SN SRST SOE Lp MIN ee FER G OI ENAGE GID RAREST EST HIM DE EN eee NC em eo ee aay OE BO WON eR can ORNS “aticoure CI eaten CE a \ cence) ah) as eae AD Oa Seo] Pe MasoeSS Ae a w ES “RT ee ; : Ey (eo en Ss) Wy) PNK CO~\ ome | gy ‘ ra ; eS 4 é = 4 , D4 im Se AOR AG Se A Ken SON ® \( CY OG YaE Kv —_ G OF Posy NS) ON NaN Wa ee lit Ps ee AW ene a D> 2 RN IS SOON i i hi ht fm Cadlan hn haba bn hn Lr Lr Lr te ht te tp tp tn tn DS OPP PPD DOPE OF OFA PPP Saban ba ba ba bb be bb by bt tr tp by tn tp tn tp tp ON NF FPF FVOVVOO OOOO O SS —VvVvVCVvuUuVCVyVUUCCT? Established 1780. Largest Manufacturers of PURE, HIGH GRADE "3 3. a acer SUTITINPERER NNO NNT GENERAL STAMPEDE , COCOAS CHOCOLATES FROM THE GURSE OF CREDIT 1SOOOOOSO 00S COO OCOCOOOCOO DETROIT BRUSH WORKS a I.. CRABB & SON, Proprietors HM af iN Melt otis Sale a -7o meunuligetiae on this Continent. No Chemicals are used in - their manufactures. Their Breakfast Cocoa is absolutely pure, delicious, nutritious, and costs less than one cent a cup. Their Premium No. 1 Chocolate, put up in Blue Wrappers and Yellow Labels, is the best plain chocolate in the market for family use. Their German Sweet Chocolate is good to eat and good to drink. It is palatable, nutri- tious, and healthful; a great favorite with children. Buyers should ask for and be sure that the get the genuine goods. The above trade-mar is on every package. Walter Baker & Co. Lta., Dorchester, Mass. TH YPHPTETPTE TPNH erNnY GOOOOQOOQOSO DOHOHQDOOODHOOOQOOOOOGSE @) @) ©) @ ® An @ @ . @ @ Advertisement @ @ @ ea © If you have a sign over your door, © you are an advertiser. The sign is 8 en intended to advertise your business © to passers-by. An advertisement in © ea a reliable trade paper is only somany © thousands of signs spread over a © er-— great many square miles. © You can’t carry everybody to your © sign, but THE MicHIGAN TRADESMAN © can Carry your sign to everybody. © @ es Hundreds of merchants are now aban- doning the old-time credit system and discarding the pass book for the cash and coupon book system, which en- ables the dealer to avoid all the losses and annoyances inseparably con- nected with the credit business. If - you are a victim of the credit business and desire to place your business on a cash basis, send to us for a cata- logue and samples of ‘our several kinds of coupon books, which will be forwarded free on application. TRADESMAN COMPANY, GRAND RAPIDS. Mbddbdbdbdbdbabddad JACKSON Z ae It will pay you to write for prices and discounts. Strike while the Iron Is Hot and send us your order for OLD COUNTRY SOAP while you can secure one box free with every order for 10 boxes. OLD = 2 has stood the test of time and is everywhere recognized as one of the leading brands on the market. This offer holds good for a short time only, being subject to withdrawal at any time. ALLEN B. WRISLEY CO.., chicago. AU ib add Aba dbdbdbdde QEOWIOOOOWWLO by abandoning the time-cursed credit system, with its losses and annoyance, and substituting therefor the GOOUPONBOOK SUStEM which enables the merchant to place his credit trans- actions on a cash basis. Among the manifest advant- ages of the coupon book plan are the following: OO No Forgotten Charge. No Poor Accounts No Book-keeping. No Disputing of Accounts. No Overrunning of Accounts. No Loss of Time No Chance for Misunderstanding. We are glad at any time to send a full line of sample books to any one applying for same. Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids. DDDODDOHODHHOHS GOW OW © ©) MALT SUBSTITUTE FOR COFFEE ey” MANUFACTURED 8 uy C. H. STRUEBE, Sandusky, Ohio, Agent for Ohio, Indiana and Michigan. mle. ACCUN rl Simplest and Most Economical Method of Keeping Petit Accounts. File and 1,000 printed blank bill heads......#2 75 File and 1,000 specially printed bill heads... 3 2 Printed blank bill heads, per M ... ......- 18 Specially printed bill heads, perM... ...... 1% TRADESMAN COMPANY, Grand Rapids. Snedicor & Hathaway 80 to 89 W. Woodbridge St., Detroit, Manufacturers for Michigan Trade. DRIVING SHOES, MEN’S AND BOYS’ GRAIN SHOES. Smith Shoe Co., Agts. for Mich., O. and Ind. 5 = a” wy — — CD a go N os a new article. : : ? ZG Prvvvovernneve nent public? we N' alt yyyyy “It's as good as Sapolio,” when they try to sell you their experiments. Your own good sense will tell you that they are only nye to get = ~ aid their Who urges you to keep Sapolio? The manufacturers, by constant and judi- cious advertising, bring customers to your stores whose very presence creates a demand for other articles. WUALLLLbAAAhklk eA kkt eh khaktl kkk ktlhkaklkkacddd yvevrroveevernevennnnvenernreedneneedneneeenerrenty. Is 7 not de Travelers’ Time Tables. CHI C AG and West Michigan R’y Jan. 1, 1897. Going to Chicago. uv. Q@’d. Rapids ........ 8:30am 1:25pm +11:00pm ir. Chickgo............ 3:0upm 6:50pm + 6:30am Returning =. — Ly. Chicago...........- ym +11:30pm ar.@’d ee i: ae os 10:30pm + 6:10am Muskegon and twater Ly. G’d. ee : iar eaes = m 1:25pm 6:25pm ar. G’d. Rapids......... sham 2... 3. 10:30pm istee, Sinus Cit and Petoskey. uv. G’é Rapids oso at 7:20am 5:30pm ........ Ar Manistee......-.... 12:05pm & 25pm ........ Ar, Traverse on oes = — sJ0pm © ......0 ir CRAeVOrK::: 2... Seep oo. ot. ct At. POOSROY . 525052555. = sepa amie Stee abe eer: Trains arrive from north a M1: 0Op.m. and 9:55 p.m. PARLOR AND SLEEPING CARS. Chicago. Parlor cars on afternoon trains and — on night trains. North. Parlor car on morning train for Trav- erse City. +Every day. Others week days only. Gro. DEHAVEN, Gen: ral Pass. Agent. D ET RO I Grand Rapids & Western. Jan. 1, 1897. a a Detroit. Ly. Grand Rapids.. 7:W0am 1:30pm 5:25pm Ar. Detroit............. “AL: 5:40pm 10:10pm am Retu: oe — Detroit. QUam 1:10pm 6:00pm “iB: :3upm 5:2upm 10:45pm Ly. Detroit.. ar. Grand Rapids.. naw, Alma and Greenville. Sagi Ly. GR7:10am 4:20pm Ar.G RK 12:20pm 9:30pm To and from Lowell. uv. Grand Rapids...... 7210am . 3pm 5:25pm Ar. from Lowell. ..... 12:30pm 5:20pm ..... THROUGH CAR SERVICE. Parlor cars on all trains between Grand Rap- ids and Detroit and between Grand Rapids and Saginaw. Trains run week days only. Gro. DEHavEN, General Pass. Agent. Trunk Railway System Detroit and Milwaukee Div GRAN Eastward. +No. 14 tNo.16 t+tNo.18 *No. & Ly. G@’d Rapids.6:45am 10:10am 3:30pm 10:45pm Ar. Ionia...... 7:40am 11:i7am 4:34pm 12:30am Ar. St. Johns..5:25am 12:10pm 5:%3pm 1:57am Ar. Owosso....9:00am 1:10pm 6:03pm 3:25pm Ar. E.Saginawl0:50arn . ...... 8:0upm 6:4Uam Ar, W.Bay C’yl1:30am. .... ... 8:35pm 7:15am Ar. Flint ..... 10:05am ........ 7:U5pin 5:40am Ar. Pt. Huron.12:05pm ........ 9:50pm 7:30pm Ar. Pontiac.. 10:58am 2:57pm 8:25pm 6:10am Ar. Detroit...11:50am 3:55pm 9:25pm 8:05am For G’d Haven and Intermediate Pts.... 7:00am For G’d Haven and Iutermediate Pts.. ..12:53pm For G’d Huven and Intermediate Pts.... 5:12pm +Daily except Sunday. *Daily. Trains arrive from the east, 6:35a.m., 12:45p.m., 5:07p.m., 9:55 p.m. Trains arrive from the west, lu 2058.0. ls 3:22p.m., 10:15p:m Eastward—No. 14 has Wagner parlor car. No. 18 parlor car. Westward—No. 11 parlor car. No. 15 Wagner parlor car. E. H. Hueues, A. G. P. & T. A., Chicago. BEN. FLETCHER, Trav. Pass. Agt., Jas. CAMPBELL, — Pass. Agent, No. 23 Monroe St. GR AN D Rapids . —- Northern Div. Leave poe Trav. C’y, Petoskey & Mack...t 7:45am + 5:1 Trav. C’ - Petoskey & Mack...t+ 2:15pm t+ 6 ‘Sana Cadilla + 5:25pm 11:10am Train. leaving at 7:45 a.m. has parlor car to Petoskey and Mackinaw. Train leaving at 2:15 p.m. has sleeping car to Petoskey and Mackinaw. Southern Div. Leave Arrive CinGinall 5. os occ so aces 8 + 7:10am ¢ 8:25pm BG; WOPUG. . 22... eos 5. cee ae + 2:00pm t 1:55pm cine 5. ce oes * 7:00pm * 7:25am 7:10a.m. train has parlor car to Ginelanant. a: op. m. train has sleeping car to Cincinnati. Muskegon Trains. GOING WEST. Lv G’d Rapids.... .-¢7:35am 1:00pm 5:40pm Ar Muskegon.......... 9:00am 2:10pm 7:05pm GOING BAST. Lv Muskegon....... .. +8: 10am +11:45am t4: 00pm ArG’d Rapids. . 9:30am 12:55pm 5:20pm +Except Sunday. “eDaily. A. ALMQUISBT, C. L. Lockwoop, Ticket Agt.Un. Sta. Gen. Pass. & Tkt. Agt. Every Merchant a uses the Tradesman Company’s UPON BOOKS, does so with a ae of security and profit, for he knows be {s avoiding loss and annoy ance. te TRADESMAN COMPANY, Grand Rapids en 4 ip Sees eds. 5 do ss Saal =

2. Congress Nearing Its End. The prospect of legislative agitation to affect the industrial situation unfavor- ably grows rapidly less as the session of Congress nears its end. The probability of any action as to the currency is now past and the remaining time seems likely to be fully taken up by matters which at most can only have temporary effect upon speculative values. These are the British arbitration treaty and the questions of Cuban recognition. Perhaps the most important matter under consideration as far as business interests are concerned is that of bank- ruptcy legislation. Two bills are before the Senate, the Bailey bill, which pro- vides only for voluntary bankruptcy, and the Torrey bill, which includes invol- untary as well. The latter has passed the House with a large majority and promises to receive favorable consider- ation at the hands of the Senate if de- bate is ever finished on the arbitration treaty. As there are only three weeks more of the session it is not probable that other disturbing elements will be introduced ; and as the work of the special session of the next Congress, expected to be called March 15, is pretty well defined, it is safe to say that Congress has about ceased to be a disturbing business fac- tor, for some time to come at least. a ED Siftings from the Saginaws. January was a quiet month in trade circles. This month there is an im- provement and we are looking forward to a gradual increase in business until it reaches its normal condition. A boom cannot be expected in the Valley until employment is given to all labor. Sagi- naw is passing through a peculiar peri- od, such as comes to all cities sooner or later which depend on the salt and lumber industry. Through the efforts of the Board of Trade and other medi- ums, we have been able to add_ indus- tries which, it is thought, will prove profitable as an investment and give added employment to labor. The New York Shoe Co., of Detroit, has moved into the store on Genesee avenue recently occupied by C. S. Grant & Co. R. A. Harrington has taken a postion, with the James Stewart Co., Ltd, and will cover the ‘‘Thumb’’ of the mitten for them. The Board of Trade banquet will be held Friday evening, Feb. 12, at which time Hon. Thomas W. Palmer, of De- troit, will speak. His subject will be, ‘‘What Are We Coming To?’’ Hon. Washington Gardner will address the guests also, his subject being ‘* Abraham Lincoln,’’ a subject that never dies. The wholesalers claim that there was a great increase in retail trade from the smaller outside places during the last week. Isaac Bearinger says he is retiring from business as rapidly as possible. Mr. Davis will take his place in the management of the Inter-Urban com- pany. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Bicycles Echoes from the New York Cycle Show. It may be said right now that the ‘Third Annual National Cycle Exhibi-} : hibi se tie aks § Se it ge a | Su sed exhibitor waving the slips o tion,”’ to quote the full tile, is a suc- | S4*P* Scleaead a g uP Ae ce | paper in t cess. Last year’s show was luminous, | P4P lively and longitudinal. This year there like strip of paper, traced like a weather | map, containing dynagraphic records of is as much gayety and giitter, with the/j addition of height. It is a show in | stories, that begins on the ground fiocor/} cians s'UuS is good, like the succeeding divi in a strawberry shortcake, and, that Yankee luxury, the big berries in this cycling cake, the ‘97 modeis, are on the top layer. ce like = = Nearly all the visitors seem to be third degree cyclists, but, even to those without the cult the show is full of terest. In every nook and corner is an oddity or a beautiful bit of standard workmanship to please the novice and tempt bim to join the wheeling host. To the inexperienced the larger sprock- ets are the striking novelty of the ’97 in- wheels. When this is noticed the casual | ithe cycie curiosity that amazed the town visitor goes off on the quest for the un- usual. x *+ * Tkere is plenty to gratify the desire for the odd. One bicycle equipped 2-3 a ae i bi ts and rises up like an obelisk. Each layer | 2!bits oe oe | the arrangement and the multiplicity of tests—and the line, after a united sigh of disappointment, faded away like snow in a thaw, leaving a very much * * # A cycle city is a complete title for the show. From the complete models to every minute part and section the ex- are full and complete, and, in the exhibition seems a town in self. There is no danger of getting lost in this maze of streets and shops, tor, besides a bureau of information at - de Stanads, £ i i. a jthe entrance, neatly-uniformed guides . i og " : ithe price cards with a shining brass fire extinguisher is universally picked out as a motor ma-/ chine, and the salesman at this booth is kept busy explaining that it is not a self-propelior. Nearby is a dainty cat- amaran, the screws worked by a cycle attachment. In one room isa cycle of gigantic size, the seat thirty feet from the floor, and with tires on the wheels two feet in circumference. It is com- plete in every part, and a modern Go- liath would find it just the thing for a Spin on the Boulevard. In direct con- trast, on a booth a few feet away, stands a wheel only fourteen inches high and weighing but five pounds. It is as daintily finished as a woman's watch and is perfect in every way. The wheel spokes are like spider threads, and suggest the tiny chariot made by the fairies for Queen Mab in ‘* Midsum- mer Night’s Dream.’’ A cycling joker on another floor, who displays lamps, shows a wheel studded in every part with his pretty designs for illuminating the cyclist’s path. The machine, with its wealth of jewelry, recalls the dia- monds on a sporting man’s shirt front. * = * There is a hungry, hunting look in the faces of many of the visitors, even after they have made the full circuit through all parts of the show. It is the old familiar souvenir longing, so much in evidence last year. It is only dis- peiled by the announcement that the souvenir barrels have not been tapped. Before this was known an exhibitor on the promenade deck had a lively ex- perience. On the rail of his stand is a little machine called a dynagraph, a delicate instrument used at his cycle works for measuring the friction of bearings. It looks like a policeman's shield, studded with metallic points, and seems justa nice handful to giveas a souvenir badge. Fora moment it stopped working, and, as the exhibitor began fixing it, an inquisitive onlooker stood to watch his methods. In an in- Stant a single file of women and men, a hundred strong, had formed before the stand. They stood in an orderly line, patiently awaiting a distribution of ‘any old thing.’’ The exhibitor looked flattered at the attention his device at- } Stand about to direct the visitors to any desired stand or section. Of course the bicycle accessories are as prominent as the models of singles, quads, tandems, and sextets complete. * * There no mistake about the throng to the show. The people come fiocking in without any cessation until nearly closing time. It is evident that = is last season is still vigorous and ram- pant. One thing is evident. The mak- ers know the strength of the demand, if are a true indication. he figures, as a market quotation, would place the price of women’s wheels at $75 to $125, men’s singles at from $100 to $150, while tandems and quads start at $150 and run to fancy figures. The army of ‘‘drummers”’ as polite, eager, and cheerful as at the last New York show, but the young men no longer have a monopoly of the field. The new woman has entered the cycle field, and she is as attractive there as on the cycle path. At many stands, dressed in neat road habits, are these new aspirants for selling honors, and from the number of questions visiting women asked them the new departure should repay the maker. One advantage they have over the men is that they il- lustrate their words by jumping into a saddle and showing a woman hovering on the brink just how they wili look ona wheel. u is * += * The officers of the National Exhibi- tion are decidedly pleased at the turnout of visitors, for in their hearts had been a lurking fear that the change in loca- tion might have been a mistake. But they are well satisfied, and, when not complimenting each other, the cycle magnates seek out their Secretary, Ernest R. Franks, who has borne the brunt of the work, and, as one of them Says, ““just stand and throw bouquets at him.’’ = £ <= Visitors at the show who go because they actually want to see wheels and study what is new in them have no easy time of it. The confusion in the booths, where the work of getting to rights is still in progress, seriously interfere with the explanation of flush joints, crank fastenings, ball retainers, bear- ings adjustment, and all the rest of the salesmen’s mechanical trade. + + + To those who attended the Chicago show there seem to be, on the whole, more wheels and more features of novel construction in the array at the palace. In part this impression is just. The number of exhibitors who have spaces here who did appear in Chicago is sur- prising. It is much in excess of the number who exhibited in Chicago only. i ] : ; ‘ ‘tracted, and, when it was moving again,| To the ordinary cyclist of average in- ihe handed those nearest to him a tape- | telligence who appreciates his cycle as a machine the show will prove bewil- dering ina double way. At the first glance there appear in the 1897 models to be few reasons of intrinsic character why a rider should abandon his mount of 1896 and go to the expense of pur- chasing one wholly up todate. This embarrassment is naturally consequent upon the uniformity of frame patterns. The tubing being used is about the same size as it was last year. It is true, however, that the larger diameters of tubing, inch and an eighth, and inch and a quarter, are more generaily em- ployed. Quite a number of makers, of conservative ideas, who held back in 1896, have adopted the larger sizes for this season. This fact, coupled with the knowledge that the large tubing has withstood the test of practical use, in- dicates that tubing of the diameters now in vogue is not only fashionable, but is also mechanically correct. Large tubing may now be safely said to have passed into the list of permanent features which are fast giving the modern cycle a fixed type. + * In the first survey, when only general appearances are noted, the enquiring rider will notice chiefly the slight alter- ation of lines in the frame by the crank hangers being lower with relation to the rear axle and bearings. In fifty of the best known makes of wheels it is im- possible to find one having the crank axle on the same level as the rear hub. The drop is from one inch and a quar- ter to two inches. The average is about an inch and three-quarters. One effect of this apparent to any eye is a for- ward slope of the rear forks and chain and new lines to the quadrant formed by the rear forks, back stays, and seat- post mast. With the dropped crank hangers this section of the wheel looks like a more substantial truss. An oft- repeated fallacy on the part of unthink- ing riders concerning the reason for this change is that it causes the chain to run down hill. Mechanics who adopt it argue that it strengthens the frame in accordance with engineering theories and gives them new angles of weight pressure upon which it is easier to com- pute in turning out their bearings. * * * The only other general change in the 1897 models which is superficially plain is the prevalent substitution of flush joints for the old external style. This change has_ furnished considerable material for discussion between both riders and mechanics, and will prob- ably continue to do so until the test of time in service has demonstrated their soundness or their fraility. * * * Having noticed these distinctions, the intending buyer may well continue to wonder why he should sell the old and buy the new, which is so slightly differ- ent. The arguments pro and con on even these points might easily con- fuse. Many makers had flush joints, dropped bottom brackets and the largest of bicycle tubing in their machines last year. Some had only one or two of these features. To those riders who are devoted to one make of wheel, and make it a point to keep up to date by pur- chasing a new one every year, there is no problem. Every manufacturer shows a number of differences between his 1896 and 1897 product. If their 1896 machines had all the peculiarities of frame construction that have become typical of this year’s models, then new 2a iby MEBRICA RIDDEN Gy WORLDS HEAVIEST _& RIDER © A few more good agents wanted. ADAMS & HART, SOLE DISTRIBUTERS, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. GIippér Light Roadster \\wll LZ Pe f a struction. his opinion. Pratt 28 T. the highest possible grade, the most expensive equip- ment and material is used in its construction, the finest finish possible to get by careful polishing, hand and waterrubbing. ‘These frames are finished in the Same manner as the finest furniture, carefully inspected, carefully made of selected stock, not a single “‘stock part’? is used in its entire con- The only wheel made with tapered D tubes in rear forks, which is the most expensive in the world. The ’97 Clipper Light Roadster embodies every up-to-date practical feature known. it toany wheel at any price, take it piece by piece, analyze it, test it, ask any uninterested expert for Every wheel is Compare We feel confident of the result. We are Sure you'll purchase this wheel if you want the finest bicycle that can be made, regardless of cost. $80.00 is the price. GRAND RAPIDS CYCLE CO. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 3 mechanical wrinkles appear in the de- tails of spoke, handle bar, crank, and seat-post fastenings, in the style of axles used, and the kind of bearings. To the rider who is not unalterably biased in favor of some make, but who continues the quest into the realm of such details, there comes confusion of another kind. ,Investigation beyond the superticial reveals a wonderful variety. The new features in details are seem- ingly endless. They offer an embarrass- ment of riches to the seeker after nov- elty. While to the casual inspection all the wheels in the show look alike, it is entirely true that no two are precisely the same. When the differences be- tween them are studied and the reasons for the points of variance are sought, the task, which at first flush seemed trivial, comes to assume stupendous proportions. *x x All kinds of lines in front forks and rear forks can be found; all sorts of connections at the joints, endless vari- ety in the style of fastenings, adjust- ments, and other details are at hand, and all kinds of reasons are given for each particular departure from the method employed by others. There are hygienic frames, hygienic saddles, hygienic handle bars, and even hygienic pedals. There are adjustable handle bars, adjustable saddles, convertible tandems, convertible single wheels, and changeable gears. There are freaks as well as novelties, and more than ap- peared at the National Show held in Chicago. The makers of specialties seem to have concluded New York to be a better mart than the ‘‘Windy City,’’ and certain manufacturers who made an elaborate display in the West have new features in their stalls here. One Eastern concern, which is using an invisible brake that binds on the crank axle by a turn of the grip, exhibits a wheel with sections cut from it lon- gitudinally, so as to show all the inter- nal action of the device. This makes plain a matter that has hitherto been mystifying. ee Among the most striking novelties in complete cycles is a machine imported from England by a prominent Brooklyn tradesman. It is a chainless wheel, but front driving. The general appearance of its frame is that of the old ordinary, or high wheel, but its saddle height is no greater than that of the common safety. It has a front wheel - about thirty inches in diameter, and a rear one of about twenty. The rear wheel traiis from a curved backbone of the same style made familiar by the ordi- nary. There is no rake to the front forks. They run sheer up to the steer- ing head. The handle bars are curved first outward and then backward, so as to be immediately above the forks. The saddle is on the spine, as in the ordinary, and the cranks are attached to the axle, so that there is a slight for- ward thrust. The gearing, which is of the spur variety, is encased in a metal box. This is the first specimen of this machine ever seen in this country, but in England they have been on the mar- ket for several years. They are the product of a veteran manufacturer, who finds a ready sale for his output. The machine attracted general attention on the part of the trade as well as the blic. eee ++ x In studying the designs of fork crowns, a tendency in the direction of using the arched or bell-shaped crown is noticeable. The number of crowns made of a one-piece forging and show- ing only a single square or oval plate is much less than in former years. The two types most general in this year’s models are the arched form mentioned and the double crown, made of two forg- ing plates joined by sockets. + ie) + The number of cheap wheels ex- hibited is a feature unknown in former years. Several concerns showing only juvenile cycles are among the exhibit- ors. In previous years it was almost unheard of for a bicycle concern to cater to the rising generation. The making of children’s wheels was in the hands of regular makers, and the production of the smaller machines was generally regarded as unprofitable. ese | A curious instance of what may be truly regarded as a reversion of type is found in the space of one of the largest and best-known manufacturers. It is a convertible single wheel, for the use of either a man or a woman. In the days of the first safeties, when they were heavy and clumsy, it. was common to see a drop frame machine with a re- movable top bar. During the last three or four years the type has become al- most extinct, and the revival of it by a progressive manufacturer is a venture the result of which will be watched with interest. In favor of this resurrected pattern it must be said that it is as far superior to its prototype as the modern safety is to its progenitors. It is sur- prisingly light, and is not ungraceful in appearance. The lower part is con- structed, like the ordinary wheel, for women, with curved double tubes, while the top bar, when fastened into position at the head and seat-post tube, is per- fectly horizontal, and has all the ap- pearance of the upper tube in a regular diamond frame.—New York Sun. The Warm Penny of More Value than the Cold Dollar. We live in a world of vicissitude and change. This is as true of human con- ditions as it is of the wind and the weather. Health that blooms on the cheek and sparkles in the eye may van- ish at the breath of a cold wind or the visit of a silent microbe. Friends once loyal and true may drop away as the leaves of a maple or the blossoms of a peach. Wealth may drag its golden anchor and drown in the sea of mis- fortune, and what we had or have of luxury or fine raiment may leave us as poor as Lazarus and as ragged asa scarecrow. This is happening all the time and everywhere. Man in his best estate has not the fixedness of a rail- way spike or a nine-penny nail. In this never-idle kaleidoscope, the prince and the peasant, the wise man and the fool, have a common fellowship. The sorrowful and the hungry, the spirit-broken and the unfortunate are always with us, and we should not for- get that we who look may yet be cast in- to the same dark stream. Let no man despise the other with a broken for- tune, a darkened life, a wet eye ora dismal fate. He is of the same stuff, and the hammer that shatters the image, be it Parian marble or com- mon clay, is no respecter of persons Not an outcast nor a waif, nor a human ruin standing on the highways of time, but has a claim upon the sympathies of us all. There was a time when to such a man life was bright as a spring morn- ing, with its incense of opening buds and its music of birds. Home had its lifted latch, its kindly voice and its sacred endearments. A soul looked out of its windows on what was to be seen in the vista of the future, and what was to be heard of the invisible choirs that sing of hope, happiness and the glories of a world to come once rang in the ears now dulled with the echoes of a storm. For such as these the Man of Nazareth walked the hills of Galilee and died on a Roman cross, and what heaven sought to save let no man cast away. What are we here for, if it is not to do as He did? The idea that a man is put on this planet for no other purpose than to ac- cumulate wealth or become a basket of bouquets, or to wear out his knees in serving and worshipping his own iso- lated personality, is a fraud more de- ceptive than a gold brick or a tongue with more oil than veracity. There are lots of us, however, smoking this kind of opium, with a waking up to come when the pipe isempty. ‘‘No man liveth to himself,’’ is one of the greatest verities, but {that a goodly crowd are living some thirty, fifty and seventy years for that one lone personage isa gruesome fact. A number nine shoe covers the planet and the rim of a hat the two poles and the equator. A mortal man of flesh and blood the grave- worm loves; of vitality that may de- pend on a pill for its continuance, he has no more jurisdiction in the cosmic system than the wing of a black bat has in an eclipse of the moon; he isa self-or- ganized monopoly of interests and the obligations of one man to another. Two peas cannot live in the same pod without their affinities, and no man in this world can share lodgings in it with the rest without having more or less of a common interest. It may be denied or ignored, but the web of the tissue re- mains. Few men deny this, but a great many forget it. They recognize their duty but forget their relationship. They have money for hospitals and old clothes for Provident Associations ; they dance all night at a charity ball and are not guilty of discontent or private swearing when searching for the missing bivalve in the oyster stew at a church sociable: but so far as personal sym- pathy goes for the man who needs a wooden leg, or the washerwoman who is loaded down with a pair of twins and a husband who would rather sleep than work, they are as indifferent as a her- mit crab is as to who rented the shell in which he gets a free lodging. This is not charity any more than a suit of clothes is a man, or a paste diamond a genuine stone. We have seen dewdrops on a bunch of Concord grapes, but the water was not wine, and have heard the music of the sea _ in a shell, but it was not the Atlantic. Samaritans of this type are as com- mon as cheap shoes. They autograph subscriptions, it may be to the rescue of ship-wrecked mariners, or the pro- tection of mules, the education of bar- barians, or the purchase of socks for the waifs of Whitechapel; and so far so good, but the man who is a Samaritan by proxy may bea different gentleman altogether where he eats and drinks and sleeps, or makes his money. Giving is not charity unless the giver be given with the gift. The world wants the man, and poverty something more than the money. That is what is wanted ; and that is what is missing. A kind heart is better than a silken purse. It is as rain to the dry grass and candle light to a dark room. It may not have a cold dollar, but it is never without a warm penny, and, so far as the misfortunes and poverty of this world go, the warm penny is of infinitely more value than the cold dollar. FRED WooprRow. TIME IS MONEY LIFE IS SHORT And Rapid Transportation is a Necessity ...... To secure the most prompt delivery of goods at the least ex- penditure of time and money it is essential that the mer- chant have a delivery wagon of the right sort. just that kind of a wagon and sell it as cheaply as is consist- ent with good work. For catalogue and quotations address BELKNAP WAGON