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HAIL THE DAY!

For years the Vanderbilt railway sys-
tem has been operated in this State in
utter disregard of the rights of the peo-
ple, ignoring the Legislature and defy-
ing the courts of high and low degree.
The wholesome decision of the Supreme
Court which was handed down last Fri-
day gives ground for the belief that the
time is surely coming when the Van-
derbilt lines will not only be compelled
to recede from the insolent position they
have assumed and maintained for years,
but that they will also be compelled to
place themselves on the same basis as
the other lines of the State in
regard to the acts of the Legislature
and the decisions of the courts. It is
stated, on the authority of the eminent
counsel of the Lake Shore road, that
the decision of the Supreme Court. will
be carried to the Federal Supreme
Court for review, but as it has been the
universal custom of the higher tribunal
to refuse to decisions of the
State courts matters pertaining to
state legislation, it may be taken for
granted that the appeal is made simply
for the purpose of gaining time, as no
good purpose can be subserved thereby.

The Tradesman has been occasionally
taken to task by both friends and ene-
mies because it has singled out the
Vanderbilt lines for attack. The rea-
son for the Tradesman’s position is that
the Vanderbilt lines in the State insist
that they are protected by private char-
ters and exclusive privileges not ac-
corded other transportation companies,
so that they are not amenable to the
laws of the State and the decisions of
the courts.

In the opinion of the Tradesman the
constant agitation against corporations
is largely baseless when applied to
those corporations which are organized
under the law and hold themselves in
readiness to conform to the laws of the
State, the acts of the Legislature and
the decisions of the courts. The dan-
ger lies in such corporations as the
Michigan Central and Lake Shore Rail-
roads, which assume to be supreme in
their respective fields, to be above the
reach of legislatures, courts or people,
and which insolently igaore any attempt
on the part of the people or their chosen
instruments to regulate the business of
the roads or place them on the same
basis as other lines organized under
State law and operating under State
supervision.

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The Grocery Market.

Provisions--The demand for hams
has been very fair, but the stock is ex-
ceedingly large and every large holder
is endeavoring to clean out. Lard has
not changed in sympathy with other
provisions, being in extra good de-
mand. No further decline in lard is
likely until after November 1, when
packers begin to kill heavily.

Rolled Oats—The market is weaker,
caused either by a fight among manu-
facturers or by a decline in demand
that has set the manufacturers to war
ob prices.

Tea—While the tea trade all over the
country is vastly better than it was a

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GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1897.

few months ago, it has not yet waked
up to its fullest possibilities, as it is
expected to do a little later in the fall.

Coffee—The low price of this article
has stimulated a good buying anda
large consumption. No indications now
appear that the market in Brazils will
be materially higher in the near future.
Up to date the arrivals at Rio and San-
tos of coffees from the interior planta-
tions is greater than that of any previous
years.

Dried Fruits—Dried apples continue
high, and exporters are quoting 7%
cents f. o. b. New York, and decline
to make prices for future delivery. The
stock of apples is very short in this
country and fancy barrel apples are ad-
vancing all the time. The dried ap-
ple market is sure to hold high for the
entire year. Some fancy dried fruits
from the Coast are on this market, but
they are held so high, that there is lit-
tle call for them. The great demand is
for standards and choice stock. New
raisins are enroute from the Coast and
prices are higher than they were a year
ago. There are some new prunes on
the market. The price of this item
promises to be higher than last year,
because of the good demand for the
larger sizes for the export trade. There
is a good supply of peaches and apri-
cots, and both are selling at less than a
year ago. Reports from the Eastern
markets say that Persian dates will be
much later in arrival this year than
last. The shipments of Valencia raisins
to this country will be unusually small.
The first of the new crop of currants has
arrived in this country. The demand
is good enough to hold the market up
to about the present figure, although the
market is now considered very high,
and the crop of currants in Greece is
not light.

Canned Goods—The tomato market
has partially recovered from its recent
reaction, and is stronger by
than during the week preceding. There
has been no perceptible demand, how-
ever, although a few are selling. The
concensus of opinion is that the market
from now on is liable to at least hold
its own and _ that further advances are
not improbable. Corn is rather dull at
unchanged prices. Peas are quiet at
from 5@t1oc higher than the lowest
point. Very little is doing in peaches.
A few Californias are selling, but the
Eastern goods are very dull. The peach
market rules at unchanged prices.

Fish—John Pew & Son (Gloucester)
write the Tradesman as follows: Up
to date there has been no improvement
in the mackerel catch and thus far it is
practically a failure. At present there
is a fleet of sixty or seventy vessels at
Block Island and vicinity and here and
there'a vessel gets thirty or forty bar-
reis of mackerel, while in usual times
when we had a catch such ap occurrence
would not be noticed. Besides the
ahove fleet there is another small fleet
in the St. Lawrence waters; but it is
such a small one it will not count much
toward furnishing a supply to the trade.
There is a steady demand for codfish
and other kindred kinds and the _ ship-
ments during the month of September

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will aggregate a large amount, an in-
crease of probably 25 per cent. or more
over September, 1896, shipments. With
the small stock of codfish on hand, we
do not look for any material change in
prices for some time to come. The last
account from the Grand Bank codfish
fleet reported they had not done as well
to date as last year for the correspond-

ing time. Round shore herrings are
very scarce and it looks (unless we

have a sudden change in the receipts)
like a failure in the fall catch. Only
a very few thus far have been landed.
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Collam H. Brown: ‘‘ ‘Going on the
road,’ in point of morality, 1s full of
pitfalls for a young man. At every step
he encuunters opportunities to plunge
into dissipation,and his principles must
be of the strongest to resist and shun
the manifold temptations which allure
him on every side, for he is left to him-
self and very few men can, in their
youthtul days, be at all times the mas-
ter of themselves and subdue their
passions and inclinations. For those
inclined to drink, the life of the com-
mercial traveler is especially fraught
with danger. Opportunities for indulg-
ing in this pernicious habit are unfor-
tunately abundant and many a man has
wrecked his life by excess. It is not
my intention to advocate the cause of
temperance, but when I consider how
many commercial travelers, middle-
aged men, drink to excess, I cannot too
much emphasize an earnest caution
against the pitiful habit of intemper-
ance. The excuse that at times the in-
terest of the business requires one to
take a drink with this or that customer
I emphatically rebuke. Customers who
tempt the drummer to drink are not
generally desirable. The temperate
customer, as well as the temperate
traveler, is the most to be depended on.
Another passion, equally abominable
with excessive drinking, is gambling.
The young man who unhappily does not
possess that strength of character which
will keep him away from the gambling

table is lost past redemption if he
takes a position to go on the road.
Should his own resources no longer

suffice as supplied for the gratification
of his vice, he might easily yield to the
temptation to appropriate his employ-
er’s property to the desperate use in-
duced by his losses. Thus it happens
that funds entrusted to his care, and
which ought to be held sacred from
misappropriation, cease to be so. With
the expectation of restoring dishonestly-
applied cash from his winnings, he
recklessly uses the money in his charge.
How often is it seen that disgrace
proves to be his only winnings, and
shame and despair become his unavoid-
able fate.’’
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California Fruit in London.

A dispatch from London states that
within nine hours after the docking at
Southampton last week of the American
line steamship ‘‘St. Paul,’’ 4,403 pack-
ages of California fruit were delivered
at Covent Garden Market in splendid
condition, and they were all sold the
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Dry Goods

 

 

The Dry Goods Market.

Calicoes—Printers are in no position
to accept orders tor future delivery at
the present time, with price of print
cloths as it is and the prospect of !ts
taking another jump atariy time. There
is no disposition to continue the manu-
facture of the dark cloths, and machin-
ery 1s being changed to lighter varieties
as fast as possible. There is some ad-
vance in these dark lines counted upon
as soon as the spring season opens, as
the print cloths cannot be manutactured
at any less price than at present, unless
the cost of raw material is- lowered,
which is hardly probable. It seems to
be a good time to advance the prices ot
these goods as soon as the spring. sea-
son opens, for the buyers expect every-
thing of that kind now, and are ina
frame of mind to pay what is demanded.

Sheetings—Bleached sheetings and
shritings are in a trifle better demand
than browns, but the business has been
rather light and confined to actual ne-
cessities of the moment. There is no
spirit of speculation, and all seem will-
ing to keep their stocks well in hand,
and pay the advance when it comes,
rather than stock up now.

Dress Goods—Iobbers who have
placed duplicate orders for desirable
lines found the prices had stiffened to
such an extent that they were afraid to
take any at those quotations, and
dropped the lines altogether, selecting
something else, perhaps much less de-
sirable, that had not been advanced as
sharply. This has happened in a num-
ber of cases, and only goes to show the
futility of waiting to the last moment to
place an order when the market condi-
tions are as they have been this season.

Blankets—The blanket departments
have been perhaps in the most unsatis-
factory condition of any this season.
While the sales have been good, it has
been impossible to secure satisfactory
prices. The slight advances that have
been made in no way correspond with
the advances on wool, and the manufac-
turers are not very jubilant over this
season. They all say, however, that on
the opening of another season, blankets
will be advanced sharply from the first,
and that they will get prices that wiil
make up for this season if possible. A
large number of the mills are already
sold up, although the season is supposed
to be far from ended. There is no man-
ufacturer but what says the sales have
been perfectly satisfactory in regard to
the quantity of the goods disposed of.
Low and medium grade blankets have
naturally secured by far the best busi-
ness, but a number of the higher priced
lines are reported to have sold well.
The moment an advance is asked, or
hinted at, the customer loses interest,
and the manufacturers have been unable
to maintain an advance when they have
decided to ask it, because many mills
have had stocks carried over from past
seasons and sold them at prices based
on the cost of old stock, or stock that
was purchased at very low prices.

Knit Goods—Business was decidedly
better, and many more orders’ were
booked than have been reported for two
or three weeks. This is especially no-
ticeable in goods for immediate deliv-
ery in duplicate orders. The jobbers
find that they underestimated either the
business conditions of the country, or
the stocks which they were expected to
replenish, and they have found them-
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shirts and drawers, have been among
the liveliest teatures. These are largely
in medium and medium low grades.
In spring lines, business 1s moving for-
ward quite freely. Reports from the
road show that the traveling salesmen
are meeting with success, and their cus-
tomers are, in most cases, quite ready
to look at samples. The stocks of the
Western jobbers are reported as quite
low, and they will be placing beavy or-
ders before long. In fact, those that
have been visited have already been
credited with a very satisfactory busi-
ness. There have been advances made
in a small way on the majority of the
spring lines that are being opened, but
the matter is not generally admitted.
(he manufacturers seem to be afraid to
say that they have taken a stand ona
basis of higher prices, but preferably
make the assertion that the goods are
different from what they were last year,
and while this may be so in most cases,
yet the difference is frequently so slight
that the buyer cannot quite see it. This
does not do the market, as a whole, any
good whatever, and is rather detri-
mental than otherwise to the efforts that
are being made to advance prices.
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Her First Check.

‘‘Speaking of the way women do
business, ’’ said Smiley, as he lit a fresh
cigar, ‘ reminds me of a story told me
by an intimate friend of mine, a wid-
ower, who is the fond parent of a
daughter, now in her sixteenth year,
who bids fair to develop into a_ charac-
teristic business woman when she grows
up.

‘‘She was staying with friends and
attending school in a distant town and
with the advent of warmer weather she
wrote her father that she was in urgent
need of funds to purchase a new spring
jacket. Not wishing to risk the cash
in the mails, he enclosed in reply a
check, payable to her order, for the
amount he thought she would require.

‘*A couple of weeks later he went out
to spend Sunday with the young lady
whom he was proud to call daughter.
After the first greetings were over he
asked :

** “Well, Bertha, did you get my _let-
ter all right?’

‘Yes, papa,’ was the reply.

‘And was the amount what you
wanted?’

| Mies, papa, and I am ever so much
obliged ; but—’

‘But what, dear?’ he asked as she
paused and began exploring her pockets.

** “Well, I've got my jacket—it’ sa
real lovely one, too—and now, papa,
triumphantly producing the carefully
preserved check, ‘I wish you'd give me
the money this calls for so I can pay for
it!

‘Do you know what she had done?’
concluded my friend, when he told me
the story. ‘Well, sir, instead of using
the check which | had taken so much
pains to send her, she had bought the
jacket on credit and, carefully filing the
check away in her pocketbook, patient
ly waited for me to come out and cash
it, so she could square up her indebted-
ness. She'll make a business woman
yet, that girl will, and the man who
transacts business with her will be very,
very weary before he gets through. But
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That’s the woman of it. _ They all do
business that same way.
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The last straw has been added to the.

many trials of the unfortunate British
farmer by the importation, on a large
scale, of fox cubs from Germany for use
in the hunting field. The Teuton rey-
nard is denounced as being even more
vicious and predatory than his English
namesake, and in the midland counties
particularly the farmers are suffering
serious losses through his strongly-de-
veloped taste for English poultry.
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Don’t forget the $5 Chicago excursion
via C. & M. Railway October 14.
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The Drug Market.

The staples still have an upward ten-
dency.

Opium—Is very firm at the advance
noted last week.

Morphine—This article has at last
started up, an advance of toc taking
place on Monday. This applies to both
P. & W. and N. Y. brands.

Quinine—Has advanced, with an ex-
cited market. Agents for foreign mar-
kets have advanced their price 2c per
oz. P, & W. has advanced 3c per oz.
and N. Y. the same. Speculators in
New York ask 30c for quinine in large
packages for quantity. The market
here is advancing daily, but without
offers, so that 25c is the ruling price to-
day. These advances are on account of
the higher prices paid for bark and the
light receipts of same.

Cinchonidia—Advanced Friday 3c
per oz.
Saccharine—— Manufacturers recently

reduced this article from $18 to $8 per
lb. They have now advanced it back
to the old price.

Glycerine—The market is very firm,
on account of higher prices for crude.
One Western manufacturer has ad-
vanced his price %c per lb. It is quite
likely that other manufacturers will ad-
vance very soon.

Caffeine— This article has declined,
with lower prices probable.

Essential Oils—Anise continues firm
at the late advance. Lemon grass has
again advanced, on account of short
supplies. Spearmint and tansy are in
full supply and lower.

Golden Seal—In very small aie
The market has advanced.

Cardamom Seed——Has_ advanced
abroad and higher prices are expected
here.

Buchu Leaves—Have advanced and
higher prices are probable.

Turpentine—Has advanced.
ee

A hundred years ago excavations in
Pompeii were made solely with a view
to the discovery of art and archaeologi-
cal treasures, no effort being made to
preserve the houses. The present meth-
od 1s very different,and one of the latest
excavations. is a house in which all the
interior arrangements, furniture, wall
decoration, etc., have been preserved
or restored.

 

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The population of London is now es-
timated to include 250,000 persons of
Irish and 120,000 of Scotch parentage;
45,000 Asiatics, Africans and Ameri-
cans ; with some 60,000 Germans, 30,000
French, 15,000 Dutch, 12,000 Poles,
7,500 Italians and 5,000 Swiss.

 

 

If you are a mer-
chant and have lost
money trying to
handle

Clothing

write us for infor-
mation how to sup-
ply your customers
with new, fresh,
stylish and well fit-
ting garments at
satisfactory prices
to them and profit
to you. No capital
or experience re-
quired.

Standard line of
Men’s Suits and
Overcoats, $4.00 to
$16.00.

WHITE CITY TAILORS,

 

 

222-226 ADAMS STREET, CHICAGO, ILL.

 

We are showing

Some extra values
in Men’s, Women’s
and Children’s Un-

derwear.

VOIGT, HERPOLSHEIMER & CO.,

 

Wholesale Dry Goods,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

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JE cordially invite our country
customers to come to Grand
Rapids to see the Carnival, Oct. 26,
27, 28 and 29, and solicit a call on

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that occasion, as we shall have our

winter line open for inspection.

P. Steketee & Sons,

GRAND RAPIDS.

 

FARMAN

 

 

 

 

Commercial Travelers

 

Gripsack Brigade.

Commercial travelers of Indianapolis
have called an indignation meeting for
Saturday evening to protest against the
new interchangeable mileage book of
the Central Passenger Association.

Photographic mileage has proven
eminently satisfactory in the case of in-
dividual roads, the general passenger
agent of one of the leading trans-con-
tinental lines admitting that in the
seven years in which this system had
been in use on his road there had not
been a single instance of taking up
mileage owing to dishonesty on the part
of users.

Jackson Council, No. 57, United
Commercial Travelers, has issued invi-
tations for a series of seven social
parties, to be held one Saturday even-
ing a month for seven months, on the
following dates: Oct. 9; Nov. 13; De-
cember 11; Jan. 8; Feb. 12; March 12;
April g. Accompanying the invitation
is a Circular letter, announcing that an
incidental object of the entertainments
is to provide a fund for the entertain-
ment of the Grand Council, U. C. T.,
which holds its annual meeting in Jack-
son in May.

The thanks of the traveling public
are surely due Eenry C. Smith, of
Adrian, for instituting the suit against
the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern
Railroad, which was finally disposed cf
by the Michigan Supreme Court last
week. The Tradesman is not suffi-
ciently familiar with the inside history
of the litigation to warrant the state-
ment that contributicns toward meeting
the expenses of the adjudication would
be acceptable, but if they would, the
traveling fraternity can be depended
upon to do something handsome in the
premises. The victory is a notable one
and the action of Mr. Smith deserves
the commendation of traveling men
everywhere.

The Western Passenger Association,
which has been considering the matter
of adopting some sort of interchange-
able mileage ticket, has decided to try
the Sebastian plan, by means of which
a traveling man secures a permit to buy
a ticket in three parts, onea stub, which
the ticket seller retains, one a coupon,
which he keeps, and a third part, which
goes to the conductor, the traveler pay-
ing full local fare rates. If the traveler
covers 2,000 miles ina year and pre-
serves the coupons for same, he is en-
titled to a rebate of 1 cent per mile. As
the average journey of the traveling
man is eighteen miles, he must collect
a stack of 150 coupons before he gets a
cent of rebate, and then he receives
$20, which is at the rate of a centa
mile. From the railroad standpoint
this is decidedly a good thing, as by an
ingenious system the customer is actual-
ly made to do all the book-keeping for
the parties selling the goods.

Ohio Merchant: The regular month-
ly meeting of the Cleveland Commer-
cial Travelers’ Association was held at
the rooms of the society and seventeen
candidates were elected to full member-
ship and the names of several more
presented for future action. Strong res-
olutions were adopted condemning the
present mileage book of the Central
Passenger Association as surrounded
with too many restrictions, which have
proved to be a great annoyance to the
craft. The ceaseless and unanimous
protests that are being constantly sent
in to the authorities in charge will, no

 

doubt, in time tend to an abatement of
at least the worst features. The leading
one, judging by remarks heard from the
salesmen who have been traveling on
the book, is the delay experienced in
conferring with the ticket agent at the
window, with the train whistling for the
station. Sixteen hundred traveling
salesmen belong to the Association, and
not one has as yet been heard to express
approbation of this modern innovation
in the mileage line.

Before the days of the inter-state
commerce law, the Michigan Central
Railway discriminated against every
city and town in the State, so far as
freight rates are concerned, in the inter-
est of Detroit. The freight rate from
Grand Rapids to Hastings—32 miles—
was the same as the rate from Detroit
to Hastings—-138 miles. The same was
true of shipments from Hastings to out-
side markets, the rates on grain and
produce being the same to Grand
Rapids that they were to Detroit. Such
a system—infamous in conception and
worse than infamous in the manner in
which it was executed—worked serious
injury to every shipping point in the
State which happened to he so unfor-
tunate as to be located solely on the
Vanderbilt lines, because it destroyed
competition to a large extent by divert-
ing business almost exclusively to the
Detroit market. The inter-state com-
merce law was a Godsend, because it
put an end to unjust discrimination, so
far as the tariff schedules are concerned ;
but the taw has not succeeded in pre-
venting the Vanderbilt lines from  con-
tinuing their former policy by means of
covert agreements and the payment of
secret rebates, which are strictly forbid-
den by the law.

Nothing is more attractive than a
happy, cheerul disposition, which may,
perhaps, be regarded as the infallible
sign of an amiable character. Nature
alone can bestow this priceless gift, and
the man who must study to be gay and
jolly cannot make nearly so good an im-
pression as he who is born with this
endowment of perpetual cheertulness.
But it is desirable sometimes to affect
cheerfulness, even when not in the best
of humor. At such times the intelli-
gent reader of human nature may not
fail to notice hidden anxieties. He is,
however, the right man to appreciate

the effort to conceal them. There are
some commercial travelers who almost
make a frofession of jrsting. Let it

suffice to say of these people that it is
beneath the dignity of a man of good
sense to play the buffoon perpetually.
Such clowns must not expect to win the
respectful regard of those with whom
they associate. For the traveling mer-
chant to gain admission into a patron's
family by means of some talent, as skill
in music, singing, or the art of recita-
tion, to visit his customer's club room,
his lodge, or society, if invited to
so, is certainly not objectionable; but
to entertain a crowd of clerks in the
stores or warerooms, or waiters and at
tendants in hotel corridors is far from
being advisable. Such an excellent wit,
ten to one, neglects his business and
wastes his time, and the probability is
that the house he represents will sooner
or later think it wise to look out fora
less busy but more occupied man _ than
he.

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Don’t forget the $5 Chicago excursion
via C. & W. M. Railway October 14.
Tickets good 5 days.

—__—__>2.—_—___

Deer in the Catskills are said to be
more numerous than for the past sev-
enty-five years.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

Fourteen Additions During September. |

Flint, Oct. 4—Fourteen additions to}
the membership roll of the Michigan |
Knights of the Grip have been made |
during the past week, eleven active and |
three honorary. The active members|
are as follows: |

Louis D. Hubbard, Detroit.

Fred A. Eldridge, Flint.

V..O. Mitchell, Detroit.

Perry Barker, Grand Rapids.

J. L. V. Urch, Pontiac.

IT. F. Loftus, Grand Rapids.

Edwin F. Zander, Kalamazoo. |

S. E. Marcott, De Pere, Wis.

Wm. Finley, Toledo.

E. B. McKay, Muskegon. |

Geo. S. Hartom, Battle Creek.

The honorary members are as follows: |

R. F. G. Gibbs, Weidman.

J. A. Crawford, Maple Rapids.

C. J. Gay, Benton Harbor. |

Three deaths have been brought to |
my attention during the month—J. B. |
Moorehouse (No. 2963), of Indianapolis,
who died Aug. 28; J. C. Myers (No.
2962), of Grand Rapids, who died Sept.
17; Geo. H. Riblet (No. 2144), of Ster-
ling, who died Sept. 27.

DELL C. SLAGHT, Sec’y.
cir ~~ @—~30— :

In India the carpenters have an al-
most universal objection to sharpening
their tools. They never set their saws,
and when they get a grindstone they cut
it into pieces and use the fragments for
anything except to put an edge on chisel
or ax. They rarely carry a rule, and
they never try to make a close-fitting |
joint.

 

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The shops of the General Electric
Company at Schenectady are overbur-
dened with orders.

 

    

 

“Not Worth
His Salt,”

The dealer who sells
DIAMOND CRYSTAL
SALT never gets such a
reputation.

See Price Current.

DIAMOND CRYSTAL SALT CO., St. Clair, Much.

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1b. sacks to a case. .$3.50

FALLIS & CO., Toledo, 0.

WM. R. TOMPKINS, Agent, Detroit, Mich.

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We are jobbers of these goods, among which are

Rosin Sized Sheathing, W. C. Oiled Sheathing,
Tarred Felt, Roofing Pitch, Coal Tar,

Rosin, Asphalt Paints, Elastic Cement,

Ready Roofing, Carpet Lining, Mineral Wool.

H. M. REYNOLDS & SON, Grand Rapids, Mich.

Detroit Office, Foot of 3d Street.
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GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

  

 

MiCRmiGAN

iRADESMAN

 

 

Around the State

Aove -rchants
Beaverton -f W_ Swart & Co. suc-
ceed Jas. Page in yencra! trade.

Alpena—C. N. Ware & Co. succeed
Kinsel Bros. in the drug business.

Marquette —L. Grabauer has removed
his dry goods stock to the Mannard
block.

Beaverton

 

 

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McFarland & Co. have re-

moved their general stuck to West
Branch.

Port Huron—W. J. Mulford has em-
barked in the undertaking business at
this place.

Portland—Jack Walker has embarkea
in the bakery and contectionery business
at this place.

Ann Arbor—Klein & Theisen have
opened a tailoring establishment on
Williams street.

Union City—Prosens & Burns, gro
cers, have dissolved. Arthur Prosens
continues the business.

Port Huron—Geo. Drought & Co.

have opened a plumbing, steam and gas
fitting establishment at this piace.

Port Huron—Springer & Rose suc-
ceed J. Jacobi & Son in the clothing
and men’s furnishing goods business.

Grand Marias—Roy C. Hill stole a
march on his friends by getting marriea
without the usual advance advertising.

Laingsburg—L. S. Reed has ieased
the store building of Wm. Simpson and
will occupy same with a general stock.

Kalamazoo—Geo. Rickman, Jr., has
purchased the watch and jewelry re-
pairing department of W. F. Leavitt &
Co.

Marquette—The Marquette Dry Goods
Co.’s stock has been sold under chattel
mortgage foreclosure to Negaunee_par-
ties.

Barryton—W. Hurd, formerly of
Flint, bas embarked in the clothing
and men’s furnishing goods business at
this place.

Jackson—John C. Bader, hardware
dealer at this place and prominent in
business circles, died recently from a
disease of the throat.

Port Huron—The Bee Hive bazaar
will open a retail store Nov. 1 in the
building formerly occupied by L. Higer
& Son, on Huron avenue.

Harbor Springs— Foster & Burke
have added a meat market to their
hardware business and have placed W.
C. Cramer n charge therecf.

Charlotte. Geo. Blowers, formerly en-
gaged in ** +» meat business under the
style of Mitcu. ‘i & Blowers, has opened
a meat market in he Hetlway Block.

Harbor Springs Andre & Co are
again in charge of t.; City meat mar-
ket, Harry Chamber]
prietor, having retired 1

Big Rapids—]. W. Mi has
the clothing and furnishin <x oods inthe
S. | G. store to F. W.
consolidated the g S$ wit
stock.

Munising jas. (orbs Peters &
Co. )
quettte,
funeral of his fathe H
Pascoe

i ir se} h Kay ?

ware

the former pro-
™ business.
sold

who has

spent part of the ek at Mar-

atiena : 4 iPetoere} ane

deale atu was Married
Arbor. The Trade extends
gratulations.

Hancock—B. Arne, of the

 

regular |

| reports

om
last week to Miss | a f Ann |
branch

| $1,927. 13.
firm of | representative of Marshall Field &

Alma——L. H._ Hirschkowitz has
opened a dry goods, men’s turnishing
goods and millinery siore. Miss Carrie
Monroe will pave charge of the milli
uery department

Hancock—N. A. Metz, of the cloth-
ing firm of Dukette & Metz, at Mar-
quette, bas leased the new addition to

toe Drittler block and embarked in the
men’s furnishing goods business.
Fennville— Miss Carrie Barron has

purchased the interest of Miss Belle
Dutcher in the mil.iuery business of
Dutcher & Barron and has tormed a

partnership with Miss Florine Hawley

Prairieville —Geo. W> Kern has soli
his store building to L. L. Lovelana
and will close out his drug stock and
retire from business here. Mr. Love-
iand will occupy the building with his
Narness Stock.

Brutus—J. J. P. Dimling has pur
chased the Snyder store building, ad-
joining his present building, and will
connect the two stores by means of an
archway. Mr. Dimling will occupy the
Snyder store with a dry goods stock.

Saginaw—Mrs. J. Brown, who was for
Many years engaged in the millinery
business at Bay City, has removed her
stock to this place and opened parlors
in the store building formerly occupied
by the Excelsior Clothing & Shoe Co.

Lansing—D. W. Morris. has_ pur-
chased of W. S. Griswold the build-
ings, good will and business of the
Lansing Fuel Co. and will hereafter
conduct the business on a larger scale
than before. The purchaser hails from
Detroit.

Traverse City—William MHoolihan,
formerly engaged in the agricultural
implement business at Empire, has re-
moved to this city and embarked in the
meat business, locating on Front street
in the building formerly occupied by J.
C. Viack.

Lansing—I. M. Buck, formerly as-
sistant postmaster at this place, and
Geo. Bailey, for several years a clerk in
the grocery store of O. N. Stone, have
formed a copartnership and embarked
in the grocery business at 319 Washing-
ton avenue.

Manton—J. H. Williams has sold his
stock of groceries and store building to
the Williams Bros. Co., who will con-
tinue the business. Mr. Williams has
formed a copartnership with C. M.
Bumps, and will engage in the hotel
business at Bellaire.

Benton Harbor—Edgar Nichols has
purchased the interest of his partner,
Perley W. Hall, in the drug business ot
Hall & Nichols and will continue the
business in his own name. Mr, Hall
will continue with Mr. Nichols in the
capacity of registered pharmacist.

Lansing—At a meeting of the Michi-
gan Bean Dealers’ Association, held at
Lansing, Oct. 5, J. P. Wood, of Chel-
sea, was elected President and W. F.
Prescott, of Leslie, Secretary. From
made it 1s estimated that the
acreage this year averages 50 per cent.

)of the average, while the yield is about
| fifteen bushels per acre.

Mason—The dry goods stocks former-
ly owned by Homer Henderson have
been sold at chattel mortgage sale by
Clark, trustee. There was a
stock here appraised at $7,834.04 and a
at Dansville appraised at

Both were purchased by a

Ame & Wacht, Ishpeming, has removed Company, the Mason stock at 64 cents

to this place and embarked
men’s furnisbing goods
Quinc stre .

business on

in the | and the Dansville at 55 cents on the dol-

lar. The only other bidder was Baum-
ardner & Co., of Toledo.

 

Manutacturing Matters.

Pewamo—TIbe sawmill belonging to
Harry D. Woodworth, one mile south
aud one mile west of this place, was
burned Oct. I.

Hastings— Richard Messer, in com
pany with one or two friends, will em-
bark in the manufacture of a patent
self-locking seal, for use on boxcars and
other places.

