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THE FACTORS OF |

MPROVEMENT.

The fact of a general trade revival is
becoming so manifest that there are few
who do not begin to realize the change.
Even the most conservative pessimists
are compelled to admit that material
and decided progress has already been
made in the direction of normal busi-
ness conditions. Indeed,the change has
been so rapid during the generally dull
summer mouths that observers are led
to question whether, when the usual sea-
son for activity shall set in, the improve-
ment will not amount to a veritable
boom.

There are, of course, many causes for
the wonderful change in the industrial
situation, and yet there is likelihood of
undue prominence being given to some
of the factors, while others of greater
importance are scarcely noted. Thus
the change in the situation is quite fre-
quently attributed to the returns from
the sale of the large and high-priced
yield of wheat in the West. Asa mat-
ter of fact, the realization from this
source is comparatively insignificant.
Thus, when the receipts of wheat at the
Western markets are considered, it is
found that, since the crop year began,

not more than 40,000,000 bushels has
been received. Now, when it is con-
sidered that much of the returns from
this movement of wheat has gone to the
settlement of debts, it will be seen that
the increased power of buying on this
account is very small, and that it has
exerted little or no influence, that is as
to actual receipts, on account of the
farmers being too busy to give attention
to buying since the harvest. There is
no question but that the wheat situation
is a potent factor in the improvement,
but as yet it is principally in anticipa-
tion.

Where, then, should we look for the
causes that as yet have had most influ-
ence? Perhaps the most salient one is
the depleted condition of all mercantile
stocks in the country. During the
‘‘lean’’ years so recently past, while
prices were declining, with no apparent
prospect of a change, buying was re-
duced to the last possible degree. Or-
ders were given only for the needs of
immediate consumption and empty
shelves was the rule. This was a nec-
essary accompaniment to the lessening
of prices, for the dealer was not wise
who would lay in stock with the prob-
ability that it would decline on his
hands.

When the improvement in prices be-
came sufficiently pronounced to show
that the tide had at last turned,a differ-
ent feeling soon became manifest. Or-
ders became more liberal and as_ confi-
dence increased the work of replenish-
ing stocks was undertaken everywhere.
This went on to a phenomenal degree,
even through the heated term—buyers
were more numerous in the markets
even during the usually dullest months
than had been known for years at any
season. The natural consequence of
this activity in buying has been the
starting up of industrial works all over
the country. It has also given a con-
tinued impetus to the revival in prices

 

so that the movement is gaining mo-
mentum continually.

The fact that crops and prices are
good, with an assured foreign demand,
has had, and is having, no small influ-
ence; the increasing consumptive ca-
pacity of the manufacturing classes is
also of great significance, but neither
of these has been long enough in opera-
tion to produce material results in the
Situation. But these have given the as-
surance of future demand, which, taken
in conjunction with the depleted stocks
of a few weeks ago and the upward
turn in prices, has led to the liberality
in buying on the part of dealers, which
is the direct cause of the real improve-

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Bank Notes.

Fenton—A new bank has been _prac-
tically organized to take the place of
the old State Bank of Fenton. For some
time parties bave been engaged in per-
fecting an organization for a bank at
this place and it is now an assured fact.
The new hank has not as yet been
named but its place of business will be
at the State Bank of Fenton building,
the same having been purchased of the
receiver, C, Tinker. E. M. Newell,
who has had twenty-five years’ experi-
ence in the banking business, will un-
doubtedly be the cashier of the new
bank, but its other officers have not as
yet been selected. It will be organized
with a capital stoc of $25,000 and will
do a conservative and legitimate bank-
ing business. Its stockholders repre-
sent many of the best business men of
our village.

Otsego—Having decided to locate in
Duluth, where a more lucrative position
awaits him, H H. Martindale has sold
his interest in the bank of W. C. Edsell
& Co., to Mr. Edseil. Mr. Edsell has
secured the services of C. I. Clapp, who
will officiate in the capacity of cashier
when Mr. Martindale’s connections
with the bank cease.

Ovid—The Ovid State Bank has been
organized with a capital stock of
$25, 000.

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Status of the Bean Market at St. Louis.

St. Louis, Mo., Sept. 15—It is hard to
predict the future market on beans and
yet our customers and most of our cor-
respondents are asking us this question
daily which of course, we are unable to
answer. Our crop report from the Ag-
ricultural College at Lansing this week
says, ‘‘ The weather has been exceed ing-
ly warm and very favorable for making
a crop of beans. These conditions have
existed during the past two weeks and
we are able to report an abundant crop
in prospect and, while the acreage is
not as much as last season, the yield
will be much better than we had reason
to expect a menth ago.’’ This has
caused many holders of beans in the
State of Michigan to close out what old
stock they had on hand if possible be-
fore the new crop came inand prices are
lower. The market has been $1@1.02
in Chicago the latter part of this week,
and $1.03@1.05 in East St. Louis for
choice handpicked pea Leans in grain
bags, carload lots. We have sold sev-
eral cars at these figures, but were only
able to sell where a merchant found
himself out of stock and needed the
beans. MILLER & TEASDALE Co,

 

The Grain Market.

Wheat was the center of attraction in
the grain market during the past week.
Prices Varied considerable and on Fri-
day the pinnacle was touched, as wheat

reached a dollar in Chicago, Detroit
and many other markets. The bears
had their bear dance on Friday and

when the market opened on aturday,

prices were lower and _ the retrograde
movement began at once and did not
stop until Monday, when a decline of
7¢ was recorded. On Monday our vis-
ible showed up with an increase of
949,000 bushels. Aside from this in-

crease, the conditions are unchanged.
The news of the shortage in France is
as Strong, if not stronger, than hereto-
fore. The Hungarian Minister of Ag-
riculture reports a shortage, and the
threshing is very unsatisfactory. The
exports make the world’s shortage 200, -
000,000 bushels. Wheat did not move
as freely during the past week, which is
probably due to the fact that many of
the farmers were attending the State
Fair, some were getting ready for seed-
ing, the setback in prices prevented
some from selling as they are holding
off for higher dollar wheat, and we
think they are likely to get it. Many
may doubt it, but we can see no reason
to alter our early statement in regard
to prices. We notice from a report is-
sued by the Secretary of State that
Michigan will have 24,500,000 bushels
of wheat. His earlier estimates were
18,000,000 bushels,and we did not agree
with him then, as we figured on about
20,0000,000 bushels. We still disagree
with him and are of the opinion that
22,000,000 bushels is all that we will
raise. The great question arises, Why
does Michigan seed only 15 per cent. of

her tillable land to wheat? It is
claimed that we have 10,000,000 acres
under the plow. Why is this so? In-

diana, with only two-thirds the area of
Michigan has grown 55,000,000 bushels
of wheat against 33,000,000 bushels (the
largest amount produced in this State
in one year), which we consider a very
poor showing for a State so well adapted
to wheat raising as Michigan.

There is nothing to say of coarse
grains. Owing to the large receipts,
corn did not advance. There is a short-
age in the oat crop and prices on this
cereal seem to be somewhat better and
Steady.

Receipts during the week were 62
cars of wheat, 11 cars of corn and 5 cars
of oats— about normal.

Millers are all buying wheat and are
paying 88c. C. G. A. Vorer.

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_Woman’s World

About the Ugly Girl.

The woman of the world, who is still
charming, although neither young nor
beautiful, was trying to comfort the
ugly girl.

‘*My dear,’’ she said, ‘‘I know just
how it is. I know there isn’t any phil-
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life beauty is held up to us as the most
potent power and greatest charm in
woman? When anew woman appears
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do you ever hear people asking each
other, ‘Is she good? Is she clever?’
No, the very first question is, ‘Is she
pretty?’ Goodness is taken for granted,
cleverness is something a woman always
has to atone for by other virtues, but
beauty is a letter of credit the whole
world is ready and anxious to honor at
sight.’’

This seems a hard saying, but there
is never the slightest use in fighting
against a fact. We just have to accept
it, as we do many another of the rainy-
day things of life, and make the best
of it. Being human, there is a kind
of comfort in the fact that the race is
not always to the swift nor the battle to
the peachy-complexioned. To be beau-
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vouches it in an inverse’ ratio to its
desirability. There are millions of
beautiful children; thousands of ex-
quisitely lovely young girls, hundreds
of women who are pretty at 30,anda
very few who carry their good looks
past the 4o years mark; but plainness
may be relied on to hold its own. The
woman who has never been a beauty
will never be called on to endure the
torture of being told that she has faded,
and it not unfrequently happens that
she who has been noted for homeliness
in her youth achieves a kind of Indian
summer bloom in middle life.

It has not escaped your attention,
perhaps, that there are many kinds and
varying degrees of ugliness. There is
the woman who ts ugly because she is
too iazy and self-indulgent to be good
looking. There is the woman who is
hopelessly ugly because she is dull, and
there is the woman, who is ugly with
mitigating circumstances and _ attrac-
tions. For the lazy woman and the
stupid woman nothing can be done, but
the clever woman, to whom nature has
been churlish and niggardly in the mat-
ter of looks, often outwits the stingy
dame and creates for herself an effect
of beauty where there is really no
beauty at all. It is a trick of dress, or
manners, or walk, of carrying herself
40 per cent. above her looks, instead of
20 per cent. under. No one ever knows
how she does it, but whenever and
wherever I see it I recognize it for con-
summate generalship and genius, and
take off my best bonnet to it.

The first thing an ugly woman should
do is to heware of vanity. By that sin
angels have fallen and beauties made
guys of themselves. How much more
necessary, then, for the ugly woman to
quarantine against it. Let her sit down
and take a calm and unbiased inven-
tory of herself. It has been said bya
philosopher that every woman’s room
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To see ourselves as others see us isa
chastening discipline. It is a lack of
mirrors that sends women out into the
world with their skirts and belts show-
ing a yawning chasm, full of honest,
but unromantic looking safety pins.
It is a dearth of mirrors that induces
well-meaning, but mistaken women of
sallow complexion to buy pale greens,
and faded blondes to purchase nonde-
script tans. Who has not seen the reck-
less homely woman rushing into mil-
linery confections where angelic beau-
ties feared to tread? Buying things
which emphasized every harsh feature
and defect of coloring, and which noth-
ing but superhuman vanity could ever
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wear.

It takes women a long time to realize
that there is tact in clothes. It takesa
longer time and a fortitude that is akin
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that there are things she cannot wear.
Half of the ugliness in the world comes
in right here. The fat woman has a
mad yearning to wear an empire belt
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skinny woman has an_ uncontrollable
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perching a rakish sailor hat on the top
of her honest gray hair. There is no
subject better worth studying than this
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After the first flush of youth is gone, or
except in those rare cases of marvelous
beauty, of which we have all read but
few have seen, a woman’s reputation
for prettiness depends upon her clothes.
We get a general effect of beauty, and
do not stop to analyze whére it comes
from. ‘‘Clothes do not make the man,’’
is a good enough proverb for men, but
let ‘* Fine feathers make fine birds’’ be
the illuminated motto that the ugly girl
hangs above her dressing table.

After all, beauty is a kind of indefi-
nite term. Those we like, and whom
we find agreeable, we always think
pretty, and herein lies the greatest sol-
ace of the homely woman. ‘‘If she be
not fair to me, what care I how fair
she be?’’ is the unalterable opinion of a
selfish world that wants to be flattered,
and caressed and amused. The _ idea!
woman is beautiful, clever and sympa-
thetic. In reality, nature is seldom
prodigal, and the beautiful woman is
rarely intellectual, and almost invari-
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the reason why people often weary oi
merely physical charms, and why the
ugly woman has been able to hold her
own against the allurements of beauty.

Cultivate sympathy, little sister, as
the very best substitute for beauty that
has yet been found. Of the woma1:
who can laugh with our joys and weep
over our woes we never tire. We like
to sit at her feet and rehearse our tri-
umphs and explain our defeats. She
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finest fellow in the world, whether his
achievements were gained on the foot-
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art of coloring a meerschaum pipe.
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found a long-lost sister. If we bore her
she never shows it. If she has troubles
of her own we are never inflicted with
them. She diffuses admiration of other
people. The pretty girl demands it as
her right. It is sweeter to be admired
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAW

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The pretty woman may justly feel
that she pays her way through life by
being a kind of living picture. The
homely woman has no such claim, and
must take the trouble to make _ herself
agreeable. She must cultivate her
mind, she must read and think and be
able to charm dull care away. Is such
a woman ever ugly? Never. To do
this requires energy, self-sacrifice, the
ruthless annihilation of self, and the
strangling of personal vanity. But be-
lieve me, little sister, its reward tarries
not, and such a girl is never without an
attendant swain. Even when men are
scarce she has beaux to spare, while the
merely pretty girl is left to her own de-
vices,

I have said nothing of the beauty in-
to which refined and lovely thoughts
and high ideals often mould the homeli-
est face. Be sure that life writes its
story in our faces. If you live beauti-
fully you grow into a kind of beauty. It
is the soul shining through, and _trans-
figuring the clay like the light through
an ‘alabaster vase. That is the best,
little sister, and that may belong to us
all. Dorotuy Dix.

——_2sea_
That Awful Silence.

If woman's critics may be thought. to
constitute any criterion, the most ad-
mirable feminine virtue is silence. The
talkative woman has furnished the text
for many a song and sermon. Wits
have derided her garrulity, moralists
have groaned over her tendency to
gossip and declared that a woman's
tongue was always found at the bottom
ot all trouble. ‘*Your children are all
dumb?”’ enquired that lovable old vag-
abond, Rip Van Winkle, of the ghostly
dwarf of the Catskills. ‘‘And they are
all boys? My, my, my, what a pity!
What wives they would make!"’

No doubt there are many occasions
when ‘‘speech is silvern and silence
is golden,’’ as the proverb has it. We
must all plead guilty to having said
many things that had better been left
unsaid, yet there are times when silence
can seem more appalling than any free-
dom of speech. The most oppressive
of domestic tyrants are not those who
say what they think and are done with
it. They are these who wrap them-
selves in an awful silence, under whose
ghastly influence cheerfulness withers
away and conversation languishes and
dies.

This is not often a feminine fault.
Women like to cry aloud their griev-
ances, and get a kind of recompense
from suffering by the pleasure of dis-
cussing it. The sullen silence is gen-
erally a masculine foible. It is often
the lordly way with which a man_pun-
ishes the women of his househuld. He
descends to breakfast, or comes home
to dinner with a face like a thunder-
cloud. Something is wrong. He eats
and drinks in silence. He reads his
paper with a portentous dumbness that
strikes despair and consternation into
the bosom of his family. In vain they
ask what is the matter. Is he ill?
What has gone wrong? Who has offend-
ed? To all their solicitous enquiries
he responds ‘‘nothing’’ in a tone of
voice that implies everything, and is an
arraignment of the entire household
from the wife to the kitchen maid.
Such a man always takes great credit to
himself for ‘‘not saying anything’’
when he is angry, but the average wom-
an would rather deal with the cheerful
Sinner who swears what is known as a
“‘blue streak’’ when he is mad and then
lets the matter rest. The man who speaks

 

his mind can at least be dealt with
openly and frankly, and at the worst
gives a woman a chance to defend _her-
self. Against silence one can bring no
counter accusation, or urge no excuse.
It is an arctic wall that freezes up all
appreaches to an understanding and
reconciliation.

Too much silence is no less a menace
to friendship than too much speech.
How many misunderstandings and bow
many heart burnings could have been
avoided if only there had been a little
more candor! One fancies a slight;
one imagines a friend a little less
cordial, or something occurs that one
does not quite understand. Often—al-
most always—the trouble could be set
right by a slight explanation, dnd it is
one of the tragedies of friendship that
we trust it so little we dare not ask if
what hurts us is of intention or by ac-
cident. Pride counsels silence, and so
we go our lonely way on either side of
a chasm that a word might bridge.

Probably, after all, silence is a virtue
we admire chiefly in the abstract. The
taciturn and moody woman is never the
one we voluntarily choose as a compan-
ion. Better the one who chirps as blithe-
ly and as meaninglessly as a canary
than the one who is dumb in the face
of our joys and misfortunes and knows
not how to say the right word in the
right place. For there is a duty of
speech no less than a duty of silence.

KATHERINE COLE.
—_>-22>_____
Will Canned Goods Go Out.

A writer in a Boston paper speaks
as follows: ‘‘There is coming a day
when the canned-fruit industry will
cease to be an enormous money-making
enterprise, and the few who are now
beginning to see the future of a business
dealing with dried fruits will be multi-
millionaires. And the best of it will
be that the profit of it will not be wholly
to the dealers. Dried fruit sells at about
half the price that canned fruit com-
mands, and it will go five times farther.
When such a reason will not appeal toa
housekeeper the fact that it is superior
to canned goods on account of the
modern processes will make some im-
pression. In California they have
learned to prepare prunes so well that
large quantities are shipped to France,
the home of the prune, while California
raisins have practically driven foreign
raisius out of the market, and thousands
of pounds of apricots and pears go to
Europe.’’

—__+«.___

An interesting fact in connection with
the American cotton industry is that the
good grades of our ‘‘Sea Island’’ cotton
are so much superior: to the best grades
of Egyptian staple that they sell for
from 50 to 100 per cent. more. The
reason given for this, and, indeed, well
understood by all dealers and manufac-
turers, is the great difference in the
characteristics of the two growths.
Egyptian cotton has a long, strong,
silky staple, from one and a half to one
and five-eighths inches in length, while
the staple that is known as ‘‘upiand’’
cotton ranges from three-fourths to one
inch, and ‘‘Sea Island’’ cotton is from
one and a half to two and a half inches.
But for some special purposes the
Egyptian cotton is of superior quality
and usefulness to any American cot-
ton. It is especially preferable, for ex-
ample, for sewing thread, fine under-
wear and hosiery of certain descrip-
tions, and for goods requiring smooth
finish and high luster. A further des-
ideratum is realized in the property
possessed by the cotton in question, that
of imparting to fabrics a soft finish
like silk, and this character, together
with its luster, has led to its being
mixed in the manufacture of various
kinds of silk goods.

2.
How poor an instrument may doa
noble deed.

—_—_> 2» —___
Energetic determination is closely al-
lied to wisdom,

 

Some Facts About Garlic.
From the New York Sun.

About three-quarters of the garlic
used in this country is imported from
Italy. It comes in hampers containing
about 110 pounds each. Garlic is raised
in this country in Connecticut, in
Louisiana, in Texas, and in New Mex-
ico. All garlic, both imported and
American, is put up in strings or
bunches, something like the bunches in
which onions werezonce commonly sold
in this country, but much _ longer.
American garlic is shipped in crates
and barrels; some from the far South-
west comes in long cylindrical baskets.

Garlic is sold by the pound, or by the
single bulb, which is sold for a penny.
In its commercial form, whole and dry,
garlic does not yield the strong smell
for which it is famous. In a wholesale
produce establishment, where garlic was
stacked up in quantities, there was no
noticeable odor from it, but if one of
the several smaller bulbs of which each
root is composed, and which are called

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Pittsburgh, Pa.

cloves of garlic, be broken off and
broken in two, the powerful odor be-
comes perceptible.

The aggregate consumption of garlic
in this country is large, and our ex-
ports of it to South American countries,
which include American garlic and im-

ported garlic reshipped, amount to
enough to be reckoned in tons.
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France’s Attitude Toward Oleo.
The sale of oleomargarine or butter-
ine, or any other counterfeit butter is
prohibited in any French colony, ex-

cept when sold at certain specified stores
or places, and in_ packages plainly
branded on every side in such a way as
to show at a glance the character of the
commodity. The penalties for viola-
tion are very severe, and already ship-
ments from the United States have been
seized for infringement of these pro-
visions.
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customers wins trace.

El Puritano

Finest 1o¢ Cigar on Earih

Couchas 1-20 Sac o
Bouquetts
Perfectos

Cabinets

1-40

SEs.00

1-20 $50.00

1-40 (5% in.) $70.00

B. J. REYNOLDS,

Grand Rapids.
BATESIAN & FOX,

Bay City.
JOHN-ON & FOSTER,

Detroit.

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Around the State

 

Movements of Merchants.

Barkville—Ole Harstad has embarked
in general trade at this place.

Tustin—I. M. Eaybarker, meat deal-
er, has sold out to A. E. Gawley.

Birch Run—Brucker & Co. have em-
barked in general trade at this place.

Quincy—Mason Spaulding has pur-
chased the meat market of Griffin &
Plue.

Menominee—Ira S. Bier has moved
his bazaar stock from Cheboygan to this
place.

Mendon—G. E. Mitchell & Co. suc-
ceed G. E, Mitchell in the dry goods
business.

Arden—T. Sherman has sold his in-
terest in the grocery store at Arden to
Henry Peffer.

Hastings—G. McMarple has opened
a confectionery store and bakery in the
Newton building.

Pentwater—M. A. Rice will close out
his jewelry stock and take up his resi-
dence in California.

Palmyra—Fisher & Bailey, meat
dealers, have dissolved, E. Fisher con-
tinuing the business.

Calumet—U. S. Burnside succeeds
Burnside & Van Zant in the confection-
ery and fruit business.

Battle Creek—E. Trump will shortly
remove his dry goods stock to Sturgis,
where he will re-engage in trade.

Clio—The general stock of Rogers
Bros., inventoried at $1,957.56, was bid
in by Geo. W. Buckingham at $1,cG!Io.

St. Louis—L. E, Lenhoff has returned
to St. Louis from Buffalo and taken the
management of his father’s clothing
store.

Lansing—Geo. T. Davis has shipped
his bakery outfit to Bay City and will
re-engage in the bakery business at that
place.

Eaton Rapids—L. A. Bentley cele-
brated the twenty-fifth anniversary of
his engaging in the shoe business at this
place last week.

Alma—L. Hirschkowitz, of Saginaw,
has leased the corner store in the Church
block and will move his stock of dry
goods to this place.

Marquette—The Hotel Superior will
close Oct. 1, after a very successful sea-
son’s business. This hotel is one of
the best on Lake Superior.

St. Louis—Llewellyn Smart has sold
a half interest in his merchant tailoring
business to Geo. Mahon. The firm will
be known as Smart & Mahon.

Grand Ledge—B. W. Courts has sold
his men’s furnishing goods stock to Geo.
H. Sheets and will embark in the man-
ufacture of custom-made shirts.

Decatur—Henry Byers has purchased
of L.. G. Stewart the store adjoining
that gentleman’s grocery, and will move
his jewelry stock to that location in the
near future.

Lansing—Roy Marsh has opened a
jewelry store in the buildirg formerly
occupied by the Little Downey, at the
corner of Washington avenue and Wash-
tenaw street.

Seney—C. E. Morse will soon make
his home at Grand Marais, where his
firm, Morse & Schneider, has a large
general store. The Seney store will
remain as it is.

Benton Harbor—Chester C. Sweet has
sold his dry goods and grocery stock to
E. W. Moore—who recently sold his in-
terest in the general stock of E. W.
Moore & Co. to B. E. Ferry—who will
continue the business at the same _loca-
tion. Mr. Sweet will continue the hard-
ware business, the same as heretofore.

 

Coopersville—-Wm. Asman, who has
been engaged in the bakery business at
Grand Haven for the past seven years,
has removed to this place and embarked
in the same business.

Kalkaska—O. C. Goodrich has re-
moved his drug stock from South Board-
man to this place. He will occupy the
building formerly used as a hardware
store by Lehner & Phelps.

Ovid—J. D. Gleason, of Fairfield, and
his son Edward, of Ovid, have pur-
chased the stock of groceries and meats
of C. N. Race. The firm name will be
known as J. D. Gleason & Son.

Lansing—Edwin S. Butts, of the fur-
niture firm of Ferrey & Butts, has pur-
chased the interests of the Ferrey estate
and will hereafter conduct the business
under the name of the E. S. Butts Fur-
niture Co.

Alma—M. Pollasky sold a carload of
hides Monday for a figure far above any
he has ever received before during all
his experience in that line. It was 60
per cent. above last year’s best, and 90
per cent. above 1894.

Marquette—A. M. Bigelow & Co.
succeed A. M. Bigelow and have _ pur-
chased the defunct W. D. Manness sta-
tionery stock. The ‘‘Co.’’ is A. E.
Boswell, who for years has been con-
nected with the Marquette Mining Jour-
nal,

Riverdale—M. C. Lathrop has pur-
chased the interest of Jehiel Woodward
in the firm of Lathrop & Woodward,
dealers in groceries and boots and
shoes, and will continue the business in
his own name at the same location.
Mr. Woodward will take up his resi-
dence in Tennessee.

Zeeland—Burglars_ recently effected
an entrance to the clothing store of Wm.
Ossewaarde and purloined a quantity of
goods valued at about $200. An en-
trance was made by prying open the
front door with a pickaxe. This store
has been visited and burglarized an-
nually for the past eight years.

Jackson—John C. Bader, who has
been engaged in the hardware business
in Jackson since 1851, conducting a
business of his own since 1870, and has
for years been closely identified with
Jackson’s business growth, lies at the
point of death from cancer of the throat.

Holland—G. G. Smeenge has moved
his grocery stock into the Beach block
and the store vacated by him is being
refitted and overhauled. In about three
weeks it will be taken possession of by
John Nies, who thereafter will occupy
a double store, making his frontage 42
feet and the depth of his store 80 feet.

Saginaw—J. D. Draper, who has been
conducting a grocery at 410 Genesee
avenue, has purchased the grocery stock
of Edouard Goeschel, at tog South Jef-
ferson avenue. Mr. Goeschel is to de-
vote his energies solely to the boot and
shoe trade, and the stock in the Draper
store is to be consolidated with that
purchased of Mr. Goeschel, who will
occupy the store at 109 South Jefferson
avenue.

Port Huron—Wm. Springer and Aaron
Rose have purchased the clothing stock
of Alex. Jacobi and will continue the
business under the style of Springer &
Rose. Mr. Springer was engaged iu
the clothing business on Huron avenue
until he was appointed postmaster,
about ten years ago. Mr. Rose has
been associated with Mr. Jacobi for a
number of years past and is well posted
in the business. Mr. Jacobi will at once
take up his residence in Chicago, where
he will engage in other business.

 

Manufacturing Matters.

Hubbardston—Magee & McDermand,
of Greenville, have started a cigar fac-
tory here.

Saginaw—The Melchers Lumber Co.
succeeds Melchers « Co. in the lum-
ber business.

Marquette—The new storage building
of the Marquette Brewing Co. is near-
ing completion.

Applegate—The butter factory which
started here last spring has closed for
lack of support.

Jonesville—J. J. Deal & Son have
found it necessary to enlarge their car-
riage manufacturing plant to take care
of their increasing business.

Munising—The Munising Railway
will build an extension this winter and
expects to make connection at Little
Lake on the C. & W. M. Railway.

Menominee—The new shoe factory is
about ready to build. Arrangements
have been completed for the establish-
ment of an industry to employ !oo hands.

Marquette—A movement is on foot for
the unwatering and operation of the old
copper mine on the Michipicoten Is-
land. ‘There 1s a large mine there and
copper is abundant.

Nunica—The Nunica creamery has
been compelled to close on account of
the supply of milk not being large
enough to enable the manager to operate
the plant at a profit.

Zeeland—Wm. H. Beach and _ Jas.
Cook have purchased the ‘‘ Little Won-
der’’ flouring mill of H. H. Karsten
and will continue the business under the
style of J. Cook & Co.

Howard City—R. H. O'’Donald an-
nounces his intention of building and
equipping a cheese factory here if the
farmers round about will guarantee him
the milk from 400 cows.

Marquette—John Gordon has resigned
his position as superintendent for the
Dead River Milling Co. and will put
in three camps northwest of this city to
cut his own timber this winter.

St. Louis—At the annual meeting of
stockholders of the Home Co-operative
Creamery Association, it was decided
by unanimous vote to sell the property
and franchise at public auction Oct. 7.

Sault Ste. Marie— Rebuilding of the
burned Hotel Iroquois has been begun.
The new building will be much larger
and better than the old and will be
ready for the tourist business next
season.

Alma—Messrs. Torrey & Bennett have
dissolved partnership in the Anti-Coffee
Company. Mr. Torrey will be support-
ed by several men of means and will
push the business more energetically
than before.

Bad Axe—The business men of this
place feel so elated over the return of
good times that they all take a day off
about every two weeks, close their stores
and go to a neighboring resort fora
day’s outing.

Adrian—The Adrian Veneer Package
Co. has been organized by M. H. Hig-
by, Geo. Sinclair (Alanson) and C. W.
Gates (Cleveland) for the purpose of
embarking in the manufacture of cheese
boxes, market baskets, berry boxes, and
other packages formed of light wood.

Jackson—The Central City Co-opera-
tive Foundry Co. has begun business at
the old Bennett foundry. The company
is composed ot A. C. Smith, Geo. J.
Buchfink and Geo. Schott, and it is the
intention to do a general foundry busi-
ness, besides manufacturing the Smith
valve boxes. A.C. Smith will be man-
ager and the company will start with a
force of half a dozen hands.

 

Lansing—The Paragon Refining Co.,
of Toledo, is preparing to open a
branch office in this city and has begun
grading for a new building near the
Michigan Central tracks, halfway be-
tween the union depot and North Lans-
ing. The Hall Lumber Co. has secured
the contract for erecting the storehouse.

Croswell—Last year the Croswell
cheese factory throughout the months
of July and August made about forty
cheeses a week, Through the same
months this year it turned out eighty-
six cheeses per week. This shows that
the Croswell cheese factory, since it
commenced operations, has each year
more than doubled its output. Last
mouth's sales brought about $4,000 in-
to the hands of the farmers in the
vicinity.

