Red  Snapper............ .  @ 9
Col River  Salmon... ..  @ 10
Mackerel.................. ..  © 16
40
F. H.  Counts............
F. J. D. Selects........
Selects ......................
F. J. D. Standards..
Anchors....................
Standards.................
Favorite....................
Claras, per 100... 
Oysters, per 100

O ysters In Cans.

Shell Goods. 

1  00@1  25

Fresh  Meats

B eef

Carcass.....................  
6%@ 8
6  @ 6%
Forequarters.......... 
H indquarters.......... 
8  @ 9
Loins No. 3...............  10  @14
Ribs..........................   10  @14
@  8
Rounds.....................  
ChucKs.....................  
5%@ 6
P lates....................... 
4  @ 5

P o rk

Dressed.................... 
Loins........................  
Boston  Butts...........  
Shoulders................. 
Leaf  Lard................. 
M utton
Carcass..................... 
Spring Lambs.......... 

Veal

@6%
@ 8
@7%
@ 7%
@71»

7  @ 8
@14

P r o v i s i o n s
B arreled  P o rk

Mess..........................
B ack.......................
Clear back................
Short cu t..................
P ig ............................
Bean..........................
Fam ily.....................

D ry  Salt  M eats

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

Sm oked  M eats

@12  50
@13  50
@12  50
@12  50
@16  50
@10  50
@13  50

Shi
8%
7%

Hams, 12 lb. average.
@  H%
Hams, 14 lb. average.
@  11
Hams, 16 lb. average.
@  10%
Hams, 20 lb. average.
@  10%
Ham dried  beef.......
@  13%
Shoulders (N. Y. cut)
@  7%
Bacon, clear.............   9 @  10
California hams.......
@  7%
@  11
Boneless  hams........
Boiled Hams..........
@  16
l’icnic Boiled Hams
@  12%
Berlin  Hams..........
@  9
Mince H am s..........

Lards—In TierceS

Compound................
Kettle........................
Vegetole.................
55 lb. Tubs.. advance
80 lb. Tubs.. advance
50 lb. Tins... advance
20 lb.  Pails, .advance
10 lb.  Palls.. advance
5 lb.  Palls.. advance
3 lb. Pails.. advance
Saufiageft
Bologna....................
Liver........................
Frankfort.................
Pork  .........................
Blood.........................
Tongue.....................
Headcheese..............
B eef
Extra Mess...............
Boneless....................
R um p.......................

P igs’  F eet

Kits, 15  lbs...............
% bbls., 40 lbs..........
% bills., 80 lbs..........
T rip e
Kits, 15  lbs...............
% bbls., 40  lbs..........
% bbls., 80  lbs..........
Casings
P o rk .........................
Beef  rounds.............
Beef  middles..........
Sheep........................
B u tterin e
Rolls, dairy...............
Solid, dairy...............
Rolls, creamery......
Solid,  creamery.......

C anned  M eats

Corned beef, 2 lb __
Corned beef, 14 lb ...
Roast beef, 2 lb........
Potted ham,  %s.......
Potted ham,  %s.......
Deviled ham,  %s__
Deviled ham,  %s__
Potted tongue,  %s..
Potted tongue.  %s

0
■%
6%
Vfe
%
%
%
!
1

5%
6
7%
7%
6%
9
6

10  75
11  00
10  50

80
1  50
2 75

70
1  25
2  25

20
3
10
60

13%
13
19
18%

2  45
17  5t
2  41
4f
8t
45
85
45
85

Oils
B arrels

Eocene.........................  @12
Perfection....................  @10%
XXX W.W. Mich. Hdlt  @10%
W. W. Michigan........  @10
Diamond White..........  @  9%
D., 8.  Gas....................  @H %
Deo. Naphtha.............   @11%
Cylinder....................... 29  @34
Engine.........................19  @23
Black, winter...............  @11%

Candies
Stick Candy

M ixed Candy

F ancy—In  B ulk

bbls.  palls
Standard.................. 
7  @7%
Standard H.  H ........  
7  @7%
Standard  Twist....... 
7%@  8
Cut  Loaf...................  
@8%
cases
Jumbo, 32 lb............ 
@6%
Extra H. H ..............  
@8%
Boston Cream.......... 
@10
Beet Root.................. 
@ 7
Grocers.....................  
@ 6
Competition.............  
@6%
Special......................  
@7%
Conserve................... 
@ a
R oyal...................  
  @7%
Ribbon...................... 
@
Broken.....................  
@
Cut Loaf.................... 
@8%
English  Rock...........  
@8%
K indergarten.......... 
@8%
French Cream.......... 
@ 9
Dandy Pan............... 
@ 9%
Hand  Made  Cream
m ixed.................... 
@14
Nobby.......................  
@
Crystal Cream m ix.. 
@12%
San Bias Goodies__ 
@n
Lozenges, plain....... 
@ 9%
Lozenges, printed... 
@ 9%
Choc. Drops.............  
@11%
Eclipse Chocolates...  @13
Choc.  Monumentals. 
@13
Gum Drops..............  
(&  5
@8%
Moss  Drops.............  
Lemon Sours............ 
@ 9
Imperials..................  
@9%
Ital. Cream Opera...  @11
ltal. Cream Bonbons
36 lb. palls.............  
@11
Molasses  Chews,  15
lb. pails..................  
@13
@12%
Pine Apple Ice........ 
Iced Marshmeilows.........   14
Golden Waffles........  
@11
F ancy—ln  S lb. Boxes
Lemon  Sours 
@50
Peppermint Drops..
@60
Chocolate  Drops__
@65
H. M. Choc. Drops.. 
@75
H. M. Choc.  Lt.  and
Dk. No. 12.............
@90 
Gum Drops...............
@30 
Licorice  Drops........
@75 
A. B. Licorice Drops
@50 
Lozenges,  plain.......
@55 
Lozenges, printed...
@55 @55 
Imperials..................
M ottoes....................
@60 
Cream  Bar...............
@55 
Molasses Bar...........
@55 
Hand Made Creams. 
80  @90
Cream Buttons, Pep.
and  Wlnt..............
@65 
String Rock.
@60
Burnt  Almonds.......1  26  @
@65
Wlntorgreen Berries 
C aram els 
No.  1 wrapped,  3  lb.
boxes......................
Penny Goods...........
Fruits
O ranges 
Fancy  Navels
Extra Choice............
Late Valencias.............4  75@5 00
Seedlings..................  
@3 76
Medt. Sweets........... 
@3  75
Jam aicas.................. 
@
Fancy Valencias__ 
@5 00
Lem ons
@4 50
Strictly choice 360s.. 
@4  50
Strictly choice 300s.. 
Fancy 300s................  
@4  76
Ex. Fancy  300s........  
@5 00
Extra Fancy 360s.... 
@5 00
B ananas
Medium bunches__   q   76@2 00
Large  bunches........   2  00@2 26

@50
55@60

F igs

D ates

F oreign  D ried F ru its 
Callfornla8,  Fancy.. 
@10
Cal. pkg, 10 lb. boxes  @  8
Extra  Choice,  10  lb. 
boxes, new Smprna  @12
Fancy, 12 lb. boxes new  @13
Imperial Mikados, 18
Id. boxes................  
@
Pulled, 6 lb. boxes... 
@
@5%
Naturals, In bags.... 
Fards in 10 lb. boxes 
@10
Fards In 60 lb. cases.  @ 6
@ 5
Persians,  P. H. V ... 
lb.  cases,new................i s
Salrs, 60 lb. cases.... 
@ 6
Nuts
Almonds, Tarragona
Almonds,  Ivlca.......
Almonds, California,
soft shelled...........
Brazils, new.............
Filberts....................
Walnuts, Grenobles. 
Walnut*, soft shelled 
California No. 1... 
Table Nuts,  fancy... 
Table Nuts,  choice..
Pecans,  Med............
Pecans, Ex. Large...
Pecans, Jumbos......
Hickory Nuts per bu.
Ohio,  new.............
Cocoanuts, full sacks 
Chestnuts, per  b u ...
P ean u ts 
Fancy, H. P., Suns.. 
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Flags
Roasted.................
Choice, H.P., Extras 
Choice, H. P., Extras 
Span. Shelled No. L.

