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Going to fame
uv. Gd. Rapids ........ am 1:25pm +11:00pm
Ar. Chicago... . 0c ..i.:.. 3 ena 6:50pm t+ 6:30am
Returning from Chicago.
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ar. G@’d Rapids....... 1: 25pm 10:30pm +t 6:10am
Muskegon a” S caeray pe 5
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Ar. Traverse City. cola 12:40pm 11:10pm ...... ee
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p.m.
PARLOR AND SLEEPING CABS.

Chicago. Parlor cars on afternoon trains and
sleepers on night trains.

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Saginaw, Alma and St. Louis.

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To and from Lowell.

Ly. Grand Rapids...... 7Uam 1:3upm 5:25pm
Ar. from Lowell: ...:-. i230pm S:2Upm. .......
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Parlor cars on all trains between Grand Rap-
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Ly. G’d Rapids.6:45am 10:10am 3:3)pm 10:45pm
Ay. Tonis.. <..: 7:40am 11:17am 4:34pm 12:30am
Ar. St. Johns..5:25am 12:10pm 5:x3pm 1:57am
Ar. Owosso....9:W0am 1: — 6:u3pm 3:25pm

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Ar. Detroit.. 11:dvam 3:35pm 9:25pm 8:Uoam
Westward.

For G’d Haven and Intermediate Pts.... 7:00am
For G’d Haven and [utermediate Pts.. ..12:53pm
For G’d Haven and Intermediate Pts.... 5:12pm

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p.m, ‘trains arrive from the west, lu:Ud5a.m.,
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CORA ss Lom 5:25pm t1i:ll0am
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Petoskey and Mackinaw.
Train leaving at 2:15 p.m. has sleeping car to
Petoskey and Mackinaw.
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Muskegon Trains.
GOING WEST.

Lv G’d Rapids.......... +7:35am +1:00pm +5:40pm
Ar Muskegon.......... 9:00am 2:10pm 7:06pm
GOING EAST.

Lv Muskegon....... .. 48:10am +11:45am +4:00pm
ArG’d Rapids... ..... 9:30am 12:55pm 6:20pm

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THE INTEREST IN CUBA.
The situation in Cuba has become
the all-absorbing topic of the press, un-
til there 1s a wave of scathing denuncia-
tion sweeping over the country against
the poor Spaniards on account of the
crowning climax of treacherous barbar-
ity in the assassination of the Cuban
general, Maceo, and his staff while un-
der the ostensible protection of a flag of
truce. Indeed, the matter has assumed
so much importance that it is monopo-
lizing a large share of the attention ot
Congress.

For some time after the report of the
death of the revolutionary leader be-
came current the fact was persistently
denied by Cuban sympathizers and _ the
report was credited to Spanish political
design. It was maintained that all the
circumstances of the finding of the body
were tou improbable for belief and that
it was a device intended for effect on
the action of our Government; that the
report of the killing of this leader would
indicate that there was really little of
the insurrection left with which the
Spaniards had to deal. But, with the
confirmation of the news of the killing,
Cuban sympathy—which means almost
universal sympathy in this country—as-
sumed that, if Maceo was not living,
he had been made the victim of Span-
ish treachery. Circumstantial accounts
of the firing upon the general and_ staff
while under a flag of truce are given
and seem to be accepted without ques-
tion, although the elements of improb-
ability appear as manifest as_ in the
earlier reports. It would seem that the
Spanish general would have taken
means to prevent the early forwarding
of the real facts if they were as_repre-
sented.

Whether true or not, these reports are
serving the purpose of raising the tem-
per of the country to white heat in sym-
pathy for the struggling Cubans. And
in the movement there is a decided
feeling of indignation that our Execu-
tive refused to make operative the ac-
tion of Congress in their behalf at the
close of the last session. That there has
been so much patience is to be attrib-
uted largely to our political distraction.
But now there is time to consider
others, and it begins to look as though
there would be consideration to some
purpose soon.

—__> +.
CHURCH AND STATE.

The admission of Utah into the Union
of States is already furnishing a ground
for regret which is entirely unconnected
with size of population or the fact that
the State cast its vote in a particular
direction.

The Mormon church, as a _ church, is
directly interfering in the selection of a
United States senator and attempting to
defeat Moses Thatcher in his aspira-
tions, as a means of disciplining him as
a Mormon apostle, or, at least, as a
member of the church. Reports from
Utah are all to the effect that Mormon-
ism is once more defiant and aggressive
in that State, that it is dominating the
political situation, that polygamy is
practiced again with impunity and that

GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1896.

 

 

the Saints propose to reap the benefits
of their now virtually independent po-
sition. A Gentile can hardly purchase
any lands or desirable properties in the
State and the spirit of the Boers of
South Africa, in rigidly maintaining
ascendency over newcomers, appears to
be equally manifest in Utah.

—_—__»> 2. ____

False Notions About Good Times.

Intelligent persons are heard on all
sides wildly proclaiming, in conversa-
tion and in the press, that, although an
entire month and several days have
elapsed since the winning of the sound-
money victory at the November general
election, there has been no revival of
prosperity in the country, and no wide-
spread distribution of wealth among the
people.

It is difficult to understand what such
persons expected; but they talk as if
they had looked for a flood of gold or
some other astonishing occurrence to
follow immediately upon the announce-
ment of the result of the election, and
universal prosperity to overspread the
land.

When it is remembered that but lit-
tle more than two-score of days have
passed since the holding of the election,
and that the age of miracles is no longer
with us, it is unreasonable in the ex-
treme to suppose that there should or
could have been any considerable
change in the financial condition of the
country. When a sick patient has been
suffering from a prolonged attack of
wasting and enfeebling bodily disease,
convalescence and recovery must be slow
and gradual. There can be no sudden
and immediate restoration to health and
vigor, and nobody looks for any in-
stantaneous recovery.

A like condition exists as to the com-
merce and industries of the United
States. They were struck down in 1893
by one of those financial convulsions
which overwhelm the business of every
country from time to time when there
has been an unusual excess of specula-
tion and inordinate overtrading. The
most radical and disorganizing political
agitations followed the financial panic
of 1893, and for three years have ag-
gravated the depressing and demorali-
zing conditions until all business in this
country has been paralyzed.

The settlement of many most serious
political issues was effected by the
presidential election of a little overa
month ago, and a most important vic-
tory was gained for sound money; but
every reasonable person ought to see
that the mere announcement of these
facts cannot secure or bring about an
immediate recovery of all trade and in-
dustries from the condition of paralysis
from which they have so long been
suffering. Such recovery is a matter of
time. The causes which start up fac-
tories and set in motion all the compli-
cated mechanisms and processes of
commerce and manufacturing can only
act gradually. The first impulse to-
wards the revival of prosperity can only
be communicated from one person to
another, until, by degrees, the entire
working population shall feel the thrill
that means revived prosperity.

 

Number 691

It ought to be remembered that the
ablest advocates of the sound-money
cause never promised any sudden res-
toration of good times, nor any shower
of wealth. They constantly held that a
victory for sound money would cause a
restoration of business confidence, which
had been almost wholly lost during the
political agitations which followed the
panic of 1893, and gradually, but surely,
bring about better times. That was all
that could possibly have been expected
by reasonable people, and it was all
that was promised by any such.

Even now the situation is complicated
by the expressed determination of the
Republicans to reorganize the national
revenue and change the tariff. This
must exert a further unsettling effect
upon business, and will delay the full
retuin of good times for a year or two
to come; but the recovery will only be
retarded—it will not be prevented.
Business confidence is being re-estab-
lished. Capitalists are already making
inquiries with a view to investments.
There is no speculative movement, nor
anything like it; but a movement is be-
ginning to be felt.

FRANK STOWELL.
—_—-—~>-0

The periodical agitation of the ques-
tion of local municipal lighting is
again occupying the attention of the
city officials and those interested in the
furtherance of such schemes. There is
this possible benefit in the repeated dis-
cussions— -they may serve to keep up to
their duties the private contractors now
doing the work. But the Tradesman is
not yet convinced that the time is ripe,
or indeed ever will be, for the city to
take up such work. Electrico-mechan-
ical science is still too rapidly progress-
ive for any investment in such lines to
have permanent value. The building
of a plant by the city means bonding to
pay in the distant future for that which
will be entirely obsolete and worthless
in less than half the life of the bonds.
This will mean simply running in debt
for the payment of the current expense
of lighting. The Tradesman is not op-
posed to any judicious expenditure to
be paid in the future for the acquire-
ment of that which is of permanent or
increasing value, but there is no more
reason why the city should draw on the
future for lighting its streets than for

its fire and police service.
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By direction of the Omaha Board of
Education, boys in the public schools are
asked to sign, of their own free, will a
pledge to abstain from the use of tobac-
co during their school days, with a
proviso that they can be released from
their pledge at any time on a personal
request. The teachers report that the
plan has worked well, that very many
of the boys have signed the pledge, and
that keeping it has come to be regarded
as a matter of honor. Better scholar-
ship, better morals and more cleanly
habits are among the direct results of
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Getting the People

Art of Reaching aud Holding Trade
by Advertising.

Every inch of space bought for ad-
vertising purposes at this season of the
year may be made doubly productive by
the careful methods used in filling such
space.

While the hard times are rapidly be-
coming a thing of the past, still money
is not so plenty that buyers can afford
to throw any away, and the search for
bargains in Christmas gifts is as strong
at any time during the past five
years. The mere that you
keep Xmas goods will not be sufficient.

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You must convince the public that you
don't “‘keep’" such goods, but that your
prices on such goods are so low and the
values so high that you ‘‘sell’’ them.

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Christmas goods

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sold, will be more
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through the day.

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One of the most unique schemes to
be used in connection with holiday
window advertising is as follows: Em-
ploy a reliable man and dress him in
any neat fancy costume, out of the or-
dinary  style—something attractive.
Let him stand on the walk in front of
the window, varying his position oc-
casionally, and let him with his right
hand point continually at the goods dis
played. He must not utter a sound,and
should look as dignified as possible. In
some convenient place on his person he
should carry a sign in black letters on
white cardboard, as follows:

1 POINT THE WAY
: TO :
: CHRISTMAS BARGAINS. =:

It is a well-known fact that if one
stops anywhere on the street and looks
or points steadily at one place fora
moment, all passers-by are attracted.
This is human curiosity, and is the
principle of the plan above outlined.

Show window tableaux are becoming
more and more popular as means for
‘Getting the People.’’ The pictures
given should be very plain and easily
understood, and should have direct ret-
erence to goods offered for sale. The
homelier the tableaux, the more draw-
ing power they will develop. I will give
an illustration :

The ‘‘properties'’ used are as follows:
A saw-horse, buck-saw, stick of wood,

on the flat side of which should be

| painted the words ‘‘Prices on Holiday
F ‘

'Goods,"’ and a pretty young lady.

The

| girl should be dressed as a country lass,

correspond |
sleds |
| versed in the frame, so it will not cut,
and

and should be engaged in sawing the
stick of wood. The saw should be re-
It

some sawdust scattered about.

will be advisable to have several sticks
of wood prepared, on which may be
painted such legends as ‘‘Prices on
Toys,’’ ‘‘Prices on Games,’’ etc. The
young lady’s position should be facing
the window, so that the inscription on
the stick of wood may be read by the
crowd in front. The interpretation, of
course, is ‘‘Prices on Holiday Goods
Cut in Two.*’ The sawyer may change
the stick as often as deemed desirable.
[his is a simple tableau, and in its
very simplicity and the action intro-
duced lies the secret of its success as a
‘* People Getter. ’’

Santa Claus in the window is a time-
honored attraction, and stili holds its
proportion of drawing power. But such
tableaux as I have outlined above are
new, and ‘‘a new broom sweeps clean.’

I believe Santa Claus might be put to
better use in a personal way. For in-
stance, decorate and load up a sleigh or
carriage, if sleighing wiil not permit,
with an assortment of tovs and holiday
goods. Hire a pair of mules and, if it
can be accomplished, rig them up as a
ludicrous imitation of reindeer, and
with any quantity of bells. Put a
large card on the outside of each say-
ing,'‘ lam supposed to be a reindeer.’’
Put Santa Claus in as driver, and on his
back place the legend, ‘‘l am Smith &
Co.'s Santa Claus.’" Supply him with
some neatly printed cards inviting the
public to call on Smith & Co., and _ in-
spect the wonderful bargains offered in
Christmas toys and novelties. Then
let Santa Claus make a comprehensive
tour of the residence portion of the
town, stopping at each door and leaving
one or more of the cards.

This plan will, I am convinced, do
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a dozen Santa Clauses located in the
window.

A beautiful and pathetic window pic-
ture, and one which will draw many a
stray half dollar from the pockets of the
public, may be made as follows: In one
side of the window build a forlorn and
desolate structure, to represent the
abode of poverty. On the wall should
hang a ragged stocking, appealing to
the sympathy of Santa Claus by its very
misery and inability to hold together,
Ihe room should be miserably furnished
—you can readily find samples in actual
life in almost any town. The balance
of the window space should be taken up
by a winter scene, arranged with cotton
for snow, and evergreens, etc., for
scenery, building back into the store if
necessary. You can easily manage that
part. A little girl, clad in rags, and
‘*made up”’ to look as nearly starved and
as cold as possible, should be engaged
in gathering pieces of wood in her
apron, occasionally varying this occu-
pation by taking a peep at the forlorn
stocking hanging in the shanty, and
any other effective ‘‘stage business’’
appropriate to the situation. Suspended
about half way down the center of the
window should hang a half sheet card,
in such a position as not to interfere
with the view below, and yet plainly
visible. This should read:

 

REMEMBER THE POOR.

Srec’al Prices on Holiday goods pur-
cha ed for distribution amoug the poor
children of this city.

 

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stick to your bargain and make the spe-
cial prices bona fide, but your sales and
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by this device, as it appeals more for-
cibly to the hearts and pocketbooks of
the benevolent at Christmas than any
other device known.

All of these plans are inexpensive, and
may be varied ,to suit different tastes.
At Xmas time the show window isa
most profitable field for advertising,
and the more original and striking the
picture in the window, the greater the
financial results.

Following I give a few original holi-
day advertisements which will sell
goods:

 

A Few Suggestions
For Gift Making.

Your best girl would like a toilet or
manicure set. Your mother would
like an album or view holder. Your
father would be pleased with a set
of Dickens’ Works, or perhaps a nice
cane. Your brother and sister will
be glad of almost any kind of a gift,
if itr presents brotherly love, but we
would suggest a handsome initial
pin for the former, and a pair of
opera glasses for the latter. ye can
suit you in any of the above, and any
quantity of other novelties for pres-
entation. See our phenomenally low

prices.
SUITEMEASY & CO.
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We SELL Xmas Goods....

And the reason for this is found in
our absolutely fine and complete
stock of Dolls, Toys, Games, Noah’s
Arks, Picture Books, Albums, Toilet
Cases and Toilet Goods of all kinds,
and everything which goes to suit
the taste and purse of any pur-
chaser, which we are offering at
“Before Election’ prices, and
everyone kuows such prices mean
rock-bottom. Watch our window.

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the poorest child in the United
States. Neither have we. We
will sell you any one or a dozen

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But when you see a man or woman
with an armful of Christmas gifts,
with a contented smile on his or
her face, you may put it down as
sett.ed that the goods came from
the CHRISTMAS BARGAIN DE-
PARTMENT of A. M. Pleasemall
& Co. We are showing a greater
variety this year than ever before,
at prices which make it possible
for all to secure gifts for their lit-
tle ones and friends.

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Hang on
To Your Money

until you see the bargains in
Christmas gifts, toys, dolls,
novelties, games, albums anda
thousand other things which
Fairweather & Co. are offering
at prices which will tempt you.
Everything new and this year's
buying—no old stock. The at-
tractions in our show window
are merely a drop in the bucket
in comparison with what we
have to show you_ inside.
There’s no pushing and crowd-
ing—our room is ample for all,
and we've plenty of clerks.
Come, and don’t furget to bring
the baby.

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Don’t neglect printers’ ink at this
season of the year. There is a neat
profit in holiday goods and money _in-
vested in pushing the sales of this line

is a sure profit-winner. There is no
merchant dealing in such goods but
can well afford to spend _ consider-

able time and money in promulgating
and originating ‘‘People Getters,’’ in
the way of catchy ads. and attractive
show windows. It is not necessary to
be absolutely original. There are so
many good ads. written and so many
good ideas published that it is a com-
paratively easy matter for one to adver-
tise effectively without claiming orig-

inality. NEMO.
9
Another Way to Attract Christmas
Trade.

Sault Ste. Marie, Dec. 5—If you and
your readers will not think I am taking
up too much of your space and their
tume, I will comply with your request
and give you a brief account ot my
Christmas attraction for 1895:

I purchased $15 worth of small toys
(and until you make such a purchase
you have no idea how many you can buy
for that amount) and then made a Santa
Claus by getting a false face with long
white whiskers, a pair of old pants,
shoe packs, long socks and an old Macki-
naw jacket. 1 built a house in one cor-
ner of one of my show windows, covered
the bottom of the window and the house
with cotton to represent snow, placed
my Santa Claus on top of the house and
then filled the window with the toys,
having room enough to put in a few
printed cards calling attention to the
tact that every child under 12 years of
age who wrote a letter to Santa Claus,
addressed in my care, would receive a
present on Christmas morning. Other
cards were printed in the same manner,
with a few additional claims in regard
to the quality of footwear to be found
within. I made a large display in the
newspaper about Santa Claus and his
presents, and about the 15th of the
month the letters began to pour in. I
opened them and registered the names
of the writers in an index book. By
Christmas eve I had received over 1,000
letters. [I placed a large basket in the
window and put all the letters in it as
they were received, arranging them in
such a manner that they could be read
from the outside. As a window attrac-
tion, I can safely say that, from the time
the first letter was put into the basket,
my window was crowded. Christmas
morning I was down town early and had
my toys all put up in packages, one
toy in each package. I then painted
twelve banners, and by that time the
crowd in front of my store was some-
thing awful. I called all the larger
boys into the store and pave my Santa
Claus to the largest two boys to carry,
and my banners, which displayed the
quality, style and durability of Cond-
lon’s shoes, were distributed among the
other boys. I then started the procession
around the city, the smaller children
willingly falling in behind. They
marched for an hour and then came
back to the store to receive their pres-
ents. That act was the most difficult
part of the whole show, but with the as-
sistance of several folicemen and of a
very bright little girl who could name
every child in the city, I managed to
get through with the distribution with-
out any trouble by 1 o’clock. A happier
lot of children was never before seen,
and by the number of parents who came
in and congratulated me, I knew that
my Christmas effort for 1895 was a de-
cided success.

In regard to the effect of such an
advertising scheme, all I can _ say is
that this year I have greatly increased
my sales in school shoes, and, as one
gentleman from the country told me, it
almost made his boy come to town on
Sunday to buy a pair.

WILL J. CONDLON.

—__-+—_»> 2+. _____

All traveling men do not agree on the
silver and gold question, but they all
agree that the S. C. W. is the best
nickel cigar on earth.

 

Wealthy Men Not

Men.

I do not know of a more melancholy
example of the human race than what is
known as the highly successful Ameri-
can business man, the sort of a man
who ‘‘opens his daily life with his office
key and closes it with a letter for the
late mail.’’

He has, of course, secured what nine-
tenths of the young men of this country
wish they had—business success, a large
amount of securities, ample provision
for his family and a certain power in
the commercial world.

As far as he is concerned there is no
other course left for him in life except
either to keep on the same treadmill,
accumulating and perhaps dispensing,
or accumulating and becoming a miser,
or to give it all up and begin to learn
to live anew.

If his life permits, that is, if it has
not been worn out by too close applica-
tion to work, he may probably before he
is 60 go to the school of common _ sense
and learn the joys of outdoor life—of
flowers, music, art, literature, sympathy
with his kind, a tender appreciation of
everything there is in the world that
makes life worth living.

If he learns that successfully, the last
ten years of his life—between 60 and 70
—miay be passed in comparative com-
fort. But how much wiser it would
have been if, after he had accumulated
enough money to pay his bills and keep

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his family—not in luxury, which, ten
chances to one, would ruin his sons and
injure the future of his daughters—he
had packed away, both in his heart and
theirs, the love for the things which
would have made, not only the last ten
years, but all other years of his life
lovely and happy! In other words, to
sum it all up, I would rather have my
little piece of pie every day I like than
wait until I am so old my teeth won't
chew it. F. HOPKINSON SMITH.

he Sri...

The first of American Newspa-
pers, CHAS. A. DANA, Editor.

 

 

The American Constitution, the
American Idea, The American
Spirit. These first, last, and all
the time, forever.

Daily, by mail, - - $6 a year

Daily and Sunday, by mail, $8 a year

The Sunday Sun

is the Greatest Sunday Newspaper in
the-world.

Price 5c. acopy. By mail, $2 a year.
Address THE SUN, New York.

 

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order.

I. M. Clark

ALASKA
SALMON

Buy erred

“Kodiak”

We have just received a shipment of these
new goods, formerly packed under brand
Warren's Red Alaska (which is now discon-
tinued) and if you want the best send us your
We have the agency for ‘‘Kodiak.’’

(Yes, we know how to spell “Kodiak”—an island
near the coast of Alaska.)

    
 

 

 
     

 

 
    

 

    
  

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

Around the State

Movements of Merchants.

Saginaw — Geo. Zarnko succeeds
Zaruko Bros. in the grocery business.

Saginaw (W. S.)—P. H. Aurentz has
purchased the grocery stock of J. H.
Lavin.

Bay City—Tenny & Raymond suc-
ceed P. W. Gardiner in the furniture
business.

A. G. Drake & Co. succeed W. Voss
in the harness and wood business at 141
Canal street.

Springport—J. A. Hammond _ has
closed out his grocery stock and retired
from business.

Sears—R. P. Holihan has embarked
in general trade in the Frank Bark
store building.

Midland— The Hawks Mercantile Co.,
not incorporated, succeeds Hawks &
Co., Agts., in general trade.

Fife Lake—The Fife Lake Hardware
Co. has merged its business into a_cor-
poration under the same style.

Manistee—Mrs. T. B. Hoisington has
opened a branch confectionery, tobacco
and notion store on River street.

Norway—O’Callaghan & Fors
ceed O'Callaghan & Monroe in
millinery and dry goods business.

Hillsdale—Donaghy & Crane, furni-
ture dealers and undertakers, have dis-
solved, W. W. Donaghy succeeding.

New Lothrop—Patterson & Kildea
continue the implement business for-
merly conducted by John W. Patterson.

Benton Harbor—Loomis & Rice,
dealers in wall paper, picture frames,
etc., have dissolved, Judson E. Rice
succeeding.

Traverse City—Hiram Cook has re-
sumed the grocery business, which was
interrupted by the recent conflagration
at this place.

Ferry—S. B. Chamberlin sold his drug
stock to Dr. Rhorig and J. E. Converse,
who will continue the business at the
same location.

Hart—The Bell Telephone Co. has re-
duced the rate on service between this
point and Pentwater to 5 cents. Com-
petition did it.

Chesaning—Fred H. Blakeslee is suc-
ceeded by the Union Supply Co., not
incorporated, in the musical instrument
and sewing machine business.

Detroit—E. Schloss, Son & Co. suc-
ceed Moses J. Schloss in the wholesale
men’s furnishing goods business and
the manufacture of pants and overalls.

Hastings—Archie McCoy has_ pur-
chased the interest of his partner, Will
Fuller, in the furniture business, and
will hereafter conduct the business
himself.

Mackinac Island—Bogan Bros. have
just completed a block of three stores,
50x70 feet in dimensions. One of the
stores will be occupied by the owners
of the block with their drug stock.

Traverse City—C. A. Bugbee and W.
F. Roxburgh have formed a_ copartner-
ship under the style of Bugbee & Rox-
burgh for the purpose of embarking in
the drug business here about Jan. 1.

North Dorr—Lewis Hildebrand has
retired from the firm of John Schichtel,
Jr., & Co., general dealers. The busi-
ness will be continued by the remaining
partner, John Schichtel, Jr., in his own
name.

Greenville—Geo. R. Slawson has pur-
chased the interest of his cousin, Wm.
W. Sliawson, in the drug firm of Geo.
R. Slawson & Co. The business will be
continued by Geo. R. Slawson and Wm.
A. Hall under the same firm name.

 

 

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Manistee —Zander & Mongrain have
opened a new meat market.

Menominee—The extensive hardware
stock of Dunning Bros. & Co., recently
attached by the First National Bank of
Menominee, on a claim of $13,000, was
sold at attachment sale to Buhl Sons &
Co., of Detroit, for $16,700. The stock
inventoried at $27,000. Business was
immediately resumed by the purchasers,
who held a claim against the establish-
ment for $8,000.

Detroit—The stock of Lyons Bros. &
Co., the Jefferson avenue hosiery deal-
ers, has been appraised at $9,411.23. by
Ransom Gillis and S. T. McCormack,
of Edson, Moore & Co., under the
mortgage, to secure the Preston National
Bank for notes amounting to $12,000.
Phe firm has other creditors, who might
as well charge their accounts off to
profit and loss.

 

Manufacturing Matters.

Richmond—Cooley Bros. succeed Mil-
ler & Cooley in the foundry business
and in the manufacture of agricultural
implements.

Manton—Business is looking like old
times since election. More lumber has
been shipped in three weeks than for
six months before Nov. 1.

Greenville—D. H. Moore has been
elected general manager of the Green
ville Implement Co.’s works, Charles
Abbott having sold out his interest in
the concern.

Manton—Andrew Macfee, of Lake-
view, has bought the stave mill which
bas been idle for two years, and will
make staves, heading and broom
handles, giving employment to thirty
men.

Detroit—The Detroit Mill and Supply
Co., doing business at 149 Larned
street, filed a chattel mortgage in the
sum of $1,300, in favor of Frederick
Boughton, and immediately afterward
filed a bill of sale of its property to
John H. Jones.

Hartford—The local improvement as
sociation will endeavor to secure the
establishment of a factory for the mak-
ing of fruit packages in that village.
Much of the timber used in the basket
factories of the lake shore fruit belt is
shipped from that immediate vicinity,
and the fruit growers figure out that a
factory there would save them freight
charges both ways, as well as build up
an additional home industry.

Manton—Paul, Andrew and Aaron
Johnson have formed a copartnership
under the style of Paul Johnson & Co.
and purchased the John Closson mill
plant at Putman’s Siding, three miles
north of this place. The new firm has
purchased sixteen forty-acre tracts of
hardwood timber in Greenwood town-
ship. The Johnson brothers will take
up their residence at the mill at once
and expect to have 2,000,000 feet of
hardwood lumber manufactured and
piled in the yard this winter.

Detroit—When the Improved Match
Company’s plant burned a year ago it
was partially insured in the Michigan
Mutual Fire Insurance Co., of Lansing,
the policy having been secured through
a Detroit agent. Not realizing upon its
policy for some months, the match com-
pany brought suit against the insurance
company and notice of the same was
served upon the local agent. A clause

in the policy provided that suit must be
begun within a year after the fire. After
this period had passed, the insurance
company made a motion to quash the
suit, claiming that it had not been
served, as the Detroit man was an in-

 

surance broker, not its authorized agent.
Judge Donovan refused to quash the
suit, holding that insurance companies
could not get out of settling fire losses
on such technical grounds.