Menominee—The new shoe factory is
evidently an assured fact. The concern
will be known as the Menominee Boot
and Shoe Manufacturing Co. and the in-
corporators are among the best known
business men of the city. The amount
of stock held by the home people is
$35,000 and by LeMars, lIa., parties
$30.000, which gives the local parties a
controlling interest in the concern.
The building will be 15o0x1oo feet in
size, three stories bigh and will be
erected on a_ site to be donated to the
new company and selected by the board
of directors. One hundred and fifty
hands will be employed to start with.
The cost of the building will not exceed
$5, 000.

Bay City —Things are shaping them-
selves for the extensive mining of coal
in this county in the near future. With-
in six months several testholes and a
number of shafts will have been sunk,
by outside parties with considerable
means. Local concerns are securing
options on farm lands for the mining of
coal only. Chief among the outsiders
are J. H. Somers & Co., from Cleve-
land, and parties from Owosso and Cor-
unna. Somers & Co. will operate on
the Marston farm and adjacent property
on the Kawkawlin road. The terms of
their contract make it necessary for
them to begin work within six months.
That there is coal in abundance within
a few miles of this city has been proven.
Capital is now being enlisted to tring
it to the surface, the same as is being
successfully done in Monitor township.

>. ___
Better Be on the Safe Side.

Marquette, Sept. 1o—Jf it would not
be too much trouble for you, we would
like to find out if we would be likely to
have any trouble by using a Hoyt & Co.
computing scale. We, with several
others, have given an order for one, but
we have been informed that if we use
them we will be compelled to pay a
royalty on them. The scales are here,
but we have not taken them from the
warehouse yet. WERLE & LonNG.

In the absence of more definite infor-
mation as to the identity of the parties
who threaten prosecution for infringe-
ment, the Tradesman is unable to give
you a satisfactory answer to the enquiry.
It seems to be a part of the business of
scale and cash register agents to utter
threats of this kind when the product of
competing concerns is met with, so that
the companies securing the orders have
been in the habit of furnishing indem-
nifying bonds to protect purchasers
against possible loss or expense in case
suits should actually be begun. It might
be well for the writer to insist on pro-
tection of this kind, as such a demand
is evidently justified under the circum-

stances.
——_>2>___

When we refuse to face trouble we are
in a position to get kicked down hill.

 

Grand Rapids Gossip

The Grocery Market.

Sugar—The market is very firm, an
advance of \c in the entire line having
occurred last week. The domestic mar-
ket advanced %c during the past week,
and the European raw market is also
higher by ‘c on the last sale of raws.
The Trust is not buying any raw sugar
at present, on account of the enormous
supply already on hand, although inde-
pendent refineries are taking some
stock. The consumptive demand for
raw sugar is at present very large and
ought to last three weeks or a month
longer.

Coffee—The market is without feat-
ure. The staple cannot go higher and
there is a possibility of its going lower.

Tea—The past week has shown no
change in prices, although the market
is very firm and holders are not offering
any stock, believing that higher prices
will be obtainable in a short time. The
large rejections of tea under the pure
tea law is undoubtedly one reason for
the present firmness. Retailers are be-
ginning to buy a little more freely.

Syrups and Molasses—Sugar syrup
rules at unchanged prices, and the de-
mand is very small on account of the
extreme heat. There is plenty of sugar
syrup of all grades on hand. A little
more molasses is selling, principally to
bakers. Prices are unchanged and stocks
are plentiful for the demand.

Dried Fruits—Very little interest is
being taken in prunes, mainly on ac-
count of sellers’ high ideas of value.
Jobbers have about decided to wait until
the goods reach the market, which they
will do toward the latter end of the
present month. Prices have not ad-
vanced further, but are very firm and
high. Very little enquiry is beard for
peaches, and no improvement in the
demand is looked for until colder weath-
er. Prices are firm, and are higher on
the Coast than in the East, where the
stocks are limited. Very few peaches
are at present coming forward. The
market in currants has advanced about
4c, both in this country and Greece,
the primary market. The demand is
small. The raisin market continues
very firm, speaking of the foreign va-
riety, although the California raisins
are also firm. A few old-crop raisins
are being sold on spot at a price much
lower than the new will cost.

Canned Fruits—Canned apples have

advanced 50c per doz. California
canned goods, on all lines, have ad-
vanced 5 and Ioc per dozen, according to
the kind of fruit. Baked beans have
advanced toc per dozen, and there is
firmness in canned tomatoes. The crop
of tomatoes has been light this year
and some packers are afraid there will
be a scarcity and not enough to pack.
* Provisions——Pickled and smoked
meats are about holding their own, and
buyers are only taking for their needs
from day to day. Lard continues firm
and sellers still have the advantage.
They are not apt to share prices while
the production is so light as at present.
A good many packers are not able to
fill their lard orders, even at present
prices. The trade generally seemg to
think prices have reached the top, and
are not trying to force values any high-
er, as the small packers will begin to
kill shortly, and this will increase the
supply of lard very considerably.

Cheese—While outside markets are
weaker and lower, Michigan grades are
actually stronger and fully %c higher

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

than a week ago. This tends to show
how little Michigan cheese is influenced
by the fluctuations of other makes and
other markets, owing to the fact that the
product of this State is peculiar to it-
self, inasmuch as it is sold almost
wholly for home consumption, having
no standing beside the product of New
York and Wisconsin factories.
Fish—John Pew & Son (Gloucester)
write the’ Tradesman as follows: The
New England fleet (principally Glouces-
ter vessels) have landed to date about
8,700 barrels of salt mackerel; same
period last year 36,000 barrels, showing
a shrinkage of nearly 28,000 barrels.
The market is scantily supplied and
only a few sizes are obtainable and
prices must rule high until we obtain
a catch, and that will depend on what
the year 1898 will bring. The mackerel
fleet is reduced over one-third since the
commencement of the season, by thirty
vessels or more abandoning the mack-
erel fishery for other fisheries, and un-
less there is an improvement near at
hand in the catch, other vessels will
withdraw, so the fleet for the balance
of the season (which closes about No-
vember !0) will be a small one, and it
is impossible for many mackerel to be
taken this year. In such times there
are many theories about the failure of
the mackerel catch. Some say abandon
seines, for it frightens them and they
will not show up on the surface of the
water so as to be seen, and use the old-
fashioned method of throwing bait and
catching with hook and line. Others
say so much more ocean commerce now
than existed twenty or thirty years ago;
““steamers, etc., coming and going in
all directions, tend to make the mack-
erel shy,’’ etc. Again, the condition of
the waters and the feed have much to
do with the erratic habits of the mack-
erel. So it goes. No one knows why the
failure, when evidently there are many
mackerel in the ocean. In codfish,
Georges have advanced about $1 per
qtl. on large and Soc per qtl. on medi-
um. The change on Grand Bank cod,
both large and small,has been about 25c
per gtl. The stock of both of these
kinds is a small one and the general
opinion is that they will go some high-
er. Pollock are very scarce. Other
kinds of ground fish are in light supply
and much higher prices are now being
paid the elicewet for them than were
paid a short time ago, and the stock
that will be used a few weeks hence
will cost the curers the prices they are
now obtaining for such goods.
Tobacco—Leggett & Myers have ad-
vanced their Star plug and ‘‘6 for 10’’
1c, and the Drummond Tobacco Co. has
made a special concession on J. T. for

a short time.
Cn

In Memory of Their Dead President

The following resolutions were unan-
imously adopted at the last meeting of
the Adrian Retail Grocers’ Association :

Whereas, In view of the loss we have
sustained by the decease of our friend
aud associate, Martin Gafney, and of
the still heavier loss to those nearest and
dearest to him; therefore, be it

Resolved, That it is but a just tribute
to the memory of the departed to say
that, in regretting his removal from our
midst, we mourn for one who was, in
every way, worthy of our respect and
regard. |

Resolved, That we sincerely condole
with the family of the deceased on the
dispensation with which it has pleased
divine Providence to afflict them, and
commend them for consolation to him
who orders all things for the best.

Resolved, That these resolutions be
spread upon the records of the Associ-
ation, and a copy thereof be transmitted
to the family of our departed friend and
associate,

 

Purely Personal.

O. F. Conklin is spending a week in
the Chicago market, purchasing fall
goods for Conklin & Eason, at Ra-
venna.

W. L. Freeman (Worden Groce: Co. )
spent several days in Chicago during
the past week and states that he found
all classes of business men with whom
he talked—manufacturers, brokers, com-
mission merchants and jobbers—in bet-
ter spirits than has been the case for
five years.

John Smyth, who has been _ identified
with the Riverside Yeast Co. for nearly
a dozen years, has resigned the position
of local manager, which he has held ever
since the retirement of L. Winternitz.
His successor is J. E. Campbell, of
Cincinnati, who has had several years’
experience in the yeast business.

C. G. A. Voigt is about as shrewd as
they make ’em. He made an exhibit
of the products of his mills at the State
Fair last week and, to complete the ex-
hibit, borrowed a quantity of steel cut
oatmeal from the Musselman Grocer
Co. The goods were returned in good
order, minus thanks or acknowledgment
of any kind, but Mr. Voigt evidently
neglected to detach the premium ticket
which the Committee on Awards at-
tached to the package. Mr. Musselman
wishes it to be understood he lays no
claim to the honor conferred upon Mr.
Voigt, and that the latter can have the
evidence of the superiority of his prod-
uct any time he will call at the ware-
house of the Musselman Grocer Co. and
register his thanks for the loan of the
goods.

O. D. Steele, Vice-President and
Treasurer of the Riverside Yeast Co.,
left for his home in Chicago Tuesday,
having spent a week here for the pur-
pose of settling up with Local Agent
Smith and installing his successor. Mr.
Steele is a comedian uf no mean abil-
ity and during his stay in the city he
gave his friends several opportunities
of measuring the scope of his talent in
this line. He is also the captain of a
military company, drum major of a
crack band, editor of a military jour-
nal, presiding officer of a debating so-
ciety, deacon in a church organization,
superintendent of a Sunday School, be-
sides holding several other offices of
minor importance. It is asserted by his
friends that he covets a seat in the
Chicago Common Council, but judging
by his ‘‘capacity,’’ he would be equally
at home in the presidency of a brewery.

The announcement that Wm. Widdi-
comb is again at the head of the Wid-
dicomb Furniture Co. is welcome news
to the creditors of that corporation and
matter for hearty congratulation on the
part of patriotic citizens, who now ex-
pect to see the magnificent property
assume the proud position it once held
at the front rank of the manufacturing
plants of the city. When Mr. Widdi-
comb relinquished the management of
the business, fourteen years ago, the
Widdicomb Furniture Co. had had no
bank or floating indebtedness for sev-
eral years, while the record of dividends
paid was such as to cause the stock to
stand at 175. With the subsequent his-
tory of the company and its unfortunate
condition precipitated by the panic of
1873, the public generally is acquainted.
Those who are familiar with Mr. Wid-
dicomb and his business methods assert
that his hand has lost none of its cun-
ning and that the remarkable executive
ability which created a great and pros-
perous manufacturing establishment out
of nothing is still capable of unloading

 

6

the burden of indebtedness under which
it now staggers and placing the business
on the sturdy foundation on which it
rested when he turned the management
over to other hands.

——— ~~ 0
The Produce Marker.

Apples—While there is a glut of com-
mon stock, there is a dearth of fancy
stock, which would bring fair prices if it
could be obtained. It 1s said that with-
in ten days tbe poor stock will be
cleaned up, when it will be time for the
arrival of the Ben Davis, Jonathan,
wine sap and later varieties of apples,
which will place the market in better
condition and dealers will get better
prices and have better fruit to work with.

Bananas—Overripe bananas are a
drug on the market and good shipping
stock is scarce. There was a good trade
this week, however, and values hold
about steady.

Beets—25c per bu.

Butter—Separator creamery is strong
at 18c for tubs and 2oc for jars. Fancy
dairy commands I5c.

Cabbage—$2. 50 per too.

Carrots—25c per bu.

Cauliflower—$s1 per doz.

Celery—1o@15c per bunch.

Corn—Green, 5c per doz.

Cucumbers—3oc per bu.

Eggs—The warm spell West and a
weaker market East have weakened the
local market to that extent that fancy
candled have declined to 14c for case
run and 1c for selected as to size. The
receipts are about equal to the demand.

Grapes—Worden’s in 8 lb. baskets
have declined to toc. Niagaras com-
mand 12%c.

Honey—The honey season has opened
and receipts are fair, with a good trade.
What stock has been received is very
good quality and the market is about
steady at quotations.

Melons—The one thing that was ben-
efited by the hot spell was the melon
trade. There have been plenty of water-
melons on the market this week, but
they have been eas:ly sold, as were also
the large supply of home grown cante-
loupes and muskmelons. The former
command 1o@15c and the latter 4o@5oc
per doz.

Onions—Dry stock has advanced to
5oc per bu.

Peaches—The offerings are light and
not equal to the shipping demands of
the market. Ruling prices to-day are as
follows: Early Crawfords, $1.50@2;
Hill’s Chilis, $1.25@1.50; Snow's Or-
ange and Wagars, $1.25@1.4o.

Pears—$1 per bu.

Plums—$1 per bu.

Potatoes—Local buyers continne to
pay 4oc and bill out at 5oc. The de-
mand continues strong, with every indi-
cation of a season of profit to both
grower and shipper.

Popcorn—Soc per bu.

Peppers—Green, $1 per bu.

Squash—z2 4c per lb.

Sweet Potatoes—There is a good ac-
tive demand for sweet potatoes, and
there is plenty of good stock to fill all
orders. This week Jerseys have come
on the market, commanding $3.25 per
bbl. Virginia and Baltimore stock has
declined to $2.

Tomatoes--30@4oc per bu.

Turnips—25c per bu.

—> eo

Will J. Page and H. D. Allgeo have
formed a copartnership under the style
of Page & Allgeo and purchased the
drug stock formerly conducted by Dr.
Lewis A. Foote at the corner of Plain-
field and North Coit avenues.

—__—~+-2

The firm of Thomas E. Wykes &
Co., composed of Thomas E. Wykes
and John W. Baldie, engaged in the
hay, grain and coal business at 45 South
Division street, has dissolved, Thomas
E. Wykes succeeding.

+» 2.

An undertaker with a full stock on the
Klondike has a better thing than a pay-
ing claim.

ce

Ask Visner for Inducement on Gillies’

New York spice contest. Phone 1589.

 

  

6

 

Fruits and Produce.

Advantages of the Australian Box in
Shipping Butter.

Boston, Mass., Sept. 11—The great
increase in the use of the Australian
box with us for export prompts me, in
alluding to the very poor showing we
are making in comparison with the
Canadians and Argentinians, as_ their
boxes, in imitation of the Australian,
are away ahead of ours. It would ap-
pear to me as if some of the creamery
supply companies were doing their best
to see how poor a package they could
turn out. One of my English corres-
pondents who was here a short time
ago, on his way from a trip to Aus-
tralia, commented severely on the
wretched boxes he saw in Chicago, here
and New York. He said they were in
strong contrast with those used by the
Australians, their box being all one
piece for each side, very nicely tinished
and nailed very true, and looked more
like a piece of cabinet work than the
box he saw here. It is true some are
very near the correct thing, but so many
of them are very roughly sawed that the
sawed ends presents a rough and harsh
appearance. Then, again, the matter
of the wood. Some are using yellow
poplar and others cotton wood. These
two woods should not be used at all.
Creamerymen should insist upon hav-
ing either the white poplar wood box
or the Northern spruce box and should
reject any that have knots in them of
unsightly size. They should return to
any package supply company the cot-
ton wood or yellow poplar wood box.
Some creamerymen make such a
mess in nailing these boxes together.
There is hardly a lot I have seen yet
that, in the finish, was nearly as well
put together as the most ordinary soap
box now in use. Some nal with little
thin wire nails, the heads of which pull
through the wood in trying to open
them. Others use too small nails. 1
saw a lot the other day that were put
together with nails ranging from one
to four inches in length. In several
cases, what should have been the lid
was used for a side, and hanging over
on the sides fully an inch. It was the
worst sample of putting a box to-
gether that I ever saw. Creamerymen,
in ordering their boxes, should insist
upon having the two kinds of wood that
I refer to and, in giving their orders,
notify the parties they order from
that they will send them back if of
any other wood.

Another thing, a great many do not
soak these boxes and rub the inside of
them with salt before putting in the
parchment paper. A great many are
using altogether too thin parchment
paper. In no case should they use any-
thing but the heaviest and that which
is in strips of 48 inches in length and
12 inches in width, letting it fold
over on the face 6 inches each side.
Salt should not be put in on top of this
paper, but, before nailing on the lid, a
tea-cupful of strong brine, made from
the same salt as they use in flavoring
the butter, should be poured in. There
is no question about it that we have got
to use this package almost exclusively
in shipping to England. The distinc-
tion they are making is so great that
boxes will command a decided premium
over tubs. I suppose my experience
is no different from other exporters, and
that is, receiving constant appeals for
boxes in place of tubs, and at the mo-
ment, while boxes are selling quite
freely, tubs are almost neglected.

Creamerymen will find it far better to
put the box together the moment they
receive the pieces to form the box
from the supply company, and to nail
the sides with a two-inch wire nail
that is % of an inch in diameter and
has a large flat head. Five nails should
be used at each end in putting the sides
together and five each side in nailing
on the bottom. When it comes to nail-
ing on the lid four of the same sized
nails are sufficient to use, one at each
corner about an inch from the end.
This enables the box to be easily
opened here, as it is quite a difficult

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

job to remove so many nails as are
usually used in nailing on the lid with-
out destroying the same. The boxes
should be kept in a thoroughly dry room
and should be protected from any dust
getting inside of them. In nailing the
box together great care should be used
to see that the pieces are put together
perfectly true, not leaning in and out,
as is the case very frequently. The
boxes must be perfectly true inside, to
enable the butter to be slipped out.
Another thing I would call attention
to and that is, in the matter of nailing, to
have the nails go in perfectly straight,
as very frequently they side one way or
the other; if on the outside, a very
dangerous thing to those handling them,
and if they come on the inside, they
create rust on the butter and very fre-
quently prevent the butter from slip-
ping out. When it is possible, I
strongly recommend using paraffin in
treating the inside of the box instead
of wetting it, but the parchment paper
should always be wet with strong brine
when put in the package. In_paraffin-
ing great care should be used not to
have it too thick(too cold). It must be
kept hot in order to apply to the wood.
It should not be put on any thicker than
a priming coat that painters give new
wood. This paraffining prevents mold,
as well as makes the package very
nearly air tight. Care should be used to
see that every particle of the wood, of
the inside of the box, is covered, also
the inside of the lid. Creamerymen,
in ordering boxes, should instruct their
supply company not to send them
pieces that have slots in them for
handles. These slots are not at all nec-
essary and only make an unpleasant
appearance and _ frequently prevent
proper branding, as it is the ends that
are used for branding. Anyone that
cannot lift a 65 to 75 pound package
without the aid of a slot handle ovght
not to be engaged in the butter busi-
ness. His calling should be lifting
pill boxes. Receivers of butter in this
style of package ought to use every
means possible to help improve the ap-
pearance of this box package, and they
can only do so by constantly dinning
at the creamerymen.
GEO. A. COCHRANE.
—————> 6.
Love your neighbor well enough to
keep him out of debt—to you.
OE
When your order book is full
good time for you not to get full.
Ce ee ea
The only way to take advantage of a
“good chance”’ is to chain it down.

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with irresponsible
middlemen in plac-
ing orders for
Printing when you
y can deal direct
I, i} with a responsible
} house.
TRADESMAN
COMPANY,
Grand Rap’ds.

           
       
 
    

 

BUTTER

Handled only on Commission.

EGGS

On Commission or bought on track.

M. R. ALDEN, 98 S. Division St., Grand Rapids.
Fruits for Canning

Everything now plentiful and prices
within reach of everybody. Never
finer. Write for prices.

Bunting & Co., Jobbers,

Grand Rapids.

 

 

Consignments solicited.

Write

New Crop Timothy.

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

SEEDS

Garden Seeds, Implements, Lawn supplies.

We are in the market for car lots or less. If any to sell, send good
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.

ALFRED J. BROWN SEED CO., Grand Rapids.

Miller & Veasdale Co.

Fruit and Froduce Brokers

Reans FPotatoes

601 North Third Street, St. Louis, Mo.

New Crop Turnip.

BEANS

 

Our
Specialty

Advances made.

Reference: American Exchange Bank, St. Louis.

Harris & Frutchey

Will buy EGGS on track at your station
and can handle your BUTTER to good

advantage.

60 Woodbridge Street, West, Detroit, Mich.

 

 

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requisitions So Sent in our most prompt and careful atten-
tion. Merchants can rest assured that they will receive
bottom market prices on day of shipment. Let us know
what your requirements are in the way of Peaches, Plums,
Pears, Grapes, Melons and all kinds of Vegetables.

This week we are able to bill good canning peaches at $1
to $1.50 per bushel.

THE VINKEMULDER CO., Grand Rapids, Mich.

To-day.

 

placing your orders with us.
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Established 1876.

Butter and Eggs Wanted

For cash at your station.
Special attention to

Apples, Peaches, Berries, etc.

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

FIELD SEEDS--We carry large stock.

WRITE US.

 

Can fill orders quick at prices that should warrant you in

EACHES -Crawfords, Barnards, Mountain Rose and Plums now in market. Now is the time

to order.

Bushel bas-

We buy and sell Beans, Potatoes, Onions, Apples, Peaches, Plums in carlots or less.

kets and covers.

26-28-30-32 Ottawa St,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

Wholesale Seeds, Potatoes, Beans, Fruits:

MOSER LEY BROS.,

 

GOTHAM GOSSIP.

News from the Metropolis---Index to

the Market.
Special Correspondence.

New York, Sept. 1o—The buyers con-
tinue to come, and now winter goods
are going out at a great rate in the dry
goods district. Grocery jobbers report
a most excellent trade, also, the only
bad feature being the civil war in the
coal regions. That part of the country
draws largely on New York for many of
its supplies and any serious difficulty
there has its due effect here.

Coffee has is ups and downs —or, more
properly, its downs Supplies continue
enormous at all points, and the demand
is of an average character. The big
roasters are doing the lion's share of
business, and wherever one goes in the
country he will sell coffee from Brook-
lyn or Toledo. The smaller roasters
seem to be resting easily and yet they
do not complain. Mild sorts are in
moderate request at unchanged quota-
tions.

The demand for sugar is of an aver-
age character for this time of the year.
The canning season is a time when Iib-
eral supplies are needed in the country,
but orders have all been promptly filled.
A fair business has been done in tea—
that is, fair for tea. A slight advance
has been made in the auction room on
some grades, but there is room for im-
provement still further.

Rice is active. Orders have come
from all points and holders will make
no concession in prices whatever. The
outlock is favorable for firm rates dur-
ing the remainder of the year.

The spice market shows no change.
The demand is about as usual, although
the tone is rather more favorable as the
season advances. No change is noted
in quotations.

There has been a pretty good enquiry
for best grades of open kettle molasses
and also for the cheaper sorts. Syrups
are quiet and prices are nominal.

In canned goods, trading has been of
fair volume and altogether the situation
shows steady improvement. Offerings
are light and in some instances pack-
ers are putting up a bonus to have their
contracts annulled. No. 3 Jersey to-
matoes have advanced to $1 sooner than
was anticipated. The pack gives every
indication of being light.

_ Butter stocks bave been pretty well
cleaned up and the market is in better
condition than a week ago, although
there has been no advance over the 18c
rate of a week ago. The extremely hot
weather had a bad effect and _ consider-
able quantities were so affected as to
cause its sale at whatever it would
bring.

Near-by eggs are in good request and
the supply is not large enough. Bad
eggs are too numerous to mention.

+9 9
This Year’s Poultry Crop—Establish-
ing a New Standara.

From the New York Produce Review.

One of the largest shippers of live
poultry to this market from the West
estimates the crop of poultry this year

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

about equal to last. It is generally
thought that prices during the coming
season will rule higher than last year,
owing to the fact that grain and other
products have advanced, and the farm-
ers will be in a more independent po-
sition; they will be apt to hold their
stock until they can realize prices which
will be satisfactory to them, instead of
forcing it off, as has often been the case
during the past season at whatever
shippers would pay.
ae

Advices from many of the poultry
sections of the West report that the loss
to young poultry this year by rats has
been larger than ever before. Through-
out nearly all sections in the Far West
—beyond the  Mississippi—shippers
write complaining of the unusually large
loss by these rodents and they are un-
able to explain why the country is so
overrun with them unless it be from
the fact that immense quantities of corn
and other grain have been held in near-
ly all sections awaiting a favorable mar-
ket; they are inclined to think that this
free supply of grain, together with fa-
vorable weather conditions, may have
caused them to become so numerous.

*x* Ke *

The committee of fifteen members
appointed by the American Poultry As-
sociation to revise the rules regulating
“‘standard’’ poultry met at the Mun-
natawket hotel on Fisher's Island, L
I., N. ¥., August 31, and continued in
session most of the week. This is one
of the most important committees ever
appointed in the interests of the poultry
raising industry of the United States
and Canada. There ts in existence a
book containing rules governing the
raising of poultry, and poultry, to be
‘*standard,’’ must conform to the laws
laid down in this book. A committee
of revision meets every five years, and
the present committee began its work
last week Monday. About thirty mem-
bers of the Association were present,
including the members of the com-
mittee, of which Arthur R. Sharp, of
Taunton, is chairman. David A. Nich-
ols, of Monroe, Conn., is President of
the Association. Many changes were
made in the laws, and some of them
are important. Hearings were granted
to all comers, who were given an op-
portunity to make suggestions or file
requests for legislation. The feeling
prevails in the committee that as a
whole the new standard will be most
complete in all its parts, and thata
long step has been taken looking to-
ward the advancement of poultry culture
throughout the country. The commit-
tee feels that it is in a position which
justifies the claim that all interests have
been fully protected. The report covers
all standard breeds of poultry.

Sunday Excursion to Detroit.

The D., G. R. & W. R. R. will run
a special train to Detroit Sunday, Sept.
19, leaving Grand Rapids at 7 a. m.
and arriving at Detroit at noon. Re-
turning, the train will leave Detroit at
6:3¢ p. m. Round trip rate to Detroit,
$2; Islnd Lake, $1; Grand Ledge, $1.

GEO. DEHAVEN, G. P. A.

 

Following the Example of the Sugar
Trust.
From the Grocery World.

The Glucose Trust has brought down
upon itself during the past week the
first anathemas from the trade. While
there has been a mild objection all along
on the part of users of giucose to paying
the higher price brought about by the
combiration, the fact that all parts of
the country were on the same basis has,
for the reason that misery loves com-
pany, assuaged the jobbers’ feelings to
some extent.

During the last week, however, the
Glucose Trust has done a thing which
1s considered highly unfair by the trade,
and which has brought down upon it a
good deal of denunciation. Several
days ago the Trust sent its local repre-
sentative advices stating that the trade
in Philadelphia had better buy glucose
at the price then ruling, which was
$1.93 per 100 pounds, in order to es-
cape higher prices, which it was in-
sinuated were likely to occur. Conse-
quently, the trade bought pretty largely
and compound syrup began to stiffen
up, with the prospect of going higher
another notch,

BARNETT BROTHERS —

 

t

~ The very next day after this occurred,
however, the Trust reduced its price 10
cents per I00 pounds, instead of ad-
vancing it, and the jobbers who bought
on the strength of the Trust's tip are,
consequently, feeling aggrieved. The
market, after ruling at the declined
figure for one day, advanced the fol-
lowing day to $1.93 again. Notwithstand-
ing this, however, the jobbers realized
that, had they waited one day, they could
have bought what they bought at ‘1o
cents per 100 pounds less.

_ 2 <a

California Oranges in Sight.

A California fruit-grower writes thus
to a New York fruit-trade journal: ‘‘As
near as we can judge now, oranges will
mature and color up as early this year
as last, and we expect to be shipping
from Redlands and Highlands the last
of November. The oranges mature fully
two weeks earlier at these two points
than elsewhere in Southern Caliofrnia.’’

—_—__§_»~~<——

The man who talks about what he is

going to do never does it.
——>_0 +.

Flattery is a sneaking art that no hon-

est traveling man can live by.

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the largest fruit market in the United States, with ample room, occupying the
entire building. Well equipped for business, they are still in the front in
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R. HIRT, Jr.,

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WEDNESDAY, - - - SEPTEMBER 15, 1897.

 

 

 

GENERAL TRADE SITUATION.

A remarkable feature of the situation
is the contrast in the portion of the last
half of the year now past with the con-
ditions ruling during the first six
months. Then the most characteristic
features were the long and dishearten-
ing delay in resuming activity and the
continued breaking of the records for
low prices in many prominent lines.
As a matter of fact, the recovery in ac-
tivity had been in progress for a con-
siderable time before the end of the first
half year, but the persistence with
which prices still tended downward
prevented a general recognition of the
change. But the present six months
afford a decided contrast in many re-
gards. The recovery in prices has been
steady and healthful in most leading
lines, while the increase in activity is
such that already assurance is given
that many records for the year will be
broken in the volume of business.

