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SPAIN AND JAPAN.

The story telegraphed from London
to the effect that Japan and Spain had
entered into a secret offensive alliance
against the United States, although no
doubt entirely without foundation, never-
theless serves to give the naval authori-
ties of this country a chance to compare
the strength of the alleged combination
with the force that they could oppose to
it. The story of the alliance no doubt
grew out of the fact that a certain high
Japanese dignitary is now visiting the
court of Spain for the purpose of con-
ferring upon King Alphonso a high
Japanese decoration. This incident,
taken in connection with the fact that
both Spain and Japan have reason to
feel unfriendly towards us, sufficed to
make the story of the alliance interest-
ing, despite its improbability.

Acccording to the London story, the
alliance between Spain and Japan was
to become operative in the event that
this country should attempt to annex
either Hawaii or Cuba. The alleged
plan of operations contemplated an_at-
tack by Japan upon our Pacific Coast
while the Spanish navy was to make a
descent upon our Atlantic seaboard.
Leaving personnel out of the calcula-
tion, could such a combination prove
formidable to the United States? If
merely the possession of available war-
ships be taken into account, it certainly
could give us a great deal of trouble.

Were Spain and Japan to attack us
simultaneously, it would not be possible
to transfer ships trom the Atlantic to the
Pacific, or vice versa; hence the dis-
tribution of our fleet would have to 1re-
main virtually as at present. At the
present time we have not a sufficient
force of ships in the Pacific to cope suc-
cessfully with a sea power like Japan.
It is true that we might protect our
principal ports; but our coast line
would be defenseless, and it would be
impossible to prevent the seizure of the
Hawaiian islands.

At the present time we have available
in the Pacific, including the ships on
the China or Asiatic station, one battle-
ship, the Oregon, two coast-defense ships
and ten modern cruisers of all sizes, the
most formidable of which are the
Olympia, Philadelphia and Charleston.
This force would have to encounter
three heavy-armored and six smaller
armored ships and twenty-four modern
cruisers. Among the armored Japanese
ships are the two new battle-ships Yash-
ima and Fugi, either of which is more
formidable than the Oregon, and also
the Chen-Yuen, captured some years
ago from the Chinese, which could
probably cope with either of our coast-
defense vessels. In modern cruisers we
would be heavily outnumbered.

As far as Spain is concerned, we
could oppose to her fleet ten armored
ships and about twenty modern cruisers.
Spain has a larger force of armored
ships than we have, but they are of
lighter tonnage and of older type. In
cruisers, Spain would have a slight su-
periority in numbers; but this would be
more than offset by the better guns and
heavier tonnage of our ships. Spain
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very serious damage on the sea, but
would serve to keep our Atlantic fleet
so busy as to prevent our re-enforcing
the fleet in the Pacific. A combination
of Spain and Japan would, therefore,
not be a very agreeable experience.
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AMERICA AND THE PARIS FAIR.

The United States, after so longa
time and behind all other great nations,
is just about to accept formally the in-
vitation of France to participate in the
Paris exposition of tgoo, but an ade-
quate amount of money has not yet been
appropriated for our exhibit, nor any
details yet adopted for the preparation
of our display.

This is hardly treating France with
the courtesy due her, in view of her
prompt acceptance of our invitation to
participate in the World’s Fair at Chi-
cago and the generous display she made
afterward. All the great nations of
Europe, and China and Japan, have
taken more floor and ground space than
they ever took before at a similar exhi-
bition. The affair promises to outdo
anything of the kind ever before at-
tempted and it will bea magnificent
opportunity lost should this Government
not open the eyes of the world to our
matchless achievements and resources,
through the instrumentality of this great
exposition. France spent a_ million
dollars upon her Chicago exhibit and the
leading countries are now appropriating
from $600,000 to $1,000,000 for their
Paris displays. A joint resolution is
pending in Congress for an appropria-
tion of $600,000 to defray the expenses
of our exhibit at Paris, but when it will
be passed, or whether that amount will
be given, is a question. It should be
expedited and every state, Michigan
with the rest, ought to join in making
the American display one of the grand-
est and most attractive on the ground,

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Took Off His Hat to Dummies.
From the Chicago Record.

It was on the fourth floor of a depart-
ment store. The elevator door opened
and three salesmen entered, each hold
ing in affectionate clasp a beautifully
attired dummy—a_ shapely thing made
of wire and attired in the swellest gowns
and the fluffiest laces of the establish-
ment.

The salesmen steadied their dummy
companions. The elevator stopped at
the third floor.

A young man, whose gaze was mod-
estly directed toward the floor, stepped
aboard and removed his hat. Even in
a department store it is eminently
proper to remove the hat when riding
in an elevator with women. So the
young man removed his hat and coun-
tinued to look downward, seeing only
the skirts of his fair fellow-passengers,
for it is counted exceedingly rude tor a
man to stare at a woman in an elevator.

The salesmen began to snicker, This
embarrassed the young man, for he had
no reason to believe that they were
laughing at him. He _ blushed and
shifted uneasily, but did not look up.

Then one salesman laughed aloud.
The young man lifted his head in order
to reprove the vulgar person with a
look, and then he said: ‘‘Well, I’ll
be——!"’

The women had no heads!

The salesmen exploded,and the young
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Number 722

The Hardware Market.

General trade, as usual for July, con-
tinues in moderate volume and_ dealers
are confining their purchases to articles
that are used almost exclusively in
gathering in the present crops. The
tendency to buy what it not needed is
not noticeable, and mail orders, as well
as those sent in by agents, are rather
small, so far as dollars and cents are
concerned. General prices are fluctua-
ting but little, as every one seems to be
adopting the waiting policy. What the
future will be is hard to tell, but the
prevailing feeling is that we will have
a much better fall trade than usual.
The tariff bill will soon be passed and,
as far as it affects Michigan products,
should be a_ benefit to trade. The in-
creased duty on lumber, wooi and other
articles will, no doubt, make a better
feeling among those who are directly
benefited, and it cannot help being

contagious. We no doubt will seea

‘marked advance in many lines of hard-

ware, but notwithstanding this apparent
fact, dealers are not disposed to specu-
late on the future and buying from hand-
to mouth is still the rule.

Wire Nails—Never as low as now,
manufacturers say; in fact, much less
than cost. Nothing but an agreement
will bolster prices and save them from
bankruptcy. Dealers who have the
money to spare, and a demand for the
nails, will not make any mistake in
buying now. Jobbers have not made any
change in their prices, as orders are
small,

Barbed Wire—But little is being used
now and prices remain stationary.

Window Glass—In good demand.
Stocks are lower than a year ago. Fac-
tories are all out of blast. The new
tariff bill means higher prices. Glass
is good property at present quotations.

Rope—The demand keeps up, but
there is no change in prices, Staple
sizes are scarce and all dealers are slow
in getting their orders filled.

Harvesting Tools—The demand for
having and harvesting tools has been
something unprecedented. It is im-
possible to get cradles to supply the
trade, as factories have made up all of
their stock and would not have time to
make up new stock in time to fill the
demand.

Files—The new list adopted on files
has gone into effect and jobbers have
adopted it quite generally.

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Hon. Henry T. Kent, attorney of the
Travelers’ Protective Association of
America, in his address at the Nash-
ville convention, gave utterance to the
following great central truth: ‘‘The
most successful commercial traveler is
he who has developed to the highest
plane his’ individual capabilities.’’
Mr. Kent rang a bell with that shot.
Jt is only the man who relies absolutely
on himself, and knowing his own power
develops it fully, that can obtain and
hold any man’s trade. Individuality
counts far more to-day than brilliancy.

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Walking delegates and agitators want
to do the talking for the men who do
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Bicycle

News and Gossip of Interest to Dealer
and Rider.

‘“‘We bear a great deal about new-
fangled notions for ’98,’’ said a local
manufacturer the other day. ‘*To my
way of thinking, the manufacturers of
high-grade wheels will not adopt any
innovations until they feel sure of their
ground. The established makers test
everything thoroughly before they put
their product on the market, and it is
only the little fellows who make the
public do the experimenting. If an
imperfect wheel is put on the market,
no matter whether it be a chainless or a
chain wheel, it will react against the
maker of that wheel. ’’

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The golden rule with regard to all
tires should be to pump them just as
hard as they will go so as to bulge
slightly when the full weight of the rider
is in the saddle. * A tire which is not
fully inflated gives, perhaps, a more
luxurious feeling when riding, -but the
damage which is done to the interior of
the tire is enormous. The slightest in-
equality in the surface of the ground
causes the weight of the rider to squash
out the half-inflated that the
edge of the rim comes into contact with
the road; the outer cover being turned
out, the sharp edge of the rim naturally
presses down upon it, and in the course
of time will it out. The valve
stem which protrudes through a hole in
the rim is dragged by the circumferen-
tial motion of the wheel against its
side, and the air tube, being more or
less free inside, has a tendency to tear
itself away from the valve.

tire so

wear

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A cycle man in London who ran up
against a big suburban horse dealer a
few days asked him if the cycle
craze had made much difference to his
trade. He said hedid not think it had
He continued: ‘‘We are not the peo-
ple who feel the rub. We buy horses
and sell them again, but the man who
has been knocked by the cyclist is the
one who lets horses and carriages out for
hire. The swells who can afford to
keep a horse and carriage still come _ to
us, although they may have cycles as
well. But with the middle class they
buy a machine, and do not patronize the
livery-stable keeper. They cycle when
it is fine, and walk or stay at home
while it may be wet or threatening.
That's where the hardship comes in.
It’s the small man who gets left, but
the other, who buys at Aidridge’s or
Tattersalls, hasn’t felt it in the slight-
est !"’

ago

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The announcement that some well-
known distance riders in the country in-
tend to abandon long-distance races,due
to the enormous expense entailed for
pace makers, revives the question of
motor pacing. Abroad distance match
races have been on the decline, due to
the big money demanded by pace-mak-
ers. The universal complaint that such
races will be discontinued raises the
possibility of niotor pacing being taken
up rather than allow long-distance
events to discontinue.

The Bicycling News of London says:
‘‘The employment of motor cars for
pacing in the Bordeaux, Paris, race and
the recent performances of the Darracq
electric tandem on the Seine track have
again raised the question whether such
methods should be employed for the as-
sistance of speedy cyclists, On the face

 

ot it there is no doubt that mechanical
pacing ought to be entirely suppressed,
especially in the case where the motor
vehicles are of such volume that they
actually draw the cyclist along with al-
most as much effectiveness as if he were
attached by a rope. In sucha case the
motor car’is quite as much responsible
for the performance as the cyclist, and
men like Rivierre plainly state» that
there is relatively little effort in pedal-
ling behind a mechanical vehicle.
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‘There is a lack of unanimity as to
whether mechanical pacing should be
tolerated or not. Some are entirely op-
posed to mechanical pacing, while
others think that while it should be sup-
pressed on the road it might be em-
ployed on the track. Others go further,
and say that there is no reasonable
cause why motor cars should not be used
for assisting riders. One maker of elec-
tric motor cars is evidently a little sar-
castic, for he suggests that some one
wiil be bringing out a pacing instrument
in the shape of a funnel, propelled by
motor powers,so that a cyclist need only
get close enough to the orifice to be
drawn into it by the enormous draught.
The question may be discussed from
all possible points of view, but it will
not alter the fact that the electric triplet,
capable of doing a mile in a shade over
a minute, and the motor car will be
used more and more for pacing on road
and track, for this matter rests entirely
with the makers themselves, who are in
want of efficient pacing for their riders,
and they see that they get it.’’

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Wanted Her Money’s Worth.
From the Washington Evening Star.

Any one who had not seen the woman
with an angry eye wobble just before
she dismounted from her wheel would
have taken her for an experienced rider,
a heroine of century runs. She _ strode
with majestic confidence through the
store, and so impressed another woman
that she forgot herself and let the new-
comer be waited on first.

‘I suppose,’’ she said to the clerk,
‘‘that I looked rather new at bicycling,
and you thought that there wasn't very
much use of bothering about me, be-
cause | wouldn’t know the difference,
anyhow. ”’ e

The clerk assured her to the contrary,
and said he was sure there was some
misunderstanding.

‘*There was a misunderstanding,’’
she answered. ‘‘I understood that when
I bought this repair kit I was getting al]
that a repair kit ought to contain.’’

‘*Certainly,’’ he answered. ‘‘Isn’t it
all right?’’

‘*Didn't you expressly state that it
contained everything that would be _ re-
guired for repairs in an ordinary acci-
dent?’’

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‘‘And I bought it with that implied
guarantee, didn’t I?’’

‘*Undeniably, you did.’’

‘‘And if things didn’t turn out just as
you represented them its your business
to make good the deficiency?’’

‘*T suppose so.’’

*“All right. There’s your repair kit.
You can either put in a paper of pins
and some sticking plaster, or else give
me back my money.

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Both Domestic and Imported.

The tobacconist was sitting on the
front porch enjoying a quiet smoke
when the census-taker came along. He
obligingly gave the names of the mem-
bers of his family and ended tke list by
adding the name ‘‘ Bridget Mahone.’’

‘‘Is she a domsetic?’’ enquired the
census man.

“‘No,’’ said the cigar dealer, absent-
mindedly, ‘‘she’s imported.’’

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FOUNDERS OF THE TRADE.

Origin of the Furniture Industry At-
tributed to the Winchesters.

I have had my attention called to the
Michigan Tradesman of July 14, con-
taining the recent address of Mr.
William Widdicomb before the Pan
American delegates. Mr. Widdicomb,
as well as many others, is entitled to
great credit for the part they have taken
in the building up of the furniture trade
in Grand Rapids, but his history of the
rise of the wholesale trade is, in my
opinion, far from being correct.

When I came to this city, in 1853,
Hon. W. T. Powers and Morris Ball
were the leaders as manufacturers and
dealers in furniture. Eagles & Pull-
man and Deacon Haldane were also in
the business. In the spring of 1854
Enoch W. Winchester, a man _ experi-
enced in the trade, came here from
Keene, N. H., and engaged with Dea-
con Haldane. The next year Samuel A.
Winchester, his brother, came also and
soon after the brothers built what was
then called a large factory on Lyon
street, to be run with steam power, ex-
pressly for the manufacture of furniture.
Business was good in these years un-
til the great financial crash which came
Oct. 1, 1857. It is hard to picture the
condition for the next four years, and
had taxes then been what they are to-
day, but few could have retained their

homes. Money left the country. East-
ern capitalists called in their loans.
Property was worth nothing. Money

was everything. The rate at the banks
was 3 per cent. a month and little to be
had at that. The banks lost more than
they gained and went out of the busi-
ness, but paid their debts. It was a
time of serious trouble, on account of
the many out of employment, and it
was a struggle for even coarse food and
clothing.

I will here mention one incident: In
February or March, 1858, I said toa
Hollander who had been in my employ
some four years that I did not see how
we could employ him longer. Ee broke
down, saying, as best he could, that he
had a wife and six children; that rather
than let them starve, he would work for
$4 a week. My reply was, ‘*‘Keep your
place at the old wages so long as we can
pay you;’’ and he did keep it for twenty-
five years—most of the time at $2 per
day.

September 15, 1857, fifteen days be-
fore the panic struck us, I purchased
the Winchester factory, machinery and
stock in trade, expecting that E. W.
Winchester would remain with me to
manage the manufacturing department;
but in March or April, 1858, he, think-
ing that the furniture trade had become
a total failure, left for California and
was away for five years. Mr. Powers
had purchased the interests of his part-
ners, but, after the panic, decided to
work out of the trade as rapidly as pru-
dence would permit. As early as_ 1850,
to enable us to keep our factory run-
ning, we worked up a trade with the
dealers in the smaller towns in Michi-
gan—Grand Haven, Ionia and Lowell
among them. I think that in 1860 we
opened warerooms in Milwaukee and in
1861 established permanent trade in
Peoria, Ill., which has grown into the
large establishment of Comstock &
Avery there to-day. In the latter part of
1861 I succeeded in building a large ad-
dition to the factory, against the admo-
nitions of my friends, and put in more
machinery, so that we nearly or quite
doubled our product. At that time we

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

had in our employ Elias Matter as fore-
man in the factory; Mr. Ham, a very
energetic mechanic, who had failed in
the business at Ionia; A. B. Pullman,
a first-class workman (formerly partner
with Mr. Eagles, deceased) —all good
instructors for a man like myself who
had never learned a trade. About this
time William and George Widdicomb,
and perhaps the two younger brothers,
Harry and Jobn, were in our employ,
while their father was still at work in
his shop. The old dealers were nearly
out or getting out of the trade, but the
senior Widdicomb and Buddington &
Turnham had come into the field. They
were not formidable competitors, for,
unless some of these parties prevari-
cated, some of their finished goods were
returned in the knock-down before
reaching their destination and chairs
were brought back in a bag before being
put to use. Our business was well or-
ganized and established in January,
1862. The first large dealer I know of
having come here to purchase goods was
one of the Hale Brothers, of Chicago,
whom I met at Gardner, Mass., in
March, 1862, and I induced him to come
with me to this city on his return home
and sold him some 200 bureaus and
other goods at a good profit. We believe
that we can safely say that in 1862 and
1863 our factory produced three-fourths
of the furniture manufactured in this
city, and it had become a profitable in-
vestment. When the income tax was
first levied mine was, I believe, the
largest in this part of the State, and |
would be glad if it had not been less
since. I would pay it cheerfully. When
this condition was known, there was a
rush to get an interest in the business—
Mr. Matter among others, and I have
always regretted that I did not grant his
request, for he was a good foreman in
the factory and a good salesman and ac-
countant. Mr. Ham left us to go some-
where. Mr. Pullman left May 1, 1862,
for Chicago and Mr. Matter went into
partnership with Julius Berkey October
1 following. I had known little of Julius
Berkey up to that time. If he had been
manufacturing we had never come in
competition with his goods. Instead of
the Winchester factory following a line
established by Julius Berkey, as was
said by Mr. Widdicomb, we think that
Berkey & Matter commenced by work-
ing after the patterns for cheap walnut
stands left in our factory by E. W.
Winchester. They started, as I under-
stood, with a capital less than $600, in-
cluding stock and machinery, but Mr.
Matter’s natural ability, integrity and
experience were a good foundation for
credit, and for aught I know Mr. Ber-
key may have been his equal. It had
been demonstrated in the Winchester
factory that it was a profitable trade to
engage in and from the start Berkey &
Matter met with success. W. A. Ber-
key joined them in 1863 and the out-
come has been wonderful. I[n the early
part of 1863 I was passing the senior
Widdicomb's shop on the canal when he
came up and said, ‘‘I want you to buy
me out and I will go into vour factory.
I am a good workman, but cannot man-
age business.’" I replied that I hardly
thought he wished to do that. He said
he was in earnest. We went into his
shop together and I purchased what he
had to sell in less than thirty minutes,
and he came into our factory, as he then
agreed, and remained as long as I was
there. His workmanship proved that
what he stated was more than true. He
was a superior workman,a pleasant man
to meet and I enjoyed his company as

 

long as he lived. I sold a halt interest
in the factory to James M. and Ezra T.
Nelson Oct. 8, 1863, leaving my son,
Tileston, there, and went myself into the
manufacture of woodenware, in counec-
tion with the lumber business, in which
I was then and have long been engaged.

To Mr. William Widdicomb I would
say: While you were in my employ, |
considered that you were a faithful em-
ploye and I have always been pleased
with your success; but I regret to note
that you should—even unintentionally—
deprive the Winchesters of the credit I
believe to be due them as the real
founders of the furniture industry of
Grand Rapids.

It is not to those who succeed the best
that all honor belongs. Some man may
Start an enterprise and, by reason of
financial changes and other unavoidable
misfortunes, fail and still be a giant in
honesty, inteliect and design for the
good of. others, when compared with
him who does succeed and become rich
and admired for his wealth and so-called
toresight. True merit belongs to those
who, by their skill and faithful service,
make it possible for others to succeed in
a cause that benefits mankind. The

 

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Winchesters did not gain wealth by their
undertaking, but just so sure as the
blood of the martyrs was the seed of
the church, so their old factory was
the seed for the wonderful growth
of the furniture trade in Grand Rapids,
for there was the place where the first
success was made in manufacturing
goods to any extent for outside markets.
After this was demonstrated, others
rushed into the trade, until Grand Rap-
ids is now claimed by many to be the
furniture city of the world. The old
factory and its chief builder have passed
away and the place is now covered with

seven stories of stone and brick which
should remain as their monument for-
ever. Cc. Cc. ComstToce,

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

Around the State

Movements of Merchants.

St. Louis—N. Tucker has removed
his bazaar stock to Fenton.

Maple Rapids—M. M.
opened a new grocery store.

Menominee—E. C. Somerville opened
a new grocery store July 17.

Petoskey—G. Rottenburg will short-
ly open a new meat market.

 

 

Roberts has

Buchanan—Frank Treat has purchased
the meat market of J. G. Corey.

Port Hope—Michael Rosenburg, gen-
eral dealer, has removed to Turner.

Wolverine—David W. Jones has as-
signed his general stock to Albert Jones.

St. Louis—P. A. Throop has pur-
chased the grocery stock of C. A.
Throop.

& Nelson have
They hail from

Bellevue—Griffith
opened a bazaar store.

Potterville.
Detroit—Twiggs & Pratt succeed
Twiggs & Lovejoy in the commission

produce business.

Ann Arbor—Fred J. Schleede is erect-
ing a new two-story brick store build-
ing, 80 feet in depth.

Otsego—Geo. W. Bingham has_ pur-
chased the stock of wall paper, curtains
and fixtures of C. A. Barnes.

lonia--Harwood & Bliss have opened
a grocery store at Tremaine’s Corners,
four miles south of thls piace.

Blissfield—The style of the general
tirm the Ellis & Scott Co. has been
changed to the Ellis-Morrow Co,

Detroit—Berman, Wine & Co. succeed
Berman & Wine in the clothing and
men’s furnishing goods business.

Flint—Holmes & Wells will shortly
remove their cigar factory to more com-
modious quarters in the Henderson
block.

Saginaw (W. S.)—L. G. W. Kohn is
succeeded by Annie (Mrs. L. G. W.)
Kohn in the grocery and boot and _ shoe
business.

Benton Harbor—Hirsch Bros. have
sold their meat market to M. F. Barry
and Harvey Forbes, who will continue
the business.

Remus—A. L. Hawk has sold his
drug stock to E. S. Wiseman, of Big
Rapids, who will continue the business
at the same location.

Grand Ledge—William Sharp, the
meat dealer, has fallen heir to property
in England and will go there next fall
to effect a settlement.

Hancock—The Hancock Mercantile
Co. with headquarters here and a branch
at Red Jacket, closed doors Tuesday.
Assets, $2 100; liabilities, $1,800.

Lansing—The Michigan Produce Co.
has begun the erection of a frame ware-
house building, 28x1oo feet in dimen-
sions, which will have a capacity of 500
tons of bailed hay.

St. Johns—Helmer Goette, who has
been running a drug store in Detroit
for the past year, sold out last week and
returned to his home in St. Johns. He
expects to open a drug store here.

Shelby—E. M. Graves is erecting a
store building and residence at Cargill
Corners, in Weare township, and will
shortly embark in general trade there.
He will undertake to secure the estab-
lishment of a postoffice at that place.

Saginaw—Wm. H. McPhee, formerly
in the merchant tailoring and clothing
business in this city, but who has recent-
ly been engaged inthe same business in
Buffalo, has decided to return to Sagi-
naw. He has leased the store at 108
North Hamilton street and will occupy
it August 1.

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Mt. Pleasant—W. E. Preston, for the
past six years Secretary and Manager of
the Land, Loan and Title Guarantee
Co., here, has resigned the place to ac-
cept the position of manager of the
People’s Savings Bank of Mt. Pleasant.

Eiba—Mrs. Nelson Potter has sold her
grocery stock to Arthur Moore, who will
continue the business at the same _loca-
tion. The dry goods and boot and shoe
stock have been purchased by A. A. Up-
degraff, of Atlas, who has removed the
goods to that place.

Detroit—Stevens & Todd, the drug-
gists, have lost their suit against Mme.
Yale, the decision of the lower court,
for the defendant, being sustained by the
Supreme Court. The suit was for dam-
ages because they claimed the exclusive
right to sell Mme. Yale’s goods and she
allowed others to handle them.

Lake Ann—The business men are ex-
hibiting unusual pluck in regaining the
ground lost in the recent tire. A. B.
Huellmantel has his new store’ building
well under way. Wm. Habbeler is also
making rapid progress in restoring that
portion of his plant which was de-
stroyed. He will build a smaller saw-
mill than the old one, the new mill hav-
ing a daily capacity of 25,000 feet,
whereas the former establishment could
turn out 50,000 feet. i

Sawyer—Burglars broke into the store
of B. Hinchman the other night. They
effected an entrance through a side
window and left it open to make their
escape easy. There was a watch dog in
the store. As soon as the men started to
work, the dog shot through the window
and went to his master’s house. Mir.
Hinchman was roused by the dog’s
barking and started for the store. A
guard gave the burglars a tip and all es-
caped, although Hinchman fired several
shots at them. Hinchman thinks his
dog is worth his weight in gold.

Manufacturing Matters.

Irving—A. D. Hughes has sold his
flouring mill to H. D. Strong.

Hubbardston——-H. B. Slocum is
thoroughly overhauling and refitting the
grist mill here.

Muskegon Heights—The Michigan
Washing Machine Co.’s factory will be-
gin operations again next week.

Ypsilanti—El]mer Brown has _ pur-
cashed the creamery of Samuel Barnard
and is now conducting the business. :

Cheboygan—Pelton & Reid are receiv-
ing 8,000,000 feet of logs from Canada,
which they will saw for Mr. Bertram.

Cheboygan—W. & A. McArthur are
shipping dressed lumber to Gaylord, to
be used in constructing a large dry kiln
at that place.

Hancock—The Quincy Mining Co.
has declared a dividend of $4 per share.
This means a distribution of $160,000
to stockholders.

Otsego—The Otsego Chair Co. is
building an addition to its factory, three
stories high and 25x33 feet in size. The
new building will be used for the stor-
age of turned stock.

Gun Marsh—Joseph Deal, who con-
ducts the stave mill plant here, is in
financial difficulties to the extent of
about $7,000. A mortgage of $6,000
has been foreclosed.

Menominee—In the mill yard of the
Ludington, Wells & Van Schaick Co.,
movable trams have been introduced,
and are said to be a great improvement.
The construction is so designed that the
trams can be taken down and removed
from one part of the yard to another,
This obviates the necessity of building
trams all over the yard as permanent
structures,

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Mencminee——The Kirby Carpenter
Company's two sawmills are cutting an
average of 350,000 feet of lumber a day
of ten hours, and the shipments are
about equal to that quantity.

Coldwater—The Pratt Manufacturing
Co. recently received an order from G.
W. Travers, of New York City, for
2,000 dozens of children’s sleds. This
is one of the largest orders ever placed
here.

Detroit—The Hart Motor Co. has been
organized with a capital stock of $250, -
ooo, of which $25,000 is paid in. The
company will carry on a business in
motors, engines, etc. The members are
Henry C. Hart, Robert W. Hart, Albert
Ives, Jr. The latter is trustee, and as
such holds 2,497 shares, having one
share individually. The others each hold
one share.

Manistee—The Eureka mill at this
point started up Monday, and will prob-
ably have enough logs to run it the bal
ance of the season. The Manistee Lum-
ber Co. is running one side of its mill
nights to try and catch up with the logs,
which are beginning to crowd it some
what. Peters’ old mill has been shut
down for the past week, as it did not
have enough logs to keep going.

Saginaw—The gradual disappearance
of standing shingle timber has set
farmers to work securing timber for
shingle bolts from white pine stumps
on cut over lands and on farms which
were once covered with pine timber.
In the old days of lumbering, nearly all
the white pine trees were long butted;
that is, the stump was left ata height of
about three feet. In all the white pine
counties there are thousands of pine
stumps left, and farmers are now con-
verting them into shingle bolts at a good
profit. In the vicinity of Coleman this
has developed into quite an industry,and
bolts are cut and hauled a distance of
fifteen and twenty miles to the shingle
mills, and quantities of them are pur-
chased and hauled on the railroads to
market. They make a good article of
shingle and are said to give good satis-
faction, besides affording a considerable
source of revenue.

Ishpeming —The strike of the miners
employed at the Ropes gold mine has
called attention to the existence of gold
mining in this district, which almost
has been forgotten by the general pub-
lic since the collapse of the gold boom
of the Ishpeming district in 1890. The
Ropes mine, which was employing
forty men previous to the strike, is the
oldest of the gold mines of Michigan,
as it has been for a number of years the
only one in operation. Originally dis-
covered in 1880, it was explored for two
years, and in 1883 a mill was set at
work, which has been pounding quartz
from the mine until the strike shut
down both mine and mill. The Roges
represents an investment of about $175, -
000, in addition to the product of the
mine which has been put back into it.
The property has never paid a divi-
dend, but for the last four years it has
been self supporting, although earning
practically no profit. During the period
of its operation it has added something
like $800,000 in gold and silver to the
wealth of the country and has paid out
more than $500,000 in wages, so that it
has not been altogether a failure, even
though it has never remunerated its
stockholders for their investments. The
Ropes has one of the largest mills in the
country, with sixty-five stamps, not all
of which are kept busy even when the
property is working. The mine itself is
the deepest in the county, being nearly

 

1,000 feet down. There are untold mil-
lions in gold lying in the hills north of
Ishpeming, but although the existence of
this wealth has been known for the last
seventeen years, no person or company
has yet succeeded in winning any of it
without expending more than was se-
cured. Many of the oldest and ablest
mining men of the county feel confident
of the ultimate development of highly
profitable mines of gold in the district,
but the work so far done in the effort to
open paying properties has been dis-
astrous in every instance.
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Denies the Charge of the Produce
Review.