Houghton—For the last two weeks
Thomas L. Chadbourne, of this city,
has been at work on the very tedious
but important task of looking up the
titles to the several properties involved
in one of the most important mining
deals in the history of the Lake Superio:
region. This is the purchase by East-
ern capitalists of the Isle Royale,
Huron and Grand Portage copper min-
ing properties. Just when work will be
resumed is a matter of conjecture, but
it is understood that when operations
are commenced, some time early in the
new year, two compartment shafts sim-
ilar to those at the Red Jacket mine wil)
be sunk to a distance of 1,600 feet o1
both the Isle Royale and Grand Portage
properties. It has also been given ou
that the stamp mills, shaft houses anu
all other surface improvements will be
of the most modern type, and when in
full operation that not less than 600 men
will be employed.

Houghton—An idea of the richness of
some of the copper mines of Michigan
may be gained from the fact that they
have thus far paid their owners divi-
dends of fully $70,000,000. The divi
dend of $25 a share just declared by the
Calumet & Hecla Copper Mining Com-
pany for the current year is especially
noteworthy because it is the greatest
dividend ever paid by this remarkable
property. There are 100,000 shares, so
that the total sum distributed among
shareholders was $2,500,000. When it is
considered that the original value of all
these shares was just the last amount
mentioned, the tremendous’ earning
power of the property will be appre-
ciated. The selling value of the stock
is about thirteen times its par value.
The year 1896 has been the most pros-
perous ever known for copper mining,
owing to the great foreign demand for
American copper. The home demand
was restricted by the depressed condi-
tion of business, but this falling off has
been more than made up by the demand
from abroad. During the ten months
ending Nov. 1, the European purchases
of copper amounted to 225,000,000
pounds, nearly double that of the same
period last year. This was 60 per cent.
of the entire output of this country and
was drawn principally from the Lake
Superior copper mines.

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Purely Personal.

J. O. Seibert and family are at Perris,
Riverside county, California, for the
winter.

Geo. J. Menold, the Douglas druggist,
was recently married to Miss Melinda
Gale, of Caledonia.

Frank Metivier, for six years pre-
scription clerk for Bogan Bros., at
Mackinac Island, will spend the winter
in Chicago for the purpose of taking a
course in a business college.

Geo. W. McWilliams succeeds E. R.
Jewell as shipning clerk for the I. M.
Clark Grocery Co. Mr. McWilliams is
ason of W. A. McWilliams, traveling
salesman for the same house.

 

There are 119,000,000 old copper
pennies somewhere. Nobody knows

what has become of them, except once
in a while a single specimen turns up
in change. A few years ago 4,500,000
bronze 2-cent pieces were set afloat.
Three millions of these are still out-
standing. Three million 3-cent nickel
pieces are scattered over the United
States, but it is very rarely that one is
seen.

 

News and Gossip Concerning Banks.

S. W. Webber & Co. have again es-
tablished a banking office at Muir, hav-
ing purchased the business of Hayes,
Olmsted & Co. S. W. Webber estab-
lished a bank in Murr in January, 1869.
[wo years ago Mr. Webber established
a banking office in Lyons, where he re-
sides, and sold the Muir business to
Hayes, Olmsted & Co., which business
he has now repurchased. He will also
continue his Lyons office.

The stockholders of the First State
Savings Bank of Evart, at their annual
meeting, elected C. H. Rose President.
Che bank is in a prosperous condition
and will soon move into more commo-
dious quarters in a new building which
has been erected for that purpose.

Saginaw Courier-Herald: For some
time there has been more or less talk
regarding the organization of a new
oanking institution and since the sus-
pension of the First National this talk
nas become more and more pronounced.
[he promoters of the enterprise are very
reticent, hence it has been impossible to
get at the details, but enough has leaked
out to afford a reasonable assurance that
it will materialize. The gentlemen
whose names have been mentioned in
connection with the matter are of rec-
ognized financial solidity. It is said
that the list of names includes a number
of former stockholders of the old Home
National Bank.

Cashier John L. Kleckner, of the
broken Citizens’ Bank of Edwardsburg,
failed to appear for trial in the Cass
County Circuit Court and his bail bond
was declared forfeited. Kleckner is
charged with the embezzlement of
317,000, thereby causing the failure of
the bank. The depositors have received
but one small dividend since the clos-
ing of the institution and they are now
planning to compel Kleckner’s bonds-
men to make good the deficit.

A statement of the assets and liabili-
ties of the People’s Saving Bank of
Lansing, which failed last July, has
been made by Receiver Foster to the
Ingham Circuit Court. It is not a
showing which will be gratifying to the
depositors of the defunct institution.
While the total assets, at their face value,
are $375,825, as against total liabilities
of $241,769, the actual value of the for-
mer will fall far below the latter. A
great deal of the paper held by the
Bank is entirely worthless and reveals
lack of care if nothing worse, in mak-
ing loans of the $313,057 in notes receipt-
ed for by the receiver. Only $129,281
of these notes was in the possession of
the Bank, the remainder having been
rediscounted or placed to the credit of
other banks as collateral to loans made
from other banking institutions by the
People’s Savings Bank. A large amount
of the paper held by the bank is with-
out an indorser and a large portion is

uncollectible. The overdrafts of the
bank on the date of its failure were
$39,081.50.

____ —“?, ~¢———__
Coffee from Kansas.

Robert Cherry, of Mulvane, Kan.,
has been raising coffee for several
years. He has just finished gathering
his crop ofr 1896. The seed is planted
about the same time ascorn. It will
grow in any kind of soil, but a sandy
loam is the best. Only one seed is put
in a place and the plant, which grows
to the hight of two or three feet,
should be cultivated the same as corn.
The berry matures the latter part of
October, and is gathered and browned,
just the same as green coffee bought at
the stores. Several people have, un-
knowingly, drunk this Kansas coffee,
and pronounce it better than any they
have ever used.

 

 

 

 

Grand Rapids Gossip

Gottfried Adrian, grocer at 221 West
Bridge street, has closed out his stock
and retired from trade.

 

 

Martin Pegg has opened a grocery
store at Crapo. The Olney & Judson
Grocery Co. furnished the stock.

I. M. & W. M. Haybarker have
opened a grocery store at Orono. The
Ball-Barnhart-Putman Co. furnished the
stock.

Geo. C. Dougherty will shortly open
a grocery store at Sunfield. The Mus-
selman Grocer Co. has the order for the
stock.

S. Orlowski & Son have embarked in
the grocery business at Charlevoix.
The I. M. Clark Grocery Co. furnished
the stock.

Foster & Burke, hardware dealers at
Harbor Springs, have added a line of
groceries. The Musselman Grocer Co.
furnished the stock.

Hiscock & Orr have opened a grocery
store at a point five miles southeast of
Lakeview. The stock was furnished
by the Worden Grocer Co.

Gray & Gray, formerly of Spring
Lake, have purchased the grocery stock
of Eness & Parish, at 57 East Leonard
street, and will continue the business at
the same location.

Jacob F. Bender has purchased the
store building at 252 Cass avenue and
removed his grocery stock and meat
market from the corner of Spring and

Oakes streets to that location.

Jacob Sanford, who formerly con-
ducted a meat market at 689 Madison
avenue, succeeds Peter Braam, in the
meat business at the corner of Eleventh
avenue and South Division street.

C. L. Becker succeeds Becker & El]
linwood in the meat business at 661 S.
Lafayette street and has opened a gro
cery store at 659 S. Lafayette. The
Ball-Barnhart-Putman Co. furnished the
stock,

J. P. Platte has leased the ground
floor and basement of the L. D. Putnam
building, 58 Monroe street, and will
take possession of the premises Feb. 1.
In the meantime the floor will be
lowered to the level of the sidewalk, a
new front put in and the premises made
modern in other respects.

At the annual meeting of the Lemon
& Wheeler Company, held on Wednes
day, Dec. 16, the old Board of Direc-
tors were re-elected as follows: S. M.
Lemon, A. K. Wheeler, Geo. B. Caul-
field, John A. Covode and S. P. Jenks.
The election of officers resulted as fol-
lows: President, S. M. Lemon; Vice-
President, John A. Covode; Secretary,
A. K. Wheeler; Treasurer, Geo. B.
Caulfield.

At the annual meeting of the Worden
Grocer Co., held on Tuesday, Dec. 15,
the old Board of Directors were re-elect-
ed, as follows: A. E. Worden, Chas.
F. Rood, Wm. M. Butts, W. L. Free-
man, T. J. O’Brien, Chas. W. Gar-
field, W. D. Talford, N. Fred Avery
and W. F. Blake. The election of offi-
cers resulted as follows: President, A.
E. Worden; Vice-President, Chas. F.
Rood ; Secretary, Wm. M. Butts; Treas-
urer, W. L. Freeman.

Frank Parmenter has handed in his
resignation as traveling salesman for
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effect Jan. 1, and has formed a copart-
nership with his son, Chas. B. Parmen-
ter, under the style of Parmenter & Par-
menter, for the purpose of embarking
in the merchandise brokerage business
here. The senior member of the firm
has been identified with the grocery
trade for nearly forty years and is, prob-
ably, as thoroughly posted on the details
of the business as any man in the State.
The junior member of the firm has
been identified with the furniture trade
of the city in various capacities for
about a dozen years and has made an
enviable record as an energetic and suc-

cessful salesman.
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The Grain Market.

Owing to the lack of speculation dur-
ing the fore part of last week, the wheat
market was quite dull and depressed.
However, there was a material change
for the better during the last two days of
the week and we are thus enabled to
record a 2c per bushel advance from one
week ago, while at one time there was
a loss of 2c, making a variation of 4c
per bushel since our last report. The
advance was fully warranted, as the de-
crease in the visible was fully double
the amount anticipated, being 2,028,000
bushels, against an increase of 3,048, 000
bushels for the corresponding week last
year, leaving the visible about 12,000, -
ooo bushels less than it was in 1895 and
35,000,000 bushels less than in 1894. A
decrease at this time of the year makes
a very peculiar situation. Foreign ad-
vices are very strong and present indi-
cations are for considerably higher
prices.

As is usual, there is nothing doing in
coarse grain. Prices remain the same
and trade is sluggish in both cereals.
Rye dropped about tc per bushel.

The receipts during the week were:
wheat, 50 Cars; corn, 7 Cars; oats, 3
cars.

Millers are paying 86c for wheat.

C. G. A. Voier.
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Flour and Feed.

We have had another week of drag-
ging markets, until toward the close,
when it became apparent that the vis-
ible wheat supply would show a large
decrease compared with the correspond-
ing week of last year. Since the figures
were posted and the market figured up
in consequence, there has been a good
deal of enquiry for flour, resulting in
sales of some good round lots. The
mills of the Northwest report heavy
sales within the past few days, both
domestic and foreign. Our city mills
are running steadily and, while orders
for immediate shipment are not crowd-
ing, they are booking a sufficient num-
ber for January and February to insure
the steady operation of the mills during
the first part of 1897. The most
troublesome question is where to find a
sufficient supply of such wheat as our
mills need.

Feed and meal are weak and a trifle
lower, in sympathy with the lower price
of corn and oats. Millstuffs are steady
and practically unchanged for the week.

Wm. N. Rowe.
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A Fellow Feeling.

‘‘There goes a man who has done
more for pedestrianism than any man
in America.”’

‘*He does not look like a patron of
sports. ’”’

‘*He isn’t; he manufactures tacks,

and his goods have punctured a million
tires. ’’

——__»>4.___

Ask about Gillies’ New York Spice
Phone 1589, J. P. Visner.

Contest.

 

LIFE OR DEATH.

 

Desperate Methods Resorted to by
the Bell Telephone Monopoly.

Grand Rapids people were somewhat
surprised, last week, to te informed,
through the medium of the daily press,
that the Bell Telephone Co. would here-
after furnish free telephone service to
all present subscribers to the Grand
Rapids exchange and that anyone who
wished a telephone would be accommo-
dated without money and without price.

el ek

It has been known for some time that
the telephone situation in Grand Rapids
is a decidedly perplexing one to the
Bell people. In no other city in the
country has the Bell monopoly met with
such strong opposition as here. The
reason for this is found in the character
of the men who have created and are
maintaining the opposition exchange.
They comprise about 400 of the leading
business men of the town—bankers,
manufacturers, wholesale and _ retail
dealers, professional men—and working
men, who have undertaken the enter-
prise for a two-fold object—the reduc-
tion of the telephone rentals to a proper
basis and to make money out of the

business.
Kk ke x

The Bell people claim that it is nct
possible for the Citizens people to make
any money on the present basis; that
$20 and $30 a year is not enough to re-
imburse a company for the equipment
and maintenance of an exchange and
the payment of dividends to stockhold-
ers. They insist that it is necessary for
a company to collect $40 and $50 a year
to meet these requirements of a success
ful exchange. The representatives of
the Bell company are frank in the state-
ment that they have, so far, gotten the
worse of the fight; that their actual
paid subscribers have been reduced
from 1,400 to less than 600, and that
they now have on hand eighty-eight re
quests from present subscribers to dis
continue the Bell service on Jan. 1.
This will reduce the number of actual
subscribers below 500. In the mean-
time Soo free telephones will be put in,
if possible, so that by February the Bell
people will be giving service tu 1,000
people. They admit that they have
failed to defeat the Citizens company
in two important particulars-- litigation
and superiority of service—in both of
which directions the Bell people ex-
pected to win. The litigation begun
against the competing company was so
ridiculous that it resulted in a fiasco,
while the service given by the Beil
company for the past three months has
been very much inferior to that of the
competing company. The Bell people
are frank to admit that their service is
inferior, but insist that this is not due
to the fact that their telephone is infe-
rior to the Kokomo phone, but that it is
to be attributed solely to the inferiority
of their wires and insulation, instead of
to the phone. They assert that, if the
Bell system, outside of the exchange,
were as good as the Citizens system is,
their phone would be as good a talk-

ing instrument as the Kokomo device.
ae

Having failed to substantiate every
promise made their subscribers, and
having failed to carry out every threat
and bluff made public since competition
put in an appearance, the Bell people
now admit that the only way they can
stifle competition—if, indeed, it can be
stifled—is to furnish every person who
will consent to take it a free phone.
This is, certainly, a humiliating posi-

 

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tion for the Bell people, but it appears
to be the only course for them, and the
outcome will be watched with much in-
terest by all concerned.
ee

In making the offer of free phones,
the Bell people are evidently acting on
the assumption that there are a_ consid-
erable number of people in the city who
are willing, for the sake of a little per-
sonal advantage, to assist in stifling
competition and thus enable the Bell
people to become supreme in the field,
in which case they assert that they will
make the people pay dearly for the
trouble they have been put to in the
present fight. They will probably put
the price of telephone service up to $75
and $90 a year, as was the case inacity
in a neighboring state where the Bell
institution had a lively tussle and finally
succeeded in starving out a competing
company by free telephone service for
a series of months. The Tradesman
very much doubts whether there will be
found any considerable number of peo-
ple who will be so short-sighted as to
permit themselves to be made the cat's-
paw of a monopoly in this manner, es-
pecially as everyone who accepts a free
phone does so with the understanding
that he is casting his influence against
4oo of his fellow citizens who have made
a voluntary investment for the purpose
of saving the telephone users of the city
thousands of dollars in the shape of tel-

ephone rentals.
*

The Bell people assert that they pro-
pose to acquire the plant of the Citizens
company as svon as they shall have
crippled the institution by their present
policy of free phones. They assert that
they will do this by buying up the stock
of the competing company at from 4o
to 60 cents on the dollar, as they real-
ize that a victory which involves the
loss of the capital invested by the stock-
holders of a competing company would
be very barren, indeed, because of the
bitter taste left in the mouths of the
vanquished. They, therefore, propose
to buy up the stock, and it is under-
stood that several transfers have already
occurred and that negotiations are now
in progress for other holdings.

ee

Taken altogether, the telephone situa-
tion is decidedly interesting, and if it
is a fact that the Michigan Telephone
Company has been bled to death by the
parent monopoly at Boston, so that it is
hard-pressed for means, it is not at all
unlikely that the Bell company will be
compelled to retire from the field alto-
gether, although it is asserted, without
contradiction, that the Bell people have
taken $1,500,000 in profits out of Grand
Rapids and that it can afford to spend a
portion of that sum in endeavoring to

regain its business in this field.
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A report having gone out through the
State to the effect that Geo. H. Reeder
& Co. have retired from the shoe busi-
ness, the Tradesman takes pleasure in
stating that the report is incorrect in
every particular. The corporation
known as the Reeder Bros. Shoe Co.
recently merged its business into a co-
partnership under the style of Geo. H.
Reeder & Co., which continues the sale
of the Lycoming and Keystone rubbers
in this State under a factory agency and
also some specialties in men’s and
women’s shoes adapted to the trade of
Michigan. Messrs. Reeder & Co. re-
tain the same location as the incorpo-
rated company and will push the busi-
ness just as aggressively and probably
just as effectively as the former corpo-
ration had the reputation of doing.

 

  

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

GOTHAM GOSSIP.

 

News from the Metropolis---Index to

the Market.
Special Correspondence.
New York, Dec. 11—The_ grocery

trade of New York remains steady, with
an increasing trade in holiday goods to
nearby dealers. This trade has reached
high tide so far as dealers trom out of
town are concerned, and the year will
go on record as ‘‘one of the finest.’’ In
this season of peace on earth and good
will toward men it seems out of place
to read of wars and rumors of wars; but
go where one will, the Cuban question
seems to overtop Christmas. A year
ago it was Venezuela.

Prices of grocery staples remain about
unchanged and the fluctuation in any
instance is very slight.

Coffee, although regarded as_ very
cheap, is exciting no interest on the
part of jobbers. The stocks at both Rio
and Santos are enormous, amounting,
in round numbers, to 2,000,000 bags.
This has the effect of suppressing any
upward tendency and, besides, it isa
time of year when dealers are taking
enough only for hand-to-mouth wants.
Rio No 7 is held at toc. Mild coffees
sympathize with Brazil grades and the
trading is of small volume. A sale of
600 bags of Maracaibo was reported
Thursday, and this is about the daily
average of this sort.

The market for raw sugar is about as
dull as at any time previously. Scarcely
a transaction has taken place between
refiners and holders. The meltings of
refiners have been larger than last week,
but are not yet up to the average of
past weeks. For refined, prices show
scarcely any change and the demand for
granulated is light. Just enough is be-
ing taken to ‘‘keep things moving,’’
and improvement is not anticipated un-
til after the turn of the year. Granu-
lated is held at 45c.

There was a sale of 10,000 packages
of Pingsuey teas on “‘spec,’’ and this is
regarded as the most important trans-
action for some time. Sales, asa rule,
are of very small lots, but the general
Situation is rather encouraging for a
better condition of affairs all around
soon after the holidays. Auction sales
attract quite a number of buyers, but
bidding is moderate.

‘*Well, there is nothing doing just
now in rice, but we hope for a turn for
the better very soon.’’ This is the talk
of dealers generally. Arrivals of for-
eign are closely sold up and the cemand
is fairly good.

In spices it is the same old story.
Week after week goes by and there is
scarcely any change, either in the sta-
tistical position or in prices. Sales are
small and there is nothing going on in
an invoice way.

Strictly prime New Orleans molasses
is worth 29c, and some fancy stock has
sold as high as 34c. This for new crop.
Old is meeting with very little enquiry
and the market is dull in the extreme.
Syrups are meeting with fair sale for
best grades and the outlook is quite en-
couraging. Prime to fancy sugar syrups
are quotable at 18@25c.

As with some other staples the canned
goods situation is one of quietness—
characteristic, perhaps, of the season.
Jobbers are doing some business, but
trom first hands trading is light. The
aim now Is to carry over as light stocks
as possible and not burden the shelves
with quantities of goods, even though
they can be snapped up at a bargain.
Some things are evidently in very light
supply and of corn there is thought to
be less than for several seasons. Toma-
toes vary largely in price, some Mary-
land stock going at 65c, and New Jer-
sey at 80c. Red Alaska salmon is in
steady demand, quotable at $1.12.

Dried fruits are practically without
change. There is a fair demand for
loose California raisins and the market
is ratber firmer than a week ago. Three-
crown fruit is worth 5%c, with some
holders asking 53{c. Prunes show no
change and the market remains quiet.

Lemons sell slowly and at low rates
Still, the situation is one that might
be worse. Oranges are moving freely

 

in small lots—just enough to last until
the Christmas demand ts over. Califor-
nia oranges are in good demand. The
supply of Florida stock is quite Jarge,
but sales do not seem to be made freely.
Bananas and pineapples are moving in
an everyday manner.

The butter market presents very few
features of interest. Western creamery
extras are worth 24%c.

Cheese has been rather quiet and
prices have tended to a lower base. The
inquiry for export has been fair, but the
cheaper sorts seem to be wanted for
such purposes.

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Style of Package and Packing for
Market.

Boston, Dec. 15—In regard to packing
butter for the Boston market, we prefer
spruce tubs of assorted sizes, especially
through the winter season. From May
to August first, we can handle the ash
tub as well as the other markets.

We require one ounce of salt to the
pound, with parchment paper on top of
the butter instead of cloth. We have
received the past season considerable
butter with paper lined tubs and they
have been received with great favor.
The tubs should be well soaked and a
coat of salt rubbed on the inside before
packing the butter. This will prevent
the butter from moulding. This isa
very important part of the work of pre-
paring butter for market.

There have been several thousand
boxes of butter shipped from our mar-
ket this year to the foreign market,
which have been received there with
great favor. These boxes hold fifty-six
pounds of butter net. They are made
of white wood and lined with parch-
ment paper. This butter sells for bet-
ter prices than when packed in tubs, and
we would advise ail creameries to give
the matter of nacking butter for foreign
shipment careful attention and be ready
to use them at any time the foreign
market is in shape to pay us as much
as our own market, so that we can dis-
pose of our surplus butter. If all of our
surplus butter had been packed in boxes
this season, it would have sold in the
foreign market for more money than it
will ever sell for here, after losing the
storage and interest, and at the same
time, we should have gained some fa-
vor with the foreign market by letting
them know that we have fine butter
here as well as Australia. It has been
our practice to ship the poorest butter.
In this way we have hurt our credit as
a butter-producing country.

Now that we have established so many
creameries, there is less of the low
grades of butter and more of the high
grades than we can consume at home.
It is very plain to be seen that it is our
duty to cater to the wishes of the people
upon whom we are dependent to use our
surplus butter, and in order to do this
we must give them the style of package
they require, as well as salt and color
to their wants.

One of our neighbors has just re-
turned from Liverpool and he tells me
he has seen the retailer there try to sell
tub butter and the buyer would not look
at it but must have his butter from the
square box. The same butter would sell
at retail] for 2c a pound more cut from
the box than from the tub.

Now, with these facts in view, is it not
worth our careful attention to try and
build up a trade for our surplus butter,
which the writer is satisfied is going to
be increased year by year, as the dairy
business is still in its infancy in this
country?

I would like to give you a little ad-
vice in regard to salt. It should be un-
derstood by everyone using salt that it
is a great absorbent of all impurities,
as much so as fresh butter or cream.
Salt should be kept in a clean room by
itself; never in a store where there are
kerosene oil, salt fish, molasses and
other articles.

The writer first discovered this fact
in 1887, by one thousand sacks of salt
being shipped from Liverpool to Boston
in a Cunard steamer, which were so im-
pregnated with the odors of the rest of
the cargo that the steamship company
was obliged to pay for the salt.

Shortly after this, I was having butter

  
   

 

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Big ‘‘F”” Brand OYSTERS
Choice QRANGES Mexican

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Telephone 1348. 54 S. Ionia St., Grand Rapids.

The Oyster Season 1s 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-
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.

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GHFISHMAS OUSTEFS

The only exclusive Wholesale Oyster Dealers in Grand Rapids.
Prompt attention given to Mail and Wire O:ders.
Remember we will meet all honest competition.

ALLERTON & HAGGSTROM. 127 Louis St.

BEANS

We are in the market daily for BEANS, POTATOES, ONIONS, carlots.
large samples beans with best price you can furnish carlots or less.

MOSELEY BROS.,

WHOLESALE SEEDS, BEANS, POTATOES,
26-28-30-32 OTTAWAST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

WE PAY CASH FOR

SUNDRIED APPLES

We have been established 20 years and refer to First National Bank, Chicago.
Your banker can see our rating. Also dealers in Honey, Potatoes, Beans, Apples.

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from Messrs. Gurler Bros., of De Kalb,
lll., and found that there was an off
flavor to their butter, that I could not ac-
count for in any way until I visited
their creamery. The first thing I did
when I arrived there was to smell of the
salt and it smelt of ammonia from the
stable. On investigation, we found the
salt had been stored in the shed where
Mr. Gurler kept his horse.

These facts led me to make a thorough
test of all American salts, as I did not
think it safe to use salt that had been
transported across the ocean in vessels
with other cargo. The results of the
tests that I made with the foreign and
American salts showed me beyond a
doubt that we have better salt in the
United States than any imported salt.

We have made our tests yearly with
the best brands of salt and in all cases
when butter had been held four months
in stcre, American salts showed but-
ter to be worth from one cent to one
and a half cents a pound more than
when salted with foreign salt.

These facts ought to be proof enough
to show that American salt is the safest
and best to use. Do not haul salt home
and leave it in the stable over night or
throw horse blankets over it when be-
ing drawn home. Thousands of dollars
have been lost on butter when salted
with salt that had been impregnated
with foul odors. O. DovGtass.

—__> 2. ____

“P. & B.” Oysters Always Good

And they always will be good. We will
be prepared to fill your Christmas and
New Year's orders with the _ finest,
freshest and best oysters that go out of
Grand Rapids or any other city. You
can buy common oysters from this mar
ket at a few cents less than our prices,
but you want the best and freshest goods
to be had, and you will get them from
us. Give us your orders now, and place
your holiday orders with us as soon as
you can, They will have our prompt
attention.

ALLFRTON & HaGGsTRoOM,

Wholesale Oyster Packers.
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Molasses for Gas in Germany.

Owing to the low price of molasses,
it is proposed in Germany to use it for
the manufacture of gas. It has long
since been demonstrated that roo pounds
of calcined molasses is equivalent tc
30 pounds of oil, and it is possible from
220 pounds of the residuum to obtain
nearly 2,0co cubic feet ot gas which
may be used for heating purposes.

—_—__» 2. ___
Your Best Customers

And your competitors’ best customers
will find during these holiday occasions
that the Anchor brand oysters are the
richest in flavor and largest and fresh-
est. Are you supplying them, or are
you allowing other merchants to furnish
them to your customers? F. J. Detten
thaler, of Grand Rapids, can fill your
mail or wire orders. Fresh shipments
received every day.
—_—__> 0+ ___
Florida Turning to Peaches.

Florida orange-growers, who suffered
so severely by the freeze of 1894, are
in part turning their attention to the
production of peaches, which are not
liable to the same catastrophe. They
expect to place peaches in Philadelphia
and New York in the month of May by
express at the cost of 50 cents acrate.

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Human Nature.

Old gentleman (to small boys steal-
ing apples)—Good gracious, boys, steal-
ing is bad enough; but if you must
steal, why don’t you take the ripe ap-
ples instead of the green?

Boys (in chorus)—Th’ man what owns
the orchard will give us all the ripe
ones we want if we ask for ’em."’

OATS Good market in Detroit. Write

HAY Fd. ROARG, dr.,
FEED 693 Mack Ave,

 

 

 

 

GRAND RAPIDS IN 1850.

 

Business Relations of the Village to
Grand Haven.
Written for the TRADESMAN.

In 1850, Grand Rapids and Grand
Haven were very closely allied in their
business relations. River navigation
was the only charnel of transportation,
no stage line being established. The
mails between the two places and inter-
mediate points were carried on the
boats. The entire business of the Grand
River Valley, outgoing and incoming,
was done through Grand Haven. Every
article destined for the Chicago or
Buffalo market was transferred there
and sent forward by steamboats or sail-
ing vessels to its place of destination.
This made the storing and shipping
business extensive and profitable in
Grand Haven.