The week has been characterized by
the continuation of active buying in
anticipation of heavy fall and winter
trade. The influx of buyers to all the
principal centers, which made August a
month of unprecedented summer activ-
ity, still continues. The result of this
activity in buying to replenish the long
depleted stocks is that in most indus-
tries orders have been placed assuring
many months of work independent of
further orders, and, in many lines
where the manufacturers are rot satis-
fied with the prices now ruling, orders
for future delivery are not solicited and
are even being refused. The rapid in-
crease in the demands for freight trans-
portation is taxing the ruads and steam-
boat lines for facilities and, as a con-
sequence of increased earnings, trans-
portation shares are advancing with in-
creasing activity.

The recovery of prices in the iron
markets continues slow and _ steady.
Resuming works is increasing the out-
put so enormously that prices are kept
down, and this fact operates to increase
the consumption. The shipments of
ore through the Sault Canal to Septem-
ber 1 were 862,000 tons more than last
year, and indicate the heaviest year’s
product ever known.

The advance in wheat held steadily
until the latter part of the week, when a
reaction set in, bringing the price down
three or four cents. This reaction would
seem to be largely speculative and few

 

expect that it will not be followed by
recovery.

It is just beginning to be realized
what enormous orders were placed in
August for textile goods, in many lines
giving the works enough to do for some
months. The business of the month, it
is generally admitted, was on the whole
much larger than would have been ex-
pected in a year of full prosperity, the
obvious explanation being that half a
million dealers who have been buying
as little as possible for some years past
have started in earnest to replenish
stocks, finding ample warrant for it in
the marked improvement of retail trade.
It is to many a surprise that the heavy
anticipatory imports of goods, especial-
ly woolens,seem to influence the market
so little. Prices are generally strong,
beth for woolen and cotton goods, and
yet the advance realized in actual sales
has so far been quite moderate, exclud-
ing nominal prices made in order prac-
tically to withdraw goods from the mar-
ket without giving offense to consumers.

In the boot and shoe market there is
still dissatisfaction with the continued
relatively high price of hides, from
which reaction is generally expected,
yet the shipments from Boston of 106, -
217 cases in one week are tbe largest
reported for any previous week in three
years.

Bank clearings continue very heavy,
although last week was less than the
preceding by 2 percent. This is fully
accounted for by the holiday and by the
fact that clearings are always largest at
the first of the month. The amount --
$1, 106,000,000—is much larger than for
the corresponding week in any year
since 1892. The amount is double that
of the week in 1893 and nearly double
that of last year. Failures were only
173, against 108 last week and 308 for
the corresponding week last year.

A significant illustration of agricul-
tural prosperity in the West is furnished
by the common stock of the Chicago,
Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad Com-
pany. This transportation system ex-
tends throughout the great grain-grow-
ing section of the country and is, there-
fore, dependent for its own prosperity
upon that of the farmers along its lines.
The company has just declared an extra
dividend, making the rate 6 per cent.
per annum, the highest paid on the
common stock since 1884. At the be-
ginning of the present year this stock
was quoted on the New York exchange
at 735s bid. It is now above par, for
the first time since 1884.

 

The Tradesman is pleased to note
that S. M. Lemon has received, and
has decided to accept, the appointment
of Internal Revenue Collector for this
district. In the giving of this appoint-
ment there is the acknowledgment of
political interest and services which
make it well deserved, but it was
hardly expected that he would feel like
accepting a position which will increase
so largely the demands upon his time
on account of his business interests. In
taking the position, assurance will be
given of an efficient administration, as
he will bring to it the wide business ex-
perience and practical energy which have
made him so successful in other lines

of work.

Those people rushing to the Klondike
have a worse case of yellow fever than

any in the South just now.
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Many men who are spoken of as being
‘as honest as the day is long’’ may
have a night record.

 

DANGERS OF COUNTERFEITING.

The recent discovery in this city of
another counterfeiting plant in success-
ful operation calls attention to the fact
that in the changes in methods of en-
graving and printing, especially those
dependent upon the development of new
processes of photo-chemical reproduc-
tion, there is a constant and rapid in-
crease in the facility with which dan-
gerous imitations of all kinds of paper
currency may be produced. The danger
of an undue inflation of the silver cur-
rency through illicit coining has re-
ceived some attention, although not as
much as it deserves. Occasionally, we
hear that in some locality, usually in
the Southwest, there is evidence of the
putting out of large quantities of spuri-
ous silver coins. These are indications
of an industry the extent of which can
only be conjectured. The fact that the
metal used in this form of our currency
can be bought for less than one-half the
face value when coined makes the coun-
terfeiting with it, in the exact propor-
tions of the genuine coinage, sufficient-
ly profitable. Then the ease of manip-
ulating the ingredients and the facility
of obtaining mechanical appliances
make the production so simple that it
is inevitable that the opportunity should
be improved. The introduction of the
spurious coins, when they have been
skillfully prepared, into the silver cir-
culation in all parts of the country is a
matter of perfect safety so far as the
coins are concerned ; there is nothing to
excite suspicion in what is being
passed, and when once it is in circula-
tion, it is a part of the National coin-
age, to be redeemed the same as the
rest. Differences in the ingredients of
these counterfeits and the genuine coins
have been noted, but such differences
are easy to rectify, so that the spurious
coins will defy any test. In the genuine
the differences in the ingredients at the
different mints, and the variations at
different times, will be as great as those
found in the counterfeits.

While in the counterfeiting of the
paper currency there is little danger of
issuing that which will become a per-
manent part of the circulation, there is
rapidly increasing danger of successful
attempts in the development ot proc-
esses, as already noted. Not many
years ago, the engraving of the plates
to produce a counterfeit note was a for-
midable undertaking, involving many
months of time. Then, it was not usual
that the engraver should have sufficient
knowledge of the paper and the various
colors and qualities of inks to make his
plates available, sothat was necessary
for him to work with a confederate
skilled in these lines, thus increasing
the cost and risk of detection. Now,
by the aid of photo-chemical processes
the production of dangerous plates is
the work of a less number of days, and,
what is worse, the knowledge requisite
is possessed by many an apprentice of
two or three years’ experience. In
these processes it is necessary to have a
considerable knowledge of paper and
inks, but the increased facility of ob-
taining these simplifies the task and
obviates the necessity of confederates.

In the case now under investigation
in this city the workman who, it is
alleged, made the plates and did the
printing is one whose trade was not half
learned. But, being employed where
every facility was at his command, and
where he was carelessly given oppor-
tunity for his operations outside of
workisg hours, the production of the
counterfeit, as alleged, was an easy

 

matter, The entire work, including the
printing, appears to have been done in
a few days and the first evening's at-
tempt at passing the product by a con-
federate is said to have netted over sixty
dollars.

This is a forcible illustration of the
ease with which very dangerous imita-
tions of currency may be _ produced.
There is little use in watching for coun-
terfeit coins, for the use of base metal
is so dangerous that it is about given
up for the genuine, which even the Gov-
ernment cannot detect. But the produc-
tions of the paper artists are easily de-
tected and, while the frequency of at-
tempts is likely to increase, the per-
manence of the danger in each case
will be small.

 

THE FRANCO-RUSSIAN ALLIANCE.

The latest cables from Germany indi-
cate that Emperor William is by no
means indifferent to the possibilities of
the new Franco-Russian alliance, but
that, on the contrary, it is giving him
no little uneasiness. The first evidence
of this perturbation is shown in the ef-
forts he has made to rehabilitate the
Triple Alliance. It is true that the
Triple Alliance has been in full force
all the time; but, for various reasons,
the different powers composing it had
become somewhat lukewarm towards
each other, either because there was
less need for joint action than formerly,
or because some of them had found that
the alliance did not prove of practical
benefit in time of need; take, for in-
stance, Italy’s experience in her contest
with Abyssinia. The announcement of
the Franco-Russian alliance, however,
created a new ‘‘raison d’etre’’ for the
triple compact; hence the parties to
that arrangement have hastened to renew
their mutual agreements.

It is worthy of note that Emperor
William had as his guest of honor, at
the recent army manoeuvers, King Hum-
bert, of Italy, and he sought by every
means in his power to emphasize the
friendship existing between himself and
Italy’s sovereign. Another very con-
spicuous move on the Emperor's part,
which is no doubt largely due to his
apprehensions as to the possible effects
of the Franco-Russian compact, is his
conciliatory tone towards the _ lesser
German princes. During the army
manoeuvers he has endeavored to honor
as much as possible the Kings of Saxony
and Wurtemberg and the Regent of Ba-
varia, with a view, no doubt, to remov-
ing that ill feeling which was believed
to be growing towards the head of the
empire among the lesser states, whose
rulers believed themselves to be over-
topped too greatly by the King of Prus-
Sia.

By far the most conspicuous evidence
of a change of heart on the part of Em-
peror William, brought about by recent
developments in Continental Europe,
has been the cessation of the attacks
upon Great Britain by the German
press, and the evident desire on the
part of the Kaiser to cultivate more
friendly relations with the British court.
He realizes that the dual alliance be-
tween France and Russia, and the
Triple Alliance between Germany, Aus-
tria and_Italy, must compete for British
Support, and that to which side soever
British influence is thrown will be
added a controlling weight in European
affairs. These are all evidences that,
while Emperor William may be hasty
and eccentric, he is by no means the
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DANGEROUS CLASSES IN CITIES.

The problem of the unemployed em-
braces two classes of persons. These
are, first, those who have been turned
out of employment by the industrial
depression which follows a financial
panic, and, second, the tramps and
loafers who will not work and are de-
termined to live by plundering or beg-
ging from others,

The hcnest work people who are un-
fortunately and unavoidably the vic-
tims of an industrial depression should
be subjects of the greatest solicitude of
the statesman and philanthropist. The
tramps and loafers belong to the crim-
inal classes and ought to be treated as
such. The honest laborer asks nothing
more than to secure employment at fair
wages. When times are bad, he will
accept any honest employment at re-
duced wages, so that he may support
his family and not be humiliated by
having to beg.

In order to meet this need, every state
and city should have emergency farms,
where the able-bodied unemployed
could at least earn their bread, and the
day will come when some arrangement
of that sort will have to be made. But
such emergency relief will only have
to be made occasionally, since it is
only in times of great industrial depres-
sion that large numbers of people are
unavoidably out of employment. But
especial measures will have to be used
upon the tramps and loafers, who are
getting to be an unbearable pest. They
infest the country from one end to the
other, and crowd into the cities, only
to increase its criminal classes.

In disposing of the able-bodied men-
dicants, some information may be got
from Europe. Some years ago the
United States Government caused to
be gathered by its consular agents in
all parts of Europe information on va-
grancy and public charities, and this in-
formation was printed by the State De-
partment.

It seems strange that Germany,
where society is generally well ordered
and the people industrious, should have,
at any modern period, been cursed with
tramps and beggars; but that was the
case soon after the close of the series
of the great German wars, the last of
which was that with France. At that
time, according to the official reports,
one of the worst beggar-infested coun-
tries of Europe was Germany. Able-
bodied men in alarming numbers
tramped through the provinces of all the
states of the empire, some of them in
search of work, others for love of vag-
abondage. In 1873, 200,000 men and
boys were living as vagabonds in Ger-
many, begging from town to town, de-
moralizing and, in many _ instances,
terrifying the rural communities.

All this has been changed. The gov-
ernments of the various German states
accomplished the change by means of
relief stations and lodging-houses, with
a system of passes from one station to
another for men in search of work; the
establishment of labor colonies; the
general adoption of a system of relief
for private distress,and a rigid enforce-
ment of the laws which provide im-
prisonment with hard labor for all
tramps and for all who beg or cause
children to beg.

The rule is that every person caught
begging is imprisoned in the house of
correction or in the workhouse for a
term from four months up to two years,
where they have to do the kind of work
or labor to which they are best adapted.
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there is nothing humiliating in the
treatment they receive; but, on the
contrary, it is tending toward the eleva-
tion of their self respect. A part of
their earnings is reserved and paid to
them when leaving the _ institution.
About 25 per cent. of these beggars re-
main incorrigible and have to be re-
peatedly punished and imprisoned,
while the rest of them become self-sup-
porting members of society.

Idleness is the parent of crime, and
where there is a large per cent. of the
population idle, it is sure to result in a
vast increase in vice andcrime. Spain
and Italy are reported as particularly
infested with beggars. A consular re-
port from Palermo, the capital of
Sicily, says:

No country, perhaps, has a greater
percentage of beggars than Italy, and
in no part of Italy are beggars so pain-
fully numerous as in Sicily, where all
public buildings, churches, banks,
theaters, hotels, and approaches there-
to, as well as streets, promenades and
parks, are teeming with beggars, whose
importunities are as constant and gen-
eral as they are annoying. In fact, so
numerous are they and conspicuous that
one is given the impression that half
the population is begging ; but although
begging is so prevalent, the class of
roving beggars known as ‘‘tramps’’ is
unknown here, for two reasons ~one, that
no Sicilian beggar has the energy to
travel from place to place, and the
other the certainty of the place to which
he might go being as thoroughly infest-
ed and fully occupied as that whence
he came.

The American beggars are more en-
terprising. They migrate with the
changes of the seasons from the North-
ern States to those of the South, and
back again northward. But the loafers
are a Class of idlers found in every town
and city of the Union. They commence
by living in idleness upon the earnings
of their relatives, and they end by be-
coming criminals. As to the tramps,
they are wandering criminals, half
bandit, half beggar, plundering by force
or pleading for charity as may best suit
their purposes.

Distinct from these are the able-bod-
ied men who flock to cities in the hope
of living easier there than in the coun-
try, and who, while pretending to seek
work, refuse to perform any useful labor.
They can generally manage to find
cheap lodgings for a small amo int, and
with beer or whisky a free Junch. It is
seldom they fail to secure means for
that much. In the meantime they swell
the numbers of the floating, shiftless
and dangerous population, always ready
to profit by any public disorder or lack
of watchfulness on the part of all who
have anything to lose. This is the most
dangerous element in any community,
worse than the professional criminal
class.

For the first time in seven years, it is
said, the demand for labor is greater
than the supply in many parts of Al-
abama, and, as a result, there is not a
strike or labor dispute of any kind in
the State. Increased demands for Al-
abama iron in Europe are pressing the
furnaces to fill orders. Coal mine and
furnace operators are advertising for
labor to meet the requirements of the
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Why an Ohio Firm Goes Back to the
Credit System.

Smith and I| have run a general coun-
try store out here for six years,and have
done reasonably well. We have, of
course, lost something because of bad
accounts, but on the whole have made
money.

Smith is a great hand for theories.
He reads all the ‘‘Advice to Mer-
chants’’ and *‘Hints to Business Men’’
he sees in the trade and other journals
and gives them all a trial, when my in-
fluence fails to prevent him. Some of
them have cost us money, while others
have lost us customers. This does not
prevent his turning up, fresh and smil-
ing, with a new one, about every other
day.

Last summer he became very much
impressed with the absolute necessity
of our doing business upon a strictly
cash basis; said he had been reading
Adam Smith and a lot of those other old
chaps who write on political economy,
and after studying the matter over had
come to the conclusion that 25 per cent.
of the business done in this country was
lost through poor accounts; that the
whole sum could be saved if everybody
would pay spot cash on the delivery of
the goods; that, as the leading mer-
chants of Bundyshurg, we were in a
position to give the matter a thorough
test and show the world at large that
the great bulk of commercial business
was done upon a wrong basis; that, by
paying spot cash ourselves, we could
purchase goods much cheaper than at
present, and sell for lower prices; that
everybody who had money would come
to us, while those who ran accounts
would go to our competitors; in_ short,
he argued with such spirit and vehe-
mence,and had such a formidable array
of figures upon his side, that, aftera
month’s protest and hesitation, I finally
acceded to his view of the matter and
agreed that hereafter the firm of Smith
& Jones should do business only upon
a Hard Money and Spot Cash basis.
Our motto was, ‘‘No trust to anybody;
not even our grandmothers.’’ If Mrs.
Smith wished to purchase a lawn dress,
she must come in and pay her money
over the counter. If Jones’ youthful son
wished a sled, he woyld have to produce
the coin of the realm, or its equivalent
in greenbacks, before he could come in-
to possession. There were to be no bad
accounts, and no losses thereafter, and
everything should immediately take on a
roseate hue.

On the 1 of September, 1896, we put
up our sign, “‘Absolutely No Trust to
Anyone.’’ We changed our card in the
Bundysburg Signal, calling attention to
the fact that hereafter goods would be
sold for cash only and that because of
this new departure in our business, we
expected to sell goods 25 per cent. less
than our neighbors could sell them.

Now, don't understand me as con-
demning this system as a whole or even
criticising those who support and prac-
tice it. I simply wish to say that our
experience has demonstrated the fact
that, in a small country town like Bun-
dysburg, this method of business has
its slight drawbacks, to say the least.
In a great city, where you know so_ few
of your customers, and where so many
of them are merely casual purchasers, it
may work to a charm, but in a little
town like this, personal and fraternal
relations are so closely intertwined with
those of a business character that a
merchant who makes this cash rule and

 

enforces it is apt to get himself oc-
casionally disliked.

As our old customers came in and
saw the sign, their comments varied
from, ‘‘Well, I'll be gol darned,’’ to
‘*What the blankety-blank has got into
you fellers, anyhow?’’ On the whole,
our customers seemed to endorse the
move and regard it as a commendable
safeguard when applied to their friends
and neighbors, but had their doubts
about its availability or complete suc-
cess when put into operation against
themselves. Old Deacon Wolcott, who
has traded with us ever since the store
was opened, paying twice each year,
and who was a customer of my _ father’s
before I was born, said to me in a con-
fidential manner, ‘‘That’s all right,
Silas, you just go ahead and keep that
sign up, and it will be a notice toa lot
of these lazy, good-for-nothing fellows
that they must pay as they go, or not go
at all. Of course, Silas, | know them
fellers you and Jim are after, and that
you never had a thought of applying
this here notion to me.”’

I took the old man over into the cor-
ner and let Jim talk political economy
to him for half an hour. He looked a
little dubious, but when Jim was through
with him, he came down front and said
to me, ‘‘I must have a pair of boots for
the boy and some goods for the old
woman.’ I took great pleasure in wait-
ing upon him, and when I was through,
figured up the amount, which came to
some $11.80. The old man gave an
embarrassed laugh and _= said, ‘‘ You
have got me this time, Silas. I haven't
a darned cent with me, and unless you
chalk her down for a few days, I will
have to leave the goods unti] I come in
again. I have got my old silver watch
with me,’’ with a low chuckle, ‘‘but I
don t think, at this time of day, you
boys will make the old man put that up
for $11.80.”’

It was a little embarrassing to have
our first customer under the new rule
put us in a box like this. We knew
that the old man was as good as the
gold, and at the price we had charged
him, we could very well afford to carry
his account for several months. But
there was the rule, and I saw Jim look-
ing at me sternly from the back end of
the store over a pile of political econ-
omy books and trade journals which
insisted that every merchant should sell
for cash.

I said to him, ‘‘Uncle Socrates, I
cannot put this account upon the books,
as it is against our rules, and we must
treat one customer as we would an-
other, but I’ll tell you what I will do.
I will lend you the $11.80 out of my
own pocket, and you can pay me the
next time you are in town.*’

**Well,’’ said the old man dubiously,
‘‘I don’t know as I care to go about
town borrowing money, but under the
circumstances, we will let her goat
that.’’

I loaned the deacon $12 in cash out
of my own pocket, and then he turned
around and paid me $11.80, which went
into the drawer.

Said he with a chuckle, ‘‘It looks
now as though I was about 20 cents
ahead of the game,’’ which was rather
a suggestive comparison for a deacon
in the Presbyterian Church, but quite
characteristic of the situation.

Our books show that, during the past
year, we have sold Deacon Wolcott just
one-half what we sold him the year be-
fore. Figuring full legal interest on
his account, I find that we have lost
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what we would have made had we car-
ried his account as in the olden days.
There is another loss to be added to
this, as the deacon’s wife has got into
the habit of carrying her butter and
eggs to our rivals across the way, where
she is running a book account wide
open and for all it is worth; and thus
we have lost what we would have made
in handling her produce.

The deacon had hardly gone out of the
store, before little Johnny Seelye came
in and, reaching a tin pail over the
counter said, ‘‘My mother, she wants
two quarts of molasses. ’’

Said I, ‘‘All right, Johnny, have you
got the money?”’

‘‘Money?’’ said he. ‘‘Why h’ain't
ma got a book account here? I have
always got things when she sent me for
them, and nobody ever said anything to
me about money before. ’’

With a mere hint of spite in my tone,
I called to my partner, ‘‘Come here,
Jim, and load little Johnny up on polit-
ical economy. He doesn’t seem to
grasp the situation with that philosophic
touch to be expected of one who has
studied Adam Smith and Richard Cob-
den.’’

Jim came down front and explained
the whole situation to Johnny, mollify-
ing and emphasizing the same with a
gift of a stick of gum. The little man
marched home again with his empty
pail, promising to come back with the
money in a few minutes.

In about a quarter of an hour, young
Johnny stuck his towsled head through
the front door and, with a grin, said,
‘“Ma says she don’t have to!’’ and then,
before we had an opportunity of an-
swering him, he was over the way with
his empty bucket.

I expect that these two samples of
Deacon Wolcott and young Seelye are
simply two out of five hundred experi-
ences that poor Jim and I have gone
through during the past year. We have
offended so many customers that our
losses upon the business which they
have withheld from us have more than
covered all the losses we would have
sustained from poor book accounts. We
find that people will buy more goods
when they can have the same charged
than they will when they must pay cash
for the same. Many a man will permit
his wife and daughters to go to the store
and have goods charged, when they ut-
terly refuse to go down into their pock-
ets and hand the necessary amount
of money over to their feminine repre-
sentatives who are setting out upon a
shopping tour. It seems to be a very
difficult matter for the average farmer,
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amounts, to part with a greenback until
compelled to, while, on the other hand,
they are very generous about increasing
their credits—and I am talking about
men who pay their debts, and whose
credit is upon a gold basis.

Mind that I am not criticising the
system, nor am I finding fault with po-
litical economy, or with Jim. We have
made some money this past year, but
not as much as we would have made
had we pursued the old system. I do
not find that we can buy goods any
cheaper than we did before, for the
double reason that we are buying less
now than we did a year ago, and have
practically always paid cash for our
goods in the past.

This I know, that, on October I,
1897, James Smith and Silas Jones, mer-
chants at Bundysburg, Ohio, have de-
cided to go back to the old system. We
shall carefully scan all applications for
book accounts, but hereafter whenever
a solid merchant of this town, or of
Farmington, or of Parkman, wishes to
buy goods upon credit with the firm of
Smith & Jones, he can doso. Adam
Smith is all right, and so is political
economy, and so are the trade journals
which have advocated a spot cash sys-
tem—but we boys down here on the
edge of Swine Creek have learned upon
which side our bread is buttered, and
intend hereafter to pursue the course of
practical wisdom.—Silas Jones in Hard-

ware,
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The Postmaster General has issued
an order calling the attention of post-
masters to the fact that postal cards
which have been mutilated or cut are
not mailable as postal cards, but that
letter postage must be demanded in
every instance. The question arose over
the action of a postmaster who declined
to receive a lot of postal cards which a
merchant had cut into two pieces, and
on which he had printed an advertise-
ment. The postmaster was upheld by
the Department, which ruled that it had
fixed the proper size of postal cards and
no private individual had a right to al-
ter the size. At the same time a card
of any size can. be sent through the
mail if the proper postage is affixed.
It may be two feet square, but if the
postage is all right the postoffice is
bound to receive it. The rate for such
card is 1 cent for each two ounces when
it has nothing on it but printed matter,
and 2 cents per half ounce when it is
written on. An ordinary visiting card
will carry a message if a 2 cent stamp

is affixed.
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look on his face when he,is lying to
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The Fire Waste.

One of the most noteworthy economic
facts which have been developed during
the current year is tte great reduction
in the fire waste. There are not only
fewer fires, but the aggregate losses sus-
tained by the underwriters show a great
decrease. This is not only a gratifying
showing for the underwriters, who are
now enabled to make good profits from
their business, where, but a few years
ago, they had constant losses staring
them in the face, but it is of impor-
tance to the general public, as the profit-
able character of the insurance business
affords the insured greater security, and
it holds out a hope that eventually
premiums will be lowered on many
classes of risks.

The fire loss in the United States and
Canada during August aggregated only
$6,954,950, which is very considerably
below the average August loss. The
New York Journal of Commerce, which
is the accepted authority on the subject,
furnishes the following table, showing
the losses each month during the year
to the close of last month, compared
with the previous two seasons:

1895 1896 1897
January... _ $11,895,000 $11,040,000 $12,049,700
February.... 12,360,200 9,730, 100 8,676,750
Maren... _. 14,239,300 14,339,600 10,502,950
Ape 11,018,150 12,010,600 10,363,000
May. «67 ger. sce 10,618,000 10, 193,600
ame, 5. 9,223,000 5:721,250 5,634,450
Joly....... - 9,085,000 9,033,250 6,626, 300
August..... 9,929,000 8,895,250 6,454,950

 

Totals....$85,511,600  $81,S88,0g0 $71,021,700

According to this table, it will be
seen that the fire losses have been less
than last year in every month but Yan-
uary, which showed a slight increase.
The aggregate decrease in the loss for
the eight months of the year, compared
with last year, is, in round figures,
$10,800,000, while, compared with 1895,
the decrease is $14,500, 000.

Naturally such a showing has greatiy
encouraged the underwriters of the
country, and they now admit that busi-
ness is very profitable with them. Un-
less some very disastrous conflagration
occurs during the last four months of
the present year, the next annual state-

ment of nearly all the companies in the
United States will be very gratifying to
shareholders.

While the improvement in the insur-
ance situation is no doubt due ina
larger measure to more intelligent man-
agement on the part of underwriters
themselves and the more careful scrutiny
of risks, still, at the same time, some-
thing is to be attributed to the decreased
moral risk. The prospects of better
times and the general completion of the
liquidation of the failures of the past
few years have undoubtedly diminished
what is known as the moral hazard in
the fire insurance business.

Another cause for the reduced losses
is no doubt the improvement which has
been achieved in electric insulation.
The loose methods which were in vogue
some years back have been superseded
by a most careful system of wiring and
insulation, so that the danger from fire
from electric currents has been reduced
toa minimum The saving in the fire
waste is very considerable, and is, of
course, actually greater than shown by
the statistics. This saving cannot but
be very beneficial to the country at

large.
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Evaporated potatoes and cabbage are
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cabbage looks like chopped hay, but
tastes all right, and a handful of it is a
ration for a man, as it expands won-
derfully in process of cooking. It is
probable that there will be a great de-
mand for evaporated vegetables next
spring, and while potatoes are cheap,
plenty and good, and cabbage can be
had by the ton, a lot of these vege-
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Graphic Glimpse of Her Arts and
Manufactures.

Written for the TRapEsMAN.

I wonder if any foreigner ever visits
Italy without thinking how ashamed the
old Romans would be of their present
descendants, if they could come to earth
again. The majority of the men are
unscrupulous beggars. They are willing
—-nay, they seem to rejoice in making
themselves lame, maim or blind in or-
der to secure a penny honest or other-
wise. The remainder of the men:-seem
to be cabmen always seeking jobs, or
lemonade venders. Hordes of men
stand or sit around all day with abso-
lutely nothing to do, yet they can gen-
erally be classified in one of these divi-
sions, only waiting, like Micawber, ‘‘ for
something to turn up.’’ Their very
laziness accounts, in a great measure,
for the preservation of the ancient cus-
toms, buildings and works of art.

On the other hand, the women fairly
wear themselves out with their activity.
They are married at 15, middle-aged
women at 22, old women at 30 and hags
at 35. While the men lie around the
Streets, walls or fields, the women are
up and doing. They tend shop, ped-
dle vegetables and fruit, work in the
fields, carry loads and perform all other
sorts of manual labor which would be
undertaken only by strong men_ in
America. At the same time they must
care for a large family of children. A
woman who must depend upon a fruit
cart or lemonade stand for a livelihood
is generally surrounded all day by her
young brood, after whose needs she
looks even while weighing out fruit or
making lemonade for the waiting cus-
tomer. A woman thinks nothing of
nursing her baby at the same time she
is going up or down a steep hill with
a heavy load on her head! And there
is always sewing or knitting to fill in
the gaps of time. No, the women can-
not truthfully be called idle.

Yet there is an army of busy men as
well, earning an honest living by the
Sweat of their brow. Every locality—
nay, every city of importance—has some
special industry of its own, which the
traveler soon perceives and the mer-
chant does well to recognize.

Naples is the city of coral and tor-
toise shell. Every shop window is
crowded with ornaments made of these
precious materials and innumerable
peddlers are hawking similar wares on
the street. Where tortoise shell and
pink coral are a drug on the market, and
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falls to the minimum. Coral stickpins
sell as low as a cent or two, while the
choicest go for less than 20 cents.
Strings of children’s beads made of the
roughly broken branch coral bring 8 to
20 cents, while the handsomest cut
beads go at 60 to 80 cents, and many
times less. A set of four tortoise shell
combs in a satin-lined case costs not
more than $1.50 to $2, while it is pos-
sible to bargain for even less. The
price of side and back combs for very
cheapness takes the breath out of the
fair sex and makes it possible for the
most poverty-stricken to indulge in such
luxuries.

