Eighteenth  Year 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  SEPTEMBER  26,  1900 

Number 888

Allegheny  Assortment

In  Ebony  Glass  decorated  with  floral  designs 
and  gold  stippled  on  all  edges.

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70 Pin Trays 
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1 dozen No. 23 Jewel Box
1 dozen  No. 
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1 dozen No. 27 Comb and Brush Tray 
1 dozen No. 24 Button Box
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25 Pulf Box 
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$4 80

$ 7 .2 0

No.  16.  Covered Box.

P er gross.

Royal Tiger io  cts.

Tigerettes 5 cts.

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VanBochove,  Eaton  Drug  Co.,  Thos.  Heffernan,  W.  H.  Quigley  &  Co.,  A.  D.  Sturgis,  Henry Riechel,  Jr.,  Walter K.
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GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER  26,  1900.

Number 888

ASSOCIATE  OFFICES  IN  ALL  PRINCIPAL 

CITIES

Reference« :  State Bank of M ichigan and Mlcb- 
lgan Tradesman, Grand Rapids.
Collector  and  Commercial  Lawyer  and 
Preston National Bank, Detroit.

KOLB  &  SON,  the  oldest  wholesale 
clothing manufacturers, Rochester, N. Y. 
The only house in  America  manufactur­
ing all  Wool  Kersey  Overcoats  at  $5.50 
for fall and winter wear, and our fall and 
winter line generally is perfect.
WM.  CONNOR, 20  years with us, will be 
at Sweet’s Hotel Grand  Rapids,  Sept. 22 
to  30. 
Customers’  expenses  paid  or 
write him Box 346, Marshall, Mich., to call 
on you and you will see  one  of  the  best 
lines manufactured, with  fit,  prices  and 
quality guaranteed.

Perfection Time 
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Established 1841.

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

L.  P.  WITZLEBEN,  Manager.

The sensation of the coffee trade is

A. 1. C. High Grade Coffees
They  succeed  because  the  quality  is  right,  and 
the plan of selling up to date.  If there is  not  an 
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Tradesman Coupons

IMPORTANT  FEATURES. 

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Page. 
3.  R epresentative  R etailers.
4.  A round  th e  State.
5.  G rand  R apids  Gossip.
6.  The  Buffalo  M arket.
7.  W indow  Dressing.
8.  E ditorial.
9.  E ditorial.
10.  D ry  Goods.
11.  Clothing.
IS.  Shoes and  L eather.
14.  Village  Im provem ent.
15.  The  New  Y ork  M arket.
16.  W om an’s  W orld.
18.  C lerk’s  Corner.
19.  The  M eat  M arket.
50.  H ardw are.
51.  H ardw are  P rice  C urrent.
SS.  B u tter and  Eggs.
53.  F ru its  and  Produce.
54.  Shipping  Groceries.
55.  Com m ercial  Travelers.
56.  D rugs  and  Chemicals.
37.  D rug  P rice  C urrent.
58.  G rocery  Price  C urrent.
59.  G rocery  P rice  C urrent.
30.  G etting  the  People.
31.  The  M orning  M arket.
33.  P resident K ru g er’s Flight.

INDUSTRIAL  PROBLEM  IN  CHINA. 
Although  efforts  are  being  made  to 
restore  peace  in  China,  it  must  be  ad­
mitted  that  the  outlook  is  not  promising 
for  an  early  restoration  of  normal  con­
in  that  ancient  realm.  There 
ditions 
can  he  no  disguising  the 
intense  anti- 
foreign  sentiment  which  pervades  all 
parts  of  China.  The  Chinese  have  al­
ways  resented  the  intrusion  of  the  for­
eigner,  but  since  the  efforts  of  certain 
European  powers  to  wrest  territory  from 
them  the  Chinese  have  become fanatical 
in  their  hate  of  everything  European, 
or  even  foreign.

It  is  not  the  mere  presence  of  the  for­
eigners  which  incensed  the  Chinese,  but 
jit 
is  the  violent  contrasts  to  their  es­
tablished  customs  and  industrial  meth­
innovations  suggested  by 
ods  that  the 
the  foreigners  presented.  While 
for­
eigners  have  been  protected  along  the 
coast  line,  they  have  been  pretty  well 
driven  out  of  all  the  interior  of  China, 
and 
time  before 
Chimse  sentiment  will  permit 
their 
return.

it  will  be  a 

long 

in  China, 

No  matter  how  willing  the  Chinese 
government  may  be  to  guarantee  the 
lives  and  property  of  foreigners  resid­
ing 
it  may  be  very  well 
doubted  whether  the  government  can 
control  the  national  prejudice  against 
foreigners  which  has been aroused.  This 
prejudice  has  not  been  diminished  by 
the  events  of  the  past  few  months.  A l­
though  beaten,  their  armies  are  said  to 
be  preparing  for  further  hostilities, 
and  as  yet  there  is  no  indication  that 
the  masses  in  China  entertain  any  other 
sentiment  than  one  of  intense  hatred  for 
foreigners.

It  is  mainly  the 

The  opposition  of  the  Chinese  to  for­
eign  innovations  is  not  based  merely  on 
sentiment. 
industrial 
innovations  which  the  presence  of  the 
foreigners  make  probable 
that  have 
aroused  first  the  suspicion,  and 
later 
the  hatred  of  the  Chinese.  The  con­
struction  of  railroads,  while 
it  would 
facilitate  travel  in  China,  would  revol­
utionize  the  old  methods  of  transporta­
tion,  and  consequently  denrive  many 
thousands  of  people  of  their customary

livings.  Accordingly,  the  Chinese  are 
unalterably  hostile  to  the  railroads,  and 
during  the  recent  disturbances  they  did 
all  in  their  power to  destroy  the  roads.
It  is  not  only  the  railroads  which  are 
feared 
in  China.  European  systems  of 
factories  and  labor-saving  devices  have 
also  alarmed  the  Chinese  by  holding 
the  existing 
out  the  possibility  that 
methods  of  hand 
labor  would  be  done 
away  with,  and  the  masses  of  the  peo­
ple  robbed  of  their  usual  method  of 
earning  a  livelihood.  This  fear  of 
in­
dustrial  revolution  is not  unnatural,  and 
has  disturbed  much  more  progressive 
peoples  than  the  Chinese  before  now. 
Their  antagonism,  while  violent  and 
unreasoning,  is  not  unnatural.

With  such  grounds  for  cordially  hat­
ing  the  foreigners,the  prospects  that  the 
Chinese  will  enter  into  any  negotiations 
for  peace  with  sincerity  are  not  bright. 
Even  if  a  formal  peace 
is  patched  up 
on  the  basis  of  the  complete  protection 
of  foreigners, 
if  the 
Chinese  government  will  be  able  to 
carry  out  its  engagements.

is  doubtful 

it 

SHIPS  AS  AN  INVESTMENT.

According  to  news 

from  Boston,  a 
well-known  business  house  of  that  city 
has  formed  a  syndicate  for  the  purpose 
of  building  two  large  steamships,  with 
capacity  to  carry  a  cargo  of  11,200  tons 
each.  A  contract  for  the  construction  of 
these  vessels  has  been  given  to  the 
Maryland  Steel  Company,  of  Sparrow 
Point,  the  same  concern  that 
is  build­
ing  the  Algiers  dry  dock,  the  estimated 
cost  of  the  two  ships  together,  when 
completed,  being  $1,500,000.  The  ships 
are  to  be  what  are  ordinarily  known  as 
tramp  ships—that  is  to  say,  vessels  be­
longing  to  no  particular  line,  but  free 
to  go  to  any  port  where  a  cargo  can  be 
secured.

The  tramp  steamship  belongs  to  a 
class  well  enough  known  in  every  sea. 
The  British  flag  floats  from  the  great 
bulk  of  these  steamers,  British  capital 
having  found  investment  in  such vessels 
profitable.  ' These  ships  go  to  any  port 
where  a  cargo  offers,  and,  as  they  are 
usually  fitted  with  every  economical  ap­
pliance  and  carry  no  passengers,  their 
operation  has  been  remunerative.

For  very  many  years  there  have  been 
no  cargo-carrying  American  ships  en­
gaged 
in  foreign  trade.  Prior  to  the 
Civil  War,  vast  amounts  of  American 
capital  were  invested  in  shipping,  and 
the  American  flag  was  known 
in  every 
sea.  The  depredations  of  the  Confed­
erate  cruisers,  and  the  more  general 
employment  of  steam  and  iron  vessels, 
forced  the  old-time  American  clipper 
ships  out  of  business.

The  construction.  of  the  two  tramp 
ships  by  the  Maryland  Steel  Company 
is  a  movement  in  the  right  direction, 
and  should  they  prove  successful,  an d 
there  is  no  reason  why  they  should  not, 
American  capital  will  seek  investment 
in  more  of  such  ships,  and  the  Ameri­
can  flag  will  once  again  be  seen  among 
the  merchant  shipping  of  the  world.

WONDERFUL  RECUPERATION.

It 

is 

less  than  three  weeks  since  the 
public  outside  of Galveston  heard  of  the 
storm  on  Galveston  Island,  but  those 
who  saw  the  ruin  the  day  after  the  dis­
aster  and  have  noted  what has been done 
since  then  tell  us  that  the  recovery  has 
been  almost  as  unprecedented  as  the 
fall.

Wonders  have  been  worked  in  dispos­
ing  of  the  dead,  removing  the  debris, 
rehabilitating  public  utilities  and  re­
lieving  suffering.  And  the  actual  work 
has  been  chiefly  done  by  the  survivors, 
many  of  whom  had  lost  heavily in prop­
erty  and  in  members  of  their  family.  It 
is  true  that  the  means  for  prosecuting 
this  work  were 
largely  furnished  by  a 
generous  American  public.  Without 
this 
instant  response  from  all  parts  of 
the  Nation  to  the  cry  for  help,  the  situ­
ation  would  have  remained  horrible  for 
a  long  time,  and  virtually  hopeless,  but 
too  much  praise  can  not  he  accorded the 
Galveston survivors themselves and their 
fellow  citizens  who  went  first  to  the 
stricken  city’s  assistance,  for  the  cool­
ness  and  energy  and  courage with which 
they  at  once  began  to  bring  order  out 
of  chaos.

The  ruin  was  so  complete,  the  death 
list  so  unparalleled  and  appalling,  that 
to  find  in  this  short  time  trains  running 
regularly 
into  the  city,  business  re­
sumed,  lights  and  water  furnished,  the 
vast  majority  of  the  dead  out  of  the 
way,  and  the  streets  in  the  central  por­
tion  of  the  town  open  for  locomotion 
and  traffic,  partakes  somewhat  of  the 
nature  of  a  miracle.

Man  has  an  immense  amount  of  re­
cuperative energy ; he  never  knows  what 
he  can  endure  or  what  he  can  do  until 
he  is  forced  to  try.  There  was  never  a 
stronger 
illustration  of  this  fact  than 
this  remarkable  experience  of  Galves­
ton.

The  sorrow  occasioned  by  the 

loss  of 
loved  ones  will  never  be  healed;  the 
trouble  and  depression  and  bitter  dis­
appointment  caused  by  the  loss  of,  pos­
sibly,  one’s  all,  time  alone  can  efface, 
but  the  conditions  on  this  second  Sab­
bath  morning  since  the  catastrophe  are 
so  vastly 
improved  beyond  what  was 
then  thought  possible  that  Galveston 
and  this  whole  region  have  occasion  to 
rejoice  and  feel  deeply  thankful  for  the 
hopeful  outlook.

A  city  is  made  not  by  piling  up  stone 
and  bricks,  but  by  the  courage,  the 
patriotism,  the  honor  and  high  charac­
ter  of  its  people.  These  are  the  quali­
ties  that  make  a  city,  or  a  nation,  great 
and  the  achievements  of  its  citizens  in 
those  lines  of  duty  and devotion  deserve 
to  be  recorded  in  bronze  as  well  as  in 
the  hearts  of  those  whom  they  have  so 
bravely  defended  and  so  faithfully  pre­
served.

There 

is  a  chance  for  the  man  who 
wants  to  be  dead  to  the  world  to  write 
and  say  he  was 
lost  in  the  Galveston 
storm.

It  is  said  lightning  will  never  strike 
in  the  same  place;  but  no  one 
twice 
can  tell  about  a  destructive  wind  storm.

Living  on  fifteen  cents  per  day  is  a 
theory  which  may  comfort  a  crank’s 
mind  without  satisfying  his  stomach.

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REPRESEN TA TIV E  RETA ILERS.

D.  C hristie, 

th e  M uskegon  G rocer  and 

R aker.

It  is  a  busy  life  and  a  prosperous  one 
which  began  with  the  birth  of  the  sub­
ject  of  this  sketch  at  Muskegon,in  1859. 
It  is  unique  in  this,  that  the  American 
business  man  to-day  is  not  often  a  cit­
izen  of  the  town  where  he  was  born. 
He  grows  up  there,  goes  to  school  there 
and  then,  when  business  takes  him  by 
the  hand  and  leads  him  to  his  work, 
some  other  town— oftener  some  other 
state— claims  him 
and  enrolls  him 
among  her  successful  business  men.

When  Mr.  Christie  got  ready  to  go 
to  work,  he  found  employment  with  J. 
C.  Black,  of  Muskegon,  better  known  as 
“ 76  Blax  76, ”   the  only  strictly  cash 
grocer  in  Michigan.  His  life  began  as 
a  delivery  clerk  and  he  worked  for  Mr. 
Black  and  for  his  brother,  S.  K .,  for 
eight  years,  a  period  to  be  emphasized 
by  the  fact  that  the  business  was strictly 
cash,  and  that  the  young  clerk  was 
started  early  in  the  right  direction.

With  that  principle  drilled 

into  him 
for  almost  a  decade,  it  followed  almost 
as  a  matter  of  necessity  that  Mr.  Chris­
tie’s next  move  must  be  to  go  into  busi­
ness  for  himself.  He  got  early  in  the 
way  of  knowing  where  he  was  finan­
cially,of seeing at the close of  each  day’s 
business  exactly  where  he  stood  and, 
with  something  sure  to  calculate  on,  he 
found  it  more  to  his  mind  to  plan  with 
his  own  capital  for  his  own  profit  than 
to  do  that  with  another  man’s money for 
another  man.  The  house,  established 
with  Mr.  Christie  as  senior  member, 
began  business  under  the  firm  name  of 
Christie  &  Kieft  in  1882.

At  the  end  of  three  years  he  sold  his 
interest  in  the  firm  to  Mr.  Kieft  and  en­
tered  the  old  establishment  of  “ 76  Blax

M IC H IG A N   TRADESMAN

76,”   where  he  had  begun  life  as  a  de­
livery  clerk,  the  name  of  the  house  be­
coming  D.  Christie  &  Co.  For  five 
years  the  partnership  prospered  and 
then  Mr.  Christie  bought  his  partner’s 
interest,  and  went  on  with  the  grocery 
business  alone.

teen  clerks  and  bakers. 
It  is  a  thrifty 
establishment  and  has  been  from  the 
start  and  shows  what  a  man  can  do  for 
his  own  advancement  when  he  makes 
up  his  mind  to  start  in  and  has  a  mind 
to  work  his  way  through.  There 
is  no 
question  but  what  the  cash  system  has

The  house 

is  now  established  at  21 
Western  avenue,  Muskegon,  and  occu­
pies  the  entire  block,  which  Mr.  Chris­
tie  purchased  six  years  ago,  and  which 
is  a  building  150  feet  long,  and  three 
stories  high,  with  a  basement  under  the 
whole.  His  working  force includes nine­

played  its  part  in the  prosperity that has 
come  to  him ;  but  cash  can  not  do 
everything  single  handed  and  when  the 
question  came,  “ What  else  helped  you, 
Mr.  Christie?’ ’  just  read  what  he  says: 
“ There  has  been  a  number  of  things 
which  I  have  relied  on  to  make  the  gro­

is  in  me. 

cery  business  a  success.  My early  train­
ing  with  Mr.  Black  and  his  theory  of 
doing  business  on  a  cash  basis  laid  the 
solid  foundation  of  what  was  to  follow.
I  have  always  been  a  firm  believer  in 
persistent  and  honest  advertising  and 
practiced  the  faith  that 
I 
have  never  lost  sight  of  my  customer. 
I  have  given  him  prompt  and  courteous 
service  and  the  best  possible  value  in 
every  purchase  he  has  made.  No  clerk 
in  my  store  has  ever  been  allowed  to 
misrepresent  an  article  or  sell  an  in­
ferior quality,  if  a  customer  could  be 
induced  to  buy  a  better. 
If  I  have  a 
like  to  ride  it  is  this: 
hobby  which  I 
Quality  first,  last  and  all  the  time. 
I 
believe  a  good  quality  wins  and  holds 
friends,  while  an  inferior  one— no  mat­
ter  how  cheap  it  may b e—will lose  busi­
ness  every  time.

It 

“ I  have  firm  faith  in  the  fact  that  a 
modern  store,  fitted  up  with  the  best 
modem  appliances  is  a  good  paying in­
vestment. 
is  only  another  way  of 
keeping  the  customer’s  comfort  con­
stantly  in  view.  He  likes  a  clean,  well 
in  summer  keep  him 
kept  store;  fans 
cool  and  a  radiator 
in  winter  warms 
him.  There  are  modem  chairs  to  rest 
him 
if  he  wants  them  and  not  a  loafer 
has  been  found,  so  far,  bold  enough  to 
appropriate  them.  Thoroughly  believ­
ing  in  these  things,  as  a  mere  matter  of 
business  that  pays,  the McGraft  Lumber 
Co.,  of  Muskegon,  was  called  in  to  do 
its  best  to  make  the  store  attractive. 
It 
was  an  order  filled  to  the  credit  of  all 
Handsome  offices  were 
concerned. 
made,  finished 
in  quarter-sawed  oak. 
The  store  is  provided  with  glass  front 
coffee  bins,  cereal  and  dried  fruit  cases 
and  with  a  fine  plate  glass  counter  with 
compartments  below 
for  displaying 
goods  and  a  pocket  near  the  top  with

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Tradesman  enters  upon  its  eighteenth 
year,and signalizes  the  event  by  issuing 
a  100  page  number.  The  publishers 
made  this  issue  of  more  than  temporary 
interest  and  gathered  much  material  of 
permanent  value.

Newaygo  Republican:  The  Michi­
gan Tradesman,  the  leading  trade  paper 
of  the  State,  commences  its  eighteenth 
year  with  a  hundred  pages  of  reading 
matter  and  paying  advertisements.  The 
Tradesman 
is  one  of  the  most  popular 
and  successful 
journals  of  its  class  in 
the  United  States.

The 

Saginaw  Storekeeper: 

eigh­
teenth  anniversary  number  of  the  Mich­
igan  Tradesman,  consisting  of  100 
pages,  is  undoubtedly  the  finest  trade 
paper  edition  ever  issued  in  Michigan, 
both  as  to quantity  and  quality  of  read­
ing  matter  and  typographical  appear­
ance.  Editor  Stowe 
is  entitled  to  be 
congratulated  upon  the  deserved  suc­
cess  that  attends  his  efforts.

Vermontville  Echo:  The  eighteenth 
anniversary  number  of  the  Michigan 
Tradesman  is  a  splendid  too  page  edi­
tion,  full  of  excellent  reading  matter 
and  embellished  with  many  fine  cuts  of 
prominent  men  and  business  advertise­
ments.  The  Tradesman 
ideal 
trade  and  general  information  paper,  a 
positive  necessity  to  every  business 
man 
It  is  independent 
of  all  unions  or  trusts  and  gives  its  pa­
trons  the  very  best  in  the  market.

in  the  State. 

is  an 

H ardw are  and 

Im plem ent 

D ealers

who  want  an  easy  selling 
line  of  Feed  Cutters  to

handle  should  write 
for 
“Ohio”  c a t a l o g u e   and 
prices.

plate  glass  cover  and  front  for  samples 
of  nuts.  There  are  two  ten-foot  floor 
cases  for  candy  and  baked  goods—the 
whole  outlay,  proving  one  of  the  best 
investments  I  ever  made.  They  give 
the  whole  establishment  an  up-to-date 
appearance  and,  in time,  will  sell  goods 
enough  to  pay  for  themselves. ’ ’

There  is  the  whole  story  and  it  is  one 
It  be­
the  Tradesman  likes  to  publish. 
gins  with  a  fact  worth  telling  and  with­
out  break  or  let-up,  goes  on  to  its  vig­
orous  close.  It tells  of  sleeves  rolled  up, 
of  grappling  with  difficulty  and  master­
ing 
it,  of  brain  in  business,  of  a  wide 
range  that  a 
less  keen  business  eye 
loses;  and  then  with  a  candor  that  men 
like  to  see  it  bases  the  prosperity  which 
follows  upon  those  upright  business 
principles  which  have  ensured  success 
since  the  foundation  of  the world.  Busi­
ness  men  who  have taken  off their armor 
will  read  it  and  be  glad.  They who  are 
yet  in  the  midst  of  the  fight  will  strike 
the  harder  for  the  reading and the young 
man  on  the  delivery  wagon  will  go  out 
after  the  reading  of  it  and  will  feel,  if 
he  has  never  felt  before, 
that  he  is 
somebody  and  can  be  more  so,  if  he 
follows  faithfully 
in  the  footprints  of 
that  business 
life,  which  began  as  a 
delivery  clerk  in  Muskegon,  something 
like  a  quarter  of  a  century  ago.
O pinion  of the  Press  on  th e  A nniversary 

Edition.

New  England  Grocer:  The eighteenth 
anniversary  edition  of  the  Michigan 
Tradesman  is  of  large  value  to  business 
men. 
It  is  a  solid,  substantial  business 
is  no 
banquet  for  busy  men.  There 
froth,  no  padded  nothingness 
in  its  ioo 
pages.  It  is  from  cover  to  cover  typical 
of  the 
level  headed  man  who  is  the 
paper— E.  A.  Stowe.

in  many 

American  Grocer:  Michigan  has  rea­
son  to  be  proud  of the Michigan Trades­
man,  of  Grand  Rapids,  and  its  manager 
and  editor,  E.  A.  Stowe,  the  most  suc­
cessful  man 
in  grocery  trade  journal­
ism-  The  eighteenth  anniversary  edi­
tion  of  the  Michigan  Tradesman  was 
issued  on  September  12  and is a magnif­
icent  100  page  number,  and  so  by  rea­
son  of  the  solidity  of  its  contents  and 
the  extent  and  variety  of  its  advertis­
ing  pages, which demonstrate  that  it  has 
the  support  of  the  best  financial  and 
commercial  interests  of  the  State.  The 
contributed  articles  are  of  great  value 
and 
instances  accompanied 
with  the  portrait  of  the  writer.  We 
congratulate our  esteemed  and  able  con­
temporary  upon  the  grand  endorsement 
it  has  won  from  the  mercantile  inter­
ests  of  Michigan,  and  which  it  richly 
deserves.  This  number ought  to  be  se­
cured  and  read  by  every  retail  distrib­
uter  of  merchandise.  Send  for  it,  for 
there  is  more  intellectual  food  for  the 
dealer  than  was  ever  secured  before  for 
a  dime.
St.  Ignace  Enterprise :  With  the  re­
tail  dealing  community  of  this  State, 
the  Michigan  Tradesman  has  estab­
lished  relations  of  the  most  cordial  na­
comes  to  the  storekeeper, 
ture. 
whether  his  business  be  of 
large  or 
small  proportions,  as  a  weekly  guide, 
philosopher,  and  friend;  and  no  busi­
ness  man  is  too  great  on  the  one  hand, 
or  too  lowly  on  the  other,  to  profit  by  a 
careful  perusal  of  its  columns.  Last 
week  the  Tradesman  celebrated  the  be­
ginning  of 
its  eighteenth  year with  a 
100  page  number,  filled  with  original 
and  interesting reading matter,  and pub­
lished  with  the  care  and  particularity 
as  to  editorial  supervision  and  mechan­
ical  perfection  that  makes  Michigan’s 
great  trade 
journal  the  cynosure  of  the 
commercial  world.

Belding  Banner:  That  most  excellent 
trade  publication,  the Michigan  Trades­
man,  celebrated  its  eighteenth  anniver­
sary  last  week  by  an  issue  consisting  of 
100  pages  and  containing  a  number of 
special  articles,  one  of  which  was  by 
W.  D.  Ballou,  of  this  city,  upon  the 
basket  industry.

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4

Around  the State

M ovem ents  of M erchants.

Scotts— W.  A.  Tidd  will  open  a  new 

drug  store  here  about  Oct.  io.

Detroit— Peter  F.  Neumann  has  sold 

his  grocery  stock  to  Fred  Dreher.

Jackson— F.  F.  Muns,  coal  and  wood 

dealer,  has  sold  out  to  F.  J.  Lectka.

grocer 

Mayville—Wm.  Scott, 

and 
baker,  has  sold  out  to  Harmon  &  Fox.
Lansing— Parks  &  Saunders,  meat 
dealers,  have  sold  out  to  Fred  Schlegel.
Surplice  has 
opened  a  new  drug  store in  the  Surplice 
block.

Newaygo— George  S. 

Detroit— Chas.  A.  Mitchell  has  pur­
chased  the  grocery  stock  of  Christopher 
Chrysler.

Allegan—The  Allegan  Marble  Works 
succeeds  H.  F.  Knapp  in  the  marble 
business.

Leonidas—A.  K.  C.  Pike  has  pur­
jewelry  stock  of  Geo.  N. 

chased  the 
Baldwin.

Union  City— H.  C.  Moore has sold his 
lumber  yard  to  E.  M.  it  R.  F.  Watkins, 
of  this  place.

Mariette— Young,  Hunter  &  Co.  have 
purchased  the  stock  of  the  Thompson 
Hardware  Co.

Albion— C.  H.  Chapman  &  Son,  of 
in 

Hillsdale,  have  opened  a  shoe  store 
the  Eslow  block.

Pokagon—J.  J.  Rodgers,  of  Grand 
Junction,  has  opened  up  a  stock  of  gen­
eral  merchandise  at  this  place.

Jonesville— A.  Hope  &  Co.,  of  De­
line  of  millinery 

troit,  have  opened  a 
and  bazaar  goods  at  this  place.

Elk  Rapids— D.  M.  Clark  has  em­
barked 
in  the  meat  business,  having 
purchased  the  market  of  P.  C.  Bailey.
Manchester— Wm.  Koebbe  continues 
the 
clothing  business  formerly  con­
ducted  under the  firm  name of Robinson 
&  Koebbe.

Kalamazoo— Thos.  J.  Miller  has  sold 
the  stock  in  the  Model  drug  store  to  C. 
E.  Van  Every,  formerly  engaged  in  the 
drug  business  at  Trufant.

Hartford—Thompson  & 

Son  have 
purchased  the  boot  and  shoe  stock  of  V. 
E.  Manley  and  will  continue  the  busi­
ness  at  the  same  location.

Allegan— Henry  D.  McDuffee, 

the 
Allegan  hotel  man,  has  been  declared  a 
bankrupt,  his  liabilities  being  placed at 
$5,550  and  assets  at  $2,700.

Mesick—The  Mesick  Hardware  Co. 
will  shortly  begin  the  erection  of  a  new 
store  building,  the  present  quarters  be­
ing  too  small  for  the  increased  stock.

Adrian—George  E.  Greene, 

former 
proprietor  of  the  electric  1  ghting  plant 
of  Brooklyn,  has  sold his  business  to  his 
brother,  Leon  Greene,  and  engaged 
in 
the  hardware  business  at  this  place.

Hart—C.  E.  Slayton  has  leased  a  site 
for  a  number  of  years  and  begun  the 
erection  of  a  22x60  feet  store  building, 
to  be  occupied  by  his  stock  of  pianos, 
jewelry.
organs,  sewing  machines  and 
Hancock—Arthur  T.  Ellsworth  will 
open  his  new  drug  store  in  the  Kauth 
block,  about  October  8.  Everything 
connected  with  the  establishment  will 
be  hrst-class,  the  proprietor  included.
Dowagiac— James  Coleman  and  Mor­
gan  F.  Snyder,  who  conducted the vehi­
cle  and  harness  business  at  this  place 
under  the  firm  name  of  Coleman  ft  Sny­
der,  have  dissolved  partnership,  Mr. 
Snyder  succeeding.

Stanton—J.  N.  Crusoe,  who  has  been 
engaged  in  the  dry  goods  and  general 
merchandise  business  in  Stanton  for  the 
past  nineteen  years,  is  about  to  sell  out 
and  move  to  Detroit,  where  he  will  en­
gage  in  the  wholesale  grocery  business.

Benton  Harbor— W.  H.  Wiggins,  who 
has  been  engaged  in  the  drug  business 
on  Pipestone  street,  has  purchased  an 
interest in the Battlement  Drug  Co.,  and 
will  have  charge  of  the  new  store  lo_ 
cated  at  the  corner  of  Main  and  Sixth 
streets.

Applegate— This  town  now  boasts  of 
a  banking  institution.  It  will  be  known 
as  the  Applegate  Bank of  Noble,  Elliott 
&  Co.,  with  Miss  Jessie Elliott  as  cash­
ier.  Those  interested  in  the  enterprise 
are  Thomas  Elliott,  of  Applegate,  John 
P.  Niggeman,  of  Croswell,  and  B.  R. 
Noble,  of  Yale.

Evart— Dr.  D.  L.  Dumon  has  dis­
posed  of  his  drug  stock  and  store  build­
ing  to  J.  H.  Voller,  the  druggist,  who 
takes  possession 
immediately.  Mr. 
Voller  will  consolidate  the  two  stocks 
and  continue  to  oc  upy  the  store  where 
he 
located,  and  rent  the  one 
about  to  be  vacated.  Dr.  Dumon  will 
devote  his  entire  time  to  his  medical 
practice.

is  now 

Jackson—W'.  H.  Elliott  has purchased 
the  interest  of  D.  A.  Yocum  in  the  har­
ness  firm  of  D.  A.  Yocum  &  Co.  and, 
in  companv  with  Ernest  Bimey,  Mr. 
Yocum’s  partner,  will 
the 
business  after  Nov.  1  under  the  style  of 
Elliott  &  Bimey.  Mr.  Elliott  has  for 
several  years  been  in  the  employ  of  the 
Central  City  Soap  Co.  as 
traveling 
salesman.

continue 

M anufacturing  M atters. 

Chesaning— Lee  &  Moessner  succeed 
Geo.  L.  Kind  in  the  cigar  manufactur­
ing  business.

Owosso— The  Vincent  W ive  Co.  has 
closed  its  factory,  preparatory  to  mov­
ing  to  Sandusky,  Ohio.

Allegan—Baker  &  Co.  is  the  style  of 
the  new  firm  which  continues  the  plan­
ing  mill  and  manufacturing  business  of 
Cook,  Baker  &  Co.

Detroit—The  Michgan Safety Furnace 
Pipe  Co.  is  the  style  of  the  new  firm 
which  succeeds  Steams  Bros, 
in  the 
manufacture  of  hot  air  furnaces  and  hot 
water  heaters.

Battle  Creek—The  new 

enterprise 
known  as  the  Knell  Air  Brake  Co.  has 
leased  the  Upton  block  on  River  street 
and  will  at  once  purchase  machinery 
for the  equipment  of  a  factory.

Albion— H.  S.  Baughman,  formerly  of 
the  Albion  Harness  Co.,  has  formed  a 
partnership  with  R.  S.  Cooley,of  Battle 
Creek,  and  will  put 
in  machinery  for 
the  manufacture  of  harnesses 
in  that 
city.

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Warren—Two 

Alma—J.  M.  Montigel  &  Co.,  en­
gaged 
in  the  foundry  and  agricultural 
implement  business,  have  dissolved 
partnership  by  mutual  consent.  The 
business  will  be  continued  by  J.  Martin 
Montigel.

Quincy—The  Quincy  Knitting  Co. 
has  declared  a  dividend  of  5  per  cent. 
A  meeting  of  the  stockholders  will  be 
held  this  evening  to  consider  the  mat­
ter  of  increasing  the  capital stock  of  the 
corporation. 

representatives  of  a 
Chicago  house  are  here  interesting  peo­
ple 
in  a  canning  factory.  They  want 
$6,700.  The  scheme  is  well  thought  of 
by  the  citizens,  who  have  already  sub­
scribed  $4,500.

Caro—The  Caro  creamery  has  closed 
for the  season,owing  to  the  limited  sup­
ply  of  milk 
Buttermaker 
Winegar  has  not  had  a  very  prosperous 
year,  and  will  not  operate  the  creamery 
another  season.

received. 

Caledonia—W.  R.  Pursel,  of  Grand 
Rapids,  has  begun  the  erection  of  a 
grist  mill  at  this  place,  which  will  be

operated  by  his  son,  Kline.  The build­
ing  will  be  36x66  feet  in  dimensions 
and  two  stories  high.

Negaunee— The  Jackson 

Iron  Co. 
failed  to  deliver 9,000 tons  of  ore  to  the 
Thomas  Iron  Co.,  of  Easton,  Pa.,  as 
per  contract  during  the  year  1899.  The 
latter  sued  and  was  awarded  damages 
in  the  sum  of  $21,892.48.

Saginaw— When  the  enlargement  of 
is 
the  muslin  underwear  factory  which 
is  completed  there  will 
now  going  on 
be  1,500  machines  in  operation 
instead 
of  50,  which  the  company  started  with 
not  long  ago.  The  space  occupied  will 
be  very  materially  increased  and  a  con­
siderable  addition  to  the  force  of  em­
ployes  will  be  necessary.

Detroit— The  Blackmer  Manufactur­
ing  Co.  has  been  incorporated  for  the 
purpose  of  manufacturing  water  mot­
ors,  pumps,  etc.  The  company  is  cap­
italized  at  $15,000,  of  which  $2,000  is 
paid 
and 
Charles  Englehard,  of  this  city,  and 
Stafford  B.  Nickels,  of  Ann  Arbor,  hold 
the  stock  in  equal  shares.

Robt.  M.  Blackmer 

in. 

Chelsea —The  Chelsea  Power  and  Im­
provement  Co.  has  filed  articles  of  in­
capital  stock  being 
corporation, 
the 
placed  at  $10,000. 
It  will  be  the  object 
of  the  organization  to  furnish  power, 
light  and  heat  for  manufacturing  pur­
poses,  also  to  encourage  and  assist  in 
developing  any  desirable  enterprise that 
may  come  under  its  notice.

filed  by 

Battle  Creek—Articles  of  association 
have  been 
La  Grippe 
Wrench  Co.,  with  a  capital  stock  of 
$50,000,  $26,000  paid  in.  The  company 
will  manufacture  wrenches. 
It  is  offic­
ered  as 
follows:  Chairman,  Carl  F. 
Beach;  Secretary,  Arthur  B.  Williams; 
Treasurer,  Erasmus  D.  Beach;  Man­
agers,  Julia  E.  Clark  and  D.  Lyman 
Reade.

Detroit— The  articles  of  incorporation 
of  the  J.  C.  Foley  Zinc  Development 
Co.  have  been  filed  in  the county clerk’s 
office.  The  capital  stock  is  $1,000,000, 
of  which  $998,000,  subscribed  by  Joseph 
C.  Foley,  is  paid  by  an  assignment  and 
transfer  to  the  company  by  Mr.  Foley 
of  two  mining  leases  of  property  in Jas­
per  county,  Missouri.  The  other  stock­
holders  are:  Joseph  C.  Foley,  Jr.,  and 
Tames  B.  Robert,  one  share  each.

The  G rain  M arket.

Wheat  has  maintained  the  strength 

it 
showed  last  week  by adding  fully  2c  per 
in  cash,  as  well  as  active  fu­
bushel 
tures.  Export  trade 
is  somewhat  re­
stricted  by  the  excessive  ocean 
freight 
rates  which  still  prevail,  but  we  look 
for  an  abatement  of  these  high  rates,  as 
with  the  probable  termination  of  the 
South  African  war  more  vessel  room 
will  be  available.  Receipts  of  spring 
wheat  are  about  one-half  of  what  they 
were  a  year  ago. 
In  the  winter  wheat 
sections  of  the  Southwest  receipts  are 
also  falling  off.  The bears  lay  it  to  fall 
work,which  causes  the  small  deliveries, 
while  the  bull  element  claim  that  the 
wheat  that  is  for  sale  is  about exhausted 
and  that  what  is  held  back  is  for  higher 
prices.  The  millers 
in  this  State  are 
not  finding  wheat  as  plentiful  as  they 
anticipated  some  time  ago.  The  wheat 
that 
is  offered  now  is  far  better  than  it 
was  a  few  weeks  ago.  The  visible made 
another  increase  of  1,066,000 bushels, 
but,  as  we  must  look  for  an  increase  at 
present, 
large 
and  should  the  small  receipts  continue 
there  will  certainly  not  be  much  of  an 
increase 
in  the  future,  so  that  millers 
will  have  to  draw  from  elevators.  Cash 
wheat  in  the  Northwest  is  fully  ic above 
December  wheat. 
Taking  all  condi­
tions 
is  not 
high  and  we  look  for  a  steady  advance 
of  prices.

into  consideration,  wheat 

is  not  considered 

this 

Com  has  unexpectedly  made  a  large 
increase 
in 
the  visible  of  1,720,000 
bushels. 
It  looks  now  as  if  that talked- 
of  September  corner  would  end  in  a  fiz­
zle.  Selling  prices  were  well  maintained 
and  no  drop  in  prices  can  be  recorded. 
The  puzzle  is,  where  did  this  large  in­
crease  come  from,  as  farmers’  cribs 
were  not  numerous?  Probably  some 
private  elevators  were  made  regular.

Oats,  not  to  be  outdone  by  either 
wheat  or  corn,  showed  an  increase  in 
the  visible  of  1,300,000  bushels,  but  that 
was  expected,  owing,  as  has  been  re­
peatedly  stated,  to  the  large  crop  har­
vested.  Prices  are  well  maintained  and 
made  an  advance  of  nearly  ic  per  bu. 
We 
look  for  lower  prices,  as  stocks  are 
large.  They  look  to  us  as  top-heavy  at 
present  prices.

Flint—At  the  cinnual  meeting  of  the 
stockholders  of  the  Durant-Dort  Car­
riage  Co., 
the  capital  stock  was  in­
creased  from  $150,000  to $ 1,500,000,  of 
which  $1,200,000  is  paid  in.  The  cap­
ital  of  $1,500,000  covers  the  several 
plants 
in  this  city  in  which  the  com­
pany  is  interested,  including  the  Dia­
mond  Buggy  Co.,  the  Webster  Vehicle 
Co.,  and  the  Flint  Gear  &  Top  Co., 
whose absorption  by  the  parent  corpora­
tion  has  recently  been  accomplished. 
just  completed, 
The  new  axle  plant 
property  and  accessory 
institutions  in 
other  parts  of  the State,  as  well as  mills, 
large  tracts  of  timber  and  other  proper­
ties 
in 
the  assets  of  the  corporation  as  reorgan­
ized.  W.  C.  Orrell,  who  was  honored 
with  a  position  on  the  board  of’ di­
rectors,  has  been  the  Secretary  and 
Manager  of  the  Webster  plant.  C.  H. 
Bonbright  has  for  several  years  occu­
pied  an  important  position  on  the  office 
staff  of  the  Durant-Dort  Co.  C.  B. 
Hayes, 
the  third  new  member  of  the 
board,  has  been  the  general  manager 
of  the  Imperial  wheel  plant  at  Jackson, 
soon  to  be  moved  to  Flint.

in  the  South,  are  also  included 

Lockwood  &  Co.  have  opened  an  oys­
ter  depot at  155  East  Fulton  street under 
the  management  of  Daniel  Berger.

Rye  runs 

its  usual  course,  owing  to 
the  small  crop  on  the continent.  Prices 
are  well  maintained  and  about  48@5oc 
is  bid  for carlots  at  initial  points.

The  flour trade  remains  very  fair  for 
high  grades  and  an  advance  of  10c  per 
cwt.  can  be  recorded.  The  mills  are 
running  full  time,  mostly  on  domestic 
and 
local  orders.  Foreign  enquiry  is 
fair,  but  most  bids  are  too  low  to  ac­
cept.

Millfeed 

is  still  in  demand.  There 
seems  to  be  a  large  demand  from  dairy 
farms.  Quite  a  number  of 
interior 
mills,  owing  to  the  lack  of  wheat,  are 
running  very 
light,  which  curtails  the 
feed  output.  The  foreign  demand  is 
excellent.

Receipts  here  have  been  50  cars  of 
wheat,  5  cars  of  corn,  8  cars  of  oats,  1 
car of  beans,  5  cars  of  hay.

Millers  are  paying  75c  for  wheat.

C.  G.  A.  Voigt.

Postmaster  Van  Cott  has  notified  pro­
moters  of  certain  endless  chains  that 
such  appeals  for  raising  money  can  not 
be  sent  through  the  New  York  postoffice 
in  future.  The 
law  against  the  trans­
mission  of  lottery  schemes  through  the 
mails 
is  said  to  be  applicable  to  these 
endless  chains,  which  recently  have 
aroused  the  suspicions  of  the  authori­
ties.

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5

Grand  Rapids  Gossip

The  G rocery  M arket.

Sugars— Raw  sugars  are  firm,  but  not 
very  active  on  account  of  the  scarcity of 
supplies,  q6  deg.  test  centrifugals  being 
still  quoted  at  5c.  The  stocks  of  raw 
sugar 
in  this  country  are  now  smaller 
than  at  any  time  in  the  last  nine  years. 
The  stocks  of  all  refineries  are  esti­
mated  at  47,000  tons.  This  is  sufficient 
to  keep  the  refineries  working  at  the 
present  rate  a  little  more  than  a  week. 
The  stocks  afloat,  however,  if  they  ar­
rive 
in  time,  will  be  sufficient  to  tide 
the  refineries  over  until  the  new  crop 
movement  begins.  The  demand  for  re­
fined  is  good,  with  refiners  still  at  least 
a  week  oversold.  The  market  is  in  a 
stronger  position  to-day  than 
it  has 
been  for  the  past  60  days— principally 
owing  to  the  fact  that  raw  sugars  are  so 
scarce—-and  the  situation  is  really  criti­
cal  to  the  refiners  just  at  present.  Wil­
lett  &  Gray  say,  however,  that  as  soon 
as  the  present  scarcity 
relieved, 
things  will  be  quite  different.  October 
is  the  beginning  of  the  new  sugar  cam­
paign  year,  which  will  differ quite  ma­
terially  from  its  predecessor.  Crops  are 
abundant  and  prices  are  so  high  at  the 
close  of  the  present  campaign  by  reason 
of  the  scant  raw  supply  that  with  the 
incoming  crop  the  market  will  surely 
change from  an  advancing to a declining 
trend.

is 

is 

the 

shows 

fancy  grades  will  be 

Canned  Goods— The  canned  goods 
market 
in  good  condition,  prices 
on  about  everything  being  fully  main­
tained,  but  for  the  moment  there 
is  a 
lack  of  any  very  extensive  buying.  The 
tomato  market 
considerable 
strength,  prices  having  advanced  2 %c 
per  dozen  during  the  week.  Some  pack­
ers,  however,  are  still  offering  at  a 
slight  concession,  but  most  of  the  goods 
offered  at  low  figures  are  of  a  kind  that 
is  not  wanted.  Reports  state  that  in 
Maine 
in 
smaller  proportion  than  usual 
in  this 
year’s  corn  pack,  while  standards  and 
extra  standards  will  be  more  numerous. 
The  same  advices  say  the  total  pack 
will  be  reduced  probably  20  p  r cent, 
from  last  year.  Prices  remain  practical­
ly  the  same,  with  fair  demand.  Some 
demand  is  noted  for  string beans,  which 
are  strong  and  slightly  higher.  Lima 
beans  are  exceedingly  scarce,  only  a 
few  packers  having  any  to  offer.  Peas 
are  quiet  at  unchanged  prices.  Peaches 
are  very  strong,  some  grades  showing 
a  slight  advance.  The  situation  has 
been  greatly  strengthened  by  the  liberal 
buying  of  seconds.  Other  grades  are 
also  taken 
in  good  sized  quantities. 
Demand  for  standards 
improving 
and  extra  selected  goods  are  scarce. 
Salmon  of  all  kinds 
is  very  strong. 
Some  jobbers  who  declined  to  buy  Col­
umbia  River  when  prices  were 
first 
named  are  now  taking  goods  wherever 
they  can  get  them.  Tails  and  halves 
are  practically  cleaned  up,  but  flats  are 
in  better  supply.  Spot  stocks  of  all 
grades  of  salmon  are  exceedingly 
light 
and  business  is  necessarily restricted  by 
the  scarcity.  There  is  a  good  demand 
for  sardines,  both  oils  and  mustards. 
Oils  have  made  a  slight  advance  and 
mustards  are  expected  to  advance  in  a 
few  days.

is 

Dried  Fruits— The  dried  fruit  market 
in  good  condition  and  demand  is 
is 
quite  active.  There  are  only  a  few cars 
of  prunes  outside  of  the  Association and 
they  are  almost  all  sold,  so  that  the  As­
sociation  controls  the  situation  and 
is 
selling  freely  at  list  prices.  Prices  on

new  California  raisins  have been  named 
this  past  week.  London  layers  are  the 
same  as  last  year,  but 
loose  muscatels 
are  y&c  higher  than  the  opening  prices 
last  year,  but  the  same  as  the  prices  to 
which  three  and  four  crowns  advanced 
later.  The  crop 
is  about  the  same  in 
quantity  as  last  year,  but  much  finer  in 
quality.  The  price  of  foreign  raisins 
will  be  high  and  there  is  no  question 
but  that  the  entire  crop  will  go  out  at 
these  prices.  Most  markets  are  bare  of 
stocks  and  the  scarcity  and  consequent 
high  prices  of  currants  are  certain to  in­
crease  considerably  the demand for loose 
raisins.  Apricots  are quiet but firm.  Lit­
tle  interest  is  taken  in  peaches,  but  the 
better  grades  are  firm,  while  the  or­
dinary  grades  are  easier.  There 
is  an 
excellent  demand  for all  kinds  of  dates 
and  Hallowis  show  an  advance  of  Y%c. 
Currants  are  still  very  firm,  but  show 
no  further  advance  in  price  this  week.
A  correspondent  from  Greece  writes 
that  “ nothing 
like  the  present  prices 
have  prevailed  since  1852,  when  the 
crop  was  almost  completely  destroyed, 
and  this  year  is  somewhat  similar,  for 
since  then  the  consumption  has 
in­
creased  enormously,  and  the  total  crop 
will  not  exceed  40,000  tons,  whereas  the 
annual  consumption of  the United  King­
dom  alone  amounts  to  70,000 tons,  of 
which  certainly  not  more  than 
two- 
fifths  can  be  shipped to that destination.
Rice— The  rice  market  remains  very 
firm,  with  a  good  demand  for  both  for­
eign  and  domestic  grades.  Supplies  are 
gradually  decreasing,  which 
gives 
added  strength  to  the  market.

is  very 

Tea— The  market  is  unchanged,  with 
business  practically  at  a  standstill.  De­
mand 
light  and  sales  are  of  a 
hand-to-mouth  character.  Most  holders 
have  confidence  in  the  future,  however, 
predicting  that  prices  will  not  decline 
materially.

Molasses—Owing  to  the  cooler  weath­
er there  is  an  improved  enquiry  for  mo­
lasses,  especially  of  the  better  grades, 
sellers  realizing  full  prices.  Stocks  are 
small  and  rapidly  decreasing  in  second 
hands.  Supplies  are 
light  throughout 
the  country  and  the  statistical  position 
shows 
increased  strength.  All  indica­
tions  point  to  a  large  molasses  crop,  as 
weather  conditions  are 
for 
cane  growing.

favorable 

is 

Fish—The  fish  market 

in  good 
shape  and  all  grades  are  very  firmly 
held.  Mackerel  shows  an  advance of  $1 
per  barrel,  with  the  market  very  firm  at 
the  advance.  Codfish  is  very  firm,  ow­
ing  to  the  small  fleet  that  have  been 
codfishing  this  summer,  it  being  much 
smaller  than  previous  years,  hence  there 
is  a 
light  stock  of  fish  for  this  season 
of  the  year.  Should  trade  be  tolerably 
heavy,  there  will  undoubtedly  be  an  ad­
vance.

Nuts—Nuts  of  all  kinds  are  fairly  ac­
tive  at  full  prices.  Trade  in  almonds, 
both  new  California  and  spot  foreign 
nuts,  is  quite  active.  The  crop  of  al­
monds  is  now  generally  admitted  to  be 
in  the  neighborhood  of  200  carloads. 
Prices  are  “ booming”   as  the  shortage 
here  and  abroad  becomes  known.  New 
crop  Tarragonas  are  offered  from  Spain 
sparingly  at  prices  higher  than  have 
been  seen 
It  remains 
to  be  seen  whether  the  short  crop  justi­
fies  the  great  increase 
in  prices.  The 
neglect  of  new  California  walnuts  and 
heavy  buying  of  new  crop  foreign  nuts 
still  continues.  Some  business 
is  re­
ported 
in  Chili  walnuts  on  the  spot. 
Grenoble  walnuts  show  a  slight  ad­
vance.  Sicily  filberts  have  advanced 
# c,  with  the  market  strong  at  the  ad­

in  some  years. 

vance.  A  correspondent 
in  the  pecan 
growing  district  of  Texas  writes  that 
“ the  pecan  trees  in  South  Texas  in  the 
path  of  the storm are  almost  half ruined. 
Half  of  them  are  blown  down  and  those 
left  standing  have  no  nuts  on  them.  We 
estimate  the  damage  at  least twenty-five 
cars.  The  peanut  market  is  very  firm, 
prices  showing  a  further  advance  of  %c 
this  week.

Pickles— There  is  some 

interest  be­
ing shown  in  new  pickles.  The  crop  in 
Michigan 
is  short.  Notwithstanding 
this  fact,  packers  seem  to  be  very  anx­
ious  for  business  and  are  naming 
lower 
prices  than  would  seem  consistent  with 
the  situation  on  salt  stock.  There  is  a 
good  demand  from  the  East  for  pickles 
in  salt  and  they  are  bringing  higher 
prices  comparatively  than  pickles 
in 
vinegar.

The  Produce  M arket.

Apples— Fancy  stock  commands  S i.50 
@2  per  bbl.  Cooking  varieties  fetch 
$1.50^1.75.
Bananas— Are  slightly  firmer,  but  no 
advance  has  taken  place  yet.  The  pres­
sure  of  other  varieties  of  deciduous 
fruits  is  partially  removed  by  the  wan­
in  a  number  of  lines,  and 
ing  season 
improvement 
in  bananas  may  be  ex­
pected  shortly.  The  condition  of  re­
cent  arrivals  is  much  better than hereto­
fore,  which  aids  in  keeping  the  market 
in  good  condition.

Beans— Local  dealers are  paying  $1.25 
per  bu.  for  handpicked,  deducting  5C 
per  bu. 
for  all  poor  beans  taken  out 
during  the  process  of  handpicking. 
Growers  who  entertain  the 
idea  that 
they  can  pick  beans  by  hand  cheaper 
than  this  are  invited  to  try  the  experi­
ment,  which  will  result  in  the  discovery 
that  it  is  not  possible  to  do  this work  on 
the  farm  less  than  io@i5c  per  lb.

Beets— 40c  per  bu.
Butter— Receipts  are  heavy,  both 
creamery  and  dairy  grades.  Factory 
creamery 
is  steady  at  21c  and  dairy 
ranges  from  13c  for  packing  stock  to 17c 
for  fancy. 
The  warm  weather  has 
caused  a  cessation  of  withdrawals  from 
cold  storage  for the  present.

Cabbage—$1  per  bbl.  of  about  3  doz.
Carrots—$1  per  bbl.
Cauliflower—$i @i.25  per  doz.  heads. 

Choice  stock  is  very  scarce.