The salt wells at Grand Rapids had
been abandoned, but the large quanti-
ties of lumber in the shape of three inch
oak plank for paving the streets of Chi
cago, lumber of every description for
building purposes, lath, shingles and
shingle bolts, as well as round and
square timber of every kind suitable for
masts and shipbuilding, made up a
heavy shipping business. Milwaukee
and Chicago at that time handled ail
the surplus wheat and flour produced in
the Grand River Valley. Add to this
the products of the gypsum mills and
vou Can imagine lively times in Grand
Haven during the season of navigation:
hut in winter it was icebound and land-
locked.

There were three warehouses there at
that time—one owned by the Gilbert
brothers, one by Ferry & Sons and the
third by C. B. Albee. I think all three
of these added merchandising and other
‘ines of trade to their warehouse busi-
ness. Ferry & Sons and the Gilberts
operated large sawmills for those early
lays and were extensive shippers of
lumber, as well as dealers in pine
lands. C. B. Albee owned and uperated
in extensive tannery also. They were
ill men of uncompromising integrity
ind of broad business capacity. They
were educated business men of the old
school. Ferry & Sons were vessel own-
ers and builders. I believe they built
ind owned the first propeller launched
from the Michigan shore of Lake Mich-
igan named the Otawa. She was very
staunch built and popular as a_passen-
zer boat. The Gilbert brothers were
also vessel owners. Their successors
were three of their former employes—
Vessrs. Haxton, Cutler & Wartz—three
hustling young men for those early days.
They enjoyed the confidence of the pub-
lic, earned by strict attention to busi-
ness, conducted upon the same _honor-
able lines as their predecessors. I have
frequently met the genial, good-hearted
Ben Haxton in Detroit, where he has
long lived, one of the leading tobacco
nists of the city. I do not recall having
met Mr. Cutler since I jieft the Grand
River Valley, but have often heard
of him through mutual friends. The
uninterrupted prosperity he has enjoyed
has been honestly earned and well de-
served.

On the ground now occupied by the
Cutler House there stood a two-story
wooden structure known as the Pennoyer
House, owned and kept by Mr. Pennoy-
er, one of the oldest settlers in the
Grand River Valley. He was one of the
victims of the Port Sheldon Bubble
which collapsed early in the thirties,
the most extravagant and _ disastrous
speculation of those wild-cat days. Mr.

  

 

Pennoyer was a polite and courteous
gentleman of the Micawber type, always
looking for ‘something to turn up.’’
In address and deportment he was a ver-
itable ‘*‘ Turveydrop.’’ Even in his mis-
fortunes his natural dignity was un-
ruffled and his patronizing, smile the
same as when he counted his fortune by
ten of thousands. He was over six feet
tall, and of faultless proportions that
commanded the admiration of all with
whom he came in contact. The Indians,
to whom he was a generous friend, both
loved and feared him. They gave him
the name of ‘‘Big Foot.’’ The writer
vividly recalls an August night spent
at the Pennoyer House in 1850. The
wild notes of an Indian flute joining in
chorus with the ceaseless hum of the
treble-voiced mosquito and the basso
profundo of croaking frogs made any-
thing but a pleasing luliaby to the
nerves of a tired guest, and I was re
joiced when the cheerful mill whistles
recalled the sleeping town to life and
activity and your humble servant to an
excellent breakfast.

Grand Haven was prompt to furnish
good soldiers to take the field in defense
of the Union, and a statesman who took

 

rank with the ablest in our National
councils, the late Hon. Thomas W.
Ferry. It was the good fortune of the
writer to listen to Mr. Ferry’s first
rallying appeal to the people, soon after
the bombardment of Fort Sumpter. It
was an exhortation to his countrymen to
arms in defense of the Union, and re-
vealed the blood of the revolutionary
patriots that coursed through his veins.

One can hardly realize the contrast
between the Grand Haven of 1850 and
the Grand Haven of 1896. Its sand and
sawdust business streets are graded with
more substantial material. The one-
story shapeless wooden stores have given
place to imposing blocks that are
models of durability and modern archi-
tecture, and the unpainted low wooden
residences scattered through its ungrad-
ed sun-burned streets have given place
to tasteful residences, shady avenues
and well-kept lawns.

The limit of this article prevents any
further description of the panoramic
view ot old Grand Haven that in
memory stretches out before me. Its
sawdust plains are things of the past,
to which | bid adieux.

W. S. H. WELTON.
Owosso, Mich.

 

 

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WEDNESDAY, - - - DECEMBER 16, 1896.

 

GENERAL TRADE CONDITIONS.

While the generally improved situa-
tion as to employment and production
continues, there is more or less of dis-
appointment ‘in the materialization o!
demand. This disappointment is caused
not so much by the failure in what
ought to have been expected as in the
indulgence of too great expectations. A
steadily increasing demand continues
in most lines, but there are disturb-
ances of values on account of combina-
tions in some, and the dulness of the
season in wholesale trade, which are
factors exerting a strong influence on the
general result. The retail demand fo:
holiday goods is decidedly encoura-
ging, especially considering the degree
of depression obtaining so long and s
recently.

The pendulum of wheat values seems
to swing at almost weekly intervals,
generally rising to higher values at each
upward impulse. Dollar wheat was
long ago a reality in the English mar-
kets, and has moved westward until it
has become familiar in all the seaboard
cities. The reaction which was in
progress at the date of the last issue of
the Tradesman continued until] Satur-
day, when the movement turned, and
has been progressing since, although
with a slight reaction yesterday, which
is generally thought to be temporary.

The struggles of the trusts and com-
binations in the iron trade continue as
a dominant factor of demoralization.
The belief that the breaking up of these
organizations will reduce prices operates
to prevent orders, and so increases the
downward tendency. There is nothing
in the general industrial situation to
account for the iron depression; in fact,
nothing is needed—the condition of
these associations is amply sufficient.
Just how long this feature will operate
as a hindrance to the revival is impos-
sible to conjecture, but surely it cannot
continue indefinitely.

The general activity in the wool trade
continues, but the outlook for the man-
ufacture is not much improved, demand
continuing very slow. Cotton has de-
clined in price and the mills are com
plaining on account of an increase of
manufactured products.

The dulness in the speculative market
still continues, but there is a decided
improvement in the demand for bonds
and other investment securities, a nat-

 

ural result of the continued plenty in
the money market. The stringency has
again increased in the London market
and the investment in New York in
sterling exchange still continues.

Bank clearings have had the natural
talling of the second week in the
month, but they still continue above the
billion point. The amount was $1,065, -
700,000. Failures were more numerous

by 22, amounting to 381.

 

CONGRESSIONAL FORECAST.

The last session of the Fifty-fourth
Congress has an abundance of work be-
fore it, but it is doubtful if much of it
will be attended to before the 4th of
March, when the present Congress ex-
pires by operation of law.

There are, we are told, some 1,100
private bills and over 200 bills of public
importance pending. In addition to
these, the large number of appropria-
tion bills will claim attention, while
the tariff and financial conditions of the
country are also subjects of much dis-
cussion. With such a mass of business
on hand, therefore, and the time at the
disposal of Congress so limited, the
outlook for legislation of a beneficial
character, beyond the passage of the
appropriations, is very dim. Yet
there are matters of great public interest
pending which ought to receive prompt
consideration. There are the immigra-
tion bill, the Pacific railroad bill, the
Nicaragua matter, the bills for reorgan-
ization of the naval establishment and
the army, the Cuban question and a
multitude of measures suggested by the
lepartment chiefs for the improvement
of the public service in various particu-
lars and incorporated in pending acts.
Some of the private bills, indeed, are
natters of common justice that ought to
ne looked after.

It is more than likely, however, that
the vast majority of these measures will
de passed over and that the only results
if the session will be the further ap-
propriations required. Congress is get-
‘ing to be an unwieldy body, notwith
standing the fact that it is a smaller
nody than either the French or British
Parliaments. The time is frittered away
luring the long session in debate and
in the efforts of individual members to
pass pet measures calculated to aid in
their re-election. The most important
issues, from time to time, the sugges-
tions from the departments looking to
the necessities of the public defense
ind public service, fare the worst of all.
Che gloomy prospect is never improved
by the selection of a new membership.
[he dilatory methods and unsatisfactory
record of the Fifty-third Congress have
been duplicated by the Fifty-fourth and,
the probabilities are, will be repeated
in the Fifth-fifth Congress. It has come
to be regarded as a reasonable compli-
ance with public requirements, if no
positively hurtful legislation 1s enacted.

 

Contrary to general expectation, Con-
gress seems bent upon taking up the
consideration of the tariff question at
the present session. The Ways and
Means Committee of the House has de-
cided that hearings shall be given,com-
mencing December 28 and lasting two
weeks, on the various schedules of du-
tiable articles, to which all interested
are invited to offer suggestions. It
seems hardly probable that this com-
mittee would take up the work in this
methodic manner unless it had some
reason to believe that such legislation
would stand a show of favorable consid-
eration at the hands of the other
branches of the Government.

 

TIRES AND STREETS.

It is a significant fact that most of
the horseless carriages which promise
success are those provided with pneu-
matic tires. There is in this fact the
promise that this new application of
the old principle of elasticity in the
rolling surfaces of carriage wheels is
coming to stay; for there is never so
extended an adoption of a new method
that it does not supersede the old, even
if it is eventuaily superseded itself by
something else.

It is a great wonder that in the ad-
vance of mechanical science this ap-
plication of elasticity waited so long.
From time immemorial man has built
his vehicles with the most rigid pos-
sible surfaces to the wheels, and has
striven to make roadway surfaces to sus-
tain them. In fact, he has been so
bungling that he has made his wheels
with such narrow edges that one with
the least mechanical knowledge must
know that they would destroy any or-
dinary roadway; and it has so recently
dawned upon his understanding that
there is one advantage in using tires
wide enough to support the load that
the majority are still the narrow ones.
It is thus with many ot the applica-
tions of practical science—-we wender at
the blind bungling which has so long
ignored them. In the case of the con-
tact surfaces of wheels the blindness is
the more remarkable that we have had
the plainest possible examples of the
application of elasticity in nature, and
we have persistently ignored them. We
nave seen the camel, fur example, pass
over the yielding sand with the utmost
ease with his broad ‘‘cushioned tires,’’
but it has never occurred to us that we
could do otherwise than plow through
our road surfaces with knife-edged
wheels.

But at last, slowly and gradually, we
are coming to know that the contact
surface of the support of a load must be
mechanically proportioned to its weight,
and, in addition to this, that we may
use the principle of a_ partial yielding
to the asperities of the surfaces ina
way to greatly reduce the destructive
friction. The first use of rubber in
vehicle tires was for baby carriages and
children’s bicycles. Soon the advantage
was recognized by older riders, but it
was only a matter of personal comfort
that was considered. And in the ad-
vance to the use of confined air, it was
still only that the rider might glide
along with luxurious ease- there was no
thought of any consideration for the
road surface. Indeed, it is only now that
this phase of the question is beginning
to receive attention. The discovery
that elastic tires are effective road
makers, where they are given a chance,
seems to have been purely accidental
and secondary. The great number of
wheels coming into use in the last year
or so has afforded many examples of a
quickly made path through the most
uncompromising mud of the streets.

As long as the rigid, and especially
the narrow, tire has to be provided for,
the matter of road building is very for-
midable. It involves engineering en-
terprise of the most costly character.
But if it should transpire that the prin-
ciple of elasticity in tires should be-
come universal it would give anew
phase to the problem. A road surface
would not need to be supported by a
great thickness of the most costly road
material. It would only be necessary to
provide a properly shaped and drained
highway, with a surface that would
pack, and the wheels would do the rest.

 

The paving and maintaining of city
streets iS a serious economic problem.
The best pavements known are quickly
destroyed by the iron shod traffic. Every
year the best of modern pavements,
where traffic is heavy, must be repaired
and renewed at great expense. The
adoption of elastic tires would do away
with all of this. Given the self-pro-
pelling wagon with pneumatic tiltes—
dispensing with the horse and the steel
rimmed wheel—and, regardless of the
amount of traffic, the asphalt pavement
would be practically indestructible.

And this suggestion is not Utopian.
Just now the attention of the world is
being directed as never before to this
subject. The repeal of antiquated laws
in England which have long hampered
invention and experiment in this di-
rection has given a tremendous impetus
to the movement. Already companies
are being organized to put the self-pro-
pelling cars, with elastic’ tires, on the
streets of London, to supersede the cab
and even to dispute precedence with the
train car. The demonstration of this
experiment is of the widest significance.
If it is shown that the horse, with its
unhealthy street litter, can be dispensed
with, it will mark a great advance.
And if the destructive clatter of the
Belgian block pavement can be done
away with, it will be another great step.
Whether the horse shall be entirely dis-
placed for street traffic or not, it is
reasonable to predict that the destruc-
tion of streets and vehicles by the rigid
steel tire will soon be superseded by
the gliding movement of elastic wheels
on a smooth surface which will not be
costly to maintain.

 

THE RUSSIAN-CHINESE TREATY.

It has frequently been confidently as-
serted, and as frequently been denied,
that a treaty had been arranged between
China and Russia, giving the latter
country important commercial rights in
Chinese territory. That Russia was
desirous of so arranging matters as to
successfully dominate affairs in China
nobody for a moment doubted; but it
was deemed improbable that China, a
power so jealous of foreign influence in
her affairs, would consent to any arrange-
ment which would give Russia greater
privileges than were accorded to other
powers,

It now appears, however, that a treaty
between China and Russia is an actual
fact. According to its terms, Russia is
to have the right to operate a railroad
through Manchuria, and to maintain a
force of troops wherever necessary to
protect the road and secure the stations.
Port Arthur is also to be fortified and
maintained by Russia on behalf of
China, and the practical control of the
Liao Tung peninsula is to be placed in
Russia’s hands.

These concessions mean that Russian
influence will henceforth be paramount
in China, and that Russia will seek to
monopolize Chinese trade. From a mil-
itary point of view, the treaty will give
Russia immense influence in the Far
East, and will make her an important
rival of Great Britain in the Orient.
Her occupation of the Liao Tung pen-
insula will be a serious menace to
Japan, and that power must now suffer
the mortification of seeing all the fruits
of her recent victory over China pass
into the hands of Russia. This fact
must sooner or later produce such irrita-
tion that an armed clash will become

almost inevitable. That Japan is pre-
paring for such an event ts undeniable.

_ The fact that business is improving
is an indication that it could be made
still better by a litile effort,

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

9

 

BRITISH IMPERIAL FEDERATION.

The British Empire League has
again convened in London, but its
present meeting appears to be devoid of
all enthusiasm. Mr. Chamberlain’s
proposition of free trade within the
empire does not appear to have found as
much favor with the autonomous colo-
nies as had been hoped, and its practi-
cal failure is largely responsible for the
poor progress of the proposed imperial
federation movement.

While it 1s generally recognized that
some arrangement must eventually be
made which will knit more closely to-
gether the various portions of the British
Empire, the trade difficulties in the
way appear to be formidable. The
necessity for providing for the common
defense and the apportionment of the
expense of such defense among the va-
rious component parts of the British
Empire necessitate some sort of repre-
sentation in administration. It has,
therefore, been the aim of British states-
men for some time past to devisea
plan on bringing all the colonies to-
gether upon some common ground. Free
trade within the empire very clearly
will not serve the purpose,and as yet no
other alternative proposition has been
presented; hence imperial federation
may be said to be in abeyance for the
present.

It is rather remarkable that in England
the opinion is frequently expressed that
the United States will eventually be in
duced to enter into some sort of federa-
tion with Great Britain and her colonies.
Why such ideas should find a lodginent
there, when they meet with no sympathy
at all in this country, it is difficult to
imagine. Such an arrangement is
neither desired nor even thought of by
the American people.

COMMERCE DESTROYERS.

While the American navy can lay
claim to little in the way of originality
in warship construction since the combat
of the Merrimac and Monitor in Hamp-
ton Roads revolutioned warship build-
ing, there is at least one matter in
which we can justly claim to have been
pioneers, namely, in the originating of
the modern commerce destroyer.

When Congress authorized the con-
Struction of the 7,500-ton unarmored
cruisers Columbia and Minneapolis for
the express purpose of developing a
very high speed, coupled with ability to
keep the sea for a long voyage, foreign
naval experts were disposed to question
the wisdom of the expenditure, on the
ground that such ships, being unable to
do much fighting, would scarcely justify
the expense of maintenance and would
prove less serviceable than the armored
class of cruisers.

Despite the criticisms, however, both
the French and British naval authorities
lost no time in perfecting plans for the
construction of similar vessels; but, un-
like us, they have not been content to
stop at securing as good ships as we
possess, but have endeavored to outstrip
us, and as far as Great Britain is con-
cerned this has been accomplished. It
was found that the Columbia and Min-
neapolis, while very fast vessels, would
not be able to successfully overhaul any
of the swift transatlantic liners. It was
also discovered that their fighting qual-
ities were quite short of what they
should be, considering their size; in
fact, many small cruisers possessed
heavier armaments.

To obviate the defects developed in
the Columbia and Minneapolis, the Brit-
ish naval authorities !aid down two

 

vessels of 14,200 tons displacement, with
immense engine power. These gigantic
ships are now ready for service, and it
is said one of them will be sent to act
as the flagship of the British North At-
lantic squadron. The Powerful and
Terrible, as these formidable vessels
are named, have developed a speed un-
der natural draft of 22% knots per hour,
which will, it is claimed, enable them
to make as good speed as the fastest of
the great Atlantic liners. Owing to
their size, the engine-room force will be
able to remain at work for a longer
time than on smaller vessels, and the
Immense coal capacity allows them a
wide range of usefulness.

The Powerful and Terrible are 538
feet long and have a beam of 71 feet.
Although the vessels are not armored
they are protected, as far as the vitals
are concerned, by an armored deck.
[he guns and gun crews are also pro-
tected by armored casemates. The
armament of these cruisers will be very
heavy, consisting of fourteen heavy guns
and twenty-eight iighter weapons, be-
sides many machine guns and torpedo
tubes. The crews of these ships will
comprise in each case about 850 men.

It is doubtful if the advantages to be
gained by the possession of these mon-
ster commerce destroyers will sufficiently
compensate Great Britain for the heavy
expense of maintaining them. The
Columbia and Minneapolis, although
much smaller vessels, are very nearly
as fast, and the very apparent de-
ficiency in their armament could be
readily made good by additions. The
big British ships are, moreover, mere
developments of the idea represented in
the two American cruisers, and our navy
is, therefore, fully entitled to all the cred-
it that attaches to the invention of this
type of warship.

 

Cash Prize and Diploma for Best
Essay.

Dayton, Ohio, Dec. 15—We do not be-
live the Michigan Tradesman can do a
better work for its readers than to lay
before them the ideas of successful gro-
cers on ‘* How to Successfully Conduct a
Retail Grocery Store’’

To this end we have decided to offer,
with the permission of the Michigan
Tradesman, a prize of $25 in gold, and
a diploma, for the best essay written by
a retail grocer, on the subject, ‘‘How
to Successfully Conduct a Retail Gro-
cery Store.’’

Esssays entered in the competition
must not exceed 2,000 words in length.
They must be written on one side of the
paper only and mailed to the editor of
the Michigan Tradesman on or before
April 1, 1897.

Each essay must be marked witha
fictitious name, the real name of the
writer being enclosed in a sealed en-
velope and sent in the same package
with the essay.

The prize will be awarded by a com-
mittee of three judges, one chosen by
the editor of the Michigan Tradesman
and one by us, these two to choose the
third judge.

Some of the essays entered in the
competition will be printed from time
to time in the Michigan Tradesman.
The essay to which the prize is awarded
will be printed in the issue of May 5.

NATIONAL CASH REGISTER Co.

9-2
Ontario farm lands have taken a big
drop in value during the past twelve
years. The total value in 1883 was
placed at $654,793,000; in 1895 the val-
uation was reduced to $572,938,000.
The bringing of new wheat districts
into competition with the Ontario fields
is given as the cause of the rapid de-
cline.

—_—____-2 ~~.

No man who is intoxicated, or whose

breath is even tainted with strong drink,

is allowed to take his post on a train
on the Grand Trunk Railway.

 

The Woman of It.
Written for the TRaDESMAN.

There was a rustle of skirts, a gentle
footstep on the floor and the salesman
looked up in time to catch the glance
of enquiry which, for a fleeting moment,
overspread the face of the new custom-
er. She was tall and not ungraceful,
carried herself erect and talked as easily
and as fluently as a lightning rod agent.

‘‘Do you keep shoes? Yes, I under-
stood that you did. My cousin, Mrs.
Bartley Smith, said that you did. You
know her, of course? Yes, she said you
would. She said that all I had to do
was to mention her name and you would
be glad to show me just what I wanted.
I hate to buy shoes, don’t you? It’s an
awful nuisance. I don’t see why they
can’t make shoes that will last forever;
but of course they wouldn’t do that, for,
if they did, you merchants wouldn't
have anything tc do. But then the shoes
they make nowadays aren't what they
used to be. Everybody admits that.
When I buy shoes I always want the best
thing I can get. The best are poor
enough, goodness knows. But then it
seems as though you can’t believe what
anybody says about shoes. They’ll tell
you that a pair of shoes are geod to
wear, and first thing you know they are
all to pieces. I gota pair ot slippers
last winter to attend the Governor’s
ball, and they were very expensive,
too, and I was assured that they would
give me complete satisfaction, but, if
you will believe it, they are all off my
feet, and I really must have something
to wear right away. Now, if you have
something that is good and stylish and
pretty and just my size, I should like to
see it, and you must remember tbat I
am a cousin of Mrs. Bartley Smith, and
she says that they buy nearly all of their
shoes of you, because they say that your
shoes are good, and that they can al-
ways depend upon what you tell them.’’

‘‘Certainly, I shall be glad to show
you anything we have. Now here is
something that has been very popular
of late. It is the new coin toe, and this
tip has the advantage over the patent
one of never cracking or peeling off,
and it looks nice as long as the shoe is
worn. I--’’

““O, isn’t that lovely? I just think
that is the sweetest shoe I ever saw.
Now do just let me try ona pair of
them—I think I had better havea C
last, I dislike a wide shoe so much. I
really ought to have my shoes made to
order, my foot is so peculiar—so nar-
row, you know—and there are so few
people that wear a narrow shoe like
that that I sometimes have trouble in
getting ready-made shoes to fitme. You
might let me try a three and a half, and
I will look at a number four, too. I
never wore a four, but -Mrs. Bartley
Smith says that very large shoes are
more comfortable in cold weather, and
I care nothing for style anyway. I am
such an old fogy about having every-
thing loose and comfortable. My broth-
ers say that I am a regular crank in that
respect. But I would rather be a crank
than be uncomfortable, wouldn’t you?’’

There was a creaking of ribs,a strain
ing of corsage, a red-faced lady and a
discomfited shoe clerk. Then he said:

‘‘Beg your pardon, ma’am—I got the
wrong pair, come to think. Here is the
one I was looking for;’’ and, taking a
pair of 4% E from the box, he man-
aged finally to squeeze them onto the ex-
tremities of the lady who wished to be
comfostable and buttoned them up.

‘*There!’’ said she, ‘‘you see how it
is—they are lots too big. I can scarcely

 

ever find a shoe but what is too wide
for me, and then, after I have had
them a few days, they are so loose that
I can hardly keep them on. I wish
there was a good shoemaker here. I
wouldn't think of getting store shoes if
there was. I don’t know whether to take
these or not. They look pretty good
now but I am afraid that they won't last
long, and I do so hate to buy new shoes.
Is that good leather in the uppers?”’

‘*Finest Dongola kid stock. We guar-
antee every pair of them. If they don’t
give satisfaction, return them and get
your money back.’’

‘“The buttons came off the last pair I
had in just a few days and I had to sew
them all on again. Do you fasten the
buttons on?’’

‘*Certainly.’

‘*What did you say the price is?’’

‘* Three dollars. ’’

‘‘O, my! I didn’t want anything as
expensive as that. Isn't that rather
high for this kind of a shoe? The last
pair I got didn’t cost nearly as much.’’

‘Why, three dollars is no price at all
for those shoes, ma'am. They are made
of the very finest kid stock, as i said
before, and nothing but the best ma-
terials and workmanship enter into their
make-up. Shoes like that in the cities
are sold for from four to five dollars
right along to the best trade and are
considered cheap. We have lower
priced shoes, of course, but nothing that
will give the satisfaction and wear that
these will, or be so cheap in the long
run. You can’t do better than to take
these shoes. ”’

‘Well, that may be, of course. I don’t
want to dispute your word, but I think
it is more than | should care to pay for
that kind of a shoe—and, come to think
of it, I am going to stay at Mrs. Bart-
ley Smith's for some time, and it
doesn’t make so much difference what
one wears here in the country as it does
in town. I think, on the whole, that I
will get something cheap that will do
until I go home again, and then I'll get
a good pair. I like these very much,
and I suppose you will keep them right
along, so that I can get a pair of them
when I start back?’’

‘*O, of course. We couldn’t afford
to get out of these shoes.’’

‘Then if I take two pairs you will
make some reduction? They always do
where I came from.’’

‘“Why, yes, we wouldn’t object to
making a little reduction where a_per-
son takes several pairs at one time.’’

‘‘No, but I mean if I buy one pair
now and one pair when I go away?’’

‘*Well, I couldn’t promise to do that.
You see, that is only buying one pair at
atime, and lots of people buy shves
that way. No, we would have to charge
the regular price. The best way for you
would be to take two pairs to-day and
then we can make a little better price.”’

‘Well, I think I will go back to Mr.
Sissons’ store. Mrs. Bartley Smith said
I had better go there, and, if I couldn’t
find what I wanted, then I could come
here. I was at Mr. Sissons’, and he
has a pair that just suit me, and he
doesn’t charge anywhere near what you
do, and I think they are better shoes, -
too.’

When the clerk came to himself, the
lady had gone, the clock was striking
thirteen and the cash register had rung
up $9.99 on its own account?

Gro. L. THURSTON.
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The planters of Yucatan, finding the
present price of sisal hemp to be too
low for good profit, have turned their
hand to cultivating potatoes and indigo.

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Flour and Feed

Fashion vs. Flour.
Written for the TRADESMAN.

That inexorable tyrant, Fashion,
seemingly demands that we shall sacri-
fice health, wealth, and even life if nec-
essary, in order that our bread _ shall
present a more attractive appearance
in color, regardless of the nourishment
it may contain or the efforts of a fam-
ishing human system to appease hunger.
There is a doubtful merit in the new
process flour if we desire the well-being
of mankind. Not so much is this in
crushing the grain as in the after proc-
ess of the separator. But what has
that to do with the question if society
decrees that such flour shall constitute
the ‘‘bread we eat?’’

 

 

There was a time when our flour cost
us more, but it gave us, in return, ‘ the
wealth of good health and bright smil-
ing faces.’’ The quaint old gristmill,
with its ponderous water wheel, and
low rumbling roar of the millstones in
the distance, and its presiding genius,
the honest old toll
shadows of the past, while many are
now asking a return of the substance.