Emmet—H. W. Cooley is putting the
nnishing touches on his new elevator.
Phe building is 26x4o feet in size and
has a capacity of 9,000 bushels of grain.
The elevator will cost upwards of
$2, 500.

Beiding —On the petition of the Bal
lou Basket Co. for a receiver, Judge
Daboll appointed E. E. Fales to as-
sume tbe duties of that position, he
being the unanimous choice of the
stockholders. Business will be contin
ued the same as heretofore.

Saginaw—R. M. Randail and Harry
IT. Wickes, President and Secretary of
the lumber and planing mill corporation
known as Randall & Boyd, have sold
their stock in the corporation to Geo.
H. Boyd and Jas. H. Booth, who will
continue the business under a corporate
style to be determined hereafter.

Jackson—S. M. Isbell & Co. and C.
C. Helling have purchased of Henry
Hayden the old Phoenix steam flour
mill lot on North Mechanic street, pay-
ing $8,000 for it. Isbell & Co. will
construct thereon an extensive elevator
for their bean trade and Mr. Helling
will erect a frost proof warehouse cap-
able of holding one hundred carloads of
onions, with a cold storage for apples
and vegetables.

Ishpeming—The Barnum mine has
been idle for the last four years. Its
immense stock pile, which had gotten to
be quite a landmark along the D., S.
Ss. & A. Railway, has been removed
this year. At present very little ore re-
mains on the surface of the property.
Operations will soon commence, when
the Barnum wiil resume its position as
one of the largest producers on the
Marquette range. It will take two or
three months to make necessary repairs
and to unwater the mine before the
usual force of 5co men will be put to
work. Merchants here are feeling bet-
ter than for a long time, as the pros
pects of a large iron ore business for
1898 are assured. This year, with its
quiet business generally, has seen the
largest ore business in the history of
the Lake Superior territory, reaching
the enormous output of thirteen million

tons.
—__e° eo -——

Detroit Doings.
Detroit, Oct. 5—The eight grocers

and dealers in dairy products whom
Deputy Food Commissioner Tunnecliffe
has charged with violating the pure
food laws by selling colored oleomarga-
rine pleaded not guilty and were held
or examination October 12, under $300
bail, their personal recognizance being
accepted.

Articles of incorporation of the Har-
ris Burglar and Fire Patrol Telegraph
Co. have been filed. The capital stock
1s $50,000. The 500 shares ot $100 each
are held as follows: Chas. D Aaron,
100; George Harris and Wm. Ritchie,
200 each.

Articles of incorporation of the Stand-
ard Mutual Fire Insurance Co., Lim-
ited, with general offices in Detroit,
have been filed. Most of the incorpora-
tors are Republican politicians well

known throughout the State. They are
H. H. Aplin, Bay City; Stanley W.
Turner, Detroit; Wm. | A, French,
| resque Isle; Arthur Pack, Oscoda ; J.
Wight Giddings, Cadillac; Burton
Parker, Monroe; Neil McAuliffe, Sag-
inaw; Keeley Hill, Grand Marais;

 

Granger Hill,
McKinley.

The Davidson Cycle Co. has filed a
chattel mortgage for $1,601 upon its
stuck of store fixtures and bicycle goods
stored with the Crescent Storage Co.
ihe mortgage runs to George W. and
Octavia Bates, and 1s to secure the pay-
ment of $511, due on the lease of the
store at 23! Woodward avenue. A
mortgage has also been given to the
same parties by Alexander Davidson for
$510 on a stock of bicycles.

Several months ago DeWitt J. Oakley,
manager of the Detroit Credit Clearing
House, connected with the Merchants &
Manutacturers’ Exchange, was obliged
to lay off on account of chronic stomach
trouble, which became so serious that
tor a time his life was despaired of.
Mr. Oakley is now cured, so far as doc-
tors and medicine are concerned, but
will not resume business until next
spring, it being his intention to recu-
perate this winter in the mountains. Un-
der these circumstauces the position of
manager of the Credit Clearing House
bas been done away with. The name
has been taken off the door, and the
work will be performed under the direc-
tion of Walter S. Campbell, Secretary
and Actuary of the Exchange

Sloman & Groesbeck, attorneys for
the dissatisfied members of the Co-op-
erative Cigar Co., have filed a bill in
chancery, asking for the appointment of
a receiver to wind up the affairs of the
firm. The bill will charge that six of
the stockholders have conspired with a
local leaf tobacco firm to freeze out the
other seventeen stockholders.

Le
Annual Meeting of the Lake Superior
Commercial Travelers’ Club.

Marquette, Oct. 4—At the annual
meeting of the Lake Superior Commer-
cial Travelers’ Club, held at Hotel
Marquette, Oct. 3, the following offi-
cers were elected :

President—Will C. Brown.

Secretary and Treasurer—Albion F.
Wixson.

Vice-Presidents—J. H. Russell, Jr.,
Jackson; F. H. Horton, Menominee;
W. R. Smith, Escanaba; F. G. Trus-
cott, Marquette; J. R. McKeand,
Houghton; John Powers, Ishpeming.

Directors—H. C. Work, Escanaba;
D. P. Baldwin, Marquette; W. C. Mon-
roe, Flint; H. I. Telling, Chicago.

The Secretary was instructed to mail
the following circular letter to every
member of the organization:

At the annual meeting of the Lake
Superior Commercial Travelers’ Club,
held at Hotel Marquette, Marquette,
Oct. 3, an amendment to the by-laws
was unanimously adopted, striking out
the admission fee and making the an-
nual dues $1 per year.

The object of this is to increase the
membership and induce every commer-
cial traveler covering the Upper Penin-
sula to become a member of this Asso-
Clation.

This territory being isolated, and
our membership being drawn from five
or six different states, and no other or-
ganization exerting any particular influ-
ence here, it becomes necessary for us
to organize ourselves into an associa-
tion that will be recognized by other
traveling men’s associations throughout
the country, to which we extend a hearty
co-operation.

The object of this Association is to
protect the interest of its members; to
influence legislation in their behalf; to
cultivate social acquaintance, and to
provide means whereby we may be able
to meet for our social and business ad-
vancement.

It is expected that every member will
use his influence to increase our mem-
bership.

Oscoda; Harry Parks,

ALBION F, Wixson, Sec’y.
—_—_~>4.__
“‘Imitation is the sincerest form of

flattery.’’ This accounts for the efforts
put forth by a certain cigar manufac-
turer to place on the market a brand of
Cigars calculated to deceive the dealer
and consumer by leading them to be-
lieve that it is the genuine S. C. W.

——_>2.__
Ask Visner for Inducement on Gillies’
New York spice contest. Phone 1589.

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

6
: : change will prove a healthy feature for | Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Asso-| rious lines of business (and at least
Grand Rapids Gossip the produce trade. Ciation. 200,000 persons dependent upon them

 

 

 

H. J. Sonnema succeeds Gerrit Van
Anrooy in the grocery business at 319
Plainfield avenue.

 

H. H. Olds has opened a grocery
store at Bendon. The Lemon & Wheeler
Company furnished the stock.

Daniel Viergever has purchased the
interest of his son, Martin C., in the
grocery stock of D. Viergever & Son,
at 157 Clancy street, and will continue
the business under the style of D.
Viergever,

 

The stock and fixtures of the defunct
Grand Rapids Paper Co. have been ap-
praised at $1,782. From present ap-
pearances there will not be sufficient
assets to pay the first mortgage creditors
anywhere near the face of their claims,
to say nothing of the unfortunates who
were ‘‘secured’’ in the second and third
mortgages.

 

Wilhelm & Co. have leased a portion
of the second floor of the Metropolitan
block and have transferred their upper
leather factory to that location. The
change gives them more room in which
to carry on the manufacture of shoes at
their old location, and will enable them
to introduce additional machinery and
considerably enlarge their capacity.

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The Morning Market.

The principal characteristics as the
season advances are the generally firm
prices and the freedom with which the
offerings move. The difference in feel-
ing on the part of the vendors from that
of last year is very apparent to the
stroller. The eager wistfulness attend
ing a slow market is entirely wanting
this year. When a price is asked the
answer is given firmly and readily and
if the buyer is inclined to demur, he is
met by the expression of confidence that
there are enough who will find it satis-
factory. The common assertion that
abundant harvests are a general bless
ing is hardly borne out by the different
attitudes of the farmers while hand] ng
the smaller crop of this season. Talk-
ing with a representative peacb grower,
who is marketing 1,500 bushels of
peaches this year as against 4,000 a
year ago, he expressed the greater sat
isfaction for this season’s business.
The price obtained this year was given
as, on the average, double that for the
more bountiful harvest; and, while the
total amount realized is less, the differ
ence is nearly made up in the less cost
of handling the smaller crop. The

cost of handling so large a yield in-
creases very rapidly, as it goes beyond
the ability of an ordinary farm force;
and the necessity of rushing so large an
amount quickly into a slow market
makes the task a formidable and costly
one.

The conditions under which the mar-
ket has been operated this year have
been more unfavorable in many regards
than are likely to be in the future. The
unfinished condition, the prejudice on
the part of the farmer and the torn-up
approaches have offered as serious ob-
stacles, as can well be imagined. In
spite of these there has been a steady
growth in the favor of both sellers and
buyers. To be sure, there is some bit-
ter commenting on the part of retail
buyers, principally on account of the
condition of the streets, but the grocers
as a rule have been rather pleased than
otherwise and most of them think that
the increased distance on account of the

 

 

A sensible departure has been inaugu-
rated this week in the changing of the
time of opening the market from 4 to 5
o’clock. Under the old arrangement
farmers came in large numbers and
stood shivering for an hour or more be-
fore there was much trading.

Work is progressing rapidly on the
new horse sheds along the west side.
Superintendent Gibson states that they
are to be finished according to the con-
tract of the builder, G. A. Christ, not
later than Oct. 20. There is still some
filling to be done, but this will be kept
out of the way so that the sheds will be

ready for use at the time named.
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The Grain Market.

Lack of foreign demand gave the
market a downward tendency. The ex-
ports were large, but the shipments were
from old orders. The receipts were lib-
eral in the Northwest and the extreme-
ly dry weather was the only thing that
sustained prices. Had the winter wheat
belt been favored with some nice
rains, prices would have declined still
further. Early sown wheat is not grow-
ing at all, while late sown wheat is not
coming up and is moulding in the
ground. An increase of fully 2,000,000
bushels was expected. It fell short,
however, and the visible increased only
1,561,000 bushels. We may possibly see
another increase during the month, as
this is the time when large increases
are expected. The winter wheat re-
ceipts are not large at present, the rea-
sons for which were mentioned in our
last review. To sum the whole matter
up, the situation was never so strong
for the agriculturists to get good prices
for their wheat as it is now, providing
they are conservative sellers and do not
force their wheat on the market the wav
they have been doing in the Northwest

The corn market appears to be stub
born and does not yield in price, owing
to the extremely unfavorable weather
and the fact that the crop will be about
500.000,0c0 bushels less than last year.
The visible made a fair increase, but,
with the large amount already in sight,
the present price is retained.

Oats showed a decrease, but the price
remains the same as last week.

The receipts during the week were 41
cars of wheat, 8 cars of corn and 6 cars
of oats.

Local millers are paying 86c for
wheat. C G. A. Voter.

—_—__~>-2.__

J. P. Dimling, the Brutus general
dealer, was in town over Sunday for the
first time in three years, :

C. W. Dierdorf, Treasurer of the G.
J. Johnson Cigar Co., has been-called
to Greenton, Ohio, by the serious ill-
ness of bis mother.

Philip Graham, the veteran South
Division street grocer, has completed
his summer outing at Cascade Springs
and resumed his residence in the city.
Mr. Graham has spent his winters in
Florida for several years, but announces
his intention of remaining in Grand
Rapids the coming winter, ‘‘for a
change,’’ as he expresses it.

—_—___2-2-—

Imitation is the last resort of the scal-
awag, yet people persist in getting up
labels in imitation of S. C. W., evi-
dently acting on the assumption that the
consumer can be deceived and that the
dealer will be a party to the deception.

—__> ¢-___

Don’t forget the $5 Chicago excursion
via C. & W. M. Railway October 14,
Tickets good 5 days.

caren EBT

 

At the regular meeting of the Grand
Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association,
held at Retail Grocers’ Hall, Tuesday
evening, Oct. 5, President Dyk pre-
sided.

A. Brink, chairman of the Executive
Committee, recommended that the sal-
ary of the Secretary be fixed at $200 per
year, for all services connected with the
office; also that the salary of the Treas-
urer be fixed at $1 per year. The report
embodied the statement that the books
and accounts of the Treasurer had been
found to be correct and recommended
that a hearty vote of thanks be tendered
Mr. Lehman for his loyal services to the
Association. The report was adopted
and the recommendations were con-
curred in.

The Committee on Button reported
that 200 Association buttons had been
ordered at a cost of $20—10 cents
apiece.

A. W. Rush moved that the report be
accepted and that the button be sold_ to
the members at 25 cents apiece.

Henry J. Vinkemulder moved as an
amendment that the price be fixed at
15 cents.

The original motion was adopted and
the Committee on Button was instructed
to dispose of the button on arrival on
the basis established.

On motion of Fred. W. Fuller, the
Secretary was instructed to write the
manufacturers, requesting them not to
sell buttons of the same design to any
one but an authorized officer of the As-
sociation.

A letter was read from the editor of
the American Grocer, calling attention
to an editorial on indefensible price
cutting which recently appeared in that
journal, as follows:

‘‘An evil common with purveyors of
food, and of growing importance, is the
advertising of proprietary and other
foods at less than the lowest wholesale
price and often below the cost of man-
ufacture. Generally the goods selected
are such as are extensively advertised,
and hence well known: or same leading
staple, such as sugar, flour or butter,

‘It is claimed by these who do this
sort of thing that it is justifiable, as be-
ing a very cheap and profitable method
of advertising. There is an axiom in
law that a person has a right to use his
property as he sees fit. provided he does
not use it to injure others There is also
a quasi representation or false pre-
tense involved, inasmuch as cunningly
worded advertisements suggest that
these cutters sell all goods equally low
when, in fact, they are simply baits to
draw in the unwary. The principle
involved is one of injury to the rights
of others. For instance, there are
10,000 grocers in New York and Brook-
lyn, and double that number within
thirty miles of City Hall— hardworking,
honest, industrious dealers, equitably
entitled to a fair profit for the service
they render their respective neighbor
hoods. The law protects their property

fram injury by reason of a nuisance:
their good name against slander: pro
vides means for the collection of debts:
guards their health against unseen dan-
gers. Why, then, cannot the law be tn-
voked to prevent the reckless cutting of
prices, whereby a few work a great loss
to these dealers and demoralize an en
tire trade?

‘‘Is it not feasible to frame a statute
making it illegal for any dealer in pat-
erted articles, or such as are protected
by trade-mark, to sell such goods
below a minimum price to be fixed by
the manufacturer or owner of a trade
mark?

‘Men often endeavor to put an end
to their life, claiming they have a right
to do with their person whatsoever they
elect ; but the law says that any attempt
at suicide is a crime, and does so be-
cause the good of society demands that
human life should be sacred, and must
be protected under all circumstances.
And why cannot a law be made which
will apply tu the cutters, who ignore the
rights of the many for the benefit of a
few individuals? In this vicinity there
are perhaps 40,000 merchants in the va-

 

for support), whose business is serious-
ly injured by the irregular, if not dis-
honest, practice of a few, who claim
they have a right to sell their merchan-
dise at any price they choose; give it
away if they elect. It seems feasible to
devise some legal protection against
such an abuse of power as we have out-
lined. This isa live topic for discus-
sion in the Retail Grocers’ Associa-
tions. |’

The matter was made the special or-
der of business at the next meeting.

A communication wds received from
the Director General of the Grand Rap-
ids Carnival of Fun, inviting the mem-
bers to participate in the parade in a
body. Inasmuch as many of the mem-
bers are identified with the movement
in private and public capacities, it was
deemed advisable to lay the communi-
cation on the table.

Secretary Klap formally accepted a
re-election and thanked the members for
the honor conferred upon him. He. re-
ported the total receipts of his office
during the past year as $319.21, during
which time he has drawn fifty-eight or-
ders on the Treasurer, amounting to
$221.66. ‘The report was accepted.

A communication was received from
the Secretary of the Duluth Retail Gro-
cers’ Association, calling attention to
the schedule of prices now in force
among the retail grocery trade of that
city, as follows:

100 lbs granulated sugar, $6

15 lbs. granulated sugar, $1; 7%
50 cents; 3% Ibs., 25 cents.

13 Ibs. cut loaf sugar, $1; 6% lbs., 50
cents; 3 lbs. for 25 cents.

13 lbs. pulverized sugar, $1; 6% lbs.,
50 cents; 3 lbs. for 25 cents.

Cut loaf and pulverized sugar per lIb.,
10 cents.

18 lbs brown sugar, $1; 9 lIbs., 50
cents; 4 lbs. for 25 cents.

Package coffee, per lb., 15 cents; 7
packages, $1.

1 gal kerosene oil, 13 cents.

5 gals. kerosene oil or over, and less
than a barrel, per gal., 12 cents.

One 2 lb. package Quaker Oats, 15
cents.

Two 2 lb. packages Quaker Oats, 25
cents.

All other brands
straight, 10 cents.

Rolled oats, 5 cents per lb. ;
25 cents.

“One 2 lb. package Pettijohn's Break-
fast Food, 15 cents

Two 2 lb packages Pettijohn’s Break-
fast Food, 25 cents

Aunt Jemima's
Straight, 10 cents.

Santa Claus soap, 6 bars, 25 cents; 25
bars for $1.

Jaxon soap, 6 bars, 25 cents; 25 bars
for $1.

Satinet soap, 7 bars, 25 cents; 28
bars, $1; $3.25 per box

Gold Dust and ali other 4 Ib. pack-
ages of soap powder, per package, 25
cents.

While Lily soap, large size, 7 cents
per bar, 4 bars for 25 cents,

The matter of leasing the Association
name to some cigar manufacturer for
use on a brand of cigars was deferred
until the next meeting.

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Big New York Grape Crop.

The New York grape crop is the most
abundant that the growers have known
in many years. A_ week ago the vines
were so heavily loaded with grapes, and
the market so low, that the growers felt
sure that the fruit would rot on the
vines, as they could not get enough to
pay for picking it. The demand of
the market and the cold of the past
few nights have improved the outlook,
however, and now the grape-growers
are getting better prices, so that they
will realize a reasonable profit on the
fruit.

Ibs.,

package oats,

7 Ibs. for

Pancake — Flour,

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The effort to exploit a cigar which

shall participate in the popularity of
the celebrated S. C. W. will prove fu-
tile, all imitations of the brand thus far
placed on the market having been in
keeping with the poet's comparison,

“As moonlight unto sunlight,

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Clerks’ Corner

An Angel in Disguise.
Written for the TraDEsMAN.

I have been thinking over the trials
and tribulations of the ‘‘hen’’ fever,
and of its prevalence among clerks, and
am led to believe that, virulent as it is,
and dreadful as it is, it is not a wholly
unmitigated evil.

 

 

I have just had an instance of it. One
of the worst samples of the professional
shopper lives in one of the largest and
brownest of stone houses on Capitol
Hill. She can scent a baragin afar off
and the faintest of whiffs will cause her
to don instantly that shopping garb of
hers, so familiar to every clerk in every
dry goods store in the city. Not an ad-
vertisement in a single city paper ever
escapes that eagle eye. The ‘ Woman's
World’’ department, and Clubdom, and
Teas, and all forms of womanly enter-
tainment may escape her; but not this.
Nor is she confined to Monday—Terror
Day among the clerking fraternity;
but every day finds her ready to swoop
down upon—a bargain? Notatall. That
is quite another thing. She delights in
them when she wants to buy; but that is
not often. She simply wants to go for
her own gratification, and for the same
reason see with her own eyes the fine
things that can be bought at a small
price when one wants to indulge in that
plebeian process.

What her methods are the interested
readers of the Clerk’s Department need
not be told. Asa sampler she has no
equal. Common goods have for her no
attraction, and woe betide the clerk
who undertakes to palm off upon her
anything less than the rarest and the
costliest.

Another peculiarity of the class, and
of this particular specimen of it, is her
determination to ‘‘take no sass.’’ Her
relations with clerks, her peremptory
manner, and especially her tongue, fa-
mous for its sharpness, have all pro-
claimed eternal war between her and
them; and, when she makes her ap-
pearance, it is, in itself, a declaration
of war—‘ war to the knife and the blade
to the hilt!’’ That she is oftener the
victor is a fact as humiliating as it is
unquestioned. That she knows how to
take every advantage of her victory is
as readily conceded ; but that this—this
—er—this hen(!) is ‘‘an angel in dis-
guise,’’ the wildest imagination—cler-
ical imagination—has, so far, been un-
able to picture. How?

From her lively encounter with the ex-
asperated clerk, the professional sam-
ple-gatherer always stops on the home-
ward journey to ‘‘talk it over’’ with
“‘her dearest friend,’’ whose name is
legion. The finest laces, the richest
silks, the choicest fabrics of all kinds,
have been noted and labeled, and the
samples are brought out and displayed
as a proof of the marvelous stories nar-
rated. ‘‘Here is a dress pattern from
Hyde & Hooper's on Sixteenth street.
Isn't it elegant? Just look at the figure.
Examine the material. There's style for
you. Miss Van Staal, I had you in
mind the moment I put my eyes on it.
Just fancy yourself gowned in this, go-
ing in to dinner at the coming event of
the season with Mr. Stuyvesant Sylves-
ter!’’ So, from house to house this free
advertiser finds her way, exhibiting
this piece of goods here and that one
there; and, when she reaches home just
in time for dinner, she has done more
good for the house whose clerks she
has tormented than can be done by a

 

column of advertising in the daily
papers. And all for nothing! Don’t
undertake to tell me, then, that this
same ‘‘hen’’ is not ‘‘an angel in dis-
guise,’’ and that the winged creature is
not often entertained unawares!

Not many moons ago, after a violent
agitation of the front doorbell and the
usual civilities on the part of the serv-
ant, the shopper, fresh from conflict,
after a hearty greeting from the lady of
the house, unfolded her treasures and
the extended story began.

“Oh! Such a time as I’ve had!
Tired? No name for it! I'm simply
utterly exhausted! I just stopped to
rest, because | knew I hadn't strength
enough to get home. I don’t usually
get out Mondays—such dreadful women
take that day for shopping; but I had
a hint from one of my pets ( !) at Hoop-
er, Up & Co.’s that they were to get in
anew line of silks that were to beat
anything seen so far, and I concluded,
Monday or no Monday,! was just going
to see them first. To bave that—well,
industrious (!) to put it mildly—Mrs.
Dinsmaid overexultant again is some-
thing I couldn’t live through and ever
be happy after!

‘‘Well, here’s the sample. Isn't it
splendid? If I had the slightest idea of
purchasing a gown so early in the sea-
son, this would be the pattern. But
such a time as [ had getting it! I never
was talked to so in all my born days! I
can usually hold my temper, and still
have my say, with the best of ’em; but
this fellow came very near being too
much forme. He’s that tall elegant-
looking young man with the light mus-
tache. Don’t you know, I pointed him
out to you one day—the one with that
stylish blue serge and the white vest,
and you remarked that his English was
as elegant ashis manners? Well, that’s
the one. You should have heard him
to-day! Whew! Forget himself? Not
a bit of it—I only wish he had! He
has the use of short words down to a
nicety, and the way he stabbed me
with ’em was a caution! He went so
far, once, that I threatened tc report
him to the senior member of the tirm—
I’m well acquainted with him, you
know—and what did that young jack-
anapes say but that ‘I’d find him in
the office in the first story, and that it
would be easier to take the elevator!’
Did you ever!

‘‘There! What do you think of this?
Isn't it lovely! When my nice blonde
clerk held it up in that way he has—
such graceful folds, you know—it
seemed to me the very prettiest thing I
ever saw in my life! When you trade
there, you must always find that par-
ticular clerk to wait on you. He is such
a comfort. O, you needn’t look that
way. He is human like the rest of us;
and when we go in there cross and
crabbed and ugly, it isn’t any wonder
that they call us ‘hens!’ I felt like one
to-day—a wet one—and I know I tried
his patience awfully. But I must go.
Let me urge you to get that pattern be-
fore somebody else picks it up—and be
sure to trade with my clerk !’’

And ‘‘that old hen’’ went on her way,
exhibiting her samples from house to
house and praising ‘‘the tall elegant-
looking young man with the light
moustache, whose English is as elegant
as his manners,’’while he—poor man—
not detecting ‘‘the angel in disguise,”
was at that very moment ejaculating
unprintable things about a certain
““cantankerous old hen!’’

RICHARD MALCOLM STRONG.

 

SUCCESSFUL SALESMEN.

 

Geo. W. McKay, Representing A. E.
Brooks & Co.

George W. McKay was born June 24,
1859, in Wright township, Ottawa
county, Michigan, his ancestors on his
father’s side being descended from
Elkenny McKay, who emigrated to this
country from Edinburgh in 1725 and
settled in Lenox, Mass. ‘The history
of the family is an exceptionally inter-
esting one, the McKays having played
an important part in the revolutionary
struggle and occupied many positions
of trust and responsibility in the early
days of the Republic.

Mr. McKay attended district school
in the township in which he was born
until 18 years of age, when he went to
Coopersville and clerked in the general
stores of E, O. Phillips and R. D.
McNaughton. He then came to Grand
Rapids and drove a wagon a year for
G. S. Clark, selling teas, coffees and

 

 

spices. His next employment was in
the store of S. Tyroller, 24 Monroe street,
where he had charge of the fancy goods
department. In the fall of 1881 he had
his first experience on the road, with a
holiday line for Mr. Tyroller. He sub-
sequently engaged with Putnam &
Brooks as store salesman, handling city
orders and waiting on customers. From
this position he was promoted to that of
city salesman, and a year later was
given a regular route on the road, which
he covered for six consecutive years.
On the dissolution of the firm, Mr. Mc-
Kay became a partner in the new house
of A. E. Brooks & Co., and for the
past eight years has represented that
house on the road, covering all the
available towns north of Grand Rapids
in the Lower Peninsula, and St. Ignace,
Sault Ste. Marie and Newberry in the
Upper Peninsula.

Mr. McKay was married May 17,
1882, to Miss Lillian Potter, of Grand
Rapids, who died Nov. 23, 1886, leav-
ing one child, a boy, who is now 11
years of age. Mr. McKay was again
married Nov. 10, 1888, to Miss Sadie
Stevens, of Joliet, II]. He owned the
handsome residence at 65 Packard
street, where he resided for several
years, but has recently sold it and is
now sole owner of the ‘‘home farm’’ in
Wright township, Ottawa county, where
he expects to make his permanent home
in the near future, but will continue to
call on the trade with a full line of
goods. During his three months’ sick-
ness the past summer, the family resided
at the comfortable home of Dennis
Baker, on West Leonard Street, but are
now located for the winter at the Park
Hotel, Petoskey, that being a central
point in his territory.

Mr. McKay is a communicant of Grace
Episcopal church and is affiliated with
the Michigan Knights of the Grip and
the Knights of Pythias. He is held in

 

 

high esteem by all who know him on
account of his innate honesty, his steady
persistency and his gentlemanly man-
ners. No matter where he may be, or
how trying the circumstances surround-
ing him, he is ‘‘always the same,’’ his
pleasant smile and perennial good na-
ture never forsaking him.
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Vegetables Dried Like Fruit.

From the San Francisco Call.

A new and important industry has
come into existence in Santa Clara
county, which bids fair in time to rival
the fruit drying. This is the prepara-
tion of dried vegetables for the market,
which at present is generally confined
to the short seasons at the driers be-
tween the ripening of the different
fruits. Just lately the vegetables have
been usurping the place of the apricots,
but they have now already begun to
give way in turn to the prunes.

On approaching a drier it does not
take one long to decide whether fruit
or vegetables are being prepared, for
in the latter case a pungent odor rushes
out to sting one’s eyes and crawl un-
comfortably up one’s nostrils—for the
trail of onions is over the land. Within
a lively scene is presented. Men are
hurrying to and fro, bearing trays and
boxes, while long rows of women and
children sit busily peeling potatoes and
carrots, which, together with the
onions, form at present the staple prod-
uct. When boxes of potatoes and car-
rots are filled, they are poured into a
large hopper, and from there fed to ma-
chine with rotating knife-blades, which
cut them up into small slices a quarter
of an inch thick. ‘The further process
which the potatoes undergo is simple,
and for carrots and the other minor
vegetables it is practically the same.

After being sliced the tubers are
slightly sulphured in a chamber built
of wood. Here great discrimination
must be used, for if they are sulphured
too much the potatoes will taste of the
fumes ; if too little they will not con-
tain enough antiseptic property, and
bacteria attracted by the starch will
develop. Moreover, a little sulphuring
is necessary to preserve the color of the
vegetables as far as possible and to
prevent decay.

After this process the potatoes are not
spread out in the sun, but put into an
evaporator. The latter looks like a
small Ferris wheel, and is enclosed in a
sort of brick oven with glass windows.
Within this it revolves close to hot-air
pipes for a few hours. When the mois-
ture is sufficiently evaporated the cars
of the wheel are emptied through the
windows, and their contents are ready
for shipment in sacks.

When this stage is reached the sliced
potatoes resemble dry chips, and _ it
takes six or seven pounds of the fresh
to make one pound of the dried.

By their pungency onions possess the
power of warding off bacteria, and are,
therefore, only slightly sulphured to pre-
serve their color. They are next evap-
orated until one-third of the moisture is
expelled, and then placed in trays in
the sun, just as is done with fruit. The
drying process shrivels the onions so
much that it takes twenty parts of the
fresh to make one of the dried. While
the onions are being cut up the moisture
coming from them is very disagreeable
and hard on the eyes of the employes.

When carrots are evaporated it takes
about nine parts of them to make one
dried part. Perhaps the drying process
used in the case of both carrots and
potatoes might be improved upon were
steam employed. By using the latter the
Starch in the potatoes would be partly
cooked and sterilized, and after this the
tubers could be evaporated in a cham-
ber similar to the one above described.
In this way the potatoes could be ria of
sulphur, well dried, and yet capable of
being quickly soaked, and there would
be no chance for bacteria to develop.