#

3 0

Getting the  People

A d v e r ti s in g   W h irl»   P a y s  a n d  S o m e  W h ic h  

D o e s   N o t  P a y .

M.  M.  Brackney,  of  Big  Rapids, 
sends  in  the  accompanying  advertise­
ment  for  criticism. 
Its  defects  are 
In  the  first  place  the  type  used 
many. 
is  almost  unreadable 
in  the  heading 
and,  in  the  second,  the  wording 
is  not 
good. 
is  the  old  story  of  glittering 
generalities—of  claims  that  could  be 
made  of  any  stock  of  shoes  from  Maine 
to  California.  In  the  space  occupied  by 
this  advertisement,  Mr.  Brackney  could

It 

Swell  Shoes and Oxfords 
for Graduation  Exercises

We have a large stock on hand of the hand­
somest, easiest, coolest and most up-to-date 
shoes  and  oxfords  made.  An  inspection 
will convince you that  we  are  justiiied  in 
our claims.  From theflightest and daintiest 
to  the  most  substantial,  our  lines  lead 
everything.  The  finest and  most  fashion­
able  leathers,  most  correct  and 
latest 
shapes.

M.  M.  BRACKNEY,
108  So. Michigan  Ave.,  Fairman  Block.

illustrated 

have  described  and 
three 
or  four  of  the  different  styles  of  “ Swell 
Shoes  and  Oxfords,”   about  which  he 
has  so  much  to  say,  and  such  an  adver­
tisement  would  have  been  far  more  con­
vincing  than  his  present  one.  Gen­
eralities  in  an  advertisement do not pay, 
never  have  paid  and  never  will  pay. 
The  human  mind  demands  something 
definite.

* 

* 

*

It  seems 

Geo.  A.  Roof,  of  Big  Rapids, 

is 
announcing  a  prize  pumpkin  contest. 
His  announcement  is  reproduced  here­
with. 
like  a  good  idea,  but 
the  difficulty with  it, so  far  as  I  can  see, 
lies 
in  the  fact  that  he  can  not  produce 
any  particularly  good  results  until  Oc­
tober  27  of  this  year—and  that  is  a  long 
way  off.  An  advertising  scheme  of  this 
character  should always be arranged with

F R E E   P B I Z £   O F F E R  I

G r a n d   p r iz e  D i s t r i b u t i o n  b y   G e o .  A .  R o o f  

t h e  S h o e  M a n  o f  Big: R a p id s .

Some  people  think  they  are  some  punklns, 
other people think they  are  more  punklns; but 
everybody agrees that pumpkins are a very good 
thing to have around, especially  when  they  be­
come  delicious  home-made  pumpkin  pies.  To 
stimulate the production of good, solid pumpkins 
in  Big  Rapids  and  in  Mecosta  and  Newaygo 
counties, I will give the following prizes  for  the 
heaviest pumpkins produced within said territory
1st.  For  the  heaviest  pumpkin,  one  pair  $4 
shoes.  2nd.  For the second  heaviest  pumpkin 
one pair $3 50 shoes.  3d.  For the third heaviest 
pumpkin one  pair  of  $3  shoes.  4th.  For  the 
fourth heaviest pumpkin one pair of $2.50  shoes. 
5th.  For the 5th heaviest pumpkin  one  pair  $2 
shoes.  Either in Gentlemen's or Ladies’,  as  the 
winners choose, and for any style at above  regu­
lar prices.  Every one  in  Mecosta  or  Newaygo 
counties Is entitled to compete  for  these  prizes 
except my own family.  Pumpkins to be entitled 
to entry  in  this  contest  must  be  delivered  at 
Roof's  Shoe  Store, Big Rapids, Mich., on  or  be­
fore 12 o’clock noon (standard time) of Saturday. 
October 27,1900, and they shall be inspected and 
weighed by a disinterested committee  of  three, 
to be named later beginning at 1:30 o’clock p. m. 
of same day—Saturday. Oct. 27—and  on  the  de­
cision  of  said  committee  the  prizes  will  be 
awarded, their decision being  final.  All  pump­
kins so entered shall be and become the property 
of said Roof’s Shoe  Store.  No  person  shall  be 
entitled to make more than one entry nor  to  re­
ceive  more  than  one  prize.  Bring  on  your 
pumpkins.
1 shall open a new clean stock of  shoes  in  my 
south store next to Citizens Bank about June  15.

GEO.  A.  ROOF.

a  view  to  getting  immediate  results 
in 
the  way  of  increased  business,  and  if  I 
were  to  run  a  pumpkin  scheme  I  should 
allow  each  contestant  to  make  one  entry 
for  each  dollar's  worth  of  goods  pur­
chased  between  now  and  the  date  of 
awarding  the  prizes.  With  each  pur­
chase  I  should  issue  certificates,  stating 
that  the  holder  would  be  entitled  to 
compete  for  the  prizes,  and  to  make  one 
entry  for  each  dollar's  worth  of  goods 
purchased,  as  shown  on  his  certificate. 
In  this  way  I  would  be  able  not  only  to

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For  anything  in  the  line  of  Steam 
Heating,  Hot Water  Heating,  Hot 
Air  Heating,  Plumbing  or  Sheet 
rietal  Work  of  Galvanized  Iron, 
Black  Iron,  Tin,  Zinc  or  Copper, 
write  your  wants  and  you  will  re­
ceive  full  information;  also  as  per­
taining  to  Mantels,  Grates,  Tiling, 
Gas  and  Electric  fixtures.  Largest 
concern  and  best  show  rooms  in 
the  State.

==Weatherly & Pulte==

97 &  99  Pearl  St.
Grand  Rapids,  Michigan

Ballou  Bastéis 

lire  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.

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exterminator.
Years  of  trial  have  dem­
onstrated  its  superior ad­
vantages.
Bug  Finish  kills the bug, 
fertilizes  the  vines  and 
improves  the  potatoes. 
Imperfectly  mixed  Paris 
green  compounds  injure 
the  vines  and  make pota­
toes  unfit  for  use.
Bug  Finish  is  sold  ex­
tensively  and  at  a  low 
price.  W rite  for  circu­
lar  and  terms  to  dealers.

Bug Finish Co.

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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W O R L D ’ S   B E S T

5 0 .   C I G A R .   A L L   J O B B E R S   A N D

<3. J  JOHNSON CIGAROO.

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

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.

6—Concord  Wagon

increase  my  trade  at  the  start,  but  I 
would  also  be  able  to  make  the  contest 
more  interesting  by  offering  more  valu­
able  prizes  than  Mr.  Roof  is  offering.

* 

* 

*

The  Hamilton  Clothing  Co.,  of  Trav­
erse  City,  usually  puts  out  quite  attrac­
tive  advertising  matter. 
Its advertising 
is  usually  plain,  straight,  common-sense 
talk, and  convincing  from  that  very fact, 
but  the  other  day  their  advertisement 
writer  slipped  a  cog  somehow  or  other, 
with  the  following  result :

Don’t Come  In Out  Of  The  Wet

unless  you  feel  so  disposed—It’s  a 
positive pleasure to be out in a  storm 
with  a  good  Mackintosh  and  Um­
brella for protection.

Our  Mackintoshes  Keep  the wet 

Outside

Splendid all  wool  Trecot  Coat  at  $4.
$5, $U, up to $12 for best made.

It  Doesn’t  Pay  to  Repair  Old 

Umbrellas

when such good  ones  may  be  had  of 
us at 50c,  75c  and  $1;  Silk  and  Wool 
goods  at  $1.50,  $1.75,  $2  and  $2.25.