The writer is impressed to speak
upon this subject from having lately
seen wheat flour, marked second grade,
sold at $1.20 per 100 pounds, which,
upon examination, proved to be superior
flour in all respects—if we except pearly
whiteness—to that sold beside it at $1.80
and $2 per 1Ioo0 pounds. A
made by making it
was found to contain at least 1o per
cent. more nutriment than the more ex-
pensive kinds. It was also a bread
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being more palatable. And still another
more valuable quality, which will be
noticed further on in this article, was
observed—that the appetite was satiated
with a far less quantity of the food.
What causes this difference, you ask,
and why, if a better flour, is it sold ata
less price? First, a demand has been
created for a whiter flour, i. e., a flour
containing a larger proportion of starch
than Nature intended, for our Mother
Nature, in all her operations, does what
is best for her children. Says Dr.
Johnston, an English chemist:
nutritive quality of any variety of grain
depends very much upon the proportion
of gluten which it contains;’’ and ex-
perience has proven the correctness of
his statement. The fine wheat flour,
made by the old process of grinding and
bolting, contains !o per cent. of gluten;
the bran of the wheat alone, 18 per
cent. Our best oatmeal contains 18 per
cent. ; Indian corn meal 12 per cent.,

but our roller process flour, with patent |
bolt- |
cent. of |

separator, another term for
ing, contains barely 5 per
gluten. What becomes of the balance?

It has gone into the middlings, and it

part of the bran) are mixed with a cer-
tain proportion of the more starchy flour,
to cheapen it in price,
reality, to make it worth more to the
consumer. To be more explicit, Dr.
z Johnston says: ‘‘The outer coating of
; wheat, rye and other cereals contains
only 3 or 4 per.cent. of gluten, the inner
coating from 14 to 20 per cent. All this
is separated in the bran. But through-

 

diffused everywhere among the grains of
starch."’ Thus we see that, where the
middlings and bran are entirely ex-

gatherer, are but|

test was |
into bread and it}

in good condition |
longer, retaining moisture better and |

‘* The |

is probable those middiings (the finer |

although, in |

out the mass of the grain, around and |
within the albumen cells, the gluten is'|

cluded from our flour, we have little
left except starch and the small quantity
of oil or fat—about 2 per cent.—in the
grain. Should anyone be desirous of
testing the proportion of gluten in flour
of any grade, he may readily do so by
mixing a given quantity of the flour
with just sufficient water to forma
smooth and elastic dough. Then place
the dough "pon a piece of fine muslin
tied over any tin or other vessel, and
knead or work this mass with the hand,
under a small stream of water poured
upon it, as long as the water passes
through milky. When the milky water
has become clear by standing, a white
substance will be found in the bottom
of the dish, which is common starch,
and the sticky substance left on the
muslin will be the gluten.

You ask, Why not use the entire prod-
uct of any grain, when ground, without
any bolting or sifting? Ah, my dear
sir, or madam, there again that capri-
cious goddess, Fashion, steps in. One
old lady says, “‘It looks too much like
pigs’ food.’ Another says, ‘‘It may
taste pretty well, but what horrid look-
ing bread or biscuit it would make.’’
So, it appears, we are eating more for
ostentation or show than for nourishment
and health. Some one has said, ‘* What
fools we mortals be!’’ But, truly, not
all are foolish, as we find many persons
preferring graham, or whole wheat flour.
| Even this is generally supposed to have
2 per cent. of the outside covering of the
grain removed before it is placed upon
the market, which Is all right as a
point of cleanliness. Graham _ flour
should be produced at a lower price,
that it might be more generally used.

Another person asks: “*Whv do you
find any fault with flour if the gluten is
all removed, when you tell me that roo
| pounds of baked wheat bread made
from flour ground and bolted in the old-
itime gristmill contains about the pro-
| portion of water, forty-five parts;
| gluten, six to eight parts; starch, sugar
|and gum, forty-nine parts—changes take
|place in the process of baking, etc.,
some starch being changed into sugar—
the last three constituting seven-eighths
of ail the solid substance?’’ All very
true, sir; but no matter—the compound
is not complete in regard to nutrition
| without its proportion of gluten that Na-
ture furnishes. If the gluten were not
| necessary, we would never have found it
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Dr. Johnston further says: ‘‘Gluten,
| starch, oil and sugar form the basis of
| all that sustains life; yet health cannot
|be maintained on an exclusive diet of
|any one of these basic foods alone.’’ To
condemn a prisoner to subsist upon
starch alone would be to consign him
to death by lingering torture—starva-
tion. We have noted that our best flour,
meaning made by the old process, con-
tains to per cent. of gluten. And our
| best rolled oats contain 18 per cent. !
| Owing to a peculiar quality of the gluten
which the oat contains, the flour of this
|grain does not admit of being baked
|into a light fermented spongy bread.
Thus we consume this excellent food in
jother forms. Oatmeal or rolled oats,
| seasoned with a little salt and made into
|mush with water, and steamed about
|twenty minutes, may be eaten with
sugar, milk, butter, jellies, jams, or
other fruit, and formsa delicious and
highly nutritious diet. Can we wonder
at the stalwart Scotchman, reared from
boyhood upon a large proportion of such
a diet? And then compare him with
|the diminutive and effeminate China-
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prompt attention to every letter o
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received,
whether for one barrel of flour or ten

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form, and the gluten in this does not ex-
ceed 7 per cent., and fat or oil 1 per
cent.! In rice countries the natives de-
vour what would seem to us enormous
quantities of this grain. We may as
cribe this to the small proportion of the
highly necessary gluten it contains. Po-
tato flour contains 92 per cent. of starch,
and is, therefore, unsuited for making
into bread by itself, or to become an
exclusive diet, but should always be
eaten with something containing plenty
of gluten oroil, as meats, cabbage, etc.
The potato flour is said to be less nutri-
tive, weight for weight, in the sense of
supporting strength and enabling a man
to undergo fatigue, than any other ex-
tensively used vegetable food, with the
possible exception of rice.

We may take bread as the type of all
our vegetable food. As a rule, the
greater portion of our food is eaten ac-
cording to true chemical laws, whether
cooked or eaten raw, although we may
not always be cognizant of the fact. The
fibrin, or muscle of the flesh we eat, is
analogous to the gluten of the grain and
vegetables; the fat represents, and to
a certain extent replaces, the starch in
our vegetable food. We therefore eat
bread or potatoes with our meat, so that
starch shall form a portion of our diet.
Gluten is found to constitute from 10 to
25 per cent. of all our food and is prob-
ably calculated to afford a chemical, as
well as a nutritious, action upon the
system. Al! the principal varieties of
food which are at the present day em-
ployed in feeding the human race,
partly in the form of bread, contain a
sensible proportion of three most im-
portant constituents, viz., gluten, starch
and fat. When the proportion of any
of these is too small, chemistry indi-
cates and experience suggests that an
additional quantity of this deficient sub-
stance should be added 1n the process of
cooking or preparatory to eating. Thus,
we consume butter with our bread and
mix it with our pastry because flour is
deficient in natural fat; or we eat
cheese or onions with the bread, to add
to the proportion of the gluten it natur-
ally contains and to furnisn stronger
nutrition. So we eat something more
nutritive with our rice or potatoes, they
being almost wholly composed of starch.
We add fat to our cabbage, we enrich
our salads with vegetable oil or butter,
eat our cauliflower with melted butter,
and beat together potatoes, cabbage and
butter into a nutritious Irish ‘‘kol-can-
non."

A well-known physiologist says: ‘‘It
is interesting to observe the natural pro-
portions and adjustments of the main
elements of food to the wants of the
lower animals, in the composition of
the eatable parts of plants. But it is
still more interesting to observe how
experience alone has almost everywhere
led mankind to a rude adjustment, in
kind and quantity, of the forms of nu-
tritive matter which are essential to the
supply of their animal wants under the
circumstances in which they are
placed.’ And the absolute necessity
for such adjustment is proven by all
physiological history. The writer would
not be understood as sowing seeds of
contention in the flour market. Quite
the contrary. The maker and the dealer
are each equally interested in furnish-
ing the kinds desired by the public;
and, although the maker and dealer are
also consumers, they may choose to
make obeisance to the popular custom—
in other words, to Fashion. If so, it is,
of course, their privilege. We simply
make a plain statement of well attested
facts. CHEMIST.

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Lessons from the Nail Trust.
From the American Grocer.

_ The collapse of the Nail Trust and
its history have many instructive les-
sons. Trusts are organized to make
profitable industries which have lan-
guished and been unprofitable, gener-
ally on account of excessive competi-
tion, which is a double-edged sword.

The units ot any unorganized indus-
try are competitors for raw material,
and therefore, in their eagerness to ob-
tain supplies, bid up prices against
themselves. They are also competitors
in the market for their manufactured
product, and in their struggle for pat-
ronage cut prices against each otner.
Open competition therefore advances
the market for raw material and pro-
motes a decline in the price of the
manufactured article.

The wire nailmakers, through open
competition, cut the price of wire nails
until they reached 85 cents per keg,
against $3.50—the price when wire nails
were first introduced, about nine years
ago. The number of wire nailmakers
increased rapidly, after wire nails
came into favor—so much so that in
1894 the production reached 5,841, 303
kegs, against an output of 2,129,804
kegs of cut nails.

The combination or Trust was tormed
to regulate competition and_ restore
prices to a figure profitable to the mak-
ers. Success attended their work until
they abused their power and raised the
price to an excessive figure, and one
which made wire nailmaking a very
profitable industry. This was practically
placing a premium on the starting of
new wire nail factories. This new
competition has proved disastrous to the
Trust, and has caused its dissolution.
Short-sightedness on the part of the
managers, coupled’ with  greediness,
has caused its ruin and relegated wire
nailmaking to the list of unprofitable
enterprises.

This policy is in marked contrast to
that adopted by the Standard Oil Trust,
the Sugar Trust and other combinations
which seek to keep prices as low as 1s
consistent with a fair return upon in-
vested capital. And _ notwithstanding
oil and sugar are sold at very low
prices, and both are of better quality
than in years gone by, the Trusts have
not avoided competition. Russian oil
interests have forced the Standard Ol
Company to a division of territory in
foreign lands. Foreign sugar refiners
and private domestic enterprises are
active competitors for the sugar trade.
lhe American Tobacco Company has
its formidable competitors.

Trusts cannct escape competition any
more than can the individual trader.
The moment they use their power un
fairly they invite disaster. The history
of the Nail Trust is a powerful illustra
tion of the good and evil in trusts, and
proof that the true issue is the regula-
tion of trusts by law, rather than their
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The search for a national flower is
not yet ended, as is evidenced by the
many suggestions appearing in the
Northern newspapers. The latest claim
brought into the foreground is that of
the mountain laurel—the Kalmia Lat-
ifolia. Its champions claim that it is
exclusively an American flower; that it
is evergreen, and that its form will
lend itself to architectural design. The
columbine would hardly fill the whole
of this bill.

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The Queen of Portugal and Queen
Regent of Spain have distinguished
themselves by saving life. The former
threw herseli into the Tagus on one
occasion to save her children from
drowning, and received a medal in rec-
ognition of her bravery; the Queen Re-
gent of Spain rescued a little girl, not
long ago, from a railway train that was
bearing down on the spot where the
child was heedlessly playing.

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smoke from the S. C. W. You do_ not
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Samuel Benner is an Ohio student of trade conditions. He predicted the panic which is just over
five years before it began. He declares that good and bad times are independent of everything except the
law of supply and demand. The chart above, beginning in 1834 and running down to the close of the cen-
tury, shows how good times and bad times have followed each other in regular order so far in this century
and how we may reasonably expect good times from now to the close of the century. We have been guided
by Benner’s prophecies for the past twenty years and have never found him wrong.

We are therefore preparing for good times. We advise retail merchants to do the same. The first
step is to make the necessary provision for taking better care of all transactions between clerks and customers
in your store. The National Cash Register Systems are the best for that purpose. We build registers for
all kinds of stores, large and small. They are sold on the installment plan, without interest. Don’t wait.
Address Dept. D, The National Cash Register Company, Dayton, Ohio, and our agent will call on you
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J. DESK AUTOGRAPHIC REGISTERS:
6 Different Kinds. Prices, $8, $10, $12, $15, $20, $25.

Sales are recorded by writing on a strip of paper, which moves under a glass when the
lever is operated to open the cash-drawer. The strip is wound automatically upon a storage
roll, which can be removed when the register is balanced.

 

2. MANIFOLDING AUTOGRAPHIC REGISTERS:
4 Different Kinds. Prices, $10, $20, $35, $40.

Records are written on the paper—showing through the aperture in the top of the
register—with pen or pencil. Three copies are made with one writing. Especially suited
for use in lumber yards, coal offices, physicians’ offices, etc.

 

3. DETAIL-ADDING REGISTERS:

23 Different Kinds. Prices, $25, $40, $60, $85, $100, $125, $150, $175,
$200.

Records are made by machinery by pressing the keys. At the close of the day’s business
the total of all sales is obtained by adding together the amounts shown on each adding wheel.

 

4, KEY TOTAL-ADDING REGISTERS:
35 Different Kinds. Prices, $100, $125, $150, $175, $200, $225, $250.

Records are made by machinery by pressing the keys. The amounts of all sales
recorded are automatically added together into one total by the register.

 

5. TOTAL-ADDING, CHECK AND DETAIL PRINTING REGISTERS:
I! Different Kinds. Prices, $250, $275, $300 $325, $350.

Records are made by pressing the keys and turning the handle. The amounts registered
are automatically added into one total by the register, and the details of each transaction are
printed on a continuous strip of paper inside the register. A paper check is also printed and
thrown out by the register, giving the amount of the sale, its consecutive number, the date and
the proprietor’s business card, or any other matter.

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

I3

 

Value of the Old-Fashioned Virtue of
Patience.
Written for the TRADESMAN.

‘* Now that the election is over,’’ says
Mr. Goodfaith, ‘‘and the country has
decided not to try any new experiments,
but to recall and retain, for at least four
years, the well-tried old financial policy
that in past years brought prosperity
and made business hum, we have every
reason tc expect that better times are
coming.’’

‘‘Yes,’’ pipes in Mr. Cantwait, ‘‘so’s
Christmas. ’’

This is a common way Mr. Cantwait
has of expressing his impatience. In-
deed, sometimes it expresses more than
impatience, for old Negatio Nofaith
himself, who never can see beyond the
end of his nose, will sometimes make
use of the same expression. ‘‘So’s
Christmas comin’,’’ he will croak out,
in reply to some cheerful prediction of
a forthcoming improved condition of
things, meaning by the expression that
the prediction will never be verified.
This whole Nofaith family are nothing
but a species of bullfrog in human
form, and they spend their whole lives
in croaking at every positive idea ad-
vanced by their observing and calculat-
ing neighbors. Christmas never comes
to this brood of troglodytes—in fact,
nothing good ever comes to them. They
are perpetually in the dumps; and, if
they ever greatly multiply in numbers,
the earth will become a very disagree-
able place to live in.

But it is different with the Cantwaits.
They are not frogs, although they are
subject to froggy moods. The trouble
with them is they have no patience.
They know that Christmas is not always
coming, although it is coming 364 days
in the year; but, when it does come,
they have the sense to appreciate it.
If the wheels of time were to acciden-
tally slip a cog or two, causing an un-
avoidable delay of Christmas until mat-
ters could right themselves, then the
Cantwaits would join the frog chorus.

Did you ever sit on a log by the edge
of a mill pond and fish for bullheads on
a dark night when the air was thick
with mosquitoes? Yes? Then you
know what the depressing effect of this
bullfrog chorus is like. One old fellow
will poke his head out of the water on
your left, and croak out in graveyard
tones that nearly knock you off the log:
‘“‘Go! Go-home!  There’s no _ fish
here.’’ You smash a mosquito on the
end of your nose and fling your hook
farther out, when another old fellow on
your right pops his head out and roars:
‘*Look! look out!! You'll catch fast
on a root.’’ After recovering from this
shock you put on a fresh worm and
give your line another fling, but before
the hook gets halfway down to the bot-
tom, an old grandfather at your very
feet vociferates: ‘‘Ould Sinner! What
are ye tryin’ to d-o-o-o? Ye can’t
catch fish now! Go h-o-m-e.’’ This
gives you a ‘‘kink’’ in the back and
makes you snap off the end of your
pipestem and swallow it; but you brace
up once more, put on another worm,
give it a fling and then sit and wait and
wait, and grit your teeth while the buz-
zing bloodsuckers are pumping away
on every exposed portion of your anat-
omy. But, after a while, a big-headed
mud cat makes up his mind that a worm
of such persistency must be something
worth nibbling at, and so he_ lazily
glides up and cautiously inspects it with
his glassy eyes. It looks fresh and
seems exceedingly juicy and he smacks
-his big wide mouth at it. This attracts

 

the attention of others and soon there are
quite a number of interested spectators
gathered around the tempting foreigner.
Now is the time the man on the log
keeps a steady hand. The frogs may
croak and the mosquitoes may do their
worst—he has had a nibble and he
knows that patience will bring success
at last. The finny tribe down in the
bottom have become interested ; and the
biggest fish in the crowd, after he dis-
covers that a nibble or two does not kill
the little fish who had been coaxed up
by him to make the first attack, swal-
lows the whole business and suddenly
starts for dry land. One by one the
patient angler gathers them into his
basket until he has enough for break-
fast. This was what he set out to do;
but, if he had lacked the virtue of
patience, he wculd have gone away with
an empty basket.

Now, we are all fishing for something
to eat in the great mill pond of human
industry. Some have charmed hooks
and seem to haul out more than their
share of the fish; some catch more than
they can eat, and succeed in laying up
a goodly surplus; others—and they con-
Stitute the great mass—catch enough
from meal to meal to keep them from
getting hungry, while some of us seldom
get a nibble. There are fish enough in
this great pond to satisfy all; but who-
ever saw a partv of fellows go a-fishing
and each catch the same number of
fish? Some are more lucky than others.
Some are born with the charmed hook,
and others blunder, accidentally, right
onto a school of fish, where they have
only to bait the hook and haul them in.

But with the mass of mankind it is
not a matter of luck. It depends upon
business qualifications. To be success-

ful, a man must know the How, the
When and the Where of it.
How to fish is the first essential. His

fishing tackle must be of the right sort.
A bent pin or ‘‘any old thing’’ will not
do; neither will a towstring attached
to a cornstalk be any good. We see too
many business men trying to catch fish
in this way; and they make a terrible
fizzle of it. They get a few nibbles, but
if they accidentally hook into a fish, the
pin straightens out or the string or
cornstalk breaks and away goes the fish.
Then again, they must know what kind
of bait to use and how to use it. Some
business men use ‘‘any old thing’’ for
bait, but they don’t catch fish. But,
even if they have the best of tackle and
the very best of bait, they may never
catch a fish. These things are only nec-
essary preliminaries—the great essential
is the virtue of patience. Without this
qualification no man can catch fish. If
he goes whipping up and down the
pond, slashing first into this hole, and
then into that, always on the move and
never waiting for results, he will go
fishless to bed.

To know when to fish is almost as
necessary as to know how to fish. There
are times when fish bite readily, and
there are times when any amount of
coaxing will not avail. The business
man who succeeds knows when to fish
and when not to. Hestudies conditions
and governs’ himself accordingly.
When the conditions are favorable he
improves the time, let the difficulties
appear ever so great; and, when the
fishing season is past, or some unlooked-
for combination of circumstances brings
about an unprofitable season, he does
not give way to despair, but waits with
calmness and guards well the portals of
his business ‘‘till the clouds roll by.’’
He possesses the virtue of patience and

 

knows that, as the storm required time
to gather, so it must have time to break
and to disperse.

To know where to fish is also impor-
tant. When I was a little shaver I used
to fish in the rain-trough—and I must
confess that since I commenced my life
work I have fished in more than one
rain-trough. Dear reader, did you ever
see a business man waste his time, and
a lot of good bait beside, fishing in a
rain-trough? Dozens of business men
wonder why they are not catching fish.
If they but possessed the virtue of pa-
tience they would at least save their
bait and wait until they found a place
where fish are known to exist.

In this great fish pond every man must
fish for himself. The option, ‘‘fish or
cut bait,’’ does not apply in this case.
The man who would make a success _ of
his life work must rely upon his own
resources. Of course, he can steal fish
from the poor devils who do catch them ;
but it is not safe to do that—unless he
can swipe enough to give him a corner
on the market.

Yes, Mr. Cantwait, Christmas is com-
ing. It is near at hand, and we know
the very day it will be here. Better
times are coming also—in fact, they
have already come. Al] do not perceive
it as yet. Buta throb has been felt in
the great industrial centers, and sooner
or later a quiver of returning life will
be experienced in every trade artery in
the great industrial system. But re-
member, Mr. Cantwait, that only those
who possess the heavenly virtue of
patience will be in a position to feel the
first nibble and get the first catch when
the good run doescome. E. A. OWEN.

—_—__>-2
Bruin vs. Drummer.
Written for the TRaDEsMAN.

Some two or three years ago, when the
Northern Hotel of Big Rapids was hon-
ored with its full share of commercial
travelers, one cold day about the first of
December, a knight of the grip from
Boston—we’ll call him Williams—placed
his autograph upon the register, intend-
ing to spend several days in the place,
drumming orders for goods.

In passing along Michigan avenue,
one of the principal streets of the town,
he noticed, hanging beside the open
door of a meat market, the carcass of a
big black bear, the glossy skin of which
had been removed from its fat hind
quarters and was drooping over the
shoulders of the body. Being fond of
game in general, and never having
tasted bear meat, he determined to im-
prove the present opportunity. Stepping
inside the market, Mr. Williams an-
nounced that he would like to purchase
a piece of steak from the animal, and
ordered a generous slice to be sent to
his hotel, with further orders to the chef
de cuisine that it be cooked in the
proper manner and be served for his
dinner the following day.

It is unnecessary to state that Mr.
Williams did not forget to be promptly
on hand at the dinner hour, and with
an appetite which he believed would do
justice to the bear steak, which his
friends had so often extolled. Being
seated at the table of the Northern,
where he was well known by most of
the attaches of the house, one of the
waiters approached to take his order,
just as he was glancing over the bill of
fare, upon which, however, no bear
meat in any shape soever was men-
tioned. As the girl bent her head for
his order, he said in a low tone, ‘‘ Bear
steak, please,’’ and then named the
other dishes he wished. After a brief
delay, the well-prepared steak was

 

placed before him, the color, he im-
agined, a little dark, but rich, rare and
juicy—a dish, in fact, fit for a king.
As Mr. Williams afterward asserted, he
never ate a more delicious steak; and
he then and there decided that he would
express a sample of the same to his
family and some choice friends. There-
fore, immediately after dinner he went
again to the market and purchased some
thirty pounds of choice cuts from the
carcass suitable for steak and roasts and
ordered it securely boxed and at once
shipped to his home by express.

It was nearly dark the same afternoon
when the cook at the Northern entered
the office to inquire if Mr. Williams had
dined that day, and, if so, why he had
not ordered the bear steak which had
been sent up the previous day for his
dinner.

‘I believe I saw him come in about
the dinner hour,’’ answered Mr. Stearns,
the landlord, glancing about the room
as if expecting to see him. ‘‘But here
he is now—let him answer for himself, ’’
he continued, as that gentleman just
stepped in. ‘‘Come here, Williams,
and explain your absence from the din-
ner table to-day—with that bear steak
of yours in prospect, too.’’

‘‘Ah! Monsieur,’’ smilingly replied
the commercial man, ‘‘I was on hand
in good time, rest assured, gave my or-
der to Maggie for the steak, and I must
say never ate its equal. In truth, I
liked the game so well that I determined
it should grace my own table for the
coming Christmas dinner, and I have
just shipped a quantity of it home for
my family and some particular friends. ’’

A broad smile spread over the fea-
tures of landlord and cook as the latter
assured Mr. Williams that his bear steak
was at that moment reposing in the re-
frigerator vhere it was placed the day
before, and that some mistake had oc-
curred, which Maggie alone must be
able to explain. So Maggie was sum-
moned to the office and asked what
meats Mr. Williams had that day or-
dered for his dinner, and what she said
to him at the time.

‘*I did not even speak to Mr. Will-
iams,’’ she replied. ‘‘He was looking
over the bill of fare when I came to
him, and when he gave me his order he
said in a low tone, ‘Rare steak, please,’
and that is what I brought him.’’

A puzzled look stole over the quartette
when the girl ceased speaking. Then
followed a hearty laugh as the mistake
of a word dawned upon them.

‘*Maggie, said Mr. Stearns, the first
to regain composure, ‘‘you are par-
doned, as bear steak and rare steak
sound so much alike, and particularly
when you were in blissful ignorance of
there being any bear steak in the house.
But Mr. Williams here will now set up
the cigars, and solemnly affirm that at
his Christmas party in Boston he will
partake heartily of the game, will praise
it, whether palatable or not, and will
extol the skill and attainments of the
chef of the Northern, particularly in
trausforming a beefsteak into one cut
from a Michigan black bear!’’

FRANK. A. Howie.
a
Owed no Man.

‘*l owe no man a cent,
proudly.

They gazed on him with wondering
admiration.

‘*No man on earth. The only per-
sons I owe are my landlady and my
washerwoman.’”’

”

said he,

on
We have cigars to burn. G. J. John-
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

FAME WINKED AT HIM.

How James’ Junius’ Strawhacker
Chased a Will-o’-the-Wisp.

When | first began work in Hi Slade’s
shoeshop James Junius Strawhacker was
a journeyman. It was in the day when
men wore high-top boots and if they
were properly provident they had the
boots made to order. Jim was said to be
an exceedingly good workman. He
treated with great scorn the rival claims
of Dick Smith, a shoemaker in B.
Mather’s shop, across the street, and
the second day I was there, Hi Slade
himself said, just after James Junius
Strawhacker went out to dinner, that
‘‘Jim could stretch a vamp quicker than
any man in Indiana.”’

It was about the time when Clement
L. Vallandigham was making a stir in

the world, and I remember secretly
opining that, however that notorious
personage might be upon’ men’s

tongues, he couldn’t ‘‘stretch a vamp”’
as quick as Jim could. However, I
seldom called him Jim, even in thought.
He was a somber, portentous individ-
ual and resented liberties. He certain-
ly would permit no familiarity from me.
He declined to join in any of the politi-
cal discussions of the day, growling his
contempt for the whole of it, wrapping
what appeared to me a very clumsy
cloak about his shoulders and striding
majestically into the street whenever
the party clamor in the shop grew too
loud for him.

On the bench at his side lay a large
book, bound in leather, stained by much
wear, small of print and _ illustrated
with any number of steel engravings.
I often looked through the volume. The
pictures impressed themselves upon me.
One, I remember, presented a woman
in a nightgown, her eves staring fright-
fully at a dirk or dagger which seemed
suspended in the air before her.

Another was of a gayly dressed young
man on arope ladder, with something
like a guitar in his hand, smiling up
into the face of a pretty young woman
who leaned over the rail of a balcony.
Still another showed two young men ex-
amining a skull, while a short distance
away was an open grave with a man_ in
it tossing out a shovelful of earth. The
book was plainly of great value.

James Junius Strawhacker used to de-
claim strange periods with great fervor,
particularly when hammering a pegged
shoe into submission. One day, after
ranting all round a No. 11 boot, he tossed
the lasted thing from him with the ex
clamation :

Sole let it. Bewith, seize her!

Though no Mr. Bewith appeared on
call, I had my doubts if even the
vaunted Vallandigham could have heard
such shoemaker learning unmoved.

One day he drove an awl home,
reached into his apron for a peg and,
regarding me with tearful eyes, wailed:

One month—one little month,

Or ever these small shoes were old

In which she followed my poor father
To his funeral

Of course, if shoes had been properly
made, and they were made properly in
our shop—they should not be old ina
month; and I was exceedingly—though
unaccountably—sorry for the lady who
had attended the burial of Jim’s pro-
genitor—a gentleman whom I afterward
met in the flesh, to my great confusion.

About the time I had risen to that
stage of apprenticeship where I might
safely be trusted to ‘‘buff’’ a sole and
draw the lasts, my mother concluded
journalism and not shoemaking was my
mission; and I was accordingly set to
learning the printer's trade. There,
sitting by the stove witha certain‘‘jour’’
printer on wintry nights I learned some-
thing about books. The traveling print-
ers of thirty years ago were readers of
the classics, and usually as intelligent
as they were intemperate.

