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GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 1897. Number 708 MICHAEL KOLB & SOW, Established nearly one-half a century. Wholesale Clothing Mit, Rochester, N. ¥. Ail ma‘] orders promptly attended to, or write our Michigen Agent, William Connor, Box 346, Marshall, Mich., who will show you our entire line of samples. Mr. Connor will be at Sweet's Hotcl, Grand Rapids, in room 82 on Friday, Sat- urday, Sunday and Monday, April 9, 10, 11 and 12. FRC. cccce PREFERRED BANKERS LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY soe Of MICHIGAN Incorporated by 100 Michigan Bankers. Pays wll death claims promptly and in full. This Company sold Two and One-half Millions of In- surance in Michigan in 1895, and is being ad- initted into seven of the Northwestern States at tais time. The most desirable plan before the people. Sound and Cheap. Home office, DETROIT, Michigan. 144 is Twelve Dozen, Sir! 5 Twelve Dozen is a Gross, Sir! A Groc-er’s Cost Book will help you keep tab on what your goods COST—‘by the Gross” or “by the Dozen.” You can then BUY RIGHT. Send for sample leaf and prices. BARLOW BROS., GRAND RAPIDS, MICii, 252°525252525e25e25ese5 The Michigan Trust Go, Grand Rapids, Mich. Acts as Executor, Administrator, Guardian, Trustee. Send for copy of our pamphlet, ‘‘Laws of the State of Michigan on Descent and Distribution of Property.” COMMERCIAL CREDIT C0., Ltd. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Privat2 Credit Advices. Collections made anywhere in the United States and Canada. Seseseses a 7 xin) FRE v INS. Pre. apt, Conservative, Safe. J.V’ (‘paws IN, Pres. W. FRED McBarn, Sec. PB2EST4 9909000 0000000000+ SUSPENDERS Important, up-to-date improvements. ae and leather combination. A Retail at 25 an 4 4 4 4 4 7? co. { ‘ 4 rVvVVvVvVeVve VV VV YS N. E. ood thing to investigate. 35 cents. Sample by mail. GRAHAM ROYS & CO., Fitch Place - Grand Rapids, Mich. Save Trouble azsbeuss TRADESMAN COUPONS GENERAL TRADE SITUATION. While the average of prices and the general volume of trade have made an unfavorable showing on account of the speculative reaction in wheat and the unfavorable conditions of floods and bad roads, there are yet an increase in the feeling of confidence and a disposition to accept the new basis of low values, with an increase in jobbing activity at points where conditions are normal, that are, on the whole, reassuring. The fact that railway securities have stood the ordeal of the transmissouri decision not only without a decline, but showing a positive strengthening, is of consider- able reassuring significance. The reaction in wheat in the face of strong bull indications seems to show that the price has been sustained to an unwarrantable extent by speculative interest. The decline of about six cents brings the quotations to a lower basis than at any time since last September. Western receipts are nearly equal to those of last year. Export movement continues slow. The reaction in iron prices since the new basis of values in the ore pool still continue, until grey forge has broken the record by touching $8.75 at Pitts- burg, and Bessemer is again down to $10. A number of steel works, includ- ing the Illinois, have been closed by strikers, or to forestall such action. The advance in wool seems to have lessened sales; but this is not signifi- cant as to mills, for the reason that most are supplied for many months to come. The demand for women’s dress goods 1s decidedly better and some real improvement is noted in that for men’s wear. Naturally, the floods have caused an advance in cotton aid the manufac- ture is improving, although undue stocks are still a disquieting feature. Shipments of shoes from Boston are be- ginning to decline, on account of the continued high prices of leather, which prevent manufacturers from _ meeting the ideas of the dealers. The general financial outlook as to the principal centers seems to continue favorable. There is no danger of an undue demand for foreign settlements on account of increased imports, which some feared would result from _ the tariff legislation. Failures for the week, 232, against 212 for the preceding. —_—__~ »20—.___ It is reported that a gigantic consoli- dation of the oil interests of the world has been practically brought about by the Standard Oil people. After pro- longed negotiations with the Russian magnates, Nobel Bros., who control the Black Sea output of oil, the Standard Oil Company, it is said, induced the Russians to become a factor in a three- cornered plan to divide the world’s sup- ply. The Standard Oil Company and Cudahy Bros., of the West, who are the Standard Oil Company's greatest rivals, completed the membership in the pro- posed triangular deal. Nobel Bros. con- sented to ‘‘come in’’ if Cudahy Bros. could be induced to join. With this understanding the Standard Oil Com- pany made overtures to their Western rival, with the result still in doubt. Cudahy Bros. recently acquired owner- ship of the Manhattan Oil Company, which was controlled by E. C. Bene- dict, Roswell P. Flower, J. A. Billings and others, and made the great Western concern practically independent of its Eastern competitor. It is understood also that Cudahy Bros. have withheld their answer pending action on the part of the United States Pipe Line Com- pany, the producers’ association of the State of Pennsylvania, which was not invited into the deal. —__>_2.__ It would be interesting to the Sreaders of the Tradesman to know what influ- ence the State Food Commissioner brought to bear on the Tradesman’s oc- casional correspondent to secure her en- thusiastic approval of his plan to in- crease the appropriation voted his office by the Legislature from $10,000 to $18,000 per year. Her plea for the ad- ditional money is thoroughly in keep- ing with the traditional instincts of her sex and Mr. Grosvenor has made a _ ten strike in securing the support of a partisan who can write as convincingly and talk as incessantly as the lady above referred to. ——__»2.___ ““Where is your clerk?’’ asked the dried apple purloiner of the general storekeeper as he helped himself from the oyster cracker barrel. ‘‘He got too fresh and I had to bounce him.”’’ **Why, I thought he was a nice chap, what did he do?’’ *‘Well, a lady came in and asked for a stove lifter and the smart cuss handed her a pint bottle of gaso- line.’”’ ——_>0.__ The production of aluminum is on the increase in the United States, the output last year being 1,300,0co pounds, against 900,000 in 1895, 817,600 in 1894, 312,000 in 1893 and 168,000 in 1891. A dozen years ago the metal cost nearly $8 a pound. Last year the price averaged only 40 cents a pound. —_—__2.____ Francis Murphy’s recent temperance Campaign of two months in Boston is said to have resulted in 13,000 signers to the pledge. Boston will put itself to temporary discomfort as quick as any city in the country to give a noted char- acter a warm reception. —___~e-<.___ The New York woman who was sued the other day for $10,000 worth of dresses and other ‘‘toggery’’ has en- lightened the world on cne point: She said with much decisiveness that a gown is old when it has been worn five times, —__—_-~__ At Norfolk, Va., a plant has been es- tablished with capacity for five tons of peanuts daily, for the manufacture of peanut oil, peanut flour, and stock feed, the estimated combined yield represent- ing more than $400 a day. —>-2 > ___ ‘Better have an egg to-day than a hen to-morrow,’’ is an old saying. - It means, in other words, that it’s better to hustle to get your full share of the present trade than to wait for a boom which may never come. ——_>_2.__ The trade paper is the organ of trade, as indispensable as the counter or the office desk ; it broadens business, keeps |- it out of ruts, makes easier work for the workers, builds progression, stimu- lates good fellowship. —_—_~>-2__ ‘‘I suppose your daughter is just like mine—rather ride a wheel than eat.’’ ‘**Not exactly; but she would rather ride a wheel than cook.”’ CURIOUS DECISION. That was a rather curious and _incon- sistent decision by the Federal Court at Toledo, in the Arbuckle-Woolson tight. The Court held that one company could buy the controlling stock in a corpora- tion for the express purpose of hurting a rival, and not for legitimate business purposes, but that the rival as a stock- holder had no right to ask for relief. The Arbuckles, it will be remem- bered, threatened to go into the sugar refining business. The Sugar Trust thereupon bought into the Woolson Spice Co. for the purpose of waging a coffee war against the Arbuckles. The latter also purchased stock in the Wool- son Co. and sought to restrain the com- pany, under control of the Sugar Trust, from cutting the price of coffee. The Court, in refusing the injunction, found that the Havemeyers had bought the stock to break down the Arbuckle coffee interests as a means of keeping the lat- ter from competing with the Sugar Trust in the refining of sugar. It was not a bona fide purchase of stock in the Woolson Co. Yet the Court holds that the plaintiffs are not asking for the in- junction in good faith and therefore re- fuses it. It would look as though good law ought to protect the minority stock- holder against the bad faith of the ma- jority stockholder. The former is at least entitled to protection when the es- tablishment is being run for an im- proper purpose. The interesting question to the public is whether the Sugar Trust will be able to win its fight by such questionable means against competition, when it gets into the Supreme Court? Will the lat- ter tribunal allow this or any other great trust to prevent others from entering their particular field by buying and wrecking other establishments, as in this case? Is this not a conspiracy against trade? Of course, if the Wool- son Spice Co. was legitimately reduc- ing prices, no interference would be proper; but when the facts show the selfish and arbitrary hand of the Sugar Trust for the sole purpose of preventing Arbuckle Brothers from engaging in the sugar business, the matter becomes one of wide public interest. There is go- ing to be no vigorous kick, however, in the meantime against cheaper coffee. —_—_> 2. Got More Than He Wanted. Angry caller (at newspaper office) : Say, I want that little advertisement | gave you two days ago—'‘Wanted, an electric battery in good working order’’ —-taken out. Advertising clerk: What is the mat- ter? Didn’t we put it in the right col- umn? Angry caller: Column be dashed! The advertisement overdid the business. My house was struck by lightning last night. Ce Soap from Corn. A soap manufacturing concern at Des Moines, Ia., is experimenting in the manufacture of soap from corn. It is said the first lot of cakes turned out proved a success. The cakes resemble those of castile soap except that the color is not quite as dark. The soap makes up compactly, but is light and will float. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Bicycles News and Gossip of Interest to Dealer and Rider. The records kept at the Patent Office show to what an enormous extent the invention of bicycle improvements has grown in this country. Since 1876 over 4,000 patents relating to bicycles have been granted by the United States Pat- ent Office, and at least half of these have been issued in the last six years. It now takes the labor of eight expert assistant examiners to handle the ap- plications of cycle inventors, and even with this force there is always a big batch of applications awaiting examina- tion. How fast this industry has grown may be judged from the statement that up to 1876 only about 300 patents for cycles had been issued. There is no country in the world that shows a simi- lar rate of growth in this same line. + + 4 A correspondent of the Bicycling News insists that new riders, in pur- chasing wheels, pay too little attention to the proper adjustment of the ma- chine, especially in the matter of crank length, which point he discusses at some length as follows: ‘**Length of crank should be. suited more to the height, or rather the length of leg and foot of a rider than to the gear used; at dJeast such is my experience. I have re- cently been riding a.machine with 7- inch cranks and 70 gear, and could not make half the headway I could on one with 6%-inch cranks and 62% gear of as nearly as possible the same class and weight. With the larger crank the foot is not only raised and depressed 1% inches more, but travels between 3 and 4 inches farther at each revolution. For a short man to have such cranks must necessitate serious extra work to the knee and hip joints. My own idea would be that for persons up to § feet 2 inches, 6 inches is long enough; 6% inches up to 5 feet 6 inches; 6% inches up to 5 feet 9 inches; 634 inches up to 6 feet, and 7 inches for those who are above this height. I recently was shown a model of an expanding crank ; but the use of this would, I fear, entail a change of the height of the seat pillar. The idea is a most ingenious one and well worked out. The crank varies half an inch, so that the rider, when ascend- ing or descending steep hills or plug- ging against the wind, can make the best use of his increased leverage. ’’ + + Women who are chary of other fingers than their own toying with their bi- cycles, and preter rather to rub them down and oil them themselves, need not necessarily find the task uncleanly, if they take the simple precaution to wear gloves while applying oil. A bicycle, to be kept in good condition, should be cleaned every time after use; otherwise dust and grit are apt to sift into the bearings and wear them down. The plated parts must never be so neglected that they begin to rust, nor must mud be allowed tc cake on the enamel, for in removing it you will assuredly leave a few scratches. Beware of a superfluity of oil. A well-kept bicycle only needs to be oiled at the end of every hundred miles. A faint squeak wil) generally tell you when the oiling is necessary. ° + € £ London will soon have the finest cycling clubhouse in the world. The beautiful mansion known as Sheen House will be converted to that pur- pose. Since the Comte de Paris left the old house it has fallen into sad decay, but now it will be ovehauled and the ‘‘biker’’ will claim it as his own. The winter garden-will be converted into a conservatory; a covered passage will lead thence into the billiard-room. The main entrance is large, lofty and hand- some. On the first floor will be women’s drawing-rooms and boudoirs, dining and supper-rooms; on the second floor, dressing and bedrooms. There are numerous reception, reading and writ- ing-rooms, tea, smoking and_ card- rooms, and several luxurious _bath- rooms. The stables are to be used for the storage of cycles. Members will be able to buy and hire cycles at re- duced rates. The club, although nomi- nally a cycling club, will encourage all the sports, football, cricket, swimming, skating, tennis, croquet, etc. Portions of the beautiful park will be set aside for flower shows, and possibly a stage will be erected in the open air, where musical and theatrical entertainments will take place. a O - Willing to Be Helped Out. From the Detroit Free Press. ‘‘I’m a believer in the bicycle,’’ de- clared a lawyer of prominence the other day. ‘‘In fact, I ride one myself and derive a great deal of benefit from it, but I know of more than one instance where it has led to family dissension. **] was called upon professionally the other day by a fine-looking, intelligent, nicely-dressed woman of about 35. Without any tears or other prelimina- ries she stated that she desired my serv- ices 1n procuring a divorce. ‘* “Upon what grounds, madam?’ “**You can give them a technical name after I have told you what they are. No couple ever lived more hap- pily than did Fred and myself until he brought a tandem home for our joint use. He thought it best that we should do our wheeling together, and I agreed with him. His thoughtfulness and de- sire to be with me were very pleasing.’ ‘* * To be sure.’ ‘“**But all my anticipations were blasted. He developed a_ stubbornness that I never discovered in his character. He never proposed going where I wanted to go. If I had my mind set upon going to the island he went to the boulevard, and if I had a preference for one street he selected another. It often occurred, too, that when one of us was anxious to go out the other was not in the mood. I cannot endure an- other such season.’ ‘* “Did it ever occur to you, madam, that it might be wiser to give up your tandem than your husband?’ ‘** “Indeed, I’m not going to give up the bicycle just because he chooses to be a tyrant. I want you to commence proceedings. ’ ‘** “Perhaps, without letting him know what you have in mind, I could per- suade your husband to buy you a wheel of your own.’ ‘* “Oh, if you only could! and finest. so generous. help me out.’ ——__~>_¢ > What She Wanted Was in the Men’s Department. She was rather a petite little thing and quite handsomely dressed, so two or three clerks undertook to wait on her at once. ‘‘T want to gain a little information in regard to styles for the coming sum- mer,’’ she explained. ‘““Certainly,’’ replied the clerk who had succeeded in getting to her first. ‘“‘I can show you the latest fashion plates, or give you a brief description of some of the principal novelties, so that you may get some sort of an idea of what you would like to look at.’’ ‘That would suit me exactly,’’ she returned, smiling sweetly. ‘*Well,’’ he explained, determined to The latest I’m sure he would; Fred’s I was confident you would do himself proud, ‘‘the fashionable skirt this summer will be—’’ ‘*The what!’’ she exclaimed tonishment. ‘* The—the—really fashionable skirt,’ he faltered, wondering what could be the trouble. ‘*The skirt!’’ she cried. you think I asked fcr?"’ ‘‘Something—er—er—er for summer wear,’’ he answered hesitatingly. ‘*Of course,’’ she said. ‘‘I didn’t ask anything about winter garments, did ie? ‘*No-o.”’ ‘‘Well, then, what are you talking about skirt for? Do I look like an old fogy?’’ “Certainly not. I wouldn't such a thing for a minute."’ ‘‘Then trot out the fashions that I asked for. What’s the latest thing in bloomers and bathing suits? Are they to be worn scant or full? Isa jockey cap to be the correct thing for road wear, or must I get a yachting cap and put a. hatpin in it so that I can tell it from my brother's? Should I wear a blouse waist, or may I put on a man’s negligee shirt with a short saek coat over it?”’ ‘*Really, Miss, I—er—er—I—you see, this is the ladies’ dress goods depart- ment, and ]—er ’ in as- ‘‘What did intimate ‘‘Of course it is,’’ she interrupted. ‘It’s the ladies’ dress goods that | want. If you don’t think that’s what | asked for, you must have kept your eyes shut all last summer.’’ ‘‘Well, the fact is,’’ he tried to ex- plain, ‘‘that while we bave some of the things you want in this department, you will have to go to the men’s depart- ment for most of them.’’ ‘*The men’s department!’’ she ex- claimed. ‘‘What’s the difference?’’ ‘*Why, frankly,’’ he replied in des- peration, ‘‘there is mighty little.’’ Then she went away threatening to report him for not showing proper re- spect for a lady. +> 02 .-— When a merchant knows his_ business it does not take the people long to know him. Bieyele Gontracts, We make a compact contract drawn up by one of the ablest attorneys in the country, which we are able to furnish at following prices: 100, $2; 500, $3; 1,000, $4.50. No bicycle dealer can afford to get along without this form. TRADESMAN COMPANY, GRAND RAPIDS. PRB ELP ALLER AD PPV BRD GPP LD PEL EFP PIF OFT III TS | WORTH Bicycles. IF YOU ARE A dealer and thinking of adding a line of Bicycles, or a dealer with a line of Bicycles, or a rider in the market, you are INTERESTED in knowing what there is on the market. We presume you know something about Cy- cloid, Keating, Winton, Columbus and Stormer It’s certainly worth a cent (or postal) to get catalogues and prices. We have a very attractive proposition to make to you. Spend a cent. Studley & Jarvis, Grand Rapids. Mich. PR LOL AINSI A, I : =_ Write for Catalogues and Prices. GREAT BICYCLES THE WORLD THE HAMILTON THE AMERICA A few more good Agents Want: d. ADAMS & HART, Grand Rapids, Mich. State Distributing Agents. Glipper Light Roadster to any disinterested, unprejudiced, ex- pert mechanic, ask him to pull it to pieces, examine it piece by piece, test it part by part, analyze every bit of steel, compare every particle of work- manship, every inch of finish, and every article of equip- ment, from grips to tires; and, if he can suggest a more expensive method of construction, which is more useful or more practical, we'll embody it in our 1898 wheel at no extra cost. of over 3,000 need to cost a single dollar more to produce than the Clipper Light Roadster. No machine-made $100.00 bicycle is worth a single cent more than our $80.00 No machine-made bicycle, turned out in lots Clipper. Ifit’s worth to you the difference in price to say you “ride a $100 wheel,” you may be right in paying the price. Some $100 bicycles sell in auction rooms and Department Stores at less than $30.00. That’s about what they are worth. bei MICHIGAN TRADESMAN THE TORONTO OCTOPUS. Effect of the Department Store in the Canadian City. Written for the TRaDESMAN. I recently attempted to give the read- ers of the Tradesman some idea of the manner in which the big Toronto de- partment stores were injuring the mer- cantile interests, both wholesale and re- tail, of the entire province. The figures quoted in that article were obtained from a journalist of Toronto and were supposedly correct. However, a small trade paper published in Toronto took exception to the article on account of alleged statistical misstatements, and in reply attempted to show that mercantile conditions in Canada in general, and the Toronto department stores in par- ticular, were not as bad as the wicked Yankee papers would feign make out. But does it not seem just a little strange that this paper, which caters to the re- tail fraternity of the province for a cir- culation upon which to base its real support or advertising revenue, should even attempt to apologize for the exist- ence of a monster that is sapping the life blood out of every retail store with- in a radius of one hundred miles of its own office? It may be the little paper is subsidized by the big hydra-headed con- cerns, or it may be that the writer of the apology had his John Bull pride of home institutions just a little rattled by the Tradesman’s publication, and aired his sentiments in a sort of ‘‘mind your own business’’ mood. It is to be hoped the latter is the true explanation, as it furnishes the only possibility of an ex- cuse. And now the daiiy press has turned its guns on the destroyer of legitimate trade, the Toronto Sun having recently made the following significant utter- ance: In the belief that departmental stores are inimical to the interests of the city, its business men and its property own- ers, the Star has decided to devote its columns and its influence to the encour- agement of the class of merchants who stick to the usual method of business. In the upbuilding and maintenance of these smaller stores lies the prosperity of the city and its people. * * * While upholding the opponents of de- partmental stores and deploring the ex- istence of the latter, it would be incon- sistent in the Star to accept the adver- tisements and money of the depart- mentals, and to-day, although it means a heavy loss to the Star in receipts, they have been notified that this paper will in the future decline to receive their business. The first demand made by way of checking the evil is a system of taxa- tion that will protect the people by equalizing the tax-paying burden. The departmental stores have revolutionized trade conditions in the city, and a new plan of taxation is demanded that will be better suited to the changed condi- tion of the tax payers. Those who are responsible for this changed condition are reaping the greatest benefits there- by, and the people demand that they should be made to pay a_ proportionate share of the city’s expenses. Accord- ing to the most reliable sources of infor- mation as to the present condition of things, such a change seems necessary if the city expects to pay its way. Now what are some of the facts as _ to the evils brought about in the city of Toronto by the department stores? The wholesale houses are disappearing, and the number of travelers employed is continually growing less. Those who are employed are compelled to take smaller salaries, and as a general thing each succeeding failure means one more empty warehouse in the city. A de- pressed tone pervades the wholesale ranks, and many of them imagine they might do better in Montreal, Ottawa or Quebec. On all the principal streets stores may be seen which were once used for the retailing of merchandise but now are empty or used as ware- houses. The rental of stores as a means of income has, in many localities, been absolutely wiped out. The busi- ness center has contracted until it is now confined to a few blocks, and _ out- lying store property is being converted into tenement houses, Although the productiveness of this property has been destroyed, the taxes have not dimin- ished, and in many cases total aban- donment would be dollars saved to the owners. It is only in the little trade centers remote from the big octopus center that a reasonably healthy trade is being done; but even in these places the trade has been diminished and rentals have been cut down. The num- ber of clerks and other employes en- gaged in the stores of the city have been greatly reduced, and those who remain have had their wages cut down. It is claimed that the number of adults so employed has been reduced one-half, and rentals more than one-half. The closing of these stores, and the conse- quent setting adrift of families all over the city who were depending on them for a means of livelihood, injuriously affected the bake shops and meat mar- kets, and they, too, have been forced to obtain lower rentals or shut up shop. Toronto is largely a commercial city. A large proportion of her homes are occupied—or were, rather—by commer- cial travelers, clerks and others em- ployed in the wholesale and retail mer- cantile concerns of the city, and it may be readily seen that boti owners and renters have been injured beyond meas- ure by this gigantic evil. Of course, there are those who at- tribute all these evils to the big Toronto boom, but they are not found in the ranks of trade. No doubt more stores were erected during the boom than were needed, and if trade conditions were the same as before the boom, these superfluous stores would be the only empty ones in the city The boom that was inflated prices and stimulated ac- tivity throughout the entire city; and the boom that is concentrates inflation of property values and mercantile ac- tivity at the corner of Young and Queen streets, where the great octopus is located. Within a few rods of this cor- ner rentals are inflated above high-water mark in boom times, and this inflation, which does not extend a half block in any direction from the big departmental stores, has caused a _ corresponding shrinkage of values outside of this small center. The mercantile life of the city was distributed along the business streets and in the numerous minor trade centers throughout the entire city, un- der the old condition of things. During the boom everything was inflated and trade was active, and when the big bub- ble burst, the wind escaped and trade went down to a hard-pan basis, but it was distributed just as it had always been. Now it is different. A new agency has been at work which has gathered up this distributed trade and concentrated it under one roof, leaving empty stores, ruined merchants, idle clerks, moneyless tenants and crippled real estate owners in its wake. Do you say all this is only the effects of the boom? Nonsense. The collapse of the Toronto boom caused a prostration of trade, but it did not subsequently gather it up and concentrate and centralize it at the corner of Young and Queen streets. Before the boom there were scores of stores in the city where now there are none. The boom came with its superfluities and when it collapsed its superfluities collapsed with it. A re- construction on the old basis followed, and then the departmental store rose up like a giant octopus with numerous arms reaching out in every direction, and the trade of the many was drawn into the capacious maw. Such is the true condition of Toronto to-day, and such will be the condition of any city that breeds a like monster of similar dimen- sions within her borders. E. A. OWEN. Ee Excusable Ignorance. The newly arrived stranger in Atlanta started up Whitehall street in search of information. As told by a local paper, he encountered a tall, yellow-faced_ in- dividual in a droopy coat and soiled tie. ‘“My good sir,’’ said the stranger, ‘‘] am iu search of information concerning this great State of Georgia, and feel sure that you can assist me very mate- rially. What is your population?’’ ‘‘Dunno. ’’ ‘What kind of school system have you here?’’ ‘*Dunno.’’ ‘*How about your tax rate?’” ‘*Dunno,’”’ ‘*is your government friendly or un- friendly to manufacturing corpora- tions?’’ ** Dunno.’ ‘*Let's see—how does Georgia rank among the other states of the South in its agricultural products?’’ **Dunno.’’ ‘*Ah! you do live here then?’’ **Yaas.’’ ‘*What do you do?’’ ‘Oh, I’m just a member of the Legislature. ’’ , Not So Easy as It Looked. From the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. A Rochester woman, whose husband objected to the bicycle on general prin- ciples, went to a riding academy in his abseace and commenced to take lessons. When the head of the house returned she had become a mistress of the wheel. She was much troubled as to how she would go about telling her husband that she had learned to ride. She finally hit upon a scheme. One afternoon she surprised her hus- band by asking him to go to the riding academy with her and watch some of her friends learn to ride. He thought it would be rare fun, and so went along. On arriving there she surprised him still more by selecting a wheel and attempting to mount it. After a num- ber of attempts she succeeded, and rode in a zig-zag fashion, and her husband began to be afraid that she would injure herself. Suddenly she straightened up and sailed about in grand style, to his astonishment. ‘‘Well, if it’s as easy as that to learn to ride a bicycle, I guess I'll try my- self,’’ he said. The next day found her husband at the riding academy, but he did not learn as readily as he expected. In fact, he had a fall and sustained a bad bruise on his forehead. He was taken home in a Carriage, and his wife now has some compunctions of conscience as she thinks how she deceived him re- garding the treacherous bicycle. —_—___@ 6~<__ The Pineapple Outlook. The crop of Bahama pineapples will be quite large this year and of excel- lent quality. Nothing has appeared to give the growers in that country any trouble, and they have paid particular attention to planting and cultivation. Florida reports a fine pineapple crop this year, although the season will be a late one, owing to the frosts having set back the plants. There need be no fear of a pineapple famine this year. NUTPPHOP HEE HET NENT NNT ET eT ee ierNrNor ier ener rereerNorenr rer tLe HARNESS Aim We have jobbed harness many years, but could not always procure satisfactory stock. Now our “Hand made” Harness is of the very best stock obtainable and we guarantee quality of material and workmanship to be SECOND TO NONE. WE NOW MAKE... Jobbers of Carriages and Implements. YVOPNOP HN IOP NNP ET NTPNErNA er erNr en 7Mvriyriyreyrrenenerenyyeneneynyryreneneryryrry ry Trial Orders from Dealers solicited. Send for Catalogues and Price Lists. BROWN & SEHLER, | All Styles For Wholesale Trade GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. rTP Maracaibo 3 QDOOQQOOOOOOQOOOOQOOOOS@ QQOQQ®DOOC OCOOQOOOOE WOOLSON © DOOOQOOQDOODOSvGnxevevenveveve COFFEES ROASTED BY TOLEDO, OHIO. Don’t let others deceive you by telling you they have the same goods. We carry their entire line. MUSSELMAN & & GROCER CO., > GRAND RAPIDS. @ OOO WODHOOES HYODOHDOGOOOHGOGHOOO/* GOOOS @ @ Standard @ Weare exclusive dis- tributers for Mich- igan of all the $ Maracaibo @ » © HLHODOQ@O@OOO@Q@QOOO@ SPICE CO., SPS QOQOQOQOQOOE $00000009 oS = = “a = n — 4 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Around the State Movements of Merchants. Durand—Dr. Witherspoon will erect a drug store building at this place. Morenci—Leroy Rorick has purchased the harness stock of L. S. Brenner. Albion—Oharra & Elliott succeed E. J. Emmons in the grocery business. Bangor—J. A. Sherrod, of J. A. Sher- rod & Son, general dealers, is dead. Riverdale—Lathrop & Woodward suc- ceed M. C. Lathrop in general trade. White Cloud— Miles Roach succeeds Thos. Jardine in the grocery business. Chesaning—G. L. Kinch has moved his jewelry stock from Merrill to Ches- a ning. Sault Ste. Marie—C. H. McBean suc- ceeds Newton & McBean in the meat business. Clarksville—L. A. Scoville has sold his implement stock to Wear & Prosser, of Sebewa. Hudson—Lorenzo Barkmas has re- moved his grocery stock from Pittsford to this place. Reed City—J. M. opened a new meat market. from Baldwin. Mackinaw City—A. W. De Wolf will shortly open a grocery store in the Marsh building. Williamsburg—Chas, Will has re- moved his hardware stock from Har- rietta to this place. Ishpeming—Chas. Farm has leased the Carlton building and will embark in the bakery business. Oshtemo—John H. Hobden is having the foundation laid for an extension to his store and warehouse. Bellevue—R. C. Needham has pur- chased the Bellevue bakery and will run a restaurant in connection. Dundee—Smith & Miller, meat deal- ers, have dissolved. The business will be continued by Smith & Scott. Harbor Springs—Welling & Stein have opened their new dry goods and furnishing goods store in the Clarke block. Ann Arbor—Ottmar Eberbach, of Eberbach & Son, druggists, is able to be behind the counter again after a long illness. Benton Harbor—Conger Bros., of Kal- amazoo, have rented the north store in the Newland block and will open a va- riety store. North Lansing—Stephen Gauss has purchased the bakery of G. Gutekunst and will continue the business at the same location. Lansing—Charles Piella has rented the store recently occupied by B. P. Richmond and will remove his stock of jewelry to that location. Holiand—J. Elferdink, Jr., has pur- chased the boot and shoe stock of Dan- iel Bertsch and will continue the busi- ness at the same location. Detroit—Jack Barnes, who has been the manager of the furnishing depart- ment for R. H. Traver, has returned to his old home in Philadelphia. Bad Axe—The Saginaw Hardware Co. has sold its hardware stock here to William Hawks, of Port Austin, who will remove it to the latter place. Bay City—J. F. Martin, formerly pre- scription clerk for Frank Teeporten, has embarked in the drug business _un- der the style of J. F. Martin & Co. Ann Arbor—-S. Baumgartner has ab- sconded, leaving numerous creditors of the Vienna bakery and grocery. The stock and fixtures have been seized by Rinsey & Seabolt by virtue of a chattel mortgage. Springstead has He hails Lansing—J. L. Hudson, of Detroit, has purchased the boot and shoe stock of E. C. Jessop & Son, and will cun- duct the business through Herbert E. Cross as agent. Portland—Fire in the grocery store of Geo. Seymour recently damaged the stock to the extent of $200, fully covered by insurance. Fennville—Miss Mary Billings and Mrs. C. H. Rogers have tormed a co- partnership under the style of Billings & Rogers and embarked in the mil- linery business. St. johns—Henry H. Tromp has pur- chased the interest of his silent partner in the shoe firm of George Woodruff & Co. The firm will hereafter be known as Woodruff & Tromp. Mendon—Geo. Vernier & Son, who were formerly engaged in the hardware business at Lake Ann and South Frank- fort, have removed both stocks to this place, where they will continue in the same business. Tecumseh—Mr. Parrish, formerly of Mt. Pleasant, has purchased the Baker & Hall drug stock recently taken pos- session of by Williams, Davis, Brooks & Co. on a chattel mortgage. Mr. Par- rish will add to the stock. St. Johns—W. W. Peck, of Ionia, an old clothing man of twenty-five years’ experience, and Mr. Webber, of the old firm of Webber & Wagner, have formed a copartnership and opened a new cloth- ing store at 17 Clinton avenue. Reed City—Z. V. Payne, who has been manager of H. Harrington's dry goods store for the past three and one- half years, has packed up the stock and shipped it to St. Louis, where Mr. Harrington conducts a general store. Bridgeton—R. S. Shiffert has sold his general stock to Chas. Rainouard and John Sharp, who will continue the business under the style of Rainouard & Sharp. Mr. Shiffert has removed to Fennville, where he has re-engaged in trade. ; Boyne City—A. T. Johnson has sold his grocery stock to Mrs. M. A. Ward, who will continue the business at the same location. Mr. Johnson has moved his boot and shoe stock to Traverse City, where he will re-engage in the shoe business. Corunna—Geo. C. Clutterbuck, of the firm of Currie & Clutterbuck, will spend a portion of his time on the road fora Pennsylvania shoe firm. The close con- finement in the store has become detri- mental to his health and he has hopes that an occasional trip around the State will be beneficial. Manistee—F. W. Cron has contracted for the erection of a three-story brick building on the vacant lot adjoining his present place of business. The structure will be 26x115 feet in dimensions, heated by steam and lighted by elec- tricity. The contract calls for the com- pletion of the building by Sept. 1. Benton Harbor—Robert Young and Wm. Harper have formed a copartner- ship under the style of Young & Harper, to embark in the merchant tailoring business. Mr. Young was formerly en- gaged in the same business at South Haven and East Saginaw. Mr. Harper has been a traveling salesman for twenty years. Detroit—The Walsh Coal Co. has filed articles of association. The capital stock is $10,000, of which $5,300 is paid in. The stockholders are Joseph Walsh, Flint, Mich., 50 shares; S. F. Walsh, Delray, 350 shares; W. A. O'Hare, Flint, too shares; Louis A. Grobe, Flint, to shares, and E. D. McGowen, Delray, 20 shares, Manufacturing Matters. Nunica—Ed. Brown has resumed op- erations at his creamery. Detroit-—Jacob Brown, President of the Detroit Alaska Knitting Co., is dead. Ovid—The Clinton County Fruit Co. has made 300 barrels of cider this spring. Edmore—J. J. Hatinger is arranging to remove his old shingle mill at Kirby Lake to Antrim county, where he has a shingle timber run for about five years. Niles—A Chicago manufacturer of canning machinery is making prepara- tions for starting a canning factory at this place. He expects to have the fac- tory running full blast by next fall. Ludington—The Cartier Lumber Co. has a force of men at work getting things in shape and will begin on the season’s cut in about ten days. Mean- time the company is shipping out lum- ber at a lively rate. Muskegon—There are more logs in the drive of 1897 than there were last year. Well-posted lumbermen predict that not less than 40,000,000 feet of logs will come down the river this year, to be sliced up in Muskegon milis. Bangor—H. A. Portman is the lead- ing spirit in the organization of a box and basket factory, with an authorized capital stock of $25,000. The brick building formerly used as a foundry will be utilized as a factory by the new com- pany. Trufant—The L. C. Whittier general stock has been purchased by J. Hansen and H. C. Hansen, who will continue the business under the style of Hansen & Son. The senior partner will devote his entire attention to his grist mill, while the junior partner will look after the store. Muskegon——The Amazon Hosiery Co.’s factory is running with a large force and increasing it day by day. The palming department is very busy and a consignment of leather for this depart- ment is being received every other day. The carding and spinning departments are running night and day and the other rooms at night as occasion re- quires. Alamo—Nearly $5,000 has been sub- scribed in support of a creamery enter- prise. A site has been secured and the building will be ready tor operation in- side of sixty days. The plant complete, not including the site, will cost $4,000. Bronson—The Monarch Portland Ce- ment Co, has its side tracks all graded and a part of the foundation laid for its office building. The contract for building the large factory buildings, 70x300 and 7o0x250 feet respectively, has been let to a Cleveland firm, and the terms of letting call for the completion of same within twenty-five days. The building will be built of iron, steel and Portland cement, being all fire-proof. Lyons—The buildings of the Ionia Sandstone Co., lucated between Lyons and Ionia, are completed and the ma- chinery is being placed. The machinery building is 26x58, and the boiler room 25x31. Power is furnished by a 40-horse power engine, which is in place. There will be four sashes of saws, with two tracks under each sash, so that dimen- sion stone is put on the car direct from saw. The drills will be operated by compressed air. Stone will be handled in the yard with steam hoists. Au Sable—The H. M. Loud & Sons’ extensive plants are now in operation, the large mill running night and day. This firm employs 1,000 men in round numbers and the end of their raw prod- uct is not yet in sight. Their bicycle rim and guard factory is running full time, employing 25 men, as are also their tie and long timber mills, and the rails over their 40 miles of railroad are kept hot by the numerous trains bring- ing in raw material for the different factories. i Jackson—-The George T. Smith Man- ufacturing Co. has filed articles of as- sociation with the county clerk, The capital stock is placed at $200,000, of which 57}!2 percent. is paid in. The stockholders are Dwight S. Smith, 4,500 shares; George T. Smith, 4,000 shares, and Henry H. Smith, 3,000 shares. The object of the company is to manufac- ture flour and grain mill machinery. The company is now doing business in a building formerly occupied by the defunct Collins Manufacturing Co. Owosso—D. R. Salisbury will move his shoe factory back to this city from Corunna. Owosso contractors have been figuring on the job of tearing down the two-story brick building occupied by the factory and erecting the same ona site now owned by Salisbury. Last summer Mr. Salisbury moved his plant to Corunna and erected a_ two-story brick building upon being promised a bonus of $3,000 by the city. This he never received, although he claims to have fully lived up to his part of the agreement. Ishpeming—-The Lake Superior & Ishpeming Railway is extending its lines in this city to the mines west and south of town and will be in shape to handle a very large tonnage of ore this season. The business of both the Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic and Chicago & Northwestern lines will be much reduced by the new road, which has the easiest grades and consequently the cheapest line to ship over of any Lake Superior railway handling ore. Notwithstanding this it is doubtful if the line will prove a very remunerative investment to its owners—the Cleveland- Cliffs and Lake Angeline mining com- panies—as it has cost, with equipment, $3,500,000—double the estimated cost. The total income of the iine can scarce- ly exceed 10 per cent. of this sum a year and it costs a great deal of money to operate a railroad, even when it is well built and equipped, with minimum grades and maximum capacity. Bay City—A contract which means a great deal for this city was entered into a few days ago between the Michigan Central Railway and J. Willis McGraw. The contract provides for bringing to this city about 250,000,000 feet of logs for sawing into lumber. The timber is still standing in Otsego county and will be reached by an extension of the Bag- ley branch of the Michigan Central. The contract provides for the construc- tion of about five miles of the road by Mr. McGraw, who has purchased the right of way, the rails and a locomotive. He will begin work at once. The con- tract for hauling extends over a_ period of eight years. This railway extension will tap a section said to be the finest belt of standing hardwood timber in Michigan. It is composed of gray elm, basswood, curly birch, ash and pine. There is a considerable quantity of pine, much of it being of the cork va- riety. It was at first the intention of Mr. McGraw to erect a sawmill in the heart of the timber and to ship the lum- ber to this city, but after mature delib- eration he concluded to make the other arrangement. Several of the local mill firms are now figuring on the sawing contract. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 5 Grand Rapids Gossip Davis & Nickle have opened a gro- cery store at Mulliken. The Lemon & Wheeler Company furnished the stock. John Kiilean & Son are stocking up the store at 31 East Bridge street as an annex to their present store on the cor- ner of Kent and East Bridge streets. The Grand Rapids Gas Light Co. re- ports net earnings of $10,917 for March, in comparison with $0,801 in March, 1896—an increase of about 11% per cent. The net earnings for the first three months of this year are over 5 per cent. greater than during the cor- responding period of last year. O. L. Davis and C. L. Maurer have formed a copartnership under the style of Davis & Maurer and embarked in the drug business at Cadillac. The Hazel- tine & Perkins Drug Co. furnished the stock. Mr. Davis was engaged in the drug business at Cadillac for thirteen years, until his stock was destroyed by fire. Mr. Maurer was formerly a mem- ber of the firm of M. V. Gundrum & Co., general dealers at Leroy, but for the past four years has acted in the capacity of prescription clerk for H. L. Van Vranken, at Cadillac. The new firm will be temporarily located in the old postoffice building, but will remove to the new Wardell block Sept. 1. > -0 > The Grocery Market. Sugar—The market sustained a mixed decline Monday and a similar decline Wednesday. The condition of the mar- ket is a good deal of a conundrum. Coffee—So long as the exports from Rio and Santos continue as large as at present, the market will continue to be weak; but as soon as there shall bea dropping off of receipts from those points, the market is sure to rebound. At the first indications of a reduction of re- ceipts at Rio the market is expected to advance at least tc. There is no change in the package coffee market this week. The market is still irregular, and may be expected to decline at anytime. The fact that the market is weakened by a large supply of coffee is back of the fact that the roasters have been able thus far to carry on the war, and to con- tinue it indefinitely. Although the present condition of the market is weak, yet dealers recall that it is stronger than it was about eight years ago, for the reason that there was a million bags more in sight, and prices were higher than now, while the requirements of the world are greater now than then. Canned Goods—All kinds of vege- tables are going out rather more freely than for some time. There is no change in canned fruits. Reports from the Coast are to the effect that trouble is likely to occur over the canning of Co- lumbia River salmon, as it did last vear. The canners have issued their schedule of prices for the coming year, and pro- pose to pay 4c for fish to the fishermen. The fishermen’s union, on the other hand, have held a meeting and have decided that they will not fish for less than 4%c, and a strike is in prospect. It does not look as though the fishermen would have the better of the fight, as they did not last year hold the field com- pletely against the packers, although they forced them to compromise, yet only after the better part of the season was passed. Tea—No perceptible advance in the price of high-grade teas has occurred as yet, although they are sympathetical- ly affected by reason of the advance in the lower grades. Holders of high-grade teas are not anxious to sell, and it is probable that sales, if made, would show a slight advance. Dried Fruits—Peaches have been in a little more enquiry during the week, at unchanged prices. Prunes have been the best seller of the whole line, and while there has been no actual advance as yet, holders are very firm in their ideas, especially as regards the larze sizes, which are scarce. The two heav- iest months for dried-fruit consumption are before us, and nobody would be sur- prised to see prunes higher. Currants are very quiet, although the market is firm. Provisions—The unlooked-for decline in the wheat market appears to have had some influence in depressing hog products. The demand has been weil up to expectations, and in some chan- nels is showing an improving tendency. The export clearances are particularly large of both lard and meats. The sit- uation does not appear to justify expec- tations of a declining tendency in values, for the consumption is large at current values. > 2. —___ Purely Personal. Christian Bertsch has returned from Boston, where he selected lines of fall goods for the Herold-Bertsch Shoe Co. S. M. Smyth, the Scottville potato buyer, predicts that potatoes will be much higher this fall than for the past two years. He thinks the price of wheat advancing will lead those in the Northwest who have of iate given at- tention to potato growing to return to that cereal. He is also of the opinion that many who have been growing po- tatoes the past two years will abandon that crop on account of the low prices that have ruled. Thomas Friant, who was thrown from his carriage a couple of weeks ago while driving on South Division street, sustaining painful injuries to one knee, is recovering rather more rapidly than either his physician or friends expected would be the case, due largely to the recuperative capacity of a splendid physical constitution. Mrs. Friant was also thrown to the ground, landing under a horse driven by a reckless driver, but miraculously escaped serious in- jury. M. D. Galloway, a prominent dry goods merchant of Albion, died April 7 after a short illness, aged 37 years. For several years he traveled through the West with a line of dress goods. About six years ago, in order to be with his family, he purchased the dry goods stock of E. F. Mills. Sickness soon invaded his home, taking first a daughter, then his wife, father and mother—all during about six months’ time. This was a severe blow, from which he never rallied, resulting in death as above stated. He leaves a beautiful daughter, 8 years old, quite well provided for by insurance. Mr, Galloway was of a very kind disposi- tion, always looking to the happiness of his family and of those in his employ. + 2. Cheap Rates to New York. On account of the Grant monument ceremonial at New York City April 27, the Grand Trunk Railway will make rate of one fare and a third to New York and return. Tickets will be sold April 23 to 26 inclusive and will be valid to return up to and including May 4. For tickets and information apply to all agents of the Grand Trunk railway system and connections, includ- ing the D. & M. city office, 23 Monroe street. Jas. Campbell, C. P. A. The Grain Market. Wheat took an upward turn, as was expected, and is now fully 6c per bushel above the prices of the 7th inst. When the Government crop report came in, showing only 81 4-10 per cent. of an average winter crop (about 300,000,000 bushel yield), some war news, cables 1d. higher, another fair decrease in the visible, the fact that navigation is now open, with 10,000,000 bushels less in sight than on July 1, 1896—all tended to influence higher prices, and, last but not least, the short sellers got scared and bid high in order to even up their sales. We think that wheat has seen bottom and will advance gradually. While wheat demands a fair price in comparison with other farm products, such as corn, rye, oats, buckwheat, etc., we think the scarcity is so universal that wheat will advance at least 1o@15c per bushel before long. We read that spring wheat is being sown in the Northwest, but in the same paper we read of blizzards and several feet of snow in the same localities. We also notice that the Red River Valley is in- undated with water and the same is true of the Jim River country. Spring wheat should be nearly all sown by this time and the State of Minnesota will be called on to furnish seed, as many farmers are virtually out of it. There is nothing to say of corn and oats, as the price remains about the same as when our last report was made. The receipts during the week were 26 cars of wheat, 4 cars of corn and 4 cars of oats—rather a small number of cars. Local millers are paying 82c for wheat. C. G. A. Vorer. a The Produce Market. Asparagus—$3.20 per box of 2 doz. bunches. Beets— 4oc per bu. Butter—Separator creamery is weak at 18c. Dairy grades are coming in so plentifully that dealers have dropped their quotations to 10o@!I2c. Cucumbers—Cincinnati mands $1.35 per doz. Eggs—Local handlers have done as they predicted they would do and re- duced their paying price to 7%c per doz., exclusive of freight to this point, also freight on return cases. Green Beans—$2 per % bu. box. Honey—White clover is in fair de- mand at 12@13c. Buckwheat is not so salable, bringing 8@loc, according to quality and condition. Lettuce—Grand Rapids forcing, per lb. Maple Syrup—goc per gallon. Sugar commands 8@loc, according to quality. Onions—Dry are practically out of market. Green fetch 12c per dozen bunches. Parsnips—25c per bu. Pieplant — Illinois stock commands 2'%c per lb. Radishes—Cincinnati stock, 20c per doz. bunches. Strawberries—Louisiana stock brings $2.25 per case of 24 pints. Wax Beans—$2.40 per % bu. box. 9 Flour and Feed. There has been no material change in general condition of the flour trade for some time. Prices have declined 20@ 25c per barrel during the week, but prices are beginning to firm up again, in sympathy with wheat, and will prob- ably be restored again to the old basis within a few days. All classes of buy- ers in the larger ‘markets seem to be awaiting the result of the May liquida- tion in wheat, naturally expecting the usual depression in markets as a con- sequence. Foreign trade is at a stand- still, so far as any new business is con- cerned, there being very few enquiries stock com- 10c coming in, and exporters find it useless to send out quotations. What few bids are being submitted from the other side are too low to admit of acceptance. There has been a fairly good trade in ground feed, meal, etc., both corn and oats being scarce, with prices tending upward. Millstuffs are still in good demand and millers are not accumulat- ing any surplus. Wy. N. Rowe. A Detroit Grocers to Take in the Meat Dealers. Detroit, April 12—At our next meeting we expect to add to our membership something over one hundred and fifty from the Retail Butchers’ Association, the retail meat dealers having come to the conclusion that more effective work can be done under one organization than by two separate associations. At our last meeting it was decided to ask each organization in the State to send one or more representatives to Lansing to work in the interest of our exemption bill. We expect to move in this matter very soon and will keep the different associations posted as to the time of meeting at Lansing. We will send a delegation from here, as well as an attorney, and if our brother mer- chants can send delegates from other parts of the State to represent our inter- ests, we think that it would be very effective and, perhaps, be the only way to secure the enactment of the measure. E. Marks, Sec’y. 08 Marquette—The base price for 1897 ore has been settled, the figures being $2.65 for Norrie ore. At this figure there is but little profit to any but the most favorably situated mines, but there are mines which, by reason of producing ore of superior desirability, will com- mand a considerable premium over the base price for their product. It is cer- tain there will be a heavy demand for ore and that the production will be larger than has ever been achieved in any previous year. The mines that can make a small margin of profit on the current figures can work strongly and employ full forces, as there will bea market for their product in practically unlimited quantities. Many mines which cannot figure out a profit at all with ore at $2.65 for standard Gogebic bessemers will continue in operation and will work strongly. It costs a great deal of money to keep a large mine idle for any length of time, as the fixed charges for pumping, superintendence and other things that must be done un- less the mine is permanently abandoned mount up rapidly, while the question of taxation is even worse to face. The closing down of a mine for the season always means increased taxes, because a certain proportion of the people who have depended on the mine for their daily bread are unable or unwilling to secure work elsewhere and they must be fed. It would cost very nearly $100,000 a year to entirely close down the Lake Superior or Cleveland-Cliffs mines of this city, and fully as much, if not more, would be required to cover actual expenses for a year of idleness by the Norrie mine at Ironwood. It is better to trade an old dollar for a new one than it is to let the old dollar go and get no new one in place of it. ——__~> 2. —__— A Genuine Surprise. Business Man—TI thought I’d surprise my clerks by getting down to the office at the opening hour. Customer—And did you? Business Man—No; there wasn’t one of them there. ~~. ___ Gillies’ N. Y. Great Clearance Tea Sale now on. Phone Visner, 1580. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN GOTHAM GOSSIP. News from the Metropolis---index to the Market. Special Correspondence. New York, April 1o—Considering the obstacles to business improvement— the uncertainty regarding the tariff now pending in the Senate, the decision ot the Supreme Court against ratlroad combinations, and the storms and floods which have interrupted traffic in some sections of the country—the quiet con- dition of the situation is not a surprise. Indeed, for the next few weeks we may expect transactions to continue on a moderate scale. It is worthy of note, however, as an evidence of improve- ment, that while the decrease of busi- ness failures during the first quarter of 1897 was only about 2 per cent., the liabilities show a decrease of 16 per cent., the average of labii:ties being smaller than in any year since 1892. There has been a decline of 1c on No. 7 Rio coffee during the week, the clos- ing price to-day being 7%c. One sale took place at 7c, cost and treight. The movement in mild grades is_ easy. Much indifference is manifested by buyers, notwithstanding the low prices. Good Cucuta is quoted at 14%c, Mocha, 21@22c, with fancy held at 30c The amount of Brazil coffee in store and afloat is 681,889 bags, against 421,34! bags at the same time last year. Sales of raw sugar during the week have been moderate. The final passage of the new French bounty law has_ had a depressing effect on the foreign mar- ket and a sympathetic influence here Prices close unchanged from last week For refined sugar the demand has ruied slow at steady prices. Granulated is now higher than it has been since last September. In teas the distributive demand is slow, with prices steady. The recom- mendations of the Board of Experts ap- pointed to regulate importations of tea which exclude many Pingsuey and low- grade Oolong teas, have called forth a protest from a prominent Japan firm, who claim that the present standards will seriously disorganize trade in Japan tea. Tariff legislation has stimulated the demand for rice, which has been ac- tive. The duty under the new bill will be 4c higher and, as the bill provides that it shall affect, from and after April 1, all goods now entered within its range, importers and dealers are not slow in taking chances to sell at current prices. Southern markets are reported steady. The spice market is quiet, both here and abroad, with prices practically un- changed. No great activity is looked for before the first part of next month, when canal navigation opens. Little interest is manifested in the molasses market, which is firm on de- sirable open kettle and good centrifu- gals. Syrups are dull, witb prices rang- ing from 8@2oc. Business is not rushing in canned goods circles. Buyers are indifferent and markets are irregular; and, take it altogether, there is nothing of interest to record. Reports of the establishment of new factories are still numerous and many old concerns are contemplating operating on a larger scale. The only relief to the monotony is the war among the salmon packers on the Columbia River which promises now to demoral- ize that market. The demand for the entire line of dried fruits is slow, with stocks lighter than usual at this time of year. is a slight improvement in the market for California prunes, but not much de- mand for California raisins. Oranges and lemons are in better re- quest, with supplies ample. Pineap- ples are scarce and selling at full figures. Bananas are in good supply and cheap. Trade is not very active in butter. Receipts have been light the last few days and this has checked any decline in prices. The cheese situation is a steady one, with the supply of new full cream mod- erate and in firm hands. State full cream fancy, 124c. There | @ The market for eggs shows no mate- rial change. Arrivals are liberal and prices are low. Some strictly fancy Northern are held at 93{c, while aver- age prime Western bring 9c. Marrow beans are offered freely at $1.10 for choice stock. Pea beans are slow, but steady at 85c fcr choice. The late P. T. Barnum frequently turned to his own advantage crowds that he caused to collect in front of his old museum by the simplest devices. When business was dull he would send a man out into the street with injunc- tions to carefully lay down several bricks at regular intervals on the sidewalk in a deliberate and mysterious manner, and as soon as he had attracted atten- tion he was to pick them up and walk into the museum. Some of the people whose curiosity had been aroused by this proceeding invariably bought tick- ets and followed the bricklayer inside. There is a Chinese laundryman upon Sixth avenue who may not have heard of Barnum, but he has evolved a some- what similar scheme to boom his _busi- ness. He _ not only washes clothes, but also sells Chinese curios. Several weeks ago he started to paint a sign on his front window. The word ‘‘laundry’’ was to appear in big letters, and when the Chinaman seated himself in the window and began to paint, a gaping crowd collected outside. Perhaps the fact that the Chinaman started to paint his sign backward, beginning with the ‘‘y,’’ may have been the excuse for it. At any rate, the Chinaman saw that he had stumbled upon a good thing, and after spending half an hour in painting the two letters ‘‘r’’ and ‘‘y’’ he retired to the back of his shop. Sev- eral of the spectators outside went in to look at his curios. The Chinaman wiped out the two letters that he had painted that evening, and on the follow- ing afternoon painted them again for the entertainment of the crowd. He has been working on this sign ever since, and it is no nearer completion. The crowd that gathers each day to watch him has been the envy of every small storekeeper in the block. —_—__+0-.—___ It Will Shrink. Moses, Jr.—Fader, a shentleman in der shop vants to know if dat all-wool nonshrinkable shirt will shrink? Moses, Sr.—Does id fid him? Moses, Jr. — No; id is too big. Moses, Sr.—Yah, id vill shrink! Elgin System of Creameries. It will pay you to investigate our plans, and visit our factories, if you are contemplating building a Creamery or Cheese factory. All supplies furnished at lowest prices. Correspondence so- licited. R. E. STURGIS, Allegan, Mich. Contractor and Builder of But- ter and Cheese Factories, and Dealer in Supplies. FOF 90990000 00000000000006+ ment. Write for prices. ; = . = 7 Bought on track at point of ship- M. R ALDEN, Grand Rapids, Mich. 98 S. Division St. 99990000 00090000000000+ Sabo bbdbdbbdbbhbi bdbbabbhbhbinin tn th Ee Citizens ’Phone 555. The Vinkemulder Company, Jobber of FRUITS AND PRODUCE. Manufacturer of “ABSOLUTE” »* Pure Ground Spices, Baking Powder, Etc. We will continue to put up Baking Powder under Special or Private Labels, and on which we will name very low prices, : in quantities. : We make a specialty of Butchers’ Supplies and are pre- pared to quote low prices on Whole Spices, Preservaline, Sau- sage seasoning, Saltpetre, Potato Flour, etc. We also continue the Fruit and Produce business estab- lished and successfully conducted by HENRY J. VINKEMULDER. THE VINKEMULDER COMPANY, 418-420 So. Division St., Grand Rapids. : Successor to Michigan Spice Co. When in want of Seeds for the farm or garden we can supply them at low prices consistent with quality. Don’t deceive yourselves and your customers by handling seeds of question- able character. 8 8 CLOVER, TIMOTHY, GRASS SEEDS, 9° © ONION SETS, FIELD PEAS, ETC. GARDEN SEEDS IN BULK. ALFRED J. BROWN CO., S8QWERS AND MERCHANTS, 00-0-0-0-0-00-0-0-0-0-00-0-0-0-0-00-0-0-0-0-0000-0-000- FIFIFIVFGIFIF CLOVER A TIMOTHY... All kinds of FIELD AND GARDEN SEEDS. Your order will Correspondence solicited. follow, we feel sure. BEACH, COOK & CO., 128 to 132 West Bridge St. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. \ 5 KO BLS E Phe Pvkovdodods bodes SEEDS The season for FIELD SEEDS such as CLOVER and TIMOTHY is now at hand. We are prepared to meet market prices. When ready to buy write us for prices or send orders. Will bill at market value. MOSELEY BROS., Wholesale Seeds, Beans, Potatoes, 26-28-30-32 Ottawa St., Grand Rapids. GREEN VEGETABLES ONIONS, SPINACH, RADISHES, LETTUCE, CUCUMBERS, TOMATOES, etc. STRAWBERRIES SWEET POTATOES, CAPE COD CRANBERRIES, ORANGES, LEMONS, FANCY HONEY. BUNTING & CO., 20 & 22 OTTAWA STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. We are headquarters. Get our prices before going elsewhere and we will get your orders. We have also a fresh supply of Oranges, Lemons, Figs, Bananas and Sweet Potatoes. STILES & PHILLIPS, Both Telephones 1o. 9 NORTH IONIA ST., GRAND RAPIDS. e Radishes, Spinach, Cauliflower, raw erries Green Onions, Cucumbers, To- matoes, Strawberries, Sweet Po- tatoes, Bermuda Onions, Lemons, Oranges, Bananas, Asparagus, Let- tuce, Parsley, Green Peas, Wax Beans, New Beets, Vegetable Oysters. ALLERTON & HAGGSTROM, Jobbers, Both Telephones 1248. 127 Louis Street. Grand Rapids, [lich. e a e : » % PLEA FOR PURE FOOD And an Appropriation of Eighteen Thousand Dollars. Lansing, April 12—Odd, isn’t it, that one’s mind will revert to the unusual or ridiculous associations one may have with persons or places— one _ proof, per- haps, that Schenkel has based his theories of memory culture on facts Who ever sees a copy of the San Sistine Madonna without instantly remember- ing its caricature—- Fairbank’s cherubs? Who ever sees Governor Pingree without thinking of potatoes? Neither can | ever come to Lansing or hear the name, but I think of that old conundrum con- cerning the feat in surgery this city is said to have performed. Just now, how- ever, more wonderful things are in progress than Lansing. The Legislature is in session; the spirit of reform is abroad ; bills providing for all sorts of things are being presented and the members of both houses are full of busi- ness. One may easily recognize.them as they go about with deep furrows in their foreheads, and a preoccupied man- ner, indicating the intensity of thought they give the mighty questions they must decide; or they wear a deter- mined, self-satisfied air which suggests that the thinking period is past and the decision made, whether their vote shall be aye or nay. How positively funny it is to one out- side to see the much made of nothing! What in conscience’s name can it matter to the good citizens of the common- wealth of Michigan whether the label on a molasses barrel be printed in_ let- ters one inch or ten inches high—in fact, whether it be labeled at all? No one is likely to mistake molasses for benzine, yet it is a fact that this is one of the momentous questions over which our legislators ‘‘furrow their brow.’’ This question was not only discussed and haggled over by the committee, but actually consumed the time of the House for hours and, I believe, still remains unsettled. Some really important issues are now being considered by different states, notably the department store bil] in Illinois and the passenger rate question here, both surely of vital interest to us all. Almost equally important are the pure food law enacted at the last ses- sion of our Legislature and the amend- ments thereto proposed at this session. This law, as it stands, has unquestion- ably had a salutary effect upon the food products which fall within its scope. As viewed by a ‘‘consumer’’ it seems both inadequate and defective—defect- ive because so many essentials have been overlooked, and non-essentials ex- aggerated ; inadequate, because a law has been provided without the requi- sites for its enforcement. The present Commissioner is a practical man, thoroughly in sympathy with the spirit and the letter of the law. He has, how- ever, neither the funds nor working force necessary to even get at the most open and flagrant violation of the law. Think of even attempting to inspect the food products placed for sale in this great State, with three men! Compare that number with the armies required to sell them! The smallest jobber in the State has a greater number to place his merchandise alone. If the appro- priation asked for to increase the force of inspectors is not granted, then I hope the man who votes against it will have to eat ‘‘filled cheese’’ (and I[ don’t care what it’s filled with) for the remainder of his days. Of course, outsiders aiways see so clearly just how easy it is to perform even the hardest task, and I confess, I, like Josh Whit- comb, feel entirely equal to ‘‘regulating the hull darned thing.’’ At all events I do believe it is our duty—certainly the duty of the grocer who puts these goods into the hands of the consumer— to study, to think and to speak on this pure food question. How unreasonable we are to expect these men to come down here to Lansing and within a few days frame laws to meet every requirement and cover every point, and we expect them to do it unaided by any real knowledge of what is essential or important! I will MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 2 venture a guess that one-third of the Committee having the food questions under advisement hardly know the difference between a prune and a can of salmon. True, they might be expect- ed to study up on the questions pre- sented to them, but whoever does what is expected? Lack of time, lack ot opportunity, mayhap lack of imierest, step in, so that the only sure way of se- curing good and just legislation on food products is to see to it that ‘ our mem- ber,’’ at least, has the benefit of our ex- perience and opinions to aid him in framing the law under which we will live. Baking powder is one of the prod- ucts not heretofore provided for by the food law, and a bill is now before the Committee which attempts to fix the grade or value of baking powder by classification, based on the acid prin- ciple used—cream of tartar, phosphate or alum—and stipulates that the label give formula and proportions. This baking powder question is to me sim- ply amusing. Answer to yourself this question: What if in the long ago the discoverer of the chemical tormula which he named baking powder had stumbled upon alum or ammonia or lime or phosphate, instead of cream of tar- tar, and that thenceforth every fence and tree had proclaimed, ‘‘Pure Alum Baking Powder,’’ or *‘Pure Ammonia Baking Powder,’’ what would have been your ideas on the subject? Emi- nent chemists tell us that no more in- jurious thing can be taken into the hu- man stomach than cream of tartar as combined with the sodas in baking powder. Others, equally eminent, rail against alum, and so on down the list; hence all or none may be injurious. To me it seems that the good judgment of the housewife and the price fix the value (or supposed value) of this arti- cle. Every woman knows that if she wants a strictly pure cream of tartar powder she pays 50 cents per pound. When she pays only 25 cents, she as well knows that she gets some other for- mula. If she only pays Io cents—well, she gets all she pays for, at any rate. From no point of view am I able to see how the consumer and dealer are either protected or benefited by this new bill. A certain class of manufacturers would, unquestionably, be benefited, because they would be able to put upon the mar- ket, at no expense beyond that of the ingredients, copies of the formulas which it has cost the older manufac- turers thousands of dollars and years of labor and experiment to evolve. The Minnesota law, requiring printed for- umla on the label, has, I understand, been pronounced unconstitutional. A law requiring wholesome ingredients only is enough, but if a little more rigid ones seem in demand, provide that the label shall bear the name of no ingredient not used; nor the word ‘*pure’’ used in conjunction with any ingredient except such be a fact. For instance, a label reading ‘‘pure cream tartar baking powder’’ would not be lawful if the smallest percentage of other acid principle had been used. If we, the innocent consumers, are to be protected alike from frauds on our purses, as well as our digestive ap- paratus, why not include in the list of restricted articles a lot of other things sold for domestic purposes? For in- stance, an inferior grade of bluing means more vexation to the soul of a housewife than almost any other one thing. An article of the best quality can be produced so cheaply that one wonders how it pays a manufacturer to spend a moment in finding substitutes or adulterants; soaps which take the skin off our hands and leave the dirt on; stove polish which won’t polish; matches which won’t strike, and a long list of humbug specialties too long to undertake. Really these questions are too grave to jest over. Returning to food products, one line seemingly overlooked by the framers of the Michigan law is tinned or canned meats, fish, fruits and _ vegetables. Deaths from metallic poisoning are of almost daily occurrence, as_ reported through our papers, and it is no unusual thing to et entire families or pic- nic parties being made sick by eating preserved foods. Not only should the law protect us from the impurities and adulterations of foods, but likewise from unhygienic methods of packing; also from the danger of buying foods which age has rendered unfit to eat. I often see cans of food upou grocers’ shelves which, judging from appearances, might have been packed in the ’60’s. It needs no chemist to tell us that the tin from these cans must be almost if not quite dissolved in the liquid and that the contents are dangerous in the ex- treme. The remedy is less easily pointed out than the fault. However, a system of dating the labels of each year’s pack ; the interdiction of tin cans of inferior quality, or without some coating or varnish to prevent the action of the acid on the tin; a limit as to age; the pro- vision for regular, frequent and _ sys- tematic inspection; the right to conts- cate all canned goods not meeting such requirements—all might remedy evils which seem greater to me_ than putting a pinch of harmless tumeric in a ton of 7 mustard or a bit of burnt sugar to color a cask of vanilla extract, because, while the former kills, the latter merely pleases the eye ard does not alter in any degree the result. There are so many other things which should be brought within the jurisdic- tion of the Pure Food Commissioner and his deputies—so many reforms to be inaugurated and executed—that one stands appalled at their number and their importance. The Boston Transcript says: ‘‘Oft- times the worst enemies of a reform are found among its most earnest friends, because they are unable to move slowly.’’ I heed the warning and will be satisfied if our present Legislature will vote to the department that little item of $18,000, so that we can have enough inspectors to cover the ground once a year, at least, and protect the honest manufacturer who is complying with the law from the tricky one who takes his chances after the inspector has gone by. Emma L. ALLEN. ace aR RRR aIH, ELKHART EGG CASE CO., Elkhart, Ind. Manufacturers of EGG CASES AND FILLERS, Are placing on the market a Grocers’ Delivery Case. counter. seSeseseSe25e25e2525e25e25e5e5e252 We are largest manufacturers Egg Case Fillers in U. S., and our cold storage filler i~ not equaled. This case, being shipped folded flat, goes at low freight rate, and occupies little room on Contains a complete filler, carries eggs safely. 1 when ordered in thousand lots. 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Entered at the Grand Rapids Post Office as Second Class mail matter. When writing to any of our Advertisers, please i that = saw the advertisement in the Michigan Tradesman. E. A. STOWE, EpitTor. WEDNESDAY, = - - APRIL 14, 1897. State of Michigan, County of Kent. § Henry Patterson, being duly sworn, deposes and says as follows: I am pressman in the office of the Tradesman Company and have charge of the presses and folding machine in that establish- ment. The regular edition of the issue of April 14 comprises 6,500 copies. And further deponent saith not. HENRY PATTERSON. Sworn and subscribed to before me, a Notary Public in and tor said county, this fourteenth day of April, 1897: HENRY B. FAIRCHILD, Notary Public in and for Kent County, Mich. EMPLOYMENT OF CONVICTS. Something of a sensation was caused last week by the discussion and tem- porary defeat in the Legislature of the Molster bill, to do away with the com- petition of the prisons of the State with the products of free labor. Among the sensational features was the defense of the furniture industry of the Ionia Re- formatory by the Warden of that institu- tion, who took occasion to turn the tables upon the free labor manufacturers by complaining that they sold certain classes of goods at prices below what he could sell them for when made by prison labor. He claimed that the furniture manufacturing of his institution is be- ing done at a profit, and carried his op- position of the bill to such length that be received considerable criticism from the members of the Legislature for the activity of his partisanship. That the bill as introduced and urged met a speedy defeat is not a matter of wonder and the fact of its coming again to the front in committee of the whole and being passed for further consider- ation is no indication of a serious in- tention that it shall become a law. There was attempted, in its prepara- tion, the embodiment of too many of the unsolved questions of prison reform for it to stand any chance of ultimate success; indeed, its failure on this ac- count is so manifestly certain that it gives a strong presumption that it was not urged by its advocates with any real expectation of success—that it was one of the movements designed to gain the approbation of ‘‘labor’’ rather than any serious attempt to secure action. The proposition to send out the inmates of the prisons and reformatories with SS. ‘‘balls and chains’’ is, under present conditions, too preposterous for serious consideration. The title of the bill might be saved for the preparation of provisions which should modify and lessen, or destroy, such competition en- tirely, but the ball and chain feature cannot be a part of the provision. The question of the employment of prisoners is a serious one in all the states of the Union. Various attempts have been, and are being, made to solve the problem, but the solution seems likely to be a slow one. The most no- table and promising advance is that made by New York, in simply prohibit- ing prison competition, and leaving the working out of the results of this action —the new conditions thus raised—to be met as experience and study of the sub- ject may determine. As might be ex- pected, there is some difficulty in keep-, ing the criminal wards of the State pleasantly and profitably employed, but there seems to be no disposition to re- turn to the old system. Already, the discussion of the subject has suggested some feasible plans for the lessening of the number needing employment in the larger prisons. Thus, the counties are required to take care of their short-term convicts them- selves. Under the present system of fees and mileage, in most of the states, there is a premium put upon sending all offenders to a distant prison. There are large numbers in each of the re- formatories and penitentiaries of this State who could be cared for just as well by local authorities. In many of the county prisons there are provisions for employment in the direction of road improvement. From these there may be developed means of wider application. There are many prisoners who may be safely used on public works without the ball and chain accompaniment; and there are possibil- ities of securing the willing compliance of these, through rewards and the ad- vantages to them of such employment, or the making of the work in the prison itself more arduous and uninviting than that outside. There is certainly a great need in this direction and, like all great economic needs, a way will develop to meet the requirements. Radical action to meet all the possible conditions of such ques- tions is necessarily impracticable, if not ridiculous. The true friends of prison and labor reform will second all efforts to stop the output of prison-made goods, even at the expense of increased cost to the State of caring for criminals, and will then urge every possible means of keeping the prisoners healthily and profitably employed. New York and Greater Brooklyn are one city now, with a big toll bridge be- tween them, and collects $2,000,000 toll from her own people tor going about in her own village. This makes Greater New York a greater humbug. Tolls on public highways are old style—invented to keep turnpikes in order—and have no excuse for being kept up within the limits of a progressive city, where resi- dents paying taxes expect to be pro- vided with streets and sidewalks and bridges for their use without extra charge. It is published that the Chaplain of the Oklahoma Legislature gets but $1.50 per day. Yet there is no place in the country where a greater responsibility rests upon a chaplain, or where the straight and narrow path is harder to travel. EUROPEAN ALLIANCES. The recent developments connected with the Eastern question have shown that important changes were at work in the relations of the various European powers towards each other. In the first place, there has been evident a very marked lack of harmonious action be- tween Russia and France. These two powers, heretofore regarded as the clos- est of allies, have taken opposite sides in several phases of the negotiations connected with the solution of the Cre- tan problem. Russia, for instance, has been a strong advocate of coercive measures towards Greece, while France, on the other hand, has rather opposed all propositions to deal harshly with the little Hellenic kingdom. Considering that Italy forms part of the ‘‘Triple Alliance,’’ one would nat- urally expect to find that country siding with Austria and Germany in the pres- ent crisis. This has not been the case, however, as Italy has warmly seconded the course adopted by France and Great Britain and held aloof from Germany and Austria. It is further worth noting that since the cordial interview held in Paris between Lord Salisbury, the Brit- ish Premier, and M. Hanotaux, the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, France and Great Britain have acted in harmony in all matters affecting Crete and Greece. All these occurrences would seem to point to the probability that important changes in the European alliances are pending. Owing to the many causes for disagreement existing between Eng- land and France, it might be unreason- able to look for any alliance between those two countries in the near - future, but that their relations are now more cordial than they have been for some time is apparent. Italy, ever since her helpless financial and military condi- tion was demonstrated by the Abyssinian disaster, has ceased to be an active member of the ‘‘Triple Alliance,’’ and it is generally understood that when the term of the existing agreement expires the arrangement will not be renewed. Italy now seems to be gravitating rapid- ly towards England and France, and while closer commercial relations will no doubt be established with the latter country, it is probable that a very close understanding will be arrived at with the former, as far as military co-opera- tion in the Mediterranean Sea is con- cerned. However weak Italy may be as a land power, there is no denying that she has a splendid navy-—a fact of vastly more importance to Great Britain than it could possibly be to any other power. From numerous signs it is inferred that the existing ‘‘Triple Alliance’’ will be succeeded by an alliance of the “‘Three Emperors’’—that is to say, of Russia, Germany and Austria. The em- perors will shortly exchange visits, and it is expected that during these reunions the details of a new tripartite compact will be arranged. It would be folly to suppose that such an alliance would tend to promote peace in Europe, be- cause the manifest strength of such an arrangement would be sure to lead to more or less friction between these great military despotisms of Continental Europe and the maritime strength of Great Britain, France and Italy. A combination of Russia, Germany and Austria would be particularly for- midable, as it would, in all probability, attempt to settle the Eastern question without regard to Great Britain and France. These two latter powers could, of course, not permit any such course, and because of the common danger that would be faced they would be forced into a close, if temporary, alliance. The outbreak of war between Greece and Turkey might serve to fully develop all these various changes, or at least set in active motion the undercurrents of intrigue and secret negotiation, from which equally startling developments might be expected. RETROACTIVE TARIFF. There has been a general feeling of assurance throughout the country that there could be no elements introduced into the tariff revision by Congress which should have a disquieting effect on trade. Consideration of increasing rates would naturally stimulate move- ment, as has been manifest in several lines during the months of discussion. But the attitude of the House on the question of retroactive duties, while having no material direct effect, except to lessen the movement of imports by the introduction of uncertainty, is such that the comfortable assurance is being decidedly lessened. The proposition to make the bill retroactive is so generally considered unconstitutional and absurd that there is considerable question as to what motive could prompt sucha proposition. A ridiculous consequence of the prop- osition is the instruction from the de- partment to its collectors to take such measures as will enable them to collect the new duties on present imports when the law is passed and becomes operative —if such should ever be the case. The absurdity