CO., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. We make tin Me Stn RSS + i 4 4 5 z 4 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Around the State Movements of Merchants. Manton—A. Alvin is closing out his clothing stock. Evart—McDougall & Selby is the style of a new grocery frm. Petuskey—T. C. Delezene has sold his grocery stock to W. A. Mayor. Jackson—J. B. Champlin has opened a lew grocery sture aud meat market. Jackson—Fiuwers & Co. have opeuea a uew grocery store at 238 East Main Street. Saginaw—C. H. Mitcneil & Downs in toe Cigar business. Bay City—R. A. Forsyth succeeds Jobu Mcbride in the grocery and boot aud shoe Dusiliess. Cass City—W. J. Campbell, dealer in agricultural implemeuts, will discon- tinue business April 1. Menominee—E. A. Duval has pur. chased the clothing and tailoring busi- ness of John joiner & Co. Detrou—Mrs. Anna Andrews — suc- ceeds Wm. H. Miller in the restaurant and contectiouery business. Sbhepherd—Taylor & Shaw continue the general store business formerly con- ducted by Frank M. Taylor. Calumet——Louis Sibilsky succeeds Culan & Sibiisky in the dry goods, clothing and boot and shoe business. Detroii—Chapp & Weber, dealers in dry goods, have dissolved. The business will be continued by Leonard E. Weber. Jackson—R. P. House, lately from Missuurt, succeeds E. L. Grover in the grocery business at 217 Francis street. Jackson—C. R. Townsend, formerly of Parma, has opened a grocery store at the corner of Greenwood and First Streets. Jackson—Chas. Wiley has opened a grocery store at 1412 East Main street. He was formerly engaged in the milk business. Wayland—J. M. Burpee has sold his stock of buots and shoes and groceries to C. A. Ryno, who will continue the business. Allegan—Oliver & Co. have purchased the H. H. Cook stock of furniture and trunks, and wiil do business at the same location. Jackson—J. V. Hoover, grocer and meat dealer, has removed from the cor- ner of Greenwood and First streets to East Ganson street. Jackson—Riggs & Winslow have stocked and opened a new grocery store in the store building at the corner of Mitchell and Milwaukee streets. Pentwater—C. R. Whittington has sold his furniture and undertaking stock to Peter Lagesen, who will con- tinue the business at the same location. Woodland—H. C. Carpenter & Son will shortly cpen a branch hardware store at Lake Odessa. It will be under the personal supervision of C. B. Car- penter. Elk Rapids—T. E. Reily, who for the past three years has been in charge of J. W. Balcom’s drug store, has taken a position with Paul V. Finch,of Grand Rapids. Ravenna—W. E. Patterson has _ pur- chased the interest of H. M. Gannon in the drug and grocery firm of Thatcher & Gannon. The new firm will be known as Thatcher & Patterson. Traverse City—M. E. Haskell has leased the store in the Markham block formerly occupied by W. J. Bell and will open up in the book, stationery and wall paper business: March 1. Mitchell succeeds tobacco and Sears—Richard Halibhan has opened a grocery. Port Huron—A. H. Tibbitts, who has been manager of the drug store owned by R. J. Cram, of Detroit, has been succeeded in his position by Harry Adams, formerly of Knill’s drug store here. Jackson—A. A. Jankowsky, formerly engaged in the jewelry business on Steward avenue, has removed to the new building at 503 East Main street and embarked in the grocery and jewelry vusiness. Cadillac—The J. W. Cummer build- ing, atthe corner of Mitchell and Harris streets, has been leased by J. Present, of St. Ignace, who 1s arranging to oc- cupy it about March 1 with a stock of dry goods. Muskegon—William Coppel has re- moved his stock ot groceries from 303 Clay avenue, the store formerly oc- cupied by D. B. Jones, to the Duquette block, on the corner of Clay avenue and Seventh street. Detroit—F. Rosenfield & Bro., tobac- conists, have discharged a $27,000 mort- age given Dec. 16 to Strauss Bros., of Ligonier, Ind., and others, It is claimed that all the debts of the firm have been paid. Kalamazoo—The G. H. Raynor Co. stock of books and stationery has been sold to Edward Woodbury, one of the creditors, tor $10,756. The secured in- debtedness is $10,245.60. The stock in- ventoried $20,000. Mt. Clemens—G. E. Clark succeeds Dr. J. G. White as proprietor of the City Drug Store, Mt. Clemens. Mr. Clark was formerly traveling salesman tor the wholesale drug house of Lyman, Knox & Co., of Toronto. Vermontville—Byron Archer, of Cold- water, who was here last week lvoking over the ground, has concluded to locate here and has rented the Pray block, re- cently vacated by W. E. Imes, and will handie poultry, eggs and farm produce. Jackson—Gieason Bros. & Dack, dealers in dry goods and clothing, an- nounce their intention of dissolving partnership Feb. 20. It is understood generally that John Glascow and Mr. Dack will open a new store in another building. Muskegon—L. C. Mangold has sold his interest in the Union Tea Co. to John J. Bither, who has been asso- ciated with him as partner for the past twelve years. Mr. Bither will continue the business at the same location under the same style. Detroit—A. H. Krum & Co. succeed C. L. Weaver & Co. in the jobbing of Candee, Woonsocket, Federal and Rhode Island boots and shoes and_ rub- ber soled-tennis shoes, to which they will shortly add a line of mackintoshes and rubber clothing. Carson City—C. Lightstone has de- cided not to remove to Eaton Rapids and take an interest in his brother's shoe business, but will remain here and continue business under the style of the Chicago store. He has leased a store in the Gardner block and will shortly add another line of merchandise to his stock. Detroit—Ward L. Andrus & Co. has filed notice of the formation of a limited partnership to carry on the wholesaling of fancy groceries, fruits and oysters. Ward L. Andrus is the general and Samuel C. Tewksbury the special partner. The latter contributes $25,000 to the business. The partner- ship-expires Feb,. 1, 1902. Port Huron—The stock and book ac- counts of Osman & Beard were sold at public auction Tuesday by Chas. D. Thompson, trustee mortgagee. The in- ventory of the stock footed up $23, 596. 63, while the book accounts amounted to $6,469.60. Mrs. Agnes Beard, a creditor uuder the first mortgage for $14,000, was the purchas.r, bidding in the stock for $15,000 and the accounts for $2,000. fhe proceeds will not quite cover the amount in class A of the mortgage. It has not yet been determined what dis- position will be made of the stock. Newaygo (Democrat)--—Our fellow townsman, S. K. Rublet, who, for the past thirty-five years, has been the most active business man in Newaygo county, was missed from his post of duty last Friday. Every man, woman and child of the village noticed his absence. Upon enquiry it was learned he had fallen from the express wagon and broken a rib,and sustained other bruises which of themselves would have kept the majority of mankind in doors several weeks. The following day ‘‘Sol’’ was out and now be is behind the counter of his dry goods store again. Manufacturing Matters. Middleville—The Cold Spring Cream- ery Co. recently declared a dividend of 30 per cent., after having spent 25 per cent. in improvements. Holland—L. Van Putten has leased the upper floor of Slagh’s planing mill and purchased machinery adapted to the manufacture of wooden toys. Owosso—James E. Clark, for nearly five years past Secretary and Treasurer of the Estey Carriage Co., has resigned his position and will soon engage in other business. New Lothrop—The Hess Bros., ac- companied by Morrice Odell, were in Saginaw last week, contracting for the iron work of the Lehigh washing ma- chine, which they will manufacture here. Birmingham—Senator F. M. Warner has shipped a large consigument of cheese to Glasgow, Scotland. The freight to New York was 23 cents per hundred, and from New York to Glas- gow 46. Kalamazoo—O. Torgeson has retired from the firm known as the Torgeson- Hawkins-Torgeson Co., manufacturer of Nacretoin. The business will be continued by T. M. Torgeson and Wm. R. Hawkins under the style of the Tor- geson-Hawkins Co. Muir—The Muir Washing Machine Co. has filed articles of association with the County Clerk. The shareholders are J. ©. Prosbasco, 100 shares; Levi M. Greenwood, too shares; Kudolph T. Rohler, 100; George B. Haves, 100; Arthur A. Stoddard, 70; John Dilley, 30. The company will manufacture washing machines and various wood novelties. Menominee—P. C. Christianson, for- merly engaged in the sawmill business at Daggett, has leased the Panghorn Manufacturing Co.’s plant in this city and will soon open a hoop factory. The necessary machinery has been ordered from Chicago. Ash will be used prin- cipally aud a large stock of timber is now being secured at different points along the line of the Chicago & North- western and other roads. A large force of men will be employed by the new works. Detroit—H. S. Robinson & Co. is re- ported to have issued a circular letter containing a statement of their affairs and @ proposition to their creditors. The property has been appraised at $108,000, and in this appraisal $40,000 of uncer- tain accounts is thrown out, Io per cent. taken off all accounts believed to be gcod, machinery and fixtures are reduced to little more than a nominal amount, and the merchandise valued at what it is thought to be worth in its present shape. if the business is continued, it is pro- posed tu abandon the store on Jefferson avenue, by which a saving of $10,000 a year can be effected, and to move ali the goods to the factory building ; to pay no salary in excess of $100a month, which will effect a saving of several thousand dollars a year over former ex- penses under this head; to abandon the factory as a manufacturing plant, but use it as a warehouse and doa mer- chandise instead of a manufacturing business. The circular states that sub- stantially all the creditors have been consulted, and the situation is as fol- lows: The banks want their notes paid, but they are not disposed to force the sale of the stock; are willing to wait until the money can be realized to the best possible advantage. The United States Rubber Company has refused to take preferential stock in a new com- pany to be tormed, but will allow the stock in trade to be sold by such new company, and give the re-organization all that can be made over and above the first mortgage and the mortgage of 335,000 to the Rubber Company. The Rubber Company’s claim amounts to 351,000, and this would be a concession of $16,000 off the face of the claim. It is now proposed to organize a corpora- tion under the laws of Michigan, to be known as the H. S. Robinson Company, this company to issue $83,000 of stock— $43,000 to be preferred stock, to be de- livered to the creditors secured by the third mortgage and a few small unse- cured creditors, so as to close up all the old affairs, each creditor to receive stock at par to the amount of hisclaim; $40,000 in common stock, to be issued and go to the partnership of H. S. Rob- inson & Co., subject to the first mort- gage, and the $35,000 to the Rubber Company; but the new corporation not to assume the partnership debts; the property to be transferred to a trustee, and the new company to dispose of the property as the agent of that trustee. The indications are that the large creditors will agree to this arrangement as the best that can be done under the circumstances. ————_> 2. Cuban Steamboat in a Jackson Show Window. Jackson, Feb. 8—A grocery house in Jackson has a show window which prob- ably attracts as much attention as any- thing of the kind in the State. The window is built is such shape that it is conspicuous. The proprietors are geniuses and they attract many a dol- lar’s trade by their talent in decorating. Their principal feature at the present time is a steamboat, named the *‘ Three Friends,’’ made entirely of material found in the store. The boat is about 6 or 8 feet in length. The frame is made of pieces of board from packing boxes. The finish of the vessel 1s made up of stock found in the store, consist- ing of cakes, fruit, vegetables, pen- holders, pencils and other notions. It is perfect in all its details, from bow to stern and from water line to top of smokestack. Space will not permit my going into the details of construction, finish and decoration, but the vessel is a marvel of design and a catchy adver- tisement. The boat is only one feature of the window, as there is a fine display of goods all around it. P. No advance on Gillies New York teas. Phone Visner, 1589. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 5 Grand Rapids Gossip Park & Caxton, dealers in notions at Kalkaska, have added a line of groceries. The Worden Grocer Co. furnished the stock. A. Schram will shortly open a new drug store at Hesperia. The Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co. has the order for the stock. The Valley City Drug Co. has sold its stock at 601 Cherry street to A. B. Bartlett, who will continue the business at the same location. A. D. Otis, formerly Secretary and Treasurer of the South Arm Lumber Co., at South Arm, has taken the posi- tion of office manager of the Grand Rapids end of the Cappon & Bertsch Leather Co. Geo. Humiston and James Carlton have formed a copartnership under the stvle of Humiston & Carlton and opened a dry goods, hat and cap and boot and shoe store at Lakeview. The shoe stock was furnished by the Herold- Bertsch Shoe Co. After numerous postponements it has finally been decided to hold the winter convention of the Michigan Retail Grocers’ Association on Wednesday and Thursday, March 3 and 4. The change in dates is due to the desire of the officers to hold the convention simultaneous with a political conven- tion, so as to secure the advantage of half fare rates from all parts of the State. —_—__.2—____ Purely Personal. M. J. Lohstorfer, the Port Huron druggist, has been confined to his bed for the last six weeks with inflamma- tory rheumatism. James Harry Goodeve has left the employ of W. V. Wendover, of Detroit, to take a position with Nelson, Baker & Co., manufacturing pharmacists of Detroit. G. L. Thomas, house salesman of the Ball-Barnhart-Putman Co., has returned to his duties after a five weeks’ vaca- tion, which was spent among friends at Stanton. Homer Klap, Secretary of the Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association, is making his annual rounds among the trade of the city and is meeting with a cordial reception everywhere. It is reported that Geo. Medes, for- merly with the Herold-Bertsch Shoe Co., has purchased an interest in the banking establishment of Chas. W. French, at Stanton, and that he will re- move to that place and take an active interest in the business. N. B. Clark, President of the Mich- igan Bark & Lumber Co., is spending a few weeks at Indiana Mineral Springs, Ind., in company with Wm. Gerber, of Reed City. Mr. Clark writes that he is rapidly improving in health and that he will be at his desk again sometime between the 1st and 15th of March. The ambition of some men knows no bounds. Not content with managing the most successful paper mill in the coun- try, being the social leader of his town, the political boss of his county and the leading spirit in a minstrel show, Geo. E. Bardeen, of the Bardeen Paper Co., at Otsego, now insists on invading the realm of mercantile life, having suc- ceeded in getting himself elected a Vice-President of the Brownson & Ran- kin Dry Goods Co., at Kalamazoo. Some friend of Mr. Bardeen’s should put a stone on his head. lacob Jesson, formerly engaged in the drug business at Muskegon, but for the past year on the road for Seabury & Johnson in Southern California, has purchased a drug store at Ontario, about forty miles west of Los Angeles. Mr. Jesson’s Michigan friends—and they are legion—will be pleased to learn that he is pleasantly located in a growing town in the fruit belt of the Land of Flowers. Fred Macey has resigned his position as advertising expert of the Bissell Car- pet Sweeper Co., to take the manage- ment of the Rapid Hook and Eye Co., C. ©. Follmer retiring to re-engage in the shingle business, in which he won both distinction and shekels. Mr. Macey is an exceptionally competent man, having made his mark as an advertiser while in the employ of the Bissell in- stitution. C. S. Udell (S. P. Bennett Fuel and Ice Co.) attended the golden wedding of G. C. Jones and wife, at Jenisonville, Tuesday evening, and distinguished himself in two directions—by perform- ing the marriage ceremony in the most approved manner, in the absence of a regular clergyman, and by kissing the bride on the least provocation-——and several times without provocation. Heretofore Mr. Udell has generally con- fined his attentions to beautiful young ladies and interesting and intellectual young widows, but the events of Tues- day evening indicate that even blushing brides are not exempt from his pains- taking attentions and osculatory demon- strations. W. Fred McBain, Secretary of the Grand Rapids Fire Insurance Co., will be married Feb. 17 to Miss Ann Kath- leen Hughston, of La Porte, Ind. The ceremony will occur at the residence of the bride's aunt, Mrs. Geo. Wilson, of La Grange, IIl., the officiating clergy- man being the rector of the Episcopal church at La Porte. Miss Anna Mor- rison, of La Porte, will act as_ brides- maid and the groom will be supported by Maynard A. Dominick, of London, Eng., who is now on his way to this country for that purpose. The wedding tour will include a trip to Florida, the intention being to return to Grand Rapids about March 15. The happy couple will take up their residence at 149 Paris avenue, where they will be ‘*at home’’ to their friends on and after April 20. Mr. McBain has won recog- nition in insurance circles by his pro- gressive policy and application to busi- ness and the Tradesman heartily joins the many friends of the contracting parties in wishing them long life and much happiness. —_—_»2.>—____ Flour and Feed. There is very little change to be noted under this head. Buyers, as a rule, ap- pear to be extremely cautious about placing orders, except as they are obliged to buy for the immediate needs of their trade. Stocks of flour in East- ern and Southern markets are now very low, but with indifferent dragging mar- kets for the next few weeks, there will undoubtedly be very little change in the situation. On the other hand, should the grain markets continue to improve, as has been the case the past few days, buying will be more spirited. Millstuffs are in better demand. Prices have advanced from 50c@$1 per ton. Bran especially is scarce. A good trade is to be reported on ground feed, coarse meal, etc. Prices are ranging very low and the margin for handling is small, but orders have been quite plentiful. Wm. N. Rowe. The Grain Market. Cash wheat closed very strong at 3c higher in local markets and 2c higher in grain centers. Futures also advanced about 2c. All reports point toward still higher prices. The visible decreased 1,706, ooo bushels, against 600, 000 bushels during the corresponding time last vear, leaving the visible 47,885,000 bushels, against 66,167,000 bushels the corres- ponding date in 1896. Argentine ship- ments were 14,000 bushels, against 667,000 bushels last year. The French crop report shows that the present con- dition is 33 per cent. less than last year. India will have to import wheat this year, while in former years she has ex- ported, and the only countries to supply this demand are the United States and Russia. and our supply of both spring and winter wheat is very limited. Our exports were 3,100,000 bushels—rather above the average—but this does not seem to effect the short sellers, as they keep the market well supplied with wind wheat—options. What is there to offset these strong points? The only thing we know of is that people con- sume more potatoes, rye flour, buck- wheat flour, corn meal, etc. If the re- ports are true that in Minnesota, with the exception of Minneapolis and Du- luth, the millers are compelled to hustle for wheat, the same as Michigan and other winter wheat millers are hustling, we may consider the present price very cheap. We are creditably informed from private sources that 20 to 25 per cent. of the farmers have to be supplied with seed wheat. Cash wheat to-day is higher than May. By combining all these facts we think prices must surely be higher before they get much lower. Owing to the large exports of . coarse grains, prices have firmed up a little, but there is no material change. There is not much life in either of these cereals. As we have a large crop of both corn and oats in this State, we are enabled to export from the State, in- stead of importing. The local receipts of wheat do not improve and we presume our prediction that farmers have none to offer is right. We do not see where our supply is com- ing from tu keep the mills in operation until the new crop is harvested. The receipts during the week were: wheat, 40 cars; corn, 4 Cars; oats, 6 cars. Local millers are paying 83c for wheat. Cc. G. A. Vorer. > 2. ___ Isolated Districts. Attention is being called to the fact that, notwithstanding Grand Rapids has an extensive system of improved roads radiating in all directions, there are yet considerable districts which are either practically excluded from this market, so far as farm productions are con- cerned, or are handicapped by toll and other charges to an extent which goes far to neutralize the benefits of practicable highways. In some localities serious obstacles are found in the lack of bridges for passing Grand River. During the floods of 1883-4, a number of these were carried away and some have never been re- built; and there are other places where such bridges are greatly needed. The lack of these cuts off considerable tracts of country from easy access to the city, or subjects the farmer to ferry and _ toll charges too heavy to be borne by the low prices obtained from the sale of the farm products. A striking illustration of the matter is found in the case of West Bridge street gravel road. This road ends at a bridgeless crossing of the river, over which passage is effected, during fa- vorable stages of the water, by a chain ferry supported by tolls from the pass- ing traffic. Frequently,during times of high water, the ferry is not in opera- tion for considerable periods, neces- sitating a long detour over villainous roads for the residents affected to reach the city. Now it happens that this road is paralleled at a short distance on the south by the bridgeless stream, and that at the end of the road the river makes a long turn toward the north, thus effec- tually cutting off all the region west of the terminus, except by dependence upon the ferry. Even when this route is practicable, the matter of toll isa serious one, in view of the low prices commanded by produce. Thirty cents’ for the round trip is a sum sufficient, in many cases, to prevent the journey ; and when the expenditure is warranted, it must be borne by the ones least able to bear it. The matter of making all the country easily and cheaply accessible to the city is one worthy the attention of every mer- chant and business man. + 2. Another Enlargement of their Labo- ratory. It may be of interest to manufacturers and those interested in scientific re- search to learn that Thum Bros. & Schmidt have again enlarged" their an- alytical laboratory. For years this firm has done all kinds of analytical work. The demands on this department have grown steadily until to-dav we finda perfectly-equipped laboratory on the third floor, over their store at 84 Canal street. Among the specialties are water for both sanitary and boiler purpc ses, estimation of substances for fertilizing values. also of licensed and unlicensed fertilizer, assaying of ores, determina- tion of limestone values, barks for tan- nin, quantitative, pig and cast iron, steel for carbon, butter and milk tested for adulterants, chemical and patholog- ical examination of urine, and general analstical analysis. All work receives prompt attention, the laboratory being in. charge of two chemists who confine themselves solely to this branch of work. Parties who wish to save ‘‘boiler com- pound’’ expenses will find advantage in knowing what water at their disposal gives the least amount of scale, etc. While this work has been done for years and is well known to the firm's regular customers, the Tradesman thought it well to mention to those who may have demands tor analytical researches that this laboratory here in our midst can supply such knowledge as one usually seeks in a chemist. The firm will at any time be pleased to show to those interested the facilities they have for supplying the demands of a_ laboratory. ee When he was in Egypt Mark Twain hired two Arab guides to take him to the pyramids. He was familiar enough with Arabic, he thought, to understand and be understood with perfect ease. To his consternation, he found that he could not comprehend a word that either of the guides uttered. At the pyramids he met a friend, to whom he made known his dilemma. It was very mys- terious, Twain thought. ‘*Why, the ex- planation is simple enough,’’ said the friend. ‘‘Please enlighten me, then,’’ said Twain. ‘‘Why, you should have hired younger men. These old fellows have lost their teeth, and, of course, they don’t speak Arabic. They speak gum-Arabic.”’ ——___> 4» ___ The cultivation of flowers for export and for the perfumery factories at Grasse is an important industry on the Riviera. It is officially estimated that the value of flowers annually exported from Nice, Cannes, Beaulieu and Men- tone is $600,000,, = iad ona Fo OMAR ATLL AME AL ARASH NRE IS TE 7 RATT aR ao iret : P fp 6 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Fruits and Produce. Progress Made in the Commission Business of Late Years. Columbus, Ohio, Feb. 6—There is no business that gets a man out earlier or keeps him up later, or causes more in- terest in the unopened telegram or the unread letter than this exciting and fascinating commission business. The writer well remembers his first experience with a commission house. After peddling most of the forenoon during a warm day in May with a load of strawberries, and being unable to make a sale, he was persuaded by a fel- low peddler to try a well-known com- mission house. After unloading his berries on the sidewalk and tying his team in an alley, he returned to see how the fruit looked and found it sold and $1.50 more per stand awaiting him, after paying tbe commission, than he *had offered to take on the street. No more street peddling after that; the commission man was his friend, and a few years later he engaged in the busi- ness himself. I firmly believe that all growers of perishable fruit would realize a greater price for their products if consigned to a reliable house than they would by trying to dispose of them through their own efforts. At the time mentioned, strawberries were received in heavy two-bushel stands, and first receipts came from near Nashville about the first week in May. Now they arrive in 16, 24 and 36 quart crates, and we _ have them from December until July, starting from Florida and closing the season at Minneapolis. At that time they all came by express and endured the ten- der handling of over-worked messen- gers. At present thev arrive during their season in express refrigerator cars with capacity of 800 cases, and are run through to destination in fruit trains on passenger schedule and the fruit shows as nicely as when it left the patch. No transfer, and can be held in the car for several days. Next came peaches, which were re- ceived in rough bushel boxes and fre- quently brought to market in wash-tubs ; now we receive them in one-fifth, one- half and one-bushel baskets, wood cov- ered, with bright netting to enhance their color; also in carriers and crates of two, four and six baskets each, care- fully graded in size and color. Formerly Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky supplied the demand; now we receive them from Michigan on the north, Delaware on the east, Georgia on the south and Cal- ifornia on the west, in car lots. Fre- quently solid trains of peaches are brought to the larger markets daily, and to the inexperienced it is a won- der how rapidly the markets are cleaned up at the prices obtained. Cultivated blackberries were then a scarcity; now an article of much value during their season. Next came ba- nanas; not many years ago, an expen- sive luxury; at present a staple article, and can be found on sale at every vil- lage store in the Union, and at prices within the reach of every one. The volume of business in this branch alone reaches into the million dollar mark yearly. Oranges and lemons have been a staple article on the markets for many years, and were it not for the fear of awakening some painful memories of the past, a book might be written re- ating the profits and losses on those two articles. How our anticipation, some seasons, on well-purchased lemons would rise as the thermometer would climb into the nineties during the latter part of June, and would almost grasp the margin when a cold rain would set in and a chilling wind from the north would check the demand and decay would set in and require two boxes to make one. Away would melt the profits, like ice in a summer morn! But there have been good margins in lemons, and there will be again. Oranges, while not affected so much by the weather, sometimes cause a peculiar uneasiness and a smile or a frown to pass over the countenance as the market varies. For- merly foreign countries furnished us with nearly all our oranges, but during the last two decades Florida and Cali- fornia have supplied us with the luscious fruit, and during the past few seasons have secured a place in the leading markets of the world. Since the de- struction of the Florida groves by freez- ing, Mexico has found our markets a valuable outlet for her orange crop. Probably the grand and growing en- terprise of the fruit auction, in the larger cities, has alone done more to assist the importer and buyer of foreign and domestic fruit than any industry during the history of the commission business. Cargoes and trainloads of fruit are disposed of in a few hours, with less expense and generally more satisfactory results than by any plan ever adopted, the goods being sold on their merits and placing every reliable firm on an equal footing at the sale. Apples—everybody’s favorite, and an article that some years causes some of us to pass through a season of inward bleeding and of fearful anticipations of the outcome—were formerly handled in all sized barrels and frequently dis- honestly packed, but lately a more uni- form package has been used, and it seems now that, through the efforts of the National League, and the Apple Growers’ Association, a package will be adopted of uniform size in every state, and also a system of grading the fruit into classes, whereby a dealer may know exactlv what he will receive in size of fruit and packages. But little advance has been made in the handling of potatoes,the staple still coming to us in barrels and crates for the first receipts of the new crops, and sacks and bulk for the later grown and storiug varieties. However, much im- provemeent could be made in grading potatoes, even if they do sell at 10 cents per bushel some seasons. Most of us remember the old box car for loading freight articles, when 400 bushels of potatoes or 150 barrels of apples constituted a car load, and in severe -weather false floors and stoves were used to prevent freezing. Now we have the modern freight, ventilated and improved heater cars, in which ber- ties, oranges, bananas, tomatoes, apples, potatoes and other tender commodities can be shipped from one end of the United States to the other, with the thermometer ranging from go in the shade to 20 below zero, and have the goods arrive in perfect condition. It is but a few years ago when we seldom went east of Buffalo or north of Detroit for our potatoes and apples, or south of Nashville for our berries. Now almost every house has its representative right at the grower’s door and orchard, re- ceiving direct from field, tree and vine; and even further, quite a few commis- sion men owning large orchards of ap- ples and peaches and groves of oranges. We also read where foreign capital is being invested in large orchards for the purpose of supplying the export de- mand. Another change of importance is in the manner of securing consignments of goods. Formerly a letter written, quot- ing the market, would keep you well supplied; next came the solicitor and the encouraging telegram. Returns were then made once a week. Quite fre- quently a grower drew but a small _por- tion of his returns until the close of the season. Now remittances are made daily, and very often net sales daily by wire. So anxious are the growers to know the result that the mail is too slow. Competition has cut a large figure in the protits of many houses, also extension of bills, smaller percentage in commis- sion charges, delivery of goods to dis- tant parts of cities and to depots. This item of delivery and the cost of teams is an expensive one, and other costs of conducting this branch of business, as compared with some twenty years ago, are enormous. It isa subject for wide dis- cussion and of vital interest to all of us. The old-style buildings of ordinary thickness, kept at uneven temperature with natural ice and wet rooms, have been supplanted by modern buildings; and, by the use of chemicals kept at any desired degree of temperature at all seasons of the year, the preservation of apples, pears, oranges, cabbage, pota- toes, onions, butter, eggs, fish and many other articles ina state of almost natural perfection has been secured. We find during the last few years that the telephone is the commission mer- chant’s best friend. You can make a bare or glutted market over the phone just as easy as the occasion requires, and can make a fancy grade ont of an ar- ticle that wouldn’t pass for choice if the customer were at your side. You can make him think you are his best friend and have just saved the finest crate for him, when the sidewalk is full of the same quality. It saves numerous tgips to the depot and express office; and you may talk awfully loud to a big man over telephone when you would have to keep silent were he near you. It is also as easy to be imposed upon over the tele- phone in deductions asked for, on goods that are made to appear in very bad order, when, if returned, no rec- lamation would be asked for—simply because the market declined or the cus- tomer overbought. The advance made in transportation, uniformity of packages, prompt returns, reliable information as to prices, the bringing together of grower, commis- sion merchant and consumer, exchang- ing ideas as to how best to work for the benefit of all, are the results of the active brain and never-tiring energy of the commission merchant, always ready to assist the grower to realize good mar- gins for his labor and to give the con- sumer at all times the first and best that grows, and at as lew prices as possible. L. K. Sutton. ee Tke red man is going to cease being merely picturesque and goto work. The Indians on the Red Cliff reservation are to go into the logging business. The Government has not yet sold any pine on this reservation, but it has been de- cided to let the Indians begin logging their timber, and the logs thus cut will be sold next spring to the highest bid- der. Captain Scott, who is in charge of La Pointe agency, has received a letter from Washington containing specifications as to how the timber should be cut. A portion of the timber on the reservation has been burned over and will be ruined unless cut this win- ter, and the Government has authorized Captain Scott to begin the work at once. A sum of money has been placed at his disposal, with which to conduct the logging operations, and next spring, when the logs are sold, the Government will be reimbursed for the money ad- vanced and the remainder will be turned over to the Indians. COMMISSION M. R. ALDEN ll Efi EXCLUSIVELY 98 S. DIVISION ST., GRAND RAPIDS. HEN FRUIT—-— Is always seasonable. Eggs “just laid” get the very highest market price with me. R. HIRT, JR., Market St., Detroit. Write me BEANS We are in the market daily for BEANS, POTATOES, ONIONS, carlots. Send large samples beans with best price you can furnish carlots or less. MOSELEY BROS., WHOLESALE SEEDS, 26-28-30-32 OTTAWA ST., BEANS, POTATOES, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. APPLES Any kind $1.25 per barrel. SWEET POTATOES, CAPE COD CRANBERRIES, SPANISH ONIONS, ORANGES, LEMONS, FANCY WHITE CLOVER HONEY. BUNTING & CO., 20 & 22 OTTAWA STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH: Prompt attention given telegraph and mail orders. See quotations in price current, F. J. DETTENTHALER, Grand Rapids, Mich. YOOLOOOOOOO, @ ANCHOR BRAND | OYSTERS S © @ } @ GCOODOQDOQOQGQOQOODOODOOQOOQOQOQOQQOQOQOEO BSGGDGOHEOKE DOOQOOOQOQOQOOQOOQOOOO il aaa: DYSTERS | \ 127 Louis St., ORANGES ALLERTON & HAGGSTROM, Jobbers of Fruits, Extra Fancy Navels Extra Fancy Cali- fornia Seedlings. