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If interested, send for catalogue and mention the Tradesman. z > ° ° e P STEBBINS MANUFACTURING CO , Lakeview, Mich. $ rOPOO9OO0 09000000 000000000000000000000000060000000005 You Wille Look in Vaine For a flour that is more uniform or that will suit all classes of trade better than ¢ “Lily White” VY It is not the highest fancy patent nor is it a straight W grade; but it is an intermediate patent at a moderate a price which fully meets and satisfies the demand of W that large class of people who use only one grade 1 Y of flour for all purposes. In other words, it is the W best flour for “all around’? use that can be found a anywhere. It makes good bread and it makes zood W pastry. You can recommend it for anything from “fF pancakes to angel food. We refund your money W if unsatisfactory. WY Valley City Milling Zo., AN Grand Rapids, Mich. © = Se SM LL LO. LO LO LO. LO. LO Ae LL MO MO LM. MD. I Y fF ee eee The “immenseness” of our line of | Shirt Waists impresses us again to advertise this stock. Many are the styles to select from; so many, in fact, that you can’t help buying. WAISTS—Detachable collars; attachable collars: white stand-up collars; white lay-down collars; collars to match waist; cuffs white or same as waist. Our line at $4.50 per dozen. We want you to see them whether you buy or not. Other qualities up to $10.50 per dozen. P. STEKETEE & SONS, MONROE AND FOUNTAIN STS. TOPVNSAPNE YP NrNnrNTeserne ryan vr ersnrveer sneer var tere We Manufacture wat Window Shades If you are in need of new shades for your store front send us the measuremems and we will send you samples and prices. We also carry in stock, packed in dozen boxes, a big assortment of six and seven foot shades, with and without fringe, mounted on spring rollers, to retail at 25 to soc. Mail orders receive prompt attention. Voigt, Herpolsheimer & Co., Wholesale Dry Goods, Grand Rapids, Mich. AMMA AAAAAA SAA dUAAAA ASA AOL d4AAAA.JbA A444 J4A4b Ub Ub 44 Jhb bb did db bd GUA TPVEPIOPNEPNTP HORN PP NOP NP ereerNertr INES MM GMAdUL MA dbA db Abb dba bd dbs dbd Jhb ddd ddd @ PERKIAS & HESS, >= Hil, Fr, Wool and Tallow We carry a stock of cake tallow for mill use. . Nos. 122 and 124 Louis St., ” Grand Rapids. 8 PDOHODOODOGQODOOODOOQOQOODDOODQOOQODQOOODHOOQHOOQOODOOOQDOOOOOOOOOOS) © ‘ @ 3 Four Kinds of Coupon Books are manufactured by us and all sold on the same basis, irrespective of size, shape or denomination. Free samples on application. TRADESMAN COMPANY, Grand Rapids. G00GQ0OO9HOHOHOOHHHHHHOHHOOHHOHONHHEOOOOOOOS PCOOQOQOOO® DOOOQOQOOOES tA ile tian KALE R ACH NACA A AE AAA EA AARNE ER ECE mac on age naga W. H. EDGAR & SON, DETROIT. MICH. REFINED SUGARS SYRUPS AND MOLASSES EXCLUSIVELY LPRBRPIAD PIAL PARE PIARPIALE LARD LE ADIA SSIES AALS IAAP IALE LARP IA ED EREDEARD LARD ILADIAEDRARD DARD DARD DAY J. A. MURPHY, General Manager. FLOWERS, MAY & MOLONEY, Counsel. The Michigan Méroantile Agéenou SPECIAL REPORTS. LAW AND COLLECTIONS. Represented in every city and county in the United States and Canada. Main Office: Room 1102, Majestic Building, Detreit, Mich. N. B.—Promptness guaranteed in every way. All claims systematically and persistently handled until collected. Our facilities are unsurpassed for prompt and_ ticient service. Terms and references furnished on application. for you to show the Michigan Galvan- ized Iron Washe. with reversibl washboard. Any kind of wringer can be used. Write for special inducements to in- troduce it. REED & CO., Eagle, Mich. Sells Best Because it salts best, tastes best, keeps best— is best. DIAMOND CRYSTAL SALT. See Price Current. Diamond Crystal Salt Co., St. Clair,Mich, SHIP YOUR FREIGHT AND TRAVEL via the THE MOST POPULAR LINE TO CHICAGO AND ALL POINTS WEST. Leave TI1USKEGON at 6:00 p. m. Leave GRAND HAVEN at 9.00 p. m. Daily except Saturday, arriving in CHICAGO the following morning in time for the outgoing trains. THIS IS THE SHORT LINE TO CHICAGO. Passengers should see that their tick- ets read via this popular line. Through tickets to all points via Chicago can be had of all agents on D., G. H. & M., C. & W. M. R’y, T., S. & M. R’y, G. R. & I. R. R., and of W. D. Rosig, Agent Goodrich Line, Muskegon, or N. ROBBINS, JR., Grand Haven. H. A. BONN, Gen’! Pass. Agent, CHICAGO. seve wens, TRADESIIAN COUPONS strevrorenrenvenenvevernenvevenveneenenveneenenneneenenys ie a = = = They allsaye ---- 23 _— = — “It's as good as Sapolio,” when they try to sell you =$ = their experiments. Your own good sense will tell = a \| you that they are ony es to get you to aid their —s - \ new article. > +. 3 Se et — " Who urges you to keep Sapolio? Is it not the > = /| public? The manufacturers, by constant and judi- a cious advertising, bring customers to your stores whose = = very presence creates a demand for other articles. = SUNMMANULAAAAAAAAALLAAAAANALAANAANULAANALAAULLUMOLLUNUIOS Travelers’ Time Tables. CHICAGO “2st teensy Going to Chicago. Ly. G@’d. Rapids ........ . pond a 25pm +11:00pm Ar. Chicago............ 6:50pm + 6:30am ’ Returning trom ch il Ly. Chicago............ 5:00p! m +11:30pm Ar. vole Saas ante i: sp = 10: 30pm + 6:10am Muskegon — entwater. Lv. G’d. Rapids.... .... 8:30am 1:: Ar. @’d. Rapids......... 10:15am .... .. 10:30pm istee, Traverse City an — seen: v. G@’d Rapids........ 5:30pm Ay AY “Manistee tg ce Canoe 12:05pm 10:25pm ........ Ar. Traverse City..... 12:40) = 11:10pm ........ Ar. Charlevoix........ 3:1 Ar. Petoskey.......... 4: ‘55pm ; Trains arrive from north at 1: 00p. m. and 9:55 m. PARLOR AND SLEEPING CARS. Chicago. Parlor cars on afternoon trains and sleepers on night trains. North. Parlor car on morning train for Trav- erse City. tEvery day. Others week days only. Ggo. DeHaven, General Pass. Agent. D ET ROIT, — — — Go sing to Detroit. Ly. Grand Rapids......7:00am 1:30pm 5:25pm Ar. Detroit. “11:40am 5: 40pm 10:10pm ‘Returning — Detroit. Ly. Detroit. . 35am 1: 10pm 6: Sr Ar. Grand Rapids Soper “ig: :35pm 5: Sagina’ nent Greenv ile. Ly. G RZ: foam 4: :20pm Ar. G@ To and —_— Lowell. Lv. Grand Rapids...... 00am 1:30pm 5:25pm Ar. from Lowell. . "48:30pm 5:20pm THROUGH CAR SERVICE. Parlor cars on all trains between Grand Rap- ids and Detroit and between Grand Rapids amd Saginaw. Trains run week days only. Gro. DeHaven, General Pass. Agent. GRAN Trank Railway System Detroit and Milwaukee Diy. (In effect May 3, 1897.) Leave. EAST. trive. + 6:45am..Saginaw, Detroit and East..t+ 3 55pm. +10:10am....... Detroit and East.... . + 5:07pm + 3:30pm. .Saginaw, Detroit and East. oe :45pm *10:45pm...Detroit, East and Canada. ..* 6:35am ST * 8:35am....Gd. Haven and Int. Pts....* 7:10 pm +12: :53pm. Gd. Haven and Intermediate. t 3: 22pm + 5:12pm....Gd. Haven Mil. _— Chi.. 25 :05am «Ts :40pm.. ..Gd. Haven Mil. and Chi.. 7:15am +10:00pm...... Gd. Haven and Mil....... 5 6: 40am Eastward—No. 14 has Wagner parlor car. No. 18 parlor car. Westward—No. 11 parlor car. No. 15 Wagner parlor car. *Daily. +Except Sunday. E. H. Hosnws, A; G. P. &T. A. BEN. FLETCHER, Trav. Pass. Jas. CAMPBELL, — Pass. Agent, No. 23 Monroe St. GRAND naan Northern Div. Leave Arrive Crav. C’y, Petoskey & Mack. -¢ 7:45am ¢ 5:15pm Trav..C’y, Petoskey & Mack...+ : a + 6:30am Cadiliac pm +11:10am Train leaving at 7: os a.m. Hd cane car to Petoskey and Mackina Train leaving at 2: iB = im. has sleeping car to Petoskey and Mackinaw. thern Div. Leave ve Pigg ams Peaver eines cis th sen : He : Y = BING es coe :00pm m Cincinnati. ...............,...¢ 7:00pm * . 7:108.m. train has parlor car to Cincinnati. 7:00p.m. train has sleeping car to coe ee —— GOIN Lv@’d Ra wg be sures ean 47:35am +1 2:00pm +5: Ar Muskeg oa os Cal tgas oo — 2:10pm 70pm eonie oe idem ‘Bisepm ‘6:25 :20pm ea eae m +Excent Sunday. *Daily. . A. ALMQUIST C. L. Lockwoop, “‘tieket Agt'Un. Sta. Gen. Pass. & Tkt. Agt. Ara'd Rap ids. THE VALUE OF H GAKE 1S THE BUSINESS IT BRINGS a SUCCESS CUBANS'=: Contain all the good qualities of. a rapid seller, with strong points reinforced. Write for samples. Sen ac naeaee esse eee i A ss BOO EIS ee Boe > canara i ptripe en FR ex y on A (6) ” A DESMAN Volume XIV. GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9, 1897. COMMERCIAL CREDIT 60., Lid. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Private Credit Advices. Collections made anywhere in the United States and Canada. FP OFF 0000000000000000000 > z THE —" @ sCynomne, 9 ines + ” INS. & 7? co. 6 4 o oo Pr:. apt, Conservative, Safe. e % +.W CHAM IN, Pres. W. FRED McBam, Sec. @ £42 9@Oc4 oOo The Preferred Bankers Life Assurance Co. Incorporated by 100 Maintains a Guarantee Fund. Write for details. Home Office, Moffat Bldg., DETROIT, MICH. FRANK E. ROBSON, Pres. TRUMAN B. GOODSPEED, Src’y. MICHIGAN BANKERS TO CLOTHING MERCHANTS We still have on hand a few lines of Spring and Summer Clothing and some small lots to be closed at sacrifice. Write our Michigan representative, WILLIAM CONNOR, Box 346, P. O. Marshall, Mich., and he will call upon you, and if he has not what you want, will thank you for looking and you will learn something to your advantage about our coming Fall and Winter line. Mail orders promptly attended to by MICHAEL KOLB & SON, Wholesale Ready Made Clothing Manufacturers, Rochester, N. Y. Established nearly one-half a century. Mr. Connor will be at Sweet’s Hotel, Grand Rapids, Thursday and Friday, June 17 and 18. We wish to q establish a branch of our business in every town in Michigan where we are not now represented. No Capital Required. MEN’S SUITS AND OVERCOATS $4.00 to $30.00 WRITE FOR INFORMATION. ; ; WHITE CITY TAILORS, 222-226 ADAMS ST., CHICAGO. AAA, aseeea Save Trouble The Grocery Market. Sugar—The market continues to Strengthen and a still higher range of values in confidently anticipated. The European market has been firm, with no change of consequence, and the do- mestic raw market has been steady. The Trust is at present buying practic- ally no stock. The consumptive demand is good, owing to the prevalence of the berry season. It should increase from now on. Jobbers are buying rather lightly, being well stocked up. Tea—Jobbers are offering freely at present prices, but the importers are refusing more orders at present figures. The prime cause of this is the tariff suspense and the promised rise in price in Japan. The importers, through whom the jobbers must supply them- selves as soon as they have sold out present holdings, are afraid to take or- ders now at selling prices to-day for fear the tariff will increase the cost of the goods before they arrive. The latest advices from Japan say that the most of the United States jobbers have cancelled their limits on teas for the coming sea- son’s trade, and are ready to pay the advance asked in Japan. This has not been done by all the wholesalers, . how- ever. Whatever is done about the tariff, the price of tea in this country the com- ing season will be higher than last, be- cause the inspection will be better and poor grades of tea are to be kept out, and the advance of market in Japan will not wholly decline, even if the duty is not laid on tea. Coffee—Actual coffees are '%c lower for No. 7, but the better grades do not participate in the decline where quality and style are desirable. There seems to be a better general demand in the way of replenishing assortments. Mara- caibo stiffened up a little on the sug- gestion of proposed duties and consid- erable has been sold. Javasare firm and demand fair. Provisions—-While the large current manufacture of product has continued to exert more or less of a weakening influence on the market and is promo- tive of an unsettled feeling, there has been a good distributive business and considerable speculative interest has been displayed. Prices have weakened moderately on leading articles. The foreign movement of product continues liberal, last week’s clearances of meats largely exceeding the corresponding period last year, while lard fell short of the high record for the week a year ago. For this articie there appears to be an improving call from continental mar- kets, but at easy prices. The British markets continue to absorb meats freely. Dried Fruits—Prunes and evaporated apples are selling at exceedingly low prices. The reports from California are that there will be at least double the apricot crop this season that there was last but this will not be larger than can be well cared for. The crop of peaches, prunes and cherries is reported to be very large, but in spite of this the crop of these fruits will probably be larger than it has been for the past two years. ssvsbeus TRADESMAN COUPONS The stock of loose Muscatelle two crown raisins is said to be light, and specu- lative interest is growing in them. Canned Goods—The tomato market is very quiet. Stocks are not very heavy, but the market is none too strong, al- though no immediate fluctuation is ex- pected. The demand is very light. Corn is neglected, and the market has been somewhat depressed by the pres- ence of remnants of the 1895 pack at a low price. Peas for future delivery are selling fairly, and the new pack prices are lower than for several years. Peaches are doing very little. So far as can be learned, no sales of futures have been made. Crackers—The New York Biscuit Co. has advanced the price of its staple brands, and also some grades of sweet goods, 4c, the advance taking effect June 9. —_§_—_o-—_ Detroit Retail Grocers and Butchers’ Protective Association. At the regular meeting of the Detroit Retail Grocers and Butchers’ Protective Association, held at German Salesmen’s hall, Wednesday evening, June 2, Pres- ident Knight presided. The special Committee on Peddling Ordinance reported the result of its efforts with the Common Council, which placed the license fee on push carts and one horse vehicles at $25 a year and on two horse wagons at $50 a year. The license is embodied in an ordinance which covers the field pretty thoroughly —so thoroughly that the peddler must toe the mark in good shape. The licenses terminate June 1, so that a man who takes out a license must take it out for a full year or for the frational part of the year running from the time he Starts to the end of the fiscal year, June 1, The report was received with much enthusiasm and the Committee thanked for its efficient efforts. The special Committee on Parker, Webb & Co. reported progress and gave the substance of an interview with Vail & Crane, which was not as satisfactory as the Committee could have wished. Instead of giving the Committee a definite answer as to whether they would continue to buy lard of P., W. & Co., they informed the Committee that they would embody their ideas in a letter which they would address to the Secre- tary of the Association. ‘The letter was thereupon read by the Secretary, but in- stead of its containing an answer to the enquiry of the Committee, it suggested a settlement of the trouble along the line of compromise and urged the ap- pointment of a committee by the Asso- ciation to meet a representative of P., W. & Co. at the office of Vail & Crane, with a view to ascertaining whether the trouble could not be adjusted and the boycott lifted. The communication was so manifestly unsatisfactory that it was referred to the Committee having the matter in charge, with the request that the Committee call on the firm in ques- tion and endeavor to ascertain where they stood on the question of the P., W. & Co. boycott. L. D. Edwards moved that Jos. Knight, Duncan King, Jr., E. Marks and Mr. Einfeldt be added to the Com- mittee, which was adopted. The Association was then addressed at some length by E. A. Stowe, of Grand Rapids, and Parke Mathewson, of Detroit, who undertook to explain some elements of association work which have not yet been taken up in detail by the Detroit organization. There being no further business, the meeting adjourned. Number 716 The Grain Market. A decided change has come over the wheat market since our last report. While the tendency has been downward, the moderate exports and the large Northwestern receipts seem to strength- en the position. The change for the better came very suddenly and prices jumped up 2c per bushel. The reasons for this were larger exports, the de- creased receipts and the decrease in the visible, but the trump card was the large visible decrease, which was 2, 500, - ooo bushels, being about double the amount expected. The Government crop report, which will come out to- morrow, will probably show a falling off from last month. As predicted when the short interests wanted to buy in, they would find there was no wheat to be had. Our visible is only 24,500,000 bushels, against 50,147,000 bushels last year. The receipts here are very small, in- deed, compared with former years. The same state ot affairs exist all over the State. This alone will have some effect on the market for higher prices. The demand for flour is very good and the mills here could sell twice the amount they are selling, but they dare not, owing to the scarcity of wheat. The growing crop does not look as well as it did two weeks ago, which is due to the, continued cold weather. The anticipation of a huge crop has disap- peared. We think Michigan will not have much more wheat than she had last year. Owing to the large increase of 1,505, - ooo bushels in the visible, corn dropped zc per bushel. Wats held their own. However, we may expect to see both corn and oats advance,as the weather is not very encouraging for large crops. The receipts during the week were 27 cars of wheat, 11 cars of corn and 14 cars of oats. Local mills are paying 74c for wheat. C. G. A. Vorer. — i -o-~< > Having adopted every bluff in the category of stratagem, without result, and pulled every string from litigation to bribery, to frighten or seduce the business public from continuing to sup- port the local telephone company, only to meet humiliating defeat, the Trades- man suggests that the Bell Co. pur- chase some good real estate at a bar- gain in this city,ostensibly for the loca- tion of an exchange. This plan would not only afford an excellent outlet for a portion of its surplus, but when resold at an advance, a year or two hence, the investment will prove a cheap method of ‘‘localizing’’ the Bell Co. and thus afford a pretext for the continuance of its system of free telephones and miser- ably inadequate service. - > 2 - Attention is directed to the card of Henry C. Smith, of Adrian, published elsewhere in this week's paper. The location is an excellent one in every re- spect, Adrian being a live and pro- gressive city, surrounded by an unusual- ly prosperous farming community. Ex-Postmaster General Horatio King, who died in Washington recently, was the originator of the ‘‘return penalty’’ envelope, a device used by all depart- ments of the Government for franking official mail matter. This device has saved the Government almost $100,000 every year since its introduction, | ss] : ian er a thas aka Git si bales Narn ebiatacninbind sei akeu- Lu ee Wis its ss NS te Si eetRoiie Nt Sn eae damien POE hades age ees MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Bicycles News and Gossip of Interest to Dealer and Rider. Summer weather has been somewhat backward this year, and the cyclists, when preparing to start on an extended run, even for a day, have often been undecided as to the weight of clothing to wear. From now on, however, light woolen materials will be found to be all right, and one ought to be able to dis- card the heavy sweater for the next few months at least. There are those who have found objection to the sweater, and have said many unkind things about the sensible cyclist who sticks to his sweater in uncertain weather and pre- serves his health. Nothing is so safe and comfortable when the wind changes around to the north and the mercury drops suddenly as the homely but sen- sible sweater. Of course, this health- protector is out of place in ‘‘my lady’s drawing-room, ’’ or at a formal reception, but it is only the prude who finds fault with it when on the wheel, winter or summer. It is good advice that a physi- cian, who is something of an athlete himself, gives to all cyclists. He says in substance: ‘‘If you don’t want to wear a sweater, then leave it off and take chances. But don’t think of dis- carding this garment unless woolen un- derclothing is substituted. One is like- ly to get over-heated while wheeling, and when a shady nook is reached it seems inviting to recline under the trees and enjoy the rest which always follows healthful fatigue brought on by sensible exercise in the open air. A cold con- tracted in warm weather is frequently a disagreeable thing to get rid of.’’ + = £ A commission of life insurance physi- cians has reported that bicycling and beer drinking are not conducive to longevity. But the arguments for and against these practices should be sepa- rately considered. Bicycling alone might contribute to length of days, but} with beer added would certainly tend to shorten them if experience counts for anything. Beer and longevity do not commonly go together, whether the bev- erage be taken as the stimulant of exer- cise or the sedative of repose. In both cases it tends toa mild form of stupe- faction, and ultimately to a deteriora- tion of the tissues and brain substance, leading to trades unionism, socialism, anarchy, strikes and boycotts, the last being the most malignant manifestation which it exhibits. Beer has no necessary connection with bicycling, and the further they are kept apart the better for the votaries of the wheel of all ages and both sexes. * Chains do not stretch. If they gain in length they do so by wear. The strength of a chain is its weakest link and if it is strained along its full length the stretch will be ail in one place, namely, the weakest, and if it is a bad specimen made of soft material all the rivet holes may be pulled oval. But or- dinarily stretch comes from wear. *x* * * H. B. Chamberlin, formerly of Den- ver, Colo., who died recently in Eng- land from a fall from a bicycle, was one of the most unique figures in the West. He made a failure of thirty-six branches of business which he tried, and then started to becom Western real estate. When his friends next heard of him, instead of being a penniless youth, he was worth $1,000,co0o. He started the Chamberlin Investment Company in Denver, and, through his speculations, amassed a fortune. He gave lavishly to charity and founded the fourth largest observatory in the world, besides several churches. When he died he owed $15,000, 000. 2) oe An interesting collision case involving a bicycle and a cart has been decided in Philadeiphia by Judge Wilson of the Court of Common Pleas. Thomas Tay- lor the wheelman, was riding along Dauphin street on the single car track in the street in the direction traveled by the cars. A cart belonging to the rail- road company was coming up the track in the other direction. The wheelman, thinking he had the right of way, held on, as did the cart, until an accident was unavoidable, and the wheelman and his bicycle were both hurt, for which compensation was claimed. The Trial Judge decided against the wheel, and his opinion was confirmed by Judge Wil- son. The latter said: To sustain the point that the plaintiff had the right of way reliance is had up- on the statute which gives to the bicycle the character of a vehicle, and also to an ordinance of the city which, in ordi- nary cases, gives to vehicles the right of way upon the tracks of the passenger railway companies, in the direction in which the cars ordinarily run. The obvious reason of this ordinance, how- ever, is that it was intended to give to the vehicles making use of the rails of the tracks a convenient and settled right of direction and occupancy upon these rails. I do not think it has any bearing whatever upon the right of the riders of bicycles. Nobody, I presume, would dispute the proposition that, in the or- dinary occupancy of streets and under ordinary circumstances the drivers of vehicles drawn by horses and the riders of bicycles must regard the ordinary rules of the road, for each other’s con- venience and safety. I do not, how- ever, think that such a rule would re- quire that in an open, unobstructed highway, a vehicle like a cart, for in- stance should be driven to one side in order that the rider of a bicycle might be relieved of the necessity of deviating from a straight line. Good sense and reasonable regard for the peculiarities of such cases ought to be required, both of the drivers of vehicles and of the rid- ers of bicycles. Experience emphasizes the importance of proper regulations for the protection of the many thousands of people who use the bicycle. At the same time it is also to be borne in mind that that vehicle is much lighter and more under the control of its rider than vehi- cles of the other sort, which are drawn by horses. In many cases, therefore, it is the duty of the rider of the bicycle to regu- late his course and to make concessions, which possibly the driver of a vehicle of burden ordinarily would not be obliged to do. In this particular it is quite evident that the plaintiff, under the notion that he had a right to com- pel the driver of the cart to leave the track in order to give him a free and unobstructed passage, remained in his onward course so long that the collision which occurred was unavoidable. In this he was at fault; he brought the consequences upon himself by his own foily. In adjusting the movements of vehicles in the streets therefore their rights are not fixed according to one inflexible rule. The lighter and more easily de- flected vehicle owes a certain amount of deference to heavier and less wieldly vehicles, and the bicycle must proceed upon that understanding. ——__ 2-2 The Dangers of Life. A man will die for want of air in five minutes; for want of sleep in ten days; for want of water in a week ; for want of food in from twenty to sixty days; from broken heart in less than ten pages; from want of an office—never. Bound to Have an 1897 Wheel. From the Indianapolis Journal. iu Pale and proud she stood before him. In fact, she had him in the corner and he could not depart. ‘Do I get a '97 wheel?’’ she asked, and in her tone there was a threat veiled, even as the quinine may be masked by the liquid softness of the rock and rye. ‘*No,’' said the wretched man in des- peration. ‘*Then,’’ said she, her voice as_ hard as the inside of a ball bearing, ‘‘I shall see my lawyer to-day. I will buy that wheel out of the alimony.’’ BICYCLE ADAMS Send fr Catalog and Discount Sheets. EVERYTHING UP TO DATE LAMPS, TIRES, PEDALS, SADDLES, LOCKS, BELLS, PUMPS, CEMENTS, WHOLESALE BICYCLES and SUNDRIES. SUNDRIES ETC. & HART, 12 W. Bridge St., Grand Rapids. described in our °94 catalogue. possible in many others. Oval Fork Crowns were first used regularly on the New Clipper No. 25, which was placed on the open market in 1894, and was shown and experimenting with it. We believe this excellent crown was original with us. We never saw one until we made it. Wedo not “kick” on others using and advertising it. We don’teven object to their claiming originality. It’s a good thing; better than any other kind, and riders are beginning to recognize it. They don’t break. You don’t have to pay the highest price in order to get it. All Clipper bicycles are fitted with this fork crown; they are finished differently, according to the price of the model, but all crowns in the rough are the same. Detachable brakes are readily fitted to this form, which is not SS The price you ought to pay for the wheel vou ought to G buy is given in the Clinper catalogue. Previous to that time we were Made by the GRAND RAPIDS CYCLE CO., Grand Rapids, Mich. No. P. 249 N. @e@ee-- --006@ REPRESENTATIVE RETAILERS. Jos. Knight, President of the Detroit Retail Grocers’ Association. Joseph Knight was born in Worces- tershire, England, March 6, 1845. When 13 years of age his parents came to America, locating in Esssex county, Ontario. The principal reason for the change was the poor health of Joseph, who was so ill when the family began the long journey that grave doubts were entertained as to the probability of his standing the voyage. The change was a good one for him, however, and from that day he has been blessed with ex- ceptionally good health. When 16 years of age he left his father’s roof to seek MICHIGAN TRADESMAN employment as a farm hand and for the next four years he worked on Canadian farms during the summer season and sought employment in the pine woods of Michigan winters. He was on thetrain bound for home, in April, 1865, when news came of the fall of Richmond. August 19, 1865, he married Miss Mary A. Dawson, and the two began life on arented farm in Essex county. The next year they purchased a farm of their own and for four years their best energies were devoted to clearing the land and bringing it into a state of cul- tivation. At the end of that time they removed to Kingsville, where - Mr. Knight engaged in the brickmaking business with his brother-in-law under the style of Knight & Fox. Finding the business unprofitable at the end of two years, Mr. Knight went back to the tarm and worked out the debt thus incurred. In 1877, he exchanged his equity in the farm for a general stock at North Ridge, Ont., where he remained for ten years, meeting with more than the usual degree of success In 1887, he removed to Detroit and purchased the grocery stock of Brigham & Crawford, at the corner of Greenwood avenue and Calu- met street. Eight years ago he removed to his present location, 282 Warren ave- nue, west, where he expects to do _ busi- ness as long as helives. Four years ago he started a branch store at 1324 Grand River avenue, which is conducted under the management of his sons, Ernest O, and Frank Knight. Eight years ago he admitted his oldest son, Ed. G. Knight, to partnership, since- which time the business has been conducted under the style of Jos. Knight & Son. Mr. Knight is the father of six children—three boys and three girls—who are all married and settled down in life, with the ex- ception of one daughter and one son. He has been a member of the Baptist denomination, but has no church affilli- ation at present. He is a Master Mason, member of the Orange order and also of the A. O. U. W. Mr. Knight attributes his success to close attention to business and to strict honesty in his dealings. These prin- ciples have laid the foundation of his success. He is abstemious in his habits and careful of his health and confidently looks forward to an old age full of health and happiness. ———_>2.