Naples and Pompeii are the places
for bronzes and shell and lava cameos.
Copies the most perfect of vases and
statuettes found in the ruins at Pompeii
are to be procured at merely nominal
fizures, while cameo pins range in price
from 15 cents to $2. One cannot realize
the possibilities of gray or brown lava
until he has seen it as worked up in one
of these places. The most classical
heads or figures are chiseled on the or-
dinary lava with a delicacy and pre-
cision only imagined of fairies, yet the
finest examples of these go for a song.

Sorrento, a seaside resort not far from
Naples, is mistress of the art of inlay-
ing woods. Men work out of doors or
in their frontless shops. Olive wood,
which abounds in that locality, is chosen
as a basis and various other colored
woods are inserted to carry out some
desired design. Some of the most fa-
mous paintings are reproduced in wood,
vet the surface will be as smooth to the
touch as a china plate. Most artistic
ornaments, as well as _ useful articles,
are made of this material. Less than a
dollar will buy some of the choicest bits
of bric-a-brac, while paper knives,
letter openers, bookmarks and penhold-
ers are expensive at 4 to Io cents.

Rome can easily boast of making the
finest mosaic jewelry, and the Etruscan
jewelry stands paramount. What dex-
terity, what skill, what niceness, what
patience, must be necessary to put to-
gether the minutest bits of stone or glass
into dainty patterns so smoothly that,
even with a strong magnifying glass,
the edges can scarcely be discerned.
The spun gold, the cobweb designs of
the Etruscan jewelry, seem beyond the
possibilities of human cunning. Ought
such rare treasures to compare in price
with the most ordinary wares made in
other countries? The strings of Roman
pearls are much admired but, as they
discolor easily, must be worn outside
the collar, as is customary with Italian
ladies, or as trimmings on the most
splendid gowns. Manv silk sashes,

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to familiarize house-keepers with the name of

blankets, caps, etc., are palmed off as
Roman and brought there as souvenirs
of the Eternal City, but are really man-
ufactured in the neighborhood of Milan
on the banks of the Italian lakes. There
is a noted silk shop in the Piazza
Spagna which makes silk dresses and
blouses on the shortest possible potice
and for prices which cannot much more
than pay for the raw material. All
sculptors can tell wonderful stories of
the skill of the army of marble cutters
who make their headquarters at Rome—
their seeming carelessness, yet exact-
ness and amazing skill in making each
stroke count to animate a dull block of
marble.

Dear Florence, so literary in all her
tastes and inclinations, the Boston of
Italy! How strange to associate any
handicraft with her, yet she does her
full share to make trade lively. The
cunning of the goldsmiths of the Mid-
dle Ages has been transmitted to the
present race. Every lady who has ever
visited Italy can remember how she
went simply mad over the jewelry. And
so cheap, too! The mosaics rank next -tu
the Romans. There are two distinct
styles—those with a plain black back-
ground into which are inserted colored
figures, and those entirely of colored
mosaic work. For the cheaper grades
of the latter kind the designs are made
in blue and white, as this combination
seems to show off to the best advantage.
Terra cotta, green, etc., look well only
in the finest grades. The black mosaics
are either unmounted except for the
pin, or mounted in black enamel or an-
tique silver. The colored mosaics are
mounted in white metal gilded or not,
white metal plated in gold, genuine sil-
ver gilded or not, and pure gold. The
price of the pins ranges from 20 cents
to $3.50. Many other articles, as pic-
ture frames, jewel boxes and paper-
knives, are made of the mosaics. Coral
and turquoise jewelry also abounds in
Florence and the prices are next to
nothing. The pink coral is set in a sort
of hammered silver, which at a short
distance has the effect of small dia-
monds or brilliants. The Italian tur-
quoises are a deeper blue without the
greenish tint of the Oriental ones; and
discolor more easily, but are exceeding-
ly effective as worked up by the Flor-
enece goldsmiths,

The Florentine frames have earned
for that city a world-wide reputation.
They are carved out of a soft quality
of wood entirely by hand and afterwards
gilded with liquid gold leaf. All sizes
are made, and vary in price accord-
ingly. <A first-grade cabinet frame
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can be bought for from 50 to 60 cents.

Another trade for which Florence is
noted is the binding of books in rare
parchment or vellum. An ordinary 8vo
book can be bound in the best vellum,
with plain gilt lettering, for $1 to $1.20,
while the same book in enameled parch-
ment costs twice as much. Other arti-
cles, as cardcases, pocketbooks, fold-
ing photograph frames, portfolios, etc.,
are made of the same dainty material.

The chief interests of Pisa are cen-
tered in her marble works. The marble
is quarried near Pisa and is afterwards
chiseled in shops just across the street
from the Cathedral, Baptistry and Lean-
ing Tower. Most beautiful work is done
there and there are choice pieces to fit
the pocketbook of rich or poor. Al-
though other cities in Italy sell the
same fine statues and statuettes, the
shops are all branches-of the Pisa firms;
but Pisa is the cheapest and best place
to buy these works of art.

Milan and smaller towns in the region
of the italian lakes make the silk for
Italy. Italian silk is pretty and cheap
but is not so durable as many other
kinds,

And Venice, fair city on the sea! She
is unique in every way and_ boasts
of treasures that can no other city.

Mosaic jewelry abounds here—but
rauks third in quality—although the ma-
terial for all Italian mosaics is manu-
factured in Venice. The mosaics are
not put together in shops cr factories,
as generally supposed, but at the work-
men’s homes,

Venice takes first rank -in stone mo-
saics for frescoes, and in lace and
glass manufacture. The laces are sim-
ilar in quality and design to those made
in Brussels, but most people would ac-
The
Venetian glass will always be justly
treasured, but it cannot be made cheap,
and cannot compéte in prices with the
Bohemian glass. In consequence, some
of the leading firms import Bohemian
glass and sell it as Venetian glass to un-
initiated strangers. Still, one may often
pick up fine bits of the genuine article,
and at merely nominal cost. The Vene-
tian mirrors, with their borders of glass
flowers, remain in favor, and are not
given away. The hand-carved furni-
ture of Venice is much sought after and
brings a good price.

Enough has been said, I hope, to show
that Italy is not exactly asleep. She
is indolent—the Italians admit as much
themselves. Genius-is no longer met on
every corner. But how many nations
of its size can show such a record of ar-
tistic handicrafts, or do more in stimu-
lating the finer tastes of the world?

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Among the ’Dobes of Colorado.
Written for the TRapEsmaN.

Three miles from the village of Wal-
senburg, in this State, is the mining
camp of Pictou. Ages ago, the mighty
upheaval which lifted the uneven rim
of the Rockies into the sky found the
task too great and left the broad basin,
in the middle of which the camp is _lo-
cated, some three miles in diameter,
dry and barren and desolate. The walk
there, uncheered by tree or shrub- or
even green grass, would have been
dreary enough had it not been for the
majesty of the mountains, flecked with
cloud shadows, or hidden in the clouds
themselves, which the upper currents of
the air dashed from time to time against
the brow and breast of the uplifted
rocks.

The sun in Colorado is not warm—it
is hot. After the freshness of the morn-
ing is over, the intense heat begins, and
continues until the mountain shadows
have crept eastward far down the val-
ley. By eight o’clock the mercury stood
high in the tube and the brisk walk was
expected to add to the discomfort of the
pedestrian. Here was the first surprise
—there was no discomfort about it. The
‘‘beaded brow’’ and the ‘‘trickles of
perspiration’’ depended on to add in-
terest to the narrative did not appear, a
phenomenon accounted for by a single
remark—‘‘Folks in Colorado’ don’t
sweat.’’ In this high latitude the evap-
oration is rapid, the hot atmosphere
quickly absorbing the ‘‘beads’’ and the
‘‘trickles,’’ and so keeping the temper-
ature of the body above the degree of
discomfort. Another fact to be noted
here is that, when the heat of the day is
at its height, coolness can always be
found wherever there is the slightest
shade.

The walk from the plain to the moun-
tain ridge is not steep enough nor long
enough to be fatiguing. The view from
the summit into the shallow valley dis-
closes, as the main feature in the lJand-
scape, a few adobe houses, or huts, as
the stranger is inclined to call them.
These were the main object of my visit
and I was not long in finding my way to
them. My first knowledge of the adobe
house came to me in the village of Wal-
senburg. A walk along the main street
found me watching a workman placing
the adobe blocks in the wall of the house
he was building. ‘‘Where did these
blocks you are using come from?’’ I
asked.

**I do’ know—down there in the yard,
back o’ the house, I guess, ’’ was the
reply; and, surely enough, from ‘‘down
there’’ the building material had been
taken.

The adobe house, primitively, is not
built of blocks. Those in the camp of
Pictou are not, the block being the re-
sult of civilization. When a _ habitation
is to be put up, stakes of the desired
length—seven or eight feet—are driven
into the ground as closely together as
possible. The earth about the structure-
to-be is loosened and moistened, and
thrown with all the strength of the
thrower against the upright stakes, fill-
ing first the interstices. Upon this as a
foundation more of the earth is plas-
tered and smoothed until it is of the de
sired thickness. In this dry atmosphere
the whole soon hardens, and the house
walls are then ready for the roof, made
by longer stakes laid from wall to wall
and covered with boards, and these, in
Pictou, with pieces of sheet-iron—a roof
not calculated, under a burning Colo-
tado sun, to make the interior a desir-

 

able or comfortable shelter during the
hot months of summer.

It is hardly necessary to say that
these houses are the work of Mexicans,
although it may be well to state that the
Mexican women are the builders.
There is much about them to suggest
the workmanship of the cliff-builders,
They are huddled together—clustered,
if one may say so. They are all alike
in form and color and size, and _ indica-
tive of the interior and the kind of life
lived there. They are not clean. The
Sapitary conditions about them are not
carefully looked after and the general
air in the immediate vicinity does not,
in any sense of the term, prepare the
beholder for a high type of humanity in
the primitive adobe dwelling.

Tbe specimens seen at Pictou are
somewhat undersized, and are of a
swarthy complexion. They are not com-
mended for uprightness and honesty,
and it is affirmed that the women are
not always faithful to their marriage
vows, nor the men at all backward in
defending the bonor of their homes by
a lively use of the dagger. Jealous and
vindictive, on the slightest provocation
they see to it that there is ‘‘a hot time
at Oldtown at night!’’

The Mexicans are not the only miners.
They are not even the Majority. These
come from everywhere and are made up
of all sorts and conditions of men—
mostly conditions. It was the intention
to see these at their worst—on pay-day;
but Fortune had postponed pay-day,
and so that phase of modern civiliza-
tion still remains for me to see.

It is a rough, wild life that these men
lead, in, a rough, wild country—a life
and a country conforming well with the
adobe dwelling, which furnishes the
leading feature in this dreary valley of
the Rockies.

RICHARD MALCOLM STRONG.
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Model Creamery Plant at Kalamazoo.
From the Kalamazoo Telegraph.

The Kalamazoo Dairy Co.'s cream-
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just beyond the Wolverine paper mill,
was opened to the public Thursday, and
a portion of the machinery started as a
test. A large crowd of interested stock-
holders.and fatmers were present to in-
spect the plant and to listen to an ad-
dress by J. H. Brown, of the Michigan
Farmer.

The plant was furnished by the True
Dairy Supply Co., of Syracuse, N. Y.,
and is a model of its kind. The
building, 30x52 feet in size, was espe-
cially planned for the purposes of a
dairy and it could not be more conven-
ient. The plant was planned and
equipped by R. E. Sturges, of. Alle-
gan, who has had much experience in
creamery building and pronounces the
Kalamazoo establishment the best of its
kind in the State.

Stamps were put on the market in
August, 1847, but were so little used
that the Government had to pass a law
enforcing prepayment of postage, which
went into effect in 1855. Before this
action was taken scarcely one letter in a
dozen was found with a stamp affixed.
To-day the postoffices of the country sell
4,000,000,000 stamps (counting postal
cards, stamped envelopes and stamps
of all kinds), valuéd at $750, 000, 000,
during a single year.

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A significant statement regarding the
condition of the farmers of North Da-
kota is that, although the new law al-
lows the State Board of School Lands,
which has the custody of $1,000,000. of
the permanent school fund, to make
loans on farm lands at a very low rate
of interest, it has not yet had an appli-
cation for a loan from any farmer.

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be a cross between a Valencia anda
season, and bids fair to become a pop-
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New Variety of Orange.

A California fruit company is han-

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navel. This variety of orange has put

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Shoes and Leather

 

Systematic Repairing of Footwear at
the Wanamaker Establishment.

In the course of a recent interview,
Jobn H. Dooley, who bas charge of the
repair department of Wanamaker’s shoe
establishment, described the method
pursued as follows:

‘“We do the work neatly,’’ he said,
‘‘always keeping on hand a goodly as-
sortment of materials of all the latest
shades for patching work, and taking
pains to make the patch a tasty one.
During the past several years many
persons have changed their minds about
the inefficiency of cobblers to neatly
patch a shoe. They used to think that
way once, and when a half-sole had
worn down they would buy a new pair,
rather than take them to the cobbler
and have second-rate shoes made out
of them.

‘*The shop is well lighted. It is in
the form of an oblong, and faces the
Mint. There is a Singer sewing ma-
chine and two Bradbury machines, all
of which are used to sew up rips in
shoes and to insert new goring. The
Bradbury is preferred to the Singer.
The latter is all right when it comes to
sewing a straight seam, but for the
more intricate purposes of cobbling
work, such as sewing down close to
the edges, around corners, etc., the
Bradbury is much the better. I would
not have a roller in the shop because,
while it is quite true that a roller does
the work with dispatch and leaves the
soles of a uniform thickness, the old-
fashioned hammer will never crush the
leather, and the roller will, if not care-
fully handled all the time.

‘‘No splitter is used here and no
plated lasts, but all the best toes usually
to be found in a first-class shoe factory
are nicely arranged on shelves on one
side of the room. A full set of edge-
irons is also a part of the equipment,
because they are necessary in making a
proper edge on the soles. Plenty of
heel-shaves, sharp as a razor, are also
here. These are used to trim down
heels smoothly. Then there are two or
three lacing-stud or hook sets, besides
a comprehensive selection of hooks,
which precludes the possibility of hav-
ing none on hand to replace any that
may fall out in the course of ordinary
wear and tear. Eyelet-punches and
eyelets are also to be found in profu-
sion, because of the large number of
shoes that come in ‘to be made like
new shoes.’ Very often it is essential
to put a new tip on a shoe tc make it
look like a new one, for a tip does pos-
sess great rejuvenating properties, and
in such work the Singer comes in most
admirably for sewing the tip straight
across the toe from side to side, and
also the Bradbury for sewing around its
edges on the other sides.

‘For trimming the soles the lip-
knife is good, because it greatly ob-
viates the danger of cutting the upper.
Rasp and buffer and sandpaper are_in-
dispensable for making a good edge,
and even better for this purpose than
the edge-plane. Seven jacks, marked
‘T. D. Bailey, No. 4,’ are used for
holding the shoes while the repairing
work is being done. The jack can be
turned in any direction, and the work-
man can stand up and work faster and
with less manual effort than by the old-
fashioned method. The old cobbler
was content to sit down with a lap-
stone on his knee and pound away all
day. But with the modern jack three

 

times as much work can be done now
as formerly.

‘It is pretty hard to make an old
shoemaker, who has been at the bench
forty or fifty years, to believe, or take
kindly to new methods; but he is rap-
idly passing away, and especially is
this true with regard to the American
shoemaker. No one is to-day learning
the trade in this country, and when
the old fellows are gone we will have
no American shoemakers left. Then
we will have to depend altogether for
service of this kind on the foreigners
who come over here. We have not a
single American in our shop. They are
all Frenchmen, Italians, Germans,
Englishmen and Hebrews.

‘I don’t buy cut soles at all, because
I find it much cheaper to buy a hundred
rolls of leather in sides, good oak leath-
er, no hemlock, and shave it down
and sell the offal. All repairing work
is done by taking out the old stitches
and running new thread through the old
holes.

‘‘Brass nails and pegs I eschew.
Hand-sewed shoes I turn inside out.
Work left at the counter one day is re-
turned by the wagon next day, or, if a
customer desires to wait, he can have
the shoes in three hours’ time. I send
the work at once to the shop, the fore-
man examines the duplicate slip which
accompanies it, and which indicates
everything that is to be done, the price
to be charged, the time to be deliv-
ered, etc., and then he turns the shoes
over to some workman, also the slip,
which the latter retains until the shoes
have been delivered, found satisfactory
and paid for. The workmen have pri-
vate marks which they always put on
the work before it leaves the shop; in
one case it consists of a simple device
of hammering in three brass nails along
the lower edge of the shank of the sole;
another workman will use four brass
nails to indicate his work, while still
another will have five, and so on in
regular numerical order. This plan
has for its recommendation the fact that
if any shoes are returned within six
months from the time they leave the
repairing shop, because of unsatisfac-
tory repairs, the workman that did the
job can be located and made to repair
the shoes a second time at his own ex-
pense. Our men all work on piece
work, except the foreman, who draws a
regular salary.’’

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Wanamaker on Advertising.

John Wanamaker confesses that he
owes much of his success to advertising.
His rightly-bought goods, properly-or-
ganized store force and displays of
goods have all been made effective by
letting the public know through honest,
extensive newspaper advertising. Says
Mr. Wanamaker: ‘‘I never in my life
used such a thing as a poster or dodger
or hand bill. My plan for twenty years
was to buy so much space in a news-
paper and fill it up as I wanted. I
would not give an advertisement ina
newspaper of 500 circulation for 5,000
dodgers or posters. I deal directly
with the publisher. I say to him: ‘How
long will you let me run a column of
matter through your paper for $100 or
$500, as the case may be?’ I let him
do the figuring, and if I think he is
not trying to take any more than his
share I give him the copy. I lay aside
the profits on a particular line of goods
for advertising purposes. ’’

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An enterprising editor of Madrid
prints his journal on linen with a com-
position which is easily removable by
water. The subscriber, after reading
the news, sends his paper to his wash-
erwoman and it comes back a handker-
chief.

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latest colors and shapes.

See our line of socks and felts before placing your fall order. We
can give you some bargains.

Weare agents for the Boston Rubber Shoe Co. and Carry a very large
stock of their goods, which enables us to fill orders promptly.

Our discounts to October 1 are 25 and 5 per cent. on Bostons and 25,
5, and 10 per cent. on Bay States. Our terms are as liberal as those of
any agent of the Boston Rubber Shoe Co.

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Fashion Responsible for All the Evils
to Which Flesh Is Heir.

Big Rapids, Sept. to—One of the
most opportune and well-timed articles
in your issue of September 8 is ‘‘The
More We Have, the More We Want,”’
and, in the main, is strictly truth, yet
the author hardly stated the cause why
such condition exists. Not one journal
in fifty would have the ‘‘nerve’’ to pub-
lish the article at all, fearing a with-
drawal of patronage for endorsing such
sentiments, which just now are not of
the popular kind.

After enumerating many  improve-
ments in their condition, Mr. Stowell
says, ‘‘Many millions of our people are
dissatistied with the existing state of
affairs, and desire to withdraw our en-
tire political and social system ;’’ and,
in closing, says, ‘‘It is not strange that
resentment and indignation should take
the place of aspiration, and that these
should address themselves to the work
of dragging down and leveling.”’

We differ with him, and think it is
‘‘strange, etc. ;'’ for what would we
gain by that, and why should we care,
if the acquirements of others are hon-
est? We think he mistakes the cause of
the condition he deplores—that is all.
We contend that the despotic tyrant,
Fashion, 1s directly responsible for
more than one-half the poverty and
crime in the land! To many this is
seemingly a small matter; but, like the
tiny spark from the flint, it is kindling
a consuming fire! Some would say to
me, ‘‘You area little ‘off.’ Fashion—
in other word custom—has no connec-
tion with the poverty of the middle and
lower classes. ’’

Let us see. Within the past year we
have heard women in the middle and
lower walks of life saying to each
other, ‘‘I cannot attend such and such
meetings, nor such parties (naming
them), because I have no suitable col-
ored dress.’’ Or, if the color is suitable
and that objection is overruled, they
answer that ‘‘the style is more than six
months old and, of course, would never
do for the occasion. ’’

Not only the quality, the color, the
pattern, cut and make of the dress for
every different occasion necessitates a
large expenditure of money lying idle
much ot the time, but the manner or
fashion of wearing the garment must
conform to certain rules, and be com-
plied with else the comments—sure to
reach the ears of the wearer—will be
anything but complimentary.

What would be said of the first gen-
tleman who should presume to reverse
the position of his collar to the back of
his neck instead of the front, and _pro-
ceed to fasten his dazzling ‘‘four-in-
hand’’ tie beneath it? The first woman
I saw wearing her spotless collar and
gaudy ‘‘stock,’’ with its monster bows,
on the back of her neck I scanned close-
ly, to see if she was really compos
mentis, or had, like my horse, acci-
dentally ‘‘turned her collar.’’ ~If such
ridiculous fashions were confined only to
those classes which have inherited
“‘money to burn,’’ or who possess but
one or two ounces of brains—and_ those
of an inferior quality—it would matter
little, except to those who furnish the
goods; but, unfortunately, society has
decreed that all others shall ape the
millionaire as nearly as possible, or re-
main without the pale of good (?) so-
ciety. And, if the expense were con-
fined to the dress alone, it would be an
insignificant matter ; but, unfortunately,
it covers our every action, even to the
implements we use, and the very man-
ner in which we use them. Recently we
heard a lady say to another at the table,
‘I saw you put the food in your mouth
with your knife. That is quite vulgar—
you should use your fork.’’ The lady
acknowledged the fact, but questioned
the right of anyone to dictate to her in
such matters. ‘‘Iam no better than my
mother,’’ she continued, ‘‘and I take
my food as she has for over eighty
years !"’

It is to the interest of those who sup-
ply the public with what it requires to
Keep all new innovations in implements,
wearing apparel, etc., for sale. Of
course, this is, on their part, commend-
able, and yet it enhances the expense

 

of living to families who are often
known to suffer from want of food that
they may satisfy the tyrant, Fashion!

We assert, then, that it is this tyrant,
Fashion, alone which is the chief cause
of our sufferings, as a people, to-day.
Men and women steal and commit mur-
der to satisfy the cravings of this in-
satiable monster, and walk with the
mark of Cain upon their consciences, in
all grades of society, and yet are hon-
ored with offices and trusts,and admired
—aye, almost worshipped—for their
piety (?) and sink into their graves a
living lie! Never before, in any age,
did mankind commit such deep-dyed
and damning crimes for money. Never
before were they so eager and deter-
mined to acquire wealth even at the sac-
rifice of body and soul. The most cold-
blooded—often the most useless—mur-
ders, supplemented with the most brutal
and agonizing tortures, are now of al-
most daily occurence; and this not for
the love of money itself, but for the
purchase of place and power, which is
now a ruling passion and _ fashion of
mankind. Like the old toper who led
his dog into the saloon and, offering him
for a drink of spirits, said, ‘‘ Not that I
love Caesar less, but rum more,’’ so
men and women are exclaiming, ‘‘ Not
that I love gold less, but place, power
and homage more!’

FRANK A. Howic.
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The Perfected Bicycle.

It is hardly possible that there will
be any great, revolution in the bicycle
until someone shall invent a motor that
will do away with the leg fag, which
now is about the only drawback to

travel on a first-class bicycle. There
have been great revolutions in the
manufacture of bicycles. The change

from the old velocipede to the high
wheel was a revolution, but on the high
wheel no one cared to venture except
such as dared to undertake rope walk-
ing, high vaulting and lofty tumbling.
When the chain and .sprocket wheel
was invented, the population rushed
with one accord toward the wheel, and
nothing up to the present time, except
the price of the wheel, has kept the
entire population from mounting them.
But the wheel is now a very perfect in-
strument of locomotion. When a man
on a wheel can cover two miles of
ground to one covered by the average
good roadster in harness he is doing
well enough ; and, moreover, he is going
fast enough for the safety of his neigh-
bors. [It is now a problem with the
authorities of every municipality how
the bicyclist shall be forced to go at a
slower pace.

It is hardly possible that the geared
wheel, or the chainless wheel, will be
any great improvement on the chain
wheel. Many such a wheel has been
made and failed. To spring the frame
of a geared wheel ever so little causes
a binding in the gears that brings seri-
ous trouble. A sprung frame _ that
would hardly be noticed in riding a
chain wheel will put a stop to the use of
a geared wheel. Mud will be as great
an obstacle to the geared wheel as ta the
chain wheel. The gear can hardly be
lighter than the chain. The fact that
the chain is so durable, so seldom out
of repair, and so small a source of loss
in power makes it improbable that any-
thing will be found to take its place
and do its work better. It is the motor
now that the public is waiting for.
One-half the world rides for the rest
there is in it. The motor will put this
half on the bicycle.

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Mining experts have estimated the
gold in the Johannesburg reefs to ex-
ceed $5,000,000,000, and say that the
coming century will see it all turned
into the world’s circulation. The high-
est figure yet placed on the probable
output for the Klondike is only about
$70, 000, 000.

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In Mexico everything and everybody
pays a direct tax, from the street porter
to the largest mercantile establishment,
and the stamp tax for documents is
equally lucrative. Even placards and
posters, other than your own in your
own house, must bear a stamp.

 

Assessing the Value of Sugar.7

The new regulations for determining
the classification and dutiable value of
sugar will probably be promulgated
within another week or two. The new
regulations will follow in some respects
those made under the act of 1883, but
more accurate chemical tests will be
applied to the valuation of sugar by the
polariscope. An effort will be made to
secure uniformity at the various ports,
in order to avoid the disputes and scan-
dal which arose in 1887 and 1888 under
the old law.

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Reputed Corner in California Olives.

From several sections comes the re-
port that olive buyers are quietly but
actively trying to corral all the pickling
olives in South California. There is
now no question that the olive crop will
be light, and the prices ought to be
good for the grower. It would seem to
be the part of wisdom to goa little care-
ful about the matter of selling at prices
that rule now. The prevailing figure
with these buyers is $100 per ton, de-
livered.

Ce
ummer Grip.

The doctors state that the cool nights
have produced a number of cases of
what is called ‘‘summer grip.’’ It re-
sembles in nearly every respect the reg-
ular influenza, although the patients do
not suffer quite so much. It is felt in
the same way by pains in various parts
of the body, a cold in the head, back-
ache, headache, and possibly by a
tinge of rheumatism in the limbs and
particularly the joints.

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A New Skin Game.

A New England grocer who has been
in the habit otf allowing an innocent-
looking old man to wait upon himself
for years past is wondering how much
he has lost by the method. The old fel-
low always paid for one package of to-
bacco, and the grocer has discovered
that he always carried away two or three
other packages concealed in his coat.

The Mexican Herald takes occasion
to point out the real monetary value of
natural scenery as exemplified in the
investments represented in the hotels
of Switzerland, the value of which is
put down at more than _ $100,000,000
gold, and says: ‘‘Mexico is a combi-
nation of Switzerland and Italy.’’ The

 

   
 

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000 «guests pay Swiss’ innkeepers

$22,000,000 a year for food and lodging.

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than pity.

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MIGRATORY MERCHANTS.

Ordinance Aimed at Fly-by-Night Deal-

ers.
The Grand Rapids Common Council,
at the urgent request of the Retail Mer-

chants’ Association, has enacted an or-
dinance which it is believed will enable
the local officers to shut out the itinerant

merchants, who are a curse to any com-
munity. The full text of the ordinance
is as follows:
An ordinance to provide for licensing
the sale of goods, wares and merchan-
dise by transient traders and dealers,

The Common Council of the city of
Grand Rapids do ordain as follows:
Section 1. That each and every per-
son who shall engage or be engaged in
the business of selling goods, wares or
merchandise of any kind, in the city of
Grand Rapids, after the taking effect of
this ordinance, who is not a bona fide
resident of the city of Grand Rapids,
and without any bona fide intention of
remaining permanently in the _ busi-
ness of selling or disposing of such
goods, wares or merchandise, within said
city, shall be deemed and treated as a
transient trader or dealer, and before
he shall expose for sale any of such
goods, wares or merchandise, within
the city of Grand Rapids, either at re-
tail or otherwise, he shall pay to the
City Clerk of said city, for the use of
said city, not less than $5, nor more
than $50 per day for each and every day
or part of a day such goods, wares or
merchandise shall be exposed for sale,
the amount to be determined in each in-
stance by the Mayor of said city. Each
and every day such transient trader shall
Carry on the business of selling or offer-
ing for sale any goods, wares or mer-
chandise without a license therefor, as
herein provided, shall be deemed to be
and treated as a separate and distinct
offense under this ordinance. In case
any dealer or trader who may engage
in the business of selling or disposing
of goods, wares or merchandise, makes
claim that it is his bona fide intention
to remain permanently in the business
in said city, the Mayor shall require of
such person sufficient proof, by affidavit
or otherwise, to satisfy said Mayor that
such party, in good faith, intends re-
Maining permanently in such business
in said city. If, however, no such proof
shall be furnished as to. satisfy the
Mayor of the party’s bona fide intention
of remaining permanently in such busi-
hess, then such party shall pay the fee
hereinbefore provided for each and
every day or part of a day such goods,
wares or merchandise shal] be exposed
for sale, and thereupon the City Clerk
shall issue a license to said person in
accordance with the amount so paid.
Sec. 2. Any person or persons who
shall violate any of the provisions or re-
quirements of this ordinance, on con-
viction thereof, shall be punished by a
fine of not less than five dollars ($5) nor
more than one hundred dollars ($100)
and costs of prosecution, or by impris-
onment at hard labor, in the common
jail of the county of Kent, or in any
penitentiary, jail, workhouse, house of
correction or almshouse of said city, in
the discretion of the court or magistrate
before whom the conviction may be
had, for a period of not less than five
days nor more than ninety days, or both,
in the discretion of the court, and in
case such court or magistrate shall only
impose a fine and costs, the offender
may be sentenced to be imprisoned at
hard labor, in the common jail of the
county of Kent, or in any pentitentiary,
jail, workhouse, house of correction or
almshouse of said city, until the payment
of such fine and costs, for a period of
not less than five days nor more than
ninety days.
—_s>0>__
Financial Success of Jackson Picnic—
Wholesalers Beat at Ball.

