Eighteenth  Year

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  APRIL  IO,  1901.

Number 916

A  “Good”  T ru st

W ell,  they  weren't  a lw a y s  good,  but  they’ve  reformed.
They  used to ask   tw o prices for their goods, but since com= 
petition  became  so  strong they’ve  decided  to  ask  lessth an  
COSt.  Yes, they figure that if they can stand it  long enough 
they  can  wipe  out  competition  and  then  they  can  be 
“ bad”  with  impunity.  A re  you  “onto”  the  game?
Then  why  buy  Trust  Rubbers  when  you  can  get  better 
goods  at  better  prices 
from  an  Independent  Company?

The Beacon Falls Rubber Shoe Co.

207  and  209  Monroe  St.,  Chicago,  III.

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SPRING  IS  HERE!

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Are you  prepared  for your spring opening? 
get  in  line and  stock  up  on

If  not 

Royal  Tiger  10c

Tigerettes  5c

A  Smoker’s  Smoke

No  successful  man  attempts to do  business  without them.
PH E LPS,  BRACE  &  CO.,  Detroit,  Mich.

1   The  Largest  Cigar  Dealers  in  the  Middle  West, 
if 

F.  E.  BUSHMAN,  Manager  Cigar  Department

Carolina  Brights  Cigarettes  “ Not  Made  by  a  Trust.”

20000 Cords Hemlock  Bark Wanted

B E T T E R   T H A N E V E R

We pay cash.  Write  us  for 
quotations.

Michigan 
Bark & 
Lumber Co.

527 and 528 Widdicomb Bid., 

Grand  Rapids, Mich.

C.  U.  CLARK,

President.

W.  D.  W ADE,

F.  N.  CLAR K ,

Vice-President. 

Sec’y  &  Treas.

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

/Vsk us for quotatiops

On Street Car Feed,  No.  i  Feed,  Meal,  Corn,  Oats,  Gluten  Feed, 
Cotton  Seed  Meal;  any quantity, large or small.  Prompt shipment.

Walsh-DeRoo  Milling  Co.,  Holland,  Mich.

« * £ £ £ £ £ £ * * * * * < & * * # £ * * * * * * * «

¡M IC A  

A X L E  
G R EA SE

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

ILLUMINATING  AND 
LUBRICATING  OILS

p e r f e c t io n   o il  is  t h e   s t a n d a r d

THE  WORLD  OVER

EGG 
Baking 

Powder'

T H E   G O R E D   OX  B E LLO W S.
How fiercely our jealous competitors 
have  been  attacking  E g g   B a k i n g  
P o w d e r   in  the  local  papers  lately. 

They  wouldn’t  try  to  bother  us  unless 
they  saw  their  trade  going—going— al­
most gone in this  State!

There is

NO  ALUM

in  E gg  Baking  Powder. 
It is 
like the beaten  whites of eggs.

For terms address our nearest office.

Home Office, SO West  street,  New  York.

Western Office.
Branch Offices:

523 Williamson Bl’dg, Cleveland.
Indianapolis 
Cincinnati 
Grand Rapids 

Detroit 
Fort, Wayne
Columbus

H IQ H B 8 T   P R IC E   PA ID  F O R   E M PTY   C A R B O N   AND  G A SO L IN E   B A R R 8 L 8

STANDARD OIL  CO. 

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Capital  apd  Bfaips

These  attributes  are essential  to  a  grocer  in  transacting  business, 
but  to  G E T   A L L   YOU R  PR O FIT  and  economize  your  time  it  is 
necessary  to  secure  a

StiynpsoTi Gopiputipg Gpocefs’ Scale

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They  are  better  than  an  extra  clerk  and  will  make  you  more 
money  than  most  salesmen.  They  absolutely  prevent  the  most 
minute loss  and  are superior  to  all  other  scales  on  the  market. 
Ask for further  information. 

It’s  to your  advantage.

THE  W.  F.  STIMPSON  CO
D E T R O IT .  MICH,

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DESMAN

Volume  XVIII.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  APRIL  10,  1901.

Number 916

ASSOCIATE  OFFICES  IN  ALL.  PRINCIPAL 

CITIES

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References:  State Bank of Michigan and Mich­
igan Tradesman, Grand Rapids.
Collector  and  Commercial  Lawyer  and 
Preston National Bank, Detroit.

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The  Mercantile  Aoency

Established 1841.

R.  Q.  DUN  &  CO.

Widdicomb  Bld’g,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich. 

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

L.  P.  WITZLEBEN,  Manager.

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Prompt, Conservative, Safe. 

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Wholesale Ready Made Clothing

Nearly  all  kinds,  for  all  seasons,  for 
Men, Boys and Children.  Meet
W ILLIAM  CONNOR

who  will  be  at  Sweet’s  Hotel,  Grand 
Rapids,  April  9  to  14,  and  you  will  see 
a  large  line  of  samples  to  select  from. 
Customers’ expenses allowed.  Or If you 
prefer,  write  him,  care  Sweet’s  Hotel, 
and he will call on you.  He pays prompt 
attention to mail orders.

A.  BOMERS,

..Commercial Broker..

And  Dealer  In

Cigars and  Tobaccos,

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157 E. Fulton St. 

QRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Knights of the  Loyal Guard

A Reserve Fund  Order

A  fraternal  beneficiary  society  founded 
upon  a  permanent  plan.  Permanency 
not cheapness  its  motto.  Reliable  dep­
uties wanted.  Address

EDWIN 0. WOOD, Flint, Mich.

Supreme  Commander  In  Chief.

13 ONLY

13  Genuine  Bargains

If you use a  Cost  Book  you  will  never 
get another such bargain as we are offer­
ing—13  books  only  are  left.  When 
they are gone you will pay four times our 
present price if you  get  one.  Write  for 
sample leaf and  particulars.

BARLOW  BROS.

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan

Tradesmao Coupons

IMPORTANT  FEATURES.

Page.

Cozzens  a Jonah. 
Village  Im provem ent. 
Around  the  State. 
Grand  Rapids  Gossip. 
F ailure  Prem editated. 
E ditorial.
Editorial.
Dry  Goods.
Clothing.
Shoes  and  Rubbers. 
Clerk’s Corner.
Window  Dressing. 
B utter and  Eggs.
The  Meat  M arket. 
F ruits  and  Produce. 
The  New  F ork  M arket. 
W oman’s  W orld. 
H ardw are.
H ardw are  Quotations. 
Pioneer  Days. 
Commercial  Travelers. 
D rugs  and  Chemicals. 
D rug Price  Current. 
Grocery  Price  Current. 
Grocery  Price  Current. 
Grocery  Price  Current. 
G etting the  People. 
The G rain M arket.
THE  NATIONAL  DRINK  BILL.

The  American  people  in  the  year 1900 
spent  more  than  one  thousand  million 
dollars,  or,  in  other terms,  over  one  bil­
lion,  for  intoxicating 
liquors.  These 
figures  are  not  sent  out  as  a  sort  of 
moral  scarecrow  by  some  religious  or 
total  abstinence  publication,  but  they 
are  found  in  the  American  Grocer  of 
April  3,  a  mercantile  journal  that  takes 
no  account  of  the  moral  or  immoral 
liquors,  but  is  in­
effects  of  drinking 
terested  only 
in  recording  the  markets 
and  other  facts  concerning  the  various 
articles  of  merchandise  embraced 
in 
the  grocery  trade.  The  figures  are  not 
guesswork,  but  are  derived  from  the  re­
ports  issued  by  the United States Bureau 
of  Statistics.  From  the  bureau's  data 
the  following  figures  as  to  the  value  of 
alcoholic  and  non-alcoholic  beverages 
are  given.  The  alcoholic  drinks  em­
brace  spirits,  beers  and  wines.  The 
non-alcoholic  are  coffee,  tea  and  cocoa 
or  chocolate.  The  figures  are  as follows :
Alcoholic drinks................................11,089,563,787
Coffee................................................  125,798,530
Tea....................................................  
37,312,608
Cocoa................................................. 
6,000,000
Total, 1900.......................................$1,228,674,925
Total, 1899......................................   1,146,897,822
Total, 1898......................................   1,177,661,366
The  above  represents  a  yearly  per 
capita  expenditure 
for  beverages  of 
$16.17  for  the  76,304,799  inhabitants  of 
the  United  States,  or  a  little 
less  than 

cents  per  day.

 

 

The  quantities  of  the  four  leading 
beverages  consumed  for  the  year  end­
ing  June  30,  1900,  were  as  follows:
Coffee................................................  1,257,985,296
Beer...............  
1,221*500*160
Tea.........   ........................................   416,515,885
Spirits and wines.............................  112,675,873
The  official  Government  statistics 
show  that  in  1900 there  were  consumed 
in  the  United  States,  for  each  head  of 
population,  one  and  a  quarter gallons  of 
spirits,  half  a  gallon  of  wine,  and  six­
teen  gallons  of  beer,  making  a  total  of 
seventeen  and  three-quarter  gallons  of 
spirituous  and  fermented  liquors  to each 
head  of  population, 
including  men, 
women  and  children,  for  which  more 
than  one  thousand  million  dollars  were 
paid.

One  fact  of  interest  derived  from  the 
is  that  there  has  been  in  the

statistics 

in 

increase 

last  ten  years  a  steady,  if  small,  decline 
n  the  amount  of  strong  spirits  con­
sumed,  while  there  has  been  a  corres­
ponding 
the  quantity  of 
beer.  Wine  has  stood  at  about  the  same 
figures,  the  quantity  fluctuating  with  the 
degree  of  prosperity  or  the  lack  of  it ; 
but,  be  the  times  good  or  bad,  the  peo­
ple  must  have  their  liquor.  The  great­
est  consumption  was 
in  1893,  when  it 
was  18.20  gallons  per  head,  and  the 
smallest  was  in  1897,  when  it  was  16.50 
gallons.

Enormous  as  is  the  annual  drink  bill 
of  the  nation,  there  might  be  no  ob­
jection  to  it  if  nobody  got  more  than 
seventeen  gallons  a  year;  but  when  it 
is  taken  into  consideration  that  most  of 
the  millions  of  the  women  and  chil­
dren,  and  many  of  the  men,  drink  little 
or  nothing,  it  will  be  seen  what  a  vast 
quantity  of  it  goes  down  the  throats  of 
the  steady  drinkers,  and  it  is  at  the  ex­
pense  of  a  billion  dollars,  more  money 
than  can  be  conceived  of  without  an 
effort  of  the 
imagination.  What  vast 
quantities  of  the  earnings  of  labor  have 
been  diverted  from  the  support  of  fami­
lies,to  be  swallowed  up  in  the  vortex  of 
drink.  The  amount  of  misery  and crime 
that  has  resulted  from  that  vast  con­
sumption  of  intoxicating  liquors  is  be­
yond  computation.

While  prohibitive  legislation  is  pow­
erless  to  check  the  drink  waste,  there  is 
growing  up 
in  the  business  world  a 
force  that  is  more  powerful  than  every­
thing  else  to  work  a  reform : 
It  is  the 
fact  that  in  many  branches  of  business 
drinking  men  are  not  tolerated.  They 
can  not  get  employment  if  their  condi­
tion  is  known  and  they  are  discharged 
from  service  when  their  habits  are  dis­
covered. 
In  other  branches  of  busi­
ness  drunkards  receive  no  consideration 
whatever,  and  this  state  of  feeling  is 
steadily  growing,  because  it  is  enforced 
by  the  strenuous  demands  of  economy 
and  good  service.  The  day  is  going  to 
come  when  no  man  who  allows  himself 
to  get  under the  influence  of 
intoxicat­
ing  liquors  will  be  able  to  find  employ­
ment  in  any  business.  There  will  be  no 
morality  about  this,  but  only  cold  com­
mercialism.  This  will  do  more  to  en­
force  sobriety  than  could  all  the  prohib­
itive  and  repressive 
legislation  that 
could  ever  be  enacted.

It 

is  very  unfortunate  for  the  mer­
chants  of  Michigan  that  the father of the 
Nevins  bill  and  its  chief  lobbyist should 
have  had  a  falling  out  at  a  critical  pe­
riod  in  the  history  of  the  measure.  The 
trouble  appears  to  have  originated  in 
the  attempt  of  the  lobbyist  to  assume 
that  he  was  the  whole  thing,  thus  ignor­
ing  the 
legislator  who  had  fought  for 
the  bill,  step  by  step,  in  its  progress 
through  the  Judiciary  Committee  and 
the  House  of  Representatives.

The  British  are  making  a  great  mis­
take 
in  determining  to  make  no  more 
purchases  of  horses  and  mules  in  this 
country.  Our  sympathy  with  the  Boers 
may  become  extremely  acute  when  the 
British  side  of  the  war  ceases  to  be 
profitable  to  us.

An 

FALLEN  AMBITION.
interesting  development 

something-----whether 

in  the 
proposed  garnishment  legislation  which 
has  recently  occupied  so  much  of  pub­
lic  attention  is  the  falling  out  between 
the  author  of  the  Nevins  bill  and  its 
most  active  advocate,  the  secretary  of 
the 
so-called  mercantile  association. 
Representative  Nevins,  in 
introducing 
and  advocating  the  bill,  appears to  have 
been  actuated  solely  by  a  desire  to  se­
cure  an  improvement  in the  present  out- 
of-date  conditions.  The  officious  zeal 
of  Mr.  Cozzens  prompted  him  to  adopt 
the  movement  and  make  it  ostensibly 
the  principal  object  to  be  gained  by  his 
loudly-heralded  efforts  in  the  legislative 
In  his  short-sighted  anxiety  to
lobby. 
accomplish 
it
amounted  to  anything  or  not—he  ap­
peared  to  be  willing  to  overlook  all 
questions  of  merit  in  the  legislation;  so 
when  the  union  labor  delegations  who 
appeared  before  the  Judiciary  Com­
mittee  had  secured  such  modifications 
of  the  original  draft  as  would  make 
its 
operation,  as  compared  with  the  present 
law,  of  no  benefit  to  the  merchant,  he 
immediately  took  it  upon  himself  to  is­
sue  a  circular  letter  to  the  members  of 
the  House,  arbitrarily  announcing  him­
self  as  satisfied  with  the  measure  and 
utterly  ignoring  the  man  who  had  intro­
duced  the  bill  and  who  was  responsible 
for  its  progress.  Mr.  Cozzens  had  prom­
ised  to  secure  the  enactment  of  a  law. 
When 
it  came  to  a  show  down,  every 
one  must  stand  aside  and  permit  the 
miserable  compromise  reported  out  by 
the  Judiciary  Committee  to  be  enacted, 
even  although  it  placed  the  merchants 
of  Michigan  in  worse  shape  than  they 
are  under  the  present  law.

Fortunately  for  all  concerned, 

the 
merchants  of  Michigan  and  their  repre­
sentatives 
in  the  House  are  not  such 
fools  as  to  overlook  all  questions  of 
merit  in  such  a  measure.  When  the  bill 
was  reported  out  with  so  large  a  flat  ex­
emption  and  so  small  a  percentage  of 
the  remainder  liable  to  garnishment  as 
to  make  the  costs  greater  than  the 
lia­
in  most  cases—thus  making  the 
bility 
operation  an 
absurdity—the  sincere 
friends  of 
improved  legislation  wisely 
called  a  halt,  much  to  the  disgust  and 
consternation  of  the  man  whose 
ill- 
advised  efforts  have  resulted  in  the  de­
feat  of  all  remedial  legislation  of  a  sat­
isfactory  character  at  this  session  of  the 
Legislature. 
In  thus  underrating  the 
intelligence  of  Michigan  business  men, 
Mr.  Cozzens  makes  a  serious  mistake. 
Any  one  who  is  not  equal  to  the  task  of 
securing  business  legislation  which 
is 
an 
improvement  over  present  laws  had 
better  repress  such  ambitions  and  rele­
gate  the  work  to  those  who  are  actuated 
by  a  desire  for  better conditions  rather 
than  for  personal  aggrandizement.

Now  comes  a  professor  declaring  that 
Adam  was  a  Chinaman.  The  only  ap­
parent  way  for the  powers  to  get even  is 
to  demand  a  larger  indemnity.

If  Funston  will  only  avoid  Hobson- 
istic  functions  and  keep  out  of  the  10- 
cent  magazines,  he  will  prove  himself 
truly  great.

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COZZENS  A JONAH.

Has  “Done  More to  H u rt Than  H elp G ar­

nishm ent B ill.”

regular 

The*ieading  daily  papers  of  Detroit 
maintain 
correspondents  at 
Lansing  during  the  sessions  of  the  Leg­
islature. 
It  is  the  duty  of these  men  to 
chronicle  the  news  current  each  day  in 
the  Capital  and  to  transmit  it to  their 
newspapers  without  color or  bias.  Last 
Friday  the  Nevins  garnishment  bill 
came  up  for third  reading  in  the  House 
of  Representatives. 
is,  perhaps, 
just  to  Mr.  Nevins  to  qualify  this  state­
ment  by  saying  that  the  bill was  not  his 
original  measure,but  the  miserable  sub­
stitute  reported  out  by  the  Judiciary 
Committee,  which  would,  if  enacted, 
place  the  merchants  of  Michigan  in  a 
worse  plight  than  they  are  at  present 
under  the  antiquated  law  which  has  so 
long  disgraced  the  statute  books.  The 
action  taken  at  this  time 
is thus  de­
scribed  by  the  correspondent  of the  De­
troit  Tribune:

It 

GARNISHEE

BILLTABLED

NEVINS  R E F U S E D   F R E D   H.  COZ- 

Z E V S   R EQ U EST  TO   T A K E  

XT  V P   A T   ONCE.

L a tte r   G a t  Out  P r la te ff  C ircu lar« 
T e l i l a *   L e g is la to rs   th e   M easure 
I«  N ew   S a tis fa c to ry   to  B a s la is «  
N eu'«  A s s o c ia ti« « .

LANSING.  Mich..  April 5.—Contrary 

(From  a  Staff  Correspondent.) 

forenoon 

to  general  expectation  the  amended 
Nevins  garnishee  bill  did  not  come  up 
for  a   vote  on  its  passage  in  the  house 
this 
Because  he  wasn't 
feeling  well,  physically  gnd  mentally. 
Rep.  Nevins.  according  to  his  own 
statement,  had  action  on  the  bill  de­
ferred.

W hen  the  representatives  m et  a t 9 

o'clock  In  the  morning,  they  found 
on  their  desks  copies  o f  a   circular 
letter,  signed  by  Fred  H.  Cozzens.  as 
secretary  o f  the  Business  Men's  as­
sociation  of  Michigan,  which  reads  as 
follow s:

25.  as  reported  out  by  the  commit­

On  behalf  o f  the  business  men's 
association  of  Michigan,  o f  which 
I  am  secretary,  representing  sev­
eral  thousand  merchants.  I  Wish  to 
say  that  the  Nevins  house  bill  No.
tee  on  judiciary  and  passed  by  the 
committee  of  the  whole  yesterday.
Is  acceptable  to  our  organization, 
our  executive  committee  having 
met  in  Lansing  yesterday  and  de­
cided  on  that  fact-  On  that  com­
mittee  merchants  from  Dowagiac, 
Pontiac and  other small  places  were 
present,  and  while  the  bill  is  not 
all  we  could  desire,  it  is  a  vast  im­
provement  over  the  present 
law. 
and  as  such  w ill  be  welcomed  by  a 
large  proportion  o f  the  merchants 
of  the  8late,  for  whom  I  am  au­
thorised  to  speak.
W e earnestly  urge,  therefore,  that 
the  bill  In Its  present  form  be given 
your  support  and  vote  a s   a   fair 
compromise measure reason« sly a c ­
ceptable  to  botli.  m erchants  aad  > 
wage-earners,  and  one  that,  white 
providing  a   fair  chance  for  mer­
chants  to  collect  their  accounts, 
will  not  and  cannot  Impose  hard­
ships  on  anyone.
I  nand  this  to  you  In  order  to  re­
move  any  misapprehension  which 
may  exist  in  your  mind  regarding 
the  attitude  of  our  organization, 
which  has  fathered  the  bill  this 
session,  and  two  years  ago.  and 
a t  whose  hands  the  present  bill 
was  drawn  up  and  introduced.

B IL L   W AS  T A B L E D  

•

The  amended  Nevins  bill  was  the 
only bill on the order o f the third read­
ing.  Mr.  Cozzens  went  to  Nevins  and 
urged  him  to  let  the _ bill  go  to  a  
vote  a t  once.  Immediately  afterward, 
however.  Nevins  rose  and  said  that 
he  wanted  the  bilf  tabled  as  he  wqs 
not  then  prepared  to-take  the  m atter 
up. 
Mr.  Nevins’«  proposition  m et  w ith 
no  opposition,  and  tne  hill  w as  tabled.
To  The  Tribune  correspondent.  Rep. 
Nevins  explained: 
"I  went  to  Grand 
Rapids  last  evening  to  take  some  tes­
timony. 
J  had  practically  no  sleep 
all  night,  and  do  not  feel  in  any  con­
dition.  either  m entally  or  physically, 
to  light  for amendments  I  desire  made 
to  uie  bill  as  reported  out  b y   the 
judiciary  committee. 
I  do  not  ap­
prove  or  the  $8  flat  exemption.  That 
m ight  do  in  large  ciDes.  but  it  would 
not  be  satisfactory  In  the  country 
districts. 
o f  wages  due  an  em ploye/'.
Mr.  Cozzens  asked  Nevins  when  h e  
would  have  the  bill  taken  from 
the 
table,  but  the  representative  replied, 
with  a   slight  shrug  o f  his  shoulders: 
•*J  don't  know.”
Some  o f  the  legislators  afterward 
they  understood  Nevins  would 
said 
try  to  keep  the  bill  on  the  table.
The  amended.  Nevins  bill,  provides 
amount  due  an  employe,  but  the  ex­
emption  m ust  be  never  less  than  88 

for  an 80  per  cent  exemption  of  the 
SPITZJ2R.
por  more  than 898. 

I  don't'object  1®  the 80  per 
cent  exemption  up  to 130 o f  the amount 

M IC H IG A N   TRADESMAN

It  will  strike  the  average  merchant 
that  Mr.  Cozzens  was  assuming  rather 
more  authority  than  was  justifiable  in 
presuming  to assert  that  the  draft  of  the 
measure  reported  out  by  the  Judiciary 
Committee  would  be  satisfactory  to the 
merchants  of  Michigan.  As  a  matter of 
fact,  such  a 
law  would  be  a  mockery 
and  a  sham.  While  the  wage  worker 
who  is  paid  by  the  week  would  be  com­
pelled to  surrender  one-fifth of  his wages 
in  excess  of $8,  the employe who  is  paid 
by  the  month  would  have  $30  exempt, 
instead  of  $25,  the  amount  named  in 
the  present  law.  Referring  to  this  fea­
ture,  the  correspondent  of  the  Detroit 
Journal  wrote  his  paper as  follows:

Kevin’s  Garnishee  Bill  Has  Been 

Practically Killed.

L itt le   H op e  o f  I t   P a s s io *  

th e  
fta  I ts   O r ig in a l  P e n a -*

B o o s e  

per  cent  exemption  from  garnishee  as 
originally  prepared,  an  exemption  of 

The  Nevins  garnishee  law .  so  the 
fath er  o f  the  bill  said  last  night.  Is 
not  now  likely  to  pass.  The  bill  came 
up  on  the  order  o f  third  reading  In 
the  house  yesterday  afternoon,  but 

providing.  Instead  o f  the  straight  75 
S8  per  week  and 80  per  cent  o f  wage, 
up  to 830  per  week.  Rep.  Nevins  at 
of  exemption  being  b0.  Instead  of 75 

once  made  a   motion  to  strike  Out  the 
S8  a  week  exemption,  leaving  the  bill 
as  it  originally  was.  only  the  per  cent 
per  cent.
Rep.  Ames  protested.  He  declared 
that  a  fam ily  could  hardly  live on  less 
than 88 per week:  that  all his bad  debt­
ors  were  people  who made more  money 
than  that,  while  those  who  earned  less 
than  88  were  good  pay.
Rep  Sharpe  of  the  house  judiciary 
committee  declared  that  his  committee 
had  amended  the  bill  so  as  to  provide 
for  the  88  exemption  in  order  to  pro­
tect  the  fam ily  o f  the  man  earning  88 
per  week,  not  to  benefit  the  88-a-week 
man  without  a  family.
Rep.  M cFarlane upheld  the 88 & week 
exempUon.  and  severely  attacked  Nev­
ins.
R ep.  Colby  tried  to  have  the  bill fa r ­
ther  amended  so  as  to  provide  that  it 
should  not  be  retroactive  as  to  debts 
Rep.  Nevins,  prior  to  the  afternoon 
him  by  house  members  to  stand  by  his 
motion  to  strike  out  the  provision  re­
lating  to  the  88  exemption,  but  when 
a  division  on  the  question  was  had  he 
were  registered  against  it.
•'Yes.”  he  skid  dolefully,  a fte r  the 
session. 
‘‘I  think  that  means  that  the 
bill  Is  killed.  But  we  will  see  In  the 
morning  when  the  bill  comes  up  on 
third  order  of  reading.”
Lobbyist  Fred  H.  Cozzens  flooded  tbs 
desks  of  the  members  of  the  house 
this  morning  with  circulars  signed  by 
him self  In  which  he  stated  that  the 
terms  of  the  Nevins  garnishee  bill,  as 
amended  fn  the  house  committee  e f 
the  whole  yesterday,  providing  an  88 
week  exemption,  w as  satisfactory, and 
urging  the  passage  of  the  measure.

incurred  prior  to  Jan. 1  last,  but  failed.
session,  said  he  had 60  votes  promised 
could  control  but  27  votes,  while  39 

The  correspondent  of  the Detroit  Free 
Press  transmitted  to  his  paper  the  fol­
lowing  account  of the  occurrence :

NEVINS
AGAINST

COZZENS

•  L A T T E R   W A R   LOB BYING  ON  T H E  

FL O O R   O F   T H E   HOUSE.

CONSIDERABLE)  T A L K   O V E R   T H E  

G A R N ISH E E   M EA SU RE.

AN8ING.  Mich..  April 5.—Representa­

( F r o «   a   Staff  Correspon den t.)

tive  Nevins did  not  feel  like  tackling 
the  garnishee  bill  on  third  reading 
In  the  bouse  this  morning  so  he  had 
It  tabled  until  next  week.  It  btglns  to  look 
>as  though  the  splurge  made  against  the 
substitute  bill  reported  out  by  the  Judi­
ciary  committee  providing  for  an  exemp­

tion  o f  SO  per  cent  up  to 830.  with  a   mini­

mum  exemption  o f  88.  w as  simply  a  ruse 
to  secure  some  change  in  the  present  law. 
This  morning  pamphlets  were  placed  on 
s ll  the  members'  desks 
signed  b y ' Fred 
Cozzens.  of  Detroit,  as  secretary  of  tne 
Merchants*  Mercantile  association,  stating 
that  the  bill  as  agreed  to  in  committee  of 
the  whole  would  be  agreeable  to  tbe  asso­
ciation.  Nevins.  however,  declares  that 
Cozzens  is’  not  running  his  business  and 
-that  he  Intends  to  try   and  have  the  88  ex­
emption  struck  out.  which  is  an  impos­
sible  task.  He  will  be  fortunate  if  the  bill 
passes  at  all.  but  he  declares  that  Cozzens* 
presence  on  the  floor  of  the  house  acted 
as  a  prejudice  against  his  amendment.

It  remained  for the  correspondent  of 
the  Detroit  Evening  News  to  publish 
the  most  concise  statement  in  regard  to 
the circumstance :

GRANITE

m   AT  (OZZfliS

Bep.  Nevins Says Hellas Done 

More to Hart Than Help 

Garnishee  BilL

Over-Zealpus  Detroiter  Got  Dot 
Printed  Circular  Which  Mode 

the  Legislator  Hot.

5.—Rep.

'From  a   Staff  Correspondent.)

^AN SIX G .  Mich..  A pril 

Kevin«  thl.s  morning  had  his  garnishee 
bill  laid  on  the  table.  H e  will  make 
another  at:em pt  next  week  to  bavo 
the  88  exemption  provision  stricken 
out,  and  say«  he  would  have  succeed­
ed  yesterday  had  It  p o t  been  for  the 
Interference "of  Fred  H -  Ooczens.  sec­
retary of  the Gtute  Mercantile  associa­
tion.’  Nevins  claims  Cozzens  has  done 
more  to  hu rt than .help  tbe JbilT.

The  statement  volunteered  by  Repre­
sentative  Nevins—the  father of  the  bill 
championed  by  business  men  generally 
— that 
‘ Cozzens  has  done  more  to  hurt 
than  help  the  garnishment  b ill"  is  in 
line  with  the  Tradesman's  predictions 
and  in  keeping  with  the  fears  expressed 
by  most  of  the  merchants  who  have 
visited  Lansing  this  winter  and  wit­
nessed  the  boyish  antics  indulged  in  by 
that  self-appointed  leader.

Because 

The  Tradesman  was  an  ardent  advo­
cate  of  a  reduction  in  the  wage  exemp­
tion  fifteen years  before  Mr.  Cozzens  as­
sumed  the  championship  of  such  a 
measure—apparently “  for revenue only" 
—and  to the  agitation  of  the Tradesman 
is  largely  due  the  growing  sentiment  in 
favor  of  such  action  among  the  mer­
chants  of  this  State. 
the 
Tradesman  would  not  join  in  a  crusade 
to  raise  money  for  this  purpose  two 
years  ago,  the  Detroit  Trade  and  its 
amiable  editor  uncorked  the  phials  of 
wrath  and  filthiness  and  undertook  to 
read  out  of  church  all  those  who  refused 
to  assist  in  the  work  of  "getting  the 
machinery  greased  for  business."  The 
Tradesman  took  no  cognizance  of  the 
threats  and 
libels  and  innuendo  which 
have been repeated almost weekly  for the 
past two years,  because  of  the  irrespon­
sible  source  from  which  they  emanated, 
and  no  notice  would  have  been  taken  of 
the  matter this  year  but  for the intention 
of  Cozzens—as  expressed  by  himself— 
to  milk  the  merchants  of  Michigan  a 
second  time  for  a  so-called  legislative 
fund,  which— judging by  the  experience 
of  two  years  ago—would  be  absorbed 
mainly  by  himself.  Realizing  that  the 
experience  of  two  years  ago  would  be 
repeated—that  he  could  give  nothing 
but  disappointment  in  return;  that  his 
presence  at  the  head  of  the  movement 
would  effectually  hoodoo any  effort  the 
merchants  might  make  to  secure  a 
change 
conditions— the 
Tradesman  deemed  it  its  duty to  expose 
the  scheme  and  warn  the  business  pub­
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zen’s  statements  or  any  funds  in  his 
hands  for  disposal.  The  experience  of 
the  past  few  weeks  has  demonstrated 
the  correctness  of  this  conclusion  and 
justifies  the  Tradesman  in  the  position 
it  has  taken  in  behalf  of  the  mer­
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Cogent  Reasons  for the  W ork  of  the  Im ­

provem ent  Society.

When  the  village  as  a  body  had  met 
in  the  rooms  of  the  Improvement  So­
ciety  and  were  discussing  the  different 
measures  brought  forward  pro  and  con, 
one  honest  and  hearty  dissenter,  with 
the  persistency  and  honesty  of  his class, 
arose  when  “ any  one  not  a  member of 
the  Society”   was 
invited  to  make  re­
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made,  asserted  his  reasons  from  what 
with  him  was  the  only  practical  stand­
point  and  when  he  had  finished  his  ar­
gument  said:  “ Now,  what  I  want  of 
you  is  to  give  me  one  good  reason  for 
all  this  fuss  and  fury  about  landscape 
gardening  and  village  and  farm  im­
provement.  What  is  it  going  to  amount 
to,  say  fifteen  years  from  now?”

The  moment  he  sat  down  there  were 
several  calls  of  “ Mr.  Chairman!”   and 
that  officer  recognized  the  member  who, 
he  thought,  had  spoken  first.  With 
other  things  he  said :

“ Last,  but  in  my  mind  not  least,  Mr. 
Chairman,  if  there  were  no  other  rea­
son  for the  changes—the  improvements 
— we  have  made  and  still  hope  to make, 
I  have  this:  I  have  a  family  of  six 
children.  They  are  growing  up  and  1 
want  them  to  be  good  men  and  good 
women.  So  I  am 
looking  out  for  my 
church  and  am  doing  my  best  to  have 
that  all  right. 
I  want  my  children  to 
grow  up  believing  that  it  is  meet  and 
proper  to  go to  church  on  Sunday  morn­
ing  clean  and  well  clad,  instead  of  go­
ing  off  to  play  bail  or going  fishing. 
I 
want  them  to  be  respectable  citizens 
and  I  don’t  think  they  will  be  or  can  be 
unless  they  are  Christians;  so  I  want 
them  to  be  Christians.

“ The  law  requires  that  they  be  sent 
to  school,  and  because  I  am  going  to 
obey  the  law  I  want  their  schooling  to 
amount  to  something;  and 
it  didn’t 
amount  to anything  until  the  Improve­
ment  Society  took  the  school  in  hand. 
Now  the  children  of  this  district  are 
well  taught.  They 
learn  to  read  and 
write  early  and  no  time  is  wasted  and 
they  are  interested  in  their  school  work 
out  of  school  and 
in.  My  baby—well, 
we  call  her that,  although  she  is  8  years 
old— can  write  a  good  hand  and  she 
is 
reading  things  and  enjoying them which 
I  didn’t  get  hold  of  until  I  was  15.  The 
other  children  are  as  well  along  as  she 
is  and  when  my  Jack went to college last 
fall  he  entered  without  any  conditions 
and  they  tell  me  that  in  English  he’s 
among  the  best  in  his  class.  The  other 
children  are  doing  as  well  and  I  can’t 
help  thinking  that  Jack  is  going  to be  a 
better  man  and  a  stronger  one  every 
way  because  I  could  keep  him  at  home 
here  where  I  knew  where  he  was  be­
tween  supper  and  bedtime. 
I  think 
he’s  a  cleaner  minded  boy  than  he 
would  have  been 
if  I’d  sent  him  to  a 
preparatory  school.

“ Our  village  library  did  the  business 
for the  boy’s  English  exactly  as 
it  is 
doing  for  every  child’s  in  the  village. 
I  am  going  a  step  farther and  say  that 
so  far the  library  has  paid for  itself  sev­
eral  times  over  in  giving  the  children, 
girls  as  well  as  hoys,  good  thinking  ma­
terial.  Sunshine 
is  the  best  thing  I 
know  of  to  keep  out  the  dark  and  I’m 
going  to  be  candid  enough  to  say  that 
that  fact  isn’t  confined  to  children. 
I 
didn’t  know  any too much— I don’t  now, 
for  that  matter—but  I  find  a  book  is  a 
bandy  thing  to  catch  up  when  I  have  a

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little  comer  of  time  that  nothing  else 
will  fit  into,  and I don’t  know  how  many 
books  I’ve  read  during  the  year  in 
just 
that  way.  This  has  given  me  some­
thing  to  think  of  when  I  have  been  at 
work  and  I  am  willing  to  believe  that 
my  hardest  day  has  been  made  easier 
by  the  book  I  have  been  reading.  So, 
as  I 
library  has  been 
found  a  good  thing  all  around.

look  at  it,  the 

its  surroundings. 

“ Still,  that  wasn’t  the  idea  I  started 
out  with.  When  everything  is  said  and 
done,  after  the  children  have  grown  up 
and  gone  away,  as  they  are  sure  to  do,
I  want  them  to  have  such  a  love  for  the 
old  home  and  the  village  that  they  will 
want  to come  back  to  it. 
I  want  them 
to  carry  away  a  beautiful  picture  of  it 
and 
I  don’t  believe 
that  the  “ Sweet  Auburn!  Loveliest 
village  of  the  plain !”   that  Goldsmith 
pictures  so  faithfully  need  be  the  only 
one  to  beckon  back  the  children  after 
they  have  gone. 
I  want  them  to  say— 
and  I  know  they  will— ‘ I  do  not  know  a 
more  beautiful  place  anywhere  in  the 
world  than  my  home.  The  city  is  well 
enough  . for  those  who  have  been  bom 
there  and  don’t  know  any  better,  but  I 
can  get  the  cream  of  it  with  occasional 
visits,  and  the  country  is  the  place  for 
me.  Just  as  soon  as  I  get  through 
school  I’m  going  home  to  live.’ 
I  may 
not  be  right  about  it,  but  I  think  just 
that  thing—the  coming  back  of  the chil­
dren  to  the  old  country  home— is  the 
best  thing  that  can  happen  to  the  coun­
try.  As  it 
is  too  often  now,  and  has 
been  for  a  good  many  years,  the  coun­
try  has  been 
looked  upon  as  a  good 
place  for the  bachache,  but  for  nothing 
else.  Our  friend  here  lives  on  a  farm 
and has  as  many  children  as  I  have  and 
most of  them  are  boys.  Some  of  them 
are  now  young  men,and  if  they  are  like 
most  young  fellows  they  are  thinking  of 
the  time  when  they  will 
the 
drudgery  of  the  farm  and  get  a  place  in 
the  city  where  they  can  have  it  a  little 
I  don’t  believe  that’s  the  right 
easier. 
way. 
I  think  we  want  to  make  things 
so  pleasant  at  home  that  they  can't  be 
driven  to  the  c ity ;  and  the  way  to do it, 
in  my  mind,  is  to  bring  to  the  country 
the  city’s  best  and  turn  it  loose.

leave 

“ The  city 

folks  are  beginning  to 
think  so,  too.  Longer and  longer  they 
stay in the  country  after the  summer has 
gone  and  many  of  them  hurry  back with 
the  robin  and  the  bluebird.  This  mak­
ing  the  village  attractive,  this  improv- 
ment  of  the  schools  and  getting  of  the 
library—oh,  this  making  the  country  a 
beautiful  place  to  live  in  and  burning 
up  the  hayseed  with  the  rest  of  the 
weeds  and  underbrush  is  what  is  going 
to  do  the  business;  and  I  say  that,  if 
the  country  folks  will  take  hold  of  this 
thing  and  push  it  for all  it’s worth, we’ll 
have  not  only  the  best  of  the  city  out 
here,  but  a  nation  so  far ahead  of  the 
rest  of  the  earth  that  they  will  despair, 
of  attaining  unto  us”

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Movements of M erchants.

Manton— D.  K.  Beilis  has  engaged  in 

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Belding— E.  T.  Sutphen  has  sold  his 
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Ann  Arbor— Ream  &  Co. 

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River  Rouge— Rosa  (Mrs.  R.  L iv­
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of  M.  T.  Funston.

Owosso— P.  D.  Dean  and  his  son,  F. 
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J.  Dean,  have 
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Pulaski—Weston  &  Co.  have  pur­
chased  the  general  merchandise  stock 
of  Geo.  T.  McClintic.

Lake  City—J.  K.  Seafuse  has  opened 
a  meat  market  in  the  building  recently 
vacated  by  Miss  Howey.

Rogers  City— E.  Steinbom 

is  erect­
ing  a  general  store  building  at  Metz, 
30x60  feet  in  dimensions.

Detroit— Bentley  &  Hubbard  succeed 
in  the  wall 

Bentley,  Burbank  &  Co. 
paper  and  paint  business.

Norway—S.  G.  Ramsdell  has  pur­
clothing 

chased  the  dry  goods  and 
stock  of  Simon  J.  Schwartz.

Charlotte—Jas.  H.  Bryan  has  put  a 
new  steel  ceiling  in  his  drug  store  and 
has  decorated  the  side  walls.

Benton  Harbor— Daniel  Moore  and 
George  Kimball  will  shortly  open a  gro­
cery  store  on  Lafayette  street.

Alpena—G.  A.  Shannon  is  succeeded 
by  W.  E.  Williams  &  Co.  in  the  furni­
ture  and  undertaking  business.

Schoolcraft— Munn  Bros,  is  the  style 
of  the  firm  which  succeeds  Munn  & 
Munger  in  the  grocery  business.

Marquette— McMain  &  Weber,  whole­
sale  candy  dealers,  have  dissolved  part­
nership,  H.  O.  McMain  succeeding.

Delray—Alward  &  Ridley  have  pur­
chased  the  clothing  and  men’s  furnish­
ing  goods  stock  of  Paul  &  Reynolds.

Highland  Park—Jas.  R.  Hutton  suc­
ceeds  Kneale  &  Hutchins  in  the  gro­
cery,  meat  and  flour and  feed  business.
Zeeland—Thos.  Van  Eenenaam  has 
enlarged  the  office  of  the  Hotel  Zeeland 
and  otherwise 
improved  the  premises.
Alma— Bivins  &  Rhodes  will  remove 
April  15 
into  the  fkie  corner store  in 
the  Pollasky  block,  opposite  the  Wright 
House.

Howell— Barron  &  Wines,  druggists, 
have  purchased  the  soda  fountain  used 
last  season  in  the  Boston  Store in  Grand 
Rapids.

Marion— Arndt  &  Slough  have  sold 
their store  building  to  W.  M.  Davis,  of 
Evart,  who  will  make  extensive  im­
provements  in  same  and  will  occupy 
it 
with  a  line  of  furniture.

M ICHIG AN  TRADESMAN

Boyden—A.  M.  &  I.  A.  Bunker  have 
engaged 
in  general  trade.  They  pur­
chased  the  stock  owned  by  Henry  A. 
Egleston.

Mayville—The  general  merchandise 
store  of  Alfred  E.  Nelson  has  been 
closed  on  account  of  the  stock  being 
mortgaged.

Albion—W.  H.  Rogers  will  open  a 
new  stock  of  shoes  May  1  in  the  build­
ing  now  occupied  by  the  book,  store  of 
H.  C.  Blair.

Marion— Arndt  &  Slough  have  sold 
their  stock  of  groceries  to  Cole  it  K il­
mer,  who  will  continue  the  business  at 
the  old  stand.
5 ’Jackson—Carl  G.  Trumble  has  pur­
chased  the  show  cases  for  his  Opera 
House  drug  store  from  the  Grand  Rap­
ids  Fixtures  Co.

Bloomingdale— Trimm  &  Hodgman 
is  the  style  of  the  new  firm  which  suc­
ceeds  David  Joy  in  the  dry  goods  and 
grocery  business.

Escanaba—A  copartnership  has  been 
formed  between  Maynard  &  Barabee  to 
succeed  J.  C.  Maynard  in  the  furniture 
and  undertaking  business.

Chadwick—Asa  E.  Dorr  has  pur­
chased  the  general  stock  of  his  father, 
Edwin  Dorr,  and  will  continue 
the 
business  at  the  same  location.

Levering—Wm.  Walker  is  erecting  a 
store  building,  24x60  feet  in  dimen­
sions,  which  either  he  or Walker  Bros, 
will  occupy  with  a  new  hardware  stock.
Riverdale—Vincent  P.  Cash,  for  sev­
eral  years  engaged  in  the  produce  busi­
ness  at  Portland,  will  shortly  remove  to 
this  place  and  engage  in  the  grain busi­
ness.

Reed  City—W.  H.  Hawkins  has  sold 
his  grocery  stock  to  B.  E.  Loomis, 
who  has  conducted  a  general  merchan­
dise  business 
in  North  Dakota  for the 
past  four  years.

Ashley---- Norman  Mills  and  Jas.
Crooks,  of  Ithaca,  have  formed  a  co­
partnership  under  the  style  of  Mills  & 
Crooks  and  engaged  in  the  general  mer­
chandise  business  here.

Elsie— The  grocery  firm  of  Cortright 
&  Swan  has  been  dissolved  by  mutual 
consent.  L.  J.  Page  has  purchased  the 
interest  of  Mr.  Cortright  and  the  new 
firm  will  now  be  known  as  Swan  & 
Page.

Holton— H.  S.  Henderson  still  retains 
a  half  interest  in  the  general  merchan­
dise  firm  of  H.  S.  Henderson  &  Co., 
the  other  half  having  been  purchased by 
H.  A.  and  H.  R.  O’Connor.  The  firm 
name  remains  unchanged.

Lansing—C.  J.  Rouser has  purchased 
the  building  occupied  by  his  drug  stock 
and  has  improved  the  rooms  below  with 
a 
New 
counters,  showcases,  steel  ceiling  and 
wall  decorations  have  been  added.

re-arrangement. 

complete 

Lake  City—Miss  R.  A.  Howey  has 
taken  possession  of  her  building  at  the 
corner  of  Main  and  John  streets  and  is 
making  extensive  improvements  in  the 
same  and  will  shortly  move  her  mil­
linery  and  fancy  goods  stock  therein.

Hudson—Cole  &  Keister  have  pur­
chased  the  stock  of  groceries  which 
were  sold  by  Martin  &  Ball  last  week 
to  Mr.  Kenyon,  who  retained  the  own­
ership  only  a few days.  Cole  &  Keister 
will  remove  the  stock  to  their  store 
building.

Hastings— The  style  of  the  grocery 
firm  of  C.  W.  Clark  &  Co.  has  been 
substituted  for  that  of Stirling,  Crawford 
&  Co.,  it  being  thought  advisable  to 
have  the  business  conducted  under the 
name  of  the  resident  member  of  the 
firm.

Moline— Hon.  E.  N.  Bates,  who  has 
been  engaged  in  the mercantile business 
here  for  several  years,  has  sold  an  in­
terest 
in  the  stock  to  Job  McLeod,  of 
this  place,  and  S.  C.  Stiner,  of  Elwood, 
111.  The  style  of  the  new  firm  will  be 
McLeod,  Stiner  &  Co.

Traverse  City— Ralph  McCluskey  and 
Wm.  Clancy  have  purchased  the  gro­
cery  stock  of  S.  Adsley.  Mr.  Mc­
Cluskey  has  for  three  years  been  em­
ployed  in  the  store  of  Wilhelm,  Bartak 
& Co.  and  Mr.  Clancy  has  been  engaged 
in  the  buying  of  potatoes.

Kalamazoo— Henry  Fletter  has  sold 
his  cigar  business,  at  n ^ H   South  Bur­
dick  street,  to  S.  F.  Sloan  and  E.  M. 
Lawn.  Mr.  Lawn  is  proprietor  of  the 
Bell  Cigar  Co.,  at  119  North  Rose 
street,and  the  two  concerns  will  be  con­
solidated  at  the  Burdick  street 
location 
under  the  style  of  the  Bell  Cigar Co.

Cheboygan—The  dry  goods  firm  of 
Sinclair  &  Mathews  has  been dissolved, 
Mr.  Sinclair  retiring.  Mr.  Mathews
has  formed  a  partnership  with  O.  W. 
Glover,  under the  firm  name  of  Glover 
&  Mathews,  and  about  May  1  they  will 
open  up  in  the  rooms  formerly occupied 
by  Mr.  Glover  before  he  was  burned 
out,  which  are  being  rapidly  repaired.
Yale— In  a  bill  of  complaint  filed  at 
Detroit  by  Henry  A. 
and  Herman 
Krolik,  survivors  of the  firm  of  A.  Kro- 
lik  &  Co.,  it 
is  alleged  that  William 
H.  Ballentine,  a  merchant  doing  busi­
ness  here,  made  an  assignment  for the 
benefit  of  his  creditors  on  March  21, 
1901,  to John  S.  Duffie  as  trustee. 
It  is 
averred  that  Duffie  has  not  taken  over 
the  account  books  kept  by  Ballentine, 
which  complainants  claim are a valuable 
asset,  although  a 
large  portion  of  the 
assets  have  been  delivered  to  him. 
Complainants  also allege  that the claims 
filed  by  some  firms  are  fraudulent  and 
void,  and  they  ask  that  these  be  so  de­
clared  and  not  allowed  and  that  the 
trustee  be  restrained  from  making  any 
payments  on  account  of  such  claims  or 
on  account  of  claims  that  are  incom­
plete.  An  injunction  is  also  asked  re­
straining  defendant,William  H.  Ballen­
tine,  from  making  away  with  or  secret­
ing  any  of  his  account  books,  and  it 
is 
prayed  that  be  be  required  to  hand 
them,  with  any  other  property 
in  his 
hands,  over to  the  trustee.

M anufacturing M atters.

Raber— The  Mud  Lake  Lumber  Co. 

is  making  additions  to  its  mill.

Boyne  Falls— Pfeiffer  &  Burch,  of 

Edmore,  are  building  a  shingle  mill.

Bay  City— F._ G.  Eddy  &  Co.  will  es­
tablish  a  box  factory  and  lumber  yard.
Redman—The  Redman  Cheese  Co. 
has  been  organized  with  a  capital  stock 
of $250,000.

Fremont— The  Fremont  Canning  Co. 
has  filed  articles  of  association.  The 
capital  stock  is $20,000.

Adrian—Williams  &  Cox,  who  have 
recently  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of 
shoes,  are  getting  out  their  first  line  of 
samples.

Alpena—J.  M.  Johnston  is  to  build  an 
addition  to  his  planing  mill  40x80  feet 
on  the  ground,  with  an  iron  roof,  and 
the  capacity  of  his  plant  is  to  be  in­
creased.

Fenwick—W.  W.  Eaton'will have'five

cheese  factories  under  his  control  this 
summer—at  McBrides,  Stanton,  Mid­
dleton,  Fenwick  and  Palo—all  run  by 
New  York  cheesemakers.

Grayling— It  is  reported  that  Sailing, 
Hanson  &  Co.,  the  Jensen  Lumber  Co. 
and  the  Holmes  &  Michaelson  Co.  will 
build  a  logging  road  from  Gaylord 
into 
Presque  Isle  county 
in  order  to  reach 
their  respective  timber  holdings.

St.  Joseph— H.  A.  Portman  and  H. 
Geissler  have  purchased  the 
factory 
building,  machinery,  fixtures,  stock  and 
business  of  the  Lake  Shore  Fruit  Pack­
age  Co.,  whose  plant  is  located  near the 
Pere  Marquette  depot.  They  will  also 
operate  a  basket  making  plant  in  Ben­
ton  Harbor.

Gaylord—The  Jensen  Lumber  Co., 
recently  organized  here,  has purchased  a 
tract  of  timber  of  the  Michaelson  & 
Hanson  Lumber Co.,  at Lewiston,  locat­
ed  in  Otsego  Lake,  Chester  and  Bagley 
townships,  Otsego  county,  the  consider­
ation  being  $28,478.29.  The  timber will 
be  manufactured  at  the  mill  of 
the 
company  at  Bagley.

Bay  City-----The  German-American
Beet  Sugar  Co.  has  been  organized  with 
a  capital  stock  of  $250,000  on  a  co­
operative  plan.  Many  of  the  stock­
holders  are  farmers 
in  the 
raising  of  sugar  beets,  although  much 
of  the  stock  has  been  taken  by  local 
capitalists.  A  factory  building  will  be 
erected  at  once  and  the  plant  com­
pleted  in  time  for  sugarmaking.

interested 

Flint—The  contract  for the  Imperial 
Wheel  Co. ’s  plant  has  been  let.  There 
were  five  bidders.  The  lowest  bid  was 
from  Crookshank,  Summers  &  Co.,  of 
Ionia,  who  were  awarded  the  work. 
The  contract  price,  although  not  made 
public,  is  said  to  be $50,000,  which  does 
include  anything  but  the  building; 
not 
the  heating  apparatus,  glass, 
lights, 
and  boilers  will  be  let  later.  The  build­
ing  will  be  the  largest  manufacturing 
plant  in  this  portion  of  the  State.

Alpena— The  Alpena,  Gaylord  & 
Western  Railroad  Company  was  organ­
ized  and  filed  articles  of  incorporation 
last  week,  the  capitalization  being 
$1,280,000.  The  length  of  the  proposed 
is  160  miles  and  it  is  to  cross  the 
line 
State  from  Frankfort  to  Alpena. 
It  is 
estimated  that  the  road  will  furnish  be­
tween  Gaylord  and  Alpena  an  outlet  for 
1,000,000,000  feet  of  timber.  The  work 
of  construction 
is  to  begin  as  soon  as 
the  survey  shall  be  finished.

The  Michigan  Bark  &  Lumber  Co. 
is  to  remove  its  office  from  Grand  Rap­
ids  to  Manton.  .  C.  U.  Clark,  President 
of  the  company,  has  purchased  a  resi­
dence  there  and  will  manage  the  busi­
ness  from  that  point,  which  is  nearer 
the  base  of  supply  than  Grand  Rapids.

Nothing  pleases  an  astronomer or  a 
theatrical  manager  more  than  the  dis­
covery  of  a  new  star.

For  Gillies’  N.  Y.  tea,all kinds,grades 

and  prices,  call  Visner,  both  phones.

A  GREAT  OPPORTUNITY.

Having engaged In manufacturing business  re­
quiring  my  whole  time  and  capital,  I offer my 
wholesale grocery business,  with  an  established 
trade  of  27 years,  at cost;  no bonus;  sold 38,000 
pounds of tobacco last  year;  will  require  about 
$15,000 to run the business.  This is a chance of a 
lifetime to the right man;  act  quick  if  you want 
to secure  this  business:  come  and  see and in­
vestigate.  J. W. BENEDICT, Port Huron, Mich.