Celery— 15c  per  bunch.
Crab  Apples—65@75c  per  bu.  for  late 
varieties,  which  are  fine 
in  quality, 
with  supply  equal  to  both  consumptive 
and  shipping  demands.

Cranberries—$6.50  per  bbl.
Cucumbers— 50c  per  bu. 

Pickling  stock  commands 
100.

for 

large. 
i5@2oc  per 

Eggs— Receipts  are 

large,  in  conse­
quence  of  the  special  appeals  sent  out 
local  dealers  to  secure  supplies  for 
hy 
Fair  week. 
fresh 
eggs  command  16c,  which  enables  deal­
ers  to  net  their  shippers  14c  and  up­
wards.  Cold 
storage  supplies  have 
left  untouched  during  the  week, 
been 
owing  to  the  prevailing  warm  weather.

Carefully  candled 

Egg  Plant—$1  per  doz.
Grapes—Wordens  and  Concords  10c 
and  Niagaras  12c 
lb.  basket. 
Delawares  command  15c for 4 lb.  basket.

for  8 

is 

Amber 

Honey— Fancy  white 

Green  Com— 8c  per  doz.
Green  Stuff— Lettuce,  60c  per  bu.  for 
head  and  40c  per  bu.  for  leaf.  Parsley, 
20c  per  doz.  Radishes,  8@iocfor  round.
is  strong  at  16 
in  active  demand 

@i7c. 
at  12c.
Lemons— Are  firm,  with  a  good  de­
mand.  Stocks  are  light  and  prices  have 
advanced  25c  per  box  during  the  week. 
The  condition  of  the  present  arrivals 
is  much  better than previously and gives 
good  satisfaction.

Mint— 30c  per  doz.  bunches.
Musk  Melons—50c  per  doz.  for  all 

varieties.
Oranges—California  oranges  are  bare­
ly  steady.  They  are  beginning  to  feel 
the  competition  of  Jamaicas,  but  there 
is  still  a  strong  request  for  Californias 
for  the  season.  Jamaica  oranges  show 
improvement 
in  quality  and  prices  are 
is  gradually  ex­
firmly  held.  Trade 

it 

tending,  but 
Sales  are  mostly  in  small  lots.

is  not  active  as  yet. 

Peaches— Late  Crawfords  are  held  at 
$i.25@i.5o.  Chilis  command  6o@goc. 
Smocks  and  Bronson’s  Seedlings  fetch 
8oc@$i.

Pears— Common  varieties  command 
$i@i-5o.  Cold  storage  Bartletts  are  in 
fair  demand  at  Si.50@2.

Pop  Corn— 5c  per  lb.
Potatoes— 30@35c  per  bu.  The  mar­

ket  is  weak.

Poultry— Receipts  have 

increased  to 
that  extent  that  shipments  from  Chi­
cago  are  no  longer  necessary.  Dealers 
pay  as  follows  for  live :  Spring  chick­
ens,  9@ioc.  Squabs  are  slow  sale  at 
$1.20  per  doz.  Pigeons  5oc-  Fowls, 
7@8c.  White  ducks,  7@8c  for  spring. 
Spring  turkeys,  10c.  Old  turkeys,  10c 
for  hens  and  8c 
For 
dressed  poultry:  Chickens  command 
ioc.  Fowls  fetch  9c.  Spring  ducks are 
taken  at  g@ioc.  Turkeys  are  in  fair  de­
mand  at 
lie   for  young  and  g@ioc  for 
old.

for  gobblers. 

Quinces—$1  per  bu.
Squash— 2c  per  lb.  for  Hubbard.
Tomatoes—60c  per  bu.
Turnips—40c  per  bu.
Watermelons-----io@i2c 

home
grown,  according  to  size  and  quality.

for 

Hides,  Pelts, Tallow  and  Wool.

There 

is  no  accumulation  of  hides 
of  any  grade.  Light  stock  is  in  good 
demand,  with  prices  firmer,  while  the 
asking  price  seems  to  be  above  the 
real  market.  An  advance  is  looked  for, 
with  an 
in  the  take  off.  The 
quality  is  good  and  the  demand  equal 
to  all  offerings.

increase 

Pelts  are  not  sold 

in  any  quantity. 
is  a  demand  for  all  offerings  at 

There 
fair  prices.

Tallow  shows  more  firmness,  with  a 
slightly  better  demand  and  a  small  ad­
vance  in  price.  On  account  of  the  cool 
weather,  more  stock  has  b-’ en  shipped 
out.

Wool  is  still  flat.  Yams and  cloths  are 
bringing  more  money  than  last  year,but 
the  trade  is  not  large 
in  volume.  Or­
ders  being  small,  purchases  of  wool 
are  small,  as  no  one  is  buying  except 
from  hand  to  mouth.  All 
lines  are 
awaiting  election  returns.

Wm.  T.  Hess.

In  view  of  the  impending  advance  in 
fire  insurance  rates,  due  notice  of  which 
was  given  in  the  issue  of  Sept.  12,  the 
Tradesman  advises  all  merchants 
to 
cancel  all  their  policies  which  expire 
within  a  few  months  and  have  them  re­
written 
long  periods—three  or  five 
years,  if  possible.  The  heavy 
losses 
sustained  by  the  insurance  companies 
during  the  past  two  years  indicate  that 
a  higher  range  of  rates  are  likely to pre­
vail  for  several  years  to  come.

for 

M. 

S.  Goodman, 

for  the  past  four 

years  book-keeper  for  the Grand Rapids 
Cycle  Co.,  will  remove  next  week  to 
Portland,  Ore.,  where  he  has  accepted 
the  position  of  book-keeper 
for  the 
Mitchell-Lewis  &  Staver  Co.,  wholesale 
dealers  in  vehicles.  Mr.  Goodman  has 
enjoyed  an  extended  experience  as  an 
accountant,  book-keeper  and  credit  man 
and  carries  with  him  to  the  Coast  the 
good  wishes  of  a  large  circle  of  friends 
and  business  acquaintances.

The  celebrated  Anchor  brand  of  oys­
ters  will  be  handled  by  F.  J.  Detten- 
thaler  again  this  season.  He  has  not  yet 
issued  a  price  list,  but  any  orders  sent 
him  will  be  filled  at  the  lowest  market 
price. 

_____

Edward  Frick,  Vice-President  of  the 
Olney  &  Judson  Grocer  Co.,  has  re­
turned  from  a  week's  outing  at Sturgeon 
Bay  and  Mackinac  Island.

For  Gillies’  N.  Y. 

tea,  all  kinds, 
grades  and  prices  v isner  both  phones.

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M IC H IG A N   TRADESMAN

The  Buffalo  Market

A ccurate  Index  o f  th e  P rin c ip a l  Staples 

H andled.

is  strong  on 

Beans— Holders  ask  an  advance  of 
from  io@i5c  on  marrows  and  mediums, 
while  pea  beans  are  easy.  Several  large 
dealers  are  cleaned  up  and  were  forced 
to  pay  an  advance  in  the  country.  Mar­
rows  are  selling  at  $2.i5@2.25;  me­
dium,  $2@2.10;  pea,  $i.85@2;  kidney, 
scarce;  white  would  sell  at  $2.2o@2.25 
for  good  to  choice.  No  red  kidney  or 
yellow  eye  offered.
Butter— Market 

fresh 
extras,  but  there  is  evidence  of  a  de­
sire  to  market  cold  storage  butter at  a 
considerable  difference  in  price,  and  it 
is  thought  this  may  have  some  effect  on 
prices.  Fancy  lots  of  storage  are  being 
worked  off  as 
is  also 
rumored  that  there  are  mixtures  in  the 
market  which  are  not  what  they  are 
claimed  to  be.  Regular  butter  men  say 
not  half  enough  extra  fresh  creamery 
is  arriving  to  supply  the  trade  and  that 
22%c  is  easily  obtained,  while  storage 
best  is  offered  at  21c  and making  up  the 
deficiency.  Firsts  and  choice  in  light 
supply  and  firm  at  2 i@ 2i^ c;  common 
to  fair,  scarce  and  quoted  at  i8@I9C. 
No  dairy  except  fair  to  good  arriving, 
and  this  sells  at  i8@I9c ;  poor  stuff,  14 
@150.  Fancy  dairy 
if  offered  would 
bring  21c.

fresh,  and 

it 

is 

Cheese— Good  demand  for  all  kinds 
and  market 
firm,  particularly  on 
fancy  full  cream.  Western  offering?, 
best,  are  not  good  enough  to  bring 
above  10c.  New  York  State  full  cream 
small,  11c;  good  to  choice,  io@ioj£c; 
Western  good  to  choice,  q^ @ ioc ;  com­
mon  to  fair,  8@9C;  skims,  7@8c.

Eggs— Trade  has  been  active  and  the 
market 
is  strong  on  strictly  fresh  at 
17c;  regular  fresh,  i6@i6^c,  and  good 
stock,  I4@i5c.  Cold  storage  eggs  are 
supplying  the  best  fresh,  but  only  an 
occasional  lot  is  coming  on  the  market. 
We  are  looking  for  higher  prices  on  de­
sirable  fresh.

Dressed  Poultry— Receipts  last  week 
were  considerably  heavier,  but  stock  as 
a  rule  was  better  and  everything  sold 
almost  as  soon  as  offered  at  strong 
prices.  A  few  really  fancy  chickens  ex­
ceeded  quotations.  Medium  fowl  were 
active.  No  turkeys  or  ducks  offered 
and  no  enquiry.  Chickens,  fancy,  11% 
@i2c;  fair  to  good, 
fowl, 
fancy,  medium,  io@ n c;  fair  to  good, 

io@ i i c ; 

%c-

re­

Live  Poultry— Strong  and  higher on 
active  demand.  At  no  time  last  week 
was  the  trade  supplied.  Chickens  sold 
quick  at  u @ n ^ c ;fo r   fancy  and  se­
lected,  12c; 
io @ n c; 
fowl,  fancy,  10c;  fair  to  good,  q@g}ic. 
Ducks,  fancy,  65@75c;  small  and  me­
dium,  45@6oc  per  pair.  Ducks,  per
lb.,  8@ioc. 
15 
@20C.

Pigeons,  per  pair, 

to  good, 

fair 

Game— Good  enquiry.  Light 

ceipts.  A  few  woodcock  sold  at  $1  and 
partridge  at  $1.50  per  pair.  Deer, 
squirrel,  rabbits,  webfooted  fowl,  quail, 
partridge  woodcock,  plover  and  snipe 
can  all  be  sold  in  this  market.

Apples— Windfalls  from  the  last storm 
are  arriving 
liberally  and  selling  at 
very  low  prices.  Fancy  table  fruit, how­
ever,  is  not  plenty  and  bringing  good 
prices.  Red  varieties  selected  sold  at 
$1.75,  fancy  $1.50  and  good  to  choice, 
$i@ i. 25  per  bbl.

Crabapples— Fancy  Siberian  sold  at 
$3@3-5°*  and  fair  to  good  at  $2@2.75 
per  bbl.  Other  varieties,  $i-75@2.50.

Pears— Bartletts  are  from  cold  storage 
and  bringing  $2.5o@2.75  for  fancy  and 
lower  grades  $i.5o@2  per  bbl.  Seckles 
when  fancy,  went  at  $2@2.25,  and  fair 
to  good  at  §i@ 1.25.  Duchess  were  all 
common,  and  the  best  offerings  did  not 
exceed  $2.  Heavy  receipts  of  windfalls 
of  all  kinds,  which  sold  at  $i@ i.5o.

Peaches— Market 

is  strong  and  high­
er,  the  rush  of  small  and  common  fruit 
late  Crawfords  are  of 
being  over  and 
'/$  bu.  baskets,  60 
fine  quality.  Fancy 
©65c;  No.  1,  506555c;  No.  2,  35@45c. 
No  Michigan  or  Ohio 
in  market. 
in  bushel  bakets  would  bring 
Fancy 
high  prices  as  receipts  will, be light  ana 
trade  active  for the  rest  of the  season.

Plums— Market 

cleaned  up  on  all 
kinds  and  feeling  is  generally  firmer. 
Green  8  lb.  baskets  selling  at 
io@i2c; 
egg,  20@25c; 
yellow, 
small  and  medium  blue,  I2@i5c.

14Q22C;  blue 

Prunes—Active and  firm;  nothing  left 
over at  the  close  of  each  days’  business. 
Large 
fancy,  35@45c;  medium  and 
small,  25@30c  per  8  lb.  baskets.

Grapes— Nearby  farmers  and  a  few 
large  growers  are  sending in wagonloads 
and  prices  are  unsettled.  Black  pony 
baskets  are  selling  at  4>£@5C.  and  Del­
aware  at  8@ioc.  Bulk  black,  $I5@ i8; 
white,  $22@28  per  ton.

Quinces—Several  small  lots  were  sold 

on  the  basis  of $2@2.50  per  bbl.
Oranges— Dull.  Valencias,  per  box, 
$3-5°@4 ;  Jamaicas,  $5.5o@6  per  bbl.  ; 
quality  is  not  desirable.
Lemons—Fair  demand;  California 
are  selling  at  $4.5o@5  per  box.  For­
eign  fruit,  $3.75@5*75  per  box.

Cranberries—The 

lots  offered 
were  not  desirable,  but  sold  at  $5-75@6 
per  bbl.  and  $i.75@2  per  crate.

Melons— Fancy  varieties  such  as  the 
Emerald  Gem  went  quick  at  20c  per 
peck  basket,  while  others  were  easy  at 
15c.

few 

Potatoes— We  are  between  crops  and 
with  nearby  farmers  busy  either  with 
fairs  or  seasonable  work  very  few  pota­
toes  are  arriving,  and  carload  lots  have 
not  commenced  moving.  These  causes 
have  created  a  scarcity  and  prices  are 
away  above  expectations.  Carloads 
rushed 
into  this  market  of  good  ripe 
white  stock,  and  large  would  bring  48 
@5oc,  and  mixed  of  good  cookers,  42@ 
45c;  fair  to  good,  38@40c. 
It  will  take 
quite  a  liberal  quantity  to  fill  this  mar­
ket  at  present,  but 
if  shipment  is  in­
tended 
it  must  be  done  at  once  as  our 
quotations  will  not  hold  only until grow­
ers  can  get  in  shape,  which  will  prob­
ably  be  within  the  next  two  weeks.

Sweet  Potatoes— Market  higher;  light 
receipts  and  active  demand.  Fancy sold 
at  $2.75@3  per  bbl.

Onions— Feeling  is  weak  on  ordinary 
stock,  which  will  not  keep  and  sales  are 
slow  of  that  quality  at  25@55c  per 
bushel,  while  fancy  sound  would  bring 
50c;  white  fancy,  35@40C.

Celery— Light 

receipts  and  prices 
firmer.  Really  fancy  sold  at  45@50C; 
good  to  choice,  30@35c;  common,  I5@ 
25c  per  doz.

Cabbage— Fairly  active 

firm. 
Fancy  large,  $2.75@3;  small  and  me­
dium,  $1.25(^2.50  per  100.

Cucumber Pickles—Active and higher. 
Market  cleans  up  daily,  shipments  be­
ing  made  to  outside  points.  Fancy,  20 
@22c;  fair to  good,  I4@i8c  per  100.

Tomatoes— Fancy  selling  at  40@45c; 

and 

fair to  good,  25@35c  per bushel.

Squash— Light  supply ;  firm.  Marrow, 

$I2@I4;  Hubbard,  $i8@2o  per  ton.

Honey— Quiet.  No.  1  white  new, 

16c;  dark,  I2@i4c;  old,  neglected.

Straw— Firm ;  active  demand  at  $8.25 
@8.50  for  wheat  and  oat;  rye,  $9.25© 10 
tight  baled  track  Buffalo.

Hay— Receipts 

firm. 
Loose  baled  prime,  $15.5o@ i6;  No.  1 
tight  baled,  $I4-75@I5;  No.  2,  $13.50 
@14  per  ton  track  Buffalo.

light;  market 

these 

About  a 

fortnight  ago  experiments 
were made in  Paris  with  a  new  oil  lamp 
which 
is  said  will,  in  certain  portions 
of  the  city,  supplant  gas,  if  not  elec­
tricity.  A   number  of 
lamps, 
which  are  mounted  upon  elaborately  de- 
singed  wrought-iron  pedestals,  and 
which  have  a  light  of  1,000-candle 
illuminate  the  Quai 
power  each,  now 
des  Tuileries. 
It  is  said  that  they  ade­
quately 
light  up  the  Tuileries  gardens 
on  one  hand,  while  their  rays  are  sent 
across  the  terrace  to  the  quai  and  the 
Seine  as  far  as  the  left  bank to  the  Gare 
d ’Orleans.  La  Petit  Parisian  says  that 
if  the  experiment  “ of  effectually  light­
ing  up  the  dense  gloom  of  the  Quai  des 
Tuileries,  which  has  been  especially 
chosen  for  this  purpose,  is  successful, 
as  every  one  believes  it  will  be,  petro­
leum  lamps  will  shortly  replace  gas  and 
electricity  in  all  the 
large  squares  and 
open  spaces  in  Paris,  ana  no  doubt  they 
will  eventually  be  utilized  for  lighting 
the  Bois  de  Boulogne.”

Conscience  and  wealth  are  not  always 

neighbors.— Messinger.

is 

Men  in  science,  in  summer,  think the 
heat  of  the  world 
increasing,  and 
that  the  earth  will  be  burned  up  many 
thousand  years  from  now.  When  the 
ice  of  winter  comes,  they  say  life  is 
going  out  of  the  world,  and  in  course  of 
time  everything  will  be  frozen  solid.

Waiter Baker & Go. Ltd,

DORCHESTER,  MASS.

The  Oldest and  Largest 
Manufacturers of

PURE,  HIGH  GRADE

G0Ç08Sm_
Chocolates

ON THIS CONTINENT.

Their preparations are put up in 
conformity to the Pure-Food 
Laws of all the States.

Grocers will  find  them  in  the  long  run 
the  most  profitable to handle,  as  they are 
absolutely pure and of uniform quality.

The above trade-mark on every package.

W a lte r   B ak er  &   C o.  L td.

£stablished 1780. 

DORCHESTER,  MA88.

HID  M S   in  HI

Is  conceded.  Uncle  Sam  knows  it  and 

uses them by the thousand.

We make all kinds.

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

Send for catalogue.

BALLOU BASKET WORKS. Belding, Mich

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.

TOLEDO

W e buy Clover, Timothy and other seeds from 
sample  or  sell, on  consignment  at  Board  of 
MAKES  THE  PRICE  ON
|  f % \ / c D   c c c n   Trade rates.  Our weekly  quotation  card will 
v L U V C n   d C t U   be  mailed  to  you  for  the  asking.  Prompt 
returns  for  consignment  sales.  Ask  for  special  quotations  on corn, oats, 
barley, flax, potatoes and garden  seeds in  any quantity.

THE  MERRELL  BUQQY,  IMPLEMENT  &  SEED  CO.

224  and  226  Superior  St. 

TOLEDO,  OHIO

Live  Poultry  Wanted

Carload  lots only.  We  make  price delivered  at car your  station, 
g   Seller  takes  no  chances  after  delivery  at  car.  We  are  the 
g  largest  dressers of  poultry in  Michigan  and  can  use any amount.
£ 
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H.  N.  RANDALL  PRODUCE  CO.,  Tekonsha,  Mich.

ESTABLISHED  1868

H.  M.  REYNOLDS  &  SON

Manufacturers of

STRICTLY  HIGH  GRADE  TARRED  FELT
Send us your  orders, which will  be  shipped  same  day  received.  Prices 
with the  market and qualities above it.

G RAND  R A P ID S ,  M IC H .

W O RLD 'S  B ES T

5 C .  C IG A R .  ALL  JO B BERS  AND

G.J JOHNSON CIGAR CO.

GRAND  RA PID 8.  MICH.

M IC H IG A N   TRADESMAN

Gas and Gasoline  Mantles

Glover’s  Unbreakable  Mantles  Are  the  Best. 

(A Soft Mantle)

Glover’s Gems Are Second to None.

(A Coated Mantle)

We are the only  manufacturers,  importers  and 
jobbers in this line in  this  State,  and we  carry 
every make, brand or priced goods in this  line— 
Burners, Chimneys, Shades, Mantles, By-Passes, 
Micha  Goods,  Globes,  etc.,  and  absolutely 
guarantee ou r prices low er  than  any  house 
In  existence  will  quote.  Send  in  your  order; 
our goods and prices will please you.

Glover’s Wholesale Merchandise Co.,

8 and 9 Tow er Block, G rand Rapids, Mich. 

Citizens Phone 2907.

A.  B O M E R S,

..Commercial Broker..

And  Dealer  in

Cigars and Tobaccos,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

157 E. Fulton St. 
Representing

M. Brilles & Co., Allegheny City, Pa. 
Parker T. Conrad, Richmond, Va.
E. R. Wiersema, Grand Rapids, Mich. 
G. P. Kramer, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Doc Andrus, 
Robin Hood, 
Three Sisters, 

Plaindealer,
Little  Barrister,
Old Pards, Etc.

OUR  LEADERS 

Window  Dressing

imperfections 

How to Remedy Reflection From  th e Glass.
The  best  piate  glass  will  always  have 
some  reflection  about  it,  and  it  is  use­
less  to  try  to do  away  with  the  reflection 
altogether,  for  the  thing  is,  in  the  very 
nature  of  the  case,  impossible.  Very 
often  the  disturbing reflections  of a  win­
dow  are  due  to 
in  the 
glass.  If  a  window  is  fitted  with  cheap 
and  imperfect  glass,  the  only  sure  way 
to  remedy  the  difficulty 
is  to  replace 
glass  with  glass  of  proper quality.  Poor 
glass  in  a  store  window  is  just  about  as 
useful  as  boards  would  be.  There  is 
nothing  about  a  store  that  a  merchant 
should  be  more  careful  about  than  the 
quality  of  his  window glass.  Fine  glass 
will  give  a  tone  and  distinction  and 
quality  to  all  kinds  of  goods  that  are 
worth  dollars  and  dollars  to  a  merchant 
in  the course  of  the  year.  On  the  other 
hand,  poor  glass  distorts  goods,  shows 
them  up  at  a  constant  disadvantage, 
cheapens  them  and  detracts  from  their 
value  in  the  mind  of  the  spectator,  who 
often  does  not  stop  to  think  that  the 
goods  are  shown  at  a  disadvantage. 
In 
these  days,  when  the  price  of  plate 
glass 
is 
most  foolish  economy  for  a  merchant 
to  be  satisfied  with  anything  but  good 
plate  glass.  To  show  goods  through  the 
medium  of  a  cheap,  wretched,  badly 
manufactured  and  painfully  imperfect 
pane  of  glass  is  just  about  as  profitable 
as  to  show  them  through  the  medium  of 
is  totally  unqualified  to 
a  clerk  who 
wait  on  customers. 
In  either  case  there 
is  an  actual 
loss  that  no  enterprising 
man  can  afford  to  accept.  The  up-to- 
date  man  knows  this  and  sees  that  his 
shop  windows  do  credit  to  the  goods 
that  he  displays.

low,  comparatively, 

is  so 

it 

*  *  *

Even  after  fitting  up  a  shop  with 
good  glass,  reflections  will  sometimes 
appear.  There  are  various  methods  by 
which  they  can  be  overcome.  A  white 
background  or  a  background  of  a  light 
color  will  materially  aid  in  overcoming 
certain  annoying  reflections. 
In  trim­
ming  a  window  with  dark  goods  pains 
should  be  taken  to  trim  simply  and sep­
arate  the  pieces  of  the  display  as  much 
as  possible,  so  that  they  may  receive 
proper  assistance  from  the  light  back­
ground  in  struggling  against  their  nat­
ural  disadvantages  behind  plate  glass.

*  *  *

In  a  window  where  the  reflection  is 
is  advisable  to  trim  low, 
very  bad,  it 
using  a  light  background. 
If  the  win­
dow  has  no  backing  it  is  a  good  idea  to 
put 
in  a  backing  of  light  cloth  shirred 
on  a  brass  rod. 
In  displaying  dark 
fabrics,  this cloth  will  aid  in  preserving 
the 
individuality  of  each  unit  of  dis­
play  and  in  preventing  the  pieces  of 
the  display  from  becoming  blended 
in 
one 
indistinguishable  mass.  Dealers 
who  display  dark  colored  piece  goods 
in  their  windows  need  to  pay  particular 
attention  to  the  wide  spacing  of  the 
pieces  and  the 
intermixing  of  lighter 
colored  stuffs,  so  that  a  solid  dark  or 
black  background  shall  not  be  formed. 
We  lately  saw  a  window  where  the  re­
flection 
is  very  bad  and  the  trimmer  in 
charge  pointed  out  how  he  was  obliged 
to  put  light  backgrounds  in  one  form  or 
another  in  all  of  his  windows. 
In  some 
cases  it  was  a  light  drapery,  in  other 
light  clothing  or  dress 
cases 
goods,  in  other  cases 
it  was  a  mirror. 
Windows  which  have  a  northeast  or 
southwest  light  are  particularly  difficult 
to treat.  With  such  windows  unusual 
care  will  always  have  to  be  taken.

it  was 

In  addition  to 

light  backgrounds  of 
cloth,  an  invaluable  aid  in  overcoming 
reflections  is  found  in  mirrors.  Mirrors 
in  the  backing  of  a  window  neutralize 
the  dark  shadows  that  naturally  are 
created  at 
the  back  of  the  window. 
They  increase  the  apparent depth  of  the 
window,  they  provide  an  elegant  and 
handsome  background  and  they  can  be 
utilized 
in  a  greater  number  of  dis­
plays  than  any other form of backing.  If 
a  dealer  can  afford  the  outlay,  which  is 
not  very  great,  mirrors  are  decidedly 
preferable  to  cloth  as  an  aid 
in  over­
coming  reflections.  The  mirrors  should 
be  set  low  in  the  backing  and  the larger 
they  are  the  better they  will  be  for  this 
purpose.

*  #  *

A  third  point  of 

lighting  of  the  window. 

importance  is  the 
It 
proper 
should  be 
lighted  by  concealed  lights, 
placed  along  the  upper  front  edge  and 
sides  of  the  window.  In  cases  where  the 
window  is  very  high,  the  lights  can  be 
placed  across  the  glass,  but  concealed 
from  sight. 
If  the  ceiling  of  the  win­
dow  has 
in  it,  they  can  be 
advantageously  hidden  by  shades  drawn 
down  so  as  to  conceal  them  from  view. 
Lights  should  never  be  placed  at  the 
back  of  the  window.  They  dazzle  the 
spectator  and  throw  shadows  on  the 
goods  displayed.

lights  set 

♦   *  *

The  problem  of  lighting  a  store  win­
is  very  much  like  the  problem  of 
dow 
lights  are  there 
lighting  a  stage.  The 
for  the  purpose  of  making  what  is  dis­
played  clearly  visible,  not  for  the  pur­
pose  of  exhibiting  themselves.  Conse­
quently  the  less  lights  and  lighting  fix­
tures  are  in_evidence  the  better  will  he 
the  setting  of  the  window.  On  a  stage 
the  lights  are  always  hidden  from  view 
because  they  weary  the  eye  and  distract 
attention  from  the  persons  on  the  stage. 
Lights  in  the  window  should  be  hid­
den  so  far  as  possible  for  the  same  rea­
son.

Minnesota  furnishes  a  good  illustra­
tion  of  the  radical  change  that  has  been 
brought  about  in  the  dairy  industry in  a 
few  years,  in  the  substitution  of  cream­
ery-made  for  farm-made  butter.  At  the 
recent  state  fair there  were  only  ten  en­
individual  butter,  against  240 
tries  of 
from  creameries. 
In  the  State  there  are 
between  700  and  800  creameries,  and 
perhaps  100  cheese  factories,  the  major­
ity  of  both  being  run-on  the  co-opera­
tive  plan.  Most  of them  are  of  recent 
establishment,  the  increase  in  the  num­
ber  of  creameries  alone  having  been  at 
the  rate  of  about  100  per  year  for  three 
or  four  years  past.  The  success  of  the 
creamery  is  in  the  fact  that  it  has  made 
practicable  the 
introduction  of  the  ex­
pensive  machinery 
and  appliances, 
which  are  generally  beyond  the  reach  of 
the  individual  farmer.  With  this  ma­
chinery  and  these  appliances  all  the 
processes  of  buttermaking  are  so  ex­
pedited  that  the  exposure  of  the  milk, 
cream  and  butter  to  the  atmosphere, 
and  consequently  to  injurious  bacteria, 
is  reduced  to  a  minimum,  with  the  re­
sult  of  an  immense  gain  in  the  quality 
and  keeping  properties  of  the  butter. 
Higher  prices  are  thus obtained  and  the 
farmer  benefits  pecuniarily,  while  his 
wife  is  relieved  of  a  heavy  burden.

Senator  Tom  Platt,  in presenting  Sen­
ator  Depew  for  an  after-dinner  speech, 
said :  “ It  is only  necessary in  this  case 
to  drop  a  dinner  in  the  slot  and  up 
comes  one  of  the  Senator’s  celebrated 
speeches.”   This  seemed  to  act 
like 
knockout-drops  for  a  moment.  When 
Mr.  Depew  took  the  floor he casually  re­
ferred  to the  wit  of  the  master  of  cere­
monies  and  said:  “ We  are  not  all 
constructed  on  the  same 
In  the 
case  of  my  friend,  Senator  Platt,  you 
only  have  to  drop  one  of  his  speeches 
in  the  slot  and  up  comes  your  dinner.”

lines. 

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Jobbers of Stoneware

A warehouse filled  with  all  sizes.  We 
are ready for your trade.  Send us your 
orders.

W .  S.  & J.  E. Graham,  Agents, 

■49*151 Commerce St., 

Grand Rapids, Mich. 

We are taking orders for spring.

.J  

For  Profit

<tr u c c a te
Grand Rapids B usiness University

Old  Reliable

at the

75,  77,  79,  81,  83  Lyon  St.

For circulars, etc., address

A.  S.  P arish,  G rand  Rapids,  Mich.

American  Jewelry  Co.,

Manufacturers and Jobbers of

Jewelry  and  Novelties

45  and  46  Tower  Block,
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.
Y U S E A   M A N T L E S .

W e  are  the  distributing 
agents  for  this  part  of  the 
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It gives  100 candle power, 
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mesh  and  is  more  durable. 

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nary  mantles  and  gives 
more  light.

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is  open  to  him  which 

cede  to  the  requirements  of  workman 
and  wages.  Whatever way  he  turns  he 
finds  himself  hampered.  Not  an  enter­
prise 
is  not 
blocked  by  an  unsurmountable  “ un­
less.”   Risk 
is 
nothing;  care  is  nothing.  None  of  these 
count  now  in  the  capitalist’s  world  of 
work.  What 
if  he  decides  it  doesn’t 
pay?

is  nothing;  anxiety 

The 

in  some 

indications  are 

that  the  coal 
operators  are  reaching  that  conclusion. 
The  mules  have  been, 
in­
stances,  lifted  from  the  mines.  Admit 
that  and  that  the  mines  will  be  closed. 
Capital  can  afford  it. 
If  it  never  earns 
another  per  cent.,  it  will  never  want  for 
food,  shelter or  clothing. 
In  the  bank 
and  the  traditional  stocking  the  gold 
and  the  silver  can  be  stored  for  safe 
keeping,  as 
it  was  only  a  little  while 
foundry  chimney  may  be 
ago;  the 
smokeless,  the 
loom  be  silent  and  the 
freight  car of  no  use,  and  the  capitalist 
will  still  have  his  three  meals  a  day 
and, 
if  he  wants  to,  will  smoke  his 
high-priced  cigars.  He  is  having  the 
good  things  of  life  and  enjoying  them 
without 
interference  or  dictation.  No 
man  comes  in  to  tell  him  what  he  shall 
and  shall  not  do  with  his  money,  and, 
if  it  conies  to  that  and  his  coachman 
is 
taken  away  from  him  and  the  kitchen 
eirl  forced  from  his  kitchen,  he  can 
take  care  of  his  own  horses  and his wife 
and  daughters  can  do  the  housework 
exactly  as  they  did  when  he  was  earn­
ing  the  capital  that  his  employes  have 
decided  to  have  the  management  and 
the  benefits  of.  He 
is  all  right.  Just 
as  long  as  labor,  organized  or  unorgan­
ized,  can  stand  this  sort  of thing,  he can 
and  when  he  gets  just  a  little  too  much 
of 
it,  down  go  the  water  gates,  up 
come  the  mules,  and  the  man  with  the 
money  takes  a  long-needed  vacation.

Can  the  man  with  the  hoe  or  the 
that  his 
hammer  afford  this?  Grant 
is  ground  by  the  exactions  and 
face 
Is 
tyrannies  of  heartless  corporations. 
in­
his  suffering  less  because  it  is  self 
flicted,  and 
is  that  of  his  family  more 
bearable  because  he  is  fighting  for  the 
pretended  right  of  running  his  employ­
It  is  no  wonder  that  the 
er’s  business? 
balance-beam 
is  out  of  poise.  From 
the  employer’s  plate  has  been  taken  the 
right  which  a  free  country  assures  to 
every  citizen—that  of  managing  himself 
and  his  affairs  as  he  pleases.  The  coal 
trouble 
is  only  an  episode.  Like  the 
eight  hours  a  day  bluster,  it  only  shows 
the  direction  of  the  prevailing  wind. 
The  amount  of  daily  wage  is  in  itself 
but  a  straw.  Behind  them  all 
lies  the 
unquestioned  principle  of  right  and, 
when  that  is  interfered  with  just  a  little 
too  much,  the  hand  that  needlessly  set 
the  beam  in  motion  will  be  the  one  that 
will  find  out  its  mistake  before  the  bal­
ance  is  again  at  rest.

Chicago  is  truly  rural.  Driven  in  by 
the  wind  of  Monday  evening,  thousands 
of  sea  gulls  flocked  into  Lincoln  park 
for  shelter  and  food.  Hundreds  of  them 
settled  on  the  lagoons,  where  they  fed 
on  the  fish.  Others  alighted 
in  the 
open  animal  pits  and  gorged themselves 
with  food.  A 
large  tank  in  which  600 
gold  and  silver  fish  were  kept  was 
found  empty 
in  the  morning  and  the 
ground  was  strewn  with  the  remains  of 
the  fish.  Policemen  should  watch  and 
see  that  bears  do  not  come  in  and  de­
stroy 
little  children  and  hug  people 
who  are  in  the  park  for  pleasure.

“ It  is  better  to  be  good  than  great,’ ’ 
for 

It’s  easier, 

too, 

the  poet  says. 
most  of  us.

UENERAL  TRADE  REVIEW .

Several  notable  occurrences  during 
the  week  tending  to  bring  business  to 
a  healthier  basis  have  affected  several 
lines  of  trade  and 
industry.  Among 
these  may  be  mentioned the  changing of 
the  combination  price  for  steel  rails 
from  $35  per  ton  to  a  price 
indicating 
that  the  works  are  ready  for  new orders, 
viz.,  $26.  Another 
is  the  signing  of 
the 
iron  and  steel  wage  scale,  which 
has  been  under  consideration  since  July
1.  Evidently  the  operators  have  been 
waiting  for  the  settlement  of  the  price 
level  of  products,  and  the  signing  of 
the  scale  means  that  they  are  now  ready 
for  business. 
In  the  stock  market  there 
has  been  a  degree  of  activity  exceeding 
that  of  many  weeks,  but  the  price 
changes  have  been  in  the  downward  di­
rection  on  the  average,  although  there 
was  a  tendency  toward  recovery  at  the 
close  of  the  week  and  there  is  a  better 
feeling  this  week.  The  bear  movement 
has  been  forced  by  attacks  on  certain 
specialties,  which  took 
list  with 
is  hardly  thought  there 
them,  but 
will  be  an  extensive  break 
in  prices. 
Of  course,  the  pretext  for  the  movement 
is  found  in  the  coal  strikes,  the  spring­
ing  of  the  political  crisis  in  England, 
which  stops  London  activity  pending 
issue,  and  the  uncertainty  of  our 
the 
own  politics. 
In  the  latter,  however,  it 
is  more  that  speculators  and  operators 
are  engaged  in  politics  to  the  necessary 
neglect  of  other  interests.  Firmer  rates 
in  money  is  also  claimed  to  be  a  factor 
and  probably  does  have  some  influence. 
The  sufficient  explanation  of  hardening 
rates  is  found  in  the  seasonable  demand 
for  Western  products,  the  demand  for 
money 
in  the  Old  World  markets  and 
the  preparations for  resuming  industries 
here.

the 

it 

Instead  of  the  coal  strike  spreading 
to  the  iron  and  steel  industry,  there  are 
many  reports  of  satisfactory  adjustment 
of  wages  and  resumption  of  work.  More 
mills  and  furnaces  are  now  in  operation 
in  the 
than  at  any  time  since  early 
summer  and,  while  the  sharp 
fall  in 
quotations  has  made  some  reduction  in 
wages  necessary,  the  general  average  is 
higher  than  at  the  same  time  last  year. 
Prices  have  held  their own  aside  from 
the  change  in  rails  and  demand  is much 
improved 
in 
materials  for  farm  implements,  and  in 
structural 
forms  both  for  building  and 
for  transportation  requirements.

lines,  notably 

in  many 

A  significant  indication  is  that  there 
is  now  greater  activity in  lumber circles 
than  for  a  long  time.  This  condition 
seems  to  be  caused  by  an  increasing 
general  demand 
in  Eastern  markets, 
arguing  a  general 
improvement  in  all 
the  industries.

The  continued  high  prices  of  both 
cotton  and  wool  still  operate  to  reduce 
the  manufacture  of  both  textiles.  Sales 
of  wool  are  about  20  per  cent,  of  those 
of  the  same  time  last  year,  and  some 
cotton  manufacturers  have  found  it  bet­
ter  to  sell  their  raw  material  at  a  profit 
of  100  per  cent  and  let  their  spindles 
remain  idle.  Changes have  been  in  the 
direction  of  higher  prices  for goods,  but 
apparently  at  the  expense  of  activity.
Boots  and  shoes  in  the  Eastern  mar­
kets  are  showing  a  greater  degree  of  ac­
tivity  than 
for  a  long  time  past.  The 
nature  of  enquiries  would  seem  to  in­
dicate  that  stocks  are  becoming  low.

“MAN’S  INHUMANITY  TO  MAN.”
When  Bobby  Burns  fell  into  a  fit  of 
the  dumps  one  day  and  so  worded  his 
thought,  his  brothers,  the  larger  part  of 
mankind  equally  unfortunate,  repeated

is 

its  deceptive  harmony 

the  alliterate  line  and  for  more  than  a 
century,  with  an  occasional 
lapse,  it 
has  been  the  burden  of  many  a  long- 
drawn  sigh.  The  latest  event  to 
inter­
the 
rupt 
The  whole 
calamity  at  Galveston. 
its  kin­
world  promptly  acknowledged 
ship  and  as  promptly  relieved 
that 
city’s  distress.  Money  to  the  extent  of 
millions  has  been  forwarded,  with  the 
statement  that  there  is  more  where  that 
came  from,  and,  as  if  wholly  to  refute 
the  poet’s  thought, 
the  press  of  the 
country  has  been  busy  gathering  and 
publishing  accounts  which  prove  con­
clusively  that  “ Bobby”   had  been  on  a 
tear  and  did  not  know  what he was  talk­
ing  about.

impulsive,  has  dropped 

As  experience  knows,  the  tough  time 
comes  after  kindness  of  heart,  generous 
and 
its  mite 
into  the  passing  hat  of  charity.  There 
is  the  test  and  right  there  is  where  the 
business  men  of  the  country  show  that 
they  do  not  belong  to  the  ninety  and 
nine. 
It  was  altogether  evident  that 
hard  times  had  settled  down  on  Galves­
ton  with  the  destruction  that  fell  upon 
it  and,  with  a  unanimity  as  remarkable 
as  it  is  widespread,  they  sat  down  not 
only  to  look  it  in  the  face,  but  to  stare 
it  out  of  countenance.

The  relation  of  the  railroad  to  the 
town 
is  too  close  to  need  talking  about 
and  without  waiting  to  he  asked,  the 
railroad  interest centering there declared 
its  determination  to  begin  to  rebuild 
’ ’The  disaster  will  not  kill 
at  once. 
Galveston  as  a  shipping  port.”  
“ E x ­
tend  credit  and  lend  every  assistance  to 
the  business  houses  of  Galveston?”  
came  the  question  from  the  Gulf  and 
the  hearty  vernacular  of  the  country 
flashed  back 
its  sympathetic,  “ You 
bet!”   Nota  city  waited  to  see  what  an­
other  city  would  do.  Not  a  business 
hesitated  to  open 
its  book  of  credit 
and  none  took  the  lead.  Money?  “ Here 
you  are !”  was  the  shouted  response  and 
to  this  day  no  one  knows  whether  New 
York  or  Boston or  Chicago  or  San  Fran­
cisco  or  the  cities  between  them  were 
recognized  first.  Not  an  exchange  any­
where  kept  still.  Bankers,  grocers,  dry 
goods  houses,  druggists,  producers— any 
form  of  commercial  development  that 
had 
in  the 
stricken  city— were  taken  by  the  hand 
and 
lifted  to  their  feet,  to  be  taken 
care  of  until  its  old  strength  should  be 
restored.

lived  and  had 

its  being 

Not  much  of  “ man’s  inhumanity  to 
man”   about  that;  and,  if  Burns  gave 
the  keynote  to  his  day  and  generation 
in  his  morbid  line,  the  humanity  of  a 
century  later  has  every  reason  to  rejoice 
that  the  old  has  passed  away  and  that 
the  Samaritan  long  dead  has  come  back 
to 
life  and  taken  up  his  abode  in  the 
business  circles  of  the  Western  World.

Lack  of  demand  for  money  in  Kansas 
is  driving  many  banks  out  of  business. 
No  fewer  than  seven  have  quit  since 
Jan.  1,  the  last  to  give  up  being  the  C. 
E.  Putnam  Bank,  of  Richmond,  Ottawa 
county,  which  has  notified  Bank  Com­
missioner  Breidenthal  that  it  will  liqui­
date  at  once.  President  Putnam  says 
more  than  two-thirds  of  the  bank’s  de­
posits  lie  idle  in  the  vaults,  there  being 
almost  no  demand  for  loans,  either  for 
investment  or  for business  operations.

A  crow  hatchery,  the  only  one  in  the 
world,  has  been  established 
in  Brook- 
ville,  Pa.  The  crows’  eggs  are  hatched 
in  an  incubator,  and  when  the  birds  are 
eight  weeks  old  they  are  guillotined. 
The  heads  sell  for  25  cents  each  and  are 
used  as  adornments  for bonnets.

Mich.

JUST  A  LITTLE  TOO  MUCH.

Getting  tired 

is  one  of  the  comforts 
of  living.  Followed  as  it  is,  or  should 
be,  by  its  twin  sister,  rest,  it  keeps  the 
world  not  only  moving  but  good- 
natured.  Pleasure  finds  here 
its  oniy 
solace  and  the  “ balm  of  hurt  minds”  
secures  the  best  results  ‘ ‘ when  tired  na­
ture”   has  done  just  enough  to  welcome 
the  ‘ ‘ sweet  restorer.”  
It  is  a  condition 
of  give  and  take,  a  balance  that  indi­
cates  the  desired  equilibrium  and,  be 
the  variation  ever  so  little,  if  it  prom­
ises  to  be  permanent,  mischief  is  sure 
This  equipoise  has  been 
to  follow. 
lately  disturbed 
in  the  Pennsylvania 
coal  regions.  Brushing  aside  all  griev­
ances,  real  and  imaginary,  one  plate  of 
the  balance  holds  the  capital  of  the coal 
business  and  the  other  the 
labor.  La­
bor,  in  addition  to 
its  work,  has  put 
upon  its  plate  the  claim  of  union  recog­
nition,  the  capital  end  of  the  beam  has 
gone  up  and  the  industries,  disturbed 
and  threatened,  are  wondering 
if  the 
added  weight 
just  a  little  too 
much.

is  not 

It  is  too  late  in  the  day  to  waste  time 
in  the  discussion  of  the  question  of 
rights.  It  is  not  too  late  to  ask,  What  if 
capital  after  a  while  gets  tired  of  the 
contest—too  tired— and  gives 
it  up? 
Without  more  than  a  reference  to  the 
last  straw  that  broke  the  camel’s  back— 
capital  does  not  have  that  sort  of  a 
spine— it  is  quite  to  the  purpose  to  en­
quire  what  the  outcome  is  going  to  be 
if,  feeling  he  is  getting  just  a  little  too 
much  of  a  good  thing,  capital  concludes 
to  quit.  There  is  every  indication  that 
he  is  coming  to  that  conclusion.  There 
is  not  a  line  of  industry  that  he  has  en­
tered  upon  for  years  which  does  not 
fairly  bristle  with  annoying  difficulty. 
Can  he build?  Not  unless  he  is  willing 
to  be  told  what  and  how.  Can  he  man­
ufacture?  Certainly;  but  he  must  con­

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INCREASING  OPPORTUNITIES.

Now  that  prices  of  American  mate­
rials  and  products  are  again  near  a  par­
ity  with  the  world’s  markets,  there  is 
greater  reason  to 
look  for  substantial 
results  of  the  prestige  gained  by  the 
Spanish  War.  The 
immediate  conse­
quence  of  the  tremendous  demand  for 
our  products,  after  that  episode,  which 
sprang  up  on  every  hand  was  an 
in­
crease 
in  prices  which  soon  threatened 
to  destroy  much  of  the  foreign  market 
for  us.  The  many  excellencies  of  our 
wares,  however,  aided  by  perfected 
system 
in  manufacture,  enabled  us  to 
hold  our  own  to  a  surprising  degree.

When  it  became  manifest  that  the un­
due  cost  of  production,  if  continued, 
would  shut  us  out  of  the  Old  World 
markets  a  movement,  of  which 
little 
was  said  here,  was  started  by  many 
manufacturers  for the  opening  of branch 
factories  in  various  European countries.
In  these  they  would  be  enabled  to  use 
their  American  patterns  and  methods 
of  manufacture.  But  this  movement,  if 
continued,  would  result 
in  giving  to 
the  Old  World  the  benefits  of  American 
ingenuity,  system  and, 
largely,  pres­
tige,  while  we  were  shut  up  by  a  bar­
rier  of  fictitious  prices  to  our  own  local 
markets.  As  the  price  question  was  the 
only  cause  of  this  movement  it  is  not 
probable  that  it  will  be  continued  in  the 
light  of  a  healthier  industrial condition.
With this and other corresponding dan­
gers  removed,  we  are  again  ready  to 
reap  the  harvest  so  carefully  sown  and 
cultivated.  At  reasonable  prices  the 
world  is  ready  to  buy  all we have to sell. 
Indeed,  there  has  never  been  a  time 
when  cordial  relations  were  so  nearly 
universal  as  now.  Even  the  antago­
nisms  of  the  Spanish  War  are  practical­
ly  out  of  the  way,  and  the  Dons  are  so 
thoroughly 
impressed  with  the  prowess 
that  made  short  work  of  their  arma­
ments  that  they  are  anxious  to 
investi­
gate  the  superiority  of  the  means  em­
ployed  against  them.

As  our  new  colonial  relations  develop 
we  are  finding  more  significance  in  the 
direction  of  trade  expansion  than  was 
ever  anticipated.  American  influences 
in  the  West  Indies  are  not  to  be  con­
fined  to  Cuba  and  Puerto  Rico.  Not 
only  will  these  islands  consume 
largely 
of  our 
industrial  output,  but  each  will 
contribute  great  quantities  of  materials 
and  products;  and  political  boundaries 
will  not  limit  our  trade  in  the  adjacent 
islands  or  the  countries  of  Central  and 
South  America.  Hawaii  is  of 
import­
ance  in  its  own  products  and  possibili 
ties  of  consumpton,  bui  it  is  of  vastly 
more 
importance  as  the  stepping  stone 
to  the  trade  of  the  Far  East.

Then,  as  to  our  more  or  less  unwel­
come  possessions  among  the  Malays, 
the  result  of  the  necessary  military  ex­
ploration  is  to  bring  to  light  many  won­
derful  possibilities. 
It  may  be  some 
time  before  the  development  of civiliza­
tion  in  the  Philippines  will  make  very 
important  demands  on  our  export  trade, 
but  such  demands  will  grow.  Of  more 
importance  than  this  will  be  the  supply 
of  tropical  timber  and  products,  such 
as  rubber,  etc.,  to  be  returned  almost 
without  cost  on  vessels  laden  to  other 
neighboring  countries.  As  in  the  case 
of  the  West  Indian  Islands,  the  Philip­
pines  are  destined  to  be  of  vast  import­
ance  as  aids  to  our  commerce with other 
nations.

It  is  of  significance  in  this connection 
that  never before  in  our  history  has  this 
country  been  so  widely  recognized  in 
the  affairs  of the  world  or sustained such 
Its
cordial  relations  with  all  peoples. 

attitude  in  the  troubles  in  South  Africa 
was  of  the  utmost  importance  to  both 
belligerents.  And  so  in  the  Chinese 
complications ;  there have been, from the 
first,  a  careful  regard  for  every  possible 
right  of  the  Chinese  government  and  a 
dignified 
of  diplomacy 
which  commands  the  respect  and  ad­
miration  of  the  world.

consistency 

The  opening  of  the  doors  of  opportu­
nity  has  been  wonderfully  rapid  since 
the  Spanish  War.  The  fame  of  our 
products  has  gone  out  to  all  lands.  Our 
cordial  relations  and  political  prestige 
are  beyond  any  precedent. 
It  only  re­
mains  for  us  to  grasp  these  opportuni­
ties—to use  every  proper  means  to  build 
up  a  conservative  and substantial  trade, 
to  take  our  proper  place  as  the 
leader 
in  the  world’s  industrial  civilization.

the  battle  of 

TH E  SURVIVAL,  OF  TH E  FITTEST. 
Since 

the  Monitor 
and  the  Merrimac  at  Hampton  Roads 
there  has  been  an  apparently  endless 
warfare  going  on  between  the  projectile 
and  the  armorplate.  Both  sides  have 
appealed  to  the  inventive  genius  of  the 
globe  and  for  a  third  of  a  century  vic­
tory  and  defeat  have  been  constantly 
exchanging  places.  According  to  the 
last  advices  victory  has  perched  upon 
the  banner  of  the  armor  plate  and,  i f 
the  latest  announcement  is  to be trusted, 
the  struggle 
is  at  last  over.  Experi­
ments  which  have  been  going  on  for 
sometime  at  Pittsburg  of  the  Cosgrove 
process  for  making  compound  steel 
in­
gots  have  ended  in  results  surprising  to 
everybody.  Solid  ingots  of  graduated 
ingot  to 
carbon  “ from  one  side  of  the 
the  other  or  from  the  center  of  the 
in­
gots  to  its  sides”   were  made.  The  new 
process,  in  regard  to  the  quality  of  the 
steel  and  the  economy  of  its  manufac­
ture,  ranks  with  the  best,  while 
in  the 
matter  of  armor  plate  it  is  claimed  that 
any  desirable  thickness  of  high  carbon 
can  be  given  the  surface  of  the  plate 
which,  with  a  carbon  back,  makes 
it 
absolutely  impenetrable.

That  last  statement  is  the  one  to  ar­
rest  attention. 
It  has  been  made  many 
times  before  and  has  as  often  been 
shattered.  Up  to  date  the  projectile 
has  found 
its  match  and,  if  the  limit 
has  at 
last  been  reached  and  the  line 
been drawn  beyond  which  the  projectile 
can  not  go,  this  survival  of  the  fittest 
has  furnished  a  basis  for  enterprises 
and  calculation  which  have  been  im­
long  as  the  armor  plate 
possible,  so 
question  has 
remained  unanswered. 
That  matter  fixed,  warfare  more  than 
ever  will  depend  on  the  man  rather 
than  on  the  gun,  a  condition  of  things 
showing,  as  another  survival  of  the  fit­
test,  not  only  the  superiority  of  the  new 
Cosgrove  process  but  the  unquestioned 
Americanism  behind  it.