Chelsea, July 17—Replying to yours of
July 14, will say that the statements con-
tained in the New York Produce Re-
view, relative to the failure of the firm
of C. J. Chandler & Co. are not true,
and I wrote them on July 12 as follows:

‘*The New York Produce Review of
July 7 contains two articles grossly libel-
ous regarding the failure of C. J.
Chandler & Co, The article of page 2
entitled, “A Snide Game,’ insinuating
that we bought eggs in Chicago and the
West, and shipped them East as Michi-
gans, is false. We have not done that.
We have had an extensive Eastern
trade, selling mostly on track, and the
fact that we have held this trade for the
past five years and have had regular
weekly orders would show that our stock
has given perfect satisfaction. This we
can prove by numerous letters we have
received from houses complimenting us
upon the quality of our goods. The ar-
ticle on page 32 is equally libelous and
damaging, so far as it refers to our
method of dealing, and we shall expect
a proper retraction in your paper. We
have failed, it is true, and, like all
others who fail, we expect abuse, but
gross libels are different.’’

We look to them for the publication of
this letter. C. J. CHANDLER.

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Cancelled the Mid-Summer Meeting.

On account of the action of the Mich-
igan Passenger Association in refusing
to grant the promised concession in
rates to and from the meeting, it has
been decided advisable to cancel the
semi-annual convention of the Michigan
Retail Grocers’ Association, which was
to be held at Detroit on Thursday and
Friday, Aug. 26 and 27. The Detroit
Convention League undertook to secure
a half fare rate on all of the railroads
of the State for that occasion, but was
unable to accomplish the undertaking,
owing to the opposition of some of the
smaller lines. The question otf rates was
considered as good as settled and the
programme for the meeting had been
practically decided upon. The features
will be preserved for the regular meet-
ing, which will be held next February.

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To Meet in Detroit Next Year.

At the second annual meeting of the
Michigan Hardware Association, held
at Battle Creek last week, it was decided’
to hold the next annual convention in
Detroit. The election of officers for the
ensuing year resulted as follows: Presi-
dent—Chas. F. Bock, of Battle Creek;
Vice-President —H. W. Weber, of West
Bay City; Secretary and Treasurer—H.
C. Minnie, of Eaton Rapids.

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‘‘A baby,’’ remarked the observer of
men and things, ‘‘may not have as
much sense as aman, but I don’t im-
agine a baby believes every woman who
comes along and tells him she loves
bhim.’’

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Ask Visner for Inducement on Gillies’
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S. P. Smith has removed his grocery
stock from Lyons to this city, locating
at 76 Island street.

Alex Moore & Co., grocers at 323
South Division street, have been closed
on chattel mortgage held by the Olney
& Judson Grocer Co.

 

Louis Thiebout and son have formed
a copartnership under the style of Thie-
bout & Son and will embark in the meat
business at 549 Ottawa street.

 

P. M. Lathrop has succeeded in_ in-
teresting some gentlemen of excellent
character in a new enterprise to be
known as the Round & Flat Hoop Co.
The headquarters of the corporation will
be in this city, but the operations will
be carried on at several points in the
northern portion of the State.

E. A. Kernen has purchased the bak-
ery of S. A. Potter, 500 South Division
street, which necessitates his retiring
from the local agency of Fleischmann &
Co., which he has held several years.
His successor is N. E. Briggs, who has
been connected with the agency several

The Tradesman is informed that
Frank J. Lamb and Chester A. Lamb
and their families have left the city and
taken up their residence in Milwaukee,
where they are engaged in the commis-
sion business with Chas. H. Kridler,
formerly engaged in the saloon business
in this city. The criminal cases against

the Lambs are still pending in the
United States Court.
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Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Asso-
ciation.

At the regular meeting of the Grand
Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association,
held at Retail Grocers’ Hall Tuesday
evening, July 20, Vice-President Merrill
presided.

E. A. Stowe reported that he had at-
tended an informal meéeting of the
Grand Kapids Retail Meat Dealers’ As-
sociation, held the evening before, at
which time it was unanimously decided
to join with the grocers in closing up all
day on the date of the picnic and par-
ticipate in the celebration at Reed's
Lake. The report was accepted.

The Committee on Sports was in-
structed to announce in the programme
that all games and contests are to be
open to the meat dealers and _ their
clerks, the same as they are to the gro-
cers and grocery clerks.

Homer Klap moved that the grocers
and meat dealers of all towns in the
vicinity of Grand Rapids be invited to
join the local grocers and butchers in
their annual picnic, which was adopted.

The Committee on Sports reported
that it had not yet completed the pro-
gramme, but hoped to do so before the
end of the present week. Two ball
games will be played during the day—
one at 10 o’clock between the grocers
and butchers and one in the afternoon
by the grocery clerks and meat clerks.
Several events of a novel character will
be introduced this year and an effort
made to keep things lively from sun-
rise to sunset. The report was accepted
and the Committee requested to com-
plete its work as promptly as possible.

Chairman Merrill announced the fol-
lowing Reception Committee for the
picnic: L. J. Katz, Phil Hilber, S. j.
4tufford, Geo. Waltz, Carl Mangold,
Carl Voigt, Arthur Plum, Louis Kuster-
er, Chas. Wurtz, Wm. Canfield, Peter
Lankester, Cornelius Seven, F. L. Mer-
rill, M. P. Hedges, Peter Braun, O. D.
Price, Albert Stein.

A canvass of the flour situation dis-
closed the fact that the plan is work-
ing nicely all over the city, there hav-
ing been but two complaints brought to
the attention of the Committee, one of

 

mittee commended the millers for their
promptness and thoroughness in inves-
tigating complaints, it being the ap-
parent intention of the millers to give
the system a thorough trial, with a view
to its permanent establishment.

Treasurer Lehman reported a balance
on hand of $210.62.

There being no further business, the
meeting adjourned.

nO

The Produce Markei.

Bananas —The market isa little eas-
ier, under good receipts. The move-
ment is still large. Outside quotations
of last week are not obtained.

Beets—15c per doz. bunches.

Butter—No change from a week ago.

Cabbage—60@75c per doz., according
to size.

Carrots—1I5c per doz.

Cauliflower—$1 50 per doz.

Celery—15c per bunch.

Cherries—Red and Black command
$1@1.50 per bu., according to size and
quality. The black variety was small
this year.

Cheese—The market has held its own
during the week, some factories having
marked their quotations up 4%@M%c.
There is a considerable range of price
on strictly fancy cheese, as there isa
considerable range in taste as to differ-
ent makes of cheese.

Corn—Green commands 15@2oc per
doz.

Currants—Red bring 75c per crate of
16 qts.

Cucumbers —35c per doz.

Eggs—Receipts are so poor that buy-
ers refuse to take them except on basis
of candled stock. Fancy candled is
held at oc.

Lemons—As was predicted last week,
the market went up fast. Lemons are
selling at $4.50@6 per box for Messinas,
and $3.50@5 for Californias. The stocks
in hand are light, and Eastern markets
are high, with light stocks. Inside quo-
tations are for stock that is hardly good
for shipment, and is not sent out unless
specified.

Lettuce—Soc per bu.

Melons—Watermelons are in excellent
demand at 25c. Little Gems from Illi-
nois command $1 per doz.

Onions—Dry, $1 per bu.
25c per doz. bunches.

Oranges—Navels are out of the mar-
ket. There is little change in price of
any variety, and a good assortment and
fair stock is on hand.

Peas—Advanced to 50@75c per bu.
Stock is scarce.

Peaches—No Southern stock has been
in the market for several days. West
coast stock is offered at lower prices
than before. There is a considerable
quantity.

Pineapples— Bermudas are out of the
market. There is a good stock of Flori-
das and Honduras mammoth. The
movement is light.

Potatoes—Receipts are too small to
meet the consumptive and distributing
demands of the market. The price is
strong at 85c, but dearth of stock may
force the price up to $1 before the end
of the week. Kansas City and Louis-
ville are bare of stock and other South-
ern markets are nearing the point of ex-
haustion.

Radishes—Charter and China Rose
command toc. The quality of both is
fine.

Raspberries—Black command 50@6oc
per 16 qt. crate and Red are 20@25c
per crate higher. Both are fine in qual-
ity and excellent in appearance.

Squash—3c per Ib.

Tomatoes—The stock is none too large
and prices hold up well. Supplies are
now coming from Illinois, but home
grown will be in plentiful supply inside
of a fortnight. Present quotations are
$1 per crate of 4 baskets.

Turnips—Home grown command
per doz.

Wax Beans--$1.50 per bu.

Whortleberries— Arrivals are so meager
that the price continues to hold up to
$2.50. The quality is fair,

Green, 15@

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strong, but without change as to quota-
tions. Raws have advanced during the
week %c. This is not because of the
condition of the European market, but
because of the advance of tariff legis-
lation on this commodity. Sugar is still
coming to this country for speculative
purposes, and wili continue to come un-
til the new tariff law shall become ac-
tive. In this country now is_ nearly
enough raw sugar stored up to last the
refiners for the next year’s consumption,
The discussion on the bill has been
prolonged enough to give them the op-
portunity to get a large revenue for the
Sugar Trust that might have gone tothe
Government. The volume of business
now done in sugar from refiners to job-
bers, and from jobbers to retailers is
very large, as this is the fruit season.
In this market the movement of sugar is
large, and about normal.

Coffee—Actual coffees are unchanged
as to price and a better feeling is prev-
alent and more enquiry from the trade
in general. Brazil is firmer and offer-
ings light. Maracaibos are slightly
lower in quotations, perhaps more due
to the fact of the undesirability ot the
stock in first hands, as desirable parcels
bring a premium. Javas, firm and quiet.
Mocha ; unchanged.

Tea—The proposed duty, that did not
materialize, had the effect to bring more
tea into the country than was needed
and importers were also stimulated to
buy for future needs, thinking that the
new inspection laws would keep out
about a third of the usual supply, and
so send prices up. it was also believed
that the old crop teas on hand were but
little. It now seems that there is in cer-
tain jobbers’ hands in the country a
considerable of old stock, and the new
importations, with the stock on hand,
will have the effect to make the market
weak.

Dried Fruits— Reports from the Sul-
tana raisin crop show that the product
will be larger than first expected. It is
reported that the Greek currant crop is
promising about 165,000 tons, which will
be ample for all requirements. Advices
from California show that the prune
crop will be larger than last vear, but
that the peach crop will not come up to
the average, and the pear crop will be
rather light.

Canned Goods—There is some en-
quiry for spot tomatoes at unchanged
prices, and some for futures on the same
basis as last year’s prices. The market
for spot tomatoes is still none too strong.
Peas are very dull. The jobbing trade
is not taking hold of them to any ex-
tent, waiting until the retail trade be-
gin toorder. This they have not yet be-
gun to do. Prices are still unchanged.
Nothing is doing in corn and the mar-
ket remains unchanged. Peaches are
selling very slowly, with a slight en-

quiry for California goods. Prices are
unchanged.
Fish—The aggregate advance in

mackerel up to the present time is about
$3, and it is hard to see how further
advances can be avoided. The demand
for cod is very slim. Lake fish is firm
and the demand fair. Salmon is mov-
ing well and the impression is that
prices have about reached their lowest
point. Conditions in the salmon mar-
ket point to a continuation of present
prices. Lobster has advanced 5c per

dozen further, and it is very hard to get
hold of.

Provisions—The reduction in the mar-
keting of hogs has not been all that has

 

est, and prices of leading articles have
declined, notwithstanding the good cur-
rent demand for both domestic and _for-
eign distribution. Sentiment has been
somewhat influenced by the better shap-

ing of the growing corn crop.
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The Grain Market.

Wheat kept a very even tenure dur-
ing the week until the last three days,
when it firmed up considerably, which
is accounted for by the report that the
Danubean crop is 40 per cent. short.
Reports from France show that the crop
is poorer than was expected and that she
will have to import wheat, and it is also
reported that the French government
has repealed the export duty on wheat.
Reports show that the visible decreased
1,285,000 bushels, while no one expect-
ed it would decrease more than 500,000
bushels. This capped the climax and
winter wheat shot up fully 3c per bushel
and spring wheat 6c per bushel. We
find September futures selling to-day in
Chicago at 723,c and winter futures for
the same month at 75%c. it will be
readily seen that the price of spring and
the price of winter are gradually com-
ing together. The markets for the past
few days have been very excited and
the editor of the Tradesman would prob-
ably use some very forcible language if
he were in the grain business, especial-
ly as he seems to be addicted to the use
of strong terms. Sorry we are not in

position to accommodate him. He
seems to have great capacity for
handling antiquated stories. Even if

they are made up of falsehoods, it does
not seem to irritate his conscience in
the least. However. we think after
meditating on the subject, he will see
that he has made very poor use of his
intelligence.

Our visible is lower—with one excep-
tion—than it has been at any time since
1885, being only 15,300,000 bushels.
Old wheat is very scarce, but with this
fine dry weather, new wheat will soon
be on the market. It is coming in some
later this year than usual. Last year
new wheat came in the market on July
11 and in 1805 on July 12 and even
earlier in previous years. We have no
doubt that new wheat will make its ap-
pearance this week and ail those who
expect to get old wheat flour should get
it at once, as old wheat is getting very
scarce,

Corn followed wheat to a certain ex-
tent, but is now at the same price as
one week ago. The same can be said
of oats, although the crop is not looking
very well and we expect to see oats
bringing better prices.

The receipts during the week were
very moderate, being only 26 cars of
wheat, g cars of corn and 4 cars of oats.

Local millers are paying 73c_ per
bushel for wheat. C. G. A. Vorer.

i Ce

Arthur A. Scott, book keeper for’ the
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co., is spending his
vacation on the lakes, taking a trip on
a line boat from Chicago to the Soo and
return. Arthur is a water dog, if there
ever was one. Every Sunday during
the summer he visits his mother—and an-
other lady friend—at Grand Haven, but
spends most of his time in his two-spar
sail boat, cruising on Spring Lake and
Lake Michigan. In addition to his
plenchant for sailing, he is an amateur
photographer of no mean ability, having
been known to throw a dog out of his
boat in order to get an instantaneous
view of the struggles of the animal in
reaching a place of safety.

 

  

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

Fruits and Produce.

 

Possibly Went a Little Too Far.

The last Legislature passed a law
prohibiting the sale of adulterated coffee
in this State except where the package
bears the designation ‘‘Coffee Com-
pound’’ and the name and address of
the manufacturer and no other wording
or design. The Food Commissioner took
the ground that the law went a little too
far, insasmuch as a strict interpretation
of the statute would shut out valuable
trade marks and special ‘designs which
are protected by the U. S. patent office.
Appeal was thereupon taken to the At-
torney General, who looked up the law
carefully and reached the same conclu-
sion as to the Commissioner, as is shown
by the subjoined opinion:

Lansing, July 7—Your communication
bearing date of June 12, 1897, request-
ing instructions in the interpretation of
Section 15, of Act number 193, of the
public acts uf 1895, as amended in 1897,
relating to the sale of ‘*Coffee Com-
pound,’’ received.

The questions presented in your com-
munication resolve themselves into:

1. Was it the intent of the Legisla-
ture, in amending Section 15, of Act
193, of the public acts of 1895, to pro
hibit the placing of any reading matter,
mark or designation upon packages used
for adulterated coffce, except those ex
pressly required in that section to be
placed thereon, and

2. If it was the intent of the Legis-
lature to allow nothing but what it ex-
pressly required to be placed upon
packages used for adulterated coffee to
be placed thereon, does this prohibit
manufacturers and dealers in adulterated
coffee from placing their trade marks
properly registered under the laws of the
United States on such packages?

Section 15, of Act 193. of the public
acts of 1895, as amended in 1897 (as
shown by copy of amendments submit-
ted by you), provides as follows:

No person shall manufacture or sell,
or offer for sale any manufactured or ar-
tificial coffee berry in imitation of the
genuine berry. No person shall manu-
facture, sell, or offer or expose for sale,
any ground or prepared coffee which is
adulterated with chicory or other sub-
stances not injurious to health, unless
each package thereof shall be distinct]
labeled or marked ‘‘ Coffee Compound, "’
together with the name and address of
the manufacturer or compounder there-
of, and has no other label of whatever
name or designation.

This section, in my opinion, is spe-
cific in its terms that each package of
ground or prepared coffee which is adul-
terated shall be distinctly labeled or
marked ‘‘Coffee Compound,’’ together
with the name of the manufacturer or
compounder. The question presented un-
der this section of the act as amended
is, Can any words other than those which
are expressly provided by this section
shall be placed upon the package, be
placed theron? The answer to this ques-
tion depends upon the intent of the Leg-
islature in using the words, ‘‘and has
on other label of whatever name or des-
ignation."’

In my opinion, the true import and
meaning of the word ‘‘label,’’ as used
therein, was that it should extend to,
and inciude any and every description,
figure, designation or sign which the
manufacturer or dealer in such articles
might desire or attempt to place there-
on.

It being clear that it was the intent
of the Legislature to prohibit the use on
packages used for adulterated coffee, of
any word or designation, with the ex-
ception of those which it specifically re-
quires under Section 15 to be placed
thereon, it remains to be determined
how far the authority of the Legislature
to prohibit the use of labels and marks
on such articles extends. That is, does
the power of the Legislature extend so
as to prohibit the manufacturer or deal-
er in adulterated coffee from placing
upon the packages which he uses for the

 

same, his trade-mark, which is properly
registered under the laws of the United
States?

It seems to me to be clear that it does
not. The authority of the United States
to provide for the registration of trade-
marks,and for the protection of property
therein and rights thereunder is derived
trom, dependent upon and_ co-extensive
with, the power granted by the consti-
tution to regulate commerce between the
States, with foreign nations and witb
the Indian tribes. The Congress of the
United States, in the exercise of this
power, has enacted laws which provide
for the registration and_ protection of
trade-marks used in commerce with for-
eign nations and with the Indian tribes.
Under such law such trade-marks are
allowed to be placed upon the articles
in which the owner of the same deals or
which he manufactures. The regula-
tion of commerce between the states,
and with foreign nations, being granted
to the United States, is taken from the
states. The acts of the United States
regulating trade-marks being passed in
exercise of the authority granted to reg
ulate commerce, it is not within the
province of the several states to pass
any law which will restrict the rights
properly granted by the laws of the
United States to any person or persons
in their trade mark which they have
properly registered under such laws of
the United States, and it is, therefore,

lear that Section 15, so far as it might

operate to prohibit the-use of trade-
marks, would be void, as being in con-
travention with the laws of the United
States.

Whether or not such trade-mark can
be surrounded with. such words as
** crushed, ”’ ‘“ pulverized,’’ ‘‘ full
weight,’’ etc., seems to me to depend
upon whether or not they are a part of
the trade-mark. Ifa part of the trade-
mark, they can be properly used. If
not, their use would clearly be in con-
travention of Section 15.

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Business Man’s Talk to a Farmer.

From the Superior (Neb.) Journal.

‘*No,’’ said the hardware man to the
farmer, as he tied up the package of
nails in the paper ‘‘as you say, people
talk about the low price of what they
sell, and don’t say a word about the low
price of what they buy. Take those
nails, now. What do yuu suppose those
nails would cost you ten years ago? Just
about six cents a pound, and now you
can take the lot of better goods at 3
cents and the extra wrapper thrown in.
That's not much, you savy. Not so much
on a little lot of nails, perhaps, but ro
cents isn’t much on the bushel of pota-
toes you brought in just now, and that’s
all the difference in price from ten
years ago, and yet you grumble at the
low price. It’s not the pound of nails
that hurts me. Everything in my store
has gone down the same way. Your
wheat and hay and chickens and _ butter
and eggs bring you substantially the
same prices they did ten years ago.
You farmers forget that you have things
to buy as well as things to sell. Want
to buy a plough this year? There's a
dandy for $12. ‘Ten years ago I'd have
asked $16 for it. There’s $4 saved to
you at one clip. There’s a_ better
planter than the one I sold you ten years
ago for $60—a whole lot better. Take it
along for $40. Remember that binder
you bought of me ten years ago for $189?
Must be worn out, eh? I'll sell you a
50 per cent. better one to-day and throw
off the $89. You farmers don’t know
when you are well off.’’

—-—~> 2-2
Bogus Currant Jelly.

A certain compound made in Oneida,
N .Y., and alleged to be red currant
jelly, was found by a California chem-
ist to be apple jelly colored with cer-
tain analine dyes. The defense tried
to have the suit dismissed on the ground
that the stuff had been bought for the
purpose of analysis and not for use as
food. The jury after about five minutes’
Cogitation returned a verdict of guilty
against Mr, Dutton. The gentleman
was fined $75 and was given the alterna-
tive of spending seventy-five days in
the county jail. Mr. Dutton intends to
appeal his case.

 

 

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ONIONS, CABBAGE, WATERMELONS

SEEDS: Crimson, Alsyke Alfalfa; Medium, Mammoth Clover;
Timothy, Redtop, Bluegrass, Orchard Grass Seed.
Bushel Baskets and Covers. When ready to buy send us your orders.

26-28-30-32 Ottawa St.,
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TURNIP SEED
Garden Seeds and Implements, Lawn Supplies.

ALFRED J. BROWN CO., Grand Rapids, Mich.

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Good outlet.
Eggs on commission or bought on track.

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Ship your Butter, Eggs, Produce and Poultry to

HERMANN C.NAUMANN & CO.

Who get highest market prices and make prompt returns.
DETROIT.

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Main Office, 353 Russell St. Branch Store, 799 [lich. Ave.

Special Attention to Fruit and Berries in Season.

Correspondence Solicited.
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‘The Vinkemulder Gompant).

JOBBER OF

Fruits and Produce
$

MANUFACTURER OF

“Absolute” Puré Ground Spices, Baking Powder, Ets.

We will continue to put up Baking Powder under special or private
labels, and on which we will name very low prices, in quantities.

We make a specialty of Butchers’ Supplies and are prepared to
quote low prices on Whole Spices, Preservaline, Sausage seasoning,
Saltpetre, Potato Flour, etc.

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.

 

 

“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.

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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.

 

 

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‘ent wants,

GOTHAM GOSSIP.

News from the Metropolis---Index to
the Market.
Special Correspondence.

New York, July 15—-One_ hundred
merchants from Dixie came down upon
this city the other day and showed them-
selves as lively a lot of men as you will
find anywhere. They hustled around
among our big stores, leaving, it is
hoped, some good orders, and then went
over to that town in Pennsylvania, the
name of which escapes your correspond-
ent at the moment. These are the fore-
runners of what we may expect every
day from now until cold weather.

One of our big department stores is
having a food exhibition. It is a fine
show, too, and outshines many special
shows. They have a creamery in opera-
tion and an elephant—and_ goodness
knows what not to attract the crowd.
And the crowd is there. The store is
packed.

Coffee is about the dullest article in
the grocery trade to-day and is quotable
at 7c for Rio No. 7. The demand is
slow from small roasters, who seem to
realize that they have nothing to do but
to wait until the clouds roll by. In store
and afloat there are about 730,000 bags,
against about 390,000 bags at the same
time last year. There are now said to
be over a million bags in this country, so
the outlook is not very bright for higher
prices. There have been some large
transactions in mild coffees, but at rates
which are kept private.

Raw sugars have been very firm and
the market is decidedly strong. For
refined there has been active enquiry
and the orders coming in have amounted
to a large total. On some of the soft
grades the refiners are behind in their
deliveries. The best thing about sugar
is the article in Wall street. A jump has
been made to 138--an advance of 23
points since the Dingley bill was pre-
sented in Congress. The Times says
that the advance is $23 on each share
and if a man held to,o0o shares, he
would have made an amount equal to
the salary of a senator for forty-six
years.

Teas are utterly demoralized and the
chances are that we shall see lower rates
than have ever prevailed. Supplies are
large everywhere and the demand is
certainly no better than a year ago.
Coffee and beer leave no room for tea in
the hearts of our countrymen.

In rice the demand is good for all
sorts, and especially for foreign. Or-
ders have come from all points, al-
though there is some falling off in the
‘*strike’’ regions, and, in the aggre-
gate, the amount hasbeen large. There
is evidently some buying ahead of pres-
and, taking the field asa
whole, the outlook is very encouraging
for firm prices right along. Foreign
grades have already advanced a fraction,

In spices the demand is quiet. Dur-
ing the week there have been very few
transactions, and those of small moment.
Prices are practically unchanged.

Domestic molasses is dull and slow of
sale. In foreign sorts there was a sale

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

of 2,000 hogsheads of Porto Rico on’pri-
vate terms. Good to fancy,;New Orleans
open-kettle is worth 21@30c. Syrups
are very quiet and prices show no
change, altbough dealers hope for a bet-
ter feeling as the season advances.

In canned goods the market exhibits
little of interest and the situation is not
especially encouraging. It is probable
that as low a basis exists as we have
ever seen for canned goods, and the
quality is certainly improving, as the
necessity is observed by canners of put-
ting up something besides water with
one tomato to a can, or whatever may be
used. Tomatoes are weak, with some
sales at 55c and some up to 65c. Future
New Jerseys, 65@goc, as to brand, the
latter purchasing fancy stock. Good
Marrowfat peas are worth 60@7oc for
standard 2 lbs. ; Early Junes, 65@goc.

About the usual amount of business
has been done during the week in dried
fruits. Prices are low and the fall trade
has hardly been entered upon as yet.

The butter market remains practical-
ly unchanged and prices are the same as
they have been for a fortnight at least.
At the close there is certainly a firmer
feeling, but 15c seems to be about the
top rate for best Western creamery.

The cheese market is quiet. Stocks
are pretty well cleaned up, however,
and a better condition of things is
looked for soon. Fancy full cream, 75¢c.

Eggs are firm. Best stock is in good
request at 12c. Western, 11@11%c.

2.
Provision for Both.
From the San Francisco Post

Smith walked up Market street the
other evening with a box of candy under
one arm and a big package of meat un-
der the other.

**Hello, Smith,’’ said Brown, ‘‘gone
to housekeeping? I didn't know you
were married.”’

‘Tm not yet. ”’

‘*What are you doing with that candy
and meat then?’’

‘Going to see my girl,’’

‘*Do you have to furnish
with meat already?’’

‘‘Oh, no; the candy is
and the meat is for the dog.
square myself with both.’’

>.

Sugar from Cotton-Seed Meal.

Sugar from cotton-seed meal is the lat-
est production of saccharine matter. It
is claimed for this product that it is
fifteen times sweeter than cane sugar
and twenty times more so than beet-
root; but, alas, there is a fatal objec-
tion to it at present—it has a tendency
to ferment and turn sour. The discov-
erers of this new process of making
sugar, however, feel confident that
they can overcome this trouble.

Oe
To Boom American Food Products.

It is proposed by the Agricultural De-
partment at Washington to send repre-
sentatives to England to lecture on the
superiority of American food and meat
products. The plan is to educate the
people who are ignorant as to the best
method of cooking fruit products, as
well as to recommend their consumption.

the family

for the girl
I have to

 

 

Case Count Egg Sales.

From the New York Produce Review.

These days of prolonged excessive
heat make trouble enough in the egg
trade. But, in view of the recent agita-
tion of the question of changing the sys-
tem of sales to a case count basis at all
seasons, it is interesting to note the ex-
perience of the trade in this direction
during conditions which are naturally
the most unfavorable of the whole year.

During the recent extreme heat, when
our receipts of egzs from all sections
have been so largely affected, and when
even the finest brands have been of a
very uncertain quality and condition,
we think more sales have been made
case count than ever before. Of course,
the prices have been low and the case
count business has been chiefly confined
to sales to cheap trade and to specula-
tors, but these have been sufficient to
prove two things: first, that it has been
practicable to estimate quality with
sufficient accuracy to make the case
count sale generally satisfactory ; second,
that the net results on the case count
business have been generally as good or
better than where the same goods have
been sold on a loss off basis.

Ot course, the business with regular
dealers, buying for consumption in the
better classes of trade, has continued on
a loss off basis, and the disadvantages
of this method have been thrown into
bold relief. Receivers have never
known what their results were until the
loss returns have been submitted and
then. they have often been so heavy as
to be discouraging. Price per dozen has
had little to do with affecting net re-
sults, as where losses are running from
three to six dozen or more a fractional
difference in the price of the passable
eggs has comparatively little effect.

Of course, if all these eggs had been
sold case count the prices would have
been very low, because dealers would
have insisted upon keeping on the sate
side. But they would, at least, have
been definite, and such as_ shippers
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that the proportion of case count busi-
ness (considering only the loss of sea-
son) is greatest when the receipts are
the poorest and the most irregular, is
very good evidence that case count sales
of all grades at all seasons are perfectly
practicable.

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His Downfall.

Kind Old Lady—-Poor man! You lock
as if you had seen better days.

Mr. Willie Deadtired L have,
madam. Once | dwelt in granite halls.

Kind Old Lady—And why this loss of
such a home?

Mr. Willie Deadtired—My
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WEDNESDAY, - - - JULY 21, 1897.

FRANCE AND RUSSIA.

In the last number of the North Amer-
ican Review there is an article by the
Hon. J. B. Eustis, until recently Amer-
ican Ambassador to France, on the
Franco-Russian alliance. The article
has attracted a great deal of attention,
and is a very interesting presentation
of a very important phase of current
European politics. Owing to the excep-
tionally good opportunities Mr. Eustis
had for observing the course of events
while acting as Ambassador at Paris,
his observations on the relations between
France and Russia are entitled to more
than usual consideration.