HAMILTON  CLOTHING  CO.

it 

The  man  who  wrote  that  top  para­
graph  did  not  mean  what  he  said.  He 
can  not  make  me  believe,  and  I  do  not 
believe  he  can  make  anybody  else  be­
lieve,  that 
is  a  positive  pleasure  to 
be  out  in  the  rain,no  matter  if  you  have 
a  good  mackintosh,  umbrella  or  a  port­
able  gravel  roof  over  you  for  protec­
tion.  Advertising 
that  makes  wild, 
rash  statements  of  that  character  does 
not  do  any  good.  It  hurts,  just  the  same 
as  extravagant  claims  made  in  a  store 
hurt  the  reputation  of  the  store  and  dis­
gust  possible  buyers.  The  remainder 
is  good  enough, 
of  the  advertisement 
but,  after  reading  the  heading  and 
in­
troductory  paragraph,  one  does  not  feel 
much 
inclined  to  believe  anything  else 
that  he  is  told.

*  

* 

*

It  is  always  a  very  good  plan  in  writ­
ing an advertisement  to  be  sure  that  you 
know  what  you  are  going  to  say  before 
you  start  it,  otherwise  the  advertisement 
may  turn  out  very  much  like  the  cap 
the 
little  girl  started  to  make  for  her 
doll— which  turned  out  to  be  a  pair of 
“ panties.”   The  Michigan  Sewing  Ma­
chine  and  Organ  Co.,  of  Owosso,  has 
evidently  failed  to  take  this  precaution. 
It  says,  “ The  country  has  been  flooded 
with  cheap  wheels  and  their  worthless­
ness  has  been  shown.”   Later  on 
it

A Reaction

Is  evident  with  wheel  buyers  this  year.  "The 
country  has  been  flooded  with  cheap  wheels, 
and their worthlessness has been shown.  Every­
one is looking for a better  class  of  bicycle,  and 
the old standard makes are  leading  in  all  sales. 
We have such well-known makes as
The  Gendron,  Reliance,  Crescent, 

Ferris and  Waldo.

As well as many others.  We  have  new  bicycles 
at $15, $16.50. $17.50 and upwards.  A  full  line  of 
sundries, tires, etc.,  at  cut  prices.  Don’t  send 
your money away until you  see what we  can  do 
for yon.  Call or send for catalogue.
Our guarantee means something.

Michigan S.  M. & Organ Co.,

O w osso,  Mich.

says,  “ We  have  new  bicycles  at  $15, 
$16.50,  $17.50  and  upwards. ”  
If  these 
are  not  cheap  wheels,  what  in  the  name 
of  Heaven  are  they?  The  fact  of  the 
matter  is  it  is  hardly  possible  to  adver­
tise cheap wheels and  those  of  the  stand­
ard  grade 
in  the  same  advertisement. 
Every  argument  you  make  in  favor  of 
the  good  wheel  hurts  the  cheap  one,  and 
if  you  try  to  talk  up  the  cheap  wheel 
you  usually  succeed  in  making it appear

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

3 1

TRADE  CHECKS

Made of heavy. 6 ply  tough  card  board.  Six 
denominations, lc. 6c,  10c,  26c,  50c  and  $1.00. 
Each  denomination  on  different  color  of 
board.  GOc per 100 prepaid.  20 per cent, dis­
count 011600 or over.  Send for free  samples. 
W .  K.  ADAMS  &  CO.,  D etroit,  Mich. 

30  West  Congress  St.

QAS  AND  GASOLINE 

MANTLES

Shades, Burners, Chimneys,  Mica Goods, 
etc.,  at  lowest  prices.  Write  for  price 
sheet.

Glover*»  Wholesale  Merchandise  Co. 

aud 9 Tower Block, 

<Irani 1  Rapids. Mich.

Bryan Show Cases

Always  please  Write for 
handsome  new  catalogue.

Bryan  Show  Case  Works,

Bryan, Ohio.

Every  merchant  sometime 
or  another  wants  some­
thing  quick.
It  may  be  you  will  want 
some  fly  nets,  or  lap robes, 
or  horse  covers  at  once. 
Telephone  us,  tell  us  what 
you  want,  and  it  will  be  on 
the  morning  train  going  to 
your  town.

Brown  &. Sehler

Grand Rapids,  Mich.

£

A

it 

that 
is  robbery  to  charge  S40 or $50 
for a  bicycle.  The  only  way  to  do  is to 
advertise  the  two  grades  separately, 
where  one  will  not  detract  from  the 
other  and  come  out  and  tell  the  truth 
about the  cheap  bicycles.  Talk  to your 
customers  rationally.  Tell  them  the 
points  of  your  better grade of wheels, 
show  them  how  careful  construction  and 
fine  finish  control  the  price,  then,  in 
advertising  the  cheap  wheels,  talk  to 
them  something  after this  fashion :  “ If 
money  is  an  obejct  to you  and yon don’t 
feel  that  you  can  afford  the  $40  or  $50 
that  we  ask  for our highest-grade wheel, 
look  at our $25  wheel.  It  is  not  as  good 
as the  best—of  course,  you  could  not ex­
pect that—but  it  is a  thoroughly  honest, 
reliable  wheel  and  the  very best  value 
for $25  that  we  know  of.  Or  if  you  want 
to  go  lower,  we  have  wheels  as 
low  as 
$15,  and  mighty  good  $15  values they 
are.” 
It  pays  to talk  to your customers 
frankly  and  candidly.  Your  advertise­
ment  may  not  bring  so  many  people  to 
the  store  as  if  you  had  advertised  that 
your  $25  wheels  were  the  equal  of  any 
$50 wheels  on the  market,  but  the  peo­
ple who  do come  will  be  people  who are 
ready  to buy  and  not  merely  lookers.

*  *  *

Here  is  another of  those  patent,  ready 
made,  meaningless advertisements about 
which  I  was  talking  a  couple  of  weeks 
ago. 
It  starts  out  with  “ The  Increase 
of  Chinese  Labor”  and  winds  up  with 
“ Furniture  and  Hardware.” 
I suppose 
this  idiotic  sort  of  advertising  will  con

The  Increase of

Chinese  Labor

Threatens  the  American  laborer,  and  much 
thought should be given to its suppression.  You 
should  also  give  much  thought  about  buying

Furniture and  Hardware 

And save money.  You can do that  by  buying of 

Fine Hardware, Furniture and Undertaking. 

FOSTER  BROS.

Exchange  Street.

therefore,  to  read  in 

its  advertisement 
the  Greenville  and  other  country 
papers  that “ the Furniture Exposition is 
just over.”  The advertisement  contain- 
ng  this  statement  has  evidently  been 
running  since  February  of  this  year.
here  is some  comfort,  however,  in  the 
thought  that  if  it  runs  undisturbed  for 
two  months  more  it will  he  up to date 
again—very  much on  the principle of the 
man  with  the  watch  that  was  never 
right.  He  stopped  it  for the  reason,  as 
he  said,  that  when  it  was  not  running  it 
was bound  to  be  right twice  a  day.  The 
Sample  Furniture  Co.’s  advertisement 
will  “ be  right, ” on  this principle, twice
year,  but  it  does  seem  a  pity  that  so 
rogressive  a  house  should  waste  money 
by  purchasing  newspaper space  and  not 
making  the  proper use  of  it.