of one branch of Congress calling upon a department to take measures for the retroactive enforce- ment of a proposed law is so manifest that it may well excite question as to what will come next. The closing up and seizure of the effects of a branch of a ‘‘ Wall Street’’ bucket shop in this city gives a local interest to an episode which is of wide significance in its bearing upon fraud- ulent speculative schemes and the gul- libility of a certain large element of the general public. The local concern in question assumed to bea branch of a large Wall Street brokerage firm, prob- ably for the purpose of entraping the credulous among the large class of those who seem to think that Wall Street op- erations mean sure profits. In addition to the influence of this prestige there was a skillfully-devised bait prepared in the way of so-called syndicates oper- ating upon a positively ‘‘safe system’’ promising large and sure returns. It is said that the operations of this concern had already become very extensive throughout the country, and it is prob- able that the chief swindlers had al- ready gathered a rich harvest before the final collapse, which was doubtless an expected ending to their career. It has been suggested that the withholding of quotations by the Stock Exchange might lessen such enterprises ; but these swindles can be, and are, carried on without the aid of any reliable quota- tions. Probably there can be no effective remedy for such drafts upon the re- sources of the simple until the advance of education and morality shall destroy the so-widely-prevalent mania for such gambling. The enforcement of the criminal laws may be of some avail in lessening the damage in some instances ; but in most they are practically useless, as the consummation of the swindle usually precedes the knowledge of its fraudulent character, THE HUMAN UPGROWTH. Probably there is nothing which in- telligent foreigners visiting the United States regard with more surprise than they do the extraordinary developmefit and use of machinery and mechanical appliances in the various processes of ordinary industries which they find here. The American mind is particularly fruitful of inventive activity, incited thereto by the growing demand for an increased productive power. Time and again strenuous efforts have been made to secure a decrease of production in many stapies in order, by reducing the supply, to raise the prices; but such efforts are seldom attended with suc- cess. The records show that in 1890 there were registered at the Patent Office, in Washington, 26,292 inventions. This was for a single year. In the same year in France there were registered only 7,634 inventions. Adam Smith, the once standard English authority on po- litical economy, recites that, at the be- ginning of the century, ten expert work- men could make by hand 48,000 daily of that small but indispensable article, the pin. To-day, in a single factory in Massachusetts, by means of seventy ma- chines tended by four men and a boy, the daily product is 7,500,000 pins, stuck in papers and ready for use. At the beginning of the century, iron nails were made by hand, although a machine for making them had been patented. In 1818 a pound of nails, ac- cording to size, cost 18 to 37 cents. To- day a pound is worth 2 cents and the production in the United States in 1893 was about 9,000,000 kegs, of 100 pounds each. Among instances of the produc- tiveness of machinery cited by United States Commissioner of Labor Carroll D. Wright are the following: In an ag- ricultural implement factory in the West, 600 laborers produce as much as 2,145 before the present machinery. In a gun factory, one man used to make the pieces of one gun a day, and now three men make the parts of 130 guns. Ma- chines save 80 per cent. of the labor in the manufacture of women’s shoes; 66 per cent. in the making of men’s shoes. Furthermore, with the McKay machine, a laborer can finish 300 pairs of shoes where he formerly could make five at handwork. A few years ago a manu- facturer made 500 dozen brooms per week with seventy good laborers; he now makes 1,200 dozen with nine la- borers. A cotton weaver, with the handloom, used sixty to eighty threads a minute; the power-loom uses _ 180, while the laborer tends from two to ten looms, according to the nature of the product. Remarking upon the wonderful ad- vance in printing machinery, a recent writer remarked : What would the copy- ists of the Middle Ages, who wrote, perhaps, hardly four pages an hour, have thought if they had been told that the day would come when a machine would produce in an hour the contents of twelve million manuscript pages? But, then, there is a demand fer all those printed pages, because everybody to-day reads. In the Middle Ages it was the exception to find anybody who could read and write. The reader of Sir Walter Scott’s immortal romance of ‘‘Ivanhoe’’ will remember how igno- rant, in the time of Richard the Lion, not only were the common people, but also the knights and nobles of high de- gree. Few of them could read or write. There is a most important question to be asked in connection with this ex- MICHIGAN TRADESMAN traordinary growth of machinery. It is: What effect has been exerted upon the general condition of the people? Are the people better or worse off? It is certain that the enormous in- crease of production caused by machin- ery and scientific invention has so cheapened all articles of consumption as to put them in the reach of all classes. But what has been the effect in displac- ing or in giving opportunities to labor? This question is answered by the Commissioner of the Labor Bureau of New York. In his eighth annual report he declares that the United States and Great Britain are the countries which own and use the most machines. Com- pare the general condition of laborers in those countries with that of any coun- try whatever in the world where ma- chines are unknown, except in the most primitive forms. Where is the superior- ity? It is almost a paradox, and yet it is a truth, that machines bring about a much larger employment and improve- ment, not only because they increase production, but because they multiply the chances of employment and greatly increase the consumption of products. In fact, the census of the United States shows that the proportion of laborers to the total number of inhabitants has in- creased in the same period that the machine has taken most complete pos- session of manufactures. From 1860 to 1890, while the population of the United States doubled, the number of persons employed in industry increased nearly threefold, and at the same time the me- chanical power, measured by _horse- power, increased fourfold. Inventions have created new industries, such as photography, electricity, telegraphy, electrotyping, railroading, manufacture of sewing machines and _ bicycles, etc., and have thus given to labor much more employment than they have with- drawn from it. Every invention and discovery devel- ops new powers in man, places new do- mains within his reach and creates new wants and needs to be gratified or supplied. These open new and vast fields of industry which require the la- bor of men and women. Life becomes more complicated, luxury grows, com- forts are placed within the reach of all, and education and the means of _infor- mation given to every one who will ac- cept them. Of course, there are diffi- culties and embarrassments caused by the necessity for making new adjust- ments. Men turned out of one employ- ment must learn another. This 1s harder upon the aged and upon those of in- ferior capacity; but it is the result of natural conditions which must always be met at one time or another. The human lot is vastly improved. Slavery is extinguished in all civilized countries and men are being emanci- pated from every sort of domination save the obligations of duty, honor, truth and morality. Every individual has an opportunity to do his best, be that much or little, and it is his own fault if he failto use it. The human condition is constantly improving, and those who fail to make the most of it have only themselves to blame. The project for the founding of the Vermont Maple Sugar Exchange, which was agitated during the winter, has evidently been abandoned for the pres- ent and will be of no service during the present season. It is stated by one ot the movers in the affair that the scheme has not been given up, but will be revived later in the year. CONTRACT SYSTEM PERNICIOUS. One of the worst public abuses that have grown up in the cities of the United States is the letting out to contractors of public work which should be done directly by the municipal authorities. The letting out of public service to contractors nourishes and encourages the worst political evils. It creates a strong temptation to corrupt arrangements be- tween contractors and public officials to gain for the former undue advantages at the cost of the community. The op- portunities thus presented for ‘‘jobs’’ and ‘‘deals’’ form an incentive for unfit men to seek public office. Then again, contractors for public work are likely to be in politics; to have extensive politi- cal alliances both among voters and with their friends, the officials, and thus exert a debasing influence on pub- lic affairs. The public officials and the contract- ors in such cases form a coalition to defraud the taxpayers out of their money, and, although the contracts may have penalty clauses to enforce their performance, these penalties are never applied; but, on the contrary, the neg- lect and default. ot the contractors are always excused by those who should enforce the contracts. Some American cities that have abandoned tbe contract system and are doing their own work have found great benefits from the change. Boston is one of these. In a report on the Boston public serv- ice it is declared that great improve- ments have been obtained. In the street department a change was made, two years ago, in the system of sprinkling the streets. The contract method was practically abandoned, and the work was done by the department directly. In two districts, in 1895, there was a saving of over 36 per cent. by day work over the contract work in 1894. In one of these districts, the South End, the saving was 50 per cent. Not only was the cost less, but the work was much better done. A more intelli- gent class of men was employed, and .they were much better paid. When citizens have complaints to make they can now easily reach the public author- ities; but contractors would pay little heed to complaints and it was not easy to reach them. In street cleaning in Boston, actual results show that the average cost of cleaning 11,418.99 miles of streets actually swept was $15.58 a mile, and that, notwithstand- ing this low cost, which included much that is charged to other accounts in other cities, Boston paid higher wages than any other city, except New York. It is said that the two cleanest cities in North America to-day are New York and Toronto. New York not only em- ploys and thus directs all its street cleaning and garbage dispatch forces, but it has an organized department, with an adequate and properly adjusted equipment of horses, carts, brooms, stables and stations, and it pays its men $2 a day and upward for eight hours’ work. Toronto, with 190,000 population, has abandoned the contract system for all public service, and recent report states that the street commissioner has, during the last seven years, entirely revolution- ized the care of the streets of the city. He has not only organized the execution of this work under a distinct depart- ment, but out of the margin thus saved from the annual appropriations for car- ing for the streets he has actually built and equipped a modest but complete set of workshops, where the entire con- struction and repair work of the depart- ment is executed. Not only are the sprinklers, rotary sweepers, automatic loading carts and snow scrapers, each after a special pattern devised by the commissioner or under his direction, built in these shops, but even the har- nesses are made there, the horses are shod there, and it is the truthful boast of the commissioner that every article of manufacture used by the department is produced from the raw material in these shops, and in every department it is Claimed that the work is done better, as well as more cheaply. This will always be the case if honest men are put in office and there are no contracts to tempt them to jobbery. The city of Dresden owns a daily paper, Dresdener Anzeiger, which was given to it by its late proprietor, on the condition that all profits arising therefrom should be spent upon the pub- lic parks. This year a large playground of nearly eight acres was purchased from Prince George, the king’s brother and heir apparent, and it will be ready for use this summer. The paper con- tinues to hold the respect of all citizens, for the trust bas been carried out in its broadest spirit, and the power has never been employed to foster any school of opinions—social, political or religious. Germany has now definitely given notice to the Russian government that it will refrain from any kind of repre- sentation at the forthcoming Interna- tional Congress of Medicine at Moscow, unless all restrictions with regard to the passports of the Hebrew members of the German delegation are at once with- drawn. It is insisted that the Jewish members of the Congress shall receive from the Muscovite authorities iden- tically the same treatment as_ their Christian colleagues. The Kentucky Legislature has passed a bill reducing the salary of the Assist- ant Adjutant General to one dollar per year. The official should be made to pay a bonus for an office that gives him a chance to wear the uniform of a major general when he is doing the work of a company clerk. Alaska’s yield of gold this year is estimated at $10,000,000. Thirty years ago Uncle Sam paid over $7,200,000 for the territory, so that it seems that he did not make such a bad speculation as some of the pessimists of that time made out, at least to their own satis- faction. It is said that at least a dozen valu- able articles of commerce, including cellulose, celluloid, smokeless gun- powder, lacquer, roofing material, glu- cose and papier-mache can be made fro.a cornstalks, and that they will soon be worth $25 per acre Japan is said to contemplate stock breeding on a large scale. The govern- ment proposes the founding of 350 farms for experiments with foreign breeds of horses for cavalry and _artil- lery use. ‘*Peroxide journalism’’ is the latest for the yellow kid papers. The name is fitting in that it is as obnoxious as the thing it represents. Men who would not stoop to beat a carpet have been known to beat a carpet dealer. When you hear a man boast of being shrewd he is next door to silly. 10 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Flour and Feed Comparative Merits of Whole Wheat and Bolted Flour. Written for the TRADESMAN. It may seem preposterous for me to revert to the past—as far back as sixty years ago—for optimistic comparisons with the present; but at the risk of find- ing at least a ‘‘corporal’s guard’’ who will agree with me, | shall venture to describe and solicit a verdict upon certain lines of merchandise sold at that and also at the present time. I aver that, sixty years ago, any arti- cle of merchandise was supposed to be —and generally was—intrinsically all that it purported to be, while to-day it is ‘‘gilded and veneered,’’ so to speak, and made to present a more fashionable and—perhaps to the eyes of this gener- ation—a more beautiful appearance. The product of to-day. may sell fora less price, even were it placed beside the old—as production has cheapened— while, for all purposes intended except to please the eye and Fashion, the older is the superior. It is true that, in this progressive age, ‘‘it is other people’s eyes that ruin us.’’ We build, we dress, we live, we eat to please others instead of ourselves. For our present purpose, we will speak of the several kinds of grain and the various uses of the flour produced from them : The wheat flour of to-day is, for all purposes as food, so inferior to that made by the grinding instead of the crushing process that no comparison can be made except an arbitrary one. The crushing or roller process makes a nearly white, dry and finely-powdered flour—more proper to say meal, as the particles do not naturally adhere to each other—while flour from the same wheat ground by the old process is in color a perceptibly golden yellow, will easily retain the imprint of the hand under pressure, which the former will not, and also has a slight but clearly per- ceptible moisture of its own. It is quite possible that by the roller process of making wheat flour the gluten, which constitutes about one-eighth of it, is so changed in its chemical nature as to cause the widely-marked difference in the food prepared from it. The same flour is not always produced from differ- ent varieties of wheat, even by the roller process, and the cheapness, in the pro- duction of some kinds, may have caused their quite universal use, to the gradual exclusion of most others; but it isa fact that to-day there is a growing sen- timent in the United States demanding a return to the process of half a century ago for the manufacture of wheaten flour. In order to verify my statement, it is only necessary to converse with those who have once made use of the ground flour, in their own cooking and by their own manipulation. Early in the 40's the cracker, made from wheat flour, was in universal de- mand as an article of diet. It was found in every grocery and eating house and upon every lunch counter. It was not the chippy, semi-transparent nothing called, by courtesy, a ‘‘wafer,’’ but was a rich, crisp, delicately-browned round biscuit, made to delight the pal- ate instead of the eye, and to satisfy hunger. It was truly a cracker in all that the word implies, and its equal is not found in the market to-day. The nearest approach to it is either the modern cracknel or egg biscuit, or the Boston biscuit, two of the best now made. For many years, in the long ago past, the good housewife made her own crackers. To-day, I interviewed an old lady of eighty years, enquiring if she ever made her own crackers. ** Indeed, ‘I once did,’’ was the answer; ‘‘and, if I could have the same flour, I would try to make them now; but nowadays the way in which flour is made burns and crushes the life all out of it, and neither as good bread nor crackers can be made from it by any one.’’ No cracker nor cake designed for sale over the counter should be made in square form, for two reasons: First, owing to the sharp angles, they become dry and hard in one-half the time that the round one will. Second, they are invariably badly broken, from the same Cause, in transportation. It is not unusual to find from two to six quarts of cracker bits when the bottom of a box or barrel of square crackers is reached ; and, as a ruie, this is almost a total loss to the merchant. Still, aside from the loss by breakage, it is hardly to be expected that the thin, pale and tasteless apology for cakes or biscuits of to-day will retain either their shape or good qualities for any length of time. The great number of kinds of cakes and biscuits made by the large trust com- panies, from meal or flour of every eat- able variety of grain, and shipped to every point of the compass for con- sumption, tells of the vast business in this line, and the age some of this focd must naturally attain before being con- sumed. The most serious mistake of the age, in preparing material for our bread foods of every kind, is not so much the crushing or powdering process of the grains as the sifting out of the most nourishing, nutritious and important part of the flour or meal, which fur- nishes health and strength for both body and brain. I have before stated in the Tradesman that the bran from oatmeal and wheat flour alone contains 18 per cent. of gluten. In bolting the crushed grain, to please the eye or a perverted taste, we consign to the bran and middlings a large portion of this gluten which is so necessary for the human system. Listen to this, from a_ celebrated chemist: ‘‘The whole meal or flour, obtained by simply grinding the grain, is equally nutritious with the grain it- self. By sifting out the bran, we ren- der the meal less nutritious, weight for weight; and, when we consider that the bran is rarely less, and is often con- siderably more, than one-fourth of the whole weight of the grain, we must see that the total separation of this cover- ing causes much waste of wholesome human food.”’ FRANK A. HowicG. ae The Moscow papers state that one of the principal firms in Russia for the manufacture of church bells will shortly send to the Emperor Menel1k ten splen- did bells, richly decorated in strictest Russian style. The bells are intended for the Abyssinian churches, and cost more than 10,000 roubles, which sum has been contributed by the friends of Abyssinia in Moscow. A blind bell- ringer is being sent with the bells, in order to teach the Abyssinians to ring their bells in the Moscow manner. oN Fifty years ago England imported three eggs a head for its population; last year it imported forty for each in- habitant, the whole number being 1, 589, - 387,000. Many come from Russia, which exported 1,500,000,000 eggs last year, and more from Italy. Flower Time is here. Winter flours are in good de- mand. Especially the household favorite, LILY WHITE This is a very white, pure flour, as its name implies. It is a native of Michigan. At the same time it has become popular not only in Michigan but in several other states. A great many families have adopted it as their family flour, and they will have no other. A great many grocers have it for sale because these families come after it time and time again and— buy their groceries where they buy their flour. A great many grocers. who have in- troduced it in their town continue to sell it for the same reason. Do you need a trade winner? We suggest “Lily White.” VALLEY CITY MILLING CO., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. LEEEEEEEEEEE EEE EEE EEE TTT + : ; Grocers’ Refrigerators eh hepoehohoheh eh ooh heheh oh A grocer writes us: ‘‘Words will not express the satisfaction we have in using the new retrigerator you sent us, and do not know how we ever got along without it. It in- creases our business and is very economical in the use of ice.” Ask for catalogue showing 17 styles of Grocers and Butchers’ Refrigerators. H. LEONARD & SONS, Manufacturers, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. PEPEEEEEEE EEE ET ETT TTT TT Hoppe oh heh oh ohh oh pope oho ohh +h heheh hehehehe -ohd hhh hehehehehe hhh o ees eas 5 Foe A ed INCRE PRN Ot RAEN ni ee eR aR a +S ame pee PRN Ot RAEN ee MICHIGAN TRADESMAN SIXTY YEARS AGO. Kleptomania Flourished Then as Now. Written for the TRapEsman. There were kleptomaniacs in those days. No profession or occupation of any kind furnishes so good an opportunity for the study of human nature as does that of salesman in a general retail store. I remember once hearing a_ learned and celebrated lawyer remark that, if he had a dozen boys that he intended for the learned protessions, he should not regard their education complete, to insure success, unless they had served an apprenticeship to some form of mer- cantile life, either on their own account or in the employ of others. This theory he afterwards put into practice. His two sons, after graduating with honors from Hobart College, Geneva, New York, followed mercantile pursuits for four years, with reasonable success, but finally. drifted back into the paternal office and made good lawyers and_ suc- cessful politicians. Their mercantile experience had furnished them with a knowledge of human nature that fitted them for more rapid progress in their profession than they could have ac- quired in any other way. _ Every conscientious salesman of ex- perience can recall the anxiety he has felt when called to wait upon customers supposed to belong to the class men- tioned in the opening of this paper. The necessity and impossibility of be- ing in two places at the same time, or having eyes in the back of their heads, call for untiring vigilance. Especial- ly is this the case if the goods asked for are small and expensive, such as ribbons, gloves, laces, etc., that may be easily hidden. If articles of trifling value, such as fins, needles, thread, etc., are shown, the vigilance must be just the same, but the anxiety is less. - The methods resorted to by these pil- ferers to conceal their plunder show much ingenuity and often verge on the ludicrous. A case in point came with- in my own experience: A regular cus- tomer, the wife of a well-to-do young farmer, bought liberallly of all kinds of goods used in a farmer’s family; but I noticed that she seldom bought any of the little necessaries for making up her purchases for family use. She used to leave the store after making her pur- chases of me, and when she returned she would take out of her pockets more or less small articles that were loose. This aroused my suspicions and I de- termined to watch her if chance offered. One day she came in and asked tu be shown some darning needles. I set the box containing the needles in papers marked ‘‘sharps,’’ ‘‘betweens’’ and ‘‘as- sorted,’’ as they were designated, for her to select such as she wanted. I no- ticed that she opened some of the papers. Just then I was called to the other end of the counter but, keeping an eye on her movements, I saw her put needles into her mouth from several papers and carefully close the papers again. Finally, she laid out half a dozen darning needles of assorted sizes and when I came back she laid the change to pay for them on the counter, with the remark that she ‘‘did not need any of the others.’’. [| took up the money and, looking her in the eye, asked her as politely as I could, under the circumstances, if she did not in- tend to pay for those she had in her mouth. Her face assumed an expres- sion of mingled pain and shame that was almost ghastly, as she took them out of her mouth and counted them, with tears of humiliation in her eyes that excited my sympathy. She had smuggled in her mouth two dozen! But she paid me for them, at the same time begging me piteously not to expose her, for her husband’s sake and that of her little family. She acknowledged, upon being questioned, that she had been in the habit of pilfering ina small way for some time, and_ that there were times when she could not resist the temptation. I told her it was my duty to inform my employer, un- less she preferred doing so herself, and I presumed it would go no farther. She dried her eyes and asked if Mr. Gor- ham was in the store. I said Yes and led the way to the office. She entered; but what transpired there I never asked. She came out a half hour after, her face tear-stained but beaming with hope and good resolutions. Then I knew that my kind employer, instead of harshly accusing her, had been pouring oil into that wounded heart. She after- ward told me that she not only made a full confession, but full restitution for former small thefts of which we knew nothing. She continued to be a liberal customer of the store for years after: I left, but was never again suspected of dishonesty. Evidently, the mild treat- ment she received worked a radical cure. The fact that these cases of klepto- mania turn up when and where least ex- pected often gives the salesman a Startling surprise. I will narrate one more instance that came under my own observation: The Easter season of 1843 ushered in a craze for cherry colored ribbons. They were both satin and taffeta and were worn in every variety of width, from the narrowest used for trimming the leghorn, poke or cottage bonnets inside and out, to the broader ones that mingled in profusion with the delicate ruching encircling the neck, or were used as trimming for the rather low-necked dresses then in fashion, and the broad sash, with its flowing ends, that spanned the waist. So general was the demand for this particular shade of red that they became very scarce. Among our best village customers was a wealthy widow lady and her daughter. They were connected by marriage with the oldest and most aristocratic families in Western New York, one member of which was then holding a cabinet office in Washington. The daughter used to do most of the shopping. She always bought the best we could show her. One day after I had been waiting on her, I missed a pair of fawn-colored gloves from the box she had been handling, worth at retail $2. No one else had been near them. But the suspicion that flashed upon my mind almost took my breath away. I tried to dispel it but, like Hamlet’s ghost, it would not **down at my bidding.’’ Realizing the value of their patronage and the place they held in my employer's esteem, I resolved not to tell him just then my suspicions, but to watch. A few days later, we received a small invoice of ribbons, among them being a few pieces of the much-coveted cherry red. The very next day Mrs. J. and her daughter came into the store and made some purchases. The daughter saw the new box of ribbons and asked me to show them. I set the box on the counter only a few feet from where I was _ wait- ing on her mother. I knew the number of pieces of each shade the box con- tained. When I returned it to the show case one piece of cherry red ribbon was missing! In view of the social stand- ing of the parties, I made up my mind it was time my employer took a hand at detective work. After they went out I went to the office and told my sus- picions, and my reasons for them, to my employer. Surprise and doubt were mingled in his face as he replied: ‘Mr. Welton, do you realize what you are telling me? You must be mistaken. Don’t tell a living soul what you have told me. Your motives, no doubt, are the very best, and I want you to under- stand I appreciate them. But it can’t be so! Your suspicions shock me!’’ | asked him to allow me to call him to wait on her the next time she should come in. He replied that he should be glad todo so. A few days later, Miss J. came in again. It happened that I was busy at the grocery counter, with soiled hands—l was making some changes in stock. Excusing myself, I called Mr. Gorham from the office to attend her. She asked for linen lace edgings. I saw, to my satisfaction, that he was calling her attention to some new fancy laces just received, and was showing her articles that she did not call for, evidently to give her every opportunity to filch if so disposed. When she left the store, his voice trembled as he said: ‘‘Mr. Welton, your suspicions were well founded !’’ (mentioning the articles she had carried away). Among them was a piece of very narrow Valenciennes edging worth 75 cents a yard. After closing the store in the evening, he calied me into the office for consultation. He began by saying: “‘This is the most embarrass- ing situation I was ever placed in. You realize the importance of the trade we are getting from the circle in which she moves, and the social relations that have been so long cherished between our families. Her mother is a widow with a very high sense of honor. She is in very delicate health and an open ex- posure would kill her. Of course, this can no longer go on; so what shall we do? I suggested the course pursued in the former case; but he could not see his way clearly forthat. The social positions of the two persons so widely differed, etc., etc. It was finally ar- ranged that her brother-in-law, who was also a merchant, should be taken into our confidence, and his advice, being an interested person, should be _ fol- lowed. Luckily, the mother was, by that time, visiting friends in New York ; the daughter was alone at home. Her brother-in-law proposed that he himself visit her at her home, in company with my employer, which was immediately done. When confronted with the evi- dence of her guilt, she made no denial; and, when asked to produce the goods, led the way to her room and exposed to view a trunk filled with small articles of stolen property—costly bound books, jewelry, ribbons, laces and many ar- ticles for which she could never have found any possible use. She gave the name of every man to whom the _ prop- erty belonged, and without the faintest shadow of contrition! The property was promptly returned to the various owners, with the earnest request that secrecy be observed. I think the dis- grace never reached her mother’s ears. The strangest thing of all was that she did not seem to realize the disgrace that hung over herself. She soon after went to New York, to live with a brother; but the monomainia grew upon her un- til she was finally sent to a private asylum. W. S. H. WELTON. Owosso, Mich. INCLUDES THE ITEM “Ice Cream Lost or Wasted.” The New Round Grand Rapids Ice Cream Cabinet Will make ciphers of the figures opposite this item. It is handsome and in keeping with Soda Foun tain surroundings. Its looks please customers. Its convenience enables the dispenser to serve custom- ers promptly. Its economy in ice and cream will please every owner of a fountain. Made in sizes from 8 to 40 quarts. Send for Description and prices. Chocolate Cooler Co., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. SUBSTITUTE FOR COFFEE MANUFACTURED BY ye \ 19} RS0 ¢ C. H. STRUEBE, Sandusky, Ohie, Agent for Ohio, Indiana and Michigan. PROTECTION DIAMOND CRYSTAL SALT in boxes is impervious to the odor of the mackerel barrel. Fastidious customers believe in such protection. See Price Current. DIAMOND CRYSTAL SALTCO., ST. CLAIR, MICH. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Dry Goods The Umbrella That Never Was Pur- chased. Probably a respectable majority of your readers never entertained a suspi- cion that not until very recently has the summer umbrella found any favor whatever in the eyes of the proper young man in the hustling, ‘bustling towns of Central California. For iack of positive general knowledge I apply this state- ment only to a limited area but I was reliably informed that the same custom then prevailed throughout the State. Late in the spring of the year 1883 | got me up from among my_ good ‘*sucker’’ people and followed the star of empire to the glowing golden West, where I soon found remunerative em- ployment in the office of the leading newspaper in a beautiful little city not far from San Francisco. There was at this time certainly nothing about the ordinary attire of the average Easterner to make him conspicuous there. Even the silk hat, although quite a new in- novation, had been adopted by a few leaders of fashion and therefore might be worn with a fair degree of assurance that nothing would be hurled at it more material than some of those popular little queries showing an abnormal in- terest in itsantecedents. But umbrellas! I shudder even now at thoughts of what might have befallen me had it not been for the favorable trade conditions which enabled each and every dealer in umbrellas in that thriving burg to dis- pose of his last rain-shade before the summer drouth relegated it to the rank of dead stock. The nights in that region are almost invariably cool, but the sun often shines fiercely during the day, and, as I had to walk several blocks on a sunny street for my noonday meal, it very naturally occurred to me one scorching hot day a few weeks after my arrival that I. must have an umbrella. Accordingly, with no thought of violating either the writ- ten or unwritten law of the land, I stepped into a store where one would expect to find such an article and inno- cently made my want known. The polite clerk informed me, with- out the least expression of regret, that they had closed out their entire stock before the end of the rainy season (which lasted some weeks longer than usual that year), and would not re-order until fall. I thought the fellow eyed me in an unwarranted manner, but the truth of the matter did not penetrate to my seat of intelligence, and so, although somewhat surprised at the completeness of my failure there, I went a short dis- tance up the street and entered another store, with the most perfect corfidence that I would find the desired commod- ity. Imagine my surprise when I found that the prolonged wet spell and cau- tious buying combined bad caused that firm’s entire stock of umbrellas to van- ish also. At the third and fourth places visited the same conditions prevailed; and as my disappointment became more pronounced the salesman would smile sympathizingly and look at me in a way that plainly said: ‘‘Poor fellow! when did you escape? We're really sorry fcr you but, of course, you’ll have to be looked after again.’’ At last I struck a kind-faced old fur- nisher who had once lived—well, I have forgotten now where he had lived, it may have been Illinois, or it may have been New York, or it may have been somewhere else—at any rate in his younger days he had occasionally seen men as well as women carrying sun- shades, and so he listened to my tale of woe without becoming in the least alarmed. His reply was a hearty laugh followed by the remark: ‘‘ Young man, you may be thankful you didn’t find an umbrella. Men don’t carry them here except during the rainy season. If you had gone down the street to-day carry- ing one, people would either have thought you crazy, or guyed you out of town for a dude.’’—Apparel Gazette. > 20> More Trouble at Yonie De Haas’ Tavern. Written for the TRADESMAN. Mill Iron, April 4—Aie tankang das Dutch Tavarn baie Yonie De Haas bane Hodo. Bae Yiminy! aie skal yump das Tavarn naxt taime aie baie ba masalf. Somtang bane hapan avary taime aie stopang baie Yonie’s. Copal veaks aftar das beefstak trobal, Meister Mur- phy sa baie maie, ‘‘Yonie, yo Sveede, Scun of aie gon, aie vant yo tocom baie Yim Darling Grocary stor das da. Aie brang some Parlass tobacco an_ over- hall, an von tang aie skal tal yo—af yo com har gain an got yag on lake lass taime, aie bat maie tan dollar yo yump das yob pratty quvick.’’ Yo saie, aie bane pratty scare, an aie com baie Yim Darling. Bane got maie lode on, an yust tank, ‘‘Aie will yust com baie Yonie’s an gat drank alcoholla an yump das town.’’ Das vas bout dree o’clok, p.m. Aie yust com abei tha offace, an Yonie sale, ‘‘Hallo, Sveede. Aijie sae! Hallo, Yonie!’’ An haie vas saieang somtang baie mae, an a fallar com baie Yonie an sae somtang. Yonie sae, ‘‘ Yas, aie skal tal har. Yo com op baie das parlar an aie skal brang har baie yo.’’ Aie saie, ‘‘Yonie, com baie katchan.’’ An vomans comang long wad Yonie an com baie parlar. Aie har loud talkang, an dan, Yumping Yiminy! aie har crack-bang thra taime lake aie gon, an vomans skramang, ‘*Murder!’’ an avarytang baine oxcit- mant. Aie ron up baie das parlar, an voman comang out yallang, an blud all ovar har. ‘‘Aie baine killed!’’ har saie. Yust dan, som vomans com an take har vay, an sand for doctar. Aie tank, ‘‘Aie skal com an saie whar Yonie an onder fallar baie.’’ Aie find dem baie das parlar. Yonie got das falla on floor, an haie bane top of haim. Haie say, ‘‘Lat mae go! Aie skal not skoot any more!’’ Yonie, haie saie, ‘*Aie kno d—m _ vell yo vont skoot no more!’’ Val, som onder fallar com an gatang rope, tae das man up tite, an ask Yonie, ‘‘ Vat was das trobal?’’ Haie saie: ‘‘Das fallar wife yump_ him. Har gattang sick of har yob. Har vant har com back, an har say sha skal not. Haie yust pullang out ravolvar, an saie, ‘Dan tak das!’ an comance skooting har. Yonie, haie knockang haime down an yump on haime tal us fallar com on halp haim.’’ Baie Yiminy! aie yust don’t wait for alcoholla. Aie yust yump on mai lode, an aie bat yoo aie baine baie camp in pratty gude hurry. Aie com back baie camp, an aie got no yag on. YONIE YONSON. a It was discovered in Spokane, Wash., the other day that the new populist offi- cials, who took office in January, have been using the county courthouse for living apartments. They pay no rent. The building is large, and for some time there have been a number of va- cant rooms in the upper story. Nine- teen people eat, sleep ard live there, including the county superintendent of schools, deputy treasurer and others. These officials claim they have the right to use the county courthouse as a living place. A train load of broom corn arrived in Kansas City the other day, bound for Onondaga, N. Y., where it will be made into whisk brooms. The train was made up of twenty handsomely dec- orated cars and was said to carry the largest single shipment of broom corn ever made from any point in the world. The corn was grown near Sterling, Kan., and isa part of a crop of 1,600 tons. ——__—_-0 > —___. It is said that Mme. Sarah Bernhardt has never used wine or other intoxi- cants, confining her beverages mostly to milk and water, and that she attributes largely to this the remarkable preserva- tion of her powers. The Preacher’s Son. A minister who used to preach in Kalamazoo had a little boy. A few days before his father left the city to go to his new parish one of his neighbors. said to the little boy: | ‘ ‘*So your father is going to work in Detroit, is he?’’ The little boy looked up wonderingly. r ‘‘Oh, no,’’ he said. ‘‘Only preach.’’ ——__>82__ A Boy’s Idea of Economy. Little Dick—‘‘Papa, didn’t you tell mamma we must economize?”’ Papa—‘‘I did, my son.”’ ae Little Dick—‘‘Well, I was thinkin’ that mebby if you’d get mea pony I wouldn’t wear out so many shoes, "’ —_> 0s An Apt Illustration. Freddy—What does it mean, Papa, when it says that all men are born free and equal? Papa—It means, my son, that fora time at least we are unmarried. m ‘ Al RARE UHC A business established for nearly 20 years; best location in the city. We do business for cash only; our Hl annual sales between $50,000 and uy $60,000. A good, clean, stable stock, consisting of everything in the Clothing and Dry Goods lines. I also own the building; will either sell or rent. It’s a Money=Maker, : but compelled to leave on account of my large interests East. For further particulars, address Kassel Oshinsky, Marquette, Mich. Oa - Sese5e52 New designs, new colorings, new goods for SUM DRAFP burlaps, etc. WASH Summer corsets, all qualities. wear. Silks. Dr SeseseseseSeSeSesese5e5e5e5e2 P. STEKETEE & SONS, Grano Rarios. | soe 2 SeSeSeSeSeSeoeSeSeseSeSe5e25e25e25e25e5e25e25e5e25e25 Cameo draperies, art demins, plain and figured cretonnes, silkaline, printed h Ribbons. - 2! sunt MER You can only appreciate our elegant assortment of sum- mer goods by looking them over. Your inspection is asked. ERIES All styles, all prices. GOODS Dimities, organdies, Honiton lace effects, homespun dress linen, Madras cloth, etc., from the cheapest to the best. Under- : a _Laces. Embroideries. ess Trimmings, etc. QOOQQDOQDOOCKe 1897 | © 212121099912 ©ODHOGOOGHHOOOOOOOOOQOOOOOCS {BO 7 Sopevesest MILLINERY “CRITERION” NEW CAT. CORL, KNOTT & CO., OOCOOQOOOO @QOQO©®DOOOO® ALOGUE OF Manufacture Grand Rapi Write for it before buying. © _ 31897 ¢ Scannenial : GCOGOQDOOQOOOOOGOOGOGOQHDODHOOO®OOOOOOO 2 1897 rs and Jobbers, ds, Michigan. wm For Rain or . An assortment 4 iN taenirmeee soc, Umbrellas, Parasols. W Voiet, Herpolsheimer & Co. w iN WHOLESALE DRY GoOops, ‘ GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Ay Shine .. ¥ Mackintoshes, W Rubber Coats, We ee NANA ENN CMTE a a MICHIGAN TRADESMAN I3 The Unfortunate Experience of a Suc- cessful Furniture Salesman. Jacob A. Riis in the Century. I had been working ail winter and spring in the western part of New York State, alternately at wood chopping and at making cradles and bedsteads, with a brief interval during which I rana wheelbarrow express from the village hotel down to the steamboat landing a mile and a half away, when I made my first and only flight into business as a drummer. I still think that it wasa success in a way, even if it didn’t work out exactly right. But that was not my fault. I like a concern, anyhow, that can stand up alone in times of pros- perity; this couldn’t. It was an infant industry ; that was the mischief. It was this way. A lot of my fellow- workers in the factory had hit upon the idea of setting up in business for them- selves on the co-operative plan. They had no capital, but they hired a shop with water power; wood was cheap, and the oil-country close at hand, with boom towns springing up all over it like mushrooms. They wanted beds and tables and.chairs down there, and had money to pay forthem. All that was needed was some one who could talk to go and sell them the things; then enough could be made to establish the business before the credit of the con- cern gave out. They picked me for that job, and I, nothing loath, dropped ax and wheelbarrow, and started out. An album full of photographs of fur- niture and a price-list made up my equipment. I was to do the rest. I re- member, as though it were yesterday, the first storekeeper I struck. It was in Titusville. He was a cross old man, and wouldn't so much as look at my pictures; but when I poked the book under his nose and it fell open right at the extension-tables, he had to in spite of himself I told him the price before he could get his eye off the picture, and he took another look. He turned over the leaves, while my heart beat high with anticipation, and by and by he came back to the extension tables. If they were any good he wouldn’t mind a dozen or so; but he had to bind me down to an iron-clad contract as to price and quality, since he had never seen me before, and didn’t know our tables. I signed that contract—I would cheerfully have signed anything just then—and many more like it in the three weeks that followed. It was sin- gular how suspicious they were of ex- tension tables, in spite of the fact that they hankered after nothing else, in that free-handed country. But then I early made up my mind that that was the way of trade. There were others in Titusville who wanted extension tables, and I let them have them gladly. I must have sent home an order for a hundred that night before I took the late train for Oil City so as to be up and doing with the birds. There it was the same thing, and so in Pithole Center, in Franklin, and all the way down the Allegheny River. There was evidently a famine in extension tables. They wanted nothing else. It seemed as if ‘no one slept or sat down in that country, but just ate. But I made up my mind that they probably all kept boarders, oil running high in those days and lots of people stream- ing in from everywhere. Before that day was at an end I had determined to let the rest of it go, and to throw myself on the tables entirely. If tables they wanted, tables they should have, if it took the last stick of wood in Chautau- qua county, with Cattaraugus thrown in. A thunder storm raged while I canvassed Oil City, and the lightning struck a tank. The oil ran down the hill, and set one end of the town on fire. But while it was burning 1 sold extension tables in the other end, reasoning that they would need so many more of them when they came to rebuild. There must have been something contagious about my enthusiasm, judging from the way those tables went. That night I went to bed happy after sending home a big order for extension tables, all under iron-clad contract, and telling them to hurry them up. I slept the sleep of the just. J don’t know what kind of a time my employers had when they got that order next morn- ing, but I can guess. It seems that they telegraphed to. my customers, and re- ceived only copies of the iron-clad con- tract, with assurances that it was all right—they had seen my papers. They wired for me, but no telegraph was swift enough to keep up with my _ prog- ress through that oil-country. My blood once up, I swept through the region like a storm-wind, scattering extension tables right and left, until finally I sold a dealer in Allegheny City a full thou- sand dollars’ worth in one bill. When that order came home they gave it up. They didn’t wire anv more, because it was no use. Not until I brought up in Rochester on the Ohio River near the State line, my last cent gone, and sent back for fresh supplies, were they able to locate me. Every morning the mail had mapped out my trail to them, but where I might be by that time, out on the front, there was no telling. They sent me $10, and wrote me_ just to come back, and sell no more tables. But I was not to be balked in that way. I laid out a route which the $10 would cover, into Ohio a little way, and planted a few score extension tables in every town I came to. They were just as greedy for them there as in Pennsyl- vania. Finally I pinched myself of a dinner or two, and wound up with arun to the city of Erie on the lake, and filled that place with tables, too. Fhen I went home, feeling like a conqueror. My chief met me at the depot; he wore a.look of exhaustion. There was a crowd at the factory just across the canal, and a flag hung out of the win- dow. I felt that it was not a wholly undeserved honor. I had done the best I could, and a reception a little out of the usual would not be unnatural. I asked him what he thought of it, and he said that it was great! Lots of times since I have tried to re- call what were my feelings when I found out that it was the sheriff's flag that hung out of the window. I sup- pose that I must have been stunned. The concern had ‘‘busted.’’ Too much extension table had wrecked it. Instead of four hundred and fifty dollars com- mission, I got seventy-five cents, which was just half of what the boss had in his pocket. He divided squarely. And that ended my career asa drummer— along with the firm’s. What was the matter? Why, the price-list. It seems that by some mis- take the selling price of extension tables had been put lower than the cost of working up the wood. Perhaps that also explained my sudden popularity with the trade—perhaps; I cannot say that I like to think of it that way. —__+-0 2. How Six Grocers Were Forced Out of Business. Stroller in Grocery World. In a little city about two hours’ ride from Philadelphia there is a Baptist church which runs a grocery store, through which groceries are supplied to members of the church at actual cost. Before this scheme started there were eleven groceries in this town, which has about 4,000 inhabitants. are but five and two of these are on the ragged edge. Asa scheme to increase the membership of the Baptist church, the idea is a splendid success; and the circumstances surrounding the innova- tion plainly demonstrate the truth of the statement that the grocer who refuses to co-operate and combine will be an un- known quantity in a few years. My first news of the church store reached me through a grocer who was one of the five still left. I used to go to the town every two months, but dur- ing the last two years I haven't been there. As soon as I got'to the place | walked direct to what used to be the leading grocery store and found the building occupied by a dry goods es- tablishment. When I enquired, I found that not only this, but five more stores bad gone the long road. Then I went to a store which I knew still stood, and it was there that I learned of the cause of the condition. ‘*Yes, I’m here yet, but I don’t know how long I will be,’’ said the grocer, Now there — as he answered my salutation. ‘‘If these infernal Baptists keep selling gro- ceries to everybody in the place I don’t know what'll become of me.”’ ‘‘How long has the scheme been working?’’ I asked. ‘*About eighteen months,'’ he an- swered; ‘‘eighteen months too long.’’ ‘*How is the thing done?’’ I asked. ‘*Well, it’s simple enough,’’ he said. ‘‘This minister thought he saw a good way of gettin’ members, so he openeda grocery store, put one of his young men members in there and _ started to sell everything at flat cost. Of course, he allows for the young fellow’s wages, but that amounts to a very small percentage on selling two or three hundred people. ’’ ‘‘Do they deliver?’’ ‘*Not small packages. Such things as barrels of molasses are carted and the customer pays 5 or Io cents.’’ ‘*Has the scheme got any new mem- bers for the church?’’ I asked ‘‘Has it? Well, I guess so!’’ was the response. ‘‘When the thing first began to work, that church didn’t have over too members. Now it’s got 250, if it’s got one.”’ , ‘‘Why couldn’t the other six grocers stay in the business?’’ I asked. ‘‘ Looks like a mighty short time to force five good grocers out.”’ ‘*Well, the trouble was this: Nearly every one of the stores that have slumped had the balance of their trade among the Baptists, and when this church store was opened, and all these Baptists flocked to buy of it, why these other stores felt it. Ther all of us have felt it somewhat.. The minister does not seem to make any particular dis- tinction over the people who want to get in the church. No matter whether they go simply to get in on the cheap groceries or not, they are taken in all right, and it is surprising how many have gone in. As I said, the member- ship has nearly trebled.’”’ ‘‘Do they sell good stuff?’’ I asked. ‘‘Oh, yes,’’ admitted the grocer, rather reluctantly. ‘‘Their stuff’s all right. It’s the sort of competition that you can't buck against.”’ Then I went to see the minister of the church. He was avery decent fellow, more of a commercial man than a clergyman, however. The store occu- pied a fair-sized building two doors from the church and it looked just like other grocery stores. The young fellow in charge has a boy to help him, and he looks like areal business man. I didn’t get to talk with him, for the store was full when I was there. I went on to the parsonage and was fortunate to find the clergyman in. ‘‘Ves, sir; it’s my idea,’’ he said, when I had opened the subject. ‘*Does it pay?’’ I asked, bluntly. He smiled. ‘‘Very well,’’ he said. led that of the | $32, 500, Ooo. ‘*Does it secure your members?’’ ‘‘It’s more than bership so far.’’ ‘*But is an increase of this sort bene- ficial?’’ ‘*Well,’’ the minister answered, ‘‘if we once get them in the church, we'll have a better chance of doing them good than if we didn’t have them, won't we?’’ ‘*How about the other grocers that you've crowded out of business?’’ I asked. Again the clergyman smiled, depre- catingly. ‘‘It’s all in the way of com- petition,’’ he said. ‘‘I have always church any doubled the mem- | believed a church should be of as much benefit to its members as a lodge or any other organization; in other words, that it should make it of temporal ad- vantage to belong as well as spiritual.’’ **Tt seems rather a cruel way to com- pete with regular merchants,’’ I haz- arded. ‘‘Not at all,’’ he persisted. ‘‘It’s what everything is coming to.’’ ‘*Do you find it hard work to find jobbers who will sell to you?’’ I asked. ‘* Do—I—find—it—hard—work?’’ the minister repeated, as if he didn’t ex- actly comprehend me. Ves"! ‘‘Why, before the store was hardly planned, I had thirteen salesmen here, each representing a different house, all after the trade. That's how hard I found it. Why should the jobbers refuse to sell to us?’’ ‘You'd naturally think,'’ said I, ‘‘that they'd have the interests of the regular retailers at heart.’’ He sniffed. ‘‘The jobbers have at heart only the interests of those who can yield the most profit to them,’’ he said. In reply to further questions, ke ex- plained the method employed to iden- tify members at the store. Each church member carried a card signed with the minister’s signature, which had to be presented whenever an order was given. I would rather be a laborer ot the streets than cne of the five grocers re- maining in that town, watching, like a drowning man, for the tide which is rising higher, higher, nearly ready to engulf them. There are nearly 6,000,0c0 total ab- stainers in Great Britain and Ireland, yet, notwithstanding this fact, the con- sumption of liquors during 1896 exceed- previous year by oa The owners of a Colorado sawmill started a well to supply water for their engine, and, at a depth of sixteen feet, struck pay ore, and will have a mine instead of a well. FIRE PROOF ASPHALT PAINT AND VARNISH-~~~ We are offering to the trade the genuine article, and at a price that all tities to suit purchasers. @) ® @ © @) @ can reach. O © © e @ GQ CJ © © Our paints are suitable for any use where a nice raven black is required. Contains no Coal Tar, and will not crack, blister or peel. H. M. REYNOLDS & SON, 8 GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 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Here you pick from dozens—and if your gown is of a shade which we cannot match from our stock we willingly make the slip- pers to order from the satin which you supply or from a sample. Such requires but a few days, and there is no extra charge for it.—B. Rich’s Sons, Wash- ington. We take care to buy only such shoes as are well made of good, honest leather, soft, easy and comfortable, yet stylish, neat fitting and serviceable, so that they make a lasting friend of the buyer.—G. F. Streit, Altoona, Pa. There’s a great deal in the wav a shoe is first put on, and the way the foot settles into it. If it is tight where it should be, and loose where it should be, there will be very little trouble. We make a study of these things.