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 7 GOTHAM GOSSIP. News from the Metropolis---Index to the Market. Special Correspondence. New York, Feb. 6—-Slowly, it may be, but surely, we are getting on. A better feeling here, a littke more demand there, and firmer quotations on some things are all straws indicating that the wind is blowing from the right direc- tion. The, American Coffee Company has been formed with a capital of half a million dollars and, of course, the Hav- emeyers are at the head thereof. It seems likely that the war now is to be to the hilt and the time of the consumer is at hand—that is, the time when he can have cheaper coffee. Trusts are being investigated by a Legislative Committee—that is, the committee is going to try to commence to get ready to make a terrific onslaught on these ‘‘blood-suckers.’’ The inves- tigation will continue until the trusts ‘*put up’’ enough to make a good cam- paign fund. The market for coffee is decidedly dragging. Supplies, which it was thought might show some falling off, are still large and the roasters are abundantly supplied, notwithstanding the fact that there has been a great call for roasted coffees from many _ interior points. Mild goods, both East and West Indian, are moving in a very sat- isfactory manner and, if supplies were larger, there would be still more doing. Rio No. 7 is worth 93{c. The total amount afloat is 688,285 bags, nearly 200,000 bags more than last year at the same time. Granulated sugar has been in average demand. The supply is more than suffi- cient and altogether there seems no im- mediate occasion for any advance in quotations. Foreign refined sells well and at steady figures. Foreign granu- lated is worth 3.95c. Domestic granu- lated, 4%c. The auction sale of teas brought out a fair attendance and after that came one of the dull periods—if one period in this market can be said to be duller than another. The demand, both in an invoice and jobbing way, is practically nil. Dealers all over the country seem to have tea enough to last for a year, and orders, whether by mail or in per- son, are for only the smallest amounts, although for some lines of extra fine goods there is not much to complain of. With cheaper coffee there comes a less- ening demand for tea and, between coffee and beer, tea is having a hard time of it. The rice situation is most encoura- ging. The South reports many orders from the West and at good round rates, while here the enquiry has been excel- lent, both for domestic and _ foreign, with a very steady range to values. Re- ports from abroad indicate that so much rice will be needed for the famine dis- tricts of India that the amount left for export will be comparatively small and higher prices are confidently looked for in the not distant future. The market for pepper holds decided- ly strong. Cloves, too, have taken an upward twist. Other lines are quiet, but, upon the whole, the tendency is for a stronger market right along from now on. Singapore pepper, 6c; West Coast, 5%c; Zanzibar cloves, 5@51{c; Am- boyna, 10'4@IiIc. In molasses, business is better. It takes some courage to say that, but it is a fact and it is hard work to get the same quality for the same price that prevailed a fortnight ago. The grocery trade is doing most of the buying and at quotations ranging from 27@3ICc. While the demand is of rather a per- functory character, the supply of syrups is none too large and so both sides are about equally balanced. Prime to fancy sugar syrups, 18@22c. Lemons have taken a tumble and range all the way from goc or less up to $2.75, or possibly $3 for extra fancy. Messina oranges are quiet, but Valencias and other varieties are selling fairly well. The demand for bananas and pineapples is light, the former selling at $1@1.20 per bunch for firsts. In canned goods, the market is im- proving steadily and from now on we hope to have a more cheerful tone to re- port weekly. There is a littfe doing in ‘*futures’’ and altogether the feeling among the trade is one of more hope- fulness. The butter market is stronger, with an improved demand, and supplies not iarge. Best extra creamery is worth 2oc. There is continued strength to the cheese market and the outlook is ex- tremely favorable to holders. The ex- port trade is looking up and altogether we have every cause for looking for a firm market from now on. There has been a very light demand in eggs and, with supplies sufficiently large, there has been no appreciation in price. Western prime, 17c. a Patriotism of a Travéling Salesman. ‘‘T believe,’’ remarked the hotel clerk to a group of listeners, according to the Washington Star, ‘‘that the most patriotic men we have in the United States are the traveling salesmen. ’’ ‘*And why they?’’ enquired a member of Congress. ‘* Because they know the country _bet- ter than any other class and see it in all its sections and are among the classes who maintain it and make it possible for the rest of us to live with a great deal more ease than we might otherwise. Now there’s one who went out of the office just as the gentleman from New York came in. That man travels for a Boston house and his territory extends from Maine to California and he makes the trip every year, stopping usually in the big cities, but taking many of the others in on his way. ‘*He has been doing it for years, until he knows the people of the country in every state and I have yet to hear him say a bitter thing or a foolish one about sectional peculiarities or differences. He is too broad for that—that is to say, he is too patriotic. Then, again, he comes to Washington once a year sim- ply to spend two or three days here so that he may feel the sense of govern- ment by contact with it, to walk about the streets of the capital of the nation, to look at the magnificent buildings of Government ownership, to stand in the glorious beauty of the grandest building on earth, to sit fora time in the halls of legislation and to experience fora brief season some of the material results of his citizenship of the proudest re- public the sun ever shone upon.”’ There was a round of aprflause for the clerk’s presentation of the case. ‘Don't do it, gentlemen,’’ he said, waving it off. ‘‘Those are not my words, but the words of that traveling man. He is the broadest-minded citi- zen, the firmest patriot and the squarest man I know and if it were possible to have a nation of his kind it would be possible to make one nation of the whole world. He has been in Washing- ton for three days and when he leaves to-morrow he will take with him more than 100 books containing pictures of the city and its great buildings, which he will distribute among the children of the men he meets in a business way and who will never be able to get to Vashington to wander amid its beauties and learn here among its marble walls and pillars the all-important lessons which they teach and which every American should learn. I presume he has distributed thousands of these pic- tures and has been a weil-spring of patriotic sentiment to hundreds of young men and women in every state of the union. Who can say as much for him- self?’’ And even the Congressman could not answer in the affirmative. +» 2. It is stated in the Boston Post that the inventor of the whistling buoy, ‘‘that godsend to the sailor,’’ got his first idea of the device from seeing a small boy pushing an ordinary tin horn, mouth downward, into a hogshead of water. The air thus compressed was forced rapidly through the small end witha whistling noise, and that same princi- ple is now embodied in all the appara- tus supplied by the Government, the rising of the tide or action of the waves driving the air into the horn, FLLZLIFII LILI F FF SIFI LIF ITI AFR ORANGES 22: SEEDLINGS NAVELS c BANANAS, LEMONS, Fancy stock at close prices. N CRANBERRIES, ETC. J. M. DRYSDALE & CO., WHOLESALE FRUITS AND PRODUCE, SAGINAW, E. S., MICH. Ki 1 £ ELLE PLEA A LL EL: Pure Mincemeat is the ‘‘Upper Crust”’ from MEADER & KNUTTEL, WEST SAGINAW. 4 rene < > ‘Muskegon Milling Go. Manufacturers of.... FLOUR, FEED and MILLSTUFFS. Shippers and Receivers of.... GRAIN. AAG MUSKEGON, MICH. ONION Write us for prices for any- thing needed in our line. PLP ALLL AL A, Will advance surely. Buy now. Our Michigan Selects, red or yel- low, are fine, so are our.... Nuts Lemons Figs Oranges Honey Cranberries Grapes Sweet Potatoes STILES & Both Telephones 10. PHILLIPS, 9 NORTH IONIA ST., GRAND RAPIDS. To grocers is a Business Tonic To consumers is a delightful and sought-for confection. MINCE PIE Are you handling it? The New YOrk Biscuit 60. Grand Rapids. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN ¢; DESMAN, Devoted to the Best Interests of Business Men Published at the New Blodgett-Building, Grand Rapids, by the TRADESMAN COMPANY ONE DOLLAR A YEAR, Payable in Advance. ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION. Communications invited from practical business men. Correspondents must give their full names and addresses, not necessarily for pub- lication, but as a guarantee of good faith. Subscribers miy have the mailing address of their papers changed as often as desired. No paper discontinned. except at the option of the proprietor. until all arrearages are paid. Sample copies sent free to any address. Entered at the Grand Rapids Post Office as Second Class mail matter. When writing to any of our Advertisers, piease say that you saw the advertisement in the Michigan Tradesman. E. A. STOWE, EDITOR. WEDNESDAY, = = = FEBRUARY 10, 1897. HAVE PAID THE PENALTY. One abuse, when not promptly cor- rected, is sure to bring a host of others in its train, and to produce a dozen evils where one formerly existed. This is seen in the great sources of annoy- ance and serious loss imposed on the railway corporations of this country by the abuses growing out of the irregular traffic in railway tickets. Probably as late as three decades ago, when a passenger purchased a_ throug! railway ticket—say from Grand Rapid: to New York—but on arriving at some intermediate point, say Buffalo, re- ceived a telegram calling him back, he found himself burdened with a railway ticket which he could not use, anc which the railway company would only redeem with transportation, but not with money. He could not get his cash back for the unused portion of the ticket. That sort of thing created a demand for some means of disposing of the un- used transportation, and so the railway ticket broker or scalper had his begin- ning. He would buy the unused tickets at a reduced price and sell them at a profit, but below the regular rate. This sort of thing would never have occurred if the railway companies had redeemed their own tickets; but this they refused to do, and by that refusal raised up a plentiful brood of trouble for themselves. The abuses that have grown out of the ticket brokerage have become so serious and so flagrant that the Interstate Com- merce Commission has more than once remarked upon them and recommended congressional legislation for their cor- rection. In the last official annual re- port of the Commission occurs the fol- lowing: The illegitimate traffic known as ticket brokerage has become a positive scandal, and decisive measures should be taken to put an end to these illegal transactions. The Commission recom- mends that it be made a penal offense for any person to engage in the busi- ness of selling interstate passenger tick- ets unless he is an authorized agent of the carrier, duly constituted such by written appointment. In pursuance of this recommenda- tion, which has been re-enforced by ex- pressions of approval from the boards of trade and commercial bodies and pri- vate persons in many parts of the coun- try, a bill has been introduced into Congress prohibiting the sale of railway tickets by any persons save regularly authorized agents of such corporations, and providing that the transportation promised and contracted to be furnished to the holder of such ticket, when the same shall not have been used in whole or in part, shall be redeemed by the seller in cash to the amount of transpor- tation not actually received by the pur- chaser. | This bill ought to become a law, and it would be well for the commercial bodies of this city to indorse it and join in recommendations to Congress for its enactment. The bill is in the hands of the House Committee on Commerce, and it has been proposed to appoint Feb. 16 as the day when a hearing will be given to those interested in it before the Committee. The ticket-scalping business has cost the railways immense losses in money, besides giving them immeasurable trouble. If the bill should become a law, as desired, the railways will have to do just what they should have done from the beginning, and now they real- ize it. They have paid severely for their past failures to do a simpie act of justice, and now they should have re- lief. SHOULD BE DISCIPLINED. The obscure little Asiatic kingdom of Siam, which figured in so ignoble a roll three years ago, when France de- liberately compelled the cession of a fourth of its territory, but which ordi- narily attracts but small attention, is just now achieving a new sort of noto- riety. The Siamese police have ap- varently undertaken the task of making ife unbearable for all Europeans or -ivilized foreigners in the country, anc ire setting about it by maltreating al] prominent foreigners that fall into their nands, through one pretext or another. It is but a short time since the Ameri- an Vice Consul General was cruelly maltreated, because he presumed to take steps to take possession of certain property to which he was entitled. A couple of days ago, the German Min- ister at the Siamese capital was arrested and thrown into prison because his car- riage accidentally injured a passer-by, and two on-lookers, an American and an Englishman, who persumed to pro- test and explain matters were also ar- rested and beaten. No doubt the Siamese are smarting under the humiliation put upon them by France; but their way of demon- strating their animosity by attacking all foreigners indiscriminately is sure to speedly bring them into serious trouble. They must be taught a_ lesson—the quicker the better. The Washingtor Government has already dispatched the cruiser Castine to Bangkok, and the German and British governments will no doubt take prompt steps to protect their respective subjects. While the United States Government can feel no desire to humiliate Siam, that little country must be taught that Americans citizens cannot be maltreated with impunity; hence a firm demand for reparation must be made, and, if such reparation be not promptly forth- coming, then steps should be taken to inflict a suitable punishment. Ordinary diplomatic usages will not serve in the case of a semi-barbarous country like Siam. The city of Haverhill manufactured 15,444,920 pairs of shoes last year. This is the high-water mark for all Massachusetts shoe towns. GENERAL TRADE SITUATION. The characteristics which have dis- tinguished the business outlook for sev- eral weeks past continue to manifest themselves without material change. As fast as there is an acceptance of the new conditions as to prices, there is a steady revival of activity in most man- ufacturing centers. But the discoura- ging element continues to be the slow response in the improvement of prices. In the textiles and in iron manufacture the general tendency continues down- ward, but the recent increase in demand would seem to indicate that the decline had about reached its lowest ebb. The activity in woolen manufacture and in certain branches of the iron trade con- tinues as an encouraging feature. Wool. sales in Boston are unusually active, probably on account of contem- plated tariff legislation. The sales since January 1 are 40,c00, 000 Ibs., against 24, - 000, 000 for the same period last year. Ad- ditional mills are resuming and the outlook as to activity in this direction is certainly promising. Cotton fabrics continue slow and, in spite of the less- ening of production, the movement of the heavy stocks, on hand fails to ma- terialize. Sales of pig iron are increasing, hav- ing exceeded those of any other week since the short rush after election, but the general movement of manufactured products is slow. A notable feature of the trade is the increase in demand for export from the Southern furnaces. This seems to be assuming proportions which zive good promise for a permanent movement. From Pittsburg come re- ports that most of the great companies are increasing their forces, some of them running continuously with double shifts. The activity of the Iron City is considered a very significant indica- tion of the general improvement. It only needs to be supplemented by the normal demand from the Western cities. The downward movement of wheat seems to have been finally checked, and this week shows a tendency toward re- vival, although not very marked. Other cereals have shared the declining tend- ency of wheat. The general tendency of the industrial stocks has not been favorable, on ac- count of ‘‘investigations’’ and the _pos- sibility of unfavorable legislation. This has tended to increase the demand for bonds and other purely investment se- curities, The reduction of the Bank of England rate to 3 per cent. tends to make our financial situation less fa- vorable as related to English exchange. Bank clearings show an encouraging increase, 9 per cent. over the preceding week, or $1,047,000,000. Failures are becoming still less, 305, as against 326 for preceding week. ENGLISH HYPOCRISY REBUKED. The English philanthorpists of the Exeter Hall type, who have so often had their righteous souls vexed at the cruelties practiced upon negroes in the United States, were dealt a stinging re- buke by United States Consul General Collins, who was a guest.at the dinner of the White Friar’s Club, in London, a few days ago. The Prince of Wales was present, as were also a number of other distin- guished persons. In replying to a toast to his country, Mr. Collins remarked that the English people have so much time on their hands that, in order to get through with it, they must devote a great deal of it to regulating the affairs of other nations.. Said the Consul: ‘‘In the course of that business of regulat- ing the peoples of other countries, you have taken special pleasure in holding meetings, appointing committees and adopting resolutions denouncing the lynching of negro criminals in America, yet you kill more negroes in Africa in a month than the Americans have done in their entire history.’’ Not only did this brave American ut- ter a truth, but he dealt a piercing re- buke to those excessively righteous per- sons who can never see their own faults while they magnify the imperfections of others. The words were said with all imaginable good humor and ina vein of friendly badinage; but they went to the mark,and they showed that Amer- icans are capable of speaking a word for their own country, even under the oppressing influences of a complimen- tary dinner, at which it is in order to flatter the host. If all American public representatives abroad would oftener speak up for their own country, its people and _institu- tions, they would be more highly esteemed abroad and at home, as_ well. GARBAGE ARISTOCRACY. Imitation is the sincerest flattery. It is one of the aspirations of an alleged select set of New York society to ap- pear as much as possible like the Lon- don Cockneys, and that spirit of imita- tion has gone to such a degree that it has become a sort of madness, classified as ‘‘Anglomania.’’ It appears to have produced an in- tense disgust in the minds of the Eng- lish people, who do not appear to ap- preciate the compliment paid them, and the sham Anglicism is violently resented and unsparingly denounced by Labou- chere, the radical and ravening editor of London Truth. Said that unsparing satirist: No one is a greater admirer of Amer- icans than I, but if they are judged by New York society, a more corrupt and contemptible crew never played their pranks before heaven. They are a par- ody on the worst features of European capitals. The man who can spend the most is deemed the leader, while the jeunesse doree is not satisfied with aping the most vulgar aspects of Euro- pean society, but is anxious to return to the orgies which disgraced Rome. Doubtless this stinging denunciation of the American Anglomaniacs was called forth by the notorious Seely din- ner. In all likelihood it was but a clumsy imitation of what the wealthy woodenheads who assisted at it had seen abroad, and they were only enjoy- ing a foreign fashion which they had imported for their own use. But the silly dandies who have no higher aspiration than to imitate for- eign follies are no more the proper rep- resentatives of New York's best people than they are of the American people generally. Their moralitv is that of the slums, and that is the standard by which they should be measured socially. It has been stated that a bank burglar can so heat the walls of a safe with an electric current as to be able to get in- side without waiting more than a few minutes. Certain laboratory experi- ments lend some sanction to such a no- tion, but electrical journals pooh-pooh it. It is much easier to talk about steal- ing electricity from live trolley and lighting wires than it is to do it—that is, with safety. The Electrical En- gineer, after pointing out some other difficulties in the way of such opera- tions, remarks that ‘‘men can take and have taken the current from supply mains, even more than is required for melting through safes, although in nu- merous instances the parties maintained perfect silence about it ever after."’ MICHIGAN TRADESMAN THF REAL ILLS OF LIFE. ‘‘The battle of life’’ was a current phrase long before evolutionists began to talk about ‘‘the struggle for existence and the survival of the fittest.’" The earth, although it has been described as the temperate zone of the solar system, is a planet subject to various inclemen- cies; the well-being of the human con- stitution depends upon things which very frequently can be obtained only with great difficulty, and the develop- ment of civilization engenders new de- sires and imposes additional burdens upon the shoulders of mankind. Pessi- mists have made the most of all the in- evitable labors and sufferings of life in this world. They have summed up the case fordespair; but, after all, what is going on is a lengthening trial of strength. It is easy enough to sit down some- where in the shade and sketch a scheme of civilization demanding only four hours of light work a day, with an as- surance of three square meals and abundant leisure for recreation and cul- ture. But is there not something essen- tially superficial in the philosophy that looks to a consummation of that sort as the crowning triumph of history? If it could be attended by the discovery ot the elixir of life and the secret of con- tentment such a system might, perhaps, be made to last for some time; but how could it supply the place of that neces- sity which is the mother of invention, and what nurture could it afford for herosim? Indeed, it seems probable that many traits of character now re- garded as beautiful and strong would be left uncultivated, because there would be no occasion for their exercise. What demand, for instance, would there be for self-denial? A certain school of psychologists ex- plain, or attempt to explain, all the more complicated animal instincts as cases of ‘‘lapsed intelligence.’’ One curious about the wonderful economy of a beehive, for instance, would be told that what the bees now do _instinc- tively their remote ancestors did with conscious purpose. It is commonly held by the same school that there is no real difference in kind between human and animal intelligence. If that theory can be maintained it is conceivable that a race of men, or a particular commu- nity, might, under certain conditions, acquire complicated instincts and, un- der their control, conduct their govern- ment and transact all their business with as little conscious adaptation of means to ends as the bees have in the construction of their hives, the rearing of their young, the selection of their queens and the storing of their honey. If it be asked what is needed to pro- duce a case of lapsed intelligence the answer to be expected is simply a per- manent routine. The mental process becomes a physical habit, and so at last is organized in the race. Now, con- sider the condition of a society which has lost the spur of want, and which, from the completeness of its comfort and freedom from anxiety, no longer cares for invention. Would not that society, or community, fall into a permanent routine, subject itself to a lapse of in- telligence and so deprive itself of all the noble joys of intellectual life? A speculation of this kind is curious and amusing rather than fruitful, per- haps; but it is true that human nature cannot afford to lose the discipline of toil and suffering. Too much impor- tance is attached to the demand that life should be made pleasant in all things; that roses should be grown, so to speak, without thorns. One is not disposed to admire greatly a man who was born to wealth and who has always lived in ease, without effort. One admires rather the hero who has carved a_ foothold for himself in obdurate rock at every step upward. Heat least has demonstrated the power of the human will. How could a personality so strong, an in- dividuality so definite, assert itself in a land of lotus-eaters, or in a commu- nity where everybody is perfectly com- fortable and content? But contentment is something with which the human breast is unacquainted. Men who have inherited titles of nobility and immense wealth often abandon the gay circles in which they are courted and flattered, forsake the luxuries of civilization, and travel thousands of miles to shoot ele- phants in Ceylon or tigers in the jungles of Hindoostan. They go in pursuit of excitement, the thrill of dangerous en- counters. Over there in their London mansions, or in their palatial country houses, they have been stricken with that subtle disease which is called ennui. A merely pleasant life, that is to say a life which does not tax the energy of the will, is not enough. What man- hood really requires is a chance to prove itself by winning victories over difficulties, a chance to assert individ- uality by strenuous endeavor. That chance is offered in a genuinely demo- cratic country. Men like Andrew Jack- son and Andy Johnson, Lincoln and Garfield, are typical representatives of the grand possibilities of American cit- izenship. What manly man wants is not to be made comfortable by the State, but an opportunity to make himself great by his own exertions. An equality of opportunity under the law is the only equality he cares for. Let him be born in any rank, all he asks is a higher rank to which he can look and _ towards which he shall be free to make his way. Then, if he fails, he makes no com- plaint. He has had his chance. After all, the main thing is to fight the bat tle of life bravely; for it is the fight and not the victor’s wreath that makes the soldier. The real ills of life are those things that repress the noble traits of human nature. THE RUSSIAN CENSUS. The Russian Empire is now engaged in the task of enumerating its immense population. The census, which is the first general enumeration of the kind ever attempted in Russia, is to include all the inhabitants, without exception, of all the Russian dominions, and is to contain a full and exact computation of the population of the country accord- ing to the different regions, govern- ments, districts and villages, and also according to the ages, sex and _profes- sions, religions, nationality, occupa- tions and other indications mentioned in the census blanks. This census is, of course, intended to serve the military and commercial needs of the empire, and will no doubt be of the greatest value for statistical purposes. While naturally the interest felt in it will be mainly confined to Russia, still, as the Russian Empire plays no small part in making contem- poraneous history, the result of the com- pilation will be carefully watched abroad as well. It is claimed by Boston papers that there are only seventeen towns in the whole of Massachusetts without public libraries. MATTER OVER MIND. Time was, and that time has not so long passed away, when mental develop- ment and intellectual culture were the sole objects to which colleges and uni- versities were dedicated, and athletic sports were used as a recreation, a re- laxation from the severity of mental strain. To-day, however, physical culture is not only as much a part of the educa- tional courses at the prominent schools as are science and art, but the success of its students in public professional athletic sports confers more distinction and celebrity upon a college or univer- sity than would all the intellectual tri- umphs that could possibly be gained. Not only the prominence, but in a marked degree the patronage hestowed on a school depends on the success of its athletes in public professional con- tests. A striking example of this is seen in the Harvard University, near Boston. President Eliot, in his report to the Board of Overseers for the year 1895-6, in a somewhat mournful tone, refers to the falling off of attendance of students in the college proper, and to the insuffi- ciency of the funds of the institution for its needs. The President dces not at- tribute the decline in the attendance of under-graduate students to any special cause; but, in view of the fact that Harvard has recently been quite un- successful in its athletic contests, and of the effort of the President to account for the fact, in his report to the over- seers, it is more than probable that the failures in athletics have much to do with the falling off in the numbers of matriculants in the college proper. In this connection the following, from the President's report, is significant - The conduct of intercollegiate sports during the year proved afresb that the management of these sports at Harvard has been for some years unintelligent, and for that reason unsuccessful. The evils of overtraining and excessive ex- ertion on the part of the members of the principal teams were exhibited in high degree. A fundamental defect in the athletic organization has been that coaches of limited experience, who may be either unobservant or obtruse, can over-ride, on the spot, the advice of the trainer and physicians. The result is that the principal players of football are almost all more or less injured early in the season, and are then brought to the principal games in a crippled or ex- hausted condition, while the crew comes to the final race less capable of endurance than they were a month earlier. The remedies are the subor- dination of coaches to an expert in training or to a medical adviser, and the general adoption of more reason- able views about all training for athletic sports. When the President of a great uni- versity feels called upon to explain and apologize to his board of trustees for the failure of its students in professional football contests, it shows to what su- preme importance instruction in foot- ball and other acrobatic exercises has attained in the curriculum of most col- leges. It is coming to be the main staple of the higher education, while the ‘‘book learning’’ falls to a subor- dinate position. It is a curious feature of educational evolution. The ancient philosophers and wise men of an earlier age continually taught the superiority of the mind over the body; but in this day of material de- velopment, in which it is so largely held that the mind is only an emana- tion from the body, and, therefore, itself a material thing,the body which created mental manifestations is, therefore, of chiefest and supreme importance and should assume the place of greatest dis- tinction in any modern scheme of education. There seems to be a desire on the part of the managers of trades unions to keep their organizations as prominently in evidence everywhere as_ possible. Every opportunity for aggressiveness that is presented by the slightest tech- nical difference or in the way of changes in methods is quickly seized and made as arbitrary as possible. If a concern is paying by the piece they will make a demand that the rate be by the day; if paying by the day, they will only be satisfied to change to the piece system— anything to give the walking delegates or the executive officials an opportunity to come to the front and assert their prerogatives. A characteristic incident illustrating this feature of unionism comes from the shoe manufacturing town of Brockton, Mass. T. D. Barry & Co. were paying a certain class of operatives—sole fasteners and trimmers —$3.50 per day, ap amount with which they were perfectly satisfied. But, in the majority of the factories of the town, the piece method was in vogue, by union regulation, and so the change must be made in the others. On the refusal of the management to make the change, a strike was ordered, much against the wishes of the poor victims cf union tyranny, who are thus placed between the devil and the deep sea—if they refuse to strike, they are insulted and assaulted .by union henchmen; if they go out on strike, the shadow of the poorhouse looms up before them. The outcome of all such occurrences is easily conjectured. Couldn’t Let Go. From the Chicago Times Herald. A business man accustomed to hard work for many years usually finds idle- ness irksome. Men who have been ac- tively in the harness asa rule do not like to retire, although retirement in old age is the goal of the average worker. A _ successful Chicagoan, who has reached 60 years, said to me the other day: ‘‘I am going to quit. I have worked for thirty years without a week’s vacation; now I am going to rest for thirty years. I have earned every dollar I possess; now I intend to spend money and stop worrying about accumulating it.’’ I applauded this determination and enquired how he determined to spend his leisure. ‘‘l have bought a homestead in Blank,’’ he said, naming a small town in Michigan, ‘‘and I shall remove there with my family and simply wallow in idleness and contentment. ’”’ ‘*But how will you pass your spare time?’’ I insisted. ‘*Well, I’ll hunt and fish,’’ he said. ‘*Good ; but that will not keep you busy the year around,’’ I ventured. **No: but | shall read. I take all the papers. I will get together a little library, too.’’ ‘Will that occupy all time?’’ ‘*Oh, I shall walk about a good deal, I dare say. Exercise—you know—great thing for an old man.”’ ‘‘Ts that your entire programme?”’ ‘*N—no, not exactly,’’ he said, hesi- tatingly. “‘I’m going to organize a private bank down there and man- age it." your extra ee Five bachelors of Shelbyville, Ind., who dined together on Christmas day are pledged to marry before the expira- tion of the twelvemonth. There would be no difficulty in living up to their ob- ligation in the Argentine republic, where the lady is fined if she refuses a proposition of marriage; but they do things differently in Indiana, and it is just possible that one of the party may have to pay the forfeit. Y i & e \ ehngecan inate Kana ama Reeanenats testy ee 10 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Getting the People Province of the Booklet—Advantages of the Show Window. Written for the TRADESMAN. As an adjunct to newspaper publicity, it has been thoroughly demonstrated that the folder, or booklet, in some novel torm, is valuable above almost any other method. To make the folder most effective and derive all possible advantage there- from, it must possess several require- ments, a few of which are the following : First in importance is the page or portion of the folder which is intended to catch the reader's attention. What this shall consist of depends largely upon the article or kind of goods ad- vertised. It should, in any event, have a direct connection with the article. Headlines or title pages which, while they may be novel in themselves, yet have no bearing upon the subject should never be used. It is important that the reader’s mind be fixed upon your busi- ness right from the start. An abrupt ‘*jumping-off place’’ between the ar- ticle and the words intended to fist catch the eye causes a sense of incon- gruity which nullifies, largely, the good effect of the folder. It may be well, in this place, to give an illustration of the ‘‘direct’’ and ‘*in- direct’’ catchline: Koaled Weather means weather which is made comfortable by the use of Klinkerless K val. (this followed by appro- priate and interesting descriptive matter, price, etc.) e e Where Do You Live? “Down South’? would be the most agreeable place, just now, wouldn’tit? But if youuseKlinkerless ~ Koal, etc. In example No. 1 we have the direct alliteration between the catchline and the article advertised, and the connec- tion is made smoothly, while in No. 2, the conjunction of ideas is lacking, causing an awkward break. But, in deciding on the words to be used as a catchline, great care must be taken to use such language as will be sure to catch the attention at a glance. It should be something suitable to the subject-matter of the folder or booklet, and, above all else, must not be offen- Sive or coarse in the slightest degree. Then comes the subject-matter proper. This should be treated tersely, yet with sufficient amplitude to allow of an amount of entertaining description that will force the reader to continue after once commencing. Like newspaper ad- vertising, arguments ‘‘‘why’’ should be multiplied, and, so far as practicable, a complete description of the goods should be given. ‘‘What will please and interest the buyer?’’ is the ques- tion to be decided, not ‘‘What pleases me?’’ Now, after we have carefully prepared our folder or booklet, comes the ques- tion of printing ; and here, nothing short of the best should be for a moment thought of. ‘‘But Jones charges more for his printing than Smith does,’’ you remark. Very well, then take our fold- er, by all means, to Jones; for, if Jones charges more, it nearly always follows that he does better work, furnishes bet- ter stock, and, above all, furnishes more brains to be applied in originai styles of shape, composition and gen- eral typographic up-to-date-ness. It is generally the case that Jones’ reason for higher prices on printing lies in the fact that more artistic workmen are em- ployed at a higher salary—men who, by their intelligence, skill and artistic ability, are able to add ten dollars in value to your folder as an advertising medium where you are compelled to pay one dollar in advance of competi- tors’ prices. Next comes the method of distribu- tion. This is a most important matter, as upon getting the folder into the hands of the right parties depends, largely, the success of the advertise- ment. Ordinarily, the best way is to enclose in plain envelopes, addressed personally, and mailed. If not mailed, they should be placed in sealed envel- opes and addressed, just the same, for the address compels a certain degree of attention which the matter would not otherwise receive. It is advisable, in the use of booklets and folders, to connect the wording with some advertisement in the news- papers, which may appear either pre- viously to their distribution or after- ward. This is a matter for the adver- tiser’s judgment to determine. + + 2 Window advertising, while making rapid strides in the direction of perfec- tion, is still a sadly-neglected feature with too many merchants. And this is not from any lack of progressiveness, it may be, but because the great advan- tages which window-advertising offers, and at a cost which is almost nil, are not understood. But anyone who has inspected the magnificent windows shown in the larger cities, in lines where competition is the strongest, and has noted the thought and labor expended in making them attractive, realizes that such publicity is not an experiment, but a time-proven and profitable fact. As I have reiterated so many times, simplicity in the ideas used is a cardi- nal virtue. A window-advertisement that presents to the passing public something old-fashioned in home-life, something unique in its oddity, some- thing humorous yet not coarse or ridic- ulous—something, in short, that ap- peals directly and forcibly to the every- day sentiments of humanity and excites curiosity, laughter or tears—will do more towards seliing goods than any other plan of window-publicity. And these simple things are so easy of attainment: A man sawing wood, an elderly lady operating a spinning wheel, a girl washing dishes or sewing, a couple of boys playing marbles, a white-capped, white-aproned nurse rock- ing a baby to sleep—all these pictures of everyday life appeal to the senti- ments and are trade-drawers. + + + In this connection, an old story comes to mind—whether told of John Jacob Astor or some other {equally well-known merchant I am unable to say, but a novel plan for advertising, in any event. This merchant, one morning, employed a laboring man with pronounced Irish physiognomy, and set him to work in the following fashion: First, he had the laborer carry a large quantity of bricks into the front of the store. Then, taking one in hand, he carried ft care- fully from the store door to the edge of the sidewalk. Then he came back for Desi aie Mes SECS Are You Pushing w75 : Site Bus zis PATE AOS your flour trade for all there is in it? that gives complete satisfaction ? Are you selling a flour that you can guarantee to give satisfaction or money refunded? selling a flour that you know is the best fer the money in the market? If not, you should sell “LILY WHITE” Are you selling a flour Are you We have flour. above. Valley City Milling Co., iis GRAND_RAPIDS, MICH. described it Salle aa aa aD a tlalee tr alerNeaSte CoS NAICS UN 3 SALE Raaus CeCe EETAIe SDA Commence the New Year Right Handle Ebeling’s Spring Wheat Flour. It isa trade winner. If you handle car lots write JOHN H. EBELING, GREEN BAY, WISCONSIN. Or you can get small lots from Ss. S. SCHILLING, PETOSKEY, MICH. A. WATSON & FROST, GRAND RAPIDS, Would be glad to quote you prices. MICH. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN NM another and set it down a little farther TT away. After this, another brick was ’ 4 carried to a still greater distance. Then : There’s an Exodus “ another and another, until the stock of of winter goods just now at our AN l| | : . : store, and the cause of this hur- bricks was exhausted. By this time, : DEALERS IN = RW Bw -W, -B -Ba -B Ba. B -a .Sa Ba Sa Ba. Ba. B.S Ba -Sa - \ GAIOFOO OOOO OOOO OOO < See es = ried departure on the part of the : merchandise which has been the passers-by had begun to notice the with us since about November 1 brick man and his peculiar method of is our February Clearing Sale. returning to the store each time for a lone brick. Some of them even allowed their curiosity to make such headway - ™ compel them to follow the brick- some prices below, but if you carrier inside. Well, to make a long want a correct idea of the sale, story short, when all the bricks were out, : better come to the store. A\ the man began to return them, one by iii ical rys The goods can’t help going, even if they wanted to stay, for people are bound to have them. You will want a share, once you visit the store and see the values we are offering. We shall quote one, to the store. No amount of ques- tions from the wondering public could al A get a word out of him, either as to the | an meaning of his seemingly crazy occupa- tion, or anything else. It is recorded 4 that, when the last brick was deposited in the store, the carrier had a jam of people watching him. And each time . he entered the store, as many as could ILLUMINATING AND LUBRICATING ASS Hard Lines. Some lines of shoes are hard to sell; not because they are not as good as the lines that find a ready market, but be- cause sometimes good things get in followed him, thus securing the poe wae cee A great end of publicity, ‘‘Getting the oe Sasi tis tee price AN People. a less than actual cost for this AN This simple advertising method, | ‘ — we while it did not probably cost the mer- WS UZ AN chant over two dollars, brought his|** vv name and business into great promi- ee ec NAPH THA AND GASOLINES nence, and was the talk of the town for Hunger and Cold. weeks afterward. NEMO. Sisters two. all praise to you, «x * * Below are a number of newspaper ad- vertisements which are to be com- With your faces pinched and blue: To the poor man you've been true From of old You ean sneak the keenest word, You are sure of heing heard, Office and Works, BUTTERWORTH AVE., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. mended as being excellent samples of what good advertising should be: Qranwwrrnnrmmmmnnnnwow' ©) Shoes for Little Toddlers. From the point you’re never stirred, Hunger and cold. Let sleek statesmen temnorize; Palsied are their shifts and lies When they meet your bloodshot eyes Grim and hold. Policy you set at naught, In their traps you'll not be caught, You're too honest to be bought, Hunger and cold. Bulk works at Grand Rapids, Muskegon, Manistee, Cadillac, Big Rapids, Grand Haven, Traverse City, Ludington, Al- legan, Howard City, Petoskey and Reed City. Highest Price Paid for Empty Carbon and Gasoline Barrels. If you are a wise parent, you will ; make sure that your little ones y are wearing the sort of shoes best adapted to their tender tiny feet. There is a great deal of care- lessness among parents in this matter of footwear for the little folks, and dealers are not exempt from carelessness, either. We have endeavored to make this pre-eminently a child-en’s shoe store. We have made a study of children’s footwear. We believe we have the best little shoes that are made. Might it not profit you to try us? Bolt and bar the palace door, While the mass of men are poor, Naked truth grows more and more Uncontrolled. You had never yet. I guess, Any praise for bashfulness; Yon can vi-it sans court dress, Hunger and cold. ‘€22222222e2e2e22e22e2e2e22222 SSewessSaxs JeSS SSS SS EVES GYPSINE If you want to handle the wall finish that is thoroughly advertised for you, right in your own town and among your own trade, you want GYPSINE The only permanent plaster base fin- ish than does not set or settle in the dish. Write for copy of “Gypsine = Advocate” and color card and original plan of local advertising for the dealer jy BOIS ARS BSS ao 4 While the music fell and rose And the dance reeled to its close, Where her round of costly woes Fashion strolled. I beheld with shuddering fear Wolves’ eyes through the windows peer: Little dream that yeu are near Hunger and cold. When the toiler’s heart you clutch, Consience is not valued much. ' He reeks not a bloody smutech On his gold. E: erything to you defers, 4 You are potent reasoners: At your whisper treason stirs, Hunger and cold. The Reason Why Our advertisements are not literary gems is because we are plain business men, not gifted in penning fine phrases or cuie sayings; therefore, what we say to you from day to day, ) we express briefly. This time it’s the news of our Rude comparisons vou draw, Words refuse to sate your maw, Your gaunt limbs the cobweb law pacing nl with foolish pride, Mo DIAMO D WALL FINISH CO., B ‘an seize a right denied: ' Sachen Clade open cide: 4 GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. YRS SBS SBS Ds BAS ONI SOS OS PreSssaA SSA ASA SAS SASASSSASaSS Hunger and cold. : February Clearing Sale. If there’s a thing you need in winter goods you can’t afford to miss this sale—buying elsewhere will mean You respect no hoary wrong More for having triumphed long: Its past victims, haggard throng, : From the mold 2 A my AA a paying higher prices. We couldn't You unbury Swords and spears te!l the story more briefly or plainly Weaker are than poor men’s tears, than that, could we, or put the truth Weaker than yonr silent years, )> any more strongly? . That's all—the Hunger and cold. / Fi prices quoted below will talk better > , than we can. Let them guard both hall and bower, ( Through the window you will glower, » F Patient till st reckoning hour , Sball be to'led. » Cheeks are ea but hands are red, ; Gniltle:s blood may chance be shed, / > SORORORORORORORORORORONOHE But ye must and will be fed, In Exchange for Farms and Cash. ( ger ¢ : » = When in Doubt - Good Stocks ) <*=eceeetet e ee a God has plans man must not spoil, In Exchange for Cit Property. > a as to whether you are buying goods . Some were made to starve and toil, e = y > = cheap enough, try this store. Com- @ Some to share the wine and oil, Me rch and 1se In Exchange for Money. f parison of prices you are paying gy We oe told. : e elsewhere with those which we @ Devils’ theories are these, In Exchange for Live Stock. BS charge may open your eyes , the @ Stifling hone and love and peace, — \ e money-saving opportunities always e Framed your hideous lusts to please, a open to you atthisstore. Just now gy Hunger and cold. e our February Clearing Sale is an e a affair in which our customers are gy Scatter ashes on thy head, Make your wants known through the wants column of the @ taking great interest. If you want e Tears of burning sorrow shed, \ a to get acquainted with the store, we a Earth, and be by pity led, { e feel jike saying that this is the best e To love’s fold a time we know of. We shali be gy Ere they block the very door { MI e glad to welcome you among our list With lean corpses of the poor, = of patrons. = And will hush for naught but gore, . s e Hunger and cold. net CHOROROROROROHOROROROHOROH JaMEs RussELL LOWELL. inal AG Ee gut peeing, —_ & 3 4 = ; : : E < ¥ ¢ Ml § ¥ : + a : + : Sse Sete perv ad 12 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Proper Province of a Trade Journal on Credits and Collections. A subject of ever-present interest to the dealer is that of credits, for there are yet comparatively few enterprises in which it does not seem to be neces- sary to recognize the principle of credit in some degree. There are those who are happy in a strictly cash business, but the number is limited. While this is true, there are many who have learned to keep their credits within reasonable and safe limits, and especially to re- strict them to those who are known to be reliable. x * The subject of credits is of universal interest and it is one which naturally early engages the attention of the pub- lisher of any journal devoted to the work of the merchant. How to secure immunity from loss in dealing with ir- responsible persons and to escape the snares of the dead-beat are questions sure to be propounded in a way to as- sume prominence in the thought and work of every thorough-going journal devoted to the interests of trade. In this respect the record of the Tradesman is no exception, and it trusts its readers will pardon a reference to its history in this regard, which incidents in the career of one of its contemporaries in another State tempts it to make. + + * Very soon after the pubiication of the Tradesman began, the matter of credits and collections assumed importance in its columns. It early advocated the pre- vention of the evil by care in trusting, and at the same time endeavored to de- vise some adequate means for its cure, in suggesting methods for the collection of questionable accounts and in devis- ing systems of warning against migra- tory vampires of credit. In later years this became one of the matters leading to the organization of business men’s associations throughout the State, and many of the readers of this journal will endorse the statement that these associa- tions have done a notable work in bringing about a better credit system. + + + Early in the work of the Tradesman and of these associations, prominence began to be given to the matter of the prevention of the credit evil by restric- tions and the closer adherence to cash dealing. In these regards there has been a decided advance during recent years. Both dealers and customers have been educated to the idea that credit is not nearly so necessary as it used to be considered, and that where it is necessary, it is not such a_ serious matter for the one asking credit to be required to give reasonable assurance as to responsibility. While the Trades- man may claim a small share in this work of education, it is willing to ac- cord more of the credit to the increased co-operation of the dealers through the medium of these associations and other- wise. xk ok * While the increase of cash dealing and the restrictions of credits have greatly lessened the evil of bad ac- counts, it has not yet brought about a business millenium. There is still work along these jines for business associa- tions and a demand for the _ protection of the local credit agencies, which have grown up as a result of the co-operative work of the associations, and this will continue to be the case as long as _busi- ness methods make any credit neces- sary. The agencies referred to are be- coming very efficient in all prominent towns and are restricting the-depreda- tions of the moving parasites of trade to a wonderful degree. = + <= The Tradesman is led to make this reference to its own past history by some incidents in the career of a con- temporary in Jowa. The journal in question started upon its career not long after the Tradesman began its work; and soon the matter of credits engaged its attention as well. Unlike the Tradesman, it confined its efforts to the matter of collecting questionable accounts and furnishing warnings and ratings to the business men of the State, and both the business men and their exponent seem to have failed to learn the lesson of the proper restriction of credits which obtains in Michigan, as before indicated. The journal referred to seems to have found no wider field than the dealing with bad debtors—the Tradesman believes it has a broader work. * * x During the early publication of the two journals, the Iowa editor had his attention attracted by the activity of Michigan merchants in the work of as- sociated effort, and, conceiving that a greater field might be occupied by a union of forces, he came to the Trades- nan with a proposition to that end. Failing to win its concurrence at that time, another similar visit was made some years later, but the roseate prom- ises of vast results to follow from the magnificent scheme again failed to win he Tradesman from its more modest work. Naturally the career of each journal has been a matter of interest to the other. kx O* As indicating the peculiar work it aimed to do, the Western journal adopted the name of the Inter-State Tracer—a name decidedly suggestive of giving more attention to the bad ele- ment in a business community than to that more worthy. Thus, instead of en- deavoring to aid in educating its client- age to the avoidance of bad debts by the guarding of its credits, the journal abandoned itself to the theory that such debts are the normal condition of trade and degraded itself to the work of tracing out the rascally element and striving to force the ‘“‘black book’’ accounts by every possible means of coercion at its command—hardly an ideal work for a trade journal. - £2 A natural consequence of zealous work in the line indicated was a legal encounter with some one who had_ been treated unjustly by the paper in ques- tion,on account of the inevitable misin- formation which must be given in some cases where a large business of this kind is attempted. This brought the editor before the United States Court at Des Moines, where he was convicted of technical violation of the law, but was discharged with an admonition. But he did not yet learn wisdom; after con- tinuing the same objectionable course some years longer, he was recently ar- rested and brought before the same tri- bunal for trial, and, upon conviction, was sentenced to six months’ imprison- ment and to pay a fine of $1,400; but, on account of the intercession of some of the business men whose interests he had thus mistakenly been trying to serve, the punishment, excepting a fine of $400, was suspended, conditional upon the discontinuance of this feature of the business. +: 2. + The Tradesman has as little regard for the dead-beat—or for the credit thief, which is a better name—as any one; but it believes that the best time to deal with him is before be is on the books. It is better, even, to run the risk of losing a good customer than to run the risk of loss through a bad one. In localities which have taken this question up in the right way there are means of ascertaining the standing, in most cases, without danger of offending one who is reliable; and the Tradesman does not believe that it is the proper province of a trade journal to devote it- self to the work of a collector of bad accounts. Such work is properly the field for collection agencies, and the journal having no wider one had _ better cease its existence. oe Her Reward. ln her woman’s heart was a poem, A grand and tender song, A word of hope for the weary, A stern rebuke to the wrong; It often pleaded for utterance, For voice to reach the w=rid, To be raised where all might heed it, A banner of love unfurled! But she never found the moment, With days so full of care, To breathe out the burning heart-words Of her poem nestling there. There were always household duties, Du'l rounds for every day, And just before her, s ep by step, Some task unfinished lay. Her ch'‘ldren grew up and blessed her, And honored hersainted name; She gnarded their childish footsteps, But she missed the road to fame; From the many snares and pitfalis Along their youthful way Her watchful eye had s v.d them; Not one has wandered astray. The good angel wrote down her lifework— A pure and shining page, More swert than dreams of a poet, More grand than seer or sage; She had met each homely duty, Striving not for earth's renown; Her life was a poem of beauty, Her reward in heaven—a crown. ALMA PENDEXTER HAYDEN. Cincinnati is the important city in the United States in which, according to the official statistics for 1896, less lager beer was consumed than during the year preceding, although some peo- ple have come to look upon the retail beer business as the most flourishing locai industry of that thriving town, and as, perhaps, the most distinctive mark of its municipal celebrity, says an exchange. The total annual product of the breweries of the United States is 36,000,000 barrels, and heretofore New York, Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Louis, Cincinnati and Newark have been the chief beer-consuming cities of the Union. With the growth of population in each, the demand for beer has in- creased proportionately everywhere ex- cept in Cincinnati. The German in- habitants of the Ohio city continue to be many and prosperous, and _ hence, it is not easy to account for this diminish- ing consumption of beer in a way satis- factory to Cincinnati’s pride as a grow- ing community. Moreover, the rival Ohio city of Cleveland has_ largely eclipsed Cincinnati’s former promi- nence as a shipping port and is claim- ing an increase in population so rapid as to have made it larger by several thousand. As an offset to this, a loyal Cincinnati man calls attention to the circumstance that the bank clearances of Cleveland last week, $6,400,000, were only a little more than half those of Cin- cinnati, $12,330,000. He prefers prom- inence in banking rather than beer. ——___—~»>-2 +. ______ A bill before the Legislature of Mis- souri provides for the utilizing of idie convicts in reclaiming swamp land in the southeastern part of the State. It is said that by digging ditches and build- ing levees fully 3,000,000 acres of land can be reclaimed. 2-0-2 Queen Victoria’s book will be pub- lished in America by the Century Com- pany. There will be too copies on Jap- anese paper at $50, and 600 on fine paper at $15. Both editions are strictly limited and no more will be printed. CSS SSS SASSER /ARMOUR’S _SOAP 6 oz. cakes. in its use. aT eS SESS SSE TES SESS SS CS3 5 ARMOUR’S WHITE: Absolutely pure snow white Floating Soap, 10 oz. and Nothing finer made. 