Jackson, Sept. 8—At the
monthly meeting of the Jackson Retail
Grocers’ Association, held Tuesday
evening, the Committee on Annual Ex-
cursion reported that the full settlement

regular

had been made and that there was re-
maining a balance in the hands of the
Secretary of $230. On motion, the Sec-
retary was instructed to place the money
in the hands of the Treasurer.

B. C. Hill, Chairman of the General
Committee, tendered his sincere thanks
for the able and efficient services of
of all the members of the Committee
whose active assistance made _ possible
the grand success of the event.

The following resolution was
sented and adopted:

Whereas—A movement is on foot to
organize a Business Men's Associa-
tion, for the purpose of promoting the
business interests and the prosperity of
our City; therefore be it

Resolved—That this Association ap-
prove and endorse the forming of such
an organization as set forth in the call
made for the formation of said Asso-
Ciation, believing that it will be of great
benefit to the city and especially to
those engaged in trade.

A resolution was presented relating to
the changing of the date of the annual
meeting from June to january, which,
under the rules, was laid over until
next meeting.

A committee of one was appointed to
procure two baseballs for use at the an-
nual game between the wholesale and
retail grocers. The Secretary was ap-
pointed as such committee.

On motion, the wholesale and retail
trade of the city was invited to be pres-
ent at the game of ball.

W. H. Porter, Sec’y.

pre-

RETAILERS DEFEATED.

Jackson, Sept. 1o—Thursday, Sept. 9,
was selected by the wholesale and retai]
grocers as the date on which to play the
game which has heretofore been played
on the occasion of our annual excur-
sion, but for good reasons had to be
omitted this year. The day was all that
could be desired, especially in the way
of heat. The game was called at 4 p.m.
in order that the employes in the whole-
sale houses would not have to return to
work after the game. The clubs were
promptly on time and, after choosing
an umpire and arranging minor @etails,
they proceeded to play ball. During the
first three innings the playing was quite
even, but after that the official scorer
for the retailers was called away,so that
there was no one to keep score: at least
there were no more notches made in the
retailers’ side of the stick for some rea-
son. The score stood, when darkness
called the game, 31 to 8 in favor of the
wholesalers. Not being familiar with
the rules and regulations of the game,
we are not able to find satisfactory rea-
son for this result, unless it was on ac-
count of the presence on the grounds of
Sanford Hunt. W. H. Porter,

—_—__e0<—.___

The Sugar Beet Outlook.
Secretary Wilson, of the Department
of Agriculture, is very sanguine on the
subject of the beet sugar industry. In
a recent interview he expressed the con-
viction that ‘‘it is only a question of a
few years when we will produce in our
country all the sugar that we consume.
That will mean the saving of $100,-
000,000 a year to our peoplé. The sugar
beet industry is making immense strides
in the West. It is the one crop that
can be raised in spite of drought and
hailstorms, and commends itself to
Many sections by its hardihood, as well
as its profit. There are sugar beet fac-
tories in Nebraska on the very edge of
the desert. More than 22,000 farmers in
the United States are now experiment-
ing with sugar beets. This depart-
ment sent out seven tons of seed into
twenty-seven states last season. Here-
tofore we have had to buy all of our
beet seed abroad, but I am promised
three tons from Utah alone for this sea-
son. The beet seed is a thing of cul-
tivation and some varieties have been
cultivated for forty years to bring them
up to their present strength in saccha-
rine matter. The boom in the beet
sugar industry will be good for the
dairymen. The by-products of the beet,
after the sugar has been obtained from
it, are rich in nitrogenous matter and
as good for cows as bran, which is

 

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known to be nutritious for milk cows.

The dairy and butter-making industries
will be stimulated by the growing of
sugar beets.’’

 

Grand Opening of the Grand Trunk
Railway System’s New Single Arch
Steel Bridge at Niagara Falls,
Thursday, Friday and Sat-
urday, Sept. 23, 24 and
25, 1897.

The Grand Trunk Railway system
will give a three days’ free entertain-
ment on above dates, when this great
achievement of bridge building will
be formally opened to the general pub-
lic.

Low excursion rates to Niagara Falls,
Ont., and return will be named from
all stations on the Grand Trunk Rail-
way system west of the Detroit and
St. Clair rivers, good going on all after-
noon trains of Wednesday, Sept. 22 and
for all of Thursday, Sept. 23, good for
return on all trains up to and including
Monday, Sept. 27.

Among the various features and at-
tractions of the three days’ free carni-
val will be a continuous open air enter-
tainment of a unique character, from
two large elevated stages erected on
either side of the Niagara River.
Grand illumination of the bridge and
falls,and magnificent pyrotechnical dis-
piays and fireworks, under the direction
of Prof. Paine of New York, on a scale
of magnificence unequaled since the
marvelous display at the World’s Fair,
Chicago.

For program of the three days’ fes-
tivities, containing illustration of the
new single arch bridge and_ particulars
of excursion rates, apply to ticket
agents of the Grand Trunk Railway
System, or D. & M. depot and city
ticket office, 23 Monroe street.

W. M. Marr, Acting Agent.
——_>0»___

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descent light bulb which collapsed en-
tered the eyes of Mrs. R. D. Hookins,
wife of a Supreme Court Clerk of Bis-
marck, N. D., and destroyed her sight.

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Association Matters

Michigan Retail Grocers’ Association
President, J. WIsLER, Mancelona; Secretary, E.
A. Stow, Grand Rapids; Treasurer, J. F.
TATMAN, Clare.

 

 

 

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

 

Detroit Retail Grocers’ Association

President, JosePpH KNIGHT; Secretary, E. MaRKs,
221 Greenwood ave; Treasurer, N. L. KoEnia.

 

Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association

President, Frank J. Dyk; Secretary, HomER
Kuap; Treasurer, J. Geo. LEHMAN.

 

Saginaw Mercantile Association

President, P. F. TREANOR; Vice-President, JoHN
McBratniE; Secretary, W. H. Lewis; Treas-
urer, Loul—E SCHWERMER

 

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

 

Lansing Retail Grocers’ Association
President, F. B. JoHNsoON; Secretary, A. M.
Darine; Treasurer, L. A. GILKEY.

Adrian Retail Grocers’ Association
President, Martin Gafney; Secretary, E F.
Cleveland; Treasurer, Geo. M. Hoch.

 

Traverse City Business Men’s Association

President, THos. T. Batss; Secretary, M. B.
Houty; Treasurer, C. A. HamMOND.

 

Owosso Business Men’s Association
President, A. D. WHIPPLE; Secretary, G. T. Camp-
BELL; Treasurer, W. E. CoLiins.

Alpena Business Men’s Association
President, F. W. GiLcHrist; Secretary, C. L.
PARTRIDGE.

 

Grand Rapids Retail Meat Dealers’ Association
President, L. J. Karz; Secretary, Purp HILBER;
Treasurer, S. J. HUFFORD.

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deliver at retail any gasoline,
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when mixed with air’ plainly printed upon a label securely
attached to the can, bottle or other
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Commercial Travelers

Michigan Knights of the Grip.

President, Jas. F. HAMMELL, Lansing; Secretary,
D. C. Stacut, Flint; Treasurer, Cuas. McNotry,
Jackson.

 

 

Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Association.
President, S. H. Hart, Detroit: Secretary and
Treasurer, D. Morais, Detroit.

United Commercial Travelers of Michigan.

Grand Counselor, F. L. Day, Jackson: Grand
Secretary, G. S. Vatmore, Detroit; Grand Treas-
urer, GEO. A. REYNOLDs, Saginaw.

 

Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual Acci-
dent Association. _
President,"A. F. PzakE, Jackson; Secretary and
Treasurer, Gro. F. OWEN, Grand Rapids.
Board of Directors—F. M. Trier, H. B. Fair-
CHILD,Jas. N. BRADFORD, J. HENRY DawLeEy,GEo.
J. HEINZELMAN, CHas. S. ROBINSON.

Lake Superior Commercial Travelers’ Club.

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

 

 

Gripsack Brigade.

The offspring of debt is usually
triplets.

Poverty is always in partnership with
idleness.

Patience and content are almost syn-
onymous.

Make your present work worth a good
deal of future.

There are more scares in
than in a nightmare.

Inherited wealth never beat inherited
brains in any old race.

Idleness hatches more harm than all
the dishonest schemers on earth.

Wise men make mistakes while a fool
only blunders through the world.

Ignorance of things not worthy to be
known is really a part of knowledge.

You would better crawl into success
than take a running jump into failure.

When carelessness and energy are
hitched together, carelessness always
leads the way.

Many men think they are critics,
when they are only suffering from a
disordered liver.

A man should be cautious about mak-
ing a promise, but almost superstitious
about keeping it.

Silas K. Bolles, the veteran cigar
salesman, has taken the local agency of
the Blickensderfer typewriter.

If you allow reason to rule your mind
in every business transaction, you will
have no bickerings with anyone.

Your business experience is a quarry
out of which you may dig and mold and
chisel and complete your character.

A salesman sometimes finds, when he
becomes a proprietor, that he can’t
afford to pay himself his old salary.

The average traveling man’s order
book is the best prosperity barometer in
this country. How do they stack up?

Merchants who are accounted stingy
by a certain class are sure to be rated
as ‘‘good pay’’ by the traveling men.

We go into debt at a two minute gait,
but when we try to get out, we can't
strike a faster pace than a slow walk.

A man who is always seeking an op-
portunity to prove that he knows some-
thing. is too busy to discover his igno-
rance.

Good prices for wheat will put the
wheat farmers out of debt to the retail
merchants, the retail merchants out of
debt to the jobbers and put more orders
on the books of the traveling man, and
that’s the ‘‘fellow we are after.”’

Oscar Allen is home irom a three
months’ trip through Canada in the in-
terest of the Rapid Hook and Eye Co.
He reports unexpected success in ex-
ploiting the new product, considering
the large duty and the national pre-
judice which mist be overcome,

irresolution

 

Kalamazoo Post of the Knights of the
Grip are to take a hand in the street
fair at that place. They have been in-
vited and have accepted an invitation
to furnish a float for the street parade
and the matter has been left in charge
of a committee composed of John Hoff-
man, H. B. Colman, Sig Folz, E. Star-
buck and John Nixon.

James McBurney is now on the road
for the Musselman Grocer Co., cover-
ing a portion of the trade formerly
visited by Peter Fox and John Mc-
Cleary. The latter has gone to Klon-
dike and the former has been assigned
additional territory nearer home, so that
Mr. McBurney can make Cadillac his
headquartets and spend Sundays with his
family.

Wm. Boughton (C. E. Smith Shoe
Co.) has so far recovered from his recent
illness that he is able to be out on the
street and hopes to be able to resume
his visits to the trade in the course of a
couple of weeks. Mr. Boughton be-
lieves that the heroic treatment he sub-
mitted to this time will prove a com-
plete cure and that from now on he will
take his place in the athletic class.

—_——_>0.__
Quarterly Meeting of the Directors of
the M. K. of G.

Flint, Sept. 14—The regular quarterly
meeting of the Board of Directors of the
Michigan Knights of the Grip was held
at Detroit, Sept. 4, with a full attend-
ance of the Board except Director
Streat.

Secretary Slaght presented his finan-
cial report for the quarter, showing
the total receipts of the death fund to be

2,300; the general fund, $38; the de-
posit fund, $36, making a total of
$2,374. The report was approved by
the Finance Committee and adopted and
placed on file.

Treasurer McNolty presented his re-
port, showing the total receipts of the
death fund to be $5,117.50 and the dis-
bursements to be $2,117.59. In the gen-
eral fund the receipts were $608.05 and
the disbursements $280.60. In the de-
posit fund the receipts were $117, The
report took the same course as that of
the Secretary.

The Finance Committee reported that
it had examined the books of the Sec-
retary and Treasurer and found them to
be correct.

E. P. Waldron, chairman of the Leg-
islative Committee, made a verbal re-
port on the new mileage book, which
was received and adopted.

Bills to the amount of $367.65, ap-
proved by the Finance and Printing
Committees, were allowed and ordered
paid.

Proofs of the deaths of Wm. H. Jewett,
Capt. W. H. Sheller, John D. Davis
and Tom H. Baker were presented, ap-
proved and ordered paid.

There being no further business‘ the
Board adjourned,to meet at St. Johns on
Nov. 27.

Since the Board meeting I have re-
ceived notice of the death of J. B.
Morehouse, of Indianapolis, No. 2963.

. DEEL C. SEAGHT, Séc'y.

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A Screw Loose.

The boys are telling a good story on
Frank Chase to the effect that while he
was expounding the good merits of his
line of shoes to one of his Northern cus-
tomers, and had been talking for half
an hour on a string, the merchant sud-
denly reached for a screwdriver, ex-

cused himself and went into a back
room.
‘‘What is he going to do?’’ asked

Frank of one of the clerks standing
around.

‘‘Oh,’’ replied the latter, ‘‘he has a
wooden arm and just stepped in there
to screw it on a little tighter. Guess it
was coming off.’’

Frank packed up and left.

 

How the New Mileage Book Is Re-
ceived.

Saginaw—Three dozen traveling men
met here Sunday and asked the Michi-
gan Knights of the Grip to demand an
explanation from H. F. Moeller, As-
sistant General Passenger Agent of the
F, & P. M., for saying that the only
objectors to the interchangeable system
of mileage books are ‘dishonest trav-
elers, who patronize scalpers and charge
their houses with full fare.’’

Detroit——The — general passenger
agents who have set up such a howl
about the scalpers are the very ones who
have dumped their mileage books on
their hands and have allowed the scalp-
ers to come into their main office and
purchase the mileage books when they
knew the use they were to be put to.
Now they want the traveler to pay $30
for their book, and they pay back $10
when the cover is returned to them.
Suppose the unfortunate traveler loses
his book ; would the dear railroad com-
pany refund his $10? What right has
any railroad company to demand of the
traveler $10 as a guarantee for their
books? A case in point will illustrate
this system: Some years ago one of the
railroads running out of Chicago adopt-
ed this system, but they were more
modest. They demanded only $5 extra,
to be refunded when the cover was re-
turned. The result was this railroad
company shortly had a_ fund of over
$30,000 on hand unclaimed. We think
the passenger association sees big
money in this present system, and we
must say that it looks likea bunco game
on the part of the Central Traffic As-
sociation. We think it would have been
more to the point if the Association,
including Mr. Moeller, had asked the
travelers to put up $10 each for the
privilege of riding and sending © freight
over their roads. We think that every
traveling man will stick a large pin in
Mr. Moeller’s remark, and when it
comes to sending out their freight they
will notice what road it goes over.

Grand Rapids—An incident occurred
here the other day which made some
mileage holders feel very sore. The
Michigan Central baggage master re-
fused to check baggage beyond its own
line, notwithstanding it connects with
the Lake Shore, the C., J. & M. and
the Ann Arbor. Holders of the new
mileage were obliged to pay excess
baggage twice.

- +0 -
Movements of Lake Superior Travel-
ers.

John Rooney, one of the old timers,
is on a visit here for the first time in
several years. Mr. Rooney made the
up-lake territory for Beatly, Fitzsimons
& Co., Detroit, years ago, when there
were no railroads north of Bay City and
when all towns north of Saginaw Bay
had to be made by stage or boat. He
is at present engaged in the insurance
business in Detroit. ,

Alex Stevenson (Buhl, Sons & Co.) is

housekeeping in Menominee.

A Emmenson (Stephenson Hotel,
Menominee) is slowly improving. He
has been sick with pneumonia fora

month.
———_>0.____

Always watch the man who measures
our monetary system by the lining of
his pockets.

a4 >____

A “big head’’ and insignificant ideas
have a remarkable affinity for each
other.

—————_>2.__
Don’t be afraid to use your best meth-

ods always. Don’t let them grow rusty.
sas >____

For more about the new mileage
book, see page 24,

 

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 100 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,

Detroit, Mich.

 

   

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Prion: 490, 3 CANAL STO

NEW CITY HOTEL
HOLLAND, MICH.

We pledge the Commercial Travelers of
Michigan our best efforts.

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

NEW REPUBLIC

Reopened Nov. a5.
FINEST HOTEL IN BAY CITY.
Steam heat,
Electric Bells and Lighting throughout.
Rates, $1.50 to $2.00.
Cor. Saginaw and Fourth Sts.
GEO. H. SCHINDHETT, Prop.

Cf Gay

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

HOTEL NEFF
FRANK NEFF, Propr.
GRAND LEDGE, MICH.

One block east of depot.

HOTEL WHITCOMB

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

 

 

 

 

Rates, $1.00.

 

 

Wihitney House

Best Hotel in Plainwell, Mich. Only house in
town holding contract with Travelers’ Educational
Association of America.

Chas. E.Whitmey, Prop.

Cutler House at Grand Haven.

Steam Heat. Excellent Table. Com-
fertable Rooms. H. D. and PR. H.
IRISH, Props.

Northern Hotel,

J. L. Kitzmiller, Prop.

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

 

 

 

Photographs
of

Samples, Display Cards, Etc.

It often occurs that traveling salesmen find photo-
graphs of such articles as are too arms to carry
a great convenience. The engraving department
of the Tradesman Company is prepared to furnish
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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 - Dec. 31, 1899
GEo. GunpRUM, Ionia - - - Dec. 31, 1900
L. E. REYNOLps, St. Joseph - - Dee. 31, 1901

President, F. W. R. Perry, Detroit.
Secretary, Geo. GUNDRUM, Ionia,
Treasurer, A. C. ScHUMACHER, Ann Arbor.
Coming Examination Session—Lansing, Nov. 2
and 3.
MICHIGAN STATE PHARMACEUTICAL
ASSOCIATION.

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

 

 

 

Depressed Condition of Drug Business
—Cause and Remedies.

Even in the best of times the retail
druggist is the poorest paid, the hardest
worked man in the country, when you
consider the responsibility of his voca-
tion, the technical knowledge he must
have in order to follow his business, the
untiring attention he must give it and
the sacrifices he must make for it, for
he has not time of his own. Not even is
he permitted to enjoy the rest which
sweet sleep brings, without being
aroused at any hour of the night to fur-
nish a postage-stamp or some other in-
significant article to some inconsiderate
sleepless mortal, and he is even de-
prived of the rest which the holy Sab-
bath day gives.

Why is it that this most important,
most responsible and most respectable
business is so unremunerative? What
are the causes?

1. There are too many druggists in
business ; the supply is greater than the
demand. There is in every city and
town about one retail druggist to every
one thousand persons. One to every
three thousand would be sufficient to
supply all the demands made _ upon
them, but how can this be remedied?
We live in a free country, and any one
who has passed his examination before
the Board has the right to open a drug
store, however small it may be. I fear
that the evil of oversupply must con-
tinue until men learn by sad experience
that the life of a retail druggist is not a
bed of roses; that because he charges
50 cents for a prescription which takes
an hour to prepare, although the actual
material in it does not cost 1o cents, it
is not all profit. A man will send for
a plumber, who, perhaps, furnishes a
few cents’ worth of lead, and if the
plumber works an hour and the man
gets off with a dollar, he may consider
himself very fortunate; but if the phar-
macist who has to rent a handsome store
house has to carry a good stock, and,
above all, hasto have a good education,
charges half what the plumber does,
there is a great hue and.cry that his
business is all profit and every one
wishes to get into it.

When the public learns that it re-
quires skill, capital, business capacity
and untiring energy to make the drug
business even a_ partial success, then,
perhaps, men may pause and consider
before embarking in it. When the re-
tail druggist puts into practical use the
result of his education and training,and
produces from his own laboratory reme-
dies to meet every possible want in the
community, and ceases to rely on the
preparations of some other manufac-

turer, he will find his business much
more profitable.

So far as possible, he should com-
pound everything he sells. To do this,
he must have the appliances and the
skill, and must be in close touch with

that they may have confidence in him,
and will prescribe his preparations in-
stead of the preparations of some other
manufacturer. Keep only the best and
purest goods, and ask and obtain a fair
price for what you sell.

2. One of the most potent causes of
the unsatisfactory condition of the retail
drug business to-day is the cutting of
prices—certainly the most useless and
unbusinesslike thing the retail druggist
can do,and one which invariably brings
loss and ofttimes disaster to the trade.
No one ever buys patent medicines be-
cause they are cheap. You may offer a
bottle of Hood's sarsaparilla for 50
cents to a well man, and he will not
think of buying it. A woman will buy
all manner of dry goods, trimmings,
ribbons and laces because they are
cheap. She will fill every drawer in
her room with them. She will spend
10 cents in car tickets to buy a yard of
calico which she does not want, to save
I cent a yard, if she thinks it a bar-
gain. She will purchase sufficient gro-
ceries to last a year or so,and shoes for
all her children until she has to throw
them away because they have outgrown
them, but you can never induce her to
buy a supply of medicine, with the hope
of being sick, because it is cheap.

Cutting is usually begun by some
druggist selling a dollar article at 85 or
go cents, and a 25 cent article at 20
cents, and his competitor, hearing of it,
determines to meet the cut, and goes
5 or ro cents better until the entire fra-
ternity are selling at prime cost, and
even less. No one ever sells any more
by cutting. If one does, it simply forces
his neighbor to do the same, and he
gets no thanks for it from the commu-
nity, for the better class of people con-
demn it. There isan innate sense of
justice in the American people that will
always prompt them to give a fair com-
pensation for services rendered. The
average Cost of conducting a retail drug
business is from 25 to 33% per cent. if
the business is charged a fair salary for
the services of the proprietor, and when
he buys an article at 75 cents and sells
it for $1, he has simply sold it at about
the cost of conducting his business, and
when he sells it at less he has sold it at
a loss.

My remedy, then, is to urge local or-
ganization in every community and de-
termine to stop this most destructive
and unbusinesslike practice; sell every
article at the list price. Imitate the
doctors in this respect. They have a
code of prices, and they live up to
them and deem it unprofessional for
any one to deviate from them.

3. There is another cause for the
unsatisfactory condition of the retail
druggist, not so potent as those I have
referred to, but sufficiently so, I deem
it, to mention in this contribution.
It is the injudicious buying of new and
unknown preparations, simply because
he is promised a lot of free advertising
or some cheap gift enterprise presented
to him in a plausible manner by some
agent who is well paid to introduce the
article. Turn a deaf ear to all such
offers. When a demand is created by
the manufacturer, it will be time enough
to buy his products in such quantities
as his trade will justify.

I will only mention one more cause
for the depressed and unsatisfactory
condition of the retail drug business,
one for which, I regret tosay, I have no
remedy to offer. It is the department
store. This has deprived the druggist
of a very profitable branch of his _busi-

 

the physicians of his neighborhood, so

 

had almost exclusive control, namely,
the sundries department. The large
department stores, with ample capital,
with enticing and extravagant adver-
tisements, have, in the large cities, di-
verted, in a large measure, this branch
of business from the druggist. Asa
rule, the stock they carry is of an in-
ferior grade, and when a person wants
a really good article he is forced to pur-
chase it of the druggist.

The only remedy I can suggest is to
carry the best grade of soaps, brushes,
and toilet articles, ina limited quantity,
and place a reasonable price on them.
I do not know what to suggest to sup-
press the department store evil. I fear
it has come to stay. It is certainly dis-
astrous to every branch of retail busi-
ness, and when carefully analyzed it
will be found that the goods sold are no
cheaper, for, as a rule, they are of an
inferior quality. The city and_ state
should impose such a heavy tax on all
such stores as either to drive them out
of business or confine them to one line.
I know that I am treading on dangerous
ground, and that it would be hard to
make a law that would suit the case. I
merely throw out the suggestion so that
you may consider it, and if feasible
help to mould public sentiment in favor
of enacting such laws as will protect
legitimate business.

There have been vast improvements
in the retail drug business since I first
went into it. At that time nearly all
the preparations were made by thc drug-
gists. Such things as sugar-coated
pills, elixirs and capsules were unheard
of, and while these improvements have
greatly contributed to the success of
the physician and reduced the disagree-
able taste of the compound, they have
also greatly diminished the profits of
the business and increased the capital
necessary to conduct it. For this rea-
son, and many others I might mention, I
should advise you to cultivate a closer
relationship with the doctor, and _ insist
that, just as he demands that you shall not
prescribe, so should you also demand
that he shall not become a walking
apothecary, with his pockets full of
tablet triturates already mixed and pre-
pared to suit every ill that man is heir

to. R. W. POWERS,
> -0-e

The Drug Market.
Trade is active in this line and much
better than at the same time last year.
Collections have also improved and
there is a feeling among the trade that
we will have a large business this fall.
Opium—This article has at last started
upward, an advance being noted of 15¢
during the past week. The cost to im-
port now, with duty on, is about $2.75
per lb.
Morphine—Has not yet met an ad-
vance, but we look for one within ten
days.
Quinine—This article is steady.
Cinchonidia—Is moving steadily up-
ward. There is a light stock and very
little is being produced.
Castor Oil—Beans have advanced and
a higher price for oil seems probable.
Soap Bark—On account of higher

prices abroad, this article has been ad-
vanced.

Essential Oils—Anise has advanced
and higher prices are probable. Cas-
sia is much stronger, usually advan-
cing and declining with anise.

Seeds—Canary is firm at the late ad-
vance and no lower market is looked
for this year. The crop of hemp is
reported short and higher prices are
probable. Mustard is advancing, on
account of higher prices on the Pacific
Coast.

Spices—All the articles under this
head are firm and advancing. Cloves
have advanced Ic per lb. and Cassia _ is
2c higher. There is prospect of a
further advance on ginger.

Wood Alcohol—Has advanced toc per
gallon.

—__> +.

Visitors During State Fair Week.

The following dealers in the drug
and paint trade registered at the Haz-
eltine & Perkins Drug Co.’s office last
week :

Geo. R. Slawson, Greenville.

H. D. Harvey, Bangor.

D. B. Cornell, Copemish.

D. P. Mills, Copemish.

Gerry Messenger, Spring Lake.

A. De Kruif, Zeeland.

E. A. Webb, Casnovia.

Andrew Pattison, Martin.

B. E. King & Co., Fowler.

Dr. F. D. Smith, Coopersville.

A. E. McCulloch, Berlin.

F. N. Maus, Kalamazoo.

B. I. Whelpley, Horton.

M. L. ess Lacota.

Willis Green, Byron Center.

John Russ, Lake Odessa.

J. H. Vandecar, Grand Haven.

J. H. Hodge, Utica.

E. S. Botsford, Dorr.

C. E. White, Lakeview.

H. G. Hale, Nashville.

Frank Smith, Leroy.

O. L. Millard, Hersey.

Dr. W. O. Barber, Caledonia.

Mrs. L. A. Knowles, Stetson.

F. D. Pratt, Middleville.

W. J. Roche, Lake City.

Geo. F. Cook, Grove.

F. L. Heath, Hastings.

D. D. Harris, Shelbyville.

Norman Harris, Conklin.

. E. Heath, Edmore.

. W. Fenton, Bailey.

. D. Cutler, Nottawa.

. J. Reynolds, Nashville.

C, A. Loughlin, Cannonsburg.

A. Rogers, Ravenna.

Will Slawson, Greenville.

Bryant Avery, Greenville.
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The police force of Baltimore is about

to make an attempt to make the lot of

the scorcher an unhappy one. The force

is to have a new bell, which, it is

claimed, will ring louder the faster the

machine is trundled. This will act as

a warning to every one to get out of the

way, as a ‘‘cop’’ is on the track after

an unlucky breaker of the law.

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Order your patent medicines from

PECK BROS., Grand Rapids.

 

 

THUM BROS. & SCHMIDT,

Analytical and Consulting Chemists,

84 CANAL ST.,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

Special attention given to Water, Bark and

 

 

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Advanced—Gum Opium, Opium Powd.

Declined—

 

Acidum

Aceticum............ 8
Benzoicum, German
eee...

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Nitrocum .
Oxralieum ...........
Phosphorium, dil...
Salicylicum. ........
Sulphuricum........
Tannicum ..........
Tartaricum........<.

Ammonia

Aqua, 16 deg........
Aqua, 20 deg........
Caronas:...........
Chioridum...........
Aniline
Bisek... 2. a ge
Bree =. 52 ccs. oe,

Baccz.

Cubese........ po. 18
Juniperus...........
Xanthoxylum. .

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Terabin, Canada....
poo a

Cortex

Abies, Canadian....
Cassie... 5-5...
Cinchona Flava.....
Euonymus atropurp
Myrica Cerifera, po.
Prunus Virgini......
Quillaia, gr’d.......
Sassafras...... po. 18
Ulmus...po. 15, gr’d
Extractum

Glycyrrhiza Glabra.
Glycyrrhiza,
Hematox, 15 lb box.
Hematox, Is ........
Heematox, %s.......
Hematox, 48.......
Ferru

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

bbl, per cwt.......
Sulphate, pure .....

