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Parlor car for Traverse City leaves Grand Rapids 7:30am. +Every day. Others week days only. June 28, 1896 DETROIT ,tansing & Northern RR. Going ~~ Detroit. Ly. Grand Rapids...... 00am 1:30pm 5:25pm Ar. Detroit............. aeons 5:40pm 10:10pm Returning from Detroit. Ly. Detroit........ ..... 7:40am 1:10pm 6:00pm Ar. Grand Rapids..... ig: 30pm 5:20pm 10:45pm Saginaw, Alma and St. Louis. Ly. G R 7:00am 4:20pm Ar. G R11: 55am 9: 15pm To and from Lowell. Ly. Grand Rapids...... 7:00am 1:30pm 5:25pm Ar. from Lowell. ..... 12:30pm 5:20pm THROUGH CAR SERVICE. Parlor cars on all trains between Grand Rap- ids and Detroit and between Grand Rapids and Saginaw. Trains run week days only. Gro. DEHavEN, General Pass. Agent. GRAN Trunk Railway System Detroit and Milwaukee Div. Eastward. +No. 14 bg 16 Lv. G’d Rapids.6: a: +No. 18 *No. 8 0:20am 3:25pm 11:00pm Ar. Ionia...... 11:25am 4:27pm 12:35am Ar. St. Johns. &: 2:25am 12:17pm 5:20pm 1:25am Ar. Owosso....9:00am 1:20pm 6:05pm 3:10am \r. E.Saginaw10:50am 3:4°pm 8:06pm 6:40am Ar. Bay City..11:30am 4:35pm &:37pm 7:15am Ar. Flint...... 10:06am 3:45pm 7:05pm 5:40am Ar. Pt. Huron.12:0pm 5:50pm &:50pm 7:30am Ar. Pontiac.. 10:58am 3:05pm 8:25pm 5:37am Ar. Detroit.. 11:50am 4:05pm 9:25pm 7:05am Westward. For G’d Haven and Intermediate Pts....*7:00am For G’d Haven and Muskegon.. Stl :0pm For G’d Haven and Intermediate Pts.. ..t5 :05pm for G’d Haven and Milwaukee.......... 10:06pm +Daily except Sunday. *Daily. Trains arrive from the east, 6:35a.m., 12:50p.m., 4:48p.m.. 10:00 p.m. Trains arrive from the west, 6:40a.m., 10:10a.m., 3:15p.m., 9:55p.m. Eastward—No. 14 has Wagner Parlor Buffet ear. No.8 Parlorcar. No. 82 Wagner sleeper. Westward—No. 11 Parlor car. No 15 Wagner Parlor Buffet car. No. 8! Wagner sleeper. Jas. CAMPBELL, City Pass. Agent. GRAND rapias « ii Gho Northern Div. Leave Arrive Trav. C’y, Petoskey & Mack...t+ 7:45am + 5:15pm Trav. C’y, Petoskey & Mack.. ; 2:15pm + 6:30am Cadillac...... + 5:25pm 11:10am Train leaving at 7:45 a.m. has parlor car to Petoskey and Mackinaw. Train leaving dt 2:15 p.m. has sleeping car to Petoskey and Mackinaw. Southern Div. Leave Arrive oe RUN CIMIAGE os el se + 7:10am + 8:25pm Mt WARGO. Sil eas + 2:00pm + 1:55pm CMcinnatl ;,. 2.56.3 55.85: -* 7:00pm * 7:25am 7:10a.m. train has parlor car to Cincinnati. 7:00p.m. train has sleeping car to Cincinnati. Muskegon Trains. GOING WEST. Lv G’d Rapids.......... 47:35am +1:00pm +5:40pm Ar Muskegon.... ..... 9: — 2:10pm 7:05pm GOING E. Lv Muskegon....... .. +8: 0am +11:45am +4:00pm ArG’d Rapids. _..... 9:30am 12:55pm 5:20pm +Except Sunday. oe ae A. ALMQUIST, L. Lockwoop, Ticket Agt.Un. Sta. Equip Yourself for @ Gareer by taking a course in law, without loss of time and st small expense. Let me tell you how I am doing it. ROBERT EDGAR BRUCE, LAC DUFLAMBEAU, WIS. TRADESMAN COUPONS Gen. Pass. & Tkt. Agt. 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Save Trouble Tradesman Coupons ve Losses Save Dollars REPRESENTATIVE RETAILERS. NOTICE TO HOUPMAKERS | L. Farnham, the Veteran Man- celona Merchant. One of the oldest and best-known of the mercantile institutions of Mancelona is the general store of J. L. Farnham. Established while the town was yet new, its growth kept pace with that of the latter until it was burned in the fire which destroyed the major portion of the business houses, some ten or eleven years ago. It was promptly re-estab- lished and, as soon as a_ substantial brick building could be built, it took its place in its present quarters, where its career has been uniformly successful. Mr. Farnham is of English and Ger- man parentage. His father was among the early settlers of Western New York, living on a farm in Italy Hill, Yates county, where Mr. Farnham was born in 1839. The first sixteen years of his life were spent on the farm and in at- tendance at the usual country school. At this time his family emigrated to the new State of Michigan, locating at Leonidas, St. Joseph county, a_ locality at that time principally and justly cele- brated for the abundance and regularity of its fever and ague. The rigors of pioneer life proved too severe for the father and, in a short time he died, leaving the support of the mother and two younger children to James and an older brother. Their first undertaking was the work- ing of a large farm on shares for E. L. Yaple, father of the well-known ex- Congressman, Hon. George L. Yaple. In a short time after undertaking this venture, the Civil War began and the aid of the older brother was lost through his enlistment. The task left upon the shoulders of the remaining brother was a severe one and, if it had not been for the fatherly kindness of the elder Yaple, it would have been too heavy to be borne. After a few years of farm work the young man took up the business of buy- ing and handling live stock. Aftera time in this business he established himself in the meat business at Leon- GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1896. idas. This was continued until 1878, when the removal to Mancelona took place. The duty of caring for his mother and family continued until he had reached the age of 33, when it was ter- minated by the death of the former. A year later, in 1873, he was married to Miss Mary Coon, of Leonidas. They have no children. After selling out the meat business, Mr. Farnham removed to Mancelona, where he undertook to establish himself in his old business. A few months’ ex- perience demonstrated the fact that the locality was too new for the profitable support of such an undertaking, so he established a grocery instead. To this other lines were added, as occasion offered, until the result was a general store, though making a specialty of flour and feed. Notwithstanding the setback of the serious loss in the burn- ing of his store and contents, as noted, with lapsed policies on the building, the business has grown until it now takes rank as one of the leading mercantile establishments of Antrim county. Al- ways partial to the meat trade, in which he began his business career, he gladly availed himself of an opportunity, a year ago, to resume the sale of meats, which has proved to be a valuable ad- junct to his other business. While still a young man, Mr. Farn- ham became a member of the Metho- dist Episcopal church in Leonidas. He and his wife have continued in that fel- lowship until the present. He is also a member of Mancelona Lodge, F. & A. M. He has been a life-long Republi- can and in the present political agita- tion pins his faith to sound money. The success of his business career bas turned upon his invariable practice of dealing so as to merit the confidence of all with whom he comes into business contact, either in buying or selling, and careful personal attention to his busi- ness has brought the usual rewards—a comfortable competence and a _ con- tented mind. Respected by his custom- ers, his neighbors in trade and the jobbing houses with whom he deals, Mr. Farnham has every reason to be proud of the success he has achieved and the position he has acquired. ee The Apple Crop of Canada. From the Montreal Trade Bulletin. The present season is a phenomenal one in the history of apple production in Canada, the yield being so prolitic as to far surpass all previous records and perplex growers and shippers re- garding its disposition. Although any quantity of the best winter varieties can be purchased at 50c per barrel picked, in the orchards, which is equal to $1.50 laid down in this city, yet very few of our exporters are anxious to buy even at that low price, as one of our leading shippers stated to the writer a few days ago: ‘‘Fifty cents per barrel for the fruit seems cheap enough; but I can- not see where there is going to be any profit, even at that low figure, when | consider the immense surplus stocks that will have to go forward from Can- ada as well .as the United States.’’ Some, however, appear willing to take the risk, as advices from Toronto and oints west of that city report contracts rom between 60,000 and 70,000 barrels Number 680 of choice winter fruit at 5oc, and one re- port states that 5,000 barrels have been contracted for at 4oc for the fruit, which brings the cost laid down here up to $1.40, which certainly seemsa low price for winter apples. Last week we raised our estimate of the total crop in Canada from 3,000,000 to 3,500,000 barrels; and from more recent accounts of the prodigious yield it may safely be placed at 3,750,000 barrels. A remarkable feature during the past two weeks has been the rapid develop- ment that has been made in the growth of the apples, the alternate copious rains and sunshine having been condu- cive to the production of fine clear fruit. To afford some idea of the abundance of the yield, instances have been given of orchards of from 300 to 400 barrels each now having at least 1,000 to 1,200 barrels each. +. Apples for the Complexion. From Life and Health. ‘*The secret of a bad complexion,’’ said a well-known physician recently, ‘‘is a bad digestion, and we generally trace that to a bad liver. One of the best remedies for a sluggish liver is cheap and pleasant. Dieting is the secret of the cure. The best liver reg- ulator for persons of sedentary habits— and those are the ones whose complex- ions are muddy—is to be found in ap- ples, eaten baked if they are not well digested when eaten raw. I attended the pupils of a_ well-known boarding school and among them was a country girl whose complexion was the envy of all her associates. I found that she was a very light eater at her meals, but she had a peculiar custom of taking a plate of apples to her room at night and _ eat- ing them slowly as she studied her les- sons. This was her regular practice. Some of the other girls in the institution took it up and I know, asa result of my personal investigation, that the apple eat- ing girls had the best complexion of any in the school.’’ > 00> --- The evils of the bonus system are aptly illustrated in the recent business career of D. R. Salisbury, of Corunna. A couple of years ago Mr. Salisbury was engaged in the retail shoe trade at Owosso. One day he conceived the idea of establishing himself in the man- ufacturing business, and a_ short time thereafter he was turning out shoes in a small factory ‘‘up stairs’’ over his store. Adding to his equipment and working force until they assumed re- spectable proportions, the idea occurred to him one day that he could just as well conduct a shoe factory in some other town which would be willing to pay a cash bonus for the privilege of securing a manufacturing enterprise of that character. After negotiating with a half dozen communities, he decided to accept the offer of a $3,000 bonus from Corunna and, accordingly, removed his machiney and fixtures to that place, where he resumed the manufacture of shoes on a larger scale than before. In the meantime, some of the heaviest tax- payers of Corunna, acting on the as- sumption that the bonus system is il- legal, secured an injunction restraining the officers of the city from paying over the money. The matter is now under advisement in the Circuit Court, and in the meantime the shoe factory has suspended operations, pending the de- cision, Mr. Salisbury announcing his intention of removing the plant to some other locality in case the outcome is un- favorable to him. SC sO A RE Metal en Sty ros OIE mcm ate: THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN PRODUCE RATES. Potato Classification—Block System— Ridiculous Discrimination—Lower Apple Classification. The following letters from the lead- ing potato shippers at Mancelona and Howard City, respectively, are self-ex- planatory : Mancelona, Sept. 28—IJ have read, with much interest, in the Tradesman of Sept. 23, the article on Grain vs. Potatoes, and | quite agree with Mose ley Bros., ©. C.. Suntung and Cc. B. Metzger, and I also heartily agree with Mr. Leavenworth, General Freight Agent of the G. R. & I, in the state- ment that the railroads would like to reduce the classification of potatoes to sixth class. I think they should do even more—give us a commodity freight rate of even better than sixth class in such years as last year and as the pros- pect is for this year. The farmers will not plant many potatoes for shipment if they cannot get something near what it actually costs to grow them. They will raise about one car of potatoes to four acres of land, or over four times the tonnage of potatoes to the acre of any crop with which I am familiar. After the timber is taken off the land in this country, what are the railroads go- ing to haul that is raised from the land that will give them the tonnage that potatoes do? About four-fifths of the potatoes shipped from this section are shipped in the fall and spring, when the cars need no lining and get no deface- ment. As to the time taken for loading in the fall and spring in good weather, I do not think the average time will exceed one day to load each car with a market that pays the farmer the cost of raising them. Last winter, for a short time, we were given a lower rate—sixth class—and we appreciated it greatly, as it helped usa little, but would have helped much more if it had been given at the beginning of the sea- son and continued; but in April the rate was changed back to fifth class. I will give you the former rate and the present rate on potatoes to a few of the points where we usually ship: Evansville, formerly 23c, now 26c. Richmond, formerly 20c, now 22c. Portland, formerly Igc, now 2Ic. Alexandria, formerly 20c, now 2Ic. Anderson, formerly 20c, now 2Ic. Indianapolis, formerly 22c, now 22c. Jeffersonville, formerly 23c, now 24c. Cincinnati, formerly 23c, now 24Cc. Columbus, formerly 21c, now 23c. Dayton, formerly 21c, now 23c. - All other places I have had occasion to look up are higher in about the same proportion. Mr. Rose, Assistant General Freight Agent of the C. & W. M., makesa statement which would cause the aver- age potato shipper to smile when he says that the railroads have to pass a man through free with potatoes. Well, now, let us see, for example, how much the railway company would be out on a shipment from this pJace to Cincinnati. The average man weighs about I50 pounds and the freight is 24 cents per 100, making 36 cents, at the same rate as potatoes, and [| doubt if it takes any more motive power or expense to haul him on the freight train than the same weight in potatoes. Now, the railway fare back is $13.65 and, as the passen- ger trains are never crowded at this season of the year, I think the railroads have made at least $12 clear profit on the trip. Now, it costs the sbipper at least four days’ time, at $2 a day, $8, and railway tare, $13.65, a total of $21.65, besides the expense of lining cars, which is about $8 each. We would not ask the railroads to carry potatoes at any loss to themselves, but would ask them to carefully inves- tigate the cost of production of this staple article and, if possible, make such a rate that the farmers can get nearly what it costs to grow them. If this is not done, they will stop growing them to any extent and, when the sea- son comes again that they could afford to pay a reasonable rate, the potatoes will not be here to ship. JESS WISLER. Howard City, Sept. 26—In reference to the classification of potatoes, I think same is altogether too high, as com- pared with grain, but I find the worst teature is in the difference between the rates on potatoes from Southern Mich- igan points to the South and West, as compared with the rates given here; also the discrimination in rates made as between Northern Michigan and New York State, the latter having in some cases 33 per cent. better rates on ship- ments south of the Ohio River than we have. I must take strong exceptions to what Mr. Rose, of the C. & W. M., says in the Tradesman. First, he says that the transportation company must issue a pass to the man in charge of the ship- ment, which is correct; but he tails to say that the freight on an ordinary man would be about thirty cents from points on the D., L. & N. to Louisville, Ky., and that the fare would be in the neigh- borhood of $13 to get him back, which has to be borne by the shipper. Second, as to the furnishing of refrigerator cars, I find that these are usually furnished by outside lines looking for the trade. It is true, however thatthe D., L. & N. did furnish some refrigerator cars last season. 1 must also take exceptions as to ‘what Mr. Leavenworth says about the reduction in the classification of pota- toes not having made any difference in shipments. Although it was made _ too late in the season and after most of the dealers had laid im their supplies, it did materially help, and had it been made earlier in the season, I, for one, could have moved a great many more potatoes, which were wasted and never moved, entailing unnecessary loss on both farmer and shipper and depriving the railroads of considerable receipts. W. H. LOvELy. The Tradesman commends these _let- ters to the careful perusal and consicer- ation of Messrs. Leavenworth and Rose, trusting they may see their way clear to reply to the statements made therein in the next issue of the Tradesman. Under the system obtaining in this country of grouping commodities in classes for purposes of transportation, there must necessarily be apparent in- consistencies and even injustice in many cases and localities; and the same may be said as to the system of fixing freight rates by what is termed the ‘‘block system.’’ In localities imme- diately beyond the division of the block, the sudden increase in the rates seems to work hardship; and if, as frequently happens, the point at which the division occurs is the intersection of a competing line, the discrimination in favor of near-by points is sometimes serious. + + Take, for illustration, the town of Morley, the next shipping point beyond Howard City, where the division of a block is made. In an inteview with John C. Thurkow, a prominent shipper of the former town, the statement was made that through its peculiar situation in relation to the block division and to shipping points on the D. L. & N., both the town and the railroad suffer materially. It so happens that most of the potato-producing country is situated so that it is just as easy for the growers to draw the tubers to Amble and Lake- view, on the D. L. & N., as to Morley; and, as those places are in the more favored freight block, of course they get the business. Mr. Thurkow com- plains that the town has not had a fair show in either facilities for shipment or rates. As to the former, he states that it is only a short time since they were provided with stock pens, and pre- viously cattle were driven through the town for years and shipped at points on the other road. He has just built a very WINTER APPLES CABBAGE, ONIONS, ETC., in car lots or less. QUINCES, SWEET APPLES, GREEN PEPPERS, GRAPES. Correspondence with me will save you money. HENRY J. VINKEMULDER, GRAND RAPIDS. CDOOOQOQDOOSGOOOQOOOOO© HODOOOQOOGeE OMOMOOQOOOOOQO®D OO@® Telephone tro. OO@ DOOQOOOOOQDOQOQODOO® MOSELEY BROS., 26=28=30-32 Ottawa St., = GRAND RAPIDS, [IICH. ——WHOLESALE DEALERS IN— Clover and Timothy Seeds And all kindsof Field Seeds. Also Jobbers of Peaches, Pears, Plums, Apples, Etc. Bushel and Half-Bushel Baskets—Buy and Sell Beans Car Lots—Send us your orders. QOOOQOQOOO H. M. BLIVEN, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL FISH, POULTRY AND GAME. OYSTERS 106 CANAL STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ROROROROROHORORORORORORCHOROROCHOCHOROROHOTONOCOHOROE Packed the coming season by Kea: Allerton & Haggstrom AVC: : . Who have purchased privilege from the PUTNAM CANDY CO. eae Both telephones 1248. Wholesale Foreign and Domestic Fruits, Vegetables, Produce, Poultry and Game of all kinds. 0 000000000000000 HOOSOOOH 00090000 00609006 000000004 q > e a e e $ OYSTERS--OLD RELIABLE $ ? e OOOO 900000000 @ ; 3 $ ; e se a e e ~~ eo > e e e e @ > e e e eo ¢ 9000000000000 900000000000 00 e e ° > e ¢ e ¢ > Anchor : Brand e e ¢ @ e e oe > ¢ @ ¢ @ © > - Sd a > ¢ ¢ e $0000000000000 wenseeeerTreres 3 ; ; @ All orders receive ar See quotations in @ attention at lowest mar- @ Price Current. 3 ket prices. 3 3 3 GOOO090O9H0OOO 09000060 3 ¢ F. J. DETTENTHALER, II7-119 Monroe St., Grand Rapids. 9OSOSS9OS 0900999 9O9O99OSO9969605 9000S 39999000000 The Oyster season [s Here Are you ready for it? Not unless you have one of our Oyster Cabinets. Will pay for itself several times in a single sea- son. They are neat, durable, economical and cheap. No dealer who handles oysters can afford to be without one. Made in sizes from 8 to 40 quarts. Write for in- formation. Chocolate Cooler Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 8 complete warehouse, at a cost of over $2,000, with roof and sides sheeted with corrugated iron, and furnished with ex- tensive cellars and with ample potato bins on first floor, protected with char- coal-filled walls, and he is, naturally, anxious to get it into use. C. W. Crim- mins, of the same place, complains of the situation, but seems to think there is no redress. He has begun the potato season by shipping two cars from Am- ble, instead of his own town, on ‘ac- count of the more favorable rates. Referring to the Tradesman’s com- ments on this subject last week, Bar- nett Bros., who operate one of the old- est and most responsible commission establishments on South Water street, write as follows: Chicago, Sept. 2—We are pleased to note in your issue of Sept. 23 a most in- teresting article in relation to the freight classification ‘of grain and_ potatoes. There is one other point which we sin- cerely wish you would take up and dis- cuss, and that is the enormous differ- ence in Classification between pears and apples. We have before us an expense bill for the transportation of nine bar- rels of pears. They are billed as weigh- ing 1,700 pounds. The rate is 65% cents per hundred pounds, making a freight rate of $11.10 for the transpor- tation of nine barrels of pears about 200 miles. Nine barrels of apples of prac- tically the same weight—certainly oc- cupying the same space—would be taken at an agreed weight of 150 pounds and a freight rate of 20 cents per 100 pounds, or $2.70 for nine barrels of apples, in place of $11.10. The value of these pears is about 25 per cent. more than the value of the apples, the labor is the same, the cost is the same, and the risk is the same, as both must be shipped ‘‘owner’s risk freight guaran- teed.’’ Why this tremendous dis- crimination? We sincerely wish that you would take it up and see what you can make out of it. ee On being shown this letter, E. C. Leavenworth, General Freight Agent of the G. R. & I., expressed himself sur- prised that there should have been found so great a difference between the rates on these two fruits. Referring to rates in this locality, he stated that the difference amounted to something like 50 per cent. in favor of apples. Thus the rate for apples from Grand Rapids to Chicago is 21% cents and for pears 3144; to Columbus, 25 cents and 4o cents, respectively. This difference in the classification, he claims, is made partly on account of the higher price of pears, the much less quantity handled, and the fact that they are usually shipped in baskets instead of barrels, as are apples. As to the remarkable discrepancy in the instance referred to, he could only explain it on the suppo- sition that there was a gross over- charge. ee While referring to this subject Mr. Leavenworth wished to call attention to the fact that the classification of apples has been changed to sixth until Novem- ber 1, thus placing them on the same basis as potatoes. This action is on ac- count of the extremely low prices. —~> 0 Capital Required to Conduct a Com- mission Business. Chicago, Sept. 25—In recent issues of your paper we have noted some very timely remarks in regard to the com- mission man, to which class we belong, and have fora great many years. The information which you give in regard to us seems to be qualified to place be- fore the shippers and growers of fruit. As we handle not only butter, eggs and cheese, but fruits and vegetables, we must take exception to one paragraph in a recent issue, which says: ‘‘One possible reason why a great many ir- responsible and dishonest men go into the commission business is that it re- quires but little capital.’ During the entire summer _ season while we are handling berries and other small fruits, including peaches, pears and plums, the entire receipts of the day are sold the same day that the goods arrive, and the sales go out with the evening mail, with which is enclosed a check for the fruit. This fruit, when in the hands of regular dealers, is sold to the city trade, the most of whom are re- sponsible and have the privilege of tak- ing their bills and pay the following week. That which goes to the shippers who are filling country orders is booked and carried in the same way. All that we sell during one week is supposed to be due and payable the following week, but the following week is usually nearly gone by before the bulk of the collec- tions are made. Some of them take the entire week and pay on Saturday after- noon. In this way, in order to doa successful business, one must be pos- sessed of a very large capital. One habit of our city dealers is that, instead of sending our city checks that would be floating in the country for several days, we keep a bank account at every ship- ping point and give the growers checks upon these local banks, and must of ne- cessity keep a balance there to meet thése checks. In our butter and egg department, the rule is a little different; the sales, how- ever, are made to the same class of buyers, and on the same terms, and there are but very few of the country shippers but what expect advances on their butter and eggs of half or three- quarters of their value, at the time of making their shipments. The same rule applies to poultry and game. The dishonest and swindling men who have been working the trade from this city have been obliged, in consequence of these conditions, to continually look up new shippers. It is very seldom that they get more than one or two shipments from the same parties, un- less for the purpose of establishing con- fidence with the shippers; they pay promptly for the first few shipments, in order to secure larger ones. These con- ditions make it more expensive for them to secure goods, but as long as they have but little to pay for them, they can afford to be at a little expense in securing them. GEo. W. LINN. F. J. ROHRIG, Jr., Wholesale and Retail Dealer in COAL AND WOOD, FLOUR AND FEED, HAY AND STRAW Recleaned Oats a Specialty. Mack Ave. and Belt Line, DETROIT. PROTECTION DIAMOND CRYSTAL SALT in boxes is impervious to the odor of the mackerel barrel. Fastidious customers believe in such protection. See Price Current. DIAMOND CRYSTAL SALT CO., ST. CLAIR, MICH. OUK INDER? ) AND 7 PEARL STREET. TRY DETROIT MARKETS FOR FRUITS AND PRODUCE. Mm PIT: in. Soe M. R. ALDEN COMMISSION Ff FXGLUSIVELY 98 S. DIVISION ST., GRAND RAPIDS. THE EGG KING OF MICHIGAN IS F. W. BROWN. OF ITHACA. LEMONS, GTOEM We are Headquarters. BUNTING & CO., 20 and 22 Ottawa St., Grand Rapids, Mich. Write ap De 80000000 000008 we aE ONLY THREE YEARS W Business BUT—if you want a “strictly commission’’ house to give you returns promptly and satisfactorily to bid for future consignments, correspond with LAMB & SCRIMGER. of Detroit, who guarantee shippers highest market prices. 