Mr. Eustis thinks that the alliance
with Russia is purely in the interest of
that power alone aud offers no corres-
ponding advantages to France. He fears
that, as a result of the complications
into which France will be dragged by
her blind friendship for Russia, she wili
lose prestige and strength, and eventual-
ly sink to the level of a second-class
power among the nations of Europe.
He points out the fact that France
blindly aided Russia in coercing Japan,
where she had no interests at stake
whatever, and in the management of
the Eastern question she abstained from
putting pressure on the Sultan, because
it was the policy of the Russian Foreign
Office to refrain from interference.

As Mr. Eustis points out, France has
been drawn into the Russian alliance
solely by a desire to recoup past losses
and to strengthen her position in antici-
pation of the time when it will be op-
portune to revenge the humiliations put
upon her in 1870. To this devotion to
the past she is sacrificing the present
benefits of a progressive and modern for-
eign policy.

The unnatural character of a compact
between a liberal, enlightened power
like France and an autocratic semi-
Asiatic government like Russia is clear-
ly pointed out by Mr. Eustis. ‘*There
can be no affinity of sentiment, no com-
munity of ideas, no sympathetic tie, no
political solidarity.’’ between two such
countries, he believes. A desire for
revenge alone binds France to Russia,
while on the latter’s part there is but a
poorly veiled determination to use the
aid of France to pusb purely Russian
aims, without the least regard to French
interests in the matter.

It is to be hoped that Ambassador
Eustis’ forebodings will not be realized ;
but at the same time his views are too

 

 

 

 

closely corroborative of the opinions ex-
pressed by many Jeading European
statesmen not to carry great weight. His
article, while outlining very clearly the
dangers of the Russian alliance, at the
Same time expresses a hearty sympathy
for France and admiration for the
French people. Every well-informed
American will join in the sentiment
that the humiliation of France through
the shortsighteduess of her statesmen
would be a great loss to civilization and
humanity.

 

NEW YORK LOSING TRADE.

The statistics of foreign trade for the
fiscal year just ended show that the great
port of New York has enjoyed about the
same volume of trade as was hers dur-
ing the preceding year. On first con-
sideration this might look favorable
enough, but the outcry which is being
made by the business men of the
metropolis indicates that something is
radically wrong with the showing there.
The trouble is not hard to find. While
the foreign commerce of the country
has increased enormously, that of New
York has remained stationary, which in-
dicates that the increased trade has gone
to other rival ports, and not to New
York.

A realization of the fact that Boston,
Philadelphia, Baltimore and the South-
ern ports are increasing their trade at
the expense of New York has thoroughly
alarmed the business men of that city,
and they are actively bestirring them-
selves to discover the cause of the rapid
decay in the business of the port. Ac-
cording to the investigations made by
some of the newspapers, it is held that
the principal causes of the loss of trade
are the insufficient water in the chan-
nels to and from the harbor, the cost of
lighterage and wharfage, and the heavy
cost of drayage. High port charges
and the failure to improve the harbor
are the difficulties which the New York
merchants claim they have to contend
with. New York has a depth of channel
of 30 feet at mean lowtide. This, the
merchants sav, is insufficient to float the
larger class of vessels which are now
engaged in the carrying trade. The
lighterage trouble is due to the fact that
the railroads and warehouses are not in
close proximity to the shipping; hence
transfer on lighters is made necessary.

It is always a great point gained to
be made fully aware of the difficulties
to be overcome, but it must be admitted
that the obstacles encountered in New
York are serious. The deepening of the
harbor will, no doubt, be eventually
brought about, as the Gevernment will
feel compelled to properly protect the
most important harbor in the country;
but the reduction of the port charges
cannot be so easily brought about, as
old-established rules and customs are
difficulc to break up, as so many people
are directly interested in maintaining
them.

While New York will possibly succeed
in devising means which will enable
her to hold her own, it is not pessible
that she can ever again enjoy the old-
time monopoly of the foreign trade.
Each section of the country is now seek-
ing tide water through the nearest ports,
owing to the keen competition in
freight rates. This tendency is bound
to increase and to benefit the other ports
at the expense of New York.

 

It is common enough for a man tobe
kept down town on business. When he
is detained at home on business things
are more serious,

 

GENERAL TRADE SITUATION.

In spite of the midsummer dulness
and the continued disturbance and un-
certainty caused by the coal strikes, the
general trade outlook is brighter than
for many weeks. Not the least encour-
aging indication is the fact that, finally,
the two houses of Congress are agreed
upon the tariff bill and its provisions
are substantially decided. Domestic
crop reports continue favorable for most
branches and especially as to wheat,
while the outlook for foreign corps is
such that a healthy export demand seems
to be assured. The money markets were
without an unfavorable symptom, the
continuation of net receipts from the
interior indicating that Western .and
Southern banks are in better shape to
meet demands for crops movement than
for years past. The improved demand
for commercial loans here, although
partly due to heavy imports, was also in
good part on manufacturing and domes-
tic commercial paper. Returns from all
parts of the country showed a more ac-
tive business than is usual at this sea-
son, with really extraordinary liquida-
tion of mortgage and other indebted-
ness and high confidence in the future
of trade. Indications for increasing
volume of business as the fall season
opens are decidedly encouraging. Clear-
ing house payments for July have been
nearly 10 per cent. greater than for the
same month last year. The reduced
quantity of wheat naturally accounts for
a slight decline in railway earnings;
that there is no serious significance is
shown by the fact that the stock market
advanced with as much confidence as at
any time during the last two months,
the average of prices rising a little
every day, and for the week 68 cents
per share. The change in management
of Lehigh Valley and the decision re-
garding the Coal Trust give strength to
the coal-carrying roads, and the wheat
prospects and the advance in dividends
by the Great Northern aided another
class, so that considerable sales by Lon-
don early in the week had no effect,
and most of the stocks were taken back
later at higher figures. Bonds have also
remained strong and in large demand,
The money market tends slowly toward
greater strength, and the fact that com-
mercial loans are in better demand and
occupy large amounts hitherto idle or
employed only on call, leads bankers to
be more chary about operations which
tie up their funds beyond sixty days.

With the exception of a slight specu-
lative reaction for one day, the move-
ment of wheat has been a steady ad-
vance. This is to be credited to the
general strength of the statistical situa-
tion abroad and the fact that the domes-
tic supply is reduced to a point to
bring it within the reach of speculative
operators, Corn and other grains have
shared in strength of the leading cereal.

In the iron trade is seen the remark-
able anomaly of increasing activity in
most lines, with prices at the lowest on
record. A number of furnaces have
gone into blast since the beginning of
the month, and the demand for struc-
tural forms, plates and bars is improv-
ing. Tin plates are somewhat lower in
price,

The general indications in the cotton
manufacture are for more healthy trade,
although the principal reductions of
stock are secured by curtailment of
production. Wool speculation continues
active and the goods for spring trade
shown are marked with a decided ad-
vance in price. Orders for fall and
winter goods have continued longer and

 

developed greater quantity than had been
expected. There is also‘a longer con-
tinuance of the old season in boots and
shoes and the price of leather and hides
has slightly advanced.

Bank clearings have advanced to
$1,071, 000, 000. Failures are 213,
against 225 for the preceding week.

THE FURNITURE EXHIBIT.

The July furniture season, now draw-
ing to a close, has been of special signifi-
cance as to the status of Grand Rapids
in the furniture trade. In this exposi-
tion, as never before, it seems to be
recognized that the furniture trade of
the country must acknowledge this city
as its center.

Of course, but a fraction of the facto-
ries of the country were represented
here, but the number was far greater
than at any previous exhibit. Every
available space in the city was fully
occupied and the quarters of some of
the exhibitors were decidedly straitened.
All places which seemed available were
added to the blocks which have largely
been given up to this purpose. Indeed,
should the ratio of increase continue at
the January season, there will be de-
mand for more room than can be made
available.

The importance of the city has also
been recognized in the fact of the hold-
ing the sessions of the furniture asso-
ciations here as the most available place
where a representation of the trade could
be secured. Generally New York or
Chicago have claimed these gatherings,
but the time seems to have come when
these cities must surrender their claims
to their diminutive competitor.

The growth of the Grand Rapids fur-
niture exhibit is especially significant
in that the country is just fairly enter-
ing upon an era of healthy business ac-
tivity. This means that the growth of
the exposition will continue for a con-
siderable time to come. With the pres-
tige now attained, there is now no possi-
bility of any other locality successsfully
disputing for the leadership, and tak-
ing all conditions into consideration, it
is sufficiently assured that we are now
only in the beginning of a great move-
ment which must increase for a long
time. To be sure, some local dealers
complain that outsiders are underselling
and taking the trade to a considerable
extent.
price that can be afforded for the gen-
eral advertisement of the city in the fur-
niture world, and if cur manufacturers
have not the enterprise to reap the ben-
efit of tkis advertising, the fault lies
with them and not with the opportunity.

While reading of the large sums_pos-
sessed by modern millionaires, it is in-
teresting to recall the notable fortunes
of ancient days. Croesus, whose name
has become a byword for excessive
wealth, could certainly not have bought
up a Vanderbilt; his whole fortune did
not much exceed $3,000,000. A _ far
greater sum was left by the infamous
and miserly Tiberius, who was worth
$118, 125,000 at his death, and it is said
tbat his successor, Caligula, squandered
this immense wealth within a_ year.
Seneca had a tidy little portion of $17,-
500,000, which could have hardly been
the case had his philosophy been pure
and unalloyed. Appius, discovering
that his treasury contained only $400, -
000, committed suicide from fear of
poverty; a single repast cost Lucullus
$100,000, and at one of her banquets
Cleopatra made Antony drink a pearl
valued at $50,000. In extent of fortune,
certain living millionaires may beat
the ancients, but in the matter of ex-
travagance we think the balance is on
the other side.

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ARBITRARY POWER OF UNIONISM.

The question is frequently suggested
as to why it is that so large a proportion
of the labor element in many localities
submit with such apparent willingness
to the tyrannical leadership and arbi-
trary government of the labor unions.
Usually, there are included among the
most devoted adherents to this dema-
gogic power the greater number of those
who prate loudest of liberty and are first
to denounce any apparent encroachment
upon their rights in the making and en-
forcement of civil laws. Those whose
hatred of the necessary institutions of a
democratic government reduces them to
the plane of socialists, or makes them
disciples of anarchy, will cheerfully sub-
mit to the mandates of the tyrant whose
authority is borne under the cloak of la-
bor when his commands are so unrea-
sonable and arbitrary that to the law-
abiding they are too intolerable for calm
consideration.

As an example of the outrageous reg-
ulations submitted to by the unions may
be cited the rule which excludes the
great majority of boys from the privi-
lege of acquiring any given trade. Thus,
in any given industry a large number of
men may be engaged with families of
boys who ought to be following in their
fathers’ footsteps in the acquirement of
the means of gaining a livelihood and
of contributing to the skilled industry of
the world. But only one to a given aum-
ber of workmen can be allowed to serve
as an apprentice. The rest, constituting
the great majority of the sons of such
workmen, must grow up in idleness or
seek to enter the overburdened ranks of
business or professional men. If a law
were enacted by the civil legislatures
that only one boy to every five journey-
men should be permittted to follow his
father’s calling, it would be received
with such protests of indignation that it
would soon be removed from the statute
books. Yet those who would be loud-
est in its denunciation are the very ones
who submit most tamely to it as a union
regulation.

And so in a great number of other
similarly arbitrary laws. A man may
only work for a certain price—no less
and no more. He must not work to ex-
ceed a certain number of hours—there
is usually no objection to his working
less. He must not work for any but
certain specified employers; if these
cannot employ him, he may starve be-
fore he can work for others even when
their work is abundant. Then, he may
only work until the unions give the
word to quit. A strike is ordered; he
may have no grievance whatever against
his employer, but he must cease work
at any cost to himself or to his employ-
er’s interests. Indeed, the cause of the
strike may be a disagreement in an in-
dustry in a distant state of which he
knows nothing and would care nothing
unless it were brought thus unpleasantly
to his attention; but the mandate goes
forth and he abides by it. To what ex-
tent would such regulations and orders
be obeyed were they promulgated by
any other authority?

Of course, there must be some reason
for this submission in the one case when
only the most vigorous rebellion would
result in the other. This reason may be
looked for in the general idea which the
ignorant workman cherishes that he has
a direct part in the government of the
bodies which enact these laws. He may
not like the law or regulation, but he
thinks he had a hand in its making and
so he submits with what grace he can.
Such an one cannot comprehend the

 

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idea that he has just as direct a part in
the making of civil or municipal laws;
and so he rebels at the slightest en-
croachment of these upon his civil or
personal rights.

How much does the average working-
man, the more intelligent and conserva-
tive of those who follow the crafts most
largely controlled by unionism, have to
do with the enactment of the union laws
and regulations? To be sure, they may
attend the meetings of their union, take
part in the debates and join in the vote
on any question, and it is this fact
which gives the sense of participation
in the government that engages his al-
legiance—when it is not held by fear.
But to what extent can such a man
usually influence action? The consider-
ation of any important question is gen-
erally managed in such a way that the
personal element in the rank and file
counts for absolutely nothing. The lead-
ers decide upon any proceeding and then
harangue upon it in the most violent
terms, denouncing any who dare oppose
or obstruct it, and then demand a vote.
This must be given viva voce, and the
man who dares to place himself on
record as opposed to the position of the
leaders, and the majority which they
command by such bulldozing, shows
more temerity than is characteristic of
the ordinary union laborer. Yet he hugs
the delusion that it is ‘‘our’’ union—
that he has a substantial part in its con-
trol. But, while this is characteristic
of a considerable proportion of the ad-
herents of this tyranny, there are very
many who are governed in their alle-
giance wholly by fear. If they oppose the
union, it will be at the cost of persecution
—or even their lives may be endangered ;
or they may be driven out and their fam-
ilies left to starve. To such, who are the
most ignorant and timid, the possibility
of opposition to the proceedings of the
union never occurs.

 

A shipment of sixty tons of butter
has been shipped from this country to
Australia. In the meantime Australia
is shipping butter to the London mar-
kets, but, as the product does not im-
prove with the sea voyage like Ma-
deira, it is safe to say that the ship-
ment in question is for use in the anti-
podes.

 

Washington lumbermen have discov-
ered another opening for the product of
her grand and majestic forests. A cargo
of 200,000 feet of fir lumber was recently
shipped from Tacoma for Yokohama,
Japan. It was sawed into half-inch stock
and will be converted into tea chests.

 

The Eastern papers are now com-
plaining of the big hat nuisance at the
ball games. Will the papers never learn
that ladies who wear these big hats at
public gatherings are not there to see,
but to be seen?

Street sprinkling with disinfectants is
under consideration in Brussels, ac-
cording to George W. Roosevelt, United
States Cousul to that city. Creoline is
preferred as an antiseptic.

 

Japan is to have a tin-plate mill.
This will add to the Japanned tinware
that is in the market without ever hav-
ing been to Japan.

The Boston Globe thinks that the shirt
waist girl has come to stay. Fortunate-
ly she comes a little cheaper in the shirt
waist.

A man’s wisdom
folly his worst enemy.

is his best friend ;

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Glark-J6W6I-Wells 60.,

Western Michigan Agents,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

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and met our ideas of value,

standard of former years.

 

A little late in arriving this year, but we delayed

“bluff” did not excite us; while many importers were

RECAPITULATION ¥

Jewell Chop Teas in quality fully up to the high

cent. over last year’s prices, we laid low.

Prices right.

purchasing till Mr. Jap got down off his high horse

The proposed duty

buying everything in sight at an advance of 25 per

Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.,

Sole Owners.

 

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MmMiCmiGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

ls the Department Store a Benefit or
a Detriment?*

To the question, ‘‘Is the department
store a benefit or a detriment to the gen-
eral public?’’ we unquestionably all
have an answer that fits our individual
case. Our individual opinions would
naturally be biased by the influence this
class of business has upon our individ-
ual pocketbooks. Those of us having
direct and active home competition will
naturally have the strongest opinions
upon the subject.

As I understand, the subject chosen
requires me to rise, if possible, beyond
or above this prejudice of an tndi-
vidual. It applies not to you nor to me
alone, but to the general public. My
opinion, which I have endeavored to
form as unbiased from personal preju-
dice as possible, is that the department
store is a detriment to the general pub-
lic. For the purpose of brevity only,
in this article I shail sometimes refer
to the department store as it. I might
name it as the Lansing man did his
horse—-‘‘Is-er.’” When asked for his
reason for giving it this name he re-
plied, “‘He isn't ‘Has been’ or ‘Go-
ing to be’—he is ‘Is-er! ’’ Many of
our members undoubtedly think, with
me, that the department store is an
“its-er."" What we all. want is that i
shouid be a ‘* Has been.’’

One reason why it appears to bea
detriment to the general public is that
It creates distrust of the merchant in
the mind of his customers. Distrust is
lack of confidence. What a_ serious
thing lack of confidence is, we al
know, as the politicians and wiseacres
tell us that this is the disease the - busi-
ness of this country has been suffering
from for the past four years. May the
patient entirely recover, and never
have a relapse, is the earnest prayer of
every business man; and anything which
tends to retard the patient trom a speedy
recovery is certainly a detriment to the
general public.

It causes his customer, who possibly
is bis persona! friend, to believe he has
been and wiil be charged unfair and
extortionate prices for all goods he has
so!d or will sell him. This conclusion is
naturally reached by the customer after
reading the advertisements of the de-
partment store- advertisements written
not by a member of the concern or an
employe who is familiar with the goods
he buys or sells, but by a person who is
hired for the express and only purpose
of writing advertisements, having a
semblance of truth, if possible, but
mainly to catch the customer's eye.
Prices named in this advertisement are
usually for a special day or a special
hour and, were the goods as represented,
would generally be great bargains. It
is only necessary to follow up a few of
these advertisements to be convinced of
their deceitfulness ; for instance, a large
department store in one of our near-by
cities advertised, on a certain day,
Sugar in the grocery department at an
extremely low price, a price that meant
a positive loss on every pound sold.
Now, this grocery department was a
large store of itself, and the supposition
was that anybody and everybody who
wanted sugar could buy what they
wanted by simply going to the store
during the time of the advertised sale,
if they had the money to pay for their
wants. But what really transpired, how-
ever, was quite different. On this day,
while they had a large number of clerks,
sugar was sold by one only—-a boy—
who, evidently following instructions,
worked very slowly, always had a _ great
deal of trouble to exactly balance his
scales and, when finally his package
was weighed and tied up, he would pay
no attention to the next customer until
the first had paid his bill, often being
obliged to wait some time before the
change would be returned from the
office. When the barrel from which he
was selling was empty he would have
to get another one himself—no porter,
mind you, waiting upon him this day.
The result was that the two flights of
Stairs leading to this department were
soon packed and probably not one_per-

*Paper read oy A. K. Edwards, of Kalamazoo,
at annual convention Michigan Hardware

sou in fifty that tried to buy sugar that
day succeeded.

What were the results gained from
this advertisement? Thousands of read-
ers of the advertisment undoubtedly
jumped to the conclusion that this con-
cern would not and could not do busi-
ness at a loss, therefore were making a
fair profit upon the sales at the prices
named—a most natural, although in this
instance a most untruthful, conclusion;
consequently, the balance of the dealers
who were selling sugar at only a reason-
able profit were securing an unreason-
abie one. Those who visited the store
and were able to get the goods
wanted probably felt that they had suc-
ceeded in drawing a prize; those who
were disappvuinted resolved to get there
earlier next time. The proprietors very
likely claimed that they had succeeded
in bringing hunéreds of people to their
store who had _ never before passed
through the doors, many of whom must
have purchased articles on which they
were making a good or even a large
profit, and all this done at a very small
expense—the loss on a comparatively
smal] amount of sugar and the cost of a
newspaper advertisement.

One item in which this class of stores
largely deal, and which more seriously
affects the pocketbooks of our members
than the one just treated, is enameled
ware, granite ware, or agate ware, un-
der whatever name it happens to be
sold. The prices at which these goods
are often advertised would be ruinous
were the goods the same as sold by a
majority of the members of this Asso-
ciation; but they are not, the bulk of
these goods being seconds—goods re-
jected by the manufacturers’ own in-
spection and finally sold at auction.
The results from these sales are much
the same as from that first treated, the
proprietors realizing that, by getting a
crowd at one time in this department,
many pieces that would not pass a
leisure inspection will be sold, while
many articles not enumerated in the
bargain list will be sold also, and sold
many times at prices that would make
the legitimate dealer blush to even ask
the price. In sales of this class of goods
very few articles are disposed of that do
not pay a handsome profit and, as you
may imagine, no_ obstructions § are
placed in the way of the customer that
he may not get all that he has money
to pay for.

The one article in our line that ap-
pears to be more generally used by
stores of this class than any other is tin-
ware, Many merchants in other lines
than ours have originally put in five and
ten-cent bargain counters, filling them
with tinware, and these have oftentimes
grown into a department; but in many
instances it has proved to be unprofit-
able, on account of the department store
monorfolizing this with its various other
lines. The department stores have
worked this line until there has grown
up under their patronage a class of
manufacturers who hardly cater to any
other trade, and whose goods could
hardly be sold by any other class of
merchants, they being so poor in qual-
ity. The general public has been the
sufferer, as the better class of tinware
has, by this competition, been prac-
tically crowded from the market. They
are the ones lamenting that there are
no goods made to-day like the ones
they were able to buy fifteen and twenty
years ago. You and I know that this is
not so—that just as good goods can be
bought, but that few will pay for them.
And here let me state that our house is
gratified to find an increasing demand
for a better grade of goods in this line,
and we are not slow in encouraging the
same, I am inclined to the opinion that
the hardware trade, as a whole, are to
blame for this, by ignoring this com-
petition until it has grown to immense
proportions. It is, undoubtedly, the
article which was the nucleus from
which the department store has grown.

It is useless for us now to spend time
lamenting over our troubles—much_bet-
ter see if we cannot eradicate the evil
which has caused the trouble and so pre-
vent a recurrence. Every evil has its
remedy and {i believe that this one is

 
  
 

  

 

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the remedy will be worked out assoon
as the general public have been suffi-
ciently humbugged to make the de-
mand.

The remedy that I would propose for
the treatment of the department store
evil is legislation. We have in this
State ‘‘Pure Food’’ laws, ‘‘Pure Elec-
tion’’ laws, etc.; we need ‘‘Pure Ad-
vertising ’’ laws. Every dealer should
be compelled to state the truth in his
advertisement regarding the quality of
the goods mentioned, or same to be
understood to be of recognized standard
grade. He should not be allowed to sell
“seconds’’ in the granite or other ware
without stating that they are such. He
should not be allowed to do as a depart-
ment store in our city recently did—ad-
vertise a heavy retinned dishpan, and
sell a _to-quart I. C. retinned rinsing
pan. He should be compelled to fur-
nish sufficient help to wait upon his cus-
tomers tor the bargains advertised, and
to have sufficient stock of same to meet
reasonable demands during the time of
advertised sale. Failure to comply
with the demands of the law should
make him liable to prosecution by the
public prosecutor, and at the same time
liable for damages to his humbugged
customers. This applies more particu-
larly to the city department stores. The
small fellow that opens up in your city
and ours can be taken care of by com-
petition and a little concerted action on
the part of local dealers. Their trade
is not composed of so large an_ element
of the floating population as is the case
with the city department stores and cus-
tomers can be educated while the deal-
er is being disciplined. Neither is the
variety of goods they carry so large, or
the capital invested so enormous in pro-
portion as with the large city depart-
ment stores.

By looking at their rating, as given
by Dun, we will generally find them
weak financially; therefore, we know
that they should not buy goods any
cheaper than we do, if as cheap, pro-
viding they buy the same quality of
goods. This gives us confidence that
we shall be able to meet them fairly
upon their own ground.

Let us observe their manner of doing
business. If they advertise that, on a
certain day, they will sell goods in our
line at certain prices, let us have the
same goods to sell at a better price. If
nceessary, let us use the telegraph and
express companies. to get these goods,
and charge to expense of doing business
any loss incurred thereby. Let us not
complain to our customers of the price
they make; but, if we must complain,
let us make the quality of their goods
our lament and have better goods to
show in comparison. Let us have an
understanding with one or two dealers in
other affected lines to do the same in
their lines. And let us add to our stock
the new goods which from time to time
are placed upon the market and which
seem to be desirable, placing upon them
a fair and legitimate profit, at the same
time keeping up our stock of staples,
having in mind the idea of increasing
rather than diminishing the line of
goods carried, thereby making it desir-
able for our customers to call upon us
first for any goods wanted. Let us not
ignore either their goods or prices, but
fight them continually in every legiti-
mate manner. Had we, as hardware
merchants, started in with this policy
ten years ago, I question whether there
would be a town of less than 20,000 in-
habitants that would have a successful
department store to-day.

Gentlemen, I thank you for your pa-
tience in listening to me, as I feel that
I have not introduced any new ideas.
If I have encouraged any of you in the
fight you are carrying on for the busi-
ness that rightfully belongs to you, I
shall certainly be gratified. As I have
broken the ice on this subject, which is
an important one toall of us, I sincerely
trust that a very free discussion will
take place, from which we cannot fail
to gather many new and _ beneficial
ideas.

In conclusion, I may add that a great
deal of the theory here advocated, asa
remedy for our individual cases, the

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be done singlehanded, and tinat the re-
sult has been gratifying tous. Whether
it has been so pleasing to the ‘‘it,’’ or
the ‘‘Is-er,’’ Iam unable to state definite-
ly; but if hearsay evidence is to be be-
lieved, I should say, ‘‘Nit!’’

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Mill Iron, June 20—Aie_ skal tal yo
somtang hapan bae das Dutch Tavarn
bae Yonie De Haas. A fallar, bae nam
Yon McLaughlin, bane vorkang bae
Ryerscn & Hill camp. Hae gatang
bad cold an hae com bae Fremont. Hae
stopang bae Yonie’s tavarn, an Yonie,
hae tal ham go an gatang som Yanes’
axpactarant das skal cure has cold. Yon
go an gatang bottal, an hae bane bae
das offace stove bout half our, an Yonie,
hae sae ham takang dose, an hae notace
das bottal bout half gon. Hae sae bae
Yon McGlaughlin, ‘‘Das bottal bane
half amty. Yo takang all das?’’ Yon
sae, ‘‘ Yas; fallar tal mae tak at tal an
aie skal axpactarate asy.’’ Yonie sar,
‘“Das bane to much. Aie tank yo bat-
tar lae down an tak nap, antak no more
of das stuf.*’ Hae say, ‘‘Aie bane hun-
gra. Aie skal atang somtang. Das skal
makang mae gude dal battar.’’ Yonie
brang ham bae dinang rom, an Yump-
ing Yerusalam! das fallar, hae atang
avarytang on table. Yonie tal ham hae
skal quit—das was no gude to ate so
mach. Wal, fallar com bae bad, an hae
bane bad half our. Yonie har ham
makang funy nois an lookang in rom.
Hae sae fallar was dieang. Hae call-
ang Dr. Quick, but fallar gon ovar das
Raver dam Preachar fallar talang bout.
Das rom bane in Smoky Row. (Das
bane wat fallars call das part of tav-
arn.) Aie fallar bane Irish an hae
gotang gude yag on. Hae fallang down
bae offace, an Yonie tallang som onder
fallar, ‘Tak ham up bae Smoky Row
an lae bam on bad. Das vill bane
gude yoke put ham bae sam rome. Yon
McLaughlin. Hae skal not dasturb ham.
Whan das Irish fallar wakang an sae
Yon bae ham, hae tryang to gat ham
wake, an Yonie vill har ham an
com an tal Irish hae bane dead.’’ Som
fallars tak ham up,an Yumping Yiminy!
das Irish fallar, hae makang big yump
an holar. Hae bane runang yat, aie
tank! Hae navar com _ back—Yonie
navar sae ham agan. Aie skal tank
Yonie’s tavarn bane Ho Do far fallar
wid yay on. YONIE YONSON.

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Microbes Don’t Like Money.

Metals are fatal to microbes, so_ there
is little danger that bacteria may be
transferred on coins. A scientist says
that at a temperature of 95 to 100 de-
grees F., which is common in the pock-
ets where money is carried, the destruc-
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A new business has sprung up—win-
dow card writing. The general com-
petition in the improvement of adver-
tising is responsible for this. Retailers
in most large cities contest strongly for
first position in the attractiveness of
their windows and general advertising
display. It is almost impossible for the
average retailer to make window cards
that are neat and attractive, and their
efforts usually result in only a badly-
written, poorly-punctuated, clumsily-
painted sign. It was the full realiza-
tion of this which suggested the paint-
ing of signs to the ambitious youth,
whose ideas have since been followed in
almost every large city in the country.
The card writer goes from store to store
He studies the stock, talks with the
proprietor, finds out what he wants to
advertise, and gets all the general in-
formation he can secure. Then, in his
own bright and breezy way, he tells the
story attractively and ina few words
Bright card writers make several thou-
sand dollars a year; and so well does the
work repay the retailer that the price he
pays for it is never begrudged.

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Kaiser Wilhelm is making room rap-
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summarily retired fifteen generals, which
makes thirty general officers retired in
the past three months.

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VALUE OF HARMONY.

Best Method of Creating and Main-
taining It.*

‘“‘Harmony is the strength and sup-
port of all institutions, but more espe-
cially it is of ours,’’ is the motto of one
of the strongest institutions of which the
world boasts to-day, except, perhaps,
the church. Abraham Lincoln said, up-
on the field of Gettysburg, ‘‘A house di-
vided against itself will fail.’’ Har-
mony is essential to success in all
business of life. Any institution which
contains discord within itself must,
sooner or later, either, first, go down or,
second, eradicate the discord.