What  changes  the  invention  will  lead 
to  in  the  business  world  remains  to  be 
seen.  That 
its  good  qualities  will  be 
turned  to  an  early  practical  account 
there  can  be  no  doubt.  Bessemer  revo­
lutionized the iron  industry  fifteen  years 
ago  and,  if  the  new  century  soon  to  be­
gin  can  start  its  industrial  career  with 
the  absolute  impenetrability  of  iron  a 
fixed  fact,  the  results  will  be  no  less 
stupendous  than  the 
gratifying  and 
changes  which  the 
fifteen  years 
have  seen.  This  is  the  outlook  until 
the  next  projectile  is  heard  from,  a  cir­
cumstance  which  may  shatter  the  pros­
pects  anticipated  from,  the 
invention 
into  as  many  pieces  as  it  shatters  the 
“ absolutely  impenetrable”   armor  plate 
itself.

last 

T H E  GERMAN  SHOE  TRADE.

At  the  risk  of  being  found  fault  with 
for  harping  too  much  on  the 
same 
string,  it  does  seem  obligatory  to  in­
sist  that,  where  25  cents 
is  additional 
cost  enough  for  a  pair  of  shoes,  includ­
in­
ing  duty,  freight,  commission  and 
surance  between  Germany  and 
this 
country, 
and  §3,  which  is 
charged  by  the  German  dealer  is  alto­
gether  too  much. 
It  shows  pretty  con­
clusively  that  this  amount,  added  to  the 
price  of  the  shoe,  will  be  an  effectual 
introduction  of  American 
bar  to  the 
footwear 
into  Germany  and  it  leads  to 
an  early  questioning  of  “ What  is  to 
be  done  about  it?”

the  $2 

The  conditions,  briefly  stated,  are 
these :  The  German  nation,  numbered 
by  the  million  and  poorly  and  clumsily 
shod,  would  be  glad  to  avail 
itself  of 
the  comfort  and  comeliness of the Amer­
ican  shoe,  providing'  it  can  be  bought 
at  a  reasonable  price.  The  factor  stand­
in  the  way  of  this  consummation 
ing 
devoutly  to  be  wished 
is  the  German 
dealer.  We  are  hearing  a  great  deal 
just  now  about  the  hatred  of the Chinese 
for the  foreigner  and  whatever  pertains 
to  him ;  but  that  feature  is  not  peculiar 
to  the  Chinaman  nor  limited  to  him. 
The  American,  freer  from  race  preju­
dice  on  account  of  his  cosmopolitan 
neighbors  than  most  nations,  likes  his 
own  countrymen  best,  and  the  German 
dealer  is  simply  showing  himself  hu­
man  when  he  favors  the  German  shoe­
maker,  a  favor  not  likely  to  be  lessened 
so 
long  as  he  can  buy  on  better  terms 
from  factories  in  his  own  country.  With 
price  and  prejudice  and  patriotism 
combined  in  the  German  dealer,against 
American  footwear,  the  sensible  move 
to  make  is  for  the  American  manufac­
turer  to  keep  his  goods  out  of  the  hands 
of  the  German  dealer.  A  shoe store  such 
likes  to  have  would  be  a 
as  America 
wonder  to  the  people  of  Europe. 
It 
would  be  an  object  lesson  for  the  Euro­
pean  shoe  storekeeper;  it  would  be  a 
boon  to  the  generally  misused  Euro­
pean  foot  and,  if  the  American  shoe 
dealer  can  be  on  hand  to  bring  the  foot 
and  the  shoe  together  on  the  “ Ameri­
can  plan, ”  the  export  of  shoes from  this 
country  to  Germany  would  be  as  re­
markable  as  it  is  deserving.  As  these 
columns  have  stated  before,  no attention 
has  been  paid  in  Germany  to  make  a 
handsome  shoe. 
If  the  foot  has  been 
kept  from  the  ground  and  kept  dry,  the 
essentials  of  the  shoe  have  been  accom­
plished.  Anything  beyond  that  is  not 
considered  except  the  cost.  Once  the 
German  gets 
into  his  head  that  a 
shoe,  cheap  and  comfortable  and  hand­
some,  can  be  obtained  for  the  same 
price  that  the  old  shoe  cost  or  less,  the 
question  of  export  from  this  country 
is 
It  remains  for  the  American 
settled. 
manufacturer  and  dealer  to  decide 
if 
invade  the  German 
they  care  thus  to 
Fatherland. 
If  they  do  and  will  take 
the  right  methods,  the  result— and  that 
a  favorable  one— is  as  certain  as  fact.

it 

diplomacy  take  the  place  of  the  bullet 
and  Europe  would  clasp  hands  with 
China 
in  her  dislike  of  the  foreigner 
and  scheme  with  her  to  break  down 
that  foreigner’s influence.  To  her  con­
scious  eyes  the  shadow  of  the  American 
It  reaches  far.
gunboat  means  much. 
It  suggests  caution  and  there 
is  some­
in  the  voice  of  the  man  on  the 
thing 
bridge  which 
respect. 
Manila  has  taught 
lesson  and  in 
legal  lines  discretion  is  the  better  part 
of  valor.

commands 

its 

it.  Corn 

In  commercial  matters  the  bars  are 
down  and  national  prejudice  has  a loose 
rein. 
The  position  of  the  German 
dealer  in  regard  to  the  American  shoe 
is  a  single 
instance.  The  American 
manufacture  is  in  every  way  superior  to 
in  the  hands  of  the 
the  European,  but 
German  shopkeeper 
it  will  not  often 
find  its  way  to  the  German  foot,  much 
as  that  extremity  needs 
is 
barred  out  of  European  ports  by  this 
same  prejudice;  meat  for-the  same  rea­
son 
is  put  down  on  the  black  list  and 
American  fruit,  the  best  that  the  earth 
grows,  would  be  so  much  better  if 
raised  out  of  the  United States.  China, 
boiling  with  resentment,  protests  at  the 
point  of  the  sword;  her civilized sisters, 
more  diplomatic,  hate  as  keenly  and  by 
different  methods  protest  as  earnestly— 
under  cover. 
It  is  the  same  old  story, 
however,  and  the  outcome  will  be  the 
same.

is 

growing 

It  is  sometimes  amusing  to  read  the 
monotonous  reports  pertaining  to  the 
progress  made  by  the  American  prod­
ucts  in  the  foreign  markets.  With slight 
variation  they  express  the same thought. 
The  American  production  of  soil  and 
manufacture  is  slowly  making  headway 
abroad,  even 
in  the  face  of  the  strong 
prejudice  which  exists  against  anything 
American.  In  that  “ making  headway”  
lies  the  truth  of  the  whole  matter.  The 
ports  of  the  world  are  besieged  by  the 
American  exports.  Corn  has  been  ad­
mitted 
for  horses  and  chickens;  but, 
prejudice  overcome,  it  has  reached  the 
breakfast  table  to  stay.  Fruit,  by  its 
reluctantly  ac­
unquestioned  merits 
knowledged, 
favor. 
Necessity  has  been  forced  to  ask  for 
American  coal.  France  may  shrug  her 
shoulders,  but  America  is  making  head­
way  in  furnishing  the  French  table with 
is 
wine  and  prejudice  in  that  direction 
weakening.  The  final  result 
is  thus 
faithfully  foretold.  The  wheat  field  and 
the  corn  field  of  this  country,  the  or­
chard  and  the  vineyard,  the  mine,  the 
factory  and  the  foundry  will  continue  to 
forward  their  products  to the  seaport  to 
fill  the  foreign  order,* and  thence,  at  no 
distant 
ship, 
manned  by  the  American  crew,  will 
carry  the  American  cargo  to 
its  desti­
nation  in  foreign  lands,where, prejudice 
overcome,the  consumer  will  pay  willing 
tribute  to the  continent  and  to  the  peo­
ple  whose  wit  and  workmanship, 
in 
spite  of  opposition,have  made  their  na­
tion  the  master of  the  world.

the  American 

day, 

in 

TH E  SAME  OLD  STORY.

The  same  hatred  of  the 

foreigner 
which  has  reached 
its  culmination  in 
China  is  only  the  extreme  of  the  senti­
ment  prevailing  in  the  Eastern  hemis­
phere  against  the  Western.  Semi-bar­
barian  Asia,  disregarding 
the  ex­
its  European  sister,  with­
pediency  of 
out 
subterfuge  or  pretense,  declares 
that  the  foreigner  must  g o ;  and  the 
question  now  to  be  settled  by  the  gath­
ering  of  the  nations  at  Pekin  is  in  that 
direction.  Lessen  the 
intensity  of  the 
idea  of  religion,  let
hate,  remove  the 

The  board  of  health  of  Woodstock, 
Ont.,  has  decided  to  compel  bakers  to 
give  up  the  present  system  of  giving 
small  tickets  to  their  customers,  as  they 
consider 
distribution  of  these 
around  to  different  houses  is  liable  to 
spread  disease.

the 

The  man  who  can  write  a  check  that 
banks  will  receive  is  a  better thing than 
an  author  who  happens  to  write  a  poem 
that  a  magazine  editor  will  accept.

A  man  with  a  sound  liver  naturally 

has  a  light  heart.

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Dry Goods

The  D ry  Goods  M arket.

It 

is 

Staple  Cottons— Quoted  prices  stand
for  nothing. 
largely  a  question 
of  whether  the  seller  feels  kindly  dis­
posed  towards  a  buyer  and  is  willing  to 
name  a  price  or  not. 
It  might  be  said 
in  the  market  generally  that  all  stocks 
have  been  withdrawn,  although  this  is 
not  true 
in  the  strictest  sense.  Heavy 
brown  sheetings  and  drills  show  this 
feature  nearly  everywhere,  even  where 
advanced  prices  have  been 
recently 
named.  For,  as  we  have  stated  above, 
the  last  quotations mean absolutely noth­
ing.  The  only  way  that  business  is  ac­
cepted  is  on  the  “ at  value’ ’  condition.
At  the  present  time,  however,  there  is 
too  much  uncertainty  about  this  to  ad­
mit  of  much  business. 
Full  prices 
have  been  offered  for  bleached  cottons, 
but  they  have  been  turned down.  Coarse 
colored  goods  are  in  demand,  but  as  is 
common  in  other  lines,  buyers  are  un­
able  to  do  business.

for  the 

large  buyers 

Printed  Goods— Printed  cottons  are 
somewhat  more  easy  to  operate  in  than 
staple 
lines  and  business  has  increased 
rapidly  in  the  last  few  days.  Some  of 
the 
cutting-up 
trade  and 
jobbers  have  been  placing 
exceptionally  large  orders.  Staple  lines 
have  felt  this  improvement  more  than 
anything  else,  but  other  goods  have  felt 
it  also. 
turkey  reds, 
mournings,  chocolates,  etc.,  have shared 
in  the  request,  and  in  some  places 
in- 
digoes  are  reported  as  entirely  cleaned 
up. 
There  has  been  some  business 
transacted  for  next  spring  for  narrow 
prints  and  some 
large  sales  of  narrow 
prints  have  been  made  at  a  forward 
dating.

Indigo  blues, 

M IC H IG A N   TRADESMAN

ingrains  are  finishing  up  old  orders, 
which  are  very  limited,  only  requiring 
a  portion  of  their 
looms  to  complete 
them,  and  they  hesitate  under  present 
conditions  to  place  large  orders for 2- 14S 
chain  yarn.  Last  season  the  price  of 
cotton  ingrains  was  advanced  to  24@27C 
per  yard,  owing  to  the  high  price  of 
arn,  and  buyers  did  not  purchase  this 
ne  freely  when  compared 
in  price 
ith  C.  C.  ingrains  and  other 
lines  of 
ool  ingrains.  The  outlook  at  the  pres­
ent  time  is  for  continued  high prices for 
cotton,and  the  last  two  weeks  have  seen 
some  rapid  advances  in  raw  material, 
nd  buyers  of  cotton  carpets  will  not  be 
able  to  place  orders  for  any  line,  where 
is  used  to  any  large  extent,  at 
cotton 
former  prices.  While 
it  is  a  fact  that 
manufacturers  have  since  April  1  been 
able  to  purchase  yarn  at  declining 
prices  up  to  within  a  month,  the  ad- 
ance  has  commenced 
in  a  moderate 
.ray. 
Although  many  manufacturers 
fere  stocked  up  with  yam  purchased  at 
high  prices  which  has  not  all  been  used 
p  as  yet,  for this  reason  they  hesitate 
to  place  new  orders  until  the  market 
settles,  as  they  do  not  expect  many 
duplicates  for  the  remainder of  the  sea­
son, as  the  tendency when  cotton  carpets 
reach  a  certain  price  is  for  buyers  to 
ive  more  attention  to  the  other  grades 
of 
is  that  wool 
oods  are  likely  to  show  some  improve­
ment  in  demand.  During  the  past  week 
the  weather  conditions  have  been  a  lit­
tle  more  favorable,  and  the  retail  trade 
n  consequence  has  felt  some  slight  im- 
irovement.  Cut  order  jobbers,  although 
not  satisfied  with  the  amount  of  busi­
ness  being  done  at  present,  state  that 
uly  and  August of  this  year  were  better 
months 
in  carpets  than  the  same  two 
months  of  last  year.

ingrains.  The  result 

R E A D Y   TO  W EAR

TRIM M ED  

F E L T S

In  all  the  new  shapes  for  Ladies 

and  Misses.

Prices  from  $6  00  to  $21.00  per 

dozen.

Write for samples  and  prices.

Corl,  Knott & Co.

Jobbers of  Millinery 
Grand Rapids, Michigan

Michigan  Fire  and  Marine 

Insurance Co.
Detroit, Michigan.

Organized 1SS1.

Cash  Capital.  S400.000. 
D. W h i t n e y , J r., Pres.

Cash  Assets,  $800,000.
D. M. F erry, Vice Pres.

Net Surplus,  1200,000.

F. H. W h i t n e y ', Secretary.
M. W. O’Brien, Treas.

E. J. B o o t h , AssL Sec’y.

Directors.

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

SAY

WILL M. HINE,

THE STATIONER,

Sells everything from  a  pin  to  a  letter 
press that  you  use  in  your  office.  Call 
49 Pearl  St., Grand  Rapids.
or write. 

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Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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Fall  Hosiery 

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Underwear

We  have  the  largest  and  most  complete  line  of  fall  hosiery  and 
underwear shown in Western Michigan.  Call and inspect our line.

P.  STEKETEE  &  SONS

W h o l e s a l e   D ry  G o o d s 

G r a n d   R a p id s ,  M ic h

Just  Bear  in  Mind

if it’s  anything you  need  in  the  line  of 
heavy  goods  for  Lumbermen’s  wear, 
that we  have  made this  a  specialty  for 
years  and  can  give you  a pointer or two 
on  values.  W e  also  have  some  new 
numbers  in  the  Sweater 
line,  pretty 
goods  and  heavy.  Just  the  thing  for 
cold  weather.  Price  $24  per  dozen. 
Packed one  in  a  box.

Voigt,  Herpolsheimer  &  Co.,

Wholesale  Dry Goods, 
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in  spring  goods. 

Dress  Goods— The  spring  season  is 
not  greatly  in  evidence.  Some  foreign 
goods  are  being  shown,  but  not  much 
appears  to  have  been  accomplished  so 
far.  Little has  been  done  towards  show­
ing  domestic  spring  goods.  The  aver­
age  buyer  does  not  appear  to  be  ready 
as  yet  to  give  much  consideration  to 
new  goods.  He 
is  too  much  occupied 
finishing  up his heavy-weight purchases 
The  general  opinion 
is  that  the  plain 
fabrics  will  continue  to  hold  the  sway of 
the  market 
In  fall 
goods,  the  demand  continues  for  vene 
tians  and  broadcloths.  Suit  makers  and 
cloak  makers  are  buying  fancy  backs 
all  the  way  from  37%c  for printed  goods 
and  from  75@8oc  upwards  to  S i.25 
for 
woven  pattren  goods.  The  fancy  back 
kersey  around  $1.75  appears  to  please 
the  eye  of  quite  a  number  of  buyers.  Ii 
kerseys,  tans,  castors and pearl grays ap 
pear to  hold  the  most  prominent  posi 
tion,  some  good  business  being  done 
around  $ i . 6o@ i . 75.  There  has also  been 
fair  business  above  the  $2  mark.  The 
suit  maker  is  also  huying  a  fair quan 
tity  of  mixtures.

Underwear---- Duplicate 

orders  on
heavyweight  underwear  are  still  very 
scarce,  but  the  rise 
in  raw  cotton  has 
had  the  effect  of  retarding  the  cancella 
tion  of  cotton  fleeces,  as  well  as  other 
cotton  goods.  Tire re  were  so  many  can­
cellations  that  the  trade  was  entirely 
taken  by  surprise,  and  did  not  under­
stand  the  cause,  but  this  seems  to  be  at 
an  end  now.  Business 
in  the  finer
grades  of  woolen  and  worsted underwear 
is  very  satisfactory.  Manufacturers have 
their  mills  very  well  employed,  and  or­
ders  enough  ahead  to  keep  their  mills 
busy  to the  end  of  the  year.

Carpets—Trade 

is  still  slow  on  in­
grains.  Manufacturers  making  cotton

Rugs—The  past  week  has  seen  other 
large  Philadelphia manufacturers of rugs 
offer  to  meet  the  cut  in  price  made  on 
Smyrnas  and  other  grades.  This  cut 
was  wholly  uncalled  for.  The  facts  have 
recently  come  out  regarding  the  way  in 
which  the  reduction 
in  price  was  in­
augurated.  A  large  department  store  in 
Philadelphia  purchased  from  a  Phila­
delphia  manufacturer  some  damaged 
rugs,  or  what  were  called  seconds,  at 
one-fifth  on  a  dollar  off  the 
regular 
price.  This  was  afterwards  used  as  a 
club  to  other  manufacturers  without  all 
the  facts  (about  their  being  seconds) 
being  given,  buyers merely  representing 
that  they  had  bought  a  certain  m ill’s 
goods  at  a  concession. 
It  was  consid­
ered  by  other  manufacturers  of the small 
rugs,  30x60  and  other  small  sizes,  and 
as  a  result  they  offered  to  sell  at  the 
proportionate 
reduction.  Had  these 
seconds  been  sold  at  auction  for  what 
they  were  (damaged  goods),  the  trouble 
would  have  been  averted.  As  it  is  now, 
the  buying  end  of  the  trade  has  made 
use  of  the  old  maxim,  “ make  hay  while 
the  sun  shines,”   and  placed 
ders  while 
the  manufacturers  were 
ready  to  accept  them  at  cut  prices 
This  means,  as  we  said  before,  that 
later  there  will  be  a  reaction  unless 
there  is  an  unusual  demand.  The  rug 
market  was  in a  very  healthy  condition 
and  it  is  to  be  regretted  that  reduction 
has  taken  place.

large 

Charles  E.  Whittemore,  who  owns  1 
big  confectionery  store  in  Willimantic, 
Ct.,  was  obliged  to  close 
it  the  other 
day  because 
the  honey  bees  of  the 
neighborhood  finding  nothing  sweet  in 
the  surrounding  country,  owing  to  the 
warm  and  dry  weather,  swarmed  into 
the  place and made business  impossible

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Clothing

Status  of the  Piece  Goods  M arket.

It  has  been  pretty  dull  with  woolen 
manufacturers  and  piece  goods  agents 
generally  during  the  past two weeks,and 
their  efforts  to  stir  up  business  have  not 
met  with  much  success.  Clothing  man­
ufacturers  can  neither  be  tempted  nor 
coerced  into  buying  beyond  their wants, 
and  they  still 
feel  they  can  afford  to 
wait. 
In  fall  weights  the  mills  gen­
erally  claim  to  have  very  little  stock 
on  hand.  They  have  been  closing  up 
business,  and  where  necessary  have 
made  some  slight  concessions  in  price 
to  attract  buyers.

A  number  of  new 

lines  of  spring 
weights  have  been  brought  out  by 
manufacturers,  and  this  practice  of 
bringing  out  new  samples,  which  will 
pretty  nearly  duplicate  the  former  ones, 
is  deprecated  by  the  clothing  trade  gen­
erally.  One  buyer  said  that  it  was  hard 
enough  to  make  up  your  mind  anyway 
as  to  what  to  purchase,  and  that  this 
constant  adding  of  new  samples  to  the 
lines  rendered  the  task  doubly  difficult.
It  also  has  a  distinct  tendency  to  unset­
tle  the  market  and  does  not  act  for  the 
good  of  the  situation  generally.  Many 
of  these  new 
lines  that  have  been 
brought  out  so  closely  resemble  the 
earlier  fabrics  that  where  prices  have 
been 
in  favor  of  the  new  goods  they 
have  been freely  substituted for previous 
orders.  Among  the 
lines  are  several 
new  fancy  flannels  of  much  lower  g rade 
than  have  hitherto  been  shown,  and  fear 
has  been  expressed  that  this  duplicat­
ing  of  what  has  been  i  n  a  certain  sense 
a  high-class  fabric,  in  qualities  that 
permit  it  to  be  sold  in  the  very  cheap­
est  lines  of  suits,  will  kill  it  with  good 
dressers  early  in  the  season.  Clothing 
manufacturers  have  been  bothered  by 
the  non-receipt  of  sample  pieces  and 
some  mills  have  notified  the  trade  that 
the 
for  fancy 
worsteds  have  been  so  light  that  they 
were  not  justified  in  starting  the 
looms 
on  certain  numbers.  At  the  latest  re­
ports  the  sample  pieces  were  coming  to 
hand 
in  better  fashion  and  clothiers 
were  making  good  progress  on  the  de­
signing  of  their  spring  lines.

initial  orders  received 

Clothing  manufacturers  will  be  inter­
ested 
in  the  editorial  in  this  issue  on 
the  manufacture  of  trousers  to  be  worn 
by  the  “ coatless  man’ ’  next  summer. 
The 
information  given  in  this  article 
was  obtained  from  leading  designers  in 
New  York  and  Chicago  markets.— Ap­
parel  Gazette.
W hy  P resent  Values In C lothing A re Safe.
Facts  regarding  cost  of  clothing  all 
tend  to  show  that  values  will  hold. 
In 
the  first  place  dealers  should  remember 
that  the  advance  on  clothing  has  been 
very  small,  from  10 to  15  per  cent,  be­
ing  the  extremes.  When  a  comparison 
of  such  a  small  increase  is  made  with 
advances  in  other  lines  the  increase  can 
readily  be  called  nominal. 
iron 
and  steel  industries  some  of  the  most 
important  products  more  than  doubled 
in  price  during  the  year;  yet  in  cloth­
ing  there  was  a  total  advance  in  cost  to 
the  retailer  in  two  seasons  not  to  exceed 
15  per cent.

In  the 

Comparing  prices  of  piece  goods  to­
day  with  optning  prices  of  last  spring, 
it  will  be  seen  that  this  advance  has 
been  sustained.  Twelve-ounce  standard 
clays  were  quoted  at  $1  in  July,  ’99, 
and  to-day  their  price  is$ i.i2 j£ ;  18- 
ounce  clays  a  year  ago  were  $1.37% 
and  to-day  they  are  priced  at  $1.5°- 
The  fact  that  there  has  not  been  a  rush

labor 

to  buy  at  these  prices,but  that  a  steady, 
conservative  business  has  been  done,  is 
in  favor  of  steady  prices  for  clothing. 
The  increase  in  cost  of  materials  to  the 
clothier  is 
less  than  in  other  respects. 
For  example, 
is  easily  10  per 
cent,  more expensive  to-day  than  a  year 
ago.  The  advance  on  linings,  sewing 
silk,  buttons  and  all  other  materials 
is 
much  greater  than  the  advance  on  piece 
goods.  Even 
the  clothiers’  packing 
cases  and  the  tags  that  he  sews  on  the 
garments  cost  more  and  his 
freight 
bills  are  materially  larger.  Thus  it  will 
be  seen  that  the  actual  advance  so  far 
made  in  clothing  is  really  less  than  the 
increased  cost  of  the  product.  And 
the  fact  that  the  percentage  of  advance 
was  not  much  greater  was  due  to  the 
purchase  of  their  supplies  by  clothiers 
before  the  advance  commenced,  and  in­
creased  skill  in  manufacture,  and  some 
substitution.

Other  causes  also  are  working  for 
in  the  clothing  market,  and 
stability 
one 
is  the  absence  of  stocks— either 
of  piece  goods  or  manufactured  gar­
ments.  The  fall  business  really  has 
little  effect  on  spring  business,  as  there 
are  only  a  few  grades  of  goods  that  will 
sell  the  year  around ;  but 
if  there  had 
been  large  stocks  of  fall  weights  either 
in  the  piece  or  made-up  to  carry  over 
— it  would  have  had  a  depressing  influ­
ence  on  the  situation.  Happily,  to-day 
the  clothing  market 
is  removed  from 
influence,  and  it  is  believed 
any  such 
that  there 
is 
less  of  both  clothing  and 
material  between  the  mill  and  consumer 
to-day  than  ever  before  in the  history  of 
the  country. 
In  fact,  the  situation  has 
practically  returned  to  a  normal  condi­
tion  except  for the  hesitancy  on  the part 
of  buyers  to  place  orders.  This  is some­
thing  that  only  time  can  correct;  but 
increase  of  only  10  to  15  per 
with  an 
cent,  in  price  from  the 
lowest  quota­
tions  ever  made,  it  would  appear that 
values  in  clothing  are  safe.

Latest on  Men’s  W aists.

The  following  extract,  taken  from  the 
New  York  Sun,  puts 
in  a  nutshell  a 
complaint  that  is  likely  to be entered  by 
practical  people  against  the  coatless 
idea. 
If  people  are  going  to  take  ad­
vantage  of  the  privilege  of  removing 
their  coats  to  make  themselves  objects 
of  disgust  and  discomfort  to  others,  the 
custom  will  die  so  quickly  among  the 
better  class  that  it  will  be  practically 
strangled at  its  birth. 
It  is  to  be  hoped 
that  such  abuses  will  be  promptly 
checked  by  public  opinion  whenever 
they  show  themselves.  The  letter  is  as 
follows:

When  men  have  their so-called “ shirt­
waists”   made  to  fit  and  know  how  to 
dress  underneath the “ shirtwaist, ”  there 
can  be  no  objections  to  “ the  shirtwaist 
man,’ ’ but  they  don’t.  Coming  down 
on  the  New  Haven  road  last  Sunday 
it 
was  disgusting.  Men  took  off  their 
coats,  vests,  collars,  cuffs,  and  you 
never  saw  such  a  sight.  Faded  shirts, 
slipping  up 
in  puffs  between  suspend­
ers,  wet  with  perspiration  under  their 
arms,  in  some  cases  almost  to  the  belt 
line.  To  cap  the  climax,a  man  took  the 
seat  with  me. 
In  a  few  minutes  off 
came  his  coat;  the  odor  was  more  than 
unpleasant.  There  was  no  parlor  car 
on  the  train  and  for  a  woman  whose 
husband  never travels  half  clad,  nor  sits 
about 
in  his  own  home  in  that  condi­
tion,  it  was  hard  lines.  Women  wear 
at  least  three  garments under their shirt­
waists;  besides  they  are  made  to  fit,  so 
keep  in  place.  On  the  day  I  speak  of, 
no woman  found  it  necessary  to  take  off 
her  collar,  cravat  or  cuffs,  nor  to  stuff  a 
handkerchief  in  the  front  of  her  collar 
or  collarband.  Why  will  men  wear  arm 
garters  to  shorten  their  shirt  sleeves? 
Why  not  have  them  cut  off?

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Hurry Orders

We’re  ready  with  practically  com­
plete lines of  our  ’’Correct  Clothes” 
(Suits and Overcoats)  to  ship  imme­
diately upon  receipt of order,  so that 
you  can  keep  your  line  intact.  A 
wire will bring goods by next  freight 
or express.

I f f l e&veprichf t r o s l p

C haracteristics  of G reat  Men.

“ So  far  as  I have  encountered them,”  
said  a  citizen  of  the  world,  “ a  charac­
teristic  of  great  men  is  that  they  have 
time.  They  are  not  in  a  hurry;  their 
work  doesn’t  boss  them,  but  they  boss 
their  work.  They  don’t  act  as  if  every 
minute  you  stayed  was  valuable  time 
lost  to  them ;  they  don’t  fret  and  fidget. 
What  time  they  do  devote  to  you  ap­
pears  to  be  time  that  they  can  spare, 
and  take  things  easy  in,  and  be  com­
fortable.  The  work  seems  to  be  inci­
dental,  and 
it  seems  as  though  they 
could  turn  to  it  when  the  time  came 
and  get  through  it  with  ease;  and  they 
always  seem,  besides,  to  have  strength 
in  reserve. 
It  is  a  characteristic  of  the 
great  man  that  he  has  tim e.”

A  H ealth  Resort.

Excelsior  Springs,  Mo.,  on  the  Kan­
sas  City  line  of  the Chicago,  Milwaukee 
&  St.  Paul  Railway,  has  become  one  of 
the 
leading  all-the-year-around  health 
and  pleasure  resorts 
in  the  United 
States.  The  use  of  its  waters  has  ben­
efited  a  great  many  sufferers.

The  Chicago,  Milwaukee  &  St.  Paul 
Railway  has  just  issued  a  finely  illus­
trated  booklet,  describing  the  resort  and 
telling  of  its  advantages,  which  will  be 
sent  free  on  application  to  Geo.  H. 
Heafford,  General  Passenger  Agent, 
Chicago,  with  2 cent  stamp  enclosed  for 
postage. 

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On«  W om an’s  W isdom.

He  had  proposed  to  the  idol  of  his 
heart,  but  things  failed  to  come  his 
way.
“ Do  you  know,”   he  said,  as  he  was 
leaving  her  presence  forever,  “ that  you 
are  wringing  my  heart 
from  my 
bosom?”
coldly, 
“ but  it’s  either  that  or  marry  you  and 
wring  the  bosoms  from  your  shirts  in 
after  years.”

“ Possibly,”   she  answered 

Borax 

is  being  mined  near  Bakers­
field,  Cal.,  at  the  rate  of  150  tons  a 
month.  A  company  has  been  formed  to 
increase  the  output  of  the  mines, 
to r 
many  years  all  of  the  borax  used  in  the 
United  States  has  come from the Mojave 
desert.

is  said  that  there  is  a  scarcity  of 
It 
jcoa  and  in  consequence  higher  prices 
re  probable.

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in  mahogany  finish.  Not  a 
leader, but  priced the  same  as 
as  the  balance  of  our  superb 
stock.  Write  for  Catalogue.

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We  manufacture  a  full  line  of
Jackets,  O v e ra lls  

and  B ro w n ie   O ve ra lls

We  make a  specialty  of  mail  order 
business  and  shall  be  pleased  to 
send you  samples  and  prices.
We  sell  the  trade  direct  and  give 
you  the  benefit  of  the  salesman’s 
salary and  expenses.

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M IC H IG A N   TRADESMAN

Shoes  and  Leather

U nique  M ethods  o f  W indow  D isplay  for 

Shoe  Stores.

A  very  unique  window  arrangement is 
made  with  small  steel  or  copper  wire. 
The  dresser  stretches  a  half  dozen  small 
wires  horizontally  across  the  window 
from  side  to  side.  These  wires  are  so 
small  as  to  be  almost 
invisible.  Other 
wires  are  run  up  and  down  from  bottom 
to  top  and  the  crossing  of  these with the 
horizontal  wires  makes  a  solid  frame­
work.  The  shoes  are  suspended  by  the 
heel  straps.  Each  shoe  has  a  foot  form 
fitted 
is  stuffed  with  cotton. 
The  price  cards  are  attached  to  the wire 
directly  over  the  shoe,  a  little  space  in­
tervening.

in  rit  or 

The  whole  arrangement  gives  the 
effect  of  shoes  hanging  in  mid  air  with­
in­
out  visible  support.  The  wires  are 
visible  from  the  street,  as  the 
light 
background,  of  white  material  effec­
tually  adds  to  the  delusion.  This  is  a 
very  simple  and  inexpensive  way  of 
dressing  a  window  and  is  decidedly  at­
tractive.

A  reader  has  tried  the  scheme  of  us­
ing  shoe  cartons  and  his  way  is  a  good 
one.  He  builds  a  pyramid  of  the paper 
boxes,  commencing  with  a  base  about 
four  feet  square  and  tapering  gradually 
to  the  top.  A  piece  of  white  cheese­
cloth 
is  thrown  over  the  pyramid  and 
draped  to  fit  the  shape  of  the  same. 
Pins  are  used  to  bring  the  covering 
close  around  the  edges  and  form  the 
steps  or  layers.  At  the  top  or  the  sum­
mit  of  the  pyramid  is  placed  one  black 
shoe.  The  background  is  of  some  dark 
stuff  draped 
form  an  arch.  We 
should  like  to  reproduce  this  window  if 
it  were  possible  to  secure  a  photograph 
of  it.  Our  readers  may  form  some  idea, 
however,  from 
The 
price  card  of  this  window  sat  at  the 
foot  of  the  pyramid  and  bore  the  words, 
“ On  top— Our  $3.50  Shoe.”   Several 
catchy  cards  are  suggested  by  this  ar­
rangement.  A  dresser’s  ingenuity  will 
enable  him  to  write  some  very  pleasing 
window  cards  for  such  a  display.

the  description. 

to 

in  the  background. 

A  very  pleasing  and  attractive feature 
for  a  shoe  window  is  a  pretty  picture. 
Get  the  picture  of  a  beautiful  woman 
and  put  it  in  a  handsome  frame.  Place 
it 
in  your  window  in  the  most  com­
manding  position and drape some  bright 
colors 
Put  your 
shoes  in  the  front  of  the  window.  Mark 
each  one  with  a  neat  and  modest  price 
card.  You  will  see  more  people  stop  to 
take  a  look  at  your  picture  than  would 
ever  take  time  to  study  a  window  full 
of  shoes  alone.  The  picture  catches  the 
eye  and  compels  attention  and  if  your 
shoes are  well  shown  and  the  prices  are 
right,  you  have  done  some  good  adver­
tising,  even  should  the 
looker-on  fail 
to  buy  right  at  that  time.

For  a  nominal  figure  you  can  secure 
a  series  of  pictures  of  great  men,  cele­
brated  beauties,  scenic  views  or  war 
pictures.  Change  them  every  day  in 
your  window  and  advertise  what you are 
showing.  For  instance,  take  “  Leslie’s 
Weekly,”   which  has  full  two-page  illus­
trations  of  current  events.  The  South 
African  war  held  attention  for  months. 
Now 
is  China.  The  pictures  are 
made  from  photographs  taken  on  the 
scene  of  action.  You  can  secure  a  col­
lection  or  set  from  any  newsdealer. 
Mount  them  on  heavy  cardboard  and 
make  of  them  the  central  object  in  your 
window.  Change  daily  and  put  in  new 
shoes  occasionally.  You  will  find  that 
passers-by  will  be  attracted  from  the

it 

For 

take 

instance, 

first  and  will  be  looking  daily  for  the 
new  one. 
the 
Chinese  situation,  of  which  every  one 
is  talking.  Get  the  latest  pictures  and 
keep  your  people  posted  constantly  on 
the  situation.  A  few  lines  from 
the 
daily  news  reports,  in  bulletin  form, 
will  help.  You  will  find  that  people 
will  take  your  windows  for their  daily 
news  source  and  from week to  week  will 
follow  your  change  of  display  with 
eager  eyes.

One  authority  on  window  display  ad­
vises  the  use  of  novelties  of  any  kind 
provided  they  are  eye  catchers.  He says 
any  means  of  attracting  attention  to 
your  windows  is  good  advertising  and 
will  do  the  store  good.  We  are  in­
clined  to  disagree  with  him  in  part,  as 
the  use  of  certain  features  might  be  the 
means  of  driving  people  away  from  the 
store.  For 
instance  a  timid  woman 
never  cares  to  look  at  a  snake  or  wild 
animal,  alligator  or  such  things  even  in 
a  menagerie  and  the  sight  of  one  in  her 
dealer’s  show  window  would  give  her 
an 
involuntary  chill.  Every  time  she 
thought  of  that  store  she  would  remem­
ber  the  “ ugly  beast”   or  the  “ horrid 
snake”   and  her  recollection  of  the  same 
would  do  you  no  good.  Don’t  put  any 
freaks,  animals  or  monstrosities 
in 
your  windows. 
It  may  be  a  strong  at­
traction  for  some  people  if  you  make 
your  windows  exhibition  places  for  rare 
and  strange  beasts,  or 
large  and  bril- 
liant-hued  snakes,  but  the  nervously  in­
clined  persons  will 
take  a  different 
view.  Do  you  know  how  afraid  of  a 
mouse  is  the  average  woman?  Well,  if 
she  sees  a  lot  of  white mice  in a window 
she  will  always  have  a  dread  of  that 
“ Why!  who  knows  but  those 
store. 
nasty 
little  mice  are 
loose 
around  that  store?”

running 

in 

“ Murdered,”  

A  fake  is  always  a  boomerang.  We 
knew  a  drug  company  who  used  scare 
heads 
in  all  their  advertising  matter 
of  the  very  fakiest  kind.  Such  headings 
as 
“ Assassinated,”  
“ War  Declared”  
letters 
flaming 
adorned  all  their  posters  and  out-door 
advertising.  A  person  would be tempted 
to  read  one  of  these  fakes  once—and 
once  only.  After  reading  such  a  head­
ing  staring  at  you  from  the  wall  “ Bom­
bardment  of  New  York”   and  finding 
it 
ended  with  an  advertisement  of  some 
patent  medicine  or  pills,  you  had  a  de­
cidedly  bad  opinion  of  the  pills  as  well 
as  the  individual  who  advertised  them 
in  such  a  manner.  Don’t say  “ slaugh­
tered”   when  you  cut  the  price of  a shoe 
ten  or  fifteen  cents.  Try  and  avoid  such 
lines  or  window  cards  as 
fakey  head 
“ Stabbed,”   “ Cut 
in  Two”   or  “ Ter­
ribly  Hurt.”   You  can  catch  the  eye 
once  with  such  rubbish,  but  the  after 
part  will  be  of  no  good  for  your  busi­
ness.

WATER  PROOF 

WOOD  SOLE  SHOES

Price $1.10 net.

With iron rails on bottom, $1.25.

Oil Grain Uppers.  Sizes 6 to 12.  Best shoes for 
Butchers, Brewers, Farmers, Miners.  Creamery- 
men, Tanners,  etc.  This  sole  is  more  service­
able and cheaper than a leather sole where  hard 
service is required.
A.  H.  R IE M E R   C O .,

Patentees and Mfrs.,  MILWAUKEE,  WIS.

Hood  Rubbers

*-  First Every Time.

Discount  25  and  5  per cent.  Payable  Dec.  1.

Old  Colony

Best Seconds Made.

Discount  25,  5  and  10 per  cent.  Payable  Dec.  1.

An extra 5 percent, discount allowed if paid promptly Dec.  1.

Hirth,  Krause & Co., 

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We  are  now  prepared  to  fill  all  orders  promptly.
The  sizes  and  toes  which  manufacturers  could
not furnish  prior  to  Nov.  1,  are  now  in  stock.

GEO.  H.  REEDER  &  CO.
Grand  Rapids,  Michigan

Rindge,  Kalmbach,  Logie &   Co.,

Manufacturers  ana 

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Boots  and Shoes

Grand,  Rapids, 

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Michigan.

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M IC H IG A N   TRADESMAN

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How  to  A chieve  Success  as  a  Shoe  Clerk.
My  experience  as  a  shoe  clerk  dates 
back  to  the  day  of  my  birth.  My  father 
is  a  shoemaker  and  from  choice  work 
on  an  old  bench  to-day  that  he  has 
owned  over  fifty  years.

My  first  introduction  to 

leather  was 
my  father’s  strap.  Oh,  how  often  I 
wished  that  strap  was  a  little  lighter 
and  my  pants 
lined  with  sole  leather. 
When  I  was  13  years  old  my  father 
rigged  up  an  old  bench  for  me  and  told 
me  to  get  down  to  business. 
I  did 
idea  very  well,  but  that 
not 
strap  bobbed  up  and  1 
everlasting 
bobbed  down. 
1  learned  the  trade  from 
start  to  finish. 
I  have  made  everything 
in  the  shape  of  a  shoe  from  a  kid  slip­
per  to  a  stoga.

like  the 

It  makes  no  difference  how  stock  is 
looks  neat  and 
arranged,  only  that 
tidy  and  you  know  exactly  where  to  lay 
your  hand  on  just  the  shoe  you  want.

it 

I  know  of  no  set  rules.  People  are 
not  all  alike.  The  same  person  is  not 
always 
in  the  same  mood.  What  one 
might  say  to  a  customer  might  be  all 
right  to-day,  but  to-morrow  might  drive 
her  out  of  the  store.  A  good  shoe  man 
must  be  chock  full  of  resources. 
If  he 
lacks  tact  he  might  just  as  well  get  out 
of  the  business.  No  customer  has  the 
right  to  consume  all  your  time.  A  cus­
tomer  waiting 
I 
do not  call  a  man  a  good  salesman  who 
has  not  the  tact  to  entertain  a  crowd.
I  know  a  man  who  during  a  special 
shoe  sale  sold  323  pairs  of  shoes  in 
seven  days.  No  man  could  have  done  it 
one  customer  at  a  time.  These  shoes 
were  mostly  odds  and  ends,  and  had  to 
be  tried  on  and  fitted  in  the  ordinary 
way.

is  entitled  to  a  part. 

is 

Some  days  it  seems  to  me  that it is al­
most impossible for me  to  sell  anything ; 
that  every  customer  1  get  hold  of  is  a 
tough  one,  and  that  the  finest  shoe  we 
carry  is  not  good  enough  to  wash  dishes 
in.  Everything  goes  wrong  and  I  feel 
as  if  I  would  like  to  go  out  in the woods 
and  throw  myself  on  an  old  hemlock 
full  of  slivers.  Then 
stump  that 
again,  other  days,  I 
feel  as  if  I  could 
sell  wooden  nutmegs.  You  see  the  cus­
tomers  are  not  to  blame  at  all.  It  is  our 
own  condition.  We  are  kind  of bilious, 
you  know;  one  of  our  bad  days.  A 
good  salesman  who 
such  a  condition  will  call  some  other 
clerk  to  his  assistance,  and  find  a  good 
excuse  to  make  himself  scarce. 
If  the 
other  clerk  succeeds  in  making  the  sale 
you  seemed  to  be  losing,  it  is  no  sign 
that  he 
is  a  better  salesman  than  you. 
You  might  as  a  general  thing  please 
two  customers  to  his  one.

finds  himself 

Never 

lead  a  customer  to  think  she 
has  on  a  different  size  than  she  really 
has.  Do  not  deceive  a  customer 
any  way.  Sooner or  later  she  will  find 
you  out,  and  her  confidence 
is 
forever  lost.  To  act  a  lie  is  a  lie.

in  you 

Some  advise  you  to  jolly  your  trade, 
ask  about  the  babies,  etc.  This  is  all 
very  well,  if  you  have  the  time,  but 
little  of 
ways.

in  business  goes  a  good 

it 

If  I  had  the  power  I would revolution 
ize  the  practice  of window  dressing. 
It 
is  a  most  expensive  way  of  advertis­
ing. 
1  would  have  my  windows  clear, 
and  made  from  ceiling to floor,and  have 
nice  upright  show  cases  to  display 
shoes,  and  my  entire  stock  would  be 
an  exhibition.  To  my  mind  no  store 
can  be  made  to  look  finer  than  a  shoe 
store.

Have  a  place  for old  stock,  and  let 
your  customers  know  that  you  have  a 
lot  of  odds  and  ends  that  you  are  clos­

to  show  them 

ing  out,  and  if  they  would  like  to  take 
advantage  of  the  special  sale  you  would 
be  pleased 
through. 
Never  try  to  palm  off  old  truck  on  any­
one  unless  you  know  who  they  are,  and 
tell  them  the  reason  why  you  are  clos­
ing  them  out.

A  clerk  need  not  be  so  slick  that  flies 
will  slip  up  on  him,  neither  does  he 
want  any  flies  to  stick  to  him.

A  shoe  bench  in  a  shoe  store  is  more 
It  is  not  a  cosy 
bother  than  it  is  worth. 
is  a  dirty  corner,  and  you 
corner,  but 
imposed  upon.  When  a  customer 
are 
comes 
in  with  a  pair  of  shoes  that  has 
not  given  satisfaction,  I  simply  write 
“ Mr.  Jones,  please  repair  shoes  for  Mr. 
Smith,”   and  away  they  go  satisfied,and 
I  do  not  think  our  cobbler’s  bills  will- 
amount  to  $20 a  year.

Always  be  courteous.  Let  honesty  and 
stern 
integrity  be  your  watchword. 
People  wiil come to the store  and  ask  for 
you.  Your  employers  will  find  in  you  a 
drawing  card,  and  you  will  be  well 
paid  for  your  services.

is  about 

But  hold  on,  Quaker!  You  have  for­
gotten  something. 
I  guess  I  am  some 
like  the  old  Methodist  preacher  I  used 
to  be  compelled  to  listen  to.  After  sit­
ting  on  that  old  straight-back  bench 
while  he  roared  like  a  lion  and pounded 
the  air over  something  I  know  nothing 
about,all  at  once  he  would  seem  to  sub­
side.  Then  I  would  say  to  myself, 
‘ Praise  the  Lord!  He 
to 
close!”  
Then  he  would  shut  his  eyes, 
place  his  hand  to  his  forehead,  then 
slowly  raise  his  hand  and  open  his  eyes 
and  say :  “ My  dearly  beloved  hearers, 
just  one  more  thought  hath  struck  m e.”  
He  would  begin  with  a  very  soft  voice 
and  in  a  minute  he  would  be  belching 
forth  like  a  steam  calliope,  pompadour 
his  hair  and  pound  the  altar.  Then  I 
would  say  to  myself:  “ Gee  Whiz!  The 
old  jigger  has  wound  himself  up  again.
If  I  ever  get  to  be  a  man  and  they  ever 
catch  me 
in  one  of  these  drat-blasted 
straight 
they  will  be 
smarter  than  I  am .”   How  well  I  have 
kept  that  promise  I  am  not  going  to 
tell.  But,  my  dear  readers,  I  am  wound 
up  again.  One  more thought hath struck 
me,  but  I  promise  you  faithully  that  I 
will  “ ring  off”   soon.

jackets  again, 

The  thought 

in  regard  to  fitting 
the  feet.  I  spoke  about  fitting  on  shoes, 
but  fitting  the  feet  is  another  thing.

is 

let  them. 

Mothers,  when  your  little  babes  are 
born  you  look  them  over  from  head  to 
foot  and  when  you  come  to  the  feet  you 
simply  rave.  Oh,  what  pretty 
feet, 
those  dear  little  pink  toes  that  lay  right 
out  straight,  just  like  their  fingers.  Youj 
I  know ! 
grab  them  up  and  kiss  them. 
you  do,  for  I  have  seen  you  do 
it—and 
it  myself.  Now,  why  on 
I’ve  done 
earth  don’t  you  let  your  children’s  feet 
grow 
in  that  way?” You  may  take  your 
baby’s  feet,  place  them  together,  and 
you  will  find  they  will  not  touch 
in  a 
straight  line  from  heel  to'toe.  They 
would  do  the  same  when  they  are  60 
if 
let  them.  But  no,  you  will 
you  would 
not 
If  a  clerk  in  his  good 
judgment 
fits  a  shoe  to  your  baby  you 
will  say,  “ Oh!  They  are  horrid.  They 
are  too  long.  But  then  I  can  stuff  the 
toes.”   Oh,  yes,  you  can  stuff  the  toes, 
and  after  a 
few  years  you  place  these 
same  feet  together  and you  will  find  one 
big  toe  has  geed  off  towards  grandpa’s 
and  the  other  has  hawed  off  towards 
grandma’s. 
I  do  not  mean  to  say  that 
all  mothers  do  this,  but  the  majority. 
There  are  women  who  would  be  glad  to 
get  a  shoe  to  fit  their  feet  if  they  were 
to  be  had.  But the  clerk  is  not 
living 
to-day,  although  he  might  have 
the 
wind  of  a  foghorn  and  the  pounding 
ability  of  the  aforesaid  minister,  that 
could  sell  the  average  woman  a  pair  of 
shoes  that  would  fit  her  feet.

I  have  rung  off.—Sam  B.  Owen  in 

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Village  Improvement

W h at  Shade  Trees  Shall W e P la n t ?
The  statement,  made  in  the  last  num­
ber  of  the  Tradesman  by  Mr.  Lowrie, 
that  the  general  American  practice  is  to 
buy  a 
lot  and  then  to  clear  from  the 
land  everything  that  nature  has  planted 
there  and  upon  the  bare  ground  proceed 
to  create  a 
lawn,  dotting  evergreens 
over 
it  in  an  inconsequential  way,  has 
received  ot,  rather,  is  receiving  an  apt 
illustration 
in  a  certain  village  “ up 
North.”   There  is  a  thrifty,  ambitious 
village  with  a  tract  of land  large enough 
for  a  little  park  near  its  center,  exactly 
where  a  park  ought  to  be.  It  is  covered 
with  a  natural  growth  of  red  oaks.  A l­
ready  the  wand  of  the  fall  has  been 
laid  upon  its  leaves  and  soon  the  ripen­
ing  will  come  and  the  oaks  will  be  a 
picture  of  autumnal  glory.  A  few  of 
those  villagers  know  what  ought  to  be 
done  with  that  growth  of  oaks  and  are 
thinking  that,  one  of  these  days,  there 
will  be  a  movement  made  to  buy  the 
property  and  turn  it  into  a  park:  but 
the  chances  are  all  against  it. 
It  is  an 
old  story  of  putting  off  until  to-morrow 
what  ought  to  be  done  to-day  and  will 
bear  repeating.

The  oaks  are  getting  to  be  of  good 
size  and  are  growing  into  good  timber 
every  day.  They  have 
little  market 
value  now  and,  on  that  account,  are  al­
lowed  to  live.  By  and  bye  the  trees—  
they  grow  as  fast  as  children— will  be 
*' wuth  so’t h i n g b y   that  time  the  vil­
lage  will  have 
the 
ground,  as  building  lots,  will  be  in  de­
mand.  Then  the  oaks  will  go  to  the 
lumberman,  the  lots,  cleared  of  “ every­
thing  that  nature  has  placed  there, ”  
will  be  turned  over  to  the  homemaker,

increased  and 

M IC H IG A N   TRADESMAN

land 

With  the 

soonest  suggest  the 

who  will  do  what  he  can  to  repair  the 
irreparable 
loss  which  the  lumberman 
and  the  real  estate  owner  have  inflicted.
laid  bare  and  the 
stumps  removed,  the  work  of  ornamen­
tation  begins  and  the  question  of  trees 
comes  first.  They  are  your  only  real 
aristocracy  and,  in  place  of  the  stately 
oaks  with  their  unquestioned  ancestry, 
which  money 
is  constantly  trying  in 
is  wanted  which 
vain  to  buy,  a  tree 
refinement 
will 
which  years  alone  can  bring. 
The 
maples  seem  to  meet  the  requirement 
of  rapid  growth  best—the  sugar  maple 
and  the  white— the  one  reaching  in 
its 
maturity  a  height  of  from  fifty  to  eighty 
feet; 
the  other,  from  thirty  to  fifty; 
while  still  another,  the  red  maple,  from 
thirty  to  sixty  feet  high,  is  especially 
desirable  from 
first  to 
blossom 
in  the  spring  and  the  first  to 
change  its  color  in  the  fall.  The  whole 
family  is  hardy  and  long  lived.

its  being 

the 

it 

The  catalpa 

The  birch  is  beautiful  in  the  woods— 
a  birch  bough  with  its  rich,  beautifully 
arranged  leaves  being  the  most  graceful 
the  forest  furnishes— but 
likes  the 
shade  too  well  to  flourish  anywhere  else 
and,  not  too  long  lived  anywhere,  dies 
from  the  exposure  of  lawn and  roadside.
is  rapidly  growing  in 
favor  among 
Its  big 
leaves  commend  it  to  the  lovers  of  un­
flecked  shade ;  its  growth  is  rapid  and 
its 
in 
July,  make 
it  a  thing  of  beauty,  then 
while  the  heats  of  August,if  they  do  not 
prove  it  to  be  a  joy  forever,  hint  at  that 
while  they  last.

large  showy  blossoms,  coming 

tree  planters. 

