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In years past M7 SS SS SQ NMS SSS Sa WA SS ing the people you sell goods at cost, etc. They “ve no confidence in you have, perhaps, spent hundreds of dollars tell- P SS — \) ee statements and look Manitowoc Lakeside Peas have upon the old-time adver- Ca : ‘ Ar tisement with continued j sold the best of any line of aC ees | AN . | canned vegetables this season. In HA fact, they are now hard to se- SSS SS cure and will be until new pack. er te Peay F Soneting i - fu Price is advancing daily. This as an inducement for their patronage—and tells the story. The Albert Landreth Co., youll get it. 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We are Wy 4 A other makes under our name. Elsie Cheese can only be Ww rN sole or in this territory for the celebrated bulk AN AN bought direct from the Factory or from the Musselman W nv. roast coffees of the “Wa AN Grocer Co., of Grand Rapids. Elsie Cheese are all W AN WOOLSON SPICE CO AN AN ; stamped “Michigan Full Cream, Factory No. 12.” W AN : AN / \ . Elsie Cheese has maintained its high reputation for twenty ) JN Ask our salesman to show you our line of samples. AN AN years and is the best selling Cheese on the market. W aneat S20a, MUSSELMAN GROCER CO., Grand Rapids. 77222989991 WN | ¥ a COFFE! pppeaeeecececec! COFFEE | ¥ AN M. S. DOYLE, ets. micu. W % os y ww ait SS LD LM LL LO LL LO LO A LO A. A. A. L.A. le Me sl MA LSS SS VV VV VS VV VSVSTVSSTSS = DOOOODQOOOOGOGQOGOCGCOODOOOOOQOGQOQOQOG®O©OQOOQOQOOOS ee rns Four Kinds of Coupon Books aL & HESS, oss Hides, Furs, Wool and Tallow of size, shape or denomination. Free samples on application. We carry a stock of cake tallow for mill use. TRADESMAN COMPANY, Grand Rapids. Nos. 122 and 124 Louis St., - Grand Rapids. @DDOOHOOGOOOOGOOGHGOOOOOOOHOOHHOOSOGHVOQGHGDOSEOOOQOOOOG | 10600OOOH 90101000OOOHOOOHOOOONOOOOOOOOOOOSOS are manufactured by us and all sold on the same basis, irrespective POQOOQOOQOOOOO® YO OOO @ @ @ © @ @ @ @) @ @ P@O@DOOQOOOO® J. A. MURPHY, General Manager. FLOWERS, MAY & MOLONEY, Counsel SSeS Cres eS SISSIES ISIS SSS SES The Michigan Mercantile AGCNGL | = Qne Advantage SPECIAL REPORTS. LAW AND COLLECTIONS. Represented in every city and county in the United States and Canada. Main Office: Room 1102, Majestic Building, Detreit, Mich. in buying Wash Goods now is The Prices are Lower N. B.—Promptness guaranteed in every way. All claims systematically and persistently handled until collected. Our facilities are unsurpessed for prompt and :ticient service. Terms and references furnished on application. ee an eee Four Kinds ofGoupon Books = 3 are manufactured by us and all sold on the same basis, irrespective of size, shape or denomination. Free samples on application. TRADESMAN GOMPANY, Grand Rapids. Some lines not being complete, a general re- duction has been made to clean them all out. P. Steketee & Sons, Grand Rapids, Mich. RR Os a ROSS SSA SIRS aS, iaccccedebceteonecccecebecee recent ecceecbccaetnveccccccevennnnnnnneneneneetd. | OQ C/@@/@S@leleolelela®ele%e® EDGARS SUGAR HOUSE Socnee eaawe § 8We Manufacture OW HO EDGAR 6S Kersey Pants—~-. Ww. HH. BEDGAR & SON, Look over our line before placing your DPDETROIT. ANAAAAAARAABARARARABABAARAAAAAAAARAAARAARAAARAAARAAAAB AAA AAAS AAARAASABAARAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY order. Just what you want at prices you can afford to pay. Our salesman will Thirty Long Years &} can ator Of experience enable us to excel all experimenters in giving you the Best Goods for the Price as is seen in CLYDESDALE SOAP SCHULTE SOAF Co.., Premium given away with Clydesdale Soap Wrappers. DETROIT, MICH. Voigt, Herpolsheimer & Co., Wholesale Dry Goods, Grand Rapids, Mich. McCray Refrigerator and Cold Storage Co., MANUFACTURERS OF Fine Rell Top Butter and Grocery Refrigerators. Designers and Furnishers of all kinds of Fixtures for ail kinds of Stores. KENDALLVILLE, INDIANA. FINE STORE FIXTURES he RO IRIN Seer RRNEtatie, ieee. SLOWTown, May 3, 1897. TRADESMAN Company, Grand Rapids: : GENTLEMEN—You need not take the trouble to send me any more circulars : about coupon books. I don’t like the system. Coupon books won't wait on cus- tomers. Coupon books won’t deliver goods. Coupon books won’t collect them- ; selves. What I want is a system so easy that I will have nothing to do but entertain y traveling men while the customers do the rest—wait on themselves and make their \ own change. When you get up a system of this kind to amount to something I will ae. 2 2 adopt it, but until you do you might as well save your postage, Combination Roll Top Counter,{Spice;Drawers and Shelving. WM. EASY. nea eetianggea A DESMAN Volume XIV. GOJIMMERCIAL GREDIT 0., Lt. Private Credit Advices. Collections made anywhere in the United States and Canada. : : ; : : Pre-apt, Conservative, Safe. -¥ CHAMP IN, Pres. W. FRED McBarn, S DPBS Michael Kolb & Son Wholesale Clothing Manufacturers, Rochester, N. Y. Established Nearly One-half Century. “5 UPADPHHS ed BR RS) £88) o Cc. a A a Write our Michigan representative, William Connor, Box 346, Marshall, Mich., to call on you, or meet him as under (customers’ expenses allowed) and he will show you best line of Kersey Over- coats, strictly all wool, raw and stitch edge, at $5 and #7; prices, fit, quality and make guaranteed. William Connor will be at Sweet’s Hotel, Grand Rapids, Mich., on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Juiy 20, 30 and 3r. The Preterred Bankers Life Assurance Go. Incorporated by 10 Maintains a Guarantee Fund. Write for details. Home Office, Moffat Bldg., DETROIT, MICH. FRANK E. ROBSON, Pres. TRUMAN B. GOODSPEED, Sec’y. MICHIGAN BANKERS aap pap bhahahhhbhhihs dst We wish to establish a branch of every town in Michigan where we are not now ») represented. No Capital 3 our j business in Required. MEN’S SUITS AND OVERCOATS $4.00 to $30.00 : WRITE FOR INFORMATION. WHITE CITY TAILORS, : 222-226 ADAMS ST., CHICAGO. ALADDAMAADBADAAAAABAD RAAAAABAAAASAAAAEDAS ABAD ESABAS VYVV VC VY TTY YYCrTT sive Sones, TRADESJIAN COUPONS LAMB IN THE BACKGROUND. A Commisssion House Which Will Bear Investigation. The Tradesman feels called upon this week to advise Michigan shippers to exercise caution in dealing with Chas. H. Kridler, who purports to conduct a commission business in fruit and vege- tables at 326 Broadway, Milwaukee. The concern has men at work in the fruit districts of this State, soliciting con- signments from growers on the repre- sentation that Kridler is a man of con- siderable means. As a matter of fact, he is a man of small means—so small, in fact, that Dun’s mercantile agency never had occasion to look up his record or standing during the time he was engaged in the saloon business in this city. At that time the Grand Rap- ids Brewing Co. and the local ageuts of outside breweries refused to have any dealings with him except on a cash basis, as it was understood that his real estate was incumbered and that he had little if any capital. This, in itself, ought to be a sufficient reason why ship- pers should be very cautious in dealing with him, except on a_ cash-in-advance basis. Aside from the financial irresponsibil- ity of Kridler, his associates in the en- terprise are not such as to inspire re- spect or confidence. The ‘‘ power be- hind the throne’’ appears to be none other than Frank J. Lamb, who is now under indictment in the United States Court here on a charge of fraudulent use of the mails. This man has repeatedly been exposed by the Tradesman, but appears to persist in the work of so- liciting shipments without any thought of making returns to the shippers. Realizing that his past conduct—and the repeated exposures of the Trades- man—have made the name Lamb _ noto- rious, he succeeds in getting some one else to stand sponsor for him as the nom- inal owner of the establishment, while he pulls the wires from the background with the ‘‘icy eye and_ stony heart’’ which are his boast and pride. It is reported that another attache of the institution is Chester A. Lamb, who is also under indictment in the United States Court here on the same charge as his father. Still another attache is Benj. F. Strifling, who at one time conducted a saloon of questionable repute on Kent street, Grand Rapids,and who has been uncollectible for years and has the rep- utation of being a dead-beat net. His Career aS a commission merchant in Grand Rapids was brought to a sudden termination by the exposures of the Tradesman, a little over a year ago, but in spite of the exposures he managed to secure considerable plunder from mer chants who were too poor or too short- sighted to take a trade paper. At this time Strifling asserted that his partner was Chas. White, of 36714 Clark street, Chicago ; that he owned a house and lot on Gelock street, Grand Rapids; an acre of land in Benona, Benzie county; three mortgages on farm property, ag- gregating $1,825; a section of land in Virginia, worth $20 per acre; a carload GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 1897. of lemons in the basement, all paid for, and $600 in cash—all of which state- ments were subsequently found to be untrue. In fact, when he was after- wards arrested, in company with Ches- ter A. Lamb, on a charge of larceny, he was unable to furnish bonds and re- mained in jail for some time. Two other Grand Rapids worthies— Harry Bedell, who defaulted to the city while acting as Police Court Clerk, and Isaac L. Austin, who formerly con- ducted a saloon at 50 South Ionia street —are understood to have located at Milwaukee, but what their connnection with the concern is—if any—the Trades- man has been unable to ascertain. Painstaking investigation of the entire establishment and its methods is in progress and further disclosures will be made in these columns as the facts come to the surface, Chas. H. Kridler may be an_ honest man and the Tradesman sincerely hopes he is; but if a man is to be judged by the company he keeps, Michigan ship- pers would do well to have a pretty thorough understanding and a positive guaranty from some responsible party before consigning fruit or produce to such a house. The establishment was visited twice last week by a represen- tative of the Tradesman. On _ both oc- casions a dry goods box served asa table on which letters were being writ- ten to Michigan shippers. On the first visit the store was bare of stock, but on the second call a solitary crate of toma- toes graced the front door. Frank Lamb was present on both occasions, and wherever Frank J. Lamb is, there is— business, —___» 0. Flour and Feed. The past week has been a very active one in the flour market. Buyers have been holding off so long that stocks are now exceedingly low. The demand for choice old wheat flour is strong and prices have been well sustained. The city mills are now running all of their plants strong and have a good many or- ders booked for August shipment. The outlook for winter wheat flour this year is exceptionally good and, in all prob- ability, the mills of Michigan which have an established reputation for their goods will be able to run fulltime. The conditions are such that prices, no doubt, will be well sustained and ata time when the farmer will get his share of the benefit by getting good prices for his wheat. Millstuffs are in good demand and worth about 50 cents more per ton than a fortnight ago. Feed and meal, while not in great demand, are worth a little more money on account of an advance in both corn and oats. Wm. N. Rowe. —____9»___ Brewers will hold their National con- vention at Boston on Sept. 19. It is quite probable that a resolution will be sprung and adopted favoring independ- ent labor class political action, and that the delegates to the American Federa- tion of Labor will attempt to force the same through that body. Number 723 Some Special Features of the Grand Ledge Convention. One of the interesting features of the annual meeting of the Michigan State Pharmaceutical Association, which oc- curs at Grand Ledge next week, Mon- day, Tuesday and Wednesday, will be a capsule filling contest. Each contestant will be supplied with twenty-four No. 2 capsules and enough powdered wiliow charcoal and calcined magnesia to fill them. The winner must fill his capsules and have none of the powder left on the table; and, of course, be the first one to finish his task. The prize for this event is a fine quarter sawed oak 3 gallon ice cream cabinet. This contest was an event at the Mackinac Island meeting last year and F. W. R. Perry, of Detroit, was the winner of a pair of prescription scales. There has been some talk among the members of the Executive Committee about a plan to make every registered pharmacist in the State a member of the Association. Should the idea as discussed be carried out at this meet- ing, it will be so arranged that each registered pharmacist, in renewing his certificate of registration, may include a fixed sum (which will not exceed 50 cents), this money to go into the treas- ury of the Association. Many of the most successful state associations are said to have adopted this plan. E. F. Phillips, the present Presi- dent, is not a candidate for re-election and it is not unlikely that Vice-Presi- dent Webber will be chosen as Mr. Phillips’ successor. B. Schrouder, who acted as Secretary for the past two years, is not a candi- date for the office again and it is re- ported that Chas. Mann, who is now Treasurer, has his eye on the Secre- tary’s chair. John J. Sourwine, of Es- canaba, is a candidate for the honor of representing the Association at the next annual meeting of the National Whole- sale Druggists’ Association. These changes will produce a general shaking up among the present officers and will add many new names to the list of 1897-98 officers and committees. Those buying tickets for Grand Ledge next week to attend the convention should buy them on ‘‘the certificate plan’’ and have the station agent fur- nish them with the proper receipt, which will (if too attend) entitle them to a re- turn ticket for one-third the regular fare, making the round trip at one and one-third fare. This arrangement will be made so that all Michigan railroads will make the samerate. This will ap- ply to all who attend, whether members of the Association or not. a - Anticipating the Obsequy. A poor man lay dying, and his good wife was tending him with homely but affectionate care. ‘‘Don’t you think you could eat a bit of something, John? Now what can I get for you?’’ With a wan smile he answered feebly : ‘‘Well, I seem to smell a ham a cook- ing somewhere; I think I could do with a little bit of that.’’ “Oh, no, John, dear,’’ she answered, romptly, ‘‘you can’t have that. That’s ee the funeral.’’ Sits die ban nt ce EL TT are ein pad ce eNOS i aR ane MICHIGAN TRADESMAN _ Bicycles _ News and Gossip of Interest to Dealer and Rider. At a recent dinner of the National Hardware Dealers’ Association, Colonel Albert A. Pope spoke upon the origin and development of the bicycle and of the business method in bringing this industry to its present proportions. He credited the first idea of a bicycle to the brain of an artist, a two-wheeled vehicle to be ridden propelied by the rider was depicted in 1643. In 181g the wheel took practical form, but not until much later did the building of bicycles become an estab- lished industry, the first ones in this country being made by blacksmiths and wheelwrights and being crude affairs. Colonel Pope said that he first saw a bicycle at the Centennial in 1876 and the next year he embarked in the business. About 1886 the safety began to be heard of, and it resulted in making the bicycle a popular vehicle. The next important improvement was the pneumatic tire, which into use in 1892. conception of and whose bicycle came One of the wedding presents given by the Queen of Italy to her daughter-in- law, the Crown Princess of Naples, a bicycle, magnificently finished in every respect. The Queen herself pos- sesses the most in the presented to her some little time ago, of which all the fittings are of goid. This bicycle is kept more for show than use, much as the Queen was delighted with it. The gold hittings naturally make it heavy, and are there- fore not practical. The Dowager-Duch- ess of Aosta learned to ride much earli- er than Queen Margaret, and she may be said to have introduced the sport into Italy for women. + * *£ was costly bicycle world, In strange contrast to the rest of the country the bicycle seems to be in bad odor in Montreal, Canada. A tax of $2 is levied on every wheel ridden within the city limits. Wheelmen are forbid- den to ride past street corners at a speed exceeding that of a horse walk- ing, and have been debarred from the most frequented park and summer re- sorts of the city. And now the Turn- pike Trust gives notice of application to the Frovincial Legislature for power to levy toll on all bicyclists using any of the country leading out of the city. AL this sate may yet be replaced by the horse in Montreal. + +=: + roads the bicycle It is good news to wheelmen of Lon- know that the police have now apparently forsaken the practice of ‘‘collaring’’ the handle-bar of a ma- chine throwing the rider over without a chance of saving himself The method appears to be fora cuople of constables to take their stands road, upon the watch for the scorching brigade. In preparing to re- ceive a cyclist, they buckle a couple of capes together and hold them at arm's length across the route. The cape ‘‘gives,’’ and it is quite possible for a wheelman to jump off backwards as he runs into the buffer. * * * When tbe cyclist gets active work he frequently becomes thirsty on the first few rides. Some cyclists ad- vise their friends not to drink at all, but to endure feelings similar to those experienced by Tantalus of old. The temptation to drink something is too strong for the average man, who is not don to and so now on a as soon into disposed to become a martyr to any- thing. The course prescribed by Na- ture is to drink when one is thirsty. Drink moderately, and slake your thrist with non-intoxicating beverages. ee The statement sometimes made that cycling has a tendency to make women immodest is one of the most litelous that could be uttered. Its authors mis- take the absence of self-consciousness for the loss of the most prized virtue of the fair sex, and create an impression which has no foundation in fact. There is a vast difference between convention- alties and proprieties, yet a distinction is not always made. The bicycle has made women think of something else than fashions and social obligations, but it has not made them forget their modesty There are physicians now who make a specialty of bicycle diseases. They candidly admit, however, that they have been driven to it by the number of patients who have deserted them since the bike fever set in. a. . Chains may be thoroughly cleaned by removing them from the machine, re- moving all the dirt and dust from the outside, and immersing them in kero- sene or benzine, leaving them in the receptacle in which they are placed over night. Ancther good pian is to boil them in a solution of washing soda and water. When the latter plan is used they should be thoroughly dried and well lubricated after washing. a. When the saddle is properly adjusted the heel will just touch the pedal at the point, with the leg perfectly straight. The ball of the foot should come in the center of the pedals, and when the saddle is placed correctly there will be a very slight bend in the knee joint, just enough to give transmission to the full power of the leg. s+ Century riders are often troubled with cramps in the legs and tiring of the wrists. Raising the saddle a trifle and the handlebar considerably will give relief in almost every case. A different set of muscles is thus brought to work, and the tired ones are permitted to rest. ee ae lowest A cyclist who had nothing else to do has arranged the following statistics: If all the miles ridden on cycles last year were totaled they would equal twice the distance between the earth and the sun. The number of revolutions of the pedals would be 150,000,000,000. ‘The oil used for lubricating and illuminating would fill 10,000 barrels. > ea - Bicycles on Towpaths. From the Troy Daily Press. ae nt George W. Aldridge of the Public Works Department has an overweaning ambition to be Governor, and one year ago, in his desire to have the support of the wheelmen vote, he generously donated the canal towpaths as bicycle wheelways. As superintend- ent of the canal system he threw open to wheelmen the use of the towpaths, and they were not slow to take advan- tage of the offer. Now Mr. Aldridge is being pestered with complaints coming from canal boatmen, who say that their mules shy at bicycles and have. in some instances, fallen into the canal as the result of a glance ata passing bi- cyclist. | The Superintendent is trying to figure out just what he shall do. Two courses present themselves, either to force canal mules to wear goggles and blinders or else compel wheelmen and wheelwomen to wear costumes on the towpaths -that will be warranted not to scare the patient but shy mules, You Can't Make a White Plume from a Crow’s Tail, nora good Bicycle from Castings. The MONARCH is good all through. Send for Catalogue. Inch a Bicycle! We want bright business men to represent us every where, MONARCH CYCLE MFG. CO. New York London. Send nine two-cent stamps for Monarch Playing Cards. Regular 50c cards, Chicago > BICYCLE SUNDRIES : EVERYTHING UP TO DATE LAMPS, TIRES, PEDALS, S SADDLES, LOCKS, BELLS, oS ss PUMPS, CEMENTS, ETC, = C ADAMS &® HART, S WHOLESALE BICYCLES and SUNDRIES. — S Send for Catalog 12 W. Bridge St., Grand Rapids. o ,peOeRO ee be ebhe kee cdaeauus and Discount Sheets. B Child - Brennen zrns can«inderstand each and every mechanical point embodied in the Business Clippers. Our aim has been to produce a bicycle with the least possible number of parts. We know, from an experience of almost 10 years de- voted to the manufacture of safety bicycles only, that the fewer and simpler the parts the more satisfactory the bicycle. A Business Clipper Ts Simplicity ‘Mtself. All Clipper Bicycles are made to wear, to please and satisfy the rider. We could make cheaper bicycles, but they would not be so good. No practical improve- ment is left off a Clipper. If it’s on a Clipper, it is right. If it’s not, it may be. 35.97 Made by THE CLIPPER PEOPLE, crand Rapids, Mich. Four Kinds a Coupon Books are mauufactured by us and all sold on the same basis, irrespective of size, shape or denomination. Free samples on application. TRADESMAN COMPANY, Grand Rapids. OnOHOROHOROROROROHONONORORONOROHORORONOHOHOReEOHOE anrnestasenesencanapcite ks ETN ne —. we “= - MICHIGAN TRADESMAN MEN OF MARK. F. C. Larsen, the Manistee Jobber and Retailer. The sandhills which indicate the lo- cation of Manistee mark the spot where immense fortunes have been made in the lumber and salt business. Not all the money that has been made in the Salt City, however, has been made in pine and salt; and to-day, when lum- bermen are complaining that there is no money in lumber and scarcely any in salt, a wholesale grocer of Manistee is frequently pointed out as the man who is making the most money of any man in the town. F. C. Larsen is an example of a man who, by strict adherence to strong busi- ness principles and an unfailing atten- tion to business, has advanced in a few years from dealing in a limited way in second-hand goods to be the head of a business which amounted last year to more than $300,000, that occupies two large stores and keeps sixty employes busy. Fred C. Larsen was born in Denmark early in the fifties. When he was less than a year old his parents brought him to America and settled in Milwaukee. In 1868 they moved from Milwaukee to Manistee and there Mr. Larsen has spent the major portion of a busy and emi- nently successful life. In 1874, when the panic had brought prices down to rock bottom, the three Larsen brothers, Fred C., Albert and H. B., started in business under the name of Larsen Brothers. Three hun- dred dollars was the amount of their capital, and it was a very modest busi- ness that they carried on at first ina little store 2zox4o feet in dimensions. In 1879 H. B. Larsen withdrew and in 1885 Albert did likewise, leaving Fred to manage the business alone. Before Albert withdrew, the brothers moved three times and in 1881 they took pos- session of the 4oxgo building at present occupied by the retail department store of Fred C. Larsen. In 1878 they dropped the second-hand business and put in a stock of clothing, boots and shoes. A year later they added dry goods and notions, and millinery and carpets were taken in soon after. In 1886 Mr. Larsen purchased the building and, using only the ground floor, rented the second and third floors for offices and living rooms. In 1889 he put in a stock of groceries and increased the size of his store by taking in the second floor. In 1893 the business demanded more room and the third floor was added to the already large store. In 1894, by adding to his business a stock of meats and provisions, Mr. Larsen became pre- pared to supply his customers with everything that comes under the head of household needs. In 1894 he built a 4ox80 brick build- ing within a stone’s throw of his retail building, to accommodate a wholesale grocery business that had grown to con- siderable proportions without any par ticular effort being made in that direc- tion. Mr. Larsen found that the mer- chants of smaller towns in Northern Michigan were attracted by the low prices he was enabled to make by_ buy- ing in large quantities and this trade grew spontaneously to be such a factor in the business as to demand special attention and a wholesale department. It was this circumstance that led to the erection of the large brick building on Filer street, known as the Larsen whole- sale grocery establishment. Both of the Larsen stores have three stories and a basement. The first floor of the wholesale building contains the offices and storerooms for flour, soaps and sugars, with a 20x40 refrigerator in the rear. On the second floor is the fancy grocery stock and the third is given up to woodenware, tinware, crockery and glassware. The basement is utilized for the storage of provisions and canned goods. Mr. Larsen is deep rooted in the be- lief that low prices must bring custom- ers,and fully as firm in the opinion that credit and low prices are incompatible. His department store is conducted strictly on a cash basis, and he car- ries the same principle into his whole- sale business probably farther than any other wholesaler in Michigan. A_ con- servative estimate is that one-third of his wholesale trade is cash business and credit is given only to customers of un- questionable standing. The cash sys- tem is extended even to the clerks of the department store and none of them ever ask for credit. Further than this, no clerk is permitted to wait on himself if he wants to buy anything in the store. The clerks seem to appreciate the businesslike manner in which the store is conducted and take noticeable pride in the success of the business. They are unswerving in their loyalty to their employer. At the department store one side of the ground floor is devoted to dry goods, notions and ladies’ furnishings, while opposite is the department for clothing, boots and shoes and men’s furnishing goods, and at the rear is the main office. On the second floor are the meat market and the grocery department, and on the third floor are found carpets, cloaks, millinery and house furnishings. The basement is used for storing sur- plus stock. Probably no more striking record of the growth of Mr. Larsen’s business is found than in the number of clerks employed at different times in the his- tory of his department store. In 1877 he employed only two clerks; in 1881, ten; in 1885, twenty-five; at present sixty clerks are necessary to handle his large business. Five wagons are kept on the street constantly, delivering goods and taking orders. Among the clerks many nationalities are represented and customers entering the stores are directed by the floor walk- er to a clerk who speaks the language of the customer, whether it be French, Polish, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, German or English. Mr. Larsen himself converses fluently in French, German, Polish and Danish. He is always at his stores when in the city and carefully watches every detail of the business. When not busy in his office, he acts as floor walker and is expert at detecting the needs of a customer of any national- ity the moment he enters the store. Mr. Larsen avers that his success is mainly due to selling for cash ata small profit, He says that many merchants pay too much attention to their expenses and probable profits, marking their goods up to correspond to a carefully- estimated schedule of expense and profit. His idea has been to attract cus- tomers by low prices, to buy with care in the best markets and to hold prices down to a point where they must draw trade, dependiug for profit on the num- ber of sales rather than on the percent- age of profit on each article sold. For- merly he patronized the jobbers liberal- ly, but of late he has been able to buy in such large quantities that he finds he can deal to better advantage with man- ufacturers and importers. He takes a ten day trip East about every three months and keeps in close touch with the Eastern markets, doing most of his buying there. Mr. Larsen was a small lad when he first set foot in the Salt City and the familiar appelation of ‘‘Fred,’’ which seemed to become him then, has fol- lowed him from childhood until now the successful business man _ is frequently referred to as ‘‘Fred’’ in a tone of voice that would give a stranger the old_pic- ture of a popular young man struggling to earn by hard work and close atten- tion to business a place in the commer- cial world. Although Mr. Larsen has earned for himself in the prime of life an established place in the mercantile arena, he still clings to the business habits formed in his early days and _ is the first to appear in the morning and the last to leave the stores at night, the same as was his custom in the days when his business was in its infancy. Looks Forward to the Good Time Coming. Bliss, July 22—I read what E. A. Owen has to say about the department stores of Toronto in the Tradesman of July 7. I am not at all in a controver- sial mood nor fairly in a writing mood this morning, therefore I cannot consid- er his conclusions in detail. What spirit prompts his utterance? Does he desire to see the good of the whole people prevail or only the class known as deal- ers? His article has the class ring in it. How much better off would the con- sumer of the wares of the merchant be if the plan advocated by Mr. Owen were adopted? The true American, whether he be hawker, doctor, farmer, blacksmith, bootlback, or newsboy will have to rise above every class consider- ation and evolve a system, political and economic, that will render obsolete that maxim of antiquity—‘‘The greatest good to the greatest number’’—and vouchsafe to every one his exact rights and privileges. We are gravitating to- ward a higher civilization, but the grasping-class nature of man may _ pre- cipitate a most fearful revolution before it is accomplished ; but it is coming. GIDEON NOEL. a Very Considerate. ‘Yes, Mildred is going to bea very economical wife.’’ ‘* How do you know?’’ ‘ Why, she consented to be married along in the middle of the day, just to make it unnecessary for her husband to get a new dress suit.’’ a Happy Innocence. The Wife—What a sweet smile there is on the baby’s face, John. The Husband—Yes, he’s _ probably dreaming that he’s keeping me awake. Why Some Merchants Miss the Mark. Written for the TRADESMAN. I am often astonished thata merchant is so blind to his own interests that he deliberately drives a good customer— rich cr poor—entirely away from him by his crustiness to them, and jealousy of his brothers in business. He little thinks that, as every person has more or less influence, he also often drives a dozen others away who listen while one relates his experience at that store. He imagines that his goods are superior to those of his competitors, and plainly tells his customers that this is the rea- son he is obliged to get more for them, also that he will not deal in cheap goods, and that those who purchase goods at less than his are fools, etc., etc. And quite often the acts of such merchant are not from any forethought or malice, but simply because he has noticed his sales have in the aggregate fallen off; yet from what cause he neither knows nor cares to enquire, but exhibits his iil nature in many ways too plainly to escape notice. Iam well acquainted with a grocer of this kind, who was formerly doing a large and thriving business, but who is to-day without a single clerk except his own son; and, while other stores beside him are busy, his own is bare of cus- tomers, and yet, strange to relate, he cannot —or will not—see the reason and is as cross and crusty as ever when a customer occasionally drops in rather than go one or two blocks farther, and even then he is met with a countenance containing enough acidity to turn sweet milk sour, and the ill-natured remark that ‘‘you had lately dealt with Jones & Co. so long, you probably wanted a good article again.’’ In justice to this man I will say that his goods are of ex- cellent quality—yet no better than other dealers sell daily, at the same prices for the same stock. It bodes no good for any merchant when he really believes that he knows more than any others concerning the quality and value of merchandise, and better how to conduct the business than they. FRANK A, How1G. “ >> : Always keep the store neat and clean. Aa | OS MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Around the State Movements of Merchants. Hart—Chas. J. Kobe succeeds Kobe & McManamy in general trade. Sault Ste. Marie— H. Hutton succeeds Andrew Hutton in the meat business. Homer—Horace Lee succeeds Sinclair & Lee in the drug and grocery busi- ness. Thompsonville—O. L. Lovejoy suc- ceeds Lovejoy & Hart in the grocery business. Saginaw—N. Sheyer has removed his clothing and boot and shoe stock to Shepherd. West Olive—Noor & Yonker, general dealers, have dissolved, Wm. Noor con- tinuing the business. Sherwood—F. M. Aunks_ continues the drug business formerly conducted by Kitchen & Aunks. Monroe—Herzog & Jelsch, grain deal- ers, have dissolved. The business will be continued by John Herzog. Hillsdale—The Hillsdale Grocery Co. is closing out its stock and will retire from the wholesale grocery business. Port Huron—The grocery stock of E. N. Akers has been sold on a chattel mortgage to Fred J. Dixon for $1, 334. Otsego—Mrs. Chas. E. Webster has decided to continue the restaurant busi- ness established by her deceased hus- band. Union City—Samuel Corbin has sold his grocery stock to Sol. G. Newman. He will continue in the grain and wool trade. Sault Ste. Marie—Will J. Condlon has retired from the boot and shoe business of Condlon Bros., Robt. J. Condlon suc- ceeding. Amber—M. Moore has sold his gro- cery stock to Miss Villa Parmalee, who will continue the business at the same location. Stanton—Geo. C. Prevette will con- tinue the furniture and undertaking business formerly conducted by Howe & Prevette. Scotts—H. Wilson has purchased A. H. Snyder’s feed store and will continue the business. Mr. Snyder will go to Chicago for a time. Coldwater--N. E. Yesner, of Kalama- zoo, has leased a store building here and will open a new clothing and furnishing goods stock about Aug. 1. Kalamazoo—C. L. Gold has sold a half interest in his drug stock toa man named Galligan. The new firm will be known as Gold & Galligan. Battle Creek—W. C. Henry has sold his boot and shoe and grocery stocks here and at Tekonsha to Hobbs & Russell, who will continue the business. Negaunee—Richard Skews, who has conducted a notion store here for the past few years, will soon pull up stakes and move to the copper country. St. Johns—Geo. Hoerner has _ pur- chased an interest in the meat market of his father and the firm will hereafter be known as H. M. Hoerner & Son. Charlotte—Fred H. McGrath has pur- chased the interest of his partner in the grocery firm of McGrath & Harlow and will continue the business in his own name. Marquette—F. L. Herlich & Co. are out with a card announcing that cash and coupon books only will pass current in their grocery store on and after Aug. I. Brown City—Wesley Schlichter has sold his meat market to Wm. Holden, of Yale, who will remove to this place and take possession of his purchase Aug. 15. | Orange—O. W. Bliss has sold his in- (terest in the general stock of Harwood & Bliss to his partner, who will con- tinue the business under the style of Riley Harwood. Colon—Chas. H. McKinster has pur- chased his partner’s interest in the drug and grocery stock of C. Wilkinson & Co. and will continue the business un- der his own name. Albion—Mortimer Talmage, who has been employed for fifteen years by Geo. Howard, meat dealer, has purchased the market of Saunders & Calkins and will continue the business. Union City—F. T. Boise, of Nash- ville, has purchased the hardware stock formerly conducted by Buell & Spring and is also figuring to buy the ground on which the Ewers drug store used to stand. Manton—Wm. G. Phelps will shortly retire from the hardware firm of Ballard & Phelps. The business will be con- tinued by the remaining partner at the same location under the style of Robert C. Ballard. Altona—Eli Lyons, dealer in drugs, dry goods and groceries, has sold his stock to M. B. Armstrong of Grand Rapids, who will continue the business at the same location. Mr. Lyons will retire to his farm. Escanaba—N. C. Gallagher’s general store was closed July 27 upon an at- tachment fer a bill of $400 issued by the John P. Dousman Milling Co., of De- pere, Wis. Mr. Gallagher insists that he is perfectly solvent, but disputed the correctness of the bill against him. Saginaw—Deputy Sheriff Wilkinson has attached a portion of the clothing stock of Kalman Deutsch to satisfy a judgment for $250 obtained by the Non- pareil Manufacturing Co., of Detroit. The attached stock was removed to 308 Court street, just cross the road from Deutsch’s place of business. Holland—Johannes Verhulst, the gro- cer, disappeared from his home Monday morning and no trace of him could be found until Tuesday morning, when he was found wandering in a field near Graafschap. He was brought to the city and has about recovered. It is thought that his mind was affected by brooding over the mental condition of his brother, who was recently taken to the asylum. Manufacturing Matters. Bay City—-C. Mangold succeeds Man- gold & Fisk inthe cigar manufacturing business, Ovid—The Ovid Elevator Co. is re- placing its old elevators with new ones of improved design. Lum—-The cheese factory here is now doing a good business under the man- agement of Abram Fox. Middleville—The J. E. Ackerson Harness Co. is manufacturing a line of non-elastic suspenders for the trade. Mesick—L. J. Tripp, proprietor of the Mesick Turning Works, is shipping 60,000 maple broom handles and 5,000 mop handles per week. Nadeau—Farmers in this vicinity have organized a company to engage in the manufacture of cheese. They expect to begin operations in their factory about Aug. 1. Keno—H. A. Mathieson has bought the slabs and edgings that were left when Hartt & Horning’s mill ceased operations here. There were about 4,000 cords of the stock and Mr. Math- ieson has a wood mill at work cutting it into lengths for shipment to Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Muskegon and other cities. ~Plainwell—The Merrill Milling Co., of Kalamazoo, has purchased the Bart- ley flouring mill, and the millwrights are already at work adding substantial betterments. Morenci—The firm of Clark Bros., composed of James F. Clark and Willis Clark, has succeeded to the business of the firm of E. Clark & Son, brick and tile manufacturers. Adrian—The Lamb Fence Co., build- er of wire fencing, will build a factory here 140x40 feet in dimensions. It will employ 50 men. The firm is now oper- ating in Tecumseh. Owosso—Castree & Shaw have merged their foundry business into a stock com- pany under the style of the Castree & Shaw Co. The corporation has a capi- tal stock of $25,000. Fennville-—-The Fruit Growers Co. is erecting a packing house, 44x60 feet in dimensions and two stories high. The Fennville Fruit Co. is erecting a simi- lar warehouse, 32x60 feet in dimensions. Three Rivers—The Initial Toe Pad Co. has filed chattel mortgages aggre- gating $30,000 to secure its creditors, but arrangements are being made which are expected to result in contin- uing the factory in operation. Frankenmuth —— The Frankenmuth Cheese Manufacturing Co. is having one of the most successful seasons in its his- tory, making forty cheese per day. The steam heating apparatus in the curing room works very satisfactorily. Kalamazoo—The name of the Celery Medicine Co. has been changed to the P. L. Abbey Co. This change in name was necessary because of the similarity of the old name with a local concern called the Celery City Medicine Co. Detroit—The Barnes Novelty Co. has incorporated with a capital stock of $5,000, of which $3,000 is paid in. The incorporators are Alfred C. Bowman, H. C. Hall and John S. Barnes, each of whom holds too shares of the capital stock. Matherton—Edgar Mather, who owns two dams on Fish creek—one at Hub- bardston and one at Matherton—proposes to father an enterprise having for its object the lighting of Hubbardston and Carson City by electricity. It is pro- posed to interest Grand Rapids and Detroit capital in the enterprise. Bronson——The Monarch Portland Cement Co. has its big factory build- ings completed anda part of the ma- chinery is placed already. The buildings occupied eighty-three days in construct- ing and over 260 tons of steel and iron were used. The manufacture of cement will commence about September 1. Muskegon—The Carl Junge Tannery Co. has about finished its new plant in the Eighth ward. Within two weeks now Mr. Junge expects to be at work tanning hides. A large quantity of hides has already been bought and a shipment of one carload is expected here in eight to ten days. This tannery will for the present at-least make dongola leather exclusively, and for this bark is not used. The tanning is done by means of chemicals which will be bought in bulk. To operate the tannery on its present basis will require ten workmen. Mr. Junge's plan is to proceed cautious- ly and as the business prospers to ex- pand it and increase the force of work- men as needed. Houghton—About $10,000,000 worth of copper shares are owned by residents of the copper district and the steady dividends received from the mines by local shareholders have done much to keep hard times away from Houghton county in the last four years. The vol- ume of business done here in copper shares is surprisingly large. There are two brokerage concerns in the city which make money on dealings in cop- per shares; the banks handle an even larger amount of business, and many speculators deal direct with members of the Boston stock exchange. It_is large- ly due to the great amount of trading in copper sbares that the Houghton office of the Western Union Telegraph Com- pany is the fourth in the State in busi- ness handled, being exceeded only by Detroit, Grand Rapids and Saginaw. In Houghton county alone there are nearly 2,000 stockholders of Lake Su- perior and Montana copper mines. The miners save their wages and invest in stock, which in most cases pays them handsome dividends. In the village of Red Jacket there is a saloonkeeper who saved his first money from wages re- ceived as a day laborer for the Calumet and Hecla mine twenty-five years ago. Being frugal he amassed sufficient to buy a one-horse dray and from the profits cf his dray he saved the price of another horse, after which all his sur- plus earnings were invested in Calumet and Hecla stock, then selling for less than $20 a share. Sauer eventually sold his dray and opened a modest saloon, where he still does business, with a bar and furniture that when new must have’ cost nearly $50, but which, by reason of twenty years’ use, could not now be consistently valued at more than §5. During all this time whatever money remained after paying business and personal expenses was invested by the shrewd old German in Calumet and Hecla stock. Dividends were reinvested in the stock as fast as paid and his _ or- der to buy Calumet and Hecla is al- ways ‘‘unlimited,’’ being simply to buy so many shares at the market price. At present Mr. Sauer holds nearly 500 shares of the stock, which is selling very close to $400 a share, his holdings being worth nearly $200, ooo. a Detroit Grocers Commend the Aboli- tion of the Rebate on Oil. Detroit, July 26—At the regular meeting of the Detroit Retail Grocers and Butchers’ Association, held July 21, the special Committee on Solicitor reported that it had been successful in securing a competent man. An agree- ment had been made as to terms which were satisfactory tothe Committee. The terms were approved, the report was ac- cepied and the Committee was instructed to make arrangements with the gentle- man to enter upon his duties at once. The special Committee on Oil report- ed that the rebate plan had been discon- tinued by the Standard Oil Co.’s tank wagons and that the company was giv- ing a reduction of &% cent per gallon only at the works. The report was ac- cepted and the Secretary was instructed to communicate to the company the following resolutions: Resolved, That the members of the Retail Grocers’ Association approve the plan outlined by the Standard Oil Co. for distributing oil in Detroit, Resolved, That the _members of this Association encourage the sale of oil and gasoline at the present low prices, to enable the dealers to regain some of their oil trade. The Excursion Committee reported progress, with a request for more time, which was granted. The Secretary was instructed to in- sert a notice in the daily papers and let it be known that Aug. 18 would be Grocers’ and Butchers’ Day and ex- tend an invitation to all dealers to join in celebrating the event. E. Marks, Sec’y. ——_>-2 +> Ask Visner for Inducement on Gillies’ Phone 1589. New York spice contest. , a s z % . G g ix ; 1 - SE EOE TI MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 6 Grand Rapids Gossip Jos. W. Crater has opened a grocery store at 1g West Bridge street. The Lemon & Wheeler Company furnished the stock, G. Heyt has embarked in the grocery business at the corner of Wenham and Jefferson avenues. The Ball-Barnhart- Putman Co. furnished the stock. B. Laubach & Son have sold their hardware stock at 36 West Leonard street to Glendon A. Richards, who will continue the business at the same _loca- tion. Mr. Richards still retains his in- terest in the hardware stock of Barnett & Richards at 66 West Bridge streets. At last the market situation is assum- ing a shape which promises a change from the village street methods at an early date. The work of grading and improving the streets is so far advanced that the walks have nearly all been laid. The filling of the approach is rapidly nearing completion and will doubtless be out of the way before the other work is done. The office and scale house, 26x35 feet in dimensions, is enclosed and painted, and the restaurant, 24x55 feet in dimensions, is nearly as far ad- vanced. Two sheds for hay—each 24x76 feet in dimensions—are yet to be built, but these will require but a few days. Alderman Gibson, chairman of the Committee on Market, informs the Tradesman that, as the work is now progressing, the market should be ready for use by the middle of August. The part of the work most likely to hinder is the improvement of the streets; but this is being urged and it is hoped will be out of the way. It is Mr. Gibson’s idea that the opening of the market should be accompanied by some kind of a demonstration in the way of a cele- bration. The matter has been discussed, but bas not yet assumed any definite form. The only suggestion has been that the military take part by drill and evolutions, but, unfortunately, they will be away at the time named for the com- pletion of the work. ——_~> 2. The Grain Market. The wheat market the past week has been fluctuating materially—sometimes 2c and 3c within a very few minutes. The longs and shorts have had a very lively time, which was caused by the European demand and_ changeable cables. Reports from threshers are very favorable for a good sized crop of fine quality. My prediction that Michigan would have an 18,000,000 bushel crop is being verified and the final returns may show a crop in excess of this amount. New wheat is coming to the market very slowly: in this State, owing to the rains we have been having of late. Threshing has progressed very slowly and a great majority of farmers have stacked their wheat or hauled it to the barns, instead of threshing from the shock. Besides, many are unwilling to accept the present low ruling prices with Argentine having no wheat to ex- port, the French crop being also short over 40,000,000 bushels, Russian and Danub- ian crops also short and India importing wheat; yet, in the face of these facts, wheat has declined from the highest price about 4c a bushel. New wheat has made its appearance in farmers’ wagons, as_ well as in carlots, and it is of excellent quality. Contrary to all expectations, we had an_ increase of 708,000 bushels of wheat where there was a decrease of about 250,000 bushels expected. This and other bearish news caused a sharp break at the closing time in the market yesterday. It is very unfortunate at this time to sell the mar- ket below its normal value. Corn has been rather strong, with an upward tendency. As has been stated before, the crop is going to be about 400,000 bushels Jess than last year. Oats, like corn, are working towards higher prices, as the oats headed out very short and the crop is not at all promising in many sections. Receipts during the week have been rather small, being only 30 cars of wheat, 9 cars of corn and 11 cars of oats, which is rather a large amount of oats for this time of the year. The millers are paying 71c for old wagon wheat at their doors. C. G. A. Voter. anne 2 Probably Finds Milwaukee a Fertile Field. Thirteen months ago Frank J. Lamb remarked to a _ representative of the Tradesman, as a result of the exposure of his methods: ‘“The jig is up. We may as well shut up shop and quit the town, for the day of fake commission houses, so far as Grand Rapids is concerned, is past. We may as well pull up stakes and remove to Chicago, where half the people are fakirs and where there are no Tradesmans to camp on our trail and hound us to death, simply because we catch a few suckers.’’ Mr. Lamb was as good as his word. He ‘‘shut up shop,’’ but instead of lo- cating in Chicago,he has pounced down upon Milwaukee in company with some men whose reputations are scarcely less savory than his own. Mr. Lamb has taken special effort to keep his whereabouts from the knowl- edge of the Tradesman, having in- structed one of his henchmen here to in- form the Tradesman that he was located in Detroit, which was done. Within a day, however, the Tradesman learned that the urbane old deceiver had gone West instead of East, and a representa- tive was immediately dispatched to Miiwaukee to investigate the situation. The result of his investigations is set forth in detail elsewhere in this week’s paper. If the Milwaukee papers are as chary of the reputation of that city as the Tradesman is of Michigan markets, Mr. Lamb and his associates will have to find a more fertile field—perhaps Chicago, whicb Mr. Lamb describes as a paradise for fakirs and swindlers. ee a en No More Prizes with Tobacco or Cigarettes. The Dingley tariff law puts an end to the giving of prizes with manufactured tobacco of any kind, the paragraph cov- ering this prohibition being as follows: None of the packages of smoking to- bacco and fine cut chewing tobacco and cigarettes prescribed by law shall be permitted to have packed in, or at- tached to or connected with, them any article or thing whatsoever, other than the manufacturers’ wrappers and labels, the internal revenue stamp and the to- bacco or Cigarettes, respectively, put up therein, on which.tax is required to be paid under the internal revenue laws; nor shall there be affixed to, or branded, stamped, marked, written, or printed upon, said packages, or their contents, any promise or offer of, or any order or certificate for, any gift, prize, pre- mium, payment or reward. 0 Frank Jewell (Clark-Jewell-Wells Co. ) is spending a week on the Little Manis- tee in the attempt to allure the finny tribe from their accustomed haunts. The Grocery Market. Sugar—The expected advance came Monday. ‘The market is strong and steady, with no indication of further changes in the near future. Coffee—There has been a decidedly improved tone to actual coffees, accom- panied by a gocd demand. The de- mand has been more general, seeming to indicate a degree of confidence among buyers not hitherto shown. Mild coffes have been in fairly good demand and desirable qualities readily disposed of at full prices. Tea—What little business is doing does not extend to the entire line by any means, but is confined solely to a few select lines which people want. As there is no general attempt to buy, so is there none to sell. Holders of large stocks of tea are at present feeling very melancholy, but are still holding their stocks, not for higher prices, but for a more active demand. Dried Fruits—New apricots are now in market, but the price is downward, owing to the large crop. There is prac- tically no old stock of prunes left on the Coast. Reports from certain sections say that the prunes are dropping, but the general situation shows a_ better yield than last year, with a probability of a large crop of good quality. The visible supply of currants is reported to be about one-third of that of a year ago. Syrups and Molasses—The advance in glucose has nut affected compound syrup to anywhere near the extent that would be the case in winter. All told, al- though glucose has advanced g@toc per gallon, syrup has gone up only 2c. Stocks of compound syrup are compara- tively scarce, although fully equal to the demand for sugar syrup, chiefly from mixers and exporters, and, in conse- quence, all of the refiners’ stock is ab- sobed and prices are Ic per gallon high- er. There is no demand for molasses, which rules at unchanged prices. Canned Goods—Quotations on future corn are arriving, but some packers are declining orders, either because over- sold, or because of shortage of corn in prospect. The season has not been good for corn thus far, the late frosts and wet, cool weather having held back the season and damaged the stand of corn materially. The prices now asked are higher than those of a year ago. Packers of tomatoes are refusing to name prices as yet for futures. The season has been so late that the tomato crop is not promising as well as usual at this season. The salmon situation is fairly firm. The catch of Columbus River salmon is not as good as usual and the season will be over early in August. The low prices named on red Alaska salmon are attracting buyers. The Columbia River pack is said to be but about 50 per cent. of last year’s out- put. Provisions—With the great increase in supply of hogs the past year, eh- couraged by the relative good prices realized for such stock, there has been such an absorption of product as to make it appear marvelous as to what has become of it. While the prices of hogs have yielded good returns for the material on which they were fattened, in comparison with its marketable value, the product has been available for con- sumption at comparatively low cost, which has favored an extension of de- mand. With the lessening supply of hogs there have been stronger markets, and the average price is 25@3oc per 100 pounds higher than a week ago. This condition has manifestly had an influ- ence in advancing prices of leading ar- ticles of product, for which there is a liberal current demand for shipment, and also considerable speculative inter- est: Pickles—The price has advanced about Io per cent. and the local market is practically bare of stock. Corn Syrup—As a result of the organ- ization of the new combination among manufacturers of glucose, the price has advanced 5c per gallon. Fish--John Pew & Son (Gloucester) write the Tradesman as follows: The New England fleet have landed tu date 4,735 bbls. salted mackerel. For the same period last year the fleet landed 23,444 bbls., being this year 18,709 bbls. less. The result has been a grievous disappointment, as the catch in the South Atlantic waters showed a large increase over any catch made there fora number of years, and we expected a fair catch in June and July off our Coast. Most of the shrinkage above in- dicated was caused by the failure of the Cape Shore catch. This seaon it was only 2,500 bbls. against 18,000 bbls. last year, a difference of 15,500 bbls. From the reports we get from experi- enced fishermen there are large bodies of mackerel off our New England coast. The fishermen have had almost contin- uously so far this month a spell of un- usually foggy weather to contend with in the pursuit of their business. At times it has been impossible to see the mackerel schooling and the men have had to wait over and over again fora clear atmosphere. June also was an un- usually stormy month and seining oper- ations were much restricted in conse- quence. The mackerel taken off our coast have been nice in quality and of mixed sizes, ranging beween 675 to 140 in number to the barrel. We hope for a reasonable catch for the balance of the season if the weather is good, but there cannot De a large catch. The season is too short and the mackerel fleet too small in number to bring it to pass. The Canadian catch to date is practical- ly a failure. Thus far there have been only four arrivals from the Grand Banks with 900,000 lbs. of salt codfish. Last vear for the same period there were 14 arrivals with 3,458,000 Ibs. The stock of codfish on hand in this market to date is the lightest for a number of years, and any marked improvement in the demand will inevitably cause a sharp advance in prices on every grade of dry fish. The present price on some grades is very low and does not give the fisher- men enough for his toil and risk. In shipping fish to the markets of South America and West Indies, we have to compete with the French codfish, which are supported by the French Govern- ment at the rate of $2 per quintal bounty allowed to their fishermen. 0 Better than the Tradesman Stated. Hancock, July 24—I wish to call your attention to an error in statement which appeared in a recent issue of the Trades- man. The dividend of $4 per share, declared by the Quincy, means a dis- tribution of $400,000, and not $160,000 as given in your paper. The Quincy Mining Co. has now 100,000 shares of stock and a dividend of $4 would be as stated above, and not as you have it. A paper so valuable as yours wants things as they are, I feel sure. F, MACDONALD. 