This man told me the story of ‘‘ Mac-
beth,’’ quoting long passages and paint-
ing the scenes before me so vividly that
even Booth, when I came to see him
years afterward, was not all-satisfying.
He told me of ‘‘Romeo and Juliet,’’
though he cared little for that story; but
he reveled in ‘*‘Hamlet’’ and wormed
my wages out of me, instantly transfer-

 

ring them to the nearest saloon, so that
he could come back and flood me with
advice—

Neither a borrower nor a lender be;

Costly thy raiment as thy purse can buy;

And

For the apparel oft proclaims the man.

Gradually I came to see James Junius
Strawhacker in a new light. His long,
black wavy hair, which was_ never
combed in a_ conventional manner,
seemed to fit those heroic ages where
his heart dwelt. His deep, musical
voice was surely the very tone of An-
tony in the orations, of King Henry in
the address to his troops and of Othello
in his rare defense upon the charge of
winning the heart of a woman.

Strawhacker, indeed, seemed to re-
gard my change of iabor in the light of
an advance. He considered | was
nearer the regions where his_ spirit
longed to dwell. I had begun to under-
stand him; had begun to read Shakes-
peare on my own account and to prize
nothing so much as an evening by the
fire in the printing office when the
printer—who knew not only those print-
ed pages, but the atmosphere and en-
vironment in which they came to frui-
tion—and the shoemaker met and wan-
dered from tragedy to tragedy.

The printer had seen all these plays
presented and he broadened our vision
by his pictures of the lights, the music
and the color of acting. But I never
could get him to quite accept my
estimate of James Junius Strawhacker.
At times I almost suspected he was
laughing at Jim, though he never de-
clined to drink from the bottle that Jim
brought up—and instantly and utterly
forgot.

Jim confided in me that he meant to
become an actor presently. He knew
every line of Shakespeare’s tragedies,
he told me, and I believe he could have
recited whole plays if he had tried.
He grew bolder as time passed—took me
up to his room and showed me a col-
lecticn of wigs and costumes, that im-
pressed me greatly. He put on a very
gray one, and, stooping to the posture
of an old man, cried out:

Blow, ye winds, and crack your cheeks!

and all the rest of Lear’s transcendent
curse,

Once, in May, he came to me, where I
was working at the case, and seemed
singularly excited. He was enveloped
in his long cloak, though the weather
was quite warm, and his eyes glittered
with a fine intoxication. His_ stride
was something more than _ ordinarily
tragic. He showed me a letter and slyly
slipped it under my copy, asking me to
read it and let him have it again.

It was from a theatrical manager in
Chicago, and seemed in response toa
very serious application for an engage-
ment. It was not particularly encoura-
ging; but then, as Jim pointed out later,
it did not positively bid him abandon
hope. He could scarcely pull a ‘‘ waxed-
end’’ for a week after that, took to
wearing his hair even more tumbled
than usual, and to walking along the
bank of the river, and assuring the
fishes that—

‘*Only I am Caesar!’’

When I got so J could set two galleys
of :leaded bourgeois a day I left my
home town, and traveled to far Roches-
ter, seat of a county fifty miles away,
but I did not forget James Junius
Strawhacker nor lose faith in his des-
tiny.

We corresponded fitfully, and _ he
broke it off at last. I was rather glad,
for his ill-spelled letters grated on me
more and more as the printer’s craft
instructed me. Of course, I could see
it was one phase of his genius; but I
wanted the picture unmarred by bad or-
thography and violence to grammar.

I met a man from the home town
once who told me Jim had gone away
mysteriously, and that he had had the
tailor make him a _ new cloak, still
larger, still more somber and of still
more expensive material. No one there
knew where he had gone.

I knew. I knew James Junius Straw-
hacker was interpreting Shakespeare
some place—under an assumed name, no
doubt—and was amazing thousands with
the depth and strength of his portrayals.

 

 

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As I advanced from second to first
journeyman, and finally to foreman, I
often thought of him, assured that such
a character, with such a love for such a
master, must win and keep a place in
the world’s recognition.

But five years wore this picture from
the tablets of memory, and it was only
when some related circumstance arose
that James Junius Strawhacker came
back to me.

One day I received a heavily marked
copy of a paper from Girard, Ill. The
item, scored about powerfully with lead
pencil, told of the opening of the new
opera house by a portentuusly entitled
dramatic company in the play of ‘‘ King
Lear, ’’ and the character of the rare old
kind was said to have been played
‘‘right down to the ground”’ by an actor
whose printed name meant nothing to
me, but whom I knew as James Junius
Strawhacker; and believing the item,
though not very satisfactory, was meant
in kindness, [ was glad.

About three years later the following
letter, without date or signature, came
to me from an Iowa town:

When the fires of genius burn up and
consume. There is a radiance across
the sky. Is Hamlet disappointed, is
the spirit ever subdude? richard is
himself again.

From which | gathered that, while the
rudiments of Junius’ education were
still in a somewhat chaotic state, his for-
tunes must be improving.

In the summer of 1884 I became a
partner in the business of publishing
the ‘‘ Eagle,’’ with which my labors had
been so long identitied--that was the
way the salutatory read—and went to
Chicago to buy new type and material,
aS we were now going to enlarge the
paper. At night I visited the only
theater where Shakespeare s plays were
being presented, and there saw an
Othello whose borrowed name and
blackened face thrilled me with con-
viction. He had the same © stalwart
frame, the same dark skin, the black
and tumbled hair and the same
vehement strength in those passages
which glow with the tire of man’s deep-
est passions. How gratified I was!
What change it meant! How splendid
a triumph had genius achieved! This
magnificent Moor, with a culture that
seemed to have begun in childhood,
thrilled a thousand men and women
with pictures from an old life—with
passions that are ever new.

Five years ago I went for the first
time on a visit to my native town. In
getting off the cars 1 ripped my shoe—
by no means a new one—and at once re-
solved to hunt up Hi Slade, if he still
lived and kept a shoe shop. But he
had gone. B. Mather, the old-time
rival, had grown rich and was resting. I
selected a store at random, and showed
my shoe to a stripling clerk, whose
mother might have been a_ schoolgirl
when I departed. He tossed it across a
little half-partition, calling out, as one
having authority:

‘Here, Jim, fix this shoe.
tleman is waiting.’’

‘‘Jim?’’ said J, inquiringly.
James—’’

‘‘Jim Strawhacker,’’ he said, and
left me.

I leaned over the small partition.
There sat a small, withered, black-
browed man, a deep scowl on his face,
his poor bent hands stained deep with
shoemaker’s wax and pulled in fur-
rows by much sewing. The hair was
gray and thin, but tumbled; and the
cheeks were sunken and the teeth were

one.

**Hello, Jim!’’ said I.
remember me?’’

He did not, and he was in a hurry. I
recalled myself to his memory, and yet
he only nodded. He was afraid of the
Stripling clerk. But at night he came
to the hotel, sat about for an_ hour,
noticing no one further than to hasten
out of the way repeatedly. He was
finaily leaving, and, thinking his mood
of the morning might have melted, I
called to him. TI wanted to talk to some
one who filled so much of that distant
page in my life.

He was clearly, pathetically, delight-
ed to have me address him. He came

The gen-
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close, and spoke a sentence at a time,
each time starting as if to leave me, yet
always returning.

‘*I’ve gone out a good many times. I
foller them up. They don’t know it. I
slip in and watch them play it. When

my money runs out, I come back here
and peg shoes. Something is going to
happen to him some time, and when
he can’t play I’ll goon. They don’t
play it right. They leave outlines. I’ve
got itall. I’m guing to play it yet.
11) let you know. I know where you
are,

Then he went away. The people in
the hotel smiled and I turned around.

He knew where I was! Had he
thought of me as one by whom his
triumph should be published? Had he
sent me that marked newspaper from
Girard because sume tragedian had _al-
most failed? How many triumphs he
must have felt that night!

He will never be nearer.

For, with all the tragedies of Shakes-
peare at his tongue’s end—and in his
heart—James Junius Strawhacker will
never play a part. And his own life
drama 1s almost as pathetic as anything
in the much-stained volume at his side
on the bench.

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No Place for the Peddler.
From the Ohio Merchant.

There is no real place in the legiti-
mate world of commerce for the peram-
bulating huckster. He resorts to every
trick and artifice possible to beguile the
dollars of the susceptible and unwary pur-
chaser. Hecontributes nothing to the sup-
port of church, school or state, never goes
down in his pocket to relieve the dis-
tressed or unfortunate; has no interest
or welfare in the upbuilding and im-
provemeat of the city in which he
moves and from which he derives a
livelihood, yet he is permitted in this
city, through the political machinations
of our beloved Mayor and the grace of
the Common Council, to ply his voca-
tion and directly antagonize those who
help to bear the burden of taxation and
the unequal load of rent and other dis-
bursements necessary to the conduct of
legitimate merchandising, by the pay-
ment of a small license, wholly incom-
patible with his circumstances and sur-
roundings. Even this bagatelle is fre-
quently dispensed with for years and
the peripatetic vendor is allowed to foi-
low his calling without let or hindrance.
The fact is, the huckster should not be
permitted to peddle, as the business is
conducted in Cleveland, at all. But if
permitted or licensed to antagonize
those who contribute to the maintenance
of our streets, schools, charitable insti-
tutions, public and_ private enter-
prises, and all the elements which go
to create and sustain communities, that
distinguish them from roving Arabs of
the desert, they should be compelled to
pay well for that opportunity and _priv-
ilege.

—__~+>_2—__
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passion with my husband.’”’
Mrs. Dresser: ‘‘So it is with mine—
when he reads my milliner’s bills!’’

—_> > ___

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made into tapioca and dextrine. It is
said that the latter can be more easily
manufactured from this plant than from
corn.

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paid for listening to complaints.
———_0»____

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An Old Grocer’s Views on Depart-
ment Stores.
Stroller in Grocery World.

Who hasn't heard that old and pithy
adage, ‘‘It all depends on whose ox is
gored?’’ We all feel differently when
we ourselves are affected. We can pre-
tend to sympathize with somebody else
over a misfortune, and reaily believe we
feel a part of their regret or sorrow,
but how vastly different we feel when
we meet the same misfortune.

No, this is not a sermon. It’s merely
the prelude to the recital of an incident
which iilustrates how true the ox-goring
adage really is. Before the case de-
veloped so far I really thought I had
run across one of the most sensible old
grocers | had ever met. While he be-
longed to the past generation, and his
store had scarcely kept pace with al!
the new-fangled notions which newer
grocers affect, he was a solid old fellow,
blessed with the strongest sort of com-
mon sense. At least that’s what I
thought at first.

We were talking of department stores.
This old grocer does business in a town
within about twenty-five miles of a city
which holds several department stores,
two of which conduct grocery depart-
ments.

‘*IT don’t see nothin’ pertickelarly
bad ‘bout these department stores,’’
said he. *“‘They’ve all got a right to
live, jest as we all have. I don’t take
no stock in these ‘ere yelps to pass laws
gittin’ them out o’ the way. I see
some o’ the papers isa doin’ this. I
don’t think it’s right.’’

This is a sensible man, I said to my-
self. He takes the department store
sensibly, just like he ought. Let me
say here, parenthetically, that I believe
just as the Grocery World does about
department stores. I believe they’rea
nuisance to the small merchant and ail
that, but there’s nothing criminal about
them. They’ve got a right to get all
they can. While some of their methods
are open to improvement, none of us
are quite perfect, except candidates for

 

office, and even they have their off days.
But to proceed.

“I agree with youzperfectly, my dear
sir,’’ 1 said. **You have exactly ex-
pressed my own views regarding the de-
partment stores quite as forcibly as |
could do it myself.’’

He nodded.

‘Why, what are them stores?’’ he
continued. ‘‘They’re simply a-goin’
back to fust principles, that'll all. The
fust stores that did business was  gen-
eral stores. They kep’ everything, just
as these department stores do. Why,
when I wuz a boy I’ve went into some
o’ these courtry stores and got a paper
collar and a stove. Why, it’s a fact,’’ he
went on, warming up, ‘“‘that these gen-
eral stores kep’ more than the depart-
ment stores do. They kep’ drugs, and
not all department stores do that. I
tell you, these places is simply goin’
back to fust principles. Let 'em alone,
I say. Every man for himself. Let
these fellers who kick over the big
stores tend to their own business an’
they’l] get along better.’’

Then he took a good-sized chew and
subsided.

I was tickled to death. I had at last
found a real sensible grocer, by which
I mean one that agreed with me. |
patted him on the back, figuratively
speaking, over his good common sense.

While we were talking, the grocer’s
boy, who had been out on a tour for
orders, came back, and the two ran over
them while I sat there. There was a
good-sized batch of them, and when
they were all gone through witn the gro-
cer said, looking over his spectacles:

‘*Why, ain’t ye got nothin’ from Mrs.
Hamilton?’’

‘*She wouldn’t gimme no order,’’ said
the boy. ‘*She asked our price on three
or four things, and then said she could
get ‘em cheap’n that in the city at
snooks & Snooks’.’’ Snooks & Snooks
run the largest department store in the
city.

‘‘Ain’t she goin’ to give us no more
orders?’’ asked the grocer, blankly,
scratching his head.

 

‘*Dunno,’’ said the boy, meekly.
‘‘She said she could get everything
cheaper at Snooks & Snooks’, and she’d
have to go where she could buy cheap-
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‘An’ there ,’tis, drat it!’’ ejaculated
the grocer, testily..‘* There’s one o’ me
best customers gone to the durned city
stores. They can’t sell good goods no
cbeap'n I can! What right o’ they got
to stick their nose in my business, any-
how? Why, that woman bought $500
worth of goods a year 0’ me. Durn the
pesky things to hullabullooly !’’ (Where
he got this frightful oath I don’t know. )

‘Lhe grocer was certainly mad. ‘‘It's
a measly outrage!’’ he stormed on.
“‘Here I’m a-tryin’ to get along the
best I kin, an’ a-hardly makin’ both
ends meet, an’ here comes along this
big place ana swamps me with one 0’
me best customers! If they do it
again, I'll have ’em arrested! That's
what I'll do; now, you see ef I don't!
‘bey ought to be arrested—that’s what
they ougnt! An’ I’m jis’ the man to do
it, for 1’m a bad man when | git riled.
I’m old, but I’m tough!’’

1 sat a good deal surprised. Was this
the level-headed grocer who just a mo-
ment before had spoken so sensibly
about the department store? Was the
only man who agreed with me about
this matter to turn against me? | could
not bring myself to believe it.

**Why,’’ | began, ‘‘you said a min-
ute ago that you believed these places
had as much right to exist as anybody, ”’
I said.

‘*What!’’ snapped the grocer. ‘* Never
said nothin’ o’ the sort! I think the
whole passel of ’em ought to be throwed
in the river! What right have they got
to compete against a little store like
this? Eh!’’ he repeated, fiercely.

‘Well, you said you thought if the
little stores would attend to their own
business they'd get along all right,’’ |
said, mildly.

‘‘Who did?’’ he said, furiously. ‘ I
never said nothin’ like it! See here,
young man, I do’ know what reason you
got tor lyin’ to a old man ,like, me,

 

but I want it stopped. Do ye hear me?’’
= | looked at him in amazement. What
had I done to “bring such a tornado
about me?

‘‘Durn the pesky places!’’ raged on
the old fellow, still unappeased. ‘‘I
wish somebody'd burn the hull caboodle
of ’em this very night! Durn ’em!
There’s one o’ me very best customers
clean gone! Durn ’em tu hullabullooly !’’

When he uttered this awful impreca-
tion I could distinctly see a blue flame
playing about his bald head.

I lett the old fellow hugging his
changed idea regarding department
stores. If the big stores have a bitterer
enemy than he is now, l’ve never seen
him.

‘It all depends on whose ox is gored. ’’

Ideas for the Holidays.

A room scene, with fire-place and
frosted windows, is a good idea to put
into execution at this time. Stockings
hanging at the fire-place should be
hlled with toys, and other gifts should
be on the table.

Holly, smilax, palms and evergreen
should be prominent in all interior
decorations at this season.

An old-fashioned Christmas tree is a
good center-piece. It can be made
very pretty with tinsel aad small ar-
ticles of bright colors. For illumina-
tion incandescent lights are best, and
nothing else is safe.

Another change can be rung on the
Santa Claus idea by showing the ex-
terior of a house, with the old man on
the roof or disappearing down the
chimney.

Extra attention should be given the
handkerchief stock during the present
month. That means an extra endeavor
should be made to make an attractive
window display. For a design make a
large fan out of strips of wood, with
lace looped at their ends, and cover
each rib with handkerchiefs.

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Commercial Travelers

Michigan Knights of the Grip.

President, S. E. Symons, Saginaw; Secretary,
Geo. 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,
Epwrm Hupson, Flint; Treasurer, Gro. A. Rrey-
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. PEAKE, Jackson: Secretary and
Treasurer, Geo. F. Owen. Grand Rapids.
Boar’ of Directors—F. M. TyLer, H. B. Farr-
CHILD, GEO. F. OWEN, J HENRY DawLey, GEO.

J. HEINZELMAN, CuHas. S. ROBINSON.

Lake Superior Commercial Travelers’ Club.

President, W. C. Brown, Marquette; Secretary
and Treasurer, A. F. Wixson, Varquette.

 

 

Gripsack Brigade.

Eighteen ninety-six is walking on its
uppers!

Tactics of trade of to-day are as
scientific as the tactics of any military
age.

The commerce of all civilized coun-
tries depends largely upon the traveling
salesman or on personal solicitation for
trade.

Frank L. Palmer, formerly with Geo.
H. Reeder & Co., has engaged to travel
fora Ft. Wayne shoe house, covering
Eastern and Southern Indiana.

It is wrong to expect the traveling
man to pay double price in most small
villages and towns for meals and_ lodg-
ing, while all other classes of patrons
pay just one-half for the same entertain-
ment the knight of the grip receives.
It’s not fair.

Eaton Rapids Herald: D. L. Le-
Baron, who travels for a Cleveland
wholesale dry goods house, has made
regular trips to Eaton Rapids since
1865. He was a band master during
the war and is quite a cornet player at
the present time.

Commercial travelers making Cham-
pion will *‘Climb the hill to Beacon’’
with a lighter step in the knowledge
that Frank Haines, of the Haines &
Fairburn Lumber Co. of Ishpeming, is
now the buyer at the company store, D.
G. Stone having retired.

Competition within reasonable bounds
is natural and right; it forces the
adoption of the best methods of con-
ducting business; it stimulates enter-
prise, is a preventive of dry rot and of
that conservatism which is simply a
polite name for incapacity.

C. H. Morgan, who has carried the
furnishing goods iine of the Root &
McBride Co., of Cleveland, for several
years in Western Michigan, has _ signed
with the Peerless Manufacturing Co.
for 1897. His territory will include the
Upper Peninsula, Wisconsin and Mip-
nesota,

The man of samples began with the
beginning. He was a peddler ; wandered
in boats, afoot, .on horseback or on
wheels; sold goods for himself or for
others. He is more numerous now than
in the long ago, but his instincts are
much the same; if his energies are in-
creased, it is only because of his greater
facilities.

Eaton Rapids Herald: Frank J.
Brainerd has gone to Lincoln, Neb.,
where he has a position in the wholesale
grocery house of Raymond Bros. & Co.
He will remain in the store for a time,

 

after which he expects to go on the road
as a traveling salesman. Frank has a
host of friends in his native town that
wish him success.

Three deaths have occurred in the
ranks of the Michigan Knights of the
Grip during the past two weeks—E. C.
Kenthan, No. 2,029, who died of ap-
oplexy at his mother’s home in Chicago
Nov. 30 and was buried at Madison,
Ind. ; Daniel Loeb, No. 2,388, wha died

at his home in Toledo; Carl A.
Rentsch, who died at Kalamazoo
Dec. 12.

H. S. Powell, formerly Upper Penin-
sula representative for the I. M. Clark
Grocery Co., but for the past four years
Minnesota and Dakota representative
for the Stone-Ordean-Wells Co., of
Duluth, has been given a desk in the
house in full charge of the tea, coffee
and spice department. Mr. Powell's
friends will rejoice with him in his
good fortune.

No hotel should be too good and no
car seat too comfortable for the com-
mercial traveler, for the public ought
to realize that he is away much of the
time from home and its comforts, the
associations of his family and friends,
deprived of needed rest and wholesome
food, suffering from inclement weather,
imperfectly ventilated rooms and_ all
the ills that flesh is heir to.

The Central Passenger Committee has
authorized the use of a 5,000-mile inter-
changeable mileage ticket, and already
has a committee hard at work prepar-
ing a pian for putting the scheme into
operation. The tickets will be issued
from the office of the Chairman of the
Committee, the individual roads having
nothing to do with their issuance. Hav-
ing secured this concession, the travel-
ing men have now gone gunning after
the Western Passenger Association, after
which they intend giving their atten-
tion to the Southern roads.

——__>_0.____
Annual Meeting of Post E.

At the annual meeting of Post E,
Michigan Knights of the Grip, held at
Sweet's Hotel Saturday evening, Dec.
12, Chairman Dawley presided.

The annual report of the Secretary-
Treasurer showed total receipts of
$161.58 and disbursements of $121.69,
leaving a balance on hand of $39.80.
[he report was accepted,

The General Committee on F xcursion
to Detroit announced the following sub-
committees:

On Transportation—C. I. Flynn.

On Badges—Geo. F. Owen.

On Souvenir—Geo. F. Rogers.

Chas. I. Fiynn moved that the Com-
mittee on Badges be instructed to  pur-
chase fifty badges for the use of the
Post. Adopted.

Election of officers being then in  or-
der, W. F. Blake moved that the elec-
tion be deferred one week, which was
adopted.

The next meeting of the Post will be
held in conjunction with the semi-
monthly dance and pedro party at Im-
perial Hall on Wealthy avenue on Sat-
urday evening of this week. A full at-
tendance is desired.

—_—_>0~—__
The Jolly Knight of the Grip.

There was a commercial traveler,

And he made 1 ts of ** mon.,’

Bi t move thin this, he seemed to find
His business full of fun.

He was as chipper as a lark,
He never could look glum:

He never said the times were bad,
Nor business on the ‘* bum.”

‘*T don’t have time, my friend,” he said,
“To kick. or snarl, or g owl;

It dvesn’t pay—besides, yon know,
I'm not that kind of fowl.

“I’m bound to make my business pay,
And make my litile pi e:
Tm jolliest when I wrk the most,
And werk best when I smile ”
D. C. Coturs.

 

SUCCESSFUL SALESMEN.

J. W. Schram, Detroit’s Candidate for
Secretary.

J. W. Schram, whose portrait appears
in connection with this article, received
the endorsement of Post C (Detroit) at
the monthly meeting held Nov. 29 as
its candidate for Secretary of the Mich-
igan Knights of the Grip, to be voted
for at the annual convention to be held
in Detroit on Dec. 29 and 30.

Mr. Schram was born at Grimsby,
Ont., in 1851, and sold agricultural im-
plements for Nichols & Walker, of
Streetsville, Ont., for five years, from
1872 to 1877. He then accepted a po-
sition as traveling salesman for James
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of Montreal, covering Ontario, remain-
ing with that house until 1886, when he
came to Detroit and engaged with
Snedicor & Hathaway, representing them
in Southern Michigan until 1892. He
then severed his connection with that
house and took a position with the C,
E. Smith Shoe Co., which he still
holds, traveling in Ohio and Southern
Michigan.

Mr. Schram has been a member of
the Knights of the Grip since 1890. He
has been Secretary of Post C during
1896 and has given such satisfaction in
that capacity and made so many friends
among the boys that he received the
hearty endorsement of the Post over his
two popular rivals. Mr. Schram owns a
cozy home at 609 West Boulevard and
has an interesting family, consisting of
a wife, four sons and three daughters.
He enjoys a wide circle of warm and
loyal friends who will be pleased to see
him elected.

As the Detroit boys have no represen-
tation among the officers of the State
Association and have always been very
modest in asking for positions, they
feel that’ with so strong a candidate and
with their just claims to recognition,
they should have no difficulty in elect-
ing Mr. Schram to the position for
which they have endorsed him.

Mr. Schram will be a member of the
Reception Committee to welcome the
visiting knights, and will be pleased to
meet, not only his old friends and ac-
quaintances, but also all of the mem-
bers of the organization whom he has
not formerly had the pleasure of know-
ing. JoHN McLean,

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Cor. Saginaw and Fourth Sts.
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where they bespeak the cordial co-operation
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Drugs-==Chemicals

MICHIGAN; STATE :BOARD OF PHARMACY.
Term expires

 

 

 

C. A. BueBEE, Traverse City Dec. 31, 1896
S. E PARKILL, Owosso~ - - Dec. 31, 1897
F. W. R. Perry, Detroit - Dec. 31, 189%
A. C. SCHUMACHER, Ann Arbor - Dee. 31, 1899
Gro. GunpRvUM, Ionia - - - Dec. 31, 1900

President, S. E. PARKILL, Owosso.
Secretary, F. W. R. Perry, Detroit.
Treasurer, Gro. GUNDRUM, Ionia.

Coming Examination Sessions—Detroit, Jan. 6
and 7; Grand Rapids, March 2 and 3; Star
Isiand (Detroit), June —; Upper Peninsula,
Aug. —.

MICHIGAN STATE PHARMACEUTICAL
ASSOCIATION.

President, G. C. Pariiires, Armada.
Secretary, B. ScoRouDER, Grand Rapids.
Treasurer, CHas. Mann, Detroit.

Executive Committee—A. H. WEBBER, Cadillac;
H. G. Cotman, Kalamazoo; Gro. J. Warp, St.
CLark; A. B. STEVENS, Detroit; F. W. R.
Perry, Detroit.

 

 

 

The Drug Market.

Alcohol—Grain from first hands is be-
ing steadily held.

Alum—Average volume of business
and values are firm.

Atropine—Quotations have been ad-
vanced Soc per ounce.

Balsams— Consuming request for
prime Central American copaiba_ is
active and, stocks being exceedingly
light, prices have gone up. Tolu is
rather steady, the movement for small
parcels being fairly good. Market for
Peru is strong.

Cascara Sagrada—Demand from con-
sumers is moderately active and values
are firm.

Cantharides—Tone of the market is
steady.

Codeine—Pure in bulk is still firm.

Cod Liver Oil—Holders being still
anxious sellers, the tone of the market
is easy.

Colocynth Apples—In general the sit-
uation is satisfactory to holders.

Cubeb Berries—Market dull but fairly
steady.

Essential Oils—Anise has again been
reduced. Camphor is firmer. The con-
siderable advance in balsam has result-
ed in higher prices for copaiba. Cubeb
has declined. Lemongrass has again
been advanced. Natural sassafras has
gone up, also. Although Messina es-
sences show no change in quotations,
prices for orange, as to primary mar-
kets, have met with an advance equal
to 25c per pound. Peppermint, con-
suming demand is good and prices are
ruling steady.

Gums—A good business is reported to
be doing in camphor at former prices,
and stocks of foreign are practically

exhausted. Market is firm for domes-
tic.

Leaves—Senna, fairly active and
steady.

Lycopodium—Market dull and weak
and prices are irregular and looking
toward the nominal.

Menthol—Demand slow.

Morphine—Quiet, but values at first
hands are still firm.

Opium—Market quiet but ruling fair-
ly steady.

Orange Peel—Consumers are pur-
chasing to supply light current wants
only ; values, however, continue steady.