Other vegetables than these mentioned
are at present in process of develop-
ment. So far the industry has proved
very profitable, as evinced by the in-
creased demand for dried vegetables all
over the country, especially in the min-
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oe buy Souders’ Extracts.

They fully comply with all the requirements of the new pure food
laws and will not cause you any trouble in that regard. If you are not
familiar with the goods, please add to your next order a small quantity
of them and you will, by their use, become convinced of their high
character. We carry a full line, from the small size up to quarts.

Dried Fruits.

We are now receiving daily shipments of foreign and domestic
Dried Fruits and shall be able to supply your wants promptly.
ay These goods are fresh from the orchards and are of rather better qual-
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WEDNESDAY, - - - OCTOBER 6, 1897.

 

 

 

 

TRADE UNIONS IN POLITICS.

There is a forcible illustration’ in the
sensational developments of the past few
days incident to the management of the
local postoffice of the fact that one of
the most difficult questions the local
politician has to handle is the proper
and safe treatment of the labor organi-
zations. The leaders in these make
themselves so conspicuous, and make
themselves and their following appar-
ently so numerous, that, when the ques-
tion of rewards for political service
come to be considered, these ‘‘ exponents
of toil’’ must be early in the list. It
makes no difference what political party

is concerned, organized labor must be

recognized for what these leaders have
done, or, more correctly, for fear of
what they may do.

Those of the political leaders who can
give this aggressive element sufficient
recognition by carefully prepared
eulogies on their ‘‘cause’’ and organiza-
tion without the need of actual reward
in the way of putting public trusts into
unfit hands are fortunate. It is, doubt-
less, for this reason that so many go
cut of their way and stultify themselves
by fulsome and insincere praises of that
which they secretly detest. If such
only had the perception to see that these
blatant champions and their following
are in no way real representations of
labor, they would dismiss them from
their reckonings as of too little conse-
quence, or consideration.

In too many cases, however, the pol-
itician who thinks he has profited by the
services of these ‘‘labor leaders’’ must
needs do more than treat them to fine
speeches. They must be considered in
his appointments and recommendations
to office. Unfortunately, it would be
hard to find a class less fit for places of
trust among what are considered the re-
spectable ciasses of the community. In
the ranks of labor the competent and
trustworthy are too busy with better
things to afford to spend their time as
organizers, walking delegates, agitators
and strixe Jeaders, so this is left to the
incompetent, the idle, the ignorant and
the vicious. Thus it is that few strikes
are carried on where these leaders are
entrusted with funds without the suspi-
cion—or more than  suspicion—of
defalcation on their part,and frequently
they retire to the prosecution of some
disreputable business at a distance from
the scene of their ‘‘strike.’’

So, when the politician has placed

 

himself under obligations to recognize
this portion of his support, in the dis-
tribution of public patronage, there is
too frequently introduced into his ad-
ministration an element of annoyance
and anxiety, if not of danger. Thus it
may be recalled that, in many of the
‘“‘labor’’ appointments of recent years
in this city, the incumbent has proved
incompetent, if not worse. <A_ recent
example is that of a defaulting clerk in
police court, and others may be readily
recalled.

As to the merits of the case in the
present sensation, little is known be-
yond conjecture on account of the nat-
ural reticence of the officials. The fact
that the ‘‘labor’’ appointe was _permit-
ted to resign in the early stages of the
investigation would naturally cause un-
pleasant suspicions as to the stealings
which had precipitated the investiga-
tion. That the matter is a source of
some anxiety to the head of the institu-
tion, who is reponsible for the appoint-
ment, may be inferred by the fact that
there are rumors of the possibility of
its costing him his position. It would
have been better for him to run the
risk of incurring the displeasure of the
‘ delegates’’ rather than run the risk
of ending his official career in a scan-

dal.

GENERAL TRADE SITUATION

While all general conditions favor in-
creasing activity and prices, there have
been, for the past week, a number of
local hindrances which have served to
put a sufficient check upon trade move
ment to prevent its assuming the pro-
portions of aboom, with the attendant
dangers. Operating in the way of re
Straint, the bear conditions in the stock
market have had a healthy tendency.
These seem to have been caused by the
general expectation of a reaction from
the long steady advance of about four
months, aided by the increased demand
for money for the needs of crop move-
ment in the interior. Then, the quar-
antining of considerable districts in the
South on account of yellow fever affects
demand perceptibly and the early and
rapid buying in dry goods and clothing
has led to a check in those lines.

All the elements controlling the stock
market seem to point to an early re-
sumption of the advance. Since the
reaction set in, the movement has been
dull as compared with the previous ac-
tivity; but the fluctuations have been
small, closing last week at about the
point left by the first reaction. This
week started out with a considerable
improvement, but later there is a tend-
ency to decline in some lines and Tues-
day was decidedly dull again, presumed
to be on account of the Jewish holiday.

A notable indication of the generally
healthy condition is found in the fact
that failures for the quarter have been
unusually few in number and of a
smaller average than for a long time.
The record for few and small failures
is broken for any quarter in five years
past and for the average per failure for
twenty-three years. The significance of
this is in the fact that it shows that the
financial wreckage of the years of panic
is fairly cleared away.

All indications in the iron trades con-
tinue favorable. Demand is warrant-
ing a steady, although slow, increase in
prices, and activity is increasing at a
rapid rate in nearly all lines.

 

 

 

 

Thanksgiving Day is the next holi-
day to look forward to. There will be,
according to present indications, a good
deal to feel thankful for by that time.

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VALUE OF EXPERT TESTIMONY.

The Luetgert murder trial in Chicago
is developing some curious information
as to the value of expert medical evi-
dence in criminal cases.

The testimony, as printed in the Chi-
cago papers, shows that the defense’s
chief expert, Dr. Walter H. Allport,
mistook the thigh of a gorilla for the
thigh of a man and, besides declaring
that the bone was human, gave his es-
timate of the height of the man to whom
it once belonged.

Dr. Allport also declared that a sesa-
moid bone from the musk ox skeleton
at the Field Museum was the kneecap
of a sheep; identified a human phalanx
or toe bone as a dog’s ‘‘dew’’ claw, and
averred that one collection of bones
handed him contained parts of the front
and hind feet of a dog, when only half
of the hind foot of that animal was
present.

Some years ago a woman was mur-
dered in a New York lodging-house un-
der circumstances that resembled the
horrible crime of ‘‘Jack-the-Ripper,’’
so notorious in London within the de-
cade. A man who had been seen in the
woman’s company was arrested. His
clothes were stained with blood. He
declared that the stains came from a
calf or other animal which he had as-
sisted in slaughtering. In the course of
his trial the pathological experts were
put to work on the blood-stains. Some
of the scientists testified that they were
the remains of human blood. Others
declared for the blood of some other an-
imal. The jury placed no confidence in
the expert testimony and acquitted the
prisoner, who was probably guilty.

When two sets of experts swear hoen-
estly to such contrary and conflicting
conclusions concerning the same facts
it is impossible to put any faith in the
correctness of their statements. All
cannot be right; then who is wrong?
When contrary and conflicting judg-
ments are honestly reached by different
parties from the same facts, and when
those judgments are really little more
than mere opinions, they are entitled to
no weight as testimony.

If a scientist actually knows a fact
and the conditions in which it ought to
exist, his knowledge may be cf value;
but when his alleged knowledge is real-
ly nothing more than opinion, or con-
jecture, it should not be allowed to
affect the life or liberty of a human be
ing.

The circumstances in the Luetgert
case point strongly to the guilt of the
defendant, but there must be other tes-
timony than the conflicting conjectures
of supposed experts to make out a case
against him.

 

 

EXPERIMENTS IN COMMUNISM.

There is a great deal of encourage-
ment, apparently, for Eugene Debs in
the history and prospects of a Tennessee
community founded upon his socialistic
ideas. The precepts of Ruskin, how-
ever, have been drawn upon for the es-
tablishment of the community and the
results appear to be bearing this great
English thinker out in his views.

The community at New Harmony now
numbers 213 and_ possesses property
valued at $80,coo. When it started each
head of a family put in $500 and the
increment represents what they have
earned in the interval beyond their liy-
inzg expenses. The settlement lives as
a single family; its standard of values
is an hour’s labor; in its home com-
merce it has no money and needs none
—a certificate that labor has been per-

  

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formed takes its place. A pound of tea
costs eleven hours’ work ; seventy hours
pays for a pair of shoes; two and a half
for a pound of crackers, and so on.
Everybody works and all—men and
women alike—receive the same wages.
They have heretofore worked ten hours
a day, but expect soon to reduce it to
eight. They have a kindergarten and
adequate education, machinery, music,
languages and a limited technology be-
ing taught in addition to the regular
branches. The majority of the com-
munists are agnostics. There is no
church, but those who like can go to
church outside.

It is only in rare instances, however,
that such unanimity of belief and such
harmonious action are to be expected.
The ordinary communist society finds
its equilibrium disturbed in less than a
month and the necessity for starting
over again is at once apparent. Small
collections of citizens, such as this at
New Harmony, may for a year or so
pass through the crucial tests success-
fully, but eventually the shrewd men in
the settlement will obtain advantages
over the drones and then a new arrange-
ment will become a necessity.

While this Tennessee community is
giving an excellent illustration of the
theory and practices of communism,and
in so far encouraging Debs and other
theorists in the same direction, it will
not yet do to draw any general conclu-
sions from the experience of the com-
munity, for we know that any day may
bring a break in existing conditions and
furnish further evidence of the futility
and folly of all such undertakings. It is
a social experiment, however, worthy
of comment and watchfulness.

 

The Treasury Department is giving
a trial to a new machine for sealing
envelopes. The Treasurer's office at
Washington the other day had 27,000 in-
terest checks to send out, and it was in
the sealing of the envelopes for these
that the machine was given a trial. If
the machine proves a_ success it may
be put into regular use throughout the
Department. The machine is not com-
plicated. It werks something like a
printing press. The envelopes are-fed
into rollers, one of which is moistened
from a small trough of water through
which it revolves. A small folder closes
the envelope, which then passes through
two other rollers, and is pressed, falling
into a receptacle. The machine is run
by a small dynamo, or by a pedal like
a sewing machine. It is claimed that
the machine will seal 250 envelopes a
minute when the operator becomes ex-
pert.

It is not impossible that the much
more definite results obtained by inves-
tigations into the manufacture of the
vegetable cheeses of China and Japan
will aid bacteriologists in their ex-
tremely complex task. These vegetable
cheeses are made by exposing the beans
of the leguminous plant Glycine—termed
soja-beans—to bacterial fermentations
in warm cellars, either after preliminary
decomposition by certain mould-fungi
or without this. The processes vary
considerably, and several different
kinds of bean cheeses are made, and
known by special names.

An honest fool has a right to his own
opinions; but it is unfortunate for a
community where such a man occupies
an official position—kindly given him
to keep him from want—and his opin-
!ons are accepted by strangers who do

not know him, as worthy of considera-
tion,

A NATIONAL OBLIGATION.

The deliberations of the irrigation
congress which met at Lincoln, Neb.,
last week were of vital importance to
nearly two-thirds of the area of the
United States, exclusive of Alaska, be-
cause the people residing in the so-
called ‘‘dry states’’ are dependent ai-
most altogether on the ‘‘early and the
latter rains’’ mentioned in Scripture.

The waters which are to be used for
the important purposes of irrigation are
to be derived from the heavy snows
which, during the winter season, fall
throughout the mountain region. On
the approach of warm weather these
snows melt and rush down in destructive
floods upon the valleys below. They
raise the numerous streams and_ rivers
to dangerous heights. For a few weeks
many of them are navigable, but the
excess of waters soon runs off and leaves
the torrents dry, or dwindled to incon-
siderable streams.

If this water could be stored up and
spread over the country during the sea-
son of plant growth, it would convert
what is now a desert into a vast expanse
of farms and orchards, and make homes
and a livelihood for millions of people.

Irrigation for agriculture is as old as
the world. The Egyptians, who are the
first farmers mentioned in history, used
it, and the first white men who set foot
in Mexico found it there. It furnishes
a sure means of getting crops. Dur-
ing the growing season the water is
turned into the ditches every day, and,
when ripening time comes, it is turned
off, and nature does the rest.

In order to secure proper diffusion of
the water, so as to embrace as large a
territory as possible, the rivers and
streams must be dammed before they
issue from the mountains, so that vast
lakes or reservoirs may be made at such
altitudes as will give the water to the
entire expanse of the plains up to the
bases of the mountains themselves.

The entire expanse of the dry region
is extremely fertile, lacking only water.
Probably one million square miles of
those lands needs irrigation. Something
in the way of providing water has been
accomplished by private enterprise,
and some by the states; but vastly more
must be done by the National Govern-
ment. Rivers which flow through half
a score of states have to be dealt with.
In many cases vast areas of the land
where the lakes and reservoirs are to
be made are owned by the Federal Gov-
ernment, and so this matter of irriga-
tion on a large scale becomes a National
question—as much so as the building of
levees on the Mississippi or the con-
struction of harbors on the Great
Lakes.

The Missouri, the Yellowstone, the
Nebraska or Platte, the Arkansas and
the Red, all great rivers, taking their
rise from the Rocky Mountain snows,
should be forced to give their surplus
water to agriculture, and, if that were
accomplished, they would no longer
have any floods to pour down upon the
people of the Mississippi Valley.

Every drop of the flood waters of
those great rivers now runs to waste,
besides working havoc upon the people
and their homes and industries far down
in the valleys. Every drop of such
water could be given to agriculture, and
thereby made precious where now it is
a curse, pouring out death and ruin.

When Armour gets nicely started in
the butter business, and begins selling
butter to the people who buy from the
jobbers to whom the Chicago commis-

 

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sion men have been selling goods, things
will not be so pleasant on South Water
Street as they have been. When Armour
goes in, he goes in to cut the heart of
the individual dealer’s profits and get
the business. We think it will dawn on
the Chicago commission trade before
long that greater benefits could come to
it than having Armour & Co. tor com-

petitors.
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Opportunity for American Enterprise.
Written for the TRADESMAN

From time to time the American trad-
ing world has been charged with a lack
of business enterprise. For some un-
known reason the other nations of the
earth always manage to get in ahead.
Our trade relations with South America
are far less than they should be, because
England and Germany, or some other
foreign country, have slipped in first
and the American tradesman and his
goods are left out in the cold. The con-
sequence is that the depression which
the country has suffered from for the past
three or four years has been enhanced
by this lack of effort on the part of our
business men.

With the present tide of prosperity
there is no reason why this weakness
should remain a reproach; and, as if
to aid in its removal, Central Africa in
every possible way stands ready to en-
courage the development of trade with
the United States. She wants now every
kind of building material and all sorts
of household goods. She is in need of
textile goods of every description, from
calicoes to blankets; and she is ready
to pay a good round sum for just the
class of manufacutred goods which the
American market can furnish, especial-
ly in the line of carpenter's tools and
axes; provided, of course, she is sure
of getting a durable article.

The same facts exist in respect to
China. During the next few years that
country will be a buyer of all classes of
machinery and especially of railway
materials. For railroads rails will be
wanted, as well as couplers and_ build-
ing iron for bridges and locomotives.
The Chinese Emperor has authorized
the purchase of six first-class battle
ships, six first-class cruisers, and twelve
torpedo boats, and that government is
going to create a loan of 100,000,000
taels—about $150,000,000—a part of
which will go toward purchasing the
vessels. Is any of this enormous sum
to come into American coffers?

It is a question which the American
business man must answer, for the whole
matter rests wholly upon him. The
United States Consul at Amoy, China,
in a recent dispatch, says that the
Chinese prefer American cotton fabrics,
spinnings, flour, oil, canned goods and
meats, even at higher prices than other
importations can be had for. This same
Consul says also: ‘‘There is a more
amicable feeling existing between the
natives and foreigners at Amoy and in
the surrounding country than probably
exists at any other port in China."’

It remains to be seen whether these
chances will be improved by our busi-
ness men. Other nations are in the field
and have taken steps to secure there
a permanent foothold. Enterprise alone
is absent; and it is for the Ameri-
can to decide whether he will take
measures to bring millions of dollars
annually to this country from these two
quarters of the earth, or will stand with
his hands in his pockets and let the
golden opportunity slip through his
fingers into other and more enterprising
and so more deserving hands.

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The Michigan Legislature having
adopted the apple blossom as the most
fitting flower to represent the State as
the emblem of the commonwealth, we
have concluded to adopt the apple blos-
som as typical of the purity of a line of
canned goods which we have had put
up, under our own supervision, under

the name of

EMBLEM BRAND

Which we are able to furnish in corn,
tomatoes and three kinds of peas—
AN Petit Pois, Extra Sifted Early June
and Standard Early June.

In placing this line of goods on
the market, we have been actuated
solely by a desire to procure the best
AN and choicest stock which money can
buy; and, while we presume the demand
will be so heavy from those who have
already put the goods in stock that we
will be unable to take on any additional
customers, we shall continue to treat
WN all alike and fill orders on the prin-
ciple of first come, .first served, as long

as our supplies last.

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Shoes and Leather

“Old Prices” a Misnomer in the
Sense It Is Used.

Almost every report of the conditions
prevailing in the shoe market deals in
some manner with, or refers in some in-
stance to, what are termed ‘‘old prices.’’

What are ‘‘old prices?’’

 

 

On this point there appears to be a
wide division of opinion. The whole-
saler is inclined to mean by ‘‘old
prices’’ the prices prevailing lately, up
to the time of the most recent advances ;
that is to say, the past season’s prices.
He speaks of a 7% cent advance over
‘‘old prices’’ with the intention of con-
veying the impression that prices are
7% cents higher than they were in the
spring.

The retailer doesn’t usually take it
this way. He regards ‘‘old prices’’ as
referring to shoes when they were cheap-
est—in 1894 when sole leather was sell-
ing at 16 cents and grain leather at 8
cents. To him ‘‘old prices’’ is an en-
tirely different matter.

As a matter of actual business, ‘‘old
prices’’ means little. That is to say, no
matter how high the market goes, the
price to the retailer remains the same.
He has been buying a creole for a dol-
lar. He was buying a creole for a do!-
lar in ’94. He paid the same price in
"95 when leather was running up 75 per
cent. higher than it was in ’94. To-
day he 1s paying a dollar. Next year
he will pay a dollar.

What is ‘‘old prices’’ to him?

But does the retailer imagine fora
moment that the shoe manufacturer was
making a tremendous profit in ’94 and
a heavy loss in ’95 and ‘96? Dues he
believe that the manufacturer manages
somehow to dodge the market's ups and
downs and always sell him the same
shoe for a dollar that he had been do-
ing before?

If he does, he never was more badly
fooled.

In 1894 the manufacturer could and
did make a shoe to sell to the jobbers
so they could sell them to the retailers
at 95 cents or a dollar that was a first-
class article in its grade. Leather was
very cheap and it was possible to put
into this shoe stock of prime quality,
good weight and thoroughly good
throughout. It was a rattling good dol-
lar shoe—in fact, too good a shoe for
that amount of money.

That shoe was described as all solid;
and it was. The same description ap-
plies to-day and is equally true, but the
dollar shoe of ‘94 and the dollar shoe of
‘97 are two entirely different articles.

The manufacturer has been forced to
make a dollar shoe as of yore and _ with
leather advancing he has been obliged
to buy stock that would fit the price he
could pay. This hasn’t meant No. 1
stock, nor B, nor 2; oftentimes it has
meant bellies or any old thing that
could be painted up to make a good ap-
pearance.

With the upper stock it has been the
same story and so with every particle
of leather entering into the skce. It
has been leather all right, but leather of
what sort?

Still the retailer is paying ‘‘old
prices.’’ There has been no advance,
he says, and believes it. To him ‘‘old
prices’’ means nothing.

In dollars and cents the retailer is
paying no more for a creole than he was
in ’94, but quality for quality he is pay-
ing an advance close to 50 per cent.

Thus it is that price cuts little real

 

figure to-day. John Smith, retailer, sees
a shoe at Jones, the jobber’s, for 95
cents. Over at Brown's he finds another
at $1. Five cents’ difference between
them doesn’t show but it’s pretty sure
to be there. Shoe manufacturers have
got this thing down to a pretty uniform
basis and different shoes at different
prices are likely to be proportionately
different in quality.

If he wants to-day the same creole
that he bought in ‘94 for $1—that Is,
with the same quality of material
throughout—it is going to cost him in
the neighborhood of $1.50. It is tolly
tor him to expect differently and it is
foolish for him to believe that because
he is buying his goods at ‘‘old prices’’
be is going to get as good stuff as he
did when leather was selling for half
what it is now or litile more.

The Yankee shoemaker was never yet
accused of being eager to beat himself,
and he doesn’t do it. During the past
two or three years he hasn’t made much
if any money, along with business men
in other lines, Fut it has not been be-
cause he didn’t figure his shoes right,
but because business has been so de-
pressed. He hasn't been buying too
expensive leather. He hasn't stuck to
No. 1 stock as it skated up the grade.
As fast as leather has gone up he has
put the price of his goods to the jobber
up in some degree and if he got it, well
and good—he put in good leather. If
he couldn’t get it he cut the price and
took it out of the leather.

Here, then, is the ‘‘old’’ and the
‘*new’’ price side by side.

The ‘‘new price’’ some jobbers are
bold enough to ask, and if the retailer
pays it he gets the old quality as well
as the old shoe.

If he pays the ‘‘old price’’ he gets
the same old shoe in looks, with a qual-
ity correspondingly decreased as leather
has advanced.

After all, then, ‘‘old prices’’ means
little and the merchant who fondly 1m-
agines he is paying the price he has
been paying for his staples is, as a
matter of fact, yielding up the full
amount of the advance demanded by
higher leather prices.—Shoe and Leath-
er Gazette.

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a Common Name
Handy.

From the Boston Transcript.

Mr. Smith bought a ticket on the
Sound steamer and at the same time
asked for a stateroom. He was in-
formed that all the rooms were taken.
This was discouraging to Smith, but a
happy thought struck him. ‘‘I asked
to have a room held for me,’’ he said.
‘“*Oh! did you?’’ asked the ticket seller.
“What name, please?’’ Soa.”
After examining his memorandum the
ticket seller said, *‘Beg pardon, sir; |
see there are two rooms held for you,
Nos. 41 and 42.’’ *‘I don’t understand
that,’’ said the other; ‘‘I only wanted
one room. I!'ll take 42, if you please.’’
So he got his room,al! because his name

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was Smith, which shows that it isa

good thing to havea name that is some-
what common.
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England’s prison authorities are
abolishing the use of the treadmili and
oakum picking in the penal institutions
of the United Kingdom, and are putting
convict labor to a more profitable use.
Army and navy stores, especially the
making of garments and accoutrements,
are now engaging the attention of the
inmates of Her Majesty's jails, who like-
wise manufacture the mailbags of the
postal department and the shirts, uni-
forms and boots of their arch-enemies,
the police. The result is a vast saving
all around, and an announcement is
made that the government has some 300
badly-worn treadmills for sale to the
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We are showing to-day the finest spring line in the State—all the
latest colors and shapes.

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

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

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

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MADE IT GOOD.

Joke on a_  Stenographer
Against the Joker.
Sometimes a joke, conceived with de-
liberation and executed with the utmost
care, rebounds in the most unexpected
way. This is the record of such an in-
cident, and incidentally the explanation
of how a well-known business man_ losi
the services of a stenographer he prized
highly. The stenographer in question
was a remarkably pretty and interesting
girl, She was a member of an excel
lent family, and, when misfortune
came, bravely set to work to earn her
own living. She was not only pretty,
but was an expert operator, and, more-
over, she was discreet. How much this
virtue is prized in a business office is
known alone to those who have occasion
to employ a stenographer who has the
happy faculty of saying the right thing
in the right place, or refraining from
saying anything when silence is the
most desirable thing.

It is not to be wondered at that such
a model young woman should have ad-
mirers in plenty. She treated all alike
with a sweet courtesy and maintained
a steady air of reserve and restraint.
Among her friends, however, was a
young insurance agent who was looked
upon by all as the leader in the race.
He was young, athletic and_ successful,
and just the kind of a man a woman
instinctively likes. He was a big-
hearted, sincere, manly fellow, and
there was no doubt that he was deeply
and truly in love with the girl. His
feelings were confined to the slight fa-
vors and attentions a gir! would natural-
ly expect from a friend. He never pro-
tested love, and his friends were unde-
cided. Some asserted that he was only
dallying and would not marry a stenog
rapher. Others protested that it made
no difference what position the girl oc-
cupied, he would marry her if he loved
her, and they contended that he didn’t
have the courage to propose. Matters
drifted along in this way for months
The young man’s infatuation became
the talk of the neighborhood, and he
was frequently joked about it, and no
one was more unremitting in the
chafing than the girl’s employer
Finally this employer hit upon a bril-
liant scheme, and at once set to work to
Carry it out.

This idea of his manifested itself a
few days later when friends of this
young man—those who were supposed
to take and understand a joke—re
ceived a card inviting them to attend a
wedding, on such a date, at such a
church. It was all formal and regular,
and the names mentioned were those of
the young man and the stenographer,
and the church mentioned was one the
young woman attended. Naturally the
joke got around to the young man in
question. Those who received the
cards saw the jest, but he was furious.
He took one of the cards in his hand
and went to the girl and, without a
word, handed it to her. She glanced at
it curiously and then colored up.

‘*Do you know who is at the bottom
of this outrage?’’ he said between his
clenched teeth.

She confessed that she did, and said
that some one had told her that her em-
ployer was the originator and promoter
of the joke. He wanted at once to run
off and throttle him, but she demurred.
She insisted that it would only compli-
cate matters. He said sturdily:

‘‘No, sir! Iam going to get*even. I
will make him answer unless—unless’’—

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Here he stammered helplessly. She
said quaintly:

*‘Unless what?’’

‘‘Unless—unless’’—he gasped, des-
perately, ‘‘you consent to make it good.
Won't you marry me, anyway? We can
fool them all—and besides I love—have
always loved you—and always will,
and’’—

It was a clumsy proposal, but ac-
cepted with the same sincerity in which
it was given. They sat down and
talked it over, and the result was an-
other conspiracy that led to much
chuckling and giggling on their own
account. The young man suddenly dis-
appeared from view, and_ his friends
heartlessly laughed and said that he
did not have the ‘‘nerve’’ to stand the
‘‘gaff,’” and was keeping ‘‘under
cover.’’ The day before the date set
for the wedding by the bogus announce-
ment, the stenographer approached her
employer and said sweetly:

“‘T am afraid that I can’t come down
to-morrow. I have some things to at-
tend to, and you will have to excuse
me.’’

He demurred at first, but finally con-
sented, saying, in a boisterous burst of
mirth:

‘*Oh, yes, you are to be married to-
morrow. Good enough. All right.
Best wishes,’’ and then he went off
chuckling.

Early next morning in the church
mentioned a little group gathered about
the altar, and the minister pronounced
the words making the young insurance
agent and the former stenographer man
and wife. The next day the girl’s late
employer received a neat little card
with the formal announcement that Mr.
and Mrs. So-and-So announced the
marriage of their daughter, What’s-Her-
Name, to Mr. You-know. When the
business man opened the letter and saw
the card and digested its contents, he
whistled vehemently and muttered:

‘*Well, I'll be hanged !’’

——_—_~> 2. ___
Good Things Said by Up-to-Date Shoe
Dealers.

A feature in our shoe business this
fall is our adoption in many important
lines of the excellent ‘‘hand sewed
welts.’” It costs something to. intro-
duce them; for example, one regular $3
line 1s selling now for $2 a pair. But
we shall get it back in the end-. because
we shall get you back. A satisfied cus-
tomer is apt to be a permanent one, and
hand-sewed welt shoes are satisfactory
shoes to wear.—Gimbel Bros., Phila.

Childrens’ shoe jubilee. Jubilee for
the little ones, jubilee for the mothers:
shoes the youngsters can treat as rough-
ly as they like and no complaint; shoes
the mothers will pay for with no com-
plaint; shoes we guarantee to the last
stitch; shoes that never have been ex-
celled for sturdy wear; shoes we secured
at a ridiculous price because we took a
ridiculously large quantity. —Partridge
& Richardson, Phila.

Entrance to our shoe stocks is con-
trolled by civil service rules. Prefer-
ments and “‘pulls’’ do not count. Ap-
plicants have to stand a rigid examina-
tion, and only those that get the highest
average are admitted. Thus there is
no guess-work about Wanamaker shoes.
They are honestly made of honest leath-
ers. You can pin your faith to them.
—John Wanamaker, N. Y

There’s only one way to ‘‘cure’’ ill-
fitting shoes, that is—not to buy them.
Whatever we sell for children’s wear is
chosen just as carefully as any other
shoes in the stock. We realize that
these little folk will be men and women
by and by, and they’ll continue to come
here for shoes, if ‘‘the shoes papa
bought at Johnson’s for me’’ were easy
on the feet.—johnson’s Shoe Palace,
Altoona, Pa. :

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ascendancy; tremendous fall business
in spite of the lack of fall weather. A
shoe department like ours, with its im-
mense outlet, is a magnet which at-
tracts unusual opportunities from every-
where. We have simply to skim the
cream of the country’s good things and
set it before you in all its richness. —
Partridge & Richardson, Phila.
-——___~.>_2~<__

Manufacturers are beginning to realize
that the home market is not large
enough to take all their products, and
they are now looking beyond our bound-
aries. Six Pittsburg firms engaged or
interested in the manufacture of iron
and steel have clubbed together to es-
tablish an agency in London. That
great city is the principal business
center of the world, and to it comes first
the industrial and commercial news of
all countries. The London agency will
be there to watch for orders and op-
portunities not in Great Britain merely,
but in India, Japan and South America
especially.

—_—_—_ 0.____

The gas lamps in London are to be
made to serve a double purpose—that of
lighting the streets and providing hot
water in the poorer districts. The
cold water is put in reservoirs at the
bottom of the lamp posts, and is heated
by steam generated in a chamber
placed a foot above the gas flame. The
whole concern is on the ‘‘penny in the
slot’’ pattern. You put in the coin and
the machine does the rest. Other cities
have taken to the scheme.