0 Some of the biggest fish stories have been told about the smallest fish. - > ee A debt of honor is one that may have been dishonorably contracted for. 6 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN ‘Fruits and Produce. How Roquefort Cheese Is Made. Of the numerous varieties of cheese which the peculiar characteristics of certain places and the special skill of the inhabitants have placed at the dis- posal of the epicure, none holds a more assured place than Roquefort, which, it may not be generally known, is the very patriarch of cheeses, which, un- changed in character, has been made in the village whence it derives its name for at least twenty centuries. As, two thousand years ago, oysters were sent from the shores of Britain to grace the table of the Roman epicure, so the re- mote ancestors of the Roquefort vil- lagers of to-day sent off their cheeses to the same enlightened patron of good things. So remote, indeed, is the an- tiquity of the Roquefort cheesemaking that a speculative philosopher has even suggested the possibility of the aborig- inal man of the region whose bones, with those of his sheep and dogs, are sometimes uncovered below the caves of the mountains of Larzac, having milked his ewes and made of their milk just such cheese as the Frenchman of to-day knows how to make. But this were to speculate too curiously. The secret of the unvariable character of the Roquefort cheese product is to be accounted for on purely geographical grounds. Ages ago, before Romans or Roquefort were, the South of France was convulsed by gigantic volcanic dis- turbances. The ancient granite rocks were split and torn apart, and from the bowels of these floods of lava were poured forth, which flowed in great streams and buried the ancient surface under hundreds of feet of curious basalt- ic rock. In turn this rock must have been broken up and fissured by repeated out- bursts, and thrown up into a mountain range, in which are caverns whence is- sue hot springs, sulphurous and_ bub- bling with gases, which bear testimony to the fires which exist still in the depths below. Upon one of these mountains, known as Larzac, is situated the village of Roquefort. Larzac is nearly twenty- five miles in length, and about 3,000 feet high. The soil is chiefly lime- stone, and the fertility is moderate, but it affords pasturage for about 300,000 sheep, which are bred especially for milk production for cheesemaking. But the interior of the mountains is hollowed by the volcanic forces into a series of caves formed of vast masses of rock thrown together as if dropped from a great beight, and all connected with each other, and with some subterranean out- let by which constant cool currents of air, always of the same temperature and degree of humidity, flow in a never-in- terrupted stream. Hardly by any means known to man could there have been de- vised so perfect an arrangement for a chemical laboratory of even temperature and moisture, and free from every im- pure influence, and to the system of curing in these caves—a system which has been pursued for countless genera- tions—is due the distinctive character of Roquefort cheese. The sheep have been bred always for their milking quality, and the bulk of the cheese is yet made of their milk, but of late years, as the demand has in- creased,some cow’s milk has been used, without any material difference in the quality of the product. It is not the milk, nor any special preparation of 11, upon which the character of the cheese depends, but upon the unique process of curing,so that whether cow’s,or sheep’s, or goat’s milk be used, the cheese is al- ways Roquefort. It is to-day just what it was when the Romans found it, and what it was when the Gauls strove in- effectually against the superior civiliza- tion of their conquerors. After the pre- liminary stages of manufacture the cheeses are taken into the caves for the special treatment to which they are subjected, which has the effect of giv- ing to the raw curd a delicate flavor and mellowness. The caves are made up of an intricate labyrinth of open spaces and narrow passages, through which currents of cold air are continually pass- ing. These air currents are controlled by closing up some of the passages, leaving openings which may be closed or shut altogether, as the wind outside may make desirable. Some of the spaces are arched with masonry, but all are profoundly dark, and the visitor sees only the little glimmering lights flick- ering in the darkness, as he passes the open portal of one of the caves where the women, dimly seen, are scraping the mold from the cheese, or turning and moistening them, and in their curious ways aiding the wonderful germs at work to effect the slow changes in the curd. The temperature of the caves is kept at 60 degrees by the use of ventila- tors, and the moisture is sustained at a humidity of 48 degrees. Day after day the turning and sorting and scraping of the cheeses continues, until a change in the character of the constantly gather- ing mold indicates to the expert that the condition of the curd has changed. First, the red mold that appears on cream in damp dairies, and then a dense blue mold covers the cheeses and announces the completion of the curing. The cheeses are then finally scraped, wiped, and wrapped in tinfoil, which exciudes the air, and are then ready for market. The whole process is long and intricate, but it is an outcome of the experience of countless generations, and its results are unerring. Sn HO Does Not Agree with the Assistant Attorney-General. Holt, July 24—My attention has been called to an article in the Tradesman of July 14, entitled ‘‘ Notice of the Exist- ence of the New Peddling Law;’’ also the letter of the Deputy Attorney- Gen- eral, stating that he thought it a mis- take to give the law immediate effect. The friends of the bill in the House ana Senate did not think so, and I am sure the most of us have felt the good effect of the law already. One of the first acts of the last Leg- islature, passed and approved Feb. 24, reads like this: ‘‘It shall be the duty of the Secretary of State, at least once in each month, to cause to be printed in pamphlet form all laws of a general or public character which _ shall be passed, given immediate effect, and have received the approval of the Ex- ecutive during the continuation of the legislative session.’’ This, I believe, was done; and if par- ties wishing a copy of the law will write to the Secretary of State, they will be supplied. I called at the office of the Secretary of State about ten days after the adjournment of the Legislature and was told by the clerks that they had al- ready received over one hundred letters from all parts of the State asking about the new peddling _— 5. W. MAYER. —~> Farmer’s Eggs a to Hatch ata Commission House. Cleveland, July 24—A successful shell game of a new brand was worked on Cleveland egg consumers here lately by an honest Obio farmer, who lives down on the Cleveland, Akron and Columbus road, seventy- five miles southeast of this city. This time the farmer came near victimizing his city cousin,and all but succeeded A case of eggs reached the commis- sion house of Will & Stateler, 44 Huron Street, this afternoon. When opened, it was found that one of the eggs had hatched, and fifteen minutes later, when the eggs were exposed to the air, a dozen chickens were peeping. The eggs in the first two layers con- tained chickens, most of which were dead. The commission merchants re- ported that as soon as the eggs were exposed to the air chickens’ were hatched. The temperature in which the crate of eggs had evidently been since the shipment will not be changed, and all the eggs will be given a chance to hatch. The commission merchants decline to give the name of the consignee, and agree that they now have a good start in the poultry business. The eggs which are hatching must have been in a tem- perature of over 90 degrees for the last three weeks. ee ee Always be ready for trade. “De Breed am Larger now.” “Sweet Heart” Watermelons Sweet clear to the rind, weighing 25 pounds and over, now here in car lots. Osage melons are with us but they will be cheaper and better next week. Florida pineapples are vanish- ing. Red and Black Raspberries, Blackberries, Cherries, Currants, Gooseberries, Whortlebrries, Bananas, Oranges, Lemons, Onions, Spinach, Radishes, Lettuce, Cucumbers, Tomatoes, New Potatoes, Summer Squash, Wax Beans, New Peas, Cab- bage. All seasonable vegetables. BUNTING & CO., Jobbers, 20 & 22 OTTAWA STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ‘The Vinkemulder GoMpany, : JOBBER OF Fruits and Produce MANUFACTURER OF “Absolute” Pure Ground Spices, Baking Powder, Etc. We will continue to put up Baking Powder under special or private labels, and on which we will name very low prices, in quantities. We make a specialty of Butchers’ Supplies and are 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. eeeeeeee We are receiving, daily, car lots Established 1876. NEW SOUTHERN POTATOES, ONIONS, CABBAGE, WATERMELONS SEEDS: Crimson, Alsyke Alfalfa; Medium, Mammoth Clover; ‘Timothy, Redtop, Bluegrass, Orchard Grass Seed. When ready to buy send us your orders. 26-28-=30-32 Ottawa St., Grand Rapids, Mich. d e25e525e5e5 u Bushel Baskets and Covers. MOSELEY BROS. Wholesale Seeds, Potatoes, Beans, Fruits. e5eSeSeSeSese25e25e5e25e2525e25e5e25e5e5 > < q > 3 SUMMER SEEDS 3 > $ Crimson Clover, Alfalfa, Timothy, Red Top, Orchard Grass, Blue Grass 3 > q ; > 3 TURNIP SEED 3 : i : > $ Garden Seeds and Implements, Lawn Supplies. 3 > q 3 ALFRED J. BROWN CO., Grand Rapids, Mich. $ VAAAAAAPAAPAIDAAAAAAADA AMAA OO OT OO OPO IOGTT OST CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCG FTF FAG 00,000 Pounds Butter Wanted to pack and ship on commission. Good outlet. Eggs on commission or bought on track. R. ALDEN, 98S DIVISION oo... GRAND "RAPIDS. Ship your Butter, Eggs, Produce and Poultry to HERMANN C.NAUMANN &Co. Who get highest market prices and make prompt returns. Main Office, 353 Russell St. DETROIT. —— ; DUE = CASS ESSayale WAYS NS Waa eaAaa ew eS Bes SaAenies Saves criticism, for they deserted the shop to a woman, and it had to go out of busi- ness, tor the proprietor found it impos- thought. But there are several New York girls who are prospering in this business so well that they have branches in other cities. The most profitable, and at the same time one of the most agreeable, means of earning money seems to be that devised by the young woman who discovered how great was her talent for landscape gardening. She is said to have realized as much as $3,000 or $5,000 for single achievements in this new field, IS the Lew Enforced In Your Township? 2 s a e & e a 3 a 2 5 Under the new law the operations of country peddlers can be con- mg © ne @ siderably curtailed—in some cases : abolished altogether—by the ener- m getic enforcement of the statute. @ It is the duty of the merchant to ® see that the township board of his 6 i m township enforces the law. The @ Tradesman has had drafted by its 8 attorney blank licenses and bonds, . which it is prepared to furnish on m the following terms: e Sb m LICENSES, * J a 2 a @ a £ a 6 a y a 6 e @ 10 cents per dozen; 75 cents per 100. BONDS, 25 cents per dozen; $1.50 per 100 Please accompany orders. with remittances. TRADESMAN COMPANY, Grand Rapids. sible to keep from saying what she| @ Elgin System of Creameries. It will pay you to | plans, and visit our factories, if you are investigate our |contemplating building a Creamery or | Cheese factory. All supplies furnished iat lowest prices. Correspondence so- licited. R. E. STURGIS, Allegan, Mich. Contractor and Builder of But- ter and Cheese Factories, and Dealer in Supplies. ‘awe py bef R. ERT, Jr, Market St., Detroit. Butter and Eggs wantedz Will buy same at point of shipment, or delivered, in small or large lots. Write for particulars. Consign your Butter and Eggs to HARRIS & and ; : e $, EAT) C. M. DRAKE. ice & Co., Commission Merchants Butter, Eggs and Poultry 23 South Water Street, Philadelphia, Pa. SOS SODOSOGSS O69 FGH9GOS 995999 0F FHF SO96 66640064 $6000006 DETROIT, MICH. at market prices. DP SOSHSPOS FHGHGHGGSG FHO9 HSS $9HHH599OFOH9S9S OSE SOOOOD FRUTCHEY, receive quick sales and prompt returns SPSCSOCSSOOOSOEOSOO ) 2} DSRS SRS OS SAE SOS ett 1? SPECIAL NOTICE. ITSTSAC 1S) We want 0 Live Poultry (ar | oad Lots. Write for Information. 6 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN ce> a a mplisbing in Pt Py ; * ° 2 > * a Y = IA. , bye nity = eres comers Mas a wh a past of, its pabicc schoo i - s ” - i . Der wird te tue Beet incerceis of Supinces Mice i ae © is that the msicrite F petezoruts are simmer IIE Te Pvvienet st tur ew Swviget: Swiiteey with tow and thet the Grant Pagets ty the ee a. + le ‘ ii ae ee ‘. MAP = A NS SA a3” » F rot - SCs 42nd NE IXRAAY A YELY. Vaerable ie Aévaace. a eS il ait 4 » § a. = fF SL a Ue tale 1S tes ¢ il ‘oii rf = » -o- rs 5 ¥ throw: BIST EY TICOING CATES ON APPLICATION. r — - . , atin rm rie rg A 2 Ta the re- eres ¥ rs ‘are measure et ¢ a Vane net eAdise ester} ae i ae ae “4 y ‘ a ' i. ne ; ae “ers £ ‘ ¢ wm - ‘x uit De me Chie et es aries ¢ z q - sl A a cia fu cs less Eel 1 cas “ z 2 ‘ ; Z 4 z + £ > 2 "- ° J uy oT. Cc S05. CK. >= = z - m ee ' ” agt heir way and for ne we + } z yt se a “a pat t5 3 < ‘ i reacy TPIS IIESE Toor 17, SeiV tea yee , inh a YOON hnglign educatir ng mn. fault with the public schools of the cities is that they, too, are run Upon a too ambitious plan and consume too much of the scholar’s time in in- truct which will never be of any factical use to him and which he has ine to learn. Education, to reach and become proiitable to the 3, must be more be carded that a poor boy has eleven years Asse practical and the idea must dis 10 spend at schoo}, brom 7 © 17 a Jad ought to be able to acquire not only a fair Ienglish education but learn a good trade, Six or seven years at the public schools and two cr three years in the mechanical trades school should equip a bov with independent means for a livelihood and for making his way to responsible positions, if there be any- thing whatever in him worth develop ing It is doubtless true that if the time and money now expended by cities of the size of Grand Rapids and larger, the practically upon common schools, were more and imtelligently divided, 80 a8 to give practical results in the way Of equipping both girls and boys for trade as to confer a fair English educa- tion, such objects could be easily ac- Some specihic occupation ar well as dustries ng, revenues and finances are being reformed are rmultipl yl and devei- apparent all directi Chis limited franchise is for great step forward from political standpoint also. An intelligent corres- pondent recently in St. Petersburg bas opment is ons. mn Russia a a found in this steady and pronounced material expansion a reason for the peace policy which the Czar and his ministers have pursued for several] years past. The Russians are too busy to fight they are growing so fast in power and resources that they see great con- quests and advantages without going to war for them. By and by, when Russia wants anything in Europe or Asia it will only bave to ask for it to get it, It 1s natural for the pendulum to swing from one extreme to another. Absolutism and centralization in the Old World are Slowiy giving away to de- mocracy; in America democracy is rapidly being supplanted by an oli- garchical and centralized form of gov ernment where plutocracy is taking the place that monarchy and bureaucracy occupy in Europe. Seltish and corrupt politics is undermining the strength of our institutions and if the people do not soon take the alarm and right matters it would not be surprising to see Europe at last with better forms ot popular gov- complished, What the Master Build- ernment than we possess here, UNIONISM IN THE GREAT STRIKE. determined that t is pow pretty well soe Preat Sisvike of the Cc mil Jai é ners of the | ure as to the! t to be gained by its |? It bas served the wishes of | ne proportion of mine owners in| fin SDT = bas been given for the | brotherhood is ae t us stocks to good ad-|mass of those who have n hoy € or am- anlage, and the opportunity for| bition to change their condit ,| the more intelligent are coming t | that there is nothing inimical t | terests of all that some should r se fr i the ranks, and such ar upreme authority is natural that these suld thus work for the suce er, which secures their 5 eadership, and thus this supreme sbject is placed above any practical good to be gained by such movements. ihat the strike was doomed to failure patent to those who were of the leaders. It their efforts to the n advance in the cases were too low, by the call- of those concerned, that object } attained as soon as the a ished output pon the i warrant it. But this was secondary consideration. The principle—an excellent theory—must be called into ac- € whose wages and posi- i Satisfactory must at the expense of the ered into with is, in. the strike, in the each other in h appeals strongly to orkmen, and it is not ose whose intelligence is to penetrate the thin dis- eaders, who are thus ‘‘steal- ivery of heaven in which to 1€ devil,’’ should heed the call to strike, at the sacrifice of all other inter- ent } ri 4c £ the minds of t m © See er he Q of th Le v Naturally, such occasions are taken to test the power of leadership of those who are thus given an opportunity. In | this strike the response was pretty gen- |eral except among the better informed jworkmen of West Virginia. So it was quickly determined to send the most | celebrated and capable leaders to bring | that field into subjection. These flocked |to the recalcitrant State in great num- | bers and the most desperate efforts were | put forth to bring the miners out. Of course, these efforts were responded to here and there; but it was soon decided that the miners, as a whole, were too intelligent to be thus duped. Among the leaders sent to the Moun- tain State was the celebrated Debs. This most notorious of the apostles of strikes and anarchy put forth the great- est and most desperate efforts to gain a hearing. But, in spite of his celebrity, he only succeeded in demonstrating his utter impotence as a leader, thus bear- ing out the proposition that it was not through any great qualities except au- dacity that he was successful in gain- ing his notoriety four years ago by tak- ing advantage of the fact that he was in high office among the strikers at that time, That proved to be one of the in- Stances when circumstances made the man; but, when he attempts to govern circumstances, as in West Virginia, he only demonstrates that he is utterly lacking in all the elements of greatness, subscribe to the theory w of their birthright, ev urged in such plausible en cil be recognized, in a great country like ours, that conditions vary, and that differences according to Ic be recognized, and no tions of varying individuali ty. Se ea It has been suggested that the ing of the new market in this city be made the occasion of some sort of dem onstration in the nature of a celebration which shall serve to advertise the change and afford an opportunity of interestin; the farmers and growers in the new en- terprise. In the opinion of the Trades- man there is that in the suggestion which is worthy of attenti although it is inclined to regard the suggestion that the military companies be invited to participate in the event as about as absurd as could be offered. This would seem to be one of the occasions where ‘“peace hath her victories,’’ where the occasion and its participants, as to the principal features, should be the repre- sentatives of the business interests con- cerned. The Tradesman would suggest as one suitable feature that speeches be made by some representative business man, like S. M. Lemon, and some prominent grower, like Hon. C. W. Garfield. The Tradesman is heartily in accord with the suggestion for some mouvement of this kind and trusts the occasion will not be permitted to go by without a formal demonstration which shall mark the transition from village to city methcds. ———————————— sh on, It is not a pleasant duty for the Tradesman to expose the wrongdoings or shortcomings of Grand Rapids men, as it feels impelled to do this week as the result of the Lamb gang resuming operations at the Milwaukee market ; but, however unpleasant the task, the Tradesman does not shirk any respon- sibility in the matter, believing it to be the duty of the trade journal to condemn the wrong as well as commend the good in commercial transactions. It is not | often that a trade journal is called upon to raise its voice and use its influence against fraud and deceit in trade, but when called upon to do so, the trade journal which does not do its duty, promptly and effectively, is unworthy the name and _ not entitled to the sup- port of the mercantile fraternity. ASSN si An amateur who does not know how to sail a boat has a right to go out alone in one and drown himself; but it is criminal for him to take a pleasure party out and sail some of them to death. The sugar trust is not working its sob machine overtime on account of the alleged victory of the House in the con- ference committee. If any of that gold up there in Klon- dike is on disputed grouud, we want it distinctly understood that it belongs to us, MICHIGAN TRA O m ” THE ALASKA GOLD MINES. The reigning sensation of the day is the interest excited by the rich gold mines of Alaska. It has long been known that there was gold in Alaska. There was good reason to assume the existence of gold there from the fact that the Rocky Mountain range, which is known to contain the precious metals wherever it had been explored, extends through the continent to the shores of the Arctic Ocean. More than twenty- five years ago miners from Idaho and Oregon voyaged to Alaska and up the Stickene River, and found gold in pay- ing quantities, but the rigors of the cli- mate and the difficulties of securing supplies drove them out. Later explorations have developed mines of extreme richness on the Up- per Yukon River, still farther north and still farther from the coast. It appears from the maps that are extant, none of which are accurate, that the richest mines are not in the United States, but in British America, just beyond the United States line; but, as no survey of the country has ever been made, it is impossible to have any certain knowl- edge of the international boundary, al- though England is claiming the coun- try, in accordance with her usual cus- tom. The reports from the gold region are of the most extravagant nature, but there is much reason to believe that, however exaggerated, there is a good foundation of truth in them. The wealth of the placers, or diggings, is established by the fact that the season in which work can be carried on is very short, and the difficulties of mining very great. Mines which, under such conditions, will yield great finds must be rich indeed. It must not be imagined by persons inexperienced in such matters, but who are attacked by the gold fever and want to go right away, that even in the rich- est mines gold is to be picked up at every step, or that it is easy to find work, or to maintain one’s self there ua- less the adventurer be well supplied with money. The mines are only to be reached by a sea voyage from San Francisco, or some port of the United States on Puget Sound, to the mouth of the Yukon River. This river, which is as big as the Mississippi, must be ascended in a steamboat for 1,000 miles, when the ad- venturer is landed in a wild and moun- _ tainous country, which, with the excep- tion of a few scattered mining camps, is a howing wilderness. Prices of all the necessaries of life are exorbitantly high. Bacon and flour are worth each 25 to 30 cents a pound in summer, and in the winter go up to 4o and 50 cents. Coffee is worth go to 100 cents and sugar sells at 60 to 70 cents. A pair of rough miner’s boots will cost $25, a pick will cost $10 and a shovel $5. The man who knows how to work with these tools is accomplished, while such mechanics as blacksmiths and carpenters, when they can find employment, can earn $20 a day. Ordinary wages are $12 to $15, but the difficulty is to find work, because the summer season, when mining and build- ing can be carried on, lasts less than four months, while during the long win- ter the chief business is to keep warm. The mines are north of the Arctic Cir- cle; that is, they are less than 23 de- grees from the north pole. The winter season, which lasts from September to May, is very rigorous, with heavy snows, the temperature often falling 40 to 60 degrees below zero. Not only does the water in the rivers freeze, but the ground becomes solid to the depth of 6to 8 feet. Then the camps are shut in from all communication with the outer world and the people in the camps are virtually imprisoned .for the season. Rents are very high, and it is usual for every settler to build himself a cabin. Fortunately, timber and fire wood are abundant. Gambling is the chief in- door amusement in the wiuter. Unless a man can go well fixed in money or supplies he will take a great risk, particularly if he be inexperienced in mining camps. His living will cost him from $25 to $5¢ a week, according to style. Mining is a lottery, and but few win prizes. Occasionally a *‘green- horn’’ or ‘‘tenderfoot’’ makes a big strike, but such cases are rare. Ex- perience and judgment are worth just as much in the mines as in any other situ- ation, and inexperience isa great dis- advantage. It has been estimated that every dol- lar’s worth of gold taken out of the earth has cost ten dollars in labor, privation and suffering, and there is no doubt that the estimate is not exaggerated. The greatest fortunes are not made, as a rule, in placer mining, but in business in the mining camps, provided the mer- chant or tradesman can avoid giving excessive credit. The trouble is that every man with a piece of ground, which is denominated a mine, seldom has enough to live on while he is open- ing his mine, and he can often get credit on the faith of what he is going to find. Too often he finds nothing, and is not able to pay his debts. This sort of credit is extremely dangerous. In all likelihood there will be a large emigration from the various States to the Alaska mines. It will bea risky business, and many will repent it. A few may be successful, but nearly all will fail. We all remember the hue and cry raised by the press of Chicago a short time ago about the dangerous condition of the Government building. It was sinking and cracking, and every man working there took his life in his hands when he went under its roof in the morning. The building was considered too small, and the walls cracked a little and ceilings got to looking blase and the Chicago atmosphere made the ex- terior look like a relic of the Middle Ages. Then the newspapers began to preach the need of a new post office, and did their work so effectively that the whole country breathed more freely when Postmaster Hesing and his force were able to evacuate before the whole affair fell into a crumbling ruin. In the meantime, Congress had taken offi- cial cognizance of the dangerous condi- tion of the structure and appropriated something like $4,000,000 for a new building in which the Government busi- ness could be done without endangering the lives of hard-working clerks and high-priced politicians. The old-build- ing was sold at auction, the purchaser obligating himself under heavy penalties to take away everything but the excava- tion before April 1, 1897. It was popu- larly supposed that it would only be necessary to lean against the walls to bring them down. The Chicago House Wrecking Co. secured the contract and began work more than a year ago, but it was soon found that there was a mis- calculation somewhere. The building wouldn't crumble according to expecta- tions. In fact, it couldn't be torn apart without tremendous effort, and the con- tractors fell so far behind with their work that the Government is preparing to bring suit for violation of contract. =.-~A.-~AB AB -B.BA-BQ- BQ. @W.@.@W-Q.B-B-B.B-B-BA-A- BA WN Hl: “NVA WN AN i: RB By NS i : ‘ZZ rN WN YS XaKX Sa WN Yoo: ® = OlaFK-JEW6II-WellS 60, = 2 AN Western Michigan Agents, WN m Grand Rapids, Mich. A W A little late in arriving this year, but we delayed v W purchasing till Mr. Jap got down off his high horse W and met our ideas of value, W “bluff” did not excite us; The proposed duty while many importers were W Wy buying everything in sight at an advance of 25 per Vy cent. over last year’s prices, we laid low. W = KECAPITULATION y W Jewell Chop Teas in quality fully up to the high ¥ WW standard of former years. Prices right. W y Clark-Jewell-Wells Co., vy W Sole Owners. W ~ \ (< fy 7 Ni. ML LM LE LO LO LO LO LO LO LO MO LL LO LL Le ott v YQ ESL 10 i RADESMAN KILL OR CURE. How Drugs Were Dispensed in a Pio- neer Drug Store. M. Quad in American Druggist. We had four or five saloons and one grocery at Cedar Hill, when the outfit of aman named Dayton arrived. He had seven pack-mules, loaded with goods, and after a day or two he un- packed and set up for business and hung out a sign reading, ‘‘ Dry Goods, Clothing, Hardware, Groceries, Boots and Shoes and Tinware, also Drug Store.’’ The shanty which he occupied for a store was about 14 feet square, and he had everything packed in a heap. The drug store was an innovation. It was not only the first to be established at Cedar Hill, but the only one for 200 miles around, and we were inclined to look upon the druggist with awe and respect. We were a very healthy lot up there, and, aside from accident, no man had lost a day for six months. No sooner was that drug store opened for business, however, than most of us felt a yearning. Hiram Davis hit the nail on the head, when he said to the crowd: ‘Boys, that drug store reminds me cf home and of the old woman and children. Jest think of pills and salts and calomel and quinine! Civilizashun has come knockin’ at our doors, and it’s our solemn dooty to feel bad and buy sunthin’.’’ Plenty of us began to ‘‘feel bad,’’ but when we came to buying ‘‘sunthin’ ’’ we found that the druggist was doing busi- ness on a line of his own. When Abe Smallman dropped in to get a dose of calomel for his liver, which was doing business seven days in the week and _ in need of no encouragement of any sort, Mr. Davis said to him: ‘‘L bought this drug store outfit of a tenderfoot down at Grass Valley. He was sick and discouraged and wanted to go back home. I don't know much about the business myself. I'll hunt up the calomel and sell it to you, but I won't be responsible for the results.’’ ‘*What d’ye mean by results?"’ queried Abe. ‘Wall, I've got calomel, arsenic, salts and a lot of other things all mixed up here, and I’m not going to guarantee anything. Mebbe it'll be calomel and mebbe not.’’ We all shied off a day or two at that, but when we came to think it over we rather liked the uncertainty, and the druggist was kept busy with our pur- chases. Some of his liquids and pow- ders were in bottles or papers, duly labeled, and some of the powders were in parcels without a label on them. If anybody asked for Epsom salts, for in- stance, the druggist would fish around under the heap of boots and shoes and clothing till he got hold of a box or parcel, and, bringing it out, he would say: ‘* All I know about this stuff is that it ain’t copperas. I took a parcel of cop- peras on a debt once, and so I know the stuff when [ see it. If you want to run chances you can take it along.’’ Most everybody was willing to run chances, and for two weeks all went well. If nobody was made any better, nobody was made any worse, and the druggist did a rushing trade. Then came an afternoon on which old Joe Crosby laid down his working tools and announced that he was ‘‘off his feed’’ and had got to have something -to ward off a bilious attack. “*I can’t say what's good for it,’’ said the druggist, ‘‘but I'll fish up a lot of packages and you can take your choice.’’ He laid out ten parcels on the coun- ter, and old Joe wet the tip of his finger and tasted the contents of each in suc- cession. He finally found one to suit his palate, at least, and he bought a dollar's worth and went off to his shanty to dose. Half an hour later he was taken with violent cramps, and inside of two hours he was dead. A move was made on the druggist, but the smiling and ur- bane Mr. Davis replied: ‘“Gentlemen, it might have been pow- dered borax, or it might have been arsenic. I can’t tell the difference be- tween the twc, and I have been free to say so. I gave him good weight and he took his chances.’’ Our purchases were light for the next week, but in time we got over the scare and went to buying again. A fortnight after the death of Crasby a man named Healy was made terribly sick for two or three days by a dose of some unknown stuff, and the next day Sile Warner en- tered the drug store to say: ‘‘T ain’t feelin’ jest as I orter, and I want sunthin’ to brace me up. Kin ye recommend a bracer?’’ ‘*T never recommend,’’ was the reply. **Here’s the bottles and here's the pack- ages. They may brace or they may lay you out.”’ ‘‘Wall, this is a world of chance, continued Sile as he pawed the stuff over, ‘‘and I'll take a dollar's wuth of this stuff in the. bottle. It'll wet the throat when it does down, anyway."’ The stuff was probably laudanum, for Sile never woke up from that night's sleep. His chum went over to give the druggist fits about the matter, but Mr. Davis headed him off with: ‘‘Dead, eh? Sorry to hear it, but he took his chances. I will now label that bottle ‘Poison,’ and should any of you wish to commit suicide you will know what to ask for.’’ We tried to brace up after the second calamity, and were gradually getting our confidence back, when a man named Grimshaw got something for chills. The druggist wouldn’t recommend it, as usual, but it had been marked by the tenderfoot as ‘‘Good for Chills.”’ It proved to be. One dose removed Mr. Grimshaw from this chilly world, and over his grave we held a public meet- ing, and— **Whereased—It bein’ only a question of time when our drug store will kill off every man in Cedar Hill; and ‘‘Whereas—We owe a dooty to our- selves and them as has gone; now thar- fore ‘*Resolved—That one or the tother of us has got to git."’ The ‘‘tother’’ was the drug. store. After a general consultation, we made up a shake purse cf $50 to buy all the drugs left on hand, and, after everybody had given himself one last dose of what- ever he fancied, the remainder was thrown into a ravine and Mr. Davis turned his attention entirely to other lines. .» > >. The Proportion of Those Who Fail. An examination of the records of the number of firms, individuals and corpo- rations in business, together with the total number of failures in years pre- ceding 1893, indicates that the total num- ber of failures in business of both kinds —that is, those failing to pay what they owe and those which merely fail to suc- ceed—amounted to about 11 per cent. annually of the total number of concerns recorded as having an established place in business, while the total number of those failing, owing more than they could pay, was only a fraction more than I per cent. annually. From such inter- esting and valuable statistical discover- ies is made plain the untruthfulness of a Statistical lie which has traveled so far and wide for many years, that ‘‘95 out of every 100 concerns or firms in busi- ness fail.’’ As has been pointed out, the total number of concerns failing in business annually, unable to pay their total indebtedness, ‘is a fraction over 1 per cent., or, we may say, 1.15 per cent. or 1.20 percent. This being the annual ‘‘commercial death rate,’’ who shall presume to say what the ‘‘commer- cial lifetime’’ is? Jf one chooses to arbitrarily define a ‘‘commercial life- time’’ as twenty-five years, it would fol- low that the proportion of failures dur- ing the commercial lifetime in question would be about 30 per cent. of the total number in business, or thirty in one hundred of those having an _ established place in business. —__>2.___ Pineapple gardens planted two years ago at St. Petersburg, Fla., have proved so successful that the acreage given to them has been increased largely by different investors. Varieties of the pines have been imported from the Azores for culture there, NUITe rere eovereeneeneenneeeeneerien een ere intee PPVPP OT NTD PTT PrP reD eT rene nT AUTH VAT NP NP NTI neD nT ne reD on You Can Sell Armour’s Washing Powder 2 Packages for 5 Cents. For particulars write your jobber, o. THE ARMOUR SOAP WORKS, Chicago. FPR Armour’s White Floating Soap Name is good, quality is good, and price is right. WANA AAU dG Gad dAd dA dd Mud ddd dd ddd ddd ddd ddd is a sure seller. UNM MNLN UNL UALUUA Add Add ANd MAb Add Udb dd dd ddd ddd ddd ddd ddd ddddd TANGLEFOOT SEALED STICKY FLY PAPER TANGLEFOOT | e \ ends ih REGULAR 10 Boxes in a Case 30 cents per Box $2.55 per Case IS ONE OF THE MOST PROFIT= 1897 “LITTLE” 15 Boxes in a Case 13 cents per Box $1.45 per Case oe ; SS 4 2 % aN ROR — MICHIGAN TRADESMAN ‘" The Rise and Fall of Combinations. Combinations have their cradles and coffins. They drink milk and feed worms, They are the progeny of certain conditions and they close their biogra- phy as did their parents. What in one set of circumstances was a necessity, in another is a nuisance. Gum boots are good in a swamp, but are useless on a bridge. Noah’s ark was salvation in the deluge, but only a relic when the planet emerged from its cold bath. Balaam rode on an ass; to-day he trav- els on a bicycle. The pioneer went West in a wagon; his children come East in a Pullman. In the law of change, we have the stimulus of progress. We cannot avoid the one, and we have to keep step with the other. Combinations trudge behind the same drum. They make their march and get their dis- charge. They are not accidents, as some suppose, nor always such con- spiracies as some allege. They have their causes, as every oak has its acorn, and every mustard tree its seed. They are productions and not creations. There is a bat behind the ball. Condi- tions have led up to germination and development, and with these conditions they rise and fall. Severally, they have their limit of existence. It may be that of Methuselah, or it may be that ot a kitten doomed to the water pail. Ap- prehensions as to their immutability are simply groundless. The bone pile denies their immortality. Icebergs form in Greenland, but thaw out in the gulf stream. If anyone imagines that combinations will crack up the planet, he is mistaken. When they are not what they ought to be, the cracking will be upon the other side. As it is, combina- tions as originally conceived were sim- ply protective. They kept the razor of competition from the tbroat of business. They economized expenses, centralized facilities and made enterprises possible that otherwise would have been asa melon is when a mouth is absent. That in some instances they have degenerated into agencies of cupidity and conspir- acy, and if suckled at the public breast and kept in flannel will become a great menace to the public, is a deplorable misfortune, but it is a stupid mistake to charge an economic principle with its abuses. A _ tadpole in a stream is not’a libel on the spring. Hemp is nota Calcraft because the fatal necktie of a gallows is made of its fiber. The devil was once a gentleman, although he has no claims to that distinction at the present date. In the somewhat free and unlicensed abuse of combinations we have overlooked the distinction between the good and the bad. Weare more care- ful in buying a necktie or disposing of a potato, and in the discussion of public questions it would be well not to forget the difference between what is white and what is black. When, however, combination develops into monopoly, it is time to turn the house on the fire. When it corners potatoes and pork, the output of the mine and the produce of the field, it is well onto the danger line. It has, however, its limits. So far and no farther, is the edict. Canute opposed this law with his royal toes, but to es- cape a chill he moved his chair. All evils carry their own coffins, and this is as true of a combination organ- ized to force up wages as of a com- bination to get them in the lemon squeezer. Experiences of this nature have been continuous, since the builders of Babel lost their memories and_ broke their contracts. Lessons, however, are sometimes forgotten. The cat that eats a canary to-day, and is punished by a protracted bath ina pail, leaves a kit- ten to repeat the same act to-morrow. We agitate and legislate but, under a new name or in a new form, the Thomas we kicked down the front steps comes back as Peter at the side door. The record is one of births and deaths, cradles and coffins, and will continue to be so. Competition and combination will act and react. It may be in iron to-day and leather to-morrow, but until the mouse is dead it will simply be on a scout from one cheese box to another. When one dies, two attend the funeral. We live in an age of hurry and greed. The craze for wealth at a short notice is inordinate and insatiable. Anything to get there. The multitude that are eager to accumulate and unable to ad- minister continually increase. Com- petition is astute and implacable. It shaves its neighbor and sells the hair. The good ot the many is discounted for the benefit of the few, and the result is that any form of combination, however outrageous or hurtful, is tolerated. Un- til human nature is improved and the whole industrial situation is changed, and we have more of co-operation and less of competition, combinations of a nefarious character will continue to clip wool and monopolize the mutton. FRED Wooprow. ————~> 0 <> The Grocer Knew His Customer. ‘*This maple sugar,’’ began the mild- looking customer— ‘‘Is a fraud and an imitation, of course,’’ interrupted the irritable gro- cer, ‘‘but I manage to get 16 cents a pound for it all right. When a man be gins to talk like that I know exactly what he’s going to say, and I've got tired of having the same speech slung at me a hundred times a day!”’ ‘‘I was about to say,’’ resumed the mild-looking customer, ‘that this maple sugar is the finest I have seen on the street,and I am something of a judge of the article, having dealt in it myself. | wanted fifty pounds of it, but as it’s a fraud and an imitation, why, of course, I haven’t any use for it. I bid you—’’ ‘‘Hold on!’’ said the _ grocer. ‘‘Where did you ever deal in maple sugar?’’ ‘*T used to have an extensive grove of maple trees in Ohio.’’ **What part of Ohio?’’ ‘‘In the edge of the little town called Hunkersville.’’ ‘‘How many trees were in the grove?’’ ‘‘T think there must have been over a hundred.”’ **How much sugar did you make from them?’’ ‘*Well, some seasons I turned out as high as 750 pounds, ’’ ‘*You don’t live there now?’’ ee No os) ‘“When did you move away?”’ ‘*About nine years ago.’’ ‘I think that’s right,’’ rejoined the grocer, after a brief mental calculation ‘*T lived in that town myself when I was a boy, and I’ve been back there several! times since, and I happen to know there isn’t a sugar maple tree within four- teen miles of the place. Your name is Higginside, and I know you from away back. You hadn’t any more idea of buying fifty pounds of this sugar than you had of going to heaven in a chariot of fire. You only wanted 5 cents’ worth to eat, and you know it. You're the same old liar you used to be, and—go- ing? Well, good morning !’’ a Considerably Mixed. A man called the other day at a coun- try store where memorandum _ books and stationery are kept and puzzled the proprietor with this strange order: ‘‘I want ter git a conundrum. I've got ter go ter the corner ter serve an_ interjec- tion on a man, and | want ter make an atlas of it.’’ PPPPPEPIEP PPD PPP PLS Mrs. Jones’ ome Made Catsup 1S prepared from Fresh LE Ripe : iz Maya AND GUARANTEED Tomatoes (Bia) and 7 hasa Peculiarly Delicious Flavor This Catsup has been analyzed by the Chemist of the Ohio Pure Food Commission and found to be ABSOLUTELY PURE and in « onformity with the rigid Ohio state laws. Take no Chances and Sell Mrs. Jones’ Uncolored Catsup. At wholesale by Clark-Jewell-Wells Co., Ball-Barnhart-Putman Co., Grand Rapids, and the best jobbers everywhere in the United States. PROC EO 3 LUTE LY PU *Syudd SI 40} S|IVIOY OZIS Wid [ING Large Fluted Bottle Retails for 10 cents. i ye Site tie kie Ripe TOMA uy apes J aa ie Ui) Ra cd dy he eT eet se . oe poy You Wille = ¥ Look in Qaine y For a flour that is more uniform W or that will suit all classes of ~ WV trade better than W W It is not the highest fancy patent nor is it a straight Y¢ grade; but it is an intermediate patent at a moderate \ 4 W price which fully meets and satisfies the demand of "as that large class of people who use only one grade W W of flour for all purposes. In other words, it is the *~* best flour for “tall around’’ use that can be found VW W anywhere. It makes good bread and it makes good "as pastry. You can recommend it for anything from WW aa pancakes to angel food. We refund your money "as \ / if unsatisfactory. \ / Y Valley City Milling Go., MN Grand Rapids, Mich. i2 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN JANE CRAGIN. Cy Begins to Carry Out His Good Resolutions. Written for the TRADESMAN. The utter contempt which Cy had en- tertained for himself did not vanish in the night. The morning found it strong- er than ever, and after the expression of considerable regret that circumstances over which he had nocontrol had forced upon him that sort of. bedfellow, it pleased his fancy to go on with the dis- course where he had dropped it when he finally went to sleep. ‘* There are two good jobs that you are going to do to-day, my man. There will be something of a sameness about them and I’ve an idea that there will be an attempt made to do some pretty tall shirking. I'll make it a point, though, to look after that part of it and I espe- cially recommend that you have your in- terview with Dr. Day just as soon after breakfast as the Lord will let you. You'd go now, if my regard for the Doctor didn’t compel me to wait until the man has something to stay his stom- ach ; and I want you to understand right here that there ain’t going to be any keeping back. You've been making believe that you were his friend—that kind of friend, you know, that stabs a man in the back when he has every right to believe that you are going to pat him! ‘Take him to ride and give a him a cigar and then tell him? It will be easier that way?’ Oh, no. We're going down to breakfast now. As soon as you see the Doctor you'll say to him that you want a little talk with him in his room right after breakfast. D’ye hear? Then you'll go. D'ye mind that? And, by the Lord Harry, you’ll makea good job of it,or the Milltown store will have a new partner in Huxley’s place. Now come along.’’ As luck would have it, a sleepless night prevented the Doctor from com- ing to breakfast, which Cy’s baser self exalted over; but the meal was no soon- er disposed of than the man within bim seized the craven by the collar and led him, so to speak, to the Doctor’s cham- ber. *“May I come in, something over witb.’’ The door was soon opened by its in- mate, who had hastily donned his dress- ing gown, not a little surprised at his caller’s tone and earnestness. There was no Ceremony ; and the door was hard- ly closed behind the visitor when he said: ‘*Doctor, you have been thinking all along that I was a friend to you. I Doctor? I have to say to you and I want it ought to have been, but I haven't been. I haven’t been true to you nor to my- self. To my everlasting shame I so far forgot all sense of honor as to try to rob you of the woman who has promised to be your wife; and I knew it when I made the attempt. I confess to you that it was underhanded and mean, and I have come to say to you that I am ashamed of my conduct and sorry for it. I should have come to you and have told you that in spite of your engage- ment with Miss Cragin I would win her if I could; and I have come to say that now. While the odds are all in your fa- vor, | tell you plainly I will win her if Ican. That I was wrong, all wrong, in ny method I admit; but I do not admit that | am wrong in wanting her and I do not regret the motive that has prompted anything I have done. What I am saying may, or may not, mar the relations which have existed between us. With that | have nothing to do. Itisa fair field and no favor and with that for an understanding let the best man win.’’ ‘Huxley, isn't it a little late in the day for you to be saying this?"’ ‘Is it ever too late to right a wrong? I didn’t come out like a man; that’s what sticks me. I wasn’t aboveboard and houest. Now I am; and if I should marry jane Cragin to-morrow, I could look you straight in the eyes and feel that neither of us had anything to com- plain of. That's my point. Do you admit it?’’ ‘*T don’t see why I shouldn’t; but don’t you see that there is another side to this? Now, Huxley, see here. You are too good a fellow to be led away by any such fancy as has control of you, and I like you too well not to caution you, if I may. Miss Marchland—’’ ‘*You needn’t go on. That part will be taken good care of. The only thing to be settled with you was what has been settled ; and now, with thanks for your kindness and ten thousand pardons for intruding so early upon you, I will leave you. Good morning.’ ‘*Well,’’ said the Doctor, with several exclamation points in his voice, ‘‘he’s odd, but he’s honest, with courage enough for a dozen common men, and, by Jingo, I like him all the better for it. So far as the other matter is concerned, I’m sorry. I know Marjorie thinks her life of him, and that fellow is going to tell her the whole story. He isn’t the one to keep things back and wait for the cyclone later on. I must talk that over with Jane. He headed me off all right —there’s where | forgot myself—but I'm going to do him a good turn if I can, even if he did teli me to mind my own business. We’ve got to get our fingers into other people's affairs sometimes, if we are ever going to do them any good, and I’d be willing to get mine in up to my elbows to shield these good friends from the trouble ahead.’’ From the Doctor, Cy went to his own room. ‘‘There!’’ he exclaimed, keeping up the whimsical idea of taking himself in hand, ‘‘you’ve done your duty and that’s never anything to be proud of. The other fellow now knows where to find ye and that’s all that’s necessary. The worst, though, is to come. A man rather expects to be taken advantage of and so is prepared for it; but it’s dif- ferent with women. I’m free to tell ye that I don’t know where you’re coming out. I’m mighty certain that Marjorie is high-strung and that there’s going to be the devil to pay. Now whether it’s going to be best to—I’ve heard Jane say time and again that women folks rather like to be fooled by a man once in awhile; but when you come right down to the point, I'd a leetle rather have the other do it. Now, if Marjorie—’’ The man had forgotten his baser self as he pronounced the name that had been growing dearer to him as the weeks had been speeding by. He went back to that evening when he had met her first, with the rose in her raven hair, and recalled the sweet picture she had made as she leaned towards him in that grace- ful attitude. Then followed the rest of the pleasing story, with the vows they had exchanged and sealed with love’s own seal. Fora while he forgot every- ‘thing but that; and, under the spell, it seemed best, by far the best, to let things take their course, to wed the woman whom fate and his own mistake had chosen for him, to make her happy and in time to love her as she thought he loved her now. Fate read his thought and smiled approval; but the smile faded when the old harsh tone came back and said: ‘*Remember, you are going to let that blessed woman see just what sort of a man you are without any covering up or keeping back,and you're going to do it this afternoon. Then if she’ll have you, well and good,and if she won't, you’d better—‘go to the devil and shake yourself!’ ’’ RICHARD MALCOLM STRONG. —_—__>_42>___ English Grocers and Co-operative Stores. It appears that English grocers are holding their own with the co-operative stores, and have proved conclusively to the public that they can give better goods for less money. 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I spent the hour from 12 to 1 with the grocer, and among a hundred and one things we talked about was that of the difficulty of getting first-class clerks., ' L bad. no idea,"” said this grocer, ‘that the getting of a clerk was such a serious matter until I had occasion to try. Why, I’ve had more trouble get- ting a clerk for my store than I would have to get almost anything else you could mention.’’ ‘‘How many clerks do you keep?’’ I asked. ‘* Two always,’' he replied, ‘‘and oc- casionally three. It is absolutely nec- essary for me to have two, however, and when one of my regulars got a job up to the city I had to look about me. The young fellow who occasionally comes in to help me out was at school and couldn't leave, so I advertised in one of the Philadelphia papers. I put it in in a way that I thought would get mea good class of answers. Here’s the ad- vertisement here. ’’ He got a copy of the Philadelphia In- quirer of four or five weeks ago and showed me this advertisement : \ ANTED—A GROCERY CLERK FOR A country town in Delaware. On'y one with experience desired. A good place to the right man and a permanent situation. Wages, $8 to start. Address ———, —_—, Del. “‘Well, did it get you any replies?’’ I asked. ‘Did it!’’ he repeated. ‘‘Well, the postmaster had hard work handling my mail for several days after. Why, actually, I got replies from as far West as Wisconsin. All told, I got thirty-six letters, all from men claiming to have had experience. Some of ’em enclosed their photographs, and their ages ranged from 17 to 58. The 58-year-older I pitied. He said he had lost his job, and didn’t know anything but grocery clerking., and had an old wife to sup port. He was too old, though, and could hardly write, so I couldn't touch him. I picked out six of the likeliest, and put ‘em away separate. Then I wrote to the fellow I considered the best and told him to come down here. He was a young fellow, not over 32 or 33, but he had a wife and four children. He was an intelligent fellow and seemed eager for the job, so I set him to work. I wondered how the mischief he could keep a family on $8 a week, but that was none of my _ business, so I said nothing. ‘‘Well, things went along for three or four weeks. The fellow’s name was Bockius and he did fairly well. He was quick and had an occasional good idea, so I decided that I had got the man I was after. His family looked fairly well dressed, too. ‘‘IT go out after the orders myself, so one morning | was out on the street, and about ten squares away from the store, when I came across one of the Bockius’ boys—a lad about Io yearsold. He was puffin’ along under a great big basket of groceries, and the thought struck me all at once that there was something queer here. So I stopped the little fel- low. ‘“That’s a pretty heavy load for you,’ I said. Yep. tts, he said, | ‘but, l am't got much furder to go now.’ ‘* “What have you got there, grocer- ies?’ I asked. ‘“ Yep,’ he said, ‘I just been down to the store.’ ‘* “You order a lot at atime, don’t you,’ IT asked. ‘Must run into a lot of money.’ ‘Oh,’ said the boy, ‘my pop he’s MICHIGAN TRADESMAN down in old man Jones’ grocery store, an he do git his things fur nuthin’. ‘“That made me hot. I saw it all. ‘“ “Oh, he do, do he?’ I said. ‘Well, I happen to be old man Jones myself, an’ you just trot them things right back to my store. ’ ‘The boy was scared to death, and he walked the whole distance back again with his basket. When he walked in the store behind me his father was waiting on a customer, and he turned as white as chalk. He saw the jig was up, and I pitied the fellow. He went that afternoon, and then I wrote to the next best, an’ he came down. The grocer laughed. I looked en- quiringly. ‘‘The second one was a funny fel- low,’’ he said. ‘‘He wasn’t a bad sort of a clerk, but he was such a measly hog. Why, I give you my word that that fellow was stuffing something all of the time. He hadn't been in the place a week before he was carrying around the nick-name of ‘Stuffy,’ and of all the stuffers I ever saw, he went ahead. He would eat anything! Why, I’ve caught him eatin’ crackers and molasses down in the cellar, and he wouldn't think a thing of eatin’ pickles and raisins to- gether. I don’t believe there was a thing in the place, fit to eat raw, that he didn’t get into. He was a pretty good clerk, but I had to let him go. Why, the amount of stuff that fellow eat would have really run into dollars, so | had to discharge him. ‘“Then I wrote to another of the lot, and he came down. He was a thunder- in’ bright fellow—studied for a while for a lawyer, but he got in hard luck and had to look out for what he could ee ‘*Is he here yet?’’ I asked. ‘‘No—no,’’ said the grocer, hesitatingly, ‘‘he’s went, too,’’ ‘*What ailed him?’’ | asked. rather ‘‘Well,’’ he said, ‘‘ I read in a paper the other day an expression that just exactly fitted him! He was an ‘argu- mentative bore!’ Phew! That fellow would argue the legs off you! Anything at all that he could hinge a long string of talk on he’d do it, an’ he got to bea nuisance. Why, he got several of the customers mad, an’ | had to do an aw- ful lot of smoothing down before they'd come back. ‘‘Why, just to show you, he got to arguin’ on infant damnation with the ‘Piscopalian dominie in here one day while I was out. My wife told me afterward. She said they were there for three-quarters of an hour, gettin’ hotter and hotter all the time. When custom- ers would come in, she said, the clerk would wait on ’em, but he would keep on firing things at the minister all the time. The dominie got so mad before he left that he called the clerk a ‘plague-on’d ripper!’ Best swear word he could think of, | suppose! Ha! Ha! ‘*So he went, and the next fellow I’ve got yet. I’ve decided to let him go to- morrow, an’ then [| suppose I’ll write again. ’’ ‘*What’s the one?’’ IT asked. ‘‘ Breaks everything !’’ ejaculated the grocer. ‘‘Greatest butter-fingers you ever saw. This morning he dropped a keg of eggs and smashed half of ’em. Yesterday he knocked over a dozen tum- blers an’ broke every last one of ’em. Every——"’ Smash! Smash! Bang! These sounds just then proceeded from the cellarway. ‘“By gum!’’ exclaimed the grocer, ‘*he’s busted something else.’’ And he ran to the cellar stairs, where the clerk met him. He was a great big bumpkin with red hair and freckles—one of the sort that always wear their pants about four inches too short. He had broken some more eggs and his great big feet were splashed with the yolks halfway up to his knees. He was the picture of a clumsy gump. ‘Well, of all the awkward, clumsy lunatics I ever saw!’’ began the grocer, angrily, ‘‘you’re the worst. You can work till to-night and then you git!’ The poor clerk stood the picture of despair, with yellow egg yolks trickling down his legs. matter with the last ‘“‘An’ now I’ve got to go over the whole thing again!’’ said the grocer. ‘‘Ain’t I ever goin’ to get a decent clerk?’’ And then I left him, face to face with the grocery-clerk problem. > 2. Retail Monopolists. From the Stoves and Hardware Reporter. A great many retail merchants, espe- cially in the smaller towns, regard themselves as monopolists. A merchant with this mistaken idea in his head is one who owns the only store of its kind in the town or neighborhood and who thinks that all the nearby trade must come to him because it has nowhere else to go. So he manages, or mismanages, his business to suit himself, and then wonders why he is not successful, as he knows he ought to be. He buys such goods as he pleases, without regard to public wants or convenience, and if he happens to be out of an article which a customer wants he does not worry over the matter, because he thinks he can get it in time and the customer will be OOOOS Tauber) 2 @ $ © ® ® ALT & 6 3 5 © ®& One application will keep the dust off your shelves for six months. It is a good deal cheaper to use than not to use it. Write for a free book that tes all about DUST= © LESS. @© None genuine without our label and signature. DOO©D VDOOG@OM®@O@OOQOOGQDOQOOQOOQOOQHOOO® 2D LOQ®OBOGDE DOQODOOQGQOOQOQODOQDOQOOOOOQOOOGQGOGO@OOODOOOOQOOO® DUSTLESS is a floor dressing, to be put on with a mop. It is not sticky, but it prevents dust from rising just the same. 80 E. Ohio St., I3 obliged to come back for it. But he is not the only dealer in the trade. There are others, as he may find out to his sor- row. If there are no other stores in the neighborhood where the desired article may be obtained, there are yet depart- ment stores and catalogue houses within reaching distance by mail and from which -that article may be had in as short time as can be accomplished by the dealer. If the dealer thinks he is a monopolist, he also forgets that there are bigger monopolists than he and that they will probably not only cut under his prices, but take away a great portion of his trade if he only allows them a chance. CO A Mississippi paper says that a negro living near Newton, who heard his dogs barking one night, found that they had killed a remarkable animal. It had a head like a bulldog, ears like a mule, legs like a duck, and a tail like an ele- phant and it was long-bodied likea weasel. A grocer’s profits are notoriously small. In the course of a year he loses a great deal of money because of dust. Dust makes groceries unsalable. People will not buy things to eat that do not look clean and inviting. Stop that leak in your profits! Stop it with DUSTLESS! WML CHICAGO. DOOQQOQOO®DOOOGOGDOOOO'OOO) OOO OOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO) e Big Talk About Circulation ‘66660 tion. Asa matter of fact Counts for little unless quality goes hand in hand with quan- tity—Advertisers are learning to discriminate in this matter, and are looking more and more into the character of circula- Circulation is of No Consequence (am (mm fms fm me pam tiser is seeking a market. Unless it be of a character to reach and directly interest buy- ers and consumers of the class of goods for which the adver- Advertisers Care Nothing @'@'@ @' @'@'e'o'o'e'e'@ amma For Circulation ‘@@06 00600 The That does not reach and directly appeal to the purchasing constituency of the class of goods the advertiser wishes to sell—that medium only which can show a bona fide circulation to buyers should be considered. Michigan Tradesman Reaches more paid subscribers in Michigan than all other trade journals combined, and is therefore able to give its patrons better returns than any other trade journal published. These Are Telling Points 14 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Shoes and Leather Reasons Why the Advantage Lies with the Jobber. I have had an experience of twenty- eight years in the shoe business, during the past sixteen of which I have been running a retail store in Chicago. Until within a few years it wasacom- paratively easy matter to keep stock in a satisfactory condition, but since the advent of the department stores with $5 shoes for $1.98, etc., and the lightning changes in styles, the case has assumed such serious conditions as to agitate the ‘think boxes’’ of the wisest in the shoe world. There is undoubtedly a great advan- tage in buying from a jobber of strictly reliable goods—shoes that are made in factories with reputations, and not the kind designated as ‘‘bats’’ by the boys on the road and so often found among jobbers’ linés. I am glad to notice the constantly in- creasing number of jobbers who are making a specialty of thoroughly good goods—shoes that no retailer need be ashamed to put upon his shelf and offer to his ‘‘best customer.”’ This is one of the reasons why the re- tailer is passing the manufacturer and buying more freely from the jobbing house. Another and very important factor in the case is the aforesaid lightning changes in styles. The majority of the road salesmen visit the retailer with spring samples before he has more than started up on fall business. Is he ina position to judge of what he will want for the next season—six months ahead? I should say ‘*No!’’ with a big N. Here is some personal experience: During the spring and summer of 1806 we had a very satisfactory trade ona line of men’s ox-bloods, which we car- tied from A to E. We bought them from the local agency of a reljable East- ern manufacturer, and found it very convenient to get sizes as we needed them, and it was of great ‘assistance in running the stock down to a low point during the latter part of the season, as the agency (or jobbing house) carried a good line of sizes. Last November one of the salesmen for the local house called on us and tried very persistently to get us to place an order, to be made up and shipped di- rect from the factory, offering some special inducements in the way of dis- counts. We kept delaying the matter, in the meantime making up a memorandum order, but finally decided to wait and pick up what we wished from the local agency. The result was that in March we bought twenty-four pairs of the ox- bloods to size up lightly, as, by feeling of our trade through showing sample pairs, we found a very evident inclina- tion to the chocolate instead of the “‘reds,’’ and so, instead of placing the order which we had made out for one hundred and twenty pairs, by holding off we bought but two dozen, and through this same holding off we obtained two new lasts for chocolates, which were ‘*hot sellers’’ this season; and then the great advantage comes in at the latter part of the season in being able to do business while running the lines down to the smallest possible amount. Another important point is the indi- viduality of your stock. All of the best factories are now turn- ing out their goods perfectly plain—de- void of any distinguishing marks, such as their name or any trade-mark. They have found out that the best re- tailers are not buying goods to advertise the manufacturer, consequently it is an easy matter now to get almost any grade of shoes without the maker’s name on. The rest is very simple. Get a steel die with your name on,and two sizes of labels, one 1x6 for men’s cartons and the other 3x5 for ladies’, both of which sizes allow for a liberal margin all around and extra full at the top where it reaches up under the lid, which gives your cartons and shoes a uniformity and individuality that cannot fail to pay dividends every season. It is so easy to convert a reliable shoe into a still more reliable one by putting your own name on the shanks, besides the advertising it gives you at such small expense. The goods are now identified as yours, and are as separate and distinct as if made in some factory especially for you, but the beauty of it is that the jobber is carrying your reserve stock, and if for any of the hundred and one reasons the season turns out poor, you do not havea big stock to ‘‘put the knife into,’’ and in these days of ‘‘closing-out’’ sales this is an important item. In a general talk regarding the situa- tion with one of the best and most suc- cessful retailers on State street a few days ago, among other things he said to me: ‘‘The shoe business is just in the proper condition to lose big money for the man who buys his goods without a great deal of caution.’’ With a steel stamp and the labels above mentioned we find ourselves in a position to buy cautiously, in every sense of that term, and still do business on our own individual lines, which gives us a great advantage over the little fel- low around the corner who sells every- body’s and nobedy’s goods, To recapitulate: The jobber carries the reserve stock, and so reduces our average amount of liability. Competition forces him to be up to date on styles, which enables us to ‘‘ feel of the trade’’ on specialties and still get them in time for business each season, without loading up early and ‘‘taking the chances,’’ often to find our judg- ment at fault later on, and having to perform the surgical operation of ‘‘ put- ting the knife into them.’’ Buying from the jobber, we can hold a customer for any odd size, and makea sale on stock that we never carried. The small amount of extra expense attached to this way of buying is more than offset by the advantage of lessened liability of old stock and loss in ‘‘clos- ing-out’’ sales, to say nothing of insur- ance and money tied up in_ useless goods. One of the great advantages is in be- ing able to wait until the season actually begins before buying, in the meantime getting a few pairs of different styles and showing them to your customers—to post yourself at the expense of the. job- ber, I may say, as to which new styles your particular customers will favor during the coming season. This is worth a great many dollars every season to the retailer, as all the advantage of buying from the manufac- turer direct is more than balanced by the added value of delaying until you can get the judgment of the very people you are expecting to sell to, especially as your stamp and labels make the goods yours. My judgment, therefore, is that the jobber is by far the more advantageous for the average retailer to buy from.— Correspondence Boots and Shoes Weekly. latest colors and shapes. can give you some bargains. 5, and 10 per cent. on Bay States. ~ Do you sell Shoes? Do you want to sell more Shoes? Then buy Rindge, Kalmbach & Co.’s factory line—the line that will win and hold the trade for you. We handle everything in the line of footwear. We are showing to-day the finest spring line in the State—all the See our line of socks and felts before placing your fall order. We Weare agents for the Boston Rubber Shoe Co. and carry a very large stock of their goods, which enables us to fill orders promptly. Our discounts to October 1 are 25 and 5 per cent. on Bostons and 25, Our terms are as liberal as those of any agent of the Boston Rubber Shoe Co. Rindge, Kalmbach & Co., 12, 14 and 16 Pearl St., Grand Rapids. “ - PEEPETELEET LETTE EET ETT ET ...For this Fall... We are showing the strongest line of Shoes ever placed on this market by us. Goodyear,—none better. 5 and 7 Pearl Street, = ad Wop Hah ehoh popup npehoheh We are just as emphatic about our Rubber Line—Wales=- Big line of Lumbermen’s Sox. Grand Rapids Felt Boots are our Hobby. Herold=Bertsch Shoe Co. EEE EEE EEE EEE EEL EES GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Ppp oh oooh oh hohe oh eh op } OQ@© HOGDOGQOO©HOQOOQOOG® tg BDODODDODO@OQOGDOOQOOQOOODQOGOOOQOOOO FS OOOOO oo“ ily. Our Specialties: Children’s Shoes, and you will have gained the friendship of the whole fam- To succeed in doing this buy your children’s shoes from HIRTH, KRAUSE & CO., Grand Rapids. Shoe Store Supplies, Goodyear Glove Rubbers. © GCOOMDOPOOQOOGDOODOOQOODE DOOQODOOQOQOOQOOOOE ©OODEOQOIDOOOQOOOE© @ @ @ @ @ @ @) @ @ @ @ @ @ @) ©) @ @) @ © © @ @ @ © © @ @ © ©) ©) @ @ @ @ @ LYCOTSING, 25 and 5 off. KEYSTONE, 25 and § and 10 off. These prices are for present use and also for fall orders. Our representative will call on you in due time with our specialties in Leather Goods, Felt Boots, Lumbermen’s Socks .. . and a full line of the above-named rub- ber goods, and we hope to receive your orders. Geo. H. Reeder & Co., 19 South Ionia St., Grand Rapids, Mich. eo bbb be bo bo bn ty, bn bn bn bn bn bn bn be, be bo bn bn be bn bn br, bn bn tn bn bn bn tp PV GRU GFF OSS FOGG GG OF OSG VV VV VG This represents our Boys’ and Youths’ Oil Grain Water Proof Shoes, made of very best stock to wear, nice fitting and good style; size of Boys’, 3333 Youths’, 12-2, Every <9 7 ’ Tri ices a pair warranted. Write for prices or send for samples on approval. These shoes keep feet dry, look nice and no rubbers are needed. SNEDICOR & HATHAWAY C0., Detroit, Mich. Also makers of the celebrated Driving Shoes. Grain Creedmoors and Cruisers. Michigan Shoe Co., Agents for Michigan. yvyvuvvuvvvvvvevvvvvvwvvvvyv* FF POG GGG GV EVV EVV VV rer TTT TV TCC TTC CVC TT ww MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 16 Not Luck But Hard Work Will Success. Written for the TRADESMAN. To live on a farm or not to live ona farm was not the question. ‘That had been decided long ago, and the young man making the decision had made up his mind to turn his attention to some- thing else. Not that any fault was to be found with the farm. Like most well- tilled farms, it was large enough and productive enough for those who like that kind of life; but the young man in question didn’t, and he had been on the farm long enough to know. Life had begun with him in the Old Bay State, and on the ancestral acres he had learned all he cared to know of what ‘‘working on a farm’’ means. Begin- ning early, his willing hands had soon seized the shovel and the hoe, and this, continued tor fifteen or twenty years, had given him a powerful physique, so that when that fair May morning saw him on the seat of the farm wagon with his trunk behind him and _ his face turned towards the future, it found a young fellow asking no odds of the world and ready to fight inch by inch for the foothold he was determined to have. It is contrary to the general idea of luck that the life about to begin did not take the natural drift from the farm to a place in the country store where the farm produce was sold or exchanged. That is more like the work of circum- stance—the change which chance so often guides and colors; but to pass at once from the quiet farm to the busiest, thriftiest city in New England and there, unknown and unaided, to leap into the unfamiliar waters of trade, has something in it of the sink or swim, survive or perish element which luck never claims. Boston, the end of the journey that day begun, was duly reached; but the great fire then raging and later known as the most disastrous conflagration the East has seen gave the newcomer a warmer reception than he cared for, and that same day saw him on his way to New York. Here, as in Boston, he was a stranger and, alone and unaided, his life began. What was he to do? Anything. He had come to stay, and it made little differ- ence what the work was, provided he could earn enough to pay his way. Life here, as on the farm, had no soft places, the bane of any life worth living, and thankful for that well-learned lesson, he asked for work. He found it where he had every reason for hesitating to take it—in the freight house of tbe old Ston- nington depot. What did this country- bred lad know about freight and freight houses, of merchandise and the ship- piag of goods? Nothing—an idea that cannot be stated too strongly; and yet, from that unpretending farm he had brought a trait of character which served him in this test-time of his life. He found dire confusion in the freight house. Everything had its place, but some other thing got into it and _ staid there. Heaven's first law had been a stranger there so long as to suggest the establishment at the other end of the road. A few general directions from the office and the novice pulled off his coat and went to work. It was a day of kicks and curses—that first day—but he lived it. The second day was little better, Sbut he lived it. The third day came and Win went, but somehow the idea went abroad that kicks and curses were getting to be out of place in the freight house. Things seemed to be settling,as it were, and it began to be possible even in the freight house to tind something which was wanted. At that time, some of my readers may remember a prosperous coffee and spice house was doing business on Canal street. The proprietors were having no end of trouble at the freight house. Coffee bags might come and spice bags might go, but they seemed to go on forever, with no possibility of return so far as shipping clerk or freight agent was concerned. ‘“Have you seen anything of any coffee in bags, or bags of spice, in here during the last eight or ten days?’’ ‘“*How many?’’ ‘‘That’s what I want to find out. We've lost track of them—thanks to a careless clerk—and I thought there might be a bare possibility of finding them down here. By the looks of things, I guess it’s good-bye bags. Good morn- ing. That was during those first few days. Later on word came to the coffee firm that some bags of coffee—the number and kind were given—-had been found, and orders for their disposal were wanted. Would some one come to attend to them? Somebody went at once. The bags were identified and forwarded ; and on his way back, the proprietor stopped at the freight office to ask what that young fellow’s name was in the freight house. ‘“‘He has one thing the rest of you fellows are in need of,and that’s a level head. Thunder and guns! I was in there a day or two ago and it looked as if there had been an earthquake. I lost track of some coffee and had given up all hope of finding it, and that young ‘skeezicks’ has fished it out and made everything straight asa string. Where’d he come from?’’ and the man went away saying to himself: ‘‘You won’t have him a great while, | can tell you that!’’ and they didn’t. There was a pressing need in the coffee and spice business for a young man brought up on a Mass- achusetts farm, who had wit enough to see that method is as much in demand in a freight house as it is elsewhere; and when that same young man had a flattering offer to remove that pressing need, he was not long in accepting the one and removing the other. It is remarkable how the same prin- ciple in the same individual is sure to develop similar results, irrespective of circumstances, a fact which takes away much, if not all, of the ground upon which luck, and what pertains to it, stands. The business of the farm has apparently little or nothing to do with the work of a freight house or with that of a commercial traveler,and yet in this instance it proved so. The method that brought order out of confusion in one instance did the same thing in another and this, turned to practical account in commercial life, brought about results as satisfactory as they were surprising. Luck may or may not have thrown into this young man’s way—now a drummer —this or that good customer. Chance may or may not have made him too late for this train or too early for that one. Circumstance may or may not have so shaped his course to-day and so ham- pered him to-morrow; but, be it luck or chance or circumstance or all of them, it is surprising how all of these furnish to one man the elements of success and to his fellow overwhelming failure. So the weeks and the months went by and, always seeing a chance to do some- thing and making the most of it, the young man took an early liking to his calling and—so it seemed—it to him. Summer and winter saw him always on the move. Business men found them- selves waiting for him and always put- ting something in his way when he came. So his circle of friends grew, and the same tact—or was it luck?—that made them kept them; and when the summing up came for the business year, the young man’s sales were away up among the hundred thousands, far above many with much more experience than he. Pretty good returns for a boy brought up on a farm and starting out with only willing hands, a stout heart and luck (?) to help him. Soon luck gave him another lift. A leading wholesale house began to talk of changing heads, and it somehow hap- pened that everybody who had anything to do or say about it chanced to think of the same man. To all intents and pur- poses everything was against him. In the first place, he was too young. What sort of a figure would a chap like that cut at the head of so large a concern? Where was tbe needed experience in a man with not a gray hair in his head, and, especially, the influence which al- ways goes with the white-headed arti- cle? That was one side. The other didn’t express any opinion. They sim- ply voted ; and when the result was an- nounced, that farm-bred, freight- straightening, trade-gathering young man was lucky enough to receive every vote; and to-day he is at the head of one of the most successful wholesale houses in New York. Luck? No. Chance? No. Circum- stance? No. What? An inborn idea that intelligent work is about the only thing that will ever get anything worth having, coupled with another inborn idea, that the navn worth having is waiting to be worked for in that par- ticular neighborhood where the intelli- gent worker happens to be. This is the secret of this man’s life, as it is the secret of every successful life, and is no more to be attributed to luek, or to any- thing that pertains thereto, than chance or circumstance which every earnest worker shapes to his own pur- pose and uses for the accomplishment of worthy ends. RICHARD MALCOLM STRONG. > << S- - Seventeen cotton mills are in course of construction in North Carolina. Popular Priced Leaders 1S, Best Milwaukee Oil Grain Dom Pedro Plow Bal Unlined. Bal Lined Creole _.. G2. / . mo, 1 Manufactured by E H. STARK & CO., Worcester, Mass. Represented in Michigan by A. B. CLARK, Lawton, Mich., w ho 3 will promptly reply to any enquiries concerning the line, or will send on approval sample cases or pairs, any sizes, any qualities. by writing us STANDARD ACCOUNT at once about tomer’s account. This is worth inve stigating. ° SYSTEM our Special Of- 2 EFF. fer tht STANDARD ee Aah IRA.N.Y. LAYS that we are now making to introduce our Duplicating Account System, which is highly endorsed by the Retail Grocers’ Association. The Standa “ Account System is a duplic: ating system by which once writing the items does all your book work. The Standard System consists of Duplicating Pass Books, Duplicating Pads and the Standard Mechanical Ledger, which contains all the items and constantly shows the exact balance of every cus- Cash or Credit Trade and can be used with your present system. Hundreds of merchants are using it and enthusiastically endorse it. It will save you time, money and trouble. We will send this Carbon System on 60 days’ trial if desired: Good salesman wanted in every town. THE STANDARD ACCOUNT CO., Elmira, N. Y. COHOROROROROTOROHOROHONOTORORORORSCHOROROLORORCHONOH Our Duplicating supplies are good for either Re . eee MICHIGAN BARK A LUMBER GO, 527 and 528 Widdicomb Bid. Grand Rapids, Mich. C. U.. CLARK, Pres. W. D. WADE, Vice- Pres. MINNIE M.CLARK, Sec’y and Treas. , We are now ready to make contracts for bark for the season of 1897. Correspondence Solicited. SeSeSeSeSe u 16 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Clerks’ Corner Talmage to Dry Goods Clerks. Dr. Talmage, in a recent sermon, ad- dressed himself to the clerks. Speaking of dry goods clerks, he said: ‘One great trial for clerks is the in- — of customers. There are people who are entirely polite every- where else, but gruff and dictatorial and contemptible when they come into a store to buy anything. ‘There are thou- sands of men and women who go from store to store to price things without any idea of purchase. They are not satisfied until every roll of goods is brought down and they have pointed out all the real or imaginary defects. They try on all kinds of kid gloves and stretch them out of shape, and they put on all styles of cloaks and walk to the mirror to see how they look, and then they sail out of the store, saying,‘1 will not take it to-day;’ which means, ‘I don’t want it at all,’ leaving the clerk amida wreck cf ribbons, and laces, and cloth, to smooth out a thousand dollars’ worth of goods—not one cent of which did that cheat of a woman buy or expect to buy. Now I call that a dishonesty on the part of the customer. If a boy runs into a store and takes a roll of cloth off the counter and sneaks out into the street, you all join in the cry pell mell: ‘Stop thief!” When I see you go into a store not expecting to buy anything but to price things, stealing the time of the clerk and stealing the time of his em- ployer, I say too, ‘Stop thief!’ ‘“If T were asked which class of per- sons most needed the grace of God amid their annoyances I would say, “Dry goods clerks.’ All the indignation of customers about the high prices comes on the clerk. For instance: A great war comes. The manufactories are closed. The people go off to battle. The price of goods runs up. A customer comes into a store. Goods have gone up. ‘How much is that worth?’ ‘A dollar! A dollar! Outrageous!’ Why, who is to blame for the fact that it has got to be a dollar? Does the indigna- tion go out to the manufacturers on the ‘banks of the Merrimac because they have closed up? No. Does the indigna- tion go out toward the employer, who is out at his country seat? No. It comes on the clerk. He got up the war! He levied the taxes! He puts up the rents! Of course, the clerk! ‘*Then a great trial comes to clerks in the fact that they see the parsimo- nious side of human nature. You talk about lies behind the counter! There are just as many lies before the counter. Augustine speaks of a man who adver- tised that he would on a certain occasion tell the people what was in their hearts. A crowd assembled and he stepped to the front and said: ‘I will tell you what is in our hearts: To buy cheap and sell dear!’ Oh, lay not aside your urbanity when you go into a store. Treat the clerks like gentlemen and ladies—proving yourself to be a gentle- man or a lady. Remember that, if the prices are high and your purse is lean, that is no fault of the clerks. And if you haveason or a daughter amid those perplexities of commercial life, and such a one comes home all worn out, be lenient and know that the martyr at the stake no more certainly needs the grace of God than our young people amid the seven-times-heated exasperations of a clerk’s late. a > o> - Women Clete Not Liked Stores. In speaking of men and women as clerks in a shoe store or department a well-known Chicago dealer said: ‘‘A woman cannot sell shoes to other women. Strange as it may appear, women will make their selections and purchases from male clerks every time, and it is for this reason that so few shoe dealers employ women clerks. While women will buy shoes from male clerks, they would not think of buying stockings from them. It is not only fn this, but in all other cities in this country that this is true. In Europe it is somewhat the other way, and in many of the larger in Shoe shoe establishments there are more women clerks than men clerks, and women customers prefer the women clerks nearly every time, except in the case when the purchasers are Americans. They prefer to deal with the men clerks. In buying shoes women are much more confidential than men are. A man—that is, the great run of men—doesn’t care so much for the looks as he does for com- fort and fit. With women this is re- versed. They make comfort and fit sec- ondary to the matter of looks. Somehow women think that the man clerk has bet- ter judgment in the matter of looks than any woman clerk has or could have. There is no use trying to argue the question, even if there were any room for argument. Dealers have to recog- nize the fact and be governed by it. I have never had a woman ask me why I did not employ women clerks, while I have had hundreds of men ask that question. Now, while men will ask that and similar questions, there is not one in one hundred who would buy their shoes from a woman clerk if we had them. I suppose it is the laws of trade which regulate such matters. Certain it is that I don’t know anything of the causes, although I have been selling shoes for over thirty-five years. It is to be presumed that I would have learned something in that time about it, but I confess I have not.”’ > eS Glad He Couldn’t Give It Away. Eau Claire (Wis.) Correspondence Minneapolis Times. In 1890, while living in Duluth, Julius O. Swanson purchased 750 shares --in a Colorado mine uear Colorado Springs, paying 1o cents a share for it. A few years later he offered the lot for $7.50. His friends laughed at him and refused to buy. In 1893 he came to this city and accepted a position in a shoe store at a small salary. Fearing he would have to pay taxes on his Colorado property, he tried to give his shares away. No person wanted them even as a gift. Swanson was industrious, and a year ago opened a shoe store of his own and did a good business. Yester- day Colorado Springs parties offered Swanson $37,000 for his 750 shares. He sold his shoe store ae will leave for Colorado Springs on Thursday. He says $37.000 for $7.50 is good enough tor him and he will sell. HO The members of the Atlanta Woman’s Club have promised to make all pur- chases in the morning if merchants will allow clerks a half holiday on Saturdays. - —>-0 > —____ Report comes that the Chilian con- gress has offered $125,000 as a subsidy to any corporation establishing an iron foundry in that country. NOT ALWAYS BEST. How a Merchant Sometimes Profits by His Mistakes. The merchant who always buys just the right article at the right time, marks it at just the right profit, with the per- fect assurance that it will go, is so rare that he does not figure in humanity. Strange as it is, our mistakes are our stepping stones to success. On the face it seems a base contradiction, but never- theless it is a well-recognized fact. Let a merchant make a large deal of sea- sonable goods with the firm belief that his trade will snap at them, and for some reason or other the sale falls flat, to what are we to attribute the non-suc- cess? It may be that the price was not a catchy one. It might have been marked even money, when an odd price, even although a higher one, might have taken them out ina jiffy. Possibly it was too late in the season to risk an ex- tensive sale of something which, per- haps, may have been selling freely in the season. Supposing such to be the case, the merchant’s only salvation is to advertise the goods at prices which will cause the eyes of competitors and trade to open in astonishment; hence he gains a reputation for selling cheap, which is brought about by his own mis- takes. With the most conservative buying dry goods accumulate, and it is a sort of commodity which does not improve with age. Let us consider lines of goods classed as seasonable and also novelties. One may figure on just what was consumed the previous season, using that as a basis for estimating on the present sea- son’s output. If the season before was a good one, usually a plunge is made. Then if weather conditions are at odds, or Dame Fashion takes a sudden freak to change her mind, what is the inevi- table result? Accumulated stock. The merchant very naturally thinks that he must get all he can out of the present, so he resorts to a clearance sale, with the standard-bearing prices which force the goods into the consumers’ hands, oftentimes against their better judg- ment, which plan does not always re- sult in ultimate good. To be sure, it has cleaned out all surplus stock, but has it not killed the sale of a like article for the coming year. The rise and fall of the shirt waist has served to treat us to an object les- son. During the shirt-waist period of 1896 everybody was overstocked regard- less of the hot weather which prevailed. Consumers were bargained to death. The offerings were of such exquisite novelties, at prices next door to noth- ing, that they were purchased witha view to holding over until this season. When the new things appeared they ‘| were not materially different from those on hand. A slight alteration of the sleeve readily conformed last year’s gar- ment into this year’s, which method was resorted to by thousands of women, who would purchase one, possibly two, stunning waists,to alternate with the re- modelled garment, whereas last year they bought a half dozen. An apt il- lustration occurs. Let us calculate that two millions of women economized to the extent of one shirt waist apiece, es- timating that the economy was but 50 cents a person. One million dollars has been withheld from the shirt-waist in- dustry. A neat little business. Did it pay, at a loss of profit, to eat all the pie last season? While we are on the shirt-waist ques- tion we will mention the foolhardy prac- tice of producing the same for Decem- ber sales. Let us trust that the new era of trade buying and selling will entirely obliterate the buying away ahead of possible requirements. This new trade era is conspicuous in more ways than one. It has developed very noticeably in the method of sup- plying goods for the moment in demand. A buyer stepping into a house with his mind centered on a special line that his trade are that instant ripe for, and find- ing that he cannot secure them inside of ten days, possibly longer, drops the idea and turns his.attention to other channels for drawing trade rather than speculate on a month or even a week ahead. Heretofore, the custom was to say to the manufacturer, ‘‘Well, ship them as soon as you can,’’ or a remote date was set. Not so now. Now is the time. The sooner merchants realize that the rolling up of sales at the expense of profit has a demoralizing effect the more they will adjust themselves to the new conditions.—Dry Goods Economist. >? .>- om Applause for a Heroic Drummer. From the Springfield Republican. A Bangor drummer recently saw a woman enter the train at North Bucks- port and rush through the car just as_ it was getting speedy. He coolly walked after her, and, just before the fatal leap, grasped her firmly to his manly bosom. She struggled, but he only tightened his grip saying: ‘‘Madam, you _ shan’t jump off the car and kill yourself !’’ When she got her breath she shrieked : ‘“You big fool, I was only going out on the platform | to wave my handkercief to my friends.’’ A party of Bangor yachts- men aboard the train applauded the drummer for his heroism fully half an hour and at intervals thereafter. a Do not forget that a person ‘‘too busy’’ to take care of his health is like a workman too busy to sharpen his tools. NNIVPHNIPONTVONTP NTP HITTIN They all say “It's as good as Sapolio,” when they try to sell you Your own good sense will tell you that they are only —_ to get yeu to aid their mew aritic. «2 dt : 3 Who urges you to coo Sapolio? | = q public? SLU AUUODUUUU OO their experiments. ti manufacturers, by constant and judi- cious advertising, bring customers to your stores whose very presence creates a demand for other articles. WAAL MALT ANt Akl hMktbAkkbAksbdakkbdbbbbbbddd revvevenrereeve neni Is 7 not the Fiiuiislisiisiuul ae er eee rr ‘MICHIGAN TRADESMAN i7 Commercial Travelers Michigan Knights of the Grip. President, Jas. F. HAMMELL, Lansing; Secretary, D. C, Suagut, Flint; Treasurer, Caas. McNotry, Jackson. Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Asseciation. President, S. H. Harr, Detroit; Secretary and Treasurer, D. Morris, Detroit. United Commercial Travelers of Michigan. Chancellor, H. U. Marks, Detroit; Secretary, Epwin Hupson, Flint; Treasurer, Gro. A. Rey- NOLDs, Saginaw. Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual Acci- dent Association. President, A. F. PeakE, Jackson; Secretary and Treasurer, GEo. F. OwEN, Grand Rapids. Board of Directors—F. M. Trier, H. B. Farr- CHILD,Jas. N. BRADFORD, J. HENRY DAWLEY,GEO. J. HEINZELMAN, CuHas. S. Roprnson. Lake Superior Commercial Travelers’ Club. President, W. C. Brown, Marquette; Secretary and Treasurer, A. F. Wrxson, Marquette. Gripsack Brigade. Escape a duty and you will avail no gain. Politeness costs nothing, but it will buy a good deal. Bad babits grow on traveling men by unseen degrees. A traveling salesman without ambi- tion is like an engine without steam. If you will constantly wear good humor you will be well dressed for business. Peter Steketee (P. Steketee & Sons), is spending his three weeks’ vacation at Macatawa Park. You have two eyes and only one tongue; therefore you should see twice as much as you say. Your customers will not bother about your politics or religion if your prices and goods agree with them. A traveling man should believe noth- ing ill against his competitor but on good authority. Then hesitate to repeat It. John M. Fell (Bradley & Metcalf Co. ) is making Petoskey headquarters now- adays, having located Mrs. Fell there for the season. Some traveling men are good story tellers, while others produce a widen- ing circle of weariness every time they attempt the role of raconteur. Traveling men are progressive men, but, with some, progress may not always be improvement. Some of them seem to grow in gall instead of grace. Arthur B. Clark, Michigan represent- ative for EF. H. Stark & Co., of Wor- cester, Mass., has returned from Wor- cester, where he spent a fortnight for the purpose of becoming familiar with his fall and winter line. He is well pleased with his assortment. Jas. D. Wadsworth, who will be re- membered as traveling salesman for the former firm of Arthur Meigs & Co., is a partner in the house recently organ- ized at San Francisco under the style of the Jones-Paddock Co. for the pur- pose of carrying on the tea, coffee, bak ing powder, extract and spice business. Jimmy’s many Michigan friends will be pleased to note the success he ap- pears to be achieving on the Coast. News Letter: The hotel keeper should give his patrons everything that rules, agreement or custom calls tor at a_ stip- ulated price. If he does not the patron has the privilege of going elsewhere. To obtain things by tipping the waiter, porter and bell boy may be good policy, but is nothing less than bribery, and yet it is encouraged by many hotel mana- gers. Will the American commercial traveler ever have the moral courage to refuse to be plucked? Edward Frick (Olney & Judson Gro- cer Co.) is spending a fortnight’s vaca- tion at Petoskey and with his brother- in-law at Sturgeon Bay. He is accom- panied by his wife. Kalamazoo Gazette: About one hun- dred friends of Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Rogan surprised them at their home on Academy street Monday evening and took complete possession of the prem- ises. Dancing and cards were the fea- tures of the evening, and refreshments were served by Mrs. Underwood. Be- side Crossett’s full orchestra, the Man- dolin club, composed of Messrs. Kel- ley, Flynn and Waldo, furnished de- lightful music all through the evening. The singing by T. J. McHugh and others was very much enjoyed. Mr. Rogan and family will leave for Detroit next Wednesday, where he will open a branch office in the Kanter Building for the firm of Moore, Smith & Co., the manufacturing hatters of Boston, whom he represents in the West. During the evening Dr. S. D. O'Brien, in behalf of Braneh 17, C. Ml B.A: and other friends of Mr. Rogan, presented him with a handsome gold headed cane. Mr. Rogan, in a neat speech, thanked his friends and said he hoped to see them all in Detroit. Mr. Rogan has resided in this city for about nine years and during that time has made many friends who will greatly miss him and his fam- ily. a The Tariff on Sugar Under the New Law. The new tariff protection on sugar is as follows: Granulated sugar and all refined and raw sugars above No. 16 Dutch standard, from countries not pay- ing bounties, will pay a duty of 1.95c per lb. Raw sugars of 96 deg. test, from non-bounty paying countries, will pay a duty of 1.68%c per lb., or say, 1.811c per lb. on 107.47 Ibs. raws re- quired to make too lbs. Deducting 1.811c from I.95c gives .139¢ per Ib., which is the refiners’ protection under the new bill against granulated sugar from any non-bounty paying country, such as Holland and Russia and pos- sibly the United Kingdom. Granulated sugar from bounty paying countries pays a duty of I.95c per Ib., plus the countervailing duty of .383c per Ib., making total duty of 2.333c per lb. The duty on 113% Ibs. of 88 deg. analysis beet (94 test) from which to make too lbs. refined equals 2.144c per lb. Deducting 2.144¢ from 2.333c gives .189c¢ as refiners protection against gran- ulated from Germany. The new law, therefore, reduced the American refiners’ protection on Dutch granulated and other non-bounty sugars from .281c to .139¢—say 50 per cent. reduction. On fine German granulated the reduction is from .324c per lb. to .189c¢ per Ib.—say 41 per cent. On first marks granulated the protection is re- duced from .2632c per lb. to .189c per lb. —28 per cent. reduction. This statement gives the actual status of the new law as regards the refiners’ protection from a strictly business stand- point without assumptions or theories of any kind. Actual business is being put through or can be put through on the basis of the figures given. — 0 The Northern Hotel at Greenville Is the successor to the Webster House, at corner of Grove and Lafayette streets. Mr. F. L. Kitzmiller, the new proprie- tor, brings to it twenty-six years’ ex- perience as_ host and a large acquaint- ance in Michigan. He has extensive- ly remodeled the building, newly fur- nished it throughout and now offers travelers strictly first-class accommoda- tions, Good sample rooms and livery in con- nection, The Produce Market. Apples—Duchess of Odenburg are = on the market, commanding $1 per u. Bananas—The market is steady and the movement good. There is a good supply of fruit, with good demand. Beets—4oc per bu. Blackberries—Cultivated command 5c per qt. They are large in size and fine in flavor. Butter—The recent wet weather has changed the situation somewhat, as compared with last week, and pastures in Michigan are generally in good shape again, and the milk production will in- crease rapidly during the next two or three weeks. In consequence of the im- proved condition of the pastures, re- ceipts have materially increased and the quality has also improved, as a re- sult of the cooler weather. Jobbers hold separator creamery at 14%c and choice dairy at 10@I12c. Cabbage—75c per doz., according to size. Carrots—soc per bu. Cauliflower—$1.50 per doz. Celery—rsc per bunch. Cherries—Red and Black command $1@1.25 per bu., according to size and quality. The crop turns out to be large, contrary to the predictions of the grow- ers earlier in the season. Cheese—The market is about steady. The receipts are not heavy and the de- mand is sufficient to clean up the sup- ply. Sellers are pretty firm in their ideas, and are unwilling to make con- cessions, even to clean up lots. Corn—Green has declined to per doz. Currants—Red bring Soc per crate of 16 qts. Cucumbers—3oc per doz. Eggs—Local deaiers hold candled stock at 9c, accepting consignments on the basis of the count after candling. Tke general quality of the receipts is better than during the last few weeks. The chief factor in the activity and the higher prices have been the decided fall- ing off in the receipts. At present it looks as if the top of the market had been reached, at least for some time, as at present prices a considerable quan- tity of eggs are coming out of storage, being generally better than present re- ceipts, on account of showing no heat, and keeping longer. Lemons—The market has eased off with the cool weather, and if the cool weather shall hold, the market is likely to decline. Eastern markets are easier. Lettuce—35c per bu. Melons—Watermelons are in excellent demand on the basis of 20@25c for large and 15@2oc for small. Little Gems from Illinois command $1 per doz. Osage bring $1.75 per doz. Oranges—The late Valencias are now out of the market, as are also the paper rind, St. Michaels and Navels. Other 1lo@i2c varieties are unchanged in price, and: are moving in light quantity. Peas—Advanced to $1@75c per bu. Stock is scarce. Peaches—Alexanders put in an ap- pearance Wednesday for the first time, commanding $2 per bu. Pineapples—About out of market. Potatoes—Home grown are coming in so freely that the scarcity of Southern stock is not seriously felt at this mar- ket. The price remains at 85@ogoc, on whick basis local growers are greatly elated,as it is more than they have real- ized on potatoes for some time. Radishes—Charter and China Rose command toc. Raspberries—Black command 40@5o0c per 16 qt. crate and Red are 15@2oc per crate higher. Both are fine in qual- ity and excellent in appearance. Squash—3c per lb. Tomatoes—$1 per crate of 4 baskets. Turnips—Home grown command 4oc per bu. Wax Beans—$! per bu. Whortleberries——Arrivals are more plenty and the quality has improved. The price has declined to $1.50@1.75 for all offerings. ———__ oe eo _ — ee Always treat traveling men ina gen- tlemanly manner, for they generally have something that you may profit by. Northern Hotel, J. L. Kitzmiller, Prop. Cor. Grove and Lafayette Sts., Greenville, Mich. HOTEL WHITCOMB ST. JOSEPH, MICH. A. VINCENT, Prop. Whitne House Chas. E. Whitney, Prop. V Plainwell, Mich. Best house in town and as good as any in the State for $1.00 per day. Sanitary conditions are complete. Long distance telephone. Cutler House at Grand Haven. Steam Heat. Excellent Table. Com- fortable Rooms. H. D. and P. H. IRISH, Props. 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. $2 perday. IRA A. BEAN, Prop. NEW REPUBLIC Reopened Nov. 25. FINEST HOTEL IN BAY CITY. Steam heat, Electric Bells and Lighting throughout. Rates, $1.50 to $2.00. Cor. Saginaw and Fourth Sts. GEO. H. SCHINDHETT, Prop. Rates, $1.00. TOK... Young men and women acquire the greatest inde- pendence and wealth by securing a course in either the Business, Shorthand, English or Mechanical Draw- ing departments of the Detroit Business University, 11-19 Wilcox St., Detroit. W.F. Jewell, P. R. Spencer. Hotel Normandie of Detroit Re- duces Rates. Determined to continue catering to popular de- mand for good hotel accommodations at low prices, we reduce the rates on fifty rooms from $2.50 to $2 per day, and rooms with bath from $3.50 to $3. The popular rate of 50 cents per meal, established when the Normandie was first opened, continues. Change of rates will in no way affect the quatity, and our constant aim in the future will be, as in the past, to furnish the BEST accommodations for the rates charged. Carr & Reeve. FPDISPOHSHLHGOFSH OHPSOHSCH SSE OG lf You Hire Help— You should use our Perfect Time Book ~=——and Pay Roll. Made to hold from 27 to 60 names and sell for 75 cents to $2. Send for sample leaf. BARLOW BROS., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. hbbbbhbbbhbato tata VVvVeVvVvVVVY YY bbbhbbbbbb bh bbobbbbbbbbae ee ep bp be bo bo bo be he bn bo bo be ha bo bo he hn phbibbbbbbrotn trtrtatathintniantnbota SSS eCST CCST ST VSVVCV eee Ve TTS hb bbbhbbhboab tr FVUVVVVVVVV ew 18 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Drugs-=-Chemicals MICHIGAN STATE BOARD OF PHARMACY. Term expires S. E. ParkKILL, Owosso - - Dec. 31, 1897 F. W. R. Perry, Detroit - - Dec. 31, 1898 A. C. ScHUMACHER, Ann Arbor - Dec. 31, 1899 Gro. GuNDRUM, Ionia - Dec. 31, 1900 L. E. REYNOLDs, St. Joseph Dec. 31, 1901 President, F. W. R. Perry, Detroit. Secretary, Gro. GuNDRUM, Ionia. Treasurer, A. C. ScoUMACHER, Ann Arbor. Coming Examination Sessions—Sault Ste. Marie, Aug. 24 and 25; Lansing, Nov. 2 and 3. MICHIGAN STATE PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION. President, G. C. Partires, Armada. Secretary, B. ScproupER, Grand Rapids. freasurer, Cuas. Mann, Detroit. n2>____ The Drug Market. The tariff bill has passed the Senate and is nowa law. It places a duty of $1 on opium, which has been free, and 5oc per oz. additional on morphine. Argols—The placing of a duty on this article advances the price of tartaric acid, rochelle salts and cream tartar. While it affects a large line of goods besides these staples, the other things are not so important. Advances may be expected for the next few days on the goods affected. Quinine—The New York Quinine & Chemical Co. and foreign manufactur- ers have advanced this article 2c per oz. There has been no change as yet in P. &. W. Tartaric Acid—This has been ad- vanced to meet the new duty; also cream tartar and rochelle salts. Essential Oils--Anise has been stead- ily advancing for the past week until now it amounts to 3oc per Ib. Croton is higher and will probably advance further. Saffron American—On account of competition among holders, has de- clined. Gums — Assafoetida still continues in a streng position, the price tending upwards. Although — do- mestic refiners of gum camphor will get a protection of 2c more per lb., the price has not advanced. Vanalin—Has advanced and_ very much higher prices are looked for. Seeds—Celery, cardamon and quince are in a very firm position on account of the tariff law. Linseed Oil—On account of higher prices for flax seed, this article has ad- vanced and the market is very firm. Borax—Has advanced 50 per cent. Chloral Hydrate—The new tariff ad- vances the price 35 per pound. <9 — The chemical industry in the district of Mannheim is described as having had an extremely prosperous year in 1896, in spite of the severe check in the export trade to America which it ex- perienced during a portion of the year. Sixteen new factories were established, but they are mostly ona small scale, the aggregate capital being only about 41,000, 000. PATENT MEDICINES Order your patent medicines from PECK BROS., Grand Rapids. THUM BROS. & SCHMIDT, Analytical and Consulting Ohemists, 84 CANAL ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Special attention given to Water, Bark and Urine Analysis. eee MAS” EES The best 5 cent cigars ever made. Sold by BEST & RUSSELL Co.., CHICAGO. Represented in Michigan by J. A. GONZALEZ, Grand Rapids. >~ —_ MICHIGAN TRADESMAN WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT. Advanced—Linseed Oil, N. Y. Quinine, German Quinine, Borax, Chloral Hydrate. Declined— American Saffron. Acidum Aeetieum..... 2... 8 6@8 8 Benzoicum, German 70@ 7 Boracie: 6-2: @ Carbolicum ......... 29@ 41 CHRCOM 25.5 50500... 4U@ 2 Pycrecnior ........- 3@ 5 Reece. ......... 8@ 10 Oxalicam ........-.. R@ 14 Phosphorium, dil... oe & Salicylicum. ........ 50@ 55 Sulphuricum. ...... 1%@ 5 Teanwicum _........- 1 2@ 1 40 Turterieum.::....... 36G =so38 Ammonia Aqua, 16 deg........ 4I@ 6 Aqua, 20 deg........ 6@ 8 ee... ........ 123@ 14 Chieridam .......... 12@ 14 Aniline Black.. . 2 00@ 2 Brown . SS Nea 80@ 1 00 Hee... 2. 45@ 50 Toe. ........... 2 50@ 3 00 Baccz. Cubewe..’...... po.18 13@ 15 SuDIDerUS..-........ 6@ 8 Xanthoxylum.. .... 3@ 30 Balsamum Copatpa. =. 2054... .. 50@ «5 ae @ 2 40 Terabin, Canada. . 100@ 4 Wonitem.:. 2.6. m@ 80 Cortex Abies, Canadian.... 18 COeeie 2... 2 Cinchona Flava..... 18 Euonymus atropurp 30 Myrica Cerifera, po. 20 Prunus Virgini...... 12 Quillaia, grd....... 12 Sassafras...... po. 18 12 Ulmus...po. 15, gr’d 15 Extractum Glycyrrhiza Glabra. 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Mac........ 35@ 50 Conaing....-. 5): i 10@ 1 20 Capepe........._.... 90@ 1 00 Exechthitos ........ 1 00@ 1 10 Brigerom 6... 1 00@ 1 10 Gaulgheria ..... .... 50@ 1 60 Geranium, ounce. @ v6) > Sem. gal.. 50@ 60 meacoma..... | 1 00O@ 1 10 Suskaete. etree t SO 2 OO Lavendula.......... 9@ 2 00 PAMeOMIS. 1 20@ 1 40 Mentha Piper....... 1 60@ 2 20 Mentha Verid....... 2 10@ 2 2 Morrhue, gal....... t Ou@ 1 10 MECClO ct. 4 00@ 4 50 ie T@ 3 00 Picis Liquida. 10@_ 12 Picis Liquida, gal.. @ 3 Beem . 99@ 1 04 ROsmaring....... 2. |; @ 100 Rose, ounce........ 6 50@ 8 50 SMGeIaE 40@ 45 pea 90@ 1 00 a... 2 50@ 7 00 Sassafras..... 50@ == Sinapis, ess., ounce. @ 6 ee 1 40@ 1 50 Teeme 0@ 50 (rye, Opt......... @ 1 60 Theobromas ay ose 1@ 20 18 15 51 R@® 15 Chlorate..po. 17@i9e 146@ 18 Cyanide... 2. 3@ 40 Pome 2 60@ 2 65 Potassa, Bitart, pure 26@ 28 Potassa, Bitart, com @ i Potass Nitras, opt. 8@ 10 Potass Nitras........ 1@ 9 Pressiate. 2a 2 Sulphate po . 1Ib@ 18 Radix Aconityim ........... 20@ 2 A R@ 2 AReGnMaA | 10@ 12 ATi PO-....... 05.) @ & Calamus... 8... 20@ 40 Gentiana.... .. no foe Glychrrhiza...pv.15 16@ 18 Hydrastis Canaden . @Q@ Hydrastis Can., po.. @ 4 Hellebore, Alba, po... bo Bw a 1@ 20 Ipecac, ee 2 00@ 2 10 Iris plox....p035@38 35@ 40 Jalapa, Dr........... 5@ 30 Maranta. %s........ @ & Podophyllum, po.. 2Q@ 2B Wee 75@ 1 00 Rhei, =... @ 12 Rhei, pv. tonccs a. Gog too 1 SeepOa. 3@ 38 Sanguinaria...po. 40 @ & Serpentaria ... 30@ 35 ReMCRA ol) 35@ 40 Similax, — H @ 4 era Me @ S Sera 6) a2 We eee, Foti. Pose, @ B Vi aie, Eng.po.30 eo ws Valeriana, German. 5@ 20 Zingiber a.. 2@ 16 Zingiber a ea ees 23@ 27 — Anisum....... 15 oa Ff Apium incmvchedas 3@ 16 Sire se 6 Cart po.is 10@ 12 Cardamon..-.. 5. |: 1 ~ 1% Coriandrum.....__.. 10 Cannabis Sativa.. suo 4 Cydonium..:.. 2... 75@ 1 00 Chenopodium ...... 10@ 12 Dipterix Odorate... 2 00@ 2 20 Pomictinm ......... @ 10 Foenugreek, po...... one 9 SSE EE Sa et 4 Lini, grd....bbl. 2% 340 4 Pepe 40 Pharlaris Canarian. nen 4 Hepe.. 2 5 Sipapis Albu... . | 7 8 Sinapis Nigra....... 1@ 12 Spiritus Frumenti, W. D. Co. 2 00@ 2 50 Frumenti, D. F. R.. 2 00@ 2 25 Frumenti ..... - 123@1 50 Juniperis Co. O. T 4 65@ 2 00 Juniperia Co... .... 1 75@ 3 50 Saacharum N. E.... 1 90@ 2 10 Spt. Vini Galli...... 1 75@ 6 50 Vini Operto.... 2... 1 25@ 2 00 Vin Alba 1 25@ 2 00 Sponges Florida sheeps’ wool Garmage........... 2 @ 2 %5 Nassau sheeps wool a @ 200 Velvet extra sheeps’ wool, carriage..... @12 Extra yellow s cepa wool. carriage. . @ 1 00 Grass sheeps’ wool, COIVIAge 6.8... @ 1 00 Hard, for slate use. @ = Yellow Reef, for siste US86.......... @ 1 40 — Acacia . a @ 50 Auranti Cortes. on ao ® Pimetnet.3: 2) 3}... @ 50 Ipecac. Satie G 60 Merri jog. :. @ 50 Bheil Arom.... ..... @ 50 Smilax Officinalis... 50@ 60 Remeee es. @ ww Semia.. J. u. int @ 50 Seti Co... @ 50 POUMROMIN 50. @ 50 Prunus vire......... @ Tinctures Aconitum Napellis R 60 Aconitum Napellis F 50 Bleet 60 Aloes and Myrrh.. 60 yh a a 50 Assafoetida ......... 50 Atrope Belladonna. 60 Auranti Cortex..... 50 penzein. 60 Benson Co.......... 50 ee 50 Cantharides........ 5 Capsicum =... ... ‘ 50 Cardamon......:. i % Cardamon Co....... v5) CMesOr 1 00 Cateena.... 3; 50 CMCHOME: oo. sooo. 50 Cinchona Co........ 60 Colmmbe 6... |. 50 Cubena 50 Cassia Acutifol..... 50 Cassia Acutifol Co . 50 — eee : 50 eed ee oo 50 Foe Chloridum.. 35 OCOnean 50 Gentian Co.......... 60 Guinea 5 50 Guiacaammon...... 60 Hyoscyamus........ 50 Iodine. . on 7 Iodine, coloriess._. ib Se. 50 TApera 50 yEre 50 Nox Vomiea.... |. 50 Cp % Opii, cam ra ga 50 Opii, deodorized.. 1 50 Quassia .. 50 Rhatany. 50 Feet 50 Sanguinaria . ...... 50 Serpentaria ......... 50 Stromonium ...._... 60 Wetutan fo... 60 Malerian 2. 50 Veratrum Veride.... 50 Araetber 20 Mi iscellaneous: Ether, Spts. Nit.3F 35 Aither, Spts. Nit.4F %4@ 38 Ae 24@ 3 Alumen,gro’d..po.7 3@ 4 Mnnation nn 40@ 50 Antimoni, po....... I@ 5 AntimonietPotassT 40@ 50 Antipgrin. (1. @ i 40 ABGtehtin @ i Argenti Nitras, oz. @ 50 Arsenicum. ......... 10@_ 12 Balm Gilead Bud BQ 40 Bismuth §.N. ..... 140@ 150 Calcium Chlor., 1s.. @ 8 Calcium Chlor., %s. @ 10 Calcium Chlor., 4s. @ 2 Cantharides, Rus. po @ % Capsici Fructus, af. @ Capsici Fructus, @ bb Capsici FructusB,po @ Caryophyllus. 15 10@_ 12 Carmine, No. vo @ 3 00 Cera Alba, 5. &F . 50@ 55 Cera Flava......... 4@ 42 Cocens @ 40 Cassia Fructus...... @ 33 Contraria, 0 @ 10 Cetaceum:. |. @ 4 Chioroferm. H@ 63 Chloroform, en @ 1 % Chloral Hyd Crst.... 1 50@ 1 60 Chondrus. 0... | U@ B® Cinchonidine,P.& W 20@ 25 Cinchonidine, Germ 15@ 2 Cocaine... 3 05@ 3 25 Corks, list, dis. pr.ct. 70 Creosotum @ & Crete. -bbI. 7 @ 2 Creta, prep..... ou @ 5 Creta, precip... @ Creta, Rubra........ @ 8 Grosas B@ 23 Cugbear -.... @ xz Cupri Sulph......... 5@ SCG Dexterine 10@ 12 Ether Sulph......... BQ W Emery, all sumnces @ 8 Emery, po... @ 6 Brpota 3 “po. 40 30@ «35 Flake White........ IR@ 15 Calla oe @ 2% Gambier............. 8s@ 9 Felatin, Cooper. . @ Gelatin, French... 35@ 6 Glassware, flint,box 60, 10&10 Less than box.. 60 Glue, brown........ 9@ 12 Glue, white....1 17") B@ 25 Glveerina 0... Y@ 20 Grana Paradisi .... @ bb Hamalus;. | 2@ 55 Hydraag Chlor Mite @ Hydraag Chlor Cor. @ 70 Hydraag Ox Rub’m. @ 9 Hydraag Ammoniati @ 1 00 HydraagUnguentum 45@ 55 Hydrargyrum....... @ 6 Iechthyobolla, Am.. 6@ iT IPIRO. 75@ 1 00 Sadiue, Resubi...... 2 60@ 3 70 lodoform............ @ 4 20 Lupulin. Ciaceae @ 2 2% Lycopodium ........ 4 45 Macis : 65 ® Liquor Arse-. et By- datare lod:. 2... ... eo -» LiquorPotassArsinit 10@ 12 Magnesia, Sulph.. 2@ 3 Magnesia, Sulph, bbl @ 1% Mannia, S. F........ 60 Menthoi ve bee Morphia, S.P.& W. g* een Morphia, S.N.Y.Q.& OO 1 8@ 2 10 Moschus Canton.. @ 40 eae No. 1... 6@ 80 Nux Vomica.. - po.20 @ wn Ce Semen. b@ 18 Pepsin Saac, H. & P. Oe... @ 1 00 — Liq. N.N.% gal. fe @ 2 00 Pieis Lig., quarts... @ 1 00 Picis Liq., pints. .... @ & Pil Hydrarg.. -po. 80 @ 50 Piper Nigra...po. 22 @ 8 Piper Alba....po. 35 @ 8 Piix Burgun. en @ 7 Fiumbi Acet........ a Pulvis Ipecac et Opii 1 10@ 1 20 Pyrethrum, boxes H. ‘& P. D. Co., doz.. @13 Pyrethrum, pv. — = ee 8@ 10 ete SP. de W.. 2 3l Quinia, S. German.. 20@ 29 Guinia N.Y... 26@ «331 Rubia Tinctorum.. r@ 14 SaccharumLactis PV 18@ 20 Ramen... 3... cl. 3 00@ 3 10 Sanguis Draconis. . 40@ 50 fore Wee... 12@ 14 Rape, Mo soc. 100@':«Ciéa2 haps, @ @ 15 Siedlitz Mixture.... 2 @ = I as a Sinsees, Ope. ........ Snu ee De Vo snuff, Scotch, DeVo’s Bode Horas.......... 11 ae 11 Soda Boras, Soda et Potass Tart. Soda, Carb pods, Hi-Curd....... Bods, Ase... Soda, Sulphas....... epee. Cologne........ Spts. Ether Co...... Spt. Myrcia Dom... Spts. Vini Rect. bbl. Spts. Vini Rect.%4bbl Spts. Vini Rect.10gal Spts. Vini Rect. 5gal Less 5¢ gal. cash 10 dars. - 40@ Strychnia, Saif Sulphur, Sub Sulphur, Roll. a e.......... Terebenth Venice... Theobroma... ... . Varia... Zinct Sulph......... Oils Whale, winter....... bara, Gxtra......... rer. Wot... @ @ iC 24@ 2@ 8@ —— 9 00016 Op 00 7@ @ 2 Pe neaw ki ES 2 60 2 47 2 50 2 52 1 45 wos 2% 10 2 8 - GAL. 70 45 40 Linseed, pure raw.. Linseed, boiled..... Neatsfoot, winter str Spirits Turpentine.. Paints Red Venetian... .. Ochre, yellow Mars. Ochre, yellow Ber.. Putty, commercial. . Putty, strictly pure. Vermilion, Prime ADOvICAn.......... Vermilion, English. Green, Parte ....... Green, Peninsular. Lead, Hed........... Lead, white........ Whiting, white Span Whiting, gilders’... White, Paris Amer.. Whiting, Paris Eng. elit . Universal Prepared. Varnishes No. 1 Turp Coach... Exere Tary......... Coach Body. ........ No. | Turp Furn.. Extra Turk Damar.. Jap. Dryer,No.1iTurp nt ee OS 30 33 32 35 65 70 30 35 BBL. LB 1% 2 @e 1X 2 @4 1% 2 @3 24% 2%@3 2% 2%@3 13@ W@ 7% 13%@ 19 13@ 16 54D 6 54@ 6 eo @ @ x @ 1 00 @ 1 40 1 00@ 1 15 1 10@ 1 20 1 60@ 1 7 2 73@ 3 00 00@ 1 10 55@ 1 60 0@ 7 nazeliine & Perkins We invite wssSsSsScesee sundry Department DFUC 00. examination of our remodeled and handsome sundry department now in charge of Mr. J. H. Hagy. Cases s complete lines of the following goods. Perfumes Mirrors Shaving Brushes Soaps Combs Powder Puffs Tooth, Nail, Hair, Cloth, Infant, Bath, and Fountain and Family Syringes Tweezers Razors Key Rings 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. naZeltiné & Perkins Drug 60 Grand Rapids, Mich. We display in sample show Cork Screws Razor Strops MICHIGAN TRADESMAN dealers. ROCERY PRICE CURRENT. The Bee quoted in this list are for the trade only, in such quantities as are usually purchased by retail hey are prepared just before going to press and are an accurate index of the local market. It is im- possible to give quotations suitable for all conditions of purchase, and those below are given as representing av- erage prices for average conditions of purchase. Cash buyers or those of strong credit usually buy closer than those who have poor credit. our aim to make this feature of the greatest possible use to dealers. Subscribers are earnestly requested to point out any errors or omissions, as it is a AXLE GREASE. CLOTHES LINES. doz. TOSS | Cotton, 40 ft, per doz.......1 00 Aurora. wee ce eee e ee es eeeDD 6 On Cotton, 50 ft. per dez....... 1 20 Castor Oil.............60 7 00! Cotton’ 60 ft. per dor... 1 40 Diamond..............50 4 00) Cotton’ 70 ft. per doz....... 1 60 Frazer's ...............75 9 00) Cotton’ 80 ft per doe... 1 80 IXL Golden, tinboxes% 900) jure grt per do: ee iiica, tin boxes... ..._.% 900) Juve 72 ¢1, per do-,, on Fereeon... ....... ...&5 6 00 a icory. BAKING POWDER. e Bak 5 Absolute. 6 * 44 Ib cans doz...... ae 45 IP, > Cane aoe...... .... : 85 CATSUP : tpecane@or..........°.. i Ui Cetamne. winks... | 4 2 A) Columbia, % pints.......... 2 50 i cameS Goe....-...... 45 CLOTHES PINS. oo aco. = Seromberee a i cans 1 doz..... : 1 { Le 10 | COCOA SHELLS. | | ess eEiEy.-.. .. 8... 3 ‘4 lb cans per om Seat = Pound paekages......... 4 ‘ib Cans per doe ....... 2 i iIbecans per doz..... ... 2 CREASI TARTAR. Home. Strictly Pure, wooden boxes. 35 ib a = Strictly Pure, tin boxes..... 37 lg cans OZ CARC...... % lb cans 4 doz case...... 55 COFFEE. ibeans2 dozecasc...... eae Rio. SS & ES aerated 17 RPO eee ee 18 34 1b cans. 4 doz case..... Pe 19 ice eGareane| | 6a 20 i ibCans, 2 doz case...... 1 60 Peibers 22 Jersey Cream. Santos. 2} ib. Gans, perdoz.......... Cae Soe eens, Peres. dt eee ee 6 oz. Cans, per doz.......... Site ee Our Leader. Pesmery 200 ee i¢ Ib cans.................. 45} Mexican and Guatamata. GRR ee ae [ aoe. — of Se oo ee = Peerless. ce OO Maracaibo. ee ee BATH BRICK. oe EE RE een R Ey 24 oe 70 a 80 Java. a BLUING. Private Growttis.cc 00.0200. 24 Manioane................. 38 Mocha. PIII | ea eo f Re repaid R 9 Roasted. eee Te ase Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brands 5 UIN | Fifth Avenue..... Li 1 doz. pasteboard Boxes.. 40 } 3 doz. wooden boxes....... wy s DO ee et et Zz No. 4 Carpet... 15 Parlor Gem ee oem 00 Common Whisk Mer nea Fancy Whisk. con 80 Warehouse 2 2 CANDLES. me oo Paraffine.. oe CANNED GOODS. Pianitowoc Peas. Lakeside Marrowfat....... 1 60 Loco eT... ..... 1 30 Lakeside, Cham. of Eng 1 40 Lakeside. Gem. Ex. Sifted. 1 65 Jewell’s Arabian Mocha. ...28 | ” Mocha and Java.. 4 ls’ Perfection Java. Ye Sancaibo | Valley City Maracaibo. : | ical Bice. ieee: ieee... 8. | Worden Grocer Co.’s Brands : Quaker Arabian Mocha..... 31 Quaker Mandehling Java. .30 | Quaker Mocha and Java. ...28 Toko Mocha and Java......25 Quaker Golden Santos.... .21 State House Blend..........19 Quaker Golden Rio...... Package. Below are given New York prices on package coffees, to |; which the wholesale dealer |adds the local freight from New York to your shipping point, giving you credit on the invoice for the amount of freight buyer pays from the market in which he purchases to his shipping point, including | weight of package. In 60 Ib. cases the list is 10¢c per 100 lbs. above the price in full cases. ..17% ot 11 50 COreey. 5... ones a oe McLaughlin’s XXXX......11 50 Extract. Valley City % gross ..... ¥ 15) Peux % groes........... 1 if Hummel’s foil % gross... 8 Hummel’s tin % gross .. 1@ Kneipp Malt Coffee. 1lb. packages, 50 lb. cases 9 i lb. packages, 100 1b. cases 9 CONDENSED MILK. 4 doz in case. CHEESE. poe @ 7% Amey... oS 8 oe, ao % ae @ 8 en @ 8% Gold Medal.... | @ 8% Jersey... @ 8 Lenawee.. ee. oa 7 Riverside. oe @ 8 om oOo %% cui @ 9 ee S@ a @ is Limburger. Holes @ 15 Pineappie............48 @ % See eee @ i8 CHOCOLATE. Walter Baker & Co.’s. German Sweet ................22 POON, ice bcos 31 Greakfast Cocos.............. 2 Gail Borden Eagle......... 6% UM oe te ew 6 25 ee ee 5 7% Cree. oo. 4 50 ON 253 CMOS os ceo decyccs a. 3 50 ee, 3 35 COUPON BOOKS. 50 books, any denom.... 1 50 100 books, any denom.... 2 5 500 books, any denom....11 50 1,000 books, any Genom....20 00 Economic Grade. 50 books, any denom.... 1 50 100 books, any denom.... 2 50 500 books, any denom....11 50 1,000 books, any denom....% ess TE 50 books, any denom.... 1 50 100 books, any denom.... 2 50 500 books, any denom....11 50 1,000 books, any denom....20 00 Superior Grade. 50 books, any denom.... 1 100 books, any denom.... 2 50 500 books, any denom....11 1,000 books, any denom....20 00 Coupon Pass Books, Can be made to represent any denomination from $10 down. PO DOBES. 2... 1 00 We OOORS..-. ..... Se Pe eONA 8... a 3 00 Per mOees. Cs Sopmoens. 8... 10 00 Heer OOkS, .- 55. a 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 Seocl punch. .... = 3 DRIED FRUITS—DONMESTIC Apples. Bangried ce @ 2% Evaporated 50 lb boxes. @ 4 California Fruits. Aereee 9 @10 BiSCEDGrricn.,......-.. Nectarines............ 6.@ Pesencr..........,._.. | oan @ Peers a 8 68 Pitted Cherries... Prunnelles...... 12 Reaspperres............. California Prunes. 100-120 25 lb boxes....... @ 3% 90-100 25 Ib boxes....... @ 3% 80 - 90 25 Ib boxes....... @4 70 - 80 25 lb boxes....... @ 4% 60 - 70 25 lb boxes.. .... @ 4% 50 - 60 25 Ib boxes....... @ 5% 40 - 50 25 Ib boxes....... @ 74 30 - 40 25 ib boxes....... 4¢ cent less in 50 1b cases Raisins. Lendon Layers 3 Crown. 