Roots—No new features as to the gen-
eral market. Blood root is very firm.
Spot supply of gentian is limited and
the market is, consequently, firm. Man-
drake is still hardening.

Seeds—Nothing of importance to note
as to the general market. Both Dutch
caraway and poppy are said to have de-
clined abroad and spot quotations are
lower in sympathy. Coriander, season-
ably active anc firm. Celery, sales are

 

slow and the market is reported as barely
steady.

Spermaceti—Values are steady.

Sugar of Milk—Demand is active, but
the amount of business is small, due to

scarcity.
—_-7>> 4 ___

Systematic Saving.
Written for the TRADESMAN.

One of the principal reasons why so
many persons in this country of high
wages, and usually steady employment,
are reduced to want when work stops is
the neglect of systematic saving.

Not having been educated in the
school of adversity, nor even that of
economy, the life of the majority of
American workingmen is essentially a
hand-to-mouth existence, which means
hunger and discouragement in times of
depression, like that through which we
have passed during the past three years.

Unfortunately, this is largely true of
clerks and salesmen, whose natural effi-
ciency has fitted them for positions of
responsibility, but who so seldom suc-
ceed to an independent business of
their own, because of their failure to
accumulate by their own efforts suffi-
cient means with which to start.

Their salaries would seem princely to
many a common laborer, but still they
often find it difficult to meet the ordi-
nary expenses of life and maintain
themselves and families in a style fit-
ting to their position, as they are ex-
pected to do by their associates, the
public, and even their employers.

Yet, with a view to provision for mis-
fortune, to say nothing of preparation
for bettering one’s condition, it would
seem that some sacrifices might be
made to lay aside a regular monthly
saving, which, though small in itself,
rapidly grows into a_ substantial sum
and increases present satisfaction and
future prospects of the owner. The
clerk on a small salary would soon find
himself the possessor of an amount
which, at the start, would be considered
a very comfortable ‘‘nest egg.’’

Time is so short—after it has passed
—that one often wonders where the year
has gone, and there is scarcely a reader
of the Tradesman, working on a salary,
but will in his own mind admit that he
might have saved a portion of his
monthly earnings for a series of years
without much inconvenience, and not
one who will deny that it would bea
pleasure to contemplate the possession of
the accumulation of five years, if even
no larger sum than $5 per month.

It is system that counts in this as well
as in the greater undertakings of life,
if, indeed, there be a greater undertak
ing than that of preparing for misfor-
tunes which may come, or getting ready
to launch upon the sea of business with
capital of one’s own saving.

There are banks in nearly every town,
as well as in the cities, which pay inter-
est on time deposits of even small
amounts, and local boards of reliable
building and loan associations, and if
there be none it is easy to remit the
monthly installment to the home office.
The clerk having an employer who is in
every way responsible could, no doubt,
arrange to leave a portion of his wages
until the end of the year, when he might
draw it in a lump sum for deposit in a
convenient bank or investment in pay-
ing securities on good real estate.

The essential idea is that there shall
be a systematic plan for the regular
saving of some portion of the earnings;
and if the future plans of the saver have
been formed working in that direction,
and keeping the money well in hand for
use to the best advantage when the
proper time arrives, the results, need-
less to say, will be satisfactory.

Harry M. Royat,

 

 

 

 

Examination Session of the Board of
Pharmacy.

Detroit, Dec. t0o—The Board of
Pharmacy will hold a meeting for the
examination of candidates, in Arion
Hall (Catholic Club Building), corner
Wilcox street and Barclay Place, De-
troit, Tuesday and Wednesday, January
5 and 6, 1897, commencing at 9 o'clock
a. m., Tuesday.

All candidates must be present at that
hour.

Candidates must file their applications
with the Secretary and must furnish
affidavits at least one week before the
examination, showing that they have had
the practical or college experience re-
quired.

Applications for examination and
blank forms for affidavits for practical
or college experience may be obtained
from the Secretary.

Next examination at Grand Rapids,
March 2 and 3, 1897.

F. W. R. Perry, Sec’y.

——_2 2.
Long Odds Against Him.

He (pathetically): ‘‘All great men
have smoked, my dear.’’

She (with animation): ‘‘Oh, if you
will only give up smoking until you are
great I shall be quite content.’’

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Advanced— Mandrake Root.

Declined—Oil Anise.

 

  
 

 

  

Acidum
Aceticum............ 8 8@s 10
Benzoicum, German %75@ 80
Boracic.....-........ @ 15
Carbolicum......... M@@ 4
Citricum ...... --.. H@ 46
Hydrochlor ......... 3 5
Docume ........... 8@ 10
Oxalicm........... HQ 8
Phosphorium, dil... @ 15
Salicylicum. ........ 45@ 50
Sulphuricum. ...... 1%@ 5
Tannicum ..... — 40@ 1 60
Tartaricum.......... 34@ 36

Ammonia
Aqua, 16 deg........ 4@ «666
pe 20 deg........ 6@ Ss
Carbonas............ 1220@ 14
Chloridum .......... Rn@ 14

Aniline
Black 2 00@ 2 25
BOW es: 80@ 1 0
He@ -..... 45@ 50
Yellow.. ..... ‘ 2 50@ 3 00

Baccez.
Cubesee........ po.18 13@ 15
Juniperas........... 6Q 8
Xanthoxylum.. .... B@ 38

Balsamum
Copaiba 60@ 65
Perm... @ 2 60
Terabin, Canada.... 40@ 45
Milatan.:..-2.......-. 6@ 7

Cortex
Abies, Canadian.... 18
oe... 4... 12
Cinchona Flava..... 18
Euonymus atropurp 30
Myrica Cerifera, po. Ww
Prunus Virgini...... 12
Quillaia, gr’d....... 10
Sassafras...... po. 18 12
Ulmus...po. 15, gr’d 15

Extractum
Glycyrrhiza Glabra. 4@ 25
Saeauiee. pe aes 28a 30
Hematox,15lbbox. 1@ _ 12
Hematox, Is ........ B@ 14
Heematox, Ks....... 14@ 15
Heematox, 48....... 16@ i

Ferru
Carbonate Precip... 15
Citrate and Quinia.. 2
Citrate Soluble...... 80
Ferrocyanidum Sol. 50
Solut. Chloride..... 15
Sulphate, com’l..... 2
Sulphate, com’l, by
bbl, per cwt....... 35
Sulphate, pure ..... 7
Flora
Aree... ........-. 122@ 14
Avthemis ........... 18Q@
Matricaria .......... 3@ 3
Polia
Barosma............. 155@
Cassia Acutifol, Tin-
nevelly...... ._... 18Q@ 2%
Cassia a 3@ 30
Salvia officinalis, 4s
me 568.2... lL. R@ Ww
Ura Ursl.......... ae 8@ 10

Gummi
Acacia, 1st picked.. @ 6
Acacia, 2d picked.. @ #
Acacia, 3d picked.. @ 35
Acacia, sifted sorts. @ 2
Acacia, pe....:.....- 60@ 80
Aloe, Barb. po.20@28 14@ 18
Aloe, Cape ....po. 15 @ 12
Aloe, Socotri..po. 40 @ 30
Ammoniac.......... 55@ 60
Assafoetida....po.30 2@ 2%
Benzoinum ......... 50@ 55
Cateehu, ts.......... @ 13
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atechu, ¢s.........
Camphore.... .... 53@ 58
Euphorbium..po. 35 @ Ww
Galbanum........... @10
Gamboge po....... . &@ 7
Guaiacum..... po. 35 @
Bine........ po. $4.00 @ 4 00
Mastic .............. @ 6

ao po. 4 @ 40
Opii...po. 83.30@3.50 2 3h@ 2 40
ee ............, 41Q &
Shellac, bleached... 40@ 45
Tragacanth ......... 50@ ~=s«80

Herba

Absinthium..oz. pkg 25
Eupatorium .oz. pkg 20
Lobelia...... oz. pkg 25
Majorum ....oz. pkg 28
Mentha Pip..oz. pkg 23
Mentha Vir..oz. pkg 25
Lo oz. pkg 39
TanacetumV oz. pkg 22
Thymus, V..oz. pkg 2%

Magnesia.

Calcined, Pat..... .. 55@ 60
Carbonate, Pat...... 22
Carbonate, K.& M.. 20@ 2%
Carbonate, Jennings 35@ 36

Oleum
Absinthium......... 3 25@ 3 50
Amygdale, Dule.... 30@ 50
Amygdale, Amare . 8 00@ 8 25
BR 2 W@ 2 30
Auranti Cortex..... 00@ 2 25
Bergamii............ 22@ 2 H
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aryophylli......... 53@ SOS
Cedar.. - ee eee 35@ SOG
Chenopadii.......... @ 2 50
Cinnamonii. ........ 2 2@ 2 50
Citronella. ... 40@ 45

 

 
  

 

Conium Mac........ 3@ 65
Copeiba 2. 90@ 1 00
Cabebss.. 2... | 1 50@ 1 60
Exechthitos ........ 1 20@ 1 30
Erigeron .........._. 1 20@ 1 30
Gaultheria..... .... 1 50@ 1 60
Geranium, ounce... @ 7
Gossippii,Sem. gal.. 50@ 60
Hedeoma..... ...... 10@1 10
oUniperA. 50@ 2 00
Lavendula.......... #@ 2 00
Limonis............. 1 30@ 1 50
Mentha Piper....... 16 @ 2 20
Mentha Verid....... 2 G@ 2 7%
Morrhue, gal....... 2 0@ 2 10
Myrcia, ounce : @ +50
Olive H@ 3 00
Picis Liquida. . hea
Picis Liquida, gal... Qo
Ries 93@ 1 00
Rosmarini........... @ 1 00
Rose, ounce........ 6 50@ 8 50
SHGEME  L. 40@ 45
Se 90@ 1 00
Sone 2 50@ 7 On
Sassatvas. 20 58@_~=sCBS
Sinapis, ess., ounce. @ 6
Lo es 1 40@ 1 50
Taye. 40@ 50
Thyme, opt......._- @ 1 60
Theobromas........ b@
Potassium
BiBarb............ - be
Bichromate ......... 1@ 15
Bromide. ............ 48@ 51
Cage. 12@ «15
Chlorate..po. 17@19¢ 16@ 18
Cyanide... 50@ 55
0 2 9@ 3 00
Potassa, Bitart, pure 27a 30
Potassa, Bitart, com @ &
Potass Nitras, opt... 10
Potass Nitras........ a 9
Prussiate....... .... 23@ 28
Sulphate po... ..... 15@ 18
Radix
Aconitvm ..... .... 20@ 2
AMiee 2@
Amenusa...... 2@ 1h
ASB BO... @ XB
Carmimun 00. | | 200@ 40
Gentiana...... po 15 12@ 15
Glychrrhiza...pv.15 16@ 18
Hydrastis Canaden . @ 3%
Hydrastis Can., po.. @ 40
Hellebore, Alba, po.. 1@ 2
PARIS, PO. 1@ 20
Ipecac po... |. 1 65@ 1 7
Iris plox....p035@38 35@ 40
Jelapa, PE... | 40@ 45
Maranta, \s........ @ 3
Podophyllum, po.... 22@ 25
eee 75@ 1 00
Het cut... @12%
hel py........ 75@ 1 35
Srigelia. 35@ 38
Sanguinaria...po. 25 @ 20
Serpentaria ......... 30@ «335
Nevere 40@ 45
Similax,officinalis H @ 40
Smilax, Mo @a
Sele... po.35 10@ 12
Symplocarpus, Feeti-
oe... e &
Valeriana,Eng.po.30 @
Valeriana, German. 15@ 20
Zingibera beeee cla. l2@ 16
Zingiber'j. ....... 25@ 27
Semen
Anisum....._. po. 15 @ 12
Apium (graveleons) 13@ 15
Bara, fs 4@ 6
Cari | po.18 10@ 12
Cardamon......... |. 1 3@ 1 7%
Coriandrum......... &@ Lv
Cannabis Sativa.... 3%@ 4
Cydonium........... 75@ 1 00
Chenopodium ...... 100@ WW
Dipterix Odorate... 2 90@ 3 00
Foeniculum ......... @ 10
Foenugreek, po...... 8
a 2%@ 4
Lini, grd....bbl.24% 3%@ 4
oan... 35 40
Pharlaris Canarian. 3%@ 4
Rape. 44@ 5
Sinapis Albu........ 7@ 8
Sinapis Nigra....... 1@ 12
Spiritus
Frumenti, W. D. Co. 2 00@ 2 50
Frumenti, D. F. R.. 2 00@ 2 25
Frumenti...... .... 125@ 1 50
Juniperis Co. 0. T.. 1 65@ 2 00
Juniperis Co......., 1 7%@ 3 50
Saacharum N. E.... 1 90@ 2 10
Spt. Vini Galli...... 1 7@ 6 50
Vini Oporto......... 1 25@ 2 00
Vir Aiba): 0... | 1 25@ 2 00
Sponges
Florida sheeps’ wool
Carries, os... 2 2%
Nassau sheeps wool
Carmare........... 2 00
Velvet extra sheeps’
wool, carriage. .... @ 110
Extra yellow sheeps’
wool. carriage... @ &
Grass sheeps’ wool,
Carriage... @ 6
Hard, for slate use.. @ &
Yellow Reef, for
siate use.......... @ 140
Syrups
BOSCIA : @ 50
Auranti Cortes...... @ ww
Zingiber....... .:... @ 580
poene. ............ @ wo
Mert 10d... @ Ww
Rhei Arom.......... @ 0
Smilax Officinalis... 50@ 60
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BGiin.;.... ... - @ 50

 

Sele Co...
Tolaten ............-
Prunus virg.. ......
Tinctures
Aconitum Napellis R
Aconitum Napellis F
BOCs
Aloes and Myrrh....
ATHICS
Assafoetida .........
Atrope Belladonna.
Auranti Curtex.....
benzem
Benzoin €o..........
Barosma ..........
Cantharides........
Capsicum ........ :
Cardamon........ :
Cardamon Co.......
Caster:
Cosceny ....
Cinchona......
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Guiacaammon......
Hyoscyamus........
fogine
Iodine, colorless. ...

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Ovii, camphorated..
Opii, deodorized....

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Sanguinaria . ......
Serpentaria .........
Stromonium ........
Tolutan.........
Valerian .......
Veratrum Veride...
Zingiber.

  
  

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Miscellaneous

ther, Spts. Nit. 3F
Aither, Spts. Nit.4F
Ajumen
Alumen, gro’d.. po. 7
Aneatie
Antimoni, po.......
Antimoni et PotassT
Antipyrin....... |||
Antifebrin. ......_.
Argenti Nitras, oz ..
Arsenicum, ...
Balm Gilead Bud ..
Bismuth S.N......
Calcium Chlor., 1s..
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 Flava..........
COCEIE
Cassia Fructus
Centraria...
Cetaceum.......... |
Chloroform..........
Chloroform, squibbs
Chloral Hyd Crst....
Chondrps.
Cinchonidine,P.& W
Cinchonidine, Germ

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Corks, list, dis.pr.ct.
Creosotum. .........
on... bbl. %5
Creta, prep..........
Creta, precip........
Creta, Mubra........
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Cudbear
Cupri Sulph........,
Dexttine..
Ether Sulph.........
Emery, all numbers
Emery po...
Ergota..... po. 40
Flake White........
Gala
Gambier... .... 2...
Gelatin, Cooper... ..
Gelatin, French.....
Less than box....
Glue, brown........
Glue, white.........
Giveering ...... . |.
Grana Paradisi ....
Humnlusg,.... |. |...
Hydraag Chlor Mite
Hydraag Chlor Cor.
Hydraag Ox Rub’m.
Hydraag Ammoniati
HydraagUnguentum
Hydrargyrum.......
Ichthyobolla, Am... 1
Indigo.

lodine, Resubi...... 3

lodoform. =<: ..... |.
Dupo .: 2.
Lycopodium ........
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Liquor Arsen et Hy-

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Magnesia, Sulph....
Magnesia, Sulph,bbl
Mannia, S. F........
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Morphia, S.P.& W...
Morphia, S.N.Y.Q.&
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Moschus Canton....
Myristica, No. 1.....
Nux Vomica...po.20
Os Sepia... 2...
Pepsin Saac, H. & P.
Co.
Picis Liq. N.N.% gal.
Oe
Picis Liq., quarts....
Picis Liq., pints.....
Pil Hydrarg...po.
Piper Nigra. ..po.
Saal Alba....po.
Pix Bargun........
Plumbi Acet........
Pulvis Ipecac et Opii
Pyrethrum, boxes IH.
& P. D. Co., doz...
Pyrethrum, pv......
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aetatn. S. P.& W..
Quinia, S. German..
Quinta, N.Y¥.........
Rubia Tinctorum...
Saccharum Lactis pv

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Salen... 3

Sanguis Draconis...
Sapo, W. so
Sapo, M.

Sapo Qe
Siedlitz Mixture....

  

1 75@ 2 00
1 65@ 1 90
@ 40
5@ 80
@ 10
b@ 18
@ 1 00

@ 2 00

@ 1 00

@ &

@ 50

@ 18

@ 30

@ 7
10@ 12
1 10@ 1 20
@ 125
30@ 33
8s@ 10
7@ BR
B@ 8
2@ 30
LP@ 14
2@ 26
00@ 3 10
40@ 50
R@ 14
10@ 12
@ 15
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Simapis, opt.........
Snuff, Maccaboy, De

Veen.
Snuff,Scotch,DeVo's
Soda Borag..........
Soda Boras, po......
Soda et Potass Tart.
Soca, Car..........
Soda, Bi-Carb.......

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Boda Ash ......... 3%@
Soda, Sulphas....... @
Spts. Cologne........ @2
Spts. Ether Co...... 50@ 5d

Spts. Myrcia Dom...
Spts. Vini Rect. bbl.
Spts. Vini Rect.'4bbl
Spts. Vini Reet. 10gal
Spts. Vini Rect. 5gal @

Less de gal. cash 10 days.

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bo OY ONO
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Strychnia, Crystal... 1 4u@ 1 45
Salpbur, Subi....... 2%@ 3
Sulphur, Roll.... . 2@ 2%
Tamarinds.......... Ss 0
Tererenth Venice... 28@ 30
Theobrome....... . <a &
Vanilla... 9 00@16 09
Zinei Sulph......... 7@ 8
Oils

BBL. GAL.
Whale, winter....... 70 70
bard, extra......... 40 45
Hasd, Wo. 8.......... 35 40

 

Linseed, pure raw.. 32 35
Linseed, boiled..... 34 37
Neatsfoot,winterstr 65 70
Spirits Turpentine.. 33 38
Paints BBL. LB.
Red Venetian... ... 1% 2 @8
Ochre, yellow Mars. 1% 2 @é4
Ochre, yellow Ber.. 1% 2 @3
Putty, commercial... 2% 2%@3
Putty, strictly pure. 2% 2%@3
Vermilion, Prime
Avmerican.......... 13@ 15
Vermilion, English. 70@ 7
Green; Puris ........ 5 @ &
Green, Peninsular.. 13@ 16
feac oec BQ 5%
Lead, white........ 544@ 5

Whiting, white Span
Whiting, gilders’...
White, Paris Amer..
bean Paris Eng.

Ss 88e
& 8832

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Universal Prepared. 1
Varnishes};

No. 1 Turp Coach... 1
Extra Turp......... 1
Coach Body. ....... 2
No. 1 Turp Furn.... 1
Extra Turk Damar.. 1 |
Jap. Dryer,No.1Turp

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Perfumers and Wholesale Druggiss,

Grand Rapids, jilich.

CTA

OOIOGNES and
TOl6L Waters

Finest quality in bulk for

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White Rose Cologne - $6.00 :
White Rose Cologne second quality 4.00 .
German Cologne - ~ Geo ie
Eau de Cologne” - - 3.50 wy
Lilac Spray Cologne - 4.00 |
Violet Cologne . - 6.00

Lavender Water - 6.00

Lavender Water second quality 4.00

Violet Water - - 6.00

Violet Water second quality - 4.00

Florida Water - - 4.00

Ocean Spray Cologne” - 8.00

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

ROCERY 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 aver2ge 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.
_—.......-....... oe
Cagior On... 60
—— st. 50
Frazer's .... vi]

IXL Golden, tin boxes 7%
ae. Le
Paragon... ....... -._35

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BAKING POWDER.

Absolute.
“ ipeannG@or............. 45
ees... Ue
i means ape........ 1 50
Acme.
—ibcamesdoz............ &
SiIpeanssaee............ vo
. 2D cameiies............ 1
x<—  !.L..lCU
El Purity.
a¢ Ib cans per doz......... ve)
4 Ib cans per dog ........ 1 20
I ib eane per doz......... 2 00

JAXON

 

44 Ib cans 4 doz case.. 45
% lbcans4dozcase...... 85
1b cans 2 doz case...... 1 60
Home.
4g lb cans 4 doz case...... 35
\% lb cans 4 doz case...... 5d
’ 1b cans 2 doz case...... i
Our Leader.
ems 45
% lb cans oe
: oe. ae
BATH BRICK.
eerarem 70
a Une ae cB Uae el 80
BLUING.

CO

 

1 doz. Counter Boxes..... 40
12 doz. Cases, per gro...... 4 50
BROOTIS.
ee
No. > cerpes........ ...... ee
Nie. 3 cCames.....-....... 1 50
eo Scarce...
Pare oem. 2 00
(eomaraon Whisk............ 70
Fancy Whisk.. : 80
Wamsouse |... as
CANDLES.

Hotel 40 ib boxes....... .....9%
Star 40 Ib boxes...............8%
Paraffine ... _ 5

CANNED GOODS.

Manitowoc Peas.

Lakeside Marrowfat....... 1 00

Petceace. J... .......... £3

Lakeside, Cham. of Eng.... 1 40

Lakeside, Gem, Ex. Sifted. 1 65
CATSUP.

Colmmbila, pints..........4 %
Columbia, % pints.......... 2 50
CHEESE.
ae... @ 10%
paaeey ............. Sa woe
Core iby... @ 10
Gold Medal......... 10
a 10%
ee 10%
iomewee.. ... 9%
Oakland County..... @ 10
Riverside. i. - 9%@ 10%
——....... .... @ Ww
Springdale @ 10%
ieee! So 9
— ........ 6 @
a ones @ 19
Lamburger. ........ @ &
Pineappie...... - © @ %
Sap oaep...... @ w

Chicory.
Bulk 5
Red f
CHOCOLATE.

Walter Baker & Co.’s.
German Sweet..... .. . + ai
Proms, . 5... > ote
Breakfast Cocog..... -- 42

 

CLOTHES LINES.
Cotton, 40 ft, per doz....... 1 00
Cotton, 50 ft, per dez....... 1 20
Cotton, 60 ft, per doz....... 1 40

Cotton, 70 ft, per doz....... 1 60

Cotton, 80 ft, per doz....... 1 80

Jute, GOft, per doz......... 80

Jute, 72%, per Gos.......... 95
CLOTHES PINS.

5 gross boxes 45
COCOA SHELLS.

2oib DACs... 2

Less quantity............ 3

Pound packages......... 4
CREAS TARTAR.

Strictly Pure, wooden boxes. 35

Strictly Pure, tin boxes... . 37
COFFEE.
Green.
Rio.
——...... .....
eet... 18
Pee 19
ween ee
Peeper ~e
Santos.
ar. lk. ee
Good ee
aes ee
peers 2.3. 23
Mexican and Guatamala.
Fair ee ee
Good Lae . 22
Pay 24
Maracaibo.

Prime ..... eee ea ee
nies 24
Java.
nee -25
Privacs Growih............... a7
Mandeniing...._............. 28
Mocha.
Peiiasaon 8... .-20
Aree ee 28
Roasted.

Quaker Mocha and Java......29
Toko Mocha and Java........2*
State House Biend...........- 23

Package.

Below are given New York
prices on package coffees, to
which the wholesale dealer
adds the local freight from
New York to your. shipping
point, giving you credit on the
invoice for the amount of
freight buyer pays from the
market in which he purchases
to his shipping point, including
weight of package. In 60 Ib.
cases the list is 10¢ per 100 lbs.
above the price in full cases.

 

Avuucuie .-... . 2: 16 50
ere 16 59
MicLaughlin’s XXXX......16 50
Extract.
Valley City % gross ..... 7
Penk % serous... : 1 15
Hummel’s foil % gross... 85
Hummel’s tin % gross... 1 48
Kneipp Malt Coffee.

1lb. packages, 50 lb. cases 9
1 1b. packages, 100 1b. cases 9

CONDENSED MILK.

4 doz. in case.

     
 

    
 

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N. Y. Condensed Milk Co.’s
brands

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Gail Borden Eagle......... 7 40
one LLL
AM a 5 7
Champion 4 50
ee 42
Dime 3 35

 

 

 

COUPON BOOKS.

 

Tradesman Grade.

50 books, any denom....
100 books, any denom.... 2
500 books, any denom....1

1,000 books, any Genom....2!

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-denom.... 2 50
500 books, any denom....11 50

1,000 books, any denom....20 00

Superior Grade.
50 books, any denom.... 1 50
109 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.

 

Credit Checks.

 

500, any one denom’n..... 3 00
1000, any one denom’n..... 5 00
2000, any one denom’n..... 8 00
Steel pumck. ............. 8 DB

DRIED FRUITS—DOMESTIC

Apples.
Bandmoa.,............ @ 3%
Evaporated 50 1b boxes. @ 4

California Fruits.

Aree 10%@
Blackberries... Dae
Mectarinos ............ 6 @
Paeewes................ Va gs
Pearse. i ce @
Pitted Cherries........
Pranmoles.............
Raspberries............

California Prunes.
100-120 25 lb boxes....... @

90-100 25 Ib boxes....... @5%4
80 - 90 25 Ib boxes...... @ h%
70 - 80 25 lb boxes....... @ 6%
60 - 70 25 lb boxes... .... @ 6%
50 - 60 25 Ib boxes....... @7%
40 - 50 25 lb boxes....... @ 7%
30 - 40 25 1b boxes......
lq rent less in bags
Raisins.
London Layers 3 Crown. 1 60
London Layers 5 Crown. 2 50
Dehesias ..... 350

Loose Muscatels 2 Crown
Loose Musecatels 3 Crown
Loose Muscatels 4Crown 74%

FOREIGN.
Currants.
Pateae Obi. @ 4%
Vostizzas 50 lb cases......@ 4%
Cleaned, bulk ........ ...-@ 6%
Cleaned, packages........ @ 6%
Peel.

Citron American 10lb bx @14
Lemon American 10 lb bx @12
Orange American 101b bx @12

Raisins.
Ondura 28 Ib boxes...... @ 7%
Sultana 1 Crown........ 84
Sultana 2Crown...... @9
Sultana 3 Crown........ @ 9%
Sultana 4Crown........ @ 9%
Sultana 5 Crown........ @10%

 

FARINACEOUS GOODS.

Farina.
Suk... eS
Grits.
Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s....... 2 25
Hominy.
Bearels .. 3 25
Flake, 50 lb. drums.......1 50
Lima Beans.
Brcd .. ....... 4 oe
Maccaroni and Vermicelli.
Domestic, 10]b. box...... 60
Imported, 25 Ib. box......2 50
Pearl Barley.
Common. 8 2. 1%
eee 2
apts 2%

Peas.
emeen. ta. 90
Splet, peri)... 2... 2%

Rolled Oats.
Rolled Avena, bbl..... r
Monaren, bbi..:........
Monarch, % bbl... ...... 2 50
Private brands, bbl..... 435
Private brands, 4bbl

 

 

 

Quaker, cases. .... betes eB 20
Oven Baked......... ...22
Sago.

Pere oe
Mast fadia. ......._. 3%
Wheat.