--G. A. Johnson & Co., Manistee, Mich. "Spare your feelings the disagreeable task of looking at a pair of ill-fitting shoes; spare your feet the pain of wear- ing them; spare your pocket-book the humiliation of knowing that you robbed it. Our shoes look well, fit well, wear well—this is the least we could possibly say about them. Come in and see them —our prices will do the rest. —Printers’ Ink. > 2. ___ Sidelights on Shoe Topics. There are going to be some warm times in the rubber footwear trade this season and some of the oldtime activity may be looked for. An Englishman has invented a boot and shoe cleaning and blacking ma- chine, consisting of a series of brushes mounted on an endless chain revolved by hand or power around the shoe when placed in the framework. A neat combination in serviceable footwear for misses’ and children’s wear is shown in glove calf spring heels, with black patent calf heel foxing, tip and lace stays, combining wear and attractive selling qualities at popular prices. ~ In bicycle shoes the regulation lace bal and low cut oxford of last season appear to be the most acceptable an practical goods for the purpose for beth sexes, and on these styles there appears to be no large surplus now in sight. These goods worn with golf leggins add much to a neat bicycle costume. A medium"dark tan are the most accept- able. Despite the cry of a firm leather mar- ket, all things point to a weaker one in the. past two weeks, and_ shoes of the medium and cheap grades” are being sold as cheap as ever by many shoe manufacturers, and a buyer with good credit or the cash can go into the Bos- ton market to-day and fill up on many lines of goods at prices as low as any that the trade has experienced in the past four years. What is the use of spending our time kicking over conditions in the shoe trade and trying to hold the people back from seeking something new in footwear? It is a well-known fact to business men in the trade that the shoe manufacturer or jobber who has some- thing new and attractive to offer his cus- tomers each season is getting the trade right along; and conditions never will be different. It is the penalty we pay for being in business, and the only sen- sible way out of it is to find the want as early as possible and set ourselves courageously to work to supply it if pos- sible. There was a time when coal was delivered in wagon loads, now it is packed in bags; and the time was when shoes were packed sixty pairs in a case loose, now they come in single cartons. We cannot change this, but we can make use of the new methods if we wish to, for the world moves on re- gardless of our protests, and the mer- chant who moves with it is the one who reaps the profit. cuccenaas lye Cesena American Boots in England. From the London Figaro. The remarkable feature of the Ameri- can boots, which have now established themselves among us, and have evi- dently come to stay, is the extraordinary flexibility of the leather of which the soles are made. Thesé boots and shoes are completed on the wrong side, and are afterward turned inside out ina manner that must astonish some of our bootmakers, who appear to think that the human foot should be shod in the stiffest and most unyielding.material, so far as the sole is concerned. But there is one item to be regretted with regard to the American form of footgear, and that is the very pointed toes. > 2. Usefulness of the Jobber. William Quincy Wales in the Metal Worker. The position of the jobber in all lines of goods has been much discussed of late, especially the jobbers in hardware and kindred trades, as it would seem that in these lines, more particularly, the manufacturer was trying to reach the consumer oftener than in former years. I can recollect, when I first went into the employ of a jobber in sheet iron, tin plates and metals, almost every article was imported, and the consumer was obliged to go to the im- porter, who was the jobber, to buy. In those days the profits were large, and stocks carried were much greater than at present. Since then everything has changed, and the jobber is no longer the exclusive handler of these articles. He is in fear of competition of other job- bers, also of manufacturers, who are not content to sell the jobber, but try to sell the consumer. Every one, I think, will admit the necessity of a distribu- ter, or some one who Can Carry an as- sorted stock of these goods with a large variety of sizes and qualities. This can only be done by the jobber, who has a capital invested for this special purpose. * * * If the consumer re- alized the cost of carrying a large and w+ll-assorted stock of goods in the city, with the necessary warehouse expenses, the force of clerks required for prempt shipments, also expenses of carting in deliverv of goods, there would be fewer complaints made about the profits of the jobber. Then, again, there is the question of credits. The manufacturer wants his money promptly, as he is obliged to pay cash for his labor and most always for his material. This the average consumer is not able to do, so that the jobber occupies the position not only of warehouseman but banker for his customers, buying his goods on to to 30 days and trusting them out from*3o days to four, five and even six months. I wonder how many manufacturers would be willing to sell the consumer on the same basis of profit that he does the jobber and stand the losses by ‘‘bad debts’’ that the job- ber has to. This is quite an important item to be provided for, and cuts large- ly into the jobber’s profits. * * * From my standpoint manufacturers’ in- terests are only hindered by agents and brokers. When a jobber meets this kind of competition he is obliged, for self- protection, to buy lower than he has been buying, in order to cover the cost that he is under in doing business, and so this cuts down the profit of the man- ufacturer, the latter having created a competition which reacts against him- self. From the point of the consumer there is an advantage in dealing with the jobber. In case goods are imper- fect, or there is any other trouble with them, he can make his complaint and receive some satisfaction, as usually manufacturers sell so close they cannot afford to make rebates or allowances or even permit stock to be returned unless they deduct from the credit a percentage to cover the cost of so doing. How to Unload Unsalable Stock. The merchant who has not sufficient courage to sell unsalable goods at less than cost to get his money out of them had better get out of business for he is only putting off the evil day when circumstances will force him out at the loss of business and reputation. There are other ways of getting the money out of your old back numbers: If you don’t want to sell them yourself, box them up and ship to the nearest auction house. They will get the money out of them for you inside of ter days or two weeks. The yoods that may not be salable in your district may be in active demand somewhere else, and in a public auc- tion room where many buyers gather each week are men who are looking for the very goods you cannot find a mar- ket for and who are ready to pay a fair price for them. Don’t be afraid to do this, even if your name is on the goods. It is legitimate, is done by men who sell you, and if there are any of your creditors disposed to offer objections to your selling goods thus that will not} SOT.D ONLY BY US sell otherwise, the quicker you scratch that firm off your list the better; they are of the old fogy class, who finally lay down themselves and show up about 25 cents on the dollar of tangible assets, although they may be figured at face State Agents for of Todd, Burns & Co.,of Dublin. When -(joodvear and A. T. Stewart visited Ireland about Wales G — 1861 he examined the innovation close- | Connecticut Rubbers. value at about $1.50. Learn.to grasp the great truth in merchandising, that ly, and began to introduce some of the features in his New York store. there are no eggs in last year’s birds’ nests. STANLEY STANTON. a It is said that the present department store system originated about forty years ago with the great dry goods firm Mail us your orders, LA EY A &, av, a¥, A e, ey, ab, 4y, , Abode eDeeDeebe headed be te ale ea ea eee a ae ee eee = = = a ta Ve = = > a ee a wr a se ts Es s Ww vag a x w on GOODYEAR GLOVE RUBBERS. var ™ 25 and 5 off list. Don’t fail to con- ss NA tract for the best rubber made. 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Sample Advertisements from Boots and Shoes Weekly. The Tradesman commends the follow- ing advertisements to its friends in the shoe trade, because they embody the ex- cellent features of brevity, crispness of statement and seasonableness : head over the question as to g where shoes can be bought best ? and cheapest. We think we have an established reputation for selling good footwear. We know we sell on close mar- gins. These facts being self- evident, why need you ponder longer? ; that anyone should puzzle his | A 09909006 OL9O900000086 <> $ A Possibility. It is just possible that we will do more shoe business this year than all the other shoe houses in Crosstown combined. It looks that way now. Business has grown so, that we have had to enlarge the store and engage more > O0000004 CCC CLOCK salespeople. Others have stood still. We march on. Are you with us? A XO >O00000000<3O060000006¢0> Vv v BOOOOOSOOS 9OOOOOOCRO The Pinch Of a Shoe gives more annoyance than even the wearer realizes. A tight shoe stops circulation; at least it curtails it, and the natural result is benumbed and cold feet in winter, uncomfortably hot feet in summer. Furthermore, the tight shoe wears blisters, raises corns and bunions, and makes you walk unnaturally. SOHOHOROROROROROROROHOHOES Faultless Fitting, such as we do here, is plainly much to be desired. Think whatitis worth to have your feet feeling free and easy—free to run or jump or dance as you like! Faultless fitting is our forte. Come and see how we do it. BRING IN YOUR FEET and $2.50 in money—we do the rest for you. Andif we cannot show you satisfactory value for your money it is not incumbent upon you to buy. Weare here to stay, and want your trade next season as well as this. POOODOOOQOOQOOQOOOOOOOQOOOC’ vyvvvvy [__ Cheap Shoes... peeeg ¢ are like» everything else cheap. They are no good. If you ever bought a pair you know this. An extra doliar invested in footwear means months of extra wear and continued satisfaction. If you arein a frame of mind to buy - good, reliable and correctly sty- lish footwear at reasonable prices, we,.can please you. O4000 % 0 00000000000000000000 ._ . OOOO OOOO MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 0-0-0-0-0-00-0-0-0-0-00 These $1.98 Shoes Look well and wear well; conse- quently there are not many pairs of any onesize left; therefore, let this be fair warning that if you are not here this week you will not likely have another shy at these splendid one-ninety-eights—the best shoes at the priceever passed over acounte . 90-0-0-0-0-00-0-0-0-0-00-0-0-0-0-00-0-0-0-0-0-0 a Failed to Achieve Success as a Shoe Salesman. He had _ spent his early days on the farm, and later, when his family moved into the village, he fcund employment in the general store as clerk. Hewasa successful salesman, and being ac- quainted with a man employed ina New York shve store, was invited to come to the Eastern metropolis, where he was promised a position. The Hoosier was filled with joy at the prospect and promptly accepted the offer. He was set to work hustling and unpacking boxes and made generally useful. But it was his ambition to be- come a clerk, and with this in view he always took pains to be neatly dressed and respectful in every way, hoping thereby to be invited, upon some busy day, to aid the other clerks in the handling of customers. One day his opportunity came. He had been very observant of the manners of the salesmen whenever he chanced to be about the salesrooms, and upon one occasion noticed the impres- sion made upon a woman with a highly arched instep, when the clerk who waited upon her said, after she had made some remark about being from Kentucky: ‘‘One would know you were a Southern woman by your arched in- step. ”’ The first customer who was assigned to the youth from Indiana was a woman who had once been young, but was so no longer. She was far from good look- ing as to face or figure, but really had a pretty foot, and was well aware of the fact. ‘*T live in Chicago,’’ she informed the clerk, ‘‘but I always get my shoes in New York.’’ ‘‘Indeed,’’ said the newly-installed clerk, who was somewhat embarrassed by the dignity of his new position. Then, suddenly vaguely remembering the compliment that had brought such a satistied smile to the tace of the woman from Kentucky, he murmured: ‘‘One could not fail to recognize that you are a Chicago woman. The fact is evidenced by your foot.’’ ‘*Sir!’’ said the customer, sharply, and without waiting for apologies she gathered up her one shoe that had_ been removed, and poking her foot into it she hastened out of the store. The next day the manager received a note from the customer, telling him what had_ oc- curred. The Hoosier boy is now engaged at his old occupation in the village store, weighing butter and measuring calico. ee Value of Cash Customers Correspondence Hardware Dealers’ Magazine That the cash customer is better ap- preciated in Europe than in America, one need only enquire of any traveled man, or recount his own experiences. Go to a grocery, dry goods or iron monger’s store anywhere in England to make some ‘purchase and enquire the price. You will receive a polite an- swer, and then, if you happen to have credit at the particular store and you ask to have the article you covet charged, you will be politely told that the article, whatever it is, whether, a half pound of sugar or ten pounds ot nails, will be a tuppence or a thrippence more for ‘‘booking.’’ The first named price is the cash price, since the pre- sumption always obtains that when prices are asked the transaction Is to be for cash. What is true in England is for the most part true on the Continent of Europe. If books must be kept, mer- chants and shop-keepers entertain a pet theory that the people for whom the books are kept should be made to pay the cost ot the same. Merchants of any large city in our own country can tell of repeatedly receiving bills from Ger- man houses and always finding even the cost of the postage on the bill charged in the account. Throughout Europe, the eminently equitable plan obtains of encouraging a cash business by giving the cash customer an advan- tage over the customer who pays his bills but once a month or once in six month, or sometimes not at all. Here in free America in retail estab- lishments both cash customers and debit customers are placed on nearly the same footing ; on the other side the debit customer pays a trifle more for his necessities than he ought to pay, in order to make up the losses arising from bad accounts. There are many people who perforce of circumstances are compelled to pay cash for everything they purchase, and in the majority of cases they carry home their purchases without the slightest show of trouble to the seller. Why should they not be given an advantage in a Cash price over that purchaser who not only has the purchase entered on the books of the merchant, but in the majority of instances has it delivered at his home, and the trouble is often en- hanced by the merchant having to send an empioye to the house of the pur- chaser to secure his or her order. To maintain delivery wagons and _ order collectors and book-keepers costs a deal of money. Why should the cash customer be made to help pay for that in which he) If he be his} has no part or interest? own order collector, his own deliverer, and he pays cash, why should he not have the advantage of this condition, | precisely as cash customers of whole- | sale merchants have an advantage. The rule is scarcely without an exception for.the wholesale dealer to make a spe- cial rate to the cash customer. Why should not the dollar or dollar- and-half-a-day man be given equal ad- vantage? Why not defer to cash in America as European merchants defer to it, since cash in America is worth even more than it is in Europe? © : NeW Prices on RUDDETS LYCOMING, 25 and 5 olf. KEYSTONE, 25 and § and 10 off. These prices are for present use and also for fall orders. Our representative will call on you in due time with our specialties in Leather Goods, Felt Boots, Lumbermen’s Socks ... and a full line of the above-named rub- ber goods, and we hope to receive your orders. Gieo. H. Reeder & Co., 19 South Ionia St., QDOGODOOKOKEXCKXOKe OOHOODOOQOXS OD OOODOOGQOQOQPOOMOQOODQOQOQQDOQOOE ol DOOTMO OOOO OOO g : This represents our Boys’ and Youths’ Oil Grain Water Proof Shoes, made of very best stock to wear, nice fitting and good style; size of Boys’, 3-S; Youths’, Every pair warranted. Write for prices or send for samples on approval. These shoes keep feet dry, look nice and no rubbers are needed. SNEDICOR & HATHAWAY C0., Detroit, Mich. Also makers of the celebrated Driving Shoes. Grain Creedmoors and Cruisers. SHOE CO., HEROLD-BERTSCH ql Grand Rapids, Agents. 8SeeSeSeSe525e5e5e5 12-2. } Suses25e8seseSesesesesesesesause SHeSaStkRsassaSsSsas3 CEES | ENGLAVING 4 Mo * business of necessary to ery will serve th Xe ard of qualit and apparatus. The rapid increase in the volume of the the Tradesman Company in the making of illustrations and print- ing plates of all kinds has rendered it greatly enlarge its facilities in this department by the addition of the most modern and complete machin- These additions e interests of the patrons of that department in that the high stand- y will be more than main- Bi tained, and greater promptness and the Dy most reasonable price, compatible with al best work will be secured. Plates Ke by all the various processes are made t complete on the premises under the Dy careful supervision of the most compe- BS tent artists and engravers. Corres- DF pondence will secure specimens or any . information desired. at BOSE RS ; SONOS ASS 23 - Cradesman Company, Grand Rapids, BARRA SEES SACERERASASAISAEES 32 AZ ROIS ) ; Grand Rapids, Mich. $ QDOOQQOOOOOQOOQDOOOOOOOOOO peSSeSe5e5e25r5eS 1255) of call I6 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Clerks’ Corner How the Ancient Dress Pattern Was Sold as a Bargain. Written for the TRADESMAN. “‘Say, Snelly, how long has this velure dress pattern been in stock? It looks rather antiquated. ’’ ‘“*Let me_ see,’’ mediated Snelly; ‘‘that was bought while we were in the old store, the season before we moved up here, and we moved in the spring of *89. That makes eight years, doesn’t it? When that pattern was first put in stock, we asked $30 for it. We had just as good talent behind the counter then as we have now; but somehow none of the boys were able to sell it. Well, we brought it with us to the new store and offered it at $25, with a premium of 50 cents for the clerk who would sell it. We draped it onto a form and dis- played it in the window time and again, talking its merits to every customer whom we could get to listen; but it wasn’t a bit of use—no one would have it. So season after season has gone by, the velure dress pattern has decreased steadily in price, and the premium for selling it has as steadily increased un- til, to-day, the clerk who sells it for $10 gets one-fifth of that amount for him- self. So there, young fellow, if you want to win fame, glory and a two dol- lar bill, pitch right in and sell it.’’ Joe Chalmers had been promoted from the linings counter to the novelty dress goods counter only a few days before the above conversation took place. In looking over the stock with a view to learning the prices of the ‘different lines, he had spied the piece of old velure tucked into an out-of-the-way corner. Placing it on the counter, he had asked the question which drew out the history of the old dress pattern. Snelly’s advice to ‘‘pitch in and sell the pattern’’ was not lost on young Chalmers. The premium, to be sure, was an object; but to sell a dress pat- tern which so many older and more ex- perienced men had not been able to sell would, most certainly, win, if not fame, at least the commendation of Mr. Fan- ning, the manager. Chalmers made up his mind that he would sell that pattern. His experience in the linings department had taught him that it was much more difficult to sell goods that were old and out of date, although offered at less than cost, than those that were new and stylish. He knew that his promotion to the dress goods counter was a recognition of his ability as a salesman; and to sell the old velure chestnut would be a feather in his cap. The new dress goods clerk discov- ered, after a week had gone by, that it was no use to show that pattern to city people, who are always posted in re- gard to fashionable fabrics. He also discovered that it would be best not to recommend it as new and stylish, but rather to show it on its own merits—an Al cloth, offered cheap because it was a short pattern and a little out of style, would be a much better argument than to represent it as one of the newest and most stylish things in dress goods. Chalmers’ fellow clerks had a good deal of sport out of his efforts to dis- pose of the old pattern. They named it ‘‘Chalmers’ pet,’’ and teased him about being so anxious to win the $2 premium. They could make him fight- ing mad by repeating, in his hearing, the retort of an old Irish woman to whom Chalmers had tried to sell the pattern: ‘‘Sure, me b’y, ef yez wuz ez ould ez that pace uv driss guds, ye’d ‘ave bether sinse than ter be atillin’ annywan that it’s new sthoyle. Sure, an’ it looks as though it come out uv the arruk !”’ Nevertheless, Chalmers did not give up hope nor desist in his efforts, al- though, after his encounter with the Irish woman, he was more careful about what he said before others in praise of the old stuff. The Christmas season was fast ap- proaching and many country people were in the city buying things for Christmas. Chalmers felt that, 1f he was to sell that pattern ever, now was the time. ‘‘If I could only get hold of some man from the country who did not know anything about styles, and who wanted to buy his wife a dress for Christmas, I feel sure I could make him believe that this old velure is the very thing he wants,’’ said he to a fel- low clerk, as he took down the despised thing from the shelf and flung a yard or two into soft folds on the counter. ‘You might as well give it up, Chal- mers,’’ replied his companion, ‘‘for you can’t sell it. Nobody, not even a rustic, wants that kind of goods nowa- days.’’ ‘*Well, that may be true; but it’s here to be sold and—by gings! here’s a man now who’s after a dress for someone, I’m sure. I'll bet you all I get over $10 for it that I'll sell him the old velure pattern !’’ ‘That's a go,’’ replied the other, as Chamlers went forward to wait on the man. His surmise was correct—the man did want a dress for a Christmas present for his wife. ‘‘Show me suthin’ thet hez a leettle red into it—my wife looks best in red. | How to Conduct a Credit Business The dress she wore when we was mer- ried was most all red, an’ I hain’t seen her hev nothin’ sence thet’s looked half so nice.’’ Chalmers displayed several pieces of cloth, from 50 cents to a dollar a yard, just to feel the size of his prospective customer’s pocketbook. It had the de- sired effect. ‘*T don’t mind payin’ $10 or $12 fer the dress, ef I see jest what I think she’d like,’’ said the man. Chalmers brought forward several patterns at the prices named. Then he displayed the old velure pattern, say- ing, as he did so, that here was a pat- tern which they were offering at much less than the regular price, as it con- tained only five and a half yards of goods; ‘‘but,’’ he continued, ‘‘if your wife is not large, there will be plenty of cloth in it to make her a dress, and—”’ He got no further. ‘‘Large!’’ exclaimed the farmer. “‘Sake’s alive, young feller, she hain’t no bigger’ a pinto’ cider! Thetis a beauty, sure ’nough—just her color, too. How much ye ask fer it?’’ “‘It’s worth $15, but, as it’s a short pattern, I'll let you have it for $12.’’ ‘Twelve, hey? Say $11 an’ I’ll take ty? Chalmers could scarcely conceal a smile of delight as he slowly replied, ‘*Well—as it’s for a present—I—may as well—be good natured and let it go at your price.’’ Joe Chalmers was the proudest clerk in the store that Saturday night when the manager, handing him the ¢2 premium, said: ‘‘ You have done well, Chalmers. Keep pegging away and you're sure to come out on top of the heap.’’ Mac ALLAN. —_0~___ Points of vantage on the route to be followed by the procession of the Queen and royal family on June 22 are already fetching enormous prices. It is said the proprietor of a small private hotel over- looking St. Paul’s cathedral has let his windows to a speculator for £2,000, and a shopkeeper in the fancy goods trade, with premises situated in the center of Ludgate Circus, has refused the offer of £1,000 for the hire of his seven win- dows. It will be the greatest window show ever seen in any city. —___> 2. The only obstacle to the discovery of the north pole, in the opinion of Lieu- tenant Peary, is the absence of $150,000. With this sum he would establish a col- ony of Esquimaux at some point not farther than 350 miles from the pole, and would make this the basis of his future operations. Successfully. Hustler in San Francisco Grocer. When people come to me for credit, I begin by having a thorough under- standing with them that the money must be paid when due, or their credit stops. Not only that; I have also an understanding with them as to whether all of the family are authorized to order goods. This I find to be necessary, as I have had cases of a daughter ordering goods and the mother saying afterwards that she had no right to do so. The worst collector imaginable is the grocer who is lenient in the first place, but who afterwards gets fright- ened and tries to bluff people into pay- ing up. This is just what people want. It gives them an excuse for getting angry and refusing to pay. 1 believe that quietly insisting on prompt payment trom the very first is the only way to do business where you can't trust the law to help you. The proof that my method is successful lies in the fact that I have often had ac- counts paid by people covered with at- tachments. Why, I have even collected money from people whose furniture was being carried out of the house. a Emperor William says his grand- father was ‘‘ modest and unpretentious, ’’ The present Emperor must take after his other grandfather. Association Matters Michigan Hardware Association President, HENRY C. WEBER, Detroit; Vice-Pres- ident, Cuas. F. Bock, Battle Creek; Secretary- Treasurer, HENRY C. MINNIE, Eaton Rapids. Michigan Retail Grocers’ Association President, J. WIsLER, Mancelona; Secretary, E. . STtowE, Grand Rapids; Treasurer, J. F. TATMAN, Clare. Traverse City Business Men’s Association President, THos. T. Bates; Secretary, M. B. Hoty; Treasurer, C. A. HAMMOND. Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association President, E. C. WINCHESTER; Secretary, HOMER Kuap; Treasurer, J. Gro. LEHMAN. Regular Meetings—First and third Tuesday . evenings of each month at Retail Grocers’ Hall, over E. J. Herrick’s store. Owosso Business Men’s Association President, A. D. WHIPPLE; Secretary, G. T. Camp- BELL; Treasurer, W. E. CoLuins. Jackson Retail Grocers’ Association President, Byron C. Hitz; Secretary, W. H. Por- TER; Treasurer, J. F. HELMER. Alpena Business Men’s Association President, F. W. Gincurist; Secretary, C. L. PARTRIDGE. Lansing Retail Grocers’ Association President, F. B. JoHNson; Secretary, A. M. Daruine; Treasurer, L. A. GILKEY. Grand Rapids Retail Meat Dealers’ Association President, L. J. Katz; Secretary, Po1Lip HiLBER; Treasurer, S. J. HuFForD. Adrian Retail Grocers’ Association President, Martin Gafney; Secretary, E. F. Cleveland; Treasurer, Geo. M. Hoch. ae { = en \ é PSS SN eal 2 PK a TIME IS MONEY LIFE IS SHORT And Rapid Transportation is a Necessity...... To secure the mosc¢ 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. We make 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. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 17 Commercial Travelers Michigan Knights of the Grip. President, Jas. F. HAMMELL, Lansing; Secretary, D. C. Staeut, Flint; Treasurer, Cas. McNoury, 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. RrY- 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. Tyier, H. B. Farr- CHILD,Jas. N. BRADFORD, J. HENRY DAWLEY,GEO. J. HEINZELMAN, CuHas. S. ROBINSON. Lake Superior Commercial Travelers’ Club. President, W. C. BRown, Marquette; Secretary and Treasurer, A. F. Wrxson, Marquette. Gripsack Brigade. A. M. Grieve, city salesman for Strong, Lee & Co. was recently mar- ried to Miss Pierson, of Flint. Fred- L. Anderson, traveling repre- sentative for the Rogers Shoe Co. (To- ledo), has recently sold new stocks to the following dealers: H. J. Hawkins, Elsie; L. M. Greenwood, Muir; H. D. Bent, Shepherd. The Western Union telegraph service is proverbially slow and unsatisfactory all over the country. A Grand Rapids furniture salesman who recently returned from New England relates an incident tending to show that the service in Maine is no more satisfactory than it is in Michigan. He was in the upper part of a county and wanted to reach another town that night. He telegraphed the hotel keeper in the latter place early in the day to send a team to the station for him. When he reached the station at night no team was there, so he started to walk to the village, which was quite a little distance off. No sooner had he started than the station agent said to him: ‘‘Are you going to the village?’’ ‘*Yes.’’ °‘Then I wish you would take a despatch up to the hotel.’’ It was the despatch ordering the team. There is a splendid future field for the American commercial traveler in foreign countries and this fact is real- ized by many young men who have such a Career in contemplation. Great efforts are being made all through the United States to increase the exports of Amer- ican industrial products, and these efforts are materially promoted by sug- gestions received from various United States consular officers in all parts of the world. Louis Stern, United States Commercial Agent at Bamberg, Ger- many, has made a careful study of the subject. One of the essential qualifi- cations of an American commercial traveler abroad is familiarity with the language of the country in which he in- tends to operate. Mr. Stern calls at- tention to the necessity that such a man should have a thorough knowledge of the branch of trade he represents, and it is above all necessary that hé should know his competitors; know not only their weak but their strong points. These are points of knowledge that can never be acquired by even the most in- telligent business men through a com- parison of samples and prices; they can only be acquired by careful study on the spot. He maintains that a proof that such facts are actual requiremeuts can be taken from the fact that the manufacturers of the mercantile nations of the Old World send their sons or some of their most capable young clerks to other countries for at least one year, where they can gratuitously gather a business knowledge that will be of in- estimable value to them afterwards. It is in this way that the Germans have opened up commercial relations in dis- tricts that were entirely monopolized by England only a few years ago. Mr. Stern advises all young Americans who are about to enter upon a commercial career to study their particular class of trade abroad for at least one year, and says in conclusion: ‘‘To our young American man, with his ready grasp of ideas, his energy and the indefati- gable zeal which is a birthright with most of us, such a sojourn in foreign lands is of inestimable value; in fact, the education of a young man in these days is not complete unless he has spent some time abroad.’’ ——->_0 > ____ The Successful Salesman. From Brains. The successful salesman cultivates his memory. He learns and remembers the names of lis customers, and greets each of them as he or she enters the store, The successful salesman is always polite. When customers are irritating he remembers that it is his business to sell goods, not to quarrel. The sales- man is as truly a diplomat as the Min- ister to England. The successful salesman does not ask too many questions. Few women know exactly what they want when they come into a store. The successful salesman finds, in a general way, what the cus- tomer wants to look at, and then shows a generous selection from the stock, without waiting to be asked, ‘‘ Haven’t you anything else?’’ Never talk politics or religion with your customers. On these two subjects, particularly, most people have strong beliefs or prejudices. They are not likely to think kindly of any one who opposes them. He isa wiseclerk, more- over, who does not allow himself to be drawn into a controversy of any kind. Let him keep his mind fixed upon the one subject of selling goods. In most stores women make up more than half of the customers, and women, more than men, appreciate the little courtesies of life. Nomatter how wise, how rich, how poor or how stupid a woman may be, she likes to have the door opened for her; she likes to be called by name and have a chair offered her; and after these little attentions have been shown her she is in the best possible humor to buy. The successful salesman always hon- estly believes in the goods he is selling. Uniess a salesman is sincere he can never be a permanent success. One way to gain this sincere belief is to have a thorough knowledge of your goods. This knowledge is also the first step to ward promotion. Don’t forget that buy- ers are chosen from the ranks of sales- men, and buyers must know all about the goods they buy. —__—_>20>—___ Siftings from the Saginaws. C. S. Grant has taken a position with T. A. Downs as salesman in his shoe store. A. E. Tomlinson & Son, of 605 Court street (W. S.), will remove their drug stock April 15 to 114 North Michigan avenue. The bicyclists of the Saginaws and Bay Cities will build a cinder track be- tween the two cities, each contributing half toward the expense. Midway be- tween the two cities a beautiful club house will be built to accommodate the lovers of the wheel. Many of the most enthusiastic bicyclists are business men and clerks. Charles Suley is having a new deliv- ery wagon made that will be a model of neatness. E. L. Parsons, of the firm of Seeley & Parsons, clothiers, is suffering with a severe attack of la grippe. De Witt Gage has taken the position of shipping clerk with the James Stew- art Co., Ltd, SUCCESSFUL SALESMEN. H. R. Radford, Representing Clark-Jewell-Wells Co. Harry R. Radford was born at Cli- max, May 6, 1873. He attended the common school of the place until 16 years of age, when he entered the Ex- change Bank of W. C. Pond, where he remained three years, when, receiving a flattering offer from Godsmark, Du- rand & Co., of Battle Creek, he re- moved to that place and entered the employ of that house as book-keeper. Three months later he was offered a po- sition as traveling salesman for the same house and availed himself of the opportunity, starting out on his new career Feb. 1, 1894, taking the avail- able towns on the Grand Trunk, Mich- the igan Central and C., J. & M. Railroads as his territory. When Frank Parmenter handed in his resignation as traveling representative for the Clark-Jewell- Wells Co., last fall, he was asked to recommend his own successor and, on looking over the field, concluded to rec- ommend Mr. Radford, who was ac- cordingly engaged by the C.-J.-W. Co., his engagement dating from Jan. 1. Mr. Radford resides in Kalamazoo, having, recently removed to that place from Cassopolis, and visits the trade on the Kalamazoo division of the Lake Shore, the main line of the Michigan Central, the main line of the Grand Trunk and the C. & W. M. west to Watervliet. Mr. Radford was married Oct. 15, 1895, to Miss Nellie Adams, of Cass- opolis. He is a member of Backus Lodge, No. 55,. F. & A. M., at Cass- opolis; Battle Creek Lodge, No. 35, K. of P., and Bagdad Temple, No. 63, Dramatic Order Knights of Khorassan, also of Battle Creek. Mr. Radford attributes his success to hustle and push, having achieved his present position without the assistance of anything but merit and hard work. nN Enthusiastic Over the Merits of Borax. Toledo, Ohio, April 13—Will you permit me to contribute to your fine paper? My physician recently said: **Tell all grocers it is their duty to keep in stock powdered borax of the purest quality and to have printed slips telling its hundreds of uses.’’ This knowledge he desires to become widespread, be- cause, as he added: ‘‘ Borax is a dis- infectant, a germicide,’ an antiseptic and it must supersede all the harmful, dangerous articles now in use.’’ If your drain is sour, borax dissolved in hot water will sweeten it. If your kitchen sink is greasy or sour, borax will cleanse it. If you have cockroaches, borax will surely eradicate them. Place it around in small tin dishes, mixed with a powdered sugar. If the baby has a canker sore mouth, swabbing it with borax water will cure it and prevent further canker sores, if continued. | Nurses in hospitals now make an all- healing salve by simply stirring borax into vaseline until it becomes thick. little Blankets and flannels will: remain beautifully soft if washed in plenty of borax and warm water. Borax may stand around, carelessly left by a ser- vant, and not harm ‘the tiniest baby. Ammonia and carbolic acid, which can do no more in the way of disinfecting, are terribly dangerous. Brushes and combs, paints and _ lino- leums, oil cloths, silver and laundry work may be effectively cleansed with borax, and its especial charm is that it will not ‘‘eat’’ the hands ;“in fact, borax is used by manicures to “whiten, soften and beautify the hands. I have used it for twenty-five years in every department of the household and give it away for Christmas gifts, be- cause it is one of the most exquisite ar- ticles pertaining to the needs of home or hospital, workshop or laundry. LOUISE MARKSCHEFFEL, cr, —> > _ He Was a New Clerk. Lady Customer: real Ceylon tea? Well-informed Young Salesman: Cer- tainly, madam. Mr. Celyon’s name is on every package. Are you sure this is Cutler House at Grand Haven. Steam Heat. Excellent Table. Com- fertable Rooms. H. D. and F. H. IRISH, Props. Commercial House Iron Mountain, Mich. Lighted by Electricity, Heated by Steam. All modern conveniences. $2perday. | IRA A. BEAN, Prop. EAGLE HOTEL $1 Per Day. GRAND RAPIDS. Equal in every respect to a $2 house. Good beds. Large rooms. Superb Table. J. K. JOHNSTON, Prop. NEW REPUBLIC Reopened Nov. 25. FINEST HOTEL IN BAY CITY. Steam heat, Electric Bells and Lighting throughout. Rates, $150 to $2.00. Cor. Saginaw and Fourth Sts. GEO. H. SCHINDHETT, Prop THE WIERENGO Steam Heat, Electric light and bath rooms. Rates, $1.50 and $2.00 per day. Any Man or woman can sell more goods after getting Tonsorial Work at FRED MARSH’S, 23 Monroe Street, Grand Rapids. GCOLUMBIAN TRANSFER COMPANY CARRIAGES, BAGGAGE AND FREIGHT WAGONS 15 and 17 North Waterloo St., Telephone 381-1 Grand Rapids. BUSINESS Mtv hs 0th DETFOs/L, AA/CL. Leading Business Training Institution of America. Is eomposed of five superior schools, viz, Business, Shorthand, English, Penmanship and Mechanical Drawing. 11-19 Wilcox St. W. F. Jewell, P. R. Spencer. { \ MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Drugs--Chemicals MICHIGAN STATE BOARD OF PHARMACY. Term expires Dee. 31, 1896 - Dee. 31, 1897 C. A. BueBeEE, Traverse City S. E: PARKILL, Owosso” - F. W. R. PERRy, Detroit - Dec. 31, 1898 A. C. SCHUMACHER, Ann Arbor - Dee. 31, 1899 Gro. GuNDRoumM, lonia - - Dec. 31, 1900 President, S. E. PARKILL, Owosso. Secretary, F. W. R. Perry, Detroit. Treasurer, Geo. GUNDRUM, Ionia. Coming Examination Sessions—Star Island (De- troit), June 28 and 29; Sault Ste. Marie, Aug. Lansing, Nov. 2 and 3. MICHIGAN STATE PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION. President, G. C. Portires, Armada. Secretary, B. ScoRouDER, Grand Rapids. Treasurer, CHas. MANN, Detroit. Executive Committee—A. H. WEBBER, Cadillac; H. G. Cotman, Kalamazoo; Gro. J. Warp, St. Crain; A. B. StTEveENs, Detroit; F. W. Perry, Detroit. The Drug Market. Alcohol—Grain has again advanced. Balsams—Tolu, very scarce and firm. Peru, consuming request fair and de- mand steady. Beans—Vanilla, easier in tone, due to near new crop of Mexican, and also large receipts of Bourbons. The ma- terially lower prices of vanillin have re- sulted in an increased consumption of that article, and the demand for beans Is, in consequence, not so urgent. Cantharides—Consuming demand fair and values maintained. Cassia Buds—Market very _ strong, prime being in light supply and offers sparing. Chloral, Hydrate—Quotations steady. Colocynth Apples—Market is tend- ing lower, the result of free arrivals, and values are lower. Cream Tartar—Trade demand fair. Essential Oils—Business, with both buyers and sellers, is limited to actual requirements, on acccunt of the uncer- tainty that prevails in regard to the pending tariff question. Anise and cassia, both steady. Sassafras, easier. Peppermint, quiet. Flowers——German chamomile, ex- ceedingly scarce. American saffron, only small sales reported. Arnica, de- mand fair. i Gums—Camphor (domestic), firmly held. . Juniper Berries—The light supply is being firmly held. Leaves——Short buchu, quotations maintained. The firmer feeling in coca is also maintained. Lycopodium—Demand has subsided and the market is now tame. Menthol—Dull. Mercurial Preparations—Firm. Morphine—Consuming demand has been good and prices are firm. Naphthaline—Active and firm. Opium—Business in shipments has been curtailed by the retroactive clause of the tariff bill, and the situation abroad is not particularly interesting at present. Local market has been quiet and tone easy, the available stock being unusually large. Roots—Ipecac, good seasonable de- mand is reported by dealers and values have been maintained. Mexican sarsa- parilla, no special demand. Jamaica ginger is higher, the advance being due to lighter receipts of new crop and further buying for London accourt. Golden seal is a trifle easier, while mandrake is a trifle higher. Seeds—Canary, stronger, and prices have advanced. Cummin isa fraction lower. Italian fennel, also, is lower. Mustard, very dull. Sponges—While the spot market has ruled dull, the statistical position is in favor of holders, and quotations for all desirable descriptions are _ steady. Nothing new is heard from primary markets. ee How Tomatoes are Preserved in Italy. In every house and cottage ‘the pre- serving of tomatoes is carriedon. Ter- races, balconies, and even the flat roofs of the houses are half covered with plates containing the deep-red sub- stance. After gathering, the tomatoes intended for preserving are spread out for some hours in the sun until the skin has somewhat shrunk. They are then passed through a sieve so that they may be freed both from seeds and skins. As they contain a large proportion of water, the substance which has been passed through the sieve must be hung in bags, from which the water exudes, and soon a pool of dirty-looking water is formed beneath each bag. Strange to Say, it is in no way tinged with red. The mixture which remains in the bags has the consistency of a very thick paste. It is then salted, the proportion being a little less than an ounce of salt to a pound of preserve. The process now requires that it should be spread on flat plates, exposed to the sun, and stirred from time to time with a wooden spoon, so that the upper part may not form a crust, while underneath it re- mains soft. It is a picturesque sight when the women are to be seen flitting about on their roofs and _ terraces at- tending to their deep-red preserve, their colored handkerchiefs flung on their heads to screen them from the rays of the burning sun when it is at its fiercest. In the evening the contents of the va- rious plates are taken in and stirred up together, for if moistened by the night dew the whole would be spoiled. After being exposed to the sun for seven or eight days, the same process being re- peated each day, the preserve is finished and placed in jars for winter use. _ > esm His Irrelevant Questions. From the Chicago Post. She had just returned from a visit to Milwaukee, and something ‘had hap- pened to displease her. ‘“The fact ot the matter is,’’ she said, ‘‘we get swindled in this town and haven't sense enough to know it.’’ ‘“You must have run across a bargain somewhere, ’’ he suggested, for he knew her failing. ‘‘Bargain!’’ she exclaimed. ‘‘Why, I tell you, William, we don’t know where to shop to make money. Do you remember the last shirt I bought you?’’ He did. He would have said he did even if he didn't, but it so happened this time that he did, for it had given him considerable trouble in one way and another. ‘‘Well,’’ she exclaimed, “*T paid just one dollar for that shirt in | Chicago, and I saw an exact duplicate of it at a marked-down sale in Milwau- kee for 98 cents.’’ ‘*Why didn’t you go on to St. Paul?’’ he asked wearily. ‘‘Perhaps you could have got the same thing for 93 cents. Or Winnipeg might have given it to you for 91. One has to go after bar- gains, you know.’’ She wasn’t quite sure whether he was making fun of her, but she felt that it was possible, and refused to continue the subject in consequence. >_> ___ Havana Tobacco Is High Because the tobacco fields of Cuba are being destroyed. Yet the makers of *“Ouellette’s Havana Smokers’’ have de- cided not to increase their price or re- duce the quality of stock used in their manufacture. Although roughly made, they are an expert’s smoke. George Wil- son, repersenting T. C. Ouelette, of Detroit, is offering them to the trade. 8 More than one-third of the population of Switzerland are depositors in the sav- ings banks. There are 557 institutions of this description in the country with I, 196,549 depositors. —_—_>2.>—__ _ A Kansas City doctor, who was look- ing for a crazy patient whom he was to lock up in an insane asylum, found the lunatic serving on a jury in the Circuit Court. The Vilest of Frauds. From the Pharmaceutical Era. There are stringent postoffice rules which, if enforced as they should be, would make it impossible for a_ certain class of swindlers to do business. The ‘‘lost manhood,’’ ‘‘nervous debility’’ frauds thrive because they are very shrewd in the wording of their adver- tisements, and because the postoffice authorities and the express companies apparently make no attempt to get be- low the surface and ascertain the true character of the traffic, which is a fraud and deception from start to finish. It is to be wondered, too, what sort of con- science and moral sense are possessed by newspaper proprietors (and_ religious papers are the worst of the lot) who print the lying advertisements of these concerns, and what sense of respecta- bility must be that of bankers and other business men who allow their names to be printed as references. In Michigan the surveillance of these fakes seems to be conspicuous by its absence, for that State fosters a brood of them, at Marshall, Battle Creek, Delray, Kalamazoo, etc. The last named city is cursed with one of the worst of them, who uses the name of Thomas Slater, and is particularly nervy and obnoxious in his methods. He buys large space in the papers and uses the name of a reputable bank as reference, apparently without protest of the honest inhabitants of that fair city, whose duty is and effort should be to squelch the disreputable enterprise which is bring- ing such unenviable notoriety upon them. A description of this man’s methods will serve as a description of the many others of the same type. Under the heading ‘‘Free to Every Man,’’ or asimilar one, he describes (?) symptoms during the years he ‘‘rolled and tossed about on the troubled sea_ of sexual weakness,’’ and offers to send ‘‘the method of this wonderful treat- ment free.’’ An answer to the advertise- ment brings back a circular letter from Slater, carefully gotten up in imitation of a dictated and copied type-written letter, in which he pretends to bea philanthropist, and asks the recipient to fill_ out an enclosed blank giving symptoms, and to send it to the Michi- gan Medicine Company ot Kalamazoo. The letter is so suggestive that it can- not be published here, and the ques- tions asked are of a revoiting character. Up to this point the promise has been that everything was to be free, but as soon as the medicine people get con- fidential information about the victim’s youthful errors and his hopes of mar- riage, they assume a more domineering tone. All their correspondence is run off a printing press by the hundred, but in careful imitation of one person's handwriting or of copied typewriting. The circulars are particularly obnoxious, describing in detail symptoms (or sup- posed symptoms) which are shrewdly calculated to make the poor victim be- lieve he is a sufferer from the most hor- rible diseases and to be almost in ex- tremis. After frightening them nearly to death the game is merely to run their patients through the mill by working off on them successive circulars until a package of medicine is sent C. O. D. After this course has progressed a while, further correspondence is con- ducted, with a view to the patient's taking supplementary treatment, owing to the interesting and complicated char- acter of his troubles. It is a stigma upon Kalamazoo that it should allow such an institution to exist within its borders; it isa disgrace to the journalism of that city that one of its evening newspapers should print the advertisements of the concern, and it is not to the credit of the physicians, druggists and others interested in med- icine, and the business men _ generally that they do nothing to abolish the Michigan Medicine Company and Thomas Slater. And, too, the quicker the postoffice issues a ‘‘fraud order’’ and enforces it against the malodorous enterprise the better for the morals of that community and the choice collec- tion of ‘‘suckers’’ reached by the ad- vertisements. There are laws enough to make it impossible to work the scheme either through the mails or the express companies, if the authorities were but alive to their duties and re- sponsibilities. ‘ PATENT MEDICINES Order your patent medicines from PECK BROS., Grand Rapids. POO@© HOMOQOQOQO© DODOOQOGQDOODOGOOQDOOQHOGQOOOGQOOOQOGQOHOOQOOOQOQOOQOOOE THE FAMOUS 5 CENT Sold by all jobbers. SXOXe POOQQDOOG 0X0K01010101OE OO OQODEO G. J. JOHNSON CIGAR CO., Grand Rapids. ENTIRE BUILDING, 15 CANAL STREET. GOBDOQOOQOOQDOQOGQDOOQOQDOQOOQOQOQOOO”’ CIGAR. Manufactured by DOOQDODDOOQOESY © OOOQO®D HOQOQOOO : PCOMOOQOO@® <= — Morrisson, Plummer & Co., {ORRISSON,PLUMMERS COCHICAGO. Soon after our Cigar Department was in- stitu’ed on its present basis, we diseovered a demand for a $30.00 cigar of better quality than the usual goods at this price. We met this call with the MONITOR, a cigar made in the factory which we control, and by the advantage we enjoy in this respect, we sre able to offer the quality which is seldom found even as low as #33 00 per M. Although our salesmen have had samples but a short time, we are receiving daily repeating orders for the goods. We Have in this brand a $30.00 cigar which we can recommend in the strongest terms. if Wholesale Druggists, Chicago. _ Cigar Department. eee MASTER ——=[—=—==——x[=>= = ee ; Represented in Michigan by J.. The best 5 cent cigars ever made. Sold by BEST & RUSSELL CO Cuicaco. A. GONZALEZ, Grand Rapids. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 9 WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT. Advanced—Linseed Oil, Turpentine, Oxalic Acid Declined—Glycerine. Acidum Aceticum............ 8 8@s 10 Benzoicum, German 80@ 8 Cie ............ @ 1 Carbolicum ......... 29@ 41 Circe ............ H@ 46 Hydrochlor ......... 3@ 5 Nitrocum ........... 8@ 10 Oxalicum........... R@ 14 Phosphorium, dil.. @ 1 Salicylicum. ........ 50 Sulphuricum. 1%@~=Soi*5s Tanmicdm .......... 1 40@ 1 60 Tartaricum.......... 36G@ «38 Ammonia Aqua, 16 deg........ 4@ «6 Aqua, 20 deg........ 8 Carbonas...........- 12@ 14 Chloridum.......... 12@ 14 Aniline Black.. . 20@ : * Brown . cae wcenee pes 80@ 1 Bee... -:.,.- 2. 45@ (WOHOW 2 65... 2 50@ 3 00 Bacce. Cubese........ po.18 13@ 15 Juniperus........... 6@~=—=CO*8 Xanthoxylum.. .... 23@ 30 Balsamum Cousipa. .....- 22... 60@ 6 oera Dee ola as anise @ 2 60 Terabin, Canada.. 40@ 45 Tomten.. .. 5... cus. 80@ 8 Cortex Abies, Canadian.... 18 Caneee co... 12 Cinchona Flava..... 18 Euonymus atropurp 30 Myrica Cerifera, po. 20 Prunus V irgini sh 12 Quillaia, gr’d....... 12 Sassafras...... po. 18 12 Ulmus...po. 15, gr’d 15 Extractum Glycyrrhiza aaa A@ 2B Glycyrrhiza, po..... 286 Hematox, 15 Sie 1@ 12 Hematox,Is........ B@ 14 Hematox,%s....... 14@ 15 Heematox, 148......-. 16@ fi Ferru Carbonate Precip... 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Calcined, Pat..... .. 55@ ~=s«6 Carbonate, Pat...... 20@ 2 Carbonate, K.& M.. 20@ 25 Carbonate, Jennings 35@ 36 Oleum Absinthium..... ave o 3 50 Amygdale, Dulc.. 30@ 50 Amygdale, Amare . 8 00@ 8 25 i 2 10@ 2 20 Auranti Cortex.... 2 20 : 2 30 80 : Seamcoaie noes ee @ 4 00 Cinnamonii. ........ 1. 80@ 2 00 Citronella. .... .... 45@ 50 Conium Mac........ 3@ 65 Copaipa. 60 oo. i 20@ 1 30 Bo ee 90@ 1 00 Exechthitos ........ 1 20@ 1 30 Dron 1 20@ 1 30 Gaultheria .. 1 50@ 1 60 Geranium, ounce. @ v6) Gossippii, Sem. gal.. 50@ 60 Hedeoma..... ...... 10°@ 1 10 Junipera. -.-c«- 1 30@ 2 60 Lavendula.......... 90@, 2 00 Pamomia, 1 20@ 1 40 Mentha Piper...... 1 60@ 2 20 Mentha Verid....... 2 F@ 2% Morrhue, gal....... 1 50@ 1 60 MVICIG,. oo... 4 00@ 4 50 Ve T@ 3 00 Picis Liquida. . he Picis Liquida, gal.. @ 3 Biciaa 99@ 1 04 Resmarini.......... @ 100 Rose, ounce........ 6 50@ 8 50 Siete 45 Paeran 1 00 Pe 2 50@ 7 00 SOSEATTAS. 06... 6.5. 50@ 55 Sinapis, ess., ounce. @ 6 ie es oo 1 40@ 1 50 AOgING |. . 40@ 50 Thyme, opt......... @ 1 60 Theobromas........ b@ 2 Potassium Bi-Barp,.........:. | be i Bichromate ........ 13@ 15 Brouuge. 48@ 51 SE: R@ 15 Chlorate..po. 17@19¢ 16@ 18 ——— ee cece 50@ 55 begets) 2 90@ 3 00 Potassa, Bitart, pure 29@ 31 Potassa, Bitart, com @ tb Potass Nitras, opt... » Potass Nitras........ a 9 Prassiate.. 1... 23@ 28 Sulphate po . . 5@ 18 Radix AGomityvrt...... .... 20@ ON 2@ 0 122@ 15 AO @ B&B Calsgneas 200@ 40 Gentiana...... po 5 IQ «15 Glychrrhiza...pv.15 16@ 18 Hydrastis Canaden . @ 3 Hydrastis Can., po.. @ 40 Hellebore, Alba, nee. 1@ 20 Inula, po... . 15@ 20 Ipecac, ....... 65@ 1 75 Iris plox....po35@38 35@ 40 Jalape, pr... 40@ 45 Maranta, 4s........ @ 3 Podophyllum, po.. 2Q@ Bee e ee ee. 75@ 1 00 Rhel, Coe @ 12 net py... -.. 75@ 1 35 Spigelia. : 3@ 38 Sanguinaria.. “po. 30 @ %8 Serpentaria ......._. 30Q@ = 35 Somer 40@ 45 —— eo H @ 4 Peni Me: @ & Cte 0.35 10@ 12 Symplocarpus, Foti. due, po... @ XB Valeriana ,Eng. po .30 Q Xs Valeriana, German. 15@ 20 Zingiber a eS re 16 Zmpipery. 0.2... : B@ 27 Semen oo ns po. 15 i ao eo 13@ 15 Bird, 4I@ 6 Garni. Pics ae ee “po. 18 10@ = 12 Cardamon..... 0... 123@ 1% Coriandrum......... &@ 10 Cannabis Sativa. 384@ 4 Cydonium........... 75@ 1 00 Chenopodium ...... 10@_ 12 Dipterix Odorate... 2 90@ 3 00 Feniculum......... oa wn Foenugreek, po...... 7G 9 BAM oe. 240 4 Lini, grd....bbl.2% 3%@ 4 Hopeia 3@ 40 Pharlaris Canarian. 3%@ 4 Rapa - 44@ 5 Sinapis Albu........ 1@ 8 Sinapis Nigra....... 11@ 12 Spiritus Frumenti, W. D. Co. 2 00@ 2 50 Frumenti, D. F. R.. 2 00@ 2 25 Frumenti..... 1a 1 50 Juniperis Co. 0. TT. 1 65@ 2 00 Juniperis Co........ 1 75@ 3 50 Saacharum N. E.... 1 90@ 2 10 Spt. Vini Galli...... 1 75@ 6 50 Vini Oporto. .... 0: 1 25@ 2 00 Vin Alba. :.... 1 25@ 2 00 Sponges Florida sheeps’ wool Carnage. 2... 2 50@ 2 % Nassau sheeps wool CArraee 2 os... @ 2 00 Velvet extra sheeps’ wool, carriage..... @ 1 10 Extra yellow s eeps’ wool. carriage.... @ 8 Grass sheeps’ wool, Carreee -...-. ol... @ 6 Hard, for slate use.. @ Yellow Reef, for slate use.......... @ 140 — Acacia . @ 50 Aurenti Cortes. @ 50 Zingiber.. a @ 50 Ipecac. cee @ 60 Meret fod... -... @ 5 hel Arom.......... @ 5 Smilax Officinalis... 50@ 60 Senegs,... .,......- @ 50 Sele ca BO Seti Co... 0... OMe 600. 1... Pranus virg.. ....!. Tinctures Aconitum Napellis R Aconitum Napellis F BIOGR a and Myrrh.. APO Assafeetida ......... Atrope Belladonna. Auranti Cortex..... Beneom. <... Benzoin Co.......... Barosmig 8... Cantharides........ Capsicum ........ Cardamon.. Cardamon Co.. : OCARtOn 1 Careehe. Cinchona......... ou Cinchona Co 8aO SESSASESSESERSESSURE SSRN ESE eeeeeeeuneceeeucareare SSE Cuber... |. Cassia Acutifol..... Cassia Acutifol — . — : Gentian Guiaca.... Le Guiacaammon...... Hyoscyamus........ —s ey Ovii, camphorated Opii, deodorized.. 1 Sanguinaria . . Serpentaria ... Stromonium Totutan...... Valerian ........ Ha Veratrum Veride... Zingiber. lliscellaneous Ether, Spts. Nit. 3F ‘Kther, Spts. Nit.4F Mammen 2 Alumen, gro’d..po.7 Annatto. Antimoni, po....... Antimoni et PotassT AMIDVII. 8. Antifebrin . Argenti Nitras, 02. Arsenicum. ......... Balm Gilead Bud . Bismuth N. 30@ 34@ 24@ _ _ i cltidcaaiiiahll Calcium Chlor., mea Calcium Chlor., ls. Cantharides, Rus. po Capsici Fructus, af. Capsici Fructus, po. Capsici FructusB,po Caryophyllus. 15 Carmine, No. oe Cera Alba, 8. & F._ Cera Flava Coccus oo a Céntrarig, | 0. So: Cetacenia. |, Chloroform.......... Chloroform, = Chloral Hyd Crs Chongrus. ..., 3... Cinchonidine,P.& W Cinchonidine, Germ Cocaine 2). 3 Corks, list, dis.pr.ct. Creosotum — Crete... — DB Creta, prep.. Creta, recip.. Creta, ubra Crocus ... Cudbear Cupri Sulph......... Dextrine Ether Sulph.... |. Emery, all —or Emery, po.. Ergots.. 2... “po. "40 Flake White sie wo Q pS B Ss oe SoBolbookdsofoseoe &35 DARSLSSIFSSSSAASRESSSSowARawSwa—eRao rt nw RKRAVRRSKBSE Gelatin, Cooper.. Gelatin, French..... Glassware, flint, —_ Less than box.. Glue, brown Glue, WHIGG. 0. Glycering ........... Grana Paradisi . Eraning. 8... Hydraag Chlor Mite Hydraag Chlor Cor. Hydraag Ox Rub’m Hydraag Ammoniati HydraagUnguentum Hydrargyrum....... Ichthyobolla, Am... Pndige: 6.00 Iodine, Resubi...... 3 Jodoform.........._. Lupulin 20 oo: Lycopodium .. = Maca 3. i 5... Liguer Arse. et hy- Grarg lod...... |... LiquorPotassArsinit Magnesia, Sulph.. Magnesia, Sulph, bbl Mannia. S. F.. Ropes Menthol... ... -ss. $ 0& ~ _ abotie Hecitiateceabadds oo — SSkKwaok Morphia, S.P.& W... 1 95@ 2 20} Sinapis.............. @ 18)| Linseed, pure raw.. 33 36 Morphia, S.N.Y.Q. & Sina rf Stag One ce, @ 30| Linseed, boiled..... 35 Cee... 1 %@ 2 10 oe “psseppat De Neatsfoot,winterstr 6 70 Moschus Canton.. @ SS Voe .........:... @ | Spirits Turpentine.. 35 40 bo eigen pi No.1... , = = sant, meek, DeVo’s . g 34 ux Vomica. ..po.20 Soda Boras.......... 8 Os Sep Pla es @ 18| Soda Boras po; 6 @ 8 Paints BRI. LB epsin Saac Soda et Potass Tart 5 Red Venetian... ... 1% 2 @8 ; Ces. wt se sees @ 1 00| Soda, Carb.......... 14@ 2! Ochre, yellow Mars. 1% 2 @4 Picis Liq. N.N.% gal. Soda, Bi-Carb....... 3@ 5! Ochre, yellow Ber.. 1% 2 @3 a ede @ 2 00/ Soda, Ash........... 3%@ 4 Putty, Commercial.. 2\ 24%@3 Picis Liq., quarts. . @ 1 00| Soda, Sulphas....... @_ 2! putty: strictly pure. 2% 24%@3 Picis Liq., pints..... @ 85 | Spts. Cologne........ @ 2 60| Vermilion, Prime Pil Hydrarg...po. 80 @ 50|Spts. Ether Co...... 50@_ 55/ American.......... 13@ Piper Nigra...po. 22 @\ 18|/Spt’ MyrciaDom... @ ° 00! vermilion, English. 70@ Piper Alba....po. 35 @ 30} Spts. Vini Rect. bbl. @ 2 37! Green, Paris ........ 13%@ Piix Burgun........ @ 7| Spts. ViniRect.%bbl @ 2 42| Green, Peninsular.. 13@ Plumbi Acet........ 10@ 12) Spts. Vini Rect.10gal @ 2 49) tread Red... 54@ Pulvis Ipecac et st 1 10@ 1 20} Spts. Vini Rect. 5gal @ 2 47| Lead’ white.....