To  the  boy  who  never  can  forget  and 
never  wants  to  forget  the  hickory  nuts 
and  to  the  man  who  likes  to  scuff,  even 
when  his  hair  is  gray,  among  its  yellow 
its  fruit
leaves,  the  hickory  tree  with 

it 

if 

likes  to  grow. 

will  always  be  a  favorite,  both  from  in­
It 
trinsic  worth  and  from  association. 
It  grows 
seems  to  thrive  in  every  soil. 
as 
It  is  reluctant 
to  expose 
its  buds  to  the  sunshine  in 
early  spring,  but  when  they  do  unfold, 
the  farmer  can  safely  plant  his  corn. 
In  the  woods  it  is  no  reciuse  and  when 
chance  has  left  it  in  the  mowing  lot  far 
from  its  kind,  its  makes  the  most  of  its 
advantages  of  rain  and  soil  and  sun, 
the  pride  of  the  men  who  lunch 
its 
splendid  shade,  the  boast  of  the  boy 
who  goes  home 
ladened  with  its  deli­
cious  fruit  and  the  finest  feature  of  the 
landscape  in  which  it  stands. 
Inclined 
to  the  cylindrical  in  outline  it,  oftener 
than  otherwise,  is  anything  but  that, 
but  grows  according  to  its  own  sweet 
will. 
It  is  always  large  and  handsome 
— the  manliest  of  trees— and  so  thor­
oughly  picturesque  that  the  artist  has 
adopted  the  tree  as  his  very  own.

in 

These  are  but  a  few of  the  many  trees 
from  which  the  planter  may  choose. 
There  are  others  and  no  village  im­
provement  society  can  make  many  mis­
takes  with  so  many  worthy  varieties  to 
select  from.

Pleased  W ith  th e  New  Postal  Order.
All  those  who  have  occasion  to  make 
small 
or  receive  remittances  for  all 
amounts  have  noticed  long  before  this 
the  new  postal  money  order,  which, 
during  the  last  few months,  has  gradual­
ly  superseded  the  old  form. 
In  shape 
the  new  postal  order  closely  resembles 
a  bank  draft  or  check  and  in  this  re­
spect 
is  more  acceptable  for  handling 
than  the  old,  particularly  when  the  or­
ders  are  deposited 
in  bank.  Another 
feature  that  is  to  be  noticed  in  the  new 
form  is  that  the  plan  of  tearing  or  cut­
ting  against  amounts  printed 
in  the 
in  order  to  show  on  the  face  of 
margin 
is
the  order  and  the  stub  from  which  it 

detached  the  number  of  do  lars 
for 
which  it  is  drawn  has  been  omitted.  A 
bit  of  history  attaches  to  this  feature  of 
the  old  form  of  money  order.

Some  years  since,  when  the  accounts 
of  the  Government  were  being  revised 
by  a  commission  appointed  for  that 
purpose,  it  was  found  that  the  auditing 
of  the  money  division  was  greatly  in 
arrears;  in  some  departments  the  work 
was  over  three  years  behind.  Up  to 
that  time  the  form  of  money  order  em­
ployed  was  equivalent  to  a  common 
bank  check  with  a  stub  for  recording 
necessary  particulars. 
If  a  fraud  had 
been  committed  by  a  postmaster,  for 
instance,  by  filling  out  the  order  for  a 
large  amount  and  the  stub  which  went 
to  the  treasury  for  general  advice  for  a 
smaller  amount,  the  discrepancy  would 
not  be  discovered  perhaps  until  the 
postmaster were  either  out  of  office  or 
dead.  His  bondsmen  could  not  be  re­
leased  until  the  accounts  had  been  aud­
ited.  The  tearing  and  cutting  against 
amounts  was 
introduced  by  the  com­
mission  for  the  purpose  of  preventing 
further  frauds,  and  also  of  avoiding  the 
necessity  of  tedious  auditing.  The  stub 
and  order  were  bound  to  agree  by  this 
device.  The  saving  of  labor  was  very 
great.  As  a  fact,  the  force  in  the  money 
order  division  was  greatly  reduced. 
With  the  new  order  economy  of  labor  is 
also  served.  The  notification  to  be  sent 
by  the  issuing  postmaster  is a  reproduc­
tion  of  the  order  by  the  use  of  carbon 
or  manifold  paper.  This 
is  simpler 
and  cheaper  than  the  zig-zag  tearing 
plan.  Another  improvement  is  that  the 
purchaser  of  the  orders  gets  a  receipt 
for  the  amount  he pays  from  the  issuing 
postmaster. 
In  all  respects  the  new 
form  of  order  is  to  be  commended,  and 
it  is  not  surprising  that  the  business 
public  is  well  pleased  with  it.

A  merchant  who  can’t  pa^  cash  must 
ask  credit. 
In  other  words,  he  borrows 
money  of  the  man  of  whom  he  secures 
goods.  Yet  some  dealers think a creditor 
has  no  business  to  know  all  about  their 
financial  affairs!

A Perfect Gharf Gojnputipg Scale for $ 3 5

SOME  OF  IT S   FEA TU R ES:

The  pound  and  ounce  beam  is  in  the  center  of  the 
chart, thus  separating the  chart,  making it  easy  to  read 
the values.

The  figures  are  large  and easy to  read.
The  poise  is  operated  from  the  center  of  the  chart 

with  no  chance to  bind.

Painted  a  rich  maroon,  finish  enamel,  full  nickel 

trimmings.

The  weighing  capacity 

in  pound  and  ounces  is 

i io pounds.

Price per pound  capacity 3c to 50c  per pound.
Sold  on  easy  monthly payments.

TH E  C O M PU TIN G  
SC A LE  CO.

DAYTON,  OHIO

M IC H IG A N   TRADESMAN

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The New York Market

Special  F eatures  o f th e Grocery and P ro d ­

Special Correspondence.

uce  Trades.

New  York, Sept.  22— Supplies of coffee 
at  Rio  and  Santos  have  been  reported 
large  for  the  past  few  days  and  the 
as 
is  for  a  continuation  there  of 
outlook 
ample  receipts.  This, 
together  with 
the  unsettled  financial  condition at  pres­
ent  prevailing 
in  Brazil,  has  tended  to 
cause  some  depression  here  during  the 
week,  although  at  the  close  the  situa­
tion 
is  fairly  satisfactory,  all  things 
considered,  and  dealers  hope  for  con­
improvement  later.  Prices  are, 
tinued 
perhaps,  a 
less  strongly  adhered 
to  than 
last  week,  although  no  real 
change  seems  to  have  taken  place  in 
quotations.  Rio  No.  7  is  worth  8>£c. 
In  store  and  afloat  the  aggregate amount 
of  Brazil  coffee  is  467,390  bags.  Mild 
grades  of  coffee  have  ruled  quiet  and 
Good  Cucuta 
is  worth  10c.  There  has 
been  only  a small  daily demand for  East 
India  sorts,  which  are  practically  with­
out  change.  Fancy  Mochas,  in  an 
in­
voice  way,  are  quotable  at  i8@I9^c.

little 

Lower  prices  on  sugars  are  expected 
before  long  and,  as  might  be  supposed, 
the  market 
is  not  especially  active. 
This  inactivity  is  the  more  pronounced 
when  comparisons  are  made  with  the 
situation  a 
few  weeks  ago.  The  de­
mand  is  sufficient  only  to  keep  up  sup­
plies  and  no  changes  have  taken  place 
in  quotations.  There  is  reported  to  be 
such  a  scarcity  of  raw  sugars  that  some 
refineries  may  be  obliged  to  close,pend­
ing  the  arrival  of  further  receipts.

There  is  an  improved call  for teas and 
buyers  generally  report  rather 
light 
stocks  on  hand.  At  the  auction  prices 
were  fairly  satisfactory  and  the  outlook 
is  more  cheering  than  for  some  time. 
The  quality  of  tea  arriving  is  generally 
good  and  very  little  is  being rejected  by 
appraisers.  Quotations  are  about  un­
changed.
Sellers  of  rice  are  not  anxious  to  part 
with  their  holdings,  nor  do  buyers  seem 
inclined  to  take  hold with  any  degree  of 
freedom.  The  smallest  quantities  suffice 
and  the  situation 
is  a  waiting  one. 
Prime  to  choice  Southern,

Spice  grinders  are  sending  in  some 
fair  orders,  but  the 
jobbing  trade  in 
whole  spices  is  decidedly  slack.  Stocks 
are 
limited,  however,  and  prices  seem
Trade
to  be  quite  firmly  adhered  to. 
will  undoubtedly  improve  later.

Grocery  grades  of  New  Orleans  mo­
lasses  are  showing  some  little  improve­
ment  and,  although  the  growth  of  the 
demand 
is  slow,  it  seems  to  be  steady 
and  with  cooler  weather  some  satisfac­
tory  orders are likely to be  received^ from 
all  parts  of  the  country.  Supplies  of 
open-kettle  grades  are  very  moderate. 
Good  to  prime  centrifugals,  2o@37c.

Syrups are quiet.  Buyers seem to think 
that  asking  prices  are  rather  above 
actual  value  and  are  waiting  for  a  turn 
of  the  tide. 
fancy  sugar 
syrups,  20@26c  for  round  lots.

Prime  to 

There 

is  very  little  of  interest  to  be 
picked  up  in  the  course  of  a  long  walk 
through  the  canned 
goods  market. 
Trade  is  fair— onlv  that  and  nothing 
more.  The  peach  pack 
is  about  oyer 
and  whether  it  will  turn  out  in  a  satis­
factory  manner  remains  to  be seen.  The 
corn  pack  came  to  a  very  sudden  termi 
nation,  owing  to  the  very  hot  weather 
prevailing,and  the  quality  in  some  sec­
tions  is  not  as  good  as  it  was  hoped 
it 
would  be.  Still, 
indications  are 
that  we  shall  have  enough  and  of  good 
quality  to  meet  the  requirements  oI the 
coming  season.  There  is  an  active  ex­
port  demand  for  salmon  from  England 
and,  after  “ skurrying  around”   a  good 
deal,  some 75,000  cases  were  picked  up. 
Tomatoes  have  been  quite  active,  “ con 
sidering.”   For  New  Jersey  pack  the 
rate  o f  85@90c  seems  to  be  established 
and  75c  for  Maryland  pack.  New  York 
State  corn  is  held  at  70@75c,  the 
latte 
being  an  outside  rate.

the 

In  lemons,  the  turn  of  the  tide  has  set 
in  and  prices  have  taken  a  very  de­
cided  slump.  The  demand  has  fallen 
off,  although  for  this  time  of year  there 
is  quite  a  fair  trade.  Quotations  range 
from  $2.75@4.25  for  360s  and  up  to

. 

$4.50  for  extra  fancy  300s.  Oranges  are 
fairly  firm  and  the  outlook  is  good 
for 
future  operations.  Valencias,  $4.50©
5-75- 
Bananas  are  meeting  with  fair  trade 
and  quotations  are  well  held  within  the 
range  of  $i@ i.20  per  bunch  for  firsts.

Pineapples  are  quiet  and  quotations 

, _ 

.  .

are  nominal.
Apples  of  good  quality  sell  readily  at 
fair  rates,  but  the  market  is overstocked 
with  windfalls,  which  sell  for  almost 
anything  offered.
a  For  the  best  creamery  butter  there 
is 
ready  sale  at  2iJ^c  and,  as  the  supply 
is  not  overabundant,  the  outlook  is  en­
couraging  for  firm  rates  for  some  time 
ahead.  There  is  some  accumulation  of 
the  under grades  and  prices  sag. 
Imi­
I5@i 7^ c :  Western 
tation  creamery, 
factory,  i 5X@ i6 ^ c.
About  the  average  volume  of  business 
has  been  done  in  cheese  and  prices  are 
firm.  Best  full  cream,  n ^ c .

is 

is  worth 

The  supply  of  eggs  is  light  and  the 
gathers  strength  every  day. 
market 
Prime  to  choice  stock 
for 
Western,  loss  off,  iQ/4 c ;  selected,  i8@ 
i8>£c;  fair  to  good,  I5@i6c.
The  supply  of  pea  beans  is  about  ex­
hausted  and,  as  no  new  stock  is  obtain­
able,  it 
likely  that  the  quotation  of 
$2.10  would  not  be  excessive.  Medium 
choice,  1899,  $i.Q5*
Dried  fruits  are  quiet,  although  a 
little  better  demand  is said to be  spring­
ing  up  for  some  grades  of  raisins.

To  date  170,000  bunches  of  bananas 
have  been  received,  against  202,000  at 
the  same  time  last  year.

Almeria  grapes  are  said to be very fine 
quality  this  year  and  the  crop  is  about 
the  same  as  last  season.

New  crop  California  prunes 

show 
fine  quality.  First  arrivals  are  due  to- 
day.
The  canned  tomato  market  is  an  ad­
vancing  one,  and  from  all  appearances 
the  pack  will  be  smaller  by  consider­
able  than  last  year—some  say  one-third.
11 teresting:  Tests  Made  of  Cold  Storage 

Apples.

lost 

Such  was 

The  Kansas  experiment  station  has 
ssued  a  bulletin  showing  that in several 
tests  the  best  keeping  varieties  were 
Ben  Davis,  Wine  Sap,  Ralls  Genet, 
Limbertwig,  Willowtwig,  Gilpin  and 
^ansingburg. 
Some  retained  a  good 
outward  appearance,  but 
in  some 
other quality,  as,  for  instance,  the  Iowa 
Blush,  the  skin  of  which  became  so  bit­
ter  as  to  render  the  fruit  unfit  for  use. 
On  the  other  hand,  some  varieties  re­
tained  their  eating  qualities,  but  lost  in 
outward  appearance. 
the 
Milam,  which  kept  well  but  lost 
color.  There  were  also  numerous  other 
kinds  of  deterioration:  Minkler 
lost 
flavor  and  began  to  decay ;  the  English 
Golden  Russet  and  Fulton  shriveled; 
the  Roman  Stem  became  mealy and  lost 
flavor;  Sheriff  and Walbridge discolored 
so  badly  as  to  render  them  unfit  for 
show  or  market  and  they  deteriorated 
rapidly;  Fameuse  retained  color  but 
many  bursted  and  after  a  few  days  be 
came  mealy;  the  Yellow Bellflower went 
down  suddenly.
Moreover,  the  behavior  of  varieties 
having  a  certain  characteristic  in  com­
mon  was  not  always  the  same  in  respect 
it.  The  Missouri  Pippin,  a  dark 
to 
apple,  faded 
in  storage,  but  the  Wal­
bridge  and  Sheriff,  also  dark  apples, 
came  out  almost  black;  nor  did  the 
ighter  colored  apples  fade  more  than 
the  dark  red  ones,  for  Grimes  Golden 
and  Yellow  Bellflower,  both  yellow  ap­
ples,  held  their  color  unchanged,  while 
Missouri  Pippin,  a  dark  red  apple,  as 
has  been  said,  faded.

Sure  Care  F or  H ay  Fever.

From the Butchers’ Advocate.

There  is  no doubt  about  cold  storage 
being  a  sure  cure  for  hay  fever.  But 
much  depends  on  how  long  the  sufferer 
remains 
in  cold  storage,  and  how  low 
the  temperature  is.  We  recommend  zero 
as  the  right  temperature.  The  sufferer 
to  make  certain  of  being  cured  should 
wear  light  clothing  and  remain  in  the 
box  three  hours.  When  the  undertaker 
removes  the  body  it  will  be  found  that 
the  disease  is  gone.

P U R E

W e  are  so  positive  that  our

Spices  and  Queen  Flake  Baking Powder

are  pure  that we  offer  One  Hundred  Dollars  for 
every  ounce  of  adulteration  found  in  a  package 
of  our  goods.  Manufactured  and  sold  only  by

Northrop,  Robertson  &  Carrier

La n sin g ,  M ich iga n

YOUR

CUSTOMER

can’t  help  but  see the  difference  between  ordinary 
butter salt  and
Diamond  Crystal  Butter  Salt
Anybody  can  see  the  difference. 
dairymen  will  not  use  ordinary  salts  after
“The Salt  that’s  All  S alt”

Intelligent 

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

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

M IC H IG A N   TRADESMAN

gether  with  a  kind  of  screeching  sound 
that  almost  drove  me  crazy.  Finally, 
when  I  could  stand  it  no  longer,  I 
left 
the  house,  and  the  last  thing  I  heard  as 
I  went  was  the  squeaking  of  his  collar 
and  the  screeching  of  his  shoes  as  he 
sat  and  rocked  in  a  squeaking  chair!”
Lacking  the  courage  of  this  heroic 
sister,  who  refused  to  be  a  martyr  to  a 
squeak,  most  of  us  learn  to  endure  the 
disagreeable  habits  of  those  about  us, 
and  to  forgive  them  for  the  sake  of  the 
good  qualities  behind  them,  but  it  does 
seem  a  pity  that  the  afflictions  of  life 
should  be  so  needlessly  augmented. 
Why  should  we  permit  ourselves  irri­
tating  little  ways  when  they  can  be  so 
easily  corrected? 
in  the 
whole  range  of  experience  there  is  any 
one  other  thing  in  which  we  show  our­
selves  so  callous  and  brutal  as  in  the 
way  we  disregard  other  people’s  feel­
ings  by  indulging  ourselves in disagree­
able  habits.

I  doubt 

if 

This 

is  no  exaggerated  view  of  the 
matter,and  we  have  only  to  run  over the 
list  of  our  own  friends  and  acquaint­
ances  to  see  how  society  is  devastated 
and  turned  into  a  howling  wilderness by 
the  bad  habit.  How  few  and  far be­
tween  are  the  people  whom  one  can  re­
call without al'O recalling some irritating 
little  mannerism  that  seems  almost  to 
offset  their  charm?  Mrs.  A.  is  so  bright 
and  clever.  She  has  traveled  so  much, 
and  has  observed  so  closely.  How  de­
lightful  it  would  be  to  hear  her  talk,  if 
only  she  didn’t  have  a  voice  like  a  fog­
horn !  There’s  Mrs.  B.,  who  devotes 
her 
life  to  good  works,  and  who  is  a 
saint  on  earth,  if  there  ever was  one. 
How  uplifting  her  influence  would  be 
if  only  her  personality  wasn’t  as  rasp­
ing  as  a  file,  and  her  goodness  didn’t 
have  a  kind  of  arbitrary  air  that  put 
you  inevitably  on  the  other side of every 
question  she  espoused,  whether  you  had 
ever  had  any  previous.convictions  on 
the  subject  or  not.  What  a  warm­
hearted  creature  Mary  Brown  is,  yet you 
could  feel  it  in  your  heart  to  wish  she 
was  your  enemy  because  she  persists  in 
kissing  you  on  the  street.  What  charm­
ing  people  the  X .’s  are,  and  how 
pleased  you  would  be  to  have  them 
visit  you,  if  they  only  knew  when  to 
leave.  Then  there’s  young  Grigsby,  a 
splendid  young  lellow,  and  all  that,  you 
know,  but  who  always  sits  on  the  back 
of  his  neck  in  a  chair,  and  squirms  as 
if  he  were  stretched  on  the  rack  and 
were  enduring  mortal  agony,  and  you 
are  forced,  while  beholding  him,  to 
suffer  with  him.  There’s  Mr.  Smith, 
who  can’t  be  happy  unless  he  is  twid­
dling  something  in  his  hands,  and  who 
flips  his  watch  chain  and  twirls his pen­
cil  until  he  hypnotizes  you  against  your 
w ill;  and  there’s  dear  Dr.  Thirdly,  who 
has  so  much  to  say,  and  says  it  so  well, 
but  who  punctuates  his  conversation 
with  coughs,  and  hems,  and  haws,  until 
all  his  eloquence  is  lost  in  what appears 
incipient  tuberculosis,  but  in  reality 
is 
only  a  disagreeable  habit.

16
Woman’s World

E asier  to  Excuse  B ig  F au lts  T han  Petty 

Annoyances.

It 

Do  we  like  people  for  their  virtues  or 
their  “ ways?”   Speaking  theoretically, 
and  with  a  due  regard  for  Mrs.  Grundy, 
we  should  say  that  we 
choose  our 
friends  for  their  sterling  qualities  of 
heart  and  head— for  their  high  prin­
ciple,  their  intellectual  brilliancy,  their 
kindness  and  their  generosity. 
is 
extremely  doubtful,  however,  if  in  real­
ity  we  are  as  much  influenced  by  those 
admirable  traits  of  character  as  we  im­
agine.  Oftener  than  not  what  attracts, 
or  repels,  us  in  others  is  merely  a  trick 
of  manner  that  has  nothing  whatever  to 
do with  their  good  or  bad  qualities,  and 
in  an  honest  canvass  of  those  we  like 
best  we  should  find  that  the  people  who 
fire  our  fancy  are  by  no  means  the  ones 
who  always  come  up  to  our  ideal.  The 
cheerful  sinner  with  winning  ways  can 
take  the  prize  for  popularity  any  day  in 
the  week  over the  austere  saint  who  is  a 
model  of  all  the  virtues.

is  the 

In  love,  as  in  many  other  things 

in 
life,  it 
little  things  that  count. 
Unfortunately,  so  many  of  the  noble 
and  the  upright  are  the  victims  of  un­
pleasant  and  disillusioning  habits  that 
we  are  only  able  to  do  full  justice  to 
their  good  qualities  when  we  have  got 
ten  far  enough  away  to  get  a  leverage, 
so  to  speak,  on  their virtues.  In  the  ab­
stract  we  can  revere  the  great  philan­
thropist  who 
is  so  busy  looking  after I 
the  needs  of  all  oppressed humanity that 
he  has  no  eye  to  spare  to  the  state of his 
own  linen.  At  short  range  we  can  only 
remember  that  his  shirt  needs  washing. 
In  his  absence  we  can  worship  at  the 
shrine  of  the  great  scholar  who,  when 
he eats,  sucks  in  his  soup  with a hissing 
noise. 
In his  presence  at  dinner  all  his 
knowledge  becomes  as  foolishness  to  us 
because  he  has  never 
learned  decent 
table  manners.  Theoretically our hearts 
go  out  to  her,  and  we  yearn  to  be  a 
friend  to  the  self-sacrificing woman  who 
is  devoting  her 
life  to  a  noble  cause, 
but  who  splutters  so  unpleasantly  when 
she  talks  we  can  only  murmur,  “ The 
Lord  preserve  us,”   and  get  as  far  away 
from  her  as  we  can  when  she  calls.

It 

illustration 

is. a  great  deal  easier to  excuse  a 
big  fault  that  only  crops  to  the  surface 
now  and  then  than  it  is  to  put  up  with 
the  continual  annoyance  of  disagreeable 
little  habits  that  grate  on  our  taste  and 
get  on  our  nerves. 
In  time  these  can 
wear  out  the  stoutest  patience  and  cool 
off  the  most  ardent  love,  and  an  amus­
ing 
of  this—with  which 
many  of  us  will  have  a  sneaking  sym­
pathy—has 
just  been  furnished  by  a 
woman  in  a  Northern  city  who  applied 
for  a  divorce  from  her  husband  on  the 
ground  that  she  had  stood  his  “ squeak­
ing”   just  as  long  as  she  could. 
“ I  tell 
you,  judge,”   she  said 
in  the  trial,  “ I 
just  can’t  live with that  man  any longer. 
I  guess  he’s  a  good  enough  fellow.  At 
least  he  never  hit  me  or threw  me  down 
the  stairs. 
Sometimes  I  wished  he 
would,  just  for the  change.  But  he  sets 
me  wild.  He  is  just  a  box  of  squeaks. 
He  always  wears  shoes  that  squeak 
worse  than  a  dry  pump  handle.  Hon­
estly,  judge,  you  can  hear 
’em  half  a 
block.  Then  somehow,  I  never  could 
understand,  he  makes  his  coat  and 
trousers  squeak  against  the  chair  when­
ever  he  sits  down.  But,  do  you  think 
he  would  try  to  make  them  quit  squeak­
ing  for  my  sake?  Not  much.  Then 
his  collars  never  fit  his  shirt,  and  when 
they  were  starched  stiff  they  rubbed  to­

Neither do  I  say  anything  of  the  man­
ners—or  lack  of  manners— of  the  theater 
party  who  go  to  a  play  to  hear them­
selves  talk,  and  who  reduce  the  per­
formance  to a mere pantomime for every­
body  within  earshot  of  them.  These  are 
criminals  who  ought  to  be  dealt  with 
by 
law,  but  I  do  make  a  plea  against 
the  unintentional  bad  manners  of  peo­
ple  who  fidget,  and  who  probably  don’t 
realize  what  a  nuisance  and  affliction 
they  are  to  others.  Henry  Fuller  said 
once  that  if  we  had  a  national  dance  in 
it  would  be  the  St.  Vitus 
America 
dance,  and 
it 
is  true.  The  rarest  ac­
complishment 
is  the  art  of  sitting  still 
and  keeping  quiet.  Not  one  man  nor 
woman  in  a  thousand  possesses 
it.  A 
man  at  a  concert  will  tap  an  accom­
paniment  to  the  music,or  he  will  scrape 
his  feet  on  the  bottom  of  your  chair,  or 
he  will  shuffle  around  in  his  seat— any­
thing  to  keep  frorfi  sitting  still.  A 
woman  will  snap  the  clasp  of  her  opera 
glass  case,  or  click  a  squeaky  little  fan, 
or  munch  on  brittle  candy— may  heaven 
forgive  those  cowlike 
creatures  who 
must  always  be  chewing something— un­
til  you  feel,  like  the  woman  quoted  in 
the  beginning  of  this  story,  that  you 
must  runaway  to  keep  from  being  driv­
en  crazy.  For  my  part, 
I  never  see 
any  one  who  can  sit  still  without  wrig­
gling,  without  wanting  to  congratulate 
them  on  possessing  a  soothing  and 
charming  accomplishment.

We  may  well  ask  ourselves 

it  dis­
irremediable 
agreeable  habits  are  as 
as  they  appear  to  be.  Why,  for instance, 
should  anyone  wear  squeaky  shoes  that 
distract  a  whole  congregation  on  Sun­
day,  when  cobblers  are  to  be  found  on 
every  comer? 
If  a  woman  has  a  natur- 
lly  shrill  voice  that  is  an  affliction  to 
it  pay  her  to
ther  people,  wouldn’t 

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T h e  A l a b a st in e  Co m ­
pa n y,  in  addition  to  their 
world-renowned  wall  coat­
ing,  A L A B A S T I N E  
through  their  Plaster  Sales 
Department,  now  manufac­
ture and  sell at lowest prices, 
in paper or wood,  in  carlots 
or less,  the  following  prod­
ucts:

Plasticon

The  long  established  wall 
plaster  formerly  manufac­
tured and  marketed  by  the 
American  Mortar Company. 
(Sold with or without  sand. )
N.  P.  Brand of Stucco
The  brand  specified  after 
competitive  tests  and  used 
by the Commissioners for all 
the  World’s  Fair statuary.

Bug Finish

The  effective  Potato  Bug 
Exterminator.

Land Plaster

Finely ground and  of  supe­
rior quality.

For lowest prices address

Alabastine Company,
Plaster Sales Department 

m m m m ts

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Nor  are  we  one  whit  better  off  when 
we  go  abroad  to  enjoy  ourselves.  The 
men  and  women  of  disagreeable  habits 
are  already  before  us  to  spoil  our  pleas­
ure. 
I  say  nothing  of  the  men  who  get 
up  between  every  act  at  the  theater  and 
step  on  the  frocks  and  feet  of  all  the 
women  in  the  row  as  they  go  out,  nor of 
the  selfish  idiot  who  persists 
in  hum­
ming  all  the  airs 
in  your  ear at  the 
opera,  nor of  the  complacent  goose  of  a 
woman  who  thinks  she  is  the  only  per­
son  in  the  house  who  has  brains  enough 
to  understand  the  plot  of  the  play,  and 
who  explains  it  to  everybody  in  reach.

W

The  Guarantee  of  Purity  and  Quality 
in Baked Goods.  Found on every pack-  — 
age  of our goods.
Good  goods  create  a  demand  for them- 
selves. 
It  is  not  so  much  what  you 
make  on  one  pound. 
It’s  what  you 
make in  the year.
National  Biscuit  Co.

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

K

devote  as  much  time  to  toning 
it  down 
as  it  does  to  learn  to  do  her  hair  pom­
padour?  Why  should  a  man  go  through 
life  gobbling  his  food  like  a  pig,  to  the 
disgust  of  all  beholders?  We  donlt  see 
ourselves,  happily,  but  surely  it  is  noth­
ing  but  common  Christian  charity  to 
make  the  prospect  we  present  to  other 
people  as  delightful  as  we  can.

No  woman,  at  least,  can  afford  to  in­
dulge  herself 
in  disagreeable  habits. 
She  might  have  all  the  wisdom  of  all 
the  women  colleges 
in  the  land;  she 
might  be  as  domestic  as  Cinderella  in 
her  chimney  corner,  and  as  patient  as 
Griselda;  she  might  be  as 
strong- 
minded  as  Miss  Susan  B.,  and  as 
in­
discriminately  charitable  as  a  ladies’ 
ready  relief  society,  but  if  she  were  un­
refined  in  her  manners,  shrill  of  voice, 
frowsy  and  lacking  neatness  in  appear­
ance,  we  would  be  content  to  admire 
her  virtues  from afar.  A  woman  is never 
for  what  she  does,  but  for  what 
loved 
she  is. 
It  is  her  ways  that  attract  us. 
We  want  her  to  be  gentle,  with  a  foot­
fall  that  is  noiseless  and  a  touch  that  is 
light  as  the 
in 
autumn.  We  want  her  to  have  the  gift 
of  soft  speech  and  the  charm  of 
listen­
ing,  so that  we feel that  she,  too,  has  felt 
and  seen  what  we  are  trying to describe. 
We  want  her  to  be  able  to  sit  still,  so 
that  there  seem  peace  and  rest  wher­
ever  she  may  be.  We  want  her  man­
ners  to  be  so  instinct  with  the  very  fra­
grance  of  womanhood  that  a  vulgar  or  a 
common  thing  would  shrink  away  from 
her  presence. 
lacks  these— if 
she 
is  loud  of  voice,  and  heavy  of  foot 
and  hand;  if  she  wriggles  and  giggles, 
and  sprawls 
in  her  chair,  and  yawns 
when  we  try  to  talk  to  her— whatever 
other  good  qualities  and  charms  she 
may  have  ^re  discounted  and  over­
shadowed  b ylier disagreeable  habits.

fall  of  rose 

If  she 

leaves 

We  may  respect  a  man  for his virtues, 
but  the  wbJh^p  we  love  are  the  women 
with  winningjways,  and  don’t  forget  it, 
girls. 

Dorothy  Dix.

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A  Recipe  for  Dom estic  Bliss.

There 

is  no  subject,  perhaps,  upon 
which  more  gratuitous  advice  has  been 
offered  than  upon  the  best  way  of  con­
serving  domestic  peace  and  happiness. 
Volumes  have  been  written  on  the  sub­
ject,  but  the  trouble  has  been  that  these 
amiable  guides  to  married  felicity,  who 
spoke  with  such  authority,  were  merely 
theorists.  The  experienced  have  frank­
ly  admitted  their 
inability  to  pilot 
others  through  the  pitfalls  of  married 
life,  so that  when  we  hear  a  man  tell 
ing just exactly  how  he  would  manage  a 
shrewish  woman,  or  a  woman 
laying 
down  the 
law  about  how  a  man  ought 
to  be  treated  who  says  out  o’  nights, 
we  know  at  once  that  we  are 
listening 
to  the sapient  utterances  of  an  old bach­
elor,  or  an  old  maid,  who  have  never 
tried  putting  their  views 
into  opera­
tion.

“ The  proof  of  the  pudding,”   says  an 
old  proverb,  ‘ ‘ is  in  the  eating, 
and  in 
the  same  way  a  rule  of  conduct  that 
has  worked  triumphantly  and  success­
fully  fifty-seven  years  is  worthy  of  the 
serious  consideration  of  every  husband 
and  wife 
in  the  land.  Such  a  one  is 
furnished  by  a  Chicago  man,  who  last 
week  celebrated  the  fifty-seventh  anni­
versary  of  his  marriage,  and  who  de­
clared  that 
in  all  that  time  he  and  his 
wife  had  lived  in  perfect  harmony  and 
happiness  without  one  spat  or  disagree­
ment  to  mar  the  placid  surface  of  their 
domestic  bliss.  This  happy  state  of 
affairs  he  attributed  to  undeviatingly 
following  these  rules:

time  while  it  lasts.”

“ When  the  money  is  gone  don’t  re­
it 

Think  of  the  happiness 

it. 

gret 
brought  you. ’ '

“ Don’t  be  obstinate; 

“ Let  everything  be  mutual.”
“ Think  your  wife  the  best  woman  in 
the  world;  she  will  think  you  the  best 
man. ”
On 

the  whole,  most  women  will 
think  that  life  with  a  man  who  would 
live  up  to  these  rules  would  be  a  pic­
nic. 
com­
promise.”   Somebody 
in  a  family  is 
always  bound  to  give  up,  and  hereto­
fore  that  somebody  has  almost  always 
been  a  woman.  Nothing  on  earth  is 
more  irritating  than  a  mulish  man,  one 
who  sticks  to  a  thing  whether  it  is  right 
or  wrong,  just  because  he  said  it.  How 
delightful  it  would  be  to  even  give 
in 
to  a  man  who  wasn’t  arbitrary,  and  who 
was  always  ready  to  meet  you  half  way 
and  compromise. 
“ Make  your  wife 
think  whatever  is  yours  is  hers.”   That 
would  mean  the  family  purse.  No  hag­
gling  over  every  cent,  no  going  like  a 
beggar  to  a  man  like  that  for  car  fare, 
and  wash  money,  and  every  single  sol­
itary  item  of  expense.  The  man  who 
makes  his  wife  a  full  partner  in  his 
pocket  book  has  come  pretty  near  to 
solving 
the  problem  of  how  to  be 
happy,  although  married,  for  two  peo­
ple.

it 

lasts.”  

* * Spend  your  money  and  have  a  good 
time  while 
In  reason,  of 
course.  A  good  wife  never  desires  to 
be  extravagant,  but  surely  a  good  many 
flowers  would  blossom  along  the  way 
of  the  woman  whose  husband  thought 
to  give  her  little  treats,and  remembered 
that  because  a  woman  was  married  it 
didn’t  make  her  like  a  box  of  candy,  or 
a  good  play,  one  whit  less  than  when 
she  was  a  girl  and  he  used  to  take  her 
out. 
“ When  the  money  is  gone  don’t 
regret  it.  Remember the  happiness 
it 
brought  you.”   Me  never  twitted  his 
wife  on  her  bad  trades,  or  threw  up  to 
“ Let 
her  the  bargains  she  bought. 
everything  be  mutual.”  
That  must 
mean  that  a  man  shall  share  his  wife’s 
sorrows  and  joys  as  she  does  his.  That 
he  mustn’t  dump  all  his  worries  on  the 
family  hearthstone  and  then wonder why 
she  can’t  manage  her  own  affairs  with­
out  bothering  him  when  she  complains 
of  the  cook. 
“ He  must  think  her  the 
in  the  world. ”   Ah,  wise 
best  woman 
man! 
lie  all  the  law  and  the 
prophets.  He  mustn’t  wonder  why  she 
can’t  keep  house  like  Mrs.  Smith,  and 
manage  the  children  like  Mrs.  Brown, 
and  be  as  gay  and  pretty  as  little  Mrs. 
Flirty. 
If  he  can  only  make  us  think 
that  we  are  first  and  best  in  his  heart, 
then  we'll  forgive  him  all  the  rest  and 
think  ourselves  blessed  among  women. 
On  the  whole  the  Chicago  platform 
seems  to  offer  a  pretty  good,  solid  foot­
ing  on which married people  may  stand.

In  that 

Cora  Stowell.

Left  an  U m brella Instead.

* * Thomas,  we  should  have 

left  our 
cards  when  we  called  at  the  Pinckneys. 
I  don’t  know  how  we  happened to forget 
it.”
“ I  guess  it won’t make any difference, 
Jane.  We  left  a  good  umbrella  there.”

Kansas  farmers  are  piling  their wheat 
on  the  grounds  near  the  railroad  tracks 
in  Kansas.  At  many  towns  along  the 
Santa  Fe  road  piles  of  wheat  almost  as 
high  as  the  elevators  are  to  be  seen. 
The  railroad  companies  are  unable  to 
move  the  crop  fast  enough  this  year.

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“ Don’t  be  obstinate;  compromise.”  
“ Make  your  wife,  think  whatever  is 

yours  is  hers.”

“ Spend  your  money  and  have  a  good 

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prosecute  any  person found using  our  packages for cider or  vinegar without  first 
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Clerks’  Corner.

Laying  th e   F oundation  o f  H is  C lerk’s 

F o rtune.
Written for the Tradesman.

When  the  proprietor  of  the  Spring- 
borough  store  looked  a tt  the .five-dollar 
bill  which  he  had.fejtalnfed  from  Can 
Hustleton’ s  wages,'te  equalize  vihat  he 
was  pleased  to  cajl  big  “ flavoring’ ’  ac-  . 
count,  he  did  it  under  considerable  pfo-^ 
test.  The  boy  had  earned  the  money— 
there  was  no  doubt  about  that;  the  girl 
was  more  to  blame  than  Carl  was  and 
the  profit  on  soda  water  was  at  least 
“ from 
fair  to  middlin’ ;’ ’  but  to  take 
that  boy’s  wages  and  make  him  pay 
twice  for  a  bit  of  youthful  foolishness— 
the  humiliation  and  shame  were  double 
the  worth  of  the  money— he  did  not  feel 
to  be  just  the  thing.  So  he  left  the  bill 
in  his  desk,  where  it  was  a  constant  re­
minder  of  what  he  had  done  and  a  con­
stant  suggestion  to  turn  it  to  the  boy’s 
account.  He  could  afford  to  double  the 
amount  several  times and throw it  away, 
where  the  boy  would  feel  the  loss  of 
every  cent  of 
it.  That  would  not  do, 
His  own  peace  of  mind  promptly  put  a 
stop  to  that  and  this  led  from  time  to 
time  to  considerable  thinking  of  the 
bright  young  fellow  and  what  he  ought, 
as  well  as  what  he  wanted,  to  do  for 
him.

finished  before  he 

The  boy’s  readiness  to  do  everything 
that  was  required  of  him  had  been  a 
strong  recommendation  for  him  from 
the  first.  He  had  never  cared  whether 
it  was  twelve  o’clock  or  six  and  the 
work  on  hand,  when  the  clock  struck, 
was 
left  the  store. 
From  the  time  he  had  had  a  key  he  had 
been  the  first  to  open  the  door  in  the 
morning  and  Old  Man  Means  had  not 
once  since  found  anything  to  find  fault 
with  and,  what  was  more  to  the  purpose 
in  the  clerk’s  opinion,anything  to  laugh 
at  except  that  blamed  “ vanilla’ ’  busi­
ness !

This  bit  of  reflection  on  the  part  of 
the  storekeeper  opened  the way for other 
things. 
It  revealed  to  him  in  the  first 
place  the  fact  that  the  “ kid’ ’  had  man­
aged  to  find  a  warm  place  in  his  em­
ployer’s  heart  and  that  the  employer, 
imposed  upon,  was  glad  to  ac­
thus 
knowledge 
it.  He  was  getting  to  de­
pend  upon  the  lively  whistle,  which was 
sure  to 
locate  the  whereabouts  of  the 
boy  and  his  busy  hands,  to break up  the 
quiet  and  the  lonesomeness  of  the  hour 
just  before  dinner.  He  liked  the  hearty 
“ Good  morning,  Mr.  Means,’ ’  which 
invariably  greeted  him  in  the  morning, 
and,  as  he  sat  there  at  his  desk  with 
the  five-dollar  bill 
in  hand,  he  won­
dered  what  it  would  be  like  to  go  home 
at  the end  of  the  day  without  the  cheery 
“ Good  night.”

“ Why  shouldn’t  I?’ ’  he  said  to him­
last,  as  he  listened  to  the  rag­
self  at 
in 
time  tune  which  came  rollicking 
from  the  back  store. 
“ Not  a  chick  nor 
child  to  bother  or  console  me.  There 
isn’t  enough  of  the  old  man  in  him  to 
harm  and  that  little  touch  of  the  devil 
which  he has  inherited  from  the  Hustle- 
tons,  if  controlled,as  it  can  be,  is  not  a 
bad  quality  to  have. 
I  believe  I’ ll  do 
it;”   and  he  smoothed  out  the  bill  he 
held. 
“ It  may  be  the  making  of  him 
and  there  is  more  than  one  fortune  that 
started  with  a  smaller  beginning  than  a 
five-dollar  bill.  Carl 
is  seventeen,  I 
guess.  Let’s  see  what  the  five  dollars 
will  do  for  him  in  ten  years.”

He  took  up  his  pencil  and  ciphered  a 
little  on  the  margin  of  the  daily  paper. 
“ It  isn’t  enough  to  make  him  lose  any 
looked  at
of  his  sleep,”   he  said  as  he 

the  result;  “ but  the  principle” — he 
choked  a  little  at  the  accidental  pun— 
‘ of  the  thing  is  there  and  all  right  and 
I  believe  it  will  be  a  good  thing  for  us 
both.  He  needn’t  know  until  he  draws 
t  out  what  I’ve  been  doing  nor  what  it 
amounts  ¿0.  •_ 1:  shan’t  miss 
it  and  I 
dop’t  know  any  better  way  to  make  a 
young  fellow  provident.  I ’ll  believe I'll 
watch.him  a  little  more  and  see  if  there 
are. .any  b&d. feigns  sticking  out  any­
where.”

It  does  not  take  a  man  who  has  his 
wits  about  him  a  great  while  to  make  a 
fair  estimate  of  an  open-hearted,  well- 
meaning  boy,  who  has  made  up  his 
mind  early  to  be  a  decent  sort  of  a 
man.  At  all  events  at  the  end  of  a 
month  Old  Man  Means  had decided  that 
his  thought  was  a  good  one  and  that  he 
would  act  upon  it  “ pretty  soon.”   An 
incident,  slight  as  it  was,  hastened  his 
action.

The  storm  that  ended  the  summer 
was  followed  by  a  sudden  change  in  the
weather.  At  sunset  there  was  a summer 
atmosphere  and  at  sunrise  the  weather 
was  cold  enough  to  call  for the brightest 
kind  of  a  fire.  The  store-keeper  had 
wakened  in  a  shiver  and,  with  overcoat 
collar  turned  up  and  his  head  drawn 
down  into  his  shoulders,  was  hurrying 
to  the  store  determined  that  a fire should 
be  the  first  thing  ordered.  He  found  on 
entering  that  it  had  been  made  already 
and 
its  welcoming  roar  and  cheering 
blaze  made  Carl’s  whistle  all  the  pleas­
anter  to  hear.

“ Well  done,  young  fellow!  How  did 
you  happen  to  think  of  this? 
I  didn’t 
know  as  you  knew  there  was  a  stove 
and  I  knew  you’d  have  to  have  help 
in 
putting 
it  up.  What  made  you  think 
of  it?”

it 

it’s  been 

“ I’ ll  tell  you. 

in  the  woodshed. 

If  there’s  one  thing 
mother  can't  stand,  it’s  the  cold;  and, 
ever  since  I’ve  been  old  enough  to  no­
the  one  thing 
tice  things, 
we've  had  to  do  without. 
I  made  up 
my  mind 
long  ago  that  that  should  be 
the  first  thing  I’d  pay  for,  and  after  I 
in  here,  I  bargained  for  a  stove 
came 
and  hid 
This 
morning  I  woke  shivering  and  in  two 
minutes  more  I  was  out  wrestling  with 
that  stove.  As  luck  would  have 
it,  the 
wind  deadened  the  noise  I  had  to  make 
and  by  half  past  six  it  made  me  think 
of  ‘ Old  Town  to-night!’  You  should 
have  seen  mother. 
I  haven’t  seen  her 
quite  so  glad  in  years.  My  cheek  fairly 
smarts  where  she  kissed  me  and  I’m 
not  ashamed  to  tell  you  I  enjoy  the 
smart!  That  made  me  feel  so  glad  and 
thankful  that  we  could  have a  stove and 
a  fire  in  the  sittingroom  all  winter  that 
it  made  me  think  of  you  who  made  it  a 
possibility  and—and— I  wasn’t  going  to
have  vou  bothered  with  the  stove  or  the
fire  either,  and  so I urged  father  to come 
over  and  help  me.  Nice,  isn’t  it?  Sit 
down  and  enjoy 
it.  You  see  I’ve  got 
your  chair already  for  you.”

Old  Man  Means  took  off  his  overcoat 
and  sat  down.  He  reached  out  both 
hands  to  the  fire  and  rubbed  them  to­
gether.  He  watched  the  happy-bearted 
Carl,  finishing  up  the  work  bis  double 
duty  had  delayed  and,  when  it  seemed 
as  if  he  would  whistle  that  frantic  piece 
of  ragtime  to  death  that  the  boy  had 
been  at  all  the  morning, 
store­
keeper,  who  knew  classical  music  and 
loved 
it,  broke  in  with,  “ For heaven’s 
sake,  boy,  stop  that  racket  and  come 
here. 
I  want  to  talk  to  you.  Unlock 
my  desk  and  bring  me  that  five-dollar 
bill you’ll  find  there.  Here's  the  kev.”  
With  wonder  on  his  face  the  boy 
brought  the  bill. 
“ This  bill—sit  down 
— is  what  I  took  out  of  your last month’s 
wages  for  that  vanilla  candy. 
I  find 
that  I  have  had  fun  enough  to  pay  for

the 

all  that—that  she  made  away  with  and 
I’m  going  to  bargain  with  you in regard 
I’ll  put  it  into  the  sav­
to  this  money. 
ings  bank  at  Conneantville 
in  your 
name,  if  you  will  promise  to  add  to  it 
a  little  every  month.  Will  you  do  it?”
“ You  dear  Old  Man  Means,  yes!— I 
wish  I  was  a  girl! 
I’d  kiss  you  once 
and  hug  you  twice!”   was what  he  said : 
but  not  as  the  cold  type  says  it.  He 
stood  for  a  minute  as  if  he  was  par­
alyzed.  Then  like  a  flash  he  ran  behind 
the  storekeeper’s  chair,  suiting  the  ac­
tion  to  his  speech, 
threw  his  arms 
around  the  man’s  neck,  kissed  him, 
gave  him  another  hug  and  rushed 
into 
the  back  store  thoroughly  ashamed  of 
himself.

“ The— little— something— cuss!”   ex­
claimed  Old  Man  Means,  as  he  rear­
ranged  his  collar  and  necktie r  but  for 
all  that  for  the  next  ten  years  the 
amount  that  went  down  on  Carl  Hustle- 
ton’s  bank  book  was  always  twice  and 
often  thrice  what  the  young  fellow  de­
posited. 

Richard  Malcolm  Strong.

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These cases are built of quarter  sawed  white  oak  handsomely  finished  and  fitted 
with bevel  plate glass top.  These cases have several  new and  interesting  features. 
We guarantee every case sent out by us to be first class.  Write for prices.
With  parties contemplating  remodeling their  stores  we  solicit  correspondence, as 
we  will make special  prices for complete outfits of store fixtures.

McGRAFT  LUMBER  CO.,  Muskegon,  Mich.

ally,  some  evidence  was  adduced  con­
cerning  the  excellent  effects  of 
includ­
ing  mangels  in  the  food  of  bacon  pigs, 
the  roots  being  given  whole  to  the  ani­
mals  in  order  that  they  may  scoop  them 
out  themselves.  A  grain  mixture  of 
equal  quantities  of  barley,  oats,  peas, 
and maize,with an  allowance  of  mangels 
up  to  13  pounds  per  head  per  day,  is 
highly  spoken  of,but  the  effect  of  man­
gels  on  the  quality  of  pork  has  yet  to 
be  ascertained.

P a ttin g   B roilers  in  Cold  Storage.

and 

The 

tender 

luscious 

broiler 
chicken,  a delicacy  known  to  our  ances­
tors  only  during  late  spring  and  sum­
tempts  the  appetite  all 
mer, 
now 
through  the 
long  winter  months.  The 
economy  of  the  new  system  enables  the 
preserver to  store  away  during  the  sea­
son  of  plenitude  in  anticipation  of  the 
demands  of  the  period  of  scarcity. 
Broiled  chicken,  an 
impossible  dish 
half  a  decade  ago,  now  graces  the  fes­
tive  board  while  old  Boreas  howls  dis­
approvingly,  but  ineffectively.

Putting  broilers 

in  storage  began  at 
Chicago,  Kansas  City,  Omaha and  other 
points  last  week,  and  if  supplies  equal 
expectations  a 
large  quantity  will  be 
frozen  within  the  next  60 days,  which 
constitutes  the  active  season.  On  this 
account  small  springs,  those  under  2 
pounds,will  go  to  a  premium,  while  the 
large  springs  will  settle  down  to the 
same  price  as  old  hens  or  nearly  so. 
Chickens  that  weigh,  when  put  in  stor­
age,  about  twenty  pounds  to  the  dozen 
are  the  size  in  best  demand  for  storage. 
On  the  basis  of  present  prices  these 
broilers  will  cost,  when  in  storage,  12c 
per  pound  for  dry-picked  and  about  11c 
for  scalded.  One  Kansas  City  firm  has 
a  60  day  contract  to  put  up broilers,  and 
the  packing  houses  will  handle  them  as 
long  as  the  price  and  size  of  the  chick­
ens  justify.

M eat  P ie  Seasonings.

No.  5.

6  lbs.  pepper.
6  ozs.  cinnamon.
43^  ozs.  cayenne.
13X  lbs.  salt.

1  lb.  pepper.
%oz.  cayenne.
3%  ozs.  nutmeg.
2%,  lbs.  salt.

2  lbs.  pepper.
4  ozs.  ginger.
3^  ozs.  sage.
5  lbs.  salt.

5  lbs.  pepper.
2%  ozs.  cloves.
5  ozs.  nutmeg.
12  ozs.  coriander.
12X  lbs.  salt.

No.  6.

No.  7.

No.  8.

The  Meat  Market

W hat  Causes  “Soft  P ork.”

