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Some Peculiarities of the Cheese
Product of Ohio.

While much is said about and against
Ohio cheese, the fact remains that they
go into about all of the markets of the
world, and if they are known by the
sobriquets of ‘‘Ohio Flats,’’ ‘‘White
Oaks’’ and other names not whully com-
plimentary, they are cheese that sell
quite as readily as any, although, asa
rule, about 1 cent below the best cream
cheese in price. Ohio has had from
the start in 1810—the year the first
cheese was shipped out of the State—
some notions about cheesemaking that
were peculiar to itself, and one was
that a small quantity of cream taken off
from the night’s milk and the fresh
whole morning’s milk mixed with the
light skimmed night’s milk made a
good marketable cheese and one that
would give the purchaser satisfaction.
This was held to until the advent of the
factory system in 1863 and adopted by
them, and has held its place up to the
present time, with a few exceptions, as
there are some factories which make
full cream cheese.

It goes without saying that the cheese
of Ohio—the cheese that made the rep-
utation of the State and brought wealth
by the millions of dollars to the farmers
—was home-made and until 1850 home-
cured ; and to have accomplished this,
this cheese must have had merit, and
quality as well. Taking the fact into
consideration that the makers. of this
cheese had no technical training in the
business, and that the scientific reasons
were to them a sealed book, their suc-
cess being a matter of experience, and
aided by what some one has been
pleased to call the rule of thumb, a
cheese soft, rich. in quality and some-
what porous was the result; and taking
a locality for comparison, the cheese
would be fairly uniform in make-up, pos-
sibly comparing favorably with the out-
put of the factories of the same section
now.

One of the peculiar things of those
old-time, home-made cheeses was their
self-oiling property, it being a common
sight to see several cheese on the
shelves of the farmhouse curing room
dripping butter fat oil, a result of the
method of manufacture, no acid being
developed in the whey in cooking the
curd, the acid being put on in the
‘“sink,’’ a process now called dry acid,
I believe. In my own home the method
of my mother—and by the way all the
cheese was made by the ladies of the
house as one of their accomplishments
—was to get the curd out of the whey
as soon as possible, drain it into acom-
pact mass, and then cut up with knives
into little cubes half an inch square,
and scald this curd in water just as_ hot
as the hand could be held in, then salt
and put to press. The keeping quali-
ties of these cheeses can be gathered
from the fact that, as a rule, they were
cured until September and often later
before being sold, and the dealers would
hold great stores of them for the spring
and early summer market. The con-
sumers then asked for a cheese that
had some ‘‘bite’’ in it, and would
spread on bread at the same time, and

 

it was not until twenty-five years later
that the soft, mild, flavorless cheese was
so much in demand, a cheese cured and
put into the market thirty days from the
hoop.

The two great dairy sections of Ohio
are employing somewhat different meth-
ods in the making of cheese. The east-
ern Western Reserve makes a cheese
somewhat after the New York Cheddar
in make-up—a good shipper and a close
competitor with the very best. During
the winter, a few creameries make a
pretty close approach to a full skim, but
the great bulk of the cheese made _ be-
tween March and December are only
lightly skimmed-— possibly a pound of
butter being taken from 70 pounds of
the night’s milk, and the morning's
milk added whole. These cheeses, as
a rule, are compact, and what are
known as meaty, and are hard to dis-
tinguish on the grocer s counter from a
full cream; and I fear the grocer does
not always stop to tell the retail buyer
that the full-cream box over it came _ to
hand on another cheese.

The maker of cheese in Northeastern
Ohio keeps a close eye on the market,
and is ready with a cheese that cures
out in fifteen days,or a Cheddar suitable
to export which will want fully sixty
days to be ready to box. A favorite is
a medium cheese, to designate which
each maker seems to have a brand of
his own, weighing about 35 or 4o
pounds, curing out in forty days, and
a fine shipper for the home (United
States) trade, and which goes to every
part of the country.

The territory known as the Welling-
ton district has a style of its own, the
skimmer going a little deeper, the aim
being to have the butter a feature, and
yet maintain a finished, medium cheese,
and one which will bear shipping well.
This cheese goes largely to the South-
west, and once Cuba was a large buyer
of it, as well as the Mississippi River
ports.

The Northwestern section of the State
makes a cheese known as a present-
use article. This is a cheese soft,
milky, quite porous, or open rather, a
cheese very tender—one that will bear
little handling, cannot be shipped a very
long distance, and needs to be eaten
green from the hoop. Still this cheese
has a good demand in an almost local
way, as can be seen, as they could not
be transported to New York even with-
out going to pieces,

Very few fancy cheeses are made in
Ohio. At one time several factories in
Geauga county were run in making
Goudas, a most excellent article being
turned out. No Neufchatel or similar
cheese is made. Ina few factories in
the northern part of the State, Swiss and
brick cheese are manufactured and pos-
sibly, in a most limited way, some
Limburger are made to waste their
sweetness on the Buckeye air. In South-
eastern Ohio, in the Monroe county
District, there are a great many Swiss
factories, and some whey butter is
made.

It is not believed that Ohio dairying
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newly-established creameries, and a few
factories have been abandoned, or the
patronage absorbed by
with others.

consolidation
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Crockery Will Advance.
From the Chicago Dry Goods Reporter.

In addition to the many reports com-
ing in of advances in price on various
lines, accompanied by full time and in-
creased wages to workmen, we learned
from the crockery dealers of this city
that, following the action of New York
agents of English manufacturers of
crockery, which took place July 27,
wholesalers and retailers throughou
the country have advanced their prices
on English ware, to substantially the
increase caused by the Dingley bill—
about 20 per cent.

This example, no doubt, will soon be
acted upon by the American manufac-
turers of crockery, and, when made,
will, of course, restore the reduction in
wages made by them when the Wilson
bill first Decame operative.

In answer to the question whether
stocks of English ware in this country
were excessive, one of the principals of
a representative firm here answered:
‘‘We have not ordered or received for-
eign ware on speculation. We certain-
ly, as a business proposition, hurried
what orders we could, and the delay in
passing the bill was favorable tous. We
are a great many packages short for our
normal tall trade, which are arriving on
different steamers,and on which we pay
the increased duty. We think our con-
dition is about the same as that of our
competitors in other parts of the United
States; in fact, from many enquiries
we have made, we feel sure it is.

‘‘Should there be a large demand
from country dealers, as is growing
more evident every day, our stock will
soon be depleted, and we may then _re-
gret not having been more generous in
our purchases, but, as I said, we were
not speculating with. conditions of
trade yet a conundrum.”’

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Fifty million bushels is the estimate
for the wheat crop of Kansas. This is
the largest crop since 1801 or 1892.
The corn crop will be what is called a
fair one in that State, and there are
87,000,000 bushels left over from last
year. The average yield of potatoes is
over twenty-five bushels to the acre,
whicb will make a crop of 25,000,000.
For the first time in many years Kansas
really has a fine crop of most agricul-
tural products and the farmers are
happy. More than that, they are pay-
ing off their mortgages and taking care
of back interest, which the East never
expected them to do. Politics has al-
most disappeared in the face of the
goodness of Providence in sending such
crops tou reward the farmers. The oc-
cupation of the professional politician
will be gone.

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History of the Kent County Agricul-
tural Society.
Written for the TRaDESMAN,

The deep interest manifested by the
Tradesman in everything that pertains
to the early history of the Grand River
Valley, and of Grand Rapids especially
—its early struggles in Jaying the foun-
dation for the place it now occupies as
the Second City in the State, its present
business triumphs and future commer-
cial destiny—is sufficient apvlogy for
giving its readers this sketch of the
early history of the Kent County Agri-
cultural Society.

The first organization was on Dec. 29,
1847. It was called the Walker Agricul.
tural Society of Kent County and was
organized at a farmers’ meeting held in
the schoolhouse in District No. 4 1n the
township of Walker. The first officers
elected were: Daniel Schermerhorn,
President; C. Phillips and J. Burton,
Vice-Presidents ; Horace Seymour, Sec-
retary ; A. Armstrong, Treasurer; Solo-
mon Wright, Jr., W. W. Anderson,
Billius Stocking, S. M. Pearsall and
Andrew Loomis, Executive Committee.
A fair was held October 27, 1848. The
‘‘old pathfinder,’’ John Ball, was the
orator, and delivered a characteristic
address in a little schoolhouse that was
perched on the brow of Prospect Hill
near the old residence of Dr. Charles
Shepard.

The anuual meeting of January, 1849,
was held at the store of John W. Peirce,
on Canal street. At this meeting the
name of the society was changed to the
Grand River Valley Agricultural Soci-
ety. The officers elected at this meet-

ing were: D. Schermerhorn, President;
C. Phillips, Vice-President; S. Arm-
strong, Treasurer; Horace Seymour,

Secretary; J. F. Chubb, James Ballard,
Robert Howlett, Henry Seymour, ©. H.
Foote and J. W. Peirce, Executive Com-
mittee.

The officers of the society for the
year 1850 were: O. H. Foote, Presi-
dent; J. F. Chubb, Vice-President; T.
D. French, Treasurer; Damon Hatch,
Secretary; S. Armstrong, C. Phillips,
D. Schermerhorn, S. M. Pearsall, A.
Loomis, James Ballard, Executive Com-
mittee.

For the year 1851 the officers were:
George Young, President; J. F. Chubb
and William A. Richmond, Vice-Pres-
idents; Damon Hatch, Secretary; A.
Loomis, Treasurer; Solomon Wright,
Jr.. D. Schermerhorn, O. H. Foote,
John M. Fox and Henry B. Childs, Ex-
ecutive Committee. At the election of
the last named officers, at the annual
meeting, in January, 1851, on the mo-
tion of S. S. Bailey, it was resolved as
follows:

‘*Whereas, the increasing prosperity
of the agricultural interests in the Grand
River Valley has led to the organization
of kindred societies in the counties of
Ionia and Ottawa, rendering the title
or name of the Grand River Valley So-
out inappropriate and incorrect, there-
ore,

Resolved that a committee of three be
appointed to draft a constitution and
by-laws for the organization of a county
agricultural society for Kent county.’’

That committee consisted of Wm. A.
Richmond, J. F. Chubb and John M.
Fox. This committee reported at the
March meeting and the Kent County
Agricultural Society was formed.

The officers elected at the January
meeting, 1852, under the new name,
were as follows: J. F. Chubb, Presi-
dent: D. Schermerhorn, Vice-Presi-
dent; Damon Hatch, Secretary; Henry
Seymour, Treasurer; Hiram Darling,
Henry Seymour, Obed H. Foote, Solo-

 

mon Armstrong, Horace Seymour, Ex-
ecutive Committee. The fair was held
on some vacant lots on Lafayette street
south of the old residence of Aaron
Dikeman.

The officers elected for 1853 were:
Solomon Wright, Jr., President; Obed
H. Foote, Vice-President; Henry Sey-
mour, Secretary ; George C. Fitch, Ben-
jamin Luce, A. Hoag, David Meach,
Osmond Reed, Hiram Rhodes, Benja-
min Luther, Wm. Whitney and A. L.
Chubb, Executive Committee.

The fair for the year 1853 was held
October 5 and 6, on some vacant lots
on Fulton street, nearly opposite the
residences of Louis Campau and John
Ball. The grounds were fenced with a
temporary rail fence six rails high. It
was af this meeting that the writer
posed as a competitor with James W.
Sligh, father of the Hon., Charles R.
Sligh, in the exhibition of Asiatic poul-
try, then a great novelty in Michigan.
I exhibited the first light Bramahs in
Kent county. Wm. Sligh exhibited
several varieties—buff, black and white
cochens—and got away with all the
premiums except for Bramahs. He
was an enthusiastic poultry fancier then.
Afterwards, made an honorable record
as a soldier. Alas, that he should have
been among the earliest to give his life
for his adopted country! After this list
of honorable names who figured as_ offi-
cers of the Agricultural Society and
bore the burden and heat of the day in
its infancy, it is in order to show when
and by whom the real pioneer work of
organizing agricultural and horticultural
societies in Western Michigan, out of
which the West Michigan Society has
grown and place the credit where it be-

ongs. It will be remembered that the
society known as the Walker Agri-
cultural Society of Kent County was

organized December 29, 1847. In
March of the same year, nearly nine
months previous, there was published in
the Grand Rapids Eagle a paper from
the pen of Sluman S. Bailey, then, as
he is now, a resident of Paris, Kent
county, urging in his forcible style the
necessity of elevating the standard of
agriculture by the formation of societies
for the ‘‘advancement of agriculture,
horticulture, manufactures, the me-
chanic and domestic arts.’’ (I quote
his own language.) This earnest ap-
peal was well received and widely
copied, proving to be the bugle call
that awakened a lively interest in the
formation of kindred associations in
Tonia and other adjoining counties. Mr.
Bailey did not stop here but, in the face
of many obstacles, continued his zeal
for the organization of a Kent County
Society, until his efforts were rewarded
with success.

The facts related above are conclusive
proof that to the zeal, foresight and ex-
ecutive ability of Sluman S. Bailey
belongs the credit of calling public at-
tention to the importance of the subject,
which finally resulted in the formation
of the first agricultural and horticultural
society in the Grand River Valley; and
the records show that he followed its
fortunes with unabated zeal for many
years after, until interrupted by the po-
litical events of 1860, when it became
necessary to change the peaceful order
of events by beating our plowshares and
pruning hooks into swords and_ spears.
The criginal manuscript of that first
published appeal for the formation of
agricultural associations in Western
Michigan lies before meas 1 write.
Yellowed with age, it is an eloquent re-
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place in Kent county, and the contrast
between the Grand Rapids of 1847 and
the Grand Rapids of 1897.

At that early day, Grand Rapids busi-
ness was entirely dependent upon the
agricultural Tesources of the valley.
The success or failure of the farmers’
crops either made or unmade the mer-
chant’s business. An exhaustless water-
power pursued its noisy course through
the heart of the city without turning a
wheel for the manufacture of a single
article of commerce for export, except
what was produced by the two small
flouring mills owned by the late John
W. Squiers and Clemmens and Sweet,
and two small sawmills owned by
Harry Watrous and your honored towns-
man, Wm. T. Powers. At that time
the flour manufactured from Grand
River Valley wheat stcod first in the
markéts of Chicago, Milwaukee and
Buffalo, to which ports it was all con
signed. It usually brought from 25 to
Soc per barrel more than flour manu-
factured from wheat grown in cther sec-
tions of the country. The small ship-
ments of lumber were to Chicago and
Milwaukee, mostly three inch wh te oak
plank, used for paving the streets of
Chicago.

At the annual meeting held in Jan-
uary, 1854, the writer was surprised by
an official notice of his selection for
President of the Kent County Agricul-
tural Society. My first impulse was to
decline the honor; but,
cluded to accept. The records of the
annual meeting fur 1854 have been lost
and I am forced to rely upon my mem-
ory for the names of the officers and
members of the Executive Comm: ttee.
I think the late Henry Seymour was
Secretary, and Sluman 5, Bal y or
D. C. McVean Treasurer. Of this last
1 am not sure. The names of others
that occur to me as taking an active In-
terest in the affairs of the society dur
ing my term of office are George C.
Fitch. Wiider 1D Faster, 2. CC. Me-
Vean, David Meech, Osmonc Reed, A.
L. Chubb, David Schermerhorn, P. R.

 

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L. ‘Peirce, B. B. Church, J.C. Rogers,
T. E. Wetmore, E. U. Knapp. Only
four of these are still alive.

In March, a meeting of the Executive
Committee was held at my office tu ar-
range a premium list and transact other
business necessary to ensure financial
success at our coming exhibit, which
was fixed for October and was to last
three days. The most important ques-
tion that came up was, Where can we
secure grounds suitable for holding our
fair so that we may control and collect
entrance fees? At previous fairs the
only bar to a free exhibit was an ordi-
nary rail or board fence enclosing the
grounds. What is now known as Ells-
worth’s Addition to the city of Grand
Rapids was an open common, bounded
on the east by Division street and on
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attorney blank licenses and bonds,
which it is prepared to furnish on
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John McConnell. The exact northern
and western boundaries I am unable to
give. Across this open common a
never-failing spring brook pursued _ its
noisy course to the river. The owner of
this open field was the Hon. Henry L.
Ellsworth, of Indiana, at that time
United States Commissioner of Patents
in Washington. Previous to this meet-
ing, I had written to Mr. Ellsworth and
obtained his permission to fence and
occupy, free of charge, this non-resi-
dent property for the benefit of the Kent
County Agricultural Society. This cor-
respondence I submitted to the Com-
mittee. The generous offer was prompt-
ly accepted and plans were matured for
fencing and fitting the grounds for the
coming fair. Lumber and posts were
purchased of William T. Powers and
an eight-foot tight board fence enclosed
four acres of Ellsworth’s Addition when
the first successful fair of the Kent
County Agricultural Society was held.
The late Warren P. Mills acted as
Marshal. The city military companies
were out, Captain Borden with the West
Side artillery, and Captain Coffinberry
the East Side infantry. The city band
was in attendance. It was in Captain
Coffinberry’s company that Captains
George and Sam Judd took their first
military lessons. All the departments
were well represented. The exhibition
of fruit was superior to the collection
exhibited at the State Agricultural Fair
in Detroit. The weather was favorable
and the attendance for the whole three
days bore testimony to the general in-
terest for the success of the society. By
invitation, the Hon. Charles E. Stewart,
of Kalamazoo, who was the guest of the
late Harvey P. Yale, delivered an earn-
est, practical address. In closing, he
particularly called the attention of the
society to the necessity of purchasing,
while land was cheap, grounds for hold-
ing their annual fair.

The receipts were enough to pay the
premiums and expenses for fencing and
buildings and have a balance in the
treasury. The subject of purchasing
and improving their own exhibition
grounds was well received, not only by
the members of the society, but also the
public generally. Ata meeting of the
officers and Executive Committee, it
was resolved to act upon Mr. Stewart's
advice and secure a permanent location
at an early day. Accordingly, a tract
of land on South Division street, then
a mile from the center of business, was
purchased, by contract, from J. W.
Winsor, the writer advancing $100 to
make the first payment.

The Ellsworth property was occupied
by the society up to the time of its in-
corporation, December 29, 1855. At its
session in 1855, the Legislature passed
an act for the incorporation of county
township agricultural societies, making
it optional with the Board of Super-
visors of any county to spread upon the
general tax roll a tax, not to exceed
one-tenth of a mill on the dollar, to be
levied and collected the same as other
taxes, for the benefit of all societies
complying with the requirements of the
act, payable to the societies by the
treasurer upon the order of the Board
of Supervisors. The Kent County Ag-
ricultural Society was the first to avail
itself of the benefit to be derived from
this act, by filing with Peter R. L.
Peirce, Clerk of Kent county, on De-
cember 29, 1855, the necessary docu-
ments to be presented to the supervisors,
together with the petition of the officers
of the society that the levy of the tax of
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the roll for the benefit of the Kent
County Agricultural Society. In all
these movements to place the society on
a sound financial basis Siuman S.
Bailey took the leading part. It was
Mr. Bailey who superintended all the
preliminary steps necessary to comply
with the requirements of the act, and it
was Mr. Bailey, also, who represented
the society before the Board of Super-
visors and urged them to favorable ac-
tion. Strange as it may seem, there was
considerable opposition to taking any
action in compliance with the law; yet
it may not seem so very strange when |
relate that several members of that
Board of Supervisors told me that they
were not aware that any such act had
been passed by the Legislature until the
subject was brought to their notice by
our preamble and petition!

After considerable discussion our pe-
tition was granted. The officers named
in the articles of incorporation were:
W. S. H. Welton, President; J. W. B.
Smith, Vice-President; T. E. Wetmore,
Secretary; J. F. Chubb, Treasurer:
George C. Fitch, Andrew Loomis, L.
K. Jenne, Sluman S. Bailey and G. M.
Barker, Trustees; B. B. Church and
George C. Rogers, Councilors. Two
years later, it became necessary to file
amended articles of association in com-
pliance with the act, which was done
September 10, 1857. Article 4 of the
amended articles read as follows:
‘‘The President of the said society is
W. S. H. Welton; Secretary, Luman R.
Atwater; Treasurer, George C. Fitch;
the directors, Morgan Hunting, Cicero
Potter, Sluman S. Bailey, Stephen V.
Steadman and John Davis.’’

The money realized from the one-
tenth of a mill tax, together with the
sale of life memberships and the avails
of the successful fairs held on the Ells-
worth grounds in 1855 and 1856, fur-
nished the ready means to commence
improvements on the society’s own
grounds.

The charter members of the Associa-
tion were W. S. H. Welton, J. W. B.
Smith, J. F. Chubb, Geo. M. Barker,
Andrew Loomis, Sluman S. Bailey,
George C.  Piteh, E. K. Jenny, B. B.
Church, J. C. Rogers and T. E. Wet-
more. Of these charter members only
three are now living—Sluman S. Bailey,
George C. Fitch and W. S. H. Welton.

Since the filing of the amended arti-
cles of association—September to, 1857
—all records of the proceedings of the
Kent County Agricultural Society are
lost. Only three more annual fairs were
held before the grounds were turned
over to the Government for a recruiting
station, the exhibition buildings turned
into barracks for the soldiery, and the
rising and the sunset gun, and the bugle
and the fife and drum awoke the echoes
of the country round, and the meetings
of the Kent County Agricultural Society
stood adjourned without date.

W. 5. HL WELTON.

Owosso, Mich.

0
Increasing Liberian Coffee.

The producing and exporting of Li-
berian coffee is showing a phenomenal
increase. The export during the fiscal
year 1886 amounted to 600,000 pounds,
while the exports for the year ended
June 30, 1896, amounted to 3,000,000
founds. While no American ships
touch at any Liberian port, yet more
than one-fifteenth of the coffee is
shipped to the United States via Liver-
pool. Coffee is the largest export.

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Statistics prove that nearly two-thirds
of the letters carried by the world’s
postal service are written, sent to, and
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If there is one country in the world
where women appear, in the eyes of the
foreign visitor, to enjoy all manner of
privileges and to have the men in lead-

ing strings, that country is America. |
America would be the last country where |
the new woman was to be found airing |

You would imagine, therefore,

her grievances. Yet she is flourishing

throughout the length and _ breadth of |
She is petted by |

this huge continent.
her husband, the most devoted and hard-

working of husbands in the world; she|
is literally covered with precious stones |

by him. She is allowed
that would ‘‘fetch’’
times or start a panic at a Corpus
Christi procession in Paris
mayor's show in London.
superior of her husband
and in almost every other respect. She
is surrounded by the most numerous
and delicate attentions. The Anglo-

Saxon new woman is the most ridiculous |

production of modern times and des-
tined to be the most ghast!y failure of
the century.
woman with a grievance, and _ self-
labeled the greatest nuisance of modern
society. The new woman wants to re-

tain all the privileges of her sex and_|
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secure, besides, all those of man.
wants to be a man and remain a wom-

an. She will fail to become a man, but |

she may succeed in
woman.

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Cigarettes in Chicago.

Less than 300 Chicago tohacconists |
have taken out license to sell cigarettes |

under the new high-tax ordinance. Be-
fore the law went into effect there were
about 23,000 places in Chicago where
Cigarettes were sold.

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Association Matters
a ec MR NR ws on re
Michigan Retail Grocers’ Association
| President, J. WisLER, Mancelona; Secretary, E.
| A. Stowg, Grand Rapids; Treasurer, J. F.
TATMAN, Clare.

Michigan Hardware Association
President, Cuas. F. Bock, Battle Creek; Vice
President, H. W. WesBer, West Bay City;
Treasurer, HENRY C. MINNIE, Eaton Rapids.

Detroit Retail Grocers’ Association
| President, Josepa Knieur; Secretary, E. MARKS;
Treasurer, N. L. KoENIG
Regular Meetings—First and third Wednesday
evenings of each month at German Salesman’s
} Hall.

Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association

| President, E. C. Winchester: Secretary, HomER
| Kuap, Treasurer, J. Geo. LEHMAN.

Regular Meetings—First and thid Tuesday
| evenings of each month at Retail Grocers’ Hall,
over E. J. Herrick’s store.

Saginaw Mercantile Association
President, P. F. TREANOR; Vice-President. JoHN
McBrRaTNI®; secretary, W. H Lewis; Treas-
urer, Louk SCHWERMER
Regular Meetings—First and third Tuesday
evenings of each month at Elk’s Hall

|

Jackson Retail Grocers’ Association
| President, Gro E. Lewis; Secretary, W. H. Por-
TER; Treasurer, J. L. PETERMANN

Lansing Retail Grocers’ Association
President, F. b. Jounson; Secretary, A. M.
Darina; Treasurer. L. A. GILKEY.

Adrian Retail Grocers’ Association
President, Martin Gatney: Secretary, EF.
Cleveland; Treasurer, Geo. M. Hoch.

Traverse City Business Men’s Association

| President, Tos. T. Bares: Secretary, M. B.
| Hou.y: Treasurer, C. A. HAMMOND.

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| Owosso Business Men’s Association

| President. A. D. Warprie; Secretary, G. T. Camp-
BELL: Treasurer, W. E. Couiins.

Alpena Business Men’s Association
| President, F. W. Gincurist; Secretary. C. L.
| PARTRIDGE.
| Grand Rapids Retail Meat Dealers’ Association
| President, L. J. Katz: Secretury, Partie HILBEeR;
| Treasnrer.S J Hvrrorn

 

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Around the State

Movements of Merchants.

Wearsville—James Graves has started
a small shingle miil.

Pewamo—Snyder & Wilson
opened a new grocery store.

Bay City—Wm. Wallis has purchased
the grocery stuck of C. E. Dunsmore.

Sault Ste. Marie—Jas. Royce will
open a Cash grocery in the Lalond block.

Stevensville —Mrs. S. Brandes has
added a line of dry goods to her millin-
ery stock.

Jackson—Barnard, Smith & Co. have
moved their hardware stuck to the Gold
smith block.

Brown City—N. Schlichter has sola
his meat market to Wm. Holden, for-
merly of Yale.

Erie—Drewior & Hilton,
dealers, have dissolved.
continues the business.

Iron Mountain—W. F. McMyler has
purchased of Ira Bean the hotel known
as the Commercial] House.

Trout Creek—Ralph Udall, buyer for
W. H. Oakley, has gone to Buffalo to
attend the G. A. R. meeting.

Manistique—H. Winkelman & Co.
are succeeded by H. Winkelman in the
dry goods and clothing business.

Detroit—Conrad M. Berghoefer has
retired from the commission and _ pro-
duce house of Berghoefer & Son.

Detroit—Hannon & Springer, deal-
ers in lumber, lath and shingles, have
dissolved, Jas. Hannon succeeding.

Negaunee—Chevette & Lambert con-
tinue the blacksmithing business for-
merly carried on by Peter Chevette.

Thompsonville—Mrs. Mary Moore has
sold her millinery stock to Mrs. Eva
Ostrander, formerly of Traverse City.

Charlotte—W. H. McBride, who
cpened a furniture store about Feb. 1,
has assigned his stock to A. D. Clark.

Whitehall—Mrs. L. Lanterberg an-
nounces her intention of closing out the
shoe stock of the late H. B. Lanterberg.

 

 

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general
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Pickford—Dr. Kirby has sold _ his
drug stock to Joseph Maltas. The Doc-
tor will devote his entire time to his

practice.

Constantine—J. W. Thomas has sold
his boot and shoe stock to John Putnam,
who will continue the business at the
same location.

Tustin—V. S. Rolfe has purchased an
interest in N. F. Starks’ shoe stock
and the firm will hereafter be known as
Starks & Rolfe.

Belding—The Mikesell & Lloyd gro-
cery store, which was closed several
days ago, is again open, with S. E,
Mikesell as manager.

