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No sprink- Fuauunnuunuunul 2 <8 BYERLY BROS. & CO., Manufacturers, 154 Michigan Ave., Chicago. é Ys fo GIF PSP SSS SS SSS SSS SS SssseN sssssSss222=2=2== bn . - ¥ y A = Y - COF FEE W . y ar AS a a A a a A a AN wn wn an AN a wn @ = yt —. ce ee ec CY qu=h Ge | ooh =z C~ as | Caw ee ox —s Css aoe —_- oo fon Cu Me. “~e,’ “a, \t W AN Many men representing to sell Elsie Cheese are selling W W have about, if not absolutely, reached bottom. We are WV iN other makes under our name. Elsie Cheese can only be \ J er ee ee ee ey see aer Cr reerated: bulk AN bought direct from the Factory or from the Musselman W JN roast coffees of the MN “iy cay ah ies He ee YY i AN AN AN Grocer Co., of Grand Rapids. Elsie Cheese are all WW an WOOLSON SPICE CO. a AN stamped “Michigan Full Cream, Factory No. 12.” Wy (iN : f\\ AN Elsie Cheese has maintained its high reputation for twenty hi AN Ask our salesman to show you our line of samples. AN AN years and is the best selling Cheese on the market. W MUSSELMAN GROCER CO., Grand Rapids. MN a Ww gZ2s2SSsS54, BFSSSSSFSFFQ, res 4 ore - p SEES ee omen | COFFE y AN M. S. DOY LE. ELSIE, MICH. W * (COFFEE sssssse Of experience enable us to excel all experimenters in giving you the Best Goods for the Price as is seen in CLYDESDALE SOAP SCHULTE SOAP CoO.., Premium given away with Clydesdale Soap Wrappers. DETROIT, MICH. J. A. MURPHY, General Manager. FLOWERS, MAY & MOLONEY, Counsel The Michigan Mercantile Agency SPECIAL REPORTS. LAW AND COLLECTIONS. Represented in every city and county in the United States and Canada. Main Office: Room 1102, Majestic Building, Detrcit, Mich. N. B.—Promptness guaranteed in every way. handled until collected. Our facilities are unsurpassed for prompt and -d4icient service. and references furnished on application. All claims systematically and persistently i Terms e t FOUr Kinds OF GoupON Books 7 WPI are manufactured by us and all sold on the same basis, irrespective of size, shape or denomination. Free samples on application. TRADESMAN GOMPANY, Grand Rapids. 3 & SGbGbGbGbb bbb bd bbb bbb btn OG GF VV VV VV VV VY lf You Hire Help—.- You should use our Perfect Time Book ~~»—and Pay Roll. Made to hold from 27 to 60 names and sell for 75 cents to $2. Send for sample leaf. BARLOW BROS., RAND RAPIDS, MiCit. PP FF VS OV VV VU VV VVVVTVY SbLSGbbdobbd bb bdbdbbbbbbia both OOS} 4244446 6 Sb GGA bd aL 22 900000006 00006000000 00- ! = yPrrvvn even nNNNNNyS ol tyyy POPS SOF VV VG EF VV VV VCO VCCSD their experiments. you that they are only new aie ft eS Who urges you to keep public? The manufacturers, by constant and judi- cious advertising, bring customers to your stores whose very presence creates a demand for other articles. iLL Nk hdNdkdkAMdAdMALALdNdNdLdLdbddNbNUS Bid MON 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. Sapolio? This strictiv pure High Grade Powder I have re- duced to retail at the following very low prices: 4 on. 10C; © Of; A5C; 1 Ib. 25¢. Guaranteed to comply with Pure Food Law in every respect. 9. A. TURNEY, Manufacturer, Detroit, Mich. Established 1780. Walter Baker & Co, Dorchester, Mass. The Oldest and Largest Manufacturers of ey PURE, HIGH GRADE COCOAS CHOCOLATES on this Continent. No Chemicals are used in their manufactures. Their Breakfast Cocoa is absolutely pure, delicious, nutritious, and costs less than one cent a cup. i Their Premium No. 1 Chocolate, put up in Blue Wrappers and Yellow Labels, is the best plain chocolate in the market for family use. Their German Sweet Chocolate is good to eat and good to drink, It is palatable, nutri- tious, and healthful; a great favorite with children. Buyers should ask for and be sure that the get the genuine goods. The above trade-mar! is on every package. Walter Baker & Co. Ltd., Dorchester, Mass. ‘Every Dollar invested in Tradesman Company's COUPON BOOKS will yield band some returns in saving book-keeping. besides the assurance that no charge is forgotten. Write TRADESMAN COMPANY, Grand Rapids LTD. Pevrvreyrvnnvereyverpnveveenvenvennee veneers They all say = “It's as good as Sapolio,” when they try to sell you Your own good sense will tell trying to get you to aid their not Is it the UAMMMLLLLUbAAAAkkshsbdddddd i Ly. Detroi Travelers’ Time Tables. C HI C AGO and West Michigan R’y : June 20, 1897. Going to Chicago. Ly. G. Rapids. .8:35am 1:25pm *6:25pm *11:33pm Ar. Chicago....3:10pm 6:50pm Save Trouble Save Losses TRADESMAN COUP ONS Save Dollars THE FURNITURE CITY. Retrospective Review by the Ablest Exponent of the Trade. [t affords the Tradesman much pleas- ure to be able to present to its readers a verbatim report of the speech deliv- ered by Mr. Wm. Widdicomb at the banquet tendered the Pan-American visitors last Monday evening, as follows: This day has been given toa very rapid inspection of our furniture estab- lishments. Six only of our factories have been seen, and while those you have visited are of the best type, still the others, both small and large, are as complete in their special lines as_ those you did see. The intent has been to show you a type of each line of furniture manufac- tured in our city—this factory having a special equipment for chamber furni- ture, another for the furnishing of the dining room and yet another being adapted for the embellishment of the reception and the drawing room; thus through all the requirements of the home, be it a palace or the dwelling of modest taste. The manufacture, you will notice, has been specialized in the city of Grand Rapids to an exceptional extent, and through this specialization has a high degree of efficiency and perfection been attained, with a corresponding degree of excellence in quality and style. No better illustration of this could be had than what Is transpiring in this city at the present month. Our town is filled with the selling representatives of the manufacturers of many competing cities, who must come here if they expect to meet the furniture buyers of the coun- try, who appear here to make their pur- chases for the season; and during these recurring semi-annual sales our town has grown to resemble the great continental fairs of the olden time. This is the most convincing tribute to the promi- nent position our city occupies in the furniture trade. I will not inflict upon you many sta- tistics, yet figures, and figures only, tell the tale of the success that has been achieved through the energy of the men who have built up, not only this busi- ness, but our beautiful city as well; and Grand Rapids is celebrated far and wide for its furniture factories and prod- uct. We may say with pardonable pride that, in magnitude and equip- ment, our factories are at the head of the furniture industry of the world. A capital directly employed of $7,000, - 000; product of nearly $9,000,000; wages paid to amount of $3,000,000; over 7,000 workmen are employed. And kindred establishments, as carpet sweepers, refrigerators and other house- hold articles, with capita] of nearly three quarters of a million. Product, $1,000, - 000 ; wages, $250,000; workmen, 550. Our factories, in the production ot their goods, purchase material of various kinds from other establishments located here. These employ large capital and force of workmen and _ swell our total number to sixty corporations and com- panies, with a total capital of $8, 452,000; annual product, $9,836,000; paying wages, $3,555,000, and employing 8,211 workmen. Forty years ago furniture manufactur- ing in Michigan was totally unknown. Perhaps I may say I was the first travel- ing salesman who represented Grand Rapids furniture outside the borders of this city, for in 1859 and1860 I was sent to Grand Haven and to Milwaukee to solicit the sale of furniture manufac- tured-in a little factory then operated by my father, and did find a market for some goods. The moderate business GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 1897. thus started was broken up by the war of the rebellion, for my father’s force of workmen was but little more than myself and three younger brothers, who all en- tered the army, and the business died. It could not stand such a draft upon its working force. At about this same time—perhaps a year or two later—Mr. Julius Berkey commenced manufactur- ing in avery modest way, his capital being exceeded only by bis modesty. He may have had one or two workmen; but, small as was his beginning, I think that to him and the native practical ingenuity he possessed may be ascribed the origin of the great manufacturing in- dustry of this city, as I cannot think that, like Topsy, it would have ‘‘growed.’’ The man, the opportunity and the time came together. The origi- nality displayed by Mr. Berkey, the in- domitable energy he threw into the busi- ness, has its monument in the Berkey & Gay Company of to-day, and a yet greater evidence in the magnificent de- velopment of manufacturing here; for while corporations may rise and corpora- tions may fall, the furniture business of Grand Rapids will go on forever. Mr. C. C. Comstock purchased the Winchester factory, and along the same lines that Mr. Berkey was working out he built up a manufacturing business which stands, to-day, the Nelson, Matter Co., a fine example of manufacturing ability. At the close of the war I opened a lit- tle factory of one small room in an old building on the water-power canal. From these insignificant beginnings that I have so briefly outlined have grown the Berkey & Gay Co., Nelson, Matter Co., Widdicomb Co., and with them the Phoenix, the Grand Rap- ids Chair Co., Luce Co., Oriel Co. and the fifty or sixty other establishments which make the city of Grand Rapids renowned and of which we are so justly proud; and certainly this self-esteem is made the more gratifying to ourselves in the honor and delight we receive in welcoming you, our guests, to-day. The furniture industry of this city now holds a position, from the experi- ences and successes of the past, that jus- tities it in seeking the broader market of the whole American continent. It pos- sesses the ability, the equipment and facilities. It can accommodate itself to the demands of any market, and our manufacturers, through their educated designers and skilled workmen and ma- chinery, are prepared to adapt their goods to the taste of any country. They are anxious to do this with the coun- tries you, our guests, represent. The push and energy that have built up our business to its present magnitude throughout every state of this union stand ready to do the same good work in building up trade relations with all the American states. Some fifteen or more years ago a trade with the Central and South American States was opened by one or two of the Grand Rapids manufacturers, but the extraordinary hcme demand for our goods during the decade from 1880 to 1890 exceeded the capacity of our facto- ries and the promising outlook fora for- eign trade in our goods, then showing itself, was allowed to die away. To-day, we realize the mistake then made, for the stimulus of that extraordinary home demand expanded our manufacturing to a degree where a foreign trade would be very desirable. We purchase of you immense guanti- ties of your productions—over three times the amount we sell you. It will be conceded by both you and _ ourselves that this disparity should not exist. When I pass the great offices of Grace & Co. and Flint & Co., of New York— who, seemingly, control so large a share Number 721 of the export trade—I am reminded that such houses should be found in every great manufacturing center of these United States, building up and con- ducting a mutual trade with the great Southern nations of America—trade_ be- tween countries that, by every tie of re- lationship and contiguity, should have close business intercourse with each other. We are ycur best customers and you should be our best customers. I appreciate that this cannot be ac- complished in a day, yet it is equally certain that it will never be consum- mated unless we follow up the example you are making for us in this your trip cf investigation into the business ad- vantages for yourselves to be found in these United States. You are acquaint- ing yourselves by personal examination with our business methods and that which you are doing must be repeated by the manufacturers who would build up an export trade. We must visit your land and by personal contact ascertain further what your people consume and then produce it for you. We can do all this and at a cost that will defy competition with the world. In the self-confidence of the past, a for- eign market was not cultivated; may have seemed to some a Utopian dream, It must be a dream no longer, but be made a reality that shall give business to all our factories, set every wheel in motion again; hence it is to the interest of this community, and especially of the business represented by this gather- ing, that these trade relations be fostered in every legitimate way ; and, in its par- ticular line of furniture manufacturing, no city in the United States possesses the facilities or surpasses the energy of this good city of Grand Rapids, which, to-day, has the honor of being your en- terlainer. Other great cities can supply you with machinery and goods trom the metals; yet others can give you what you require in manufactured food and clothing. This city can furnish your homes and offices, and can and will cultivate and develop the special lines and styles the people of your countries may demand. I cannot suppress my regret that any barriers should exist between the free and unrestrained business relations of the several states of this great American continent. For political and economic reasons they seem to have their sway ; still, | am confident that the broader de- velopment of our business, that can and should be brought about, will sweep away all these restrictions and that the busi- ness between you and ourselves shall be as reciprocal and fraternal as it exists between the states of our own union. To set up barriers against the very busi- ness opportunities we need for our further expansion seems unreasonable, and I feel confident that our trade rela- tions will assume a magnitude that will take possession of the political feature and in business we shall be one grand union of the American continent. _ > oom Suggests Association Effort in Direct- ing Enforcement. Merrill, July 13—Please accept my thanks for the energetic effort made by the Tradesman in securing the new peddling law; also in urging the en- forcement of the measure. The law will be useless without enforcement and it remains for merchants who are affected by the evil to see that it is enforced. It seems to me that the Michigan Hardware Association and the Michigan Retail Grocers’ Association should take the matter up at the earliest opportunity, and, with the help of your valuable paper, I believe more could be done in this way to secure its enforcement than in any other manner. J. H, WHITNEY, MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Bicycle The Bicycle—Past, Present and Future. Written for the TRaDESMAN. All great changes in the economic and industrial world necessarily occur so gradually that there is no general reali- zation of their extent; and yet some occur so quickly that the mind is lost in the attempt to comprehend the mag- nitude. Of course, the most prominent instance of the kind suggested is the coming of the bicycle. To the younger generation it already begins to seem as though the wheel had always been in use, while relatively the industry can scarcely be said to be more than fairly begun. It is yet but a short time—scarcely years—since the question was debated whether the wheel was a passing fad _ or craze, or whether in some form it might become a useful, permanent mode of locomotion to be generally adopted. It is scarcely longer since it was said that the necessary cost of manufacture must keep it a luxury, to be afforded only by the wealthier classes. But, while the price has come down by great jumps on account of improvements in methods of manufacture, there has been no_hesita- tion on the part of enough buyers to ab sorb all the multiplying product, prac- tically without regard to cost. The years can yet be counted on the fingers since the ‘‘safety,’’ weighing from fifty to sixty pounds, with its round rubber tire, was reduced from $150 to $135 in price. The ‘‘high grade’’ wheel offered at that price was considered a wonderful piece of mech- anism. The ball-bearing had been car- ried to a high degree of perfection, but it was thought necessary to put a large amount of steel into all the construction ; indeed, the light steel tubing of the ‘*modern’’ wheel was unknown at that time as an article of manufacture. The bicycle of ten years ago wasa wonderful machine. While it was only to be afforded by the wealthy or the lov- er of athletics, the perfection of its con- struction and the astonishing facility it gave to locomotion commanded _ the greatest admiration. It was considered almost too wonderful for belief that a leg-propelled machine could be con- structed that should compete in speed and endurance with the horse ; and, when the ‘‘century’’ began to be talked about, it was thought the acme of human achievement in that direction had been nearly reached. That it would ever be possible to greatly exceed such a per- formance was beyond any reasonable probability. The progress of the wheel during the first five years of this decade seemed al- most beyond belief. The use of the pneumatic tire and the production of thin steel tubing made possible the lessening of the weight of the machine more than one-half, with a correspond- ing increase in its facility and perform- ance. The century was still an under- taking of some note, but it was much more commonly achieved by ladies than had been possible with men five years before. The price of the improved wheel had been reduced to $100 and all that could be made were readily sold. But, while great astonishment was caused by the rapidity of its adoption, there were scarcely as many hundreds of thousands in use as there are millions now. The annual output of the factories about doubled from year to year after this time and the rate of progression is yet scarcely diminished. While the progress in mechanical perfection has been almost beyond belief, there have been no such radical changes as resulted from the adoption of the pneumatic tire. The most important general changes are the higher gear, made possible by more perfect construction, and the lessening of the cost of production, by the adop- tion of automatic machinery and im- proved appliances.. The enquiry is interesting as _ to whether the wheel is nearing its full development. As to mechanical perfec- tion, it would seem as though there could be little more accomplished. As compared with the ‘‘high grade’’of ten years ago, it is certainly a marvelous construction. To say that the progress in the possible performance has doubled in that time is well within the facts—a double century is about as common to- day as the single one was a decade ago. When it is considered that there is just’ now a reduction in price by as great a step as any which have pre- ceded, making the highest grades only one-half the price of those of ten years ago, and that there is little diminution in the rate of increase in production and demand, there seems no indication but that we are still in the beginning of its development. The reduction in price opens the field to a proportionate- ly greater demand, which assures the rapid absorption of all that can be made for a long time to come. As to where it will end, speculation is lame. That it will not stop before there is such a de- velopment in highways, and in the re- quirements of individual progression, that few except the very poorest classes will be content to do without it, seems well within the probabilities. NATE. ——_>-2>—_____ Illinois Garnishment Bill Nowa Law. Governor Tanner, of Illinois, has signed the garnishment bill and it is now a law. The bill madea legal ex- emption from garnishment of $8 a week Societies and associations of laboring men fought the bill and op- posed its approval. They made the strong claim that a man could not keep much of a family on $8 a week. The bill got through the last night of the session, while fifty representatives of the State Grocers’ Association were on the floor working for it. It was bitterly contested, but received a constitutional majority after a prolonged debate. The Explanation Was Satisfactory. ‘*See here, young man, I’ll have to take you in. Your lantern’s out.’’ “*Hold on, officer, 1711 explain. You see I bought one of these $2-bicycle suits this afternoon, and it burst on me ten miles from home. Now, I’m trying to get back as quietly as I can in the dark. You see the necessity of it?’’ ‘*That’s all right—go ahead.”’ 0 — Changed Their Tactics. ‘‘T don’t believe women sit around and say mean things abcut one an- other’s dress as much as they used to.’’ ‘They don’t. They ride around and abuse one another’s wheels.’’ 0 The Bicyclist’s Favorite. It is the hard road the bicyclist loves to travel, because it is easier. ee The more a man boasts about the ac- complishments of his forefathers, the more certain it is that he realizes that he has no ability to accomplish any- thing himself. BICYCLE SUNDRIES LAMPS, TIRES, PEDALS, SADDLES, LOCKS, BELLS, PUMPS, CEMENTS, ETC. ADAMS & HART, WHOLESALE BICYCLES and SUNDRIES. 12 W. Bridge St., Grand Rapids. Send for Catalog and Discount Sheets. Feb. 15th. Mr. A. buys from the “agent” a ““Reputation”’ bicycle, listed at $.00.00. He pays cash and gets it at $85.00, “yood value, good wheel.”” June 15th. Mr. B. an “influential rider, buys same make from factory “for his own use,” pays cash, and gets it at $65.00; better value, same wheel, Mr. B. has profited at the expense of the agentand Mr. A. ‘The factory averages a profit. The average cash price on “Reputation” wheel was $75.00. Why not put that price on, and sell at one price the entire season, treat all alike, and sell an honest bicycle at an honest price? NEW CLIPPERS are sold at the same price July 15th as Jan. 15th. We make noexcuses. Our goods are the best we can make with nearly 10 years’ experience. We do not discriminate. One buyer’s money is as good as another’s. Our net prices are honest; our wheels cost as much to make as those with “‘ad- vertised reputations.” The equal of a Clipper is not sold at the price of a Clipper. MADE BY THE CLIPPER PEOPLE, Grand Rapids, Mich. RAR RRO SBRRSSHE-HKR SS = oe) SFSSSSS SS SS SS SSS; World Loves % a Winner’ ON Our ’Ninety-Seven Complete Line of (W) : “Ona (7) | are the x Supreme (I Result ) of our » Year's of ( e x Experience i / Send for Catalogue, WK MONARCH CYCLE MFG. CO. , MS CHICAGO NEW YORE LONDON i Send nine two-cent stamps for a deck of Monarch Playing % EeMiictat Sas waeersosee Ronwliarencor % OL SSIS} Four Kinds of Coupon Books e a e are mauufactured by us and all sold on the same basis, irrespective = of size, Shape or denomination. Free samples on application. S TRADESMAN COMPANY, Grand Kapids. HORORO RORORORORORORONOROHOROHOROROROROROHONOROHZOROE Gneneceonen as at MICHIGAN TRADESMAN DANA BROWN. Salient Features in the Deceased. Dana Brown, the only son of Doctor and Mrs. C. P. Brown, of Spring Lake, died at the family residence Friday evening, July 9. His last illness was but a short one, as he was taken sick only on the Monday before his death. The disease, a complication of abdom- inal troubles, was too deep-seated for successful “resistance, and although all that the best of medical skill could ac- complish was done for him, the brave fight was useless. Calmly and peace- fully, after hours of great pain, he sank to rest, as the soft twilight of a sum- mer’s day fell upon the portals of the stricken home, Dana Brown was born at Hudson, Mich., January 28, 1871. Hudson had Life of the long been the home of his parents, but some months after the birth of their son, Doctor Brown removed to Spring Lake, and here Dana was reared and here he spent the greater portion of his short but useful life. His early education was acquired in the public schools of Spring Lake and this was supplemented by a course in the commercial colleges at Grand Rapids and Ypsilanti. After two years spent at this latter place, in 1890 he went to the West and during some fourteen months was engaged in locating timber claims not far from the famous Dalles of the Columbia, in Washington. His father, in the mean- time, having gone for a year’s sojourn at Spokane, Dana joined him there and, together with Judge William Hensley, of San Francisco, they became interested in some promising mining claims in the Okanogan gold district, situated about 250 miles northwest of the city of Spokane. The exciting life of the miner and the free air of the mountains possessed great attractions for a young man of Dana’s spirit and he plunged eagerly into the work before him, be- coming in a very shcrt time an_ experi- enced prospector and soon familiar with the varied workings of a mine. In 1892 he returned with his family to Spring Lake and here he entered the employ of the Spring Lake Clinker Boat Manu- facturing Co., of which his father, C. P, Brown. is the President. Two years ago he was made the Secretary and Treasurer of this corporation and at the time of his’ death had become a mov- ing force in the large and growing busi- ness. With a mechanical turn of mind, his quiet energy and careful attention to the details of the interests intrusted to his care marked him for a successful man of business, and it is much to be regretted that his early death has cut off too soon what promised to be a useful career-in the world of affairs. The personality of Dana Brown was an engaging and attractive one. Men knew him but to like him and his pleas- ant face, with well-considered word, brought him friends wherever he went. The rough miners of the West were as Strongly attached to him as were the neighbors and friends among whom he lived and died. Possessing in peculiar degree that quality which men for want of a better term call ‘‘tact,’’ he smoothed the rough places of life and wrought out his purposes so quietly that his ends were accomplished often before his as- sociates knew the object for which he had been striving. He was full of the manly quality, pluck, and it always led him to the side of the weaker as against the stronger. ‘‘Tell them I am ready,’’ were his words to the surgeons who were preparing for the operation which it was thought might, perhaps, save his life; and, with a fortitude like that of the wounded soldier on the field of bat- tle, he calmly waited for the end. His death was as heroic as his life had been gentle and kind. In his home life he was tender and thoughtful and to him home was ever first in his care. Be- tween father and son there existed al- ways that charming feeling of comrade- ship which is more than parental, and to his mother he was ever as ‘‘the ap- ple of her eye.’’’ To his friends he was the soul of honor and they mourn him with a grief that is the surest test of his worth. The changing problem of life is pre- sented to each and every man for -solu- tion. The time for its solving is longer or shorter as fate decrees, but length of years is not always given for the work- ing out of the question. What the world calls success is sometimes far from true merit and the rewards of fame are but tawdry. Often ‘‘success is in the si- lences, though fame be in the song.’’ That man who, taking hold of the cir- cumstances that surround him, has pur- sued ‘his ends to the very last and has done faithfully ‘‘the duty which lies nearest him’’ has given the world an example it cannot but ponder upon with profit. Such a life is never lived in vain. Wm. SAVIDGE. —_—>-22 Changes in the United States Patent Laws. Several statutes relating to the taking out of patents in this and foreign coun- tries were revised and amended by the Fifty-fourth Congress. They will go into effect January 1, 1898. We present in this connection several of the sec- tions, as amended, which bear upon the subject. Section 4886 has been amend- éd, and it now reads as follows: Any person who has invented or dis- covered any new and _ useful art, ma- chine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improve- ments thereof, not known or used by others in this country before his inven- tion or discovery thereof, and not pat- ented or described in any printed pub- lication in this or any foreign country, before his invention or discovery there- of, or more than two years prior to his application, and not in public use or on sale in this country for more than two years prior to his application, unless the same is proved to have been abandoned, may, upon payment of the fees required by law, and other due proceeding had, obtain a patent therefor. Section 4887. No person otherwise entitled thereto shall be debarred from receiving a patent for his invention or discovery, nor shall any patent be de- clared invalid, by reason of its having been first patented or caused to be pat- ented by the inventor or his legal repre- sentatives or assigns in a foreign coun- try, unless the application for said for- eign patent was filed more than seven months prior to the filing of the appli- cation in this country, in which case no patent shall be granted in this country. Section 4894. All applications for patents shall be completed and prepared for examination within one year after the filing of the application, and in default thereof, or upon failure of the applicant to prosecute the same within one year after any action therein, of which notice shall have been given to the applicant, they shall be regarded as abandoned by the parties thereto, unless it be shown to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of Patents that such delay was unavoidabie, To section 4921, which treats of the power of courts, vested with the juris- diction of cases arising under the pat- ent laws to grant injunctions, there has been added the following sentence: But in any suit or action brought for the infringement of any patent there shall be no recovery of profits or dam- ages for any infringement committed more than six years before the filing of the bill of complaint or the issuing of the writ in such suit or action, and this provision shall apply to existing causes of action. The amended sections which take effect the first of next year do not ap- ply to any patent granted prior to that time, nor to any application filed prior to said date, nor to any patent granted on such an applicaticn. SE The Height of Her Ambition. Bertha—What is the height of your ambition, dear? Marie (blushing—Oh, something be- tween five and a half and six feet. UBEROID EADY OOFING All ready to lay. Needs no painting for two years. Is odorless, absolutely waterproof, will resist fire and the action of acids. Can be used over shingles of steep roofs, or is suitable for flat roofs. Will outlast tin or iron and is very much cheaper. . Try our pure ASPHALT PAINT For coating tin, iron or ready roofs. Write for prices. H. M. REYNOLDS & SON, Grand Rapids Office, Louis and Campau Sts. Detroit Office Foot of Third St. XL PEPEPEPEPEP PERE EEE RY Xv + & ca Moth Proof # 'Ucdare : * | ——] en » ¢ > € S | . . Season for these | € Fs goods is just + s beginning. @ ® Made of = < @® Tennessee Red Cedar. a @ ® Orders and correspondence from the @ ® trade only, solicited. ¢ $ _u.S.REDGEDAR works, gp Nashville, Tennessee. & ne SK (hARAAKRAKKALAAKAALEEA tion. Asa matter of fact e Big Talk About Circulation : Counts for little unless quality goes hand in hand with quan- a tity—Advertisers are learning to discriminate in this matter, ®) and are looking more and more into the character of circula- a Circulation is of No Consequence : tiser is seeking a market. Advertisers Care Nothing Unless it be of a character to reach and directly interest buy- : The Michigan Tradesman =e ers and consumers of the class of goods for which the adver- @ That does not reach and directly appeal to the purchasing @ constituency of the class of goods the advertiser wishes to @ sell—that medium only which can show a bona fide circulation 2 to buyers should be considered. Ps @ @ @ @ @ @ 8 @ e @ @ @ e @ : For Circulation e@ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ e @ @ @ Reaches more paid subscribers in Michigan than all other trade journals combined, and 1s therefore able to give its patrons better returns than any other trade journal published. These Are Telling Points & MICHIGAN TRADESMAN L Around the State Movements of Merchants. Girard—J. H. Roe has removed his general stock to Quincy. Saranac—J. T. Weer has removed his clothing stock to St. Johns. Detroit—Jos. Bimberg, jobber of leaf tobacco, has removed to Elmira, N. Y. Saginaw— McLean & Irving succeed C. E. McLean & Co. in the drug busi- ness. St. Johns—G. B. Porter has sold a half interest in his jewelry stock to Walter Emmons. Negaunee—Joseph Andrews will close out his shoe stock here and remove to Butte, Mont. Belding—Miss Edna Van Slyke suc- ceeds Mrs. W. L. Jackson in> the mil- linery business. Charlotte—It is Cochrane & Co—not C. M. Cochrane—who have opened a grocery store at this place. Lake City—Woilf H. Keidan has announced his intention of retiring from the dry goods and clothing business at this place. Coldwater— Brown & Ball secured the contract for erecting the new brick fac- tory of the Tappan Shoe Co. Their bid was $0,831. : Mt. Morris—Frank A. Hughes has purchased the J. D. Bentley grocery stock and will continue the business at the same location. Elk Rapids—Fred Sullivan has_ pur- chased the interest of Archie Couturier in the meat market formerly conducted by Nash & Couturier. Fort Huron—Ernest N. Akers has filed three chattel mortgages on his grocery stock to secure creditors, nam- ing Geo. W. Moore as trustee. Vermontville—O. M. Folger has sold his interest in the meat market of Fol- ger & Mull to J. C. Topliff. The new firm will be known as Tophiff & Mull. Lake Ann—S. S. Burnett has erected a new store building, 30x40 feet in di- mensions, and expects to be doing busi- ness therein before the end of the pres- ent week. East Jordan—The Bayliss brick yard is now equipped with the machinery for making re-pressed brick, and will have a kiln of these burned and on the mar- ket in a few weeks. Battle Creek—W. C. Henry has sold his grocery stock to Byron Hobbs, Alfred Hobbs and Hubert Russell, who will con- tinue the business under the style of Hobbs Bros. & Russell. Traverse City—Arthur Rosenthal, who has for a long time been employed as salesman for Charles Rosenthal in the Boston store, has concluded to embark in business on his own account in Wis- consin. Fremont—W. Ralph Wagers has re- tired trom the firm of Skinner & Wag- ers, buyers and shippers of produce. The business will be continued by the remaining partner under the style of Ned A. Skinner. Cedar Springs——-Wm. Black has equipped his store building with acetylene gas, making it as brilliantly lighted at night as it is by day. Mr. Black is the first merchant to introduce the new system of lighting at this place. Owosso—C. C. Duff has re-purchased a half interest in the grocery stock of Geo. W. Detwiler, who carried on busi- ness under the style of Duff & Detwiler. The deal involves no change in the firm name, but will give the establishment the benefit of Mr. Duff’s experience and wide acquaintance, | Hastings—Geo. S. Tomlinson, of the ‘firm of Bentley, Tomlinson & Rider, dealers in lumber, lath and shingles, has retired from the business. Gertie E. Bentley and Edward A. Rider will continue under the style of Bentley & Rider. Ishpeming—A. L. Cumpson, who has had charge of Nelson Morris & Co.'s fresh meat business here for the past thirteen months, has resigned, to accept a position he held for a number of years with the Pittsburgh Provision Co., of Pittsburgh, Pa. Hopkins Station—Furber & Kidder have sold their general stock to Noggle & Gordon, who will continue the busi- ness at the same location. Furber & Kidder will not dissolve partnership, but will continue the banking business recently established by the firm, prob- ably erecting a building’ especially adapted for the business. Owosso—C. E. Burns and J. C. Wal- ton, of Howell, have been figuring for several days on securing desirable prop- erty for the location of an elevator in this city. Owing to the lateness of the season, and the fact that the time for handling grain is now at hand, rather than be delayed they have leased the elevator on the Corunna road opposite the Estey Carriage Co., and will put it in repair at once, and begin business. Manufacturing Matters. Stanwood—Geo. Smith has engaged in the manufacture of road and drain tiling. Manistee—The logs of the Manistee Lumber Co. are beginning to come so fast that they cannot take care cf them on day run, and, having all the booms full, are compelled to start one side of the mill nights. Alpena—H. D. & W. L. Churchill have purchased 5,000,000 feet of Cana- dian logs from Alger, Smith & Co. The same firm is negotiating for more tim- ber and proposes to keep their mill in operation if possible. Fisher—The Northern Supply Co. is completing a contract with the Rock Island & Pacific Railway to deliver 300,000 ties in Chicago. The ties were all cut along the line of the Wisconsin & Michigan Railway. Wayland—B. Van Anrooy has merged his general store. business and baking powder business into a stock company under the style of the Wayland Manu- facturing Co. The incorporators are B. Van Anrooy, C. E. Sherwin and N. J. Brown. St. Joseph—The Twin City Milling Co. has filed articles of association with the County Clerk. The capital stock of the company is $25,000 and the shares are held as follows: H. G. Ensley, 840; Clara L. Wilkinson, 36c; W. L. Holland, too; Hiram M. Brown, 300. Alpena—F. W. Gilchrist is getting out a carload of hard maple flooring for di- rect shipment to Liverpool. The lum- ber is cut 12 feet long and 4 inches wide, kiln dried, butted, bored, hollow backed, end matched and polished, and is put up in bundles of six pieces, each bundle fastened with strips of tin. Williamston——The Cedarvale Coal Mining and Brick Co. has been _incor- porated for the purpose of mining the deposits of soit coal and fire clay that underlie the village. The first vein of coal lies fourteen feet underneath the surface, averaging thirty inches in thickness. The second vein lies forty- five feet below the surface, ranging from thirty-two inches to seven feet in thickness. Bay City—The Michigan Head Lin- ing and Hoop Co. offers to remove its plant from Coleman tothis place, in the event of the proper inducements being offered. Au Sable—The H. M. Loud & Sons Lumber Co. has decided to soon resume the sale of its lumber exclusively ‘by the cargo, instead of putting it through the company’s yards, at Toledo and Buffalo, which have been operated for several years. The yards are being stocked this season, but at least the Toledo yard will be closed out thss fall. This course is taken because the lumber to be manu- factured will be unsuited to the Toledo trade, The Law Relating to the Sale of Paris Green. Butternut, July 13—What is the reason you do not publish the law in the Tradesman concerning the sale of Paris greer. It seems rather queer that every four-corners grocery store should be selling this article without even labeling same. No longer ago than last week I saw Paris green sold without its being labeled; and I wish to know if it is right or legal for men to spend nearly half ot their lives studying and practic- ing a business and then allow some fel- low to drop his plow handles and dish out any poison made? Do not be afraid of losing a customer by publishing what is right in regard to this matter. A. CONKLIN. The provision of the pharmacy law above enquired about is as follows: Nothing in this act shall apply to, or in any manner interfere with, the busi- ness of any practicing physician who does not keep open shop for retailing, dispensing or compounding of medicine and poison, or prevent him from sup- plying to his patients such articles as may seem to him proper, nor with the vending of patent or proprietary medi- cines by any retail dealer, who has been in such business three years or more, nor with the selling by any person of drugs, medicines, chemicals, essential oils and tinctures which are put up in bottles, boxes, packages, bearing labels securely affixed, which labels shall bear the name of the pharmacist or druggist putting up the same, the dose that may be ad- ministered to persons three months, six months, one year, three years, five years, ten years, fifteen years, and twenty-one years of age, and if a poison, the name or names of the most common antidotes; of copperas, borax, blue vitriol, salt- petre, pepper, sulphur, brimstone, Paris green, liquorice, sage, senna leaves, castor oil, sweet oil, spirits of turpen- tine, glycerine, glauber salts, epsom salts, cream tartar, bicarbonate of soda, sugar of lead and such acids as are used in coloring and tanning, nor with the selling of paregoric,- essence of pepper- mint, esserce of ginger, essence of cin- namon, hive syrup, syrup of ipecac, tincture of arnica, syrup of tolu, syrup of squills, spirits of camphor, number six, sweet spirits of nitre, laudanum, quinine, and all other preparations of cinchona bark, tincture ot aconite, and tincture of iron, compound cathartic pills, cr quinine pills, ncr with the ex- clusively wholesale business of any dealer. ~~ 0-~» ---— A Lesson in German. She--What is dog in German? He—Frankfurter, I believe. Ask Visner for Inducement on Gillies’ New York spice contest. Phone 1580. WANTS COLUMN. Advertisements will be inserted under this head for two cents a word the first insertion OOD FARM WANTED IN EXCHANGE FOR desirable income property. Kirtland, 1161 South Division St., Grand Rapids. 340 "FAVE MONEY MILLINERY BUSINESs; best location; lively town. Wili se.l, ex- change, rent or take partner; too much respon- sibility; will sacrifice. Address Box 548, St. Johns, Mich. 341 yo. TO SELL OR TRADE, FOR A good drug stock or boot and shoe and men’s furnishing goods, one of the finest fruit farms in Allegan county, one and one-half miles from railroad station. Address J. Fisher «& son, Hamilton, Mich. S21 “yRUG STOCK AND FIXTURES FOR SALE— Inventorying about $3,000, in. a city of 6,000; two other drug stocks; reason given to intend- ing purchaser; terms liberal. Address No. 338, care Michigan Tradesman. 338 OR SALE OR EXCHANGE FOR STOCK OF Merchandise—Two vacant lots in Grand Rapids. Address No. 337, care Michigan Trades- man. 337 OR SALE CHEAP FOR CASH OR WILL Exchange for a Mixed Stock of Merchan- dise—One compiete Perkins shingle mill; plenty of boiler room; engine 12x20; mill in good condition. In connection with mill we have one Huyatt & Smith hot blast dry kiln. Mill will cut<0 M per day; capacity of kiln, 3.0 M. Morse & Schneider, Seney, Mich. 336 NOR SALE—CLEAN STOCK OF DRUGS, IN- ventorying about $800, located in live town of 60U people. Address No. 335, care Hazeltine & Perkins Drug‘ o., Grand Rapids. 335 Fee SALE—CLEAN NEW STOCK GENERAL merchandise, located in brick building in growing town, surrounded by excellent farming country. Established trade. Address No. 334, care Michigan Tradesman. 334 OME CASH AND UNQUESTIONED SE- curity for the remainder will secure an old- established grocery business, located on best business street of Grand Rapids. Stock all elean and salable. Rent reasonable. Wood yard and feed store in connection. stock and fixtures will inventory $2,500. Trade mostly cash. Owner has best of reasons for seliing and will demonstrate to any bona fide purchaser that this is the opportunity of a lifetime. Ad- dress No. 326, care Michigan Tradesman. 326 ARTIES WISHING TO BUY, SELL OR exchange real estate or merchandise, any quantities or description, can depend upon Townsend & Morous, of Jackson, Mich., for quick and responsible dealing. 318 . LOOKING FOR GOOD INVEsT- ment can hear of a splendid ready-made clothing and furnishing goods business to be disposed of, situated in the great peach center of Michigan; only clothing store in the town; doing a very lucrative business on a small capi- tal. As this is a bona fide, and in every way a solvent and profitable busines-, with excellent reasons for disposal, none but principals need apply to Wm. Connor, Box 345. Marshall, —- OR SALE—CLEAN HARDWARE STOCK; doing good business; best location in Grand Rapids; good reason for selling; no exchange.. Address Hardware, care Michigan Tradesman. 325 ic SALE—STOCK OF GENERAL MER- chandise and fixtures: inventory $1,700. Address Postmaster, New Salem, Mich. 324 ryXO EXCHANGE—A GOOD LIVERY STOCK, doing a good business, for a stock of gro- ceries. Address No. 327, care Michigan Trades- man. 327 YOR SALE—STOCK OF GENERAL MER- chandise, inventorying about #4,500, located in a thriving town in Central Michigan. Would take a small farm in part payment, if location is desirable. Address No. 320, care Michigan Tradesman. 320 Fee 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—PARTNER WITH 82,000 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 in heart of city. Address Box 522, Big Rapids, Mich. 298 \ ANTED—WE ARE THE OLDEST, LARG- est and best laundry in the city of Grand Rapids. We do considerabie 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, Oite Brothers, proprietors. 289 UR SALE OR TRADE FORK STOCK OF merchandise—180 acres of choice timber land on Section 2 of the Haskel land grant, Buchanan county, Virginia; title o. k. Address No. 262, care Michigan ‘Tradesman. 262 UBBER STAMPS AND KUBBER TYPE. Will J. Weller, Muskegon, Mich. 160 NOR EXCHANGE—TWO FINE IMPROVED farms for stock of merchandise; splendid location. Address No. 73, care Michigan Trades- ANTED—1,000 CASES FRESH EGGs, daily. Write for prices. F. W. Brown, Ithaca. Mich. 249 PATENT SOLICITORS. and one cent a word for each b t in- sertion. No advertisements taken for less than oun: & ALLGIER, GRAND RAPIDS, PAT- : ent Attorneys and Practical Draughtsmen. agceats. Advance payment. Our new Handbook free on application: 339 BUSINESS CHANCES. MISCELLANEOUS. OR SALE—STORE BUILDING WITH RES- idence rooms in connection—a fine location for millinery and bazaar trade. Address Box 88, Leroy, Osceola Co., Mich. 342 wITUATION WANTED—AS BOOK-KEErER J or store manager by middie aged man of wide experience and best of references. Ad- dress No. 333, care Michigan Tradesman. 333 “i MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 6 Grand Rapids Gossip The Grain Market. The wheat market during the past week has been what might be termed a waiting market. After the Fourth the weather was so extremely warm that it affected the grain trade and, as the an- ticipated July corner petered out, there was nothing to stimulate prices. Be- sides, harvest is on hand; in fact, there has been considerable wheat cut south of the Lake Shore Railroad. Wheat re- mained at a low ebb until yesterday, when it seemed to show some life and the markets began to get stronger and to-day we note an advance of 2c per bushel from the low point.on both cash and futures. The visible showed a fair decrease, the exports were good and the Northwestern receipts were of a dimin- utive character, as compared with what they have been. The Government crop report shows winter wheat to be 81.2 and spring gI.2 of an average crop, against 78.5 and 89.6 last month. How- ever, as that has been discounted, it cuts no figure with prices. Should the wet weather hold off, Michigan will havea fair crop of wheat, both as regards qual- ity and quantity. We are offered new wheat from Oklahoma and_ Kansas points, but we prefer to wait for our own crop. There has been quite a flurry in corn since our last report, caused by the hot weather in this section and the wet weather in other sections, and the pros- pects now are that there will bea reduc- tion of 300, 000, 900 to 400,000,000 bush- els. Oats are normal, although some better than last week, owing to the fact that the crop is not looking as well. The receipts during the week were as follows: wheat, 26 cars (rather small) ; corn, 2 Cars; oats, 4 cars. During the last six months Grand Rapids has re- ceived 922 cars of wheat, 136 cars of corn and 165 cars of oats. Local millers are paying 72c for wheat. : C. G. A. Voier. SE aEEIEin cil cilia cae The Produce Market. Bananas—High prices still prevail, the demand being excellent and the supply of good fruit steady. Beets—z2oc per doz. bunches. Butter—Separator creamery is in fair demand at 13%@14c. Fancy dairy fetches 1oc, while cooking grades are sold down as low as 5@6c. Cabbage—Home grown of excellent — and fair size is held at 75c per oz. Carrots—15c per doz. Cauliflower—$1 per doz. Celery—z2oc per bunch. Cherries—Red and Black command $1.50 per bu. at this market, but some outside buying points report purchases on the basis of $1 per bu. The quality is superb and the appearance of the fruit is fine. Cheese—Receipts have fallen off con- siderably, and under low prices the con- sumptive demand is rather better, but the market has not yet felt the effect of these favorable conditions. Occasional sales are made in a jobbing way at @%%c off quotations as given this week. Currants - -40@5oc per crate of 16 qts. Cucumbers—-—Continue scarce and high, considering the season of the year. Home grown still hold at 30@35c per doz. Eggs—-Large lots are arriving in bad order, on account of the heat, and handlers have reduced their paying price to 7c per doz., subject to candling. Candled stock is held at 8c. The re- ceipts of eggs will begin to fall off from now on until about August 1, when bet- ter quality and a larger supply will de- velop, on account of the hens getting grain feed from harvested fields. Up to that date the general quality of the re- ceipts will be poor and complaints among the buyers will be general. Lemons—Prices are advanced this week, owing to the great demand caused by hot weather. Large impor- tations at Eastern ports are noted. Lettuce—Soc per bu. Melons—Georgia stock is still the only offering, and the market is steady at former figures. In spite of Fourth of July trade, the movement is but mod- erate, for prices are high—-20@25c apiece. Muskmelons are not in good supply. Onions—Green are so large that they have advanced to 25c per doz. bunches. Southern dry stock commands $1@1.25. Oranges—The market is steady and the movement moderate. Peas—4o@5oc per bu. Peaches—Some Illinois stock is com- ing, but it is of so poor quality that it is not fit for shipment, and goes to the city trade. Potatoes—There is not much trade in old potatoes now. The new stock is good and plentiful, selling 1eadily at 65@75c per bu. for good sized stock, or toc less for good small sizes. Radishes—Charter and China Rose a 8c. The quality of both is ne. Raspberries—Black command $1@ 1.25 per 16 qt. crate and Red are about 25c higher. Both are fine in quality and excellent in appearance, the size being larger than was expected would be the case on account of the fortnight’s tor- rid weather. Squash—75c per box of 4o lbs. Tomatoes—$I.20 per crate of 4 bas- kets. Turnips—Home grown command 25c per doz. Wax Beans—$1.25@1.50 per bu. Whortleberries—A few arrivals have sold for $2.50 per bu., but later ship- ments will probably not fare as well. The crop is reported to be large and the quality fi fine. oe Sich an St. Joseph—The change from the Bell telephone system to the phones of the Twin City Telephone Co. has been quietly but effectually made and the Bell system has practically gone out of local business in the two cities. In the stores, offices and residenees generally the Bell phones were disabled, some patrons disconnecting the wires, others putting in lightning plugs, others muffling the bells and some hanging the receivers up out of reach. Some quaint inscriptions were put on the instruments in some offices announcing the discon- tinuance of service. : Benton Harbor—The Twin City Tele- phone Co, will soon construct a line to Eau Claire, where it will connect with the’ line to be built by the Dowagiac company. This will give Benton Har- bor connection with Eau Claire, Indian Lake and Dowagiac. The Dowagiac company expects to construct another line from Buchanan to Eau Claire and possibly to Niles to connect with the Benton Harbor exchange. Northville—Telephone competition in this town promises to promote a lively time. Heretofore the Bell company has had a monopoly. Until recently the company charged $30 a year for its serv- ice. When talk of a new company be- came strong, however, the price was reduced to $24 a year. Now a local company offers to furnish service at $12 per year on three year contracts. +-0eoer- - J. H. Baily has sold his interest in the grocery firm of Wyngarden & Baily. The business will be continued’ by Wyngarden & Co. at the corner of Front and Pearl streets. —__-+_»>2.—__— C. B. Fitts has embarked in the gro- cery business at Beulah. The Worden Grocer Co. furnished the stock, Lesson of the Coal Strike. If the evolution of human morality and of the relations which human beings in a state of society bear each to the other not only as individuals, but as classes, had advanced in the same _ pro- portion as human progress through the instrumentalities of physical science, there would be no need for a great labor strike, and no such thing as a strike would be possible. While the advance of civilization in all that pertains to intellectual and material progress has been enormous, moral and ethical development has moved but slowly, and is still far be- hind. The same _ covetousness and greed and taste to be rich, and over- weening selfishness, and unscrupulous ambition beset the human race just as much as ever they did, and one of the results of it all is that there seems no better way to settle differences between employes and employers than a ‘‘strike.’’ The great strike of the coal miners emphasizes the backwardness of our ethical condition. A strike, like a lock- out, isa brutal blow inflicted, not mere- ly upon the persons at whom it is aimed, but upon thousands and scores of thou- sands of people who are entirely inno- cent of any connection with the wrongs it has been sought to avenge. The present strike of the coal miners has caused the stoppage of numerous and extensive iron mills, factories and other industrial operations on the land, and of steamships and other vessels on the rivers and lakes. None of these fac- tories or ships can turn a wheel for lack of fuel, and all their work-people, to the number of many thousands, are driven intc idleness and are prevented from earning the means of living, because the coal miners have a controversy with the mine owners. If such a controversy only affected the immediate parties to it, it might be well in some cases to let them fight it out; but when the consequences are so very far-reaching, and when so many innocent people are brought to deep distress by it, there ought to be some just and sure means of remédying the evil and of preventing the abuses that grow out of a labor strike. And the wonder is that there is not some such remedy, when the enormous advance of the human race in every other sort of progress is considered. Where are the statesmen? Where are the lawgivers? Where are the philanthro- pists, and where are the preachers of righteousness, that they have not been able to bring man’s moral and social condition up to the level of his material and intellectual position? Is it easier to conquer the forces of nature, to chain them to the car of progress and compel them to reveal all their secrets and to give up all their treasures than to bring men to regard each other, if not as brothers, at least as partners and joint sharers in the world’s work ; or are the teachers and the preachers and the statesmen and the philanthropists less able or less faithful in their labors than are the chemists, the electricians, the engineers and the physical philosophers? Would it not be better to convert men to the practice of love and charity, and to judge them by their works and lives, than to bandy charges of heresy and to read them out of the community of Christians for some alleged word or ex- pression? If human ethics are ever to reach the point where they can stop a labor strike, it will be by the establishment of so- ciety upon a basis of charity, forbear- ance and equal justice to all. And _ so- ciety must come to that. One day phi- lanthropy and statesmanship will estab- lish a court with power to investigate and determine if individual and corpo- rate employers can and_ should, with justice to their business and their proper interests, raise the wages of employes. And the same court will declare if such business needs to cut down wages, or to reduce the hours of operation, or to close altogether, and it will adjust the relations of employe and employer on such a basis of equity. Thetime is not ripe for justice and forbearance yet. There must beaseason of violence, and injustice, and persecution first; but the better time will come. FRANK STOWE Li > o> Chewing Gleds Paausiing to Cus- tomers. Written for the TRADESMAN. ‘‘Well, I am glad, at last, to have a clerk to wait upon me who is not chew- ing gum!’’ said a lady emphatically to her triend as they seated themselves at the trimming counter. ‘‘Did you ever see anything like it before? The man at the silk counter who waited upon us had his mouth so full of gum that he couldn’t speak plainly. Then, at the lace counter, that pretty young woman who seems to be head clerk there spoiled any good impression which her pretty face and obliging manners’§ might make by actuaily chewing gum as if her chief end in life was to see how rapidly she could make her jaws move; but, to cap everything, the young man from whom I bought my gloves was chewing tobacco; and several times while he was fitting them he spit on the floor. It is simply disgusting. permit the chewing of gum and tobacco by the employes?’’ ‘*He is out of town for a few days, replied the trimming clerk. ‘'The chewing of gum and tobacco is strictly forbidden during business hours and any employe found doing so is liable to dis- missal; but, ‘When the cat’s away the mice will play.’ ”’ Had the manager been in the store, these people would never have ventured to do what they were doing. They knew well enough that they were breaking a rule of the house. They also knew that every right-thinking person condemns gum and tobacco chewing in_ public places; but, aside from this, each of the clerks whom these ladies mentioned was head clerk in his or her department. Now just let the head of a department set an example of thiskind and see how quickly the under clerks will follow it If a clerk is willing, the moment the manager’s back is turned, to break a rule and do a thing that is disgusting to customers, it seems to me that sucha clerk will bear watching. I believe he would be ready at the first opportunity to break a much more important rule than that prohibiting the chewing of gum and tobacco. Mac ALLAN. Cy F. E. Morley, doing business at 711 Wealthy avenue under the style of the Wealthy Avenue Cash Grocery, has turned the stock over to the Clark-Jew- ell-Wells Co., which has sold the stock to E. L. Boyd, who will continue the business at the same location. Does the manager ? Ee J. Dyk has sold his millinery and fancy goods stock at 128 West street to Tony Lommers. Leonard a The First National Bank of St. Louis is succeeded by the Gratiot County State Bank of St. Louis, 6 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN e Fruits and Produce. Dry and Watery Butter. From the New York Produce Review. While it is very generally conceded that the foreign butters exhibited here recently by the Government were not fair samples of the product which it was sought to represent, a careful exam- ination of the various lots brought out some points that may be valuable in the further development of the dairy indus- try of this country. The most striking feature was the dry, waxy character of the butter, especially the Danish and Normandy samples. We find that the popular demand in the British markets is for that class of goods. They want ‘‘fat,’’ and not light, watery stock, and care less about the very high, flashy flavor that so much of the trade on this side of the water de- sires. There is reason in this, too. But- ter can be made to hold a good deal of water, or it can be worked very dry. Consumers who are familiar with these points naturally desire the purer goods. There is such a thing as adulterating butter with water. For upward -of two years past this question has been agi- tated a good deal in England and dis- tricts have enacted certain laws designed to prevent what has often been charac- terized as a fraud. Numerous prosecu- tions have been made under these laws, until those handling the Irish product especially have asked that Parliament pass upon the subject and say how much water butter may contain and still be pure. The Danes have been willing to meet the demand for dry, rich stock, and that is one reason why their product is so much in favor in all of the British markets. We have noticed a gradual improve- ment in the American butter along these lines, but there is still room for further improvement. And if we are to cater more and more to the foreign trade there should be a response to that need at once. Some buttermakers may argue that it costs more to work out the water and produce a dry article, but that must not be a serious consideration if the extension of the trade depends upon it. Besides, there are evidences that the home trade is drifting more that way. Heretofore buyers have not objected so much to a little sponginess, provided the flavor was quick and rosy, but every season brings out more buyers who are looking for solid, waxy goods, something *‘on which one can chew.”’ The natural conditions for making butter in this country are unsurpassed by any of the great dairy countries of the Old World, but our development has been so rapid and we cover so wide a territory that it is not surprising that closer attention has not been paid to producing the best possible qualities. We are glad that the Government brought over these samples of foreign butters so that some comparison could be made with our stock: and we hope that the next lots that come here from Europe will fully represent the com- mercial product of each country. —~> 0 Serious Charge Against a Michigan Shipper. From the New York Produce Review. For some time past we have heard re- ports from members of the trade here that certain packers of eggs in North- ern Ohio, Northern Indiana and Michi- gan, taking advantage of the fact that fresh eggs from those sections often command a premium over those from farther West, have been buying eggs in the Far West and Southwest and ship- ping them here as current local collec- tions. Last winter when the writer was in Chicago we learned that Southern egg collectors were in some cases buy- ing cold storage stock there and ship- ping it to this market mixed with fresh eggs, calling the whole new laid. It is quite common for buyers of eggs from favorite localities to find eggs con- tained in the Jot marked with the name of the packer in some distant state. Possibly these schemes of deception sometimes result profitably to the un- scrupulous packers, But in the main they cannot end in any permanent gain. Buyers pay a premium for stock from Certain sections only because they get better quality, and only when they get better quality. If the goods are not as represented they generally send them back or else take off loss enough to make them as good as they should be. We understand that the house of C. J. Chandler & Co., of Chelsea, Mich., which recently failed, was in the habit of buying goods in Chicago and in the Southwest in carload lots; we never heard of their shipping anything East but ‘‘ Michigan’’ eggs. It does not look as if they had much of a ‘‘bonanza’’ in the business and we should say that the attempt to deceive in this way is so contemptible and picayune that anyone who indulged in it had better fail quick and go into the bunco business. : ——_>2>—__ American Apples in Hungary. The American apple is carrying all before it in Austria-Hungary, but the supply, which may be safely chronicled aS enormous, in nowise satisfies the de- mand. There was an overwhelming in- vasion of the fruit in the European market at the beginning of last autumn, when the belief prevailed that the American apple would last out the win- ter. Cargoes, however, continued to arrive throughout the winter, and were snatched up with all dispatch. It is now anticipated that last year’s crops will continue to supply the market until this year’s crops arrive. Austrian cultiva- tors naturally complain, on the plea that, although the home produce of last autumn was extremely scarce, they look to a plentiful harvest this year, which, owing to the inferiority of the home product, will be unable to compete with the superior American imports. >> __ Remarkable Women. Thomas—You and I have remarkable Wives. Harkins—Do you think so? Thomas—Yes. You know when my wife and I were at your house, night before last? Well, my wife had ona new dress, and she and your wife talked about it nearly all the evening. Harkins—I don’t see anything remark- able about that. It was the natural thing for them to do. Thomas—But, hold on! Your wife didn’t ask who made it, and my wife didn’t tell! —__>2.___ An old physician considers this the only safe, ice water to be used during the summer months: ‘‘Procure some nice looking bottles which will hold about a quart, and fill them with water which has been running for some time. Water which has run through a filter at- tached to a faucet is preferable. Then cork them tightly and place them di- rectly on the ice for some hours before you need to use them, turn them two or three times, so that they will become uniformly cold, and you will find that you can drink more of this water with less after discomfort than you can the water which has been cooled by being directly iced.’’ 00,000 Pounds Butter Wanted to pack and ship on commission. Good outlet. Eggs on commission or bought on track. M. R. ALDEN. 98 S. DIVISION ST.. GRAND RAPIDS. : : ? SEASONABLE SEEDS | : Millets, Hungarian, Fodder Corn. . : GARDEN SEEDS, IMPLEMENTS, ETC. ° : Alfred J. Brown Co., Gnewi me : a @ Ve are receiving, daily, car lots Established NEW SOUTHERN POTATOES, ul V 1876. ONIONS, CABBAGE, WATERMELONS SEEDS: Crimson, Alsyke Alfalfa; Medium, Mammoth Clover; Timothy, Redtop, Bluegrass, Orchard Grass Seed. ‘ When ready to buy send us your orders. i e5e5e5e5e5 Bushel Baskets and Covers. 26-28=30-=32 Ottawa St — “eam — M OS E L E y B ROS. Grand Rapids, Mich. eee epee Ses eseSeSe5e5e5e25e5e5e5e5 i OO $G$GSSSS H$HSSHFSHHSHSSHSSS4HSSHSHSSSHS5H5HSH 4S4H44h4hh 4445454444 iii iii tic iia tcl lia lili ti lili ili cin ili li illo lin. in le, c,h. ts oa aa, ° Sd 3 Consign your Butter and Eggs to = ¢ > $ HARRIS & FRUTCHEY 3 ; _ 8 e $ DETROIT, MICH. $ o : : o $ and receive quick sales and prompt returns 3 @ at market prices. ¢ Le were err wr ore oee eee eee “De breed am small, But de flavah am delicious,” Says the native Georgian this year, owing to their dry weather. Our first car of melons is here.. They are very sweet. Show the first melons in your city this year and let others follow. Red and Black Raspberries, Black- berries, Cherries, Currants, Goose- berries, Whortleberries. Our Florida Pineapples from India River are the finest in flavor and good keepers. Bananas, Oranges, Lemons, Onions, Spinach, Radishes, Let- tuce, Cucumbers, Tomatoes, New Potatoes, Summer Squash, Wax Beans, New Peas, Cabbage. All seasonable vegetables. BUNTING & CO., Jobbers, 20 & 22 Ottawa Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. The Vinkemulder Company, JOBBER OF ‘The Vinkemulder Gompanyt 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. Ve make a specialty of Butchers’ Supplies and are prepared to quote low prices on Whole Spices, Preservaline, Sausage seasoning. Saltpetre, Potato Flour, etc. 7 : We a‘so continue the Fruit and Produce business established and successfully conducted by Henry J. VINKEMULDER. THE VINKEMULDER COMPANY, Successor to Michigan Spice Co. 418-420 S. DIVISION ST., GRAND RAPIDS. Citizens Phone 555. ae GOTHAM GOSSIP. News from the Metropolis---Index to the Market. Special Correspondence. New York, July to—Russell Sage says that we are gradually—very grad- ually, indeed—getting back to an era of prusperity. Russell knows what he is talking about, and everybody rejoices to hear him talk as he does. Much activity is being displayed by our jobbers as to the excursions they are endeavoring to inaugurate to this city. From all directions come enquir- ies and it is firmly believed that within four weeks this city will contain more buyers than have been here at one time for a decade. Quite a number are here now, but are not doing much _ business, preterring to rest a week or so before the fall campaign. By that time the troublous sea of politics will have calmed down, the tariff will be out of the way and everybody will go in for a long pull, a strong pull, and a pull all together. We have had some very hot weather and it has had a depressing effect on the fruit trade and some other lines. With the thermometer at 95, no one is able to get up much enthusiasm. There are about 653,000 bags of coffee (Rie No. 7) in store and afloat, against 396,000 bags at this time last year. This grade has been offered freely at 7%c, but the week has been a very dull one. Buyers are few and far between and sellers will shade prices if there- by they can make a sale. At the close the market is without life. Stocks of mild coffees here are large and quota- tions are barely steady. Jobbers have done a fair amount of business, but there is yet room for improvement. Refined sugar has advanced a fraction on some of the lower grades, and for- eign has also gone up %c. Granulated has remained unchanged and _ the de- mand has been fairly satisfactory. Sugar is a good purchase at present prices, both the manufactured article and the stocks of that designation. Some offerings of new crop Formosa and Japan teas have been made; but very little enthusiasm is manifest. Quo- tations remain low and altogether the market lacks animation. Dealers in the interior must be pretty well sup- plied. Those competent say they look for no immediate improvement. Really choice varieties of both Formosas and Japans are selling to the fine trade at a satisfactory rate, but the outlook is not particularly encouraging, taking the market by and large. The rice market is improving daily and we shall soon -see the old volume of business being done. Orders come in from all sections in such quantity as to suggest that stocks must be very low. Advices from Southern points are strong, foreign sorts are gaining and altogether dealers are not at all unhappy at the fall outlook. Japan sells on an average of about 4%c. With fairly large stocks and light de- mand,the spice market is not especially active, yet there is as much business going forward as is usually the case at MICHIGAN TRADESMAN this time of year. Jobbers, especially, are said to be doing a fair business at decent rates. Lemons have taken another jump and the men who had 5,000 or 10,000 boxes on hand find themselves with a small fortune more than they had a week ago. Extra choice Sicily, 300s, per box, $4@ 4.25 and from that to $5.25. Fancy or- anges are selling slowly and the market is well supplied, so no better rates are looked for soon. Pineapples, bananas, etc., are moving in a rather more satis- factory manner than a_ week ago, al- though no change has been made in quotations. Dried fruits, raisins, prunes, etc., are selling in the usual manner and, while supplies are not especially large, they are yet ample to meet all calls and prices are seemingly low enough to suit anybody. Except for some little interest in to- matoes and peas the canned goods mar- ket is very quiet. Prices are low and the quantity of goods seems to be abun- dant. It is reported that a huge pack of California fruits will have to be dis- posed of this season, as the crops are large,and it is likely that low prices will prevail all along. No change in quota- tions to note. The hot weather is seriously affecting the arrivals of butter and stock that is ali right when it leaves the West is all wrong when it gets here. For fancy Western creamery I5c is still the quota- tion, but the general feeling is firm and an advance of a fraction is looked for by some. The general demand is good for the better sorts and at the close of the week the tone is stronger. Cheese is dull. Supplies are larger than the situation warrants and the mar- ket is certainly dragging. As with but- ter, arrivals show the effect of heat and it needs no very practiced eye to see that much stock will have to be sold at a low mark. Best State dairy is worth, for large size, 75¢c. Small, 7c. For eggs the demand is good. Arrivals of strictly desirable goods have shown some falling off and, as a result, an ad- vance to 12c has taken place on near-by stock. Western choice, loss off, IIc. There is a firm market for marrow beans and pea and medium are also showing more activity. Red Kidneys for export have sold at $1.77%. Mar- row, 87'%4c@$I.10; choice pea, 85c. Potatoes are in plentiful supply and sell for $2@2.25 per bbl. for Long Island. Southern, $1.65@1.75. Few new apples are here that are de- sirable, the bulk of arrivals selling for $1@2 per bbl. for North Carolina fruit, which is about all there is. —____>2.—_____ California Grape-Growers Unite. A movement looking to the organiza- tion of the wine-growers of California was inaugurated last week. If the proj- ect meets with encouragement, other meetings will be held at all of the prin- cipal towns of the dry-wine districts. The object is to give the growers of grapes the same cohesion and force as have been secured by the winemakers through their corporation. How an Unfortunate Business Man | Was Helped to His Feet. From the New York Sun The other day some of the merchants who have grown gray in the pursuit of the practical and material were swap- ping stories of their experiences. one, now a millionaire: ‘‘While I was still attending school my father was compelled to suspend business. He and another man owned a mill up in New England and a dry goods store in Brooklyn. My father attended to the mill and his partner to the retail business. One day my father learned that his partner had absconded, after raising all the money he could on the firm's name. My father came to New York and found that, after using every dollar he had in the world he would stili owe $300. He turned his as- sets over to his creditors, borrowed the $300 necessary to pay his creditors dollar for dollar and went to work on a salary. After several years of hard work he paid back the $300 and was free from debt once more. ‘* At that time my father was superin- tendent of a big Sunday school in Brook- lyn. One of the women who took an interest in the school was an old maid who had known my father for years. She knew about his misfortune and was determined that he should be independ- ent again. So she we .* to half a dozen leading members of the church and told them she wanted to borrow some money to start father in business again. All responded cheerfully and one day my father was surprised at a visit from the woman. Mt sche! 6 said, “here ts $1,600, with which you are going to Start in business for yourself.’ Naturally, my father was startled. ‘Lord bless you, Miss ——,’ he said, ‘I can’t take that. Besides, I do not want to go into business again. I am satisfied as I am.’ ‘There is the money,’ she replied, ‘and you are going into business. Now, don’t delay about it.” The old man still demurred, but she insisted, and, after Said | awhile, she got his consent to use the 7 money. That was the foundation of our present business. Father opened a little dry goods store and I left school to heip him. Two years later father went to one of the men who had contributed toward his capital and handed him the $300 he had advanced. ‘What's that or: he asked. "Why, this is the money you gave Miss—— to start me in business, said father. ‘Nonsense,’ said he, ‘you don’t owe me anything, old man. Eliza came to me and asked me tor $300, and I gave itto her. If she had asked for $1,000 she would have got it just as quick. I made_ no record of it and | don't wantjit.' You have got to take it,’ said father. ‘Now, please don't,’ said he, ‘it will upset all my book-keeping.’ Father insisted, though, and finally had his way. Most of his other creditors talked the same way, but all had to give in. Within a week back came the letters asking father to give the money to the poor if he did not want to use it himself. Iam glad to say we have been able to return some of the kindness shown us then.’’ Elgin System of Creameries. It will pay you to investigate our plans, and visit our factories, if you are contemplating building a Creamery or Cheese factory. at lowest prices. licited. All supplies furnished Correspondence so- R. E. STURGIS, Allegan, Mich. Contractor and Builder of But- ter and Cheese Factories, and Dealer in Supplies. i HNL oe lr HTL Ha , / i | Write ~R. HRT, Jr, Market St., Detroit. xButter and Eges wanted. Will buy same at point of shipment, ot delivered, in small or large lots. for particulars. Ship your Butter and Eggs for Cash at yours tation to HERMANN C.NAUMANN &CO. Main Office, 353 Russell St. DETROIT. Branch Store, 799 [lich. Ave. og BOTH PHONES roy. } Special Attention to Fruit and Berries in Season. Correspondence Solicited. REFERENCES: Detroit Savings Bank, or the trade generally. SNIPS SSS SSP 2s BS SS SSIS 3 SSS 2S SS SSIS BOIS SS SS SS SSE CSSA BS BRS AAS ESR EDIESDIAAEES EES SAISOISANESE SSE E KES ¥ Do you want to know all about us? Write to Bese} Philadelphia, Pa. CSS3 Fourth National Bank, ya Corn Exchange National Bank, oa i Grand Rapids. ya es W. D. Hayes, Cashier, Hastings National Bank, Hastings, Mich. D. C. Oakes, Banker, | Coopersville, Mich. CASRESEES PRED REEDED SSAA SASS AASASAISASSS HN W. R. BRICE. Established 1852. Cc. M. DRAKE. W.R. Brice & Co., Commission ‘Merchants Butter Eggs and Poultry 23 South Water Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Ser SQ SRS SAS SS cee . | SPECIAL NOTICE. x i ee DS! No doubt you will be visited 9 cS at this season of the year by : el . 4 son numerous smooth - tongued aN, . LDR solicitors, anxious for your ad ut . 7 Nn) business who will make all KG) kinds of promises to get your DR goods. Take our advice and os look up the reputation of the AW house that makes you these add promises before shipping. 4@ You will find us rated Fifty al to Seventy-five thousand dol- ye lars, credit high, and for 45 BS long years we have been one AL of the leading solid houses of Aw Philadelphia. e . iS WHE WIE SYST ESSSAS Tj SSD aaa Saas MICHIGAN. TRADESMAN 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 Tenlecuaus. E. A. STOWE, Epiror. WEDNESDAY, = = - JULY 14, 1897. BATTLE-SHIPS CRITICISED. It is rather singular that most of the journalistic comments on the recent great naval review at Spithead, in honor of Queen Victoria’s jubilee, praise the display of cruisers and torpedo boats, and pass over the mammoth battle-ships rather lightly. Most writers seem to have picked up the impression that great doubt exists among naval experts as to the worth of the battle-ships, and that there is a growing tendency to abandon the monster iron-clads in fa- vor of the swift cruisers and formidable little torpedo craft. It is difficult to un- derstand how this impression could have been produced. The display of battle- ships was certainly the most formidable the world ever saw, and nothing has transpired in modern naval warfare to indicate that the battle-ships are likely to disappoint the hopes of their advo- cates. The critics of the battle-ships would do well to study the details of the battle of the Yalu, between the Chinese and Japanese fleets, during the recent war in the Far East. While it is true that the Japanese fleet, which won the vic- tory, was composed entirely of cruisers, the details of the fight show that it was the bad marksmanship and cowardice of the Chinese which permitted the Japanese cruisers to escape with mod- erate losses. Those of the Japanese ships which were hit by a few shells were terribly damaged, and the loss of life on the Japanese flagship from a single shell was appalling. In the Chinese fleet all the cruisers were either destroyed or forced to beat a hasty re- treat. They were really little better than slaughter pens. On _ the other hand, the two large Chinese battle- ships, although exposed to the terrible fire of the high-power guns possessed by the Japanese, suffered no irreparable damage. Had these two ships been effectively handled, and had their bat- teries been served as they would have been served by European crews, the Japanese would not have secured the victory, and some of their ships would certainly have been destroyed. All the weight of professional opinion appears to be against the contention that the battle-ships should be superseded by the cruisers. Great Britain continues to steadily increase her proportion ot heavy battle-ships, while all the great naval powers of Europe are steadily adding to their armor-clad fleets. Even in the United States the best naval au- thorities are convinced that the country must depend upon the battle-ships for actual fighting. The fact is that each of the classes of vessels displayed in the jubilee review have their well-defined value in all plans of naval defense. Whiie the bat- tle-ships are depended on to bear the brunt of battle,the cruisers are intended to destroy or protect commerce, ac- cording to the interests affected, and to act as scouts for the heavier ships. The torpedo boats are expected to operate against all classes of an enemy’s ves- sels; but their use is as yet mainly theoretical, as the tests in actual war to which they have been subjected have not developed results commensurate with the expectations of naval experts. THE BENEFICIARIES OF STRIKES. The great strike of bituminous coal miners which began about ten days ago has developed until nearly or quite 120, - ooo miners, located in seven different states, are engaged in it. As naturally might be expected, in many localities there is already threatened scarcity of coal, and in some it has become so pos- itive that industrial works are compelled to shut down. The holders of the supply in some cases have advanced the price to about double and the scarcity seems to be less on account of an actual lack of the fuel than of the disposition of the holders to realize an advance. A noticeable feature of the situation is the continued appearance of indifference on the part of a great proportion of the operators, who appear well satisfied that the price of their product shall be en- hanced by the general suspension of production. Just now the great contest is being waged in the West Virginia fields, where both operators and miners seem bent on profiting to the-utmost from the efforts of the strikers elsewhere. Re- membering the experience of three years ago, when a rich harvest was gathered by the operators by keeping at work through the strike, which they shared with the employes to an extent sufficient to keep their allegiance, the mines are now kept in operation day and night; but a determined effort is being made by the labor leaders, who are sending all the most capable organizers to be ob- tained to that field, to secure the help of these miners, which seems to be nec- essary to success elsewhere. Efforts are being made to effect a compromise, but so far they appear to be received with indifference by both sides. The arbitration boards of several of the states concerned are holding joint sessions in Pittsburg It is very possi- ble that when the strike has progressed far enough to serve the selfish ends of the leaders and the operators, the work of the arbitrators will have apparent re- sults. In the meantime, the rank and file, who are the cat’s-paws in the move- ment, are made to suffer in the work of raking out the chestnuts, thus again ex- emplifying the proposition that the ones who benefit by labor strikes are not the strikers. Small towns eager to become cities regardless of the increased expense of government have had a good example set to them by the people of Johnston, R. I., who rejected sucha proposition by a decisive vote. che ncaa ECE There are higher satisfactions than the mere getting of money, and riches cannot compensate a man for the con- sciousness of having lived a dishonor- able and selfish life. GENERAL TRADE SITUATION. Taking into consideration the intense- ly heated term which monopolized most attention throughout the country until the close of last week, with the season- able dulness of midsummer, the fact that there has been considerable activ- ity, with a tendency to increasing prices in many lines, is significant of gener- ally improving conditions. In most in- dustrial lines the summer adjustments of wage scales are either completed or are in a further stage of advancement than usual at this season. The only im- portant exception, the coal industry, is making considerable disturbance, but its injurious effects are not likely to last for any considerable time. The fact that the main changes in tariff taxes are known has removed the principal obstacle to liberal trade. While merchants were uncertain as to the changes to be made in the iaw, there was a general disposition to limit trans- actions to the smallest possible propor- tions. Already, since it has been cer tain that the bill would pass in prac- tically the shape in which it has been placed by the Senate, there has been quite a revival in most lines of trade. The dry goods and iron industries, two of the leading barometers of the busi- ness feeling, have developed consider- able activity, and nearly all the manu- facturing interests are manifesting new life. These things indicate that people feel more confidence in the outlook, and are preparing to throw off the caution and conservatism which have hampered enterprise for the past year or more. The tariff discussion and changes hav- ing been gotten out of the way during the special session now drawing toa close, there will be nothing in the long session of Congress to begin in Decem- ber next which need disturb business confidence. Moreover, there is no dan- ger of any further tariff changes for at least two years to come. Again, there will be no general elections to interfere with business during the coming fall; in fact, the immediate future is un- commonly free from any possible dis- turbing influences of a political nature. All the usual trade indications are favorable. Money appears to be _plenti- ful and cheap at all financial centers; there is a good demand for investments, and current liquidation of speculative deals no longer exerts a depressing in- fluence. The grain crops, upon which the prosperity of the country at large so greatly depends, are promising and the harvest is now near at hand. It is be- lieved that there will be a large demand from abroad for our grain this fall, a fact which is sure to keep prices fairly firm. While the conditions which seemed to cause the outflow of gold to Europe are unchanged, the movement has ceased and it is thought no more will go out this season. The stock market continued to show that obstinate strength which was so noteworthy for six weeks, and the general average of prices for railroad stocks reached the highest point touched since early in May last year. The dealings were narrow, and after the elaborate effort to get up an- other scare about the currency and gold exports, the strength shown is signifi- cant. Nor is the volume of business slackening as much as might be ex- pected in midsummer, for the daily av- erage of payments through clearing- houses in July thus far has not been smaller, but slightly larger, than in previous years—6.5 per cent. more than in 1896 and a fifth of 1 per cent. larger than in 1892. While the wheat movement has been small on account of the season, the gen- eral statistical situation has been strong and frices, which met with a reaction the last of the week after a consider- able rise, are again moving forward this week. The crop reports indicate a sur- plus in this country beyond any for sev- eral years past; but the favorable feature for future prices is that the demand from abroad promises to be unusually large. Shipments for Cape Town and Australia are already beginning from some of the Pacific ports. There has been a small advance in cotton, with a considerable buying from Northern spinners, but more mills have shut down on account of large stock and deferred demand. The improved fea- tures of the woolen goods market con- tinue and the trade is considered ina better condition than for some years past. In some purchases of spring goods an advance of 5 per cent. has been ob- tained. The extremely low prices ruling for iron ores have stimulated the movement by lake shipments and these have as- sumed a magnitude which indicates the expectation of large business after the summer shut-downs are over. In many works orders have been so pressing that they are continuing in operation longer than usual. Bank clearings for the week show a small increase, to $1,071,000,000, a gain of 8 per cent. over the corresponding week of last year. Business failures are reported at 213, against 225 for pre- ceding week. MOROCCO TO BE COERCED. The United States is about to engage in a little exhibition of the wholesome application of force for the protection of its citizens, which seems to be very sadly needed in the Mediterranean. The warships San Francisco and Raleigh have been ordered to Tangier, the capital of Morocco, for the purpose of aiding the American Consul General at that place in enforcing a demand for the punishment of a native who is ac- cused of maltreating an American citi- zen. It seems that, although the American Consul General has repeatedly demand- ed that the culprit be punished, the Sultan has paid no attention whatever to such demands, although the treaty exist- ing between this country and Morocco expressly provides for the punishment of any violence offered American citi- zens. It is hardly probable that any serious trouble will grow out of this incident, as it is expected that,as soon as the Sul- tan realizes that the United States is de- termined to secure proper protection for its citizens, and is prepared to use force, if need be, to accomplish that purpose, he will reconsider his position and promptly comply with the demands of the American Consul General. The presence of the two warships is expected to exert a very wholesome influence. This is the proper way to protect Americans. A mere demand made up- on semi-civilized nations is a waste of time, unless it be backed up by a rea- sonable show of force. An object les- son is needed to convince such petty governments that the arm of the United States is long enough to reach them, and that there is the determination back of a mere threat to actually punish any injustice which may be inflicted on American citizens. If you throw mud you must expect your hands to get dirty. AI os Settee a THE LAW’S DELAYS. ‘*Law Notes,’’ a Long Island, N. Y., publication, in remarking upon the ex- traordinary facility for the obstruction of justice furnished by the laws and the practice of the courts in this country, declares that a great deal of the prompt administration of justice in England is due to the fact that there is no court of appeals in criminal cases. The remarkable ease and readiness with which justice can be blocked, and the enforcement of the laws obstructed through the operation of the laws them- selves, are certainly responsible for the epidemic of violent crimes in many parts of the country, and for the undue exercise of popular vengeance. The journal mentioned above cites, as a striking evidence of this sort of thing, the case of Durant, who was convicted in San Francisco for the mur- der of Blanche Lamont in 1895. After a trial of great length, wherein he was represented by able and eminent coun- sel, and which was declared by the Su- preme Court of his State to be fair in every particular, he was adjudged to be guilty