The subject which I will discuss be-
fore you is harmony between manufac-
turer and retailer and jobber and re-
tailer; but I presume it is not to be con-
strued to explain how harmony can be
brought about -etween the manufac-
turer and jobber.

It has always seemed to me, in my
limited experience, that the jobber and
retailer are not in sufficiently close
touch with each other. It appears to
me it would be wise for each jobber to
visit his customers and get acquainted
with them. We have known men doing
business together for years and never
having seen each other. This is not
conducive to friendship or advantages
for either side. When we know a person
we have more confidence in him than
we do when we are not acquainted with
him. When little differences arise be-
tween the jobber and retailer, these
differences could be more easily ad-
justed and more readily and satisfac-
torily settled if the parties in question
were personally acquainted with each
other.

One of the grievances that the retailer
has against the jobber and the manu-
facturer is that they are always pushing
their business out at many of the small
four-corner country stores and in some
cases to consumers. They are quoting
these country stores just as low prices
as they do the exclusive hardware deal-
er. This has doubtless been brought
about by the stringency of the times,
making it necessary for the jobber and
the manufacturer to reach out and make
every effort to get all possible trade.
This has not increased their sales—for
about so much hardware would be sold
anyway—it has simply divided their
trade, for the more the country store
buys, the less the regular hardware deal-
er can sell.

The principal evil which comes from
this is that the country dealers sell to
the farmers who live in their vicinity
stoves and other staple hardware, not
carried in stock, at cost, or perhaps 5

er cent. above cost. The farmer’s
riend learns that he has purchased a
stove very cheap, and the next time he
visits the village prices the same sort
of stove in the store of the regular hard-
ware dealer, who quotes his customer a
price at a legitimate profit. The cus-
tomer says to the dealer, ‘‘ My friend
purchased of Mr. So-and-So the same
stove for considerably less than you are
now offering it to me.’’ The result is,
the confidence of the customer in the
dealer is shaken and the dealer must
either retail at cost or lose the customer.

Another thing which tends to infuse
acid into the anatomy of the retail deal-
er is the back order sheet which accom-
panies nearly every invoice of any size,
across the bottom of which is written,
‘*Entirely out cf these goods and cannot
buy in the city. Expect some ina few
days.’’ This may be true, but it ap-
pears to us so often that we are inclined
to think in many cases that it is a mat-
ter of form, instead of a statement of
fact. It seems hardly possible that in
such a hardware market as Detroit, with
its four mammoth stocks, all the houses
should be out of the same goods at the
“same time. If the jobber knew how
much the customer was in need of these
goods in question, he would makea
greater effort to complete the order.

It is decidedly unpleasant to order a
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them at a certain time, and upon receiv-
ing them find a part of them short, and
perhaps the part short is just the article
you have sold and promised to your cus-
tomer. By this the retailer disappoints
and, perhaps, loses a customer. The
kind of shortage referred to is not the
kind told us in our last meeting by our
big friend Jockim from the Upper Pen-
insula,

_ It would seem to me that such a feel-
ing of good will and spirit of harmony
should, and I have good reason to think
does, prevail among the jobbers that, in
case any one of them found their stock
of some particular article exhausted, he
could step into his neighbor’s ware-
house and get the article at a slight ad
vance above cost. In this way the order
could be filled at a profit to the selling
jobber and the retailer and the customer
and all would be made happy. After
all, it is the little things in life that
make things harmonious, and he who
is not willing to accommodate a friend
is not in the best attitude to get the
most out of life. Jobbers, let us do
away with the back order sheet!

Another serious irritation is substitu-
tion, which is, as a rule, a great annoy-
ance to the retailer and often turns out
to be disagreeable to the jobber or the
manufacturer. Ina great many cases,
when goods are received by the retailer,
he finds that some articles have been
substituted for articles which he or-
dered. Many times he has in stock a
quantity of goods he _ has received by
way of substitution. This is very pro-
voking and, being angry on the inspi-
ration of the moment, he nails up the
box and before he has sufficiently cooled
off to realize what he has really done,
the goods are on their way to the depot,
marked with a lead pencil on a piece of
pasteboard tacked onto the box, without
his name appearing upon the shipment.
If he writes the jobber at all, it is done
when he is still provoked, and he calls
down the shipper in no uncertain tones.
When in such a state of mind, he can-
not think of anything mean enough to
say. If he would wait until he had al-
lowed the July zephyrs to fan him for a
short time, the chances are he would
not have written the testy letter at all.
The goods come in and are turned over
to the Claim Clerk ; he looks at the ship-
ping tag to see where they are from and,
not finding the knowledge he seeks,
waits for the letter which, perhaps, never
comes to explain that the goods have
been returned and why. It is our
opinion that substitution should not be
done unless by permission of the re-
tailer.

It would seem to us that an under-
standing could be had witb all custom-
ers, so that less trouble and dissatisfac-
tion would arise from this phase of our
business transactions. In my opinion,
the consent of all customers should be
gotten before any substitutions whatever
are made. Ky taking this precaution,
less trouble would arise and the retailer
would not feel that the goods had been
forced upon him.

Again, many times the substituting is
done by some clerk in the jobber’s office
who is entirely unacquainted with the
needs of the stock = the average re-
tailer. Then there is the other side.
The jobber or the manufacturer may
think that he is doing what is best for
the retailer and doing what he thinks
would please the retailer most when he
substitutes. When goods are to be re-
turned, Jet the retailer write the jobber
or manufacturer and get permission or
shipping instructions. Ofttimes the
jobber and manufacturer would have
goods shipped to some other point and
thus freight could be saved. Let us,
when we return goods, mark the pack-
age, putting our own name upon the
box, and send an invoice of the articles,
also bill of lading, and by this system
we will help the jobber and the manu-
facturer, and a spirit of harmony will
be fostered between us.

In making claims we are quite apt to
exaggerate the circumstances, thinking
it 1S necessary in order to get our just
dues. This has been done so often that
the jobber and the manufacturer have,
to a certain extent, lost confidence in
the retailer.

 

When differences arise, why cannot
the jobber er manufacturer give the
traveling salesman authority to adjust
these differences? This has been brought
up in one of our previous meetings.
Some have claimed that the traveling
salesman has enough to do to sell the
goods without collecting accounts or ad-
justing claims. This may be true, but
the traveling man _ should be in closer
touch with the retailer than is the form-
er, thereby settling more satisfactorily
than it could be done by a cold type-
written letter from some unknown clerk
at the office. If he isnot in closer touch,
he had better get off the road and give
his position to some one who will make
friends with those with whom he comes
in personal contact.

Again, I am of the opinion that, if the
traveling men were allowed to adjust
claims and settle differences, many a
time it would be met with a more
friendly handshake; little differences
would be adjusted and the traveling
man, before he left the retailer, would
be able to not only adjust any of the
old differences, but to sell him a new
bill of goods as well. Ifhe is a compe-
tent man, he will not deviate from his
judgment in settling, any more than he
would in selling a bill of goods. Of
course, we very often come across some
of those everlasting kickers who are
always entering large and unreasonable
claims. It would seem to us, when the
house comes in contact with such a per-
son, it would be better to drop him cold.
After be has been so dropped by two or
three houses, he will see the folly of his
stubbornness and will make some one a
good, agreeable and profitable custom-
er. Houses are sending out competent
salesmen and I think they should have
authority to represent their house.

Again, we should always answer cor-
respondence and do it promptly. This
is a part of tke business that is very es-
sential and should be done systematic-
ally. We are sorry to know that this is
ordinarily much neglected. If one re-
ceives a communication from a firm or
an individual, he should not throw it
into the waste paper basket. It may
not be of much importance to the re-
ceiver, but the writer is interested and
he should be shown courtesy. It is not
much trouble to answer a letter and give
the person the information desired. It
is not to be supposed that one is to an-
swer every circular letter that he re-
ceives, but one will find that he will be
better posted on the new goods coming
on the market, if he reads the circular
letters.

There is nothing so conducive to har-
mony as promptness in the paying of
bills and promptness in attending to
drafts. It is exceedingly provoking to
the jobber to have a man ignore a draft
when it is due. It causes the jobber to
write for an explanation, but many
times the customer will be as dumb as
an oyster and a_ second draft is sent.
This one is, perhaps, accepted, but is
allowed to return unpaid. This is, in-
deed, very unbusinesslike and exceed-
ingly exasperating. When an account
becomes due and he wants an extension,

let him ask for it. If the request is
consistent, it will nearly always be
granted, and a feeling of confidence

and harmony will be fostered between
the house and the retailer.

I have had so little experience in job-
bing that I hardly feel competent to
recommend or offer suggestions which |
think will help us retailers to keep the
jobber and the manufacturer wearing a
smile and feeling kindly toward us, but I
trust that the old and experienced heads
will not hesitate to express their views
and give us the benefit of their experi-
ence.

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In the Name of Sweet Charity.

The apostle Paul gave Charity a num-
ber 1 recommendation to the Corin-
thians, and it has given her prestige in
society ever since. In fact, being pro-
claimed the greatest of all the graces
has made the cloak of Charity an ultra-
fashionable garment at all seasons.

‘‘T have come to you, Mrs. Jones,’’
said Mr. Brown, ‘‘to help you along. I

feel great sympathy for widows with lit-
tle children to support, and I will let
you board my son. I'll pay you $8a
month for his board and lodging, and,
considering the company he will be for
you, that’s big rates. He won’t eat near
the worth of that, but I’ll pay it just to
help you along. I always was _ chari-
table. "’

‘*T don’t care to take boarders, sir,’’
coldly replied Mrs. Jones.

‘What! Not board my boy? Well,
well, how ungrateful some people are!
Good day, ma’am. I’m sorry you don’t
appreciate my effort to aid you.’’

‘*T'll pay you $2.50 a day, madam, for
your stenographic work in the court-
room, ’’ said the sleek, shrewd lawyer,
as a woman handed him a bundle of
neatly-typewritten manuscript.

Three long, sultry days had this wom-
an written in the smoke and whisky-
smelling air of the court-room, and then
for days had bent over the typewriter
transcribing her notes, and $7.50 was

*

offered her as a remuneration. ‘‘We
could have gotten a man to do the
work,’’ continued the lawyer, ‘‘but em-

ployed you to aid you, as you are self-
supporting. ’

She was not a meek woman, so she
replied, ‘‘I did the work as well asa
man, and I demand a man’s pay. I'll
burn this testimony, and you can have
your old trial over again and pay a man
full prices.’’ She began gathering up
the papers, but—the pay came, and not
as charity.

‘‘T’ve brought you this dress to make,
Miss Smith,’’ said Mrs. Croesus, ‘‘be-
cause you need the money to help you

support your crippled mother. Will you
make it for $2.50? Of course, I could
get Miss Style to make it, and pay

more, but I want to help you.’

“*Ti’s small pay for the work,’’ said
Miss Smith, ‘‘but I’ll do it, because I
am so much in need of the money.’’

A few days later Mrs. Croesus returned
to have the dress made over by a differ-
ent pattern, as the first mode ‘‘was so
unbecoming.’’ Patiently the weary
dressmaker ripped and remodeled the
dress, and for her pay received $2.25.

‘‘T would have paid you the $2.50 I
promised,’’ said Mrs. Croesus, ‘‘but it
was so unbecoming at first, and mak-
ing it over really injured the looks, be-
sides costing me more goods.’’

‘*T made it at first just as you told me
to,’’ meekly replied Miss Smith.

‘*That. comes of trying to be chari-
table,’’ indignantly replied Mrs. Croesus
as she marched out of the dressmaker’s
humble home.

‘*Your dress is so pretty and_ stylish,
Mrs. Croesus, ’ whispered Mrs. Lofty as
the two ladies sat in church the next
Sunday waiting for the services to be-
gin.

‘*Do you really think so, dear?’’ re-
plied Mrs. Croesus, complacently shak-
ing out her ruffles. ‘‘I made sucha
sacrifice to have this dress made that I
caJl it my charity robe. I let poor Miss
Smith make it because they are so
needy.’

‘*You dear charitable soul !’’ respond.
ed her friend.

As Mrs. Croesus tossed her pretty
head, I wondered, when rich and poor,
great and small, stand before the judg-
ment throne, will the ‘‘charity robe’
be ample enough to cover her shortcom-
ings, or deeds done in charity’s name?

JENNIE N. STANDIFER.
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Shoes and Leather

How Far the Amateur Cobbling Evil
Has Affected Trade.
From the Shoe and Leather Gazette.

‘* Does the selling of cheap repair out-
fits and leather to amateur cobblers hurt
the legitimate cobbler and shoemaker?’’
was the query put by a Gazette repre-
sentative to a leather and findings deal-
er whose trade with retailers and shoe-
makers is extensive,

‘*Not to any such extent as many of
the craft imagine,’’ was the replv.

“When the St. Louis Retail Shoe Mer-
chants’ Association agitated the subject
a year ago, requesting findings dealers
to cease selling leather to others than
shoemakers, I looked into the matter,
and I can say with safety that very_little
real injury is done to the legitimate
trade by the amateur cobbler.’’

‘“What is your view of the subject in
detail?’’ asked the Gazette representa-
tive.

‘‘It is this: The city man who buys
leather and does his own repairing does
itas a makeshift. He wants to tide
matters along until he has money for a
new pair of shoes for himself, for his
wife or for the children. By paying a
dime for a piece of leather he thinks he
can make the worn-out shoe last a little
longer, and accordingly he tacks ona
half sole, where if he were obliged to
pay the shoemaker half a dollar for the
work he would throw the shoes away, as
being more economical. ’’

‘*How about the country amateur cob-
bler?”’

‘“‘Well, he is a cobbler through neces-
sity. Sometimes not, of course, but as
a rule the amateur cobbler in the coun-
try is so far removed from a shoemaker
that he is forced to act as his own St.
Crispin or go without.

‘‘This same comment may be made
on the matter of the cheap 75-cent and
$1 cobbling outfits that are being sold
broadcast, through wholesale grocers
and hardware houses chiefly. For the
most part these go, I believe, to small
towns South and West—towns with 75
to 150 population—where a shoemaker
would starve to death and hence where
there are none. I do not believe that
these outfits come into competition with
the legitimate trade sufficiently to make
it a burden.

‘And what if they do? Hasn’t any
man a perfect right to mend his own
shoes if he can? Has the shoemaker a
right to interfere with him?’’

Another findings dealer said to the
Gazette, ‘‘I concur in the belief that lit-
tle real harm is done the shoemaker by
the amateur cobbler. As you have al-
ready been told, the largest part of this
work in the city is done to give a little
additional wear to shoes that are prac-
tically worn out and worthless—chiefly
children’s shoes. Then — workmen
who buy new heavy-soled_ shoes fre-
quently spend a few cents for a couple
of right and left taps. which they nail
onto the new shoes to give extra wear.
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beating the shoemaker out of a job.’’
Said a retailer to the Gazette, ‘‘ Yes,
we have felt the competition of the

amateur cobbler in a slight degree—not
nearly so much, however, as other deal-
ers, | understand. We keep two shoe-
makers busy all the time and that is all
we ever have had regularly.

‘‘T attribute the increase in amateur

cobbling to the hard times, so far as
the city is concerned at least.
‘The workingman who is not em

ployed all the time is not only forced
to economize, but he has time to do
things about the house that he would not
if he were busy every day in the week.

‘ “Well,” he says, ‘I don’t work to-
morrow ; I'll fix up the kid’s shoes.’ If
he were working every day he would be
too tired when night came to do any
cobbling and would tell his wife, ‘Take
‘em to the shoemaker and let him make
a few dimes.’

‘*This, at least, is the way I look at
the matter. Once we have gotten back
to good times, with men employed as
formerly and money in their pockets, I

 

don’t think we will be troubled with
amateur cobblers’ competition.

**One phase of this evil kills itself:
You might call it amateur-professional
cobbling. For instance, a young man
near here bought a repair outfit for a
dollar. He repaired the shoes of his
family and then branched out, soliciting
his friends’ trade at cut prices. I asked
one of his customers how it worked.
‘No more of it in mine,’ he laughed;
‘I paid him a quarter for doing the job
and then threw the shoes away. |
couldn’t wear 'em.’ This phase of the
trouble, as I say, kills itself.

‘‘Our association tried to put a stop
to this home cobbling business by bind-
ing leather dealers not to sell to parties
other than shoemakers, but the plan is
impracticable. If the leather dealer
agreed to this and lived up to it the
result we desire would nct be secured.
The amateur cobbler could get all the
leather he could pay for at groceries and
hardware stores.

‘*For all I can see, thisis a trouble we
must grin and bear until times are bet-
ter. After all,1 don’t consider it nearly
as aggravated a case as some of our
more pessimistic competitors imagine.
Probably the more logical thing to do
would be to adopt some plan of com-
pelling people to buy $3, $4 and $5 shoes
instead of $1, $1.50 and $2. stuff—then
there would be some excuse for paying
75 cents to a dollar for repairs, where
under present conditions a new pair of
shoes is cheaper and more sensible.’’

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Good Things Said by Up-to-Date Shoe
Dealers.

It is not a question of price alone, for
we have good shoes at all prices. It’s
the quality, style and fit that we take so
much pains to have in every pair of
shoes we sell.—Hahne & Co., Newark,
N.

‘““They squash out,’’ is the short but
expressive reason one woman gave for
not wearing low shoes. Our $1.50 shoes
hold their shape well. They are made
just as our $2.50 high shoes are made,
and you get more hot-weather comfort
for a dollar less.—Gimbel Bros., Phila.

Eight hundred pairs of shoes—for
women and children—were coming to
us from their very good makers when
the train that carried them was wrecked.
They’re a bit worse for dust and maybe,
here and there, from water, but we make
dimes of discount for cents of damage.
—Jobn Wanamaker, Phila.

That big shoe deal created a stir
among shoe wearers that’s as enduring
as the shoes themselves. Every pair
sold the first week brought in town new
customers the next. A good thing will
not down. Every customer paying $1.98
for these shoes feels perfectly contented
that she is getting a shoe worth from $3
to $6--the shoe is there to show it. Lots
of ’em left yet.—John C. Lewis Co.,
Louisville.

The season for the selling of summer
footwear practically ends with June,
and, while there’s little left of June,
there’s a great deal left of the stock we
bought for spring and summer selling.
It hasn’t moved as we expected it would,
because the hot weather, like prosper-
ity, has evidently run in on a siding
somewhere. Neither has materialized,
and we’re stuck—that’s the word—stuck !
—H. Johnson, Altoona, Pa.

Do not be misled. This is our fa-
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about it lately —didn’t have to, for, once
tried, this superb shoe gets a life posi-
tion. Dealers everywhere try to equal
it at $1.98, but, as yet, just one firm has
succeeded—that’s Partridge & Richard-
son. Every effort of capital and brains
is bent in the direction of betterment
in the factory which does naught else but
make us this inimitable $1.98 shoe. So
far, $3 is the lowest price which will
buy its equal, and its exact counterpart
is unobtainable except here—the lasts
Phils —Partridge & Richardson,

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JANE CRAGIN.

 

Cy Comes to a Definite Conclusion.
Written for the TRADESMAN.

With the consciousness that he had
been justly, and yet most unjustly,
treated, Cy turned trom the only human
being he had ever really loved and went
to his room, half penitent and half de-
flant. He had, with shame he confessed
it, in the intensity of his passion, said
that which already he was sorry for and
repented of in dust and ashes; but with
this was the feeling that, even at the
worst, at least a little could be said in
his favor. He was the last man in the
world to think it—much less to say it—
but he could not help remembering what
sacrifices he had been always making
for this woman, who had just now
branded him ‘‘villain;’’ and with all
that he might have said, and in justice
to himself ought to have said, he had
heard, had endured, her burning words
like a craven. The thought stung him
to madness and impulsively he turned
to the door, determined that she should
take back what she had said, or find to
her cost that there were on her side of
the account items for which she alone
was responsible.

His determination weakened, how-
ever, before he reached the door. He
might be a craven Jane Cragin’s
eyes, but he would not be one in his
own; and that he would be, should he
yield to the thought that had just con-
trolled him. ‘‘To suffer and be strong’’
was the lot he had long ago chosen and
he would not add to that suffering —hers
or his—-by fighting against fate now.
After all, Jane was right. He had com-
promised her, himself and the other two.
He alone should make amends for it,
and he could do it in no surer way than
by silent endurance. Lighting a cigar,
he threw himself into the easy chair
Jane’s forethought had provided and
crowded out the hateful thoughts that
tortured him by kinder ones of Jane.
Back over the enchanted past he wan-
dered, loitering here and lingering
there, recalling everywhere the constant
joy she had been to him; and, just as
he had reached that point where he
could say and feel that he forgave her,
there was a timid knock at the door.

He knew it was Jane and he knew for
what she had come. Should he bid her
come in? Hisresentment for an instant
restrained him and then, ashamed of
himself, with forgiveness in his voice
he cailed, ‘‘Come in.’’

He did not rise as she entered, and,
closing the door, she sank down upon
the nearest chair, the picture of utter
wretchedness. Lifting her eyes to his
face, she found nothing to encourage or
comfort her. Stern and repellant, he
sat in silence and looked out upon the
mountains.

‘‘I—I don’t know, Cyrus,’’ at last she
faltered, ‘‘but what | said too much to
you just now.’’

She waited a moment as if to gather
courage to goon; and during that mo-
ment the tide turned in the man’s vast
ocean of love and came pouring back
upon him with irresistible and over-
whelming power. It lifted him from his
chair and bore him to her side.

‘*Don’t say another word, Jane,’’ he
said. ‘‘I cannot have it; I cannot bear
it. Come sit with me near the window
—not lovers, now, but friends—and let
us, as the dearest friends the world has
ever seen, forgive all that is needed to
be forgiven and forget, or—or try to for-
get—all that never should have been.”’

The notion pleased her and, leading

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her to the recessed window, he sat with
his arm about her and her head upon
his shoulder; and there they sat com-
muning together and ended with under-
standing each other as they never had
done before. Then, putting gently back
the arm that encircled her, Jane rose
and, taking Cy’s face in her hands, she
drew it to her own and fervently kissed
his forehead; and so would have left
him, but as they reached the door, he
pressed to his lips the hand that his own
had clasped and there, with a silent
blessing and forgiveness, if there was
anything to forgive, the old life was
ended and the new one begun.

Cy closed the door and took his seat
again in the window.

**She is dead to me,’’ he said; ‘‘but
I can be true to her blessed memory.
Henceforth, I will live for that alone,
and —’’

He did not go on. For a moment his
heart stopped beating, and in that dead
silence he heard again Jane’s bitter de-
nunciation of his conduct.

‘*There is but one course left for me.
I can never be true to her memory, I can
never be true to myself, by living a lie
with Marjory. Sooner or later it will
be sure to come out; and, humiliating
as it will be to me and cruel as it will
be to Marjory, there will be less for
both to suffer if the truth be stated now.
—Still, why need she know? Men, be-
fore, have loved and lost. The world
has looked dark to them, but time has
healed the wound and, although the scar
is left, the after-life has been worth the
living. That Marjory loves me, there
is not a doubt. That I shall learn to love
her, I am equally certain; and yet, I
even urged Jane to throw over the Doc-
tor as I was ready to—to leave Marjory!
—I’ve a great mind to ask Jane.—But
then, these women always look at such
things from only one side—their side;
and I know what she’d say.—There’s
Smith—I might ask him. That fellow
has seen right through me and the whole
of this wretched business from the first,
I'l] bet ten dollars. He has a level
head on him, anyway, and he’s looking
at the affair from the man’s side of the
fence. I believe that’s the thing to do,
after all. I'll take him out driving to-
morrow and just give him the whole
Story. |”

He didn’t, however. For days he
brooded over the question without reach-
ing any definite conclusion; and, at
last, coming home late one evening
from a moonlight drive with Marjory,
he went to his room, shut the door and
locked it, gave himself a look of wither-
ing contempt in the mirror and thought,
if he did not say it, ‘‘I guess I’d better
tell ye, Cy Huxley, what I think of ye.
For four good days, now, you've been
trying to be straightforward and honest
with one of the best women on earth,
whom you know you've been under-
handed with. Now, this thing’s going
to stop right here. If you are a sneak
and a scamp, say so. If you area
coward, say that and be done with it;
but we ain’t going to have any more 0’
this. Now, to-morrow you and the Doc-
tor are going to Wilson's Canon with the
girls. When you get out the Canon, on
your way back, you settle this business
like a man—if you know what’s good for
you. D—n such folks as you!’’

RICHARD MALCOLM STRONG.
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THE OTHER SIDE.

Communication from a Noted Spanish
Author.

New York, July 9—In one of your re-
cent issues you devote some space to
comment upon a report from the De-
partment of Agriculture at Washington,
touching the effects of the Cuban insur-
rection upon the trade of this country.

You seem to have taken said report
with eyes closed and never stopped to
enquire whether other causes besides the
insurrection have contributed to cripple
the commerce of the United States with
the Island. Had you studied the ques-
tion carefully, without prejudice and
without passion, you would have dis-
covered not only that the diminution of
trade between Cuba and the United
States coincided with the repeal of the
McKinley tariff act, and its reciprocity
clause, but also that the sudden _ in-
crease of late in said commerce dated
from the enfercement of said act.

You assert, however, what is true
when you say: ‘‘ During the early years
of the present decade our Cuban trade
had received a material impetus, the
years 1887 to 1893, inclusive, showing
uninterrupted gains, and, but for the
opening of the war, a stili greater ex-
pansion, it is predicted, probably would
have followed. ’’

Of course, the impetus and uninter-
rupted gains attained by our Cuban
trade during a period of peace were
made possible by Spanish rule in Cuba,
under which the Island recovered from
the depression caused by the first in-
surrection, which lasted ten years. Be-
fore that revolt broke out, Cuba had no
debt. To put down the rebellion a
debt was created, and yet, in spite of
this debt, the country was fast regaining
its wealth and prosperity, when another
mad insurrection, concocted abroad, was
forced upon the Island. It was not the
people of Cuba who raised the flag of
rebellion. The movement began in the
United States and it was sprung upon
the peaceful Cubans. Marti, Gomez,
Maceo, Garcia, Roloff—all the princi-
pal leaders of the insurrection—were
living abroad. Not one of them had
any interest in Cuba, nota farthing to
lose, not a home to protect. They were
all outsiders. Some of them, like Gomez
and Roloff, are not even Cubans.

They were the first to adopt the bar-
barous, atrocious expedient of burning
everything they found in their path.
The proclamations of Gomez, directing
his men to apply the torch relentlessly,
and of Roloff, threatening to blow up
passenger trains with dynamite, are his-
torical facts. Peaceful men were un-
mercifully hung by orders of Gomez and
Maceo, simply because they would not
join the rebel ranks.

Why do you not raise your voice against
these heartless culprits? Why do you
say that ‘‘the loss of trade has been
caused largely by the barbarous, me-
dieval methods of warfare employed by
Spain, contrary not only to the usages of
modern civilization but to the common
impulses of humanity?’’ Do you not

know that the efforts of Spain have been

THE

 

to prevent any further loss of life and
property? Do you not know that the
stories of cruelties ascribed to the
Spanish troops are internal jies, con-
cocted by correspondents at the instiga-
tion of revolutionary agents and en-
couraged by the unscrupulous editors of
sensational sheets? Do you not know
that no more atrocious deeds have been
committed by Spanish troops than were
committed by Union and Confederate
soldiers during the war of secession?

When it is known that Cuba was
progressing rapidly towards prosperity
when this uncalled-for rebellion broke
out; when it is evident that the barba-
rous methods employed by the insurgents
bave caused the ruin and desolation of
the Island, where is the logic of your
remark that ‘‘the showing of our crip-
pled commerce ought to arouse the ac-
tive sympathy of the people for the
struggling patriots?’’

Before you honor those men with the
name of ‘‘patriots,’’ it would be well to
find out who they are. If they represent
the views of the Cuban people, how do
you explain that one million and a half
of inhabitants have refused to follow
them? Do you suppose that any army
from Spain could hold down the whole
population of Cuba if it really wanted
to be free?

It 1s curious to see the American
press and some public men urging the
Government to impress upon Spain the
necessity of putting down the insurrec-
tion.

Inasmuch as the head of the insur-
rection is in New York, and the insur-
gents obtain their arms and ammunition
in the United States, would it not be
more proper, more decent and more in
keeping with the spirit of justice and fair
play to ask the insurgents to put a_ stop
to their useless and devastating strug-
gle? The Cuban revolutionary Junta is
permitted to break the laws of this fair
land by enlisting men, buying arms, or-
ganizing expeditions and issuing bonds,
postage stamps and silver coins ofa
fraudulent republic, for it does not
exist, and not a single voice in the land
is raised to upbraid this constant vivo-
lation of the law and of the treaties!

To prevent this is what national honor
and fair dealing demand. While the
United States harbors a group of agita-
tors, conspirators and revolutionists who
plot against the integrity of a friendly
nation—a nation to which this country
from its birth owes a great debt of grat-
itude—a cause of irritation and friction
will exist which will lay this nation
open to the accusation of not being hon-
est in its international dealings.