Traverse City—Freeborn Gardiner has
embarked in the grocery business with
a new stock of goods at the corner of
Oak and Front streets.

Sault Ste. Marie—A. S. Case now
occupies the store recently vacated by

Royce & Reynolds, which he has
thoroughly remodeled.
Perrinton—W. Smith has sold his

meat market to John Allenman, of Mid-
dleton, who will continue the business
at the same location.

Vermontville—J. E. Haun, who was
engaged in the grocery business at Char
lotte for several years, has engaged in
genera] trade at this place.

Eaton Rapids—Will J. Tucker and
Miss Emma Gallery will open an ex-
clusive dry goods store in the Minnie
building about Sept. 1. They have for
a number of years been in the employ of
H. Kositchek & Bros.,Mr. Tucker hav-
ing occupied the position of head clerk
in that establishment.

 

Munising—Wile bros & Co., of
Buffalo, N. Y., have taken possession
of the clothing and boot and shoe stock
of Adams & Wickin and are closing out
the same.

Hudson—Friedman Bros. have moved
their stock of goods to this city from
Camden, preparatory to opening a new
dry goods and clothing house in the
Wirts biock.

Elk Rapids—Charles and _ Harry
[hurkittle have leased the building re-
cently occupied by Nash & Sullivan,
and have opened a meat market under
the style of Thurkittle Bros.

Sault Ste. Marie—Royce & Reynolds
vow occupy one of the finest stores in
the city, having removed their grocery
stock to the Eilis block, which has been
titted up especially for their use.

New Era—A. M. Spaulding and
Martin Vanderven have formed a co-
partnership for the purpose of handling

all kinds of fruit and produce. The
firm name will be A. M. Spaulding &
Co,

Flint—Howard Church, for many
years a druggist at Holly, has broken
ground for a two-story brick store build-
ing, 100 feet deep, on Saginaw street,
which he will occupy as soon as it is
completed.

Kalkaska—Freeman Park has sold a
half iuterest in his grocery stock to Mrs.
O. C. Goodrich, whose interest will be
looked after by her son, Dorrence Park.
The new firm will be known as Park
& Goodrich.

Bancroft—F. B. Sabins and W. K.
Brewster have formed a copartnership
for the purpose of embarking in the
hardware business at Durand. Mr.
Sabins has clerked in the hardware store
of T. M. Euler for several years.

Ontonagon—There are about seventy-
five deputy sheriffs in the woods near
Lake Gogebic, looking for the escaped
Calumet postoffice robber. The last
official act of Mr. Robber was to put
seventy-five shots through the hat of a
Houghton county deputy at the time two
other robbers were captured on the Por-
cupine Mountains.

Bingham— Mike Oberlin, general
dealer at this place, will ‘‘grub stake’’
a party of five men from this section to
visit the gold fields of Alaska next
spring. Mr. Oberlin has agreed to pay
all expenses of the party for one year,
the amount to be expended reaching not
far from $4,000 In return for the money
thus advanced, Mr. Oberlin will require
each of his representatives tn the frozen
North to agree to give him one-half of
all the gold they secure during the life
of the contract.

Muir-—Hatch & Baker, while making
some improvements in their hardware
store recently, found an old shue made
by Henrick & Mattison forty-four years
ago, when they were in the shoe busi-
ness. It is square-toed and has no eye-
lets, the holes being simply punched in
the leather for the shoe-strings. Mr.
Henrick is now postmaster at Stanton
and his old-time partner is an inmate
of the Masonic home at Grand Rapids.
The shoe is on exhibition in one of
Hatch & Baker's shoe windows.

Detroit—The wholesale grocers of
Detroit are in better mood than they
have heen before for three or four years.
The increase in demand this fall is not
as great, compared with the past two
years, as it is in dry goods, for the rea-
son that the previous falling off had
not been so marked. People can econo-
mize mcre closely on clothing and table
linen than they can on food, and the
trade in the latter never becomes quite

 

so siack as it dues in the former. The
wholesale grocers find reason for con-
gratulation in the fact that there is some
increase in demand, that goods can be
sold now on a fair margin of profit, and
that the prospects of getting pay for
what is sold have vastly improved.

lonia—Geo, Scott, formerly connected
with the shoe firm of Scott & Gadd,
started West Monday morning, calcu-
lating to goto Rocky Ford, Col. His
excursion was rudely interrupted and,so
tar as beard from, he got only to Grand
Rapids. In the deal wherein he dis-
posed of his business, he, as book-keep-
er of the firm, it is alleged, represented
the indebtedness at over $700 less than
it really was. Mr. Gadd, his former
partner, discovered the fact on Satur-
day and issued garnishee summons for
him. A friend, learning what was in
the wind, put him on and he stayed out
of sight until Sunday morning, when
the summons could not be served and
be got away. His bank account was
attached, however, and he telephoned
from Grand Rapids to his banker to
settle the claim for $360.42, one-half of
the unaccounted-for indebtedness and
costs.

 

Manufacturing Matters.

Kenton—The Sparrow-Kroll Lumber
Co, is putting in a new siding to enable
it to more conveniently handle the lum-
ber piled in its extensive yards.

Elmdale—John Lenhart has purchased
the store building formerly occupied by
H. Lott and will utilize it as a ware-
house, in connection with his grain ele-
vator.

Bay City—Bousefield & Co. have been
making repairs on their woodenware es-
tablishment, having orders enough on
hand to keep the factory running for
several months.

Cheboygan—Pelton & Reid have pur-
chased 5,000,000 feet of pine timber on
Pine River and will lumber it the com-
ing winter. They will start crews lay-
ing out roads this week.

Marquette— There are more lumber
camps in operation at this early date
in the Lake Superior territory than at
any time last winter. This will be an
unusually active winter in the woods,

Benton Harbor—Ballhouse & Struben,
of Kalamazoo, have contracted to re-
move their manufactory to this place in
consideration of the citizens furnishing
them a factory rent free for one year.
They manufacture sulky plows, wheel-
barrows and machinery for purifying
water in boilers.

Marquette—Reichel Bros. have pur-
chased from A. Mathews a large tract
of land on the Salmon Trout River.
They will build camps and start log-
ging operations there at once. The tract
is estimated to contain about 5,000,000
feet. Seventy-five or eighty men will
be put in the camps.

Kalamazoo—The Kalamazoo Cream-
ery Co. has been organized, with a cap-
ital stock of $5,000, to equip and _ oper-
ate a factory creamery on the Comstock
road, near the Botsford Paper Co. The
contract for erecting the building and
furnishing the necessary machinery has
been awarded to the True Dairy Supply
Co. at $4,350.

Bay City—William McMorris and
A. Moore, of this city, will build a saw-
mill on McGraw’s extension of the
Bagley branch of the Mackinaw divi-
sion. It will give employment to about
thirty men and will cut such proportion
of the timber as will not be railed to
this city. It is expected that the mill
will have work for ten years.

 

Delray—The Fischer Glue Co, suc-
ceeds Fischer Bros. in the manufacture
of glue.

Benton Harbor—S. C. Zombro, Trus-
tee, has merged his business into a
stock company under the style of the
Zombro Lumber Co., the incorporators
being S. C. Zombro, Ralph Goodrich
and A. A. Covell. F. B. Christopher
continues with the new company as _lo-
cal manager and cashier and A. A,
Covell as estimator and salesman.

Detroit—Brownlee & Co., the River
Rouge lumber firm, will begin the man-
ufacture of salt in about thirty days.
The Grainer plant will be used, the
water being evaporated from the brine
by hot steam pipes passing through the
vats. A building 5ox12o feet is now in
course of erection, in which will be
placed three vats and a settler. A
storehouse 50x12o feet will be built be-
side the vats. The plant at first will
pump salt from the Carter salt block
near by and its output will be 200 barrels
a day. During the winter wells will
probably be sunk and the capacity
largely increased. Exhaust steant from
the lumber mill will run the entire plant
except at night, when refuse from the
mill will be used.

HO
The Produce Market.

Apples—Eating varieties, such as
Duchess and Red Astrachans, command
$2@2.25 per bbl. Cooking grades fetch
$1.50@1.75. The demand is strong and
the supply is limited.

Bananas—The market is steady, but
the movement is not quite up to that of
last week, because of the better supply
of other fruits.

Beets—3o0c per bu.

Butter—The market is very active
and tirm, the price of creamery having
advanced to 17c, while fancy dairy is
strong at 13c. The receipts have been
light and the market tends upward from
day today. The shortage in the sur-
ply has been chiefly due to the falling
off in the make.

Cabbage—4o@5oc per doz.

Carrots—3oc per bu.

Cauliflower—$1@1.25 per doz.

Celery—12@15c per bunch.

Corn—Green, 5c per doz.

Cucumbers—25c per bu.

Eggs—Fresh eggs continue scarce
and tbe market ts firm. The receipts
of fresh eggs have fallen off nearly one-
half and the price of fancy candled has
advanced to I2c.

Grapes—Concords from Southern Illi-
nois command 25c per basket.

Lemons— The market is off 75¢ per
box. This is owing to the generaly cool
weather over the country. Trade is
light.

Melons—Sweet Hearts, Black Span-
ish and Jumbos command 10@15¢c.
Home grown are in market, but are
not in very much demand, owing to
their inferiority to outside stock. In-
diana osage command $1 per crate.
Benton Harbor osage fetch $1.50 per
crate. Cantaloups, large in size and
fine in quality, are held at $1@1.1IO0.
Little Gems have declined to 50c per
basket.

Onions—Dry stock has declined
again, being now held at 75c per bu.

Oranges—The market is firm, with a

tendency to advance. Stocks are light
and demand is not large.
_ Peaches—Hale’s Early are the lead-
ing variety on the market this week,
commanding $1.25@1.50 per bu. They
are large in size and fine in color and
flavor, but the supply is inadequate to
either the shipping or consumptive de-
mand of the city. Early Crawfords will
probably begin to come in next week,
put the supply will be short.

Pears—75c@$1.25 per bu.

Plums—$1@1.50 per bu.

Potatoes--More plenty on the local
market. Growers realize about 4oc and
shippers hold at 5oc.

Squash—tc per Ib.

Tomatoes—Home grown comand $2
per bu.

Turnips—3oc per bu.

 

 

  

   
   
   
  
  
  
   
   
     
   
    
    
    
    
     
    
       
  
   
   
  
    
    
   
   
   
   
    
   
 
    
    
    
  
   
   
     
   
     
    
  
    
    
 
     
   
  
   
  
    
  
  
   
   
     

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*Barnhart-Putman Co.

Grand Rapids Gossip

Wm. Fisher & Caplin Bros., general
dealers at Stetson, have opened a
branch store at Scottville. The Ball-
furnished the

 

 

stock.

A. B. Huellmantel, whose grocery
stock at Lake Ann was destroyed in the
recent conflagration at that place, has
resumed business in a new building
erected since the fire. The stock was
furnished by the Worden Grocer Co.

The grocery firm of M. J. Vander-
veen & Co., at 694 Madison avenue,
composed of Martin J. Wanderveen,
Peter Van Haitsma and Bertus Dys, has
dissolved, Mr. Vanderveen retiring.
The business will be continued by the
remaining partners under the style of
Van Haitsma & Dys.

The Grand Rapids School Furniture
Co. has opened a branch office at Bos-
ton, placing Abraham Maskell in
charge. The New England traveling
representatives of the corporation will
be handled from the Boston office, in-
stead of the New York branch, as _ here-
tofore.

After writing threatening letters to
the trade at intervals, to the disgust of
all concerned, the Consolidated Store
Service Co., of Boston, has finally con-
cluded to ‘‘do something,’’ having be-
gun suit in the United States Court here
against Julius Steinberg, of Traverse
City. The plaintiff claims to own the
original patents on all the principal cash
carriers now in use and to have sus-
tained its claims to such patents in the
courts. An injunction is asked for to
restrain the defendant from using the
cash carriers and an accounting is asked
for to compel him to pay the royalties
for their use demanded by the company.
There are a large number of business
houses in the State using carriers
claimed to infringe the patents held by
the plaintiff, who threaten to begin
other suits unless the users of the alleged
infringing devices give up $10 per year
blood money. The Tradesman will have
more to say on this matter next week.

Matters on the new market have set
tled down to a regular routine and,
aside from the general look of newness
and the improvements still in progress,
one would suppose that it was a long-es-
tablished institution. For the first two
or three days there was some friction,
on account of reluctance to pay fees,
but this has about ended, although an
occasional farmer will yet assert that
there will be a private market in the
North End or elsewhere where fees will
be no more. .One of the reasons why
the situation is generally being accept-
ed so favorably is that since the change
sales have been unusually good. There
has been a better tendency in prices in
many lines and buying has been liberal
and ready. This fact has, naturally,
had a considerable influence in gaining
the acquiescence of the farmers in the
new arrangements and there is little
probability of any other market schemes
receiving further serious consideration.
It seems unfortunate that the streets to
be used as approaches to the market
should be in process of improvement at
the beginning of the new enterprise,
as it tends to increase the unpleasant
features of changing to a new place.
This, with the work in progress, filling
the approach across the chan ‘el, acts
as a serious drawback both for sellers
and buyers, but it is hoped that the

 

work will be pushed so that it will not
interfere long. As the improvements
progress there are less of the unsightly
disagreeable features intruding them-
selves. For instance, the view from
the approach toward the city has been

greatly improved by the erection of a
close board fence.
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Collection Agencies Which Should Be
Avoided.

The Tradesman has frequently warned
the trade to exercise caution in dealing
with the New England Trade Exchange,
which is alleged to have its headquar-
ters in Providence, R. I., and the Com-
stock Law and Collection Agency, which
hails from Oswego, N. Y. This week
the Tradesman feels called upon to cau-
tion the trade to make careful investi-
gation before paying any money or en-
trusting any collections to the Equitable
Adjustment Co., which has been repre-
sented in the city by a man giving the
name of W. C. Edmunds, who secured
several memberships at $1 per annum,
entitling the holder to have his bad
debts collected on the basis of to per
cent. commission. G. F. Dredge, the
East Bridge street meat dealer, took a
membership and handed over some _ac-
counts to the solicitor, who proceeded
with the work of collecting, retaining
not only the agreed commission, but the
other go per cent. as well. The name
of the agent is not given in the current
city directory and the statement that he
had an office in the Houseman building
was found, on investigation, to be false.
No names or addresses appear on the
blanks furnished by the agent, leading
to the belief that he is the ‘‘whole
thing.”’ Ifthe —Company’' was 'es-
tablished in 1880,’’ as a line on the
blanks would lead one to infer, Mr.
Edmunds must have raked in a small-
sized fortune by this time.

The Comstock agency is now attempt-
ing to force collection on a number of
$25 notes which were secured by its so-
licitor in exchange for memberships in
the alleged organization. The notes are
very cleverly worded, containing con-
ditional sentences calculated to entrap
the unaware, but the Tradesman is of
the opinion that the agency would
hardly dare to go into court to enforce
collection on agreements so manifestly
unfair and onesided.

The peculiar feature connected with
the career of irresponsible and fraudu-
lent collection agencies is that mer-
chants will ignore local collectors and
collecting agencies whose responsibility
is unquestioned and place themselves at
the mercy of entire strangers concerning
whom they have no means of ascertain-
ing any facts as to standing or respon-
sibility.

a -
Heroic Method of a Chesaning Grocer.

A Chesaning correspondent writes as
follow:

A Chesaning groceryman has a new
way of settling his poor accounts. He
gives the debtors thirty days’ notice to
settle their accounts, with the promise
of a good whipping if they do not com-
ply. One man received a good sound
flogging the other day in consequence
thereof,and the groceryman promised to
whip him every thirty days until the
account was settled.

Commenting on this method, the De-
troit Free Press says:

There will be a good deal of unspoken
sympathy for that Chesaning grocer who
goes after delinquent debtors with a
horsewhip. It would be difficult for
him to give page and section of the leg-
islative act authorizing his heroic meth-
od, but it was once said by a great
financier that there are some debts that
can only be collected with a club.

 

The Grocery Market.

Sugar—There has been no change in
the refined market during the past
week, although an advance is not un-
expected at anytime. The market is
very strong, but the consumptive de-
mand has been only fair. The Euro-
pean market during the past week has
been unsteady, and has fluctuated up
and down several points from day to
day, netting about unchanged. The
domestic raw market is exceedingly
strong. Conservative authorities consid-
er granulated sugar a safe purchase
at 5c.

Tea—The speculators of this country,
and many jobbers, have in hand consid.
erable tea of last season’s growth, while
the importations of the present season's
crop have been very heavy, rather more
than the demand required. The very
low grades of tea will not be as_plenti-
ful this season, because of the inspec-
tion laws that will keep them out.
Prices will average better than last
year, although good teas will not come
any higher to the retailer.

Coffee—Continuation of heavy receipts
at the primal points seems to be the key
to the situation, which the bears are en-
deavoring to turn for all they are worth.
When it is considered, however, that
the present rate of receipts indicates
that already nearly one-quarter of the
crops of Rio and Santos has been re-
ceived, and that but one and a half
months of the crop year have expired, it
would seem as if this element of de-
pression could be of but short duration.
Actual coffee shares somewhat of the
depression. Most anything desirable,
however, seems to be wanted at full
prices. Maracaibo and other mild coffees
are in good demand at unchanged
prices.

Canned Goods—The corn market is
hardening. Corn is late,and early frosts
will cut off a considerable part of the
stock for canning. Tomatoes are very
firm, many canners refusing to name
prices on futures. The pack will be
much lighter than last year, as matters
now look. About the only thing in the
canned goods line that is not showirg
an upward tendency is canned salmon.
[he market for Alaska red salmon is
unsettled, outside salmon having been
offered at low prices. Quotations on
Columbia River fish are lower than ever.
The packing season has been good, and
a large catch is reported from every
quarter. There are several new canner-
ies on the Columbia River, and they
are making prices in order to introduce
their goods. West Coast fruit is on tke
advance. Peaches, pears and lemon
cling peaches have advanced toc a
dozen this week. The export demand
for this fruit is considerable. No new
canned fruit is yet on the market.

Cheese—Fancy cheese is scarce and
at a premium. Prevailing weather con-
ditions have been favorable to the mak-
ing of fine cheese and the average qual-
ity is much better than usual at this
time of the year. It is apt to rule high-
er during September and October than
has been the case for several years.

Syrups and Molasses—The bulk of the
demand has been for mixed syrup, which
has advanced 1@2c per gallon further,
as the result of the continued advance
in glucose. The positions of sugar syrup
and compound syrup are now about re-
versed. As a rule, sugar syrup rules
several cents per gallon higher than
the mixed, but in consequence of the
stiff advances in compound, the latter is
now the cheaper by from 1@2c per gal-
ion. Sugar syrups, however, have ad-

 

vanced in sympathy with the advance
in compound goods, but no further ad-
vance is expected. Low-grade sugar
syrups are practically exhausted in first
hands, and are very scarce in second
bands. Molasses has also advanced, in
sympathy with higher prices for syrup.
There is plenty of stock on hand and
further advances are not likely. The
demand is fair.

Beans—The market slumrfed off toc
Tuesday, but the indications are that
the decline was only temporary and that
higher prices may be looked for in the
near future.

Fish—John Pew & Son (Gloucester),
write the Tradesman as follows: The
New England mackerel fleet, princi-
pally Gloucester vessels, have landed to
date about 7,700 barrels salted mack-
erel; for the same period last year about
33,000 barrels—a great shrinkage irom
last year. From now on to the close of
the season (about Nov. 15), no one véen-
tures to make a prediction as to what
the catch will be. About two weeks
ago, from all our reports, we were war-
ranted in saying, ‘‘There is a large
body of mackerel on that part of
Georges Bank called ‘Cultivator Shoal,’
and vicinity, and the prospect looks
very promising ;’’ but since the bonitas
(a shark species) have come into those
waters in large bodies the mackerel
have disappeared and at present no one
knows where. With much regret we are
compelled to quote mackerel in limited
supply and few sizes only. Later on
we hope for better things. The Grand
Bank codfish fleet have all returned ex-
cept two vessels, on their first fares, and
are now on their second, and have
landed about 50,000 qtls. codfish, a very
small stock with which to supply the
trade. The stock of codfish and kindred
kinds now on hand at this season of the
year is the smallest in amount that has
been here for a number of years. A few
years ago our Grand Bank fleet was
nearly one hundred vessels; now it is
thirty-two. The Georges Bank fleet is
also a small one, consequently those
who look for a large stock of codfish and
low prices will, we think, a few months
hence be disappointed. Most of our
ocean products have ruled at such prices
as not to give adequate returns to the
fishermen, and have been on the sime
basis as the products of our Western
farmers for the past two years. The
decrease in the Grand Bank and Georges
codfish fleet is caused by the low prices,
making it expedient for the withdrawal
of many vessels from those fisheries fora
time and the engaging in fresh halibut,
haddock, and other fisheries We note
an advance in Georges codfish recently
of 50c a qtl. Grand Bank cod are held
firm and holders are not anxious to sell
at present prices. With any marked
improvement in the demand, we expect
they will advance 25@5oc a qtl., and
then the price will be very reasonable.

o> o<—- —

Austin K. Wheeler, Treasurer of the
Lemon & Wheeler Company, has _ re-
turned from his summer outing, which
was spent in Massachusetts, New-
foundland and Nova Scotia.

——_~>-4 __

Chas. E. Belknap, President of the
Belknap Wagon Co., has returned from
the Pacific Northwest with a satchelful
of orders for sleighs and wagons.
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One couldn’t carry on life comfortably
without a little blindness to the fact
that everything has been said better
than we can put it ourselves.

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The Cheese Situation at Several East-
ern Markets.

New York, Aug. 24—The receipts
have shown a decided falling off, as
compared with last week, while quality
generally has improved and, with strong-
er prices paid in the country, the market
has ruled firm and higher. Foreign ad-
vices have also been more favorable and
cables show a further advance. While
the general condition of the receipts
has shown a decided improvement over
those of a few weeks past, still from
some sections the cheese continues
faulty, and with buyers very critical re-
garding quality, the defective lots have
dragged heavily and have had to be cut
deeply in price to attract attention of
speculative buyers and really nice
cheese only slightly faulty bad to sell at
7@7%c and more defective lots from
6%@6%c, down to 6c. Really fancy
cheese meet with only a moderate de-
mand, but holders are steady to firm in
their views on the basis of 8@8'%c for
large full cream colored and 7% @8c for
fancy white.

Small size full cream cheese has been
in much lighter supply, more especially
colored, and with a good demand from
the home trade, prices have ruled strong
and advancing until 9c is a_well-estab-
lished price for fancy colored. Small-
sized white has been more plenty than
colored and is generally selling slowly,
though prices of fancy are beld higher in
sympathy and 84 @8 4c generally asked.
Part skims have been in comparatively
moderate supply the past week, but the
demand is slow, particularly so for
grades below choice. The advance in
full cream has caused holders to feel a
trifle more confidence and light skims
are held firmly at 53, @6c, while choice
large part skims are quoted at 54 @5 4c,
good to prime at 4%@5c and common
to fair at 3@4c. Full skims are nomi-
nal at 2@3c.

Utica, N. Y., Aug. 23—The course
of the cheese market during last week
was upward, and the advance was more
pronounced than it has heen at any
other time this season. There was an
improvement of ts. 6d. in the cable
also, with indications of further im-
provement this week, or at all events
very soon. The best grades of stock
were well cleaned up, leaving none to
go into storage. Prices closed as fol-
lows: Large colored, 8c; large white,
8c; small white, 8%c; small colored,
834c. These prices were exceeded,
however, in the western part of the
State, where gc was paid for small col-
ored and 84%c for large. The present
outlook for cheese is certainly strong
and very favorable. No doubt the im-
provement in general business and the
employment of many idle hands help in
the consumption of cheese, as in many
other articles of diet. The continued
foreign demand is also a prime factor
in the strength of the market.

There is one strong contrast between
tbe prices of this year and those of last
year. Large cheese was then selling at
4c higher in New York than small;
this year the small is worth easily %4c
the more. The evidence here goes to
show that while export trade was the
most active feature of the marketa yeer
ago, the reverse is true this year and
home trade is the stronger. Colored
cheese of both sizes is also in better
demand than white.

The attendance at the Board was
again small in comparison with the
membership, but a pretty good bunch of
cheese was taken in by the buyers. The
prices paid were not equal to some
prices paid at other boards; but one
buyer who buys freely on the northern
markets positively asserted that he
would rather purchase on thuse markets
at the prices nominally paid than on
the Utica market at the actual quota-
tions here. The Secretary of the Utica
Board has had two letters recently, ask-
ing how much ‘‘rebate’’ the salesmen
here allowed to their buyers from the
prices quoted in the papers. The

answer was that no such thing as a re-
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known on this market. The transac-
tions here are bona fide and the buyer
pays just what he agrees to pay, except
In rare cases where a few cheese are re-
jected by the inspector in New York
because they do not come up to the
standard by which they were bought.
The enquiry suggests that there are or
may be places where cheese is sold
where such a practice is followed, and
where it is customary to allow a ‘‘re-
bate’’ from the price given out in pub-
lic.

Cheese is now sold off nearly to the
first of August. A few factories have
from two to seven days of July yet to be
marketed, but the majority have closed
out the make of that month.

Little Falls, Aug. 24—There was an-
other good stiff market for cheese to-
day, particularly for small colored, for
which there was the most active de-
mand. The flow of milk keeps up re-
markably well when comparison is
made with other seasons, and the prod-
uct is large for the number of cows.
The weather is favorable for grass, and
varly cut meadows show a nice growth
of after feed, to which many cows will
soon be turned in, in the effort to keep
the flow of milk at the highest possible
point. There is some fear expressed
that the prices have been forced to a
point that will shut out export busi-
ness.

—>2>
Armour & Co. Enter the Creamery
Butter Field.

A Chicago correspondent makes the
following prediction regarding the posi-
tion Armour & Co. will assume in con-
nection with the creamery butter trade
of the country:

Armour & Co. have at this very min-
ute more creameries under contract than
any other concern in Chicago, and they
are contracting more of them every
day; not creameries that produce sec-
onds, but extra first factories. They
get them easily enough because of their
enormous Commercial prestige and _ be-
cause the shipper knows that he will get
his contract price for all there is. I
heard one man ask how they would
dispose of all the butter, but that is the
easiest froposition in the whole busi-
ness. Armour & Co. have upwards of
200 large distributing houses for their
products, scattered all over the country.
They are having the managers of these
houses come to Chicago, and are in-
structing them, in squads of a dozen or
so, how to care for and handle butter.
These men will go back to their differ-
ent places and get the butter trade of
their section. This isa pretty safe haz-
ard, because Armour & Co. have the rep-
utation of employing that kind of men.
In this city they have a splendid equip-
ment for handling butter, have their
own refrigerating plant here, as well as
their own line of refrigerator cars to
distribute the goods. With unlimited
capital and unquestioned business in-
tegrity, thev are sure to do an enormous
trade. They have made the boast that
they are going to have the butter trade
of the West; now watch them get it.
What effect this competition will have
on the Chicago trade remains to be
seen, but it is sure to be of benefit, for
a time at least, to the producer. The
outcome will be watched with consider-
able interest by all concerned.

——_—_-~»>-9-~>— ae

While a business man of Newport
News and his family were sitting at
table wondering why the cook was so
long in getting breakfast, a tramp, who
had come along just as it was to be
served, sat in the kitchen eating what he
wanted of it while keeping the cook quiet
with a revolver.

—___2—.___

While Ex-Ambassador Bayard was on
his way to this country he remonstrated
with a little boy on the steamer who had
struck a little girl. He was completely
staggered when the youngster turned to
him and said: ‘‘Oh, what’s the matter
with you? You are not the only can on
the dump.’”’

