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Are light, w Se (ec eKeGeeSeeee= Ofiice and Works, BUTTERWORTH AVE., Ww i will sell themselves. Made v GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. v AN only by... WV Bulk works‘at Grand Rapids, Muskegon, Manistee, Cadillac, Big Rap- ANN W 333332333333333333333332>: Whitehall, Holland and Fennville W Y oe ee. h THE NEW YORK BISCUIT COMPANY, : Highest Price Paid for Empty Carbon and Gasoline Barrels. W i? os SS Se Ne Poe ici ici aac ai i i iil lt i ie > VEetsesssesescsssseescssescce POOOGQMO@OOE QGOQOQQDOOEOE DOQQOOQOQOQOPOOQOQOQOOE ee 6 e If You Sell Oysters At a Profit Something to keep them fresh in is a necessity. Our CABINETS are tight in DURABILITY, CON- VENIENCE and PRICE. Write N ey i, Dor Sc CIGARS SOLD BY ALL JOBBERS. G. J. JOHNSON CIGAR CO., Mfrs., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. DOOODODODGDOOOSODSOOSSKNE for particulars. ‘*“‘How to Keep Oysters Fresh’’ sent to any address on request. 2 | i ae y iv @® f i © | | Chocolate Cooler Co., 3 ? 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WHOLE WHEAT FLOUR. 5 30 cans par gallon, Walter Baker & Co, 412. — S fight propa very os ind of this flour represents 16 Dorchester, Mass. i oun 1 *s of food value. The Oldest and Largest Manufacturers of ys PURE, HIGH GRADE COCOAS AND \ CHOCOLATES on this Continent. No Chemicals are used in ‘Trade-Mark. their manufactures. Their Breakfast Cocoa is absolutely pure, | delicious, nutritious, and costs less than one cent a cup. Their Premium No. 1 Chocolate, put up in Blue Wrappers and Yellow Labels, is the best plain chocolate in the market for family use. Their German Sweet Chocolate is good tc It contains all the elements required eat and good to drink. It is palatable, nutri. to build up the daily wastes of the tious, and healthful; a great favorite with human system. Bread made from it is children. easily assimilated; is highly nutritious Buyers should ask for and be sure that they and is most palatable. Every grocer should have it in stock. get the genuine goods. The above trade-mark peace be: is on every package. Walter Baker & Co. Ltd GUARD, FAIRFIELD & CO., Allegan, Mich. Michigan trade supplied by the Olney & Judson Grocer Co., Grand Rapids. Dorchester, Mass. Save your yeast labels and tin-foil wrappers —_——ifiin FREE! SILVERWARE! FREE! These goods are extra-plated, of handsome design and are made by one of the nee manufacturers in the United States and will wear five years. 25 of Our Yellow Labels, attached to original tin-foil wrappers, will procure. a Silver Plated Teaspoon, and 50 of same will procure one of either, Table Spoon, Fork, Butter Knife or Sugar Spoon. For75 you will receive one Silver Plated Steel Table Knife, and for 10a hand- some Aluminum Thimble is given. Present labels, attached to tin-foil wrappers, at our affice in this city, and receive premiums free of any charge in return; or hand labels, at- tached to tin-foil wrappers, tv your grocer, with your name and address, and premiums will be delivered through him the following day. Premiums cannot be mailed under any circumstances. FLEISCHMANN & CO. Detroit Agency, 118 Bates St. Grand Rapids Agency, 26 Fountain St. ry Elgin aye of Creameries It will pay vo stigate our ans and visit our factories, if you are con- P temp! ae tee ‘iding ae eamery or Cheese Factory. All suppl lies furnisned at lowest prices. Correspondence solicited. A MODEL CREAMERY OF THE TRUE SYSTEM True Dairy Supply Company, 303 to 309 Lock Street, Syracuse, New York. Contractors and Builders of Butter and Cheese Factories, Manufacturers and Dealers in Supplies. Or write R. E. STURGIS, General Manager of Western Office, Allegan, [lich. H W. H. EDGAR Detroit. Mich. OUSEHOLD - SYRUP A. MURPHY, General ~The fl Represent Main Office: Manager. FLOWERS, MAY & MOLONEY, Counsel. Ghigan Mercantile Agency Special Reports. Law and Collections. ed in every city and county in the United States and Canada. Room 1102 Majestic Building, Detroit, Mich. Personal service given all claims. Judgments obtained without expense to subscribers. € COFFEE isspaaaoececeees S COFFEE eeeecece eececece Ss AN r W have about, if not absolutely, reached bottom. We are W It is the general opinion of the trade that the prices on COFFEE Y oie agents in this territory for the celebrated bulk oast coffees of the AN WOOLSON SPICE CO. AN AN Ask our salesman to show you our line of samples. AN AN MUSSELMAN GROCER CO., Grand Rapids. G7 22282 FF FA qr??? >3333>>: ay Verran rasss ss COF F & COFFEE Sooo ee oe eee F E §sceccecee SL’ Sse PSSSSSSS note basis. side. US6 TPadésman GOUpON Books to better your finan- cial condition. It’s not necessary. If you strike the key- advertising your business will thrive and prosper where you are. We are ADVERTISING Our whole study is to bring merchant and customer to- gether on a mutual and satisfactory fumes, jewelry, plete Medicine Cabinet. to profitable Advertising must be done if ever you succeed; then why not give your customers the benefit of this expend- iture? The Premiums. above cut shows for gentlemen. Its usefu having apartments for collars, cuffs, neckwear, per- The lid shown att An elegant polished antique Toilet Case handkerchiefs, gloves, shaving mug, razor strop, brush and comb, etc. It also makes a com- The door at the top has lock and key which also locks the lower lid when closed. If desired we furnish either plain or bevel mirror for the door, size 10 x 10 inches. Two mirrors can be put in the door, if wanted, one facing inside and one out- 0 to Kiondike another of our Cash Trade Iness is evident at a glance, HEIGHT 36 iN,, WIDTH 16 IN., DEPTH 7% IN, he bottom is 12 x 14% inches, and when raised upright, closes the lower part of the cabinet, and the outside is handsomely carved Oval head screws are furnished for fastening to the wall. Our New Catalogue is now ready. Would you like one? STEBBINS MANUFACTURING CO. MENTION TRADESMAN LAKEVIEW, MICH. SSE pe eR Sa p~-- ee HOLIDAY ARTICLES’ ¢ > ofall S Leading Makers to be seen in Michigan. Give usa chance sa e to prove this by a personal visit. Railroad aS expenses allowed up to 5 per cent. of your na Boney purchase of Holiday Goods. No cata- S Bric-a-Brac. logues. Correspondence invited. S Caan Our travelers will soon be on their routes S Druggists and to solicit your orders as usual. si Stationers’ | sa — FRED BRUNDAGE, - School | vt ihn | WHOLESALE DRUGGIST, etc., etc. | 32 and 34 Western Avenue, - Muskegon, Mich. | MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Around the State Move nenis ot Merchants. De Witt —Homer bBrazee will shorily Open a hew grocery store. Oak Grove E E. Pearce succeeds C. & E. Pearce im general trade. Pustin—W. J. Muiks, cf Morley, bas purchased A. E. Gawley’s meat market. Tustin—samuel meat market, witon Orren Ide in charge Gladstune—Chas. b. Dolan has sula his Meat busisess to Herman Bittner & Co. Mason-- — Herman Frazeil & Lborouin ness. O.sego— Mrs. “purchased the restauiaut of Webster. Casauovia Geo. Cooley has embarke« In the haruess bus wess in the Wiiliazms building. Decatur William Conway and O:ris Roberts have purchased 1. B Bagley’s meat market. Central Lake—Dowd & Blackman have eugayed in the confectionery ana Mapes bas opeved a Frazell succeeds lu) De meat Dust Ei:zabeth Smith — has Mrs. Chas Cigar business. Oiivet- Robt. Wertz, of Charlctte, has purchased the cu: fectionery stuck ot Fay Whitmore. Ishpeming —W. J. Olds succeeds Mrs. M. E, Pelton in the confectionery an. notion business. Brooklyn—A. H. Palmer has pur chased the harness and hardware stock ot E. W. Ellis. Battle Creek—Reynolds & Ashley, grocers and crockery dealers, have re- moved to Union City. Manton—O. J. Gibson, of Grana Haven, will open a feed store bere. He will also deal in wood. Belding —Heury Shindorf will bandle a line of Carriages in cannection with his blacksmithiug business. Tustin—W. I. Wilkins, of Murley, has purchased the meat market of |. M (Mrs. Leon) Haybarker. Milan—Gauntlett & Hitchcock suc- ceed Blackmer & Hitchcock in the grocery and crockery bus'ness. Coral—H. B_ Lake has sold his meat market to N. Blackburn, who will con- tinue tae business at the old stand. Ithaca—F. P. Merrell is putting in a branch stock of turniture at North Star Cordie Moore wili have charge of it Stanton—Z. E. Briggs hes entered into partverpship with Chas. Hulland in the implement and produce business. Adrian -George W. Marvin & Co. have purchased the stock of *‘ [he Fair,’’ on North Main street, aud will close it out. Chase—C. J. Bachant & Son have put a stuck of groceries in their hardware Store, making three grocery stocks in Chase. Bannister—John Letts will shortly embark tn the provision business in the buiidiag now being erected by Jake Weidner. Ishpeming—F. Braastad & Co. have engaged an expert baker, who recently arrived in tais country from Denmark. His name ts James Hansen. Coral —It is currently reported that H. M. Gibbs’ popular pharmacist, Eenry Arbour, is about to receive the appoint- ment of postmaster at Delton. Jackson—The new building in process of erection by W. A. Richard on Cort- land street is fast approaching com- pletion. The west store will be occu- pied by J. H. Grant with upholstering goods aud the east side by S. B. Met- er’s laundry. Holland—John Albert: has sold his stock and undertaking business tu Ed ward Van den Berg, who will continue the business at the same location. Port Huron — Boynton & Son have en- yaged in the crockery, glassware and bazaar business at 206 Huron street un- ier the style of the Bee Hive Bazaar. Kalamaz»o—The style of the Torge- son, Hawkins, Torgeson Co., wholesale confectioners, has been changed to the lorgeson-Hawkins Co., not incorpo rated, Oakley —Samuel ais stuck of general Henderson has solu merchandise to a man tm Marion. Mr. Henderson has veen in busivess here the past hfteen ,ears. Lansing— Fred and Norman Doughty nave formed a Copartnership under the style of Dougbty Bros. and opened a tea nd coffee store at 229 Washington avenue, north. Isnpeming—William Malmborg, of Marquette, 13 trying to secure a desir- able place with a view to opening a branch bakery here about the first ot che Coming month. Petoskey—M. 1. Fryman, the Lake street shoemaker, has purchased the shoe stock of Van Every Bros. and re- moved to Howard street, where he will coutinue the business. Benton Harbor —Will, Ray and Dud- ley Wallace will embark 1n the cigar, confectionery and notion business in the Robinson block about December 1 un- der the stvle of Wallace Bros. Ovid—John High has retired from the frm of Cowan & High, proprietors of the Michigan Produce Co. The pusiness will be continued by Charles Cowan under the same style. Ann Arbor—Klein & Theisen, mer- chant tailurs, have dissolved partner ship, Mr. Klein continuing the bust- bess at the same location. Mr. Theisen will embark in business on his own ac- count. Allegan—Irving Franks has. closed out his stock of crockery, bazaar goods and schovl supplies, and will devote uls entire attention to the bicycle busi ness, being the designer of the Irving wheel. il Saginaw—Miss Ida Himmelspach, who has been empivyed for the past tive years at J. W. Ippel’s dry goods store, NaS resigned to accept a position in a dry goods house at Minden City, where her parents reside. Vicksburg—Wm. H. Barker, flour and feed dealer, died suddenly ot apoplexy at Rawson Lake recently, where be had gone fishing with some friends. He was an old citizen of this place, about 60 years old, and a captain in the late war. Ishpeming— Kahn & Skud, who have conducted a clothing business in the vicEncroe building for several years past, have leased the double stores in the McKey block across the street and will move over there about the first of the coming year. Jackson—E. A. Hill, son of B.C. Hill, of the grocery firm of Hill Broth- ers, who has been for five years ship- ping clerk for the Jackson Grocery Co., has resigned that position and gone to Calumet, where he expects to e1gage in business on his own account. Traverse City—Max Weiss has re- signed his position in the Boston store and will remove to Harbor Springs, where he will embark in the dry goods business. He has also decided to em- bark in matrimony, the other member of the copartnership being Miss Lottie Seigel, of Harbor Springs. Port Huron—The large brick block built two years ago by Swift & Co., Chicago, as a supply depct,at a cost of $16,000, but which was never occupied Guring that time, was formaliy opened Monday. ‘lhe manager will be J. L. Yocum and he will have six assistants. Owvosso—Jobn Jerome Davison, one of Owosso’s oldest and mo-t respected dry goods merchants, closed his dors Nov, 2 under a chattel mortgage given to the Owossu Savings Bank, on which there is about $6,000 due. ‘There are second and third chattel mortgages ag- gregating about $12,000 given to H. S, Hadsail tor his additional creditors. Vermontville—S. S. Rockwell has re- tired from the general frm ot Barber, Ambrose & Rockwell. For the past six mouths or more Mr. Rockwell has not been able to attend personally to the business of the store,and in order to re- lieve his mind trom care he concludea to withdraw irom active connection with the firm, which will hereafter be known as Barber & Ambrose. Adrian—C. B. Pennock has taken au eight-years’ lease of the store in the Masonic Temple building, formerly oc- cupied by W. C. McConnell, and wiii remove his stuck of novelty goods tu that location as soon as the place can be made ready for occupancy. A double vestibuled tront will be introduced, and improvements made throughout the in- terior. Potterville—C. D. Colby & Co have erected and equipped an elevator espe- cially adapted for the bean trade. They employ about fifty hands and buy hay, grain, beans, clover seed and_ potatoes. he capacity of the bean elevator is 1,000 bushels daily. Mr. Colby is from Canada, butafter an eighth season feels very much like coming to Potterville for a permanent home. Ishpeming—Lars Hoyseth, who has been in the employ of F. Braastad & Co, for the past fifteen years, during the latter ten of which he has haa charge of the grocery department, has given up his position and 1s_ preparing lo engage in the grocery business on his own account. He has rented the building formerly occupied by Ole De vold as a meat market and will open up for business as soon as his goods arrive, Reed City—Sears & Son met with unexpected success in the opening uf their new dry goods and cluthing store last >aturday. busy and severa! times during the day the doors had tu be locked to check the crowd which surged into the establish- ment. The sales aggregated over $500. ibe genial Wm. Connor (Michael Kot: & Sou) beamed on all who were inter- ested in the clothing department, greet- ing callers with that infectious smile which has made him famous. Benton Harbor—Enders & Young have closed a deal whereby they have become the lessees of the rooms now occupied by the New York Store, C. W. Teetzel and S. B. Van Horn in the Jones & Sonner block. They will oc- cupy the building about March 1 with an up to-date department store. The building will be remodeled and arranged especially for their occupancy. The Globe clothing store will be closed Jan. 1 and this stock will be combined with the new stock to be put in the depart- ment store. The firm will continue the Central clothing store in the Hotel Ben- ton block. In the department store they will put in lines of clothing, ladies’ and men’s furnishings, dry goods, boots, shoes and carpets, and may include gro- The clerks were kept, cerics and furniture as well if they suc- ceed in securing other rooms in the bleck for which they are negotiating. a ee The Proguce Market. Apples—Northern Spys are about the only variety of winter truit in market, commanding $2@2.25 per bbl. The stock 1s nut strictly No. 1, but is fair in quality. Butter—Separator creamery has ad- vanced to 24c, with indications of still higher prices in prospect. Dairy grades are so scarce as to be practically out ot market, all arrivals being promptly taken on the basis of abvut 20c tor tancy. Cabbage—$5 per Ioo. Carrots— 5o0c per bu. Caulitflower—75c per doz. Celery—12@15c per bunch. Cranberries —Cho:ice Cape Cods com- mand $6.75. Fancy Wiscousins are held at $7.50. Eygys—Local dealers pay 144%(c, case count, holding at 15c, Case count, or 16c ior fancy candied. Grapes—New York Concords com- mana 12c for 8 lb. baskets. Honey—Ihe market is steady, with uone tod much stock on the market. White clover is held at 11c and dark buckwheat at Ioc. Lettuce—Hot house goods fetch 15c per lb. Onions—White Globe command 6oc and Red 50c. Spanish, $1.75 per crate. Oranges—The market as yet is sup- pled only with Mexicans, and these are selling at lower figures than ruled Jast week. The quality of later arriv- als is better, and this helps the demand very considerably. Bananas—The short supply of other fruit is giving the banana market strength. The quotations this weck are still unchanged and prices compara- tively high. Pears—Keefers command $3 per bbl. Potatoes—Contrary to expectations, the market is weaker, due in large part to the enormous shipments which are being crowded forward in advance of winter weather. The Pittsburg market is So glutted with stock that the Penn- sylvania system is declining to accept any more shipments to that point unless the transportation charges are guaran- teed. St. Louis reports the market at that point as follows: ‘* Values bere are relatively low, considering the time of yar, the fact that stocks in store are iather light, that the weather has been favorable tor handling potatoes, and that all other large markets are com- paratively higher tnan this. It can be accounted tor only by the prevalence of yellow fever quarantine regulations in the South which has cut off our ship- ping trade in that direction."’ Locally, “rowers are geiting 40@45c on the mar- ket, jobbers holding at Soc. Quinces—The markets is quiet, job- bers holding their stocks at 75c per bu., with few takers. Squash—$18 per ton for Hubbard. Sweet Potatoes—Genuine Jerseys com- mand $3.25, while Virginias and Illi- nots are held at $2@2.25. RO The pure fuod laws certainly served a useful purpose at Clare last week when the merchants of that place were able to hold the laws over the head of an r- responsible interloper and induce bim 'o return a carload of goods to Detroit, on penalty of pro ecution for non-com- pliance. The Tradesman heartily com- mends the action of the Clare mer- chants, believing they are entitled to great credit for the promptness with which.they met a crisis and came out victorious. In case merchants elsewhere in the State have had any experience with the Detroit gentlemen who do business under the alias of the Detroit Supply Co., the Tradesman would be pleased to learn the particulars incident to the visitation. —_>_ 2. ___ People who leave money when they die leave temptations and troubles .for claimants and work for lawyers. . Hewes. Grand Rapids Gossip C. J. Cawley has opened a grocery store at Evans. The Olney & Judson Grocer Co. furnished the stock. K. Dykema & Son succeed M. Dyk- ema in the flour, feed and lime busi- ness at 12 North Jefferson street. Herman Aalderink will shortly open a grocery store at West Olive, The Lemon & Wheeler Company has the or- der for the stock. F. E. Prestel, general dealer at Sher- idan, has opened a branch grocery store at McBrides. The Ball-Barnhart-Put- man Co. furnished the stock. Arthur O. Henny and Wm. T. Burns have formed a copartnership under the style of the Western Shirt Co. and em- barked in the manufacture of custom made shirts at 93 Campau street. David Wright, manufacturing con- fectioner at Grand Haven for a number of years, is opening a similar establish- ment at 8g Monroe street, which he will conduct in connection with the Grand Haven business. The headquarters of the Michigan Wholesale Grocers’ Association have been transferred from Detroit to this citv, Secretary Sanger having been com- fortably installed in pleasant offices in the new Clark building. James A. Hunt has purchased the holding of Geo. W. Hewes in the Grand Rapids Stave Co., represented by a third of the total capital stock of $25,000, and succeeds to the position of Pres dent formerly held by Mr. Mr. Hunt also fills the position of Treasurer, the offices of Vice Presi- dent and Secretary devolving upcn Ed. Whittemore. Mr. Hunt is an aggressive and progressive business man and thoroughly deserves the success he is achieving. The Clark Rutka-Jewell Co. has heen organized with a capital stock of $25,000 to engage in the wholesale hardware business in the new Clark building on South Ionia street. The corporation will be managed by a board of four di rectors, three of whom are M. J. Clark, Jobn J. Rutka and Frank Jewell, the officers being as follows: President, M. J. Clark; Vice-President, John J. Rutka; Secretary and Treasurer, Frank Jewell. The nominal capital stock of the corporation will not represent the actual capital of the institution, which will have the benefit of M. J. Clark’s business experience and __ financial strength. Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Asso- ciation. At the regular meeting of the Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association, held at Retail Grocers’ Hall Tuesday evening, Nov. 2, President Dyk pre- sided. ‘i The matter of granting a franchise to some cigar manufacturer to use the name of the Association on a Cigar label was referred toa committee composed of Julius J. Wagner, B. S. Harris and J. S. Valentine, to report at the next meeting. The Secretary reported that Messrs. O. A. Ball, S. M. Lemon and A. S. Musselman had all been invited to be present at this meeting, but all had been unavoidably detained. Julius J. Wagner commended the plan of having the jobbers come before the meeting and suggested that arrange- ments be made to have them come one atatime. The suggestion appeared to meet the approval of the members and MICHIGAN TRADESMAN the Secretary announced his inclination to fall in line therewith. J. Geo. Lehman suggested that the grocers adopt the early closing schedule a month in advance of last year and close their stores at 6:30 p. m. five nights a week from Nov. 8 to May 1. The motion was adopted and the Sec- retary was instructed to issue cards to the trade announcing the action of the Association. L. John Witters presented the follow- ing resolutions, which were unanimous- ly adopted : Resolved, That the heartfelt sympathy of the Association be tendered our worthy member, Henry J. Vinkemulder, in the bereavement he has sustained in the death of his infant daughter. Resolved, That the sympathy of the Association be tendered the family of the late A. J. Elliott in the loss they have sustained in the death of their husband and father. The carnival question then came up for discussion, it being the opinion of every member present but one that the carnival had caused great loss to the grocery trade and a greater loss in de- bauching the morals of the city. Each member expressed himself freely and fully to the same effect, when the fol- lowing resolution, offered by J. Geo. Lehman, was adopted with but one dis- senting vote: Whereas, we have had an opportunity of participating in a carnival and are now able to judge of the advantages and disadvantages incident to such = an event; and Whereas, we believe that the disad- vantages outnumber the advantages and that the losses exceed the gains; there- fore Resclved, That we herewith place ourselves on record as opposed to a repetition of the carnival aloug the lines of this years event and that we use our best endeavors to discourage any move- ment in that direction. There being no further business, the meeting adjourned. > +. ___ Fiour and Feed. Active and higher wheat markets last week came as an unwelcome surprise t> many flour buyers whu have been waiting to purchase on an expected de- cline. On the other hand, there are those who believe in wheat and flour at present and prospectively better values, so that the voiume of trade has beer well up to the average and millers, the country over, have been booking a sat- isfactory volume of busivess, excepting those who have been affected by the quarantine against yellow fever in the South. It is certainly a most hopeful and helpful condition when the actual demand is such for breadtsuffs that the professional price wrecker gets beaten at his own game. His effort to depress prices can only be temporary and, in the end, will serve to enhance values, Exports of wheat and flour of the past thirteen weeks have been equal to over 70,000,000 bushels, an amount unprec- edented for this season of the year in the history of our export trade The strong European demand is likely to continue for some weeks to come, as_ it must look to America this year for the major part of all its needs. The trend of prices will, therefore, probably be upward, and we have every reason to expect that present values, at least, wil! be well sustained. Millstuffs are in good demand at fair prices Feed and meal are nominally unchanged for the week. Ws. N. Rowe. 8 Jacob Liebler, the Caledonia general dealer, will celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of his establishment as a merchant, Nov. 11. Mr. Liebler original ly handled groceries only, but subse- quently added lines of dry goods, shoes, crockery and glassware. The Grocery Market. | Sugar—Ali grades from No. 1 to 16, inclusive, were marked a SIx- pence this morning. The European market is at present at the lowest point on record, and is decidedly weak. The domestic raw market is very uncertain, in view of the lack of demand. If buyers appeared, however, they could secure substantial concessions. The consumptive demand for sugar has fallen off, but is fully up to the nornal point for this season. Coffee—The demand for coffee is very good. The low pr.ces are conducive to large consumption. The demand for package goods is very large. Tea—The fact that the wholesale trade all over the country is in the midst of canned goods deliveries has a tendency to create a temporary dulness in the market. Stocks are light in sev- eral sections, however, and the coming months ought’ to witness a good trade. No immediate changes in price are ex- pected. Canned Goods—There is very little enquiry for tomatoes, which rule at all sorts of prices, on account of the vary- ing qualities. Taken as a whole, the market is slightly weaker. Corn is very dull, and with very little doing. The market is easier to the extent of about 2%c per dozen. Peas are quiet and rule at unchanged prices. Peaches are not very much in evidence, and there is no change in price. Dried Fruits -Evaporated apples are as scarce and high as they have been. Prunes, except larger sizes, are promis- ing to be plentiful enough for the sea- son's demand without any very high prices ruling. Peaches are good prop- erty at present prices. There are few foreign dried fruits in the market, and little interest is shown in them. Some verv fancy raisins have arrived. In California raisins the interest is prin- cipally in 4-crown, which are scarce and promise an advance. Syrup and Molasses—The syrup of the Glucose. Trust is still a factor in the situation, so far as price is concerned, but very little is selling. No immedi- ate change is expected. The demand for mixed goods is at present very fair, aithough not what it should be at this sea:on. There ts no demand for sugar syrup, which rules at unchanged prices. The demand for molasses is fair, and the price is unchanged. Fish—The shortage of mackerel of American catch is giving room for more of the Irish fish, which is coming in in larger proportions than usual, But the Irish catch, as well as the Nor- way catch, has been light, the former being almost as complete a failure as the American catch. Prices are high, and holders are very firm in their views 1s to the future of the market. But the advanced prices and the depression in business have cut the demand down very materially, so that the movement in mackerel is very limited at the present. Provisions—There has been consid erabie speculative demand among deal- ers for future supplies, and this has not only maintained a steady spot mar- ket, but has also advanced prices on futures Dried beef is about the only line which has declined during the week, and the rest of the provision list has been steady to firm. The consump- tion of smoked meats is very fair for the season, and this is due to the excep- tionally low prices. >_> —__—__ The Grain Market. The wheat market during tbe past week has been very strong, with an up- ward tendency, and the exports were as down 6 large as ever. Still the deliveries seem }to keep pace and exceed the shipments. moder- ate increase in the visible of about 500, - 009 bushels, but all were surprised when the reports came in, as_ they showed an increase of 2,340,000 bushels, and when it was found that there had been 400 more cars reported than dur- ing the same day last year, it caused a slump of about 2c per bushel on both cash and futures, The rains in the win- ter wheat belt also had effect on the market. Farmers seem to be fair sellers at present prices and many of them have decided not to wait for dollar wheat. The growing crop is not making as much headway as it should, but if we are favored with good weather there is plenty of time to makea There was coarse grains. Phe protessionals counted on a a weakening showing yet. virtually no change in 3usiness was very slack, as prices were so very low that specu- lation almost ceased. The receipts dur- ing the week were: 60 cars of wheat, | car of corn and 3 cars of oats—rather a small amount of corn and oats. Local millers are paying goc for wheat. C. G. A. Voier. a Hides, Pelis and Wool. The fall take-off of hides in Michigan does not materialize to any great extent. The farmer kill, as in former years, does not appear here or in the country towns. Collections are small and even those are eagerly sought for. Prices are kept to the extremely high point, where tanners claim there is no profit in tan- nage. Sheep pelts are scarce, but prices are controlled by the wool market, which is quiet, but firm in price. Some inferior lots of wool have been pressed onithe market and showed a weakness, while the more desirable lots have shown a slight advance, especially so in lines of new, bringing them nearer the importing market did not respond to the advance in wool, aud manufacturers buy only as their needs require to fill orcers booked and book no new orders, only as price is commensurate with ccst of wool. A renewed trade wiil exhaust the visible supply and no new supply is in also point. The goods soon sight. Prices on this side are two to three cents below the importing pout, with demand good abroa1. Wm. 1. HESs —> 2 Murder Will Out. The Cedar Springs Clipper reproduces from the Tradesman the article relating to Frank Jewell’s celebration of the twenty first anniversary of his entrance upon a business career in Grand Rapids and adds: Frank Jewell was born three miles west of Cedar Springs in the first frame house built in Sclon township, and twenty-seven years ago ‘‘pushed’’ the rolier on a hand press in the Clipper office—our first devil. The next grand act was when he married one of our most estimable young ladies, Miss Jen- nie Osterbout. a Geo. Arnott, Vice-President and Sec- retary of the Matthews-Arnott Co., at Los ‘Angeles, Cal. was in town fora few days last week, calling on former friends and acquaintances. Mr. Arnott will be remembered as the manager of the now defunct Priestly Express Wagon and Sleigh Co., previous to which he was engaged in the grocery business on West Bridge street under the style of Arnott & Arnott. Phone Visner for Gillies N. Y. teas, all kinds, grades and prices. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Two Methods of Reforming the Pres- ent Credit System. Stroller in Grocery World. The average retail grocer has no idea bow much time the jobber spends in pondering over the question of retailers’ credits. The retailer has an idea that he has all the worrying over poor-pay- ing customers, delayed credits, etc. He’s away off. Divide the average job- bing business by the average retail business, and you'll have the extent to which the jobber’s worry and his cause to worry exceed the retailer’s. Almost every jobber has some scheme to improve the conditions of credit, but very few of these schemes are put into practical operation, because they are too radical, and when the time comes to make the change—to take the plunge— the jobber shivers and draws back. A wholesale grocery friend of mine unfolded a scheme to me the other day which has some new points in it. It is only a scheme, though; he'll never in the world put it into operation. Still, because it’s a contribution to the iitera- ture of the credit problem, I'm going to give you the main details. The jobber who is the father of this idea does a cash business exclusively, and he doesn't find it easy. He wants his money when the retailer gets the goods—not in ten days, or in one day, but right away. He has found it mighty hard to do this, and he believes the con- dition which he has run up against is the principal obstacle to the successful cash business. If he sends goods by ex- press, he can empower the express com- pany to collect the full amount of the bill, as well as their own charges. But groceries aren’t sent by express, but by freight, and the charter of the freight carrying railroads prohibits them from collecting anything but their own carry- ing charges. The scheme of my friend, the jobber, is for the railroads to be authorized by law to collect for goods carried, pre cisely as the express companies collect —c. o. d. The retail grocer, when the railroad delivers him goods which have come by freight, would have to pay for the goods and for the carrying of them before he could get them. This would give the jobber the same service as if he had a collector on the spot, when the goods arrived, to accompany the freight wagon to the retailer's store, with the added authority to withhold the goods until they were paid for. My friend thinks that after the law is changed to allow this, any wholesale grocer on earth can do a cash business, and do it easily. That’s one suggestion he makes. An- other one is rather more startling. It comprehends the miking of retailers factors on evervthing. Don’t sell "em anything outright. Make ’em agents for the jobbers on everything they buy, the ownership of all goods to remain in the jobber until they are sold, when the retailer would simply remit for them. Every thirty davs, sav, if the goods haven't been sold yet, the jobber will swoop down on the store and confiscate evervthing unsold, which he would have a perfect right to do under the circum- stances. I believe the first idea, for the rail- roads to act as collectors, would bea mighty good thing, from the jobbers’ standpoint. I don’t suppose the retailer would get very enthusiastic over it, but when the freight deliverer presented himself before the door of John Smith, grocer, with a drayload of goods, and presented the bill for them, and the re- tailer knew that he either paid or didn't get the stuff, I believe lots and lots of them would pay. Some would, anyway. The railroads would, of course, expect to charge a slight com- mission for the service. The idea of making retailers factors, though, I believe is absurd. Think of the latitude it would give a retailer who didn’t know how to buy. If he found that his ambition had been too big for his pocketbook and his business, he could simply report the goods as un- sold and ship them back. The scheme would be a great thing for the retailer, there’s no doubt about that, for it would absolve him from all breaks in buying, and entirely prevent him from over- buying on anything. Suppose he re- solved to speculate a little, and early last spring bought a big block of future tomatoes. >uppose the market hadn't stiffened as it has, hut instead, had gone down. The retailer, we'll say, found himself loaded to the neck with tomatoes whose value had shrunk sev- eral cents per dozen. What a splendidly convenient thing for him, at the end of thirty days after these were delivered, to ship three-quarters of them back to the jobber! Convenient, why it would be magnificent—for the retailer. But we're supposed to be discussing this scheme from the standpoint of the job- ber. because a jobber started it. Why, you can't imagine the awful effect which such a wild scheme as this would have on the general grocery trade. It wouldn't take any sagacity to start in the grocery business any more, hecause a man would know that he was protected against even the worst breaks in buying. He couldn't go wrong, he- cause if he was indiscreet the factor plan stood behind him to help him out. ee The Contagiousness of Good Example. From the Dry Goods Chronicle. The head of the house should. ordi- narilv, be the most industrious man in it; according as he cuts out the lead so the others will follow If he is care- less of his own affairs, what can he ex- pect from those who look up to him but carelessness? If, on the contrary, he is watchful in governing his help and careful in set- ting them a proper example, he will not only get better service, but be in a po- sition to consistently exact it. The man who can say, ‘‘I only ask from my clerks the same effort I exact from myself,’’ has reason on his side. No man will object to hustle for an em- ployer who shows himself a hustler. He is less likelv to shirk when he sees his emplover willingly shouldering his share. Good example is contagious. Men will follow their leader-— let him lead them where he will. Any thoroughgoing merchant knows what Is going on around the store, and is never backward in_ investigating affairs that concern him and in learning anvthing he ought to know. He makes his authority felt, yet is never tyrannical, keeps men alwavs in their place without friction, and seldom has occasion to speak twice. He is the head of his est:blishment, master in his own house and will tolerate no division of honors. Respect alwavs follows authority well administered, and respect for authority is the very fountain head of good store service. Men may serve from love, but if they do, it is from self-love, seldom for love of another or his interests in preference to their own. We would be disposed to doubt the candor of any man who said he _ served another s_ interests in preference to his own, or who pretended to see his duty in such an exaggerated sense that he would sacrifice himself for his employ- er. An employer would be a fool to expect it. Dogs will return a caress for a kick. Men don’t do business that wav. Men may, however, he driven without feeling the whip, curbed without mind- ing the reins. One can exercise author- ity without a too apparent effort at en- forcing it, simply because authority is dignified, wise and worthy of regard, and men involuntarily respect it. It is as -plain as two and two make four; it is, in fact, the simplest prop- osition we know of. If you want good service, deserve it. ee It doesn’t require much genius to find fault with the crooks in a dog’s tail, but to straighten them out does. —_—__»20>—___ Wise men make the mistakes, and fools the blunders, and this is about all the difference between them. —_—_—~> 2. A straight line is the shortest, in morals as well as in mathematics. —_—__—_.-0 It is less painful to learn in youth than it is to be ignorant in age. : M 33 mH Re BOIS wy SII SS) SBI RASS ESERIES ys D ASS 32 2) PERSSASSEeS SEES SSE SESS n CIES A eS eee SS SASS SARA SA AAAS ES) he most profitable goods you can carry e SCIEN fy liday Goods 3 1397 R RS SBST Gas To the Trade We trust all that can come to Grand Rapids this fall will call upon us without fail. We have something worth your visit. We want to show you the splendid improvements we have made in our Wholesale Store, corner Spring and Fulton streets; improvements by which we are able to display one of the most Complete Assortments of Merchandise ever shown in our lines, by which we are able to offer our goods at lower prices than ever before. Owing to our entire stock arriving before the great advances caused by the new U. S. Tariff, our prices on Holiday Goods are entirely based upon old values, so that any purchases from us this fall will be a perfectly safe investment, as goods will probably never be as cheap again. PS We want to show you, also, the following lines of goods from our Holiday Catalogue. If not received, send for it. Butters, Cuspidores, China novelties, Jardinieres, Teapot stands, Soldiers, Tin toys, Imported toys of every sort, Tool chests, Blackboards, Toy furniture, Wooden toys, Iron toys, Ships, boats, Chairs, tables, Wash sets, Horses, Shoo Flies, Carpet sweepers, Dolls of every sort, Cups and saucers, Plate sets, Bread and milk sets, Children’s mugs, Shaving muys, Japanese ware, Cream pitchers, Vases, Water sets, Celluloid: Toilet cases, Manicure cases, Glove boxes, Hardkerchief boxes, Necktie cases, Sugars and creams, Four piece sets, Tea sets, [NONI IANA Tete-a-tete sets, Berry sets, Salad bowls, Oat meals, Fruit saucers, Smoker cases, Drums, Bone dishes, Shaving sets, Doll carriages, Bread and butter plates, Collar and cuff sets, Carts, Velocipedes, Iron wagons, Photo boxes. Wall pockets, Cake plates, Celeries, SASSO SOAS NOS SOS ASS SESSA Spoon holders, Scrap albums, Desks, Mustards, Picture books, Cradles, Candle sticks, Reading books, Beds, Toothpick holders, Bibies, Girls’ sleighs, Match safes, Board covered juveniles, Coasters, ) Cracker jars, Calendars, Cutters, Chocolate pots, Games—s5c, 10c, 25¢c, soc, Skates, Syrup jugs, $1.00 to $3.00 each, Tablets, Celery trays, Puzzles, Box paper, Manicure trays, Blocks, Pencils, Comb trays, Checkers, Slates, Pin and pen trays, Dominoes, Silverware (hollow), R Olive, jeliy and almond Chess, Rogers Bros. 1847 silver, dishes, Playing cards, Clocks, lamps, etc., etc. Cs We also publish the following separate Catalogues. Write for any needed, if you have not already received them: esS3 No. 128. Children’s Carriag~s, No. 131. Glassware Catalogue, No. 132 Grocers’ Sundries and Bazaar Catalogue, No. 134. Crockery and China Catalogue, No. 135. Lamp Cata ogue, No. 137. Genera! Catalogue, consisting of Nos. 131. 132, 134 anu 135, No. 136. Holiday Catal gue, 1897: Catalogue of Sleighs and Desks; Catalogue of Refrigerators. RESFIEFMBER yw Weare manufacturers and manufacturers’ agents. Our terms and prices are equal, and in very many items below those of any other firm in the United States. You can make personal selections and Save Money. CIsS3 BS es5 SAS RSs FEES x awe Ss +f. Leonard § Sonse 134 (0 140 Fulton St., Grand Rapids, Michigan. SOS BACAR om ge senna neneRe Eset mM ae ne EME RETURNED TO DETROIT. Clare Grocerymen Too Many for an Irresponsible Interloper. Clare, Oct. 30—On or about Sept. 30, agents from Detroit, representing B. >. Summers, canvassed this part of the country among the farmers, selling them groceries, telling the farmers they could save 30 per cent. on their pur- chases, compared with the prices they were paying local merchants; also as- serting that Clare merchants were buy- ing cheap goods and charging the farm- ers exorbitant prices for same. By so doing they secured a great many orders and came to Clare with nearly a car- load of groceries, to te delivered from the depot to farmers on Thursday of this week. As soon as Mr. Tatman, Treasurer of the Michigan Retail Gro- cers’ Association, found the goods were being distributed, no time was lost in notifying all the grocerymen of the city and calling a meeting at the depot at once to inspect the goods and keep track of those who were receiving them, for future reference. Upon examination of the gocds, however, and on the ad- vice of one of our attorneys, the gro- cerymen notified the gentlemen who ac- companied the goods to pack them and return same to Detroit at once, or we would arrest them under the provisions of the State food laws. The goods were thereupon packed and returned to De- troit at once, excepting two or three orders which were delivered before we reached a conclusion in the matter. Most all of the farmers were very in- dignant when the local dealers showed them bow they had been charged almost double the amount on most of their or- ders that they would have to pay to their home merchants. most of our merchants offering to fill any or all of the orders at 2§ to 30 per cent. less than the farmers had agreed to pay on the entire orders. All the spices and coffee were ground goods and seemed to be the biggest part of the orders. They were all put up in three and five pound cans, marked Pure Ginger, Pure Pepper, Pure Cloves, etc., with no other reading on the packages, the representative ac- companying the gvods claiming they were put up by James Bros., of New York. We secured samples of most of the spices and coffee and sent them to the Food Commissioner for his inspection. The syrups were put up in plain kegs, not marked, which our attorney claimed to be a direct violation of the pure food law; and we, as grocervmen, hope our Food Commissioner will investigate the matier thoroughly and take steps to prevent a repetition of such occurrences. In order to show the prices charged for goods, I herewith submit a copy of one invoice, which represents purchases made by a farmer named C. Flood : 5 ies. Tapas Tes, ae. 2 oe $1.35 5 lbs. Java and Mocha C offee, ground, 33c..... 1.05 5 lhs. Baking Pow = 37 = Sy 3 lbs. Pepper, 37c.. : . 3 Ibs. Cloves, 3c per oz... A 3 Ibs. Cinnamon, 3c per oz. 1.44 9 fe. phestard, 2c per of... 1.44 Sie oeewee, 46 Ber Or... 3c. es eee ce 1.44 i oe 0) Genrer, Chee per er... 1.30 tpt Lemon, @e. per oz... .... .-........ ae) ae 3 lbs. Coco nut, 3c me Oe 1.44 Be eet me Oe ee 73 5 lbs. Chipps Tobz Acco, 17 2. Success has attended an effort banana growing in Fitzgerald, Ga., where a plant reached the height of twelve feet and put forth satisfactory fruit. at —__>2 > Don’t waste your time trying to con- trol the passions and appetites of the world; be satisfied if you can regulate them. A loafer is a human being, and this is the most mortifying thing about him. their THE ORIGINAL THE BEST THE ONLY Pelijahn's Golitornia Breoktast Food Has the ‘“‘} trade-mark on every package. All Grand Rapids jobbers have fresh-made stock. 3ear”’ OUR book- keeping should neg- lected—and the simpler it is made the more economical it is—a saving of time. not be Be up to date. 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STOWE, Epitor. WEDNESDAY, - - - NOVEMBER 3, 1897. SCHEMES AND FAKES. Not all schemes are fakes, but all fakes are schemes. From this propo- sition it is to be inferred that there are material differences in schemes. Thus, every enterprising business man is con- tinually scheming, or planning, for the advancement of his business interests, and the success of his undertaking 1s generally in proportion to the successful! carrying out of such plans. The word scheme has a very elastic definition: and, while it includes all systematic and legitimate planning for the ad- vancement of any enterprise, it also includes all such plans as involve, in varying degree, the elements which go to make up the definition of the more siangy, but more specific, term fake While the lack of ambiguity in the meaning of this latter term makes.it impertinent to warn merchants against engaging in anything involving its characteristics, there is yet such a gradual approach from that which is unquestionably legitimate and proper to that which may involve doubt on_ these points that a brief reference to the sub- ject may not be out of place. Attention is just now attracted to this subject on account of the unusual in- Crease in the exploitation of question- able schemes, made possible and profit- able by the improvement in business activity. Perhaps at no time in_ its history bas the Tradesman had its at- tention called to so great a variety of schemes, either intended to operate to swindle the dealer or to betray him into engaging in ‘‘trade bringing’’ enter- prises which, to say the least, are un- businesslike. Among these may be noted the fraudulent commission con- cerns promising undue returns, mer chandise-distributing plans, trading ticket schemes, nickel-in-the-slot ma- chines, etc., etc. Indeed, the ingenuity of the fake originator was never so ac- tive as now. And many of these schemes come with backing plausible and re- spectable enough to deceive the very elect. Thus, in the leading trade jour- nal in one of the principal jobbing cen- ers of the country is found an illustrated advertisement of a sort of nickel-in-the- slot wheel of fortune which is guaran- teed not to return to the customer com- binations above a certain amount, scaled to secure the most profitable re- turns. It is a commentary on the prev- alence and prestige of these schemes when a trade paper will prostitute its columns to the advertising of such fla- grant frauds. But not all the schemes which are urged upon the attention of dealers are essentially fraudulent in their character either to the merchant or his trade; and yet many of these prove costly experi- ments to those who yield to the crafty solicitations of the wily agents. Com- ing under this description may be noted the ‘‘trading ticket’? schemes which are just now being extensively pushed in many cities. These tickets are is- sued by some great central distributing house and the merchant acting as agent gives a ticket for a certain amount of each purchase; and, when the customer has a certain quantity of the tickets, he can use them to obtain some article from the concern issuing them. The scheme is an old one, especially in the tea trade, the only difference being that the dealer more sensibly furnishes the article in exchange for the tickets him- self, In the working of this ticket scheme there is used an adroit plausibility very apt to catch the unwary. An attractive contract Is presented which seems to be wholly in the interests of the mer- chant. The percentage paid to the con- cern is a very small one,but it is on the zross sales, which makes it a very con- siderable portion of the profits. Of course, the compensation to the mer- chant is in the wide advertising which the concern engages to give him. In some Cases the contracts specify certain favoring conditions which are to work for the interests of the dealer. Thus, in one it was agreed by the agent that no other dealer should be admitted into the scheme within a distance of four blocks. On this being violated, the contract was referred to and it was found that the agent had cleverly omit- ted to fill out the blank specifying the aumber of blocks. It may be accepted as a general rule that the best methods of advertising are the commonly accepted channels. The investment of so large a part of the orofts of a business as these schemes femand will yield far better returns in the ways well known to every dealer; and it is safer for the merchant to select his agencies and advisors rather than to ‘end a too willing ear to the members of the horde of scheme promoters which is infesting the trade evervwhere. The widespread misery and want that prevail in Italy appear to be exercising a