43-45 WEST WOODBRIDGE ST. Sweet Potatoes LEMONS, BANANAS, CRANBERRIES, GRAPES. STILES & PHILLIPS, Telephone 10. Wholesale Fruits and Produce, GRAND RAPIDS. SGOROROROROROROROCHOHOROROROROROHOHOROCROROROROHOROROE MAYNARD & COON NURSERY AND SEED CO., WHOLESALE AND COMMISSION FRUITS AND PRODUCE. WHOLESALE OYSTER PACKERS, 54 South Ionia St., Opposite Union Depot, Grand Rapids. Fancy creamery butter a specialty. Telephone 1348. eo 009990009 0O94099 00000000 90000006 Apples in Bulk “A penny saved is as good as a penny earned.” We can save youa “pretty penny,” if you will ship us your apples in bulk. “Expenses” cut a big figure now. Save all expenses of | packages and packing. If you prefer to sell, give us your : al bottom figures at once. BARNETT BROS., CHICAGO. 9009990959 O0O000095909990009 08 ; Reference, The [Michigan Tradesman. ; : Sher sven cnmdnaatlner distin tbalNaphabtice ise coca Ws eben 4 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN chased a half ket of Geo. McC will be known uding to jonn Lenning- smpiete the building S$ merchandise stock in ala, £13.19 Naiphn Udell, aad - = el o ? 1 “Se oS ly manager of the general store of the Sparrow-Kro!] Lum- ber Co., at Kenton, has taken a similar position with W. H. Oakley, at Trout Creek. Whitehall—Green & and Norris, buyers shippers of country produce, have dissolved partnership, each partner con- tinuing in the same business on his own account, i Has $ Of attracting at- ache cure. It con- Solomon Islanders. lo , wholesale pro- iS City, have failed. the heaviest sed of G. B. s Mr. Loyster been in the East for several weeks, € feral thousand had on hand, i: Ths sustained a eggs and the secure accom- s the cause © a Detroit—Attempts are being made to work some of the city merchants with an old trick. A woman orders goods sent to a certain number, to be paid for on delivery. She meets the messenger when he brings the parcel, opens it, then ties it up again, and asks that it be taken to a relative’s at some other number. The second number is usually that of a vacant lot or house. When the parcel gets back to the store, part of the contents are missing. The woman 'who opened the parcel when delivered at the first address is also missing when an attempt is made to find her. Detroit—The local correspondent of the Pharmaceutical Era thus describes an ingenious swindle which has been perpetrated on a number of Michigan collection of barbaric |} ruggists by the prince of humbugs: druggists of hey Cs or some time past the Michigan have been made the victims of a regular “‘skin game.’’ Lansing, Kalamazoo, Port Huron, Battle Creek, have all been worked successfully, and operations are on in Detroit. A nicely dressed, fine appearing lady goes into a drug store and asks for a dozen or more bottles of Professor Birkholz’ she manages to give she is a hair dresser v be in town for two weeks and that she wants the cure de- at a certain address. If the uggi have t stock, will he please send for it? It is manu- =: h s bottle and n the label. ous address. ies the number given bach- the Michigan avenue 1 victimized and sent c e€ wholesale houses lady was working Stores when the ght onto’’ the scheme. the wholesalers have a lot of dead stock on their hands, for some of the retailers lik ly send it back when they find they have been swindled. And the I ‘ cerned ! And now laugh is on everybody con- Manufacturing Matters. Haven—The Myhan Leather | Co. succeeds Geo. H. Myhan & Co. enominee—The Kenyon Lumber } closed on account It may be started again Quinnin Lum- ber Co., not tcorporated, has dissolved. | Louis Quinnin continues is sending twenty-five or thirty men i gE 3 5 ee } out several million feet of the winter. Au Sable—The H. M. | Lumber Co. has lumbering | operations, owing to the dull market. This company has given work to about 1,200 men. Menominee—The Peninsula Box & Lumber Co. has laid off a large number of its men who were constructing the mill, and it may not be completed for work this year. Bay City—The Detroit & Mackinac Railroad is running regular trains | from this city direct to Alpena over its i |road, which has just been completed from Emery Junction to Bay City. Sagola—The Sagola Lumber Co. has closed its mill until after election. The manager announces that if Mc- | Kinley is elected, the mill will Start j again; if not, it will be closed indefi- | nitely. Otsego—The Bardeen Paper Co. has taken possession of the annex to its | business office, which is a building | worthy of special notice. At the point of a considerable elevation, some dis- tance from the old office, is a massive stone building with castellated cornice, which is occupied by the reception room and private offices. This is con- structed of gray sandstone, cut rough on the outside, and is fitted with heavy plate glass windows. The entrance is unique, consisting of smooth stone Sons the business | | steps, leading up into a recess enclosed [on all sides but one with smooth stone | slabs of the same gray color as the en- ‘tire edifice. The door is an unpreten- | tious one at one side of the recess. The | offices are sumptuously finished and fur- |nished, the polished floors covered with | handsome rugs, and all appointments are {in perfect harmony. This building is | connected with the old office by a stone corridor thirty or forty feet in length, which is in same style as the new build- ing, and is occupied by business desks, all making a material addition to th office room, which had become inade- quate to the requirements of the rapidly increasing business. Ontonagon—The insurance carried on the mills, lumber, mercantile buildings and genera] merchandise stock of the Diamond Match Co. amounted to $462, - ooo. The payment of losses is not dis- puted, but it will be seve.al weeks be- fore the cash is paid over by the insur- ance companies, as it will be necessary to furnish full plans of buildings and schedules of losses to the underwriters. The lists and plans are now being pre- pared, and until the cash is received from the policies the matter of rebuild- | ing the mills will not be seriously con- |sidered. Some definite arrangement for the sawing of logs will be reached prob- l ably before the annual meeting next | February. This company, which has a number of factories turning out matches in different parts of the coun- try, has depended for many years upon the Ontonagon mills for its supply of lumber for matchwood and boxes. The wood used must be clear-stuff pine, a material not readily obtained in all pine districts. The policy of the company has been to saw and store large stocks of lumber for possible contingencies, like that caused by the burning of the mills. The various match factories have on hand an average stock of kiln- dried clear-stuff pine sufficient for their | probable requirements for several years to come, notwithstanding the burning of 65,000,000 feet of sawed lumber at this place. ge eg The Morning Market. On account of the early and severe i frosts, the morning market, in its more popular features, is likely soon to be a thing of the past. The peach season may be said to be practically over, al- though there are yet some offerings of the latest varieties. The perishable vegetables, such as melons, tomatoes, string beans and sweet corn, will soon be lacking. Grapes are in endless pro- fusion, but their perishable quality is early manifest, and soon the market will | be narrowed down to the more hardy apples, potatoes, cabbages, etc., with the usual poultry, butter and eggs. Grapes have not realized the strength- ening anticipated by some wHen peaches should be out of the way, prob- ably on account of the prospect of the early closing of the season, making it hecessary to rush them in too rapidly. Winter apples are early in taking their place and have served to steady the market to a price, although a low one, of 15 cents, which is being pretty generally asked. There are still consid- erable offerings of fall fruit, however. Potatoes have not been as strong as was promised last week, many offerings being as low as 25 cents. It is thought that the price will be better when ship- ping fairly begins. Ennis eo What are the most unsociable things in the world? Mile Stones, for you never see two of them together. ersithhbaii THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Grand Rapids Gossip Frederick E. Wilson will shortly en- gage in the grocery business at Alamo. The Musselman Grocer Co. has the order for the stock. Geo. J. Stephenson, who recently pu - chased the Menold drug stock at Fenn- ville, has added a line of groceries. The I. M. Clark Grocery Co. furnished the stock. The Retail Grocers’ Association has promulgated a new schedule for the sale of granulated sugar—s cents per pound ; five pounds for 25 cents; ten pounds for 50 cents ; twenty pounds for $1. C. J. Clapp has exchanged his stock in the Ideal Clothing Co. for the Geo. Avery clothing stock at Otsego, and will probably remove to that place and continue the business established by Mr. Avery. Chas. M. Waidelich has sold the meat market at 59 South Division street to Christian Katz. During the past three months this market has been successive- ly owned and conducted by Smith & Waidelich, John Waidelich, R. L. Bliss and Chas. M. Waidelich. ‘With all due respect to the employes of other establishments, I honestly be- lieve that I have the best working force in the city,’’ remarked a leading local merchant the other day. ‘‘I wouldn't dare tell my people so, however, for, if I should be so indiscreet, they would feel so puffed up that I could not get any work out of them. When a sales- man has made a good record, by sell- ing a large bill or making an unusually large number of sales, I quietly inform him that I know of the circumstance and appreciate the effort which caused the result.’’ > 20> The Grocery Market. Sugar—The retiners kept their prom- ise up to Saturday night of last week and a fairly good business was done on the basis of their guarantee not to change quotations, one way or the other. Monday morning brought a decline of Yc on the entire list and the market is still weak and unsettled, with every probability of a further decline before many days shall have elapsed. The re finers are reported to be considerably alarmed over the discovery that depart- ment stores in New York and Brooklyn are offering German granulated sugar at such low prices that the handlers of American refined cannot successfully compete. Tea—There seems to be no greater firmness along any line of teas, and no change in prices, at least none that can be quoted. Brokers are unusually willing to submit bids, but in this case it does not argue any disposition to shade prices, as all values are held firmly. The trade all around are buying tea very conservatively, and are likely to do so for some time to come. Provisions—There is not much change in the aggregate marketings of hogs in comparison with the recent past. The Western total packing last week was 230,000, compared with 225,000 the preceding week, and 185,000 for the corresponding time last year. From March 1 the total is 8,035,000, against 6,565,000 a year ago—an increase of 1,470,0cc for the season and 45,000 for the week. There continues to be evi- dence that in some localities there is a hastening of stock into market in fear of losses by maladies. Prices are slight- ly higher than a week ago in the aver- age for prominent markets now operat- ing. The department of agriculture es- timate this month is that the number of stock hogs in the country for fattening is 7 per cent. smaller than a year ago. It will, however, not be believed by the trade that the winter packing supply will be less than last year. It is not too much to say that the general indica- tions point to an increase instead of a decrease. The provision trade has shown a fair degree of life and activity the past week, and something of gain in prices of product has resulted. The distribution has been liberal, and spec- ulative interest, especially in new sea- son deliveries, has been apparently en- larged. This evidence of growing con- fidence is in line with various other in- dications of a gradual shaping of busi- ness affairs more favorably, in anticipa- tion of a settlement of monetary ques- tions in November in accordance with the understood needs of the case. The week’s exports of product were again of liberal proportions, notably so of lard. Cheese—While the market East has sustained a considerable decline, Mich- igan jobbers have been compelled to mark their quotations up '4@Ic, on ac- count of the action of the makers in crowding their product up to a higher level. Matches—The_ story has been put afloat by agents of the various inde- pendent match companies, of which George Gould’s Continental Match Co. is the principal concern, that the Dia- mond Match Co. has been buying up anti-trust matches from jobbers and placing them on the market again after treating them chemically in sucha man- ner as to deprive them of their original value as promoters of combustion. This story is characterized as really too silly for denial by the management of the Diamond monopoly. Molasses—There is a little demand for molasses, although not as much as should materialize at this season. A continuance of the cooler weather will bring a good molasses trade. The price is unchanged. New molasses will ap- pear about the middle of October. The opening price is not yet known. Syrups—Although the glucose people have been endeavoring to get the price of their product up, they have not met much success. No advance in mixed syrup is looked for at present. Low- grade sugar syrups are in abundant sup- ply, and are being mostly used for man- ufacturing purposes. Other grades of sugar syrups are scarce and the price is unchanged. Rice—Advices from the South note free movement in both Charleston and New Orleans. The former is fractionally cheaper on medium grades and com- mands the major patronage to the North and West, as well as points closely con- tiguous to New Orleans. It is quite evident that the Carolina planters will market their crop as rapidly as is con- sistent with present values, while those of Louisiana will hold back wherever possible, in the hope of securing better returns later on. Foreign styles are firmly maintained under good demand and light stocks. OO Olney & Judson Grocer Co. cleared a carload of Holland herring through the custom house this week. This is the first ever cleared here and the qual- ity is said to be fine. So much poor stock has been thrown on the American market of late that the firm were in- duced to try the experiment of import- ing direct in an effort to supply the trade with better goods. The Produce Market. Apples—The shipping demand is not very strong, but sufficiently so to war- rant dealers paying soc per bbl. for the fruit alone, although handlers are very particular as to the quality and kind of stock taken. Butter—The market is weaker, if anything, than a week ago, owing'to the freedom with which receipts are com- ing in and to the competition of butter- ine. Fancy dairy is held at 12c and factory creamery is in rather good de- mand at about 5c. Cabbage—$2 per hundred. Carrots—1§c per bu. Celery—1o@ti2c per bunch. Cranberries—Cape Cods are a little lower than a week ago, commanding $6.50 per bbl. and $2.25 per bu. Eggs—The market is even stronger than a week ago, fancy stock command- ing I4c, with every indication of a stil! higher range of values in the near fu- ture. Egg Plant—s1.25 per doz. Grapes—Concords are in great abund- ance on the basis of 5c for five lb. and 7c for eight Ib. baskets. Catawbas and Niagaras are a little stronger, bringing 8c for five lb. and 12c for eight lb. bas- kets. Peaches—Smocks are about over for this season, but a few Salaways are coming in and find ready sale on the basis of about 50c per bu. The quality is fair, considering the season and un- favorable conditions incident to mar- keting the fruit. Pears—75c per bu. Peppers—Green, 5oc per bu. Potatoes—The market is fairly steady on the basis of 20@25c per bu. The shipping demand has not fairly begun yet, owing to the fact that stock does not seem to be thoroughly matured. All indications point to a steady and _satis- factory market, although just how much higher the price will go than the pres- ent basis is problematical. Quinces—75c per bu. Sweet Potatoes—lIllinois and Balti- more stock fetches $1.50, while genuine Jersey stock brings $2.25. Most of the stock from Illinois and Baltimore mas- querades as ‘‘Jersey,’’ being so branded by the growers. Tomatoes—25c per bu. —> 2-2 Purely Personal. E. A. Moseley (Moseley Bros.) has returned from a trip to New York and other cities in the Empire State, oc- cupying about a fortnight. P. M. Lathrop, Manager of the Round and Racked Hoop Co., has returned from Weidman, where he spent the lat- ter portion of the summer season for the purpose of securing immunity from hay fever. W. L. Freeman (Worden Grocer Co. ) leaves Saturday night for Freeman, Ont., where he will spend a couple of weeks with the friends of his boyhood. He will be accompanied by his wife and daughter. The career of H. A. Daniels, the well- known Otsego dealer, is so unusual that it is worthy of note. Up to eight years ago he was a common laborer, his _ last employment being that of coal shoveler. Tiring of this avocation, he tried his hand at selling goods. His original capital was $4.50 and his sales were made from a market basket. A year later he had realized enough so that he could carry out his ambition of opening a store, although, of course, in a very humble way. After four years his busi- ness had grown so that a removal to larger quarters became necessary. The continued growth made _ these too straitened and at the beginning of this year he removed again, this time into the newly-finished stone and_ brick building which is the finest business block in the town. Mr. Daniels has been ‘a reader of the Tradesman most of the time since going into trade, and received more practical instruction from its pages than from all other sources combined and that he attributes his success largely to its aid. ee The Grain Market. Wheat has been booming during the past week-——-an old-fashioned bull move- Ment, with no intermissions of note. There were several small setbacks, but the market continued to advance until now cash wheat is fully 6c higher and futures 5'4c higher. We might say that wheat has advanced fully roc per bushel during the last two weeks, The re- ceipts in the Northwest have fallen off. The exports have been very large and, while the visible increase was very large last week, it decreased 940,000 busheis this week —something unusual for this time of the year—yet there is room for further advances. One thing must not be lost sight of and that is, a toc advance is about enough for the present, as we are about 4c above the export basis. The wheat that is going out now was bought far below the present prices. The writer thinks a_ setback would be in order for the present. How- ever, the decline may not come. Corn and oats also show the effect of the advance in wheat and both cereals advanced about 2c per bushel since our last report. Let the good work go on! The receipts were: wheat, 39 cars; corn, § cars; oats, 8 cars. The mills are running steady at pres- ent, as the. demand for flour is good. Millers are paying 64c for wheat in this market. Cc. G. A. Vogt. Flour and Feed. Flour markets have been very strong throughout the week and, while prices have not followed the full advance in wheat, still there has been no cause for compaint. The volume of business has been fairly satisfactory. Owing to higher ocean freight rates and the rapid advance of wheat, for- eign trade has dropped off somewhat, but there are plenty of enquiries, and as soon as the market becomes settled we anticipate a larger volume of busi- ness. There has been a fair demand for millstuffs and prices have advanced in the Eastern markets from 20@40 cents per ton. The ground feed trade con- tinues quiet, prices remaining un- changed for the week. The following notice, clipped from a Western jcurnal, would indicate that prices for corn have dropped, even below a fuel basis: A telegram from Mason City, Ia., says: The Buffalo (Winnebago county) school board have passed a resolution to use corn for feul this winter. Ten cent corn they regard as cheaper than coal. To them it means a reduction of one- half their fuel bill, providing corn does not advance in price. Wm. N. ROwE. > 2. Bargains in Prints. For this week only we will sell American 3 Indigo Prints at 4c; Amer- ican Shirting Prints at 3'c; Central Park Shirting Prints at 3!4c, and Lodi Shirting Prints at 3c. These goods all advance %c Oct. 5. All orders must be in the house by Oct. 3. P. STEKETEE & SONS, Grand Rapids, Mich. © The funeral of a workingman in Japan costs 83 cents, unless the family wishes to have it especially fine, when it will cost as much as $1.25. The price of a coffin is 20 cents, and the rate for cremation is from 40 to 75 cents. Refreshments figure up from 11 to 25 cents. Gillies’ New York Teas, all kinds, he is kind enough to say that he has| grades and prices. Phone 1589. Visner. 6 spinnin Getting the People Vigorous Advertising Cam- paign. side are unmistakable evi- | the returning wave of pros- | ing this way and that, be- | shall have rolled | around, we will all be so engrossed in| the prosperity of the present that we | | | i Now for a On every dences that perity is com fore another year will have little time to brood over the} four years of depression which are now | drawing to a close, during which time| the bus man who has held his own a decided exception to the general rule. The thing which can stay the tide of prosperity is the possible} election of Mr. Bryan, which even the | most conservative Democrats concede} would for several | months, although they bel that, the end, and uncertainty would be succeeded by unexampled prosperity. In any event the time is ripe for a re- sumption of advertising on a more ex- tended scale than has been the ruie for some time; and I, therefore, resume the department which has been permitted to languish during the summer season, fully convinced that the points I have picked up and the ideas | have assimi- lated during the summer can be utilized to excellent advantage in succeeding issues of the Tradesman. iness is only ae i ma unsettie matters lieve in disaster I find the following sample advertise- ments—several of which are excellent in their way—in a recent issue of the Manistee News: MOROHOROROBOHOHOROROHOHOEE WE ARE NOT THROWING DIRT In anybody's eyes when we crack up our line of stoves. Cooking stoves, ranges and heating stoves are needed right now and you will find that our line of these househol d commodities will last longest and is the most easily bandled of any in the mar- ket. As the now famous “Chim- mie Fadd says when he is givi ing ext remely high praise, “They're upto the limit of perfec- "EB. R. WELSH. BOROEOZOEROCHS ICEOCECEOROCEO tl rn When You See in the medicine line and take a notion you would like to try it. remem- : ean find it at our store. f it should happen, which is a rare thing, that we haven't it, we wil titfor you. Itisour aim to ple W. R. HALL, On the Corner. Ato Bata tadantan tab ttn dn trie ty PPV VV VV s 9000000000000 0000-00 0000000 Atany man coming out of our store and you'll get a portrait a of a man brimming over with pleasant thoughts. CHAS. E. NUNGESSER, 3068 River Street. a a tn sc cetacean CA. CA. CA. CA. EA. CA. CA. SAGA. £ PROPER FOOD Promotes prosperity. Visit us and learn about the good cereal prod- ucts that give bone and muscle to the young and prolong the life of the aged. J. F. ALBRO, 250 Fifth Ave. SOE EOD oo PBA WP EP EPPO, UD) 'EO'UD THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN THERE IS A SAFETY LINE in shoe a store as there is in bridges or on ice—a price below which that store is not safe. You will find it safe to buy shoes of us be- cause we will not lower our stand- ard of quality to get a low price. We don’t do it; rather let someone else sell trashy, paper-soled shoes. JOHN HANSEN, 393 River Street. ; WATCH THE PENNIES..... The frugal person always watches the pennies; the dollars are being credited with being able to care for themeel lves. Atany rate they doit at our store, where the purchasing power is greater than ever before. It’s heating stoves just now—the cold weather is coming on and we cen fit out any home with a heating stove. Our stock, just received is extensive. OTTO ROSENFELD. M. £ Fuaktin, in prides himself on the tet that he has read every issue of the Tradesman, writes me as follows from Thompsonville, where he is now engaged in trade: Referring to your article on page Io of your issue of Sept. 23 by W. H. Nor- man in Printers’ Ink, “Tl think the ad- vice good, but ‘‘ what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.’’ Take back everything your customers are dis- pleased with, no matter what thereason. There's one way to do this and make your customer twice your friend, and there’s another that makes her fee! what a disagreeable man you are. Be sure you do it the right way. What is the matter with asking the wholesale dealer to follow this rule? Let a retailer insist on this point, when goods are not as represented, and notice the result. + ae ‘‘Comparisons are odious’’ and would prefer not to discuss under this head the question of returning goods to the jobber, as I am already on record on al that subject, which has been discussed at much length—and_ considerable warmth—in previous issues of the Tradesman. A subject which is grad- ually forging its way to the front, how- ever, is the desirability of the retailer advertising to refund the purchase price where goods are found to be unsatisfac- tory. The Morse department store, which has recently enlarged its grocery department, announces that it will re- fund the money for groceries not satis- factory to purchasers, and a neighbor of the Tradesman in the Blodgett build- ing is carrying the following announce- ment in the daily papers: RAND sa Furniture Expositionee GRAND When you get goods — if you are not satis- RAPIDS > 25 per cent. better 2, we will call and yur money. ram P limberT & (he Rale Sinise Blodgett Bldg. This policy has been pursued by N vew York and Chicago houses for several months, with very satisfactory results, as experience has demonstrated that the annoyance and loss incident to the re- turn of goods found to be unsatisfactory are more than compensated for by the advertising advantage secured thereby. I should like to hear from retail dealers who have given this. plan a _ trial, whether the outcome was satisfactory or unsatisfactory. E, A, STOWE 47 to 53 Ottawa St. al WE ARE HEADQUARTERS FOR We import them direct from Holland. Just received a carload and the quality is the very finest and we make prices lower, freight considered, than New York. The Holland Herring trade has been nearly ruined by the cheap grade of fish which has been thrown on the market the last year or so, but there are just as — fish caught as there ever were and we shall handle only the finest. Please give us a trial order and we guarantee both price and fish will please you. Nt GRAND RAPIDS. “7 cil ini css stm canis aii | } | | | GREAT VALUE SANCAIBO COFFEE eH eH THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 7 Transportation Experiments in the Making of Bicycle Paths. Written for the TRADESMAN. The bicycle is now so universal, and has such an appearance of stability as an article of trade manufacture and use, that it is difficult to realize that it is so new an institution. It is difficult to re- alize that its place is yet scarcely estab- lished and that its economic value is yet to be determined. That it is to be of vast importance is sufficiently recog- nized, and in questions of street and highway improvement its claims are re- ceiving recognition. So recently as last year the efficiency of the wheel in preparing its own way, when given an opportunity, was a mat- ter of curiosity. The number employed for purposes of transportation and the regularity of their use had only then become sufficient, in most localities, for the fact to be noticed that paths were quickly improved in smoothness and solidity wherever they passed in considerable numbers. The doubling of their number and the much more than doubling their use the present season have demonstrated that they will effec- tually prepare their own way when the conditions are such that they can pass at all. It is interesting to note the quick- ness with which a path is made along the muddy gravel streets after a rain. The wheels seem to drive the moisture away and they press the earth into a hard, smooth track with astonishing quickness. And in country ways where they are used on the sidepaths these are hardened so that they become almost impervious to moisture and so are little affected by bad weather. But the newness of the wheel makes the question of preparing its way still a new one, and one still subject to ex- periment. It is not long since attention began to be diverted from the problem of improving the entire highway to that of making paths for the particular use of the wheel, and incidentally of course for the use of pedestrians. A number of such paths, intended principally for pleasure riding, have been built, con- necting towns of considerable size; and, where money enough can be afforded for such a purpose, they are doubtlessly practical and worth while. But still, I say, they are largely experimental. A notable experiment in the direction of building such a path is the under- taking to connect this city and Grand Haven. With the usual improvidence of the American people in undertaking most public enterprises of this charac- ter, this was begun as a pure experi- ment and without adequate prepara- tion. A quantity of money was raised by the local club and, without any proper estimates or contracts, work was begun to use it up. The route selected parallels a good gravel road for a dis tance of six or seven miles. But, ig- noring this, probably with a view to thoroughness in their undertaking, the projectors began at this city and have their work about completed to the end of the gravel road, and I believe there is a detached mile or so built some dis- tance beyond. This has used up the two or three thousand dollars raised for the enterprise, and, unfortunately, leaves it accomplished for so short a distance that it is impossible to secure the aid of the towns along the way, which was depended upon for its continuance. This is characteristic of the manner in which we usually go at such enterprises. Instead of securing data, estimating cost and so knowing just what would be accomplished, work was begun and the means used up in paralleling an excel- lent gravel road, which is still being used instead of the new and imperfect path, which seems likely to become a monument to the folly of the local club management. The securing of bicycle paths ade- quate for all purposes of business and most pleasure transportation is a very inexpensive undertaking; but such a way is not sufficient for the ambition of sporting wheelmen who wish to use it for a speeding or ‘‘scorching’’ track, and so must have room to pass at ut- most speed, or for those riding ina more social way, who must be accom- modated two abreast. This would all be very nice, of course, but those un- dertaking such works must count the cost. A path amply sufficient for or- dinary purposes of transit can be made very cheaply, and will keep in perfect repair for an indefinite time if not dis- turbed by the road-worker’s plow or other accidental destroyer. It is only necessary to remove the soft, pervious material with a couple of plow furrows and fill in with any suitable gravel, cinder or other material which will pack and resist moisture, roll or smooth the surface so it will be passable and the wheel ‘‘will do the rest.’’ If the enterprise referred to had been under- taken on some such scale, there is no reason why a sufficient path for all but the most luxurious needs might not have been in operation all the way to the Lake. But, as I said at the beginning, bi- cycle paths are still an experiment. In older and more thickly settled localities the wheel is working out the problem for itself. Recent trips in such locali- ties have surprised me with the effect- iveness with which it is doing this. Very many of the Southern Michigan towns are connected by paths which cannot be excelled for smoothness, and most of them are the unaided work of the wheel. NATE. —__—_> #»>___— Some Foundations of Success. Lunby Foot, the Dublin tobacconist, laid the beginning of his fortune by say- ing to each dirty, ragged little girl,as he handed her the penny-worth of snuff she had asked for, ‘‘ Thank you, my dear, please come again.’’ The largest re- tail grocery business in Boston was built up by the founder’s rule to his salesmen: ‘‘Treat every servant girl as you would her mistress if she were buying.’”’ i al A good place for the increase of crime is where criminals get more sympathy than censure. ~~ A CLEVER MERCHANT will not allow an advertisement relative to the g ods he handles to pass unnoticed. ” What is more profitable to a grocer than a rapid growth of his Tea trade? This can be at- ‘ained by purchasing where teas have been ju- diciously blended by an expert. The results of properly blending are that a tea 1s produced of finer quality at lower cost. In bidding for your trade we are willing to give you the benefit of hte extra profit. Our current advertisements brought us a large number of inquries through which we effected many sales, which demonstrates that our mer- chants are strictly up to date and always willing to investigate to better their condition. Are you one of them? Ifnot, why not? Our blends have proved themselves winners wherever placed. i If you are still doubtful we will prepay freight and send goods on approval, permit- ting you to return them if unsatisfactory to you. We also send absolutely free with first order (only) of 100 pounds one very handsome counter canister, 100 pound size bevelled edge mirror front, worth fully 36.00. If you are a prompt paying merchant let us hear from you with re- quest for samples or send trial order to be shipped on approval. GEO. J. JOHNSON, Importer and Blender of Teas. Whole- sale Dealer in High Grade Coffees. a 263 Jefferson Ave., and 51 and 53 Brush St., Detroit. 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We all hope that we have reached the turning point and will have smoother sailing from this on. ness has been good, especially in teas, We claim to be headquarters for Japan teas of all grades. We are just in receipt of our third carload of this season’s teas. We can show splendid value for 14% cents up to 19 cents for leaf, and 6 to 9 cents upon dust, bulk and package. We offer as a flyer this week —-one carload of our best Minnesota Patent Flour at $3.75 per barrel. Cash in current exchange with order. The James Stewayt Co. . LIMITED, Our busi- SOICISS eI OSISs ZS PS ASSESS oS SS =~ ee SSS —> , Saginaw, E. S., Michigan. SSS SS SOIT 2S} FSS CSOSA I SRA SASS d Re eS SES RAROREKESAS EI eS u IN 8 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN os es MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Devoted to the Best Interests of Business Men Published at the New Blodgett Building, Grand Rapids, by the TRADESMAN COMPANY ONE DOLLAR A YEAR, Payable in Advance. ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION. Communications invited from practical business men. Correspondents must give their full hames and addresses, not necessarily for pub- lication, but as a guarantee of good faith. Subscribers may have the mailing address of their papers changed as often as desired. No paper discontinued, except at the option of the proprietor. until all arrearages are paid. Sample cop‘es sent free to any address. Entered at the Grand Rapids Post Office as Second Class mail matter. | When writing to any of our Advertisers, please say that you saw the advertisement in the Michigan Tradesman. E. A. STOWE, Epiror. WEDNESDAY, - - - SEPTEMBER 30, 1896. REASONS FOR IMPROVEMENT. While it cannot be said that the coun- try is threatened with an anti-election boom, there question that a healthy recovery of business and a re- turn to normal conditions have fairly be- gun. This to be the result of a variety of causes which have aided the return of that most essential adjunct of trade—confidence. The first of these, perhaps, is the great profusion of farm products in all parts of the country. This does not mean that everything has been raised everywhere with uniform abundance, but most products are plentiful and those which are not in certain localities serve to create a market and cause a move- ment to aid transportation. Altogether, the harvests are in a healthy condition and it only needed the loosening of money to help the farmer to realize and Start the wheels retail, and jobbing, trade. Perhaps the next factor of impor- tance, although it may be overlooked in the consideration of nearer and more engrossing interests, is the foreign trade of the country. The increase of ex- ports during the past year has been so gradual that it almost escaped notice, and when the balance of trade had _be- come so largely in our favor that the tide of gold began to set in this direc- tion, it took the country by surprise and many sought to find an explanation of the phenomenon in the operations of a syndicate of bankers. Those who had watched the situation more closely at- tributed it to the right cause, which time has demonstrated. The extent and duration of the inflow, however, have been a matter of surprise to all. It has operated to money rates and create some disturbance in England, but has had a reassuring effect in all ways in this country. The more favorable outlook in the political situation being a matter more constantly in the public mind, has, un- doubtedly, gained more credit for thé improvement than it deserves, although its influence in the restoration of con- fidence has been considerable. The assurance that conservative principles will govern in the management of finance and the currency has had a ma- terial increase and _ its effect is mani- fest. Then, in the natural course of things, trade could not always wait. During the depression there has been a con- is no seems of so of raise | government to consider what is being = accumulation of demand a) |time to be satistied. Stocks in the| | hands of dealers and supplies in those | |of consumers were reduced to the low- | est point, waiting only the restoration of confidence to require replenishment. This is a sufficient reason why the pen- dulum of trade conditions has so great a swing. In the opinion of the Tradesman these are sufficient reasons why an early and decided revival in trade and industry may be counted upon. If the return is gradual, and even slow, it may be for the best in the permanence of the improved conditions. SETBACK FOR MANUAL TRAINING During the three years since the panic began, the question of a manual training school has been held in abey- ance by the Grand Rapids Board of Education on account of the financial depression. The movement, at the time of the panic, had assumed seme prom- inence, committees having visited the schools of other cities and reported up- on their operation and an appropriation was asked for and even allowed, to be- gin the undertaking. The panic, how- ever, called a halt and nothing was done. Recently the improved political and financial outlook has led the Board, which is rather an optimistic body, to take the matter up again. Trustee Tower, who has long been an enthusiast on the subject, was made chairman of the committee and an appropriation of $5,000 was asked for and recommended by the Board as a starter for the project. This, however, came to grief in the Council after a sharp fight, the leaders of the opposition being prompted in their action by a commendable desire for economy and a less commendable disinclination to extend the work of ed- ucation in that direction. It is the opinion of the Tradesman that the action of the Council indicates an economy which will eventually result in great loss to the city. There may be directions in which the work of educa- tion is too much extended, as, for in- Stance, the great variety and elabo- ration of the high school courses. It is possible that trimming and _ restriction in this direction might be in the inter- est of true economy and not be deroga- tory to the best interests of the schooi system, but manual training has become so positive and essential a factor in manufacturing communities that it can no longer be ignored with impunity. The relative condition of Germany and England affords an instructive les- son on this subject. The former coun- try, as is well known, has led in modern technical and manual education. This is, undoubtedly, the explanation of the fact that she is now disputing the in- dustrial, if not the commercial, su- premacy of England in many parts of the world. Then it would be well for our city done in other cities in this country in that direction. In this, as in so many other ways, there seems to be a disposi- tion to work everything out by inde- pendent experiment, regardless of the experience of others. In our most suc- cessful industrial centers manual train- ing has been already largely uadertaken, and a city like Grand Rapids, whose hope of prosperity depends upon her artisans, can ill afford to be the last to undertake this most practical of all branches of education, especially when its system is overloaded with the less practical. eee eee heart tc enigma tenh tk peamem THE TRADE SITUATION. The general improvement in trade, noted during the past two or three weeks, continues at an increased ratio. While the return of confidence is very gradual, it is steady, and has already been sufficient to show decided im- provement on every hand. Even con- sumptive demand, which is the slowest to respond, is finally becoming appar- ent. Works in most industries are re- suming and speculative buying is large- ly increased. The movement of gold towards this country has reached $jo,- 000, 000 and continues without abatement, notwithstanding the fact that the Bank of England rate has been advanced to 3 percent. All indications lead to the belief that the era of depressicn is gradually passing away, and that prices on farm products have touched the low- est point. The encouraging demand for wool continues without abatement, sales for the month exceeding those for the cor- responding time last year. Much of the increased demand is the result of foreign buying, although there is some im- provement in the demand for woolen goods and miils are starting up on the improved outlook for heavy goods. Cot- ton prices have not changed materially but there has been a further advance in manufactured products, based on im- proved demand. The number of mills resuming operation is constantly in- creasing. Hides continue firm and leather has shared in the advance. While the movement in iron and _ its products is still conservative, the gain is decidedy apparent. The gain will, doubtless, be aided by the award of contracts for three new battle ships, and, aside from this, there have been a number of good contracts placed, all having the effect of starting up a num- ber of works. Minor metals are gen- erally reported weaker, The financial and stock markets show aS positive gain as do other lines of trade, resulting in improved demand for bonds and other investment securi- ties. The improvement, however, is slow and many lines seem reluctant to respond. Failures for the week were 321, as compared with 315 for the preceding week. Bank clearings show a falling off again of 5 per cent., amounting to $833, 000, O00. At the recent convention of the Amer- ican Pharmaceutical Association, held at Montreal, H. B. Mason read a paper on the subject of *‘State Board of Phar- macy Examinations,’’ in which he as- serted that he had received full and de- tailed reports from nineteen organiza- tions, which had been carefully gone over by himself and his associates, and a unit of valuation arrived at after much labor. By this method of valua- tion, the Michigan Board stood highest, with a mark of 500; Colorado, with 450; Wisconsin, 335; Minnesota, 265; Ten- nessee (being the lowest), 225. The outcome of the investigation is, natur- ally, very gratifying to the members of the Michigan Board, who have re- ceived many congratulations from all sides over the showing. “SE CaS It is intimated that an active crusade will shortly be inaugurated to secure lower rates for the carrying of packages by mail. Not a great deal has been said about the matter in the newspapers, but lower rates on merchandise will be in the interest of the big store keepers, and not, therefore, in the interest of merchants generally. At last the great miners’ strike in Leadville, which has kept that city in a state of turmoil with riots and incen- diarism, involving considerable loss of life and heavy destruction of property by dynamite and fire, is said to be ended by the union men withdrawing their demands. The strike was the imme- diate outcome of increased activity in the organization of the workmen by the Western Federation of Miners, which was made to include nearly all the mine workers in the locality. In further- ance of the fundamental principle of unionism—that all workmen shall be on the same level as to wages—the demand which led to the strike was made that the surface workmen, who were receiv- ing $2.50 per day, should be advanced to $3 per day, the same as paid to those below. Rather than accede to sucha demand, which they considered arbitrary and unreasonable, nearly all the mines closed down, some even suffering great damage from the stoppage of the pumps. Thus ensue the usual conse- quences of the unreasoning aggressions of unionism—workmen striving to se- cure their old places at the same wages, struggling to displace those employed in their stead during the strike, with operations largely suspended by the de- struction of the works and the flooding of the mines. Surely the most bitter enemy of the best interests of the work- men is the blind infatuation of union- ism, which invariably lures the worker to disaster and destruction. The later indications are that the unions will re- pudiate the action taken to return to work, and so renew the hopeless and destructive struggle. The Common Council is overwhelm- ing itself with congratulations over the final accomplishment of the sale of the market bonds, which have been passed from hand to hand of the bidders dur- ing the past five or six months. During this time the era of financial depression and political uncertainty has made it practically impossible to place munici- pal bonds, and thus the question of holding the bidders to their proposition was a serious one. Had the duties of the officials who advertised for the bids been properly performed in the require- ment of a deposit, there would not have been any delay and uncertainty, even if the bonds had not sold for a better figure than is finally realized. The life of a traveling man is both hard and dangerous. He sells goods all day and rides ali night, while an acci- dent may kill or cripple him, exposure may develop sickness, or ill-cooked food may make him a dyspeptic. Be- sides all this, he is assailed by tempta- tions which would be powerless amid the restraints of home. He is to be congratulated if he quits the road as pure and strong as when he went on. Many do, and, what’s more, develop Christian character while exposed to the vicissitudes and temptations of a commercial traveler’s life. Cee The right amount of talk to make a sale to a customer is just such an amount as that particular customer re- quires! If some men on the road would only remember that they are sent out to talk about business, and not to write for comic papers, it would be much better for themselves and the house they rep- resent. The wide-awake commercial tourist always uses plain, good, com- mon. sense expressions and not long- drawn-out jokes to effect a sale. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 9 GRAND RAPIDS STREETS. In the crudeness of the new ways of doing things incident to the inexperi- ence of new cities and towns, it might not be thought strange, perhaps, that there should be a lack of method or or- ganized system, which results in serious wastefulness and frequently works hard- ship to a considerable portion of the people; yet enquiry is suggested as the reason why these cities do not profit more by the experience of older com- munities, learning from them and adopting the methods which have been tried and found the best. There seems ‘to be a spirit of independence in these newer towns which prompts them to work out all the problems of municipal improvement for themselves, a_ spirit commendable in certain directions but to be deprecated when it involves un- necessary waste of time, money and con- venience in experimenting again and again with the probiems of improvement enterprises which have already been demonstrated. The streets of Grand Rapids area patch-work of experiments. The mix- ture in the kinds of pavement in most parts of the city is a curiosity. The different ones in the same street repre- sent the various attempts which have been made to improve upon the work of predecessors in office, or the attempts to demonstrate questions which were old in other cities before the first were laid here. Of course, it must be taken into consideration that there may need to be a little of experiment to demon- strate local advantages and economy, but it was not necessary to devote-all the streets to that purpose. The strangest thing abcut it is that, with all the experimenting, there seems to have been little learned in this city. When a street is to be improved it is a new probiem, whose elements must be determined by experiment. In other cities there are engineérs who can esti- mate the cost and the time required for an improvement and, when it is under- taken, contractors are held to the time as positively as to the cost; for the fact is recognized that the time during which the street is closed to traffic is a serious expense to its occupants. The work of improving South Divi- sion street is a forcible illustration of the serious conditions imposed upon many of the business men by incompe- tent experimenting in street work. There were no uncertain elements in the undertaking which could not have been estimated by such an engineer as a city like this should employ, and the contract should not have been awarded to any but responsible contractors who would give a guarantee for the prompt completion of the work. The improvement of a city street is a serious expense to business men and property owners. If the work is proper- ly done the most serious expense may be the actual contract cost of the work. But, as conducted here, this item be- comes secondary. The closing of a business street like the one referred to, for months at atime, is a serious ca- lamity to the merchants thereon. The diversion of natural traffic to other lo- “calities very soon costs more than the paving expense, and results in loss of future trade to an extent which cannot be estimated. This interruption and loss of trade are the most serious cost in the South Division street improvement. To many enterprises the consequences cannot fail to be serious when it is con- sidered that most of the street is likely to be left in its torn-up and impassible condition all winter. Then this loss reflects upon the property owners in re- duced rentals and vacated stores. That the American way of doing things is tremendously wasteful is for- cibly illustrated by the manner of im- proving the city streets. In the older cities all the elements of cost are con- sidered. Precautions are taken to pre- vent undue delay and a penny saved on the amount of a contract is not con- sidered sufficient equivalent for the loss of pounds in waiting the movements of irresponsible contractors. ARMENIA AND CUBA. The suggestions by the St. James Gazette of London of a new triple alli- ance to be formed between England, Italy and the United States, to put an end to the Eastern question and the Turkish atrocities, is interesting at least, if nothing more. The United States, if so disposed, could be easily committed to such an alliance. The President, with the con- sent of the Senate, has the power to frame treaties such as would be _neces- sary in the premises, and the present Senate is on record as to the Armenian question and strongly jingoistic. Any suggestion from Mr. Cleveland in the direction indicated would be met with approval