{t is noted that the women of the
royal families of Europe are, on the
average, much stronger mentally and
physically than the men.

TRADESMAN

 

BUTTER

Handled only on Commission.

EGGS

On Commission or bought on track.

M. R. ALDEN, 98 S. Division St., Grand Rapids.
Butter and Eggs Wanted

For cash at your station.
Special attention to

Apples, Peaches, Berries, etc.

Hermann C. Naumann & Co.,
Main Ojfice,-353 Russell Street, Branch Store, 799 Michigan Avenue, Detroit.

New Crop Timothy.

Medium, Mammoth and Crimson
clover. Alsyke, Alfalfa, etc. Orchard
Grass, Red Top, Lawn Grass.

New Crop Turnips. Garden Seeds, Implements, Lawn supplies.

We are in the market for car lots or less. If any to sell, send good
BEANS size sample and we will make bid for them. We are also buyers of

Alsyke Clover and Pop Corn. If any to offer, kindly advise us.

Klondike
Riches

PHONE 5565
GRAND RAPIDS.

 

 

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We buy and sell Beans, Potatoes, Onions, Cabbage, Apples, Pears, Plums, Peaches, carlots and less.
Bushel Baskets and Covers.
Peaches—Early Alexanders now in market. Hale's and Rivers peaches will soon follow.

Give us your daily orders.

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26"28-30-32 OTTAWA STREBT, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN,
Wholesale Seeds, Potatoes, Beans, Fruits.

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and can handle your BUTTER to good

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Pennsylvania’s New Cheese Law.

August 2a law went into effect in
Pennsylvania which establishes the fol-
lowing standards of butter fat for each
grade of cheese: Full cream, 32 per
cent. ; three-fourths cream, 24 per cent. ;
one-half cream, 16 per cent. ; one-fourth
cream, 16 per cent., and skimmed, any-
thing below 8 per cent. Some manu-
facturers and dealers have protested
against the enforcement of the law,
claiming that the average creamery
milk will not make a cheese having 32
per cent. of butter fat and therefore that
manufacturers will have to brand a
grade lower than is just or proper. Sec-
retary Edge, of the State Agricultural
Department, points to New York State
reports, showing that 5,000,000 pounds
of milk from 15,000 cows, when made
into cheese, gave an average of 33.83
per cent. of butter fat, while other ex-
tended experiments gave an average of
as high as 34.18. In all these cases the
samples were tested as ‘‘green’’ cheese,
the inference being that the per ceut of
butter fat would be greater as the cheese
became drier.

The Pennsylvania Department of Ag-
riculture has ordered analyses of not
less than 200 samples of cheese selected
in the State, preparatory to the enforce
ment of the new law. Secretary Edge
has been informed, on what he believes
to be good authority, that Pennsylvania
manufacturers have sent cheese to New
York factories, where, for a considera-
tion varying from one-half to one cent
a pound, it has been branded for them.
If the information proves to be correct,
he will at once apply the proper rem-
edy. The Secretary claims that Penn-
sylvania milk should make as good
cheese as New York milk, but admits
that in many cases there is more or less
skimming. The object of the new law
is to protect the consumer, and it is
believed that in the end it will be for
the good also of the Pennsylvania

 

cheesemaker.
8
Western Lard Claimed to be Deficient
in Oil.

From the Philadelphia Grocery World.

Considerable complaint is heard
among the trade regarding the quality
of some of the Western lard which is
being brought into this city. While the
objectionable grades of this Western
product conform with the pure food
law, so far as is known. in that they
contain no adulteration, yet they are of
exceedingly poor quality in that a good
part of the oil has been extracted.
Some brands of Western lard which are
sold in Philadelphia are as good as
many made, but others are dry and
manifestly lacking in oil fats.

Local packers of lard seem to have
this market at present under almost per-

 

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WEDNESDAY, - - - AUGUST 25, 1897.

 

STRUGGLE OF TRADE UNIONISM.

Such institutions of modern life as
are based on principles in harmony
with those of civilization and the right
development of the human race may
have much in them of errur and imper-
fection brought down from the more
crude conditions of the past and yet be
permanent in their character. But all
these have the common characteristic
that they partake of the general spirit
of progress to the extent that they adapt
themselves to the changing conditions
by the gradual elimination of incon-
gruous elements and so assume a fosi-
tion in the general advance of evolu-
tion. On the other hand, those institu-
tions which are inimical in their essen
tial principles to the development of
the best civilization may have much
that seems good and philanthropic and
yet Cannot continue to exist. A familiar
example cf such an institution comes to
mind in the case of American slavery.
In the patriarchal system which afforded
protection and care to the helpless and
easy-tempered negro there was much to
argue for its continuance and support.
But its most essential principles were
wrong, and so it was doomed to destruc-
tion, and the violence of its death was
increased by the prejudices caused by
that which seemed good and right in its
constitution.

This reference to the ending of slav-
ery is not made so much to note the
analogy in the way of bondage,although
such analogy exists, as to call attention
to the fact that there seems to be in the
essential priaciples of trade unionism
that which prevents its taking a place
in the ranks of progress and so dooms it
to destruction. How similar this may
be in manner to that which charac-
terized the ending of slavery depends
upon the hold that unionism may main-
tain upon the ignorant masses under its
control, by the advocacy of such doc-
trines of equality and philanthropic re-
gard for the welfare of its membership.

That the institution of trade unionism
will not be so changed as to meet the
requirements of progress and so become
permanent seems manifest in the fact
that in every recurring struggle there is
no modification of its general princi-
ples. Its leaders are learning much of
Strategy from their defeats and are
adapting their methods of warfare ac-
cordingly; but, in their demands for
absolute, tyrannical control, not only of
their membership, but of the interests

 

of the employer, and of those outside of
their membership as well, there is no
indication of change.

Ip the struggles now in progress it is
the claim of the right to control every-
thing which prevents a settlement. In
the bituminous coal mining strikes the
demand is made for general uniformity,
and to attain that end the strike must
be made universal. So, in mines where
the wages and treatment of the men are
entirely satisfactory, both to employe
and employer, there is no difference—
unionism claims the right to interfere
and cause the stopping of work. Of
course, to carry out such high-handed
tyranny and usurpation, there must be
something of plausible good advanced,
and so there are preached the princi-
ples of universal brotherhood and equal-
ity—principles of unquestioned right,
but principles which were made to serve
as the foundation of the most violent
and bloody revolutions the world ever
saw.

The present, and all great, struggles
involving the essential principles of
unionism are doomed to failure. That
these recurring struggles are ever likely
to precipitate a general violent contest,
as in the case of slavery, is becoming
less probable every year—indeed, there
is much that is developing in the pres-
ent contests that seem§ to promise a
comparatively harmless ending of this
incongruous feature in our Civilization.
It 1s becoming evident that the spread
of a truer appreciation of the principles
of right is weakening the hold of union-
ism upon the ignorant everywhere. A
Significant indication is announced in
the matter of the Ishpeming strike
against non-union workmen, that the
question is to be submitted to the mem-
bership by secret ballot. This is a most
radical departure, and will mean such
a curtailing of the power of personal
leadership as will go far, if carried
out,to destroy a most essential principle
of union control.

Unionism as a disturbing element
and controlling force in industry is
nearing its end. If it is to continue in
name it must be so modified in prin-
ciples as to lose its characteristics and
identity. That it may be succeeded by
other organizations based on a recogni-
tion of the rights of all is indicated in
the fact that such organizations are al-
ready springing up, many of them on
account of the need of defense against
unionism, But unionism is nearing its
end.

 

It is sometimes Giscouraging to note
the number of merchants who are con
tinually being victimized by fraudulent
collection agencies, unreliable commis-
sion merchants and other institutions of
a questionable character which are con-
tunually being exposed in the columns
of the Tradesman. The dealers who
suffer from the depredations of the
swindlers almost invariably belong to
the class who insist they cannot afford
to take a trade journal, yet they are in-
veigled into schemes every year which
cost them dollars where the trade jour-
nal would cost them cents. ‘‘An ounce
of prevention is worth a pound of
cure,’’ but too many merchants fail to
keep themselves thoroughly informed
on what is going on in the world and
then curse their luck because they are
the victims of their own ignorance.

 

 

 

 

The bulge in wheat is a big thing for
the wheat, farmer who still holds his
grain, but is tough on the workingman
in the city who has to buy flour. There
is always a fly in our ointment.

 

GENERAL TRADE SITUATION.

That the steady advance which has
so long been in progress in the stock
and grain markets should continue with-
out reaction was generally considered
improbable, so that the reaction which
set in last week in the former, to be
followed this week by the latter, takes
few by surprise. Indeed, the remark-
able feature had been that the specula-
tive efforts to bear the stock market,
especially, were so long unavailing.

The reaction in stocks was caused by
the heavy realization of profits, and
some descriptions were carried down as
much as $2 per share—a comparatively
insignificant amount when the steady
advance from the beginning of May is
taken into consideration. All the con-
ditions which had kept up the advance
so long are still operative and there is
no doubt but that a speedy recovery and
advance to higher levels will soon ap-
pear.

The remarkable advance of wheat was
attended by such speculative excite-
ment that there could scarcely fail to
come a reaction and, while this has been
considerable, there is nothing in the
statistica] situation to indicate that the
price will not be maintained at the
present level for some time, even should
it not again advance.

An important feature of general trade
is the unusually large placing of orders
in the great wholesale centers for fall
and winter goods. New York City, es-
pecially, has secured reductions in rail-
way fares for buyers from most Western
points, which has resulted in the visit
of many thousands of buyers—more
than for many years—who have _ placed
such liberal orders that a great influence
on productive industry must follow.

The textile situation is still favorable,
prices having strengthened for cotton
products, while the advance and activ-
ity in woolen goods still holds. Sales
of wool continue heavy and prices of
Western stocks are well maintained or
even advanced.

The iron outlook still continues fa-
vorable, new furnaces and works con-
stantly going into operation and prices
slowly strengthening.

Bank clearings continue large, al-
though falling 1 per cent. below those
of last week. The amount was $1, 140, -
000,000. Failures were 221, against 214
for the preceding week.

 

 

MARKED EBB OF THE TIDE.

In our present condition of industrial
depression and redundancy of labor it
is gratifying to discover that the great
tide of foreign immigration which for
some years was setting so strongly to-
ward the United States has shown a de-
cided loss of volume during the past
year or two.

The Treasury Department has just
issued a special report on immigration,
in which the statement is made that the
tide of incoming humanity from abroad
‘‘is at the lowest point now since the
general government assumed jurisdic-
tion over the subject in 1882.’’ It will
be possible to appreciate the size of this
tide in former years when it is an-
nounced that this ‘‘lowest point,’’ to
which the Department refers, was last
year 230,832 people. In ten yeras such
an annual influx would amount, in the
natural order of things, to several mil-
lions increase in the population; but
these figures fell short of the preceding
year by 112,435. In other words, there
was a falling off last year of about one-
third in the immigration from abroad
as compared with the previous year. It

 

will be seen that the volume is still too
large unless composed of the very best
class of immigrants—persons with some
means who are not likely to swell the
pauper ranks or the ranks of cheap la-
bor.

All nationalities showed a falling off,
not only the undesirable Hungarians
and Poles and Russians and lower or-
ders of Italians, but the Germans, Eng-
lish and Irish, who are generally among
our most desirable immigrants.

Two causes have contributed to this
result: The report throughout Europe
of a general stagnation of business here

and embarrassed finances has had much
to do in reconciling the restless popula-
tion in Europe to home conditions,
while another important factor has been
the increased knowledge abroad of our
immigration laws and the growing de-
termination here to enforce them.

If we can keep down the tide for a
few years we shall see a vast improve-
ment, not only in the labor situation
over here, but in the general improve-
ment of social conditions. The great
bulk of our immigration we can absorb
rapidly, but not when discordant ele-
ments are introduced in such numbers
as has been the case up to the past two
or three years. We need even more
stringent restrictive laws than we now
have, so as to exclude the illiterate as
well as the pauper and the vicious.

MANUAL TRAINING AND UNIONS.

It will be remembered that at the time
of the panic four years ago the project
of establishing a manual training school
in connection with the city system had
so far advanced that an appropriation
was made for the preliminary work, but
on account of that interruption the mat-
ter was allowed to drop. The friends
of the project have only been waiting a
return of normal conditions to take it
up again, and they have secured an al-
lowance in the school budget of $5,000,
and it is probable that the work will be
pushed as rapidly as improvinz condi-
tions will warrant.

In harmony with its policy of restrict-
ing apprenticeships and the spread of
technical knowledge in the young, which
might tend to increase competition in
their trades, the central. labor unionists
have passed a _ resolution condemning
the movement and calling upon the
Common Council to strike the item out
of the budget. It is the operation of
this policy in England and this country
which has given the Germans the op-
portunity to claim the markets of the
world wherever they could gain an en-
trance, as a result of the care taken to
increase technical education in that
country in every way possible. There
is tenfold more menace on this account
than could ensue from the most liberal
education of ourown children. Indeed,
such education is our only defense.
But the selfish narrowness of those who
shape the policy of unionism can see
no danger so far away as Germany and
the other technically educating coun-
tries, and their narrow. selfishness
prompts them to rob their own children
of the opportunity to compete in the
world’s industries, and they must grow
up to fall into the ranks of poverty and
swell the armies of tramps, while the
werld’s work is claimed by the nations
of broader intelligence.

A loafer sitting eight hours a day in
a saloon, looking at the sand and cigar
butts on the floor, insists he does not
see any evidence of the prosperity that
business men say has come to the coun-
try.

 

  

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

SRITISH DOMINATION.

The fact that England, small as it is,
has become the richest nation on the
face of the earth is surprising enough,
but it is made more so by the further
fact that the bulk of this wealth has
been accumulated within the last half
century.

English statesmen early realized that
they must find some means of bringing
wealth from other countries. War and
conquest were the methods adopted by
the Romans; but they were too risky
and costly. Then came the proposition
to secure colonies in various parts of
the world and to extort taxes and other
exactions from them. That was the
method employed by Spain. People
will not, if they are able to make a suc-
cessful resistance, submit long to that
sort of robbery, and the result to Eng-
land was a loss of the American col-
onies, after a long and expensive war.
The result to Spain has been a loss of
all her important New World posses-
sions, with the exception of Cuba and
Porto Rico. They will soon go the same
way.

Finally, the English statesmen fell
upon the device to convert their island
into a workshop for all the nations of
the earth. England had abundant coal
and some iron, while the English peo-
ple had a decided turn for mechanical
invention and scientific discovery. They
resorted to the method of admitting into
their country, free of duty and tax, raw
materials from every country in the
world. These raw materials were con-
verted into manufactured articles of all
sorts, and sold broadcast over the earth.

The nations which sold the raw ma-
terials got very little for them, while
England made fair profits on all the
manufactures,and yet they were so good
and so cheap that they could be sold to
people everywhere. After becoming
the world’s workshop and factory, the
chief concern of England was to find an
ever-increasing market for her products.
She found a new use for her colonies.
They were no longer plundered by the
tax collector. On the contrary, they
were not taxed atall; but they furnished
markets for English goods.

The enormous trade thus developed
required an immense amount of ship-
ping to transport the raw materials into
England, and the manufactured articles
to the countries where they are sold.
England built and operates the ships
which do this vast carrying business,
and, asa result, England controls the
commerce of the world.

In this way England has become enor-
mously rich, and London is the world’s
money market. The markets of the
world are dictated from London, and
the nations and corporations that want
to borrow money go there to sell their
bonds and to offer their securities. Eng-
lish capitalists loan money to all the
nations that have any credit, and to
most of the great corporations of other
countries, and there is always English
capital seeking investment.

A review of British investments in
foreign countries, printed in L’Econo-
miste Europeen, and quoted in the New
York Bankers’ Magazine for August,
shows that mest of the immense foreign
investments of Fngland have been made
in Victoria’s time, and in the latter
part of it. The foreign loans of Eng-
lish capital are put at $15,000,000, 000 at
the highest estimate, and at $11, 000, 000, -
ooo for the lowest, and they bring in an
annual interest of $400, 000, 0oc.

Eleven thousand million dollars is an
almost fabulous sum in which foreign

 

nations are mortaged to England. <Ac- |
cording to an estimate in Rand & Mc- |
Nally’s Bankers’ Monthly for August, |
the aggregate debt of the American peo- |
ple to Europe, and largely to E ngland, |
for Government, state, city and corpora-
tion loans, railway shares and industrial |
securities, is put at a maximum of |
$4,000,000,000. In addition to this corr
thousand million which the American |
people owe largely to England, they pay |
in cash every year $100,000,000 for |
freight charges on merchandise carried
in British ships. Another $100,000, 000
sent abroad by American tourists every |
year goes, in part at least, to England, |
and another $100,000,000 or $150,000, - |
ooo, which goes abroad for interest and
dividends, is also divided with England. |

Thus it is that a country which, in|
relation to its original area and popula- |
tion, is one of the smallest, has been
able, by its immense wealth, gathered by |
means of its vast commerce with other |
nations, to become one of the great
powers of the earth, and one that always |
exercises a weighty influence in settling |
the affairs of the nations. |

It has all been brought about by means
of wise financial and commercial poli-
cies which have made all the trading
peoples tributary to it.

 

Alaska costs the United States $7, 200, -
ooo. It has paid us to date $103,000, 000, |
This enormous sum _ has been derived
from furs, herring, salmon, cod, ivory, |
whalebone and gold. At the time of the |
last census the United States had taken
out $76,000,000. Since then we have
been enriched by $27,000,000. -Of this, |
$20,000,000 has been gold and the re- |
mainder from other products. These
are giant figures, but they are the exact
truth. The first actual settlement of that
wonderful country will begin next
spring. The sum total of what it will
add to the world’s wealth in the coming |
years passes conjecture. |

A law has been recently enacted in |
France which forbids in all French
colonies the sale of anything under the
name of butter. which is not wholly |
made from milk or cream, Every pack-
age of any substitute for butter must be |
branded on every side with the assur
ance that it is not really butter. It is
equally severe on oleomargarine and
every other substitute for butter. Oleo- |
margarine may be all right in its way,
but every fair-minded man will be glad |
to hear of laws being passed, whether at
home or abroad, to prevent it, or any
other article, = s for what it is not.

The country home and buildings of |
William Rockefeller, in Westchester
county, N. Y., have been assessed for |
$2,500, 600. Mr. Rockefeller’s agent |
says $125,000 was paid for the place and |
$350,000 improvements have been add- |
ed. He says he has instructions to offer |
the place for sale for the cost of the im- |
provements, Mr. Rockefeller being will-|
ing to lose the purchase price tn order!
to ‘‘escape the taxes.’’ All of which}
tends to substantiate the truth of the,
claim that wealth along the Hudson has |
been assessed because it is able to pay
rather than with a view to equity.

 

Foolish people are those - who thi ink |
with |

they can go into a frozen country
out provisions, outfits or anything else |
and, as placer miners, wash a fortune |
of gold out of the shining sands of run- |
ning streams that are not there.

 

 

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Clerks’ Corner

 

 

Are Proprietors Always to Blame?
Written for the TRADESMAN.

When I read in the letter from the
fellow over the way that ‘‘she’’ was
coming home with him, I knew that for
many a weary month I| should not have
the pleasure of an evening with him.
They wouldn’t want me to be dropping
unceremoniously in and so, when | saw
that that weekly talk was over, I began
to wonder who the next one was to be.
One temporary friendship is sure to
step on the heels of another, thanks to
an overruling Providence, and even as
I was entertaining the thought there
came a determined rap on my door.

Following my hearty ‘‘Come in,’”’
there entered a young fellow who is
clerking in a large department store and
whom I had occasionally met in the
room of ‘‘him’’ who now belongs to
‘"her.”" He had felt, as i had, the loss
of the genial company of the friend
whose wedding had taken him to ‘‘that
country from whose bourn no traveler
after the regrets and
condolences due to the condition of
things had been exchanged, we repaired
to comfortable seats on the veranda.

‘I don’t expect to gc back to my
posish on my return from my_ vacation.
(Young men of 22 require only a re-
spectful silence when they begin in that
way, and so | put my feet against a
veranda post and with an ‘‘is that so?’’
waited.

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returns! and,

‘Yep.’ (That familiarity disgusted
me, but I’d see to that later.) “They
don’t appreciate a man down to my
place and I’m going to cut ’em. I've
been working there couple of years now
at that lining counter and that man
Woodruff promised me, when I took the
place, that I should have more pay as
soon as I was up to it, and that, when
there was a vacant place higher up, |
should have the first chance; and that’s
the last time I’ve ever heard of either
of ‘em. Now that's a mean way to treat
a man and I’ve stood it about as long
as I’m going to; and when I come back
I’m going to walk up to Woodruff and
I’m going to say, ‘See here now, Wood-
ruff, you'll have to give me more money
or I’m going to quit.’ Wouldn't you?’’

‘“You have another place,or will have
by that time, I suppose? Because, you
know, it might be a little embarrassing
if he should tell you that he couldn’t
make any change.’"’

‘‘No, I haven't. I hain’t obliged to

 

work there, or anywhere else if I don’t |
want to. My mother rather wants me|

to stay in there till I’ve got the busi- |

 

 

ness learnt; but, by the great horned
spoon! I don’t think I’m gitting along
very fast if I’ve got to stay more’n two
years at that blanked lining counter. ’’

‘Must be a little monotonous, | judge.
They can’t keep you always on the
keen jump.”’

‘*T should say not! Why, there’s days
an’ days when, for fifteen minutes at
a stretch, I don’t do nothing but cut
my finger nails or stand with my hands
in my pockets. I don’t like it and I’m
just agoing to quit. You see, ‘there’sa
nigger in the woodpile.’ Chilson has
been in that department just as long as
I have. Well, he’s a blank, chuckle-
headed chump, any way you can fix it,
but he’s related to Woodruff; and, if
I’m put up, it’s going to play the divil
all round if Chilson doesn't go up to,
and he can’t because he—well, don't
you know that there’s some fellers that
just git into a hole and are willing to
stay there? So, you see where I am;
there ain’t no chance for me to climb
up and so I’m just agoing to quit.”’

‘‘What does your mother say about
it?’’

‘Mother? O, she don’t cut any ice in
such matters. She don’t care anyway.
She’s well fixed and all she wants is to
have me contented. The idea, when I
went in there, was for me to work up in
the business and then put sonie money
into it; but that’s busted long ago and
I’m agoing to quit.’’

* You have a fine wheel] there. They
must pay you pretty good wages or you
couldn’t afford it.’”’

‘‘O, I didn’t pay for it. Mother give
itto me. She looks out for me pretty
well. If she didn’t I should havea
tough time of it. As it is, I have what
[‘m paid at the siore for pocket-money,
and I blow it in where I prefer. But
what do you think about my leaving?
If that blamed idjit hadn't gone off and
got married I could have asked him;
but that can’t be and so I’ve come to
you. Now I want you to talk to me
right out and out. Hit right from the
shoulder, if you feel like it. It'll do
me good. Now then, sail in, old—what
is it Jim calls you?’’

If I had had any respect for the puppy
that last attempt at a disgusting famil-
iarity would have settled the business;
and now that, at last, I had the floor, I
knocked the ashes from my cigar and
made answer:

‘*You are laboring under a number
of mistakes. The first one in thinking

 

that anybody but yourself isto blame. |
have occasion, from time to time, to go|
through your establishment, and | have |
always found you with your hands in|
your pockets or, as you say, fussing at |

your finger nails, neither occupation be-
ing looked upon as strictly business. 1
happen to know your manager and I
know that he doesn’t like that sort of
thing any better than any other busi-
ness man would like it; and the wonder
to me is that he hasn't put another man
in your place long ago. He sees, as I
have, that you are not interested in your
work; and I'll tell you right here that
you'll never get a promotion until you
deserve it—and that won't happen until
you take your hands out of your pockets
and go to work. That story about Chil-
son sounds plausible, but it’s without
foundation, and Chilson would have
been promoted some time ago if it
hadn't been for you. The worst feature
of all this trouble, in my mind, lies in
the fact that you are living on your
mother. You don’t pay any board, you
don't pay for your clothes, you don’t
buy your own wheel—you simply ‘blow
in’ that ten or fifteen dollars a week
that you get for keeping your finger
nails in order, and when it’s gone you
wouldn’t like to tell her where it went
to. It doesn’t help matters to know that
your mother is ‘well fixed’—the dis-
graceful fact remains that you are abus-
ing her mistaken kindness.

‘Now, if I were you, I’d stop the
whole wretched business. I'd be man
and go to work. The whole thing de-
pends on you—Woodruff told me so;
and, a year from to-day, I'd have it so
that I could lock in the glass and see
there a young man in a better position,
earning his own living and leading a
clean life, a comfort to his mother, the
profit of his employers and the delight
of an ever-widening circle of friends.
Try it, young fellow, and a year from
to-day come around and tell me all
about it.”’

He seemed to take it kindly enough;
and if he reports twelve months from
now, the fellows who take an interest in
the Clerk’s Column shal! read all about
it. RICHARD MALCOLM STRONG.

le Sai

There is a hopeful editor out in Iowa
who does not propose to be stumped on
the prosperous times. The other week
the cancellations of mortgages exceeded
the number of new mortgages made, and
it Claimed that this was an evidence of
prosperity. The next week the mort-
gages exceeded the cancellations, and
the paper came out and claimed that it
was positive proot of prosperity, because
the farmers were borrowing money to
make improvements.

_— > <—-

There is a scarcity of cents in

Toronto, caused by the 15,000 Epworth

| Leaguers, who were there, carrying off |

about 50,000 of the copper coins as sou-
venirs. To relieve the situation, a
half-ton of the cents was shipped from
Montreal.

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The Commercial Testing of Flours.

Michigan millers ask for some method
of testing winter wheat flours applicable
for commercial uses. The most natural
test is by baking into bread, but this is
too slow for commercial purposes, and
too much dependent upon the skill of
the baker. Doughing the flour and
washing out the gluten is also too slow
and no account is taken of soluble albu-
men. The method of testing must elim-
inate the personal equation and give
incomparable numerical results. It
must also be rapid and easily used by
persons of ordinary skill.

The testing must also take account of
the amount of water absorbed by the
flour, the strength or viscosity of the
dough, ard the color of the surface when
moistened, and also when dried. In
testing, a dough is made having 50 per
cent. of water and 1oo per cent. flour.
The strength is determined by the vis-
cometer, by which the resistance of the
dough to being forced through an aper-
ture by a constant force or the pressure
of a steel cylinder pressing upon the
dough in a tube having an opening one-
fourth of an inch in diameter. The test
is made by noting the seconds of time
in the cylinder falling through one inch.
The viscometer of Jago is the model
from which this instrument was made.

Tested in this way, the patent flour
has less strength than the straight.
Patent flour is for pastry, and straight
for bread. Color testing is best accom-
plished by using a shailow tin wedge
into which the flour is smoothly pressed,
plunged under water,dried and then the
surface compared with other flours, or
with a scale of colors.

Australian flour is much higher col-
ored than Michigan flours. No scale is
yet made for Michigan flours, because
no samples of pure Michigan flours
could be obtained, as Dakota spring
wheats were blended with Michigan
wheats. With this year’s crop millers
promise specimens of pure Michigan
flours, from which a scale of colors will
be prepared for testing Michigan win-
ter wheat flours.

Work will be carried on both in meas-
uring the strength of Michigan flours by
the viscometer, to make a scale for our
flours, and a scale of color for determin-
ing the grade of our flours. The com-
mercial testing of flours so that they
can be graded into appropriate classes
which can be recognized both in our
State and in commercial centers, so as
to secure uniform results at the mills,
is the objective point to be reached
in this work. K. C: KEDZIE.