1 55 London Layers 5 Crown. 2 50 Denes 3 25 Loose Muscatels2 Crown 4% Loose Muscatels3Crown 5% Loose Musecatels4Crown 6% FOREIGN. Currants. Patras Sbis...... 2... ae bag Vostizzas 50 lb cases......@ 53% Cleaned bulk ......-..2::; @ 6% Cleaned, packages........ @i Peel. Citron American 10lb bx @14 Lemon American 101b bx @12 Orange American 10]b bx @12 Raisins. Ondura 28 {b boxes...... @ Sultana 1 Crown........ Sm Sultana 2Crown........ @8 Sultana 3Crown........ @ Sultana 4 Crown........ @ Sultana 5 Crown...... @ FLY PAPER. Tanglefoot. ReGalar, per DAK... ... 2... Regular. case of 10 boxes.. 2 55 Regular, 5 case lots........ 2 50 Regular, 10 case lots....... 2 40 Little, per bex. .......'..,.... 13 Little, case of 15 boxes..... 16 Little, 10 case lots.......... 1 40 Holders, per,box of 50...... 75 FARINACEOUS GOODS. Farina. we: ee SS Grits. Walsh-BeRoo Co.’s....... 2 00 Hominy. RRP ORG as 2% Flake, 50 lb. drums.......1 00 Lima Beans. Detect oe i 3% Maccaroni and Vermicelli. Domestic, Ib. box...... @ Imported, 25 Ib. box.. ... 2 50 Pearl Barley. ROtHOAOH coc. cl. Ls. 1% ese Se. 2 PABpGe oo 2% Peas. eee, BM. 80 Sei, perth... 2% Rolled Oats. Rolled Avena, bbl.......3 50 Monarch, bol........-.. 8 SS ocean. % Obl.......... 1% Private brands, bbl..... 3 00 Private brands, %4bbl..... 1 62 Quaker, Cases. ... 3 20 Sago. enna 4 pee indk. oo Wheat. ecko wee. 3 742 1b packages........... 2 40 * Fish. Cod. Georges cured......... @ 3% Georges genuine...... @ 4 Georges selected...... @5 Stripe or bricks. ...... 5 @8 Halibut. ee 10 RR : 9 Herring. Holland white hoops keg. 60 Holland white hoops bbl. 7 50 Norwegian... ne Round 100 lbs 2 50 Bound 3) ibs... 1 30 Beane. 2, 13 Mackerel. mess 100 lug). 6c... . 10 59 Mess 3) ibs. co a Mees 40 iba. 1 20 aoe 6G. 1 00 mo. tee ibe 9 50 mot Sipe eo . 4 10 Bot ee: 110 hot Sie... 91 Racers... ..... 7 00 Moe Bite 3 10 Not Wie... 85 Sardines. Rossion Kere.............. 55 Stocktfish. No. 1, 10016. bales: ....... . No. 2, 100 1b. bales......... Trout. eo. 1 ee teas, 20 Met oe... 1 9) mo. 1 Oe... Hers 55 No.1 Give... -. g 47 Whitefish. No.1 No.2 Fam 660 Ie... c:. 640 500 1% ( ce 2oe 1 Jennings’. D.C. Vanilla D. C. Lemon 2 On......1 20 Eon... .:; -1 50 S08. ..:.1-00 2 00 O08.. o.c4 1 40 00 6-07...... 2 00 00 No. 8...2 40 00 No. 10...4 00 25 No. 27. 80 00 No. 37.1 35 40 No. 47.159 HERBS. en 15 es... 15 INDIGO. Madras, 5 lb boxes......... S. F., 2,3 and 5 1b boxes.... 50 JELLY. oe eee RIO POG oo clea y i Pee a 55 LYE. Condensed, 2 doz .......... 1 20 Condensed, 4 doz........... 22 Souders’. Oval bottle, with corkscrew. Best in the world for e money. fr Regular Grade Lemon. doz S08. US. v on. ..... 1 50 Regular Vanilla. | doz = 20£......1 i) 40Z...... 24 XX Grade Lemon. 2Oe....... 150 40s. ....3 00 XX Grade Vanilla. On... 1% Son... 3 50 GLUE. per doz. Jackson Liquid, 1 oz....... 65 Jackson Liquid, 20z....... 98 Jackson Liquid, 3 0z....... 1 30 GUNPOWDER. Rifle—Dupont’s. BESS i oe alt Mees 2% (Quareer Keen 8: 1 3 Pro cans. ee 30 os 1D) Canes. ol: Coase 18 Choke Bore—Dupont’s. ere 42 Half Kegs.... -.2 4 Qasrier Megs... s, 1 35 iD COO8 34 __ Eagle Duck—Dupont’s. oe CIR En 8 00 eet eR 425 Quarter Kegs... ...... .. 295 Pi cans. eo 45 LICORICE. Pee 30 ears 25 GE 14 OGG ee a MASON FRUIT JARS. Pints, 1 doz. box, per gross 4 25 Quarts, 1 d’z. box, per gr’ss 4 50 Half gal. 1 d’z. b’x, p’r gr’ss 6 00 Fruit Jar Rubbers, p’rgr’ss 25 Mason Caps only. per gross 2 25 Glass Cover Fruit Jars. “The Best” Fruit Keeper. Pints, 1 doz. box, per gross 5 50 re 1 d’z. box, per gr’ss 5 75 alf gal. 1 d’z b’x, p’rgr’ss 7 75 MINCE MBAT. Ideal, 3 doz. in case......... 223 MATCHES. Diamond Match Co.’s brands. Wo. S sumer 1 65 Anener PArOr.. 6.6.7. 1 70 Me. 2 Wome. 110 Bxpom Paror,... 4 00 MOLASSES. New Orleans. ee ee. iW Ae eS 14 Good 20 Fancy ........ 24 Open Kettle............ 5 Half-barrels 2c extra. PIPES. Clas MO. 26 1 70 Clay, T. D. fullcount...... 65 Coe, ee ee: 1 POTASH. 48 cans in Case. Sevens... el 4 00 Penna Salt Co.’s........... 3 00 PICKLES. Medium. Barrels,.1,200 count........ 3 75 Half bbls, 600 count........ 2 40 Small. Barrels, 2,400 count........ 5 00 Half bbls, 1,200 count...... 3 00 RICE. Domestic. Carolina head... .......... 634 Caroume NO. 1.......:...2. 5 Carotme No. €.. 00... cl: 4% Men 3 imported. separ, HO. 1... ecesi0s ee Jana. 6.2... .5..;..... 8 SONA, MO. Bo, io bose son de 4% Tadic. ..,;.+ jo teuned osuwecas 5% SALERATUS. Packed 60 lbs. in box. br 3 3C DAR .3 15 Dwight’s... oi -3 30 Meyior so 3 00 SAL SODA. Granulated, bbis........ .1 10 Granulated, 100 lb cases..1 50 Immp, bbls...... Lump, 145]b kegs.....:....1 10 SALT. Diamond Crystal. Cases, 24 3-lb boxes.........1 50 Barrels, 100 31bbags......2 %5 Barrels, 40 7 lbbags...... 2 40 Butter, 28 ib. haga... ...... .- 30 Butter, 56 1D bags...... 2... . 60 Butter, 20 14 1b bags........ 3 00 Butter, 280 Ib bbis.......... 2 50 Common Grades. MOS peeks... 2 60 mo otk SACks 1 85 28 1)-1b saeks.. <....: 1 70 Worcester. oO 4 Jb. Gartens: 00... 3 25 1S Ste sacks... 4 00 OO 5 ib. seeks. |... . 2 2 oe 4 Th. See... 3 50 mi 30, RACES oe 3 50 25 1p. Hen seeks... 2 56 Tb. nen sacks... 2.2.1... 60 Bulk dn parreis. 2 2 50 Warsaw. 56-lb dairy in drill bags..... 30 28-lb dairy in drill bags..... 15 Ashton. 56-lb dairy iniinen sacks... 60 Higgins. 56-lb dairy in linen sacks... 60 Solar Rock. BGT SaCKR (oo... 21 Common Fine. ee 70 POMOR oo Le, 7 SEEDS. ene oes: 13 Canary, Smymna........... 4 COTAWay 2.220 10 Cardamon, Malabar ..... 80 Hemp, Russian.......... 4 Miten Hird...) AM Mustard, white....... ... 8% — .... 8 Me el 5 utee BONG. es 20 SNUFP, Scotch, in bladders......... 37 Maccaboy, injars........... 35 French Rappee, in jars..... 43 SPICES. Whole Sifted. UES ee 9 Cassia, China in mats....... 10 Cassia, Batavia in bund... 20 Cassia, Saigon in rolls...... 32 Cloves, Amboyna,..........15 Cloves, Zanzibar............ 9 mace, Batavia... 1.05... 60 Nutmegs, fancy........... -60 Mucmegs, No. 1. :.. ne Nutmegs, No. 2... 45 Pepper, Singapore, black... 9 Pepper, Singapore, white... .i2 Pepper, Bhot. cl 10 Pure Ground in Bulk. MO ICS oes. sie Cassia, Batavia... «22 Cassia, Saigon... 0: 35 Cloves, Amboynia....... ...20 Cloves, Zanzibar............15 Ginger, African. |... Ginger, Coetin. 2 20 Ginger, Jamaica............ 22 Mace, Batavia... ... 70 Mustard, Eng. and Trieste. .20 Mustard, Trieste. ........ | -. 25 INDEMOSE. ck ac 40@50 Pepper, Sing., biack ....10@14 Pepper, Sing., white....15@18 Pepper, Cayenne........ 17@20 Rage SYRUPS. Corn. WOATTORD eo bakes i7 Matt Bele. 19 Pure Cane. a 16 NOR ee 20 nailed... ....... .. Sel seeae 25 SODA. OROS occ. es a 5% Kegs, English... .... 2.20... 4% MICHIGAN TRADESMAN a SOAP. SUGAR. : | l a Candies. Grains and Feedstuffs |__Provisions. | Crockery and Laundry. Below are given New York | . ee — | Gi Armour’s Brands. prices on sugars, to which the nae ‘é ‘s Famil 2 70 | Wholesale dealer adds the local a ere: Wheat. |, Swift & Company quote as| _ —— ppmeomd os 2 ot ee cceeee : = freight from New York to your bbls. pails | O14 Wheat ~, | follows: ‘Armour’s White, 1003...) 6 a5 | Shipping point, giving “you | Standard............ 54@7 | New Wheat... oo auiemeueeaons "AKRON STONEWARE. Armour’s White, 100s...... 6 25 a Ste si3— 7 |New Wheat............ ee ee | 8001 A r’s White. 50 3 9 | Cre it on the invoice for the} Standard H.H...... 5%@7 | Butters, ca wean 5 z= | amount of freight buyer pays | Standard Twist..... 6 @7 Winter Wheat Flour PRO cescreressevecsess BOOTS uy 5 Armour’s Woodchuck..... 255 | from the market in which he | Cut Loaf..... @8 , i cen Oe ee Oe OR resets Armour’s Kitchen Brown. 2 [asain lO Sete Locai Brands, POMOICGME oc. oso... 8 75 | 1 to 6 gal., pergal........ 5% Armour’s Mottled German 2 40/ including 20 pounds for the | ExtraH.H.......... @ 8% | Patents .... -...... ee. PIG. ee eee eee ee ee ee eee 12 00 | 19 on a ea weight of the barrel. Boston Cream...... @ Second Patent. a Soll Ra a haa ol ieeal. pereal. Bis at Beat ek: 5 63 Straight.. _* esate mane 8 50] 15 > } ney oral. ic Deming oo 5 50 Mixed Candv. ps = wetter e eee eee es Dry Sait Meats. | 20 Sa me ae : 1. 8 Simple pos. 00.00 2 75 | Cubes .....................2. 5 25) Competition..... ; Reece unt ce aeceie | ees -- 5% | 25 gal. bs, per gal.. 1 5 box lots, delivered........2 70| Powdered ..... ye alee g 6x Buckwheat .......... 3 40 | Briskets a S | died tasatinke’ ted BE a ; 10 box lots, delivered....... 2 65 | XXXX Powdered.. 1.11.7) > 38 | Leader @7 © weet nero eee -- »+----. 4% 65| Extra shorte....... “ 134 | ‘a " Mould ee 5 29|Conserve...... ..... . Subject to usual cash dis- Smoked [1 on | Churns. JAS § KIRK h C0 § BRNDS Granulated in bbls... ...... ee AE g ee ! ek Gees le 280s. per eel... 5M 0. J . | Granulated in bags.. SOOT meng ct 2h Flour in bbls.,25¢ per bbl. ad- Hams 141 an gz, | Churn Dashers, per doz... 85 American Family, wrp’d....3 33 | Fine Granulated. . SOG Feaenc rT) @ ditional, Has. 16 1b ave 914 | Milkps American Family, unwrp’d.3 27 | Extra Fine Granulated.....5 13| Cut Loaf $ 8 Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand. Hams, : ~ Ib as I gx | re ; Dome geo, 8 33| Extra Coarse Granulated...5 13 English Baek @ Quaker, %s. 4 2 | Ham dried } ae aa | 4 gal. flat or rd. bot., doz. 60 | Cabinet. .......++...... ---2 20/ Diamond Confec. A........ 5 00) Kindergarten....... @ 8% | Quaker, % tetosenocs. 420 | Seoul jers (N. Y. cut). giz | 1 Sal. fatorrd. bot.,each 5% DOVGH ogee. ae ede 2 50| Confec. Standard A......... 4 88! French Cream... gig | Quaker, a eae ii ag | i acon, clea aris | Fine Glazed Milkpans. Dusky Diamond, 50 6 0z....2 10} No. 1........ Li Oo hands pan | @ 8% rene wets i ca Califor - eo ror "4 | i gal. flat or rd. bot.,doz. 65 Dusky Diamond, 50 8 0z....800|No 2.............. rat 4% Valles higt ee @i0 pati ‘Wheat i alifornia hams.... ‘ (| 7 gal. flat or rd. bot., doz. 65 ay . ee cees fo ey Cream... .... @13 Boneless hams.......... 84% | 1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each 44 Blue India, 100 5( Ib... .....- seine Sf... 4 7% Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brand. | Cooked ha 1: | 5 RivbOuUne cou ules ae SNe ee 4 69 Fancy—In Bulk ; ete oe Stewpans. Eos. SNe Soy 409 . i Pillsbury’s Best 2gs........ 4 85 Lards. In Tierces. | % gal. fireproof, bail, doz. 85 One box American Family | No. 6......../.1./'.11.7'1'14 58 | Lozenges, plain..... @ 8% ny: S Best 4s........ 24) | Compound... .. 2... el 3% | ‘1 gal. fireproof, bail, doz.1 10 free with five. Ns 4 50 | Lozenges, printed.. @ 84 |pan ne ae. 4 65 | Kettle............... 5h | Se a tg 4a | Choe! Drops.) ll @14 Pillsbury’s Best 14s paper.. 4 65 | 55 1b Tubs... ady | vugs. NO. ee 4 38 | Choc. Monumentals @i2 Pillsbury’s Best 44s paper.. 4 65 | 80 1b Tubs.......advance a Nel 100000 a) Ge rope)! @d Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand. | 50 1b Tins .......advance 14 | ve gal. petdas . ..... 50 Ne as jen kes agen @ 7% | Grand Republic, ee ca ae beet advance a | 1 tod gal., Pereal......... Gi Nee nae oe STOPS. .-...-... @ 8% | Grand Republic, 4s.. /.... 4 6 : ib ails. ......advance “| rome Jugs. a ERO nivan snd Pe Sonar oat @ 8% | Grand Republic, i4s........ ae a k 70 Lo = Pett ee ee eer etter eee ees : = Fancy—In 5 Ib. Boxes. Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s Brand. i "Sausages. re < ee < : I 20 Noe 3 63 | Lemon Drops....... @50 | Parisian, %s................ 4 35 | Bologna ........ ao ie 30 LSP Aer. wie.) an he G50 | Parisian, igs. ... 4% | Liver. kee cares || MM i 100 cakes, 75 lbs. TABLE SAUCES. Peppermint Drops.. @6o | Parisian. %8................ 4 65|Frankfort....00000022//1) 6% ego lathpeaieaagy ategtags Scie box a 2 85| Lea & Perrin’s, large..... 4.75 | Chocolate Drops.... @bv Olney & Judson’s Brand. Pork ee 6% SE Peg atex los 2 80] Lea & Perrin’s, small.....275 | H. M. Choc. Drops.. Me | Corexota ta 4 85 Blood eee es md cover, dos...1 00 We box tots ois taieord lara 37% | Gum Drops......... @30 | Ceresota, i4s.-. 475 | OMBUE «----- eee eee. 9 | aling Wax de bon 16te 8. 26) | Halfordamall 2 25 Sete k teeee pon Ceresota, 4s. a es Head cheese............. 6% | 5 lbs. in package. perlb... 2 veri 1p Co.’s ; | Salad Dressing, large..... 455 |2 onan ai @at i | Beef. | : Wolverine Soap Co.’s Brands. Salad Decocine’ eon re 3 @5 | Lozenges, plain.. @50 Worden Grocer Co.’ s Brand. Vieetea Mose og LAMP BURNERS. Lozenges, printed... @ioe | Paurel Mel. 4.86 | Boneless 0.0... 950 | No.0 Sun.... = TOBACCOS. ee See Gee promoting MS iereeeeeeeeeseeee 475 | Cy 10 00 _ 1 Sun.. 50 Mottoés : 5... 55 pees Oe... ... 4 6S ee NO. 2 Sun.. pe) ' Cigars. ‘rea, c i _ .. Pigs’ Peet. Tu 5, | eee Meal. | Kits, 15 Ibs. --....-----.-. | 80 | security, No 65 ‘lark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s brand. | Hana Made Creams. 80 @90 | Bolted ..................... 150 | 4 DbIs, 40 Ibs....... 150 | Security, N i ol nas oe Bee ae 25 00 Plain Creams..... @ @s0 | Grannlated 000) 7] 1 75| # bbls, 80 i ae ee a : " ecorated Creams.. 90 — | Climax... 1 50 Single DOK 20. veneene eo eeee 2 65 | Morrison, Plummer & Co.’s b’d. | String Rock...... bo Feed and Millstuffs. | Kits, 15 Ibs... . es 5 box lots, delivered........ 2 60 at a a i We 2 op | % bbls, 40 Ibs... 149 | LAMP CHIMNEYS—Common. 10 box lots, Geéelivered........ 2 50 | Governor Yates, 4% mss: 58 00 Wintergreen Bea, er Nave sn iy mina oS 13 OO bbls, 80 lbs. am | Per box of 6 doz. a. y Governor Yates, 4% (in. "65 00 erries @55 No. 1 Corn and Oats.......12 00} *% one BR te 8 Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands. Gavedinn Vatos Unbolted Corn Meal.. 11 50 | Casings. bara 3 oo oo I % Old Country, 801-Ib. bars ..275| Monitor. cenemcte. Winter Wheat Bran... . . 9 00 | Pork . Kos =e To 2 70 : Good Cheer, 60 1-lb. bars....3 75 No. 1 wrapped, 2 2 Ib. Winter Wheat Middlings.. ‘10 00} Beef rounds... oleae, Me First 'Q lit id ; Uno, 100 %-Ib. bars.......... 2 50 H. & P. Drug Co.’s brand. bores @30 Screenings.. / . oa Beef MGGiee. ......... Ss | N - y. Doll, 100 10-0z. bars......... 2 05 Quintette 35, 09 | No- weed 3 lb. The O. E. eae “Mill Se ee dy OO ee ara , ee i y Cie Oe Pere ee a ee. @45 quotes as follows: Butterine. No rapI oo a 210 : a id ‘i 8 _ | Ne wrap d, 2 ib. | Rolls, de a Di ae oa Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz ..... 2S oe Cen | bane Ppe Ta New Corn. | Sol Ha. pore la Le Eg ‘9% ee ™ Sapolio, hand, 3 doz........ 2 40 a Car low (10 30 Reins Greameny 000000 ae Ee “o ae top, 95 Washing Powder. - 7 | OSS Cham ear lots... 34 | SOlid, Creamery ......... 12% | hachtinattih a raga d.... 3% e . | X Flin Oats. Can I . | i Fruits. Gaeitots | 93 | Corned a's mets. 215 |No. 0 Sun, crimp top, _ Carlots, clipped........_... 244 | Corned beef, 14 Ib....... 1400 | yn ™PPse “gage a Oranges. Less than car lois......... 27 | aa! beef, abet 215 |* wiieed an. hall mp top. > 96 oo (rome Hum, ‘t46....... 8) 1." * _ ns 6 me Med’t Sweets. Hay. | Potted ham? Ses... 100 | No. 2 Sun, crimp top, 150-176-2002... 00... @3 75 | No. 1 Timothycariots..... 9 50|Deviledham, ¥s........ 60 | Wrappedand labeled.... 3 75 . .35 00 Magura No. 1 Timothy, ton lots....10 50 | — ham, %s.......100 | CHIMNEYS—Pearl Top. H. Van Tongeren’s Brand. coor OR... @3 7% ——————— Potted Serna res i 1 00 | ee oe 370 3 Cc. 10ice 200s Cover vece @ 3 50 | : . : ; i | No ro Sun. : wra eid a a Gi | No. 2 Sun, apped and T wort Pleasant, but Mout ERectie St. Michaels, A ne - i TT | PONCE se el a. 70 . : ieee @4 50 | No. 2 Hinge, w — 1 ‘and coe LL M | mcm... _« 8&8 oa> wo Lemons. The N. Y. Biscuit Co. quotes _Fresh | eats. a “ 2 Sun, ‘Small ‘Bulb,’ yes Some ry ae Strictly choice 360s... @4 50 re te pred [a oe ine ae] € E as rhe | i | Strictly choice 300s.. nd 5¢ Beef. u | La Bastie. HG 12 Oz PERE... 8... soe 3 50 faey Se a e Po Butter. fond aes ee Xd | No.1 Sun. plain bulb, per j Ex.Fancy 300s...... BS SO poCvIudUr RAM. a foe 25 STARCH. es a @ Seymour XXX, 3 Sib. carton 414 | Hind quarter | No. 2 Sun, plain bulb, per J Star Green. 20) ss 3 as. amily XXX iio. sa ees - doz : : 150 Miscellaneous Brands. Medium bunches... a @1 50 | Family XXX, 3 Ib earton 414 oe ao No. 1 Crimp, per et 35 American Queen........... 35 09 | Large bunches...... 1% @2 00 —_— XXX. t 7 pease ae e(” | NO. 2 Crimin, perdas.. .... 1 BC ae haere Tints = 0 Foreign Dried scene Oban ee = agate | Plates... Re Rochester. Michigan. .....-......+++++ 30 : a. j No. 1, Lime (65¢ doz Qn Royal eyieet. (2.2... -35 00 oo scinalsis @ (oes SN 414 | Dressed .. @ 43 Ni 2 Ene (0c dos) Hy : 00 4 Sub Rosaa. 35 00 Gn: Now Senuie @ Pd R&X.31b carton.... 5 | | Lov ) @ a" | Nev 2, Flint @0e dea)... 1) 4 20 VINEGAR. 14 lb boxes......... ee fe 5% | Shoulders. ........... @ 9% Electric : acta ephyrette....... -.. 16 Leaf Lard... 54@ : | Leroux Cider... 62000). 10 ey — mg @6 | bons Island Wafe oo. oe a tton. “-+-- 9@ © | No. 2, Lime (70e doz) ..... 4 00 | ; Robinson’s Cider, 40 grain....10} nates, Fards in 101b L. I. Wafers, 1 lbcarton .. 10 ee ee eae No. 2, Flint (80¢ doz)...... 4 40 | Kingsford’s Corn. Robinson’s Cider, 50 grain. ..12| poxes..... ....... @s8 Oyster. Spring nee @10 OIL CANS. Doz. , = = eeraeee: as a WICKING. — Fards in 60 1b a Square Oyster, XXX....... 4% | Veal. | ; ge al ~ cans wit th spout.. 1 25 i oct e eee Oe : eee ee 6 Sq. Oys. XXX. 1 1b eartor 5% | Careass . . ne 7 @7% gal galy iron w ith spout. 1 65 j Kingsford’s Silver Gioss. No. 0, per TOSS........+++... 25 ee Pan Oyster, XXX... a Be 2 gal galv iron with soout. 2 87 49 1-1b packages............. 64 | No 1, ess 30) Bz) Ibeases. new @5%| SWEET GOODS—Boxes. | 5 os ear jan with apoat Gon Pe DOXES 6000) ol. 4. | oes eee : ne é i 1 wit ve No: 3, pererogs....... 5... wo} Gases 2 4 EEE eee ae 9 : ly iron with faucet 6 00 Diamond. pre @ Bent’s Cold Water. io Sl Hides and Pelts. Tilting Cane. . 4. 9 00 64 10c packages ...........5 00 ; =| Belle Rose . ee et ie. cn, 5 gal galv iron Nacefas ... 9 00 128 5e¢ packages. . 5 00 Fish and Ovsters Cocoanut Taffy............ 9 | Perkins & Hess pay as fol-| _ Disses Casas 32 10¢ and 64 5¢ packages...5 00 a Nuts. ee sete t eters ees 2 lows: bent teed on os a ae ‘f roste CN ( ; 9 Sal hapic udy stres 9 UU ¥ Common Corn. Graham Crackers ......... 6% | Green — 6 @t l|? gal Eureka non-overflow 10 50 20-Ib boxes... ..... a ee Fresh Fish. Almonds, Tarragona.. @12%| Ginger Snaps,XXXround. 5 | part cured...) 11), ) @ 7% | 38a Home Rule.... ..... 10 50 ‘= 10-1h hox- 4% Per lb. | Almonds, Ivaca....... @it | Gitiger Snaps, MX X city.) O° | wll Gued 74@ 84 | 2 Sal Home Rr + +++e.-12 00 ae Gloss. Whites: ........ @ 8 Almonds, California, ia Gin. eee homemade 5 | Dry ee *@ 9 215 gal Pirate King... .. os 2 a ont @ 8 @0fG shelled. .-... |. Gin. Snps Scalloped. 5 | hins cropn |. | & Gg " ql 1-lb packages............... © lye aka le @ 10 | Brazilsnew........... @ 7% | Ginger Vanilla............ 7 | - PS. green........ 46 ay LANTERNS. nt 4 ai packages |. a ib Filberts @10 I ra | es COMGG ls ci Neo. OVOpmiar. .... 61... 4 25 Nuts, CY.... C etzels, hand made ..... 6 | te ' : Waddock oo @ 8 Table Nuts, choice.. @10 Pretzelettes, LittleGerman 6 | ‘ | LANTERN GLOBES. i 5 SSO No. 1 Pickerel.._._. @ Pecans, Med....... ... @ Sugar Cake.... 6% | | No. 0 Tubular, casesidoz, y amelin n Pikes @ 7 Pecans, Ex. Large.... @10 SEMA ce each, box 10 cents.. ... 45 ; : a C= Guoked White... @ 7 | Pecans, Jumbos....... @12 | Sears’ Lunch. Le eae | No. 0 Tubular, eases 2 doz. "| PR ae Red Snapper........ @ 10 | Hickory Nuts per bu., | Sears’ Zephyrette.. ..... . 10 | — Pg rset lige Sl " f SQ rg Gol River Salmon.. @ _Onlo, new........... @___| Vanilla Square........... 7 Barreis. | No. 0 veer ar, bbls 5 doz. i Mackersk 00) @ 12%| Cocoanuts, full sacks @3 50/ Vanilla Wafers........... 12 | Eocene . @i1% ec bb ae ee ieee 40 : Pp Pecan Wafers............. 12 | XXX W.W.Michiiiali @ sig | No. 0 Tubular, bull's es . Oysters in Cans. eanuts. Bruit Come... 8 WW Miiehigan @8 cases 1 doz. each... 12 pan @ 8 4 F. H. Counts @ 4 Fancy, H. P., Suns. @i Mixed Prenic:. 2.02... 5. 10 | High Test Headlight.. @7 LAMP WICKS. ee ee a ee Fancy, H. P., Flags Cream Jumbies ............ e128 Gas... @8 | No.0 pergross............. 20 , Shell Goods. MOnRted tc. @7 | Boston Ginger Nuts........ G | Deo, Naptha .......... @ 7% | No. 1 per gross............. 2 a = L Choice, H. P., Extras. @4 | Chimmie Fadden ca oe co 2 @36 | No.2 per gross ............ 38 No. 4, 3 doz in case......... 4 50 sci ce -_ ipa 1 25@1 50 | Choice, H. P., Extras, Pineapple Glace...... ..... 12 A 11 @21 | No.3 Per gross............ 58 No. 6, 3 doz in case...... .. 7 20} Clams, per 100....... 90@1 001 Roasted ............ @¢ ! Ponny Cakos......:........ 6 Black, -winien. @8 a 70 5 - 22 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN How an Early Closing Movement Can Be Inaugurated. Fulton, July 21—In a recent issue of the Tradesman you stated that any sug- gestion from your patrons would be wel- come. I would like to suggest that, if there could be a merchants’ association formed in this State, with branch lodges established in all the several towns, it would be a blessing to al! concerned. For instance, in regard to closing at night: As it is at present, even if we all agree to clcse at a certain time in one town, it will drive a certain amount of trade away, for some people will go to other towns evenings, whereas if we were members of the same _ association, we could arrange it to close in all towns at a certain time, thereby running no risk of losing our customers. This, alone, is worth a good deal to me, for what merchant can enjoy life and be tied down to his business from early morning until the late hours of night? Another suggestion I have to offer is that, if a law could be passed in favor of the merchants, how much it would be appreciated, because, as it is now, if we even try to collect an honest debt, we are baftled. H. Woop. There is only one reason why a mer- cantile association built on State lines cannot be successfully maintained—and that is the apathy of the merchants themselves. From 1883 to 1888 the edi- tor of the Tradesman personally assisted in the organization of over one hundred local associations of retail merchants, which did excellent work in dealing with the dead-beat, the peddler, the itinerant merchant, matters of early closing, the observance of holidays and questions of public improvement. In 1886 representatives of the local asso- ciations then in existence met at Grand Rapids on the invitation of the Trades- man ard created a State organization, to take up the work where the local as- sociations left off and carry it forward to a successful termination. Annual conventions were held at Flint, Cheboy- gan and Muskegon and genuine progress was made along several lines. Through the influence of the organization, the peddling law was amended, the Insur- ance Policy Commission was created and the uniform insurance policy was adopted, the formation of local building and loan associations was encouraged, and the agitation of a mutual fire insur- ance company induced the companies then in the field to make marked con- cessions in rates. The relations be- tween the State and local organizations were so intimate that thousands of dol- lar of poor accounts were collected and many more thousands were saved by merchants being informed beforehand as to the true character of itinerant cus- tomers. It would naturally be supposed that such a powerful influence for the wel- fare and prosperity of the retail mer- chant would never be allowed to wane; but, strange to say, the men who were most benefited by the movement ap- peared to be least concerned in its sup- port. After the novelty had worn off, the attendance at the meetings of the local organizations began to decrease and after a while regular meetings were too often abandoned. This indifference naturally contributed to the disgust of those who were disposed to give the movement their constant support and ultimately many local organizations were allowed to lapse. Depending en- tirely upon the local associations for en- couragement and support, the State or- ganization sank into a dormant condi- tion, from which it has never roused. Thus the retail merchants of Michigan voluntarily abandoned a movement which elevated the standard of mer- chandising in every locality in the State |who was out a pump. and made it easier and safer for every man in trade todo business. Until there is a change of sentiment relative to the maintenance ot local organizations, the suggestion of Mr. Wood in regard to a general organization and the work it could accomplish along the line of early closing is devoid of pertinence. In the meantime the desired result can be accomplished by energetic effort of a local or neighborhood character, secur- ing the signatures of all interested to an agreement to close at a certain specified time. - -+37oo - Foolishness of Continually Harboring Pessimistic Views. Ante Lucem in American Artisan. I sometimes think we are all born pessimists. A week ago my trip was through a section of the country where crop prospects were in the aggregate good. We were then having rains and hot winds bordering on the cyclone edge. Each particular feature of the weather brought out its pessimistic censors. For the past week the journey bas been through a district showing much less favorable crop prospects—in fact, a portion of the crop is entirely wiped out by hail storms. Like other sections, the pessimistic fellow is around, and all the earth looks black to him. The hay crop is so immensely large it will bring nothing—g1.50 or $2 a ton at the stack. Corn is a failure. Wheat is being all destroyed by insects. Oats too early to determine, but the whole thing going to the demnition bow-wows. So it goes, and I cannot understand why it is just a little easier to look upon the dark side of life than to eschew pessimism and view the brighter side of things. We have no right to censure our Creator, but can- didly, it would seem our natures lean toward the pessimistic side. Even those whose surroundings put them above want and in the cradle of luxury are prone to complaints. ee While in company with several trav- elers at a country hotel (we called them ““taverns’’ sixty years ago) waiting train time, a team in charge of a young lad some fourteen or fifteen years of age, who was unloading some truck from the wagon, made a dash across the yard, over the pump and out into the alleyway. The lad was on to his job, climbed into the end of the wagon box and so soon as he could recover the lines sawed the team down to a stand- still, receiving the plaudits of the trav- eling men and curses of the landlord, In ten minutes the whole town was out viewing the wrecked pump and condoling with the hotel man over his loss, it was so dread- ful—a serious thing. Not for a moment did they stop to think of the good for- tune wrapped up in the heroic action of the lad, who had prevented what might have been a most disastrous runaway had the team sped up through the nar- row, crowded street colliding with other teams, people, etc.—perhaps a horse or two killed, people injured seriously or killed. As it was a $10 pump was de- molished, and a nervy boy had per- formed a commendable act, only to be upbraided by his father. _ + £ So it is the dark side shines to our pessimistic view and the silver lining never. One day it rains driving the small grains down, preventing cultiva- tion of corn, then comes hail, or a little devil worm in countless millions nest- ling among the wheat roots, and two or three days later their course is marked by countless white stalks and barren heads, all followed by the pessimistic wail of short crop or crop failure. How much worse it might be, and how much better all this isthan famine. We grieve because of idle labor, a meager trade, and cloudy outlook. How much worse it might be! How much worse it is with others! This constitutional ever- lasting pessimistic cloud may be a good thing, it may be the very identical part of our make-up that keeps us_everlast- ingly employed, living or trying to live. An Honest But Shrewd Yankee. There is a funny case of international honesty down in Arizona, just on the line between that Territory and Mex- ico. A Yankee farmer lives there, one Amasa Barrow by name, and it is his business to raise chickens. Chicken feed is cheap in Mexico, and chickens bring fine prices in Arizona, but to raise fowls in Mexico and bring them across the boundary, or to buy the feed and bring it across, would involve the pay- ment of a considerable duty, which would eat the profits about as fast as the hens could eat the corn. As for smug- gling, that was not to be thought of. Amasa is a Yankee, and is so honest that his neighbors say he wouldn't take advantage of a man ina horse trade. But he is also full of Yankee ingenu- ity, and after deep cogitation he built a long, slim hencoop, one-half of it in Arizona and the other in Mexico. On the line there is a gate. Over the line there are barns containing feed. At feeding time the gate is opened and the chicken fancier shoos his flock into Mexico, where they eat their meal. Then he shoos them back to the protec- tion of the American flag, where they digest this Mexican grain, lay their eggs and carry on their family affairs. Mr. Barrow saves about 50 per cent. on grain, and makes about that much on his chickens, and if there is any smug- gling done it is done by the innocent and irresponsible biddies. + ~> 2 > Suretyship, indorsing and accommo- dation paper pave the way to the _poor- house. ‘‘He that hateth suretyship is sure, ’’ aw Board, Building Paper, Roofing Material We are jobbers of these goods, among which are Tarred Board, Rosin Sized Sheathing, W. C. Oiled Sheathing, Tarred Felt, Roofing Pitch, Coal Tar, Rosin, Asphalt Paints, Elastic Cement, Ready Roofing, Carpet Lining, Mineral Wool. Qualities the best and prices the lowest. H. M. REYNOLDS & SON, Grand Rapids, Mich. a N 7 Z. = T J ¥ This is the NEATEST DELIVERY WAGON Stands 30 inches from ground. its own length with patent short turn gear. Many other styles in our new catalogue. Construction and finish first class. made. Weighs 380 pounds. Turns within Write for it. BROWN & SEHLER, Grand Rapids, Mich. Manufacturers of Hand Made Harness for all uses. We have The Eclipse Sprinkler The Globe Sprinkler The Bartholomew Sifter SAVE YOUR POTATOES Qa Get in your orders now. Qa. | \ rl THE ETHICS OF CREDIT. Merchants Should Cease to Be Pawn- Brokers or Usurers. In seeking the origin of credit we find it in the form now known to us as bills of exchange. The honor of its in- vention is variously claimed for the ancient Chinese, Egyptian and Hebrew traders. This is still a true beneficial and necessary use of credit. Without it the distribution and exchange of hu- man products would be rendered prac- tically impossible, except on the most limited scale. No harm can arise from the use of credit to this extent and this I believe is the true and only use of credit which can be made with safety. With the gradual decay of serfdom and the feudal system came about an extension of manufactures and com- merce. Commensurate with the decline of landed estates was the rise of com- mercialism. The lowly pawnshop rose to the dignity of the bank. The petty tradesman became the lordly manufac- turer and the meek shop-keeper was transformed into the merchant prince. Large cities were built and filled with a luxury and glitter exceeding that of the proudest feudal castles. With increas- ing security for life and property and the venturesome craving for large oper- ations came also an enormous exten- sion and inflation of credit. Usury was relieved of its odium and became a regular business under the protection of the state. The nobility or leisure class, to whom real property had been the only permissible possession, now found their revenues curtailed. An upstart class of traders and brokers insolently jostled blueblooded paupers. They invented stocks, bonds, funds, annuities and pen- sions. If anybody wanted something which he did not have and was not en- titled to, he no longer needed to turn highwayman and hazard his skin to get it; he just floated bonds, bonds, bonds. The robber baron, the feudal lord, the rack-renter, in another form, were established in the saddle once more and this time it was a much easier seat. Credit had been perverted from its original, beneficent use and was now become an instrument of oppression. In this country the process has been analogous. Perhaps the connection may seem re- mote to you between the retail mer- chants who loan a few hundred dollars’ worth of goods to their petty customers and the bloated bondholders who loan your country, your state or your Uncle Sam the tens of thousands or the mil- lions. Under our political and com- mercial organization this connection is most close and intimate. One small in- judicious load necessitates another and the aggregate is enormous. Out of pure kindness of heart we loan our goods to our farmer friends, who never under any circumstances are in absolute need of it. Let me repeat—and I say it with positive knowledge that it cannot be controverted—there never was a time, and there never will be atime, when any man anywhere on earth must have credit of the kind we are accustomed to extend. Nothing can ever justify the selling of goods at retail on credit. | doubt if there is one exception in one thousand cases where it would not be the greatest kindness to the applicant for credit to refuse it altogether. This Nation must stop discounting the future. We must learn to conduct public affairs with ordinary horse sense and prudence. When there is any pub- lic work to be done we do not put our MICHIGAN TRADESMAN shoulder to the wheel and do it like men. No, we mortgage posterity, hav- ing first mortgaged everything else. Fortunately, our equity in posterity seems to be nearly exhausted and we shall find it easier hereafter to do hon- est work ourselves than to float bonds. It is time that merchants cease to countenance this evil practice. It is no part of their calling. It is a perversion of their business, which is to distribute and exchange the products of human toil. Mercantile credit is a curse to the human family. If the merchant attempts to add to his regular occupation the business of the pawn broker and usurer his legitimate business must suffer. No man can serve two masters. He must go out of the loaning business, or he will soon be forced to get out of the merchandising business. C. C. PETERSON. 