As S. T. Wallis said in his book,
‘‘Spain, her Institutions, Politics and
Public Men,’’ alluding to the conduct
of the United States on a similar oc-
casion: ‘*The obligation of nations to
observe their treaties incontestably
obviously involves the duty of enacting
laws which shall compel that obser-
vance, to the letter, on the part of their
own Citizens. When, therefore, a peo-
ple who are peremptory in exacting the
strictest performance of treaty stipula-
tions from others set up the nature of
their own institutions as a reason for

 

their inability to keep as strictly the
faith which they have positively pledged,
they have no right to marvel if their
honesty be brought in question.’’
ARTURO CUYAS,
The Tradesman publishes the above
communication solely in the interest of
fair play—on the principle of ‘‘giving
the devil his due’’—expressly disclaim-
ing any responsibility for the state-
ments of the author and frankly assert-
ing that it has no sympathy with the
cause of Spain in her treatment of Cuba
or any other American dependency of
the Spanish crown. While the policy
of Spain in dealing with the Cuban in-
surgents has been infamous, her policy
toward the Island in times of peace has
been scarcely less reprehensible, the
taxes exacted on the importation of
American goods into Cuba having been
so extortionate as to reduce the Cubans
to a starvation basis. Leaving aside the

 

monstrous deeds committed in the name
of Spain during the war, and the in-
famous manner in which American citi-
zens have been treated by Spanish offi-
cials and soldiers, the policy of Spain
in times of peace plainly demonstrates
that she is unfit to govern and that the
Cubans had better die in dungeons and
starve in the mountains than submit to
the yoke of a nation composed of im-
beciles and monsters!
a
As a precaution against accidental
poisoning, the German government has
passed a law requiring all drugs intend-
ed for internal use to be put in round
bottles, and those which are only used
externally to be placed in hexagonal
bottles.
SET
The more you puff a cigar the smaller
it becomes. And that is the way with
some men.

 

 

Paneas ane

CN

 

 

We warrant our make of wagons and consequently

 

 

Not How Cheap
But How Good

 

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.

“PEERLESS” 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.

Petersburg, Ba., June 24, 97.

GENTLEMEN: ‘The three Peerless Counters have been in use just one week and are the

cynosure of ev ery person.
impossible to overlook a box of cakes, etc.

Tam satisfied that they will pay for themselves in a few months, as now it is
} The saving from
thing of the past wherever the ‘Peerless’? Counters are introc

a and loss from flies and dust are a
uced.

The counters are the greatest ornament and convenience that the retail grocer could introduce into

his store.

Iam confident that the sum invested in these pieces of furniture was well expended.

Wishing you much success, and hoping to hear from you again I am

Respectfull

GE

RGE L. MOODY.

FOLDING BATH TUBCO., pATENTEES AND SOLE MANUFACTURERS. MARSHAL, MICH.

 

 

 

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

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Commercial Travelers

Michigan Knights of the Grip.
President, Jas. F. HAMMELL, Lansing; Secretary,
D. C. Stagut, Flint; Treasurer, Cuas. McNo.ry,
Jackson. «

 

 

Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Association.

President, S. H. Hart, Detroit; Seeretary and
Treasurer, D. Morris, Detroit.

United Commercial Travelers of Michigan.
Chancellor, H. U. Marks, Detroit; Secretary,
Epwin Hupson, Flint; Treasurer, Gro. A. REY-
NOLDs, Saginaw.

Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual Acci-
dent Association.

President, A. F. Peake, Jackson; Secretary and
Treasurer, Gro. F. Owen, Grand Rapids.
Board of Directors—F. M. Trier, H. B. Fatr-
CHILD,Jas. N. BRADFORD, J. HENRY DAWLEY,GEO.

J. HEINZELMAN, CHas. S. Roprnson.

Lake Superior Commercial Travelers’ Club.

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

 

Gripsack Brigade.

Don’t try to feed your trade on taffy.
It won't fatten.

A weak man who has patience has a
substitute for strength.

The man who is absolutely satisfied
with himself pleases the devil

Men always buy bigger bills under the
warming rays from the sun of humor.

Only the brave deserve the fair. This
does not refer to hotel fare, although it
often takes a brave man to tackle it.

Charles J. Liford, of Ariand, has taken
a position as traveling salesman with
the Crown O11 and Grease Co.,of Cleve-
land.

Just at the same ratio in which your
competitor is pleased at finding faults in
you, he is displeased at finding per-
fections.

During these days when it is hot
enough to melt the buckles off a sample
case, the traveling man is earning twice
as much as he is paid.

The best drummers in the world are
Ease and Carelessness. They sell mort-
gages and failures and they get their
work in all right, all right.

Men who do the loudest talking and
blowing on the road always wind up by
giving a correct imitation of the fellow
who didn’t Know it was loaded.

Petty jealousies have always acted
and will always act as barriers to con-
cert of action among commercial trav-

elers. Human nature will have to be
changed.
Cam. Naugle, who has been behind

the counter several years for A. S.
Barber & Co., at Ithaca, has engaged
to travel for Melze, Smart & Co., of
Saginaw.

If the spirit of organization will take
hold of the commercial! travelers, they
will be able to exert a wonderful influ-
ence in the legislatures cf our states and
in Congress.

If any of the boys*would like to see
John A. Murray’s black hair turn red
and stand on end a la porcupine, just

ask him about his trip into Terre
Haute, Ind., as a ‘‘ho-bo,’’ and how he
was received there. The only thing

lacking was ‘‘a little German band’’ to
head the procession to make it complete
and almost an ovation.

P. M. Van Drezer (Olney & Judson
Grocer Co.), blinded by the heat on the
fourth floor, recently put his head
through one of the large windows at the
end of the hall at the Eagle Hotel,
whereupon Deacon Johnston telephoned
over to the store and enquired if Van
was in the habit of getting a jag on reg-
ularly. Considering Van's estiblished
reputation for sobriety, it is a question
whether the joke is on Van or the Dea-
con,

 

J. M. Wing has left the employ of
Deane Brothers & Lincoln, wholesale
grocers of Chicago, to take a similar
position with the John A. Tolman Co.
at an advanced salary.

Wilbur =. Burns (Olney & Judson
Grocer Co.) was recently driving with
Will Nicum, the soap salesman, in the
vicinity of Wakelee when they came to
a cornfield that was so long that Nicum
insisted that a man could not walk to
the end of it and back in an hour.
Burns insisted that it could be done
within that time and further stated that
he could make the trip with his grips
within the time specified. The money
was thereupon put up and Burns started
across the field, returning in time to
claim and receive the wager. The day
happened to be a hot one, however, and
by the time Burns got back it is said
that his face looked like a beefsteak and
that his clothing was as moist as though
he had walked through a pond. There
are rumorys in the air to the effect that
the farmer owning the farm proposes to
serve a Summons on Burns for trespass
the next time he goes to Wakelee, the
specific charge being that he trampled
down several dollars’ worth of growing
corn, but the report is probably exag-
gerated.

‘There are some _ businesses,’’ said
an old commercial traveler to the New
Orleans Picayune, ‘‘in which the line
of demarkation between a profession and
an automatic trade is wonderfully dis-
tinct, and I know of no business in the
world more thoroughly professional than
that of the hotel clerk who is imbued
with the professional possibilities of his
occupation. In the hands of some, hotel
clerkship becomes indeed a_ profession.
I have been on the road now for the
past twenty years and the longer I make
the hotel my home the more the idea
and the differentiation between profes-
sionalism and simply clerkship impress
themselves upon me. There are some
men behind hotel desks who exalt
their business into the rank of a distinct
profession. They are a study. They
realize to the fullest extent that they
are professional hosts, and from time
immemorial there has been no privilege
higher than that of host, you know. The
type of man I have in mind is the keen-
est reader of character and ot mind.
He is the gentleman, who is not only
always courteous, but he throws a dash
into his work which makes him forever
remembered. There is not the slight-
est little courtesy or convenience that he
ever overlooks. There is not a detail of
schedules with which he is not famil-
iarly acquainted. He can direct you to
the best route, and give you the time
of journey to the antipodes. He can tell
at a glance at his guest whether the man
is one in whom a remark on the weather
would disturb thoughts and anxieties
and cares of the weightiest nature. You
see this man come up to thecounter and
this strictly professional man behind
the desk is as silent as an oyster, his
one thought being to find out ata glance
what his guest seeks, for he sees in the
man’s face that the weather is not up-
permost, and that his guest does not
care a snap if Fitz did lick Corbett.
The next moment another man comes
up and immediately this same clerk is
all affability and animated conversation,
interesting and fuil of information. His
one thought is directed to being just
the sort of gentleman with reference to
his guests in the hotel that he would be
if President McKinley were the guest
at his private home.’’

 

The New Interchangeable
Book.

St. Johns, July 1t9—Will you kindly

Mileage

man the enclosed letter from Mr. Rug-
gles to Mr. Waldron; also add that the
book is now in the hands of the Audi-
tors, who are arranging the details in-
cident to placing it on the market. I
think it will be of interest to the travel-
ing men of Michigan, as they all read
the Tradesman. B. D. PALMER.

The letter to which Mr. Palmer refers
is as follows:

Chicago, July 14—I think you are en-
titled to much credit for your very in-
teligent as well as zealous and effective
work in the matter of the proposed in-
terchangeable mileage ticket, since you
have been able to recognize the differ-
ent phases of the subject and the ob-
stacles lying in the way of action that
shall be mutually satisfactory to all con-
cerned.

I have myself been very glad to do
what I could in that direction and to
smooth the way to harmonious and satis-
factory action, and I am quite sure that
you will recognize the great difficulty,
on the one side, of satisfying the objec-
tions and the scruples and the various
ideas entertained by more than thirty
different railroads, most, if not all, of
whom have the common desire to satisfy
so important a class of the public travel
as the users of mileage tickets. The
result attained I trust will prove entire-
ly satisfactory to all.

The commercial traveler now enjoys
the advantage of a single ticket, which
is good on and interchangeable on more
than thirty lines of railway, greatly re-
ducing the bulk of transportation he is
obliged to carry, as well as the original
outlay, and this, I think, with the min-
imum incovenience and the maximum
safeguard and protection to the lines
owning it.

The special feature to which you refer
I think will be found in practice to be
quite unobjectionable, but was deemed
a necessary one by the large’majority
of the roads interested.

I trust that the commercial travelers
will recognize the good will of the rail-
roads in taking the action they have,
and also the fact that anything that may
be fourd to be objectionable in the prac-
tical use of the interchangeable mileage
ticket will, as far as consistent with the
proper protection of the railroads, be
modified whenever experience shows it
to be necessary.

I heartily concur with you in the de-
sire that the new thousand mile _inter-
changeable ticket shall be as popular as
possible, and we shall be very glad in
the future, as in the past, to do every-
thing we can to produce that result.

O. W. RUGGLES,
GP. AL Mich. Central Ry.
- tem -
Jackson Traveling Men to Picnic at
Bawbeese Lake.

Jackson, July 17—Yourself, family
and friends are cordially invited to at-
tend the traveling men’s excursion and
basket picnic, to be held Wednesday,
July 28, 1897.

At a recent meeting of the traveling
men there was appointed a committee
to make arrangements for holding a bas-
ket picnic and general excursion. The
committee has selected Bawbeese Lake,
which is located one mile east of Hills-
dale, and is the most complete resort
accessible to Jackson. There is a large
lake, beautiful grove and grounds, with
all accommodations for your pleasure,
such as boats, bathing, tobogganing,
swings for the little ones and a very
large and commodious dancing pavilion
in which 200 couples can dance.

This excursion has been arranged
with a view of getting together as many
traveling men and their friends as_pos-
sible. So throw dull care away for one
day and bring your mother, wife and
habies, or, if you haven't any of these,
bring your best girl.

Tke amusements are ample—good
bathing, boating and numerous other

amusements. In the evening there will

be a dancing party in the pavilion.
We have arranged to run a general
excursion, aS near cost as possible, so

Se : ia | Bawbeese
print in this week's issue of the Trades- |”

 

invite your friends and neighbors; join
us and have a good time, as there will
be sufficient room to entertain all at
Park, and the management
will spare no pains to make the day a
very enjoyable one for the traveling men
and their friends and all those who wish
to join.

This is intended for a basket picnic,
but, if you want to get your meals at the
hotel, you can do so. The route to the
lake is viathe Lake Shore & Michigan
Southern Railway. The ride is not long
—less than an hour—and the railroad
fare has been placed at the extremely
low price of 50 cents for full fare for
round trip and 25 cents for half fare.

Yours for a good time.

KF. D. Paces, Chairman.

HOTEL NEFF |

FRANK NEFF, Propr.
GRAND LEDGE, MICH.

One block east of depot.

Welcome to Druggists.

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. 25.
FINEST HOTEL IN BAY CITY.
Steam heat,
Electric Bells and Lighting throughout.
Rates, $1.50 to $2.00.
Cor. Saginaw and Fourth Sts.
sEO. H. SCHINDHETT, Prop.

Lee...

Young men and women acquire the greatest inde-
pendence and wealth by securing a course in either
the Business, Shucthand, English or Mechanical Draw-
ing departments of the Detroit Business University,
11-19 Wilcox St., Detroit. W.F. Jewell, P. R. Spencer.

 

Rates, $1.00.

 

 

 

$2 per day.

 

 

 

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 Rouse Chas. E. Whitney, Prop.
y 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.

 

    

  

8

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

Drugs--Chemicals

MICHIGAN STATE BOARD OF PHARMACY.
Term expires

 

 

S. E. PARKILL, Owosso” - - Dec. 31, 1897
F. W. R. Perry, Detroit - Dec. 31, 1898
A. C. SqauuMacHER, Ann Arbor - Dee. 31, 1899
Gro. GunpRUM, Ionia - Dec. 31, 1900
L. E. REYNOLDS, St. Joseph Dec. 31, 1901

President, F. W. R. Perry, Detroit.
Secretary, Geo. GuNpRUM, 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. Paiiiies, Armada.
Secretary, B. ScHrouDER, Grand Rapids.
freasurer, CHAs. Mann, Detroit.

nxecutive Committee—A. H. WEBBER, Cadillac;
H. G. Cotman, Kalamazoo; Gro. J. Warp, St.
Cramer: A. B: Srevens, Detroit; F. W. R.
Perry, Detroit’

 

 

 

The New Pharmacist and the Old
Drug Store.

The drug business of our day is not
pharmacy. Pharmacy is something
very much higher up in the scale.
What passed for pharmacy years ago will
no longer suffice. The pharmacist of
the future must be an educated, scien-
tific, technical expert—nothing _ less.
Men unable to do chemical and micro-
scopical work will no longer be recog-
nized as competent pharmacists. The
new pharmacist will be a new species,
as much unlike the average corner-stone
druggist as the printing-press of to-day
is unlike that of the sixteenth century.
The new pharmacist will not make or
sell any secret nostrums; he will not
sell cigars, soda water, soaps, perfum-
ery, stationery, rubber goods, paints,
glass, candies, chewing-gum and other
merchandise having no relation to phar-
macy. He will not be a salesman in
any sense or degree. The ‘‘cut rates’’
problem, which seems to be the plague
of the retail druggist of the day, will
no more affect the occupation and pros-
perity of the new pharmacist than the
climate of Kamchatka. The new
pharmacist will gladly and cheerfully
recognize the fact that the sole mission
of pbarmacy is to wait upon medicine.
He will know and be able to demon-
strate that the physician cannot be his
own pharmacist without serious detri-
ment to all concerned. He will know
that the educated physician alone is
competent to prescribe, and that the
pharmacist’s duty does not and should
not clash with that of the physician.
Jealousy or rivalry between them is
ridiculous. They are as distinct from
each other and as little subject to com-
parison as the odor of the rose and the
color of the butterfly in its bosom. It
is in no sense or degree derogatory to
the pharmacist to admit that he is not
the equal of the physician. The physi-
cian is not the equal of the pharmacist.
But the pharmacist certainly is and
must be an expert aid to the physician,
while the latter is in no sense an aid to
the pharmacist. The pharmacist is in
his right place when he devotes his
knowledge and skill to the task of assist-
ing the pbysician in every legitimate
and useful way. The new pharmacist
will enlarge his sphere of useful tech-
nical work and bring it to a higher de-
gree of development. Any pharmacist
who cannot work on the principle that
pharmacy is the handmaid of medicine
is like a tree with its crown in the soil
and its roots in the air.

The new pharmacist will possess the
knowledge and training necessary to the
unerring identification and intelligent
selection of the medicinal substances
employed by the physician. He will be
able to determine for himself the purity
and strength of all substances the char-

 

acter of which admits of such determi-
nation. He will, in fact, test all the
chemicals he uses,and will not put forth
the absurd claim that the faithful per-
formance of that duty is impracticable.
He will faithfully and intelligently pro-
tect all his medical supplies from de-
terioration, and will religiously perform
his plain duty to immediately reject any
and every substance found to have be-
come so altered or injured as to be no
longer in accordance with the recog-
nized requirements as to quality and
effectiveness. He will renew his sup-
plies of plant drugs every year, at the
right season, throwing away what is left
over of last season’s stock, so as to
insure reliable remedies. He will em-
ploy sensitive and accurate balances and
graduated measures, and will use them
with skill. All his work will be gov-
erned by scientific principles.

The new pharmacist will, further, do
all of the laboratory work which the
physician will require of him in medi-
cal and sanitary chemistry, bacteriol-
ogy, etc. He will, moreover, be the
public chemist of his community.

The average drug store of to-day is a
kind of department store or bazaar on a
prominent corner. Most of its business
is purely mercantile. The rent is high.
The profits on its sales of merchandise
are so small that a very large volume of
trade is necessary to make the business
pay. This in turn necessitates the in-
vestment of a large capital and the em-
ployent of salesmen. The soda foun-
tain, cigar case and candy case make
the average drug store anything but a
suitable place for such work as the care-
ful,safe and accurate dispensing of pre-
scriptions.

The new pharmacist will not locate
himself in a noisy, expensive corner
store to catch the transient customer.
He will not have any miscellaneous
merchandise to sell. He will instead
establish himself in a quiet place suffi-
ciently accessible to those who require
his services. His capital will be $1,000
instead of $10,000, and yet he will. cer-
tainly be more prosperous and _ success-
ful than the druggist who carries on the
retail drug business as now conducted.

The new pharmacist will be able to
command respect and recognition as a
professional man. The difference be-
tween the new pharmacy and the old
will be so great as to immediately at-
tract the attention of thinking people,
and there are enough thinking people
in the world to give the new pharma-
cist abundant occupation.

The new pharmacy laws will in time
be amended so as to make proper edu-
cation for pharmaceutical work the most
important qualification for registration,
and the numerous druggists of the coun-
try will be divided into two distinct
classes—those who have the requisite
scientific training to be permitted to do
all scientific, technical pharmaceuticai
work, and those who lack that training
and, therefore, will not be permitted to
dispense physicians’ prescriptions or to
dispense any potent medicinal  sub-
stance.

The necessity of this new style of
pharmacy is a present necessity, and
the pharmaceutical chemist will be the
coming new pharmacist, by whatever
name he may be called, for any gradu-
ate in pharmacy who has had proper
and sufficient training in applied phar-
maceutical chemistry and related labo-
ratory work is just what we mean by the
designation ‘‘ pharmaceutical chemist,’’
and no one else is one, even if he may
be called so. OscCAR OLDBERG.

 

The Drug Market.

Trade in this line is good, although
collections are rather poor, but improve-
ment can be expected within the next
thirty days. There are very few changes
to note.

Castor Oil—Manufacturers of this ar-

|ticle have advanced their price on No.

3 8c per gal. No. 1 is unchanged.

Essential Oils—Anise has advanced
and holders are very firm in their views.
Croton and bergamot have advanced.

Gum Asafoetida—There is a large de-
mand and prices are much higher abroad
and are advancing here.

Opium, Quinine and Morphine—Un-
changed, although all three articles are
very firm.

Strychnine—The price has been re-
duced by manufacturers Ioc per oz.

Linseed Oil—Is in good demand and
prices are steady.

Turpentine— This article is lower.

There has been no change as yet on
any of the articles on which there is an
increased duty. Prospects seem good
for the tariff bill to become a law within
the next ten days, at which time there
will be a good many changes.

—_-+-_>-9 >
Soda Water Hints.

Use thin glass.

Good advertising pays.

Shaved ice makes soda taste flat.

Have soda straws always at hand.

It’s quality that counts, not quantity.

Wash syrup cans thoroughly before re-
filling.

Neat service is as important as good
soda.

Ladies and children like plenty of
syrup and cream.

Fresh flowers on the counter every
day are very attractive.

Introduce new syrups frequently. It
stimulates interest.

To be successful you must please both
the eye and the palate.

Your soda counter is an advertisement
of your drug business.

Use only the best supplies;
ones don’t pay at any price.

 

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Don’t mix fresh cream with that left
over from the day before.

Wash egg, milk or cream tumblers in
salt water first, then rinse.

Be sure that the soda is well mixed
with the syrup in the glass.

Wash out interior of apparatus
thoroughly at least once a week.

Always scald the cream bottle and ice-
cream freezer before refilling.

The public believes that good soda
means good drugs, and vice versa.

Throw away the first three giasses
drawn every morning. They don’t taste
good.

Make the customer cool at the soda
counter and she will come again. That
is where a mechanical fan pays.

> #

In the line of novelties of advertising
there is one Chicago druggist whose de-
parture would be hard todiscount. This
gentleman, whose place of business is
in the Hyde Park district, announces
that he has a choice line of blue-blooded
Angora cats. His business cards bear a
picture of an aristocratic-looking tabby
in one corner, and after the address are
the words, ‘ ‘Drug store and cattery.’

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James Wilson, a druggist in Benton,
Ky., poured about a pint of alcohol in-
to a graduate, preparatory to mixing a
prescription. A friend of his came in-
to the store and turned the graduate
over; at the same time he stepped
quickly back and stepped on a match,
which set fire to the alcohol and _ store.
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In the day of prosperity we have many
refuges to resort to; in the day of ad-
versity only one.

 

 

 

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Analytical and Consulting Chemists,
84 CANAL ST.,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

Special attention given to Water, Bark and
Jrine Analysis.

 

 

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Advanced—Oil Anise, Oil Bergamot.
Declined—Turpentine.

 

Acidum

AeeGernNe. oc). 8
Benzoicum, German
Borsere.:.... 5...) . 2.
Carbolicum
Citricum .
Hydroehlor . ela
Nitrocum . _
Oxalicurs ..<....<,..
Phosphorium, dil...
Salicylicum. ........
Sulphuricum. ....:.
Wormmictime 6.04.02. <. 1
Tarsarce..........

Ammonia

Aqua, 16 deg........
Agua, deg... ...-.

   

Carbonate: is...
Chioridurm ..........
Aniline
Biaek. 3... eS
Brown ed ae
Hee oe
Yotow. ©). 130... .. 2
Baccez.
Cupesse.. ..-..: po. 18
JUDIPCTUS. «6.6.0...
Xanthoxylum.. ....
Balsamum
Copaiba.
Peru.
Terabin, Canada...
TOMA. | os. es
Cortex
Abies, Canadian....
Cami
Cinchona Flava.....
Euonymus atropurp
Myrica Cerifera, po.
Prunus V irgini ,
Quillaia, gr’d.......
Sassafras..... .po. 18
Ulmus...po. 15, gr’d
Extractum

Glycyrrhiza Glabra.
Glycyrrhiza, po.....
Hematox, 15 Ib box.
Heomator, is ....<. 2.
Hematox, Me dos
Heematox, 48.......
Ferru

Carbonate Precip...
Citrate and Quinia..
Citrate Soluble......
Ferrocyanidum Sol.
Solut. Chloride.....
Sulphate, com’l.....
Sulphate, com’l, by

bol, per Cwr.......
Sulphate, pure .....

Flora
Browse 4... 4.1...
Ate.
Matriearta ....:.. ..:.
Folia
Barosma.
Cassia Acutifol, Tin-
nevelly.

Cassia Acutifol,Alx.
Salvia officinalis, 4s
a te...
Ura Gee...
Gummi

Acacia, tst picked..
Acacia, 2d picked..
Acacia, 3d picked...
Acacia, sifted sorts.
Acacia, po..

Aloe, Barb. po. 18@20
Aloe, Cape ....po. 15
Aloe, Socotri. - po. 40
Ammontiac..........
Assafoetida....po. 30
Benzoinum .........
Catechn, is.....-....
Catechu, %S8.........
Catechu, ¥s.........
Camphore ..
Euphorbium. “po. 35
Gaibanum.......-...
Gamboge po........
Guaiacum.....po. 35
ae po. $3.00
Meee ..............

lac

Shellac, bleached. .
Tragacanth eee oe.
Herba
Absinthium..
Eupatorium .
Lobelia...... oz.
Majorum ....0z.
Mentha Pip. OZ.
Mentha Vir. .oz.
Rue. ..... -«. 08. pkg
TanacetumV oz. pkg
Thymus, V..oz. pkg
Magnesia.
Caleined, Pat...... ..
Carbonate, Pat..:...
Carbonate, K. & M..
Carbonate, Jennings

Oleum

Abeinthiam......,.. 3
Amygdale, Dulc....
Amygdale, Amare . 8

AIA os 3
Auranti Cortex..... 2
Bervamit 0)... 2
CARI. 65575... ..

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Chenopadii..........
Cinnamonii. ........ 1

GOrerorea: .... ....

6@B 8
0@ 7
@ 6
2@ 41
0@ 42
38@ 5
8@ 10
1L2@ 14
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50@ 55
1%@ 5
25@ 1 40
36G@ =s38
6
6@ 8
12@ 14
12@ 14
00@ 2 25
80@ 1 00
45@ 50
50@ 3 00
13@ 15
6@ 8
53@ 30
50@
@ 2 40
100@ 4
75Q 80
18
12
18
30
20
12
12
12
15
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23a 30
Hi@ PR
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144@ 15
16@ 1%
15
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50
7
12@ 14
18Q@ 2%
30@ 35
5 20
18Q@ 2
3@ 30
122@ 2
8s@ 10
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60@ 80
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55@ 60
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50@ 55
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2 50@ 2 60
2@ 35
40@ 45
50@ 80
25
20
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28
23
25
39
22
23
55@ 60
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20@ 2
3@ 36
25@ 3 50
30@ 50
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20@ 2 30
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n 35@
OBAINS. 02) cc i 10@ 1
CUMGHE le 90@ 1
Exechthitos .......: 1 00@ 1
Erinvoreg: .. i... | 1 00@ 1
Ganlitiieria... 0. 3. : 150@ 1
Geranium, ounce... @
Gossippii,Sem. gal.. 50@
Hedeama. 1 00@ 1
Junipera. ........... 150@ 2
Davenduia 9.000. 90@ 2
Limonis.. . 120@ 1
Mentha Piper. Sn ouea 1 60@ 2
Mentha Verid....... 2 10@ 2
Morrhus, gal:...... 1 00@ 1
BEeICrA 4 00@ 4
CRVG a: 75@ 3
Picis Liquida: ..-.. 10@
Picis et eal... @
Ricina . |e |
Rosmarini @1
Ross, ounce......_. 6 50@ 8
Le) a ae 40@
Babine. 90@, 1
250@ 7

50@

@

40@ 1

40@
Whymie. Ope... 0). @ 1
Theobromas RR 1b@

Potassium
Bi Carb . B@
Bichromate .....-... 13@
Broeree.........._.. 48@
Carn... 2 R@
Chlorate..po.17@19e 16@
Cvemte. 2 35@
fide 8 2 60@ 2
Potassa, Bitart, pure 26@
Potassa, Bitart, com @
Potass Nitras, opt... @,
Potass Nitras........ 1@
Prussiate. . a
Sulphate po. icc. ae
Radix

AGonityin .. 3. 2. 2
si, 22@
aoe... 10@
GE pe @
Catemiis |. .0...5..0. 20@
Gentiana...... po. 15 12@
Glychrrhiza...pv.15 16@
Hydrastis Canaden . @
Hydrastis Can., po.. @
Hellebore, Alba, bo... be
nals, po... 15b@
APBCRC. DOL. 2 00@ 2
Iris plox....p035@38 35@
Jalapa. pr... |. 25@
Maranta, 38... | @
Podophyllum, po. . 2@
FORGE 75@ 1
Rhei, Cue. @ 1
Rhei, pv eee es 4 7 aad
Mere 35@,
Sanguinaria...po. 40 @
Serpentaria . 30@
Benere 35@
Similax, _—— H @
Silex, Me: @
Beis po.35 10@
Symplocarpus, Peeti.

GUS, PO... @
Valeriana ,Eng.po.30 @
Valeriana, German. -
Zingiber a. steal ies os
Seneier j,k. 2

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AMSOM 2... |. po. @
Page Gicsdees B@
= as... 1@
Sea a 10@
Cardamoan, oo: 5.5... 3@ 1
Coriandrum &@
Cannabis Sativa.... 3%@
€yconium,. . 6...) : 7@ 1
Chenopodium ...... 10@
Dipterix Odorate... 2 00@ 2
Foniculam ...: |... @
bint enn po

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Lini, grd....bbl.24% 3%@

Lobelia

apa
Sinapis Albu........
Sinapis Nigra
Spiritus
Frumenti, W. D. Co. 2
Frumenti, D. F. R.. 2
Frumenti..... 1
Juniperis Co. O. T.. 1
duniperis Co... ..... : 1
Saacharum N. E.... 1
Spt. Vini Galli...... 1
Vini oO

Sponges
Florida sheeps’ wool
Garriage,.......... 2
Nassau sheeps wool
Carriage... |
Velvet extra sheeps’
wool, carriage.....
Extra yellow sheeps’
wool. carriage. .
Grass sheeps’ wool,
CATTIARE cs:
Hard, for slate use.
Yellow Reef, for
mite OSE

Syrups
BOSCIA oc ut ‘
Auranti Cortes......
Zingiber. ben ty
POGCRe. «3 cs.
Meme log... 2s...
hed Brom. 3...
Smilax Officinalis...
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Tinctures
Aconitum NapellisR
Aconitum Napellis F
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Aloes and Myrrh..
ATS ee
ASsatoetiad .........
Atrope Belladonna.
Auranti Cortex.....
Benen...
Benusom Co...
BGrOsnis 4. .-.......
Cantharides........
Cansiemy ........ .
Cardamon ... ..... :
Cardamon Co.......