W.  S.  Hamburger.

Prolonging  the  Life  of Farm  Machinery.
Most  farming  tools  are  used  during 
only  a  fraction  of  the  year.  Diversified 
farming  requires  a  great variety  of tools 
and  agricultural  implements.  The  aver­
age  farmer  lays  these  aside  in  a  hurry, 
and  generally  neglects  to  oil  the  pol- 
'shed  parts  of  plows,  spades,  sickles, 
etc.,  and  when  he  again  wants  to  use 
them  he  finds,  to  his  annoyance  and 
cost,  that  they  do  not  work  well,  are 
sometimes  out  of  order,  and  perhaps 
need  slight repairs.  Valuable time  must 
then  be  spent  to  put  the  machinery  in 
proper working  condition.  A  few  hours 
spent  on  rainy  fall  or spring  days,  or  in 
the  winter,  when  outside  work  can  not 
be  carried  on,  might  have  saved  him 
in  the  busy  season  means 
time  which 
many  dollars.  A  great  percentage  of 
igricultural 
implements  rot or  rust out 
instead  of wearing  out.  Money  used  in 
building  sheds,  under  which  wagons, 
mowers,  binders,  seeders  and  the 
like 
may  be  sheltered,  is well  spent  and  soon 
proves  to be  a  paying  investment.  But 
little  skill  is  required  to  keep  ordinary 
farming  machinery  in  excellent  condi­
tion.  Few  farmers  are  so  fo/tunate  as 
to be  blessed  with  a  mechanical  turn  of 
mind,  but  every  one  can,  by the expend­
iture  of a  small  amount  of  time  and  a 
little  care,  prolong  the  life  of machinery 
for many  years.

tinue  as  long  as  people  can get  electro 
types  and  readymade  advertising  at a 
vary 
low  price,  but  there  is  one  thing 
certain—the  only  two  people  who  mak 
any  money  on  the  deal  are  the  man  who 
sells the electrotypes  and  the  publishe 
of  the  newspaper.

*  *  *

Here 

is  another  advertisement  from 
Slayton’s  Laundry,  Kalamazoo.  I  do not 
recollect  having  seen  any  laundry  ad

Collar Edges Smoothed

Ironed on a special  machine  so  they  are 
as smooth as glasf.  We call it “Slayton’s 
edge” because it’s  the  height  of  perfec­
tion.
Both  women’s  and  men’s  collars  have 
this  edge.  Send  your  next  parcel  of 
soiled  linen  here  if  you  want  to  know 
what collar  comfort  is.  Collars  are  two 
cents and our work is worth it too.
Slayton’s Electric  Laundry 

TORRY  J.  SLAYTON,  Proprietor 
Office  and  Works,  Uptown Office,
117  S. Edwards  St. 

119 North Burdick. 

Phones  286.

vertising  so consistently and  uniformly 
good  as  that  put  out  by  Mr.  Slayton.  If 
his  laundry  work  is  as  good  as  his  ad 
vertising,  I  am  not  at  all  surprised  that 
he  has  been  obliged  to  open  an  uptown 
office.

*  * 

Jfc

The  Sample  Furniture  Co.,  of  thi 
city,  has  always  appeared  to  be  a  pro 
gressive  concern  and  its  advertising 
i 
the  Grand  Rapids  papers has  been  de 
is  rather  startling;
cidedly  good. 

It 

How  Frozen  Meat  Deteriorates.

From the Sanitary Record.
Meats  frozen  and  kept  in  cold  storage 
for  long  periods  do  not  undergo organic 
is, 
changes  in  the  ordinary  sense—that 
they  do not  putrefy,  soften  or smell bad, 
in 
but  they  certainly  do  deteriorate 
intangible  way.  After a  certain 
some 
time  frozen  meat  loses  some 
life  prin­
ciple  essential  to 
its  nourishing qual­
ity.  Such  meat 
lacks  flavor;  it  is  not 
well  digested  or assimilated. 
Its savor­
less  condition  can  not  be  remedied or 
successfully  disguised  by  the  use  of 
sauces  and  condiments.  Those  who eat 
cold  storage  food  for any  length  of time 
develop  diarrhoeal  disorders, 
in 
weight,  and  would  eventually  starve  to 
death  unless  a  change of  diet  was  made. 
The  same  reasoning  applies to tinned 
fruits and  vegetables.  They should  not 
he  used  after  a  certain  period  has 
elapsed.  Especially  should  people  be 
warned  against  using  stale  eggs  and  old 
milk  and  cream.  Milk  and  cream  are 
kept  for  days,  rancid  butter  is  washed 
and  treated  chemically,  but  all  food, 
and  especially 
is 
damaged  by  long  keeping,  and  will  not 
nourish  the  body  properly.  There  is the 
greatest  abundance  of  food,  but  it  does 
not  satisfy.

cold  storage  food, 

lose 

A  Hen  of Many  Egg«.

Colfax,  Wash.,  June 7—Thomas Ham­
blen  killed  a  hen to-day  that  proved  to 
be  a  phenomenon.  The  hen  was  excep­
tionally  fat  and  weighed  when  dressed 
9y2 pounds.  In  dressins.her twelve  fully 
developed  eggs  with  soft  shells  and 
twenty-three  partially  developed  eggs 
were  discovered.  The  smaller eggs  var­
ied  from the  size  of  a  marble  to that  of 
a  walnut.  The  eggs have  been preserved 
and  will  be  presented  to the  museum  of 
the  Washington  Agricultural  College  at 
Pullman.

Y U S E A   M A N T L E 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
nary  mantles  and  gives 
more light.

GRAND  RAPIDS  GAS  LIGHT  CO., 

Grand  Rapid»,  Mich.

E stablished 1780.

Walter Baker & Go.

Dorchester, Mass.
The Oldest and 

Largest Manufacturers of

PURE,HIGH GRADE
COCOAS
CHOCOLATES

AND

on this Continent.

their manufactures.

No  Chemicals  are  need  In 
Trede-MsrE. 
Their  Breakfast  Cocoa  is  absolutely  pure, 
delicious,  nutritious,  and costs  less  than one 
cent a cup.
Their  Premium  No.  I  Chocolate, put up  In 
Blue Wrappers and Yellow Labels, is the  best 
plain chocolate in the market for family use.
Their  Qerman  Sweet  Chocolate  1j   good  to 
eat and good  to drink.  It  is  palatable, nutn 
tious, and  healthful ;  a  great  favorite  with 
children.
Buyers should ask for and he sure that  they 
get the genuine goods. The above trade-mark 
is on every package.
i   W alter Baker &  Co.  Ltd.

Dorchester,  Mass.

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doomed  to  annihilation, 
for  it  shall 
burst,  and—that’s  all.—Old  Timer in 
Butchers’  Advocate.

32

COIN  PICTURES  BARRED.

Permission.

Illustration«  Illegal,  Except  by  Special 
When  a  foreign  nation  figures  exten­
sively  in the  news  of the  day, one of the 
first  signs  of general  interest  is the  de­
sire of  people  who  are  not  collectors  to 
secure  coins and  postage  stamps  of  the 
country 
in  question.  Spanish  money 
and  postage  stamps  went  up  in  price 
after the  Maine  was  destroyed,and  com­
manded  good  prices  until  the  war was 
over.  A  similar boom  struck  the  coin­
age  and  postage  stamps  of the  South 
African  Republic  when  the  present  war 
began,  and  the  small  stock  of  Transvaal 
coins on  hand  in  this  country  was  soon 
exhausted.  Dealers  and  speculators 
have  sent  for  new  supplies,  but  until 
they  are  received  Transvaal  coins  and 
stamps  will  be  scarce.

The  coins are  fashioned  after those  of 
Great  Britain,  the  smallest  being  the 
penny. 
It  has  the  republic's  coat  of 
arms on one  side  and  a  profile  portrait 
of  President  Kruger on the  other.  The 
sixpence,  shilling,  two  and  sixpence 
and  five  shilling  pieces  are  silver,  and 
the  ten  shillings  and  £i  pieces  are 
gold,  the  general  design  being  the  same 
on all.  These  coins  are  quoted  now  by 
coin  dealers  as  follows:  Penny,  25 
cents;  sixpence,  shilling,  half  crown 
and  crown,  four  times  the  face  value; 
half  pound,  $3.50,  and  £ 1,  $7.50,  to  be 
delivered  on  arrival  of  new  stock.