Flora

Armice oo. es.
Anthemis........ e
Matricaria ......:...

Polia

Barosma.............

Cassia Acutifol, Tin-
nevell

Cassia Acutifol,Alx.

Salvia officinalis, 4s
and Ve...) . 2.5.

ra Urse 8.

Gummi

Acacia, Ist picked..
Acacia, 2d picked..
Acacia, 3d picked..
Acacia, sifted sorts.
Acacia, po........ ...
Aloe, Barb. po.18@20
Aloe, Cape .... po. 15
Aloe, Socotri..po. 40
Ammoniac..........
Assafostida....po. 30
Benzoinum .........

 

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Euphorbium..po. 35
Galbanum......:....
Gamboge po........
o_o ee po. 35

TEN goon as po. 45
Opii...po. 84.00@4.20 2
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Shellac, bleached...
Tragacanth .........
Herba
Absinthium..oz. pkg
Eupatorium .
Lobelia...... Oz.
Majorum ....oz.
Mentha Pip..oz.
Mentha Vir..oz.
Te oz.
TanacetumV oz.
Thymus, V..oz.
i. Magnesia.
Caleined, Pat..... ..
Carbonate, Pat.. ...
Carbonate, K. & M..
Carbonate, Jennings

 

Oleum
Absinthium......... 3
Amygdale, Dule....
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Ae 2
Auranti Cortex..... 2
Bergamis |: 2
piven pectin

aryophylli .........
COGN
Chenopadii..........
Cinnamonii. ........ 1
Citronella. ........,

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W@ 42
3@ 5
8@ 10
P@ 14
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65
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38@ 40
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80@ 1 00
45@ 50
50@ 3 00
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55
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Conium Mac......... 3 Benne Ob. @ 950
— ee i 0G tb) Volutan @ 50
Ee os 90@ 1 00| Prunus virg......... 50
Exechthitos ........ 1 00@ 1 10 re -
aoa poco : oe : z Aconitum Napellis R 60
Geranium ounce... @ ® ee =
oe oe (e a 5
ee pa Sem. gal.. ; wo ; . Aloes and Myrrh... 60
sen... 1... te BOO) genes *- a
Eavenduis -......._. 90@ 2 00) Atrope Belladonna. 60
SUG, 1 20@ 1 40 and Goskes : 50
Mentha Piper....... 1 60@ 220! Benzoin.. 60
Mentha Verid....... 2 10@ 2 25) Benzoin Go... 50
Morrhue, gal....... 100@ 110) Barouma. | 50
Myreta. 00) ss+eee+ 4 00@ 4 50] Cantharides 10077 5
RRS Satiba at %@ 300) Garsieum .... 1. 50
Picis Liquida....... 10@ 12] Cardamon.....|.- "5
Picis Liquida, gal... @ 35! Gardamon Go... i %
ae 216. 1 00
Rosmarini........... @10lGaiceh = 50
Rose, ounce........ 6 50@ 8 50| Ginchona. 7” 50
ee Me © Gekes Co 80
Sabina. ........... 90@100| Columba. 50
AER = 0@. 7 00| Cabeha... | 50
Rassafres See 50@ 55! Cassia Acutifol...._ 50
Tein ess., ounce. .s @ 4 = Cassia Acutifol Co . 50
ome thtte tee e ees 0@ =e Digitalis ee se
ttt tee eee eee DB : PEOt
IERYMG, Opt... 1... @ 1 60 i i 5
Theobromas ........ 156@ 20 ——— =
Potassium ——— Ceo... 60
BCom... ...... - Be wie .-.......---.- =
Bichromate ......... ie 15 | Guiaca ammon.... .. 60
Bromide..... 48@ 51 Hyoseyamus......_. 50
Carb...........000.  9@ 15 | odie... =
Chlorate..po. 17@19e + 16@ 18 | lodine, colorless... =
Celie %@  40| Kino..-.............. a
MO 2 60@ 2 65 | Lobelia..............
Potassa, Bitart, pure 28@  30| Myrrh. .............. 50
Potassa, Bitart, com @ Opit Vomica........ -
Potass Nitras, . Be SSeS wie isin sine ales a 9
Potass Wires. sie : 3 ; Opii, camphorated.. 50
Prussiate.... 208 «25 Opii, deodorized.... 1 50
os F 7c | @uasaia | wees 50
Sulphate po ........ 15@ 18 Rhatan 50
Radix — 50
Aconitvm See 200, 25 — oe
mo 2 95 | Serpentaria ......... é
Anchusa .. 105 12| Stromonium......., 60
Be PO... @ i Totes... 60
Calamus .........._. 20 «40| Valerian... 50
Gentiana...... po. 15 12@ 15] Veratrum Veride... 50
a py. @ i8|4imgiber 20
ydrastis Canaden. @
Hydrastis Can., po.. @ 40} ther, omits me 35
ee _ = Aither, Spts. Nit.4F 34 38
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Tris plox....p035@38 35@ 40 Annatto....... i 40@ 50
Jaane pr »3@ 30)! Antimoni en @ 5
Maranta, \4s......., .@ 35} AntimonietPotass? 40@ 50
ee, po... Zz ; = —— 2. . 1 =
SS ie aie ies 6 di orig gig Anti Trin i aa 3
— oe a : = — Nitras, oz .. @ 50
_y......., 7 | Arsenicum:...._.. 2
Spices 3@ 38 Balm Gilead Bud .. 38g 10
Sanguinaria...po.40  @ 35| Bismuth S.N. ..... 1 40@ 150
oo a 2 ae = scr pec is. @ 2
Clete cis cic cin 35@ yaleiu . i, 66S
Similax,officinalis HH “ @ 40| Calcium Chlor. igs. @ 1
— Me ‘ @ 25 Cantharides, Rus. po @ &
= = Secs po.35 10@ 1 Capsici Fructus, af. @
7s ocarpus, Feeti- << —— air ons po. @
Valeriana,iing p03) @ | Carvorbyie eee 8
Valeriana, German. 15@ 20! Carmine, No. 40... @ 3 00
Zingibera........... 122@ 16) Cera Alba,S.& F..) 50@ 55
Zinpiberj. ......... mma 27 | Oera Mava... 0@ 42
Semen Coccus ......... i @ 40
Anmisnme. o 0... po. 15 @ 2 coe eae @ =
— (graveleons) 13@ 15 Cetaceum re. . 45
re, We 41@ 6la ae . 3
an po.i8 0B 12| Chistes, "2,2
Cardamon........... 1 25@ 1 5 Ghiorel eey cauibbs = @ 1%
cua 8@ 10 Chloral Hyd Crst.... 1 50@ 1 60
Cannabis Sativa... 4@ 4% | Ghondrus. .......... 20@ 2%
Cydonium......._._ 9010| Gana SS OS
Ghee rum ...... 10@ 2 Ginchonidine, Germ, 5@ =
Dipterix Odorate... 2 00@ 2 20 a es 3 05@ 3 a
Feeniculum ......... iio " ~« &
Foenugreek, po...... 7@ 9| Greta oe  pbL @ 2
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Lini, grd...... mS @ Giga aaa @ 11
RE enc. MO Wl ie Eat a 6
Pharlaris Canarian. 4@ 4% mace. 18@ 20
Tae 44@ S| Gadbear 0 “@ 24
Sinapis Albu...) 7@ 8! Guprisulph.
Sinapis Nigra....... 11@  12/ Dextrine...../72.1777 10@ 12
Spiritus Ether Sulph......... 75@ 90
Frumenti, W. D. Co. 2 00@ 250| Emery,all numbers @ = 8
Frumenti, D. F.R.. 2 00@ 225| Emery,po........... @ 6
Frumenti ..... .... 1 25@ 150| Ergota.........po.40 30@ 35
Juniperis Co. 0. T.. 1 65@ 2 00 | Flake White........ R@ 15
Juniperis Co........ 1 7%@ 3 50 | Gala... oo =
Saacharum N. E.... 1 90@ 2 10| Gambier.......... - @ 9
Spt. Vini Galli ‘1 %5@ 6 50| Gelatin, Cooper...) @_ 60
Vini Oporto. ae 3@ 2 00 Gelatin, French..... 35@ 60
Wint Arba. 2... 1 253@ 2 00 Glassware, flint, box 60, 10&10
‘ioe a hex... : 9@ é
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Florida sheeps’ wool Gine, white... 13@_5s
Carriage........... 250@ 2 %5|Glycerina...__. -a:!: ae on
Nassau sheeps wool Grana Paradisi .... @ 1
Carringe........... 2 06; Pamuleg 23@ 55
vere = sheeps’ =e Chlor Mite @ 80
wool, carriage..... @ 1 25 | Hydraag Chlor Cor. a 7
Extra yellow sheeps’ Hydraag Ox Rub’m. @ 9
wool. carriage.... @ 1 00| Hydraag Ammoniati @ 1 00
Grass sheeps’ wool, HydraagUnguentum 45@ 55
eorrieee....:...... @ 100 vacsrevrom....... @Q@ 6
Hard, for slate use.. @ %5|Ichthyobolla,Am... 65@ 7
Yellow Reef, for mae. | ee 1 Oe
slate use... @ 1 40} Iodine, Resubi..... 2 60@ 3 70
fodeform....... _... @ 4 20
Syrups Papen @ 22
MCROIR po . @ 50| Lycopodium........ 40@ 45
Auranti Cortes...... @ 50} Macis eee 6G
a eee ks, ] = —— ae et By- @ %
pecac. a rare lod... |. 25
Pertiod. :. @ | LiqnorPotassArsinit 10@ 12
Rhei Arom.... aaa @ 50) Mugnesia, Sulph.... 2@ «3
—— Officinalis... 50@ v| Magnesia, Sulph,bbl @ 1%
on cee @ 50} Mannia,S. F........ 50@ «60
Sells... 65:25, ea © Si Menthol .. 62.22... @ 2 40

 

 

 

  

Morphia, S.P.& W... 1 %@ 2 20 SA. @ 18j| Linseed, pure raw.. 40
Morphia, S.N.Y.Q.& Sinapis, opt......... @ 30} Linseed, boiled..... 42
Oe 1 8@ 2 10} Snuff, Maccaboy, De Neatsfoot,winterstr 65
Moschus Canton. ms @ 4 OG @ 34| Spirits Turpentine.. 33
Myristica, No f..... 65@ 80) Snuff,Scotch,DeVo’s @ M
Nux Vomica...po.20 @ 10} Soda Boras........ _ i. ¢ 9 P
Os Sepia... 1@ 18 Soda Boras, po... 7@ 9 aints BBL.
sin Saac, H. & P. oda et Potass Tart. 26@ 28] req Venetian 1
3. Coy... t sie @ 1 00| Soda, Carb.......... 1%@ 2! Ochre yellow Mars. in :
Picis Liq. N.N.% gal. Soda, Bi-Carb....... 3@ 5 | Ochre, yellow Ber 1% 2
doz... Sei eae ale icles @ 2 00/| Soda, Ash........... 3%@ 4 Putty, Commercial... 2u 2
Picis Lig., quarts... @ 1 00| Soda, Sulphas....... @ 2 Putty, strictly pure a 2
Picis Liq., pints..... @ 85 | Spts. Cologne........ @ 2 60| Vermilion, Prime
Pil Hydrarg...po. 80 @ 50! Spts. Ether Co...... 50@ 55] American 13@
Piper Nigra... po. 22 @ 18|Spt' Myrcia Dom... @ ° 00! Vermilion English. 70@
Piper Alba....po. 35 @  30| Spts. Vini Rect. bbi.  @ 2 46 P hiking antl * 13%
Pix Burgan 2... @ 7 Spts. ViniRect.%bbl @ 251! Green’ Peninsular. B@
Plumbi Acet.......  , 10@ 12] Spts. ViniRect.10gal  @ 2 54 | Pend Rod  sK@
Pulvis Ipecac et Opii 1 10@ 1 20 Spts. Vini Rect. 5gal @ 2 56! Lead’ white... 777’ 5%@
Pyrethrum, boxes H. Less 5¢ gal. cash 10 days, Whiting, whiteSpan  @
& P. D. Co., doz... @ 1 25 | Strychnia, Crystal... 1 40@ 1 45 Whiting, gilders’ @
Pyrethrum, pv...... 30@ 33) Sulphur, Subl....... 2%@ | 3! white, ParisAmer.. @
Qaesaie 8@ 10} Sulphur, Roll.... . 2@ 2% Whiting Paris Eng.
Quinia, &B.& W.. %@ 33) Tamarinds. 8@ 10} " clige aor
uinia,S.German.. 23 5: | Ferchenth Venice... Sig S80) pe toc t=
Quinia, N.Y..... ... 28@ 33|/Theobrome......... 49@ 45| Universal Prepared. 1 0@
Rubia iinetorum... iq 14] Vanilla, 9 00@16 09 '
ences pv 18@ = Zinet Sulph....__... 7a 8 (Varnishes
PeINGER 0@ 31
Sanguis Draconis... 50 Oils oe ; oe
ae - — = BBL. @aL. | Coach Body......... 2 B@
os @ 15 | Whale, winter....... 70 = =70| No.1 Turp Furn.... 1 00@
Sodties wings tee te ~ @ g5| Lard, extra......... 40 45| Extra Turk Damar.. 1 55@
eres) a oe Real Neve 0 35 Jap.Dryer,No.1Turp 70@

 

 

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DPUC

60.

slndry Department

We invite examination of our remodeled and
handsome sundry department now in charge of
Mr. J. H. Hagy. We display in sample show
cases complete lines of the following goods.

Perfumes

Mirrors
Tooth, Nail, Hair, Cloth, Infant, Bath, and
Shaving Brushes
Fountain and Family Syringes

Tweezers

Razors

Soaps

Key Rings

Combs
Powder Puffs

Violin, Guitar and Banjo Strings
Atomizers
Suspensory Bandages
Toilet and Bath Sponges

And many other articles too numerous

Cork Screws
Razor Strops

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

Hazeltiné & Perkins Drug 60.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

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GROCERY PRICE CURRENT.

The prices

dealers.

quoted in this list are for the trade only,
They are prepared just before
possible to give quotations suitable for a
erage prices for average conditions of pu
those who have poor credit.
our aim to make this feature of

in such quantities as are usually purchased ‘by retail
oing to press and are an accurate index of the local market. It
1 conditions of purchase, and those below are given as representing av-
rchase. Cash buyers or those of strong credit usually buy closer than
Subscribers are earnestly requested to point out any errors or omissions, as it is
the greatest possible use to dealers.

It is im-

 

AXLE GREASE.

doz. gross
ne 55 6 00
Coste Gi 60 7 00
iamoed. .... 50 4 00
Prasers............. 3 aD 9 00
IXLGolden,tinboxes%5 900
Mica, tin boxes........ ~m O90
Parecen... ....... 65 66d
BAKING POWDER.
Absolute.
5. ip Gans dor.............. 45
ie se CARA GOE.... 85
. Means dar..........._. 1 50
Acme.
4 ib Cans dos............ 45
ib Cans3 Gog............ rp)
fF Means ioe... 1 00
ee 10
¥4 1b cans, 6 doz case...... 38
¥% 1b cans, 4 doz case...... 66
1 6ib cans, 2 doz case.... .. 1 00
S ftbhcans, 1 doc case...... 5 00
6 oz Eng. Tumblers....... —_ =
El Purity.
34 1b Cans per doz......... B
% Ib cans per doz ........ 1 20
t ip eans per doz......... 2 00
Home.

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

lb cans 2 doz case .....

JAXON

44 1b cans, 4 doz case..... 45
% lb cans, 4 doz case...... 85
i Th cans, 2 doz case...... 1 60
Jersey Cream.

i th. Gans, per dez.......... 2 00
9 Oz. Cans, per Goz.......... isd
6 OZ. Gans, per doz.......... 8
Our Leader.

a ORM. 45
eee cae 7%
[ eon... 1 50
Peerless.

Ei: Cama... 85
BATH BRICK.
Seen 70
A 80
BLUING.

 

1 doz. pasteboard Boxes... 40
3 doz. wooden boxes....... 1 20
BROOrIS.
ao. 2 Carmen. 1 90
Me cope... a
No. S Carpet................ 4 Sp
Mo. Siar...
Perr Gorn ee 2 00
Common Whisk. ........... q
Wance Whisk... 80
Werenoure. ............. 2
CANDLES.

 

CANNED GOODS.
Manitowoc Peas.

 
  
   

 

Lakeside Marrowfat....... 1 00
eeecde me so 1 30
Lakeside, Cham. of Eng.... 1 40
Lakeside, Gem, Ex. Sifted. 1 65
CHEESE.
Bee @ 10
ee oe @ 10
eye @ 10%
— ee @ il
——.. . Las @
Gold Medal..... as ”
Pererord.... @ 9%
fo @ 10
Jersey..... @ 10
Lenawee.. @ 10%
Riverside. . @ 10
Sparta... . @
Brick... ... @ 10
Edam. Bs @
Leiden = @ 18
Limburger. cs @ 10
Pineapple............ 4 @ 8
oe eg @ 18

 

CHOCOLATE.

Walter Baker & Co.’s.
Gorman Sweot.............. .__32
EM 31
Breakfast Cocoa..... a

CLOTHES LINES.

Cotton, 40 ft, per doz.......1 00
Cotton, 50 ft, per doz ......1 20
Cotton, 60 ft, per doz...... 1 40
Cotton, 70 ft, per doz.......1 60
Cotton, 80 ft, per doz ..... 1 80
Jute, 60 ft. per Jos ....... 80
Jute. 72 ft, per dos,, ar

Chicory.
Bulk ae
Red

eon

COCOA SHELLS.

Poi Hage... 2%
Less quantity.......... = 3
Pound packages.........

CREAMS TARTAR.
5 and 10 1b. wooden boxes..30-35

COFFEE.

 

er 14
eee oo 15
baw 16
Peabery oo 17
Mexican and Guatamala.
er 16
Geet 17
Pee 18
Maracaibo.
ree 2
a 21
Java.
mere 20
Private Growin... 22
Mantcniive: 24
Mocha.
mete 22
Arama 24
Roasted.

Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brands
Mitth Avenue... .......- 28

Jewell’s Arabian Mocha....28

 
 
 
 

Wells’ Mocha and Java.....25%
Wells’ Perfection Java.....25%
SemeeOO 23
Valley City Maracaib -18%
ideal Blend... at
Header Biend. 12

Worden Grocer Co.’s Brands

Quaker Arabian Mocha.....28
Quaker Mandehling Java. .30

Quaker Mocha and Java. ...27

Toko Mocha and Java......24

Quaker Golden Santos.... .18

State House Blend.......... 16%

Quaker Golden Rio......... 16
Package.

Below are given New York
prices on package coffees, to
which the wholesale dealer
adds the local freight from
New York to your shipping
point, giving you credit on the
invoice for the amount of
freight buyer pays from the
market in which he purchases
to his shipping point, including
weight of package. In 60 Ib
cases the list is 10¢c per 100 lbs.
above the price in full cases.

Bee 6.0 11 00
OOTAOY 11 00
MicLaughlin’s XXXX...... 11 00
Extract.
Valley City % gross ..... 2
Woelx 3, gross... 1 15
Hummel’s foil & gross... 85
Hummel’s tin % gross... 1 43
CATSUP.
Columbia, pints.......... 425
Columbia, % pints.......... 2 50

CLOTHES PINS.

 

5 gross boxes....

CONDENSED MILK.

4 doz in case.

Gail Borden Eagle......... 6 7%
oo 6 25
PO ec 5 75
a 4

ere 43
Saree. 3 50
i

COUPON BOOKS.

 

Tra
50 books, any denom.... 1
100 books, any denom.... 2
500 books, any denom....11
1,000 books, any denom....20

Economic Grade.

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

1,000 books, any denom....20 00

SpE
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Universal Grade.

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

omtwe

tom

Superior Grade.
50 books, any denom...
100 books, any denom....
500 books, any denom...
1,000_books, any denom...

Coupon Pass Books,

Can be made to represent any
denomination from 810 down.

S$ss sess

Seow

SP DOORS. 5. 1 00

POROORR 2 00

MO beeks..... 3 00

eae DOOKR ss, €

Be menes 10 00

‘cm beoks.....0 3. 17 50
Credit Checks.

500, any one denom’n..... 3 00
1000, any one denom’n..... 5 00
2000, any one denom’n..... 8 00
Recel punch. .....2..) vi)

DRIED FRUITS—DOMESTIC
Apples.

Rameriag ce @ 3
Evaporated 50 lb boxes.5 @ 6

California Fruits.

%

Ares 9
Blackberries...........
Noecwrineg... 8... 6 @
go ee TR@ 9
Peer 8 @
Pitted Cherries........
Prunneien............. 12
Raspberries............
California Prunes.
100-120 25 lb boxes....... @ 3%
90-100 25 1b boxes....... 4
80 - 90 25 1b boxes....... @ 44
70 - 80 25 1b boxes....... @5
60 - 70 25 1b boxes... .... @ 5%
50 - 60 25 lb boxes....... @ 6%
40 -50 25 lb boxes....... @i7z
30 - 40 25 lb boxes. ......
14 cent less in 50 lb cases
Raisins.

London Layers 2 crown.
Lendon Layers 3 Crown.
London Layers 5 Crown.
Penesias 2

Loose Muscatels2 Crown 4%
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 5
Loose Muscatels4Crown 5%

FOREIGN.
Currants.
Patran bbig. @ 6
Vostizzas 50 lb cases......@ 614
Cleaned, balk . 2.0... | @8
Cleaned, packages........ @ 8%

Peel.
Citron American 10]b bx @14
Lemon American 10 lb bx @i2
Orange American 101b bx @12

Raisins.
Ondura 28 !b boxes..... @8%
Sultana 1Crown....... @
Sultana 2Crown....... @ 9%
Sultana 3Crown....... @1034
Sultana 4 Crown.......
Sultana 5 Crown....... @i1l\%

 

Sultana 6,Crown....... @l12

FARINACEOUS GOODS.

  

 

 

 

 

 

Souders’.

   

  

 

 

SALERATUS.

 
 

 
 
 
 
  

  

Parina. i Oval bottle, with corkscrew. Packed 60 Ibs. in box.
Mtth. packages...) 1% Best in the world for the} church’s........... ...... ..3 30
Bulk, per se ee ee 350 | money. Pra 3 15

its. . oa Meee...
Walsh-DeRoo Co.'s.......2 40 er fee 3 00
Bulk in 100 lb. bags....... 3 40 race

Hominy. — SAL SODA.

Flake. 60 ib. a ‘ums....... ; > 208... ... 7B Granulated, bbls........ -110
saa ‘—_ eis 402...... 1 50/ Granulated, 100 lb cases..1 50

indian. oe . a, aac wnt eceees <<

Medium Hand Picked....1 10 Regular ump, a
Maccaroni and Vermicelli. —"s a SALT

Domestic, 10 lb. box...... 60 2 120 .

Imported, 25 Ib. box.. ... 2 50 : Ox... 7 Diamond Crystal.

: Pearl Barley. . oe Cases, 24 1p boxes. ........ 1 50
Orem Barrels, 1 3 sap 2 77
a ec eee : = —- anagem = * bags.*.._ 2 =

SMpPITE ...-...- ee ee sees eee utter, PS ec
Peas. Butter, 56 1b bags 60
Qoz...... 150 pee cee OE ee
Split, perio! 8 108: «50 Etter S001b hee. 8 o
Rolled Oats. iy tars ll| XX Grad eS
Rolled Avena, Dbl.”.....4 7 RewepyeEiZPAcr, XX Grade Common Grades.
Monarch, bbl........... 4 4 fh OOSib eagles. 00 2 60
——- 3 9 ers 2 Bice 175} 60 1b sacks Cs 1%
rivate brands, 423 | amy 7 O2------ 11-Ib sacks..............
Private brands, %bbl.....: 4oz...... 350) °%8 — sa =
Quaker, cases.......... GUNPOWDER orcester.
Sago. i 50 4 Ib. cartons........... 3 25
German .......-....0...... 3% Rifle—Dupont’s. 115 24lb. sacks..... ....... 4 00
East India........... Sees ces mem 400] 60 5 Ib. sacks............. 3°

Wheat. BalfiKess. 225| 2214 Ib.sacks..... 1.1... 3 50
Cracked, bulk............. 34 | Quarter Kegs...........--.., 125! 3010 lb.sacks............. 3 50
242 lb packages..........- POC eableanel ls La 30 | 28 Ib. linen sacks............ 2

Fi h a6 1D. CBR... ee 18 wu ae

u Pe OMe i oo a!
isn. Choke — a iensew:
Cod. Kegs sec ceeeseeeenee eee cee 2 : -
ie | ee Oe 2 40 | 56-Ib dairy in drill bags..... 30
ol er 1 35 | 28-Ib dairy in drill bags... 15
Georges genuine..... @ 5% 1b 34
Georges selected oe @ 64 ee ee penn
—— i eee eee es.
nn Tne il Sa Milian oC oe Higgins.
Strips...... ........ ot 9 et Kees 2 25 | 56-lb dairy in linen sacks... 60

Herring. Pip CANS. ke 45

Holland white hoops keg. vi) Solar Rock.
Holland white hoops bb. 9 50 LICORICE. mi S61b sacks... 21
Nerwoetan... ...52.....-. De
aaa CO | Gens eee i
Round: 40 lbs............. Sie 16 | eaten ao 2
Seated eo oo ib] Rook 10} “edium Fine............... 85
Mess 100 Tos ree i450] MASON FRUIT JARS. SEEDS.
Mesa 40 ibe... 6 10] Pints, 1 doz. box, per gross 4 7% —— a ree 13
Meee) 10 the 1 60 Quarts, 1 d’z. box, per gr’ss 5 00 | V@NATy, Smyrna........... 4
Mess Sibe 200.0000): 1 30 | Half gal. 1d’z. b’x, p’rgr’ss 7 00 oe ee 10
No. 1100 lhe 12 75 | Fruit Jar Rubbers, p’rgr’ss 25 Hen - Malabar ..... 80
No.1 401bs.......... ..... 5 40] Mason Caps only. per gross 2 25 Mixed ia rete eeeeees 4
No. Wie 1 43 Glass Cover Fruit Jars. Meat a 4%
Nod) Sie 1 16 “The Best” Fruit Keeper. oa ard, white.......... 8%
No. 2 100 Ibs a 10 % Pints, 1 doz. box, per gross 5 50 Rapey tote ttee ec tenes cee.
moO. S Se... 6 uarts, 1 d’z. box, per gr’ss 5 75 | APE ---.------..-.- 2. se
No.2 10 Ibs ae i = Heir gal. 1 d’z b’x, p’rgr’ss 7 75 Cuttle Bone...........
oe ee MINCE MEAT. elie eee
Russian kegs.............. 55 | Ideal, 3 doz. in case......... 2 25 eachibar. aaa peierets 2
i = Trout ae MATCHES. French Rappee, in jars..... 43
sa. ae syDigmond Match Co.'s brands SPICES.
Yi No. 9 Sulphur... 0000)... 2 1!
m) mo Gee 170 Whole Sifted.
Ne.> Hemme. 0 1 20} Atigpios |... 9
Export Parior........ 2.2... 400 oo ann oe
assia, Batavia in bund....20
MOLASSES. Cassia, Saigon in rolls...... 32
oves, Amboyna........... 15
Black re. ll — ee pode ote eel 9
Pa ae 14| Mace, Batavia.............. 60
Nutmegs, fancy........... . .60
—. ae Nutmegs, No. 12000000000. 50
Open Kettle: 20... 25@35 Pa CBB, NO. 2....-.. 0.0... 45
i epper, Singapore, black... 9
Half-barrels 2c extra. Pepper, Singapore, white... .12
PIPES. Pepper, QAO6 10
Clay, No. 216.60... 1 60 Pure Ground in Bulk.
Clay, T. D. fullcount...... 1) Atienicg 2026 12
Cen, Me: 3.2.0 85 Cassia, Batavia ete 2
‘assia, Saigon........ 35
dies — H. ay a oe + 0
. oves, Zanzibar.... ne
OP Oee Re 4 00/| Ginger, African... a
Penna Salt Co.’s........... 3 00 Ginecr’ —— =
D.C. Vane "Dc. L eee. Nace, betevin "290
~G. Vanilia . &. Lemon ’ i dail Aw de saltol
On... 1 20 20s. Medium. ns a 3 - Trieste. 2
SOz.:...,1 50 30z. ....1 00 ustard, Trieste............
4oz....200  40z.....11 40] Half bbls; 600 count... 2. 4.95 | Nutmegs, ....s.0.... : 4080
6 0z......3 00 Coe... 2 00 : ie Pepper, Sing.., — see Tea
No. 8 400 No. 8...2 40 mall, epper, Sing., white....
No. 10._.6 00 No. 10...4 00 Pepper, Cayenne........ 17@20
No. 27125 No. 27. 90 oak ae a. 18
No. 2 0. ; ae a
No 472 40 No. 47.1 59 RICE. SYRUPS.

HERBS. Corn.
BPC 15 Domestic. err ee aa 22@23
OR ee 15 | Carolina head.............. Gq | Half bbis....... .....- 24@25

INDIGO. Carolina No.1............. 5
Madras, 5 lb boxes......... 55 | Carolina No.2............. 4% Pure Cane.