and sentenced to death. Since his conviction was affirmed by the Su- preme Court of California repeated efforts have been made to procure a re- view of the case in the courts of the United States. These have at last been so successful that Circuit Judge . Gilbert has granted leave to appeal to the Su- preme Court at Washington from an or- der of the Federal Court at San Fran- cisco denying an application for a writ of habeas corpus. Pending this appeal, proceedings for the execution of the prisoner are stayed, and the appeal can- not be heard until the Supreme Court meets in Ootober. That sort of delay can be kept up un- til all the witnesses for the prosecution either die in natural course or are made away with, or until popular indignation against offenders has time to cool down. Then they can be turned loose in some quiet way which can always be provided under the forms of law. It is not strange that there are large sections of the country, not excepting Louisiana, where the criminal and po- lice laws are habitually violated with impunity, and the violators, no matter how serious and atrocious the crime, are able to defy the authorities. In such districts no criminal can be punished unless there is a popular uprising against him. Then his punishment is certain, no matter what the facts are. PROTECTION OF THE FUR SEALS. Ever since the award of the Paris ar- bitration tribunal which settled the Behring Sea controversy contrary to the claims of the United States, the Wash- ington Government has been at work endeavoring to-secure some sort of an agreement between the powers interest- ed looking to the better protection of seal life. Although the British govern- ment maintained several cruisers in the Behring Sea for two seasons, to aid in enforcing the regulations adopted tem- porarily for the better preservation of the seals, a strong disposition has been shown during the past few years not only to refrain from taking any part in the regular patrol of the sealing waters, but also to place in the way of the proper enforcement of the restrictions upon sealing which were decided upon immediately after the Paris award as many obstacles as possible. The refusal of Great Britain to enter heartily into our plans for the preserva- tion of the seals is without doubt based MICHIGAN TRADESMAN upon the delay experienced in collecting the money due the Canadian seaiers whose vessels were seized prior to the arbitration proceedings. It has been hinted at very broadly that until these claims are paid, Great Britain will take no active part in protecting the seals. Although discouraged at the small suc- cess which has been attained in prevent- ing the extermination of seal life in Behring Sea, the Washington Govern- ment has not given up attempts to bring about an understanding between the different governments having interests in the sealing’grounds. Mr. John W. Foster, the representative’ of the State Department, who is now in Europe for the purpose of negotiating an agree- ment with the powers interested on the subject of the protection of seals, an- nounces that he has reached a satisfac- tory understanding with, Russia, and that he will now seek to arrive at some sort of an agreement with Great Britain. Japan has‘already expressed a readiness to co-operate with us in protecting the seals, so that the only obstacle which now remains to be overcome is the dis- inclination of the English government to enter into any_agreement. While it may be seriously doubted if the announcement of a satisfactory ar- rangement with Russia is a diplomatic mode of procedure in approaching ne- gotiations, with Great Britain, still the recent good feeling which appears to have been established between this coun- try and our cousins on the other side of the Atlantic may serve to smooth over any unpleasant remembrances’ which may still remain in connection with former negotiations upon this very troublesome Behring Sea problem. It is certainly to be hoped that a speedy solution of the sealing question may be reached, as the whole matter has been a fruitful source of annoyance and mis- understanding for more than a decade past. In exploiting its resources Kansas _ is now directing attention to its mineral deposits and their possibilities. It pro- duces coal, building stone, zinc, salt, gypsum, oil, gas, cement, mineral water and clay, the output of all these in 1895 being worth about $5,000,000. This was triple the output of 1885, and is regarded as’promising much for the future. The State stands first in the production of gypsum, its output being more than double the combined product of all the other states, Michigan ex- cepted. It is eleventh among the ccal- producing states, -eighth in oil produc- tion and fifth in gas, having an oil and gas area of 9,000 square miles. Nearly a million and a half barrels of salt is marketed annually, and about 21,000 tons of zinc. The zinc-bearing ore is very rich, the yield being 66.2-3 per cent. A new bullet-proof cloth was tried on a dog at the Chicago College of Dental Surgery the other day, and, strange to say, the dog survived the test, the bul- lets failing to penetrate the cloth. It is reported that already two presidents of South American republics have written for samples of the cloth, and self-meas- urement blanks. The cloth is to be tried on a human target next. What is wanted by young men who are kept on salary during the summer months when they are not actually needed is a few more half holidays. They are overworked. The salaries tor these holidays might be profitably given to the poor and willing fellows who have no positions, in which they can earn money while anxious to work, 9 PER nM n ne RRR s S Ct Buy a Seller! Sell a Winner! Win a Buyer! IDEAL FULL “AM — C a CHEES® Pillsbury Flour Ideal Cheese Old Fashioned Lard Clark-Jewell-Wells Co., Western Michigan Agents, Grand Rapids, Mich. es es 10 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN -Woman’s World The Ideal Hostess. Opinions differ as to what constitutes an ideal hostess, but according to a number of society women, who were re- cently discussing the subject, here are some of the indispensable qualities she must possess : She must make you feel individually that you are the favored guest. She must make you feel perfectly at home. She must see everything, and yet possess the art of seeming to see noth- ing. She must never look bored. She must be able to hear the same story over a hundred different times,and still be competent to smile approvingly at the right point. She must know how to get congenial people together. She must know how to keep discus- sions of religion and politics off the carpet. She must know how to compliment a guest’s gown. She must never monopolize the con- versation. She must know how to let people be mistaken. She must be generous enough to let other people have different opinions from hers. She must never let anyone be slighted or overlooked. She must know when to ask the ama- teur musician or elocutionist to display their talents. She must never dress as handsomely as her guests. She must be perfectly unselfish about her own pleasures. She must never know fatigue, but be able to stand and smile, ‘‘So glad to see you. So good of you to come,’’ by the hour. ; She must listen courteously to the long-winded talker. She must not neglect her guests, nor yet give them too much of her society. She must remember that nothing is so tiresome, so surely death to all enjoy- ment, as the feeling that one is being entertained. In a word, the ideal hostess must pos- sess patience, long-suffering endurance, charity. If she has ali these she may be re- warded by being permitted to wag her tongue at somebody else’s tea, when some other woman is the martyr to so- cial conventions. Dorotuy Drx. 0 What a Woman Can Do. The wonderful popularity of the bi- cycle for the use of women as well as for men calls attention to the physical powers of the (supposedly) weaker sex. In this connection the humorous pic- ture drawn by Bob Burdette, the hu- morist, is good enough, and _ has perti- nence enough to be reproduced in its entirety. True, she cannot sharpen a pencil, and, outside of commercial cir- cles, she cannot tie a package to make it look like anything save a crooked cross section of chaos; but land of mir- acles! see what she can do witha pin! I believe there are some women who can pin a glass knob on a door. She cannot walk so many miles around a billiard table with nothing to eat and nothing (to speak of) to drink, but she can walk the floor all night with a frettul baby without going sound asleep the first half hour. She can ride 500 miles without going into the smoking car to rest (and get away from the children). She can go to town and doa wearisome day’s shopping and have a good time with three or four friends without drinking a keg of beer. She can enjoy an even- ing visit without smoking a half dozen cigars. She can endure the torturing distraction of a houseful of children all day, while her husband cuffs them all howling to bed before he has been home an hour. Every day she endures a dress that would make an athleteswoon. She will not, and possibly cannot, walk 500 miles around a tan-bark track, in six days, for $5,000, but she can walk 200 miles in ten hours, up and down crowded aisles of a dry goods store when there is a reduction sale on. She hath no skill at fence, and knoweth not how to spar, but when she javelins a man in the ribs, in a Christmas crowd, that man’s whole family howls. She is afraid of a mouse and runs from a cow, but a book agent can’t scare her. She is the salt of the church, the pepper of the choir, the life of the sewing society and about all there is of a young ladies’ school, or a nunnery. DorotHy Dix. Oe The Unwholesomeness of Jealousy. One of the commonest kinds of a pace that kills is jealousy. A jealous woman, in common with every other creature who dissipates, if she encourages that jealousy, defeats her own object. Take the woman who by habit is suspiciously watchful of her husband and the women he meets. She fears these other women may usurp her place in his admiration, respect, affection, etc. And if she is unwise, aS many jealous women are, she thinks and says irritating things re- flecting upon the man’s probity and the women’s looks, tempers and characters. The physicians say that the entertain- ment of jealousy really has a disorgan- izing effect upon the body and certainly it is disturbing to the mind. A jealous woman, who may have been lovely as a May morning, through indulgence of her fears begins to become, from the moment at which she first suspects, the very object which will drive away her husband’s regard. Jealousy guarantees biliousness. Biliousness makes bad tem- per, cross words. These, too, are dis- turbing to the cook, and she sends bad food to the table. The man can’t eat it, and his business goes wrong all day. A jealous, bilious woman is a bad mother. She upsets the children, and money has to be paid out for medicine for them. Domestic jealousy is a pace that kills. Professional or business jealousy kills. The woman who whispers a convenient detrimental word about an associate into the ear of her patron or employer may benefit fora day. In the end, he con- cludes that she is untrustworthy. F —_———~ -0 Women’s Way. ‘*But,’’ persisted the reformer, ‘‘you must admit that women have never bought legislatures and common coun- cils as men do.’’ The man laughed a hard, mirthless laugh. ‘‘No,’’ he gloomily replied after a Moment; ‘‘women just go around pric- ing things.’’ ee At the China beet sugar factory in Riverside county, Cal., work has been begun on what will be the largest mill in the world. It will be 1,600x40x20 feet, and it will hold enough salted beet pulp to stall-feed 7,000 head of cattle. It will have the largest silo in the world. The pulp will be carried from the fac- tory to the silo by a motor engine. >. 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Ls sia it lie ie ile eal ‘ETSESES SSSeSssseesee= You Wille Look in Vain For a flour that is more uniform or that will suit all classes of trade better than {Lily White” W It is not the highest fancy patent nor is it a straight ww grade; but it is an intermediate patent at a moderate WW price which fully meets and satisfies the demand ot that large class of people who use only one grade . W of flour for all purposes. In other words, it is the x best flour for “all around’ use that can be found W . anywhere. It makes good bread and it makes good pastry. Youcan recommend it for anything from W pancakes to angel food. We refund your money if unsatisfactory. : : ¥ Valley City Milling Zo., t Grand Rapids, Mich. —_ e £ 3. Ne Aapereemnnm oe sey MICHIGAN TRADESMAN JANE CRAGIN. Jane Is Obdurate in Her Determi- nation. Written for the TrRapESMAN. ‘‘T cannot tell you, Cy, how sorry— how very sorry—I am for you. I did not know—I could not know—that this idea had so taken possession of you un- til now. Long ago—so long ago it seems to me now, when you asked me this same question, I told you—and I thought you believed me—that such’ a thing never could be. Since then, except when it has been forced upon me, I have given it no thought, and I have Supposed that it was settled forever. That I have for you a regard, an _affec- tion if I may call it that, deep, lasting and unchangeable, I shall not deny, for I have never tried to conceal it. In season and out of season, it has been my constant aim and pleasure to think of you and do for you, in every possible way, whatever I could to repay, so far as these things can be repaid, the great obligations which I gladly and freely acknowledge. But, Cyrus, I have not intentionally done these things except with the desire to let you see how grate- ful I am to you for your unlimited kind- ness tome. I can see now how easy it has been, feeling as you do, for these attentions on my part to be misunder- stood and—and misconstrued; but I am sure you will not be so unjust as to at- tribute them to anything but the one great desire to make your coming and your stay here a constant enjoyment. You will admit this much, won’t you?’’ ‘“Why, yes; but, Jane—’’ ‘‘Don’t interrupt me, Cy. If, after all these years, when I thought we were reading each other like so many open books, we have been deceived, let us understand each other at last. I, more than anyone else, know that you have some of the noblest qualities a genuine manhood possesses. I need not run through the long list. I need not say that I never expect to find them again so fairly embodied; but, Cyrus, do you not see—do you not know—that, unless all these qualities appeal to my heart, they awaken in me only a great admira- tion for them and for you. The fault must be in me that they donot; but that they do not prevents me from being to you more than the dear friend I have been trying to be for so many years. ‘‘With only this admiration you must see how your treatment of me here has shocked me—I cannot reconcile it with the great love you say you have for me. Does great love so change all that is noble in a man as to make him forget his honor and, worse than that, to make him believe that the object of his love is equally forgetful of hers? Since my own engagement to Dr. Day and yours to Miss Marchland, I am conscious of less restraint in my manner towards you, because I have had a right to be- lieve that those pledges on your part and on mine were equally sacred to both. In the eye of Heaven the wedding ring is on my finger, as it is on Mar- jory’s; and yet her husband has made proposals to me to-day which he could not repeat in her presence without hang- ing his head in shame, and he has done this in the belief that I could be as faithless to my vows as he has been to the woman whom he pretends to love. O, Cy, how mistaken I have been in you! 1 have believed you to be the soul of honor and of all uprightness, and have tried, in my daily living, to be your equal in these, only to find that I am as base, in your opinion, as you have proved yourself to be in mine!’’ More she would have said but the rushing tears stopped her and she threw herself sobbing upon the cushions in the win- dow. Only once had Cy made an effort to stay the storm; and, when he found it useless, he listened quietly until he was startled and stung by the cruel words of the offended woman. Then, with a com- posure hardly in keeping with what was going on within, he stcod with folded arms listening until Jane sank sobbing in the window. He waited until the sobs ceased and then, with a gasp in his voice he could not control, he said: ‘‘Jane, I did not think that loving you could ever be a crime—I do not think so now; and, even if I have sunk so low in your es- teem as you Say I have, the fault lies not in the love, but in the abuse of. it. There, if it be one, is the crime, and even you, my accuser, shall be the judge whether the temptation has not been too great for mere mankind to resist; and I am only that. I need not tell you when my love for you began, nor need I tell you how it has grown with my grewth and strengthened with my strength dur- ing all these long, long years—so many, Jane, that it wearies me to count them —until it mastered my judgment, my ‘reason—me—and has made me as _help- less as a child. While there was no danger of losing you, it was easy for me to believe that sometime—even years counted as nothing then—I should have my heart’s desire; but, when I saw all that I care for drifting away from me, and that somebody else could have for the asking what I would go through fire and flood to have for my very own, it has been, it is—more than I can endure. It is no wonder, when hope was giving way to despair, that, forgetful of everything that should have held me back,I should have turned my back upon ‘honor and all uprightness’ to make one last appeal for what God knows is mine and ought to be mine! This, Jane, is the sum of my offending; and, even if there were more, T know that your own heart tells you that for me to have said less, done less—yes, wanted less—would have been a greater wrong to us both; and, in spite of what you have said, in spite of your vows and of mine, I tell you, Jane, that love, like virtue, like godliness, is never so fierce as when grappling with despair. Where this is to end, God only knows; but, O, the worthlessness, the aimlessness, of life without you, Jane! And the living, as I must live, to ‘see my happiness through another’s eyes!’ Perhaps | have deserved this. Perhaps my over- weaning conceit has needed just this humiliation—and above all the accusa- tion—of being faithless to my vows and believing you to be as ‘base’ as t. But we will leave that question to the Read- er of Hearts. I shall not fear His judg- ment. ‘Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends;’ and, Jane, rernember that mine is ready for you when that time comes,’’ He could go no further. The glance at Jane, whose tace was still buried in the cushions, had in it all the loving tenderness that filled his heart to over- flowing ; and then, with a sadness which a man never feels but once, he went to his own room. RICHARD MALCOLM STRONG. on Air can now be easily liquified, but according to the American Machinist, the difficulty of putting it to any prac- tical use lies in the fact that it must be stored and transmitted at a temperature of more than 200 degrees below zero. “There are Overs” PATENTEO MAY 2,1893. UMPROVED MARCH 17, (897, SER TONS Nh ment. — \ to last 40 days. in- weight all the but none but the World Chal- lenger that will never be rele- gated to the rubbish depart- tifically adapted to its use. Does not get out of place, it being attached to the pail. time. Write us for particulars. DEVEREAUX & DUFF, Manufacturers and: Proprietors, OWOSSO, MICH. M.L. IZOR & CO., 100 LAKE STREET, Hi Exclusive distributers for Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska. Its construction is scien- Two minutes to charge it Keeps fruit and tobacco clean and holds them at par CHICAGO. FOUEC CeeecuEedesd ia TANGLEFOOT SEALED STICKY FLY PAPER REGULAR 10 Boxes in a Case 30 cents per Box $2.55 per Case TANGLEFOOT ends he 15 Boxes in IS ONE OF THE MOST PROFIT= ABLE THINGS TO SELL 1807 “* LITTLE” a Case 13 cents per Box $1.45 per Case MICHIGAN TRADESMAN MANISTEE SALT. How It Is Made—Magnitude of the Industry. Sylvan Beach, July 4—If any question still exists as to the exact location of the Garden of Eden, I am now prepared to settle it. Of course, it has long been conceded that somewhere within the boundaries of Michigan lay this ideal spot, in which the young couple whom we Call our first parents set up house- keeping, but just where has never been definitely determined, Mackinac Island, Niles, Harbor Point and Traverse City each laying claim to the honor. Now, however, all doubts are dispelled, for I am ready to prove that it was here at Sylvan Beach that Father Adam and Mother Eve spent their honeymoon. Certainly, a more romantic or pictur- esque spot could not be _ imagined. Grand old Lake Michigan washes the beach upon the one side; upon the other, White Lake ripples in tender curving lines of creamy spray. The point of land lying between the wo lakes 1s about two miles long and hardly more than a quarter of a mile wide. This point rises above Lake Michigan some seventy feet and declines gently to the beach of White Lake. The crest is crowned with towering pines, through whose glossy plumes the winds sigh softly, and on the slopes toward White Lake wide-spreading elms and beech trees make long cool tunnels of living green. The sun is winnowed through the heavy foliage until it falls cool upon the carpet of brown leaves under foot. As one gazes out over Lake Michigan it seems to melt away in the far dis- tance and become absorbed in the sky. Looking across the little space,one sees White Lake glittering in the morning sun; the green fields which line its banks are tender and cool looking ; gen- tle slopes rise and fall in the distance, the perfume of thousands of wild flow- ers greets the nostril; a quiet pervades all—a_ friendly silence—which seems comprehending and in harmony with all the nobler aspirations of one’s heart In such a spot one must leave behind all strife and worry and blind rushing after hateful dollars The bounteous peace which Nature alone can give to the hu- man heart takes possession of all one's faculties and one readily acquiesces in the old Pagan belief that God is the soul and permeates all creation. To be permitted to spend a few days in this ideal spot is, indeed,a privilege, and that one of those days should be the blessed Sabbath, and another that one almost as sacred to every American heart, makes my little vacation doubly appreciated. I would have gladly de- voted every moment to gazing lazily out over the lakes, but dear friends had many plans to crowd into my brief stay all the happiness possible: a hop at the new hotel, a row up the old channel after pond lilies, from which we re- turned laden with those most beautiful of all Howers; an excursion to Mich-ill- ind-a, another resort a coupie of miles up the beach. occupied ky people from Michigan, Illinois and Indiana, who FOLDING BATH TUBCO.,p have named their summer resting place in equal honor of the three states, using the abbreviation of each, thus making a very pretty as weil as high-sounding name, then, last, a fishing trip,from which all save myself came home with long strings of black bass and perch, while I, who sacrificed a dczen minnows and poor worms beyond number, never even gota nibble. 1 was reminded of the startling resemblance a fisherman bears to a traveling man—-and, - also, how like business is to fishing. Speaking of business, reminds me also that it has many bright sides and considerable profit outside the exact _re- sults; and even though one doesn’t catch any fish, one may at least learn how others catch them, if one takes advan- tage of opportunities. Apropos of the above wise remark, I want to relate a pleasant and profitable experience | had iast week, the result of my wish to see how other ‘‘fishermen fished.’’ I was in Manistee—that city of which so many zyood things could be said—and my search for orders led me to the store of Buckley & Douglass. While waiting for the buyer, I listened dreamily to the throbbing of the great pumps which draw the brine up in the salt wells. Suddenly the thought came, How is salt made? Here was an opportunity to learn, and glad | am that I took advantage of it. My request to be shown through the ‘salt block—just why called block | am unable to say—was graciously grauted by Mr. Peterson, who placed at my disposal the foreman, who was most obliging and courteous. I had ex- ceedingly vague ideas as to where this plentiful and useful commodity came from or how it was produced. To me salt had always been just salt,and dread- ful bad luck to spill, and a thing into which overly curious women were likely to be turned, like Lot’s wife. Then, in my childhood I thought it good to catch birds with, my old nurse having told me that, if I could put salt on the bird's tail, I could easily catch it. I remem- ber many a long chase J've given the birds with a pinch of salt between my fingers. Now, however, I have Jearned more concerning this mineral than ] ever dreamed to know, and an interesting study it was. I was first shown the pumps which draw the brine from the wells, which are from 2,000 to 2,010 feet in depth, being driven for about 700 teet through sand and hardpan. At this depth small pockets of oil and veins of gas are found. Next, a solid rock a thousand feet in thickness must be drilled through. No piping is required through the rock, which, I presume, compensates in a measure for the extra labor required to penetrate it. Below the rock is encountered what is known as ‘‘caving rock ’’ which is porous and full of cracks and causes much trouble. Passing this, the strata of salt is reached. This varies in thickness from twenty thirty feet. Water is then pumped into the well to wash out or form a pocket. After this, however, to the natural flow of water on the sides of the well is sufficient to keep the pumps going twenty-four hours a day, pump- ing up a brine that contains in solution THE “PEERL 33 per cent. of salt. This brine is pumped into vast tanks called ‘‘set- tlers,’’ some of which will hold 3,000 barrels. From these tanks the brine is conveyed into pans, through which steampipes are run, raising the tem- perature to 170 degrees. This heat pre- cipitates the salt to the bottom of the pans. When tull the salt is drawn out by great hoes in the hands of men who work stripped to the waist—so intense the heat and heavy the task—and after being taken from the pans it is loaded into small cars and drawn to great stor- age bins, where it lays white and beau- tiful as snow. Thetank room was filled with steam that almost blinded me, and was so hot that the perspiration dripped from every pore, strong with the odor of sulphurous gases. The forms of a hundred half-naked men, flitting about in the misty white steam, brandishing their hoes, which one could imagine to be the pitchforks with which the la- borers in hades are presumed to be armed, made Dantes’ Inferno seem an easy possibility and I was not sorry to quit the scene, interesting as it was. My kind guide next conducted me to the cooper shop, where things looked more everyday but were hardly less in- teresting. Here are made the 2,000 barrels daily necessary to pack the product of this block. The staves and heads are also made here, the hoops only being procured elsewhere. Emerging from the cooper shop and looking back over this mammoth plant which covers nearly two acres, I felt how little I knew and how much there was yet to learn, and I determined to master every salt well in Manistee, so I took a car to Eastlake, where are located the five wells of the R. G. Peters Salt & Lumber Co. This block is said to be the largest in the world, covering over two acres, employing nearly or quite 1,000 men in the different departments ot the business. Mr. Henry W. Carey, the Secretaty and Treasurer of the com- pany, gave me much interesting infor- mation concerning salt in general. Among other facts, he stated as his opinion that the salt strata underlying Manistee was the bed of an old ocean which existed in some pre-historic time. He also explained the different processes of making salt and gave me some statistics as to the amount of salt produced in Manistee. The grainer process is that I have described, only that I was told, butter or cotton seed oil is spread over the surface of the brine to break the coating and precipitate the salt faster, this making it finer. The more slowly it is made the coarser the grain or crystal. This process is more costly, as it requires more steam, hence many of the blocks are putting in vacuum pans, in which it only requires 125 to 130 degrees of heat to precipitate the salt, while in the open grainer pan it requires 170 degrees. This vacuum pan 1s difficult of description to one not learned in mechanics. It Jooks to bea great iron drum, in which the brine is kept in constant agitation and the salt is precipitated intoa hopper in the bottom of it. Through this buckets on an end- less chain arrangement run, carrying the salt directly to the storage bins, thus saving labor as well as steam. The solar process consists in exposing the brine in the sun in bright weather and keeping the vats closed during rainy weather. This process is not used in Michigan at all, except in Saginaw county by two companies. Worthington D. Hooker, in his Min- erology and Geology, says: ‘‘Salt is composed of chlorine and sodium, two elements which never appear uncom- bined.’’ This mineral is very thoroughly diffused in the earth, mostly, however, in solution, nearly one-thirtieth of all the water in the seas being common salt, especially Salt Lake and the Dead and Caspian Seas. One-fifth of the water of Salt Lake is pure salt and the pro- portion is even greater in the waters of the Dead Sea. In Poland, Hungary, Sicily and Swit- zerland there are many salt mines where the solid mineral is found. The exten- sive mines at Cracow are celebrated for their magnitude, and away below the surfaces chapels and halls are made from the salt, the pillars and altars being hewn from the salt, which, when illuminated, must present a magnificent appearance. In Northern Africa there are hills of salt. In America most of the salt is pro- cured from wells, the salt lying too deep to be mined. The states produ- cing salt are Illinois, Louisiana, Texas, New York, Ohio, Kansas and Michigan. Our State ranks second in the amount produced, the’ output of 1895-96 being 3,343,395 barrels, valued at $1,048,251, while New York’s output was 6,832, 331, valued at $1,943,398. Thus it would appear that Michigan salt averages a higher grade than any in the United States, as our income is proportionately greater than New York. The principal exports of salt pass through the port of San Francisco to Central America, Mexico, the Hawaiian Islands, Japan and Asiatic Russia. The leading imports come from Italy and England. These, however, have shown a steady decrease since 1881, remarkably noticeable in the imports of refined salt, due in a great measure to the improve- ments recently inaugurated in the man- ufacture of table and dairy salt by American producers, which have placed the domestic product on a line if not ahead of the salt of foreign makers. This fact is now recognized by most of the leading dairymen, and the idea which the Thurbers and other Eastern jobbers tried to promulgate—that no salt save English was fit for butter—is prov- en a fallacy. Salt was placed upon the free list in 1894. The act provided, however, that while the salt was free, when shipped in bags or other package, the covering should pay duty; also that salt imported from countries imposing a duty on salt should likewise pay a duty on that which they sent us. In looking over the enormous amount of salt produced, and considering the small amount I consume, | was filled with wonder as to what becomes of it all. The R. G. Peters Sait & Lumber Co. alone produces 2,000 barrels per day; Buckley & Douglass a like amount; ESS” IS THE BEST GEORGE L. MOODY, DEALER IN Fancy Family Groceries, Teas and Coffees, N. W. Corner Washington and Market Sts. FOLDING BATH TUB CO., Marshall, Mich. GENTLEMEN: cynosure of every person. I am satisfied impossible to overlook a box of cakes, etc The three Peerless Counters Petersburg, Va., June 24, ’97. have been in use just one week and are the that they will pay for themselves in a few months, as now it is . The saving from ickers and loss from flies and dust are a thing of the past wherever the ‘Peerless’? Counters are introduced. The counters are the greatest ornament and convenience that the retail grocer could introduce into his store. Wishing you much success, and hoping Iam confident that the sum invested in these pieces of furniture was well expended. to hear from you again Iam Respectfully, GEORGE L. MOODY. ATENTEES AND SOLE MANUFACTURERS, MARSHAL, MICH. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN I3 Louis Sands from his six wells produces as much, Manistee alone having put out 1,416,709 barrels per annum. In reply to my enquiry as to the uses to which salt is put, aside from the ordinary, I was told that large quantities are used in curing hides and skins and in mak- ing glass, and the encyclopaedia gives about twenty different uses, which I was unable to look up. One gentleman to whom I propounded the question assured me that in Abyssinia salt is used for money, so one need not be surprised to hear of ‘‘free salt’’ becoming an issue at some of their elections over there. Emma L, ALLEN. ——___~> 2. How a Good Deed Was Rewarded after Many Days. Written for the TRADESMAN ‘*T want a sack of flour and I want to pay the money for it.’’ I knew it was a woman’s voice, but my head was inside of a nearly empty cracker barrel, from which I was at- tempting to filla paper bag. I raised up and glanced toward the speaker. She was plainly dressed and a weary, care- worn expression was noticeable upon her face. I knew the woman, who was a widow with one child and resided in the village. She had been a customer of ours for a year or more, not always pay- ing spot cash, however, but was nearly square on the ledger at that time. I was only a boy in my teens, and had been told by my employer not to credit her ‘‘if I could possibly avoid it.’’ It was somewhat doubtful just what those last words meant, as I did oc- casionally exercise my personal judg- ment in the matter of credits, and thus far had never been censured for it. “*How much flour will you have, Mrs. Jones?’’ I asked. ‘“‘As I will carry it home myself, twenty-five pounds will answer at pres- ent,’’ was the reply. I placed on the counter a sack and the woman at once threw it over her shoulder and started toward the door. ‘‘IT thought you said you wanted to pay the money for that flour?’’ I called out. ‘‘T do want to pay it—never was more anxious to pay for anything in all my life—but the truth is I have no money to-day and you will have to charge it to me this time.’’ ‘*You know we are not giving any credit now, Mrs. Jones,’’ I said kindly. ‘*T know that,’’ the woman answered, as she removed the bag’ from her shoulder and placed it on the floor, while her eyes were suffused with tears, ‘‘but there is just this about it—my child and I, without food any longer, | will starve to death, and I must have a sack of flour, and you must give me credit, or I will steal the flour!’’ ‘*T would not like to hear of your do- ing that, Mrs. Jones,’’ I answered, ‘‘and therefore you may take the flour home.’”’ Did she ever pay for it? Listen, while I tell you what occurred: I made the debit entry of that flour to myself instead of the woman, that I might avoid blame for disobeying orders, and a few weeks afterward found that the woman had received a letter from the postoffice, and then almost immediately disappeared, no one knew where. I was the victim of misplaced confi- dence! I paid for the flour when I settled with my employer. ee ee Sixteen years more were added to my length of life and, with the money | had earned and saved, together with $1,500 bequeathed me by a near rela- tive, I found myself sole proprietor of a dry goods store in a distant state. - Times were good, prices of everything inflated and all kinds of;business pros- perous. I was doing well. But youth is apt to be overconfident and grasping. I was in haste to amass wealth and had drawn upon my good name and credit to the farthest limit, packing my store with goods at their highest tide, when suddenly, and almost without warning to the financial world, the markets changed and everything tended down- ward, daily sales fell to one-third the former amount, and within the short space of six months I could not obtain more than 40 per cent. of the original cost of my stock. I was practically bankrupt unless relief came from some unexpected quarter. Providentially, it came, * * £ ‘‘Your name is Fletcher, and you formerly were from Mapleton, Vermont, were you not?’’ asked a bronzed and bearded middle-aged man whom I rec- ognized as an occasional cash customer for two or three months back. ‘*You are right,’’ I answered, smil- ingly; ‘‘and I have also learned that yours is Jones, although our acquaint- ance is only a business one.’’ The man had turned toward the front door and was beckoning to a lady to come in. Under any other circumstances I should not have recognized the lady as mv customer of years ago, now rich- ly but plainly attired, and evidently much agitated by conflicting emotions, as her husband said, ‘‘ Mr. Fletcher, al- low me to introduce you to my wife, Mrs. Jones. We are indebted to you for her life and that of our child years ago when I was in Australia and she a resi- dent of Mapleton and a_ supposed widow. Fortune favcred’me and to-day I am an independent capitalist. We have learned of your present financial straits, and beg you to accept our check for $5,000, which we hope will tide you over and cause you to remain our neighbor and friend the balance of our lives. We shall not even miss this—to us—trifling sum of money, and may God bless you for befriending the starving and fatherless !’’ I was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Jones and their daughter—now a young lady—that evening, and will say that I signed a note of hand drawn by Mr. Jones for the sum of $5,000, without in- terest, payable to his lawful heirs sixty years after date! Verily a good act brings its own reward. FRANK A. HowlaG. a A French paper tells of a tradesman who wrote to one of his customers as follows: ‘‘I am able to offer you cloth like the enclosed sample at nine francs the meter. In case I do not hear from you I shall conclude that you wish to pay only eight francs. In order to lose no time, I accept the last-mentioned price.’’ a A Western hotel keeper had added the following to the usual rules and regula- tions found in hotel rooms: ‘‘No mur- dering or suicide allowed in this room. Guests breaking this rule will be re- quested to leave. All dying strictly forbidden on these premises. ”’ > 0. It is safe to assume that the dealer who: cannot get enough profit out of his trade journal to pay him for the sub- scription price, is unable to get enough profit out of the goods he buys to pay him to remain in business. os The only people who never seem to get hold of anything valuable are those who take things as they come and those who accept things as they find them. gpovenenncuntseeonneesscsseees 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 Ce., Grand Rapids, Mich. 00000200 COCCCOCS terre ett ete $e + terre eee te + tterrrr errr eres — * ~ | The Universal — Verdict Manitowoc Lakeside Peas have sold the best of any line of * +> ? canned vegetables this season. In -*+ +> + + + 4 fact, they are now hard to se- cure and will be until new pack. This Price is advancing daily. tells the story. The Albert Landreth Co., Manitowoc, Wis. *+- 4 + + + 4+ + + 4 ++ 444 4 4 + + + + + 4 “ Worden Grocer Co., Agent. -*-+ 4+ + 4+ + se > hh he ee oe ee eh terre ttt tet ~ > “S 14 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Shoes and Leather Pertinent Points for Shoe Dealers. Calf shoes promise great things this coming winter in the ladies’ trade. The innovation has proved a decided suc- cess, Indications favor higher prices on soft-soles. This is due partly to tariff and partly to scarcity in the India stock so largely used in these goods. Said a shoe salesman, ‘‘One reason why oxfords are not being sold more this season is that there are so many handsome patterns of colored high cut shoes on the market that women are attracted by their beauty and prefer the high shoe on that account.’’ A device designed to prevent the tongue of low cut shoes from slipping down has been brought out. It consists of a curved bar which is fastened across the top of the tongue and which is pro- vided with two eyelet holes through which the laces are run before being run through the top two eyelets in the shoe. One of the best improvements in shoe dressings this year is the change in in- gredients which makes the’ brown cleaner ,a stain as well asa cleaner, which serves the purpose of helping the leather to hold its color. uniformly and is especially commendable because it hides scuffed spots, making them uni- form with the rest of the shoe. Spring heel bicycle boots are the lat- est. A good many of the bicycle boots made heretofore have been equipped with heels out of all keeping with the character and uses of this style of foot- gear. A _ high heel is out of place on a bicycle boot and a spring heel would seem far more sensible, as it is lighter and not in the way. However, it isa question if lady riders will prefer the spring heel, its appearance being against it. About the only thing that will draw trade at this time of the year is a mark- down sale and this plan is being pushed by a large majority of retail merchants. It is the most commendable plan to work off hot weather stock while the weather will admit of it and to make the price right so that it will move. But it is of prime importance that the stock be what it is claimed, otherwise the merchant’s reputation will be in- jured in direct ratio as his pocketbook fattens. Builders of shoe machinery complain bitterly of the way foreign houses steal the ideas of American shoe machinery inventors. American shoe machinery men say that even when they are pro- tected by patents they can sell but a few machines in foreign markets, for they are at once duplicated by foreign ma- chinists, who use the purchased ma- chines as patterns. Of course, with the more expensive machines, which war- rant the expense of a foreign agent to watch for infringements, the case is different and a business profitable to the American builder is done. A good many slow moving shoes are hustled along these days by the PM plan, which consists in offering cash premiums to the clerks for selling the stickers. The average clerk will sell the newest goods in preference to the oldest when there is no necessity for it,and the bonus offered on the slow movers isa successful inducement in the way of turning his attention to the stock that has been in store for some time and is gradually slipping out of style. There are a vast number of people who care little or nothing for style and who are equally well satisfied. with old as with new goods, It only requires attention on the clerk’s part to keep the slow movers going, Now that the Fourth of July is past, it is high time to push out the summer goods that will soon be unseasonable. It looks now as if ox-bloods would not be in favor another summer and it is ad-. visable to clean out the stocks of these goods by fall, except in the. heavier weights which are suitable for winter trade. The tendency seems to be to- ward a lighter tan, in medium toes, and goods of this description will be staple next year. The chocolates will sell to some extent, and probably the dealer who is obliged to carry over a stock of them, in the toes now prevailing, will lose nothing more than the use of his money. However, it is good business to push out the light-weight stock now, in preparation for the season that is about to commence. Clearing sales are always popular at this time, and the merchant without one is not going to do all the business that he might.— Gazette. Site Had the Advantage of Coming Last. A local traveling man was explaining toa group of interested listeners how one of his inventive friends had hit up- on a scheme to catch fish. ‘‘He has fixed up an incandescent electric light,’’ remarked the drummer, ‘‘which can be made to burn under water. At night he goes out to Reed’s Lake, sinks his electric light to the bot- tom and turns on a storage battery cur- rent. The whole bottom of the lake be- comes distinctly visible around the light. The fish swim up to the lamp and it is an easy matter to hook them with an ordinary line, using no bait at all. All the angler has to do is to pick out the fish he wants, sink the hook under him, give a jerk and pull him in, It is great sport. And it is particularly advantageous, too, because it enables the angler to fish for just the game he wants. If he is after bass he pulls up nothing but bass. If he prefers pickerel he catches nothing but pickerel. And he is also able to choose the size of the fish he hooks. Great scheme, isn’t it?’’ ‘‘And all this happens at Reed’s Lake?’’ enquired a sad-eyed drummer from Toledo. ‘Yes, sir,’’ said the local salesman. ‘It is going on there now every night. ’”’ ‘‘ That accounts for it then,’’ remarked the Toledo man. ‘‘I spent Sunday at the Morton House and went out to Reed’s Lake myself. Had pretty fair luck. And, do you know, every blamed bass we caught had on a pair of blue goggles !’’ Silently but suddenly the local drum- mer led a small procession to an adjoin- ing wet goods dispensary. ae A Fellow Feeling. ‘My brethren,’’ said the minister, ‘‘you don’t know how happy you would be if you only had a fellow feeling in your bosom.’’ ‘‘Humph,”’ said one of his hearers, ‘‘I had a fellow feeling in my bosom last night, and I’ve got no diamond pin this morning.”’ —_—_>2.__ A Canadian sea captain has invented an apparatus with which he thinks whales can be killed by electric shock. A harpoon is fixed at the end of a long metallic cable, properly insulated, and which serves in place of the usual rope. Through this cable an electric current of 10,000 volts is to be sent by means of a dynamo carried in the whaleboat. ~ 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 latest colors and shapes. See our line of socks and felts before placing your fall order. We can give you some bargains. 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 10 per cent. on Bay States. Our terms are as liberal as those of any agent of the Boston Rubber Shoe Co. Rindge, Kalmbach & Co., 12, 14 and 16 Pearl St., Grand Rapids. SCHOCHOROROHOROROHCROROCHONOHOHOHORONOHOROHOHONONOHES - + Peerere reer rere e reer erry ty Pepe eh heheh hohuh upp ...For this Fall... Weare showing the strongest line of Shoes ever placed on this market by us. We are just as emphatic about our Rubber Line—Wales- Goodyear,—none better. Big line of Lumbermen’s Sox. Grand Rapids Felt Boots are our Hobby. Herold=Bertsch Shoe Co. 5 and 7 Pearl Street, 2 GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. BPS H ap eh eh heheheh tpttrttrettseeseerereerees O®OOODODQOO©DOQODODOOQOOQOOOOOOOOOO GLLLLOGOODOGQ®DOOOGQOHOOOOOQOOO Now that the price is right be sure you get the right brand. The Goodyear Glove Rubbers December rst dating. Grand Rapids, Mich. These prices are for present use and also for fall orders. 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- r goods, and we hope to receive your orders. Geo. H. Reeder & Co., 19 South Ionia St., Grand Rapids, Mich. Our representative Also makers of the °° Don’t overlook this. Hirth, Krause & Co., DDHODOOGDOOGODQOOODOOOQOQOOOOO GQOOODDENV*vESO'S COHOOGOOCS QOOQOGOS DOODOOOOOQOOQOQOOOOOODOOOOOOS GQOOO® LYCOPSING, 25 and 5 off. KEYSTONE, 25 and 5 and 10 off. : : : This represents our Boys’ and Youths’ Oi! Grain Water Proof Shoes, made of very best stock to wear, nice fitting and good Style; size of Boys’, 3-5; Youths’, 12-2. 5 pair warranted. Write for prices or send for samples on approval. These shoes keep feet dry, look nice and no rubbers are needed. Every SNEDICOR & HATHAWAY U0., Detroit, Mich. celebrated Driving Shoes. Grain Creedmoors and Cruisers. Michigan Shoe Co., Agents for Michigan. oOo COODODOO©QDOOQOOQOODODOOQOQOOODODDOOQOOOOOO 3 ® SbbGbGbGbbd bbb bbb bb hp bp nnn tn ywvvuevveuvvye*™ -_ ee NN PF FG PVP VV OVS VVC SVC CSP Ts MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 16 The Fitting of Shoes. H. F. Ebbs in Shoe and Leather Gazette. Few clerks there are who fit shoes properly. Nine out of ten take a cus- tomer in hand, remove his shoes, ascer- tain their size and width and bring him another pair of the same proportions. It is a matter of no importance to them whether or not the previous pair fitted in even so much as a passable manner. They assume that the customer was sat- isfied and that the same size and width will satisfy him again. This is all wrong. The clerk should study the customer's foot and the style of shoe it is proposed to purchase. Because the customer has been wearing an 8 D is no argument that an 8 D is what he will require in an- other pair. It ail depends on the shape of the shoe. A shoe may have a comparatively wide toe and still require fitting much longer than most clerks would fit it. If the toe is cut off abruptly at the outer side of the foot, for instance, it will stand as great length as is needed for a Needle toe. The average clerk, how- ever, would fit this shoe short and cause unnecessary trouble for the customer. Shoes that are too short for the wearer cause one-half of the complaint that 1s made against the comfort and even the wear thereof. A short shoe requires breaking in that is positively terrifying to the man or woman with tender teet. To secure comfort a shoe must have plenty of length, although there is an extreme in this particular also that must not be overlooked. The clerk who is a_ good fitter of shoes can fit any foot that is not ab- normal, in any style of shoe desired. He will allow ample length as the first and foremost point to be considered. He will fit the shoe across the instep snugly to prevent wrinkling and shuck- ing of the shoe after the leather has shaped itself to the foot. He will allow plenty of width at the ball in order that the movement of the foot may not be impeded. These are the important points to be considered in correct fitting and any clerk who will follow them in- telligently will find his customers more satisfied and pleased with the goods they buy than they have been in the past. I am aware in the majority of country stores the salesman has little opportu- nity for exercising his talent in the direction of fitting. ‘Ihe stock is com- posed almost wholly of the broadest widths and accurate fitting is absolutely impossible. Still, there is an oppor- tunity for giving the customer plenty of length, adding thereby to the com- fort of the shoe and the satisfaction of the purchaser. ‘ tew days ago, I waited on a cus- tomer who had always worn 8 EE. For forty-five minutes I tried to induce him to allow me to fit him with ag D; the attempt was unsuccessful and the cus- tomer left the store with what he wanted. Two days later he was back again and he said to me, ‘‘ Young man, you were right; this 8 EE was not what I wanted; now wrap me up a pair of 9% D’s and I will test your statement thoroughly.’’ To-day be was in again and he said he never in all his life had purchased a pair of shoes that gave him the satisfac- tion and comfort at the first wearing that the 914 D’s did; yet for years this man bad been wearing a shoe too short and too broad until he believed that nothing else would fit him. Not long ago, a gentleman came _ into our store complaining that he had great difficulty breaking in new shoes and asked why it was. I looked at his shoes and told him that the trouble was that they were too short. He ridiculed the idea, but by spending considerable time with him, explaining matters to his satisfaction, I finally convinced him that there might be something in my argument and sold him a longer and narrower pair than he had ever worn be- tore. Not long after he bought the first pair, he came in for a second, saying that the shoes were so comfortable and such a splendid fit that he wanted an- other pair just like them. That man had been clumping around in shoes too short for him until he did not know what a really well-fitting shoe would feel like. 1 thoroughly believe that the shoe merchant who employs inexperienced clerks, thereby saving the difference in salary between a good clerk and a cheap one, adopts an expensive policy. I be- lieve that good fitting—correct fitting— is one of the best drawing cards that an up-to-date shoe store can possess. Ifa man or woman gets a shoe that is com- fortable, he or she is bound to return tu that merchant for future pairs. It will pay the merchant, then,to employ sales- men who understand thoroughly the art of fitting and make this as strong a feature of his business as quality or style. 8 Let Bargains Be Bargains—Necessity of Truthfulness. The bargain buyer does not forget where she bought the cheap thing, even if she forgets what she paid for it. That is oné of the most important things for the retail storekeeper to bear in mind. It is not easy to overstate the drawing power of ‘‘bargain merchan- dise.’’ Women, especially, will travel miles, wait patiently and often exert themselves very much physically to get at a counter of underpriced things. I have nothing but words of endorse- ment for the bargain idea in storekeep- ing. Used with judgment, it may be a source of great advantage to the busi- ness. The danger comes in selling things that are below the grade that a store ought to sell—that customers ought to buy. The more successful establish- ments are very careful not to cross this line. Of course, they do get across it sometimes; if not with large lots, cer- tainly with small ones. But no wide- awake, worldly-wise merchant who ex- pected to remain long in business at the same stand would knowingly permit mean goods to be sold, no matter how little the price. The point of my opening remark is right here: if the goods bought proved to be of improper quality, or unsatisfac- tory in any way, the thing that will rest in the purchaser’s mind is simply that “‘T bought those gloves of Box & Box.’’ Nine times in ten she won’t remember that she paid an absurdly small price for the shoes, for instance. Even if they were to wear well the money-paid part will not be the one that clings to her memory. If the merchant will never lose sight of the fact that goods sold will always be recalled as from his store, he will have one of the best pos- sible danger signals up. I recall an instance where a great store made a great hit for a little time by selling ‘‘linen handkerchiefs’’ at five cents each. The advertising announce- ment told of them as ‘‘large size and ever thread pure linen.’’ The adver- tising was true. They were pure linen. They were of large size. But they were coarse, loosely woven, all askew as to shape and so flimsy that when the starch in them had once been washed out no one would think of buying them. Now the prominence of the store, and a cer- tain finish which these handkerchiefs had, caused them to go off with a rush. The merchant thought he had made a great hit. When I heard of what he had done, I told him that he had made a grievous mistake. He would not see it that way; he insisted that it was ‘‘ good advertising.’” I told him it was very bad advertising. He persisted in his opinion ard succeeded in getting another large lot of these practically worthless goods. They went very slowly; some of them did not go at all. His other qual- ities went slowly. His whole handker- chief business had been permanently injured by the first transaction. Peo- ple had lost confidence in his judgment, if not in his truthfulness though, as a matter of fact, there had been no untruth- fulness in the original announcement; it was a case where less than the truth was a deception. The evil effect on that unfortunate handkerchief department was manifest for two seasons afterwards. Very likely it’s operative now. It not only pays to be truthful in storekeeping statements, but it pays to look out for the real interest of your customers. Let ‘‘bargains’’ be real bargains. I know two stores in ‘New York that have a high reputation for that very thing. If either of them says ‘‘women’s coats at $5 that have been $10,’’ those who know the stores know that the state- ment is not only true in letter but in spirit. They know that those coats were $1o at the last mark before they were made $5. It is a too common thing to claim re- ductions such as this,when as a matter of fact the $10 period the coat’s Career was a sesaon_ before and when in the price had been at $8, $7 and $6 successively. ‘‘Originally $10'’ would not be so bad. I’ve gone that far my- self—but never with much cheerfulness. The plain truth is much better. MANLEY M. GiLLamM. 2. Persuasive Arguments. There’s nothing like putting a man in a good humor and then reasoning with him,’’ said the improvident citi- zen. ‘‘That bill collector was inclined to doubt that times are as hard with me as I represented. vinced him.’’ hows ‘‘Gave him a to cent cigar and told him to put three or four in his pocket.’’ aD The Retort Sufficient. ‘‘Well, little chap,’’ said the stranger in the family, picking up one of the children, ‘‘what are you going to be when you’re a man?’’ ‘ Nufiin’,’’ said the child. But I easily con- ‘‘Nothing? Why so?’’ asked the stranger. ' Because,’' said the child, "lm a little girl.’’ ~ > 2 > You know business always picks up ‘‘after the Fourth.’’ This year isn’t going to be any exception. Represented in Michigan by AB Glo, = |owlon, Hic, ~ who will <=)" promptly repl cea oR pully reply gio tO any enquiries = goods manufac- tured by this company at Warcester, Mass. Sesese5i ee '@ ee MIGHIGAN LUMBER GO, 527 and 528 Widdicomb Bld. Grand Rapids, Mich. CU. 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. d PONT CC ; Trambce NL POOODOGDOOE OOS One application will keep the dust off your shelves for six months. It is a good deal cheaper to use than not to use it. Write for a free book that tells all about DUST= LESS. None genuine without our label and signature. POOQOQDOGQOQOOOOE #X0KexexexOO@ © OO QDOODQOOOGOOODOOGODOQD®DOGOOOGOQOOOQOQDOOQOQOQOOGQQOODODOOQOOQOOSO DUSTLESS is a floor dressing, to be put on with a mop. It is not sticky, but it prevents dust fy gm rising just the same. 80 E. Ohio St., - a i ia atten 2©OO6 ® @ @ & @ @ @ e @® @ @ A grocer’s profits are notoriously $ small. In the course of a year © he loses a great deal of money © because of dust. Dust makes © groceries unsalable. People will © not buy things to eat that do not 6 look clean and inviting. © Stop that leak in your profits! 6 Stop it with DUSTLESS! © @ @ @ @ @) CHICAGO. QOQOOQOQOO!S 16 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Clerks’ Corner Politeness Must Come from the Heart. Written for the TrRaDESMAN. I had a little fun the other night. I had just finished reading MacAllan’s article in a late number of the Trades- man, ‘‘The Lady with the Empty Purse ;’’ and, concluding that I hada point against the clerking fraternity in general—I wish there were only one— and against my young friend over the way in particular, I slipped the paper in my pocket and sauntered over there the next Blue Monday evening to hear the usual tirade against the day’s cus- tomers and then, for a wind-up, to bring out some of my condensed wisdom. This has to be done with the utmost of care. Not that the wisdom or its author is not treated with due respect, but there are times when too much of either proves a superfluous quantity, and Blue Monday night is sure to be one of the times. I had chosen my time well. My en- trance was greeted with silence—a_ sure sign that the barnyard of trade had been filled all day with the most exasperating of superannuated hens who had *‘ quirked at’’ and pecked my clerk until human endurance could stand no more, not even a drop of wisdom however adroitly brought forward. The very puff at the cigar was ominous; that I was not offered one, more so; but I was pre- pared for ‘‘a little thing like that’’ and lighted a better one and was soon ready to begin. ‘‘Mighty fine idea MacAllan winds up his last article with: ‘Boys behind the counter, never be curt or indifferent with any one. It doesn’t pay.’ Seen ae” ‘‘D’ye know, I’m beginning to get onto that feller. He may be behind the counter all right enough, but [’l! bet five dollars there is a screw loose some- where. Either he doesn’t know what a genuine ‘hen-day’ is, or else the hen in his locality is a different sort of breed.’’ **What is there about the article you don’t like? I had made up my mind it was one of his best. I'd like to shake hands with him anyway.’”’ **Why, his never being rude because ‘it doesn’t pay.’ That’s a mighty poor reason for being polite,’’ my young clerk sniffed. ‘‘Now justhearthat! As if there could be any other reason for a man behind the counter to be eternally on his best behavior! This doing the grand. polite from morning till night month in and month out is pretty tire- some work, especially with people you may never see again and pray with all your might and main you never may. Do you know, I think I’d like to be an undertaker for about three months in the year! It must be a mighty consoling thing to turn the last screw tight and fill up the bottom of holes six by two and six feet down with shop-bluffers and sample-gatherers. Of course, the under- taker is the very last man anybody wants anything to do with; but, many and many a time he must go to sleep feeling that he is a public benefactor!’’ ‘‘What has being behind the counter to do with a sham politeness? A_ clerk is a man no matter on which side of the counter ; and manhood, wherever it is, is the genuine thing only when it is genuine from principle. Here isa _ cus- tomer whose very appearaace, let alone manner, proclaims her ‘a haughty, stuck-up thing.’ She orders the clerk about as if she were a slave owner and he one of her ‘niggahs.’ His first im- pulse is to give a Roland for an Oliver at every opportunity; but policy whis- pers in_his ear, ‘Careful, boy, careful ; you want to sell her a dress; and, for the sake of the pecuniary profit, better be polite to her.’ So the clerk thinks d——n in capital letters, shuts his teeth, sells his goods and confirms his reputation of being a first-class salesman. That’s all right, I suppose, from the trade stand- point?’’ ‘You bet it’s all right! And the clerk gets even with her by letting out the d—ns atter she has gone. I’ve been at it since 6 o’clock; and, if you don't mind, I’d like to unburden myself of some five hundred more before I can settle down to a peaceful evening. ‘D—n!' What a comfort:! Now go on with that funny idea of being ‘polite from principle!’ ’’ ‘*There is little to go on with. This mercenary politeness is politeness only in name; and what I want of the clerk, in common with the rest of humanity, is to have his politeness come from the heart. Iam willing, at the start, for a clerk to assume this virtue if he have it not; but, when it is once assumed, I want him to make it so thoroughly his own that he will, finally, be polite to his rudest customer because he has suc- ceeded in cultivating his heart to be polite. Then—’’ ‘“You needn’t goon. That old straw has been threshed over time and again by your sort of folks until nothing is to be gained by it. Acclerk is no different from the rest of humanity. He will be polite if it is for his interest to be so— it is a mere matter of business. It is the same principle which controls affairs in the office, and you can’t expect the water to rise higher than the fountain. Politeness from principle is all well enough in theory—business theory, if you please; but a sassy, impudent wom- an, old or young, is a condition and must be treated as the exigences of the occasion demand.’’ Then he invited me to ‘‘get down from my perch,’’ to stop ‘‘talking through my hat,’’ and to ‘‘take a class in Sunday School,’’ none of which I propose to do; but, conditions to the contrary, it is the heart only which can lead to the genuine politeness, and the clerk who depends upon that will find that that is the only politeness which, in the long run, ever pays. RICHARD MALCOLM STRONG. Sn A Department Store. ‘‘IT want something nice in oil for a dining-room.’’ ‘““Yes, madame. box of sardines?’’ ——_> 0. ______ The Pennsylvania Railroad has placed orders for sixty-five new locomotives and a large number of new cars. The managers of that road evidently believe that it’s a wise policy to be ready to meet improved business half way. : eas If you dislike being dunned, write a letter to your creditor explaining the Situation in detail, fixing somie date when you can make a-settlement, and the chances are your prayers will be answered, A landscape or a ——_—_>-9.___ If you do anyone a good turn, always remember to forget it; but if anyone does you evil, always forget to remem- ber it. This is one of the many roads that lead to happiness, ics aoe ea There is not much difference between the amount of effort necessary to suc- ceed and the amount which brings fail- ure—the difference lies in the manner the effort is directed. 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Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual Acci- dent Association. President, A. F. Pkakz, Jackson: Secretary and Treasurer, Gro. F. Owen, Grand Rapids. Board of Directors—F. M. Trier, H. B. Farr- CHILD,Jas. N. BRaprorp, J. HENRY DAWLEY,GEO. J. HEINZELMAN, CHas. S. RoBINSON. Lake Superior Commercial Travelers’ Club. President, W. C. Brown, Marquette; Secretary and Treasurer, A. F. Wrxson, Marquette. Gripsack Brigade. Don’t leave your conscience or good habits at home. You need them in your business. The traveling man who skips a town to get ahead of a competitor is making a big mistake. Some fellow may be ahead of you on your route selling the same line, but there are a hundred behind you. Don't allow jealousy of your competi- tor to take hold of you or you will rap- idly become acquainted with misery. The traveling man who is always hunting up somebody’s record would run like a scared dog if confronted with his own. P. M. Van Drezer (Olney & Judson Grocer Co.) is erecting a new residence at Saranac, which is pronounced a model in point of beauty and conven- ience. S. L. Wells has resigned his position as traveling salesman for John M. Locke & Co., of Chicago, to assume the management of a dry goods store at Watervliet owned by Enders & Young, of Benton Harbor. Frank H. Manchester, traveling rep- resentative for Godsmark, Durand & Co., of Battle Creek, was married last week to Miss Mabel Parker, an esti- mable young lady of Battle Creek. The happy couple will reside at 436 Maple street. W. J. Luck, the well-known Adrian traveling man, has just pulled through a severe two weeks’ illness that was due, indirectly, to a confounded cat. The cantankerous feline fell down a well, and in letting his son down to pull the cat out, Mr. Luck strained himself to such an extent that serious complica- tions resulted. The cat’s health was not affected in the least. Hillsdale Leader: Mark Grant,a trav- eling man, well known in Hillsdale, while stopping in Covington, Ky., one day last week, went to the postoffice and was handed three letters from his Mich- igan home. Upon opening the first, he read of the death of his grandmother; the second told of the burning of his home, and the third announced the death of his only child. Wm. Canham, Jr., son of Wm. Can- ham, the Port Huron commission mer- chant, is missing, and has not been heard from in a week. He was em- ployed as traveling salesman for his father’s establishment, and the last or- der sent in by him was dated at St. Clair. Since then no word has been re- ceived as to his whereabouts and his family is much distressed over the affair. The missing man is about 26 years of age and has a wife and one child residing at Port Huron, When you become enamored of the sound of your own voice, you are usual- ly kept too busy to do much profitable thinking. Governor Black, of New York, has signed the bill under which commercial travelers and others whom business calls frequently away from home, may go to the board of elections, or other places corresponding thereto, and have their names registered, between July 1 and the day prior to the first day of registra- tion. The name is then certified to the registrars in the districts, and the same is put on the list. —_——>-e Notice of the Existence of the New Peddling Law. From all over the State come reports indicating that the township boards are awake to the desirability of giving the new law enacted by the last Legislature —transferring the taxing of peddlers from the State to the township—intelli- gent interpretation and energetic en- forcement. Unfortunately, only a small portion of the towuship officers have as yet received copies of the law and, judging by the following letter, written to the Tradesman by the Deputy Attor- ney-General,no very effective effort will be made by the State officers to get cop- ies of the law into the hands of the township officers in advance of the reg- ular publication of the public acts, which will occur this fall: Lansing, July to—In reply to yours of July 8, will say that there is no express provision in the hawkers and_ peddlers’ act which provides for the notification of the township officers of the law and its provisions. However, as soun as_ the laws are printed by the Secretary of State, they will be distributed among the different public officials, in accord- ance with law, and they will receive notice in that way. The only mistake that was made was _ in giving the law immediate effect. If the law had not been given immediate effect but taken the usual ninety days’ time, it would have been printed and circulated before it went into effect, and then this diffi- culty would not have arisen. I have suggested to the Deputy ~tate Treasurer that a copy of the same be sent to every township clerk and supervisor in the State. HENRY E. Cuase, Deputy Attorney-General. In the meantime, the Tradesman had had prepared by its attorney blank forms for the license and the bond, which it will cheerfully furnish gratuitously on application. ——_—_—_6>___ Shopping. Past samples of the latest styles She makes her way along the aisles, And often, backward turning, smiles; With heart astir, From room to room, from place to place, ’Mid hats, and gowns, and furs, and lace, The endless labyrinth I trace, Following her. I take small interest, I confess, In taffetas, and even less In chiffons, but I acquiesce And sympathize; For, since the fates have let me win Her heart, there’s romance even in The spool of silk or humble pin That Dolly buys. I sagely say, ‘I am afraid This will not wear,” or, “That brocade Is almost certain, dear, to fade;”’ And so would you If, handling thus the fabrics shown, Sometimes her fingers touched your own— If Dolly, trusting you alone, Should ask you to! Oh, busy throng that past us moves, Pricing the ribbons and the gloves, You cannot see the troop of loves With laughing eyes Who hide among the rolls of lace, Who peer from counter and from case, And make Arcadia of the place Where Dolly buys! ——~0 Maine has abolished days of grace, the law to that end going into effect July 1. ot __ The Smyrna crop of opium is esti- OUR FOREIGN POLICY. All the nations of the earth that have become great and powerful have done so through conquest or the control of the commerce of foreign nations. In earlier times the conquest and plundering of foreign peoples were the means adopted for the aggrandizement of nations. They were pursued by Rome, afterwards by Spain and England. Rome conquered and plundered the nations of the Old World. Spain did likewise to the coun- tries of the New. England adopted that policy towards India; but, happening to pass from the age of conquest to that of commerce, England became foremost in colonizing and trading with all sorts of foreign peoples and, as a result of this policy, is the richest nation on the globe. The American people, indifferent either to any system of colonizing or of trading abroad, have abandoned both to other nations, and chiefly to England. The Americans prefer to concentrate their energies at home. When they re- sort to war it is with their own people. When it comes to the acquisition of money, the every dream and the every scheme of the American people is to get money, each out of the others of his fellow-citizens—and not a few propose, by the use of some sort of magic or other, to create money out of nothing ; but no active effort is made to bring money into the country, although the chief business of the Americans seems to be, as soon as they can get hold of their countrymen’s money, to spend it in foreign countries. This sort of thing seems to embody the real American idea, which, unfortu- nately, meets the views of a great body of the American people. It is astound- ing to foreigners and to those intelligent Americans who have resided abroad long enough to understand the effect of the remarkable commercial policy that has for so long characterized the Amer- ican people. The abandonment of the vast carrying trade of the United States to foreign ships is one of the strangest facts of modern commerce; but it is a part of the American policy, and, when that is understood, all its remarkable manifestations are made plain and sim- ple enough. These peculiar notions appear most strange to Americans who reside abroad. They see the enormous competition for the control of the commerce of the world wholly abandoned by their coun- trymen at home, and they are amazed that, in an age when the chief object is to acquire wealth, the Americans should confine themselves to the policy of swapping jackknives at home, while all the other nations are struggling for do- minion over the world’s commerce. ——_> +> A Frenchman has devised a means for converting grain into dough at one operation without milling, an invention which, if the claims of the originator are verified, will not only effect a revo- lution in breadmaking, but also make the miller’s occupation, like that of Othello, only a memory of the past. The grain, which is first soaked, enters one end of the machine, where it is crushed and disintegrated, the paste passing to the kneading machine in the other end of the apparatus, where it is aerated and kneaded into dough which may be preserved indefinitely without injury. All the nutritive qualities of the grain, the bran included, are pre- served, and the bread possesses greater nutrition and is more easily digested. ——_—_>4~___ He that wins by wrong-doing is still mated at over 10,000 cases, a loser, NEW CITY HOTEL HOLLAND, MICH. We pledge the Commercial Travelers of Michigan our best efforts. Rates $2.00. E. 0. PHILLIPS, Mgr. 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. a5. 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. 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. Hotel Normandie of Detroit Re- duces Rates. Determined to continue catering to popular de- mand for good hotel accommodations at low prices, we reduce the rates on fifty rooms from $2.50 to $2 per day, and rooms with bath from $3.50 to $3. The popular rate of 50 cents per meal, established when the Normandie was first opened, continues. Change of rates will in no way affect the quality, and our constant aim in the future will be, as in the past, to furnish the BEsT accommodations for the rates charged. Carr & Reeve. HOTEL WHITCOMB ST. JOSEPH, MICH. A. VINCENT, Prop. Whitne House Chas. E. Whitney, Prop. V Plainwell, Mich. Best house in town and as good as any inthe State for $1.00 per day. Sanitary conditions are complete. Long distance telephone. Cutler House at Grand Haven. Steam Heat. Excellent Table. Com- fertable Rooms. H. D. and F. H. IRISH, Props. TRADESMAN ITEMIZED LEDGERS Size 8 1-2x14—Three Columns. = Quires, 100 pawes............. $2 00 3 Quires, 240 pages..... ....... 2 50 4 Gutres, S20 pages............. 3 00 5 Quires, 400 pages...... ...:.. 3 50 6 Quires, 480 pages............. 4 00 Invoice Record or Bill Book. 80 Double Pages, Registers 2,880 in- Be ae a $2.00 TRADESMAN COMPANY GRAND RAPIDS. Is MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Drugs--Chemicals MICHIGAN STATE BOARD OF PHARMACY. Term expires S. E. ParRkrLt, Owosso - - Dec. 31, 1897 F. W. R. Perry, Detroit - - Dec. 31, 1898 A. C. ScotuMacHER, Ann Arbo - Dee. 31, 1899 Gro. GunprRim, Ionia - - Dec. 31, 1900 L. E. REYNOLDs, St. Joseph Dec. 31, 1901 "resident, F. W. R. Perry, Detroit. Secretary, GEo. GuNDRuUM, Ionia. Treasurer, A. C. SCHUMACHER, Ann Arbor. Coming Examination Sessions—Sault Ste. Marie, Aug. 24 and 25; Lansing, Nov. 2 and 3. MICHIGAN STATE PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION. President, G. C. Paizires, Armada. Se ary, B. ScHROoUDER, Grand Rapids. surer, CHas. Mann, Detroit. naecutive Committee—A. H. WEBBER, Cadillac: H. G. Cotman, Kalamazoo; Gro. J. Warp, St. Craze; A. B. Srevens, Detroit; ff. W.. BR. Perry, Detroit’ Push the Sale of Soda. U. G. Manning in American Druggist. Push your soda. There is little use in selling soda un- less you avail yourself of al] its adver- tising power. Good soda is a good advertisement, and no one any longer doubts it, except the man who has never made good soda. It is easy for you to tell whether your beverages are as good or better than your neighbor’s—-watch the crowd. There is usually one man in every town who has mere than his apparent share of the soda business, and he has it be- cause he deserves it, or because he has attracted trade by right advertising, or because both service and advertising have brought his fountain into favor. If you deserve the trade and want it you can have it. Soda advertising is easy. Ail you have to do is to tell all about the little details of your service. If you make good soda there is plenty to say. Tell about your drinks, your foun- tain, the ice, syrups, fruits, etc. Have special drinks, and push them. Tell people how much you sell, what custom- ers say, how much your trade has grown, and what has made it grow. Change your newspaper advertise- ments just as often as you can, and put live, vital, everyday facts into them. Use window signs, and change them every day. Have a booklet or folder at the fountain that will call attention to all the features of your service that de- serve being told of, and in the booklet have a list of all your beverages, together with prices. Distribute the booklet over your town several times during the sea- son. Booklet, signs, newspaper advertise- ments—this is a formula that seldom needs changing in soda advertising. 8 The Drug Market. There is very little change in the market this week. The passage of the tariff bill by the Senate did not influence the market. Opium— Very firm and a trifle higher. There will be a very large crop this year and no scarcity. Morphine—Is as yet unchanged. market is quiet. Beans—-Tonka are firm. bill places a duty of 5oc per lb. on them. Vanilla are firm and will be higher under the new tariff. Oils—Anise is advancing and higher prices are looked for. Bergamot is higher under light stocks and good de- mand. There changes bill will time. The The tariff will probably be a good many by our next issue, as the tariff doubtless be completed by that —_—__» 2. Double Taxation of Spirits. Judge Grosscup, in the United States Circuit Court at Chicago, has rendered an important decision on the subject of the taxation of spirits extracted from the wood of old barrels. A year ago Corning & Co., of Peoria, invented a process of extracting from old whisky and spirit barrels all of the spirits that had soaked into the wood. From an ordinary barrel, from one to two gallons of spirits were extracted without injury to the wood. The Collector of Internal Revenue attempted to enforce the col- lection of the tax of $1.10 a gallon. On an appeal to Judge Grosscup he held that there were no regulations of the law by which any such tax could be en- forced, by reason of the fact that the spirits paid their full tax when placed in the barrels. es i Canaigre Cultivation in California. California papers say that nearly two thousand acres of Canaigre will be in cultivation on the big plantations of the Anglo-American Canaigre Company, near Rialto, in San Bernardo county. This is a native plant of the dock fam- ily, whose roots are rich in tannin, and it is expected that 8,000 acres will be planted at the beginning of the next year. The plant is indigenous to many parts of the State, and wild roots are gathered, planted in rows and cultivated like sweet potatoes. It is said that tan- ning with Canaigre can be done much more rapidly than with other material, and requires only days where weeks and months are needed with barks. a A Peculiar Compound. A German chemist is responsible for the introduction of a compound which liquifies with cold and solidifies with heat. It does not remain solid after heating, but becomes liquid again as it cools. It consists of equal parts of car- bolic acid, camphor and saponine, with a small proportion of oil of turpentine. 2-2 New Use for Fly Paper. From the Lockport (N. Y.) Journal A Main street grocer who uses Tan- glefoot to catch flies opened his store this morning and found a couple of sheets of it rolled up on the floor and within them was a large rat, which had gotten fast in the paper and was unable to loosen itself. ~~. The output of otto of rose this year is estimated at 63,000 Turkish ounces. Up to a month ago a very large crop was expected. The recent rains and storms have, however, materially reduced same. A Bulgarian correspondent writes under date of June rr: ‘‘The otto of rose distilling season commenced the last week in May under most favorable conditions. In the beginning every- thing was going in favor of a very rich crop, but within the last two weeks the abundant rains which have fallen every day have damaged the rose trees, so that, instead of a rich crop, we shall only have one of about 20 per cent. less than last year’s. Taking into consideration the very large crop of old otto of rose which remains in the hands of export- ers and distillers in the different vil- lages of the rose valley, we are almost sure we will have almost the same quan- tity of otto to dispose of as last year. In about a week the distillation will be over,and full information about the crop will be forthcoming, ’’ ——__>0>____° A London correspondent states that the demand for citric acid is so great just now that, if it continues (as it probably will during the summer), there will be much difficulty in executing orders, irrespective of price. There are two tartaric acidmakers left in Eng- land. In France there are far fewer now than there were twenty years ago, although their total production has prob- ably remained about the same. ——— ee -~When a London patent medicine deal- er was sued for a newspaper advertising bill he pleaded that he was heavily in debt, and could not possibly pay the claim. It appeared, however, that his shop was on the route of the jubilee procession, and his plea of poverty was ruled out. ss >es> = According to the report of the British Consul, the entire bismuth industry of Bolivia is in the hands of one firm, which has been acting in concert with European producers for the purpose of establishing a monopoly. SUCCESSFUL SALESMEN. R. P. Bigelow, the Veteran Traveling Salesman of Owosso. Rolla P. Bigelow, the subject of this sketch, was born in Ellisburg, N. Y., Feb. 27, 1849. When about 4 years of age he removed with his parents to Ypsilanti, Mich. Here he received his early education in the city schools, working during vacations on the farm with his father, thus making his first teachings practical as well as useful. While still a youth he acquired those habits of patient industry and perse- verance which have ever since marked his business career. When 21 years of age, he was mar- ried to Miss Loitie H. Pratt, of Fenton, who, with a bright and happy family of four children—three sons and one daughter—-graces the circle of one of the coziest homes in the city of Owosso. In 1871, Mr. Bigelow entered into copartnership with Wm. H. Easterly, of Ypsilanti, and engaged in the grocery business, which proved a financial suc- cess. On account of failing health, however, he was again compelled to seek out-door employment, and after closing out his interests in the mercan- tile line, engaged with C. H. Ben- nett, of Plymouth, to sell fanning mills. Here, again, as a salesman his tact was many times put to the severest test and he justly earned the title of hustler. In 1880 Mr. Bigelow entered the em- ploy of C. W. Inslee & Co., wholesale grocers of Detroit, and made the ac- quaintance of the grocery trade in Cen- tral Michigan. He remained with this firm several years, resigning this posi- tion to accept a similar one with Ber- dan & Co., of Toledo, continuing, in their employ until August, 1895, since which time he has acted as general agent in the State of Michigan for the Stimpson Computing Scale Co. Hehas enjoyed a very pleasant and successful business thus far, employing at present four men in various parts of the State, who are meeting with good success in placing large numbers of the scales with the trade. Mr. Bigelow has been for many years a prominent Knight Templar and has always been a supporter of the Republi- can party, believing in the McKinley promised prosperity. He is a member of the Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Association and a charter member of the Knights of the Grip, at present holding the office of Chairman of Post O, Owosso, and Vice-President of the Michigan Knights of the Grip for the Eighth Congressional District. Mr. Bigelow is a man of sterling in- tegrity and uprightness—one whose word is considered as good as his note in any business transaction. His heart beats in unison with the traveling fraternity, he entering with zest into all matters of in- terest pertaining to the Grummer’s life. He enjoys a good joke immensely, es- pecially. when the laugh is on ‘‘the other fellow.’’ He is one of the oldest and best-known commercial men in the State. ee An English judge has decided that false teeth do not come under the head of ‘‘necessaries.’’ He probably has never tried to eat corn on the cob with bare gums, - ————~>2>—__ It’s no use moving, if you don’t know what your move is; you’d better by far keep still. PATENT MEDICINES Order your patent medicines from PECK BROS., Grand Rapids. THUM BROS. & SCHMIDT, Analytical and Consulting Chemists, 84 CANAL ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. | Special attention given to Water, Bark and Urine Analysis. The best 5 cent cigars ever made. Sold by BEST & RUSSELL CO., Cuicaco. Represented in Michigan by J. A. GONZALEZ, Grand Rapids. 999990 O00 00900000 00090900000000000000000060000000 Sd e ; HANDLE ; e e e e ¢ e e e@ ; 3 ® 3 @ q a $ @ ® = ¢ 3 @ 2 $ CIGARS $ 3 For sale by all first-class jobbers and the @ > ; ‘S.J. JOHNSON CIGAR CO., Granp Rapips. ? WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT. Advanced— Linseed Oil. Declined—Oil Cassia, Turpentine, Oil Citronella. Acidum Aceteum (:........ 8 s@s 10 Benzoicum, German 8s0@ 85 Berere, 8s. @ 1 Carbolicam ......... 29@ 41 Chen oS... @ 42 Hydrochlor ......... 3a 5 Nerecum . ..:...... 8s@ 10 @xalicum ..... .. pon ne RO 4 Phosphorium, dil... @ ot Salieylcum. ........ 50@ 55 Sulphuricum. ...... 1%@ 5 Tanmcum .......... 1 40@ 1 60 ‘Persaricum.:..... 2. 36G «38 Ammonia Aqua, 16 deg........ 4@ 6 Aqua, 20 deg........ a «8 Carpenas... 5)... .. 12@ 14 Obloridum ........... R@ 14 Aniline Brack... -....:.. 2 Oe 225 patna de 80@ 1 00 Mee ce. 45@ 50 Vollow. ...:..-.... 2 3 00 Bacce. Cubese........ po.18 13@ = ouniperus.........: 6 Xanthoxylum.. .... 2@ 30. Balsamum Copaiha. ..<......... O@ & Ce @ 2 60 Terabin, Canada.... 40@ 45 pe re 80@ 5 Cortex Abies, Canadian.... 18 CORRE oc 2 Cinchona Flava..... 18 Euonymus atropurp 30 Myrica Cerifera, po. 20 Pronus Virgini.. .... 12 Quillaia, grd....... 12 Sassafras...... po. 18 12 Ulmus...po. 15, gr’d 15 Extractum Glycyrrhiza Glabra. 4@ 25 Glycyrrhiza, po..... 28@, 30 Hematox,15ibbox. 11@ 12 ieee, is ........ 3@ 14 Hematox, %s....... 14@ 15 Heematox, 4{s....... 16@ 7 Ferru Carbonate Precip... 15 Citrate and Quinia.. 22 Citrate Soluble...... 80 Ferrocyanidum Sol. 50 Solut. Chloride..... 15 Sulphate, com’]..... 2 Sulphate, com’l, by bbi, per cwt..... i. 35 Sulphate, pure ..... 7 Flora Armieg oss... 12@ 14 Anthemis ........... 18@ % Matricaria .......... 30@ «35 Folia Barouma............. 15@ 20 Cassia Acutifol, Tin- iL HOvelfy 02s 18@ 2% Cassia Acutifol,Alx. 2@ 30 Salvia officinalis, 4s Sne 46... 2 ce. 122@ Ura trsi. oc... 8s@ 10 Gummi Acacia, Ist picked.. Acacia, 2d picked.. Acacia, 3d picked.. Acacia, sifted sorts. ACACIA pO. 5s. ..s.: 60@ 80 Aloe, Barb. po.20@28 14 Aloe, Cape ....po. 15 @ RP @HaO RH ® Aloe, Socotri..po. 40 @ 30 ADAMMORISE. ... 25. ..- 55@ 60 Assafcetida....po. 30 RE Benzoinum ......... 50@ = Camphore.. Sedeee Euphorbium..po. 35 10 Gaibanum.........:. i 1 00 Gamboge po........ 65@ 70 Guaiacum..... po. 35 @ & Bing. po. $4.00 @ 4 00 se... @ 60 Eke wee a4 @ 2 Opii...po. $3.80@4.00 2 50@ 2 60 SO RO. oc. ee 40@ «6 Shellac, bleached... 40@ 45 ‘Tragacanth......... 50@ ~=80 Herba Absinthium..oz. pkg 25 Eupatorium .oz. pkg 20 Lobelia...... oz. pkg 25 Majorum ....0z. pkg 28 Mentha Pip..oz. pkg 23 Mentha Vir..oz. pkg 25 me. oz. pkg 39 TanacetumY oz. pkg 22 Thymus, V..oz. pkg P-3) Magnesia. Caldined, Pat..... .. Hb@ 60 Carbonate, Pat...... 20@ 22 Carbonate, K.&M.. 20@ 25 Carbonate, Jennings 35@ 36 Oleum Absinthinm......... 3 25@ 3 50 Amygdale, Dule.... 30@ 50 Amygdalze, Amare . 8 00@ 8 25 A 2 10@ 2 20 Auranti Cortex..... 2 00@ 2 20 Berean? 3S. 2 2%@ 2 30 Copa oe. ce: 75@ 80 Caryophyili ....- 2... 55@ 6 OO 35@ 65 Chenopadii.......... @ 4 00 Cinnamonii......... 1 7%@ 1 90 Qitronella. .... .... 40@ 4 Contum Mac........ Coppa. Capone. Kxechthitos ........ RripOret Gaultherig..... ||. Geranium, ounce... Gossippii, Sem. gal.. MPCHCOMIg. | oo 1 eemipers. 60s bavendula.... |... ||. Bimneis Mentha Piper....... Mentha Verid....... 2 Morrhus, gal....... myrein 4 00@ 45 Oye 5@ 3 00 Picis Liquida....... Picis Liquida, gal... Bieta ROSMSAEENE |. |, Rose, ounce........ 5 pecein Reba Same ns Bassatres 2 Sinapis, ess., ounce. igi 1 Fivme. 2. oe Peynie Opt... Theobromas ....... Potassium Bichromate ......_.. Bromide... COle ee. Chlorate..po. 17@19¢ vanes Me Potassa, Bitart, pure Potassa, Bitart, com Potass Nitras, Opt... Potass Nitras........ Pressiate. 2.5 |. Sulphate po ........ Radix ACOMMVE 3...) ee Anchusa... Arum po. Calamus oO 1 Glyehrrhiza. . oa 15 Hydrastis Canaden . Hydrastis Can., po.. Hellebore, Alba, po.. Dela pO. Ipeeae, po... Iris plox.. -. po35@38 a Jape pe Maranta, is... .... Podophyllum, po.... OP moc CUE... Het py... ... a Spieelia. Sanguinaria...po. 40 Serpentaria ......_.. eee Similax,officinalis H Satie ME Nets. po.35 Symplocarpus, Feeti- 8, po Valeriana,Eng.po. 20 Valeriana, German. Amesber ea... sine sy. 6 Semen Anisnm... 2... po. 15 Apium (graveleons) Be, i COP... po. 18 Cardamon.... Coriandrum... .. Cannabis Sativa.... Cydonium |... Chenopodium ...... Dipterix Odorate... Peeniculum ;.. Foenugreek, po...... Pim... Lini, grd....bbl. 2% DOPOGS Pharlaris Canarian. OR, Sinapis Albu........ Sinapis Nigra....... Spiritus Frumenti, W. D. Co. Pramenti 3 | Juniperis Co. 0. T.. 2 Frumenti, D. F. R.. 2 1 1 Juniperis Co........ 1 Saacharum N. E.... Spt. Vini Galli...... Vind Oporto..5. 0: Wiel Aig. Sponges Florida sheeps’ wool Carriage. 205): Nassau sheeps wool CATEIESS......... Velvet extra sheeps’ wool, carriage..... Extra yellow sheeps’ wool. carriage... Grass sheeps’ wool, Carriage... |... Hard, for slate use.. Yellow Reef, for slate use... ..5... Syrups OGGN Auranti Cortes...... PAUeIDEr ee Ppecne: . uc... Perr 100... es. Mie: AvOM.... 20... Smilax Officinalis... PONGRS cok os Soltis... : 35... = sebbeae 3 5585 R @ ~ OO Oe oe ee SSIS) -_ _ c Cour Sapmoss — rt WIRVSISw S8S8SS55 ODS HOO CODD dO DD SSSSESSRS i) “) od ot -_ ‘ seSeeacss ® 68 O SSSSSSSSSE Seilize Oo. ..... 