—_____»}>_2<._____

The farmers are prosperous, and that
means good times will work up from
the right source to insure permanency
and stability. Activity among manu-
facturers and wholesalers, without a cor-
responding increased demand with re-
tailers and their customers,simply leads
to stagnation.

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board of agriculture of Great Britain has
prohibited the landing of dogs in the
country without a special permit. The
rule applies even to those animals which
have accompanied their owners for a
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Woman’s World

The Mother-in-Law Question.

‘‘Talk about questions in which
women are particularly interested,’’ re-
marked the young married woman with
something that was almost a groan of
despair; ‘‘in my humble judgment, no
other question is ‘in it’ with the stupen-
dous relation-in-law problem. It isa
conundrum so vast and impenetrable
and unsolvable that most women just
sit down helplessly before it and give it
up.

**Ob, I know all you are going to say.
i have heard the ‘gaining a new
mother, and another daughter’ theory
before, and, in my opinion it originated
with a man who didn’t know any better
or an old maid who had never tried _ it.
I have read at least a thousand novels in
which that admirable and cheerful
theory was exploited, and yet in real
life I don’t know a dozen women be-
tween whom and their mothers-in-law
there exists any entente cordiale, as a
diplomat would say. Whose fault is it?
Both, of course. To begin with, there’s
the inevitable jealousy of two women
who love the same man. _ It ought to be
a bond of union, but it isn’t. It's a
bone of contention. A very tactful man
might strike a middle course in which
he would satisfy the exigent affection
of his mother and the unreasoning, de-
votion of his wife without rousing the
animosity of either side; but that’s not
the way with the dear, blundering fel-
low. Such an idea as exercising the
slightest policy and discretion never
enters his head. With the amiable and
mistaken idea of endearing his wife
and mother to each other he holds up
each as a model to the other and makes
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‘‘For one thing, I don’t believe any
mother can ever help feeling that the
woman who captures her son is a de-
signing litthe minx. Other men may
fall in love and get married of their own
accord, but she is sure poor Tom would
never have the thought of such a thing
if he hadn’t been ‘ied on.’ She knows
the artful ways of her sex and nothing
could convince her that her son hasn't
fallen a victim to the deep, dark
machinations of a regular Machiavelli
in petticoats. He may have been so
frantically infatuated with you that you
actually had to marry him to get rid of
him. He may be a blase club inan, who,
like Lady Kew’s daughter, is 40 years
old and has heard all there is to tell;
but in his mother’s eyes he is an un-
sophisticated innocent and you have
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certain, in the first place, he never
would have married anybody, and in
the second, if he did he would have
married that nice, demure little thing
around the corner or the heiress she had
picked out tor him. But you? Never!
Nobody need ever tell her that he
wasn’t inveigled into that, and in her
heart she regards him with the same
pitying wonder we bestow upon the man
who buys gold bricks or gets roped into
a confidence game.

‘*Perhaps a woman never understands
why a man falls in love with another
woman, anyway. Certainly a mother
doesn’t. As a general thing she can take
her daughter’s point of view enough to
see some charms ina son-in law, but
Tom’s choice of a wife is always a mys-
tery to her. Then she is lost in wonder
at the reason he always picks out some-
body so unlike his sisters. When she
thinks, before the catastrophe actually
occurs, about the kind of a daughter-in-
law Tom is likely to give her, she
always has the comfortable conviction
that she will be either a domestic girl
like his sister Hannah or a serious-
minded girl like Sarah who is a
Christian Endeavcrer and belongs to all
the alphabetical societies within reach,
or at worst, it will be a literary one like
Caroline, who dotes on Emerson and
reads Ibsen. These are the ideals of
feminine virtues and perfections he has
been brought up to revere and she is
confident they will prove a lamp to
guide his feet when he goes a courting.

‘‘Fallacious hope! Nothing but the
contrariness of human nature can ex-
plain the fatal surety with which Tom
picks out a wife as unlike his family
as he can possibly discover. They are
staid, serious, sober-minded. He mar-
ries a gay little butterfly who thinks that
the world is made of sunshine and roses.
They could not have less in common or
understand her a bit less if she were
an inhabitant of the planet Mars. Only
too often they do not think alike on any
subject, from politics to pie. Yet Tom
drops this alien into his family circle,
with a masculine disregard cf conse-
quences, and stands beaming on them
with a beatific smile which says, ‘I
love you both. Let that suffice to
make you happy.’ Yes, if it can!

‘Say what you will, the situation is a
difficult one for both parties, and it is
not surprising that they so often man-
age to extract the greatest possible ag-
gravation for the greatest number out of
it. Nothing can exceed the trouble two
good, conscientious women, trying to
do their duty, can make for each other.
The older woman disdains to use any
tact. Perhaps she is one of those who

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pride themselves on being plain spoken,
and she forgets that only exceeding love
can enable us to hear the unvarnished
truth spoken of ourselves. At any rate
she is bent on seeing that Tom shall not
be imposed upon, if she can help it.
She points out your faults to you; she
lectures you on your extravagance in
using your best china every day and
repeatedly informs you that in her time
a respectable married woman could em-
ploy herself in her own home instead of
gadding around after women’s clubs
and progressive euchre. Of course,
there isalwaysan I-do-this-for-your-good
air about it, and if there is anything
more maddening than that, I don't
know what it is.

‘‘Nor is the fault altogether with the
mother-in-law. The younger woman is
generally too young to have learned the
grace of forbearance. There are a
thousand places where the older woman's
advice would be of help and comfort,
and she should at least have the grace
to yield in many things, and remember,
as the goody, goody books say, that her
mother-in-law is her husband’s mother,
and has many claims to her considera-
tion. The trouble is that the girl is so
often spoiled. She has generally just
come from a home where she was a
petted darling and where the world _ re-
volved around her. She is not used to
criticism and is too quick to take of-
fense. Above all, she has not yet
learned to think of Tom as anything
but an adoring slave. The very first
shock of learning that marriage means
something sterner than mere lovemak-
ing comes from the unwelcome hand of
his mother, and she seldom takes much
trouble to soften the blow.

‘“‘Of course, it is natural for every
woman to want to run her own home to
suit herself. It is also equally natural
for a man’s mother to feel she has a
right to order her son’s affairs. Very
often she sees things going wrong,
things illy done or neglected, things
she knows how to do so well and could
manage so much better. It is the an-
guish with which every professional
must watch the blundering efforts of
an amateur; but it is a fatal mistake to
interfere. Each of us has a different
domestic problem, and we must work
out our own salvation.

‘‘After all, though, we both love
Tom, and there ought to be some _plat-
form of mutual good will and affection
on which we could get together. I am
thinking of calling a convention of
mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law,
where we shall all state our grievances
and try to arbitrate our troubles, |
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our constitution, that the mothers re-
nounce the error of belief that we in-
veigled their sons into marrying us,
secondly, that they quit speaking of our
husbands as ‘‘poor Toms,’’ and believ-
ing they are persecuted martyrs; third-
ly, that they grant to each and every
one of us the right to run our own
homes in our own ways. On _ the
daughter-in laws’ part, I shall formulate
a plank that shall pledge them to pa-
tience with ways that sometimes seem a
little old-fashioned; secoudly, to re-
member that not even a bride knows
everything, although she always thinks
she does; thirdly, to use their utmost
power of attraction to try to really storm
the barricades that their husband’s
mothers have erected in front of their
hearts.’’

‘“‘What shall you do,’’ I asked curi-
ously, as the young married woman
ceased talking, ‘‘if your convention
proves a failure?’’

‘*Then,’’ she replied, ‘‘there will be
nothing for it but to marry men who
are orphans.’”’ Dorotuy Drx.

—_—__2>2#. -—
Frank Admission.

The prisoner’s dock 1s not a situation
favorable to repartee, but on one oc-
casion the accused undoubtedly scored.

‘“Why did you manufacture this bad
money?’’ the magistrate said, sternly.

‘*Cos I couldn't turn out no_ better,’’
replied the counterfeiter.

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Many of the so-called Scotch plaids
are not tartans at all in the literal
meaning of the word. There are about
thirty one veritable tartan plaids to-
day, the cognizance of as many Scotch
clans. Queen Victoria, being a Stuart,
wears the plaid of that clan. She also
wears tbe ‘‘Victoria’’ plaid, which is
the ground plaid of the Stuart tartan.
Technically, the tartan is a woolen
cloth, with checkers and cross bars of
narrow lines of color. It is said to be
derived from the French, ‘‘tertaine,’’
signifying ‘‘linsey woolsey.’’

—__~>_2~___

Preparations are being made to begin
construction work immediately on the
Yuma Canal in Southern California.
This will be the greatest irrigation
canal system in the Southwest. Water
will be taken from the Colorado River
at a point about twenty-five miles north
of Yuma, and distributed for a distance
of fifty miles over a desert country.
Immense areas both north and south of
Yuma will be reclaimed, and about
100,000 acres of the Algodones grant in
the Mexican State of Sonora will also
be watered.

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FROM FARM TO FIRM.

How Sam Brown Achieved Success
in Business.
Written for the TRapEsman.

‘‘Whoa, Lion! Whoa, Whitie! Blast
these oxen anyway! I can’t, for the life
of me, see why father traded off his
horses for these haif-wild creatures.
Whoa! you brutes!’’ But it was evident
that the oxen either did not or would
not know what ‘‘Whoa!’’ meant, for
they kept right on, although the end of
the stubble field in which they were
plowing had been reached. The animals
went straight for a sickly-looking patch
of corn that was trying to grow a short
distance from the stubble field, the wilt-
ed half yellow stalks of which would
have discouraged anything except an
ox; but, from the way they began to
duane the leaves and stalks, it was evi-
dent that they regarded it as good fod-
der.

Sam Brown, the boy who was driving
the oxen, tried to set his plow deeply
enough into the earth to stop the truant
team ; but of no use. The plow hada
wheel at the end of the beam that
gauged the depth of the furrow to be
cut and would go just so deep and no
deeper. Throwing the plow upon its
side, the boy tried to head off his team,
whereupon the oxen started to run, drag-
ging the plow after them and trampling
and breaking down a wide swath
through the curn patch,

Sam’s brother, who was plowing in
the stubble field with a three-horse team
and sulky plow, now came to his assis-
tance and the refractory oxen were
thoroughly whipped and driven back to
work.

**Go down to the stable, Sam,’’ said
the big brother, ‘‘and get a half-inch
picket rope long enough to reach trom
Lion’s horns back to your plow handles.
Then, when you reach the end of the
field, if they try to run away, just yank
the rope for all you're worth—you know
old Lion’s pretty tender about the
horns. I'll watch your team till you
get back.”’

‘‘We're poor enough, God knows!’’
exclaimed the boy, tears of exasperation
filling his eyes; ‘‘but I wish the dog-
goned things would both die. They
ain’t half broke and father expects me
to make ’em mind, and the only way to
do that is by sheer strength, an’ I can’t
use that ‘cause I hain't got it. Why
can’t you drive ‘em for a week or so,
Bill, an’ let me have the horses an’ the
sulky plow?’’

‘Sam,’’ replied his brother, ‘‘if I had
to drive them oxen, I wouldn't stay to
home twenty-four hours—I’d be in Col-

 

orado just as quick as a freight train
‘Id take me. You see, I was 21 on -my
last birthday, an’ the old man ain’t a
askin’ me to drive no ox teams.”’

The hopeful look that had for a mo-
ment appeared in the boy’s face faded
as he asked his brother, Why can't
you drive ’em for a week or so?’’ and
the tears he had been struggling to keep
back welled up again and, throwing
himself on the ground, he burst out cry-
ing.

‘Never mind, Sam, you wait here an’
I'll get the rope. Then you can drive
in the lead with the horses a while an’
I'll see if them brutes can’t be made to
mind.’’

Thus encouraged, the boy stopped
crying and sat up. As his brother dis-
appeared in the corn patch in the di-
rection of the barn, Sam exclaimed: ‘‘]
wonder if Bill meant that about goin’
away to Colorado. He couldn't have
the heart to leave father just now when
he needs his help so much. I mustn’t
mind if the oxen do run away, or father
may want Bill to drive ‘em, an’ then
he’ll leave; an’ then—I don’t know
what we would do. Just feel that hot
wind,’’ he continued; ‘‘I don’t know
what'll become of us if that keeps on a
blowin’, let alone if Bill should go
away. Here’s this wheat that we’re a
plowin’ under ‘cause it wa’n’t worth
cuttin’; dried right up where it stood,
an’ mother a prayin’ an’ prayin’ for
rain. But it didn’t make no difference.
An’ then she took the fever, an’ for
days an’ days she raved about the dry
hot weather, an’ kep’ a sayin’, ‘O if it
would only rain! O if it would only
rain!’ At last, it did come, with
thunder an’ lightnin’ an’ wind; but it
was too late to save mother—or the
wheat. Father couldn’t bear the thought
of buryin’ her in that mean, weed-
grown buryin’ ground up at Hays City.
So Bill an’ me dug a grave over by
that cotton wood tree that stan’s all by
itself. Father couldn’t do a thing to
help us, an’ he ain’t done nothin’
sence but grieve about mother; an’
now, if Bill should go a—’’ but here the
boy’s voice which had been full of
tears, broke and he again threw himself
on the grass-choked ground, burying
his face in his arms and giving way to
a passion of sobs.

Sam was about 15 years of age. It
was evident, from the length of his arms
and legs and the thinness of his body,
that he had grown too fast; but there
was something in the boy’s patient lit-
tle face that invited the second look and
made one think that he was worthy bet-
ter things than farm drudgery. His
father, who, several years before, had

 

been well to do, had, with his wife and

two boys, moved from his pleasant home |
at Hays City, |
There, as the town was ‘‘on|

in the East and settled
Kansas.
the boom,’’ he had engaged in town lots
and farm-buying speculation. But the
drop came all at once.
to him was the 160-acre farm
which, for four years,

It was, indeed, a dreary enough outlook,

although the outlook was better than the |

past with its drouth and hot winds and |

consequent failure of crops, for there |
it that things would |
not had the ex- |
perience can realize what an intermina- |
ble time four years on a farm in West- |

was the hope in
mend. Who that has

ern Kansas, with its loneliness and iso-

lation and ‘‘hope deferred that maketh |

the heart sick,’’
who have been

must mean to people

laboriously planted brought no return,

it was no small sacrifice to give up a}

horse or a cow to meet the bills that

were constantly falling due. Then, when |
Death took from among them the moth-
er, who had_ been

that the husband and father ‘‘hadn’t

done nothin’ sence,’’ as Sam expressed

it, ‘‘but grieve about mother, ’’
Hearing his brother's returning foot- |

steps, Sam smothered his sobs and tried |

to dry his eyes on his shirt sleeve.

‘‘Now, I think we can manage your |

—Why, Sam! you ain’t cryin’
cause the oxen ran away, are you?"’

7 Neo
kindness in his brother’s voice bri inging
the lump back in his throat; ‘‘I—I was
—was thinkin’ about—about mother an’
—an' what father an’ me would do if
you went away to Colorado. You won't
go an’ leave us, will you, Bill?’’

‘“Of course I won’t—not right away
anyhow,’’ Bill replied, as he fastened
one end of the rope around Lion’s
horns. The other end he wrapped two
or three times around one of the plow
handles.

‘‘T guess I can bring ‘em to time
now, Bill. An’ you don’t need to bother
drivin’ ’em. They'll follow your plow
all right for a while, I reckon, after the
lickin’ we’ve give ’em. Git up there,
Lion! Go 'long, Whitie!’’ With slow
unwilling footsteps the stubborn oxen
moved forward and the weary work went

on, while the dust rising from the dry
upturned earth was borne away by the
heavy hot wind. Mac ALLAN,

[TO BE Ca erni
9 ____

Don’t forget the $5 Chicago excursion
viacC. & W. M. Railway October 14.
Tickets good 5 days.

All that was left |
upon |
they had now}
been trying to retrieve their lost fortunes, |

used to better things? |
As each year went by and the seed so |

their chief comfort |
and hope, it was not to be wondered at |

yet be-|

replied the boy, the tone of |

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Association Matters

Michigan Retail Grocers’ Association

President, J. WisLER,

A. Stowz, Grand Rapids;
TATMAN, Clare.

Mancelona; Secretary, E.
Treasurer, J. F.

Michigan Hardware Association
President, Cuas. F. Bock, Battle Creek: Vice
ident, H. W. WeEsBBER, West Bay City;
asurer, Henry C. Minnig, Eaton Rapids.

   

Detroit Retail Grocers’ Association

Fr resident, JOSEPH KNIGHT; Secretary, E. MARKs,
221 Greenwood ave; Treasurer, N. L. KOENIG.

Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association

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

Saginaw Mercantile Asseciation

| President, P. F. TREANoR: Vice-President, Joun

| McBratnie: Sec retar , W. H. Lewis: Treas-
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Jackson Retail Grocers’ Mantiatien
| President, Gro. E. Lz EWIS ; Secretary, W. H. Por-
TER; Treasurer, J. L. PETERMANN
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Lansing Retail Grocers’ Association
| President, EF. B. JOHNSON; Secretary, A. M.
DARLING: Treasurer, L. A. GILKEY.
Adrian Retail Grocers’ Association
a Marti n Gafney; Secretary, EF.
| Cleveland:

 

Traverse City Business Men’s Association

| President, Tos. T. Bates: Sec retary, M. B.
Houiy; Treasurer, C. A. HAMMOND.

Owosso Business Men’s Association
| President, A. D. WHrePLe: Secretary, G. T. Camp-
BELL: Treasurer, W. E. CoLins.
Alpena Business Men’s Association
President, F. W. Giucurist; Secretary, C. L.
PARTRIDGE

| Grand Rapids Retail Meat Dealers’ Association
President, L. J. Katz; Secr retary, Poruip HILBER;
Treasurer, S. J. Hurrorp.

 

 

 

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It Looks to a Butterworker at
the Other End.

I returned a few days ago from a visit
to'New York City, where I spent some
time in visiting different commission
houses, and will say that I was greatly
surprised in regard to the way our but-
ter is handled there. Too much blame
is laid at the commission man's door.
Shippers do not realize the condition
their butter is in when it arrives there.
Now, to explain to our shippers in what
way we are in fault, and it is laid to
the men you ship to.

I will tell you how I know what I
am saying. The day I left for the city
two of my regular shippers were divid-
ing their make with two houses. Their
shipments followed me in, arriving a
day later than myself. I went direct to
the house that was handling their but-
ter—I am a perfect stranger to them—
and saw them strip and weigh the lot,
and then returned to see the lot weighed
that was consigned to my house. Now,
naturally, one would think the butter
would be all the same in weight, color,
quality and in packing, as it all came
from the same factory and was made by
the same man. But if I had not known
the number of the plate before starting,
I would have said it was two different
lots. Some was sour, some too highly
colored, some too salty, some showed
streaks and some of the tubs were not
properly packed at the bottom, and
about one-third the way up there would
be holes which would hold over one
pound of butter. This would cause one
house to give better weight than the
other while they would be giving the
shipper his honest weight. It would
cause the company to believe that one
of the houses was not honest. I saw a
mark of butter come onto the floor of a
neighbor house of mine and the pro-
prietor invited me to examine the but-
ter as it was turned out the scales.
Some of it had a very woody taste,
while perhaps the next tub had none at
all. This, I think, comes from improper
Care in preparing the tub for its con-
tents.

There has been enough said on this
one subject to enable every buitermaker
to be well posted in regard to packing
and preparing tubs to prevent all the
fault that they claim. I think the proper
way to prepare a tub, is to—in the first
place never use a cheap tub—get the
best there is on the market, then steam
each one slowly for two or three minutes,
fill with cold water and add a good
handful of salt. Do this early in the day
while you are churning and let them
stand until the next day, then empty out
and refill with water until ready for use.
Before filling, or lining, if you use
parchment paper, which I think is the
proper thing to do, rub the bottom and
sides well with salt. This will, I think,
prevent the woody taste and will enable
your butter to strip freely, and not have
any stick to the tubs while they are be-
ing weighed.

How

on

All these remarks are the fault at
home in the factory, as a general thing.
I do not say but what there are rogues
aS commission men, who take advantage
of these faults, where the butter is fancy
and up-to-date, and make complaint
where it is not necessary. But if you
are shipping to a good, reliable house,
you appoint it as your agent to dispose
of your butter and get the best possible
results for you. Now, do you think
they would find fault where there is no

 

excuse to? They have to maintain their
reputation as a reputable business house,
and return you good results at all times,
knowing very well that if they do not,
they will not receive your shipments
long. I think it is their duty to criticise
the condition of your make. I have
known instances where the house has
written a personal letter to the butter-
maker, asking his advice in regard to
some fault. The buttermaker would
laugh and say, ‘‘What do they know
about our goods? They never saw a
creamery in their life.’’ And he would
cast his letter aside and the next ship-
ment would go to some other house.
Perhaps this will happen on a good
market when they have handled your
goods for some time on a low, sluggish
market and realized only a small profit
in doing so. The next man takes it
wher he can dispose of it on arrival at
a good advantage for you. When the
market is brisk, it is an easy task to
sell good butter,and even if it is a little
faulty, the buyers are not so apt to find
fault. But if it is dull, with any chance
to find fault, then is the time they will
do so.

I believe butter can and ought to be
made so it could not be substituted. It
is an article that has been in usea good
many years and will remain a necessity
and command a good price if properly
made. Now, let every one who is inter-
ested in the dairy business stop so much
kicking and put his shoulder to the
wheel of progress in the manufacture of
pure creamery butter. Let every owner
of a cow, who sends milk to a factory,
do his utmost to help his buttermaker.
The buttermaker should attend to his
work carefully and see that there is
nothing left undone in making and pre-
paring his butter for the market, and |
think it would give better prices, make
it more pleasant to do business, and
make better times and better people.

H. J. Hanp.

—_—__—_0—.___
Eggs as Ammunition.

People in the little mountain town of
Sharpsburg, Ky., have a peculiar di-
version known as ‘‘egg throwing.’’ The
heaviest battles occur on Saturday night.
Jim Strong is the captain of one egg-
throwing band and Bill Eversole is the
captain of the other. They have about
twenty men each. Each man has to
provide himself with a dozen eggs and,
of course, it is to his interest to buy
them where he can get them the cheap-
est. As no individual expects to be
struck by his own eggs, he does not re-
quire the dealer to ‘‘candle’’ them. In
this way the dealers in country produce
are able to realize at least cost price on
their sickest eggs.

Last Saturday night’s battle was a
glorious one. The moon was shining,
and the boys lined up for the fray about
g o'clock, Every member of the two
companies was present. The captains
did not throw, simply directing the
movements of their men. Each had his
full quota of eggs when the battle be-
gan. The first volley was thrown by
Strong's men and six men on the Ever-
sole side were struck. Then the Ever-
soles began to throw eggs and at their
first volley seven Strong men were
marked and one egg carried away the
cap of Captain Strong. Then the throw-
ing became indiscriminate and no at-
tempt at volley work was made.

The sport did not cease until the en-
tire 480 eggs were thrown. Nearly every
man had been plastered and the cap-
tains were regular omelets from head to
foot. It was decided that Strong’s men
won the fight. The Eversole company
did the proper thing and several bot-
tles of a colorless licuid known as
‘‘moonshine’’ were passed. The most
casual observer along the street next
morning could have told there had been
an egg battle, for the houses, sidewalks,
fences and curbstones were plastered
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News from the Metropolis---Index to
the Market.
Special Correspondence.

New York, Oct. 2—Recent advices
from Brazil received in this city indi-
cate that the prospects fora big coffee
crop are again excellent. Many new
plantations, it is said, will come into
bearing this season and next, both in
the Rio and Santos districts; and, if
no disaster happens, the yield will be
huge. Deliveries of coffee in this
country during September will aggre-
gate about 400,000 bags. The amount
of coffee in sight at the close of the
month was estimated at 1,700,000 bags,
an increase of 600,000 bags during
September. The total supply is now
6,000,000 bags. The market here has
been rather weak. With supplies so
large, prices have been hammered down
until it seems as though the bottum had
been reached ; but there are those who
think we shall yet see Rio No. 7 quoted
at 6c. To-day’s price for cargo lots is
7c and for jobbing lots, 75¢c. Mild
coffees are about steady and there has
been no important change in price,

The demand for refined sugar has
been very quiet. Jobbers seem to have
supplies sutficient for present wants and
make few purchases. Advices from
abroad have had the effect of making a
duller market here, as the general tone
of the dispatches indicates a downward
tendency. Foreign granulated has been
in light request and is quoted at 4.92@5c.

There is a lack of animation in the
tea market. Oolongs have been in
rather better demand than usual, but
orders, either from the interior or the
city, have been few and far between.

Rice dealers have no trouble in dis-
posing of their holdings; in fact, the
trouble is to make present supplies go
around. The amount here of foreign is
limited and supplies on the way are nut
at all excessive. Japan is held at 5c
and Java at 4%c. Rather more rice
from domestic points is being received,
especially from Carolina, and is taken
at once. Prime to choice, 5%@53<c.

Pepper is now controlled by few hands
and they will probably force some ad-
vance. The general spice market is
quiet and few transactions are taking
place. More confidence is felt in the
general situation, however, as the sea-
son advances.

Supplies of really desirable grades of
New Orleans molasses are very limited
and one must shop around some to find
what he wants. Prices show no change
and the general situation is about as
last reported. Open kettle, prime to
fancy, is held from 27@3o0c. Syrups
are quiet, with few sales reported.

The canned goods market is strong
all along the line. Prices are firm and
the general tendency is to a higher
plane. The situation has improved so
that packers of corn and tomatoes are
said to be buying back their contracts
and paying a good premium for the
privilege. Frost has stopped corn
packing in New York and Maine, but
reports of injury to tomato vines have
not yet come to hand. The weather, in
fact, is hot and late tomatoes will prob-
ably all get ripe. Maine corn is wanted
at 85c f. o. b. Portland. Tomatoes are
worth 85@$1, as to brand. Salmon is
steady and a fair demand has prevailed
all the week.

Oranges are very firm and Jamaicas
in original barrels, fine fruit, have sold
for $6.50 per bbl. Florida oranges
promise to be in better supply than was
anticipated and the fruit is exception-
ally fine. The arrivals, as yet, have
been small and the price is comparable
to strawberries in December. Bananas
are quiet and quotations are nominal.
The top price seems to be about 80c
per bunch for firsts, while the greater
part of the year the ruling figure is from
S$I@1.12%.

Dried fruits of all kinds have been
rather dull and we have no change. It
is said that holders on the Pacific Coast
are becoming anxious about the non-
receipt of orders and might make some
Concessions; still the general tone is
firm and cooler weather will probably

The butter market is quiet and the
advancing tendency has been checked.
Best creamery, 21@22c. Little doing in
all export way.

Cheese is dull and few sales are re-
ported. Full cream large State is held
at ge.

The egg market is dull. Best West-
ern, 17c. Much bad stock is arriving.

Beans are dull and the market is un-
changed in any particular,

—__~ 2» -
The Disgrace of Labor.

Deacon in Furniture News.

I am not arguing that every merchant
should be ready to grab a mop and
clean out his store every morning ; or
that a banker should fire ‘his own fur-
nace; or that the wife of a railroad
president should do her own washing.
When I see the proprietor of a large
store out on the walk washing the win-
dows; or a umber manufacturer sorting
scraps of boards about his own yard;
or a Corporation lawyer slowly pounding
out a letter on a typewriter, I say to
myself: *‘That is either a big man in
a small business, or a small man ina
big business.’" Such labor may be a
disgrace.

A boy at six dollars a week can mop
a floor or clean a window as well as can
Cornelius Vanderbilt. If your time is
worth $6 an hour, you disgrace yourseif
by working at work worth to cents an
hour that can be done by some Io cent
laborer. Great business men learn to
distinguish between cheap labor and
valuable work, and to hire cheap help
for cheap labor, and reserve themselves
for valuable work.

Moreover, it is the duty of the wealthy
man to put his cheap work into cheap
and worthy hands. I think it a disgrace
to saw my own wood when [| know that
the man on our back street is suffering
to saw wood at adollaracord. The
fact that I can earn enough to pay for
sawing my winter’s wood in the time it
would take me to saw half a cord _in-
creases the sense of the disgrace I feel.
When I need the exercise of the sawing,
or when I can hire no man to do it, |
can saw wood with equanimity and a
bucksaw. The redness seen in my face
at the time is not the blush of confusion
at being caught at humbie labor.

Any work that shows a meanness of
spirit is degrading although it be the
work of combining great railroad sys-
tems. Any work, however mean, that
shows courage and energy is ennobling
although it be the cleaning of a sewer.
—_—_—>2____

What Created the Demand.
‘What makes you buy that brand of soap?’’

I asked a woman shrewd;

“*Some others have far larger scope—”’

Their names I here reviewed.

“What makes me buy that brand of soap 2”

The woman looked surprised —

And thus she answered my demand—
** Because it’s Advertised.”

‘Why do you choose that ribbon fair?”
I asked a little miss;
“The other stores had others there—
Why did you ask for this?”
She gazed at me with pitying eye,
My face she criticised,
Then answered very simply, ‘‘ Why,
Because it’s Advertised.”

“What makes you always buy that wine?”
I asked a business friend.
“Tt’s quite a favorite of mine,
“ But why select this brand?”
He looked astonished and my aim
He had not recognized;
But still he answered, just the same—
“* Because it’s Advertised.”

And so you'll find where’er you go,
Whatever people buy,
The goods that have the greatest show,
And on which folks rely,
Are those made known through printer’s ink,
And, it may be surmised,
Their merit is, the people think,
“ Because they’re Advertised.”
—_—__~®0—.____
Chicago $5 Excursion October 14—

Don’t Miss This.

Only chance this year for you to go
to Chicago and return for $5. Tickets
good to return until Oct. 18. Last train
leaves Chicago on that date at 9:30
p. m. Gro. DEHAVEN, G. P. A.
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The British government is about to
spend $14,000,000 in the construction of
new docks at Simon's Town, Cape of
Good Hope. The docks will be of suffi-
cient capacity to hold the largest iron-

 

Cause more firmness,

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

  

BUTTER

Handled only on Commission.