__ Annual Meeting of the Jackson Retail Grocers’ Association. The regular Annual Meeting of the Jackson Retail Grocers’ Association was held June 3, with President Byron C, Hill in the chair. Communications from Minneapolis and from the Detroit Retail Grocers’ Association were received and the Sec- retary was instructed to make proper replies thereto. The election of officers for the next year being in order, the following were chosen : President—Geo. E. Lewis. First Vice-President—James H. Ful- ler. Second Vice-President—B. S. Mosher. Secretary—W. H. Porter. Treasurer—J. L. Petermann. Trustee—H. C. Eddy. The matter of the annual excursion and picnic was discussed and, after a considerable debate, it was laid over for action on June 15. On motion, the regular nights of meet- ing were changed to the first and third Tuesdays of each month. The meeting was well attended and a good spirit was manifested. The an- nual outing, for which our Association has become famous among our people, will undoubtedly be given the same at- tention as heretofore. The agents of all the railroads have made us offers of their respective lines for our use. W. H. Porter, Sec’y. Association Matters Michigan Retail Grocers’ Association President, J. WIsLER, Mancelona; Secretary, E. A. Stowr, Grand Rapids; Treasurer, J. F. TATMAN, Clare. Michigan Hardware Association President, Henry C. WEBER, Detroit: Vice-Pres- ident, Cuas. F. Bock, Battle Creek: Secretary Treasurer, Henry C. Minniz, Eaton Rapids. Detroit Retail Grocers’ Association President, JoszpH KNIGHT; Secretary, E. Marks; Treasurer, N. L. KoEenia. Regular Meetings—First and third Wednesday — of each month at German Salesman’s Hall. Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association President, E. C. WINcHEsTER; Secretary, Homer Kap; Treasurer, J. Geo. LEHMAN. Regular Meetings—First and third Tuesda evenings of each month at Retail Grocers’ Hal ' over E. J. Herrick’s store. Saginaw Mercantile Association President, P. F. TREANOR; Vice-President, JoHn McBratnie; Secretary, W. H. Lewis; Treas- urer, Loure SCHWERMER. Regular Meetings—First and third Tuesday evenings of each month at Elk’s Hall. Jackson Retail Grocers’ Association President, Gro. E. Lewis; Secretary, W. H. Por- TER; Treasurer, J. L. PETERMANN Lansing Retail Grocers’ Association President, F. B. JoHNson; Secretary, A. M. DaR.Line; Treasurer, L. A. GILKEY. Adrian Retail Grocers’ Association President, Martin Gafney; ae x F. och. Cleveland; Treasurer, Geo. M. Traverse City Business Men’s Association President, Tos. T. Barss; Secretary, M. B. Houiy; Treasurer, C. A. HAMMOND. Owosso Business Men’s Association President, A. D. Warppze; Secretary, G. T. Camp- BELL; Treasurer, W. E. CoLuins. Alpena Business Men’s Association President, F. W. Gitcurist; Secretary, C. L. PARTRIDGE. Grand Rapids Retail Meat Dealers’ Association President, L. J. Katz; Secretary, Purtip HILBER; Treasurer, S. J. HuFForD. ARAB SPICES ARE PURE We Stand Behind Our Customers! the court of trouble. ARAB SPICES ARE PURE by voluntarily agreeing to The principal source of com the retailer is ri The recent decision of the Supreme Court places the re sition and renders it necessary for him to be very careful where and of whom he buys his goods. We have decided to take advanced grounds on announce to the trade that we propose to stand between our customers and the courts pay any fines which may be assessed against our patrons in last resort by reason of their handling standard bearing either factory brands or the brands of our establishment. plaint has been on spices, vinegar and molasses, and if ght on these goods there is but little probability This being true, why not buy your goods of the house pioneer in Western Michigan in introducin the beginning of its history, handling of goods of recognized purity and strength. Every article bearing the Arab brand coming relied upon to bear out the strongest guarantee. MUSSELMAN GROCER CO., Grand Rapids. ARAB SPICES ARE PURE tail merchant in a delicate po- this matter and herewith goods purchased of us, of his being made any which claims to be the g goods of standard excellence and which from in season and out of season, has persistently advocated the from this company can be confidently AdAd duV SHddS AvVaV 4 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Around the State -_ Movements of Merchants. Interlochen—E. Blackmore has opened a meat market. Cedarville—Hodeck & Johnston have opened a new meat market. Manton—H. D. Smith has sold his restaurant and bakery to S. R. Earl. Middleville—Walter Wesley will shortly open a new meat market here. Escanaba—Beck & Nelson succeed Thorsen & Beck in the grocery business. Sault Ste. Marie—J. R. Ryan & Co., undertakers, have sold out to Geo. Blue. Leroy—Godfrey Gundrum succeeds M. V. (Mrs. G. S.) Gundrum in general trade. Kalamo—Hydon Bros. have leased the Bowers building and opened a meat market. Grayling—The H. Joseph Co. is suc- ceeded by Rachel Joseph in the clothing business. Hart—Mrs. May Leonard succeeds Miss Louise Drake in the millinery business. Saginaw——Fred C. Schirmer has opened a new drug store at 120 North Baum street. Copemish—Franz Krein, manufac- turer of hame sticks, has removed to Marion, Ind. Battle Creek—Dr. S. M. Holton an- nounces his intention of retiring from the drug business. Bay City—W. C. Legg & Co. succeed E. Terwilliger in the agricultura] im- plement business. Bay City—Jos. Leighton succeeds Buck & Leighton in the produce com- mission business. St. Ignace—Charles Ryerse has been engaged to take charge of the grocery store of Massey Bros. Elm Hall—James Toy has purchased the Gibson store building and will short- ly embark in the grocery business. Ishpeming——Hannah (Mrs. Alex.) Nelson, engaged in the ice and bakery business, has sold out to Chas. Farm. Barryton—John I. Helmer has begun the erection of a store building, 18x40 feet in dimensions and two stories high. Big Rapids—Terry Laughlin has pur- chased the Cochrane grocery stock and will continue the business at the same Iccation. Riverdale—C. N. Knapp, the cloth- ier, is erecting an addition to his store building, which he will occupy witha new grocery stock. Ludington—A. A. Anniba has sold his confectionery business to Ald. Thompson, and will shortly open a similar store at Manistee. Escanaba—T. F. Follis, clerk in W. W. Oliver’s hardware store, wiil leave soon for Sault Ste. Marie, where he will take charge of a commission house. Manton—The Williams Bros. Co. has built a dry kiln, 26x1o5 feet in dimen- sions. The company has also begun work in its branch plant at Mesick. Battle Creek—O. M. Rockwell is erecting a new store building on Marshall street, which he expects to oc- cupy with a drug stock about July 1. Battle Creek—Wright Bottomly, for- merly engaged in the crockery and gro- cery business in this city, died recently at his residence in Cherry Valley, Mass. Saginaw—James C. Mills, who re-| cently retired as manager of the Grand Union Tea Co.’s store here, is succeeded by Edward Champion, for some years head clerk in the store of W. F. Twelve- trees, Caledonia—Shisler & Near have sold their meat and grocery stock to David Brake and Chas. Leonard, who will con- tinue the business at the same location. Greenville—F. >. Gibson has sold his interest in the book and stationery stock of Nelson & Gibson to Chas. C. Wilson. The new firm will be known as Nelson & Wilson. Kalkaska—Mr. Harriot has retired from the grocery firm of C. H. Personett & Co. The business will be continued by the remaining partner under the same style. Saranac—E. A. Richards has sold his drug and stationery stock to Arthur W. Burnett and Will M Clark, who will continue the business under the style of Burnett & Clark. Mackinaw City—The general stock belonging to the estate of the late C. A. Callum has been sold to Dr. J. A. Berry, late of Henrietta, who will add to the stock and continue the business at the same location. Bronson—C, J. Keyes, formerly en- gaged in the grocery business here, but more recently engaged in trade at Mt. Vernon, South Dakota, has returned to Bronson and resumed the grocery busi- ness at his former location. Reed City—Mrs. A. Jacobson has merged her general merchandise busi- ness into a corporation, which will be known as the Reed City Joint Stock Mercantile Co. It is announced that M. I. Jacobson will manage the busi- ness. Bellaire—August Banowske, who has been conducting a tailoring establish- ment at Thompsonville for. several months, has disposed of his business there and returned to this place for the purpose of re-engaging in the same business here. Summit City—L. J. Tedman & Co. have sold their store building and gen- eral stock to D. A. Woodworth, of Trav- erse City, who will continue the _busi- ness at the same location. Tedman & Co. retain their grist mill property, which they will continue to operate the same as heretofore. Detroit—A jury in Judge Frazer's court returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiffs in the replevin suits of Brown, Durrell & Co., of New York, against Henry M. Richardson, who operated the mammoth dry goods store in this city for a short time not long ago. The firm brought suit, claiming that Rich- ardson had told them when he called to make purchases, that he had $18,000 in a bank which he could not draw upon before a certain time, and that this statement was untrue. Richardson was on the stand a long time. He declared that he never told the firm that he had the money ina bank, but claimed he said he had it inatrunk. He stated that he ‘‘blew in’’ his money on the races and stock speculations, and that after this money was gone, he borrowed some more from his mother and _ broth- er-in-law, who live in Kentucky, and that this money went the same way. The jury found the plaintiffs entitled to the goods replevined and six cents dam- ages, which throws the costs upon the defendant. Manufacturing Matters. Remus—L. C. Palmer is moving his sawmill from Derby Lake to this place. Jackson—The Dennis Machine Co. is packing eighteen bicycles for shipment to Belgium. Luther—The business men here have raised a cash bonus of $500 to influence the location of a grist mill. Shiloh—Homer Morris will move his sawmill to Osceola Junction, where he has a contract to saw for C. R. Herrick, of Belding. Benton Harbor—Lowe & Rouse have begun the manufacture of ice cream. Their factory has a daily capacity of 150 gallons. Hammond’s Bay—The Grace Lum- ber Co., of Detroit, will build an addi- tion to its mill and put in a machine for the manufacture of shingles. Lansing—W. B. Cross has leased the building south of Stahl’s hardware store, and is putting in machinery for the manufacture and repair of bicycles. Saginaw—L. A. Clark has secured pledges to the amount of $1,500 for the purpose of erecting and operating a cheese factory on his farm, five miles south of this city. Elsie—M. S. Doyle has removed the fixtures from his St. Johns factory to his cheese factory at this place, the output of the factory here having increased to that extent that it was neccessary to in- crease the capacity. Bay City—Green & Brama have sold all of the last year’s lumber on their mill docks and about a million of this season’s cut. The mill has been idle several days, having exhausted the stock of logs on hand. Coldwater—The stockholders of the Tappan Shoe Manufacturing Co. held their first meeting June 1, when five di- rectors were elected. The directors have elected Fiank I. Tappan Presi- dent, Edward R. Root Secretary and Lester E. Rose Treasurer. Munising—The men employed by the Sutherland-Innis Co. in their hardwood sawmill, and stave and heading mill, struck, demanding higher wages. They were receiving $1.25 a day, and de- manded $1.40. The management an- nounces that they will pay only $1.10 when the men want to go to work, so the mills are idle. Tecumseh—The Lamb Wire Fence Co. has been organized with an author- ized capital of $50,000 to continue the business cf manufacturing wire fence established by Lamb Bros. John W. Allen, of Madison, will serve the cor- poration in the capacity of President, H. R. Lamb (Tecumseh) will act as Secretary and Otis A. Clapp (Adrian) will hold the office of Treasurer. Saginaw—Our lumbermen are joyful over the amendments of the mechanic’s lien law that have recently been passed by the Legislature. The time for giv- ing notice of intention to file lien is ex- tended to 30 days. One year is allowed for filing a bill for enforcement of lien, and there is a way provided for attach- ing the homestead. The lumbermen worked hard for the adoption of these measures, and expect to find them of great advantage. 8 oe Change in the Management of: the Woolson Spice Co. Toledo, June 8~-A. M. Woolson has resigned the Presidency and manage- ment of the Woolson Spice Co. and W. A. Brigham, heretofore the Assistant General Manager, succeeds Mr. Wool- son at the head of the concern. Herman Sielcken, representing the Havemeyers, was here yesterday to at- tend a meeting of the Board of Direc- tors. Very much to the regret of the directors, Mr. Woolson resigned as Gen- eral Manager, although still remaining a director. This he did because he felt he is entitled to take a much needed rest. Lawrence Newman was elected President to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John Berdan. The directors passed very flattering resolu- tions as to both Mr. Woolson and Mr. Berdan. WANTS COLUMN. BUSINESS CHANCES. Advertisements will be inserted under this head for two cents a word the first insertion and one cent a word for each subsequent in- sertion. No advertisements taken for less than ascents. Advance payment. JOR SALE—GOOD CLEAN STOCK OF GRO- ceries, queensware and notions in town of 700. Good reasons for selling. Doing a nice business. For terms address Lock Box 15, New- port, Ind. 317 OCATION WANTED FOR GOOD DRUG store that will pay. Address Druggist, 20 Cherry St., Grand Rapids, Mich. 316 OR SALE—50 BBL. WATER POWER GRIst- mill; or would exchange for stock of mer- echandise. Address Miller, Box 159, Chelsea, Mich. 315 ANTED TO SELL OR TRADE—LARGE store building and stock general merchan- dise for good farming lands. Address Box 306, Wolcottville, Ind. 314 OR SALE—ONE 100-HORSE POWER SLIDE valve engine, especially adapted to sawmill work, and fitted with a Nordberg Automatic Governor. Can be seen running any week day at Wallin Leather Co.’s tannery, Grand Rapids. 313 ANTED—DEALERS TO SELL SILVER cleaner. A new thing; does quick work; 10¢c packages at retail makes 8 ounces; sells it- self; good margins; sample free. W. Gleason, Manistique, Mich. 311 OR SALE—CLEAN STOCK OF DRUGS, IN- ventorying about $8u0, located in live town of 600 people. Will sell stock for cash on basis of present value. Address No. 309, care Hazel- tine & Perkins Drug Co., Grand Rapids. 319 OR SALE—DRUG STOCK IN ONE OF THE best towns in Michigan, doing a business of 6,00 yearly. Expenses low. Reason for sell- ing, other business. Inspection solicited. Ad- dress No. 308, care Michigan Tradesman. 308 OR SALE—DRUG STOCK AND FIXTURES, new; doing good business; stock inven- tories $1,000; a bargain if sold at once; terms right Owner going to Europe. Geo. F. Clark, Port Huron, Mich. 307 OR SALE—BAND sAW, MILL MACHIN- ery, lot of lumber carts, three show cases, one fire proof safe, lot of mammoth store lamps—all at closing-out prices. Address The Cunverse Manufacturing Co., Newaygo, Mich. 306 VOR RENT—BRICK HARDWARE STORE and warehouse. Owing tosickness a chance in a lifetime to step into an old-established business in one of the best towns and best fitted up hardware stores in Michigrn. Low rent. A. S. Mitchell, Nashville, Mich. 305 ILL GIVE 100 CENTs ON THE DOLLAR for stock of merchandise in exchange for good piece of real estate. Address Box 93, Memphis, Mich. 304 OR SALE—JOB LOT OF NEW AND SEC ondhand Cash Registers. Very cheap, Peck’s, Standard’s, etc. Address J. N. Biddle, 226 south Clinton St., Chicago. 302 OR RENT—LARGE STORE IN NO 1 LO- cation for any of the following lines: Boots and shoes, clothing, house furnishing or hardware. Call, phone (317) or address B. S. Harris, 525 South Division St., Grand Rapids. 3U 3 LL HEALTH OF OWNER COMPELS SALE of largest and best located stock drugs, books and wall paper ina thriving townin southern Michigan. Inventory about $4,000. Address No. 300, care Michigan Tradesman. 300 ANTED—PARTNERK WITH #%2,000 FOR one-half interest in hardware, stoves and tinshop, plumbing and furnace work and job- bing, roofing, etc. Have several good jobs on hand and a well-established trade; best location —— of city. Address Box 522, Big Rapids, ch. 298 O RENT—THE WHOLE OR A PART OF ground floor and basement, 68x100, in the Spoon block, coiner Lyon and Kent street; fine place for large grocery and market, restaurant or beer saloon. John C. Dunton, 76 Ottawa street. 296 ANTED—WE ARE THE OLDEST, LARG- est and best laundry in the city of Grand Rapids. We do considerable business out of town and want more of it. We want good live agents in towns where we do not now have any. We pay a liberal commission and give satisfac- tory service. Terms on application. American Steam Laundry, Otte Brothers, proprietors. 289 OR SALE OR TRADE FOR STOCK OF merchandise—180 acres of choice timber land on Section 2 of the Haskel land grant, Buchanan ree Virginia; title o.k. Address No. 262, care Michigan ‘Tradesman. 262 OR SALE CHEAP—STOCK OF SECOND. hand grocery fixtures. Address Jos. D- Powers, Eaton Rapids, Mich. 233 ar STAMPS AND RUBBER TYPE. Will J. Weller, Muskegon, Mich. 160 OR EXCHANGE—TWO FINE IMPROVED farms for stock of merchandise; splendid location. Address No. 73, care Michigan Trades- man. 73 ANTED—1,000 CASES daily. Write for prices. Ithaca, Mich. MISCELLANEOUS. ITUATION WANTEv—BY A MIDDLE- aged gentleman with twenty years’ experl- ence as buyer and manager of a general store, now traveling Eastern states, who wishes to represent a good house in Michigan. Would commence on small salary. Best of references. Address No 312, care Michigan Tradesman. 312 _ Rea PHARMACIST DESIRES A situation. Will work for reasonable wages. Address Pharmacist, = FRESH EGGs, F. W. Brown, 249 Best of references. Michigan Tradesman. Grand Rapids Gossip C. B. La Clear has opened a _ grocery store at Sand Lake. The Worden Gro- cer Co. furnished the stock. M. Schram has opened a grocery store at the corner of Jefferson avenue and Sycamore street. The Olney & Judson Grocer Co. furnished the stock. Owing to the large amount of stock on hand, the A. J. Brown Co. has been compelled to secure its principal credi- tors, but will continue the business, the same as heretofore, converting its assets into cash as rapidly as possible. O. W. Gridley, hardware dealer at Kalamo, has taken a partner in the per- son of L. Z. Slosson, and the business will hereafter be conducted under the style of Gridley & Slosson. The firm has added a line of groceries, the Olney & Judson Grocer Co. furnishing the stock. As predicted by the Tradesman last week, the appeal to the Circuit Court resulted in the acquittal of Richard Brummeler, charged with purchasing stolen goods from a minor. As the case involves an interesting construction of the law on the part of Judge Grove, the Tradesman will review the matter at some length in the issue of June 16. The morning market, which had been steadily increasing about the corner of Fulton and Louis streets until that lo- cality began to resemble its appearance before the change to Ionia street, has finally come to the notice of the Com- mon Council and the request for it to ‘*move on’’ has been repeated. On ac- count of the slowness with which such requests come to the knowledge ot the farmers and vendors, the result has been to scatter the wagons over both loca- tions, until the resemblance to the markets of a country village is more forcible than ever. John C. Bonnell, who has looked after the interests of the Standard Oil Co. in this territory for seventeen years, with the exception of a few months, when he was in charge of a collateral branch of the Standard Oil Co., at Philadelphia, has been requested to report at head- quarters after a six weeks’ vacation. What his assignment will be is, of course, a matter of conjecture, but, judging by the policy of the company, it will be in the line of promotion. His successor is S. B. Drake, who has as- sisted Mr. Bonnell in the Grand Rapids branch for nearly three years and has become thoroughly familiar with the duties devolving upon him in such con- nection. Mr. Bonnell’s retirement is a matter of genuine regret to all con- cerned, as he possesses the esteem of everyone with whom he has come in contact during his long business career in this city. —~>_2 the Proposed Sunday Closing Ordinance Was Sidetracked. As previously noted by the Tradesman, the Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ As- sociation has been giving some atten- tion recently to the matter of securing a better enforcement of the laws which should govern the observance of Sunday by business places. The result of the discussion was the appointment of a committee to obtain the enactment of such an ordinance by the Common Council as would secure the co-opera- tion of the municipal authorities in the matter. The fact that under the State laws complaint must be entered with Why MICHIGAN TRADESMAN the county authorities for specific viola- tions, warrants issued, and suits prose- cuted through the information of wit- nesses makes the laws practically dead letters; for there are few dealers who would care to assume the position of witnesses and informers in such cases. President Emmer, of the Common Council, who is a member of the Com- mittee on Ordinances, gives the Trades- man several reasons for the action of the Committee in reporting adversely upon the matter: The petition was brought before the Committee with the opinion cf the City Attorney that the matter, being covered by existing State laws makes such an ordinance unneces- sary, and that the enactment of such an ordinance would subject the city to ex- pense in its enforcement. Further- more, the petition had no advocates before the Committee. The petition from the members of the Association was simply sent to the Council and no further attention given it. Thus the al- dermen thought it a matter of no par- ticular importance and, acting in the light.of the report of the City Attorney, dismissed it without special considera- tion. Mr. Emmer says that if it had come before the Commitee with such attention on the part of the Association as was given to the license schedule a few weeks ago it would have received more careful consideration. The Tradesman is inclined to take exceptions to some of the reasons for the adverse report. The fact that there are State laws relating to the same sub- ject would scarcely seem a sufficient reason why it should not receive atten- tion at the hands of the municipal law- makers. There are State and Federal laws regulating the liquor traffic, but it still seems necessary that it should re- ceive municipal attention as well. As to the matter of expense, it is hardly ap- parent that the enforcement of an or- dinance by the city police would be more expensive than the enforcement of State laws through the county courts. As a matter of fact, the roundabout, expensive operation of the State laws in many city matters makes them entirely worthless, while in such a case as the closing of business places there would need be no addition to the police force necessary. One or two arrests of the violators by the officers on their ordi- nary rounds, with the moral effect of the imminence of others to follow, would be far more efficacious and cheaper than prosecutions through the lumbering and expensive machinery for the enforce- ment of State laws. There is doubtless more force in the last reason given by the Alderman. If there is not enough interest shown by the Association in the matter to give it proper representation before the committee of the Council, it can scarcely be expected that more than formal consideration will be accorded by that body. a H. B. Fairchild (Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co.) had the misfortune to sprain his right ankle while riding on his bi- cycle last Sunday evening. He is mak- ing a heroic effort to keep out of the clutches of an accident association by the use of crutches and the employment of conveyances to and from his place of business. + 0. Herbert P. Belknap, Secretary of the Belknap Wagon Co., who has been spending a couple of weeks among the trade of the Upper Peninsula, is ex pected to return Friday. > 2. Gillies; New York Teas. All kinds, grades and prices. Phone Visner, 1589. THE BELL A SHELL. The New Directory Discloses Its Weak- ness. On May 10, 1897, the Citizens Tele- phone Co. issued a new directory, being the fourth directory gotten out during its first vear, while the Bell Co. on June 1 issued its first directory in thir- teen months. From these official lists of the subscribers of each company, the public can, for the first time in the past year, or since the new company began business in this city, ascertain the rela- tive strength, numerically, of the two companies, and also note the result of the Bell Co.’s method of having had for the past seven months two salaried men in the field, soliciting the privilege of putting in free residence telephones. Both directories having been carefully compiled and brought down to date of June 7, the following comparative tables show the telephone situation as it ac- tually exists: Names in Telephones directory. in service. Citizens Telephone Co..... 2275 1969 Bell Telephone Co......... 1305 1137 Excess Citizens Co.... 970 832 Business telephones—Bell Co. ; not having Citizens: / = eee. offices, those = pe eee ake 60 2. old siaiaseatiiaias: second- ary or private.. 14 3. Old subscribers, | “Tail roads . 11 4. New subscribers, ‘offices, ete ck. 33 5. Bell Telephone Exch. 2 Total not having Citi- Se 120 Offices having both Bell and Citizens: L weasireade 30 2. City phones, free........ 10 3. All other business tele- pmOnes:. cs 412 Total Bell business phones 532 Residence telephones—free : 1. Old subscribers, Bell OMe ee 135 2. Old ee octors, 24 =a ee | 6 3. peal ee tele- ee... Total Bella pauidones phones 605 Actual telephones in Serviee. Beil... ...... 113? Citizens Telephone Company: Office and business.. ..... 1289 Residence ae 654 oe eek | 12 Free phones i a. 14 June7, 97, total CitizensCo 1969 June 7, “97, total Bell Co .. 1137 Excess Citizens Co.... 832 SUMMARY. Business telephones, Citi- gens Co... 1301 Business or 3 Bell Co 532 —— 769 Residence telephones, Cit- treme ©oO. 2. cs. Residence eee, 5 Bell Co. (free).. — 63 Excess Citizens Co.’s, ae telephones in service 832 Users otf both Citizens and Bell phones : Business places............ 410 Residences(old) .......... 74 Hoaspitais, ete... 2.2.2... 14 Total using both ...... 498 Total Citizens Co.'s instru- ae... 1969 Subscribers having both puenes. 498 Exclusively Citizens phones used... .....: 1471 Exclusively Bell Co. phones used : Business telephones. . 120 Residences (free) } old... = 639 Excess Citizens...... — f 832 Total instruments in service: Cigisenia Co. 3 50-255 1969 Bell Co., ‘‘exclusive’’...... 639 2608 Also: Bet Ce 1137 Citizens Co., “exclusive”... 1471 2608 It is a remarkable showing that the Citizens Co. has secured the subscrip- tions of all former telephones users ex- cept 255, and has added 743 subscribers who formerly used no telephone, 6 In the light of these facts, the ques- tion naturally suggests itself, What is for the best interests of this city—to continue two telephone companies to accommodate the few and burden the many or to patronize one company ex- clusively? If one, which one? In de- ciding this question, it is well to recall the arbitrary policy of the Bell Co. pre- vious to the appearance of competition ; the poor service; the high charges; the insulting manner in which complaints and remonstrances were met; the boast of the Bell management that a competi- tor would never be allowed to enter the field; the threats and bluffs repeatedly resorted to to bolster up a decaying busi- ness; the underhanded methods em- ployed to defeat honorable competition ; the system of bribery inaugurated by means of the distribution of free phones. A cursory review of the situa- tion from any standpoint cannot fail to convince the unprejudiced observer that local pride and local patriotism dictate the ccmplete annihilation of the Bell institution and the supremacy of the company created to reduce the price of telephone service to living limits. It is strange that patriotic motives, alone, should not cause every honest man to support a local enterprise of merit, especially after it has demonstrated its ability to care for the city’s best inter- est, rather than be induced by a paltry benefit to aid in bringing hardship and disaster to a local company and throt- tling an enterprise that is the only safe- guard against extortion and abuse in the telephone businesss, such as for more than a dozen years was practiced in this and other cities. Can any Grand Rapids citizen long- er afford to remain passive or neutral— least of all permit a free phone to be placed in his house, thus permitting the Bell Co. to advertise him as a man who is willing to act as the cat’s paw ofa would-be monopoly? —~> 2. ____ Flour and Feed. The recent rapid decline in wheat of about toc per bushel has had the usual effect of making flour buyers extremely cautious about making purchases, es- pecially as harvest is approaching. Business for some time past has been restricted, because of a manipulated wheat’ market, and not until another crop has been garnered can we expect anything like settled conditions. The prospect for a good crop in Michigan is fair but not flattering, as the growth of the wheat plant has been seriously re- tarded by the cold, backward weather— so much so that the lower leaves have turned yellow. The plant has been dwarfed or stunted and will head out with unusually short straw. The most favorable weather from now on is re- quired to ensure a good average yield. Feed and meal are in fairly good de- mand, with prices unchanged. Millstuffs are tending downward, with a rather inactive market. Wn. N. Rowe. >7s> Three years ago Frank Jewell (Clark- Jewell-Wells Co.) scorned those of his friends who rode wheels. Two years ago he ignored them. Last year he tol- erated them and his year he has become one of them, with every prospect of his becoming as enthusiastic on the sub- ject as the old-time devotee of the wheel. I HAVE FOR SALE a stock of furniture and crockery here. There are only two furniture stores in the city and one may soon quit. The town is growing rapidly. We have a new railroad and new factories are coming. A better site could not be found. HENRY C. SMITH, Trustee, ADRIAN, MICH. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Fruits and Produce. The Ideal Creamery Manager. The success of a creamery depends a great deal upon the management, con- sequently great care should be taken that a competent man fills this position. The manager of a creamery should be well educated, honest, pleasant and ac- commodating, so as to win the confidence of the patrons. He should be posted on feeding and breeding, as the patrons expect to draw from him something which will be of benefitto them. He should understand the business in ail its details, and sbould be at the factory every day. He should keep up with the progress of the business by reading the best papers devoted to dairy matters and should encourage the patrons to adopt the best methods in feeding and breeding. Who is better able to fulfill these requirements than the buttermaker who has made his business a study and gives it his undivided attenion? He meets the patrons every day at the weigh can and can with a friendly ‘“‘good morning’’ and a few pleasant remarks gain their good will and con- fidence, and is therefore better able to harmonize all discord than a director who does not come in daily contact with the patrons. The buttermaker can bet- ter explain to the patron the necessity of having the milk brought to the creamery in good condition, and by giving him advice on feeding can help him to increase the quantity and im- prove the quality of his milk. Many a farmer who has ceased to be a creamery patron because the quality of his milk did not reach his expecta- tions could have been gained for the creamery business if the manager had explained to him why his milk was not up to the standard, and proved to him that the Babcock milk tester was not invented to rob him. There are many ways by which the buttermaker can make his creamery prosperous, and he should therefore not be looked upon as a part of the machinery only, but should be consulted by the directors upon everything that pertains to the creamery and made to feel that he is the real manager, which would encourage him in his work in building up the dairy business in his locality. It is the duty of the manager to see that the factory is supplied with all the necessities, such as fuel, salt, color, oil for machinery, packages, tools, etc. and to dispose of the butter. In buying supplies it is nec- essary for him to know what is the best, which only the buttermaker with his practical experience can tell; and in disposing of the butter many a creamery might have saved a good deal by con- sulting the buttermaker, who by con- stantly reading the dairy papers knows the names of most of the responsible firms. The objection may be raised that the buttermaker has enough to care for in making the butter and keeping every- thing in good order, and therefore has no time to pay any attention to the gen- eral management of the business. In such case let the directors provide him a helper so that he can take time to look after the business outside the creamery. He can do more than enough good to pay the company for what is laid out for the helper. The manager of the av- erage farmer’s creamery generally has some business of his own to care for; he has been elected to the position by his neighbors, and has accepted, al- though he may know little about the creamery business. The patron of such a creamery would surely realize higher net returns for his product if the man- agement were given into the hands of the buttermaker, even if his wages were raised $10 per month; he would then know that his position was not one of a common hired hand, but of a leading power ; he would know that his position was one of trust and_ responsibility, and would not leave any stone unturned to make the creamery a success. J. Morck. Germania, Iowa. Sete ik te a Why Butter Spoils in Contact with the Air. Boston, Mass., June 5—Several times during the past year I have had speci- mens of butter brought to my notice that were of fine quality but had turned ‘“strong’’ on the top of the package next the air. In nearly every instance of this kind the butter was simply cov- ered with a cloth with no salt. With these facts I shall undertake to explain the real reason why this butter spoiled as it did. If we take up the question from the Start we shall find that there are two classes of bacteria concerned here. In the cream before churning and also, of course, in the resulting butter there is the group of lactic acid bacteria, and also another group containing germs of varied influence to the product, but among them (and this is what is to be considered especially here) are the putrefactive bacteria, or the germs of spoiling or decay. These latter bacteria are known to the bacteriologist as aerobic germs; that is, they find the best conditions for growth when atmos- pheric oxygen is present. When freshly made, butter contains very little, ifany, air, and it is only by exposure that any gets into it. So we have here the rea- son why the butter which was in imme- diate contact with the air through the meshes of the cloth spoiled first, since the bactetria which were the real source of the spoiling could develop there, but could not develop in the center of the tub. To prevent the access of air tu butter the tub should be lined with parchment paper and the top of the butter should also be carefully covered to the sides of the tub with it, and then a good layer of salt put on top of this, for I have found that there is seldom any trouble with spoiling at the top if these conditions are fulfilled. The practice of treating the parch- ment paper with strong brine before use cannot be too strongly recommend- ed, for by so doing the growth of molds and many other troublesome germs are to a great extent prevented. S. C. KEITH, JR. MALT SUBSTITUTE FOR @ COFFEE BY ey Ge C. H. STRUEBE, Sandusky, Ohio. Agent for Ohio, Indiana and Michigan. Direct from Growers. Freshest and Cheapest. Michigan Strawberries Peas, Beans, Onions, Spinach, Radishes, Lettuce, Cucumbers, Tomatoes, Oranges, Lemons, New Potatoes, Summer Squash. ALLERTON & HAGGSTROM, Jobbers, Both Telephones 1248. 127 Louis Street. Grand Rapids, lich. olfaWDerriés Onions, Spinach, Radishes, Lettuce, Cucumbers. Oranges, Lemons, New Potatoes, Summer Squash, Wax Beans, New Peas, Cabbage, Fancy Honey. All seasonable Vegetables. 20 & 22 OTTAWA ST.. BUNTING X 60. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. », 50,000 Pounds Bute Wanted to pack and ship on commission, Good outlet. Eggs on commission or bought on track. AR. ALDEN, 98 S. DIVISION =F. GRAND "RAPIDS. Car Lots received daily. We are selling at Chicago prices. Tomatoes, 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. 0-0-0-0-0-00-0-0-0-0-0 CLOVER, TIMOTHY, GRASS SEEDS, ONION SETS, FIELD PEAS, ETC GARDEN SEEDS IN BULK. ALFRED J. BROWN CO., SgQXERs AQ MERCHANTS, 0-0-0-0-0-00-0-00000000000 0-0-0-0-0-00-0-000000000000000000 CLOVER : AND TIMOTHY. All kinds of FIELD AND. GARDEN SEEDS. ee solicited. Your order will follow, we feel sure. BEACH, COOK & CO., 128 to 132 West Bridge St. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH BABEL LLL PAPA ALMA A AMM MME Os he E PFPGPISFSTSTI a e e a a e e ws a @ > a @ The season for FIELD SEEDS such as CLOVER and TIMOTHY is now at hand. We are = a prepared to meet market prices. When ready to buy write us for prices e - or send orders. Will bill at market value. B e e MOSELEY BROS., a - Wholesale Seeds, Beans, Potatoes, 26-28-30-32 Ottawa St., Grand Rapids. . BOROROROROCHOROROROCROROROCHONOCHECHOROUOCHOHORONOROHOHOEO ‘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 speci: alty of Butchers’ Supplies and are prepared to quote low e ices on Whole Spices, Preservaline, Sausage seasoning, Saltpetre, Potato Flour, ete. We a‘so continue the Fruit and Produce business established and successfully conducted by HENRY J. VINKEMULDER. THE VINKEMULDER COMPANY, ; Citizens Phone 555. Successor to Michigan Spice Co., 418-420 S. DIVISION ST., GRAND RAPIDS. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN GOTHAM GOSSIP. News from the Meitropolis---Index to the Market. Special Correspondence. New York, June 5—It has been a dull, plodding hard-working week. Such weeks, however, have come to be looked upon as the regular thing, and the only thing to do is to make he best of them. There is a quiet satisfaction among job- bers that matters are not quite so bad as they have been. Prices are fairly steady and men who really want to pur- chase goods are taking same without ‘‘shopping around’’ to any great extent. Among the new food products is white caviare, introduced here for the first time this year. The coffee market is decidedly dull. ‘Advices from abroad indicate an enor- mous amount going foward for the European markets—more, in fact than can be readily absorbed—and the _ tend- ency here is to move with caution ‘‘in a slow and dignified manner.’’ What transactions are taking place are with the larger roasters, the smaller ones seeming to have very little enthusiasm left. Rio No. 7 is nominally 7c. The amount afloat and in store contin- ues to be about 780,000 bags. In mild sorts not much activity is displayed, but quotations are quite firmly held. Java, Padang, ranges from 25@3Ic, the latter for fancy stock. There has been a fair demand for re- fined sugar. The orders coming to hand indicate, however, only the usual purchases, and little buying ahead of wants. Foreign refined sugars are at- tracting some attention in small lots. The action of the Indian Purchasing Agent in accepting a bid for foreign sugar instead of American is denounced and commended, just according to the standpoint. The foreign refined hap- pened to be 16c per too Ibs. lower, and although the Dutch is said not to be equal to American, it is not likely Poor Lo will have any decided convic- tions, one way or the other. Raw sugars are steady and refiners are taking the offerings in a satisfactory manner. Teas are moving in quite a satisfac- tory manner. Samples of new Japans, just received, show good quality. Greens and oolongs are meeting with rather light demand. Dealers are await- ing the tariff proceedings with interest, but no further advance has taken place on account of the proposed duty. The market for foreign rice is in good shape. The offerings are of generally good quality and prices well sustained ; in fact, the bulk of the trading has been in foreigns with domestic in rather light request, the only sales to speak of being for the very best grades and some of the opposite extreme. Choice to fancy domestic, 5%@6c. There is little business going forward in spices, but prices are decidedly firm. Not much doing in an invoice way. Pepper is especially firm and it seems likely that another advance wiil take place soon. Molasses, low grade centrifugals, had accumulated until a decline in quota- tions has become imperative. Trade is fair, but there is room for improvement. In syrups there has been some trade for export, quite a decent amount going to England. The canned goods market is dull and quotations, with scarcely an exception, are about as low as can be and let any- body make a living. While this is true, there is seemingly a growing confidence that things will soon take a turn in this line of food products, the one thing against this theory being the great in- crease in the number of factories. New Jersey brands of tomatoes, 65c; Mary- land, 6oc. Dried fruits of all kinds are in slow movement. There is a steady feeling in the market for prunes, as stocks are pretty well cleaned up. Peaches are in fair request and really desirable goods are rather hard to find. Evaporated ap- ples are firmly held, although the request is light. New evaporated apricots, it is said, will be ready for shipment from the coast about July 1. Fresh fruits have the monopoly. Peaches are here and, in fact, every- thing. Oranges are on the back seat. Lemons are selling freely, although prices are about unchanged. Pineapples are plenty and the demand is hardly quick enough to keep the market clear. In butter the demand is lighter, but with smaller arrivals the market re- mains about unchanged. For best Western creamery, I5c is paid. Cheese is dull ana with a tendency to even a lower basis than now prevails. State, full cream, large size 84 @8l4c. White, 7!4c, and this price might be shaded rather than lose a sale. The egg market is in rather better shape and quotations are slightly firmer. Beans are exceedingly quiet, with choice pea selling at 82!14@85c. ———__—~»>-2 England’s Egg Consumption. England is a great consumer of near- ly all agricultural products in excess of her own production. America has fur- nished a considerable part of these Brit- ish necessities in some lines, but there are several articles which, although producible here in almost unlimited quantities at relatively low cost, have never been introduced to any consider- able extent into our foreign trade. Among these are eggs. Previous to the imposition of the first tariff duty on eggs our country used to import eggs in considerable quantities, chiefly from Canada, but, at times, from Europe, also. Since the duty was imposed, however, domestic production has increased so much as to makea lower average of prices than ever be- fore. It seems as though we should be able to find a foreign outlet for eggs at prices sufficient to afford still further increase of production, on a fairly profitable basis. It is stated that Eng- land’s imports amount to 110,000,000 eggs from Denmark ;.she also takes a large part of the 600,000,000 of eggs ex- ported from France and of Italy’s ship- ments of 500,000,000 annually, beside nearly all of Canada’s 300,000, 000. Ship your Butter, Eggs, Potatoes, Produce and Fruit to HERMANN C. NAUMANN & CO., who are prompt and reliable They also buy for cash. Get their prices on anything you have before shipping elsewhere. Main Office, 353 Russell St. Branch Store, 799 Michigan Ave. Detroit -- REFERENCES... The Detroit Savings Bank. W. D. & A. Garrison, Vernon, Mich. L. R. Ermeling & Co., Chicago. Bankers and Merchants. Largest Fruit Shippers in Illinois. All the reliable Wholesale Grocers C. L Randall, Oxford, Mich. and Wholesale Commission Largest Car Load Shipper in Michigan. Houses in Detroit. We are Members of the Detroit Produce Exchange. [MENTION MicH. TRADESMAN] AVL PAM HARVEY P. MILLER. EvERETT P. TEASDALE. Miller & “Teasdale FPeruit amd Produce Brokers. BEANS s-ccuirr POTATOES SPECIALTY Consignments solicited. Advances made. 601 N. Third Street, Reference: ST. LOUIS, MO. WMO SAINI On Track Cold cash, hot cash, spot cash or any kind of money we will pay in highest prices for BUTTER and EGGS at your station. Write us. Harris & Frutchey, Detroit. R. HIRT, Jr., Market St., Detroit. Butter and Eggs wanted | Will buy same at point of shipment, HK : wa Mell or delivered, in small or large lots. i iia Write for particulars. wees American Exchange Bank, St. Louis. H i saya " nee Hi lle ROROCROROCHOROROHOROROHOROBO | : S t f : : Elgin System o B : Wn. Hl. THOMPSON & 60., eS e : ; Creamieries. a Wholesale e e s ° P : . otato S It will pay ‘you to investigate our . e e e plans, and visit our factories, if you are a C mim S @ | contemplating building a Creamery or S 0 ISSion ® Cheese factory. All supplies furnished e @ at lowest prices. Correspondence so- = Merchants = $§ ices a a : 156 and 158 South Water St., Chicago. @ R. E. STURGIS, ° . 2 : Allegan, Mich. = Bee arenes e Contractor and Builder of But- : Bank of Commerce, Chicago. b ter and Cheese Factories, and a e Dealer in S lies. @nonencROZeReReZeEConoHeRE —— =) Do you want to know all about us? Write to IVE Corn Exchange National Bank, Uy Philadelphia, Pa. Fourth National Bank, Grand Rapids. W. D. Hayes, Cashier, Hastings National Bank, Hastings, Mich. D. C. Oakes, Banker, Coopersville, Mich. : 2S W. R. BRICE. Established 1852. W.R. Brice & Co., Produce Commission Merchants 23 South Water Street, Philadelphia, Pa. : Mc aS BeSI235 aS a SIeSIFS5 2eS ZS ISDR aes ; Wea aS SSeS Iss ws aw SS 2Ss SSS SSsS3 SOI OIG PWISSISOs SSIS BOIS SS SSIS SI SSS OS ASIOS SSS 2S SS A SS SS SSE EQ PDEs eSAAAa?E RSI SZ RSIS SASADSASE SES BO SES AS SESS ZS AG SOAS SAS SAS aASaAS3 AES | SSNs Cc. M. DRAKE. We have no time to tell long stories or find fault with our neighbors; have all we can take care of our own a We do not own Michigan, || do to ] business. || all haven’t every shipper in the State. We cannot handle all | the Butter and Eggs in the | United States, had enough Fancy Butter and Eggs to supply our trade. All Hustlers in This Concern. of therefore but we have never MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Devoted to the Best Interests of Business Men Published at the New Blodgett Building, Grand Rapids, by the TRADESMAN COMPANY ONE DOLLAR A YEAR, Payable in Advance. ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION. Communications invited from practical business men. Correspondents must give their full names and addresses, not necessarily for pub- lication, but as a guarantee of good faith. Subscribers may have the mailing address of their papers changed as often as desired. No paper discontinued, except at the option of the proprietor, until all arrearages are paid. Sample copies sent free to any address. Entered at the Grand Rapids Post Office as Second Class mail matter. When writing to any of our Advertisers, please say that you saw the advertisement in the Michigan Tradesman. E. A. STOWE, Epiror. WEDNESDAY, - - = JUNE 9, 1897. GENERAL TRADE SITUATION. While there are few sensational fea- tures in the developments of the past week, there is more of general encour- agement in the character of the im- provements noted than for a long time past. Perhaps the most pronounced features are found in the general stock market. For some time past it has been remarked that there was an unusual un- dertone of strength in both railway and industrial shares, which has enabled them to resist the attacks of bear influ- ences with remarkabie steadiness. At the same time there was no decided improvement in prices, probably for the reason that the prices of iron products, textiles, etc., were tending steadliy downward. During the past week there was a decided advance all along the line. In the case of the railway stocks this improvement may be credited to the improvements in earnings, as well as to the apparent arrest of the down- ward movement of other prices. This latter feature, with returning confidence in Americans in the London market, accounts for the general advance in industrials. There is, also, a decided- ly better feeling as to general trade on account of the progress in the tariff work, and on account of the expressions indicating the attitude of the adminis- tration on economic matters. There is more of encouragement in the iron and steel situation than fora long time past. Prices seem to have reached a stop in the decline anda rally in noted in some lines. The labor dis- turbances are becoming a matter of some importauce and promise to con- tinue active for a considerable time to come, being the most serious menace to the return of prosperity. The textile situation shows less fea- tures of encouragement than any other lines of industry. Prices of cotton and prints are still tending downward with little prospect of improvement. Wool, however, shows some improvement in demand for manufactures, but the heavy importations in anticipation of the tariff prevent any material advance in prices. Against the most persistent predic- tions and declarations of scarcity in wheat, the receipts at Western points continue to exceed those of last year. Yet the steadily declining prices are met with an upturn this week which has already regained a considerable portion of the loss, There has not yet been sufficient in- crease in the general volume of busi- ness, as measured by values in the gen- eral low prices, to make much differ- ence in the money market. Capital is still accumulating in the great centers and its efforts to find profitable en:ploy- ment keep the market decidedly easy. Bank clearings declined 3.2 per cent. from the preceding week, to $887,000, - 000. Failures~ are again unusually small, numbering 197 against 257 last week. THE MOBILIZATION OF AN ARMY. Modern wars progress very much more rapidly than the conflicts of former days. Hostilities between nations now seldom last beyond a single campaign. The most noteworthy examples of this brief duration of modern wars have been the Franco-German war of 1870, which lasted little more than six moaths and was practically decided in six weeks; the Turko-Russian war, which was finished in one campaign, and quite recently the Greco-Turkish war, which terminated practically after three weeks of fighting. The rapidity with which events now proceed after a declaration of war is due, firstly, to the improved transporta- tion facilities which expedite the movement of troops; secondly, to the more perfect state of preparation for war which is maintained in most coun- tries and, lastly, to the extensive mili- tary organizations which exist. At the outbreak of the Franco-German war Germany put 850,000 men in the field almost from the very beginning. During the existing Greco-Turkish war Turkey, although supposed to be bankrupt and in the last stages of political decay, has put 300,000 men in the field without be- ing compelled to go beyond the limits of her regular military establishment. These facts show that most of the countries of the world are always _pre- pared for emergencies and in the event of war are in a position to strike quick, sharp blows. Of all the important countries, the United States is the least prepared for war. Our lack of prepa- ration does not merely include the smallness of our standing army, be- cause, with our large population, there would be no scarcity of men; but it consists of the almost total absence of a supply of efficient arms and stores of all sorts. We could easily recruit a force of a million men, but we could not arm a quarter of that number nor maintain a large force. The United States does not need a large stauding army, as the militia can easily be made to supply the place of the large armies held in Europe. Be- sides, our population is used to handling arms and would offer an inexhaustible supply of men. This strength would prove of little practical value, however, in the face of the total lack of all sorts of supplies, including efficient arms. The Government should at once pro- vide the same arms now used in the army for the entire militia and set about accumulating, as speedily as pos- sible, a sufficient reserve supply of rifles to arm a quarter of a million men. With these arms and sufficient stores of other kinds in constant readiness we need feel no apprehensions on the score of our small standiug army. There is a citizen and property holder who opposes all kinds of pavement when his neighbors are trying to improve their streets. His name is mud. Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity. ADVERTISING AND MARGINS. Among the elements of cost to be reckoned in the placing of any com- mercial product is that of publicity. It is a fact, patent to every dealer, that this element is an important factor, in many lines casting the cost of produc- tion far into the shade and in every line assuming sufficient magnitude to re- quire consideration. In the case of the staples of trade, which are kept as a matter of course by every dealer, the advertising may be only of a general character, such as to keep the dealer and his line in the minds of the people; yet there must be a considerable of the margin charged to this account. Then there are all grada- tions from these staples to specialties and proprietary articles. The cost of this advertising is, in some form, a fairly constant factor in the case of any given line. In some instances it may be largely paid in the rental of an es- pecially good business location, when, of course, the variability as to different lines will be only in the proportion to the quantity sold. When a trade is “‘pushed’’ the outlay will be more di rect for the different articles. In either case this must be reckoned in the mar- gin to the extent that the expense is borne by the dealer. Of course,the great proportion of pro- prietary articles are advertised by the producers and so the cost must be con- sidered in determining the amount to be paid by the dealer in the purchase. There are all gradations in the propor- tion in which this expense is left to the dealer. In the case of many the policy of the manufacturer is to do all that may be needed in the way of advertis- ing, thus creating the demand which makes his article a necessity and re- ducing the dealer’s margin in propor- tion. It is a matter worthy of enquiry as to the extent to which it is desirable to carry the policy of keeping all the pub- licity in the hands of the producers, with the corresponding reduction of margins. Where there is a free com- petition in the production of similar articles, such a policy may undoubtedly be carried too far. Examples of this may be cited in the case of some of the most widely advertised bicycles. In some instances,such manufacturers have reduced the margins to such a degree that they find it impossible to maintain an agency in many localities where other wheels of equal or approximate merit are being ‘pushed. Of course, it may be presumed that the manufacturers are satisfied with the results of their policy, or it would not be maintained, but to the casual observer it would seem as through much of the advertising is wasted by the failure to make the goods prominent in local markets. If a mar- gin could be allowed the dealers which would warrant some attention to effect sales, it would seem as though the ad- vertising investment would be better conserved, The same is true in the case of many proprietary articles in the grocery and drug trade. The policy of advertising until there is a demand which shall force the handling of an article at an unreasonably small margin may be car- ried too far. For instance, there isa great cry going up on the evils of sub- stitution, which is an inevitable conse- quence of carrying the general adver- tising to the extent of too great a reduc- tion in margins. With two articles of perhaps identical merit, on one of which the profit is double the other, it is natural that the thought of the dealer will be directed to the securing of the greater margin. The extent to which substitution has been increased by the injudicious reduction of margins on the presumption of a created demand is much more than is generally considered. The judicious advertiser of a spe- cialty will not carry his investments in the securing of publicity to such an ex- tent that he cannot have a sufficient margin of profit to secure the hearty co-operation of the dealer in the pushing of his wares. In many lines this neces- sity is coming to be realized and it is found desirable to give every attention and aid to the local advertising that is possible, providing for the expense in the margin of profits in cases where it would not be practicable to meet it by direct outlay. THE SEA ISLAND COTTON CROP. Reports from those districts in the South where the famed sea island long- staple cotton is grown indicate that the crop of such cotton for the present year will fail from 20 to 30 per cent. short of that of last season. This shortage is at- tributed partly to the unfavorable start the crop has made, but mainly to the unsatisfactory sale of the last crop. Last year the crop of sea island _ cotton reached 105,000 bags, which was about the largest ever recorded. Unfortunate- ly the demand, which everybody had supposed would be equal to any possible production, did not keep pace with the increase in the crop; herce there was a considerable decline in prices,and there still remains a considerable stock un- sold for this period of the year. The discovery that the sea island cot- ton crop has a limit, beyond which it is not safe to go, will be considerable of a surprise to the cotton trade. The fact is stranger when taken in connection with the knowledge that the imports of Egyptian cotton during 1896 were by long odds the largest on record, being in round figures equivalent to 100,00¢ American bales. It was the prevailing belief that the imports of Egyptian were intended mainly to supply the deficit in the production of domestic long-staple cotton compared with the demand. The fact that Egyptian im- ports have largely increased in the face of a sea island crop apparently in ex- cess of requirements would seem to show that the demand for Egyptian is based upon something else than the ne- cessity for supplying a deficit in the home production of long-staple cotton. It is possible that the cost of Egyptian being lower than sea island may be an inducement, and, if this is the case, there is no alternative except to produce the domestic long-staple cotton so as to sell it in competition with the lower- priced Egyptian. If lower cost is not the true explanation of the large impor- tations of Egyptian, then it must be ad- mitted that there is a special demand for the foreign cotton for some particu- lar descriptions of manufactures. In that case the importations would not represent actual competition with do- mestic cotton, as was feared by some might be the explanation. The advertising for Mark Twain's new book has now commenced in good earnest and on the most elaborate plan. Three days in the week the humorist is reported in the best of health in London and on the cther fuur days several physi- cians are reported at his bedside hold- ing him back from death’s door. FOUNDATION OF HUMAN LIBERTY Man is popularly supposed to be de- voted to personal freedom, and to de- sire, above all things, emancipation from control, and it is a common notion that in his primitive state he resists and abhors all government and all restraint upon the independence of his actions. The facts of history show that this is mostly a delusion and that human _ be- ings, so far from possessing and _ prac- MICHIGAN TRADESMAN lar interest in public affairs would be dwarfed, if not entirely lost, and the only hope for liberty would be in the efforts of the revolutionists to overturn such a system of government. Probably the