__. 54@ Pyrethrum, boxes H Less 5¢ - cash 10 days. Whiting, white Span @ & P. D. Co., doz.. @ 1 25 | Strychnia, — . 140@ 1 45 lewhiting: gilders’. @ Pyrethrum, o., 30@ 33) Sulphur, Subl....... 24%@ — 3) white, Paris Amer.. @ MARKEE 005 |... 8@ 10/ Sulphur, Roll.... . 2@ 2% Whiting Paris Eng. uinia, = PGW... 2@ 31 Kae iw ig is 8@ = [a a @ Quinia,S.German.. 20@ 29} Terebenth Venice... 28@ l 1 00@ Quinia, N.Y......... 24@ 29|Theobrome....... 1 ee | Oe Prep. Rubia Tinctorum. . Pm «= so | Vanilla 8... 9 00@16 0p Varnishes Salat onsen pv : u4@ s 20 | Sct Seip... ..... 8 DOOM... 00@ 3 10 No. 1 aon... 2% Sanguis Draconis... 40@ 50 Oils mies Tee a 1 on APO, Wes... se eeeeee R@ 14 BBL. @AL. | Coach Body......... 2 B@ Sepe" M.... «1.0.0.4. “— a Whale, winter....... 70 70 No. 1 Turp Furn.... : aoe os Dar, Gxtra......... 4 45 | Extra Turk Damar.. 1 55 Siediita Mixture.... 20 @ 22| Lard) No.1.......... 35 40|Jap.Dryer,No.i1Turp 70@ opeolalties ooda FOUuntaln Special Vanilla Flavoring...... A eA) | 9 or Strictly Pure Extract Vanilla**........... p. ID.. 25 Strictly Pure Extract Vanilla*¥............ p. Ib. 1 00 Some Butwact Lemom.................: pe ibe) 75 Soluble Extract Orange..... a Dp. Ib: 75 Belfast Ginger Ale Extract Soluble....... p. lb. 65 Harry Root Beer Extract......p. 1b. 35; p. gall. 2 00 ei EROS BHAGES ee ci B. falls) 95 Gum or Soda Foam........... p. Ib. 25; p. gall.) © 75 Wild Cherry Phosphates...... p. Ib. 40; p. gall. 3 00 eae AC aus ia ee 50 Repsin Wordiab oe oy a's. pa Eee 50 Fruit Coloring, improved for Syrup. .... a See ec ei p. Ib. 35; p. gall. 2 50 Hance Bros. & White Fruit Juices.......... ws Hance Bros. &. White Concentrated Syrups... a ea oie cia een) | Bi Hance Bros. & White Chocolate.............. McKesson & Robbins Fruit Juices............. J. Hungerford Smith Concentrated Fruit Syrup Scully’s Rock Candy Syrup..... Se Sa ay Fountain Syrups, all flavors, ready for use...... Ce ay p- gall. 100 Grand Rapids, Mich. HaZeling & Perkins Drug C0. ( q ‘ t ( ( Ocoee @eeee- , q ( q ( ( ( q VwuVvuvvvve ee MICHIGAN TRADESMAN ROCERY PRICE CURRENT. The prices quoted in this list are for the trade only, in ‘such quantities as are usually purchased by retail dealers. They are prepared just before going to press and are an accurate index of the local market. It is im- possible to give quotations suitable for all conditions of purchase, and those below are given as representing av- erage prices for average conditions of purchase. Cash buyers or those of strong credit usually buy closer than those who have poor credit. Subscribers are earnestly requested to point out any errors or omissions, as it is our aim to make this feature of the greatest possible use to dealers. a 4 AXLE —_=- ne CHEESE. COUPON BOOKS. FARINACEOUS GOODS. aici a a SALT. . val bottle, w ‘ ee a, a: ear eee eee @ Parina. — ke eee en ore Castor Oil... pos Ob | Amboy... .--- a Pe. ol money. Cases, 24 3-lb boxes........ 1 50 Diamond. . a 5 ee Gold ae Hn Grits. Barrels, 190 31bbags...... 27 aie enn Be. 7 9 00| Ideal. @ Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s.......2 00 Regular | Barrels, 40 7 1b bags......2 40 sg Golden, tin boxes 75 9 00 Jersey. po eos @ Homi Grade Butter, 28 lb. bags........... 30 U Mica.. iii sae Lenawee. . oe @ ominy. ‘ Lemon Butter, 56 1b bags........... 60 Paragon... 55 «6 00 | Riverside. @ Barrels .........+.+.+.++. 2% doz | Butter, 20 14 1b bags........ 3 00 ae eee @ Flake, 50 1b. drums.......1 09 Butter, 280 1b bbl 5 BAKING POWDER pa 2OS...... (0) er, Bocce 2 50 ee ° Brick a @ books, any deyom. a 2 50 ae ns Peas. 30 10 1b. er 3 = rity. ‘lnmbia pints... .... oks, any denom....11 ne . tie ct ns ol _ i4 1b cans per doz:........ iB cae. % somal «+++ 25] 1 000 books."any denom....20 00| Split, per Ib... 24 2 Ib. ines SACKS... 202... 32 1” tb cans per doz......-.- 2 00 CLOTHES PINS. = - Rolled Oats. Bulk in barrels.-........../2 50 . olled Avena, Dbbl..... .3 30 Ww Home. 5 gross boxes. . 45 Monarch, bbl........... .2 80 ij Vanilla. |_ — lq lb cans 4 doz case...... 35 COCOA SHELLS. 7 Monarch, % bbl.......... 1 55 Hi 56-lb dairy in drill bags..... 30 % lb cans 4 doz case...... 55 | 99 1p bags. 2% ! Private brands, bbl..... 2% me 2OZ...... 1 % | 28-lb dairy in drill bags..... 15 1b cans 2 doz case ..... 90] Togs quantity... ee. 3 Universal Grade. Private brands, %bbl..... 1 50 mw 40z......3 50 Ashton. Pound packages........ 4 50 books, any denom.... 1 50 | Quaker, cases. ........... 3 20 GLUE. 56-lb dairy iniinen sacks... 60 JIAXO Ni CREAM TARTAR. 100 books, any denom.... 2 50 Sago. per doz. .500 books, any denom....11 50 | German............ -..... 4 | Jackson Liquid, 1 o0z....... 65 Higgins. 14 1b cans, 4 doz case..... 45 st — — boxes. = 1,000 books, any denom....20 00| East India........... ... 3% | Jackson Liquid, 20z....... 9g | 56-lb dairy in linen sacks... 60 % lb cans. 4doz case...... 85 | Strictly Pure sEF _ Superior Grade. Wheat. Jackson GUNPO' 30z.._... 1 30 Solar Rock. 1 Theans, 3 dos case...... 1@ COFFE 50 books, any denom.... 1 50 | Cracked, bulk............. 3 POWDER. B6-lb sacks............. 2... 21 _— antec. Green. 100 books, any denom.... 2 50| 242 1b packages...........2 40 on ae Cones ees +¢ lb cans.. : vee 45 Rio. 500 books, any donom):) 311 50) ee a ee od RR NRE I 70 ee... ---—- 0 75 ___.....-¥7 ] 1,000 books,tany denom. . ..20 00 . Halt Koga 20000000000000000 oo Meee ss 7 : ey ane 1 50 ae 17 1sn. Quarter Kegs 1 35 MeMeO .8 es 70 eo oes on erer die siete Moe. Le Coupon Pass Books, oe... SNUFP. Peerless. ree oe 19} Can be made to represent any ee eee ek Scotch, in bladd Cod. 1D CANS 18 | Scotch, Cra... .., 37 16 CRON Sigeten 20 | denomination from $10 down. , Maccaboy, in jars 35 Pose 22 Georges cured......... @4 Choke Bore—Dupont’s. Pia ne dete srsicic «in BASKETS. een WHoOKS 0. 100) 4 i rena Ce a a aa 4 00} French Rappee, in jars .... 43 50 book: 2 00 eorges genuine...... @ 4% Half K Santos. OOKS......-.------+--- Georges selected...... @ 5% Pe 23 SPICES. Fair ee monoons... 2)... 3 00 Strips or bricks....... 5 @8 Quarter Kees... ......-.... 12 Whole Sifted Coe 99 | 250 books.................. 6 25 Halibut. PTD CONG 34 Allspice : 9 PN is. ho oe | Camas. 5... ---. 10] Keg ceue Duck—Dupont’s. | Gassia, China inmats...... 10 Peaberny 00 23 | ee Strips..... Sa oa ae 9 Heit SS CE erates : - Cassia, = bund... 20 ena i assia, ae Mexican and Guatamala. | 500, any one denom'n.... 3 00| roland witness keg 60 Quarter Kegs..00000 20000000 [Sia ta Bair ee ee ae one denom’n oe . % Holland white hoops bb! 7 50 = ‘LicorICcR. 45 | Cloves, Zanzibar............ 9 Geo ... 22 | 2000, any one denom’n..... Norwegian... ............ eae ° 30 Mace, Batavia.... ... .....60 Fancy sere ce ie ok elena 24 Steel punch. cee eos DB Round 100 lbs....... .. 250 Calabria sind nad acl find lta Sols a 25 Nutmegs, fancy i 60 Maracaibo. DRIED FRUITS—DOMESTIC | Round 40 lbs... .-..-.-.. 130| Sip Nutmegs, No. 1....22000. 0. £0 Sealed 13 ee ie 14 Nutmegs, No. 2.. 45 Perdon (frme... 23 es 2 ee - OG ee 10 | Depper, Singapore, black... 9 Standard Bushel.......... Pree... 24 | Sundried................ @ 2% Mackerel. MINCE MBAT. Pan > Steen es’ ni ‘ “4 Extra Bushel........ ..... 1% ai. Evaporated 50 Ib boxes. @4 | No.11001bs.......... .... 11 00| Ideal, 3dos. incase... ...225| pobber shot 10 Re Mites Pe California Fruits. Bet Bie... 8 ae MATCHES. Peace % bushel, bamboo del’ry. 3 50] Private Growth............... 97 | Apricots............... 9 @10%| No.1 101bs............. 125] Diamond Match Co.’s brands. Pure Ground in Bulk. i bushel, bamboo del’ry. 400] Mandehling................... 9g | Blackberries........... No. 2100 lbs... .......... 8 00| No. 9 sulphur............... 1 65 | Alispice ... .........--..4.. 12 buchel, tamboodelry.' 5061 Nectarines............6 @ No.2 40lbs.............. 350] Anchor Parlor.............. 1 70 | Cassia, Batavia ............. 22 Iron strapped, 50c extra. Mocha. Peaches.. .......- 7%@9 |No.2 10lbs.............. SNe eto 110 | Cassia, Saigon... ........°..85 Diamond Clothes, 30x16... 2 50| Imitation .......-...... ......25] Pears.... 0... 22... 8 @ Family 90 lbs ae Export Parlor.............. 400 | Cloves, Amboyna....... ... 20 Braided Splint, 30x16. .... 409 | ATabian .. a 28 Pitted Cherries. og Family 10lbs_- MOLASSES. i Zanzibar Pe 15 BATH BRICK. oasted. nnelies......... Sardines New Orleans. nger, Pe oa ee Ce Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brands | Raspberries............ Russian kegs. . 55 | Black. .........-...... 24+ 11 ene: pwneison pees cani sa = Fifth Avenue..... . 30 California Prunes. Stockfish. Fair... --....sessee2.. 14 Maco Bates ee "aD Jewell’s Arabian Mocha....30 | 100-120 25 1b boxes. @ 3% | No. i, 1001b. bales 10% | Good ................ tees . ochted Tene Gud Piluue ae Wells’ Mocha and Java.....25% | 90-100 25 Ib boxes....... @ 434 | Ne 2 100 1b. bales am | Fancy se cet ese eee Mus ae a te ries Wells’ Perfection Java.....25% | 80-9025 lb boxes...... @ 4% Troma Open Kettle.--..... . 20... ‘50% abmeas, eet raaaes % i 23° | 70-80 25 1b boxes....... @ 54 |No.1100 % * 500} Half-barrels 20 extra. See en aac Valley City Maracaibo. ...20 | 60-7025lbboxes...... @6 |No.1 «wibs... 25 PIPES. eee eee? ween" ae Seek Seed... ck 16% | 50-6025 Ib boxes....... @ 6%! No.1 wior ¢5 | Clay, No. 216............... 1 0 eee Coe eee Leader Blend....... .. --.14 | 40-5025 Ib boxes....... g 7 [No.1 8 ibe a 55 nr. > 8 fullcount...... 8 es 17@20 ; . 30 - 40 25 xes : hitefish. Pee bide sw indie oes —< .e Se ee wear i¢ cent less in 50 Ib cases No.1 No.2 Fam s i POTASH. SYRUPS. uaker Mandehling Java. .31 Raisins. 100 lbs .....67% 52 160 Babbitt ca 4 00| Barrel uaker Mocha and Java....29 | London Layers3Crown. 160/ 40lbs - .. 300 240 9%) petit Gote iain a. i2 1d board B oko Mocha and Java...... 26 | LondonLayers5 Crown. 250 : ay = : ] PICKLES ae . — ay 3 3 = paste cet oxes... 40. Quaker Golden Santos.... 23 | Dehesias................ 325 fiaiiaens Pure Cane. 3 doz. wooden boxes....... 1 20 | State House Blend.......... 22 | Loose Muscatels2 Crown 5 FLAVORING “EXTRACTS, Barrels, 1,200 count. 3 40 Mair ...............-..-... 16 i BROOSIS. Quaker Golden Rio......... 20 | Loose Musestels3Crown 6 Half bbis. 600count..... 2 20 OO. ol 20 | ae 3 — Cee ee 1 90 Package. Loose Muscatels4Crown 7 Saat Choice Se No. 3 Carpet...2.22...020., 18) | Below are given New York a. Barrels, 2,400 count. ....... 440) oy -_ aa 1 15| Prices on package coffees, to Currants. Half bbls, 1,200 count...... 2 70 K es scares Cerrone tat 5% ose Ta ga 2 99| Which the wholesale dealer | Patras bbls.. -.@ 4% RICE. eats. in ec ane n ““"" “wy | adds the local freight from | Vostizzas 50 Tb cases. --@ 1% Domestic. SOAP. Common Whisk............ 7 } Fan ee g9| New York to your shipping | Cleaned, bulk ............ @& Carolina head.......... +e. Og Laundry. —— ea 2 95 | point, giving you credit on the | Cleaned, packages........ @ 6% Carolina No.1 ............ 5 Armouris Brands. CAKE FROSTING. invoice for the amount of Peel. Carolina No.2 ........... 4% | armour's Famil 270 j aati a ~ freight buyer pays from the | Citron America: 101b bx @I4 aes 8 | Armour’s Laundry. 3 25 Too — Pete 2 25 | market in which he purchases | Lemon American 101b bx @i2 Imported. Avmour's Comfort. "9 80 wo doz. in case assorted flav- | to his shipping point, including : ‘ Japan, No.1... .. ... Bala *s Whi a ors—lemon. vanilla and rose. - Orange American 10'b bx @12 j N : rmour’s te, 100s. - 6 25 weight of package. In 60 lb. Japan. No.2... 0. 5 Armour's White, 50s. . 320 CANDLES. cases the list is 10¢ per 100 lbs. Raisins. Java, No.1................ 4a] a Woodchuck .... 2 ; EE ee Le 7 | above the price in full cases Ondura 28 lb boxes..... 6%@ 8 de —, Table .... ee 5% —, : Kit “ _ 7 ee hee > Sultana 1Crown........ @ 8% | D.C. Vaniia D. C. Lemon SEEDS. ee chen Brown. 2 00 j Bee oa 8 Sacer © vee eee ee ee eee - = Suiseme —— ae : ae = a a > Wie res rmoer's SOAP erman 2 40 Sec e ie i Hueeuie ee ultana 3Crown........ obsuuk So 2 ‘ ary. ere eee . CANNED GOODS. PicLeughlin’s XXXX..". 13 00 | Sultana 3 Crown........ Secliex...20 . sea....dSigeeee Black Bass < 1 eieoue ss: 12% Ciscoes or Herring... CI ce 10 Live Lobster....... = Boiled Lobster...... Po eo ss co Smoked White...... Red Snap Col River Salmon.. Mackerel Oysters in Cans. F. H. Counts........ F. J. D. Selects...... Selects... ....... F. J.D. Standards... ARCHOS... .....-... Standards... ... Oysters in Bulk. @ PPLHHHHHHHHHHOHOS ~ S 80088 BRSS ot ee OD ms Baltimore Standards Clamie ooo. oe BaPrnpe, .:... ..c se: Shell Goods. Oysters, per 100.......1 Clams, per 100....... ® SS RRRKSSSS és | Bent’s Cold Water. Helle Rene 8... ec. 8. Cocoanut Taffy............ Coffee Cakes. .............. Candies. Stick Candy. es Standard H. H...... Standard inisiea i. Cus beat Bextra tH... Boston Cream Mixed Candv. Competition......... PAG RI o! .. Leader English Rock....... Kindergarten....... French Cream...... Dandy Pan...... a Valley Cream.. .... Fancy —In Bulk. Lozenges, plain..... Lozenges, printed.. Choe, Drops... ... .. Choc. Monumentals Gum Drops Moss Drops.. Sour Drops Imperials Fancy—In 5 Ib. Boxes Lemon Drops....... Soeur Drops... ___. Peppermint Drops.. Chocolate Drops ... H. M. Choe. Drops.. Gum Drops... Licorice Drops...... A. B. Licorice a Lozenges, plain.. Lozenges, printed.. Imperials a Mottoes...... Cream Bar.. Molasses Bar .. Hand Made Creams. Plain Creams.. : Decorated Creams... String Rock.......... Burnt Almonds..... 12 Wintergreen Berries Caramels. No. | wrapped, 2 Ib. DOteS = 1 wrapped, 3 Ib. No. 2 aed 2 Ib. WORGR oo, .. _ Fresh Meats. _ — —— BO) UO he ee wWOCenam ~ we Fer nm wo QOOHOHHD QHAQASLHHDOHHGA gee" Beef. Carcass: 8s... . Fore quarters. . Hind quarters. Eomms' No. 3.00.00... 5 Le Mie Hounds 0)... Chneme. PALO Pork. Pecsse@ 0. EQUA. Shoulders... ........ heat ard... Mutton. Carcass Spring Lambs......... Veal. Careass oe Crackers. The N. Y. Biscuit Co. quotes as follows: Butter. Seymour XXX. eS. Seymour XXX, 3 lb. carton a Family XXX Salted X Soda X Soda xuX, 31b carton.. moeGe. Civ. 8. iso. Zephyrette. . Long Island Wafers....... L. I. Wafers, ae as y' Square Oyster, XXX Sq. Oys. Farina Oyster, XXX.. SWEET Animals... ..... Frosted Hone Graham Crackers ......... Ginger Snaps, XXX round. Ginger Snaps, XXX city.. XX home made Gin. Snps, XXX scalloped... Ginger Vanilla............ Heras ce. ee ee Jumples, Honey........... 10 Molusses Cakes............ Marshmallow ............. 12 Marshmallow Creams..... 13 Pretzels, hand made ..... 6 Pretzelettes, LittleGerman 6 Sugary Cake... 5,-0.2... 6 PPO occ 10 Sears’ Lanch.... 002.65... 6 Gin. aa, Sears’ ee Vanilla Square.. Vanilla Wafers. Pecan Wafers... Fruit Coffee.... Mixed Picnic.. ... Cream Jumbles .......- La" ia Boston Ginger Nuts........ Chimmie Fadden....... ices Pineapple Glace............ 12 Family XXX ,31b carton. Salted xxx 3 lb carton... ja. XX, 1 Ib carton. x 4 GooDs— S—Boxes. Grains and Feedstuffs Winter Wheat Flour. Locai Brands. Patents 2. ee . 4 80 Mecond Patent... 4 30 MeO 4 lu CMe ee 3 70 Graham .. 4 00 BUCK WHERE... 6. 3 40 Subject to usual cash dis- count, Floiir in bbls., 25¢ per bbl. ad- ditional. Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand. CUGRCE Se 4 35 Custer Ws... 4 35 Cener a2 fe. 4 35 Spring Wheat Flour. Olney & Judson ’s Brand. Cereaeta jeg. 4 40 Ceresota, 148...... eet occ 4 30 Cereseta, ao. 2s, 4 2% Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand. Grand Republic, \s........ 4 40 Grand Republic, 4s.. ... . 4 20 Grand Republic, i%s....... . 25 Worden Grocer Co.’s 7. Figmel ae Laurel, ES ae ; 30 eetine! Se 425 Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s aa Parisian, \s. 44 Parisian, ee 4 30 Parisian. S665. 4 25 Meal. Boke@ 1530 Graniiated ... 0)... 1 % Feed and Millstuffs. St. Car Feed, screened ....11 7 No. 1 Corn and Oats....... 10 7 Unbolted Corn Meal....... 10 Ou Winter Wheat Bran... . .11 00 Winter Wheat Middlings. -11 50 Screenings 8 00 The O. E. Brown Mill Co. quotes as follows: New Corn. Car Kis... a Less than ear lots......... 28 Oats. Car lots. .... 1 Carlots, clipped.. ee, | Less than car ae Soiicues 2 No.1 ‘Tether estiots eG 9 50 No. 1 Timothy, ton lots ...11 00 Fruits. Oranges. California Seedlings. OO eee 2 VO@2 25 138-150-176 300 oo. @2 50 California Nayels. — ralencias in Cases. SO clack @4 60 Lemons. Strictly choice 36Us.. @2 50 Strictly choice 300s... “ Fancy 20s...... ... @3 00 Ex.Fancy 300s...... @3 50 Bananas. A definite price is hard to name, as it varies according to size of bunch and quality of fruit. Medium bunches...1 25 @I1 50 Large bunches...... 1% @2 00 Foreign Dried Fruits. Figs Choiee Layers SE iia gee @10 Figs, New Smyrna 14 and 20 1b boxes. @12 Figs, ee in 30 ib. HAG. 6c... @ 6 Dates, Fans in 101b DOMES 02.2 8. @8 Dates, Fards in 601b Gasen oe cc... @6 Dates, Persians HM. B., 60 lb cases, new @6 Dates, Sairs 60 Ib CSO oe. @ 4% Nuts. Almonds, Tarragona. . @12 Almonds, Tyaea....... @il Almonds, California, soft shelled......... @i2 Brastienew........... @ 7% MUIbGres oie. @10 Wainuts, Grenobles .. Walnuts, Calif No. 1. @10 Walnuts, soft shelled Ce al, @l12 Table Nuts, fancy.... @il Table Nuts, choice... @10 Pecans, Med....... ... @ Pecans, Ex. Large.... @10 Pecans, Jumbos....... @12 Hickory Nuts per bu., Ohio, new. Cocoanuts, full sacks Butternuts per bu.. Black Walnuts per bu ©8 SSR Peanuts a. ny. F,. Sans Choice, H. P., Extras. Choice, H. P., = Roasted .......... ° & o © 68 © 66d ® #2 3 Provisions. Swift & Company quote follows: Barreled Pork. Dry Salt Meats. Bellies ...: .. ree Extra shorts........... Smoked [eats. Hams, 12 1b average .... Hams, i4 Ib average Hams, 16 1b average... Hams, 20 lb average..... Ham dried beef......_.. Shoulders (N. Y. — ‘ Bacon, clear. . H : California hams.. : Boneless hams........... Cooked fiam............. Lards. In Tierces. Commpound............... Gee oo ID Pubs... .. advance 80 tb Tubs......- advance S01b Ting _...._. advance 20 3b Pails. ...... advance 10 1b Pails... .. .advance 5 lb Pails.......advance o lb Pais... advance Sausages. Holoeaa . wee... Praokfor. =... ..... ee eee Memeee ee. Mead cheese... -. |. ef. Oxia Mess... ... PIGMONCHR oc 10 00 ee oe — Kits, 15 lbs.. ee vi bbls, Mea 1 5u vA bbls, 80 ripe. Hite, 16 Ibe... .. .. 14 bbls, 40 Ibs... % bbls, 80 Ibs... Casings. Porm... Beet rounds ........... Beef middles.......... SOG os Butterine. Hels, dairy... -.. .. Solid, a Rolls, Creamery ......... Solid, creamery ...... Canned Meats. Corned beef, 2 Ib.. Corned beef, M4 4 Ib... HO ay Roast beef, Potted ham, “148. ou. Potted ham. ee.) Deviled ham, Deviledham, s....... Petted tongue \s....... Potted tongue \¥s....... Hides and Pelts. Perkins & Hess pay as fol- lows: Hides. Oreos. 2... SS eS Part Cured... .. ...- @ 6 Pall Cured... ...... 64@ ¢ ny... 6 @8 — > ..& @e a cured... --.-. G6 s fskins, green. a. 64@ 8 Calfekins Cured... .. Te@ 9 Deaconskins ......... 2 @30 Pelts. Shearines........... 5@ DON 2 Cid Wool... ....: age Furs. Mae 30@ Coe 30G~ Skunk.. _. =e Muskrats, spring.. i... 12@ Muskrats, winter . 8@ Read Fox...... ....... S@i Gray Pox... ol. 30@ (yee Pex... 25°@5 Badger..... 25@ Cat, Wild .. . Be Cat, House. . ne ee. 3 00@ 7)... 5. 10@% Martin, —. ...... 1 50@ 3 00 Martin, Yellow ..... @ 158 eee 4 50@ 7 50 Wor. .:. ee. 1 LO@ 2 00 ee ee 7 00@IE HOaver. 2. 5... 2 00@ 6 00 Deerskin, dry, ‘per Ib. 15@ Deerskin, gr’n, perlb 10@ 124 2 Wool. Weened _... QL... 10 @i6 Unwashed . 5 liscellaneous. OW 2 @2 Grease Butter.........1 @2 ee ............ 1%@ o Cipsene: >... 2... 2 50@: Oils. Barrels. MeeeHe is. @u% XXX W. W.Mich.Hadlt @ 8% W W Michigan........ @ 8 High Test Headlight. . @i7 Bs. Gee... @ 8 Deo. NOPSNS . 2.5650... @™% ca ee 25 @36 ties dete eee la. 11 @21 Black, aia Se cata aan @8 21 Crockery and Glassware. AKRON STONEWARE. Butters. 5G gal. per dos.......... SU LtoG eal, per egal........ 5% oeel. pereal............ 6% eel per ant... | ee eel pergal........... Gs 15 gal. meat-tubs, per gal.. 20 gal. meat-tubs, per gal.. 8 25 gal. meat-tubs, per gal.. 10 30 gal. meat-tubs, per gal.. 10 Churns. 2ieGseal peren |... ... 5% Churn Dashers, per doz... 85 Milkpans. % gal. flat or rd. bot., doz. 60 1 gal. fatorrd. bot.,each 5% Fine Glazed Milkpans. \% gal. flat orrd. bot.,doz. 65 1 gal. flatorrd. bot.,each 5% Stewpans. 4 gal. fireproof, bail, doz. 8} i gal. fireproof, bail, doz.1 10 Jugs. eg 40 gal. wer doe.... ........ 30 Ite 5S gal., pergal......... 6% Tomato Jugs. 4 oal., per doe .......... 70 Tee cuen 3. 7 Corks for % gal., per doz.. 20 Corks for 1 gal., per doz.. 30 Preserve Jars and Covers. 44 gal., stone cover, doz... 75 1 gal., stone cover, doz...1 00 Sealing Wax. 5 lbs. in package, perlb... 2 LAMP BURNERS. No. @ Sun. .:............ -_ No. i Sam...._.. <2... | oe WG 2 ee ater. 5 pecurcuy. wef... 3... 65 pecuriy Nas... ... 3s Diemer... Oe Cae 1 50 LAMP CHIMNEYS—Common. Per box of 6 doz. oO OtGn oo 1 75 no }Sae. ll. 1 88 No. 2 Sun 27 First ‘Quality. No. 0 Sun, crimp top, wrapped and labeled.... 2 10 No. 1 Sun, ¢rim top, wrapped and labeled. . 2 No. 2 Sun, crimp top, wrapped and labeled.... 3 25 XXX Flint. No. 0 Sun,. crimp Wisi wrapped and ae ai . 2 55 No. 1 Sun, crimp wrapped and labeled. 2% N 2 Sun, crim top, wrapped and labeled.... 3 75 CHIMNEYS—Pearl! Top. No.1 Sun, wrapped and Ianeled 3 70 No. 2 Hinge, wrapped ‘and labeled... No. 2 Sun, “Small ‘Bulb, for Globe Eampe....- 2... 80 La Bastie. — 1 Sun. plain bulb, per on No. 2 Sun, plain: bulb, ‘per oe ee 1 50 No. tT Crimp, per doz. .:.... 1 35 No. 2 Crimp, per doz... .... 1 60 Rochester. No. 1, Lime (65c doz)...... 3 50 No. 2, Lime (70¢ doz).. .. 406 No. 2, Flint (80c doz)...... 4 70 Electric. o. 2, Lime (70¢ doz) ..... No. 2, Flint (80¢ doz)...... OIL CANS. 1 gal tin cans with spout.. 1 gal galv iron with spout. 2 gal galv iron with spout. 3 gal galv iron with spout. 5 gal galv iron with spout. 5 gal galv iron with faucet 5 gal Tilting cans. ae 5 gal galy iron Nacefas. Pump Cans 5 gal Rapid steady stream. 9 00 gi aeiaun ~y hae SSSSEASERS SE 5 oa Eureka non- — 10 50 3 gal Home Rule... ..... 10 50 Seal Home Rule... -..... 12 00 Sigal Pirate Kine... :.. 9 50 LANTERNS. Mo. @Tubwine...... ...:.. 4 25 No. 25 Vuratier... ...... 6 50 No. 13 Tubular Dash. . 6 30 No. 1Tub., glassfount.... 7 00 No. 12 Tubu ar, side lamp. 14 0C No. 3Street Lamp ...... 3% LANTERN GLOBES. No. 0 Tubular, cases 1 doz. each, box 10 cents. ....... 45 No. 0 Tubular, cases 2 doz. each, box 15 cents........ 45 No. 0 Tubular, bbls 5 doz. each, bbl 35.. 40 No. 0 Tubular, ‘pull’s eye, cases 1 doz. each 1 LAMP wicks, No. 0 per gross.. oe BG. t per gross... .,.0... G’d. Rapids.... .... 8:30am 1:25pm 6:25pm Ar. G’d. Rapids......... 10:15am ....... 10:30px * Manistee, Traverse —- — a - Ly. G’d Rapids........ oa s oe “City ins z “spin 16: 25pm enaoie averse City..... m 11 Rs cscs Ar. Charlevoix........ ion ingame stews Ar. et Cobide sua), SOOM Coca testes oe Trains arrive from ane? a ie 0Op.m. and 9:55 p.m. PARLOR AND SLEEPING CARS, Chicago. Parlor cars on afternoon trains anc sleepers on night trains. North. Parlor car on morning train for Trav- erse City. tEvery day. Others week days only. Gro. DEHAVEN, General Pass. Agent. DETROMN ia Goi eee Dee Ly. Grand ae: --7:00am 1:30pm 5: 2pm Ar. Detroit.. “11:40am 5: a 10:10pm eturning from —- Ly. Detroit........ ..... 00am 1: ees 6:00px Ar. Grand Rapids..... i2:30pm 5:20pm 10:45pm ——: Alma and Greenville. Ly. @R7:1 4:20pm Ar. G@ R 12:20pm 9:30pm To = = Lowell. Ly. Grand Rapids......7:00am 1: a 5:25pu Ar. from Lowell. . 12:30pm 5:20pm ...... THROUGH CAR ea Parlor cars on all trains between Grand Rap ids and Detroit and between Grand Rapids and Saginaw. Cages run week days only. 0. DEHAVEN, General Pass. Agent. Make Awning “~ Anything from a window to S50 it. roller awning. Wiesinger Awning 6O., Mirs., 2 West Bridge St., Grand Rapids, Mich. —— Telephone 1824. The Best Truck On Earth __. For handling Syrup, Vin- egar, Molasses barrels, etc. dd { rea | For particulars address Buys Barrel Truck Co. 761 K. Fulton St., GRAND RAPIDS. Oak6 FrOStind All flavors. Ready for immediate use. Simply requires beating. Always reliable and absolute- ly pure. All jobbers have it. Manufactured by TOTQESON-HAWKINS GO., Kalamazoo, Mich. GRAN Trunk Railway System Detroit and Milwaukee Div Eastward. +tNo. 14 +No.16 +tNo.18 *No. & Ly. G’d HE cg 6:45am 10:10am 3:30pm 10:45pm Ar. Ionia...... 7:40am 11:17am 4:34pm 12:30am Ar. St. chin - 25am 12:10pm 5:23pm 1:57ar Ar. osso....9:00am ae 6:03pm 3:25pr Ar. E. Saginaw10:50am saath ee Ar. W.Bay C’y11:30am .... ... 8:35pm 7:l5an Ar. Flint...... 10:05am ........ a 5:40am Ar. Pt. Huron.12:05pm ........ 9: 7:30pm Ar. Pontiac.. 10:53am 2:57pm 8 25pm 6:10ar Ar. Detroit...11:50am 3:55pm 9:25pm 8:05am Westward. For G’d Haven and Intermediate Pts.... 7:00am For G’d Haven and Intermediate Pts.. ..12 53pm For G’d Haven 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 =. Trains ‘arrive from the west, 10:05a.m. Hastward ont 14 has Wagner parlor car. No 18 parlor car. Westward—No. 11 parlor car No. 15 Wagner parlor car. E. H. Hueuss, A. G. P. & T. A, Chicago BEN. FLETCHER, Trav. Pass. Agt., Jas. CAMPBELL, ae Pass. Agent, 23 Monroe St GRAND 7 ooces a7. sto6. Northern Div. Leave Arrive Trav. C’y, Petoskey & Mack...t 7:45am + 5:15pm Trav. C’y, Petoskey & Mack...+ : ae + 6:30am RAG os oo Se oc, wpa + 5:25pm til: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 Cincinnati. . eves eevee seet 7:10am + 8:25pm We NANOS ccs ik ss + 2:00pm + 1:55pm CRBIDROG aioe fics ko. nase’ * 7:00pm * 7:25am 7:10a.m. train has parlor car to Cincinnati 7:00p.m. train has sleeping car to Cincinnati. Muskegon Trains. GOING WEST. dete Rapids........ Ff 41:00pm +5:40pm Ar Muskegon........... —— 2:10pm 7:05pm Ly Muskegon....... oe tani +11:45am +4:00pm ArG’d Rapids... ..... 9:30am 12:55pm 5:20pm Except er. *Daily. A. ALMQUIST Cc. L. Pacaween “wieket Agt.Un. Sta. Gen. Pass. & Tkt. Agt. Every Dollar Invested in Tradesman Company’s COUPON BOOKS will yield hand . some returns in saving book-keeping, besides the assurance that no charge is forgotten. Write TRADESMAN COMPANY, Grand Rapids gy wins Tents, Flags, Window Shades, Water- Proof Horse and Wagon Covers. Awning agents are now due—taking orders for de- livery next spring. When you order an awning from an agent you pay from $3 to $5 too much. To prove this, send size of your house and we will send samples and prices. Haystack and all kinds of Canvas Covers. ‘a fi Send for prices and samples. a ane : a a =——+| T. Williams & Bro., Office 662 & 664 Northwestern Avenue, CHICAGO. Best goods and lowest prices in the State. All work guaranteed, Send for prices. CHAS. A. COYE, 11 Pearl Street. | a Ne ae ee (4 The Leader of all Bond Papers Made from New Rag Stock, Free from Adulteration, Perfectly Sized, Long Fiber Magna Charta Bond A paper that will withstand the ravages of Time. Carried in stock in all the standard sizes and weights by TRADESMAN COMPANY Manafacturer’s Agent, GRAND RAPIDS. eT |} “yy yr wy PS r Sell the People What They Want Lt i i A liquid glue Sslmanmmnninai or cement al- ways ready for use. hd Does not dry Buenas ag WADE @ PaeuUlaye Does not 1 JACKSON // mould or 4 spoil. ¢ 4 IT STICKS They all say > synrrneronneteninINEZ “ Pevyrever ree vrevenneronnevenee neon oreo nena nnvenen “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 . es to get 78 to aid their \ Hew article: +: + * apa. "{ Who urges you to keep Sapolio? Is it not the /| public? The manufacturers, by constant and judi- cious advertising, bring customers to your stores whose very presence creates a demand for other articles. WLLAAeaabhAktahhAkksbkakkksbkkkkbddbkbdbbbbddddd SUMAN Asbbbaadsbbdddddddid SS ~~ — Ss VS we Se SOS eS OS US ww SS Any dealer knows that a Stove Polish which other manufacturers ee = try to imitate is the Polish for him to sell. The enormous sale of a co \ J. L.PRESGOTT & C9. AS SERA ae OPS ae . \4 < oR —— WITH A DAMP FLANNEL 2 ae pf! 4 @ NaS POLISH WITH & o lee, Ap ASSESS OR BRUSH. / , a S ai Sess z = eo Ser) — —s Lh ey R - ——F ony Sa ay - ; —— je = - 5 g/ ot ee ¥ eo GG | Zt TheModem STOVE POLISH proves that dealers are friendly to it, and that consumers will accept no substitute for ENAMELINE. Why? Because it's THE BEST! ceeceeees dd NE ES) iw SEEING «x0 HAVING Seeing the Dayton Money Weight Scales, their quickness and profit- increasing power and money-saving ability, i is but to REALIZE that you must have it to get your full profits: to out-distance your competitors. HAVE YOU SEEN THEM? one COMPUTING SCALE CO., Dayton, Ohio, U. S. A.| A postal card mailed to us will bring you full information about the newest thing in Scales. TS SSS BS Seeaa5 SS2S3 SSSI S925 SSS SSSI SS SS BeSeS3 Fy es3e3 RASALSASASeSPASaS PASAT SASASOaSeS ee SSS eS BSH SS SSeS COCR DEARL LIA Halftone Engraving Wood Engraving Photo Engraving All kinds of . .. f ASRS oc eS piessexs ar TaAew& 2 eS h In best manner, at shortest notice, from the Engraving PA Department of the TRADESMAN COMPANY With the latest and most improved appliances and machinery for the produc- tion of Illustrations and Printing Plates, by all the leading processes, complete on the premises, its facilities for the prompt production of the best work are second to none in the State. TRADESMAN COMPANY, Grand Rapids, Mich. ei Wei io 96 sais are Beene SE Be Bi vig i ei Rs 5's Sal ite eet ine RNR a ea aa Rome at ish cae i ge eats Saat ats ag Apt ees Segre cc eae Sansa Si a is eg a aa eee Sa i eee ae