EGGS

On Commission or bought on track.

M. R. ALDEN, 98 S. Division St., Grand Rapids.

 

 

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For Peaches, Pears, Grapes, and all kinds of Vegetables. Cor-
respond with us before placing your order for your winter sup-
ply of Onions, Potatoes, Cabbage, Apples, etc. We can furnish
them in carlots, or less, and shall be pleased to quote you prices.

The Vinkemulder Company,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

MILLER & TEASDALE CO.

FRUIT AND PRODUCE BROKERS

BEANS POTATOES
ONIONS CABBAGE

601 NORTH THIRD ST., ST. LOUIS, MO.

Consignments solicited. American Exchange Bank, St. Louis.

Harris & Frutchey

are the only exclusive dealers in BUTTER
and EGGS in Detroit. They can handle
your shipments to the best advantage and
will pay cash for eggs on track at your station,

60 Woodbridge St., W. 350 High St.

Telephone 2524.

Wanted

Creamery Butter, Eggs, Poultry
Apples, Potatoes, Onions, Beans
Fruits of all kinds.

Correspondence solicited

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Branch Stores: 353 Russell Street, opposite Eastern Market.

799 Michigan Avenue, opposite Western Market.
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ANUSEDtG FIFE
Packads 60.

Manufacturer of
Packages for marketing
Lard, Butter, Jelly,
Mincemeat, etc.
Pay for themselves in securing higher
prices. Always clean and attractive.
Furnished with your advertisement

printed upon them Cheaper than packages
now used.

187-189 Canal St.
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

  

  
 

 

 

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CEE SS Ra RS el i Ree Se a am

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

The Waning of Past Attainments.
Stroller in Grocery World.

There was a time when the standing
and reputation of a grocery store were
measured by the length of time it had
been in business. If it was an old store
aud had been in trade in its town for a
long term of years, it was regarded as
a landmark, and usually had an old-
established family trade that stuck to it
through all competition and all business
revolutions.

The same principle has more or less
governed all business enterprises. If a
newspaper had been in existence, Say,
for seventy-five years, even although it
was a little lumbering and slow now, it
still enjoyed a reputation for stability,
dignity and respectability and got busi-
ness where a younger and _ better paper
couldn't.

It looks very much to meas if this
time was past. This is the day of the
hustler, regardless of age and other ex-
traneous conditions. Old age, past re-
spectability and all other relics or at-
tainments of past generations have a
lesser importance in the public eye in
this day than they ever had before.
The times demand present attainments,
not those which are past and gone, or
those which were achieved by long-dead
ancestors,

Now that I have relieved my mind a
little, I'll tell what I mean. Very often in
my experience I’ve come across a gro-
cery store which is like a long-planted
rock. The present proprietor came into
possession of it from his father, and he
from his father, and so on. Sucha
store never makes any particular at-
tempt to meet competition. It never
needs to. It charges what it pleases
for goods, and what it pleases usually
means a good protit. Let me tell you
that this class of grocery stores is being
slowly but surely crowded to the wall.

I got into a store like this one day
last week. It is located in a New Jer-
sey town down in the southern part of
the State, and is just such a store as I
describe. It was established right in
that town sixty-three years ago. The
founder left it to his son, and the son
left it to his son, who is the present
proprietor. The place is old-fashioned
and prosperous, always had a good
trade, and the people of the place look
on it as one of their few local features
—a_ store as old and as virtuous as the
childhood of the oldest inhabitant.

I have known the proprietor of this
place for several months, although but
slightly. The other day I got into con-
versation with him, and among other
things I mentioned the cutter. I hap-
pened to see, as I passed down the
street, that a new store of the red-front
variety had just opened its doors, and
had plastered its front with the conven-
tional ‘‘bargain’’ signs. So I said to
the proprietor of the old-time store:

“You have never run up™ against the
cutter, have you?’’

‘‘Oh, my, no,’’ was the easy, almost
indifferent, reply. ‘‘The cutter can’t
hurt this storé. Why, this place was
founded by my grandfather sixty-three
years ago! It came down to my father
irom my grandfather, and down to me

 

from my father. It’s the oldest store in
town, don’t you know that? We’ve got
a trade here whose fathers and mothers
dealt here when my father kept the
place. You think they’re going to go
to any of these cut-rate cheap places for
their groceries? No, sirree! Why, I
tell you, it’s a fact that I never attempt
to compete with the other grocers here.
We al! have our own trade, and it
sticks to us, and always will.’’

‘Lucky, lucky grocer!’’ I exclaimed
to myself. ‘*‘Never compelled to com-
pete—to cut profits—never to do any-
thing but sell goods and make money. |
almost formed a resolution tq invite
everybody to go to South Jersey and
start a grocery store.

Just then the order clerk entered. |
say ‘“‘order clerk,’’ by which I mean
storeboy, delivery boy and general fac-
totum.

‘‘The new store down here is
a-boomin’,’’ he observed, as he handed
the grocer the orders he had gotten.

‘Is it?’’ asked the grocer, indiffer-
ently, as an Australian might remark of
an outbreak of chickenpox among the
Esquimaux of Greenland.

“You bet!’’ replied the boy. ‘‘ Lots
of people in there. Last night the place
was crowded! Couldn't git in. They're
sellin’ things cheap, all right.’’

‘“They are, eh?’’ observed the gro-
cer, skeptically. ‘’What do you call
cheap?’’

‘*Well,’’ said the boy, ruminatingly,
‘this bere smail box of Royal bakin’
powder we git Io cents fur they’re
a-sellin’ at 7.7"

‘* They're fools, that’s all!’’ ejaculated
the grocer, but still with a note of im-
personality in his voice, showing that
he viewed the matter from a stand-
point entirely outside of the effect which
such a cut could have on his own sales
of baking powder.

‘“They couid just as well get 10
cents, ’’ continued the grocer. ‘* Nobody
demands a price of 7 cents.’’

‘‘Well,’’ put in the boy, who was a
pretty shrewd youth, ‘‘the people are
a-buyin’ at the 7 cents all right. When
I came by there just now I seen Miss
Jackson in there a-buyin’ some things,
an’ her folks didn't give me no order
this mornin’! She was a-buyin’ bakin’
powder, because I seen a can of it on
the counter in front of her as I come

by.’

‘‘Oh, you must be mistaken,’’ said
the grocer, loftily. ‘‘Surely such peo-
ple as Mrs. Jackson wouldn't be led to
buy goods of such a house!”’

‘‘Well, that’s what I s’posed she was
in there fur,’’ persisted the boy.

The grocer didn’t Say any more, but
I could see that his feelings had under-
gone a decided change. I imagine that
the realization that his long standing,
his eminent respectability, were, after
all, impotent against modern compe-
tition, and that they both must go
down, and even had gone down, before
a cheap cut store which sold to cent
baking powder at 7, must have been a
tremendous shock. It is as if some
magic talisman to whom one had looked
for protection for years finally proved
utterly worthless in the crisis against

 

 

which its charms were supposed to lie.
The people of this place sold this
grocer, swept aside all his claims to
preference, and deserted him, for three
cents!
— +> 2.

Ever Been to Chicago?

If you have, you want to go again.
If you have not, you certainly ought to
go. To make it easy to do so, the C.
& W. M. Railway will sell you a ticket
for $5 for the round trip on October 14,
good to leave Chicago returning as late
as 9:30 p. m., Oct. 18. That's cheap
enough, isn’t it? You can’t spend $5
to better advantage at this time of the
year,

Tickets will be good going only on
train leaving Grand Rapids at 8:30
a. m. and 1.25 p. m.

GEO. DEHAVEN, G. P. A.
———>-2+>

Members of the trade aren't pugilis-
tic, but just the same scrap leather is
in big demand this fall.

 

One Infallible Test.

What do you consider the most ab-
solutely certain way to distinguish toad-
stools from mushrooms?’’

“Cook them, get some other man to
eat them, and then watch his symp-
toms. ’’

FOUNC ab Last ded

Gongdon’s Gider Saver
and Fruit Preservative
Gompound

Guaranteed to keep your cider and fruits pure and
sweet without changing their flavor or color. No
salicylic acid or ingredients injurious to the health.
Send for circulars to manufacturers.

J. L. Gongdon & Go.

PENTWATER, MICHIGAN.

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Car Lots:

Chicago.
cago.
Bankers:

 

Write for Tags and Stencils.

COYNE BROTHERS

WHOLESALE COMMISSION MERCHANTS
161 S. Water St , Chicago.

BUTTER, EGGS, POULTRY, FRUITS AND VEGETABLES
[VTATORS, APPLES, BEANS, ONIONS

References: W. M. Hoyt Co., Wholesale Grocers,
W. J. Quan & Co., Wholesale Grocer, Chi-
Bradstreet and Dun’s Agencies.

Merchants Nantional Bank, Chicago.

Mention this Paper when Writing:

 

 

 

R. HIRT, Jr.,

Market St., Detroit.

Butter and Eggs wanted x

Will buy same at point of shipment,
or delivered, in small or large lots.
Write for particulars.

 

 

Miller
Bros.,

--»-MFRS OF...

THE SGIENTIFI
EAN PIGKE

Rochester, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Do you want to know
all about us?

Write to

Corn Exchange National Bank,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Fourth National Bank,
Grand Rapids.

W. D. Hayes, Cashier,
Hastings National Bank,
Hastings, Mich.

D.C. Oakes, Banker;
Coopersville, Mich.

W. R. BRICE.

 

Established 1852.

W.R. Brice & Co.,

Commission
Merchants

| Butter, Eggs and Poultry
.
23 South Water Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

C. M. DRAKE.

| SPECIAL NOTICE.

 

 

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Live
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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

17

 

Commercial Travelers

 

 

Michigan Knights of the Grip.

President, Jas. F. HAMMELL, Lansing; Secretary,
D. C. Staeut, Flint; Treasurer, Cas. McNotry,
Jackson.

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

United Commercial Travelers of Michigan.

Grand Counselor, fF. L. Day. Jackson; Grand
Secretary, G. S. VALMoRE, Detroit; Grand Treas-
urer, GEO. A. REYNOLDs, Saginaw.

 

Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual Acci-
dent Association.

President,’A. F. PEAKE, Jackson: Secretary and
Treasurer, Gro. F. OwEN, Grand Rapids.
Board of Directors—F. M. TYLER, H. B. Farr-
CHILD,Jas. N. BRADFORD, J. HENRY DAWLEY,GEO.

J. HEINZELMAN, CHas. S. RoprNson.

Lake Superior Commercial Travelers’ Club.

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

 

 

Wholesome Decision Affecting the Lake
Shore Railroad.

The Supreme Court holds that the law
passed by the Legislature of 18o1, re-
quiring railroad companies in this State
to sell 1,000 mile tickets, good for the
purchaser and any member of his fam.
ily, for $20 each, is a good law, and a
decree is entered enforcing it in the
case of Henry C. Smith against the
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Rail-
road.

The case was tried in the Lenawee
Circuit, Judge Lane issuing an order
requiring the company to sell the rela-
tor a ticket under the conditions im-
posed by the law, and from this order
the railroad company appealed.

Judge Montgomery wrote the main
opinion in the case, which was signed
by Justices Long and Moore. Justices
Hooker and Grant wrote dissenting
opinions. The law provides that the
mileage tickets skall be good on lines
of railroads plying partly within and
partly without the State, and the con-
tention of the railroad company was
that this provision affects inter-state
commerce and is therefore unconstitu-
tional. Justice Montgomery says, how-
ever, that this contention cannot be al-
lowed for the reason that the statute,
fairly construed, was intended to limit
the use of the mileage ticket to the
State of Michigan. It fixes the price
of the ticket—not exceeding $20 in the
Lower Peninsula and $25 in the Upper
Peninsula. The Court says that, while
the language is not very apt, it was the
clear intention that a ticket, the price
of which was $20, should be used only
in the Lower Peninsula, and one, the
price of which was $25, could be used
only in the Upper Peninsula, and that
neither could be used beyond the limits
of the State.

A second contention urged by the rail-
road company was that the law is in
conflict with the charter of the company
which was granted prior to the amend-
ment to the constitution reserving the
right to alter or amend charters of cor-
porations, and that it therefore impairs
the obligation of contracts.

The opinion of Justice Montgomery is
exhaustive upon this feature of the case,
the conclusion reached being that the
consolidation of the old Michigan
Southern Railway Co. with the Northern
Indiana Railroad Co. and other com-
panies in Ohio, Pennsylvania and New
York, amounted to the organization of
a new corporation subject to the pro-
visions of the constitution and the act
under which it was reorganized. Upon
this point the Court says: ‘‘The com-
panies at present forming the respond-
ent derived rights under the law per-
mitting a_ consolidation, and, while
there may be difficulty in subjecting so
much of the property of the consolidated
company as liés without the State to our
jurisdiction, or in controlling the trans-
actions of the corporation itself without
the State, or in fixing taxation upon a
basis which rests upon its earnings out-
side the State, it is not apparent why
the company, as to its exercise of cor-
porate functions within the State, is not
subject to the terms of the act authoriz-

 

ing its consolidation as limited by the
constitutional provision in force at the
time, or why it is not subject to local
legislation. ’’

The third and fourth contentions of
the company, that the act is unconstitu-
tional because it attempts to compel
companies to enter into contracts for
two years and is thus an invasion of
the right to the use of property, and
that the act is in conflict with the con-
stitution, which limits the power of the
Legislature to fixing the maximum
rates to be charged, are both disposed
of by the opinion. It was argued that
the Legislature of 1801, having fixed
the maximum rate at 3 cents as to cer-
tain roads earning less than $2,000 per
mile, and 2% cents and 2 cents re-
spectively for roads earning more than
$2,000 per mile, thus exhausted
its power to provide for a less rate
where mileage books are used. Judge
Montgomery declares that the term
maximum rate, as used in the constitu-
tional provision, means the maximum
rate which the company is permitted to
charge under a given set of circum-
stances. Attention is called to the fact
that the Legislature permits all railroads
to charge 3 cents per mile for a dis-
tance not exceeding five miles, and it
is said that in fixing this rate the Leg-
islature fixed the maximum rate for that
particular service only.

The chief argument of the railroad
Company was that the statute is invalid
because it requires the company to en-
ter into a contract for two years for the
transportation of passengers, and is,
therefore, withdrawing from the company
the right to manage its own property.

“‘It_ may be said,’’ says the opinion,
‘‘that every attempt to fix rates of toll
or rates for the carriage of passengers
or transportation of property to some
extent involves an interference with the
management and control of its property
by the railroad company. Having in
mind the common method of conduct-
ing railroad business at the present
day, the court can take judicial notice
of the fact that nearly every railroad in
this State does issue—and did, prior to
the enactment of this law, issue—mile-
age books of one thousand mile tickets.
The conditions were not precisely the
same, but they were contracts good for
one year and issued at a reduced rate,
so that usual conduct of business time
contracts for the transportation of pas-
sengers is made. In fact, it would be
difficult to think of a method of con-
ducting a railroad business which did
not involve a contract good for some
length of time.

‘‘T confess I cannot share the appre-
hension that such a regulation as the
one here involved will deprive the com-
pany of the management of its busi-
ness. Would anyone contend that the
Legislature has not the power to require
railroad companies to keep on sale at
their stations tickets of any kind? The
compulsory requirement of this act may
indeed be denounced as an attempt to
conduct the business of the company,
but I apprehend that extended argu-
ment is not necessary to defend the
right of the Legislature to make such
requirement.

‘““My conclusions are that the regula-
tion is not unconstitutional as applied
to roads within the control of the Legis-
lature, and that the respondent road, by
its consolidation—formed as it is by a
consolidation under an act passed since
the adoption of the constitution reserv-
ing the power to alter, amend or repeal
—is subject to the general control of the
Legislature and that the judgment of
the Circuit Court should be affirmed.’’

The effect of this decision is evident-
ly not only to compel the Lake Shore &
Michigan Southern Railway Company
to sell mileage tickets under the condi-
tions imposed by the Legislature of
1891, but it places the road within the
power of the Legislature in regard to
taxation and other regulations, from
which it has always been claimed to be
exempt by reason of its original char-

ter.
——__>2.__
Don’t forget the $5 Chicago excursion
via C. & W. M. Railway October 14.
Tickets good 5 days.

 

Movements of Lake Superior Travel-

ers.
T. J. Gregory (Phelps, Brace & Co. )
has resigned his position.

H. C. Work (Woodward & Stone)
worked the Marquette range last week.

Fr. EH Horton (Pemberthy, Cook &
Co.) worked Marquette county last
week,

F. G. Truscott (Burnham, Stoepel
& Co.) is in Detroit posting up this
week.

W. C. Brown (Lake Superior Knitting
Works) visited the factory at Appleton,
Wis., last week.

W. R. Smith (Hibbard, Spencer,
Bartlett & Co.) did not swear to the low
man at Manistique.

P. Baldwin (Roundy-Peckham
Co.) worked the copper country last
week,

W. H. Stevens (Williams, Davis,
Brooks & Co.) is with us for a week or
two.

A. P. Simpson (Manhard-Jogppling
Co., Ltd.) works the trade part of the
time; the balance is spent managing the
business of closing out the stock of
hardware.

. B. Rome, i. (L T. & Gc. B.
Bowman) Sundayed in Marquette. Bert
lives in Jackson.

Percy Teeple (P. White & Co.)
spends all his time on the road in inter-
est of the Northwestern Mutual Life In-
surance Co.

Lake Superior commercial travelers
take considerable interest in the new
interchangeable mileage book in use in
the Lower Peninsula. We greet our fel-
low tourists and ask them to desert the
Lower Peninsula with its burdensome
book and join us in the Upper Penin-
sula where mileage is only $25 per
thousand and cash fare is only 4 cents a
mile. Our excess baggage tariff is
based upon 4 cents a mile. In the
Lower Peninsula travelers are compelled
to mix with all sorts of passengers, but
up here passengers are divided into but
three classes—those using mileage,
those paying cash fare and those who
travel on passes. The three classes are
about evenly divided. If any of the
travelers from below want to travel in
a paradise, let them come up here,

—~>-2

Gripsack Brigade.

The Michigan Commercial Travelers’
Association has called a meeting for
Saturday evening to discuss the new
interchangeable mileage book.

Geo. H. Riblet, for many years a
well-known Michigan traveling sales-
man, died at Sterling, Sept. 26, from
Addison’s disease of the kidneys. Mr,
Riblet was affiliated with all of the
traveling men’s societies of the State,
Carrying an aggregate of $14,000 life
insurance.

Burt R. Stevens, for several years
employed in the shoe store of Wm. M.
Palmer, at Jackson, has taken a position
as traveling salesman for Upham Bros.
& Co., of Stoughton, Mass., manufac-
turers of men’s shoes. His territory in-
cludes Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana,
Ohio, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, New
Jersey and Delaware,

Wm. Boughton (C. E. Smith Shoe
Co.) is again on the warpath, having
gone to Detroit early in the week to se-
cure his samples of spring goods. Mr.
Boughton’s many friends among the
trade will be glad to learn that the oper-
ation to which he recently submitted at
Butterworth hospital has resulted in his
complete recovery.

Chas. S. Robinson has been called to
Aurora, N. Y., by the death of his
father. As Charley is an only child
and his father leaves an estate of con-
siderable magnitude, it is not unlikely
that he will he impelled to leave Grand
Rapids and take up his residence in the
Empire State. Such a change would oc-
casion general regret among Charley’s
friends, who have come to regard him
high by,’reason of his joviality and
large-heartedness,

 

Cutler House at Grand Haven.
Steam Heat. Excellent Table. Com-
fortable Rooms. D. and PR. H.
IRISH, Props.

Northern Hotel,
J. L. Kitzmiller, Prop.

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

HOTEL WHITCOMB

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

 

Whitney Fiouse
est Hotel in Plainwell, Mich. Only house in
town holding contract with Trav elers’ Educational
Association of America,
Chas. E.WwWhHi (224,

oe.

 

   

LAMNES,
Prionr: 490, “3 CANAL ST

NEW REPUBLIC

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

 

  

Tor...
Young men and women acquire the greatest inde-
pendence and wealth by securing « course in either
the

ing departments of
11-19 Wilcox St.,

Business, Shorthand, English or Mechanical Draw-
the Detroit Business University,
Detroit. W.F. Jewell, P. R. Spencer.

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

One block east of depot.

GOLUMBIAN TRANSFER COMPANY

CARRIAGES, BAGGAGE
AND FREIGHT WAGONS

15 and 17 North Waterloe St.,
Telephone 381-1 Grand Rapids.

 

Rates, $1.00.

 

 

Photographs
of
Samples, Display Cards, Etc.

It often occurs that traveling salesmen find photo-

 

graphs of such articles are too large to carry
a great convenience. The engraving department
of the Tradesman Company is prepared to furnish

such photographs of the best quality on short notice.

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, Mick.

 

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 tifty 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.

 

 

 

8

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

Drugs-=-Chemicals

 

 

MICHIGAN STATE BOARD OF PHARMACY.

 

a Term expires
S. E. PaRKILL, Owosso -

- Dec. 31, 1897
F. W. R. Perry, Detroit - - Dec. 31, 1898
A. C. ScHUMACHER, Ann Arbor - Dee. 31, 1899
Gro. GunprRvmM, Ionia - - Dee. 31, 1900

L. E. REYNoups, St. Joseph - ~- Dee. 31, 1901
President, F. W. R. PERRY, Detroit.
Secretary, Geo. GunpRuM, Ionia.
Treasurer, A. C. ScoUMACHER, Ann Arbor.
Coming Examination Session—Lansing, Nov, 2
and 3.

MICHIGAN STATE PHARMACEUTICAL
ASSOCIATION.

President—A. H. WeBsBeEr, Cadillac.
Secretary—Cuas. Mann. Detroit.
Treasurer—Joun D. Murr, Grand Rapids.

 

 

How to Prepare for Board Exam-
inations.

At the present time, when so many
try to pass the various State Board of
Pharmacy examinations, and so few of
them succeed, the question as to how tu
prepare for such examinations is one of
the greatest importance to the average
unregistered druggist, whether he be a
proprietor or clerk. The desire to be-
come registered is ever predominating
in the average druggist, and rightly so.
This desire is increased as the demand
for the unregistered clerk decreases.

A systematic course of study should
at all times be strictly adhered to. The
United States Pharmacopoeia should be
taken as the guide. When beginning
to study do not try to commit to memory
all about each and every article or prep-
aration separately; the best results are
obtained by classifying them and
studying them in classes. Much may
be learned from a single preparation
that equally applies to the entire class.
Notice the general characteristics of a
class and note the exceptions, if there
are any to to be noted; or if special
precautions are to be observed in their
manufacture, take note of this also,
Much may be learned in this way by
but very little study.

Take, for instance, the liniments: note
that there are only nine official and
may be divided as follows: Those made
by simple solution—belladonna, chloro-
form, soft soap and compound mustard
liniments. Those made by solution
with heat—camphor, turpentine and
soap liniments—and thirdly, those made
by saponification—ammonia and lime
liniments.

Take, again, the dilute acids. Donot
try to remember that the dilute nitric
acid is Io per cent., the dilute muriatic
acid is Io per cent., and so enh, but re-
member that they are all 10 per cent.,
excepting the dilute acetic acid, which
is 6 per cent., and the dilute hydro-
cynic acid, which is 2 per cent.

Again, regarding the solubility of the
various substances, take, for instance,
the chlorides. As a class they are all
soluble, excepting those of lead, silver
and mercury (ous). The same applies
to the solubility of the carbonates,
where all the carbonates are insoluble,
excepting those of the alkali metals, as
sodium, potassium, lithium and am-
monium.

Note that by this method you may
be able to learn many facts by very little
study. You may also note that the
acidum chromicum and the acidum ar-
senosum are not acids, but only acid
oxides. Also note that the acidum car-
bolicum is not an acid, but a hydrate,
and you should be able to give good
definitions for each one of these classes
of compounds. No one should study
alone, if it can be avoided; the stimulus
afforded by companionship aids greatly
to arrive at the desired end. If two or

 

more cannot study together, they should,
if possible, meet frequently and quiz
each other, take notes of questions
which they cannot answer and_ look
them up when at leisure; or, one may
prepare a set of questions for the other,
and, having compiled the set, he will
be very apt to be able to answer them.
If you are obliged to study alone, you
will find it great help to write down
questions as they occur to you, the an-
swers to which you may look up at your
leisure.

Do not try to commit to memory the
exact words of the text-books, but be
able to explain in your own words the
subject as you understand it. It shows
the complete comprehension of the sub-
ject, and not simply a parrot-like repe-
tition of someone else’s definition.

When you come up for examination,
first of all read carefully every question
before any attempt is made at answer ;
give your undivided attention to every
question until it is answered in full,
Do not crowd any more words into a
line, nor any more lines onto a sheet
than there is room for. In short, write
legibly, and keep your paper neat and
tidy.

To receive a crowdedly-written paper,
interlined and marked, written on both
sides of the sheet, diity, so that the
writing is scarcely legible, is very an-
noying to an examiner, and to write a
dozen or more lines altogether foreign
in answer to a question is sufficient to
try the endurance of a saint, to say
nothing of that of an ordinary mortal.
Go about your work carefully and with
deliberation. Work carefully and
thoroughly; do not become excited, for
in your excitement you will make state-
ments which you may regret in your
cooler moments. If, in the oral portion
of the examination questions are pro-
pounded to you with which you are not
familiar, do not hesitate to acknowledge
this fact, but do not try to convey fa-
miliarity with subjects of which you
know rothing. L. A. HARDING.

—_—__e2<—__
The Department Store and_ the
Druggist.

As civilization has advanced, and
human wants have become more diver-
sified and exacting, so that inhabitants
of large cities particularly have de-
manded that the whole world’s products
of cultivation and manufacture, and all
its other sources of supply, shall be
flaced at their immediate and most
convenient disposal, with the most ad-
vantageous display of variety, and at
the lowest possible price, old business
methods have to a certain extent been
revolutionized and departures, both
Startling and extensive, have been
inaugurated.

Some ingenious mind conceived the
idea of placing many classes of the
world’s products in many varieties in
a location as central as possible to a
given community.

The outcome of this conception was
that modern ‘‘ Vanity Fair’’ known as
the Department Store.

As such an institution’s influence and
its power to draw trade were more and
more realized, there was a disposition
to widen its scope and increase its
profits by incorporating classes of goods,
or lines of business, much less related
to each other than those which had pre-
viously been associated. With this ex-
pansion of the centralizing tendency in
trade and effort to secure all the advan-
tages to be derived from an unexpected
want created by an ingenious and at-
tractive display of wares, great effort has

 

been made to include even such lines of
business as were limited to a specially
trained and prescribed class of men.

Naturally the druggist was not over-
looked, and his business has ultimately
been more or less incorporated into the
vast commercial mosaic whose prime
and far-reaching principle was monop-
oly. The small tradesman and the
skilled artisan were apparently to be as
far as possible engulfed, and business
interests controlled by a fortunate few.
The public was gradually educated to
look for much in return for a little ; to
be bargain-hunters. But experience
proved them not always bargain finders
nor wise buyers. Where the department
store has a drug department whose
wares are offered at seductive prices, it
would seem that bargains in eye salves,
bald head applications, kidney, liver
and consumption cure, hive syrup, Ro-
chelle salts or similar articles must be
a poor investment when made upon the
basis of probable need and to take ad-
vantage of attractive prices. Does it
pay to buy what you do not want,
particularly such things as these? The
claim can hardly be made that these
goods are dealt in by the department
store for any higher furpose than to
attract, or for simple profit. Conse-
quently the question arises, can the de-
partment store afford for these purposes
to provide a trained, skilled and
licensed druggist and sell drugs alto-
gether reliable, in conformity to phar-
macy laws, and for prices much below
the retail druggist’s small profit? It
would most decidedly seem not, and
that the outcome must be a low-salaried
and incompetent salesman, or an adul-
teration and sophistication detrimental
to all dealers’ interests and hazardous to
the public. '

If the department store is to be the
drug store, and to be in fact every other
kind of a store, or to supply all the
commodities, conveniences or necessi-
ties of life, it is high time the druggist
took note of the fact, and ordered his
affairs accordingly. If the department
Store is ultimately to supply the com-
munity with drugs, cheese and wagons,
cutlery and coal, meat and monuments,
molasses and microscopes, Carpets and

 

coffins, houses and horses, a detective
and a doctor, a blacksmith and a den-
tist, conduct a theater and a crematory,
druggists better all be candidates for
the latter at once. It is not to be won-
dered at that the pharmacist should re-
bel against the losses he has suffered at
the hand of the department store. His
relation to the public, his high and
responsible position as a conservator of
public health, and the careful, arduous
training he is compelled to undergo to
fit him for his professional career
would naturally seem to make him ex-
empt from such absorption.

His is a profession in which there are
many irksome exactions and scarcely
any compensatory returns. He has in
the past been so _ preyed upon
by grievous legislation, by the compe-
tition of illegitimate rivals, and a most
unreasonable popular misapprehension
as to his financial returns, that his lot
has been in many respects quite an un-
enviable one.

He is too preoccupied with the very
exacting duties and responsibilities of
his calling to resort to defensive com-
mercial methods. He is too conserva-
tive and self-respecting to resort to re-
taliative measures.

Because of the high character of his
calling, the obligations placed upon
him, and the unselfish devotion he so
constantly manifests to the general in-
terests of the community in which he
is located, he should be so protected,
encouraged and supforted by proper
legislation as to aid him in his high
purposes, and to ensure to him the
meager financial and other returns it
may be possible for his vocation to
afford him. And it is only by strict and
considerate legislative enactment that
he may hope to secure the recognition
and protection which are his due.

To hasten that end it is incumbent
upon every druggist to associate him-
self with his fellows, formulate his
claims, and intelligently co-operate with
adopted measures. Union will give him
power. He will receive favorable rec-
ognition and secure satisfactory legisla-
tion and the enforcement of pharmacy
laws, ALBERT H. BRUNDAGE.

 

 

MASTER”

 

 

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The best 5 cent cigars ever made. Sold by
BEST & RUSSELL Co.. CHICAGO.
Represented in Michigan by J. A. GONZALEZ, Grand Rapids.