indifference to human freedom in this great republic and in this enlightened age is most strikingly displayed in the willingness with which people place their public affairs in the hands of political jobbers and in the SOIL, | ticing anv innate and unconquerable| power of corporation monopolies. Many ; love of liberty, never seem to tire of en-| free citizens who should consider it a acting laws and creating restrains for | duty to exert themselves to have honest the govenment and regulation of their|and capable men put into public office own conduct. No sooner is man aware| actually refuse to go to the polls or to that he possesses a certain individual | take any part in political affairs, caring liberty than he immediately takes meas- | not how or by whom the Government is ures to barter it away or otherwise to | conducted. oJOK0 02 o o nr os AO fo So $) ° eOs,0 Sho a o REGOGNIZED - Bro dwarf and mutilate it. It has been said with much truth that oe Joe History shows that all the primitive | there would be no interest in political Di oP peoples, when the first records disclose | affairs, or in popular elections, but for co Cows any information concerning them, were|the exertions of the candidates - who joey suffering under the bondage of despo- want the offices and of their followers ' Gor tism or absolutely in a state of slavery, | who expect to get paying places under and it has taken thousands of years of |them. Then the people submit, with- effort by the best of them to secure any|out making an opposition worth the Oo DR2_H So So oS Go’ ® Oro freedom worth the name, while even to mention, to have their _water supply, ° ’ 3 this day there is not a race in Asia or|their light supply, their air supply, Solo pe Africa that has any reasonable concep-|their sanitary service and every other © ‘ tion of what liberty and constitutional | public function sold out by the political governments are. jobbers to private monopolies, and they These remarkable conditions must| witness with patience the various oO 9. C) oS o ‘° Ws be explained upon the fact that the peo- | branches of commerce and industry that 3 D ple generally have been indifferent to| deal in the necessaries of life, controlled Os ae and Oid Fashioned Kettle Rendered Lard We are prepared to place agencies for their liberty, since what the masses of | by private corporate monopolies. the people earnestly and unitedly desire] Not less strange is the fact that the they have always been able to secure, |masses of the population, the work- and since they that enslave the masses} people, will voluntarily place them- are always in asmall minority compared | selves in subjection to organizations to those who are kept in subjection it is| which dictate to them concerning their plain that in every case the people have | labor and which can order any and every consented to their own enslavement. man to quit work and abandon his only The fact seems to be that an innate | ™eans of support because some individ- love of liberty for liberty’s own sake is|¥4! worker happens to have a contro- possessed by few. Probably the most | V¢'SY with some individual employer. desirable idea of government in the| The subjection of workingmen to their opinion of the greatest numbers of the trades unions is just as abject as are people would be a system which would | 2?Y of the other sorts of voluntary slav- protect, feed, clothe and house them all | TY mentioned above, so that apparently without requiring any exertion from the liberty which is most used by peo- any one. Most governments which ple in this enlightened age of freedom have grown into powerful despotisms | 'S the liberty to abandon nearly all their enslaving the people, started on the personal rights to some sort of control. paternal system of caring for everybody. Of course, there have been and are The chief incentive to liberty is am- still many individuals who are devoted bition. The more men there are who|‘? liberty and to free institutions for want to rule, the more liberty there will | !!berty’s sake; but it must be said that be. Such men are revolutionists. They | this is not the case with the masses of are constantly opposed to the ruling|™@nkind. True freedom hangs heavy powers and by this means despotism in |? their hands and they hasten to get rulers is checked. Where there are no| ‘id of it in every way they possibly can. such revolutionists the people are con- oS) oO CoWGo oS oS SoXOG a o CG Nef o o os NS Go either or both df these brands in towns So where these goods are not already Dee oS °o oOfy [-) os o ‘o 26 handled. We solicit correspondence with the trade, either on these goods 2 ° Y ° wv) or on anything else in the grocery line, confident that we are in a position to AX:] oor ow oD oe G give the trade as good value as any 6h 6 axe Cars oS ro house in the country, quality considered. ° o We also call special attention to our 9. (s Ideal Cheese, which is the favorite brand with many dealers. The output of the x 0 (4 5) 0 factory has been increased to that extent Sh-O x ° oc 6 ¢ O° $6 ay6(o ow oO that we expect to be able to keep our 2 ‘o' ») The Medical Record quotes some trade constantly supplied with this ast ering: i es —2 = = subjection. But these| tistics on the morphine habit from a brand. 9}9%0 active opposers of despotism a _ " work recently published in Paris. From oy 3 from any love of liberty. ©ir ©M'Y | this it would seem that morphinomania YG o}9K0 object is to drag down those in power and to occupy their places. With very few exceptions, when the revolutionists get to the head of affairs, their rule is just as oppressive as was that of those they ousted. oe Nevertheless, this restless revolution- a ary ambition is the chief means by which human liberty has been devel- oped, and, therefore, it must be wel- Clark=Jewell- Wells Co., Grand Rapids. is most prevalent in Germany, France and the United States, although it has victims in Russia, Sweden, Turkey and the remote East. Statistics show that the medical profession supplies 40 per cent. of the male morphinists, which is the largest proportion; after which follow men of leisure, 15 per cent. ; merchants, 8 per cent. ; while peasants, A] 0}0200 oD ~ NOG 98 g Gro Gh.O 15 ORG SooCa ‘0% G comed as a blessing. The fact that every native-born American man may aspire to the highest office in the Gov- ernment of his country and finds no legal bar to his promotion has a powerful effect in maintaining a state of indivi- dual political competition which is the mainstay of human liberty. If there were no popular elections; if rotation in office were impossible; if, under dynas- tic institutions or civil service laws, all the public offices in the United States were reserved for members of a particu- lar family or of a social class, all popu- clergymen and politicians occupy the lowest positions numerically on the list. Among the females addicted to the habit, the largest number, 43 per cent., are women of means, and these are followed in number by the wives ot medical men, who make up to per cent. of the list. It is said that there are en- tire villages in Germany whose _ inhabi- tants are all addicted to the use of the drug, but the general belief that the morphine habit is more extensively practiced in Paris than in any other city is contradicted. Morphinomania occurs with the agi frequency be- tween the ages of 25 and 45 years. 10 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Woman’s World Selfishness of the Engaged Girl. There is much food for reflection and a world of suggestion in the report that comes from a small Ohio town about an engaged girl, whose mother offered to give her $1,000 if she would only go quietly off and get married, without saying anything about it. To any one whose painful privilege it has ever been to live in the house with a girl in love, and to assist—in the French sense—at the wedding, the price must seem ridic- ulously low. To be delivered from the everlasting spooning, to be freed from the hurry and worry and flurry about clothes ; to escape the awful responsibil- ity of the invitations, and deciding who is to be asked to the house and who to the church—to buy exemption from all these tribulations for a thousand paltry dollars is to get a regular marked- down, special sale bargain in luxury. Cynics have observed that a family is habitually much more cheerful at a daughter’s wedding than ason’s. This is, doubtless, accounted for by the fact that by the time a girl is ready to march to the altar her immediate relatives have been through such an ordeal they are reconciled to anything that has promise of peace in it, and are buoyed up with the prospect of being able to resume their accustomed way of living. There is nothing else under heaven as self-satistied and selfish as an engaged girl. She is not only perfectly convinced that she and Tom are the center of the universe, about which everything else revolves, but she expects everyone else to recognize it. She calmly appropriates Innate the house. If you want to receive a caller, she and Tom are spooning in the parlor; when her father wants to write a letter, he has to retire from the library with a confused apology to two people who regard him with baleful looks as an intruder. You run over them on the steps and stumble against them in the- hall when you try to shut up the house at night, and if you dare to enter a protest, Mamie tells you that she is perfectly aware that she and Tom are the first people in the history of the world who ever really, truly, un- alterably loved. The rest of the family, not being keyed up to this pitch of sentiment, find it a little wearing on their nerves. In Tom they see only a plain, every- day sort of a fellow, who will do his best to make Mamie happy, and pay her bills, but to their dispassionate gaze he is neither 2 hero nora genius. In the sublime egotism of love Mamie de- mands that every one shall see him as she does, and she feels that she is mis- understood, and unappreciated, and sheds bitter tears over the snort of de- rision with which her father receives Tom’s opinion, when she brings it forth as a sort of ultimatum that must settle any question. Then comes the momentous period of preparation for the wedding, and-the universe trembles in the balance while she decides whether she will have a church wedding, or be married at home under a floral design in the back par- lor, and while she makes up her mind as to the number of bridesmaids and what they shall wear. Then ensues a wild and chaotic time, full of confusion and dressmakers, and bridesmaids and arguments with mamma, and protests from papa about the bills, and general irritability and temper. It is a time that she always remembers afterwards, and that all her family recall, as a kind of nightmare, from which she emerges a married woman, the possessor of more clothes than she needs and _ nervous prostration. Nine girls out of ten never look so ugly in their lives as they do, when worn and wearied with all this tuss and flurry they march to the altar in the bridal finery for which they have paid so dearly. It seems the greatest pity that Americans can never learn that there is a duuble standard for every- thing in life. But we don’t find it out. We want to do everything precisely alike. If we read in the papers that Miss Coupon, the heir to millions, wore a white satin gown with a trail a mile long when she married Mr. Bullion,also the possessor of millions, we all feel that every other’s daughter of us bad better live and die an old maid than be wed in anything that wasn’t at least an imitation of that splendor. It is all right for the woman who has only to give an order and write a check to have as fine a trousseau as she likes. It is one of the good things her money buys her. But it is another story, and a different one, when a poor girl, in order to wear white satin and orange blos- soms, for a quarter of an hour, imposes hardships and pinching and scrimping on her family to pay for it. It may be safely set down that the desire for a display wedding always originates with the bride. No man ever wanted to be dragged up a long church aisle, the target for the criticisms of his dear five hundred friends. He realizes at the best he is but a pitiable figure, or rather that he cuts no figure at all, and serves only as an excuse for the wedding and the bride’s dress. It is probably necessary to have a bridegroom ata swell wedding, but if he should be ac- cidentally forgotten, I am confident that in the interest in the bride’s gown, and the bridesmaids, and the picture hats, or shepherds’ crooks, or whatever was the distinguishing feature of the wed- ding, ‘‘he never would be missed.’’ | don’t believe there are a dozen men ex- tant who would not prefer to be quietly married at home or go to church with only a witness or two, and there plight their vows. The masculine horror of a swell, display wedding is one of the answers to the query: ‘‘Why don’t men marry?’’ If aman could just take his best girl and step around to the parson, there would be a boom in the matri- monial market. In all good truth it does seem that nowhere else in the world is there more need tor a few enlightened rays of com- mon sense than right here. The rich are a law unto themselves. Let them marry and give in marriage as they choose, but let the poor man and his bride sit down and think before they plunge into the folly of a swell wedding, for marriage is not the end, but the be- ginning of real life. I have knowna young couple, where the bride’ was the daughter of people in moderate circum- stances, and the groom a young fellow on a salary, who had his own way to make, who were almost ruined by the idiotic vanity of the girl’s desire to be married after the manner of the rich and fashionable. On the white satin gown and veil, on church decorations or flowers, and bouquets, and souvenir pins for the attendants, and carirages, and the wedding breakfast, was spent enough to have furnished them a cosy cottage. 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BIE SP SPI SP SG % 5 5 §3 . 33 35 5 s5 §5 3 35 % % YA fd 3 fd 3 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN -_= need for white satin gowns, and so the expensive dress was never worn again. Worse than that, it became a regular * incubus, a terror to take care of. She was always looking for a place to put the voluminous package it made, and the first desideratum in moving into a new house or taking board was — a place to stow it away. “It was perfectly dreadful,’’ she con- fessed to me, ‘‘and the presents became a perfect nightmare. You know every- body had sent us things because we sent out so many invitations, and of course they all had to be returned. Somehow it always came about so inconveniently. Just as sure as there was sickness or we had saved up a little to have a treat, or buy a coveted piece of furniture, some- body had to get married, and we had to send them a wedding present. There were times when we had to actually deny ourselves things we needed be- cause we were vulgarly in debt fora present. Wasn’t it awful?’’ There is something pathetic in the way we make trouble for ourselves, and burden ourselves with unnecessary cares and burdens. Uncounted generations of women have made martyrs of them- selves, stitching, stitching away for dear life on a girl’s wedding finery, making up dozens and dozens of articles that were put away to mildew and rot and be stolen, and all this in the face of the fact that the world is going on as usual, in spite of the fact that Mamie Jones married Tom Smith. One would like to say to these overburdened little brides that this is not the last opportunity there will be to buy clothing. Business will continue to be carried on at the same old stand, and you will continue to take an interest in the bargain coun- ter. Don’t let your last days at home as a girl bea memory of turmoil and labor,and nerves and worry over clothes. After you are married you will know that this time should have been the most precious of all your life, when you were tasting for the last time the sweets of home affection and tenderness with no intervening presence, and the clinging mother-love that grows so wistful as it realizes that it is giving up toa stranger what has been so dear and near. Don’t start your new life with debts, or with appearances you cannot afford, and then when the time comes for you to be mar- ried, just go off quietly, like the Ohio girl, and get married without saying anything about it. So shall your family and triends rise up and call you blessed. DorotTuy DIx. a Sunbeams from Cucumbers. Extracting sunbeams from cucumbers is not likely to commend itself asa business idea to any one who knows the difference between the one and the other. It is not easy to find a man who looks for sap in a knitting needle, soap in a walnut or feathers on an oyster, but the gentleman is by no means a curios- ity who is expecting what he never gets from sources as inconsistent and un- reasonable as looking for a soiar ray in the skin of a cucumber. We makea mistake of this kind when we expect a five dollar bill to blow in at a back door, or some unknown person to do for us what we will not do for ourselves. As a general thing, dollars are not so familiar as flies, nor are our boots paid for, our rent bill settled or the coal shed filled by freaks of fortune. The rule with most of us is that we must catch or buy a fish before we fry it and pay or promise to pay for pota- toes or herring before we can peel the one or pick the bones of the other. Yet there are men to be found here and there and everywhere who claim this exceptional privilege. They spend more than they can earn and loaf as often and long as they please and sleep soundly on the delusion that somehow or other the cucumber will warm up like a tropical sun and illuminate a lazy or wasteful life as a match would a wood- pecker’s nest or a Davy lamp the corner of a coal pit. The idea that good luck, fortune or whatever you may please to call it will find a plum for an open mouth or an empty basket is something ludicrous, but it finds hat room where good sense has failed to rent even the ground floor. It is more pleasant to dream than to work and to have visions than to lose perspiration in labor. The same may be said of such of us as are looking for contentment or happiness where we fail to carry it. A man with a moderate competence who is crusty and discon- tented in spite of a fair income, three meals a day and a warm stove when his toes are cold flatters himself that a change in his’ circumstances will cure his temper and remove his meanness. His corns will vanish in a new pair of boots, a change of cage will makea can- ary of a sparrow and a gentleman of a porcine. If he can but get this or that, it may be an income without work, the landlordship of a farm, a mill ora mansion, a piano, a buggy, or his _pic- ture in a local paper, henceforth all will be well, and what has been as full of meanness and misery as a hollow tooth or a mad wasp will be forever eliminated from his biography. He makes a mis- take. He finds out that he carries him- self into everything he gets and every- where he goes. It is the same man, whether he dines on herring or venison, drinks blue milk or red wine in a house of marble or a shell of slabs, has a diamond stud in his linen ora shirt minus a button. Comforts and luxuries may be thick and warm as feathers on a goose, and many privations and dis- comforts inseparable from comparative poverty may be as remote as the north pole is from the equator. All this is possible, but the other is impossible, and it is in the daily observation and ex- perience of most men that a monkey at the top of a tree is the same animal he was at the bottom. It is only a change in position, but none in the tail of the ape. Where such a mai thinks to be- come a Gabriel, he discovers only Tom Brown. He has sliced the cucumber, but missed the sunbeam. The same may be said of men who are losing flesh and sleep in looking for happiness in fame. Their ideal is notoriety. The top rail of the fence is the doorstep of paradise. While it is all right for every man to make the best of his talents, as an in- ventor, an engineer, a business man, a mayor, a scribe or a poet, he mistake his mission and practically revokes his destiny if all he seeks or cares for is fame. It is better to be a plain daisy than a button-hole for a rose, and it is no wonder that so many ambitious men find out when it is too late that the cu- cumber was minus the sunbeam and that even a genius can bea fool. The fact is, that it is not in what a man hath, but in what he is that he finds either happiness or honor. The man in the saddle is always the same, no mat- ter where the horse carries him. FRED Wooprow. a a The Bermudas export over 17,000,000 pounds of onions annually. Dkk tata Ink iis FREE To Fly Button Dealers MOACRE Se ‘° ow 8 g °o Of, o os ° “fo Yo ° O° oe ° os oACfo 26 os oO ASIo 26 RLM ojo o ° ° € ALEALP CAG NOK: ° So ° ) '° ° ° 0 O}O¢5 oS o 2 N25 eK They consist of six thick circular sheets of green poisoned pa- Ko per three and one-half inches in diameter, with red label. The sheets are used in small saucers, and having no corners, are so cleanly, compared with large square sheets of CATHARTIC Fly Paper, that carry the poisoned liquor to outer side of dish. Will kill more FLIES or ANTS than any poison made. A neat counter display box, holding three dozen, costs you go cents, retailing for $1.80. Each box contains a coupon, three of which secure the Ink Bottle free by mail; will never be troubled with thickened ink see nit °o Sfo oe SoDALCSD o ieoaea owd’o' e<0 =6wwhile using it; you would not part with it for cost of Fly Buttons. 3 Should your jobber fail to supply your order, upon receipt of cash ojS¢o we prepay express. Bho a o oe oe ° o o d Sold by the leading jobbers of the United States. Order from jobbers. The Fly Button Co., arseeste Ohio. 2 Ao ° os os Gowoo GoD I: °e 5) o e oO? co os os FoF owe “J o 7 ° = CS = = CS —- CS S co -_ CS ae = CS = = Se = =) SS eS ca SS = 0 0 1 TANGLEFOOT < SEALED 2 STICKY FLY PAPER < TANGLEFOOT, : > SAVES — ongslhet misery Is > LOTS ONE o¢ e OF OF THE SAVES PROFIT-= ° ABLE o 6€6LLOUS 1807. © REGULAR “*LITTLE”’ ~ oe 10 Boxes in a Case $ 15 Boxes in a Case v 30 cents per Box £ 13 cents per Box m S $2.55 per Case $1.45 per Case = MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Getting the People Cheap Advertising Not Always the Cheapest. Written for the TRADESMAN. Like painting or sculpture, advert is- ing is an art, distinctive. The primary object of advertising is to secure the at- tention of the buyer to whatever the seller may have to offer, thus leading the public to the latter’s place of busi- ness. The most frequently used avenue, and properly so, for advertising is through the newspapers. Yet, in this age—which has established the fact that advertising is the soul and main spring of business—every legitimate method must be utilized to secure trade. Some of these methods in popular use are unique but cheap and, as to results, ex- tremely unprofitable. For instance, the use of a paster on the back of a silver dollar which says, ‘‘This silver dollar will be accepted by Reliable & Co. for $1.05 worth of groceries or dry good.”’ This, at the first glance would seem to be a catchy scheme, but, on second thought, the careful business man_ will recognize the fact that lots of people would feel a certain embarrassment if compelled to present such money in payment for goods in order to make the 5 per cent. discount. The best custom- ers do not desire to secure something for ncthing in such a bare-faced man- ner—they have no wish to receive char- ity. Not long ago, my attention was at- tracted by ared piece of paper about the size of an envelope which stared at me from the walk in front of my resi- dence. I picked it up and read that ancient and musty legend,‘‘ Do you wear pants? Have them cleaned and pressed at Nowrinkles.’’ Once in a while I like to have my clothes pressed; so does every man. I could not argue the point —it is a self-evident proposition. Un- doubtedly, had | seen this in the columns of some bright, newsy journal, old as the remark is, it might have struck me forcibly and favorably, inducing me to give Mr. Nowrinkle a share of my pat- ronage. As it was, | decided, from the style of advertising, that it was a cheap ‘‘one-horse’’concern. That settled it— it received none of my custom. These are but instances demonstrating what incalculable harm ‘‘cheap’’ fake advertising can accomplish. Yet some of the otherwise brightest merchants in the country fall victims to such played- out schemes. Hundreds and thousands of dollars are expended annually for ad- vertising in hotel registers, hotel blot- ters, programmes, etc., which is worse than being thrown away. Why should a grocer expect trade from guests at a hotel? Who thinks of reading an adver- tisement in a programme at the theater for the purpose of deciding on the best place to purchase a coal stove? On the other hand, when I receive my number of Munsey’s or the Cosmo- politan I derive pleasure and profit from carefully reading the advertisements. Why? Because | know the management of Munsey’s charges the advertiser a net rate of $350 pei page, while the Cosmo- politan receives something like $300 for the same space. And then, again, I know that these publications go into thousands of homes and reach millions of buyers. This, naturally, forces the conclusion that, if over a million people read these magazines, together with the fact of the correspondingly large amount charged for space, the firms advertising therein must be responsible and their goods the best. A further illustration of the error of ‘‘cheap’’ advertising may be seen in a little incident which occurred not very long since. I was engaged in an inter- view with the general manager of a large dry goods establishment when the advertising manager stepped into the office and submitted the advertisements of the firm, which were to appear in two newspapers simultaneously. Incidental- ly, I learned that in one journal the ex- pense of the advertisement was $75, while the other was only $25. The head of the firm evinced especial satisfaction with the ‘‘bargain’’ which his adver tising manager had secured in obtain- ing the same amount of space for the same number of issues, in the paper charging only $25, as against the one charging $75. Upon enquiry, I learned that the paper charging $25 had a cir- culation of some 6,000 copies, while the paper charging three times that amount enjoyed a circulation of over 250,000. Thanks to the enlightenment of the age, such benighted instances are rare, still they occur. A child could divine that this ‘‘bargain’’ was a costly investment. I am, however, not an advocate of newspaper and periodical advertising channels only. Of course, different lines of merchandise require different methods of advertising; but judicious advertising, in whatever direction pub- licity is sought, does not consist in so- called ‘‘cheap’’ advertising. The meth- ods and mediums through which the public is sought to be reached must be up-to-date and absolutely reliable. Tell the people, in plain English, the rea- son ‘‘why’’ they ought to patronize your place of business and be very careful never to say anything which may, in any possible manner, be made to reflect upon your honesty or reliability; and never say anything which might be con- strued as an impossibility. Next to the selection of your medium and methods, comes the styles, space, and location. Who has not seen and been induced to read the advertisements of the Royal Baking Powder people? They look on advertising as an invest- ment, and appreciate a good space on the front page of your daily, are willing to pay for it, and invariably-secure the desired results. And, by the way, see how Hood’s Sarsaparilla, Carter’s Little Liver Pills, Pitcher’s Castoria, Scott's Emulsion and lots of other advertise- ments of the sort loom up before you. These people know that careful, con- tinuous advertising is a mine of wealth, even if they do spend over a round mil- lion each year to get the best space in the best medium. Take a look at your monthly magazines and you will find their advertisements hit the right spot —both attractive and to the point. Glance over the columns of your daily newspaper; you cannot avoid seeing and reading such. advertisements—no Cheap John about them. They appeal to reason, Common sense, economy and everything else desirable to be gained by publicity. They point out the ‘*what’s,’’ the ‘‘why’s,’’ the ‘‘where- fore’s.’’ 1 might say, with truth, that the pure, decisive clean-cut language of such advertising almost forces you to admit the necessity of purchasing these particular goods whether or not you are in need of them. _Finally, if your business and financial circumstances preclude the investment of a million dollars annually in adver- tising, your hundred or thousand dol- lars investment may be made corres. pondingly profitable if placed with the same care and attention to details that you would use in the transaction of any other business. M. Louis 0’Koone. ale iatale a ara alain vlv lalate “There are Others” But none but the World Challenger that will never PATENTED MAY 2,1893. UMPROVED MARCH 17,(897 be relegated to the rub- Lasts forever and pays for itself every four to six months. bish department. Submerged in water for a few minutes, it holds from 30 to 4o days. Never gets off the pail. Always in its place. Keeps the goods fresh and clean, and holds them at par in weight all . the time. Michigan Price, per doz., $9, F. O. B. Owosso. Special Price in 100 and 1,000 lots, with guarantee of territory. Write us for particulars, or send us your orders. Devereaux & Duff, Manufacturers and Sole Proprietors of the Patent. Owosso, [lich. OT ANDARD OLL 0. DEALERS IN ILLUMINATING AND LUBRICATING NAPHTHA AND GASOLINES Office and Works, BUTTERWORTH AVE., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Bulk works at Grand Rapids, Muskegon, Manistee, Caaillav, Big Rap ids, Grand Haven, Traverse City, Ludington, Allegan, Howard City, Petoskey, Reed City, Fremont, Hart, Whitehall, Holland and Fennville. JANE CRAGIN. Cyrus Turns the Tables on His Wily Partner. ‘I think, Cy,’’ remarked Jane after a brief silence, ‘‘that you are the strangest man I ever saw. What’s got into you lately? A month ago it was Mrs. Willowby, and now you are head over heels in—it can't be love—with Miss Marchland, and at the same time you are carrying on a tremendous side- business with Miss Mac Donald. I never fancied you were that kind of a fellow. Is it the altitude, do you sup- pose?’’ ‘*When you are in Rome you must do as the Romans do, Jane. Besides, we didn’t have these ladies in Milltown, and one never knows what’s in him un- til circumstances put bim to the test. If either of these had been in Mrs. Willowby’s place, I don’t believe | should have been quite so ready to start for Colorado. Do you know, Jane, I should just like to see Marjory. pull on the lines behind Spanker. Wouldn’t she make him spin! and wouldn't he like to feel the touch of her firm little hands on the reins! My! but she looked stunning last night when we were driv- ing home. It was later than we thought, and when I told her what time it was, she touched the ponies with the whip and they fairly flew. Talk about the starlight! Her eyes outshone them all; but for all that, I couldn’t help wandering whether Miss Mac Donald wouldn’t have been a trifle prettier with that—O, what kind of a way is it, Jane, when she looks up into your face and you feel as if you weren’t doing your duty unless you bent right over and kissed her!’’ ‘*Now see here, Cy, you’ve gone about far enough. It’s been on my mind for several days to have a talk with you about this very thing, and I might just as well have it now as any time. What do you think you are doing? You can’t make me believe that in the little time you've been here you are so far gone that you can’t tell which of the two girls you like best—or is it three? It’s a wonder you don't go into raptures over delightful Miss Birkenmayer.’’ ‘‘I was coming to her. I like to talk *em all over with you, Jane. You know me so well and know exactly what | want that in some way I feel as if | couldn’t be quite sure unless I have your opinion. Miss Birkenmayer is quiet, more so than either of the others, but I have had considerable to say to her lately and I don’t know but she is the most charming one after all. Seems as if she had more soul some way. How does she strike you, Jane?’’ ‘*T won’t answer sucha question. You ought to be ashamed to ask it; and the idea of your lying there and talking as if all you have to do is to make up your mind which one you want and that’s the end of it. I hope you don’t go talking to anybody else as you are talking to me. Then, too, Cy, it’s perfectly dis- gusting the way you act with these girls. Everybody is talking about you and laughing at you. You quarrel about getting the back seat when we go to ride. You are always getting into cosy corners with one or another of them. You go mooning first with one and then with another until I should think you’d get lost. Then, too, what is Marjory Marchland to you or you to her? She comes here from one part of the country and you from another. She sticks a red rose in her hair and leans towards you at the table; and then such making of MICHIGAN TRADESMAN eyes at each other I never saw! Do you really think of taking her back to Mill- town with you?’’ ‘‘T have thought of it. As I think of her now and of the delightful times I am having, I shrink from the dull, old, stupid life that I lived there and shall go back to it, unless she goes, too, with more reluctance than I should be _ will- ing to state to anybody else. It seems so strange to me, Jane, to have somebody lean towards me, as you say, and to look at meas if she thought I was say- ing something worth listening to. Do you think, Jane that I have been acting rather spooney towards these women and that I have been getting acquainted rather too fast?’’ “Ves, | do.!’ ‘‘Well, Jane, will it surprise you much to have me tell you that you are the one who has been showing me how— you, Jane Cragin, whom I have been trying my best to make to love me for I don’t know how long? It may seem that I have been making the most of the short time since I came here, but by actual count it is a day or two less than it took for you to do the same thing. I think I was a little too per- sistent in keeping the back seat on our ride the other night; but I wanted to see with my own eyes, whether Dr. Day’s arm was allowed to go and to stay where mine with years of love behind it has never been permitted even to dream of venturing. I know now and so do you; and I’ll leave it to you, Jane, to decide whether in this, I have been able to better my instruction in short- ness of time or intensity of expression. I don’t find any fault, I want you to un- derstand that, but it does seem to mea little unfair after my years of useless hoping and waiting to be found fault with, because I] am so closely—is it too closely?—following your lead. Has it never occurred to you, Jane, that the only real difference between us lies in the fact that my trifling is only trifling and that you are in dead earnest. And has it never occurred to you when you have been finding fault with me—you who never have cared for me and never could be made to care—for a little game of make-believe which everybody un- derstands that I might have a little feel- ing in seeing what I have been so long hoping for given to another at the turn- ing over of his hand?’’ ‘*Cyrus Huxley—’’ ‘*Don’t stop me, Jane. This thing has gone on long enough—too long for my peace or for yours. Let me say what I made up my mind to say when I left Milltown, if I saw the time for the saying of it. The time is here and the sooner now that it is said the better. Now, then, lisen to me.’’ The bantering tone and the spirit of aggressive determination which Jane feared most was laid aside; and throw- ing down the book he played with and rising from his indolent position among the cushions, Cy with an earnestness in his eyes which even Jane had never seen there began. RICHARD MALCOLM STRONG. $2. —___— Curse cards are being used in Switzer- land and Germany to check profanity. People go about with cards in their pockets, and whenever they hear bad language present one to the swearer to sign. The card has printed on ita pledge to abstain from swearing for a specified time or to pay a pfennig an oath to some charity. Nearly 40,000 cards have been distributed in Switzer- land, where there are three languages to swear in. =) Ra AN INSTant@neOus SUCCESS FOVVVEUP EP UV PE UVP VV VEY Uy ~ \ RRESS ie & J CRRA GC . OG new vor = or . 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Elsie Cheese can only be bought direct from the Factory or from the Musselman Grocer Co., of Grand Rapids. Elsie Cheese are all stamped “Michigan Full Cream, Factory No. 12.” Elsie Cheese has maintained its high reputation for twenty ve years and is the best selling Cheese on the market. M. S. DOYLE, exsr. micu 14 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN SHOEMAKER’S ART. A Trade with Traditions of Honor and Dignity. From the New York Mail and Express. The old guilds have passed away with the times out of which they arose. With them has disappeared the romance that illustrates the industrial and political life of the Europe or of the later Middle Ages. Much that was stirring in the history of the tree towns of the Conti- nent and in the building up of the Eng- lish common people is associated with the stout men of the crafts. Foremost among them in tubulence and spirit the gentle craft of leather has been the last to succumb to the demands of the modern industrial organization. Indeed, it has not succumbed at all. It has found a seat and a home in the New World. New York is now the center of America of the ancient craft of band- made shoes. There are survivors else- where, but nowhere has the old trade retained so much of its dignity as in the metropolis. Here are kept up many of the peculiar institutions, the commu- nity shop life, the clannish relations, and here are preserved the secrets of marvel- ous dexterity which are a lost art to the generation of mere cobblers who have come in with the factories. There are only a few hundred of these men in the metropolis, and there are not more than fifty beside in the New World. Among them there is but one American. The trade is recruited from Europe. No apprentices have ever been taken from this country. Nor are there any novices among the men. They come here as the most expert workmen of their own nations. They include Englishmen, Irishmen, Scotchmen, Frenchmen, Swedes and Norwegians. Of late years the majority of the arrivals have been Scandinavians. The marked individualities of these craftsmen have kept them from mingling conspicuously in the affairs of the city, but they have dwelt here for nearly three generations. It is recorded of them that they were the cause of the second strike in Manhattan Island, and that Governor Clinton tried to settle their difficulties by imprisoning their leaders. While they have rarely come into prominence themselves, many of them have been thrown into intimate, if not lofty, relationship with the most promi- nent men of their times. New York has shoemakers who ‘tell of measuring the feet of royalty and sewing the shoes for the statesmen in whose hands rests the balance of power in Europe. They can say with the cobbler in ‘‘Julius Caesar:’’ ‘‘As proper men as ever trod on neat’s leather have gone upon my handiwork.’’ There is not a de- fect in a royal instep but what is known to some of them. The work, however, that they have done for the grand dames of the Knickerbockers at the fancy balls is finer than that performed for the queens of Europe. In ‘‘Julius Caesar’’ the cobbler is re- buked by Flavius, who demands, ‘‘ But wherefore art not in thy shop to-day?’’ ‘*Why dost thou lead these men about the street?’’ Here Shakespeare brings out the two prominent characteristics of the men of leather. They were leaders of their fellows, and they were active at scenes of popular unrest. Writers of all times from the satiric poets of the Latins to the statesmen of to-day have borne sim- ilar testimony. Daniel O’Connell ina speech in Parliament, declared that the shoemakers were the most intelligent of all tradesmen. Lord Palmerston told the Lords that he could not account for it, but that wherever there was any trouble in the country, sooner or later a cobbler was found to he at the bottom of it. The poet Whittier, himself no indiffer- ent man at the awl and wax, has turned the same idea into stirring verse. Wit- ness these lines from one of his ‘‘Songs of Labor:’’ The foremost still by day or night, On moated mound or heather, Where’er the need of trampled right Broucht toiling men together; Where the free burghers from the wall Defied the mail-clad master, Than yours, at freedom’s trumpet call, No craftsmen rallied faster. The shoemakers of this city have dem- onstrated that they can think, even if there is no need that they should fight. Work- ing at their benches in the community shops, where there is no noise save the soft tap of hammer heads on leather, chance is given for discussion and for argument. Many of the men have re- ceived a thorough schooling in the night colleges of the Old World. They read widely. They are fond of philosophic controversies, and the habit of mind in their calling is to think alertly. Sociol- ogy is one of their hobbies; each has his own remedy for the ills of the State. You will hear them sometimes discuss- ing such literary or erudite matters as the beauties of Renan and the philoso- phy of Spinoza and Herbert Spencer. Their tendency is toward philosophic socialism, and nowhere in the city, per- haps, will one hear a more intelligent interpretation of the system of Karl Marx than in one of the community shops during a noonday debate. These community shops are the back- ground for most of the distinctive life of their tenants. In them all the fine work of this country is done. There are only about eight stores in this city that deal in the finest grade of shoes. They are made by craftsmen who hire large rooms in common and _ fashion leather on orders that they receive daily from the stores. New York has six or seven community shops occupied by about 300 men doing women’s work, and about twice as many doing men’s work. Chicago has, perhaps, fifty fine shoemakers, and there may be a dozen more in San Francisco. Beyond that there is not a shoe made in America that these craftsmen will recognize as being a shoe in anything more than name. The New Yorkers put together the footwear of the best dressed men and women in the United States. Orders come from the South and the Pacific Slope, from South America and Can- ada, as well as from the swell Fifth avenue Clubs. More than that, some of the most en- terprising of these craftsmen. are mak- ing a handsome sum by spending their summers in London. Two or three years ago, when the trade was feeling the first effects of the panic, about a dozen workmen took passage for Europe, coming back again in the fall. Abroad the trade is steadier than here. The aristocracy of Europe moves _ slowly, and it has not accustomed itself to fac- tory work. So there is a_ larger field for the men to seek work. And the aristocracy abroad is not migratory, as it is in America. Its members remain during the summer within hail of their tradesmen. In the summer their ranks are swelled by the recruits from the well-to-do classes of the New World. So it has become the custom for some of the New York craftsmen to follow their patrons in their migrations. It is con- sidered the proper thing for the swell to be shod while abroad by a London boot- maker. He is charged a London price, about £4 sterling. The English stores make a poorer grade of shoes than the best houses here. They are keen to em- ploy the craftsmen who have gone over from America, and the latter serve them with an inferior, although still satisfac- tory class ot work. The same shoe, or rather a better one, would cost the American about $15 at home. More- over, it is more likely than not that the London article is made of American calf, which already almost dominates the markets of Europe. In effect, the swell who brings back a pair of London- made shoes under his spats is paying a fancy British price for American work- manship. Right here in this city the finest il- lustrations of an ancient art are to be found. Twenty years ago there were many more shoemakers than there are now. The demand has been narrowed dcwn, and employers have been enabled to winnow out of the supply of artisans the most adept. The remainder have gone into the factories or have sunk to the rank of cobblers. The shoes made by the expert workmen are literally poems in leather. To make the Louis Quinze is almost a separate art. Not more than one man in a hundred attains State Agents for Wales Goodyear Rubbers D ‘The Earth’s Best’’ q Place your orders with our boys on the road. Call on us when in the city. Our discount is 25 and 5 off. Herold-Bertsch Shoe Co. 5 and 7 Pearl St., Grand Rapids. OOOOOOOO® OCOO@ @ Now that the price is right be sure you get the right brand. The Goodyear Glove Rubbers December 1st dating. Don’t overlook this. Hirth, Krause & Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. OD NNNNESSESNKS FOHOODOOOOOOQOODQOOQOQOOQOOQOGQOOODODOO® HOOQOQOQOQOQO® @ © © © © @ @ @ @ @) @ @ O) © © @ © @ @ @ © © @ @ @ @ @ ©) @) @ © @ ©) * latest colors and shapes. can give you some bargains. «= Do you sell Shoes? Do you want to sell more Shoes? Then buy Rindge, Kalmbach & Co.’s factory line—the line that will win and hold the trade for you. We handle everything in the line of footwear. We are showing to-day the finest spring line in the State—all the See our line of socks and felts before placing your fall order. Weare agents for the Boston Rubber Shoe Co. and carry a very large stock of their goods, which enables us to fill orders promptly. Our discounts to October 1 are 25 and 5 per cent. on Bostons and 25, 5, and ro per cent. on Bay States. any agent of the Boston Rubber Shoe Co. SCHOROROCHOROROCHORONOCHOROHR OCH OCH OCHOROCHOHOROHOROBOROHORO We Our terms are as liberal as those of Rindge, Kalmbach & Co., 12, 14 and 16 Pearl St., Grand Rapids. NeW Prices on Rubbers LYCOTPIING, 25 and 5 off. 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- — goods, and we hope to receive your ers. Geo. H. Reeder & Co., 19 South Ionia St., Grand Rapids, Mich. This shoe represents our Perfect Fitting Bi- cycle Shoe, made of moose tanned stock which is soft as kid. The soles are white tanned stock and made for this kind of shoes. They are light, cool and durable, and for fast or slow riding there are no better shoes made. Every pair stamped with our trade mark. Snedicor & Hathaway Co., DETROIT, MICH. Michigan Shoe Co., Detroit, Agents for Michigan. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 16 what the trade recognizes as perfection. These men make the slippers for the large fancy dress and masque balls. For a recent ball one shoemaker had to de- sign a pair of slippers from a pattern made in Europe two hundred years ago. So fine was the stitching in the silken uppers that the men in the shop where the work was done were constrained to admit that it could not quite be dupli- cated by any craftsmen living to-day. For the same ball many ladies supplied the silk for their shoes from dresses, some of them nearly a hundred years old, the object being to have them match exactly the costumes they had selected to appear in. Extravagant prices are sometimes paid for single pairs of shoes. The story is told of a shoemaker who brought around a pair of shoes that he had made for Mrs. A. T. Stewart. ‘‘How much dare I charge?’’ he asked the footman at the door. ‘‘If you charge less than $100 you will see the shoes thrown down stairs,’’ was the reply. Acting on this suggestion the maker charged this amount, and it was readily paid. He left, only regretting that he had not named a higher price. Prices nearly as high are sometimes paid by popular actresses. A noted actress of the stage, whose early life was associated with Chicago, ordered dozens of pairs of the most elaborate patterns made in this city. They had heels two and one-half inches high. They were made by one of the most expert workmen in the world. But the actress forgot to pay for them. The incident has a tragedy as its concomitant. The shoemaker some time afterward went out of his head and shot himself. There is one pseudo-royalty who is content to wear a shoe of pseudo-work- manship. When Queen Lil was in New York about eight years ago, she crowded a generous foot into a slipper that was unequal to the occasion, in either size or workmanship. Mrs, Langtry, it is the tradition of the crafts- men here who should know, has almost a perfect foot. In their gossip of the shops it is told that Queen Victoria wears squate-toed, flat-soled street shoes, size 4%, and the Princess of Walesa very neat fitting shoe, half a size small- er. Gladstone wears bluchers so roomy that his enemies used to say he was able to turn in them —an allusion to his mak- ing sudden turns in his politics. The community shops are open from seven in the morning tu nine at night. They hold from fifteen to thirty-five men. They are open on Sunday also until one o’clock in the afternoon. In none of them, however, is any work done on the Sabbath. The men gather there to chat and indulge their love of political discussion. St. Crispin is, of course, their patron saint, but recent generations have placed the name of an- other saint conspicuously on the calen- dar. He is ‘‘Saint Monday,’’ and in his honor the first day of the week is often devoted more to leisure than to toil, His claims to canonization are more than apocryphal. The life of these shopmen is sociable to a marked degree. They have their favorite intellectual diversions, and sometimes they will abandon their benches and crowd around a pair of old duellists who have each other by the throat at chess or checkers. When the lunch hour comes atrio wiil club to- gether and send out for a pint of beer, which they will discuss in common. Once a month there are shop meetings at which the standing of the members and the affairs of the union are sharply scrutinized. The meetings are apt to be in halls over saloons. A small fine is imposed on absentees, and the amount thus collected goes for beer and cigars. That pays the rent of the hall. Business over, the evening is devoted tu tales of life abroad and at home, and to lusty choruses, wherein are exploited ‘*The Harp That Once Through Tara’s Halls,’’ ‘‘The Rocky Road to Dublin’’ and the unwearying melodies of ‘‘ Annie Laurie. ’’ It is a jest of the Cockney that the London bootmaker is never seen abroad without his apron. That would not be true in New York. The men dress as neatly as professionals, because many of them can afford it nearly as well. They doff their outer garments at the shops and equip themselves in overalls and aprons. For the finest work it is needful that the apron be scrupulously clean. A smutch on the silk of a slip- per means the ruin of the job. A cratts- man has been known to pierce his finger with a delicate needle so that a tiny drop of blood spurted forth upon the white satin of a ball slipper, making the whole useless. Whenever a workman takes up such a task he washes his hands carefully with lemon juice, and men who perspire freely are unable to make the finest work. Fiction has represented the shoe- maker as a skeptic, and the speculative quality of his mind offen gives his be- liefs that cast. Yet from the first bishops of Cappadocia and Alexandria down to Dwight L. Moody, as the men here point out, no trade has contributed to the ministry so many distinguished men. The list includes Hans Sachs, the poet of the Reformation; Jacob Behnan, the mystic seer; Kitto, the Biblical scholar; Fox, the Quaker; Robert Raikes, Robert Cary, ‘‘the con- secrated cobbler ;’’ Gifford and Bloom- field and Cooper, and Whittier, the poet who sang of freedom with almost the inspiration of Hebrew prophecy. It is the peculiarity of a graduate of the bench, in whatever walk you find him, that he makes you no apologies; he is proud of his old calling. ——__> 0. ____ Advertising Hot Weather Goods. From the Dry Goods Reporter. Merchants who are most wide awake in telling the public about the merchan- dise they have which will keep people cool during hot weather, and enable them to present a good appearance, will get the bulk of the trade, for people usually bestow their patronage where most effort is made to attract it, all other things being equal. Advertising for hot weather goods should take in all departments which have stock that will come under this head. Don’t try to tell the whole story at once, unless you take a full page, and even then you would probably find trouble in telling people all about your summer goods at one tme. Where a small space is used, the ad- vertisements from now until July should tell a different story every day, about the store and the goods. If you adver- tise in weekly papers the advertisement should certainly be changed every week. Not only tell people about the goods, but name prices, and be sure that they are as low as will be quoted by any of your competitors. Ii any woman wants a hammock, or shirt waist or pair of Oxford ties, she is more apt to come to your store for the article 1f you have advertised it at a popular price than she would be if it had not been advertised. But if your competitor advertises and you do not, don’t be surprised or offended if you see trade turning his way. It’s one of the natural laws of trade that people go where they can buy cheapest, and if he has made them believe that his goods are cheaper than yours, you will have to suffer from this competition until you can convince them that you are selling just as cheap. Don’t sit down and wait for hot weather trade. Go after it with a deter- mination to get your share, if aggress- ive, but honorable, methods will win it. >» _____ Technically Expressed. From the Chicago Dry Goods Reporter. Tact is the silk lining of business talent, and no man’s commercial equip- ment is complete without it. Its warp and woof are patience and unselfish- ness. These threads of character are not very common, and the _ peculiar weave of them called tact is still more rare. But its value never shrinks, and scarcely any price is too high for the merchant to pay for it. The more tact he has in his own person, in his sales- men and in all those around him, the more certain is the merchant of doing a steady and prosperous business at all seasons and in bad times or good. She Was a Much Abused Wife. “Is this the National Bank?’’ she asked as she presented herself at the teller’s window. The man inside finished assorting a few piles of money before he replied. Then he said: "Yes, madam. ”’ ‘“Are you the teller?’’ bane ‘‘Well, | am Mrs. Theophilus Win- tergreen and I would like to know how much money Mr. Wintergreen has on deposit here. I know this is where he banks, for he has one of your check- books in his desk. But he will never tell me how much money he has nor anything about it, which is something every married woman ought to know and no husband who has any respect for his wife’s feeling would keep from her, but although I’ve asked Mr. Win- tergreen many and many a time he either tells me that his book hasn’t been balanced for so long that he doesn’t know, or else he evades the question al- together and puts me off, which I think is a downright shame and so I thought I’d come right down to headquarters myself and find out. Wintergreen, The- ophilus, is the name.’’ ‘*Madam,’’ replied the teller, we are not allowed to divulge anything re- garding our customers’ accounts. ’’ ‘* Not even to their wives?"’ ‘‘No, not even to their wives.’’ ‘“ Not allowed to tell, ain’t you?’’ NOs | ‘Then I'd advise you to quit calling yourself a teller.’’ And Mrs. Winter- green flounced out. —__»> 2. The Distinction Was There. ‘“You women”’ said he, in the pecu- liarly exasperating way a man has of saying those two words, ‘‘ You women buy bargain things because they are cheap.’’ “‘We do not,’’ said she. cheap things because they are _ bar- gains.’’ The distinction was almost too subtle for the blundering masculine intellect, but it was there. ““We buy A wealthy widow of Chicago has pur- chased land in Indiana upon which she intends to erect a clubhouse for women. No man will be allowed to euter it in any Capacity; but the prohibition will doubtless be unnecessary, as no sensible man would think of entering a woman's clubhouse. - > The cigar industry at Tampa, Fla., is said to have reached such dimensions that the average weekly pay roll now amounts to $75,000. It is said that nine- teen factories turn out on an average 3,600,000 cigars weekly. Custom-made Men’s Boys’ and Youths’.. ... Fine.. Shoes WORCESTER, Mass., June 1—Our new CCCP CCT CCC line of samples for the coming season will consist exclusively of SPECIALTIES IN FINE SHOES FOR MEN, BOYS AND YOUTHS. We have concentrated our line to Leaders Only, such as the trade de- mands, and at popular prices. It is the strongest and best line of Satins, Calf, Box Calf, Russias, Vicis, Enamels, Etc., that we have ever offered, both as to quality, style and workmanship. The iine wili em- brace both [cKay Sewed and Goodyear Welt, from especially selected stock, made in all the leading styles, toes and lasts. If you wouid like to inspect our line, or any portion thereof, drop a card to our Michigan representative, A. B. Clark, Law- ton, Mich., who will promptly respond to E. H. STARK & CO. your request, J rw VVVVe yee re Veer YS OOOOOOOO 9909000 0000000000 09000090 00006000906600000004 We Pay HIGHEST MARKET PRICES in SPOT CASH and Measure Bark Wher Loaded. Correspondence Solicited. 9OOO090909990005900060660060000600066000066600000060+ SbG6G66666 GGG bbb bb bb bbb ba tnb bn bn bn bn bn bn bale NF SSS VV VV SEV VEU VV VV TUT YS —— Sc MIGHIGAN BARK LUMBER CO. 527 and 528 Widdicomb Bld. Grand Rapids, Mich. C. U. CLARK, Pres. W. D. WADE, Vice- Pres. MINNIE M.CLARK, Sec’y and Treas. We are now ready to make contracts for bark for the season of 1897. Correspondence Solicited. SSeS e5e5e5e2525e25e5e ss { 4 d I6 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN IN THE SOUTHLAND. The Alabama Mill of the DWight Manufacturing Co. Written for the TRADESMAN. Chattanooga, May 31—‘‘See Rome and die!’’ But we saw Rome and lived —not Rome set upon seven hills, but the little railroad center of that name nestling amid the Georgia mountains, the Rome of Shorter College fame, where are gathered beneath its hospit- able looking roof ‘‘some of our most beautiful young ladies of the Sunny South.’’ Here especial attention is given to music and the languages, and the girl is considered fortunate indeed whom Fate—or a rich father—permits to be ‘‘finished’’ at this temple of learning. Yes, we saw Rome and lived—lived to visit the growing town of Gadsden, Alabama (which, since the ‘‘boom’’ struck it about nine years back, has been sleeping at the southern end of Lookout Mountain, ninety miles from here, but is now shaking off its lethargy and gathering to itself Northern energy and capital to combine with its many natural advantages), and to _ inspect, among its other new enterprises the great cotton mill of the Dwight Manu- facturing Co., located at its suburb, Alabama City. It had been one of the unfulfilled de- sires of my life to see cloth of any de- scription in process of manufacture, and at last my wish was to be realized. At the end of a pleasant. drive ofa couple of miles, the high walls of the red brick buildings loomed in sight. Entering the office, we were introduced to the affable new agent, Mr. R. A. Mitchell, formerly President of the Queen City Bank and for two years Mayor of Gadsden, until March 25 of this year. Mr. Mitchell holds numerous other positions ot trust, among others being that of Alderman, and President of the Gadsden Land and Improvement Company, which company is doing much for the place in the way of laying out tree-shaded streets, grading of roads leading from the town, development of new industries, etc., etc. “The best way to study the plant,’’ said Mr. Mitchell, ‘‘is to begin at the beginning. Here is the warehouse,’’ and great open doors yawned upon our vision, disclosing a cavernous basement open to the roof, filled with bale upon bale of cotton. It looked dirty on the outside and I remarked that I'd never chew cotton ravelings again. ‘‘Oh,’’ said our host, ‘‘you will see how clean that will become before it’s in the cloth.’’ From the warehouse to the mill build- ing the bales are trucked by muscular ‘‘niggahs,’’ who do all the roustabout work of such establishments. Rarely is a white man seen in such capacity—not even ‘‘poah white trash.’’ Here each bale is weighed and the sacking and thick iron straps removed, the contents tossing into high piles of fluffy white- ness. The dirty outside observed in the warehouse is here lost to sight in the quantities exposed to view. The ‘‘da’kies’’ now feed it rapidly into large machines called ‘‘openers,’’ one end of which is filled with rapidly- revolving cylinders covered with sharp teeth that look like wire nails, which pick the cotton to pieces until it looks pretty enough to eat. Boxed shafts called ‘‘conveyors’’ carry it to the floor above, where it goes into the ‘‘pickers.’’ Five rolls of thin flat cotton are worked into one immense cylinder, to remove all inequalities and imperfections, and it is now ‘‘white as the driven snow,’’ and one could not imagine that the result is to be un- bleached cotton. In the next process the cotton comes off of these large clyinders into a veil- like sheet, which goes through tubing and comes out in a transparent roll an inch in diameter, and is evenly fed in- to an open cylinder a foot across and three feet high. Right here occurred a funny little incident: One of the party, an old lady, curiously took hold of this delicate ‘‘tubing’’—if I may call it that. Imagine her consternation when the thing broke in her fingers! Tears crept into her eyes and her face was the pic- ture of despair and remorse as the ma- chine went on feeding it out, until about ten yards of the stuff lay coiled up on the floor instead of in its little bed in the cylinder. An operator flew to the rescue and deftly set things aright, when the old lady, who thought she had stopped the machinery of the entire es- tablishment, breathed a sigh of intense relief and registered a solemn vow never again to ‘‘touch, taste or handle’’ any- thing in a factory while the breath of life was in her! The accident repaired, we turned to the next machines, which wound off five of the coils and united them onto one spool. Then two threads of this resultant five were joined, and for the first time twisting occurs. The threads are next wound into cylinders of about six feet in circumference. These go to the starching apparatus, where they are ‘*sized’’ and are perfectly dry when they reappear, and are then ready for the looms. ‘‘Why,’’ I exclaimed, ‘‘I never knew that unbleached cotton, which is soft to the touch, has starch in it!’’ ‘‘Oh, yes,’’ said Mr. Mitchell; ‘*if the threads hadn’t starch in, being so thin and frail, they never could be handled. They have to have starch to give them body to hold together. ”’ The looms, the looms! The racket, the racket! I thought of Huckleberry Finn, who told the ‘‘niggah’’ that Sol- omon ‘‘had more’n a million wives,’’ but that, for his part, *‘he’d ruther run a b'iler shop, cuz ye could shut up a b’iler shop—sometimes!’’ Imagine one thousand looms in an immense room, and all of them in operation at once, and you will be able to form a faint conception of the roar that greeted our entrance. In this room alone are em- ployed several hundred operatives, both boys and girls, not a few of whom are handsome and attractive. They are all paid by the ‘‘cut,’’a‘‘right smart’’ (as they say down here) operative earning from $1 to $1.50 per day. Such an one must attend to six or sevenlooms. This part of the work was, to me, the most interesting of all, but the noise was so deafening we did not ‘‘stay upon the order of our going.’’ We climb the stairs once more, this time to observe the last process. Here the finished product is placed in a ma- chine which folds and cuts the cloth in lengths according to its destination, that intended for export to China being cut at thirty yards. Afterarrival there it is cut in two, fifteen yards being required for a Chinaman’s ‘‘togs.’’ The young women employed in this department ap- pear the most intelligent of the opera- tives. They are neatly dressed, their clothes being appropriate to their work, which is to inspect the cloth as it comes from the measuring and cutting ma- chine, stitch the ends together, and stamp on top the name of the manu- facturer, and the kind, quality, quantity and destination. The baling finishes the work begun away down in the ‘‘open- es. A step in the open air across a plat- form, and we are in the cloth warehouse reading with interest the destination of a few of the hundreds of snug bales piled high around us. On one we catch the word Shanghai; on another Mada- gascar; Cape Town, South Africa, Stares us in the face; Turkey brings up bloody visions, France, Holland and Germany come in for their share, and all the ports of the Mediterranean ; also, the hearts of many South Americans will be made glad with a goodly sup- ply of the product of this ‘‘ Mill Num- ber One,’’ as it is called, the output of which is just one-half of what they ex- pect to have in the near future. This Alabama mill uses 10,000 bales of cotton per annum. costing $350,000. (1 should have mentioned the fact that there are 30,000 spindles.) The plant represents an outlay of $750,000. This one mill is but one-tenth of the capac- ity of the Dwight Manufacturing Co., it ns several other mills in Massa- chusetts and New Hampshire, the ag- gregate number of spindles being 300, 000,000, and the looms ‘‘looming’’ up to 10,000. At the plant of the factory is a large reservoir, with a capacity of 7,000,000 gallons, for steam purposes. The enor- mous Corliss engine of 1,500 horse power drives a fly wheel 28 feet in di- ameter. The mill is amply protected against the Fire King, being supplied with automatic extinguishers and two high pressure fire engines. There is railroad connections with the Southern R’y, the Queen & Crescent, the Louis- ville and Nashville, the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis, and the Chat- tanoga Southern. ‘‘And what do you people do when you have strikes, Mr. Mitchell?’’ ‘*Strikes! Don’t have any!’’ ‘‘No unions? No walking delegates?”’ ‘*No—no such things down here! We pay good wages and make it an object for the men to work for us and stay by us, and we run our business our own- selves, without interference from out- siders. ’’ And I may say that all the business men I have talked with down here in the Southland have given the same ans- wers to these questions. ‘*The climate here is very healthy and living is cheap,’’ continued Mr. Mitchell. ‘‘Now, I want you, before you go home, to be sure and take a look at our cottages. Now, don’t neglect that, for I’m sure you will say we have the handsomest little factory town in the United States. There are some 200 houses in all, and no two of them are alike—not even as to the paint. If you find any two painted alike, I'll give you the best one on the grounds! The two- room cottages rent for $2 per month, the three-room rents for $3, and so on up to $7 for the largest. There is a good well to every two houses. The lots have a frontage of 75 feet. Good sanitary conditions prevail and the streets are graded and electric lighted. We em- ploy a physician by the year for the operatives, deducting 1 per cent. of each one’s wages, from the highest to the lowest, for that purpose. We hire a preacher for them; services are held in the large hall over the store. We also have a graded school, providing the teachers ourselves, and shall soon have a fine library, also a memorial church —a church in memory of H. Gardner Nichols, the only son of Mr. J. How- ard Nichols, the Treasurer of the com- pany. He was a graduate of Harvard University several years before coming down here. His father sent him down to make a model plant in every partic- ular. He had his ideas about every- thing, and his plans were carried out to the minutest details. He even named the streets—you will notice ‘* Minnehaha Dell.’’ He himself lived in one of the smallest of the factory houses, that he might know the lives of the operatives. The machinery of the mill is of the most modern description—you won't find an- other cotton mill anywhere in the land with such fine machinery—and every- thing was to be perfect. But the young man was killed accidentally, in May of 96, during the removal of a piece of heavy machinery. But the plant lived after him, and has gone on improving and enlarging, until we think we have the finest cotton mill to be found any- where !’’ And, with the memory of a pleasant good-bye and a cordial invitation to ‘ Call again,’’ we drove on through the pretty little village, coming back just in time to see the operatives leaving the mill door. They came out like bees from a hive. Most of them hurried along in groups, laughing and cracking their jokes, while here and there slowly sauntered a couple of lovers holding each other’s hands. And we _ reached the conclusion that life might be much more unbearable than as an operative in ‘‘the best cotton mill in the land!’’ H. E. STowE. —___—_ 2. 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Sweep as hard DUSTLESS keeps your goods clean and salable. : : : : POH 90000000 00000600 000000009 0000000 00000000 ECG | DUS TLEDD is a preparation to put on the Don’t hire a painter—your boy can apply it just as well. ; DUSTLESS keeps down the dust-- M keeps it on the floor—keeps it 4 floors of stores. as you please-the dust won’t rise. it holds the dust down nevertheless. 80 Ohio St., Chicago, Ill. 990000000 00000000000000000 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 17 Commercial Travelers Michigan Knights of the Grip. President, Jas. F. HAMMELL, Lansing; Secretary, D. C. Staeut, Flint; Treasurer, Coas. McNoury, Jackson. Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Association. President, S. H. Harr, Detroit; Secretary and Treasurer, D. Mokaris, Detroit. United Commercial Travelers of Michigan. Chancellor, H. U. Marks, Detroit; Secretary, EpwIin Hupson, Flint; Treasurer, Gro. A, Rey- NOLDs, Saginaw. Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual Acci- : dent Association. President, A. F, PEakz, Jackson; Secretary and Treasurer, Gro. F. OWEN, Grand Rapids. Board of Directors—F. M. Tyrer, 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. Laziness and poor trade are side part- ners. A good stock of patience is an excel- lent side line for every traveling man to Carry. When a commercial traveler allows his customer to make prices at which he buys, he slips his trolley. It is now a survival of the fittest on the road and a man’s habits havea whole lot to do with making him fit. A traveling man who cannot control his temper has missed his vocation. He should be pulling a bellcord over a mule’s back in a ten acre stump lot. Say, boys, have you ‘‘touched up”’ this administration on the subject of sending traveling men to foreign ports as con- suls? If not, why not? Now is the time to strike. We would be glad to hear from all the *“boys’’ on the subject of the creation by Congress of a Department of Com- merce. Do you want it or not? Let us hear from you. Freeman D. Blake was the guest of his twin brother, W. Frederick Blake, Saturday and ‘Sunday. Mr. Blake re- sides in Boston, where he is a member of the shoe manufacturing firm of E. H. Stetson & Co. The traveling man has three times more work to perform than the head of the house. He has to sell goods, pro- tect his house and protect and hold his customer. A_ salesman, a diplomat and a credit man! Gee-whiz! Did you know you worked that hard? Well, you do if you are holding your job. Parke Mathewson, Jr., who has cov- ered Western Michigan several years for B. T. Babbit, has retired from the road to embark in the bicycle business in connection with the Mabley & Good- fellow Co, Mr. Mathewson is succeeded by F. W. Turner, formerly engaged in the retail grocery business at Bay City, but tor the past four years on the road for Babbit in Northern Ohio, with head- quarters at Cleveland. Wm. Connor (Michael Kolb & Son) writes the Tradesman as follows: ‘‘It puzzles me how a few can continue com- plaining that trade is very dull, when I meet so many commercial travelers rep- resenting various lines who tell me that business is picking up and that they are booking a fair amount of orders, which is surely an indication that the retail merchants are doing better. When the tariff question is settled, you will find that American trade will be _ itself again and everybody will be happy.’’ —___~» 4» “In Union There Is Strength.” St. Johns, June 7—You have un- doubtedly learned of the interchangeable mileage book that the railways of Mich- igan will voluntarily put on themarket in the very near future. The manage- ment of the most important roads tell me (as Chairman of the Legislative Committee of the Michigan Knights of the Grip) that it has been simply a matter of education that has been forced to the front by the agitation of the com- mercial travelers. In this there is an important thought for the members of our Association and other traveling men who do not belong to the same, and that is, the ‘‘strength of organization.’’ No one man, nor a few men, could have gotten the ear of the railway managers to that extent as to awaken them to the necessity of studying the question of the interchangeable mileage book in all its phases had not he or they the backing of a couple of tbousand of their best patrons. | EB. Waldron’’ could not have done anything, but ‘‘E. P. Waldron, chairman of a committee which had the matter in charge, backed by 2,000 trav- eling men,'’ was able to get most re- spectful hearing, and what was advised and suggested was taken as coming from a very important source. In my _ opin- ion, the concession is worth more than the cost in the simple matter of showing the value of organization—that ‘‘in unity there is strength.’’ I greatly appreciate the manner in which the members of the Michigan Knights of the Grip have backed me in this matter of interchangeable mile- age and given my committee the author- ity to carry on a campaign to a success- ful termination. E. P. WALDRON, Chairman. ——_~> 2. Forty Additions to the Membership List. Flint, June 5—Twenty three active and seventeen honorary members have joined the Michigan Knights of the Grip since my last report, as follows: ACTIVE MEMBERS, . B. Wilkinson, Brooklyn, N. Y. . H. Steiner, Muskegon. W. Knapp, Detroit. B. Wakeman, Pontiac. S. Edington, Flint. . J. Canham, Port Huron. . M. Breyette, Albion. . McAfee, Lakeview. . S. Chatfield, Lansing. E. Barlett, Pontiac. Rudolph Otto, Saginaw. Frederick Garbutt, Detroit. L. A. Burrell, Cincinnati. * R. E. Bartlett, Kalamazoo. J. E. Hurd, Lansing. W. W. La Moure, Chicago. M. A. Dunning, Menominee. Elias Culver, Mason. F. B. Greenleaf, Leonidas. E. M. Karth, Ashland, Ohio. A. O. Jones, Battle Creek. C. B. Bennett, Adrian. Richard Jackson, Jr., Detroit. HONORARY. Ennis & Quinnin, Saginaw, E. S. Ed. R. Bailey, Ionia. P. R. Dorman Pentwater. Wm. Leland, Hesperia. James M. Campbell, St. Ignace. Forler & Radewald, Niles. M. R. Truesdell, Caro. F. H. Cody, Hartford. S. J. Brightman, Scottville. L. W. Nettleton, Grand Marias. M. T. McKenna, Sault Ste. Marie. Frank L. Harris, Newberry. B. Stoll, Stockbridge. Chas. J. Lane, Hudson. T. P. Riley, Union City. H. S. Read, Ludington. Geo. H. Day, Mt. Pleasant. D. C. SiaGut, Sec’y. gee .The Illinois Central Railroad is about to experiment with electricity as a mo- tive power, with a view to its adoption on all the suburban lines of Chicago. It is said that both the third rail and overhead trolley systems will be tried exhaustively before a decision is come to on equipment. —> 20> Hundreds of sweet girl graduates are just now being turned loose to still further embarrass the financial situation. OPrPssanocrpszs Quarterly Meeting of the Board of Directors, M. K. of G. Flint, June 7—The regular quarterly meeting of the Board of Directors of the Michigan Knights of the Grip was held at Lansing on June 5, with a full at- tendance of the Board, except Director Streat. Secretary Slaght presented his finan- cial report for the quarter, showing the total receipts of the death fund to be $2,742; the general fund, $63; and the deposit fund, $54, making a total of $2,859, for which amount he held the Treasurer’s receipts. The report was approved by the Finance Committee and adopted and placed on file. Treasurer McNolty presented his re- port, showing the receipts of the death fund to be $3,317.59 and the disburse- ments to be $500, leaving a balance of $2,817.59. In the general fund the re- ceipts were $825.49 and disbursements $268.08, leaving a balance of $557.41. This report took the same course as that of the Secretary. The Finance Committee reported that it had examined the books of the Sec- retary and Trreasurer and found them to be correct. Bills to the amount of $279.45, ap- proved by the Finance Committee, were allowed and ordered paid. Proofs of the deaths of Uriah Hoff- master, A. M. Sprague, I. D. Durgy, E. Averill, N. B. Clark and J. S. Shaub were presented, approved and ordered paid. The claim of Elizabeth Mallory, as beneficiary of the late W. H. Jewett, was laid over until the next meeting for the reason that the legal beneficiary is in dispute. The following resolution was adopted unanimously : Whereas—The Board of Directors of the Michigan Knights of the Grip have received with great satisfaction from the Legislative Committee, through E. P. Waldron, chairman, the information that all responsible railroads of Michi- gan have decided to issue an _ inter- changeable mileage book which we _ be- lieve will be entirely satisfactory to traveling men; and Whereas—We are assured that this re- sult is entirely due to the consistent and reasonable course pursued by the mem- bers of the Michigan Knights of the Grip and traveling men in general, and that this concession is made in acknowl- edgement thereof by the railroads of Michigan, and that said mileage book will be issued during or before the month of July; therefore Resolved—That we most heartily thank the Legislative Committee, and especially its chairman, E. P. Waldron, and the railroads, and assure them that we will use-our most earnest endeavor to prevent any abuse of the privileges granted us as traveling men. The Board thereupon adjourned to meet Sept. 4. DELL C. SLAGHT, Sec’y. ——_>-2 > ___ Dissatisfaction Over Milk Ordinance— The New Huckster Ordinance. Detroit, June 8—There is dissatisfac- tion because the new milk ordinace is not rigidly enforced. It is said that many of the large dealers refuse to pay their licenses and declare that they don’t care a snap of the finger for the ordi- nance, anyway. E. L. Andrews, who keeps a grocery store at the corner of Sixth and Lysan- der streets, entered complaint at the Mayor's office. He said that the store- keeper opposite him did not pay a cent and continued to sell milk as of yore. He told of another store-keeper, on Third avenue, who said he didn’t give a flip for the ordinance and hadn’t taken the trouble to pay his license. Mr. Andrews was told to go to the office of the corpo- ration counsel and enter complaint. A committee, composed of Ald. Batchelder, Beck, Reves, Wild and Tossy, called on the Mayor Monday to enquire what he would do with the ped- dlers’ ordinance, which was passed at the last meeting of the Board. The Mayor, after talking with the Aldermen, stated that upon being assured that cer- tainchanges would be made in it, he would approve of the measure. In ac- cordance with this promise, Mayor Maybury sent the following communi- cation to the Common Council: I have returned to your honorable body with approval that part of your proceedings adopting an ordinance for the regulation of peddlers and peddling, but after consultation with those who are most deeply interested in the enforce- ment of the ordinance, it occurs to me that very great improvement might be made by way of amendment to the or- dinance adopted, and I respectfully re- quest the privilege of submitting to your honorable body the following sugges- tions of amendment, viz. : 1. I think the ordinance should pro- hibit any person who has not attained the age of 16 years from peddling mer- chandise on the public streets. 2. I think that provisions should be made in the ordinance rendering it necessary for each person applying for a license to first show that he is a citi- zen of Detroit. 3. Not more than two persons under one license should be permitted to ope- rate a wagon in connection with their business. A person going as assistant to the licensee, and whose occupation is that of tending to the horse as driver, should have a badge or some other em- blem to designate him as assistant. 4. It might be well to consider the matter of allowing a license for a short- er time than one year on the payment of a proportionate part of the license. I am not prepared to say that I fully en- dorse this last suggestion, but it has been urged witb a great deal of meri- torious argument and I think is worthy of further consideration before it is either adopted or rejected. I am satisfied that the adoption of one or more of these suggestions will tend to strengthen the ordinance, and cause it to operate with more equity and jus- tice to all concerned. I would, there- fore, suggest that this communication be referred to the Committee on Streets and Ordinances, with instructions to consider the recommendations herein named, and to report their conclusions thereon to your honorable body. —>-+ > ___ Probably an Accurate Answer. DeGarry—Why is it that when a fel- low is alone with a girl he loves they seldom play cards? Merritt—Because if they did would have to hold her own hand. Whitney Rouse she Chas. E. Whitney, Prop. Plainwell, Mich. Best house in town and as good as any in the State for $1.00 per day. Sanitary conditions are complete. Long distance telephone. Cutler House at Grand Haven. Steam Heat. Excellent Table. Com- fortable Rooms. H. D. and RP. H. IRISH, Props. GOLUMBIAN TRANSFER COMPANY CARRIAGES, BAGGAGE AND FREIGHT WAGONS 15 and 17 North Waterloo St., Telephone 381-1 Grand Rapids. Commercial House Iron Mountain, Mich. Lighted by Electricity, Heated by Steam. All modern conveniences. IRA A. BEAN, Prop. NEW REPUBLIC Reopened Nov. 25. FINEST HOTEL IN BAY CITY. Steam heat, Electric Bells and Lighting throughout. Rates, $1.50 to $2.00. Cor. Saginaw and Fourth Sts. . GEO. H. SCHINDHETT, Prop. $2 per day. CiifGy Young men and women acquire the greatest inde- pendence and wealth by securing a course in either the Business, Shorthand, English or Mechanical Draw- ing*.departments of the Detroit Business University, 11-19, Wilcox St., Detroit. W.F. Jewell, P. R. Spencer. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Drugs--Chemicals MICHIGAN STATE BOARD OF PHARMACY. Term expires C. A. BueBEE, Traverse City - Dec. 31, 1896 S. E. PaRKILL, Owosso - - - Dec. 31, 1897 F. W. R. Perry, Detroit - Dec. 31, 1898 A. C. ScHUMACHER, Ann Arbor - Dee. 31, 1899 Gro. GunpRUM, Ionia - 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. PHiniips, Armada. Secretary, B. ScHROUDER, Grand Rapids. Treasurer, CHas. Mann, Detroit. Executive Committee—A. H. WEBBER, Cadillac; H. G. Cotman, Kalamazoo; Gro. J. WARD, St. Carr: A. B. STEVENS, Detroit; F. W. R. Perry, Detroit. Charley and the Prescription. The Western Drug Record tells a good story about an incompatible pre- scription which was handed toa bright young prescriptionist to be filled. The prescriptionist is known to his intimates as ‘‘Charley.’’ Charley, it seems, isa man of experience. We are told in fact that he was very nearly born in the drug business, and has acquired a tendency to baldness in his thirty years’ experi- ence. He ‘‘went to college’’ and is more than ordinarily competent. But he ‘‘got a prescription’’ a week or two ago that pained him. He carried it with him to gather expert opinions in regard to it. Probably he’ll write a book about it some day if profits admit. ‘‘Ves,’? he said, ‘‘I took it from the man in my usual confident way—‘it would be ready in fifteen minutes.’ But it wasn’t. Just look at it; here it iS: x, Sod. arceniwls..... <<. enews, o 2120 8 grs. Accenti nitratts............. ..2.-.. Opts. Strychniae sulph..........- ------- i pr. ieee ee = 5 grs Fellow’s Syrup. Hypoph. Co., Elix. peptenzyme...... ........---aa 8 ozs. Mix. Two teaspoonfuls in a little milk or water after each meal. ‘*You see, the things ordered are very much to the point. An old dispenser seeing the prescription for the first time would hesitate to say what the patient would get in his bottle. I'll be darned if I knew whether I’d try to coax an oxide of silver into existence, first thing or risk an arsenate. Then if the pep- tenzyme stuff had any free hydrochloric acid in it, maybe I’d get a chloride of silver in spite of myself. Strychnine was in it twice, if Fellow’s syrup had it in, too, and I suppose it has; how- ever, the strychnine could pass. Aloin didn’t count much, unless the question of its breaking up came in. Lord! the way I tried the different things in differ- ent ways was a caution. The thing wasn’t mixed in fifteen minutes. The directions for taking made me wonder whether the peptenzyme wouldn't curdle the milk. Blamed if I didn’t think the milk was a good thing after all; perhaps the doctor thought that it would bea good antidote if the dispenser didn’t get onto his idea about mixing. The dose was ready in about two hours. It was principally murk and misgivings. I got my biggest ‘shake’ label out and stuck one on with an extra allowance of paste. I was two hundred miles from the doctor who wrote the prescription, so couldn’t ask any questions. I wonder why he didn’t divide the prescription in two and make a pill of the first half. Perhaps he meant to.”’ Charley was asked what became of the transaction. The reply was easy: ‘‘Oh, it was all right; the man never called for it, and I’m glad he didn’t, because I believe 1 should have been tempted to filter it before I gave it out. I'm holding onto the prescription, though, and I’m going to quiz every drug journal in the country about it.”’ — we >_—_- The Drug Market. Trade in this line is good in the coun- try towns, but is not in a flourishing condition in the city. The cut rate war is demoralizing prices to the extent that some drugs are being sold at retail for less than the cost of manufacture, notably blue vitriol and Paris green, while patent medicines are sold by the bottle below the quantity price of the proprietor. There are few changes in prices to record. Opium—The large stocks of this arti- cle, imported to take advantage of the proposed advance of $1 additional duty, bas caused holders to push sales at a small sacrifice and the article has de- clined. Morphine—Quiet, but firm. Quinine—Very firm and an advance would not surprise dealers. Citric Acid—On account of large stocks and lateness of season, this arti- cle is weak and lower. Cocoa Butter—On account of large stocks, this article has declined. Gelatin—Silver and gold label are both becoming scarce and the market is very firm and advancing. Balsam Copaiba—There is a large de- mand for this balsam, both in this country and for export. Prices are very firm. Elm Bark—Very scarce, on account of there ,not being the usual amount peeled this year. Prices have advanced. Essential Oils—Anise and cassia are dull and the indications are for lower prices. Senna, bergamont and orange are unchanged. There are reports of PATENT MEDICINES Morrisson, Plummer & Co., Improved Liquor and Poison Record. Our combined Liquor and Poison Record should be on the showcase of every retai] druggist in the State. Sent postpaid on receipt of $1. TRADESMAN COMPANY, Grand Rapids. LSS ; MASTER — ooo The best 5 cent cigars ever made. Sold by BEST & RUSSELL CoO., Cuicaco. euOHORCHOROROROROROHOHOROROROHOHORORONOROROROHOHONO Order your patent medicines from PECK BROS., Grand Rapids. Represented in Michigan by J. A. GONZALEZ, Grand Rapids. a e e e a a e e a = Ruderold Ready Rooind : e aml a : : $ Will last longer than any other roofing now on the market. @ e We have full faith in its merits. But if you want other & . kinds we always have them at reasonable prices. Let us : a quote you prices, if you need roofing of any sort. e e a a e ¢ H. M. REYNOLDS & SON, 5 © detroit Office, foot of 3d Street. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. § 6 a SOUOHORONORORODORORORORORORONOROROROROHOHONOROROROHS THE Soon after our Cigar Department was in- stitu'ed on its present basis, we discovered 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 are 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 $30.00 cigar which we can recommend in the strongest terms. . MORRISSON,PLUMMER6 COCHICAG Wholesale Druggists, Chicago. Cigar Department. damage to Michigan peppermint by frosts, but this is usual at this time of the year. The reports have, however, advanced prices slightly. Flowers—Saffron, on account of com- petition by large holders in New York, has declined and lower prices are prob- able. Gums—Manufacturers of camphor are behind their orders and the article is very firm. The new tariff places 6c per pound additional duty on refined and, as soon as the tariff bill passes, there will be an advance. Roots—Spring dug blood root is very much below the price of fall root, but is not as good. The latter is scarce and still high. Ginger is very firm for Jamaica. The demand for powdered hellebore is about over. There is very little left in stock and, had the demand kept up a week longer, very high prices would have ruled Ipecac—Scarce and has advanced. Seeds—There are no changes in prices except in mustard. Supplies of Cali- fornia yellow have been steadily de- creasing and prices have advanced. Linseed Oil—Steady at what is con- siderd a low price for this season of the year. Turpentine—Has declined. —_——_»>0>—___ As the Public Views It. Proprietor— Does the new clerk seem to know anything about book-keeping? Head Book-keeper—Nothing at all, sir; but then, you must remember he has never done anything before but teach double-entry in a business college. THUM BROS. & SCHMIDT, Analytical and Oonsulting Chemists, 84 CANAL ST., @RAND RAPIDS, MICH. Special attention given to Water, Bark and Urine Analysis. This is C. W. DrerporrF, the famous “S$. C. W. Giant,” who came in first at the great Grand Rapids road race. The “S. C. W.” cigars, like the people who sell them, are always First in all competition. All first-class jobbers have them. G. J. JOHNSON CIGAR CO., Mnifrs., GRAND RAPIDS. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT. Declined—Citric Acid, Opium, Saffron. Advanced— Acidum Aceticum............ 8 8s@s 10 Benzoicum, German 80@ 8% Peewee .-........... @ 5 Carbolicum ......... 