In 

At 

is  an 

As  bacon  figures  largely in the  exports 
from  Canada,  the  investigation  now 
in 
progress  into  the  cause  of  “ soft  pork”  
is  of  highly  practical 
importance,  firm 
bacon  being  obviously  of  superior  com­
mercial  value  to  the  soft  product.  The 
fat  of  bacon  or  pork  consists  really  of 
three  distinct  fats— olein,  palmitin  and 
stearin.  At  ordinary  temperatures  the 
last  two  are  solid,  whilst  olein  is  fluid.
It 
increased  percentage  of  olein 
that  gives  to  soft  pork  its  peculiar  and 
characteristic  flabbiness.  The  question 
arises  as  to  whether  the  excess  of  olein 
can 
in  any  way  be  associated  with  the 
kind  of  food  and  the  system  of  feed­
ing. 
the  Central  Experimental 
Farm  at  Ottawa,  Can.,  about  180  pigs, 
between  six  and  eight  weeks  old,  were 
put  under  experiment.  They  were  all 
Tamworths  or  Tam worth  grades.  As 
the  animals  were  from  time  to  time 
killed,  the  fats  taken  over  the  loin  and 
above  the  shoulder  were  subjected  to 
analysis,  the  nitrogenous  tissue  being 
estimated,  as  well  as  the  percentage  of 
olein  in  the  fat  proper,  and  the  amount 
of  moisture,  while  the  melting  point  of 
the  fat  was  taken.  One  feature  of  the 
scheme  is  the  examination  of  pigs  of 
different  ages  from  two  months  to  eight 
immature  pigs,  as  these 
months. 
may  be  termed,  the  fat 
is  invariably 
found  to  be  more  or  less  soft,  the  per­
centage  of  olein  usually  being 
large. 
This  appears  to  be  the  normal  condi­
tion  of  the  fat  of  young  pigs,  as  it  oc­
curred  with  all  kinds  of  feeding  that 
were  tried.  Some  were  fed  on  maize 
entirely,  and  some  on  mixtures  of  bar­
ley,  oats,  peas,  etc., 
the  object  being 
to  find  out  what  qualities  of  pork  re­
sulted  from  the  various  feeds. 
It  will 
probably  be  found  that,  in  order  to  ob­
tain  bacon  of  the  first  quality,  even 
with  the  most  suitable  rations,  a  cer- 
t  in 
age  must  be  attained  before 
slaughter  ng.  Ripeness  or  maturity 
would  seem  to  be  an  essential  factor  to 
this  end,  and  the  practice  of  excessive 
feeding  from  the  start  so  as  to  obtain 
finished  hogs  at  six  or  seven  rather 
than  at  nine  months  old  is  one  that 
it 
found  necessary  to 
may  perhaps  be 
deprecate.  The  scheme  of  feeding 
in­
cluded  the  use  of  maize,  both  dry  and 
soaked,  and  a  mixture  containing  equal 
parts  of  ground  barley,  oats,  and  peas. 
These  were  fed  in  various  ways,  alone 
and  in  mixtures,  and  in  some  cases  the 
diet  was  changed  after the  animal  had 
reached  a  weight  of  a  hundred  pounds. 
Pending  the  conclusion  of  the 
investi­
gation 
it  appears  warrantable  to  state 
that  a  diet  consisting  exclusively  of 
maize  meal  results  in  a  poor quality  of 
pork,  the  fat  containing  too  much olein. 
Again,  where  beans  form  the 
larger 
portion  of  the  ration  the  pork  will  be 
more  or  less  soft;  in  all  of  ten  pigs  un­
der  the  bean  diet, 
the  fat  showed  a 
large  proportion  of  olein,  but  the  fat 
was  not  so  soft  as 
in  the  maize-fed 
animals.  Further,  it  appears  that  pork 
of  excellent  quality  can  be  obtained 
from  the  mixed  ration  of  equal  parts  of 
barley,  oats,  and  peas.  The  question 
has  yet  to  be  decided  as  to  the  propor­
tion  of  maize  meal  that  can  be  used 
in 
a  ration  without  endangering  the  qual­
ity  of  the  pork,  and  the  stage  in  the 
growth  of  the  animal  at  which  maize 
should  be  fed  if  firm  bacon  is  to  result. 
Other  matters  receiving  attention  relate 
to  locality,  exercise,  and  the  feeding  of 
Incident­
green  stuff,  clover  and  roots. 

M ICHIG AN  TRADESMAN

19

Store and 
House  Lighting

For  the  perfect  and  economical 
lighting of dwellings  as  well as  stores 
The Imperial Gas  Lamp  fills  the  bill. 
It is  also  safe,  being  approved  by  In­
surance  Boards.  The Imperial burns 
common  stove  gasoline,  gives  a  100 
candle  power  light  and  is  a  steady, 
brilliant  light,  with  no  odor  and  no 
smoke.  Every lamp  is  fully  guaran­
teed,  and it  is  made  in  various  styles 
suitable  for  different  purposes.  The 
Imperial Gas  Lamp  makes  the  ideal 
light  for  Lodge  Rooms,  because  it 
can  be burned  as  low  as desired;  does 
not  smoke,  and 
is  perfectly  safe. 
Write  for  Illustrated  Catalogue.

THE  IMPERIAL  OAS  LAMP  CO.

132  &  134  East  Lake  St.,  Chicago,  Hi-

We  will  be  at  the  State  Fair  at  Grand 
Rapids with the following  lines:  Smalley  line 
of feed and  ensilage cutters,  Lehr line  of  culti­
vators and  land  rollers,  Lansing  wagons  and 
buggies, and our  new  line  of  5-tooth  cultiva­
tors.  W e should be  pleased to meet all dealers 
in the  State.

Yours respectfully,

TH E  CE N TR A L  IM PLEM ENT  CO.

Lansing,  Mich.

B utcher  O btains  Ju d g m en t  for  Slander.
Jacob  Blackman,  a butcher,  of Spring- 
field,  Mass.,  has  been  given  the  decis­
ion 
in  a  ¿3,000  damage  suit  brought 
against  a  Catholic  priest.  The  butcher’s 
case  was  based  on  the  alleged  fact  that 
the  priest  slandered  him  by  making 
direct  references  to  him  from  the  pulpit 
on  July  15,  directing  his  congregation 
not  to  buy  from  Blackman  and threaten­
ing  to  ask  them  in  the  confessional  if 
they  had  disobeyed  him  and traded with 
a  Jew. 

_____

W hy  He  Like»  an  Echo.

“ Why 

in  the  world  does  Sadleigh 
spend  his  vacation  alone  in  the  moun­
tains  every  year?”

“ Because  of  the  echo.  He  stands 
and  shouts  all  day  long  and  listens  to 
the  reply.”

“ Is  he  crazy?”
“ Not  at  all.  But his  wife  contradicts 
everything  he  says,  and  once  a  year  he 
likes  to  hear  a  voice  that  agrees  with 
him. ”

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fuel.  They have many  points  of  merit  not 
found  in  any  other  furnace.  Our  tubular 
combination  hard  or  soft  coal  and  wood 
furnace is

Absolutely  Self  Cleaning

Before buying write  us  for  full  particulars. 
We  are  always  pleased  to  make  estimates 
and help our  agents  in  securing  contracts. 
When  we have  no  agent  will  sell  direct  to 
the consumer at  lowest  prices. 
If  you  are 
in need of a good  furnace  write  us  at  once.

Alexander  Furnace &  Mfg. Co.

420 Mill St. So. 

Lansing, Mich

20

Hardware

D ifficulties o f Selling: H ardw are a t a Profit.
Most  dealers  can  and  do sell hardware 
at  a  profit.  The  difficulty  lies  in  find­
ing  opportunities  to  sell  a  sufficient 
quantity  at  a  profit  or  to  so  conduct 
affairs  as  to  secure  enough  of  the  profit 
to  offset  the  profit  and  loss  and  the  ex­
pense  accounts  and  leave  a  fair  balance 
at  the  end  of  the  year  bn  the  right  side 
of  the  ledger.

In  writing  this  paper  it  must  not  be 
understood  that  the  writer  has  superior 
knowledge  or  is  entitled  to  preach  or  to 
is  merely  collecting  results 
teach.  He 
of 
through 
twenty  or  more  years  in  the  hardware 
trade.

observations 

extending 

When  one  understands  the  obstacles 
in  the  way  of  the  retailer,  one  wonders 
how  he  ever succeeds.  His  stock  is  de­
clining  for  four  years  at  least,  while 
it 
is  advancing  for  one  year.  Competi­
tion  seldom  allows  him  to  get  the  full 
advance,  while  it  forces  him  to 
imme­
diately  meet  all  declines.  The  jobber 
gets  advances  immediately,  at  least  on 
staples.  Unlike  the  jobber  also,  he can 
not  force  off  his  stock 
in  i anticipation 
of  a  decline,  but  must  wait  for  custom­
ers  who  happen  to  need  the  things  he 
is  overstocked  on.  He  can’t  force  nails 
onto  a  man  who  merely  needs  a  clothes 
wiinger.  Neither  will  the  consumer  buy 
two  lawn  mowers  just  because  they  are 
offered  at  cost  or  below.  Goods  that 
suddenly  become  unsalable  in  one  part 
of  the  country  can  be  sold  by  the jobber 
elsewhere— the  retailer  is  limited  by  his 
environment.

In  cities,  the  building  of  a  street  car 
line  affects  the  trade  of  the  retailer  for 
good  or  ill,  and  in  smaller  towns  some 
unexpected  change  has  a  like  effect,but 
to  the 
jobber  whose  business  comes 
through  traveling  salesmen  and  mail 
orders  a  few  blocks  change 
location 
has  little  effect.

in 

The 

jobber  hires  men  of  specialized 
intelligence  for  various  positions. 
It 
would  be  very  strange  if  the  credit  man 
were  a  good  buyer,  or  the  buyer  a  good 
salesman  and  advertiser,  yet  the  retail­
er  must  himself  do  all  these  things  the 
best  he  can.  Some,  from  natural  apti­
tude,  will  do  well.  He  will  be  as­
sisted  in  doing  the  remainder  by  care­
ful  study  of  trade  papers. 
If  he  wishes 
to  succeed  he  will  endeavor  to  profit  by 
the  suggestions  and  advice  that  he  finds 
in  them. 
In  the  accumulated  wisdom 
of  these  suggestions  he  reaps  the  benefit 
of other  men’s  experience. 
If  a  man 
could  live  through  his life several times, 
and  would  engage 
in  the  same  busi­
ness  each  time,  he  would  probably  gain 
enough  experience  to  enable him  to dis­
pense  with  advice  or  with  trade  papers. 
The  adage,  “  Experience  teaches, ”   is 
true,  but,  unfortunately,  one  scarcely 
gets through with  one “ experience”   and 
is  on  his  guard  against  the  next  one 
it,  when  an  entirely  new  and  un­
like 
foreseen  “ experience”  
is  to  be  met, 
and  he  faces  trouble  again.

Reading  a  trade  paper  is  like  a  text 
It  won’t  make_  an  ex­
book  on  whist. 
pert  out  of  a  totally 
incompetent  per­
son,  but  it  will  render  material  assist­
ance  to  one  who  studies  comprehend- 
ingly.

Nearly  every  man  regards  his  own 
business  in  the  same  light  that  the  or­
dinary  whist  player  regards  his  own 
hand,  viz.,  as  a  special  case,  and  to  a 
certain  extent  he  is  right,  but  the  good 
business  man  like  the good whist player, 
endeavors  to  learn  the  general  rules  and

M IC H IG A N   TRADESMAN

to  apply  them,  so  far  as  possible,  and 
like  the  player  he  is  much  more  apt  to 
win 
in  the  end  by  so  doing,  even  if 
“ luck”   should  be  against  him  and  op­
posing  forces  hold  all  the  “ big  hands”  
at  the  start.

In  giving  advice  about  the  conduct of 
the  business,  one  must  generalize. 
It 
is  folly  to  go  into  minute  details,  be­
cause  it  is  in  these  matters  that 
locali­
ties  differ.  What  is  wisdom  in  one  sit­
in  another.  It  is 
uation  would  be  folly 
wasting  time  and 
judgment  to  tell  a 
merchant  what  profit  he  must  make  on 
wire  and  nails.  In  some  localities  these 
things  are  sold  about  at  cost,  for  such 
has  come  to  be  the 
local  custom,  and 
the  merchants  are  as  prosperous  as  they 
are  in  towns  where  20  per  cent,  is  made 
on  them.

in 

Don’t  waste  too  much  time 

in  cater­
ing  to  individuals ;  cater  to  the  public. 
No  individual’s  trade  alone  will  make 
you  prosperous,  but  the  confidence  of 
the  public  will. 
If  you  slap  Smith  on 
the  back  and  enquire  how  Jimmie  is 
getting  along  with  the  measles,  and 
how  soon  the  baby  is  to  have  his  first 
tooth,  Smith  is  tickled,  and  tells  his 
friends  that  you  are  “ all  right.”   There 
comes  a  day  when  Smith  believes  that 
you  think  him  to  be  of  supreme  im­
portance,  and  he  coincides 
this 
view.  He  then  begins  to  demand lower 
prices  than  you  are  charging  his  neigh­
bors,  and  a 
longer  time  for  payment. 
Later on  he  suspects  you  of  selling  him 
inferior  goods,  and  about  this  time  he 
wants  to  borrow  money  of  you  without 
interest,  and  finally  proclaims  you  to  be 
a  rascal.  From  that  day  Smith  “ has 
it 
in  for  you. 
If 
This  makes  you  sad. 
on  the  other  hand  you  are  catering  to  a 
community  instead  of  a  number  of 
in­
dividuals,  Smith  will  probably  never 
get  well  enough  acquainted  to  get  mad 
at  you.  He  may  trade  elsewhere  from 
time  to  time,  but  he  won’t  try  to  take 
other  customers  with  him,  and  on  your 
part,  you  may  recognize  the  fact  that 
even 
if  Smith  should  die,  and  not 
trade  anywhere,  that  the  public  still 
lives,  and  that  there  are  as  many  cus­
tomers  to  be  had  as  ever.

leading 

A  lecturer  in  one  of  our 

law 
schools  advised  the  members  of  a  grad­
uating  class  to  keep  their  cases  before 
the  jury  and  to  keep  themselves  in  the 
background  as  much  as  possible.  He 
advised  them  not  to  show  the  jury  how 
brilliant  or  how  smart  they  were,  be­
cause  the 
jury  might  get  to  thinking 
more  about  the  lawyer  than  about  the 
case,  and  that  would  be  bad  for  the  case 
and  in  the  end  bad  for  the  lawyer.

in  an 

In  the  commercial  world  your  busi­
ness  is  your “ case,”   and  the  purchas­
ing  public  is  the  “ jury.”  
If  you  run 
your  business 
impersonal  way, 
like  the  big  department  stores,  and  run 
it  according  to  the  business  principles 
that  we  all  know,  Smith  won’t  “ have  it 
in  for  you.”   He  won’t  expect  you  to 
sell  him  goods  below  cost;  he  will  be 
satisfied  if  you  don’t  grovel  before him, 
and  the  chances  are  that  he  will  con­
tinue  to  trade  with  you.

Lack of  care  in  extending  credits  and 
the  non-enforcement  of  contracts  with 
in  the  retail  trade. 
debtors  are  evils 
The  ordinary  merchant 
is  honest.  He 
endeavors  to  discount  his  bills,  and 
works  continually  against  being  over­
stocked.  He  is  attentive,  almost  too  at­
tentive  to  his  business.  He  is  temper­
ate  in  his  habits,  if  for  no  other  reason 
than  because 
it  is  business  folly  to  be 
otherwise.  He  advertises  the  best  he 
knows  how,  and 
is  economical,  but  as 
the  years  go  by  he  wonders  why  he

In  most 
hasn’t  made  more  money. 
cases  the  answer 
is  because  he  has 
given  too  much  credit.  He  not  only  has 
trusted  people  who  do  not  pay  at  all, 
and  people  who  cause  him 
expense 
when  they  aie  made  to  pay,  but  he  has 
too  much  standing  out  among  people 
who  are  ‘ * good. ’ ’

That  term  “ good  acounts”   is  sadly 
misleading.  How  often  a  merchant 
runs  over  in  his  mind  a  few  of  these 
“ good”   accounts  and  wishes  that  he 
could  collect  them,  so  that  he  might 
paj’  a  bill  or  take  advantage  of a chance 
for  a  spot  cash  purchase.  He  may  esti­
mate  the  profit  on  his  credit  sales,  and 
think  he  has  done  wisely  to 
let  his 
goods  go  out  that  way,  but  if  he  were 
to  estimate  the  interest  which  he  is  en­
titled  to  on  these  accounts,  and  which 
he  does  not  get,  add  to  this  his  losses 
and  the  expense  of  collection;  and  then 
figure  what  he  could  have  saved  in  his 
purchases,  in  his  bills  payable,  inter­
est,  and  in  cash  discount;  if  he  had  the 
money  instead  of  the  “ good”   account, 
he  will  find  that  he  has  not  only  done  a 
whole  lot  of  work  for  nothing,  incurred 
a 
lot  of  useless  worry,  but  is  perhaps 
out  of  pocket  by  giving  such  credit.

A  man  with  no  assets  beyond  his  ex­
emptions,  but  who  is  known  as  “ hon­
est,”   can  go  into  at  least  one  store  out 
of  three 
in  a  country  town  and  buy 
goods  in  the  spring,  which  he  promises 
to  pay  for,  at  that 
indefinite  period 
known  to  most  retailers  as  “ in  the 
fall.”  
If  he  buys  $15  worth,  they  will 
cost  the  dealer all  the  way  from  $10  or 
$12  to  $14  according  to  the  amount  of 
If  the  custom­
staple  goods  in  the  bill. 
er  is  actually  honest,  if  he  has 
luck,  if 
he  has  no  sickness,  or  misfortune,  he 
will  pay.  The  merchant  has  therefore 
wagered  from  $10  to  $14,  not  that  he 
is

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going  to  make  $i  or $5,  but  that  he  will 
ever  get  his  $10 or $14  back.  The  most 
that  he  can  make  by  his  wager  if  all 
conditions  come  out  right  is  from  $1  to 
$5,  and  he  may 
lose  $10 to  $14.  No 
gambler  or  plunging  speculator  would 
take  such  chances,  yet  many  a  sober, 
industrious,  economical  retailer  takes 
them  every  day.  He  does  it,  not  be­
cause  he  wants  to,  not  because  he  does 
not  know  better,  but  through  fear  that 
his  competitor  may  do 
if  he  does 
not,  and  thereby  gain  a  problematical 
customer  and  a  hypothetical  profit.  No 
one  can  account  for  this  fear  which 
seems  to  pervade  the  retail  world,  but 
it  is  there.

it 

investigates 

Two  men  of  like  character and  means 
start  in  business  at  the  same  time.  One 
puts  his  money  into  banking,  the  other 
puts  his  into  the  retail  business.  The 
chances  are, 
that  from  this  time  on, 
these  men  adopt  entirely  different  pol­
icies.  The  banker 
the 
character  and  standing  of  all  who  get 
money  from  him,  and 
in  most  cases 
takes  collateral  or  other  security.  He 
impresses  the  borrower  with  having 
done  him  a 
favor.  The  merchant  on 
the  other  hand,  seems  to  think  that  as 
soon  as  he  has  invested  his  money  in 
goods, 
that  they  haven’t  much  value 
and  must  be  traded  off,  or  trusted  out. 
He  takes  no  note,  or  seldom  takes  a 
note,  or  other  evidence  of indebtedness; 
he  has  but  the  vaguest understanding  of 
his  customer’s  reliability,  and  gives 
him 
in  many  ways  to  understand  that 
he  is  under  obligations,  because  he  has 
been  allowed  to  trust  him,  and  finally 
when  the  customer  pays,if  he  does  pay, 
he  will  make  that  customer  a  present 
ranging  from  a  pocket  knife  up,to  show 
him  what  a  good  fellow  he  is.  This 
is 
all  caused  by  that  constant fear  so  many 
retailers  have, 
that  their  competitors 
will  gain  something,  unless  they  do 
something  foolish,  and  thereby  prevent 
him.

What  follies  merchants  commit  be­
cause  of  this  stupid  and  unreasoning 
fear  of  their  competitors!  They  buy 
things  they  should  not,  for  fear he  will 
get  them— they  trust  men  they  should 
not,  for  fear  the  competitor  will  sell  to 
them—they  bid  on  a  bill  of  goods  and 
their  competitor  gets  the  order,  then 
they  cut  the  price  thereafter,to  all  com­
ers,  on  the  same  goods  and  so 
lose  the 
profit  they  were  formerly  making.

early 

autumn.  He 

In  a  town  where  the  usual  profit  on 
window  glass,  by  the  light,  was  40  per 
cent.,  a  seller  bid  on  a  repair  job  at  25 
per  cent,  profit  and  lost  the  order.  This 
was  in  the  beginning  of  the  glass  sea­
son, 
therefore 
dropped  his  price  to  about  10  per  cent, 
profit  by  the  light,  because  he  did  not 
lose  his  glass  trade.  He 
propose  to 
didn't 
lose  his  glass  trade,  but  he  lost 
his  profit,  and  all  because  he  had  lost  a 
$20  job,  and  because  of  the  fear  that his 
competitor  was  going  to  run  him  out. 
Don’t  fear  your 
competitor.  Don’t 
think  of  him  any  oftener  than  possible. 
Don’t  allow  your  clerks  to  speak  of  him 
to  your  customers  except 
in  pleasant 
terms,  but  keep  your  thoughts  on  your 
own  business.

Many  merchants 

lose  a  good  sized 
sum  annually,  or  many  customers,  or 
both,  by  an  indiscriminate  and 
injudi­
cious  system,  of  ‘ ‘ warranting.”   Some 
salesmen 
’ ’ warrant”   everything  in  the 
store  except  nails  and  window  glass, 
and  will  even  speak 
in  the  highest 
terms  of  these.  No  one  knows,  until 
he  has  tried,  how  few  times  in  a  year 
he  will  lose  a  sale  because  he  does  not 
less  a  salesman  says
guarantee.  The 

If  the  customer  is  not 

about  the  quality  of  an  article  in  mak­
ing  a  sale,  the  less  friction  there  will 
be  later  on. 
led 
to  believe  too  much,  he  is  easily  satis­
fied,  and  the  matter  ends  with  the  pur­
chase. 
If  he  buys  a  50c  jackknife  and 
is  merely  assured  that  it  is  of  a  good 
make  and  is  a  good  knife  for  the  price, 
he  will  be  satisfied,  if  that  is  just  what 
the  knife  should  prove  to  b e ;  but  if  the 
salesman  goes  on  to  assure  him  that 
nothing  ever  made  in  Damascus  or  in 
Toledo  was  of  such  exquisite  quality 
as  this  hand  forged  blade,  the  purchaser 
gets  mad 
later  on,  when  he  finds  he 
can’t  use 
it  for a  can  opener  or  to  cut 
stovepipe  with.  When  a  man  is  making 
a  sale  it  is  a  case  of  ‘ ‘ Least  said  soon­
est  mended. ”

This  matter  may  appear  trifling  to 
some,  but  the  merchant  whose  custom­
ers  are  best  satisfied  with  their  pur­
chases,  is  the  one  who  keeps  his  cus­
tomers,  and  the  extravagant,  useless, 
guaranteeing  that  is  indulged  in  by  so 
many  salesmen,  is  the  cause  of 
losing 
many  a  good  man’s  trade,when  he  finds 
that  he  has  bought  only  an  ordinary  ar­
ticle  instead  of  one  of  supernatural  per­
fection.

To  succeed,  therefore,  you  should
1.  Carefully study  the trade papers.
2.  Cater  to  the  public,  rather  than 
waste  time  trying  to  get  into  the  good 
graces  of  individuals.

3.  Use  care  in  extending  credit,  and 
insist  on  your  debtors  fulfilling  their 
contracts  on  time.

4.  Cease  fearing  your  competitors  or 
worrying  about  what  some  other  mer­
chant 
is  going  to  do.  Think  rather 
about  your  own  business.

5.  Don’t  knock  the  bottom  out  of 
your  own  prices  just  because  your  com­
petitor  has  sold  some  bill  that  you  ex­
pected  to.  Maybe  he  got  as  good  prices 
as  you  made  on  -it.

6.  See  how  many  sales  you  can 

make  each  day without  guaranteeing.

7.  Remember  that  your  goods  cost 
money,  that  they  are  money. 
Treat 
them  as  respectfully  as  you  would 
money.  Don't  fool  them  away  because 
they  are  “ goods”   and  because  you 
“ keep  a  store.” — G.  H.  Loghed 
in 
American  Artisan.

For  the  first  time  since  letter  postage 
was  reduced  to  2  cents,  postal  receipts 
for  the  first  quarter  of  the  present  year 
were  in  excess  of  expenditures.  Consid­
ering  the  volume  of  business,  $27,371,- 
7q4,  the  excess  was  not  large—-$205,000, 
but  a  break  however  slight  in  the 
long 
score  of  postal  deficits  is  noticeable  and 
welcome.  Postoffice  receipts  are  an  ex­
cellent  barometer  of  the  volume  of  the 
people’s  business.  Four  years  ago  the 
total  receipts  for 
corresponding 
quarter  were  $21,917,766,  or  about 
$5,000,000  less,  and  the  deficiency  about 
$1,000.000.  The  betterment  shown  this 
year  does  not  assure  a  surplus  in  the 
year's  business,  but  it  is  regarded  as  a 
sure  indication  that  the  deficiency  will 
be  less  than  the  estimate. 
If  the  mails 
could  be  cleared  of  their  immense  vol­
ume  of  dead-head  matter  the  people 
could  have  1  cent  postage,  and the  serv­
ice  be  done  at  a  profit.

the 

Efforts  are  being  made  to 

install 
American  sweet  potatoes  in  the  Euro­
pean  markets.  Those  exhibited  at  the 
Paris  Exposition  attracted  great  atten­
tion.

This world  would  probably  be  better 
if  fewer  people  had  the  idea  that  the 
only  time  to  study  the  Bible  is  just  be­
fore  they  go  to  Sunday  school.

Hardware  Price  Current

A ugurs  and  Bits

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

Axes

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

Barrow s

Railroad...............................................  
Garden................................................ net 
Bolts
Stove.................................................... 
Carriage, new He* 
............................  
Plow ........... 

 

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

 
B uckets

B utts,  Cast

Cast Loose Pin, figured...................... 
Wrought Narrow...............................  

Cartridges

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

Chain

\  in. 

5-16 in.  X in. 
... 5  c. 
Com...............  7  c. ...  6  c. 
BB................   814 
714 
... 614 
BBB..............  83Sf 
... 634 
...  734 
Crowbars

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

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

Socket F irm er.................................... 
Socket Framing................................... 
Socket Comer...................................... 
Socket Slicks.......................................  

Caps

Chisels

Elbows

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

Expansive  Bits

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

Files—New  List

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

Galvanized  Iro n

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

13 

14 

15 

Discount,  70

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

Gauges

Glass

60
26
50

7 00
II  50
7  75
13  00

17 00
32 00

60
70&10
50

$4  00

65
60

40&10
20

V% in.
... 43Sic.
... 6
... 614

6

66
66
46
75

65
66
66
65

66
1  26
40&10

40
26

70&10
70
70

28
17

60&10

Single  Strength, by box....................... dis  80&20
Double Strength, by box......................dis  85&10
By the Light................................ dis  80&10

H am m ers

33M
Maydole & Co.’s, new list.....................dis 
Yerkes & Plumb’s .................................dis  40&10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel................30c list 
70

Hinges

Hollow  W are

Gate, Clark’s l, 2,3............................... dis  60&10

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

50&10
50&10
50&10

H orse  Nails

Au Sable...............................................dis  40&10
Putnam..................................................dis 
6

House  F u rn ish in g  Goods
Stamped Tinware, new list.................  
70
Japanned Tinware...............................  
20&10
Bar Iron...............................................2 25  c rates
Light Band..........................................   3  c rates

Iro n

Knobs—New  List

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

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

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

L anterns

Levels

M attocks

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

Metals—Zinc

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

 
M iscellaneous

 

Bird Cages..........................................  
40
75
Pumps, Cistern.................................... 
Screws, New L ist...............................  
80
Casters, Bed and Plate.......................  60&10&10
so
Dampers, American............................ 
Stebblns’ Pattern................................  
co&io
Enterprise, self-measuring................. 
30

Molasses  Gates

86
l  oo

5 oo
6 oo

70

66

7%
8

Pans

Fry, Acme............................................  6O&10&I0
Common,  polished.............................. 
70&6
P aten t  P lanished  Iron 

“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 
to 76 
“B” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 26 to 27  9  75

Broken packages 54c per pound extra.

Planes

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

50
60
60
(0

Advance over base, on both Steel and  Wire.

Nails

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

Rivets

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

Roofing  Plates

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

Sisal, V4 inch and larger...................... 
Manilla................................................  

Ropes

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

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

Sand  P aper

Sash  W eights

Sheet  Iron

com. smooth,  com.
$3  20
3  20
3  30

Nos. 10 to 14  ................................. 
Nos. 15 to 17..................................  
Nos. 18 to 21................................... 
Nos. 22 to 24..................................   3  60 
Nos. 25 to 26 ...................................  3  70 
No. 27.............................................   3  80 
wide, not less than 2-10 extra.

3 40
3 50
3 60
All Sheets No.  18 and- lighter,  over  30  Inches 

Shells—Loaded

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

Shot

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

Shovels  and  Spades

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

Solder

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

21
The prices of the many other qualities of solder
In the market indicated by  private  brands  vary 
according to composition.

2  65
2  t 5
Base
5
10
20
30
45
70
50
16
25
35
26
35
45
86

50
45

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

8
12

50

25 00

40
40&10

1  SO
1  76

8  00
7  50

66

$850
8 50
»75

7 00
7 00
8 so
8 60

75
40&10
65&16
15
1  26

60
60
S0&10
50&10
40
3 20
2 90

80
80
so
80

30
30

Squares

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

Tin—M elyn  Grade

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

Each additional X on this grade, $1.25.

Tin—A llaw ay  Grade

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

Each additional X on this grade, $1.50

B oiler Size  Tin  Plate

Traps

W ire

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

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

W ire  Goods

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

W renches

Baxter’s Adjustable, Nickeled..........  
Coe’s Genuine...................................... 
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, .Wrought..70&10

Aluminum Money

Will Increase Your Business.

Cheap and Effective.

Send for samples and prices.
C.  H.  HANSON,

44  S.  Clark  St.,  CLlcago,  111.

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Butter  and  Eggs

long 

O bservations  by  a  Gotham   Egg  Man.
Egg  shippers  have  been  loud  in  their 
condemnation  of  the  loss  off  method  of 
in  distributing  markets 
selling  eggs 
and  have 
insisted  that  th e *‘ at 
mark”   method  was  the  only  right  one. 
For  several  years  past  we  have  main­
tained  that  if  all  receipts  at  New  York 
were  to  be  sold  as  they  were,  at  mark, 
the  quality  being  judged  when  the  sale 
was  made  and  the  price  fixed  accord­
ingly, it  would  tend  to  encourage  a  close 
assortment  of  eggs  at  primary  points 
and  diminish  the 
losses  endured  by 
the  egg  trade  at*  large  from  packing 
and  shipping  worthless  stock.  There 
has  been  a  rapid  drift  toward case count 
selling  in  this  market  until  now  only  a 
small  part  of  the  Western  eggs  are  sold 
on  any  other  basis.  Some  buyers  still 
insist  upon  making  purchases  loss  off 
and  some  receivers  continue  to  do  part 
of  their  business  on  the  old  basis,  but 
as  a  rule  the  loss  off  quotation  for  eggs 
in  this  market  is  now  used  chiefly  as  a 
basis  upon  which  to  judge  the  case 
count  value  of  various 
lots,  and  very 
frequently,  even  where  sales  are  made 
loss  off,  receivers  make  returns  at  mark 
at  an  equivalent  figure.

The  change 

in  the  basis  of  sales  ne- 
cessiates  a  much  wider  range 
in  the 
normal  selling  value  of  the various qual­
ities  and  shippers  of  Western  eggs  to 
this  market  should  understand  fully  the 
meaning  of  the  different  grades  as 
in  the  quotations  given  from 
specified 
day  to  day  in  order  to  be  able  to 
judge 
of  the  actual  value  of  their  particular 
shipments.

Under  the  old  method  shippers  could 
never  get  much 
idea-of  the  actual  net 
value  of  their  goods  from  the  quotations 
made  on  a  loss  off  basis.  They  could 
know  the  range  of  selling  values  on  a 
loss  off  basis  but  could  get  no 
informa­
tion  as  to  the  net  result  until  their  ac­
count  of  sale  turned  up,  and  were 
obliged  to  wait  for  this  until  the  buy­
ers  of  their  goods  reported  the  loss  to 
the  receivers.  Now  they  can  get  a 
closer  idea  of  net  values  from  the  daily 
quotations,  provided  they  learn  to judge 
of  the  quality  of  their  stock  in  relation 
to  the  specifications  made 
in  quoting 
the  various  qualities.

Under  the  old  method  a  wide  range 
of  quality  was  sold  at  a  nominally  uni­
form  price  per  dozen,  the  differences 
being  compensated  by  different  loss  re­
turns,  and  shippers  of  medium  grade 
eggs  were  accustomed  to getting account 
of  sale  at  top  quotation  with  the loss  de­
ducted.  But  of  course  when  mark  sales 
are  made  the  differences  in quality have 
to  be  offset  by  differences  in  price  per 
dozen  and  a  wide  range  of  quotations 
becomes  necessary.  At  the  present  time 
there 
is  a  range  of  about  6c  per  dozen 
in  the  case  count  value  of  the  different 
grades  of  Western  fresh  gathered  eggs 
and  during  the  extreme  heat  of  the  past 
summer  the  range  was  often  still  wider.
We  think  that  many  shippers  who  are 
now  putting  up  goods  without  grading 
and  of  which  the  selling  value  here  is 
I5@ i6c,  at  mark,  would 
now  around 
find 
it  profitable  to  set  up  candling 
facilities and make  an  effort  to  establish 
a  reputation  for  their  brands  by  assort­
ing  closely  and  before  the  candle.  The 
merit  of  such  goods  is  appreciated  by 
case  count  buyers  and  full prices  can  be 
realized  here  for  superlative  quality.—
N.  Y.  Produce  Review.

H e  Accepted  th e  Receipt.

In  days  of  old  men  were  not  so  pro­
ficient  in  the  art  of  writing  as  they  are

M IC H IG A N   TRADESMAN

at  the  present  day.  Then,hieroglyphics 
took  the  place  of  written  characters, 
and some  of  the  ancestors  of  our  present 
over-educated  aristocrats  were 
in  the 
habit  of  dipping  their  sword  points  in 
the  ink  and  making  their  marks  there­
with  every  time  their  signatures  were 
necessary.

There  were  once  two  farmers  who 
were  quite  deficient  in  the  art  of  writ­
ing,  one  of  whom  was  indebted  to  the 
other  for  a  considerable  sum.  Over this 
debt  they  fell  out,  with  the  result  that 
the  debtor  thought  it  best  to  settle  his 
indebtedness  without  delay. 
At  the 
same  time,  suspiciously  or  shrewdly,  he 
demanded  a 
receipt  of  his  hostile 
creditor.

latter,  in  view  of  this  demand, 
found  himself  in  quite  a  dilemma,  inas­
much  as  he  was  incapable  of  writing 
even  his  name.

The 

He  thought  over  the  matter  carefully 
for  some  time  and  at  last  he  saw  a  way 
out  of  the  difficulty. 
If  he  could  not 
write,  he  could  at  least  draw.  Very 
soon  he  had  made  a  rough  sketch  of 
the  body  of  a  man  “ hanged  by  the 
neck  until  he  was  dead.”

is  that?”   enquired  the  aston­
ished  debtor  who  had  demanded  a  re­
ceipt.

“ What 

*1 That, ’ ’  said the artist,  triumphantly, 

‘ ‘ is  your  receipt.”

‘ ‘ What’s  it  mean?”   was  the  next  puz­

zled  question.
' ‘ Settled. ’
And the  farmer  who  wanted  a  receipt, 
looking  upon  the  picture,  was  obliged 
to  admit  it  did  spell  “ settled”   as  cor­
rectly  as  the  proper  combination  of  cer­
tain 
letters  of  the  alphabet.  He  ac­
cepted  the  receipt.

!••••<

Walker Egg & Produce Co.,

54-56 Woodbridge Street, W.  24 Market Street.  484 I8th Street,  Detroit, Mich.

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

Commission Merchants and

Wholesale  Butter and  Eggs.

We,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.  We 
can handle your  consignments  promptly  and  make  satisfactory  returns. 
Send  us your shipments.  Established  15  years.

References:  Any  Detroit or Chicago bank.

ESTABLISHED 1890.

Hermann Q. Naumann &  60.

Wholesale  Butchers,  Produce  and 

Commission  Merchants.

Our Specialties:  Creamery and  Dairy  Butter,  New-Laid  Eggs,  Poultry  and  Game. 

Fruits of all  kinds in  season.

388 HIGH  ST. E., Opposite Eastern Market,  DETROIT, MICH.  Phone  1793.

REFERENCES:  The Detroit Savings Hank,  Commercial  Agencies,  Agents  of  all Railroad  and 

Express Companies, Detroit, or the trade generally.

Itloom less  and  Seedless  A pple.

it 

There  may  be  “ Nothing  new  under 
the  sun, ”  but people are  constantly  find­
ing  out  things  they did  not know before. 
The  San  Leandor  Reporter  has  the  fol­
lowing  to  say  of  a  new  seedless  apple:
A  branch  of  an  apple  tree  heavily 
laden  with 
fruit  buds  was  recently  ex­
hibited  at  Sedalia,  Mo.  This  is  apt  to 
create  quite  a  sensation  among  fruit 
growers,  as 
is  a  seedless  apple  and 
is  possessed  of  many  excellent  qualities 
over the  other  numerous varieties  of  ap­
ples.  An  exchange  says:  One  of  its 
many  advantages  is  the  fact  that  it  does 
not  bloom,  so  that 
incapable  of 
suffering  from  early  spring  rains  which 
affect  other  varieties  by  washing  the 
pollen  out. 
Its  keeping  qualities  are 
said  to  be  marvelous,  easily  retaining 
its  advantages  for  a  year. 
It  is  also  a 
young  and  heavy  bearer  and  hardy. 
The  exhibit  was  made  by  W.  F.  Jack- 
son,  who possesses  the  only  stock  of  this 
apple 
it  originated 
from  a  chance seedling.

in  existence  and 

is 

it 

The Texas  Pecan  Crop.

Texas,  having  beat  the  record  on 
small  grain  and  succeeded  fairly  well 
with  corn,  is  about  to  gather the  best 
pecan  crop  for  five  years,  according  to 
reports  from  the  best  districts,  received 
by  shippers  who  have  already  booked 
large  orders  for  both  domestic  and  for­
eign  demand.  A  Waco  exporter  who 
sells  Texas  pecans 
in  Europe  and  in 
Asia  said  that  advices  from  Brown, 
Coleman,  San  Saba  and  other  counties 
of  Western  Texas  indicate  a  very 
large 
crop  of  fine  nuts.  He  said  it  is  impos­
sible  to  overstock  the  pecan  market,  as 
the  demand  is  large  enough to  take  care 
of  twice  the  world’s  entire  products, 
four-fifths  of  which  is  produced 
in  the 
Lone  Star  State.  The  exporter  added 
that  with  plenty  of  grain  made  and 
good  prospects  for cotton  the  pecan crop 
coming  in  extra  ought  to  give  Texas  a 
big  start  up  the  hill this  year.

Novel  Scheme  to  Save  Peaches.

A  peach  grower  near  Georgetown, 
Del.,  protected  his  trees  from  the  dep­
redations  of  fruit  thieves  this  summer 
by  conspicuously  displaying  this  legend 
on  signs  nailed  to  the  fence surrounding 
his  orchard :  “ Caution!  This  fence  is 
surmounted  by  a 
live  electric  w ire!”  
The  wire  could  be  seen  on  top  of  the 
fence,  strung  on  glass 
insulators,  and 
no  one  attempted  to  meddle  with  it.

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

Qeo.  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  W ANT  TO   BUY^ HONEY P-

ALSO  N E E D   P E A C H E S ,  PLU M S,  PEARS.

STR A N G E   6l   NOKES,  C l e v e l a n d , o h i o .

W RITE  US.

Peaches,  Pears,  Plums,  Apples,  Grapes,  Etc.

Sold on commission,  bought  or contracted for.  Write for prices,  etc. 

R.  Hirt,  Jr.,

Wholesale  Produce  Merchant, 

34  and  36  Market  St.,  Detroit,  Mich.

Cold  Storage,  435,  437,  439  Winder  St.

City Savings Bank, Commercial Agencies and  trade m general.

R E FE R E N C E S:

M ICHIG AN  TRADESMAN

man  and  most  loved  by  him,  following 
him,  like  his  dog  or  his  cow,  wherever 
he  goes!  His  homestead  is  not  planted 
till  you  are  planted,  your  roots  inter­
twine  with  his,  thriving  best  where  he 
strives  best,  loving  the 
limestone  and 
the  frost,  the  plough  and  the  pruning 
knife.  You  are,  indeed,  suggestive  of 
hardy,  cheerful  industry,  ana  a  healthy 
life  in  the  open  air.  Temperate,  chaste 
fruit!  You  mean  neither 
luxury  nor 
sloth,  neither  satiety  nor 
indolence, 
neither  enervating  heats  nor  the  frigid 
zones.  Uncloying  fruit— fruit  whose 
best  sauce  is  the  open  air,  whose  finest 
flavors  only  he  whose  taste  is  sharpened 
by  brisk  work  or  walking  knows;  win­
ter  fruit,  when  the  fire  of 
life  burns 
brightest;  fruit  always  a  hyperborean, 
leaning  towards  the  cold ;  bracing,  sub­
acid,  active 
I  think  you  must 
come  from  the  North,  you  are  so  frank 
and  honest,  so  sturdy  and  appetizing! 
You  are  stocky  and  homely,  like  the 
Northern  races.  Your quality  is Saxon. 
Sureiy  the  fiery  and  impetuous  South  is 
not  akin  to  thee.  Not  spices  or  olives, 
or  the  sumptuous  liquid  fruits,  but  the 
grass,  the  snow,  the  grains, 
the  cool­
ness,are  akin  to  thee.  I  think  if  I  could 
subsist  on  you,  or  the 
like  of  you,  I 
should never  have  an  intemperate  or  ig­
noble  thought,  never  be  feverish  or  de­
spondent.  So  far  as  I  could  absorb  or 
transmute  your  quality  I  should  be 
cheerful, 
sweet 
blooded,  long  lived,  and  should  shed 
warmth  and  contentment  around.

equitable, 

content, 

fruit! 

W hy  Shippers  Should  Patronize Specialty 

Houses.

The 

larger  shippers  usually  keep  in 
touch  with  the  wholesale  markets,  but 
many  of  the  smaller ones  do  not,  and 
even  many  of  the 
larger  ones  rarely 
visit  the  wholesale  markets,  or  this  one 
in  particular.  A  shipper  might  visit 
Chicago  or  some  of  the  smaller  Western 
or  Southern  markets  and  form little idea 
how  business 
in  New 
York.  Many  of  these  markets,  and  even 
some  of  the  larger  ones,  conduct  a  mis­
cellaneous  business  something  like  New 
York  did  years  ago.

is  transacted 

is 

There 

less  profit 

the  market 

in  the  business 
than  in  former  years,  both  for  the  ship­
per  and  commission  man,  and  shippers 
should  study  the  conditions  so  that  they 
can  realize  all  the  profit  they  are  en­
titled  to,  visiting 
they 
patronize  as  frequently  as  possible  and 
studying  the  conditions  there  as  well 
as  at  their  end  of  the  business.  Prob­
ably  one  of  the  most 
important  things 
in  the  shipping  business  is  the selection 
of  a  commission  house  to  handle  the 
articles 
shipped  and  one  should  be 
picked  out  which  makes  a  specialty  of 
the  goods  the  shipper  is  dealing  in.
“ time 

is 
money,’ ’  is  certainly  true  with  buyers

expression, 

The  old 

2 3

who  are  drawn  to  the  centers  where  the 
goods  they  seek  are  handled  most  ex­
tensively,  and  shippers  following  their 
goods  here  on  the  market,  readily  see 
what  an  advantage they have by being in 
the  hands  of  the  commission  merchant 
making  them  a  specialty.— N.  Y.  Prod­
uce  Review.

No  man  ever  gained  anything  but 
contempt  and  ruin  by  incessantly  halt­
ing  between  two  opinions.— Dean  Far­
rar.

For  No.  I  Fresh  Eggs

Will  pay  16 J4   cents  delivered 
Chicago,  new  cases  included,  y2c 
less  cases  returned,  no  commis­
sion  nor  cartage.

Dittmann  &   Schwingbeck,

204  W.  Randolph St., 

CHICAGO.

T  Clover,  Timothy,  Blue  Grass, 
J  Orchard  Grass,  Rep  Top.  etc. 

Quality  Good.  Right  Prices.

Fruits and  Produce.

The  A pple  In  Story  and  Song.

In  classic 

in  her  robe, 

is  represented 

Women  and  apples,  beginning  with 
Mother  Eve,  have  ever  been  associated 
together. 
lore  Pomona  had 
the  apple  especially  under  her  care,  and 
in  Rome  she  was  peculiarly  honored, 
having  a  splendid  temple  built  for  her 
exclusive  use.  She 
ancient  sculpture  and  painting  as 
maiden  fair  to  see,  with  a  crown  of  ap 
pie 
leaves  upon  her  brow,  while  her 
hands  uplift  a  fold 
which  are  heaped  apples,  with  othe 
fruit. 
In  those  times,  also,  the  golden 
apple  was  awarded  to  Venus  for  her 
superior  charms,  and  the  story  of  At 
alanta  and  Hippomenes  is  interesting 
as  told  by  Bacon  in  his eassys.  Atalanta 
was  exceedingly  fleet  of  foot,  and  her 
lover  was to  win  the  race  in  order  to  es 
pouse  her;  if  he  lost,  his  life  was  for 
feit.  The  maiden  had  already  con 
quered  numbers  of  adorers,  who  died 
because  of 
love,  when  the  new  suitor 
entered  the  lists,  determined  to  win  o 
die.  But,  believing  that,  as in  war,  al 
was  fair  in  love,  he  determined  to  sue 
ceed  by  strategy  should  fleetness  fail 
So,  when  he  started  in  the  race,  he  car 
ried  with  him  three  golden  cheeked 
apples  and  when  fleet  footed  Atalanta 
in  front  of  him  he  threw  for 
sped  on 
ward  one  of  the  three  apples,  so 
i 
would  cross  her  path.  She  saw,  she 
sighed,  she  stopped. 
like 
Mother  Eve,  she  yielded,  and  Hip 
pomenes  ran  by  her  side  as  she  started 
in  the  race,  holding  the  golden 
again 
apple 
in  her  hand.  Again  the  ardent 
lover  lagged,  and  again  was  the  apple 
temptation  thrown.  But  not  yet  was 
Atalanta  won.  The  third  apple  rolled 
before  her  just  as  the  goal  was  won 
and  when  she  stooped  to  secure  the 
prize  Hippomenes  touched  the  victor’s 
pole  in  triumph.  So  love  was 
lord  of 
all  and  yielded  to  the  apple’s  charm.

Tempted, 

From  the  earliest  ages,  way  back  in 
to  the  dim  distances  of  mythology,  the 
apple  has  been  the  favored  fruit,  associ 
ated  with  human  happiness,  typifying 
human  prosperity  and  even  associated 
with  the  idea  of 
immortality.  Witness 
the  story 
in  Northern  mythology  of  its 
power  to  confer  immortality  upon  those 
who  eat 
it.  The  trees  were  carefully 
guarded  by  the  goddess  Iduna,  so  that 
when  the  gods  felt  themselves  growing 
old  they  could  come  to  her,  eat  of  the 
fruit  of  gold  and  feel  the  blood  of  new 
life  coursing  through  their veins.

In  the  time  of  the  Druid  priests  they 
were  accustomed  to  bless  the  apple, 
which  became  a  charm,  warding  off 
evil  and  bringing  good  to  those  who 
were  fortunate  enough  to  possess  the 
magic  gift.

Allusions  to  the  apple  in  the  Bible 

are  not  frequent.

In  the  field  of  English  literature  the 
golden  fruit  gleams  through  prose  and 
poetry  and  lingers  lovingly  at  the  feasts 
in  hall  and  cottage,  and  When  the  poet 
wished  to  depict  the  freshness  and  the 
fairness  on  a  maiden’s  cheek  he  could 
find  no  more  suitable  simile  than  that 
given  by  the  apple  blossom.

The  apple  figures  prominently  in  the 
ceremonies  of  All  Hallowe’en,  and 
its 
succeeding  day,  November i,  was  dedi­
cated  by  the  early  English  to  the  titular 
saint  of  fruit  and  seeds,  and  was  called 
the  Day  of  the  Apple.

It  is  probable  that  more  home memor­
ies  cluster  about  the  apple  than  any 
other  fruit.  Of  it  John  Burroughs  says: 
Noble,  common  fruit,  best  friend  of

that  happened 

Years  ago  a  commission  merchant  in 
this  market  received  and  sold  about 
everything 
to  come 
along,  charging  different  commissions 
for  the  various  articles  handled  accord­
ing  to  their  perishability.  For  instance 
io  per  cent,  for  fruit,  5  per  cent,  for 
poultry  and  so  on  throughout  the  list  of 
produce.  As  time  advanced  conditions 
changed  and  the  various  firms  made 
certain  articles  a  specialty,  giving 
them  their  attention  to  the  neglect  of 
other  lines  of  goods. 
In  this  way  the 
in  the  commission  line 
arious  firms 
have  built  up  a  trade  for  certain  com­
modities  until  now  many  houses  handle 
only  one  or  two  articles  and  the  vari­
ous  trades  have  drifted  apart,  more  so 
than  in  any  other  market.  Some  firms 
still  handle  a  line  of  articles,  but  to  a 
great  extent  the  various  different  trades 
have  become  so  separated  that  they  are 
now  centered  around  each  other 
in 
different  parts  of  the  city.  Each  year 
this  has  gradually  become  more  and 
more  pronounced.  For  example 
furs 
nd  skins, which  were  formerly  handled 
by  merchants  on  the  west  side  ,are  now 
mosty  handled 
further  up  and  across 
town  and  the  merchants  making  these 
if  anything 
trade  has 
else.  The  butter  and  egg 
from  the  poultry  and 
drifted  away 
game  business,  and 
fruits  and  vege­
tables  is  another  branch  of  the  commis­
sion  business.  Few  butter  houses  care 
to  bother  with  poultry  or  game,  and  the 
large  poultry  and  game  houses  rarely 
handle  anything  else,  many  of  them  not 
even  caring  for  eggs.

specialty  handle 

little 

The  buyers  of  the  various  articles  see 
the  quarters  where  the  goods which  they 
want  are  to  be  found.  One  looking  for 
poultry  will  not  go  into  the  butter  dis­
trict,  and  a  merchant  looking  for  butter 
or  cheese  seeks  the  center  where  these 
articles  are  handled  extensively.  And 
so 
it  is  that  a  poultry  merchant  receiv- 
ng  butter  or  a  butter  merchant  receiv- 
ng  fruits  or  vegetables  has  no  trade  for 
them  and  either  has  to  turn  them  over 
another house  making  a  specialty  of 
them,  or  sell  them  for  a 
lower  price 
than  could  probably  be  obtained  by  a 
receiver  of  these  goods  only.

Send  us your orders.

M ICHIG AN  PE A C H E S   NOW  IN  M ARKET

MOSELEY  BROS.

Jobbers  of  Fruits,  Seeds,  Beans  and  Potatoes

26, 28,30,32  Ottawa  Street

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan

I F. CUTLER & SONS, Ionia, Mich.

WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

B UT TE R,   E GGS   AND  P O U L T R Y ,

Wntej>rjvire^orhighestcashjj>^^

Branch  Houses.

New York, 874 Washington st.

Brooklyn, 225 Market avenue.

ESTABLISHED  1886.

References.

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

l

GRASS
SEED,
PRODUCE,
FRUIT,
ETC.

I  POULTRY,  EGGS, ETC.

We handle everything  in the  line of  Farm  Prod­
uce  and  Field  Seeds.  Our  “Shippers’  Guide,”  or 
"Seed  Manual” free on application.
Established ^4 

KELLY  CO.,

Cleveland,  Ohio.

References:  All mercantile agencies and  Park National Bank. 

WANTED:  1,000 Bushels White Rice Pop-Corn.