 
  
  

 

 

 

MILTON KERNS,

Manufacturer,
No. §2 oth Street,

 

 

Pittsburgh, Pa.

El Puritano

Finest oc Cigar on Earth

Couchas I-20 $55.00
Bouquetts 1-40 $58.00
Perfectos 1-20 $50.00
Cabinets 1-40 (5% in.) $70.00

B. J. REYNOLDS,

Grand Rapids.
BATEFAN & FOX,

Bay City.
JOHNSON & FOSTER,

Detroit.

Distributers for Michigan,

 

 

  

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OLESALE PRICE CURRENT Morphia, S.P.& W... 2 05@ 2 301s
- ’ ao 2 ae {
{ Advanced—Golden Seal Root, Buchu Leaves M . to “ca — Sinapis, opt....... g 30 oor a ”6hUe g
Declined— Alcohol. -eaves, Morphine, Quinine. M Labia @usda 2 05@ 2 25| Snu Maccaboy De v a an T Str = =
oschus Canton... @ @| Vou , Neatsfoot,winterstr 65 7
Myristica, No. 1.._. A SB mare cx: @ 3) Spirits Turpentine.. 36 2
ie — Nux Vomica. ..po.20 @ 10 Soda — _ 3 Z
nite i . . el 7
gue aa — ----  35@ 50] ScilleCo............ @ 50 aa ae 15@ 18/ Soda Boras, po...._. 7 g : Paints pe. 1
Benzoicum, German 70@ 7% Cubebso...” Soe i 10@ 1 20/ Tolutan.......... 17) @ 50] D.Co uli i sods et Fotass Tart. 29 3 a
Borseie... 5... @ 15| Exechthitos _... 177: 1 90@ 1 00| Prunus virg.. ..._.. @ 50| Picis Lig. N.N.% gal. 1 00 | Soda, Carb.......... 1%@ ‘2| Red Venetian. ... 1% 2 @
Carbolicum ......... 29@ 41| Erigeron......../77" 1 on ] Tinctures a Soda, Bi-Carb....... 3@ 5 | ochre, yellow Mars. 142 @4
Carbolieum «220... aap 41 Rrlggrom ooo. 1 00 1 10} Aconitum Napetiieg PivieLig quarts) @ 200) Soda, Asm....0.00.1 35 | Ochre, yellow Ber. 1% 2 3
Hydrochlor ......... 3@ 5 | Geranium, ounce... | @@ } | Aconitum Napellis F 601 Picis Lig. pints. «= | 20 | Soda, Sulphas. .... @  2| putty, Commercial... 2% 24@3
: Nitrocum. ......... 8@ 10| Gossippii, Sem. gal @ 5] aloes = Pil Hydrarg...po. 8 eg S| Spite Cologne........ @ 2 60 Putty, strictly pure. 2% 2%@3
" Oxalicum ........... 12@ 14| Hedeoma. rgal..  50@ ©! aloesand Myr” 60 | Pi PN a bee 6 Se | gbth Ether Oo... - Nt Asia
Phosphorium, dil... @ 15|Junipera. ...)..7 777: 101@ 1 10] Arnica = aR UE 60 eae a = @ 18)Spt MyrciaDom...  @ 2 00 American...... .... B@ 15
Salicylicum. ...... 65 | Lavendula....). "(77 1 50@ 2 00/ Assafoetida 177177” 30] Piix B a @ 30| Spts. Vini Reet. bbl. @ 2 42| Germilion, English. 70@ 7%
Sulphuricum. ...... 1%@  5| Limonis....-7.7) 217" 1 =a 2 00| Atrope Belladonna. 60 Pinmbi eet 1 BS pee 688! ce remains “an a
Tannicum .......... 1 25@ 1 40| Mentha Piper... || 1 60@ 1 40/ Auranti Cortex... 50 | Bulvis Ipecac et Opii 1 oe 1 20 | Spts, Vint nee weet O20 Tead Red. ee
Tartaricum.......... 40 | Mentha Verid.... |") 1 coe 3 = Benzo go | Pyrethrum boxes'Hi _— a = Lead! a om
Si mentha Verid...-.-- 1 90 a oan a eae i Less 5¢ gal. cash 10 dars. ead, white........ 54@ 6
; Aqua, 16 deg 4@ 6 Myrela,. os 4 00g 4 50 — eee. 59 | Pyrethrum pv = 33 aoe oa ‘oa Whiting ‘glide on @ w
= ; 16 deg... .... Ove —— a Jantharides......._ a Quasar T, Subl....... 24@ 31] whi » Silders’... @ w
= . Se. 75@ 3 00) Gantt Sage 15 BSB 8@ 10] Sulphur, Roll.... 3 White, Paris A i
4 Carbonas oo 130 " Sem fee a 10g LB Caen, Ce i = — : ae = : Pamarinds...2 °°... a 7% be ta Paris Eng, @ 1 00
= oridum .......... 2@ 14/ Ricina ...... ae © | Cardamon Co.... i is inia’ -- 26@ 36|Terebenth Venice... ; Er eacemoeallut nicht eg a BUI Ph
a ae Rictna 99@ 1 04 Cen Oe ; % + emp ot eel ica = 40 | Theobrome.... i ca & Universal Prepared. 1 00@ 1 15
& i ‘ ee ao me @ 1 00) Catechu.../7177777 77 50 SaccharumLactis py 18 cane Ges -- 9 00@I6
— a. eee. ae SS a ae —- ee
. a. ne Sabine H@ 1 00 en Ce ee. 60 Sanguis Draconis... 40@ 50! oO No. 1 Turp Coach... ¢
= Volon 2 50@ 3 00 — --.-..1.. 2 OG % Oo ao cee cee. 50 — ee L@ 14) iis Extra Turp iamia
= ScAtrag 5 =p BG i ‘ . soach Body... 1.7” 2% 5
= Bacce. Sinapis, ess., ounce. "a 63 Cassia Acutifol..... 20 Sapo, Ge. "3 ib Whale, winter....... 70 70 Not Te urn... i <7
=  Cubewe........ po.18 13@ 15] Tiglii...... |... 14 Cassia Acutifol Go Siedlite Mixture.‘ 20 @ 22/}8Td extra....-..-. 40 45/ Extra Turk Damar. 1556 1 60
4 Juniperus........... - soe. 0G | Dietialia........ 3 oo Lard, No. 1......... 5 40 Jap Dryer ctu wat
ion = s Thyme, ae 2 Brgot ooo. 50|— L Jap.Dryer,No.iTurp 7@ 7%
Bal um eobromas ee 156@ 20 err hloridum.... 35 ii Th
sam Gentian ....._. : v
Copatba. a 50g . 55 eee Potassium pon sig Co =
eT 4p BE Car ae vee pie SS 5
Terabin, Canada... 40@  45|Bichromate 27.’ a3 18 Guiaea amimon.. 80
Sie 7%5@  80| Bromide......... 171) 48@ 51 | Hyoscyamus.....*”’ 50
Gadten es es tia a) Oee 5
Abies, Canadian... tGun a oa Ring oriees.... =
vom ear ie. 7 ie =
Cinchona Flava..... 18 | Potassa, Bitart, pure ‘= = ay cS RR 50
Euonymus atropurp 30 | Potassa, Bitart, co — = Nux Vomica_.)’ 1." = 1 ,
Myrics — po. 20 | Potass Nitras, opt y — . Opii aan z
tyr = Vitras, opt... ay Bi 5
Quillaia eed soe : — Nitras.. .. . 7@ 9 | Opii, camphorated. 50
== : 2 SSIGte 20@ 25] Opii, deodorized.... 15
assafras...... po. 18 12 | Sulphate po = Quassia =
Ulmus...po. 15, gr’d 15 a Rhatany..... |]! : rs
oe a — °D
Glycyrrhiza Glabra. 24@ 25] Althe 0 20@ 25 | Sanguinaria . 50
Glycyrrhiza, po..... 28@ 30| Anchusa ...... 1.177’ — 50
Hematox, 15 1b box. 11@ 12| Arum po... = 2 60
Hematox,is........ 1 14] Calamus ....). 11) 77 — = — 60
Heomatox, 4s... im sau. a 200, 40| Valerian ...... ae 50
Heematox, 4s....... te 7 Glychrrhiza.. oy S ee 8 ee vera... a” ®
---pv.15 16@ 18) Zingiber.... s
ere Hydrastis Canaden f @ 38 Tisc. eeiais -
Carbonate Precip... 5 | peels Can., po.. 2 tis Nite
Gaia auea.. 9 = Hellebore, Alba, po.. 53 = poor ag Nit.3F 30@ 35
Gitte Sania | <3 — me 15@ 20] Alumen pts. Nit.4F %3@ 38 en
Porrecyaaidinen Sol. se Ipecac, pe ae po per gee 24Q@ 3 ~WSSSSTSScee
Solut. Chloride. .... 15 2 ape 35@ 40] Annatto..-.< Pn” 40 59
ulphate, com’l..... 215 ear 30 imoni, po....._ r
Sulphate, com’l, by Maranta, \%s........ “— 35 i DO... @ 5
bbl, per ewt..... 50 Fodophyiium, Po.... 22@ 25] Antip mC hlCU
cae oe 7] Bhel onsen 75 100 | ANEPYTIM oo eee, @ 149
Flora Bhelpys 10 07 “on 7 25 | Argenti Nitras, oz . @ 50
Armies 00. 129@ 14| Spigelia. 0.21.27 3 38 Ba ee a — =
Anthemis ....... 12. 1s@ 25 | Sanguinaria..po.i0 “@ | Bia ai Bud. 38@ 40
Matricaria .......... 35 Serpentaria meee ecee. 30@ 35 Calcium Chik: _
mai Senega oo %@ 40 Calcium Chior’ 2; & 2 ‘
imilax,officinalis H ie Chlor., 4a. @ 10 1 1 1
Barosma............. ‘ s ; @ 2 | Calcium Chi ; a =
Baroame ic igse 20 | Sulla gna t@ Bi) cseum cater se W amination of our remodeled and
neyeily......’..... 18@ 25| Symplocarpus, Fatt, ‘2 || Capsici Fructus,ar, @ 15 handsome sundry d
Cassia Acutifol,Alx. 2@ 30 —— Capsici Fructus, po. @ , ee ie charge of
Salvia officinalis, 4s Valeriana,Eng.po_30 : 2 —— FructusB,po @ 15 Mr. J H. Hag We di 7
pind Binns. os. 13Q 90) Valerians, German, 13% | GArEODNYNNS po. 15 10g | 12 . Sy: e display in sample show
See erpere 2G Argan i 1
a Zingiber @.....-... BB 16 Cora Alba, 8&8.) sap ° cases complete lines of the following goods
Acacia, ist picked... ate inane 40
Acacia, 2d picked... $ $ Anisum — Cassia F ructu SR = 2
Acacia, 3d picked.. @ 35| Apium jecueslon a o. 2 Centraria acre $ %
Acacia, sifted sorts. @  28| Bird, is.. re oo. = Cetaceum....77 1,11! Ss Perfumes S
Acacia, sifted sorts. of 3) Bird tse “0 Cetacoum. 2202. @ 4 oaps Combs
Aloe, Barb. po. 1830 2g 14 Cardamon. sig ead Soin Chloroform, squibbs mo 18 Mirror
. ee. PO. 12 | Coriand ee ( oral Hyd C 6
Aloe, Socotri..po. 40 : 2 30 Cannabis Saiiva.... 3 a Chondrusy sc ‘oe : es : Powder Puffs
oe 5 5 fae ee ‘inchonidine, P.& Ww : 25 i i
Assafoetida....po.30 25@ 28| Chenopodi 7+ 25@ 1 00 Ginchonidine, G oa Tooth
Benson 2°: 2@ 28| Chenopodiiim 2. 10g | Gorsing sme Gorm 222 2 , Nail, Hair, Cloth, Infant, Bath, and
ae 13 | Foeniculum ea ~ 49 | Corks, list, dis.pr.ct. 7
Catechu, : ie @ 101 Grageoue -pr.ct. 7 Sh e
Gateonn, ia... aon oe 72 9) Creosotum..- @ x aving Brushes
Camphorw. <2. aap o8| Lin gid nis 88 gf |Crmprep SE Fountai -
= um..po. 5 10 L bi 2 STa...... Lia Creta’ O01 se a wicig ” e
Galbanum.t = ae 1 00| Pharlaris’Gansian, O40] Greta, Kabra. 222°" > ; ee nen Seinen
uboge po........ 5 70| Rapa... i é 5 | Crocus... ..... oot 2
Gusiactm pc's RR Sl Bea 44@ 5 | Gress cr eeeeeeee 18@ 20 T °
oo q Albu. ~ Miapesr weezers
Kino... po. 83.00 @ 3 00 Siaade Ni : es @ 8 Cupri Sulph......._. = 3 Key Rings Cork Screws
Mastic ae @ 60 . Si  @icee ‘an a
gy Mywk. po. 45 40 Spiritus nar tek 10 2
a = $1.00@4.20 2 as 2 95 ————. w. D. Co. 2 00@ 2 50 Emery, all numbers - 8 — — tiie
= Sheliae 35 enti, D. F.R.. 2 00@ 2 25| Emery, po... ioli
Shellac, bleached... 40@ 45| Frumenti.... om 1a E OU ee ag = 2 i i i
Shellag bleached. oa 8 aes 120 1 3)| Frsota pot) WE Violin, Guitar and Banjo Strings
Herba uniperis Co........ igata ets...” el os i
Absinsbum.on phe as GuVinl Gali 1B 28 GON cconce on
oa 35 | Spt. Vint Galli...... % 50 | G ; Had
La i Oo 1 25@ 2 00 | Gelatin, Freneh.....
Majoru ee = = Vint Aiba 1 25@ 2 00 | Glassware, flint, box 6010850 Suspensory Bandages
Mentha Pip..oz. pkg 3 Sponges Gis een Ztesaen =
enths Vic ox or 7 | Wetdiee , a... 9@ 12 e
ae vee oz. kg % — wool ee Gine, white..... 1.1) 13@ 25 Toilet and Bath Sponges
Pan aiesaaie oe pkg | naan mas oe 27% PCC @ 20
Thymus, V..oz. pkg os | Carriage. 00 ee oe oS 5B
Sede, Velvet extra sheeps’ Hydrane Chics tiic A 7 i
Calcined, Pat..... .. - 5@ 60 ecm. ae 25 | Hydraag Chlor Cor. @ 0 ay oo — cca a ieee
cana ea 20@ 22! wool. carriage . 00 mon a en Ja to mention Goods d
ci z a [ : eees m j _ i
Carbonate, Jennings 35@ 3 a - @ 1 00 HydraagUnguentum 60 , 35 i "P _ bia — sisi right.
Sey vdrar
Oleum =. for slate use.. @ % Icathyobolla, An... og =
Absinthium oe. - 3 25@ 3 50 — oe f, for ‘vn a eT 7@ 1 00 e
mygdale, Dulc.... 1 lara i odine, Resubi.....) 2 q
Amygdale; Amare § 006 8 oo s Todoform......07 0.2." %@ 42)
Anisi =. sss. 2 502 0) | Acaol — Epi cB BB
Auranti Cortex ue 2 00@ 2 20| Auranti Gores... 8 30 = Lea ee z
bo 2 40@ 2 50 | Zingibe eet Peas aes ce - ‘
Cajiputi miber @ 50| Liquor Arse~ i i
en oe . %@  80| Ipecac. Sal aes
Gargopbyii 0-0... 5| Hers Toa...) @ 50|LiquorPorassArint 10h 3B ee ie
Chenopadii._""’ - B@ 6 io @ 50} Magnesia
Clete oe : @ 3 75 | Smilax Officinalis... n@ 60 jaa sme ‘bbl 7 2
; -+++-... 1 90@ 2 00 | Senega naar @ 1%
nella... | a =a. Sic. @ 50; Mannia,S.F........ 50@ 60
ee @ 650/ Menthol... ...... coe @240

 

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ROCERY PRICE CURRENT’.

The prices quoted in this list are for the trade only,
dealers. They are prepared just before going to press and
possible to give quotations suitable for all conditions of pur
erage prices for average conditions of purchase.
those who have poor credit.
our aim to make this feature of

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

It is im-

 

 

AXLE GREASE.

 

doz. gross

Oe 55 6 00

Caster Ol .............8 7 00

Diamond... 50 400

Bracers ...........:.2 75 9 00

IXL Golden, tin boxes75 900

Mica, tin boxes........ 7% 900

Paragon... ....... 3 55 6 00

BAKING POWDER.

Abselute.

1¢ Ib cans doz...... ee 45

(ft camee@es 85

. ibeamieoc 150

Acme.

34 Ib cans 3 doz............ 45

 ibcanssdes............ Db

[  eamtdes.. ....... 100

See ll
EI Parity.

14 1b cans per doz.... %

i, Ib Cans per doz ........ 1 20

1 1b cans per doz..... -.. 2 OO

Home.

34 lb cans 4 doz case...... 35

% lb cans 4 doz case...... 55

lb cans 2 doz case ..... 90

1g 1b cane, 4 doz case..... 45

% lb cans. 4 doz case...... 85

1 1lbcans, 2 doz case...... 1 60

Jersey Cream.

1 tb. cans, per doz.......... 2 00

Sox ©2875, rer doz._....__.. 1s

6 oz. Cans, per doz.......... 85

Our Leader.

tg 1b Cans... 45

ree {3

. oe... 1 &
Peerless.

ite came 85

BATH BRICK.

 

  

i doz. pasteboard Boxes... 49
3 doz. wooden boxes....... 1 20;
BROOMS.
Octal 1%
No. 3 Ca - ao
No. 4 ry Pieasceeecees 2 iO
Parmar Gon... 2.2... 2 00
Com Weie........... oI
Raney Wht. 80
Waromouse. ........). 285
CANDLES.
ee 7.
we 8
Poe 8

CANNED GOODS.
Manitewoc Peas.

  

Lakeside Marrowfat....... 95
beeen SLU lcs
Lakeside, Cham. of Eng.... 1 2
Lakeside Gem Ex. ~ifted. 1 45
Extra Sifted Early June....1 75
CHEESE.

— |... @e H
aapey @ il
Bee @ 10%
Mie @ ll
een @ 1%
Gold Medal... .....
a @ il
a @ il
Jersey ... @ il
Lenawee . @ 10%
Riverside. @ il
Sparta ... @ 10%
os... i" @ 10
Edam.... . @ 7
en, @ 18
Limburger .......... @ 10
Pineapple............ 48 @
pap Sere... @ 18

 

 

CHOCOLATE.

Walter Baker & Co.’s.
German Sweet ................ 23

um.
Breakfast Cocoa _ 2

CLOTHES LINES.

€otton, 40 ft, per doz .....
Cotton, 50 ft, per dosz......
Cotton, 60 ft, per dos.......
Cotton, 70 ft, per doz.......
Cotton, 86 ft, per dos......
Jute, 8 ft, per dos....
Jute. 73 ft, pe- daz..

RESSERS

Chicory.
Bulk
Red

oR

COCOA SHELLS.
Reih bags... 2%
Less ee otis 3
Pound packages......... =
CRBAS1 TARTAR.
5 and 10 1b. wooden boxes..30-35

COFFEE.
Green.

Rio.
od a a 1
Ge. | 4
rae. 13
Gereem 14
oe: i ee 15

Santos.
ae. a
ae... es
Ramee 16
POOR 2c 17

Mexican and Guatamala.
re. lle
— ............  . e
Fancy .. ee ee see a
Maracaibo.

Prime ee
Milled ee eee 21
Java.

Tnterior a nea 20
Private Growti..... i 22
Manca... _.. 24
Moehe..
iuutauoe 22
Co ee
Roasted.

Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brands

| Hitt: Avenue...... ...... 28
| Jewell’s Arabian Mocha... 28

Wells’ Mocha and Java..... 24
Wells’ Perfection Java..... 24
Sanrethn

Breakfast Biend........... 99

Valley City Maracaibo. ....18%

Ideal Biend......... sei 13

Leader Bieng....... .. .... 12
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¢ per 100 lbs.
above the price in full cases.

cromekse CC 11 09
seesey 8 ee
"IcLaughlin’s XXXX...... 11 00
Extract.
Valley City % gross ..... 6
Felix % gross...... s, 1 15
Hummel’s foil % gross... 85
Hummel’s tin 4% gross... 1 48
CATSUP.

Colgmshia, pints.......... 2 2
Columbia, % pints.......... 1 2
CLOTHES PINS,

Serope DOKCS:..;. 5... 6.5.5 40

CONDENSED MILK.

4 doz in case.

Gail Borden Eagle......... 6%
PM 6 25
Dee 5 75
Ghampion .................. 4 50
ee ee 4 25
matenro. 3 50
NS 3 35

COUPON BOOKS.

= i =

 

  

  

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....1i 50

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

 

Universal Grade.

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

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

Superior Grade.

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

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

Oo
S828 Buzz

Coupon Pass Books,
Can be made to represent any

  

denomination from $10 down.
moses 1 00
Se POGES..........0. 2 00

Bepoors 3 00

Speers... oo

pevpenkKS........ . | -10 00
RU poeks...... ........... 99 5D

Credit Checks.

500, any one denom’n..... 3 06
1000, any one denom’n..... 5 00
2000, any one denom’n..... 8 &
pees. pO %

DRIED PRUITS—DONMESTIC
Appies.

BaBerieg 5 @ 4%
Evaporated 50 lb boxes. @ 6%

California Fruits.
Po 9 @10
Biackberrics...........
Neetarmos........... 6 @
Peseeee. TO 9
reas...
Pitted Cherries........
Praeeeen 8... 12
Raspberries............

California Prunes.

100-120 25 1b boxes....... @
90-100 25 Ib boxes....... @

80 - 90 25 1b boxes....... @ 5y
70 - 80 25 1b boxes....... @

39 - 40 25 1b boxes....... @
ig cent less fn 50 1b cases
Raisins.
London Layers 2 crown.
London Layers 3 Crown.
London Layers 5 Crown.
Dehesias .._.....
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown

FOREIGN.

Currants.
Patras bbls...

     

--@ 6%
Vostizzas 50 lb case @ 65,
Cleaned, bulk ..... --@ 8
Cleaned, packages........ @ 8%

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

Raisins.
Ondura 28 ib boxes.....8 @ 8%
Sultana 1Crown....... @

 

Sultana 2Crown....... @
Sultana 3Crown....... @l2
Sultana 4 Crown.......
Snitana Crown .._..
Sultana 6$Crown....... @

 

 

FARINACEOUS GOODS.

Parina.
2411b. packages.......... 1%
Bulk, per 100 lbs..... .... 3 50
Grits.
Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s....... 2 40
Bulk in 100 lb. bags....... 3 40
Hominy.
Bamels 2 223
Flake, 50 1b. drums....... 1 00
Beans.
Dried Lima . ...

co one
Medium Hand Picked....1 10
Maccaroni and Vermicelli.
Domestic, 10 1b. box......

 

 

 

Imported, 25 Ib. box.. ... 2 50
Pearl Barley.
Common... 8... 2 40
Romeer - 8 s. 2 50
Magee 2%
Peas.

——. oC... 90
Spit, perib............... 2
Rolled Oats.
Rolled Avena, bbl.......4 (0
Monarch, bbl... ....:... .3 60
Monarch, 4% bbl.......... 2 05
Private brands, bbl..... 3 50
Private brands, 4bbl..... 2 00
Quaker, cases. ...........3 BW
Sago.
oe 3%
Bast India... .
Wheat.
(Cracked bulk. ....._..... 3%
242 Ib packaces...........2 50
Fish.
Cod.
Georges cured......... @ 4%
Georges genuine...... @ 5%
Georges selected...... @ 6%
Strips or bricks....... 5 @7%
Halibut.
10
Sigs... 9
Herring.

Holland white hoops keg. 80
Holland white hoops bbl.
MOrworan... ............
Round 100 lbs...

Round 40 lbs.

 
 
 
 

Mackerel.
Boss 100 tba... 5...
Mess 40 lbs... .
Mess 10 lbs.

 

  

SSU33

1s
60
30
7
60
22
00
Russian kege.............. 55
Trout
Mo, Ci ibe... .... 2
Mo. f sig... .. 1 95
_o.t Wie... 55
Me.t Sie... |. |: 47
wae.

3 0z 1 50 30z. ....1 00
40z -2 00 a 1 40
_.... 3 00 -<..... 2 00
No. 8 400 No. 8...2 40
No. 10. .6 00 No. 10...4 00
No. 27.1 3 No. 2T. 80
No. 3 T.2 00 No. 37.1 35
No 4T.2 40 No. 47.1 59
HERBS.
ee 15
OOS ee 15

IND
Madras, 5 lb bo

—......... 55
S. F., 2,3 and 5 lb boxes.... 50
JELLY.
ee
30 lb pails.... ... a vb)
LYE.
Condensed, 2 doz .......... 1 20
Condensed, 4 doz...,....... 22

 

Souders’.
Oval bottle, with corkscrew.
Best in the world for the
money.

 

 

Regular
rade
Lemon.
doz
SOs... vi)
OS. ....: 150
Regular
Vanilla.
doz
i 1 20
£0n...... 2 40
XX Grade
Lemon.
= 2oe.....: 1 50
i} 40z. ....3 00
XX Grade
| Vanilla.
 2oz...... 1%
oe... .. 3 50
GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.
ee a 4 00
alt Bees 2 2
Quarter Kegs... i
Rib. Cals... x——<—_
rp cams... 18
Choke Bore—Dupont’s.
Been 42
ieee eS. 2 40
Quaréer Kegs... ..... 51.1... 1 35
O16 Cans ce 34
Eagle Duck—Dupont’s.
Rem 8 00
Hote Meee 4 25
Quarter Kegs... oe. 25
Pin Came 45
LICORICE.
i 30
CNMI 25
Ae S INES st CnC 14
eee 10

MASON FRUIT JARS.
Pints, 1 doz. box, per gross 4 25
_— 1 d’z. box, per gr’ss 4 50
Half gal. 1 d’z. b’x, p’r gr’ss 6 0
Fruit Jar Rubbers, p’rgr’ss 25
Mason Caps only per gross 2 25

Glass Cover Fruit Jars.
“The Best” Fruit Keeper.
Pints, 1 doz box, per gross 5 59
epee 1 d°z. box. per gr’ss 5 75

alf gal. 1 d’z b’x, p’rgr’ss 7 75

MINCE MBAT.
Ideal, 3 doz. in case......... 2
MATCHES.

Diamond Match Co.’s brands.
No. 9 suiphur. 3... |: es
Anchor Parlor... 1 70
No.2 Home 110
[Zxpor Parlor. |... 4 00

MOLASSES.
New Orleans.
ae 11

eS ee 14
MOOG 20
Maney... |. 24
Open Kettlce........ 3... 25@35

Haif-barrels 2c extra.

PIPES.
Clay, No. 216.....:......... 1.60
Clay, T. D. fullcount...... 5
on, Nes 85
POTASH.

48 cans in Case.
Bereies € 00
Penna Salt Co.’s........... 3 00

PICKLES.
Medium.

Barrels, 1,200 count........ 5 00
Half bbls, 600 count........ 3 60
Small.

Barrels, 2,400 count........ 6 00
Half bbls, 1,200 count...... 3 50
RICE.

- Domestic.
Carolina head.............. 634
Carolina No.1............. 5
Carolina No. 2............. 4%
rome 33%
imported.
Japan, No.1............... 5%
Japan, No.2.......... seoee BMG
Java, fancy head.......... 6
enn, NOS.
ee 5%

 

SALERATUS.
Packed 60 lbs. in box.

       
  

Chaves .......... i" 3 30
Deiand’s ... 3 15
yee SL 3 30
Payers. 3 00
SAL SODA.
Granulated, bbls........ i.
Granulated, 100 lb cases..1 50
Dump, bbis...... ... 1
Lump, 145lb kegs.......... 110
SALT.

Diamond Crystal.
Cases, 24 3-lb boxes......... 150
Barrels, 190 31bbags...... 2%
Barrels, 40 7 lbbags...... 2 40

30

Butter, 28 Ib. bags...........
Butter, 56 lb bags........... 60
Butter, 20 14 1b bags........ 3 00
Butter, 280 1b bbls.......... 2 50
Common Grades.
HOO SIDSRERS. 5. 5). 2 60
O0S1b sacks... oo... 1 80
OS 1010 BOCES. 1 635
Worcester.
50 4 Ib. cartonms........... 3 25
115 241b. sacks..... .......4 00
Oo 5 Ib seeks... ..... | 3 75
me ae: ID Seeks. 3 50
S00 Ib. saeks.... 1). 3 50
25 lb. Hnen saeks............ 32
30 ib. Hnen Sacks. ......... |. 60
Bulk in barreis......... 2. |: 2 50
Warsaw.
56-lb dairy in drill bags..... 30
28-lb dairy in drill bags..... 15
Ashton.
56-lb dairy in iinen sacks... 60
Higgins.
56-lb dairy in linen sacks... 60
Solar Rock.

SOD BACKS 21
Common.
Granulated Fine............ vi)
Medium Fine... ...: |. 85
SEEDS.
RS 18
Canary, Smyrna........... 4
careway 10
Cardamon, Malabar ..... 80
Hemp, Russian........... 4
Mixed Bird... |. 4%
Mustard, white.......... 6%
a 8
ee 5
Cuttle Bone...... cee 20
SNUFP.

Scotch, in bladders......... 37

Maccaboy, injars........... 35

French Rappee, in jars..... 43
SPICES.

Whole Sifted.
PO 9
Cassia, China in mats....... 10
Cassia, Batavia in bund... .20
Cassia, Saigon in rolls...... 32
Cloves, Amboyna........... 15
Cloves, Zanzibar............ 9
Mace, Batavia...,........: 60
Nutmegs, fancy........... - oe
Nutmers, No. 1... 50

Natmere, He. 2... 45
Pepper, Singapore, black... 9
Pepper, Singapore, white... 12

Temper, S06 0 10
Pure Ground in Bulk.
mp 12
Cassia, Batavia ............. 2
Cassia, Saigon.............. 35
Cloves, Amboyna....... 0
Cloves, Zanzibar............ 15
Ginger, African..:......... 15
Ginger, Cochin............. 20
Ginger, Jamaica............ 22

Mace, Batavia.............. 70
Mustard, Eng. and Trieste. 20
Mustard, Trieste............