There  have  been  several 

issues  of 
stamps. 
In  1866 the  first of  these  were 
offered  Tor  sale,  and  were  used  until 
1877,  when  the  British  occupied  the 
country.  Then  the  original  Transvaal 
stamps  bearing  the  republic’s  coat  of 
arms were  changed  by  having the letters 
V.  R.  printed  on  the  face  in  the  same 
manner as  the  word  “ Philippines”  was 
printed  over the  United  States  postage 
stamps  for use in the Philippine Islands. 
In  1878  a  new  series of stamps,  with the 
Queen's  portrait  in  profile,  was  issued, 
and  that  remained 
in  use  until  1883, 
when  the  republic  was  restored.  Then 
a  new  stamp  bearing the  coat of arms 
of  the  republic  was 
issued,  and  this 
was  in  use  when  the  war broke out.  The 
demand  for  these  stamps  has  not  in­
creased  so  much  as  for the  coins,  but 
the  supply  has  been  exhausted,  and 
fairly  good  prices  are  anticipated  for 
the  consignments  now  in  transit.

In  connection  with  the  demand  for 
leading  coin  dealer 

Transvaal  coins  a 
recently  remarked :

“ We  have  received  many  letters  from 
people  asking  us to  send  pictures  of  the 
various  South  African coins,  and  some 
of our correspondents  were  probably sur­
prised  when they  received our answer to 
the  effect that  there  is a  law  forbidding 
us  making  pictures of  the  coins.  The 
Secretary  of  the  Treasury  has  power to 
grant  permission  to  persons  who  illus­
trate  books,  and  nearly  every  encyclo­
pedia,  dictionary or history  contains  il­
lustrations of coins;  but  dealers in coins 
may  not  enjoy  the  privilege.  Accord­
ing  to  the  wording  of the  law,  it  makes 
no  difference 
if  the  coin  was  made  in 
the  days  of  Julius  Caesar or William 
McKinley,  it  may  not be  reproduced  in 
a  pamphlet, book or newspaper, and if the 
Michigan  Tradesman  could  come  into 
possession of the  most  valuable  coin 
in 
the  world  it  could  not  publish  a  picture 
of  it  without  special  permission and  re­
main  within the  law.’’

The 

law 

in  question  was  passed  in 

1891,  and reads as  follows:

Section  3.  That  every  person  who 
makes,  or  who causes or  procures to  be 
into  the  United 
made,  or  who  brings 
States  from  any  foreign  country,  any

business  or  professional  card,  notice, 
placard,  token,  device,  print  or impres- 
I sion,  or  any  other  thing  whatsoever, 
whether of  metal  or  its  compound,  or of 
any  other substance  whatsoever,  in  like­
ness  or similiitude,  as  to  design,  color, 
or  the 
inscription  thereon,  of  any  coin 
of the  United  States,  or of  any  foreign 
government,  that  have  been  or hereafter 
may  be 
issued  as  money,  either  under 
the  authority of the  United  States  or un­
der the  authority  of any  foreign  govern­
ment,  shall,  upon  conviction  thereof,  be 
punished  by  a  fine  of  not  exceeding 
$ 100.

Losing  Trade  Because  of  the  Big  Head.
I  know a  butcher  in  a  city  not  more 
than  three  miles  from  here  who 
is 
doomed  to  failure  unless  he  takes  a 
hitch 
in  his  conceit,  develops  more 
careful  methods,  and  tugs  at  the  valve 
which  will  allow  some  of the  false  ideas 
that  are  swelling  his  head  to  escape. 
He’s  a  real  nice  fellow, 
too,  and  I 
should  very  much  dislike  to  hear that 
he  had  made  application  for  papers 
in 
bankruptcy,  or anything  of  that  nature, 
but  he  seems  to  be  rushing  in that  di­
rection  in  Maud  S.  time. 
I  happen  to 
know a  family  that  has dealt  with  him 
for seven  years,  but two  weeks  ago  the 
“ head  of  the  house”  gave  orders that 
no  more  meat  be  bought  at  his  market. 
Knowing that  I  was  at  one time 
in  the 
business  and  still  have  a  deep  interest 
in  it,  the  gentleman  repeated  to  me  the 
circumstances  which 
led  up  to  his or­
der to  “ quit  the  fellow.”  “ Seven  years 
ago, ’ ’ he said, * * when he opened his mar­
ket,  I  told  my  wife  to trade  with  him, 
because  he was a  young  man,  and  I  like 
to  encourage  enterprise,  especially  in 
the  young.  He  served  us  well  for some 
time,  but  as  his  business  began  to grow 
he  became 
insolently  independent—not 
so  much  to my  family  as  to  others.  1 
know  that  he  told  one  woman  to go 
somewhere, else  if  she  didn’t  like  what 
he  sent  her,  and  that  he  didn’t depend 
on  her  for  a  living.  She  never came 
back.  She  repeated  to her  friends  what 
he  had  said, and  some  of them  left  him. 
However,  our  own  experience  is  more 
to the  point.  Passing  over trivial  griev­
ances,  such  as  failure  to  deliver meat 
on  time,  etc.,  I  will  begin  at  what  hap­
pened  two  weeks  ago.  My  wife  had 
company to dinner and  sent  for a  sirloin 
steak. 
It  came  cut  two  inches thick  at 
the  tail  end,  and  where  the  meat  was 
good 
it  was  as  thin  as—well,  it  was 
about half an  inch  thick.  1  was angry, 
but thought  perhaps  a  new  clerk  was 
responsible.  Two  days 
later  we  had 
corned  beef.  When  it  came  out  of  the 
pot  it  smelled  like  a  putrefied horse. 
It 
was  fierce.  We  ate  eggs  for  dinner and 
sent  the  meat  back.  He  refunded  the 
money  we  had  paid  for  it  as  if he was 
doing  us a  favor,  but  made  no apologies 
for sending  out  rotten  stuff.  Last  Sun­
day  my  wife  ordered  a  chicken  for 
roasting,  to  be  killed to order.  He  sent 
one  that  had  been  dead  a  week  and 
could  be  used  for  nothing  but hash. 
That was  the  limit.  We  have  quit  him 
for  good.  He  seems*  to  have  an  idea 
people can  not exist  if he  doesn’t  sup­
ply  them  with  meat,  and  that  he  is so 
popular,  personally,  that even those  who 
leave  him  will  have  to  come  back. 
There 
is  a  new  market  opened  a  few 
doors  from  him,  but  he  is  so  conceited 
that  even  that  doesn’t  worry  him.  He 
shrugs  his shoulders  when  it  is  hinted 
that  the.new  man will "run him out, ’ and 
says  ‘Nit. 
I’ve  got a  cinch  on  all  the 
trade  around  here. ’  ’ ’

Now,  isn’t 

it  a  pity  to  see  a  young 
man  with  such  bright  prospects  deliber­
ately  make  people  leave  him  in disgust? 
is  verily
He  that  acquireth  a  big  head 

Wliat  the  Strike  Has .Cost  St.  Louis.
As 

illustrating  the  expensiveness of 
trades  unionism  to  a  single  city,  the 
Tradesman  herewith  presents a compila­
tion  showing  the  cost  of  the strike which 
has  been 
in  progress  in  St.  Louis  for 
the  past  six  weeks:
Strike has  lasted................................... 
45 days
Persons killed........................................ 
17
Persons  shot.......................................... 
82
Persons otherwise injured..................  
113
Made insane by strike......................... 
4
Women passengers  beaten................. 
16
Women stripped of clothes by strikers
on the  street................................... 
4
Cars  wrecked........................................ 
81
Loss to city in  trade............................  $31,500,000
Loss In wages to employes................. 
280,000
Loss to transit company in fares........ 
600,000
Added  to municipal debt.................... 
300,000
It  should  be  remembered  that  this 
strike  does  not  involve the  elements  of 
wages or hours,  being simply  a  demand 
for the  recognition  of  the  union  by  the 
discharge  of old  employes  of  the  com­
pany  who  have  never had  occasion  to 
join  the  union  in  the  past  and  see  no 
reason now  why  they  should  ally  them­
selves  with  thugs  and  murderers.