; PEACHES

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Every indication  points to a large crop and that  ihe  fruit  will  be  of
the finest quality  We solicit  your standing order  for  regular  ship-  J
ments and can guarantee you satisfactory service  and  lowest  prices.  }
Vinkemulder  Company,  j
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Qrand Rapids, Mich. 

I Butter Wanted

I  will  pay spot cash  on  receipt  of goods  for 
all  grades of butter, including- packing stock.
C.  H.  Libby,

98 South  Division Street, 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

2 4

SH IPPIN G   GROCERIES.

Some  Chanties W hich T hree Decades Have 

W rought.

it? 

“ Thirty-four  years  ago.  Let’s  see. 
it  Back  to  1866, 
That  would  bring 
Grand  Rapids  has 
wouldn’t 
changed  somewhat  since  then. 
“ That 
was  when  I  cam e,”   and  Alexander 
Keith,  as  he  said  it,  looked  through  the 
Tradesman’s  windows  to  the  noble  for­
est  above  John  Ball  Park,  as  if  he  saw 
there  the  picture  of  Grand  Rapids  as  it 
was  nearly  two  generations  ago. 
“ 1 
was  something  of  a  youngster  then  and 
I  came  over the  only  railroad  there  was 
here  then—the  D.  &.  M.  Until  some­
thing  turned  up  I 
took  to  teaming. 
There  was  no  trouble  in  those  days  for 
a  man  with  two  stout  hands  to  get  a 
job,  if  he  could  drive  a  team ;  and,  for 
five  months  or  so,  I  got  a  pretty  good 
idea  of  the  lay  of  the  land  in  and  about 
Grand  Rapids.  The  D.  &.  M.  depot 
hasn’t  changed  its  location  and  you  can 
imagine that  with  all  that  teaming  to  do 
there  were 
lively  times  along  the  road 
from  there  to  the  town.  L.  H.  Randall 
was  the  only  wholesale  grocer  in  the 
city  then  and  his  place  was  on  the  cor­
ner  of  Canal  and  Lyon  streets.  The  or­
ders  used  to  come  in  in  the  afternoon 
and,  from  that  time  on,  there  wasn’t  a 
chance  to  tell  even  short  stories.  Work 
was  the  word  and  there  was  no  let  up 
until  the  orders  were  rilled  and  the 
goods  were  ready  to  go  back  next  day.
times 
when  Mr.  Randall  did  most  of  his  buy­
ing  for  heavy  stocks.  That  took  him 
East  twice  a  year.  That  makes  me 
think:  I  haven’t  seen  a  hogshead  of 
sugar  for  years  and  it  came  in  no  other 
way  then. 
In  summer  freight  used  to 
come  by  boat;  and  I  remember  at  one 
time  that  sixty-five  hogsheads  of  New 
Orleans  sugar  came  by  the  way  of  the 
lakes  from  New  York.  New  Orleans 
molasses  was  a 
favorite  sweetening 
then  and  this  market  had  its  share.

“ Spring  and  fall  were 

the 

“ Our  means  of  drayage  at  that  time 
would  look  as  strange  on  the  streets now 
as  the  automobile  does.  Every  teamster 
drove  a  two-wheeled  dray  and  Monroe 
and  Canal  streets  had  a  double  line  of 
them,  moving 
in  different  directions 
most  of  the  time  between  here  and  the 
depot.  A  man,  going  along  Canal  street 
to-day  and  seeing  the  wagon-',  moving 
smoothly  over  the  asphalt,  can  hardly 
believe  a  statement 
in  regard  to  the 
old  condition  of  things.  Canal  street 
was  paved  a  block  north  of  Bridge 
street.  The  rest  of  the  distance  was 
sand  and  mud  and  there  were  times 
when  it  was  best  for  women  and  chil­
dren  not  to  hear  what  remarks  the 
teamsters  made  to  their  teams.  The 
drays  after  awhile  gave  way  to  the 
larry,  and  to  the  old  teamster,  who  can 
compare  the  old  way  with  the  new,  the 
contrast  is  a  pleasant  one  and  is  on  the 
side  of  the  larry  every  time.

“ 1  sometimes  hear  traveling  men 
growling  about  the  tough  times  they 
have,  but  I  notice  the  biggest  grumblers 
are  the  youngest  men.  They  are  more 
numerous  now  than  they  used  to  be. 
Mr.  Randall’s  one  man  used  to  start 
out  in  his  buggy,  calling  from  town  to 
town  and  completing  his  circuit  every 
three  weeks.  From  all  accounts  he  had 
some  tough  experiences.  The  average 
place  to  put  up  at  was  no  better,  in  the 
early  days, 
than  it  is  now.  The  table 
wasn’t  any  too  good  and  the  sleeping 
accommodations were sometimes  enough 
to  make  a  man  itch  to  hear about.  Ten 
traveling  men  have  taken  the  place  of 
that  man  in  the  buggy.  There 
is  no 
freezing  half  to  death  in  the  winter,  nor

M IC H IG A N   TRADESMAN

a  great  deal  of  melting  in  the  summer. 
I’ve  seen  the  men  come  in  during  both 
seasons  a  little  the  worse  for  wear;  but 
the  dust  that  they  complain  of  now isn’t 
half  so  thick  on  them  as  it used  to  be on 
the  man 
in  the  buggy,  and  the  ’ bus 
ride  from  the  depot  to  the  hotel  isn’t 
anywhere  near  as  severe  as  the  miles 
across  the  country 
in  the  face  of  the 
storm,  which  the  oldtimer  had  to  en­
counter  as  surely  as  the  winter  came. 
The  men  get  around  in  two  weeks  now. 
They  go  farther  and  do  more  business, 
but  there  are  ten  times  more  of  them 
and  they  endure  ten  times  less  hardship 
in  ten  days  than  the  one  man  did  in 
one.

“ This  does  not  mean  that  men  en­
gaged 
in  the  wholesale  store,  inside  or 
outside,  are  having  a  soft  snap.  There 
is  no  dodging  hard  work  and  enough  of 
it  wherever  we  are.  There  are  now  ap­
pliances  which  never  were  dreamed  of 
in  the  early  days;  but  for that  matter

in  regard 

intention  to  Mr.  Randall,  who 
listened 
to  him  kindly  and  as  kindly  “ took  him 
in .’ ’  The  workman  at  the  sugar  mill 
needed  no  urging  to  give  up  his  job  for 
one  higher  up  and,  if  any  one  needs 
posting 
to  the  amount  of 
muscle  required  to  drive  the  old-fashr 
ioned  sugar  mill,  without  doubt  he  can 
get  the  information  of  Richard  Warren, 
who  served  a  full  apprenticeship  at  the 
crank  before  entering  upon  the  higher 
sphere  of  usefulness  which  he  now  so 
satisfactorily  fills.

“ The  man  who  used  to  run  the  old 
hand-elevator  had  no  easy  job.  Weight 
and  muscle  were  leading  requirements 
and  the  muscle  had  no  chance  to  get 
flabby.  Hard  work  at  all  times,  it  was 
worse  in  summer  with  the  thermometer 
up  in  nineties  and  many  a  day  the  man 
with  that  job  never  had  a  dry  thread  on 
him  until  he  got  home  at  night.  There 
is  where  improvement  comes  in  and  the 
elevator  boy —it  wasn’t  boy  then—who 
thinks  he  is  having  a  hard  time  would 
soon  change  his  tune  if  he  should  have 
a  little  of  the  old  music  his  father  and 
grandfather  used  to  be  too  tired  to 
whistle!

“ Some  changes  have  taken  place  in 
the  matter  of  stock  handled.  Flour  was 
not  at  one  time  wholesale  merchandise. 
It  went  directly  from  the  mill  to  the 
store  111  barrels. 
These  have  given 
way  to  bags  of  paper  and  cloth.  Codfish 
came  in  450  pound  boxes.  They  were 
taken  out  and  tied  up 
into  bundles— 
«ork  not  now  required,  the  packers 
having  introduced  new  methods of treat­
ment  and  of  handling.  Another  article 
of  merchandise  not  often  handled  now 
is  the  old-time  apple  sauce,  the  jelly  of 
modern  times  taking  its  place.

“ Among  all  these  changes  from  the

old  to  the  new,  it  may  be  safely  stated 
that  one  notable  exception  remains,  the 
responsibility  and  the called-to-account- 
ativeness  of  the  shipping  clerk.  Time 
ha.s  made  and  will  continue  to  make 
sweeping  changes 
in  other  directions ; 
but  the  shipping  clerk  sees  no  relief. 
In  the  old  days,  as  in  the  new,  what­
ever  is  amiss 
is  the  fault  of  the  ship­
ping  clerk.  A  man  coming 
into  the 
front  office  with  a  complaint  is  directed 
by  a  motion  of  the  hand  to  the  back 
door  and  the  workman  in  the  back  store 
with  his  hands  full  nods  towards  the 
shipping  clerk’s  office  when  the  com­
plaining  customer  attacks  him.  Busi­
in 
ness  increases  and  complaints  vary 
kind  and 
intensity,  but  with 
a 
serenity 
that  the  years  can  not  over­
come  the  shipping  clerk keeps  on  in  the 
even  tenor  of  his  way  with  the  single 
and  only  consolation  that  ‘ he  that  en- 
dureth  to  the  end  the  same  shall  be 
saved.’  ”
W ouldn’t Be Selling C lothing for a Diving.
for  many  years 
chef  of  the  Tremont  House,  at  Chicago, 
was  famous  for  his  tomato  soup.  Every 
time  it  appeared  on  the  bill  of  fare 
some  one  was  certain  to  ask  for  the 
recipe.  It  was  a  delight  to  send  the  en­
quirer  up  to  the  kitchen,  for  Thomann, 
after  explaining  his  process  at 
length, 
would  always  end  up  with  a  request  for 
the  guest’s  occupation  and 
the  reply: 
"B u t 
if  you  could  make  soup like  dot 
you  vouldn’t  be  selling  boys’  cloding 
for  a  lifing.’ ’

Wilhelm  Thomann, 

in 

Money  In   It.

“ Maude  thinks  there  is  money  in  her 

voice. ’ ”

“ Yes,  it  might  do  to  yell 

with  in  a  department  store.’ ’

‘ Cash!’ 

Dyspepsia  discovered  the  stomach, 

and  indigestion  keeps  it  in  mind.

it 

is  done 
neither  was  the  work  which 
now.  A  carload  of  sugar  reaches  the 
city. 
It  is  uncoupled  from  the  rest  of 
the  train  and  sidetracked  to  the  ware­
house, where  it  is  quickly  taken  care  of. 
If 
is  to  go  into  an  upper  story,  the 
elevator  soon  does  the  work,  taking  the 
men  up  with  the  sugar  if  they  want  to 
g°-

“ That  wasn’t  the  way  of  it  once.  A 
hogshead  of  New  Orleans  sugar  was  no 
trifling  affair.  We  had  what  was  called 
a  sugar  mill  then  and  the  hogshead  was 
rolled  close  to  it  and  the  heads  taken 
out.  The  mill  consisted  of  two  iron 
rollers—one  was  furnished  with  a  crank 
—with  a  hopper  above  them  and  the 
first  thing  to  be  done with  the sugar  was 
to  crush  it  in  the  mill.  That  was  hard 
work  and  the  strongest  man  on  the  force 
was  placed  at  the  crank,  while  two  men 
shovelled  the  sugar  by 
the  scoopful 
from  each  end  of  the  hogshead  into  the 
hopper.  This  treatment  of  the  sugar was 
necessary  not  only  to  crush  the  sugar 
which  had  beome  hardened  but  to  make 
it  uniform,  that  at  the  bottom  of  the 
hogshead,  being  damper  and  heavier. 
The  sugar  thus  prepared  was  put  into 
barrels  and  ready  for  shipment.

‘ ‘ That  crank  was  as  big  a  terror to 
the  workman  as  turning  the  grindstone 
was  to  a  farm  boy  of  the  same  period, 
and  a  load  of  sugar  was  as  much  an  ob­
ject  of  dread  to  the  man  at  the  crank  as 
a  new  scythe  or  a  dull  axe  was  to  the 
boy. 
is  stated  that  when  the  sugar 
mill  was  at  the  height  of  its  usefulness, 
a  certain  photographer  of  Grand  Rap­
ids,  weary  of  his  art,determined  to  give 
it  up  and 
learn  the  grocery  business 
1 from  the  basement  up.  He stated  his

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Commercial Travelers

Michigan  Knights  of the  Grip

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

Michigan  Commercial  Travelers’  Association 
President,  A.  Ma ry m ont,  Detroit;  Secretary 
and Treasurer, Geo.  W. H il l , Detroit.
United  Commercial  Travelers  of Michigan 

Grand  Counselor,  J.  E.  Mo o r e,  Jackson; 
Grand  Secretary,  A.  K en d a ll,  Hillsdale; 
Grand Treasurer,  W.  S.  Me st, Jackson.

Grand  Rapids  Conncil  No.  131,  U.  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.  Boyd  P a n t l in d ,  Grand  Rapids; 
Secretary  and  Treasurer,  Geo.  F.  Ow e n , 
Grand Rapids.

M eeting  of Local  T raveling  Men—Strong 

Resolutions  Adopted.

A  meeting  of  the  Grand  Rapids  trav­
eling  men  was  held  at  Sweet’s  Hotel 
Saturday  evening  to  consider  the  advis­
ability  of  extending  an  invitation  to  the 
Michigan  Knights  of  the  Grip  to  hold 
its  annual  convention 
in  this  city  on 
Thursday  and  Friday,  December  27  and 
28.  The  meeting  was  presided  over  by 
Manley  Jones,  chairman  of  Post  E,  who 
read  a  letter  from  President  Schreiber, 
stating  why  it  is  not  convenient  to  hold 
the  convention  at  Jackson  or  Owosso 
and  expressing  the  hope  that  the  Grand 
Rapids  boys  could  see  their  way  clear 
to 
invite  the  organization  to  hold  its 
1900  convention  in  this  city.  The  mat­
ter  was  discussed  very  fully  by  those 
present  and,  although  no  formal  reso­
lution was adopted  covering  the  subject, 
it  was  decided  that  if  $750  could  be vol­
untarily  raised  by  the  traveling  men  of 
Grand  Rapids,  it  would  be 
feasible  to 
invitation.  Ten  subscrip­
extend  the 
tion  lists  were  thereupon  drawn  up  and 
in  the  hands  of  ten  different 
placed 
men,  going 
in  different  directions,  in 
the  expectation  that  each  gentleman 
would  secure  the  signature  of  fifteen 
traveling  men  who  will  agree to contrib­
ute  to  the  expense  of  the occasion  to  the 
amount  of  $5.

Another  meeting  will  be  held  at  the 
same  place  on  Saturday  evening  of  this 
week  for  the purpose  of comparing notes 
and  ascertaining  whether  the  requisite 
amount  of  money  has  been  secured  to 
assure  the  success  of  the  undertaking.

While  no  resolution  was  adopted,  it 
seemed  to  be  the  sentiment  of  everyone 
present  that  no  contributions  should  be 
solicited  from  the  wholesale  trade  or 
manufacturers  of  the  c ity ;  that  the  en­
tire  expense  of  entertainment  should 
be  borne  by  the  traveling  men  them­
selves,  and  that  the  entertainment  fea­
tures  should  be  conducted  on  such  an 
economical  basis  that  $750  will  cover 
the  entire  amount  needed  to  be  raised 
for that  purpose.

The  time  being  opportune  for  the 
discussion  of  the  action  of  the  Lake 
Shore  Railway  in  withdrawing  from  the 
Northern  Mileage  Bureau,  E.  E.  Wooley 
presented 
following  resolutions, 
which  were  unanimously  adopted  as  ex­
pressing  the  sentiment  of  every  travel­
ing  m an:

Whereas— The  Lake  Shore -&  Michi­
gan  Southern  Railway  has  peremptorily 
withdrawn  from  the  Northern  Mileage 
Ticket  Bureau,  without  due  notice  and 
without  assigning  any  reason  for  such 
action;  and

the 

Whereas,  the  Lake  Shore  Railway  is 
endeavoring  to  force  on  the  traveling 
public  the  mileage  hook  of  the  Central 
Passenger  Association,  which  is 
infe­
rior  in  every  respect  to  the  Northern 
book,  thus  working  a  hardship  to  every 
traveling  man  who  is  obliged  to  use  the 
Lake  Shore  lines  in  covering  the  Mich­
igan  trade;  therefore
to  pur­
chase  or  use  the  book  of  the  Central 
Passenger  Association,  and

Resolved— That  we  refuse 

Resolved— That  we  use  the 

Lake 
Shore  lines  just  as  little as  it  is  possible 
for  us  to  do  and  discriminate  against 
that  road  by  diverting  our  freight  from 
that  road,  so  far  as 
it  is  feasible  for 
us to  do  so ;  also

Resolved— That  we  request  our  cus­
tomers  and  employes  to  co-operate  with

us 
in  this  respect  by  having  their  in­
coming  freight  come  over  other  lines 
than  the  Lake  Shore,  until  such  time  as 
the  Lake  Shore  restores  the  Northern 
book  on  its  lines.

There  being  no  further  business,  the 

meeting  adjourned.

G ripsack  Brigade.

Quincy  Herald:  Fred  McKinney 
has  taken  a  position  on  the  road  for  the 
Adam  Burtell  Co.,  of  Schoolcr.ift.

Croswell  Democrat:  Harvey  Paton  is 
now  a  traveling  salesman  for  the  Col­
onial  Whip  Co.,  of  Wellsville,  Pa.,  and 
made  his  initial  trip  this week.  He  will 
cover  Michigan  as  his  territory.

Wm.  H.  Sigel  has  resigned  his  posi­
tion  as  traveling  representative  for  the 
Clark-Jewell-Wells  Co.  and  engaged  in 
the  furniture  business  with  Frank  Par- 
menter.  Wm.  E.  Martin,  who  has  been 
selling 
for  several 
months in  this territory,has been selected 
as  his  successor.

computing  scales 

letter 

At  the  meeting  of  the  Michigan  Pas­
senger  Association,  held  at  Detroit  last 
Thursday,  a 
from  the  United 
Commercial  Travelers  was  read  by  T.
G.  Gwinnett,  of  the  D.  &  M.  Railroad. 
The  letter  endorsed  the  system  of  mile­
age  employed  by  the  Northern  Mileage 
Bureau,  and  condemned  the  withdrawal 
of  the  Lake  Shore from the organization.
Passenger  Traffic  Manager  Martin,  of 
the  Baltimore  &  Ohio;  General  Pas­
senger  Agents  J.  R.  Wood,  of  the Penn­
sylvania,  T.  W.  Lee,  of  the  Lacka­
wanna,  and  C.  S.  Lee,  of  the  Lehigh 
Valley,  as  a  committee  from  the  Trunk 
Line  Passenger  Committee,  are  to  in­
vestigate  and  report  upon  the  merits  of 
the  various  forms  of  mileage  arrange­
ments  now  in  use  throughout  the  coun­
try.

should 

Barbed  wire 

in  Pennsylvania 

into  breakers  and 

is  likely  to  play  an  im­
in  the  defense  of  the  col­
portant  part 
lieries 
the 
present  strike  be  marked  by  riotous  at­
tacks  upon  them  by  union  mobs.  The 
operators  have  learned  a lesson  from  the 
occurrences  of  1897,  when  the  mobs 
which  marched  from  one  colliery  to  an­
other  broke 
tool 
houses  and  robbed  them  of  their  con- 
ents.  There  was  then  not  even  a  board 
fence  around  any  of  them,  and approach 
to  them  was  unrestricted  consequently. 
Herds  of  half  savage  Huns  rushed 
into 
the  buildings  about  the  coliieries  and 
committed  all  sorts  of  depreda  ions. 
This  time  the  operators  are  taking  no 
chances  and,  consequently, 
the  only 
traveling  salesmen  who  have  any  busi­
ness 
in  that  region  recently  are  those 
representing  fence  wire  houses.  One  of 
them  sold  a  coal  company  1,000  pounds 
of  barbed  wire,  with  barbs  that  mean 
business,  and  took  an  order  for  500 
pounds  more  for another  colliery.  The 
wire  is  being  rapidly  strung  around  the 
companies’  property,  so  that  the  next 
mob  that  starts  out  to  wreck  a  colliery 
will  find 
itself  confronted  by  defenses 
a  la  Santiago  and  men  with guns behind 
them  to  defend  them.

Scent  farms  furnish  a  new  occupation 
for  women,  and  a  profitable  one. 
It 
has  already  attracted  a  number  of  wom­
en 
it  will  only  be  a 
short  time  before  American  women fond 
of  outdoor  life  will  turn  to  it  as  they 
have  done  to  violet  farming.

in  England,  and 

If  we  command  our wealth,  we  shall 
be  rich  and  free;  if  our  wealth  com­
mands  us,  we  are  poor  indeed.  We  are 
bought  by  the  enemy  with  the  treasure 
in  our  own  coffers.— Burke.

Language  is  a  city  to  the  building  of 
which  every  human  being  brought  a 
stone. — Emerson.

The  P aris  Exposition  a t  F irst  Hand.
It  is  only  the  man  who  has  been  there 
who  knows  what  he  is  talking  about. 
One  unquestioned 
“ I  saw”   or  “ I 
heard” — sense  knowledge  generally— is 
worth  as  evidenece  all  the “ thinks”  and 
“ supposes”   to  be  dreamed  of.  From 
time  to  time  rumors  have been  set  afloat 
that  the  Paris  Exposition  is  not  what  it 
has  been  cracked  up  to  be.  With  the 
greatest  success  on  record  of  that  kind 
of  undertaking,  the  people  of  this  coun­
try  have  been  curious  to  know  in  what 
respect  the  Paris  attempt  is  not  realiz­
ing 
its  extravagant  ideai---that  of  sur­
passing  what  the  world  saw  at  the 
Dream  City  on  the  shore  of  Lake  Mich­
igan  in  1893.

D.  H.  Graham,  traveling  representa­
tive  for  the  wholesale  paper  house  of 
Bradner  Smith  &  Co.,  of  Chicago,  is 
one  of  the  many  who  have  been  to  the 
Paris  Exposition  and  returned.  He  has 
opinions  which  he  is  not  inflicting upon 
his  friends  nor  upon  any  unlistening 
ears,  but  he 
is  willing  to  drop  an  oc­
casional  fact  in  regard  to  the  big  farce 
which  may  lead  the  thoughtful  mind  to 
certain  conclusions.  Supported,  as  such 
exhibitions  must  be,  by  the  patronage 
of  the  many  and  the  many  never  a 
crowd  of  millionaires,  he  thinks  that 
a  hotel  bill  of $6.50  for  supper,  lodging 
and  breakfast  at  the  average hotel  is  ex­
orbitant.  The  French  management  of 
tickets 
is  open  to  decided  criticism. 
They  are  sold  twenty  on  a  sheet,  each 
ticket  good  for  one  entrance.  The  sheet 
is  presented  and  the  ticket  collector 
takes  off  four 
instead  of  the  expected 
one.  Another  day  three  are  taken  off 
and  when  an  explanation  is  called  for 
there  is  a  shrug  of  the  shoulders— which 
means,  “ You  fool!”   in  French  panto­
mime—and  the  remark  made  that  the 
extra  tickets  are 
for  “ specials,”   no 
allowance  being  given  for  the  freedom 
of  the  will 
in  the  matter  of  wanting 
these.  As  a  result  the  sheet  of  tickets 
i&soon  exhausted,  the  end  and  aim  of 
the  management— a  system  that  puts  an 
end  to  ticket  buying  sooner  than  any 
other  arrangement  which  could  have 
been  hit  upon.  The  Rue  de  Paris,  the 
Midway  Plaisance  of  the  Chicago  E x­
position,  instead  of  being  a  striking 
feature,  is  so  much  the  reverse  of  that 
as  to  be  noticeable  only  for  its 
lack  of 
attraction  and  so  the  most  thinly  at­
tended  of  any  part  of  the  Exhibition.

for 

The  one  feature  of  the  Exposition 
is  the  Department  of 
really  a  success 
is  worth  all  that  is 
Fine  Arts.  That 
claimed 
it  and  is  the  only  depart­
ment  challenging  comparison  with  the 
Exhibition  at  Chicago.  The  American, 
however,  while  conceding  so  much,  is 
not  forgetful  of  the  fact  that  Chicago 
represented  a  century  and  a  quarter  of 
life  and  artistic  endeavor  and 
ideal 
that  Paris,  besides  the  work  of  the 
liv­
ing  artist,  has,  as  an  unfailing  source  of 
inspiration,  the  galleries  of  the  Luxem­
burg  and  of  the  Louvre.  Picture  for 
picture,  work  of  art  for  work  of  art,  the 
“ See  here!”  of the  Parisian masterpiece 
is  not  more  astonishing  than  that  of  the 
American— and  there  the  wonder  lies.
.  Prominent  among  the  things  worth 
is  the  United  States  Building. 
seeing 
Finely 
located,  itself  a  work  of  art,  it 
is  a  continual  drawer  of  the  crowd. 
The  only  thing  “   'way  up”  
that  is 
is  the  Eifel  Tower,  the 
purely  French 
chief  object  of 
interest  in  1889.  The 
Trocederp.that  has  survived two World’s 
Fairs,  has  not  lost  its  power  to  please 
and  there  it  is,  trying,  in  its dumb way, 
to  impress  the  Untutored  West  with  a 
sense,  of  its  wonderful  beauty.  That  it

has  unquestioned  claims  none can deny; 
but  the  United  States  Building  shows 
what  the  New  World can  do  in  architec­
ture  and  the Trocedero  only  offers a con­
venient  means  for  comparison,  averse 
to  France.

One  must  make  allowances 

for  na­
tional  prejudices 
in  reaching  conclu­
sions  when  judging  the  Exhibition  in 
detail;  but  the  intelligent American can 
find  no  fault  with  his  countrymen’s 
exhibit  when  compared  with  what  the 
rest  of  the  world  has  contributed. 
In 
other  lines  of  display  Mr.  Graham could 
give  only  his  opinion  in regard to things 
European  or  American,  as 
the  case 
might  b e ;  but  in  his  own  line,  where  as 
an  expert  his  judgment  is  valuable,  he 
does  not  hesitate  to  say  that this country 
is  far  ahead.  He  does  not  go  so  far  as 
to  say  that  the  old  country  has  reached 
in  the  attainment  of  the  best 
her 
in  paper  manufacture,  but  he  leaves 
it 
to  be  easily  inferred  that,  after  Europe 
has  done  her 
level  best  in  papermak­
ing,  the  papermakers  of  the  United 
States  can  begin  where  she  leaves  off 
and  teach  her  what  papermaking,  as  a 
fine  art,  really  is.

limit 

is 

it  must  be  a  good  one. 

the  already  acknowledged 

The  real  trouble  with  the  whole E xhi­
bition  over  there  is  that  France  is  Paris 
and  Paris 
is  bounded  by  the  Seine. 
That 
little  island,  once  the  whole  city, 
surrounded  and  guarded  by  the  river,  is 
t,o  the  Frenchman  what  the  wall-girded 
territory  of  China  is  to  the  Chinaman. 
Nobody  questions,  nor  wants  to  ques­
tion, 
fact 
that  that  spot  of  earth  saw  the  culmina­
tion  of  all  that  is  best  in  French  civ ili­
zation,  and  that  at  one  time  French  civ­
ilization  was  the  world’s  civilization. 
Paris  has  grown  since  then— run  over 
into  the  Exposition  on  the  Champ  de 
Mars,  if  you  please— but  the  rest  of 
the  world  has  been  growing,  too;  and 
that 
just  the  fact  which  the  French­
man  can  not  see  and  will  not  acknowl­
edge.  The  show  is  a  French  show,  and 
therefore 
It  is 
located  in  Paris  on  the  Champ  de  Mars 
on  the  hanks  of  the  Seine  and  must nec­
essarily  be  the  best  exposition  the  world 
has  ever  seen.  The Champ de  Mars! 
It 
is  a 
little  patch  of  French  dirt  that 
could  be  pocketed  in  one  corner  of  Chi­
cago  and  forever  lost sight of ;  while  the 
Seine 
is  a  little  squirt  of  a  stream,  no 
more  to  be  compared  with  Lake  Mich­
igan  than  the  Lake  can  be  compared 
with  the  Pacific  Ocean!  And  yet  there 
wasn’t  a  Frenchman  on  the  grounds 
who  wasn’t  shrugging  his 
shoulders 
every  time  the  Chicago  Fair  was  men­
tioned  and  trying  to  talk  into  anybody 
he  could  get  to  listen  to  him  the  idea 
that  America 
is  too  uncultivated  and 
uncivilized  to  produce  “ dat;”   and  then 
he  spreads  his  upturned  palms  and  tips 
back  his  head  to  take 
the  Eifel 
Tower  and  the  Trocedero  and  the  sky!
The  Fair  is  a  failure  from  beginning 
to  end,  as  a  whole,  a  result  due  to  the 
overburdening  conceit  of  the  French­
man,  who does  not  know  that  he  is  dead 
and  that  the  Exposition  is  a  proof  of 
his  soon-coming  burial—a  statement 
containing  more  fact  than  fiction.

in 

Michigan  Bulletin : 

The  Michigan 
Tradesman  commemorates its eighteenth 
successful  year of  publication by issuing 
a  number  containing  100  pages.  From 
a  modest  beginning  the  Tradesman  has 
grown  to  a  high  place  in  the  estimation 
of  conservative  business  circles  and 
its 
influence  as  a  trade  journal is to envied. 
E.  A.  Stowe,  founder  and  manager,  is 
a  leader  in  his  line.

We  must  laugh  before  we  are  happy, 
laugh  at 

for  fear  we  die  before  we 
all.— De  la  Bruyere.

26
Drugs—Chemicals

M ic h ig a n   State  B o a rd   o f  P h arm a cy

Term expires
-  Dec. 31,1900
- 
Ge o .  Gu n d r u m , Ionia 
-  Dec. 31,1901 
L.  E.  R e y n o ld s,  St.  Joseph 
H s n b y   H e im , Saginaw 
-  Dec. 31,1902
- 
Dec. si, 1903
W ib t   P.  D oty, Detroit - 
A. C. Sc h u m a c h e r,  Ann Arbor  -  Dec. 31, 1904 
President, A.  G.  Sc h u m a c h e r,  Ann Arbor. 
Secretary, H e n r y   H e im , Saginaw.
Treasurer, W.  P.  Doty,  Detroit.

E xam ination  Sessions 

Lansing—Nov. 7 and 8.

M ich.  State  P h arm aceutical  Association.

President—Ch a s.  F.  Ma n n . Detroit. 
Secretary—.1.  W.  Se e l e y ,  Detroit 
Treasurer—W.  K.  Sc h m id t, Grand Rapids.

“ JUST  AS  GOOD.”

A  D ruggist  Has  H is  Say  R egarding  Sub­
Written for tbe Tradesman.

stitu tio n .

The  man  looked  as  if  he  had  an  idea 
that  the  world  hadn’t  dealt  with  him 
according  to.his  deserts.  His  manner 
was  nervous  and  intolerant,  his  speech 
sharp  as  the  crack  of  a  whip  and  the 
corners  of  his  large  mouth sagged down, 
as  if  tired  of  saying  mean  and  cutting 
things.

The  druggist,  going 

forward  to  wait 
upon  him,  found  him  busily  engaged  in 
reading  the  labels  attached  to  a  number 
of  boxes  and  bottles  containing  reme­
dies  which  he  himself  had  prepared. 
I 
mean  remedies  which  the  druggist,  not 
the  customer,  had  prepared.  The  Eng­
lish  language  is  a  trifle  awkward  now 
and  then.

“ I  want  a  bottle  of  Murphy’s  Head­
customer. 
ache  Powders,”   said  the 
“ That 
is,”   he  added,  with  a  sneer, 
“ if  you  haven’t  got  something  else  just 
as  good. ’ ’

“ We  have  other  kinds  which  are 
doubtless  just  as  good,”   said  the  drug­
gist,  taking  down  the  required  remedy, 
“ but  we  make  it  a  rule  to  give  a  cus­
tomer  just  what  he  asks  for,  if  we  have 
it  in  stock.”

“ I  didn’t  know  but  you  had  some­
thing  of  the  kind  you  made  yourself,”  
snarled  the  customer.

“ I  have,”   replied  the  druggist.
“ And  is  it  just  as  good?”
‘ ‘ Better. ’ ’
“ Oh,  of  course  you’ll  say  so.  How 
many  people  have  you  killed  trying  to 
imitate  the  makers  of  patent  medi­
cines?”

“ None,  that  I  know  of.”
“ The  minute  a  fellow  gets  behind  a 
counter 
in  a  country  drug  store  he 
knows  more’n  the  doctors,”   snarled  the 
customer.  “ His  own  remédies  are  ‘ just 
as  good’  then.  After  he  has  been  in  the 
business 
long  enough  to  have  a  Sunday 
suit,  they  are  better.”

The  customer took  the  package,  paid 

for  it  and  turned  toward  the  door.

“ Anything  else  to-day?”   asked  the 

druggist.

“ Oh,  yes,”   was  the  reply,  “ I  want 
some  postage  stamps.  Haven’t  got  any 
that  you  made  yourself  that  are  just  as 
good,  have  you?”   he  added,  as  the 
druggist  passed  out  the  stamps.

“ I  haven’t  got  as  far  along  in  the 
business  as  that  yet,”   replied  the  drug­
gist.

“ But  you’ll  get  there.”
“ I  presume  so.  But 

just  now  we 
have  all  we  can  do  to  keep  track  of  the 
patent  medicine  men.  They  are  get­
ting  out  a  good  many  new  remedies 
and  we’ve  got  to  find  something  ‘ just 
as  good’ 
in  every  case.  Of  course,  a 
man  who  has  spent  his  life  in  the  drug 
business  doesn’t  know  quite  as  much 
about  drugs  as  some  fellow  who  was 
never  in  a drug store  in  his  life  and whoj

M IC H IG A N   TRADESM AN

goes  into  the  patent  medicine  business 
because  he  wants  something  to  adver­
tise,  but  he  may  learn.”

The  customer  opened  his  mouth  to 
reply,  but  the  merchant  didn’t  give  him 
time  to  get  a  word  in.

“ In  a 

few  years,”   continued  the 
druggist,  “ the  druggists  will  have  to 
pass  an  examination  before  the  patent 
medicine  men.  Then  when  you  have  a 
headache or  a  bruise  on  your  foot  you’ll 
have  to  sit  down  and  write  a  letter  tell­
ing  all  about  it  to  some  squirt  in  Bos­
ton  or  New  York  who  spends  one  cent 
a  bottle  for  his  remedy  and  ten  cents  a 
bottle  for advertising  it,  and  sells  it  for 
a  dollar.  The  druggist  won’t  have  any­
thing 
’ just  as  good’  and  you’ll  have  to 
ache until  the  Eastern  man  condescends 
to  write  to  you. ’ ’

The  customer  backed  away  and  laid 

his  hand  on  the  door.

“ A  good  many  of  the  druggists  of  the 
country  are  also  graduated physicians,”  
said  the  merchant,  “ but  of  course  they 
don’t  know  what 
is  good  for  a  sore 
throat  or  the  whooping  cough  or  the 
in  the  head  or  a 
dyspepsia  or  a  cold 
touch  of  rheumatism.  No, 
indeed, 
they  do  not.  They  have  to  buy  a  lot  of 
patent  medicine  warranted  to  cure  and 
sell  them  in  order  to  effect  cures.  And 
if  they  have  a  remedy  of  their  own  for 
any  of  these  ills  they  will not be allowed 
to  sell  it. ”

“ Why  not?”   asked  the  customer.
“ Because,”   was  the  reply,  “ every 
cheap  skate  in  the  country  is  plugging 
for  the  patent  medicine  men.  They  be­
lieve  everything  they  say  in  their ad­
vertisements,  but 
if  a  druggist  has  a 
remedy  that  he  has  successfully used  for 
years,  his  best  friends  criticise  him  for 
claiming  to  know  as  much  about  it  as 
the  patent  medicine  men  know  about 
their  remedies. 
I’ve  been  in  the  drug 
business  a  good  many  years  and  I  know 
nearly  all  the  patent  medicines  and 
what  they  are  composed  of  and  I  know 
that  about  half  of  them  are  no  good.”

“ What  makes  you  sell  them,  then?”  

demanded  the  customer.

“ Because  people  ask  for  them,”   was 
the  reply. 
“ I  can  make  up  a  powder 
from  my  stock  here  which  will  cure  the 
headache 
just  as  quickly  as  anything 
manufactured,  yet  you  wanted  a  certain 
kind  of  headache  powders  and  you  got 
them. ”

“ Why  didn’t  you  sell  me  some of it?”  
“ It  may  be  better 

asked  the  customer. 
than  this. ”

“ Because  you  asked  for  the  kind  you 
wanted,”   was  the  reply. 
“ No  good 
business  man  will  try  to  sell  a  customer 
something  he  does  not  want.  On  the 
other  hand, 
the  druggist  who  is  not 
continually  studying  up  remedies  and 
combinations  is  not  fit  for  the  business. 
That 
is,  of  course,  if  he  has  the  time 
and  opportunity.  Druggists  are  not  in 
the  business  for  the  fun  they  have  or 
for  the  purpose  of  enriching  the  makers 
of  patent  medicines. 
If  they  can  make 
40  cents  on  a  50  cent  package  of  medi­
cine  by  putting  the  remedy  up  them­
selves,  they  ought  to  do  it  in  preference 
to  making  15  cents  on  a  similar  remedy 
put  up  by  some  firm  in  the  East. ’ ’
leaned  against 

customer 

The 

the 

counter  and  pondered.

“ Y es,”   he  finally  said,  “ that’s  my 
I  don’t  pay  anybody  for  doing 
idea. 
what  I  can  do  myself  and  I  don’t  know 
why  you  should.”
“ There  are  a 

lot  of  patent  medi­
cines,”   continued  the  druggist,  “ which 
are  all  right,  and just  as  advertised,  but 
if  I  am  satisfied  that  I  can  make  some­
just  as  good  or better and  sell  it
thing 

at  a  profit,  I ’m  going  to  do  it,  and 
every  druggist 
in  the  land  has  a  right 
to  do  the  same  without  everlastingly 
hearing  about  substitution,  which,  after 
all,  is  a  cry  raised  by  the  patent  medi­
cine  men  themselves.”

Alfred  B.  Tozer.

The  customer  went  away  with  his 
powders  and  the  druggist  sat  down  to 
ponder  on  the  cussedness  of  human  na­
ture,  and  especially  human  nature  with 
a  pain. 
Sieves for Use at th e P rescription Counter.
Lay  a  piece  of  bolting-cloth  over  the 
top  of  a  suitable  sized  pill  or  powder 
box,  and  replace  the  cover;  remove  the 
top  of  the  cover  and  the  bottom  of  the 
box  by  cutting  away  with  a  knife.  The 
bolting-cloth  will  be  found  stretched 
tightly  over  the  box  and  the  sieve  is 
complete.

A  convenient  and  more  durable  sieve 
is  cheaply  made  by  taking  two  round 
empty  drug  cans—quinine  cans,  for  in­
stance—to  a  tinsmith,  and  having  him 
make  a  band  of  tin  1%  inches  deep,  so 
that  the  ends  of  it  will  exactly  fit  into 
each  of  the  drug  cans. 
Inside  one  end 
of 
this  middle  section  or  tin  band 
solder copper or  brass  gauze  of  any  de­
sired  mesh. 
is  better  to  have  three 
such  middle  sections,  each  being  a 
sieve  of  a  different  degree  of  fineness, 
to  be  used  as  occasion  requires.

It 

To  sift  a  powder,  put  the  sieve  of  de­
sired  mesh  into  one  can,  and  the  pow­
der  into  the  other.  Set  the  can contain­
ing  the  sieve  down  into  the  one  con­
Invert  the  can, 
taining  the  powder. 
and  sift  the  powder  through 
into  the 
lower  one.  No  dust  will  escape,  if  all 
has  been  carefully  fitted.

This  sifting-can  will  be  found  most 
neat  and  convenient  at  the  prescription 
counter,  and  one  made  from  larger  cans 
can  be  used 
in  the  laboratory.  The 
cost  will  not  exceed  50  cents  for a  sifter 
with  three  sieves,  and  a  capacity  of 
holding  and  sifting  a  pound  of  vege­
table  powder. 

F.  N.  Strickland.

The  D rug  M arket.

Opium— Is quiet  at  unchanged  prices.
Morphine— Is  steady.
Quinine— Is 

in  good  demand  at  full 
prices.  Some  manufacturers  will  not 
contract,  while  others  will  not  accept 
orders,  and  one  will  make  limited  con­
tracts.  The  situation  is  very  firm  and 
higher  prices  looked  for.

Carbolic  Acid— Is  in  a  very  firm  po­

sition.

Cod  Liver  Oil—As  the  sqason  ad­
vances  the  tone  of  the  market  is  firmer. 
We  note  the  advance  of  50c  per  bbl.

Glycerine—The  fall  demand  has  com­
menced  and  the  tendency  of  the  price 
is  upward.

Menthol— Is  very  firm  and  has  ad­

vanced  25c  per  lb.

Essential  Oils— Lemon  is  active  and 
firm  at  the  advanced  price.  Pepper­
mint 
is  strong  and  tending  higher. 
Sassafras  has  again  advanced  and  is 
very  firm.

Buchu  Leaves— Have  again  advanced 

and  are  tending  higher.

Linseed  Oil— Is  weak  and 

tending 

lower.

An  English  country  paper advertises: 
“ Wanted— A  steady  man  to  look  after  a 
garden  and  milk  a  cow  who  has  a  good 
voice  and  is  acccustomed  to  sing  in  the 
choir.”   A  cow  with  those  accomplish­
ments  should  be  milked  with  pleasure. 
She  could  sing  while  the  man  milked.

The  good  things  of  life  are  not  to  be 
had  singly,  but  come  to  us  with  a  m ix­
ture— like  a  schoolboy’s  holiday,  with  a 
task  affixed  to  the  tail  of  it.— Lamb.

Ginseng  Wanted

Highest price paid.  Address

Peck  Bros.,
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Mrli. UntMIdid,

ALLEGAN, MICH

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

FLAVORING EXTRACT AND DRUGGISTS’ SUNDRIES

Young  men  and  women  admitted  any  week  in 
the year  Every graduate  secures  employment. 
Living expenses low.  Write for catalogue.

E.  C.  BISSON,  M uskegon,  Mich.

A LU M IN U M   . 
T R A D E   C H E C K S .

Sl-00 PM 100.

Writ* for samples and styles to

I.W. STAMP WORKS,

ST. PAUL, MINN.

............Makers of---------

Rubber  end  Metallic  Stam ps

Scad  for Catalogne aad  Mention this  paper. 

'

Campaign 
Fireworks

Roman  Candles,  Sky Rockets,  Red  Fire,  Parade 
Torches,  Paper  Lanterns,  Tin  Horns,  etc.,  etc. 
Prompt shipment  and  low prices.

Fred  Brundage

Wholesale Druggist 

32 & 34 Western Ave.

Muskegon,  Michigan

M IC H IG A N   TRADESMAN

27

WHOLESALE  DRUG  PRICE  CURRENT

Advanced—Cod Liver Oil, Menthol. 
D eclined—Linseed Oil.

Benzol cum, German.
Boracic....................
Carbolicum..............
Citricum...................
Hydrochlor.............
Nitrocum.................
Oxalicum.................
Phosphorlum,  dii...
Sallcÿllcum  .............
Sulphurlcum...........
Tannicum................
Tartarlcum  .............
A m m onia

Aqua, 16 deg............
Aqua, 20 deg............
Carbonas.................
Chloridum...............
A niline

70® 76
@ 17
30® 42
45® 48
3@ 5
8® 10
12® 14
@ 15
56® 60
1M@ 5
1  10©  1  20
38® 40

4® 6
6® 8
13® 15
12® 14

Black........................  2 00® 2 26
Brown......................   80® 1  00
Red..........................   46®  60
Yellow......................  2  60® 3 00

B acc»
Cubebae...........po,25
Juniperus................
Xanthoxylum.........

Balsam nm

22® 24
8
6«
75® 80

18
12
18
30
20
12
12
12
15

15
2  25
75
40
15
2
80
7

24® 25
28® 30
11® 12
14
13«
14® 15
16® 17

50® 56
Copaiba...................
« 1  85
Peru  .......................
Terabin,  Canada — 40® 45
40® 45
Tolutan....................
Cortex
Abies, Canadian......
Casslæ......................
Cinchona  Flava......
Euonymus atropurp.
Myrica Cerífera, po.
Prunus Virgin!........
Quillaia, gr’d ...........
Sassafras........po. 15
Ulmus.. .po.  15, gr’d
E xtractum
Glycyrrhiza  Glabra.
Glÿcÿrrhlza,  po......
Hæmatox, 15 lb. box
Hæmatox,  is ...........
Hæmatox,  14 s.........
Hæmatox, ü s .........
F e rra
Carbonate  Precip... 
Citrate and  Quima..
Citrate Soluble........
Ferrocyanldum Sol.. 
Solut. Chloride........
Sulphate,  com’l ......
Sulphate,  com’l,  by
bbl, per  cwt.........
Sulphate,  pure........
F lora
Arnica.....................
Anthémis.................
Matricaria...............
F olia
Barosma..................
Cassia Acutifol,  Tin-
nevelly.................
Cassia. Acutifol, Alx.
Salvia officinalis,  üs
and V4s.................
CJvaUrsi...........  .... 
G um m i
@  66
Acacia, 1st picked... 
@  45
Acacia, 2d  picked... 
@  35
Acacia, 3d  picked... 
Acacia, sifted  sorts. 
@  28
Acacia, po................ 
45®  65
Aloe, Barb. po.l8@20  128  14
Aloe, Cape__ po. 16. 
©  12
Aloe,  SocotrL.po. 40  @  30
66®  60
Ammoniac................ 
Assafoetida__po. 30 
28®  30
50®  55
Benzolnum.............. 
@  13
Catechu, is .............. 
Catechu, V4s............  
@  14
Catechu, Hs............. 
@  16
Camphora..............  
69®  73
Euphorbium... po. 35  @  40
Gafbanum................ 
® lo o
Gamboge.............po  65@  70
Guaiacum.......po. 26  @  30
Kino...........po. $0.75 
®  75
Mastic  ....................   @  60
Myrrh.............po. 46  @ 4 0
Opli....po.  4.80@5.00 3 50®  3 60
Shellac....................  
25®  35
Shellac, bleached—  
40®  45
Tragacanth.............  
50®  80
H erba

28® 30
20@ 26
26® 30
12® 20
8®  10

15® 18
22® 25
30® 35

25
20
25
28
23
26
39
22
25

Absinthium. .oz. pkg 
Eupatorium. .oz. pkg 
Lobelia........oz. pkg 
Majorum__ oz. pkg 
Mentha Pip..oz. pkg 
Mentha Vlr..oz. pkg 
Rue...............oz. pkg 
Tanacetum V oz. pkg 
Thymus, V .. .oz. pkg 
M agnesia
Calcined, P at........... 
65®  60
Carbonate, P at........ 
18®  20
Carbonate, K. & M..  18®  20
'arbonate, Jennings  18®  20

Oleum

Absinthium.............  6 75® 6  oo
Amygdalae,  Dulc__  
38®  66
Amygdalae,  Amarae.  8 00® 8 26
Anisf........................  2  10® 
Aurantl Cortex........  2  25® 2 30
Bergamll.................   2  76® 
Cajlputi...................   80®  85
Caryophylii..............  76®  80
Cedar......................  
50®  70
Chenopadil..............   @ 2 75
Cinnamonii...............1  30® 
CitroneUa................  36®  40

2 20
2 85

1 40

00® 4 60

60®  60

60®  l 66
50® 2 oo
40®  l 50

is®  l 25
20®  1 25
oo®  1 10
00® 2 10

Conium Mac............  
Copaiba....................  i 
Cubebae....................  i 
Exechthitos.............  l 00®  1  10
Erigeron.................   i 
Gaultheria..............  2 
Geranium, ounce....  @  76
Gosslppii, Sem. gal..  50@ 
60
Hedeoma..................  i 
Junipera.................  l 
Lavendula  .............. 
go@ 2  oo
Limonis.................  
l 
Mentha Piper.........   l  26® 2 00
Mentha Verid.........   l  50@  l  60
Morrhuae, ¡gal.........   l  20®  l  26
Myrcia....................   4 
Olive.......................  
75® 3 oo
Picis Liquida.........  
10®  12
Picis Liquida,  gal... 
®  35
Ricina......................  i 
oo®  l 08
Rosmarini................  @  l  oo
Rosae, ounce............   6 oo® 6 50
Succlni....................  
40®  46
Sabina................. 
  90®  1  00
Santal......................  2 
Sassafras.................  
eo@  .  66
Sinapis,  ess., ounce.  @  66
Tiglii.......................   1 
Thyme...................... 
40®  80
Thyme, opt..............  @  1  60
Theobromas  ........... 
16®  20
Potassium
Bi-Carb....................  
15® 
18
Bichromate............. 
13© 
15
Bromide.................  
62®  67
C a rb ........................ 
12®  15
Chlorate... po. 17@19  16® 
18
Cyanide................... 
35©  40
Iodide......................  2 
Potassa, Bitart, pure  28® 
30
Potassa, Bitart, com.  @ 
15
Potass Nitras, opt... 
7®  10
Potass  Nitras.........  
6® 
8
Prussiate.................  
23©  26
Sulphate  po............  
15®  18

76®  7 00

60® 2 65

50®  1 60

Radix

20®  25
Aconitum.................  
Althae......................  22®  26
Anchusa................. 
io@ 
12
Arum  po.................   @ .  25
Calamus................... 
20®  40
Gentiana........po. 16 
12® 
15
Glychrrhiza.. .pv.  15 
16® 
18
®  75
Hydrastis  Canaden. 
®  80
Hydrastis Can., po.. 
Hellebore, Alba, po. 
12© 
15
Inula,  po.................  
16®  20
Ipecac, po................  4 25® 4 35
Iris  plOX...po. 35@38  35®  40
Jalapa, pr................ 
28©  30
Maranta,  Hs........... 
®  36
Podophyllum,  po... 
22®  26
Rhei.........................   75®  1  00
Rhei,  cut.................  @  1  28
78®  1  35
Rhei, pv................... 
Spigelia................... 
35®  38
Sanguinaria.. .po.  15  @ 
18
Serpentaria............  
40@  45
Senega....................  
60®  65
Smilax, officinalis H.  @ 4 0
Smilax, M................  @  25
Scillae............po.  35  10® 
12
Symplocarpus, Foeti-
dus,  po.................  @  25
Valeriana, Eng. po. 30  @ 2 5
16®  20
Valeriana,  German. 
Zingiber a ...............  
12@  16
Zingiber j.................  
26®  27
Semen

16  ® 
4® 

Anisum.........po. 
12
Apium (graveleons).  13@  15
Bird, is....................  
6
Carui............. po.  18  12@  13
Cardamon................  1  25®  1  75
Coriandrum.............  
8® 
10
Cannabis Sativa......   4  @  5
Cydonium................ 
75@  1  00
Chenopodium.........  
io@ 
12
Dipterix Odorate....  1  00®  1  10 
Foeniculum 
_
10 
7®
Fcenugreek, po........ 
9 
414 
L ini.........................   314®
Linr, grd...... bbl. 314 
4®
4H 
Lobelia.................... 
35®
40 
Pharlaris Canarian..  414©
5 
5 
R apa.......................   414®
Sinapis  Alba........... 
9®
10 
Sinapis  Nigra.........  
n@
12
Spiritus

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

Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage...............   2 50® 2 75
Nassau sheeps’ wool
carriage.................  2
2 75 
Velvet extra sheeps’
wool, carriage......
1  50
Extra yellow sheeps’
wool, carriage......
1  25
Grass  sheeps’  wool,
carriage................
1 00 
Hard, for slate use..
75
Yellow  R e e f,  for
slate use................
1  40
Syrups
A cacia....................
Aurantl Cortex........
Zingiber...................
Ipecac......................
Ferri Iod.................
Rhei Arom..............
Smilax  Officinalis...
Senega .....................
Scillae.......................