Bmgmices. 40@50

Pepper, Sing , black ....10@14
Pepper, Sing., white.... 15@18
Pepper, Cayenne........ 17@20
Cn ii inn: 18
SYRUPS.

Corn.
ON 20
Mat Obie 22

Pure Cane.
OE ee 16
Seed ienee cebu bbe eae: 20
ee, &

SODA.

Boxes 5%

Kegs,English... 22222121211! agg

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

Peaiananh tian acca hastened aoe eta omen manana ee eT

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SOAP.

andry.

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

Sipste Ox 20
5 box lots, delivered........ 2 70
10 box lots, delivered....... 2 65

JAS. 8. KIRK & CO.’S BRANDS.

American Family, wrp'd....3
American Family, unwrp’d.3 27
Dome 3 33
Capiiee. 22
BEVOR 2 50
Dusky Diamond. 50 6 oz....2 10
Dusky Diamond, 50 8 oz....3 00
Blue India, 100 3 Ib......... 3 00
NRitmemme. 3 75

Oe sea ls Se

One box American Family
free with five.

Schulte Soap Co.’s Brand.

100 cakes, 75 lbs.
Sineie bex 1.
> BO 1008. 2 io. 2%
10 box Tots... 2 70

2p box Iota. 2 60
Wolverine Soap Co.’s Brands.

Single box ..
5 box lots, delivered........
10 box lots, delivered.......
Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands.
Old Country, 80 1-lb. bars ..
Good Cheer, 60 1-lb. bars....
Uno, 100 %-lb. bars..........
Doll, 100 10-0z. bars.........
Scouring.
Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz ..... 2
Sapolio, hand, 3 doz........ 2
Washing Powder.

io 29 09

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SS KSHR SSK

 

A Most Massent, but Most EMective

Nailing bode

MAnuFACTUMED O™L¥ BY
THC SUMMIT CITY SOAP WORKS.
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10 12 oz pikes... 8... 3 50
STARCH.

Kingstord’s Corn.
40 1-lb packages... ......... 6
20 1 Ib paekages........ 2... 614

Kingsford’s Silver Gloss.

40 1-Ib packages............. 6%
Cip bere 2
Diamond.
64 10¢ packages ........... 5 00
128 5¢ packages......... .. 5 00
32 10c and 64 5c packages...5 00
Common Corn.

2 Lib. packages: 4%
40 1 lb. packages............. 414
20th boxes
401, boxes.

Common Gloss.
TD packages... 4
Sib paekages..... 0 6 414
6-lb packages...............
40 and 50 lb boxes.
Barrels

STOVE POLISH.

RESCOTT&a ¢c
Lon nae

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
treight 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.

o
Cee 5
Loma@ere 5
AAXX Powdered..........5
Mould A 1 4
Granulated in bbls... ...... a
Granulated in bags.........5
Fine Granulated............ 5
Extra Fine Granulated..... 5 20
Extra Coarse Granulated... .a z
Viamond Confec. A........
Confec. Standard A........

Ne ee

No

No.

No.

No.

No.

No.

No.

No.

No

TABLE SAUCES.

Lea & Perrin’s, large..... 4 75
Lea & Perrin’s, small..... 2%
Halford, large............ 3 75
Halford small....... 22... 22
Salad Dressing, large..... 4 55
Salad Dressing, small..... 2 65

TOBACCOS.

Cigars.
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s brand.
New Brick: 35 00
Morrison, Plummer & Co.’s b’d.
Governor Yates, 44% in..... 58 00
Governor Yates, 4% in..... 65 00
Governor Yates, 544 in..... 70 00
Monitor. 30

H. & P. Drug Co.’s brand.
Quintette 20. 35 00
G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brana.

CW... ae oes oe ee Oe
H. Van Tongeren’s Brand.

star Green. 0 35 00
VINEGAR.
Malt White Wine............_.

WICKING.

No: @ pergross...
NOt pergrocs......
No.2, pergross......... |
No. 3, per gross.........

25
30

40
"5

 

 

Fish and Oysters

Fresh Fish.

Wotetsh.-........
Wieme 2...
Biack Bass..........
Paliput ...... |. ee
Ciscoes or Herring..
Bluefish

Live Lobster.......

Boiled Lobster......

‘oO
Haddock
No. 1 Pickerel......
Pee
Smoked White......
Red Snapper.......
Col River Salmon
Mackerel

Oysters in Cans.

@. H Ceunts......_.
F. J. D. Selects......
Seteew - 5...

F. J. D. Standards...
ARCHOS. ...........
SignGnras.... |...
Pavormes..... |... . (

Oysters in Bulk

FF. Tf. Counts: ....... @1 77
Extra Selects....... @! 6
Meleets @i
Anchor Standards.. @l
St ndards........... @1 1
Olen... @i 25

Shelli Goods.

Oysters, per 100....... 1 25@1 50
Clams, per 100..-.... 901i &

 

@IH + POPOPHNHHAOHHHSHOS

A)

@

Candies.

Grains and Feedstuifs

 

 

Stick Candy.
bbls. pails
64@ 1%
642G i
6 G8
Gb
cases
G 6%

Seandare .:.. ..
Standard H. H.....
Standard Twist.....
Cat Lost...

Jumbo, 31D 1...
oa
Boston Cream......

Mixed Candv .

Competition. ........
ere... .....,..
Copserve... |.
oe
POO ll.
Bremen
wus beat...
English Rock.......
Kindergarten... ....
French Cream......
Dandy Pan...
Valley Cream... ....

Fancy—In Bulk.

Lozenges, plain.....
Lozenges, printed...
Choe. Drops........
Choc. Monumentals
Gia Dreps.
Moss Drops.:.......
Soeur Drops..........
Pmaperiais

POHOSOOESS
WCOWBDOnweowo

Fancy—in 5 Ib. Boxes.

Lemon Drops.......
pour Drops... ...
Peppermint Drops..
Chocolate Drops....
H. M. Choe. Drops..
Gum Drops.........
Licorice Drops......
A. B. Licorice Drops
Lozenges, plain....
Lozenges, printed...
Imperials ..........
mentees.
Cream Bar..........
Molasses Bar .......
Hand Made Creams.
Plain Creams....._.
Decorated Creams. .
String Roek.........
Burnt Almonds..... 1 2
Wintergreen Berries

=

Caramels.

No. 1 wrapped, 2 Ib.
bexes
No. 1 wrapped, 3 Ib.
boxes co
No. 2 wrapped, 2 Ib.
boxes

Fruits.

Oranges.
Choice Naples.

Strictly choice 360s..
Strictly choice 300s..
Maney 360s... |...
Ex.Fancy 300s......
Ex. Rodi 360s.......

Bananas.
Medium bunches...1 25
Large bunches...... 1G

Foreign Dried Fruits.
Figs, Choice Layers
10 1b Californias...
Figs, New Smyrnas
21D boxes... -
Figs, Naturals in
Se ib bags. |...
Dates, Fards in 101b
bewes
Dates, Fards in 601b
cases
Dates, Persians,H.M.
B., 60 lb cases, new
Dates, Sairs 60 Ib

 

 

 

Almonds, Tarragona. .
Almonds, Ivaca.......
Almonds, California,
soft shelled
Brazile new...
Milberts: 2... |. ae
Walnuts, Grenobles ..
Walnuts, Calif No. 1.
Walnuts, soft shelled
Calif
Table Nuts, faney....
Table Nuts, choice...
Pecans, Med....... ...
Pecans, Ex. Large....
Pecans, Jumbos..
Hickory Nuts per bu.,
Onig new...
Cocoanuts, full sacks
Peanuts.
Fancy, H. P., Suns.
Fancy, H. P., Flags
MORRIOG oe,

Choice, H. P., Extras.
“hoice, H. P., Extras

,
Reoevtnt

 

Wheat.
i

Winter Wheat Flour.
Locai Brands.

See
second Patent... 5
ae 4
a 4
ane 4
BUCRWHEAL 3
ee 3

Subject to usual cash
count.

Flour in bbls., 25¢ per bbl. ad-
ditional.

Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Quaker ws. 4 80
UemCE A 4 8
Quaker we. 4380
Guard, Fairfield & Co’s Brand.
W hole Wheat 1-16s......... 5 20

Spring Wheat Flour.
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brand.
Pillsbury’s Best gs........ 5 70
Pillsbury’s Best igs........ 5 60
Pillsbury’s best “a... 5 50
Piilsbury’s Best 4g paper. 5 a0
Piilsbury’s Best 3a8 paper... 5 5u
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand.
Grand Republic, \s........ 5 65
Grand Repubtic, a. ..... oe
Grand Republic, igs....... » 5 45
Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s Brand.
Gold Medal }s............. 5 65
Geld Medal igs 5 65
Gold Medal tga 5 45
Pace ee 6 05
Parisian, 4e..... a 5 55
Parisian, Yq & 45

Olney & Judson’s Brand.
Corenota ea. 5 65
COFCSOtA tia 5 55
Cereser, saa 5 4d

Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Lgerel tea
Laurel 4s... ‘
Hamel ae

Meal.
Oe
Ctanlated

Feed and Milistuttfs.
St. Car Feed, screened ....
No. 1 Corn and Oats....__
Unbolted Corn Meal....___
Winter Wheat Bran... _
Winter Wheat Middlings
Screenings

The O. E. Brown Mill Co.

quotes as follows:

New Corn.
Car iota. -.. on
Less than car lots......___ 34

Oats.

13 50
13 00

Cat tote ee

Carlots, clipped............ 26

Less than car lots.......__ 28
Hay.

No. 1 Timothycarlots...... 9 00

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

Crackers.

The N. Y. Biscuit Co.

quotes
as follows:

Butter.

Seymour XXx. 4
Seymour XXX, 31b. carton 4%
Famil Ae
Family XXX, 31b carton..
Samed ME
Salted XXX, 3 1b carton...
soe Sa
Soda XXX, 3 1b carton....
poas, City... i.
Zephyrette....... _.. .
Long Isiand Wafers.......

L. I. Wafers, 1 lbcarton ..

Oyster.

Square Oyster, XXX....... 4%
Sq. Oys. XXX, 1 Ib carton. 5%
Farina Oyster, XXX....... 4

SWEET GOODS—Boxes.
ae 9
Bent’s Cold Water......... 13
Belle Hose 6
Cocoanut Taffy............ 8
Come Cakes... 8
Hrosted Honey... |... 10
Graham Crackers ......... 6
Ginger Snaps, XXXround. 5
Ginger Snaps, XXX city... 5
Gin. Sops,XXX homemade 5
Gin. Snps,X XX scalloped..
Ginger Vanilla...
spertais
Jumbles, Honey...........
Molasses Cakes............
Marshmaliow |.
Marshmallow Creams.....
Pretzels, hand made .....
Pretzelettes, Little German
Sumer (Ake
Sultanas...... pei ee oe
pears Euneh

 

Vanilla Sqtiare........ __.
Vanilla Wafers...
Peean Wafer
Mited tienie 1
Cream Jumbles ............
Boston Giuger Nuts........
Chimmie Fadden .......
Pineapple Glace...... .....
Penny Cakes :
Marshmallow Walnuts....
Bélie isle Pienie. |

 

 

 

 

 

|B sek, winter...

‘Provisions.

Swift & Company quote
follows:
Barreled Pork.

as

9 50 |

2 50
lu 73
lu 50
i4 5U
5v |
9 5U |
Dry Salt Meats.
Bellies .... .-
renew
Mxtee ShOrts.............
Smoked Meats.
Hams, 12 1b average ....
Hams, 141b average ...
Hams, 16 lp average.....
Hams, 20 lb average.....
Ham dried beef .........
Shoulders (N. Y. cut). .
Bacon, clear...... .....8
California hams.. '
Boneless hams...........
Cooked ham... .........
Lards. In Tierces.
Compoune. 3... 8...
Mee
oo Ib Tube. .....- advance
50 ib Tubs... ... advance
SOIb Tins ....... advance
2a 1b Pails. ...... advance
10 Ib Pails. .... |. advance
S16 Pails... |. advance
3 1b Pails....._. advance

Sausages.
Belge
ee
Ce
re
See
Renee
Head echeese.............

Beef.
Putra Mew 9
Boneless

-
Oo

Cures

oR AR ER of BF 3

Pigs’ Feet.
Ries ibe.
4 bole 4lba 1
4% bbls, S0lba 23
Tripe.
Bite isla
1q bbls, 40 Ibs... 1111221) 1
% bbis, Siba............ 2
Casings.
Cor
Beet rounds...
Beef middles............
Sheep ....... i

Butterine.
Hous, Airy.
send dai
Rolls, creamery .........
Solid, creamery .........
Canned Meats.

Corned beef, 2 1b....... 2 10
Corned beef, 14 lb.......14 00
Roast beef, 2 Ib.

Potted ham,
Potted ham,
Deviled ham, 60
Deviledham, ‘is....... 1 00
Potted tongue oe. 60
Potted tongue s....... 1

Fresh Meats.

8
*

WNUNBOA
we

eséeeeo

Pork.
Premed.
eee.
Beouidem ..........
Eeaf Lard... ..... 5y

Mutton.
Carcass
Spring Lambs... .....

Veal.

BK

a aoauvu

o~

an
® 68 6e6e

Carcass

oo
©

Hides and Pelts.

Perkins & Hess pay as fol-
lows:

Hides.
acer 7
Part curea..
Pol Cured............ 7
9 @ll
Hips, green... 7 @8
Hips, Cured. .......... 8 @9
Calfskins, green...... 7G 9
Calfskins, cured...... 9 @1%
Deaconskins % @30

Pel
Shearlings ...........
a
OM Wool... |.

Oils.

Barrels.
Eocene. ...... 1...
XXX W.W.Mich.Hdit
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Butters.
44 SAL, per dog... .__.
I to6 gal. per gal........
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Eo GAL, per eal...... . ....
5 gal. meat-tubs, per gal..
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meat-tubs, per gal.. 1
meat-tubs, per gal.. 1
Churns.
#toOgal.. per gal...... ...
Churn Dashers, per doz...
Milkpans,
% gal. flat or rd. bot., doz.
1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each
Fine Glazed Miikpans.
M% gal. flat or rd. bot., doz
1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each
Stewpans.
% gal. fireproof, bail, doz.
1 gal. fireproof, bail, doz.1
Jugs.
“4 S01, per doz.............
mae. perdos.... ........
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Corks for % gal., per doz., 20
Corks for 1 gal., perdos.. 20
Preserve Jars and Covers.
4 gal., stone cover, dog... 75
1 gal., stone cover, doz...1 00
Sealing Wax.
5 lbs. in package, perlb... 2
LAMP BURNERS.
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No. 2 Crimp, per doz.. .
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No. 2, Lime (70¢ dog)... ...
No. 2, Flint (80e doz)
Electric.
No. 2, Lime (70c doz)
No. 2, Flint (80e doz)

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
S gal Tilting cans......... 8 00
5 gal galv fron Nacefas ... 9 00

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Hardware

How to Succeed in the Hardware
Business.

 

When you go into business go in to
win; not for your health, but to make
some money.

Don't be afraid to work at least until
you get the ball rolling ; then don’t stop
but keep kicking it on,

You must have capital enough to buy
a stock, be it large or small, for spot
cash,

Locate, if possible, in a county seat or
a live manufacturing town. Get a
good location in the town regardless of
rent. Go where you find plenty of peo-
ple and not at a country cross road.

Do not buy goods ontime. Credit
has made more financial wrecks than all
other causes combined.

Discount all bills; you can live on
your discounts. Never permit a draft to
enter your store.

Sell for cash only, under all circum-
stances.

Always keep your stock fully insured.

Attend strictly to business. Never be
found in a saloon, especially during
business hours.

See that your clerks are courteous and
of good moral habits. Pay them living
wages and they will take a deeper in-
terest in your business.

In your buying do not tie to any one
firm, be they the cheapest store in
America. Be independent. Buy most-
ly from factory and commission men.
When you can pick up assignees’ stocks,
do so. Go to New York and Philadel-
phia occasionally; attend the auction
sales. If possible, have a resident New
York buyer or join a syndicate. Buy
from the markets of the world wherever
and whatever you can buy at a bargain.

Advertise, advertise, advertise.

Use your city and your county papers
as regular as you eat your meals, the
year around.

Put out posters or hand bills every
month or six weeks, pay days, show
days, at fairs, etc.

Quote prices on everything.

Fill your window full of notions,

Mark every article with large printed
cards that can be seen across the street.

Mark every article in the store in
plain figures,

Change your windows two times each
week, or at least once every week. Have
every article you advertise, and sell it
at the price you advertise or below.

When you get a bargain give one.

Never kill the goose that lays the
golden egg.

If you can sell goods at 20 or 25 per
cent. do so.

Find what it costs you to do business.

Do not attempt to sell all goods at a
uniform price.

Find at what per cent. you can turn
your goods the oftenest during the year
and realize a living profit on each turn.

Always treat traveling men courteous-
ly, even if you do not buy of them.

Keep a quotation book and record all
prices,

Study your patrons* wants.

Sell everything you have a demand
for and especially keep full stock of all
staple goods.

Have your clerks keep a record of
every article called for in your various
departments. Copy these wants and
study them carefully.

Use your judgment as much as pos-
sible and do your own buying.

Consult your clerks as to your custom-
ers’ wants, whims, etc.

 

Get what your trade demands.

Have goods arriving at your store
every day of the year.

Guarantee every article you sell.

Refund the money or exchange the
goods as cheerfully as you sold the ar-
ticle.

Do not allow your clerks to argue with
or insult a customer; they are your best
advertisers.

Interest the children and mothers.

Treat the smallest child as you would
a grown-up son.

Never take the advantage of any one.
Observe the golden rule not from policy
but from a deep-seated conviction of
your soul as to opposition in business,
leaders, etc.

Use your judgment; what will work
in one town or case will fail in another.

Do not get scared if your neighbor
merchant talks about you and says vile
things and persecutes you. Rejoice and
keep mum. Saw wood and appear to
like it.

Treat your enemies like gentlemen; it
is only a lack of good horse sense that
causes their actions. You will never
make much of a success in anything un-
til you get people to talking about you.
—Hardware Dealers’ Magazine.
Customer Lost Through Being Too

Liberal with Samples.
From the Chicago Times-Herald.

‘‘Mamma gets tired so easily. Now
that we have her safely seated, let’s
look around a little bit,’’ said Miss
Brown.

**With pleasure,’’ replied Mr. Smith,
who was in the department store, but
not as happy as he looked.

‘‘T suppose all men detest shopping?’’

‘‘IT guess you never asked them to
shop with you.’*

‘*That’s ingenious, Mr. Smith. That
would be a good way to ascertain
whether they do or not, wouldn't it?
but I haven't the heart to dissect a
plausible argument, especially when it’s
offered in that spirit.’’

‘Miss Brown, you area cynic. You
are making me ashamed of my real sen-
timents.’

**Do tell me how.’”’

“You laugh at everything that’s seri-
ous, and my sentiments are serious.”’

‘‘Now, Mr. Smith, you must stop.
This wouldn’t be shopping at all if we
talked coherently. You seem so mel-
ancholy. They say that dyspepsia gives
people that kind of thoughts, but I
think that that kind of thoughts give
people dyspepsia. You should avoid
them, Mr. Smith. Try to be like me.
I never do anything that would be like-
ly to give me dyspepsia. But let’s get
to business. I’ve been trying for a long
time to discover something new in food
that papa would like. Here are sam-
ples of twenty-five novelties. Don't they
look just exquisite! And aren’t the
girls that give them out just too daintily
got up for anything! Just smell that
tomato soup! Mr, Smith, we must try
some of that tomato soup.’’

‘‘Er—ah—of course, if I were you I
should certainly sample it. If I were
intrusted tacitly, as you are, witha com-
mission from a dear relative, I should de-
termine the merits of every new brand
of tomato soup or die. But, as it is, my
physician says that I must confine my-
self absolutely to vermicelli.’’

‘‘That was simply delicious. You'll
never know how much you missed by
not tasting it, Mr. Smith. I shall cer-
tainly have to order two cans of that.
And now that you didn’t take the soup
you surely can’t refuse to try some of
those little pickles. Aren’t they the
cutest things you ever saw? Do try
one. No? Mr. Smith, you're a martyr.
Just look at those vanilla wafers.
They're made out of that new kind of
cereal. Don’t they look as though they
would melt before they could be swai-
lowed? And they're just as good as they
look, too. Really, I must have an-
other. Oh! and there’s some of that
cheese they're all talking about. Have

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you tried that cheese, Mr. Smith? It
has set the epicures wild, you know. I
don’t see how you can be so mean. I
don’t believe you’ve taken a bite of one
thing except the graham wafers. Do
look at those doughnuts swimming in
that amber-colored grease. It's abso-
lutely the newest thing out, entirely
vegetable—made _ from beets, I believe.
I declare they taste just too good for
anything! I must have a memorandum
of that. And here are those new pre-
serves which Alice Miller told me about
—an entirely new system, you know.
Dear! Would you imagine they’d give
sucha quantity away asasample? Why,
did you ever think of it, Mr. Smith, one
could almost lunch here for nothing.
I’m beginning to—there, that girl wants
us to try some American olives. And
here’s a new sort of pickled ham. Isn't
it wonderful how they give samples of
everything?’’

‘* Now that there seems to be nothing
else to eat in sight, it just occurs to me
that you've had nothing to drink. Come
with me instantly and we'll get some
soda water.’’

‘*Reaily, Mr. Smith, that’s very kind
of you, indeed, and I shall avail my-
self of it. I'll take some ice cream soda
with fruit flavors, raspberry and pine-
apple mixed.”’

‘‘This store certainly ought to sell a
great deal, they are so generous with
their samples,’’ said Mr. Smith as
they sipped the soda.

**Oh, it pays them to be so.°*’

Three days later, on Mr. Brown’s

 

veranda, Mr. Smith asked: ‘‘ Well, Miss
Brown, have you bought any of those
goods you tried when we were down
town?’’

‘‘T guess not!’’ she replied. ‘‘How
could you expect me to when the sam-
ples made me so sick?’’

A ss

Don’t forget the $5 Chicago excursion
via C. & W. M. Railway October 14.
Tickets good 5 days.

 

 

New
Catalogue of

Tinware
and
Enameled
Ware.

just out. Drop
us a postal for it.

 

Wm. Brummeler & Sons,

Manufacturers and Jobbers,

260 S. Ionia St. Grand Rapids.

 

 

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PIEGED TINWARE

 

 

10 quart Flaring Pails...... go per dozen
14 quart Flaring Pails...... 1 44 per dozen

1 quart Covered Pails...... 30 per dozen
2 quart Covered Pails...... 48 per dozen
3 quart Covered Pails...... 69 per dozen
4 quart Covered Pails....... 86 per dozen

© quart Covered Pails... . ..

4 Quast Oi! Cans...) ..

1 pint Bieksines..

1 quart Measures.......... 46 per dozen

one week.

 

Spécial prices for one week

§ quart Flaring Pails......$ 66 per dozen |

16 per dozen |
20 per dozen |

36 per dozen |

Less 5 per cent. discount for cash with order. All
goods warranted to be perfect.
ders at once, as we shall withdraw these prices in

FOSTER, STEVENS & GO., Grand Rapids, Mich.
SOOO OO OOOO OOO OOOO

   
  
  
  
  
  
   
  
  
  
   
  

2 quart Measures..........$ 81 per dozen
¢ quart Meacures |. |... | 1 20 per dozen
E quart Coffee Pot....<.....
2 quart Coffce Fot.........

58 per dozen
76 per dozen

3 quart Coffee Pot.........

4 quart Coffee Pot......... 1 00 per dozen

eqn Dippers...... |... 48 per dozen

Bid. Steamers =... 2...

66 per dozen
No. 9 Steamers... 2...
No.8 Tea Kettles ... .:

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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.

 

 

 

 

 

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Getting the People

Some Features of Bicycle Advertising.
Written for the TRaDESMAN.

During the past two or three years
the advertising of bicycles has taken the
lead, in quantity and elaborateness of
work done. Catalogues have been put
out by all the leading manufacturers
and many of the smaller concerns
which are a miracle of modern ty po-
graphic and illustrative art. The finest
papers procurable have been used and
the profusion of high art illustrations
and beautiful colors in inks have made
them more than notable. The same
elaborateness has entered, so far as
possible, into the other channels of
publicity, such as magazine advertise-
ments, booklets, etc. But, notwith-
standing all this profuse display and
lavish expenditure of money, careful
advertising observers claim that the bi-
cycle people are not up to date in their
methods—that there are not adequate re-
sults for money invested. In looking
through any of the leading magazines,
where the bicycle advertisements are all
in a bunch, the close resemblance be-
tween them is noticeable at a glance.
The pictures, of course, vary; but,
when read, one is led to think they
were all written by the same ferson
and that person not particularly bright.
There are no definite claims made.
The bicycle advertisements are alto-
gether too much like most of the kodak
advertisements, which say, ‘‘ Best cam-
era on earth. Takes a picture size of
above, 314x3%.”’

There is altogether too much smoke
about bicycle advertising and not
enough fire. Instead of fixing upon some
particular features which are claimed
to be superior—features which are in-
corporated into the machine to make it
desirable—and telling the public ina
few forcible, plain words why these
features make the wheel better than
others, the money of the advertisers has
been expended for fancy cuts and fan-
cier phrases which are productive of no
lasting results,

The pictures are all right. This is
the ‘‘picture age’’ and _ illustrations
serve as a sauce. But the bicycle folk,
generally, have made their pudding
from the picture and feebly tickled the
buying palate with empty phrases for
sauce.

It is no longer necessary for advertis-
ing space to be devoted to convincing
people that they should buy and ride
bicycles. Every one knows that the bi-
cycle is an established vehicle. What
the buyer wants to know is ‘‘what’’
wheel he should ride, and ‘‘why’’ he
should buy that particular make. Points
of durability, convenience in all ways,
ease of operation, beauty of finish and
economy, should be brought out strongly
and convincingly, and, if supplemented
by a good cut, so much the better. But
these first and all the time.

It is astonishing to note the ignorance
among bicycle riders of the little things
which go to make up a perfect ma-
chine. They know that their mounts
propel easily or otherwise, are reliable
or otherwise, and this is as far as they
get. This is a lack of education, and
is not the fault of the riders but of the
dealers, who, instead of enlightening
them in their advertising text, have
shown them pretty pictures, and said,
‘‘We know our wheel is a good one,
therefore you should buy it."’

If I owned a bicycle factory and
wanted to advertise my wheels so as to

 

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

sell them, I should tell people that the
cones and balls are covered by an easily
removed dust-proof cap which allows of
direct access for oiling and absolutely
keeps the parts free from all dirt and
dust. I should tell them about my new
rigid crank, which it is absolutely im-
possible to bend out of shape and which
will not break. I should tell them, ina
simple, direct way, all about the
sprockets, tubing, chain, seat-post and
every possible point, no matter how
small, on which superiority could be
based. This is what buyers want to
know. It isn’t of nearly so much im-
portance to the great mass of bicycle
riders whether Tom, Dick and Harry
won all events on a particular wheel
as it is whether that particular wheel is
just exactly what they want to ride.

Bicycle manufacturers have arrived at
a point where cost of production must
be more carefully watched in order to
meet the increasing demands for ““just
as good’’ bicycles at less cost. To re-
main in the field, this demand must be
met, because people are not going to
pay sixty, seventy or eighty dollars for
bicycles any more. The item of cost
in advertising has hitherto been of less
importance. The main point to be at-
tained has seemed to be beauty of work.
Now, however, the time has arrived
when every expense must be carefully
guarded in order to meet competition,
and advertising money must be put in-
to the best material and medium pos-
sible, in order to make it an investment
and not a luxury. NEMO,

——_—_>0~___
Getting in on the Ground Floor.
Capt. Jas. Bradford says that a Swede

came into a lawyer’s office one day and
asked :

‘Is hare ben lawyer's place?’’

‘“Yes; I’m a lawyer.’’

“Well, Maister Lawyer, I tank I skall
have a paper made.’”’

‘‘What kind of a paper do you want?”’

‘‘Well, I tank I skall have mort-
gage. You see, I buy me_ piece of
land from Nels Petersen, and 1 want
mortgage on it.’’

“Ob, no. You don’t want mortgage;
what you want is a deed.’’

‘‘No, Maister; I tank I want mort-
gage. You see, I buy me two pieces
land before, and I got deed for dem,
and ‘nother faller come along with
mortgage and tak the land; so I tank I
better get mortgage this time.’’

New Postal Ruling on Mailing Cards.
A recent ruling of the postal depart-
ment at Washington is to the effect that
the use that is being made of mailing
cards for the purpose of sending signed
receipts for goods or money and as or-
ders for goods renders them first-class
matter. Postmasters have received in-
structions to the effect that printed mail-
ing cards so prepared that by attaching
a Signature they are thereby converted
into receipts, or into orders upon the
addressee for some article or articles
furnished by him, and when so signed
become personal communications, are
liable to letter postage.
Se a
Pursued by the Octopus.
‘“Here’s some more of the horrible
work of them blamed monopolists,’’
said Farmer Hayricks, as he hung his
coat over the foot of the bed.
‘Goodness, where?’’ asked his wife.
‘*Here’s a sign what says, “Don't
blow out the gas.’ I s’pose they make
these folks burn it all night, so’s to run
up their bills on ‘em. Gosh, I don’t
know what this country’s comin’ to!’’

———_>2>—___

A statistician has figured out that if
all the apples raised in this country
last year had been evenly divided
among the inhabitants, every person
would have had two barrels.

SE ET

Don’t forget the $5 Chicago excursion
via C. & W. M. Railway October 14.
Tickets good 5 days.

 

Hardware Price Current.