29@ 41 Cipicume 2.5.2.4... UG 2 Hydroehlor ......... 3@ 5 Nurocam = ......... 8@ 10 Oxalioum ........... 14 Phosphorium, dil... @ 15 Salicylicum. ........ E 55 Sulphuricum. ...... 1%@ 5 Tannicum .......... 1 40@ 1 60 Tartaricum.......... 36G «38 Ammonia Aqua, 16 deg........ 4@ 66 Aqua, 20 deg........ 8 Ceroemen............ 2@ 14 Chloridum .......... 122@ 14 Aniline Biack... ............ 3 Og 2 2a Browm . ....:.....:.. 80@ 1 00 MOG coo i ok. 45@ MGRIOW 5 in 2 50@ 3 00 Bacce. Cubewe........ po.18 13@ 15 euniperus........... 6@ 8 Xanthoxylum.. 3@ 30 Balsamum Ganaiha: ........... 60@ 65 oan @ 2 60 Terabin, Canada.. 40@ 45 WORBOR. cco. 80@ 8 Cortex Abies, Canadian.... 18 OBIS cece as, a 12 Cinchona Flava..... 18 Euonymus atropurp 30 Myrica Cerifera, po. 20 Prunus V irgini a 12 Quillaia, grd-..-... 12 Sassafras...... po. 1 12 Ulmus...po. 15, gr ‘4 15 Extractum Glycyrrhiza Glabra. UA@ 2 Glycyrrhiza, po..... 28, Hematox,15lbbox. 11@ 12 Hematox, Is. . Bea Hematox, 4s . Be 15 Hematox, 48....... 16@ 17 Ferru Carbonate Precip... Citrate and Quinia.. Citrate Soluble...... Ferrocyanidum Sol. Solut. Chloride..... Sulphate, com’l..... Sulphate, com’l, by w waSSRo bbl, per cwt....... 35 Sulphate, pure ..... 7 Flora Armee 122@ 14 Bees .........+. 18@ 2 Matriceria .......... 30@ 35 Folia Barosma............. 16@ 20 Cassia Acutifol, Tin- MeVOly. 6.5 8s. 25 Cassia Acutifol,Alx. 2@ 30 ee officinalis, 4s Br 368. os.) eee 12@ 2 Vie Ure cae 8@ 10 Gummi Acacia, Ist picked.. Acacia, 2d picked.. Acacia, 3d picked.. @ @ @ Acacia, sifted sorts. @ Acacia. po.......... .- 60@ Aloe, Barb. po.20@28 H@ 18 loe, C: - po. 15 @ Aloe, Socotri. - po. 40 @ 30 Ammoniac.......... 55@ 60 Assafcetida....po.30 2@ % Benzoinum ......... 50@ =o Catechu, Is... | 13 Catechu, s.. 14 Catechu, \s.. 16 = horse 55 orbium. “po. "35 10 Ga mae ......-... R i ASS Gamboge po........ Guaiacum an. po. 35 00 ‘ 35 -~ $4.00 4 00 60 » 45 40 Dp 83.80@4.00 2 45@ 2 55 Sheting 4@Q «6A Shellac, bleached. . 40Q@ 45 Tragacanth ......... 50@ ~=s«80 Herba Absinthium..oz. pkg 25 Eupatorium .oz. pkg 20 ea oz. pkg 25 Majorum ....oz. pkg 28 Mentha Pip..oz. pkg 23 Mentha Vir. - pkg 25 Bues.. 3. Zz. pkg 39 TanacetumV po pkg 22 Thymus, V..oz. pkg 25 Magnesia. Calcined, Pat..... .. 55 60 Carbonate, Pat.:... 20@ 2 Carbonate, K. & M.. 20@ 2% Carbonate, Jennings 3@ 36 Oleum Absinthium......... 3 25@ 3 50 Amygdale, Dule.. 30@ 50 Amygdale, Amare . 8 00@ 8 25 Anisi.. coe © 10 2 Auranti ‘Cortex. ee 2 00@ 2 20 Gs} any nea ce eeeess 2 2@ 2 . See. 7@ er Sista Saas 55@ «6 OOGr 35@ «65 Chancsadll bo setn koe 00 00 50 @4 Cinnamonii. ........ 1:80@ 2 Qitronella. .... .... 4@ Conium Mac........ Conaing... 5. (2... i 1 Canebe. 1 Exechthitos ........ 1 1 ieee so: 1 1 _ bo ails sua sal, Gaultheria..... .... Geranium, ounce.. Gossippii, Sem. gal.. Hedeoma..... ...... 1 SURIDOER. 2... 6... 1 2 Lavendula .......... 2 PamoOnin. oe: 5 1 Mentha Piper....... 1 2 Mentha Verid....... 2 2 Morrhue, gal....... 1 1 Mey reI es 4 4 Olive. <8: 3 Picis Liquida. Picis Liquida, gal.. ews 1 Hosmarini........... 1 Rose, ounce........ 6 8 SueCcint 2...) ss. are 1 Santal..... Pecos 2 0@ 7 0 Sassafras............ 50@ Sinapis, ess., ounce. @ a 1 40@ 1 50 eee 50 Thyme, opt......... @ 1 60 Theobromas ........ Potassium Bi-Barb..... 18 Bichromate 15 romide. 51 Card. .2... 15 Chlorate..po 7@19e 18 Cyanide.... 50@ =o FOGIGG. occ... 2 65@ 2 75 Potassa, Bitart, pure 29@ 31 Potassa, Bitart, com @ 6 Potass Nitras, opt... 8@ 10 Potass Nitras........ 1@ 9 vote... ..,. 23@ 28 Sulphate po ........ 1I@ 18 Radix AConitvm ........... 0@ B Aube sl: 20 Anchusa. Re 6 Arum po.. @ & Caiamen 20@ 40 Gentiana...... po.15 12@ 15 Glychrrhiza...pv.15 16@ 18 Hydrastis Canaden . @ Hydrastis Can., po.. @ 4 Hellebore, Alba, po. 15@ Ennis, po 15@ Ipecac, po.. 2 00@ 2 10 Iris plox.. .. P035@38 3@ 40 J210pS. pr..c 8... 40@ 45 Maranta, Ys........ @ ®& Podophyllum, pe... Ba & Ree 75@ 1 00 hel, cut @123 Rhei, pv. 7@ 1 35 Spigelia. .. 3@ 38 Sanguinaria @ Serpentaria 30@ 35 Senega....... 40@ 45 Similax,officin lis H @ 4 Stee Mo. @ B Seis po.35 10@ 12 Symplocarpus, Feti- Gun: po... @ B Valeriana ,Eng.po.30 @ » Valeriana, German. 15@ 20 Zingiber a. Ce ca L2@ 16 Mingiber so: 25@ 27 — Anisum....... po. @ Apium (qusvelooas} 13@ 15 ae 1@ «66 Cargo oo... pe.is @ & Cardamon..........2 1 23@ 1% Coriandrum......... 8@ 10 Cannabis Sativa.... 3%@ 4 Cydoninm. ... 2... ... 75@ 1 00 Chenopodium ...... 10@ = 12 Dipterix Odorate... 2 90@ 3 00 Feniculum.... . @ 10 7@ 9 24@ 4 % 34@ 4 3@ 40 Pharlaris Canarian. 3%4@ 4 Oe 4%K@ 5 Sinapis Albu 7@ 8 Sinapis Nigra....... 11@ 12 Spiritus Frumenti, W. D. Co. 2 00@ 2 50 Frumenti, D. F. R.. 2 00@ 2 25 Frumenti . 1 25@ 1 50 Juniperis Co. 0. T.) 1 65@ 2 00 Juniperis Co........ 1 7%@ 3 50 Saacharum N. E.... 1 90@ 2 10 Spt. Vini Galli...... 1 %@ 6 50 Vini Oporto......... 1 25@ 2 00 Vani Alia.......-... 1 2@ 2 00 Sponges Florida sheeps’ wool CSrriage......:.... 2 50@ 2 %5 Nassau sheeps wool Carroge.o...- @ 2 00 Velvet extra sheeps’ wool, carriage..... @ 110 Extra yellows eeps’ wool. carriage.. @ 8% Grass sheeps’ wool, Carmage . @ 6 Hard, for slate use. @ % Yellow Ree f, for grate use... @ 1 40 Syrups Aegeia oo i @ 50 Auranti Cortes...... @ 50 TOR co @ 50 Teeene. ce @ 60 Ferri a ls @ 50 BRhel Arom.......... @ 0 Smilax "Officinalis.. 50@ 60 Nenega .... .... .-.5.. @ 0 Co ee @ 0 Sette Co... Woleten .....5....... Erunas yirg......... Tinctures Aconitum Napellis R Aconitum Napellis F a penn and Myrrh.. 2G Somstebiaa Gees Atrope Belladonna. Auranti Cortex..... Beno Benzoin Co... ..... Cantharides........ Capsicum ........ i Cardamon......... = Cardamon Co....... Cae Caleeche. o.oo... Cinchona ee cece eccees Epona Cassia Acutifol..... Cassia Acutifol Co.. —— Erg Fest Chloridum.. GCemian 22.2. Gian Guiacaammon...... Hyoscyamus........ Iodine.. — colorless. Opii ae Opii, cam nm aS Opii, deodorized.. — ee eae, Velotian 3 Veratrum Veride... Zingiber Miscellaneous ither, Spts. Nit.3F Ether, Spts. Nit.4F %@ Mamen 00 30 24@ Alumen, gro’d..po.7 3@ Arstta 1) 40@ Antimoni, po....... Antimoni et PotassT ADGUDYFIN ........., Antifebrin . a Argenti Nitras, oz. Arsenicum..... Balm Gilead Bud . Bismuth S.N. ..... Calcium Ghior., ig. Calcium Chlor., Ms. Calcium Chlor., 4s. Cantharides, Rus. po Capsici Fructus, af. Capsici Fructus, po. Capsici FructusB spo Caryophyllus. 15 Carmine, No. a Cera Alba, S&F. Cera Flava........._ Geceus Cassia Fructus...... Centraria. 5. Cetaceum rt rv SOeedS gy — . SELOOEOES Soko Chloroform, — Chloral Hyd Crst. Chondrug. 200 Cinchonidine,P.& W Cinchonidine, Germ Cocaine. 600... Corks, a, dis. pr.ct. Creosot Cre 5 sBooes _ She — pm Cupri Sulph......... Dextrine Re eee 5 Emery, all numbers oe Wee glu oka) a ca eae ects po. 40 Flake White..2..... eoBESolotoco 8855 d0808 Gelatin, Cooper. . Gelatin, French..... Glassware, flint, = Less than box.. Glue, brown........ Glue; white. ........ Glycerina .. os Grana Paradisi...__ Hummiag. 2... Hydraag Chlor Mite Hydraag Chlor Cor. Hydraag Ox Rub’m. Hydraag Ammoniati HydraagUnguentum Hydrargyrum....... Ichthyobolla, Am.. ERGISOe ge Iodine, Resubi...... Iodoform............ EAE os ai Lycopodium ........ MeCw ©... k. Liquor Arse-. et hy- Grarg fod... ... |... LiquorPotassArsinit Magnesia, Sulph.. ae —_ ‘bb Mannia, S 2 Menthol , eeade souks Rockdlcfocookodls 88 SECESSSE SEES RS SS CRU LSC REUSER TERR SREUUSR SES ER ERAS eS sss ue RIT -_ i) eo 60 60, 10&10 SATSELS 3 — DOR Oe SLKoD RWRSSSSARSS 2 Morphia,S.P.& W... 1 9@ 2 20 Sa @ 18 Morphia, S.N.Y.Q.& a au, 3 Oe. as... S@ ® Cee: 1 &@ 2 10 psu De Moschus Canton.. Vee. @ &« Myristica, No. 1..... 6@ 80 enya Scotch, DeVo’s Go & Nux Vomica.. - po.20 @ 10| Soda Bora: cc 6 @ 8 Gs Sepia. 15@ 18) Soda Boras, po. 6 @ 8 rae Saac, H. & P. Soda et Potass Tart. 26@ 28 Ce @ 1 @O| Soda, Carb. ......... 1%@ 2 Picis Liq. N.N.% gal. Soda, = — 3@ 5 ee @ 2 00| Soda, Ash........... 3%@ 4 Picis Liq., quarts.. @ 100 Soda, eaeieia Dees Se = Picis Lig., pints..... @ 8 | Spts. Cologne........ @ 2 60 Pi Hydrarg.. -po. 80 @ 50/ Spts. Ether Co...... 50@ 55 Piper Nigra... po. 22 @ 18|Spt. Myrcia Dom... @ ? 00 Piper Alba....po. 35 @ 30| Spts. Vini Rect. bbl. @ 2 42 Piix x Burgun. ee @ 7 | Spts. Vini Rect.4%bbl @ 2 47 Piumbi Acet........ 10@ 12) Spts. Vini Rect.10gal @ 2 50 Pulvis Ipecac et Opii 1 10@ 1 20 Spts. Vini Rect. 5gal @ 2 52 Pyrethrum, boxes H. Less 5¢ gal. cash 10 days. & Co., doz. . @ 1 25 | Strychnia stal... 1 40@ 1 45 Pyrethrum, pv ae 33 | Sulphur, "Sub Petevas 240 3 oon es ica Olle 8@ 10/ Sulphur, Roll.... . 2@ 2% uinia, S. P.& W.. 2@ 31| Tamarinds.......... &@ 10 Sue’ a S. German.. 20@ 29] Terebenth Venice... 23@ 30 ol 21@ 29| Theobrome....... . 2. € Rubia Tinctorum.. Re 4! Vania... .... -. 9 00@16 09 SaccharumLactis Pv 15 «6 | Zinei Sulph......... I@ 8 Salacin.. 00@ 3 10 Sanguis Draconis. 40@ 50 Oiis apo, W....... ae ea wae) aie. i. M.... 20.00... - ig - Whale, winter....... ee Siedlits Mixture “20 @ | USTd extra......... 40 45 Linseed, pure raw.. Linseed, boiled..... Neatsfoot, winter str Spirits Turpentine.. Paints Red Venetian... ... Ochre, yellow Mars. Ochre, yellow Ber.. Putty, commercial.. Putty, a pure. Vermil ion, Prime American.......... Vermilion, English. Green, P. Green, Peninsular.. tesa. Wed. .......... Whiting, white —_ Whiting, gilders’. White, Paris Amer.. W hiting, Paris Eng. cliff . Universal Prepared. 1 Varnishes No. 1 Turp Coach... xtra Turp......... Coach Body......... 2 No. I Tarp Furn.... Extra Turk Damar.. 40 | Jap. Dryer,No.1Turp nazeltiné & Perkins DFUC 60. slndry Department We invite examination of our remodeled and handsome sundry department now in charge of Mr. J. H. Hagy. We display in sample show cases complete lines of the following goods. Perfumes Mirrors Soaps Combs Powder Puffs Tooth, Nail, Hair, Cloth, Infant, Bath, and Shaving Brushes Fountain and Family Syringes Tweezers Razors Key Rings Cork Screws Razor Strops Violin, Guitar and Banjo Strings Atomizers Suspensory Bandages Toilet and Bath Sponges And many other articles too numerous to mention. Goods are up to date and prices right. razeltiné & Perkins Drug 60. Grand Rapids, Mich. nee... 13 aSss3y MICHIGAN TRADESMAN GROCERY PRICE CURRENT. The prices quoted in this list are for the trade only, 1 They are prepared just before going to press and dealers. possible to give quotations suitable for all conditions erage prices for average conditions of purchase. those who have poor credit. Cash buyer our aim to make this feature of the greatest possible use to dealers. in such quantities as are usually purchased by retail are an accurate index of the local market. of purchase, and those below are given as representing av- s or those of strong credit usually buy closer than Subscribers are earnestly requested to point out any errors or omissions, as it is It is im- AXLE —. gross ee a3 6 00 eee ec 60 7 00 Diamond.. - 00 4 00 Frazer’s ...... 7D 9 00 IXL Golden, tin boxes 75 7D 9 00 Mica, tin boxes... ...... 70 9 00 Pee. 55 6 00 BAKING POWDER. Absolute. << ib Cane Gon............. 45 i, 1b Cane doe......-...... © : ee eee 1 50 Acme. 44 lb cans 3 doz.. ——- -— i‘ i> canes dox............ 7 1 eansidos.. .......... 1@ Son. 10 = El ae- 1¢ Ib cans per doz......... 7D %% Ib cans per doz ........ 1 2 1 ibeans perdbs......... 2 00 Home. lq 1b cans 4 doz case...... 35 4 Ib cans 4 doz case...... 5d lb cans 2 doz case TTI 4 lb cans, 4 doz case..... % lb cans, 4 doz case...... = 1 Ib cans, 9 doz case...... 1 60 Our Leader. oes... 45 oe 7 1 Ib cans ces-, 2 Peerless. ee 85 BASKETS. Per doz. Standard Bushel.......... p-3) Extra Bushel. cee Market.. | 3 % bushel, bamboo del’ ry. 3 50 % bushel, bamboo del’ry. 4 00 1 bushel, bamboo del’ry. 5 00 Iron strapped, 50c extra. Diamond Clothes, 30x16... 2 50 Braided Splint, 30x16. 4 00 BATH BRICK. American ...... 70 re 80 BLUING. i doz. pasteboard Boxes.. 40 3 doz. wooden boxes....... 1 20 BROOTIS. 8 Cre. 1 90 et chy st! a gy tN a SSE 1 75 mG: BT... so ne 1 50 me Serie... os 6 oe Pere Cee 2 00 Common Whisk...... 7 Fancy Whisk.. i 80 Warehouse. . 3 CAKE FROSTING. Nacretoin, per doz. 2% Two doz. in case assorted flav- ors—lemon, vanilla and rose. CANDLES. ee Pee a CANNED GOODS. Tianitowoc Peas. Lakeside Marrowfat....... Lakeside E. J. _ Lakeside, Cham. of Eng.. Lakeside, Gem, Ex. Si fted. CHOCOLATE. Walter a * ~ 8. German Sweet . Sean, ... Breakfast Cocos. CLOTHES LINES. Cotton, 40 ft, per doz....... Cotton, 50 ft, er OOS... .. Cotton, 60 ft, per doz....... Cotton, 70 ft, per dos....... Cotton, 80 ft, o— eon. ...... Jute, 60 ft, per doz ........ Jute, 72 ft, per dos.. : a 00 “a 1 00 1 30 -14 16 BaN RESSERS CHEESE. @ 8% @ 9 o 9 @ 3% Gem oe @ 9 Gold Modal........ 84 Ideal . eee = & Jersey....... eee @ 8 Lenawee... ........-. @ 8 Riverside. ne @ &&% Spremsaaie.........- @ %% ee @ 10% fae a ioe 2. @ 19 iceieioer . 2... @ bb Pineapple...........48 @ 8 wap eee... @ 18 Chicory. a 5 Red 7 CATSUP. Columbia, pints.........: 4 2 Columbia, % pints..........2 50 CLOTHES PINS. 5 gross boxes.. ee COCOA SHELLS. 20 1b bags.. ae : 2% Less quantity. a 3 Pound packages.. ee one 4 CREAM TARTAR. Strictly Pure, wooden boxes. = Strictly Pure, tin boxes.. COFFEE. Green. Rio. ee as 17 Geen... ke 18 rae 19 es 20 Pease ee Santos. ae... ee eee 2 ee Paes ee 22 Peaberry ..... ..23 Mexican at Guatamals. Fair . 21 Good .. 22 aS |... 24 Maracaibo. Prime ieee -.28 Sten... 24 Java. Interior . ee Private Growth.. Leake eee 27 Mandehling.. oe Mecha. Pare 25 ee 28 Roasted. Clark-Jewell-W Wells Co. *s Brands Fifth Avenue..... 28 Jewell’s Arabian Mocha. ...28 Wells’ Mocha and Java.. ..25% Wells’ Perfection Java..... Wy Sancsibo 23 Valley City Maracaibo. ....18% eee See 16 Leader Blend. oe Worden Grocer Co.’ 8 Brands Quaker Arabian Mocha..... 31 Quaker Mandehling Java. .30 Quaker Mocha and Java.. Toko Mocha and Java.. Quaker Golden Santos... State House Blend.... Quaker Golden Rio... Package. Below are given New York prices on package coffees, to which the wholesale dealer adds the local freight from New York to your shipping point, giving you credit on the invoice for the amount of freight buyer pays from the market in “which he purchases to his shipping point, including weight of package. In 680 Ib. cases the list is 10¢ per 100 Ibs. above the price in full cases. Bipeeaie se 12 00 Pee ce Uae 12 60 MicLaughiin’s XXXX. .12 00 Extract. Valley — x gross . % Felix % ger ; 1 15 Hummel’s Stoll % ‘gross. 8 Hummel’s tin % gross.. 1 43 Kneipp Malt Coffee. 1 1b. packages, 50 lb. cases 9 1 1b. packages, 100 1b. cases 9 CONDENSED MILE. 4 doz in case. Gail Borden Eagle......... 6 7% Crown 6 COUPON BOOKS. Tradesman Grade. 50 books, any denom.... 1 50 100 books, any denom.... 2 50 500 books, any denom....11 50 1,000 books, any Genom....20 00 Economic Grade. 50 books, any denom.... 1 50 100 books, any denom.... 2 50 500 books, any denom....11 50 20 00 1,000 books, any — es Re Sulit Fs SIMI Universal Grade. 50 books, any denom.... 1 50 100 books, any denom.... 2 50 500 books, any denom....11 50 1,000 books, any denom....20 00 Superior Grade. 50 books, any denom.... 1 50 100 books, any denom.... 2 50 500 books, any denom....11 50 1,000°books,’any denom....20 00 Coupon Pass Books, Can be made to represent any denomination from 310 down. Sepeons ............. 2. 1 00 Se eOeNS. 2 00 Mebeers. ..... 3.00 Pees... CS ees 10 06 Se DpoKs...... ..- 17 50 Credit Checks. 500, any one denom’n..... : 00 1000, any one denom’n..... 2000, any one denom’n..... 3 00 Steel punch. 2 _ set IR DRIED FRUITS—DONESTIC Apples. | Sumeriog.....0....... 2% Evaporated 50 lb boxes. @i alifornia Fruits. CE Breer erro... ........ posers ............ Peaches.. Le Pears os Pitted Cherries........ Permnees... .. 0... ... Raspberries............ California Prunes. 100-120 25 Ib boxes....... @ 3% 90-100 25 Ib boxes....... ‘ 80 - 90 25 Ib boxes....... 70 - 80 25 1b boxes....... 60 - 70 25 Ib boxes... .... 50 - 60 25 lb boxes 40 - 50 25 lb boxes. 30 - 40 25 1b boxes. . @ 44 cent less in 50 ib cases Raisins. @ 14@ 9 @ 12 Lendon Layers 3 Crown. 1 55 London Layers 5 Crown. 2 50 DGB CRINe oe cs 3 5 Loose Muscatels2 Crown 4% Loose Muscatels 3Crown 5% Loose Museatels 4 Crown 64% FOREIGN. urrants. Patras bbls.. a 514 Vostizzas 50 Tb cases. .-@ 5% ee @ 6% Cleaned, packages. ......1@ 7 ! Peel. Citron American 10lb bx @14 Lemon American 10 1b bx @12 Orange American 101b bx @12 Raisins. Ondura 28 ib boxes...... @ Sultana 1 Crown........ @ Sultana 2Crown........ @ 8 Sultana 3Crown........ @ Sultana 4 Crown........ @ Snitansa 5 Crown @ FLY PAPER. Tanglefoot Regular, per box......-..7. 30 Regular. case of 10 boxes.. 2 55 Regular, 5 case lots........ 2 50 Regular, 10 case lots....... 2 40 “oe 14 Little, 10 case lots.......... 1 40 Holders, per box of 50....... 7% FARINACEOUS GOODS. Parina. PO iS eel ck Grits. Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s.......2 Hominy. Bares 2 Wiake, 50 Ib. Grums..-... 1 Lima Beans. Died . .....2.)... Domestic, 10 1b. box...... 3 00 25 00 3% Maccaroni and ogee Imported, 25 Ib. box.. ...2 50 Pearl Barley. . Common.. : 1% heer 2 Press 22... 2% Peas. meen, be... ...... 80 Bet, pete... es 2% Rolled Oats. Rolled Avena, bbl..... .3 40 Monarch, bbdl........°... 39 Monarch: 4¢:bbr........ .. 1 65 Private brands, bbl..... 2 80 Private brands, %bbl..... 1 60 Quaker, efscs............5 3 20 Sago. Gorman... 46... TORE TR 3% Wheat. Cracked, bulk.........-... 3 2 ib peekeees........... 2 40 Fish. Cod. Georges cured......... @ 3% Georges genuine...... @4 Georges selected...... @5 Strips or bricks....... 5 @8 Halibut. OE 10 Meee. ge Ge te 9 Herring. Holland white hoops ke 60 Holland white — bbl. 7 50 Oe... se ce oe. Round 100 lbs....... 2 50 Hownd 2 be. ......... 5: 1 30 Scaled.. . 13 Mackerel. Mo. toe. .... 10 50 .1 40 Se _: . 2 100 lb is Pamtiy oo 8.....-<..-.. .. Ponty 10 ie...) Sardines. Rusesian kegs.............. 55 Stockfish. No. 1, = Ib. bales.:...... . No. 2,1 00 lb. bales......... Trout. Jen D.C. Vanilla D. C. Lemon 2 Os... 1 2 2a. es DS Sor. 1 Sou. ....1 @ oz... 200 Sm... 1 40 n......5 00 Gon....., 2 00 No. 8 400 No. 8...2 40 No. 10...6 00 No. 10...4 00 No. 2T.12 No. 2T. 80 No. 3T.2 00 No. 37.1 3% No 4T.2 40 No. 47.1 59 HERBS. DOGO see eye cece ee 15 Re So. ee ee 15 INDIGO. Madras, 5 Ib boxes......... 55 SF. 3, 3 and 5 lb boxes... 50 JELLY. ib OOS... 3... ce 30 TS pes. 25:2, A BY iD WONG. ce es 60 LYE. Condensed, 2 doz .......... 1 20 Condensed, 4 doz...,.......2 So Oval bottle, a “corkscrew. e Best in the world for sean Regular : — i oz Devil] 2oz......1 20 | 40z...... 2 40 XX Grade Lemon. | 20z...... 1 50 I| 40z. ....3 00 XX Grade Vanilla. i Son... 1% - <£08...... 3 50 GLUE. per doz. Jackson Liquid, 1 oz....... 65 Jackson Liquid, 20z....... 98 Jackson Liquid, 30z....... 1 30 GUNPOWDER. Rifle—Dupont’s. ORR ee 4 Halt eee ce 2 Choke Bore—Dupont’s.. Bee. ee 4 00 Teer See 22 Quarter Kegs...........:... 1 2 11b cans. 34 Eagle Duck—Dupont’s. Kegs 8 00 Half Kegs owe oe ey -- kw Gasser ers... 8. 2 25 PIpCHS. 6 cs 45 LICORICE. oo eee a ne ee 30 — pos. 3) Sicily... . 14 TO ee cee ae: 10 MINCE MEAT. Ideal, 3 = in Gage... - ...- 2 25 ATCHES. eiiieoie de Match Co.’s — No. 9 suipher Amenor Farner... . 2... . i 7 Woe Somes, 110 Export Parior.............. 4 00 MOLASSES. New Orleans. DiMGk. e li eee 14 OGG ee 20 a A rake ae eaekeoneet 24 ere Reeeee. 4. wc 25@35 Half-barrels 2c extra. PI . Clay MO. See. ce. eos 70 Clay, T. D. fullcount...... 65 Cob, No. 3.... ..... oo 1 48 cans in Case. Peer Se 400 Penna Salt Co.’s........... 3 00 PICKLES. Medium. Barrels, 1,200 count....,... 3 40 Half bbls, 600 count........ 2 20 Small. Barrels, 2,400 count........ 4 40 Half bbls, 1,200 count...... 2 70 RICE. Domestic. Carolina head.............. 614 Cazotina No. 1:........5... 5 Crome Ne. 22.0 4% Bee 3 Imported. Japan, No.1 5% Japan, Ne. 2........... 5. S Java, No. 1..... 4% OO ed chock ee cya pace 5% ——. . Aviee...... Soeeevoues (Cm Canary. Smyrna. bec emewess 4 ORERMRY oo 10 Cardamon, Malabar ..... 80 Hemp, Russian........... 4 Mixea Fire. |... 4% Mustard, white.. 6% SANE os ie eng as 8 I oo ae ence ns co 5 Cathie Bone..............- 20 SALERATUS. Packed 60 lbs. in box. CUNERECR oc ek Se se 3 30 Deiand’s ..............2.-+0. 3 15 MPIC So. asec. esc 3 00 SAL SODA. Granulated, bbls. . -1 10 Granulated, 100 Ibe cases..1 50 Lump, bbls.... L 1 Lump, 1451b kegs... Ciau se cage 11110 SALT. Diamond Crystal. Cases, 24 3-lb boxes......... 1 50 Barrels, 100 31bbags...... 2% Barrels, 40 7 lbbags...... 2 40 Butter, 28 Ib. bags........... 30 Butter, 56 1b bags........... 60 Butter, 20 14 1b bags........ 3 00 Butter, 280 1b bbls.......... 2 50 Common Grades. TOS TP eeeRS..... 5.8... 2 60 OSs. eaCes 6. ss. 1 8 BS IF ID SAGER... 2. 0555. 1 70 Worcester. So.4 ib. Cartons. .......... 3 25 15, SGD: GAGES... 22.2.2 4 00 Oe 9 If SReke. oo e: 3 75 ze 4 YD. SACKS... SL... 3 50 S016 10 eacks. ... oo... 3 50 28 ib. linen saere. ........... 32 56 Ib. Hnen sacks............ 60 Buik in barrdig.........<...; 2 50 Warsaw. 56-lb dairy in drill bags..... 30 28-lb dairy in drill bags..... 15 Ashton. 56-1b dairy in iinen sacks... 60 Higgins... 56-lb dairy in linen sacks... 60 Solar Rock. SOTD seks... 8. 21 Common Fine. OPERA oc es 70 Maniacs 2 SNUFP. Scotch, in bladders......... 37 Maccaboy, PPAR 35 French Rappee, in jars .... 48 SPICES. Whole Sifted. Alepieo .26. 20) ee 9 Cassia, China in mats....... 10 Cassia, Batavia in bund....20 Cassia, Saigon in rolls...... 32 Cloves, Amboyna........... 7 Cloves, Zanzibar............ weace, Atayia:.;. ..... 60 Nutmegs, fancy... 8... -60 Nutmegs, mo f... = mpemers, WO. 2....5 0c. Pepper, Singapore, black.. . Pepper, Singapore, white... .12 Pemier shoe... oo. ool. 10 Pure Ground in Bulk. POIRIOR occ c etc tla. 12 Cassia, Batavia ............. 22 Cassin, Patho. c.f 35 Cloves, Amboyna........... Cloves, Zanzibar... (imgee, Aipree..... 15 Ginger, Coenen... 20 Ginger, Jamaica............ 22 mace. BAe... 70 Mustard, Eng. and Trieste. .20 Mustard, i bec See ee eee Esta 25 Nutmegs, neecerce ce ssa es 40@5E0 Pepper, Sing., black ....10@14 Pepper, Sing., white....15@18 Pepper, Cayenne Dede gees 17@20 eee ee 18 SYRUPS. rn. BORROW oo ass oe cas woe 12 Rat Os... os ct. 14 Pure Cane eee 16 RIO ce sc 20 teeeee oe ee SODA. PO ec ee - Kegs, oa” Soe. SOAP. Laundry. Armour’s Brands. Arveeours Paaiiiy.......... 70 Armour’s Laundry........ 3 25 Armour’s White, 100s...... 6 25 Armour’s White, 50s....... 3 20 Armour’s Woodchuck . 2 55 Armour’s Kitchen Brown. 2 00 Armour’s Mottled German 2 40 SOAP. BENS OOE.. e 2% 5 box lots, delivered........ 2 70 10 box lots, delivered....... 2 65 JAS. 8. KIRK & GO. BRANDS. American Family, wrp’d.. American Family, unwrp a. 3 Fd 3 33 Dusky Diamond, 56 oz...... 210 Dusky Diamond, 58 oz...... 3 00 Wee ORE oo ee 3 00 Kirkoline. WOE ei iiic tes lec 3 65 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 21 Lautz Bros. & Co.’s Brands. Acme, 701 Ib. cakes. Single box.. : 2 ao SOs 1008s 2 cs, 3 35 20 Ox 1Ots. c. 5... sc... SS 25 box lots.. , aoe Acme, 60 1 lb cakes. Spee pos. 8... 3 00 S bow fs 28 TO oe tite eS 2 85 My DOM IGGR. oe One box free with 5; two boxes free with 10; five boxes free with 25. Acme, 5 cent size. Beemie pO! sss. 2 8 ee, SU ee eee ay a0 hoe tote... sc. 270 os Oe tC ee 2 65 Acorn, 120 cakes, 75 Ibs. Simgie GOe.... 35... 8. 2 §5 Dee GUS. ene. ss. 2% OG BOE 1016. |. oe. 27% 25 box lots... ...... 2 65 Marseilles White. 100 cakes, 7 lbs. Simgie Doe. SSRI 100 cakes, 5 cent size. Single Lt ae ee 4 00 Omer FOr... so 3 90 Me pos fous... 3 85 2a DON TOG os 3 80 Schulte Soap Co.’s Brand. Sehuite’s Family...... .....2 % one tic wee ce cota coe 2 85 (a 2 50 Grama Mottied......... Ib. Boxes co. @30 No. “1 wrapped, 3 Ib. —..... ., @45 No. "2 wrapped, 2 lb. boxes ees Fruits. Oranges. Seedlings. ee et @ ee @ Tere we. @3 50 Med’t Sweets. @3 2 ay @3 50 Messinas. Peney 2008... 52... @3 50 Rodi. MOON @4 00 Lemons. Strictly choice 360s.. @3 00 Strictly choice 300s.. @3 25 Fancy 360s....... ... @3 50 Ex.Fancy 300s...... @3 75 Bananas. Medium bunches...1 25 @I1 50 Large bunches...... 1% @2 00 Foreign Dried Fruits. —_ Choice Layers Oi @10 Figs, New Smyrna 14 and 20 1b boxes. @12 Figs, Naturals in oo ib. bags... ...... @ Dates, Fards in 101b ROR oo @ 8 Dates, Fards in 60 Ib anee @6 Dates, Persians,H.M. B., 60 Ib cases, new @ 5% Dates, Sairs 60 Ib mee @ 4% Nuts. Almonds, Tarragona. . @i2 Almonds, Ivaca....... @il Almonds, California, soft shelled @ Brazils new... @ 7% oe @i0 Walnuts, Grenobles .. @12% Walnuts, Calif No. 1. @i0 Walnuts, soft shelled Caan eS. @i2 Table Nuts, fancy.... @il Table Nuts, choice... @10 Pocans. Mod... @ Pecans, Ex. Large.... @i0 Pecans, Jumbos....... @12 Hickory Nuts per bu., Ona, NeW es. @ Cocoanuts. full sacks @4 00 Peanuts. Fancy, H. P., Suns. @ 6 Fancy, H. P., Flags HO@HOG. 2... 5: ......< @ 6% Choice, H. P., Exiras. @4 Choice, H. P., Extras, Roasted eee ee weenne 1 | Grains and Feedstufis Wheat. Wet : 74 Winter Wheat Flour. Local Brands. Pee 4 60 Second Patent.. .-. £2 es... 4 05 Clear. ees erent yacce., a ne Gr aham . 400 Buckwheat . 3 40 ee a Subject t to usual cash dis- count, Flour in bbls.,25¢ per bbl. ad- ditional. Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand. Ce a ee Quaker, 4s.... 415 Quaker, \s. 415 Spring Wheat leew. Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brand. Pilisbury’s Best 3¢s........ 4 60 Pilisbury’s Best 4s........ 4.50 Pillsbury’s Best 4s........ 4 40 Pillsbury’s Best 144s paper. 4 40 Piilsbury’s Best sas paper.. 4 40 Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Grand Republic, ¥s........ Grand Republic, 4s... ..... 4 40 Grand Republic, %s........ 4 30 Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s Brand. Warieten, 366...)...-... 5... 4 58 Parisian, 349... ... ... -_@ Parisian. 45,........ . 420 Olney & Judson’ Ss Brand. Brand. 4 50 VO MCREEN SR 4 50 Weresere Sin, 4 40 Ceroeors, 44a.. ............. 4 30 Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand. Ea@erel, a... ......... 4 58 | Laurel M4n. 2... . 440 Reurer %48....-....... 2... 4 30 Meal solted . oo 8 oe Giineintes 1 Feed and Millstuffs. St. Car Feed, screened ....12 50 No. 1 Corn and Oats. -11 50 Unbolted Corn Meal....... i 00 Winter Wheat Bran Winter Wheat Middlings. 950 Screenings. : 8 00 The O. E. ee n “Mil 1 Co. quotes as follows: New Corn. Car lots... Ln. s eee | Less than car lots......... 28% Oats. Car lots. .. —— Carlots, clipped... toe eect ae Less than car lots.... cae ee Hay. No. 1 Timothycarlots..... 10 50 No. 1 Timothy, ton lots....12 00 Crackers. The N. Y. Biscuit Co. quotes as follows: Butter. oevmeoie 2a ............ 4y Seymour XXX, 31b. carton 5 F amily oo Family XXX, 31b carton.. 5 Salted XXX 4 Salted XXX, 31b carton... 5 Soda. we Soda 3 4% |Soda XXX, 3 ib carton. a moe, Cie... 5% AOPRPIOMe . Long Island Wafers....... 9 Es, 10 I. Wafers, 1 Ib carton... Oyster. Square Oyster, A ax. ...... 4 Sq. Oys. XXX.1 1b carton. 5! Warina Oyster, S3N...... 4 SWEET GOODS—Boxes. Aiea. . 9 Bent’s Cold Water......... 13 more BONO... 6 Cocoanut Taity............ 9 Cofice Cakeq 7... 2c. 8 Procvwd Moecy. 8c. 10 i Graham Crackers ......... 6% | Ginger Snaps, XXX round. 5% Ginger Snaps, XXX city... 5% | Gin. Snps,XXX home miade 5% | Gin. Snps,X XX scalloped.. 5% | Ginger Vaniiia............ % eet 6% sumples, Honey... 0.0... 10 Motusses Cakes... 2.2.0... 6% Marshmallow ay a. oe Marshmallow C reams..... 13 Pretzels, hand made ..... 6 Pretzelettes, LittlkeGerman 6 pueeay CORG.,....-......4. 6% BUMSMOS ooo le | Bogs Ininem 6% Sears’ Zephyrette.. ..... . 10 Vantin Souare.......:... . Vania Waters... 0.. 2... 12 Pecan Walor.............. 12 Fruit Coffee..............:. 9 eRe FACING 5... es 3c 10 Cream Jumbles o, 1 Boston Ginger Nuts,....... 6 Chimmie Fadden.......... 9 Pineapple Glace........ a Bas Hides oad Pelts. Perkins & Hess pay as fol- lows: | Hides. Gree... oe Part cured... ....... @ 63 8 Pal Cowe.........-.. Mar 7% a ee @ 8 ipa. sree... ...: 5 @ 6 Kips, eure. .......... 4a e Calfskins, green...... 54@ 7 Calfakins, cured...... 7 @ 8} Deaconskins ......... 5S @ao | e j BrGariinee .. 02s. 5@ 10} Pees ts SO Ca Wooel............ Ga wy Oils. Barrels. Ween es esc. @i1% XXX W.W.Mich.Hdlt @ 8% W W Michizan........ @8 High Test sae ateemneee @7 D., 8. Gas @ 8 Deo. Naptha’. = @™% Cylinder ......... 25 @36 A ect. vs. 11 @2i Black, winter......... @8 7 | * ° Provisions. Crockery and Swift & Company quote as Gl sware. follows: ae Barreled Pork. AKRON STONEWARE. Mess a ee aan a cei 8 50 Butters. mee dh lULe SS ‘ so y ecame ae — — i _ Fine Glazed Milkpans. California hams... . 64@7 | % gal. flat orrd. bot.,doz. 65 Boneless hams. 84% | 1gal. flatorrd. bot.,each 5% Cooked ham.. 11 Stewpans. Lards. In Tierces E 4 gal. fireproof, bail, doz. 8} Compound............... 3% | 1 gal. fireproof, bail, doz.1 10 MOS 51g [ J 55 lb Tubs.......advance Me — BOlTp Tuabs....... advance 14 | 4 gal., perdoz............. 40 S01b Ting ....... advance 1g | 42 Bal.. perdoz.... ........ 50— 20 1b Pails. ....:. advance i, | 1 60S Sal. per oal......... 6% 10 = Pails.......advance % Tomato Jugs. Sib Pais. ...... advance Mii i yl 3 lb Pails.......advance i ot oe rey : Sausages. Corks for % gal., per doz.. 20 et eee se .: Corks for 1 gal., per doz.. 30 Erankfort... Hin et Bit Preserve Jars and Covers. Re 6% | % gal., stone cover, doz... 75 Blood 6 1 gal., stone cover, doz...1 00 Tongue .... 9 Sealing Wax. mead €heese............. O46 leis in package, perlb... 2 eef. | BEY ~ mete Meas... SO |. LAMP BURNERS. Bondless (0000100101. oe ENG. O Som. _ = A 9 50 Be a tore seneee 50 PM eee a eee 7d a ~— eee 50 Bits, 15 Ibe.. oe 80 Security, No. i 65 4 phils, ibe... 1 5U Security, ae % bbls, 80 Ibs. . le ‘. ae Tripe. Climax.. -_i ite 6 Wie... 1.18... % 7a aie 1 40 LAMP otnccatan % bbls, %Ibs............2% | | ee. Casings. Ne. 1 Sum... 1 88 — one” Nana al 18 | No. 2 Sun. ae a pli eels si oy” Beef middics........... 8 ul First ‘Quality. See 60| No. 0 Sun, crimp top, wrapped and labeled.... 2 10 _ ,_, Butterine. No. Sun, crimp top, Rolls, dairy............. 10 wrapped and labeled.... 2 25 Nemo Gain... 9%1No. 2 Sun crimp top Rolls, creamery ......... . wrapped and labeled.... 3 25 Solid, creamery . —. 2 XXX Flint ay Canned Mente. s i Corned beef, 2 lb.......215 |No. 9 Sun, crimp top, a Corned beef, 14 Ib.......14 00 wrapped and labeled.... 2 55 Roast beef, 2 1b. .215 |No. 1 Sun, crimp top, a Potted ham, %s 50 wrapped and labeled. 2% Potted ham, %s 1 00 No. 2 Sun, —- top, i Deviledham, ¥s....... 60 wrapped and labeled... 3 7 Deviled ham, ia... 2 CHIMNEYS—Pearl Tes. Potted tongue \s..... 60 No.1 Sun, wrapped and Potted tongue \s. aa 37 Yo. 2 —_ wrapped and = ree 4 70 No. See wrapped ond M label ied... Fresh J eats. No. 2 Sun, “Small Bul 1b,?? for G lobe Leaps... 2... 