2... Toman Pruvus vire.... 1... Tinctures Aconitum Napellis R Aconitum Napellis F IOCR Aloes and Myrrh MPBICA | oa Assafcetida ..... _.. Atrope Belladonna. Auranti Cortex..... Bend Benzoin Co Barosma ..... Cantharides.. Capsicum ..... | Cardamon...... ||. ie Cardamon Co....... eo CeCGnR oo. Cmehong. |: Cinehona Co... |... Cotmmiba ... Cubena. es |. Cassia Acutifol..... Cassia Acutifol Co . Peta GG Ferri Chloridum.... Gentign: Gentian Co... |... Gwises Guiacaammon...... Hyoscyamus ........ Indie. Iodine, colorless.... Kino ie Opii, camphorated. Opii, deodorized.... Guardia. ae Serpentaria ....... |. Stromonium ........ Telutan..._.. .. was Valerian Veratrum Veride... ingiber oi | Miscellaneous Ether, Spts. Nit. 3F Ether, Spts. Nit.4F AlEmMCN Alumen, gro’d..po. 7 Amnatiq . Antimoni, po....... Antimoni et PotassT Antipyrin (5. AnGienrn. |... Argenti Nitras, oz .. AYSOMICUM |. Balm Gilead Bud .. Bismuth §.N. |. Calcium Chlor., 1s.. Calcium Chlor., Ks. Calcium Chlor., 4s. Cantharides, Rus. Capsici Fructus, af. Capsici Fructus, po. Capsici FructusB,po Caryophyllus..po. 15 Carmine, No. 40..... Cera Alba,S.&F .. Cora Flava... 0. Cocens Cassia Fructus...... CONtrariA | Cetaceum.. 0)... Chiorotorm...-.. |. Chloroform, squibbs Chloral Hyd Crst.... Chendrus, Cinchonidine,P.& W Cinchonidine, Germ Oocsine 3 Corks, list, dis. pr.ct. Creosotum, .. 0.00. Crete... bbl. 75 Crota prep. Creta, precip.. Creta, Rubra........ Crgens Cudbear ...... eas Cupri Sulph.... DOririge |: Ether Suiph... Emery, all numbers MINOTY. DOs. epOta. |. . 40 Flake “a OMe Ganbicg. 0 Gelatin, Cooper... .. Gelatin, French..... Glassware, flint, box Less than box.... Glue brown... |: Glac, white... .... Cigeerina Grana Paradisi .... Meraning.:.... Hydraag Chlor Mite Hydraag Chlor Cor. Hydraag Ox Rub’m. Hydraag Ammoniati HydraagUnguentum Hydrargyrum....... -_ - @ Ichthyobolla, Am... 1 25@ @ Pe Iodine, Resubi..... 26 dof. Hogotorm.:.-.....)., DME Lycopodium ........ Mace Liguer Arsez. et Fy- drarg Iod.......... LiquorPotassArsinit Magnesia, Sulph.... Magnesia, Sulph,bbl Mannia, S. F........ BGHEROL. .. 05s. sues 88e -_ wo 8 nw g rs 88386 SoVSETRSSoVao BR BPSSSSSSSSSsassssaasersewsysyeseuysrsgussszewzeeve agg S300 3 S5aSae0e000 SeSeece wRGIVRRSRS Fi i] Sa0ds8ease8e0e S855 Ra®Saomta RawnS _ _ 2 o “d0808 Cesolk —_ o 9668 BUHKRSSSSRUSSSSHRASLLS — e085e 85 a SSK wo Morph{a,S.P.& W... Morphia, S.N.Y.Q.& ee OOo, Moschus Canton.... Myristica, No. 1..... Nux Vomica...po.20 Ge Sema. — Saac, H. & P. OO go = Liq. N.N.% gal. Oe Picis Liq., quarts.... Picis Liq., pints..... Pil Hydrarg...po. 80 Piper Nigra...po. 22 Piper Alba....po. 35 Pix Burgun........ Plumbi Acet........ Pulvis Ipecac et Opii Pyrethrum, boxes H. - BD. Co., doz... Pyrethrum, pv...... CUSSHE Quinia, S. P. & W.. Quinia, S.German.. Curia, N.Y... Rubia Tinctorum. .. SaccharumLactis py Saraein 3 Sanguis Draconis... Ree Wee Bare, we ae. eG . L. Siedlitz Mixture.... 20 1 %@ 2 20 1 8@ 2 10} Snuff, Maceaboy, De a : @ 100 @ > Soda, Ash... @ 1 00| Soda, Sulphas.. @ MICHIGAN TRADESMAN nae... | Sinapis, opt... [ Veen. 80 | Snuif,Scotch, DeVo's iO | Seda Boras......_... 18 | Soda Boras, po...... | Soda et Potass Tart Soda, Carb...... 4 Soda, Bi-Carb....... 8 | Spts. Cologne........ 50 | Spts. Ether Co...... 18| Spt’ Myrcia Dom... 30 | Spts. Vini Reet. bbl. 7 | Spts. Vini Rect.4bb] 12 | Spts. Vini Rect.10gal Spts. Vini Rect. 5ga] Less 5¢ gal. cash 10 da ® i x © | Strychnia, Crystal... 33; Sulphur, Subl....... i Suter, Moll... . ot) amariGs. |... |. 29 | Terebenth Venice... 2a| Theobroms....... . | Vania... 0 | 4inci Salph..... ._.. 0} 50 | Oils 14 | 12 | Whale, winter....... 7) Lard, extra..... os 22 | Lard, No.1.......... razelting & Perkins DFUC 60. olindry Department We invite examination of our remodeled and handsome sundry department now in charge of We display in sample show cases complete lines of the following goods. mr. J. . Hagy. Perfumes Mirrors Violin, Guitar and Banjo Strings Atomizers And many other articles too numerous to mention. Goods are up to date and prices right. Hazelting & Perkins Drug 60 Grand Rapids, Mich. Fountain and Family Syringes Tweezers Razors Key Rings Suspensory Bandages Toilet and Bath Sponges Linseed, pure raw.. Linseed, boiled..... Neatsfoot, winter str | Spirits Turpentine.. €8 Oe ) “| Red Venetian... .. Ochre, yellow Mars. Ochre, yellow Ber.. > | Putty, commercial. | Putty, strictly pure we | Green, Peninsular. " porn oe | Lead, white,....... | Whiting, white Span Whiting, gilders’... White, Paris Amer.. Whiting, Paris Eng. | Universal Prepared. 1,00@ Ste $7 sammantes ae No. 1 Turp Coach... As Ne Ag ala td Cosem Hody......... 2 No. 1 Tarp Furn.... Extra Turk Damar.. Jap. Dryer,No.iTurp Bi die 5b 2 2 ie ee garerear emreer er cm: i io tapin Soaps Powder Puffs Tooth, Nail, Hair, Cloth, Infant, Bath, and Shaving Brushes Cork Screws Razor Strops sn att oe ca AB ap ne ET Hm pee mentor nrunnnee Sg 20 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN GROCERY PRICE CURRENT. The prices quoted in this list are for the trade only, in such quantities as are usually purchased by retail dealers. They are prepared just before possible to give quotations suitable for erage prices for average conditions of purchase. those who have poor credit. our aim to make this feature of the greatest possible use to dealers. oing to press and are an accurate index of the local market. ail conditions of purchase, and those below are given as representing av- Cash buyers or those of strong credit usually buy closer than Subscribers are earnestly requested to point out any errors or omissions, as it is It is im- AXLE GREASE. doz. es oO OD Cotton, 40 ft, per doz....... 1 00 AUFOTA.« «2... ee ee oe 55 § 08 | Cotton, 50 ft, per doz... 1 20 Castor Oil............. nd 00 | Cotton, 60 ft, per doz....... 1 40 ee 50g 08 | Cotton, 70 ft. per doz....... 1 60 ais | a pe ek ‘ Br On... * IXLGolden,tinboxes75 900 an co aoa ss 80 Tica, tin boxes ok secs wo 9 00 Jute. 72 ft, per dos,, 95 Paragon.. ie r : . Chicory. BAKING POWDER. is . Absolute. aa 7 it came gon... |... 45 SUP. 4 lb cans doz............. 85 CAT. [ Weansdor.......-..... 1S) Golam: pints... 2. 4 2 ‘ee Columbia, % pints.......... 2 50 1¢ Ib cans 3 doz............ 45 CLOTHES PINS. os weve eeee a 5 gross boxes.. cee b Sto i — See een pee 10 COCOA SHELLS. 1 Purity. Oe PM eee 2% . . | bes Guamgty.......... .. 3 34 = cans per = mene eneee on Pound packages......... 4 cans per doz ....... g Ps lb cans om a ee 2 00 CREAMS TARTAR. Home. Strictly Pure, wooden boxes. 35 Ib a 9% Strictly Pure, tin boxes...... 37 14 lb cans 4 doz case...... 3 % Ib cans 4 doz case...... 55 COFFEE. lb cans 2 doz case...... 90 PSY OTN = wJ De 14 1b cans, 4 doz case..... 45 —. ie % lb cans, 4dozcase...... 85} Golden . 1 lb cans, 2 doz case...... 160) Peaberry ........ Jersey Cream. Santos. ib. Cane, per dos. ......... 2 00 ae 9 oz. cans, rer doz.......... 1 25) Good o.oo. el ecesee es eeeee. 20 G6 Os. Gans, per doz.......... 85 Cae Te ee Our Leader. POGUOREy 20 23 i i Mexican and Guatamale. ieee... ee ee ee . Pee eee ee = ay as ...:.. Peeks 8} Maracaibo. . BATH BRICK. — American . ey English.. - . 80 Java. e Ee ie BLUING. Private owen... 27 eee ................,. 28 Mocha. Retention .. 20. Aree 2 ee Roasted. Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brands Fifth Avenue..... oe Jewell’s Arabian Mocha.. 28 Wells’ Mocha and Java..... 125% 1 doz. pasteboard Boxes... 40} Wells’ Perfection Java..... 25% 3 doz. wooden boxes. _ ieee... Valley City Maracaibo. 1846 BROOMS. Ideal Blend. Ls No. 1 Carpet.. 1 90 | Leader Blend.. ee — : Carpet... : = Worden Grocer Co.'s Brands ee ee aay >” | Quaker Arabian Mocha..... 31 Rod Carpet ae si cashes Mandehling Java. .30 C lor em as ~ ~o | Quaker Mocha and Java. ...28 een Whisk. ag | Toko Mocha and Java......25 Wat x Sua 2 os | Quaker Golden Santos.... .21 enema aun ™ | State House Blend..........19 CANDLES. Quaker Golden Rio......... 17% ee Package. ee. “oo Below are given New York ee 8 prices on se coffees, Bd which the wholesale dealer CANNED GOODS. adds the local freight from a petnk, giesap gue ool on tae — ee oo tl ro invoice for the amount of / Laxeside, Cham of ing... 1 40|frelght buyer paye from the keside, Gem, Ex. Sifted. 1 65 See a La. to his shipping point, including weight of package. In 60 Ib. CHEESE. cases the list is 10¢c per 100 lbs. ee... ss... @ 7 | above the price in full cases. sa aa le Ss Arbuckle «+... es... 1150 ae eT yl ——.... ... 1 50 gsiemens er @ 74 | McLaughlin's XXXX......11 50 BeIEh wwe ce ween sses ee GB ») Gold Meda! Extract. Ideal ...... @ 8 | Valley City % gross ..... ° ¥ sonmoy...... @i woux 6 arose... 1 15 Lenawee @? Hummel’s foil % gross... 85 Riverside. eee @ 7% | Hummel’s tin & gross. 1@ a RAS Seana 3 > Kneipp Malt Coffee. ia tat : % lib. packages, 50 lb. cases 9 Edam ia an @ 7 : ete @ 18 |11b. packages, 100lb. cases 9 Limburzer. pieces @ 15 NDEN D MILK. Pineappie... . 4 @ & co ENSE K Sap Sago... ee @ 18 4 doz in case. Gail aie Eagle ve) CHOCOLATE. — Seeece sees 6 25 Walter Baker & Co.’s. Sein : = — ee es ~ a ‘> a ee allenge... rs Breakfast Cocoa........ ..... a_* Dime ........ --3 35 CLOTHES LINES. COUPON BOOKS. Tradesman Grade. 50 books, any denom.... 1 50 100 books, any denom.... | 250 500 books, any denom....11 50 1,000 books, any denom....20 00 Economic Grade. 50 books, any denom.... 1 50 100 books, any denom.... 2 50 500 books, any denom....11 50 1,000 books, any denom....20 00 is of ie Lh Cabeneaah Gita, 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 madeto represent any denomination from $10 d ep 20 books Lee ekecce ee Credit Checks. 500, any one denom’n..... 3 1000, any one denom’n..... 5 2000, any one denom’n..... 8 Steel punch. DRIED FRUITS—DOMESTIC Apples. RenGrted oo a @ 2% @4 Evaporated 50 lb boxes. California Fruits. - oe... 9 @10% Biackberrics........... Nectarmes ............ @ PeeGmes.. clk: uo 9 Pears.. oy @ Pitted Cherries........ Pranic... .. 2... 12 Raspberries............ California Prunes. 100-126 25 lb boxes....... @ 3% 90-100 25 Ib boxes....... @ 3% 80 - 90 25 Ib boxes....... @4 70 - 80 25 1b boxes....... @ 4% 60 - 70 25 lb boxes... .... @ 4% 50 - 60 25 Ib boxes....... @ 5% 40 - 50 25 lb boxes....... @7% 30 - 40 25 1b boxes....... i¢ cent less in 50 1b cases Raisins. Lendon Layers 3 Crown. 1 55 London Layers 5 Crown. 2 50 DCHOOR ss, 3 25 Loose Muscatels2 Crown 4% Loose Muscatels3Crown 5% Loose Muscatels4Crown 614 FOREIGN. Currants. Petras Be @ 5% Vostizzas 50 lb cases...... @ 5% Cleaned, balk ...-.... 24. 6% Cleaned, packages........ @7 Peel. Citron American 10lb bx @14 Lemon American 10lb bx @12 Orange American 101b bx @12 — all Ondura 28 |b boxes.. Sultana 1 Crown........ Sultana 2:Crown........ Sultana 3Crown........ Sultana 4 Crown........ Sultana 5 Crown @ @ @ 8 @ @ @ FLY PAPER. Tanglefoot. Regular, per box. ........-. Regular. case of 10 boxes.. 2 Regular, 5 case lots........ 2 Regular, 10 case lots....... 2 Listle: per bex., .. 2. ......5 5. Little, case of 15 boxes..... i Little, 10 case lots.......... 1 Holders, per,box of 50...... 30 55 50 40 13 45 40 % Souders’. FARINACEOUS GOODS. Oval bottle, with corkscrew. Farina. Best in the world for the Pek a SS money. Grits. Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s....... 2 00 _— Hominy. Lemon. MERON oo 2 doz Flake, “536 Ib. drums.......1 00 Sos... ... 5 Lima cial £08... <: 1 50 Dred | Maccaroni and Vermicelli. Regular Domestic, 10 Ib. box...... 60 ) Vanilla. Imported, 25 Ib. box.. ... 2 50 doz Pearl Barley. | SOs...... 1 20 — Be ee 1% j 4.0Z...... 2 40 eo Ree 2% XX Grade ae ns mon. Caeen: Dit... Set peri s 2% ol. 150 os Ro nic Gta. 2 40z. ....3 00 Rolled Avena Monarch, bbl.........-. 325 XX Grade Monarch, % bbl.......... 1% Vanilla. Private brands, bbl..... 3 00 Private brands, %bbl..... 1 62 20z...... 1% Quaker, cases............. 3 20 40Z...... 3 50 Sago. German oss 4 per ~ ast India... 3% | Jackson Liquid, 1oz....... Wheat. Jackson Liquid, 2 0z....... 4 Cracked, bath. -..... 2... 3 Jackson Liquid, 3 0z....... 1 30 242 lb packages........... 2 40 GUNPOWDER. Fi h - Rifle—Dupont’s. HN ee cas 4 2 isn. Pewee ee Cod. Meruer RCPS... 1 35 Georges omnes. oe @ 3% = ok ee - eorges genuine... eee eter eee Georges selected...... @5 |x, oa Bore—Dupont - 00 Strips or bricks....... 5 @8 Half Kegs eee ce ee 2 95 Halib 190 | Quarter Kegs............... 1 25 9 11lb cans. 34 Her: 3 Eagle Duck—Dupont’s. “ Holland white’ hoops keg. 60 | KES .--- +--+. eee eeee eee 8 Holland white hoops bbi. 7 50 Half igs dao auctia aloe : = Merwoen. cs. - ines. 5 Round 100 lbs.. 2 50 rae LICORICE. ree: oe 40 lbs. . 1 = 30 Be ee Mackerel. Calabria Leietct cee ieee. . Mess 00 Tbe. 5 ot 10 59 | Boot ily..... ret ecee ceases cone es io pees: 40 te se nll eee INCE MEAT er meee 20 ihe... 1 20 Ideal, Foon Mewes 2 95 mom 8 ie. 1 00 MATCHES. — 100 Ibs. Diamond Match Co.’s brands. No No, 9 sniphur. 8... lS: 1 6 No. Amenor Paro... 2 5... 1 70 No. mo, 2 Home... oe: 110 Seis. 3 10 | Export yf pe seeteee 4 00 no? ee. 85 New Orleans. Sardines. i 1 Russian kegs.............. 55 Fair 14 Stocktish. east ere 2 No. 1. 100 lb, bales Ce wane eee ee tees er wen seeees te een gee oo Open Kettie.....222°/7777! 25@%5 ie Ries. 409| Half-barrels 2c extra. mo. 1: Sie. 3 1 99 ag, NO. Si. 170 No.1 10 lbs. .............. 55 Clay, T. D. full count...... 65 No.1 8 lbs. 47 Cob, No. 3 1 POTASH. 48 cans in case. Panwiees.... es 4 00 Penna Salt Co.’s........... 3 00 PICKLES. Medium. Barrels, 1,200 count........ 3 40 Half bbis, 600 count........ 2 20 Small. Barrels, 2,400 count........ 4 40 Half bbls, 1,200 count...... 2 70 RICE. Domestic. Carolina head.............. 614 Casoune NOt... 8... 5 Carolina No. 2............. 4% ee. 3 Imported. gepen, MO.1.-.. se. 5K Ae: DO, 5 : gave, NO. too, 4% Jennings’. abies 5% = a o D.C. Lemon SEEDS. 120 DOR i Pe Aine oy 13 3 = ee ces A 50 3 oz. ....1 00 Canary, Smyrna eee oe a 4 4 oz. 2 00 407z...... t 40% Caraway 100 10 oon... 3 00 Con... .: 2 00 Cardamon, Malabar ..... 80 No. 8 400 No. 8...2 40 Hemp, Russian 4 No. 10...6 00 No. 10...4 00} Mixed Bird............... 4% No. 27.1 2% No. 2T. 80| Mustard, white....... ... 6% No. 3 T.2 00 BO. 22-1 Ol Poepe oy! 8 No 47.2 40 No. 4T-FS0) Rane 2) 5 HERBS. Cuttle ee 20 15 SALERATUS, Hopes ...:... ames? 15 Packed 60 lbs. tn box. x c Church’s --3 30 Madras, 5 lb boxes......... 55 Deiand’s 3 15 a ., 4,8 “~ 5 lb boxes.... 50 Dwight’s .. oe tees xa 30 . WOWIOT 6.2. ices ceca 3 00 i pelle 30 17 » a 34 SAL SODA. ip wale. ss 55 | Granulated, bbis.......... 1 10 LYE. Granulated, 100 lb cases..1 50 Condensed, 2 doz .......... 1 20; Lump, bbis...... ......... 1 Condensed, 4 doz........... 2 25‘ Lump, 1451b kegs.....,.... 110 SALT. Diamond Crystal. Cases, 24 3-lb boxes......... 1 50 Barrels, 100 3 ib bags... .. 2% Barrels, 40 7% 1b Dags...... 2 40 Butter, 28 Ib. pags tse uo 30 Butter, 56 lb bags........... 60 Butter, 20 14 1b Shes Cenc wes 3 00 Butter, 280 1b bbls.......... 2 50 Common Grades. MOOS 1D sQGKS..... .:...... 2 60 OOS IPRRCKR....-... Le: 1 8 oe 11D BaeKR. 1 70 Worcester. oO 4 Ib. cartons..........; 3 25 115 2%lb. sacks..... .......4 00 60 5 Ib. sacks...... so oo 2214 lb. sacks..... ..-3 50 3010 1b. sacks.... <2 oe 28 lb. linen sacks... . 56 lb. linen sacks..........., 60 Bulk in barrels.............. 2 50 Warsaw. 56-lb dairy in drill bags..... 30 28-lb dairy ge drill bags..... 15 Ashton. 56-lb dairy in iinen sacks... 60 Higgins. 56-lb dairy in linen sacks... 60 Solar Rock. 56-lb sacks.. a: Common Fine. SAPIMAW. cc: 70 MAMINIGE: co cc. " SNUFF, Scotch, in bladders......... 37 Maccaboy, eee ees 35 French Rappee, in jars..... 43 SPICES. Whole Sifted. PUORICR 9 Cassia, China in mats....... 10 Cassia, Batavia in bund... .20 Cassia, Saigon in rolls...... 32 Cloves, Amboyna........... 15 Cloves, Zanzibar............ 9 Mace, Batavia Dees ces segue 60 Nutmegs, fancy........... -60 uubIneee, NO. 1.2... 50 Nutmegs, No. 2.. 45 Pepper, Singapore, ‘plack.__ 9 Pepper, Singapore, white... i2 Pepper, shot... 10 Pure Ground in Bulk. Allspice Cassia, Batavia ............. 2 Cassia, RR oe 35 Cloves, Amboyna........... 20 Cloves, Zanzibar............ 15 Ginger, Aieen. 5. 15 Ginger, Coghin............: 20 Ginger, Jamaica............ 22 Mace, Batayia.............: 70 Mustard, Eng. and Trieste. .20 Mustard, Trieste............ Nutmegs, eee eae. 40@5=0 Pepper, Sing., black ....10@14 Pepper, Sing., white....15@18 Rapper, Cayenne as oes —— SYRUPS Corn. Barre eo ae 12 Mar Ghie... oo: 14 Pure Cane. Oe se 16 OO 20 MGR 25 SODA. OTR rs eee SRnglish ee SOAP. Laundry. Armour’s Brands. Armour's Family.......... 2 Armour’s Laundry........ Armour’s White, 100s... . |. Armour’s White, DOR... Armour’s Wood¢chuck ae Armour’s Kitchen Brown. 2 00 Armour’s Mottled German 2 40 P. JAXO a Simugie box...) 5 box lots, delivered.. ie 10 box lots. delivered....... 2 65 JAS. 8. KIRK & 60. 8 BRANDS. American Family, wrp’d.. American Family, unwrp’d. 33 Ft Dome OCG ic occu coc ccs ce 22 OVO 2 50 Dusky Diamond, 50 6 oz....2 10 Dusky Diamond, 50 8 oz....3 00 Blue India, 100 % Ib......... 3 00 —— esses ceesene she 3 = 3 6 One box American Family free with five. | Barrels ..... b MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 21 Lautz Bros. & Co.’s — Acme, >, 701 1b. cakes. Single box.. . 3 > DOx 10... oe te 3 35 $0 DOE TOts |e. 3 28 25 box lots.. . ooo Acme, 6011b cakes. Sige WOK. 2 ol... sll, 3 00 OOe 006k cs Oe 10 box lots ie, 2 Boe PO NOUR cc. 2 80 One box free with 5; “two boxes free with 10; five ‘boxes free with 25. Acme, 5 cent size. Sinele Pes 2 85 Ser dom... 25 Or Tote 2 70 25 Pex tote. 2 65 Acorn, 120 cakes, 75 Ibs. Seueie Bok. oe 2 § o> poe fem 2% 10 UGE FOts, 3. ec a4 2 Dex ote... 2 65 Marseilles White. 100 cakes, 7% lbs. Seatee WOe oe . 5 SHOe 10s... 6 ee 10 box lots... 5... 8 68 MS hem Wits 5 50 100 cakes, ‘5 cent size. Ral@re pO. 4 00 6 box tots.:..... 3 90 10 box Jots.... .. . 3 85 Se OOX (O16. nsec. 3 80 Schulte Soap Co.’s Brand. 100 eens iD Ibs. i Sinwie BOE... 2 85 Bor ite. eo ec: 2 80 Siete per 2 6 5 box lots, delivered........ 2 60 10 box lots, delivered. ...... 2 50 Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands. Old Country, 80 1-lb bars ..2 75 Good C heer, 60 1-lb. bars....3 75 Uno, 100 % Gib. bar... 00000) z 50 Doll, 100 10- Of. UATE. .......: 2 0 Scouring. Sapolio, kitchen, 3 oon eas 2 40 Sapolio. hand, $dox |... 240 Washing Powder. A Most Prassant, but Most EMective Vasting L : THE ‘svawrr cn ‘sor on, 100 12 On PERE... cee 3 50 STARCH. Kingsford’s Corn. 40 1-lb packages............. 6 20 1 lb packages........ . 6% Kingsford’s Silver Gloss. 40 1-lb packages............. 6% Gib Homes. 0s oes: 52. 7 Diamond. 64 10c packages ........... 5 00 128 5¢ packages......... .. 5 00 32 10c and 64 5c packages...5 00 mmon Corn. S01 POCOR... <. 2.25. 2. se. 4% sN.1h hover 4x Common Gloss. i-lb packages............... 4 $-lb packages............... 4 Gib packages............... 4% 40 and 50 1b ae eee nas 2% ° vrnceces« Boe STOVE POLISH. a 5 ony Reraeeas tae ae No. 4, 3 doz in Con 4 50 No. 6, 3 doz in case...... .. ca SUGAR. Below are given New York prices on sugars, to which the wholesale dealer adds the local freight from New York to your shipping point, giving you credit on the invoice for the amount of freight buyer pays from the market in which he purchases to his shipping point, including 20 pounds for the weight of the barrel. Ciel Boat. 5 50 ON ee 5 38 CnC 5 13 Powoderce - <3... 5 13 XXXX Powdered......... -5 38 Mom Ao 5 13 Goueetod Me bbls 2. 4 88 Granulated in bags......... 4 88 Hime Granulated. ........... 4 88 Extra Fine Granulated..... 5 00 Extra Coarse Granulated...5 00 Diamond Confee. A........ 488 — Standard A......... 4% 7 Re cel 4 63 3 4 No. 5... i. <.. A ean jan | 6 =, es a 3 94 ee, 3 § NO. To 3 75 ne Oe es. 3 50 MOO. MO se oes TABLE SAUCES. Lea & Perrin’s, large..... 4% Lea & Perrin’s, small..... 2% Hattord, large... .... ...- 3 75 Halford’ small............ 2 25 Salad Dressing, large.....4 55 Salad Dressing, small..... 2 6 TOBA ee Ciga Clark-Jewell- Wells Co.’s brand. New Brick. 22 .26..50020.2° 35 00 Morrison, Plummer & Co.’s b’d. Governor Yates, 4% in... 58 00 Governor Yates, 4% in..... 65 00 Governor Yates, 5 a6 In... 70 00 PROMPT. oo 30 00 H. & P. Drug Co.’s —— Guintette ......... 3, G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’ ae ag je PS » SC W...]: ee H. Van Tongeren’s Brand. Star Green 35 00 Miscellaneous Brands. American Queen...... so. 2-o0 OO Malore: 320s: 35 00 Beechiggw 23.3... 35 00 Royal Knight... ........... 35 00 Bum Rose... 3..c. else 35 00 VINEGAR. berous Cider... . ss. 10 Robinson's Cider, 40 grain....10 Robinson’s Cider, 50 grain. ..12 WICK No. @ pereross....-..:... 2... 25 No. Fy per gross... 5. ls 30 MO: 2. Per eions. oo. ss. 40 Re 8 pergeee.........-.... vi) Fish and Oysters Fresh Fish. Per lb Whitehsh. 00. ....- @ 8 Pee oe cl @ 7 Black Bass.......... @ 10 OS @ tt Ciscoes or Herring.. @ 4 PCRS ees onc @ 10 Live Lobster....... @ 18 Boiled Lobster...... @ 19 Ces oases @ 10 ee See eueter cca: @ 8 No. 1 Pickerel....: . @ 7 PUG ae. @ 6 Smoked White...... a << Red Snapper........ @ 10 Col River Salmon... @ Maekere) 30.0... @ 12% Oysters in Cans. F. H: “— DP hacet es ° = 1 25@1 50 = per bea aes Clama SOT? goBd 0 Candies. Stick Candy. bbls. pails Sanaa .........., 5xA@7 Standard H. H...... os Standard Twist..... @7 Cm Boar... .. @s8 cases ektes @ 8% Boston Cream...... @ Mixed Candy. Competition. ........ @6 POO oo. @ 6% Deanery foc @i7 ‘ oecrve...... ..... @7 Mogar @7 Pe @ Broken .... pote et @ Cue heat os .. @s English Rock....... @ Kindergarten....... @ 8% French Cream...... @ 8% Dandy Pano. @10 Valley Cream.. .... @13 Fancy—In Bulk. Lozenges, plain..... @ 8% Lozenges, printed. . @ 8% Choe. Drops... ll @i4 Choc. Monumentals @i2 Gum Drops...._.. @5 Moss Drops... .__. @ 7% Sour Props: .. 4... |. @ 8% Impertals.... 1... @ 8% Fancy—in 5 Ib. Boxes. Lemon Drops....... @50 sour Drops... 1... @50 Peppermint Drops.. @60 Chocolate Drops. . @6v H. M. Choe. Drops.. 75 Gum Drope:........ @30 oo Prope. . 2... @% . B. Licorice a @50 ane plain.. @50 Lozenges, printed.. @50 Imperials bce cul @50 Mottoes....... rial @55 Cream Bar... o @50 Molasses Bar ....... @50 Hand Made Creams. 80 @90 Plain Creams.. 60 @s0 Decorated Creams... @90 String Rock......... @60 Burnt Almonds..... 1 2 Wintergreen Berries @55 Caramels. wet [aed 2 Ib. eee oe. @30 ~~ t 1 wrapped, 3 Ib. eee cae @45 No. (2 wrapped, 2 Ib. Fruits. Oranges. Med’t Sweets. Sees @3 25 150-1963 @3 50 Faney 200s @3 75 Choice 200s. . @3 50 St. Michaste. A @4 50 Lemons. Strictly choice 360s.. @5 00 Strictly choice 300s.. @5 00 Paney S609. 50.0. @4 50 Ex.Fancy 300s...... @6 00 Bananas. Medium bunches.. .1 = @1 50 Large bunches...... 1% @2 00 Foreign Dried Sie “a Choice Layers @ Figs, New ‘Smyrna 14 and 20 1b boxes. @l2 Figs, Naturals in 30 ib. Baga... @6 Dates, Fards in 101b bees ee in @8 Dates, ates in 60 1b cases . @ 6 Dates Dulane ic M. , 60 1b cases, new @ 5% Dates, Sairs 60 lb Cane @4 Nuts. Almonds, Tarragona. . @i12% Almonds, a 11 Almonds, nore soft shelled......... @ Brazils new........... @i% Srperts 2... @lv Walnuts, Grenobles .. @12% Walnuts, Calif No. 1. @l10 Walnuts, soft shelled Care ee. @i2 Table Nuts, faney.. @l1 Table Nuts, choice... @i10 Pecans, Med.. @ Pecans, Ex. Large... . @10 Pecans, Jumbos....... @12 Hickory Nuts per bu., Obio, new... 03... . ... @ Cocoanuts, full sacks @3 50 Peanuts. Fancy, H. P., Suns. @7 Fancy, H. P., Flags : ROORGOE @7 Choice, H. P., Extras. @4 Choice, H. P., eee, Roasted ............ @é Grains and Feedstufis Wheat. WHORE a 72 Winter Wheat Flour. Local Brands. Patents .... ..4 40 Second Patent............! 4 00 PEMA MS cc. 3 80 eee 3 40 Cee ee, 3 7% a ees 3 40 ye 2 65 Subject to usual cash dis count, Flour in bbls., 25¢ per bbl. ad- ditional. Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand. ee 4 20 Quaker, En Se eae ale ced oe 4 20 Quaker, i 4 20 eae ‘Wheat Hinaw: Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brand. Pilisbury’s Best %s........ 4 50 Pillsbury’s Best 14s........ 4 40 Pillsbury’s Best \s........ ; 30 Pillsbury’s Best }s paper.. 4 30 Piilsbury’s Best 54s paper.. 4 30 Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand. Grand Republic, \s........ 4 60 Grand Republic, 48.- oc «50 Grand Republic, %s........ 4 0 Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s Brand. Panini Ms 4 60 Parisian, 148. duis Stew.) a oe Parisian. ee 4 40 Olney & Judson ’s Brand. Cerenota, 48...........-.... 4 60 Ceresota, 4s Do oes 4 50 Ceresota, $ Les 4 4 Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand. Laurel, \s.. Sous. 4 oe Laurel, 4s... a Pave a 4 40 Meal. Oe 1 50 Granmiated ‘eo Feed and Millstuffs. St. Car Feed, screened ....12 50 No. 1 Corn and Oats.. a 50 Unbolted Corn Meal....... 11 00 Winter Wheat Bran... . . 9 00 Winter Wheat Middlings.. 9 50 Screenings 00 The O. E. Brown Mill Co. quotes as follows: New Corn. Ce NO oe Less than ¢ar lots......... 30 Oats. Car lots. .. 2 Carlots, Clipped... << oe Less than gar lots...) ||) 27 Hay. No. 1 Timothycarlots..... 10 00 No. 1 Timothy, ton lots....11 50 Crackers. The N. Y. Biscuit Co. quotes as falicee.: Butter. NOVINOMEE ON et di Seymour XXX, 3b. carton 4% Family XXX. 4 Family — 3 ‘Ib carton. 4% Salted XX. 4 gral moGga Man. ............,... 4% Soda XXX, 3 1b earton. 5 Soda, City 5% Zephyrette 10 Long Island Wafers....... 9 L. I. Wafers, 1 lb carton .. 10 Oyster. Square — oe" 2s... 4% Sq. Oys. XXX.11b carton. 5% Farina iene, aa.. 4% SWEET GOODS—Boxes. MN io 9 Bent’s Cold Water......... 13 erie FOG a. 6 Cocoanut Tatty... os... Cotiee Cakes... ...... 8 Frosted Honey... _.._ |... 10 Graham Crackers ......... 6% Ginger Snaps, XXX round. 5 Ginger Snaps, XXX city... 5 Gin. Snps,X XX home made 5 Gin. Snps,XXX sealloped.. 5 Cinger Venilig... 2. :. 7 PO POTII 6% otmpies, Honey... ....... 10 Molasses Cakes............ 6% Marshmallow ........ .. Marshmallow Creams..... 13 Pretzels, hand made ..... 6 Pretzelettes, LittleGerman 6 Paper Cm 6% SUrmaa ae Bears tne: 6% Sears’ Zephyrette.. ..... . 10 Vanilla Square........... 7 Vanilla Wafers........... 2 Pecan Waters ............ 12 Print @Omece. 9 Mixed Fienie........., Se Cream Jumbles ............ 11% Boston Ginger Nuts... . 6 Chimmie Fadden . 9 Pineapple Glace. age oo ee Penny Cakes..... weuteccess 6 Provisions. Swift & Company quote as follows: —- — Mess 8 00 Back a... 6 6 Clear back.. a. oo ee ae. : i2 00 eee 8 00 Marmuy ................ 8 50 Dry Salt Meats. meres ,....... Dreeet ||... Mixtecs Shore 2) 434 Smoked [eats. Hams, i2 ib average .... 10 Hams, l4lb average ... 9% Hams, 16 Ib average..... 914 Hams, 20 lb average..... 83; | Ham dried —...... lite | Shoulders (N. Y. cut). . 6h | Bacon, clear. . se @t} California hams.. Sees o Boneless hams Cooked ham.. Lards. ih TY ierces. Compound... 20... 334 Kettie.. | 5 55 lb Tubs....... cadvance tg 80 lb Tubs.......advance 14 50 lb Tins .1.... advance 14 ma ip Patis......* advance % 10 (Db Pails... .. advance 4 oi Pals ...... advance % 31b Pails. ...... advance 1 Sausages. Beeta 5 Eivee 6% | Frankfort.. oo 6% | vous 6% Boda a. e | Tongue So | eae Chedee............. 6% | eef, Buta Mess. 7 00 momerees 11...) : Sap BOD 10 00 Pigs’ _— Kits, 15 lbs. ‘eco. | ee 14 bbls, ibe 1 50 \% bbls, SO ibs......:... 2 80 bigs Kita (ibs. | \% bbls, Abe 1 40 % bbls, oo ihe...... oi 2% —— Pork . .. Beef rounds.. os 3% Beef middles........... 8 Oe 60 Butterine. Hom day... 10 BOEG, Gate... 1... 944 Rolls, Creamery ......... 13 Solid, creamery ......... 12% Canned es Corned beef, o....... 2 1g Corned beef, 4 a .14 00 Roast beef, 2ib....... 215 Potted ham, a Fotted ham %s....... 1 00 Deviled ham, 24 8---. +2. 60 Deviled ham, os....... 5 Potted tongue qs —. oo Potted tongue \%s....... 1 00 "Fresh | Meats. Beef. Careass .-............. Soa 7 Fore quarters......... 444@ 6 Hind quarters.. - 1 @os Loins No. EAN 9 @i2 Me. 8 el oe... 64@ 7% Chechen. ...: 4@5 PAROS @ 3 Pork. Drees. @ 1% OAs i. @é6 | poole... @ 5% | Leaf Lard.. : . 54@ 8 Mutton. Carease =o... if... 7 @9 Spring Lambs... .....9 @10 Veal. Careaae 23. 7 @8 Hides a Peits. Perkins & Hess pay as fol- lows: Hides. Green . i coos Coat C46 Part ured (00 @i7 Full Cured.. os. ae re ee, 6 @8 aoe. eee........... 6 az Bie, Guen........... 64@ § Calfskins, green...... 6%@ 8 Calfskins, onred...... Te@ 9 Deaconskins ......... 2 @30 Pelts. Shcariings ..<...... 5@ 10 PMS oe cl 2@ 50 Ola Woot |... 6o@ 9 Oils. Barrels. oO, ees a @i1% XXX W.W.Mich.Hdlt @ 8% WW Michio, ........ @8 High Test Headlight. . @7 ORM ck @ 8 Deo. Napa ae @i™%; cere ee See 2 @36 ee 11 @21 Black, eae. @8 Crockery and Glassware. AKRON STONEWARE. Butters, 56 SAl., por dok.......... 50 StOC eal pergal........ G6 See... Der ee... 2... 6% 10 gal. per eer... ........ 6% 12 gal., per gal.. ia) 15 gal. meat- “tubs, per gal.. 8 20 gal. meat-tubs, per gal.. 25 gal. meat-tubs, per gal.. 10 30 gal. meat-tubs, per gal.. 10 Churns. 2 to 6 gal. per gal......... 5% Churn Dashers, per doz... 85 Milikpans. 44 gal. flat or rd. bot., doz. 60 1 gal. fat orrd. bot.,each 5% 2 Glazed Milkpans. * gal. flatorrd. bot.,doz. 65 1 = flat orrd. bot.,each 5% Stewpans. % gal. fireproof, bail, doz. 85 1 gal. fireproof, bail, doz.1 10 Jugs. ad WAL, per dee... ii... ., 40 36 Mal.. per doe... ..,..... 50 1 t05 gal, per gal......... 6% Tomato Jugs. 1 Sal, per dom............ 70 teat. cach... oo... 7 Corks for % gal., per doz.. 20 Corks for 1 gal., per doz.. 30 Preserve Jars and Covers. | 4 gal., stone cover, doz... 7% 1 gal., stone cover, doz...1 00 Sealing Wax. | 5 lbs. in package, perlb... 2 LAMP BURNERS, No. 0 Sun. No. 1 Sun.. ee No. 2 eT ce ee Security, No. 1 Security, No. 2 Nutmeg pene sec c ees Climax. LAMP CHIMNEYS—Common. Per box of 6 doz. 1 ee 75 Bo f te... 1 88 Ne, 2 hae. 2 70 First Quality. No. 0 Sun, crimp top, wrapped and labeled.... 2 10 No. 1 Sun, crimp top, wrapped and labeled.... 2 25 No. 2 Sun, crimp top, wrapped and labeled.... 3 25 XXX Flint. No. 0 Sun, crimp top, wrapped and labeled. 2 55 No. 1 Sun, crimp top, wrapped and labeled. a No. 2 Sun, crimp wrapped and labe << 8 75 CHIMNEYS—Pearl Top. No.1 Sun, wrapped and MapeleG. 3... sw. 3 70 No. 2 Sun, labele 2d No. 2 Hinge, wrapped and labeled... : No.2 Sun, “Small “Bulb,” for Globe Lamps.. . = La Bastic. No. 1 Sun. plain bulb, per doz No. 2 Sun, plain bulb, per doz 15 Cee eg. 50 No. t Crimp, per dos....... 1 35 No. 2 Crimp, per doz.. .... 1 60 Rochester. No. 1, Lime (65¢ doz)...... 3 50 No. 2, Lime (70e doz).. ... 4 06 No. 2 2 Flint (80c doz)...... 4 70 Electric. No. 2, Lime (70c doz) ..... 4 00 No. 2, Flint (80e doz)...... 4 40 OIL CANS. Doz. 1 gal tin cans with spout.. 1 25 1 gal galv iron with spout. 1 65 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 5 @al Tilting Cane. ......... 9 00 5 gal galv fron Nacefas ... 9 00 Pump Cans 5 gal Rapid steady stream. 9 00 5 gal Eureka non-oy re 10 50 13 gel Home Rule.... ..... 