S. F., 2,3 = eo con. OO PMN es a 3 Ee een 16
IB Ib Dalle. vee ee cone en. eee §
Pat 75 | Japan, No.1... 2... Ky :
LYB. Japan, No.2..........0.2! SODA.
Condensed, 2 doz .......... 1 20} Java, No.1... 00.50... ..... Oe oc a 5%
Condensed, 4 doz.......,...2 2% ' Table.. 5% ' Kegs,:English............... 4%

  

    
   
 
  
 
 
   
     
   
     
  
 
  
    
  
    
    
    
  
    
    
    
   
      
   
   
   
    
    
    
     
     
    
 
  
     
      
        
      
           

 

    
    
  

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SOAP.
‘ andry.

Arm. ‘s Brands.
Armour’s bamily.......... 2 50
Armour’s Laundry........ 3 30
Armour’s White, 100s...... 6 25
Armour’s White, 50e....... 3 20
Armour’s Woodchuck..... 2 50
Armour’s Kitchen Brown. 2 00
Armour’s Mottled German 2 25

JA XON

Simeie ben 275
5 box lots, delivered........ 2 7
10 box lots, delivered....... 2 65

JAS. 5. KIRK & GO.’S BRANDS.

American Family, wrp’d....3 33
American Family, —— =

Oe
CO 2 20
BONO i ce 2 50

Dusky Diamond, 50 6 oz....2 10
Dusky Diamond, 50 8 oz....3 00

Blue India, 100 3% 1b......... 3 00
Kirkolme oo... 8. L, 3 7
Hee... 3 65

One box American Family
free with five.

Schulte Soap Co.’s Brand.
JPG £: / he
Uy, DME Bee |)
fo ae
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sees)
\ MUN) STYROT. wrew. ill

100 cakes, 75 Ibs.

     
   
  

  

Single Den. 2 80
> BOM leGH 0 Ss 2%
10 box Tots... 5: =o

2 DOX IO. 2 60

(Mail

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Single box ... -..-...°. 4. >
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 34-1b. 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.

z rj
“3
¥ ‘A Bort Pransant, but Most Chective
Shing Pod
rau Sumit cir seam Wonks, :
100: 12 Os pegs...) (38... 3 50
40 1-Ib packages............. 6
20 1 1b packages............. 6%
Kingsford’s Silver Gloss.

40 1-lb packages............. 6%
Gib 'bOxeR oo. ok... 7
Diamond.

64 10¢ packages ........... 5 00
128 5¢ packages......... ..5 00
82 10¢ and 64 5¢ packages...5 00
Common Corn.

201 Ib. packages. ............ 4%
40 1 lb. packages............. 44

POM. BOmeS 4
403h: Hokeq gs 334
Common Gloss.

TiS packages... . 2.5... 434
3-lb packages............... 414
6-lb packages............... 435
40 and 50 lb boxes........... 3
Barres 2%
STOVE POLISH.

 

No. 4, 3 doz in case, gross.. 4 50
No. 6, 3 doz in Case, gross.. 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
weight of the barrel.

 

Ons Beat 5 69
Demme 5 56
CUpes 5 31
Powdered... 5 3t
XXXX Powdered...........5 44
Mom A 5 31
Granulated in bbls... ...... 5 13
Granulated in bags.........5 13
Wine Granulated..........__ 5 06
Extra Fine Granulated..... 5 19
Extra Coarse Granulated...5 19
Diamond Confec. A........ 5 U6
Confee. Standard A.........4 94
No. { ;
No

No.

No.

No.

No.

No.

No.
NO 4 44
NO te 4 38
No. 11 431
NO. 4 35
De 4 13
NO. a 4 06
Ne ee 3
OSG 3 94

TABLE SAUCES.
Lea & Perrin’s, large..... 4%
Lea & Perrin’s,small..... 2%
Halford, larve. 3 7%
Halford smali....... ..... 2 25
Salad Dressing, large..... 4 55
Salad Dressing, small..... 2 6
TOBACCOS.
Cigars.

Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s brand.
Mew Erick... 35 00

Morrison, Plummer & Co.’s b’d.

Governor Yates, 4% in..... 58 00
Governor Yates, 434 in..... 65 00
Governor Yates, 5144 in..... 70 00
monttor ........)..))_. 36 oo

H. & P. Drug Co.’s brand.
APAMNEOtS 35 00

G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand.

(

Cc
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2

a Og a as fee 35 00

H. Van Tongeren’s Brand.

 

mbar Green... 35 00
VINEGAR.

Malt White Wine.............. 7c
Pere Ciger 8
WICKING.

Me. @ perros 5 25
NO ft pererous... 01. 8c: 30
Ne. > pererogs..- 40
WO. PErerosn.... 2... %

 

 

Fish and Oysters

Fresh Fish.

 

 

Per 1
Whitefish. .......... @ 9
PEM ck @ 9g
Black Bass. ......... @ 10
oT ae @ 15
Ciscoes or Herring.. @ 4
Co) es @ 10
Live Lobster....... @ 18
Boiled Lobster...... @ Ww
Cee @ Ww
Haddeck:........... @ 8s
No. 1 Piekerel...... @ 8
eee. 22s @ 7
Smoked White...... @ 8
Red Snapper........ @ 10
Col River Salmon.. @
Mackerel .......).. @ 12%

Oysters in Cans.
F. H. Counts........ @ 38
Bercets -....- 5... @ 32
Standards........... @ 2%
Shell Goods.

Oysters, per 100....... 1 1 50
Clams, per 100....... 9061 00

 

   
  

Candies. Grains and Feedstufis
Stick Candy. Wheat.
DOS) DAS WHERE 88
POOHGARE 64@ 7%
Standard H. H.. |”. 64@ 7% Winter Wheat Flour.
Standard Twist..... 6 @8 Local Brands,
Cut Loaf............ NN oi ns 5 50
Jumbo: 21>... G 6% a ee eee : =
Extra H.H.......... Ss elem GT ae
Boston Cream...... Graben 0 ee) gee
BUCEWHeESE 2. | 3 40
Mixed Candy. a
Competition......... @7 a to usual cash dis-
ee G §*| _ Flour in bbis., 25¢ per bbl. ad-
Royal... @ 8 ditional.
Eibbon __.. @ 8% Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Broken .... ae @ “eS 5
Gut boats @ 8% | Quaker, 5.000070 39
wngUs se : x y¥
oda @9 Quaker Sa..000 0. 5 00
French Cream...... @9 Spring Wheat Flour.
© + De . r
Valley . <i = Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brand.
aly Fillsbury’s Best 4a... .... 6 0
Pillsbury’s Best 4s........ 5 95
Fancy—In Bulk. Pillsbury’s Best %s........ 5 8

 

 

 

Lozenges, plain..... @9
Lozenges, printed.. @ 9
Choe. Drops... |. 11 @l4
Choc. Monumentals @i2
Gam Drops... ..... @6
Moss Drops.. i @s8
Sour Drops. ......... @9
Paperiaig. 1.) @ 9
Fancy—In 5 Ib. Boxes.
Lemon Drops....... @50
SOUL Drops... @50
Peppermint Drops.. @60
Chocolate Drops. ... @60
H. M. Choe. Drops.. vid
Gam Drops:........ @30
Licorice Drops...... @i5
A. B. Licorice Drops @50
Lozenges, plain.... @50
Lozenges, printed... @50
Tmaperials 0.05.00. |. @5v
Mottoes..... _. @55
Cream Bar @a0
Molasses Bar ....... @50
Hand Made Creams. g0 @90
Plain Creams....._. 60
Decorated Creams. . @90
Surmns Heck... |. @b0
Burnt Almonds..... 13 @
Wintergreen Berries @60
Caramels.

No. 1 wrapped, 2 Ib.

DOxes @30
No. 1 wrapped, 3 Ib.

HOGA @45
No. 2 wrapped, 2 Ib.

HOxes 0)

es
Fruits.
Oranges.

Choice Naples.
OS @
ee @4 50

Rodis.
coo Faney. 0s @5 00
Lemons.
Strictly choice 360s.. @3 50
Strictly choice 300s.. @3 50
Hancy Sots... |. @4 50
Ex.Fancy 300s...... @4 50
Pee; BOdt @5 00
Bananas.
Medium bunches...1 25 @1 50
Large bunches...... 1% @2 00

Foreign Dried Fruits.
Figs, Choice Layers

10 ib Californias... @ 2
Figs, Naturais in

oo FO. DAH. @6
Dates, Fards in 101b

DONE. 8... @8
Dates, Fards in 601b

Canes o: 8... @ 6
Dates, Persians,H.M.

B., 60 1b cases, new @ 5%
Dates, Sairs 60 Ib

cree... @i4

 

 

Nuts.

 

Almonds, Tarragona... @i3
Almonds, Ivaca....... @ll
Almonds, California,

soft shelled......... @15
Braaiienew........... @8s
Beers @i0
Wainuts, Grenobles .. @l13
Walnuts, Calif No. 1. @l0
Walnuts, soft shelled

oe @12
Table Nuts, fancy.... @i12
Table Nuts, choice... @ll
Péeans Med... |. @i0
Pecans, Ex. Large.... @i2
Pecans, Jumbos....... @li4
Hickory Nuts per bu.,

Obte: new... @
Cocoanuts, full sacks @3 50

Peanuts.

Fancy, H. P., Suns. @i7z
Fancy, H. P., Flags

Roasted............. @7
Choice, H. P., Extras. @4
Choice, H. P., Extras,

Roasted ........... a @6

 

Pillsbury’s Best 4s paper.. 5 85
Pillsbury’s Best 34s paper.. 5 85
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand.

Grand Republie, %s........ 5 90
Grand Republic, \4s.. ..... 5 $0
Grand Republic, %s........ 5 70
Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s Brand.
Goid Medal ta... 6 00
OGia Medal We). 5 90
Gold Medal igs... - 5 80
Parigan Seg 6 0U
Parse ie 5 90
Persad & 80
Olney & Judson’s Brand.
Coresota, 36g) 6 00
Cenesoea Wis 5 90
Ceresom. 365.0 0 5 8u
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Eel sa 6 00
EAerer tgs 5 9u
Darel eS 5 80
Meal.

Boles 1%
Granulated 2

Feed and Millstuffs.
St. Car Feed, screened ....14 50
No. 1 Corn and Oats....... 13 50
Unbolted Corn Meal....... 13 00
Winter Wheat Bran... . 11 06
Winter Wheat Middlings..1s 00
Serceniigs 10 00

The O. E. Brown Mill Co.

quotes as follows:

New Corn.
Carte. 33
Less than car lots......... 36

Oats.
Car tote 22%
Carlots, clipped... . || 25%
Less than ¢ar lots......... 27
Hay.
No. 1 Timothycarlots...... 9 00

No. 1 Timothy, ton lots....10 00

 

 

 

 

Crackers.

ee

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

Butter.

seymour XMM 2. 4
Seymour XXX, 3 lb. carton 4%
Mamiya
Family XXX,31b carton.. 4%

 

 

Salecd MA 4
Salted XXX, 3 1b carton... 4%
Soda.

SOG MN.
Soda XXX, 3 lb earton.... 4%
wes, Clee 5
AeCpnvrete 9
Long Island Wafers....... 9
L. I. Wafers, 1lb carton .. 10
Oyster.
Square Oyster, XXX....... 4%
Sq. Oys. XXX.1 1b carton. 5%
Farina Oyster, XXX....... 4
SWEET GOODS—Boxes.
AAA 9
Bent's Cold Water......... 13
Hele Hose 6
Cocoanut Taffy............ 8
Coffee Cakes... ....... 8
Brosted Honey............. 10
Graham Crackers.......... 6
Ginger Snaps, XXXround. 5
Ginger Snaps, XXX city... 5
Gin. Snps,XXX homemade 5
Gin. Snps,X XX sealloped.. 5
Ginger Vanilla............ 7
Eemperiads eos 6
Jdumbles, Honey........... 10
Molasses Cakes............ 6
Marshmallow ...... |... 12
Marshmallow Creams..... 13
Pretzels, hand made ..... 6
Pretzelettes, LittleGerman 6
pueur Cale...) .. sc... 6
SMPAAMAS oo, 10
Sears Benen... .... |. 6
Vanilla Souare........ ...
Vanilla Waters |... ...... Bb
Pecan Wafers. ...........:: 19
Deetem Pientie 10
Cream Jumbiles ............ 11%
Boston Ginger Nuts........ 6
Chimmie Fadden......... . 2
Pineapple Glace...... ..... 12
Penny Cakes.......... one
Marshmallow Walnuts.... 13
Belle Isle Picnic...... cace: oO

Provisions.

 

Swift & Company quote as
follows:
Barreled Pork.

 

 

  

Cee 9 50
Ce
Clear bAGm... |... ll 2
10 75
14 50
9 50
| $50
Dry Salt Meats.
Heiiesg 7
Brenes 7
xtra shopig......._..... 6%
Smoked [leats.
Hams, 12 1b average .... 10
Hams, 14 lb average 934
Hams, 16 1b average..... 9%
Hams, 20 lb average..... 83%
Ham dried beef.......... 6
Shoulders (N. Y. cut). . 7
Bacon, clear... |... 8 @9
California hams......... 1%
Boneless hams........... 8Ye
Coomed ham............. 11
Lards. In Tierces.
Compound ..... 453
Mette: 6%
So ly Tabe...... . advance Lg
SO 1b Tabs....... advance
odie Ting ....... advance 4
eo lb Pats. ...... advance %
10 Ib Pails.......advance %
Se advance %
o1D Pars:.....- advance 1
Sausages.
Belegea 5
POG 6%
POABREONG cl. <
ee. 644
Roe 6
Wememe 9
Head eheesc............. 6%
Beef.
Mutea Mess. 8 50
ROMO 11 00
POD 11 00
Pigs’ Feet.
Mite Ip es... 80
bbls, 40lbe 1 50
% Dbis, S0ibs.......... |. 2 380
Tripe
Mites isthe 3
% bbls, 40 Ibs... 2.22227! 1 40
6 bois, SO ibe... 2%
Casings.
oa 18
Heer rounds... 4
Beet middies........._. 9%
So) ae 60
Butterine.
OS, GAirg 10
Soud. dairy... 9%
Rolls, creamery ......... 13
Solid, creamery ......... 12%
Canned Meats.
Corned beef, 2 lb....... 2 10
Corned beef, 14 Ib.......14 00
Roast beef, 2 Ib....... 210
Potted ham, %s....... &
Potted ham, s....... 1 00
Deviedham, Ys....... 60
Deviledham, %s....... 1 00
Potted tongue \s....... 60
Potted tongue \s....... 1 00

 

Fresh Meats.

 

 

Beef.
Careass 4. ........ -6 @t%
Fore quarters......... 5 @6
Hind quarters........ ThG@ 9
Loms No. 3...........9 @iz
eee -8 @2
meeeds 64@ 7%
Camere. 4@5
EQS @ 3

Pork.
Preaieg oo. @ 5
OO @ 8
Shomer @ 6%
a 5%@ 8

Mutton.

Caressa 6 @7
Spring Dambe... _.... 8 @9

Veal.
Cute 7T%@ 8

 

 

Perkins & Hess pay as fol-
WS:

 

 

 

  

Hides. |
Green... 5... 64@ 7% |
Part cured. ......_... @ 8%
Full Cured............ 84@ 9%
ee 9 ll
Ming. green... 1... 6%@ 7
a Gured.-......... 84@10
Calfskins, green...... T%@ 9
Calfskins, cured...... 9 @10%
Deaconskins ......... 2% @30
SHCAPINeS 5@ 30
Ee, 23@ 60
Oh Wood... 6O@ 90

Oils.

Barrels.
Mocene.... 5. @i1%
XXX W.W.Mich.Hdlt @ 8%
W W Michigan........ @ 8
Diamond White....... @7

ey oe @ 8
Deo. Naptha ... be @i%
Cylinder .... ...20 @a6
Engine..... -11 @2l
Black, winter........ ‘ @8

5

5
| 3 gal Home Rule....
o

5

 

Crockery and

Glassware.
AKRON STONEWARE.
Butters,

56 2al.. per doe.......... 50
Lie al. per gal........ 5%
Seal pereal............ 6%

ORAL per wat il. Bae

fceal, pergal...... . .. 6%

15 gal. meat-tubs, per gal.. §

20 gal. meat-tubs, per gal.. §

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

etoGral . pergal......... 5%
Churn Dashers, per doz... 85
Milkpans.
% gal. flat or rd. bot., doz. 60
1 gal. flat orrd. bot.,each 5%

Fine Glazed Milkpans.
Ye gal. flatorrd. bot.,doz. 65
1gal. flatorrd. bot.,each 5%
Stewpans.

% gal. fireproof, bail, doz. 8&5
1 gal. fireproof, bail, doz.1 10

Jugs.

“4 gal, perdoz............ 40
“Gel. perdos;. .. ..,..... so
Eto gal.. per gal......... 6%
Tomato Jugs.
eal peragos.........
Poel écaen 7
Corks for % gal., perdoz.. 20

Corks for 1 gal., per doz.. 30

Preserve Jars and Covers.

% gal., stone cover, doz...

1 gal., stone cover, doz...1
Sealing Wax.

5 lbs. in package, perlb... 2
LAMP BURNERS.

on
io

Ne Gsau............ . =<
Ne itae. 50
MO 28am oe
Oe a 50
meturlay, Not... a
mocury Naf... | fe
Nutmeg a .~ oo
Caen. 1 50

LAMP CHIMNEYS—Common.
Per box of 6 doz.

ne OMe 1%

MO. 1 Son... See cea 1 88

eS 2 70

First Quality.

No. 0 Sun, crimp top,
wrapped and labeled.... 2 10

No. 1 Sun, crimp top,
wrapped and labeled.... 2 25

No. 2 Sun, crimp top,
wrapped and labeled.... 3 25

XXX Flint.

No. 0 Sun, crimp top,
wrapped and labeled.... 2 55

No. 1 Sun, crimp top,
——- and labeled. .. 2 75

No. 2 Sun, crimp top,
wrapped and labeled.... 3 75

CHIMNEYS—Pearl Top.
No.1 Sun, wrapped and
Cl 3 70
No. 2 Sun, wrapped and
TAOONCG
No. 2 Hinge, wrapped and
eee

No.2 Sun, “Small Bulb,”

for-Globe Lamps......... 80
La Bastie.
No. 1 Sun. plain bulb, per
Ce
No. 2 Sun, plain bulb, per
ee 50
No. 1 Crimp, per doz....... 1 35
No. 2 Crimp, per doz....... 1 60
Rochester.
No. 1, Lime (65¢ doz)...... 3 50
No. 2, Lime (70¢ doz)...... 4 0
No. 2, Flint (80e doz)...... 470
Electric.
No. 2, Lime (70c doz) ..... 4 00
No. 2, Flint (80e doz)...... 4 40
OIL CANS. Doz.

1 gal tin cans with spout.. 1 25
1 gal galv iron with spout. 1 65
2 gal galv iron with spout. 2 87
3 gal galv iron with spout. 3 50
5 gal galv iron with spout. 4 75
3 gal galv iron with faucet 4 75
5 gal galv iron with faucet 5 25
O @al Tilting cans... ._. 8 00
5 gal galv iron Nacefas ... 9 00
Pump Cans.
gal Rapid steady stream. 9 00
gal Eureka non-overflow 10 56

eee 10 50

gal Home Hule.... ...... 12 00
gal Pirate King...... wo. 2 Oe

LANTERNS.

No. OTupulsr...:......... 4%
No. 1B Tepwiar.........; 6 50
No. 13 TubularDash. .... 6 30
No. 1Tub., glassfount.... 7 00

No. 12 Tubular, side lamp.14 0C
No. 3Street Lamp........ 3 %
LANTERN GLOBES.

No. 0 Tubular, cases 1 doz.
each, box 10 cents.. .....

No. 0 Tubular, cases2 doz.
each, bex 15 cents. ......

No. 0 Tubular, bbls 5 doz.
Ce 40

No. 0 Tubular, bull’s eye,
eases 1 doz. cach......... 1 %

LAMP WICKS,
No. @ ner gree, 1...
Ot er eee,
WO 2 er erase
NO. 2 Ver MP0RK wk ia. e

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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

  

 

 

SUCCESSFUL SALESMEN.

 

H. P. Goppelt, Representing Symons
Bros. & Co.

H. P. Goppelt was born and raised
in the city of Saginaw, where he was
also educated, having graduated from
the high school in 1887. After leaving
school, it entered Mr. Goppelt’s head
that he would like to try the life of a
commercial traveler, so he immediately
called upon Symons Bros. & Co., who
gave him a position in their office,
where he remained two years, after
which they put him on the road. The
territory assigned him is known as the
‘*Thumb”’ of Michigan. He has cov-
ered this same territory ever since that
time and is now recognized as one of
the most accomplished salesmen who
travel outside of the Valley. As he
has the full confidence of his trade, he
sells the best and largest dealers in the
territory he covers. Mr. Goppelt has
done his work so well for the company
that he 1s now one of the stockholders,
also a member of the Board of Direct-
ors. He is a member of the Knights of
the Grip and the United Commercial
Travelers. He is a young man and evi-
dently thinks he will wait until he has
a name and comfortable home before he
enters the matrimonial state. He is
modest and unassuming but full of mirth,
with a great head for business. When
asked if he would give the writer a few
points concerning his life, he said: ‘‘I
could give it all to you in a sentence—
I was born and educated in Saginaw
and have lived here all my life.’’
‘*How about that trip you took out West
not long ago?’’ was asked of him. At
this he became very much interested
and related the experiences of his jour-
ney as follows: ‘‘ My first stop was at
Denver, where I spent some time visit-
ing friends and viewing the magnifi-
cent scenery. The towering Pikes Peak
was seen, but a much better view was
taken of it from Manitou. Denver is
a mile above the sea level and isa very
pretty city. I spent a day at the Gar-
den of the Gods, which, for natural
scenery and beautiful rocks, especially
the balancing rock, is incomparable.
Here I visited the Syndicate placer
mines. From Denver I went to Man-
itou, at which place I visited the iron,
soda and sulphur springs, where many
invalids were in search of health. From
Manitou I started on my trip westward
and, for ten miles after leaving Man-
itou, our train wound through the fa-
mous Ute Pass, where there are eight
tunnels, and then on to Beuna Vista,
where a beautiful view was obtained of
the Arkansaw Valley. At this city I
saw Collegiate Peaks—Harvard, Yale
and Princeton—all being over 14,000
feet above the level of the sea. The
next place I visited was Leadville—the
city above the clouds—where are lo-
cated the largest mining camps in the
world. From Leadville I traveled
through the Continental Divide and
Hagerman Pass, which is the highest
point reached by any railroad, it being
11,500 feet above the sea level. Salt
Lake City was the next place visited,
and I declared it the prettiest city I
had seen in the West. The principal
sights there are the Mormon temples
and grounds. Salt Lake itself is a
great resort and is well patronized by
bathers from all over the country. It is
claimed by the inhabitants that they
have the largest pavilion in the world.
California came next, and here I saw
growing almonds, figs, olives, oranges
and other tropical fruits. Although I had

many times carried these same fruits
in my grip, I had never before had an
opportunity to see them growing, and it
was a great treat to me. While at Stock-
ton I saw harvesting with ‘‘headers,’’
drawn by twenty-six mules, cutting and
threshing grain at the same time. At
Santa Cruz I visited the asphalt mine,
which is the only one of the kind in the
United States. Montgomery was another
interesting place. It is an old whaling
station and one of the oldest towns in
California. Near this city is located the
‘*Del Monte,’’ in the Yosemite Valley.
I thought I should never tire of viewing
the beautiful natural scenery, and,
with a party, trailed on horseback up
to Glacier Point, where a fine view was
obtained of the Valley. The Mariposa
Grove, where the giant trees are found,
was well worth going many miles to
see. At San Francisco I visited the
Golden Gate Park, which is noted prin-

 

 

 

 

 

 

cipally for its beautiful tropical flowers.
Sutro Heights and Cliff House were
also visited. I was in San Francisco
at the time of the arrival of one of the
first steamers from Alaska which
brought such a great quantity of gold
nuggets from the Klondike gold fields.
On my return trip I stopped at Portland
and Tacoma, from which place I took a
boat to Seattle and Victoria through the
Puget Sound, where I had an excellent
view of Mt. Rainier. This mountain,
with its snow-capped peak, was the
most magnificent one seen on the trip.
I had a much better view of the moun-
tain from the steamer as I was leaving
Tacoma. I omitted to say that while I
was at Victoria I saw the new Parlia-
ment building and went up the Frazer
River to see the salmon fisheries and
canning factories. I returned home over
the Canadian Pacific, where I caught a
glimpse of Mt. Stephen, Albert Gorge,
Mt. Sir Donald, the great glacier of the
Selkirks; came through Kicking Horse
Pass, where I saw some of the most
beautiful scenery of the Great Northwest.
I stopped for a short time at Banff to
see the Great Canadian Park, then
through the Dakotas and across the Great
Prairie home. While I was away I took
about two hundred views of the principal
points of interest.’’
—___»20.—

Residents of Richmond, Ky., were
obliged to invoke a Justice’s aid to rid
the town of a woman who sought to sell
crockery there from an Ohio house and

used her ‘‘cussin’ machine,’’ as the
local chroniclers have it, on everybody
who refused to buy of her.

 

 

Petition for a Reconsideration.
National Cash Register Co., Dayton, Ohio:

The undersigned, having been com-
petitors for the prize recently offered
through the columns of the Michigan
Tradesman for the best essay written by
a retail grocer on‘‘ How to Successfully
Conduct a Retail Grocery Store,’’ feel
that the award was given to one not en-
titled to enter the contest by the terms
of your offer. Accordingly, we ask for
the appointment of a new committee
who shall make a new arbitration on the
merits of such essays as had legitimate
place in the competition.

Ella M. Rogers, Phil Lavine, Geo.
W. Cadwell, Mrs. Lyman Townsend,
Mrs. A. I. Bliss, BH... Dean, €. J.
Tompkins, Elizabeth Orange, E. A.
Owen.

The protest was submitted to the
National Cash Register Co., which re-
quested the Tradesman to publish it,
accompanied by a statement of the facts
in the case. The Tradesman submits
that the award was made fairly, both
committeemen having acted independ-
ently of each other, without knowing
which contribution was selected by the
other, and without either knowing any-
thing about the identity of the contest-
ants. The protest against the award
of the committee on account of the al-
leged ineligibility of the gentleman
whose essay was designated as the best
by the committee is not sustained, Mr.

 

 

Conklin being still actively identified
with the grocery business, having pur-
chased goods in this market last week
and being now in Chicago for the same
purpose. The Tradesman regrets the
necessity of referring to the matter at
this late date, but fairness to the con-
testants, who are apparently actuated by
the best of intentions, requires that a
plain statement of the facts be made.

 

 

New
Catalogue of

Tinware
and
Enameled
Ware.

just out. Drop
us a postal for it.

Wim. Brummeler & Sons,

Manufacturers and Jobbers,

260 S. Ionia St. Grand Rapids.

 

 

 

This is our FRUIT AND DELIVERY WAGON. Furnished with Fruit

Racks when desired.

The Best is none too good.

See this and our

complete line of hand made Harness, Carriages, etc.

Write for new catalog.

BROWN & SEHLER, Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

KX

   

SARS SS ae SESSA

   

We now have

The Brooks Corn Hook.
The Carver Corn Hook.
The W. C. & Co. No. 1 bright.

KK
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The W. C. & Co. No. 2 blued. p
Get in your orders now and be ready when the de-

( mand begins. :
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Foster, Stevens & Co.,

Ke Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

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The Store of the Mining Camp.
Written for the TRADESMAN.

It had been a good many years since
my feet had passed the threshold of the
store of the olden time and, with a
curiosity born of experience, I entered
the hot-looking board building that stood
by itself in the streetless, roadless,
grassless tract of country that lay breath-
less under the heat of the scorching
August sun. I did not find that the
years intervening between the earlier
and the latter time had made any im-
provement in the order prevailing there,
in the cleanliness or in the display of
goods. The shelves were crowded with
merchandise with no regard for the
proprieties of civil life, and the pickles
and the calico, the sugar and the jew-
elry, utterly forgetful of caste, stood
elbow to elbow, as if challenging the
opinion of the tenderfoot in regard to
this latest development of modern dem-
ocratic-republicanism !

I stood leaning against the counter,
my physical eyes gazing vacantly at a
row of spice boxes,and my mental optics
taking in the little dirty crowded inte-
rior of the long-forgotten Rhode Island
store of my youth, when the proprietor
presented for my inspection some pieces
of paper closely resembling the scrip-
currency of Rebellion times, remarking
as he pushed it across the counter to-
wards me, ‘‘ Perhaps you'd like to look
at the money we use here with our cus-
tomers.’’

I found it looking too much like that
of Rebellion days to need further de-
scription, the currency corresponding
in value to the nickel, the dime, the
quarter and the half-dollar.

‘*How do you use it; and what’s the
need of it? Isn’t the National currency
equal to the trade requirements out
here?’’

‘‘Well, you see,
pany’s store.’ ”’

“‘Well, what of that?’’

‘‘Why, these miners are an odd lot
and they are all the time wanting to
overdraw their wages. Sothe Company
have this currency, and when a miner
wants any money between pay-days—
five dollars, for instance—they just give
him that amount in this currency, and
so the difficulty is bridged over until
the next pay-day, when he gets in cash
whatever is due him. We take the script
and that keeps him from spending his
money anywhere else. See?’’

I fancied I did, and followed up
the fancy. ‘‘Suppose he wants five dol-
lars after he has drawn all that is due
him—can he get it?’’