8 Current Suen Concisely Stated. To begin a journey on Friday is con- sidered extremely unlucky. This holds good in every case except that of a mother-in-law or a presidential candi- date. To sit thirteen at a boarding house table is considered unlucky by all ex- cept those near the carver. If the palm of the right hand itches it signifies that you will meet a stranger with money, which he will keep. If the palm of the left hand itches it signifies that you will meet a stranger who will endeavor to separate you from a dime. To see the new moon over the right shoulder and make a long wish is a sure sign that you will collide with a cable car unless you bring your gaze down to mundane affairs. To see the new moon, the old moon and 46,789,432 stars over your right shoulder in winter is a sign that there is ice on the pavement. In summer it sig- nifies a banana skin. To let a third and unknown party pass between you and your sweetheart with- out an introduction while you are en- route for the theater is a sign that you — sit behind a large and _ picturesque at. A hairpin working itself out of a young lady’s hair 1s a sign that it will go on an exploring expedition down the back of her neck if she doesn’t discover it in time. To stub your left toe when you stumble is a token that you will land on your right ear; if you stub your right toe you will reach terra firma by means of your left ear. Scientists eka that this is a state of affairs caused by the laws of gravitation. To find a horseshoe in your omelette at breakfast is a sign that the cook is absent-minded. To break a looking-glass isa sign that the furniture dealer will have a custom- er shortly. If, when you give up your room you give up your trunk, it isan omen that you haven’t paid your rent. While walking under a ladder good luck is yours, that is if the brick stays up. Fro remove the wedding ring is con- sidered unlucky everywhere, except in Chicago. To walk under the elevated road when a train is passing isa sign that you are rich and will get a new suit of clothes very soon. To meet a load of hay and makea wish is a sign that the bunco man will get you if you don’t watch out. To upset the pepper box signifies that you will give a slight imitation of a man who has hay fever. To spill ink is bad luck. That is why so many would-be authors fall by the wayside. They spill too much ink. If you wake up in the night, think you hear burglars, and find, instead, a black cat with a white star in its forehead try- ing to force an entrance into the refrig- erator, it is an omen that the free and unlimited coinage of swear words will go into effect right away. Hardware Price Current. AUGURS AND BITS — ee ee 70 ennin ene 8 a 25410 scan Peeetiom 6: 8... ign, .- 60&10 AXES Ficst Quality S. Bh. Bromace ................ 5 00 First Quality, ). D Bromge................. 9 50 irse Quality. S 6S. Steel... .. . <..-.... 5 of Wirst Goality. 1. B. Steel... ...........--.- 10 50 BARROWS TT $12 00 14 00 Care net 30 00 BOLTS ee eee eee 6010 Comtesse new West.) 0 tee Oe oe 50 BUCKETS Wee ee $33 BUTTS, CAST Cast Toose Fin, feured. =... 70&10 Wvoues Naviow. ce T0&10 BLOCKS Gudiearg Teenie... sk. 70 CROW BARS Se - --perlb 4 CAPS Rivet... perm 65 st. fF ............., per m 55 EE eee per m 35 M ‘usket ll co aco ca eee la perm 60 CARTRIDGES ee ice. Cc 4. 50& 5 ee ee 2& 5 CHISELS we 80 Soe ee 80 Pee CO 80 OE EE eee 80 DRILLS Momers Hit S00Che 60 Taper and Straight Shank................... 50& 5 Morse S Taper Sai... .......... ee 50& 5 ELBOWS Coe foes Cm. C............ doz. net 55 ee ee Aes ee dis 40&10 EXPANSIVE BITS Clark’ s small, $18; Se ee 30&10 yew, 1 Oia: 2, 0s: a, Se 3) FILES—New List Dee Ameties .. 70&10 Ween ee. ace ao 70 Mioires 6 Horse Gases ................... 5 -L&i0 ee IRON Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26; 27. ..... 28 List 12 13 14 15 m .... 17 Discount, 75 to 75-10 GAUGES Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............... 6O&16 KNOBS—New List Door, mineral, jap. trimmings.... ......... 70 Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings............ 80 MATTOCKS Oe $16 00, dis 60&10 ee B15 00, dis 60&10 Bate. $18 50, dis 20410 NAILS Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire. Steel nails, base..... ... eee es | See 1 6 Wie tae Cee. CsCff. ee 1 75 Sine aaveee. ee -.+.. Base ite to aeons... US .. .......... 10 Gag sice 20 Oomeenee ee Poe, 30 Magvauee. 2.62 cs se, et owe os 45 ee a 70 ie Somes. 8 50 Ce WO SOVANCE, 2... 8c sk ee 15 Case Sanvonce............ 3... 25 (astne Gadvanee.........-.-. rs a ae 35 Minion WO Mawes 8 ec 2 ieee Seeeete 3d CE Oe 45 Worect & Agvarce.........- 5... 85 MILLS Coffee, Parkers Co.’s. . 40 Coffee, Pr. 6. & W. Mfg. Go.’ s Malleabies. a 40 Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’s........... 40 Coffee, Reteeerse. ee 30 MOLASSES GATES Stebbin’s Pattern. ........... ot as oc Oke Sion eas Gomme oo 60&10 Enterprise, self-measuring ....... oo 30 PLANES Oise Tool Co.'s, faney...................... @oe Betws Benen... .--......- 2. ce. 60 Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy................. @50 Bench, WECOMOe. oc @50 Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s wood......... 60 PANS ey, Bete ee 60&10&10 casa WomeneG. 2.0... 6s)... 70& 5 RIVETS Trou nq Tinnee .... ......-... .--. eee 60 Copper Rivets and Burs............----+.+++ 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 %c per pound extra. HAMMERS Maydole & Coca, new bast........ ...... dis 33% ee dis 25 Werke ot Pigmire. oc ae — Mason’s Solid Cast Steel. ist Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel Hand 30e iiet 40&10 23 + vor HOUSE ee —_ Stamped Tin Ware.. -new list pene Japanned Tin Ne ae 20&1 Granste tom Ware................. new list 40810 HOLLOW WARE 4... Memes 8 RN ee ee cee ce 60410 — Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2,3.. a. .dis 60&10 SE per ‘doz. net 2 50 WIRE GOODS ee ee 80 Gerveow Mven.... 89 ee 80 ne Hoeks aud Byes. ............-......0., 80 LEVELS Stanley Rule and Leyel Co.’s............dis 70 ROPBS Disel., 4 ce aed lereee............... .... 534 NN 8 SQUARES en WE ss eye ewe 80 oo Ee Mae............ te... SHEET IRON com. smooth. com, ae wie. #3 30 2 40 EE 2 40 eT ee a. oe 2 6 Te i ec ee eee 2 70 oa (eee teeeneeyes Oe 2 80 ee 2 90 3 80 an ‘sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30 inc wide not less than 2-10 extra. pe ® n SAND PAPER List acct. 19, ’86.. oo SASH WEIGHTS nome teee per ton 20 00 TRAPS Steel, Game.. _ aa Oneida Community, Newhouse’s. Oneida Community, Hawley & Norten’ 8 70810810 Mone, Ciemer... 5... per doz 15 Mouse, delusion................. per doz 1 25 WIRE Breet Mae eC. te S aeeeeeee wereee........................ 15 oc eae "70610 a -anee Marect 2% Coppered Spring Steel. ........ ........... Barbed Fence, galvanized . Lee. 05 Barbed Fence, painted.. ceeded ee 1 70 / HORSE NAILS | ............. dis 40&1C Putnam.. 4 dis 5 Northwestern.. Loan ~. - ie 10010 “WRENCHES Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled . Sects 30 CO Oe i i as 50 Coe’s Patent Agricultural, w rought ae 80 Coe'e Patent, matleane. 0... 80 MISCELLANEOUS mre Cee 50 Pome (ister... 80 Berowe, New biek....................... 85 Casters, Bed and Piate............. .... GRiWaw Peepers, Aveorican..................... 50 METALS—Zinc 600 pound casks............ oa 634 roarwace. .... 6% SOLDER SE eda aad 12% The prices of the many other qualities of solder in the market indicated by private brands vary according to composition. TIN—Melyn Grade Wet IC, Chaveoek.. ..... cs. 8 14x20 IC, Charcoal ....... 20x14 IX. Charcoal ae Each additional X on this grade, 81.25. TIN—Allaway Grade OO EE eee 5 00 OE 5 00 ee Ee Creer ws. 6 00 Pa Te Ce ce 6 00 Each additional X on this grade, $1.50. ROOFING PLATES Teese TC Charcoal, Dean... ............. 644. 5 00 bene TX, Chavcoak, Dean ................,.5 6 06 Soar IC, Charcoal, Teem........ .......... 10 00 14x20 IC; Charcoal, Allaw ay Grade......... 4 50 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 [X, for No. 8 Boilers, 14x56 IX, for No. 9 Boilers, t per pound... © TRADESMAN ITEMIZED LEDGERS Size 8 1-2x14—Three Columns. 2 Quires, 160 pages............. $2 00 S Onlizes, BS pages..... ......, 350 4 Quires, 320 pages............- 3 00 S Guires, 400 papes...... ...... 35 6 Guires, 40 pares............. 40 Invoice Record or Bill Book. 80 Double Pages, Registers 2,880 in- i ibe eee ete e sk cc ee as $2.00 TRADESMAN COMPANY GRAND RAPIDS. sore atags creme 24 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN GENERAL TRADE SITUATION. It was with a general feeling of relief that the business community received the announcement Saturday that the tarifi bill had become law; for it has been demonstrated that tariff considera- tion, whether in the direction of an _ in- crease or decrease, is always an element of uncertainty and uneasiness to trade. In the case of reduction of rates, as in the consideration of the Wilson bill, the effect is to cause a general suspen- sion of trade in dutiable goods on ac- count of the reduction in price likely to be caused. So in the case of an ad- vance in duties there is an undue stim- ulation of imports due to the expecta- tion that prices will be raised, such as that which characterized the month of consideration of the Dingley bill. While the increase in imports seemed to be distinctly marked, giving an un- due increase in stocks to be reckoned with in future trade, there is yet less to be apprehended of injurious effects than has generally been supposed. It seems probable that in the wool trade there will be a pressure to realize on speculative importations to an extent to cause depression and put off the day of a recovery in prices in that line; but the fear that the market has been fore. stalled in manufactured goods is prob- ably not well founded, as it is impos- sible for importers to determine what goods and styles will be popular and in demand many months in advance. There are some minor branches of trade which may be adversely affected by the anticipatory importations; but in most important lines it will not bea factor to any great extent. The general advance of the stock market, which in about May 1 and which met with a slight speculative reaction for a few days the first of this month, has since resumed its steady up- ward course. Sales have been very large, exceeding those of any other week this year by more than 550,000 shares. The condition of the share market would argue that a general re- covery in prices is fairly upon us. The movement of wheat has been up- ward, with two slight reactions during the week. The general report of in- creased crop prospects in this country is more than offset by the assurance of an unusual foreign demand, on account of poor yields elsewhere, to an extent which assures good returns to the farm- er, witha corresponding increase in his ability to buy. In the iron trade the most marked condition is the low prices still holding for pig and many manufactured prod- ucts; yet orders have been numerous, and, as many works are idle on account f labor troubles, the others are in a state of encouraging activity. The fall trade in woolens is opening unusually early and most samples shown are marked at an advance which seems to indicate that recovery in that direc- tion is near. Cotton goods are still dis- tressingly dull and production is being held down by restricting output. The boot and shoe industry is getting more orders, which will start more of the shops and at prices generally a shade better than have been paid. Shipments from the East in July are about 4 per cent. smaller ‘than in 1895 but larger than any other year. Leather is unchanged in price, although the recent advance in grain has stopped buying. Hides are generally lower at Chicago, where the receipts of cattle since January I are not 6 per cent. be- hind last year’s. set in A notable indication is found in the increase of bank clearings, which ex- ceed those for the corresponding week for many years, even including the high tide of 1892. The amount was $1,098,000,000. This increase is largely owing to the resumption of activity in the stock markets. Failures for the week were 220. Senne ik tee cae MANIA FOR CONSOLIDATION. The fact that some of the great com- bination companies of the United States, like the Standard Oil, Diamond Match and others, have passed through the years of panic with a constantly in- creasing share value appears to have turned the attention of promoters and investors to new combinations of a sim- ilar character until a mania for consol- idation is resulting. Thus those who have watched the press during the past few days will bear out the statement that rumors and reports of such move- ments are more frequent than ever be- fore. It will be noted, however, that many of these reports are of a sensational and unreliable character; as, for instance the one alleged to be headed by the Standard Oil Company and _ comprising a great proportion of the most diversi- fied interests in trade in the country. That a combination of such different and unrelated interests should be seri- ously considered is absurd, but the pub- lication of such reports simply reflects the tendency in that direction which amounts to a craze inthe public mind. There is unquestionably a decided movement in the direction noted which is manifesting itself in the union of similar interests io an unprecedented extent. The increased movement of stocks, on account of improving condi- tions, naturally gives opportunity for such changes, and the alluring reports of increased returns on account of re- ductions in cost of operation made pos- sible is a sufficient explanation of the movement. The consolidation of municipal in- terests in the creation of the Greater New York not only affords a most not- able instance of combination in itself, but gives opportunity and suggestion for the combination of several of the mu- nicipal enterprises of the several cities. Thus we hear of the union, or the pro- posed union, of several of the transit companies of New York with the simi- lar ones of the absorbed region adjoin- ing. Then some of the gas companies must fall into line, and so with other municipal enterprises. The craze for such unions is by no means confined to the industries affected by the re-organization of the metropolis. The activity of railroads in this direc- tion seems to be recovering from the set-back caused by the unfortunate re- sults of such combinations in recent years; but it is in industrial lines es- pecially that the movement is becoming most pronounced. Thus we hear of negotiations for the consolidation of the anthracite coal roads to complete the combination governing that industry, and so of many similar movements. It is interesting to conjecture as to the extent to which the movement is likely to obtain. As it seems to be based so largely upon the idea that the lessened cost of production resulting from such concentration of interests is to account for the increased profits, it may be well to note that the instances of pronounced success in this direction are not numerous. The idea that such combinations shall control production and prices is becoming less popular as a result of the many instances where they have served the opposite purpose of establishing a fatal competition. Sn ne Bay City Grocers To Picnic August 19. Bay City, July 22—The annual outing of the grocers and meat dealers will be held this year on August I9. The Com- mittes on Location decided to go to the new resort on Tawas Bay, and thereby patronize the Detroit & Mackinaw Rail- way, which made a rate of 50 cents for the round trip. The grocers decided that they preferred to patronize the new road because it was assisting them in working up a trade up the shore, be- sides the beach on Tawas Bay offered every facility for a fine outing. An effort will be made to have all kinds of business close down for the annual out- ing and thereby have the biggest excur- sion ever turned out of Bay City. —__2 $2.50—Milwaukee and Return—$2.50. It is quite a while since we had one of those popular excursions to Milwau- kee, so the A, O. U. W. has come to the front and will leave hereat Io p. m., Saturday night, D. & M. depot, arriv- ing at Milwaukee Sunday morning. Will have a good time all day and en- joy the night trip home, arriving here at 6.40 a. m. Everybody is invited to join the party. Tickes can be secured trom the committee or at D. &. M. city office, 23 Monroe street. Excursion to Detroit. The G. T. Ry, System, "(D. & M.”’ division, will run another Sunday ex- cursion to Detroit August 1, leaving Grand Rapids at 6 30a. m., D. & M. depot. For full particulars call on agent at depot or city office, 23 Monroe street. Jas. Campbell, C. P. A. ~~ 2 A. B. Taylor, the Saugatuck banker and general dealer, has returned home after a week’s respite in the city asa guest at the residence of Bishop Gilles- pie. Mr. Taylor had not been in the city for fifteen years and was greatly pleased over the progress made in many directions. ——__+>_2.___ A factory for making smokeless pow- der is to be established in the City of Mexico by an American company. The factory will cost $350,000 gold, and will be conducted under the auspices of the Mexican government. 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. \ JILL SELL MY FOUR DEPARTMENT stores of general merchandise, as I must retire from business. Here is a fortune for somebody. Julius H. Levinson, Petoskey, Mich. / a 353 with SELL AT A GREAT BARGAIN— Drug stock and _ fixtures, inventorying about $3,000. in a city of 6,000. Two other drug stores. Reason given to intending purchaser. Terms liceral Address No 353, care Michigan Tradesman. 354 VTORE FIXTURES CHEAP—ONE ASHLAND prescription scae aid weights, one drug- gist’s counter ba'ance snd weights (Fairbank), one prescription Case, six Jarge store lamps, two showcases (one 4 ft. and one 6 ft.), one ironsafe, one grocer’s scale, tin scoop—all or any of above ata bargain. For description and price write Van I. Witt, Grand Haven, Mich 35d ( NLY PHOTOGRAPH GALLERY IN TOWN of 1.500 population for sale cheap, on ac- count of other business. Gross receipts are about $1,200 annually. Address Photographer, Ovid, Mich. 351 OR SALE—CLEAN STOCK GROCERIES and crockery, enjoying cream of trade in best growing city in Michigan. Lake port and center of fruit belt Patronage mostly cash. Rent, 50 per month, with terminable lease. Stock and fixtures wiil inventory $3,500, but can be reduced. Reason for selling, owner has other business which must be attended to. Business established five years and made money every year, Answer quick if you expect to se- cure this bargain. Address No. 358, care Mich- igan Tradesman. 358 POR 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. 8., 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 POR SALE—GOOD 82 ACRE FARM, WELL improved, good buildings, good growing crops, for part cash and long time on balance. Address No. 349, care Michigan Tradesman. . 34g SALE—SAGINAW Geese RIGHTS FOR Seif-Heating Iron Co., Saginaw, E. S., Mich. 356 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. 348 ESIRE TO TRADE FOR MERCHANDISE— $4,000 store. $1,500 encumbrance; rented $30. City 20,000. Address §No. 345, care Michigan Tradesman. 345 NOR SALE—STOCK OF DRUGS, PAINTS and wall paper in one of the best towns in sou hern 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—STORE BUILDING WITH REs- idence rooms in connect:on—a fine location for millinery and bazaar trade. Address Box 88, Leroy, Oscevla Co., Mich. 342 ANTED TO SELL OR THADE, FOR A good drug stock or boot and shoe and men’s furnishing goods, one of the finest fruit farms in Allegan county. one and one-half miles from railroad station. Address J. Fisher «& Son, Hamilton, Mich. oat TOR 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 50 M per day; capacity of kiln, 320 M. Morse & Schneider, Seney, Mich. 336 Ke SALE—CLEAN NEW STOCK GENERAL merchandise, located in brick building in growing town, surrounded by excellent farming country. Established trade. Address No. 334, care Michigan Tradesman. : | goin WISHING TO BUY, SELL OR exchange real estate or merchandise, any quantities or description, can depend upon Townsend & Morous, of Jackson, Mich., for quick and responsible dealing. 318 NOR SALE—CLEAN HARDWARE SOCK; doing good business; best location in Grand Rapids; good reason for selling; no exchange. Address Hardware, care Michigan Tradesman. 325 GENERAL MER- TOR SALE—STOCK OF chandise and fixtures; inventory $1,700. Address Postmaster, New Salem, Mich. 324 rPRO EXCHANGE—A GOOD LIVERY STOCK, doing a good business, for a stock of gro- ceries. Address No. 827, care Michigan Trades- man. 327 YOR SALE—STOCK OF GENERAL MER- cebandise, inventorying about $4,500, located in a thriving town in Central Michigan. Would take a small farm in part payment, if location is desirable. Address No. 320, care Michigan Tradesman. 320 Re SALE—ONE 100-HORSE POWER SLIDE valve engine, especially adapted to sawmill work, and fitted with a Nordberg Automatie Governor. Can be seen running any week day at Wallin Leather Co.’s tannery, Grand Rapids. 313 \ ANTED—PARTNER WITH $2,000 FOR one-half interest in hardware, stoves and tinshop, plumbing and furnaee work aud job bing, roofiug, etc. Have several good jobs on hand and a well-established trade; best location in heart of city. Address Box 522, Big Rapids, Mich. 298 wo —WE ARE THE OLDEST, LARG est and best laundry in the city of Grand Rapids. We do considerable business out of town and want more of it. We want good live agents in towns where we do not now have any. We pay a liberal commission and give satisfac tory service. Terms on application. American Steam Laundry, Otte Brothers, proprietors. 289 YOR 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 M ichigan ‘Tradesman. ee 2UBBER STAMPS AND RUBBER TYPE. Will J. Weller, Muskegon, Mich. 160 NOR EXCHANGE—TWO FINE IMPROVED farms for stock of merchandise: splendid location. Address No. 73, care Michigan Trades- man. Ve ws CASES FRESH EGGS, daily. Write for prices. F. W. Brown, Ithaca, Mich. 249 PATENT SOLICITORS. NILLEY & ALLGIER, GRAND RAPIDS, PAT- ent Attorneys and Practical Draughtsmen. Our new Handbook free on application. 339 MISCELLANEOUS, ANTED — REGISTERED PHARMACIST to clerk in small town. Must give good reference. Singie man preferred. Address No. 357, care Michigan Tradesman. 357 ANTED—ACTIVE SALESMAN ‘TO. REP- resent to dealers and consumers a well- advertised and meritorious soap in and about Kent connty. Address No. 352, care Michigan Tradesman. 3a2 OUNG MAN, COMPETENT BOOK-KEEP- er, understands double entry, desires posi- tion. Best of references furnished. Address W., care Michigan Tradesman. 347 Travelers’ Time Tables. CHICAGO “sen? Going to Chicago. Ly. G. Rapids..8:35am 1:25pm *6:25pm *11:39pm Ar. Chicago....3:10pm 6:50pm 2:0duam 6:40am Returning from Chicago. Ly. Chicago: 2.0... 2... 7:20am 5:15pm * 9:30pm Ar. G’d Rapids......... 1:25pm 10:45pm * 4:00ar Muskegon. Ly. G’d Rapids..... .... 8:35am 1:25pm 6:25pm Ar. G’d Rapids........... 1:25pm 5.15pm 10:45am Traverse City, eae etoskey and Bay iew. Ly. G’d Rapids........ 7:30am 11:30pm 5:30pm Ar. Traverse City..... 12:40pm 5:00am 11:10pm Ar. Charlevoix........ 3:15pm 7:30am ....... Ar. Petoskey.......... 3:45pm 8:00am ...... ar Bay View .0. cs... 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. Sleeping cars 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. DETROIT, "25x Going to Detroit. Ly. Grand Rapids...... 7:00am 1:30pm 5:35pn Ar. Detroit.......... --.11:40am 5:40pm 10:20pm Returning from Detroit. EY DGstOle bck. eon 8:00am 1:10pm 6:10pm Ar. Grand Rapids..... 1:00pm 5:20pm 10:55pm Saginaw, Almaand Greenville. Ly. G R7:10am 4:20pm Ar. G@R12:20pm 9:30pm Parlor cars on all trains to and from Detroit and-‘Saginaw. Trains run week days only. Gro. DEHAVEN, General Pass. Agent. GRAN (In effect May 3, 1897.) EAST Trunk Railway System Detroit and Milwaukee Div Arrive. Leave. . + 6:45am..Saginaw, Detroit and East..+ 9:55pm +10:10am....... Detroit and East.... ..+ 5:07pm + 3:30pm..Saginaw, Detroit and East..+12:45pm *10:45pm...Detroit, a and Canada...* 6:35am Li * §:35am....Gd. Haven and Int. Pts....* 7:10pm +12:53pm.Gd. Haven and Intermediate.+ 3:22pm + 5:12pm....Gd. Haven Mil. and Chi....+10:05am +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. Huenss, A. G. P. & T. A. BEN. FLETCHER, Trav. Pass. Agt., Jas, CAMPBELL, City Pass. Agent, No. 23 Monroe St. Rapids & Indiana Railway June 20, 1897. Northern Div. Leave Arrive Trav. C’y, Petoskey & Mack...* 4:15am *10:00pm Trav. C’y, Petoskey & Mack...+ 7:45am t 5:10,. Trav. C’y, Petos. & Har. Sp’gs.t 2:20pm t 9:lup PRANIAG ee ec + 5:25pm til:lvar Petoskey & Mackinaw... ... .t11:10pm + 6:30am Train leaving at 7:45 a.m. has parlor Cal + 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 Azrriv: MiGinNAL. «6656... s ees ts ras + 7:10am ¢ 8:26) - FL WAYNE. oc 6 ss, eos ees soir + 2:00pm + 2:10pn KGIGMASZOO... ss. . worse ses owce + 7:00pm t+ 9:10am Cincinnati, Louisville & Ind..*10:lopm * 4:03a. WRaaASOO ois icles eee + 8:05pm + 8:50am 7:10a.m. train has parlor car to Cincinnat 2:00p.m. train has parlor car to Fort Wayne. 10:15p.m. train has sleeping car to Cincinnati, Indianapolis and Louisville. Muskegon Trains. GOING WEST. Lv G’d Rapids.......... 7:35am +1:00pm +5:40pm Ly Geo maps... 2... so eee ss +9:00am }7:00pm Ar Muskegon........... 9:00am 2:10pm 7:00.m Ar Muskegon........... -+++++5 10:25am 8:25pm Ar Milwaukee, Steamer........ 4:00am GOING EAST. Lv Milwaukee, Steamer....... 7:30am Ly Muskegon....... .. +8:10am +11:45am +4:10pm diy Muskeeon.. .......55,..:-. + 8:35am {6:35pm Ar@’d Rapids... ..... 9:30am 12:55pm 56:3)pp Ar G’d Rapids..........-....+- 00am 8:00pm lu +Except Sunday. *Daily. ;Sunday only. Steamer leaves Muskegon daily except Satur- day. Leaves Milwaukee daily except Saturday and Sunday. A. ALMQUIST, C. L. Lockwoop, Ticket Agt.Un. Sta. Gen. Pass. & Tkt. Agt. Every Dollar Invested in Tradesman Company’s COUPON BOOKS will yield hand- some returns in saving book-keeping, besides the assurance that no charge is forgotten. Write TRADESMAN COMPANY, Grand Rapids This strictiv pure High Grade Powder I have re- duced to retail at the following very low prices: “oz. 10C) @ OZ, 15; i Ib, a¢c. Guaranteed to comply with Pure Food Law in every respect. 9. A, TURNEY, Manufacturer, Detroit, Mich. Established 1780. Walter Baker & Co, £70. Dorchester, Mass. The Oldest and Largest Manufacturers of > PURE, HIGH GRADE GOCOAS \GHOGOLATES on this Continent. S No Chemicals are used in Trade-Mark. their manufactures. Their Breakfast Cocoa is absolutely pure, delicious, nutritious, and costs less than one cent a cup. 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Se de abe De She Dee She Se de Se ee Dede SE PNY IE TA PAB FA AA Oe GFE GSP GA FERPA Aa OI 4 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 anempty 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. 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