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It was a strong faction and exerted no in- considerable influence in all the col- onies in retarding the movement for in- dependence. These men believed in the divine right of kings, and this be- lief was an essential part of their re- ligion. The king was supreme in the exercise of his prerogatives; and, in their estimation, it was a sin against high heaven to call into question the manner in which he was pleased to ex- ercise his divine rights, or to pronounce any act of his detrimental to the well- being of his subjects. They were thus blind to the many acts cf injustice per- petrated by old King George against his American subjects, and they looked upon the protesting acts of their more liberty-loving brethren as treasonable. When the colonies took up arms in de- fense of their just rights, these super- loyalists branded them as traitors, al- though they kept up the struggle for many months—until, in fact, every pos- sible means for bringing about a redress for the grievances complained of had been exhausted—before they turned against the old flag and threw off their allegiance to the British crown. More than a hundred years’ have passed since that handful of colonists gained their independence; and when we look upon the Great Republic and contemplate the mighty result of the surrender of Cornwallis, and, on the other hand, remember the pitiable con- dition of these loyalists at the close of that struggle, it would seem as though the God of nations had so ordained it. It would seem that these worshipers at the shrine of royalty were actuated by a spirit of political fanaticism rather than by the principles of eternal justice, and that the cruel adversity which fell to their lot was a just and righteous pun- ishment for the—to say the least—un- natural part they played in the bloody drama. I say it would seem so; but we must remember that the god of bat- tle is a fickle god, and that circum- stances altogether beyond human con- trol sometimes make and unmake armies as well as individuals. Might is not always right, although it wear the crown. ‘‘There is a divinity that shapes our ends,’’ and truth will ulti- mately prevail, although centuries may be required to bring it to the surface. Man, however, lives for the present, and to ‘‘might’’ is accorded every honor claimed by ‘‘right.’’ ‘ To the victor belong the spoils,’’ is the univer- sal rule of the world. A cause is deemed a bad cause when it is a lost cause—never before. Whether a patriot is a patriot depends altogether upon his physical strength: if he be able to crush his adversary, all well and good, but if, by chance, the adversary hap- pen to crush him, he is no longer a patriot, but a rebel—a _ peace-disturb- ing factor deserving of death, imprison- ment or banishment. With the history of the world spread out before us, it is perfectly reasonable to assume that the Declaration of Inde- pendence in 1776 might have had a different ending—and then what? George Washington would not have _be- come ‘‘the father of his country,’’ and the men who fought for British suprem- acy in America would not have become political refugees. They would not - have-been subjected to an ignominious and bitter persecution. They would not have been branded as political rep- robates by their old neighbors and _ fel- low colonists; and their homes would not have been confiscated and them- selves expatriated. They would have been on top, and their defense of the old flag would have given them a con- spicuous page in history as heroes in the upbuilding and upholding of that mighty empire upon whose vast and wide-reaching domains the sun never sets. But the fates decided otherwise and these United Empire Loyalists re- tired—or were driven, rather—into the forests of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Western Canada, where the old flag still waved. It is said that over 25,000 of these loyalists left the United States in 1784, the year following that in which the treaty of peace was signed, and settled in the British colonies; and of these, 10,000 came to Upper Canada, settling chiefly around the Bay of Quinte and along the Niagara and St. Clair Rivers. Each U. E. Loyalist received a free grant of 200 acres of land for himself, for each of his sons, and for each of his daughters when they married. In ad- dition to this they were given a three- years’ supply of provisions, besides clothing, tools, and farming imple- ments. Disabled soldiers also received grants of land, besides aid from the Government for a time. In 1791 Canada was divided into two provinces and George III. gave the people of Upper Canada a Parliament; and Sir John Graves Simcoe, himself a U. E. Loyalist, became the first Gov- ernor. As a British loyalist Governor Simcoe was a stalwart of the stalwarts. He saw the wondrous possibilities that awaited the settler in the new province, and he resolved to lay a foundation for the new commonwealth that would be so thoroughly British that the super- structure, however great it might be- come, would remain loyal from center to circumference. A century has passed since Governor Simcoe traversed the forests of Upper Canada, and if he were permitted to ride in a Pullman coach, to-day, over the network of railways that cobweb the beautiful Ontario pen- insula, and view from the car window the substantial homes and fertile fields of the people, and learn how devotedly attached these people are to the great Empire of which they form a part, he would retire to his place of rest feeling that his wildest dreams had been more than realized. Asa commonwealth of comfortable homes and contented home- dwellers, Ontario has, without a doubt, no peer on the face of the globe. Governor Simcoe championed the cause of the refugee loyalists. Ee visited Nova Scotia and New Bruns- wick, where he held public meetings and portrayed the advantages of settle- ment in the new province. He prom- ised them free grants of land and va- rious immunities and privileges, which had the effect of starting a tide of emi- gration from the rigorous climate and rock-bound valleys of the little prov- inces ‘‘down by the sea,’’ to the tim- ber-laden E] Dorado of Upper Canada. Emissaries were sent into ‘‘ The Jar- seys’’ and other new American states with circulars descriptive of the new country, and many known British sym- pathizers were thus induced to cast in their lot with their expatriated and more pronounced brethren, in the work cf planting anew the principles of Brit- ish institutions in another section of the American continent. It was early in the last decade of the last century that the first of these United Empire Loyalists landed on the shore of old Norfolk and erected the first log cabins in this Long Point Country. They were a God-fearing, law-abiding, home-loving and_ indus- trious class of pioneers. They had suffered much and sacrificed everything for the love they bore the old flag, and they came into the new country a highly favored class. They were allotted lands on the lake front, and the best locations | i | mitted the unpardonable sin, and re- and all official positions fell to them as a sort of birthright. The favors granted them by Governor Simcoe, who had ob- very great advantage, from the very start, over British emigrants and set- tlers who came from the States with no political bias. It was the most natural thing in the world for these U. E. Loy- alist settlers to assume a dictatorship in matters social, political and reli- gious. Toryism was part of their reli- gious creed, and ‘‘loyalty to the old flag’’ was the only true passport to a life hereafter. They looked upon a ** Yan- kee’’ as a vile reprobate who had com- publicanism was deemed the rankest of political heresy. 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And it must require con- stant watchfulness and anxiety on your part to guard against losses. Naturally, you must have encountered some pe- culiar incidents in your business life. Can you not furnish me—a reporter—a chapter from your own experience that may prove interesting, if not valuable, to others?’’ ‘*Ves, I think I can,’’ my friend re- plied, with a feeble smiJe and empha- sizing the last word. ‘‘When a boy, I had an uncle whose only business was cleaning and repairing clocks and watches. He kept no stock in trade and employed no assistant. Being often in his little shop, I was occasionally useful to him in many ways, always watching him closely, so that, in time, I found myself at work as an apprentice —taking apart and cleaning and putting together the old-time wooden clocks and, still later on, the watches which came to him for repairs. Scarcely know- ing how, | became, in time, a good workman at the trade. Then, owing to ill health, I gave up the sedentary life and engaged to travel for an agricul- tural implement house. ‘At that early day railroads were few in number, and connected only the principal cities of the country; and | was often obliged to leave a train at some lonely crossroad and travel as best I could ten or fifteen miles to a country village for my best customers. ‘‘One bitter cold day the last of No- vember, I stepped off at a way station in the country, about 11 o’clock at night, twelve miles from the little vil- lage of five or six hundred inhabitants, where business called me. There was no snow on the frozen earth, but the moon furnished sufficient light to see my way and, buttoning my coat about me, I struck out briskly. It was rough walking and, making slow progress, I could hardly keep myself warm; but at 2a. m. I entered the main street of the village. It was my first visit there. I began at once to look for a hotel. Not one in sight, nor a person stirring on the street at that hour. I was still trudging along on the narrow board sidewalk, when a light from a store window, casting its bright rays upon the walk, from beneath its nearly-drawn curtain, attracted my attention. Both to enquire for a public house and to warm myself if possible, I decided to go in; so, walking quickly to the door, I turned the knob and stepped in. ‘‘At my right hand, inside an open railing, at the end of a counter, a man was sitting, with his hat off, ata work table fronting the window. On thisa jamp was burning, and there were also a number of jewelers’ implements, three or four watches, and several others hanging upon a wire drawn across its front. The man was tilted back in his chair in an easy position, quietly smok- ing a cigar. Close behind him was a small iron safe, with its door open. ‘‘Removing his cigar, and partially shading his eyes with his left hand as if to obtain a better view of me, he said, ‘Good evening, sir.’ ‘‘Returning his salutation, I began, ‘You are working rather late, sir. I am a stranger in your village and, having just walked from the railway station to- night, I am suffering with cold; so, noticing a light in your store, I decided to stop and get warm—I hope I have not intruded.’ ‘* ‘Not in the least,’ he pleasantly re- plied; ‘have a seat by the stove,’ and he motioned toward it. ‘My front door is usually locked at this time of night,’ he continued, ‘and I was rather startled when you stepped in so quietly. — You remarked that I am working late. No, I am not here for that purpose— only to keep the store moderately warm this unusually cold night and I was just placing my jewelry in the safe be- fore going home.’ Then, reaching for a box of cigars near him, the man pushed open the wicket, walked to the front door and locked it, then stepped back to the stove and, seating himself on the side opposite me, passed the box toward me, with the laconic, ‘Have one.’ | , **T accepted the cigar and, after light- ing it, observed: ‘You would hardly fee] safe to leave your door unlocked in our large cities unless well prepared for strange visitors. I myself am.a jeweler by trade, and I know that ‘‘Caution is the parent of safety.”’ ’ ‘**Q, Tam always well prepared for trouble, you see, if it comes,’ and he gently patted the handle of a revolver which protruded from his breast pocket ; ‘and I have its companion also, lying conveniently near,’ he added, with a smile. The man seemed wrapped in thought for a few moments, then spoke again: ‘You say you area jeweler—with whom did you learn the business?’ ‘* *My uncle, Lorin Williams, of Co- lumbus, Ohio,’ I answered. ‘* ‘Lorin Williams,’ the man repeated in a tone of astonishment; ‘and you are his nephew—’ and he hesitated an in- stant, seemingly as if he had forgotten the given name. ‘* “James Williams,’ I volunteered. ‘‘In a moment the man had jumped to his feet and was reaching his hand across the stove toward me. ‘Is it pos- sible,” he exclaimed, ‘that I meet little Jimmie Williams again after so many, many years!’ and he grasped my hand and shook it warmly. ‘And you surely must remember me—as the little boy, Ren Clarke, who so often went nutting with you? I was the elder, you remem- ber? Well, well,’ he added, ‘what strange things will happen! Is your uncle still living?’ ‘* ‘He is,’ I replied. ‘‘Suddenly he consulted his watch and said, ‘Wait a moment while I lock my safe, and then we’ll talk about sleep.’ He occupied probably five minutes with his work, then, approach- ing the stove again as he buttoned his overcoat, he remarked, familiarly, ‘Jimmie, my wife is, by this time, very anxious about me and I must go home. Now, if you would prefer to do so, rather than crawl! into a cold bed at the hotel, you are welcome to occupy my couch here by the fire;’ and, upon my replying, ‘All right,’ he quickly stepped to the rear of the room and drew for- ward an old-fashioned lounge and placed it between the stove and the counter. ‘Here is the key in the front door; and don’t forget to lock it after I leave. Our best hotel is one block east, and breakfast will be on its table from 7 to 9. O, yes—I had nearly forgotten to send this by you,’ and he handed me a small package; ‘don’t forget to give this to the landlord, and say that it is from Renford Clarke,’ and, with a mo- tion toward his hat and a_ hearty ‘Good night and pleasant dreams!’ he hur- riedly stepped out. ‘*T locked the door, leaving the key in, and then glanced curiously over his stock in trade. He seemed to have a little of everything useful required by a farming community, with many luxuries included, and I mentally said that my old friend—whom it severely taxed my memory to recall—had apparently done well, : * * * ‘‘I slept the sleep of the innocent, and was aroused long after daylight by a vigorous pounding on the door, and a call in a strange voice, ‘Let us in!’ ‘© “In a moment!’ I cried out and, going to the door, unlocked and threw it open, confronting the faces of two strangers, the elder of whom presump- tuously demanded ‘who I was and what I was doing inside his store!’ ‘Crowding me back, the two men stepped inside. The speaker, closing and locking the door, took possession of the key and told me, still in that tone of authority, to be seated by the stove, while the younger man proceeded to re- turn the lounge to its place and then to open the store as if for business, for, as I said, the morning was well advanced. ‘**You may, or may not, own some of these goods,’ I cavalierly said to the man who - first addressed me, and who’ was standing as if to prevent my sud- den departure; ‘but I found the pro- prietor of this store—Mr.° Clarke—in here late in the night, preparing to close up and leave for his home and a o i a y : ‘7 C, If you will send us your sizing-up orders on.... G lj 04t'Z yy Ca Y “a CE WMRTN KRAUSE & CO. Ci TLE, CCT L' RUBBERS You will get THE BEST made in the world. THE GOODYEAR GLOVE HIRTH, KRAUSE & CO., Grand Rapids, [lich. 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Run for the police!!’ ‘The young man was gone only a few moments, when he returned with a constable, who listened to my explana- tion of the case and then informed me that ‘there was no man in or near the village by the name of Clarke’—that ‘my yarn would not go down.’ ‘*And I was at once apprehended and searched. The package I was to deliver to the landlord of the hotel was taken from me, opened in my _ presence, and found to contain a pearl necklace valued at $150, which*this self-declared pro- prietor of the store avowed had been taken from his safe. An examination of the safe revealed the fact that it had been skillfully opened, and that other jewelry, watches and money—in all to the value of $700—had disappeared. ‘* *Your story is too transparent for belief,’ gibed the officer. ‘You are the burglar, and will go with me; and you will have time to think the matter over, acknowledge your guilt and tell where you have secreted the balance of the goods.’ ‘‘Well,’’ said Mr. Williams, in con- clusion, ‘‘I was tried for burglary, con- victed and sentenced to prison for two years. Just a few days before I was to have been incarcerated, the sheriff was placed in possession of a portion of the lost jewelry, with an affidavit from the real criminal exonerating me from any crime whatsoever, and confessing that, when discovered by me—a stranger in the town—he conceived the idea of per- sonating the proprietor of the store, then of assuming acquaintance in boyhood, and establishing me for the real crimi- nal, as, of course, my own story would not be credited; but, as he had now been arrested, convicted and sentenced to prison for another and a greater crime, he had concluded to free the in- nocent strnager whom he had _ wronged. **He had never known either myself or any of my family or friends.’’ FRANK. A. Howie. ee Lands in Central Wisconsin Are now as desirable as any in the mar- ket. The lands particularly in the Cen- tral and Northern part of Wisconsin, are being rapidly taken up by actual _ Settlers. The most salable are the timber and meadow lands, now ranging in price from $6.00 to $12.00 per acre. months hence their value will be greatly increased. For a home or for investment no luckier chance in the West has ever be- fore been offered. Now is the time to invest. No better farming land exists anywhere. No greater results can be obtained anywhere. Schools and churches abound every- where. Nearby markets for all farm products. Wisconsin is one of the ban- ner states of the West. For further information address or call upon W. E. Powell, General Immi- gration Agent, 410 Old Colony Building, Chicago, Ill. a r The latest estimate of the Jewish pop- ulation of the United States places it at 00,000, of which 140,000 is credited to ew York, A few | to Injury to Trade Caused by Misappre- hension of Facts. From the New York Sun. The cold demeanor of the haughty young women in black frocks and white aprons was of itself sufficient to chill ordinary human emotions. Then there seemed to be something restful in the long white marble bar, the white mar- ble sarcophagus behind it, and the nickel-plated fittings from which the syrups and soda were drawn. Allto- gether, therefore, the soda water coun- ter was the one peaceful spot in the mad world of bargains and odd-figure prices. To it the flustered women tlocked to compose themselves for a lit- tle while, to reckon up the useless things they had bought and the neces- saries they had forgotten, and above all to make one last despairing effort to calculate if their change was right. ‘Did you see those cut-glass bottles at Ig cents?’’ asked the dark lady, ina mournful tone, as she sank wearily upon one of the stools in front of the counter. ‘*I was dying to buy one, but there was such a crush that I couldn’t get within three rows of them.’’ ‘Are you waited upon?’’ asked the haughty young woman on the other side of the counter, superciliously. **Did you ever try poking people’s legs with an umbrella when you wanted to get through a crowd?’’ asked the light lady. ‘‘Are you waited upon?’’ asked the haughty young woman, wearily. ‘*No,’’ replied the dark lady. never dare to do such a thing.’’ ‘‘Are you waited upon?’’ asked the haughty young woman, imperiously. ‘*Oh, there’s nothing daring about it,’’ returned the light lady. ‘* You just poke your umbrella between the ankles of the woman in front of you, and she trips over it, turns to see what it is and you slip in ahead of her and look as_ if you didn’t know anything about it.’’ ‘‘Are you waited upon?’’ asked the haughty young woman, sadly. ‘*But doesn’t she get cross?’’ asked the dark lady. ‘‘Are you waited upon?’’ asked the haughty young woman, firmly. ‘‘What? Ohb,’’ said the light lady. ‘Give me vanilla ice cream soda,’’ ‘*Do you always take vanilla?’’ asked the dark lady. ‘*Two?’’ asked the haughty young woman, patiently. ‘ ’Most always,’’ answered the light lady. ‘‘Did you see those odds and ends of ribbon at ten cents a yard? Some were actually worth a dollar and two dollars a yard.’’ ‘*Two?’’ asked the haughty young woman, despairingly. ‘*And those sterling-silver cuff but- tons at 5 cents each!’’ exclaimed the dark lady with enthusiasm. ‘*Twor’’ asked the haughty young woman, rebelliously. ‘*What? Oh,’’ said the light lady. ‘*She wants to know if you are going to take vanilla, too.’’ ‘*T don’t know,’’ lady. ‘‘Would you?’’ ‘*Well,’’ continued the light lady, ‘‘whatever you do, go and look at the wash silks at 29 cents a yard, from 69.’’ The haughty young woman stood speechless. ‘‘Well,’’ said the dark lady, relent- ing, ‘‘I suppose I may as well try it, 0 “la replied the dark ‘‘And, tell me,’’ went on the light lady, ‘‘do you want any—’’ Then she stopped suddenly, as her eyes followed those of the dark lady. When the haughty young woman had moved away to get the soda,the dark lady had looked after her and her eyes had lighted upon a plate of fancy sweet crackers on the counter. The light lady looked at the plate and then at the dark lady. The haughty young woman had her back turned. ‘*Do you like vanilla?’’ asked the light lady, loudly, as she stole a cracker. The haughty young woman turned sud- denly. ‘*Did you say vanilla?’’ she asked. ‘‘Yeb,’’ said the light lady, with her mouth full of crackers, with a guilty start. The haughty young woman turned her back again. ‘‘There are a great many bargains here,’’ said the dark lady, loudly, as she in turn stole a cracker. The haughty young woman turned suddenly again. ‘Will you have cherries in soda?’’ she asked. ‘*Nobe,’’ said the dark lady, her mouth also full of cracker, with a guilty blush. The haughty young woman brought over the two glasses of soda, and _ then, so it seemed to the two customers, looked first at them and afterward at the plate of crackers, with a peculiar ex- pression. The two customers grew un- comfortable. The haughty young woman took up the plate of crackers and pre- sented it to them. ‘Won't you have some crackers?’’ she asked. ‘“No,’’ replied the dark lady, scorn- fully. ‘*T do not care for any,’’ said the light lady. ‘‘There is no charge for them,’’ the haughty young woman urged. ‘*'The idea !’’ exclaimed the dark lady. ‘I guess 1 can pay for crackers when I want any,’’ retorted the light lady. Then they swept out of the store. The young woman stared aiter them with all her haughtiness gone. ‘‘What ails them all?’’ she asked, in bewilderment, as the floorwalker came bustling up. ‘‘There’s two more cus- tomers gone away mad.”’ The floorwalker shook his head sadly. ‘Somehow women don’t seem _ to catch onto the idea of free lunch ata soda water counter,’’ he said. ‘‘I don’t know why so many of them should be offended about it. Perhaps we oughtn’t to have tried to establish it. Anyway, the next time don’t offer them any crackers; just let them snoop them when they think you’re not looking.’’ The inhabitants of the United States consume more than one-half of the qui- nine produced in the world, and yet people wonder where all the dyspepsia comes from. your | , = t Pingree op on i tae a s yer all our “Neverslip” ad | gz patenteo | Bicycle and Winter m reo eeeee Shoes. ies nel DO YOUR FEET SLIP? The **Neverslip”’ gives elasticity and ease to every step taken by the wearer. It breaks the shock or jarring of the body when walking, and is particularly adapted to all who are obliged to be on their feet. None but the best of material used in their makeup. Every walking man should have at least a pair. ' PINGREE & SMITH, Manufacturers. Tf DER 8 0. successors to REEDER BROS. SHOE CO. Michigan Agents for LycdMing and Keystone 3 Rubbers and Jobbers of specialties in Men’s_ and Women’s Shoes, Felt Boots, Lumbermen’s Socks. Qualities. 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Looking back upon the month of De- cember, or that part of it during which Christmas shopping reaches its height, atturus the managers, the flourwaikers, aud the clerks connected with the big State street stores the same pleasure, probably, as the old veteran derives trom Tecounting his experiences on the bat- ue held. Lhe recollection of those busy days 1s not always pleasant to the long- Suttering people who try to serve boin the proprietor aud the shopper at the Same lUlue, but there ts not a 1ittle sat- istaction in the teeling that they have gained an increased knowledge ot hu- Mau nature, of its eccentricities and its failings, and especially that they have fathumed many little sharp practices tur beating the stores, although they could nut always circumvent them. Shop-liftimg, Cheating, and the sharp but dishonest tricks ot refined and well- to-do pedple are not confined to the holiday season. Such things are a Source ot more or less annoyance to Shop-keepers the year around, but when the stores are Crowded and the desire ot getting mucn tor little or something for nothing 1S MOst intense, as is the case Chrisunas time, opportunities are most abundant and temptatious are strongest, with the result that the intractiuus ot law and honesty are more numerous than at any other time. Shop-litting has been brought to such pertection these late days that it requires and has produced a marvelous system cf secret service to deal with it. The amount of goods carried out of the de- partment stores during December with- out the tormality ot buying was un- doubtedly no mere bagatelle, but mer- chants are quite positive in their beliet that their iusses trom this source are not increasing to any extent, and that possibly they are on the decrease, owing tu the alertness and efficiency of their detective torces. Old shop-lifters, or even those who have been caught but once in the act of pilfering, may as weil turn to other means of gaining a liveli- hood, tor they no soouer enter a store than they are recognized and ordered out. In spite of all this, innocent-look- ing maids continue to make a comfort- able but precarious living by lugging from stores, under their capacious cloaks, an assortment of merchandise varying from a piece of jewelry toa bolt ot cloth. It is said that one young woman, through her cleverness as a shop-lifter, kept her father’s peddler wayon well stocked. It is also said that respectable ladies have been known to slip a bit of dace or ribbon up their sleeve or into their muff, and more ot these have been detected and made to deliver up their booty than the records of the police courts show. An experi- enced detective seldom fails to discrim- inate rightly between a case of this kind and a member of the profession, and leniency is always shown. There are other practices charged to the temale shopper that are less grave than shop-litting, indeed many of them are considered nothing more than smart or shrewd. Because all these acts can- not be classed as misdemeanors and the perpetrators are not amenable to law, they are all the more vexing to store- keepers. For instance, a lady sees a pattern, design or combination of colors on a sofa pillow perhaps. She wants the pat- tern, but does not care for or cannot afford the pillow. She may simply ask to see it and give it such a close exam- ination that she can carry away in her memory what she wishes to copy. To condenm that as dishonest might be prudish, but when, as is often done, the bogus customer buys the article, takes it home, makes use of it as a pattern and then returns it with some feigned complaint, there are reasonable grounds for objections from the store. In the majority of cases the shopper gains her point. To borrow some article *‘to show to an invalid friend,’’ or to take some- thing home to match before purchas- ing, are absurd: favors that are ‘granted Sparingly, yet it must be done at times or the patrons will be offended. It may be well known that this request is only a trick to get the use of the garment, or whatever it may be, for some special occasion. Women have been known to work to- gether and to deliberately plan to beat the stores. In buying ribbon one lady will take all but a tew yards of a bolt and another, in league with her, will soon after discover the remaining piece and demand it ata reduced price be- cause it is a remnant, thus getting the entire bolt at less than the regular price. It is an old trick to buy handkerchiefs or gloves, requesting a pretty box to put them in, and bring them back to ex- change the next day minus the box. Of course, the sale check has no mention of the box, and it is useless to parley over the matter. There are other schemes that cannot be excused as simply ‘‘shrewd’’ or ‘“‘cute,’’ and yet women who are honest in most matters are guilty of them. Sale checks are manipulated so that a cheap article is exchanged for an expensive one. Correction in accounts which were run during the busy Christmas sea- son are insisted upon. The merchant bas to admit that at such times mistakes are a likely occurrence, and he allows himselr to be worsted in the deal rather than lose a customer. ‘*Yes,’’ said one of the State street store managers, ‘‘we have more diffi- cult matters to deal with than shop- lifting. In fact, 1 think that profes- sional thieving is on the decline, so efficient are the private detectives in the big stores. ‘*It bothers us more to discriminate between the perfectly honest buyer and the one who thinks it her duty to bleed us every chance she gets. It is sur- prising what tricks women will resort to who would be everlastingly offended were they told that they are dishonest. Many of them are carried away, no doubt, in the excitement of holiday buying and do things then that they would hes- trate long to dc at other times. Some of their acts are nothing but downright dishonesty, while a great many are simply indomitable cheek, but never- theless very annoying to us. ** Stores, in a sense, are public places, but the goods on the counters and shelves are not public property. It is awful the way stuff is soiled that is al- iowed to be examined. Surely ladies would not handle things so carelessly if they were their own. Our losses in this way are not small, especially during those few days before Christmas when everyone seems to lose considerable of their self-respect and more of their re- spect for others. ’’ One who has faced the music from behind the counter said: ‘‘As far as interesting episodes go, I could write a book about my experiences last month. {It would not need to be overdrawn in the least to be a revelation to many on some phases of human nature. Toany- one who is interested in character study the life of a clerk is enjoyable, although one does get terribly provoked at fre- quent cases of monstrous nerve. **We will never cease being surprised at some new departure of the wily shop- per, I suppose, but most of the tricks are known to one who has served trade for years. It requires great diplomacy at times to handle these customers, and it’s delightful to fool them. Being held accountable for everything we do, and fearing to offend, often we are helpless to prevent some sharp transacticn that we know is a deliberate plan to beat the Store.’’ Oe One hen is equal to an acre of land, according to the calculations of a Cen- tral Branch, Kan., farmer, who figures that, whereas the ground produces in a year twenty bushels of corn worth $2, the hen, which costs less to take care of, lays ten dozen eggs worth $1.50. —___» 2. Oysters and eggs in course of ship- ment in the express car of a Santa Fe train that was blocked by a snowdrift near Dodge City, Kan., served to feed the passengers during a ten hours’ de- tention. Soda Water—the American Beverage. C. A. Doty in the Helper. There are few industries which of recent years have assumed greater pro- portions than the manufacture and _ dis- pensing of carbonated beverages. The reason of this is very plain: The dis- penser of cool, refreshing drinks has left no means untried to discover some new and delicious drink to tempt the weary and thirsty. The soda _ business in some cities has attained such large proportions as to equal the. finest equipped saloon business. There is no business in which a mer- chant can engage which yields so large a return on the investment as the dis- pensing of soda water. It is a ladies’ drink, a gentlemen’s drink; in fact, a drink for old and young. It has no in- toxicating properties. It is a healthy, exhilarating drink, ever popular with all. The confectioner or baker must un- derstand that, to draw trade, his goods should be of the best. Fruit syrups should be made from fruit juices, not imitations; and all syrups should be colored true tothe name. Everything about the counter should be clean, bright and inviting to the appetite. Re- member, all summer drinks should be drawn cold, and all hot drinks, hot. Another thing: Don’t see how cheap you can make it and how cheap you can sell it; but make a good article and get a good price. Make money; don’t throw your labor away ; life is too short ; make the most of it while here. _I ad- vocate selling soda water—plain, at five cents; with ice cream, ten cents; hot soda, ten cents also. Cold soda _ water can be sold the year around, and hot soda at least six months, according to location. We are not all large eaters; many persons, especially ladies, are satisfied with a cup of beef tea or clam bouillon and a few wafers for lunch, while down town shopping. Remem- ber the ladies, and cater principally to them, as three-fourths of the confec- tioners’ and bakers’ trade is from the women. When you once have a lady patron, you are sure to have others in a short time. When one. of the fair sex gets a good thing she is not. contented until‘all her friends know it. Make everything that you possibly can yourself. Commence with extracts, such as vanilla, lemon, orange, etc. Acid solution, acid phosphate, soda foam and colors can be made by almost anyone who has a good formula for the same. Crushed fruits and fruit juices or syrups can also be made at home in season and put away for future use. Don’t buy everything that comes along. If you do, you, perhaps, make a small profit, but you have the satisfaction of knowing that every ‘‘jim crow’’ shop along the street has the same thing, and you are all advertising somebody else’s business. Don’tdo this. Get up new drinks yourself. Have a neat menu printed with a list of your drinks, hot or cold, and have a list different from any others, so your customers will come to your place for certain drinks which you alone have. a Florida’s Sugar Possibilities. Florida is believed by its adherents to be capable of producing sugar in quantity sufficient to go far toward sup- plying the domestic demand_ for that product. A Florida paper tells of the visit paid by several Cuban refugees to a famous Florida sugar plantation. The Cubans have been engaged in sugar culture on that island. These gentle- men have unlimited means, and _ repre- sent numerous families who would be likely to locate on the farm should they decide to take hold here. On account of the high taxes required by the gov- ernment of Spain, and the import duties of the United States, they think that sugar can be grown more profitably in Florida than in Cuba. 0 In Penobscot county, Me., the fines imposed on dealers who violate the liquor law pay all the county expenses. The fines are collected with as much regularity as if they were licenses. Our traveling salesmen are now showing a complete line of —~—w— ase Men’s | Furnishings Special attention given to all mail orders. VOIGT, HERPOLSHEIMER & CO., Wholesale Dry Goods, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. fine grades as high as 2oc. new colors and designs. Our New Spring Fabrics Are now ready for inspection. WASH GOODS of all kinds from the cheapest 5c Ginghams to PRINTS, Hamilton, Windsor, Pacific, Garner, American, Simp- sons, Allens, Cocheco, Merrimack and Washingtons in all DRESS GOODS, Plaids, Mixtures, Coverts, Plain and F ancy Weaves at from 7% to 42'c. per yard. Be sure and see our line before buying. P. STEKETEE & SONS, Wholesale Dry Goods. GRAND RAPIDS. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 17 Commercial Travelers Michigan Knights of the Grip. President, Jas F Hamme tt, Lansing; Secretary, D. (. Staeut, Flint; Treasurer, Caas. McNo.ry, Jackson. Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Association. President, S. H. Hart, Detroit; Secretary and Treasurer, D. Morris, Detroit. United Commercial Travelers of Michigan. Chancellor. H. U. Marks, Detroit; Secretary, Epwin Hupson, Flint; Treasurer, Gro. A. REY-- NOLDs, Saginaw. Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual Acci- dent Association. President, A. F. PEAKE; Jackson: Secretary and Treasurer, Gro. F. Owen, Grand Rapids. Board of Directors—F. M. TY Ler, H. B. Farr- CHILD,Jas. N. BRADFORD. J HENRY DAWLEY,GEO. J. HEINZELMAN, CHas. S. ROBINSON. Lake Superior Commercial Travelers’ Club. President, W. C. Brown, Marquette; Secretary and Treasurer, A. F. Wrxson, Marquette. Gripsack Brigade. Jos. Glass has gone on the road for Wm. Reid, taking Western Michigan as his territory. He _ intends to call on his customers every thirty days. There are many hours with heavy- laden feet which press upon the heart of him who is compelled, by his voca- tion, to be away, and often far away, from home. Lovers’ purses are said to be tied with cobwebs, but the stoutest purse strings must yield to the persuasive business tact of the commercial traveler—that's what he is employed for by the house. Friends of Chas. B. Field will regret to learn that he suffered a second stroke of paralysis Monday evening and that he is still in a critical condition, al- though there isa manifest improvement. The material comforts of the earth on which we live radiate from one center —that of commerce. Destroy the com merce of the world and you would de- stroy its civilization and relegate it to the primitive condition of hopeless bar- barism. If the young women of this country would rush into their home laundries instead of literature, become authors of pie instead of poetesses of passion, says an exchange, there would probably be more married traveling men. There are some men on the road who waste their energies in the attempt to become successful salesmen. They would do much better jerking a bell cord over a mule’s back or fiddling on a stick of cord word with a bucksaw. There is not a commercial traveler who has been on the road fora few years who has not been through experi- ences to paint the somber hue of which one would have to dip his pen into very dark shadows. Let no one think for a moment that his life is all ease and sun- shine! The traveling salesman usually speaks from experience and without prejudice, and if he says a hotel is not what it ought to be, or the merchants of any particular place lack enterprise and judgment in the purchase of goods, it is safe to wager that in nine cases out of ten he is right. In selling goods on the road, as in every other occupation, it is the pro- gressive man who succeeds, who makes money for the house, who is a credit to his calling and who is happy. Above all he must be in love with his work, otherwise all the dry knowledge in the world will avail little. Gilson K. Coffee has sold his grocery stock at White Cloud to J. C. Townsend and engaged to travel on the road for ye Mr. Coffee achieves the same measure of success as a traveling salesman that he did as a merchant, some of his com- petitors will have to look well to their laurels, Geo. Hanselman, the Kalamazoo confectionery manufacturer, has been compelled to make a change in his traveling force, owing to the death of Carl Reinsch, who represented the house in the capacity of city salesman. Walter Baker, who has traveled from Grand Haven for several years, has been re- quested to remove to Kalamazoo and oc- cupy the dual position of city salesman and house salesman, and Mr. Baker’s territory will hereafter be covered by a gentleman whose identity will be dis- closed tn the course of a week or two. Geo. A. Sage and C. D. Waldo will con- tinue to cover the trade of Northern and Southern Michigan, respectively. A certain newly-fledged traveling man, whose territory includes the East- ern part of the State, got things slightly mixed, in writing the first letter home after starting out on his initial trip. After describing to the wife of his bosom his new work—its trials and trib- ulations, the luck he had struck, the orders booked, etc.—he ended up with the following honeyed muddle: ‘‘And now, darling, I will say good-bye, and will state that I have been on the roada week and love you still.’’ ‘‘Love her still’’—‘‘love her still?’’ What did that mean? After long cudgeling of her brains, she could but arrive at the con- clusion that he either meant he loved her when her tongue allowed him a respite, or—perish the thought !—that, in a few added weeks, it was barely possible that ‘‘there might be others.’’ Two traveling men met on the train a few weeks ago and exchanged cards. One got off the train and the other went on an hour or more. To beguile the weariness of travel he entered intoa little flirtation with a dashing young woman on the car. Finding it was get- ting a little more complicated than he expected, he gave the woman the other man's card and invited her to write him. She wrote, and the letter fell into the hands of the other man’s wife, who had pertinent questions to ask her husband when he returned home. He was simply floored. He couldn’t under- stand it and neither could his wife, al- though she thought she did. It wasa long time before the husband could fig- ure it out, and even when he brought the guilty man to his home to make the necessary explanation, his wife still had a lurking suspicion that she was being fooled. The victim has quit exchang- ing cards with strangers. 0 Easy All! ‘* Hasy all!’ rings out the order, And the muscles cease to strain, And the swing of oar$ in rm wlocks Stops it rhythmical refrain, And the sinking heart beats freely, And the spent breath comes again. “ Easy all!’? Oh, joyous mandate To the st: ugglers on life's flood, Be it but a passing respite For the brain and strength and blood, Though far distant be the guerdon, Fame or weaith or livelihood. When the summer sunshine brightens, Grimy street and sullen wall, From the strips of azure heaven, Seems to come the kindly call: “ Rest a while. ye weary tolers, Drop your oars, and easy all!” —_> 0 >__—_- He Paid the Penalty. She—And did your friend take the doctor’s advice? He--Certainly. ‘*And did he pay for it?’’ ‘‘Well, I should rather say he did! He’s dead!’’ bd Desirability of Handling Standard Brands. ° Written for tne TRADESMAN. Standard brands cost more to buy tban the ‘‘just as good’’ kinds, but they are infinitely cheaper to keep on hand. This is especially true of eatables. We have to pay a pretty stiff price for A. & H. saleratus, but many successful gro- cers handle no other kind. In this lo- cality, at any rate, it is almost impos- sible to sell anything else, and there is no especial advantage in having good money tied up in unsalable articles. There is no particular need of going into the matter of brands here. Every merchant knows about what is de- manded by his trade; but the point I am making is the advisability of con- fining one’s purchases largely to those brands which are well and favorably known and which always have a fixed marketable value. The temptation to buy something which will pay us 5 or 1fo per cent. more profit is sometimes great and we often feel ‘‘sore’’ at the methods em- ployed by the makers of goods which we are obliged to handle; but, neverthe- less, it is poor policy to keep and push undesirable goods at the expense of losing trade. I have had occasion sev- eral times to officiate in the finale of sundry small mercantile establishments, and have invariably had trouble in fix- ing values on much of the stock on hand, for the reason that so many kinds of package goods were of unknown brands and doubtful quality. A grocery stock which inventoried about $450 had, among other choice morsels: Seven boxes of obscure’ saleratus, fourteen varieties of baking powder—five of these being scheme goods; thirteen kinds of soap, all but three of which were either cheap or unknown, and nearly five sugar barrels packed solid with low-priced smoking tobacco in packages. There was not a pound of sugar or pork or flour or decent tea or coffee in the shop. What wonder the fellow failed! One should bear in mind that a community consumes only a limited quantity of baking powder in a given length of time. It is hard to force the market with it; and my ex- perience has been such that I regard with suspicion the solvency of the re- tail grocer who loads down his shelves with more than six brands of this ar- ticle. There is no truer mercantile maxim than ‘‘Goods_ well bought are half sold.’’ I don’t know but it would be safe to increase the size of the fraction. Within a very short time I went over the inventory of a small grocery, stock to find no less than five items of 50 cent tea and several gross of undesirable flavoring extracts, to say nothing of large quantities of prize baking powder of different makes. The man was un- able to pay his bills. How much bet- ter it would have been had he carried ene good brand of tea of the grade men- tioned and say two of baking powder! A very few dozen bottles of flavoring extracts would have supplied his trade, paid him a better profit and allowed him the use of his money in other and more needful directions. I do not advocate the exclusive sale of standard brands, for there are often other goods which for one reason or an- other are desirable, find a ready sale and pay a good profit; but if the grocer would be successful, he must not handle these to the exclusion of the standard brands. When you are asked for Royal baking powder, it is best to have. it on hand and to set it out for your customer without hesitation. It may then do to show something else which you know to be desirable and which you can guar- antee to be perfect in quality. The customer will often take the cheaper article for the saving in cost which it entails,and allow you to make the larger profit; but you may rest assured that had you only the cheaper brand to show, nothing under heaven would have induced that man to depart from his wife’s instructions to buy the higher priced goods. GEORGE CRANDAL L LEE, a The production of amber in Germany last year was about 440 tons, or nearly Ioo tons more than in the prev ious year. By far the larger portion is produced by the two mines of Palmnicken and Kraxtepellan, while the remainder is ob- tained by dredging and searching along the shores of the Baltic. Cutler House in New Hands. H. D. and F. H. Irish, formerly landlords at the New Livingston Hotel, at Grand Rapids, have leased the Cutler House, at Grand Haven, where they bespeak the cordial co-operation aud support of the traveling public. They will conduct the Cutler House as a strictly first-class house, giving every detail painstaking at- tention. NEW REPUBLIC Reopened Nov. 25. FINEST HOTEL IN BAY CITY. Steam heat, Electric Bells and Lighting throughout. Rates, $15 to $2 00. Cor. Saginaw and Fourth Sts GEO. H. SCHINDHETT, Prop Commercial House Iron Mountain, Mich. Lighted by Electricity, Heated by Steam. All modern convenience s. IRA A. BEAN, Prop. THE WIERENGO E. T. PENNOYER, Manager, MUSKEGON, MICHIGAN. Steam Heat, Electric light and bath rooms. Rates, $1.50 and $2.00 per day. A CLEAN SHAVE while you take a snooze is quickest acquired at FRED MARSH’S barber shop in Wonderly Building, at Grand Rapids. GOLUMBIAN TRANSFER COMPANY CARRIAGES, BAGGAGE AND FREIGHT WAGONS 15 and 17 North Waterloo St., Telephone 381-1 Grand Rapids. Se f MM Vitvers0ly Lyf DETPRO/sT, A1/CH7. a Business Training Institution of America. Is eomposed of five superior schools, viz. Busir ess, Shortha: dad, English. tenma:ship and Mech nical Drawing. 11-19 Wilcox St. W. F. Jewell, P K. Spencer. $2 per day. @K®) (PK OKOKOKOKOXOX SAS @OXOKOXOKOXOXOXONCK® OKO : SELL THESE CIGARS and give customers good satisfaction. 18 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Drugs-=-Chemicals MICHIGAN STATE BOARD OF PHARMACY. Term expires C. A. BueBEE, Traverse City Dee. 31, 1896 S. E. PaRKILL, OWosso~ - - Dec. 31, 1897 F. W. R. Perry, Detroit - Dec. 31, 1898 A. C. ScuuMAcHER, Ann Arbor - Dee. 31, 1899 Gro. GunpRumM. Ionia - - Dee. 31, 1900 President, S. E. PARKILL, Owosso. Secretary, F. W. R. Perry, Detroit. Treasurer, Geo. GuNDRUM, Ionia. Coming Examination Sessions—Grand Rapids, - March 2 and 3; Star Island (Detroit), June 28 and 29; Sault Ste. Marie, Aug. ——:; Lans- ing, Nov. 2 and 3. MICHIGAN STATE PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION. President, G. C. Puiiires, Armada. Secretary, B. ScoRouDER, Grand Rapids. Treasurer, CHas. Mann, Detroit. Executive Committee—A. H. WEBBER, Cadillac; H. G. Cotman, Kalamazoo; Gro. J. Wagp, St. Cram; A. B. Srevens, Detroit; F. W. R. Perry, Detroit. The Drug Market. Acetanilid—Quiet. Acids—Boracic has been reduced 4c per pound by manufacturers. Arsenic—Powdered white, firm. Balsams—Copaiba, active and strong. Tolu is under control again and quota- tions are firmer. Bismuth Preparations—Are firmly held at the advance noted last week and the tendency is toward still higher prices. Cacao Butter—Limited demand for bulk and feeling is quiet. Cantharides—Prime Russian steadily held. Chinese is in reduced supply and stronger. Enquiry good. Cassia Buds—Spot values have met with a decided improvement under the strengthening influences mentioned in last issue and offers are very sparing. Spot stock is not heavy, being smaller than for some time past. Castor Oil—Business is of the average volume. Manufacturers’ quotations are ruling steady. Essential Oils—General trading has been light and principally of the job- bing order. Peppermint, easier, lower prices being named for all grades. Supply in first hands is considerably larger than supposed, and recent offer- ings of round lots have had a depress- ing tendency. Citronella is firmer. Wormseed is much firmer, due to scar- city. Flowers—Quotations are decidedly firm, owing to the nearly-exhausted condition of German chamomile abroad and the continued scarcity on this side. Glycerine—Consuming demand mod- erate at the recently reduced values. Gums—Asafoetida is still very active and firm. Camphor has met with a re- action, on account of the better feeling abroad, both as to crude and refined, London cables announcing the latter 1d. higher, and the impression prevails generally that conflicting interests in crude in Hamburg have come to a satis- factory understanding. The demand is reported as excellent and many orders have been necessarily turned down, in some cases single orders having been divided between a trio of sellers. Juniper Berries—The reduced supply of pure quality is being firmly held. Leaves—Short buchu, active and ex- ceedingly firm. All kinds of senna are in good demand and prices are steady. Coca still slow ot sale and nominal. Lycopodium—Demand is some better, but there is no special activity and holders are willing to sell. Mercurial Preparations—Manufactur- ers’ prices are being steadily held. Opium—Undertone easy and quota- tions show a further decline. Recent Smyrna cables report continued buying for American account, but without im- portant change in prices. The weak- ness here is claimed to be wholly local in character. Quicksilver—Still firm. Quinine—Since the decline noted last week—3c per ounce at the hands of all manufacturers—the enquiry for legiti- mate consuming wants has been but moderate; but the speculative demand is larger than has been known fora number of years, and considerable busi- ness has gone forward as to second hands. This revival of speculative in- terest is reported as partiy due to an anticipated duty under the proposed new tariff, and partly to the supposition that existing prices cannot be remuner- ative to manufacturers. Roots—Nearly all varieties are tame, fluctuations in values being unimpor- tant in the absence of large transactions. New crop Jamaica ginger is still arriv- ing, the bulk of which is_ being shipped to London. Powdered gentian is higher. Seeds—Dutch caraway is a trifle higher, in sympathy with the stronger position abroad. Coriander, active but no change to note in prices. All kinds mustard are quiet. Silver, Nitrate—Business is only of average volume. Manufacturers’ prices are being maintained. Sponges—Strong as to primary mar- kets, late advices from Key West being to the effect that receipts so far are very light. No change in regard to the local situation, a quiet feeling being in evi- dence. Strontia, Nitratee——-Demand slow, market dull, quotations nominal. Sugar of Milk—Powdered, active and strong. Vanillin—On account of competition, the market is again depressed, and the principal manufacturers across the water have instructed their agents to reduce the price. 9 Hot Drinks at the Soda Counter. Richard Foy in the Helper. I was told by a man in Boston that he often went into a confectionery or bakery shop to get a cup of hot coffee. Tf he got it at the soda fountain he had to pay ten cents for it and it wasn’t any good, but when he went back in the lunch room it was served very good for five cents. The reason fcr this was probably because the stale coffee which was left in the lunch room was used to make coffee syrup and the extra price was for whipped cream. Coffee, to be good, must be fresh and not too sweet. When made from the syrup it is most always too sweet, and care should be used to avoid it. The flavor for cold soda may be all right cold, but with hot water the flavor should be two cr three times as strong and not half as sweet. The syrup will be thin but of a very ‘strong flavor. It will not keep good for more than two or three days, and should be made often. A very good rule to follow is to take two parts of ground coffee, one part of sugar and four parts of water. Cover it and let it stand over the fire until it comes toa boil, but do not let it boil, for coffee then begins to lose its flavor. Keep it tightly covered and let it stand until cool or warm and then strain. In mak- ing the cup of coffee you can use plenty of this syrup, to producea strong flavor, without its being too sweet. The syrup should be kept cold, and the water to make-the drink very hot. The flavor which has been retained in the syrup will now develop and the drink will taste good and fresh. If you get a good price for your drinks you can afford to serve whipped cream with them. This may be added on top after the drink has been made, but sweet cream should be added before the water is drawn, whether you use whipped cream or not. It is a very good idea to serve wafers or soda crackers with hot drinks, be- cause almost everyone likes them, and they like the drink better if they have something to bite on. They should be served in a very neat and clean way, on a dainty saucer set on the counter be- side the drink The smaller pieces are the better to serve, for each one will be picked up without breaking and eaten in one or two mouthfuls, which saves the crumbs from scattering on the floor or any waste in the dish. Your own judgment can best tell you what and how much to serve to your customer. Ladies while shopping often like hot chocolate or cocoa with small cakes or dainties; and if the proper attention is given to this part of the trade it may be made very profitable. You must always keep it in mind that as a rule people do not come in to buy hot drinks be- cause they need them, but because they like them and havea chance to rest, and your duty is to make the drink as attractive as possible. If you havea store in the shopping locality or where many people pass, the greater should be the effort to have them come in your place. A large part of the trade for drinks is transient, and the less you do to attract it the more you lose. The ex- pense of running the store is about the same in either case. : One of the principal reasons why hot drinks are not sold more is because when they were first introduced they were sold as hot soda and made from the regular soda syrups. Of course they were not good, and the blame fell on the customers, who were sick of it at once. First learn how to make a good drink before you serve it, and you can with patience get the trade to come for it. Very often people come in and ask for hot strawberry or nectar, etc., but I have a separate list of hot drinks, which I refer to and inform them that those are all the hot drinks we make. That leaves no chance but to change the or- der, and you can then make a good drink, while if you had made what was — called for, it would be very doubt- ul. If you serve five good hot drinks you need not make any other kinds. Let those be chocolate, clam broth, coffee, beef tea and lemonade. Frequently a hot egg drink will be asked for, which may he made with any of the above flavors. The egg and flavor should be thoroughly shaken or beaten together and strained. Draw the hot water on quickly, letting it run near one side to the bottom of the cup, stirring witha spoon at the same time. A hot lemonade is one of the finest drinks when made right. It should be made strictly fresh from a lemon and, besides being tart, should have a strong lemon flavor, which is obtained by twist- ing one or two pieces of the rind over the cup until the oil starts out. The pieces may be left in the drink. One rule which must always be observed, to meet with success, is to serve the drink steaming hot, not warm. The hot water develops the aroma and flavor, which add so much to its pleasant taste. It is a mistake to think that you will do the best hot drink business when the weather is so cold that people stay at home, but rather expect it in the fall and spring, when the changes of temper- ature come on suddenly. Always keep a neat sign in your window, ‘‘ Hot Drinks.’’ —_—__— -- March Meeting of the Board of Pharmacy. Detroit, Feb. 1—The Board of Phar- macy will hold a meeting for the exam- ination of candidates in the Blodgett Building, corner of Ottawa and Louis streets, Grand Rapids, Tuesday and Wednesday, March 2 and 3, 1897, com- mencing at 9 o'clock a. m., Tuesday. All candidates must be present at that hour. (Take the elevator to the hall.) Candidates must file their applica- tions with the Secretary one week be- fore the examination and must furnish affidavits showing that they have had the practical or college experience re- quired. Applications for examination and blank forms for affidavits for prac- tical or college experience may be ob- tained from the Secretary. Other meetings will be held during the year as follows: Detroit, June 28 and 29; Sault Ste. Marie, August (date announced later); Lansing, November 2 and 3. F. W. R. PERRY, Sec’y. a TESTE w= orien FrISSON. Plummer 3. Company Chicago, GOVERNOR YATES. A Seed and Havana Cigar as nearly perfect as can be made. The filler is entirely long Havana of the finest quality—with selected Sumatra Wrapper. Regalia Conchas, 4% inch, 58.00 M. Rothschilds, 4% inch, 65.00 M. Napoleons, 54 inch, 70.00 M. All packed 50 in a box.! We invite trial orders. Morrison, Plummer & C0. 200 TO 206 RANDOLPH ST., CHICAGO. MAS" The best 5 cent cigars ever made. Sold by BEST & RUSSELL CO.. Cnuicaco. Represented in Michigan by J. A. GONZALEZ, Grand Rapids. MNUMMPOQODOQDOOOOOOO® DOOQQOQODOOY °° © DOODODODQODQOHOODOOOOQSGOOOGOOQOOOQOOQOOOOS® THE FAMOUS SIF ON 5 CENT CIGAR. Sold by all jobbers. Manufactured by G. J. JOHNSON CIGAR CO., Grand Rapids. ENTIRE BUILDING, 15 CANAL STREET. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Ig WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT Morphia,S.P.& W... 1 75@ 2 00| Sinapis.............. @ 18| Linseed, pure raw.. 28 39 : Morphia, S.N.Y.Q. & Sina i One... @ 3} Linseed, boiled..... 30 33 ce. Con. 1 65@ 1 90 — Erne De Neatsfoot,winterstr 65 70 Advanced—0Oil Wormseed, Turpentine. Moschus Canton.. oO) Voes. @ 34/ Spirits Turpentine.. 34 38 Declined—Gum Opium. Myristica, No. 1..... 65@ ‘aaame Scoteh, DeVo’s @ 34 Os a: — 15@ i8| Soda B Hora, po. 8 3 5 Paints =5L. Ls — one eee i ao 1 30 ee Ca g 50 Pepsin Saac, H. & P. Soda et Potass Tart. 26@ 28] Red Venetian... ... 1% 2 @8 Aceticum............ $ 8@s 10 Re Ure ae tee peace ae a 1207 @ 1 00] Soda, Carb.......... 1%¥@ 2 11 ‘i 6 BO Cabepe 0, 90@ 1 00} Prunus virg.. ...... @ 50 = = | Ochre, yellow Mars. 1s 2 @ ees, atime @ 15| Exechthitos |... 7. 1 20@ 1 30 Tinctures Soda, Bi-Carb....... 3@ 5 | Ochre, yellow Ber.. 1% 2 @3 Boracic.............. Si hie 1 20@ 1 30] aconi Napell d @ 2 00| Soda, Ash........... 3%@ 4] Putty, commercial... 24 2%@3 Carbolicum ......... 27@ conitum Napellis R 60 | Picis Liq., quarts. . @ 1 00| Soda, Sulphas....... a 2 1 Gaultheria..... .... 1 50@ 1 60] Aconi 3 Putty, strictly ope 24 2%@3 Citricum, ee “a # Gaaeuen cakes” © % —_ tum Napellis F = ie sr at pints... : = - —— a un 2 - Vermilion, Prime rochlor ......... § 7) | ALOES.... 22... eee eee il Hydrarg...po 5 pts. Ether Co...... 5 55 ey : N trocum ie 82 10 — Sem. gal. ; oo ; = _—_ and Myrrh.. = Piper a -po. 22 @ 18 - . _ ai $ : 7 Wasuatlion magia ne = xalicum....... ae liye To eee gt MOS ec.) i 5 iper Alba....po. 35 @ 30} Spts. Vini Rect. bbl. Green, Paris ........ 13 19 Phosphorium, dil... @ = eee 1 pe : n Aatenida ie x Burgun........ 102 7 | Spts. ViniRect.4bbl @ 2 42| Green’ Peninsular. = 1 Salicylicum. ........ —_ a 1 20@ 1 40| 4 elt . Plumbi wee. 12 | Spts. Vini Rect.10gal @ 2 45| Lead, Red........... @ 5% Sulphuricum. ...... 1%@ 5 Mentha Piper 1 60@ 2 20| pazen! Cortex..... 50 | Pulvis Ipecac et Opii 1 10 1 20] Spts. Vini Rect. 5gal @ 2 47) Lead’ oe ee 5Y@ 5 Tannicum .......... i ‘tie 1 60 Maaveu + 6@ 27 — ieee eas 60 | Pyrethrum, boxes H. Less 5¢ gal. cash 10 days. | w hiting, white Span @ a Tartaricum.......... 36) Morrhue, gal 1 90@ 2 00| Baroenmee: 50| Pstctho = Sopoae | g0@ | 33| Sulphur, Supls. ‘ae | 43) Whiting: gliders’... @ 0 Ammonia M ee een 00@ 50 B+ 2 rethrum, pv...... 3 | Sulphur, subl....... White, Paris Amer.. @ 100 Aqua, 16 deg........ so * 3G 300 camer = aia “a sim lhl hiting, Paris Eng. aoa Aqua, 20 deg........ 6@ 8] Picis Liquida. ..... 10@ 12/ Cardamon........ d @ S. 25 benth Venice... 28@ 30] qeivecen] Bronaraa’ Carbonas............ 12@_ 14 | Picis Liquida, gal.. @ 35| Cardamon Co....... re) Saat’ N a Do m7 ow i PO a eee Tee Chloridum “he TS a, 2 Wee ics Seer cee. . : se ns See eee cas 1 _ Rubia Tinctorum.. 12@ 14] Vanilla. ee 9 00@16 09 Vaiseitetnds niline ee ee JAUCCDU. . 0.6.60... ov | SaccharumLactis PV 2@ 26! Zinci Sulph......... 7@ Rose, ounce........ E 8 50 Black.. i. - peer ’ 100 45 nae cs fae 80 Sma mn 40 3 Oils ark. gu gga a in Beene... -.sceccel, Sabina. _... *hona Co........ xtra Turp......... Hee i P 30 a a lg coe : ~ — ee. = aes, ¥ es = a , BBL. GAL. ——, oy 7 = : . oo 2 50@ 3 00| Sassafras... BOR | DES. ----- -- - 22 ee lp Be wee eee ee “| Whale, winter....... 70 70 | No. ur arn... — Te oem cs ‘ounce. = = = Fp a Site G_. |. @ 15) Lard, extra........: 40 45 | Extra Turk Damar.. 1 55@ 1 60 — (hb - 1 1 40@ 15"| Digitalis age = Siedlitz Mixture..”) 20 @ 22) Lard; No.1...2.2227! 35 40|Jap.Dryer,No.iTurp 70@ 7% ME ss oe le ol € Y 1 Juniperus........... 6a — cae opt... : a 1 = Ergot teteee = cst ase _ Theobromas ... 16@ 20} Gentian....... eget at 50 ‘ < Balsamum es 80 Patcesion — oS 60 opaiba. ........-.-. (9@ —¢ : AER ee 50 Feru. wan anenc eros - 2 , = eas ee. . 4 2 Guiaca ammon...... 60 erabin, Canada. 0 ao et yoscyamus........ 50 WenMei.is6...0.0.5 65@ 75| Bromide............. 48@ 51) Iodine... 5), &- a OE cocoons. R@ 15 Iodine, Goloricss || 7 a Cortex Chlorate..po. 17@19e 16@ 18| 1od! ,| &— Abies, Canadian.... Cyanide. 2: 50@ 55 Lobelia on aca nes 50 @eg-— —_ Coente 1} tedide. 0.) SO Sl em | e— — Cinchona Flava..... 18 | Potassa, Bitart,pure 27@ 30 Nox Vomica ||. 50 = — Extractum Aconitvm.. 20@ 25 | Sanguinaria. ...... oT a Glycyrrhiza Glabra. 2%4@ 25| Althe.... 22@ 25 | Serpentaria ......... — ee ———— 3 Glycyrrhiza, po..... 28a, 30] Anchusa. 12@ 15|Stromonium........ 60 e-— —w £ Hematox,!5lbbox. 1@ 12] Arum po............. @ 25| Tolutan.......... tee 60 — —ap e Hematcx 1s......