disastrous and degenerating influence on the physique of the masculine por- tion of the population. According to official statistics, just issued by the war department at Rome, out of every I,000 young men of 20 years of age liable for military service, which is as obligatory in Italy as in Germany and Austria, 520, or more than half, were rejected by the medical authorities as physically disqualified for service in the army. it seems that France is not above tak- ing a leaf out of the book of the heathen Chinee in regard to her coinage. It is proposed to try the experiment of using nickel in the coins of smaller denomi- nations. To distinguish the new coins from silver, they will have smooth edges and be pierced through the center, in much the same way as the ‘‘cash’’ of China. Although called nickel, they will still have 75 per cent. of copper in their composition. A modest man never. has the swell- head conceit. Unfortunately, modest men do not ryn for office. RICH MEN’S SONS. Rich men’s sons are not always profli- gate. Stories of their prodigality and debauchery have repeatedly been used to point morals and adorn pious dis- courses; but the fact is that they are generally men of prudence and business sense, and know how to take care of and to increase the wealth that they have inherited. This statement is entirely true of the Astor, the Vanderbilt and the Gould fortunes, and, indeed, of many more which need not be mentioned here. It appears to be generally the case that rich men’s sons are raised up to under- stand the importance of the responsibil- ity that large wealth will impose on them, and when the time comes for them to assume the duties of its ad- ministration they are equal to the situa- tion. An exception is to be noted in the distribution of the Puliman fortune. In parceling out his possessions, according to the terms of his will as recently pub- lished, Mr. Pullman lefi to each of his two daughters a million dollars, besides other bequests; but to his two sons he gives only $3,000 each yearly. The will States in terms the following: Inasmuch as neither of my sons has developed such a sense of responsibilty as in my judginent 1s requisite for the wise use of large properties and consid erable sums of money, I am painfully compelled, as 1 have explicitly stated to them, to limit my testamentary pro- visions for their benefit to trusts pro- ducing only such income as I deem reasonable for their support. Accord- ingly, 1 direct that out of the remainder of my estate, after satisfying the pro- visions hereinbefore made for my wife and daughters, my executors shall set apart bonds, stocks and notes or other securities in two portions, each of such estimated value as will, in the judg- ment of my executors, yield an annnal net income of $3,000. It seems a pity that such humiliating expressions by a father concerning his sons could not be kept among the sad and unfortunate secrets that are the in- heritance of many families; but where they concern the disposal of large property they must be made matters of public efficial record. But not merely do the sons of million- aires become profligates and de- bauchees. It is too often the case that young men of less wealthy parents grow up idle, unworthy and of no use to so- ciety. Young men should be made to realize at an early period that every human being is put in this world to sub- serve some useful purpose; in a word, he or they are placed here to work. All the wealth, all the civilization, all the benefaction, all the learning and art, al! that makes l:fe worth living, are the re- sult of work. The races that do not work are ignorant and degraded savages. The man who lives in a civilized so- cial state and possesses the ordinary faculties of the human race, but who does not work: and does not render any useful service, but is willingly and will- fully idle, is a savage in the midst of civilization; he is an ulcer on the body politic, a clog on society. He produces nothing, but lives upon the labor of others,and is entitled to no credit above the criminal classes. Labor is the proper law of human life. Every man is under obligations to render some useful service for the privilege of living, and he who comes to maturity in the possession of all his faculties and wantonly fails to pay that ‘debt is a social drone, a nuisance to his fellows and a criminal offender against the universal law of labor. . Every youth, whether he be the son of wealth or of poverty, should be taught this rule and educated in its great re- sponsibilities, so that he may be fitted to do his part of useful service. Ina country where the poor boy may become a millionaire, and the son of the hum- blest may rise to the highest and proud- est position, every youth should be taught that the road to success is only through worthy and useful exertion. GENERAL TRADE SITUATION While much of the recent dulness in the stock market and disturbance in financial circles has been attributed to the pending negotiations for the sale of the Union Pacific under the mortgage of the Government, and to the usual distraction of the election, elements temporary in their effects, there is no doubt but that the general falling off in merchandise demand in all parts of the country is the natural result of the long- continued period of unprecedented buying. The demand is lessening sim- ply because it is being satisfied. There is in this fact nothing which should cause apprehension, for it could not be expected that the replenishing of the long-depleted stocks could go on in- definitely at the highest rate attained. When it is stated that there has been a lessening of demand it is to be remem- bered that the comparison is made with the highest tide of demand and that the movement is still very large, and in manufacturing and primary markets there is no lessening of the greatest activity attained. A characteristic feature in many lines is the refusal of orders for future delivery, on account of the belief in an advance in prices. The two great American staples, wheat and cotton, are having a consid- erable export boom, each at opposite extremes in price. The wheat situacion has grown stronger during the week and, notwithstanding a material ad- vance, passing the dolJar mark in many markets, the export continues unusually heavy. Cotton is at about the lowest recorded price, but movement has also been large. . All the industries are crowded with orders taken some time ago. The abatement of new demand is not caus- ing embarrassment, but, owing to much uncertainty about prices of materials in the near future, the delay makes for the safety of manufacturers and consumers both, Aiready, the demand for coke, raising the weekly output to 149,563 tons, Causes sales at $1.65 to $1.75, and higher prices are expected, while many buyers believe that pig iron must go lower because of the increase in fur- naces working. Wool has been settling back, with some large sales for profit- taking and scarcely any demand. Leather also ranges a little lower, en- couraging the hope that advances asked on boots and shoes may prove ununeces- sary. All the great industries havea really remarkable demand for imme- diate deliveries, showing that enormous purchases by dealers recently are found in some lines too small for the increased demand, and the reports of retail trade are generally satisfactory excepting as to winter goods, of which sales are re- tarded by unusually mild weather. The lessening of merchandise demand has begun to have effect on bank clear- ings, although these still continue large. The report for the week was $1, 193,000,000, or 9 per cent. less than for the preceding week. Failures were 218, against 206 for last week, Soares ae an tan fom aa Tg ae wp ee THE CUBAN PROBLEM. It can no longer be denied that the Cuban question is now the most im- portant matter engaging public notice, and it certainly will be the first to re- ceive the attention of Congress when that body assembles a month hence. The reply of the Spanish government to the demand of the McKinley adminis- tration, recently presented by General Woodford, is calculated to bring on a crisis, and the Washington authorities will now be compelled either to adopt vigorous measures towards Spain, or admit that Ex-President Cleveland's non-interference policy was the proper course. The Spanish government has_ refused to give out the text of its reply to the United States, and no information is yet vouchsafed from Washington; but it is known that the reply is not satisfactory to the ‘administration. Spain is re- ported to have couched her answer in courteous but firm terms. It is stated that every effort has been made to put an end to the war, and that it probably would have already been ended were it not for the aid the insurgents have re- ceived from the filibustering expeditions fitted out in the United States. The Spanish note is said to indicate very plainly that every effort will be made to crush the insurrection as quickly as possible, and, with that purpose in view, further re-enforcements of troops are to be dispatched forthwith to Cuba. Our offers of mediation are firmly de- clined, with the statement that no for- eign interference in Spanish affairs will be tolerated. Here, then, is food for serious reflec- tion. To be consistent, President Mc- Kinley would have to follow up General Woodford’s note with an announcement that by a certain date the United States will actively intervene in Cuba _ unless the war is ended by that time. Here is where the difficulty lies. Evidently the administration believed that Spain would accept the friendly offices Gen- eral Woodford was commissioned to offer, as no preparation whatever was made to use force should the reply prove unsatisfactory. At the present time it would be practically impossible for the United States to coerce Spain, for the simple reason that the country is not prepared for war. We might, it is true, order our fleet to Cuban waters; but in doing so it would be necessary to ex- pose our entire coast line, with its de- fenseless harbors, to attack by Spanish warships, While Spain has not a large navy, she has quite as many vessels as we have. Our battle-ships are heavier; but this superiority is offset by the greater coast line we are compelled to defend. To go to war, even with a second-class nation like Spain, without preparation would be the height of folly, and so cautious a man as President McKinley is not likely to be so imprudent as to shoulder such a responsibility It is, therefore, pretty certain that he will temporize until Congress meets, and then shoulder the entire responsibility for a final settlement of the Cuban prob- lem upon that body. It remains to be seen whether being brought face to face with the prospect of war will havea sobering effect upon the jingoes. ALASKAN BOUNDARY QUESTION. There appears to be no end to the problems and difficulties which are con- tinually arising in connection with our relations with Great Britain. Were our methods of meeting these difficulties more diplomatic, it is probable that they could be more readily adjusted; but, owing to intemperate utterances in Congress, and the lack of harmony com- monly existing between the executive and legislative branches of the Govern- ment, they frequently become danger- ous, Although the protection of the seals problem is still a very live issue and far from a final settlement, there is also looming up on the horizon a dis- pute over the boundary line separating British Columbia from Alaska. A good portion of the frontier, or to within ten leagues of the seacoast, is fixed by well-established geographical lines; but the southeastern boundary extends in a southerly direction ten marine leagues from the coast. The point in dispute is the delimitation of this frontier. Does the boundary fol- low the sinuosities of the coast line, or does it follow merely headlands? As there are a number of islands strung all along the coast, it may be contended that these islands are included in the ten-league limit. Here is an opportunity for the jingoes in Congress to start a fresh difficulty by indulging in a little twisting of the British lion’s tail. This they will undoubtedly proceed to do at the earliest opportunity, unless they should kappen to be too busy with the Cuban hobby which they have been rid- ing for so long. Several years ago, both governments appointed commissioners to survey the territory through which the frontier is supposed to pass; but they were not empowered to determine the actual line, nor to make recommendations. The data prepared by these commissioners are to serve as the basis fora final de- limitation of the frontier, and, were the matter to be approached in a liberal spirit, the question could no doubt be speedily settled in a way satisfactory to all interests. Although the reports of the commissioners have been made to the respective governments long since, the problem has been allowed to drag; but it is now understood that it will be taken up again shortly. In New York, over a year ago, Ben- jamin W. Davis, a non-union man whose occupation was that of an en- gineer in charge of a portable hoisting engine, obtained employment of Merrit P. Simpson. The latter was willing to give the man steady work, but Peter Gibbons, walking delegate of the hoist- ing engineers’ union, threatened to or- der a strike if the non-union man was not discharged. Davis was discharged, but was subsequently re-employed by Simpson. Five times this operation forced to let the man go for good. Davis thereupon brought suit against the union and the walking delegate to enjoin them from interfering with his right to work, and also fur damages for past injuries. Justice Beach of the Su- preme Court granted a permanent in- junction and entered judgment for $500 damages against the boisting engineers’ union. Switzerland can within two days throw into the field eight army corps of 100,000 trained soldiers, with a reserve of equal strength at its back, and 270,- ooo landstrum can be called out in emergency. And yet the Swiss army costs the government but $500,000 yearly. When a man blows his own horn he knows it will be blowed the way he wants it done. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 9 was repeated, until finally Simpson was | A Barrel of Flour Branded like this one ee Ashi BU wD BX ray 23 n4 SE Is The Best That money can buy. It will make whiter bread and more of it than any other kind. Clark=Jewell=Wells Co., Western Michigan Agents. This brand has always taken first rank among the direct importations of Japan grades and the quality of this year’s im- portation is fully up to the usual high standard of this brand, some of our cus- tomers who are expert judges of tea insist- ing that it grades higher than ever before. JE WELL CHOP on the same as heretofore, on We are handling small margins, the theory that the nimble sixpence is preferable to the idle shilling. Clark=Jewell=Wells Co., Sole Owners. 10 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Hardware Experiences of a Pioneer Traveler in the Lake Superior Country. Many an interesting sketch might be written regarding the traveling done by the commercial traveler of the past up in the far-off regions of Lake Su- perior, where, in the early days to which my mind reverts, there was a large amount of adventure surrounding every doliar of business. On one of my trips up in that locality, when | was representing the old house of Hoyt, Busick & Co., I enjoyed more than my usual success, the season being one extremely favorable for trade. 