M. O.  BAKER  <&  CO.

COMMISSION  MERCHANTS,  TOLEDO,  OHIO 

W A N T E D — Poultry,  Butter  and  Eggs

Correspond with us before selling.  Ref ¡—First National Bank, Toledo, Commercial Agencies.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

5

Grand  Rapids  Gossip

Geo.  E.  Purple,  hardware  dealer  at 
Edmore,  has  added  a  line  of  groceries. 
The  Worden  Grocer  Co.  furnished  the 
stock. 

_____________

Geo.  Riebo,  formerly  engaged  in  the 
meat  business  on  Plainfield  avenue,  has 
opened  a  meat  market  on  North  Coit 
avenue.  _____________

W.  F.  Payne,  druggist  at  Grant  Sta­
tion,  has  added  a  line  of  groceries.  The 
Ball-Barnhart-Putman  Co. 
furnished 
the  stock.

Geo.  F.  Owen  &  Co.  have  removed 
their  acetylene  gas  business  from  3 
South  Division  street  to  71  Market 
street,  Eagle  Hotel  building.

E.  B.  Rice  has  dissolved  partnership 
with  the  Williams  Provision  Co.,  taking 
the  meat  market  at  290 South  Division 
street, while the  Williamses  hold  the  fort 
at  the  Fulton  market,  otherwise  known 
as  the  Bliss  market. 
It  is  understood 
that  Mr.  Rice  does  not  entertain as high 
an  opinion  of  the  Williams  family  as 
he  did  a  month  ago.

Edward  J.  Killean,  who  has conducted 
the  grocery  business  several  years  at  28 
East  Bridge  street  under  the  style  of 
John  Killean  &  Son,  has  sold  the  stock 
to  H.  J.  Williams  and  Albert  J.  K il­
lean,  who  will  continue  the  business  un­
der  the  style  of  H.  J.  Williams  &  Co. 
Mr.  Williams  has  been  identified  with 
the  establishment  for  many  years  and 
is  thoroughly  conversant  with  both  the 
management  and  details  of the business.
Geo.  H.  Seymour  and  A.  E.  McGuire 
have  formed  a  copartnership  under  the 
style  of  Geo.  H.  Seymour  &  Co.  and 
engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  cigars  at 
82  Campau  street.  Mr.  Seymour  has 
been  on  the  road  for the  H.  Schneider 
Co.  twenty-two  years  and  Mr.  McGuire 
has  represented  Hulman  &  Beggs,  of 
Terre  Haute,  in  this  territory  for the 
past  dozen  years.  Both  are  gentlemen 
of  experience  and  ability  and  will  un­
doubtedly  make  a  success  of  their  new 
undertaking.____________

Cranberries—Jerseys are  slow  sale  and 
weaker,  having  declined  to  $2.50  per 
bu.  box  and  $7  per  bbl.

Eggs—The  market  is  peculiar.  The 
retailers  purchased  too  heavily last week 
and  are  loaded  up  with  13c  eggs.  Lo­
cal 
jobbers  are  moving  receipts as  fast 
as  they  arrive  this  week  on  the  basis  of 
12c. 
It  is  expected  that  the  price  will 
go  lower,  although  the  storage  buyers 
appear to  have  much  confidence  in  the 
situation.  The  receipts  of  eggs  for the 
month  of  March,  a  year ago,  in  Chicago 
were  186,225  cases,  as  against  162,079 
cases  during  the  month  of  March  this 
year.  This  shows  a  decrease  of  about 
25,000 cases,  but  if  April  keeps  up  as  it 
has  started  the  increase  will  be  as  large 
as  in  New  York  City.  For the  first  week 
in  April  this  year the  receipts are 79,310 
cases,  against  76,621  cases 
last  year, 
showing  a  total  gain  of  2,700  cases. 
Armour  is  a  constant  bidder  for storage 
stock  and  also  for  dirties  and  cracks. 
His  representative  will  not  offer  over 
12%c  for  storage  packed  and  only  with­
in  % c  on  other  grades.  There  is  no 
doubt  that  Armour  will  put  away  more 
eggs  this  year  than  he  did  last.  Swift 
was  a  heavy  buyer  last  year,  but  there 
is  no  evidence  of  it  on  the  open  board 
now. 
is  understood  both  these  firms 
have  men  in  Iowa,  Nebraska,  Wiscon­
sin  and  Minnesota  buying  at  loading 
stations,  and  that  both  will  put  up  a 
larger quantity  of  eggs  than  a  year  ago.

It 

Green  Onions— 12c  per doz.
Honey— Fancy  white 

is  practically 
out  of  market.  Choice white  is  in  large 
supply  at  I4@i5c.  Amber goes  at  I3@ 
14c  and  dark  buckwheat  is  slow  sale  at 
I0@ I2C.

Lemons—Messina  command  $3.25  for 
choice  and $3.50  for  fancy.  Californias 
have  declined  to  $2.50 for 300s  and 360s.
is  in  good 

Lettuce— Hothouse  stock 

demand,  commanding  I2^c  for  leaf.

Onions— The  market  is  steady at $1.50 
for  home  grown.  Bermudas 

per  bu. 
command  $3.25  per crate.

Oranges— The  California  orange  mar­
ket  is  in  better  condition  than  it  was  at 
the  same  time  last  week,  and everything 
indicates  a  good  trade  this  week.  The 
stock  is  coming  forward  in  better  con­
dition,  only  a  small  proportion  showing 
any  sign  of  decay.  The  cars  are  about 
all  iced,  which  has  stopped  rotting,  ex­
cept  in  those  boxes  which  start  poor. 
Prices  are  considerably  better,  and  the 
tendency 
is  strongly  upward,  present 
prices  being  $2.50  for the  larger  sizes 
and  $3  for the  smaller.  Medium  sweets 
are  sold  on  the  same  basis  as  Califor­
nias.

At  the  annual  meeting  of  the  Grand 
Rapids  Bark  &  Lumber  Co.,  held 
last 
week,  W.  A.  Phelps,  C.  A.  Phelps  and
D.  C.  Oakes  were  elected  directors.  W. 
A.  Phelps  was  re-elected  President,  D. 
C.  Oakes  was  re-elected  Vice-President 
and  C.  A.  Phelps  was  continued  in  the 
position  of  Secretary  and  Treasurer. 
The  company  handled  last  year  50,000 
cords  of  bark,  18,000,000  feet  of  hard­
wood  and  hemlock  lumber,  15,000,000 
shingles,  100,000 ties,  125,000  posts  and 
20,000  cords  of  wood. 
It  has  recently 
purchased  a  tract  of  hemlock  and  hard­
wood  timber  in  Roscommon  county, 
comprising  4,000 acres,  which  it expects 
to  begin  cutting  this  summer.
The  Produce  M arket.

Apples—Apples  are  steady at previous 
prices!  Russets,  Baldwins  and  Ben 
Davis  command  $3.5o@4  per  bbl.
Bananas— Prices  range  from  $i.25@ 

1.75  per  bunch,  according  to  size.

Beans—The  market 

is  without  ma­

terial  change.

Beets—$1  per bbl.
Butter—Creamery  is  slow  sale  at  2o@ 
21c.  There is  an  accumulation  of  dairy 
grades,  despite  the  determined  effort  of 
local  handlers  to  keep 
the  market 
cleaned  up  from  day  to  day.^  Choice 
I2@I4C  and  packing  stock 
roll  fetcheg 
finds  an  outlet  on  the  basis  of  io@ iic .
Cabbage— Home  grown  are  steady  at 

$i.go@2  per  3  bu.  bbl.
Carrots—$1  per  bbl.
C e l e r y — California  white  plume  has 

declined  to 65c  per  doz.  bunches.

Parsley—40c  per  doz.
Parsnips—$1  per  bbl.
Pieplant—8c  per  lb.
Potatoes—The  market 

small 

is  dull  and 
disappointing,  due  to  the  lessened  de­
mand  and  the  difficulty  of  obtaining 
cars 
in  which  to  move  stock  when  or­
ders  are  obtainable.

Poultry— Receipts  are 

and 
prices  are  strong.  Local  dealers  pay 
as  follows  for  dressed :  Spring  turkeys, 
n @ i2 c;o ld ,  8@gc;  spring  chickens, 
io@i i c ;  spring 
ioj£ @ n ^ c; 
ducks,  nj^@i2c—old  not  wanted at  any 
price;  spring  geese,  9@ioc—old  not 
wanted.  For  live  poultry  local  dealers 
pay  as  follows:  Chickens,  8@9C;  me­
dium  and  small  hens,  7@8c;  large hens, 
6J*j@7c ;  young 
turkeys,  9@ioc;  old 
8<Qgc; 
turkeys, 
young  ducks,  9^ 
@ io )4c.
Radishes—25c  per  doz.  bunches  for 

fowls, 

hothouse  stock.

Seeds— Blue  grass,  $1.25© 1.50;  or­
chard  grass,  $i.40@i.6o ;  red  top,  75c@ 
$1.50;  timothy,  $2.25;  medium  clover, 
$6.25@6.75;  mammoth,  $6.5o@7;  al- 
syke,  $7@7.5o.

Strawberries—35@40C  per quart.  Re­
ports  from  the  strawberry  belt  of  North 
Carolina  are  to the  effect  that  the  yield 
will  be  about  25  per  cent,  less  than  last 
year.  The  drought  of  last  fall  prevented 
the  new  plants  from  securing  a  hold 
which  would  guarantee  bearing 
this 
season.  So  far  as  can  be  judged  now, 
the  quality  will  be  good.
Sweet  Potatoes— Kiln  dried  Jerseys 

have  declined  to $3  per  bbl.

Tomatoes—$2.25  per  4  basket  crate.
Turnips—$1  per  bbl.
Vegetable  Oysters—2ocper doz.

The  Grocery  M arket.

Tea— The  tea  market  is  quiet.  Prices 
show  a  decline  of  X @ ^ c  Per  pound  on 
most  grades.  Buyers  have  large  stocks 
on  hand  and  are  not  disposed  to  make 
any  heavy  purchases  at  present.

Molasses  and  Syrups—Trade  in  mo­
lasses  and  syrups  during  the  past  week 
has  been  very  light.  Prices,  however, 
are  fully  maintained.

Nuts—Stocks  of  filberts  are  rather 
heavy,  being  somewhat  larger than  last 
year  at  this  time.  Prices  are  slightly 
easier  in  consequence.  Stocks  of  al­
monds  are 
light  and  prices  are  firmly 
held.  Walnuts  are  in  good  demand  and 
are  slightly  higher.  Peanuts  are  selling 
well  at  unchanged  prices.  There  will, 
undoubtedly,  be  a  heavy  advance 
in 
Spanish  shelled  before  the  new  crop. 
The  concern  that  has  the  concession  at 
the  Pan-American  Exposition  has  re­
cently  gone  into  the  market  and  pur­
chased  quite  heavily— rumor has  it  from 
125  to  150  carloads.  This  has  cut  quite 
heavily  into  spot  stocks  and  made  hold­
ers  very  firm 
in  their  views  on  this 
grade.  Prices  have  already  advanced 
YtC  and  a  further advance  of  at  least  ic 
is  expected  before  new  crop.

raw 

Sugars— The 

sugar  market 

is 
strong,  with  96  deg.  test  centrifugals 
firmly  held  at  4  i - i6c.  Refiners  are  ap­
parently  ready  buyers  at  quoted  prices, 
but  offerings  are  light  and  but  few  sales 
were  made.  The  visible  supply  of  raw 
sugar  is  2,970,000  tons,  against  2,470,- 
000  tons  at  the  same  time 
last  year. 
Owing  to  the  strength  of  the  raw  sugar 
market,  a  very  firm  tone  prevailed  for 
the  entire  list  of  refined  and  prices  now 
show  the  expected  advance  of  ten points 
on  all  grades.  There  is  a good  demand 
and 
indications  point  to  a  probable 
large  demand  for  refined  sugar  the latter 
part  of this  month,  when  navigation  on 
the 
lakes  will  be  resumed  and  water 
transportation  throughout  the  country 
will  be  opened.

looking 

forward 

Canned  Goods— The  canned  goods 
market  in  general  is  gradually 
improv­
ing.  The tone  is  one  of  strength  and  the 
feeling  of  confidence.  The  packers  are 
now 
to  an  active 
spring  trade.  The  firm  situation 
in 
tomatoes  attributable  to  the  formation 
of  the  can  combine  or to  the  reduction 
of  stocks,  or  both,  was  the  chief  feature 
in  the  market.  At  present  the  tomato 
market  is  in  a  firmer  and  healthier  con­
dition than  it  has  been  since  the  closing 
of  the  packing  season  of  1900.  The 
buying  during  the  past  few  days  has 
been  very  large,  while  the  consumption 
all  over  the  country  continues  unabated 
and  an  advance  for  the  full  standard 
quality  goods  is 
looked  for  shortly. 
There  have  been  a  good  many  of  the 
poor quality  goods  offered,  which  is  one 
reason  for  the 
low  prices  ruling,  but 
it  is  believed  that  most  of  these  cheap 
goods  are  now  disposed  of.  Standard 
corn 
is  steady,  but  fancy  stock  is  very 
firm.  There  are  plenty  of  the  cheap 
goods  to  be  had,  but  the  good  stand­
ard  and  fancy  grades  are  very  scarce. 
There  are  no  changes  to  report  in  string 
or  lima  beans.  Both  are  offered  at  pre­
vious  quotations,  but  sales  are  very 
light.  The  outlook  for  the  early  crop 
of  peas 
is  encouraging 
and  it  is  claimed  that  there  will  be  but 
few  late  peas.  There  is  a  fair  demand 
for  spot  peas,  but  the  better grades  are 
all  cleaned  up. 
If  there  is  any  change 
in  the  situation  in  pineapples,  it  is  in 
the  views  of  the  packers,  who  are  antic­
ipating  a  good  crop  and 
low  prices. 
Some  pineapples  will  be  packed 
in 
early  May,  but  not  before  the  15th  or

in  Maryland 

20th  will  the  packers  be  working  full 
time.  No  positive  prices  have  been 
made  for  the  new  pack,  but  they  may 
be  named  next  week.  The  buying  of 
peaches  has  been  quiet,  except  for  some 
of  the  cheaper  grade,  but  these  orders 
have  been  sufficient  to  keep  the  market 
fairly  active.  There 
is  quite  a  good 
demand  for  gallon  apples  at  slightly 
lower  prices.  Plums  are  also  in  some 
request.  Columbia River  salmon  is  very 
dull.  Alaska  fish,  however,  is  in  good 
demand  at  unchanged  prices.  Sardines 
are  very  quiet.

immediate  wants.  Demand 

Dried  Fruits— Prunes  continue  to  be 
the  most  active  article  in  dried  fruits, 
but  trade  is  more  of  the  hand-to-mouth 
order  than 
it  has  been  for the  past  few 
weeks.  The  scarcity  of  5 0 -6 0 S   is  now 
very  marked,  and  some  holders  ask 
slightly  higher  prices  for  this 
size. 
Spot  stocks  of  4 0 -5 0 S   are  not  plentiful 
and  6 0 -7 0 S   and  90-ioos  are 
scarce. 
Raisins  are  selling 
in  a  small  way  to 
the  regular  trade.  Buyers  have  but 
small  stocks  on  hand,  but  do  not  care  to 
make  heavy  purchases,  as  they  do  not 
want  to  carry  any  stocks  during  the 
warm  weather  and  so  are  buying  just 
for 
for 
seeded  is  light.  Reports  of  frost  injury 
to  apricots  on  the  coast  have  resulted  in 
a  little  more  interest  in  spot  stocks  and 
there  was 
last 
week.  The  market  is  firmer  and  some 
holders  have  advanced  their  prices  %@  
% c.  Peaches  are  dull  and trade  is  very 
light.  Dates  are  slow  sellers  at present, 
but  holders  expect  a  better  demand  to 
set  in soon.  Figs  are  selling  fairly  well. 
light  and  prices  are  fully 
Stocks  are 
maintained. 
Prices  for  currants  are 
unchanged,  but  the  demand  for  these 
goods  is  very  light.  There  is  a  fair de­
mand  for  evaporated  apples  in  1  lb. 
packages  at  unchanged  prices.

considerable  buying 

Rice—The  rice  market 

is  firm  with 
good  demand  for all  grades. 
In  antici­
pation  of  the  increased  spring  demand, 
dealers  refuse  absolutely  to  grant  even 
slight  concessions.  Stocks  are  moderate 
and  the  statistical  position  is  strong.
Inauguration  of the  Freem an  M ercantile 

Co.

The  Freeman  Mercantile  Co.  has  filed 
articles  of  association,  showing  $75,000 
authorized  capital  stock  and  $50,000 
subscribed  and  paid 
in.  At  the  first 
the  stockholders,  seven 
meeting  of 
directors  were  provided 
five  of 
whom  have  been  selected  as  follows:

Wm.  L.  Freeman,  Edward J.  Killean, 
A.  L.  Campbell,  Carey  C.  Shay  and  H. 
A.  Brink.  At  a  subsequent  meeting  of 
the  directors  the  following  officers  were 
elected:

for, 

President—W.  L.  Freeman.
First  Vice-President— E.  J.  Killean.
Second  Vice-President—A.  L.  Camp­

bell.

leased 

Secretary— C.  C.  Shay.
Treasurer— H.  A.  Brink.
The  corporation  will  handle  a  line  of 
groceries,  with  the  exception  of  sugars 
and  provisions,  having 
the 
Hawkins  building,  formerly  occupied 
by  the  general  offices  of  the  Pere  Mar­
quette  Railway,  for  a  term  of  years. 
C.  C.  Shay  will  cover  the 
city  trade, 
H.  A.  Brink  will  cover  the  Holland col­
ony  and  a  portion  of  the  northern  terri­
tory  and  A.  L.  Campbell  will  visit  the 
trade  of  Southern  Michigan  and  North­
ern  Indiana.  The  corporation  has  se­
cured  the  State  agency  for the  Grand 
Rapids  Match  Co.  and  the  territory 
agency  for the  Lakeside  canned  goods. 
Mr.  Freeman  will  attend  to  the  buying 
for the  houSe  and  Mr.  Killean  will  re­
tire  from  the  retail  grocery  business 
and  will  devote  his  entire  attention  to 
the  credit  department.

M ICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

6

FAILURE  PREM EDITATED.

Alleged  P lans  Made  by  th e  Seottvllle 

B ankrupt.

The  Tradesman  of 

last  week  con­
tained  a  summary  of  the  testimony  of 
John  M.  Hime  before  the  bankruptcy 
court  here  relating  to  the  statements 
made  by  Wm.  Fisher,  of  Scottville, 
prior to  his  failure  and  also  subsequent 
thereto.  This  week  the  Tradesman  is 
able  to  furnish 
its  readers  a  verbatim 
report  of  the  testimony  of  this  witness, 
as  follows:

Where  do  you  reside?
In  the  city  of  Grand  Rapids.
Court  street  in  the  city  of  Grand 

Rapids?

Yes,  sir.
What  is  your  business?
Flouring  mill.
You  are  working  in  a  flour  mill?
Yes,  sir.
What  flouring  mill  in  the  city?
In  the  Valley  City  mills.
How  long  have  you  resided  here?
A  little  over  a  year and  a  half.
Do  you  know  William  Fisher,  of 

Scottville?
Yes,  sir.
How  long  have  you  known  him?
I  have  known  him  about  ten  years,  I 

guess.

him?

Where  was  he  when  you  first  knew 
Hesperia.
In  this  State?
Yes,  sir.
He  was  in  the  store  business  there?
Yes,  sir.
From  there  he  moved  where?
Moved  to Walkertown, Oceana  county, 

and  from  there  to  Scottville.

When  did  he  go  to  Scottville?
I  don’t  know  exactly,  but  about  two 

years  ago.

Did  you  have  a conversation with  him 
in  regard  to  his  affairs?  And  if  so,  how 
long  ago?

About  a  year and  a  half  ago.
What  conversation  did  you  have  with 

him?

He  told  me  that  he  was  going  to  pre­
pare  to  make  a  failure  in  about  a  year 
or  such  a  matter and  that  was  all he said 
at  that  time.
Did  be  say  anything  about  wanting  to 

have  a  large  stock  of  goods?

Yes,  sir;  he  said  he  was  going  to  get 
all  the  stock  he  could—probably  $8,000 
or  $10,000  was  what  he  expected  to 
make  when  he  failed.

He  said  he  was  going  to  fail?
Yes,  sir;  he  didn’t  know  whether  he 
could  make  it  last  winter  or not,  but,  if 
not,  he  would  fail  this  winter.

you  have  a  talk  with  him?

He  would  fail  this  winter?
Yes,  sir.
Have  you  seen  him  since?  And  did 
Yes,  sir.
How  long  ago?
Last  month.
Did  you  see  him  here  in  the  city?
Yes,  sir.
What  did  he  say  about  the  failure?
The  first  thing  he  said  when  I  saw 
him  was  that that  thing  had  come  about 
—he  had  failed—that  he  had  talked 
about  before. 
I  asked  him  how  every­
thing  was  coming  out  with  him.  He 
said  all  right,  he  guessed  that  he would 
make  $7,000 or $8,000 out  of  it  if  every­
thing  went  right.

Did  he  state  anything  about  shipping 

goods  out  before  the  failure?

Yes,  sir;  he  said  that  he  got  rid  of 
some  of  his  goods  and  had  quite  a  lit­
tle  money.  He  said  he  had  money 
enough  to  pay  all  the  creditors  off  35 
cents  on  the  dollar.

Did  he  state  anything  about  who  was 
going  to  settle  with  the  creditors  for 
him?
Yes,  sir;  be  said  a  man  by  the  name 

of  Lubetsky,  of  Ludington.

Did  he  state  he  was  going  to  furnish 

the  money  for  Lubetsky?
money.

He  said  that  Lubetsky  had part  of  his 
What,  if  anything,  did  he  say  about 

Lubetsky  having  a  claim  there?

He  said  that  he  had  placed  Mr.  Lu­
betsky  as  one  of  the  creditors  for $450 
and  that  he  didn’t  owe  him  anything.

What,  if  anything,  did  he  state  about 
a  man  by  the  name  of  Caplin,  of  Grant, 
Michigan?  Did  he  state  anything  about 
letting  him  have  goods  or what  did  he 
say?

At  the  time  Caplin  started  a  store 
there  a  year  and  a  half  ago  or  a  little 
over  he 
let  Caplin  have  goods  of  his 
then  at  that  time,  and  that  was  all  I 
guess  he  said  about  it.

What  did  he  say  as to whether he owed 

Caplin  or  Caplin  owed  him?

Why,  Caplin  was  owing  him  when  he 
let  him  have  the  goods.  He  let  him 
have  the  goods  without  any  money  to 
help  him  stock  the  store.

Did  he  state  whether  Caplin  paid him 

back  or  not?

No.
You  were  around 

town  one  day, 
weren’t  you,  with  him— that  is,  all  one 
day?

Yes,  sir;  I  was  with  him  a  good .deal 

when  he  was  here.

Was  it  one  or  more  days?
Several  days— I  don’t  remember  ex­
actly  how  many—two  or  three  different 
days,  I  guess.

What,  if  anything  else,  did  he  say 

about  the  failure?
I  asked  him 

if  anyone  at  Scottville 
knew  that  he  had  failed 
in  the  way  he 
did  or  whether  they  thought  he  had  to 
fail?

He  said  there were  three  parties  knew 
of 
it— a  man  by  the  name  of  Fred. 
Reader  and  a  man  by  the name of Rein­
hart  Vogel,  and  his  clerk,  William 
Freedy.  He  said  they  knew  all about  it.
live  up  at 

This  Freedy  and  Vogel 

Scottville?

Freedy  was  his  clerk  and  they  live 
there  and  Mr.  Reader  is  a  hardware 
dealer and  Mr.  Vogel is a saloon  man.

They  knew  he  was  going  to  fail  and 

how  he  was  fixed?

That 

is  what  he  said.  He  said  they 

knew.

Anything  else?
He  also  said  if  he  had  to  do  it  over 
again  that  he  wouldn’t  do  it,  because  it 
made  so  much  expense  and  so  much 
trouble  and  he  didn’t  know  how  he  was 
coming  out  now.  He  expected  when  he 
first  failed  he  could  settle  up  quick with 
his  creditors  and  go  on  with  the  busi­
ness  again,  but  it  took  so  long  and  cost 
so  much  that  he  was  sorry  he  done  what 
he  did. 

I  guess  that  is  all.

The  creditors  of  Wm.  Fisher and  the 

amounts  owing  each  are  as  follows:
Wm.  Barie  Dry  Goods  Co.,
Saginaw...............................$1,017.62
Baldwin,  McGraw  &  Co.,  De­
285.60
troit...................................... 
81.25
A.  D.  Rosen  &  Co.,  Detroit.. 
W.  J.  Quan  &  Co.,  Chicago... 
252.38
Perry  Glove  &  Mitten  Co.,
Perry,  Mich.........................  
P.  J.  McEnroe  &  Co.,  Chicago 
Middleport  Shoe  Mfg.  Co.,

41.71
34.63

Middleport,  Ohio....... .. 

69.90
I95.43
229.50
903.22
762.06 

P.  Steketee  &  Sons,  Grand
R apid s................................. 
Studley  &  Barclay,  Grand Rap­
ids  ........................................ 
Strong,  Lee  &  Co.,  D etroit.... 
Michigan  Shoe  Co.,  Detroit... 
H.  Stem,  Jr.,  &  Bros.  Co.,
218.89
M ilwaukee.......................... 
Ball  -  Barnhart  -  Putman  Co.,
Grand  Rapids.................... 
165.96
93.08
Fred.  Brundage,  Muskegon... 
203.50
Wm.  H.  Bush  &  Co.,  Chicago 
86.50
Willard  K.  Bush  Co.,  Detroit.. 
Keith  Bros.  &  Co.,  Chicago... 
139.25
Hirsch,  Elson  &  Co.,  Chicago  1,074.75
H.  C.  Fisher,  Chicago............. 
149.10
Edson,  Moore  &  Co.,  Detroit 
185.69
Dibble  &  Warner,  Easthamp-
ton,  M a ss ..........................  
DeBoe,  King  & Co.,  Cleveland 
B.  J.  Reynolds,  Grand  Rapids 
The  Henry  A.  Newland  Co.,
Detroit................................. 
Newmann  &  Hirschorn,  Chi­
cago......................................  
Franklin  McVeagh  &  Co.,
Chicago............................... 
H.  Caplin,  Grant...................... 
Aarons,  Marks  &  Co.,  Mil­
waukee................................. 
M.  D.  Wells  &  Co.,  Chicago.. 
Reedsburg Clothing Co.,Reeds-
burg,  Wis............................  
Geo.  H.  Reeder  &  Co.,  Grand

433*5°
73-57
219.37

211.50
53.oo

26.90
2.90
11.10

t i3.75
120.00

R a p id s................. 

 

456.00

Seller?  W e ll!  needn’t  guess  again.

o  

o

Olney  & Judson Grocer  Co.,  Grand  Rapids,

Roasters.

Grand  Rapids  Bark and  Lumber Co.

Dealers  in

HEM LOCK BARK. LUM BER, 

SH IN G L E S,  RAILROAD  T IE S , 

P O S T S ,  WOOD

W AN TED— 50,000  cords  of  Hemlock  Bark.  Will  pay  highest  market 

price.  Bark measured and paid for at loading  point. 

W AN TED — 75,000 Ties on  Pere Marquette Railroad.  Write for prices.
419-421  M IC H .  T R U S T   B U ILDING .  GRAND  RAPIDS

W.  A.  Phelps,  Pres.  D.  C.  Oakes,  Vice-Pres.  C. A.  Phelps, Sec’y and Treas.

EAVE  TROUGHING

E stablished  1868. 

State  Agents

Tarred  Felt,  Asphalt  Paints,

Roofing  Pitch,  Coal  Tar, 

a  and  3  ply  and  Torpedo  Gravel 
Ready  Roofing,  Galvanized  Iron 

Cornice,  Conductor  Pipe,

S ky  Lights,

Sheet  Metal  Workers  and  Con­

tracting  Roofers.

H.  M.  REYNOLDS  &  SON,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

'G'STEB®

Ruberoid  Roofing,  Building,  Sheathing and 

Insulating Papers and Paints.

CIGAR

A iaVAya

B E S T .

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN
The  Magic 
Hose  Mender

401.95
528.43

316.53 

767  77

Edson,  Keith  &  Co.,  Chicago. 
Burdett,  Young  &  Ingalls  Co.,
Boston..................................  
Arthur  Meigs  &  Co.,  Grand
Rapids................................  
Levi  &  Swarts,  Rochester.......  
Bulkiey,  Lemon  &  Hoops,
Grand  Rapids.................... 

is  that  Dibble 

The  supposition 

220.00
is 
anxious  to  obtain  a  discharge  from  the 
obligations  against  him  in  order  to  re­
engage  in  the  merchandise  business  at 
Burnips  Corners.

He  Had  No  Bad  Habits.

FIG. 2.

The  latest,  best  and  only  perfect 
hose  mender  on the market.  With 
each  Magic  Hose  Mender  we  fur­
nish  six wood  unions  and  six wire 
bands  all  securely  packed  in  one 
box.  Sells  at  sight.  Send 
for 
descriptive  circulars  or  write your 
jobbers.

The Magic  Hose Mender Co.,

20 Canal Street, 

Grand  Rapids, Mich.

7

TO THE TRADE:
We are the only manufacturers of Dynamite In 
Lower Michigan suitable for general Rock  work 
and  Stump  Blasting;  also  Caps,  Safety  Fuse, 
Electric  Fuse, Batteries, Dirt Augers,  etc.  Our 
goods are strictly high grade and reliable, twenty- 
five years In the business.  Prices and goods right. 
Shipments made promptly on same day  order  is 
received.  Try us by inquiry.
____________________  

Paints,  s 

Wall Paper, 

AJAX  DYNAMITE WORKS, 

Bay  City, Mich.

Oils. 

BY EXPERTS. 

PAPER HANGING AND PAINTING 

Our stock consists of the best  goods pro-  v 
duced, and is sold at money saving prices,  ft
d  
}
We frame pictures to order  and  carry  a  i  
)

large line of unframed pictures. 

C. L. Harvey & Co., J

59 Monroe Street. 
Exclusively Retail. 

j

J
£

A.  Krolick  &  Co.,  Detroit__  
L.  Loeb  &  Sons,  Chicago.......  
Blumenthal &  Immermann,  De­
troit...................................... 
Standard  Novelty  Co.,  Port
Huron..................................  
Symons  Bros.  Co.,  Saginaw... 
E.  Schloss,  Son  &  Co.,  Detroit 
L.  A.  Shakman Co.,  Milwaukee 
Scotten  Tobacco  Co.,  Detroit 
F.  Siegel  &  Bro.,  Chicago.... 
Whitney,  Christenson  &  Bul­
lock,  Chicago...................... 
H.  Van  Eeneuaam &  Bro.,Zee-
land...................................... 
H.  Van Tongeren, Holland.......  
Roundy-Peckham  &  Co.,  M il­
waukee................................. 
Strootman  Shoe  Co.,  Buffalo.. 
Straub  Bros.  &  Amiotte,  Trav­
erse  City............................. 
Olney  &  Judson  Grocer  Co.,
Grand  Rapids.................... 
Ambler township,  Oceana  Co.,
for taxes............................... 
Roberts-Wicks  Co.,  Utica.. 
Koch  &  LoeberCo.,  Milwaukee 
L.  Cromwell,  Manistee............. 
The  Belding  Shoe Co.,  Belding 
Armour  &  Co.,  Chicago........... 
Lubetsky  Bros.,  Ludington__  
Benjamin  Lubetsky,  Ludington 

422.54
274.00

352.08

40.50
126.61
183.50
494.40
37.80
224.25

17.00

6.60
41.25

382.80
229.00

15.00

393-03

34.27
243.00
23.48
16.39
126.30
13-79
300.00
150.00

Jam es  R.  Dibble  Seeking  a  D ischarge  in 

B ankruptcy.

In  1886,  Jas.  R.  Dibble  was  engaged 
in  general  trade  at  Burnips  Corners. 
His  stock  was  destroyed  by  fire  and 
the  amount  of  insurance  was  so  small 
that  the  creditors  naturally  expected  to 
be  compelled  to  accept  a  compromise. 
Greatly  to  their  surprise,  Mr.  Dibble 
paid  100 cents  on  the  dollar,  which 
in­
creased  his  credit  to  that  extent  that 
he  was  able  to  obtain  $10,000  or $12,000 
worth  of  goods  on  the  usual  time. 
Shortly  after  getting  the  goods  into  the 
store,  he  purchased  a  farm  of  Pope  & 
Hart,  of  Allegan,  paying  for  same  by 
giving  a  $2,000  mortgage  on  the  stock 
of  merchandise. 
immediately 
moved  upon  the  farm,  claimed  that  it 
was  exempt  by  reason  of  its  being  a 
homestead  and  successfully  resisted  the 
efforts  of  the  creditors  to  dispossess  him 
of  the  farm  or  impair the  validity  of 
the  mortgage  on  the  stock. 
If  the 
Tradesman’s  remembrance  of  the  cir-' 
cumstance 
correct,  Dibble  owed 
about $19,000 at  that  time.  One  or two 
creditors  who  took subsequent mortgages 
on  the  stock  obtained  some  satisfaction, 
but  about  $15,000  worth  of  claims  re­
mained  unsatisfied.

He 

is 

in 

in  bankruptcy 

Nov.  27,  1890,  Dibble  filed  a  volun­
tary  petition 
the 
United  States  Court  here, Pope  &  Cross, 
of  Allegan,  appearing  as  his  attorneys. 
On  Dec.  26,  the  matter  was  referred  to 
Henry  C.  Briggs,  of  Kalamazoo,  as 
referee,  who  subsequently  appointed 
Wm.  R.  Rowe  trustee.  Here  the  mat­
ter  rests,  pending  the  remittance  of 
about $10  by  Dibble  to cover  the  cost  of 
advertising.

Dibble’s  statement  as  to  his  assets 

is 
that  he  owns  40  acres  of  land,  worth 
$2,000,  on  which  there  are  two  $500 
mortgages;  that  he  has  household  goods 
worth  $100,  two  horses  worth  $150,  two 
cows  worth  $50  and  farm  tools  worth 
$50,  making  a  total  of  $350  in  personal 
property,  all  of  which  is  exempt,  as 
is 
also the  homestead.  His  liabilities  are 
$8,052.65,  comprising  the  $1,000 real  es­
tate  mortgage  held  by  Isaac  P.  Gris­
wold,  of Allegan,  and  nine 
judgments 
as  follows:
Voigt,  Herpolsheimer  &  Co.,
Joel  J.  Bailey  &  Co.,  Philadel­

Grand  Rapids.................... $1,163.08

phia.................  

 

 

2,024.04

Young,  Smyth,  Field  &  Co.,
Boston..................................  
McGovern  &  Co.,  New  York.. 

They  were  seated  about  the  dinner 
table  of  a  fashionable  boarding  house 
enjoying  the  extra  frills  of  a  meal  of 
several  courses  which  had  appealed  to 
the 
inner  consciousness  of  the  entire 
household  and  made  them  satisfied  with 
the  landlady  and  the  world 
in  general. 
The  men  folk  told  stories  and  the  wom­
en  laughed,  and  the  women  told  stories 
and  the  men  folk  laughed.  Then  the 
mistress  told  a  story:

“ A  very  dignified  young  man  took  a 
seat  in  a  smoking  car.  Near  him  were 
three  traveling  salesmen,  well  dressed, 
jolly  fellows,  one  of  whom  suggested  a 
game  of  cards,  and  the  others  agreed. 
They appealed  to  the  young  man  to take 
part  and  make  up  a  four-handed  game.
“   ‘ Thank  you,  I  never  play  cards,’ 
came  the  response  to the  invitation.
“   *1  am  sorry  for that.  Will  you  have 
a  cigar with  us?’  added  the  spokesman 
producing his  case.

“   ‘ I  am  obliged  to  you,  but  I  never 
the  dignified  young 

smoke,’  replied 
man.
“ They  thought  they  would  jolly  the 
young  fellow  out  of  dignity,  so the  lead­
er  produced  a 
‘ traveling  companion,’ 
and  asked:

“   ‘ As  you  do  not  play  cards  nor 
smoke,  you  will  not  refuse  to  join  us  in 
a  drink?’

thank  you,  gentlemen,  but  I 

“   ‘ I 

never  drink. ’

“ With  this  a  venerable man with min­
isterial  aspect,sitting  in  the  seat  behind 
the  young  man,  reached  forward  and 
tapped  him  on  the  shoulder.

“   ‘ I  have  heard  what  you  have  said 
to these  men,”   said  the  sedate  old  fel­
low,  ‘ and  I  admire  you  for the  stability 
of  character  which  has  enabled  you  to 
shun  bad  habits. 
I  have  a  daughter  in 
the  parlor  car,  whom  I  should  like  to 
have  you  meet.’
sir,’  replied  the 
young  man,  turning  about  and  facing 
the  gentleman,  .‘ but  the  fact  is,  I  never 
intend  to  marry.’  ”

“   ‘ I  thank  you, 

Too  Late  to  Keep  the  Piece.

After hearing  evidence  in  an  assault 
case  between  man  and  wife,  in  which 
the  wife  had  had  a  deal  of  provocation, 
the  Magistrate,  turning  to  the  husband, 
remarked:

“ My  good  man,  I  really  can  not  do 

anything  in  this  case.”

“ But  she  has  cut  a  piece  of  my  ear 

off,  sir.”  

f

“ Well,  said  the  Magistrate,  “ I  will 

bind  her  over to  keep  the  peace.”

‘ ‘ You  can’t ,”   shouted  the  husband; 

“ she’s  thrown  it  away.”

An  U njust E pithet.

Hungry  Higgins—Wot  do  you  think? 
A  woman  called  me  a  animated  scare­
crow  this  mornin’.

Weary  Watkins— I’ve  knowed  you 
sence  the  early  eighties,  but  I  never 
seen  no  animation  about  you  yet.

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affairs,  but  an  alliance  with  France 
would  deprive  Great  Britain  of  Italian 
co-operation  in  the  Mediterranean,  and 
thus  weaken  the  British  position  wi 
respect  to  the  domination  of  that  sheet 
of  water,  so  important  to  ascendency 
the  sea  power of  the  world.

The  withdrawal  of  Italy 

from  the 
Triple  Alliance  would  no  doubt  compel 
an  open  alliance  or  understanding  be 
tween  Germany  and  England,  to  which 
Austria  would,  of  course,  be  a  party 
Germany 
is  already  strengthening  he 
navy,  which  in  the  near future  will  be 
more  powerful  than  that  of  Italy.  Aus 
tria  would  also  no  doubt  be  urged 
mprove  her  naval  strength so  as  to  per 
mit  of  a  combination  more  formidabl 
on  the  sea  than  the  counter combination 
of  France,  Russia  and  Italy 

That  all  these  changes  are  likely  to 
result  from  the  new  regime  in  Italy 
seems  to  be  admitted 
in  Europe,  al­
though  the  ultimate  results  may  be 
somewhat  different  from  the calculations 
now  made.  One thing  is  practically  cer 
tain,  however,  and  that  is  that  the  ar 
rangement  of  an  entente between France 
and  Itaiy  would  be  sure  to  lead  to  coun­
ter  international  agreements, from which 
't  will  be  impossible  for  Gieat  Britai 
to  escape.  There  has  existed  an  old 
friendship  between  Italy  and  England 
which  will  be  difficult  to  break  off,  and 
this  may  prevent  the  Italian  govern 
ment  from  at  once  going  over to  France 
and  Russia,  but  at  the  moment,at  least 
there  is  a  decided  drift  of  sentiment 
ii 
Italy  in  the  direction  of  closer  relations 

ith  France

PREJU D ICE  AGAINST  CORN.

for,  except 

The  use  of  Indian  corn  or  maize 
is  confined  chiefly  to  feedi 
in  some  parts 

Europe 
stock, 
Southern  Europe,  it  is  not  consumed 
for  human  food.  Within  a  few  years 
past  efforts  have  been  made  to  secure 
its  adoption  for  consumption.  At  the 
Paris  Exposition,  American  corn  kitch 
ens  were  established,  at  which  our  im 
portant  cereal  was  served  up  in  a  vari 
ety  of  styles,  and  possibly  a  few  persons 
were  induced  to  eat  it.

In  order to  educate  foreign  peoples 

use  this  valuable  grain,  United  States 
Consul  Harris,  at  Mannheim,  Germany 
proposes  the  establishment  at  that  ci 
and  elsewhere  of  com  kitchens.  Many 
of  the  poorest  classes  of  European  peo 
pies  are  so  much  prejudiced  against 
com,  which  they  regard  as  fit  only  for 
cattle  and  hogs,  that  they  are  insulted 
when  it  is  proposed  for them  to  eat  it 
Consul  Harris  thinks  that,  by  ed 

eating  the  people,  this  prejudice  can  be 
overcome.  According  to  his  notion, 
plan 
involving  some  of  the  features 
the  “ corn  kitchen”   at  the  Paris  Expo 
sition  would  be  the  most  feasible  one 
familiarize  the  German  people  with  the 
value  of corn  as  an  article  of  food.  Un 
der  competent  direction  kitchens  could 
be  conducted  at  a  comparatively  small 
larger  German  cities 
expense  in  the 
rn  the  kitchens  corn  prepared 
in  va 
rious  ways  could  be  served  free  or at 1 
nominal  cost.  Special  afternoons  and 
evenings  could  also  be  devoted to pupils 
from  the  cooking  schools, to  grocers  and 
supply  houses, 
to  housewives  and 
others.

to  this  grain.  They  prefer  bread  of 
wheat  and  rye,  and  as  there  is  no  rea­
son  why  they  should  eat  com,  they  sim­
ply  do  not.  Nevertheless  it  is  the  most 
nourishing  of  all  grains.

GENERAL TRADE  REVIEW . 

Constantly  increasing  values  all  along 
the  line  in  speculative  securities,  with 
a  record  breaking  activity, have been the 
rule  until 
it  seems  that  reaction  has 
come  from  the  movement  becoming  too 
rapid.  An  upward  rush  can  not  be 
in­
definitely  maintained  for the  reason that 
such  a  condition  engenders  an  uneasi­
ness  which  gives  opportunity  for the 
onslaughts  of  the  bears. 
In  the  present 
instance  this  natural  uneasiness  was 
taken  advantage  of  by  those  whose 
in­
terests  demanded  a  reaction  and  thou­
sands  of  circulars  were  sent  out  with  a 
warning  of  the  situation.  These  served 
their  purpose  no  doubt  by  causing  the 
reaction  they  predicted,  although  the 
ostensible  reason  for  their  circulation 
was  the  condition  of  the  money  mar­
ket.  The  upward  course  of  transporta­
tion  securities  carried  the  average  of 
leading  railways  to  $96.84  per 
sixty 
share,  making  a  new  high  record. 
In­
dustrials  advanced  to  $68.37.  Of .course 
it  is  impossible  to  predict  the  extent  to 
which  the  reaction  may  go,  but  most 
conservative  observers  do  not  anticipate 
more  than  a  setback  to  serve  temporary 
ipeculative  interests.  It  is  probably  for­
tunate  that  a  reaction  comes  now,  for 
steady  upward  movement  so  rapid 
long  maintained  without 

could  not  be 

NEW  COMBINATIONS IN   EUROPE.
Since  the  accession  of  the  new  King 
of  Italy  political  affairs  in  that  country 
have  been  undergoing a  gradual change 
The  new  monarch  has  surrounded  him 
self  with  new  men,  and  more  vigor and 
enterprise  have  been 
infused  into  the 
conduct  of  public  affairs.  Greater 
economy  in  administration  has  been  in 
augurated  and  the  King  has  insisted 
upon  officials  devoting  stricter  attention 
to their duties.

By  far  the  most  significant  indica­
tions  of 
important  changes  are  those 
to  be  found  in  the  new  drift  of  Italy’s 
international  relations.  There  has  been 
a  distinct  rapprocbment  with  France, 
while  there  has  been  an  equally  pro­
nounced  weakening  of  the  ties  which 
for  nearly  a  quarter  of  a  century  past 
have  bound  Italy  to  Germany  and  Aus­
tria.  The  new  regime  finds  no  profit  in 
the  maintenance  of  the  costly  armament 
which  membership 
in  the  Triple  A lli­
ance  demands,  particularly  as  the  prac­
tical  benefits  accruing  to  Italy  are  not 
in  proportion  to  the  sacrifices  which the 
country  is  compelled  to  make.

Italy  has  been  drawn  towards  France 
not  merely  by  race  instinct,  but  by  a 
similarity  of  commercial  as  well  as 
political  interests.  Closer  relations  with 
the  great  republic  north  of  her would 
present  distinct  commercial  advantages 
for  Italy,  besides  making  it  less  neces­
sary  to  maintain  the  large  army  which 
the  Triple  Alliance  made necessary.  On 
the  other hand,  Italy’s  active  friendship 
would  give  France  and  her ally,  Rus­
sia,  a  powerful  influence  in  the  Medit­
erranean,  something  of  incalculable  ad­
vantage  to  France.

The  possibility  of  Italy  breaking 
from  the  Triple  Alliance  and  forming  a 
compact  with  France  and  Russia  is  a 
matter of  great  importance  to  the  other 
powers. 
Italy  has  heretofore  cast  her 
in  maritime
lot  with  Great  Britain 

THE  FATALITY  OF  FAILURE. 

When  the  wise  business  man  inaugu 
rates  a  new  enterprise  he  looks  around 
for  a  successful  man  to  undertake  its 
management.  Sometimes, in the  absence 
of  suitable  material,  he  is  compelled  to 
accept  the  services  of  a  man  who  has 
never  actually  achieved  success,  but 
who  possesses 
certain  qualifications 
hich  indicate  that  he  has  the  making 
of  a  successful  man.  Under  no  circum 
stances  will he select a man  whose  career 
has  been  characterized  by  frequent  fail- 
re,  because  any  institution  or cause  en­
trusted  to  the  management  of  such  a 
man  is  inevitably  doomed  to disaster.

Unfortunately,  there  is  no  law  which 
stands 
in  the  way  of  the  unsuccessful 
man  engaging 
in  business on  his  own 
account.  He  may  achieve  a  dismal  fail­
ure  as  the  manager of  a  manufacturing 
enterprise.  He  may  make  a  complete 
fiasco  as  a  real  estate  dealer.  He  may 
engage 
in  the  newspaper  business  as  a 
last  resort  and  make  a  sorry  spectacle 
himself  because  of  his  ignorance  of 
grammar  and  rhetoric,  his  poverty  of 
business  experience,  his  utter  lack  of 
tact  and  his  indulgence 
in  unprofes­
sional  practices  which  would  effectually 
shut  him  out  of  many  trades  and profes­
sions.  He  may  set  himself  up  as  an  or­
ganizer  of  men  and  an  exploiter of  mer­
cantile  fraternities,  but  as  soon  as  his 
true  character  is  revealed—and  it is sure 
be,  sooner or  later—he  is  dropped  in- 
the  oblivion  of  the  unsuccessful.  He 
may  aspire  to  act  the  part  of  lobbyist 
and  for a  time  ride  on  the  topmost wave 
temporary  popularity,  but  sooner or 
later  the  nemesis  of  non-success  over­
takes  him  and  his  duped  and  deluded 
victims  wonder why  it  took  so  long  for 
them  to  discover that  he  belonged  to the 
category  of  failure  and  that  no  perma­
nent  advantage  can  be  secured  through 
the 
leadership  of  a  man  who  is  so  un­
fortunate  as  to  be  born under an unlucky 
star.

In  connection  with  the  kitchen  am 
pie  facilities  should  be  afforded 
for 
showing,  by  charts  and  otherwise,  the 
value  of  the  grain  as  a  food  product,  its 
consumption  in  other  places,  the  cost 
of  production,  statistics  of  corn-produc 
'ng  states,  samples  of  the  grain,  illus 
trations  of  the  machinery ;and  imple 
ments  used 
in  its  culture  and  prepara 
'on,  etc.
Such  an  enterprise  would  need  effi 
cient  management.  A  large  number  of 
assistants  would  not  be  necessary,  al 
though  they  should  be  chosen  with great 
care;  but  Mr.  Harris  thinks  that  young 
men  and  young  women  could  be secured 
from  some  of  our colleges  who,  at  little 
more  than  the  actual  expense  of  travel 
ing,  would  be  glad  of the opportunity  to 
render  assistance,  as  it  would  be  an  ex­
cellent  chance  for  them  to 
learn  the 
language  and  the  customs  of  the  peo­
ple.

In  mosP  of  the  larger cities  are  resi­
dent  Americans  who,  if  solicited,  would 
able  to  make  valuable  suggestions.
The  United  States  Consuls,  so  far as 
possible,  would  doubtless  aid  in  getting 
the  consent  of  local  authorities  for the 
establishment  of  the  enterprise  and  in 
arousing  interest  therein.

Mr.  Harris  relates  that,  while  in  1899 
nearly  7  per  cent.,  and 
in  1900  more 
than  6  per  cent.,  of  all  the  com  im­
ported by  Germany  came  to  Mannheim, 
American  residing  there  for  many 
years  past  told  him  recently  that  he  had 
never been  able  to  buy  any  corn meal  in 
that  city  of  about  200,000  inhabitants ; 
that  he  bad  used  it  in  his  family,  but 
had  it  sent  from  England;  and  that  the 
local  mills  to  which  he  had  applied 
were  not  equipped  for  grinding  com 
meal.

It  is  possible  that  something  may  be 
accomplished  towards  educating  Euro­
peans  to  eat  com ;  but  the  fact  remains 
that  but  few  of  them  who  have  emi­
grated  to  the  United  States  have  taken  ally.

more  severe  one.
No  further  reductions  are  reported  in 
is 
prices  of  textile  fabrics,  and  this 
somewhat  encouraging,  for  there  have 
been  few  weeks  since  the  year opened 
when  some  concessions  were  not  re­
corded,  especially 
in  the  cotton  goods 
division.  That  supplies  are  still  con­
sidered  excessive 
is  evidenced  by 
further  curtailment  of  production  at  the 
mills.  There 
is  a  better  demand  for 
mmediate  delivery  in  the  wholesale dry 
goods  market,  but  purchasers  show  no 
disposition  to  anticipate  requirements. 
As  to  woolens  there  is  a  little  more 
in­
terest  and  manufacturers  have  shown 
some  inclination  to  secure  raw material. 
Quotations  of  wool  are  23.6  per cent, 
lower  than  a  year  ago  and  there  is  a 
general  feeling  that  the  decline  has 
reached  an  end. 
Transactions  are 
heavy  and  no  effort  is  made  to  secure 
easier terms.

iron  and  steel 

So  far as any change occurred in prices 
it  was  upward,  but 
most  products  are  firmly  held  without 
variation.  Activity  at  mills  and  fur­
naces  is  uninterrupted,  and  enquiries 
for  structural  shapes  and  railway  sup- 
'ies  are  apparently  without  limit.  Do­
mestic  buying  is  so  enormous  that  suc­
cessful  competition  for an important for- 
gn  contract  by a  French  concern is  not 
rprising.
There  is  a  good  increase— 5,000  cases 
in  the  shipment  of  boots  and  shoes 
from  the  East,  and  at  the  present  rate 
looks  as  though  this  would  prove  the 
banner  year.  Leather  and  hides  are 
struggling  to  maintain  the present level, 
but  are  not  entirely  successful.

When Representative  Nevins stated on 
the  floor  of  the  House  that  Fred  H. 
Cozzens  had  “ done  more  to  hurt  than 
help  the  garnishment  bill, ”   he  prob­
ably  knew  what  he  was  talking  about 
and  probably  told  the  truth.

There is  nothing  more  heroic  than  the 
ability  to  say  no  to  yourself occasion-

TH E  FUTURE  OF  WATERWAYS.

the 

The  Nineteenth  Century  was  the  age 
railway.  Within  the  period 
of 
measured  by 
it,  200,000  miles  of  rail­
road  track  have  been  built  and  put  in 
operation 
in  the  United  States.  In  the 
same  period  railways  have been  built  in 
Europe,  Asia,  Africa,  South  America, 
Australia  and  in  the  other parts of North 
America.  At 
the  beginning  of  the 
century  there  was  not  a  mile  of  railroad 
on the globe;  now there are 400,000 miles 
of  it.

According  to  the  opinion  of  Alexan­
der  Hume  Ford,  a  civil  engineer and 
writer  on  the  economics  of  transporta­
tion,  in  an  article  in  the  April  Forum, 
the  era  of  extraordinary  railway  build­
ing  has  about  passed,  and  in  the  new 
century  there 
is  every  indication  that 
the  vast  outlay  of  capital  for  improve­
ments  which  it  has  been  customary  to 
lavish  on  the  steam  railway  will find  an 
outlet  in  the  construction  of great  in­
land  waterways.