“‘Yes, in scrip,
workman. ’’

‘‘As a general thing, do the miners
get much cash on pay-day?’’

‘‘Not as a general thing; but, you
see, it’s just as well, if not better, for
them—and a great deal better for the
Company.”’

I saw; and I was gladder than ever
that I am not a miner. ‘‘I suppose
your prices have to be pretty well up to
make anything,’’ I continued. ‘‘It
must be costly to cart all your goods
from the village, ’’

‘Well, that is our main expense, but
we try to keep that Gown and we are,
in the main, successtul. It doesn’t cost
much to keep the team; and this cur-
rency scheme cuts off all danger of loss
in that direction; so you see, when the
end of the year comes around, the busi-
ness shows up pretty well.’’

‘‘T have always had the idea that the
miner, as such, is a low-down sort of
a fellow, and can no more live without

this is the ‘Com-

if he is a good

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

whisky than a fish can live without get-
ting his gills wet. I don’t see any signs
of that about the store. How do you
manage that; or don’t you try to man-
ape it?’

‘‘That’s easy. Youcan’t change that
—we don’t try to. We have to ‘irri-
gate’ out here in more ways than one,
and the miner irrigates with the usual
liquids. That's a part of the manage-
ment—or, ailyway it is something that
has to be looked after, and the saloon
over the way takes the Company's cur-
rency as we do; so that right here the
miner has all he wants and all he can
get anywhere. That makes him con-
tented and so he doesn’t break away
and want to get away from home and
spend his money.”’

‘‘How about the social side? I sup-
pose the miner has to have a little of
that? Do the Company ever take that
into consideration?”’

‘‘O, we have lively times now and
then. Pay-day is the time for that.
That brings a crowd together; and, you
take the average miner and fill him up
with whisky, and he’s liable to be en-
tertaining. You've heard the story of
the traveler, I suppose, who staid over
night at one of these places? After a
night of bad sleep he got up and went
into the barroom. ‘Where'd ye git these
here grapes that's all over the floor, I’d
like t’ know. There ain’t no vineyard
anywheres round ‘ere, is the’?’
‘Grapes, and be hanged to ye!’ says
the bartender. ‘Them’s eyes that was
gouged out to the party here last night!’
Things ain’t quite so bad as that
with is. On pay-day nights, though, it
gets pretty brisk. You see, the women
gather here on such times and that al-
most always makes trouble. It doesn’t
take much to stir things up, and every
man carries a gun. There isn’t near
so much killing done as you’d think,
though ; but the next morning is sure to
find almost every pocket as empty as
ever, and the miner starts in on another
month’s work underground. ’’

There was more of the dreadful story ;
but it need not be repeated. It was
hardly necessary to tell it at all. The
Valley itself, in its desolation, did that,
and the explanation of the ““ currency
system’’ only corroborated what has
long been known in the life of the min-
er. Comment is unnecessary, and I left
the Valley as I leave the reader, won-
dering ‘‘how long these things will be
as they be.’’

RICHARD MALCOLM STRONG.
oe

Peaches and Cream Excursions.

Sunday, Sept. 19, two opportunities
will be given to visit the fruit country.
C. & W. M. Ry trains will leave Grand
Rapids at 8 o'clock, arriving at St. Joe
at 11:15 a. m. and at Pentwater at 12:30
p. m. The round trip rate to St. Joe is
$1; Pentwater, $1; Shelby, 75 cents.

GEO. DEHAVEN, G. P. A.
—___ 2. ___

The women of Atlanta have accepted
the auti-theatre-hat ordinance in good
faith, and now ask to be heard by the
council in advocacy of an ordinance to
prevent the men from leaving the theater
between the acts.

—_—_>2>—___

John Most’s followers drank forty
kegs of beer in four hours the other day
while bidding him good-by. This is
another evidence that anarchistic ele-
ment is largely recruited from the bibu-
lously inclined.

—___» 2. ___

He is a fool who cannot be angry ; but

he is a wise man who will not.
a

Money often costs too much and power

and pleasure are not cheap.

 

Hardware Price Current.

 

 

AUGURS AND BITS

ee 70
SchuPIgN fending 25&10
Jeiiings tltaiion. 60&10
AXES
Hirst Quality, S. B. Bronze. ............ ||. 5 00
Hirst Quality, DB. Broaze.. 9 50
First Quality, 8S. B.S. Steel...... .......... 550
Hirst Quality, DE. Sicel. 10 50
BARROWS
ea $12 00 14 00
net 30 00
BOLTS
aeowre ee oe 6010
Camisge now tse) 6 70 to 75
ee 50
BUCKETS
Ve $3 25
BUTTS, CAST
Cast Loose Pin: figured. 0... 7O&10
Wrought Narrow 7O&10
BLOCKS
Ordinary Tackia... ..... 70
CROW BARS
Cast ee -- per lb 4
CAPS
a perm 65
Pees ee per m 55
ee perm 35
Po perm 60
CARTRIDGES
ee -- 00k 5
Ceti Mite 2D&k 5
CHISELS
Spe 80
NeeEeS Cr. 80
ROCCE CO 80
RC ECR 80
DRILLS
Mores RIGStOCER 60
Paper and StraigshtShank == 50k 5
Morse’s faperShank. |... Seca cues. OO oS
ELBOWS
Com fpiece Gin... doz. net 55
ComOstee 2
Ms dis 40&10
EXPANSIVE BITS
Clark’s small, $18; large, $26................ 30&10
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FILES—New List
New AtmCteAn FO&10
PCMOISON 70
deters More tasye 8 -60&10
GALVANIZED IRON
Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26; 27. ..... 28
Hist 12 «63 14 15 16. 17
Discount, 75 to 75-10
GAUGES
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............... 6010
KNOBS—New List
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings.... ......... 70
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings............ 80
MATTOCKS
RO MOV $16 00, dis 60410
Bent Pee $15 00, dis 60&10
Hunte........ cease, $18 50, dis 20&10
NAILS
Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire.
Steel nails, base..... ... pee eee ee an 1 65
Wire vere Nese... 1 45
Wt Geadvance. Base
Mio teaGvenee 05
ee ee 10
ONC 20
i 30
a 5
OO bec cots 70
ate MONA 50
Canine Te S0vanee 15
Casing Sadvance............ a 25
Casin@ Gadvance 0 35
Preish 6 advance 2. 2
Minsee 6 Ayaiiee 35
Mise OaGvanee 45
BOrrche aavanee 85
MILLS
Conee Torker Ces... 40

Coffee, P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s Malleables...
Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’s...........
Cofee, Muterprise
MOLASSES GATES
Stebbin’s Pattern.......
Stebbin’s Genuine..........
Enterprise, self-measuring ............ ....

PLANES

 

Ohio Fool Ca.’s, faneg:) 8... @50
Ret0ns Bere 60
sandusky ToolCos, fanéy..... 02... 2...) @50
ener Arasquaticy ooo @50
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s wood......... 60
PANS
Wy Oe 60&104&10
Cannan, polened i TO& 5
RIVETS
ree Ce Time 60
Copper Rivets and Burs... :. 2... 005......... 60
PATENT PLANISHED IRON
‘‘A”? Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10 20

“B”? Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 25 to27 9 20
Broken packages %c per pound extra.

HAMMERS
Maydole & Co.’s, new list........ ...... dis 255,
ee dis 25
Werkea & Pimps =. 2c. o se... dis 100&10

Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.......... ..30e lisi, 70
Blacksmit>’s Solid Cast Steel Hand 30c 1! 40&10

 

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HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS
Stamped Tin Ware....... .........new List 75410

 

   

capennem Tin Ware. 20&10
Granite iran Ware................. new list 40&10
HOLLOW WARE
Ee ee
pee
Se ... 60&10
HINGES
Gate, Clases, 1.9.5... ain oaks
CE per doz. net 2 50°
WIRE GOODS
a a ee 80
perow Myee.. 8 80
oi ' 80
Gate Hooks and Byes...................... 80
LEVELS
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............ dis 70
ROPES
Sisal, % inch and larger....... 14

Wa
SQUARES
Sec a 80

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SHEET IRON

com. smooth. com.
mee te 83 30 #2 40
Nos. 15 to 17. ee cdg ll ee 2 40
Nos. 18 to 21. -38 2 6
Nos. 22 to 24. . ooo 2 70
Nos 2 te2e. 37 2 80
No. 27 : 3 29

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All sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30 inches
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
SAND PAPER
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ON ERC per ten 20 Ob
TRAPS
Peet Cee LC 60&10
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s....... 50
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton's 70&10
mote. Choler. per doz 15
Mouse, delusion............._... per doz 1 2
WIRE
Perens SEAEMCE i, v6)
mimeeiod Marke vi,
Copvcves Mareen 70&10
a nned MAtmet 62%
Coppercd Spring Steel... 50
Barbed Fence, galvanized ............ eee 2G
Marnee Wenee, pamiena..... 1 70
HORSE NAILS
Ae dis 40&1C
Pena... ot. lt is 5
Gren western din ten
WRENCHES

+ Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.............. 30
ReceGente 50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought ....... 80
Coes Patent, malleable. .................... 80

MISCELLANEOUS
ra Cages 50
Pumpe, Cistern....... 80
Serews, New List...... 35
Casters, Bed and Plate.. - 50&10&10
Dampers, American............... ' 50
METALS—Zinc
ee Pee ee eel ene
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SOLDER

ee 12%

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

TIN—Melyn Grade

     

iGxt4 IC, Charcoal......... 85 75
14x20 IC, Charcoal io. . oe
poste EX, Charéoat.............. El
Each additional X on this grade, 81.
TIN—Allaway Grade
ewe 1 Ceareeee 5 00
Peeee 1G, CRMPCNS 8 cs ll. Bee
erie EN Chereoegs 6 00
eos Cee 6 00
Each additional X on this grade, 81.50.
ROOFING PLATES
Sox iC, Charcoal, Dean ................... 5 00
oixee 1. Charcoal Dean ................... 6 00
ree IC. Charcoal Hean. ol 10 00
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade......... 4 50
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade......... 5 50
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade.......:. 9 00
20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade......... 11 00
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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

 

 

A Week’s Wrestle with the Inter-
changeable Mileage Book.

Mackinac Island, Sept. 12— Being,
to_a certain extent, an innocent victim
of the mileage book which has _ recently
been inflicted upon the traveling pub-
lic by the Central Passenger Associa-
tion, the history of a week’s experience
with this abortion might be of interest
to the readers of the ‘l'radesman.

Brothers Mills and Owen have given
their opinions from a theoretical stand-
point, backed by years of experience
regarding the needs of the commercial
tourist, and a practical use of the book
emphatically verifies the arguments
which they have advanced concerning
the many inconveniences attending its
adoption; and if the unfortunates who
have been inveigled into buying this
offshoot of the CU. P. A. have experi-
enced one-half of the worry, annoyance
and vexation of spirit which have fallen
to the lot of the writer, it will be a cold
day when the book becomes popular.

In an effort to snuff out of existence
the wily ticket broker and scalper, the
magnates who gave birth to this mon-
Strosity have succeeded in making life
a burden to the class of workers whose
duties require them to spend a greater
portion ot their time awheel, and unless
their rules, regulations and red tape re-
strictions generally regarding the use of
this ticket (?) are very much modified,
they will have a stock of mileage books,
blank forms, etc., on hand for years’ to
come, for he who buys but one wil! not
care to have the dose repeated.

On the morning of Sept. 1, I applied
at Clare Station fora new F. & P, M.
book. The substitute agent informed
me that they were withdrawn from sale,
and if | wished a mileage book it would
be necessary for me to put up $30 for the
new-fangled one, ‘‘good on all roads,
and one-third of your money refunded
at the close of the show.” ‘‘Good
thing,’’ said I—‘‘guess we'll take a
chance—will only be obliged to carry
one book instead of seven—g3o of the
firm’s money invested instead of $14o—
just what we’ve been looking for.’’ And
then my troubles began.

It was the first book the agent had
sold, and he was twenty minutes by the
watch getting posted on the rules, fill-
ing out the contract and preparing the
exchange _ tickets. Fortunately, - the
train was late, or the waiting travelers
at the window wouid never have re-
ceived attention. Boarding the cars
with my new acquisition, I began study-
ing the stipulations printed on the
cover. Horrors! discovered three mis-
takes. While my signature had been
affixed to the contract left with the
agent, he had failed to have me sign
the mileage strip attached thereto. He
had also neglected to limit the book by
punching out the dates on the cover,
and, thirdly, he had required me to fill
out the certificate for the rebate and had
witnessed my signature. This should
not be done until the mileage is used
up and the cover turned in. Visions of
that $10 which might possibly be re-
gained were vanishing like dew before
the morning sun.

A message by a returning conductor
brought the mileage strip to me at
Evart, where it was duly signed and re-
turned, and an accommodating agent at
another station cancelled the necessary
dates on the cover.

At Reed City a wait of fifteen minutes
occurred at the ticket window while
the agent was sending a message before
I could obtain transportation north,
Fortunately, the train was behind time,
and I am a patient waiter. Sept. 2, at
Cadillac, on presenting my book at the
Ann Arbor ticket office, was told that
no exchange tickets had been received,
and was obliged to pay cash fare to
Copemish at the usual rates. On the
Manistee & Northeastern I had other
mileage, but the officials of that road
had not been furnished with the neces-
sary blanks for the world-beater.

Sept. 3, my trip to Frankfort was on
the cash system, and I was thinking of
getting that book framed, but it came
into use again on the Chicago & West
Michigan, where I ran against another
snag. As the conductor appeared, my
name was signed ‘‘in his presence’’

 

 

with an ordinary pencil on the Com-
missioner’s ticket which is attached to
the exchange ticket. He said that didn’t
go. It should be signed in ink or with
an indelible pencil. As I did not carry
a complete stationer’s outfit, he fur-
nished the blue marker and I signed
again. ‘‘There’s another loop-hole, ’’
said I. ‘‘My contract is violated. I’ve
been signing all those train tickets with
a black pencil, and it’s all off so far
as that S10 is concerned. ’’

At Traverse City the agent informed
me that it was necessary to sign the
mileage strip in ink on the tinted por-
tion. I was learning something every
day. Other strips had been forwarded
to the auditor with my autograph spread
over tinted and white alike in my usual
flowery fashion—no discrimination on
account of color—but here the line must
be drawn.

Alden was reached, where the gen-
tlemanly agent received me cordially ;
but, having had no experience with the
new book, would | kindly assist him in
preparing the necessary tickets, so I
could reach Charlevoix? ‘‘Certainly,"’
my experience was ripe, and how could
such politeness be turned down?

Driving across the country the next
day, it was necessary for me to take the
south-bound night train at Boyne Falls.
Here is where you_meet friend Marsh,
the G. R. & I. agent. All the boys
know Marsh,
cranky. Maybe he is—we all have
wheels, you know—but my experience
here was great. Having leisure during
the evening, I walked over to the station
and asked for passage to Mancelona via
the interchangeable route. I was sur-
prised when Marsh informed me that
he wouldn't issue a ticket for my train,
as his office was supposed to be closed
when the cars went through at 11.15 and
I must get my exchange ticket from the
conductor. 1 didn't care to tackle this
new dilemma, so I argued that it was
his duty to issue a passage on any train
I might designate—whether it was that
night, the next day or the week follow-
ing. We had quite an animated dis-
cussion over the merits and demerits
of the new book,during which the agent
expressed the hope that every traveling
man who bought one of them would lose
his $10. I quite agreed with him on
this point—except so far as myself was
concerned. He acknowledged his igno-
rance of the rules governing the book
and thought they were a great nuisance.
I expressed the same opinion, espe-
cially so when an agent refused to issue
a ticket when requested by the owner of
one of them. If I felt that way, he
would study up the rules and accept my
mileage. I told him he didn’t have to
look them up; that I was familiar with
the program and would act as assistant
agent,so I obtained passage to Mancelona.

At this point genial Chamberlin be-
gan to look around for his ax when I
presented my book,and I began to think
that they were no more popular with
railway officials than with traveling men
—but my week is up.

GEO. L. CRAWFORD.
— ——~>-2 > ao
Getting in Line for the Convention.

Kalamazoo, Sept. 13—Post K, Michi-
gan Knights of the Grip, will give a
grand banquet and ball in the Academy
of Music on December 28 and 29 to
over 1,000 fellow knights from over the
State, who will be their guests on those
two days. This was decided upon at a
meeting held at the Burdick House Sun-
day, with a large number of members of
the local post in attendance.

A contract has already been signed
by B. A. Bush, who has bound himself
to remove the parquet in the academy
for the banquet on the 28th, and the bail
on 29th, and to lay a floor, which will
change the theater into a fine ballroom.
Both occasions will be strictly invita-
tion affairs,and the expense of the same
will be borne by the local members of
the organization.

Prominent speakers will deliver ad-
dresses at the banquet. The following
members of the Executive Committee
will have full charge of the two events:
J. A. Hoffman, C. A. Cable, Henry
Dasher, Louis Rosenbaum, Arthur S.
Cowing, L. Verdon and F. L. Nixon.

and some think he is.

 

The Unfortunate Statement of Mr.
Moeiler.

Grand Rapids, Sept. 15—I would like
a small space in your paper to express
my opinion regarding an interview with
H. F. Moeller, Assistant General Pas-
senger Agent of the F. & P. M. Rail-
road, which appeared in the Saginaw
Globe of Sept. 11, one paragraph of
which is as follows:

‘*The only ones who are objecting to
this interchangeable mileage system are
dishonest commercial travelers, who
patronize the mileage the scalpers get
hold of and who charge their houses
up with regular fares. I have seen it
done many times myself between De-
troit and Chicago and between Saginaw
and Detroit. The new system prevents
these men robbing their houses, and
every firm in the country who have men
on the road are more than pleased with
the system.’’

Now, I can hardly believe that Mr.
Moeller ever expressed himself in these
words. I gave him credit for _ bet-
ter judgment. For a man filling the
position of Assistant General Passenger
Agent of so good a line as he repre-
sents, it would seem impossible. The
reflection cast on nearly or quite all cf
the traveling men in Michigan—men
who furnish his road with two-thirds
of its business, passenger and freight—
by the statement that they are dishonest
and that they steal from the firms they
represent is unfounded and unfair. Mr.
Moeller’s position depends on the suc-
cess of his line. If it were not doing a
good business, I prophesy the expenses
would be reduced, even to dropping
some from the list of employes.

The commercial traveler proper is one
of the smallest customers ot the scalp-
er’s books. I think Mr. Moeller cannot
find a single case in_ his city where
traveling men who represent Saginaw
houses—who leave home on Monday
morning and return on Saturday night
—are patrons of the scalper’s office.
There is no object in so doing. Their
firms pay all of their expenses, or they
are paid a stipulated amount and _they
pay their own expenses. What object
would it be for them to pay the scalper
2% cents when they can buy the book
direct at 2 cents?

It is an acknowledged fact that nearly
or quite all of the roads sell the scalp-
ers all the books they want (and I think
the F. & P. M. is hardly an exception).
Still they say that it is a crime tor the
traveling man to buy and use one of
them. How as to the statement that
none but dishonest traveling men kick
about this interchangeable book? [|
claim to be honest, and I have never
yet, in a single instance, bought a book
of a scalper, and [ think there are hun-
dreds of other traveling men who have
never been inside of a scalper’s office.
If, as he says, every man who does not
like this monstrosity is dishonest, there
is an army of dishonest men on the
road,as | have yet to hear from one who
does not feel just as I do about it—and
the worst kickers about it that I have
met are the ones who have bought it and
tried to use it!

I repeat that I cannot believe that
Mr. Moeller made the statement. He
is too shrewd. He knows that the
freight business of all the roads depends
on the traveling man, as he almost  in-
variably has the say as to which way
freight shall be shipped; and to have
the boys feel that one of the general
officers felt as this statement makes it
would divert the freight in many cases.

‘Since my letter in last week's Trades-
man, I have been flooded with good
words, commending my position and
invariably making vigorous’ kicks
against the endless chain interchange-
able book of 1897—and I fully believe
that they are honest men!

GEO. F. OWEN.
a

Telephone Testimony in Kansas. °

From the Topeka State Journal.

An innovation was introduced in the
court here Saturday, when two witnesses
were examined and gave their testi-
mony over the wire. After the trial in
the case was commenced two witnesses
were wanted. Both were business men,

 

and the attorneys for both sides agreed
that to save time they should give their
testimony by telephone, which was
done. Affidavits have been sworn to
and acknowledgments taken by tele-
phone and sustained by the courts, but
this is believed to be the first time that
testimony has been received by ’phone.
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best location for a first-class shoe, clothing,
or furniture or carpet store; size 25x100: lighted
by gas or electricity; in Battle Creek, Mich.
Parties in search of a good location should not
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OR SALE—STOCK GENERAL MERCHAN-
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best farming country in Central Michigan: pos-
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POR SALE—GROCERY AND BAKERY
stock, also meat business in connection if
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location; business conducted on strictly cash
system; in fact, best of the kind in Michigan.
Address No. 395, care Michigan Tradesman. 395
ANTED—LOCATION, WITHOUT STOCK,
for druggist and physician in Michigan or
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Aj ANTED_ FARM. IF FARM SLITS BIG
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YOR SALE—BOOT AND SHOE STOGK IN-
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Rapids, 382

POR EXCHANGE—A WELL-ASSORTED
drug stock that will inventory $1,200 for a
stock of groceries. Address John Cooper, 340
Woodworth avenue, Grand Rapids, Mich. 366
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best growing city in Michigan. Lake port and
center of fruit belt. Patronage mostly cash.
Rent, %0 per month, with terminable lease.
Stock and fixtures will inventory $3,500, but can
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Business established five years and made money
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ANTED—POSITION IN GROCERY OR
general store; twelve years’ experience;
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contains the entire grain of wheat with
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Every pound of this flour represents 16
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Travelers’ Time Tables.

 

 

 

D ETROIT Grand Rapids & Western.
9 June 27, 1897.
Going to Detroit.

Ly. Grand Rapids......7:00am 1:30pm 5:35pm
Ar. Detroit............. 11:40am 5:40pm 10:20pm
Returning from Detroit.

Ly. Detroit........ .....8:00am 1:10pm 6:10pm
Ar. Grand Rapids..... 1:00pm pe a 10:55pm

iw, Alma and Greenville.
Lv. GR?: 4:20pm Ar. GR12:20pm 9:30pr

Parlor cars on all trains to and from Detroit
and Saginaw. Trains run week days only.
Gzo. DeHaven, General Pass. Agent.

 

 

GRAND  restrenc areca ov

(In effect May 3, 1897.)
Leave. EAST

+ 6:45am..Saginaw, Detroit and East..+ 9:55pm
$10:10am....... Detroit and East.... ..+ 5:07pm
+ 3:30pm..Saginaw, Detroit and East..+12:45pm
*10: 45pm... Detroit, — sy Canada...* 6:35am

* §:35am....Gd. Haven and Int. Pts....* 7:10pm

 

Arrive.

2: x :
t 5:12pm....Gd. Haven Mil. and 0:05am
* 7:40pm....Gd. Haven Mil. and Chi. 8:15am
+10:00pm Gd. Haven and Mil....... 40a:

  

seas 6:40am
estes ee 14 has Wagner parlor car. No.
18 parlor car. Westward—No. 11 parlor car.
No. 15 Wagner parlor car.
*Daily. er Sunday.
E. H. Huenes, A. G. P. & T. A.
EN.

West Michigan R’y
June 27, 1897.

CHICAGO ™

Going to Chicago.
av. @. Rapids. .8:35am 1:25pm *6:25pm *11:30pm

 

tr. Chicago....3:10pm 6:50pm 2:0uam 6:40am
Returning from ———

Gv. Chicago............ 7:20am 5:15pm * 9:30pm
Ar. @’d Rapids......... 1:25pm 10:45pm * 4:00am
Muskegon.

Ly. G’d Rapids..... .... 8:35am 1:25pm 6:25pm
Ar. Gd nro ce eiasce sacs 1:25pm 5.15pm 10:45am
Traverse City, Charlevoix, Petoskey and Bay

lew.
Gy. G@’d Rapids........ 7:30am 11:30pm 5:30pm
Ar. Traverse City..... 12:40pm 5:00am 11:10pm
Ar. Charlevoix........ 3:15pm 7:30am ........
ir. Petoskey.......... 3:45pm 8:00am ........
ir Bay View.......... 3:55pm 8:10am .... ..

PARLOR AND SLEEPING CARS. CHICAGO.
Parlor cars leave Grand Rap'ds 8:35 am and
1:25 p m; leave Chicago 5:15 pm. Sleeping cars
leave Grand Rapids *11:30 pm; leave Chicago
*9:30 p m.
TRAVERSE CITY AND BAY VIEW.
Parlor car leaves Grand Rapids 7:30 a m;
sleeper at 11:30 p m.
*Every day. Others week days only.
GEO. DEHAVEN, General Pass. Agent.

GR AND Rapids

Northern Div. Leave Arrive

Trav. C’y, Petoskey & Mack...* 7:45am *10:00pm
frav. C’y, Petoskey & Mack...t 2:20pm +t 5:10pm
Charlee ee os -+ 5:25pm 11:10am
Petoskey & Mackinaw... .....+11:10pm + 6:30am
Trains leaving at 7:45 a.m. and 2:20 p. m. have
parlor cars, and train leaving at 11:10 p. m. has
sleeping cars to Petoskey and Mackinaw.
uthern Div. Leave Arrive

OmmGinnail oo. cs + 7:10am + 8:25pr
ER Waynes. ico. oe + 2:00pm + 2:10pm
Cincinnati, Louisville & Ind..*10:15pm * 7:20am
7:108.m. train has parior car to Cincinnati.
2-00p.m. train has parlor car to Fort Wayne.
10:15p.m train has sleeping car to Cincinnati,
Indianapolis and Louisville.

 

 

& Indiana Railway
June 20, 1897.

 

Muskegon Trains.

GOING WEST.
Lv G@’d Rapids......... 7:35am +1:00pm +5:40pm
Ly Gd Rapids... 0.0. $9:00am +7:00pm
Ar Muskegon... ...... 9:00am 2:10pm 7:00pm
Ar Musketon o.oo 10:25am 8:25pm
Ar Milwaukee, Steamer........ 4:00am

GOING EAST.
Ly Milwaukee, Steamer....... 7:30am
Ly Muskegon....... .. 48:10am +11:45am +4:10pr
Lv Muskegon.. ............... $ 8:85am {6:35pm
Ar@’d Rapids... ..... 9:30am 12:55pm 5 31m
Ar Gd Rapids)... cook: 1): 8:00pm

00am 8:
+Except Sundav. *Daily {Sunday only.
Steamer leaves Muskegon daily except Satur-
day. Leaves Milwaukee daily except Saturday
and Sunday.
A. ALMQUI8T, C. L. Lockwoop,
Ticket Agt.Un. Sta. Gen. Pass. & Tkt. Agt.

C AN ADI AN Pacific Railway.

EAST BOUND.

 

 

 

Ey. DGGrOiss. |... oe. ee +11;45am *11:35pm

Ar. WOrOnte.. 6.2 8:30pm 8:15am

Ar: MOmtreaL 8 eects tlc. 7;20am 8:00pm
WEST BOUND.

Ly. Montreal... oo. 5.. 2. :50am 9:00pm

By FOtemm@k.. coc e ec 4:00pm 7:30am

Ar; Deworw.. .... 6... 10:45pm 2:10pm

D. MeNicoll, Pass. Traffic Mer , Montreal.
E. C. Oviatt, Trav. Pass. Agt., Grand Rapids.

 

 

 

DULUT South Shore and Atlantic
9 Railway.
WEST BOUND.
Ly. Grand Rapids (G. R. & I.)+11:10pm = +7:45am
Ly. Mackinaw City............ 7:35am 4:20pm
Ar. St Ignace................. 9:00am 5:20pm
Ar. Sault Ste. Marie.......... 12:20pm 9:50pm
Ar, Marquetie,....:......2.'... 2:50pm 10:40pm
Arp. Nestoria. -. ot... sks teste 5:20pm 12:45am
Ar. Duluth. 24.255. cs acces eae 8:30am
EAST BOUND.
is Pe eee geet 6:30pm
Ar. N@steria: 2... Set. s cc. : tll:l5am 2:45am
Ar. Marquette................ 1:30pm 4:30am
Ly. Sault Ste. Marie.......... SOOpM  .... 8.
Ar. Mackinaw City........... 8:40pm 11:00am
G. W. Hreparp, Gen. Pass. Agt., ——
E. C. Oviatt, Trav. Pass. Agt., Grand Rapids.

 

 

MINNEAPOLIS, S* Pat! & Sautt Ste.

 

WEST BOUND.

   

   

Ly. Grand Rapids (G. R. & L.)............¢7:45am
Lv. Mackinaw City........... ek ce sce a cae 4:20pm
Ar. Gladstone.............. pcteccnesceues 9:50pm
PI ERIE oe cee aes cae aco 8:45am
Ar. Minneapolis. ...... nial ets CSN oc glete e- 9:30am
EAST BOUND.
Ly. Minneapolis........ Mcaelaeaiceesmicce 6:30pm
NS Gee A so i oe laeeeslac uses 7:20pm
iY GIRGSLONG oo co. cece ccdse les 5:45am
Ar. Mackinaw City - 11:00am

 

Jas. CAMPBELL, City P eee
‘as. ass. Agen:
0. 3 Monroe St.

 

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