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W. D. Watkins, Representing Sprague,
Warner & Co.

Will Delmont Watkins was born at
Burlington, Branch county, Mich , July
22, 1862. His ancestors were Ameri-
cans as far back as the family history
can be traced, and settled at an early
date in New York State at Watkins’
Glen, from whom the place was named.
The family removed from Burlington to
Union City, where his father, Edward
M. Watkins, is engaged in the grain
business. He attended the public school
of Union City and afterwards spent
three years at the State Agricultural
College, pursuing the Scientific Course.
After three years of hard work, he was
compelled to leave college one year be-
fore graduating on account of ill health.
He returned to Union City and for the

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next three years iccmpacn the position
of Teller in the Farmers’ National Bank
of that place. The close confinement
incident to his bank duties not being
conducive to his health, he was com-
pelled to make a change of climate and
spent one year in Southern California,
having the good fortune to secure a po-
sition in a bank at Los Angeles. His
health being much improved, he re-
turned home and embarked in the gro-
cery business at Union City. One year
later he sold his stock and accepted a
position on the road for Sprague, War-
ner & Co., wholesale grocers of Chi-
cago, with whom he has now been seven
years,

Mr. Watkins was married last October
to Miss Minnie Cole, of Jackson, and
they reside in a pleasant home in Kal-
amazoo, the center of a wide circle of
admiring friends.

Mr. Watkins is an attendant at the
Congregational church at Kalamazoo,
He is not a ‘‘jiner’’ of secret societies,
however, being content to belong to the
original body—the Masonic order—and
is a member of the Union City Blue
Lodge, F. & A. M. Recently recogni-
zing the advantages offered by the Mich-
igan Kuights of the Grip, he has be-
come affiliated with that organization.

Mr. Watkins has acquired consider-
able property, including a fine brick
block in Union City, which he holds in
partnership with Mr. Faxon, of the
Jackson Grocery Co.

Everybody knows ‘‘Billie’’ Watkins.
His customers like, trust and thorough-
ly respect him and his visits to them
are always’. pleasurably anticipated.
While he is not, perhaps, a typical
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the term—he is certainly an ideal one.
Looking up the prediction of the birth
day prophet for July 22, the date on
which Mr. Watkins was born, the foi-
lowing lines aptly apply to his charac-
ter: ‘‘Such fine reserve and noble reti-
cence; manners so kind, yet stately;

such a grace of tenderest courtesy. i
———__ +2.

Boycotting the Traveling Man Poor
Business Policy.
Written for the TRADESMAN.

In my somewhat varied business
career there has frequently reached my
notice what seems to me to be not only
senseless and foolhardy as relates to the
merchant who adopts such tactics, but
actually suicidal to any hotel manager
who seeks by threats to withdraw his
patronage from a merchant who buys
from some drummer who chances to put
up elsewhere—who assumes to dictate
to a traveling man where and with whom
he shall eat, what he shall drink and in
what place he shall sleep.

Just so surely as water seeks its level
will a properly-conducted hotel receive
its share of public patronage; and trav-
eling men are rare who influence for
the good of the merchant or landlord
who directly or indirectly seeks to boy-
cott, bulldoze or in anywise hamper
the free action of a traveling man.

The following incident forcibly illus-
trates the point in question: A travel-
ing man, recently, who failed to secure
an order, for no other reason than that
he put up at the wrong hotei, took out
his memorandum book and carefully
wrote down the merchant’s name and
address, in plain view of said mer-
chant, who asked,‘* What do you put my
name down for? I’ve ordered nothing."’
To which the drummer made reply: ‘‘I
am putting you on our list as another
damphool, for seeking to boycott one of
a class that always will rank among the
true business man’s best friends, at the
instigation and benefit of a man whose
trade, at best, is of questionable worth.
To those on this list we each and all are
fraternally bound to give no valuable
tips; to show no favors in terms; to
offer no special inducements; to allow
no bargains to reach, and to consider
one and all such men our natural en-
emies and beat them on all possible occa-
sions. Our regards are also due the land-
lord in question, and we are preparing
for him and his ilk a banquet the prin-
cipal and only course of which will be
‘cold shoulder,’ and its single toast,
ID—P’s,* the discussion of . which
shall be universal among © traveling
men.

I asked myself, Is such a course pur-
sued among the traveling fraternity? If
not, why not? Who among all employed
men are better able to judge where and
with whom to lodge than this same class
of men? What class can turn so much
traveling trade toward or from. the
hotel fraternity as the Knights of
the Grip? What chance has the puny
boycott of a hotel man (usually of the
third or fourth class—seldom of the sec-
ond and never of the first) against the
thousand limber tongues that surely will
wag against any measure that smacks of
forcing themi to any act against indi-
vidual judgment? If a spread of ‘‘cold
shoulder’’ is in preparation for said
landlord, would the heat of Hades be
sufficient to revive the spirits of this
cheerless man after he has partaken of
this meager frosty lunch, served, as it
would be, with the afore-mentioned

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Getting the People

How to Conduct an August Clearance
Sale.

Twice a year almost every retail es-
tablishment has a grand clearance sale
in which all the odds and ends of a six
months’ accumulation of business must
be swept away by the mighty brooms of
little prices and good advertising.

 

 

One occurs in January or February—
if you remember I treated of it in an
article several months ago—the second
occurs in July or August, and a few re-
matiks regarding it are now in order.

The advance guards of the fall stocks
will soon be trooping in—they need the
shelf and counter room now taken up
by the fag ends of summer and_ spring
stocks. The latter must be rid of—
there is one way to do it and that is by
a well-aimed advertising splurge and
prices so small that they will induce
every bargain-loving man, woman and
child within a reasonable radius of your
store to visit vou.

Department stores, shoe stores, cloth-
ing stores, haberdashers, hatters and
many more of the retail lines wiil find
this sammer clearance sale, if well di-
rected, a strong impetus to their trade.

Let us first take general dry goods
and department stores. Newspaper ad-
vertising is the best advertising, of
course, but it may be supplemented by
effective billboard advertising, with
window and interior store displays.

A very .xcellent method is to take a
four or five inch single or double col-
umn space—according to your advertis-
ing appropriation—and announce the
sale two or three days in advance. This
will tend to put people in a receptive
mind for your big half or tull page ad
which comes out in all its glory, gen-
erally on a Sunday.

Give a good display to the top head-
lines and headings. I would advise that
this top piece run clear across top of
advertisement. Have the items set in
uniform style beneath. Have two double
column squares with items and prices
on the two most important departments
on extreme right and left sides directly
under main heading, thus giving the
center columns, single column each, to
less important departments. If you take
a full page try to carry out this arrange-
ment throughout. Now, after this short
talk about grouping the items and
prices, allow me to make a few other
general suggestions:

Tell clearly and pointedly in your
general headline that this is your
‘‘Great Mid-Summer Clearance Sale’’
or ‘‘Semi-Annual! Clearance Sale,’’ and
give your reasons for holding this sale.
It is a good rule never to advertise a
sale of consequence without giving a
reason for that sale. People are uncon-
scious analyzers of sales - they like to
look for reasons—superficial or pro-
found. Give them reasons when you
can.

Do not overcrowd the advertisement.
Have the whole arranged symmetrically
and effectively. I wish I could insert
in the body of this article a good half-
page or page example of some of the
good clearing sale advertisements which
I have in mind, so as to illustrate this
point.

Keep this sale up for one week any-
way. Fire your great shot off with the
first big advertisement—the succeeding
advertisements need not be so large. If
the first week’s sale panned out all right
and you think you can give it another
week’s whirl, go ahead and do it. You

 

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are the best judge. Every advertiser—
every merchant—every business man,
must in a measure be a law unto him-
self. Just the same,he can pick up im-
portant points on special subjects by
specialists. Asa rule,this special sum-
mer clearance sale lasts two weeks. I
have known extreme instances where it
has been stretched as long as a month.

Use cuts—good, strong, clear talk—
pay nice attention to type, rules and
borders, back up your advertisements
with attractive window displays, get up
special department exhibits, have plenty
of plain black and white price tags,
paste proof of your advertisements in
conspicuous points in your establish-
ment, where the clerks, customers and
floor managers can easily refer to them
and if your goods are demandable and
dependable you ought to be able, after
the sale is over, to have your decks
cleared for fall assortments and have
some more ready cash in your bank.

Three or four good double half. column
or two full-column advertisements on a
clearing sale would do lots of merchants
good just now. Or, better still, if you
can afford it— come out with a half-page
clearance sale and supplement it with
three or four good advertisements to
follow the first big advertisement. In
the matter of items be clear and_ satis-
factory—it is bette. to siop over a little
on the details than to say too little.

The summer season is not over yet
by any means—and many an _ impe-
cunious young man who has not secured
summer suits by reason of ‘‘the high
price of provisions and the stringency
of the money market’’ will be very like-
iy to grasp a good opportunity when
properly presented in a good live ad-
vertisement.

Before sailing in on your ‘‘Great
Clearance Sale’’ or any other sale it al-
ways pays to sit down and do some tall
thinking. Call in your various buyers
after you have given the subject some
consideration—they will give you lots of
good points. Never fly off on a tangent
or go off before your gun is quite
loaded. Have all the details of your
sale well mapped out in your mind—
then when you are ready to act you can
act intelligently.

W. ANnGus McDONALD.
—_—__—_~» 0.

It will be news to most people that
until recently there was a milliner’s
shop in New York bearing in golden
letters on its front the name of Bern-
hardt, and with its windows filled with
the latest creations of Parisian bonnet
makers, especially selected for the fair
Americans by the divine Sarah herself.
Mlie. Largta Bernhardt, her niece,
presided over the millinery, and on the
strength of her name hoped to make a
fortune. But “‘les belles Americaines’’
were not going to pay an extra price for
their hats because they happened to
have been selected by Sarah Bernhardt,
and preferred to buy them in Paris.
And so the Bernhardtesque contents of
the millinery shop in New York have
been knocked down to the first bidder,
and Sarah the divine will not stoop to
such vicarious trade in Parisian hats
and bonnets again.

+ 0.

Zine ore, of which Missouri is one
of the largest producers, has advanced
$3 per ton. The mines in Europe are
failing, and over 12,000 tons of zinc
ore have been shipped from Missouri
to Wales and Belgium. Both zinc and
copper are in largely increased demand
for electric railways.

0

A suit for dissolution of partnership
has been brought in Jersey City bya
man who declares that his partner swears
at him and threatens him, so that he
dare not enter the place in which the
business is conducted.

 

Stop the Leaks.

The drug business is one in which the
sales are small, and from the nature of
the stock it is liable to evaporation and
leakage; naturai changes spoil some of
the goods and render them unfit for
medicinal use.

One very serious leak is the accumu-
lation of dead stock. Patent medicines
quickly become such when the advertis-
ing stops. Although the sale may have
stopped with you, in some territory
covered by your wholesaler there may be
a demand. Make an exchange with him
at some price.

Your essential oils and perfumes have
been left exposed to the sun and are no
Jonger salable. Don't let this happen
again.

Your ointments have become rancid,
because you did not benzoinate your
lard and keep it in a cool place.

Your camel’s-hair brushes and others
are moth-eaten, because you have not
frequently handled them or taken care
to use some moth preventive in time.

Your apprentices are careless in re-
gard to weights and measures.

In your anxiety to do business you are
too easy in the matter of credits, and
bad debts accumulate. A very serious
leak is loss of customers. New ones are
hard to get, therefore hold fast to those
you have. They are your friends; use
them as such and give them no cause
for complaint. Some things may occur
in which you must submit to an in-
justice, or they will be dissatished and
leave you, never to return, Submit
cheerfully to this. Their future patron-

 

 

age will more than cover the pecuniary
loss, and time will give you an oppor-
tunity to correct the temporary injus-
tice.

Drug stores sometimes burn. Have
you this leak stopped by reliable insur-
ance? J. W. BALLARD.

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GOTHAM GOSSIP.

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

New York, Aug. 21--The general im-
provement continues and the large job-
bing grocery houses are full of buyers.
The dry goods district is crowded, and
go where one will he sees well-to-do
people who are evidently strangers.
They go down to Wall street, through
the exchanges, visit Old Trinity and St.
Pauls and read the inscriptions on the
graves, fill the restaurants, and, alto-
gether, are spending a lot of money
here.

Rio No. 7 is over 30 per cent. lower
than a year ago, being quotable to-day
at 7c, against 114%c a yearago. The
consumption is greater, but not of suffi-
cient volume to make up the increased
supply. In store and afloat there are
768,794 bags, against 478,257 bags at
the same time last year. In the milder
sorts there is somewhat of a scarcity of
fine Maracaibos for roasters. Good
Cucuta is worth 13%c, while Padang
ranges as high as 3oc for fancy mats.
Mocha, 18 '!4@2oc.

There has been a steady market for
both raw and refined sugars, the latter
being in fair demand. Granulated is
listed at 5c. All orders are being
promptly filled, with little if any buy-
ing ahead of current wants.

Tea is still dull, being relieved here
and there by a purchase by one of the
out-of-town visitors, who gets what he
wants at almost any figure. Stocks are
still heavy and there seems little likeli-
hood of a better situation in the imme-
diate future.

Rice is firm, decidedly so. Holders
are confident of the strength of their
position and will abate not a jot from
established rates, even although it
would be the means of effecting sales.
Crop reports are encouraging and the
output may have the effect of lowering
the price in the future. It seems to be
the general opinion, however, that the
present is a good time to make fairly
liberal purchases of this staple.

Canned goods are almost as buoyant
as wheat. Tomatoes and corn are 10@
15c higher than a few weeks ago. Mar-
rowfat peas are anxiously sought for at
65c, against 55c a- fortnight ago, and
many packers are bewailing the fact
that they made sales on the basis then
prevailing. Such are the ups and downs
of life. California fruits are very firm
and holders will make no concession.
Peaches are said to be very high at the
canneries in Maryland and on the Pa-
cific Coast, owing to the great demand
for the fresh fruits from the large cities
for immediate consumption. Crop re-
ports as to corn are discouraging and
the probabilities are that we shall see
a steadily advancing market from now
on. The same is true of tomatoes.

The spice market is quiet, but there
is a little better business than a week
ago. Some orders from the_ interior
have been received and a slight ad-
vance has been made on a few articles.

Molasses and syrups are both rather
dull and quotations are nominal. Some-
how there seems to be a growing apathy
among the people for molasses, and the
‘‘gond old times’’ for the staple, when
it was used to sweeten coffee and every-
thing else, have gone.

California fruits are being disposed
of at the rate of about Ioo cars per week,
to say nothing of the supply from near-
by sources. Excellent prices prevail
for fruits of all sorts and growers must
be doing extremely well. Oranges and
lemons are in light request while there
is so much other fruit.

Butter is firm and the prospects are
good for a steady condition for the rest
of the season. Western creamery is
held at 16c. Other grades are slightly
advanced, but the demand is not great.
Rather more export business has been
done than usual.

Improvement is shown all along the
line in cheese, large full cream being
held at 8%c; small size, 8c; really fancy
stock, 9c.

Eges are firm. Near-by are selling |
‘every hand oils the wheels as they run.

at 17¢ and Western at 15c. Arrivals are

 

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moderate and ‘the “supply seems to be
large enough to keep the market closely
sold up.

Choice pea beans are worth $1.20;
choice marrow, $1.42% ; medium, $1.20;
California limas, $1. 4o.

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A Tobacco Window Display

A feature of window dresssing, which
may be of service to the smaller retail-
ers, is the utilizing of empty cigar
boxes arranged in various attractive de-
signs. This is done by taking ten or
a dozen empty 50 or 20-boxes of the
same size, boring two holes in each
through the front side and the bottom,
one hole near each end of the box, the
boles being bored through the front side
about a quarter of an inch above the
bottom, and then passing through the
bottom about a quarter of an inch from
the front. Through each of these holes
is passed a thin, copper wire of the
required length to correspond with the
boxes laid side by side. The lids are
then nailed down and the two wires
drawn tight; the boxes will stand out
with their free ends at right angles to
the circles of the wires, like the fingers
on the hand. This is only one design
which can be suspended in the window,
and as soon as the retailer catches on
to the knack of making the combina-
tion he can turn out hundreds of designs
which catch the eye—crosses, arches,
etc.—all of which may be used in con-
nection with advertising.

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Corner in Barley.
From the N. Y. Shipping List.

Milwaukee operators say that a wealthy
syndicate has been formed in Chicago
for the purpose of cornering barley. A
number of hapless shorts, who thought
36 cents was a high price for No. 3 bar-
ley a few weeks ago, are now trantically
bidding 10 cents higher in their efforts
to cover and retire at a considerable
loss.

About a month ago crop prospects
were favorable, but a heavy fall of rain
just prior to the beginning of harvesting
operations changed the entire aspect of
affairs, and threshing disclosed the fact
that excessive moisture had discolored
the entire crop, rendering it unfit for
delivery on contracts and undesirable
for malting. The scramble for light-
colored grain that followed the announce-
ment was succeeded by an influx of or-
ders that quickly advanced values to
cents a bushel. Sixty cents is now free-
ly predicted for new No. 2 barley, and,
in view of the prospects for a higher
range of values, farmers are hoarding
their supplies. :

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The Lightest Known Solid.

From the American Machinist.

The lightest known solid is said to be
the pith of the sunflower, witha specific
gravity of .028, or about one-eighth that
of cork. The sunflower is extensively
cultivated in Central Russia, and vari-
ous uses are served by _ its different
parts, the recent discovery of the light-
ness of the pith essentially increasing
the commercial value of the plant. For
life-saving appliances at sea, cork has
a buoyancy of one to five, while with
the sunflower pith one to thirty-five is
attained. About eight hundred cubic
inches of it would weigh as much as
one cubic inch of iridium, the heaviest

metal.
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A New Idea in Cigar Lighting.

A new Ccigar-lighting device is an idea
developed by the cashier of the cate of
a New York hotel, and he had it car-
ried out by a well-known firm of silver-
smiths. The device consists of a tiny
brass alcohol lamp, shaped like a tea-
kettle. There is a handle and a spout,
and from the latter issues a jet of
flame. The kettle rests on a brass plat-
ter, and to use it one must lift it by the
handle and apply the flame to the cigar
or Cigarette.

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It is right to look our self-accounts
bravely in the face now and then and
settle them bravely.

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constituency of the class of goods the advertiser wishes to
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Hardware

How Best to Foster and Preserve
the Retail Dealer.

The retail merchant is to-day the
most important factor of our commercial
being. He is the common center around
which cluster the consumers of every
class. He is the pivotal point where
the manufacturer and wholesaler turn
from the commercial highway tc the
consumer, depositing their wares, the
products of the mill, the loom, the fac-
tory, full in the belief that he (the re-
tailer) is the logical and intelligent
distributer, the mediator between them-
selves and the consumer. In the pre-
historic ages, whatever may have been
the customs of exchanges is largely a
matter of conjecture. For hundreds of
years since the advent of civilized man
there has always been a mediator,a dis-
tributer, an exchanger who parceled
out the larger stocks to the consumer, as
his wants required. This same medi-
ator, or middlleman, has been largely
instrumental in returning to the manu-
facturer the raw material, the product of
the consumer. The retailer stands to-
day where he has ever stood since Civ-
ilized trading began,and where he must
ever stand if our commercial being
shall be preserved and made glorious.

How best, then, can we foster and
preserve this most important factor—
this factor without which the wholesaler
must perish and the manufacturer be-
come crippled—this prime factor alone
the greatest element of strength to the
commercial world, the man nearest to
and most important to the consumer?

Men living to-day who have by a few
years turned the half century mark have
lived through fifty years of our country’s
greatest history. In the last fifty years
we have made history faster, we have
made more rapid strides, we have made
larger development and pushed forward
to a higher state of development than
any known country of the world. Fifty
years ago we were scarcely at the begin-
ning. We were then in the primative
days of our development. Soon there-
after the fell hand of internecine war
was laid upon our industries, then slow-
ly unfolding. Our energies were taxed
for our greater needs, and cioser appli-
cation of man’s inventive tact to meet
the demand caused quickened energy
and in the shortest possible period we
had grown froma small, young nation to
one of the most powerful and _ resource-
ful of all the earth.

In twenty-five years we have seen
very large manufacturing industries
covering acres and acres of floor space
built up from small, little beginnings.
In eleven years preceding 1890 ours was
a mad, eager, breathless race of rapid
development. In that time more than
1,000,000 emigrants came to us from
the old countries. We builded nearly
g0,000 miles of railroads. Quite 2,000, -
oco people from the denser populated
portions of the East crossed the conti-
nent to the plains and California, build-
ing new homes, viliages, towns and
cities. Under man’s tutelage our broad
Western acres have yielded most boun-
teous harvests. Every industry—en-
gineering, mining, manufacturing and
agricultural—has laughed at man’s
touch and yielded a thousand foid.

This was the greatest and most rapic
development and expansion ever known
to the world. We had possessed all the
elements needful to our development,
but no cause had forced them to the
front. With our greater development

 

 

 

 

came greater want—one want begetting
another. Four years of war and its de-
mands created expansion and made
waste. Under expansion came constant-
ly increasing and fictitious values. It
was not necessary then to be an adept
in business, and he who engaged in
commercial trading was, if fairly atten-
tive to business, usually successful.
The waste of war necessitated repara-
tion, which has gone on to its almost
final completion, and with its comple-
tion comes a reaction from our too rapid
development and expansion. The great
army necessary to our development and
the reparation of wasteful war has be-
come an idle horde. Our home produc-
tions are many times greater than our
consumption. The development of
other countries in the same period as
our own has largely closed the markets
to our products and industries, and we
awake from the period of great prosper-
ity and industrial development to face
the reality, and a more moderate pace
for future advancement.

From a period of hand labor and
hand production we have, almost before
the thought of time, stepped into a pe-
riod of large and cheapened machinery
productions, where a single little ma-
chine produces in less time the repre-
sented labor of fifty or roo men. What
means this changed condition of affairs?
Retrenchment, reforms, lessened prices
for our products because of lessened de-
mands, lessened productions because of
aiready over-crowded markets, lessened
margins of profits because of enforced
economy of living; even Mother Earth,
because of a superabundance, is not, of
necessity, called upon to yield her most
bounteous supplies.

Under this changed condition of
affairs must we of the present generation
trim the commercial sails for a contin-
ued forward advancement. To no class
of people are delegated greater or more
important functions of meeting these
conditions and guiding the commercial
craft through troubled waters than to the
retail merchants of to-day. The man-
ufacturer does not heed, and seemingly
will not realize,our changed conditions.
Wholesalers are trying to force our over-
burdened markets; schemes and _ all
sorts of cunning are resorted to to win
business from one channel to another.
Down at the gateway, at the door of the
consumer, stands the thoughtful retail-
er. He grasps the situation; he knows
the consumer’s wants; he knows the
remedies; give to him the proposition
and he will find the solution. To meet
the issues and restore prosperous con-
ditions he must:

1. Receive the aid and encourage-
ment of manufacturer and wholesaler.

2. He must stand, as he is, the only
logical dispenser and administrator of
the consumer’s wants—the distributer
of the commercial products.

During the few years of our too rapid
development large industries were
builded up and smaller ones begun. Our
manufactured products multiplied under
various forms of improved machinery,
and man’s cunning produced beyond
our requirements, until to-day we have
a congested market, crowded to a limit
beyond our conception. This state of
affairs has led to scheming and all
forms of intrigue to keep our factories
in operation and their enormous prod-
ucts disseminated. Adulteration of food
products, deceptive and false advertis-
ing, false scheming of all sorts have
been brought to bear in the pull for
business. Selfishness, avarice and greed
have largely governed trading.

The consumer (the producer) has be-
come restless under the influence of
market depressions; his acres do not
broaden, neither does the yield increase,
while the constantly lessening prices
play sad havoc with his earnings ; hence
he is constantly casting about for a bet-
ter market for his purchases, and the
ever-alluring and gilded advertisement
catches his eye, purloins his judgment,
and he flies from supposed evils to ills
he knows naught of. He turns down
his best friend, the retail merchant,
and embraces the supply man and de-
partment store, who will sell him a few
staples at less than cost and take 100
per cent. profit on goods he knows little

about.
During our development and the re-

paration period manufacturers were ever
crowded with orders, and the question
of being able to fill them was the only
bother to their business. For like rea-
sons the wholesalers were always build-
ing upon a growing and expanding busi-
ness. The conditions which provided
expanding markets to meet the constant
demand have all too suddeniy changed,
and manufacturers and wholesalers are
blinded to the facts, or will not concede
them, and by every artifice known to
man are trying to force the markets,
only to the disadvantage of our com-
mercial industries.

To the retailer must come the duty
of correction. And why the retail mer-
chant more than manufacturer or whole-
saler? Because of his position in the
trade, his close proximity to the con-
sumer, his standing almost at the begin-
ning and ending of commercial trans-
actions. For hundreds of years the re-
tail merchant has been the student of
consumption’s wants; to know the re-
quirements, to prepare to meet them, is
and has ever been his mission in trade.

 

 

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complete line of hand made Harness, Carriages, etc.

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More earnestly now than ever before in
our country’s history must he address
himself to the work before him. He
must become not only a student, but an
artist in the work of rebuilding our
commercial industries upon strong lines
of perpetuity. His labor must be un-
selfish, and single to the general good
of our common country. His reward
must be the honest increment of legiti-
mate merchandising. A thousand little
vices and ills have crept into the retail
business unawares. To correct them
requires application and united co-op-
eration of all. State organizations should
be effected ; co-ordinate county organi-
zations should also be instituted, as-aids
to state associations. Several states
should be constituted a district associa-
tion, and from these district organiza-
tions should come a national associa-
tion. The evils easily discovered should
receive the remedial appliances which
the best minds of your organization
shall suggest. Co-operation with man-
ufacturer and wholesaler, and not an-
tagonism, will do much to perpetuate
associations.

Three simple remedial laws, enacted
by the several states or the general gov-
ernment, would, no doubt, accomplish
all these requirements. These laws can
be offensive to no one, and must re-
ceive the sanction of every honest Amer-
ican Citizen:

1. A law prohibiting and preventing
all forms of food adulterations, so in-
jurious to the general health of man-
kind.

2. A stringent law compelling the
proper labeling or branding of all
classes of goods and compounds made
as substitutes, and so often advertised
as the genuine article and sold at one-
half the price.

3. A like law regulating all forms
of business advertising, compelling ad-
vertisers to live up to the line and spirit
of their advertisements, preventing
fraud and deception of the credulous.

The first law would wipe out all inju-
rious compounds known in the trade, as
baking powders, spices, peppers, pack-
age coffees, impure teas, ail nauseating
and vicious compounds.

The second law would make it impos-
sible to sell inferior and poor goods to
the consumer as genuine or equal to the
genuine, because the proper labeling
would be the evidence of untruth,

The third law would eliminate all the
schemes and double proceedings of de-
signing tradesmen, as well as play-work
of the consumer, who so frequently tries
to play horse between dealers of his
own or adjoining towns. It would also
cut off many of those little jealousies
which arise among neighboring deal-
ers, Marring the harmony and lending
aid to the corrupting influences of good
commercial business.

Each and every one of these laws
would be a just one, wronging neither
manufacturer, wholesaler, retailer, nor
consumer, as they would do much toward
a just correction of existing evils with-
out injury to a single honest competitor
in business.

Another commendable measure, and
one that will bring you greater relief,
is a cash plan of business, buying and
selling. When your customer goes to
the department store or catalogue house
it is with cash in hand. Why, then,
should he not come to you with cash?
You are ever ready to sell him for his
spot cash at a less price than his time
payments.