A  condition  which 

Mr.  Ford  holds  that  the  building  of 
the  Suez  Canal  merely  demonstrated 
possibilities,  while 
the  Manchester, 
Kiel  and  Sault  Ste.  Marie  ship  canals 
and  the  Chicago  drainage  canal  have 
proved  that,  with  the  resources  of  mod­
ern  engineering  skill  and  mechanical 
appliances,  there  are  no  insurmountable 
difficulties  to  be  encountered  in  extend­
ing  deep  waterways  almost 
indefinitely 
in  every  direction  throughout  any  coun­
try  not  diversified  with  high mountains.
is  forcing  itself 
upon  the  transportation  interests  of  the 
world 
is  the  promotion  of  economy. 
The  expense  of  the  maintenance  of  rail­
roads  is  very  great  and  in  no  way can  it 
be  avoided  or  lightened.  Natural  water­
ways  of  commerce  maintain themselves, 
or  require,  when  once  put  in  order,  a 
comparatively  small  outlay  to  take  care 
of  them.  Moreover,  waterways,  whether 
natural  or  artificial,  which  permit  ves­
sels  to  reach  distant  destinations  with­
out  breaking  bulk  give  enormous  ad­
vantages  in  transportation.

The  writer  referred  to  above,  in  en­
forcing  his  idea  of  the  benefits  to  be 
derived  from  the  development  of  com­
mercial  waterways,  remarks  that  this  is 
a  recognized  probability  of  the  near  fu­
ture,  demonstrated  by  the  fact  that  the 
American  Government  has  actually 
spent  hundreds  of  thousands  of  dollars 
on  the  survey  of  a  ship  canal  from Lake 
Erie  to  the  ocean,  while  Russia  con­
templates  a  similar  twenty-eight  foot 
channel  from  the  Baltic  to  the  Black 
Sea  and  will  soon  spend  $40,000,000  on 
a  ship  canal  connecting  the  Black  with 
the  Caspian  Seas.  The  completion  of 
these  waterways  would  allow  the  largest 
steamships  afloat  to  load  at  Chicago  for 
Central  Asia  ports  on  the  Caspian  or 
for  the  larger cities  of 
innermost  Rus­
sia.

As  an  evidence  that,  in  the  matter  of 
improved  interior  waterways,  the  Great 
Republic  of  the  West  is  far  behind  the 
rest  of  the  world,  he  says:

I  would  refer  you  to  much-maligned 
Russia. 
I  have  seen  steel  barges  in  Si­
beria,that  travel  thousands  of  miles  into 
the  interior  of  the  country,  carry  tons  of 
American  railway  material  and  equip­
ment  for  the  building  of  the  Trans- 
Siberian  and  Manchurian  Railways.  In 
fact,  hundreds  of  miles  of  this  latter 
road  have  been  built  entirely  of  Ameri­
can  materia],  carried  inland  by  barges 
to  cities  along  the  line  of  the  railway 
under  construction. 
In  Russia  proper 
the  government  manages  its  canals  and 
waterways  in  connection  with  its  rail­
ways.  They  are  built  to  feed  and  aid 
each  other.  All  the  chief  rivers  of  Rus­
sia  have  been  connected  by  canals,  so 
that  even  now  large  freight  barges  and

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

9

small  steam  craft  can  sail  from  St.  Pet­
ersburg  or  Moscow  to  Archangel  on  the 
Arctic  ocean,  Astrakan  on  the  Caspian, 
Odessa  on  the  Black  Sea,  or  to  the  foot 
of the  Urals.  A  canal  is  to  be  cut  across 
these  iow  hills  to  a  branch  of  the  O b i; 
so  that,  by  following  the  already  exist­
ing  waterways  across  Siberia, boats  may 
navigate  continuously  from  St.  Peters­
burg  for  more  than  4,000 miles  across' 
Europe  and  Asia,  beyond  Lake  Baikal, 
in  fact,  to  the  very  boundary  line  of 
China.  A  ship  canal  from  Riga,  on 
the  Baltic,  to  Odessa, on  the  Black  Sea, 
is  contemplated.  A  ship  canal  con­
necting  the  Black  and  Caspian  Seas  has 
been  surveyed ;  and  Russian  engineers 
declare  feasible  the  proposed  plan  of 
turning  the  waters  of  the  Amu  Daria 
its  old  bed,  so  that  it  will 
back 
once  more  flow 
into  the  Caspian  Sea, 
bringing  in  time  Russia  and  Siberia in­
to  direct  steamboat  communication  with 
Central  Asia  and  Afghanistan.

into 

insures  the  spending  of  a 

In  the  United  States  the  situation  is 
precisely  different.  The railroads, which 
exercise  too  much  influence  in  both  na­
tional  and  state  legislation  for the  good 
of  the  country,  do  all  in  their  power to 
prevent  the  improvement  and  construc­
tion  of  waterways,  and  there  would  be 
nothing  done  in  that  line  if  it  were  not 
for  the  fact  that  the  rivers  and  harbors 
bill 
large 
amount  of  public  money  in  the  various 
states  of  the  Union.  That  important 
bill  failed  in  the  last  Congress  because 
those  interior  states  which  could  not  by 
any  possibility  have  commercial  water­
ways  were  not  given  the  means  of  con­
verting  their  mountain  streams 
into 
reservoirs  and 
lakes,  from  which  the 
water could  be  used  for  irrigating  their 
arid  lands.

In  view  of  the  fact  that  all the interior 
waterways  of  the  United  States  belong 
to  the  United  States  Government,  while 
the  railroads  are  the  property  of  private 
individuals,  it  would  seem  that  the  so­
licitude  of  the  Government  ought  to  be 
for the  waterways;  but  the  fact  remains 
that  the  railways  exert  vast  public  in­
fluence  and  receive 
immense  public 
benefits,  and  the  transcontinental  rail­
ways,  several  of  which  were  built  with 
Government  money,  have  been  able  to 
defeat  the  Nicaragua  canal  enterprise, 
year  after  year,  so  that  to-day  it  is  no 
more  of  a  reality  than 
it  was  when 
Nunez  de  Balboa  first  crossed  the Amer­
ican  isthmus  from  the  Atlantic  side  and 
viewed  the  waves  of  the  Pacific  Ocean.
law  so  in­
exorable  as  that  of  commercial  and  in­
dustrial  economy,  and  its  imperious  de­
mands  for  the  cheapening  of  transporta­
tion  will  enforce  compliance  by  the 
opening  of  the  interior  waterways  and 
of  an  American 
isthmian  canal.  The 
European  nations  are  yielding  to  the 
requirements  of  economical  transporta­
tion  by  constructing  canals  and  other 
waterways,  so  that  ships  may  sail  as 
near  as  possible  to  their  destinations 
without  breaking  up  or  rehandling  their 
cargoes.

Nevertheless  there 

is  no 

The  products  of  the  United  States 
have  entered  into the  world’s  industrial 
and  commercial  competition.  To  meet 
all  rivals  and  all  competitors,  nothing 
that  can  give  advantage  will  be  neg­
lected.  This  is  a 
law  of  trade  that 
brooks  no  violation.  The  penalty  for 
its  violation  is  to  be  left  behind  in  the 
world’s race  for  commercial  success  and 
supremacy.

Germany,  although 

it  has  35,000,000 
acres  of  forests  excellently managed  and 
yielding  an  immense  revenue,  demands 
increasingly  greater quantities  of  wood, 
so  that  for  the  last  ten  years  the  amount 
of  timber  which  it  buys  has doubled and 
its  value  trebled.

SHOES VERSUS SHOES.

is,  “ It 

that  enables 

A  British  commercial  agent  has  been 
traveling  in  the  United  States,  using  his 
commercial  eyes,  reached  certain  com­
mercial  conclusions  and  has  sent  home 
thereto.  Boots 
reports  corresponding 
and  shoes  and  what  pertains  to  them 
is 
the  burden  of  his  investigations  and  re­
port.  He  has  been  in  no  haste  and  his 
is  no  snap  judgment.  Carefully  he  has 
studied  cause  and  effect  and  his  conclu­
is  the  use  of  so  much  im­
sion 
proved  machinery 
the 
American  manufacturer to  turn  out  such 
large  quantities  and  do  it  so  cheaply.”  
Certain  facts  and  figures  are  brought 
forward  to  show  what  are  the  actual 
trade  conditions.  From  these  we 
learn 
that  no  longer  ago  than  1898  the  exports 
of  boots  and  shoes  from  this  country  to 
the  British  possessions  were 
142,328 
pounds,  in  1899  they  were  323,308  and 
last  year  426,124  pounds—a  fact  damag­
ing  enough  in  its  way,  but  which,  taken 
in  connection  with  the  fact  that  the  ex­
ports  of  this  same 
line  of  goods  from 
in  1898 
the  United  Kingdom  were 
1,092,094  pounds, 
1,001,927
pounds  and  in  1900  1,075,478  pounds,  is 
a  regular  hair-lifter  to  one  having  at 
heart  the  best  interests  of  the  trade  con­
ditions  of  England.

1899 

in 

It 

is  remarkable. 

With  the  machine  as  the  reason  why 
the  shoe  trade 
in  the  United  Kingdom 
is  running  down,  the  agent  takes  it “ for 
granted  that  the  British  boots  are  not 
inferior to  those  of  America.”   It  would 
have  been 
interesting  to  have  had  that 
feature  discussed.  How  such  a  conclu­
sion  could  have  been  reached,  under the 
circumstances, 
In  the 
first  place,  the  English  shoe  is  built  as 
the  English  carriage  is  built,  stout  and 
heavy. 
is  made  to  wear  with  the 
seeming  possibility  of  the  structure’s 
being  an  heirloom!  If the  English  shoe­
maker  has  an  idea  of  “ rights  and lefts”  
it  has  come  in  with  Edward  VII. 
It  is 
a  recognized  fact  that  the  foot  of  ma­
turity  in  England  is  larger  than  that  of 
childhood,  but  observation  seems 
to 
confirm  that  size  is  the  only  difference 
recognized.  To  all  intents  and  purposes 
one  English  foot  is  the  counterpart  of 
the  others,  and  for  a  certain  size  that 
last  will  answer  for  every  foot  in  Eng­
land.  To  measure  the  customer  except 
for  ascertaining 
is  time 
wasted.  With  that  for  a  guide,  taken 
in  connection  with  the 
idea  that  sole 
and  upper  must  be  thick  and  stout  and 
heavy,  one  has  a  pretty  fair  idea  of  the 
English  foot  when  clad  in  the  English 
shoe.  They  have  been  described  as 
“ dumpers”   and  that 
is  exactly  what 
they  are.

length 

the 

The  history  of  shoemaking 

in  the 
United  States  is  a  different  story.  With 
every  shape  of  foot  to  clothe,the  attempt 
has  been  made  to  cover  it  with  a  well­
fitting  shoe.  The  “ pickerel”   foot  is 
not  forced 
into  a  “ flounder”   shoe  and 
the  tub-shaped  pedal  extremity  of  the 
Chicago  maiden  scorns  the  Chinese  de­
formity  of  the  Atlantic  States.  Every 
conceivable  footshape  on  the  face  of  the 
earth  is  found  here  and  the  science  as 
well  as  the  art  of  shoemaking  has  bent 
to  the  task  of  clothing  it  comfortably 
and  cheaply  and  at  the  same  time  keep­
ing  carefully 
in  mind  the  too  often 
neglected  lines  of  beauty.  A  shoe,  to  be 
strong,  need  not  be  heavy,  any  more 
than  a  bicycle  needs  a  wheel  like  a 
buggy.  The  maker  of  farm  implements 
found  that  out  long  ago  and  the  shoe- 
shop  turned  the 
fact  to  practical  ac­
count ;  so  that  the  American  shoe  which 
is  crowding  all  other  shoes  out  of  the 
market  is  doing  so because the American

machine  and  the  wit  that  drives  it  and 
the  brain  that  patterns  the  last  and  tans 
the 
leather  all  work  to  carry  out  the 
grand  idea  which  is  making  the  Ameri­
can  shoe  the  favorite  with  the  peoples 
of  the  earth.  There  may  be  something 
in  the  tanning  supplies  and  their  prox­
imity  to  the  tanneries  which the English 
agent  claims,  hut  not  much.  The  foun­
dation  fact 
is  that  the  Yankee  shoe­
maker  found  an  existing  want  and  sup­
plied 
it  by  bending  to  the  task  every 
energy  he  possessed  and  the  result  was 
the  American  shoe. 
is 
light,  it  wears  well,  and  withal  is  hand­
some,  and,  best  of  all,  it  fits.  Other 
makes  do  not  and  the  only  satisfaction 
the  English  shoemaker  can  get  out  of 
the  situation  is  that  until  the  English­
man  can  make  a  better shoe  than  the 
American  can  the 
imports  are  to  be 
larger  and  the  exports  smaller  than  they 
have  ever  been  before.

is  neat,  it 

It 

The  Postoffice  Department  is  consid­
ering  the  advisability  of  changing  the 
design  of  the  regular  issue  of  postage 
stamps.  One  of  the  changes  will  prob­
ably  be  that  the  names  of  the  persons 
will  be  printed  under the  heads  borne 
on  the  stamps,  much  the  same  manner 
as 
in  the  case  of  some  of  the  issues  of 
paper  money.  The  design  may  also 
include  an 
inscription  giving  the  year 
of  issue  of  the  series.  The  changes  will 
be  of  interest  to  stamp  collectors,  or,  as 
they  prefer to  be  called,  philatelists,  in­
asmuch  as  it  will  be  practically  follow­
ing  the  precedent  set  by  some  of  the 
Central  and  South  American  republics. 
Each  year  these  countries 
issue  new 
series  of  stamps,  many  of  the  issues  be­
ing  for the  mere  purpose  of  adding  to 
the  exchequers  at  the  expense  of  the 
pockets  of  the  collectors.  The  practice 
has  been  condemned  by  collectors,  but 
there  seems  to  be  no  abatement  of  the 
nuisance. 
Is  the  United  States  Post- 
office  going  to  follow  in  the  footsteps  of 
these 
impecunious  countries  and  have 
a  new  issue  each  year,  or  will  the  date 
be  continued  through  a  series  of  years? 
are  the  questions  which  every  collector 
will  be  asking,  and  it  is  safe  to  say  that 
some  protest  or  other  will  be  lodged 
with  the  authorities.  The  present  issue 
has  been  running  for some  years,  and  if 
the  date  had  been  put  on  the  stamps 
when  they  were  first  given  out  to the 
public,  it  would  have  assisted  collectors 
in  arranging  their  albums.  As  it  is,  the 
issue 
is  the  same  as  the  previous  one, 
with  the  exception  that  some  of  the 
colors of the different values are changed.

One  of  the  latest  postoffice  frauds  now 
being'  investigated  by  the  postoffice 
authorities  at  Washington 
is  that  of  a 
doctor  who  advertised  to  cure  deafness 
for  $18.50  without  fail.  To  those  who 
sent  the  required  amount  the  doctor  for­
warded  2,000  pills,  with  directions  to 
take  one  each  day,  and  on  no  account 
to  miss  a  day,  or  the  charm  would  be 
broken,  and 
it  would  be  necessary  to 
start  all  over  again.  As  the  truth  of 
this  claim  can  not be  put  to  the  test  un­
til  the  end  of  about  five  and  a  half 
years,  the  authorities  are  puzzled  what 
course  to  take.

Can  a  rattlesnake  back?  is  now  the 
mooted  question  in  Colorado.  The  cur­
ator  of  the  Historical  Society  claims 
that  a  rattlesnake  when  pursued  will 
enter  its  hole  taii  first.  On  the  other 
hand  collectors  of  the  snake’s  rattles  as 
curios  declare  that  his  big snakeship in­
variably  retires  head  foremost,  and  that 
then 
is  the  opportunity  for cutting  off 
his  rattles  by  a  quick  stroke.

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D fy P o o d s

W eekly  M arket  Review  of  the  P rincipal 

Staples.

Staple  Cottons— Brown  sheetings  and 
drills  are  very  irregular,  but  sellers  are 
now  refusing  to  consider  any  orders that 
do  not  come  up  to  their  own  present 
standards.  They  say  there  is  no  use  of 
doing  business  at  a  loss,  although  in  or­
der  to  keep  their  mills  running  tor the 
sake  of  their  mill  hands,  they  would  be 
willing  for the  present  to come out even. 
Wide  sheetings  show  no  developments 
in  any  direction.  The  lower  prices, 
which  were  quoted  a  short  time  ago, 
resulted  in  reducing  stocks  to a  consid­
erable  extent.  Bleached  cottons  are  in 
quiet  demand  for fine  grades of standard 
goods. 
lines,  however, 
there 
is  considerable  weakness  shown. 
Cotton  flannels  are  selling  moderately 
for  the  new  season,  but  prices  are  not 
yet  made  openly.  Denims  show  a 
moderate  request  this  week. 
Ticks, 
plaids  and  other  coarse  colored  cottons 
as  a  rule  show  a  very  quiet  business, 
but 
in  spots  there  is  reported  to  be  an 
improvement.

In  unticketed 

Prints  and  Ginghams— Printed  cali­
coes  show  a  fair  business  in  progress, 
but  fancy  prints  are  without  special 
feature.  Supplies  are 
in  good  condi­
tion,  and  prices  are  reported  steady. 
In  staple  prints there  has  been  a  moder­
ate  amount  of  business  at  steady  prices 
for  leading  makes.  Ginghams  show  no 
change,  and  fancy  cotton  dress  goods 
are  slow.  Fail  lines  of  flannelettes  and 
domets  are  still  unsettled,  but  some  of 
the 
lines  of  domet  fabrics  have  been 
bought  up  to  a  considerable  extent. 
Others,  however,  have  moved  slowly.

Dress  Goods—The  dress  goods  mar­
ket  is  studded  with  peculiar  features. 
In  the  first  placa  business  is  very  un­
evenly  distributed.  Whereas  quite  a 
number  of  mills  are  practically  pro­
vided  for  in  regard  to  orders,  there  are 
many  others  whose  future  is  a  matter of 
no  little  concern  to  the  manufacturer. 
The  average  buyer’s  operations  have 
been  restricted  except  in  the  case  of  a 
certain  few  fabrics,  and  a  good  many 
manufacturers  have  been  beset  with 
doubts  as  to  what  fabrics  are  best  cal­
culated  to  tempt  buyers’  orders.  Ow­
ing  to  these  doubts  a  good  many  dress 
goods  salesmen  have but recently started 
out  to  canvass their  trade.  Whereas  cer­
tain  houses  report  the  bulk  of  the  first 
orders  already 
in,  others  report  direct 
to  the  contrary,  the  business  secured  to 
date  being  comparatively  light.

Underwear—The  prediction  that  fall 
fleeced  goods  would  see  a  quiet  season 
has  been  verified. 
It  is  the  exception 
now  to  find  a  mill  that  has  disposed  of 
any  fair  proportion  of  its  goods.  This 
is quite  contrary  to  the  conditions  that 
existed  a  year  ago  now.  At  that  time 
it  was  the  exception  to  find  a  mill  that 
had  not  pretty  well  sold  up  its products. 
It 
is  said  that  the  curtailment  in  the 
manufacture  of  fleeced  goods  is  going 
to  bring  the  quantity  made  down  to  a 
smaller  amount  than  will  be  used,  and 
that  the  chances  are  that  before  the  re­
tail  fall  season  opens  there  will  be  a 
scramble  for goods of  this  nature.  That, 
however,remains  to  be  proven.  Fleeced 
goods  are  not  dead  by  any  means,  al­
though  they  may  be  said  to  be  taking  a 
nap.  For  the  present  season’s  business 
balbriggan  underwear  is  in  the  best  sit­
uation  of  any.  Many  lines  are  reported 
as  completely  closed  out," while  deliv­
eries  are  far behind in many other lines. 
Whether  there  will  be  enough  of  these

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

goods  to  go  around  remains  to  be  seen, 
hut  the  fact  is  that  balbriggans  have 
been  on  the  top  wave  for several springs 
and  summers.  Ribbed  underwear,  both 
two-piece  and  union  garments,  is  in  a 
comfortable  situation,  retailers  having 
purchased  quite  fair quantities.

is 

Hosiery— The  retail  end  of  the  hos­
in  excellent  shape  at 
iery  business 
the  present,  and  large  quantities  of  fan­
cies  have  been  disposed  of  for  Easter. 
It  looks 
in  many  ways  as  though  this 
year  was  to  be  the  biggest  fancy  season 
of  any.  Of  course,  staples  have  not 
been  neglected,  and  blacks  and  solid 
colors  have  had  an  uninterrupted  busi­
ness.

in 

Carpets—The  retail  trade  have  been 
placing  a  large  number  of  small  filling- 
in  orders— often 
lots  of  three  rolls 
each  of  a  different  pattern,  which  is  ag­
gravating  to  manufacturers,  although  it 
indicates  that  the  market  is  not  over­
stocked,  and  should  on  that  account 
be  in  a  healthy  condition  for  next  sea­
son's  business.  The manufacturers  quite 
generally  have  commenced  to  prepare 
their  new  lines  for  next  season,  and 
there  is  considerable interest  manifested 
on  the  prospects  for  ingrains.  The  early 
orders  placed  will  be  subject  to  general 
market  prices  which  are  not  expected 
to  be  definitely  settled  until  about  June 
i,  when  the 
large  Eastern  mills  will 
make  the  price.  Tapestry  and  velvet 
carpet  manufacturers  have  continued 
quite  well  employed  all  through the past 
season,  as well  as  makers  of  axminsters. 
In  the  body  Brussels,  wiltons  and  other 
fine 
lines,  there  has  been  a  moderate 
business  reported.

fair  to b e 

Smyrna  Rugs—This  line  has  contin­
ued  active,notwithstanding  the  fact  that 
one  new  mill  has  entered  the  field.  The 
increasing  sales  of all  wool  Smyrna  rugs 
plainly  indicate  that  their  popularity  in 
past  seasons  bids 
largely 
eclipsed  the  coming  year.  While  there 
is  still  a  moderate  demand for the larger 
sizes  of 
jute  Smyrna  rugs,  the  best 
grades  in  carpet  sizes  on  all wool grades 
have  easily  held  the 
lead.  Advices 
from  the  West  indicate  that  retailers 
continue  to  cut  up  a  large  amount  of 
ingrains.  This  section,  as  well  as  the 
South,  has  for  several  years  been  the 
main  dependence  of  ingrain  manufac­
turers.

B uying  Dry  Goods  for  His  Wife.

Young,  married,  studious,  visionary 
and  very  absent  minded,  he  approached 
the  young  lady  at  the  counter as  though 
walking  in  his  sleep.

“ Please  let  me  see  a  sample  of  your 
left-hand  pockets,”   was  his  surprising 
request.

and 

“ Beg  pardon 1”
“ Sample  of  left-hand  pockets.”
“ B-e-g  pardon,”  
the 

clerk 
showed  how  tall  and  dignified  she  could 
be. 
“ Possibly  you  want  me  to  show 
you  some  buttonholes,  needle eyes or  in­
visible  perforations  for  embroidery.”

“ No,  I  think  not. 

I  recall  none  of 
those  as  on  my  list. 
I’m  acting  for  my 
wife,you  know.  Charming  woman,  but 
so  unpractical.  Thinks  that  the  house 
must  be  attended  to,  no  matter what  be­
comes  of  the  shopping.  You  have  no 
left-hand  pockets?”

“ No  pockets  of any  kind.  Possibly 
you  wanted  the  opening  to the  pocket, 
or  a  pump  for  inflating  the  pocket, ”  
and  the  several  clerks  who  had  gathered 
around  looked  at  evreything  but the cus­
tomer.

“ It  might  be. 

I  confess  that  I’m  a 
little  uncertain  as  to  just  what  my  wife 
did  ask  me  to  get.  Come  to  think  of  it 
1  have  a  list.  Forgot  all  about  it;  ‘ but­
ter,  vegetable  oysters,  sweet  po— ’  ah ! 
here 
it  is,  ‘ sample,  left-hand  pocket, 
two  yards.’  "

“ Then  feel  in your left-hand pocket, ”

laughed  the  clerk, and all the other clerks 
laughed.

He  did.  There'was  a  sample  of  nar­
row  ribbon.  The  combined  talent  of 
the  clerks  matched  it,  and  the  customer 
wondered  why-  they  all  beamed  so  be­
nignly  on  him.

They  W onder W hat  He  Meant.

Over  at  Detroit 

last  week  the  good 
women  of  a  certain  Methodist  church 
contributed  a  supply  of  all  kinds  of 
good  things  and  proceeded  with  the 
same  to  the  home  of their  pastor,  to  find 
that  a  bright  baby  boy  had  just  pre­
ceded  them  to the  parsonage.

The  women  concluded  to  stay  and 
take  supper with  their  pastor,and  there­
fore  transferred  the  eatables  from  their 
baskets  to  the  dining  table,and  then  in­
formed  the  parson 
supper  was 
ready,  wondering  as  they  did  so  if  in 
returning  thanks  he  would  remember 
their gifts.

When  all  were  seated  at  the  table  the 
good  man  bowed  his  head  and  thus  ap­
proached  the  throne  of  grace,  “ O  Lord, 
we  thank  Thee  for this  timely  succor,”  
and  the  women  are  still  in  doubt  as  to 
what  be  meant.

that 

Had  H er Foal.

Fogg— I  never saw  my  wife  come  out 
second  best  except  once,  and  that  was 
with  a  little  insignificant  looking  chap 
who  took  pictures.

Bass—And  how  was  that?
Fogg—She  pitched 

into  him  for  not 
having  some  proofs  ready  when  he 
promised.  He  pleaded  the  weather  and 
It  only 
sickness,  but 
made  her  bully-rag  him 
the  more. 
Finally  a  look  of  desperation  came  into 
his  face.  “ Madam,”   he  said,  “ if  you 
say  another  word  I’ll  finish  up  those 
pictures  to  look  like  you.”

it  was  no  use. 

Next Thing to  M arriage.

Miss  Skyleigh—Are  you  a  married 

man?

Mr.  Frankleigh— No;  but  I’m 

next  thing  to  it— I ’m  in  debt.

the 

Don’t
buy
an
Awning 
until 
you  get 
our 
prices.

Send distance l to 2 or height,
2 to 3 or projection,
3 to 4 or width.

( S E B   C U T )

and  we  will  send  samples  and  bottom  prices. 

CHAS.  A.  COYE

■ ■  Pearl  Street 

Grand Rapids, Mich.

William  Reid

Importer  and  Jobber  of  Polished 
Plate,  Window  and  Ornamental

Glass

Paint, Oil, White Lead, Var­

nishes and  Brushes

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

W. FRENCH,
Resident Manager.

Floor  Coverings

We  carry  a  complete  line  of 
jr^y^  Oil  Cloths,  prices  from  17c  up. 
cn p 1  Linoleums,  prices  from  42c  up. 
Mattings,  prices  from  10  to  35c. 
2   We  have  them  in  neat,  tasty 
i M  patterns.

Come  in  and  inspect  our  line.

W

Wholesale  Dry  Goods, 

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan

P .  S te k e te e   &   S o n s,

1 Grenadine Bows

4ftl

and  Windsors  are  the  proper  thing  in  neck  wear 
this  spring.  We have  them  in  various  shapes 
and  styles.

V  Especially  nobby  is  the  shield  bow  for high  turn 
It  looks  neat  and  is  easy  to  put 

down  collars. 
on.  Can  be  sold for a  quarter.
W e  have  “ lots of new  things”   in  Ties.
V0IQT,  HERPOLSHEIMER  &  CO.

Wholesale  Dry Goods, 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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by  so  doing,  as  it 
from  the 
banker.—Commercial  Bulletin.

is  to  obtain  credit 
jobber  and  make  him.your 

15,000  Pair»  in  Two  Days.

lately 

The  resources  of  the  modern  shoe'  fac­
tory,  and  especially  along  the  lines  of 
rapid  production  of  recent  years,are  in­
dicated  by  a  feat  performed  in  a  Lynn 
shoe  factory 
in  which  all  local 
records  were  broken. 
In  one  day’s 
work,  a  factory  turned  out  7,658  pairs 
of  shoes,  and  the  next  day  this  record 
was  broken,  the  total  output  being  7,684 
pairs.  This  was  the  completed  run  of 
the  factory  for those  two  days,  and  rep­
resented  the  change  from  the  leather to 
the  finished-ready-to-wear  product.  The 
shoes  were  not  only  finished,  but  were 
packed  and  shipped  from  the  factory 
before  the  factory  was  shut down  for the 
night.

American  Sword  Factory.

There  is  only  one  sword  factory  in the 
United  States—a  Massachusetts  concern 
—and  that  one  has  ample  capacity  for 
supplying  the  domestic  demand 
for 
swords.  The  saber  lost  its  efficiency  as 
a  cavalry  weapon  as  far back  as  the  war 
of  the  rebellion,and  the  increased  range 
of  rifles  has  made  the  sword  equally  ob­
solete  as  an  implement  of  actual  com­
bat.

“Correct  Clothes”

We’ve still all sizes  in  Men’s 
Clothes  and  Overcoats  for 
spring  which  we  will  ship 
immediately  on  order.  No 
matter  how  good  your  line 
may  be,  ours  will  give  ad­
ditional attractiveness.

to offer goods  to  his customers at  a  lower 
figure.

But  this  is  not the  only  principle 

in­
volved  in  discounting  your  bills.  If  you 
establish  a  reputation  along  this  line 
with  your  jobber  you  will  reap  other 
benefits.  When  you  buy  a  bill  of  goods 
from  the  jobber  your trade  will  be  con­
sidered  most  desirable  and  you  will  get 
an  advantage  in  price,  from  which  the 
discount  is  still  to  be  taken,  and  in  the 
selection  of  the  most  desirable  goods. 
All  over  the  country  jobbers  generally 
have  two  prices,  the  list  price  at  which 
they  sell  goods  to  those  who  take  all  the 
time  they  want  in  paying  for them,  and 
a  lower  price  to  those  who  are practical­
ly  cash  customers.  The  traveling  men 
carry  both  prices;  the  house  salesmen 
have  them  and  you  should  always  be  in 
a  position  to  secure  the  lowest  figures 
on  the  goods  you  purchase.

Some  merchants  Teel  a  hesitancy 
about  calling  on  their  local  bankers  for 
a  short  time  loan.  They should  not  have 
this  feeling.  The  banker  is  in  business 
for the  profusion  his stock— money—and 
he  would  just  as  soon  lend  money  to  the 
merchant  as  to  the  farmer.  Make  him 
your creditor  instead  of  the jobber.  All 
business  is  practically  done on credit,al­
though  there  must  be  a modicum of  cash 
on  which  to  hang  the  credit. 
The 
United  States,  as  a  Government,  could 
not  exist  without  the  credit,  which  is 
extended  to  it 
in  the  form  of  money 
loaned  on  bonds,  etc.  The same  is  true 
of  the  state,  of  the  county,  the  city  gov­
ernment,  and  oftentimes  the  country 
town  or  village.  The  United  States  is 
essentially  a  credit  nation  and  it  is  just 
as  honorable  to  secure  credit  from  the 
banker  and  save  or accumulate  profits

This  space  belongs  to

G.  H.  G A T E S   &   CO., 

Up-to-date  Wholesale  Hatters, 

Detroit,  Mich.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Clothing

Spring Overcoats,  Fancy  W aistcoats  and 

“Grand  Due”  H ats. 

.

The  matter  of  overcoats  need  take  up 
very  little  of  our attention,  as  there  are 
but  few  varieties  worn  during 
the 
It  goes  without  saying  that  the 
spring. 
top  covert  coat  will  retain 
its  favor 
among  all  sorts  of  dressers.  Tan  is  the 
chief color,  with  Oxford  and  olive  fol­
lowing 
in  the  order named.  The  silk 
lined  Chesterfield  finds  favor  in  a  great 
many  eyes,  and 
is  second  only  to  the 
covert  in  popular  favor.  The  materials 
are  vicunas,  thibets,  black  dressed  and 
unfinished  worsted,  and  Oxford  gray 
unsheared  worsted. 
It  reaches  about 
to the  knee.  Then we  have  a  coat  built 
1  somewhat  on  the  order  of  a  Raglan, 
having  all 
its  looseness,  made  with  the 
Raglan  pocket,  but  without  the  Raglan 
shoulder.  The  latter  is  a  good  coat  to 
wear  with  evening  dress  or  the  dinner 
jacket.  For  rainy  weather  we  have  a 
number  of  rain  coats,  very  unlike  the 
old  mackintosh.  The  Cravenette  is  a 
good  example  of  the  best  kind  of  a  rain 
coat,  as  it  is  rainproof,  comfortable  and 
looks  well  and  stylish  at  the  same  time. 
One  hears  very  little  of  the regular Rag­
lan  coat  at  present,  and  it  is  pretty  cer­
tain  that 
it  will  be  conspicuous  by  its 
absence  from  the  backs  of  the  best 
dressers  the  coming  spring.

The  best  authorities  say  that  the well- 
dressed  man  will  shun  the  fancy  waist­
coat  excepting  when  worn  with  suits 
designed  for  sports  or  outing. 
The 
white  waistcoat  and  that  of  khaki  may 
be  worn  with  perfect  propriety  on  a 
number of occasions.  The  white  waist­
coat  may  be  worn,  and  I  could  almost 
should  be  worn,  with  evening 
say 
dress. 
It  is  good  form  to  wear  it  with 
the  frock  coat,  the  Oxford  or  black  cut­
away  or the  English  walking  coat. 
It 
is  also  permissible  to  wear  a  white 
waistcoat  with  the  serge  suit,  but  it  is a 
practice  that  is  not  followed  to  any 
great  extent  by  the  best  dressers. 
In 
any  of  the  above  cases,  with  the  excep­
tion,  of  course,  of  the  first,  a  khaki 
waistcoat 
in  good 
looks  well,  and 
form,  and 
it  would  not  surprise  me  to 
see  the  style  very  generally adopted  this 
summer.

is 

A  few  months  ago  when  a  German 
came  over  here  he  was  subject  to  a  cer­
tain  amount  of  ridicule  on  account  of 
his  attire.  No  article  of  wearing  ap­
parel  that  adorned  nr  disfigured  his 
person,  according  to  German  or Ameri­
ideas,  was  laughed  at  as  much  as 
can 
his  high,  flat  derby. 
“ He  laughs  best 
who  laughs  last”   is  a  saying  that  holds 
good  in  this  case  and  many  of  our  Ger­
man  friends  must  be  chuckling  up  their 
sleeves  at  the  inconsistency  of  Ameri­
can  fashions.  For  the  German  high 
derby  with  the  flat  crown  looks  enough 
like  the  new  flat  American  derby  to  be 
its  twin  brother. 
I  doubt,  if  the  manu­
facturers  had  known  how  quickly  their 
“ Grand  Due”   would  become  popular­
ized, if  they  would  have  produced  it.  In 
a  week's time  a  men's  outfitting  estab­
lishment  advertised  “ exactly  the  same 
thing’ ’  for almost  one-half.  Now  I  see 
modifications  of  it  everywhere,  and  al­
though  nearly  every one  of  these  modifi­
cations  differs  from the  original in  some 
point,  the  flat  top  remains.  It  might  be 
said  that  this  would  stop  the  better 
class of  dressers  from  buying this shape, 
it,  and 
because  every  one 
hence 
I 
do not  think  that  fact  will  stand  in  the 
way  of  a  man  buying  that  shape  if  it

it  is  losing  its  exclusiveness. 

is  buying 

i  J

t

' T

becomes  him,  and 
if  be  likes  it,  any 
more  than  he  would  stop  buying  a  regu­
lar derby  shape  from  a  five-dollar  hat­
ter,  because  a  three-dollar  hatter  sells  a 
It  is  pre­
shape  on  the  same  order. 
dicted  that  this  English 
importation 
will  tend  to  affect  the  shapes  of  the 
crowns  of  the  other  spring  derbies. 
They  were  made  with  the  crown  rather 
tapering,  a  crown  called  the  English 
round  crown,  and  this  revolution  in  the 
shape  of  flat  crowns  may  react  on  this 
derby  to  a  more  or  less  degree,  so  that 
if  it  is  not  made  exactly  flat,  it  will  he 
less  rounded  than  at  first  intended. 
If 
that  turns  out  to  be  the  case,  we  will 
have  an  unusual  spring  derby  season, 
with  the  crowns  ranging  from  extreme­
ly  flat  to  extremely  round,  with  all  the 
go-betweens  as  well. 

U.  T.  D.

Necessity  of  Taking:  A dvantage  of  Cash 

Discounts.

So  much  has  been  said  in  favor  of 
taking  discounts  on  goods  purchased 
from  the  wholesaler  and  the manufactur­
er,  by  the  retailer,  that  it  seems  almost 
like  repetition  to  call  attention  to  the 
importance  of  this  feature  of  buying. 
But  many  new  dealers  have  gone  into 
business  this  spring  and  in  spite  of  all 
that  has  been  said  many  old  dealers  fail 
to take  their  discounts,  so  that, perhaps, 
the  consideration  of  this  matter at  pres­
ent  will  prove  profitable.

In  business the  stopping  of  little leaks 
is  a  matter  of  the  greatest  importance. 
The  clerk  who  is  stealing  from  you  will 
take  away  the  profit  on  his  work  and 
part  of  your  wages  besides.  The  waste 
of  money  in  advertising  is  a  leak  that 
will  make  the  balance  sheet  look  sick 
at  the  end  of  the  year;  an excessive ex­
pense  account  will  prove such a drain  on 
your  business  that  you  will  be  desirous 
of  selling  out  within  a short time.  Stop 
these 
leaks  and  begin  by  stopping  the 
leak  that  arises  through  failure  to take 
your  discounts  when  they  are  offered 
you.

Possibly  you  may  complain  that  you 
haven't  sufficient  capital  to  always  dis­
count  your  bills  when  you  may desire  to 
do  so.  There  is  the  banker  in  your town 
who  will  be  glad  to  accommodate  you 
under  ordinary  circumstances.  Go  to 
him  and  tell  him  that  you  have  made 
purchases  aggregating  $3,000  in  spring 
and  summer  stock,  and  that  you  can 
save  $60,  if  the  discount  is  2  per cent, 
at  the  end  ol  thirty  days,  or that  you 
can  save  $150,  if  the  discount  is  5  per 
If  you  have  an  honest 
cent.,  ten  days. 
record  he  will 
lend  you  the  money  a 
month,  for $17.50;  two  months  for  $35, 
or three  months  for $52.50.  This  is  at 
the  rate  of  7  per  cent,  per  annum,  and 
this  is  considered  a  big  rate  of  interest 
in  these  days.  Take  the  money  and  pay 
If  you  have  received  5 
for  your goods. 
per  cent.,  ten  days,  as 
is  quite  fre­
quently  the  case,  you  have saved $97.50, 
if  you  keep  the  money  borrowed 
even 
from  the  bank  for three  months,  and 
it 
certainly  will  be  as  easy  to  pay  the 
banker  back  the  $3,000  at  the  end  of 
three  months  as  it  would  be  to  pay  the 
jobber or  manufacturer  from  whom  you 
purchased  your goods  at  the  end  of  that 
time.  You  have  bought  your  bill  of 
goods  for  $97.50  less,  which 
is  clear 
profit  and  which  you  can  put  down  in 
your own  pocket,  or  you  have  paid  just 
so  much 
less  for  your  goods  and  you 
have  that  much  advantage  over  your 
competitor  if  he  does  not  di  count  his 
bills. 
If  he  discounts  his  bills  and  you 
do  not  he  will  grow  rich,  while  you 
grow  poorer  selling  goods  at  the  same 
price  as  you  do,  or  he  will  be  enabled

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Shoes and  Rubbers

Some  o f the  Results  of Short Shoes.
No  kind  of  misfit  is  quite  so  bad  as 
that  of  the  short  shoe.  A  short  shoe 
affects  every  portion  of  the  foot,  for as 
soon  as  the  toes  strike  the  end  and have 
not  sufficient  room  to  lie  flat,  it  forces 
the  large  toe  back  and  bunions  are  the 
result.  Ingrown  toenails  are  also  caused 
by  short  shoes.  Another  result  of  short 
shoes  is  a  burning  sensation  so  com­
monly  attributed  to thin  soles.  As  the 
foot 
it  forms  a  large 
crease  through  the  sole  of  the  foot. 
This  causes  the  most  agonizing  pains, 
such  as  are  complained  of  daily  to the 
shoe  clerk.  Still  another  result  of  short 
shoes  is  the  action  they  have  upon  the 
nerves  of  the  foot  in  forcing them prom­
inently  to  the  surface.  The  friction  of 
the  leather  and 
its  pressure  upon  the 
exposed  nerves  not  only  affects  the  foot, 
but  also  the 
leg  and  very  often  the 
whole  body.

is  pressed  down 

it 

It  reads  as  follows: 

A  sign  displayed  in  a  Chicago  shoe 
store  is  perhaps  the  best  solution  to this 
problem  that  has  ever  come  to  our  no­
‘ ‘ Do  not  ask 
tice. 
for  your  size;  ask  for  your  fit.”  
If this 
motto  was  strictly  adhered  to  by  all 
customers,  foot-fitters  would  have  little 
trouble,  but 
is  not;  most  customers 
demand  a  certain  size.  This  is  where 
your  ability  as  a  salesman  must  assert 
itself.  It  is  true  very  often  you  will  find 
a  salesman  either  too  lazy  or without 
sufficient  knowledge  of  the  shoe  busi­
ness  to  advise  a  customer  to  accept 
anyhting  but  what  he  is  wearing.  This 
is  a  mistake. 
If  you  have  cultivated 
this  idea,  and  can  not  break  yourself  of 
it,  simply  draw  the  customer’s  shoe  off 
the  foot  and  do  not  look  at the  size.  Get 
your  size  stick  and  measure  the  custom­
er’s  foot,  allow  one  and  one-half  sizes 
for  draw  and  try  on  a  corresponding 
size.  Thus  if the  foot  draws  5K  try  on 
a  size  7.  If  you  have  confidence  in  your 
own  ability  as  a  foot-fitter,  while  un­
buttoning  or unlacing  the shoe,  unknown 
to  the  customer,  simply  press  the  finger 
on  the  toe-cap,  and  you  can  tell  in  a 
moment  if  the  shoe  is  sufficiently  long. 
Do  not  make  that  too  common  mistake 
in  your  endeavor  to 
long 
enough  and  give  a  customer shoes  two 
or three  sizes  longer  than  the  foot.  This 
throws  the  ball  of  the  foot  in  the  wrong 
part  of  the  shoe.  The  result  will  be  that 
before  the  customer  has  worn  the  shoes 
a  month  they  will  be  brought  back  to 
you.  The  toe  will  be  turned  up,  and  if 
the  shoe  is  of  light  leather  it  will  have 
cracked  across  the  waist.  There  is  but 
one  way  to  fit  a  shoe,  and  that  is  to  get 
the  corresponding  portion  of  the  foot  in 
its  relative  place 
in  the  shoe.  The 
ability  to  do  this  can  only  be  attained 
by 
long  practice  and  diligent  study. 
The  foot  itself  is  a  study,  but  no  more 
so  than  the  study  which  is  necessary  to 
make  a  practical  foot-fitter.—Shoe  Re­
tailer.

shoes 

fit 

Suggestions  for  Window  Display.

A  very  neat  window,  especially  for 
your  spring  trade,  where  you  may  show 
your  leaders,  is  arranged  as  follows: 

The  background  and  body  are  of 
tufted  white  cheese cloth. 
In the  center 
form  an  arch  of  common  pine  boards. 
Build  the  top  2yz  feet  from  the  back 
and  the  sides  two  feet.  Cover  this  with 
cheesecloth.  Build 
tufted  heliotrope 
the  two  side  arches  oval 
in  shape  to 
contrast  with  the  center  arch.  Do  not 
build  those  the  same  as  the  center  arch. 
Instead,  arrange  the  tufted  heliotrope

M ICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

cloth  close  to  the  background.  Let  the 
top  of  the  center  arch  come  to  a  gable 
or  point. 
In  the  center  thus  formed 
place  your  leader on  a  neat  glass  stand. 
In  the  side  arches  place  a  pair  of  well- 
matched  palms,  or,  if  you  prefer,  a 
cluster of  shoes.  This  can  be  arranged 
by  crimping  over  two  or three  skeleton 
stands  made  of  wood  with  white  cheese­
cloth.  Do  not  use  more  than  one  shoe 
in  your  center arch,  and  have  that  shoe 
a  distinct  leader  of  your  line. 
If  you 
desire,  you  can  use  a  few  sprays  of 
green  creeper.  Do  not  have  more  than 
three  slippers  or  oxfords  in  your  side 
arches.  You  might  use  shoes  instead  of 
flowers.

Form  with  a  cord  from  the center arch 
to  the  front  corners  of  the  window  the 
sides  of  a  triangle.  Use  glass  stands 
one  foot  apart  from  the  point  of  inter­
section  on  the  triangle  either  way  to the 
corner of  the  window.  Put  oxford  ties 
or slippers  on  the  glass stands.  Between 
the  stands,  or  either  a  little  to  the  front 
or to  the  rear of  the  glass  stands  on  the 
floor,  place  button  and 
shoes. 
Place  one  other  glass  stand  in the center 
of  the  window.  Put  another  leader on 
this  stand,  for  next  to  the  shoes  in  the 
arches  it  will  be  most  conspicuous. 
Use  small  nickel  rests. 
If  you  do  not 
have  them  use  pieces  of  wood  neatly 
hidden  under  the  tufted  cheesecloth  for 
the  remainder  of  the  shoes  and  slippers 
in  the  body  of  the 
you 
window.  Place  palms 
in  each  of  the 
corners  at  the  rear of  the  display.

intend  to  use 

lace 

This  window  can  be  well  dressed 
with  not  more  than  thirty  shoes.  The 
cost  of  the  cheesecloth,  pins  and  palms 
will  not  be  more  than  from  $3  to  $4. 
It 
will  entail  a  lot  of  work,  but  the  result 
obtained  will  well  repay  the  effort.

If  you  desire  to  quote  the  prices  of 
your  shoes,  do  not  put  pin  tickets  on 
the  whole  display.  Rather  have  a  neat 
card  of  heliotrope  with  white  letters 
quoting  the  prices of  your various shoes. 
Suspend  this  from  the  ceiling  so  as  not 
to  interfere  with  the  remainder  of  the 
display. 
is  possible,  run  incan­
descent  lights  in  the  three  arches;  also 
along  the  back  body  of  the  window.— 
Shoe  Retailer.

If  it 

Chrysanthem um s  Help  Sell  Shoes.

J.  H.  Babb,  who  runs  a  retail  shoe 
in  Newburyport,  Mass.,  submits 
store 
the  following  plan  for  drawing both  new 
and  old  trade  to  his  store,  which  he  has 
used  successfully 
for  the  past  three 
years:

A  couple  of  months  before  the  open­
ing  of  the  chrysanthemum  season  Mr. 
Babb  made,  arrangements  with  a  local 
florist  to  force  the  blooms  on  a  quantity 
of  good  chrysanthemum  plants.  Not 
the  ordinary  flowers,but  attractive  styles 
and  kinds.  These  cost  him  during  the 
three  years  from  25c  to  35c  apiece,  all 
potted  and  full  flowered.  When  the 
forced  plants  were  ready—and  of  ne­
cessity  for  the  success  or  the  plan  they 
must  be  ready  before  the  flowers  are 
generally  on 
local 
papers  were  used  to  lohdly  announce  a 
three  or five  days’  chrysanthemum  sale, 
at  which  every  purchaser of  $3  worth  of 
goods  would  be  presented  with  a  flower­
ing  potted  plant.  This  Mr.  Babb  found 
particularly  attractive  to the women.  He 
is  of  the  opinion  that  a  three-days’  sale 
is  rather  better  than  one  lasting for five. 
Circulars  might  also  be  distributed  on 
the  street  during  the  progress  of  the 
sale.

the  market—the 

W oman’s Idea of Living.

He—Look  here,  my  dear. 

I  can  not 
afford  to  entertain  on  such  a  scale  as 
you  have  indulged  in  of  late.

She—John,  I  really  believe  you  are 
just  the  kind  of  a  man  who  would  be 
perfectly  happy  if  you  lived within your 
income.

Rubbers Still  Lower

New prices  on  Bostons 35-10  and  5 per cent. 
Bay  State 35-10-10 and 5 per cent.
All  orders taken  for  fall  will  be  billed  at  above 
prices.  Prices guaranteed  until  December  1st. 
If you  have  not already placed your  order  wait 
for our salesman and  ask  to  see  the  new kinds 
for this  season.

I^indge, Kalmbach,  Logie  &  Co.

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan

A  Bank  Account

Is  a  convenient  thing  to 
h a v e   whether 
large  or 
small.  You can swell yours 
if  you  handle  o u r   shoes; 
they  are  profit  expanders.
W e  carry  rubbers  too— 
Wales-Goodyear,  Candee, 
Woonsocket,  Federal  and 
Rhode  Island.

W omen’s Dongola one  strap  turned  opera 

No.  4016

slipper. 

to 7.  $1.00.

EDWARDS-STANWOOD  SHOE  CO.,

Monroe  and  Franklin  Streets,  Chicago, ill.

A  Whirlwind

of  a  shoe

Our  Men’s  Vici  Shoes 
made  in  our  own  fac­
tory  will  blow  a  gale 
of  business  your  way. 
Try them.  Price $1.60.
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Grand  R ap id s,  M ich.

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Duck and Waterproof Leggins, Lumbermen’s Socks, Leather 
tops,  all  heights,  etc.,  etc.  Send  for  our  Shoe  Catalogue
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could  the  creditor,  having  rescinded  the 
sale  upon  the  ground  of  false  represen­
tations  for  the  purpose  of  securing  a  re­
turn  from  the  trustee  of  such  of  his 
goods  as  the  trustee  had,  prove  a  claim 
against  the  bankrupt’s  estate  for  the 
amount  of  the  goods  disposed  of  by  the 
bankrupt  before  his  adjudication?  The 
court  held  that  the  creditor  could file  his 
claim  for  the  sums  received  by  the 
bankrupt  on  sales  of  his  goods,  which 
sums  are  to  be  determined  by 
the 
referee.

These  cases  naturally  give  rise  to  the 
query,  What  constitutes  ‘ ‘ false  represen­
tations?”   No  hard  and  fast  rule  can 
laid  down,  as  each  case  must  stand 
be 
upon  its  own  facts. 
In  general,  how­
ever,  such  statements  as  induce  a  man 
extend  credit  to  another,  which state­
ments  subsequent  events  prove  to  have 
been  untrue  and  so  known  to  the  debtor 
be  at  the  time  of  making,  will  be 
considered  false  representations  in  a 
court  of  bankruptcy. 
In  the  Gary  case 
above  referred  to  the  court  said,  in

speaking  of  the  statements of the debtor, 
“ The  statements  made  would  naturally
induce  credit.”  

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Opening of the Tennis  Season.

The  tennis  shoe  season  has  already 
opened  in  some  sections  of  the  country. 
Within  another  month  it  will  have  be­
come  quite  general,  and  the  dealers^  are 
anticipating  great  activity  in  this direc­
tion.  Tennis  shoes  were  never better 
than  now ;  nor  were  they  ever  offered  in 
larger  and  more  pleasing  varieties  than 
at  the  present  moment.  The  presence 
of  higher-priced  goods  is  a  strong  in­
ducement  to  retailers  to  develop  still 
further  this  branch  of  their business. 
These  shoes,  while  generally designated 
as  tennis  shoes,  are  used  for  many  other 
purposes,  notably  for  yachting  and_ for 
seashore  service,  and  have  come  into 
quite  general  use  for gymnasium  wear 
during  the  winter  months.  Every  in­
dication  points  to the  fact  that  the  rub­
ber-soled  shoe 
is  destined  to  become 
even  more  of  a  commodity  in  the  future 
than  it  has  been  in  the  past.________

Value  of Price-Cards  on  Shoes.

“ A  show  window  with  price-cards  on 
the  shoes  is  worth  three  or  four windows 
in  which  cards  are  not  used,”   observed 
a  retailer  of  a  number  of  years’  experi­
ence  recently.  * ‘ I  have  tried  both  ways 
and  I  know  whereof  I  speak.

‘ ‘ I  arranged  an  attractive  display  of 
shoes  some  time  ago  and  the  window,  I 
am  free  to  say,  was  a  handsome  one.
I  did  not  put  any  price-cards  on  the 
shoes,  leaving  them  off  by  way  of  ex­
periment,  my  head  salesman,  whose 
duty  it  is  to  make  these cards,  declaring 
that  he  did  not  believe  that  they  paid 
for themselves. 
.Well,  while  I  had  the 
display  of  shoes  I  speak  of,  I  did  not 
make  a  single  sale  that  I  was  able  to 
credit  to  the  window.-1  saw  lots  of  peo­
ple  stop  and 
look  in  the  window,  but 
none  of them  came  into  the  store  direct­
ly  afterwards.

in  the 

‘ ‘ In  a  few  days  I  put  price  cards  on 
the  shoes,  but  otherwise  did  not  change 
the  window 
least  particular. 
That  day  as  many  as twenty-five persons 
came  into  the  store  directly  after  look 
ing  into  the  window,  and  they  asked  to 
see  one  or  another  of  the  shoes  dis 
played. 
Two-thirds  of  them  bought 
shoes  and  this  was  repeated  for  several 
days. 
It  taught  my  clerk  a  lesson  and 
he  seems  to  put  more  heart  into  the 
sign-printing  business.