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Vateeha
Cimehona. 2...
Cinchons Co... |.
Cohumba. 2)...
CHpepae.. 6:
Cassia Acutifol.....
Cassia Acutifol Co .
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Feed. Chloridum..
Gentian

euaca |.
Guiacaammon.....
Hyoscyamus ........
TOGING 8...
lodine, colorless

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Obi, camphorated..
Opii, deodorized.. I

Bt
Sanguinaria . ......
Berpentarig .........
Stromoninm ........
Wolntan..............
Wajerian oo...
Veratrum Veride...
Zingiber

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A&ther, Spts. Nit.4F 24
Alto 24@
Alumen,gro’d..po.7 3@
annette | 40@
Antimoni, po....... 4I@
Antimoni et PotassT 40@
Antipyrin..... @1
Antifebrin . .... @
Argenti Nitras, oz. @
Arsenicum. ......... 10@_ 12
Balm Gilead Bud .. 38@ 40
Bismuth §.N. ..... 1 40@ 1 50
Calcium Chlor., 1s.. ao
Calcium Chlor., %s. @ 10
Caleium Chlor., 4s. @
Cantharides, Rus. po @ %
Capsici Fructus, af. @
Capsici Fructus, po. @ bb
Gueeicl Wretaads, po oe .
varyophyllus bE 12
Carmine, No. oe @ 3 00
Cera Alba,S.&F..) 50@ 55
Cera Flava.......... 40@ 42
Cocets @ 40
Cassia Fructus...... @ 33
Centraria. ||. @ 10
Cetacewm.......... 5. @ 4
Chioroform.......... 60@ 63
Chloroform, sanithe @ 1%
Chloral Hyd Crst.... 1 15@ 1 30
CRORGEUAL 20@ 2%
Cinchonidine,P.& W . 20@ 25
Cinchonidine,Germ l@ 22
Cocaiie. 3 05@ 3 25
Corks, list, - pr.ct. 7
Creosotum...... ... @ 3%
Pete bbl. 75 @ 2
Crete: prep... | @ 5
Creta, precip... |. %@ i
Creta,; Rubra... ||.) @ &
Crocus . 23@ 30
@udbear 01) 77 @ «a
Cupri Sulph......... 5@ 6
Dextipe) 10@ 12
Ether —_ ee B@ . 9
Emery, al nee @ 3
Emery, po.. eo Ss
Ergota en: -po.40 30@ 35
Flake White........ R@ 5
Gaim. @ X&
Sambier........... s@ 9
Gelatin, Cooper. . @ 60
Gelatin, French..... 35@ «60

Glassware, flint, nen
Less than box..
Glue, brown........
Glue, white
Giyeerina
Grana Paradisi ....
PRG
Hydraag Chlor Mite
Hydraag Chlor Cor.
Hydraag Ox Rub’m.
Hydraag Ammoniati
HydraagUnguentum
Hydrargyrum.......
Ichthyobolla, Am. .
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Lycopodium
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Magnesia, Sulph..
Magnesia, Sulph, bbl
Mannia, S. F..

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Menthol ee lee

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Morphia, S.P.& W...
Morphia, S.N.Y.Q.&
Cc.

ee 1 8@ 2
Moschus Canton.. @ |
Myrintica, Nat... 6@ 80
Nux Vomica...po.20 @ ww
Os: Sepia oc... 15@ 18 |
Pepsin Saac, H. & P.

a Ce @ 1 00
Picis Liq N. -% gal

Om rs, @ 2 00
Picis Liq., quarts.... @ 100
Ficis Lig., pints. .... @ 8&/|
Pil Hydrarg.. -po. 80 @ |
Piper Nigra...po. 22 @ 18}
Piper Alba....po. 35 @ 30 |
Pirx Burgun. co cees @
Fiemme ACCEL... . ... 10@
Pulvis Ipecac et Opii 1 16@ 1 20
Pyrethrum, boxes H.

“& P. D. Co., doz.. @ 125!)
Pyretiizam, py...... 30@ 33
> rae ag Pec ets sees, 8@ 10
Quinia, S. P. & W. 26@ «3
Quinia, S. German. 20@ 29
Guinia WY... |. 23@ «29
Rubia Tinectorum.. me «iM

SaccharumLactis pv 18S@ 20
Salacin ewe ed 3 00@ 3 10

oe Draconis. . 40@ 50
Sapo, ee L2@ 14
aoe: Me LL. 10@ = :12|
ere. Ge |: @ 5
Siedlitz Mixture ~ €& &

1 %@ 2 20 |
10 |

 

Bums. @ 18
[aenamie, OFS......... @ wW
Snuff, Maccaboy, De
I Voee Q@ 34
| Snuff,Scotch, DeVo's a &
Soda Boras... 6 @ 8
| Soda Boras, po. ae a 6 @ 8
| Soda et Potass Tart 2@ 2
| Soda, Carb.. 14@ 2
| Soda, Bi-C arb. 3@ 5
on foe 34@ 4
| Soda, Sulphas.... @ 2
Spts, Cologne........ @ 2 &
Spts. Ether Co...... 50@ 55
| Spt’ Myrcia Dom... @ ? 00
Spts. Vini Rect. bbl. @ 2 42
7 | Spts. Vini Rect. ebb! @ 2 47
2 | Spts. Vini Rect.10gal @ 2 50
Spts. Vini Rect. 5ga] @ 2 52
| Less 5¢ gal. cash 10 days.
Strychnia, Crystal... 1 40@ 1 45
| Sulphur, RUOt. ...... 24@ 3
} Sulphur, Roll.... . 2@ 2%
| Pammerinds.......... 8@ 10
| Terebenth Venice... 28@ =
i Theeprome....... .. 2
oo ee 9 00@16 ip
| 2imet Saiph.. oo... 7@
|
Oils
| BBL. GAL.
| Whale, winter....... 70 70
| Lard, extra 40 45
~| Lard, Not... 35 40

 

Linseed, pure raw.. 29
Linseed, boiled..... 31
Neatsfoot,winterstr 65

Spirits Turpentine... 30
Paints BBL.

Red Venetian... ... 1% 2

Ochre, yellow Mars. 1% 2

Ochre, yellow Ber.. 1% 2
Putty, commercial.. 4
Putty, strictly pure. 2% 2%
Vermilion, Prime
American.. 13@

| Vermilion, English. 70@
| Green, Faris |... .,.. 13%@
| Green, Peninsular.. 13@
Lead, Bed... .....:. 54@
Lead, white........ 54@
Whiting, white Span @
Whiting, gilders’... @
White, Paris Amer.. @1
Whiting, Paris Eng.
cliff . @1
Universal Prepared. 1 00@ 1
Varnishes
No. 1 Turp Coach... 1 10@ 1
Extra Tare......... 1 60@ 1
Coach Body... ....... 2 7% 3
No. 1 Turp Furn.... 1 0@ 1
Extra Turk Damar.. 1 55@ 1
Jap. Dryer,No.1Turp 70@

 

nazéltine & Perkins
DPUC 60.

olndry Department

We invite examination of our remodeled and
handsome sundry department now in charge of

Mr. J. H. Hagy

We display in sample. show

cases complete lines of the following goods.

Perfumes
Mirrors

Soaps

Combs

Powder Puffs

Tooth, Nail, Hair, Cloth, Infant, Bath, and

Shaving Brushes

Fountain and Family Syringes

Tweezers

Razors

Key Rings

Cork Screws
Razor Strops

Violin, Guitar and Banjo Strings

Atomizers

Suspensory Bandages

Toilet and Bath Sponges

And many other articles too numerous

to mention. Goods are up to date and prices right.

Hazeltiné & Perkins Drud 60.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

 

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 going to press and are an accurate index of the local market.

It is im-

possible to give quotations suitable for all conditions of purchase, and those below are given as representing av-

erage prices for average conditions of purchase.
those who have poor credit.

Subscribers are earnest

Cash buyers or t

our aim to make this feature of the greatest possible use to dealers.

hose of strong credit usually buy closer than
ly requested to point out any errors or omissions, as it 1s

 

 

AXLE GREASE.

 

doz. gross
eerere. ee 6 00
ee 7 00
Reese... ||
Peeeere.. 8 vi 9 00
IXL Golden, tin boxes 75 9 00
Paice, tin boxes. ....... 75 9 00
See. 55 6 00
BAKING POWDER.
Absolute.
o> Cane Gor... ...... 45
ip cand a.............
1 eanedo.......)...0.. 150
Acme.
i> eens dos............ &
i> cone 3 Go............ 7
l cere i dox.......... 1 00
Bak 10
E! Parity.

14 lb cans per doz......... vi)
4 Ib cans per doz ........ 120
1 YS cans per doz.......-. 2 00
Home.

14 1b cans 4 doz case...... 35
% lb cans 4 doz case...... 55

lb cans 2 doz case...... 90
14 1b cans, 4 doz case..... 45
% Ib cans,4dozcase...... %&
1 lbeans, 3 doz case...... 1 60
Jersey Cream.
77) Gone per doz ......... 2 00
Son. onus, perdoz.......... 1
Go. cams, perdos.......... 85
Our Leader.
eo...
a...
. scee..:... ee 150
Peerless.
ie Gee oa 85
BATH BRICK.
per 70
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1 doz. pasteboard Boxes... 40
3 doz. wooden boxes....... 1 2
BROOrIS.
me teres... .....,.... 5 1 90
No. 2 Carpet........ ae
Be Br... ios ase. LO
AMG oo ee estases A
Peer et, 2 00
Conon Whiex........... 70
Fancy Whisk.. 2
Warehouse. ....... 223
CANDLES.
i 2
ae 8
a 8
CANNED GOODS.
Manitowoc Peas.
Lakeside Marrowfat....... 1 00
ee ee
Lakeside, Cham. of Eng.... 1 40
Lakeside, Gem, Ex. Sifted. 1 6
CHEESE.
ee sels se. @ 7%
PE ook sce c meine @ ™%

, ms F
Bee ss ee. @ %%

oe. ce 4s @ 8
Gold Medal.........

ee G@ 8%
PORN oe he de oa @ 8
Lenewoo.. -....--.-- s 2
Riverside. ‘ @ i%
Me @ 7%
Seek ek, oO 9
eee a @ 7
Re @ 18
Leer... .-.--.. @ 15
Pineapple...........43 @ 8
oan oes)... 2... @ 18

CHOCOLATE.
Walter Baker & Co.’s.

German Sweet ..............
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CLOTHES LINES.

Sotton, 40 ft, per doz....... 1
Cotton, 50 ft, per doz.......
Cotton, 60 ft, per doz.......
Cotton, 70 ft, per doz....... 1
Cotton, 80 ft. per doz....... 1
Jute, 6) ft. per doa.........
Inte. 72 f!, per der,,

REESERS

Chicory.

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CATSUP.

Columiia, pints.......... 42
Columbia, % pints.......... 2 50

CLOTHES PINS.
Dero Pewee... 5. 40
COCOA SHELLS.

Bld ees... os 2%
ess Guantity........-... 3
Pound packages......... 4

CREAM TARTAR.
Strictly Pure, wooden boxes. 35

Strictly Pure, tin boxes...... 37
COFFEE.
Green.

Rio.
ee 17
ae 18
Pee 19
wee 20
Peaserry ... 22

Santos.
ee 19
Meee Co 20
Ee 22
Paes 23

Mexican and Guatamais.
or... ee
eee 8 2
——S 24
Maracaibo
— LL 23
Mite se oe
Java.
eee ee 25
Private Growm.:............. 27
Menacutee.. sc. 28

Mocha.

Heaitation ........ .
Meee 28

  

Roasted.
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brands
Fifth Avenue..... ce
Jewell’s Arabian Mocha....28
Wells’ Mocha and Java...
Wells’ Perfection Java..... 2%
BOONE is. 23

  

Valley City Maracaibo. ....18%

eet Binet 14

—— _——————— 12
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brands
uaker Arabian Mocha..... 31
uaker Mandehling Java. .30

uaker Mocha and Java. ...28
oko Mocha and Java.....
Quaker Golden Santos. :
State House Blend... ..10
Quaker Golden Rio......... 17%
Package.

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

  
 

Anse. ss se
eee 2 11 50
MicLaughlin’s XXXX...... 11 50
Extract.
Valley City % gross ..... v £3)
Poe % orees........... 1 15
Hummel’s foil % gross... 85
Hummel’s tin % gross... 1 43
Kneipp Malt Coffee.

1lb. packages, 50lb.cases 9
1 lb. packages, 1001b. cases 9

CONDENSED MILK. |

4 doz in case.
Gail Borden Eagle.........6 7%
Ce 6
oe 5 75
Ce Ss. ec 4 50
Mee ee, goes 425

35 ' Holders, persbox of 50......

 

CGUPON BOOKS.

  

Tradesman Grade.
50 books, any denom....
100 books, any denom....
500 books, any denom....
1,000 books, any denom....

Economic Grade.

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

1,000 books, any denom....

ye NU

BS om
S33s sess

Sree

   

Universal Grade.

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

1,000 books, any denom....20
Superior Grade.

50 books, any denom.... 1
100 books, any denom.... 2
500 books, any denom....11

1,000 books, any denom....20
Coupon Pass Books,
Can be made to represent any

denomination from 310 down.
So beers... ...... 1 00
Pe BeOns. 2 00

poe... 3 00

Roe mOORS............ cL: C 2

Bee OBER... ee 10 00
ee eeeee.. oo 17 50

Credit Checks.

500, any one denom’n..... 3 00
1000, any one denom’n..... 5 00
2000, any one denom’n..... 8 00
Beoel punch. ......-..: vt)

DRIED FRUITS—DONMESTIC

Apples.

| ee @ 2%
Evaporated 50 lb boxes. @ 4

California Fruits.
OO oe en 9 @10%
Blackberries...........
Nectarines............ 6 @
POR cscs 7T%@ 9
POON 8 @
Pitted Cherries........
Prenmenon.... <2... 12
Raspeeeree............

California Prunes.
100-120 25 lb boxes....... 3%

90-100 25 lb 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....... @ 4

30 - 40 25 1b boxes....... @

4 cent less in 50 1b cases
Raisins.
Lendon Layers 3 Crown. 155
London Layers 5 Crown. 2 50
DenOMmRE 0, 3 2
Loose Muscatels2 Crown 4%
Loose Muscatels3Crown 5%
Loose Muscatels4Crown 6%
FOREIGN.
Currants.
Patras Shia... ..... 5... oe
Vostizzas 50 lb cases......@ 5%
Cleaned, brik 2.2.04. o, @ 6%
Cleaned, packages........ G7

Peel.
Citron American 101lb bx @14
Lemon American 10 1b bx @12
Orange American 101b bx @12

Raisins.

Ondura 28 ib boxes...... @
Sultana 1 Crown........ @
Sultana 2Crown ....... @8
Sultana 3Crown........ @
Sultana 4 Crown........ @
Sultana Crown. ._.. @
FLY PAPER.
Tanglefoot.

 

Regular, per box.........,; 30
Regular. case of 10 boxes.. 2 55
Regular, 5 case lots........ 2 50
Regular, 10 case lots....... 2 40
Little, per Dox. ........0.s0s 13
Little, case of 15 boxes..... 1 45
Little, 10 case lots.......... 1 40

7

  

 

FARINACEOUS GOODS.

Farina.
—...... Ce
Grits.
Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s....... 2 00
Hominy.
omer oo 2 25
Flake, 50 1b. drums.......1 00
Lima Beans.
Dsied: «et oe
Maccaroni and Vermicelli.
Domestic, 10 1b. box...... 60
Imported, 25 lb. box.. ... 2 50
Pearl Barley.
bo eS ek 1%
NORE oo ee 2
rare 2%
Peas.

Green, Be. 80
Sput, perip.......:...-.. 24
Rolled Oats.

Rolled Avena, bbl.......3 50
Monareh, bbil........... 32
moocercn., % bel.......... 1%
Private brands, bbl..... 3 00

Private brands, %bbl..... 1 62
ueier, Cages... 3 20

 

 

 

   
 
 

Sago.
Gere 4
Best ing... 3%

Wheat. :
Cracked, bulk. .....-..-. <1 3
242 ib packages. -........- 2 40

Fish.

Cod.

Georges cured......... @ 3%
Georges genuine...... @ 4
Georges selected...... @5
Strips or bricks....... 5 @8

Halibut.

Cee a os 10
BeOR ec oe 9
Herring.

Holland white hoops keg. 60
Holland white hoops bbl. 7 50

Werwentan... .:....... :
Round 100 lbs.. 2 50
Round 40 lbs.. - 13
Beate 13
Mackerel.
Messe 160 the... 10 59
Mess 20 ths...
Mees  ibs..-.: 3... 1 20
Mess & Me. 2.2050 5005 1 00
he. 1 WO tbs... cs... ke 9 50
No.1 401bs -. £2
Ne.) We cc. 110
Ob. BIOS. co oc... 91
me, 2 00 Te 8 7 00
mo. Site... 3 10
a5 wee... 85
Sardines.
Russian kegs.............. 55
Ss ish.
No. 1, 1001b. bales........ .
No. 2, 100 1b. bales....
rout.
Mo. 1 200. |... 4 00
Peo. ft eee 1 99
mo. s S008... 55
No.t Site. .... 47
Whitefish.
No.1 No.2 Fam
M0 8. ce. 640 500 1%
ie... 28 230 100
Orie. 2. 79 65 33
30

ae... -
FLAVORING EXTRACTS.

 

202......

SOx... .-..

.. ...5 a
Cox....-- 300 6 ox... .. 2 00
No. 8 400 No. 8...2 40
No. 10...6 00 No. 10...4 00
No. 233 No. 2T. 80
No. 37.2 00 No. 37.1 35
No 4T.2 40 No. 47.1 59

HERBS.

WOOD nea Sec 15
ee 15
INDIGO.

Madras, 5 lb boxes......... 55
S. F., 2,3 and 5 Ib boxes.... 50
JELLY.
Ue 30
Oy Oe I cee cu cs 34
So pes, oe. a, 55
LYE.

Condensed, 2 doz 1 20

Condensed, 4 doz....°.....°2 25

 

 

  

    

  

   

 
 

 

Souders’. SALT.
Oval bottle, with ee. Diamond Crystal.
Best in the world for the) (..0, 943-1b boxes......... 1 50
money. Barrels, 100 3lbbags...... 2%
Regular Barrels, 40 7 lbbags...... 2 40
Grade Butter, 28 tb. bags. ......... 30
Lemon. Better, 56. 1b bags........ -- 60
doz | Butter, 20 14 1b bags........ 3 00
Son... <. % | Butter, 2801b bbls.......... 2 50
40Z...... 1 50 Common Grades.
1003: baeneks..... ........- 2 60
See «| eben 1 85
doz| 28 11-lb ROR cous 7
SOR... .. 1 20 Worcester.
402...... 240) 50 4 Ib. cartons ee 3 2%
1) SGr SOCKS... 2... 4
XX Grade | 60 5 Ib. sacks.....:....... 3%
mon Sit ih. seems... ..... 3 50
oo) i eee... 3 50
Hl 2Oz...... 1 50 | 28 Ib. linen sacks............ 32
402. 3 00 | 56 lb. linen sacks............ 60
XX Grade Balk in barreis.......-..:... 2 50
Warsaw.
anilla. | 56-1b dairy in drill bags..... 30
Soe 1 7% | 28-Ib dairy in drill bags..... 15
08. ..... 3 50 Ashton.
56-lb dairy in iinen sacks... 60
r doz. Higgins.
—— aie. 1 oz... = 65 | 56-lb dairy in iinen sacks... 60
Jackson Liquid, 20z....... 98 Sol: k.
Jackson oe 3 0Z....... 1 30] 56-1b sacks... ~ Ce 21
ICORICE. Common Fine.
Pee wi Saginaw 70
— Se ee ee mei Maeintee .... 3... 8. 70
ee 14 SNUFR.
Root -+++:++-+--.--.. 10] Seoteh, in bladders......... 37
MASON FRUIT JARS. Maccaboy, in jars........... 35
Pints, 1 doz. box, per gross 4 25| French Rappee, in jars..... 43
Quarts, 1 a'z. box, per gr’ss 4 50 SPICES.
alf gal. *z. b’X, p’r gr’ss 6 00
>t geres = ene ge prer’ss 25 Allspice Whole Sifted. 9
ason Caps only. per gross 2 25 | Alispice .................-+-
Glass Cover Fruit Jars. = oe a. a —
“The Best” Fruit Keeper. ae Sai ay. i is. “ae
Pints, 1 doz. box, per gross 5 50 | Ga8S!® Saigon In rolis......
Quarts, 1 d’z. box, per gr’ss 5 75 | Cloves, Amboyna........... 15
oF gate Poa on cn 2 oe | Clowes, maneibars 20000000) 9
Half gal. 1 d’z b’x, p’rgr’ss 7 75 Mace, Batavia 60
MINCE MEAT. Nutmegs, fancy............ .60
Ideal, 3 doz. in case.........2 25 a ne ; onan ce sens vee .
MATCHES. utmegs, NO. c.............
Pp , Si , black...
Diamond Match Co.’s brands. comes eee aan. i io
_— . oe steeecee teen eee i 6) 1 Popper, shot... <. 10
No.2 Home. 2.20.020000011 10] gy Pure Ground in Bulk.
Export Parlor.............. 400 Allspice ee epee chases cess 12
Cassia, Batavia ............. 22
MOLASSES. Cassia, Saigon.............. 35
New Orleans. Cloves, Amboyna...........20
AOR ee ee 11 | Cloves, Zanzibar............ 15
EE cu a 14 yy ee oe oe
Good 20 nger, Cochin.. :
Fancy ..... es 24 Ginger, Jamaica..... lee
Open Kettle............... 25@35 | Mace, Batavia.............. 70
Half-barrels 2c extra. ee — — Trieste. -
ustar FICS es ccs a.
PIPES. MuMeEE, <<<. 5.cc 40@50
Clay, No; 216:........ Pepper, Sing., black ....10@14
Clay, T. D. full count Pepper, Sing., white....15@18
Cop, NO.8:..- ee Cayenne... : —
SOG oo ay a
48 cans in case. SYRUPS
I coco csc, sus 4 00 Corn.
Penna Salt Co.’s........... 3 00 rr. we eeee eee tonnes
PICKLES. a - as a paslcees
Tedium. nner 16
Barrels, 1,200 count........ eee eee 20
Half bbis, 600 count........ 95
Small, «| OMe .........-.-..------
Barrels, 2,400 count........ 4 40 SODA.
Half bbls, 1,200 count...... 2 70 ee es earnest ae rs
RICE. oc ee
Domestic. SOAP.
Carolina head..... 634 Laundry.
a Armour’s Brands.
3 Armour’s Family.......... 27
—_. aon ae tot vees : =
rmour’s White, isle 5 25
Sonen — : ee o Armour’s White, 50s....... 3 20
jeye Not ee 4% | Armour’s Woodchuck .... 2 55
aie ee 5% | Armour’s Kitchen Brown. 2 90
SEEDS cn Armour’s Mottled German 2 40
: SOAP.
BROS oo cin sar ciicdss tase 18
Canary, Smyrna........... 4
COPAWSY 6.025 lee sce os 10 J AXO a
ona a ee be we 80
emp, Russian........... 4 i 2%
Mixed Bird............... “oe aa oa
Mustard, white....... ... 6% | 4 : Seat 36
Poppy ’ 8 10 box lots, delivered....... 2 65
MO ee ’
fie ob | AS. §. KIRK & C0.’S BRANDS.
SALERATUS. American Family, wrp’d....3 33
camPtcxed €0 Ibs. in box. | | fmeniean Family, unwep'a.s
UTPCH’S . 0-6 .eee eee ve eee ee MO GaIINGE. co. oooh cae og 2 20
eee sts ay alae thao st i : 2 Saved ee 2 50
T £ Se aries ash rests esas 3 09 | Dusky Diamond, 50 6 oz....2 10
BYLOEG..-- eer enees soeaee Dusky Diamond, 50 8 oz....3 00
SAL SODA. Blue India, 100 % Ib......... 3
Granulated, bbls.......... Roe Pe, os. oo pc
TO ces: 3 65

Granulated, 100 lb cases..1 50
Tamen DbIS.. 4. go... see 1
Lump, 145lb kegs,.,.....,.1 10

 

One box American Family
free with five.

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

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Lautz Bros. & Co.’s Brands.

 

Acme, mee lb. cakes.
Single box.. :

  

5 box ie co ee,

20 BOE TObR. Se
2 box lots......

‘Acme, 60 1 lb cakes.

eee. Cl 3 00

Ox 1008 2 90
10 box lots... 5... eo
So DOM Its 2 80

One box free with 5; two boxes
free with 10; five boxes free
with 25

Acme, 5 cent size.

Sinete oon... 2 85
OR IOUS. cS ee
WO box 10ts. | c ... 2 70
oe OX MIR 2 6
Acorn, 120 cakes, 75 Ibs.
Single box.................. 2 8
me We PGR cS 2 oo
Om t06s. 2 70
ao OOS TORR) 2 Co  . 2 65

Marseilles White.

 

100 cakes, 7 Ibs.

  
    

SnGtC BOM 5 75
DS er tte ee 5 65
1) box fous.........:. oo
a OOn Ite 5 50
100 cakes, 5 cent size.
pine OOM 4 00
OE 3 90
MO hoe to 3 85
EO 3 80

Schulte Soap Co.’s Brand.

Wares pares OA

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100 cakes, %5 Ibs.
Single BOe 2

5 box lots..
= box lots..

    
  

Single box .......-... .....- 2 6
5 box lots, delivered..../2! 2 60
10 box lots, delivered......:- 2 50
Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands.
Old Country, 80 1-Ib. bars ..2 75
Good C heer, 60 1-lb. bars....3 75

Uno, 100 % Gib. Wares, 2 50
Doll, 100 10- Om. Dats)... 2... 2 05
Scouring.

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

Washing Powder.

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WE LOVES IT SOF
“y Most Pleasant, but Mont oe

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

100 12 Oz PEGE: ...-.-.:..-- as 3 OO
STARCH.

 

Kingsford’s Corn.

40 1-Ib packages............. 6
20 1 Ib packages. ...........- 614
Kingsford’s Silver Gloss.

40 L-ib packages............. 6%
Oip bores... ......-.. <2... 7
Diamond.
6410c packages ........... 5 00
128 5¢ packages......... .. 5 00

32 10c and 64 5c packages...5 00
Common Corn.

  
 

OO 4%
Nth hoyes
Common Gloss. .
1h packager.:........°..,.
3-lb packages..... ace,
6lIb packages:.............. 4%
: ee 50 lb boxes........... 2%
IOUT ooo ac en cues ee 2%

 

 

STOVE POLISH.

oe POA tte ae et ce

eaaoLl

No. 4, 3 doz in case......... 450
No. 6,3 doz in case...... .. 720
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
eredit 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.

Cot Loaf. 5 50
PomenG 5 38
CMNCS Fe ee. 5 13
Powaecree ....... 2. 6
XXXX Powdered......... .5 38
Momid Ae 5 13
Granulated in bbs... ...... 4 38
Granulated in bags.. ..-2 86
Hine Granulated ............ 4 $8
Extra Fine Granulated..... 5 00
Extra Coarse Granulated...5 00
Diamond Confec. A........ 48

Confec. Standard A......... 4 %
oO tf

No
No.
No.
No.
No.

 

6

TABLE SAUCES.
Lea & Perrin’s, large..... 475
Lea & Perrin’s, small..... 2

Halford, large. alee oisiolata crag 3 75
Halford small....... ..... 2 2
Salad Dressing, large.....4 55
Salad Dressing, small..... 2 65
ACCOS.

Clark-Jewell- igere- Co.’s brand.
New Brick 35 00

Morrison, Plummer & Co.’s b’d.

Governor Yates, 4% mM... 58 00
Governor Yates, aX In... 65 00
Governor Yates, 54 _.... 70 00
Monitor. . 20. 00
H. & P. Drug Co.’s brand.
Ghiintetie og. 35 00

G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand.

~ $68

CW... es.
H. Van Tongeren’ 8 ao

 

Star ‘nien Stee ae sea eeh ice 35 00
Miscellaneous Brands.
American Queen........... 35 00
eee... 35 00
Wee. wg. oe cy. 35 00
MOVal Riigns... 02.6.) 35 00
Sou ROR 35 00
VINEGAR.
beroux Cider... : 3... 2.5. ..5. 10

Robinson’s Cider, 40 grain....10

Robinson’s Cider, 50 grain. ..12
WICKING.

INO. 0 Per WIORS. oe. oa c. 25

INO. 1 persross. << 5... 30

INO: 2 er MrORB.. cc. 40

Ro. 3, per groeg......... i =

 

 

Fish and Oysters

Fresh Fish.

 

 

Per lb.
Weaitefeh.. 3... @ 8
SyOUE 5... : @ 7
Black Bass.. : @ 10
Biaiibut 2c... @ 14
Ciscoes or Herring.. @ 4
PCHRD. @ 10
Live Lobster....... @ 18
— Lobster...... @ 19
OOG oc a @ 10
Maedoce.. 02... @ 8
No. 1 Pickerel...... |
Lp ee ee @ 6
Smoked White...... a %
Red Snapper........ @ 10
Col River Salmon.. @
Mackerel .......... @ 12%
Oysters in Cans.
¥. BH. Counts........ @ 4
7 100. ; ee
? sters, per ets
Clams, per 100....... mgt 00

 

Candies.