10 50 |S gal Home Hule.... ...... 12 00 5 gal Pirate King.. bees oi oo LANTERNS. No. OTapwar...... ...... 4 25 Na 18 Topaier.......... 6 50 No. 13 TubularDash. .... 6 30 No. 1Tub., glassfount.... 7 00 No. 12 Tubu ar, side lamp. 14 — No. 3Street Lamp ....... 37 LANTERN GLOBES. No. 0 Tubular, cases 1 doz. each, box l0cents.. ..... 4 No. 0 Tubular, cases 2 doz. each, box 15 cents....... 45 No. 0 Tubular, bbls 5 doz. Glen WO Bee cei... 40 No. 0 Tubular, bull’s eye, eases 1 doz. each.. -cscces 1 26 AMP WICKS. No. © per eroet......: 8 oe INO. f DOP RrOGs oes! 25 ING. 2 per groas ou... 38 INO. 3 per orose... 6. oe 58 MAMIE i ae aa a Sat sea ad wn. eee 5 i EE I perines SR AG Re pena MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Hardware The Hardware Market. General trade, as is usual at this time of the year, is very quiet, as jobbing houses as well as factories have the ma- jority of their traveling men away on their summer vacations, and in the smaller towns farmers are busy with their crops, so the volume of business is very light. There is but little change to note in prices, as few of the factories seem disposed to make any advances at the present time and they certainly do not feel like making any decline, as they claim values have reached the bot- tom notch. We should not be surprised, if the present strike in the coal regions continues any length of time, to find that it produces more or less effect up- on iron and steel products and all kindred goods that are made from them. If factories are compelled to close down on account of lack of fuel, it certainly will préduce a scarcity in many lines of goods. It is not believed, however, that the strike will continue for any lengthened period. Wire Nails—The demand continues very light and prices remain quite firm, although anyone desiring to place a large contract could, no doubt, secure concessions from the ruling market rates. Jobbers, however, are not mak- ing any special change from stock, while they might be disposed to quote lower prices if shipped direct from mill. Barbed Wire—Very little moving and no change to note in price. Rope—The demand for certain sizes of rope which is used in the construction of haying tools has been quite large and it has been quite difficult for jobbers to keep fully supplied, as a scarcity in all markets has been quite general. Not- withstanding this great demand, how- ever, there has been no material change in prices, and rope, if anything, con- tinues weak. Window Glass—All window glass fac- tories are at present closed down and will remain so for from two to four months. It is believed that stocks are not as large as last year and that it is but a question of time before certain sizes will be very scarce and prices will be advanced, even from the present fig- ure. Files—All manufacturers of files have adopted a new list which was to take effect July 1. The discount remains thé same as before, but, with the changes that are made in the list, it averages an advance in files of about to per cent. As soon as jobbers secure a supply of the new list they will supply any and all of their trade with them that desire. Hay Tools—There has been a great scarcity in almost everything in this line, especially in scythes, snaths, cradles and rakes, and jobbers and dealers have been obliged to pick these goods up wherever they could find them and in many cases paid advanced prices in order to get them. General crops in this part of Michigan seem to be very large, which has accounted for the great demand for all kinds of hand tools. This scarcity will continue until the season’s trade is over. —--¥—_> 0 > The Dictionary on Nails. From Hardware. What can be said about a nail? The new ‘‘Century Dictionary,’’ whose re- marks on saws we discussed in the is- sue last preceding, manages to devote nearly two pages to this little article of the hardware trade,and things connected with it. The first definition is devoted to the fingers and toes of humanity, with which we have little to do in this con- nection—unless, for the benefit of care- less clerks, we make a quotation from the ancient Babees Book, where is found the valuable advice to all who wait upon customers: ‘‘ Pare clene thy nailes.’’ In the hardware line, the nail is de- fined as ‘‘a pin or slender piece of metal used for driving through or into wood or other material for the purpose of holding separate pieces together, or left projecting that things may be hung on. Nails usually taper to a point (often blunt), are flattened transversely at the larger end (the head), and are rectan- gular or round in section. Very large and heavy nails are called spikes; and a small and thin nail, with a head but slightly defined, is called a_ brad. There are three leading distinctions of iron nails as respects the mode of man- ufacture—wrought, cut, and cast. Nails are said to be seven-pound nails, eight- pound uails, etc., according as 1,000 of the variety in question weigh seven pounds or eight pounds, etc., hence such phrases as six-penny, eight-penny, and ten-penny nails, in which penny, it is said, retains its old meaning of pound weight.’’ To nail a thing is to fix or fasten with a nail or nails; to drive nails into for the purpose of fastening or securing, such as to nail up a box, to nail a shelf to the wall, to nail down the hatches, etc., to stud with nails. Figuratively, to nail a thing is to pin it down and _ hold it fast, such as to nail a bargain or se- cure by prompt action. It was Burns who said: “Ev’n ministers, they ha’e been kenn’d, In holy rapture, i A roysing whid at times to vend, An’ nail ’t wi’ Scripture.” Passing into the colloquial, to ‘‘nail to the counter’’ is to put a counterfeit coin out of circulation by fastening it with a nail to the counter of a shop; hence, figuratively, to expose as false. Other definitions referring to the nail are nailer, one who nails, who makes nails or who sells them, while a female nailmaker is referred to by Hugh Miller as a naileress. A nailery is described as an establishment where nails are made, A nail head is the head ofa nail, and anything is said to be nail- headed when so shaped as to resemble the head of a nail. A nailing-machine is one for forcing or driving nails into place; in carpen- try, a feeding-tube for the nails, con- nected with a plunger or reciprocating hammer; in shoe-making, a power-ma- chine closely allied to the shoe-pegger, used to drive small metallic nails or brads into the soles of shoes. The nail-machine is a power-machine for making nails, spikes, brads, or tacks. A nail-maker is one who makes nails; a nailer; a person connected in any capacity in the manufacture of nails. A nail-plate is plate of metal rolled to the proper thickness for cutting into nails. A nail-rod is a strip split or cut from an iron plate, to be made into wrought nails. A nail-selector is a machine, or an attachment to a nail machine, for automatically throwing out headless or otherwise ill-formed nails and slivers. A countersunk nail is one having a cone-shaped” head, like that of a screw; a cut nail, one made by a nail-machine, as distinguished from a wrought or forged nail. ‘*On the nail’’ means on the spot; at once; immediately; without delay or postponement; as, to pay money on the nail, This phrase is said to have origi- nated from the custom of making pay- ments, in the exchange at Bristol, Eng- land, and elsewhere, on the top ofa pillar called ‘‘the nail.’’ 8 Bicycle Sales on the Installment Plan. Written for the TRADESMAN. Justice Stevenson, of Flint, has de- cided that a replevin suit to recover a bicycle sold on the installment plan for payments past due under an ironclad contract is no good, upon the ground that a bicycle is exempted property un- der the Michigan statute, the owner proving that the wheel was a convey- ance to his work, and that he was finan- cially injured by being deprived of its use. The sheriff returned the wheel and paid the costs. If this decision is found to be good law, after passing the ordeal of the higher courts, it is going to puta check upon the indiscriminate sale of bicycles to unscrupulous persons who are liable to leaye their merchant’s bills unpaid and use their earnings to pro- tect their bicycles from legal process. They can now pay their grocery bills and snap their fingers in the face of bi- cycle dealers and coolly enquire, What they are going to do about it? The in- stallmeut plan adopted by the dealers in wheels is working untold mischief to the credit trade in other lines of busi- ness. Wage earners who have long re- lied upon the grocer or clothing dealer for credit from week to week or month to month are often coaxed into buying wheels for their wives or daughters, and then leave their bills for family ne- cessities either unpaid or only partly paid. They don’t seem to realize that they are impairing their own credit and, perhaps, distressing their best friends. A case in point recently came under the writer's notice: A young man with a small family, enjoying a fair salary, who was in the habit of paying monthly for his supply of family groceries, had the cheek to tell his gro- cer that he could not pay his monthly bill because he was obliged to pay in- stallments on two bicycles used by him- self and wife, at the same time asking for a full month’s credit besides. The grocer politely told him that his line of credit was full- until the last month’s bill was paid, giving as a reason the conclusion that he would be no better able to pay when his next bicycle in- stallments came due than he was then. If every merchant would adopt the same course, it would, in a measure, put a check upon the unbusinesslike method of selling bicycles or any other property on the installment plan under ironclad contracts, drawn for the express purpose of giving the holders of such contracts a preference over other classes of creditors. W. S. H. WELTON. Owosso, Mich. - + +0e | Nerves that never relax, eyes that never flinch, thoughts that never wan- der, are the harbingers of victory. 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. BROWN & SEHLBER. MFRS. OF HARNESS OF ALL KINDS For Wholesale Trade. Send for Special Catalogue. Jobbers of Carriages, Wagons, Pi West Bridge St., GRAND RAPIDS. We have The Eclipse Sprinkler The Globe Sprinkler The Bartholomew Sifter FOSTER, STEVENS & CO., Grand Rapids. Qa Get in your orders now. Qa. ei ie HO Fit OO Ot oe Relation of the Hardware Trade to the Bicycle Business.* That I should be called upon to tell you what I know about the bicycle is no small surprise to me, and cannot be ex- plained away unless it is that I am often taken for—and frequently called by the same name as—the part that the pedal and axle are attached to. If this is the part—and I believe it is—that makes the wheel go round, and we as hardwaremen are the legitimate handlers of them, let us look at the future in store for us. Is it not a fact that the wheel has never been handled by the manufacturer and jobber to the interest of the hard- ware trade, or to the seeking of the es- tablishing of a trade that is to be some- thing for a future business, the same— as a matter of comparison—as we take up a line of stoves? Run them, stay by them, sell them. This is the history of the stove business, but it is not so with the bicycle, for we all know that any man, woman or child can send off and buy a wheel as cheap as any of us, and then, as a matter of accommodation to us, tell everybody the cost of same. Has this not had much to do with the reduction in price, and is it not a fact that the profit on the wheel business will soon be brought to the level of other goods? Then, in my opinion, is when the hardware dealers wili be drummed and bored to death with the manufac- turer and jobber, to handle their partic- ular line and make, and for an order of from ten to fifty will give us exclusive sale and, possibly, make as low a price to us as they would to the party out- side on one wheel. I am led to believe that the only way wheels .can be handled, and do it safely, will be witha stock not to exceed five wheels, and this number only in the early season, and then with samples ot each kind only on the floor. .I am looking forward to the time when the exchange business will be aban- doned, and it surely will. The exchang- ing of the coal stove will be no compar- ison. Even’ though we _ oftentimes wonder how some people are able to own a wheel, we will be surprised to find that they will be the first to have the new ones. With the decline in price, are not these things noticeable? The manfac- turers withdrawing their racing teams, cutting down their advertising schemes, and, in fact, placing everything where the local dealer can do all he cares to, to sell his particular make of wheel ; and is it not plain that it has never been in construction that the cost of bicycles were so high? And is it not also a fact that, with these high costs removed, the manufacturer has still a handsome profit? Yet what amount of sympathy do they. show to the retailer when he is obliged to meet the prices he sometimes has to of the butcher, the baker and undertaker? And now the pawnbrokers are entering the field, and this simply means the demoralizing of the bicycle business. Another pleasant feature that is al- ready making its appearance is the sell- ing of bicycles by our local railroad station agents, and selling them at first cost, with just the freight charges added. I suggest that, when an agent has not enough to do to be kept busy by the company, without soliciting busi- ness outside, it divide up his time at some other station, and, if that does not keep him employed, give him one more station. Has the thought ever occurred to you that never has a craze been taken up with so universally as the use and necessity of the bicycle and the appar- ent accomm«odation given the users of them! Go in any city you like and you will see the same familiar signs: ‘‘Ice Cream—1o Cents’’—-‘‘Wind Free’’ — ‘‘Hold you for Nothing’’—‘‘ Pump Yourself’’—and such like. Already in the construction of large buildings are separate rooms being proyided for the keeping of the bicycle, and now racks are being constructed to accommodate as many as twenty or more wheels. * Paper read at annual convention of the Mich- ~ Hardware Association by H. W. Weber, of West Bay City. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Imagine my surprise, upon coming to my place otf business the other day to find that a rural friend had quietly taken possession of my frontage and had placed his little bundle of hay back of the rack, with the oxen peace- fully enjoying their midday meal with- out being tied, and feeling perfectly at home. Upon another occasion I was called to the front to answer the enquiry of an intelligent looking individual as to the price of a front fora dog house, he having seen one in front of an empty dry goods case with the side off. Is it not laughable the uses some people put some things to? In strict confidence, I am going to take my fellow hardware dealers into a secret scheme of mine, with this obli- gation on your part, to say nothing of it, and as this may never appear in print, ‘‘the world will be ours,’’ and as this is not a ‘‘ wind affair,’’ will submit it to you. My invention, as the patent right man says, is the construction of an outer casing with a flap-tight opening, the casing to be filled with dried sponges, dried apples, or corn, and the same to be packed and driven as close together as is possible, and after this is done, pump full of water; wait until the tire fills, jump on and ride away, and if, peradventure, you puncture your tire, you can find it at once, and patch it, or if on a dusty country road, you can sprinkle the road ahead of you, and make wheeling a pleasure. If the casing is filled with corn, there need be no long time between drinks, and for a chaser—tell the Government. Now let us, if you please, separate a bicycle and put it together after this manner. Let us frame our business: re- lations, one to another, as our interests are identical, and in such a way as to rim-ember a competitor’s welfare as well as our own, and we will never handle, bar-ring reliable makes, any wheel sold by others than the legitimate trade, and we will bawl, bearing such information to the people continu- ing to supply the same, and we will willingly fork over any reasonable amount to promote this object, and if spoke unto upon this subject, we will not saddle the burden upon our neigh- bor, but will pedal our own canoe, and let us never tire in well-doing ; and may the meetings of this Association forge a chain never to be broken and finally, after this life, may we have a double front crown and a diamond frame of mind. Oe Collapse of the New Door Trust. The Western Door Company, which promised to embrace the prominent sash, door and blind factories of the Mississippi Valley, and for which arti- cles of incorporation were recently filed at Springfield, has collapsed. The com- pany, which represented the consolida- tion of seven lumber manufacturing in- dustries, had been incorporated under the laws of Ilinois, with a capital stock of $1,000,000, all of which had been subscribed. The plan was_ severely criticised by the public as another gigantic trust. The manufacturers say they were accused of conspiring to re- duce the wages of their workmen and advance prices. The result was that one by one the leading members of the combine withdrew, and hence the collapse. OA Many a man works his way up from the bottom in order to give his sona chance to play his way down. Bay View Rates: Tickets will be sold via the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railway to Bay View and return July 12 to 22, good returning until August 21, at one fare for round trip from all Michigan points. Send for illustrated descrip- tive matter to Cc. L. Lockwood, G. P. & TF. A,, Grand Rapids, Mich. Hardware Price Current. AUGURS AND BITS ee 70 CCMniiee DERUING 25410 wORHINGS, UMIGAEION |..........,..:...... | eakiO AXES First Quality, SB. Bronze ............. 0... 5 00 Hirst Quality, D. B. Bronsze......- 20... 9 50 Mita Gualiy. 5. BS Steel. 8 So Mires Quality, 5. B. Steal... 0 56 : BARROWS ON $12 00 14 00 CORO ee cies net 30 00 BOLTS ee os 60&10 Cariece wow Hae 70 to 75 Se 50 BUCKETS WOH Ma ee BUTTS, CAST Cant Loose Fin, feared. ...... ..... 6... 70&10 wioueet Hinwew: TW&10 BLOCKS Ordinary Tackle... .......... 70 CROW BARS Cast Steel. iene cues .. per ib 1 CAPS Ely’s 1-10...... ee ee oe per m 65 Ee ee es ee a 55 ee ee ae 35 ieee ee perm 60 CARTRIDGES me We .. «00k 6 Central Fire a ee oy ak ee CHISELS noceet Virmer......... Se i a Ss Cd. 80 Secret Corser ........._. ee aes ae 80 eNGn See 80 DRILLS MreGe THe MOON 60 Taper and Straight Shank...................50& 5 Morse’s Taper Shank................ . 50a 5 ELBOWS aan Spaere Gi... .. doz. net 5d Cereal 1 2 SGereee dis 40&1¢ EXPANSIVE BITS Clark’s small, $18; large, $26................30&10 ayer. s Os eet 25 FILES—New List RCW AUNGEICO - TO&10 Deenereren. 8 ee 70 Relier’s Hore Rasps...................... 6&0 GALVANIZED IRON Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26; 27. ..... 28 List 12 13 14 15 -; .... 17 Discount, 75 to 75-10 GAUGES Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s...............60&16 KNOBS—New List Door, mineral, jap. trimmings... 70 Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings............ 80 MATTOCKS Bee Oye, $16 00, dis 60410 ee $15 00, dis 60&10 ee $18 50, dis 20410 NAILS Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire. Steel nails, base..... ... ee ee ce 65 Weve ees Gere... 8. 1 75 aco Go aGvanee... ......... . Base CO Ae OGVAEe ce el. US OI 10 Cee ere ee 20 hooey elke eects SI eal nee cl Me 30 oe. 45 ee 70 Wine 5 Sree... 8. 50 Caste vO WereCe, cls... 15 enn Oe. 25 Re OG Mireece oc 35 ime We anvence 25 OO 35 Peon Geovemee... 8... iu... ce se 45 errer © Advance... 5... is... 85 MILLS GCotoc, Parmer (a's 2... soo... 40 Coffee, P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s Malleables... 40 Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’s........... 40 MMrOe. MANGE ONIN ee 30 MOLASSES GATES eC PMU Recut S GONMING oc, cd ss Enterprise, self-measuring ............ .... PLANES Oite Toot Ces, fancy... ks @50 ne Be ea oe ee 60 Sandusky ‘Poo! Co.'s, fancy................. @50 IemGhe AINGGUATEN sco @50 Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s wood......... 60 PANS UO OM ee aces 60&10&10 CoOmumnan, PONBHOG. 20. ol cs. W& 5 RIVETS eee art Tee ee ce 60 Copper Rivets and Burs........... iets ecu 60 PATENT PLANISHED IRON ‘‘A4’? Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10 **B” Wood's patent planished, Nos. 25 to27 9 Broken packages 4c per pound extra. HAMMERS Maydole & Co.’s, new list.......5....... dis 33% OO ————————————— dis 25 Weemee GPa. dis 40&10 Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.......... ..30e list 70 Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel Hand 30c list 40&10 20 20 23 HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS Stamped Tin Ware....... .........new list 7omle Japanned Tin Ware...... ee tetas ce ee Granite Iron Ware................. new list 40&10 HOLLOW WAR OO ee, ec ee eee reac cedes 60&10 RO coe cyte ee secu ace... 4. ee Spiders Prise eeuepe cues ...-60&10 HINGES eee, Ciaran, 12.3... ................ ae Pe weeks evs esos Oe CR Ok 2 oe WIRE GOODS Briant....... ee 80 Re ete eee cra 80 i a 80 keene OGRA Omit Ete... ceo ee 80 LEVELS Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............dis 70 ROPES Sisa:, 4 Inch and tarwer.............. .., Gis eG 8 QUARES Eee OM PPG tl. 80 Try and Beyela ... .... Mitre .. a aaa SHEET IRON com. smooth. com, Pe, TOG We 83 30 #2 40 ee 2 40 Brom 16i0e)..-......... ... . 3 2 & Om Sa 0ee.. 4... cl, oe 2m Noe. 2 to 26. ......... . oe 2 80 No. 27 . 3 80 2 90 All sheets No. 18 and li ghter, over 30 inches wide not less than 2-10 extra. SAND PAPER mee OE 1 SASH WEIGHTS a oon eos POF ton 2 @ a Solid Eyes TRAPS Steel, Game..... hie s olen chee 60.410 Oneida Community, Newhouse’s....... 50 Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s 70&104&1¢ MPOMING, GOONOG per doz 15 Mouse, delusion. . «+. Per Goa | WIRE Peres eee i cs. Momeaiog MaAREGE 1... 7 Sonvered Maree UO TO pe ec tgiaee n e ) 50 Barnea Wence sdlvanised ................. Barbed Fenee, painted............... HORSE NAILS EE I 5 POOP U WC, i ew ew a WRENCHES Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.............. 30 nt, eee 50 Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought ....... 80 Coes Patent, Maleanee. i... ll... 80 MISCELLANEOUS Dive Cogeco g, 50 Mo ee 80 ne sl 85 Casters, Bed and Plate............. .... }0&10&10 MIAMHPONG, AYOOTICOI io ob coc vos ices 50 METALS—Zinc Gee DOWNG COAER. .., 2.26... 111... 6% PGT OU 6% SOLDER 4@ 124% The prices of the many other qualities of solder in the market indicated by private brands vary according to composition. TIN—Melyn Grade Meee IC, Chavcoal.............. -2 > Believes Peddling Will Be Curtailed. Coral, July 13—Will you please send me a few blank forms for peddlers’ li- cense, also bonds, as | see you very generously offer to do in the last Trades- man. I have read in the Tradesman all you have said about the peddling nui- sance and think you have hada good deal tu do with getting the present law enacted. I think the peddler will not trouble us much now since the new law, as there has not been a license asked for in our town. J. S. NEWELL. - a Coffee—Prices are generally low, and the market does not show any inclina- tion toward an advance on Brazils, The milder grades of coffee are firm, and the supply is not large. The war between the roasters of coffee is still on, and the condition of the current crop of Brazils is encouraging to such a fight, for prices are low and the market is rather over- stocked. Preparations for the Druggists’ Con- vention at Grand Ledge. Secretary Schrouder has returned from Grand Ledge, where the fourteenth an- nual convention of the Michigan State Pharmaceutical Association will be held Aug. 3, 4 and 5, and says the druggists of that place will greet the Michigan druggists with open arms. The meetings will be held in the par- lors of the Island House. The hotel is beautifully situated on the largest of the famous Seven Islands. Mr. Mudge, the proprietor, has made a rate that will be very acceptable for the visitors—$1.50 per day—and he says that, if he cannot accommodate all who come, he will arrange with the two other hotels, so that first-class accommodations will be assured to all who go. A. B. Schumacher, the local Secre- tary, and A. O. Halstead have appoint- ed Messrs. W. F. Griffith, L. M. Mills, Geo. Wilcox and Charles Hurd to act as a special committee to meet the visit- ing druggists at the trains as they ar- rive and escort them to their hotels. The druggists of Grand Ledge have also arranged to have a business men’s picnic on Wednesday, Aug. 4. This means a heap of fun, tor the town will be in gala attire and the afternoon will be given up. to games and festivity. This is the same afternoon that the druggists of the Michigan State Phar- maceutical Association have their carni- val of games and contests, to wind up with an apothecaries’ grand ball in the evening. The tirst business session of the con- vention will be called at 2 0’clock Tues- day afternoon and will be opened with an address of welcome by Mayor Do- herty, to which H. J. Brown, of Ann Arbor, will respond. It is requested that all who expect to attend the con- vention, whether members of the Michi- gan State Pharmaceutical Association or not, be on hand by noon of the first meeting day. Attention is called to the prizes offered for papers, as published in the last week’s issue of the Tradesman. Every pharmacist is urged to bring along his views in written form, so they may be published in the annual pro- ceedings. ee ee Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Asso- ciation. At a special meeting of the Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association, held to consider and decide upon a lo- cation for the eleventh annual picnic, held at Retail Grocers’ Hail Tuesday evening, July 13, Vice-President Wagner presided. The Committee on Location recom- mended Reed’s Lake as the place of picnic, which was unanimously con- curred in. A communication was presented from the H. J. Heinz Co., volunteering to furnish badges for the event, which was accepted with thanks. A communication was also presented from the New York Biscuit Co., offer- ing to furnish 25,000 handbills announc- ing the fact that the grocery stores would be closed all day Aug. 5, which was accepted with thanks. Homer Klap offered the .following resolution, which was unanimously adopted : Resolved—That the retail meat deal- ers of the city be invited to join with the retail grocers in celebrating the eleventh anniversary picnic of the Re- tail Grocers’ Association, to be held at Reed’s Lake, Aug. 5. Resolved—That all meat dealers and their clerks be eligible to participate in the games and contests, the same as gro- cers and grocery clerks. President Winchester was unable to be present, but sent a communication to the Association, making the following appointments: Sports—Fred. W. Fuller, John Wit- ters, Jesse Valentine. Badges—John Smyth, E. A. Kernen, C. W. Mulholland, Cornelius Salie. Programme—J. Geo. Lehman, A. Brink, Frank Dyk. Judges—B. S. Harris, J. Frank Gas- kill, E. C. Jenkins. The report was approved and the committees instructed to enter upon an energetic campaign of preparation. There being no further business, the meeting adjourned. a - The Grocery Market. Sugar—The whole line of refined sug- ars advanced '%c last Thursday, and further advances are in the immediate prospect. It is not expected now that these advances will aggregate more than %c, which will carry granulated to 5c, where it is expected to settle for the summer. There is talked of an added tax on refined sugars made out of raws brought into the country during the incubation of the tariff law. If this is done, the price of sugars is likely to be increased to the customer; and al- though perhaps not the full cent per pound of the tax, yet it will tend to put the price up. There is in this country more raw sugars to-day than ever before at one time in the history of the coun- try. This was done to avoid the added tax on raws, the Trust washing both hands by the operation—making money on these importations of raws and rais- ing the duty on granulated sugars to keep out toreign granulated. Tea—The importers who were certain of a tax of Ioc per pound on teas gave their factories in Japan license to buy at 4%c above first limits, expecting to make the remainder of the Ioc as so much clear gain. On the strength of this hope they have brought to this country more tea than is needed for an average year’s consumption, and that at a figure higher than might have been paid had not the tariff rumor ran the market up. There were many importers who did not buy at these prices, being either skep- tical of the tariff passing, or not in po- sition to raise their limits, or who had bought before the talk of an increased duty came up. The grocery jobbers of this market are among the more fortu- nate buyers,and will be able to sell their teas at prices such as would have pre- vailed had not the tariff scare come about. The trade in tea in this market now is fair. Canned Goods-—-No fluctuation in to- matoes is looked for in the near future. Corn is unchanged, the demand being only moderate and the price unchanged. There is some enquiry for corn ata shaded price, but this is not to be had. Tbe demand for peas is not very satis- factory. Jobbers are in a waiting mood, and it has paid them to wait, for while the most of the standard brands have as yet not declined, several packers have made prices under the market. This may affect the whole market a little later. Fish—The demand for mackerel is very good. The fact that the American catch has been so small, and that the few fish caught have been sold mostly fresh, has stimulated the demand for winter-packed mackerel, and if the present business increases, the supply will probably be well cleaned up. The market is slightly stronger, and ad- vances are expected. Cod is selling to a slight extent and the market is firm. New lake fish are in the market and the quality is very good. Prices have ad- vanced %c per pound, as the stock is not plentiful. Salmon is moving well at unchanged prices. One Advantage Brownie % Overalls i are good sellers. in buying Wash Goods now is c The Prices are Lower : : : re eee eo ae re — oe Jeg in Some lines not being complete, a general re- Mail orders filled promptly. ducti ion has been made to clean them all out. Voigt, Herpolsheimer & Co. WHOLESALE DRY GOODS, Grand Rapids, Mich. 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