‘ ‘ 1  believe  that  the  sign-cards  should 
be  neatly  painted. 
If  a  show  window 
is  ever  so  attractive  it  will all be spoiled 
by  the  use  of  cheaply-printed  or painted 
signs. 
If  a  storekeeper,  manager  or 
clerk  has  not  the  ability  to  make  the 
signs then they should  be  bought or made 
to  order  by  a  sign-painter.  A  dealer 
should  have  several  sets  of  these  on 
hand,  as 
important  to 
change  the  cards  as  it  is  the  shoes 
Signs  soon  get  soiled  or  faded,  and 
then,  of  course, they  should  not  be  used 
I  like  a  diamond-shaped  or triangular 
sign  and  my  preference  is  for  black  let 
ters  and  figures,  with  a  good  border  on 
the  card.

just  as 

it  is 

‘ ‘ In  addition  to the  pfice-cards,  it  i 
well,  in  my  judgment,  to  make  other 
and  larger  signs,  calling  attention  to  the 
line  or  particular  advantages  of  the 
shoes  shown.  I  am  a  thorough  believer 
in  the  advantages  and  efficacy  of  price 
cards,  and,  judging from  other  window 
I  have  seen,  it  is  evident  that  othe 
dealers  are  coming  to  think  the  same 
way.” — Shoe  Retailer.

regular season  to  carry  them  through  to 
the  next  year.

Your slippers  never  change  sufficient- 
to  be  out  of  style,  and  so  long  as  you 
regulate  the  toes  you  are  able,  with  the 
addition  of  a  new  slipper  once  in  a 
while  as  you  sell  a  line  out,  always  to 
keep  your  slipper  stock  up  to  date.

The  styles  of  children’s  shoes  should 
never change  very  much.  Select  a  num­
ber  of  comfortable  styles  of  shoes  for 
ildren,  demonstrate  to  your  customers 
that  they  are  good  wearers  and  you  will 
rely,  if  ever,  be  asked  to  change  the 
styles.  In  children’s  shoes  mothers  con- 
nually  aim  to  buy  one  style  as  much 
possible,  with  the  exception,  per­
haps,  of  a  patent  leather  for  dress  wear, 
which 
is  sold  with  a  cloth  top  and  a 
light  sole  in  summer  and  a  kid  top  and 
If  you  break 
up  your  children’s  shoes  by  adding  new 
styles  and  do  not  keep  your  ‘ ‘ bread 
winners”   well  stocked,  you  will 
lose 
not  onlv  sales  but  also  customers.  X

heavy  sole 

in  winter. 

P atent  Calf W ill  Come  O ut Ahead.

it 

it 

The  increased  demand  for  patent  kid 
has  forced  upon  the  market  many  sub­
stitutes  for this  popular  leather.  Patent 
colt-skin,  patent  alum  tan  and  several 
other  substitutes, none  equal  to the  orig 
nal,  are  now  being  sold  to  the  anxious 
retailer.  Another  idea 
is  the  addition 
of  a  patent  leather tip  to  the  patent  kid 
shoe.  While 
is  practical,  so  far  as 
keeping  the  toe  from  wrinkling  is  con 
cerned,  the  contrast  between  the  two  i 
so great  that  no  customer  willing  to  pay 
$6 or $7  for  a  pair  of  patent  kid  shoes 
will  tolerate  the  patent  leather tip.  The 
grain  of  the  patent  leather  is  so  much 
finer  than  the  grain  of  the  patent  kid 
that 
is  perceptible  at  a  glance.  Do 
not  spoil  what  would  otherwise  be  per 
feet  shoemaking  by  the  addition  of  pat 
ent  leather  tips  on  patent  kid  shoes 
The  craze  for  patent  kid  is  also  increas 
ing  the  demand  for  patent  calf,  which 
is  one  of  the  best  things 
to  our  mind 
possible  to  have 
Patent 
leather  will  still  be  a  standard  leather 
_fter  patent  kid  has  had  its  run  among 
the  specialties  that  spring  up  from  time 
to  time  in  the  shoe  market.  Nine  times 
out  of  ten  retailers,  on  being  advised 
by  the  manufacturer that  he  is unable  to 
supply  their demand  for  patent kid,  im 
mediately  have  the  order  changed  to 
patent  leather.  This means  a  more  soli«’ 
introduction  of  patent  calf  in  this  com 
petition  with  patent  kid,  and  there 
no  doubt  in  our  minds  that  patent  calf 
will  come  out  ahead.

.happened. 

Sim ilarity  of Sum m er and  W inter  Shoes
Do  you  realize  that  summer and  win 
ter  shoes  as  carried  by  the  average  shoe 
merchant  are  almost  identical  in  style 
weight  and  cut?

Take  away  the  calf  shoes  carried 

winter  and  find  for  me  any  shoes  sold 
in  winter  that  are  not  sold 
in  summer 
Take  away  from  the  summer goods  tan 
shoes  and  oxfords  and  show  me  any 
shoes  not  sold  in  winter.

The  only  difference  is  that  you  may 
find  the  sale  of  welted  shoes  heavier  ' 
winter than  you  do  in  summer,  and  vice 
versa.

This  condition  of  affairs,  which  has 
been  brought  about  by  the  introduction 
of  broad  toes  and  welted  soles, is indeed 
a  blessing  to  the  retailer.  It  means  that 
if  you  buy  your  shoes  with  judgment 
there 
is  no  time  in  the  year when  you 
will  have  to  hold  them  over,  awaiting 
the  return  of  the  season.

Calf  shoes  are  now  sold  in  summer 

tans  are  worn  to  a  certain  extent 
winter,  and  if  retailers  use  judgment 
buying  they  will  have  not  more  than 
sufficient  of  either  left  at  the  end  of

W hat Constitutes  False  Pretenses.
In  the  recently  reported  case  of  “  In 
re  Gary,”   Judge  Brown,  of  the  District 
Court  for the  Southern  District  of  New 
York,  upheld  the  claim  of  a  seller  for ; 
return  of  goods  alleged  to  have  been  se 
cured  by  the  bankrupt,  Gary,  by  false 
representations  and  directed  the  trustee 
to  return  the  goods. 
In  his  opinion 
Judge  Brown  says,  with  reference  to  the 
statements  made  by  the  bankrupt to  the 
seller:  “ It  is  not  necessary  that  the 
false  representations  should  be  the  sole 
and  exclusive  consideration 
the 
ctedit, but  only  that  they  were a materi 
consideration,  without  which 
in  a 
probability  the  credit  would  not  have 
been  given.
Utah  the  United  States  District  Court 
again  recognized  the  above  principle 
and  the  creditors  were  allowed  to  retake 
their  goods  from  the  trustee.  Another 
and  very  important  question  was  passed 
upon 
favorably  to  the 
creditor.  Some  of  the  goods  sold  oi 
credit  as  a  result  of  the  false  represen 
tations  were  sold  by  the  bankrupt  and 
did  not  therefore  come  into the  hands 
of  the  trustee.  The  question  then  arose

In  a  subsequently  reported  case 

in  this  case 

for 

We  Sell  the  Best 
Fisherman’s  Boot

ever made.  It has several points of superiority over 
all others—light duck  vamp,  extra  protection  over 
the toe and light weight extension sole.  The latter 
prevents cutting the side of  the  boot when  the  foot 
slips between two stones:  the toe cap prevents snag­
ging the toe,  and  the  light  weight  duck  vamp  will 
stand twice as much snagging  as  a  common  fishing 
boot and has a light  weight  top.  List  price,  $6.36. 
The  common  old  style  lists  at  $6.00  but  the  new 
style is worth to wear $1.00 per pair more than the old. 
Remember  we  are  headquarters  for  mackintosh 
wading pants and boots.  All  goods  sold  at  regular 
trade discount.  Send in your orders now.

Studley &  Barclay

4 Monroe  Street,
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

line  over  and 
Look  our 
you will  B E L IE V E   it  is  one 
of the  best  general  lines of 
shoes you ever saw.
Our  salesmen will  call  on 
you soon.

Seeing Is Believing

Goodyear Glove Rubbers 35-10-5 per cent. 
Old Colony Rubbers 35-10-10-5  per  cent.

Amazon  Kid.

Bradley & Metcalf Co.,  Milwaukee,  Wis. 

p r  r n r i r r i r T r r r n r T  y t t t t y  y t t t t

£  Hirth, Krause & Co.

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We  carry  in  stock  a very  complete  and  large
line  of  Misses  and  Childrens,  Boys,  Youths
and  Little  Gents’  Shoes.  Over  200  samples 
to  select  from.  Also  complete  line Womens,
Misses  and  Children’s  Slippers.  Write  for 
salesman  to  call.

£   16 and  18  S.  Ionia  St.,  Grand  Rapids 

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Clerks’  Corner.

H °w   a Crusty  E m ployer  Met  His  Match.
There  is  a  large  wholesale  establish­
ment  on  Ottawa  street  and  'there  is  nec­
essarily a  numerous  working  force. 
In 
lively  times  there  are  no  idle  corners  to 
get  into  and  the  stoutest  of the  men  find 
themselves  pretty  well  fagged  out  by 
five  o’clock.  By  half  past  three  the  at­
mosphere 
is  clear  of  anything  resem­
bling  hilarity  and  from  that  time  until 
six  o’clock  jokes  are  not  appreciated. 
It  has  been  found,  too,  that  criticism 
receives  no  encouragement  in  the  after­
noon,  although  candor  compels 
the 
statement  that  a  better  lot  of  better tem­
pered  men  are  not  to  be  found  in  the 
State.  Human  nature,  however,  can  not 
stand  everything,  tired  human  nature 
can  stand  nothing  and  it  has  been found 
that  he  who  violates  what  seems  to  have 
been  settled  as  so  much  unwritten  law 
does  so  at  his  cost  in  this  particular  es­
tablishment.

For  some  reason  or  other the  liveliest 
man 
in  the  crowd  came  down  to  the 
store  with  a  sore  head.  He  got  out  of 
the  wrong  side  of  bed  that  morning—a 
habit  to  which  humanity  is  occasionally 
addicted—and  he  and  everything  he 
touched  of  course  went  wrong.  He  early 
developed 
into  the  cantakerous  kicker 
and  whoever  came  within  reach  of  his 
heels  that  particular  day  was sorry.  He 
kicked,  as  he  did  everything  else,  for 
keeps  and long  before  noon  there  wasn’t 
a  sound  shin  in  the  whole  concern  and 
by  three  o’clock-  the  temper  of  every 
man  of  the  force  was  completely  de­
moralized.

The  distemper  had  by  that  time found 
its  way 
into  the  office  and  the  “ old 
man,’ ’  after a  message  over  the  ’phone, 
turned  red 
in  the  face  and  started  for 
the  shipping  clerk.  He  found  him  and 
he  found,  too,  to  his  great  disgust,  that 
the  fault  he  had  come  to complain  of 
was  due  to  the 
in  the 
house,  whom  the  shipping  clerk  stated 
with  earnestness  that  he  could  do  noth­
ing  with.

likeliest  man 

You  can’t,  hey?  How  long  is  it,  I 
like  to  know,  since  we’ve  had  a 
should 
man  we’re  all  afraid  of? 
I  guess  I’ll 
walk  around  there  and  straighten  things 
out  a  little. ’ ’

The  “ old  man”   was  the  last  one  who 
should  have  taken  upon  himself that 
duty.  For  months  the  kicker  had  been 
looking  upon  himself  as  an  injured 
in­
dividual.  He  had  had  hopes  which  had 
been  blighted  and  he  had  vowed  a  vow 
that  he  had  put  up  with  such  treatment 
as  long  as  he  was  going  to.  Not  another 
straw  should  be  placed  on  the  back  of 
his  camel.  He  had  managed  to  get  a 
living  before  he  had  ever set  foot  inside 
that  tunked  old  store  and  there  was  a 
lively  chance  that  he  could  do  it  again 
somewhere.
-  He  had  been  chewing  for  some  time 
on  this  when  the  old  man  came  up.

“ What  reason,  sir,  have  you  to offer 
for the  non-delivery of Caxton’s goods?”  
“ For  the  reason,  sir,  that,  with  me, 
invoices  are  taken  invariably  in  the  or­
der  in  which  they  come. 
I  don’t  know 
your  Caxton  from  anybody  else and he’ll 
learn  one  of  these  days,  if  he  ever deals 
with  me,  to  get  in  his  order  early  if  he 
wants  it  filled  early. ”
filled at once. ”

“ But I  gave orders that  it  should  be 

“ The  devil  you  did!  And  who are 
you,  if  I  may  ask,  who  are  coming 
in 
here  to throw  everything  into confusion?
On  to that  hook  the  orders  go  and  I take 
them 
in  the  same  order— you  mind,  in

the  same  order—and  I don’t  change  that 
order  for the  Old  Harry himself.  Caxton 
won’t  get  his  goods  until  I come to ’em ; 
and  you’d  better  ’ phone  him  that  right 
straight  off. 
I  can’t  waste  any  more 
time  talking  about  it.”

“ I  tell  you  to  fill  that  order  now!”  
“ And  I  tell  you  to  go  plump  t o — 
for 

and  you’d  better  start  right  off 
you’re  in  my  way!”

The  “ old  man”   was  just  there,  as  he 
said,  and  the  young  fellow,  in  a  hurry 
to  get  through  with  his  list,  started  with 
a  rush  for the  goods  behind  the  head  of 
the  firm,  who  thought,  by  the  looks  of 
intended 
his  employe’s  face,  that  he 
violence  and,  boiling  with 
rage,  he 
went  to  the  office.  The  young  man, 
having  got  over  his  wrath,  was  fairly 
paralyzed  with  what  he  had  said.  Thor­
oughly  ashamed  of  himself  and  think­
ing  only  of  that,  he  dropped  his  order 
book  and,  rushing  into  the  front  office, 
exclaimed:  “ Mr.  Blankington!— I’ve 
changed  my  mind.  You  needn’t  go!”  
He  was  out  as  soon  as  he  had  said  it 
and  Blankington,  who  had  made  up  his 
mind  to  give  the  fellow  his  walking 
ticket,  staring  a  moment  at  the  doorway 
through  which  the  clerk  had  vanished, 
burst  into  a  fit  of  laughter that  made his 
sides  ache.

There  was  no  discharge.  Weeks  after­
wards,  when  some  one  asked  the  “ old 
man”   why  he  didn’t  ship  the  fellow,  he 
said,  “ Oh,  one  good  turn  deserves  an­
other.  As  long  as  he  let  up  on  his  order 
I  couldn’t  very  well  insist  on  mine.”  

That  was  the  last  of  i t ;  but  it  is  no­
ticeable  since  that  this  particular  “ old 
man”   keeps  out  of  that  particular  part 
of  the  store  after three  in  the  afternoon.

Richard  Malcolm  Strong.
Three  A ttem pts  to  B reak  the  Record.

Oh,  yes,”   said  the  grocery drummer 
as  he  finished  making  up  his  report  to 
the  house  and  sealed  up  the  letter,  “ I 
have  had  some 
little  complaint  about 
goods.  For  instance,  when  I  made  my 
second  trip  into  a  certain  town  I  found 
that  a  kick  had  been  registered with one 
of  my  customers.  A  man  who  had 
bought  a  plug  of  tobacco  had  brought 
it  back  to  the  store  and  showed  where 
he  had  a  vacancy 
in  his  lower set  of 
teeth  on  account  of  that  plug  of tobacco. 
He  had  bit  into  it  and  hit  a  piece  of a 
boot  heel  that  had  been  stowed  away  in 
that  plug. 
I  had  a  good  deal  of  trouble 
getting  the  thing  squared  and  in  per­
suading  the  storekeeper to give  me  an­
other  order  for  that  brand  of  tobacco, 
but  I  did  it  finally. ”

“ W ell,”  said  the drummer  who  repre­
sented  a  wholesale  commission  house, 
that  isn’t  as  bad  as  the  experience  our 
house  had  with  a  consignment  of  butter 
that  had  been  sent  in.  The  house  turned 
this  particular  lot  of  butter over to  a  re­
tail  house  and  when  the  people  there 
opened  it  they  found  two  dead  mice 
in 
the  middle  of the  firkin.’-’

Well,  ’  said  the  man  who  bought 
and  shipped  cotton,  “ you  fellows  have 
never  had  any  such  experience  as I have 
had.  For  instance,  I  bought  up  a 
lot 
of  cotton  last  summer and  shipped  it  to 
a  house 
in  New  Orleans.  Well,  in  a 
few  days  I  got  a  letter asking  if  those 
niggers  were 
in  those  cotton  bales  by 
mistake,  or  had  they  been  put  in  to  in­
crease  the  weight?  It  seems  that  a  small 
darkey  or  two  had  been  pressed  in  with 
the  bales  by  mistake.”

And  yet  to 

look  at  you,”   said  the 
grocery  drummer,  as  he  surveyed  the 
placid  countenance  of  the  cotton  buyer, 
“ one  would  not  suspect  that  you  were 
an  easy,  off-hand  liar.’ ’— Topeka  Mer­
chants’  Journal.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Reward  of Too  Much  Virtue.

From the Toronto News.

A  curious  example  of  the  reward  of 
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is  the  case  of  certain 
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more  than  a  pint,  to  be  on  the  safe  side 
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The  Progress  of the  Seasons.

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scheme,  the  window  would  be  nearly 
perfect.  A  trimmer,  as  he  works,  should 
learn  to  know  which  of  these  two  char­
acteristics  is  his  strong  point,  and  if  he 
can  work  with  a  man  who  can  supply 
is  deficiencies,  or  aid  him  by  his  bet­
ter  taste’ he  should  be  glad  to avail  him­
self  of  his  assistance.  It  is  evident  that 
he  should  study  to  educate  himself  on 
that  side  of  his  nature  which  needs  de­
velopment.  A  window  that 
is  of  me- 
ium  excellence  from  the  point  of  view 
of  both  color and  form  is  a  better  win­
dow  than  one  strikingly  good  in  one  re­
spect  and  strikingly  bad  in  the  other. 
Proportion 
is  the  thing  to  strive  for  in 
window  trimming  as  in  the  painting  of 
picture,  and  in  some  respects  it is  far 
more  difficult  to  attain.  A  window trim­
mer  is  an  artist  or a  tradesman  accord- 
ng  to  the  way 
in  which  he  does  his 
trimming. 
If  he  has  an  artistic  sense 
and  the  ability  to  think  in  color and 
form,  it  will  show  itself  as  plainly  as  if 
he  were  engaged 
in  the  painting  of  a 
picture.

*  

*  

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The  man  who  is  beginning  his  career 
a  window  trimmer  needs  to  remem­
ber  that  habit  is  bound  to  make  him  an 
efficient  or  an  inefficient  window  trim­
mer.  Window  trimming  is  a  practical 
business  and  no  matter  how  much  taste, 
originality  or  adaptability  a  man  may 
have  he  will  be  a  failure  unless  he  is 
able  to  do  steady,  regular,  well  ordered 
work. 
If  he  falls  into  the  habit  of  let­
ting  things  go  until  the  spirit  moves 
him,  of  doing  things  without  reference 
to  anything  but  his  own  convenience, 
he  will  be  sure,  sooner or  later,  to  find 
himself  in  a  position  where these  habits 
of  his  will  prove  serious  drawbacks 
Even  if  he  is  permitted  to  take  his  own 
time  in  his  work,  he  should  hold  him­
self  to  a  certain 
limit  of  time  in  his 
trimming.  He  should  cultivate  the 
power  of  working  quickly,  of having  his 
ideas  so  ordered  that  he  will  be  able  to 
do  lightning  work  in  the  windows  with­
out 
the  expenditure  of  unnecessary 
effort.  The  trimmer  who  can  save  time 
s  the  man  wanted  in  a  big  city  store 
and  the  trimmer  who  wastes  time  when 
every  hour’s  delay  means  a  hundred  or 
is  the 
man  who  is  not  wanted.  The  young 
man 
in  the  small  town  who  is  anxious 
to  get  to  the  city  will  find  that  the  abil 
ity  to  do  things  quickly  will  make  him 
very  highly  appreciated  and  that  the 
contrary  habit  will  be  a  drawback.  City 
methods  demand  hustle,  and  even  if 
in 
a  small  town  a  whole  morning  can  be 
spent  as  well  as  not  in  trimming  a  win 
dow,  a  man  should  not  so  indulge  him 
self,  because he  should  endeavor  to  form 
the  habit  of  working  quickly.— Apparel 
Gazette.

thousand  dollars’  difference 

does  not  use 
not  convenient.

it,  because,  to  him,  it  is 

Why  should  he  be  hurried?  Why  not 
let  well-enough  alone?  Why 
force 
butchers  and  bakers,  mechanical  and 
civil  engineers  and  others  to  provide 
themselves  with  new  standards,  and  to 
use  measures  and  weights  that  they  at 
least  are  not  ready  for?  The  mere  cost 
of  providing  new  scales  and  balances 
for 70,000,000  people  is immense.  New 
gauges  and  scales  for a  single  machine 
shop  are  very  costly.  Consider  the 
changes  necessary  to  be  made  in  the 
blue  prints  of  engineers,  architects  and 
surveyors,  and  the  millions  of  changes 
to  be  made  in  the  wording  of  the  title 
deeds  to  land  and  city  lots.

The  practical  conclusion  seems  to  be 
to  allow  things  to  remain  as  they  are 
until  a  considerable  number  of  people 
find  them 
inconvenient,  and  then  to 
make  the  change.  Those  who  are  en­
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is  no  hurry;  when  the 
metric  system  is  wanted  we  shall  have 
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In  showing  spring 

lines  a  general 
trim 
is  very  desirable,  as  it  gives  you 
an  opportunity  to  put  representative  ar­
ticles  from  every  line  of  spring  goods 
before  the  public.  People  are  thus  en­
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and  modes  as  a  whole,  a  thing  which  is 
always  very desirable  at  the beginning 
of  a  season.  An  arrangement  for  such  a 
trim  is  as  follows:  Along  the  front  of 
the  window  close  to  the  glass  and  on 
very 
low  stands  place  a  row  of  spring 
hats  of  the  different  shapes  and  styles 
that  you  carry.  Just  behind  them  place 
a  row  of  white  shirts,  a  shirt  behind 
each  hat.  This 
is  for  the  purpose  of 
getting  a  dead  white  contrasting  back­
ground  for  the  hats,  thus  throwing  out 
their  shades  clearly,  which 
is  the  de­
sirable  thing.  Between  the  hats  and 
shirts  place  bunches  of  ties  in  various 
units  of  display,  alternating  them  with 
bunches  of  hosiery.  Behind  the  shirts 
show  spring  trousers  hung  simply  on 
window  stands  and  alternating  with  the 
coats  and  vests  of  spring  suits.  At each 
corner  of  the  window  and  in  the  center 
place  a  spring  overcoat,  one  showing 
the  back,  another  the 
lining,  and  a 
third  the  side  of  the  garment.  Hang 
the  back  of  the  window  with  underwear 
and  bath  robes,  or 
if  desired  with  a 
further  display  of  clothing,  neckwear 
and  hosiery.  A 
few  pots  of  plants 
prettily  covered  with  colored  crepe  tis­
sue  paper  will,  of  course,  look  well 
in­
terspersed  among the  articles  displayed 
The  back  of  the  window  can  have  some 
hats  displayed  against  the  light  back 
ground  on  tall  stands.
*  

*  

*

While  it  would  be  absurd  to  say  that 
the  creation  of  a  window  trim,no  matter 
how  elaborate,  is  a  performance  of  as 
high  art  as  the  creation  of  a  fine 
land 
scape  in  oil,there  are  certain  principles 
that  must  be  observed  by  the  painter  as 
well  as  by  the  window  trimmer  in  the 
production  of  masterpieces,  and  so  it  is 
possible  for  the  window  trimmer  to 
learn  something  by  a  consideration  of 
the  similarities  between  window.work 
and  the  painting  of  a  picture.  One 
sometimes  hears 
it  said  that  one  artist 
in  oils  is  superior  to another artist  in 
his  sense  of  form,  although  deficient 
comparatively  speaking,  in  his  sense  of 
color.  That  is,  one  man  has  such  a  true 
eye  for  pleasing  and  truthful  color  com 
binations  that  his  picture  pleases  al 
though  the  figures 
in  it  may  be  badly 
grouped  and  badly  proportioned,  while 
the  other  man  seems  to  bit  instinctively 
on  the  right  perspective,  brings  all  hi 
figures  and  all  parts  of  his  background 
into  harmonious  relations  with  each 
other,  knows  how  to  draw  each  figure  or 
tree 
in  such  a  way  that  it  is  real  and 
lifelike,  not  only  in  itself,  but  in  rela 
tion  to the  figures  about  it,  and  in  gen 
eral  has  such  a  cultivated  or  natural 
sense  of  the  shape  of  things  that  he 
knows  how  to  produce  a  harmonious 
symmetrical  effect,  although  his  color 
sense  may  be  very  bad.  Some  painters 
are  fine  colorists,  others  are  strong  in 
their composition.  So  it  is  exactly  with 
window  trimmers.  Some  men  design 
windows  that  have  every  article  in them 
correctly  placed  with  reference  to  each 
other.  Others  have  more  strongly  de 
veloped  the  faculty  of  producing  de 
lightful  color  combinations. 
If  one 
trimmer  could  design  the  setting  of 
window  and  another trimmer  the  color

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

15

Slow  Progress of the  M etric  System.
Since  1900  the  elementary  schools  oi 
England  have  required  instruction  to be 
given 
in  the  principles  of the  metric 
system.  Negotiations  are  now  going  on 
for the  holding  of  an  international  met 
ric  conference 
in  Paris  at  some  near 
date.

The  growth  of  public  opinion 

Great  Britain  in  favor of  the 
introduc 
tion  of  the  system  is  marked,  and  it  has 
had  some  effect 
in  the  United  States 
also.  The  use  of  metric  weights  and 
measures  has  long  been 
legal  in  this 
country,  but  it  appears  that  no  great 
increase  in  the  number  of  users  is  noted 
in  the  past  thirty  years.  Scientific  men 
use 
it  as  they  use  a  foreign  language 
or  a  microtome,  whenever  it  is  conven­
ient.  The  average  person  understands 
the  metric  system  perfectly  well,  but

THE  PUTNHM  ©ANDY  6 0 .,

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Butter consignments solicited.

Oranges,  Lemons,  Bananas and  Early Vegetables always on hand.
RETTING  &  EVANS,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Reference— Peoples Savings Bank. 

Mention  Michigan Tradesman.

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Butter  and  Eggs

is  a  fraudulent  practice 

Observations by  a Gotham   Egg  Man.
There 

in 
vogue  among  some  unscrupulous  egg 
dealers  that  ought  to  be  known  to  the 
public.  Among  certain  poultry fanciers 
at  nearby  points,  who  make  a  specialty 
of  furnishing  new  laid  eggs  of  a  high 
grade  for  high  priced  trade,  it  has  been 
customary  of  late  years  to  stamp  the 
eggs  with  the  date  of  their  production. 
A 
limited  demand  for  such  eggs  has 
been  found  in  certain  channels  of  con­
sumptive  trade  at  relatively high prices. 
We  find  that  some  dealers are  now  buy­
ing  Western  eggs,  stamping  them 
in 
imitation  of the  above  method  and  de­
ceiving  customers  with  them,  charging 
an  exhorbitant  price.  A  large  receiver 
told  me  that  he  was  selling  Western 
eggs  to  poultry  men  at  nearby  points 
who  stamped  them  with  a  fictitious  date 
and  sold  them  to  customers  who  sup 
posed  they  were  getting  fancy  local pro 
duction  at  comparatively  extravagant 
prices.  The  matter  is  perhaps  of  little 
importance  to  the  egg  trade at large,  but 
consumers  ought  to  be  informed  that  at 
this  season  of  year  fine  Western  eggs 
are  just  as  good  as  any  in  point  of qual 
ity  and  that  it  is  unnecessary to  pay  ex 
treme  prices  for nearby goods—especia 
ly  when  they  are  pretty  sure  to  get 
Western  anyway,  often  palmed  off  upon 
them  for  nearby  eggs  under  false  pre 
tenses.

and  more 

An  important  feature  of  the  egg  busi 
ness,  and  one  that  ought  to  be  taken  in 
to  consideration  when  speculation is rife 
in  the  spring,  is  the  enormous 
increase 
of  egg  production 
in  the  Southwest 
Oklahoma,  Arkansas  and  Texas  are  be 
coming  more 
important 
sources  of  egg  supply  every  year and 
now  have  a  large  capacity.  This  sec 
tion  of  the  country  is  so  far  south  as  to 
be  comparatively  free  from  the  winter 
conditions  that  formerly  used  to produce 
great  scarcity  of  fresh  eggs 
in  January 
or  February  every  few  years,  and  the 
egg  business  has  grown  there  to  such 
proportions  that  a  winter  dearth  of  eggs 
for consumptive  needs  has  now  become 
very  unlikely,  regardless  of  weather 
conditions  farther north. 
It  may  safely 
be  calculated  that  periods  of  great  scar­
city  in  January  and  February  will  here­
after be  of  rare  occurrence  and  that  the 
average  season  for a  profitable  unload­
ing  of  refrigerator  eggs  will  be  short­
ened.  It  has  become  very  risky  to  carry 
old  eggs  after January  i,  or January  15 
at  latest,  and  the  ability  to  move  spring 
production  between  September and  Jan­
uary  at  profitable  prices  has  come  to 
depend  largely  upon  a  very  small  stor­
age  of  summer  production.  But  high 
spring  prices  invite  free  summer  stor­
age— ergo  low  spring  prices  are  essen­
tial  to  profitable  results. 
It  has  been 
proven  so  often  that  it  seems  astonish­
ing  that  the  lesson  is  only  learned  when 
disastrous  experience  is  fresh  in  mind.

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I  notice  a  good  many  Western  egg 
shippers  who are  sending  stock  to  this 
market,  evidently  noticing  that  “ stor­
age  packed”   eggs  are  quoted  higher 
than  regular  packings, 
invoice  their 
storage  packed”   when
shipments  as 

We solicit your shipments 

of  Fresh  Eggs  and  Dairy 
Butter.

they  evidently  do not appreciate  the  full 
significance  of  the  name.  Receivers 
are  entirely  unable  to  realize  the  prices 
quoted  for  storage  packed  selections 
unless  the  eggs  are  so  packed  as to meet 
every  requirement  of  the  rule.

To  pass  as  “ storage  packed”  

the 
eggs  must  pass  in  the  grade  in  which 
they  are  offered  as  to  quality;  firsts  can 
not  contain  more  than  an  average  of 
checked  eggs  to  the  case  and  extras  not 
more  than  12.  All  grades,  when  sold 
“ storage  packed,”   must  be  in  new  30 
dozen  white  wood  cases,  smooth,  clean 
and  substantial;  fillers  must  be  dry. 
sweet,  medium  or  No.  1,  with flats under 
bottoms  and  over  tops;  dry,  sweet  ex 
celsior  or  cork  packing  under  bottoms 
and  over  tops.

The  failure  to  meet  these  require 
ments:  first,  a  lack  of  sufficient  grading 
to  bring  the  goods  within  the  rigid 
in 
spection  given 
in  the  case  of  storage 
packings,  second,  by  reason  of  the  fill 
ers  being  too  light  weight  and,  third, 
because  suitable  flats  and  packing  are 
omitted.  Eggs  which  do  not  meet  the 
strict  requirements  of  the  above  rule 
every  particular can  not  be  sold  above 
the  quotations  given  for  regular  pack 
ings.— N.  Y.  Produce  Review.

W anted  I t Plain.

“ One  of  the  best  salesmen  we  have 
on  the  road,  if  not  the  very  best,”   said 
a  well-known  wholesale  dealer,  “ came 
to  us  ten  years  ago  from  the  backwoods 
and  a  greener  fellow  you  never  saw.

“   ‘ 1  don’t  rightly  understand 

‘ We  can’t  give  you  a  salary,’  said 
I, 
‘ but  we  will  allow  you  a commission 
of  25  per  cent,  on  all  you  sell  for  cash.’ 
this 
commission  and  per  cent,  business,”  
said  he,  scratching  his  head,  ‘ seein’  I 
ain  t  used  to  it;  but  I’ll  tell  you  what 
I’ll  do; 
just  agree  to give  me  10  cents 
on  every  dollar’s  worth  I  sell  and  I’ ll 
undertake  it.  That’s  plain  enough  for 
anybody  to  understand.’

“ I 

let  him  go  at  that, ”   laughed  the 
merchant  in  conclusion,  “ and  made 
it 
U.P  to  him, at  the  end  of  the  year  by put­
ting  him  on  the  road  with a good salary, 
and  permission  to  tell  the  story  every 
time  we gave  him  a  raise,  and  we  gave 
him  one  yesterday,  and  I’ve  told  the 
story  a  good  many  times.”

The  Society  Monstrosity.

awfully  pretentious.”

in  the  next  flat  are 

“ Those  folks 
“ Are  they?”
“ Yes.  She  sends  her  visiting  card 
over—two  middle  names  on  it—when 
she  wants  to  borrow  butter. ’ ’

J. W.  Keys

General Produce and Commission 

Merchant,

Detroit, Mich.

I  want your  consignments  of
Butter,  Eggs, 

Poultry.

Correspondence  solicited.  Please 

investigate.

References :  City Savings Bank,

Commercial Agencies.

Highest  Market Prices  Paid.  Regular Shipments Solicited.

98  South  Division  Street,  _______  

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

L.  J.  S M IT H   &   CO.

MANUFACTURERS  OF

Egg Cases and  Fillers, Cold Storage Cases, Shipping  Cases, 

Hinge  Locking  Fillers,  Excelsior  Nails,  etc.

We keep a large stock on hand and manufacture all  kinds  of  cases  known 
to the trade.  We would be pleased to quote you prices on our Special Bass­
wood  Veneer cases.  They are tough, bright  and  sweet.  We  manufacture 
our own timber, taken from the stump, and can please you.

L.  J.  SMITH  &  CO.,  Eaton  Rapids, Mich.

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N E W   P O T A T O E S

Will be early and  plentiful  this year.  Therefore move  your

O L D   P O T A T O E S

immediately.  We are selling  potatoes  every  day  and  can 
sell  yours.  What have you?

MILLER A TEASDALE CO., ST.  LOUIS,  MO.

F I E L D   S E E D S
F I E L D   P E A S

All kinds Clover and Grass Seeds.

W e buy and sell Eggs,  Beans, Clover Seed,  Potatoes, Apples.

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Jobbers  of  Fruits,  Seeds,  Beans  and  Potatoes

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74 East Congress St., Detroit, Mich.

WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN 

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fright.  Before  the  policemen  arrived 
the  boy  was  liberated  by  his  captor and 
sent  home.  He  was  in  a  state  of  terror 
when  he  came  out  of  the  box  and  was 
shaking 
like  a  leaf.  The  police  were 
informed  by  the  butcher  that  the  boy 
had  been  abusive,  had  refused  to 
leave 
when  ordered  away,  and  that  he  had 
been  locked  up  to  frighten  him.  There 
was  no  question'  but  that  the  lad  was 
frightened  sufficiently  for  all  purposes, 
but  his  parents  would  like  to  know what 
right  any  one  has  to  constitute  himself 
a  judge  in  such  matters  and  inflict  pun­
ishment.  It  is  probable  that  the  episode 
lead  to  steps  being  taken  for  re­
will 
dress. 
the 
butcher  has  lost  some  friends  who  may 
be  afraid  to  deal  with  him  in  future. 
The  next  time  his  temper grows  so  hot 
as  it  evidently  did  on  this  occasion,  we 
advise  Mr.  Beckwith  to  go  in  his  box 
to  cool  off  and  not  try  the  game  on  an­
other.  The  chances  are,  however,  that 
“ a  mountain  has  been  made  out  of  a 
mole  hill”   in  this  case  and  that  the  boy 
was  in  the  box  a  very  brief  tim e;  that 
the  temperature 
in  the  box  was  not  as 
low  as  it  was  out  of  doors,  and  that  the 
boy  deserved  punishment.  The  fact  is 
not  altered,  however,  that  the  butcher 
had  no  right  to  take  the  law  in  his 
own  hands.

is  also  probable 

that 

It 

Card  System  in  L ittle  Falls.

The  Grocers’  and  Butchers’  Associa­
tion  of  Little  Falls,  N.  Y.,  has  inaug­
urated  the  card  system.  People  who 
wish  to  open  new  accounts  at  stores  or 
markets  where  they  have not been  in  the 
custom  of  trading  will  have  to  produce 
a  card  stating  that  they  are  in  good 
standing  at  last  trading  place  before 
they  will  be  given  credit.

It  has  been  generally  supposed  that 
much  meat 
in  warm  climates  is  not  a 
good  thing,  but  one  of  the  ablest  army 
surgeons  now  declares  that  under  the 
hot  suns  the  carbon  in  a  white  man’s 
blood  is  speedily  oxidized  and  burned 
up  by  the  sun,  and  a  great  deal  of  meat 
must  be  eaten  to  supply  the  waste.

pany,  in  addition  to  their 
world-renowned  wall  coat-

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Department,  now  manufac­
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in paper or wood,  in  carlots 
or less,  the  following  prod­

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The  brand  specified  after 
competitive  tests  and  used 
by the Commissioners for all
the World’s  Fair statuary.

The  effective  Potato  Bug 
Exterminator.

Bug  Finish

Land  Plaster 

Finely ground and  of  supe­
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For lowest prices address

Alabastine Company,
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The Meat Market

Of 

Want  Six  Chops to  a  Found.
late  some  large 

flocks  of  very 
prime  fat  Western  sheep  have  been  re­
ceived  in  the  Chicago  market.  Let  us 
suppose  that  one  such  band  includes
1.000  head.  The  sheep  are  all  wethers 
and  graded  prime.  At  $4.75  or  some 
similar  price  they  are  quickly  taken  off 
either  by  an  exporter  or  by  an  agent  for 
a  packer.  Then  a  division  is  made. 
The  packers  and  exporters  of  sheep  are 
at  present  hunting 
in  couples— forced 
thereto  by  the  demands  of  the  thrifty 
American  housewife.  This  lady  has  an­
nounced  that  she  does  not  relish  fat 
mutton  or  lamb,  nor will  she  spend  her 
money  for  mutton  chops  at  two  to  the 
pound.  She  wants  four and,  if  she  can 
get  them,  five  to  the  pound  and  she 
does  not  care  if  the  meat  has not enough 
fat  to  decently 
itself  in  the 
fryingpan  or gridiron.  The  less  fat  the 
better,  and 
if  a  race  of  sheep  could  be 
evolved  granting  six  or seven  or  even 
eight  chops  to  the  sixteen  ounces  it 
would  bound 
into  her  favor  with  a 
spring  so  prodigious  as  to  break  all 
records  then  and  there.  This  directly 
influences  the  packers  who  cater to  the 
domestic  trade.  On  the  other hand  the 
British  consumer  wants  fat  mutton,  or 
at  least  mutton  that  is  fat  enough  to 
show  that  it  has  been  properly  fed,  and 
he  wants  his  chops  cut  from  a  large 
sheep.  If  a  chop  weighs  a  whole  pound 
it  will  do,  even  if  a  trifle  weighty,  but 
two  or  three  to  the  pound  is  the  favor­
ite  weight.  This  influences  the  ex­
porter.

lubricate 

Our  exporter  and  packer,  then,  hunt­
ing 
in  couples,  pick  off  the  string  of
1.000  muttons  and  at  once  proceed  to 
divide  them.  The  exporter  will  take  all 
that  will  average  between  131  and  140 
pounds;  the  packer  will  take  all  the 
small,  tidy  little  fellows,  120  pounds  or 
less  being  the  highest  weight  taken  for 
home  consumption. 
In  a  prime  lot  of 
wethers  of  this  description  the  exporter 
will  get  about  600,of  the  band  and  the 
packer  the  rest,  but  of  course  in  this  as 
in  all  other  business  transactions  cir­
cumstances  will  alter  cases.

With  yearlings  it  is  the  same.  The 
prime  favorites  with  the  packers  are  the 
little, 
wrinkly-skinned  Mexicans, 
shipped  enormous  distances  and  shrunk 
out  to the  last  ounce,  without  much  fat, 
spare  of  frame  and  small  of  hone,  huge 
bands  of  1,500  head  averaging  seventy- 
six  to  eighty-one  pounds.  For such  the 
packers  will  pay  more  than  for  [the 
primest  of  native  yearling  sheep.  The 
exporter  has  no  use  for  them,  could  not 
sell  them  to  advantage  in  England,  but 
they  just  exactly  suit  the  American 
housewife,  for  their  chops  run  five  or 
six  to  the  pound  and  their  legs  are  very 
small,  while  they  have  hardly  any  fat 
at  all.  Only  a  few  such  yearlings  come 
in  each  season,  though,  and  the  packers 
must  have  others,  so  again  they  divide 
with  the  exporters.  A  good  many  very 
large 
lots  of  Western  yearlings  were 
placed  on  feed  last  fall.  Many  of  them 
have  already  been  marketed  in splendid 
order.  At  present  such  yearlings  com­
mand  around  $5  per  cwt.  This  time 
some  small  difference 
in  the  price  is 
made,  the packers  taking  all  the  smaller 
sheep  and  paying  perhaps  ten  cents  per 
cwt.  more  for  them  than  the  exporter 
pays  for the  heavier  ones.  The  pack­
er’s 
lot  will  average  perhaps  right  at 
100  pounds,  the  exporter’s  probably  at 
impounds.  The  larger sheep  are  too 
fat and their joints too big to bring  the

price 
in  American  butcher-stalls  and 
thus  again  the  demands  of the American 
housewife  rule  a  market.

the 

Among  the  lambs  much  the  same  sort 
of  a  rule  holds  good.  This  season  the 
feeders  are  confronted  with  the  extraor­
dinary  condition  that  the  lambs  which 
have  done  the  best  for them,  made  the 
most  gain,  laid  on  the  most  fat  and 
which  should  ordinarily  yield  the  most 
profit,  must  go  for  less  money  than  the 
lambs  that  weigh  considerably  less  and 
have  not  as  much  fat  on  their  ribs.  A 
lot  of  lambs  that  average  say  109  or  no 
pounds  will  stand  all  day  in  the market­
place  without  eliciting  one  bid  from  a 
packer. 
If  they  are  to  sell  to  the  best 
advantage  some  exporter  must  he  in  the 
market  for a  load  of  lambs.  The  pack­
ers  want  lambs  averaging  from  seventy- 
eight  to  ninety-three  pounds  or at  most 
ninety-five  pounds.  Heavier  lambs  they 
will  not  pay  top  prices  for  under any 
circumstances,  preferring  to  buy  lighter 
Thus  the 
stock  of  inferior  quality. 
feeder  who  feeds  his  lambs  to the 
limit 
of  profitable  development  gets  less  than 
the  best  price, although  his  product  may 
be  actually  the  best  on  sale.  With  the 
top  figure  $5.25—the  famous  “ $5  at  the 
river” —the  109  or  no-pound 
lambs 
brought  only  $5.10,  or  perhaps  only 
$5.05,  and  they  only  brought  that  much 
to go across  the  water.  The  lambs  with 
which 
famous  “ deadlock”   was 
broken  averaged  from  eighty-three  to 
eighty-eight  pounds.  Fortunately  there 
has  been  an  unlimited  enquiry  for  ex­
port 
lambs  of  late  and  all  really  good 
heavy  lots  have  found  an  outlet  at  about 
these  figures,  although  some  days  with 
liberal  supplies  on  hand very prime  110- 
pounders  have  brought  only  the even $5. 
In  a  double-deck  of  lambs  received  not 
long  ago  there  were  100  very  fat,  ripe 
lambs  averaging  112  pounds.  These 
were  cut  out  to  an  exporter  at $5.10 and 
a  packer  took the rest,  averaging eighty- 
nine  pounds,  at $5.25.  That  means  that 
the  best 
lambs,  the  most  profitable 
lambs,  brought  the  poorest  price.  This, 
however,  is  a  condition,  not  a  theory, 
and  must  be  met  by  the  feeder  accord­
ingly.  Here  again  the  housewife  of  the 
Amercian  city  is  to  blame.  She  can 
not,  or says  she  can  not,  afford  to  pay 
such  high  prices  for  large  joints of lamb 
or  for  lamb  chops. 
If  she  is  to  buy  it 
at  all  she  must  have  chops  enough  to  go 
around  her  family,  one  per  head,  and 
the  joint  must  not  be  so  large  as  to  cost 
perhaps  a  tenth  or twelfth  of  the  weekly 
income.  And  that  is  the  way  in  which 
this  housewife  has  made  her  influence 
felt  in  all  the  great  Western  markets  for 
sheep  and  lambs.— Breeders’  Gazette.
No  R ight  to  Take  the  Law  in  His  Own 
From the Butchers’  Advocate.

Hands.

John  C.  Beckwith,  who  runs  a  meat 
market  at  New  London,  Conn.,  is  be­
ing  talked  about  considerably  and  may 
find  himself  in  several  kinds of  trouble. 
A  boy  was  making  more  noise  than  was 
necessary  in  front of his market the other I 
day,  and  John,  evidently  being  nervous 
because  of  the  Lenten  dulness,  came  out 
and  grabbed  him.  The  boy  was  taken 
into  the  market  and  placed  in  the  ice 
box.  The  imprisonment  of  the  boy  be­
came  known 
in  the  neighborhood  im­
mediately,  and  an  informal  indignation 
meeting  was  held  and  the  police  tele­
phoned  for.  Quite  a  crowd  gathered 
and  some  severe  things  were  said  about 
the  butcher. 
In  the  meantime  the  boy 
was  screaming  at  the  top  of  his  voice, 
and  his  frightened  cries  only  served  to 
stir up  the  indignation  of  the  people  in 
front  of  the  market.  There  is  a  differ­
ence  of  opinion  in  regard  to  the 
length 
of  time  that  the  boy  was kept  in the 
box,  but  there  is  no  denying the  fact 
tbatj^he  was there  long enough to get a

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M ICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Fruits aud  Produce.
Status  of tlie  St.  Louis  Vegetable  M arket.
St.  Louis,  Mo.,  April  8—The  weather 
has  been 
exceedingly  disagreeable, 
rainy,  damp  and  chilly,  which  has 
helped  to  make  sluggish  markets  on 
everything,  but  conditions  have 
im­
proved  during  the  last  day  or two  and 
we  are  able  to quote  much  better  feel­
ing  in  almost  everything.  The  tone  of 
the  market  here  and  elsewhere  is better. 
The  general  condition  of  arrivals  of  all 
lines  of  fruits and  produce  is  improved, 
following  out  past  experience  that  ship­
pers  save  the  best  to  the  last.  The 
season  for old  truck  is  nearing  an  end.
Cabbage—Old  stock is moving slowly ; 
receivers  find  it  hard  to  sell.  The  trade 
is enquiring  for something  new.  Cab­
bage  from  Florida,  Mobile,  New  Or­
leans  and  also  from  Texas  is  arriving, 
and  while  meeting 
limited  sale,  is  in 
demand.  The  tone  of  the  market  is  bet­
ter for new.

Onions— The  general 

impression  of 
the  trade  is  that  prices  are  too  high  and 
dealings  are  in  a  limited  w ay;  stock  is 
scarce,  not  plentiful.  The  trade  is  anx­
iously  waiting  for  new  onions.

Old  Potatoes— Home-grown,  common 
stock 
is  plentiful  and  selling  at  low 
prices.  Fancy,  bright  Northern  white 
potatoes  are in good request,and will  sell 
at  good  prices.  The  general  quality  of 
arrivals 
is  common. 
Really  fancy stock  is  scarce  and in good 
demand.  We  urge  shippers  to  move 
their  potatoes.  A  better condition  pre­
vails  on  potatoes  in  the  local  market. 
Arrivals  are  very  light  and  good  stock 
is  wanted.

from  the  North 

New  Vegetables— From  the  South  are 
beginning  to  arrive  and  same  are  com­
manding  much  attention.  Representa­
tives  from  the  North  and  East  are  be­
ginning  to  arrive  in  St.  Louis  en  route 
South 
looking  up  this  class  of truck, 
some  of  them  locating  here  permanent­
ly  for  the  season  as  buyers  for their 
houses  in  other  markets.  St.  Louis  is 
in  good  shape  to  receive  early  vege­
tables  now.  The  trade 
is  anxiously 
waiting  for  something  new  and  giving 
much  more  attention  to  new  truck  than 
old. 
Discovery  of  Southern  M erchant  A fter 

Miller  &  Teasdale  Co.

K illing  F our  Men.

They  were  relating  incidents  that  oc­
curred  in  the  blind  tiger districts  of  the 
South.  Said  the  old  revenue  officer:

“ All  of  you  know  that  in  these  dry 
counties  the  toper  who  is  deprived  of 
his  dram  will  soon  learn  to  drink  any­
thing  that  is  hot  or fiery,  from  cologne 
to  Jamaica  ginger  or pepper vinegar. 
Well,  one  of  the  most  remarkable things 
of  this  kind  that  ever came  under  my 
observation  happened  down  here  in  one 
of the  counties  touched  by  the  Southern 
Railroad.  Some  time  after  the  county 
went  dry  a  man  yielded  to  the  demands 
of  the  frequenters  of  his  general  store 
and  ordered  an  extra  supply  of  the  va­
rious  hot  stuffs  that  ordinarily  would 
have  only  a  moderate  sale. 
In  the  lot 
was  a  case  of Jamaica ginger.  The  first 
to  buy  any of  this  ginger  were  a  couple 
of  brothers  who  had  just  returned  home 
from  the  State.  University. 
In  a  few 
hours  after drinking  some  of  the  stuff 
they  were  dead.  Without  saying  a  word 
to  anybody,  the  merchant  carried  the 
case  of  ginger to  the  attic and instructed 
his  clerk  never  to  sell  any  of  it.  A  few 
months  after that  two  brothers, who  were 
in  the  turpentine  business  and  who 
were  known  as  turpentine  riders,  called 
at  the  store  and  asked  for Jamaica  gin­
ger.

The  owner of  the  store  was  absent  at 
the  time,  and  the  clerk,  remembering 
the  box  upstairs, 
finally,  after  mucn 
pleading  on  the ,  part  of the  boys,  told 
them  that  there  was  some  upstairs,  but 
he  couldn’t  sell 
it.  The  young  men 
proposed  that  they  would  go  up  and  get 
some  of  it,  and  then  he  could  tell  his 
employer  that  he  didn’t  sell  it.  The 
clerk  was  finally  persuaded  into  this  ar­
rangement. 
In  a  few  hours  both  young 
men  were  dead.  When  the  owner of  the 
store  heard  of  the  deaths  and  the  action 
of  the  clerk  he  kept  his  own  counsel. 
He  knew,  but  the  clerk  did  not, That  the

deaths  of  the  two  sets  of  brothers  were 
caused  by  that ginger.

“ Quietly  he  went  into  an  investiga­
tion.  He  discovered  after so long  a time 
that  the  ginger  was  made  by  an  up- 
country  firm,  who,  in  order to  produce 
a  cheap  grade  of the  so-called  ginger, 
had  used  wood  alcohol  in  the  prepara­
tion  of  it.  This  wooj]  alcohol  being  a 
deadly  poison,  death  was  sure  to  follow 
the  drinking of  it.  The  storekeeper  was 
so  miserable  over  what  had  occurred, 
accusing  himself  of  being  the  cause  of 
the  deaths  of  the  four  men,  that  he 
finally  told  a  friend  about  the  whole 
transaction  and  then  drank  a  bottle  of 
the  ginger,  the  last  of  the  case,  having 
destroyed  all  but  one  bottle  he  had  re­
served  for  his  own  use. 
It  ended  his 
misery. ”

The  Cider Cure  For  Smallpox.

WE  GUARANTEE

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

V e   also  guarantee  It  to  be  of  full  strength  ar<  required  by  law.  We  will 
prosecute  any  person  found  using  our  packages  for  cider  or  vinegar  without  first 
removing  all  traces  of  our  brands  therefrom.

Arizona  physicians  have 

just  com­
pleted  exhaustive  tests  and  found  very 
satisfactory  results  from  the  use of apple 
cider  as  a  preventive  and  a  cure  for 
smallpox.

The  past  winter,  an  unusually  severe 
one 
in  the  Southwest,  has  seen  a  wide­
spread  epidemic  of  smallpox  in  the  ex­
treme  southern  part  of  Arizona  and 
Northern  Mexico.  Six  weeks  ago  an  at­
tendant  at  the  pesthouse  in  Jerome  dis­
covered  by  accident  that the  use  of  pure 
apple  cider  was  helping  his  patients, 
one  of  them  having  received  a  quantity 
from  the  East  and  distributed  it  among 
his  fellow  sufferers.  Drs.  Wood  and 
Kaull  made tests  with  cider on other pa­
tients  and  found  most  gratifying results. 
A  pint  each  day,  in  doses  each  hour, 
drove  away  the  eruption  in  from  five  to 
fifteen  days  and  ten  patients  were  en­
tirely  cured  and  discharged  within  a 
month.  Other tests  were  made  among 
the  Mexican  residents  along the interna­
tional  line,  where  there  were  cases  of  a 
more  violent  nature. 
In  every  instance 
where  pure  cider  was  used  cures  were 
effected,  and  fifty  barrels  more  of the 
apple  juice  have  been  ordered  from Illi­
nois  and  New  York,  to  carry  experi­
ments  further  into  Mexico.