by the Senate. Thescheme is not so chimerical, therefore, as might at first be supposed. All that is re- quired is the willingness of Mr. Cleve- land to enter into such an alliance for the specific purpose suggested. Joint action has been taken by the United States and Great Britain on several oc- casions in foreign lands, in the interest of humanity and civilization, without violating the traditional policy of this Nation to avoid ‘‘entangling foreign al- liances. ’’ But while Englishmen are suggesting concerted action by America, England and Italy in behalf of the Armenians, it is a good time to invoke their co-op- eration with the United States in stop- ping the Spaniards’ dastardly and bloody course in Cuba. If America could form an agreement with Great Britain and Italy to stop butcheries both in Turkey and Cuba, including both cases in the treaty, the American peo- ple would enthusiastically approve and support the arrangement. No Turkish outrages ever exceeded in bloodthirsti- ness and horror the course of Weyler and his troops in Cuba. Women and children have been shot and brutally outraged in many ways; the torch has laid waste humble as well as pretentious homes; inoffensive men _ have been thrown into dungeons, garroted or transported to Africa to rot, and a reign of terror has been inaugurated that has few parallels in history. And all. this under the very shadow and in the name of a Christian civilization. Europe professes to look with horror upon the treatment of the Armenians by the Turks and goody-goody philanthro- pists and missionaries of this country join in the hue and cry against the sul- tan. In the meantime a_ so-called Christian nation is permitted to indulge in cruelty and barbaric methods within cannon shot almost of the Great Repub- lic of the world, and not a protest is heard. Such exhibitions of sentimental inconsistency disgust right-thinking people. It is well enough to check the Turk, but let us check the Spaniard first. If the United States enters an al- liance in_ the interest of humanity, the eople of America will rot look with avor upon the agreement unless the amelioration of the condition of Cuba is one of the objects of the combina- tion. QUEEN VICTORIA’S REIGN. Queen Victoria has now reached a point in her reign that makes it cover the longest period any sovereign ever occupied the British throne. The longest three previous reigns were the forty-five years of Elizabeth, the fifty years of Edward III., the fifty-six years of Henry III., and the fifty-nine years and ninety-six days of George III. Until last Wednesday the reign of the latter had been the British record. George III. ascended the throne on Oct. 25, 1760, and died on Jan. 29, 1820. During the last ten years of his life he was sovereign only in name, as insanity incapacitated him from ruling. As he had not abdicated, however, he nom- inally occupied the throne until his death. During his reign there were forty-six common years and thirteen leap years. The total number of days he occupied the throne, including the ninety-six between Oct. 25, 1819, the close of the fifty-ninth year, and Jan. 29, 1820, when he died, was, therefore, 21,644, Queen Victoria ascended the throne on June 20, 1837. During her reign there have been forty-four com- mon years and fifteen leap years. The total number of days she has occupied the throne, including the ninety-five between June 20, 1896, the close of the fifty-ninth year, and September 23, is, therefore, 21,645. Victoria is thus shown to have reigned longer than any other British sovereign. The Victorian period has been one of the most important in English history. It has been specially noticeable for the extensive relationship established with the leading royal families of Europe. Victoria was married on Feb. to, 1840, to Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. The union proved a very happy one up to the death of the Prince Con- sort in 1861. Of it were born four sons and five daughters. The eldest child, Princess Victoria, is the mother of the present emperor of Germany. The eldest son, the Prince of Wales, mar- ried a daughter of the king of Den- mark. Alice, who died in 1878, mar- ried Prince’ Frederick William of Hesse. Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, married an aunt of the present emperor of Russia. Helena married Prince Christian of Denmark. Louise married the Marquis of Lorne. Arthur, Duke of Connaught, married Princess Louise Marguerite of Prussia. Leopold, Duke of Albany, who died in 1884, was mar- ried to Princess Helena of Waldeck. Beatrice married the poor but estimable Prince Henry of Battenberg, who met an untimely death in the Ashantee country not long ago. It will thus be seen that the English royal family has established by marriage a strong per- sonal influence in Europe, which at a critical time may prove stronger than diplomacy. During the Victorian period England has made great strides in the extension of her empire. With the exception of the war of the Crimea she has managed to avoid hostilities with European pow ers; but she has engaged in consider- able fighting with the colored races of the globe. The prowess of her arms has been displayed in China, Persia, India, Afghanistan, Abyssinia, Egypt, Ashantee and South Africa. In order to maintain her world-wide interests and guard against possible perils to her commerce and her colonies, she has continued to improve her navy until it is now the strongest in the world. Her diplomacy has exerted a controlling in- fluence in European affairs, and al- though it often has not been above crit- icism, it has, on the whole, made for civilization. It is said that this di- plomacy is now losing its prestige be- cause of the Turkish question, but it would not be safe for any European power yet to count England out of European affairs. The Victorian Period at home has been a most eventful one for England. It has produced a brilliant array of men of letters, while in art, science, and invention it has made wonderful prog- ress. In the matter of home govern- ment there have been grave political and economic problems, the attempted solution of which has led to various party changes, but, on the whole, the people of the United Kingdom are more fairly governed now than they were when Victoria ascended the throne. In her domestic life Queen Victoria has been the most exemplary of mon- archs. Tothe influence she has exerted is largely due the fact that the English court has been fairly free from serious scandals during her reign, while the so- cial condition of her subjects generally has been bettered by her watchfulness. As a woman, as well as a sovereign, she has won the esteem of well-thinking people the world over. From no coun- try will go out to her now more sincere congratulations than from the Great Re- public of the West. Inventions of bicycle sundries are just now apparently the most profitable direction in which mechanical inge- nuity can be directed. All the really meritorious devices on the market for wheels and wheelmen are selling well and return fine dividends to their own- ers. The most remarkable feature of the case is the fact that these prove paying investments from the start and that no losing system of introducing them is necessary, as in other busi- nesses. One of the most remarkable in- stances of this state of affairs is the case of a popular saddle made of alum- inum and leather. It was invented less than two years ago, and has been on the market but a short time. Yet this year the sales have already reached 80,000 and there are more to come. On this 80,000 the inventor realized 50 cents apiece, or $40,000, a tidy little sum, which would be considered a for- tune by some people, and does fairly well for an annual income on a bicycle sundry. The business of the United States which was done by means of bank drafts and checks in the single week ending Sept. 19 was, in round num- bers, $800,000, 000. In some single weeks this business amounts to $1,000, - 000,000. In all these transactions which make so vast an aggregate probably not mere than $40,000,000 to $50,000,000 in actual money passed from hand _ to hand. If this business had been done for cash, it wouid have required all the gold and silver in the United States to have made the payments; but since but little money was actually used, it shows that money plays an unimportant part in the operations of commerce, and that it is only in the small change of busi- ness that money is handled over the counter. Accuse a man of defalcation and all his associates will suddenly remember that for years he has been spending money freely and living beyond his means. They could have done hima good turn by setting him right in the first place, instead of enjoying his steal- ings and helping him along in dishon- esty. AES WES 10 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN JANE CRAGIN. How She Revolutionized the Millinery Business. Written for the TRaDESMAN. ‘*T see that the miiliner over in Cold Water has about made up her mind _ to come to Muilltown,’” remarked Miss McWayne as she put down the county paper. ‘‘I wonder what that’s for. Cold Water is a larger place than Mill- town. She seemed to be having a good trade when | was there; and it seems to me rather risky to pull up in one place and move to another only a little way off. It’s too much like tree-plant- ing. The pulling up is all well enough, but by the time the tree begins to grow, if it ever does grow, the one who trans- planted it is dead, or feels as if he ought to be: and if thagis the end of it, it might as well be in one place as an- other. ’’ ‘*She’s been feeling discouraged for a long time,’’ said Jane. ‘‘There are two or three families who are just wear- ing her very life out. They want the best goods she has or can order. If there is the slightest thing about the goods which they don’t like, they don’t mince matters in telling her just what they think; worse than all, they never pay her without quarreling over every item in the bill and declare they never had it; and, what I simply .wouldn’t have, after they have worn a thing just enough to spoil it, back they come and Insist on her changing it. She says she can’t stand any more of it and is com- ing to Milltown. She’s just as nicea little body as there ever was, and if she does come, I’m going to do what I can to heip her. It’s a little selfish, I sup- pose, but she does good work ; that will bring all her old customers here, and we'll get some of that Cold Water trade which we have been after so long. Isn't that a good move, Cy?’’ ‘‘Looks a little like branching out, Jane, and you know how you poured cold water on my plans and just spoiled my chance of clearing, in one season, twelve or fifteen hundred dollars, don’t you?”’ ‘No, I don’t remember any such a thing. The cases are not at all alike. This is bringing money into the town and keeping it here and that wasn’t. This is building up the place and that was tending towards tearing it down, and you know, yourself, that you made money by keeping out of it.’’ ‘*Going to put up anything? I don't believe she’s got a dollar beyond the few goods she has; and if you’re going in to help her, Jane, don’t be skimpy. I think you'd better go over and see what she has, and just make her a prop- osition. Make her an even partner. She can furnish the experience and you the capital. What she wants is somebody to look after the business and you're just the one to do it. I’d like to see the thing go on; and I don’t know a better way to get those Cold Water folks over here than the chance to look at a new bonnet once in a while. Why can’t you and Jim drive over there this after- noon?’’ ‘*There is no need of it. Plans are all fixed just about as you say. I am going to let her have what money she wants; but I didn’t think of helping her in the management of it. I believe, Cy, you're right. I know she is just worried to death; and I know that with the worry off her mind, her work would be a hundred per cent. better than it 7is now. That's a good idea. We won't wait till this afternoon. Jim, harness the horse to the new buggy and let’s go .” now ;’’ and five minutes later they were on the way. — 2 # ‘*You don’t know, Dolly, what started Jane on this new tack, do you?’’ ‘*Not unless it’s because she wants to help Miss Peck and bring trade to Mill- town.’’ ‘‘That’s the out and out part, no doubt about that; but you watch and you'll see Jane and old Mrs. Comstock squaring off at each other in fine style. Honestly, J don’t believe Jane realizes what’s coming. She likes Miss Peck, and she wants to stop her worrying, and she knows that, while the millinery work is going on in the back room, she'll be looking after the business in the front store; and she’s just going to see whether there’]] be any more of this bringing spoiled goods back. That’s what touched Jane. Did she ever tell you about the tussle she had with the Pelseys.’’ ‘No, what was it?’’ ‘‘] don’t know as I can remember it well enough to get in all the ifs and ands; but I know the boys and I—Sid was here then—almost split to see the fun. The Pelseys are a bad lot, any- way; and it’s hard to tell who is worse —that oldest girl or her mother. Well, they got into the notion of bringing back about everything they bought. It began with groceries or some such thing which didn’t amount to much, and by and by it got into the dry goods, and there was where the trouble began. For a time they’d exchange. There wasn’t any troubie about that so long as it was a different kind of needle or another sort of sugar. I began to notice, though, that when the Pelsey wagon drove up, Jane’s little red spot would come out, clear and bright, right in the midlde of her cheek; so we boys watched. We didn’t have to wait long. That oldest girl—strange I can’t call her by name— is an awful slouch, and she came in one morning with her hair all frowzy and threw a big wad of something onto the counter, and said her mother ‘didn’t want it; ’twa’n’t big enough, to begin with; *’twas all stretched cut and shrunk up; and she wanted the other one she looked at when she got this.’ I expected Jane would snatch the bundle, tear it open and begin. She didn’t do that way at all. She looked at ita minute, sort of puzzled like, and then she looked at her hands and she says, ‘I’ve just washed my hands and I don’t want to dirty them all up. Won't you just open it and let’s see what ’tis? Jane’ said it so innocent-like the girl didn’t hook on at all and opened the bundle without a word. It was one of those light shawls they wore some years ago. This one was white with blue stripes— but dirty! If it had been in a mud puddle it couldn’t have been worse. ‘Oh,’ says Jane, ‘it’s that shawl, is it? I’ve wondered, when I’ve seen you wear it, how long ‘twould be before you'd bring it back. ‘Tis all stretched out and shrunk up, that’s a fact; but you needn't pretend that your mother sent you here on any such errand. She’s bad enough, and she’s dirty enough, but she’s got common sense; and you ought to have enough not to bring here a shawl that you’ve worn and spoiled before it’s paid for. You just take the dirty thing out of here just as soon as you can—it smells!—I think it’s that—and don’t you bring here any more of your dirty duds, for we don’t want ’em!’ The two looked at each other for a minute, like a couple of young roosters, and the girl took up her bundle and left. The shawl never’s been paid for; but the eee escseses ee ee eeoeoeeveeveeee ee ee eee eeeoeene ee ee eee eecoeeee ee ©00000860080 ee ee e SOOSOOOOOOOOOOOO HOSS OOOO OOOO ROC. @e@ece. @ece-. Oeecece. Oecec-. Skowhegan, Me., June 3, 1896. VALLEY City MILLINe Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. Dear Sirs:—In the past four years I have sold about 3,000 barrels of the Valley City Milling Co.'s flours, and it gives me pleasure to say that I have always found them just as represented. They are flours that run very uniform, one barrel being as good as another in its grade. Ican say that 1] con- sider them the best flours that are being sold in Skowhegan. I want another car load—the I~st one went quick. C. W. DAY. West Pownal, Me , June 20, 1895, VaLLey Ciry Miuure Co., Grand Kapids. Mic’. Gents:—We have been handling your different brands of flour for the last five years with the very best of results. We have never tefu e hanuled a ear of any other mill’s make with as little trouble as we have had with all we have sold of the Valley City Milling Co.’s flours. We cannot get aloug without them now—our customers wi | have them. Yours truly, DOW & LIBBY. Oakland, Me., June 4, 1896. VALLEY City MILLING Co Gentlemen:—We have sold your flours for the past four years, in several grades, and are glad to say that in all grades we have 'een more than pleased, and do not hesitate to say that we consider your goods superior to any we have handled. They suit the trade perfectly and are trade winners. Yours truly, BLAKE S8ROS. TERSELY TOLD EOS SOOO ES SEES AS _STIGLY NER FULL PLANT Manufacturing the best Dakota and Minnesota , Hard Spring Wheat Flour = K in the world. Owned and operated by JOHN H. EBELING, Green Bay, Wis. 4 ASI 2D CTs AA SASS BOS RRR aS SSIS SOITIASSA Sy ati 3 SASQa DSA SAsaasas Kae 1S) 7} SAAS Don't Wreck Your Business For the want of a little foresight. To buy where you can buy the cheapest is not always safe. You might not notice the difference in the quality of a high grade Minnesota Patent Flour and that of a slightly inferior Flour, but it may be enough to sink you. Buy where you will be protected. We guarantee our Flour to be made of the choicest Dakota and Minnesota Hard Spring Wheat, uniform in quality, and that it will make more and better bread than any other Flour on the market. ‘ Write us for samples and delivered prices. We want your orders and will com- bine high grade goods with low prices to getthem. Correspondence sol.cited. JOHN H. EBELING, Green Bay, Wis. ate eS ES wa e THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 11 Story got round, and since then we haven’t been bothered about exchanging their goods or taking them back.”’ + + + On Jane’s return, it was found that the plan of relieving the milliner of all business matters suited her exactly. To give her undivided attention to her art was the very thing she wanted, and in due time the shop was well stocked and opened ; the communities of Milltown and Cold Water were informed of the grand millinery opening ona certain date ; and when the day arrived the sin- gle street of Milltown was hardly large enough to accommodate all who came. Of course, the store did a good _ busi- ness that day; but the center of attrac- tion was the shop next door. There daintiness met the eye at every turn. Miss Peck was an artist in her line and the artistic touch was visible every- where. The real gem of the whole dis- play, however, ‘‘the dream,’’ as one enthusiastic beholder called it, was the creation of lace and flowers which Mrs. Comstock, of Cold Water, early decided to carry home with her. In conspicuous places about the establishment were plainly printed cards, stating that goods must be paid for on delivery and that no goods would be returned or ex- changed. The price of the bonnet was high; but it wasa ‘‘sample’’ bonnet, an item which has great influence, espe- cially in the country. It was noticed that, much as Miss Peck tried to avoid her old customer, that individual had eyes and ears only for Miss Peck, and the bonnet was the only theme. Did it come directly from Paris, as the billet pinned to it said? Was the lace real? Were the flowers ‘*jennywine?’’ Was that the very low- est figure she would take? werea few of the questions which were poured upon her, until the little milliner, knowing from experience that she was not equal to her customer, unconsciously lifted her pleading eyes to Jane. ‘*Miss Peck, Mrs. Walker is asking me all sorts of questions about velvet and lace and pansies. She wants a bon- net and I can’t tell her anything. Do take my place and let me sell this Paris hat to Mrs. Comstock. A _ beauty, isn’t it? It isn’t becoming to me, or I should take it myself. Would you like to try it on, Mrs. Comstock? Well!’’ The exclamation drew the attention of the crowd to the work of art. It was one of those instances, much too rare, where article and wearer were evidently intended for each other; and Mrs. Com stock could see, from the admiring glances of the multitude, that their opinion and hers were in harmony. ‘‘T think I shall have to take this home with me. It seems to be just what I want; but Mr. Comstock is such a fussy man I never like to get anything until he has seen it. You may do it up ”’ Miss Peck, deep in the mysteries of pansies and velvet, was. still near enough to hear the remark and_ turned pale. It was the old story; and the bonnet, once out of the store, never would come back again and_ never would be paid for. Her hand nervously stroked the velvet as she wondered how she should tell Miss Cragin, when Jane's unruffled voice was heard say- ing: ‘‘You see what the card says, Mrs. Comstock. Gouods are not deliv- ered until they are paid for."’ ‘*But I haven’t the money with me. ‘*We’ll keep the bonnet for you, if you say so, for a short time. You and Mr. Comstock can come in to-day or to- morrow for him to see it on; but I can't let the bonnet go out of the shop unpaid for. We must begin as we expect to keep on, and there the rules are, plain- ly printed on the cards before you.’’ ‘Fifteen dollars is an abominable price, anyway.’’ After a short silence, which Jane made use of to see if matters were going on satisfactorily in other parts of the store, Mrs. Comstock remarked: ‘‘I don't see what harm it would do to let me take the bonnet home with me—unless you think you won't get your pay for it!’’ ‘“‘If you pay for it when you take it, the matter is settled right there. Then there is no bringing back, there is no damage done and no further trouble. That is why we are starting on a cash basis.”’ ‘Yes, but that doesn’t always mean everybody. Now, I’ve always had Miss Peck do my work, and paid her when it was convenient; so I guess you'd bet- ter let me take the bonnet home to try on. It'll be all right. I’m Mrs. Com- stock, of Cold Water.’’ ‘*Very well, then, Mrs. Comstock of Cold Water, I shall have to say to you what I say to all my customers—I can’t let any goods go out of the store which are not paid for.’’ ‘Miss Peck never made any tion.’’ ‘“*Miss Peck never traded for cash. We do.”’ ‘‘Well, I'm going to have the bon- net.’ ‘‘Very well, Miss Peck will do it up while I make out the bill. Fifteen dol- lars, please.’’ ‘‘Oh, I’m not going to pay for it now.”’ ‘*Then you can’t have the bonnet. No matter, Miss Peck, Mrs. Comstock has changed her mind.’’ ‘Now, see here, Jane Cragin, we've carried this thing far enough. I shall take that bonnet home with me to try on without paying for it, or [’ll know the reason why.’ ‘‘All right, why.’’ The shop was full but you couid have heard a pin drop. ‘‘In Milltown we trade for cash. When Miss Peck came to open this shop, it was on the condi- tion that she should trade for cash. I bought an interest in the business on that basis and I took her accounts just as they were. I’ve been looking them over. Your account is the only one you have any interest in, and (every neck was craned towards Jane) while you have, as you say, always had Miss Peck do your work, for the last five years you haven't paid her a cent, and have worn the best she had in the shop. I don’t propose to do business that way. Miss Peck doesn’t propose to do it that way any longer; and if you can affoid to wear a fifteen doljlar bonnet, you can afford to pay for it. ‘* There is another point in this busi- ness that I might as well speak about. You come in here and make believé that you want to take the bonnet home to see if Mr. Comstock likes it. That's an old dodge as weak as it is wicked. What you are after is to get that bonnet out of here without paying for it, because you are Mrs. Comstock of Cold Water! You didn’t do it, and you won't do it. You'll pay for what you take, and when you take it,if you get it here. Now do you know the reason why?’’ ‘‘Jane Cragin, you are an impudent trollop!—’’ ‘* But honest, ”’ objec- I'll tell you the reason interrupted Jane, ‘‘clear through. Shall I give you the amount. of your bill now or would you rather have me send it to you?’’ ‘*You may send it to me.’’ “*Very well, and if it isn’t paid with- in a reasonable time, I'll put it into my lawyer's hands to collect!’’ The conversation ended. The _ in- dignant Jane with flashing eyes stood ready for the expected reply; but it didn’t come. With the air of an insulted queen, Mrs. Comstock of Cold Water left the shop, not, however, before the exultant voice of Amanda Bettis ex- claimed so that ail could hear: ‘‘ That's the time the old woman got her dinner trod on, and I’m glad on’t!’’ The battle was then and there fought | whic decided the question of cash payments and of bringing things back. Little Miss Peck, relieved of the busi- ness part of milline ry, grew plump and happy. Thrift took the place of threat- ened ruin and Milltown rejoiced over this new industry added to its list of at- tractions. Better than all, let it be said, Mrs. Comstock of Cold W ater paid her bill without any leg al inducement; and the last ‘‘creation’’ which adorned her aristocratic head came from the Millinery Emporium at Milltown. ‘'Miss Craign is a — queer some- times,’’ she remarked when the ch: inges of praise bad been rung on her last new bonnet, ‘‘but she means well, and I al- ways make it a point to encourage such people when | can,’’ a remark “which, when repeated to Jane was answered with a simple ‘m—hm!”’ RICHARD MALCOLM STRONG. Dilver {eat Flour Manu!