1 stopped off at Marquette and, among « lot of other things, sold Ben Niedhardi enough looking glasses to stock a car load. A more surprised man than Be) was when he got them it would have been hard work to find between Mar- quette and Escanaba. I think that was the trip I sold Ed Breitiug, of the old Pioneer Iron Co., enough files to run his mechanical de partment for five years to come. Ot! course, I didn’t know it at the time, but he surely was a free and easy buye1 and knew how to stock up. This was about the time when some of the older heads in Portage Lake and Eagle River were casting sheep's eyes toward Du- luth, believing it would be the Upper Lake city of the future. Ontonagon, Houghton and similar points, formerly so prominent, were becoming extremely dull and slow, copper mining having suffered a relapse. I extended my trip as far as Duluth, but found it well stocked with the overplus which the stores down the lake, such as Ed. Hol- land’s and Northrup & Butler's, found no use for, but thought to dispose of by moving. The place gave no sign of its present importance, when it probably figures a population of nearly 40,000. I only wish I had bought a few corner lots at that time and been able to hold them. On my way down from Duluth J] thought I would stop off at Bayfield and make a short cut across the country to St. Croix Falls on St. Croix River, which was a distance of go or too miles, feeling after I reached there I might sell one of those $1,000 bills which was the height of my ambition. After fin ishing what business I could at Bay- field, and Lapointe near by, I pros- pected for some conveyance to take me across country. I found the trip was a hazardous undertaking in more ways than one. There was no regular post road, as I had imagined; it was nothing but a trail, and a trail that continued the same in dimensions and importance for the whole distance, which was through an elegant stretch of woods all the way. I learned that the mail was carried over once a week on a two- wheeled buckboard, which was haulec by an ancient mule that still had some go in him, but was more noted for last- ing and time-serving qualities than any phenomenal bursts of speed. I hunted up the driver of the ‘‘mail wagon,’’ and found that the white French Canadian whose hands usually guided the reins was replaced for that week by a half-breed Indian who was his understudy, or substitute, when oc- casion demanded. He had no organized schedule of rates, but said he would carry me over if I so desired, providing I would fill a whisky jug he carried, and which held about two or three quarts My knowledge of whisky has always been very limited in its character, so I hunted around town to see how cheap | could get that jug loaded, and finally compromised at a dollar. | was satisfied the trip bid fair to be an inexpensive one at that rate, and if I could only take that looked-for good order it would be a tne day's work. About 4 o'clock in the afternoon he was ready and, stowing the jug carefully amidships, where the risk was slight, away we Started. We rode like the very old boy over that trail and through those iense woods. The mule seemingly was more familiar than the driver witb the lay of the land. As the darkness fell around us in big solid blocks of opaqueness, I began to feel a little skit- tish, and almost wished I hadn't trusted myself to the tender mercies of this reckless semi-barbarian, especially as I aow dimly remembered having been idvised by one of the store-keepers in Bayfield not to take the chances. He said this half-breed had killed a man he took over with him on some previous trip, and as my informant put it, he ‘wouldn’t take the trip with sucha pilot for $500 !"" I began to speculate upon what kind of hotel we should find at the nearest settlement, and while cogitating upon this possible variation in the prevailing monotony, I looked ahead and sawa big, bright, blazing fire in a cleared Space, that promised to infuse a little warmth in an atmosphere invariably clear and cold after nightfall. As we drew up to the center of inter- est that so warmly welcomed us, imagine my feelings when I saw six big buck Indians stretched out in all their stalwart proportions, with their feet to the fire, evidently settled to spend the night, each one reclining on his roll of birch bark, which forms the spring mattress of the forest children. 562362507000 It wouldn't be difficult to guess my surprise when my guide informed me this was as far as he intended to travel that night, and that we might as well make ourselves as comfortable as the circumstances would permit So* we unhitched our mule, took off the har- ness: and let him run. The hailf-breed selected a piece of bark for each of us, and with my grip full of samples under Write for prices. ’Phone 1357. THOMAS DUNN & SONS, WHOLESALE HARDWARE SPECIALTIES, BELTING, Engiueers, Machinists and Factory Supplies. 93 PEARL STREET. GRAND RAPIDS. Wm. Brummeler & Sons, “Tanufacturers and Jobbers of TINWARE, ENAMELED WARE and NICKEL PLATED WARE. Factory and Salesrooms, 260 South Ionia Street, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ROUGHT STEEL RANGE 26: &, e 292 298% ) $32.00 delivered at any railroad station in Michigan for No. 8 or No. 9. ever sold for the money. — | om = SWAP 2] OSG ip Ff DOOR, 2 For soft or hard coal or wood. This is one of the best steel ranges we Write for circular giving full particulars. # FOSTER, STEVENS & CO., Grand Rapids. Ser Lek Leese aus my head for a pillow, I lay down be- tween the bucks and finally was in the land of dreams. I remember,among the many things I had in my mind while reclining amid such picturesque surroundings, [ thought of every particular murder and hair- breadth escape for which the Lake Country has been noted for years. My conscience pricked me for buying the poorest whisky I could find; | felt that if any of my copper-colored friends im- bibed it, my passports would be vised to the happy hunting grounds with the most approved dispatch; but I finally slept the sleep of the just, dreaming of ‘ the big bills which the dealer is always going to buy around.’’ I woke up about midnight feeling too cool for comfort. The half-breed and whole breeds were sleeping away en- joyably; the fire was getting low, so I got some dry wood and rails, which | piled up on the smouldering embers, and soon had the satisfaction of feeling warm again. Everyone was astir at 4 in the morning, and we fraternized in a civilized manner, the Indians being as sociable as though they had become acquainted with the jug of jag water, and they probably had, for the half- breed had no wish to be inhospitable. Well, off we started, and we rode just as fast as the mule could jump, until about noon, when we came to an open space in the woods, where my driver desired I should hold the reins over the mule, while he went up in the woods to do some trading with the squaws, who, he said, were picking berries in the neighborhood. I couldn't imagine how he knew, until, on looking around, | saw about a dozen papooses reclining gracefully against as many trees, each of them strapped safely and soundly to a piece of bark or board, and looking as comical and quiet asa _ six-day kitten. I thought then how much better that was than the highly-civilized way of bringing them up by the aid of a mile- sian child’s nurse, who probably shook the daylight out of them every time they tuned up their pipes and squawked. In about an hour my half-breed came back, having in his possession a superb black bear skin, and lots of huckleber ries, which he had speculated for with a little sugar, a little tea and about half of the whisky he had left. Well, to cut this sketch of primitive commercial traveling short, we got into St. Croix Falls about to o'clock that night, and taking everything into con- sideration, [ was thankful when I got into my civilized bed that I still had a scalp to comb when morning dawned. I was made doubly happy by selling a bill of goods that footed up $1,200, but you can bet I didn’t return by way of the woods. I went over tu St. Paul and came down the Father of Waters.— Henry T. Wakeman in Hardware. S EERIEinain ciien canna How Second-Hand Stoves Injure the Sale of New Stoves. Ante-Lucem in American Artisan. “‘the next time you come I met a traveling stove salesman one day last week and, of course, the con- versation related to stoves in general, including second-hand stoves. My con- frere said it was enormous the power exerted over the business by the second- hand goods, and in our talk !t was esti- mated fully 5,000 second-hand stoves were each year doing duty in the city of Minneapolis alone. They are sold inthe fall at good margins of profit, and re- purchased again in the spring at an- other good margin of profit to -uyer (loss to seller). Many are kept as rent- ers, the rentals being the full value of the stove. Each one_ of these stoves takes the place of a new stove, and does it repeatedly for ten or twelve years, thus shutting out the sale of so many new ones. This business a few years ago was confined to the large cities; now it is becoming scattered all over the country, many of the larger of the country towns going into it quite largely. The sec- ond-hand_ stove industry, if you are pleased to call it so, is now well up to 50 per cent. of the whole business, and will continue to be an aggressive factor against new goods until prosperity shall send its brightest luster over all our commercial industries. The second- hand stove trade is quite largely sought after in the largest cities for its sources of profit. But what are you going to do about it? My companion said manufacturers should take some recognizance of this feature and see if there is not some way to rid the markets of them. He suggested some device for a re-melting. These second-hand stoves do more than cut into the new goods trade—they are large contributors to the repair wants. Hundreds of these stoves find their way to the secondhand dealer at > pi ranging from nothing up to $3 and ; re-sola at from $5 to $12. The man ‘ake can sell 300 of these stoves annually will net larger profit than he can net from 300 new ones. —_<@ 2 >__ Sold iia Powder for Onion Seed. Man About Town in Hudson Gazette. I was talking with Stephen Eaton the other day and he relapsed into remin- iscent mood about Hudson's early days. He told me this story: ‘I made a funny mistake once, but I do not take the blame on myself, for there were many others as deceived as mvself. When I was Clerking, way back in the ferties, people used to use a very coarse kind of powder to blow up stumps and to kill large game, which was quite common. People also planted onions from the seed more than they do now. On one occasion this seed was in great demand. We sold it all out and the farmers planted it, hut wondered why the ‘blamed stuff’ didn’t grow. Later, ‘twas in the winter, I helieve, they wanted some rowder. JI could not find anv high nor low in the store, but I was sure we had powder. After a long hunt s found a large hex and, upon opening I found—not powder, but onion seed! t had given the farmers gunpowder for onion seed. I never felt the chagrin so much as I might have, because the farmers had thought they were buving seed as much as I thought I was selling it. Not one in perhaps forty customers noticed the mistake. ‘This instance was one of the funniest in my early experi- ence, —_—_> +. A Hardware Man. There was once a hardware dealer who was determined to set up an image of a human being in his store window. He looked about his stock, and finding all the needed material, went to .work, and his efforts were crowned with an unquestioned success. He took the legs of a stove, the teeth of a rake, the ears of a pail, the elbows of a_ stove-pipe, the tongue of a wagon, the nails from a keg, the fingers of a cradle, the head of a hammer, the nose of a_ tea-kettle, the hands of a cyclometer, the hair of a brush, the eyes of a needle, the bottom of a tub, the neck of a bottle, the arms from his gun department, the joints from a two-foot rule, from which he also stole the feet, the back of a refrig- erator, the heel of a scythe, and the cheek of his traveling man. He wasa little uncertain as to the ‘‘skin,’’ but after a moment’s thought, decided to get that part from the fellow next door. —_—__—_0.___ One of Mr. Gladstone’s peculiar ideas, which he has followed for fifteen years, is to go to bed the instant he finds that he has caught a cold and stay there until the indisposition has passed. In this way he supposes he has cut short fre- quently what might have been a serious illness. He reads and writes in bed just as usual. ———_-9 Earn money before you spend it. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Hardware Price Current. AUGURS AND BITS PO . 70 ‘ cctmrmen Semuine oi, B&10 Jennings’, imitation ee us | ee AXES MWirst Quality S Bo Bronze... 5 00 Hitet Qoality, D: B. Brorize.............._.. 9 50 First Quality, S. B.S. Steel. Pores -.. o oe First Quaiity, b B Steel 10 50 BARROWS Pree $12 00 14 00 AGG net 30 00 BOLTS ee ee 6010 a new list.. 70 to 75 BUCKETS Vo ee $3 2 BUTTS, CAST Cast Loose Pin, figured.. wus sc tae CO Wrought Narrow eee 10&10 BLOCKS Ordimary Tackia.... ........... ce ae cs 70 CROW BARS Costhice --per lb 3 CAPS Bee Te per m 65 Rete Fo +o... Der aa dd Gc. D. es a 35 Musket. ie <-+.. DOF ia 60 CARTRIDGES Ries Pie “ios... ne oS Coosa Pie 2d& 5 CHISELS POGHCS HUMOR 80 Socket Framing oe 80 mocues Comer... 80 MOCHOL MINE Su DRILLS MmOre Ss BI SCGCER 60 Paper ana Straientpnank, —........ ||. 50k 5 Morse’s ‘Taper Shank.. eee. 2 ELBOWS Com 4 ieee Gm... doz. net 20 CON 12% OE dis 40& 10 EXPANSIVE BITS Clark’s small, $18; large, _ < aoc... OO Ives’, 1, $18; 2, $24; 3, $30 eee 25 FILES_New | List New ACMA FOK10 Nicholson's. . Se eae ie 70 Heller’s Horse “Rasps. . -€C a0 GALVANIZED TRON Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26; 27. ..... 28 lia 2 i 14 15 i. .... 7 Discount, 7% to 75-10 GAUGES Stanley Rule and Level Ca:’s............... 6UL10 KNOBS—New List Door, mineral, jap. trimmings... ....._._. Ww Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings............ 80 MATTOCKS Re Wve 816 OU, dis 60410 Se eye. $15 UO, dis GU&10 Pee $18 50, dis 2010 NAILS Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire. Steel nails, base..... ... 5 Wire nails, base..... : 2W to 60 advauee.. lv to 16 advance s advance SUAROO ce 3 eee 5 Oe 7 Pio Cee 50 Conese TO GGVanee. 21... o.oo. 15 Cc asing COONAN 25 cere OMCviCe 35 Dita te eevance 2. % Pere Ehud : io wre GOROVANCE.. co , 45 Barer 4 aavence ol, i. 8A MILLS Comec, Farkerm Cos... 40 Coffee, P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s Malleables. . 40 Coftee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’s.. A 40 ct ‘ottee, Enterprise a 30 MOLASSES GATES Stebbin’s Pattern. . -...-- GORIe Stebbin’s Genuine.. nt a Enterprise, self-measuring . cee. = 30 PLANES nig Toor Ces faney wt. @5v0 PCR I 60 Sandusky Tool Cos, fancy................. @50 Bench, first quality ee ices eae easly @50 Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s wood.. 5 PANS Dry Somes ce se ce... -60&10&10 Commorm, polite? :.- 5... 8... W& 5 re Iron and Tinned . Scse ee Oeeu Mes 60 Copper Rivets and Burs... Pete eeecisacotses... 60 PATENT PLANISHED IRON “A”? Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10 20 “B” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 25 to 27 9 20 Broken packages 4c per pound extra. HAMMERS Maydole & Co. a. new Vit... kk... dis 25x Mrs 2s. ae al we si ee ow ace as Sa dis 25 ¥ erkes Pe dis W&10 Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.......... ..30c lis. 70 Blackemith’s Solid Cast Steel Hand 30c lis, 4010 HOUSE ne sec tong Stamped Tin Ware..... - Lew list 75410 oapenned Tit Ware... 0... 6.0.0... 20&10 Granite Iron Ware................. new list 40&10 HOLLOW WARE ie 60&1 ee 60810 ee es. . 6010 HINGES Gete €iawmea 125... 8... dis 60&10 Re per doz. net 2 50 WIRE GOODS ee. 80 ee ND 80 ot tee las 80 Gate Hookaaud Myes....................... 80 LEVELS Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............dis 70 ROPES Sisal, 6 teh and larger............... .... 5% ee 8 SQUARES eecer and vO... ete bee. aay One Deve ow ek. . SHEET IRON com. smooth. com, mee. moto Me #2 40 Nos. i toly. ..... . bacon, ae 2 40 Nos. 8 to2...... 2 40 24 Noe. 22 to 24...... oe So Moe Sie. 3 19 2 63 No. 27. 3 20 2% All sheets ‘No. 18 and li gh ter, over 30 inches wide not less than 2-10 extra. —— — tose cect. 1 ee dis SASH WEIGHTS Rona Hvee per ton 20 00 "TRAPS meocr, Game. we... 60c& 10 Oneida Community, Newhouse’s....... 50 Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton's 70&10 Meuse. Chamer.... 8... per doz 5 Mouse, delusion. . . per doz 1 2 “WIRE vig Magmet. we. ol, 7 iMiowree: Neareee lk, 75 Copperes Mayeee. | eee PRE vie Coppered Spring Steel. ee, Barbed Fence, galv anized . ee 3 1 } Haxrped Wence, pated... .........._... 18) —_ NalLs_ An Sable. . . dis 40&1¢ Putnam.. ou ue. Lo se eo 5 Northwestern.. Hee dsl ete die oss 4 OO “WRENCHES Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled ............. 30 Coe’s Genuine....... ay 50 Coe’s Patent Agricultural, w rought i 8U Coe’s Patent, malleable. .... a st MISCELLANEOUS Bird Cages ....... a“ au Pepe, Citerme. .. , 80 screws, New List.. ae 85 Casters, Bed and Plate... . OR 104 1! Dampers, POOR ol. 50 Mars Zine 600 pound casks. ..... ol 6% Per Pei ee. : . tity SOLDER a 12% The prices of the many other qualities of ohdas in the market indicated by private brands vary according to composition. TIN—Melyn Grade Seats IC Chercoe......... 5... $5 75 Mxee Crarege 5 75 20x141X. Charcoal .... | 7 00 Each additional X on this grade, 81.25. TIN—Allaway Grade 10x14 IC, Charcoai . : as a Sa 14x20 IC, Charcoal le ekg eee oll ee 10x14 [X, Charcoal Pret ee eee cee, Gee 14x20 LX, Charcoal . . Ce Each additional X on this grade, 81.50. ROOFING PLATES 14x20 IC, Chareoa!, Dean.. cece SF 14x20 LX, Charcoal, Desa ........ ........ _ o 20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean. : eoues | 14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allway ade 4 50 9 j 14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade “ 20x28 IC, Charcoal, Allaway rade....... 20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade , BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE 14x56 IX, for No. 8 Boilers, | 14x56 IX. for No. 9 Boilers. ¢ Per pound r TRADESMAN ITEMIZED LEDGERS Size 8 1-2x14—Three Columns. 2 Quires, 16) pages.............82 00 > Quires, 240 pages.. .. ...... 250 4 Quires, 223 pages............. 3 © _ Quires, 400 pages _ oa 6 Quires, 480 pages 4 00 Invoice Record or Bill Book. 80 Double Pages, pears aot in wOsces....._. 