Industrial  training  of  -a  really  prac­
tical  character  has  been  recently  under­
taken  by  a  parochial  school  in  McKees­
port,  Pa.  The  instructors  are  to  be  men 
holding  positions  in  the  mills  of  the 
town,  who  will  give  two  evenings  of  the 
week  to  the  school.  Pupils  in  the  ad­
vanced  classes  are  to  be  given  prefer­
ence  over  outsiders  for employment  in 
the  mills.  Every  class  of  work  done  in 
the  various  mills  will  be  taught  and 
the  pupils  will  become  familiar  with 
every  step  in  the  manufacture  of  iron 
from  the  time  it  is  unloaded  as  ore  un­
til 
it  is  shipped  as  a  finished  product. 
The  scientific  side,  as  well  as  the  prac­
tical,  will  be  thoroughly  taught,  so  that 
the  pupils,  when  they  have  finished 
their course,may  be  able  to fill more  ad­
vanced  positions.

A  great  congress  is  to  be  held in Lon­
don  on  Juiy  22  of this  year on  the  sub­
ject  of  tuberculosis,  and  the  discussion 
of  the  experience  obtained  in  various 
countries  for  the  cure  of  consumption 
and  the  best  methods  to  adopt  to  bring 
about  its  eradication. 
The  congress 
will 
last  five  days,  and  it  will  be  sup­
ported  by  delegations  from  all  parts  of 
the  world,  who  will  advance  any 
infor­
mation  relative  to  the  subject  at  their 
command.  The  King  of  England,  who 
has  always  taken  a  keen  interest  in  the 
cure  of this  malady,  will  open  the  con­
gress.  One  of  the  leading  features  will 
be  a  museum  containing  a  number of 
pathological  and  bacteriological 
instru­
ments,  charts,  models,  etc.

Mrs.  James  Little,  who  lives near A t­
chison,  Kan.,  who  was  herself a  twin, 
and  whose  husband  was  a  twin  and  the 
son  of  a  twin,  has  given  birth  to  her 
second  pair of  twins,  the  first  pair  be­
ing  about  eighteen  months  old  when  the 
second  pair  made  its  appearance.

J . ROBINSON,Manager. 

BetltOII Harbof, Michigan.

ORANGES  LEMONS

Apples, Onions, Cabbage, Parsnips, Celery, Honey,  Beans.  Will bill at lowest

Direct from CALIFORN IA in car lots.

market price.

E.  E.  HEWITT,
Successor  to  C.  N.  Rupp  &  Co.

9  North  Ionia  Street,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

A L L   GROCERS

.  Who desire to give their customers the best vinegar on the market  will 
give them RED  STAR  BRAND  Cider Vinegar.  These  goods  stand 
for PU RITY and are the best on the  market.  We  give  a  Guarantee 
Bond to every customer.  Your order solicited.

T H E   L E R O U X   C ID E R   &   V IN E G A R   CO .,

TOLEDO,  OHIO.

Alfred  J.  Brown  Seed  Co.

Seed  Growers and  Merchants

We  are  always  in  the  market  to  buy  or  sell  Clover,  Timothy,  Alsyke,  Beans, 

Popcorn.  Buckwheat,  Etc.

Our stocks are complete and we are  prepared to  quote prices as low as Good  Seeds

can  be  afforded.

G A R D E N   S E E D S   IN  B U L K

ALFRED J.  BROWN  SEED  CO.,  Grand  Rapid*,  Michigan

POTATOES
H.  ELMER  MOSELEY &.  CO.,  GRAND  rapids.

State quantity, variety and quality.  If have car  on  track,  give  initial 
and number of car—station  loaded or to be loaded.

CAR  LOTS  ONLY

pLARK  BUILDING,  O PPO SITE  UNIO N  STA TIO N .

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The New York Market

Special  Features  of the Grocery and Prod­
Special Correspondence.

uce Trades.

New  York,  April  5— The  coffee  mar 
ket  has  been  anything  but  active  during 
the  week.  Cable  advices  from  Europe 
are  weaker  and,  with  Brazilian  markets 
also  keeping  even  a  stricter  holiday 
than  is  the  case  here,  there  is  very  little 
to  say  regarding  the  market.  Receipts 
in  Rio  and  Santos  are  running  quite 
large—about  20,000  bags  a  day  at  each 
port—and  thus  the  immediate  outlook ii 
for a  continued  range  of  low  quotations
In 
store  and  afloat  the  amount  aggregates 
1,388,260  bags,  against  1,153,625  bags 
at  the  same  time  last  year.  Mild  grades 
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generally  quoted  at  8|<c.  Considering 
a  little  further the  Brazil  situation*  the
world’s  increase during March amounted
to  135,000  bags—an  unexpectedly  large
increase.

E No.  7  is  down  to  6^c  nominally. 

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The  few  sales  of  teas  which  have been 
made  were  of  small  lots  and,  it  must  be
said,  at  very  low  prices.  No  one  seems
to  be  taking  supplies ahead 
of current
wants  and  altogether the  tea  market  is 
about  as  uninteresting  as  can  be.

The  demand  for sugar  is  perhaps  all 
that  could  be  expected  at  this  season— 
that 
is,  if  nothing  should  be  expected. 
It  is  not  thought  that  prices  will  change 
right  away  and  the  result is  that  buyers
are  not  anxious  to  do  any  business  be­
yond  daily  wants.  Raw  sugars  are  quiet 
and  unchanged.

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The  spice  market 

Orders  for  rice  have  been  limited,
both  in  number and  the  amount  of  stock
bought.  Prices  are  generally  pretty  firm

of  the  situation.  Prime  to  choice  South­
ern,  S@ 5ttc -  Foreign  is  firm  and  there 
have  been  some  fair  sales,  but  there  is 
yet  room  for  improvement.

! and  this  is  all  that  can  be  said  in  favor 
I tureless.  Jobbers  almost  all  report  a 

quiet  trade  at  unchanged  pricey.

The  better grades  of  New  Orleans mo- 
lasses  have  sold  with  all  the  freedom 
that  might  be  expected  at  this  season
of  the  year.  Offerings  are  light  and, 
upon  the  whole,  dealers  view  the  situa- 
tion  with  a  good  deal  of  complacency,
making  no 
concessions—unless  they
must.

is  absolutely  fea-

d . 

The  syrup  trade  has  shown  little  in­
terest  and,  although  supplies  are  not 
large,  there  seems  to  be  enough  to  go
around.  Quotations 
remain  without 
change.
There 

is  an  extremely  quiet  canned 
goods  market,  both  for  spot  and  future 
goods.  The  whole  situation  is rather  un- 
satisfactory.  There  seems  to  be  a  large
supply  of  goods  on  hand  and  many  a 
dealer  has  stocks  he  would  be  glad  to 
dispose  of.  Fresh fruits  can  be  obtained 

almost  everywhere  at  almost  any time of 
the  year,  yet  new  factories  are  constant- 

ly  being  set  up.  The  “ man  with  an
orchard”   who  receives  a  copy  of  the
booklet  gotten  out  by  the  makers  of can-
ning  machinery  is  astonished  by  the
statements  therein.  He  sees  no  chance 
for  contradicting  the  same  and  only 
when  he  comes  to  market  his goods does 
he  realize  that  machinery  was  not  the 
only  thing sold.  Of  course,  special  lines
of  goods  are  always  in  request  and  the 
supply  of  other  stuff  is  lim ited;  but,
taking  the  great  bulk  of  canned  goods,
there 
is  too  much  put  up  beyond  a
doubt.  One  thing  that  may  help  the 
market  is  the  fact  that  packers  can  get 
cans  this  fall  only  by  paying  cash.  A 
good  many  of  the  smaller  fry  do  not 
happen  to  have  the  loose  change  neces-
sary  for  such  transactions,  and 
is
thought  the  result  will  be  a  shrinkage 
in  the  tomato  pack  of  almost  a  half.  Of 
course,  the  future  alone  can  determine
this,  however.  Prices  are  practically 
without  change.

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Lemons  are  lower  and  the  demand 
pretty  fair.  Oranges  are  steady,  but 
sales are generally of small lots.  Bananas 
have  been  ordered  from  many 
interior 
points  and  quotations  are  well 
sus­
tained.

average 

The  demand  for dried fruits  is  onlv  of 
an 
that. 
Large  prunes  show  some  scarcity  and 
are  firmly  heid,  but  this  exception  sim­
ply  proves  the  rule.

character—hardly 

last  week. 

The  butter  market  shows  practically 
no  change  and 
is  certainly  in  as  good 
shape  as 
Best  Western 
creamery  is  worth  22c  and  goes  at  this 
without  any  trouble;  seconds  to  firsts, 
I9@2ic;  Western 
imitation  creamery, 
I4@i8c ;  Western  factory, 
I3@i4)^c. 
imitation  creamery  is 
The  supply  of 
lighter  and  the  demand 
is  steady,  so 
the  market  is  well  cleaned  up.

Trading 

in  cheese  has  been  rather 
more  active  this  week, both  with  export­
ers  and  the  home  trade,  and  quotations 
are  well  sustained. 
Small  size, 
full 
cream  cheese  is  worth  I2j<@i2^c.

The  Easter  demand  for  eggs  has 
been  fair  and  the  week  closes  on  a 
pretty  strong  market,  although  prices 
are  not  high  enough  to  show  a  very 
great  margin  of  profit  to  the  hens  who 
make  the  eggs.  Best  Western  are  worth 
14c.  Fresh  gathered  that  are  a  little  off 
in  respect  to  cleanliness,  i2j£c.

Some  People  Like  Fresh  Eggs  and  Some 

Don’t.

instance 

Washington Correspondence Providence Journal.
Wherever  wild  birds’  eggs  are  found 
n  quantities  they  are  substituted  for 
hens’  eggs  to  a 
large  extent,  being 
cheaper.  On  the  eastern  shore  of  Vir­
ginia  eggs  of  the  laughing  gull are com­
monly  eaten,  and  a  few  years  ago  the 
eggs  of  terns  and  herons  were  gathered 
in  immense  numbers  along  the  coast  of 
Texas.  Rookeries  of  sea  birds,  where 
accessible,  are  commonly  pillaged,  the 
most  notable 
in  point  being 
observed  on  the  Farallone  Islands,thirty 
miles  from  San  Francisco.  These  vol­
canic  islets,  rocky  and  precipitous, 
are.  the  haunt  of  myriads  of  murres, 
puffins,  gulls  and  cormorants,  and  every 
summer the  eggs  of  the  murres  in  par­
ticular  are  sought  by 
semi-piratical 
“ eggers.”   No  fewer  than  150,000  dozen 
of  them  are  collected  annually  and  sent 
to  San  Francisco.  A  murre’s  egg  has 
about twice  the  capacity  of  a hen’s  egg, 
and  is  remarkably  well  flavored. 
It  is 
laid  on  the  bare  rock,  the  mother  bird 
building  no  nest,  and  is  sharply pointed 
at  one  end,  a  provision  of  nature  to 
prevent  it  from  rolling  off. 
If  it  is  dis­
turbed  it  rolls  around  as  on  a  pivot.

Of  course,  many  kinds  of  eggs  are 
eaten  other than  those  of  birds.  Turtle 
eggs  are  highly  prized wherever they are 
abundant,  and  terrapin  eggs  are  often 
served  with  the  flesh.  Eggs  of  alligators 
and  crocodiles  (which  look  almost  ex­
actly  like  goose  eggs,  being  the  same 
size  and  shape,, with  hard  shells)  are 
considered  a  delicacy  in  some  parts  of 
the  world.  Shad  roe  is  a  familiar  ex­
ample  of  the  use  of fish  eggs  as  food, 
and  caviare 
is  simply  sturgeon  eggs 
preserved.  Some  savages  eat  the  eggs 
of  certain  insects.

In  the  Malay  Archipelago 

salted 
ducks’  eggs  are  a favorite article of diet. 
The  new  laid  eggs  are  packed  for two 
or  three  weeks  in  a  mixture  of  clay, 
brick  dust and  salt,  after  which  thev  are 
eaten  hard boiled.  Ducks’ eggs  in China 
are  buried  in  the  ground  for a  year  and 
permitted  to  undergo  partial  decompo­
sition,  being  dug  up  for  market  at  the 
end  of  that  time.  Many  such  eggs  are 
imported  into  this  country  for  use  of 
pigtailed  epicures,  and  a sample  recent­
ly  examined 
in  San  Francisco  by  ai 
Government  expert  seemed  to  be  cov­
ered  with  hardened  clay.  When  broken 
it  was  found  to  contain  a  partly  de­
veloped  duckling,  but  the  Chinese  mer­

chant  said  that  it  was  in  proper  condi­
tion.

The  Chinese  like  new  laid  eggs  also, 
and  keep  them  fresh  by  coating  them 
with  mud.  By  the  Alaskan  Esquimau, 
the  eggs  of  wild  fowl  are  preserved 
in 
walrus  oil  for sale  to  the  whites,  but  for 
their  own  use  any  old  egg  will  do,  and 
Im­
an  addled  egg  is  to  them  a  tidbit. 
mense  quantities  of  hens’ 
eggs  are 
shipped  from  Italy  to  England  for  pas­
try,  with  shells  removed  and  packed  in 
air-tight  vessels,  each  containing  the 
whites  and  yolks  of  1,000  eggs.  This 
method  does  away  with  risk  of  break­
age,  but  care  has  to  be  taken  that  all 
the  eggs  used  are  fresh,  inasmuch  as 
one  bad  one  will  taint  all  the  rest 
in  a 
receptacle.

Most  of these  facts  are  brought  out  i n 
a  bulletih  which  will  be  published  bv 
the  Department  of Agriculture about  two 
It  is  from  the  pen  of  Dr. 
weeks  hence. 
in­
C.  Ford  Langworthy,  who  speaks 
cidentally  of  the  danger  of  disease 
in­
fection  through  the  medium  of  hens’ 
eggs  in  cases  where  attention is not paid 
to  cleanliness  in  the  hen  house  and 
chicken  yard.  The  shell  of  an  egg  has 
minute  pores,  through  which  germs  can 
enter,  and  in  this  way  typhoid  or  other 
pathogenic  bacteria  may  be  communi­
cated  to the  unsuspecting  consumer.  An 
egg  shell  is  provided  with a  natural var­
nish,  which  hinders  the 
intrusion  of 
such  harmful  organisms  to  some  extent, 
but  it  is  very  important  to  keep the  lay­
ing  birds  in  quarters that  are  frequently 
whitewashed  and  otherwise  made  sani­
tary.

Recently  a  special 

investigation  of 
the  make-up  of the  white  of  an  egg  was 
conducted  at  the agricultural experiment 
station^  in  Connecticut,  with  the  result 
that  this  substance  was  found  to  consist 
mainly  of  four  different  kinds  of al­
bumen. 
It  also  holds  some  sulphur, 
which  stains  silver teaspoons.  The  yolk 
is  much  more  complicated,  containing 
among  other  things  phosphorus,  potas­
sium,  magnesium  ana  iron.  When  the 
egg  becomes 
rotten  the  phosphorus 
forms  phosphuretted  hydrogen,  and  the 
sulphur  goes  to  make  sulphide  of  hy­
drogen,  both  of  which  have  an  exceed­
ingly  bad  smell.

The  bacteria,  which  cause  the  egg  to 
rot  or spoil,  make  their  way  through  the 
pores  of  the  shell. 
It  has  been  found 
that  onions  fed  to  hens  in  large  quanti­
ties  will  communicate  a  flavor to  the 
eggs  laid,  and  another  fact  ascertained 
is that  fresh  eggs  must  not  be  put in  the 
neighborhood  of  certain  things,  such  as 
apples,  lest  they  acquire  from  the  latter 
a  foreign  taste.  As  for the  popular  no­
tion  that  brown  eggs  are  “ richer”   and 
more  nutritious  than  white  ones,  experi­
ments  by  the  Department  of  Agriculture 
have  proved  it a delusion.  Furthermore, 
it 
is  now  certain  that  hard-boiled  eggs 
are  quite  as  digestible  as  soft  boiled, 
although  they  may  not  be  assimilated so 
quickly— a  point  that  does  not  make  the 
slightest  difference,  so  far  as  healthy 
persons  are  concerned.

Speaking  of  counterfeiting  eggs,  one 
of  the  newest  swindles  is  the 
imitation 
of  the  eggs  of  rare  wild  birds—a  kind 
of  fraud  perpetrated  with  the  help  of 
chemicals,  a  few  paints  and  a 
little 
knowledge  of  natural  history.  The  raw 
material  is  furnished  by  common  birds’

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eggs  of  similar  shape  and 
like  size, 
which  are  altered  to  suit  in  respect  to 
their markings.

A  Strange  Cause  of Fire.

Fire  may  be  caused  by  a  bottle  of 
water  standing  harmlessly  on  a  table. 
A  correspondent  writes  to  Fire  and 
Water,  showing  how  this  mav  be  the 
case :

“ In  my  laboratory  the other day  I  de­
tected  the  odor  of  burning  wood,  and, 
seeking  the  cause,  noticed  a  tiny  wreath 
of  smoke  rising  from  the  counter.  Set­
ting  aside  a  flask  of  water that  stood 
close  by,  I  sponged  over  the  burning 
spot  with  a  damp  cloth.  Shortly  after 
I  again  detected  the  odor of  burning 
wood,  when, to  my surprise,  I discovered 
another  burning  spot  on  the  table  close 
to  the  water  flask.  The  flask  was  stand­
ing 
in  the  sunlight,  thereby  concen­
trating  the  rays  to  a  focus  on  the  top 
of  the  table,  acting 
in  this  case  as  a 
burning  glass.  A  handful  of  highly 
combustible  material  was  thrown  over 
the  burning  spot,  catching  fire  almost 
immediately.  I  cite  this  instance  mere­
ly  as  a  warning  to  chemists  and  apoth­
ecaries,  who  may  not  realize  how  easily 
a  fire  may  be  started  in  their storerooms 
by  the  sun  shining  through  bottles, 
flasks  and  carboys  of  liquid,  converting 
them  for  the  time  being  into  burning 
glasses  of  great  power. 
I  have  in  mind 
now  the 
instance  of  a  fire  originating 
in  a  storeroom  from  this  cause.”
Bargain  Day  on  the  M atrim onial  Floor.
Customer  (in  the  “ complete”   depart­
ment  store)— I  notice  so  many  couples 
taking  the  elevator  for  the  13th  floor. 
Why  are— ?

The  Ribbon  Clerk—They  are  taking 
advantage  of  the  special  offer  in  the 
matrimonial  department.  Rev.  Mr. 
Splicer  is  performing ceremonies  to-day 
at  half  price.

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irritability  and 

making  a  mistake.  Bad  temper,  cross 
words, 
impatience, 
ninety-nine  times  out  of  a  hundred,  are 
just  the  expression  of  weariness  and 
overwrought  nerves. 
Is the  woman  who 
takes  life  easily,  and  who  does  for her 
family  only  what  she  Is  able  to  do,  but 
who  is  gentle  and  sweet  to  her  children 
and 
loving  and  companionable  to  her 
husband,  doing  her  duty  any  less  than 
the  nervous,  irritable  woman  who  feeds 
and  clothes  her  family  to perfection,  but 
who  is  so overwrought  and  overworked 
she  snaps  them  up  at  a  word  and  flies 
into  a  tantrum  at  the  slightest  provoca­
tion?  Are  tucks  more  important  than 
love  and  gentleness?  Which  will  a  boy 
remember  longer,  which  will  influence 
him  more  when  those  sudden  crises  of 
life  come  when  a  man  must  choose  be­
tween  right  and  wrong, 
the  blanc 
manges  that  mother  used  to  spend  her 
time  in  making,  or  the  long,  peaceful, 
quiet  heart  to  heart  talks?

There  is  another  side  of  this  subject 
that  I  want  to  call  the  attention  of  the 
good,  conscientious  woman  to  and  that 
is  that  it  is  often  just  as  much  a  wom­
an’s  duty  to  live  for  her  family  as  it  is 
to  die  for them.  It  is  a  platitude  tor say 
you  can  wear out  any  kind  of  a machine 
unless  you  give  it  rest,  yet  many  wom­
en  go  on  the  theory  that  the  human 
body,  especially  the  feminine  human 
body—the  most  complicated  and  deli­
cate  machine  in  the  world—never  needs 
to  be  rested  up. 
I  once  heard  a  very 
clever  doctor  tell  an  overworked  mother 
who  was  so  nervous  she  could  not  sit 
still  that  if  every  woman would lie  down 
every  day  for  half  an hour  in  a  dark, 
quiet  room,  with  closed  eyes,  his  pro­
fession  would  be  gone.

“ But,  doctor,”  

the  woman 

ex-

claimed,  “ that  is  impossible  for  me!  I 
couldn’t  think  of  neglecting  my  chil­
dren  like  that!  Who  would  care  for 
them?”

“ Probably  the  same  people  who  will 
take  care  of  them  when  you  die,”   he 
answered,  cynically.

She  was  too  conscientious  to  heed 
the  advice  and,  really,  I  must  say  their 
stepmother  is  doing  a  very  good  part 
by  the  children  now. 
I  have  gone  to 
many  a  woman’s  funeral  where  I  did 
not  know  whether  to  revere  her  as  a 
martyr  or  mourn  her  as  a  fool  who  did 
not  have  sense  enough  to  live.

Much  as  modern  progress  has  done 
for  women,  we  owe  it  some  grudge  for 
having  robbed  us  of  the  restful  woman. 
She  it  was  who  used  to  have time  to  lis­
ten  to  our troubles  and  to  the  stories  of 
our  hopes  and  ambitions  and  dreams. 
There  are  no  such  women  now,  when 
even  grandma 
listens  to  us  with  one 
eye  on  the  clock  that  warns  her  of her 
committee  meeting,  and  the  average 
woman’s  day  is  so  brimming  over  with 
society  and  housekeeping  and  mother 
classes  and  charities  and  studies  and 
clubs  that  you  feel  you  have  to  state 
your  business  and  get  away  as  swiftly 
as  if  she  were  a  consulting  physician 
or the  head  of  a  billion  dollar  trust.

Nobody  would  turn  back  the  hand  of 
the  clock  of  progress,  but  it  is  undeni­
able  that,  as  a  sex,  we  are  trying  to  do 
too  much.  We  have  too  many  clubs,  too 
many  charities, 
too  many  entertain­
ments,  too  much  fashion,  and  too  much 
study.  They  give  us  mental  and  phys­
ical  dyspepsia,  and  we  want  to  get 
back  to  simpler  living  and  a  quieter 
life  and  to  realize  that  often  the  woman 
who  does  nothing  does  the most.  “ They 
also  serve who only  stand  and  wait.”  
Dorothy  Dix.

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is  to  work. 

lecting  her  religious  duty  by  not  going 
to  church  every  day  in  Lent.  She  really 
couldn’t  see  anything  that  she  could 
leave  off and  not  fail  in  her  duty  some­
where,  so  as  soon  as  she  was  able  to 
leave  the  doctor  let  her  go,  but  he 
scratched  out  the  original  entry  he  had 
made  on  the hospital book and recorded : 
“ General  collapse:  cause,  too  much 
conscience  and 
common 
sense. ’ ’
There 

is  not  a  day  in  the  week  that 
all  of  us  do  not  see  pretty  much  the 
same  thing"  exemplified  and  there 
is 
nothing  else 
in  the  world  more  truly 
pathetic than  the  great  army  of  women 
who  are  wearing  themselves  out,  and 
growing  old  and  haggard  and  nervous 
and  cross,  because  they  have  never  been 
taught  that  it  is  just  as  much one’s  duty 
to  rest  as 
“ They  also 
serve  who  only  stand  and  wait, ”   and 
little  as  the  toil-worn  and  weary  woman 
who  has  made  a  slave  of  herself  for  her 
family  may  believe 
the 
woman  who  keeps  herself  quiet  and 
restful  and  placid  fills  the  measure  of- 
her  duty  as  wife  and  mother  just  as 
fully  as  any  other.
No  other  thing 

life  ever  seems 
more  cruelly  unjust  than  the  lack  of  ap­
preciation  with  which  the  woman  who 
wears  herself  out  for  her  family 
invari­
ably  meets.  We  have  all  seen  the  little 
tragedy  happen  a  hundred  times.  A 
woman  will  make  a  burnt  offering  of 
herself  over  the  kitchen  stove  in  order 
to  prepare  the  food  just  exactly  to  suit 
the  pampered  palate  of  her  husband ;  or 
she  will  deny  herself  all  social  relaxa­
tion  and  enjoyment 
in  the  evening  to 
hold  a  spoilt  child’s  hands while  it  goes 
to  sleep;  or  she  will  toil  all  day  and 
far  into  the  night  over  her  sewing  ma-‘ 
chine 
in  order  that  her  little  Sallie’s 
frock  may  have  as  many  tucks  in  it  as 
the  Smith  girl’s  next  door;  or  her  little 
Johnny’s  collar  may  be  as  beruffled  and 
Fauntleroyed  as  the  Croesus  boy  across 
the  street.

it,  perhaps 

in 

In  her  misguided 

idea  of  what  is 
right  and  wrong,  such  a  woman  never 
doubts  but  what  she  is  doing  the  very 
best  possible  thing  for  her  family  and 
her  full  duty as  a  wife  and  mother,  and 
she  feels  that  the  women  who  are  tak­
ing  life  easier  are  falling  very  far short. 
She  wonders  how  little  Mrs.  Brown  can 
find 
it  in  her  conscience  to  drop  every­
thing  and  go  out  for a  walk  just because 
the  spring 
is  calling  to  her  with  a 
thousand  seductive  voices  or  how  she 
can  be  so  lost  to  a  sense  of  her  duty  as 
a  mother  as  to  idle  away  an  hour  in  an 
afternoon  nap  when  everybody  can  see 
the  Brown  children  have  scarcely  a  tuck 
or  a  ruffle  to  their clothes,  and  the  cook 
says  they  are  just  going  to  have  a  plain 
pudding  for  dinner,  instead  of  some­
thing  that  takes  forty-seven different  in­
gredients  and  calls  for  the  personal 
handiwork  of  the  mistress.

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I  always  envy  preachers. 

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Too M uch Conscience and Too L ittle Sense.
It  must  be 
perfectly 
lovely  to be  able  to  stand  up 
and  talk  by  the  hour to  people  who  can 
not  talk  back  to  you.  Being  a  woman,
I  suppose  I  shall  never  have  that  priv­
ilege,  but  if  1  ever  do,  I  am  going  to 
preach  one  sermon  to  my  sex  from  the 
text:  “ They  also  serve who only  stand 
and  wait.”

Of  course,  the  idea  is  revolutionary. 
When  men  preach  to  women they always 
spend  their  time  telling  their  feminine 
hearers  of  more  things they  ought to  do 
and  extra,  duties  they  ought  to annex 
and  additional  cares  they  ought  to  un­
dertake,  and  the  worst  of  the  matter  is 
that  women  take  all  these  fine  theories 
for  gospel  truth.  They  think  they  ought 
to  be  doing  things,  too.  A  woman  is 
never  so  absolutely  sure  she  is  doing 
her  full  duty  as  when*she  is  working 
herself  to  death,  and  when  she  succeeds 
in  precipitating  nervous  prostration  on 
herself,  she  looks  upon  it  as  an  outward 
and  visible  sign  of  spiritual  grace.

There  may  have  been  a  time  when 
women  needed  spurring  up—when  they 
in  a  state  of  mental  lethargy 
existed 
and  failed 
in  realizing  their  responsi­
bility  for  running  the  universe  right. 
Heaven  knows  that  time  is  passed  now 
and  that  the  crying  need  of  this  day 
is 
some  sort  of  a  break  to  stop  the  modern 
woman  from  going  so  fast.  Her  car  of 
progress  is  an  automobile  geared  up  to 
run  at 
lightning  speed  and  its  pace  is 
the  pace  that  kills.  Where  one  woman 
fails  to  do all that  she ought to do,  a mil­
lion  perish  from  doing  too  much,  and 
it  is  high  time  for  us  to  begin  to  com­
prehend  that  running  herself  to  fiddle 
strings  is  not  the  first  duty  of  woman, 
nor even  the  most  important.

The  other  day  the  newspaper  dis­
patches  told  of  a  woman  in  another city 
who  fainted  in  a  dry  goods  store  and 
was  taken  to the  hospital  in  a  state  of 
complete  collapse.  The  doctor  who  at­
tended  her  found  a  list  on  her visiting 
card 
in  her  purse  which  read:  “ Am­
monia;  one  spool  of  blue  silk;  shoes 
for  Bobby;  see  caterer  about 
lunch; 
hat  for  Mamie ;  dressmaker at io ;  bottle 
for  baby;  Jovin’s  logic;  marketing ; 
theater  tickets;  board  meeting  at  2; 
stationery;  lecture  at  4;  church.”

The  first  words  the  victim  spoke  were 
an  apology  for  having  given  away,  and 
she  explained  to  the  doctor  that  she 
must  go  as  soon  as  she  was  able  to 
walk,  as  the  housemaid  needed  the  am­
monia  to  clean 
the  windows;  unless 
the  dressmaker  got  the  silk  she  could 
not  finish  Sallie's  dress  in  time  for  the 
afternoon  party;  it  was  absolutely  nec­
essary  for her to  see  the  caterer about  a 
lunch  she  was  giving  the  next  day,  and 
if the  baby  didn’t  get  the  fresh  bottle 
the  nurse  would  give  him  a  sour  one, 
which  might  kill  him.  The  comfort of 
the  entire  family  depended  on  her  get­
ting  the  marketing  properly  done. 
It 
was  necessary  for  her to  be  at  the  board 
meeting,  as  an  important  matter  was  to 
be  decided,  and  she  must  show  up  at 
the  lecture,  of  which  she  was. one  of  the 
lady  patronesses,  and  which  was  to help 
a  charity  she  had  much  at  heart.  The 
physician’s questioning  elicited  the fact 
that  in  addition  she  had  undertaken  the 
study  of 
logic  to  keep  her  mind  from 
getting  rusty,  and  belonged  to  a  current 
events  club  that  she  might  not  fall  be­
hind  her  husband  in  knowledge  of  the 
topics  of  the  day,  and,  of  course,  she 
couldn’t  think  of  such  a  thing  as  neg­

To the  woman  who  makes  a  domestic 
slave  of  herself  any  idleness  is  a  dead­
ly  sin,  but  what  troubles  her  most  is 
that  the  sinners  seem  to get  so  much the 
best  of  things.  By  all  laws  of  gratitude 
she  who  does  so  much  for her  family 
and  sacrifices  so  much  for  them  ought 
to  be  the  adored  wife  and  mother. 
In­
stead it  is  the Mrs.  Browns  who don’t  do 
so  much  but  who  keep  themselves sunny 
and  bright  and  sweet  tempered  who  are 
worshipped  by  their husbands  and  chil­
dren.

Nor is this so  unreasonable as it seems. 
It  is  the  plain  working  out  of  cause  and 
effect  and  it  is  really  worth  a  woman’s 
while  to  sit  down  and  do  a  little  figur- 
I ing  on  the  subject  and  see  if  she  isn’t

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No  Reason  for T aking  Life  Too Seriously.
An  English  writer  tells  of  aTamous 
London  doctor,  whose  consulting  room 
were  always  thronged with patients,  who 
owed  most  of  his  success to the impress­
ive  manner  in which  he  clasped  his  pa­
tients’  hands at  the door as  they left him 
and  exclaimed,  “ Don’t  brood.’ ’  Most 
of  them  had  been  brooding  before  they 
came  to  him  over  financial  loss  or  sor­
row  or  domestic  unhappiness  or 
ill 
health,  and  they  fully  intended  brood­
ing  again  when  they  left  him.but  some- 
how  the  dramatic  and  almost  tragic 
tones  in  which  the  doctor  uttered  the in­
junction  made  them  pause.

“ Don't  brood,”   echoed  in  their  ears 
as  they  departed.  To  fly  in  the  face  ol 
such  a  solemn  injunction seemed  almost 
like  tempting  providence,  and  when  it 
comes  to  the  pinch  none  of  us  are  quite 
prepared  for  the  worst.  They  dared 
not  brood.  They  longed  to,  for nothing 
is  a  more  subtile  temptation  than  to  in­
dulge  one’s  self  in  the  luxury  of  gloat­
ing  over  one’s  misfortunes  and  pitying 
one’s  self  as  the  most  unhappy  and  un­
lucky  of  mortals,  but  out  of  the  silence 
and  the  gloom  came  the  doctor’s  warn­
ing,  “ Don’t  brood,”   and  they 
felt 
forced  to  brace  up  and  assume  a  more 
cheerful  attitude  towards  life. 
Insen­
sibly  their  health 
improved,  and.,the 
physician’s  fame  as  a  healer  spread 
throughout  all  the  length  and  breadth^! 
the  kingdom.

We  all  know  that  worry  drains  the 
system  of  vitality  and  that  it  is  the 
things  that  annoy  us,  instead  of  the 
work  we  do,  that  leave  us^exhausted 
when  the  day  is  done.  Work  done  with 
a 
light  heart  never  tires  us,  and  the 
trouble  that  we  meet  with  a  brave  and 
steadfast  courage 
is  already  half  con­
quered. 
It  is the grief and  misfortunes 
that  we  allow  ourselves  to brood  over 
that  destroy  us,  body  and  soul.

It 

little  cough,  for  instance. 

is  strange,  too,  how  things  grow 
when  we  brood  over them.  The  magic 
bean  that  shot  up  to the  clouds  in  a  sin­
gle  night  is  nothing  to  the  phenomenal 
growth  that  a  trouble  or  wrong  can  take 
on 
if  we  plant  the  seed  in  some  silent 
hour  and  water  it  with  a  few  tears.  We 
have  a 
In­
stead  of  taking  our  ailment  out  into 
the  sunlight,  we  begin  to  brood  over 
it.  We  recall  many  pathetic  cases  of 
lives  blighted  by  consumption 
young 
We  dig  back 
into  our  family  history 
and  rake  up  ancestors  who  had  coughs, 
and  before  we  know  it  we  are  trembling 
on  the  brink  of  the  grave— in  imagina­
tion  at  least— and  really  have  brooded 
into 
ourselves 
semi-invalidism.  Or 
maybe 
it 
is  some  little  criticism  or a 
misunderstanding with a friend.  Perhaps 
one  word  of  explanation  might  have  set 
it  right  at  first,  but  the  minute] we  be 
gin  to  brood  over  it  we  see  a  deadly  in 
suit  and  malice  and  all uncharitableness 
in  it,  and  not  all  the  king's  horses  and 
all  the  king’s  men  can  ever  cement  the 
broken  bonds  of  affection  between  us 
again.

“ Don’t  brood!”   Those  two  words 
are  a  fine  motto  for  women.  Women 
worry  and  vivisect  themselves  and  their 
affairs  too  much.  They  not  only  cross 
bridges  before  they  come  to  them,  but 
they  go  out  of  their  way  to  build  them. 
There 
is  no  reason  for  taking  life  too 
seriously.  We  can  labor  better and  ac 
complish  more  to  the  accompaniment  of 
laughter  than  tears,  and  the  best  medi 
cine  for  an  aching  heart  or a  sick  body 
is  a  good,  hearty,  blood-stirring  laugh.

Cora  Stowell

Sorrow, 

like  the  age  of  a  woman, 

grows  less  every  time  it  is  told.

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H ardw are

H istorical  Position  o f Some  Staples in tlie 

H ardw are Trade.

An  article  of  considerable  vogue 

in 
England  400  years  ago  was  known  as 
“ the  apostle's  spoon.”  
It  was  an  or­
dinary  spoon,  upon  the  handle  of  which 
was  engraved  the  head  of  some  one  of 
the  twelve  apostles,  accompanied  by  an 
appropriate  emblem.  They  were  largely 
used as  christening  gifts.  Three  sets  of 
these  souvenirs  of  1500 are  still 
in  ex­
istence.

*  

*  

*

The  evolution  of  the  spoon  as  an  ar­
luxury  and  a  business 
ticle  of  table 
commodity  is  interesting. 
“ The  palm 
of  the  hand,”  says  one  writer,  “ was  the 
spoon  of  primitive  man.”   Then  came 
the  shell  from  the  seashore,  which  was 
used 
just  as  nature  made  it,  for both 
dipping  and  eating.  While  the  spoon 
its  present 
of  manufacture,  much 
shape,  was  used 
in  Egypt  and  Greece 
and  Rome,  the  people  north  of  the  Alps 
were  still  making  use  of  the  natural 
shell,  with  a  little  handle  attached.  As 
time  went  by,  the  handle  grew,  and 
became  flatter and  more  shapely.

in 

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*  

*

The  making  of  American  hardware 
and  of  the  iron  from  which  the  tools  of 
that  day  were  forged  did  not  cut  a 
large  figure  during  the  eighteenth  cen­
tury. 
In  1702  an  iron  furnace  was  set 
up  in  Plymouth,  Mass.,  but  was  aban­
doned  for the  want  of  fuel.  A  few  years 
later  a  company  was  formed  in  Connec­
ticut  to  work  certain  copper  mines,  and 
had  to  pay  10 shillings  for  each  ton pro­
duced.  A  portion  of  this  public  fund 
went  to  the  support  of  Yale  Cojlege.  In 
1710  the  Drinkwater  Iron  Works  were 
erected  near Abington,  Mass.,  and  at  a 
later  date  cannon  and  shot  cast  there 
were  used 
In  1719 
the  Legislature  of  Maryland  passed  an 
act  by  which  100  acres  of  land  should 
be  laid  off  to  anyone  who  would  erect 
furnaces  and  forges 
in  that  province. 
During  the  next  thirty  years  eight  fur­
naces  and  nine  forges  came  into  exist­
ence  there.

in  the  Revolution. 

*  

*  

*

In  a  report  concerning  the  manufac­
tures  so  far  established  in  the  Ameri­
can  colonies,  made  to  the  English  Par­
liament  in  1731,  it  was  announced  that 
in  Massachusetts  Bay,  New  England: 
“ There  are  also  several  forges  for  mak­
ing  bar  iron,  and  some  furnaces for cast 
iron  or  hollow  ware,  and  one  slitting 
mill  and  a  manufacture  for nails.”   No 
mention  of  the  making  of  other  hard­
ware  articles  in  any  of  the  colonies  is 
made.  Glass  was  made  in  New  York 
City  as  early  as  1732.  Seven  years  later, 
one  Joseph  Mallinson  was  rewarded  by 
the  General  Court  of  Massachusetts,  for 
the  advantage  the  public  had  received 
from  his  manufacture  of hollow  ware, 
pots,  kettles,  etc. 
In  1740  the  manu­
facture  of  gun-stocks  was commenced  at 
Beaver's  Creek,  New  York. 
In  1744 
Benjamin  Franklin  published  an  ac­
count  of the  open  stove,  or  “ newly  in­
vented  Pennsylvania  fireplace, ’  as  he 
called  it.  This  is  the  famous  “ Frank­
lin  Stove,”   by  which  name  it  still  goes 
to-day.

*  *  *

In  1748  500  stand  of  arms  for  the 
province  of  Massachusetts  were  made 
by  Hugh  Orr,  in  his  shop  at  Bridge- 
water,  and  are  supposed  to  have  been 
the  first  muskets  made  in  this  country. 
The  first  tinware  made  in  America  is 
said  to  have  been  that  turned  out  by 
Edward  Patterson,  a  native  of  Ireland,

at  Berlin,  Conn.,  in  1770.  Five  years 
later  Nathaniel  Niles  set  up  a  manufac­
tory  for the  making  of  iron  wire,  for the 
making  of  cards,  at  Norwich,  Conn. 
He  was  encouraged  by  a  loan  of  .£300 
from  the  Connecticut  Legislature. 
In 
1784  one  Chittenden,  of  New  Haven, 
invented  a  machine  for  making  teeth 
for  cards,  capable  of  producing  86,000 
per hour.  A  little  later,  a  machine  for 
cutting  cold  tacks  and  nails  was 
in­
vented  by  Ezekiel  Reed,  of  Bridge- 
water,  Mass.  Some  years  afterward  his 
son,  Jesse  Reed,  patented a  machine  for 
cutting  and  heading  tacks  at  one  opera­
tion.

*  *  *

The  manufacture  of  wooden  clocks 
was  commenced  at  Waterbury,  Conn., 
in  1790,  by  James  Harrison.  The  first 
one  sold  for ¿3  12s.  6d. 
In  1795  a  pat- 
ent  was  issued  to Jacob  Perkins  for a 
machine  for cutting  and  heading  nails. 
In  the  same  year the  first  window-glass 
factory  of  Pittsburg  was  set  up.  The 
first  patent  for a  cast-iron  plow 
in  this 
country  was  issued  to  Charles  Newhold, 
of  Burlington,  N.  J., 
in  1797.  The 
curious objection  raised  by  the  farmers 
to  its  use  was  that  “ cast-iron  poisoned 
the  land,  and  spoiled  the  crop.”

It  will  be seen from  the foregoing facts 
that  the  manufacture  of  American  hard­
ware  had  not  been  greatly  advanced  on 
January  1,  1800.

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*  

*

An  old  hardwareman  was  talking 
about  foreign  and  American  cutlery. 
“ We  began  to  run  up against American- 
made  knives  early  in  the  70s. 
I  used 
to  see  them  here  and  there  in  the  coun­
try  stores,  and  must  confess  that  they 
did  not  fascinate  me.  The  handles  were 
severely  plain;  they  did  not  begin  to 
compare  in  looks  with  my  pretty  Eng­
lish  goods.  But  they  made  a  headway 
into  my  territory  with  true  American 
persistency. 
I  had  to take  off  my  hat 
to them ;  was  compelled  to acknowledge 
that  they  bad  come  to  stay. ’ ’

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*  

*

“ A 

little  earlier than  this,  say  about 
1865,”   continued  the  speaker,  “ at  least 
two-thirds  of  our  pocket  cutlery  was 
English,  while  the  other third  was  Ger­
man.  American  goods?  Well,  I  guess 
they  went  into  the  fourth  third,  if they 
got  there  at  all.  The  knife  handles 
then  were  large,  showy  and  iron-lined. 
The  blades  were  well  polished  and  of 
fair quality.  For an  ordinary  English 
two-blade  jack-knife  we  paid  $5.25  to 
$6  per  dozen.  We  jobbed  them  from 
$6.50 to $8,  while  the  retailers  charged 
from  85  cents  to $1.  The German  knives 
were  usually  rather  fancy-handled  pen 
patterns, 
in  ornamentation,  and 
bearing  no  resemblance  to  the  graceful 
pattern  of  a  later day.  But they  paid 
big  profits,  and  we  pushed  them  with 
all  the  vigor  we  had.  One  of three  or 
four blades  cost $6 to $7  per  dozen,  and 
we  jobbed  them  at  $8  to $12,  while  the 
retailer asked  $1  to $1.50.”

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*

An  old 

lockmaker,  who  was  speak­
ing  of  old 
locks,  said:  “ A  couple  of 
generations  ago,  locks  as  a  rule  were 
made  very  heavy,  and  almost  entirely 
of  wrought  iron,  with  fantastic  and 
curiously-shaped  bowed  keys,  upon  the 
fashioning  of  which  a  great  deal  of 
needless  labor  was  frequently expended. 
These  locks  offered  very  little  security 
against  picking.  They  had  but  a  sin­
gle  lever,  which  only  required  to  he 
raised  to  permit  the  bolt  being  thrown. 
Whenever  it  became  necessary  to  add 
extra  security  a  number  of  intricate 
wards  were  placed  within  the  case,  di­
rectly  in  front  of  the  lever,  to  prevent

the  same  from  being  raised  and  the  bolt 
thrown,  except  by  a  key  that  was  cut  so 
as  to  permit  its  passage  by  or through 
the  wards.  This  method  was  more  or 
less  costly  and  inefficient,  because  the 
keyholes  were  so  large  that  picking 
tools  could  readily  be  constructed  that 
would  operate  the  bolt  quite  as  well  as 
the  key 
later  the 
manufacturers  and 
lockmakers  discov­
ered  the  importance  of  using  not  a  sin­
gle 
lever  or  tumbler,  but  a  series  of 
them,  and  from  that  time  real  develop­
ment  and 
improvement  began  to  take 
place.  It  was then  that  the  modern  lock 
came  to  us  to  stay. ”
*  

itself.  Some  time 

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*

The  making  of  wire  is  one  of  the  old 
things  in  mechanics. 
The  machine- 
drawn  was  made 
in  Saxony  prior  to 
1565.  The 
industry  had  reached  such 
proportions  in  England  in  1630 that  the 
importation  was  prohibited.  The  great 
real 
impetus  of  wire  received  in  this 
country  began  about  1855,  when  tele­
graph 
lines  were  being  everywhere 
strung.  Wire  netting  was  first  made  in 
England 
in  1844,  the  size  of  the  mesh 
being  originally  pegged  out  upon  roll- 
ers,  and  the  wire  twisted  by  hand.
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W hen  the 
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the  job  it  will  be  a  nice 
thing to be able  to  say. “go 
right  along,  I  will  have  it 
for  you  in  a  day  or  two;” 
and  you  cm   say  it  if  you 
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quick shippers.  Better write 
to us about it;  we  save  you 
time and money.

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How  E xpert Safe-Openers Aid  the  Sales­

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Hardware  Price  Current

The  modem  rifles  and  shotguns  are 
In 
the  result  of  a  steady  evolution. 
invented  the  primer 
1807  one  Forsyth 
with  fulminating  powder.  The  percus­
sion  cap  came  along  in  1818.  The  plug 
and  nipple  form  first  came  into  use. 
It 
consisted  of  a  plug  entering  the  side  of 
the  barrel,  the  nipple  being  placed  on 
top.  A  style  of  musket  known  as  the 
“ Brown  Bess”   had  been  used  prior  to 
this  time for nearly  a century—chiefly in 
England.  The  barrel  was  42 
inches 
long,  its  calibre  75  inch,  and  it  carried 
a  ball  weighing  1.6  ounces.  In  1842  the 
hat  percussion  cap  made 
its  appear­
ance.  Two  years  earlier than  this  the 
patent  breech  was 'introduced,  and  was 
regarded  as  a  slight improvement on  the 
plug  and  nipple.

*  *  *

William  H.  Maher,  of  Toledo,  has 
described  in  a  most  interesting  manner 
how  he  was  once  persuaded  as  to  the 
value  of  an  American  saw: 
“ The 
papers  began  to  mention  an  American 
saw,  and  circulars  appeared  frequently 
from  one  Disston,  making  claims  as  to 
his  goods.  They  attracted  no  attention 
with  us,  however,  until  one  day  a  man 
introduced 
came 
into  our  store,  and 
himself  as  Henry  Disston. 
I  can  see 
him  now,  as  he  took  off  his  hat  and 
coat,  got  out  his  samples,  and proceeded 
to  snap  and  bend his blades.  He seemed 
to  be  so  reckless  that  I  was  afraid  to  be 
near  him,  for  if  one  of  those  blades  had 
snapped,  some  of  us  would  have 
suffered.  He  talked  with  emphasis.  He 
wanted  the  clerks  to  come  up  and  see 
what  he  was  doing.  He.dared  us  to  do 
with  a  Spear  &  Jackson  what  he  was 
doing  with  his  blades.  He  completely 
astonished  us.  We  had  never  supposed 
a  saw  blade  was  made  to  stand  the 
treatment  he  was  giving  those  he  had 
with  him.  There  was  but  one  thing  to 
do—acknowledge  that  he  had  a  good 
saw,  and  give  him  a  small  order.  He 
made  no  effort  to  have  it  made  larger. 
‘ You  will  have  to  keep  those  goods  on 
your  shelves  from  now  on,’  he  said. 
And  we  did.”

*  *  *

“ While  we  put  a  few  Disston  saws  in 
our stock,”   Mr.  Maher  continued,  “ we 
did  not  believe  that  we  could ever  make 
any  headway  against  the  English  saw. 
But  I  know  of  nothing  that  ever  intro­
duced  itself  so  easily  and  so quickly  as 
did  the  Disston  saw.  We  made  out  im­
portation  orders  for the  Spear  &  Jack- 
son  as  usual,  but  suddenly  noticed  that 
they  had  piled  up  on  the  shelves.  Why? 
Because  everyone  was  buying 
the 
American  saw.  And I  never  had harder 
work  than  to  finally  clean  out  the  Eng­
lish  saws.  Somehow  the  retailer  would 
not  have  them  at  any  price. 
I  see  that 
we  inventoried  a  few  of them  as  late  as 
1874,  yet  we  never  bought  one  after 
1868.’ ’—Hardware  Dealers’  Magazine.

B oth  at  Best.

“ I  suppose,”   said  the  stonecutter, 
“ you’ll  want  a  ‘ Requiescat  in  pace’  at 
the  bottom  of  your  wife’s  monument?”  
“  No, ”  replied the bereaved Mr.  Peck, 

“ make  it  ‘ Requiesco  in  pace.’  ”

“ That  means 

‘ I 

rest  in  peace,’ 

"Y es,  and  I  want  you  to  sign  that 

doesn’t  it?”

‘ Husband.’  ”

Sore  Sign  of Im provem ent.

“ Well,  madam,”   said  the  doctor, 
is  our  patient  this 

in,  “ how 

bustling 
morning?”

“ His  mind  seems  to  be  perfectly 
clear this  morning,  doctor,”   replied  the 
tired  watcher.  “ He refuses  to touch  any 
of  the  medicines.”

The  ardent  lover  is  like  the  tailor 

when  he  presses  bis  suit.

“ When  any  one  of  the  manufacturers 
gets  out  a  new  type  of  safe,”   said  a 
veteran  agent,  “ he  can  always  be  cer­
tain  of  half  a  dozen  customers  who  will 
fairly  tumble  over one  another  in  their 
eagerness  to  purchase.  Strange  to  say, 
they  are  not  men  who  are  in  need  of 
safes;  on  the  contrary,  they  have  safes 
to  burn.  They  are  his  business  rivals, 
who  are  anxious  to  lose  no  time  in  put­
ting  their  skilled  mechanics to work  un­
ravelling  the  secrets  of  the  new mechan­
ism.  You  must  understand,”   continued 
the  veteran,smiling,  “ that  the  strongest 
card  of  a  safe  agent  is  the  point-blank 
assertion  that  every  lock  except  his  own 
can  be  opened  by  an  expert,  and  he 
must  be  prepared  to  make  good,  when 
the  statement  is  questioned. 
I  don’t 
think  1  exaggerate  when  1  say  that  this 
one  claim 
is  the  backbone  of  the  safe 
business  and  brings  about  more  sales 
than  all  other  arguments  put  together.
“ To  illustrate  its  effectiveness,  sup­
pose  I  am  trying  to  persuade  the officers 
of  a  country  bank  to  put  new  doors  in 
their  vault. 
‘ But,  my  dear  man,’  they 
protest,  these  doors  we  have  now  are 
nearly  new  and  are  guaranteed  burglar-
proof  b y -----&  Co. ’  That  gives  me  my
I  glance  at  the  vault,  smile  sar­
cue. 
‘ Do 
castically  and  shrug  my  shoulders. 
you  really  believe  that  work 
is  the 
slightest  protection  against  burglars?’  1 
enquire. 
‘ Of course we d o!’  they  chorus 
anxiously; ‘ do  you  mean  to  intimate 
that  it 
I  don’t  reply  immedi­
ately,  but  affect  reluctance,  and  every 
director  stares  at  me  and  breathes  hard. 
‘ Well,  gentlemen,’  I  say  at last,  ‘ I never 
like  to  run  down  a  business  rival,  but 
since  you  ask  me,  I  don’t  mind  telling 
you  that  we  have  a  man  at  our  works 
who  can  open  those  doors  any  day  in 
less  than  fifteen  minutes.  That  will 
give  you  an  idea  how  long  they  would 
hold  out  against  a  modern  burglar.’

isn't?’ 

“ Of  course  such  a  speech  throws  the 
whole  crowd 
into  a  cold  sweat,  but 
nevertheless  they  indignantly  scout  my 
assertion,  and  I  proceed  to  jar  them 
again  by  calmly  telegraphing  for  my 
man.  Next  day,  let  us  say,  the  expert 
arrives.  He 
is  generally  a  very  ordi­
nary 
looking  fellow,  which  helps  the 
game  along,  and  I  take  him  over to  the 
bank  and  introduce  him  to  all  hands  as 
a  workman  from  our shops.  ‘ Now,  then, 
gentlemen,’  I  chirp  cheerfully,  ‘ get  out 
your  watches  and  see  how 
long  our 
friend  here  will  be 
in  breaking  into 
your burglar-proof  closet. ’  At that  the 
expert  walks  over,  lays  his  ear  against 
the  door  and  begins  to  manipulate  the 
combination.  The  chances  are  he  has 
been  studying  it  for months and months, 
and  every  faint  click  is  like  so  much 
plain  print.  Generally 
it  takes  from 
four  to  six  minutes  to  do  the  job,  and 
when  the  door  swings  open  the  poor di­
rectors 
look  at  each  other and  groan. 
After  that  it’s  dollars  to  doughnuts  I 
close  my  contract.