Adopt to the farthest extent the cash
plan, and show your patron the wide

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

difference between the strong and the
weak factor in trade, and he will not
long favor distant markets, Buying
and selling for cash makes business
pleasant, maintains friendship and saves
money to manufacturer, seller and con-
sumer, admitting of smaller margins of
profit and larger net annual gains.

I commend to you the adoption of the
cash system to the farthest limit in your
business as retailers. Many manufac-
turers and jobbers who know your com-
mercial worth would much prefer your
time account than cash transactions,
because the interest rate is so much less
than the discount rate upon your pur-
chases.

The course of every country merchant
should be to encourage healthful com-
petition, to further and aid all plans for
improving the market conditions of our
immense farm products, While study-
ing your own interests you should not
fora moment forget the interests of
your patrons, and be ever ready to aid
them in securing better prices and _bet-
ter market facilities for their surplus
products. It is your duty, and you owe
it to your patrons, to look squarely into
the face of all competition, and so shape
your business dealings, as to meet, and
meet honestly, all classes of commercial
trading. The honorable competition
you fear not. It is the dishonorable
competition that robs you of your right-
ful share of the business, and your pa-
trons of their cash.

It is your province to decline to do
business with those who do not favor
your policy of action, but I am inclined
to think much can be accomplished for
your association and its members by
friendly conferences with the jobber and
manufacturer. What is true of your or-
ganization will be also true of others.
You can also do much for yourselves
by an earnest effort to make yours a
valuable account to those you buy from
by prompt paying, and working to the
closest possible line of cash transactions.
Confining your business to a smaller
number of reputable business houses
will materially aid you in the work and
put you in the line of gilt edge credits.

It is not always the largest or most
pretentious house that will do you the
best service. You should not seek for
long-time datings or time purchases,
but make strong efforts for the shortest
prices, time and frequent settlements.
The house who shall receive your fre-
quent requests for goods, followed by
prompt settlements, will much more fully
appreciate your worth than by larger
requests and long-drawn-out settlements.
You can always touch bottom prices
with your cash, and cash brings you in
touch with every market of the world,
buying or selling. In your leisure mo-
ments figure out what your 1 and 2 per
cent, 10 days,or 5 per cent. 30 days costs
you as an annual interest rate, and you
will not long ask what is the dating,
but what is the cash price; and if you
do not have the cash, borrow from your
banker, saving money by the transac-
tion.

Another beneficial thing to the retail-
er is the home distribution of the con-
sumer’s cash. Buying and selling in
the home market first circulates the cash
among your own people and gives every
member of your community, directly
or indirectly, a benefit from the trans-
action. Money earned at home and cir-
culated abroad is most ruinous to your
community. Few of you who have been
in business for any number of years but
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AXES
First Quality, S. B. Bronze ................. 5 00
First Quality, D. B. Bronze................. 9 50
Hirst Quality, S. B.S. Steel... .......... 5 50
iirss Quatity, DE Steel... 10 50
BARROWS
ROMEO ee $12 00 14 00
OTC net 30 00
BOLTS
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Carriage new list. . 70 to 75
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BUCKETS
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BUTTS, CAST
Cast Loose Pin, figured... .................. 70&10
WerOUene NATO 70&10
BLOCKS
Ordinary Tackle... ........... ee es 70
CROW BARS
SSG SECM .- per lb 4
CAPS
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CARTRIDGES
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Comivas Pre DB& 5
CHISELS
POCHee MAIN 80
BOGMCS PTA el i, 80
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BOGhes SMCWe 80
DRILLS
Moree s Die SeMR 60
Taper and SiraightShank...:............... 50k 5
Morse’s Taper Shank.. -50& 5
ELBOWS
Coma: Sycee. Gin. .... ...:........ doz. net 55
Corrugated....... ee ee 1 2%
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Clark’ s small, $18; large, ..... eease a ae
Ives’, 1, 818; 2, $24: 3 Ee
FILES—New List
OW AMGWNCA FO&10
Re Beigae 45 70
Mellor s Horse Raspes. ..................... -6C&10
GALVANIZED IRON
Nes. 16 to 20; _— and 2; 27. |... 28
List 12 13 15 1 cL. 17
Discount, 75_to 75-10
GAUGES
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............... 60410
KNOBS—New List
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings.... ......... 70
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings............ 80
MATTOCKS
ee BG $16 00, dis 60&10
Wet ee 815 00, dis 60&10
OO 818 50, dis 20&10
NAILS

Advance over base, on both Steel and oe
Steel nails, — ae 5

  

     

Wire nails, bas et ey ad iv
20 to 60 aes. ee eee es lS, Base
Mtoe 16 Soyenee. gc... cc: 05
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4 sr ac 30
3 advance. 45
2 advance. 70
Fine 3 advance 50
Casing 10 advance 15
Casing 8 RE RR MMR 25
Mere OOVENOG oc. . wl teas. 35
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Paes, Ghavaerce..... 35
Wane CAGvanee. 45
pores & Svenee ...... ..............,. “eS
MILLS
Romeo, Parkers @o.8...........5........ 1... 40
Coffee, P. 8S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s Malleables... 40
Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’s.. 2 40
Comoe, Milermniee esl. 30
MOLASSES GATES
Stebbin’s Pattern.. eee Slee
Slebhine Genuine 60&10
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Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy............. «| Gao
Beene, HERRQUAHGY. ccs oe cock cans @5
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s wood......... 60
PANS
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Common, pOMened, 2 oj T& 5
RIVETS
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PATENT PLANISHED IRON
‘*A** Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10 20
“B” Wood’s = atent planished, Nos. 25 to27 9 20
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Broken packages 4c per pound extra.
HAMMERS
Maydole & Co.’s, new list........ ...... - 3314

Kip’s

Yerkes & Plumb’s.
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.
Blackemith’s Solid Cast Steel Hand B0e Het 40d40

  

 

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Japanned Tin Ware... 20&10

  

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WIRE GOODS
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Screw Sd Me ee 80
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Gate esis ond ween... 80

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Mee tem... 8... 2 40
Re 2 6c
Nos. 22 to 24 2 7
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Se TT sees 2 90
Al sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30 inches
wide not less than 2-10 extra.

SAND PAPER
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SASH WEIGHTS
Send Byea. per ton 20 00
TRAPS
Blea Gewie . i. 6010

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Cres MORN 70&10
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Coppered Spring Steel.. 50
Barbed Fence, galvanized . SS 26
Peroed Wonee, painted. .................... 1 70
HORSE NAILS
Be ec dis —_
PO dis
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WRENCHES
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.............. 30
Coen Geniine 50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought ....... 80
Coe’s Patent, malleable... ll, 80
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The prices of the many other qualities of solder
in the market indicated by private brands vary
according to composition.
TIN—Melyn Grade

MIs TC Chevoges wl, $5 %
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Murra ie, ChareOe! wo... i, 7 00

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14x20 IX, Charcoal, Dean .

2omes IC, Charcoal, Dean... ...... ... i.

14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade

14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade

20x28 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade

20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade.........
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14x56 IX, for No. 8 Bdilers,

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so-called obsolete stock, out of date
patterns, etc.

Much good will come to you and your
business by cleaning out all such goods
and converting them into cash at some
price, the first loss being the better one.
Profit is out of the question, and the
longer such goods are held, so much
the longer have you tied up a portion
of your capital, encumbered your store
and warehouse, and to no purpose.
Every piece of obsolete and shop-worn
goods in your stock is a drawback to
your business. Clean them out and
freshen your assortment by newer pro-
ductions and better grades at modern
prices. Taboo all obsolete and out-of-
date goods, no matter what the allure-
ments in price or blandishments of the
traveling salesman. Let the manufac-
turer put them into the remelt.

Mauufacturers whose utmost resources
have been drawn upon in past years
close their eyes to the inevitable fact
that expansion has run its race. Whole-
salers alike will not grasp the situation,
and it devolves upon you, as retailers,
to apply the remedies.

Manufacturers and wholesalers, to re-
cover their lost volume of business, are
in many cases trying the double act of

wholesaling and retailing. You com-
plain of this, and justly so. Concerted

action will remedy this evil; you will
do this without antagonizing the manu-
facturer or wholesaler. You have no
right to be arbitrary in your requests or
demands, and should ever strive for the
most harmonious dealings with those
you buy from and to whom you sell.
You should try to perfect yourself in
the art of merchandising, instruct your
sons and daughters, who are most likely
to follow you, in the best methods of
trading, selling and accounting.

To-day the wholesaler’s position is a
more precarious one than that of the re-
tailer, and he must cease to be a factor
in the business if the present trend
shall continue. The preservation of the
wholesaler will also largely devolve up-
on the retailer. The retailer can go di-
rect to the manufacturer, importer and
producer. The wholesaler cannot suc-
cessfully go to the consumer.

May | not trespass upon your time
for one word for the traveling salesman?
For him 1 do not claim perfection, nor
does he require any one to plead his
cause. His mission is not one of tres-
pass, or presumption, but to do the
work of his employers. With all his
faults and shortcomings, take him up one
side and down the other and you will
not find a better average among any
class of men. While you cannot buy
from all, nor the traveler sell to all, you
can at all times give him a respectful
hearing. He is your friend and con-
servator, holding much of good or of ill
to you in his keeping. Treat him kind-
ly and only turn him away empty
handed when trade conditions demand

C. W. ALDRICH.
Minneapolis, Minn.
_$—~> 2 >

Connecticut has been charged with
the manufacture of wooden nutmegs,
leather hams and shoe peg oats. Now
some inventive genius claims to have
discovered a process which will spot
tobacco in the tield, so that it will be a
perfect imitation of Sumatra leaf, which
is quoted at a higher price than the Con-
necticut product.

The people of Montreal, Quebec, are
much agitated over a report that their
fire committee has generously agreed to
pay $8,000 fora fire engine, including
freight and duty, when the same engines
delivered in any American city do not
cost over $5,000.

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MICHIGAN

Some Don’ts for Retailers.

The merchant who is universally kind
to his aged and decrepit customers, as
well as others, will gain many a dollar
which his competitor in trade may lose.
Stepping quickly out at the door, as an
aged couple drive up in the old farm
wagon, cheerily greeting them witha
pleasant word and a warm handshake,
assisting the old lady to the sidewalk,
and carrying in her baskets of butter,
eggs, etc., will be remembered and
talked about more than once, long after
he is out of sight and hearing.

It is the small and seemingly insig-
nificant attentions to youth and age
which are sooner or later repaid a
hundred fold. Kind words, looks and
actions cost nothing, yet the absence of
these may often lose a good customer.
Sometimes ill health causes one to be
irritable and petulant, when no person
is in a fit condition to wait upon cus-
tomers.

Many merchants instruct their em-
ployes to pay particularly careful atten-
tion to young children who may be sent
to the store.
sensitive and will notice the cheerful,
smiling face and the apparent anxiety

to please and wait upon them, and they |

are glad to go to such a store again. |
have often known merchants to depre-
catingly say to a lady or gentleman they
may be serving, ‘‘Won’t you excuse me
a moment while | wait upon this little
child?’’ and the act was commended by
all.

* * *
Asa rule, it is better not to keep any

pet animals in a store —particularly a|
grocery—unless confined in a cage. If it |

be necessary to keep a cat, be certain
that it has a chance to go out and in at
all hours, and that no eatables are left
exposed. I once went into a grocery to
purchase some crackers. As every clerk
was engaged, I strolled about the large
room for a few moments and, happen-
ing to look into an open barrel, I saw it
was half filled with crackers,and a large
bandsome yeliow and white tabby was
in the center of it industriously making
her lunch from the contents. I did not
enquire for crackers at that store—either
then or afterward!

Dogs are a well-known nuisance in or
about any store and, whether the mer-
chant is aware of it or not, drive away

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there, than they would sell for, ten times
over! Of course, in a country store it
may be quite excusable to leave a
watchdog inside during the night; but
do not have him around in the daytime.
And another thing—it is a thoughtless
or ignorant farmer who will permit his
own to go to a store with him on any
occasion.
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In these days of delivery wagons,
stores may be more easily kept in good
order—especially a grocery —as fewer
people congregate in them than former-
ly. In the absence of such throngs of
people the stores are more free from
mud and dust and are, therefore, much
cleaner than in past years. Many or-
ders for goods are now made out at
home. Then again, a lady stops her
carriage at the store a moment, merely
to leave an order, and then drives on.
The old features of the trade have en-
tirely disappeared and samples are real-
ly about all that is necessary to have in
sight. I can remember, however, when
it was necessary for a farmer, specially
on Saturdays, to start early to town if
there was much business to be transact-
ed, else he could make up his mind to
return long after dark, as everyone took
up much time. In the present era
of package goods, cash Carriers, many
femaie clerks, labor-saving
electric cars and better wagon roads,
time is partially annihilated and a far
greater amount of work can be accom-
plished in a given number of hours.
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so

One subject I approach with diffi-
dence, fearing adverse criticism; and
yet I ‘‘know whereof I speak’’ upon
this material for thought. Nothing can
be too rich, elegant or cleanly about a
public place of business; but the day
laborer in his soiled working dress is
| embarrassed and will hestitate to enter
beside the richly-attired ladies and gen-
tlemen of leisure. Except that there
may be palace stores designed especial-
ly for the wealthy, and which will pay
the proprietors for catering to that class
| of customers, may we not overreach the
| profitable bounds in the construction
/and embellishment of places of busi-
ness? ‘‘But, in this great Republic
| dazzling wealth and squalid poverty
| walk side by side—then why should not
| both purchase at the same counter?’’ you
They should, and sometimes do;

 

The manufacturers, by constant and judi-
cious advertising, bring customers to your stores whose
very presence creates a demand for other articles.

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but it is like sitting side by side at the
same table, and both classes are more
or less embarrassed or annoyed at this
close contact. Ihave seen an old farmer
in his working dress sit on or stand near
his wagon in the street while his wife
entered the richly-furnished store with
its carpeted floor, and elbowed her way
through the throng of customers and
hurriedly made a small purchase; and,
when I have said to the man, ‘‘It’s too
cold for you out here—why don’t you go
inside, where it’s warm?’’ he would
glance down at his soiled boots and
plain homespun and reply, ‘“‘I’m_ too
dirty to enter there—no place for me.’’
I know many such persons of both
sexes who do all the business they can
at the plainer stores and seldom enter
the palatial places of business.

The merchant who expects to cater to
those only who wish to pay for pleasing
the eye, and for grandiloquence and flat-
tery, may do business in this kind of
building. Let all others stand aloof.

FRANK A. Howie.
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Telephone Topics.

A St. Louis man has discovered a new
disease, which he calls ‘‘telephone
nausea.’’ The other day, after sending
a telephone message, his face grew
pale, his lips twitched, and he pressed
his hand against the pit of his stomach.
‘I’m deadly sick,’’ he remarked to a
friend. ‘‘Telephoning does it. Every
time I talk through one of the things
I'm overcome with nausea, which seems
seated right in my stomach. Some-
times it is an hour or so before I re-
cover.’’ ‘‘That is just my fix, exactly,’’
said his friend. ‘‘I am made ill every
time I use the Bell telephone to talk
any distance. The charges 1 am com-
pelled to submit to, where there is no
competition, are high enough to give
any man chills and fever.’’

It is reported that the $750,000 the
Michigan (Bell) Telephone Co. expects
to realize from the sale of the bonds se-
cured by the mortgage on its properties
will be devoted to the purchase of the
competing telephone systems in the State
and the acquirement of modern equip-
ment and apparatus which will enable
the Bell exchanges to give as good serv-
ice as most of the independent com-
panies are giving.

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Commercial Travelers

 

Michigan Knights of the Grip.

President, Jas. F, Hammett, Lansing; Secretary,
D. C. Stacat, Flint; Treasurer, Cuas. McNo.ry,
Jackson.

Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Association.

President, S. H. Harr, Detroit; Secretary and
Treasurer, D. Morris, Detroit.

 

United Commercial Travelers of Michigan.
Grand Counselor, F. L. Day, Jackson; Grand
Secretary, G. S. Vatmorg, Detroit; Grand Treas
urer, GEO A. REYNOLDs, Saginaw.

Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual Acci-

dent Association.

President, A. F. Peaks, Jackson: Secretary and
Treasurer, Gro. F. Owen, Grand Rapids.
Board of Directors—F. M. Tyger, H. B. Farr
CHILD,Jas. N. BRaDFoRD, J. HENRY DAWLEY,GEO.

J. HEINZELMAN, CuHAs, S. ROBINSON.

Lake Superior Commercial Travelers’ Club.
President, W. C. Brown, Marquette; Secretary
and Treasurer, A. F. Wrxson, Marquette.

 

 

Gripsack Brigade.

We are never jealous of the competi-
tor who fails.

Good intentions and bad pay often
travel the same road.

Train yourself to go fast enough to
catch up with a mistake.

If you hang too much on promises
the hook is liable to break.

The road to failure is greased, while
the road to success is rocky and _ steep.

To find yourself on the verge of fail-
ure is Sometimes to get near to success.

You never have time to brag about
yourself and your goods on the same
day.

If you spend too much time prophesy-
ing you will never learn much about
profits.

Too many traveling men imagine that
a criticism of themselves is an insult to
the Almighty.

If you climb the ladder of success
carefully the rounds will never break
under your weight.

If words were dollars there are some
traveling men who would be million-
aires in less than a year.

We can see our competitors’ faults
clear across the State, but can’t see our
own under a microscope.

Those men who ‘‘kick’’ hardest when
they get ‘‘done up’’ laugh hardest when
they do up the other fellow.

Trying to convince some traveling
men of their errors is like fighting a
bad smell with a gatling gun.

One of the greatest inventors of the
age is the merchant who invents ex-
cuses for not paying his bills.

The man who will beat you out of
one dollar only wants an opportunity to
beat you out of a thousand dollars.

The commercial traveler who fails to
cultivate his trade is like the farmer
who sits on the fence and watches the
weeds grow.

You would better be damned for re-
fusing credit to a poor pay customer
than cussed out by the house when it
tries to collect.

When a poor pay customer extols
some competitor’s line of goods you can
bet he has asked and received an exten-
sion from him.

It doesn’t make any difference how
many merchants criticise your grammar.
See to it that they have no opportunity
to criticise your goods.

J. J. Dooley is making his semi-an-
nual pilgrimage among Michigan drug-
gists in the interest of the H. E. Buck-
len Co. He is accompanied by his wife.

The man who asserts that he can’t
learn anything new about his business
proves that his capacity for learning
would nave as much room in a mustard
seed as a bat would in a church,

 

Stephen T. Bowen (John H. Miller &
Co. ), who was confined to his bed at the
Park Place, at Traverse City, several
weeks by reason of an attack from his
old enemy, rheumatism, has been taken
to his home in Chicago.

I. M. Eldridge, of Flint, formerly
with A. J. Johnson & Co., of Rochester,
N. Y., has taken the position of West-
ern agent for Copeland & Co., shoe
manufacturers of Lynn, Mass., and will
open an office in Chicago Sept. 1.

Fred A. Eldridge, formerly with A.
J. Johnson & Co., has taken a position
as traveling salesman for Pingree &
Smith, of Detroit. His territory will
embrace Kentucky and half a dozen
other Southern States. He will start on
his first trip about Sept. 1.

Milton Kerns, who covered the job-
bing cigar trade many years for Dil-
worth Bros., now carries the samples of
E. G. Keller & Son, of York; Pa. Mr.
Kerns has visited the principal Michi-
gan cities with marked regularity for
twenty years and has probably taken as
many fish out of Michigan streams and
lakes as any non-resident in the coun-
try, angling being his hobby.

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Twenty-three Additions to the Mem-
bership List.

Flint, Aug. 22—Seventeen active and
six honorary members have joined the
Michigan Knights of the Grip since my
last report, as follows:

ACTIVE MEMBERS.

H. E. White, Kalamazoo.

Richard T. Rollins, Kalamazoo.

Lyman S. Reed, Laingsburg.

Chas. E. McDonald, Jackson.

Chas. V. Cable, Kalamazoo.

Arthur S. Cowing, Kalamazoo.

C. H. Thayer, Kalamazoo.

Harry D, Bumgardner, Dayton, Ohio.

W. D. Royce, Owosso.

Geo. F. Press, Grand Rapids.

D. M. Rogers, Kalamazoo.

D. Binkhorst, Kalamazoo.

Hiram Hare, Bay City.

H. B. Colman, Kalamazoo.

A. G. McEachron, Detroit.

Jace Darow, Charlotte.

N. B. Carpenter, Grand Rapids.

HONORARY.

Wm. Jewell, Calumet.

FG. Rogers, Canton, Ohio.

W. J. Poyser, Canton, Ohio.

H. A. Cavnah, Canton, Ohio.

E. J. Lamhbertson, Rochester, Mich.

I have received proofs of death of
John D. Davis, No. 2,879, of Grand
Kapids, who died of fatty degeneration
of the heart at Kalamazoo, June to.
have received notice of the death by
suicide of Tom. H. Baker, No. 4,371,
who resided at Shelby.

Assessment No, 2 for 1897 was called
Aug. I, due Sept. 1. Hurry up, boys,
and get in out of the wet.

Dett C. SLAGHT, Sec’y.
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Movements of Lake Superior Travel-
ers.

F. G. Horton ( Penberthy, Cook & Co. )
Sundayed at Marquette the 23d.

H. O. McMain (Ordean-Wells Co.) is
on his vacation. Gone with the old
soldiers to Buffalo.

W. F. Mitchell is doing the copper
country this week,

‘*Sweet’’ Wm. Monroe (W. H. Edgar
& Son) does not make his home at the
Hotel Cliffton at Marquette now, but
in a private family.

J. W. Richards (W. Bingham Co.) is
down from Duluth. Says things look
brighter at the head of the lake.

Boycott developes sometimes at an
early age. The ro year old sonofa
Marquette traveler whose father receives
an express package quite often was
much displeased the other day to see the
American Express Co.’s wagon drive
up. The boy enquired why it was that
his father didn’t have all his packages
sent by the Western. In response to the
reason why he was working against the
American, the boy replied: ‘‘Cause the
American won't let us ride,’’

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Ten Months of Filled Cheese Law.
From the Ameriean Agriculturist.

Most wholesome features of the na-
tional filled cheese law include the pos-
sibility of knowing just how much is
made, and obliging the makers to prop-
erly label the product. If this is not al-
ways done it is the fault of the author-
itites who have in charge the execution
of the law rather than the law itself.
Investigation into the practical work-
ings of the law, just completed by this
journal, show that the output of filled
cheese during the past few months of
flush of milk and low prices for the
raw product is actually less than in late
winter and early spring. The northern
district of Illinois produces practically
all the filled cheese and official figures
show the facts above stated. For ex-
ample, compared with 241,000 pounds
made and stamped last February and
355,000 pounds in March, the product
fell off to 215,000 pounds in May and
about 200,000 pounds in June,

Outside of the Chicago territory,
which includes the few filled cheese fac-
tories of Northera Illinois, our returns
from the various internal revenue dis-
tricts scattered in leading dairy states
show that practically no filled cheese is
made. Internal Revenue Collector
Bracken, of Indianapolis, reports to us
that one license was taken out to retail
the product last October, one in Novem-
ber, and one in May of this year. The
collector of the sixth district of Mis-
souri, located at Kansas City, advises
us that two licenses were taken out to
retail filled cheese last September, and
one since, and that stamps have been
purchased sufficient to affix to 1,975
pounds of filled cheese. In response to
enquiries as to the business of the past
ten months, collectors at the following
cities advise us that in all the districts
represented by them no licenses to man-
ufacture or retail filled cheese have
been issued since the law went into
effect, nor has there been any sale of
revenue stamps for filled cheese: Cin-
cinnati, Leavenworth, Omaha, Milwau-
kee, Detroit, Cleveland, and in the
Eastern consuming districts, Pittsburg
and Hartford. That is to say, in all the
territory indicated, filled cheese is prac-
tically an unknown quantity unless
handled surreptitiously.

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His Name Was Familiar.

A traveling man had occasion to pay
a business visit to Lebanon, Ohio, one
day lately. He was accompanied, as
usual, by a large and varied assortment
of trunks and grips. When he alighted
from the train he immediately set about
to find a drayman to haul the trunks and
grips to the hotel. He hadn’t long to
look, for a veteran gray-haired son of
Ham approached him and solicited the

job. The baggage was loaded on the
old rickety dray, and the drummer
jumped on to ride up town with his

goods. On the way the man with the
order book and hardened cheek cracked
jokes and jollied the old driver as only
a drummer can. Finally he asked his
name.

‘‘My name, sah, is Gawge Washing-
ton."

‘‘George Washington, ’’

repeated the
drummer; ‘

‘why, that name sounds fa-

miliar. I believe I’ve heard it before
somewhere. ’’
ri Spect you’ bas, sah,”’ the) ald

darkey rejoined. ‘‘I’se been dribin’
dis heah dray for twenty-seben years,
sah."’ Not a muscle of the ebony face
relaxed, and he looked straight ahead.
The drummer says the story is always
good for a big order.
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The human heart has secrets that it
never reveals, even to the possessor.
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Silence is the fool’s safety and the
wise man’s strength.

 

Photographs
of
Samples, Display Cards, Etc.

It often occurs that traveling salesmen find photo
graphs of such articles as are teo large to carry
a great convenience. The engraving departme:

 
    

 

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of the Tradesman Company is prepared to furnish
such photographs of the best quality on short notice.

 

HOTEL WHITCOMB
ST. JOSEPH, MICH.
A. VINCENT, Prop.

 

Wihitmey House
3est Hotel in Piainwell, Mich. Only house in
town holding contract with Travelers’ Educational
Association of America.

Chas. EK. Ww Pts 4, Epo.

Cutler House at Grand Haven.
Steam Heat. Excellent Table. Com-
fertable Rooms. H. D. and RF. H.
IRLSH, Props.

Northern Hotel,

J. L. Kitzmiller, Prop.

Cor. Grove and Lafayette Sts., Greenville, Mich.

 

 

 

Hotel Normandie of Detroit Re-
duces Rates.

Determined to continue catering to popular de-
mand for good hotel accommodations at low prices,
we reduce the rates on fifty rooms from $2.50 to
$2 per day, and rooms with bath from $3.50 to $3.

The popular rate of 50 cents per meal, established
when the Normandie was first opened, continues.

Change of rates will in no way affect the quality,
and our constant aim in the future will be, as in the
past, to furnish the BEST accommodations for the
rates charged.

Carr & Reeve.

The NeW Griswold House

Has NOT reduced its rates
but has roo of the

Newest Rooms in Detroit

at $2.00 per day. Meals
Fifty cents. Rooms with
bath and parlor $2.50 to $3.
Most popular moderate
priced hotel in Michigan.

 

Postal & Morey:

Oetaoit, Mich.

NEW CITY HOTEL
HOLLAND, MICH.

We pledge the Commercial Travelers of
Michigan our best efforts.

 

Rates $2.00. E. 0. PHILLIPS, Mgr.

GULUMBIAN TRANSFER COMPANY

CARRIAGES, BAGGAGE
AND FREIGHT WAGONS

15 and 17 North Waterloo St.,
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

 

 

Drugs-=Chemicals

 

 

MICHIGAN STATE BOARD OF PHARMACY.
Term expires
S. E. PaRKILL, Owosso~ - - Dec. 31, 1897
F. W. R. Perry, Detroit - - Dec. 31, 1898
A. C. SCHUMACHER, Ann Arbor - Dee. 31, 1899
Gro. GunprRuM, Ionia * - - Dec. 31, 1900
L. E. REYNOLDS, St. Joseph - - Dee. 31, 1901

President, F. W. R. Perry, Detroit.