A.  B.  Collins  and  Jay  Swift  have 
formed  a  copartnership  and  engaged 
in  the  drug  business  at  Kalamo  un­
der  the  style  of  A.  B.  Collins  &  Co. 
The  stock  was  furnished  by the  Hazel- 
tine  &  Perkins  Drug  Co.  Mr.  Collins 
is  junior partner  in  the  drug  firm  of G. 
V.  Collins  &  Son,  at  Charlotte,  and  Mr. 
Swift  has  been  a  clerk  in  that  establish­
ment  for several  years.

Keeping at  work  will  keep  you  out  of 

no end  of trouble.

Advertisement«  will  be  inserted  under 
thin  head  for  two  cents  a  word  the  first 
insertion  and  one  cent  a  word  for  each 
subsequent  insertion.  No  advertisements 
taken  for  less  than  25  cents.  Advance 
payments.

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

L/IOK SALE—PA \ ING GROCER Y AND MEAT 
J-  house, double store.  Owner going Into other 
business.  Address C. B.  Yanpelt,  South  Bend, 
Ind. 

lor, Remus, Mich. 

ant.  Will sell or trade.  Address J. D. Tay­

Ex c e l l e n t   l o c a t io n   f o b   r e s t a u r -
SHOE  STORE  FOR  SALE—SPLENDID  OP- 

portunlty for live shoe man  to  purchase  old- 
established  business;  forty  years’  existence: 
good trade, which can easily be  increased;  good 
store;  steam  heat;  reasonable  rent.  Address 
No. 397, care Michigan Tradesman________ 397

405

404

sale  invoicing  $2,000;  best  location; 

fine 
room;  rent  low;  bargain  if  sold  at  once;  no 
trades.  A. W. Annis, Eaton Rapids, Mich.  394

Bu s in e s s   c h a n c e —s h o e   s t o c k   f o r
IF  YOUR  STOCK  OF  MERCHANDISE  IS 

not  moving  we  can  help  you.  We  conduct 
and  advertise  sales  of  merchandise.  We  help 
men  buy  and  sell  desirable  merchandise.  We 
invoice  stocks  of  merchandise  Address  Busi­
ness Exchange, 1027  Masonic  Temple,  Chicago,
HL__________________ ______________   393
WANTED—AN 18  TO 20  FOOT  NAPHTHA 
oj electric launch (latter preferred).  Must 
be in good  condition  and  at  a  very  low  price. 
When  replying  send  picture  if  possible,  with 
price  delivered  here.  Address  Lock  Box  558, 
sault Ste. Marie, Mich. 

392

403

stock, invoicing $1,000, in good business town 
with population  of  2,000.  ^Address  N.  P.,  care 
Michigan Tradesman. 

Fo r   s a l e —a   d e s ir a b l e   g r o c e r y
EpOR  SALE-BAKERY  AND  RESTAURANT 

'  in  enterprising  town  of  1,500;  good  estab­
lished business.  Address No. 402, care Michigan 
Tradesman. 
402
RUG  STORE  FOR  Sa LK—THE  UNION 
(brand  of  Fred 
Pharmacy,  Muskegon 
Brundagej;  doing a fine  cash  business,  gaining 
steadily;  good cigar,  soda  and  transient  trade; 
no other  drug  store  in  vicinity;  no  cut  rates; 
rent  low;  stock  invoices  about  $2,500;  no  real 
estate wanted;  reason for selling, main  store re­
quires entire attention.  Fred  Brundage,  Mus­
kegon, Mich. 

F'OR  s a l e —a   .n ic e   c l e a n   s t o c k   o f

general merchandise in  one  of  the  liveliest 
towns in Michigan of  400  inhabitants;  stock  in­
ventories $6,000;  good farming  all  around;  good 
reasons for selling.  Address H. & B., care Mich­
igan Tradesman. 

387

401

Hardy, 294 Concord Ave., Detroit. 

OOD  DRUG  STOCK  NEAR  MUSKEGON 
for  sale  or  trade.  Write  quick.  R.  E. 
IN  GOOD 
town  doing  good  business.  Address  No. 

WANTED—BAZAAR  STOCK 

390, care.Michigan Tradesman. 

390

391

400

386

man. 

FOR  SALE — ONE-HALF  INTEREST 

IN 
two good grocery stores,  doing  $50,000  busi­
ness a year;  or will sell one  store,  doing  $20,000 
cash business;  one of the best cities in the State. 
If you are interested write at once to 414 Monroe 
St.. Bay City, Mich. 
JJ>OR  SALE—ONE-HALF  OR  ENTIRE  IN- 
17  terest in a first-class grocery stock, in  a  city 
of 50,000;  doing a business of  $50,000  a  year.  If 
you desire to Investigate this any further address 
at once W., care Michigan Tradesman. 

eral  Stock  of  Merchandise—Two  80  acre 

f 'OR  SALE  OR  EXCHANGE  FOR  GEN- 

farms;  also double store building.  Good trading 
point.  Address No. 388,  care  Michigan  Trades­
WING  TO  BUSINESS  CHANGES  Ä 
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 
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. 

credits  or  conducting 

Thorntown, Ind.____________________  

I70R  SALE—AN  UP-TO-DATE HARDWARE 

stock 
J.  C.  Comstock,
OR  SALE—NICE,  CLEAN  $1,200  STOCK 
of groceries  and  fixtures;  established  thir­
teen years;  splendid location, one-half mile from 
railroad shops and thresher work, employing 600 
men;  suburban  corner  grocery  on  one  of  the 
best streets in a  city  of  18,000  population;  poor 
health;  must  sell  quick.  Terry  &  Son,  Battle 
Creek, Mich. 

invoicing  $4,500. 

388

383

384

363

Indiana. 

OR  SALE—BEST  ARRANGED  GENERAL 
store  in  Northern 
Stock  will 
inventory  $3,000.  Can  be  reduced 
to  suit 
purchaser.  Will  sell  or  rent  store  room  and 
dwelling.  No trades considered.  Call on  or  ad- 
dress O. C. Himes, Cedar, Ind.___________381
T 'O   RENT-THE  BRICK  STORE  AND 
JL  basement in the Wurzburg Block,  118  Front 
St.,  Traverse  City,  Mich.  Positively  the  best 
business location in the  city.  Size  of  store,  27x 
100 feet.  Steam  heat  and  artesian  water.  For 
further  particulars  call  on  or  address  Peter 
Wurzburg, Traverse City, Mich.________  380

STORE  TO  RENT  IN  CADILLAC;  CEN- 

trally located; formerly used for  drug  store, 
later for grocery store.  Dr. John Leeson.  377 
U'OR  RENT—DOUBLE  STOKE,  EITHER 
r   whole or half of it,  40x65;  plate  glass  front; 
modern  fixtures;  electric  lights;  sewer  connec­
tion;  water;  centrally located, with postoflice  in 
same block.  Address Box 32, Vicksburg, Mich.  336
merchandise;  twenty-five  rooms  in  hotel; 
resort region;  a money-making investment.  Ad- 

Ho t e l   a n d   b a r n   t o   e x c h a n g e   f o r  
Fi'OR  SALE—THE HASTINGS DRUG STORE 

stores  in  Kent  county;  established  twenty-six 
years;  doing a prosperous business;  brick build­

at  Sparta.  One  of  the  best  known  drug 

dress No. 318, care Michigan Tradesman. 

318

322

320

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.______________________________  

stock of  hardware,  farm  implements,  wag­
and good farming  country.  Reason  for  selling, 
other business.  Address No. 320, care  M ichigan 
Tradesman.________________________  

FI'OR  S A L E   CHEAP—$33,000  G E N E R A L  
FI'OR  SALE—GENERAL  STOCK,  LOCATED 

at good  country  trading  point.  Stock  and 

fixtures will inventory about $2,000;  rent  reason­
able;  good place  to  handle  produce.  Will  sell 

ons, buggies,  cutters,  harnesses,  in  good  town 

stock  complete  or  separate  any  branch  of  it. 
Address No. 292, care Michigan Tradesman.  292
m.  ot any kind, farm or city  property  or  manu­
facturing plants,  that  they  wish  to  sell  or  ex­
change, write us for our free 24-page catalogue of 
real estate and business chances.  The Derby  & 
Choate Real Estate Co., Lansing, Mich. 