“ I  have  been  through  this  little  com­
edy  so  often,”   chuckled  the  veteran, 
“ that  I  know 
it  by  heart;  but  you 
mustn’t  suppose  that  every  deal  is as 
easy  as  the  one  I  described.  1  selected 
a  simple  case  as  an  illustration,  and 
often  the  work  is  a  great deal more com­
plicated.  But 
it  all  turns  on  opening 
the  other  fellow’s  door,  and  what  1 
wanted  to  make  clear  was  the  import­
ance  of  the  professional  expert.  The 
moment  any  novelty  is  introduced  he 
makes 
it  a  study  and  keeps  at  it  until 
he  has  devised  some  method  of  exhibit­
ing 
it  to  its  disadvantage.  The  touch 
and  hearing  of  men  of  that class become 
so  abnormally  sensitive 
in  time  that 
they  appear  to  be  guided  by  instinct, 
and  they  do  things  they  can’t  explain 
themselves.  No,  I  never  heard  of  one 
turning  crooked,  and  I  doubt  whether 
any  burglar  that  ever  lived  equaled 
them  in  skill.”

light—that 

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

*  ' %  w
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»  *
s.  JN

40
60
75
80
2 60
300
495
580

1  20
1  20

60
70
80

Per
100
$2 90
2 90
2 90
2 90
2 95
3 00
2 50
2 60
2 65
2 70
2 70

72
64

4 00
2 25
1  25

1  40
60
25
50
8 50
7 00

A m m unition

Caps

G. D., full count, per m......................  
Hicks’ Waterproof, per m.................. 
Musket, per m..................................... 
Ely’s Waterproof, per m....................  
No. 22 short, per m ............................. 
No. 22 long, per m ..............................  
No. 32 short, per m ............................. 
No. 32 long, per m..............................  

Cartridges

No. 2 U. M. C., boxes 260,  per m........ 
No. 2 Winchester, hoses 250, per m ... 

Primers

Gun Wads

Black edge, Nos. IX and 12 U. M. C... 
Black edge. Nos. 9 and 10, per m.......  
Black edge, No. 7, per m .................... 

Loaded  Shells

New Rival—For Shotguns

Drs. of
Powder

No.
120
129
128
126
135
154
200
208
236
265
264

oz. of
Shot
lVi
1%
1V4
1V4
1H
lVi
1
1
1V4
lVi
1V4
Discount 40 per cent.

4
4
4
4
*H
4VÍ
3
3
354
3 Vi
3V4
Paper Shells—Not Loaded
No. 10, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100.. 
No. 12, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100.. 

Size
Shot
10
9
8
6
5
4
10
8
6
5
4

Gauge
10
10
10
10
10
10
12
12
12
12
12

Gunpowder

Kegs, 25 lbs., per  keg.........  
H kegs, 12V4 lbs., per  M  keg.............. 
H kegs, 6J4 lbs., per 54  keg...............  

. 

Shot

Axes

A ugurs  and  Bits

In sacks containing 25 lbs.
Drop, all sizes smaller than B........... 
Snell’s .................................................  
Jennings  genuine............................... 
Jennings’ imitation.............................  
First Quality, S. B. Bronze................. 
First Quality, D. B. Bronze.....................  
First Quality, S. B. S.  Steel................ 
First Quality,  1). B. Steel........................  
Railroad.................................................... 
Garden................................................net 
Stove................................................... 
Carriage, new H«t  .............................. 
Plow ................................................... 
Well, plain...............................................  

Barrows

Buckets

Bolts

B utts,  Cast

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

23

70

Levels

Mattocks

Metals—Zinc

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

Adze Eye................................$17 00. .dls  70—10

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

Miscellaneous

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

Molasses  Gates

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

7Vi
8

40
75&10
85
.  50&10&10 
50

60&10
30

Pans

Fry, Acme........................................
Common,  polished..........................

.  60&10&10 
70&5

P ateut  Planished  Iron

“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27  10 75 
“B” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 26 to 27  9 75

Broken packages Vic per pound extra.

Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire.

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

Planes

Nails

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

Rivets

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

Hoofing  Plates

10 00
11 50
15 00

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...

 

30 00

60
65&10
50
$4 00

65
60

Ropes

Sisal, Vi inch and larger.....................
Manilla................................................

Sand  Paper 
List acct.  19, ’86............ ...........
Sash  W eights

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

dls

Sheet Iron

60
60
60
50

2 65
2 66
Base
5
10
20
30
45
70
60
15
25
36
25
35
45
85

50
45

6 60 
7 60 
13 00 
6 50 
6 50 
11  00 
13 00

8Vi
12

60

25 00

Chain

\  In. 

5-16 hi.  % In.  K In.
... 4i£c.
... 6
...  6Vi

Com..............   7  c.  ...  6  c. 
... 5  c. 
BB................   814 
...  7V4 
... 614 
BBB..............  81i 
... 814 
...  7X 
Crowbars
Cast Steel, per lb................................. 
Socket Firm er.................................... 
Socket Framing..................................  
Socket Corner.....................................  
Socket Slicks....................................... 

Chisels

Elbows

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

Expansive  Bits

Files—New  List

Clark’s small, $18;  large, $26.............. 
Ives’ 1, $18;  2, $24;  3, $30....................  
New American.................................... 
Nicholson’s.......................................... 
Heller’s Horse Rasps.......................... 
Nos, 16 to 20;  22 and 24;  25 and 26;  27, 
16. 
List  12  13 

Galvanized  Iron

14 

15 

Discount,  65

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

Gauges

Glass

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

H am m ers

6
66
65
65
66

65
1  25
- 40&10

40
25
70&10
70
70
28
17

60&10

85&
85&
80&20

Hinges

Hollow  W are

Maydole & Co.’s, new list..................dis 
33V4
40&10
Terkes & Plumb’s..............................dls 
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel............... 30c list 
70
60&10
Gate, Clark’s l, 2,3............................dls 
PotS...........................................*........  
50&10
Kettles................................................ 
50&10
50&10
Spiders................................................ 
Au Sable........................................... dls 
40&10
House  F urnishing Goods
Stamped Tinware, new list................. 
70
Japanned Tinware............................... 
20&10
Bar Iron.............................................2 25  c rates
Light Band.........................................   3 c rates

Horse  Nails

Iro n

Knobs—New  List

Door, mineral, jap. trimmings........... 
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings......... 
Regular 0 Tubular, Doz....................... 
Warren, Galvanized  Fount................ 

Lanterns

75
86
5 00
00

com. Bmooth.  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 60
3 60
All Sheets No.  18 and  lighter,  over  30  Inches 

Shovels and  Spades

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

8 00
7 50

Solder

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

Squares

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

Tin—Melyn  Grade

10x14IC, Charcoal............................. 
14x20 iC, Charcoal............................... 
20x14 IX, Charcoal............................... 

Each additional X on this grade, $1.25.

Tin—Allaw ay  Grade

70

$ 8 50
8 60
9 75

Traps

Each additional X on this grade, $1.60 

10x14 IC, Charcoal............................... 
14x20 IC, Charcoal............................... 
10x14 IX, Charcoal............................... 
14x20 IX, Charcoal............................... 
B oiler Size  Tin  Plate 
14x56IX,for No.8BoUers, } „ rDOUnd 
14X56IX, for No. 9 Boilers, f P®r pouna" 
Steel,  Game........................................
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s.......
Oneida Community,  Hawley  &  Nor­
ton’s.................................................
Mouse,  choker  per doz......................
Mouse, delusion, pe.- doz....................
Bright Market.....................................
Annealed  Market...............................
Coppered Market................................
Tinned  Market...................................
Coppered Spring Steel.......................
Barbed Fence, Galvanized.................
Barbed Fence, Fainted.......................
Bright...............................................
Screw Eyes........................................ .
Hooks.................................................
Gate Hooks and Eyes........................
Baxter’s Adjustable, Nickeled..........  
Coe’s Genuine..................................... 
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, JWrought.. 70W0

W ire Goods

Wrenches

W ire

7 00
7 00
8  80
8  50

6O&10 

.  10 
10
75
40&10
65 
15 
1  25
60 
60 
50&10 
40 
3 30 
3 00
80
80
80
80
30
30

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

PIO N EER  DATS.

Influence  of D aniel  B all  on  D evelopm ent 

of G rand  R iver  Valley.

Written  for the Tradesman.

There  are  many  old 

residents  of 
Grand  Rapids  who are  familiar with  the 
business  career  of  the  subject  of  this 
sketch  and  recollect  his  untiring zeal  for 
the  commercial  interests  and  business 
development  of  the  Grand  River  Valley 
from  Lyons  to  Grand  Haven,  but  few 
are  familiar  with  his  active  participa­
tion 
in  the  early  settlement  of  Shia­
wassee  county,  the  practical  develop­
ment  of  the  water  power of  the  Shia­
wassee  River  and  the 
foundation  he 
helped  to 
lay  of  the  beautiful  city  of 
Owosso.  A  short  history  of  Daniel  Ball 
and  his  business  career during  his  resi­
dence 
in  Owosso,  now  a  city  of  more 
than  10,000  inhabitants,  from  1836  to  the 
time  of  his  removal  for a  wider field  of 
operations  at  Grand  Rapids  in  1839  or 
1840 will  prove  of  interest  to  readers  of 
the Tradesman conversant  with  the  early 
days  of this  locality.

In  1836  Daniel  Ball  &  Co.  purchased 
a  one-third  interest  in  the  then  village 
plat,  now  the  city  of  Owosso,  of  the 
Messrs.  A.  S.  &  B.  O.  Williams,  be­
sides  the  entire  water  power  and  the 
land 
lying  between  the  proposed  mill 
race  and  the  river.  Silas  Ball  and  Dan­
iel  Ball  also  purchased  of  the  general 
Government  in  March,  1836,  lands  on 
sections  24,  25  and  36.  The  history  of 
Shiawassee  county  gives  the  following 
information: 
“ Mr.  Ball,  a  practical 
millwright,  an  energetic  business  man, 
in  pursuance  of  his  project  to  establish 
mills  and  to  assist  in  building  up  a  vil­
lage,  arrived  here  from  Rochester,  New 
York,  early  in  the  summer of  1836  with 
a  number  of  families  who  were  known 
as  Ball’s  colonists.”   Many  of  the  des­
cendants  of  these  colonists  are  now 
scattered  through  Shiawassee  county. 
Mr.  Ball  had  also  bought  and  shipped 
from  Rochester,  New  York,  the  machin­
ery  for  a  sawmill,  together  with  the 
household  goods  of  his  colonists  and  a 
stock  of  general  merchandise,  to  Sagi­
it  was  proposed  to  bring 
naw,  whence 
them  up 
the  Shiawassee  River  by 
canoes,  flat  boats  or  rafts.  Here  he  was 
met  with  obstacles  that  would  have  dis­
heartened  men  of  less  perseverance.  A 
heavy  snowstorm  on  October 6 filled  the 
river  with  fallen  timber,  that  had  to  be 
removed  before  the  goods  could  leave 
Saginaw. 
In  this  emergency  Mr.  Ball 
showed  himself  a  hero.  There  are  now 
living  witnesses  to  prove  that  he  was 
often  seen  laboring  with  his  men  in  the 
water  up  to  his  waist.  Notwithstand­
ing  all  the  hardships  he  had  to  endure 
Mr.  Ball's  cheerful  courage  never  failed

him.  The  machinery  and  goods  were 
finally 
landed  at  Owosso,  the  families 
were  comfortably  housed  in  log  cabins 
and  work  was  immediately  commenced 
on  the  mill  race.  Under  Mr.  Ball’s 
characteristic  energy  the  dam  was  built 
and  the  sawmill  was  in  running  order 
in  1837. 
It  will  be  seen  from  the  fore­
going  that  the  development  of  the  water 
power  of  the  Shiawassee  River  was 
mainly  due  to  the  capital  and  business 
energy  of  Daniel  Ball.

Daniel  Ball  and  Sanford  M.  Green, 
afterwards  of  the  Supreme  Court  bench 
of  Michigan,  built  the  first  gristmill  in 
Owosso.

The  Owosso  and  Saginaw  Navigation 
Co.  was 
incorporated  by  act  of  Legis­
lature  March  21,  1837.  The  name  of 
Daniel  Ball  appears  first  in  the  list  of 
incorporators.  The  object  was  to  secure 
slack  water  navigation  between  Owosso 
and  Saginaw.  The  idea  of  this  im­
provement  originated  with  Mr.  Ball. 
This  project,  after  two  years’  labor  in 
removing obstacles,  principally  between 
Chesaning  and  Bad  River,did  not prove 
an  entire  success,  although  considerable 
business  was  done.  One  flat  bottomed 
boat  was  known  to  carry  200 barrels  of 
flour  from  Owosso  to  Saginaw.  The 
comprehensive  system  of  public 
im­
provements  inaugurated  by  the  Legis­
lature  at  its  session  of  1837,  which  con­
templated  the  construction  of  what  is 
now  the  Detroit  &  Milwaukee  Rail­
way,  and  which  promised an  outlet  to 
Eastern  markets  by  a  much  shorter 
route,  at  once  attracted  the  attention  of 
Mr.  Ball,  and  we  next  find  him,in  com­
pany  with  Mr.  B.  O.  Williams,  in  a 
contract  for  grading  ten  miles  of  this 
railroad  eastward 
from  Lyons.  This 
work  was  pushed  with  energy  by  the 
two  men  from  January,  1839,  to  July 
of  the  same  year.  They  then  informed 
the  chief  engineer  of  their  intention  to 
abandon  the  work  unless  they  were 
punctually  paid.  This  demand  not  be­
ing  met,  and  not  being  disposed  to 
make  farther  cash  advances  to  the State, 
the  contract  was  abandoned.  The  Shia­
wassee  county  Circuit  Court  at  the  first 
term  was  held  on  December  4,  1837, 
and  the  name  of  Daniel  Ball  appears 
upon  the  record  as  foreman  of  the  first 
grand 
in  Shiawassee 
county.  This  grand  jury  found  but  one 
indictment.

jury  empaneled 

Daniel  Ball  was  the  confidential  asso­
ciate  and  friend  of  all  the  best  men  who 
found  a  home  in  the  wilderness of  Shia­
wassee  county,  and  every  project 
for 
progress  or improvement  found  in  him  a 
hearty  co  operator.

Such,  in brief,  is  the  history  of  Daniel 
Ball’s  business  career  during  his  resi­

in  building 

dence  in  Owosso  from  1836  until  his  re­
moval  to  Grand  Rapids.  His  name 
stands  out  prominently  in  the  list  of  en­
terprising  business  men  who  made  up 
the  early  settlers  of  the  Grand  River 
Valley.  He  was  the 
leader  in  all  the 
greater  enterprises  of  that  early  period 
and  was  among  the  first  to  realize  the 
prospective  progress  and  the  possibili­
ties  that  were 
in  store  for the  city  of 
It  was  Daniel  Ball  who 
Grand  Rapids. 
first  engaged 
steamboats 
and  scows  of  light  draft  to  navigate 
Grand  River above  the  rapids  to  Lyons 
and  below  to  Grand  Haven,  and  every 
manufacturing  enterprise  that  promised 
to  add  to  the  business  importance  of 
Grand  Rapids  always  could  count  upon 
his  material  and  moral  support.  Mills, 
foundries  and  machine  shops  were  the 
beneficiaries  of  his  financial  and  busi­
ness  foresight.  He  bought  the  farmers’ 
surplus  produce  and  furnished  transpor­
tation  by  water  to  an  outside  market. 
He  bought  wheat  for  Ionia  and  Grand 
Rapids  mills,  which  was  manufactured 
into  flour and  shipped  to Chicago  before 
the  great  State  of  Illinois  raised  wheat 
enough  for  her own  consumption.  He 
established  the  first  legitimate  banking 
institution 
in  the  Grand  River  Valley, 
and,  in  the  estimation  of the writer,  con­
tributed  more  to  the  foundation  of  the 
commercial  importance  of  Grand  Rap­
ids  than  any  other one  man.

It  is  to  such  men  as  Daniel  Ball  that 
the world-wide reputation of  Grand Rap­
ids  as  a  manufacturing  city  is  due  and 
too  much  can  not  be  said  or done  in 
honor of  their  memory.

VV.  S.  H.  Welton.

Some  men  think 

their  aim 
missing  a  train  in  the  morning.

in 

less  about  missing 
life  than  they  do^about 

NO  M ORE  DUST1

No more wet sawdust or sprinkling.

Clean, Quick, Easy Sweeping.

W IEN 8  SAN ITARY AND D U 8T L E 88 

FLOOR BRUSH,

W IENS  B RU SH  C O .,  M ILW AUKEE,  W IS.

BOLD  MEDAL, PARIS,  1900
Walter Baker & Co. w
COCOAS AND CHOCOLATES

PURE,  HIGH-GRADE

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

Under the  decisions of  the  U. 
S.  Courts  no  other chocolate  or 
cocoa  is  entitled  to  be  labelled 
or sold  as  “ Baker’s Chocolate” 
or “ Baker’s Cocoa.”

Grocers  will  find  them   In 
the long run th e  most profit­
able  to   handle,  as  they  are 
absolutely pure  and  of  uni­
form  quality.

TRADC-MARK.

In writing  your  order specify Walter 
Baker & Co.’s goods. 
If other goods 
are  substituted  please  let  us  know.

WALTER BAKER & CO. United,

DORCHESTER, MASS.

Established 1780.

HOUR'S

COFFEES
MAKE  BUSINESS

SC O TTEN -D ILLO N   COM PANY

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SW E E T  SPRAY.

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DOUBLE CROSS.  Long Cut. 
SW E E T  CORE.  Plug Cut. 
FLA T  CAR.  Granulated.

PLU G

CREM E  DE  MENTHE. 

STRONG  HOLD. 
FLA T  IRON. 

SO-LO.

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Commercial Travelers
President,  Geo. F. Owen,  Grand  Rapids;  Sec­
retary,  A.  W.  Stitt,  Jackson;  Treasurer, 
J ohn W. Schram, Detroit.

Michigan  Knights  of the  Grip

President,  A.  Marymont,  Detroit;  Secretary 

Michigan  Commercial  Trawlers’  Association 
and Treasurer, Geo.  W. Hil l, Detroit.
United  Commercial  Trarelere of Michigan 

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

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

Senior Counselor,  W  R.  Compton;  Secretary- 

Treasurer, L. F. Baker.

Michigan  Commercial Trarelere’  Mutual  Accident  Association 
President, J.  Boyd  Pantlind,  Grand  Rapids; 
Secretary  and  Treasurer,  Geo.  F.  Ow en, 
Grand Rapids.__________________________

Gripsack  Brigade.

Geo.  A.  Newhall  (Clark-Jewell-Wells 
Co.) 
is  confined  to  his  house  by  a  se­
vere  cold  and  is  threatened  with  pneu­
monia.  His  trade  is  being  visited in the 
meantime  by  Henry  J.  Cheney.

Wm.  Scotten,  President  and  Manager 
of  the  Scotten  Tobacco  Co.,  was in  town 
Monday,  calling  on  the  jobbing  trade  in 
company  with  M.  M.  Mallory,  Western 
Michigan  representative  of  the  house. 
Mr.  Scotten  is  accompanying  Mr.  Mal­
lory  on  his  northern  trip  this  week, 
which  will 
include  brief  calls  on  the 
merchants  of  Cadillac,  Traverse  City 
and  Petoskey.

Chas.  W.  Hurd,  who  was  in  the  em­
ploy  of  the  Hazeltine  &  Perkins  Drug 
Co.  for  eight  years  up  to  Jan.  l,  and 
who  severed  his  connection  with  the 
house  at  that  time  to  engage  in  the  ice 
and  coal  business  at  Flint,  has  changed 
his  mind  and  concluded  to  resume  his 
former  connection  with  the  house,  to 
take  effect  April  15.  He  will  cover  the 
towns  on  the  D.  &  M.,  east  of  Owosso, 
and  also  several  counties  in  the  Thumb 
district.
Ten  A dditions  to  Grand  Rapids  Connell, 

Ho.  131.

Grand  Rapids,  April  8—Saturday 
evening,  April  6,  being  the  regular 
monthly  meeting  of  Grand  Rapids 
Council,  No.  131,  United  Commercial 
Travelers, a goodly  number assembled  at 
the 
lodge  rooms,  with  the  exception  of 
the  Page,  F.  H.  Simmons.  All  of the 
new  officers  were 
in  their chairs  and 
made  a  large  bunch—excuse  the  expres­
sion,  but  at  times  they  were  “ terribly 
bunched,”   as  well  as  getting  the  shoes 
of  the  embryo  members  all  mixed  up. 
All  things  go  in  the  order of  the  United 
Commercial  Travelers,  however,  even 
with  members  with whom  a  special  dis­
pensation  has  been  granted 
the 
^’ honorary” — wonder  how  brother Chas. 
J.  Wormnest  enjoys  that  distinction? 
themselves 
The  new  officers  all  did 
proud,  especially  considering  that 
it 
was  their  first  meeting  night  and  that 
so  large  a  class  of  “ hobos”   was  put 
through 
the  mysterious  passages,  as 
follows:
ply  Co.,  Elkhart,  Ind).

H.  Freeman  (National  Tablet  & Sup­

Chas.  J.  Wormnest  (Enterprise  Store 

for 

Co.,  Vincennes,  Ind.).

Frank  H.  Vinton  (Ball-Barnhart-Put- 

man  Co.).

Indianapolis).

Newland  A.  Goodwin  (Eli  Lilly  Co., 

Henry  E.  Skillman,  (Studley  &  Bar­

clay).

Co.).

Co.).

Co.).

Wm.  F.  Wurzburg  (American  Jewelry 

J.  J.  Finckler  (Spring  Dry  Goods 

John  J.  Benjamin  (W.  W.  Kimball 

Evert  C.  Kortenhuff  (A.  E.  Brooks  & 

Co.).
Co.,  Fitchburg,  Conn.).

Frank  M.  Lee  (Iver,  Johnson,  Ames 

In  addition  to the new members added 
to  the  ranks  of  the  U.  C.  T.  and  to 
Grand  Rapids  Council  No.  131,  Geo. 
A.  Pierce  was  also  made  a  member,  by 
transfer  card  from  Hillsdale  Council, 
No.  116.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

25

Now,  let  all  the  members  feel  that  it 
is  their  duty  to  attend  the  meetings. 
You  will  always  enjoy  them  and,  if  vou 
know  some  brother  traveler  who  does 
not  wear  a^U.  C.  T.  button,  if  it  is  in 
your  power,  see  that  he  does  not  go  any 
longer  without  the  protection  and  fra- 
ternalism  extended  by  the  noble order of 
United  Commercial  Travelers.
Extensive  preparations  are  being 
made  for  a 
large  crowd  to  attend  the 
Grand  Council  meeting  at  Kalamazoo 
May  17  and  18  and 
is  hoped  that 
every  member will  be  at the next regular 
meeting  on  May  4  to  hear  the  pro­
gramme  and  give  his  name  in  as  one 
who  is  going. 

Ja  Dee.

it 

She Stood  H er Ground.

proud  young  beauty  stood  at  bay.

Erect,  defiant,  with  flaming  eyes,  the 
“ I  am  of  age,”   she  said,  “ and  capa­

ble  of  choosing  my  own  associates!"

“ But,  Eunice,”   urged  her  mother, 
“ have  your  father  and  I  no  rights?  Are 
we  not  entitled  to  say  who  shall  and 
who  shall  not  come  to  our  house  on  the 
familiar  footing  of a  welcome guest?”  

“ You  know,  mamma,”   rejoined  the 
girl,“ your only  objection  to  Cyrus Win- 
terbottom  is  that  he  is  poor!”
spends  too  much  time  at  the  club— “  

“ That  is  only  one  of  a  hundred.  He 

“ How  can  he,  when  he’s  here  six 

evenings  in  the  week?”

“ He  devotes  too  much  time  to  golf, 

he  never goes  to  church—•**

“ Neither do  I.”
“ Because  you  have  to take  Sunday  to 
rest.  He  spends  $50 a  year  on  his  neck­
ties— ”

“ That  shows  his  good  judgment.”  
“ He  smokes  a  great  deal— ”
“ If  I  can  stand  that  you  ought  not  to 

object. ”
“ He 

is  full  of  the  small  talk  of  so­
is  too  effeminate,  he’s  alto­

ciety,  he 
gether too  sporty,  he— ’ ’

“ That’s  eight.  Have  I  got  to  listen 
to  the  other  ninety-two  objections  be­
fore  luncheon?”

“ Eunice,”   pleaded  her  mother,  “ you 
know  you  are  only  amusing  yourself 
with  him. 
Teil  him 
good-by!”

Let  him  go. 

“ Mamma,  I  have  told  him  good-by.”  
“ When—how,  child?”
“ A  hundred  times,”   said  Eunice, 

faintly. 

“ Over the  telephone !”

And  they  continued  to  glare  at  each 

other.

The  Wisconsin  Legislature  has passed 
a  very  thorough  primary  law.  It  is  even 
more  stringent  than  the  primary  law  of 
New  York.  The  Wisconsin  law,  by  im­
plication,  abolishes 
conventions  and 
refers  the  selection  of  candidates  to  the 
primary  direct. 
It  fixes  the  date  of  the 
primary,  all  parties  to  hold  their  pri­
mary  elections  on  the  same  day.  The 
politicians  fought  the  bill  at  every  step 
of  its  progress.  The  bill,  as  drawn  by 
a  committee  of  the  State  Bar  Associa­
tion,  went  through  without  essential 
change.  A  similar  law  goes 
in  New 
York  and  there  it  has been a tremendous 
force  for  improvement  in  the  quality  of 
officeholders.

it  does  not  enjoy. 

The  finance  department  of the Domin­
ion  of  Canada  has  perpetrated  a  joke  on 
itself  which 
It  has 
put  out  a  new  $4  bill  with  a  fíne  picture 
on  it  of  the  United  States  Soo  lock. 
It 
sought  a  photograph  of  the  Canadian 
lock,  but  by  mistake  got  an  American 
picture.  And  there  it  is,  on  good  Can­
adian  money!

The latest  dispatch  says  that  Emperor 
William  believes  he  was  fired upon  with 
a  noiseless  weapon.  Guess  he’s  right; 
nobody  ever  heard  of  an  explosive 
brickbat. 

_____

The  heads  that  wear  the  crowns  in 
just  now  would  doubtless  give 
Europe 
a  nice  reward  for a  medicine  that  was 
warranted  to  cure  insomnia,

claim  that  the  trusts  absorb  so  many 
small  concerns  carrying  with  them  pat­
ents  that  ligitation  is 
lessened.  Where 
is  a  large  number of  competitors 
there 
making  a  given  line  of  articles  each 
is 
tempted  to  infringe  upon  the  patents  of 
the  others  and  trouble 
is  not  only  fre­
quently  threatened  but  often  forthcom­
ing.  Patent 
is  one  of  the  most 
profitable  branches  of  practice  and  the 
lawyers  who  make  a  specialty  of  it  are 
down  on  the  trusts  because  these  com­
binations  are  interfering  seriously  with 
their  business  by  lessening  litigation.

law 

in  these  sections 

It  has  been  frequently  and  probably 
truthfully  asserted  that  the  number of 
farmers 
in  the  Eastern  and  Middle 
States  is  decreasing,  and  the  argument 
based  thereon  is  to  the  effect  that  agri­
culture 
is  no  longer 
profitable.  Some  figures  recently  gath­
ered  in  Vermont  are  suggested 
in  this 
connection. 
is  said  that  there  are 
2,413  fewer  farmers  there  now than there 
were  twenty  years  ago,  but  that  there 
are  536  more  there  now  than  there  were 
ten  years  ago.  This  indicates  that  dur­
ing  the  last  ten  years  the tide has turned 
and  that  many  men  are  taking  up  farm­
ing  and  that  agricultural  industries  are 
on  the  gain.  Presumably  what  is  true 
in  Vermont  is  true  in  other states.

It 

Most  men 

labor  and  worry  as  if the 
whole  scheme  and  object  of  life  was  to 
live  and  work  and  make  a  dollar.  The 
Creator  evidently  gave  man  life  that  he 
might  enjoy  it,  and  when  you  fail  to 
enjoy 
it  you  neglect  a  very  blessed 
privilege.  Don’t  become  an  automatic 
working  machine,  but  take  time  to  live 
and  enjoy  life.  Drink  in  the  sunshine, 
go  fishing,  see  the  ball  game,  play  with 
your  babies,  smile  at  your  wife  once  in 
a  while,  be  social  with  your neighbor 
and  see  if  you  don’t  feel  better.

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SPAIN  MISSES  ITS  COLONIES.

When  Spain,  as  the  result  of  the  war 
with  the  United  States,  lost  its  colonies, 
some  Spanish  statesmen  attempted  to 
reconcile  the  people  with  statements  to 
the  effect  that  the  loss  was  more  appar­
ent  than  real.  The  colonies  had  been 
for  years 
in  revolt  against  the  mother 
country,  and  there  had  been  a  great 
drain  on 
its  resources  in  carrying  on 
military  campaigns  against  the  rebels. 
With  the  colonies  cut  off  it  was  argued 
that  Spain  would  be  relieved  of  a  great 
burden and  that all its resources could  be 
applied  to  the 
improvement  of  condi­
tions  at  home.  Following  the  accept­
ance  of  the  treaty  of  Paris,  which  ter­
minated  the  war,  there  was  something 
like  a  revival  of  trade  in  Spain.  This 
was  due  to the  fact  that  many Spaniards 
left  the  colonies  when  they  came  under 
American  control  and  returned to Spain, 
swelling  the  population  and 
increasing 
the  demand  for goods.  The  movement 
in  Spanish  trade  produced  in  this  way 
was  merely  a  ripple. 
It  has  already 
subsided.  Spanish  merchants  and  man­
ufacturers find the  present  situation  any­
thing  but  encouraging.  They  find  that 
every  branch  of  trade  has  suffered  in 
consequence  of  the  loss  of  the  colonies. 
Before  the  war  with  the  United  States 
the  Spanish  exports  to  Cuba  amounted 
annually  to  $136,000,000,  while  during 
the  past  year  they  were  reduced  to $66,- 
000,000.  Before  the  war  the  Spanish 
exports  to  Puerto  Rico  were $44,000,000. 
Now  they  are 
less  than  $13,000,000. 
Spanish  trade  with  the  Philippines  be­
fore  the  American  occupation  was  $49,- 
000,000  annually  and 
is  now  less  than 
$27,000,000.  This  makes  a  total  annual 
loss  in  trade  to  Spain  through  the 
loss 
of  her  colonies  to  the  United  States  of 
over  $123,000,000.  Unless  she  can  se­
cure  new  markets  for  her  surplus  prod­
ucts  the  condition  of  Spain  will  become 
hopeless.

Representatives  of  leading  Spanish 
interests  have  been  studying  the  situa­
tion  and  they  frankly  admit  that  a  se­
rious  crisis  confronts  the  country.  They 
urge  that the  government must negotiate 
new  commercial  treaties  and  must  take 
advantage  of  every  opportunity  to  pro­
mote  the  demand  for  Spanish  goods. 
In  the  treaty  of  Paris  it  is  provided 
that  Spain  shall  have  equal  trade  ad­
vantages  with  the  United  States  in  the 
ten 
Philippines  during  a  period  of 
years,  but  it  is  not  exnected  that  Spain 
can  meet  the  competition  with  Ameri­
can  products,  which  gain  instant  favor 
wherever  introduced.  Spain  hopes  to 
hold  trade  with  Spanish-speaking  coun­
tries on  account  of  race 
influences  and 
prejudices, but  this  is  a  feeble  hope. 
The  whole  policy  of  the  Spanish  gov­
ernment  and  the  entire  theory  of  Span­
ish  commerce  must  be  revised  before 
Spain  will  be  able  to  enjoy  substantial 
prosperity.  The  country 
It 
Its  resources  have 
is  heavily  taxed. 
been  almost  exhausted.  Americans 
wish  the  Spanish  nation  no 
ill-fortune. 
They  will  rejoice  when  Spain  reforms 
its  government  and  restores  its  indus­
tries.  No  one,  however,  anticipates  that 
these  things  will  be  done  by  any instan­
taneous  process.  The  salvation  of  a 
country  that  has  been  wrecked  requires 
the  labors  of  at  least  a  generation.

is  poor. 

There  is  infinite  variety  in  the  com­
plaints  against  the  trusts.  No  other oc­
topus  has  ever  been  so  vigorously  as­
sailed  and  from  so  many  different  quar­
ters.  Among  the  opponents  who  have 
most  recently  come 
into the  center of 
the  ring  are  the  patent  lawyers,  who

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Drugs—Chemicals
-  Dec. 31,1901 
M ichigan  State  Board  of Pharm acy 

Term expires
_  _   _  
L.  K.  R ey n o ld s,  St. Joseph 
Hen r y  H e im , Saginaw 
-  Dec. 31,1902
- 
  Dec. 31,1903 
Wir t  p.  Doty, Detroit.
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A. O . Schumacher, Ann Arbor  -  Dec. 31,1904 
J ohn d . Mu ir , Grand Rapids 
Dec. 31,1905 

President, A.  G.  Sch u m a c h er, Ann Arbor. 
Secretary, Hen ry  H e im , Saginaw.
Treasurer, W.  P.  Doty,  Detroit.

Exam ination  Sessions.

Star Island, June 17 and 18.
Sault Ste.  Marie, August 28 and 29. 
Lansing, Not. 5 and 6.

Mich.  State  Pharm aceutical  Association. 

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

How  to  T reat Custom ers  and  Sell  Goods.
The  first  and  most  important  part  of 
this  subject  is  to get  the  customers  into 
your  store.  In  these  times  of  sharp com­
petition,  when  artistic  window  displays, 
advertising,  discounts,  bargains,  etc., 
are  employed,  one  has  to  devote  a  good 
part  of  his  time  to  devising  means 
whereby  people  will  be  attracted  to  and 
into the  store.

This  being  done,  the  question  then 
comes  of  how  to  treat  customers.  A 
good  rule  to  begin  with  is  to  learn  to 
treat  your  poorly  dressed customers  with 
as  much  civility  as  you  manifest  to­
wards  the  richest  of  your  patrons;  the 
dollar  you  get  from  either  is  of the same 
value.

Be  pleasant  and  agreeable  to  all,  and 
remember that  every  customer  that  en­
ters  your  store  will  help  you  if  by  that 
call  he  or  she  has  acquired  a  favorable' 
impression  of  the  way  you  do  business. 
Always  call  by  name  persons  with 
whom  you  are  acquainted,  and  converse 
on  subjects  which  interest  them.  Often­
times  when  a  person  has  about  given up 
the  idea  of  purchasing  I  have  changed 
the  subject  to  something  about  them­
selves,  family,  or  whatever  is  interest­
ing  to  them,  and  made  a  sale  when,  if 
I  had  not  talked  anything  else  than 
trade,  I  would  have  lost  the  sale,  per­
haps  forever.

Although  I  believe  in  talking  up  the 
goods,  particularly  those  made  by  your­
self,  it  is  not  well  to  be  overhearing 
in 
trying  to  urge  goods  on  people,  for  that 
will  sometimes  do  as  much  harm  as  by 
not  saying  enough.  Show  to  the  public 
live  up  to  the 
that  you  are  trying  to 
motto:  “ Not 
for  ourselves  alone.”  
Don’t  be  afraid  to  put  yourself out  to 
please  your  customers. 
It  does  not  pay 
to  be  too  independent  and  to  convey  a 
don’t-care 
impression.  People  notice 
very  quickly  the  difference  between  a 
salesman  of  this  kind  and  one  always 
pleasant  and  agreeable,  one  not  afraid 
to  show  articles  and  willing  at  any  time 
to  confer  some  small  favor.

Sometimes  a  lady  enters  your  store al­
most  tired  out  by  shopping  at  other 
places  of  business,  and  bearing  several 
packages  to  take  home. 
It  would  be 
well  to  ask  her to  be  seated  and  rest  be­
fore  trying  to  interest  her  in your goods. 
While  she  is  resting,  enjoying  the  com­
forts  of  your  store,  ask  if  it  would  not 
be  more  convenient  to  have  the  pack­
ages  made  up  into  one  bundle.  Here 
would  be  a  good  opportunity  for using 
some  of  your  advertising  circulars  or 
booklets.  Then,  if  after she  has  become 
somewhat  interested  she  wishes  to  see 
something 
in  your  toilet  line,  devote 
your  entire  attention  to  explaining  and 
showing 
Try  to  have  your  cus­
tomers  become  interested  in the articles, 
explaining  how  and  where 
they  are 
made, the different  ways  of  bottling  and 
labeling  goods,  etc., 
if  such  can  be 
done  knowingly,  as it  should  be  done  in

it. 

our  business  especially.  It  is  a  winning 
point  to  thank  a  person 
leaving  the 
store,  even  although  she  has  made  no 
purchase. 
In  case  of  some  misunder­
standing,  if  the  articles  are  returned  in 
good  condition,  refund  the  money 
in 
such  a  pleasant  and  agreeable  manner 
is  wreathed 
that  the  customer’s  face 
with  smiles,  and  she 
is  sure  to  come 
back.

Nothing  tests  the  good  judgment  of a 
pharmacist  more  than  the  buying  of 
goods.  A  study  of  his  trade,  the  wants 
of  his  customers,  and  the  character  of 
the  demands  made  upon  him  will  bring 
him  always  to  one  wise  conclusion—to 
stock  as  many  of  the  articles  in  demand 
as  possible,  but  to  use  the  greatest  of 
care  to  have  but  very  small  quantities 
of  the  things  rarely  asked  for,  and  as 
much  as  is  needed  to  meet  the  demands 
for  ready  selling  goods.  A  chance  to 
buy  goods  cheaply  or  at  a  bargain  must 
not  be  considered  for a  moment  if  they 
are  apt  to  be  unsaleable.

O.  B.  Salisbury.

Sulphonal  Poisoning.

in  six  years  without  any 

According  to  Dieterich,  sulphonal  is 
by  no  means  so  free  from  toxic  action 
as  is  generally  supposed.  At  least  thirty 
cases  of  death  from  the  use  of  the  drug 
have  been  recorded  in  medical 
litera­
ture,  he  says.  The  dose  which  produces 
these  harmful  effects  appears  to  be  very 
variable.  Oestreicher  quotes  a  case 
in 
which  a  patient  took  1,500  grams  of  sul­
phonal 
ill 
effects.  On  the  other  hand,  Schulz  re­
ports  a  case  which  ended  fatally,  in 
which  only  16  grams  were  given  in  a 
month,  and  Helweg  another  fatal  case 
resulting  from  the  administration  of  9 0  
grams  in  three  months.  Numerous  sim­
ilar  cases  have  been  recorded. 
In  the 
majority  of*'these,  the  patients  were  in 
a  weakened  condition,  anaemic,  with 
much 
impaired  digestion,  so  that  the 
sulphonal,  which,  in  healthy  individuals 
is  dissociated  and  reabsorbed  with  diffi­
culty,  in  these  cases  acquired  a cumula­
tive  action  which  terminated disastrous­
ly.  The  symptoms  of  poisoning  are  in­
testinal  pain,  nausea,  and  constipation. 
The  urine  is  colored  a  deep  cherry  red. 
This  coloration  is  often  the  first  indica­
tion  of  the  commencement  of  the  toxic 
action.

The  Removal of W arts.

The  removal  of  warts  by  caustic  ap­
plications  occasionally  results 
in  the 
formation  of  ulcerous  sores  and disfigur­
ing  scars.  Salicylic  acid  may  be  used 
for  that  purpose  without  the  slightest 
harmful  effect.  The  following  is  an  ex­
cellent  combination  which  any  one  can 
use:

Mercuric  chloride,  5  grains.
Salicylic  acid,  1  drachm.
Collodion,  1  ounce.
Apply  once  a  day,  the  upper  crust  of 
the  previous  application  being  removed 
before  a  fresh  one  is  made.

After a  few  applications  the  wart  may 
be  painlessly removed by gentle traction.

To  K eep  Away  Mice.

successfully  keep 

A  scien tist  now  tells  us  he  has  dis­
covered  that  mice  have  a  wonderful  an­
tipathy 
to  peppermint  oil,  and  that 
some  of  it  placed  around  their haunts 
will 
them  away. 
There  are  a  good  many  who  are  contin­
ually  fighting  these  little  pests,  and  the 
suggestion  may  be  worth  trying.  There 
are  many  objections  to  the  use  of  poi­
sonous  articles  for  the  elimination  of 
mice,  and  this  discovery,  if  proven  to 
be  effectual,  will  no doubt  be  a  boon  to 
those  who  are  troubled  in  this  way.

Syrup  of H ypophosphites  W ith  T incture 

o f Iron.

In  a  paper  read  before  the  Tennessee 
Druggists’  Association  Professor Ruddi- 
man  calls  attention  to  the  familiar  but 
important  incompatibility between syrup 
of  hypophosphites  or  some  other  form 
of  hypophosphites  with  tincture  of 
chloride  of  iron.  Physicians  sometimes 
write  prescriptions  calling  for these sub­
stances,  says  the  Professor,  and  the  re­
sult  is  that  ferric  hypophosphite  is  pre­
cipitated.  If  there  is  enough  phosphoric 
acid  present  to  convert  the  iron  into  the 
phosphate  precipitation  may  not  take 
place.  There  are  cases,  however,  where 
phosphoric  acid 
is  not  directed,  and 
the  use  of  the  National  Formulary  tinc­
ture  of  citrochloride  of  iron  maybe  used 
in  place  of  the  official  tincture  of  iron, 
with  the  result  that  precipitation  will be 
prevented. 
The  National  Formulary 
tincture  contains  sodium  citrate,  and  an 
aqueous  solution  of  an  alkali  citrate is  a 
solvent  for  ferric  hypophosphite.

O intm ents  Containing W ater.

Prof.  John  Uri  Lloyd  observes  that 
“ physicians  occasionally desire to incor­
porate  watery 
liquids,  such  as  liquors 
and  water-bearing  fluid  extracts,  into 
ointment  form,  and  experience  difficulty 
in 
inducing  the  ointment  base  to  take 
up  the  liquid.  The  writer  was  recently 
requested  (by  one  of  our eclectic  physi­
cians)  to  incorporate  two  drachms  of 
dynamyne 
into  an  ounce  of  mild  zinc 
ointment.  The proportion  was  too  great, 
and  by  consent  of  the  physician  one- 
half  ounce  of  lanolin  was  added,  when 
at  once  the  water  emulsified.  This  calls 
to  mind  the  fact  that,  in  the  opinion  of 
the  writer,  physicians  should  beai1  in 
mind  that  wool-fat  has  the  power of tak­
ing  up  a  large  amount  of  water or  any 
aqueous  liquid. 
In  making  ointments, 
therefore,  of  this  nature,  add  enough 
wool-fat  or  lanolin  to  the  ointment  base 
to  enable  it  to  accomplish  its  object.”

Giaonrdi,  a  New  M ilk  Food.

The  milk  is  boiled  for about  an  hour 
with  constant  stirring  until  it  becomes 
fairly  thick ;  a  small  quantity  of  a  fer­
ment,  made  by  soaking  a  dry  fig 
in 
three  ounces  of  water over  night,  then 
adding  a  few  drops  of  lemon  juice  and 
a  very  little  rennet,  is  added.  The  re­
sult  is  a  smooth,  semi-solid,  easily  di­
gested  milk  food,  of  an  agreeable  taste 
and  quite  well  borne  by  the  most  deli­
cate  stomach.  This  preparation,  which 
may  easily  be  made  by  the  druggist,  is 
finding  much  favor  with  physicians,  it 
being  claimed  for  it  that  it  is  more 
agreeable to the taste than either koumyss 
or  matzoon  and  can  be  taken by the most 
delicate  patient  without  disturbance 
of  digestion.  The  proportion  of  ferment 
to  milk  is  a  tablespoonful  to  the  quart, 
but  this  will  vary  with  the  quality  of 
the  milk  and  the  desired  thickness  of 
the  curd  to  be  formed.

Care  Necessary in Combining Certain Syn­

thetics.

so-called 

In  a  paper  read  before  the  Tennessee 
Druggists’  Association  Prof.  Edsal  A. 
Ruddiman  remarked  that,  in  combining 
the 
synthetics  with  other 
agents,  the  pharmacist  cannot  be  too 
careful.  For  instance,  antipyrin  with 
calomel  in the  presence  of  a  little moist­
ure  causes  the  powder to  slowly  become 
dark,  due  to  the  formation  of  metallic 
mercury;  at  the  same  time  the  much 
more  active  mercuric chloride is formed.
If sodium  bicarbonate  is  added  to  the 
mixture 
it  becomes  black  at  once,  if 
moistened.  The  proportion  of  mercuric 
chloride  increases  with 
the  metallic

mercury,  and  consequently  with 
the 
darkening. 
Sodium  bicarbonate  with 
either  anti pyrin  or  calomel  alone  with 
moisture  seems  to  have  no  effect  fo 
several  weeks  at  least.

The  D rug M arket.

Changes  are  very  few  and  unimpor­

tant.

Opium—Is  dull  and  quiet.  Weakness 
here  is  caused  by  handlers  in  the  pri­
mary  markets  accepting  lower  prices.

Morphine— Is  unchanged.
Quinine— Is  firm  at  the  late  advance.
Naphthaline  Balls— Have  advanced, 

on  account  of  scarcity.

Oil  Peppermint— Is  very  firm  and 

tending  higher.

Linseed  Oil— Is in  active  demand  and 

lower.

The  noblest  of  all  charities  is  in  en­

Late State Food Commissioner 

abling  the  poor to  earn  a  livelihood.
ELLIOT  O.  OROSVENOR
Advisory Counsel  to  manufacturers  and 
jobbers  whose  interests  are  affected  by 
the  Food  Laws  of  any  state.  Corres­
pondence invited.
133a  Majestic Building,  Detroit, Mich.

FISHING  TACKLE
We carry a very complete stock and make 
the right prices.  Walt  for  travelers  or 
write

FRED   BRUNDAGE, MUSKEGON,  MICH. 

W holesale D rugs  and  Stationery

Wall  Paper 
Samples  Free

How’s your stock?
Need brightening up?
We have on  hand  a  very  fine 
assortment and can  make  im­
mediate  delivery—prices* will 
interest you.  Write us.

HEYSTEK  &   CANFIELD  CO.

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.
The Michigan Wall Paper Jobbers.

Talk  No.  2

You have heard, of course, about “Ozone 
Treatment”  for  Consumption.  We have 
it  in  the latest  improved methods of ad­
ministration.  Of course,  there are cases 
it won’t cure, but  there  are  also  lots  of 
cases  it  will.  It’s  by far the best treat­
ment  known and  the  results  speak  for 
themselves.  Don’t confound this, the new 
“Walther’s  Method”  with  the  old  way, 
as they are not at all Identical and not to 
be  compared. 
In  catharrhal  disorders 
we  take  a  back  seat for no one and the 
practice  we  have  worked  up  in  a  ten 
years’ residence In  Grand Rapids speaks 
volumes.  Don’t  take  our  word  for anjv 
thing but investigate for yourself.

Go or write to

DR.  C.  E.  RANKIN 

Powers'  Opera  House  Block 

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan 

Graduate of University  of  Michigan  and 
Illinois  School  of  Electro-Therapeutics. 

M ail  Treatm ent 

Dr. Rankin’s system of “Home Treat­
ment ” is well known  and  highly effi-
clent.  Send for free symptom blank.

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LE  DRUG  PRICE  CURRENT

Conium Mac............   60®  60
Copaiba...................  l  16®  l 26
Cubebae...................  l  40®  l 50
Exechthitos............  1 00®  1 10
Erigeron.................  1  io®  1 20
Gaultheria..............  1  86®  1 90
Geranium, ounce.... 
®  75
Gosslppii, Sem. gal.. 
60®  60
Hedeoma.................  1 40®  1 60
Junipera.................  1  50®  2 00
Lavendula  .............. 
90® 2 oo
Limonis...................  1 60®  1 70
Mentha Piper.........   1  40®  2 00
Mentha Verid.........   1  60®  1 60
Morrhuae, ;gal...V..  1  10®  1 20
Myrcia....................  4 00®  4 50
Olive.......................  78® 3 00
Picis Liquida........... 
10®  12
®  36
Picis Liquida,  gal... 
Kicina.....................   l  oo®  l 08
Rosmarini................ 
® 1 00
Rosae, ounce............  6 00® 6 60
Succlnl....................  40®  46
Sabina....................  90®  1 00
San ta l.....................   2 76®  7 00
Sassafras................. 
48®  63
Sinapls,  ess., ounce. 
®  66
Tiglil.......................  l  60®  1 60
Thyme.....................   40®  60
Thyme, opt.............. 
® 160
Theobromas........... 
15®  20
Potassium
Bi-Carb....................
16®
Bichromate............
13®
52®
Bromide  .................
C arb.......................
12®
Chlorate., .po. 17® 19
16®
Cyanide..................
34®
Iodide..................... 2 60@
Potassa, Bitart, pure
28®
Potassa, Bitart, com.
®
Potass Nitras, opt...
7®
Potass  Nitras.........
6®
Prussiate.................
23®
Sulphate po............
15®
Radix
Aconitum.................
20®
Althæ......................
30®
Anchusa.................
10®
Arum  po.................
®
Calamus..................
20®
12®
Gentiana........po. 16
Glychrrhiza.. .pv.  16
16®
Hydrastis  Canàden.
@
Hydrastis Can., po..
®
12@
Hellebore, Alba, po.
Inula,  po.................
15@
Ipecac, po............... 3  60®
35®
Iris  plox...po.35®38
Jalapa, pr...............
26®
Maranta,  14s...........
@
Podophyllum,  po...
22®
Rhei.........................
76®
Rhei, cut.................
®
Rhei, pv..................
75©
Splgelia..................
35®
Sanguinaria.. .po.  15
®
Serpentaria............
40®
Senega ....................
60®
Smilax, officinalis H.
@
Smilax, M...............
©
Scillae............ po.  36
10®
Symplocarpus,"Foeti-
dus,  po.................
®
Valeriana, Eng. po. 30
®
Valeriana,  Gèrman.
16®
Zingiber a ...............
14@
Zingiber j ...................
26®
Semen
Anlsum......... po.  16
®
13®
Apium (graveleons).
Bird,is....................
4®
Carui..............po.  18 
12®  13
Cardamon................  l  26®  1  76
Corlandrum............. 
8®  10
Cannabis Sativa......  
itt®   5
Cydonium...............  
76®  1  00
Chenopodium.........  
io@  12
Dipterlx Odorate__  1  00®  1  10
Foenlculum..............  @ 
10
9
7® 
Foenugreek, po........ 
L ini......................... 
4® 
6
Lini, grd...... bbl. 4 
4V4® 
5
Lobelia.................... 
36®  40
6
Pharlarls Canarian..  434® 
R apa.......................  4*4® 
5
Sinapls  Alba........... 
9®  10
Sinapls  Nigra.........  
11®  12
Spiritus

Frumenti, W. D. Co. 2 00®  2 60 
Frumenti,  D. F. R..  2 00® 2 26
Frumenti................   1 26®  1  60
Juniperis Co.-Ò. T...  1 66® 2 00
Junlperls  Co...........  1  76® 3 60
Saacharum  N. E __  1 90® 2  10
Spt. Vini Galli.........  1  76® 6 60
Vini  Oporto............   l  28® 2 00
Vini Alba.................  l  26® 2  00

Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage...............  2 60® 2  75
Nassau sheeps’ wool
carriage................   2 60® 2 75
Velvet extra sheeps’
wool, carriage......
1  50 
Extra yellow sheeps’
1  25
wool, carriage......
Grass  sheeps’  wool,
carriage................
@ 1 00 
Hard, for slate use..
®  75
Yellow  R e e f,  for
@  1  40
Syrups
Acacia....................   @
Aurantl Cortex........ 
®
®
Zingiber................... 
Ipecac...................... 
®
Ferri Iod.................  
®
Rhei Arom.............. 
®
Smilax  Officinalis...  50®
Senega....................  
®
Scili».,.  .....,,,,,,. 
ft

slate use..........