Secretary, GEo. GunpRuM, Ionia,

Treasurer, A. C. ScHUMACHER, Ann Arbor.
Coming Examination Sessions—Sault Ste. Marie,

Aug. 24 and 25; Lansing, Nov. 2 and 3.

MICHIGAN STATE PHARMACEUTICAL
ASSOCIATION.

President—A. H. WEBBER, Cadillac.
Secretary—CuHas. Mann. Detroit
Treasurer—JoHN D. Murr, Grand Rapids.

 

 

GUARANTY LABEL.

John J. Sourwine’s Plan, as Outlined
at Grand Ledge.

It has always been my belief that the
evil of price cutting, especially as ap-
plied to the drug trade, has many worse
features than the mere business destroy-
er, and that the general public should
be apprised of its destructive results in
every detail.

It breeds deception, substitution, illit-
eracy, unprofessionalism, unbusiness-
like methods, and lower morals, which
in turn inaugurates a lower standard of
remedies, heretofore possessing merit,
and encourages the public to seek the
still cheaper article; science has lost its
vantage ground, the merchant his
respectability, and unsuspecting hu-
manity gained—maltreatment.

The student, the graduate, the compe-
tent pharmacist, has such an exceedingly
low estimate placed upon his mental
training and practical knowledge that
he also soon forgets professional ethics
in the mad rush of illiterate competition
and loses his identity in the vortex of
barter and trade. When learned physi-
cians are forced to practice quackery to
earn a reputation, and well-qualified
pharmacists are driven to the level of
common ‘‘fakirs,’’ the time is certainly
ripe for a plan or method by which the
true profession can be elevated to a
higher sphere of citizenship. I have
further believed that any plan or means
adopted, and pushed with sufficient
vigor to insure enthusiasm and activity
among those interested, would ultimate-
ly succeed in accomplishing the desired
reforms. Our procrastination fortifies
the opposition in the estimation of the
uninformed, and a worthy cause suffers
for want of a valiant and dignified de-
fense.

What our calling requires to-day,
more than anything else, is a start on a
business-like basis, with plan
which is not susceptible to the whims
of the proverbial old fogy, the chronic
kicker or the dead man trying to do a
live business; a plan broad enough in
its beneficent results to secure the
hearty co-operation of the manufacturer
and retailer on an equal footing, yet
rigid enough in its tenets to deal intel-
ligently with a serious situation. A
plan drawn and practiced upon honor
alone would soon cast discredit and
shady reflections on its own genealogy,
as the tares that have already crept in
have seemingly choked the entire
field. But when an agreement is
reached whereby the manufacturer’s and
retailer’s interests become identical,
the rest will be comparatively easy, and
from the fact that one of the large man-
ufacturers has already inaugurated a
movement in this direction, it is evident
that the retailers are not alone in their
efforts to secure protection against the
price-cutting evil.

Some time ago the Pabst Brewing

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Co., of Milwaukee, offered four very
liberal prizes for the best four articles
on this subject, and opened the contest
to the druggists of the United States.
Replies were received from every state
and territory, and ranged in size from
a postal card to a four sheet poster,
which would indicate that the general
sentiment is to try something. My
paper was awarded one of the prizes
and, while I do not claim perfection
for it in its present condition, yet I be-
lieve it can be made effective if taken
up by the manufacturers and supported
by the retailers.

To attempt to organize the manufac-
turers, wholesalers and retailers into
one body, and then agree upon a certain
line of action for mutual protection, is
a task greater than the capabilities of
our best organizers, but the adoption
of the National Guaranty Label by the
National Association makes it com-
pulsory on the rest to follow.

1. It guarantees.to the manufacturer
that he will receive the benefit of his
advertising, and that his goods are sold
when called for. If the goods are
meritorious, they are handled through
the proper channels, and the supply is
always equal to the demand. No one can
place a similar article on the market
and pass it off as genuine, as his goods
are protected from the time they leave
his hands until they are in those of the
consumer.

2. The retailer is assured that his
stock is not to be depreciated by some
irresponsible person across the way
who seeks to gain trade by making
leaders of his staple articles. Nor will
the druggist who is inclined to do so be
able to cut prices and remain in busi-
ness long, as in nearly every town and
village he has competitors who can de-
fend their own interests by enforcing
the provisions of the Guaranty Label.
It also enables him to assist in adver-
tising the merits of goods sold under a
positive guarantee, that they are gen-
uine, that they are fresh and worthy of
confidence. It will be still further to
his interest to let the public know that
he and the manufacturers are doing

usiness hand in hand.

3. The public will soon learn to pur-
chase medicines of responsible dealers
who are doing business on a plan that
checks against fraud and deception. In
a very short time, the Guaranty Label
will be more familiar to the public than
the best advertised preparation, and
each purchaser, to guard against frauds
or possible mistakes, will require that
the label be placed upon every article
he buys in the drug line. He will also
soon learn that where the National Guar-
anty Label is displayed and used, there
an honest business is conducted, that
deception is not practiced and substitu
tion is prohibited.

Some skeptics may view this plan
with suspicion and as being in the na-
ture of a trust, but it cannot be so con-
strued, as it only seeks to maintain ex-
isting prices long established, and
places the responsibility on those who
are measured by statute as to their com-
petency. I ask nothing from my coun-
try or countrymen that has not enough
of the true spirit of liberty about it to
be called American, but I do claim that
when any branch of our commerce falls
into disrepute, as the drug trade of to-
day, it should be remodeled, and upon
lines in harmony with the views of
those who seek to elevate it.

I desire to submit herewith my plan
of self-protection to the business inter-
ests of legitimate concerns, established
by years of study and application to

 

principles, to the druggists of Michigan
for their consideration, seeking only to
elevate the commerce of our republic to
the plane of Christian citizenship. My
feeble yet earnest effort is not biased
merely by the hope of individual re-
ward for an acceptable method of ele-
vating an honorable profession above
the level of gross deception, imitators
and cut-throat devices, but in the hope
that I may also assist in placing legiti-
mate trade in the sphere of moral de-
velopment. In this era of low prices,
imitators, fakirs and stagnant firms, the
honest survivor has learned that the
dishonest advertiser, the cut-throat de-
partment store and _ all other illiterate
venders of merchandise are looked upon
as the successful business men and the
real benefactors of the human race. He
has also become painfully conscious of
the fact that honor in the business world
of to-day is to an alarming degree only
a flitting memory of other days. His
signal of inevitable distress is  an-
swered from the top of some cut-price
concern with a white muslin streamer
bearing the legend: ‘‘Prices cut in
two.’’ His wail of despair in the throes
of illiterate competition is lost in the
sea of drowning thousands like himself
who cherished honor in business life
and lost; and as a survivor of this de-
plorable condition, still struggling with
fate, intermingled with a remnant of
humanity whose estimation of citizen-
ship occupies the same altitude as the
price of their worthless goods, I believe
that the day has already dawned when
the honest tradesman should assert his
rights by rearranging the battlements in
defense of his own position.

The plan or method which I have
outlined places the whole matter under
a National head, and yet can be adopted
with the same effective results by a sin-
gle firm, so far as his products are con-
cerned. But the prime object to be at-
tained is that it places the transgressor,
or would-be cutter, in the category of
either perjurer or counterfeiter, and
in either case there is sufficient pun-
ishment in any state to fit the crime.

There is also an excrement of in-
digent humanity, whose present and
prehistoric instincts preclude the pos-

 

sibility of their ever evolving anything
through manual labor to enrich the
world’s commerce, but whose dormant
forces seem destined to suck the life-
blood from inventive genius and pau-
perize the active brain, and, as a result,
many of the victims of this despicable
condition, who hold certificates of long
study and learning, are forced to accept
positions from their destroyers, and un-
der whose registered ability the vam-
pires of the age continue their work of
destruction.

Under the method which I have sug-
gested neither perjury nor subtle theft
could give them a license to traffic on
the spoils of a ruined enterprise. I be-
lieve, therefore, that commercial piracy
should be classified as a criminal offense
and that their opportunities be restrict-
ed by conditions susceptible to the laws
of our country.

I am.also convinced that, if the man-
ufacturers will adopt this method, giv-
ing the same publicity to the National
Guaranty Label that they do to the
merits of their goods, and cautioning
the public against purchasing from a
druggist who cannot furnish it, in less
than one year ‘‘cutting’’ in the drug
line will have ceased. Then multiplied
thousands will re-christen into a Nation-
al anthem that old camp-meeting song:
‘*Ain’t I Glad I’m Out of the Wilder-

ness !’’
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The Drug Market.

Opium, Morphine and Quinine—
These three staples are all firm, but un-
changed in price.

Alcohol—On account of the decided
advance in corn, this article is 2c per
gal. higher.

Essential Oils—Anise is firm at the

advance noted last week and _ still
higher prices are looked for. Cassia is
also very firm and advancing. Pepper-
mint is decidedly weak and is offered

lower than last year.

Linseed Oil—The unprecedented ad-
vance of flax seed has advanced the
price of oil 1oc per gal. the last ten days
and very much higher prices are looked
for. Present quotation is only nominal,
as an advance of 5@8c more would not
surprise any one.

 

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MILTON KERNS,

Manufacturer,

No. 52 oth Street,

Pittsburgh, Pa.

El Puritano

Finest 10¢ Cigar on Earth

Couchas 1-20 $55.00
Bouquetts 1-40 $58.00
Perfectos 1-20 $40.00
Cabinets 1-40 (51% in.) $70.00

B. J. REYNOLDS,

Grand Rapids.
BATEIAN & FOX,

Bay City.
JOHNSON & FOSTER,

Detroit.

Distributers for Michigan.

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

The best 5 cent cigars ever made. Sold by
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Oitreneiia --.. 1 7%@ 1 90 | Senega.. cinalis...  50@ 0 | Reece e a . 7 3 ’ ®
ea. UCC SES ae ‘bbl _@ 1%
ee @ 50 Majihol Een 50@ 60 Con} nf » F Ma en
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GROCERY PRICE CURRENT.

The prices quoted in this list are for the trade only, in such quantities as are usually purchased by retail

dealers. They are prepared just before going to press and are an accurate index of the local market.

It is im-

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

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

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

Cash buyers or those of strong credit usually buy closer than
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AXLE GREASE. CHEESE. CATSUP. : FARINACEOUS GOODS.
. gross Columbia,  pinte.......... 42% Parina.
ai os “oo se “1: @ 3 | Columbia, % pints...” Qian 2c
Castor Oil. - ee Re A
Diamond... 1a _ CLOTHES PINS. i wie ae
ian ssa oe Hominy.
tin bo’ 3 a 9 | CONDENSED MILK. | Barrels oe 2.25
Fiica, tin boxes... ..... 2 «Olea | oo a 9 ee °.
Peregen... ....... 2 55 Swe @ 9 4 doz in case. ake, § ‘a 5
nawe a 8 |Gsil Borden Eagle.........6 %5 eans.
BAKING POWDER. eivocede. a $ 91% ome : as . .-6 25] Dried Lima . — a oot Sg
i Sere 84 | Daisy ...... 5 75 | Medium Hand Picked....
— . a ae 3 9 | Champion ..4 50 Maccaroni and Vermicelli.
4g Ih cans dos......-...... ac | Edam............... @ % | Magnolia ................ 4 25| Domestic, 10 1b. box....... ©
% = cans a vette eee ees 1 50 Leiden... Mm i LOhationge : = Imported, 25 > bas Cou 2 50
1 Cans GOZ............- ov) Linbewor, 62... @ & (eae earl Barley.
it ‘ <A Bommon. 00 cu oe 2 60
Acme. einespple...2.-.--.4@ @ §& |" COUPON Gommon. "eon ete 2 9
ogee agp aaa oe ; Saaz ROEO cee 2 30
ib CamsSGon............ = CHOCOLATE. ACES Me ieee!
. meenstas. .. 1 a Walter Hake & Cos. SS :
German Sweet 1 poe” Piiuetied Oaks.
Premium. ..-.---- | Rolied Avena, bbl. ... .3 75
ee | Monarch, bbl... 16. 3 90
CLOTHES LINES. ¢ | Monarch. % bbl.......... 19
rer d } Private brands, bbl..... 3 95
a = by ae — eer" Private brands, %bbl..... 1 7
enue” 60 ft - aa a Quaker, — ote oe
Jotton, 60 ft, per doz....... oe
Dpsccsung dg) seal agape German... © oan 3%
| Cotton, 80 ft, pe weeeee Mest Bide... 3
— es per dos.... Wheat.
ute. 72 ft, per dox., | : hee 34
i Economic Grade. Cracked, bulk ee ca
/ Chicory. . | 50 books, any denom.... 150} 242 1b packages...........2 50
ay ° | 100 books, any denom.... 2 50
Re¢ 500 books, any denom....11 50 :
COCOA SHELLS. ks, § 00 | Fish.
j201b bags................ 2%] Cod.
os Set 4 Georges cured......... @4
| Feene pemeeee.---- os | Georges genuine...... @i
| CREA TARTAR. | i | Georges selected...... _ @ 5M
Strictly Pure, wooden boxes. 35 | Universal Grade. | Strips or af --5 @™
Strictly Pure, tin boxes...... 37] 59 hooks, any denom. ce A OT a . ‘-
ans, 6 doz case...... 38 Cc PE. | 100 books, any denom.... 2 50 ae - ts
if 1b aa ihe ot )  O COFFEE | 500 books, any denom....11 50 H i
1 Ibeans, 2 doz case...... 1 00 Green. | 1,000 books, any denom....20 00 ‘ erring.
= iy ae 5 00 Ri : Holland white hoops keg. 60
aoe ‘a Superior Grade. Holland white hoops bbl. 7 50
Got Mag. Tumblers......... Wate. we). | Se books, ony denen. 150 | Norwegian... Rie eae
Ei Purity. ... . rene BY 109 books, any denom.... 2 50] Round 100 Ibs............. 2 50
oo | ere ........... --13| 500 books, any denom....11 50) Round 40 lbs............. 130
34 lb cans per doz......... 1 30 Belden: 0000.2. --14 | 1,000 books, any denom....20 00} gesied............. 1.1... 13
~ = aan ae sea "TIITIT! 9 og | Pesberry worse eeeesens AD] Coupon Pass Books, flackerel.
auleammmeas t Santos. Can be made to represent any | Mess 190 lbs............... 11 59
Home. Fair 11} denomination from %10down. | Meee # lbs Se 4 =
See ee 5 | DOORS oe ic, 400) Mees 40 168.3...
4 lb cans 4 doz case +i. S| Seok... le oe 107
ee ee © i peabeces 7| 100 books 3 00| No. 1 100 lbs........ eee 973
Se ee Cer ee ee es eae books C2 1 aoe lg
‘ oO re] | Mexican and Guatamaie. re ee ee eae 10 00 : ibe i i3
wy D> < bate el anne books 7 1 8lbs. 9:
ge | Good “-aees ae | 2 100 ibs. 8 06
7 — ny ees - 13 | Credit Checks. 2 40 Tha. 359
24 1b cans, 4 doz case..... ah aaanee eae ), any one denom’n..... 8 Sie 95
% lb cans, 4 doz case...... 85 | ' Maracaibo. | 1000, any one denom’n..... 5 00 Siena
1 beans, 2 doz case...... 1 60} prime . 00, any one denom’n..... 8 00 | Russian kegs........-..... 55
Jersey Cream. Milled Eee aren Weenie himinet aS Stocktish.
1 Ib. cans, per doz 2 00 | _—- | DRIED PRUITS—DOMESTIC | RO. 1, 1001p. bales.........
. oe ee es ee 8 ee 0}. Apples. NO. &, +. Beccues
Se ees Soe SOK. ---- _— | Private Growth.....:..-...... 22) Sam@riog.. ic) -. sa a N 100 ib rout. 400
oo oe a Oe © | Mandehling...... se ssessss+++.24| Evaporated 50 Ib boxes 5 @ 6 at oa ee
Our Leader. } Mocha. | California Fruits. Not Wine 55
| Sele co. ss Blo No.1. 8lbs............... 47
- ot APO Ww... tt . ee pokberries,.......... 7. a
Nectarines ............ 6 0. 0. ™m
. : ) er in KO 9 11001be.. 69 50 175
| Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brands i Pe 40 lbs 270 230 100
oo 85 | Fifth Avenue..... i 10 Ibs........ 75 & 33
“tac | Wells’ Moen FLAVORING “EXTRACTS.
i Wells’ Mocha .
Reon... .. et 70 | wells’ Perfectior
English. REE SIESTS EGG Pap to - | Saneaibo ee
BLUING. Valley City Maracaibo.

 

| Quaker an Sant ser
BLUING | Quaker Golden Rio.....

1 doz. pasteboard Boxes...
3 doz. wooden boxes.......
BROOrIS.
No. 1 Carpet.
Dee eres........ .....
me. 6 eceet.......,......
ee Sere. cs,
Pere ree... ...........-
Common Whisk.......
Fancy Whisk..
Warehouse

CANDLES. _

Manitowoc Peas.
Lakeside Marrowfat.......
babes &. d:.. 3. 6.2.60 5:
Lakeside, Cham. of Eng....
Lakeside, Gem, Ex. Sifted.

| Ideal Blend a
Leader Blend..... L
Worden Grocer Co.’s Bra
; Quaker Are
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0 -50 25 Ib boxes.......
- 40 25 lb boxes i
eent less in 50 1b cases

Raisin«.

  

 

 

 

 

 

150| f
1 FO
40 | Package. | Jennings’.

120) ure given New York | = 2 75 | D.C. Vanilla D. C. Lemon
j 1 package coffees, to | Loose Muse 6 1202...2..4 OL. 2. BS
the wholesale dealer | Loose Musc 5 506. ...5.. 00 son...

e local freight from | Loose Musca 5% 4 02.. 12 00 em... 1 40
York to your _ FOREIGN. 3 = aye =
t, giving you credit Lf j i > i le Sb Glee
te for the amount of| pao. re | No 10.6.0 No. 10...4 00
~ oe Pere Bb -@ 5! No. 27125 No. 27. 80
buyer pays f > | Vostizzas 50 Ib cases -@ 5% | x? 3 'T'2 00 No. 3T 1 35
in which he p | Cleaned, Gulk ... 2.2... Q@™ No a7) 4 No 474 50
i- eg aoa yee +178 | Cleaned, packages........@ 7% | N° ~ NERBS —
| weight of package. In 0 I. | Peel oc RBS. -
ases 2 list is 10e per 100 lbs. | . Bs ae ot aes ee ee

I oe a a Hg yl = " | Citron American 101b bx @14 He a 15

ond above the price in full cases. Lemon American 10 1b bx @12 me, seas

ad eee ers tee eee | Orange American 10!bbx @12 | waaras,5 Ib boxes.........

fs CORNY oe ecccwcs nner esecce L 3 R 50
ay | aisins. 8. F., 2,3 and 5 1b boxes....
liclanghln’s XXAX.....-11 50) Ondura 28 Ib boxes.....74@ 8 JELLY.
Extract. Sultana 1Crown....... I I iv sncteos sessssi 50

1 00} Valley City % gross .... 7 | Baltans 2Crown...,... = 9 | SID pats... 060 oes. +o

1 30| Felix % gross........... 1 15 | Sultana 3Crown.......9%@ LYE.

1 40 | Hummel’s foil % gross... 85 | Sultana 4 Crown....... Condensed, 2 doz .......... 1 20

6 ' Hummel’s tin % gross... 1 43! Sultana 5Crown....... @11% ' Condensed, 4 doz........... 2 2

 

 

Souders’.
Oval bottle, with corkscrew.

Best in the world for the
Regular
Grade
Lemon.
doz
ee
£06... 150
Regular
Vanilla.
doz
2o8....:.3 20
Oz... 240
XX Grade
mon.
SOs... 5. 1 50
4oz. ....3 00
XX Grade
i Vanilla.
i Qoz...... 1%
ooe...... 3 50
GLUE.
per doz.
Jackson Liquid, 1 oz....... 65
Jackson Liquid, 20z....... 98
Jackson Liquid, 3 oz....... 1 30
GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.
Ore 4 00
Pa? ORR ol 2 25
Mpuaréer Hepes 1 2
Lib. cans. :..<. See 30
36 UD CAS. 18
Choke Bore—Dupont’s.
ee 42
Mar Bers oe 2 40
narter Mees. 1 35
Pie Came 34
Eagle Duck—Dupont’s.
Ore 8 00
RAGE We ees 4 25
Quarter Kegs... oo 2
Pop, Cans. ae
LICORICE.
Pe 30
RR ee ee is as ce 5
Oe 14
MOOG 10

MASON FRUIT JARS.
Pints, 1 doz. box, per gross 4 75
Quarts, 1 d’z. box, per gr’ss 5 00
Half gal. 1 d’z. b’x, p’r gr’ss 7 (0
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 59
seer 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......... 2 235
MATCHES.

Diamond Match Co.’s brands.
No.9 saiphur. co oS 1 6
Anmenor Farior...... 3... .... 1 70
mo. > ome... ss 110
epor. Papier. (oo... ck 4 00

MOLASSES.

New Orleans.

 
 

 

Black... ...: ll
wae... sk 14
GOOG cc: Pa og 20
Ry ee 24
Open Bettie... .......5..2 25@35
Half-barrels 2c extra.
PIPES.
Clay, SO. 216... cs
Clay, T. D. full count...... 65
Con Me 6.) a: 1
POTASH.
$8 cans in case.
Benes. a: 4 00
Penna Sait Co.’s...........3
PICKLES.
Medium.

Barrels, 1,200 count........ 4 00
Half bbls, 600 count........ 2 50
Small.

Barrels, 2,400 count........ 5 00
Half bbls, 1,200 count...... 3 00
RICE.

Domestic.

Carolina head.............. 614

Carcnea 0, %,............ 8
Carolina No. 2.. oe '
ORM ois. ou... 3
Imported.
weer, OL 8 co. ook icons: 5%
eepan: ND.2....:...; 23.5 &
POUR; MO. 1.5. cco. coed Seuss si
TAUl6: .... «.- Dosis ae neoec e

 

SALERATUS.

Packed 60 lbs. in box.
AORN ec 3
Pretand s,s boo see 3 15
POs 3 30
MONIOE GS: ook ce cc. 3 00

SAL SODA.

Granulated, bbls........ -1 10

Granulated, 100 lb cases..1 50

Lump, bbls...... ...... a

Lump, 145]b kegs.......... 1 10

SALT.

Diamond Crystal.
Cases, 24 3-lb boxes......... 1 50
Barrels, 190 31bbags...... 2%
Barrels, 40 7 lbbags...... 2 40
Butter, 28 lb. bags........... 30
Butter, 56 Ib bags........... 60
Butter, 20 14 1b bags........ 3 00
Butter, 280 1b bbls.......... 250

Common Grades.

TOUS ID RBCKS:. 2 oo: 2 60
OOS-1b sacks. 23s. 1 &
25 il-Tb sacks... kt 170

Worcester.

  

 

50 4 Ib. cartons. --3 DB
115 2%1b. sacks.. --4 00
60 5 Ib. sacks.. +8 7%
2214 Ib. sacks..... .. .--3 5O
O10 3D. ageks........ 3 50
28 Ib. linen sacks............ 32
56 1b. linen sacks........... - 60
Balk i barreis...........-) 2 50
Warsaw.
56-lb dairy in drill bags..... 30
28-lb dairy in drill bags..... 15
Ashton.

56-lb dairy in iinen sacks..

- Higgins.

56-lb dairy in linen sacks...
Solar Rock.

SOTO SROKS 21
Common.
Granuisted 20... 23) ep
Rimes 6. ok ie
SEEDS.

RNS ee ae
Canary, Smyrna........... 4
COPOWOS .- 05s ls 10
Cardamon, Malabar ..... 80
Hemp, Russian........... 4
meses Pere... 4%
Mustard, white....... ... 6%
eee e.g
ee 5
Caustic Bone... 20
SNUFP,
Scotch, in bladders......... 37
Macc&boy, injars........... 35
French Rappee, in jars..... 43
SPICES.

Whole Sifted.
DAMOOE a c 9
Cassia, China in mats....... 10
Cassia, Batavia in bund....20
Cassia, Saigon in rolls...... 32
Cloves, Amboyna........... 15
Cloves, Zanzibar............ 9
Mace, Batavia..............60
Nutmegs, fancy........... -60
Nutmoes, No.1... .... 50
ores, NO. 2 45

Pepper, Singapore, black... 9
Pepper, Singapore, white... 12

   

Pepper, 8006... 10
Pure Ground in Bulk.
OPO 12
Cassia, Batavia ............. 2
Cassia, Saigon’. ...........35
Cloves, Amboyna....... .. .20
Cloves, Zanzibar............ 15
Ginger, African... .... 5... 15
Ginger, Cochin: ..:..:...... 20
Ginger, Jamaica............ 22
Mace, Batavia.............. 70
Mustard, Eng. and Trieste. .20
Mustard, Trieste............ 25
Nutmegs 40@50

bash cae sone 0@5
Pepper, Sing., black ....10@14
Pepper, Sing., white....15@18

Pepper, Cayenne........ 17
Sage. “"
SYRUPS.

Corn.

ROP oe os oe as 20
ee Oe 22
Pure Cane.

Pe ea a 16
MOO ois iio cae
SODA.

OO en oe 5%

Kegs,-English............... 4%

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SOAP.
Laundry.

Armour’s Brands.
Armour’s Family.......... 270
Armour’s Laundry........ 3 2
Armour’s White, 100s...... 6 25
Armour’s White, 50s....... 3 20
Armour’s Woodchuek..... 2 55

Armour’s Kitchen Brown. 2 90
Armour’s Mottled German 2 40

JAXON

SNGIG BOR. 2 7%
5 box lots, delivered........ me
10 box lots, delivered....... 2 65

JAS. 8. KIRK & 60'S wage

American Family, wrp’d..

American Family, unwrp a. 3 oF
OM ct 3
Canmes... 5.0...
RAVGH ee 2
Dusky Diamond. 50 6 oz....

   

Dusky Diamond, 50 8 oz....3 00
Blue India, 100 % Ib......... 3 00
MIEROUNO. 25... ics. 3 75
ee ea 65

One box American “Family
free with five.

Schulte Soap Co.’s Brand.

Warren des
Wereraas e

 

100 cakes, 7 15 1s. |

Single box.. i. oe
PO Oe cs 2%
40 DOR Tots... 2 70
mo ee Pe 2 60

Wolverine Soap Co.’s Brands.

 

Singip DOw 6.) 658. cs. 2 65
5 box lots, delivered........ 2 60
10 box lots, delivered... ......2°50

Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands.
Old Country, 80 1-Ib. bars ..2 75

Good Cheer, 60 1-lb. bars....3 75

Uno, 100 3-lb. bars.......... 2 50

Doll, 100 10-oz. bars......... 2 05
Scouring.

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

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

Washing Powder.

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100 12 oz pkgs...........06- - 350
STARCH.

 

Kiaaterts Corn.

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

40 1-1b packawes............. 6%
Gib pores... .:.. 5... . 2.3: 7
Diamond.

64 10¢ packages ........... : =

128 5¢ packages......... ..

32 10c and 64 5c packages.. 8 0
Common Corn.
Se DORs Ls 44

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Common Gloss.

 

i-Ib packages.......... ee
3-lb packages. . 4
Gib packages. .............. 4%
40 and 50 lb boxes........... 2%
Barrels ; ne . 2%

STOVE POLISH.

 

No. 4, 3 doz in CABG ro: 4 50
No. 6, 3 doz in case...... ..

7 20

    

 

SUGAR.

Below are given New York
prices on sugars, to which the
wholesale dealer adds the local
freight from New York to your
shipping point, giving you
credit on the invoice for the
amount of freight buyer pays
from the market in which he
purchases to his shipping point,
including 20 pounds for the
rg of the barrel.