Cracked, buik......4.-.... 3
242 1b packages...........2 40
e
Fish.
Cod.
Georges cured... ...... @ 4
Georges genuine...... @4%
Georges selected...... @5
Strips or bricks....... 5 @8
Halibut. ‘
Cee 10
Pee 9
Herring.

Holland white hoops keg 60
Holland white hoops bbl. 8 00
porwerian... ....,.......

  

Round 100 lbs............. 2.50
Rouna 80 Tbs............. 1 30
Bealee 12
Mackerel.
No. 1 08 ibe... 1... ae Ge
No:t @ite... ..... ....), 2gp
WO. 8. Wibe.............,.- 2 ae
No.2 oie... |. & Om
mo. 2 ibe... 2... 3 50
oe 10 ihe... 95
Pannryo0ibs............
MPamiy 10 lbs..............
Sardines.
Russian kegs.............. 55
Stockfish.

No. 1, 1001b. bales......... 10%
No. 2. 100 1b. bales......... 8%
Trout.

No. 1000 ibs. ......... 475
Mo. t S016. .......---:.... 220
mot tee. 63
ot Gi. 53
Whitefish.

No.1 No.2 Fam

100 lbs om $7 to@
40 lbs 290.20 ££
mime ....... £0 ves 35
8 lbs 67 61 31

  
 
  
  
 

Jennings’.

D.C. Vanilla
2Oz...... 1 20
3Oz...... 1 50
40z.. ...2 00
Ses... ... 3 00

  

    

 

Souders’.

Oval bottle, with corkscrew.

   
   

 

         
      

 

 

 

Best in the world for the
money.
tt Regular
fy Grade
fa Lemon.
; doz
Sos... vi)
—...... 1 50
Ma Regular
oN Vanilla.
. hi doz
0 mm 20s......1 2
—— | hy 402...... 2 40
RS ELAVORING il XX Grade
preteens || Lemon.
USN
4 ARS 2 0z......1 50
wai, if 40z. ....3 00
Rovat S| ee
XTRACy rade
— al Vanilla.
pp ——_—— fh) 2 oz... 1%
ull bul - 402......350
GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.
eee 4 00
Magee ORS. 2
(Quarter Kegs...........:...; 13
1 Came 30
i 2p Gans... 18
Choke Bore—Dupont’s.
MOen te eeeet 4 00
Hem Mere. 2 2
Qnarter Kegs... ... 5... 1 25
.t) eeee. . o
Eagle Duck—Dupont’s.
Loan... 8 00
Migs MCPS... 4 25
Quarter Mers.........>.....: 2 2
Tees oc 45
HERBS.
pate.
Hee... es 15
INDIGO.

Madras, 5 lb boxes......... 55
S. F., 2,3 and5 1b boxes.... 50
JELLY.
1p Pets. os 30
17 lb pails.... 40
oot) pas... 5... |... Be
LYE.

Condensed, 2 doz .......... 1 20
Condensed, 4 doz........... 2 5
LICORICE.

Me. 30
eee 25
POM ee 14
MOO 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.
No. 9 suiphur............-. 76
Anchor Farior.............. 1 70
Mo. 2 tome. 3.
Export Farior............ 2 4 00

MOLASSES.
Blackstrap.

Sugar house............. .10@12
Cuba Baking.
Ordinary... ek 12@14
Porto Rico.
Pee 20
alee 3. 30

 

New Orleans.

  

 

 
 

eee 18
Cee 22
eecrasood.... ks. 24
Cuetec 27
— ae 30
Half-barrels 3c extra.
PICKLES.
Medium.

Barrels, 1,200 count........ 3 50
Half bbls, 600count........ 2 2
Small.

Barrels, 2,400 count........
Half bbls, 1,200 count...” 3 S
PIPES.

Clay, No. 216... 1 70
Clay, T. D. fulleount...._!
nas pa
POTASH.
48 Cans in case,

BAO s 4 00
Penna Salt Co.’s.......) 11. 3 00
RICE.

Domestic.

Carolina head.............. 614

Carolina No.1 ... 5

Carolina No. 2.. 4%

Pores 3

Imported.

vapan, No.t |...

Japan. Ne.f uy e8

aave, NooP 4%
Re 5%

SALERATUS.,

Packed 60 lbs. in ‘
Churen’s 0 a. 3C
Dern ee 3 15
Dasa a 3 30
Maver soe ee

SAL SODA.
Granulated, bbls........ .1 10
Granulated, 100 lb cases..1 50
onmp. Big. 1
Lump, 145]b kegs....... |. 110

SEEDS.
Ae 13
Canary,Smyrna........... 4
COTEWe 10
Cardamon, Malabar ..... 80
Hemp, Russian.......... 4
Mited Bird... 4%
Mustard, white....... ... 6%
POPPY oe
ee 5
Cuttle Bone............... 20

SNUFF.
Scotch, in bladders......... 37
Maccaboy, injars........... 35
French Rappee, in jars..... @

SYRUPsS.

Corn.
OTTO 14
em Dhls: 16

Pure Cane.
Ce 16
Good ....../. 20
CMGIOG co oe

SPICES.

Whole Sifted.
AUNCG 9
Cassia, China in mats...... 10
Cassia, Batavia in bund... 20
Cassia, Saigon in rolls...... 32
Cloves, Amboyna........... 15
Cloves, Zanzibar............ 9

Mace, Batavia ... ... .....60

Nutmegs, fancy............ .60
Nummecs, No t..... .... . 2 £0
WNutmers, No: 200. 45
Pepper, Singapore, black... 9
Pepper, Singapore, white... 12
Pepper, shot... 6. 10
Pure Ground in Bulk.

ISSCC 12
Cassia, Batavia ........:... 22
Cassia, Saigon... ........... 35
Cloves, Amboyuna........... 20
Cloves, Zanzibar. ........... 15
Ginger, African............ 15
Ginger” Cochin............. 20
Ginger, Jamuica............ 22
Mace, Batavia.............. 70
Mustard, Eng. and Trieste. .20
Mustard, Trieste............ 25
DGGE 4

0@ 0
Pepper, Sing., black ....10@14
Pepper, Sing., white....15@18
Pepper, Cayenne........
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SALT.

Diamond Crystal.
Cases, 24 3-lb boxes......... 1 60
Barrels, 1°90 3lbbags ..... 2%
Barrels, 40 7 lbbags...... 2 50
Butter, 561b bags........... 6
Butter, 20 14 1b bags........ 3 00
Butter, 280 1b bbls.......... 2 50

Common Grades.

1003 lbsacks..... ......... 2 60

GOSibsacks.... ...........1

23 ffipsacks.._.-. ....... ia
Worcester.

50 4 Ib. eartons........... 3 25
115 2elb. AACES.:.<. |)... 1.408
G2 3 1b: seeks... .... |. 3
2214 lb. sacks..... ..... 3 50
oe 0 Vo. seems. :.. lS. 3 50
28 Ib. linen sacks............ 32
56 Ib. linen sacks............ 60
Bulk in barrels.............. 2 50
Warsaw.
56-lb dairy in drill bags..... 30
28-lb dairy in drill bags..... 15
Ashton.
56-lb dairy in iinen sacks . 6%
Higgins.
56-lb dairy in linen sacks . #0
Solar Rock.
56-lb sacks.. oo oe ee
Common ie.
Satiaaw ... 60
Mamintice .-. . Se
SODA.
OM 5%
Kegs, English.. i . 4%
STARCH.

 

Kingstord’s Corn.

40 1-lb packages............. 6
20 1 Ip packages............. €%
Kingsford’s Silver Gioss.

40 11> packages............. 8%
Gib boxes. ........... ..... 7
Diamond.
6410¢ packages ...........§ 5 00
128 5e packages.. -.) so OO
32 10¢c and 64 5¢ packages. 5 U0
Common Corn.

20th woxes........ . ....... 5
40-7b bexes........ _...- ... <%
Common Gloss.
Pld packages............... 4%
Sib packages............... diy
Clb packares............... 514
40 and 50 lb boxes........... 244
Bare 2... 234
SOAP.
Laundry.

Armour’s Brands.
Armour’s Family.......... 27
Armour’s Laundry........ 3 25
Armour’s Comfort......... 2 90
Armour’s White, 100s...... 6 25
Armour’s Whit#, 50s....... 3 20
Armour’s Woodehuck .... 2 55
Armour’s Kitchen Brown. 2 00

Armour’s Mottled German 2 65

 

eee oon... = LJ... a
5 box lots, delivered.......2 80
10 box lots. delivered.......2 75

Jas. 8S. Kirk & Co.’s Brands.
American Family, wrp’d...3 33
American Family, plain....3 27

Lautz Bros. & Co.’s eee

Coton Of . 5%
MATAGIIIOS. 5. 4 00
Master 3 70

 

Single box. .-.......
5 box lots, delivered .
10 box lots, delivered....... 12 75

 

 

Single box. . «..-.d 00

5 box lot, delivered. ie bees 2 95
10 box lot, delivered. «2-2 NB
25 box lot, delivered........ 2%

  

 

Allen B. Wrisley’s Brauds.

Old Country, 80 1-lb. bars...3 09
Good Cheer, 60 1-lb. bars... 3 90
Uno, 100 3% “Ib. bares 2 80
Dall, 100 10- ‘on Oai5......... 22

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

SUGAR.

Below are given New York
prices on sugars, to which the
wholesale dealer adds the local
freight from New York to your
Shipping point, giving you
credit on the invoice for the
amount of freight buyer pays
from the market in which he
purchases to his shipping point,
including 20 pounds for the

weight of the barrel.

Cut Loaf ........... .... Se
Downe... 4 87
Oumes ... . 4 62

Powdered
XXXX Powdered..

Mould A. oc
Granulated in bbls... Lo oe
Granulated in bags. 4 37
Fine Granulated... ....._.. 4 a7
Extra Fine Granulated..... 45
Extra Coarse Granulated...4 50
Diamond Confec. A........4 37
Confece. Standard A.... .... 4 2
Ne fe + 00
NO 2 4 WU
Ne 2... 4 WO
Ne, fo 3 94
INO. 5. 3 87
Ne GF 3 $1
NO fc. 33. 3%
Neo 8... 3 69
No. 9.. 3 62
No ...... .. 1... 3 56
No to .3 50
DC 3 44
ue. ............ .,... 3 od
No. 14 ..0 31
Nobo LL lS

 

TABLE SAUCES.
Lea & Perrin’s, large..... 475
Lea & Perrin’s,small. ...2 7%
alton, ‘arec............ 3%
Halford small.. “1428 20
Salad Dre ssing, large Peace 4 55
Salad Dressing, small..... 2 &
TOBACCOS.
Cigars.

G. J. Johnson’s brand
Lc yw... .35 00
H. & P. Drug Co. ’s brand.

Guintette 66.
Clark ene Co.'s braid.
New Brick oo.
VINEGAR.
Leroux Cider... 10

Robinson’s Cider, 40 grain....10
Robinson’s Cider, 50 grain. ..12

WICKING.
MO. ©. pergross.............. 2
ING. L Pereress:..... 1... .. |. 30
INO. 2, per STOss..-...... 40
INO. 3, pererers.. 1... 22.2... %

 

 

Fruits.

 

Oranges.

Fancy Seedlings
Mexicans 150-176-200 @4 25
Lemons.

Strictly choice 360s.. @3 00
Strictly choice 300s.. @3 50

Fancy 360s.. oa @
Ex. Fancy 300s...... @4 00
Bananas.

A definite price is hard to
name, as it varies according to
size of bunch and quality of

fruit.

Medium bunches...1 25 @I1 50
Large bunches...... 17% @2 00
Foreign Dried Fruits.

res Choice Layers
pels eae a @10
Fise, — Smyrna
OO TO tele @13
Figs, — in
30 1b. bags,......... @7
— Fards in 101b
HOeCK 22 @ 8
sane Fards in 601b
cases .... @6
Dates, Persians, GM.
K., 60 Ib cases, new @ 6%
Dates, Sairs 60 lb
Cores @ 5%

 

 

Candies.
Stick Candy.
a pails
Memmdard .-.... |. %@7
Standard H. H...... 3x@ “
Standard Twist..... 6 @7
Cut Boat... .. THG@ 8%
cases
Eywa..... @ 8%
Boston Cream...... @ 8%

— ‘seesign

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Competition. . @ 6
Studdard... @ 6%
CORSCIVG. os... @7
Royal. |... @i%
ee @
Brosen @ 8
Cut ioer............ @s
English Rock....... @8
Kindergurten....... @ 8%
French Cream...... @9
Dandy Pan...... __. @l0
Valley Cream. @i13
Fancy — ‘In Bulk.
Lozenges, plain..... @ 8%
Lozenges, printed.. @ 8%
Choe. Drops a 11 @l4
Choe. oo @12%
Gum Drops.. . @5
Moss Drops... : @i7%
Sour Drope.-.... |. @ 8%
Imperials .. @ 8%
Fancy—In 5 Ib. Boxes.
Lemon Drops. . . B50
Sour Drops......... D5O
Peppermint Drops. 60
Chocolate Drops.... 65
H. M. Choe. Drops.. bid
Gum Props......... b3d
Licorice Drops...... @i5
A. B. SS DO
Lozenges, plain.. DAD
Lozenges, printed. B60
Imperials .. ' DO
Mottoes M65
Cream Bar.......... @50
Molasses Bar ....... @50
Iland Made Creams. 80 @90
Plain Creams..... 60 @s0
Decorated Creams. DW)
perme Rock......... -
Burnt Almonds.....1 25
Wintergreen Berries Gos
—
No. 1 wrapped, 2
boxes ... @30
No. 1 wrapped, 3 Ib.
boxes . @45
No. 2 wrapped, 2 2 ib.
box
SS
Fresh I Meats.
Beef.
Carcass ...... <2 @
Fore quarters... w=. * @E
Hind quarters. . eee 6 GT
bots No @........... 8 @l2
RDS ee 8
Houmes 0 54G@ 6%
Chuems.... ...._.. 4@5
Fics 2. @4
Pork.
Dressed 20... 34@ 4
Dotes .... 6%4@ 7
Shoulders... ..._.... @ 5
heatlard.... @ 5%
Mutton.
Ce 5 @6
Spring Lambs......... 64@ 7%
Veal.
Careass poe -- 84@7
Crackers.
The N. Y. Biscuit Co. quotes
as re
< oem
Seymour aa.

6
Seymour SEX, 3b. carton t%
amby XX. el
Family XXX, 31b carton (%
Salted XXX 6
Salted XXX, 3 ]becarton... 6%

  

da.
Sada Se 614
Soda XXX, 3 1b carton. 6%
Soda, City..... ~- 6
Zephyrette....... .. .. 2
Long Island Wafers.. 11

L. I. Wafers, 1 lb carton _. 12
Oyster.

Square srk AAS. 6
Sq. Oys. XXX,11b carton. 7
Farina Oyster, XXX.. 6
T GOODS—Boxes.

eels 11%
Bent’s Cold Water......... 12
Belie Rose ..:.............: 8
Cocoanut Tafy............ 9
Coffee Cakes... 2... 025.1: \
Frosted Honey............. lz
Graham Crackers .........

Ginger Snaps, XXX round.
Ginger Snaps, XXX city..
Gin. Sops, XXX home made
Gin. Snps,X XX scalloped. .

84%
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Ginger Vanilla.............
EPGTEMIS cl. 8%
Jumples, Honey........... 11
Molasses Cakes............
Marshmallow ............- 15
Marshmallow Creams..... 16
Pretzels, hand made ..... 8%
Pretzelettes, LittleGerman 614
oer Cone... ............
Sultanas..... i
Sears Lanen 5 ......... 7%
Sears’ Zephyrette.. ..... 10
Vanilla Square........... 8%
Vanilla Wafers ........... 14
Pecan Wafers.............. 16
Brute Coffee... ............. 10
fixed Flenic.. _.......... 10%
Cream Jumbles ..... «. BM
Boston Ginger Nuts,. | 26
Chimmie Fadden.......... 10
Pineapple Glace............ 16

 

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Grains and Feedstuffs

Wheat.
WHEAG 86
Winter Wheat Flour.

 

Local Brands,
Patents 0... 5 2
second Patent.......... 475
SPOIGiene 4 55
Crea. 4 00
Gratam .. . 4%
Buckwheat 00000000000 3%
Be 3 00

Subject to usual cash dis-
count,

Flour in bbls., 25¢ per bbl. ad-
ditional.

Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.

Quaker, %s....._... .. _@
Quaker, #48 eee 4 65
GCuaker “{e . ... 4 65

Spring Wheat Flour.
Olney & Judson’s Brand.

 

 

@eresora 465... 5 00
Ceresota, 445... 4 90
Ceresota, ==... 4 85
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand.
Grand Republic, %s........ 5 00
Grand Republic, 248... _..../4 96
Grand Republic, oe. 4 80
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Eaurer ts. 4 90
Laurel, 48. _..... 2 oe
Laurel. ys. / 1. 46
Lemon & Wheeler Co. s Brand.
Parisian. ea 5 00
Parisian, a... ..., ... 4 90
Parisian. Yes... <2... £30
i,
Betea 1 75
Granulated... 2 OV

Feed and Millstuffs.
St. Car Feed. screened ....12 00

No. 1 Corn and Oats....... 11 50
Ne. 2heed il 00
Unbolted Corn Meal....... 11 00
Winter Wheat Bran... ... 9 00
Winter Wheat Middlings..10 00
mercenings 8 00

The O. E. Brown Mill Co.
quotes as follows:
New Corn.
Car lots. __.. oo
Less than ear lots......... 25
Oats.
Car iote 3. 22
Cartots, elipped............ 24
Less than a es... 25
No.1 Steeaiegeiate. soos 40 50

No. 1 Timothy, ton lots ....11 00

 

Fish and Oysters

 

 

 

 

 

Fresh Fish.
Per Ib
Whitefish ......_.. 9
ROME @ 8
Biack Bass.......... @ 10
ESEOMG oc @ 15
Ciscoes or Herring.. @ 4
Imesh. a it
Live Lobster....... @ 18
Boiled Lobster...... @ 2
Cod =... @ 10
eo @ §
No. 1 Pickerel.... .. @ 8
Pike... : @ 6
Smoked White...... @ 8
Red Snapper... @ &
Col River Salmon.. @ 12%
Mackerel ......._.. 20
Oysters in oo
= = Counts.. @ 35
Dp. Selects... a
sila Se... 8. @ 2
F. J. D. Standards. . @ i
oT a a @ 18
Stangards... ....... @ 16
Paver ........... @ 14
Oysters in Bulk. |
Counts oo... 1 7% |
Extra Selects........ 1 60
elect 1 40
Mediums... .. 146
Baltimore Standards 90
Clans 00. 2 1 2
Shell Goods.

Oyaters, per 100....... 1 25@1 50 |
Ciams, per 100....... 90@1 00 |
Nuts.

Almonds, Tarragona... @i2%
Almonds, Ivaca.. @

Almonds, California,

soft shell e @13
Bragiis new........... @s8
Filberts .... @\i
Wainuts, Grenobles . @13
Walnuts, Calif No. 1. @l0
Walnuts, soft shelled

Calif . . @12
Table Nu 8, “fancy. , @lz
Table Nuts, choice. @li0
Pecans, small.. “ @ 6
Pecans, Ex. Large... @12
Pecans, Jumhos.. @14
Hickory Nuts per bu.,

Ohio, new. @2 Ov
Cocoanuts, full, sacks @i1 50
Butternuts per bu.. @
Black Walnuts per bu @ ao

Peanuts.
Fancy, H. P., Game

i 434
Fancy, H. P., Flags

momo... 24... 7
Choice, H. P., Extras. @ 1%
Choice, H. P., Extras,

Roasted ............ @ 5%

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

Provisions.
Swift & Company quote as

follows:

ea oe
Mesa |... - 8
eGe cl. 8 7
Clear hee 8 50
peemtGie ... 8 50
ee. 11 50
pean... 7 7
oo 9 00

Dry Salt spins
Bellies 01... . 514
Briskets . ...... 5
Extra shorts.....__..... 43

Smoked [leats.
Hams, 12 lb average .... 9%
Hams, 14 lb average 9%
Hams, 16 Ib ay CTage..... 914
Hams, 20 lb average..... 8%
Ham dried beef........_. 101%
Shoulders (N. Y. _ 534
Bacon, clear. . : 7
California hams.. 5%
Boneless hams........... $%&
Cooked ham.. |

_— ie ‘Tierces.
Compotmd. 6... 4%
Kettic..... .... 5%
55 lb Tubs.......advance Lg
80 lb Tubs .. advance 14
50 1b Tins ...advance 4
20 1b Pails ...advance by
10 lb Pails.......advance %
5 1b Pails... ..- advance %
21D Pats. ...... advance 1
Sepang.
Bologna ........ — 7
Liver.. 6
Frankfort... 6%
—-......... 644
Blood 6
Co 9
mead Cheese... 6
ef.
Bextra Mess... 7 00
Boneless 10 00
a _.
Pigs’ Feet.

Mis fie... 80
14 bbls, are... 1 5u
Vy bbis, 80 lbs.. _.. 2 oo

Tripe.

Mite Io lbs... .) WS
14 bbls, 40 Ibs... 1 40
Ye bbls. 80 Ibs.. 2
Casings.
Pork - 18
Beef rounds.. 31
Beef middles.. oe 8
SHGGD 60
ne
Rolls, dairy.. __.. 9%
mer, G8iry. |. 9
olis, creamery ......... 13%
Solid, Creamery ...... ._
Canned =.
Corned beef, 2 Ib....... 2 00
Corned beef, 14 Ib co. 14 00
Roast beef, =i... 2 00
Potted ham, ‘\s. 50
Potted ham, s....... 1 00
Deviiedham i4s....... 60
Deviledham, Xs... 1 00
Petted tongue 545. .... 60
Potted tongue %s....... 1
Hides and Pelts.
Perkins & Hess pay as fol-
lows:

Hides.
Green - 44G 5%
Part cured....... @ te
Full Cured... i. oO Ge
Dy a ae
five. green. - -.- 44@ 5%
Kips, Cured. :...... 6 @7
Calfskins, green...... 54@ 7
Calfskins, Gured...... 64.@ 8
Déacouskins .........2 @a

Pelts.
precede a. ..,l oh hCU
Lambs ... 23@ 50
Old! Wool 410@ 75]

urs.

Mink ... ceecce, Gea 1 10
Cogn... ae
So) .. 2
meeeie............. 8@ 12}
Mea Fox. |... ..... B1e
Gray Vox... .. 1. )
Croes Wee |... .... | @,
DAGRCe |... Db,

Cat Wile ............ )
— ae Q
Piney......--. -.- 2 OQ 5 @)
iva C¥ --..40@20
Martin, Dark... ....... 1 VUG@ 5

Martin, Yellow ......
Otter

Wor. a
— ...,....... UG
Beaver.... 0U@

Deerskin, dry.

Deerskin, gr’ n,perlib 10¢
ool,
Washed es 10
Unwashed ........ 5
Tliscellaneous.
Panow 2
Grease Butter......... 1
Switehes . ........ 1%

Ginseng. ......

 

De ‘Tlb. Ib@ 2%

2 W@2 7

Dirty sb do te OF
yr “oy

D 12%

@ 3
@ 2
@ 2

 

Barrels.

Eocene
XXX W.W.Mich.Halt
W W Michigan........
High Test Headlight. .

2.o..............
Deo. Naptha ..........
oo es 30
Bieme................ il
Black, winter.........

 

@I1014 |
@ 84
@s8
@7
@9
@s8
@38
@21
@ 9

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Crockery and

 

Glassware.
AKRON STONEWARE.
Butters.
MG fal, per dos.......... 50
FteGeal.pergal........ 54%
Seal pereal. ........ «ae
AO eal. per gal........ |... 64
fe fal pergal...... . 6%
15 gal. meat-tubs, per gal.. 8
20 gal. meat-tubs, per gal.. 8

25 gal. meat-tubs, per gal.. 10
30 gal. meat-tubs, per gal.. 10

Churns.
2toGgal., pergal,....... 5%
Churn Dashers, per doz... &
Milkpans.

¥4 gal. flat or rd. bot., doz. 60

1 gal. flat orrd. bot.,each 51%
Fine Glazed Milkpans.
% gal. flat orrd. bot.,doz. 65

1 gal. flat or rd. bot.,
Stewpans.

% gal. fireproof, bail, doz. 85
1 gal. fireproof, bail, doz.1 10

each 5%

Jugs.
4 gal., per doz............. 40
ear. perdes.... ........ oe
1 to 5 gal., per gal bei rey ca 6%
Tomato Jugs.
mM eal. per doz....._...... 70
feet cich =... 7

Corks for % gal., per doz.. 20
Corks for 1 gal., per doz.. 30
Preserve Jars and Covers.

% gal., stone cover,
I gal.,

doa... w&
1 @

stone cover, doz..
Sealing Wax.
5 lbs. in package, perlb... 2
LAMP BURNERS.

 

45
50
75
50
nocurity 401............ 65
mecunes, Nee
panes le
Arctic. . 115

LAMP CHIMNEYS Common.
Per box of 6 doz.

 

Ne. 0 Sun... ; 75

Ne. ft San... oo

Ne. 2 Sag 2 70

First Quality.

No. 0 Sun, crimp top,
wrapped and labeled.... 2 10

No. i Sun, crim top,
wrapped and labeled.... 2 25

No. 2 Sun, crimp top,
wrapped and labaled.. - 33

XXX Flint.

No. 0 Sun, crimp top,
wrapped and labeled.... 2 55

No. 1 Sun, crimp top,
wrapped and labeled. .. 2%

N 2 Sun, crim top,
wrappe »d and labeled.... 3 75

CHIMNEYS—Pearl Top.

No.1 Sun, wrapped aud —

need

No 2 Sun, wrapped and

labeled...

No. 2 Hinge, wrapped ‘and

fanciee. =.

No. 2 Sun, “Small “Bulb,”

for Globe L are... 80
La Bastie.

No. 1 Sun. plain bulb, per

ae...

No. 2 Sun, plain bulb, per

Cx... 50
No. 1 Crimp, per doz...... 1 35
No. 2 Crimp, perdoz.. .. . 1 60

Rochester.

No. 1, Lime (Gje dos)...... 3 50

No. 2, Lime (70e doz).. .. 4 06

No. 2, Flint (80e doz)... ... 4 70

Electric.

No. 2, Lime (70¢ doz) ..... 4 00
| No. 2, Flint (80¢ doz)...... 4 40
| OIL CANS. Doz.
| 1 gal tin cans with spout.. 1 60
| 1 gal galv iron with spout. 1 75

| 2 gal galv iron with spout. 3 00
| 3 gal galv iron with spout. 4 0v

| 5 gal galv iron with spout. 5 00
5 gal galv iron with faveet 6 v0
5 gal Tilting cans. —— oo
5 gal galv iron Nacefas . 9%

Pump Cans,

| gal Rapid steady stream. 9 00

5 gal Eureka non-ov ena 10 50

3 gal Home Rule.. Lucca oo

5 gal Home Hule.... ....,. 12 00

5 gal Pirate King.. bs he .. 2 oe
LANTERNS.

No. o Tubular..... i oo

NO 12 Torey... ...... 6 oo

No. 13 TubularDash. .... 6 36

No, 1Tub., glassfount.... 7 00

No. i2 T ubular, side lamp. 14 0C

No. 3 Street Lazap ae 3 75
LANTERN GLOBES.