 

Stick Candy.

SLONGAME. 202. cs. j.
Standard H. H......
Weer ig
Cut Eoat . 1... 2)
xtra Oo.
Boston Cream......

Mixed Candv.

Competition.........
Standard... 4
Peader
CONSEEVO.; 2.4. 665...
MOVSE oc
OOO cs,
ROME
Ome Loat i ..
English Rock.......
Kindergarten.......
French Cream......
Dandy Pan... .......
Valley Cream... ....

 

 

bbls. pails

oA
54@ 7
6 @

QOHHHHLOHPHOHH
AIATHI AS

WSwm ow
BA

Fancy—In Bulk.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lozenges, plain..... @ 8%
Lozenges, printed. . @ 8%
Choe, Drops nie ne 1 @l4
Choc. Monumentals @i2
Gum Drops... ..... @5
Moss Drops... ..... @ 7%
pour Drops. ......... @ 8%
Peper @ 8%
Fancy—In 5 Ib. Boxes.
Lemon Drops....... @50
Sour Drope...-..... @50
Peppermint Drops.. @6o0
Chocolate Drops.... @60
H. M. Choe. Drops.. QS
Gum Drops. ........ @30
Licorice Drops...... @i
A. B. Licorice oe @50
Lozenges, plain.. @a50
Lozenges, printed.. @50
Emipertals .. @50
Motieea. @55
Cream Bar 0... @50
Molasses Bar .... @50
Hand Made Creams. 80 @90
Plat Creams....... 60 @s80
Decorated Creams. . @9”
Harins Hoek... @60
Burnt Almonds..... 15 @
Wintergreen Berries @55
Caramels.
No. a eas 2 Ib.
DOEOS @30
No. t weaned. 3 lb,
OXes @45
- 2 wrapped, "2 ib.
°
Fruits.
Oranges.
Med’t Sweets.
T5G-176- 200 28st... . 50
Messinas.

Maney 2006... 2... @3 7%
Cheice 2008... ... |. @3 50
St. Michaels.
PU @4 50
Lemons,

Strictly choice 360s.. @

Strictly choice 300s.. @5 00

Maney 3606_........- @5 50

x.Paney 300s...... @6 00
Bananas.

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

Figs, Choice Layers
i ee @
Figs, New Smyrna
14 1b boxes... ‘ @i2
Figs, Naturals” ‘in
30 ib. MEG. @ 6
go Fards in 10lb
Ee cE @ 8
Dates. vases in 601b
CAGE oo. cc cc. @6
Dates, Persians,H.M.
B., 60 Ib cases, new @ 5%
Dates, Sairs 60 lb
— @4
Nuts.
Almonds, Tarragona. . @12%
Almonds, EvVaes........ @li
Almonds, California,
soft shelled......... @
Brazils new........... @ 7%
EISGreR oo @10
Walnuts, Grenobles .. @12%
Walnuts, Calif No. 1. @10
Walnuts, soft shelled
Oe ee a, @i2
Table Nuts, fancy.. @l1
Table Nuts, choice... @l10
Pecans, Mod | @
Pecans, Ex. Large.. @10
Pecans, Jumbos.. @12
Hickory _ per bu.,

OBio, new. ....<.... @
tisecaene full sacks @3 50
Peanuts.

Fancy, H. P., Suns. @7
Fancy, H. P., Flags
MOASICG. <0. 5... c.. @7
Choice, H. P., Extras. @ 4
Choice, H. Fe. en.
a ...:...... @6

 

Grains and Feedstuffs

 

Wheat.
WHOSE.

Winter Wheat Flour.
Locai Brands.

72

Peeemte 4 40
mecond Patent... .. .....-. 4 00
Pes 3 80
Ce ee 3 40
Graham oo. 3 75
BUCEWNGHE 1.00.0. 3 40

ee ee 2 65

— to usual cash dis-

cou
riser in bbls., 25e per bbl. ad-
ditional.

Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.

Quaker, 445... 1... 4 20
Camor, 34s 4 20
Gitteier 565. 4 20

Spring Wheat Flour.
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brand.

Pillsbury’s Best %s........ 4 90
Pillsbury’s Best 14s........ 4 80
Pittsbury’s Best és... .. 2. : 70
Pillsbury’s Best 14s paper.. 4 70
Pillsbury’s Best 44s paper.. 4 70

Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand.

Grand Republic, ae — 47%
Grand Republic, % --. 46
Grand Republic, i%s........ 4 55

Lemon & [ heehee es Brand.

WOtimeeanh, Se 4 75
pnaee igs ee 4 65
Parisian, 348....0... 11... 4 55
Olney & Judson’s Brand.
Ceresota 465........... 1... 4 85
Cenesata, fs. 4%
Ceresocn, “4g 4 65

Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.

Miawrel Mg 475
Laurel, +48 ee, 4 65
Laurel, Oe 455
Meal.
PONG 1 50
Granwiated 0000: 1%
Feed and Milistuffs.
St. Car Feed, screened ....12 50
No. 1 Corn and Oats....... » 11 50
Unbolted Corn Meal....... 11.00
Winter Wheat Bran... . . 9 00
Winter Wheat Middlings.. 9 50
PORCCIE 00

The 0. E. Brown Mill Co.
quotes as follows:

New Corn.
Carlo... ie a) ee
Less than car lots......... 30

Oats.
Car lots. ... . 23
Carlots, clipped.. 24

Less than ¢ar lots. Le 27

Hay.
No. 1 Timothycarlots..... 10 00
No. 1 Timothy, ton lots....11 50

Crackers.

 

The N. Y. Biscuit Co. quotes
as follows:

seymogr XN
Seymour XXX, 3 1b. carton 4%

oS 4
Family XXX,31b carton.. 4%
Bence Maw 4
Salted XXX,3lb carton... 4%
Soda.
Bode Mas... 4%
Soda XXX, 3 lb earton.. 5
Soda, City’ Coa edec ee... 5%
Zephyrette... te . 10
Long Island Ww ‘afers... . 9
L. I. Wafers, 1lbearton . -—
Oyster.
Square Oyster, XXX. 4%
Sq. Oys. XXX,'1 lb carton. 5%
Farina Oyster, XXX.... 4%
SWEET GOODS—Boxes.
We ee, 9
Bent’s Cold Water......... 13
Heme Hose 6
9

Cocoanut Taify............
Coffee Cakes. . a ee ciets
Frosted Honey. ee

Graham Crackers
Ginger Snaps, XXX round. 5
Ginger Snaps, RXX city... 5
Gin. Snps,X X X home made 5
Gin. Snps,XXX sealloped.. 5

 

Ginger Vawilia (2... |... 7
PO 6%
eumbles, Honey......:.... 10
Molusses COROR oko 6%
Marshmallow ............. 12
Marshmallow Creams..... 13
Pretzels, hand made ..... 6

Pretzelettes, LittleGerman 6

 

wupar Cake... 6%
SONenes os 10
Sears Lungh........... 6%
Sears’ Zephyrette.. ..... . 10
Vanilla Seuare. 2,-1.5... a
Vanilla Wafers. .:....:... 2
Pecan Warerm,............. 19
Prmit Coffee... 9
Mixed Pienie |. ........:!. 10
Cream Jumbles ............ _
Boston Ginger zee uae wus
Chimmie Fadden . cua 9
Pineapple Glace...... ..... 12
Penny Cakew...-...5.55..., 6

 

 

 

  

Provisions.
Swift & Company quote as

follows:

Barreled Pork.
eee es, 8 00
eee ee, 9 00
Gleas back =... 8 50
BHOISGGt. ce 8 25
Be Ss ag
Bean... 8 00
Wampy .............. 2... 8 50

Dry Salt er
eC. 5%
Brimews es .. 5
Extra shorts............. 4%

Smoked [leats.
Hams, 12lb average .... 10
Hams, 14 1b average 9%
Hams, 16 lb average..... 944
Hams, 20 lb average..... 835
Ham dried beef. ......... 14%
Shoulders (N. Y. —-- 6%
Bacon, clear. . -.-.6%@7%
California ame 644@7
Boneless hams.. ee 8%
Cooked ham............. 11

Lards. In Tierces.
Compound 33%
Kettle..... ‘ 5
So 1p Pups. ...... advance \
80 lb Tubs.......advance M4
SOib Ting ....... advance 14
2 lb Fails... ..... advance %
10 1b Pails.......advance %
5 lb Pails.......advance %
oi) Pans... .. advance 1
Sausages.

Beene oo... 5
ee 6%
Mranenere... 8... 64
oe 6%
ieee 2 6
Wenge oo... lll. 9

 

 

Pigs’ Feet.
cia ie. .......... 80
1g bbls, <oibe.... 1 5u
Le bbls, SO Tie... 2 80
—“—.
Bee Glie... | 6G
14 bbls, 40 Ibs............ 1 40
MY bbls, SO lbe... 2%
Casings.
Ce 18
Heat vous... ......... 3%
Beef middies............ 8
Oe 60
Butterine.
Bois, dairy... .. 10
SOG, GAiry.............. 9%
Rolls, creamery . =
Solid, Creamery ......... 12
Canned a
Corned beef, 2 ip... ..- 2 15
Corned beef, 4 Ib ca 14 00
Roast beef, = 2 16
Potted ham, %s 50
Potted ham, ‘Ys. 1 00
Deviled ham, ge Ce 60
Deviled ham, eee. 1 00
Petted tongue a4 60
Potted tongue %s....... 1 00
eo ce ae vs
Fresh aun,
Beef.
Carease ./............ saa 7
Fore quarters......... 44%@ 6
Hind auarters........ 7 @8%
rans Wo. d...,....... 9 Ge
OS ieee
Pa 64@ 7%
Chnemrs. 1.4... ... 4@5
Pa @ 3
Pork.
ee... ......... @ 1%
BOA oe. econ a ss @ 6
BUGmers, ... 11... ,, @ 5%
Po i 5%@ 8
Mutton.
_—eoeee .. kk, a. . @?
spring Lambs... ..... 9 @i0
Veal.
Carcagey ....... ca. 2S

 

 

Hides and Pelts.

 

Perkins & Hess pay as fol-

 

 

 

 

Ows:

Hides.
ROOM Sa. 5B4G@ *% |
rer curee............ @i7
Pub Cured...) 2.0... * @s
Bey os... 6 @8
Nips. geen... ......- 6 @7
nits Gure@. -........ 64@ 8
Calfskins, green...... 6%4@ 8
Calfskins, cured...... 7%@ 9
Deaconskins ......... 2% @30

Pelts.

MeCArNes .... 8... 5@ 10
ese 0c... ee
cua Weel... 6O@ 90

Oils.

Barrels.
os... @i1%
XXX W.W.Mich.Hdlt @ 8%
Ww W Michigan. ....... @ 8
High Test Headlight.. @i7z
6. Gee... @ 8
Deo. MOptne ........:. @%%
we ee 25 @36
MBGINe......... -ll1 @2i
Black, winter......... @8

orurw our

 

Crockery and

 

Glassware.
AKRON STONEWARE.
Butters,

i Sal, per Gos. 2.0... 1... 50
LtoG gal; per gal.:...... “Gag
8 gal., DOr Oat es 6%

AG Sal.) DEF Gal. 6%

12 gal., per gal.. a . oO

15 gal. meat-tubs, per ‘gal. 8
20 gal. meat-tubs, per gal.. 8

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

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

Churns.,
2 to 6 gal., per gal.. i. oe
Churn Dashers, per ‘doz... 85
Milkpans.

% gal. flat or rd. bot., doz. 60

1 gal. fat orrd. bot.,each 5%
Fine Glazed Milkpans.

% gal. flatorrd. bot.,doz. 65
era flatorrd. bot.,each 5%
Stewpans.

% gal. fireproof, bail, doz. 85

1 gal. fireproof, bail, doz.1 10

Jugs.
ae eal, per dog. ........... 4
i Wal.. per dow... ........ oe
PtoG gal pergal......... Gee
Tomato Jugs.

i gal, per doe............ 3
wel COen 2 le 7
Corks for % gal., per doz.. 20
Corks for 1 gal., per doz.. 30

Preserve Jars and Covers.
% gal., stone cover, doz... 75
1 gal., stone cover, duz...1 00
Sealing Wax.
5 lbs. in package, perlb... 2
LAMP BURNERS.

NG. O Sum .............. a
No tiu...........:......
No. © Gen... a
oo ee 50
pechriy, NO.}.............
poourity, Na. 2.............  &
Nutmeg ee teet chase vege) Oi
Climax.. 1 50

LAMP CHIMNEYS—Common.

Per box of 6 doz.
No. 0 Sun. ‘ <<. 2 o
No. ) Sum...... 1 88
NG. 2 Sun........... 2 70
First Quality.
No. 0 Sun, crimp top,
wrapped and labeled.... 2 10
No. Sun, crimp top,
_Wwrapped and labeled... 2 2d
No. 2 Sun, crimp top,
wrapped and labeled.... 3 25
XXX Flint.
No. 0 Sun, crimp top,
wrapped and i 2 55
No. Sun, crimp top,
wrapped and labeled. 2%
No, 2 San, crimp top,
wrapped and labeled. 3 75
CHIMNEYS—Pear1! Top.
No.1 Sun, wrapped an
a 3 70
No. 2 Sun, wrapped and
labeled. .
No. 2 Hinge, wrapped ‘and
labeled...
No. 2 Sun, “Small “Bulb,”
for Globe I 4amps.. , 80
La Bestic.
No. 1 Sun. plain bulb, a
doz
No. 2 Sun, plain. bulb, ber
aos... 50
No, 1 Crimp, per doz.. rs
No. 2 Crimp, per doz.. .... 1 60
Rochester.
No. 1, Lime (65c doz)...... 3 50
No.2 2, Lime (70e doz). . 406
No. 2, Flint (80c doz)...... 47
Electric.
No. 2, Lime (70¢e 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.
5 gal galv iron with spout. 5
5 gal galv iron with faucet 6 00
S Oa) Tite Cans.......... 9 00
5 gal galy iron Nacefas ... 9 00

Pump Cans

  

gal Rapid steady stream. 9 00
gal Eureka non-overfiow 10 50
3a) Home Rule.... ..... 10 50
5 gal Home Rule.... ......13 00
gal Pirate King..... - 950
—
No. @Tubular.. vectes 2 2m
No. 1B Tubular.......... 6 50
No. 13 TubularDash. .... 6 30
No. 1Tub., glassfount.... 7 00
No. 12 Tubular, side lamp. 14 0C
No. 3Street Lamp . 3%
LANTERN GLOBES.
No. 0 Tubular, cases 1 doz.
each, box 10 cents.. 45
No. 0 Tubular, cases 2 doz.
each, box 15 ¢ents....... 45
No. 0 toe bbls 5 doz.
ONG. WOE Se. ela 40
No. 0 Tubular, bull’s eye,
cases 1 doz. each. eo i
LAMP WICKS.
INO. @ Gr @yOee. cca... ccs 20
ING, 1 Per Sroes. coo... a. 25
No. 2 per er0e8 2.65, i. 38
No. 3 per gross oa
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22

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

DAILY SALES.

How to Avoid Oversights in Making
Charges and Credits.*

The difference between a progressive
and an unsuccessful concern is often
due to the use of a thoughtfully-planned
and carefully-applied system of store
management, of which its application
to cash and credit transactions is most
important.

All retail business is divided into two
classes: cash, or cash and credit, vary-
ing in proportion. A gradual but sure
change is going on from the old idea ot
charging goods on long time to the mod-
ern one of short time and as strict ad-
herence to cash as is possible. In the
large department stores, and in a few
stores of a single line, goods are sold
strictly for cash, and with splendid re-
sults. Because of local conditions, most
stores, however, combine the two. In
both classes all transactions may be re-
duced to two general heads:

(a) Cash sales—when money is paid,
goods delivered and transactions com-
pleted ;

(b) Charge sales—when goods are
delivered and charged, with payment
to be made at some future time.

These, with three other corollary
transactions—namely, (1) money paid
in on account, (2) money paid out, (3)
charge made—comprise nearly every
possible transaction between store and
customer. The expense of doing busi-
ness diminishes in direct ratio to its
approximation to cash, and increases
with the extension of credit, in addi-
tional book-keeping and office and store
expense.

Cash and charge sales are’ usually
handled in an entirely different manner
one from the other. In one, payment
is made and the transaction completed
at time of purchase. The danger ot loss
is small, depending upon the accuracy
and honesty of the clerk, and especially
upon the extent the customer enters
personally into the transaction as a
check. In credit sales, however, js
where loss usually comes. Forgetting
to charge the account is of common oc-
currence. The loss from that source is
far greater than most merchants realize.
The ordinary form of charging is to call
off to the book-keeper, or to enter in a
desk blotter, usually at some distance
away. In a busy time, with even the
utmost care, oversight from charge is
common and loss results. It may bea
case of ‘‘Ignorance is bliss,’’ but it
cuts profits. When the clerk forgets to
‘charge it,’’ your customer gets the goods
and you get nothing. If the ordinary
blotter is used it should bean invariable
rule to enter it at once, before any one
else is waited upon. But this contin-
gency should be done away with as far
as possible and the possibility of an
oversight should be reduced to the min-
imum. Lack of system breeds careless-
ness and a dollar lost through careless-
ness is hardly iess excusable than
through dishonesty.

That method of conducting one day’s
sales is best which is most systematic
and simple, minimizing the possibility
of carelessness or error, and at the same
time interesting the customer in the
transaction. This last feature is most
important, for its effects, rightly carried
out, are far reaching. The object of
advertising is to interest the customer.
Interest him in goods or store, and
your wares are half sold. Bring him in-
to close relationship with your clerks
and store, proving to him that his in-
terest is yours and yours his and you
can defy competition.

The most systematic and simplified
form cf conducting one day’s sales has,
as yet, not been solved. Varying con-
ditions require different applications of
detail, according to size and complexity
of business; the principless will, how-
ever, remain about the same. The
object in all cases is, first, to have some
system. he most simple form, it
seems to me, is tbat of duplicate slips.
Do away with the common money
drawer. Every transaction should have
a traceable check. The ideal system
*Paper read by Edwin D. Warner, of Jackson, at

annual convention Michigan Hardware Asso-
ciation.

 

hand will wish that he had begun before.

 

would be the combination of a cash car-
rier, with cashier using a cash register,
all transactions passing through his
hands, items having return receipt-
check delivered to customer, and all
charges delivered in duplicate, each
receiving charge receipt, the original
and duplicate balancing at night. This
gives an exact and complete check on
every transaction, while simple and
comprehensive, but is especially adapted
for large stores and department work.
Its objection is its expense.

For the average retailer the system
that gives the greatest results, consider-
ing the expense, is one using the dupli-
cating system in connection with a man-
ifolding autographic register comprising
both cash and manifolding attachments.
Have the cash side so ruled that the
paper will show one- column for each
clerk, who has his own individual num-
ber, with additional columns ruled for
**Money paid in on account,’’ ‘* Money
paid out,’’ and ‘*Charge made.’’ With
each transaction the clerk writes his
number in the first column at the right,
enters the amcunt of cash in his column,
presses the combination and the drawer
flies open, ringing bell, which rolls
paper beyond, ready for next transac-
tion, the opening being only large
enough to admit of one entry at a time.
Money paid in or out is likewise entered
in appropriate columns, the expenditurey
or receipt showing to or by whom given.
When charge is made the amount is en-
tered in the same form. A charge is
treated in like manner, only the address
and amount being debited. At close of
business the register is unlocked, reveal-
ing every transaction of the day, giving
total gross and individual sales, with
the number of each clerk. Debiting and
crediting the various amounts paid in
and out, with cash sales against cash on
hand and in banks, gives a complete
epitome upon the cash side. The
amount left is carried forward to the
next day as ‘‘Cash on hand.’’ Enter
in a book ruled so as to show the cash,
and charge items for every working day
of the month, the amounts paid in and
out, with such special items as seem
desirable. The total individual sales,
plus amount left, should equal gross
total. Indicate amount of discrepancy
of shortage or amount over at the left.
In small figures at the right and above
individual sales enter number of such
sales, with their total, above total of
day’s gross sales. In connection with
this side use the duplicating part as a
safeguard and check upon the cash,
while the cash entry of total charge
checks itemized duplicate charge. The
duplicate slips should be preferably of
different colors, one original and other
duplicate from carbon copy. One is
kept and the other is given to customer.
Here two methods may be used. The
easier is to itemize all charged slips on
the duplicate, while entering total on
cash side, and enter cash total here,
with same on cash side, the original to
be given to the customer, while dupli-
cate rolls up. The preferable way, and
the one most systematic, if possible, is
to itemize all cash sales here as well as
charges. It will take but little more
time, when once understcod, and will
give good returns. One extra column
should be inserted for costs. In this way
profits can be daily determined—a_con-
dition most desirable. The clerk should
estimate costs as far as possible. He
should understand that profit, not gross
sales, is the object of business. It will
reduce cutting of prices, give better
knowledge of stock and increase the
interest of the clerk in the business.
The proprietor, however, should enter
and extend costs when slips are given to
customers. If profits are so figured, one
will be surprised at the results of things

It should be an invariable rule tor every
clerk to go to the register and make en-
try of every transaction before another
customer is waited upon.

What part has the customer now
played in the transaction? None except
aS a passive recipient. Just so far as
he can become interested, just so far
will he be not alone a check upon any
oversight of the salesman, which, how-
ever, would be discovered at night, but

 

interest once aroused, he becomes more
closely attached to your business, loses
sight of the penny in the service and
becomes a walking advertiser. Happy
is the man who has many such custom-
ers. How may they be obtained? Make
them financially interested in the busi-
ness as well as the sale. This, with
prompt and obliging service, will bind
them to you with cords of steel. Have
the slip of every transaction, with the
goods, delivered to the customer. If
over the counter, hand to him; if de-
livered, whether paid, charged, or sent
C. O. D., send with delivery man, who
must return statement of such delivery,
with time, kind and number of goods,
by whom sold, and with receipt of con-
signee. This slip must represent value
alike to the merchant and customer, to
be the means of check to the one and of
interest to the other. To accomplish
this, have printed, besides the address,
some pungent advertisement at the top
or on the back. But, above all, let this
check represent a rebate for cash or
quick payment of account.

Do you know what the credit of your
business costs you compared with cash?
Figure it once and see. Put the differ-
ence in rebates for the redemption of
the checks and see if you do not think
it pays. Keep the principle; let each
work out the details himself. Have
them redeemable in merchandise and it
will help your trade. For instance,
have printed on the slip, If for cash,
$10 in amount of these cash slips pre-
sented at one time gvod for 50 cents’

 

worth of hardware. Save and return
your slips ;’’ or, on charge slips, varying
with amount, “‘If paid promptly in ten
days from date, this check will be ac-
cepted with rebate of 2 per cent.’’ A
great number of applications can readily
be made. The object is to get quick
returns, to advertise, to get slip back as
check on sale, and especially to interest
the customer in the business, making
him financially so in results. All the slips
can be kept in daily roll together, in
which case the charges should be
checked up and copied, either into jour-
nal, or, what is better, original slips
can be filed directly in a bill pocket-
book, the duplicate sent to customer,
serving as an original bill, book en-
tries being made of sum total only with
reference to slip. The bill, when re-
turned for payment and rebate, checks
the other, credit is made on thé books
and bills are filed away as a complete
record of the transaction. The slips
and continuous record first check one
another and then are, in turn, checked
by the rebate slips, preventing error and
at the same time increasing interest of
both clerk and customer. If clerk is apt
to be away from register, let him have
pocket duplicate book, itemize charges
thereon and then bring toregister. But
this would rarely be necessary. While
lengthy in description, this system is
very simple and reliable in application,
bringing at the same time great results
in the life of trade. The principles
here exhibited can readily be applied in
other forms.

 

 

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A Homely Lesson to Be Profited By.
Written for the TRADESMAN.

The recent heated term brought me a
lesson which seems worth passing on,
and tradesmen and travelers may find it
to contain a hint they may give heed to.

It was during the almost unbearable
heat of the first week in July. Contrary
to my usual custom, I had availed my-
self of a cut-rate ticket to go cousining
—a three hours’ journey. But I had
scarcely taken my seat in the crowded
car before I concluded that it would
have been economy—of nerve-force at
least—to have chosen another time for

‘my visit, for the intense heat, combined

with smoke and dust, made life a bur-
den for the time being. All seemed
bound for the same place, and evidently
realized their misery to such an extent
as to forget that they were on the eve of
the Glorious Fourth. Babies cried,
mothers scolded and boys grown tall for-
got to be gentlemen. But, ‘‘It is a long
lane that bas no end;’’ and ours came
in the form of a little old woman, who
boarded the car from so desolate a place
that one passenger at least mentally
queried how people could call sucha
spot ‘‘home.’’ But later on she came
to the conclusion that, if its one repre-
sentative was a specimen of its inhabit-
ants, forlorn as it looked from the car
window, it must be a veritable Utopia.

The new arrival was evidently very old,
and bent almost double. Her dress—
there my pen fails, for none but an eye
witness could understand how truly she
looked as if she had dropped down
among us from a past age. But lack of
style was not the worst of Grandma’s
outing outfit, for, while the rest of us
fretted under the burden of _ light-
weight clothing, she was suffocatingly
dressed—as for a winter’s day.

In looking at the quaint figure, which
settled into a seat near me, I half for-
got my own discomfort in pity for her.
But not for long, for the deeply-lined
face under the out-of-date bonnet was in
evidence that pity in her direction was
uncalled for. And the smiling face
seemed to be such a rebuke to one near
me, who [| regret to say had, until grand-
ma’s appearance, made no effort at self-
control, that half impatiently she ex-
claimed, ‘‘Just wait until the novelty
has worn off a little and her smiles will
change to frowns.’

But not so. The cars sped on. The
perspiration stood out on the furrowed
face, but it was still wreathed with
smiles, which again provoked my fretful
seatmate to sneer, ‘‘A little off, I guess;
no sane person would smile like that on
such a day.”’

But another, passing down the aisle,
looking down kindly into the beaming
upturned face, said: ‘‘Well, Grandma,
you look as if you were in for a good
time, in spite of the heat.’’

‘*O, yes,’’ was the eager reply. ‘‘ You
see, I don’t git to go away frum hum
very often, ‘n’ I can’t afford to let
weather nor nothin’ sp’il my good time.
No, sir!’’

She said it with such sincerity, and
in such inimitable manner, that one
listener at least concluded that, instead
of being insane, she gave evidence of
more good sense than the _ stylishly
dressed people about her.

The return trip found many of the out-
going passengers on board, and I am
sorry to say a more unhappy looking
crowd is seldom seen. The heat was
still intense, and all appeared to feel as
if the Fourth had been the reverse of
‘‘glorious.’’ Children cried more lusti-
ly, mothers acted as if patience had

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

long since ceased to be a virtue and
fathers—well, the less said of them the
better.

Until then I had tried to bear in mind
the lesson brought me on the third by
the dear little old lady; but I, too, was
beginning to count my miseries, instead
of mercies, when, as the train halted, I
heard so cheery a laugh that I looked
up, to encounter the smiling face and
bent form of one I shall long remem-
ber. Dear old soul! What a rebuke
her beaming countenance was; and how
quickly smiles chased away the frowns,
for she seemed to look upon us as
old friends, and smiled so irresistibly it
was easy to give smile for smile.

“‘The hot weather spoiled your good
time, didn’t it, Grandma?’’ asked one
of the former passengers.

‘“Waal, ‘twas hot, for a fact!’’ replied
she, showing her toothless gums. ‘‘}
never see the beat on’t for a scorcher;
but I went in for a good time, all the
same. You see, I don’t git to travel very
often, ’n’ I couldn’t afford to let heat
nor nothin’ sp’il my good time!’’

And then, as if by magic, the lesson
again struck home and all—except the
babies—seemed trying to live above the
weather, like the uncultured and_ igno-
rant, but sweet and gentle, little old lady.

Later, I looked down at the bent figure
standing alone on the sun-beaten plat-
form of the dreary station. No friend
was there to welcome her home; but,
after glancing about as if looking for
some one, the one who had evidently
learned to live above what was beyond
her control waved us a smiling adieu.

‘*Ah,’’ thought one passenger, as she
smiled back at her erstwhile companion,
‘*the exterior is made ugly by time, but
lasting beauty is yours. ’’

And now, as she recalls that sunny-
spirited octogenarian, whe was lifted
above discomfort, lifted above adverse
circumstances and the infirmities of age,
she thinks, ‘‘Whata beautiful world this
would be if all would, like her, come to
the realization that they cannot afford to
let their good times be spoiled by what
is beyond their power to prevent.’

H. H. Tuomas.
SO a

The Mexican government has reduced
the license on pawn shops, on the un-
derstanding that the shops make a cor-

responding reduction in the rates of in-
terest on pawned goods,

 

 

This represents the only
Charcoal-Using, Base-Burner
Smoothing Iron ....

now on the market.

Now is the time to secure county rights and push
sales. SAGINAW SELF-HEATING IRON CO.,
Sole owners for Michigan. Saginaw, E S , Mich.

 

WM. BRUMMELER & SONS, GRAND RAPIDS,
Pay the highest price in cash for
MIXED RAGS,
RUBBER BOOTS AND SHOES,
OLD IRON AND IETALS.

Send us a list of what you have and we will quote
you our best prices thereon.