 

Re CO 5 63
Pe 5 50
CS eo 5 23
Powoeted ........2......... 5 25
XXXX Powdered...........5 38
OMI Ae 5 2
Gonmumaded PDO. 5 Wu
Granulated in bags......... 5 00
Fine Granulated... 15 08
Extra Fine Granulated.....5 13
Extra Coarse Granulated...5 13
Diamond Confece. A........ 5 UU
Confec. Standard A......... 4 85
Oe Bo ee a 473
No 3
No. 5
No. i
No.

No.

No.

No.

NG. foo 4 38
Se ee Oe eee 4 31
Ot 4%
NO: Pee: 419
eC. 4 06
ee Pe 4
Ne 3 94
i 3 8i

TABLE SAUCES.
Lea & Perrin’s, large..... 4 75
Lea & Perrin’s, small.....2 75
Halford, large: .......... 3B
Halford’small............ 22
Salad Dressing, large.....4 55
Salad Dressing, small..... 2 65
TOBACCOS.

Cigars.
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s brand.
Pie BC 35 00
Morrison, Plummer & Co.’s b’d.
Governor Yates, 4% re. 58 00
Governor Yates, 440 In. 65 00
Governor Yates, 54 Pe oo 70 00
BEGROr. 2. a: 30

H. & P. Drug Co.’s brand.
Qaintetie os 35 00
G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand.

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Candies. | Grains and Feedstufts

Stick Candy. Wheat.

; pols. pallies | Wheat! i. 88
Standard. ........... 64@ 7% |
Standard H. H...... 64@ 7 Winter Wheat Flour.
Standard ME WiSt..... 6 @ 8 Local Brands, |
Cut boat... 6... @ 84 Patents ae
Jumbo, 321b ........ i
Extra H. H a
Boston Cream......

Mixed Candv. ae 3 ae

BE il ae a ah al a loi Sl allel 9 19 |
Competition......... @ 6% | “Sul ject to usual cash dis- |
Saunders)... Fo Ny aomncenl eA ae |
header @ 7% | ,f Jour in bbis., 25¢ per bbi. ad- |
Conserve (2 2). @ 74 | ditional. j
ee ee @ ix Worden Grocer Co.'s Brand. |
een @ suaker. } e ng |
Pe 2 ee @ Quaker i aaa ae 00
Cat Eoafes @8 | Quaker a a
English Rock....... @ a :
Kindergarten.. @ 8% Spring Wheat F tour. |
ati on Cream. ..... @9 Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brand.
onay Far.......... Glu Pillsbury’s. Best 1, s 10) |
Valley Cream.. .... @i3 Pillsbury’ ;. ton 48... ae 6 ie
i Pillsbur s » 9u |
Fancy—Iin Bulk. Pillsbury’ : ees ie les ‘pa pe er. & a
Lozenges, plain..... @9 | Pillsbury’s Best ‘4s paper.. 5 90 |
ee printed. . @9 Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand. |
Choe PODS ol. . @l4 re 2epublic. 1 |
Choe. Monumentals @l2 — Seen “>a : pi
Gam Drops... |... @s | Gina Renchhe a ES
: , | Grand Republic, ‘4s........ 5 80
Moss Drops... @7% _—en h |
Sour Drops.......... @ 8&4 Lemon & Wheeler Co.'s Brand. |
Tneperials ..0..2 0 2. @ 8% | Gold Medal es Se 6 00}
P | Gold Meda i cs........ ce go |
ancy—In 5 Ib. Boxes. | Gold Medal | v4 5 80 |
Lemon Drops...... @50 | : z S
BOME Drape... dv & RB
Peppermint Drops. @tu : i i |
ean cole nae iy eu Olney & Judson’s Brand.
H. M. Choe. Drops.. ie | Cereaots, “s.............. - 6]
Gum Drops... ). | @30 | Ceresota, 4s.. 5 90 |
a Drope...... @is_ | Ceresota, is... D BE
A nn ae @50 Ww . rch |
Lozenges, plain. @30 orden Grocer Co.’s : Reena. |
Lozenges, printed. @50 | Laurel, tgs... © 00|
Heperais @5o | Laurel, 44s PU
Mottecs -. 0 @35_=| «Laurel, %s > 50
Cream Bar @5v
Molasses Bar . @50
Hand Made Creams. 80 @%” OE Li 0 |
Plain Creams....... 60 @go | Granulated . 1 75 |
i a : @9 Feed ond “Millstufts.
String Rock. 0. @60 |¢s > ae
Burnt Almonds.....125 @ No le saepetiy Gon. i
Wintergreen Berries @55 | Unbolted Corn Meal...._. 13 0
Winter Wheat Bran... . .11 06 |
Caramels. Winter Wheat Middlings..15 00
No.1 wrapped, 2 Ib. Screenings.. 10 06 |
Dexes 1..." iN The oO. EL 3rown Mill Co. a
No. = 1 wrapped, 3 lb. quotes as follows: |
See eae. @45 i
No. (2 wrapped, 3 2 tb. Clie tae New Cora. a
eee Less than ear lots. na 34
a Oats.
i Car lots. . cee 224%
Fruits. Carlots, ae eo ae
“on | ees than Car iota... |... 9;

Oranges. Hay. }

Choice Naples. | No. 1 Timothycarlots...... 9 50 |
160s

(oe: @ 30 | No. 1 Timothy, ton lots. 10 50

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160 Imperials.. a @4 50}
2Uu Fancy... oS. @5 00
St. Michaels.
150-176-200... 5... @A 50
Lemons.
Strictly choice 360s.. @3 7 |
Strictly choice 300s.. @4 00
Fancy 360s.. @4 5
Star Grete. 20.55. 35 00 | Ex-Faney 300s... @ w
Miscellaneous Brands. ae Pens
Medium unche 12 @) 50
fae om ES eee SS
Michtean .3.6 122... 35 00 Foreign Dried sista.
Royal Knight...... See ake .35 00 Figs, Choice Layers
Sub HOeh. co 35 00 Olb.. @
VINEGAR. @
Leroux Cider... --.. 10| Figs, Naturals’ in c
Robinson’s Cider, 40 grain....10 30 lb. bags,.. @6
Robinson’s Cider, 50 grain. ..12 | Dates, ‘Fards in WIb
boxes... |. @s
WICKING. Dates, Fards in 60 ib
ox CORON as @6
sang oa 9 a ee 39 | Dates, Persians, H.M.
vey gece inate 4o| _ 5 , 60 Ib cases, new @ 5% |
No. 2, per SrOss. ............-. 0 | ates Sairs 80 Ib |
No. S, per eros. -. 2s... -. 15 Cites @4
ish and Oysters
Fish y Nuts.
Fresh Fish. Per Ib ate, ,Tarragona.. @12%
Almonds, Ivaca....... @li
Whitefish ........... @ : Almonds, California,
- @ < soft shelled......... @
@ 15 Bragilsg new... 00... @i%
fa. : 2 ive @10
Ciscoes or Herring.. @ _ Walnuts, Grenobles .. @12%
Bluefish............. @ ig | Walnuts, Calif No. 1.  @I0
Live Lobster....... @ 1 Walnuts, soft shelled
Boiled Lobster...... @ 2 Cate ae @12
COG yo. @ 10 Table Nuts, fancy. @ll
Haddock............ @ 8 | Table Nuts, choice. @10
No. 1 Pickerel...... @ 8 Pecans, Med....... _.. @
Pike................. @ 7 | Pecans, Ex. Large... @10
Smoked White...... @ 8 | Pecans, Jumhos...... @l2
Red Snapper. ....... @ 10 | Hickory Nuts per bu.,
Col River Salmon.. @ Onid news @
Mackerel .......... @ 12% | Cocoanuts. full sacks @3 50
Oysters in Cans. Peanuts.
Fr. 8, Counts.<.......: @ 40 | Fancy, H. P., Suns. @7
MEICOIB  .5.c cake. ces @ 3 | Fancy, H. P., Flags
HOBStGG coos... ss. @i
Shell Goods. Choice, H. P., Extras. @ 4
¢ sters, per 100....... 1 Pt 50 | Choice, H. P., Extras,
Clams, per 100...... 100| Roasted ........ oa. @é

 

 

 

 

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= | Seymour Ce ey cao. 4
Seymour XXX, 3b. carton 4%
umily XXX. Cee ee
| Family ee Ib carton 4h
pated Sees 4
| Salted XXX, 3 lb carton {
| Soda.
| SOe RM _. «
; Soda XXX, 3 1b earton.... 414
| Soda, City eee. 2
| Zephyrette. ee 8
| FE z Island Wafers... 9
| L. I. Wafers, 1 ee aI 10
of seine
| Square Oyster, XXX... .. 444
| Sq. Oys. XXX.1 1b carton. 5%
; Farina Oyster, XXX....... 4

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| Animals ... co Se
| Bent’s Cold Water. su. Io
Pete ROB fs 6
| Cocoanut eet: Sepa pecs 8
| Coffee C akes. ie
| Frosted Hone y ke
Graham Crackers 6
Ginger Snaps, XXX round. 5
1E XXX city. 5
eX} home made 5
| Gin. Snps,XXX scalloped.. 5
[Ginger Vantin ......_... 7
pEmayertaig 2 6
| dumpies, Honey...) ....... 40
| Molusses Cakes. . 6
| Marshmallow 12
| Marshmallow Creams..... 13
Pretzels, hand made ..... 6
| Pretzelettes, LittleGerman 6
pSueks Care. e i=
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[pears Lwnen jl: 6
| Vaniila Square. .......... i
| Vanilla Waters... 0)... 12
| Pecan Water.....)....... 18
Mixea Pree | oo c.. .
| Cream Jumbles ............ 11%
| Boston Ginger Nuts........ 6
| Chimmie Fadden a
| Pineapple Glace...... pede de
Penny Cakes. 2
Marshmallow Walnuts.... 13
Helle Isle Pienic........,.. 10 |

   
   

 
 

   
 
  

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Back ‘ 10 |
Clear back.... } 25 |

5 } ot 1ort cut. ll
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sellies . 6% |
Briskets . ... 6
Extra shorts 3 534
Smoked Meats.
Hams, 12 lb id
ui lk 9% |
914
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16 2
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Be r . 7 @8
California hs ams 414
Boneless hams... 84a
Cooked ham..... o il
Lards. In Tierces.
Compound. Leas 1
Kettie ion oe eee 6
55 1b Tubs VE Mg
80 1b Tubs.......ad hg
S010 Fie ....,..8 14
20 lb Pails e ®
10 lb Pails.......advar e 4%
5 ib Pails. ......advance %
3 1b Pails.......advance Er
Sausages. |
BOIOgns |... .. 5
BiVGr i . 6%
Prankfort...... i 6%
—-.......... 64%
ood ......... 6 |
longue .. Jae . |
Head cheese... rel 64%
eef.
i xtra Mess....... oo
| Boneless ...... <i oO
Pe eo, ii 00
Pigs’ Feet.
| Kits, ib Ibs... : 80
4 bbis, Oe i 5v
Le bbls, 80 lbs. Cevisacce oa |
Tripe.
Kite, 1S lbe.. oe 13, |
i¢ bbls, 40 lbs : 14 |
46 Dbis, BS Ibs...... cove @ OO |
Casings. |
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seef rounds. eee eee. 4]
Beer middics.......... Ue |.
a 60 |
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Pres. beef 200 |
| Corned beef, 1... 4s 0 |
Roast beer, 2ib....... 200 |
[rotcce ham, 48....... 50
Potted ham, ‘ps... Lo |
Deviledham, 4s oo |
Deviledham, %s. ro |
Potted tongue \s GO |
| Potted tongue \%s io |

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Pork
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Mutton.

CRP CRSS oa. ‘ @ 9
Spring Lambs... 9 @10
Veal.

Carcass a . T%@ 8

Perkins & Hess
Hides.
Green Ceca ace sees
Part cured..
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| Deaconskins .........25 @a0

| Pelts.

| Shearlings a 30
| Lambs . Pee at wien 60
| Ola Wool. 90

 

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Crockery and
Glassware.

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Butters,
14 AL, poe dos.......... 50
i to 6 pal, per gal........ 54%
Seal, oer eel ©... cs... 6%
Me Wel. Dee al... 6%
- wal., per gal. ..... b%

per ‘gal. 8
pergal.. §

15 gal. meat-tubs,

20 gal. meat-tubs,

per gal.. 10
30 gal. meat-tubs, per gal.. 10
Churns.
=toG gal. per eal... ... 5%
Churn Dashe rs, per doz... &©
Milkpans.
¥g gal. flat or rd. bot., doz. 60
1 gal. flatorrd. bot.,each 5%
Fine Glazed Milkpans.
% gal. flat or rd. bot.,doz. 65
1 gal. flat orrd. bot.,each 5%
Stewpans.
4 gal. fireproof, bail, doz. 85
1 gal. fireproof, bail, doz.1 10
Jugs.
‘4 Gal, per Gos... 40
4 gal.. per doz ec a
.toS gal, pereal......... 6%
Tomato Jugs.
i OAL, per des... |... 70
1 gal., exc Moe 7
Corks for 4 _ per doz.. 20
Corks for 1 gal., per doz.. 30

Preserve pos and Covers.

Yq gal., stone cover, doz... 7%
1 gal., stone cover, doz...1 00
Sealing Wax.
5 lbs. in package, perlb... 2
LAMP BURNERS.

No. 0 Sun. _ =
mo 2 S0n.... 50
Ne 2a...
[oe 50
Security, Wo. 1........ =
| Secusity, Ne. Z.:........ |
[Ruonee ........ 50
Climax.. 1 50

Per box of § doz.

NO, OS... ae
No. Ewe 1 88
No. 2 Sun. 2 70
First ‘Quality.
No. 0 Sun, crimp to
wrapped and labeled.... 2 10
No. i Sun, crim to oP,
wrt upped and oe iy 22%
No. 2 Sun, crim
wrapped and aoe 3 25
XXX Flint.
No. 0 Sun, crimp top,
wrapped and eae 2 55
No. Sun, crimp op,
wrapped and labeled. - 2%
No. 2 Sun, crimp
wrapped and em hy 375

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No.1 Sun, wrapped and
labeled.. 3 70
No. 2 Sun, ‘wrapped. ‘and
labeled oe 70
No. = i nge, wrapped and
E: abe led.
No.3 sun, “Small “Bulb,”
for Globe Laie... 80
| La Bastie.
| No. 1 plain bulb, per
do
: aan, plain bulb, ‘per
De 50
to, 1 Grimp, Der doa... ..-. 1 35
No. 2 Crimp, per doz......: 1 60
| Rochester.
| No. 1, Lime (65¢ dos)...... 3 50
No. 2, Lime (70¢ doz)...... 4 00
No. 2 Flint (S06 dos)....... 4 70
Electric.
| No. 2, Lime (70e doz) ..... 4 00
No. 2, Flint (80c doz)...... 440
OIL CANS, Doz.
gal tin cans with spout.. 1 25

rv

l galv iron with spout. 1 6

aly iron with spout. 2 87

g galy iron with spout. 4 00

5 gal galv iron with spout. 5 00

5g gal galv iron with faucet 6 00
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al galv iron Nacefas....

Pump Cans

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| 5 gal Rapid steady stream. 9 00

5 gal Eureka non-overflow 10 50

  

3 gal Home Rule..... ..... 10 50
5 gal Home Rulé........... 12 00
5 gal Pirate King...... ~~ OOO
LANTERNS.

moO. OFanaar............. 4 oe
No. 1B Tabolas.......... 6 50
| No.13 TubularDash. .... 6 30
| No. 1Tub., glassfount.... 7 00
No. 12 Tubular, side lamp. 14 0C
No. 3 Street Lamp . 3%

LANTERN GLOBES.

| No. 0 Tubular, cases 1 doz.
each, box 10 centa.. ... 45

| No. 0 Tubular, cases2 doz.
each, box 15 Cents....... 45

| No. 0 — bbls 5 doz.
eac h, DOE Seb. Ss: 40

No. 0" fubulay bull’s eye,
cases | doz. each......... 1%

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22

Woman’s World

Who Constitute the Self-Supporting
Class?

I really don’t know of anything more
calculated to make a_ sensible person
tired than to read the census reports of
women who are engaged in ‘‘self-sup-
porting occupations.’’ The list includes
women lawyers and doctors, women who
are clerks and typewriters and actresses
and writers, and those who are engaged
in all sorts of freak occupations; but
among the women who are enumerated
as earning an honest living by their
own labor there is not one single wife or
mother. The woman who makes and
bakes and mends and sews and cleans
and scrubs from one year’s end to an-
other; who nurses the sick and comforts
the afflicted ; who spanks the erring and
forgives the repentant; whose business
hours include every single one of the
twenty-four; who is the mainstay of the
family and the bulwark of the nation—
this woman is not officially considered
as earning her living.

On the contrary, she is ‘‘supported,’’
and is expected to be properly grateful
for it. The position of housekeeper
and homemaker to a family is univer-
sally regarded as being a perfect sine-
cure. The woman who occupies it has
nothing at all todo. She has only to
arise in the morning, before the rest of
the family, to see that the children
are properly washed and dressed and the
breakfast on time and that everybody’s
individual taste in the matter of food
and drinks has been remembered.

Then she can find her husband a clean
handkerchief, and look up his hat where
he left it the night before, and sew ona
button, and keep the baby from crying
until be gets off, and wave him a gay
farewell from the gallery, for a woman
must always be cheerful, you know, un-
der all circumstances. After that she
can turn her attention to getting the
children off to school, and mend a rent
in Johnny's coat, comb Mary’s hair,
hear Billy say over his speech, help a
little on a composition, work out a sum
in arithmetic, put up lunches, inter-
view the groceryman and butcher and
baker, after which she is free to sit
down and do the work of a seamstress
on the family sewing machine until it
is time to sée about dinner.

Now, I am one of those who believe
that the woman who fills worthily such
a role as this is doing the finest work
in the world. It is the occupation to
which God himself set womankind. It
is a career so broad that there is no
talent or gift, no ideal or inspiration
that may not find its worthy expression
in it. The woman who can kissa baby’s
hurt and make it well is a greater sur-
geon than a Mary Putnam Jacobi. She
who shows little children the way to
heaven knows more of what lies beyond
the stars than a Maria Mitchell sweep-
ing the glittering arch of the skies with
her telescope. The industry, the pru-
dence, the foresight that might have
made many a woman a Hetty Green in
finance has been expended in warding
off poverty from a humble cottage home.
Love has lent many a mother’s needle
inspiration and given it an art thata
Worth or a Doucet would have envied.
These things are not achieved without
labor, and it is time that we dropped
the old fiction that housekeeping and
taking care of a family is a pleasant di-
vertisement for an idle hour. It is
work, heart-wearing, nerve-wrecking,
never-ceasing work.

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN

Of the women who are engaged in
‘*self-supporting’’ occupations, as the
census reports say, we hear more than
enough. They go about with the sounds
of the trumpet and brazen instruments
proclaiming their own praises and
achievements. Perhaps this is the rea-
son we have rather overlooked the im-
portance of the profession in which the
woman who keeps house and makes a
home is engaged. Her profession is
one that embraces all other professions,
and she is really the most versatile of
her sex. Just think, for a moment,
what we expect of her—not of some
woman who is a phenomenal genius, a
sort of Admirable Crichton in petticoats
—but just of any ordinary, everyday
sort of woman—the kind of a woman
we know by the dozen and to whom we
would run across the street in a moment
if the baby got sick suddenly or we
wanted a new pattern for a sleeve cap.

We expect her to be as much a model
of neatness and order as a ship’s cap-
tain, with a place for everything and
everything in its place. Of course, the
rest of the family are at liberty to strew
things right and left and leave them
where they finished using them, but we
expect her to be a kind of an Old Sleuth
detective who can always locate the
hatchet, or the corkscrew, or last night’s
paper, or a missing pair of gloves, and
be able to follow up the slightest kind
of a clew to the whereabouts of the bi-
cycle wrench.

She must display the incorruptible
justice of the Supreme Court in settling
quarrels among the children, and know
when badness is the result of original
sin, and when the outcome of a disor-
dered stomach—when to use the slipper
and when to send for the doctor.

She must be a financier who can make
$1 do the work of $2, and know where
to spend to keep up appearances, and
where to save for a rainy day.

She must know as many remedies as
a young doctor, be as good a nurse asa
professional, and yet be willing to have
her ministrations growled over and
taken as a matter of course.

She must be an understudy to the
teacher, who can supplement school
work at home and pilot dull and tear-
ful students through the stormy waters
of compound fractions and Latin verbs.

She must know how to make a dress
at home, and wear it with an imported
and brought-it-from-abroad air, to trim
a bonnet so her dearest friend won't
know it, to cook a dinner like a French
chef, to hear prayers and give religious
instruction like a preacher, to run a
meals-at-all-hours restaurant for her un-
punctual family.

She is expected to be an employe who
puts her employer's interest before any
personal feeling or desires of her own.
She is never expected to take any ad-
vantage of the eight-hour law, and the
world would stop the day she went out
on a strike.

The marvel of marvels is that she
actually exists, and is so common that
we do not appreciate what a wonder she
is.

This is the woman who is not re-
garded by the census report as earning
her living. It probably thinks she does
these things for fun; and in only too
many households the same opinion pre-

vails. No especial provision is made
for her. The cook is paid, or else she
would leave. The housemaid and

laundress receive regular wages, or they
would give notice before you could say
Jack Robinson; but the woman who
does twice as much work, and who sup-

 

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TRADESMAN

plements everybody else’s work, gets
never a penny as coming to her as_ her
just due, the reward of her honest labor.
It is generally understood that she is
willing to work for her board and
clothes, and it goes at that.

This is an incredible hardship that no
woman should be called on to bear. Just
what it means to a woman, in degrada-
tion in her own sight, to have to go to
her husband and ask for money, men
cannot understand. She stands a beg-
gar, just as much as if she rattled a tin
cup on the street corner and asked for
Sometimes the money is given
to her freely, sometimes grudgingly. It
ought not to be given at all. It should
be paid her as her wages, for work
done, a purely business transaction on
both sides; and having collected her
salary, the wife and mother should feel
as free to spend it as she pleases, with-

 

out question, as any other business
woman does her earnings.

In the many discussions of the un-
quiet sex, as women have been calied,
political economists have seen the grav-

est danger in women supplanting men :

in many fields of labor. - This desire of
women to work outside of their own
homes has been attributed to restless-
ness and feminine whims, and every
cause but the real, true, plain reason—
that women need money and want what
it buys. Their work outside will bring
in money. At home it is taken for
granted that they toil for pleasure. They
are tired of being grateful and having
to wheedle and cajole some man,
whether it be father or husband, for
what they have earned and what they
feel is justly theirs. They want a new
adjustment of the domestic labor scale,
where the work-worn woman who keeps
house will have her rightful place as-
signed her among those of her sex who
are engaged in ‘‘self-supporting occu-
pations.’’ DorotnHy Dx.

 

 

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We are showing the strongest line of Shoes ever placed on
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.

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

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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
We are 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,

any agent of the Boston Rubber Shoe Co.

Our terms are as liberal as those of

Rindge, Kalmbach & Co.,
12, 14 and 16 Pearl St.,
Grand Rapids.

 

 
 

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MEN OF MARK.

E. B. Stebbins, Proprietor Stebbins
Manufacturing Co.

Ensign B. Stebbins was born at Mus-
kegon, Oct.24, 1865. Two months later
his family removed to a farm in Ionia
county, and two years later they re-
moved to Lakeview, where Mr. Steb-
bins has since resided most of the time.
He attended the public school at that
place until 17 years of age, when he
served a partial apprenticeship in the
machine shop of C. O. & A. D. Porter
in Grand Rapids. Concluding that he
would rather follow professional pur-
suits, he taught district school for three
or four years, when he caught the West-
ern fever and spent a month in South-
western Nebraska. One month was
quite enough to convince him that Ne-
braska was not ‘‘in it’? with Michigan
and he returned to Lakeview and opened
a small job shop. Thenext year he be-

 

 

gan "the manufacture of ironing ‘tables

and clothes racks, which he sold by
means of a personal canvass among the
farmers. At this time he was the
whole thing,’’ as he expresses it, as
he would make up a wagonload of goods
ana then start out and sell them. The
business gradually increased and the
factory has been enlarged until it now
employs twenty-five people, turning out
parlor tables, desks, easels, cabinets,
folding chairs, mantels, step ladders
and hall racks. For some time the busi-
ness was conducted under the style of
the Cato Novelty Works, but for some
years past it has been known as the
Stebbins. Manufacturing Co., although
Mr. Stebbins is the sole owner of the
institution. Little effort has been made
to cultivate the regular furniture trade,
as Mr. Stebbins has found it more
profitable and satisfactory to establish
trade relations with retail merchants in
other lines who use his goods as prizes.
He has succeeded in securing customers
in every state in the Union and has un-
der consideration the extension of his
trade to several foreign countries. In
connection with his factory he operates
a complete printing office in which all
the advertising matter used in his busi-
ness is prepared and executed.

Mr. Stebbins was married July 5,
1885, to Miss Mattie Fuller, of Lake-
view, and is the father of two interest-
ing children—girls of 11 and 4 years of
age respectively. He is a member of
the K. of P., has served as Finance
Keeper of the Maccabees and as Banker
of the Modern Woodmen. He was
Trustee of the village of Lakeview two

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

years and is now President of the local
Board of Education, a position he has
held two years. As showing the esteem
in which he is held at home, it may be
stated that he received the nomination
of his party for Representative in the
Legislature last fall, making an ener-
getic personal canvass of his district.
Although he was not elected, he made a
phenomenal run, surprising his best
friends by the record he made when the
votes were counted.

If Mr. Stebbins were asked to enumer-
ate two causes which have contributed
to his success, he would probably say:
‘* Persistent effort and painstaking atten-
tion to business.’’ This diagnosis is
probably correct, but above and beyond
these excellent traits he possesses a cer-
tain degree of shrewdness—using the
term in its best sense—a shrewdness
which impels him to consider his plans
carefully, arrange the details systemat-
ically and then proceed to execute them
energetically. This faculty is shown in
all his work, from the very inception of
his manufacturing establishment, and to
this quality the Tradesman attributes
no small measure of his success.

a
Danger in Too Rapid Recovery.

There has lately been a great deal
written about the return of prosperity,
as evidenced by the rapid advance in
the price of wheat and other products.
lhe extraordinary movement in bread-
stuffs is all right as far as it goes, but
it is no proof that times are better.
Nevertheless it helps to make them
better.

The great activity in the grain mar-
kets of the country has set the transpor-
tation companies to work. The grain
must be hauled to market and to the
points of export to meet a heavy de-
mand, and this necessitates not only the
use of cars and boats that have been
standing idle, but also the building of
more cars, and, possibly, more boats.
(he railroads are forced to hire more
men to do their work, and it is in the
increased employment of labor that the
wheat boom has brought the chief ben-
efit to the country.

Good times do not mean high prices
of necessaries, but the employment of
the workpeople at fair wages. That is
the only and the true test. The excite-
ment in wheat has enabied the farmers
who had it to sell to make money and it
has given opportunity to some specula-
tors to make large profits; but that is
done at the expense of the many. The
people must have the price of their
bread increased in order that the grow-
ers and handlers of wheat may have
their gains. Nobody objects to this, as
it gives to the much complaining farm-
ers of the country benefits for which
they have sighed for years; but it is
only one of the items required to make
up a revival of prosperity.

But activity is commencing. Capi-
talists are gradually gaining confidence
in the prospect of an undisturbed busi-
ness situation and are putting forth
their money more readily than at any
time since the panic of 1893. Industrial
establishments are starting up in all
parts cf the country, but the activity in
that direction is seriously hampered by
the unwarranted strike of coal miners.