F'OR  SALE—FLOUR  AND  FEED  MILL— 

full  roller  process—in  a  splendid  location. 
227
l |  OR  SALE  CHEAP —$3,000  GENERAL 
stock and  building.  Address  No.  240,  care 
* 
Michigan Tradesman. 

Ureat  bargain,  ea-.y  terms.  Address  No.  227, 
care Michigan Tradesman. 

259

240

MISCELLANEOUS.

ANTED—POSITION  BY  REGISTERED 
pharmacist; 
twelve  years*  experience. 
Address No. 399, care Michigan  Tradesman.  399 
ANTED—SITUATION  IN  STORE OR OF- 
fice by young woman who  has  been  left  a 
widow and  must  obtain  employment.  Has  had 
several years’ experience in retail store.  Best of 
references.  Interview solicited.  Address Moses 
Dark,  care  Vinkemulder  Co.,  Grand  Rapids,
Mich.__________________________  
398
ANTED—EXPERIENCED  MEAT  M AH, 
ket man to buy one-half interest  in  paying 
market.  One of  two  markets  in  town  of  2,500 
population.  Write  for  particulars  to  No.  396, 
care Michigan Tradesman. 
ITUATION  WANTED—BY  A  THOROUGH- 
ly competent office man as book-keeper, ship­
ping clerk or cashier.  Have had  experience and 
can furnish the best of references as to character 
and ability.  Am a  married  man.  Address  No. 
395, care Michigan  Tradesman. 
ANTED—POSITION  AS  REGISTERED 
pharmacist of eighteen  years’  experience. 
Good  habits  and  good  references.  Address 
Henry Jacobs, Constantine, Mich.________ 389
Knights of the  Loyal  Guard

396

395

A  Reserve  Fund  Order

A  fraternal  beneficiary  society  founded 
upon  a  permanent  plan.  Permanency 
not cheapness  its  motto.  Reliable  dep­
uties wanted.  Address

EDWIN 0. WOOD,  Flint, Mich.

Supreme  Commander  in  Chief.

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SUMMER
LIGHT

For  the  lighting  of  summer  homes, 
cottages,  pavilions,  lawns,  porches, 
and  in  fact  for  every  place  where  an 
artificial  light  is needed T h e   I m p e r i a l  
G a s   L a m p   fills  all  the  requirements. 
It  makes 
little  heat,  withstands 
draughts  and  wind,  makes  no  smoke, 
gives  no  odor, 
is  absolutely  safe, 
costs  only  a  trifle  to  maintain,  burns 
with  a  steady  ioo  candle  power  light 
and  can  be  handled  by any one.  One 
gallon  of  gasoline  will  burn  60  hours, 
so  it  is  economical. 
It  has  the  ap­
proval  of insurance companies.  Every 
lamp  is  fully  guaranteed.  Write  for 
illustrated  catalogue  and  prices.

The  Imperial Gas Lamp Co.,

13a &  134  Lake Street,
Chicago,  111.

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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....................   5  00
300.........................   6  75
400.........................   8  50
500.........................  10  00
1000....................   17  50

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.

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MERCANTILE  ASSOCIATIONS

T r a v e le r s '  T im e   T a b le s .

Michigan Retail Qrocers’ Association 

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

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Grand  Rapids  Retail Grocers’  iuociatios 

President, F rank  J.  Dy k:  Secretary,  Homer 

K l a p;  Treasurer, J. George  Lehman
Detroit  Detail  Grocers’  Protective  Association 

President,  W m.  Bl essed;  Secretaries,  N.  L.
Ko enig  and  F.  H.  Cozzens;  Treasurer,  C. 
H.  F r in k .

Kalamazoo  Retail  Grocors’ Association 

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

H yman.

Baj Cities  Retail Grocers’  Association 

President,  C. -E.  Wa l k e r;  Secretary,  E.  C 

Lit t l e. 

_______

Muskegon  Retail  Grocors’  Association 

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

Boki.k in s;  Treasurer, J.  W.  Caskadon.

President,  J.  F rank  H klm kr;  Secretary,  W 

Jackson  Retail  Grocora’  Association 
H. Po r t e r;  Treasurer, L.  Helton.
Adrian Retail  Grocors’  Association 

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

Clev ela n d; Treasurer,  Wm. C. Koehn

Saginaw  Retail Merchants’  Association 

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

P h e r so n;  Treasurer, R. A. Ho r r.
Traverse  City  Business  Men’s Association 
Holly;  Treasurer,  C.  A.  Hammond.

President,  Thos  T.  Ba tes;  Secretary,  M.  B. 

Owosso Business Men’s Association 

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

Ca m pb el l;  Treasurer, W.  E. Co llin s.
Pt.  Hnrons  Merchants’  and  Manufacturers’  Association 
Pe r civ a l. 

President, Chas.  We llm a n;  Secretary,  J.  T. 

_______

Alpena  Business Men’s  Association 

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

Pa r trid g e. 

_______

,  Calumet Business  Men’s Association 

President,  J.  D.  Cu d d ih y;  Secretary,  W.  H. 

H osking. 

_______

St.  Johns Business Men’s Association 

President, Thos. Brom ley;  Secretary,  F rank 

A.  Pe rcy; Treasurer, Clark A. Putt.

Perry  Basinets  Men’s  Association'

President,  H.  W.  Wallace;  Secretary, T.  E 

Heddlk. 

_______

Grand  Baren  Retail Merchants’  Association 

President,  F.  D. Vos;  Secretary,  J.  W.  Vb r  

Hoeks. 

_______

Tale Business Men’s  Association 

President,  Chas.  Rounds;  Secretary,  F rank 

Putney. 

_______

Grand Rapids Retail  Meat Dealers’  Association 

President,  L.  M.  Wil s o n ;  Secretary,  Ph il ip  

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

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Crushed  Cereal  Coffee  Cake.  (

Better than  coffee.
Cheaper than  coffee.
More healthful than coffee.
Costs the consumer less.
Affords the retailer larger profit. 
Send for sample case.
See quotations in price current.
Crushed  Cereal  Coffee  Cake  Co.

Marshall,  Mich.

Tradesman 
Itemized Ledgers

SIZE—8 ■ -a z   14.
THREE  COLUMNS.

2 Quires,  160 pages.......... $2 00
3 Quires,  340 pages...........   2  50
4 Quires, 320 pages............3  00
5 Quires, 400  pages............  3  50
6 Quires, 480 pages............  4 00

INVOICE  RECORD  OR  BILL  BOOK

80 double  pqges,  registers  2,880 
invoices............................#2  00

Tradesm an   C om p any

Grand Rapids, Mich.

P e r e   M a r q u e t t e

Chicago Trains.

Lv. G. Rapids, 7; 10am  12:00m  4:30pm  *11:5>-
Ar. Chicago,  1:30pm  5:00pm 10:50pm  *  7:<i5tm 
Lv. Chicago,  7:15am  12:00m 
5:00pm  *11:50pm
Ar. G. Rapids, 1:25pm  5:05pm 10:55pm * 6:20am 

M ilw aukee  Via  O ttaw a  Beach.

Lv. Grand  Rapids,  every day................. 10:10pm
Ar.  Milwaukee............................................  6::<oam
Lv. Milwaukee............................................. 10:00pm
Ar. Grand  Rapids,  every day.................  6:55am

Traverse City and  Petoskey.

Lv.Grand Rapids...-...7:55am 
l:45pm  5:30pm
Ar. Traverse City..........1:16pm  6:25pm  10:45pm
Ar. Petoskey................4:10pm  9:20pm 
....
Trains arrive  from  north  at  10:50am,  4:15pm 
and ll:00pm.