@

I

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

@
©  50

M iscellaneous 

T inctures 
Aconitum Napellis R 
Aconitum Napellis F
Aloes .......................
Aloes and Myrrh__
A rnica.....................
Assafoetida..............
Atrope Belladonna..
Auranti Cortex.......
Benzoin...................
Benzoin Co..............
Barosma...................
Cantharides............
Capsicum.................
Cardamon................
Cardamon Co...........
Castor......................
Catechu...................
Cinchona.................
Cinchona Co............
Columba.................
Cubebae....................
Cassia Acutifol........
Cassia Acutifol Co...
Digitalis...................
Ergot........................
Ferri  Chloridum__
Gentian...................
Gentian Co..............
Guiaca......................
G uiaca ammon........
Hyoscyamus............
Iodine  ...................
Iodine, colorless......
K ino........................
Lobelia...................
Myrrh......................
Nux Vomica.............
Opii..........................
Opii, comphorated..
Opii, deodorized......
Quassia...................
Rhatany...................
Rhei.........................
Sanguinaria...........
Serpentaria.............
Stromonium............
Tolutan  ...................
Valerian  .................
Veratrum  Veride...
Zingiber...................

60 
50 
60 
60 
50 
50 
60 
50 
60 
50 
50 
75 
50 
75 
75 
1  00 
50 
60 
60 
50 
50 
50 
50 
50 
50 
35 
50 
60 
50 
60 
50 
75 
75 
Bo 
50 
50 
50 
75 
50 
1  5o 
50 
5o 
SO 
SO
5°So
®0
So
20
A£ther, Spts. Nit. ? F  30® 
35
Aether, Spts. Nit. 4 F  34® 
38
Alumen...................  214®
3
Alumen,  gro’d..po. 7 
3® 
4
Annatto.................... 
40®  50
Antimoni, po...........
4® 
5
Antimoni et Potass T
40®  50
Antipyrin
@  25
Antirebrin  ...........
@  50
Argenti Nitras, oz... 
Arsenicum.............. 
10® 
12
38®  40
Balm Gilead  Buds.. 
Bismuth S. N...........  1  90®  2 00
Calcium Chlor.,  is...
9@ 
Calcium Chlor.,  14s..
10 
@ 
Calcium Chlor.,  14s.. 
12 
Cantharides, Rus.po 
@  75
Capsici Fructus, ar..
@  15
Capsid  Fructus, po.
@  15
Capsici Fructus B, po 
@  15
12®  14
Caryophyllus. .po. 15 
Carmine, No. 40
® 3 00
Cera  Alba................ 
50©
55 
Cera  Flava
...  40®
42 
Coccus...........
40 
Cassia Fructus........  @
35 
Centraria.................   @
10 
Cetaceum................. 
©
45 
Chloroform............. 
55®
60 
Chloroform,  squibbs 
1  10 
Chloral Hyd Crst
1  65®  1  90
Chondrus................   20@  25
Clnchonidine.P. & W  38®  48
Cinchonidine, Germ.  38®  48
Cocaine...................   6 55®  6 76
Corks, list, dis. pr. ct. 
70
Creosotum................  @ 3 5
C reta............bbl. 75 
@  2
Creta, prep..............   @ 
5
Creta, precip........... 
9®  11
Creta, Rubra...........  @ 
8
15®  18
Crocus....................  
Cudbear...................  @  24
Cupri  Sulph............   654@ 
8
Dextrine.................  
7®  10
75®  90
Ether Sulph............  
Emery, all numb6.s.  @ 
8
Emery, po................  @ 
6
E rgota......... po. 90  85®  90
Flake  White........... 
12®  16
Galla.......................  
©  23
Gambler.................  
8® 
9
Gelatin,  Cooper......   @  60
35®  60
Gelatin, French......  
75 &  5
Glassware,  flint, box 
Less than box...... 
70
Glue, brown............  
ll@  13
Glue,  white............. 
15®  25
Glycerina.................  1714®  26
Grana Paradis!........  @  25
Humulus.................  
25®  55
Hydrarg  Chlor  Mite  @  95
Hydrarg Chlor Cor..  @  85
Hydrarg Ox Rub’m.  @ 1  05 
Hydrarg  Ammoniati  @ 1  17 
HydrargUnguentum  50®  60
Hydrargyrum.........  
®  85
IchthyoDolla,  Am...  66®  70
Indigo...................... 
76®  l  00
Iodine,  Resubi........  3 85® 4 00
Iodoform.................  3 85® 4 00
Lupulin....................   @ 6 0
Lycopodium............. 
70®  76
M acls...................... 
66®  75
Liquor Arsen et  Hy­
drarg Iod..............  @  26
LiquorPotassArslnit  10® 
12
Magnesia,  Sulph__  
2® 
3
Magnesia, Sulph, bbl  @  ltt 
Mannla, 8.  F .........   60®  60

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Linseed, pure raw... 
64 
Linseed, boiled.......  
65 
Neatsfoot, winter str  54 
Spirits  Turpentine.. 
46 

67
68
60
55
P aints  BBL.  LB.
m   2  @8 
íü   2  @4
15Ü  2  @3 
254  2H®3 
2*4  2&@3
13®  15
70©  75
14®  18
13®  16
6  @  614 
6  ©  614 
@  90
@  1  26
@  1  40 
1  10®  1  20

@  86 

Oils

20® 22
@ 18
@ 30
@ 41
@ 41
9© 11
9® 11
23© 25
2
154®
3® 5
314® 4
2
©
@ 2 60
50® 55
@ 2 00
@
©
©

Menthol................... 
@ 350
Morphia, S., P. & W.  2 25® 2  60 
Morphia, S., N. Y. Q.
& C. Co.................   2  15® 2 40
Moschus  Canton__  @  40
66®  80
Myristica, No. 1......  
Nux Vomica...po. 15  @ 
10
Os Sepia................... 
35®  37
Pepsin Saac, H. & P.
D  Co....................   @  1  00
Picis Liq. N.N.H gal.
doz.......................   @ 200
Picis Liq., quarts__   @  1  00
Picis Liq.,  pints......   @  86
Pil Hydrarg. ..po.  80  @  50
Piper  Nigra...po. 22  @  18
©  30
Piper  Alba.. ..po. 35 
Pilx Burgun............   @ 
7
Plumbl Acet............ . 
io@ 
12
Pulvis Ipecac et Opii  1  30®  1  50 
Pyrethrum, boxes H.
©  75
& P. D. Co., doz... 
Pyrethrum,  pv........ 
25®  30
8® 
Quasslae................... 
10
39®  49
Quinta, S. P. &  W... 
39®  49
Quinta, S.  German.. 
Quinia, N. Y............  
39®  49
Rubia Tinctorum.... 
12© 
14
Saccharum Lactls pv  18@  20
Salad n ....................   4 50®  4 75
Sanguis  Draconis... 
40®  60
Sapo, W................... 
12® 
14
SapoM....................  
io@ 
12
Sapo  G....................   @ 
16

Seidlitz Mixture......
Sinapis....................
Sinapis,  opt............
Snuff, Maccaboy, De
V oes....................
Snuff,Scotch,De Vo’s
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. Vini Rect.  bbl. 
Spts. Vini Rect. 14 bbl 
Spts. Vini Rect. lOgal 
Spts. Vini Rect. 5 gal 
Strychnia, Crystal 
Sulphur,  Subl. 
Sulphur, Roll..
Tamarinds.........
Terebenth  Venice 
Theobromae....
Vanilla...........
Zinci Sulph__

Whale, winter.........  
7o 
Lard, extra..............   60 
Lard, No. 1.............. 
45 

@1  05® 1  25
214® 4
2Ü@ 314
8© 10
28® 30
60® 66
9 00@16 00
7® 8

Red  Venetian.........
Ochre, yellow  Mars. 
Ochre, yellow B er... 
Putty,  commercial.. 
Putty, strictly  pure. 
Vermilion,  P rim 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.
Varnishes

HOLIDAY
LINE

OUR

BBL.  GAL.
70
70
50

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

W ill  be  displayed  at

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

State  Fair  Week

Sept. 24 to 29

1 9 0 0

W e  invite you  to  come  in 

and  inspect  the  most  complete  line  of 

Holiday  Goods  ever shown  in 

Michigan.

Hazeltine  &  Perkins 

Drug  Co.

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M IC H IG A N   TRADESMAN

GROCERY  PRICE  CURRENT

Guaranteed  correct  at time  of  issue.  Not  connectec 

with  any  jobbing  house.

ADVANCED

F lo u r

C ontinental  Tobacco C< 
F lugs  and  Sm oking 
M arket  Baskets

DECLINED
Straw   P ap er 
M ackerel

A l. A BASTING

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

Less 40 |>er cent discount.

AXLE  GREASE
au ro ra......................... 55 
Castor  Oil.....................60 
Diamond...................... 50 
Frazer’s ........................75 
IXL Golden, tin boxes 75 

doz.  gross
6 oo
7 00
4 25
9 00
9 00

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

9 00
6 00

AMMONIA

Per Doz.
Arctic 12 oz. orals................  85
Arctic pints, round..............1  20

BAKING  POW DER 

Acme

El  P u rity

The  “400”

A rctic
Egg

14 lb. cans 3 doz..................  45
41b. cans 3  doz.................   75
l 
lb. cans l  doz................. l  oo
Bulk......................................  10
6 oz. Eng. Tumblers.............  90
H lb. cans,  4 doz. case.......3  75
% lb. cans,  2 doz. case.......3 75
l lb. cans,  l doz. case........3 75
5 lb. cans. 4  doz. case........8 00
5 lb. cans, 4  doz. in case 
8  00 I
1 lb. cans.  4 doz. incase 
2 oo I
9 oz.cans.  4 doz  incase__125
6 oz. cans.  6 doz. in case__  75
>4 lb. cans per doz.............   75
4  lb. cans per doz............. 1  20
1 
lb. cans per doz............. 2 00 I
M lb. cans, 4 doz. case........  35
4  lb. cans. 4 doz. case........  55
lb. cans, 2 doz. case........  90
l 
J A X O N
14 lb. cans, 4 doz. case..
..  45
14 lb. cans. 4 doz. case..
..  85 
1 
lb. cans. 2 doz. case..
..1  60
Queen  Flake
..2  70 
3 oz., 6 doz. case.............
6 oz., 4 doz. case.............
..3 20
9 oz., 4 doz. case.............
1 lb., 2 doz. case...................4 00
5 lb., 1 doz. case...................9 00

Home

Royal

10c size__  86
4  lb.  cans  1  30 
6 oz. cans.  1  80 
14 lb.  cans  2 40 
% lb.  cans 3 60 
1 lb.  cans.  4 65 
3 lb.  cans. 12 75 
5 lb. cans.21  00

BATH  BRICK

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

BLFTNG

Co n d e n s e d

§ 5Ü l i ( i

BROOMS

Small 3 doz...........................  40
Large, 2 doz.........................   75
Arctic, 4 oz, per gross........4 00
Arctic, 8 oz, per gross........6 00
Arctic, pints, per  gross__ 9 00
No. 1 Carpet....................... 2 75
No. 2 Carpet....................... 2 50
No. 3 Carpet....................... 2 25
No. 4 Carpet....................... 1  80
Parlor  Gem........................2  50
Common Whisk...................  95
Fancy Whisk......................1  25
Warehouse......................... 3  50
Electric Light, 8s................12
Electric Light, 16s...............1214
Paraffine, 6s........................1014
Paraffine, 12s.......................11
Wlcking.........  
..................20

CANDLES

CANNED  GOODS 

Peas

Corn

Beans

M ushroom s

Black berries

Gooseberries

80 
2 30
75
l  on@i  30
75®  85
80
85
85
I  00 
1  50
85 
1  15
75
85
95
90
85

A pples 
3 lb. Standards  .  ...
Gallons, standards..
standards................ 
Baked...................... 
Red  Kidney............. 
String......................  
Wax........................ 
B lueberries
Standard....................
C lam s.
Little Neck. 1 lb ...
Little Neck, 2 lb......
Cherries
Red  Standards...........
White..........................
Fair.............. ............
Good........................
Fancy..
Standard.................
H om iny
Standard
L o b ster
Star, 4  lb.
Star, 1  lb...............
Picnic Tails............
M ackerel
Mustard, 1 lb...........
Mustard. 2 lb...........
Soused. 1 lb..............
Soused. 2 lb.............
Tomato. 1 lb.............
Tomato, 2 lb.............
Hotels.......................
Buttons......... ...........
O ysters
Cove, 1 lb.................
Cove, 2 lb 
.
P each es
P ie ...........................
Yailow
1  65@1  85
Standard..............  .
70
Fancy...................  ..
80
Marrowfat..............
1  00
Early June..............
1  00
Early June  Sifted
1  60
P ineapple
G rated....................
1  25@2 75
Sliced........................ 1  35@2 55
P um pkin
Fair  ........................
70
Good........................
75
Fancy ......................
85
Standard..................
90
Salmon
Columbia River.......
2  00@2  15
Red Alaska...........
1  40
Pink Alaska............
1  10
Shrim ps
Standard.................
1  50
Sardines
Domestic, 4 s ...........
Domestic, 4 s .........
Domestic.  Mustard.
California, 14s.........
French, 14s..............
French, 14s..............
Standard.................
85 
Fancy......................
1  25
Succotash
Fair..........................
90 
Good........................
1  00 
Fancy......................
1  20
Tomatoes
F air.........................
90
Good........................
95
Fancy......................
1  15
Gallons.....................
2 45
CATSUP
Columbia,  pints...................2  00
Columbia, 14 pints......
.1  25
CHEESE
Acme........................
@1114 
Amboy....................
@1114 
Carson City.............
@11 
Elsie.........................
@12 
Emblem...................
@1114 
Gem.........................
@1214 
Gold Medal..............
@1114 
Ideal......................
@11 
Jersey......................
@11 
Riverside.................
@12 
Brick........................
U@12 @90 
Edam......................
Leiden.....................
@1
10© 11
LImburger................ 
Pineapple................  50  @75
Sap  Sago................ 
©is

Straw berries

Raspberries

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CHOCOLATE 

Walter Baker & Co.’s.

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23

Runkel Bros.

German  Sweet 
Premium............................... ” ”  35
Breakfast Cocoa................. 46
Vienna Sweet....................  21
Vanilla...............................’.  28
Premium........:
31
Bulk.
Red...................................... 

CHICORY

7

COCOA

CIGARS 

Webb.................................
Cleveland..............................
Epps.....................................
Van Houten, 4 s ..................
Van Houten, 14s...................
Van Houten, 4 s ..................
Van Houten,  is..................
Colonial, 14s  .............r.........  35
Colonial, 14s.........................
Huyler.................................
Wilbur, 4 s...........................
Wilbur, )4s...........................
The Bradley Cigar Co.’s  Brands
Advance............................$35 00
Bradley.............................  35 00
Clear Havana  Puffs..........  22 00
“ W. H.  B.” .......................  55 00
“ W. B. B.” ........................  55 00
Columbian Cigar Co.’s Brands
Columbian........................... 35 00
Columbian Special..............65 00
Columbian Regalia..............65 00
Columbian Invincible......... 90 00
Fortune Teller..................   35 00
Our Manager.....................   35 00
Quintette............................  35 00
G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand

H. & P. Drug Co.’s brands.

Lubetsky Bros.’ Brands.

S. C. W...............................  35 00
B.  L................................... $33 00
Gold Star..........................   35 00
Phelps. Brace & Co.’s Brands. 
Royal  Tigers. 
.  55@ 80 00
Royal  Tigerettos........ 35
Vincente Portuondo .. 35@ 70 00
Ruhe Bros. Co............ 25® 70 00
Hilson  Co................... 35@110 00
T. J. Dunn & Co.........35@ 70  00
McCoy & Co................35@ 70  00
The Collins Cigar Co.. io@ 35 00
Brown  Bros............... 15® 70  00
Bernard Stahl Co....... 35@ 90  00
Banner Cigar  Co........10® 35  00
Seidenberg  & Co........55@125  00
Fulton  Cigar  Co........io@ 35  00
A. B. Ballard & Co.. . .35@175  00 
E. M. Schwarz & Co..  35@llO 00
San Telmo...................35® 70  00
Havana Cigar Co........18® 35  00
C. Costello & C o ........35@  70  00
LaGora-Fee Co...........35®  70  00
S.  I. Davis & Co..........35@185 00
Hene & Co................... 35®  90 00
Benedict & Co...........7.50®  70 00
Hemmeter Cigar Co. ..35@  70 00 
G .J: Johnson Cigar Co.35@ 70 00
Maurice Sanborn  ___50@175 00
Bock & Co...................65@300 00
Manuel  Garcia...........80@375  00
Neuva Mundo.  ..........85® 175  00
Henry Clay..................85©550 00
La Carolina................. 96@200 00
Standard T. & C. Co.  .35® 70 00
Star G reen.................... 35  OO

H. Van Tongeren's Brand. 

/W
Coffees

HIGH GRADE

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

Less 3314  per  cent.

Rio

Santos

M aracaibo

Common.............................. 1014
F a ir.......................................
Choice.................................. 13
Fancy...................................15
Common...............................n
F a ir..................................... 14
Choice.................................. 15
Fancy.................................. 17
Peaberry...............................13
F a ir......................................12
Choice.................................. 16
Choice.................................. 1$
Fancy....................................17
Choice...................................16
African.................................124
Fancy African.................... 17
O. G.......................................¿5
P- G.......................................29
Arabian................................ .. 

G uatem ala

Mexican

Mocha

Ja v a

j

Package 

New Vork Basis.

Arbuckle..............................13 00
Delworth..............................13 00
Jersey.................................. 13 00
Lion..................................... 12 00
M cLaughlin’s XXXX 
McLaughlin’s  XXXX  sold  to 
retailers  only.  Mail  all  orders 
direct  to  W.  F.  McLaughlin  & 
Co., Chicago.
E xtract 
Valley City 14  gross.
Felix 14 gross......................... 1 15
Hummel's foil 4  gross........  85
Hummel’s tin >4 gross..........1 43

Substitutes

Crushed Cereal Coffee Cake
12 packages, 14 case.............. 1 1
24 packages,  1 case 
.......3 50
COCOA  SHELLS
20 lb. bags.....................
Less Quantity.................
Pound packages.............
CLOTHES  LINES
Cotton, 40 ft.  per doz........
.1  00
Cotton, 50 ft.  per doz...........1  20
Cotton, 60 ft.  per doz..........  1  40
Cotton, 70 ft.  per doz...........1  60
Cotton, 80 ft.  per doz.......... 1  80
Jute, 60 ft. per doz..............  80
Jute. 72 ft. per doz............. 
95
CONDENSED  M ILK
4 doz in case.
Gail Borden Eagle.............. 6
Crown................. ................ 6 25
Daisy.................................... 5 75
Champion............................4 50
Magnolia............................. 4 25
Challenge............................ 4 00
Dime.................................... 3 35
50 books, any  denom...  1  50 
100 books, any  denom...  2 50 
500 books, any  denom...  11  50
1.000 books, any  denom...  20 00 
Above quotations are for either
Tradesman. Superior, Economic 
or  Universal  grades.  Where
1.000 books are ordered at a time 
customer receives  sp e c ia lly  
irinted  cover  without  extra 
charge.

COUPON  BOOKS 

A pples

CREAM  TARTAR

Coupon  Pass  Books 
Can be made to represent any 
denomination from $10 down.
50  books......................
1 50
100  books......................
2 50
500  books.............  ....... 11 50
1.000  books......................
20 00
Credit  Cheeks
500, any one denom......
2 OC
1,000. any one denom......
3 00
2.000. anv one denom......
5 oc
Steel  punch....................
75
5 and 10 lb. wooden  boxes__
Bulk in sacks.........................
D RIED   FRUITS—Domestic 
Simdried......................... @
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes.6i4@  7 
Apricots.....................  @10
Blackberries..............
Nectarines.................
caches......................  9  @11
Pears...........................
fitted Cherries........... 
finnneUes................
Raspberries..............
100-120 25 lb. boxes
90-100 25 lb. boxes........
80 - 90 25 lb. boxes........
70 - 80 25 lb. boxes........
60 - 70 25 lb. boxes........
50-60 25 lb. boxes........
40-50 25 lb. boxes........
30 - 40 25 lb. boxes........

®
@ 4 >4 
@ 5 
@ 514 
® 6 
@ 6>4 
@ 7 
814

C alifornia  Prunes

C alifornia  F ru its

14 cent less in 50 lb. cases 

714

Raisins

Citron

C urrants

1  75
2  00 
2  25
64
814
9
10

,ondon Layers 2 Crown.
Icndon Layers 3 Crown.
Cluster 4 Crown............
.oose Muscatels 2 Crown 
,oose Muscatels 3 Crown 
x)ose Muscatels 4 Crown 
j. M., Seeded, choice ... 
L. M., Seeded, fancy__ 
D R IED   FRUITS—Foreign 
.eghorn....................................11
Corsican.................................. 12
Patras, cases........................
Cleaned, bulk.......................13
Cleaned,  packages...............1314
Citron American 19 lb. bx... 13 
Lemon American 10 lb. bx.. 10!4 
Orange American 10 lb. bx.. 1014 
Sultana 1 Crown..................
Sultana 2 Crown.................
Sultana 3 Crown...................
Sultana 4 Crown...................
Sultana 5 Crown...................
Sultana 6 Crown...................
Sultana package.................

Raisins

Peel

Beans

Cereals

FARINACEOUS GOODS 
Dried Lima..........................   64
Medium Hand Picked  2 25@2 35
Brown Holland....................
Cream of Cereal.....................  90
Grain-O, sm all..........................1 35
raln-O, large...........................2 25
Grape Nuts................................1 35
’ostum Cereal, small.......... 1  35
Postum Cereal, large.......   2 25
241 lb. packages.......................1 25
Bulk, per 100 lbs........................3 00
36  2 lb. packages...........  
Barrels......................................2 50
“fiake, 60 lb. drums................... 1 00
M accaroni and V erm icelli
Domestic, 10 lb. box..............   60
Imported, 26 lb. box.............2 50

H askell’s W heat F lakes

H om iny

F arin a

.3 00

P ea rl  B a rley

Common  *............................
Chester.................................2 75
Empire................................. 3  15

Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s Brand.

G rits

MOLASSES 
New  O rleans

Black........
F a ir..........
Good.........
Fancy......
Open Kettle................
Half-barrels 2c extra
MUSTARD
Horse Radish, 1 doz...
Horse Radish, 2 doz...
Bayle’s Celery. 1 doz..

P A P E R   BAGS

Satchel
Bottom
...  28
H ..............
...  34
4 ..............
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
PICK LES
M edium

...  124
... 
IÍ¡
20
24
..  25@35

......1  75
......3 50
...... 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

Small

Barrels, 1,200 count__ ...... 6 00
Half bbls, 600 count__ ...... 3 00
Barrels, 2,400 count__ ...... 6  00
Half bbls, 1,200 count.. .......3 50
Clay, No. 216................. .......1  70
Clay, T. D.. nil count.. ......   65
Cob, No. 3..
......   85

PIP E S

POTASH

48 cans in case.

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

RICE

Dom estic

Im ported.

Carolina head.............. ........7
Carolina  No. l ............. ........54
Carolina  No
........4%
Broken  ......
........
Japan,  No.
l................ 54@6
Japan,  No. 2................ 4H@5
Java, fancy head......... 5  @54
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 15
Emblem................................    10
L-  P ....................................... 3 00
Sodio..................................... 3 15
Wyandotte, 100  34 s ............... 3 00
Granulated,  bbls.................   80
Granulated, 100 lb. cases__   90
Lump, bbls.......................... 
7e
Lump, 145 lb. kegs................  80

SAL  SODA

SALT

D iam ond Crystal* 

Common  Grades

Table, cases, 24 3 lb. boxes.. 1  40 
Table, barrels, 1003 lb. bags.2 86 
Table, barrels, 40 7  lb. bags.2 50 
Butter, barrels, 280 lb. bulk.2 60 
Butter, barrels, 20 I41b.bags.2 60
Butter, sacks, 28 lbs............   27
Butter, sacks, 56 lbs.............  62
100 3 lb. sacks........................ 2 15
60 5 lb. sacks........................ 2 05
2810 lb. sacks........................1 95
56 lb. sacks........................ 
40
28  lb. sacks........................ 
22
56 lb. dairy in drill bags......   30
28 lb. dairy in drill bags......   15
56 lb. dairy in linen sabks...  60 
56 lb. dairy in linen sacks...  60 
56 lb. sacks...........................   28
Granulated  Fine................... 1 05
Medium  Fine..........................1 10

Solar  Rock
Common

A shton
H iggins

W arsaw

SOAP

J A X O N
Single box..................................3 00
5 box lots, delivered........... 2 95
10 box lots, delivered............2 90
dS.  S  KIRK 
American Family, wrp’d... .3 co
Dome.........................................2 80
Cabinet...................................... 2 40
Savon......................................... 2 80
White  Russian.......................... 2 80
White Cloud,............................4 00
Dusky Diamond, 50 6 oz.......2 00
Dusky Diamond, 50 8 oz.......2  50
Blue India, 100 3£ lb............. 3 00
Kirkoline...................................3 50
Eos.......................................... 65

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

SEARCH-LIGHT

100 big bars (labor saving). .3 60
S I L V E R
Single box..............................3 00
Five boxes, delivered...........2 95

Scouring

Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz......... 2 40
Sapolio. hand, 3 doz.............. 2 40
V, per gross.......................10 00

W ashing Tablets
120 samples free.

Peas

Rolled  Oats

24 2 lb. packages..................2 00
100 lb.  kegs........................... 3 00
200 lb. barrels.......................5 70
100 lb. bags................................2 90
Green, Wisconsin, bu.......... 1  30
Green, Scotch, bu..................... 1 35
Split, bu................................  3
Rolled Avena, bbl................ 3 75
Steel Cut,  bbl.......................3 90
Monarch, bbl.............................? 40
Monarch, 4  bbl.........................1 85
Monarch, 90 lb. sacks.......... 1  65
Quaker, cases.......................;  20
German................................ 
4
East India............................  314
Flake..................................  44
Pearl....................................   44
Pearl,  24 l lb. packages...... 64
Cracked, bulk......................  314
24 2 lb. packages..................2 50
FLAVORING EXTRACTS 
Vanilla D. C ..2 oz 1  10  4 oz 1  80 
Lemon D. C  ..2 oz  70  4 oz 1  35 
Van. Tonka.  ,2oz  75  4 o zl  45

DeBoe’s

Tapioca

W heat

Sago

FOOTE  &  JE N K S’

JA XO N

H ighest  G rade  E xtracts
Vanilla 
Lemon

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

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

Vanilla 

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

Jen n in g s’

A rctic

2 oz  full meas. pure Lemon, 
oz. full meas. pure Vanilla 1  20 
oz. oval Vanilla Tonka__  75
2 oz. oval Pure Lemon........  75

Big  Value

Standard

P errigo’s

Reg. 2 oz. D. C.  Lemon...
No. 4 Taper D. (’. Lemon 
Reg. 2 oz. I). C.  Vanilla...
No. 3 Taper D. C. Vauilla 
oz. Vanilla Tonka.............   70
oz. flat Pure Lemon...........  70
Van. 
1  20
1  20
2 00
# 2 25
Lem.
doz.
75 
1  25

N orthrop  Brand 
Lem.
oz. Taper Panel_  75
oz. Oval................  75
oz. Taper Panel___1 35
oz. Taper Panel.... 1  60
Van. 
doz.
XXX, 2 oz. obert__ 1  25
XXX, 4 oz. taper__ 2 25
XX, 2 oz. obert........1  00
No. 2,2 oz. obert__  75
XXX D D ptchr, 6 oz 
2 25
XXX D I) ptchr, 4 oz 
1  75
K.  P. pitcher. 6 oz.
2  25
FLY  PA PER  
’errigo’s Lightning, gro
.2 50
’etrolatum, per doz............   75
Sage..........................................15
Hops........................................ 15
Madras, 5 lb. boxes................ 55
. F., 2,3 and 5 lb.  boxes....... 50
Doz.
5 lb. pails.........................   200
15 lb. palls............................   42
301b. palls............................   70
Pure.....................................   30
Calabria................................  25
Sicily....................................   14
Root......................................  10
ondensed. 2 doz...................... 1 20
ondensed, 4 doz...................... 2 25
Diamond Match Co.’s brands.

MATCHES

LICORICE

No.  9 sulphur........................... 1 65
Anchor ra rlo r..........................1 50
No. 2 Home..........j............. 1  30
Export Parlor........................... 4 00
Wolverine..................................t 50

INDIGO

HERBS

JE L LY

LYE

SCO.’S B R IM

W in te r  W h e a t  F lo u r

Local Brands

S p rin g   W h ea t  F lo u r

Worden Grocer Co.’s Braud

Patents.............................  4 50
Second Patent.............. ...  4 «0
Straight.............................  3  80
Clear .................................  3 25
Graham ............................  3 75
Buckwheat....................,..  4  50
Rye................................ ...  3 25
Subject  to  usual  cash  dis-
count.
Flour in bbls.. 25c per  bbl. ad-
ditional.
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand
Diamond  (4s................. ...  4  00
Diamond (4s................. ...  4 00
Diamond (4s..................
..  4  00
Quaker (4s.........................  4  10
Quaker (4s........................  4  10
Quaker (4s.................... ...  4  10
Clark-Jewell-Wells  Co.’s  Brand
Pillsbury’s  Best (4s___...  4 95
Pillsbury’s  Best Vs.. 
....  4 85
Pillsbury’s  Best (4s___...  4  75
Pillsbury’s Best Vs paper.  4  75 
Pillsbury’s Best Vs paper.  4  75 
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand
Duluth  Imperial Vs.........  4  60
Duluth  Imperial (4s...........  4 50
Duluth  Imperial (4s...........  4 40
Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s Brand
Wingold  (4s....................... 
4 75
Wingold  (¿s....................... 
4 «6
Wingold  (4s....................... 
4 55
Olney & Judson’s Brand
Ceresota (4s........................  5 oo
Ceresota Vs........................  4 90
Ceresota (4s........................  4 so
Laurel  (4s...........................  4 90
Laurel  Vs...........................  4 so
Laurel  (4s...........................  4 70
Laurel Vs and (4s paper..  4  70
Washhurn-Crosby  Co.’s  Brand.

Worden Grocer  Co.’s Brand

Tubs

Pails

B u tter  Plates

Clothes  Pins
Mop  Sticks

Bushels............................... 1  15
Bushels, wide  band............l  25
M arket................................   30
Willow Clothes, large.........7 00
Willow Clothes, medium...  6 50
Willow Clothes,  small........ 5  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. 5 irross boxes...........  65
Trojan spring......................  85
Eclipse patent spring.........   85
No 1 common.......................  7n
No. 2 patent brush holder ..  80
12 B>. cotton mop heads__  1 25
hoop Standard.............1  50
2- 
3- 
hoop Standard.............l  70
2-  wire,  Cable................. l  60
3-  wire,  Cable................. l  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-lnch, Standard, No. 3..... 5  00
20-inch, Cable,  No. i ...........7  50
18-inch, Cable,  No. 2........... 6  50
16-inch, Cable,  No. 3...........5  50
No. 1 Fibre..........................9  45
No. 2 F ibre.........................7  95
No. 3 Fibre..........................7  20
Bronze Globe.......................2  60
Dewey................................1  76
Double Acme.......................2  76
Single Acme........................ 2  26
Double  Peerless..................3  20
Single  Peerless................... 2  60
Northern Queen................ 2  50
Double Duplex................... 3  00
Good Luck..........................2  76
Universal.............................2  25
H in .Butter.........................   75
13 In. Butter...........................l 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
Magic, 3 doz........................1  00
Sunlight, 3 doz.....................1  00
Suulight, 1(4  doz.................   50
Yeast Cream, 3 doz............. 1  00
Yeast Foam, 3  doz............. 1  00
Yeast Foam, 1(4  doz...........  50

YEAST  CAKE

W ash  Boards

Wood  Bowls

SALT  FISH  

Cod

Georges cured............
Georges  genuine........
Georges selected........
Grand Bank.................
Strips or  bricks......... 6
Pollock........................
H alibut.

© 5 
©  5(4 
©  5% 
@>4(4 
@ 9 
© 3(4
S trip s.... ...............................14
Chunks................................... 15

H erring

Holland white hoops,  bbl.  11  oo 
Holland white hoopsVbbl.  6  00 
Holland white hoop, keg.. 
so
Holland white hoop metis. 
85
Norwegian.......................
Bound 100 lbs....................   3  60
Bound 40 lbs......................  1  75
Scaled..............................  
16(4
Bloaters.............................   1  50

M ackerel

8 lbs.................... 

Mess 100 lbs.......................  10  00
Mess  40 lbs......................   4  30
Mess  10 lbs......................   1  16
Mess 
95
No. 1 100 lbs........................   8 76
No. 1  40 lbs.......................  3 80
No. 1  10 lbs.......................  1 02
No. 1 
85
NO. 2 100 lbs.......................  8 00
No. 2  40 lbs.......................  3 50
NO. 2 
95
No. 2 
79

10 lbs.................... 
8 lbs.................... 

8 lbs.................... 

T rout

No. 1 100 lbs.......................  6  00
No. 1  40 lbs.......................  2  70
No. 1 
76
No. 1  8 lbs.......................  „  63

10 lbs.................... 

W hiteflsh

SEEDS

100  lbs...........  7 50  7  00 
40  lbs...........  3 30  3  10 
10  lbs.............  
90  85 
8  lbs.............. 
76  71 

No. 1  No. 2  Fam
2  50
1  30
40
35
Anise 
..................................   9
Canary, Smyrna.....................4
Caraway................................8
Cardamon,  Malabar.............60
Celery.................................... 12
Hemp, Bussian.....................  4(4
Mixed Bird.............................4(4
Mustard, white....................   9
Poppy.................................... 10
Bane....................................  4(4
Cuttle Bone........................... 15

SPICES

.  W hole Spices

 

Allspice............................. 
12
Cassia, China in mats......  
11
28
Cassia, Batavia, in bund... 
38
Cassia, Saigon, broken —  
55
Cassia, Saigon, in rolls —  
Cloves, Amboyna.............. 
17
14
Cloves, Zanzibar................ 
65
Mace.............. 
Nutmegs,  75-80................. 
50
Nutmegs,  105-10................ 
40
35
Nutmegs, 115-20................. 
Pepper, Slngai>ore, black.  15(4
Pepper,  Slngagore, white. 
23
Pepper, shot......................  16(4
P u re G round in B ulk
Allspice.............................  
Cassia, Batavia.................  
Cassia, Saigon................... 
Cloves, Zanzibar................ 
Ginger,  African................ 
Ginger, Cochin.................  
Ginger,  Jamaica.............. 
Mace..................................  
Mustard............................  
Pepper, Singapore, black. 
Pepper. Singapore, white. 
Pepper. Cayenne.............. 
Sage................................... 

16
28
48
17
15
18
25
66
18
19
26
20
20

<«  û   >

_

7

y   -

STARCH

K ings ford’s  Corn
40 l-lb. packages................ 
20 l-lb. packages...............  
6 lb. packages................ 
K ingsford’s Silver Gloss
7
40 l-lb. packages................ 
6 lb. boxes........................ 
7(4

6(4
614
7(4

Common Corn

20 l-lb.  packages..............  
40 l-lb.  packages.............. 

Common Gloss

l-lb. packages................... 
3-lb. packages................... 
6-lb. packages................... 
40 ana 60-lb. boxes............  
Barrels.............................. 
STOVE  POLISH

414
4(4

4(4
4(4
6
3V
3(4

SNUFF

 

SOOA

SUGAR

Scotch, in bladders..............  37
Maccaboy, in jars................  35
French Rappee, in jars......   43
Boxes....................................   5(4
Kegs, English.......................  414
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.............................  6  40
Cut  Loaf............................  6  55
Crushed............... 
6  65
Cubes................................   6  30
Powdered.........................   6  25
Coarse  Powdered.............  6  25
XXXX  Powdered.............  6  30
Standard  Granulated......   6  15
Fine Granulated................  6  15
Coarse Granulated...........  6  30
Extra Fine G ran u lated ....6  26
Conf.  Granulated.........  ..  6  40
2 lb.  bags Fine  Gran........  6  25
5 lb. bags Fine  Gran........  6  25
Mould A............................   6  40
Diamond  A........................  6  15
Confectioner’s  A..............  595
No.  1, Columbia A...........  5  80
No.  2, Windsor A............   5  80
No.  3, Ridgewood A........  5  80
No.  4, Phoenix  A............   5 75
No.  5, Empire A ..............  5  70
No.  6.................................  6  60
No.  7.................................  5 50
No.  8.................................  5  40
No.  9.................................  6 30
No. 10.................................  E  25
No. 11.................................  5 25
No. 12.................................  5  20
No. 13.................................  5  15
No. 14....................................
5  15
No. 15............................... ..  5  lt
No. 16............................... ..  5  15

S Y R U P S

Corn

B arrels..................................,...20
H alf b b ls............................. ...22
1  doz. 1 gallon c an s........... ..  3  20
1 doz.  (4 gallon c an s......... ...1  95
2 doz.  V gallon c an s......... ...  95
F air................................. ...  16
G o o d ..................................... ...  20
Choice................................. ...  25

P u r e   C an e

TABLE  SAUCES
LEA & 
PERRINS’ 
SAUCE

The Original and 
Genuine 
W orcestershlre.
Lea & Perrin’s, large........  3 75
Lea & Perrin’s,  small......   2 50
Halford, large...................  3 76
Halford, small...................  2  25
Salad Dressing, large......   4 65
Salad Dressing, small......   2 75

TEA
Ja p an

Sundried, medium............. 28
Suudried, choice......
Sundried, fancy........
Regular, medium......
Regular, choice •.......
Regular, fancy.........
Basket-fired, medium 
Basket-fired, choice.. 
Basket-fired, fancy...
Nibs...........................
Siftings........................... 19@21
Fannings........................ 20@22

G unpow der

Moyune, medium................ 26
Moyune, choice................... 35
Moyune, fancy.....................50
Pingsuey,  medium...............25
Pingsuey,  choice..................30
Pingsuey, fancy................... 40

Young  Hyson

In d ia

Oolong

E nglish B reakfast

Choice...................................30
Fancy....................................36
Formosa, fancy.................... 42
Amoy, medium.....................25
Amoy, choice........................32
Medium................................ 27
Choice...................................34
Fancy....................................42
Ceylon, choice......................32
Fancy....................................42
Scotten Tobacco Co.’s Brands.
Sweet Chunk plug...............34
Cadillac fine cut...................57
Sweet Loma fine cut........... 38
Malt White Wine, 40 grain..  8 
Malt White Wine, 80 grain.. li
Pure Cider, Red Star............12
Pure Cider, Robinson.......... H
Pure Cider,  Silver................ 11
WASHING  POW DER

TOBACCO

VINEGAR

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

W1CKING

Rub-No-More, 100 12 oz .. ...3 50
No. 0, per gross................ ...20
..25
No. •, per gross................
No. 2, per gross................
..35
No. 3. per gross................
..55

M ICHIG AN  TRADESMAN
Grains and Feedstuffs
W heat...........................
75

W OODENWARE

Baskets

W h ea t

Crackers

8

Soda

The  National  Biscuit  Co. 

Oyster

6
6
6
6
6(4
6(4

quotes as follows:
B u tter
Seymour.............................  
New York............................ 
Family............>................  
Salted..................................  
Wolverine.........................  
Soda  XXX........................ 
Soda,  City.........................   8
Long Island Wafers.........   12
Zephyrette..........................  10
Faust................................. 
7V
Farina.................................. 
6
Extra Farina 
.................  
6(4
Saltine Oyster..................  
6
Sweet  Goods—Boxes
Animals..............................   10
Assorted  Cake...................   10
Belle Rose...........................      8
Bent’s  W ater.....................  16
Buttercups..........................   12
Cinnamon Bar.....................  
9
Coifee Cake,  Iced...............  10
Coffee Cake, Java...............  10
Cocoanut Taffy_____ ....  10
Cracknells........................  16
Creams, Iced......................  
Cream Crisp......................   10
Crystal Creams.................   10
Cubans..............................  11(4
Currant  Fruit...................  12
Frosted Honey.................   12
Frosted Cream.................... 
Ginger Gems, lg. or  sm ... 
8
Ginger Snaps, NBC.........  
8
Gladiator...........................   10
Grandma Cakes..................  
9
Graham Crackers...............  
8
Graham  Wafers.................   12
Grand Rapids  Tea...........  16
Honey Fingers...................   12
Iced Honey  Crumpets__  10
Imperials............................. 
8
Jumbles, Honey.................   12
Lady Fingers....................   12
Lemon  Wafers...................   16
Marshmallow...................  16
Marshmallow Walnuts....  16
8
Mary  Ann............................ 
Mixed Picnic....................   11(4
Milk Biscuit...................... 
7(4
Molasses  Cake.................... 
8
Molasses Bar....................... 
9
Moss Jelly Bar.................   12(4
Newton..............................  12
Oatmeal Crackers...............  
8
Oatmeal Wafers................  12
Orange Crisp....................... 
9
Orange  Gem....................... 
8
Penny Cake.......................... 
8
Pilot Bread, XXX............  
7(4
7(4
Pretzels, hand  made........ 
7(4
Sears’ Lunch....................  
Sugar Cake..........................  
8
Sugar Cream, XXX.........  
8
Sugar Squares.................... 
8
Sultanas............................   13
Tutti  Frutti.....................   16
Vanilla Wafers.................   16
Vienna Crimp...................... 

8

9

£

M eal

F eed  a n d   M illstuffs

Prices  always  right. 
Write or wire Mussel- 
man  Grocer  Co.  for 
special quotations.
Bolted...............................   2  00
Granulated.......................   2  20
St. Car Feed, screened__  18 50
No. 1 Com and  Oats........  18  00
Unbolted Corn  Meal........  17  50
Winter Wheat Bran.........   14 00
Winter Wheat  Middlings.  15 00
Screenings.......................   15  00
Corn, car  lots...................  44(4
Less than car lots.............
Car  lots.............................  25
Car lots, clipped................  28(4
Less than car lots__ ____
No. 1 Timothy car  lots__  12 00
No. l Timothy ton  lots__  13 00

Corn

O ats

H ay

Hides  and  Felts
The Cappon & Bertsch Leather
Co., 100 Canal  Street,  quotes  as
follows:
Hides
Green  No. l ............
Green  No. 2.............
© 5(4
Cured  No. 1............
© 7V
Cured  No. 2............
© 6 V
Calfskins.green No. 1
©  8
Calf skins,green No. 2
© 6(4
Calfskins,cured No. 1
©  9
Calf skins,cured No. 2
© 7(4
Pelts
50©1  25
Pelts,  each..............
Lamb......................... ...25©  50
Tallow
© 3%
No. 1.........................
© 2 V
No. 2.........................
Wool
Washed,  fine...........
Washed,  medium...
Unwashed,  fine......
Unwa^bPd. medium.
Oils
B arrels
Eocene ......................
@11(4
@10
Perfection.................
X X X  W.W. Mich. Halt  @10
© 9(4
W. W. Michigan......
©  9
Diamond White........
@1<V
©10V
Deo. Naphtha...........
Cylinder..................... 29  @34
Envine...................... 19  @22
P11V
Black, winter.............

)8©20
22@24
12@14
161» 18

Fresh  Meats

B eef
Carcass....................
Forequarters.........
Hindquarters......
LoinsNo. 3..............
Ribs.........................
Rounds....................
Chucks....................
IMates .......................
P o rk
Dressed...................
Loins.......................
Boston  Butts...........
Shoulders................
Leaf  Lard................
M utton
Carcass....................
Spring Lambs.........
Veal
Carcass...............-...

6(4©  8 
5Va© 6 
8(4© 9-/i 
O  @14 
0  ©14 
®  8 
5(4©  6 
4  © 5
©  7 
©10(4 
© 8 
© 8

7(4©  S 
@12
8  © 9

P r o v i s i o n s
B arreled  Pork

%
%

8(¿
6V

Smoked  Meats

Dry  Salt  Meat,

Lards—JLu Tierces

@12  50
@14 50
@14 25
@14 25
<&17  00
@14 75

Mess.........................
B ack......................
Clear back.........’....
Short cut.................
P ig ...........................
Family................
Bellies......................
9
Briskets...................
Extra shorts............
8
Hams, 12 lb. average.
©  h
Hams, 14 lb. average.
@  10 V
Hams, 16 lb. average.
©  1ÜV
Hams, 20 lb. average.
©  10
Ham dried  beef......
©  12
Shoulders (N. Y. cut)
©  7K
Bacon, clear.............  11  ©  liu.
California hams......
©  7V
Boneless  hams........
©  11
Boiled Hams..........
@  16
Picnic Boiled Hams
@  12V
Berlin  Hams.........
©  9
Mince Hams.........
©  9
Compound...............
Vegetole................
55 lb. Tubs.. advance
80 lb. Tubs.. advance
50 lb. Tins... advance
20 lb. Palls, .advance
10 lb. Pails.. advance
5 lb. Pails.. advance
3 lb. Palls.. advance
Sausage»
Liver .......................
Frankfort................
P o rk .......................
Blood.......................
Tongue....................
Headcheese.............
Beef
Extra Mess..............
Boneless...................
Rum p......................
Pigs’  Feet
Kits. 15  lbs..............
V bbls., 40 lbs.........
(4 bbls., 80 lbs.........
Tripe
Kits, 15  lbs..............
V bbls., 40 lbs.........
(4 bblg-, 80  lbs.........
Casings
P o rk ........................
Beef rounds.............
Beef  middles...........
Sheep.......................
B utterine
Rolls, dairy..............
Solid, dairy..............
Rolls, creamery......
Solid, creamery......
Corned beef, 2 lb__
Corned beef, 14 lb ...
Roast beef, 2 lb........
Potted ham,  Vs......
Potted ham,  (4s......
Deviled ham,  V s__
Deviled ham,  v s __
Potted tongue,  Vs..
Potted  tongue.  Vs..

10 75
12  50
12  75
80
1  50
2  75
70
1  25
2  25
20
3
10
60
13V
13
19
18V
2 75
17  50
2 76
5 >
90
50
i-0
50
90

i
i
5U
6
7V
7V
6V
9
6

Canned  Meats

F i s h   a n d   O y s te r s

F resh  Fish

Per lb.
White fish................... ©  10
Trout.......................... ©  9
Black  Bass.................   9©  11
Halibut....................... ©  15
Ciscoes or Herring__ ©  4  1
Bluefish...................... ©  H
Live  Lobster.............. ©  19
Boiled  Lobster........... ©  21
Cod.............................. ©  10
Haddock.................... ©  7
No. 1 Pickerel............ ©  9
Pike............................ ©  7
Perch.......................... ©  6
Smoked  White........... ©  8  1
Red  Snapper............. ©  9  1
Col River  Salmon...... ©  13  1
Mackerel.................... ©  18
Per gal.
.  2 00
.  1  75
.  1  60
...1  35

Oysters  in  Bulk.
Counts............................
Ext.  Selects...................
Selects...........................
Standards......................
Oysters in Cans.
F. H.  Counts...........
F. J. D. Selects........
Selects....................
F. J. D.  Standards..
Anchors...................
Standards................
Favorite.................
Shell Good».
Clams, per 100.............
Oysters, per too  __

40
33
28
2ft
22
20

1  00
1  00

2 9

. 

1- 

.. 

Mixed Candy

„.»Fancy—In Bulk

Stick  Candy 
. 

___ Candies___
bbls.  pails
Standard................. 
@ 8
@ g
Standard H.  H........ 
Standard  Twist......  
® 8(4
Cut Loaf..................  
@ 9
cases
• 
Jumbo, 32 lb........... 
©  7(4
@10(4
Extra H .H .............. 
Boston Cream........ 
@10
© 8
Beet Root................. 
Grocers.  ................. 
© 6(4
© 7
Competition............. 
Special..................... 
@ 74i
® 8(,
Conserve.................. 
© 8(4
...................... 
©
Ribbon.............. 
Broken............. 
<&,
cut Loaf................;; 
© 9
English Rock.........  
© 9
© 9
Kindergarten.........  
©  914
French Cream.........  
ii?nay viau............... 
@10
Hand  Made  Cream
© 15(4
“ *.xed ................... 
Nobby...................... 
©
Crystal Cream mix.. 
©13
„ 
ban Bias Goodies__ 
@12
© 9(4
Lozenges, plain......  
Lozenges, printed... 
©10
@11 (4
Choc. Drops............. 
Eclipse Chocolates... 
@14
Choc.  Monumentals. 
@14
MUm V.r°l,s.............. 
© 5
©  9(4
Moss  Drops............. 
©ill
Lemon Sours 
....... 
Imperials.................  
@10
Ital. Cream Opera... 
©12
ltiil. Cream Bonbon»
20 lb. pails.--------  
©12
Molasses  Chews,  15
lb. pails.................  
©j4
Pine Apple Ice...... .’ 
@12(4
Iced Marshmellows 
14
Golden Waffles........  ” ” @12
Fancy—In  5 lb. Boxes 
Lemon  Sours....... 
©55
©*4,
Peppermint Drops.. 
Chocolate  Drops.... 
@65
S ’ if* k}100’ V10hs  • 
©80
H.  M. Choc.  Lt.  and
©90
„ 
12............. 
Gum props.............. 
©30
Licorice  Drops........ 
@75
A. B. Licorice Drops 
@50
Lozenges,  plain......  
©55
@6u
Lozenges, printed... 
Imperials................. 
@60
Mottoes  .................  
@60
Cream  Bar.............. 
©55
Molasses liar...........
Hand Made Creams.  80  ©90 
Cream Buttons, Pep.
a n d W in t...........  
@65
String Rock............. 
©¿g
Kurni  Almonds...... 1  25  ©
Wintergreen Berries 
@60
Caram els 
No. 1 wrapped,  3  lb.
boxes....................  
Penny Goods......... ’. 
Fruits
Oranges 
Fancy  Navels
Extra Choice...........
Late Valencias...........  ©
Seediings.................  
©
Medt. Sweets..........  
©
^
.1 amaicas......... 
Kodi...................... 
@  600
Lemons
Messina.
Strictly choice 360s.. 
@6  00
Strictly choice 300s.. 
©7  00
Fancy 300s................ 
(a.7  25
Ex. hancy  300s........ 
<§>7  so
Fancy 360s 
............  
@6 60
California 360s......... 
©6  50
Bananas
Medium bunches 
 
1  75@2 00
Large  bunches........  2  00@2  25

©50
55@60

Fig»

Foreign  D ried F ru its 
Californias,  Fancy.. 
(g>
©
Cal. pkg. 10 lb. boxes 
Extra  Choice,  10  lb.
„boxes.....................  
@i2
r ancy, 12 lb. boxes new  @13 
Pulled, 6 lb. boxes... 
@
Naturals, in bags__ 
©
Fards in 10 lb. boxes  @  g
© 6
Fards in 60 lb. cases. 
Persians,  P. H. V ... 
@ 5
lb.  cases, new......  
@ 5
Sairs. 60 lb. cases.. 
@ 5
Nuts
Almonds, Tarragona 
Almonds,  Ivtea  __ 
Almonus, 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 N uts per bu.
Ohio,  new............  
Cocoanuts, full sacks 
Chestnuts, per  bu ... 
Peanuts
Fancy, H. P., Suns.. 
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Flags
Choice, H. P., Extras 
Choice, H. P„ Extras 
. . .  
Span. Shelled  No.  1..  7(4®  8

©18(4
,a
@
@12
@13*
ia 15
@
'*15
@14
S ll
@12>4
@
©
@3  75
@
5  © 
Roasted................  6(4©  7

Roasted 

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M IC H IG A N   TRADESM AN

1 Our Ad! 

gmmnmimmmnimmmK 

3 0

Petting  the  People

T w elv e  S p ecim en s  o f  G ood,  B ad   a n d   I n ­

cline re n t  A d v e rtisin g .