®  50
®  50
®  60

Miscellaneous 

Scillae  Co................. 
Tolutan...................  
Prunus  virg............  
Tinctures
60
Aconitum Napellis R 
50
Aconitum Napellis F 
Aloes....................... 
60
60
Aloes and Myrrh__ 
50
Arnica....................  
Assafoetlda.............. 
50
60
A trope Belladonna.. 
Auranti Cortex.......  
50
60
Benzoin................... 
Benzoin Co.............. 
50
Barosma.................. 
50
75
Cantharides............  
Capsicum................  
so
75
Cardamon...............  
Cardamon Co..........  
75
Castor.....................  
1  oo
5o
Catechu'................... 
Cinchona................. 
so
6o
Cinchona Co............  
5o
Columba.................  
Cubebae.................... 
So
so
Cassia Acutifol........ 
so
Cassia Acutifol Co... 
so
Digitalis................... 
Ergot.......................  
5o
3&
Ferrl  Chlorid urn.... 
5o
Gentian................... 
Gentian Co.............. 
6o
5o
Guiaca...................... 
Gulaca ammon........ 
6o
Hyoscyamus............  
So
7s
Iodine  '.................... 
Iodine, colorless...... 
7g
5o
K ino....................... 
So
Lobelia.................... 
So
Myrrh...................... 
Nux Vomica............ 
So
7s
Opii.......................... 
5o
Opii, comphorated.. 
Opii, deodorized...... 
l  5o
So
Quassia................... 
5o
Rhatany................... 
5o
Rhei......................... 
Sanguinaria.......... 
5jj
5q
Serpen taria............  
Stramonium............  
6o
6o
Tolutan................... 
Valerian................. 
6q
5o
Veratrum  Veride... 
Zingiber..................  
20
.Ether, Spts. Nit. ? F  30®  35
.Ether, Spts. Nit. 4 F  34®  38
Alumen..................   214® 
3
4
3® 
Alumen,  gro’d..po. 7 
Annatto...................   40®  50
Antimonl, po........... 
4® 
5
Antimonl et Potass T  40®  50
Antlpyrin...............  
®  25
Antiiebrin.............. 
®  20
Argent! Nliras, oz...  @  51
Arsenicum.............. 
10®  12
Balm Gilead  Buds.. 
38®  40
Bismuth S. N...........  1  90®  2 00
® 
Calcium Chlor.,  is... 
9
®  10
Calcium Chlor., Vis.. 
®  12
Calcium Chlor.,  14s.. 
Cantharides, Rus.po 
®  80
® 
Capsici Fructus, at.. 
i5
Capsid  Fructus, po.  @  15
Capsici Fructus B, po 
®  15
Caryophylius. .po. 15  12®  14
Carmine, No. 40......  
® 3 00
50®  55
Cera Alba..............  
Cera Flava..............  40®  42
Coccus.................... 
®  40
Cassia Fructus........ 
®  35
Centraria.................  @  10
Cetaceum................. 
®  45
Chloroform............   55®  60
Chloroform, squibbs  @  1  10 
Chloral Hyd Crst....  l  40®  l  65
Chondrus................   20®  25
Cinchonidine.P. & W  38®  48
Cinchonidine, Germ.  38®  48
Cocaine..................   5 55® 5 75
70
Corks, list, dis. pr. ct. 
Creosotum...............  
®  35
Creta.............bbl. 75 
2
® 
Creta, prep.............. 
® 
5
Creta, precip........... 
9®  11
Creta, Rubra........... 
8
® 
Crocus....................  26®  30
Cudbear..................   @  24
Cuprl  Sulph............   614® 
8
Dextrine................. 
7®  10
Ether Sulph............   76®  •  90
Emery, all numbers. 
® 
8
Emery, po...............   @ 
6
E rgota...........po. 90 
86®  90
Flake  White........... 
12®  15
Galla.......................   @  23
Gambler................. 
8® 
9
Gelatin,  Cooper......  
®  60
Gelatin, French......   35®  60
75 &  5
Glassware,  flint, box 
Less than box...... 
70
Glue, brown............  
ll®   13
Glue,  white............  
15®  25
Glycertna.................  1734®  25
Grana Paradis!........ 
®  25
Humulus.................  26®  56
Hydrarg  Chlor  Mite  @  1 00 
®  90
Hydrarg Chlor Cor.. 
Hydrarg Ox Rub’m. 
®  1  10 
Hydrarg  Ammoniati 
® 1  20 
HydrargUnguentum  60®  60
Hydrargyrum......... 
®  86
IcnthyoDolla,  Am...  66®  70
Indigo.....................   76® 1  00
Iodine,  Resubl........  3 40® 3 60
Iodoform.................  3 86® 4 00
®  60
Lupulin.................... 
Lycopodium.............  80®  86
66®  75
Macis...................... 
Liquor Arsen et  Hy­
dra rglod.............. 
®  26
LlquorPotassArsinit  10®  12
2® 
Magnesia,  Sulph.... 
3
Magnesia, Sulph, bbl 
®  114 
60®   60
Mannia, 8. F ........  

876
17
42
61

610

14
16
56
6
2040
6
8
15
14

26
0060
00

24
8
30

60
85
60
60

18
12
18
30
20
12
1215
16
26
30
12
14
16
17
16
26
76
40
16
2
80
7

18
26
36

40
26
30
20
10

6646
36
28
65
14
12
30
60
60
66
13
14
16
73
40
00
70
30
75
60
40
50
36
46
90

26
20
26
28
23
26
39
22
26

60
20
2020
00
66
26
2035
0085
80
90
75
40
40

59 
60 
54 
44 

Menthol..................
® 5 26 Seidlitz Mixture......
20® 22 Linseed, pure raw...
62
Morphia, 8., P.& W. 2 35® 2 60 Sinapls....................
® 18 Linseed, boiled.......
63
Morphia, S..N.Y. Q.
Sinapls,  opt............
® 30 Neatsfoot, winter str
60
& C. Co................. 2  25® 2 60 Snuff, Maccaboy, De
60
Spirits  Turpentine..
Moschus  Canton__
® 40
Voes....................
© 41
Myristica, No. 1......
65® 80 Snuff,Scotch,De Vo’s
® 41
Paints BBL.  LB.
Nux Vomica...po. 15
® 10 Soda, Boras.............
9® 11
Os Sepia..................
9® 11 Red  Venetian.........
154  2  @8
35® 37 Soda,  Boras, po......
23® 25 Ochre, yellow  Mars. 134  2  ©4
Pepsin Saac, H. & P.
Soda et Potass Tart.
D  Co....................
® 1  00 Soda,  Carb.............. 1*4® 2 Ochre, yellow Ber...
134  2  ®3
Picis Llq. N.N.V4 gal.
3® 5 Putty,  commercial.. 234  2*4@3
Soda,  Bi-Carb.........
doz.......................
3*4® 4 Putty, strictly  pure. 2*4  254®3
® 2 00 Soda, Ash...............
Picis Llq., quarts__
@ 2 Vermilion,  P r i me
® 1  00 Soda, Sulphas.........
Picis Llq.,  pints......
13®  15
American............
® 85 Spts. Cologne..........
© 2 60
70®  78
50® 56 Vermilion, English..
© 50 Spts. Ether  Co........
PilHydrarg...po.  80
@ 2 00 Green,  Paris...........
14®  18
Piper  Nigra., .po. 22
® 18 Spts. Myrcia Dorn...
Green, Peninsular...
Piper  Alba__po. 36
13®  16
© 30 Spts. Vini Rect.  bbl.
®
Lead, red................
Pilx Burgun............
7 Spts. Vini Rect. *4bbl
634®  6*4
©
®
Lead,  white............
Plumbi Acet............
10® 12 Spts. Vini Rect. lOgal
634®  634
@
Whiting, white Span
Pulvis Ipecac et Opii 1  30® 1  50 Spts. Vini Rect. 5 gal
@  86
®
@  90
80® 1  05 Whiting, gilders’__
Pyrethrum, boxes H.
Strychnia, Crystal...
2*4® 4 White, Paris, Amer.
@  1  26
&P. D. Co., doz...
® 75 Sulphur,  Subl.........
25® 30 Sulphur, Roll........... 214® 3*4 Whiting, Paris, Eng.
Pyrethrum,  pv........
cliff.......................
Quassiae..................
© 1 40
8® 10 Tamarinds..............
8® 10
28® 30 Universal Prepared. 1  10®  1  20
Quinia, S. P. &  W...
36® 46 Terebenth Venice...
Quinla, S.  German..
34© 44 Theobromse.............
60© 66
Quinia, N. Y............
34® 44 Vanilla.................... 9 00© 10 00
Rubia Tlnctorum__
12® 14 Zinci Sulph............
7® 8
Saccharum Lactls pv
18® 20
Oils
Salacln.................... 4  50® 4 76
40® 50
Sanguis  Draconis...
Sapo, W..................
12® 14 Whale, winter.........
Sapo M....................
10® 12 Lard, extra..............
Sapo  G....................
© 16 Lard, No. 1..............

No. 1 Turp  Coach... 1  10®  1  20
Extra Turp.............. 1  60®  1  70
BBL.  GAL. Coach  Body............ 2 75® 3  00
70 No. 1 Turp Fura...... 1  00®  1  10
70 Extra Turk Damar.. 1  55®  1  60
50 Jap.Dryer.No.lTurp
70®  76

Tarnishes

70
60
45

Seasonable

BLUE  VITRIOL

INSECT  POWDER

WHITE  HELLEBORE

PARIS  GREEN

GUM  CAMPHOR

NAPTHALINE  BALLS

NAPTHALINE  FLAKE

We  have  full  Stock  at 

Lowest  Market  Price.

Hazeltine  &  Perkins 

Drug  Co.,

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan

28

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

GROCERY  PRICE  CURRENT

These quotations are  carefully  corrected  weekly,  within  six  hours  of  mailing, 
and are intended to be correct at time of going to  press.  Prices,  however,  are  lia­
ble to change at any  time,  and  country  merchants  will  have  their  orders  filled  at 
market prices at date of purchase.

CATSUP

Columbia,  pints.................. 2 00
Columbia, % pints...............1  25

CARBON  OILS 

@12
@12 Vi
@12
@13
@
@11
@11
@12
@
14@15
@90
@17
13@14
50@75
19@20

B arrels
Eocene ....................... @11
Perfection.................
•  @10
Diamond White.........
@ 9
D. S. Gasoline............ @11
Deodorized Naphtha.. @10
Cylinder..................... 29  @34
Engine........................ 19  @22
Black, winter.............. @10V4
CHEESE
Acme.......................
Amboy....................
Elsie........................
Emblem..................
Gem.........................
Gold Medal..............
Ideal......................
Jersey.....................
Riverside.................
Brick.......................
Edam......................
Leiden....................
Llmburger...............
Pineapple...............
Sap  Sago.................
American Flag Spruce
50
Beeman’s Pepsin.......
60
Black Jack.................
50
55
Largest Gum  Made... ---  
Sen Sen  .....................
55
Sen Sen Breath Perfume..  1  00
Sugar  Loaf................. ---  
45
Yucatan...................... —  
55
Bulk........................... ......   6
Red............................ ........  7
Eagle.......................... ........  4
Franck’s ....................
......   6 Vi
Schener’s ...................
...... 6

CHEWING  GUM

CHICORY

CHOCOLATE

Walter Baker & Co.’s.

Ambrosia
Ambrosia Sweet.........
......  21
Household Sweet........
......   19
Ambrosia Premium...
......   32
Yankee  Premium......
......   31
German  Sweet....................  22
Premium.............................   34
Breakfast Cocoa..................   45
Vienna Sweet....................  21
Vanilla................................   28
Premium.............................   31

Runkel Bros.

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

COCOA

Ambrosia, % lb. tin cans... 
Ambrosia, % lb. tin cans...
Cleveland.............................  41
Colonial, 14s  .......................   35
Colonial. Hs.........................  33
Epps...........................
fluyler.......................
Van Houten, %s.........
Van Houten, 14s.........
Van Houten, vis.........
Van Houten,  is.........
Webb..........................
Wilbur, Vis..........................   41
Wilbur. Ks..........................   42
20 lb. bags
Less quantity ... 
Pound packages

COCOA  SHELLS 

HIGH GRADE

Coffees

Special Combination.........15
French Breakfast..............17*4
Lenox, Mocha & Java.........21
Old Gov’t Java and Mocha.,24 
Private Estate, Java & Moc 26 
Supreme, Java and Mocha .27 
Dwinell-Wright  Co.’s Brands.
White House, 60-ls............29
White House, 30-2s.  ......... 28
Excelsior M. & J., 60-ls.. 
. .21 Vi
Excelsior M. & J., 30-2s....... 20Vi
Royal Java.........................26H
Royal Java & Mocha..........26 Ji
Arabian  Mocha  ..................28V4
Aden Moch.........................22 V4
Mocha & Java Blend..........23
Fancy Maricatbo................18V4
Javo Blend.........................17*4
Golden Santos.................... 17
Ja-Mo-Ka...........................15V4
Excelsior Blend.................. 14U
No. 55 Blend........................14
Common..............................1054
F a ir....................................u
Choice................................. 13
Fancy..................................15
Common..............................11
F air.................................... 14
Choice................................. is
Fancy................................. 17
Peaberry............................. 13
F air.....................................12
Choice................................. is
Choice................................. is
17
Fancy.......................... 

M aracaibo

Mexican

Santos

Rio

Guatem ala

Choice...................................16
Ja v a
African............... 
...,i2Vi
Fancy African.....................17
O. G................. 
25
P. G...................................... 29
Arabian........................  ...  21

 

 

Mocha
Package 

Hew York Basis.

Arbuckle.................................12 50
Dilworth................................. 12 50
Jersey......................................12 50
Lion...................................12 50
M cLaughlin’s XXXX 
McLaughlin’s JfXXX  sold  to 
retailers  only.  M ail  all  orders 
direct  to  W.  F.  McLaughlin & 
Co., Chicago.
Valley City V4  gross........ ...  75
Felix Vi gross.................. ...1  15
Hummel’s foil Vi gross... ...  85
Hummel’s tin Vi gross ... ...1  43

E xtract

Substitutes

Crushed Cereal Coffee Cake
12 packages, Vi case........... 1  75
24packages,  lease 
..........3 50

CONDENSED  M ILK 

4 doz in case.

 

COUPON  BOOKS 

Gall Borden Eagle............... 6 40
Crown....................................6 25
Daisy.....................................6 75
Champion.............................4 50
Mamiolia.............................. 4 25
Challenge............................. 3 75
Dime........................  
Leader..................................3 80
50 books, any  denom...  1 50 
100 books, any  denom...  2 50 
500books,any  denom...  11  50 
1,000books,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 cially  
printed  cover  without  extra 
chargé.

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
500, any one denom........  2 00
1.000, any one denom........  3 00
2.000, any one denom........  5 00
Steel  punch...................... 
75
The National Biscuit Co. quotes 

Credit  Checks 

CRACKERS 

as follows :

B utter

Soda

Oyster

Seymour..............................  
6
New York...........................  
6
6
Family................................ 
Salted..................................  
6
Wolverine...........................  
6 
Soda  XXX.......................... 
6 
Soda, City...........................  
8
Long Island Wafers.........  13
Zephyrette..........................  13
F a u st............................... 
7vi
6
Farina................................. 
Extra Farina.................... 
6-4
Saltine Oyster..................... 
6
Sweet  Goods—Boxes
Animals.............................   10
Assorted  Cake...................  10
Belle Rose...........................  
8
Bent’s Water......................  16
Cinnamon Bar.....................  9
Coffee Cake,  Iced............   10
Coffee Cake. Java............  10
is
Cocoanut Macaroons........ 
Cocoanut Taffy...................  10
Cracknells..........................  
ie
Creams, Iced....................... 
8
Cream Crisp.......................  
iovi
Cubans...............................   nvi
Currant  Fruit....................   12
Frosted Honey.................   12
Frosted Cream...................   9
Ginger Gems, l’rge or sm’ll  8 
Ginger  Snaps, N. B. C.... 
6
Gladiator............................   104
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 Snaps......................  12
Lemon Wafers................... 
ie
Marshmallow.....................  
ie
Marshmallow Creams......  16
Marshmallow Walnuts.  ..  16
Mary Ann...........................  
8
Mixed Picnic......................  nvi
Mtlk Biscuit........................  
7V4
8
Molasses  Cake.................... 
Molasses Bar.......................  9
Moss Jelly Bar................... 
i2Vi
Newton...............................  12
Oatmeal Crackers............  
8
Oatmeal Wafers.’................  12
Orange Crisp.......................  9
Orange Gem........................ 
9
Penny Cake...........  ..........  
8
Pilot Bread, XXX............ 
7Vi
Pretzelettes, hand made.. 
8
Pretzels, hand  made........ 
8
Scotch Cookies....................  9
Sears’ Lunch....................... 
754
8
Sugar Cake.......................... 
Sugar Cream, XXX.........  

8

Apples

Sugar Squares............  
8
Sultanas............  
,0
Tutti Frutti....... ' 
,9
Vanilla Wafers.........  
in
Vienna CrimD............ 7!!  8
CREAM  TARTAR 
5 and 10 lb. wooden  boxes. 
30
Bulk in sacks......................’."..29
D RIED   FRUITS 

7U
**

California  F ru its

Sundried........................  @1414
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes.  @5Vi 
Apricots 
........... 8@10
Blackberries..............
Nectarines...........
Peaches.................... '.  8  @11
Pitted Cherries.. 7." .7  
Prunnelles.................  
Raspberries............. .
100-120 25 lb. boxes........  <a  3V4
90-100 25 lb. boxes........  ® 4
80 - 90 25 lb. boxes........  a  4V4
70 - 80 25 lb. boxes........  @ 5«
60 - 70 25 lb. boxes........  ® 5K
50 - 60 25 lb. boxes........  ® 6w
40 - 50 25 lb. boxes........  <a 7a?
30 - 40 25 lb. boxes........

California Prunes

% cent less In 50 lb. cases 

Corsican.......................7 ! 7 7 .1 2

Leghorn...................... 

Citron

»

C urrants

12

Peel

Beans

Raisins

California, l lb.  package.... 11 v 
Imported, 1 lb package 
3  35
Imported, bulk....................
Citron American 19 lb. bx.  13 
Lemon American 10 lb. bx  10V4 
Orange American 10lb. bx.. iovi 
London Layers 2 Crown.
London Layers 3 Crown.
2  15
Cluster 4 Crown............
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 
6H7*
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown
L. M., Seeded, 1  lb........
9%
L. M., Seeded, 3^  lb__  8
Sultanas, b u lk .............. 
Jov
Sultanas, package............1 2
FARINACEOUS GOODS 
7

Dried Lima................. 
Medium Hand Picked........1  90
Brown Holland....................
Cream of Cereal.................   go
Grain-O, small............ ‘."l 36
Grain-O, large............... 
’2  25
Grape Nuts  . .........7 . ........ \ &
Postum Cereal, small__   "1  35
Postum Cereal, large.......   ’ 2 25
241 lb. packages........... 
1  so
Bulk, per 100 Tbs.........7 7 7 3   00
ilake, 50 lb. sack...... 
so
Pearl,  2001b.bbl.............7  2 40
Pearl, 100 lb. sack................. 1 17
Maccaroni  and Verm icelli
Domestic, 10 lb. box...........  60
Imported. 25 lb. box..............2 50
P earl  Barley
Common..............................   40
Chester..........................  
2 90
Empire..................................3 40

Hominy

Cereals

F arin a

Vi
Vi

Grits

Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s Brand.

Peas

Rolled  Oats

24 2 lb. packages............. ...2 00
100 lb.  kegs...................... ...3 00
200 ib. barrels................. ...5  70
100 lb. bags...................... ...2 90
Green, Wisconsin, bu__ ...1  30
Green, Scotch, bu...........
..1  40
Split,  lb...... .................... ...  3
Rolled Avena, bbl........... ...4  00
Steel Cut, 100 lb. sacks__ ____
Monarch, bbl............................3 70
Monarch, V4 bbl........................2 00
Monarch, 90 lb. sacks..........i  80
Quaker, cases........................... 3 20
East India...........................   234
German, sacks....................   334
German, broken package..  4 
Flake,  110 lb. sacks............   4u
Pearl, 130 lb. sacks..............  3%
Pearl, 241 lb.  packages......   6
Cracked, bulk......................  314
24 2 ib. packages...................... 2 so
FLAVORING EXTRACTS

Tapioca

Sago

W h p R f

FOOTE & JEN K S’

JAXON

H ighest  Grade  Extracts
V anilla 

Lemon

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

DECLINED

Spring  W heat  F lour 
Cheese
Canned  Apples 
W inter  W heat  F lour

BUTTER  COLOR

CANDLES

W„ B. & Co.’s, 15c size__  1  25
!  W., R. & Co.’s, 25c size__  2 00
Electric Light, 8s................ 12
Electric Light, 16s...............12%
Paraffine, 6s........................ 10 Vi
Paraffine  12s.......................11
Wishing 
................29

CANNED  GOODS 

Beans

M ushrooms

B lackberries

90
85
1  85 
3 40
2 35
1  75
2 80
1  75
2 80
1 75
2  80
18® 20 
22®25

Apples
3 lb. Standards........ 
70
2 00
Gallons, standards.. 
Standards...............  
75
Baked......................  1  oo@i  30
Red  Kidney............  
75®  85
String
Wax......................... 
85
Blueberries
Standard................. 
85
Brook  T rout
2 lb. cans, Spiced..............  1  90
Clams.
Little Neck, 1 lb......
1  00 
Little Neck. 2 ib......
1  50
Clam  Bouillon
Burnham’s, % pint........
1  92 
Burnham’s, pints...........
3 60 
Burnham’s, quarts........
7 20
Cherries
Red  Standards...........
85 
White.........................
1  15
Corn
Fair..........................
75
Good.......................
85
Fancy .................
95
French  Peas
Sur Extra Fine...............
Extra  Fine.....................
Fine.................................
Moyen.............................
Gooseberries
Standard................
H om iny 
Standard..................
Lobster
Star, yjlb.................
Star, 1  lb.................
Picnic Tails.............
Mackerel
Mustard, lib ...........
Mustard, 2 lb...........
Soused, 1 lb..............
Soused, 2 lb............
Tomato, 1 lb............
Tomato, 2 lb............
Hotels.......................
Buttons....................
Oysters
Cove, 1 lb.................
Cove, 21b................. 
Cove, 1 lb  Oval........ 
Peaches
P ie..........................
Yellow....................   1  65@i  85
Pears
Standard.................
70
Fancy.......................
80
Marrowfat..............
l  00 
Early June..............
1  00 
Early June  Sifted..
1  60
Grated................. ,.  1  25@2 75
Sliced.......................   1  35®2 56
Pum pkin
F a ir......................... 
70
Good.................  
t§
Fancy...................... 
85
R aspberries 
'
Standard.................. 
90
Russian  Cavier
14 lb. cans..........................  3 75
% lb, cans..........................  7 00
1 lb. can...........................   12 00
Columbia River.......   2 00@2  15
Red Alaska. 
1  40 
Pink Alaska.
1  10
Shrim ps
Standard.................
Sardines
Domestic, 14s...........
Domestic, K s.........
Domestic,  Mustard.
California, Vis........
French, 14s...........
French, Vis..............
Standard.................
Fancy......................
Succotash
Fair.......................
Good....................
Fancy......................
Tomatoes
F air....................
Good....................
Fancy.................
Gallons.................

17
22
28
85 
1  25
90 
1  00 

Straw berries

1 20

*%88

Pineapple 

Salmon

...
‘ 95

Peas

90
96
1  15
2 50

85

ADVANCED

Sugars

Index to  Markets

By Columns

A

Col.
Akron  Stoneware.................  15
Alabastine..............................  1
Ammonia................................  
l
'Axle Grease............................   1

B

C

Baking Powder........................ 
l
Batb  Brick..............................   1
Bluing.....................................   1
Brooms..................................   1
Brushes................................... 
l
Butter Color..........................   2
Candies..................................  14
Candles..................................   2
Canned Goods.......................  2
Catsup...................................   3
Carbon Oils..........................   3
Cheese....................................  3
Chewing Gum.......................   3
Chicory..................................   3
Chocolate...............................  3
Clothes Lines.........................  3
Cocoa.....................................  3
Cocoa Shells..........................  3
Coffee....................................  3
Condensed Milk....................   4
Coupon Books.......................   4
Crackers...............................  4
Cream T artar.......................   5
Dried  Fruits.........................  5

Farinaceous  Goods..............  5
Fish and Oysters...................   13
Flavoring Extracts...............   5
Fly  Paper.............................   6
Fresh Meats..........................  6
Fruits.....................................  14

L

H

I
J

Grains and Flour...... ,.........  6
Herbs....................................  6
Hides and Pelts.....................  13
Indigo.....................................   6
Jelly .......................................   6
Lamp Burners........................  i%
Lamp Chimneys.....................  15
Lanterns................................   15
Lantern  Globes.....................  15
Licorice..................................   7
Lye..........................................  7
Matches..................................   7
Meat Extracts.........................  7
Molasses.................................   7
Mustard..................................    7
Huts.............................
14
Oil Cans................................   15
Olives....................................  7
Oyster Pails..........................   7

M

N

O

D
F

G

P

R

S

Paper  Bags............................  7
Paris  Green..........................   7
Pickles...................................   7
Pipes.....................................   7
Potash...................................  7
Provisions.............................   7

R ice.......................................  8

Saleratus...............................  8
Sal Soda.........................  
8
Salt............................... 
8
Salt  Fish.................................. 8
Sauerkraut............................  9
Seeds.....................................   9
Shoe Blacking.......................   9
Snuff.....................................   g
Soap.......................................... 9
Soda.......................................... 9
Spices........................................9
Starch...................................   10
Stove Polish.....................  
10
Sugar....................................  10
Syrups...................................  g

Table  Sauce..........................   12
Tea........................................   u
Tobacco................................   11
Twine...................................   12

Vinegar................................   12

Washing Powder...............  
12
Wlcking.................................  13
Woodenware................7 7 7   13
Wrapping Paper...................  13

Yeast Cake............................  13

T

V
W

Y

ALABASTINE

White in drums...................  9
Colors in drums...................  10
White in packages..............  10 j
Colors in packages..............  111

Less 40 per cent discount. 

AMMONIA

Per Doz.
Arctic 12 oz. ovals...............   86
Arctic pints, round..............1  20

A ALE GREASE 
doz.
Aurora 
...65
Castor  Oil................... 60
Diamond.....................50
Frazer’s ......................75
IXL Golden, tin boxes 75

.......... 

gross
6  007 00 
4 25 
9 00 
9 00

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

BAKING  POW DER 

9 00
6 00

Acme

% lb. cans 3 doz.................   45
% lb. cans 3 doz.................   75
1 
lb. cans 1  doz.................1  00
Bulk.....................................   10
6 oz. Eng. Tumblers............   90

A rctic

E g g r

4 doz. case........3 75
H lb. cans, 
% lb. cans, 
2 doz. case........3 75
1 lb. cans,
1 doz. case........ 3 75
5 lb. cans, % doz. case........8 00

JAXON

Queen  Flake

% lb. cans, 4 doz. case........  45
% lb. cans, 4 doz. case........  85
1 
lb. cans. 2 doz. case........1  60
3 oz., 6 doz. case.................2 70
6 oz., 4 doz. case................. 3 20
9 oz., 4 doz. case................. 4 80
1 lb., 2 doz. case................. 4 00
5 lb., 1 doz. case...................9 00

BATH  BRICK

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

BLUING

C o n d e n s e
¿k J e a r q S
B l u i n G

Small 3 doz..........................   49
Large, 2 doz..............\7 7 7   75
Arctic, 4 oz, per gross.... 7*4 00
Arctic, 8 oz, per gross........  6 00
Arctic, pints, per  gross__ 9 00

BROOMS

2 50
Ho. 1 Carpet................... 
Ho. 2 Carpet....................  
'2  15
1  85
No. 3 Carpet.................  
No. 4 Carpet.................7  7   l  60
Parlor  Gem................... 
2  40
Common Whisk.........  
85
Fancy Whisk.................  '  'i   i0
Warehouse................ 
"3  25

BRUSHES........

Solid Back,  8 in............ 
45
Solid Back, 11 in .........  
os
Pointed Ends...............  " '  •«
2 0-* --  ...............................1  00

_ Shoe

Scrub

No. 3.......... 

Stove
 

 

75

N ° - 1 ................................................. ......

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

White fish

SEEDS

100  lbs........... 
40  lbs........... 
10 lbs........... 
8 lbs........... 

No. 1  No. 2  Fam
3 00
7 00 
3  10  1  60
85 
45
39
71 
Anise.  .................................. 9
Canary, Smyrna..................   4
Caraway.............................   8
Cardamon, Malabar........... 60
Celery..................................  12
Hemp, Russian....................  4%
Mixed Bird..........................   4%
Mustard, white....................  9
Poppy..................................10
Rape...................................   4%
70
Cuttle Bone......................... 16
Handy Box, large............   2 50
Handy Box, small..............  1 26
21
Bixby’s Royal Polish........ 
85
Miller’s Crown  Polish...... 
85
go
Scotch, in bladders..............  37
Maccaboy, In jars................  35
French Rappee, In  jars......   43
B. T. Babbit brand—

SHOE  BLACKING

Babbit’s Best..................  4  00

SNUFF

SOAP

Beaver Soap Co. brands

10

P ure  Cane

F air.....................................  16
Good...................................  20
Choice..............................."  25

STARCH

K ingsford’s  Corn
40 l-lb. packages...............   6%
20 l-lb. packages............... 
3%
6 
7%
lb. packages............ 
K ingsford’s Silver Gloss
40 l-lb. packages...............  
7
6 lb. boxes....................... 
7%

Common Gloss

l-lb. packages..................   4%
3-lb. packages...................  4%
6-lb. packages..................  
5
40 ana so-lb. boxes............  
3%
Barrels.............................   3%

29

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No.  8................................   4
No.  9................................   4
No. 10................................   4
No. 11................................  4  45
No. 12................................  4  40
No. 13................................  4  40
No. 14................................  4 35
No. 15..................... 
  4  35
No. 16................................  4 35

 

TEA
Japan

Sundried, medium.............. 28
Sundried, choice..................30
Sundried, fancy...................40
Regular, medium.................28
Regular, choice...................30
Regular, fancy.................... 40
Basket-fired, medium..........28
Basket-fired, choice.............35
Basket-fired, fancy..............40
Nibs..................................... 27
Siftings...........................19@21
Fannings........................20@22

Gunpowder

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

6

7

LICORICE

Pure................................ ...  30
Calabria.......................... ...  23
Sicily............................... ...  14
Roof...............................
...  10
Condensed. 2 doz............ ...1  20
Condensed. 4 doz............ ...2 25

LYE

MATCHES

Vantila

Lemon

2 ozpanel..1  20  2 ozpanel.  75 
3 oz taper. .2 00  4 oz taper.. l  50 

Jennings’

A rctic

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

Big Valne

No. 200 Lookout, 144 bx...... 1  25
No. 500 Select Society, 144...4 00 
No. 200 Williams Perfect, 144.1  35
No.  2 Lily, 144 boxes.........1  15
No. 100 Park, 432 boxes.......2 85
No.  80 Poetry, 720 boxes... .4 00 
Diamond Match Co.’s brands.
No.  9 sulphur...................... 1  65
Anchor Parlor.................... 1  50
No. 2 Home......................... 1  30
Export Parlor......................4 00
Wolverine............................ 1  60
MEAT EXTRACTS
Armour & Co.’s, 4 oz........ 
45
Liebig’s, 2  oz.................... 
75

MOLASSES 
New  Orleans

Fancy Open Kettle....................  40
Choice............................... 
F air.................................. 
Good.................................  

35
26
22

Half-barrels 2c extra 
MUSTARD

OLIVES

PA PER  BAGS

OYSTER  PAILS

Ask your Jobber for them.

Horse Radish, l doz............1  75
Horse Radish, 2 doz............3 50
Bayle’s Celery. 1 doz...........1  75
Bulk, 1 gal. kegs...............   1  25
Bulk, 3 gal. kegs...............  1  10
Bulk, 5 gal. kegs...............   1  00
Manzanilla, 7 oz...............  
80
Queen, pints.....................   2  35
Queen, 19  o z ....................  4  50
Queen, 28  oz.....................   7  00
Stuffed, 5 oz...................... 
90
Stuffed, 8 oz......................  145
Stuffed, 10 oz....................  2  30
Victor, pints........................10 00
Victor, quarts..................... 15 00
Victor, 2 quarts..................20 00
Continental  Paper Bag  Co.
Glory  Mayflower 
Satchel  & Pacific
Bottom 
Square
' 50
60
80
1  00
1  25
1  45
1  70
2 00
2 40
2 60
3  15
4  15
5 00
5 50

H......... .........   28
%......... .........   34
1......... .........   44
2......... .........  54
3......... .........   66
4......... .........   76
5......... .........   90
6......... ......... 1  06
8......... .........1  28
10......... ......... 1  38
12......... ......... 1  60
14......... ......... 2 24
20......... ......... 2 52
25.........
Sugar
Red......
Gray...
Bulk............................... ....14
Packages, % lb., each... ....18
Packages, % lb., each  .. ....17
Packages,  1 lb., each...
...16

PARIS  GREEN

.... 

4%

PICKLES
Medium

Small

Barrels, 1,200 count......
...4  60
Half bbls, 600 count...... ....2 75
Barrels, 2,400 count...... ....5 50
Half bbls, 1,200 count...
...3 30
Clay, No. 216.................. ....1  70
Claÿ, T. D., full count...
...  65
Cob, No. 3......................
...  85

PIPES

...4 00
...3 00

POTASH

48 cans In case.

Babbitt’s .......................
Penna Salt Co.’s............
PROVISIONS
B arreled  P ork

9

8% 8

D ry  Salt  Meats

Smoked  Meats 

@16 50
@16 50 
@15 50 
@15 60 
@19 00 
@12 26 
@ 14  60 
@11  50

Mess.........................
Back....................
Clear back............
Short cut.............
P ig.......................
Bean.................... .
Family Mess........
Rump Butts Beef.
Bellies......................
Briskets..................
Extra shorts............
Hams, 121b. average.
@  11 
Hams, I4lh. average.
@  11 
Hams, 161b. average.
@  10%  
Hams, 20 lb. average.
@  10%  
Ham dried  beef......
@   12 
_
Shoulders (N. Y. cut) 
@  7%
Bacon, clear............   10%@  li
California hams......   @  7%
Boneless  hams........  @  11
Boiled Hams.......... 
@  15%
Picnic Boiled Hams 
@ 11
Berlin  Hams.........  
@  8%
@  9
Mince Hams.........  
Compound...............  
6%
9%
Kettle......................  
Vegetole................
%
60 lb. Tubs.. advance 
80 lb. Tubs.. advance 
%
50 lb. Tins... advance 
%
20 lb. Palls, .advance 
%
10 lb. Palls.. advance 
%
5 

lb. Palls., advance 

Lards—In Tierces

1

Beef

Standard

Reg. 2 oz. D. C. Lemon.......   75
No. 4 Taper D. C. Lemon ... 1  52
Reg. 2 oz. D. C.  Vanilla.......l  24
No. 3 Taper D. C. Vanilla.. .2 08 
2 oz. Vanilla Tonka.............   70
2 oz. flat Pure Lemon...........  70
Lem.  Van.
2 oz. Taper Panel_  75 
1 20
2 oz. Oval.............  75 
120
3 oz. Taper Panel.... l  35 
2 00
4 oz. Taper Panel___1 60 
2 25
Tanglefoot, per doz.............   35
Tanglefoot, per case...........3 20

N orthrop  Brand

F IT   PA PER

FRESH  MEATS 

P ork

Carcass....................   6  @  8
Forequarters.........  
6%@  6
Hindquarters.........  
7  @9
Loins No. 3..............  9  @14
9  @12
Ribs......................... 
Rounds....................  6%@  7
ChucKs.................... 
5%@ 6
4  @5
Plates...................... 
@7
Dressed................... 
Loins....................... 
@10%
Boston Butts........... 
@ 9
Shoulders................ 
@8%
Leaf  Lard................ 
@8
M utton
Carcass...................  
7%@ 8
Spring Lambs.........  
9  @10
Carcass...................  
8  @9
GRAINS  AND  FLOUR 
W heat

W heat.............................. 

W inter W heat  F lour 

Veal

70

Local Brands

Olney & Judson’s Brand

Spring W heat  F lour 

Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand

Patents.............................  4 25
Second Patent................’..  3 75
Straight.............................  3 55
Clear...............................  3  15
Graham............................  3 26
Buckwheat.......................  4 40
Rye...................................   3 25
Subject  to usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour In bbls., 25c per bbl. ad­
ditional.
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand
Diamond %s......................  3 75
Diamond %s.....................  3 76
Diamond %s.....................   3 75
Quaker %s........................   3 80
Quaker %s........................   3 80
Quaker %s........................  3 80
Clark-Jewell-Wells  Co.’s Brand
Plllsbury’s  Best %s.........   4 50
Pillsbury’s  Best %s.........   4  40
Pillsbury’s  Best %s.........   4 30
Plllsbury’s Best %s paper.  4  30 
Pillsbury’s Best %s paper.  4  30 
Ball-Bamhart-Putman’s Brand
Duluth  Imperial %s.........  4 40
Duluth  Imperial %s.......... 4 30
Duluth  Imperial %s.........  4 20
Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s Brand
Wingold  %s.................... 
4 30
Wingold  ms.................... 
4 20
Wingold  % s.;................. 
4  10
Ceresota %s......................  4  40
Ceresota %s......................  4 30
Ceresota %s......................  4 20
Worden Grocer  Co.’s Brand
Laurel  %s.........................  4 so
Laurel  %s.........................  4 40
Laurel  %s.........................  4 30
Laurel %s and %s paper.. 
4  30
Bolted...............................  2 00
Granulated.......................  210
Car  lots.............................  30%
Car lots, clipped...............   32%
Less than car lots............
Feed  and  Millstuffb
St. Car Feed, screened__  18  00
No. 1 Corn and  Oats........17  60
Unbolted Corn  Meal........  17  00
Winter Wheat Bran.........   17  00
Winter Wheat  Middlings.  17 50
Screenings.......................  16  00
Corn, car  lots..................   45
No. 1 Timothy car lots....  11  00 
No. l Timothy ton  lots....  12 00 
Sage.........................................15
Hops....................................... 15
Laurel Leaves......................... 15
Senna Leaves..........................25
Madras, 5 lb. boxes................55
S. F., 2,3 and 5 lb. boxes....... 50
6 lb. pails.per doz...........  1  85
151b. palls............................  35
301b. palls............................  62

Corn
Hay

INDIGO

HERBS

JELLY

Meal

Oats

3
10

Beef

Tripe

1
5%
6
7%
7%
6%
9
6

lb. Pails.. advance 

10 75
11  50
ii  50
150
3 50

3 
Sausages
Bologna................... 
Liver.......................  
Frankfort................ 
P o rk ....................... 
Blood.......................  
Tongue....................  
Headcheese.............  
Extra Mess.............. 
Boneless..................  
Rump...................... 
Pigs’  Feet
% bbls., 40 lbs.........  
% bbls., 80 lbs.........  
Kits, 15  lbs...................... 
% bbls., 40 lbs.........  
% bbls., 80 lbs.........  
Casings
P o rk ...............................  
Beef rounds............  
Beef  middles........... 
Sheep............................... 
B utterine
Solid, dairy..............  11  @13
Rolls, dairy..............  11%@13%
Rolls, creamery......  
14%
Solid, creamery......  
«4
Corned beef, 2 lb__  
2  76
17 50
Corned beef, 14 lb... 
Roast beef, 2 lh........ 
2 76
Potted ham,  %s......  
50
Potted ham,  %s......  
90
Deviled ham, %s__  
50
Deviled ham,  %s.... 
90
Potted tongue,  %s.. 
50
Potted tongue.  %s„ 
90
RICE 
Domestic

Canned  Meats

1  25
2  25

Carolina head....................... 7
Carolina No. l ...................... 5%
Carolina No. 2 ...................... 434
Broken..................................414
Japan,  No.  1.................5%@6
Japan,  No. 2.................4%@5
Java, fancy head...........5  @5%
Java, No. 1....................5  @
Table...............................  @

Im ported.

SALERATUS 

Packed 60 lbs. in box. 

Church’s Arm and Hammer.3  15
Deland’s....................................3 00
Dwight’s  Cow...........................3 15
Emblem....................................2 10
L.  P.......................................... 3 00
Sodio........................................ 3 00
Wyandotte, 100 3is...................3 00
Granulated,  bbls...................  80
Granulated, 100 lb. cases__  90
Lump, bbls...........................   7f
Lump, 145 lb. kegs......., ........  so

SAL  SODA

SALT
Buckeye

Common  Grades

Diamond Crystal 

100  31b. bags.......................... 3 00
60  61b. bags...........................3 00
2214 lb. bags...........................2 75
In 5 bbl. lots  5  per  cent,  dis­
count and one case 24 3 lb. boxes 
free.
Table, cases, 24 3 lb. boxes.. l  40 
Table, barrels, 100 3 lb. bags.3 00 
Table, barrels, 40 7  lb. bags.2 75 
Butter, barrels, 280 lb. bulk .2 65 
Butter, barrels, 20 I41b.bags.2 85
Butter, sacks, 28 lbs............   27
Butter, sacks. 66 lbs............   67
100 31b. sacks....................... 2 25
60 51b. sacks....................... 2  15
2810 lb. sacks......................2 05
56 lb. sacks....................... 
40
281b. sacks.......................   22
66 lb. dairy in drill bags......  30
28 lb. dairy In drill bags......   16
66 lb. dairy In linen sacks...  60 
66 lb. dairy In linen sacks...  60 
66 lb. sacks..........................   30
Granulated  Fine...................... 1 20
Medium Fine............................ 1 26

Solar Rock
Common

Ashton
H iggins

W arsaw

SALT  FISH 

Cod

76
61

T rout

H alibut.

Georges cured............   @6
Georges genuine........  @ 6%
Georges selected........  @ 7
Grand Bank...................  @6
Strips or  bricks.........   6  @ 9
Pollock..................   @3%
Strips.......................................10
Chunks....................................12
No. 1 100 lbs...........................  5 75
No. 1  40 lbs...........................  2 60
No. 1  10 lbs..............  
No. 1  8 lbs..............  
H erring
Holland white hoops, bbl.  11  26
Holland white hoops%bbl.  6  00
Holland white hoop, keg.. 
82
Holland white hoop mchs. 
87
Norwegian.......................
Round 100 lbs........................   3 00
Round 40 lbs..........................   1 50
Scaled......................  
19
Bloaters«............................... 
l 60
M ackerel
Mess 100 lbs........   ...........  12  25
Mess  40 lbs......................  5 20
Mess  10 lbs......................  1  38
Mess  8 lbs......................  
l  13
No. 1100 lbs......................   10 60
No. 1  40lbs...................... 
  4 50
No. 1  10 lbs......................  1  20
No. 1  8 lbs......................   1 00
No. 2 100 lbs......................  8 25
NO. 2  40 lbs......................   3  60
NO. 2  10 lbs............... 
NO. 2  8 lbs............... 

98
81

f e ä l

50 cakes, large size................. 3 25
100 cakes, large size..................6 50
50 cakes, small size................. 1 95
100 cakes, small size.................3 85
Bell & Bogart brands—

Detroit Soap Co. brands—

Dingman Soap Co. brand—
N. K. Fairbanks brands—

Coal Oil Johnny.............. 3 90
Peekin............................   4  00
Queen Anne..................... 3  15
Big  Bargain..............—   1  75
Umpire...........................   2  15
German Family..............  2  45
Dingman.........................  3  85
Santa Claus....................  3 26
Brown............................... 2 40
Fairy...............................  4 00
Naptha............................  4  00
Oak Leaf........................   3  25
Oak Leaf, big 5...............   4 00

Fels brand—
Gowans & Sons brands—

JAXON

Lautz Bros, brands—

single box...........................3 00
5 box lots, delivered..........2 95
10 box lots, delivered..........2 90
Johnson soap Co. brands—
Silver King.....................   3 60
Calumet Family.............   2 70
Scotch Family................   2 50
Cuba................................  2 40
60 cakes....................  1  95
Rieker’s Magnetic.........  3 90
Big Acme........................  4 00
Acme 5c..........................   3 25
Marseilles.......................  4 00
Master............................   3 70
Lenox.............................  3 00
Ivory, 6oz....................... 4 00
Ivory, 10 oz.....................  6 75
Star.................................3 00
Good Cheer....................  3 80
Old Country....................  3 20
Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz....... 2 40
Sapolio, hand, 3 doz............2 40
Boxes...................................5%
Kegs, English.....................iii

Schultz & Co. brand—
A. B. Wrisley brands—

Proctor & Gamble brands—

Scouring

SODA

SPICES 

W hole Spices

Allspice............................  
Cassia, China In mats......  
Cassia, Batavia, in bund... 
Cassia, Saigon, broken.... 
Cassia, Saigon, In rolls.... 
Cloves, Amboyna.............. 
Cloves, Zanzibar...............  
Mace................................. 
Nutmegs,  75-80................. 
Nutmegs,  105-10................ 
Nutmegs, 116-20................  
Pepper, Singapore, black. 
Pepper,  Singapore, white. 
Pepper, shot...................... 
P ure Ground 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.........   — ................ 

SYRUPS

Corn

12
12
28
38
56
17
14
56
50
40
35
18
28
20
16
28
48
17
16
18
25
65
18
20
28
20
20

Barrels................................ 18
Half bbls............................ 2f>
1 doz. l gallon cans............. 3 00
1 doz. % gallon cans............1  70
2 doz. H gallon cans............   90

Best Gloss Starch, 50 lb......
Best Gloss Starch, 40 lb......
Best Gloss Starch,  6 lb......
Best Gloss Starch,  3 lb......
Best Gloss Starch,  1 lb......
W orks:  Venice, 111.
Geneva, 111.

Best Corn Starch.................
Neutral Pearl Starch in bbl. 
Neutral Powdered Starch in bbl. 
Best Confect’rs in bbl.,thin boil. 
Best Laundry in  bbl.,  thin boil. 
Chas. Pope Glucose Co.,
Chicago, 111.

Common Corn

20 l-lb.  packages.............. 
i%
40 l-lb.  packages..............  4%
STOVE  POLISH

SUGAR

No. 4,3 doz in case, gross  4 50 
No. 6,3 doz In case, gross  7  20 
Below  are  given  New  York 
prices  on  sugars,  to  which  the 
wholesale dealer adds  the  local 
freight from New  York  to your 
shipping puint, giving you credit 
on  the  invoice  for  tne  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 85
Cut Loaf...........................   6 85
Crushed............................  5 85
Cubes................................  5 60
Powdered....................... .  5 45
Coarse  Powdered.  .........  5  46
XXXX Powdered............   5 59
Standard  Granulated......   5 35
Fine Granulated...............   5 35
Coarse Granulated...........  5 45
Extra Fine Granulated....  5 45
Conf.  Granulated.............  5 60
2 lb. bags Fine  Gran........  5 60
5 lb. bags Fine  Gran........  5 50
Mould A............................  6 70
Diamond  A.......................  5 36
Confectioner’s A..............  5  15
No.  1, Columbia A..........  5 05
No.  2, Windsor A...........  4 95
No.  3, Ridgewood A........  4 95
No.  4 ,Phoenix  A...........   490
No.  5, Empire A ............   4 85
- O.  6...............................  4 80
0.  7...............................  4 70

Young  Hyson

Choice.................................. 30
Fancy...................................36

Oolong

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

English B reakfast

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

In dia

Ceylon, choice......................32
Fancy.......................... 
42
TOBACCO

Cigars

A. Bomers’ brand. 

Plaindealer  .:......................... 36 00
Columbian Cigar Co.’s brands.
Little Columbian.................... 35 00
Columbian...............................35 00
Columbian Extra.................... 55 00
Columbian Special..................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.

8. C. W.............................  35  00
Cigar Clippings, per lb......  
26
Lubetsky Bros.’ Brands.
B. L..................................$33  00
Gold Star.........................   35  00
Phelps, Brace & Co.’s Brands.
Royal  Tigers..............55@ 80 00
Royal Tigerettes.............  35  00
Book Filled Tigerettes__  35 00
Female  Tigerettes..........  35 00
Night Hawk, concha.......  35 00
Night Hawk,  navel.........  35 00
Vincente Portuondo ..35@ 70 00

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M ICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

14

CANDIES 
Stick Cand

bbls.

Standard...........
Standard H. H .. 
Standard  Twist. 
Cut Loaf.............
Jumbo, 321b... 
Extra H .H .... 
Boston Cream. 
Beet Root........

pails 
© 754 
© 754 
© 9 
cases 
@754 
@1054 
©10 

© 8 
© 8

_

P lug

Fine  Cnt

12
Ruhe Bros. Co.........
HUson  Co................
T. J. Dunn & Co......
McCoy & Co.............
The Collins Cigar Co  ._
Brown  Bros................11
Bernard Stahl Co... 
Banner Cigar  Co.........io@ 35 00
Seldenberg  & Co........ 55@i25 30
Fulton  Cigar Co.........io@ 35 oo
A. B. Ballard & Co....35@175 oo 
E. M. Schwarz & Co...3S@110 00
San Telmo...................35@ 70 00
Havana Cigar Co........ X8@ 35 00
C. Costello & Co..........35©  70 oo
LaGora-Fee Co........... 35© 70 00
S. I. Davis & Co..........35@185 oo
Hene & Co.................. 36© 90 00
Benedict & Co......... 7.50©  70
Hemmeter Cigar Co...35© 70 
G .J. Johnson Cigar Co.35@ 70
Maurice Sanborn__ 50@175
Bock & Co................... 65@300
Manuel  Garcia........... 80©375
Neuva Mundo.............85©175
Henry Clay..................85@550
La Carolina................. 96@200
Standard T. & C. Co.  .35© 70 oo 
H. Van Tongeren’s Brand.
Star G reen....................35  OO
Uncle Daniel........................58
Ojibwa................................. 38
Forest  Giant........................38
Sweet Spray..,.....................35
Cadillac.................................57
Sweet  Loma......................... 38
Golden Top.......................... 27
Hiawatha..............................58
Telegram..............................28
Pay C ar................................33
Prairie Rose......................... so
Protection.............................38
Sweet Burley........................40
Sweet Loma......................... 38
Tiger.................................... 39
Flat Iron..............................36
Creme de Menthe................60
Stronghold............................40
Solo.......................................35
Sweet Chunk........................37
Forge....................................33
Red Cross............................. 24
Palo......................................36
Kylo......................................36
Hiawatha............................. 41
Battle A xe...........................37
American Eagle................... 34
Standard Navy.....................38
Spear Head, 16 oz................43
Spear Head,  8oz................45
Nobby Twist........................49
Jolly T ar..............................39
Old Honesty......................... 45
Toddy.,................................. 34
J. T ......................................38
Piper Heidsick.....................64
Boot Jack............................. 81
Jelly Cake............................ 36
Plumb Bob............... 
32
Smoking
Hand Pressed.....................46
Double  Cross.....................37
Sweet Core......................... 40
Flat C ar.,........................... 37
Great Navy......................... 37
W arpath.............................27
Bamboo,  8oz.....................29
Bamboo, 16 oz.....................27
I X L,  61b..........................28
I X L, 301b..........................32
Honey Dew........................ 37
Gold  Block..........................37
Flagman.............................40
Chips................. ................. 35
Kiln Dried..........................23
Duke’s Mixture................... 40
Duke’s Cameo...................... 40
Honey Dip Twist................. 39
Myrtle Navy........................40
Yum Yum, l?i oz.................39
Yum Yum, 1 lb. pails.......... 37
Cream..................................37
Corn Cake, 2% oz.................25
Com Cake, 1 lb....................23
Plow Boy, 1JS oz.................. 37
Plow Boy, 3K oz.................. 35
Peerless, 3)4 oz.................... 34
Peerless, 154 oz....................36
Indicator, 254 oz.................. 28
Indicator, 1 lb. palls...........31
Col. Choice, 254 oz................21
Col. Choice. 8 oz.................. 21

 

TABLE SAUCES
LEA & 
PERRINS’ 
SAUCE

TW INE

The Original and 
Genuine 
Worcestershire.
Lea & Perrin’s, large........  3 75
Lea & Perrin’s, small......   2 50
Halford, large...................  3 75
Halford, small...................  2 26
Salad Dressing, large......   4 55
Salad Dressing, small......   2 76
Cotton, 3 ply........................20
Cotton, 4 ply....................... 20
Jute, 2ply........................... 12
Hemp, 6 ply........................12
Flax, medium.....................20
Wool, 1 lb. balls..................   8
Malt White Wine, 40 grain..  8 
Malt White Wine, 80 grain.. 11 
Pure Cider, B. & B. brand.  . 11
Pure Cider, Red Star.......... 12
Pure Cider, Robinson.........11
Pure Cider, Silver...............  11
WASHING  POW DER
Gold Dust, regular..............4 50
Gold Dust, 5c.......................4 00

VINEGAR

13

W ICKING

Pearline...............................2 90
Scourine.............................. 3 50
No. 0, per gross....................20
No. t, per gross....................26
No. 9, per gross....................36
No. 3. Der gross....................66

WOODENWARE

Baskets

Tubs

Egg Crates

Mop  Sticks

Toothpicks

Clothes  Pins

B u tter P lates

W ash  Boards

Bushels................................1  10
Bushels, wide  band............ 1  20
Market................................   30
Splint, large........................’4 00
Splint, medium....................3 75
Splint, small.........................3 50
Willow Clothes, large...........7 00
Willow Clothes, medium...  6 26
Willow Clothes, small.......... 5 50
No. 1 Oval, 250 in crate........  45
No. 2 Oval, 250 in crate........  so
No. 3 Oval, 250 in crate........  55
No. 5 Oval, 250 in crate........  65
Humpty Dumpty................2 25
No. 1, complete...................  30
No. 2, complete...................  26
Round head, 5 gross box__  45
Round head, cartons...........  62
Trojan spring......................  85
Eclipse patent spring........  85
No 1 common.......................  76
No. 2 patent brush holder..  80
12 lb. cotton mop heads.......1  25
Pails
2- hoop Standard........................1 40
3- 
hoop Standard...... 1 60
2- wire,  Cable.............................1 go
3- wire,  Cable............................ 1 7(_
Cedar, all red, brass bound.l  25
Paper,  Eureka.........................2 25
Fibre....................................     40
Hardwood......................... 2 75
Softwood...........................2 75
Banquet............................. 1 40
Ideal..................................1  40
20-inch, Standard, No. 1.... 6 00
18-inch, Standard, No. 2.... 5 00
16-inch, Standard, No. 3.... 4 00
20-inch, Cable,  No. 1.......... 7 00
18-inch, Cable, No. 2.......... 6 00
16-lnch, Cable,  No. 3.......... 5 00
No. 1 Fibre.........................9 45
No. 2 Fibre..........................7 95
No. 3 Fibre.........................7 20
Bronze Globe.............................2 bo-
Dewey................................. 1  75
Double Acme............................ 2 76
Single Acme....................   2  25
Double Peerless._______
Single Peerless...................2 60
Northern Queen................2 GO
Double Duplex...................3 00
Good Luck......................... 2 76
Universal............................2 25
11 in. Butter.........................  75
13 in. Butter........................1  00
15 in. Butter........................1 75
17 in. Butter........................2 60
W in.Butter........................3 00
Assorted 13-15-17.................1  75
Assorted 15-17-19  ............... 2 50
W RAPPING  PA PER
Common straw.................  
154
Fiber Manila, w h ite........ 
3%
Fiber Manila, colored......   454
No.  1  Manila....................  4
Cream  Manila.................. 
3
Butcher’s Manila..............  254
Wax  Butter, short  count.  13
Wax Butter, full count__  2d
Wax Butter,  rolls............   15
Magic, 3 doz........................ 1 00
Sunlight, 3 doz.....................1 00
Sunlight, 154  doz.................  50
Yeast Cream, 3 doz............. 1  00
Yeast Foam, 3  doz..............1 00
. . .   go 
Yeast Foam. iu   dor 
Per lb.
White fish....................  ©  9
Trout............................  ©  9
Black Bass...................11©  12
Halibut........................  ©  15
Ciscoes or Herring__   ©  4
Bluefish.......................   ©  10
Live  Lobster...............   ©  20
Boiled  Lobster............   ©  20
Cod...............................  ©  11
Haddock......................  ©  7
No. 1 Pickerel..............  ©  9
Pike.............................   ©  7
Perch...........................   ©  4
Smoked  White............   ©  9
Red  Snapper................  ©  n
Col River  Salmon........  ©  12
Mackerel......................  © is

YEAST  CAKE

FRESH  FISH

Wood  Bowls 

HIDES AND  PELTS

The Cappon & Bertsch Leather 
Co., 100 Canal  Street,  quotes  as 
follows:
Hides
Green No. l .............
Green  No. 2.............
Cured  No. l ............
Cured  No. 2............
Calfskins,green No. 1 
Calfskins,green No. 2 
Calfskins,cured No. 1 
Calf skins,cured No. 2 
Pelts,  each.................. 
Lamb..............................
No. 1.............................. 
No. 2.............................. 
Washed, fine........... 
Washed,  medium... 
Unwashed,  fine......  
Unwashed, medium. 