-- 13@ 14] Calamus ......0... 2, 20@ 40] Valerian ............ 50 Hematox, %s....... 14@ 15|Gentiana...... po 15 12@ 15| Veratrum Veride... o ee a Hematox, 4s8....... 16@ 17] Glychrrhiza...pv.15 16@ 18] Zingiber............. | eS — Dp Reen Hydrastis Canaden . @ 3 Miscellaneous e— —ip : Hydrastis Can., po.. @ 40) ther, Spts. Nit.3F 30@ 35 @ Carbonate Precip... 15 Hellebore, Alba, po.. 1@ 20| Ather, Spts. Nit.4F 34@ 38 au Citrate and Quinia.. 220 | Tala, po. 15@ 20} Alumen....... ..... 24@ 3) an Citrate Soluble...... 80 | Ipecac, po...... 1...” 1 65@ I 75| Alumen,gro’d..po.7 3@ 4 e-— — » Ferrocyanidum Sol. 50 | Iris plox....p035@38 35@ 40| Annatto.......-” 40@ 50 Solut. Chloride..... 15| Jalapa, pr........... 40@ 45] Antimoni, po....... @ 5| & —— Sulphate, com’l..... Maranta, \s........ @ 35| AntimonietPotassT 55@ 60 e— @ aa Sulphate, com’l, by Podophyllum, po.. 22@ 25] Antipyrin.......... @ 1 40 — — i bbl, per cwt....... Soleber %@ 1 00) Antifebrin. ..... @ 5 —> Sulphate, pure ..... 7 Rhei, eae @ 1 25| Argenti Nitras, oz, @ sl oe Flora ee pr oo 3 1 = rseaienm. oT 0@ i) ee a 5 RISC 5 ‘ alm Gilead Bud .. 38@ 40) gy Amica oes... 12@ 14 | Sanguinaria... “PO. 30 @ 28| Bismuth §.N. ..... 140@ 150 — Matricaria .... 2... 2@ 30 | Serpentaria .. 30@ 35/CalciumChlor, is @ | ricaria .........- " SOHGRA 40@ 45] Calcium Chlor., ws. @ 10 e- = Folia Similax, aMeimalis H @ 40} Calcium Chlor., 4s. @ 12 e— — WD Barosma...........-- 15@ Smilax, M.... @ 2/|Cantharides, Rus. @ 7% : —p Cassia y Acutifol, Tin- Beli po. 35 10@ 12] Capsici Fructus, af. @ 18 . nevelly...... ..... 18@ 25 | Symplocarpus, Foti. Capsici Fructus, po. @ b) eS — » Cassia cial 3@ 30 valeions eas . = Capsici FruetusB, 3 = e-— — ae otticina is, 8 ng.po aryophyllus 1 fe — and \s.. “® 12@ 20|Valeriana’ German. 15 30 Carmine, No. ee: @e35| & Bottled by us from pure Wie Ure. 8... S@ 10} Zingibera........ |. 12@ 16| Cera Alba,S.& F . n@ | Se —_ ; Gummi Zingiber j. ......... 25@- 27| Cera Flava.......... 0@ 2] > i, > oe . Semen OGG ta @ 40 Canada Malt Whiske ~» Euphorbium..po. 35 @ _ 10| Lobelia ..... 2.2... 40) Creta, Rubra.....)2) @ 8 ee Galbanim........... @ 1 00| Pharlaris Canarian. 34%@ 4) Crocus............. 30@ 3) ae Gamboge po........ 6@ 70} Rapa............ 2, 4%@ 5) Cudbear ....1.21121! G Al Soe ——_ Guaiacum..... po. 35 35 | Sinapis Albu........ ‘@ 8) Cupri Sulph..... 2.2! 5@ 6 a, —p Kino........ po. $4.00 4 00| Sinapis Nigra....... N@ 12!) Dextrine.....22..127! 10@_ 12 i 4 Mastic ........0..-5. 60 Spiritus Ether Sulph. .... oe “ . ®@ Price per dozen * ” $4.00 @ yirh Frumenti, W. D. Co. 2 00@ 2 50} Emery, all numbers —— Opii.. . po. 65.3003.50 DER. — Oe ccs a @ 6 ° A etpecnaraie Fromentt 7 a8 7 3| Ergots. pod) 200 ©35| @=— Price per case of 2 dozen - 7.50 —® oe: oot Juniperis Co. 0. T.. 1 65@ 2 00 Flake. White. ....... 2@ 15 e-— —— ragacanth ......... Juniperis Co........ 1 75@ 3 50 | Gala... lL! e-— ad one ame se 1 OG a. Gambier: ee 8a 2 a Add a case to your next order. aan Absinthium..oz. pkg 25 | Spt. Vini Galli...... 1 75@ 6 50 Gelatin’ es “ 3@ of om — B Eupatorium .oz. pkg ete Oe Lee eee flint, box 60, 10610 —> ’ Lagsaa oz. pkg 95| Vini Alba........... 1 5@ 2 00| reer then bene. ae aa Majorum .--.0Z. pkg 28 Sponges Glue, brown @ 2 [a — q Menthe Pip. .0s: pkg 33 | Florida sheeps’ woo! Glue, white...20..) B@ 3] go is 4 Mentha Vir..oz. pkg 25 Caeaee 2 50@ 2 % Glycerina i 9@ 26 —a 4 Rue. cs.) oz. pkg 39 Nassau Tce S$ Wool Grana Paradisi |... @ - ; Thymes, Vor phe || yOMTTINEO. nn... @200/Humulus. ae 5] ° ° = ee ae Velvet extra sheeps’ Hydraag Chlor Mite @ 77| Qe ae i Magnesia. wool, carriage..... @ 1 10} Hydraag Chlor Cor. @ | @ —D Calcined, Pat..... .. 55@ 60 | Extra yellow sheeps’ Hydraag Ox Rub’m. @ 8 — 4 Carbonate, Pat.. ... : 22| wool. carriage.. @ 8|HydraagAmmoniati @ 97| ‘ Carbonate, K. & M.. 25 | Grass sheeps’ wool, HydraagUnguentum 45@ 55) qo ae Carbonate, Jennings 35@ 36] carriage........... @ 65| Hydrargyrum....... o. 8) oo — Hard, for slate use.. @ & ee Am... 1 25@ 1 50 —<@p . Oleum Yellow Reef, for indigo, 2@10); & e Absinthium......... 3 25@ 350; slate use.......... @ 140 Iodine, Resubi...... 38@390| gp Rs ——— Dulc.... : 30@ z ~ cee —— eee e eee e ees 2 ; = e-— —_ mygdale, Amare . 8 00@ a ae —<—p Aniat. -.., 2 0@ 2 30] Acacia............ - @ 50] Lycopodium ........ 0@ | GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 2 ¥ Auranti Cortex..... 2 00@ 2 20} Auranti Cortes...... @ | Macis................ 5@ 6b] Se a Bergamii............ 2 25@ 2 30| Zingiber....... ..... @ 50| Liquor Arsen et Hy- oo —_ 3 Cajiputi............. %@ 80} Ipecac.............. @ 60|_ drargtod.......... 27 — = Caryophylli......... 58@ 58] Ferrilod............ @ 50} LiquorPotassArsinit 10@ 12 a Cena 35@ 6} Rhei Arom.......... @ 50} Magnesia, Sulph.. 3 Chenopadii Saab @ 4 00} Smilax Officinalis.. 50@ 60] Magnesia, Sulph bbl @ 1% S Cinnamonii. ........ 2 25@ 2 50 | Senega.............. @ 50} Mannia.S. F........ 60 4 Citronella. se 35@ 10| Scillw...... ... : @ 50|Menthol......... @ 350 20 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN GROCERY PRICE CURRENT. The prices quoted in this list are for the trade only, dealers. They are prepared just before going to press and possible to give quotations suitable for erage prices for aver2ge conditions of purchase. those who have poor credit. Subscribers are earnes all conditions of purc Cash buyers or t our aim to make this feature of the greatest possible use to dealers. in such quantities as are usually purchased by retail are an accurate index of the local market. hase, and those below are given as representing av- hose of strong credit usually buy closer than tly requested to point out any errors or omissions, as it is It is im- AXLE GREASE. doz. gross Bereta... 55 60=—s«6:« 00 Casver On ........... .- 60 7 00 Diamond.............50 S50 Piers | Oe IXL Golden, tin boxes75 9 00 Mica... .. eee 7 8 00 Paraeoa... __..... ..- 55 6 00 BAKING POWDER. Absolute. is ib Cans doz............- 45 % ib Cans doz............. 8 . boss. ...... 150 Acme. ig lb cans 3 doz...........- 45 % Ib cans 3 doz............ DB 1 1 came t Gox...........- 1 00 eee 10 El Purity. 44 lb cans per doz........- v6) % lb cans per doz ........ 1 20 Ll > cans per dos......... 2 00 Home. iq lb cans 4 doz case...... 35 % lb cans 4 doz case...... 55 lb cans 2 doz case...... 90 ¥% 1b cans, 4 doz case..... 45 % 1b cans. 4 doz case...... 85 1 lbcans, 2 doz case...... 1 60 Our Leader. ce... 45 eo. 45 t ibecens ......... 1... oe Peerless. Lie. cams 85 BASKETS. Per doz. Standard Bushel.......... 1 25 Pecce Cael ....... .-.-. 1% ao... : 44 bushel, bamboo del’ry. 3 50 3% bushel, bamboo del’ry. 4 00 1 bushel, bamboo dei’ry. 5 00 Iron strapped, 50c extra. Diamond Clothes, 30x16... 2 50 Braided Splint, 30x16..... 400 BATH BRICK. Ce ee 70 eee 80 BLUING. 1 doz. Counter Boxes..... 40 12 doz. Cases, per gro...... 4 50 BROOFIS. a teres... 1 90 ee etee....-.. ...... 1% eS erpes.... 1 50 me See... Porro ......-.. 2 00 Common Whisk............ q oer Week... ......-...-. 80 ae. CAKE FROSTING. WMacretoin, per doz......... 2 40 Two doz. in case assorted flav- ors—lemon, vanilla and rose. CANDLES. CANNED GOODS. Manitowoc Peas. Lakeside Marrowfat eS Lakeside, Cham. of Eng.... 1 Lakeside, Gem, Ex. Sifted. 1 CHOCOLATE. Walter Baker & Co.’s. German Sweet —-........ eae Breakfast Cocoa CLOTHES LINES. Sotton, 40 ft, per doz....... Cotton, 50 ft, per doz. i Cotton, 60 ft, per doz. Cotton, 70 ft, per doz. Cotton, 80 ft, per doz Jute, 0 ft, per doz. Jute, 72 ft, per doz.. KSSSE8 00 30 40 65 8 31 42 1 00 CHEESE. Bee Amsnoy........._..._ 2 Gold Medal......... ORE cS ci .. : eaeee. Lemewee.. .......... Riverside. Limburger. ........ Pineapple...... “> Gee .......... 43 PHSOHHHHHHS OS Chicery. Sulk SG Red sor CATSUP. Columbia, pinte.......... 425 Columbia, % pints.......... 2 50 CLOTHES PINS. Samoa Sones... .... 8. 45 COCOA SHELLS. i> bare... Lees quantity... ........ Pound packages......... e ee 0 69 CREAM TARTAR. Strictly Pure, wooden boxes. 35 Strictly Pure, tin boxes...... 37 COFFEE. Green. Rio. EE 17 Mose... 18 ee 19 foecn ..... 20 roc... 22 Santos. — CU 19 ee 20 Pema 22 Peavermey 2200... 23 Mexican and Guatamala. Mer 21 Gooe 2... 22 rae, 24 Maracaibo. i 23 Milled. ee 24 ie 125 Private Growth.............-. 27 Stenmewting.... 5... 28 Mocha... eo ee eS 2 Aca ak 28 Roasted. Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brands Fifth Avenue..... 30 Jewell’s Arabian Mocha....30 Wells’ Mocha and Java..... 26 Wells’ Perfection Java..... 26 a - 23% Valley City Maracaibo. ....20% eS 17 Leader Biend....... .. .... 15 Worden Grocer Co.’s Brands Quaker Mandehling Java. .31 uaker Mocha and Java. ...29 oko Mocha and Java.... ..2% Quaker Golden Santos.... 23 State House Blend.......... 22 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 lb cases the list is 10c per 100 lbs. above the price in full cases. Aveekie ss 15 00 yt a 14 50 ficLaughliin’s XXXX......14 59 Extract. Valiey City % gross 7% Felix % gross...... i 15 Hummel’s foil % gross 85 Humme!l’s tin % gross i 42 Kneipp Malt Coffee. 1lb. packages, 50 lb. cases 9 1 lb.-packages, 1001b. cases 9 CONDENSED MILK. 4 doz in case. Gail Borden Eagle.........6 7% Coen. ee eee 5 75 Chemie... -.. ..... s.. 4 50 Magnolia «4 25 CURIOUS... .. oc os c0sc 5. conc 3 50 ee es 8.85 Economic Grade. Universal Grade. Superior Grade. Peel. Raisins. Ondura 28 ib boxes.....- Sultana 1 Crown........ Sultana 2Crown ...... Sultana 3 Crown........ Sultana 4 Crown.......-. Sultana 5 Crown 50 books, any denom.... 100 books, any denom.... 500 books, any denom... 1,000 books, any Genom.... 50 books, any denom.... 100 books, any denom.... 500:books, any denom.... 1,000:books, any denom.... 50 books, any denom.... 100 books, any denom.... 500 books, any denom.... 1,000 books, any denom.... 50 books, any denom.... 10? books, any denom... 500 books, any denom.... 1,000,books, any denom....20 Coupon Pass Books, Can be made to represent any COUPON BOOKS. Tradesman Grade. Ssse SH we Ssss Sow SSSs eo ms Sugg denomination from $10 down. Oo beene 35. 1 00 GO DOGES.....-..--..---.5 2 00 SOU RGOES.... 5.2.5... . 2. os 3 00 Pop neees 2 6 25 Sob bOOES ....-...... 003 10 00 (DOO ReOEB...... <--5.. 17 50 Credit Checks. 500, any one denom’n..... 3 00 1000, any one denom’n..... 5 00 2000, any one denom’n..... 8 00 Steel punch. .........-.. 6 DRIED FRUITS—DONESTIC Apples. Sundries ..............-- @ 3 Evaporated 50 lb boxes. @ 4 California Fruits. hare 11%@ Biackberries........... Nectarines............ 6 @ Pesce... - T%@ 9 - @ Raspberries............ California Prunes. 100-120 25 lb boxes....... @ 90-100 25 Ib boxes....... @ 4% 80 - 90 25 Ib boxes....... @ 41% 70 - 80 25 1b boxes....... @ 5% 60 - 70 25 1b boxes. @6 50 - 60 25 Ib boxes....... @ 6% 40 - 50 25 lb boxes....... @ 7% 30 - 40 25 1b boxes....... @ 44 cent less in bags Raisins. London Layers 3 Crown. 1 60 London Layers 5 Crown. 2 50 Dencsiss ...-.. sso 3 59 Loose Muscatels2 Crown 5% Loose Muscstels3Crown 6% Loose Muscatels 4Crown 7% FOREIGN. Currants. Patras bite...-..-.---.... @ 4% Vostizzas 50 lb cases......@ i% Cleaned, bulk .....-...... @ 5% Cleaned, packages......-- @ 6 Citron American 10lb bx @14 Lemon American 101b bx @12 Orange American 101b bx @12 FARINACEOUS GOODS. Farina. ee 3 Grits. Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s....... 2 25 Hominy. momets: 3. 3 2 Flake, 50 lb. drums....... 1 50 Lima Beans. Brod 2. oe 3% Maccaroni and Vermicelli. Domestic, 10 1b. box...... 60 Imported, 25 Ib. box.. ...2 50 Pearl Barley. ee ee eee 1% eeeeer .. 2.555... a Birsere ee: 2% Peas. neem, Bee 1. 5s 80 Split, pertb........-....-- 2% Rolled Oats. Rolled Avena, Dbbl.......3 7 Wooaren, Wi........... 3 25 «3 25 Monarch. % bbl.......... 1% Private brands, bbl..... 3 00 Private brands, %bbl..... 1 63 Quaker, cases............-. 3 20 Sago. Gere... see. 4 Mart tngia..<..::.... 3% Wheat. Cracked, bulk............. 3 942 1b packages..........-. 2 40 Fish. Cod. Georges cured......... @4 Georges genuine...... @ 4% Georges selected...... @5 Strips or bricks....... 5 @8 Halibut. CMI cl 10 SO ec ie ee 9 Herring. Hollasd white hoops keg. 60 Holiend white hoops bbl. 8 00 Morwoeien... ...........- Round 100 lbs............. 2 50 Bound ibs............. 1 30 memton...-. os: 14 Mackerel. Mo, 1 1b ibe... ...... 11 00 No.1 401bs Seas 47 Me. i ibe... 125 We ei ive... 2... 5... 8 06 e8 Bie... ........ 3 50 oS We... oe i. 95 Wamtlly 90 ibs. ....:........ Family 10 lbs.............. Sardines. Russian kegs.............. 55 Stockfish. No. 1, 1001b. bales......... 10% No. 2, 100 1b. bales......... 8% Mo. 1200 1s... . 3... 4% Mo. 4 Se... 2 2 ee, & Mie... e223 5.5. 63 Mo.t Sipe... ....... 0: 53 White! je No.1 No.2 Fam a 6S 67 (2 MO Tne... 2. 300 260 100 <0 tte: ...: | §3 73 33 Sipe... 69 61 29 Jennings . D.C. Vanilla 2oz......1 20 30s... .., 1 50 D. C. Lemon i 20z.. ... vis) 1 30z....-.1 00 | 4 oz.. ...1 40 ie] 6 oz...... 2 00 a No. 8...2 40 | No. 10...4 00 1|No. 2T. 80 {| No. 3'T.1 3 a No. 4T.1 50 Souders’. PICKLES. i Medium. Oval bottle, with corkscrew. Best in the world for the| Barrels, 1,200 count........ 3 40 money. Half bbls, 600 count........ 2 20 Regular Small. Grade Barrels, 2,400 count........ 4 40 —,, Half bbls, 1,200 count...... 2 70 02 2 O8...... : = PIPES. ee Clay, No, 216. =. 1 70 lar slay, T. D. full count...... 65 — Cop: Wo. 5.0.2 co... 1 H doz il 2oz......1 20 POTASH. S68...... 2 40 aoe in case. a Se esta eel NS 4 00 XX Grade = ’ eaauala Penna Salt Co.’s........... 3 00 Pos... 1 50 RICE. 40z. ....3 00 Domestic. XX Grade | Carolina head.............. 64 Vanilla Carohna No.t............. 5 Carolina No. 2......-....5. 4% Soe | 4 oe) Prekem. ..0 cs 3 40z......3 50 Imported. GLUE. Japan, NO. bic. 5% Japan, No.2.... . 5 per doz. | Java, No. 1 . a Jackson Liquid, 1 oz.. ‘ el PROS oo a 5% Jackson Liquid, 2 0z.. . Jackson Liquid, 3 0z....... 1 30 SALERATUS. Packed 60 lbs. in box. GUNPOWDER. Church’s ........... 2.......3 30 DOinne 6 es 3 15 Rifle—Dupont’s. MWiGSS 8 oo 3 30 Weyler sobs 3 00 ee cs LSeeccusly 4 00 3 EEE IIA 2 25 SAL SODA. Marsccr Rees... . sl 1 25] Granulated, bbls 110 Pip Gnne. oe 30 t 700 1h aaccs : ee ti Lump, 145]b kegs.......... 110 Choke Bore—Dupont’s. SEEDS. Kegs ....... eM OANIGRO oot Half Kegs.... -2 25] Canary, Smyrna........... 7 Quarter Kegs............... fl Gdsawag oo 10 (oe... i oe Cardamon, Malabar ..... 80 Hemp, Russian........... 4 Eagle Duck—Dupont’s. Mixed Bird... 6.0.00... 4% —e white....... ... «6% Moe oo ei § See ie ee 5 Quarter Kegs...............- 2 5 OMS erat esisne « 20 Cp OeHS ce 45 SNUFPR. Scotch, 1n bladders......... 37 HERBS. Maccaboy, in jars........... 35 We qe ee. & ee... 2 MOGs oo 15 SYRUPS. INDIGO. Corn. OOETOMS. ccs ca 12 Madras, 5 lb boxes......... Se, Halt BOS... 6). ccc 14 S. F., 2,3 and 5 1b boxes.... 50 Pure Cane JELLY. a in he Shel ows oe ewe Selene ¥ 15 Ib pails a ee 30 MGIOS oo yh ccs oo eke 25 7 iD DROS... occ... 5 Se eee es 60 SPICES. LYE. Whole Sifted. RI oo kaw 5 9 Condensed, 2 doz .......... 1 20 | Cassia, China in mats...... 10 Condensed, 4 doz........... 2 25 | Cassia, Batavia in bund... 20 =. —— in rolls...... 32 oves, Amboyna........... 15 LICORICE. Cloves, Zanzibar............ 9 Mace, Batavia........ ..... 60 Bite ee 30 | Nutmegs, fancy........... 60 Calabria .................... 2 | Nutmegs, No. 1.............50 ee oe 14} Nutmegs, No. 2....... .....45 Root......................... 10] Pepper, Singapore, black... 9 Pepper, Singapore, white.. .12 MINCE MEAT. Pepper, @hdt...... .......... 10 Pp id E Ideal, 3 doz. in case.........2 25 ee Avmwoe 5.0.22 253 i.: 12 MATCHES. Cassia, Batavia ............. 2 — —- Ss at a = j hil Sen , | Cloves, Amboyna....... ...2 scbigmond Mateh Cos brands. | Cloves; Zausibar =. 3 Anchor Parlor 1 70 | Ginger, Asrican...-...... 15 Moa 1 10 Ginger, Ooehin....:... ...:; 20 eet ee Ginger, Jamaica............ 22 Sxport: Parlor. -........:... 4 00 Mace, Batavia 70 Mustard, Eng. and Trieste. .20 MOLASSES. Mustard, Trieste............ 25 eReA, i a sss 40@'0 New Orleans. mack. 2... 3s 11 ot eu eee 14 ee ee oe eo: 20 Peer ce. 24 Open Kettle.............-- 2XQ35 alf-barrels 2c extra. Pepper, Sing., black ....10@14 Pepper, Sing., white....15@18 Pepper, Cayenne........17@20 Gare feo SODA GB og es ween ce 5% Kegs, English............... 4% MICHIGAN TRADESMAN SALT. Diamond Crystal. Cases, 24 3-lb boxes..... ..1 60 Barrels, 100 3 lb bags...... 2% Barrels, 40 7 1b page... ..2 50 Butter, 56 lb bags........... 65 Butter, 20 14 1b bags........ 3 00 Butter, 200 1b bbis.........: 2 50 Common Grades. MOOS TDaeecks, 2. 2 60 GOSib sacks... ...........1 8 ee tI ROCKS co... 1 70 Worcester. 4 tb. edrtons........... 32 115 244lb. sacks.. siclece oh OF Oe SD leo secks. 2. :...... 2. 3% ae it iD ahere .... 3 50 8010. lb. sacks.......5..... 3 50 28 Ib. linen sacks............ 32 56 lb. linen sacks...... . 60 ete In Peeves. 2 sc 2 50 Warsaw. 56-lb dairy in drill bags..... 30 28-lb dairy in drill bags..... 15 Ashton. 56-lb dairy in iinen sacks Higgins. 56-1b dairy in linen sacks Solar Rock. SOA SAGER 3. 21 Common Fine. MeSteawW 60 Maniee 2... ee Kingsford’s Corn. 40 1-lb packages............. 6 20 1 Ib packages... . 6% Kingsford’s Silver Gloss. 40 1-lb packages............. 6% Gib peres ...... 5... 7 Diamond. 64 10c packages ........... 5 00 128 5¢ packages......... .. 5 00 32 10c and 64 5c packages...5 00 Common Corn. 20-lb boxes........ poe 5 ib bOmOs.. 2. t. ., 4% Common Gioss. i-l> packages..............- 4% 3-lb packages............... 44% 6-lb packages............... a44 40 and 50 1b boxes........... 2% PeOeeers 23% SOAP. Laundry. Armour’s Brands. Armour’s Family.......... 70 Armour’s Laundry........ 3 25 Armour’s Comfort......... 2 80 Armour’s White, 100s...... 6 25 Armour’s White, 50s....... 3 20 Armour’s Woodchuck .... 2 55 Armour’s Kitenen Brown. 2 00 Armour’s Mottled German 2 410 PMO DOR. 0. i 2 85 5 box lots, delivered........ 2 et 10 box lots, delivered....... 275 JAS. 8. KIRK & G0.’S GRANDS. American Family, wrp'd....3 = American Family, unwrp *d.3 2 Dee 3 3 Regeeee e o, 2 20 Savon .. S 112 5) Dusky Diamond. 56 0z...... 210 Dusky Diamond, 58 0z...... 3 00 Bite Hodis... = MiraOrme ss. Ss @ ee a 3 és — Bros. & Co.’s =e i eee ee Cotton On... . oo 3 7 MiameOIes 4 00 eee ee: 3°70 Heury Passolt’s Brand. Single box. ..2 85 5 box lots, delivered . .-2 80 10 box lots, delivered....... 2 25 hex Mats delivered... 2 65 Thompson & Chnte’s Brand. Single box... .. i 6.3... 2 % 5 oe hg delivered........ 2% 10 box lot, delivered........ 2 70 25 box lot, delivered........ 2 65 Wolverine Soap Co.’s Brands. ) Te WL PEUGIe UM ee ee 2 65 5 box lots, delivered........ 2 60 10_ box? “lots. .delivered........2 50 Allen B.2Wrisley’s Stead, Old Country, 80 1-lb. bars ..2 15 Good ¢ heer, 6v I-1b. bars....2 35 Uno, 100 %-lb. bars.......... 2%0 Doll, 100 10- rOS. Pere. cs. 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 invvice 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. Cur Lose 4 87 DOM Cees Powdered MAXX Powdered......... 4 82 Moma A 4 50 Granulated in bbls... ......4 25 Granulated in bags... Cee eee 4 2 Pine Granulated ........... 4 xf Extra Fine Granulated..... 437 Extra Coarse Granulated... .4 37 Diamond Confee. A........ 42 Confece. Standard A.........4 12 4 TABLE SAUCES. Lea & Perrin’s, large..... 4 75 Lea & Perrin’s, small.....2 75 Halford, targe............ 3% Halferdamall....... 1... 2 25 Salad Dressing, large.....4 55 Salad Dressing, small..... 2 6 TOBACCOS. Cigars. G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand. ( BOE Wee ee H. & P. Drug Co.'s ‘an Qutatette 2... -..... 35 00 Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.'s brand. New Gericke... 35 00 VINEGAR. Leroux Cider... i -10 Robinson’s Cider, 40 grain.. 10 Robinsoun’s Cider, 50 grain. “12 WICKING. mo. oO ereces.............. Be No. 1, per gross 30 No. 2, per gross 40 ING: Ser PrOes. ce: 7 Fish and Oysters Fresh Fish. Per lb. Whitefish ......_... @ a Loo @ 8 Black Bass.......... @ 10 Balieat :..:.. @ 2% Ciscoes or a @ 4 Bluefish. . i @ Ww Live Lobster....... @ 16 a Lobster. @ is ee. @ 10 Haddock See eee ee @ 8 No. 1 Pickerel...... @ 8 PAM 2 @ 7 Smoked White...... @ 8 Red Snapper. @ 18 Col River Salmon.. @ 13 Mackerel @ 20 Gaited inn Clini: FE. H Conunts........ @ 38 ¥. J. D. Selects. ..... @ 2 ie @ 2 F. J. D. Standards. . @ 20 BMCHOIS. .. 2... 2.8. @ 18 Standards... ... @ 16 Pavorite <....... 5... @ 4 Oysters in Bulk. Counts. sees 2 00 Extra Selects........ 1 60 MCMOOER es . e nck 1 30 Mediuins.....- 2... 110 Baltimore Standards 95 OMI ols 1 25 Shrimps... -...-.... @ 12 Shell Goods. Oysters, per 100.. aa Clams, per 100....... 2) SOD! 0 Candies. Stick Candy. — ails Standard... .. 02... sxe 7 Standard H. H...... %@ 7 Standard Twist..... @7 nus boat... 7 KO 8% cases stra HH... @ 8% Boston Cream...... @ 8% Mixed Candv. Competition......... @6 Stundard........ @ 6% Header oo... Gi Conserve. oo... 5. @7 OGAE ee. @iT% ibe os lo, @ 8% Hye 2. @ 8 Cut Loat........ - @ 8 English Rock....... @ 8 Kindergarten....... @ 8% French Cream...... @ 9 Dandy Pan...... oe @10 Valley Cream.. .... @13 Fancy —In Bulk. Lozenges, plain..... @ 8% Lozenges, printed. . @ 8% Choe. Drops........ ll @l4 Choc. Monumentals @i12 Gum Drope......... @5 Moss Drops......... @7% SOur Prope... 2... 8% Imperiais ... 8% @ Fancy—In 5 Ib. Boxes. Lemon Drops....... @50 Seur Drops......... @50 Peppermint Drops.. @60 Chocolate Drops.... @65 H. M. Choe. Drops.. 75 Gum Drops. ........ @35 Licorice Drops...... @i5 A.B. oe @50 Lozenges, plain.. @55 Lozenges, printed.. @60 imperiais @60 Mottoes-(.-.... @65 Cream Har. ......... @v Molasses Bar ....... @50 Hand Made Creams. 80 @90 Fiain Creams... .. . 60 @s0 Decorated Creams. . @90 ering Hock... .. |. @b0 Burnt Almonds..... 13 @ Wintergreen Berries @55 Caramels. No. 1 wrapped, 2 lb. OXeS . @30 No. 1 wrapped, 3 ib. boxes 45 No. 2 w rapped, 2 pomes 2.0. Fresh Meats. Beef. Carcass... 8... 5%4@ 7 Fore quarters......... 4 6 Hind quarters........ 6 GIT Loins Noe: g......... 2: 8 @i2 Babee - 8 @lu mounds... 54@ 6% Chucks @5 Reetes @4 Pork. Pressed (oi 3%@ 4 Deis 2 64@ Shoulders........_.... @5 beat bard... @ 5% Mutton. Carcass eens) soe © Ge Spring Lambs......... 7 @8 Veal. (arcs 6 @8 Crackers. The N. Y. Biscuit Co. quotes as follows: Butter. PeyHIONr XXX... Seymour XXX, 3 lb. carton 6% Hamity Me 6 Family ae 31b carton.. 6% Banca XEN 6 Salted XXX, 3 lb carton. 6% ja. SOGa See 634 Soda XXX,3lb carton.... 6% peas, Cy T% Mophyreste. 6 og. 10 Long Isiand Wafers....... 11 L. 1. Wafers, 1 lbearton .. 12 Oyster Square — XXX. ee ce 6 Sq. Oys. XXX.1 1b carton. 7 Farina Oyster, XXX.. 6 SWEET GOODS—Boxes. Arena 11% Bent’s Cold Water......... 13 Bertie Hose. 8 Cocoanut es ed le Coffee Cakes. . Frosted Honey. Graham Crackers ..._... | Ginger Snaps, XXX round. 7 Ginger Snaps, XXX city... 7 Gin. Sups,XXX homemade 7 Gin. Snps,XXX scalloped... 7 Ginger Vanilla... -. 8 Emiperials 8% Jumples, Honey........... 11 Molasses Cakes............ 8 Marshmallow ............. 15 Marshmallow Creams..... 16 Pretzels, hand made ..... 81% Pretzelettes, LittleGerman 6% Sugar Cake... 8 Sultanas ..... pears, Eunem oc . % Sears’ Zephyrette.. ee Vanilla Square........... 8% Vanitla Wafers .......... 14 Pecan Wafers....... ...... 16 Fruit Coffee...... Sees oe 10 Mixed Picnic... ........... 10% Cream Jumbles ............ 11% Boston Pinger ee. 5, 8&4 Chimmie Fadden.......... 10 Pineapple Glace.. piece: 16 Grains and Feedstuffs Winter Wheat Flour. Local Brands. Patents 5 00 sccond Patest............. 4 55 ee ne 4 30 Se 3 90 Greeam . 430 Buckwheat . Se ; 40 count. Flour in bbls., 25¢ per bbl. ad- ditional. Worden Grocer Co.’s — Quaker “a Gusher a 4 45 Giener Se: 4 45 Spring Wheat Flour. Olney & Judson ’s sinenee Ceresota, igs tl Sao Sidi othe elie a alg 7 Ceresota, ae. i 65 Ceresota, 14S... ee, 4 60 Ball-Barnhart-} Putman’ s Brand. Grand Republic, \%s 4 75 Grand Republic. 4s.. «-- 4 Grand Republie, OB. - 460 Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand. Laurel, 4s ld hc i @ awe Me 4 65 paerel 5 4 60 Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s Brand. Parisian, \s. 4% Parisian, 48 ee ee 4 65 Parisian. Mee 4 60 Meal. DOM 1 50 Cranaiated oo. 1 7% Feed and Millstuffs. St. Car Feed. screened .... 10 No. 1 Corn and Oats....... 9 Unbolted Corn Meal Winter Wheat Bran... ... 9 00 Winter Wheat Middlings..10 00 Sereenings 8 00 The O. E. Brown Mill Co. quotes as follows: New Corn. Con foie: 2 Less than ear lots......... 26 Oats. Car lots. . . 20 Carlots, clipped... oe oe Less than car lots.. ..2 Hay. No. 1 Timothycarlots.. 9 50 No. 1 Timothy, tou lots 11 Fruits. Oranges. Fancy Seedlings Mexicans 150-176-200 @3 00 Cal. Seedlings. ...... 2 5U@3 Ov Lemons. Strictly choice 36vs.. @2 50 Strictly choice 300s.. @2 50 Fancy 360s...... ... @3 vv Ex.Fancy 300s...... 3 25@3 50 Bananas. A definite price is hard name, as it varies according size, ‘of. -bunch_ and quality fruit. Medium bunches...1 25 @I Large bunches...... 17 @2 00 Foreign Dried Fruits. es — Layers to to of 50 ca @10 Figs, <= Smyrna SO20. cs @l4 Figs, Naturals in 30 Tb. bags,......... @7 — Fards in 101b Demee cc @8 maten, “Pards in 601b Gasee @6 Dates, Sensiedas G.M. K., 60 lb cases, new @6 Dates, Sairs 60 Ib oe ce. @ 4% Nuts. Almonds, Tarragona. . @12 Almonds, Ivaca....... @ll Almonds, California, soft shelled......... @12 Brastiq new.........._ @7% oa .............. @lvu Walnuts, Grenobles .. @12 Walnuts, Calif No. 1. @lv Walnuts, soft shelled eo ee ee @12% Table Nuts, fancy.. @ll Table Nuts, choice. . @10 Pecans, Med @9 Pecans, Ex. Large.. @10 Pecans, Jumbos....... @i2 Hickory Nuts per bu., Olio, new. :.......... @ Cocoanuts, full cnete @3 75 Butternuts per b @ 60 Black Walnuts wee bu @ 7 Peanuts. Fancy, H. P., Game Joo ee @ 4% Choice, H. I P., ‘Extras. Choice, H. P., Extras, Roasted Provisions. Swift & Company quote as follows: Barreled Pork. me 8 00 ee. 8 7% Clear Neem 2 lls. 8 50 oe ee 8 50 ee 11 50 Ream ‘@ ame 9 00 Dry Salt — Bees 5 oe 5 Extra shorts............. 434 Smoked [leats. Hams, 12 lb average .... 9% Hams, 14 lb average Hams, 16 lb average. . 944 Hams, 20 lb average..... 83, Ham dried beef......_... 10% Shoulders (N. Y. cut). 54 Bacon, elear....... ..... q California hams......... 5% Boneless hams........... 8% Cooked ham. ............ 10% Lards. In Tierces. Comipoaud. 2... 5 |... 3% a 514 5615 Tubs....... advance he Sib Tubs....... advance \% SGID Tina ....... advance 4 201 Palis....... advance bg 10 Ib Pails.......advance % 5 1b Pails. ...... advance hy 210 Pais. .....- advance 1 Sausages. poems... 5 vee. 6% Prometoee......... 6% ro... 6% Mioo@ .-.. |... sl 6 Tonewe . ...... 9 Head cheese...... 6% Beef. Mure Mess... ...... 7 00 Hemeress (..... 10 00 PO 10 00 ee Feet. Kits, 15 lbs.... ' 80 44 bis 40 Ibe. 1 50 % bbls, 80lbs........... 2 380 Tripe. Mite, fhe... 2)... 75 a¢ Dis, 0 lbe............ 1 40 6 bis, GO ibe... ......... 2% Casings. Porm ......... 1... 18 Beet rounds............. 3% peer middies,........__ 8 ON eg 60 Butterine. Hols, Gairy......2...... 10 Solid, dairy...... eee 9% Rolls, CrCammery ......... 13 Solid, creamery . 12% Canned Meats. Corned beef, 2 lb.. 200 Corned beef, 14 m.. 14 00 Roast beef, 2... 2 00 Potted ham, 14s. 50 Potted ham, —... 1 00 Deviled ham, ae oo Deviled ham, Petted tongue a es Potted tongue \s.. Hides and Pelts. Perkins & Hess pay as fol- lows: Hides. Green... 5. 5 @6 Part cused... ......_... @ 6% Pull Cured............ G46@) 76 Eey 2... 6 @8 | 5 @6 ae €uzed....:...... Gag 8 Calfskins, green...... 6%4@ 8 Calfskins, cured...... T%@ 9 a eae, 3 @30 somaain.. a 9@ MH meee Woe | ol... 80@ 1 25 Gray Pox... ....... 30@ 7 Cross Pox ........... 25@500 Badger. woes Sa of Cat, W Ne w@ 2 Cat, MOUHe. 8s... 10o@ «<0 Pishee 3 00@ 5 00 Lynx... — 1.002 Martin, Dade 1 50@ 3 0U Martin, Yellow ...... %@ 150 50@ 7 50 t0@ 2 v0 00@15 60 2 0u@ 6 00 Teoma, dry, perlb. 16@ 25 Deerskin,gr’n, perlb. 10@ 12% Wool, Waeenes 23 10 @16 Unwashed ....... ... 5 @l2 Miscellaneous. a 2 @3 Grease Butter......... 1 @e MWitGHGS 4... 5: 1%@ 2 Gia ay 2 0@2 % Oils. Barrels. Beene. @1 XXX W. W.Mich.Hdit W W Michigan........ High Test Headlight.. Gas Toe. oO Renata Crockery and Glassware. AKRON STONEWARE. Butters. 36 #Al., per doe......... i to@ gal., per gal..... Seal... pereal........- a gal., per gal.. 12 gal., per gal..... 15 gal. 20 gal. 25 gal. 30 gal. Churns. 2 to 6 gal., per gal .... meat-tubs, per gal.. meat-tubs, per gal.. meat-tubs, per gal.. meat-tubs, per gal.. Churn Dashers, per doz.. Milkpans. \% gal. flat or rd. bot., doz. 1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each Fine Glazed Miikpans. ae % gal. flatorrd bot. IZ. 1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each Stewpans. % gal. fireproof, bail, doz. 1 gal. fireproof, bail, doz.1 Jugs. a al, wer doe.......... Ye gal.. pordas.... ..,..... PUGS Sal, per eat... .... .. Tomato Jugs. 4 gal., per dog.......... OOO. oc ok, 1 gal., Corks for \% gal., per doz.. Corks for 1 gal., per doz.. Preserve Jars and Covers. ¥g gal., stone cover, doz... 1 gal., stone cover, doz. . Sealing Wax. 5 lbs. in package, per lb... LAMP BURNERS. No. € San... i 1 Sun Sec urity, No. 1 Security, Wo 8.000000. |. bl Cimee,... 4... 20 30 7 -1 00 a LAMP CHIMNEYS—Common. Per box of 6 doz. Ne: @ Sam.... 1... ... a 1 88 ee ee First pong No. 0 Sun, crimp wrapped and labeled. No. 1 Sun, crim wrapped and labe ed. No. 2 Sun, crimp wrapped and laboled. XXX Flint. No. 0 Sun, crimp wrapped and inbeled.. No. 1 Sun, crimp “et ae and ae Sun, crim top wrapped and labeled... is op, i 8 is CHIMNEYS—Pearl Top. No. 1 ig wrapped and labele No. 2 — wrapped and labeled. . No.2 Sun, La Bastie. dog 1 Sun. plain bulb, “Small Bulb, ” for Globe Lamps...... per 10 25 3 25 55 75 75 No. “ Crimp, per Goe....... 1 35 No. 2 Crimp, per doz.. Rochester. No. 1, Lime (65¢ doz)... No. 2 Lime (70e doz). No. 2) Flint (80¢ doz). Electric. No. No. 2, Flint (80¢ doz)... OIL CANS. GEGEN CS OS ee Pump Cans 5 gal Rapid steady stream. 5 gal Eureka non-oy — 1 3 gal Home Rule.. 5 gal Home Rule.... 5 gal Pirate King...... LANTERNS. No. OTubular..... No. No. 13 Tubular Dash. No. 1 Tub., glassfount.. No. No. 3Street Lamp ... 2, Lime (70c doz) .. 1B Tobolar. |... gal tin cans with spout.. gal galv iron with spout. 2 gal galv iron with spout. 3 gal galv iron with spout. 4 5 gal galv iron with spout. 5 5 gal galv iron with faucet 6 5 gal Tilting cans....... 5 gal galv iron Nacefas ... 12 Tubu ar, side lamp. . LANTERN GLOBES. No. each, box 10 ‘cents. 0 Tubular, cases 1 doz. No. 0 Tubular, cases 2 doz. each, box 15 cents..... No. 0 Tubular, bbls 5 doz. each No. 0 Tubular, bull’s eye, cases 1 doz. each.. LAMP WICKS . No. 0 per gross. . No. 1 pergross........... i No. 2 per gross......... NG. Sper GrGhs... Mammoth per doz.... seeee D 1 1 2 oi coe } R gsezs sessexanses ase eNOS 0 me he OS a oo w 60 wsSSSs 5 20 25 38 58 70 22 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Experience of a Farmer Who Turned Storekeeper. Written for the TRaDESMAN. When Bill Gillet had that big front room ‘‘done off’’ for the accommodation of the post office, he builded wiser than he knew, for the country was fast set- tling up, and it was not long before he found himself in the very midst of a busy little village. He decided that a few groceries would make a profitable side line and pay much better than stamped envelopes and postal cards, so it happened, one day, that the neighbors were sur- prised to see a load of boxes and barrels dumped off on the post office steps. It was a complete stock of groceries, so Bill told his patrons; but it was not long before he found his mistake. Peo- ple have such a faculty of wanting things, and if it happens to be some- thing the grocer is out of, those are not wanting who are unkind enough to make slurring remarks about the _insti- tution and aver that there is never any- thing worth having in the dog-goned shop. Bill had ordered sugar and salt and kerosene oil. He had even gone so far as to buy a dozen cans of baking pow- der, with a scheme in connection. He also had, through the advice of his wife, laid in a supply of brown laundry soap and a box of stick candy. He then chalked the word ‘‘Groseryes’’ on a board, and tacked it over his front door. Bill sold eighty-five cents’ worth of goods the first afternoon and began to feel like a business man. He had spent a large sum of money on his stock and now it was beginning to come back to him. He told Mrs. Gillet that night that he had made a mistake all along in trying to support the family on that dod-gasted farm, and that he was going to sell it the first chance he had, put the money into gouds and then take things easy. He went to sleep and dreamed of unlimited silver coinage and long rows of customers, vying with each other as to which should be the first to purchase his goods. When I first visited Gillet’s store, he had been in trade something like four years. Time had dealt kindly with him, yet he seemed worried and un- easy. He was trying to get the cork out of an empty catsup bottle fora little girl, and was making poor headway. The cork had been pushed down into the neck of the bottle, and held its posi- tion with stubborn pertinacity. **Let me take it out while you fill this jug with vinegar,’’ remarked a sleepy- looking boy whose mother was probably waiting impatiently for him to come home. Gillet looked at the boy a mo- ment, as if undecided what sort of an oath would best express his contempt for him; but, thinking better of the matter, he gave the cork a vicious jab with the piece of wire he was using and, failing to dislodge it, laid the bot- tle down on the counter and started off with the jug. I was a little curious to see how the boy was going to release the cork; but I was not kept long in suspense. Tak- ing a button hook out of his pocket, he poked it into the neck of the bottle, shook the cork around until the hook caught it just right, and then drew it out. When Gillet got back with the vinegar the job was finished. He was too much piqued to ask how the trick had been done and the boy took his jug and departed. ‘‘I’d like two pounds of pearl tapi- oca,’’ said a customer who had come in while the jug was being filled. ‘‘Well, sir,’’ said Gillet, ‘‘fact is, I hain’t got none o’ that kind 0’ seasonin’. There’s so little call fer it, it don’t pay to ship it in, an’ the season's be’n so tarnal dry, the farmers hain’t offered none fer sale yit.’’ The customer choked down an incip- ient smile and departed. ‘*Beats all what kinds o’ stuff folks’ll ask fer,’’ said Bill, as he groped around in his pockets. for his pipe. ‘‘Allers awantin’ suthin’ er ruther what the’ hain't no need o’ havin’ no more’n nothin’. Woman here to-day wanted two pound o’ figs, an’ jest about every day somebody er ruther’s after cheese er this ‘ere prepared mustard er sar- dines er mixed candy er suthin’ I hain’t got. It jes’ makes me tired.”’ ‘‘Why don’t you keep some of those things then? There’s a better profit in them than in the kinds of goods you have here.”’ ‘‘Well, sir, it’s like this: It hain’t necessary. Folks hain’t no business abuyin’ such like truck. There’s no sense in it. They’d a sight better buy suthin’ ’t’ll do 'em some good, ’cordin’ to my tell.’’ ‘‘But if they want these things they’re bound to have them and, if you don’t keep them, some one else who does will sell them and make the profit on them. Then, it’s a good advertisement for you to have those—”’ Just then the sleepy boy burst the door open and exclaimed: ‘Say! Ma says you’ve gotter pay her fer sp’ilin’ her vinegar jug aputtin’ kar’sene into it. She put it onto some ‘em an’ we hain 't got no more onions, neither. ’’ Gillet looked puzzled for a moment and then he blurted out: “*It was oil yo’ asked fer, yo’ young scalawag. I remember now.’’ ‘‘Didn’t neither. I asked fer vinegar, an’ you told me to go West, you was busy. Now you gotter gimme a new jug an’ some vinegar.’’ ‘*You’re a blamed liar! Yo’ never said vinegar an’ I’ll kick you ou’doors ef you don’t shet up!”’ ‘*Dad’ll fix you if you tetch me ? said the boy, backing off. ‘‘Tetch me, if ye dare! Come on, ole counter jumper! Counter jumper! Counter jumper! Ky yi, kee yee!’’ and the boy executed a short war dance on the door- step. Gillet was pretty mad, and he started after the boy in good earnest. ‘‘T’ll break every bone in your body, you sassy scoundrel !’’ he exclaimed, as he shot out the door. I watched the performance through a window for a few minutes; but, being satisfied that the boy was abundantly able to take care of himself, I paid no further attention to the matter. Pres- ently Gillet came back, purple as to complexion and short as to breath. He was much excited and ripped around at a great rate. After he had quieted down a little I asked : ‘*How do you like keeping store?’’ ‘*Don’t like it at all. I’m sorry I didn’t stick to the farm.’’ ‘*T thought you owned the farm yet.’’ ‘‘Well, I do, kinder. Got a plaster onto it, now, though.’’ ‘*Then why not sell off your goods, pay the mortgage and go back to your old trade, if it suits you?’’ ‘*T would in a minute, ef I could, but I kinder can’t. Ye see, I gi’n a mort- gage on this ’ere stock o’ goods, too!’’ onions fer supper an’ now we can’t eat’ ‘‘Isn’t there enough in the stock to © pay both mortgages?’’ ‘‘T don’t think it. It’s like this: There’s lots owin’ me an’ | can’t git it, an’ the fellers I buy of is pokin’ it to me pretty hard, an’ there’s so much competition I can’t make nothin’ any- way, an’ the farm’s kinder gone back sence I left it, so’s ’t it’d take a good two year to git it in shape ag’in ef the’ wa’n’t that blamed rag ag’in it. I’m drove this way an’ that way, an’ I can’t git money enough to pay my bills. If I c’d jes’ le’ go the hull blamed thing, store, farm an’ all, an’ start in ag in fresh an’ square an’ clean handed, I'd do it in a holy minute. A man hain’t no business monkeyin’ with storekeepin’ unless he understands it, an’ yo’ kin betcher sweet life, young feller, *t when I do git out, I'll stay out, now, hence- forth ’n’ forever. Amen.’’ SAP PAILS... That will hold Sap AND SYRUP CANS.. Which do not Leak. Our sap pails are full size and are guaranteed not to leak, They are made almoststraight, flaring enough to pack con- veniently. Our syrup Cans are double seamed, both top and bottom, with packed screws. Prices lower than ever. Send for special quotations. WM. BRUMMELER & SONS, Manufacturers and Jobbers of Pieced and Stamped Tinware, Dealers in Rags, Rubbers and Old Metal, 200 S. Ionia St., Grand Rapids. Telephone 640. © GEo. L. THURSTON. We carry in stock all sizes of Cauldron Kettles, including : 3, 5, 6 and 8 Pails 22, 30, 45, 60 and 90 Gallons The Kettles we handle are superior to many as to smoothness, weight and finish. We are making special low prices, which will be quoted up- on application, stating how many and what sizes are wanted. FOStET, Stevens & U0. MEN OF MARK. W. N. Kelley of the Firm of Kelley & Covell. Walter N. Kelley was born at May- bee, Monroe county, Mich., May 4, 1866, his father being of Scotch descent, while his mother was descended from the good, old-fashioned Dutch Pennsylvania stock. He attended school until 15 years of age, when he learned tele- graphy at Maybee, subsequently serving the Wabash Railway in the capacity of extra agent for about five years. He was then assigned to a station at Whit- taker, during which time he kept books a year for J. A. Doty & Co., which en- abled him to familiarize himself with the lumber business. This firm was also conducting a lumber-and_ charcval business at Slights, and, receiving a lucrative offer to remove to that place and take the position of book-keeper, he accepted the proposition. Four months later he purchased a third inter- est in the business, and about a year afterward he and Mr. Doty bought out the third partner, so that he owned a haif interest in the business jointly. At the end of another year Mr. Kelley purchased M. Doty’s interest, when the style was changed to Walter N. Kelley. In 1892, one-half interest in the busi- ness was purchased by Chas. T. Covell, and the firm name became Kelley & Covell. The business includes a saw- mill, shingle mill, charcoal plant and general store. Mr. Kelley was married in 1884 to Miss Nellie L. Van Lieu, of Whittaker. Four children now grace the family cir- cle— three daugbters and one son. The family reside in Traverse City. Mr. Kelley is a member of the Masonic bodies, including the Knights Templar and Shrine degrees. Aside from this order, he has never sought any affiliation elsewhere. Mr. Kelley has a ten years’ cut of pine, hemlock and hardwood timber, and is handling his business a little differently than some do who are sim- ilarly situated, inasmuch as he is work- ing up a trade direct with the consumer, so far as it is possible for him to do so. He attributes his position to hard work, coupled with persistent effort along cer- tain well-defined lines, and those who know him best and realize how hard he has had to struggle to get on his feet, do not begrudge him the position he has attained. —_—__ 6. — Mill Iron Muskegon River. Sae measter ac bane read sam _ papar wat yo hane prantang an ae tank hae bane bully gude papar. I tank yo say MICHIGAN TRADESMAN somtang bout fallar wa’t bane lavang ba San _Creke; Meastar Trukee; ae know das fallar’ long tame, an ha bane Bully gude fallar, a_tal yo; hae Bane Franch man an hae got wafe what. bane hingane waman; val whan hae com by Muskegon River, dae bane first cept Hingan wat Bane har; hae say by mae von tames mae an mac wafe bane farst two whiteman on das River ba gar; an ae tank hae bane talling truf; to sae measter a vant to sae ba you, ae koun onder faller, vat bane on das River long tame tos he bane yonie De Haas; he bane now kapeing tavarn by Fremont; hae bane lattle cuss but hae bane Dutch- man; hae don’t got Hingan woman for wafe; but hae got Dutch woman, an har bane bully gude Dutch woman a tal yo; ae kno das fallar taventy-fime yar; an ae vant to sae samtangs bout dans Dutch tavern; yo sae ae bane by das place gude many taime a tal yo; an ae sae gude many tangs vot bane som fun ae bat yo; val ac sae by yo af yo, vant gude blace to stop com by yonie De Haas; ven yo got som supper yo sa Yonie, ae lake lattle fun, hae sae yo bot yo boots ae bane on at to halp yo out yo bat; any tang vat yo vant, yost sae; yo bat yo got aet; hae kaping salloon don salar an yo gatting gude alcohola tan cent drank yost so gude as was ae bane talling yo yonie bane lattle cuss; yo bat das vas so; but ven hae got mad ; ba gol yo tank hae vugh ton; hae don’t vas scare for notings ae sae ham lick faller gude many tame whan onder faller bane bigger; yo bat yon, vas in at, avery tame; ae kan tal yo, oll tham fallars vat travelang stop by yonies ; von taime ae bane by yonie; an George Sampsons an onder fallar binam Cas Bradford ; ha bane dare to; yo Kno dem fallar ae tank; ae prove by dam faller vat, ae sa; val faller bane bordang by yonie; hae got wafe an ba gol hae tal hav das hae goin to kill has, das tann; hae scarce hav yo bat; ae tank hae bane jeus from das wafe cos das traveling mans bane roud or som onder faller; vai all das night hae don’t was lat har sleap bot kape har vake; yonie vas come to kall fallar arly in morniy, an sha kall oute by yon; an you; hae rap on da dore, an sha yumping up pratty quvick an open doar; yump out in hall; yon hae ham das fallar an sae hae cuff das stuffing out ham ha don’t ben have hassalf dan hae tak vomans vay ; you bat sha bane glad; val couple hours yon go by has Roon Kallang ham by Brakfast val ba gol hae sa notang ; yonie ha kant opan up da door so ha lookang ap da transum ba gol hae sae Rope by transum hae cot das Rope an yumping yeasus das fallar fallan don on das floor; yonie he hollar an sae de dam Skunabitch hae hang hesalf an bene dider as mackaral fish; val ba gol Yeorge Sampson an Cas Bradford both bane pretty scare ae tal yo; Yeorge hae bane lokang for somvon to sleepin with; hae sa hae naver sleepin lone in das Hous Someore; ae bat yo gude many dings haupan by das dutch tavarn woald make gude story Buke; yo bat yo; ae got not thae taine; to tal yo das story al by von taine som onder taine ae_ vill contiue das an tal yo Bott Ed Frick an Yeorge Owen an Dick, Skavage an som onder faalars vat stays by thas Dutch Tavern by Yonie De Haas and ae ta yo hae ban a Yenuine Yentleman. Yours Someonder taime, YONNIEYONSON. —__+ «.___ - Philadelphia is being urged by some of its citizens to acguire the block burned over by the recent fire and make of ita — park Hardware Price Current. AUGURS AND BITS Snell’s.. re ea i be ema 70 Jennings’, genuine a 25410 VCmningn, WHIAMGH 60&10 AXES Hirst Quality, S. B. Bronge.............. 5 00 Firat Quality, Di Bronag.. 9 50 First Quality, S. B.S. Steel.. 5 50 First Quality, D. B. Steel... . 8... 10 50 BARROWS a $12 00 14 00 Garden.. ce i net 30 00 BOLTS ee 6010 Carriage new list. . 70 to 75 ee ae 50 BUCKETS ee $3 2 BUTTS, CAST (ase Boose Fin feured:. TO0&10 Wrotehs Narrow T5&10 BLOCKS Onditery Tackle... _..... 70 CROW BARS COsG tee -- per lb 4 CAPS RO perm 65 Mee perm 5 ee perm + SG gets. perm 60 CARTRIDGES hore ee 50k 5 Cemere e e 29k 5 CHISELS PIGECe Ee 80 pocmes Cramie....... 1... |. hoe oe 80 cee OO 80 ROCHOS SPOR 80 DRILLS Morse a BM SiOcEA 60 Taper and Straight Shank.,. ede cee a a cca. Od 5 mores Taper Shane 50k 5 ELBOWS Cont mete Git... 1. doz. net 55 Corrugated....... eS 25 OU dis 40&10 EXPANSIVE BITS Clark’s small, $18; a $26. . —s vee © e272 oe... ae dae List ew AMeGHeCan FO&10 CO 70 Heller’s Horse Rasps.. i“. -60&10 GALVANIZED. ‘IRON. Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26: 27. .... 28 List 12 13 14 15 ms. 17 Discount, 75 GAUGES Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............... bU&16 KNOBS—New List Door, mineral, jap. es... !.. 70 Door, porcelain, Jap. trimmings... ........ 80 MATTOCKS POO RV $16 00, dis 60410 ore kgs $15 00, dis 60410 Oe es $18 50, dis 20410 MILLS Cotlec, Purkers Ca.8..... 0... 40 Coffee, P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s — 40 Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’s........ 40 Coffee, Enterprise eee 30 MOLASSES GATES Stebbin’s Pattern.. - 60&10 Stebbin’s Genuine.. See es ee ee 60&10 Enterprise, self- measuring . NAILS” Advance over base, on both anaes and Wire. Steel nails, base..... ... 1 Wire nails, base..... eet eee Clee me 60 GO Gavance. -........ sk... 1) to 16 Advance............. oa: 05 SAGE ee. 10 Caavence co. . 20 Maeva le. 30 OVO G 45 OMA 7 Pine 5 #@yvance............. 50 Casing 10 advance........ 15 Casing 8 advance.... 25 Casing 6 advance...... 35 Winish Wadvance ...... ..<. 3) Minis Gadvance. 6... 35 Ber SG ROMENOO oo oes bo 45 Barrel % Advance. 83 PLANES Cre Teel Oo. 's, fasiew |... ll... @50 cioekati Estacion ee ee 60 pendusky Too Co.'s. faney................. @50 CMGM IE GURIOG oo @50 Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s wood......... 60 PANS RO AC “eee Ganon eee ed Nou ccu seca: W& 5 RIVETS Iron and Tinned . eee eee es eae 60 Copper Rivets faders 60 PATENT PLANISHED IRON 20 ‘A’? Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10 2 “B” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 25 to 27 9 Broken packages 4c per pound extra. HAMMERS yon @Covs; new tit... cs. dis 33% MU eee ew cece Sues suce lcwede cg dis 25 shes Serene... on 40&10 Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.......... |. 70 Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel Hand 30e list 40610 23 HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS Stamped Tin Ware. - new list 75410 dapanned Pin Ware 20&10 Gramie ton Ware................. new list 40&i0 * HOLLOW WARE ee - 60410 Ratiien 0), ao . 60&10 Spiders .... See ee, .. 60a 10 HINGES Geee, Ciagms £22... dis 60&10 ee a. per doz. net 2 50 WIRE GOODS Ce ' 80 Screw Eyes oS 80 Hook’s.. ee ee xu Gate Hooks and. Eyes.. bee eee ae as 80 LEVELS | Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s..... a. «6 RO as Sisal, % inch and —,, a . 6 Manilla.. 9 SQUARES | Steel and Irom. ......... a 80 EP OG BONO i i Miae . SHEET TRON com. smooth. com. Noa Mio M .. 83 30 #2 40 Le ea 2 40 OT ee 2 6 Nos. 22 tO 24... eee 3 55 2 70 Nos. 2 eee 3 70 2 80 Ne. 27 SO 2 3 90 All sheets" No. 18 and ‘lighter, ‘over 30 inches wide not less than 2-10 extra. SAND PAPER Rene SCC0. 1 Oe. dis — ——e Solid Eyes. .per ton 20 00 TRAPS” Steel, Game. . Oneida Community, ‘New house’ <. Oneida Community, Hawley « Norton's TOK10&10 15 6010 50 Mamse, choter. per doz Prous, GAIUSIGN:. per doz 1 2 WIRE PS MARNE 75 PCIe ATMO vb) Copierog Marece. ae Manned Maree. 8... kl 62% Coppered Spring Steel......... 50 Barbed Fence, galvanized . Leela. 2 10 Barbed Fence, painted.. i HORSE NAILS” ee dis 4041C ee ee oe dis 5 Northwestern... weave. Cle 1QK10 WRENCHES Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.. tee 30 cee Cee... kw. e ‘ 50 Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought 80 Coes Fasent, Siaiieeuic. ................... 80 MISCELLANEOUS Bie Cae 50 Pome Cred ee. 80 morews, New Eine. oe. 8d Casters, Red and Fiste............. .... 50K 10410 Trepers, Aerie. ................-... 50 ee 600 pound casks. .... el 634 Per pound.. oe 6% LO 12% The prices of the many other qualities of solder in the market indicated by private brands vary according to composition. oe Grade 10x14 IC, Charcoal... 14x20 IC, Charcoal . ec ecas 20x14 1x, WO ee a 7 00 Each additional X on this grade, 81.25. = Grade 10x14 IC, Charcoal . 5 14x20 IC; Charcoal . ee Oe 10x14 re ee 6 14x20 IX, Charcoal . 6 Each additional X on this grade, $1.50. ROOFING PLATES Texze IC, Charocal, Dean... ................ 5 14x20 IX, Charcoal, Dean ....... © zexze IC, Charcoal, Dean........ .:........ 10 14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade......... 4 5 9 1 14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade......... 20x28 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade........ 20x28 1x, Charcoal, Allaway Grade......... 1 BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE 14x56 IX, for No. 8 Bailers, | 14x56 IX, for No. 9 Boilers, ¢ P&T pound... SSSSSSE © WM. BRUMMELER & SONS, GRAND RAPIDS, Pay the highest price in cash for MIXED RAGS, RUBBER BOOTS AND SHOES, OLD IRON AND IETALS. postal “Any Old Thing.” Drop them a for offer on. EVEN Dotter Invested in Tradesman Com- pany’s COUPON BOOKS will yield handsome returns in saving book-keeping, be- sides the assurance that no charge is_ forgotten. Write Tradesman Company, GRAND RAPIDS. . 24 ms MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Association Matters | Michigan Hardware Association President, HENRY C. WEBER, Detroit; Vice-Pres- ident, CHas. F. Bock, Battle Creek; Secretary- Treasurer, HENRY C. MINNiE, Eaton Rapids. Michigan Retail Grocers’ Association President, J. WisLEK, Mancelona; Secretary, E. A. STOWE, Giraud Rapids; Treasurer, J. F. TaTMAN, Clare. Next Meeting—At Grand Rapids, March 3 and 4, 1897. Traverse City Business Men’s Association President, Tos. T. BaTEs; Secretary, M. B. HoLiy; Treasurer, C. A. HAMMOND. Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association President, HE. C. WINCHESTER; Secretary, HOMER Kuap; ‘Treasurer, J. GEO. LEHMAN. Regular Meetings—First aud third Tuesday evenings of each month at Retail Grocers’ Hali, over &. J. Herrick’s store. Owosso Business Men’s Association President, A. D. WHIPPLE; Secretar}, G. T. Camp- BELL; ‘Treasurer, W. KE. COLLINs. Jackson Retail Grocers’ Association President, Byron C. HILL; Secretary, W. H. Por- TER; Treusurer, J. F. HELMER. Alpena Business Men’s Association President, F. W. GiLcHRisT; Secretary, PARTRIDGE. Cc Ll: Lansing Retail Grocers’ Association President, F. &. JOHNSON; Secretary, A. M. DaRuine; Treasurer, L. A. GILKEY. Grand Rapids Retail Meat Dealers’ Association President, L. J. Katz; Secretary, PHiLip HILBER; Treasurer, S. J. HUFFORD. Official Call for the Winter Meeting of the M. R. G. A. Grand Rapids, Feb. 1o—The semi- annual convention of the Michigan Re- tail Grocers’ Association will be bela in Pythian Temple, Grand Rapids, Wednesday and Ilhursday, March 3 and 4, convening at g o'clock on the day tirst named. Every grocer doing business in Michigan ts invited tc at- tend the meeting and participate in the proceedings of the Convention, as mat- ters of great importance to the trade wiil come up for uiscussion and action. Owing to the Convention occurring at the same time as the Democratic State Convention, those who desire to attend can obtain halt tare tickets at any rail- way Station in Michigan, good going ‘Tuesday and Wednesday and good re- turning Thursday. it is propused to hold business ses- sions Wednesday forenvon and atternoon and Ibursday turenoon. An _ entertain- ment feature will be proviaed tor Wea- nhesday evening in the Shape ot a com- plimentary bauquet, tendered by the Mich:gan Tradesiuan, to which repre- Sseulatives of the Jobbing and manu- facturing interests of the State will also be invited. Amoug the special topics already as- Sigued tor presentation at the conven tion are the toliowiig: ‘*How the tovod laws should be en- forced’’—Hon. E. N. Baies, Moline. ** the exemption laws again’’—Rob- ert Johuson, Cadillac. ‘‘Co-uperative buying among. gro- cers’’—N. H. Beebe, Big Rapids. ** My experience in shipping produce outside of Michigan’’—k. k. Hewitt, Rocktord. ‘Is the basket branding law enacted by the Legislature a desirable one’’— John W. Densmore, Reed City. **What effect bas the sale ot butterine on the price of dairy butter’’—J. Ma- son, Clare. ‘* Retail grocers’ associations; -their objects and benefits’’—W. H. Porter, Jackson. ‘Reasons for the January slump in eggs’'—M. R. Alden, Grand Rapuus. ‘*The peddling manutacturers’’—E, Marks, Secretary Detroit Retail Gro- cers and butchers’ Protective Associa- tion. ‘*The retail grocer’’—W. H. Porter, Jackson. ** Relation of wholesale and retail gro- cers’’—Wm. Judson, Grand Rapids. Believing that our Association 1s des- tined to accomplish much good for the grocers of Michigan, and contideut that you wiil feel like doing your share to assist in the good work, we earnestly invite you to be present on the occasion of our midwinter convention. Come one; come all! Jess WISLER (Mancelona), Pres. E. A. Stowe (Grand Rapids), Sec’y. a Special Meeting of the Jackson Re- tail Grocers’ Association. Jackson, Feb. 6—The Jackson Retail Grocers’ Association has two occasions each year which are looked forward to by the people of the city as the ‘‘events’’ of the year. ‘The first is the social meeting, held about February 1, and the other 1s the annual excursion and picnic, the second week in August. Wednesday evening, Feb. 3, was the time decided upon tor the sixth annual social meeting, which was held in A. VU. U. W. hall. ‘The number of grocers and their guests present, on a careful estimate, was said to be between 300 and 350. It is needless to say that everyone present enjoyed themselves the whole evening, as has been the case at all of the previous socials. The oc- casion was graced with the presence of many who do not attend any other eveuts of this kind during the year, and also by a considerable number who make extra effort to be in the city in order to be present. Boos’ orchestra turnished the music. At all of our previous socials, we have included a literary and musical pro- xyram, but on this occasion it was thought advisabe to change the program and give all a chance to dance the evening through. When we have had a literary program on other occasions, we have found tbat it occupied the greater part of the evening and left lit- iie time tor other pleasures, which caused many to go home without get- ting a full measure of enjoyment, un- less they sacrificed comfort and neces- sary rest by too long hours. ‘Lhe general committee having the matter in charge were C. G. Hill, P. Casey, M. M. Whitney, M. F. Murray, D. S. Fieming, N. Ho. Branch, |. PF. Helmer, W. H. Porter and J. L. Peter- inmann, these being divided into sub- committees to do the work necessary. fhe previous experience of all of the committees in this kind of affairs lett uo chance for a tailure in any part. Messrs. Fleming, Branch and Hill at- tended to the decorations; and_ all vf them are altists, it 1s not necessary io speak of how well this part of the work was done. The supper was a lunch ut coffee, sandwiches, cakes and rel- ishes, served in an adjoining hall, in order that the guests, as they felt dis- posed, could dance or eat and enjoy ali ine time, as they saw fit. Everyone present testified to the occasion’s being a4 most enjoyable one, and some of them were anxious to know when the next ‘event of the year’’—-the annual excur- sion of the grocers—would be and where it would be held. W. H. PORTER, Sec’y. oe The Grocery Market. Sugar—The market has been very dull and weak during the past week. A de- cline of 1-16c in domestic refined was expected, owing to a weakness in raws, both here and abroad, but it failed to materialize. The outlook for future business is generally regarded as_ good, as stocks in the country are small, and the proposed addition of 4% @%éc duty will likely influence buyers to make purchases before it goes into effect. Molasses—Fancy open kettles are out of the market, although there are lots ot low-grade open kettles, which are sell- ing at a very low price. Centrifugal molasses is higher relatively than open kettle, and for that reason is not selling so well, Rice—Advices from the South note that while the movement in Charleston is somewhat irregular, the aggregate is considerably ahead of the previous week. Come what may, the outlook is fer a very strong market, every greater or less indication contributing toward an upward tencency. Provisions—The returns of stocks of meats and lard indicate an enlargement of supplies since a month ago, as a re- sult of the liberal extent of packing operations. So far as meats are con- cerned tbere would be regarded little significance in the showing, but the de- cided gain in an already large stock of lard in the prominent markets furnishes occasion for apprehension of unfavor- able influence therefrom on the general trade, unless there should be a notable change in the situation in the near fu- ture. —_—_&9»—_ The Produce Market. Apples—Local dealers hold carefully selected Spys and Steel’s Red at $1.50 per bbl. and other varieties at $1.25. Butter—Fancy dairy is still in ample supply at 12@13c and factory creamery 1s slow sale at Igc. Receipts have fallen off considerably during the past week— probably due to the colder weather pre- vailing in all parts of the State. Cabbage—50@55c per doz., according to size and quality. Celery—15c per bunch. Cider—$4 per bbl., including bbl. Cranberries—Dealers hold Cape Cods at $1.50 per bu. and $4 per bbl. Eggs—Receipts of tresh are not so liberal as they have been, but they are still ample to meet the consumptive de- mands of the market. Handlers hold at 12@13c—the latter price fur candled stock—but pickled and cold storage go begging at 7@8c, even when candled stock is offered at the latter figure. Grapes—Malagas bring $6 per keg of 65 Ibs. gross. Honey—White clover is in fair de- mand at 124%@13c. Buckwheat is not so salable, bringing 8@utoc, according to quality and condition. Lettuce—15c per Ib. Onions—Tne recent sharp advance is well maintained, dealers still paying 75c tor all offerings of choice stock, holding in a small way at $1 per bu. Potatoes—Handlers pay 13c for stock in carlots on track. In a small way dealers find no difficulty in obtaining 25c per bu. Squash—In light demand and ample supply at 3c per lb. Sweet Potatoes—Kiln-dried Illinois are in good demand at $1.50 per bbl. oO My Mother’s Shoe. When but a child in mischief wild I trolicked on the floor, Or teased the cat, or lost my hat, Or toddled to the door, What stopped my monkey capers then When held up to my view, And made me “ poit” around the room? Ab! ‘twas my mother’s shoe! And then, when time had rung the chime Of th rtven years or so, I talked aloud aud boldly vowed To school no more I'd go. What brought me to my senses then, And made me feel +o b ue? How quick m3 choler wilted when My mother raised her shoe! Ah! good old shoes that mother wore, And on me wore them, too! Your spanking days are long since o er, Yet stili | th nk of you; And even now in riper years 1 love at times to muse On childhood’s days and scrapes and fears Of mouthe.’s ready shoes! ——->- 0 An ordinance denying a saloon license to a person who Cannot procure a peti- tion therefor, signed by a majority ot the legal voters ot the district, has been sustained by the Illinois Supreme Court. WANTS COLUMN. BUSINESS CHANCES. Advertisements will be inserted under this head for two cents a word the first insertion and one cent a word for each subsequent in- sertion. No advertisements taken for less than 25 cents. Advance payment. ws SMALL STOCK OF GOODS, shoes or hardware preferred. Address No 205. care Michigan Tradesman. 205 OOD OPENING EOR A ME'AL WORKER with some capital. Loffer the plant, tuols, machinery. cat»logues, good will. etc., of the Metal Stamping & S;inning Co., for sale or rent. Would retain an interest in the business with the right man. Franklin B. Wallin, Treasurer Wallin Lesther Co., Grund Rapids. ~06 eR SALE, CHEAP—NEW LAMB KNIT- ti: g machine but little used. Dves splen- did work. Cost $iu. Address Lock Box H, Latty Onio. 204 ru pEXc HANGE — HEAVY HAKDWUOD limver and farming land; title pertect, und cash to exchange for goods. Address 208, care Michigan Tradesman 208 Ee oPPORTUNITY FOR SAWYER AND cabinet maker. Mill and other machinery set. Home market for product Timber cheaper than ever known. H. G. Cady, Pine Bluff, «rk. 21u | et ge= »GE FOR LIVERY 91OCK--6) ACRES of excellent laud near LaFontaine, Ind. Con lease it. any time for oil and gas. Large wells near by. Price, $6000. Aadress N. H. Winans, 3a: d 4 Tower Block. 200 NOR SALE—S!OCK OF GENERAL MER- chandise, including drugs. Ouly drug +tore in town, M H. Mccoy Est., Grandville, Mich. 19 OR SALE AT A BARGAIN—A WELL-KEPT stock of general merchandise ina veiy good town Address A. B., Grant station, Mich. 196 NUR SALE—STOCK OF GKOUCERIKS IN- voicing about $1,00u, in a live Michigan town. Good trade, nearly all cash. Good reasons for.selling. Address 197, care Michigan Trades- man. 197 YODA FOUNTAIN, LARGE AND ELEGANT and for sale cheap. Crozier Bros. Double >hoe Store, Grand Rapids. 194 PUR SALE UK EXCHANGE— FOUR MODEKN cottages in good repair—three nearly new, ail rented—for sale, or will exchange for clean stock of dry goods. Address Lester & Co., 211 North Ionia street, Grand Rupids. 194 NOR sALE CHEAP—GOUD 60 ACRE FRUIT and grain farm, seven miles from Allegan; yood buildings; dandy location. Or will ex- change for a stock of dry goods. Address No. 185, care Michigan Tradesman. 185 VOR SALE—SIX 8 FT. RUUND FRONT show cases—metal and wood—in good order, 3.50 each, boxed. The Converse Mfg. Co., Newaygo. Mich. 180 NUR SALE OR EXCHANGE FUR SLOCK OF merchanudise—Forty acre farm near Hart, goou buildings, 900 bearing fru'ttrees. Address -o. :79. care Michigan Tradesman 1.9 SXULHALGE—POR MEKUHAN DIS OR SELL —sv ac e furm two miles fiom station, uear Perkiugs, Upper Michigan; land first class. Write 1or tuil description. P. A. Bredeen, Es- ¢ naba, Mich. 183 —— SHUVE SYLUCK WANTBD—CORRES- pond with XXX, care Michigan ees ga 184 HAVE 120 ACKES OF THE FIAEsT’ HARD- wood timbere.a land in Northern Michigan with some improvewents, well wacered, an oalt a mile froma beautitul lake, which I de- sire to trade for stock of groceries, buots and shues or clothing. Address Box 404 Harbor Springs, Mich. 182 ae SALE FOR CASH—STOCK GROCERIES and cruckery invoicing between $3,00U and 03,50; good lucaiiou; guud chuice stock. Will sell cheap. Good chance for someone. Ad- dress D, Carricr No. 4, Battle Creek, Mich. 177 7 EXCHANGE—53 ACRES ADJOINING thriving village in Gratiot county for mer- Address Lock Box 27, Baidwin, 174 chanaise. Mich UBBER STAMPS AND KUBBER Will J. Wel.er, Muskegon, Mich. OR SALE- AT A BAKGAIN THE WAT- rous’ arug stock and fixtures, lucated at Newaygo. Bb st lucation and stuck in the town. Enquire of Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co., Grand Kapids, Mich. 136 PUR SALE—IMPRUVED sv ACKE FAKM IN Oceana county; or would exchange for merchaudise. Address 380 Jeffersun Avenue, muskexon. 110 iw EXCHANGE—TWO FINE IMPROVED farms for stock of merchandise; splendid location. Address No. 73, care Michigan ‘l'rades- man. %3 MISCELLANEOUS. a gereecoang WANTED — GUUVD GRUCERY salesmen to sella rattliug good specialty as Good salesm-n make $v and $00 Write for particulars. State Tue a TYPE. 100 a side line extra per month. vusiness and experience, count Co., Elmira, N. Y. W ANTED—POSITIUN BY Ec FICIENT, EX- perienced stenographer aud bovok-keeper. Address, B.C E., Box 7, Muskegon, Mich. 22 ANTED—psALESuAN FUR PATENT medicine line. Must be good man with experience. TheJ. W. Braut Co., Ltd., Albion, Mich. 2u7 Wa GOOD sELONDHAND OR new two-horse covered peddling wagon. Must tea bargain. 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