80 Beef. La Bastie. Cemeese el ag No.18 — Fore quarters.........5 @6 |* ae Sun. plain bulb, per ie a TRG 9 oo ls Ul Weins No. = a car | No.2 Sun, plain bulb, per _ Hie ae doz wens tenet tcececnreeee 1 50 Bowids 1 Gs a 1 Crimp, per or 3 ; = aees...,........ 4 @5 o.2 Crimp, perdoz.. .... 1 6 Pine @ 4 Rochester. | Pork. No. 1, Lime (@e dog)...... 3 50 Lied. @ 5 No. 2, Lime (70e doz). ££ To) Lome ..... @6 | No. 2, Flint (80c doz)...... 4 70 Pheuigers.... 0.2... @ 5% | Electric. yaaa ora 54%@ 8 | No.2, Lime (70c doz) ..... 4 00 ‘ Mutton. _ ae No. 2, Flint (80¢ doz)...... 4 40 | Carcass oa it ae | | Spring Lambs... ..... 9 @l10 OIL CANS. Doz. I Veal. 1 gal tin cans with spout.. 1 25 ;Cercage ...... 1. 9 @ 6% 1 gal galv iron with spout. 1 66 ae 2 gal galv iron with spout. 2 87 | 3 gal galv iron with spout. 4 00 | 5 gal galv iron with spout. 5 00 | 5 gal galv iron with faucet 6 00 1S wal Tilting cans.......... 9 Ov |5 gal galv iron Nacefus ... 9 00 | Pump Cans | 5 gal Rapid steady stream. 9 00 | 5 gal Eureka non-overflow 10 50 13 gal Home Mule... .<... 10 50 S gal Home Rule.... ..:... 12 00 15 gal Pirate King...... Lo. 2 OO | ae No. 0Tubular..... . 435 ino. 1B Tareas... ....... .6 50 | No. 13 Tubular Dash. |... 6 30 | = 1 Tub., glassfount.... 7 00 No. 12 Tubular, side lamp. 14 0€ No 3 Street Lamp . 3% | ~LANTERN GLOBES. | No. 0 Tubular, cases 1 doz. | each, box 10 cents........ | No. 0 Tubular, cases 2 doz. | each, box 15 cents. | No.0 Tubular, bbls 5 ‘doz. } each, bbl 35. | No. 0 Tubular, ‘pull’s eve, | cases 1 doz. each.. 1 25 | LAMP WICKS. | No. 0 per gross.. i | ok © DOP Sroee. 5... 25 No. 2 Or AIO06 cue. seen. 38 No. 3 per gross......... wa Mammoth per dos......... 70 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Hardware The Hardware Market. General trade continues in fairly good condition, the backwardness of the sea- son being taken into consideration. The demand for goods among the retailers evidently keeps up, as mail orders as well as orders from traveling men are very frequent and of fairvolume. There is but little change to note in prices, as there seems to be no desire on the part of any one to make any advances that are not fully warranted. The recent flurry in the wire and nail market, caused by the report that a new combi- nation was being formed, has passed away, as it was found impossible at the present time to make satisfactory agree- ments with all the rod mills. Wire Nails—As foreshadowed in our last market report it was an almost abso- lute certainty last week that an agree- ment had been reached between the manufacturers of wire rods and all products, such as wire nails, staples, etc., and that the advance of toc which was made by manufacturers and jobbers generally would be fully maintained, and a further advance soon take place. Later in the week it was found impos- sible for the manufacturers to agree among themselves and the deal was de- clared off and all prices went back to their former base. At the present time it does not seem possible that there will be any advance during this month or next, but as we were mistaken in the last week or two, we may be mistaken as to the future. Jobbers are not specu- lating and are not buying any great quantities, except for their immediate wants. Barbed Wire—In sympathy with wire nails and other wire products, barbed wire has again gone back to its original price. The demand continues good for this time of the year and the resumption of the old price, it is believed, will cause increased sales. Glass—The demand continues good and the recent advauce made seems to be fully maintained by all jobbers, as well as manufacturers. It is believed by those who understand the situation fully that, when the factories shut down in July for their annual hot weather va- cation, it will be several months before they start up again. Rope—There is no change in price and the demand is only fair. Reports from other markets are as follows: Chicago—The shelf hardware trade is holding up very well. The movement of goods is so large that business would be very satisfactory if prices were not so extremely low. St. Louis—The hardware jobbing trade continues to report satisfactory improvement in the demand and in many departments jobbers are extreme- ly busy. Cleveland—Trade in general is fair, but we hear a great deal of complaint from manufacturers’ representatives who visit us. Baltimore—With the close of May we may now say that the spring trade is over and now begins what with us is the dullest time of the year. Louisville—There is quite a percep- tible movement in heavy goods and gen- eral building hardware which is heav- ier than has prevailed for some time past. Boston—The past month shows a very large amount of detail and it one should judge by the looks of the bill file, he would say the amount must be much greater than the results show. The fact remains that the prices of goods are so low that, while the number of orders and sales are beyond the average, the total amount is less than last year. San Francisco—Trade continues about the same as in our last report. The fruit industry of the state never promised better results. Collections are slow at this time of the year. Omaha--Business men, as a rule, ap- pear to be considerably encouraged and various enterprises are being placed on foot that have been dormant for the past two or three years. Portland, Oregon—The promise of a fair trade for May has been in a good degree fulfilled. More money has come into the state for the purchase of cattle this spring than for several years. —~>-2 Obeyed the Law as Interpreted by the Secretary. Elsie, June 5—I noticed in your issue of May Ig an article entitled, ‘‘ Pasters on Silver Coins.’’ The present Secre- tary of the Treasury must have different views on the subject than had the in- cumbent of that office in 1891. At that time [ was about to engage in trade and I conceived the idea that it would be an excellent advertisement to attach a paster to each silver dollar I took in in the course of business, reading, ‘‘ This dollar bought goods of J. E. Craven.’’ Not knowing what the Treasury Depart- ment might do in that case, however, wrote the Secretary, and in his reply he stated that the law was very plain on the subject. He said I would be guilty of defacing coin and would be liable to suffer the penalty. I, therefore, aban- doned the idea, but some more venture- some traders have used the paster, as I have had several pasted coins within the past two years. J. E. CRAVEN. — Jobber of___ ae Umbrellas, Parasols and Walking Canes. = Special attention given to mail orders for anything in our line. Largest Assortment in Michigan. on. 58 Monroe St, * Grand Rapids. A 700 Pound Barrel can be handled with per- fect ease by One Man And our Barrel Truck. For further information address BUYS BARREL TRUCK CO. 761 ©. Fulton St. Grand Rapids, Mich. M. B. WHEELER. S. D. KOPF. A. O. WHEELER, Manistee, Mich. Private Line Phones We have the best at reasonable prices. When you are ready to connect your house and store, office and factory, etc., write us for pri¢es and information. They are not expensive. M. B. Wheeler & Go., 25 Fountain St., Grand Rapids. To The Wholesale Trade First Premium at Mich- igan State Fair. Carriages, Road Wagons, Surries and HARNESS of all kinds. AW) ho LS = SS eS All kinds of Spray P: > AN CR for aes and iit : Na Send for Catalogues and 7 a ZI\S Wholesale Price List. BLUE FLAME OIL COOK STOVE EVERY ONE FULLY WARRANTED. No. Io! 1 Burner List - $ 5 00 No.102 2Burners List - 7 50 No. 103 3 Burners List - 10 00 Discount 40 per cent. Special discount for quantity. Send for circular. FOSTER, STEVENS & CO., Grand Rapids. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 23 SUCCESSFUL SALESMEN. C. M. Lee, Representing Strong, Lee & Co. Cuyler M. Lee was born at Lansing, Dec. 10, 1870. He lived there until his mother died, at the age of 12, when his father sent him to the preparatory school at Olivet. He attended this school two years, after which he spent three years in Olivet College, graduating in the classical course, when he removed to Boston to take a clerical position in the office of his father, who was then engaged in the stock and grain broker- age business. Two years later he took Horace Greeley’s advice and went West, locating at Kansas City, where he se- cured employment with the M., K. & T. Railway as billing clerk in the freight department. Two years later he was recommended to Geo. C. Smith, General Manager of the Missouri Pa- cific Railroad, at St. Louis, with whom he remained ina confidential position tor three years. Il] health compelled him to resign that position and the sum- mer of 1893 was spent at Mackinaw Island and other resorts in Northern Michigan. Starting to return to St. Louis in the fall by way of Detroit, he was offered a position in the wholesale dry goods house of Strong, Lee & Co. and for a year was connected with the flannel department of the house. He then went on the road, covering the D., L. & N., Grand River Valley and J., L. & S. Railroads, seeing his trade every thirty days. His career in this field has been marked with unusual suc- cess. Mr. Lee was married March 24, 1806, to Miss Urba Webber, of Warsaw, Ind. They reside in their own home in Lansing and are members of the First Presbyterian church of that place. Mr. Lee is a conscientious worker and is noted for his enthusiasm over his line and for the manner in which his cus- tomers stay by him, so that the house is reasonably sure of securing a certain number of orders in every town he touches. He was formerly hampered by a somewhat peculiar temperament, but, after an unusual experience with cider dealers at Cass City and_ business men in other towns, he has learned to control himself in this respect. He has rare ability as a musician, both vocal and instrumental, and can sing or play any piece after hearing it once. —_—_2>0>_ How One Millionaire Began His Up- ward Career. A young German immigrant, who had not a dollar in the world and no rela- tives, friends or acquaintances in Amer- ica, worked his way westward from New York until he reached a small town in Ohio, where he secured a position as clerk in a flour and feed store and went to work. In almost an incredibly short time he learned the English lan- guage and had mastered the few details of the business he was in. One day he walked into another feed store a few blocks away, said that he had heard that the proprietor of the place desired to sell out and enquired the price. The feed dealer wanted $1, 500. After a few enquiries the caller sal “All right. I vill call to-morrow at Io and ve ‘ll go over to the bank and get the money. No one knew anything about the young German. The feed store man who wanted to sell jumped to the conclusion that the prospective purchaser must have brought considerable money from Germany. The next day, promptly on time, the German called to take pos- session. ‘*Come on,’’ he said, ‘‘ve’ll go right over to the bank now and get the money. Tacciees they entered the bank. The Germar. approached the cashier’s win- dow, introduced himself and said: ‘*Dis is Mr. Jones who keeps the feed store on Main street. I haf bought out his place for $1,500 and ve haf called to get the money. oh beg. your pardon,”’ cashier, have you?”’ ‘*You don’t understand,’’ remarked the German, account at all; replied the ‘but you have no account here, earnestly “*T don’t vant an I vant only the money.”’ ‘*But you have no money in this bank,’’ explained the official. ‘*Of course not,’’ assented the caller. ‘‘If I had the money I vould pay dis man myself. But I haven’t any money at all, so I must come to you to get it.” “But we can’t let you have money unless you first give it to us. ‘*Then why is a bank?’’ excitedly de- manded the would-be borrower. The colloquy which ensued waxed so loud that the President of the bank came out of his private office to see what was the matter. He took the young German in hand personally. The latter told the banker all about himself and his aims and ambitions and in less than a half hour the bank had loaned him $1,500 and taken a first mortgage ona feed store owned by the happiest young foreigner in America. That occurred many years ago, but that young German to-day is the head of the American Cereal Co., and his name is Ferdinand Schumacher.. —_—___» 0 <.___- The Kentucky Court of Appeals has decided that the death of a man as a re- sult of a mosquito bite is an accidental death, within the meaning of an acci- dent insurance policy, and that the rep- resentatives of the decreased are en- titled to recover accordingly. WM. BRUMMELER & SONS, GRAND RAPIDS, Pay the highest price in cash for MIXED RAGS, RUBBER BOOTS AND SHOES, OLD IRON AND METALS. Send us a list of what you have and we will quote you our best prices thereon. PDOOODOODOOOQOOOQOOOQDOGDOOOE The Best On Earth Manufactured by Schulte Soap Co., Detroit, Mich. Premium given away with Clydesdale Soap Wrappers. QOOQQOOQOOODOE Hardware Price Current. AUGURS AND BITS Pe ee 70 CCR OIG 2510 Senmingn . TMCAOM 28 60&10 AXES First Quality, S. B. Bronze ................. 5 00 Firat Quality, D. B. Bronzé..............0<. 2 50 First Quality. §. B.S. Steel...... .......... 550 arse Gaality, BH. Stcel....... 8. 10 50 BARROWS TEOM ae .... 812 00 14 00 Geemere 8 net 30 00 BOLTS ee 60&10 Caeringe new ist... 4... ae a . 50 BUCKETS Well, pit $832 BUTTS, CAST Cast Loose Pin, Geured......... 2... 70&10 Wioumnt Narrow... £5. tk 75&10 BLOCKS Ordinary Tackle... ........... Be oe 70 CROW BARS CMSU Shoe per lb 4 CAPS oo ee rm §6 Pe ee ane a oe m 55 Ce perm 35 ee ge perm 60 CARTRIDGES Bon Wares ss . DO& 5 OCGpcree Mire oe ec B& 5 CHISELS Reemes Marwiew .- 80 Socket Praming........... 80 Socket Corner......... 80 Socket Siieks.......... 80 DRILLS Mores Bit Sigeme ........ ck 60 Taper and Straight Shank. . 5O& 5 Morse’s Taper Shank........... . dO& 5 ELBOWS Com. 4 piece, ” in Corrugated... Adjustable.. - 1 .. dis 40&10 "EXPANSIVE BITS Clark's small, $16; larec, @6................ 30&10 Ives’, 1, $18; 2, $24; 3, $30 25 FILES—New List ew AMTICO oo 70&10 ee a Heller’s Horse Rasps.. . .6C&10 GALVANIZED ‘IRON Nos. 16 to 20; aa 2a and 26; 27. ..... 28 List 12 13 15 i: _... 17 Discount, 75_to 75-10 GAUGES Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............... 60416 KNOBS—New List Door, mineral, jap. trimmings.... ......... 70 Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings............ 80 MATTOCKS meee ee os $16 00, dis 60&10 Tees ee B15 00, dis 60&10 eee $18 50, dis 20&10 MILLS Comec. Parkers Co.'s..............--...--... 40 Coffee, P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s Malleables. . 40 Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’s........... 40 Coffee, Enterprise ecg o bace ese oe an 30 MOLASSES GATES Stebbin’s Pattern.. . ce ..60&10 Siebbive Genie 60&10 Enterprise, self-measuring ....... nee ae 30 NAILS Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire. Steel nails, base..... ... 1 Wire nails, base..... ee 1 75 eee. Base eS Be ete anes acess 10 OC Oe ee 20 OE ce oi bec ege see ts 30 eee ee 6 ee 70 Mine Soaeanee... ce 50 mere to Ge vanee... 6... 15 Cusine § Gevance..............5............ 25 ecuas Gaevenee. 3... cc. oct lk. 35 iets 10 Sevaice jew. P23) amine Heaven ee... ccc. 35 Winten GAGvence.............. 220... 45 Peoreee © Gvanec.....-.... 22... 2... 85 PLANES rnd Tool Co.'s, fanéy...............2...... @50 eo 60 Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy................. @50 ener. meetquaiiy..... 6... a. @50 Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s wood......... 60 PANS ee es 60&10&10 [pean “poliabed Be ee ee tee cee: W& 5 RIVETS Men and: Wienee 2 oak. oot le 60 Copper Rivets and Burs...............-....- 60 PATENT PLANISHED IRON ‘“‘A”? Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 20 “B” Wood's patent planished, Nos. 25 to 27 9 20 Broken packages %c per pound extra. 10 9 HAMMERS Maydole & Co.’s, new list........ ...... dis ae Bie ot. dis Woenon Ge Piumiues........-. 2.0. .2...000., ao 40810 Mason’s Solid Cast Steel. 70 Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel Hand 300 list 40810 HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS Stamped Fin Ware....... -........ new list bo eed danannod Fin Ware.................-....... 20& Granite Iron Ware................. new list 10610 HOLLOW WARE OM 6010 ee 60&10 ee 60&10 HINGES Gate Clams £2,0..................... dis 60&10 ete ueadaheaee per doz. net 2 50 WIRE GOODS aaa eee 80 eo dll Oe ee 80 eee a et dey 80 Gate Hooms ane Myee...........-........... 80 LEVELS Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............ dis 70 ROPES Gieal 46 tock and irger............... .... 54 EE ee 8 a er ae 80 re oud Bovelg .. .................--...... ee SHEET IRON com. smooth. com. eee 83 30 #2 40 eS eS 3 30 2 40 oe .3 4 2 6 ie Sto se 8c 3 55 27 eee 3 70 2& ee 2 90 3 80 All sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30 inches wide not less than 2-10 extra. SAND PAPER List acct. 19, 86...... eee ees cet ucet seu as dis SASH WEIGHTS Solid Bven per ton 20 00 TRAPS fecel, Game... .................... 60&10 Oneida Community, Newhouse’s..... i § Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s 70&104&10 15 Meee, Ghomer..:.-. per doz Mouse, delusion................. per doz 1 25 WIRE ont Maeeot 8. % Diimcmies Mareet.... 8. ie st. 75 Conperca Market........................2... 70&10 OE ee 2 Coppered Spring Steel.. aoe Barbed Fence, galvanized . ee ¢ oB Barbed Fence, painted. . 1 70 HORSE NAILS Ee ee dis “— eee dis NCTE dis 10810 WRENCHES Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.............. 30 eeu Gemune....... -.......... ........... 50 Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought ....... 80 Coens Patent, malteabie..................... 80 MISCELLANEOUS nae Cee. 50 Pema, Cistern... 2... 20. nnn cece nose 2 Berowe New tise. Casters, Ved and Piste............. .... 50810810 Dampers, American..................... 50 er 600 pound casks. . aa 614 Perpoeume. 63 SOLDER Qs 12% The prices of the many other qualities of solder in the market indicated by private brands vary according to composition. TIN—Melyn Grade ict C Charcea...........-.... *- a $5 75 14x20 1G, ————————————————————_—__—eee 5 % 20x1 14oe Chee 7 00 Each additional X on this grade, 81.25. TIN—Allaway Grade 16n14 10, Chareea: ............-.. . 5 00 14x20 IC, Charcoal . 5 00 ioni4 Ix, Charcoal . 6 00 14x20 IX, Charcoal . 6 00 Each additional X on this grade, $1.50. ROOFING PLATES 14x20 IO, Charcoal, Dean. .......-...-.0+s00. 14x20 IX, Charcoal, Dean .................-- 20x28 IC, Charcoal, eee... ewe... 14x20 IC, Charcoal, seeeey ree. ok 14x20 1X, Charcoal, Allaway Grade......... 20x28 IC, Charcoal. Allaway Graeme 6... 20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade......... BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE 14x56 IX, for No. 8 Boilers, 14x56 IX, for No. 9 Boilers, mouURoaa SSsssss _ © t per pound... IXX DAIRY PAIL. G. R. Write for quotations and monthly illustrated Catalogue. Wii. BRUMMELER & SONS, Manufacturers and jobbers of Pieced and Stamped Tinware. 260 S. lonia St. - Grand Rapids, Mich Telephone 640 er a i i f " 24 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN The Produce Market. Asparagus——Home grown has ad- vanced to 30c per doz. bunches. Bananas—The movement of bananas is not interfered with by any tropical revolution and the prices that prevailed for a short space are now going down. Beets—3oc per doz. bunches. Butter—Local handlers hold separator creamery at I4c and choice dairy at gc, so that it nets the shipper 7@8c. The market is fully supplied with all grades of stock. Cabbage—Cairo stock commands $1.75 per crate. Louisiana’ stock fetches $2.50 per crate. Cauliflower—$1.75 per box of 2 doz. heads. Cherries—While the weather condi- tions have been against this fruit, Mis- souri stock is arriving in fairly good condition, commanding $1.75 per bu. Cheese—The market is weaker, prices having further declined on fancy full cream, choice and fair. Cucumbers—Home grown command 4oc per doz. Southern fetch 25c. Eggs—Dealers pay 7%@8c on track, case count. reselling candled stock at oc. Gooseberries—The first gooseberries of the season are on the-market this week. They are from Benton Harbor and bring $1 per 16 qt. crate. The re- ceipts are light as yet. Greens—Beet, 40c per bu. Spinach, 25c per bu. Lemons—The weather is more unfa- vorable to lemons than to any other line of fruit. The movement is siow although the quotations are unchanged. Local supplies are liberal, and an easier tone is noticeable in the market. Lettuce—Grand Rapids forcing 6@7c per Ib. Onions—Green fetch 15c per doz. bunches. Bermuda _ stock brings $2.75 per bu. crate; Egyptian and Mississippi — in 2 bu. bags, commands $1 per u. Peas—Illinois stock brings $1.40 per bu. =P ieplant—'sc per lb. Pineapples—$1.25 per doz. Potatoes—Southern commands about $1 per bu. The anticipated advance in old stock has put in an appearance, but growers are now too busy putting in new crops to stop and market the old. The condition of the market is aptly described in the following report from the Miller & Teasdale Co., at St. Louis: During the last few days there have been heavy rains in Arkansas and In- dian Territory, which prevents their digging their new potatoes, and they are not able to load and ship as freely as they had expected. A great many sbip- pers in Michigan seem to be short of stock and are not able to load and ship sufficient quantity to supply the de- mand. This is true, not alone of the St. Louis market, but also of other large markets over the country. We under- stand that the same conditions prevail in Chicago and Cincinnati as we have experienced here during the present week. Many parties have held off buy- ing old potatoes, thinking that the trade would turn their attention to new, but new potatoes are higher to-day than they have been any day during this week. Shippers in Arkansas are asking Soc per bushel in sacks on board the cars at Fort Smith and other loading stations and the rate of freight to our makret is zoc. At these prices much of the trade find old potatoes more profitable than new and have not been willing to turn their attention to new until they were either not able to get old,or the price of new was lower. Michigan holds the key to the situation now. If shippers of potatoes in Michigan are not able to load and ship fast enough to supply the demand, we will yet experience further advances in old potatoes. Wisconsin can furnish but a limited portion of the supply wanted. The stock in Minnesota is almost exhausted now, and all hand- lers of potatoes look to Michigan as the principal source of supply. Michigan shippers claim that they are not able to load and ship; that buyers in their sec- tion are willing to pay more f. o. b. cars their loading station than they can realize by shipping to some of the large markets. Many of these shipments are being bought for Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania dealers. All of these conditions combined have caused the recent sharp advance, and from present indications same will be maintained, and we are most likely to see further ad- vances. We are trying to state the sit- uation as it presents itself at the mo- ment. What will develop in the next week or ten days, we are not able, nor do we care to attempt to predict. How ever, we beg to say that conditions are favorable for further advances. We have claimed, after a careful consider- ation of the situation, that old and new potatoes will meet at 4oc per bushel basis our market. Radishes—toc per doz. bunches. Seeds—Medium clover, $4.50@4.75; Mammoth clover, $4.75@5; Timothy, $1.40@1.60; Hungarian, 75@8oc ; Com- mon or German Millet, 60@7oc. Squash—Mississippi stock brings $1 per box. Strawberries—The stock is arriving in excellent shape, the quality being rarely surpassed in this market. The cool weather that aids in shipping is cutting off a portion of the demand, so that the market is not getting the full benefit of it. Illinois stock is nearing the end of the season, the current price being $1.50 per crate of 24 qts. The finest berries are from Ohio, bringing $2.60 per crate—32 gts. in basket crate. Indiana berries are most plentiful, com- manding $1.75 per crate of 24 qts. Ben- ton Harbor stock is beginning to come in, commanding $1.30 per crate of 16 qts. eenneseneenenee aes + The Glorious 40h The Dal We Gelebrate ee We offer a complete line of FIREWORKS at rock bottom prices for the best quality goods, fire- crackers, etc. We make a specialty of city displays. — —~> 2 > Pingree Putsa Premium on Dishonesty. In refusing to sign the Anderson bills, providing that the wages of municipal and other public employes could be garnisheed for debt, Governor Pingree gave the business public a slap in the face which is quite likely to haunt him when he comes up for a renomination, a year hence. In a recent interview with the Gov- ernor, he gave the following reasons for withdrawing his official approval : These bills would have met my ap- aac proval if they had provided that judg- ments should first be obtained against employes before their salaries could be garnisheed. As the bills were passed, they would have resulted in involving large cities in endless litigation and expense. 4 In my opinion the bills should have required the plaintiff to obtain his judg- ment first and, if it was not appealed from or paid within, say 10 days, then filing a certified copy with the proper officer of the city should operate as a lien upon any amount due the debtor. Then by providing a simple way of en- forcing the lien all proper claims could be satisfied. I approve the object of the bills, but the loose way in which they were drawn made them dangerous to municipalities. The reasons given by the Governor are so diaphanous as to be ridiculous. The statement that the garnisheeing of an employe would involve the garnishee defendant in litigation is so far from the truth as to exhibit the shallowness of the Governor’s argument. An interview with the author of the bills is thus described by the Grand Rapids Herald: Jerry Anderson is the warmest man in town because Governor Pingree vetoed his bills allowing the pay of employes of a municipality to be garnisheed. They were among the first bills intro- duced, and Mr. Anderson worked with them all winter, got them through two Judiciary Committees, and through both Houses, only to have them vetoed. ‘‘It shows that Pingree is the champion of the dead-beats,’’ said Mr, Anderson. ‘The bills were all right, and every member from Detroit voted for them, but because some of the hangers-on of the Detroit city hall do not care to pay their bills, Ping. vetoes this measure. By so doing he has simply put a premium on dead-beatism and dishon- Hanselman Candy Co. Kalamazoo, Mich. 426-428-430 East Main St. Se de dhe Se She Be he Dee Bede ede ee av FOE BE GE LI ARPA PY SERIE ESP IOP IP PE HY YY Not How Cheap But How Good We warrant our make of wagons and consequently | produce no cheap or inferior work. Buyers of the Belknap make of wagons do not find it necessary to constantly repair and replace. Catalogue on application. Belknap Wagon Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. esty. | . . - - ae ‘ quinanionas ena ema mea aetna no eel al * aonee Pena prague’s Patent an Gamal a Sea ON THE LAWN AT RENAPPI. A Beautiful Lawn Shade. Easily handled. Does not hurt the lawn. Affords rest and comfort for a dozen or more people. Made only by THE SPRAGUE UMBRELLA CO., NORWALK, OHIO. A beautiful Lithograph sent free on application. SOON FONTAN EXPENSE SOE evar vases TT AND Ura aa e002) @veo Ten Cent Cigars FOR eee ‘Ice Cream Lost or Wasted.” It is a pleasure to smoke them. They are up-to-datess SU ivcymr-se metro erass The New Round Grand Rapids Ice Cream Cabinet Will make ciphers of the figures opposite this item. 5 Cent Cigars ever made in America. Send sample order to any Grand Rapids jobbing house. See quotations In price current. Do You sell Suspenders ? We.-make all leather. Aliso a non elastic web on the same plan improved. You lose nothing to try. ‘Graham Roys & Co., Fitch Place, Grand Rapids, Mich. 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. WHEELS! =WHEELS! WHEELS! While you are buying wheels, do not neglect the GROCERS’ SAFETY No. 1 Cross Spring Delivery Wagon. Body, 6 ft 6 in. Width, 2 ft. 7 in. Depth, 7 in. Capacity, 1,000 pounds. Patent} wheels, double collar, steel axles. Price, $28. Three Spring Delivery Wagon—Made in Two Sizes, No. 1. Body, 6 ft. 6 in. Width, 31 in. Capacity, 600 to 800 pounds. Drop end gate. =Price, $34. No. 2. Body, 7 ft. Width, 3 ft. Depth, 8 in. Capacity, 1,200 to 1,500 pounds. Body hardwood. Price, $36. Full Platform Spring Delivery Wagon. No.1. 1% Concord steel axles. 1% tread Sarven patent wheels. Oil tempered spring, 14-4 and leaf. Body, 9 ft. Capacity, 1,500 to 1,800 pounds. Hand made and fuily warranted drop tail gate. Price, $50. No.2 1% Concord steel axles. 1% tread Sarven patent wheels. Oil tempered springs, 114-5 and 6 leaf. Body, 9 ft. Capacity, 1,800 to 2,500 pounds. Drop tail gate. Price, $55. Here’s the wagons and here’s your prices! Take your choice! Full value in each wagon for the money! BROWN, HALL & CO., Manufacturers of BUGGIES, WAGONS AND HARNESS, GRAND RAPIDS. 144 is Twelve Dozen, Sir! 4 Twelve Dozen is a Gross, Sir! Awnings 24 Tents 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., Best goods and lowest prices in the State. All work guaranteed. Send for prices. GRAND RAPIDS, MiCH. CHAS. A. COYE, 11 Pearl Street. egesesesSeseseseses FIREWORKS None better, none cheaper than the varied assortments offered by us. Net price list mailed upon request. _ -PUTNAM CANDY CO., Grand Rapids. DEALERS--Turn your money over! -The enormous amount of advertising being done = — to familiarize house-keepers with the name of > ze) re 7 Bas AOE eA DAMP FLANNEL lie fe . = POLISH WITH 4 FLANNEL 2 ”* SS OR BRUSH. __ iy Pe 2 are e A é Se adie KK Wc Bann eModermn enables merchants to make quick sales and fair profits. Don’t load up with dead stock. Ss “A nimble nickel is better than a slow dime” GOL OLOOLOODLOOLOODLOOLOODLOODLOLOODLOOLOLOLPDLOLOLOLELS?P THE DAYTON = ~ Everubody Reads fldvertisements And you never read an advertisement of a more scree MONEY SAVING —— 28 lbs; finish, a, wit! nickel 1 trimmings; agate or steel bearings improvement than the Dayton Money Weight Scale, ‘‘Poor scales mean poor profits.’”. Dayton Money Weight Scales mean large PROFITS. Always glad to tell you more about them. THE COMPUTING SCALE CO., Dayton, Ohio. SN A OD OSS V VY OLY LE LVoLYeLYe Fé O@leleaeleelee le?