When  a  clerk  is  talking  with  a  cus­
tomer  he  can  judge  whether  it  is  desir­
able  to  talk  about  other  subjects  than 
the  business  in  hand  of  selling  goods. 
The 
judicious  clerk  will  do  as  little  in 
this  way  as  circumstances  warrant  and 
that  in  the  line  of  meeting  the  custom­
er’s  demand  for  sociability  and  good 
feeling— the  opposite  error  is  not  com­
mon. 
In  an  advertisement  it  is  coming 
to  be  recognized  that  social  needs  can 
not  be  considered.  To  be  effective  the 
advertisement  must  confine itself strictly 
to  the  matter  in  hand.  Not  that  there 
must  be  but  one  stereotyped,  conven­
tional way  of  wording  the advertisement 
— variety 
infinite—but  the  value  of 
space  and  the  gaining  of  readers  both 
simplicity  of 
demand  precision  and 
statement.  The  advertisement 
is  writ- 
the  to  meet  the  greatest  average  taste; 
each 
likings  can  not  be 
considered.

individual's 

is 

is  a  model 

J.  W.  Shepard  presents  an  advertise­
in  skillful 
ment  which 
little 
handling  by  the  printer.  One 
slip 
is  the  use  of  the  “ astonisher”  
after  “ ad.”   in  the  first  line.  This  mark 
adds  to  the  value  of  advertisements 
much less frequently than  it  is  employed 
judicious  compositor  will  be 
and  the 
chary  in  its  use. 
In  this  case  it  is  bet­
ter omitted.  The  matter  of  the  adver­
tisement 
is  good  for  variety,  but  goes 
about  as  far  in  talking  of  that  which  is 
not  selling  goods  as  is  desirable.  The 
arrangement  of  the  white  space  is  ex­
ceptionally  good.

The  compositor of  the  next—Bauer’s 
Drug  Store— is  also  successful 
in  his 
spacing  and  display  and  the  writer 
started  off  well,  but  made  the  mistake 
of  saying  too  much.  He  should  have 
stopped  at  the  word 
“ Your 
money  back”   has  a  fake  sound  about  it 
and  if  the  cough  will  be  cured  there  is 
no  “ if  not”   about  it.  Besides,  when 
the  customer  is  in  his  grave  25  cents 
is 
too  small  a  penalty  to  pay.

cured. 

The  main 

line  in  Wells  &  Morgan’s 
advertisement  is  too  large,  otherwise 
it 
is  well  set  except  that  a  neat  border  of 
some  kind  around 
is  better  than 
mourning  rules.  The  use  of  the  double 
meaning  in  the  main  line  will  answer 
for  a  change,  but  too  frequent  uses  are 
not  to  be  commended.

it 

Pig  Tail  Havana  has  an  idea  of  try­
It  may be 
ing  to  reach  a  low  audience. 
its  readers  are  more  likely  to  be 
that 
amused  and 
interested  by  the  coarse 
play  on  words  and  that  such  an  adver­
tisement  will  be  effective,  but  I  think  a 
better  one,  even  for  that,  could  be  writ­
ten.  The  composition  is  good.

S.  Benda  &  Company  would  have 
succeeded in bringing out  the  main  idea 
of  their  effort 
if  they  had  omitted  the 
first 
line.  There  is  no  relation  to  it  in 
the  matter  which  follows  and,  as  the 
is  designed  to  play  on 
advertisement 
terms,  the  first  line  weakens  it. 
In  the 
phraseology  of  the  first  paragraph  there 
is  that  which  suggests  the  desirability 
of  good  underclothes  and  so  will  work 
in  the  direction  of  selling  goods. 
“ A 
good  and  sightly  suit  of  underwear”   is 
a  little 
incongruous—sightly  could  be 
better  applied  to  parts  of  the  raiment 
less  inconspicuous.  The  last  paragraph 
should  have  been  divided.  The  com­
positor did  well,  except  that  he  is  a  lit­
tle  crowded  with  matter  and  the  heavy 
mourning  rules  could  be 
I 
am  pleased  to  note  that  Benda  &  Com­

improved. 

pany  have  profited  by  my  recent  criti­
cism  relative  to  the  use  of  the  union 
label  and  have  discarded  the  emblem  of 
anarchy  and  treason,  being  content  to 
present  the  merits  of  their  goods  in 
manly  fashion  and  depend  on  quality 
and  price  for  patronage,  rather  than 
resort  to  questionable  methods  to  cap­
ture  a  little  undesirable  trade.

The  Hannah  &  Lay  Mercantile  Com­
pany  presents  an advertisement which is 
ideal  in  its  way  as  a  piece  of  composi­
tion  and  is  good,  for  a  change,  in  mat­
ter.  The  rules  being  light  and  double 
give  a  clearness  and  distinction difficult 
to  be  attained  any  other  way.  The  dis­
play  and  whiting  out  are  exceptionally 
good. 
is  not  often  that  the  writer 
can  introduce  expressions  so nearly  sug­
gesting  sentiment  and retain  a  dignified 
strength  suitable  to  the  business  repre­
sented. 
In  this  case,  I  repeat,  the  mat­
ter  is  good  for  a  change. 
It  is  to  be 
commended  that  the  prices  are  given  in 
a  business  way,  especially  noticeable  in 
the  last  paragraph.  The  advertisement 
is  a  good  one.

It 

trying 

In  the  G.  E.  Hain  advertisement  the 
compositor  has  done well  under  the  lim­
itations  evidently  imposed  by  the  ad­
vertiser.  in 
to  occupy  all  the 
space.  Had  the  entire  space  been  de­
voted  to  the  principal  subject,  paint, 
no  doubt  the  compositor  would  have 
made  a  good  job  of  it. 
It  is  a  serious 
mistake  to  lug  in  too  many  articles,  hit 
or  miss,  just  to  fill  up  space.

W.  I.  Benedict  was  fortunate  in  put­
ting  his  matter  into  the  hands  of  a 
printer  who  knew  the  value  of  white 
space.  The  advertisement  is  a  good  one 
in  both  matter  and  composition,  and 
will  do  what 
it  evidently  intended  to 
do—sell  kodaks,  and  it  will  sell  more of 
both  kodaks  and  drugs  than  if  some  of 
the  articles  of  the  latter  had  been 
in­
truded  into  the  space.

A.  S.  Fryman  presents  the  merits  of 
a  line  of  ladies’  shoes  in  such  a  way  as 
to  interest  the  reader  to that  extent  that 
he  is  likely  to  influence  sales.

The  printer  gets  in  some  good  work 
on  Benedict’s  Grocery.  The  half  tint 
border  contrasts  with  the  heavier  rules 
so  as  to  give  a  clean,  strong  display. 
The  paragraph  relating 
to  Crawford 
peaches  is  too  indefinite  to  gain  the  at­
tention  a  more  positive  statement  would 
have  commanded.

It 

E.  Hunt  gives  a  fairly  well  composed 
advertisement  as  to  general  appearance, 
but  is  something  of  a  curiosity  for  am­
biguous  wording. 
is  the  first  that  I 
ever  heard  of  sweet  potatoes  being  used 
for  pickling  or  canning.  Had  the  com­
positor  used  a  different  scheme  of  par­
agraphing 
to 
clearness,  although  he  might  not  have 
succeeded 
in  making  so  neat  an  ap­
pearance.  However,  there  is  no  excuse 
for  such  an  incongruous  jumble.

it  would  have 

tended 

The  Owosso  Telephone  Co.  gives  the 
compositor  a  fine  chance  for  display, 
which  is  correctly  improved.  There  is 
no  excuse,  however,  for  not  changing 
an  advertisement  when 
it  ought  to  be 
changed;  the  failure  to  do  this  is  an 
injury,  both  to  the  advertiser  and  the 
medium.  As  a  pleasantry,  however,  the 
expression  may  be  admissable.

While  opinions  differ  as  to  our  re­
ward  or  punishment 
in  the  world  to 
come,  there  seems  to  be  an almost unan­
imous  belief  that  the  man  who 
is  the 
cause  of  wretchedness  and  misery  in 
this  world  will  reap  his  punishment and 
humiliation  before  he 
it.  No 
matter  how  strong  we  appear to  be  or 
impregnable  our  posi­
how  seemingly 
tion,  there 
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zinc, better than pure white lead, 
as 11  will  not chalk  01  peel  off.
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ARE  EVER  FADING

'KODAK  PICTURES 
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Kodak  whicn  we  will  sell  ai  <4 00 
If is their latest  Kodak,  is  the  bey 

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lakes  time or snap shots 

—each  picture  » 1 1 2  inches  square 
- a   very  popular size—from  eacn film 
*  thousand Pictures may  be  orinted.

Some  object  to Kodaks  because they 
do  not  understand  about  the  film 
cartridges.  They are made  by.  plac­
ing the  picture  taking  material on a 
strip of  thin celluloïd.  The celluloid 
is pasted on  a  long  sheet  of  blaçk 
paper  which is then tightly  rolled on 
a  spool—then  it’s  a  cartridge  and 
looks  like  this

Weighs  about  2  ounces  while  12 
plates,  same  size,  weigh  aver  a

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Manager— “ I’ve  marked that  consign­

ment  of  trunks  to  sell  at  $4.70.”

Proprietor----- ‘ ‘ Stupid ! 

Everybody
will  notice at  once  that  that  would  make 
a  $5  bill  look  like  thirty  cents.  Change 
it  to $4.69.”

LOOKS  JUST  LIKE  GUT-

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BENEDICT’S  GROCERY

BENEDICT’S  GROCERY

New Jersey Sweet Potatoes

We have theta that are alca.  Pickling Onions mtf*Ton»a 
toes  and  cvciythutg  needed  to»  picUng  jngf  canning.  Nice 
Melons— Fveryom  guaranteed  Huches.  Apples  fe n   too

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gi  change  our  ad.  We  now  have  $48 
Ja  te ,e.ph°J?es  ,n  Owosso.  free  service 
j*  w,lh  22  "1  Corunna,  beside*  seven 
jjj  prominent  farmers  south  of  the city
%  The Owosso Telephone Co.

You  can  acquire  money,  and  dietin 
will  improve  your  health,but  unless  yc 
were  bom  with  sense  you  will  nev< 
have  either.

Men  can  not  transfer  their  bad  habi 

to  others,  and  that  is  why  they  stick 
them.

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31

T H E   H O R N IN G   M A R K E T .

V egetables  G ra d u a lly  T a k in g   th e  P lace 

o f  F ru it.

The  “ flavor  of  mild  decay,”   as 
Holmes  puts 
it,  seems  to  be  settling 
down  upon  the  market.  To  the  one 
loaded 
who  watches  for  a  while  the 
wagons,  as  they  come  and  go,  there 
is 
no  apparent  change  in  the  number  nor 
the  quantity  they  bring;  but  there  is 
a  difference,  and  slowly but  surely  there 
is  a  gradual  dropping  off.  The  peaches 
are  not  all  in,  nor  will  they  be  for  some 
weeks  yet,  the 
later  fruit  in  less  quan­
tities  taking  the  place  of  the  earlier 
kinds.  The  best  go  soonest  and  now 
what  is  left  has  more  the  appearance  of 
“ odds  and  ends”   and  painfully  sug­
gests  that  there 
is  such  a  thing  pos­
sible  as  the  survival  of  the  unfittest—a 
condition  depending  upon  the  point  of 
view.

The  prediction  that  apples  would 
show  a  bold  front  by  and  bye  remains 
a  prediction.  The  amount  offered  does 
not  change  the  condition  in  that  respect 
and  the  quality  strengthens  the  opinion. 
Few  apples  as  yet  are  remarkable  for 
size  and  there 
is  a  discouraged  look 
about  the  best  of  them,  suggesting  that 
the  crop,  as  a  whole,  has  been  hardly 
dealt  with.  A  recent  walk  through  some 
orchards 
in  the  immediate  vicinity  of 
Grand  Rapids  is  a  fair  indication of the 
state  of  things  farther  from  the  city  if 
reports  are  to  be  trusted.  The  orchards 
in  this 
instance  were  not  the  largest, 
but  the  fruit  was  of  the  best  varieties 
and  each  tree’s  crop  was  rotting  on  the 
ground where  it  had  been  thrown  by  the 
wind.  One  tree  retained  a  single  red 
apple  of  the  bushels  that  were  almost 
ready  for  harvesting. 
“ A  neighbor  oc­
casionally  comes  for  a  basketful,  but 
the  wind  has  ruined  them  and  the  crop 
this  year  won't  amount  to  anything. ”  
Wherever  the  wind  had  a  chance  at  the 
trees  the  result  was  probably  the  same 
and  this  part  of  the  State  for that  reason 
will  not  figure  extensively  in  the  apple 
market.

The  grape  on  the  market  is  the  com­
ing  event  that 
is  casting  its  odor  be­
fore.  Unlike  the  other  fruits,  in  that 
way 
it  makes  its  presence  felt  and  the 
nose  catches  whiffs  of  its  aroma  almost 
as  soon  as  the  eye  the  clustered  purple. 
The  Concord  is  the  evident  favorite  on 
all  accounts;  and  while  the  Wordens 
and  Niagaras  are  not  begging  for  buy­
ers,  there 
is  an  evident  feeling  that, 
while  these  varieties  will  do  fora make­
shift,  the  grape  “ as  is  the  grape”   will 
be  seen  and  known  only  with  the  com­
ing  of  the  Concord,  and 
it’s  time  is 
not  yet.

The  vegetables  show  no  signs  of  fall­
ing  off.  The  potato  this  season  has  not 
shown  any  specimens  of  unusual  size, 
both  extremes  having  been  seemingly 
avoided.  A  happy  medium  in  this  re­
spect  was  noticeable  on  the  market  and 
some  fine 
looking  potatoes,  free  from 
dirt  and  just  the  right  size,  was  the  at­
traction  of  more 
than  one  market 
wagon.  Beets  for  some  reason  seem  to 
be  the  pig  among  vegetables  and  more 
than  one  dirty  bushel  exchanged  hands, 
taking  with 
it  more  than  its  conven­
tional  peck.

grower, 

Signs  of  “ that  tired  feeling”   which 
Indicates  too  much  of  a  good  thing  ap­
pears  now  in  different  parts  of  the  mar­
ket.  One 
leaning  sleepily 
against  the  end  board  of  his  wagon  full 
of  some  “ likely”   potatoes,  did  not 
hesitate  to  say  that  he  was  getting  tired 
of  it. 
“ It  don’t  pay  to  be  on  the  road 
all  night  for the  sake  of  getting  here 
in  the  morning  to  sell  your stuff
early 

for  what  don’t  pay 
for  digging.”  
“ Fruit  is  all  right;  but  it’s  so  plentiful 
you  can’t  get  anything  for  it,”   was  the 
burden  of  another  wail,  due,  doubtless, 
to  long  and  continued 
journeys  to  the 
market,  sixteen  miles  and  a  start  at  n 
o’clock  the  night  before  being  the  regu­
‘ ‘ It  does  well  enough  for 
lar  program. 
a  while;  but, 
’ long  towards  the  last 
on’t,  you  don’t  care  whether  you  ever 
sell  another  root’s  long’s  ye  live.”

That  man’s  19  year  old  boy  will  come 
in  to-morrow  morning ;  but  nothing  of 
that  sort  will  come  from him.  The thing 
was  tried  a  few  minutes 
later  on  a 
youngster  whose  black,  mischievious 
eye  had  every  indication  of  furnishing 
business  for  the  schoolmaster this  win­
ter.  He  was  indulging  in  a  yawn  big 
enough  for  a  man  twice  his  size  and 
weight.

“ Sleepy?”
“ Yes,  but  that’s  nothing. 

of  the  business. ”

It's  a  part 

“ Come  far?”
“ Dozen  miles  or  so;  but  a fellow  gets 
used  to  that.  Along  at  first  it  took  both 
father  and  the  horses  to  pull  me  out  of 
bed  ;  but  now  I’ve got so used  to  it,  that 
I  get  up  and  get  harnessed  before  I 
know  what’s  going  on !  Last  year,  when 
the  market  was  over,  folks  had  to  lock 
the  doors  and  hide  the  key  for  a  week 
to  keep  me  from  getting  up  and  driv­
ing  off  with  an  empty  wagon. 
If  it 
didn’t  get  cold  I ’d  as  lief  keep  ’er  up 
all  winter.— Here,  sir,  is  what  you  are 
looking  for.”

It  was  a  fact  and 

in  less  than  five 
minutes  the 
load  was  disposed  of  and 
the  handsome  young  face  that  will  be 
always  a  world  of  cheer  was  turned  to­
ward  home.  The  market  might  be  in 
“ the  sere  and  yellow  leaf;”   but,  when 
life  is  young, it doesn’t  make  any  differ­
ence  about  the  sere  and  the  yellow, 
even  these  conditions,  in  such  hands 
being  compelled  to  furnish  their  full 
quota  to  the  fun  that’s  got  to  come 
from  somewhere.

Six  P ra ctica l  H ints.

1.  When  you  have  nothing  to  say, 

2.  Always  live  within  your  income— 
If  it  is  not,  in­

is  large  enough. 

say  it.

it 

if 
crease  it.

3.  A  fool  and  his  folly  are 

insepar­

able  acquaintances.

4.  After  most  apparent  failures  there 
still  remains  the  power  of  effort,  show­
ing  that  he  succeeds  who  plunges  on 
again.

5.  There 

is  no  disease  which 

so 
racks  and  weakens  ability,  intellectual­
ity  and  manhood  as  that  commonly 
known  as  “ swelled  head.”

6.  Learning  is  such  a  strange  thing. 
The  more  knowledge  one  obtains  the 
greater  grows  the  realization  of  his  ig­
norance.— Fame.

The  Russian  government  has  taken 
the  drastic  step  of  suppressing  the  pub­
lican,  and  has  undertaken  the  produc­
tion  and  sale  of  drink.  The  change 
has  resulted 
in  a  large  increase  in  the 
public  revenue,  although  that  was  not 
the  object  in  view,  but  rather  the  regu­
lation  and  limitation  of  a  traffic,  which 
in  Russia,  as  in  every  other  country,  is 
found  to  be  productive  of national evils. 
The  minister  of  finance  repeated  that 
the  exclusion  of  private  persons  from 
the  trade  in  drink  was  absolutely  neces­
sary  in  view  oj  the  unsatisfactory  posi­
tion  of  the  question  of  the  traffic,  the 
in 
unscrupulous  profit-seekers  engaged 
in­
it  and  “ the  growth  of  many  abuses 
jurious  to  the 
It 
is 
noteworthy  that  at  the  same  time  the 
government  has  subsidized  the  temper­
ance  societies  with  a  sum  of $900,000.

lower  classes.”  

Crockery  and  Glassware

A K R O N   S T O N E W A R E . 

R utters

V4 gal., per  doz....................................  
l 
to 6 gal., per  gal.......................... 
8 gal. each..........................................  
10 gal. each........................................... 
12 gal. each........................................... 
16 gal. meat-tubs, each........................ 
20 gal. meat-tubs, each.......................  
26 gal. meat-tubs, each.......................  
30 gal. meat-tubs, each.......................  

Churns

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

M ilkpans

V4 gal. flat or rd. bot., per doz............ 
1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each.................  
F lue Glazed M ilkpans
V4 gal. flat or rd. bot., per doz............  
1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each.................  

Stewpans

Ju g s

V4 gal. fireproof, ball, per  doz............  
1 gal. fireproof, bail, per  doz............. 

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

Tomato  Ju g s

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

6 lbs. In package, per  lb...................... 

Sealing  W ax

FRUIT  JA RS

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

LAMP  BURNERS

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

45
5
48
eo
72
1  05
1  40
2 00
2  40

6
84

45
6V4

60
5V4

86
1  10

56
42
7

66
7
20
30

76
1  00

2

6 26
5 40
7  50
2  25
26

36
45
65
l  00
45
60
go
60

LAMP  CHIMNEYS—Seconds

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

Per box of 6  doz.
1  45
1  54
2 26

Common

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

F irst Q uality

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

XXX  F lin t

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

L a   H a s t ie

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

Rochester

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

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

E lectric

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 um p  Cans

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

LANTERNS

No.  0 Tubular, side lift...................... 
No.  1 B Tubular................................. 
No. 13 Tubular, dash........................... 
No.  l 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, 16c. 
No. 0 Tub., bbls 5 doz. each, per bbl.. 
No. Q Tub,, bull’s eye, cases l doz. each 

1  eo
1  60
2  46

1  75
1  90
2 90

2  75
3  76
3 95

3  70
4  70
4  88
80

90
1  15
135
1  60

3 60
4 00
4 70

4  00
4 40

1  40
l  58
2  78
3  75
4  85
4 26
4  95
7 26
9 00

8 50
10 60
9 96
11  28
9 60

4 96
7  40
7  50
7 60
14 00
3 75
46
46
1  85
1  26

F I F T Y

100-Piece Nicely Decorated Dinner Sets at

$4-75

Fifty 

We offer  to  the  trade  as  long  as  they 
last 
100-piece  Dinner  Sets, 
decorated in blue, pink, green, brown, etc. 
Sets are  in the bestsemi-porcelain second 
selection and as good as  many  factories’ 
firsts.

Combination of Set.

12—12 only,  5 inch plates
12—12 only,  6 inch plates
12—12 only,  7 inch plates
12—12 only;  4 Inch  fruits
24—12 only,  new shape cups and saucers
12—12 only,  individual  butters
3—  1 only,  covered butter dish 
1—  1 only,  8 inch platter
l—  1 only. 12 inch platter
4— 2 Only,  8 inch covered dishes 
1—  1 only,  8 inch baker
1—  1 only,  sauceboat
1—  1 only,  pickle dish
2—  1 only,  sugar and cover 
1—  1 only,  creamer
1—  1 only,  bowl
100 Piece  Dinner Set Only $4.75.

In ordering, mention what color decoration  you 
want.
Order at once before they are gone. 
It is 
an extraordinary bargain and decorations 
are guaranteed  in every respect.
When in the city fair week,  don’t  forget 
to call on  us  and  inspect  our  large  as­
sortment of holiday china.

DE YOUNG & SCHAAFSMA,
Crockery, Glassware,  Lamps, China,

112  Monroe  St., 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

William  Reid 

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For sale by O ln ey & J udson G rocer Co., B a ll- 
B a m h a rt-P u tm a n   Co., W orden  G rocer Co., 
M usselm an  G rocer Co.,  Lem on  &   W h eeler 
Co., C la rk -J e w e ll-W e lls Co., D an iel L yn ch , 
Jen n in gs E x tra c t Co., M ., B . & W . P a p er Co.

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P R E S ID E N T   K R U G E R ’S  F L IG H T .
When  President  Kruger’s  arrival  at 
Lournezo  Marquez  was  first  announced 
it  was  stated  that  he  was  merely  taking 
a  needed  vacation  ordered  by  his  doc­
tors  and  that  the  business  of  the  Trans­
vaal  Republic  would  be  carried  on  from 
Delagoa  Bay.  Of  course,  nothing  of  the 
sort  could  be  permitted,  as  Portugal,be­
ing  a  neutral  country,  having  friendly 
relations  with  Great  Britain,  could  not 
allow  Portuguese  territory  to  be  made 
the  base  for  hostile  operations  against  a 
friendly  state.  The  flight  of  President 
Kruger  from  the  Transvaal  really  meant 
that  all  hope  was 
lost,  and  that  the 
stout-hearted  old  burgher  and  his  col­
leagues,  having 
exhausted  every  re­
source,  saw  no  other  alternative  but  the 
abandonment  of  the  fight.

As  Kruger  was  the  dominating  spirit 
among  his  countrymen,  his  enforced 
interpreted  by  them  as 
flight  will  be 
meaning  that  all 
further  resistance  is 
useless.  While  there  will  no  doubt  be 
fighting  with  guerrilla 
more  or  less 
bands  composed  of 
irreconcilables,  it 
can  now  be  safely  assumed  that  the  war 
is  virtually  over,  after  lasting  for  eleven 
months,  and  costing  thousands  of 
lives 
and  vast  treasure.

''outh  Africa.  British  rule 

It  is,  of  course,  too  early  to  predict 
what  will  be  the  result  upon  the  future 
of 
is  now 
supreme  from  the  Cape  to Lake Victoria 
Nyanza,  and,  except  for  a  moderate 
strip  belonging  to  Belgium,  in  the  very 
heart  of  Africa,  British  dominion  ex­
tends  through  the  continent  from  the 
Mediterranean  to  the  Cape.  This  vast 
empire  has  been  acquired,  with  the  ex­
ception  of  the  Cape  Colony  and  Natal 
possessions,  during  the  past 
twenty 
years.  Much  yet  remains  to  be  done 
before 
its  possibilities  are  fully  de­
veloped;  but  now  that  the  Transvaal 
barrier 
is  out  of  the  way  Portugal  will 
no  doubt  be  induced  to  part  with  Del­
agoa  Bay,  and  Belgium  with  the  strip 
needed  to  view  an  uninterrupted  right 
of  way  from  the  Cape  to  Cairo.  Those 
things  accomplished,  the  work  of  de­
velopment  will  progess  rapidly.

the  most 

While  these  momentous  changes  are 
in  South  Africa,  Paul  Kruger, 
making 
the most  picturesque  and  rugged  as  well 
as  the  most  noted  of  the  great  pioneers 
of  that  region,  will  be  passing  his  de­
clining  years 
in  exile.  His  will  be  a 
pathetic  figure,  but  neither  exile  nor 
defeat  can  rob  him  of  the  glory  of  hav­
ing  made 
formidable  fight 
against  the  world's  greatest  empire 
which  that  empire  has  experienced 
since  the  days  of  Napoleon. 
is  not 
surprising  that  the  people  and  govern­
ment  of  Holland  should  feel  proud  of 
the  career of  one  who  has  honored  their 
race  and  given  it  a  claim  to  the  posses­
sion  of  valor  and  military  skill,  and 
they  have  shown  their appreciation  by 
sending  a  national  vessel  to  convey  the 
aged  ex-ruler  of  the  Transvaal  to  his 
new  home.

It 

T H E   M IC H IG A N   STATE  F A IR .

There  can  be  no  better  indication  of 
the  prosperity  of  the  Peninsular  State 
than  the  evidences  of  it  now  to  be  seen 
at  the  State  Fair  grounds.  The  old  talk 
of  the  hayseed and the  country  pumpkin 
longer  obtains.  There  are,  indeed, 
no 
the  “ signs  of  the 
profession” —the 
heavy  coat  of  tan,  the  strong  arm,  and 
the  face  which  work  and  weather  have 
chiseled  at  for  years,  but  the  seed-gath­
ering  hair  is  not  now  so  much  in  evi­
dence ;  the  faded  frock  coat,  if  seen  at 
all,  is  oftener  on  the  back  of  the  thrift­
less  townsman  and  the  outlandish  talk,

once  known  ap  “ country  gab,”   if  heard 
at  all,  comes from the  “ no  ’count”   folks 
of  the  back  streets  and  alleys  of  the 
city.  The  Michigan 
farmer  is  at  the 
front  and  the  visitor  at  the  Fair,  if  he 
would  see  him  at  his  best,  has  only  to 
visit  the  Fair  grounds  and  look  around 
him.

the  unlabeled 

“ By their  works  ye  shall  know  them”  
legend  prevailing 
is 
everywhere.  There  is  not  a  “ nubbin”  
on  exhibition.  The  only  comparison 
is  the  best  of  one  kind  with 
possible 
the  best  of  another. 
If  the  dispute  be 
one  of  peaches,  there  is  the  chance  to 
compare  Albertas  with  Crawfords  and 
Chilis,  and  so  with  the  others,  and  after 
the  decision  there  is  no  need  to  go  be­
hind  the  returns. 
Is  the  best  breed  of 
cattle  a  subject  of  discussion?  Let 
the  stalls  settle  the  difference  with  the 
in  the  State.  The  intel­
best  animals 
ligence, 
the 
trained 
intelligence  of 
Michigan,  has  brought  here  its  selected 
best  to  be  approved  or  condemned  as 
the  judges  shall  determine;  not  for  the 
sake  of  the  prizes  alone,but  to  strength­
en  and  increase  the  welfare  of  the  farm 
—the  foundation  of  the  commonwealth, 
be  it  of  State  or  Nation.

While  commendable  as  a  whole,  the 
best  part  of  the  Fair  is  the  people  un­
consciously  on  exhibition.  The 
talk 
may  be  “ farm  talk,”   but  it  bears  evi­
dence  of  the  training  of  the Agricultural 
College  and  the  high  school.  Not  an 
article  on  exhibition  and  not  a  child  on 
the  grounds  that  will  not  tell  what  the 
schoolhouse  is  doing  directly  and 
indi­
rectly  to  forward  the  State’s  best  in- 
trests.  There  is  less  of  ignorant  coun­
try  life  on  exhibition  at  this  year’s  fair 
than  there  was  five  years  ago.  The 
young  people  are  trimmer  in  garb  and 
speech  and  action  than  they  were  then. 
There  are  fewer  instances  of  that  hid­
eous,  one-toothed  class  of  middle-aged 
humanity  that  at  fairs  of  this  kind  is 
too  often  seen.  More  and more the broad 
shoulders  of  the  young  men  are  found 
carrying a head  that  has  been  uncovered 
in  the  college  class  room;  and  their 
sisters,  in  gracefulness  of  speech  and 
manner,  show  that  they  have  had  a  seat 
beside  them. 
It  is  simply  a  State  show 
of  the  well  to  do  in  every  department  of 
progress  and  every  occupied  inch  of  the 
fair  is  showing,  what  the  Tradesman 
has  always  contended 
that  the 
“ hayseed”   is  not  a  prototype  of  coun­
try  life  and  living,  and  that  it  has  been 
considered  so  only 
in  those  instances 
where  the  farmer  has  failed  to  make  the 
most  of  those  advantages  which  the 
State  Fair  and  similar  gatherings  are 
intended  to  furnish.

for, 

from 

Milwaukee  is  disputing  with  Chicago 
the  claim  of  being  the  healthiest  city. 
Chicago’s  death-rate  is  16.56  per  1,000 
of  population,  while  that  of  Milwaukee 
is  14.27.  These  rates  are  not  based  on 
population,  generally 
a  hypothetical 
exaggerated,  and  deduced 
the 
school  census  or  the  number of names in 
the  city  directory,  but  on  the  number 
of  people  as  declared 
in  the  United 
States  census 
just  taken.  Tables  are 
also  presented  in  the  proud  Milwaukee 
papers  to  prove  that  their  city  has  the 
lowest  death-rate  of  all  American  cities 
its  class  of  250,000  population  or 
of 
over.  By  these  tables 
it  apoears  that 
Buffalo  is  a  close  second,  with  Cleve­
land  and  Detroit  not  very  far  behind. 
Widening  the  comnarison,  it  is  shown, 
to  the  satisfaction  of  Milwaukee,  at 
its  death  rate  is  lower  than 
least,  that 
that  of  any  city 
in  the  world  with  a 
population  of  500,000 or  more.

R ack   to   th e   O ld  S chedule.

Lake  Linden,  Sept.  24— Since  one 
year  ago 
last  June  the  business  houses 
of  Lake  Linden  have  closed  their  doors 
at  6 :30  p.  m.  on  Monday,  Wednesday 
and  Friday,  thereby  allowing  the  clerks 
those  evenings  off.  The  one  exception 
to  this  rule  is  Mi  Levine,  who  tried  it 
for  about  two  months  and  came  to  the 
conclusion  that  the  arrangement  was  in­
jurious  to  his  business,  and  he  has  kept 
his  store  open  every  evening  since  that 
time.

like 

the  other 

interviewed 

The  business  men  of  the  town  held  a 
meeting 
last  week  and,  as  a  result  of 
the  meeting,  notified  their  clerks  that 
unless  Mr.  Levine  closes  his  place  of 
business  at  6:30  o’clock  three  evenings 
each  week 
business 
houses,  they  will  do away  with  the  early 
closing  rule  and  remain  open  every 
evening.
When 

in  regard  to  the 
matter  Mr.  Levine  stated  that  he  would 
not  close  his  store.  When  the  move­
ment w«y>  first  started,  he  said  he  agreed 
to  the  early  closing  and  tried  it  for  one 
month.  At  that  time  he  notified  the 
other  parties  to  the  agreement  that  his 
business  was  being  injured  and  that  he 
would  open  his  store  every  evening. 
He  was  persuaded  to  hold  off  another 
month,  but  since  that  time  has  kept 
open  every  evening  in  the  week.  His 
clerks  are  entirely  satisfied  with  their 
present  hours,  receiving  one  evening  off 
a  week.

Mr.  Levine’s  refusal  to  close  his  store 
three  evenings  a  week  will  result  in  the 
other  stores  all  keeping  open  evenings. 
The  new  order  of  things  will  probably 
go  into  effect  the  first  of  next  week.

T h e  B oys  B eh in d   th e   C o u n ter.

Owosso— H.  A.  Blackmar  has  gone  to 
Saginaw  to  take  the  position  of  mana­
ger  and  head  clerk  for  McLean  &  Ir­
win,  druggists.

Sault  Ste.  Marie— H.  B.  Klein  has 
taken  a  position  in  the  grocery  depart­
ment  of  the  Prenzlauer  Bros,  store.

Otsego— W.  A.  Cackler  is  clerking  in 
the  grocery  department  at  Hartman  & 
Hall’s.

South  Haven— H.  P.  Knudsen,  of  A l­
legan,  has  taken  a  position  in  the  store 
of  M.  Hale  &  Co.

Menominee— Edward  Forsyth,of  Mar­
quette,  has  assumed  the  management  of 
w.  H.  Roberts’  drug  store.  Mr.  Rob­
erts  expects  to  leave  soon  for  Chica go 
to  complete  his  medical  studies.

Owosso— Frank  J.  Ellis,  of  Good- 
speed  Bros,  shoe  store,  has  taken  a  po­
sition 
in  the  shoe  store  of  A.  C.  YVes- 
ener.

Sault  Ste.  Marie—Joseph  Flood  has 
taken  a  position  with  the  Soo  Hardware 
Co.

Fremont  Indicator:  The  Michigan 
Tradesman  of  last  week  came  to  us 
in 
the  shape  of  a  100  page  paper,  in  honor 
of  its  eighteenth  anniversary,  and  filled 
from  front  to  back  with  choice  articles 
upon  different  subjects.  A  great  many 
fine  half  tone  engravings  accompanied 
the  sketches,  giving  it  a  most  attractive 
appearance.  The  Tradesman  is  always 
attractive,  however,  and  one  of  the  fin­
est  weeklies  of 
its  class  issued  in  the 
country.  May  it  have  added  success  in 
the  future.

A d v e rtisem en ts  w ill  be  in se rte d   u n d e r 
th is   h e ad   fo r  tw o   cen ts  a   w o rd   th e   first 
in s e rtio n   a n d   o n e  c e n t  a   w o rd   fo r  each 
su b se q u e n t  in se rtio n .  No  a d v ertisem e n ts 
ta k e n   fo r  less  th a n   Z B   cen ts.  A d v an ce 
p ay m en ts.

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

I A   STOCKS OF MERCHANDISE—49 IN  ALL 
x U   parts of the State;  all  kinds,  and  at  prices 
that  will  sell  them.  Send .for  list.  Clark’s 
Business  Exchange,  23  Monroe  St.,  Grand 
Rapids,  Mich. 
AW,  STAVE,  HEADING  AND  SHINGLE 
mill for sale cheap at Temple, Mich., on Mus­
kegon River;  sickness cause for selling.  George 
Spathelf, Jr., Ann Arbor, Mich. 
\\T ANTED—2  BAZAAR,  2  DRUG  AND  1 
» v  grocery  in  good  outside  towns.  Clark’s 
Business Exchange, Grand Rapids. 

530

533

532

MIC HIGAN  TRADESMAN

521

527

522

623

526

519

drugs.  Must  be  sold  at  once.  Enquire  of 
Geo.  W.  M.  Hunt, Trustee,  114  So. Burdick St., 
Kalamazoo, Mich. 

drugs;  no  competition;  rent  cheap;  daily 
cash sales $6;  good reasons for selling.  Address 
Lock Box 9, Fenwick, Mich. 

Fo r  s a l e—a n  o l d   e s t a b l is h e d   m a il
order business,  with  large  stock  of  goods; 
i a bargain if taken soon.  Address Brewster Mfg. 
529
Co., Holly, Mich. 
17*OR  SALE—NICE  CLEAN  STOCK  OF 
i iH)R  SALE—NICE  CLEAN  STOCK  OF 
i pOR  SALE—ONE“SET  DAYTON  COMPUT- 
'  ing scales and one  medium-sized  safe.  Ad­
dress C.  L.  Dolph. Temple, Mich. 
Ho t e l  f o r   r e n t   o r  s a l e- s t e a m
heat, electric lights,  hardwood  floors,  etc.; 
located in Bessemer, Mich., county seat  Gogebic 
county.  Address  J.  M.  Whiteside,  Bessemer, 
Mich. 
\\T ANTED—'TO  BUY  BANKRUPT  STOCK 
" “  dry goods or dry goods and  shoes,  former 
line preferred.  Address,  with  particulars—size 
of stock, etc.—Box 91, Mason,  Mfch. 

IpOR  SALE—STOCK  OF  BOOKS,  STATION- 

ery, wall paper, etc., and only complete news 
depot in town;  also  dally  paper  route;  a  good 
paying business and an excellent opportunity for 
the right party.  Ill health  the  only  reason  for 
selling.  Write or call  on  M. Van Putten,  Hol­
land, Mich. 
U'OR  SALE — GENERAL  MERCHANDISE 
r   stock, invoicing about  $8,000,  store  building 
and fixtures.  Stock is  in  Al  shape.  Trade  es­
tablished  over  twenty  years.  Would  accept 
house and lot or farm  in  part  payment.  Splen­
did chance for the right person.  Reason for sell­
ing,  wish  to  retire  from  business  and  take  a 
needed  rest.  Address  No.  520,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 

building centrally located in a  good business 
town.  Address Mrs. E. F. Colwell,Lake Odessa, 
Mich. 

I ¡'OR  "  RENT—A  GOOD  BRICK  STORE 
i i'OR  SALE—DRUG  STOCK  INVOICING 

fifteen hundred ($1,500) dollars,  in  Southern 
Michigan.  Will retain half interest or sell entire 
stock.  Good place to make money.  Reason  for 
selling, have  other  business.  Address  No.  515, 
care Michigan Tradesman._________ 
x   merchandise, invoicing $2,500.  Will rent store 
building and fixtures very cheap.  Good farming 
country and excellent potato region roundabout. 
Dealer could handle farm produce to advantage.
Do  not  care  for  money  payment.  Will  accept 
ample security.  Reason for selling,  poor  health 
and need of rest.  Address No.  511,  care  Michi­
gan Tradesman. 
W HAT  HAVE  YOU  TO  TRADE  FOR 
improved  real  estate,  southwest  corner 
Wealthy and  Paris  avenues,  Grand  Rapids?  I 
prefer Detroit  suburban  or  Petoskey  business 
property.  Mortgaged  property  will  not  be 
looked  at.  Address  P.  Medalie,  Mancelona, 
Mich., or Jas. Campbell,  Giant  Clothing  Build- 
ing, Grand Rapids, Mich. 

_____________  

F'OR  SALE  —  146  ACRES  OF  LAND  IN 

Marion  county,  Florida.  Over  100  acres 
cleared.  Suitable for fruit, vegetables and stock 
growing.  Price $15 per acre.  No trades.  L. D. 
Stark, Cascade, Mich. 
STORE  TO  RENT  IN  CADILLAC;  CEN- 
trally located; formerly used for  drug  store, 
later for grocery store.  Dr. John Leeson.  377
Jj'OR  SALE—WATER  WORKS  PLANT AND 
±  
franchise In Northern  Michigan.  Write  for 
particulars to D. Reeder, Lake City, Mich.  424

5X6

520

486

498

515

511

259

Píete  or  separate  any  branch  of

f 'OR  SALE  OR  EXCHANGE  FOR  GEN- 

eral  Stock  of  Merchandise—Two  80  acre 
farms;  also double store building.  Good trading 
point.  Address No. 388,  care  Michigan  Trades­
man. 
388
ii»OR  SALE—GENERAL  STOCK,  LOCATED 
at good  country  trading  point.  Stock  and 
nx tures will inventory about $2,000;  rent  reason­
able^  good place  to  handle  produce.  Will  sell 
stock  complete  or  separate  any  branch  of  it  
Address No. 292, care Michigan Tradesman
292
PARTIES  HAVING  STOCKS  OF  GOODS 
of 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. 
|T °®   SALE  CHEAP —$3,000  GENERAL 
A  stock and  building.  Address  No.  240,  care 
Michigan Tradesman. 
W ANTED—BY  OCT.  15  A  REGISTERED 
pharmacist.  E.  B.  Longwell,  Paw  Paw. 
Mien. 
X \T  ANTED—REGISTERE D ~  PHARMACIST 
*  or an  assistant;  young  man  of  good  ad- 
dress, willing to do work in a  general  store  and 
well recommended.  Address G., care  Michigan 
x raaesnian. 
525
W ANTED—POSITION  AS  BOOKKKKPKV 
by young lady who has had about  a  dozei 
years  experience  in  store  and  office  and  cai 
gL';?,J)est. ?!  references  as  to  character  ant 
ability.  Address No. 513, care Michigan Trades 
man. 

M ISCELLANEOUS.

■   RELIABLE  MAN  OF  NINE  YEARS’ EX 

perience,  acquainted  with  several  depart 
ments, desires store or office position  In  Centra 
or  Southern  Michigan.  Write  for  particulars 
Address No. 502, care Michigan Tradesman.  5ft

613

240

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MERCANTILE  ASSOCIATIONS

Michigan Retail Grocers’ Association 

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

Grand  Rapids  Retail Grocers’  Association 

President, F r a n k   J. D y k ;  Secretary,  H o m e r 

K l a p ;  Treasurer, J. G e o r g e   L e h m a n
Detroit  Retail  Grocers'  Protective  Association 

President,  W m.  B l e s s e d ;  Secretaries,  N.  L.
K o e n ig   and  F .  H.  Co z z e n s ;  Treasurer,  C. 
H.  F r i n k .

Kalamazoo  Retail Grocers’ Association 

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

H y m a n . 

___

Baj  Cities  Retail Grocers’  Association 

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

L i t t l e . 

______

Muskegon  Retail  Grocers’  Association

President,  H.  B.  S m it h ;  Secretary,  D.  A. 

B o e l k i n s ;  Treasurer,  J.  W.  Ca s k a d o n .

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

Jackson  Retail  Grocers’  Association 
H. P o r t e r ;  Treasurer, L.  P elto ït.
Adrian  Retail  Grocers’  Association 

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

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

Saginaw  Retail Merchants’  Association 

President, M.  W. T a n n e r ;  Secretary,E.  H. Mc­

P h e r s o n ;  Treasurer, R. A. H o r r .
Traverse  City  Business  Men’s  Association 
H o l l y ;  Treasurer,  C.  A.  Ha m m o n d .

President,  t h o s   T.  B a t e s ;  Secretary,  m .  B. 

Owosso  Business  Men’s Association 

President,  A.  D.  W h i p p l e ;  Secretary,  G.  T. 

Ca m p b e l l ;  Treasurer,  W .  E.  Co l l i n s .
Ft.  Hurons  Merchants’  and  Manufacturers’  Association 

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

P e b c i v a l . 

______

Alpena  Business Men’s  Association 

President, F . W . G i l c h r i s t ;  Secretary,  C.  L. 

P a r t r id g e . 

______

Calumet  Bnsiness  Men’s  Association 

President,  J.  D.  Cu d d i h y ;  Secretary,  W.  H. 

H o s k in g . 

______

St.  Johns Business  Men’s  Association 

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

A .  P e r c y ; Treasurer, C l a r k  A . P u t t.

Perrj  Bnsiness  Men’s  Association 

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

He d d l i.

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Grand  Haven  Retail  Merchants’  Association 

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

H o e k s . 

_______

Tale  Business  Men’s  Association 

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

P u t n e y . 

______

Grand  Rapids  Retail  Meat  Dealers’  Association 

President,  J o h n   G.  Eb l e ;  Secretary,  L.  J. 
K a t z ;  Treasurer,  S. J. Hu f f o r d .

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Lv. G. Rapids,  *7:10a  12:05p 
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Lv. Chicago, 
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Ar. G. Rapids. 
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Ar.  Milwaukee..........................................  6:30am
Lv. Milwaukee..........................................   9:30pm
Ar. Grand Rapids, every day.................   6:55am

T rav erse C ity and  P etoskey.
........ 
........ 

5:30p
I0:46p
Trains  arrive  from  north at 3:45am, 10:50am, 

Lv. Grand Rapids...........  7:55a 
Ar. Traverse City...... ...... 
i:i5p 
Ar. Petoskey....................   4:l0p
4:15pm and 11:00pm.

Lv. Grand  Rapids........   7:55am 
Ar. Ludington...............12:05pm 
Ar. Manistee.................12:28pm 

L u d in g to n   an d   M anistee.
 
 
 

 
 
 

5:30pm
9:25pm
9:55pm

D etroit  and  Toledo  Trains.
Lv. Grand Rapids. .*  7:10am  12:05pm 
Ar. Detroit............   11:40am  4:05pm 
Ar. Toledo.............  12:35pm 
Lv. Toledo..............  7:20am  11:55am 
Lv.  Detroit............   8:40am 
Ar. Grand Rapids.. 
1:30pm  5:10pm 

5:30pm
10:05pm
... i ......................
4:15pm
1:10pm  * 5:15pm
10:00pm

Saginaw  and  Bay  City  Trains.

Lv Grand Rapids.............>........  7:00am  5:20pm
Ar Saginaw...............................ll:50am  10:12pm
Ar. Bay City..............................12:20pm  10:46pm
Ar. from Bay City & Saginaw.. 11:55am  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  day trains;
»Every day.  Others week days  only.
Sept. 23, 1900. 

H.  F.  MOELLER,

General Passenger Agent, 
Detroit, Mich.

QRAND Rapida  &  Indiana Railway

July  s,  1900.

N o rth e rn   D ivision. 

Going 
From 
Nortn  North

Trav. City, Petoskey, Mack.  * 4:05am  * 9:30pm 
Trav. City, Petoskey. Mack,  + 7:45am  + 5:16pm 
Trav.City, Petoskey, Mack,  t  2:OOpm  tl2:20pm 
Cadillac Accommodation...  t  5:35pm  ti0:45am 
Petoskey & Mackinaw  City  +I0:45pm  + 6:00am 
7:45am and 2-.00pm trains, parlor cars; il:00pm 
train, sleeping car.

Southern  Division 

From 
Going 
South
South 
Kalamazoo,Ft. WayneCin.  t  7:10am 
t  9:40pm 
Kalamazoo and Ft. Wayne,  t   1:50pm  t   1:50pm 
Kalamazoo, Ft. Wayne Cin.  * 9:45pm  .+10:15pm 
Kalamazoo and  Vicksburg.  +12:30pm  * 3:55am
Kalamazoo.........................  * 6:00pm  * 7:00am
9:45pm train carries Pullman sleeping cars for 
Cincinnati,  Indianapolis.  Louisville,  St  Louis 
and Chicago.  Pullman parlor cars on other trains. 

Chicago  Trains.

TO   CH IC A G O .

Lv. Grand  Rapids...............   tl2:30pm  * 9:45pm
Ar. Chicago.........................   + 5:25pm  * 6:30am
12:30pm train runs solid to Chicago  with  Pull­
man  buffet  parlor  car  attached.  9:45pm  train 
has through coach and Pullman sleeper.
Lv.  Chicago............................+ 5  15pm  *11  30pm
Ar. Grand Rapids..................+10  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.

FR O M   CH ICA G O

M nskegon  T rain s.

G O IN G   W E ST .

Lv. Grand Rapids__ +7 35am  +1  53pm  +6 40pm
Ar. Muskegon...........   9 00am  3  10pm  7 00pm
Sunday  train  leaves  Grand  Rapids  9:15am; 
arrives Muskegon at 10:40am.  Returning  leaves 
Muskegon 6:30pm; arrives Grand Rapids, 6:60pm.
G O IN G   E A S T .
Lv.  Muskegon.+8  10am  +12 
16pm  +4 00pm
Ar. Grand Rapids...  9 30am 
1  30pm  5 20pm
+Except Sunday.  »Dally.

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

Gen’l Pass’r and Ticket Agent.
Ticket Agent Union Station.

are better now than  ever  before ?
Thi.c 

is  important—and  true.

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

x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x x

I   C I G A R
REL'^JJ L L . A  lvVAy ì

•  H i t   BEST.

WANTED!

One  Million  Feet 

of

Green  Basswood  Logs

Over  12  inches.

QRAND RAPIDS MATCH CO.,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

MICA

AXLE

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

ILLUMINATING  A M D  
LUBRICATING  OILS

WATER  WHITE  HEADLIGHT  OIL  IS  THE 

STANDARD  THE  WORLD  OVER

H IG H B 8 T   PR IC E  PA ID  PO R  E M P T Y   CA RB O N  AND  Q A SO LIN B   BARRELS

STANDARD  OIL  CO.

To  Clear  Our  Warehouse 

We  Offer  You  for  Immediate  Shipment

Tin  Top  Jelly  Tumblers

1=3 pint size at 16c per  dozen 
*-'* pint size at 18c per  dozen
1*2

Shipped  from  Toledo  with  a  charge  of  35c  for  each  barrel. 
They are packed 22  to  25  dozen  1-3  pint  or  20  dozen  1-2  pint 
to  a barrel.  Terms net 60  days or 2  per  cent,  discount  if  paid 
in  10 days. 
If you have  no account  with  us,  please  send Toledo 
reference or draft with order.

The  Daudt Glass &  Crockery Co.

t  236 Summit Street and 230, 232, 234, 235 &  236  Water  Street
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Toledo,  Ohio

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Compressed  Yeast

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Strongest  Yeast 
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Greatest  Satisfaction 

to  both  dealer  and  consumer.
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419  Plum  Street,  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 

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O FFIC E  OF

H.  LEONARD  &  SONS

GRAND  RAPIDS

Mr.  Mer c h a n t:

We beg to  call  your  attention  to  our  Catalogue,  “  The  Commercial  Trav­
showing  our  complete  line  of  H O LIDAY  GOODS,  especially  our  very 
eler, 
large  assortment  of  Toys,  Dolls,  Games,  Books,  Celluloid  Novelties  and 
Cases of all kinds  in  addition  to  our  regular  lines  of  House  Furnishing  Hard­
ware,  Crockery,  Glassware,  Notions,  etc.

Our goods are sold at  “ Catalogue  House ”  prices,  a  positive  saving  to  you  on 
every bill. 
If you  have not received our complete  264  page  Fall  Catalogue,  drop 
us a postal, and we will forward on  request.  Come in and see our  line  in  person  if 
possible.  Don’t delay;  write to-day.

H.  LEONARD  &  SONS

Holiday
Announcement

Our  assortment of Holiday  Goods  for  this  sea­
son’s  trade  is  complete,  and  we  have  on  sale 
the  Largest  and  Brightest  line  of

Bric-a-Brac 

Art  Pottery 

Bohemian  Glass 

Novelties  in  French  and 

German China

we have ever offered.  Our  Michigan  represen­
tatives are  now in  the  State with complete  sam­
ple  lines,  and  we  will  be  pleased  to  make 
arrangements  for you  to  see  them.  Write  for
particulars.

Kinney  &  Levan

Importers and Jobbers in Crockery,  Glass,  Lamps  and 

House  Furnishing  Goods 

Cleveland,  Ohio

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