While the facts show that the return
of good times is gradual, it is gratify-
ing to know that there is an actual
progress. But it cannot be concealed
that damage has been done by exagger-
ating the situation and an excessive
coloring of the facts. People have been
led to believe that prosperity was al-

 

ready established, but when they sought
to take their share it was not to be
found.

The wheat that is being shipped
abroad will soon be adding to the stock
of money in the country, while it is al-
ready helping to circulate that which
was lying
of the crops will create a great deal of
activity in business and the great in-
dustrial concerns of all sorts that have
been idle, as their products are re-
quired, will start to work, while those
that have been working with reduced
forces will employ more labor.

Times are improving, and they are
going to get much better right along.
The people have everything to hope
for, with a good prospect of getting it,
but they must not be in too greata
hurry. It is hard for the hungry man
to wait when he smells the roast beef;
but in this case he must exercise pa
tience. Business is going’ to improve
steadily until the next. ‘financial and
commercial panic shall burst upon the
country some twenty years or so in the
future; but the people must contain
themselves until the crest of the pros-
perity wave can get here.

Whenever the workshops and _facto-
ries shall be in full operation, and all
the willing and competent laborers shall
be employed, then everybody will be
assured, without information from any,
that prosperity is here.

FRANK STOWELL
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Reopete adtiosary.

Century—The distance made in one
day by an imaginative rider when rid-
ing alone. (See Liar and Cyclometer).

Cranks—1. Supposedly steel rods
which refuse to move when desired,
and vice versa. 2. All persons who
refuse to ride wheels.

Cyclometer—A small instrument oper-
ated by turning machine upside -down
and revolving front wheel rapidly by
hand. (See Fake. )

Dismount—To sever connection with
wheel ; may be done in several ways.

Expert—One who is able to scare a |
pedestrian to death by coming within!

one-eleventh of an inch of him without
hitting him, instead of running into
him and killing him at once.

Fake—All unreliable or untrue state-
ments. (See Century and Cyclometer. )

Handlebars—Pieces of steel or wood
used by beginners for testing grip, and
by experts for showing skill by letting
them alone.

Heretic—Any one who rides a differ-
ent make of wheel from one’s own.

Liar—(See Century and Cranks, also |

Heretic. )

Pedals—Two steel devices attached
to cranks in form ofa puzzle, the object
being to keep feet on both at once.

Saddle—Something probably invented
by druggists to boom the sale of arnica.

idle here. The movement |

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Scorcher—A humpbacked, bulging-
eyed creature who says ‘‘Steady-y!’’
and would wear his sweater to church
if he ever went there.

_ Suicide—The apparent object of all
learners,

Tandem—A device to enable a man
to tell if his best girl’s back hair is her
own or not; a sort of pleasure convey-
|ance for ladies.

Tire—A rubber thing which is the
best in the market and bursts nineteen
miles from | the nearest repair shop.

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MICHIGAN

 

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The Kick-Department Scheme.
Stroller in Grocery Worid.

I suppose this particular instance I
refer to occurred at least three years
ago, in a town of probably 4,000 people,
up in Vermont. The grocer who got the
scheme up was an enterprising fellow,
always quick to take hold of new ideas
and methods out of the ordinary. His
only weakness as a business man was
his credulity. He couldn’t see through
any attempt to hoodwink him in the
least degree, for which reason he was
quite often imposed upon. Incidentally
the enterprising spirit manifested by
this grocer was rather of a contrast to
the ordinary New England ideas, which
are usually conservative to a fault.

To come at once to the heart of the
story, the Vermont grocer got an idea
in his head that if he could get his dis-
satisfied customers to make tormal com-
plaints of what they were disgruntled
over, instead of simply harboring the
grudges in their bosoms and going some-
where else, he would make a ten-strike
and hold a good deal of trade that he
lost because of the aforesaid unspoken
grudges. So he got the maiter in shape,
and sent circulars all over the town giv-
ing the details of the scheme.

1 forget a good many details of his
method of working the idea, but I do
remember that one feature of it was the
writing of complaints on blank slips of
paper, but whether furnished by him I
don’t remember.

if my memory serves me, there wert
nine other grocers in that village, and
they looked on the first grocer’s scheme
with rank suspicion. To them it marked
the overturning of old traditions—a vio-
lation of the ethics of the grocery trade
—something new and novel. That was
one objection. Another was the fact
that the scheme was a good one, and if
it succeeded, their own business might
suffer in consequence.

So three or four of the other grocers
of the place got their heads together
and formed. a conspiracy. It’s rather
late in the story to name the hero, but
for convenience’s sake I'll call the first
grocer Jones. Jones got his scheme in
good working order, and it bade fair to
succeed. Pretty soon after it started
he began to wonder a little at the nu-

merousness of the complaints. They
fairly rained in on him. He had no
idea his store was so unpopular. Still,

he tackled all of them, and did his
best, conscientiously, to straighten
them out. But still they continued,
seeming to increase rather than decrease.

These complaints, or a good many of
them, were faked up by the other yro-
cers of the town. But Jones never knew
it. He kept on patiently trying to
straighten them out as they came in
for several weeks.

Any half-intelligent man ought to
have smelt a mouse when he got com-
plaints that ‘‘he didn’t give anywhere
near as good weight as Smith’’ (one of
the grocers in the conspiracy), but he
didn't. Nearly all of the complaints
took occasion to unfavorably compare
Jones’ methods of doing business with
one or more of the grocers who were
putting up the joke on him. For ex-
ample, he would get a complaint assert-
ing that ‘‘we notice the crackers you
sell are not nearly so fresh as those sold
by Messrs. Blank & Co.,’’ Blank &
Co., of course, being one of the con-
spirators. And _ still Jones puzzled on,
worried a little, but too plucky to stop
the scheme.

The funniest feature of the whole
business was the one that revealed the
whole conspiracy to Jones and broke up
the scheme. I remember it very well.
Jones kept two clerks, one much smaller
than the other. One day he got a com-
plaint, properly signed by one of his
lady customers, saying that the littler
of the two clerks had a very unpleasant
habit of picking his nose while waiting
on customers. The letter said that the
lady regretted very much having to
make the complaint, but her sense of
delicacy had been violated, and so on,
and so on.

This lady was one of Jones’ best cus-
tomers, and he was hot to think that she
should have occasion to complain over
anything like this. .So he fired the poor

 

little clerk, who hadn't
idea ot what he had done. This com-
plaint, like many others, had been got-
ten up by the other grocers.

The lady who was supposed to be the
author of the above complaint was in
Jones’ store a day or two later, and
Jones, in order to show her how quickly
the matter had been acted upon, opened
up the subject at once. Jones never
chased any subject round Robin Hood’s
barn. What he had to say he said in the
most direct language possible. And that’s
the way he handled this one.

‘*I got your complaint, Mrs. —,’’ he
said, ‘‘and that fellow that picked his
nose is discharged.’’

The lady looked at him as if she
thought him a lunatic.

‘*Sir!’’ she said.

‘*Why,’’ said Jones, not at all under-
standing why she failed to comprehend,
‘I discharged the little clerk that you
said was always a-picking his nose.’’

‘‘What are you talking about?’’ she
demanded, with her nose a-tilt. ‘‘Who
said anything about picking noses?
What little clerk? What did I say about
him? Are you crazy?’”’

Jones broke out ina cold perspiration.

*‘Why,’’ he began, feebly, ‘‘didn't
you send me a letter complaining be-
cause that little clerk I had was al-
ways a-picking his nose?”’

‘Certainly not !’’ ejaculated the lady,
very positively. ‘I’m not in the habit of
doing such things.’’

Then Jones went and got the letter,
which the lady immediately repudiated.
Then the matter was patched up, and
Jones began tothink. He wanted to in-
vestigate the matter, with a view of
having the person who had sent the
false complaints arrested, but he was so
afraid of ridicule that he let the whole
thing drop, together with the scheme
itself. Those other grocers committed
forgery, there’s no doubt about that,
but Jones would have been the laughing
stock of the place had he stirred the
matter up, and he knew it.

Seer aa

The Grain Market.

Wheat during the past week has seen
one of the most exciting weeks that it
probably has experienced in years. It
would run up 4c, 5c and 6c a day, until
finally it closed last Saturday about 14c
from where it commenced one week
ago. Since this, it has been on the
down road to a certain extent. One
dollar wheat has been here and gone.
We may see it again. Any person with
any nerve would not have needed to go
to Klondike to make a pile of money.

The reaction set in Monday, when it
closed about 3c under Saturday’s clos-
ing price, but Tuesday capped the cli-
max, when wheat dropped 51!4c more.
In times like these predictions of mar-
kets are worthless. It is simply a case
of either buy or 3ell and whichever way
the wind blows, that side is likely to
gain.

The longs had the innings last week.
The shorts seem to have it this week,
and without any cogent reason, as_ con-
ditons have not changed a particle,
with one exception, and that was the
visible decrease, which did not show as
much as was expected, taking into con-
sideration the very large export, being
over 5,500,000 bushels, and the North-
west lagging behind in the receipts.
However, the winter wheat seemed to
have made up for the loss elsewhere, but
this cannot hold on always. However,
our export trade must continue, if not
increase, in order to stimulate higher
prices. Thus far farmers have been ex-
tremely free sellers. Whether they will
be ata lower range of prices remains to
be seen. It would seem to be the nat-
ural order of things for them to hold on
and see how conditions will shape them-
selves. It would seem too bad for this
country just at this moment to dump all
the wheat into the foreigners’ hands at

the slightest

 

low prices, when we have the positive
assurance that they will have to have
our wheat, if they want any,for no other
exporting country has any to offer, nor
is likely to have any. The single coun-
try that can be drawn from is Russia
and, as has been reported before, the
Czar of Russia isabout to issue an edict
prohibiting the exportation of wheat, on
account of the short crop in the south-
ern portion of Russia, so the report
goes. The next country to draw from
would be from Argentina, and that is
very indefinite yet, as their harvesting
does not begin until about the middle
of next January. The crop has barely
been sowed there, but thus far promises
only fairly well and, even with an ab-
normally large crop in Argentina, they
could not expect to export from that
country, owing to the emptiness of the
granaries there, over 25,000,000 bushels.
Again, our spring wheat crop seems to
be deteriorating daily. It may not even
go to the 115,000,000 bushels predicted
one week ago, so it would seem really
common sense for the agriculturalists of
the United States to hold their wheat
and get full value for it, which they are
bound to get providing they are not too
anxious to sell.

Corn has also been on the up grade
since our last and, in order to be in
fashion, it followed wheat down, so on
Tuesday’s market there was only an ad-
vance on corn of about 2c and about
1'4c on oats.

Receipts during the week were 50 cars
of wheat, 8 cars of corn and 5 cars of
oats—quite a decrease from last week.
Millers are paying 88c for wheat, while
Monday they were paying 92c—Ioc
higher than one week ago.

CLG, AL
> 2.

The German government refuses to
impose an additional duty on American
bicycles.

VOIGT.

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Familiarity in anything
force; even truth is enhanced
well hid.

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You cannot jump over a mountain,
but step by step takes you to the other
side.

injures its
if it is

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WANTS COLUMN.
BUSINESS CHANCES.
To LET—MY FOUR STORY BUILDING,
32x150 feet, heretofore occupied for retail
and wholesale dry goods. The store is situated
on the best business street in this city. Has one
freight and one passenger elevator, heated by
steam and lighted by gas and electricity. <A big
business can be done here. Inquire of Otto
King, Sr., Davenport, lowa. 380
Pigs SALE—DRUG STORE; STOCK FIRST
class, fixtures new. good location. Address
No. 379, care Michigan Tradesman. 378
NOK SaLE—NEW STORE BUILDING, WITH
rooms avove, and smali stock of groceries.
Address Box 404, Manton. Mich. 37.
K°" SALE AT A SACRIFICE—GOOD BLOCK
and fine stock of general merchandi+e; do-
ing good business; best of locations. Reason
for selling given tointending purcha-er. Ad
dress No. BIT care Michigan Tradesman. 377
\ TANTED — FIRST-CLASS BUTTER FOR
retail trade. Cash paid. Correspond with
Caulkett & Co., Traverse City, Mich. 381
FOR SALE—JUDGMENT FOR 88.08 AGAINST
Miles H. Winans, real estate agent in the

 

Tower Block. Tradesman Compapy, Grand
Rapids. 382
(gee SALE—A STORE BUILDING AND
dwelling combined at Levering, Mich. An
Al place for a general stock. A. M. LeBaron,
Graud Rapids, Mich. 369

B Est’ LOCATION FOR GRIST MILL IN THE
State. Good grain region. Location and
building will be given outright to man with
$4,000 capital. Address for particu.ars J. C.
Neuman. Dorr, Mich. 370
W:? NTED—AGENCY FOR WESTERN NEW
York for permanent staple line. Sell to
retailers. Address 3uffalo, care Michigan
Tradesm: 371

 

  

TS EXCHANGE—160 A‘ RES OF HEAVIEST
hardwood timber land in Michigan, finely
located, clear title, for stock goods. If aiffer-
ence will pay cash. Address Z. V. Payne, St.
Louis, Gratiot Co., Mich. 367

 

ir EXCHANGE—A WELL-ASSORTED
drug stock that will inventory $1,200 for a
stock of groceries. Address John Cooper, 340
Yoodworth avenue, Grand Rapids, Mich. 366
NOK SALE—MEAT MARKET DOING A
cash business. Will sell cheap forcash. I.
Frankford, Insurance and Real Estate, 53 West
Bridge Street. Phone 1236. 364
_- TRADE A GOOD FARM, STOCK, TOOLS
and crops for a st: ck of goods. Wm. Neilan,
Ferry, Oceana Co., Mich 365
Y PORE TO RENT AT LAKE ODESSA, BRICK,
S location very best; fine chance for general
store. E. F. Coiwell. Lake Odessa. 372
Kok SALE—DRUG STOCK INVOICING
about #700. Best jocation in Northern Mich-
igan. Address Drugs, care Michigan Trades-
man. 362
. SALE—~STOCK OF GENERAL MER-
chandise in a good lecation in a growing
town. Good business. Will rent building.
Reason for selling, poor health. For further
particulars inquire of or write to I. J. Wigent,
Watervliet, Mich. 359
ten SALE—CLEAN
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. 338
= SALE—ONE 100-HORSE POWER SLIDE
valve engine, especially adapted to sawmill
work, and fitted with a Nordberg Automatic
Governor. Can be seen running any week day
at Waliin Leather Co.’s tannery, Grand Rapids.
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wk RTNER WITH &%2,000 FOR
/ one-half interest in hardware, stoves and
tinshop, plumbing and furnace work and job-
bing, roofiug, ete. Have several good jobs on
hand and 8 well-established trade; best location
in heart of city. Address Box 522, Big Rapids,
Mich. 298
\ JANTED—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
v= EXCHANGE—TWO FINE IMPROVED
farms for stock of merchandise; splendid
location. Address No. 73, care Michigan Trades-
man. 3

\ JANTED—1,000 CASES FRESH EGGs,
daily. Write for prices. F. W. Brown,
Ttha ca. Mich. 249

PATENT SOLICITORS. __

 

  

 

F REE-OUR NEW HANDBOOK ON PatT-
ents. Ciiley & Allgier, Patent Attorneys,
Grand Rapids, Mich. 339
MISCELLANEOUS.
YITUATION WANTED—DRUG CLERK,
K) graduate of Northwestern, 97; registered in
Michigan; no objection to small town; refer-
ences. Address No. 376, care Michigan Trades-
man. 376
\ J ANTED—POSITION BY MALE STENOG-
rapher owning typewriter; experienced
Address Box 566, Grand Rapids.
375
7OUNG MAN, COMPETENT BOOK-KEEP-
_ er, understands double entry, desires posi-
tion. Best of references furnished. Address
W., care Michigan Tradesman. 347

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SHIP YOUR FREIGHT
AND TRAVEL via the

 

THE MOST POPULAR LINE TO

HICAGO

AND ALL POINTS WEST.

Leave MMUSKEGON at 6:00 p. m.

Leave GRAND HAVEN at 9.00 p. m.
Daily, arriving in CHICAGO the follow-
ing morning: in time for the outgoing
trains.

THIS IS THE SHORT LINE TO CHICAGO.

Passengers should see that their tick-
ets read via this popular line.

Through tickets to all points via
Chicago can be had of all agents on
D., G. H. & M., C. & W. M. R’y, T.,
S.& M. R’y,G.R. & I. R.R., ana
W. D. Rosie, Agent Goodrich Line,
Muskegon, or N. ROBBINS, Jr., Grand
Haven.

H. A. BONN, Gen’! Pass. Agent,
CHICAGO.

 

 

Travelers’ Time Tables.

and West Michigan R’y
June 27, 1897-

CHICAG

Going to Chicag
Uy. G. Rapids. .8:35am 1: 25pm aS: 25pm *11:30pr

 

ar. Chicago....3:10pm 6:50pm 2:0uam 6:40an
Returning from Chicago
Gy: Chieago.:.. .,. 30.5. 7:20am Sr i5pm * 9:30pm
ar. G’d Rapids....... 1:25pm 10:45pm * 4:00am
Muskegon.
Ly. G'd Rapids..... .... 8:35am 1:25pm 6:25:
Ar. G’d Rapids...... ..... 1:25pm 5. 5pm 10:45am
Traverse City, separ T Re etoskey and Bay
ew.
Gv. G’d Rapids........ 7:30am 11:30pm 5:30pm
Ar, exverea City lee 12:40pm 5:00am 11:10pm
Ar. Charlevoix........ 3:15pm 7:30am ...... oe
Ar. Petoskey.......... 3:45pm 8:00am ........
Ar Bay View.... ....<. 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
aoe Grand Rapids *11:30 pm; leave Chicago
ore CITY AND BAY VIEW.

Parlor car leaves Grand Rapids 7

sleeper at 11:30 p m.
*Every day. Others week days only.

Gro. DeEHaveEN, General Pass. Agent.

GRAN

Tray. C’y, Petoskey & Mack.. * 4:15am *10:00pm
trav. U y, Petoskey & Mack...t 7:45am t 5:10pm
Crav. C’y, Petos. & Har. Sp’gs.t 2:20pm t 9:10pm
SAG ec ee -t 5:25pm +11:10am
Petoskey & Mackinaw.. -+11:10pm + 6:30am

Train leaving at 7: 45 a.m. has parlor car to
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 to
Petoskey and Mackinaw.

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Rapids & Indiana Railway

June 20, 1897.

 

Leave Arrive

Southern Div. Leave Arrive
CEIRGTIRIERER sons tie ose oe pine jE com + 8:25pm
ME WAYNO Ss oss ine as cas ace «> 2:00pm + 2:10pm
AIA MIAROO gs 60.65. o. cieweh os vine 7:00pm + 9:10am

inedismatt, Louisville & Ind. 10; lopm * 4:05an
Kalamazoo SMPs cats Olga ies ata ¢ 8:05pm } 8:50am

1:10a.m. train has parlor car to Dineinner
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.
.vG@’d Rapids.......... +7:35am +1:00pm +5:40pm
LY GG RAB O6. ois. usc exes $9:00am +7:00pm
ar Muskegon........... 9:00am 2: 10pm "7:00,
Ry USE GRON  c ide rec ss, ces cses 10:25am 8:25pm
Ar Milwaukee, Steamer........ 4:00am

GOING EAST.
Lv Milwaukee, Steamer. 7 :30a:
uv Muskegon....... .. +8:10am +1: am. +4:10pr
Ly poop els bebe cas ves t 8:85am {6:35pm
vr Gd Rapids... .... 9:30am “12: hipm 5 3)pu
Ar GA HAIER. ne coe cce tise es 19:00am 8:00pm

+Except Sunday. *Daily. {Sunday only.
Steamer leaves Muskegon daily except Satur-
day. Leaves Milwaukee daily except Saturday
— Ae

“ticket ae ‘Un. Star

C AN ADI AN Pacific Railway.

EAST BOUND.
PItIO Si. bn ee +11;45am

C. L. Lockwoop,
Gen. Pass. & Tkt. Agt.

 

 

 

Lv. *11:35pm

At. VOrORtO. ass oe iS. F 8$:30pm 8:15am
Ar. Monireel..n cee. i. 7;20am 8:00pm
WEST BOUND.

Ly. Montreal. ........6.0..:.. 8:59am 9:00pm
Lv. Toronto........- dae cutlegs 4:00pm 7:30am
At. VOOM. coco oe 10:45pm =. 2:10pm

D. MeNicolt, Pass. Traftie Mgr , Montreal.
E. C. Oviatt, Trav. Pass. Agt., Grand Rapids.

 

 

 

Rapids & Western.

DETROIT fires. 1807.

Going to Detroit.

Ly. Grand Rapids......7: — 1:30pm 5:35pm
Ar. Detrott............ 11:40am 5:40pm 10: 20pm
re —_ Detroit.

Ly. Detroit. <0 53... ss.

00am < :10pm 6:10pm
Ar. aaa Rapids..... i m m 10:55pn
Lv. GR7:1

00p
iw, Alma and aise Ile.
4:20pm Ar. G R 12:20pm 9:30pr
Parlor cars on all trains to and from Detroit
and Saginaw. Trains run week days only.
Gro. DEHAVEN, General Pass. Agent.

GRAN

(in effect Scene 3, 1897.)

 

 

 

Trunk Railway System
Detroit and Milwaukee Div

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

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

+ 3:30pm.. Saginaw, Detroit and East. oO ts

*10:45pm... Detroit, —_ — Canada...* 6:35am

* 8:35am. ...@d. Haven and Int. Pts....* 7:10pm
+12: eng oe Haven and Intermediate.t 3:22pm

+ 5:1 ..Gd. Haven Mil. and Chi....+10:05am
. ‘oan. .. Gd. Haven Mil. and Chi....* 8:15am
+10:00pm......Gd. Haven and Mil....... + 6:40am

Eastward—No. 14 has Wagner parlor car. No.
18 parlor car. Westward—No. 11 parlor Car.
No. 15 Wagner parlor car.

*Daily. +Except Sunday.

E. H. Huenss, A. G. P. &T. A.
BEN. FLETCHER, Trav. Pass. Agt.,

South Shore and Atlantic
Railway.

DULUT

 

WEST BOUND.

 
 
 
  

 

Ly. Grand Rapids (G. R. & I.) 11:10pm +7:45am
Mackinaw City............ 7:35am = 4:20pm
Ar. St. Ignace..... ie 9:00am 5:20pm
Ar, Sault Ste. Marie. 12:20pm 9:50pm
Ar. Marquette .... 2:50pm 10:40pm
Ar. Nestoria. ........ 5:20pm 12:45am
Ar. Dujuth....%.-... jase aid 8:30am
EAST BOUND,
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Ly. Sault Ste. Marie.......... 3:30pm
Ar. Mackinaw City. ........- 8:40pm 11:00am

G. W. HrepaRp, Gen. Pass. Agt., Marquette.
E. C. Oviatt, Trav. Pass. Agt., Grand Rapids.

 

Paul & Sault Ste.
Marie meteny.

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Michigan
College of Mines.

A State technical school. Practical work.
Special opportunities for men of age and expe-
rience. Elective system. College year, 45
weeks. Tuition for residents, $25; non-resi-
dents, $150. For catalogues, address

Dr. M. E. Wadsworth, President,
Houghton, Mich.

  

  

For Sale at Public Auction:

*The plant of the McBain Creamery Co., at McBain,
Mich., on the ist day of October, 1897. Cost
$3,600. Good as new. Run only two months, Will
sell building and machinery separately if desired.
Terms, 10% cash day of sale, fatanee 60 days if
desired. Full particulars by addres ‘ssing
J. O. PACKARD, Sec’y.
Vogel Center, Mich,

 

Established 1780.

Walter Baker & Go.

Dorchester, Mass.
The Oldest and
Largest Manufacturers of

PURE, HIGH GRADE

COCOAS
CHOCOLATES

on this Continent.

LTD.

  
      

Trade-Mark. their manufactures.

Their Breakfast Cocoa is absolutely pure,
delicious, nutritious, and costs less than one
cent a cup.

Their Premium No. 1 Chocolate, put up in
Blue Wrappers and Yellow Labels, is the best
plain chocolate in the market for family use.

Their German Sweet Chocolate is good te
eat and good to drink. It is palatable, nutri.
tious, and healthful; a great favorite with
children.

Buyers should ask for and be sure that they
get the genuine goods. The above trade-mark
is on every package.

Walter Baker & Co. Ltd.,

Dorchester, Mass.

 

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QUEEN & CRESCENT

During the Tennessee Centennial
and International Exposition at Nash-
ville, Tenn., a low rate special tariff
has been caabbstied for the sale of
tickets from Cincinnati and other ter-
minal points on the Queen & Crescent
Route.

Tickets are on sale daily until fur-
ther notice to Chez ittanooga at $6. 75
one way or $7.20 round trip from Cin-
cinnati, the round trip tickets being
good seven days to return; other tick-
ets, with longer return limit, at $9.90
and at $13.50 for the round trip.

These rates enable the public to
visit Nashville and other Southern
points at rates never before offered.
Vestibuled trains of the finest class are
at the disposal of the passengers, af-
fording a most pleasant trip, and en-
abling one to visit the very interesting
scenery and important battle-grounds
in and about Chattanooga, Lookout
Mountain and Chickamauga National
Military Park. Tickets to Nashville
to visit the Centennial can be repur-
chased at Chattanooga for $3.40 round
trip. Ask your ticket agent for tickets
via Cincinnati and the Q. & C. Route
South, or writeto W. C. RINEARSON,

Gen’! Pass. Agent, Cincinnati.

 

 

 

 

KcCray Reirigeralor and Gold Slorage Co.,

 

our factory. It has a new style
below the Retail. Ice in center of cooling room.

Manufacturers of Fine Roll Top Butter and Grocery Re-
frigerators and Store Fixtures.

Kendallville, Indiana.

COLD STORAGE AND COOLING ROOMS

 

 

Styrvite C, Oak FINISH.
The above is taken from a photograph of an 8x16 Double Butcher Cooler recently constructed in
fancy carved front,

with three Retail Windows, and two small doors

 

 

 

Jas. CAMPBELL, — Pass. Agent,
0. 28 Monroe St.

  

W. R. Cattaway, Gen. Pass. Agt., Misicavelix
E. C. OvrarTr, Trav. Pass. Agt., Grand Rapids

      

 

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Four Kinds of Coupon Books

are manufactured by us and all sold on the same basis, irrespective

of size, shape or denomination.

TRADESMAN COMPANY, Grand Rapids. @
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Free samples on application.

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p ; —— fe % by The Computing Scale Company, Dayton, Ohio.
SS 18 different sizes and kinds of fine scales.
WEIGHS AND HANDLES GOODS : Prices from $15.00 up, according to finish and

as accurately as money can be changead
capacity.

Weighing in pounds and ounces is the cause of as

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We want to show you how our scale system will
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Office and Works, BUTTERWORTH AVE.,

All we ask is an opportunity to show you the Scale and a chance to convince you that
our claims are facts. Write us and give us the opportunity.

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

Bulk .worksjat Grand Rapids, Muskegon, Manistee, Cadillac, Big Rap-
ids, Grand Haven, Traverse City, Ludington, Allegan,
Howard City, Petoskey, Reed City, Fremont, Hart,
Whitehall, Holland and Fennville

The Stimpson Computing Scale Co.,
ELKHART, IND.

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2 Represented in Eastern Michigan by Represented in Western Michigan by
R. P. BIGELOW, C. L. SENSENEY,
Grand Rapids. Telephone No. 266.

 

 

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