‘actured by MUSKEGON MILLING CO., Muskegon, Mich. Parisian Flour INO] UBISLIed Lemon & Wheeler Company, SOLE AGENTS. Parisian Flour Parisian Flour SUUTYPPYNDTTNNNNNN TH ONNO ADI NNNOONN Did You Ever Have flour? ing trade. PPPHHPNPONONNNVODDD DITO TNN NNN T NTT SU Hy ryt a good customer who wasn’t particular about the quality of her Of course not flour with which you c The name of the brand is GRAND REPUBLIC And every grocer who has handled the brand is enthusiastic over the re- sult, as it affords him an established profit and invariably gives his cus- tomers entire satisfaction. Merchants who are not handling any brand of spring wheat flour should get into line immediately, as the consumer is rap- idly being educated to the superiority of spring wheat over winter wheat flours for breadmaking purposes. we ask is a trial order, feeling sure that this will lead to a large business for you on this brand. tions in price current. BALL-BARNAART-PUTMAN CO. GRAND RAPIDS. WUUUUUAdaaddadadeesdeeeeccccdddddd We offer youa can build upa pay- All Visuidluuduiiisusar® Note quota- PAINT’ AN AAS WEE DE TREO REN Si Neh eh scot 12 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN MEN OF MARK. John H. Patterson, President National Cash Register Co. John H. Patterson is the son of Jeffer- son and Julia (Johnston) Patterson, and a grandson of Colonel Robert Patterson, a pioneer in the settlement of Kentucky and, later, one of the three original pro- prietors of Cincinnati. Mr. Patterson was born on his father’s farm, the original homestead, which lay south of Dayton, and early in life de- veloped the habits of industry and _per- severance which have enabled him to carry great enterprises to a successful termination. In his early years, he spent his leisure hours in assisting in his father’s sawmill and gristmill and in the general work of the farm, until he was 18 years of age. The next three years were spent at Miami College, Ox- ford, Ohio, where he pursued a classical course of study. His senior year was passed at Dartmouth College. After he was graduated, he returned to his na- tive place, where he secured a position as Collector of Tolls on the Miama Canal. Three years later, he gave up this position and engaged in the retail coal business in Dayton. He then be- came interested in coal mining at Coal- ton, Jackson county, Ohio, ana assist- ed, in company with John H. Winters, George Harshman and others, in push- ing to completion the D. & S. E. R. R., which was built for the purpose of introducing Jackson coal into Southern Ohio. He continued in the mining business for several years, after which he accepted the position of Manager for the Southern Ohio Coal & Iron Co., with offices located at Dayton. Mr. Patterson’s real life work has been the perfection and introduction of cash registers. He became _ interested in this great industry in 1882 and from that time he has been intimately con- nected with their development. The National Manufacturing Co. was or- ganized in 1882 for the manufacture of these machines, with a capital stock of $10,000, held by Dayton citizens. In 1883 Mr. Patterson became a director in the company and the capital stock was increasec to $15,000, the added shares being taken by Mr. Patterson and his brother. Little progress was made un- til 1885, when the company was reor- ganized. Mr. Patterson then gave up all connection with the coal business and, with his brother, Frank J. Patter- son, devoted his entire attention to the cash register industry, becoming the President and Manager of the company. In 1886 the capital stock of the National Cash Register Co., as it is now called, was increased to $100,000, and in 1801 was again increased to $500,000. The factory covers seven and one-half acres of ground; it turns out a cash register every fifteen minutes, and the number of machines in use has long since passed the one hundred thousand mark. Mr Patterson is the captain of an industrial army of 100 men and 200 women in the factory at Dayton, and 300 agents scattered over nearly all the world. The factory is governed, not by a superintendent, but by a commit- tee of five expert mechanics of the broadest experience in the manufacture of cash registers. Under this committee are a number of sub-committees, which absorb a vast amount of detail work, making the running of the plant almost automatic, so far as the necessity for the personal attention of its officers is concerned. A new building, 350 feet long and four stories high, has recently been erected, making the plant one of tke finest factories in the world. The company’s policy is to promote from the ranks and reward merit wherever found. Mr. Patterson’s plan creates enthusiasm in his little army; this is his chief aim, for he finds that enthusiasm is as nec- essary to success in business as in _bat- tles. The people employed form a par- ticularly intelligent and _ industrious community, embracing, with their fam- ilies, thousands of Dayton’s most hard- working and prosperous citizens. 2. ___ A Merchant’s Dream. A certain merchant believes thorough- ly in. advertising, and the result is he has the biggest business in his town. Indeed, he works so much on week days that when he goes to church on Sun- day, as he always does, he generally goes to sleep as soon as the preacher gets well started into his sermon. Not long ago a visiting clergyman filled the pulpit, and our friend, being unaccustomed to him, slept rather un- easily, starting up every now and_ then as the minister grew emphatic and al- most shouted the words of truth at the congregation. When the preacher called out: ‘“Brethren, why stand ve here all the day idle?’’ “* Because they don’t advertise, ’’ sang out the half-awakened merchant; and the way his wife grabbed at him and shook him into a sense of his situation almost broke up the meeting. An Everyday Occurrence. From the Minneapolis Times. A prominent society lady in this city recently went into a Nicollet avenue shoe store to purchase some shoe strings. She secured one pair. ‘“How much?’’ was her query. ‘*Oh, that’s all right,’’ was the reply of the clerk. ‘‘Well, then, give me another pair.’’ —_—_—_»>2.—___ The members of the United States forestry commission, who are making a tour of inspection in the West, with the object of devising means for pre- Serving the remaining forest area in this country from fire, theft and need- less depredation, have recently reached San Francisco. They started out on their journey on July 2, and report that they have traveled 1,000 miles by wagon, and have, besides, made long distances on horseback. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 13 Injunction Against Imitations OF THE Cocoa and Chocolate Labels, Trade-Marks, &c., OF Walter Baker & Co., Limited. +e On Sept. 3, 1896, we obtained an important decision in the United States Circuit Court for the Western District of Virginia, against William Henry Baker, of Winchester, Virginia, who for the past two years has been putting on the market chocolate and cocoa preparations under the name of W. H. Baker & Co., in imitation of the well-known goods of Walter Baker & Co., Limited. The court say: “A careful consideration of the evidence and an inspection of the packages, cans, wrap- pers, labels, inscriptions, etc., of the goods of the complainant (Walter Baker & Company, Limited) and those of the respondent (William Henry Baker) can lead the court to no other conclusion than that there was a deliberate purpose to place the goods of the respondent upon the market in a guise resembling the com- plainant’s goods as nearly as possible so as to avoid a direct imitation. . . . With the widest field from which to select wrappers, labels, cans, inscriptions, words, phrases and designations, the respondent has so nearly simulated in these respects the chocolate goods of the complainant as to lead dealers and consumers to be- lieve that they were buying the complainant’s goods, when they were really getting those of the respondent.” “To prevent this confusion, and to protect the complainant and the public against this unfair competition and deception,” an injunction was granted restraining W. H. Baker from using on his plain chocolate ‘“‘any yellow label or any label of a color resembling yellow; and from using on or in connection with the sale of his plain chocolate any label which in its lettering, arrangement, or design is not plainly distinguishable from that used by complainant; from using on his powdered cocoa in connection with any form of his name the words ‘Breakfast Cocoa,’ and from putting his powdered cocoa up in cans shaped like the complainant’s cocoa cans; from using in any manner whatsoever in connection with the sale of his sweet chocolate the name ‘Germania,’ or any name not plainly distinguishable from the name ‘German’; from using on molds, labels, circulars, or in any other way, the phrases ‘Baker’s Cocoa,’ ‘Baker’s Chocolate,’ ‘Baker’s Vanilla Sweet Chocolate’; from using in the chocolate business the words ‘and Company,’ or ‘Company,’ following any form of his name; and from using the words ‘Established in Mercantile Business 1785,’ or any words stating or indicating that his business has been long established.” The respondent, William Henry Baker, was required to pay the costs. ALL PERSONS, AND ESPECIALLY WHOLESALE AND RETAIL GROCERS, ARE WARNED THAT IT IS UNLAWFUL TO HANDLE HIS GOODS IN THE FORM OR WITH THE LABELS AND CANS FORBIDDEN BY THE COURT. DEALERS ARE FURTHER NOTIFIED THAT THEY WILL BE HELD STRICTLY ACCOUNTABLE FOR SELLING GOODS IN CONTRAVENTION OF OUR RIGHTS. The trade may be assured that we shall do everything in our power to prevent dealers in, and consumers of, our goods {rom being imposed upon, and we confidently solicit their assistance in our efforts in the interest of fair and honest trade. WAIVER HANMER & CO, Loam, DORCHESTER, MASS. came gat ap TINE GAME RES EAE REY EA EI ashes EPR AROMAS RES Wa AAD NO ANDI lng) ht ey ret Ms ate 14 THE MYSTERY OF GENIUS. It is wonderful, when one comes to think of it, what a part is played in‘the real world by mere negations. Darkness and cold, for instance, are nothing in themselves, but express simply the ab- sence of light and heat. A friend has grown fond of a little picture which has been his for more than half his life. It is a copy, or rather a photograph, of an older picture— touched with India ink—representing Michael Angelo in his studio, surround- ed by the marble trophies of his creat- ive genius—Samson Bound ; Moses, the Lawgiver, and other magnificent white figures, of heroic proportions. There is almost a blaze of light reflected from the smooth surfaces of these sculptured sublimities, though in the far corners and deep recesses of the vast apartment the shades of an advanced evening are gathering fast, and the lowered lances of the retreating sun no longer reach its massive rafters. Angelo, mallet in hand, is seated, intently measuring the progress of his work, the mighty leader of Israel, still half statue and half block. It requires only a little cultivated im- agination to catch the poetry of the mo- ment and the man in that picture. It is only a thing of light and shade, but for that very reason it is a symbol of all history. What one sees, what one understands in this world, is only a little light in the midst of darkness; but the darkness is still a part of the picture, for a thing all light were as little graphic asa thing all shade. The mind of-man must do its thinking under the seeming con- tradiction of a mystery that is in_ itself a kind of revelation. It deals with eter- nities and infinities of which it can have no conception, though they are in- evitably involved in what is known of time and space. The normal habit is a simple acceptance of these limitations without useless and disquieting ques- tionings. In his famous essay entitled ‘‘Characteristics,’’ Carlyle asserts that the modern tendency towards intro- spection and excessive analysis is symptomatic of a deep-seated mental disease. ‘‘The healthy,’’ he says, ‘*know not of their health, but only the sick; this is the physician’s aphorism, and applicable in a far wider sense than he gives it. We may say it holds no less in moral, intellectual, political, poetical, than in merely corporeal therapeutics; that wherever, or in what shape soever, powers of the sort which can be named vital are at work, herein lies the test of their working right or working wrong.’’ In support of this position he traverses a vast deal of ground, ancient, mediaeval and modern history, and seems to find abundant illustration of his thesis in the annals of states and nations, as well as in the biographies of individual thinkers and workers. ‘‘Foolish enough, too,’’ he remarks in his queer way, ‘‘ was the col- lege tutor’s surprise at Walter Shandy ; how, though unread in Aristotle, he could, nevertheless, argue; and not knowing the name of any dialectic tool, handled them all to perfection. Is it the skillfulest anatomist that cuts the best figure at Sadler’s Wells? or does the boxer hit better for knowing that he has a flexor longus and a flexor brevis? But, indeed, as in the higher case of the poet, so here in that of the speaker and inquirer, the true force is an un- conscious one. The healthy understand- ing, we should say, is not the logical, argumentative, but the intuitive; for the end of understanding is not to prove, THE MICHIGAN and find’ reasons,’ but to know and be- lieve. Of logic, and its limits, and uses and abuses, there were muck to be said and examined; one fact, however, which chiefly concerns us here, has long been familiar; that the man of logic and the man of insight, the reasoner and the discoverer, are quite separable —indeed, for the most part, quite sep- arate—characters.’’ It may be that Carlyle has undertaken to give this doctrine too wide an ap- plication; but it is indubitably true that the human mind has done much of its best work under the prompting of in- tuition. The boy, Benjamin West, takes a bit of charcoal and sketches a neighbor's head with untutored skill on a wall. He has no more rule to guide him in catching a likeness than a bird has in building a nest. Teachers may help in the development of his genius, but the secret of his power—the thing that makes the difference between the born artist and all other men—cannot be imparted by schools. What is strangest of all, however, is the fact that it must remain a secret for him as well as for others. But, however it may be philosophized about, this mystery of genius is a real and positive force, and no analysis can reduce it to the realm of the commonplace. And this ought to be the world’s chief pleasure in it— the fact that its genesis is wholly un- mechanical, and that it is unfettered by that chain of cause and effect which binds the merely logical understanding. FRANK STOWELL. > o> ~ To Fight Adulterated Jams. It has been decided by the San Fran- cisco Fruit Exchange to take active and vigorous measures in an endeavor to suppress the practice of bringing adul- terated jams and jellies West from the East, and the Exchange will prosecute the offenders if sufficient evidence against them can be obtained. An ap- propriation by the Board of Supervisors will be necessary to make this work suc- cessful, and the Secretary has been in- structed to notify that body of the deter- mination of the Exchange, and to ask for a conference in order that the mat- ter may be laid before it. —__>2.____—_ No Retailing Regulation Required. The Internal Revenue Commissioner receives requests at intervals, usually from country merchants, for information as to the requirements of the law rel- ative to selling manufactured tobacco at retail. The most recent comes from a Western merchant, who asks that his name be registered as a ‘‘retailer in to- bacco and cigars.’’ The Commissioner in all such cases forwards a copy of the regulations and advises him that no registration is required of a dealer in manufactured tobacco. —___> 2. —_____- Decreased Onion Crop. We find by estimates recently made in regard to the onion crop of the coun- try that there will be an average de- crease of about 25 per ‘cent. in the yield. The crop this year is placed at 2,200,000 bushels, and with shortage in the domestic crop there ought to be an outlook for the Spanish onion, which will come from now on regularly by steamers bringing anywhere’ from 10,000 to 35,000 crates. —___> 2.» Clever Advertising Scheme. The cigar manufacturers of Law- rence, Kan., name their goods after the newspapers of the place and get adver- tising at half price. RESO) ana Satisfied customers are good advertis- ers. Such are the customers who use Robinson Cider Vinegar, manufactured at Bentor Harbor, Mich. You can buy Robinson’s Cider Vinegar from the I. M. Clark Grocery Co., Grand Rapids. Agents TRADESMAN Now is the time to get in stock of RuDDET Boots ad shoes as we have great bargains to offer you. We solicit correspondence. We carry a large line of Felt Boots and Sox at the lowest market prices. STUDLEY & BARCLAY, 4 MONROE ST,., GRAND RAPIDS. L. CANDEF & CO., FEDERAL RUBBER CO. Ask for price list. Rindge, Kalmbach & Co., 12, 14, 16 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. Our Factory Lines are the Best Wearing Shoes on Earth. We carry the neatest, nobbiest and best lines of job- bing goods, all the latest styles, everything up to date. We are agents for the best and most perfect line of rubbers made—the Boston Rubber Shoe Co.’s goods. They are stars in fit and finish. You should see their New Century Toe—it is a beauty. If you want the best goods of all kinds—best service Our and best treatment, place your orders with us. references are our customers of the last thirty years. | GOODYEAR Sf GLOVE RUBBERS and F widths, also their Lumberman’s Rubbers and Boots. Either Gold or Silver will suit us—what we want is GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. i K We carry a complete stock of all their specialties in your fall order for Rubbers. DOOO000O9000000000000000 000000000000000000000000' CSN : Century, Razor, Round and Regular Toes, in S, N, M HIRTH, KRAUSE & CO., AISA E NEES ; When you are Looking for Reliable BOOTS AND SHOES at Prices that fit the times as well as the Feet————, SEE that your account is with the “winners.” They are THE HEROLD-BERTSGH SHOE 60., State Agents for Wales-Goodyear Rubbers, 5 and 7 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. Lbhbahb bd bbb bbb bobo tn tnin toll tn tnbn le PRG FV GOS FV VV VV VV VV VV VV VV 9990000099090 0O0F 0000000000 hbbtabdbabdboabheea THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 15 SMART SAYINGS. Short Catch Phrases and Pointed Paragraphs. What we say is true! What we do is legitimate! What we promise is ful- ~~ !—Kempner & Warner, Buffalo, Ney. If it’s good it’s here. If it’s here it’s cheap.—Baltimore Shoe, Clothing and Dry Goods Store, Asheville, N. C. Magnetic bargains are the rule here during the last closing days of this re- building and extension sale.-—Mayer & Pettitt, Washington. We want your mati order trade—will fill it same day—will refund if not right —will go out and get anything you may want.—Joslin’s, Denver. A head looks better under a neat hat, and a neat hat can be bought for less money now than ever before.—Mrs. W. Weichen’s, Portsmouth, Ohio. Saving in a stocking is considered an old woman’s way of banking, but every man who buys sox here saves money in them.—Luke Gilleran, Woonsocket, R. I. Certainty ends hesitation. Here. is certainty. Here are exquisite grace, range and selection and, above all— Price—the mediator between beauty and usefulness. Do not miss_ it.—Silver- man Bros., Kansas City. .We put this here because you'll see it. This is an invitation to look at out new fall derbies. We'll be really glad to have you look—because the looker of to-day is to-morrow’s buyer.—Franc & Son, Washington. We've always made it a point to have good big value for five doilars, but this time we've overdone the thing— have left hardly enough profit to pay for the handling—but we want the business and this will get it.—Boggs & Buhi, Pittsburg. There’s nothing we iike better than to make shirts cheap as well as good, placing them within easy reach of mod- est means. No fancy profits, no double prices. Business is solicited only on the basis of perfect satisfaction.—R. J. Tooke, Montreal. Whatever your wants may be in the staple department you will find our prices right. Don’t forget the goodness of good is more important than the poorness of price. Come and see these goods at these prices.—Lewis & Patter- son, Brockville, Ont. Why worry? Here are the clothes, here are the fixings that will brighten faces and gladden hearts of men and boys because of their stylishness, sub- stantialness and low-pricedness. ‘‘ There are others,’’ but none so good as Geo. Muse Clothing Co., Atlanta, Ga. We trust everybody, rich and poor alike. These are times when folks don’t have much money. We have plenty of stock, bought for cash. Will sell it to you, however, on time, at cash-store prices. Pay us to suit yourselves. —Peo- ple’s Credit Co., Rochester, N. Y. ‘‘Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.’’ We are busy now turning the balance of our lots of summer shoes and Oxtords into cash— not into the amount of cash we should fairly get for them, but into the amount you'll gladly give.—Hann, Birming- ham, Ala. In your visit this week a liberal sprinkling of new fall goods will be ob- served. In this respect our stcre may be likened to the budding of a huge rose. Another week will see it blossom into full bloom, filling every corner _with fabric loveliness.—Williams & Rogers Co., Cleveland. The foundation of stylish dress is a nobby pair of shoes. We can lay that foundation to your satisfaction. We are the first in the field with the advanced shipments of advanced styles for fall wear. As usual, we show more styles than even the exclusive shoe houses. — C. H. Mitchell, Detroit. You'll find us very much alive in all that means business—and business that will be your business is what we’re go- ing to talk right along. Before this sea- son is over this column will be eagerly read by folks who ‘‘take no _stock’’ in advertisements.—C. F. Wing, New Bedford, Mass. No doubt after the election we will all be on the road to prosperity and suc- cess. The farmer will receive the high- est price ever paid for his produce. The mechanic and laboring man will not know what it is to be out of em- ployment. Gold and silver will be plentiful. With all these prospects in view Cast your eyes upon the great bar- gains in shoes . - at Ransone— Garrett Shoe Co.’s. Joseph, Mo. There is beauty in gel. old age to the scientist who is hunting for mum- mies and such, but to the eve ryday housewife looking for palatable edibles the mold of old age is a delusion and a snare. To get fresh goods, reliable goods and low prices, give us your orders.— Welch & Eason, Charleston, S. C. There’s merry selling here. Our store just now is like a big merry-go round—with prizes for every passenger. The new prices make magic; music Everybody takes a ride and there's a satisfied, glad-I’m-here expression on the stream of faces as ~_ go marching through arston’s, San Diego, Cal. Barefoot boys will soon be wahting shoes for school and nowhere in the city can they be shod better than here. Here is where particular attention is paid to the shoeing of boys and girls and here is where both qualities and prices are within the bounds of consist- ency. Bring in the boys and the girls and let us fit their little feet.—Geo. W. Cowan, Chatham, Ont. This is no time for trifling. If you’ve got a single dollar to spend —spend as though there wasn’t another in sight. This is no time for trifling —whether you're young or old, you can’t recall a period when more prudence in purchas- ing was demanded than is demanded of you right now.—-Milner’s, Toledo, Ohio. —_—____st<__ ' Intelligence and Tolerance. Eli in Minneapolis Commercial Bulletin. There is a good deal said these days about the danger from monopolies and trusts of trade, which are depriving people of their rights. There is a good deal of truth in the assertions, but the people who make them are a greater menace to the country than are the mo- nopolies they complain of, in many in- stances. Some one has said that ‘ ‘Ig- norance is sin.’’ Here we have the greatest menace to the country. The ignorant man is the dangerous man in a country like this. The man who schemes in atrade for profit may be an excellent citizen so far as his public conduct is concerned; he will carry through his deal for profit and then he settles down and no more is heard of him; he is _ in- telligent and he is patriotic; his fault was in wishing to make more than a legitimate profit. That is the weakness of the trusts. ° The ignorant man is a _ constant menace in the republic, because, no matter how good his intentions may be, his action may be wrong, and when ignorance gets in the majority, as it may, theoretically at least, there will be danger for the country. If the hand be placed on a_ hot stove it will be burned, and it makes no difference whether the act was intentional or ac cidental. There are a great many ig- ncrant persons in the country who do not intend to be ignorant, but the fact that they are makes the danger just as great, barring the single fact that they may be good citizens. A good citizen ignorant is less dangerous, generally, than a bad citizen ignorant; but the general welfare supposes that there shall be no ignorance so far as general prin- ciples are concerned. The less a man knows the more _pos- itive he is in his opinion. Did you ever observe this? The educated man understands that the world has many things to learn, and he generally leaves a loophole in his opinion for escape. He says, "*] think = (mstead of ‘'I know.’’ He allows other people to have an opinion, although he may be fully persuaded that his own is right. This does not mean that opinions should not be held; it means that the opinions should be sufficiently elastic to permit of the acceptance of a contrary opinion, This In his doctrine if later evidence should convince. is the scientific spirit. of evolution, Darwin never said he was | right; he simply advanced what he had | found to be true scientifically, and then he proposed that, with the evidence so striking, it could be assumed as a prop- osition not entirely proven that man and the ape are descended from the same progenitor. Darwin never insist- ed that he was right, as so many who are ignorant of what he did say allege. —-+—-~>-2 — A new copper mining field is to be opened up near Silver Cliff, in Custer cone Colo. a = Pingree This stamp ap- @ e as pears on the Rub- @ . er ve ber of all our “‘Ney- @ zB PATENTED erslip” Bicycle and @ = FES 2*° 1892 Winter Shoes. e a e a & PINGREE & SMITH, Manufacturers. HOROROTOROROHOHONOROHOHeHO {A successors to REEDER BROS. SHOE CO. Michigan Agents for Lycoming and Keystone RUDDETS and Jobbers of specialties in Men’s and Women’s Shoes, Felt Boots, Lumbermen’s Socks. Lycoming Rubbers Lead all other Brands in Fit, Style and Wearing Qualities. Try them. He JE few @liqpers CVew@lpvers CNewt@ligners New @ligvers ip eq NAME PLATE VALUES, Our Nevy' ae D> as = “i over reputable wheel and an illegitimate isin existence, and if so, they wan his product. Handle bicyeles made atirm that has weathered the storms and get what you ean denend uvon Pratt 203 Se IE Wewi@lippers Mew @lippers Sp r, 2 > The biggest rope ever used for haul- age purposes has just been made fora district subway in Glasgow, Scotland. It is seven miles long, four and five- eighths inches in circumference and weighs nearly sixty tons. It has been made in one unjointed and unspliced length of patent crucible steel. When in place it will form a complete circle around Giasgow, crossing the Clyde in its course, and will run at a speed of fifteen miles an hour. —_2s>70a___ The San Francisco Call says that ‘‘there are at least 200 people walking the streets of San Francisco in good health and likely to live many years, who have already arranged the details of their funerals. They have selected the coffins in which they will be buried, and paid cash for the same, as well as for the burial plat, hearse, etc.’’ _ = s32 7. Floating beds of seaweed, which are often met with in mid-ocean, have been observed to reduce the height of waves, like oil thrown upon the water. Tak- ing advantage of this fact, a French- man has invented a thin cotton or silken net to answer the same purpuse. —>2 > ___ Why is a restiess man in bed like a lawyer? Because he lies on one side, then turns around and lies cn the other. —_—__—_* 2 2.__ The Tourist of Trade. His language is artless and free, And his fund of good jokes is immense; His handshake is hearty and warm, And bis manners polite to intense. His clothes fit him snugly and trim, His necktie’s way up in the style; His hat is the latest thing out, And he wears 4 genial smile. He has the time table by heart, He is “chummy” at all the hotels; He calls the trade by their first name, And leaves copies of all goods he sells. His trunk is just packed with “big jobs,” He throws out his pet little “baits; He’s determined to sell his new man, So he offers him all sorts of ‘‘dates.”” The trade never wants any goods— He’s accustomed to slights and rebuff— But he gets a man started, and then He can scarce wait a day for his “stuff.” Oh, a jolly bright fellow is he, This tourist of commerce and trade; Don’t call him a “drummer,” forsooth, turer.’’ He's a full band complete on _ . 5S. Kine. Trimmed Fedora Walking Hats in cloth, stitched brims, $4.50 per dozen and upwards. Trimmed Sailors in cloth, $2.00 per dozen. Satin Grown Sallors $3.00 per dozen and upwards. Try sample order. CORL, KNOTT & CO., WHOLESALERS, GRAND RAPIDS. § PR EROIAGGRRI HAMMOCKS $7.00 to $42.00 per dozen. Voigt, Herpolsheimer & Co., Wholesale Dry Goods Grand Rapids, Mich. : 2 CJ o PERRO ORO, % trrttrreereerteettee Our Fall Lines of Dry Goods, Notions and ee , 9 So 09, Gro o}e 0 ‘OND ° oS $) 0° 9 Bolo ° Ero ° O° Ox o [-) of Cro C] o °o a ° Cro o}O. 0 ‘ot xe OK 25) IR aC DO Men’s Furnishings Are now tn, complete and ready for inspection. STEKETEE & SONS. ad Ft pepepey : 2 tertrerrers “ “bepoh Sbebbbbbebbbt z ~$ pepo opepohehohopepap dred ~ LUMBERMEN’S SUPPLIES LARGEST STOCK AND LOWEST PRICES. WHOLESALE GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS —__ F. C. Larsen, 61 Filer Street, Manistee, Mich. Telephone No. 91. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 17 Commercial Travelers Michigan Knights of the Grip. ; President, S. E. Symons, Saginaw; Secretary, Gro. F. Owen, Grand Rapids; Treasurer, J. J. Frost, Lansing. Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Association. President, J. F. Cooper, Detroit; Secretary and Treasurer, D. Morris, Detroit. United Commercial Travelers of Michigan. Chancellor, H. U. Marks, Detroit; Secretary, Epwin Hupson, Flint; Treasurer, Gro. A. REY- NOLDs, Saginaw. Michigan Division, T. P. A. President, Gro. F. OweN, Grand Rapids; Secre- tary and Treasurer, Jas. B. McInnes, Grand Rapids, Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual Acci- dent Association. President, A. F. Peaks, Jackson: Secretary and Treasurer, J. H. MCKELVEY. Board of Directors—F. M. Tyrer, H. B. Farr- CHILD, GEO. F. OWEN, J. HENRY DAWLEY, GEO. J. HEINZELMAN, CHAs. S. Ropinson. Gripsack Brigade. The greatest salesman on Price. Politics and business winning trade ticket. The confidence of your trade is your most valuable asset. Many a traveling man loses his trade by changing to an inferior house on the temptation of a larger salary. These are the days of small things as well as of great things. It is the little things that make the big ones. The links in the chain that binds your customers to you must be carefully watched if you desire increase in your trade. To the commercial traveler the public owes the rectification of many abuses by railroad companies and_ extortionate hotel men. The most conspicuous, the most cele- brated and the most thoroughly dis- cussed animals in all bug-dom to-day are the gold and silver bugs. ‘“T£ you don’t sell to your trade, some- body else will.’’ Therefore take a back seat for no one and you will accomplish what you are sent out for—to make sales, W. S. Cooper, traveling representative for Brown Bros., has returned from a ten days’ visit to the old home at Mar- athon, N. Y., where he met the friends of his boyhood days. Croakers are those who _ habitually look on the gloomy side of things, hence they are nowhere made welcome, while the cheerful fellow makes a wonderful influence in drawing an order out of a buyer. The truly successful salesman is quiet and seldom or never mentions his sales. There is policy in this plan. Why should he advertise his good trade and give competitors pointers, that they may go-and secure the sales? Undesirable accounts are turned down to-day as never before and these are also the days when a man’s true worth is weighed on finer scales than ever be- fore, when not only his wealth is con- sidered a factor, but also his health, his habits and his whole life. The greatest success among business men is to be found among men who do only a portion of the required work, and who gather around them men of proper capabilities for each of the various di- visions of the business. The require- ments of modern business are so multi- farious that no man can do them all and do them with equal success. There are houses who seem to have no faith in human nature and look upon their traveling force as so many human machines capable of grinding out so Many orders at so much profit per day. earth— don’t make a What’s more, they take no interest in their employes, care not whether they sink or swim, so long as they are able to accomplish the results mentioned. The borrower is the developer and his interests are important. He is the man of push and enterprise. He de- velops the country, opens new farms, builds factories and railways and has, in fact, a finger in ‘‘almost every new pie.’’ He is the man who supports the banker and the lender. Without him there would be but precious little use for our banking system. The impression that the traveling man is usually dissolute, immoral or a stranger to truth is not correct. No man works harder than he and his time is so taken up that he could not, if he would, engage in the pastimes with which he is credited. The traveling salesman we meet to-day is a man of fine natural ability, noble feelings and with a heart easily reached, and if a man ought to be well treated it is he. ‘IT like to get hold of a buyer who knows his business,’’ observed a local traveling salesman. ‘‘In other words, I like to do business with a man who can appreciate what I tell him for ex- actly what it is worth. Such a man I can do business with in a very satisfac- tory manner, because, if I am telling the truth about my line, he knows it, and is equaliy well aware if I am misrepre- senting things or making false state- ment. There are many men who buy goods who know very little about them. Such men are always suspicious and inclined to doubt statements that are made about the construction of goods; in fact, they are very skeptical concern- ing asalesman’s statements ina general way, for they think they know it all and hence are very hard men to sell goods to. I'll take a buyer everytime who thoroughly understands my line in pref- erence to one who does not, as I am more certain to sell him.”’ ‘“Do you know that the traveling saleswoman, or, as the papers cali her, the drummer woman, is attracting some attention at the present time?’’ re- marked a traveling man the other day. ‘‘T am of the opinion that she has en- tered American commercial life to stay, and the boys on the road are obliged to recognize the fact. Whereas, ten years ago, a traveling saleswoman was looked upon with curiosity and some suspicion, she now packs her grip and comes and goes as she pleases. It seems that this portion of business, which has hither- to been sacred to men, has_ been as successfully invaded as the profes- sions of lawyer and physician and other lines of work. Ifa woman can sell cal- icoes or ribbons in a dry goods store at $3 to $5 a week, there is no reason why she cannot enlarge her usefulness by selling goods by sample and at the same time make a respectable living out of it. In my line, paints and oils, there are already quite a number of women on the road, and in every instance, so far as I am aware, they are doing good work,’’ ES Ne Strictly Business. Hustling Commercial Traveler—Miss Carrie, I’ve been around a good deal, and I’m a good judge of girls. I’m ready to marry and settle down, and I’ve picked you out for a wife. Does it go? Handsome Young Milliner—It doesn’t go, Mr. Swimmalick. Commercial Traveler—All right, Miss Carrie. What can I show you in rib- bons to-day? I’ve got the golwhop- pinest lot you ever saw. Conservative Condition of the Cloth- ing Business. From the Clothing Trade Journal. The largest part of the heavy-weight business has been done, and, with the exception of the fancy goods which have been taken to brighten up_ stocks, it has been largely a piecing-out busi- ness. That is, the majority of clothiers have carried over considerable stocks of staple garments from the last heavy- weight season, and have restricted their purchases to filling the numbers on va- rious staple jines which had been de- pleted. City clothiers and those in large towns have bought fancy goods with some freedom, but the country clothier has taken small supplies of such goods and those have been of the less extreme colorings and designs. The larger clothiers will have to buy many more goods if their trade is only of moderate proportions, but the country dealer and the smaller houses will confine their future orders to staple goods and do little more than keep their stocks com- plete. The experience of a retail clothier in a Western town of about 8,000 inhabit- ants is a fair barometer of trade throughout the country, and of the fu- ture course of business. This clothier makes about $3,000 a year, clear profit, from his business in an ordinary season. His inventory, taken September 1, showed that he had lost $1oo on last season's trade, and that he had $0,000 worth of stock on hand, where he ordi- narily would have $6,000 worth. This stock consisted entirely of staple goods, more largely of suits and overcoats than of trousers. He has $2,000 and $3,000 in outstanding accounts, of which he could force the collection of oo per cent., if necessary. He does not owe a cent to any one, but in this respect differs from about 50 per cent. of the retail clothing trade, as fully that per- centage is being carried by wholesalers. The store in question draws its custom from a farming community whose crops are well diversified and promise good returns when harvested, since they were never more bountiful. Owing to poor crops in previous seasons the majority of the community are not free from debt; neither are they burdened in this respect. They have been economizing in every way during the last two years, and with confidence restored they will have the wherewithal to make large needful purchases this winter. Not- withstanding the fairly favorable out- look, there is too much_ uncertainty afloat, and stocks are too large to war- rant this clothier in making anything but absolutely necessary purchases. He has purchased sufficient staple stuff of the cheapest kind te fill up his sizes, and has bought a small assortment of fancy suits to brighten up his stock. He says he will buy no more fancy goods, and will purchase only enough goods later on to keep his line of staples complete. It is with such retailers as the one illustrated that the great bulk of the clothing business is done, and the condition of this house is as good as the average. The point we wish to emphasize is that clothiers have had every reason to pursue their conserva- tive methods of buying and selling; they do not care to sell those houses which they are carrying any more goods than are needed to keep them moving, and those firms whose credit is all right simply will not buy more goods than are absolutely necessary to meet their minimum requirements. As soon as confidence is restored and light can be seen ahead, the present conservative methods will be relaxed and a freer movement of goods will ensue. Such recovery will not help the mills in the present heavy-weight season, but it will be felt in the light-weight business. —_——_>-¢ To circumvent the law requiring a $500 license in order to sell cigarettes the tobacco dealers of Fort Wayne, Ind., are selling campaign buttons and “throwing in’’ the cigarettes. ———_> +> Why is a chicken pie smith’s shop? Because fowlin’ pieces. like a gun- it contains Cutler House in New Hands. H. D. and F. H. Irish, formerly landlords at the New Livingston Hotel, at Grand Rapids, have leased the Cutler House, at Grand Haven, where they bespeak the cordial co-operation aud support of the traveling public. They will conduct the Cutler House as a strictly first-class house, giving every detail painstaking at- tention. COMMERCIAL HOUSE Iron Mountain, Mich. Lighted by Electricity. Heated by Steam. All modern conveniences. $2 PER DAY. IRA A. BEAN, Prop. THE WIERENGO E. T. PENNOYER, Manager, MUSKEGON, MICHIGAN. Steam Heat, Electric light and bath rooms. Rates, $1.50 and $2.00 per day. HOTEL BURKE G. R. & I. Eating House. CADILLAC, MICH. All modern conveniences. C. BURKE, Prop. W. 0. HOLDEN, Mgr. SELL THESE CIGARS and give customers good satisfaction. Michael Kolb & Son, Wholesale Glothing Manufacturers, ROCHESTER, N. Y. Mail orders promptly attended to, or write our representative, WILLIAM CONNOR, of Mar- shall, Mich., to call upon you and you will see a replete line for all sizes and ages, or meet him at Sweet’s Hotel, Grand Rapids, Friday, October 2nd, where he will remain until Tuesday evening, October 6th. isi N HOUS Michigan’ Popular Hotel. Remodeled and Refitted Throughout. Cor. Monroe and Wabash Aves., CHICAGO. Moderate rates and special attention to De- troit and Michigan guests. Located one block from the business center Come and see us. GEO. CUMMINGS HOTEL Co., Geo. Cummings, Pres. Geo. Cummings is an Honorary member of the Michigan Knights of the Grip, rit and AR ESN RSE TREN Ee PANE pr pa ae ce AR EAP AR a 18 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Drugs--Chemicals STATE BOARD OF PHARMACY. One Year— - C. A. BUGBEE, Traverse City Two Years— - S. E. PARKILL, Owosso Three Years— - F. W. R. Perry, Detroit Four Years— - A.C. ScHumacHER, Ann Arbor Five Years— - - Gro. GuNDRUM, Ionia President, C. A. BueBEE, Ti averse City. Secretary, F. W. R. Perry, Detroit. Treasurer, GEO. GUNDRUM, Ionia. Coming Meetings—Lansing, November 4and 5. MICHIGAN STATE PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION. President, G. C. Por~ires, Armada. Secretary, B. ScuroupER, Grand Rapids. Treasurer, CHas. Mann, Detroit. Executive Committee—A. H. WresseEr, Cadillac; H. G. Cotman, Kalamazoo; Gro. J. Warp, St. Cram; A. B. Srevens, Detroit; F. W. R Perry, Detroit. The Drug Market. Acetanilid—The firm feeling among manufacturers still continues. Acids—Quotations for benzoic, car- bolic and salicylic acids have not as yet been advanced, although there has been a steady improvement abroad as to benzole and other coal tar products. Alcohol—Grain, in first hands, is ruling nominally steady. Wood, steady. Arsenic—Powdered white, market fairly steady, with demand from con- suming channels a trifle better. Balsams—The firm, active market noted last week for copaiba still con- tinues. Tolu is in good demand and prices have advanccd, on account of extreme scarcity. The dulness which has characterized Peru still continues. Not much demand for Canada fir. Beans—-All varieties of vanilla are strong, with good consuming demand. Cacao Butter—The spot stock of bulk is still light and prices are firm. Cantharides—Firm. Cassia Buds--Demand from consum- ers is fairly active. Values firm. Castor Oil—Fair average volume of business, but competition has resulted in an easier market and prime quality has met with a reduction at hands of manufacturers. Cinchonidia—Very firm, owing to reduced supply. The movement within the last few days has been very satis- factory and an advance is looked for in the near future. The better condition is supposed to be due to a circular re- cently issued as to cinchonine, coupled with the fact that the stock of old cinchonidia abroad is about exhausted and that this alkaloid is no longer ob- tainable from the Java barks. Cod Liver Oil—Tone of the market seems to improve as the season ad- vances. Colocynth firm. Cream Tartar—No change in manu- facturers’ prices. Essential Oils—Anise, still firm, and cassia is firmer than of late. Penny- royal has experienced a reduction. Mar- ket for bulk peppermint shows no change as to its irregularity. Rose, de- clined. Sassafras, a very firm feeling prevails. Flowers—Ali descriptions of chamo- mile are very strong and tone of the market is upward. American saffron remains unchanged and steady. Glycerine—Moderate attention given jobbing parcels. only. Prices un- changed. Gums—Asafoetida, fair consuming demand, with quotations strong. Cam- phor, values steady and business of fair seasonable volume. Gamboge, life- less. Firm prices for kino still obtain. Leaves—Short buchu and senna are receiving the most attention; but the market is not particularly active and Apples—Prices continue there is no special change as to quota- tions of any descriptions. Lycopodium—Demand very active and stocks are rapidly decreasing. Morphine—Still quiet, prices without nominal change. Quinine—Market continues active. Seeds—The depressed situation of the foreign market in regard to sifted Ital- ian anise affects values here for that article, and prices are, therefore, slow and more or less nominal. Canary, dull as to all varieties, enquiry being but light. Dutch caraway, demand active. Celery has again declined. Poppy is bettering its condition. Cor- iander is without change and nominally steady. Whole cleaned flaxseed has de- clined. Russian hemp, fair jobbing request and steady. Sponges—Slow movement is reported, mostly in jobbing quantities at the former range of prices. No new de- velopments as to primary markets. Sugar of Milk—Scarce and firm, there being an active demand from con- suming sections, and, for the time, prominent manufacturers are obliged to decline to fill orders. Venice Turpentine— Market tame and featureless. wea a Drinks Ether by the Quart. From the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune, The habit acquired by John Beck- man, a shoe laster, living on New street, presents one of the most peculiar cases known to the medical profession. In fact, medical history does not cite an instance where a person addicted to a similar habit has gone to the extremes reached by the subject of this sketch. Mr. Beckman isa habitual user of ether. He not only uses it in the customary way of administering it, by inhalation, but he also drinks it in large quantities. Ether is a powerful anaesthetic, hav- ing a similar influence to that of chloro- form. It is classed as one of the dead- ly poisons, and the druggist selling it is required by law to place upon the _bot- tle the customary red poison label with skull and crossbones. It is rarely ad- ministered internally, owing to its dead- ly influence, but when it is found nec- essary it is generally in the form of ‘“Hoffman drops,’’ a solution composed of seven parts alcohol to one of ether. A dose in this form is fifteen drops. Ether is also highly inflammable, and when a person acquires the habit of drinking it, the breath, and even the exhalation from the pores of the skin, will easily become*ignited by fire and cause serious Consequences. ‘*Hoffman drops’’ would no longer have any effect upon Mr. Beckman, for he now uses the drug so freely that it re- quires almost one quart a day to satisfy his desires. He purchases it in six- ounce bottles, paying for the same 4o cents, and he makes five and six trips a day to the drug store where he Is ac- customed to buy the drug. He takes it to his room and goes on an ether ‘‘jag,’’ sleeping for hours, until the effects wear off, when he again replenishes his bottle. Sometimes when his money is plentiful he buys it in pound packages ; then he remains in his room and sleeps the hours away and dreams a dream that would do justice to an opium fiend. He was remonstrated with by the druggist the other day, and he replied, ‘“*Oh, I have such sweet dreams!’’ It is not only in his room that Beckman takes the drug, for he carries his bottle with him on the street, to his barber shop and elsewhere, and he can be frequently seen by his acquaintances taking a smell or a drink from his bot- tle. The lack of money sometimes puts a stop to his protracted ‘‘sprees.’’ As soon as he straightens up sufficiently he goes back to work at the factory and labors industriously to accumulate money to resume his habit. During his sprees he eats nothing. He just sleeps. Recently he has become so inebriated by the use of the drug that he could not do his work at the factory to the satisfaction of his employers, ‘and he lost his job. As he has no family or friends in the city, his condition is a precarious one. Already his credit at the drug store is beyond the limit, and when further time is denied him_ where he will then get the drug which has now become essential to his existence 1s not known. i Mr. Beckman’s story is a pathetic one. He was born of honest but poor parents in a small town in West Vir- ginia. His father was a shoemaker, and the son at an early age was pressed into service to help about the shop. The young lad was quick to learn, and soon became proficient asa shoemaker, but he was ambitious to hold a higher posi- tion in life than that of an artisan. He saved his money, and when he was 23 years old he began studying medicine. All the books treating on the subject which he could secure in his town he practically devoured, pouring over them night and day until he was 25 years old. He then went to a medical college in Maryland. Four years afterward he graduated, but while at the college he began inhaling ether, and the habit grew upon him. He returned to his former home and _ threw his shingle to the winds, but what practice he got he neglected through his habits. He moved from town to town, but could not shake the ungovernable desire which had sprung up within him. At last he came here, and being out of money, he made no effort to practice medicine. He secured work in the shoe factory, and but a few of his most inti- mate acquaintances learned anything of his past history He has one acquaint- ance in this city, a doctor, in whom he confides, and with whom he frequently talks over the effects of his habit. He has no desire to stop the use of ether, for the temporary delight it brings him is now dearer than life. CINSENCG ROOT Highest price paid by Write us. PECK BROS. The Etiquette of Gum Chewing. More properly speaking there are certain rules, not etiquette as some would have it, to be ob- served in abstracting the sweetness and reduc- ing the obstinacy of astick of gum. In the first place one should have an object in view. It is more than probable that chewing gum merely to keep the jaws in operation will not produce any marked benefits. If one is troubled with dis- ordered stomach, however, the right kind of gum will not only correct the trouble, but keep the breath from becoming offensive. There is but one gum made that is really meritorious as a medicinal gum, and that is Farnam’s Celery & Pepsin. Mr. J. F. Farnam of Kalamazoo, Mich., is the most extensive grower of celery in the world, and his knowledge of that toothsome plant has been turned to account in the form of the pure essence of celery which he has incor- porated with pure pepsin into chewing gum. Celery is a splendid nerve remedy and pepsin is equally valuable for stomach disorders. To use this gum regularly after meals there can be no question as to the ultimate recovery from indi- gestion or any other form of stomach trouble. Druggists and dealers generally are finding a ready demand. The trade is supplied by all good jobbers. Found at Last Congdon’s Cider Saver and Fruit Preservative Compound Guaranteed to keep your cider and fruits pure and sweet without changing their flavor or color. No salicylic acid or ingredients injurious to the health. Send for circulars to manufacturer, J. L. CONGDON & CO., Pentwater, Mich. SMOKE THE HAZEL 5 CENT CIGAR. Hand made long Havana filler. Send mea trial order. Manufactured by WM. TEGGE, pverrort. micu. THE JIM HAMMELL HAMMELL’S LITTLE DRUMMER AND ~ HAMMELL’S CAPITAL CIGARS are made of the best imported stock. VW YYcd IL AU bh fe hl EU LO (Ee HE DOES NOT KEEP /7, SEND TOUS. Ye THE ELECTRIC PILE CURECO., LAKEVIEW. MICH. CIDERINE CIDER AND FRUIT PRESERVER. Sold by all Jobbers—#3.00 per doz. years’ test. Beware of imitations made to look like Ciderine. Manufactured by THUM BROS. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Pays a big profit. Is reliable—20 & SCHMIDT, —t i i : ' e THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 1 © WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT. Advanced-— Balsam Tulu, Oil Anise, Manna, Linseed Oil. Declined—Gum Opium, Oil Pennyroyal. Camphore... .... Euphorbium..po. 35 Galbanum........... Gamboge po........ Guaiacum..... po. 35 Kino....+...po. $4.00 Massie Myirh. os. po. 45 Opii...po. 83.50@3.70 Sheva. Shellac, bleached... Tragacanth ......... Herba Absinthium..oz. pkg Eupatorium .oz. Lobelia...... oz. Majorum ....0z. Mentha Pip..oz. Mentha Vir..oz. Pe. Oz. TanacetumV oz. Thymus, V..oz. Magnesia. Calcined, Pat..... .. Carbonate, Pat...... Carbonate, K. & M.. Carbonate, Jennings Oleum Absinthium........ Amygdale, Dulc.... Amygdale, Amare . Anisi Acidum AceGicam,..........: $ 8s@s Benzoicum, German 75@ MordeiG. 6055... 2.... @ Carbolicum .......:. 2V3Q Citricum.....<...... 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Atrope Belladonna. Auranti Cortex..... Benzo. Benzoin Co.......... Barong Cantharides........ Capsicum ........ Cardamon........ Cinchona...... 1... Cinchona Co........ Colambs 005. |. Crbeba. Cassia Acutifol..... Cassia Acutifol Co . Bisitaneg 000 oe Breee Ferri Chloridum.... Gentian. Gentian Co... |. CNG Guiacaammon...... Hyoscyamus........ joding.. Iodine, colorless.... Be Lobelia... oe Opii, camphorated.. Opii, deodorized.... CHASE ReAsany. |. Oe Sanguinaria . ...... Serpentaria ......... Stromonium........ Tolutan....._ Waleran Veratrum Veride... Singiber... Miscellaneous | AKther, Spts. Nit.3F ‘Ether, Spts. Nit.4F — a Alumen, gro’d..po.7 Annatio....__. - . Antimoni, po....... Antimoni et PotassT Antipyrin..... Antitebrin. ...... Argenti Nitras, oz .. Arsenicom oo. Balm Gilead Bud .. Bismuth S.N. ..... Calcium Chlor., is.. Calcium Chlor., %s. Calcium Chlor., 4s. Cantharides, Rus.po Capsici Fructus, af. Capsici Fructus, po. Capsici FructusB,po Caryophyllus..po. 15 Carmine, No. 40..... Cera Alba,S.& F .. Cera Figya Cocens Cassia Fructus...... Centraria.. |. |. Cetaceum............ Chloroform.......... Chloroform, squibbs Chloral Hyd Crst.... Chondrus, (:00 0005). Cinchonidine,P.& W Cinchonidine, Germ Cocaine (0 Corks, list, dis.pr.ct. Creosotum.......... Crete bbl. 75 Creta, prep.......... Creta, precip Creta, CROGRE CuGpear o.. 2. .|. Cupri Sulph......... Dextrine: 2. Ether Sulph......._. Emery, all numbers Emery po... Ergota......... po. 40 Flake White........ Cao Gambier... 0. Gelatin, Cooper... .. Gelatin, French..... Glassware, flint, box Less than box.... Glue, brown........ Gine, white......... Glycerina ...... .... Grana Paradisi ... Huraabis. Hydraag Chlor Mite Hydraag Chlor Cor. Hydraag Ox Rub’m. Hydraag Ammoniati HydraagUnguentum Hydrargyrum....... Ichthyobolla, Am... 1 Padies. Iodine, Resubi...... Iodoform............ PpUl Lycopodium ........ Meee Liquor Arsen et Hy- drarg Iod.......... LiquorPotassArsinit Magnesia, Sulph.... Magnesia, Sulph,bbl Mannia, S. F...... Menthol... ..._..... BisBocockGo on ww oak ® 8888 Sadde SSa0ddeosoonesesss © 888 SRUSSSSSSSSSES Bay S: 56 Seee i SE@ENOESS oo — pa 2 38 uo ¥ SesedSaasSSadoseoo & ARKSSSLSARRHAMTRUKSSSSoWT Wank 3 > & DO He OO te BSKosy Morphia, S.P.& W... 1 75@ 2 00 | a @ 18 Morphia, S.N.Y.Q.& Sinapis, opt......... @ 38 © Cee... 1 65@ 1 90 | Snuff, Maccaboy, De Moschus Canton.... So 2 Vee. @ 34 Myristica, No. 1..... 65@ 80/ Snuff,Scotch,DeVo's e& & Nux Vomica. ..po.20 @ 1! Sods Boras.......... (eG Os Sepia. 15@ 18) Soda Boras, po...... 1 @ Pepsin Saac, H. & P. | Soda et Potass Tart. 26@ 28 Vr ol. ns t 06! Soda, Carb. ......... 1%@ 2 Picis Liq. N.N.% gal. Soda, Bi-Carb....... 2.6= lo GOR @ 200| Soda. Ach .......... 3%4@ 4 Picis Liq., quarts.... @ 1 00} Soda, Sulphas....... @ 2 Picis Liq., pints..... @ 8} Spee. Cologne........ @ 2 6&0 Pil Hydrarg...po. 80 @ 50} Spts. Ether Co...... 50@ 55 Piper Nigra...po. 22 @ 18/ Spts. Myrcia Dom... @ 2 00 Piper Alba....po. 35 @ 30/| Spts. Vini Rect. bbl. @ 2 37 Pix Burgon........ @ 7 | Spts. Vini Rect.%4bbl @ 2 42 Plumbi Acet........ ma Spts. Vini Rect.10gal @ 2 45 Pulvis Ipecac et Opii 1 10@ 1 20! Spts. Vini Rect. 5gal @ 247 Pyrethrum, boxes H. | Less 5c gal. cash 10 days. & P. D. Co., doz... @ 1 25| Strychnia, Crystal... 1 40@ 1 45 Pyrethrum, pv...... 27@ 30/| Sulphur, Subl....... 24@ 3 GUase ok. 8@ 10) Sulphur, Roll.... . 2@ 2% Quinia, S. P.& W.. 31@ «36 | SSMMATINGS.......... 8@ 10 Quinia,S.German.. 25@ 30! Terebenth Venice... 23@ 30 Guimnin, N.Y... .... 29@ 34/ Theobrome....... : 29@ 45 Mubia Tinctorum. . 2@ 14| Vanilla... ._. 9 00@16 09 SaccharumLactis py 24@ 26/ Zinci Sapa... .. . 7@ 8 Baie 3 00@ 3 10} Sanguis Draconis... 40@ 50} Oils Bano. Wooi...s.. 12@ 14} BBL. GAL. Sapo, M.... .......... 10@ 12] whale, winter....... 70 7 Soe @ 15) Lard, extra......... 40 45 Siedlitz Mixture.... 20 @ 35 40 on | Lard, No. 1d...) i Linseed, pure raw.. Linseed, boiled..... Neatsfoot, winterstr Spirits Turpentine.. Paints Red Venetian... ... Ochre, yellow Mars. 32 35 34 37 6 70 31 36 BBL. LB. 1% 2 @8 1% 2 @4 Ochre, yellow Ber.. 1% 2 @38 Putty, commercial.. 24% 24%@8 Putty, strictly pure. 2% 2%@3 Vermilion, Prime American... 0... 13@ 15 Vermilion, English. 70@ % Green, Paria ........ 5beo & Green, Peninsular.. 13@ 16 Lead, Hed........... 54@ 5% Lead, white........ 54@ ae Whiting, white Span a 3 Whiting, gilders’... @ 9 White, Paris Amer.. @ 1:00 Whiting, Paris Eng. ee @1iv Universal Prepared. 1 00@ 1 15 Varnishes No. 1 Turp Coach... 1 10@ 1 20 Extra Turp......... 1 60@ 1 70 Coach Body......... 2 75@ 3 00 No. 1 Turp Furn.... 1 00@ 1 10 Extra Turk Damar.. 1 55@ 1 60 Jap. Dryer,No.i1Turp 70@ 75 faZzelting & Perkins Drug C0. Importers and Jobbers of DRUGS oe, DEALERS IN Patent Medicines "12 Chemicals and PAINTS OlLs and VARNISHES Full line of staple druggists’ sundries. We are sole proprietors of Weatherly’s Michigan Catarrh Remedy. We have in stock and offer a full line of WHISKIES, BRANDIES, GINS, WINES AND RUMS. We sell liquors for medicinal purposes only. We give our personal attention to mail orders and guarantee satis- faction. All orders shipped and invoiced the same day we receive them Send a trial order. HaZeltine & Perkins Drug 60., 20 THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN GROCERY PRICE CURRENT. The prices quoted in this list are for the trade only, in such quantities as are usually purchased by retail dealers. They are prepared just before going to press and are an accurate index of the local market. It is im- possible to give quotations suitable for all conditions of purchase, and those below are given as representing av- erage prices for average conditions of purchase. those who have poor credit. our aim to make this feature of the greatest possible use to dealers. Cash buyers or those of strong credit usually buy closer than Subscribers are earnestly requested to point out any errors or omissions, as it is AXLE GREASE. doz. gross Sarore........ -. oe 6 00 eee... co: 60 7 00 Diamond..............-50 5 50 Prateee.... 9 00 IXL Golden, tin boxes 75 9 00 ea 8 70 8 00 ce 55 46-6. 00 BAKING POWDER. Absolute. ID came Gan... |... 5. 45 ‘ip cameder............. & f ipeanedos.......... 1 50 Acme. ae Ib CameSdos............ 45 i) CameSdon............ 7 . Meansidca.. ......... 28 ae. 10 Dwight’s. . Dees eer o......... 1 50 JaXon 14 lb cans 4 doz case.. ... 45 % lb cans 4 doz case...... 85 lb cans 2 doz case...... 1 60 Home. ¥4 lb cans 4 doz case...... 35 % lb cans 4 doz case...... 55 1 Id cans 2 doz case...... 90 Our Leader. eee. 45 eee 75 eee... 1 50 BATH BRICK. ee ql a i ae HS Gn oie gn Ie 80 BLUING. CONDENSED) Bion 1 doz. Counter Boxes..... 40 12 doz. Cases, per gro...... 4 50 BROOMS. a ee... 2 00 ae. Ct 1 65 eo os carmet.....-.. | a oe eS areos... : 1 20 Pare GG... 2 00 enon Whisk. Petey Whisk. 22s... 1 00 Wercnse. -.. SS CANDLES. Hotel 40 lb boxes....... ..... 9% sears) I> boxes............. . Bh Pere CANNED GOODS. Manitowoc Peas. Lakeside Marrowfat....... 1 00 imiveee &. 5... Lakeside, Cham. of Eng.... 1 40 Lakeside, Gem, Ex. Sifted. 1 65 CATSUP. Calmabia, pints......... 425 Columbia, % pints.......... 2 50 CHEESE. ON @ &% oer... @ 9 Pee oe Cesson City ......... @ 8% ee @ 9% Gold Medal..... 84 oe @ 8% OGM, @ 9 comes. @ eee @ 9% ere @ 8% Oakland County..... 8%G 9 ee @ 10 Edam. @i 00 SO @ 2 eee. foecce Go 6% Pmueeee...... @ pan eno... @ 18 Chicory. ee a 5 Red eeeees 7 CHOCOLATE. Walter Baker & Co.’s. German Sweet...... one Promnam. ....... --3l Breakfast Cocoa.............. 42 CLOTHES LINES. Cotton, 40 ft, per doz.......1 Cotton, 50 ft, per doz....... 1 Cotton, 60 ft, per doz....... 1 Cotton, 70 ft, per doz....... 1 Cotton, 80 ft, per doz....... 1 Jute, 6) ft, per dos......... Jute, 72 ft, per GOnx.......... CLOTHES PINS. 5 gross boxes.... COCOA SHELLS. Pip BOR. Less quantity............ Pound packages......... CREASI TARTAR. Strictly Pure, wooden boxes. 35 KSSSENB Strictly Pure, tin boxes...... 37 Tartarine oe COFFEE. Green. Rio. we 18 aoe... 19 Pee Le ee ee Peeberry ....... eee ee 23 Santos Pee oe 19 moe 2. 20 freee... POMperee 2 23 Mexican and Guatamala. — ................, ee eed Lo ee Fancy oe Maracaibo. ——-........ 23 a. ............ Java. iInteror oo... Private Growah. ....... 8... .- 27 Mandontme 28 Mocha. on. ee Baap 28 Roasted. Quaker Mocha and Java.. ....29 Toko Mocha and Java...... 28 State House Biend............ 23 Package. Aves |... 5... 17 08 ORIN cs 17 00 McLaughlin’s XXXX...... 17 00 Extract. Valley City % gross ..... 7 Pex % orem... 115 Hummel’s foil % gross... Hummel’s tin % gross... 1 43 CONDENSED MILK. 4 doz. in case. a — SD ry eEES Se a a ee Jee \ pa } a Ae ahs ete eS ~ N. Y. Condensed Milk Co.’s brands. Gail Borden Eagle.........7 40 Ce 6 25 ey 5 75 eee 4 50 meee 425 Dime 3 35 Peerless evaporated ,cream.5 75 COUPON BOOKS. Tradesman Grade. 50 books, any denom.... 1 50 100 books, any denom.... 2 50 500 books, any denom....11 50 1,000 books, any Genom....20 00 Economic Grade. 50 books, any denom.... 1 50 100 books, any denom.... 2 50 500 books, any denom....11 50 1,000 books, any denom....20 00 Universal Grade. 50 books, any denom.... 1 50 100 books, any Genom.... 2 50 500 books, any denom....11 50 1,000 books, any denom....20 00 Superior Grade. 50 books, any denom.... 1 50. 100 books, any denom.... 2 50 500 books, any denom....11 50 1,000 books, any denom....20 00 Coupon Pass Books, Can be made to represent any denomination from $10 down. 20bo0ks . Credit Checks. 500, any one denom’n..... 3 00 1000, any one denom’n..... 5 00 2000, any one denom’n..... 8 00 ee v6) DRIED FRUITS—DONESTIC Apples. Saneried................ oe Evaporated 50 lb boxes. @ 4% California Fruits. REO eo. 9 Biackberrics............. Mectarimen.............. 5%@ Pes. sc 5 @14 Peers 8 ...... .. ee Pitted Cherries.......... go Maspperies...... 0... California Prunes. 100-120 25 lb boxes....... @ 90-100 25 Ib boxes....... @ 80 - 90 25 1b boxes....... @ 70 - 80 25 lb boxes....... @ 60 - 70 25 1b boxes.. .... @ 50 - 60 25 Ib boxes....... @ 40 -50 25 lb boxes....... @ 30 - 40 25 1b boxes....... @ 44 cent less in bags Raisins. London Layers........ 123 Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 4% Loose Muscatels3Crown 514 Loose Muscatels 4Crown 6 FOREIGN. Currants. Patras phig. oo a @4 Vostizzas 50 lb cases......@ 414 Cleaned, balk ...........; @ 5% Cleaned, packages........ @6 Peel. Citron Leghorn 25 lb bx @13 Lemon Leghorn 25 lb bx @ll1 Orange Leghorn 25 lb bx @I12 ‘Raisins. Ondura 29 lb boxes...... Sultana 1Crown........ @6%4 Sultana 5 Crown........ @8 Valencia 30]b boxes.... @ EGG PRESERVER. Knox’s, small size........... 4 80 Knox’s, large size... ....... 9 00 FARINACEOUS GOODS. Biscuitine. 3 doz. in case, per doz..... 1 00 Farina. RO 3 Grits. Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s....... 2 00 Hominy. BONTONS: chon. cl 3 25 Flake, 50 lb. drums....... 1 50 Lima Beans. Dee = Maccaroni and Vermicelli. Domestic, 10 1b. box...... Imported, 25 lb. box...... 2 50 Pear! Barley. sn —.. co. Rimepire 2) 2% Peas. Greet, Pe. ee Se, por 2% Rolled Oats. Rolled Avena, bbl.......3 %5 Monarch, bbl....: 2.2... .3 50 Monarch, % bbl.......... 188 Private brands, bbl.....3 30 Private brands, %bbl..... 1 80 (Gusker, Cases............. 3 20 Oven Baked.............- 33 Dakestie .............5:. 225 Sago. ORRAA oie 4 Meact tmdia...:.. 3% Wheat. Cracked, bulk. ............ 3 242 Ib packages........... 2 40 Fish. Cod. Georges cured......... @ 3% Georges genuine...... @ 4% Georges selected...... @5 Strips or bricks....... 56 @8 Halibut. COE pera : Herring. Holland white hoops keg. 55 Holland white hoops bbl. 6 50 NOPWOrAn. oo... Hound 100 ths... 2... 2 mound 40 ihe............. 110 MOSIOG 10% Mackerel. Mo. F108 ths. ll % No. f 40 1bs..... 205... .. 5 20 BO.) Wins... oo... 1 32 PO. © MOD IDS; co .. 7 50 m0. S 40108... 3 50 mo. mies 90 Pamuyooibe...... 2. Pamity 1) te Sardines. Russian kegs.............. 55 Ss ish. No. 1, 1001b, bales......... 10% No. 2, 100 lb. bales......... 8% Trout. No. FTO Ips... 2... 47 No.1 40%he.. oo i. 2 20 Wo. d 10 te. ec 63 mo.) Site... 53 Whitefish No.1 No.2 Fam 200 10M... oo. 650 57% 200 40 lbs 290 26 110 fips... 80 %3 35 Bibs: 6.05. 67 61 31 FLAVORING EXTRACTS. CP Se Jennings’. ae | ) D.C. Vanilla 202......1 20 SOx,..... 1 50 40z.. ...2 00 Coz... ... 3 00 No. 8...4 00 | No. 10...6 00 No. 2T.1 25 ij No. 3 'T.2 00 i No. 47.2 40 D. C. Lemon I2o0z...... % 3 0z....-.1 00 H)} 4 0z.. ...1 40 6 Oz...... 2 00 | No. 8...2 40 No. 10...4 00 No. 2T. 80 No. 3T.1 35 it No. 47.1 50 Souders’. Oval bottle, with corkscrew. Best in the world for the money. Regular Vanilla. doz Poe... 1 20 £06...) .. 2 40 XX Grade Lemon. Nil] 2 oz......1 50 | 40z......3 00 XX Grade Vanilla. I) 2oz...... 1% ul 408... ... 3 50 FLY PAPER. Tanglefoot. “Regular” Size. Less than one case, perbox 32 One to five cases, per case.. 2 75 Five to ten cases, percase. 2 65 Ten cases, per case........ 2 55 “Little” Tanglefoot. Less than one case, per box NERS} auDERS 13 One to ten cases, per case.. 1 45 Ten cases, per case........ 1 40 GELATINE. Knox’s sparkling............ 1 10 Knox’s acidulated........... 1 20 GUNPOWDER. Rifle—Dupont’s. Orr si 4 00 Riett Meee. 2 2 Quarter Kegs...... eee 13 21s Cong 30 . Henne... 18 Choke Bore—Dupont’s. Meer ee 4 00 alt Meee 225 Quarter Kegs........ 056. 1s Bib Cans. 22... 25 3... . Eagle Duck—Dupont’s. ee 8 00 ifert Wore 42 Gaarter Kore... 2 25 Teens 45 HERBS. Ree 15 oe ee a. 15 INDIGO. Madras, 5 lb boxes......... 55 S. F., 2,3 and 5 lb boxes.... 50 JELLY. 25 1D PONS. 35 ee iD patie... oe 44 Bo pals. LYE. Condensed, 2 doz .......... 1 20 Condensed, 4 doz........... 2 2 LICORICE. aT ae ee aE a ec 30 Cambria: oe 25 RAO 14 POOC Sc 10 MINCE MEAT. Ideal, 3 doz. in case......... 2 25 Mince meat, 3 doz in case..2 75 Pie Prep. 3 doz in case...... 2% MATCHES, Diamond Match Co.’s brands. Ne, 9 sulphur. 60S, 1 65 Anchor Parlor... ........ .... 1 70 m0, > Tome. ce Export. Parior.........; MOLASSES. Biackstrap. Sugar house............. .10@12 Cuba Baking. Ordinary... 12@14 Porto Rico. Pre a 20 Fancy sa 30 New Orleans. Wale oo 18 Geog. es. 22 Metra g0ee.. o.oo... 24 eros 27 A 30 Half-barrels 3c extra. PICKLES. Medium. Barrels, 1,200 count........ 3 60 Half bbls, 600 count........ 2 30 Small. Barrels, 2,400 count........ 4% Half bbls, Pn ies 2 88 Clay, No. S16. 0.0.5.0 .... 1 70 Clay, T. D. fullcount...... 65 Cop, Nos. 1 POTASH. 48 cans in case. DAMS eo 4 00 Penna Salt Co.’s........... 3 00 RICE. Domestic. Carolina head.............. 6% Carobna No tl... . 5 Carolina No, 2... 2... . |. 4% BPORC i. ake Imported. wapen, NOv ol. 5 Japan, No. 2... ee 434 Java, No. 1. 436 Java, No. 2. 44 OO 4 SALERATUS. Packed 60 lbs. in box. Cres 3 3C Deienee 3 15 WANs 3 30 MEBVIOE'S. ks oe 3 00 SAL SODA. Granulated, bbls........ -1 10 Granulated, 100 lb cases. .1 50 Sump, bbs... 6... |, 1 Lump, 145lb kegs.......... 1 10 i SEEDS. PANES ce 13 6 Canary, Smyrna........... Caraway ......0:5..0 10 Cardamon, Malabar ..... 80 Hemp, Russian........... 4 Mixed Bind... 4% Mustard, white....... ... 6% Oe 8 Oe ee 4 Cuttle Bone:.............. 20 SNUFP, Scotch, in bladders..... 37 Maccaboy, injars....... ._ = French Rappee, in jars..... 43 SYRUPsS. Corn. le ee 14 Sale DO 16 Pure Cane. RE 16 006 jo 20 Chotee os a 25 SPICES. Whole Sifted. AMSBOG ooo 9 Cassia, China in mats....... 10” Cassia, Batavia in bund....15 Cassia, Saigon in rolls...... 32 Cloves, Amboyna........... 15 Cloves, Zanzibar............ 10 Mace, Batayia............_. 70 Nutmegs, fancy............. 65 Nutmegs, No. 1......... - 60 Nutmneps, No. 2... 55 Pepper, Singapore, black...10 Pepper, Singapore, white. . .20 Pepper, Shot. 16 Pure Ground in Bulk. Allspice 0@15 Cassia, Batavia ............. 17 Cassia, Saigon.............. 35 Cloves, Amboyna........... 15 Cloves, Zanzibar............ 10 Ginger, African............ 15 Ginger, Cochin............. 20 Ginger, Jamaica..........__ 22 Mace, Batavia.... ..... 60@65 Mustard, Eng. and Trieste. .20 Mustard, Trieste............ 25 PeUSMOPS, oe 40@60 Pepper, Singapore, black9@12 Pepper, Singapore, white15@18 Pepper, Cayenne........ 17@20 NAGS ee a 18 ‘*Absolute’’ in 41b. Packages. AiapiCe ee ‘5 CIGAR i % ten 70 Ginger, Cochin..........., NCR ee 2 10 URIBEG ce 6 Nutmegs..... ot tcmes sce oe ee Pepper, cayenne .... .... v6) Pepper, white ............ % Pepper, black shot........ 60 ee gO ae OC pce 1 50 ‘‘Absolute ’’Butchers’ Spices. 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The dingy, antiquated, obscure hard- ware store is doomed. ‘The sooner’ the dealer will modernize his surroundings the better chance he will have to com- pete with others. The fittest only will survive, and no other truism can be ap- plied with so much aptness to the pres- ent times. The modern loves light, neatness, cleanliness, attractiveness; if you can add splendor and elegance so much the better. Some dealers deplore what they are pleased to call ‘‘the dis- integration of the hardware trade.’’ They say that the department stores are causing their ruin. Their surroundings would bear out their statement. They do business at the ‘‘old stand,’’ it is true; and an old one it is, too. No windows for display; old, worm-eaten fixtures; poor light and ventilation, old methods and inadequate accommoda- tions in general. And then these peo- ple expect to do business and_ prosper these times. Here is where a trade pub- lication can do infinite good. I could name scores of dealers who, after read- ing its hints: as to modern shop-keep- ing, hastened to make such improve- ments as were within their reach, and the result was almost magical. Attract- ive window displays brought to them trade which they could not have reached otherwise, and the pleasant interior surroundings left their impress on the future intentions of these buyers. It requires no tortune to own a modern store. Anyone, be his capital ever so limited, can do something toward beau- tifying his surroundings. If you cannot afford elegance, choose neatness. Be cleanly above all, and employ your spare time in keeping off the dust. Dust seems to be very partial to hard- ware stores; it needs constant atten- tion. Dust has killed more of your trade than anything else, probably. Keep yourself, your wares and your cus- tomers dustless, and make such modern improvements as you can, and you will soon have cause for less croaking. To lay claim to success, nowadays, you must not only be progressive yourself, but educate the public to be progressive. This can be accomplished by a modern store and stock and by judicious adver- tising. Refrigerators! Who doesn’t own a refrigerator nowadays? It wasn’t very long ago when a retrigerator was a lux- ury, only accessible to the moneyed few. But the evolution of the household refrigerator has been rapid. It has been perfected in miniature and major forms, and so many manufacturers have gone into the industry that prices no longer debar any hardwareman from carrying a generous stock. The bicycle auxiliary industry is fast adding to its greatness and comprehen- Siveness. Many manufacturers who were running unprofitable plants, and a great number of the outclassed small machine shop owners, are drifting into it. Thus the monopoly on bicycle parts is a foregone impossibility. fi. f Burglars show a partiality for country hardware stores. Every day one may read of such a raid. Revolvers and pocketknives seem to be the favorite plunder—articles which the depredating tramps can easily carry and dispose of. In some towns they are talking of bur- giar vigilance committees, so frequent have the raids become. It seems as though the hardwaremen could adopt more practical means. Electrical de- vices are plentiful, and there are many burglar-proof appliances known to the trade. Since all of the entrances are made through windows and transoms, or by means of false keys, one would think the hardwareman would not be at a loss to prevent them by means in his very possession, or to be had by con- sulting a catalogue or traveler. +. Effective window displays have been the means of saving shop-keepers from bankruptcy and making new enterprises successful. About three years ago I persuaded a High street retailer in Co- lumbus, Ohio, to tear out his old, flat, unattractive front and put in two dis- play windows, set between a V-shaped entrance. This is one of the most ap- proved store front ca of the day. Space not allowing of a double win- dow, a single window may be arranged with the V-shaped entrance at one side. A still further improved idea is one window and two such entrances, one at each side. It all depends on the com- plexion of the store and the neighbor- hood. Your sense of symmetry, beauty and vantage must be the judge. The improvement made, my Columbus re- tailer laid out his plans for systematic window displays. A modern hardware stock is so comprehensive that effective individual displays can be made week- ly, aye daily; suffice it weekly. The first few weeks were devoted to the dis- play of tools.. The plural, tools, em- bodies an almost endless variety of ar- ticles, admitting of all manner of pro- miscuous and classified displays. The latter are, of course, the proper thing. There was a bulletin board on the side- walk. Anything new that intervened during these displays was posted on this board, either in the form of a pat- ent office, trade journal, manufacturer’s or agent’s report, providing there was any Importance attached to it. Others paste such things in the windows or about the stoves, but this manner of placarding ought to be eschewed. These tool dispiays brought to my Columbus retailer customers he could not have reached otherwise; in short, he !aid the foundation of a trade which has en- dured ever since. When the year was up and his plan of displays was worked out, his business had increased about 35 per cent. For the then ensuing year he laid out another plan, i.e., he supple- mented the original plan with concomi- tant features. For instance, during carpenter-tools display week, a dummy representing a carpenter headed the display, as it were, and so on through the whole category of tools and other articles of hardware that admitted of practical “industrial representations. These dummy figures entail but a small expense, once you have mastered the window dresser’s art. The same plan is being repeated the current year save that live, in lieu of dummy, figures are the attraction whenever feasible. Elec- tricity and hydraulic power are em- ployed whenever an object is to be for- cibly represented or illustrated; and even this expense is slight in com- parison with the returns it will bring. Simultaneously with this window dis- play propaganda, my Columbus retailer is exploiting printers’ ink. He has selected two dailies and a weekly to help him carry out his idea of modern shop-keeping. Whenever a display is renewed, a few clear lines tell you what the display is made of, or what it offers, in a way to interest you. ‘‘For incidental novelties see the bulletin board,’’ is the only ‘‘standing’’ note in these ads. It goes without saying that coal oil or gasoline light does not re- flect these displays. Erstwhile modern- ly equipped gas jets resemble the lum- inary effects, but incandescent and arc lights have latterly supplanted them. What my Columbus retailer has ac- complished in the way of interior mod- ernization is another chapter. My les- son was window displays, that brought my Columbus subject to the realization that modern shop-keeping can’t bea whole success without them. ———_>--+0<__ The annual census of Kansas, taken under state authority, has recently been compiled for 1896. It shows that the population of the State is only 1, 336,659. This is less by 90,000 than it was six years ago. oe It is cheerful to read that a man named Coffin has been sent to the pen- itentiary for wrecking a_ bank in In- diana. The undertaking was too much for him. ————_>-2._____ What is that which Adam never saw, never possessed and yet gave two to each of his children? Parents. A large number of hardware dealers handle THE OHIO LINE FEED GUTTERS ~: OHIO PONY CUTTER Fig. 783. No. 114. Made by SILVER MAN’P’G CO., Salem, Ohio. This cutter is for hand use only, and is a strong, light-running machine. It is adapted to cutting Hay, Straw and Corn-fodder, and is suitable for parties keeping from one to four or tive animals. There is only one size, and is made so it can be knocked down and packed for shipment, thus securing lower freight rate. Has one 1144 inch knife, and by very simple changes makes four lengths of cut. We also have a full line of larger machines, both for hand or power. Write for catalogue and prices. ADAMS & HART, General Agents, Grand Rapids NUVIPNTPNTPNT NNN NTE NT NTE NTT NNT NTE NTE NTE NTH NT NTT NPN Nort Nn tee HEADQUARTERS FOR sslTvernererstrnrvarstervirsevarsere stv verseeesnrviran ver ervirersnrse erst ese vr rv rn ever siveranrsererse veneer FOSTER, STEVENS & CO., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. AUMAAAALGUAJALGUAAA Gb JAA dbi 44h dbd JAA di 44h Ji 4b, J4d db Jd 4b Jd dd << tees) aL eee Gard ee ” v POTATO DIGGING FORKS. POTATO SHOVELS. POTATO FORKS. MUN NAb AU SUb UNA ANh Abb Abb cAA bk bk bk Jhb bh dbhdbh Jhb dbh bk Jb Abb dbb bk bk LUA JUN JbA Jbk Jbb Abb ANA Abb Abb dbh Ubk bh Jbd Jbi JbU db dbbdbd ddd Jb ddd ddbdd AW —“« The Hardware Market. General trade has developed but little of especial interest. But few changes are being made in prices. September trade, however, shows a ‘marked im- provement over August, although the volume of business is not up to that of former years. The demand for season- able goods, however, is greatly im- proved, but retail.dealers are still ad- hering to the policy of buying only in small quantities. The result of this limited_buying is_beneficial to the job- ber in many instances, as retailers who formerly would send orders direct to the factory are getting their supplies from the jobber. The jobber is also pursuing the same policy of moderate buying, waiting to see what effect the result of election will have upon general trade. The prices on all goods stili remain low and manufacturers are not disposed to do any cutting in order to increase their volume of business, as it would be use- less. It is hoped that there will be a better business as the season advances, especially in view of the greater confi- dence with which the financial and _po- litical situation is regarded. Wire Nails—There is, perhaps, a slight improvment in the demand for nails, but it is exceedingly limited. Dealers are holding back their orders as much as possible, in view of the un- certainty with regard to price. The manufacturers are to hold another meet- ing this week and their action is awaited with great interest by the trade in general. In some large jobbing centers the Association price on naiis is being extremely cut, and whether they will be able to bring them into line and have them resume the Asso- ciation price, or be obliged to make a cut to compete with the few factories that are still outside the Association, is the question for them to decide at their present meeting. The jobbers who are adhering strictly to Association price quote wire nails at $2.85 from stock and $2.65 at mill. Barbed Wire—But little trade is be- ing done in this line of goods and prices remain about as last quoted. Many manufacturers are out soliciting orders for spring business, but jobbers, as well as retailers, are not inclined to place orders at this early day. We quote to-day: Painted barbed wire, $1.55 at mill, $1.75 from stock; gal- vanized barbed wire, $1.85 at mill, $2.10 from stock; No. 9 plain wire, $1.30 at mill, $1.50 from stock; and all other sizes taking the regular advance. Wrought Iron Pipe—The manufac- turers of this article, becoming tired of the low prices prevailing, are endeavor- ing to effect a combination, so that they will be able to get better figures. At present, nothing has been done, and prices remain in their former low con- dition. Window Glass—It is not believed that any of the window glass factories will Start in blast until after election, but, notwithstanding that fact, and also that stocks are low in all parts of tbe coun- try, there is no indication of any higher prices being quoted. We quote at present window glass by the box, 70 and 5 per cent. to 70 and Io per cent. ; by the light, 10 per cent. extra. Sheet [ron-#The demand for sheet iron is fairly good, although there is but little change to note in prices. Gal- vanized iron continues weak and we quote at present, for fairly assorted or- ders, 75 to 75 and Io per.cent. discount from the list. Coil Chain—The recent combination of all chain manufacturers resulted in material advances on all grades and qualities of chain. To give an idea of the present market, we quote price on 3g inch chain in the following different grades, as follows: Proof chain, $4.75 ; $5.75; B. B. B., 8c; special steel loading, toc. It is believed that these prices will be firmly held during the season. . “) ee cM Advertising at Fairs. C. M. Harger in Printers’ Ink. One of the leading Western manu- facturers of machinery last year spent $6,000 in advertising material used at the county and state fairs of the West- ern States. This year he will not spend anything. The result was not what he looked for and the reason he. attributes to the manner in which he put out his money. The chief item of his expend- itures was a line of little booklets that were given to the people as they passed his exhibit. But there were in the paths of the grounds hundreds of these, which the recipients had thrown away after receiving them. Other hundreds and perhaps thousands were never received by people who could or would read them, while a vast amount more were thrown away on the way home and so never made a convert. This experience is by no means a strange one. The firms that have made the closest study of the art of advertis- ing at the fairs are almost unanimous in the opinion that there is a great waste of material in such work. The character of the crowds may be of the kind to seize the propositions present- ed, but there is not the disposition to study the mass of books and pamphlets given out by the exhibitors. ‘‘T have noticed,’’ said a prominent plow manufacturer, ‘‘that the children are the ones who gather the advertise- ments at the fairs, and we have ceased to give out any. The children keep the ones that have the brightest pictures and take them home to play with, but it does not pay. Too much of this kind of material is put out and the people are burdened with it. I instructed my agents to give the material only to the grown folks and to see that they put it in their pocket, but it was a failure. So we decided to give only to those who had interest enough to come to the exhibit and examine what we had to sell. Then we were sure that we had given the stuff to persons who would appreciate it. That is the only way not to waste a great portion of it.’’ One advertiser estimates that fully three-fourths of the advertising matter put out at the fairs is wasted. The plans to make the recipients read the matter put into their hands have been many and ingenious but none has_ been entirely successful. It may be consid- ered that the old way of giving out un- limited supplies to every passer in the crowd is both expensive and_ unprofit- able. The big motto which urges the visitor to ‘‘ask for descriptive pam- phlet’’ is one of the best ways to get the right people interested, but it is found that only a small portion of the crowd will stop for such an errand. Probably one of the best devices is the small puzzle that is of sufficient at- tractiveness to cause the recipients to take ithome. If it is too easy, how- ever, it will be solved and thrown away. One firm that secured a large amount of these was grieved to find the walks and drives of the grounds at the first fair where they were used strewn with them. They sent to the home office the rest of them and had the lot sent to the stores with the shipments of goods. Whether signs and posters do any good at fairs is a question that is not settled yet. That they are very much in evidence is patent, but some advertisers are of the opinion that they are not read, as the people are too busy sight- seeing. Many committees will not al- low these signs and the modest ones over the exhibits are the only addresses to the public eye that the exhibitors can secure. By far the best advertisement is an exhibit that the passers-by will remember. They gohome to talk of it, as did the Centennial attendants about the ‘‘ Butter woman.’’ Money spent on the decoration of the exhibit is usually better used than in printed matter to be given away. THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Hardware Price Current. AUGURS AND BITS Re 70 Jennings’, eee 25&10 VOMMEnoN Uiitn 60410 AXES Hirst Quality, S. B. Brovze |................ 5 00 Hirst Qualicy, DE Bronze...) 9 50 Hirst Quality. S. B.S Steels... 66...) 5 50 Hirst Quaney, ©. B Steel. a8 a8 BARROWS Cn $12 00 14 00 ee net 30 00 BOLTS RO - 60 Curriese New Mee 65 to 65-10 ee 40& 10 BUCKETS Wel, a $3 2 BUTTS, CAST Cast hogse Fi figured... ... |... 70 Wreeene Narrow 7&10 BLOCKS CeCGmay HCN 70 CROW BARS Se ROC. per Ib f CAPS 2a en per m 65 Pee ee. perm 55 ee pee a 35 ee per m 60 CARTRIDGES are aan ©? Cevtral Vive ce ee B& 5 CHISELS ROCMeS OS 80 acmes RUM 80 POCMeG COUMGE 80 POCHOG SMCHM ee 80 DRILLS More's Bit Stocks .-. ow... 60 Taper and Straight Shank.................. 50& 5 morse's Taper Shame... eee 6 ELBOWS Wom. 4 piece Gin doz. net 55 COwueated ... ...... on ue 1 25 PIPINU NG dis 40&10 EXPANSIVE BITS Clark's small, $18; larce, $6................ 30K 16 byes, 1, SiG: 2 M4; 3 Sl. 2 FILES—New List ew Smerean FOK10 RCH OROG letters Horse Hasps...................... 60810 GALVANIZED IRON Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26; 27. ..... 28 List 12 13 14 15 -..... 17 Discount, 75 GAUGES Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............... 6016 KNOBS— New List Door, mineral, jap. trimmings.... ......... 70 Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings............ 3 MATTOCKS Wee Wye $16 00, dis 60&10 Pe NG $15 00, dis 60&10 Me ee $18 50, dis 20&10 MILLS Comice, Parkers Goce. |... 40 Coffee, P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s Malleables... 40 Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’s........... 40 oes, Serer... Cg... 30 MOLASSES GATES Stepoin’s Patter =... ws. | tc... CORIO RN GONG oc 6010 Enterprise, self-measuring ............ .... 30 NAILS Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire. Steel nails, base Me oe | 2 oe Wie ttt, GG ee 2 85 me eG ativonce, 50 8 60 ORS RS oe ait alae ah a lah lh 4 cl ah dl lg io ccc esc 90 a eg ae cel 1 20 ee 1 60 ee i 1 60 ee ee ee 65 Te eee v6) Re ee cee 90 Meoten ie. ee VE Die ee eo. 90 RT Oe on 10 Clare ee 7 Oemien 8. ee al: 80 eran Go. ee 90 ee ee ie PLANES Olie Toot Co.'s, faney. .-. |... ... @50 ROG EC ee 60&10 Nandasky Tool Co.'s, faney................. @50 Memen, Hista@iuaiey.. 50 Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s wood......... 60 PANS ee ROM 60&10&10 Common, polished...... eee eg W& 5 RIVETS Bron an@ Tansee 2 8.8. kc. el. 60 Copper Rivets and Bure... 5... 25.1... 5: 60 PATENT PLANISHED IRON “‘A*” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 ‘*B”’ Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 25 to 27 Broken packages %c per pound extra. HAMMER Maydole & Co.’s, new list........ Kip’s 33% Eee dis 25 Yerkes & Plumb’s........... a ...dis 40&10 Mason's Solid Cast Steel............. Oc list 70 Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel Hand 30c list 40&10 HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS Stamped Tin Ware.................new list &:10 Japanned Tin Ware....... en Gea cuaa ae 20&10 Cranie rom Ware..........-...... new list 40410 HOLLOW WARE ee ae 60410 ee .... 60&10 INGES Gate, Clayk’s, 29... ................., ae ae PO ee per doz. net 2 50 WIRE GOODS eee 80 RE ee el. loi ee ee 80 Gate Moots and Wyese................... 80 LEVELS Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............dis 70 ROPES Bisel. 46 Inch and tarper............... .... §& Ce ee SQUARES eee: Se OGM 80 ry GG Beveled ee SHEET IRON com. smooth. com. woe tow. $3 30 #2 40 Nee mtoh........,.......... 3 ae 2 40 ea 2 60 Nos. 22 toot... .........._........ 2 oe 2 7 | 2 80 oe a ee 26 / 3 80 2 All sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30 inches wide not less than 2-10 extra. . SAND PAPER list acet 9 oe. dis 50 SASH WEIGHTS POG Meee. per ton 20 00 TRAPS Steel, Game..... oe 60&10 Oneida Community, Newhouse’s 5 Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s 70&10&10 Mouse, choker...) per doz 15 MGUHG, GENIN... . per doz £ 25 WIRE eiens MOOR i 5 miecere Maes. vb) Coppered Market... 70&10 7isnee Marsee. 8. 624 Copperea Sprang Sieel.......... ........_.. 50 Barcea Wenec. galvanized ...:............,. 216 Barbed Wenee, painted |... 1% HORSE NAILS PO ee dis 40&1C Pe dis 5 PCWCNICM dis 10&10 WRENCHES Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.............. 30 Coe a Geemiie. 6 .. 5 Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought ....... 80 Coe’s Patent, malleable. .................... 80 MISCELLANEOUS ns Rhee 50 Pompe Cisiem 80 porewme, Wew bine 85 Casters, Bed and Fiate,...........5 2... 50&10&10 Hampers, American ...................- 40410 METALS—Zinc OG pOGmG COBRA. 614 POL ON i. 6% SOLDER ON 12% The prices of the many other qualities of solder in the market indicated by private brands vary according to composition. TIN—Melyn Grade Peers CC ateGe 8. sk: 85 75 See ema cc. 5 7% mula IX, Charcoal .............. ! Each additional X on this grade, $1.25. TIN—Allaway Grade ee eee cae eee We EC ee i ee, a eC. .......,.. Each additional X on this grade, $1.50. ROOFING PLATES Aoraren SSss Tie iC, Charcoal Dean ....:............-. 5 00 14x20 IX, Charcoal, Dean . a 20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean.. 10 00 14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway ¢ 4 50 14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Gradc......... 5 50 20x28 1C, Charcoal, Allaway Grade......... 9 00 20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade......... 11 00 BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE 14x56 IX, for No. 8 Boilers, 14x56 IX, for No. 9 Boilers, { per pound... 9 " ‘igh a ° alt fe)iye @ A AU DAT f e es dnc OMPA S D RFR sie Orto C. J. BERNTHAL New York Electro JoHN T. F. HorRNBURG Plating & Mr 60. Electro Platers in GOLD, SILVER, NICKEL, BRASS and BRONZE; also LACQUERING. Gas Fixtures Refinished as Good as New. West End Pearl. St.‘ Bridge. 3 doors South of Crescent Mills. Citizens Phone, 1517. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ou ier anatiAgaMAS inertia i THE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN GOTHAM GOSSIP. News from the Metropolis---Index to the Market. Special Correspondence. New York, Sept. 25—The coffee mar- ket has shown some interest to buyers this week. We have had quite a con- tingent of buyers here and they came from all parts of the country. Every- thing indicates that stocks in the in- terior are light and that buyers are ready to pay the regular rates. It is a good time to buy and whether there will bea more favorable opportunity time alone can tell. Rio No. 7 is quotable at 934c. About 500 bags of the same grade were sold at a figure understood to be 9c cost and freight. Afterwards the market was reported firmer and it is very doubtful whether this sale could be duplicated. In mild sorts good cucutas are almost scarce and the market is decidedly firm. As to the amount of Rio coffee afloat it is considerably less than at this time last year, being 482,798 bags now, against 618,715 bags then. The refined sugar market has re- mained unchanged fora longer period than at any time since the refiners com- bined. Week after week passes and quotations are the same. Raw sugars are firmer and, if the rate keeps up, we may expect a corresponding advance in refined. The demand for refined is just about steady and purchases are made in a way that indicates no particular anx- jety about buying ahead of present wants. Granulated, 43; c. Tea orders have mostly been by mail and of small importance. If we see any improvement one week, it seems to dwindle away during the next seven days and things move along in the usual dull channel. The one _ thing which gives any encouragement is the fact that orders are numerous, even if they are small. Enquiry shows very few interior dealers with surplus stock and it is hoped that later on we shall see a more encouraging state of affairs. The rice market is strong and dealers are making money. The demand comes from every point and for liberal amounts. This is true, also, at primary points and the probabilities are that we shall have a good trade right along. Nothing has transpired during the week of special note in spices. The market maintains the even tenor of its way. Sales are making of small quan- tities, but orders come frequently and, as the season advances, the outlook grows brighter. Prices are as low as at any time in the history of the trade. The molasses market is very quiet, yet it has been duller. Orders are com- ing in probably as well as could be ex- pected, and tor such demand the quo- tations are firmly held. A better business has been done in syrups than during several weeks pre- viously and the feeling is one of con- siderable strength. Buyers are chiefly from the country. A little trading has been done for export, but, asarule, for- eign demands are easily met. The prospects are that the pack of tomatoes will be very much smaller than for several years. The market in all lines is sluggish, although for the better labels of tomatoes the feeling is firmer. The money market has been one great cause of dull trade, as rates have ruled very high. A number of factories have failed and, altogether, the canning busi- ness seems to be taking a rest. Perhaps the rest is sadly needed, for if any branch of trade has been sick it is that of canned goods. California dried fruits are in better request and, as it becomes evident that prices on certain lines must advance, the orders become more numerous. It is said that there will not be over 350 cars of apricots in all and that there are not over fifty left on the coast. Should these reports be true, the prospects are that we shall see a very marked ad- vance in the price of this fruit. Do- mestic dried fruits, apples, etc., are rather dull, but this is to be expected at this time. Butter is aull, or ‘‘nearly so.’’ The demand is just sufficient to keep things from collapsing entirely. Best Western i aes Ne tN esr REN CRRA SAAR TEESE YATE ARAN creo rae - creamery is held at 15%c and the de- scent from this is sudden. Cheese dealers are trying hard to keep up a bold front, but the chances are seemingly adverse. The week has shown no animation, either for export or domestic use. State large full cream is quotable at gc. Western eggs are worth from 17%4@ 18c. The demand is good and the mar- ket gives indication of remaining firm right along. Eggs pay better than but- ter or cheese now. Lemons are dull and first Malagas brought at auction about one-third as much as last year. They were mostly withdrawn. Oranges are in rather light supply and are selling slowly. Competition breeds ideas. The ad- vent of a brand new department store has led an old firm in the same line to add an annex,one feature of which isa large room set apart as a reading room for men, supplied with the magazines and daily papers and conveniences for smok- ing. Writing tables and stationery are also among the furnishings of the room, which is planned to providea pleasant and luxurious lounging place. Phe women are not getting all the good things in this direction, even if they are the best shoppers. Traffic on the New York division of the Pennsylvania has become so great that even with its four tracks the facili- ties of the line are taxed to their ut- most, Consequently the company has de- cided to shorten the New York division by exending the Bustleton branch to a connection with the main lines. All the fast through trains will run over the shorter route. A good many physicians here make their calls on bicycles. The old prac- titioners who have snug bank accounts still stick to their carriages, but the ris- ing men of the profession go about on the wheel and make better time. And the wheel is keeping the medical pro- fession busy. Here’s a quaint species of revenge: Some time ago a young woman brought a breach of promise suit against a Brooklyn millionaire. He’s fighting the case for all he’s worth. Recently she began an engagement at a music hall here, and one of the features of her performance is a perusal of the letters she alleges the millionaire clubman sent her. Persons addicted to the bicycle habit are only beginning to learn the possibil- ities thereof. An inventor in Brooklyn is going to make the wheel soar in the air for any distance. He claims that he can go to Europe on his wheel in two days, and the officials of the patent office in Washington have be- come impressed with his plans. They have issued to the inventor a patent. With eight wings of steel and silk, jus- tified to the likeness of those of a bird, this new invention is going toattempt a revolution in the bicycle business. The machine will weigh twenty-eight pounds and the wings fifty-seven pounds, mak- ing a total of eighty-five pounds. The steel and silk wings are now being made and will be ready for trial ina few days. —____» 2. The women of Holland and Belgium, who make their linen so beautifully white, use refined borax instead of washing soda, in the proportion of one large handful of borax powder to about ten gallons uf boiling water. Thus they Save in soap nearly half. Its effect is to soften the hardest water, and, there- fore, it should be kept on every toilet table. It is good for cleansing the hair; is an excellent dentifrice; combined with tartaric acid and carbonate of soda, it is a cooling beverage. Good tea cannot be made with hard water, but all water may be made soft by adding a teaspoonful of borax powder to an or- dinary-sized kettle of water, in which it should boil. The saving in the quan- tity of tea used will be one-fifth. —___» 20 2.___ Less tobacco is consumed in Great Britain, in proportion to the inhabi- tants, than in any other civilized country. The average is 23 ounces per annum for each person. WANTS COLUMN. Advertisements will be inserted under this head for two cents a word the first insertion and one cent a word for each subsequent in- Sertion. No advertisements taken for less than 25 cents. Advance payment. BUSINESS CHANCES. JOR SALE—IMPROVED 80 ACRE FARM IN Oceana county; or would exchange for merchandise. Address 380 Jefferson Avenue, Muskegon. 110 ea TO SELL—SMALL STOCK GRO- ceries: best location in Muskegon for ca-h trade. Address 243 West Western Avenue, Muskegon. 109 VOR SALE—THE BEST DRUG STORE IN Petoskey, Mich.; invoices about $6,000; an- nual sales, over $10,000; owner has other interests demanding all his time. Will exchange part in Grand Rapids real estate. Particulars for stamp. The Fisk Pharmacy, Petoskey. 108 OR SALE—STOCK OF TINWARE, INCLUD, ing tools and patterns. Excellent location for good workman. Rent low. Reason for sell- ing, other business. Noggle & Gordon, Hopkins Station, Mich. 107 VOR SALE—SMALL STOCK OF GROCERIES in best town in Michigan. Address C, care Michigan Tradesman. 100 USINESS CHANCES—EVERY DESCRIP- tion bought, sold or exchanged; also real estate. Correspondence solicited. C. E. De- Sautelle, Room 1, 99 Ottawa Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. 99 OR SALE—DOUBLE STORE, GROCERIES and notions,in one of best towns in best State in the Union. Stocks will be sold sep- arately or together, with or without buildings. Address 420 East State street, Mason City, lowa. 92 MISCELLANEOUS. JANTED—POSITION AS CHEMIST OR drug clerk; graduate of pharmacy school, Michigan University, degree Ph.C. Do not use liguor or tobacco. M.F. Nichols, 218 Scribner St., Grand Rapids. 104 ANTED—TO EXCHANGE LADY’S SOLID gold watch for typewriter; must be in good condition; state make. Wm. Miller, Inter- lochen, Mich. 106 ANTED—SITUATION BY REGISTERED pharmacist of good habits who has had fourteen years’ experience. Address No. 91, care Michigan Tradesman. 91 SINGLE MAN OF FIFTEEN YEARS’ EX- perience in a general store wishes position. Can give good references. Dick starling, Cen- tral Lake, Mich. 80 NOR EXCHANGE—TWO FINE IMPROVED farms for stock of merchandise; splendid location. Address No. 73, care Michigan Trades- man. %3 UTTER, EGGS, POULTRY AND VEAL Shippers should wr:te Cougle Brothers, 178 South Water Street, Chicago, for daily market reports. 26 ANTED TO CORRESPOND WITH SHIP- pers of butter and eggs and other season able produce. R. Hirt,36 Market street, Detroit. 951 ANTED—SEVERAL MICHIGAN CEN- tral mileage books. Address, stating price, Vindex. care Michigan Tradesman. PRICE LIST. Batters 4 gal.. per dozen. -,.. ............8 58 Butters, 1 t0 6 wal. pergal..... ............ OBS Extra Covers to fit, 1 to 6 gal. each....'.... 05% Extra Covers to fit, 8to 12 gal.each....... 11 Churns (covers count as one gal.) per gal.. 03% Churn Dasher, per dozen. ....... 85 Milk Pans, % gal., r'd or flat bottom, doz. 50 Milk Pans, 1 gal., rdor tliat bottom,each 05% Milk Pans, 1 gal., extra fine glaze, each.. 06% Ouest, 16801 per Geren... .s ooo. 60 eues, 1 tO S28! pergal. sl. 06% Tomato Jugs, % gal., per doz.............. 70 Tomato dues, | eal, perdoe.............. 84 Corks for % gal. Tomato Jugs, perdozen. 20 Corks for 1gal Tomato Jugs, perdozen.. 30 nealing, Wax, perip.: 3. ce 02 Mail Orders direct to H. Leonard & Sons, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. If you want to get The trade you want to get, You want ‘o get Your advertisement into the trade getter ; For the Tradesman wants You to get the trade You want to get. FULL CREAM CHEESE Warner’s Oakland Co. Brand is reliable and of superior quality. Try it and you will use no other. FRED M. WARNER, Farmington, Michigan. OSE SOAP Is what you should advise your custom- ers. People who have used it say it is the BEST. TRY THE FAMOUS D* 5 Al CENT CIGAR. - ( a oxmw a SOLD BY ALL JOBBERS IN THE STATB AND G. J. JOHNSON CIGAR CO., Grand Rapids. i 3 : & = BARRA Segoe ONLY FRESH CRACKERS bev ee ffered t onbes CHRISTENSON BAKING CO. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. || Plumbing and Steam Heating; Gas 3 eat er y and Electric Fixtures; Galvanized Iron | Cornice and Slate Roofing. Every kind | of Sheet Metal Work. ul te, || Pumps and Well Supplies. | Hot Air Furnaces. : 99 Pearl St., eae GRAND RAPI DS. | Best equipped and largest concern in the State. ; WE GUARANTEE _ nd of v abs aay oe es = ny on whe will a ae te. ty nd ny del aa auepei ce ae se ao Sant ren te ae the ny we will fo fel it ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS We also guarantee it to be of not less than 40 grains strength. ROBINSON CIDER & VINEGAR CO., J. ROBINSON, Manager. BENTON HARBOR, nich 00-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0 0-0-0-0-0-0:0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0:0 Nores tii ASPHALT ROOF COATING : ioe cee mn get Ful aie i itio maaan ee WARREN CHEMICAL AND MANUFACTURING CO., 3 81 Fulton street, NEW YORK. o Chamber of Commerce, DETROIT. irae na anata cna ‘Standard Oil 60. DEALERS IN ar CK' FA RR tates nN NDOT ND Illuminating and Lubricating OILS Naptha and Gasolines CA —e Eee Office, Mich. Trust Bldg. Works, Butterworth Ave. GRAND RAPIDS, IIICH. ee BULK WORKS at Grand Rapids, Muskegon, Manistee, Cadillac, Big Rapids, Grand Haven, Traverse City, Ludington, Allegan, "Hows rd Ci ity, P etoskey, Reed City. Highest Price paid for Empty Carbon and Gasoline Barrels Ups selaaran aaa aap an an ie ) Sas Server rn FNPF TOTP OTTO eID HOW IT it GROWN 1883 7 1885 1887 1889 as 1890 as 1891 Ss 1892 1893 1894 ee 1895 © © o UMMA AA AA MAUdbAdd ddd Add ddd Add Vudu MIUIUPUUOOULCeeUeUrurueiedeee rrr ere rire y er OUSIMARIZED HISTORY: 1883 - = Bisiness Established 1885 Special Machinery Introduced 1888 - Removal 10 Larger Quarters 1895 Removal 10 Still Larger Quarters 1896 Largest Coupon Book Plent in the World In which we produce more Coup - Books than all the — r manufactu ers in the country combit on = - facts speak louder ‘ie words and = nclusively prove that our hooks e ust have been the best in the mar- ket for the past thirteen years in or- der to have secured this demand. TRADESMAN COMPANY, GRAND RAPIDS. MUNA LUA AUL UAL MukAMd dd Add ddd Mdd ddd ddd ddd dd AA ALAAA ALAA ALAA & ee yeu 2 It’s not what You Pay for a Scale zs Be a = But what the Scale Pays You _ ze 44 a ise aes Pound and Ounce Scales cost less but they Lose You Money. ae bya i | tae Ie 2 Dayton Computing Scales cost more but they Make and ie ) i Save You every month more Money than they cost. ive wat 1 2 i What Kind Are You Using? Bo . S Write for catalogue and prices of our money a 3 eee 4 Dyes Rus | S THE COMPUTING SCALE CO., Dayton, Ohio, U. S. A. S HU Dta UE Se OU Salina Ale ae aR RIMAGE EEA I Se TIME IS MONEY aa §=LIFE IS SHORT \ ' —N ASN Wh LZ And Rapid Transportation is ae es a Necessity...... To secure the most prompt delivery of goods at the least ex- penditure of time and money it is essential that the mer. ochant have a delivery wagon of the = sort. We make just that kind of a wagon and sell it as cheaply as is consist- ent with good work. For catalogue and quotations addres * Belknap Wagon Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. > ee ea | FA COOKING SCHOOL . now exists which, recognizing the importance of having plenty of pure ‘ milk on hand for cooking purposes, has found its requirements fully ¢ met b PERSSON : Borden’s Peerless Brand l Evaporated Cream, , \ and it highly indorses same. Merchants interested in supplying their i eee Miata Diatee ee Te a Ta customers with satisfactory goods, at a reasonable profit to themselves, will find that the Peerless Brand is a good article to purchase and a reliable one to sell. Prepared and guaranteed by the New York Condensed Milk Co. €2" For Quotations SEE Price COLUMNS. Taree cee en a