No. 0 Tubular, eases 1 doz.

each, box 10 cents...... 45
No. 0 Tubular, cases 2 doz.
each, box 15 cents...... 45
No. 0 Tubular, bbls 5 doz.
each, os 40
No.0 Tubular, bull’s eye,
cases 1 doz. each. ot
LAMP wicks,
No. 0 per gross.. -- oa
No i pergreds............. 25
NO 2 Mer grass... 38
NOLS per grObd............. 58

Mammoth per doz......... 70

 

 

22

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

Hardware

 

 

The Hardware Market.

General trade continues in satisfactory
volume, when we consider the season,
the proximity of the close of the year
and the annual inventory. Most of the
orders are for the supply of impov-
erished stocks and some purchases are
being made on goods which are espe-
cially low and it is safe to buy. In the
matter of prices, the market is not quite
so strong .as, a week ortwoago. The
break in the price of nails has, perhaps,
had some effect on other goods, but this
is slight, as a decline was anticipated
and was recognized as helpful to the
market, putting on a more natural basis
a leading line, the artificial price on
which has long been a menace to the
trade, involving, as it did, the certainty
of an early collapse. Notwithstanding
the fact that the market has not as-
sumed a buoyant, advancing tone as
rapidly as some desire, the year draws
to a close with a hopeful feeling and
the certainty of excellent business con-
ditions in 1897.

Wire Nails—Since our last report the
wire nail market has gradually been
taking shape, as the dissolution of the
Association and the adoption of the new
card left things in a very unsettled con-
dition. Very general satisfaction is
experienced by the trade with the re-
vised card, as it obviates the objection
of the old card which caused so much
inconvenience and called out so much
criticism. With the new card now in
use, the base price much more nearly
represents the average price on nails
than before. The market at present
seems to be from $1.60@1.65 at mill and
$1.75@1.85 from stock. The dissolution
of the steel billet pool may have some
effect on future price of nails, but how
much time alone will determine.

Barbed Wire—In sympathy with the
decline and unsettled condition in the
price of steel billets, the recent advance
made in wire of all kinds will be diffi-
cult to maintain. Orders, however, are
being taken for spring shipment at
$1.35 for No. 9 plain wire and $1.60 for
painted barbed, with 30c advance for
galvanizing, for shipment about May 1,
and prices guaranteed against decline.
With this guarantee we do not see how
a dealer takes any chance of a loss and,
should there be an advance—as there
usually is in the spring—he is fully
protected against same.

Sheet Iron—Although the demand is
light at this time of the year, prices on
the better grade of sheet iron are firm
and without change.

Window Glass—The resumption of
work at all the factories has had a de-
moralizing effect on certain Eastern
jobbers, who, feeling anxious to unload
their present stock of glass, are making
some cut prices. This is not necessary,
as it will be fully thirty days before any
new glass will be ready to come into the
market. We quote at present 70 and 5
per cent. by the box and 60 and 10 per
cent. by the light.

Shovels and Spades—At a recent
meeting of the manufacturers of the
above articles a desire to make an ad-
vance in prices was overruled by the
more conservative members, and the
prospects are there will be no change
in these articles for the coming spring.

Cordage—There has been no change
in the price of rope during the past two
weeks. Quotations remain quite firm,
with the jobbers on a basis of 6c for ¥%

 

inch and larger sisal rope. Wool twine,
however, has advanced to 6c. Binding
twine is quoted in lots of carloads at 6c

per pound, f. o. b. New York.
——_> 2» —____

The Hardware Christmas.
From St. Louis Stoves and Hardware Reporter.]

It will pay the hardware dealer to be-
gin now to plan and make preparations
to secure a share of the distinctly holi-
day trade which merchants in other
lines enjoy. It is not necessary for him
to branch out into other lines to do this.
A great many hardware dealers make it
a practice to lay in a stock of substan-
tial toys for the Christmas trade, and
when they do so wisely, and advertise
and push the goods properly, it is found
to pay, as the profit on such goods is
generally large. It is not necessary for
the hardware dealer to turn his store
into a toy bazaar to get a good share of
the holiday trade, however. He has an
abundance of articles in stock which
can be pushed energetically at this sea-
son. The practically inclined house-
wife can make no more suitable present
to the mechanically inclined husband
or son than a chest of tools. The hard-
ware dealer can make up tool chests
trom his own stock that he can make
attractive prices on, as he can afford to
make a lower price on the whole than
when the tools are sold individually.
Vhe chest itself need be nothing more
than a cheap, unpainted pine affair,
made in the store or at the neighboring
carpenter's. Wringers, washing ma-
chines, numerous kitchen utensils, es-
pecially labor-saving novelties, stoves,
table cutlery, silverware, manicure
sets, all make acceptable presents to the
wife. A new cooking stove, or range, or
heater, will make not only the wife but
the whole family glad. Sleds, skates and
pocket knives are staple  Chrisimas
goods, but are not always displayed or
advertised as they should be. Bicycles
should of course not be overlooked. Start
out the week after Thanksgiving with a
good strong advertisement in your local
paper, Calling attention to the advantage
of giving useful Christmas gifts, and
mentioning a number of those articles
that you deem most suitable. Keep this
up constantly in your Gaily or weekly
paper, bringing outa different article or
line in each succeeding issue, and mak-
ing a mere passing reference to the
other goods suitable for presents. Run
in little items in the local columns, each
referring to some special article or line.
Change your windows and have nothing
in them but your Christmas goods. Rele-
gate builders’ hardware and everyday
tinware to the rear for the time being.
A Christmas eve scene, or a Christmas
tree bearing the lighter goods, will im-
press on passers-by the fact that the
hardware store is as much a repository
of Christmas goods as the dry goods or
department store.

—_——_>-2 + ___.

His Business Wouldn’t Permit It.

‘You are, sir, a stranger in the town,
I believe,’’ said the melancholy man in
black, addressing the drummer,

ae

‘*I want you, sir, to do mea great
favor.’’

‘*Really I haven’t a cent. I expect a
check at the next town and have barely
enough money to reach it.”’

‘Oh, no; it isn’t that. I want you to
do something for me that I would not
dare to ask anyone here to do and _ will
not trouble you very much.

‘*Let’s hear it.’’

“You see, sir, a friend of mine,
Charles Yonke, is very ill. He isa
very dear friend of mine and I want to
know how he is. Will you have the
kindness to inquire at his house, 1273
Main street, and find out without men-
tioning my name? You see I am
an undertaker. Now, please don't
laugh. I am really a great friend of
Charley's, but if I should ask myself,
my motives would be questioned, and it
would be the same if I were to ask any
friend of mine to ask for me. Fond as
I am of Charley, 1 dare not ask myself.
My profession prevents it.’’

 

 

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At prices much lower than
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Send for our catalogue.

rOStéP, St6VENS & 60., |

Grand Rapids.

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A large number of hardware dealers handle

THE On10 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
five 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 11% 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.

 

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abba:

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

23

 

For Every Failure under the Sun

There’s a Reason or There’s None.
Written for the TRADESMAN.

In accounting for success or failure
in any business it is necessary to note
every cause that affects the result, either
nearby or remotely. Among the many
who fail to score a success in mercan-
tile enterprises a large number evi-
dently enter the field poorly equipped
for the work. Not a few are drawn
thereto by a glamour of the imagination
that hides reasonable probabilities and
reveals only remote possibilities. The
history of most failures among country
dealers shows so little difference in es-
sential features that, in describing the
career of any unsuccessful one, the story
of all is told.

We begin by saying that he was
brought up on a farm by a father who
was not a practical farmer, but who
owned a goodly number of acres bought
cheaply in early times and, aided by
legacies, had added to them several
eighties, besides building a large resi-
dence with modern improvements His
boys grew up and married, but only one
of them stuck to the soil. The rest went
out into the world to shift for them-
selves except one who believed himself
possessed of a commercial faculty that
he hoped would ‘“‘lead on to fortune.’’
He began in a small way, speculating
in such products as a limited capital
allowed, and learning just enough by a
few profitable bargains to convince him-
self that the increments of commerce
were easier of attainment than those of
agriculture. Large ventures, assisted by
paternal capital, seemed to confirm this
belief, and so he entered the field as a
buyer and seller of produce in carlots.
As with many other incipient specula-
tors, the excitement of dealing by
wholesale enlarged his mercantile am-
bition and stimulated to greater enter-
prises He naturally acquired some
knowledge of the forms and usages gov-
erning wholesale. distribution and,
though now acting for other parties on
commission, like the fly on the carriage
wheel felt sure that he was making busi-
ness move in the right direction.

About this time he became impressed
with the idea of establishing a retail
store, thinking it would work in_profit-
ably with a general produce business.
Ee accordingly tented a vacant build-
ing in a small village where three stores
had been already established, and which
were supplying fully every demand of
the public. A limited knowledge of
business forms, aided by the sugges-
tions of salesmen, enabled him to put in
a miscellaneous stock of goods and
hopefully bid for a share of custom.
Things went on smoothly for a time,
since ‘‘a new broom sweeps clean,’’
and purchasers gravitate naturally to
new enterprises. The poorer class of
customers whose credit had grown stale
on the books of his competitors began
putting small sums of cash and produce
in his till, as nest eggs to hatch out
birds of favorable omen in the shape of
bills receivable, though not necessarily
payable.

Why did he fail? In the first place he
was no judge of the stock in which
he dealt. Its selection therefore was
left either to the young clerk engaged
at a low salary, or trusted to the sales-
man, who worked every opportunity of
legitimate advantage for his house. In
the second place he was more intent on
making lively sales than on turning such
stock into cash at a profit. Much of his
time was spent in outside business,
leaving important details at the store in

 

the hands of a clerk uninstructed as to
credits and supplies. The latter were
obtained irregularly, without system
and without consideration for the wants
of the trade.

Then he had no fixed method of keep-
ing accounts. As volunteer assistants
were often left in temporary charge,
there were many chances for error and
waste—in fact, the store was practically
in the hands of irresponsible persons a
great part of the time. The clerk,
though young, was a fairly good sales-
man, and would have proved valuable
as a helper to one wko gave his busi-
ness close attention, but he could not be
trusted with full management. Mean-
time, our bold merchant acted as though
his retail department was but an annex
to his larger outside business and so
gave it less and less of his attention.
To this was added the fact that the dull
routine of small trade was decidedly
distasteful to him, and he also possessed
a keen love for athletic recreation.
Baseball kept his mind occupied in the
season devoted to such sport, as he was
active manager of a local team; be-
sides, he attended many games away
from home. The inevitable result be-
gan to be manifest within a year. Bills
accumulated, while stock decreased;
and while stock accumulated spasmod-
ically, overdue accounts of customers
and bills from jobbers increased, until,
in less than two years, all he had to
show for the capital invested were a
long list of claims against poor debtors,
a file of unpaid invoices and a remnant
of deteriorated stock which his assignee
vainly hoped would satisfy the most
pressing demands of creditors, leaving
the balance to be placed in the columns
of profit and loss representing the un-
divided assets of a bankrupt concern.

Possibly but few failures of country
dealers present such hopeless features
as the case cited. To some young com-
mercial adventurers cut short in their
first career the lessons taught by ex-
perience have proved of the greatest
possible use, for, profiting by them,
they have afterward developed into con-
servative and prosperous business men.
From them also have been recruited
armies of expert traveling salesmen,
showing that one unsuccessful venture
need not prove a life failure.

There are, also, many dealers who
failed as moneymakers, and were
obliged to sell out at a moderate loss of
capital. When fortune comes to such
as these, in after years in other occu-
pations, they still may reflect with some
satisfaction on their brief mercantile
experience, adapting their remembrance
to the spirit of the old refrain—

“Tis better to have loved and lost
Tban never to have loved at all.”
PETER C. MEEK.
+ 0 -@
The Why.

Hanford—‘‘Well, all that I have to
say is that, as far as | am concerned,
I’d much rather have inherited money
than any other kind.”’

Bloomer—‘‘Inherited money? Why
do you prefer that kind?’’

Hanford—*‘ Because you don’t have
to work for it.’

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The new ordinance which has recent-
ly been enacted in New York raises
the street-peddlers’ license fee from $5
to $15, and allows a peddler to stay
but half an hour on a single block, in-
stead of indefinitely; it requires him to
leave a ten-foot interval between his
push cart and his neighbor, instead of
making an impenetrable barrier; it pre-
vents him from standing within ‘twenty-
five feet of a corner, and it prohibits
him from standing in front of any
building the owner of which objects.

 

Hardware Price Current.

 

 

  

 
 

AUGURS AND BITS
CE ee eee a. 70
SOMATA, DOING oo... kk oe ok 25410
SemWenge, WEMOEON ..000 60£10

AXES
First Quality, S. B. Bronze ................. 5 00
First Quality, D. B. Bronze......... . a
First Quality. S. B. S. Steel...... .... -. aoe
Nirss Quanity, DB. Steel... ........ 22.2... 10 50
BARROWS
Mare $12 00 14 00
Ge net 30 00
BOLTS
Seem Oe eee see 60
tim ee 65 to 65-10
oe 4010
BUCKETS
Wer, Die $3 2
BUTTS, CAST
Cast Loose Pin, we. ee eee, 70
Wrought Narrow.. ee ee .-H&10
BLOCKS
Ordinary Saeki | 8 8. 70
CROW BARS
OCastSteer per lb 4
CAPS
nye te perm 65
—" ©. ¥. ! ..perm 5d
eas cues cae 1s... on a 35
Muskei Sc eee ee eeee ue Cone acute ce perm 60
CARTRIDGES
a Kees as oo nee Se
Central Fire ............... Cag es
CHISELS
Socket Firmer ee ee Ck... 80
Socket Framing ee see eu ee eon cu 80
meemce Coane 80
meena: Sema 80
DRILLS
Morse d Hil Stgense 60
Taper and Straight Shank.. oo a
Mores Taper Shank... 5O& 5
ELBOWS
oe, See Cie... C.......... doz. net 55
Common
POA. dis 40410
EXPANSIVE BITS
Clark’s small, is; lomge SG... 30&10
Ives’, 1, $18; 2, #4: 3 a... 25
FILES—New List
ee Bee 70&10
RUIGMORROI A occ ace oa
Heller's Horse Waspe...................... -60&10

GALVANIZED oo
Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26; 28
List 12 13 14 Sp it... 17

Discount, 75
GAUGES
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............... 60416
KNOBS—New List
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings.... ......... 70
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings............ 80
MATTOCKS
Agee Hye $16 00, dis 60410
Hunt — eee ee ee ee $15 00, dis 60&10
Hunt's. . a .. 818 50, dis 20410
“MILLS ~
Coffee, Parkers Coe............ 3... -. 40
Coffee, P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s Malleables... 40
Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’s........... 40
Coffee, Enterprise. . Lou 30

MOLASSES ‘GATES
Stebbin’s Pattern............ a> + +e OL
Stebbin’s Genuine.... . os ..--60&10
Enterprise, self-measuring . tate one ‘a 30

NAILS

Advance over base, on both ses and Wire.
Steel nails, base..... ... 1

Wire nails, base..... ee 1 90
SU eladetes Base
ie Pe Seevanec.. 3. es 5
Sameaee. 10
cs... 20
ee Lea 30
oe 45
OO eee 7
Pine soayaneo ..- 8... 50
Gostae fo atvanee..... 3... 15
Cusine Gadvance..........................- 25
Cone G@eevente. 35
Mien Mi aavanee ...8 coe >
Misteh 8 agvance................. eee cs 33
Hinish Gadvance............. es . 45
Bare: & Siivamce.... 8)
PLANES
Ohio Fool €o.’s, famey...................... @50
Benes Semen 60
Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy................. @50
EEE ee 50
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s wood......... 60
PANS
Pry, femme... 60&10£10
Canmon, polished. ...................... T0& 5
RIVETS
von 8G Tinned .... ...._..... -:.. ..-... 60
Copper Rivets and Burs....................- 60

PATENT PLANISHED IRON
“A”? Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10 20
“B’? Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 25 to 27 9 20
Broken packages \c per pound extra.
HAMMERS

Maydole & Cos, new Het... .. ..... > ae
ee,

Toke Pee ao s0u10

Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.......... .. ist 70

Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel Haud soe et 40&10

 

HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS
Stamped Tin Ware. ‘oe -new list 75&10

 

Japanned Tin W are eS 20410
Gramite Iron Ware................. new list 40&10
HOLLOW WARE
ay 60410
aay a ea
Po. . BU&IU
HINGES
Gate Clam a £29... dis W&10
PO per doz. net 2 50
— bacnuss
Bright.. : a SU
Screw Ey es. ee eee ce 80
Hook’s.. eo su
Gate Hooks and Ey SE 80
LEVELS
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............ dis 70
ROPES

Sisal, % inch and — iy a ea oa oe 6
Manilla... .. _ Ce ee cee a 9
SQUARES a2 4
pace Ml BOO 80
ry one Hevesi
Mire... 8... i eecues
SHEET IRON
com. smooth. com.
moe Wie Mm. %8 30 # 40
Oe a 2 40
ees Tete 2 60
Non eos)... 2 70
Nos. 2 to 26....... 2 80
Le 3 80 2 90
All ‘shoots No. 18 and lighter, ‘over}30 inches

wide not less than 2-10 extra.

SAND PAPER
mim cect Me... 8... dis
SASH WEIGHTS
Sou meee... per ton 20 00
TRAPS

Reecn GOING... : -—
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s.......

Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s ros10610

 
 

Mouse Caemer. wl... per doz
Mouse, os@ebors.... 2... per doz 1 25
WIRE
ae eee... wk. v6)
eater CRA 75
Copperca Maret... se... 70&10
Mame Maines... 62%
Coppered Srine Steel. ........ ........... 50
Barted Penee, garvaiized ................. cs
Mareed Pence, painted..._................ 1 90
HORSE NAILS
eee... i... = —.
Pe ieee
eee dis 10&10
WRENCHES
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.............. 30
(ee eGeruie ..... .. Ck. 50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought ....... 80
Coes Patent, midiieable. .....,.............. 80
MISCELLANEOUS
ire Coen 50
Pompe €2eger.. 80
Screws, New List.. Sea eae 85
Casters, Bed and Plate...........-. .... 50&10&10
Pampers, American. .................... 50
METALS—Zinc
Gy panned caska 5s. 614
Per pogne 6%
SOLDER

eee 12

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

TIN—Melyn Grade

  

HGut4 IC, Charcoal ............... ee ..65%
eT 5 75
We ee te 7 00
Each additional X on this grade, $1.25.
TIN—Allaway Grade
EE 5 00
ee Ce, Ct, cee ee, OC
Nees EX Charcoa: ..................... 6 00
Hew Ee. Charcoal.... .......-... -. €@
Each additional X on this grade, $1. 50.
ROOFING PLATES
Mus IC, Charedal, Deam.................... 5 00
OO EE OE EE eee 6 00
semen IC, Charcoal Dean. ...... .......... 10 00
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade......... 4 50
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade......... 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, | per pound... 9

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The Grocery Market.

Sugar—No change in quotations has
occurred during the past week and the
market is utterly without feature, except
for the movement of New Orleans
grades. <A decline in the value of hard
sugars is expected, because quotations
are at present out of proportion to the
soft, but the action taken.will depend
upon the position of raw sugars.

Teas—After the holidays are out of
the way, a generally good trade, with
firmly held prices, is expected. Prices
have made no advance during the past
week, but the grades are steadily de-
preciating, a price now being asked for
a grade of tea that would have brought
much less a few weeks ago. Cables re-
ceived from China and Japan corrobo-
rate the shortage reports and also state
that teas are selling here relatively
lower than in their own country. There
is at present no speculation in tea, but
there may Ee somewhat later.

Dried Fruits—There is a good de-
mand for the lower grades of peaches,
which are in very limited supply.
Prices all along the line are well main-
tained. The spring will probably bring
a good trade for peaches, and, possibly,
higher prices. Prunes are holding their
own very well, but the demand is not
very heavy. Prices are unchanged.
The demand for cleaned currants is very
fair. The price is unchanged. Raisins
are selling better all along the line,
with the market very strong on all
grades.

Rice—Advices from the South indi-
cate a demand of goodly proportions, so
far as Carolina is concerned, but slug-
gish conditions in New Orleans. For-
eign styles are moving with nearly for-
mer activity, and a considerable per-
centage of the business doing with the
South and some points in the extreme
Southwest. Advices from abroad note
generally firm markets. No appreciable
difference of values need be expected,
however, before the spring months, as
stocks in English and German centers
are light, and decreasing rapidly by
reason of large demands made upon
same from the United States and _ Italy.

Molasses—Fine goods are selling at
good prices and will probably continue
to do so as long as the season lasts.
There are large quantities of poor mo-
lasses and compounds on the market,
and these are selling at almost any
price. The outlook is that really good
molasses will bring high prices during
the cooler season.

Provisions—In the provision trade
there has been lacking any special de-
gree of activity, either in shipping or
speculative operations, and prices of
leading articles are somewhat lower
than a week ago. The export clearances
of product for the week were of a fair
volume, but not large, the total falling
short of corresponding time last year.
While the trade is not especially active,
and the offerings of product are fairly
liberal, there is manifestly a prevailing
feeling that prices are not likely to
give way much from the present basis.

#0. .
Completeness of the Local Arrange-
ments.

Detroit, Dec. 15—John McLean,
Chairman of the Program and Banquet
Committee of the Knights of the Grip,
reports that the program is nearly com-
pleted and will be in print this week.

The banquet will be served at the
Light Infantry Armory Hall on East
Congress street on the evening of De-
cember 29 at 7:30 o'clock by Caterer E.
R. Warner and will be an elaborate and
enjoyable spread. The responses will
be made entirely by members of the
Association and their employers, inter-

 

spersed with several choice vocal se-
lections. Music will be furnished by
Schremsers’ orchestra, and the Com-
mittee hopes that its efforts will be satis-
factory to all the guests. A ball willbe
given on the evening of the 3oth at
Dtrassburg’s dancing academy to_ hold-
ers of coupon tickets which admit to
banquet and ball, the ball being under
the management of Chairman W. H.
Baier, ot the Ball Committee. The in-
vitations, giving hotel accommodations
and rates and other information, have al-
ready been mailed and advices from
the various Posts of the State indicate a
large attendance, as mucb interest is
taken in the election of officers for 1897.
the business meeting will be held in
the council chamber ot the city hall.

John R. Wood, chairman of the Hotel
and Railroad Committee, has issued a
circular, announcing the program and
hotel arrangements as follows:

TUESDAY.

8 to 12, Reception Committee meets
all trains.

12 to 2, Dinner.

2 to 6, Business meeting.

7 330 to 11, Banquet.

WEDNESDAY.

8:30 to 11, Business meeting.

11 to 12, Parade.

12 to 2, Dinner.

2 to 6, Business meeting, concluding
with election of officers.

8:30, Ball at Strassburg’s Hall.

HOTEL ARRANGEMENTS.

Russell House, $2.50@4.

Hotel Cadillac, $2.50@4.

Hotel Ste. Claire, $2.50@3. 50.

Wayne Hotel, $2@3.50.

Hotel Normandie, $2@2. 50.

Griswold House, $2.

The special $2.50 rate at Russell
House and Cadillac is for two persons
to a bed.

Hotels will charge the above rates,
graded according to room, and make
no charge for one lady accompanying
member. Lady occupying room alone
will be charged half the regular rate.

——_—~>2-e—___
The Produce Market.

Apples—The market is without par-
ticular change. Transactions are small.

Beans—Handlers pay 40@5oc for
country picked, holding city picked at
60@7oc. The demand is fair but the
market is featureless.

Butter—Receipts are smail and prices
are gradually moving to a higher level.
Fancy dairy now brings 13c and factory
creamery is strong at 20Cc.

Cabbage—4o@5oc per doz., according
to size and quality. In carlots dealers
are quoting $8 per ton.

Celery—12@15c per bunch.

Cheese—The consumption of cheese
at this season is very light, which is
probably due to the consumption during
the fall and winter of soft-made cheese.
Nearly ail of the foreign soft-made
cheese is now imitated here very suc-
cessfully and the consumption of these
goods has increased year after year
and has had a decided effect on the sale
of the regular factory cheese. The out-
look for cheese is hard to predict, but
the general opinion is that the condi-
tions are pretty favorable.

Cider—-$4 per bbl., including bbl.

Cranberries— Dealers hold Cape Cods
at $2@2.25 per bu. and $6@6.50 per bbl.

Egys—strictly fresh candied stock
commands 2o0c. Candled cold storage
brings 16c, while candled pickled stock
is in fair demand at 15c. Supplies of
fresh are not equal to the demand.

Grapes—Malagas bring $6 per keg of
65 Ibs. gross.

Honey—Scarce and_ higher, white
clover having been marked up to 13¢,
while dark buckwheat now fetches ric.

Nuts—Ohio Hickory $1.50 per bu.

Onions—Spanish are in fair demand,

commanding $1.25 per bu. crate. Home
grown are in fairly good demand at 35
@4oc for first-class stock.

Potatoes—Without quotable change.

Squash— Hubbard is stronger, bringing
$1.25 per Ioo lbs.

Sweet Potatoes— The market is about
the same, Baltimore and Virginia stock
commanding $1.50 per bbl., while gen-
uine Jerseys, kiln-dried, bring $2.50.

 

The Bishop and the Baby.

A poor little pale-faced baby,
Lost and hungry and cold,

With th- chill wind pinching her tear-wet cheeks
Aud ruffling her bright hair’s gould.

For just when the busy people
Were: u rying bere and yon,

Buying their gifts fur the Christmas tree,
Her mother was sudden!y gone.

She did not cry, poor midget,
But li ted pititul eyes

\t the crowds of ca-eless strangers,
At tne gray indifferent skies.

Jostled and pushed and frightened,
A tiny waif of the street,

With the wintry darkiess falling,
And the snow-flakes gathering fleet.

She was seen by a great kind giant;
With swinging strive he came:

Even then the angels in heaven
Wrote saiut before his uname.

From the height of his splendid stature
He stouped to the ittle maid,

Lifted her upin tender arms,
And bude ber not be afraid.

Against his broad breast nestled,
Sh- clung like a soft spring flower
That a breeze hud caught and carried
Tua strong and sheltering tower.

In his thick. warm cloak he wrapped her,
The littie shivering child.

“Pil find your mother, baby,”
‘Lhe bishop said, and smiied.

That smile, like a flash of the sunrise—
Tis but a memory dim,

For the yeurs are hastening onward,
And we are mourning him.

The cold white snows are drifting
Wher-~ to-day he lies asl-ep;
Afte: his life’s long warfare
The soldier's rest is deep.

But of dear things said about him,
Of victories that he won,
No sweeter tle is told than this
Of his grace to a little one.
MARGARET E. SANGSTER.

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Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Asso-
ciation.

At the regular meeting of the Grand
Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association,
held at Retail Grocers’ Hall on Tues.
day evening, Dec. 15, Vice-President
Dyk presided.

The question of getting the city mill-
ers to place the sale of flour on the re-
bate plan was discussed at considerable
length, culminating in the adoption of
a resolution calling for the appointment
of a special committee to wait on the
mills and ascertain if some such ar-
rangement could not be consummated.
The Chairman appointed as such com-
mittee E. D. Winchester, Thos. H.
Hart and L. J. Witters.

Secretary Klap gave notice that he

would spend four weeks during the
months of February and March in call-
ing on the grocers of the city, with a
view to securing as many new applica-
tions for membership as possible and
also in collecting the annual dues for
1897.
Considerable discussion followed as to
the sum the Association should decide
upon for the dues for next year. The
matter was finally laid upon the table
until the next meeting.

The question of closing on Christmas
and New Years was then taken up for
discussion, resulting in the adoption of
a resolution, presented by L. O. Dah-
lem, requesting the members, and other
grocers as well, to close their stores at
1o o'clock in the forenvon of both holi-
days.

There being no further business, the
meeting adjourned.

—_—__—_» 0-2

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