Ludington  and  Manistee.
Lv. Grand  Rapids........  7:55am 1:45pm 
Ar. Ludington...............12:05pm 5:20pm 
Ar. Manistefe.................12:28pm 5:50pm 
Detroit  and  Toledo Trains.

5:30pm
9:25pm
9:55pm

Lv. Grand Rapids. .* 7:loam  12:05pm 
Ar.  Detroit..............   ll:40am 
Ar. Toledo..............   12:35pm 
Lv. Toledo.................  7:20am  ll: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  Bay  City  Trains.'

Lv Grand Rapids......................... 7:00am  5:20pm
Ar Saginaw.................................li :50am  10:12pm
Ar.  Bay City................................12:20pm  10:46pm
Ar. from  Bay City & Saginaw  , ll :55am  9:35pm
Parlor cars on  all  Detroit,  Saginaw  and  Bay 
City trains.
Buffet 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 Rapida  I   Indiana  Railway

June i8,  1900.

Northern  Division. 

Going 
From 
North  North

Trav. City, Petoskey, Mack.  *  4':05am  *  9:30pm 
t   5:15pm 
Trav. City, Petoskey.Mack, 
t  7:45am 
ti2:20pm 
t  2:00pm 
Trav.City, Petoskey, Mack, 
Cadillac Accommodation  ..  t   6:35pm 
tl0:45am 
Petoskey & Mackinaw  City 
til :00pm 
t  6:00am 
7:45am and 2-.00pm trains, parlor cars;  11:00pm 
train, sleeping car.

Southern  Division

Going 
From 
South 
South 
Kalamazoo, Ft. Wayne Cln.
t   9:40pm 
t   7:10am
Kalamazoo and  Ft. Wayne,  t   1:60pm 
t   1:50pm 
Kalamazoo, Ft. Wayne Cin.  *  9:45pm 
tl0:l5pm 
Kalamazoo and  Vicksburg.  +12:30pm
*  3:55am 
ooam
Kalamazoo...........................  *  6:00pm
9:45pm train carries Pullman sleeping cars  for 
Cincinnati,  Indianapolis,  Louisville,  St.  Louis 
and Chicago.  Pullman parlor cars on other trains. 

'   Chicago  Trains.

TO   CHICAGO .

Lv. Grand  Rapids................   ti2:30pm  *  9:45pm
Ar. Chicago...........................  t   5:25pm  * 6:30am
12:30pm train runs solid tafChicago  with  Pull­
man  quffet  parlor  car  attached.  9:45pm  train 
has through coach and  Pullman sleeper.
Lv.  Chicago.............................t   5  15pm  *11  30pm
Ar. Grand Rapids...................tio  15pm  * 7  00am
5:15pm train runs solid  to Grand  Rapids  with 
Pullman buffet car attached.
ll:30pm train has through coach  and  sleeping 
car.

FROM   CHICAGO

M uskegon  Trains.

G O IN G   W EST.

Lv. Grand Rapids__ Y l 35am 
tl  53pm 
t5 40pm
Ar. Muskegon............  9 00am 
3  10pm  7  00pm
Sunday  train  leaves  Grand  Rapids  9:15am; 
arrives Muskegon at 10:40am.  Returning  leaves 
Muskegon5:30pm ; arrives Grand Rapids, 6:50pm. 
Lv.  Muskegon........ ts  10am 
t4 00pm
Ar. Grand Rapids...  9 30am 
1  30pm  5 20pm 
tExcept Sunday.  ‘ Dally.

G O IN G   EA ST.

tl2  15pm 

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

G ent Pass’r and Ticket Agent.
Ticket Agent Union Station.

MANISTEE ft  Northeastern  Ry.

Best route to Manistee.

Via C. & W. M. Railway.
feY, Grand Rapids...................... 7 30am
Ar. Manistee 
,  ....... ............12 05pm
Lv. Manistee..............................  8  40am 3 56pm
Ar. Grand  Rapids.......... ..........  2 40pm 10 oopm

50 Cents 
Muskegon 
Sunday 
G. R. &I.

Train  leaves  Union  Station at 9:1$  a. m 
Returning, leaves Muskegon,  5:30  p.  m. 
150 cents round trip.

ééPrincess” Mirrors

In  presenting  this  new  and  attractive  line  of mirrors we  wish  to state that  we 
have  contracted  for  the  entire  output  of  a  local  mirror  factory  and  are  thereby 
placed  in  a  position  to  name  prices  equally  as  low  as  can  be  named  from  any 
manufacturer  direct.

The  frames  are  finished  in  Whitp  Enamel,  Oak,  Walnut,  Mahogany  and 
Moss  Green.  The  corners  are  ornamented  with  very  artistically  embossed  gilt 
finished brackets  The glass is of the grade commonly called  “ American Shocks.”

W e  carry  the  following  regular  sizes  in  stock:

8  x  io @   $2.00  pei^dozert 
8  x  12 @   2.50 per  dozen 
g  x  12 @   3.00 per  dozen 

io x  14 @   $4.00  per  dozen
10 x  17  (a)  5.00  per dozen
12 x  18  @   6.00  per dozen

12  x  20  @   $6.75  per  dozen

For  the  convenience  of  those  who  wish  to  purchase  only  a  small  quantity 
as  a  trial  we  have  put  up  the  following  assortment  which  has  proven  a  splen­
did  combination:

dozen  each  8  x  10  8 x 1 2   9  x  12 

x/l   dozen  each 

10  x  17 

12  x  18 

10  x  14
12  x  20

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IMPORTERS  KINNEY  &  LEVAN  JOBBERS

Price  of  this  assortment,  $11.67  net.

C R O C K ER Y ,  G LA SSW A R E,  L A M PS ,  H O U SE  FURNISHING  G O O D S

CLEVELAND* OHIO

Two  Summer  Novelties

To  Brighten  Up  Your  Stock

Quaint  Old  English

Milk  and  Ale  Pitchers

AMERICAN  JEWELRY  CO.

Manufacturers and Jobbers

JE W E L R Y   AND  N O V ELTIES

Showing complete lines of Broaches, Buckles,  Beauty Pins, Shirt Waist  Sets, 

Pulley Buckles, Scarf  Pins, Hat Pins, Links, Collar Buttons, Studs, 

Empire Back,  Pompadour,  Plain and Jeweled Combs,  Hair Ornaments,  etc.

4 5   AND  4 6   TO W ER   B L O C K ,

Wholesale  Only.

G R A N D   RAPIDS,  MICH.

J W ,

Cobalt Blue Stripes heavily  stippled 

Spiral  Jugs
with Luster

Tobey  Jugs

Nicely painted  on  Cobalt  Blue  background.  Dec­

orated with Luster.

They come packed in barrel  of  three  dozen:  One-half  dozen  each  36s,  30s  and 
24s Spiral and one-half dozen each 36s, 30s and 24s Tobeys, all three dozen for

$12.35

No charge for package.

Will bring you a good profit.

They are the cutest jugs  ever  imported  and  will  sell  quickly  at  25,  50  and  75c. 

The  Daudt  Glass  &  Crockery  Co.,

236  Summit and  230,  332,  234,  235  and  236  Water  Street,

Toledo,  Ohio.

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Sealed

Sticky fig Paper

Catches the  Germ  a s  well  a s  the  Ply. 

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

Order from Jobbers.

Fruit Jars at Reduced Prices

If you have not bought your fruit jars yet, we would advise  you  to  do  so  at 
once.  We have reduced our prices as follows:

s 

Machine  Made  with  “ Boyd ”  Caps

Pints
$5.25

Quarts
$5.50

2  Quarts 
$7.50  gross

Machine  Made  with  “ Aluminum ”   Caps

Pints
$5.15

Quarts
$5.40

2 Quarts 

$7.40  gross

Victor  Jars

Machine made, with glass covers.  The latest patent 
self-sealing jar.  Every one guaranteed.

Pints 
$7.40 

.Quarts 
$7.75 

2  Quarts

$9.75  gross

H.  LEONARD  &  SONS,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.  |

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