 

 

AUGURS AND BITS
See 70
gennings genuine... 25&10
SOEAGR HMAGION | 60a 10

AXES
First Quality, S. B. Bronze ................. 5 00
Hite Quality, D. EB. Bronze... 9 50
Bitst Quality, 5. BS Steel | 5 a6
Mitss Quality, DB Steet 10 50
BARROWS

Ce $12
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BOLTS
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Carmiage new iat
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BUCKETS
Well pa
BUTTS, CAST
Cast Loose Pin fourcd. 3... 70&10
Wrotrhe Mare 70&10
BLOCKS
Ordinary Tackic.... .......__..
CROW BARS
Case tee

aoa $32

By s SO
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G&. D

 

CHISELS
mdeket Hitmen
peewee Pram
NecHeS Comer
NOeKCU SACee

DRILLS
Morse’s DiSigeke
Taper and StraightShank. .........
Mores PapercStann
ELBOWS
Come: £piece Gin. doz. net 50
Coreussiea. 123
MOONS oe+-----. is 40410
EXPANSIVE BITS
Clark’s small, $18; large, $26.
Ives’, 1, $18; 2, $24; 3, $30
FILES—New List
New Sinetieee TO&10
MSCHOIOW A eoeaon wee
Hetlers Horse Haspe -€C&10
GALVANIZED IRON
Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26; 27. .....
list 2 14 15 16.
Discount, 75 to 75-10
GAUGES
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............... 60410
KNOBS—New List
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings.... ......... 70
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings............ 80
MATTOCKS
nese Mv $16 00, dis 60&10
Beat eve $15 00, dis 60410
POM $18 50, dis 20&10
NAILS
Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire.
Steel nails, base..... ... eee ee Wee... 1 6
Wire nails, base..... Ry eet oe cle. 1 75
a Base
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Casing Sadvyanee............ eee.
Casing Gadvanee
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Finish 6 advance........ Mtoe - oes.
Gerrel & advanee. be
MILLS
Colece, Parkers Cos...
Coffee, P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s Malleables...
Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’s...........
Cotee, Mnterpeie

MOLASSES GATES
Steopiars Paice 60&10
Stepbpin’s Gemunie....... -60&10
Enterprise, self-measuring ............ 30

PLANES
(nto Tool Cos, fame... @50
St 60
Sandusky Teel Co.’s, faney......... |. @50
ese Grsequaiey @ao
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s wood......... 60

PANS

Pi, BOM ee 6010410

Common polished... W& 5

RIVETS

en dad Pinedo ok... 60

Copper Rivets and Burs....... Sede ee aces 60
PATENT PLANISHED IRON

‘“‘A’’ Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10 20

““B” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 25 to 27 20
Broken packages \%c per pound extra.

HAMMERS

Maydotle & Co.’s, new Hst........ ...... dis

ee dis 2

Werkes & Piumivg... 2 dis W&10

Mason's Solid Cast Steel.......... ..30e lis. 70

Blaekemith’s Solid Cast Steel Hand 30¢ He 40419

 

 

 

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HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS
Stamped Tin Ware....... .........new list 7%&10
dapanned Tin Ware...............,........ soute
Graeme tren Ware... new list 40d&10

HOLLOW WARE
NE 60&1
Bees Hence ...60&10
DeeGere .......... . 60810

 

HINGES
Gate Cis 2s ai enka
ae per doz. net 2 50

WIRE GOODS
Pee 80

Serew Eyes... eG i 80
Hook’s ‘ . 80
Gate Meekaand Eyes... 80

LEVELS
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............ dis 70

ROPES
Sisal 46 neh and larcer...... ..... |.
Mantia............

 

SQUARES
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aiyana bevels
Mitre...

 

SHEET IRON
com. §
ei1ete em 2 2
piesa... Ld 2
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Leet ee a 2¢
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nO le 2%
All sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30 inches
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
SAND PAPER
Pi scee  e dis

SASH WEIGHTS
Solid Byes. ...... .. -++----.. Per ton 20 00

TRAPS
pace GO
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s....... 50
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s 70&10
Meuse Chowan... per doz 15
Mouse, delusion... per doz 1 2

WIRE
Sree Maree v6)
mencwicn Marte 5
Copperca Marece 70&10
nee Maree 624%
Compperee Spring Sted... 50
Barbed Wence, galvanized ................. «8 65
Barbed Penee, painted =... 1 70
HORSE NAILS
Agsauie. dis 40&1C
Pe dis 5
DOPCWeRCeEN dis 10&10
WRENCHES
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled..............
Coes Genuine... .
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought .......
Coe’s Patent, malleable. .......0........
MISCELLANEOUS
Pere Cages
Pepe, Citerl.......... ces
Screws, New List..... 85
tego wl, 50€10&10
50

60&10

 

Casters, Bed and Plate..

Darpers, American... |...
METALS—Zinc

Ci peound caste 644

ere 6%

SOLDER

 

EE 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
eet MC Chareea i 85
ieee Wh Charcoal ...............
moire ©%, Chaveoal.............. ee
Each additional X on this grade, 81.25.
TIN—Allaway Grade
Foxtel Charcoal 8 5 00
ee rc, Comreeer 8... .. 1... 8 Oe
foeet x, Ceareeae i 6 ae
ice eX Chareos.... ........_..... 6 00
Each additional X on this grade, 81.50.
ROOFING PLATES
Huey C Coarcoal, Dean....................
iene TX, Charcoal Dean ................. :
aes , Cereon! Dean...
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade.........
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade......... 5 50
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade......... 9 00
20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade......... 11 00
BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE
14x56 IX, for No. 8 Boilers, }
14x56 TX: for No. 9 Boilers. ( Pet pound.. 9

TRADESMAN
ITEMIZED
LEDGERS

Size 8 1-2x14—Three Columns.

 

2 Quires, 160 pages............. $2 00

3 @ Quires, 2) pages..... ....... 25
p 2 Gires, Se pages............. § Oo
S Quires, 400 pages...... ...... 3 50

6 Quires, 490 paces............. 400

   

Invoice Record or Bill Book.

80 Double Pages, Registers 2,880 in-
VON, $2.00

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WORSE AND WORSE.

Familiarity with the New Book Breeds
Contempt

eed City, Oct. «© — In reading the
Tradesman of Sept. 29, I notice an ar-
ticle concerning Mr. Moeller’s attitude
toward the traveling men in regard to
the new mileage book. I was indeed
surprised at what he said to the Trades-
man. He claims that the Saginaw
Globe, through the cunningness and
scheming of a reporter to injure his
name and reputation with the frater-
nity, misquoted him and the article
referred to was unauthorized and mis-
leading, inasmuch as it attributed to
him statements he never uttered and
ascribed to him sentiments which he
never entertained.

I am very much surprised that Mr.
Moeller should place himself on record
in that way, for he certainly did en-
tertain those sentiments and make those
statements. If Mr. Moeller will reflect
a moment, he will remember that on
Saturday afternoon, Sept. 4, he was on
passenger train No. 8 and, when the
train pulled up to the station at Clare,
he alighted trom the parlor car (this
was the week before the Saginaw Globe
published the article in question). |
had just purchased a thousand mile
family book at the office and, knowing
Mr. Moeller for a great many years and
always having been on very triendly
terms with him, we naturally entered
into a conversation and talked of the
new book. I informed him that I had
just purchased a family book, that |
wanted to buy one of the new books,
but,after reading the conditions, thought
it would be burdensome to the boys,
besides the chances of losing the $10
rebate were very good, and 1 did not
want one of them until I had consulted
my firm. He said: ‘‘You had a com-
mittee, and we asked your committee
to tell us what kind of a book they
wanted and you have got just what they
wanted. Now you are kicking.’’ I re-
plied that if the present book was what
the committee wanted, I did not think
the traveling men wanted the committee.
At this point Mr. Moeller got warm un-
der the collar and retorted by saying that
the only traveling men who found fault
with the book were a lot of dishonest
travelers who bought scalpers’ mileage
at 2c and charged their firms with a
full 3c fare. I denounced that statement
as an insult to the fraternity and as-
serted that a man would be a big chump
to pay 2%c when he could buy trans-
portation tor 2c per mile. I have been
a commercial traveler for over twenty
years, constantly engaged in that busi-
hess, and never bought mileage from
a scalper. Where a man is traveling on
a salary and does any amount of travel-
ing, I do not think there is a firm of
any prominence who would allow a
traveling man to make a practice of
charging up a 3c fare when they can
procure transportation for one-third less,
Mr. Moeller can only put himself right
with the boys by being manly, acknowl-
edging his mistake and apologizing for
the gross insult. Traveling men are
just as quick to forgive a mistake as
they are to resent an insult. I have
since been foolish enough to purchase
one of those infernal new books and am
sorry for it. After consulting my firm,
J. H. Copas & Sons, pork packers of
Owosso, we decided to try the new
book, and here is where I made a mis-
take. I have had my temper wrought
to a high pitch by the pesky thing, and
if a man wants to be good and refrain
from using heavy language, I would
advise him not to buy one of them. At
a certain town up North, the train is
scheduled to leave at 6:50 a. m. On the
ticket window is a sign which informs
the public that the ticket office will be
open 30 minutes before the departure of
trains. Having the new book and no
other book good over that particular
road, I left a call for 5:45 at my hotel.
Breakfast is called at 6:30. I settled
my hotel bill and was to come back to
breakfast after getting my train ticket
in exchange for coupons out of my in-
fernal book. I went to the station and
at 6:20 expected to see the ticket office
open, but I was doomed to disappoint-

 

ment. Time began to pass and no agent
came. At 6:45 it was still closed—only
five minutes before leaving time, and
no breakfast. The atmosphere was
blue. On the arrival of the train, |
caught sight of the conductor and asked
him what I should do. He said to get
on the train. I asked him if he would
give me an indemnifying bond to insure
me against a loss of my $1o that I had
tied up inthis cover. He said no. |
informed him that I was going to board
the train, that I would not allow him to
take any mileage from my nice new
book unless he gave me the required
bond,and that I certainly would not pay
a cash fare after buying this new book,
Just then the agent came in sight,
which was a great relief to both of. us.
{ got the required change ticket, and
then another unfortunate presented one
of these new books and tbe train had
to wait for him. The train pulled out
only twenty minutes late, but that doesn’t
make any difference if we will only use
the new book. Last week I was in
Frankfort. At that point there is only
one railroad, the Ann Arbor. There
are two villages, under separate govern-
ment-—-Frankfort and South Frankfort.
When you go to Frankfort you will find
that the train will take you to the sta-
tion on the south side of Betsy Bay.
There you will find a_ ferryboat which
will take you over to Frankfort for five
cents. AtSouth Frankfort there is what
they call the umbrella station. It is a
flag station one mile east of the regu-
lar station that they call Frankfort.
There is only one train a day on the
Ann Arbor, north of Mt. Pleasant, so
if you do not get your business done be-
tween 7 p. m. and Io a. m., making
both towns, you are stalled for twenty-
four hours longer. I was in South
Frankfort and just got through with my
work when I discovered I only had five
minutes to go to the umbrella station.
There is no agent there, so I thought
the conductor could take up my mileage
and issue a train ticket, but, to my as-
tonishment, when I presented my new
book, he informed me that I was liable
to lose the $10 rebate. I told him I
wanted to go to Thompsonville and did
not have time to walk a mile to the
other depot. So I paid a cash fare to
Benzonia, 30 cents, where I went into
the station to get a ticket for mileage
to Thompsonville. Here the agent is

agent, baggagemaster and _ express
agent. He was busy out at the train, |
informed the conductor, who kindly

waited for me and lost ten minutes’time
for the agent to issue me a train ticket.
I could relate several other instances of
like nature, but the hour is late and |
will need a little rest and sleep in or-
der to be able to wrestle with this~ new
book to-morrow. FRED G. Hooper.
>. _____

New Scheme to Increase the Con-
sumption of Lemons.

Consumption of lemons can be large-
ly increased by a plan suggested by a
correspondent of a New York fruit-trade
paper, who is either an enthusiast on
the value of the lemon or who becomes
sarcastic because others write so much
of its uses. He says: ‘‘We call upon
10,000,000 individuals to use one lemon
each per day, which would insure the
sale annually of 10,000,000 boxes of this
delicious citrus fruit, which has the im-
mense advantage over other fruits in
the use it can be put to: as a_ beverage
in hot and cold water, with or without
sugar; plain without any water; a little
alcohol, if recommended by the doctor;
wines of all kinds; on oysters, in their
season; as an addition to the lettuce or
tomato salad; and, in fact, in nearly
every style; and a lemon per diem
would not involve a large amount of
expenditure,

—__—»-2

Permanganate of potash is highly
recommended by Dr. Scheele of New
Jersey as a solution of the mosquito
problem. He has killed every germ in
a_1,000-gallon tank of water by drop-
ping in a small pinch, and he believes
that by the use of the chemical the State
can rid every swamp of the embryo
pests and wipe the mosquito off the face
of the earth.

 

The Produce Markei.

Apples—There is a wider range in
prices, but no actual change inthe mar-
ket. Choice fruit of high color is in
better demand than ever,and brings full
ouside quotations, while the small
green (and even choice fruit lacking
in the desirable rich red color) were
dragging and lower. Prices range from
$2@3 per bbl

Butter—The market retains the firm
tone noted in last report, but trade is
very quiet. Buyers are reluctant to
pay the recent advance in prices, but
supplies of fancy creamery are very
small and there is no disposition on the
part of holders to sell this class of stock
below 22c. Fancy dairy is so scarce as
to be practically out of market.

Cabbage—$2.50 per Ioo.

Carrots—25c per bu.

Caulitlower—75c@$1.25 per doz.

Celery—12@15c per bunch.

Cranberries—Home_ grown stock is
fairly plenty at $1.50@2 per bu. Cape
Cod has declined to $5@6 per bbl.

Eggs—Dull on account of poor qual-
ity of receipts generally—‘‘fresh gath-
ered, perhaps, but not fresh laid.’’
Dealers pay 12c, holding common
candled stock at 13c and fancy candled
at 14c.

Grapes-—-Delawares in 4 lb. baskets
and Niagaras in 8 lb. baskets have ad-
vanced to $1.50 per doz. Concords and
Wordens in 8 lb. baskets tetch $1 per
doz.

Honey—White clover commands toc.

Onions—Home grown have declined
to 35c per bu. Spanish in 50 lb. crates
fetch $2.

Peaches—Smocks are about the only
variety now coming torward, command-
ing $1.25@1.60 per bu. The quality is
fair.

Pears—$1@1.25 per bu.

Potatoes—Distributing markets have
declined 10@15c, on account of large
receipts, unseasonable weather and yel-
low fever quarantine in the South. Local
buyers continue to pay 45c in the belief
that outside markets will soon revive.

Peppers—Green, 75c per bu.

Quinces—$! per bu.

Squash—ic per Ib.

Sweet Potatoes—Genuine Jerseys have
declined to $3.25 per bbl. Baltimores
and Virginias have advanced to $2.10
@2.25 per bbl.

Tomatoes—4oc per bu.

White Beans—Dull and lower, with
prices tending down and _ the general
impression that they will go lower. The
latest reports from around the State in-
dicate that the new crop promises much
better, in amount and quality, than
anticipated ; that the quality is superior
to that for several seasons past—all of
which tends to depress the market for
the last year’s crop still held, and the
holders willing to make liberal conces-
sions to effect sales.

_ ~~ -@ >. $$$

How They Prosecute in Engiand.

A confectioner was recently prose-
cuted in England for selling adulterated
chocolate cigarettes. An excise officer
stated that he visited the defendant’s
shop and purchased two-pennyworth of
chocolate cigarettes, divided them into
three parts, and had sent one to the
public analyst, whose certificate of
analysis he submitted, showing that
they were adulterated. The defendant
claimed that she purchased the cig-
arettes from a traveler, who told her
that they were chocolate. The court
would not accept the excuse, and she
was accordingly fined.

There Were Others.

My engagement is broken;
I hardly can bear it.

The cause of the trouble,
My girl had a parrot.

When my arms were around her,
My thought love upon,

That bird would forever
Cry out, “Stop that, John!’

But what should that matter?
I'll tell you anon:
Perhaps you’l] remember,
My name isn’t John!
Don’t forget the $5 Chicago excursion
via C. & W. M. Railway October 14.

Tickets good 5 days.

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Sugar from Potatoes.

An extensive economic revolution
is in sight, if the claims of Dr. Prinzen
Gerlings, of London, Eng., turn out to
be what the Doctor asserts they are.
He is a government official of Java, and
formerly professor of chemistry at the
University of Amsterdam. He an-
nounces the discovery of a simple
method of converting potato starch into
sugar. He has lodged a description of
the method with the French Academy
of Sciences, so as to secure priority for
his invention, although he is not ready
to make the details public.

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

 

 

"BUSINESS CHANCES.

 

ae SALE—STOCK DRY GOODS AND GRO-
ceries, invoicing about $4,000; good room:
di-count for cash; population 2,500; good reasons
for selling. Address Lock Box 325, Chicago,
Huron Co., Ohio. 409
\ 7ANTED—A BUYER FOR A LIGHT
leather tannery a most completed: cheap
power; cheap ia or. Would make a big paying
nvestme tfor right party Reason for selling,
death of proprietor. Address Carl Junge, Jr.,
Muskegon, Mich. 410
] KUG STOCK AND FIXTURES FOR SALE
Having sold my diug store will sell the bal
ance of the stock and fixtures at a very low
figure any time within the next sixty days.
None of the stock or fixtures over two yeurs

 

 

 

 

 
    

 
 

old. Write forterms. Geo. W. Kern, Prairie-
ville, Barry County, Mi: h. 408
JANTEL—AN EXPERIENCED SALESMAN
to hx: dle fine line lubricating oils and
greases, side line or exclusively. Crown Oil
Co., Cleveland, Ohio. 406

For SALE, CHE\P FORG

    

SH—NATIONAL
Address No.

Cush Register valued at $225.
405, cp re Michigan Tradesman. 405
y JANTED—BUTTERK AND EGGS. IF YOU
want good pric: s and quick returns w ite
us. Lunn & Strong, Toledo, Ohio 402
VOR SALE OR EXCHANGE—A CLEAN
Grug stock, invoicing $2,500. in one of the
best cities in Michigan; no cutting: onapasiig
basis; go d thing for li,eman. Address Drugs,
ca’e Michigan Tradesman. 405
= SALE—GROCERY AND NOTION STOCK
and double store building in one of the
liveliest towns of Northern Iowa: doing strictiy
cash business. Will be sold separately if de-
sired, with or without buildings. Address a.
Tenth St.. Mason City, Ia. 404

   

 

ae SALE-SMALL DRUG STOCK, INVOIC-
iug about $700, in best town for size in Mich-
igan; doing 60 to $75 per week business; rent,
$100 per year: best location in town; best of
reasons for selling. Address Lock Box 50, Lake
Odessa, Mich. 401
ae RENT—THE FINEST STORE AND THE
best location for a first-class shoe, clothing,
or furniture or carpet sture; size 25x100: lighted
by gas or electricity; in Battle Creek. Mich.
Parties in search of a good location should not
overlook this chance. Apply to E. Trump, Bat-
tle Creek, Mich 397
Fee SALE—STOCK GENERAL MERCHAN-
dise and building in railroad town of 400;
best farming country in Central Michigan; pos-
itively no trades. Address No. 396, care Michi-
gan Tradesman. 396
fOR SALE— GROCERY AND BAKERY
stock, also meat business in connection if
wanted, in live city of 7,000 inhabitants: best
location; business conducted on strictly cash
System; in fact, best of the kind in Michigan,
Address No. 395, care Michigan Tradesman. 395

 

WV Astep — FIRST-CLASS BUTTER FOR
retail trade. Cash paid. Correspond with
Caulkett & Co., Traverse City, Mich. 381
OR SALE—JUDGMENT FOR 88.08 AGAINST
Miles H. Winans, real estate agent in the
Tower Block. Tradesman Compapy, Grand
Rapids. 382

 

ke 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
Ke SALE—CLEAN STOCK GROCERIES
and crockery, enjoying cream of trade in
best growing city in Michigan. Lake port and
center of fruit belt Patronage mostly cash.
tent. $50 per month, with terminable lease.
Stock and fixtures will inventory $3,500, but can
be reduced. Reason for selling, owner has
other business which must be attended to.
susiness established five years and made money
every year, Answer quick if you expect to se-
cure this bargain. Address No. 358, care Mich-
igan Tradesman. 358
HOR EXCHANGE—TWO FINE IMPROVED
farms for stock of merchandise; splendid
location. Address No. 73, care Michigan Trades-
man. 73
, bag CASES FRESH  EGGs,
daily. Write for prices. F. W. Brown,
Ithaca. Mich. 249
ll
PATENT SOLICITORS.
FPREE-ovuRr NEW HANDBOOK ON PAT-
ents. Cilley & Allgier, Patent Attorneys,
Grand Rapids, Mich. 339

 

 

 

 

 

 

_____ MISCELLANEOUs.

V ANTED—POSITION BY REGISTERED
pharmacist. Can furnish best of refer-

ences. Address

Druggist, 264 Cass Avenu
Grand Rapids, Mich. ~~” 407°

 

 

 

 

 

 

   
  

 

 

 

 

Travelers’ Time Tables.

 

 

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Going to Detroit.

Ly. Grand Rapids......7:00am 1:30pm 5:35pr
Ar. Detroit. . 255-2... .: 11:40am 5:40pm 19:20pm
Returning from Detroit.

Ly, Detroit... 6. 8:00am 1:10pm 6:10pr
Ar. Grand Rapids..... 1:00pm 5:20pm 10:55pm
Saginaw, Alma and Greenville.

Ly. G R7:10am 4:20pm Ar. G R 12:20pm 9:30: 3

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

T
GRAN D oe ane oa Diy.

(In effect October 3, 1897.)
Leave. EAST. Arrive.
+ 6:45am. Saginaw, Detroit and East..+ 9:55pm
t10:10am... ...Detroit and East.... . + 5:07pm
+ 3:30pm. .Saginaw, Detroit and East..+i2:45pm
*10:45pm... Detroit, East and Canada...* 6:35am
WEST
* 7:00am....Gd. Haven and Int. Pts ...*10:f5pm
+12:53pm.Gd. Haven and Intermediate.t+ 3:22pm
t 5:12pm....Gd. Haven Mil. and Chi ...+10:0Aam
+10 -O0pm.... -Gd. Haven ard Mi es
Eastward—No. 14 has Wagner parlor car. No.
18 parlor car. Westward—No. 11 parlor car.
No. 15 Wagner parlor car.
*Daily. +Except Sunday.
kK. H. Huewes, A.G. P. & T. A.
BEN. FLETCHER, Tray. Pass. Ag.
Jas. CAMPBELL, City Pass. Agent,
No. 23 Monroe St.

CHICAGO“ "tn

Going to Chicago.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lv. G. Rapids...........8:30am 1:25pm *11:3)pm
Ar. Cnleage... 3.50... 3:10pm 6:50pm 6:40am
Returning from Chicago.

Ly. Chicago... 06.55... 7:20am 5:15pm * 9:30; m
Ar. @’d Rapids......... 1:25pm 10:39pm * 6:2)am
Muskegon.

Lv. G’d Rapids..... .... 8:30am 1:25pm 6:25pn
Ar. G’d Rapids........... Sones 22.2 c.. 10:10am
Traverse City, Charlevoix and Petoskey.
ly. Ga Rapids... 7:30am 5:50pm
Ar. Traverse City .......... .. 12:40pm 11:10pm
AT COArlevaix...-....... S..  Sibpm l,l
Ar. Petoskey......... ae ee
PARLOR AND SLEEPING CARS, CHICAGO.

Parlor cars leave Grand Rapids 1:25 p m;
leave Chicago 5:15 pm. Sleeping ears leave
Grand Rapids *11:30 pm; leave Chicago *9:30
pm.

TRAVERSE CITY AND BAY VIEW.
Parlor car leaves Grand Rapids 7:30 a m
*Every day. Others week days only.
Gro. DEHAVEN, General Pass. Agent.

 

 

Rapids & Indiana Railway

June 20, 1897.

GRAN

 

Northern Div. Leave Arrive

Trav. C’y, Petoskey & Mack...t+ 7:45am + 5:15pm
Trav. C’y, Petoskey & Mack...t 2:30pm ¢ 6:3iam
CORN ee -t 5:25pm t1l:15am
Train leaving at 7:45 a. m. has parlor car, and
train leaving at 2:30 p. m. has sleeping car to

Mackinaw.

Southern Div. Leave Arrive
imei ee + 7:10am + 8:25pm
Et Wage... t+ 2:00pm + 2:10pm
Clngtmmag. os * 7:00pm * 7:25am

<:10a,m. train has parlor car to Cincinnati.
2:00 p.m. train has parlor car to Fort Wayne.
7:00 p.m train has sleeping car to Cincinnati.

Muskegon Trains.
GOING WEST.
Ly G@’d Rapids......... 7:35am +1:00pm 5:40pm
Ar Muskegon........... 9:00am 2:10pm 7:(5pm
- @OINe Bast.
Lv Muskegon....... ..t8:10am +11:45am +4:00pm
Ar@’d Rapids... ... -. 9:30am 12:55pm 5:20pm

+tExcept Sunday. *Daily.
- : COL. LOCKWOOD,

Gen’! Passr. and Ticket Agent.

DULUTH,

 

 

South Shore and Atlantic
Railway.

 

WEST BOUND.
Ly. Grand Rapids (G. R. & 1.)+11:10pm = +7:45am
Lv. Mackinaw City............ 7:35am 4:20pm
Ar. St. Ignace...... sceeceeeee. 9:00am 5:20pm
Ar. Sault Ste. Marie.......... 12:20pm 9:50pm
Ar. Marquette................. 2:50pm 10:40pm
Ar. Nestoria: oo. 22035000 5:20pm 12:45am
Ar: DuIath o.so cc 5. meeetuseiin | sus cee WO .OCaOeaE
EAST BOUND.
AV. SRG eo +6:30pm
Ar. Nestoria......... Scie clas ti1l:15am 2:45am
Ar. Marquette................ 7:30pm 4:30am
Ly. Sault Ste. Marie........... 3:30pm .......
Ar. Mackinaw City........... 8:40pm 11:00am

 

Pp:
G. W. Hreparp, Gen. Pass. Agt. Marquette.
E. C. Oviatt, Trav. Pass. Agt., Grand Rapids.

CANADIAN Pacific Railway.

EAST BOUND.

 

 

HN: WOOtrOIG oe ea 711;45am *11:35pm

mir, Serene... 8:3Upm 8:15am

At: MONGTCAL oe coe 73;20am 8:00pm
WEST BOUND.

by. Montren®. 3 8:50am 9:00pm

Lv. Toronto.. oe ee 4:00pm 7:30am

Ar, Derren 10:45pm 2:10pm

D. McNicol’, Pass. Tra flic Mer , Montreal.
E. C. Oviatt, Trav. Pass. Agt., Grand Rapids.

 

 

MINNEAPOLIS, St. Paul & Sault Ste.

Marie Railway.

WEST BOUND.

 

Ly. Grand Rapids(G. B. & 1)....../..... +7:45am
Dy. Maewinaw Cioy 4:20pm
ae Ge 9:50pm
AY Se Pa .. 8:45am
Ar. Minneapolis Bese - 9:30am
EAST BOUND.
iy. Minueapotis. 9000.05.00... 00... #6-30pm
Ar Se. Pats... ee |
Ar. Gladstone... BS . 6:45am
At. Mackinaw City 3... to 11:04am

i

Arc Grand Rapids... 0.2... ee . 10:00pm
W. R. Catiaway, Gen. Pass. Agt , Minneapolis
E. C. Oviatt, Trav. Pass. Agt., Grand Rzpids.

TRADESWAN GOUPONS

 

Save Trouble
Save Losses
Save Dollars

 

WHOLE WHEAT FLOUR

contains the entire grain of wheat with
only the fibrous covering removed.
Every pound of this flour represents 16
ounces of food value.

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a.

It contains all the elements required
to build up the daily wastes of the
human system. Bread made from it is
easily assimilated; is highly nutritious
and is most palatable.

Every grocer should have it in stock.
Manufactured by....

GUARD, FAIRFIELD & CO., Allegan, Mich.

Michigan trade supplied by the
Oiney & Judson Grocer Co.,.Grand Rapids.

The President

: of the United States of America,

GREETING:

To

GOLD GOLD GOLD

Where Is It?

In THE KLONDIKE
and PERU
and CALIFORNIA
and JOHANNESBURG
and THE KOOTENAI DISTRICT

Where are these places?
Rand, MoNally & Go.’s

Maps or Atlases

Alaska Pocket Maps, $1, 50c and 25e
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160-174 Adams St. CHICAGO, ILL.

HENRY KOCH, jour clerks, attorneys, ager 3,
satlesmaem and workmen, and all claiming or
holding through or under you,

Whereas, it has been represented to us in our Circuit Court of the United States for the District of

New Jersey, in the Third Circuit, on the part of the ENOCH MORGAN’S SONS COMPANY, Complainant, that
it has lately exhibited its said Bill of Complaint in our said Circuit Court of the United States for the District
of New Jersey, against you, the said HENRY KOCH, Defendant, to be relieved touching the matters therein

complained of, and that the said

ENOCH MORGAN’S SONS COMPANY,

Complainant, is entitled to the exclusive use of the designation ‘‘SAPOLIO”

as a trade-mark for scouring soap,

Mow, Cherefore, we do strictly command and perpetually enjoin you, the said HENRY

KOCH, your clerks, attorneys, agents, salesmen and workmen, and all claiming or holding through or under you,

. ler the pains _and_ penalties which may fall upon you and each of you in case of disobedience,

absolutely desist and refrain from in any manner unlawfully using the word " SAPOLIO.”

that you do

or any word or words

substantially similar thereto in sound or appearance, in connection with the manufacture or sale of any scouring
soap not made or produced by or for the Complainant, and from directly, or indirectly,

By word of mouth or otherwise, selling or delivering as
“SAPOLIO,” or when “SAPOLIO” is asked for,

that which is not Complainant’s said manufacture, and from in any way using the word “‘SAPOLIO” in any

false or misleading manner.

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avitness, The honorable MELVILLE W. FULLER, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the
United States of America, at the City of Trenton, in said District of New
Jersey, this 16th day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand,
eight hundred and ninety-two,

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in business. The only reason we can see
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Simplicity, accuracy, weight and
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ELKHART, IND.

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