18©20
22©24
12@14
16©18

Tallow

Pelts

Wool

so©i 10

© 454
© 354

Mixed Candy

Grocers.
Competition............. 
Special..................... 
Conserve.............  
R oyal......................  
Ribbon................... 
Broken................a   8
Cut Loaf................... 
English Rock........... 
Kindergarten.........  
Bon Ton  Cream......  
French Cream.........  
Dandy Pan..............  
Hand  Made  Cream
mixed................... 
Crystal Cream m ix.. 

© 7
@ 7
© g
@ 8
©  g
a   9
©  9
©  9
© 9
@10
©10
© 15
©13

Fancy—In  B a lk  

San Bias Goodies.... 
©12
©  9
Lozenges, plain....... 
Lozenges, printed...  ©10
Choc. Drops............. 
©JJi
Eclipse Chocolates...  @13'
Choc.  Monumentals.  @14
@15
Victoria Chocolate.. 
Gum Drops.............. 
© 5
Moss  Drops............  
@ 91
Lemon Sours........... 
@io‘
Imperials................. 
@10
Ital. Cream Opera...  @12
Ital. Cream Bonbons
20 lb. pails............  
@12
Molasses  Chews,  15
lb. pails................. 
@14
@125
Pine Apple Ice........ 
Maroons..................  
@¡2
Golden Wafiles........ 
@12
Fancy—In  5  lb. Boxes 
ann
@eo
aes
©85
@10
@30

Lemon  S o u rs..... 
Peppermint Drops.! 
Chocolate  Drops__ 
H. M. Choc. Drops.. 
H. M. Choc.  Lt.  and
Dk. No. 12............  
Gum Drops.............. 
Licorice  Drops.
Lozenges,  plain......
Lozenges, printed...
Imperials.................
Mottoes...................
Cream  Bar..............
Molasses Bar...........
Hand Made Creams.
Cream Buttons, Pep.
and  Wlnt..............
String Book.............
Wintergreen Berries 
Caram els 
No. 1 wrapped,  3 lb.
boxes....................
Pennv Goods...........
FRUITS 
Oranges
Florida Russett.......
Florida Bright........ 
Fancy Navels.........   2  76@3 26
Extra Choice...........  2 50@3 00
Late Valencias........ 
©
©2  50
Seedlings.................  
©2  76
Medt. Sweets........... 
Jamaicas................. 
©
Rodi...................... 
a
Lemons

80  ©90

GG©60

Messina, 300s..........  3 26@3  50
Messina, 360s...........  3 00® 3  60
California 360s.........  3 25©3  50
California 300s.........  3 25@3  go
Bananas
Medium bunches__   1 50@1  75
Large bunches....;.

©
...

i

Figs

Foreign Dried Fruits 
@
©

Californias,  Fancy.. 
Cal. pkg, 10 lb. boxes 
Extra  choice,  10  lb.
boxes,...................
Fancy, 12 lb. boxes..
Pulled, 6 lb. boxes...
Naturals, in bags....
Dates
Fards in 10 lb. boxes 
Fards in 60 lb. cases.
Hallowi....................
lb.  cases, new......
Sairs, 60 lb. cases....  454  © 6 
NUTS
Almonds, Tarragona  @18
Almonds, Ivlca......  
  '
.Vlmonas, California,
soft shelled........... 
17@19
Brazils,....................  
@12
Kiiberts  ................. 
©1344
Walnuts  Grenobles. 
@14
Walnut«., soft shelled 
California No. 1... 
@14
Table Nuts,  fancy... 
@14
Table  Nuts,  choice.. 
§13
Pecais,  Med........... 
@10
Pecans, Ex. Large... 
© u
Pecans, Jumbos...... 
@12
Hickory Nuts per bu.
Ohio, new............  
©
Cocoanuts, full sacks 
©3 75
Chestnuts, per b u ... 
@
Peanuts
Fancy, H. P.. Suns..  554©
*
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Suns 
Choice, H. p., Extras 
1
Choice, H. P., Extras
Roasted................ 
©
Span. 8hlld No. 1 n’w  354© 754

Roasted................  654© 7

15

B atters

AKRON  STONEWARE 

54 gal., per doz....................................
2 to 6 gal., per gal.............................
8 gal. each..........................................
10 gal. each..........................................
12 gal. each..........................................
16 gal. meat-tubs, each.......................
20 gal. meat-tubs, each.......................
25 gal. meat-tubs, each.......................
30 gal. meat-tubs, each.......................

Churns

2 to 6 gal., per gal....................
'’burn Dashers, per doz..........
M ilkpans
54 ga-  fiat or rd. bot., per doz.. 
1 gal. nat or rd. bot„ each......

Fine Glazed  M ilkpans
54 gal  flat or rd. bot, per doz............
1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each.................

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

Stewpans

Ja g s

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

Sealing Wax

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

5 lbs. in package, per lb...................
LAMP  BURNERS
No. 0 Sun......................................
No. 1 Sun......................................
No. 2 Sun......................................
No. 3 Sun...........................................
Tubular..............................................
Nutmeg..............................................

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

• 
LAMP  CHIMNEYS—Seconds

48 
6 
52 
65 
84 
1  20 
1  60 
2 25 
2 70

65484

85 
1  10

60
45
754

1  10

36
45
65
45
50

Propipt
pess

The things you overlooked when 
our  salesman  visited  you  can  be 
ordered from us by  telephone,  tel­
egraph or letter.

They  will  be  shipped  on  the 

first train.

We appreciate the fact that when 
you  want  something,  you  want  it 
right off.

Therefore, prompt shipments.

BROWN  &  SEHLER.

Grand Rapids, 
Michigan.

U i! NULITE

750  Candle  Power  ARC  ILLUM INATORS 
Produce the finest  artificial  light  In  the  world.

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

Per box of 6 doz,
1  56
1  78
2 48

F irst Quality 

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

XXX  Flint 

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

P earl Top

No. 1 Sun, wrapped and labeled........
No. 2 Sun, wrapped and labeled........
No. 2 hinge, wrapped and labeled......
No. 2  Sun,  “Small  Bulb,”  for  Globe 
Lamps........................................

La  Bastie

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 (65c doz)......
No. 2 Lime (70c doz)......
No.2 Flint(80c  d o z)"".

Electric

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

OIL CANS

gal. tin cans with spout, per doz.... 
gal. galv. iron with  spout, per doz.. 
gal. galv. iron with  spout, per doz.. 
gal. galv. iron with  spout, per doz.. 
gal. galv. iron with  spout, per doz.. 
gal. galv. iron with faucet, per doz.. 
gal. galv. iron with faucet, per doz..
gal. Tilting cans................................
gal. galv. iron  Nacefas....................
gal. Rapid steady stream.................
gal. Eureka, non-overflow...............
gal. Home Rule................................
gal. Home Rule.................................
gal. Pirate King...............................

P om p  Cans

LANTERNS

No.  0 Tubular, side lift......................
No.  IB  Tubular.................................
No. 16 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, 15c 
No. 0 Tub., bbls 5 doz. each, per bbl.. 
No. 0 Tub., Bull’s eye, cases 1 doz. each

2  002  15

3  15

2 75
3 75
4 00

4 00r
5 00 
5  10

1  00 
1  25 
1  35 
1 60

3 GO
4 00 
4 70

4 00 
4 70

1  40
1  58
2 78
3 75
4 85 
4 25 
4 95
7 25 
9 00
8 50
9 96
11 28 
9 60

10  50

4 85 
7 40 
7 GO 
7 GO 
13 50 
3 60

45 
45 
2 00 
1  25

GAS AND GASOLINE
M A N T L E S

Glovers’  Gems,  Satisfaction,  and  Perfection 

are the best.

GLOVER’S WHOLESALE  MDSE.  CO., 

Manufacturers, Importers, and  Jobbers  of  Gas 

and Gasoline Sundries,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Earthenware Meat ToDs

15,20, 25,30 gal.  All sizes in stock.  We can ship 
promptly.  Prices are right.  Send us your order.

W. S. & j. e. Graham

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Superior to electricity or gas, cheaper than kero­
sene oil.  A 20th century revelation In the art of 
lighting.

They darkness into daylight turn,
Ana air Instead of money burn.

No smoke,  no  odor,  no  noise,  absolutely  safe. 
They are portable, hang or stand them anywhere.
We  also  mrnufacture  Table  Lamps,  W all 
Lamps,  Pendants,  Chandeliers,  Street 
Lamps, etc.  The best and only  really  success­
ful Incandescent Vapor Gas Lamps made.  They 
sell at sight*  Good  agents  wanted.  Write  for 
catalogue and prices.

CHICAGO SOLAR  LIGHT CO.,
L.  Fifth Ave. 

Chicago,  IU.

Simple 
Account  File
Simplest and 
Most  Economical 
Method of  Keeping 
Petit Accounts
File and  1,000 printed blank
bill heads....................

$ 2  75

File and  1,000 specially

printed bill heads........

Printed blank bill heads,

per thousand................
Specially printed bill heads,
per thousand...............
Tradesman Company,

3  00

i  25

I  5o

O rand Rapids. 

a
$ t »M

Petting the People

Employment  of  Yellow  Journalism  In 

Advertising:.

the  Russian  complications 

By  yellow  journalism  I  understand  is 
meant  the  sensational  display  which 
emphasizes 
local  incidents  to  meet  the 
tastes  of  the  multitude  and  the  demand 
for  current  excitement.  A  dog  fight  in 
is  of  more  importance 
the  next  block 
than 
in 
local  scandal  than  a 
Manchuria,  or  a 
foreign  revolution.  This  tendency  in 
the  majority  of  our newspapers has  been 
pronounced enough  in  all  conscience  for 
many  years,  but  it  is  comparatively  re­
cent  that  certain  papers  frankly adopted 
the  plan  to  meet  the  tastes  of  their  con­
stituents,  giving  a  definite  name  and 
policy  to  the  new  departure.

One  of  the  results  of  the  yellow  jour­
nal  methods  has  been  an  encroachment 
on  advertising  display  which  has  made 
necessary  the 
consideration  of  new 
problems  in  this  field. 
In  the  old  days 
when  headings  were  put  in  a  uniform 
letter proportioned to the type to  follow 
and  confined  to  a  single  column,  the 
use  of  an  advertising display line  meant 
something.  Now,  with  a  comparatively 
insignificant  news  item  given  a  display 
heading  across  two  or  three  columns,  it 
takes  something  more  than  a  moderate 
display  to  be  of  value. 
I  suppose  the 
publisher serves  his  own  interest  in  that 
the  advertiser  is  compelled  to  take more 
space,  or  he  would  be  careful  not  to  in­
troduce  the  competition.

But  not  all  papers  are  unduly  affected 
by  the  yellow 
idea.  Some  of  the  so- 
called  conservative  papers  like  the  New 
York  Tribune  or  Sun  and  many  of  the 
class  publications  find  that  their patrons 
in  all  capacities  appreciate  their  ad­
herence  to  the  old 
ideas  of  news  and 
literary  arrangement.

Naturally  some  difficulty 

is  experi­
enced  by  the  old 
idea  publishers  in 
that  the  striving  for  effect  and  position 
in  the  yellow  sheets  brings  them  to  de­
mand  something  out  of  the  usual  in  all 
their display.  Many  papers  which  have 
not  adopted  the  yellow  journal  methods 
in  other  ways  fail  to  resist  in  this  and 
advertisements  are  put  into  every  pos­
sible  arrangement,  and  often  without 
extra  compensation. 
It  is  an  unfortu­
nate  concession  both  for  advertiser  and 
publisher.

It  requires  no  argument  to  prove  that 
a  clean,  well  systematized  arrangement 
of  news  matter  along  the  old  lines  with 
advertising  confined  to  its  proper  limits 
makes  the  most  valuable  display. 
If 
circumstances  warrant  the  devotion  of 
an  entire  broadside  page  to  a  single 
advertisement  the  opposite  page  should 
be  reading  matter.  Unless  such  is  the 
case,in  nine  times  out  of ten  the  reader 
fails  to  open  the  page  at  all,  a  glance 
showing  the  absence  of  anything  to  at­
tract.

I  say  the  yellow  journal  idea is bring­
ing  all  advertisers  to  demand something 
out  of  the  usual.  This  is  a  mistake. 
Take  up  the  average  trade  paper,  for 
instance,  and  note  the  cheapened  look 
caused  by  advertising  lines  on  the  mar­
gins  of  the  cover  or  elsewhere. 
It  is  as 
much  relatively  for  the  interest  of  the 
advertiser as  for  the  publisher  that  the 
page  should  be  kept  clear and  symmet­
rical.  The  temporary  advantage  of  an 
unusual  cheapening  arrangement  of  this 
kind  is  more  than  balanced  by  the  gen­
eral  lowering  of  the  tone  of  the  publica­
tion.

Those  papers  which  adhere  to  some 
system  of  make  up  and  display find that

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

31

I New Goods,  New  Goods,

We have our new spring goods in wash silks,  dimities in all shades, 

percals and lawns.

Holly  Batiste in all the latest effects.
Fecellie Ds Sole,  something new.
Beetle finish,  an elegant pattern tpr shirt  waists.
Manilla cords In all  shades for waists and dresses.
A  complete line in white goods for waistB and  dresses.
These are'all new  1901  patterns.  Call and -see  them.

Yours to please,

Agent  for
Butterrick
Patterns.

Thos.  A.  Welsh.

Highest  Market  Price  for  Butter  and  ^ g s .

m

Life -Insurance

FOR  T H S 0KIW

it 

The 

If  there  are  certain 
the  policy  pays. 
pages  or  columns  which  no  advertiser 
is  allowed  to  occupy  on  any  terms,  of 
course 
is  a  natural  temptation  for 
him  to  try  to  get  that  space.  This  is 
human  nature.  But  in  the  long  run  the 
interest  of  the  advertiser  as  well  as  the 
publisher  is  better served  by  confining 
display and advertising to the  places  de­
voted  to  it.

inchoate  conglomeration  one  is 
compelled  to  search  through for news  in 
the  sensational  paper  of  to-day  does  not 
compare  favorably  with  the  clear,  sys­
tematically  arranged  publication  whose 
individuality  is  recognized  as  fully  and 
as  pleasantly  as  the  face  of  any  other 
old  acquaintance.  Doubtless  the  yel­
low  journal  has  come  to  stay. 
Its exist­
ence 
is  an  evidence  of  demand  on  the 
part  of  a  numerous  constituency  which 
will  be  slow  in  education  to  higher  ap­
preciation.  But  not  all  constituencies 
are  of  this  class,  and  both  advertisers 
and  publishers  make  a  mistake  in  per­
mitting  its  spirit  to  invade  where  intel­
ligent  methods  are  better.

*  *  *

in  spelling 

Thos.  A.  Welsh  is  fortunate  in  select­
ing  a  printer  who  understands  propor­
tion  and  unity  in  advertisement  design­
ing.  He  has  done  well  to adhere to a 
single  style 
in  display  type  and  his 
white  space  is  well proportioned.  There 
is  nothing  startling  in  the  wording  of 
the  advertisement  and  it  would  be 
im­
proved  by  striking  out  ‘ ‘ Call  and  see 
‘ ‘ yours  to  please. ”   Com­
them”   and 
plimentary  addresses  are  never  good  in 
advertising.  Care 
such 
names  as  Butterick  correctly 
is  time 
well  bestowed.
Crittenden  &  Co.  write  a  good  adver­
tisement  in  which  they  use  the  ultra 
in  their  modes  of  expression. 
modern 
The  printer  is  not  as  successful  in  some 
minor  points,  although  his  general  dis­
play  is  not  bad.  A  dark  border  with 
fine  engraving  never  works  well  and 
this  one 
is  too  heavy  for  the  space. 
The  introduction  of  so  many  kinds  of 
type  is  a  mistake.  The  address  at  the 
bottom 
is  too  small;  should  have  been 
set  in  same  type  a s‘ ‘ Garden  and  Grass 
Seed.”   This  latter,  being  a  different 
subject,  should  have  been  set  outside 
the main advertisement, say  in  the  lower 
left  hand  corner.

it  exceptionally  well. 

The  Antrim  Hardware  Co.  sets  its 
printer  a  pretty  hard  task in  giving  him 
so  much  matter  for  its  space,  but he  has 
preformed 
I 
think  the  writer  might  possibly  have 
condensed  his  matter  somewhat  and,  if 
his 
sentences  had  been  broken  up 
shorter,  it  would  have  been  more  read­
able  and  more  emphatic. 
It  is,  how­
ever,  exceptionally  good  as  it  is.
I  am  not  so  favorably  impressed_by 
the  writing  of  Sangster  &  Riggs’  ad­
vertisement  of  face 
lotion,  at  least  as 
proportioned  by  the  printer.  The  main 
display  line,  ‘ ‘ Life  Insurance,”   has  no 
attraction  for  the  class  to  be  reached. 
Then  such  as  accidentally  find  that  it  is 
a  pun  are  more  interested  in  that  fact 
than 
in  the  matter  advertised.  The 
printer  has  mixed  his  styles  too  much 
and  has  tried  to get  too  many  full  lines. 
If  the  writer  had 
left  off  the  first  two 
lines  and  the  first  four  words  of  the 
paragraph  following  the  name  of the 
article  and  the  printer  had  done  his 
work  right  the  result  would  have  been 
an  exceptionally  good  advertisement.

in  their  writing 

S.  E.  Hosmer  &  Co.  introduce  the 
colloquial 
in  a  way 
which  will  answer  for  a  change  and 
their  printer employs  a  new  style  of  let­
ter  in  a  way  to  make  it  most  effective. 
It  is  exceptionally  well  composed.
Elting  &  Gray  seem  to  be striving  for 
in  their  wording,  but  at  the 
the  new 
expense  of  care  for effectiveness. 
It  is 
presuming  too  much  on  a  firm’s  adver­
tising  standing  to  omit  any  clue  as  to 
the  nature  of  the  business.  It  is  usually 
best  to  mention  the  town  except  when 
the  circulation  of  paper  and  trade  are 
confined  to  the  city.  There  may  be 
some  value 
in  such  advertising,  but  it 
would  be  greater  without  these  omis­
sions.
list  which 
will  be  valuable 
in  suggestion  to the 
housewife,  and  the  printer  has  brought 
out.the  classification  well.

R.  H.  Buckhout  makes  a 

Is the policy. 
It  protects against 
the chafing? March winds.  Sooth­
ing  and  Healing  it  impart»  life 
and vigor to  the  unprotected  sur­
faces.  Try it.

26c.  FJER  B O T T L E .

SO LD   O N L Y   B Y

SANGSTER& RIGGS

a r t y   d r u g   s t o r e .

yJTa y !

going  to 
We 
keep  on  hammer­
ing  until  we  get 
your order for Gro­
If  you  do 
ceries. 
not  send 
it  this 
week  we  will' ksk 
again  next  week.
How  about  it?

S .  E .  H osm er &  C o .

M an   Often  Oraptly  Attested  to

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Choice  Navel Oranges. 
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Are at their best this month.
They will soon be scarce and higher. 
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Weigh nearly One pound each.
They are seedless.
They are sweet.
They are cheap.
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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

many  deals.  The  American  Co.  has 
bought  quite  freely,  and  the  demand 
holds  good.  There 
is  no  great  supply 
of  fleece  on  the  market.  The  quantity 
on  this  side  the  ocean  cuts  little  figure, 
while  so  much 
is  being  offered  from 
abroad.  With  25,000  bales  withdrawn 
from  London  sales,  their  market  did  not 
firm  up  as  expected.  Our  prices  do  not 
change,  being  4@6c  below  last  year  at 
the  same  time. 

Wm.  T.  Hess.

Opposes  the  Proposed  Registration  Law.
A  correspondent  of  the Butchers’  Ad­
vocate  thus  refers  to  the  proposed  regis- 
tration-of-butchers  bill  now  before  the 
Legislature:

important 

I  note  two 

incidents: 
Michigan  wants  a law compelling butch­
ers  to  register  before  being  allowed  to 
do  business.  Already  that  State  has  a 
law  forcing  barbers  to  register.  Now 
for  the  other  incident:  the  barbers  of 
New  York  State  are  at  present  making 
efforts  to  have  a  registration law passed. 
In  that  they  are  following  Michigan. 
Question :  Will  New  York  follow  Mich­
law  compelling 
igan  and  ask  for  a 
butchers 
to  register? 
1  hope  not. 
Quoting  from  your  paper  I  find  the 
Michigan  bill  provides  that  no  person 
shall  be  entitled  to  register  under  this 
act  unless  a  citizen  of  Michigan,  of  the 
age  of  20  years,  of  good  moral  charac­
ter,  shall  have  been  engaged 
in  the 
business  of  butcher  for  at  least  three 
years,  and  shall  have  passed  a  satisfac­
tory  examination  as  to  his  competency 
to  slaughter  cattle,  calves,  hogs,  sheep, 
to  prepare  fresh,  salt  and  smoked  meats 
and  the  products  of  meat  for human 
food;  to  kill  and  prepare  poultry  for 
market;  to  make  sausage ;  to  detect dis­
ease  in  animals  on  foot  or  dressed,  and 
diseases  of  poultry,  either alive  or  when 
dressed  for  market.  To  expect  a  butch­
er to  know  all  these  things  is  nonsense. 
It  is  not  necessary  for  him  to  know 
them.  Why,  if  this  bill were passed,  one 
would  have  to  spend  a  few  years  in  a 
veterinary  college  in  order  to  be  able  to 
pass  that  part  of  the  examination  re­
lating  to  diseases  of  cattle,  etc. 
1 
strongly  favor  anything  that  will  benefit 
the  butchers,  but  fail  to  see  one  good 
point  in  the  proposed  Michigan  law.

Referring  to  the  communication  of  its 
correspondent,  the  Butchers’  Advocate 
remarks:

The  Advocate 

thought  the  Grand 
Rapids  butchers  would  refuse  to  give 
the  bill  their support,  but  we  learn  that 
at  a  meeting  recently  held  by  them 
it 
was  favored.  The  chances  of  its  suc­
cessful  passage  appear to  be  very  slim, 
however,  and  we  hope  to  hear that  when 
the  Michigan  butchers  have  got  through 
with  the  registration  laws they  will  de­
vote  more  time  to  the  Sunday  closing 
question.

Saginaw  Batchers  Effect  a  Permanent 

Organization.

Saginaw,  April  6—A  meeting  of  the 
butchers  of  the  east  and  west  sides  was 
held  Sunday  afternoon,  at  Teutonia 
opera  house,to  discuss  certain  bills  now 
before  the  Legislature,  and  to  form  and 
incorporate  an organization  to  be  known 
as  the  Michigan  Butchers’  Protective 
Association  No.  3.  Lyle  G.  Younglove, 
the  Detroit  attorney  and  the  drafter of 
the  bills,  was  present  and  explained  to 
the  butchers  of  the  city  the 
law  points 
of  the  bills,  while  Joseph  A.  Reichen- 
bach,  Secretary  of  the  Michigan  Butch­
ers’  Protective  Association  No.  1,  of 
Detroit,  explained  the  practical  points 
in  the  bills.  Mr.  Reichenbach  urged 
the  butchers  to organize  at  once  so  as  to 
co-operate  with  the  other associations 
of  the  State,  stating  that  the  passage  of 
the  bills  means  a  protection  not  alone 
for the  butchers  but  for  the  consumers 
as  well.  He  says 
is  of  the  utmost 
necessity  for  the  protection  of  the  con­
sumers  as  there  has  been  a  very  large 
amount  of  diseased  and  embalmed  meat 
placed  upon  the  market  in  the  past  six 
or  eight  years,  the  consumers  not  know­
ing  what they were  eating.  The butchers 
held  another  meeting  and  elected  the 
following  officers:

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President—John  Bierwaltes.
Secretary— Charles  Schaper.
Treasurer—John  Huebener.
The  matter of  adopting  a  constitution 
and  by-laws  will  be  taken  up  at  a  meet­
ing  to  be  held  next  Thursday  night.

The  Boys  Behind  the  Counter.

Negaunee— W.  E.  Sly  has  taken  the 
position  of  manager  of  the  house  of 
Nelson  Morris  &  Co.,  in  Menominee.

Hancock— John  L.  Pasanen  has  re­
signed  his  position  with  the  Finnish 
Trading  Co.  to take a  place  in  the  cloth­
ing  department  of  Miller’s  department 
store  at  Houghton.

Eaton  Rapids—Chas.  Starr  has  taken 
a  position  in  the  grocery  store  of  Frank 
Kingan,  in  the  place  of Amos  McKin­
ney,  who  has  gone  to  Chicago  to  act  as 
advance  agent  for  the  Harris  Nickel 
Plate  show.

Marion— Ralph •  Lewis,  of  Evart,  has 
charge  of  the  W.  M.  Davis  furniture 
store  here.

Evart— Liston  Harding  has  been  ad­
vanced  to  the  head  of  Davy  & Co. ’s  dry 
goods  department  made  vacant  by  the 
resignation  of  John  Bennett.  Fred  H. 
Conklin,  of  Owosso,  has  been  engaged 
to  take  charge  of  the  shoe  department 
made  vacant  by  Mr.  Harding’s  promo­
tion.

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The  Grain  Market.

Com  seems  to  be  the  favored  cereal at 
present.  Geo.  R.  Phillips,  helped  by 
natural  conditions,  has  been  very  suc­
in  elevating  corn  prices,  not­
cessful 
withstanding  that  the 
large  operators 
tried  very  hard  to  down  what  they  term 
the ‘ ‘ impudent young speculator. ’ ’  They 
have  also  not  forgotten  how  he  downed 
the  old  heads 
in  the  September  deal. 
As  stated,  conditions  favored  him,  es­
pecially  the  high  price  of  hogs.  Com 
seems  to  be  worth  more  for  feeding pur­
poses  to  Western  farmers  than 
is 
in  Chicago.  Experts  claim 
bringing 
corn 
is  worth  50c  per  bushel  at  the 
farm,  with the  present  price  of  hogs  and 
beef.  The  poor  condition  of  corn  is 
also  helping  the  corn  bulls,  as  but  a 
very  small  percentage  of  the  arrivals 
is 
grading  Contract  No.  2,  but  nearly  85 
per  cent,  is  No.  3.  The  receipts  of  com 
have  also  fallen  off  very  materially,  as 
farmers  are  not  tumbling  over  each 
other to  sell  at  present  prices,  so  higher 
prices  may  be  counted  on  in  the  near 
future.

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Wheat 

is  neglected.  The  fine  grow­
ing  weather  has  been  the  cause  of  the 
drop  of  5  cents  per  bushel.  There  is 
no  use  reiterating  the  strong  position 
wheat  is  in.  Conditions  for the  moment 
are  against  it,  but  mostly  the  Chicago 
bears.  When  2,000,000  bushels  were 
dumped 
last  Saturday,  it  was  all  ab 
sorbed  and  the  question  is,  By  whom 
was  it  taken?  Of  course,  by the  strong 
parties  who  are  accumulating  wheat  for 
better  prices,  as  the  visible  made  a  de­
crease  of  859,000 bushels,while  last  year 
there  was  an  increase  of  1,250,000  bush­
els.  Our  exports  are  large  and  foreign­
ers  have  been  taking  quite  a  large  line 
at  present  prices.  We  say  wheat  around 
72@75C  is  low  enough,  so  we  will  await 
further  developments.  Oats  are  very 
strong  and  prices  are  well  maintained 
in  the  face  of  the  large  amount  on  hand 
and  steadily 
increasing.  Looking  at 
conditions, prices  seem  to  be  top-heavy.
Rye  sold  ic  off  in  the  last  day  or  two 
and  probably  will  go  lower  before  ad­
vancing.  There 
is  not  very  much  left 
in  first  hands.

Flour  has  been  shaded  30c  per  barrel, 
in  accordance  with  lower  wheat  prices. 
The  demand  is  fair,  both  local  and  do­
mestic.  Export  demand  is  rather  slow 
at  present.  Mill 
feed  remains  at  the 
same  price  as 
last  writing.  We  may 
look  for  pasturage  coming  on,  which 
will  curtail  the  present  urgent  demand.
Receipts  of  grain  have  been  as  fol­
lows :  52  cars  of  wheat,  21  cars  of  com,
3  cars  of  oats,  5  cars  of  flour,  3  cars  of 
beans,  7  cars  of  hay,  1  car  of  straw,  19 
cars  of  potatoes.

Millers  are  paying  70 cents  for  No.  2 

red  wheat. 

C.  G.  A.  Voigt.

Bidet!.  Pelt«.  Pars,  Tallow  and  Wool.
The  hide  market  revives  a 

little. 
Prices  are  some  stronger  and  all  offers 
are  refused  at  last  week’s  prices.  Offer­
ings  are  light  and  are  held  above  buy­
ers'  views.

Pelts  are  in  large  offerings  and  at  low 
values.  Pullers  have 
large  stocks  of 
wool  from  higher  values  and  will  not 
purchase  except  at  a  low  price.  They 
wish  to  realize  on  their  holdings.

Furs  are  not  in  good  demand  at  the 

decline  and  buyers  are  few.

Tallow  is  higher and  in good demand, 
with  a  stronger  market  abroad.  The 
advance  includes  diverted  beef  fat  from 
the  soap  kettle.  London  supplies  are 
not  equal  to  their  wants.

Wool 

is  selling 

in  large  amounts  at  . 

low  values.  Speculation  is  shown 

in

779

771

777

Address B, care Michigan Tradesman 

groceries,  crockery,  glassware,  lamps  and 

shoes  and  men’s  furnishings;  population, 

store building, with living rooms attached, in 

Fo r  s a l e- b r ic k   h o t e l  b u il d in g ,
three stories, forty rooms, steam  heat,  elec­
tric  lights,  bar  and  livery;  rates,  $2  per  day: 
town  of  2,000  popu:ation.  Address  Mrs.  Fred 
785
Kohl, Quincy, Mich. 
A g e n t s o n  s a l a r y   o r  c o m m is s io n :
The greatest  agents’  seller  ever  produced; 
every user of pen and ink buys it on sight;  200 to 
500 per cent, profit;  one agent’s sales  anounted 
to $620 in  six  days;  another  $32  in  two  hours. 
793 
Monroe Mfg. Co., X 54. La Crosse, Wis. 
■ ¿»ORSALE—GOOD BUSINESS PLACE; NEW 
X1  building.  John Achterhof, New Era, Mich.
784

china,  inventorying  about  $3,300.  Will  accept 
$3,000 cash if taken soon;  location, the  best  and 
central in a hustling business town of 1,500 popu­
lation, fifty miles from Grand  Rapids;  this  is  a 
bargain for some one;  best of reasons for selling. 

3,000;  second largest beet sugar  plant  in  Michi­
gan;  over  30  buildings  contracted  for  besides 
large business houses to be built this  summer;  a 
rare  chance  if  taken  soon.  Address  No.  780, 
care Michigan Tradesman. 
780
Dr u g sto ck a n d  f ix t u r e s  f o r  s a l e ;
good business in city  of  5,000.  Address  W. 
H. Thorp, Dowaglac, Mich._____________ 776

in  thriving  country  town  of  1,000  people. 
Excellent 
location  available  in  corner  brick 
store if  taken  at  once.  Address  No.  781,  care 
Michigan Tradesman. 
781
Fo r  sa l e—f u r n it u r e  sto ck  a n d  u n-
dertaking fixtures and  building.  Reason for 
selling, old age.  Address  Lock  Box 364,  Sheri­
dan, Mich. 

Go o d o p e n in g   f o r   c l o t h in g   st o r e
ir<OR SALE—$10,000 STOCK  OF DRY GOODS, 
IfOR  SALE—A  GOOD  CLEAN  STOCK  OF 
tpOR RENT, CHEAP—BRICK STORE; GOOD 
ir»OR SALE OR RENT—TWO-STORY FRAME 

business opening;  best  town  in  the  State. 
Address A. J. Prindle, Howell. Mich,_____ 772
li'OR  SALE  OR  TO  RENT—TWO  BRICK 
X1  store rooms,  22x80  each,  with  archway  be­
tween, suitable for good large  general  store, for 
which  there  is  a  good  demand  at  this  place. 
Write P. O. Box 656. Mendon, Mich. 

the village of Hanietta;  possession  given May 1. 
For ¡particulars  address  J   C.  Benbow,  Yuma, 
Mien. 
770
TO  RENT—APRIL  15  A  LARGE  CORNER 
store, with good basement, on  a  good  busi­
ness  street  in  Grand  Rapids;  very  convenient 
for the farmers’  trade;  agricultural  implement 
business or harness and  wagon  store  would  do 
well.  Write  or  apply  to  Wm.  H.  Gilbert,  67 
Pearl St., Grand Rapids, Mich. 
STORE  FOR  RENT—BEST  STAND  FOR 
dry goods in town  of  8,000 people;  always  a 
successful store.  Address  No.  767,  care  Micht-
gan Tradesman.______________________ 767
T F  YOU  HAVE $5,000  YOU  CAN  BUY  THE 
X  best paying manufacturing business in Grand 
Rapids,  capital  invested  considered. 
If  you 
have  more  capital  to  use  in  the  business,  so 
much  the  better.  It  is  a  business  with  great 
possibilities.  Better look  this  up  at  once.  The 
successful man grasps an opportunity when it is 
presented.  Address  No.  743,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
IjlOR  SALE—STOCK  DRY  <.OODS,  GROCE- 
J  
ries, shoes, hardware,  furniture,  hay,  feed, 
etc.:  invoices$5,500;  doing  a  cash  business  01 
$26.000 annually;  making a  net  profit  of  10  per 
cent,  above expenses; good school and churches, 
lumbering  and  farming  country.  For  further 
particulars  address  M.  X.,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
rl'\IMBER AND  FARM  LANDS—HEMLOCK, 
A  hardwood and cedar timber for sale In  large 
or small tracts, cheap farm lands, hardwood and 
pine stump lands.  Don’t ask  what  I  have,  but 
tell  me what  you  want.  E   T.  Merrill,  Reed
City._____________ ___________________696
T h e  r o m e y n  pa r s o n s co.  p a y s c a sh
for  stocks  of  merchandise,  Grand  Ledge, 
Mich._________ ____________________ 736
X  of business. No  116  North  Mitchell  street, 
the other No. 312 North Mitchell street, Cadillac. 
Address Dr. John Leeson. 
a   have a bankrupt stock of clothing,  dry goods, 
or  shoes,  communicate  with  The  New  York 
Store, Traverse City, Mich. 
PARTIES HAVING STOCKS OF  GOODS OF 
any kind,  farm  or  city  property  or  manu­
facturing  plants  that  they  wish  to  sell  or  ex­
change  correspond  with  the  Derby  &  Choate 
Real Estate Co.. Flint,  Mich. 
709
W ANTED — MERCHANTS  TO  CORRE- 
spond with us who wish to sell  their entire 
stocks  for  spot  cash.  Enterprise  Purchasing 
685
Co., 153 Market St., Chicago, III 
FOR  SALE—DRUG  STOCK  INVOICING 
$2,000, in good corner store in the  best  town 
in Western Michigan.  The  best of  reasons  for 
selling.  Address No. 583, care Michigan Trades­
man;____________  
683

743

703

728

738

747

MISCELLANEOUS

CLERK WANTS SITUATION IN  GENERAL 
store.  Good  druggist  (not  registered)  and 
experienced  soda  dispenser  (fancy  drinks). 
References  furnished.  Address  Box  129,  Na- 
poleon, Mich,___________  
SITUATION  WANTED  BY  REGISTERED 
pharmacist;  ten years’ city and  country  ex­
perience;  best references.  Address C. L. Smith, 
Gallen, Mich.______________  

739

774

EGISTERED  PHARMACIST WANTED AT 
once:  good wages,  long  job.  Address  Box 

os. Wakelee. Mich. 

707

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position  as  bookkeeper  or  clerk  and 
stock-keeper in  dry goods,  clothing  or  general 
store.  Al references.  Oscar E.  Otis, Hastings,
Mien.

The  Game of Skat.

An  illustrated  treatise  on  this  popular 
German  game  has  just  been  issued  by 
the  Passenger  Department  of  the  Chi­
cago,  Milwaukee  &  St.  Paul  R ’y.  The 
rules  of  the  game  revised  to  bring  them 
up  to  date  are  given,  and  those  inter­
ested  in  Skat  will  find  it  an  instructive 
publication.  A  copy  may  be  obtained 
by  sending  ten  (10)  cents  in  postage  to
F.  A.  Miller,  General  Passenger  Agent, 
Chicago,  111.

Wm.  Logie  and  wife  sail  from  New 
York  May  4,  accompanied  by 
their 
daughter  and  niece,  for  a  tour  of  West­
ern  Europe.  They  expect  to  return  to 
this  country  in  time  to  celebrate  July  4 
on  American  soil.  Mr.  Logie  is  one  of 
the  hardest  working  factors in the whole­
sale  trade,  but  of  late  years  has  come  to 
understand  that  he  can  do  more  and 
better  work  in  nine  or ten  months  than 
in  twelve,  besides  deriving  a 
he  can 
heap  more  fun  from 
life  as  he  goes 
along.

Says  an  old  bachelor:  “ Marriage  is  a 
leads  to  re­

means  of  grace— when 
pentance. ’ ’

it 

Advertisement«  will  be  Inserted  under 
this  head  for  two  cents  a  word  the  first 
Insertion  and  one  cent  a  word  for each 
subsequent  Insertion.  No  advertisements 
taken  for  less  than  fSB  cents.  Advance 
payments.

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

$600 BUYS STOCK  OF  GROCERIES,  FANCY 

goods and toilette articles  in  one  of  the  live­
liest towns in  Southern  Michigan;  brick  store; 
cheap  rent;  good  trade;  living  rooms  in  rear. 
Reason for  selling,  sickness.  Address  No.  794, 
794
care Michigan Tradesman. 
AN TED-CORRESPONDENCE  WITH 
grocers, hotel men  and  others  concerning 
refrigerators.  We have a  quantity  of  Dr.  Per­
kins’ celebrated sanitary boxes,  in  grocers’ and 
family sizes, which we are  selling  at  two thirds 
their actual value.  These boxes  are guaranteed 
perfect in construction  and  operation.  Address 
J. W. Hallett & Son, Carson City, Mich. 
792
FOR RENT—a  GOOD BRICK STORE;  f in e  
location in a  hustling  business  town.  Ad­
dress Mrs. A. M. Colwell, Lake Odessa, Mich.  791
Ba r g e  pr o d u c e  f ir m   in   b e s t  to w n
In State will  sell  grocery  stock,  for  reason 
can not give it time  They pay out thousands of 
dollars through  store  every  week;  store  doing 
$5,000 per month.  Don’t answer unless you have 
$2,000.  Clark’s  Business  Exchange,  Grand 
Rapids,  Mich. 

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city of 3,300 In  State.  Owner  not  druggist 
Address No. 788, care Michigan Tradesman.  788
Fo r  sa l e—a  f ir s t   c la ss  b o o k st o r e
and news agency in  hustling  Michigan  city 
of  4,500  inhabitants;  price  right;  terms  easy. 
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Michigan Retail Grocers’ Association 

President, C. E. Wa l k e r ,  Bay City;  Vlce-Pres 
ident,  J.  H.  Ho p k in s ,  Ypsilantl;  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.  Dy k  ;  Secretary,  Ho m e r 

K l a p ;  Treasurer, J. Ge o r g e   Le h m a n
Detroit  Retail  Grocers’  Protectiie  Association 

President,  E.  Ma r k s ;  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,  E.  L.  Ha r r i s ;  Secretary,  oh a s , 

Hy m a n .  • 

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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.

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Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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Simple 
Account  File

A  quick  and  easy  method  of 
keeping  your  accounts. 
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pecially  handy  for  keeping  ac­
count  of  goods  let  out  on  ap­
proval,  and  f~r  petty  accounts 
with  which  one  does  not  like  to 
encumber  the  regular 
ledger. 
By  using  this  file  or  ledger  for 
charging  accounts,  it  will  save 

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one-half  the  time  and  cost  of  keeping  a  set  of  books.
Charge  goods,  when 
purchased, 
directly 
on  file,  then your cus­
tomer’ s  bill  is  always 
ready  for  him,  and 
can  be  found  quickly, 
fen  account  of 
the 
special 
index.  This 
saves  you looking  over  several leaves  of  a  day  book  if  not  posted, 
when  a customer  comes  in  to  pay  an  account  and  you  are  busy wait­
ing on  a  prospective  buyer.

TRADESMAN  COMPANY,  G rand  Rapids

Baj  Cities  Retail Grocers’  Association 

President,  C.  E.  Wa l k e r ;  Secretary,  E.  C 

Li t t l e . 

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Muskegon  Retail Grocers’  Association 

President,  H.  B.  Sm it h ;  Secretary,  D.  A. 

Bo e l k in s ;  Treasurer,  J.  W.  Ca s k a d o n .

President,  J. F r a n k   He l m e r ;  Secretary,  W 

Jackson  Retail  Grocers’  Association 
H . P o r t e r ;  Treasurer, L.  P e l t o n .
Adrian  Retail  Grocers’  Association 

President,  A.  C.  Cl a r k ;  Secretary,  E.  F. 

Cl e v e l a n d ; Treasurer,  Wm. C. K 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.  Ho r k .
Traiorse  Citj  Business  Men’s  Association 
Ho l l y ;  Treasurer,  C.  A.  Ham m o n d.

President,  t h o s  T.  Ba t e s ;  Secretary,  jm.  B. 

Owouo  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 in s .
Pt.  Hurons  Merchants’  and  Manufacturers’  Association 
P e r c iv a l .

President. Ch a s.  W e l l m a n ;  Secretary,  J.  T. 

Alpena  Business Men’s  Association 

President, F.  W. Gil c h r is t ;  Secretary,  C.  L. 

Pa r t r id g e . 

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Calumet  Business  Men’s  Association 

President,  J.  D.  Cu d d ih y ;  Secretary  W.  H. 

Ho s k in g . 

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St.  Johns Businosi  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, Cl a r k  A. P ü tt.

Perry  Business  Men’s  Association 

President,  H.  W.  Wa l l a c e ;  Secretary,  T.  E. 

He d d l e . 

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Grand  Haien  Retail  Merchants’  Association 

President,  F.  D. Vos;  Secretary,  J.  W  Ver- 

H o e k s. 

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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 . 

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Grand  Rapids  Retail  Meat  Dealers’  Association 

President,  J o h n  G.  E b l e ;  Secretary,  L.  J. 
K a t z ;  Treasurer,  8. J. Hu f f o r d .

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Michigan  Fire  and  Marine 

Insurance Co.
Detroit, Michigan.

Organized  1SS1.

(!)  Cash  Capital,  $400,000. 

Net Surplus, $200,000, 

Cash  Assets,  $800,000.

D.  W h i t n e y , Jr .,  Pres.

D.  M.  F e r r y ,  V ice Pres.

F .  H. W h i t n e y ,  Secretary.
M .  W .  O ’ B r ie n ,  Treas.

E . J.  B o o t h ,  Asst.  Sec’y. 

D i r e c t o r s .

D.  W hitney, Jr.,  D.  M. Ferry, F .J . Hecker,
M. W . O ’Brien, Hoyt Post, Christian Mack, 
A llan  Sheldon, SimonJ.  Murphy,  Wm.  L . 
Smith, A .  H.  W ilkinson, James  Edgar,  H. 
Kirke  W hite,  H.  P.  Baldwin,  Hugo 
Scherer,  F.  A .  Schulte,  W m .  V .  Brace, 
James  McMillan,  F .  E .  D riggs,  Henry  = 
Hayden,  Collins  B.  Hubbard,  James  D.  ® 
Standish, Theodore D.  Buhl,  M.  B.  M ills,  * 
A lex.  Chapoton, Jr.,  Geo.  H.  Barbour,  S.
G.  Gaskey,  Chas.  Stlnchfield,  Francis  F . 
Palms,  W m .  C.  Y aw key,  David  C.  W h it­
ney, Dr.J.  B. Book, Eugene Harbeck, Chas.
F.  Peltier, Richard P. Joy,  Chas.  C.  Jenks.

P e r e   M a r q u e t t e
Railroad and Steamship Lines.

Fast trains  are  operated  from  Grand  Rapids 
to Chicago,  Detroit,  Toledo, Saginaw, Bay  City, 
Petoskey, Ludington, Manistee, Muskegon, Trav­
erse City,  Alma,  Lansing, Belding, Benton  Har­
bor, St Joseph, and intermediate points,  making 
close connections at Chicago with trains  for  the 
south  and  west,  at  Detroit  and  Toledo  with 
trains east and southbound.  Try  the  “Mid-Day 
Flyers,’’leaving Grand Rapids  12:05  noon, each 
week  day,  arriving  at  Detroit  4:05  p.  m.  and 
Chicago 5:00 p. m.

H.  F.  Mo e l l e r ,  G.  P.  A.,

W .  E .  W O L F E N D E N ,  D. P. A.
GRAND Rapide  ft  Indiana Railway

March  io,  1901.

Going North.

ex Su  ex Su  ex Su  ex Su
LvGd Rapids...........  7 i5a  2 lOp  10 45p  5 20p
Ar.  Cadillac..............1120a 
5 40p  2 10a  9 OOp
Ar.  Traverse City....  130p  7 50p  4 15a 
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Ar. Petoskey............  2 50p  9l5p  585a  __
Ar. Mackinaw City...  4 I5p  I0 35p  6 56a 
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Trains arrive from the north at 6:00 a  m,  11:30 
a m, 5:15 p m and 10:15 p m.

Going South.
ex Su  ex Su  Daily  ex Su  Daily 
Lv. G’d Rapids.  7 10a  1 50p  6 50p  12 80p  11 80p 
1 45p  1 00a
Ar. Kalamazoo  8 50a  3 22p  8 35p 
Ar. Ft. Wayne..12 lOp  6 50p  1145p  To Cnicago
Ar. Cincinnati.  6 25p 
......  7 15a 
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Trains arrive from the  south  at  6:45 am   and 
9:10am daily, 2:00pm. 9:45pm and 10:15pm except 
Sunday.
Except  Except  Except
Sunday  Sunday  Sunday
Lv. Grand Rapids....  7 35am  2 05pm  5 40pm
Ar. Muskegon...........  9 00am  3 20pm  7 00pm
Sunday train  leave  Grand  Rapids  at  9:15am. 
Trains  arrive  from  Muskegon  at  9:30am, 
1:30pm and 5:20pm  except  Sunday  and  6:50pm 
Sunday only.

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C H I C A G O   T R A IN S

G.  R.  &  I  and  Michigan  Central.
TO CHICAGO 

Daily
Lv. G’d Rapids (Union depot)  12 30pm  11 30pm 
6 55am 
Ar. Chicago  (12th St. Station)  5 25pm 
12:30pm train runs solid to Chicago  with  Pull­
man buffet parlor car attached.
11:30pm train has through  coach  and  Pullman 
sleeping car.

FROM  CHICAGO 

Sunday  DaI1y
Lv. Chicago (12th St.  Station)  5  15pm  1130pm 
Ar. G’d Rapids (Union depot)  10  15pm  6  55am 
5:15pm train runs solid to  Grand  Rapids  with 
Pullman buffet parlor car attached.
11:30pm train  has through coach and  sleeping 
car.

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We  want  you

to write  us for any kind of boxes 
you need.

Kalamazoo Paper Box Co.,

Kalamazoo,  Mich.

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H .LE O N A R D  &   SONS

Jobbers of Crockery, House Furnishings and  General  Merchandise

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Some of the goods on which we save you money:

Michigan’s  Famous  Cigars

COLUMBIAN  CIGAR  COMPANY,  Benton  Harbor  Mich.

Manufactured by

Daudt

Glass  &  Crockery Co.
Earthenware, China & Glassware

WHOLESALE

TOLEDO.  OHIO

Kinney  &   Levan

Importers and Jobbers of

Crockery,  Glass,  Lamps,  House 

Furnishing  Goods
CLEVELAN D,  OHIO

W O RLD'S  BEST

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G.J  JOHNSON CIGAR OO.

GRAND  RAPIDS.  M ICH.

Refrigerators
Children’s Carriages
Lamps,  Wicks
Chimneys,  Burners
Glassware
China and  Porcelain
Dinnerware
Croquet Sets
Marbles
Base Balls and  Bats
Hammocks
Lakeside Novelties
Stoneware
Flower Pots
Brooms, Combs

Notions,  Laces
Embroideries
Buttons
Pins, Needles, Thread
Brushes
Stationery
Perfumery
Handkerchiefs
Hosiery
Trunks, Valises
Telescopes
Enameled  Ironware
Tinware
Hardware Sundries
Shoe Findings

Table Cutlery
Pocket Cutlery
Forks,  Hoes
Shovels,  Rakes
Stoves
Wood ware
Chairs, Tables
Upholstered Goods
Desks,  Beds
Springs,  Matresses
Iron  Beds
Lace Curtains
Carpets
Mattings
Lantern Globes

Mail us your orders.  Visit us when in the city.

CATCHES  THE  GERM  AS  WELL  AS  THE  FLY. 

Sanitary.  Used the world over.  Good profit to sellers. 

Order from Jobbers.

Buckeye  Paint  &  V arnish  Co.

Paint, Color and  Varnish  Makers.

Mixed  Paint,  White  Lead,  Shingle  Stains,  Wood  Fillers.

Sole Manufacturers CRYSTAL ROCK FINISH for  Interior  and Exterior Use. 

Corner 15th and Lucas Streets, Toledo, Ohio.