 

Hardware Price Current.

 

 

AUGURS AND BITS

  

 
  

ee 70
Cte PORMING 8 25410
JCmminen  UMACARIO -... 60&10
AXES
Maret Quality, SB. Bronze ..........:...... 5 00
First Quality, D. B. Bronze........... 9 50
First Quality, S. B. S. Steel... 5 50
Mirst Quality. D. B. Steg os 10 50
BARROWS
ROOUIEOMGE oe ee, $12 00 14 00
Oe net 30 00
BOLTS
ee es 60&10
CMeriawe now Hat... 70 to 75
I 50
BUCKETS
GIES Pie ce 8323
BUTTS, CAST
Cast Loose Pin figured... 7010
Wrought Ne ey FO&10
BLOCKS
Ordinary Tackle... ........... es eee. 70
CROW BARS
oe <. per lb 4
CAPS
Byatt per m 65
aa ae eee per m 55
ee ee. per m 35
M See ey per m 60
CARTRIDGES
i Mire: .. . Leica 1
Central Fire. . Se B& 5
CHISELS
pocwen PERCE 80
BOGmes Pinte 2... ol. 5
OCMOe COMMGN 80
BOGHOS SACHS 80
DRILLS
Morse’s Bit Stocks . a 60
Taper and Straight SG 50& 5
Morse’s Taper Shank.. eee esa a ld on SS
ELBOWS
Com 4 piece Gin... ol. doz. net 55
tio oi
GORGE dis sou10
EXPANSIVE BITS
Clark's small, $18: large, @G............... 30810
ives 1.810. 2 0 5 ee
FILES—New List
New American see
EOE eo , 70
Heller’s Horse Rasps.. " l,l
GALVANIZED ‘IRON
Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26; 27. ..... 28
List 12 13 14 15 ic .... 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
mere Wye... $16 00, dis 60&10
PE $15 00, dis 60&10
WGMee .. 818 50, dis 20&10
“NAILS”

Advance over base, on both Steel and —
Steel nails, base... 5
Wire nails, base:

20 to 60 advance
te MeaevOmee.

OVA

 

10
CO 20
IN 30
Oe zt)
ee 70
Mines eiyance. 50
eee Pe evanee........... a... 15
eine GAOVAMCe. 23
eee OSV ae ec 35
Finish 10 advance ...... ec cee 25
ees Ae 35
Mite OROveRCe. ee. 45
meric: & @eyanec.. ee 85
MILLS
Comes, Peveers Cee... .......... a... 40
Coffee, P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s eg enengee . 40
Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’s........... 40
Coffee, Enterprise ee ecw 30
MOLASSES GATES
ectonrs Paster 60&10
eopniins Geonames 60&10
Enterprise, self-measuring ....... eu 30
PLANES
Oma Soot Ces, fancy... @50
eo ee le a ce 60
pandusiy Tool Co.'s, fancy........-........ @50
Premier TSCGUREy ee @50
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s wood......... 60
PANS
to... 60&10&10
Common polished. o.oo S TO& 5
RIVETS
TOW SG) PUNE oe 60
Copper Rivets and Burg..................... 60

PATENT PLANISHED IRON
‘A’? Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10 20
“B” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 25 to 27 9 20
Broken packages 4c per pound extra.

HAMMERS
eeaele & Cos new st... :.. ...... dis 33%
a dis 25
Wovikes 4 Prana a: oe ose cece cows dis 40&10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.. .30¢ list 70

Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel Hand 30c list 4010

 

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HOUSE —— GgooDs
Stamped Tin Ware.... new list 75&10
Japanned Tin W are. ed oo a

  

Granite Iron Ware................. new list 40&10
HOLLOW WARE
eee 60&10
eee
Mueee  cs let ces .60&10
‘HINGES —
oe Clark’ rut aa. ‘ . dis 60&10

sae... ‘ per ‘doz. net 250
WIRE Goops
ieee cea 80
oe 80
OC cua oe 80
Gare Hoos and Byes ............. 21... 80
LEVELS
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............ dis 70
ROPES
Panes. 36 Puen Gm TAeeer. kk. kee co ce 514
We ee lake 8
SE anenet
Steel and Iron.. a 80

Try and Ca
SHEET IRON
com. smooth. com.
Dee, 10 a e...... . 40
Moe ae... 3 30 40

ee
Ce ee
Nos. 25 to 26....... ae
No. 2... id
All sheets No. 18 and ‘lighter, ‘over 30 inches
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
SAND PAPER
Tjet acet 16 6... .................:..... dis
SASH WEIGHTS
ee eee ae yaw ey per ton 20 00

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tote te tt
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Solid Eyes.

TRAPS
ee OO i eee us i 60410
Oneida C ommunity, Newhouse’s.. 50
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s 7O& 1010
Moise, Cuamer. os. per doz 15
mouse Goreion................. per doz 1 26
WIRE
ee Meee v6)
EEE eee 7
Coppered Market.. i
Tinned Market. a
Coppered Spring ‘Steel. ee eee 50
Barbed Fence, galv Sa 2 05
Barbed Fence, painted. co 2a
HORSE | NAILS -
An Sable. . .dis —_
Putnam. . nT ie
Northwestern... ..dis 10810
“WRENCHES
Baxter's Adjustable, nickeled.............. 30
Coe’s Genuine.. eae 50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought Vee. 80
Coe’s Patent, malleable. . ous. 80
MISCELLANEOUS:

pe Capes ........ — 50
Pusepe Coser... ......... =
et a a

Casters, Bed and Plate. . ee 50810610
Dampers, American..... ' 50

METALS— ‘Zinc
600 pound casks......... ee, ae
Perper 6%
SOLDER
4@% - 12%

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

TIN—Melyn Grade

Meets 1. Carcoel............... ee
14x20 IC, Charcoal . ee oa

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i cue 5

20x14 1X, Charcoal ... 1 00
Each additional X on this grade, 81.25.
TIN—Allaway Grade
Te OO eee 5 00
14x20 IC, Charcoal . 5 00
10x14 IX, Charcoal . eles ae
14x20 IX, Charcoal . a Ce
Each additional X on this grade, ‘81.50.
ROOFING PLATES
Meee IC, Cherooel, TOGm.. wn eae 5 00
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Dean ..... oo eae
souen IC. Charcoal, Hean........ ... 5.2.06. 10 00
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade......... 450
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade......... 5 50
20x28 1C, Charcoal, Allaway Grade......... 9 00
20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade......... 11 00
BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE

14x56 IX, for No. 8 Boilers, |
14x56 IX, for No. 9 Boilers,; Pe Pound... 9

 

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Write for quotations and monthly illustrated
Catalogue.

Wii. BRUMMELER & SONS,

Manufacturers and jobbers of
Pieced and Stamped Tinware.

a6o S. Ionia St. - Grand Rapids, Mich
Telephone 640

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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

Putting on the Brakes.

The arrest of motion in mechanical
devices is a science. We can halt a
fly-wheel, stop a circular saw, bring a
locomotive to a_ standstill, reverse the
course of a steamship, and, in fact, put
the brakes on everything but a cyclone,
a scandal, the vomit of a crater or the
wheels of time. In the motion of our
bodies the art of stopping is essential to
our bodily safety, otherwise we might
walk into a well, a tank of hot water or
a hornet’s nest. When a blind man puts
both his feet over the edge of a preci-
pice, his only stopping place is at the
bottom, and a hod carrier who steps
over the edge of a scaffold can call no
halt on his descent to broken bones and
the coroner. While the average man
knows enough to keep his fingers out
of boiling water and his hands from the
tip of a live electric wire and the wrong

end of a wasp, he is apt to go over the
safety line, where the consequences are
more serious than a fracture in his

bones or a crack in his head. How few
of us know anything of putting on the
brakes when the tongue runs away from
truth and good sense. For reasons that
are something more than anatomical
the tongue is placed behind closed
doors. It is also wisely endowed with
the faculty of getting tired, and where
Nature has been generous in giving us
two eyes and two ears, the dual arrange-
ment stops atthe tongue. The line is
drawn on our vocal member. It is suffi-
cent for its duty, and would seldom, if
ever, put in any overtime if we knew
when to put on the brakes. In business
a long tongue isa misfortune. It can
talk a customer to death aad is very apt
to frustrate a sale by overreaching the
truth. Some men of special lingual en-
dowments can invest a plain flatiron
with the beauty of an enameled tile and
can cover an awl, a bodkin ora gimlet
with the glory of a gold pin. This may
be one of the special qualities of a sales-
man, but, as a rule, the man who pays
for terrapin and discovers he has only
secured a clam is not likely to repeat
his mistake. An oratorical Ananias is
a misfortune in any business. He may
be an artist in painting sparrows and
selling them for canaries, but birds of
this kind generally come home to roost.
Loquacity in business is as much out of
place as is a bell on a cat.

In the pursuit of wealth, which, by
the way, is as reasonable as climbing a
tree for an apple or digging in the earth
for a potato, if we knew when we had
enough of gold, or land, or houses, or
mines, how few
sleep, flesh, health, sanity and life itself
in loading up our backs with more than
we can carry! When
to pour in more wine, we are not a mile
away from the fever that ina
gambler’s bones or the brain disease
that afflicts a lunatic. The lust for
wealth is as deadly in a man as is the
lust of empire fatal to a nation. In the
one case we may become a juiceless
mummy in a palace and in the other a
dead Arab among the grapes of a stolen
vineyard. The inequalities of wealth
that are disturbing society and sapping

of us would be losing

we break a bottle

Durps

its foundations would never be abnormal.

or prodigious if men knew when to put
on the brakes.

Aside from the lust of wealth, and, in
fact, a vice at the opposite end of the
plank, we have the man who never
knows when to stop burning money.
He may light his cigar with a $100 bill,
or he may be incapable of taking care
of a hard-earned dime—it matters not,
it is the same vice. The spendthrift is

 

 

 

not necessarily a fool with a bank ac-
count or a day laborer with all his be-
longings in a trunk. In both cases there
is a leak—the one ina puncheon,the
other in a keg. The one sinner may not
be likely to be hungry, but the other is
apt some day to be short in his rent
and his bacon. Some men are worse
off with most means. A few hours over-
time in a week and an extra dollar will
start many a man into debt. His head
swells as his pocket shrinks. Unable to
feed a rabbit, he speculates on a horse,
and with the baker’s bill unpaid for last
week's bread, he brings a cake home in
a wheelbarrow. It is certain that, as
some men are amassing wealth by greed
and cupidity, and are choking like
mice in a cheese they can never con-
sume, there are others who, by not know-
ing how or when to put the brakes on
their spendings, are adding to the evils
and the fools of which the world in the
days of Noah had enough, and the Nine-
teenth Century has too many.
FRED WoopRow.

a

Everything in Readiness for the Grand
Ledge Meeting.

B. Schrouder, Secretary of the Mich-
igan State Pharmaceutical Association,
has issued a handsome 36 page booklet,
containing the programme to be ob-
served at the fourteenth annual conven-
tion of the Michigan State Pharmaceu-
tical Association, which will be held
at Grand Ledge Aug. 3, 4 and 5. The
substance of the programme was pub-
lished in the Tradesman of July 7, but
the following hints, reproduced from the
official programme, deserve attention:

It is hoped that every phramacist in
the State will attend this meeting of the
Association. You will be welcome
whether a member or not. You ought
to be a member. It does not cost much
of anything, and by a large and active
membership it shows we stand together,
and as a solid body we can be more suc-
cessful and important in many ways
than a small body. Don’t get the idea
that you would not amount to much in
the Association; it is not by any means
a ‘‘one man’’ or *'select few’’ affair.
We are banded together for our mutual
interests,

At this year’s meeting we want to do
something about the liquor law. We are
constantly having Anti-Drug-Store-
Whisky legislation at Lansing, and it is
now the object of our Association to try
and get the enforcement of the present
liquor law in the hands of the Board ot
Pharmacy. Should this happen, it
would be one of the best things we ever
accomplished for the legitimate drug-
gists, for then the illegal traffic in liquor
by the unscrupulous would not be toler-
ated,

W. D. Church, Chairman of the Com-
mittee on Games and Contests, asks
each member who has a bicycle or base-
ball suit to bring it along—don’t forget.

be fur-

No suits for the ball game will
nished by the committee.

Phere are contests and prizes for the
ladies and it is hoped that each member
will remember this and see that the
ladies of his family are with us to_ par-
ticipate in the festivities.

In justice to the members of this As-
sociation, the Entertainment Committee
has decided that any member who is _ in
arrears with his dues will not be en-
titled to any privileges mentioned in
this programme.

Any member who is entitled to enter
all the events, and who has been suc-
cessful in two instances in securing a
prize, will not be permitted to enter any
more events.

—_ > o> ——____
L. J. Stevenson is taking a trip
through Wisconsin in the interest of the
Commercial Credit Co.
8

Wm. D. Weaver (Clark-Jewell-Wells
Co.) is spending a week's vacation with
friends near Douglas.

 

 

Have a Model Store.
From the Northwest Trade.

The writer was in a small country
village a few days ago and he found
there a model store. And the important
fact is the people knew it. There was
one merchant who had recognized the
importance of having a stock in order,
and having conveniences with which to
do business. It was an object lesson in
storekeeping that was there presented.

To begin with the building was nicely
painted outside and inside. The in-
terior was in a light tint that made a
good background for the stock. The
goods were nicely arranged on shelves
and between counters there was a neat
display counter with a top rack on which
rested dress goods, fancy shirts, and
other articles that could there be shown
to advantage. On a shelf well exposed,
and under the center counter, were boxes
of summer underwear, a nice line of
straw hats, etc.

In the rear of the store room and to
the left was a half partition, and there
was the shoe room, well lighted, with
Japanese matting on the floor, and the
shoe boxes arranged on two sides on
shelves. Two or three chairs made the
corner inviting for the purchaser.

Opposite was a little counter office
where the correspondence was done. No
room was necessary for book-keeping,
for the merchant does a strictly cash
business, without favor to anyone. A
neat little stairway leads directly from
the main floor to the second, and at the
head is the ready-made clothing. On the
second floor the tront is given to heavy
goods that do not ornament a store room,

In a back room are found the oils and
syrups. By an ingenious arrangement
all the oils are stored in a basement and
pumped to the main floor by an ar-
rangement that the merchant devised.
There is no leakage, and no soiling of
floors at any point in the handling of
these goods.

What is the impression when one _ en-
ters a store like this? There can be but
one impression, and it must be favor-
able. We all like stores of this char-
acter. The strange thing is that there
are not more of them. Why is it that
so many merchants are content to do
business in slipshod surroundings, when
for less money a neatly arranged store
can be conducted. It is a fact that
business can be done cheaper with nice
surroundings than with poor surround-
ings. There is less wear and tear on
every side when good conditions are
found.

It is a pleasure to visit a model store,
whether it be large or small. There
should be general improvement in this
regard everywhere where business is
done over the counters.

— ~~ o-~<>-—-- ——__—

Herbert Montague, General Manager
of the Hannah & Lay Mercantile Co.,
at Traverse City, is in town for a few
days for the purpose of making his
semi-annual purchases for his furniture
department.

—_—~>2.—__
Dan. C. Steketee (P. Steketee &
Sons) completes his three weeks’ va-

cation this week. He has spent the time
in Chicago and at Macatawa Park.

 

_ WANTS COLUMN.

 

Advertisements will be inserted under this
head for two cents a word the first insertion
and one cent a word for each subsequent in-
sertion. No advertisements taken for less than
25 cents. Advance payment.

BUSINESS CHANCES.

VOR SALE CHEAP—ONE 1897 COUNTER
Dayton computing scale; one Vermont pat-
tern counter Howe scale; one Fairbanks plat-
form counter scale; one Buffalo platform coun-
ter scale. Address S. S., care Michigan Trades-

man. 350
OR SALE—ON ACCOUNT OF OTHER
business, two of the finest and best-paying
cigar stores in the West. Everything new and
the best that money can buy Would consider a
trade for first-class city real estate or a good
farm near a nice lake. F. E. Bushman, South

Bend, Ind. 346
OR SALE—GOOD 82 ACRE FARM, WELL
improved, good buildings, good rowing
Crops, for part cash and long time on balance.
Address No. 349, care Michigan Tradesman.
349

 

 

 

 

 

NYONE 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 business, with excellent
reasons for disposal, none but principals need
apply to Wm. Connor, Box 346, Marshall, a
329

 

OR SALE—GENERAL STOCK MERCHAN-
dise in a small town on the Chicago &
Grand Trunk Railroad. Sales last year $15,000.
Will inventory from $3,500 to $4,500; double
store, barn, two good peddling wagons, horses,
harnesses, buggies. Will se.] complete or sell
stock and rent buildings. Address No. 348, care
Michigan Tradesman. a8 °°
ESIRE TO TRADE FOR MERCHANDISE—
$4,000 store, $1,500 encumbrance; rented $30.

 

 

City 20,000. Address gNo. 345, care Michigan
Tradesman. 345
OR SALE—STOCK OF DRUGS, PAINTS

and wall paper in one of the best towns in
Southern Michigan; an old-established business
of thirty years. Yearly sales $12,000 to $15,000;
owner retiring. Address No. 344, care Michigan
Tradesman. 344
UR SALE—A GUOD 40-ACRE FARM, LO-
cated in good fruit country, five miles from
a good city; good buildings, 1,000 fruit trees.
Price, $1,L00, part down, long time on remainder,
Address No. 343, care Michigan Tradesman. 343
OR SALE—STORE BUILDING WITH RES-
idence rooms in counection—a fine location
for millinery and bazaar trade. Address Box 88,
Leroy, Osceola Co., Mich. 2
y 7ANTED 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 &
20n, Hamilton, Mich. 331
NOR SALE OR EXCHANGE FOR SLOCK 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 complete 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, 320
M. Morse & Schneider, Seney, Mich. ze
OR SALE—CLEAN STOCK OF DRUGS, IN-
ventorying about $800, located in live town
of 600 people. Address No. 335, care Hazeltine
«& Perkins Drug o., Grand Rapids. 335
Fok SALE—CLEAN NEW STOCK GENERAL
merchandise, located in brick building in
growihg town, surrounded by excellent farming
country. Established trade. Address No. 334,
care Michigan Tradesman. 334
a 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 responsi dealing. 318
pee SALE—CLEAN HARDWARE S'1OCK;
doing good business; best location in Grand
Rapids; good reason for selling; no exchange.
Address Hardware, care Michigan Tradesman.
325
For SALE—STOCK OF GENERAL MER-
chandise and fixtures; inventory $1,700.
Address 324

 

 

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Ga EXCHANGE—A GOOD LIVERY STOCK,
doing a good business, for a stock of gro-
ceries. Address No. 327, care Michigan Trades-
man. 327
OR SALE—STOCK OF GENERAL MER-
chandise, inventorying about 4.500, located
10 a thriving town in Central Michigan. Would
take a small farm in part payment, if location is
desirable. Address No. 320, cure Michigan
T adesman. 320
kek SALE—ONE '00-HORSE POW ER SLIDE
valve engine, especially adapted to sawmill
work, and fitted with a Nordberg Automatic
Governor. Can be seen running any week day
at Waliin Leather Co.’s tannery, Grand Rapids.
gia
J ANTED—PARTNER WITH $2,000 FOR
one-half interest in hardware, stoves and
tinshop, plumbing and furnace work and job-
bing, roofiug, ete. 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 considerable business out of
town and want more of it. We want good live
agents in towns wher we do not now have any.
We pay a liberal commission and give satisfac-
tory service. Terms on application. American
Steam Laundry, O.te Brothers, proprietors. 289
OR SALE OR TRADE FOR STOCK OF
merchandise—180 acres of choice timber
land on Section 2 of the Haskel land grant,
Buchanan county, Virginia; title o.k. Address
No. 262, care Michigan Tradesman. 262
UBBER STAMPS AND RUBBER TYPR.
Will J. Weller, Muskegon, Mich. 160
NOR EXCHANGE—TWO FINE IMPROVED
farms for stock of merchandise; splendid
location. Address No. 73, care Michigan Trades-

man. 7
ANTED—1,000 CASES FRESH EGGS,
daily. Write for prices. F. W. Brown,

Ithaca, Mich. 249

 

 

 

 

 

 

PATENT SOLICITORS.

CS & ALLGIER, GRAND RAPIDS, PAT-
ent Attorneys and Practical Draughtsmen.
339

 

Our new Handbook free on application.

MISCELLANEOUS.

OUNG MAN, COMPETENT BOOK-KEEP-

er, understands double entry, desires posi-
tion. Best of references furnished. Address
W., care Michigan Tradesman. 347

 

 

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Travelers’ Time Tables.

CHIC AGO and West Michigan R’y
June 20, 1897.
Going to Chicago.
Ly. G. Rapids. .8:35am 1:25pm *6:25pm *11:30pm

 

 

 

Ar. Chicago....3:10pm 6:50pm 2:0uam 6:40am
Returning pie Chicago.
Ly. Chicago............ 7:20am 5:15pm * 9:
Ar. @ "a Repids Piietk tata - 1:25pm 10:45pm * 4: 00am
Muskegon.
Ly. G’d Rapids..... .... = ‘35am 1:25pm 6:25pm
Ar. G’d Rapids........... — 5.15pm 10:45am
Traverse city, Ghiarievoix, etoskey and Bay
sae
Ly. G’d Rapids........ 7:30am 11:30pm 5:30pm

Ar, Traverse sce esis 12:40pm 5:00am 11:10pm
Ar. Charlevoix.. 3:15pm 7:30am .......
Ar. Petoskey.......... 3:45pm 8:00am ......
Ar Bay View... 0¢.:2. 3:55pm 8:10am ......
PARLOR AND SLEEPING CARS. CHICAGO.

Parlor cars leave Grand Rap ds 8:35 am and
1:25 pm; leave Chicago 5:15 pm. Sleepingcars
leave Grand Rapids *11:30 pm; leave Chicago
*9:30 p m.

TRAVERSE CITY AND BAY VIEW.

Parlor car leaves Grand Rapids 7:30 a m;

sleeper at 11:30 p m.
*Every day. Others week days only.
Gro. DEHavEN, General Pass. Agent.

DET ROIT, Grand Rapids & Western.
June 20, 1897.
Going to Detroit.
Ly. Grand Rapids...... 7:00am 1:30pm 5:35pn

 

 

 

AY: DOO ccs 1:40am 5:40pm 10:20pr
Returning ce Detroit.

Dey SETI. i core es 8:00am 1:10pm 6:10pm

Ar. Grand Rapids..... i 00pm 5:20pm 10:55pn

Saginaw, Alma and Greenville.
Lv. G R7:10am 4:20pm Ar. G R12:20pm 9:30pr
Parlor cars on all trains to and from Detroit
and — Trains run week days only.
Gro. DEHAVEN, General Pass. Agent.

GR AND Trunk Railway System
Detroit and Milwaukee Div
(In effect May 3, 1897.)

Leave. EAST. Arrive.

+ 6:45am..Saginaw, Detroit and East..+ 9:55pm

10:10am: 2. 2 :- Detroit and East.... . + 5:07pm

+ 3:30pm..Saginaw, Detroit and East.. +12:45pm

*10: 45pm... Detroit, Kast and Canada...* 6:35am

* 8:35am....Gd. Haven and Int. Pts....* 7:10pm
+12:53pm. Gd. Haven and Intermediate. t 3:22pm
+ 5:12pm....Gd. Haven Mil. and Chi....+10:05am
* 7:40pm....Gd. Haven Mil. and Chi....* 8:15am
+10:00pm...... Gd. Haven and Mil....... + 6:40am
Eastward—No. 14 has Wagner parlor car. No.
18 parlor car. Westward—No. 11 parlor car.
No. 15 Wagner parlor car.
*Daily. tExcept Sunday.
E. H. Huewss, A. G.P. & T. A.
BEN. FLETCHER, Tray. Pass. Agt.,
Jas. CAMPBELL, City Pass. Agent,
No. 23 Monroe St

 

 

 

 

 

Rapids & Indiana Railway

June 20, 1897.

GRAND **

Tray. C’y, Petoskey & Mack...* 4:15am *10:00pm
Tray. C’y, Petoskey & Mack...t 7:45am t 5:10pu
Trav. Cy, Petos. & Har. Sp’gs.t . 20pm + 9:1up
Cadillac + 5:25pm til:lvam
Pascekor & Mackinaw.. .t11:10pm + 6:30am
Train leaving at 7:45 a.m. has parlor car .
Petoskey and Mackinaw.
Train leaving at 2:20 p.m. has parlor car to Pe-
toskey, Bay View and Harbor Springs.
Train leaving at 11:16 p.m. nas sleeping Cars tc
Petoskey and Mackinaw.
Southern Div. Leave Arrive
CMON soe. io ee oh tks soe + 7:10am + 8:25pir
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Kalamazoo ese Soca opens alsa ¢ 8:05pm + 8:50am
7:10a.m. train has parlor car to Cineiamats
2: Op.m. train has perlor car to Fort Wayne.
10:15p.m_ train has sleeping car to Cincinnati,
Indianapolis and Louisville.
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GOING WEST.
Lv @’d Rapids.......... 7:35am +1:00pm +5:40pm
liv Gd Raptes. 2. cs 9:00am +7:00pm
Ar Muskegon........... 9:00am 2:1 700, m
Ar Muskegon.. sees. 10:25am 8:25pm
Ar Milwaukee, Steamer sd dees 4:00am

@OING EAST.
Ly Milwaukee, Steamer....... 7:30am
Ly Muskegon....... .. - 10am fil: 45am +4:10pm
Ly Muskegon.. .... $ 8:35am $6:35pm
Ar@’d Rapids... . 9:30am 8 >55pni "6: 3upr
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day. Leaves Milwaukee daily except Saturday
and Sunday.
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Ticket Agt.Un. Sta. Gen. Pass. & Tkt. Agt.

 

 

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WOOL PURCHASES

Wool dealers snouid proviae themselves with
one of'the Tradesman Company’s Improved Wool
Records, by means of which an accurate and com-
pact account of every purchase can be kept. Sent
postpaid on receipt of $1.

Tradesman Company,
Grand Rapids.

   

 

 

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and sell for 75 cents to $2.
Send for sample leaf.

BARLOW BROS.,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

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DIAMOND CRYSTAL
SALT is a ‘‘free’’ seller be-

cause it is free from all salt

objections. No odor and no
grit—nothing but pure salt.

See Price Current

DIAMOND CRYSTAL SALT C0., St. Clair, Mich.

 

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

C. L. Lockwood,

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Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

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sample order to any Grand
Rapids jobbing house. See
quotations in price current.

 

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Invested in Tradesman Company’s
COUPON BOOKS will yield hand-
some returns in saving book-keeping,
besides the assurance that no charge
is forgotten. Write

TRADESMAN COMPANY, Grand Rapids

 

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MANUFACTURERS OF

Fine Roll Top Butter and Grocery Refrigerators.

 

Designers and Furnishers of all kinds of Fixtures for all kinds of Stores.

KENDALLVILLE, INDIANA.

 

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The leading modern methods are

Phota-Zine Engraving
Halftone Engraving
Wood Engraving

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these methods. Best results guar-

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Tradesman Company,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

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“Who oléals My Purse, Steals Trash”

So Shakespeare says, at least, but your cash drawer need not necessarily be an
empty dream because Shakespeare hinted at the vulgarity of a purse; he perhaps
meant an empty one. We ourselves think an Empty cash drawer a sort of useless
thing to have about the premises; but don’t understand that we are going to fill it
for you; we simply offer to help you; we offer our system,

 

 

 

 

“The Money Weight Scale System”

Place 20 grains of 30c coffee in the palm of one hand and two pennies in the
other. Now, honor bright, the pennies seem the more valuable, don’t they?
Our Money Weight scale will show you that the 20 grains of coffee are more val-
uable. That is the secret of the profit saving and money making of our Money
Weight Scale System. You measure money for money; money on the scale beam
for your customer’s money. All are careful of money, and our Money Weight
Scale System insures the same care in handling goods as money.

Our scales are as Fine, Sensitive and Durable as possible, and our prices are
within the reach of all.

THE COMPUTING SCALE COMPANY, Dayton, Ohio.

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ing scales but theirs, claiming that they own all the foundation patents on computing scales, and that users of an inftinging ma-
chine are as liable for damages as the manufacturer, etc.

ELKHART, Ind., July 20, 1897. 4
Our competitors are sending out broadcast, circulars and cards, warning merchants against purchasing any other comput-
Ail this is done to so frighten the trade that they will not dare buy any other scale than theirs.
We do not wish to annoy you with a full history of the methods adopted, or the means resorted to by our competitors to

 

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drive the Stimpson scale off the market, because we know you are not interested in it. All that you care to know is that if you
buy a Stimpson scale you are fully protected against any damages by reason of infringement.

To satisfy you on this point, we hereby guarantee to protect all users of our scales against any damages for infringement
on any patent. And to further show our good faith, will say, that should any purchaser fee! that the above guaranty is not satis-
factory to him, if requested we will give such purchaser a bond, with sureties worth over a million dollars, to protect him against
any damages by reason of the Stimpson scale infringing any patent.

We are willing, and have offered, to put up ample bonds to secure the payment of any judgment that our competitors might

get against us for damages for infringing their patents and, as theycould collect damages only once, they could not make our Sf

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customers any trouble.
All we ask is that you permit us to demonstrate the superiority of our scale before placing your order, as we are confident
we can satisfy you that our scale is the most perfect weighing and computing scale on the market. Drop us a card if you wish

to investigate and we will instruct our representative to call on you.
STIMPSON COMPUTING SCALE Co.

Evxnart, Ind., March 10, 1897.
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