82 00 TRADESMAN COMPANY GRAND RAPIDS. 4 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN ___Dry Goods The Dry Goods Market. Carpets—The large department stores, as well as the retail carpet merchants, have found trade dull during the ex- tremely mild weather of the past two weeks, and to induce larger sales have offered bargains in old stocks remaining over from the last season. The rapid advance by the manufacturers and the jobbers this season has continued to re- tard business, as the masses of the peo- ple have not as yet recovered their financial ability to purchase even at old prices, and until the industrial condi- tions are such as to give more confi- dence to the retailers in general, they will continue to purchase conservative- ly. The prospect of even further ad- vances is no temptation to those who do not see an outlet for the goods. The question of price for the coming season does not perplex them so much as prospective demands. Assured _ the latter, they will have less hesitation in purchasing more freely, as the demand develops. At this time a majority of the manufacturers are only running a portion of their looms, and those whose financial ability would permit have, in the weeks preceding, availed themselves of any offer made by the spinner to either sell spot yarn or take new orders at any concession helow full market rates. Such weavers are fortifying themselves in advance of any future in- crease in price for next season. The reluctance of the retailer to take advan- tage of the low prices for carpets dur- ing the past few weeks indicates to many manufacturers that it wiil not be an easy matter to obtain ful! asking prices for some time tocome. They realize that the prices of raw stock and yarn are likely to go so high next sea- son as to very materially interfere with large orders for goods being paced. In fact, some freely admit that the outlook is anything but promising for a large volume of business. Upholstery—American manufacturers are now making tambour and imitation Irish point lace curtains, and next sea- son bids fair to find the American man- ufacturers producing finer lines than ever before. For several years some of the largest Swiss embroidery works have had branch factories in America, and during the last four years under the Wilson bill, they did a very limited business in the way of producing goods in America. To-day preparations are being made to increase the American branches, and with superior skill there is little question of the business being more firmly rooted here during the rext four years than ever before. The new goods will include finer lines of Swiss embroidery, Hamburg edgings and 1n- sertions made on both hand and power machines. The tambour work now made in America is done on the heavy grades of muslin, and the open effects are done, after being bleached and fin- ished; by female help, who cut out the open work effect with scissors, Em- broidery manufacturers claim that next season bids fair to see a large business done on embroidered dress goods. The braid will be worked on with embroidery machines instead of by hand and sewing machines. Even beads and pearls can be embroidered by these machines, which use heavy cords. Cotton Goods—The cotton goods mar- ket continues to plod along ina dull, uneventful way and shows no feature that is worthy of particular mention. The condition of raw cotton is an ad- verse factor in the market, and holds the goods down to very unsatisfactory prices. This may be less noticeable a little later, when it becomes necessary for buyers to replace their stocks, but at present there seems to be no escape from it. Laces—The coming season will be an excellent one for laces of all descrip- tion, but the most popular will in all probability be the rich Valenciennes lace. As a very large amount of lace There was a slow demand noticed for most styles of staple prints, and also there has been but little business ac- complished in indigo blues, shirtings, turkey reds, blacks, whites, etc. Ordi- nary ginghams have also been slow and without material change in prices. One brighter point in the market, however, is that finer ginghams, woven dress goods, and napped fabrics have had good enquiry, and prices are generally firm for spring. There has been no particular development in printed shirt- Knowing the Cost. Sometimes it is a decided advantage for a salesman not to know the cost of the article he is selling. Frequently there is a temptation to cut when there is really no necessity for so doing and the salesman would not do it if he knew nothing of what the goodscost. Again, a salesman knowing the cost will cut closer to cost than the one who knows only the selling price. oa An inmate of the Soldiers’ Home at Augusta, Me., has been smuggling in bottles of whisky in a hole he carved in was imported before the price on lace was advanced by the passing of the new tariff bill, there will be probably con- siderably more buying done at the old prices than if there had not been much lace imported until after the bill was passed. Most all dealers are expecting a very good business in laces by next for fair q ments. it wouldn't ings, except from manufacturers who have, in some instances, placed orders If there were no fools this world would : be a dreadful desolate place to live in; his wooden leg. The last time he dis- appeared they searcbed for him until they found him lying dead drunk in a graveyard, with his wooden leg un- strapped and the empty flask in the hole in the leg. uantities of special assort- ss eae >> There is but little bad luck in this pay to be wise or even cun-/ world, but there is a heap of bad man- spring—much better than the past sea- | ning. agement. son has been. ae Se Fur Garments—There will bea very SDPDPDPZPDPDPPDPDPDPDDDPDBDDDBDPZPZWDZPBDA i ° fi 4 ea a> Ga a a ar ae. ce (4P 9\ i a Sy am if la (BUCKWHEAT)\ 0 lait Ww _$-——_— go jul lJ SeLOUR 9 = XNGEIOT X< } MIX COLD WATER AN SWEET MILK BAKE AT ONCE citi Fallis’ Pancake Flour Fallis’ Self-Rising Buckwheat 20 5 1b. sacks to a case. . 83.50 FALLIS & CO., Toledo, 0. WM. R. TOMPKINS, Agent, Detroit, Mich. a This strictiy pure High Grade Powder I have re- duced to retail at the following very low prices: 4 oz. 10C3 @ 02., ISE5 1 Ib. 6c. Guaranteed to comply with Pure Food Law in every respect. 0. A, TURNEY, Manufacturer, Detroit, Mich. —=—p —_< — yp — — —w> — =p — —» — cree ee MICHIGAN TRADESMAN i6 GOTHAM GOSSIP. News from the Metropolis---Index to the Market. Special Correspondence. New York, Oct. 30—It has been a comparatively dull week here’ and everybody seems to be awaiting the re- sult of election and letting business drop for a few days. The sudden and tragic death of Henry George had a depressing effect and the whole community was shocked beyond measure. Coffee is especially ‘‘out of sorts’’ and, as Europe reports the unicading of large holders, the’ situation is not especially cheerful for holders here. Not an invoice sale was made Friday. The amount of coffee in store and afloat is something like 940,000 bags, against about 635,000 bags at the same time last year. the prevailing quotation for Rio No. 7 is now 6%c; indeed, some sales are reported at 6%c. Buyers have shown very little interest and interior reports seem to indicate that grocers and dealers have supplies sufficient for temporary purposes. There is a little better feeling in teas and, although prices show no apprecia- tion, there 1s an air of rather more con- tent among dealers than has prevailed fur a few weeks. No large sales were reported, but dealers promise a differ ent report very soon. Refined sugar has been in very light movement and sales, although made over a wide extent of territory, have been of very limited volume. A re- duction of %c has been made on refined, and at the close orders are awaited with interest. Perhaps after election things will take a better turn. There is not the activity among rice dealers which prevailed a week ago and sales are reported as small and rather few in number. Supplies, however, are not large, either of foreign or do- mestic, and consequently prices have been maintained. Prime to choice Southern rice is worth 54 @53¢c. Japan, 5@5 Kc. Spice sales have been light. No in- voice trading has been reported and ginger and nutmegs seem to be in _ buy- ers’ favor. Other sorts are unchanged. Molasses is flat. Distributing busi- ness has been of very limited character. The stock of molasses here is rather limited and the whole situation is one which’ contains little cheer. Moderate receipts are reported from New Orleans and dealers are rather blue. Centrifugal, good to prime, 17@21c; open kettle, good to prime, 26@28c; prime to fancy syrup is held at 16@22c. In canned goods, a fair jobbing busi- ness in California fruits is reported in one or two cases, but, as a general thing, trade is not as active as last week. Well-known brands of corn aud tomatoes have sold, of course at remun- erative figures, and in fact there has perhaps been no actual decline in any article, but the market lacks strength. Reports of the canning of corn and _to- matoes are coming to hand which show a great reduction in the total pack of this season. Dried fruits are practically unchanged. Evaporated apples are worth 12c. Raisins and prunes from the Pacific Coast hold their own, despite the efforts made to down them, Butter in unchanged. For best West- er creamery 23%c is the prevailing rate and has been for a week. Grades that wili not come ‘‘up to the scratch’’ are in rather light enquiry and alto- gether the demand is about of an every- day character. The outlook for cheese is anything but encouraging and dealers seem to have lost their grip. The demand has_ been very light and quotations are nominal. Large size State full cream is held at 8c. Small, 834 @oc. Beans, choice 1897 marrows, $1.3214 @1.35. There is a very light volume of business being done. Choice pea beans, $1.10. A large supply of potatoes have come upon us this week and in price the range is from $1.62@1.87 for Western, — a weak tone to the market gener- ally. In eggs the supply is light and the market is firm. Best Western stock is]: worth 18%c. Nearby, 22c. —_§___@¢—»——__ Effects of the Restrictive Law on Oieo- margarine. As oleomargarine is subject to an in- ternal revenue tax, it is easy to secure accurate information about its manu- facture and consequently about its con- sumption. The first full year in which this information was available was that ending June 30, 1888. In that year 3,325,527 pounds of oleo was manufac- tured in this country. Thenceforward until 1894, the manufacture increased steadily, reaching in the last named year 69,622,246 pounds. Then the tendency was in the other direction, and in the fiscal year ending with June 30 last, the production was only 45,534,- 589 pounds, or less than in any year since 1892. The decline in production of late years is variously accounted for. Doubtless the restrictive laws in the various states, and especially the anti- color laws, have had considerable influ- ence. And very likely the relatively low price of butter and higher price of animal fats of late has restricted its manufacture to some extent. Whatever the cause, farmers and dairymen rejoice over the fact, which indicates a broader market for pure butter. —_—_—_»> 2+ To Take Off Mold. Sometimes you will find that the blacking on the tops of goods has_ been eaten off by mold. To restore the color, wash with ammonia. > 20> The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has arranged a system for patrolling its lines at night under special police, employing a checking system, which will guarantee its efficiency. NEW YORK CONCORD GRAPES are closing the season very fine. ‘Hubbard Squash, Sweet Potatoes, Cape Cod Cranberries, Spanish Onions, Honey, Lemons, Oranges and Bananas. Grand Rapids. BUNTING & CO. R. HIRT, Jre., Market St., Detroit. & Butter and Eggs wanted Will buy same at point of shipment, or delivered, in small or large lots. Write for particulars, Fa = il iH } | | 7 QU eee eee ered reed ved dveeddeeddvdddedddeuUrdudvewdveudtuadvenvedn¥edudvedrs The right way to do business and make money now is to make your place of business popular; make it a leader by being the first to show seasonable goods; get them before your competitor begins to think about it. And al- ways get the best... ANCHOR BRAND Ova ERS Will piease your customers and make you money. POPULAR PRICES PREVAIL. ASK FOR QUOTATIONS. — * ss 117-119 Monroe St. = F. J. DETTENTHALER, Grand Rapids, Mich. Zi, aAAAAARAAAAADAAAAABAAAAAMARAAAAAAARAAAM AAAS ADADA2AN4AADANAYAASAAAAINDSNAIADAAANIAARRARIARIY Lockwood & Braun Successors to sf VIYVUVVUVV EVV VV VV VEY VV US : : i = i : s Atlerton & Haggstrom. Sole packers of the Old Reliable P. & B. OYSTERS In cans and bulk. Mail orders promptly filled. 127 Louis St., Grand Rapids. Dealers in Poultry, Butter and Eggs. COYNE BROTHERS on. WHOLESALE COMMISSION MERCHANTS ae eae aie = 161 S. Water St., Chicago. BUTTER, EGGS, POULTRY, FRUITS AND VEGETABLES Car Lois: POTATORS, APPLES, BEANS, ONIONS References: W. M. Hoyt Co., Wholesale Grocers, Chicago. W.J. Quan & Co., Wholesale Grocer, Chi- cago. Bradstreet and Dun’s Agencies. Bankers: Merchants Nantional Bank, Chicago. o Write for Tags and Stencils. RNETT BROTHERS Mention this Paper when Writing. Are still at their old location, 159 South Water Street, Chicago, in the center of the largest fruit market in the United States, with ample room, occupying the entire building. Well equipped for business, they are still in the front in handling ail kinds ot rRUi'rsS DEPOSITS AT PRINCIPAL POINTS. Stencils furnished on application. Be ee NS wna Pee 9 p Do you want to know 5, all about us? @ Write to Corn Exchange National Bank, Philadelphia, Pa. i Aaa Fourth National Bank, Grand Rapids. W. D. Hayes, Cashier, Hastings National Bank, Hastings, Mich. D.C. Oakes, Banker, Coopersville, Mich. CEESSAISS HS SS W.R. BRICE. | | | Established 1852. 1RICE.# USIEST EST Commission House in Philadelphia, i se eee eS eSe2 ISSA ASA SAS SaSaSSaSaS C. M. DRAKE. it Butter | i} 1} | | ges . Poultry A yyy Y Say LILI LS LOLI LE LS LI LS LILI IESE ISLS IIIS ISG SSSA 16 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN How the Trading Stamp Fake Is Re- garded in St. Louis. From the Interstate Grocer. In order to ascertain how St. Louis grocers regard the new trading stamp scheme, a representative of this paper recently called on several dealers who have had experience with the system. . H. Gibson, corner of Seventh and Market streets, expressed himself as follows: ‘‘It has brought us in considerable new trade, and has stimulated our cash business somewhat, but I find that it is a pretty expensive way of doing busi- ness. I didn’t stop to figure, before en- tering iuto the contract, the big differ- ence between 5 per cent. on the profits, and 5 per cent. on the gross receipts. It may be all right in some lines, where the profits are larger, but some articles in the grocery business don’t brinz over 5 per cent. profit.’’ H. Klein, 23 South Fourteenth street, reports about the same experience as Mr. Gibson. He says: ‘‘I don’t think much of this scheme, after investigating it a little more than I did at first. They are pretty slick fellows, those who do the soliciting for that concern. I am beginning to see that they get all the money, while we get the experience. Another thing I don’t like about it is that some of my customers are already beginning to suspect that I have put my prices up on account of this thing. No, I don’t think it amounts to much.’”’ Mrs. M. McDermott, Eighteenth and Lucas avenue, has had no experience so far in giving out trading stamps. She says: ‘“‘I haven’t given out any yet, and don’t know whether they will help me in my business. I think my customers prefer a stick of candy for their children to a trading stamp.’’ M. Bichler, 107 North Fourteenth street, is not very much in love with the trading stamp scheme, nor with the fel- low who talked him into it. He vents his grief in the following manner: ‘*That fellow was a pretty smooth one. He promised all kinds of things, among others, that he wouldn’t put his stamps in a grocery store or meat market within four blocks from me. Now I find that there are two other fellows in adjoining blocks that have them. So you see, the company has not carried out its con- tract, and can’t hold me down to it.”’ When his attention was called to the fact by our representative that the com- pany would not recognize a verbal con- tract made by its agents, he said it was on the contract. Upon examination, it was found “hat the number of blocks was ingeniously omitted by the wily agent, reading —— blocks, whereupon the incensed Mr. Bichler proceeded to turn loose his wrath upon the head of the agent, as well as upon the company and everybody connected with it. What the outcome of this case will be we are not prepared to foretell at this time. The main objection seems to be that a percentage on the old, as well as on the new, trade has to Le paid out; that the average retail grocery business can- not stand a drain of 5 per cent. on its gross receipts for a poor advertising scheme, which after all, is what it amounts to. It creates a suspicion in the minds of customers that prices have been raised, which, of course, is not characteristic of this scheme alone. big increase in the cash busi- ness is promised which, however, does not materialize sufficiently to warrant a commission of 5 per cent. on the gross sales. There are many other ob- jectionable features, but the above are sufficient to turn any thinking business man against the scheme. It is true that there is a certain class of people who are always after something that doesn’t cost anything, but the merchant can easily secure a few choice premiums of his own and conduct his private trading stamp scheme at about one-half per cent. of his sales. The best way, after all, is not to have anything to do with schemes of any kind, for in nine cases out of ten they prove expensive, and the results are very unsatisfactory in many ways. ‘*Marry in haste a d repent at lei- sure’’ seems to be applicable in the ma- jority of the trading stamp cases. It seems surprising that a scheme like this should have had any attraction for a number of merchants who are on the list, and especially that the majority went into it without any preliminary in- vestigation. For that reason, the entire blame rests on their shoulders, and if it proves as unpopular and obnoxious in St. Louis as it has in the cities of the East, another valuable lesson will have been learned by some of our busines men. ~~» 0 in Dealing with H. A. Mowery & Co. H. A. Mowery & Co., produce cuom- mission merchants at 200 South Water street, Chicago, are flooding the State with printed matter, soliciting ship- ments of butter, eggs, cheese, poultry, veal and game. The Tradesman has caused diligent enquiry to be made rel- ative to the antecedents and standing of this house and recommends caution in dealing with the firm. It has no real estate, no bank account and no rating by either of the mercantile agencies. If any of the Tradesman’s patrons have made any consignments to the house, the Tradesman would be pleased to be made acquainted with the result. > 2. The Fiji Islands exported $1,684,645 worth of sugar last year. The area de- voted to the cultivation of cane is said to be on the increase, notwithstanding the unsatisfactory state of the market. ———~> 6. Minnesota University seems to lay little stress on the study of the classics. Out of the 185 instructors at that in- stitutions, only four are engaged to teach Greek and Latin. ee The Belgian government offers a prize of $10,000 to anyone who will discover a chemical that will take the place of white phosphorus in matchmaking. Go Slow Worthy Enterprise by Colored Men. At Stanleytown, Tenn., a number of colored men have formed a co-operative association for the manufacture of foun- dry goods. It is called the Southern Hollow Ware & Foundry Co. Their new foundry is now about completed, having a main building 50x25 feet, with a number of outbuildings and an- nexes. They have stocked the plant with a 4o-horse-power engine, new cupola, machinery, models, patterns, etc., costing nearly a thousand dollars. They expect to be ‘in operation by November fo, and can turn out fifteen stoves a day, employing nearly fifty colored men when running complete. They do not expect to make much profit on stoves—competition being too strong with much more extensive plants, but expect to make their greatest profit on iron hollow ware and such piece work as they can get from other foun- dries in their vicinity. Although this plant may or may not prove a success, its promoters certainly deserve considerable credit. The idea of building and operating this foundry Started with the President, C. H. Fer- ran. Ferran is a colored man, almost white, who was formerly the slave of a wealthy Huntsville family. Before the war he was the chief blacksmith, or ironmaster, on the Ferran plantation near Huntsville, and has considerable knowledge of ironmaking. For the past year he has been employed as head molder at Citico furnace and makes good wages. He works all day at Citico and walks to his home in Stanleytown in the even- ing. Then he spends half the night working on the foundry with a number of other colored men _ interested, all of whom are employed at different points in the city. It has been under Ferran’s supervision that the foundry was built. Ferran isa very powerful man physical- ly, and bas taken an intense interest in the enterprise. The company, as it is, is somewhat different from other concerns of this sort. They have not borrowed a cent of money on which to start the enter- prise. Ferran and each man interested bad some money saved, and with what they could spare from their earnings have built the plant. SEASON IT! When trade is flat, why don't you season it? A windowful of Dramonp Cevsrar Sar ,3.. halt the passing buyer. will See Price Current. DIAMOND CRYSTAL SALT C9., St. Clair, Mich. N. WOHLFELDER & CO., WHOLESALE GROCERS and COMMISSION MERCHANTS 399-401-403 HIGH ST. EAST, - DETROIT, MICHIGAN. CHEESE, BUTTER and EGGS. Long Distance Telephone 4772. Consignments wanted. HERMANN C. NAUMANN & CO. ARE AT ALL TIMES IN THE MARKET FOR FRESH EGGS, BUTTER BEANS, APPLES, ONIONS, POTATOES, BAGAS, POULTRY, GAME, ETC. Write for Particulars. 33 Woodbridge Street W., DETROIT, MICH. MILLER BROS., MFRS. OF THE DULENTIFIG BEAN PICKER ROCHESTER, MICH. POODOOOOMQOOQOQQOPGOOQOQOOQOOQOODOQODOQOOEO O © DOOODDOGODOODOODOOQOOPOOOOOOOGOOOQOOOE Those who are familiar with Lakeside Peas fully appreciate them and know their value. We have made the canning of peas a scien- tific study and feel amply repaid by the re- sults obtained. grocers. They are for sale by all Ask for them. THE ALBERT LANDRETH CO., MManitowee, Wis. Worden Grocer Co., Wholesale Agents. HDOMOMOGOODOOOOQOGOGDOOQOOQOQOQOOO Manitowoc Lakeside Peas QDOODOOODOOQOOQQDOOQOO ©OOOGQODO® z MICHIGAN TRADESMAN i7 Commercial Travelers Michigan Knights of the Grip, President, Jas. F HAMMELL, Lansing; Secretary, D. C. Stacuat, Flint; Treasurer, Cuas. McNOLrTy, Jackson. Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Association. President, S. H. Hart, Detroit; Secretary and Treasurer, D. Morris, Detroit. United Commercial Travelers of Michigan. Grand Counselor, #. L. Day. Jackson: Grand Secretary, G. S. Vatmorg, Detroit; Grand Treas- urer, GEO. A. REYNOLDs, Saginaw. Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual Acci- dent Association. President, A. F. Peake, Jackson: Secretary and Treasurer, Gro. F. OWEN, Grand Rapids. Board of Directors—F. M. Tyuter, H. B. Fatrr- CHILD.Jas. N. BRADFORD, J HENRY DAWLEY,GEO. J. HEINZELMAN, CHas. S. ROBINSON. Lake Superior Commercial Travelers’ Club. President, W. C. Brown, Marquette; Secretary and Treasurer, A. F. Wrxson, Marquette. Twenty-Three Additions to the List. Marquette, Nov. 1—Lake Superior travelers have fallen in with the new deal offered by the Lake Superior Com- mercial Travelers’ Club surprisingly. New members are coming in fast and the new directory to be issued Jan. 1 will certainly contain the names of 300 travelers. .Among the latest additions to the membership are: D. G. Freeman, Oshkosh, Wis., with Thos. G. Plant Co., Boston. Thos. D. Ryan, Hancock, with D. F. 3remmer Baking Co., Chicago. A. 'B. Wheeler, Milwaukee, with Kewaunee Boiler Co., Kewaunee, Ills. ~ thos. HH. Lang, Hancock, with Standard O11 Co. H. F. B. Weendels, Green Bay, Wis., with Bunte Bros. & Spoehn, Chicago. Robt. F. Fee, Detroit, with Banner Cigar Manufacturing Co., Detroit. Geo. W. Cadv, Chicago, with Ohio Suspender Co., Mansfield. Jno. Burder, Calumet, with Carlton Hardware Co., Calumet. * Oscar Hart, Milwaukee, with Bradley & Metcalf Co., Milwaukee. A. A. Muldrew, Marquette, Strong, Lee & Co., Detroit. John Thomy, St. Louis, with Mayer & Lowenstein, New York. H. F. Alexander, Milwaukee, with Chas. Baumbach Co, Milwaukee, Eugene Murphy, Hancock, with Ze- nith Paper Co., Duluth. W. I. Bolt, Detroit. with Detroit Lead Pipe & Sheet Lead Works. E. B. Baldwin, Ashland, Wis., with Marshall Wells Hardware Co., Duluth. George Wright, Kiel, Wis., with Kiel Manufacturing Co., Kiel, Wis. Antoine Boex, De Pere, Wis., Johnston Bros , Milwaukee. L Buckley, Freeport, Ills., with Wm. Barret & Co., Chicago. H. E. Gilmore, Marquette, with West- ern Express Co., St. Paul. B. F. Brooks, Minneapolis, with W. T. Rolph, Minneapolis. - C.. Hetzel, Minneapolis, W. A. Edwards, Minneapolis. W. L. Quigley, Detroit, with Daniel Scotten & Co., Detroit. ALBION F. Wixson, Sec’y. A Gripsack Brigade. Chas. P. Reynolds succeeds to the territory formerly covered by Sam. R. Evans for the’ Ball-Barnhart-Putman Co, Grant Galloway taking the terri- tory formerly covered by Mr. Reynolds. John J. Dooley is in Michigan again on his thirty-third semi-annual trip among the drug trade. It is not a com- mon thing for a man to remain seven- teen consecutive years with one house, but that is the experience of Mr. Dooley with the H. E. Bucklen Co, Thomas Macleod, who carried the line of H. P. Baldwin & Co. (Detroit) for twenty-six consecutive years, has recently formed an alliance with the Geo. W. Farnham Co., of Buffalo, and will undertake to see his Michigan friends. five or six times a year. Mr. with with with Macleod is a host in himself and enjoys the respect and confidence of all who know him. Sam. R. Evans, for seven years past traveling representative for the Ball- Barnhart-Putman Co., has signed with the F. F. Jaques Tea Co., of Chicago, and will cover the entire State for that house, the engagement dating from Nov. 1. Mr. Evans is a clever salesman and a genial gentleman and his friends among the trade and the fraternity will join the Tradesman in wishing him success in his new connection. A certain Kalamazoo traveling man, who is nota member of the traveling men’s organization connected with the M. E. church, was recently dismayed by being asked to say grace at a strange table. To refuse and explain would be embarrassing; to comply, equally so. He chose the latter, and started off briskly enough with, ‘ Oh, Lord, bless this table’’—just here, being unused to the business, he nearly broke down, but by a gigantic effort pulled through with ‘‘World without end. Yours re- spectfully, amen.’’ Another week has gone by and Presi- dent Ledyard of the Michigan Central Railway still walks the streets of De- troit a free man, while thousands of other men who have violated the statutes of the State are suffering the penalities of the law. The wanton disregard of the laws of the State and the decisions of the courts on the part of Mr. Led- yard would land a less prominent man in prison inside of a month, yet Mr. Ledyard has openly defied the law_ pro- viding for the issuance of family mile- age books for several years, apparently without fear of the consequences and with no regard for the seeds of social- ism and anarchy he is sowing broad- cast. oe Not in Love with the New Mileage Book. Owosso, Nov. 1—-There has been much said about the Klondike mileage book. As I am not accredited with any premiums for championing the use of the so called ‘‘delight of the com- mercial traveler,’’ and have no desire to class myself with the ‘‘thugs’’ or ‘*scapegoats,’’ as our Saginaw railroad official designates us, | am free to say that I voice the opinion of ninety-nine out of every too in the statement that the Klondike mileage is a nuisance to the commercial traveler. We were told that we should have a book that would please us if we would only wait, keep our influence out of sight at Lansing, and keep mum in our commercial gath- erings. After having complied with all of these requirements, we now have thrust in our faces the so-called inter- changeable mileage book, purchased with the money of our employers, but containing sO many restrictions in re- gard to the use of it that we can hardly understand how to proceed to secure our $1o which the Klondike holds in reserve until it is assured that we have not jumped some other claim or left our stakes just as they were being driven. Without censure to any special amplified cranium which had a hand in the con- struction of such a grand system of mileaye(!) I must say that the Central Passenger Association representatives could not have slept very much for some time before evolving such a conglomer- ation of restrictions as are placed on the owners of their magnanimous Klon- dike mileage. We have seen, in some instances, traveling men present this book to the conductor on the train and get their coupons, but are told that we must present it at all stations where there is a ticket agent and get our cou- pons from him, when we know the con- ductor has the same thing in his pocket to exchange in case there is no agent at the station. Why can he not do this in all cases? “The book we want is a 1,000 mile book, good on any road and on any regular passenger train, with the same system of checking our baggage as with our old books, with covers good for $10 in exchange for new mileage, when presented to the same system which originally sold the book, with a proper certificate signed by the owner and user of the book, fortified by an affi- davit, if desired. With this form of book I think the average commercial traveler would not attempt to turn in any covers except those he had bought in his own name. I have never heard a single word in favor of the Klondike mileage as the commercial man’s friend since its appearance; but it is universally condemned by all who speak of it. If the Central Passenger Asso- ciation wishes to do something for us, let them give us a book which we can use without requiring so much of cur employer’s time, and we will be just as quick to sound its praises as we are to condemn this doleful attempt to hoo- doo us with a thing like the Klondike mileage which the Central Passenger Association asks us to use at the pres- ent time. R.. P. BIGELOW. > 8 > cn The Cloven Hoof of the Bell Company. The Greenviile Independent contains the following: There is talk of extending the Bell telephone line from Greenville west to Sheffield and east to Miller on the T., S & M., and northwest to Coral on the D,. G@ RK & W., at an estimated ex- pense of $5,000. The telephone com- pany asks for subscriptions to equal $3,500, half the estimated cost of the line, the $3,500 to be issued in script coupons to subscribers to equal in value the amount paid, the coupons to be worth their face value in payment of messages. Such a line would be of great value to potato buyers and _ sellers and to egg merchants and others. Inasmuch as the Bell Co. has had but a single wire connection, with atrocious service, between Greenvilie and the out- side world, undoubtedly the company could afford to build a one-wire line to the points above named, if the citizens would aid to the amount of $3,500, as a double-wire or metallic circuit would cost much less than this amount. The manager of the Citizens Telephone Co., of this city, has, during the past year, superintended the construction of a metallic or double wire Jine from Grand Rapids to Cedar Springs, Howard City, Big Rapids, Reed City, Evart and Cad- illac, besides shorter lines, so that he is in a position to accurately estimate the cost of erecting a line such as the Bell people insist would cost $5,000. In speaking on this point, he recently stated: ‘‘If first-class poles, with cross arm, and two wire or metallic circuit lines are used, and a long-distance in- strument located in each of the eight different towns on the proposed lines, the actual cost would not exceed $2, 500. If the one-wire line and common Blake teleohone is used (which is the same as the Bell Co. has furnished the Green- ville people for years), the cost would be within $2,000.’’ He further stated that his company had been anxious to connect Cedar Springs with Greenville and the points named, and that it would construct a metallic circuit line with long-distance telephones in at least ten of the towns,and connect with following towns via Greenville—Cedar Springs east to Miller and Coral south to Beld- ing—provided $2,500 of service coupons were subscribed or stock taken in the State line company to the same amount, as preferred. He would further guaran- tee to reduce toll rates to Grand Rapids and make the rates to other towns cor- respondingly low. The Citizens Co., of Grand Rapids, makes the following rates: Grandville, Sparta and Rock- ford, to cents; Hudsonville, Howard City and Lowell, 15 cents; Holland, Lansing and Big Rapids, 20 cents; Cadillac, South Haven and Kalamazoo, 25 cents. The Citizens Co. now has 127 State line points and over 4,000 tele- phones in service. A line is being built to Kalamazoo and will probably be completed by Dec. 1. The independent companies in this State have more telephones in sevice than the Bell Telephone Co., and if the citizens of Greenville desire to secure the benefit of permanently low rates and a greatly improved service, they should organize a company and build for them- selves an exchange and aid in securing independent connections with the out- side world. If, however, they prefer to ally themselves with some company al- ready organized and_ in_ successful operation, they can get such an one to build the extensions and secure a good investment for their capital, besides ob- taining the service and rates desired. Because of the exorbitant rates charged by the Bell Co. in the past—and even now exacted where there is no competi- tion—and the superior service rendered by the independent companies, the Tradesman urges its readers not to con- tribute one dollar in aiding the Bell Co. to go anywhere—except out of existence. The New Griswold House Has NOT reduced its rates but has roo of the Newest Rooms in Detroit at $2.00 per day. Meals Fifty cents. Rooms with bath and parlor $2.50 to $3. Most popular moderate priced hotel in Michigan. Postal & Morey, Detroit, Mic. Hotel Normandie of Detroit Re- duces Rates. Determined to continue catering to popular de- mand for good hotel accommodations at low prices, we reduce the rates on fifty rooms from $2.50 to $2 per day, and rooms with bath from $3.50 to $3. The popular rate of so 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. PHONE: LA LNCS, 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. HOTEL WHITCOMB ST. JOSEPH, MICH. A. VINCENT, Prop. Wihhitmey House Best Hotel in Plainwell, Mich. Only house in town holding contract with Travelers’ Educational Association of America. Chas. B.Writmey, Prop. Cutler House at Grand Haven. Steam Heat. Excellent Table. Com- fortable Rooms. H. D. and PF. H. TRISH, E PR RE igs MICHIGAN IR ADESMAN Drugs-=-Chemicals MICHIGAN STATE BOARD OF PHARMACY. Term expires S. E. PaRKILL, Owosso” - - Dec. 31, 1897 F. W. R. Perry, Detroit - - Dec. 31, 1898 A. C. ScoUMACHER, Ann Arbor - Dec. 31, 1899 Gro. Gunprvrm, Ionia - - Dec. 31, 1900 L. E. REYNOLDs, St. Joseph - - Dec. 31, 1901 President, F. W. R. Perry, Detroit. Secretary, Gro. GunpRvUM, Ionia, Treasurer, A. C. SCHUMACHER, Ann Arbor. Coming Examination Session—Lansing, Nov. 2 and 3. MICHIGAN STATE PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION. President—A. H. Wresser, Cadillac. Secretary—Cuas. Mann. Detroit. Treasurer—Joun D. Muir, Grand Rapids. Advertising Counsel to Retail Drug- gists. Advertising his store is the great need of the retail druggist to-day. Pushing business is the method of suc- cess. Getting at the greatest number of one's possible buyers in a way that will convince them of the value of one’s store as a place of business is the modus operandi by which success is cajoled into lingering long with one. A man’s advertisement is, to the person reviewing it, an introduction that bears in its personality the earmark of his establishment’s claim upon the approval of the public. A vulgarly worded advertisement—and by that | mean the cheap, the mean, the common- place, the tawdry, the sensational— means a vulgarly conducted business. It foreshadows nothing that the refined man and woman want about a drug store. Drug buyers want, above all, cleanliness and carefulness. A badly set booklet, full of biz black letters, smeared pages, or flashily printed, means all those things that a refined clientage rebel against. Jt draws cheap trade—the buyers of cut-rate paten’ medicines, who are not the real strength of a druggist’s clientage, except in large cities where it pays to handle a large assortment of these miscellaneous articles with which metropolitan drug- gists have stocked their stores. Bad advertising is that which appeals only to the lesser clientage and drives away the greater. The druggist has to be extremely careful of his advertising, because he has the physician to keep ina good humor and he must not offend the sensi bilities of the best element of the pub- lic. At the same time he must make his store popular. Advertising, for a druggist, thus presents a hundred knotty problems. My advice to a druggist is, get only the advertisements that suit your business—that were made espe- cially for you, and those that are made only after your advertising man_ has thoroughly understood your business and its requirements. When you use a booklet, have it well written, well printed, and distribute it as if you were proud of it, rather than as if you wished to get it through a crack in’ the door and not be seen doing it. Send it by mail in a sealed envelope. There is some dignity in that. Use two eight-page booklets rather than one of sixteen pages. Never send out cheap- looking printing; it hurts, because you can never rise above a cheap reputa- tion for cheapness, and when you want to get high-class trade you have to spend twice as much money in trying to kill your old advertising. I. said, get only the advertisements that were meant for you. I may be tramping on corns here, but I mean it. Ready-made. advertisements are _ like ready-made suits. They fit or they may not. You take the chances. The syn- dicate writer will tell you that it is very easy to alter them to suit your business. Don’t you believe anything of the sort. Suppose you try to alter that ready- made coat you got last week that didn’t fit you. Whata botch and mess you would make of it. It gets worse as you cut and baste, and by and by you throw the whole thing away in disgust. You're not a tailor, neither are you an adver- tisement writer. Let any druggist who has used the ready-made advertisements come for- ward and teil me _ that he can trace profitable results to his use of them, and I'll show him fifty letters from men who have used them and found them lacking in selling force. It is bound to beso. What fits Brown’s store and Brown’s people will not fit Jones’ or Smith’s, If they would, Jones and Smith would not be in business. The very existence of Jones and Smith argues that there are different publics to cater to, therefore different appeals to be made. Good advertising for Jones, Smith and Brown should ac- centuate the strong point of the business of each. The syndicated advertisement cannot do this. Do not use ready-made _ advertise- ments. The principle is wrong, and their use is strewn with advertising failures. Whenever you want an advertisement or a booklet or a folder, say so. Have your advertising man write it for you after he has thoroughly familiarized himself with your store and the people to whom you sell. You will get your money's worth, and you will get peo- ple’s trade, the existence of whom you nad hardly known before, because you have a method and a principle and follow it consistently. And the appeal that has the knowledge of human nature to back it has a thousand chances to one of meeting with a hearty response. EF. E. Sr. Ermo Lewis. a ae oe Development of Fruit Flavors. Some very interesting and suggestive results have been obtained by Jacque- min, who finds that, by the addition of the leaves of fruit trees, which in them- selves have no marked flavor, to sac- charine solutions undergoing alcoholic fermentation, a very marked bouquet of the fruit is developed. Thus,. by immersing pear or apple tree leaves in a 10 or 15 per cent. solution of sugar, and adding a pure yeast, which by _ it- self gave rise to no marked flavor, after fermentation a liquid was obtained which had a strong odor of pear or ap- ple respectively and an excellent fla- vor, and on distillation gave an alco- holic distillate, in which this aroma was still more marked. Vine leaves act in a similar manner, and the author suggests that it may be possible to im- prove the bouquet of a poor vintage by the addition of some leaves during fer- mentation. It is noteworthy that the results are far more marked when the leaves employed are from trees in which the fruit is approaching maturity. The author infers that the flavors of fruits are due to a body elaborated in the leaves, possibly of a glucosidal uature, which is not transferred to the fruits until the latter approach maturity, and is then acted upon by the special fer- ments contained in the fruit juices and develops distinctive flavors. The mat- ter would appear to be of considerable practical importance. Eighteen Examinations in Nine Years. Mr. H. M. Whitney, of Massachu- setts,in a paper read at the Minnetonka meeting, stated that, out of 575 candi- dates examined by the Massachusetts Board of Pharmacy, from October, 1895, to October, 1896, only I10 were found qualified. Of these, only eighteen passed on the first examination, ten on the second, twenty-eight on the third, twenty-two on the fourth, twelve on the fifth, six on the sixth, three on* the seventh, three on the eighth, and others on the ninth, tenth, eleventh, thirteenth, fourteenth and eighteenth examination. The one candidate who passed on the eighteenth examination had been exam- ined the first time in March, 1888, and passed in June, 1897. This persistent candidate ought to be awarded a prize for his persistency. It is certainly true that a candidate who fails in three suc- cessive examinations in one year or two years ought not to be entitled to any further examination, because, even if he does manage to squeeze through at some subsequent examina- tion, he is certainly an exceedingly un- desirable and unsafe member of the profession and ought not to be let loose to practice upon the public; and yet it is very doubtful whether the boards of pharmacy can, under the present laws refuse examination and license to such fellows. Most of the pharmacy laws, in fact, say that the Board shall exam- ine all candidates who present them- selves. In view of the results obtained by the Massachusetts Board, how ab- surd it seems to refund the examina- tion fee paid by all candidates who fail, as is provided in many of thé pharmacy la. &. >> — Methyl Alcohol! in Pharmacy. The Committee on the Revision of the United States Pharmacopoeia of the American Pharmaceutical Association, in presenting its report at the Minne- tonka meeting, described certain trials made in the use of methyl alcohol as a solvent and menstruum in the produc- tion of pharmaceutical preparations, especially tinctures, fluid extracts, and extracts of plant drugs. The committee did not recommend the use of methy] alcohol for these purposes, but neither did its report decide against it. Some testimony was given in the discussion of the report to the effect that methyl alcohol had been taken without any more injurious effects than are produced by ethyl alcohol. Yet this is an ex- ceedingly important question, and it must be admitted that the testimony: so far deduced regarding the effects of methyl alcohol when administered in- ternally is overwhelmingly against it. There is no need of a change from ethyl alcohol to methyl alcohol. We do know that ethyl alcohol 1s unobjection- able and effective asa menstruum and solvent, and the use of methy] alcohol ought, therefore, not to be sanctioned, even for the preparation of solid ex- tracts, until after far more conclusive testimony shall have been bought out to show that it may be done with perfect safety. It may be mentioned further that it seems to be comparatively diffi- cult to purify methyl alcohol so as to remove from it the peculiar odor at- taching to its impurities; or, in other words, that perfectly pure methy] alcohol is not as easily obtained as is pure ethyl alcohol. a The Drug Market. There are no changes of importance to note this week. Opium—The market is quiet, with lit- tle business doing in the article. Morphine—The demand is fair, but the price is unchanged. Quinine—The market is quiet and »/ tLe demand is light. Alcohol——-Has declined, strong competition. Quicksilver——Has been advanced. This may advance all mercurials later on. Essential Oils—Citronella has ad- vanced and is very firm. Lemon grass is in light supply and advancing. Cassia and anise are weaker, on ac- count of heavy offerings from China. Wormseed is now in large supply and has declined. Roots—Golden seal is scarce and firm at late advance. Gentian is getting scarcer and advancing. owing to THUM BROS. & SCHMIDT, Analytical and Consulting Chemists, 84 CANAL ST GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Special attention given to Water, Bark and Jrine Analysis. aa YUMA” | k 00000000 MASTER” The best 5 cent cigars ever made. BEST & RUSSELL CoO.. Cuicaco. sesbieesameenaane in Michigan by J. A. GONZALEZ, Grand Rapids. 0OS0OSOCOOCOCSCS Sold by PIPIE Labels for Gasoline, Benzine and Naptha dred dollars. ae le yvwvvvvvwvvvvevvvvvrvvvvvrvevrvuvevevevrvevid Se ee oe en oa per M 16 Me ae 40c per M 2 Oe ee a 35c per M Oo 30c per M In ordering be careful to state which kind of labels is desired. TRADESMAN COMPANY, Grand Rapids. The Law of 1889. Every druggist, grocer or other person who shall seil and deliver at retail any gasoline, benzine or naphtha, without having the true name thereof and the words “explosive when mixed with air’ plainly printed upona labe! securely attached to the can, bottle or other vessel containing the same, shall-be punished by a fine not exceeding one hun- Weare aa to furnish labels which enable dealers to comply with this law, on the following basis: MICHIGAN fFRADESMAN ig velly.... 8@ Cassia AcutifolAlx. 23@ 30] dus, po............ Salvia officinalis, 4s Valeriana, Eng. po_30 Capelel Pactual, po 25 Caryophyllus. -po. 15 a ee a Sdae Seed W HOLESALE PRICE CURRENT. Morbi, SOs 2 05@ 2 30 ene aod bets 2 18 Linseed, ure raw.. 35 33 - Mea. ) Opt......... nseed, boiled..... 37 40 Advanced- BP cides oo 2 05@ 2 ] = , Maccaboy, De Neatsfoot,winterstr 65 70 Myristica, No. 1..... 6@ 80/8 fr wet et ee teen eeee @ |Spirits Turpentine... 35 40 mae tain bate a — Scotch ,DeVo’s @ 34 i: oda Boras.......... 1@ ¢ Acidum Conium Mac 35@ _ 50| Scilla C a 15@ 18 | Sod ” oe 5 ue. oda Boras, po...... 2 9 aints BBL. LB Aceticum............ 8 6@8 3|Copaiba...... ...... i 10@ 1 20| Tolutan 000... g 50 Pepain Gane, H. & P. Soda et Potass Tart. 2 28 eaacicum, Gorman a w Cuscbe:............. 90@ 1 00| Prunus virg.. @ 50 Cae... eee ct @ 1 00/ Soda, Carb.......... 1%@ 2 Red Venetian... ... 1% 2 @a Boace. @ 15| £xechthitos ........ 1 00@ 1 10 : Picis Liq. N.N.% gal. Soda, Bi-Carb....... 5 | Ochre, yellow Mars. 1% 2 @4 Carbolicum ......... 20 414 | Htigeron......_... 1 00@ 1 10} Agonit Tinctures 2 Sea ee 34@ 4 vas Game i Sane nea 4.@ 42| Gaultheria..... .... 1 50@ 1 60} Aconitum oS 60} Picis Liq., quarts.... @ 1 00| Soda, Sulphas......- @ 2| butty,commercial.. 2% 2%4@3 Hydrochlor .. - "3@ 5 | Geranium, ounce.. . “a. isF 50 | Picis Ligq., pints..... @ 85 | Spts. Cologne...... @ 2 60| Putty, strictly pure. 2% 24%@3 Nitrocum. .. -. 8@ 10] Gossippii, Sem. gal. 50@ 60 Aloes.... 1.0.2... 204. 60 | Pil Hydrarg...po. 80 @ 50|Spts. Ether Co...... 50@ 55 oe Oxalienm |... 2227! 12@ 14| Hedeoma.. 2. tw Be. 60| Piper Nigra..-po. 22 @ 18|Spt Myrcia Dom... @ 9 00| yAmericam......... — 2 oan ai | iene 1508 2 Op] Atmica owe eeee eee. 50| Piper Alba....po. 35 @ 30/Spts. Vini Rect.bbi, @240| Gormilion, English. 70@ % Salicylicum. . 6m «6S haveudila) 0 2 00 Assafeetida ......... 50| Piix Burgun........ @ ~~ 7/| Spts. Vini Rect.%4bbl 9 45, | Gteen, ne 3 44. 13%@ 19 Sulphuricum......_. 1%@ 3 | Limonis... " 1206 140 Atrope Belladonna. 601 Elomi Acct... . 10@ 12/| Spts. Vini Rect. logal @ 2 45 | Green, Peninsular... 13@ = 16 Tannicum .......... 1 3@ 1 40| Mentha Pipe ienesia 50 | Pulvis Ipecac et Opii 1 10@ 1 20| Spts. Vini Rect. seal & 3 sp | bead, Red.......... 54@ 6 SS so # nae ata a : = Benzoin. . Se 60 | Pyrethrum, boxes H. ' P Less 5¢ pa 4 oa 10 mt 2 50| Lead, white......... 54@sCi*6 Sarna Morrhus, gal... t Ou@ 1 10 Benzoin Oise 25. 50] & P. D. Co., doz.. @ 1 25| Strychnia, Crystal... 1 400 14 Whiting, white _— @ 7 mmonia Min 4 00@ 4 50 Barosma ............ 50| Pyrethrum, pv...... 30@ 33) Sulphur, subl. 24@ % . nie gilders . @ x» Aqua, 16 deg........ sm | 6lOnce es Te 4 oo | cantharides........ 751 Quassie 8@ 10| Sulphur, Roll..... 3@ 214 | White aris Amer.. @ 10 as. Gen... — 8} Picis Liquida. ..... 0@ 12 ee, ee i 50 een’ : 2 &W.. He 42/ Tamarinds........- a io _ aia _—e Eng. Srna.) 1 Pi 4 eee coreg s Y f5, uinia, S. Ge 3) | ol || F Chloridum «2.2.2.2. - t0 “iste oO | Quinia, N.Y... -.. 3% 42| Theobroma ot #2 _ 45 | Universal Prepared. 1 00@ 1 15 Aniline Rosmarini....... : @ 1 00 Cancctia Sn ‘oS hee i. aaa “om 00@16 09 a — Ounce... - 6 50@ 8 50 Cinchona..........., 3 — BY 3 0G eres ™ 8 ———- Row coms ae F * Cinchona Co........ 60 Sanguis Draconis. a : 50 Oils No. 1,Turp Coach... 1 10@ 1 20 ae 4 —o. ae Columba ... i 50 | Sapo, V 1 14 imtra, Toarp......... 1 60@ 1 70 Yellow . 2 Sune rias -- 2 50@ 7 00! Cubeba............., 50 | Sapo, M. 1 io | ; BBL. @AL. | Coach Body......... 2 7@ 3 00 2 ae B@ 60 Cassia Acute 50 | Sapo, G i3 | Whale, winter....... 7070 No. 1 Turp Fur... 1 00@ 1 10 | Tigih.” . ssia Acutifol Co . 50 Siedlitz Mixture.... 20 22 ee 5 | Extra Turk Damar.. 1 55@ 1 60 a ? = . Scale. oe 1 40@ 1 = a I 50 o@ % a omime Ney 35 40 | Jap. Dryer,No.1Turp ve ie} Xanthoxylum...... 2%@ 30] Thyme, opt......... @ 1 60} Fer nt Ghio: = im... a. ; Theobromas |... — Sanaa. = , Balsamum . . Gentian). 5 Copaiba. ............ 50 55 Potassium Gencvian Co...) |. = a. @ 2 40| Bi-Carb............ . @ 19| Guisea............. 50 Terabin, Canada. . 40@ 45 | Bichromate......... 13@ 15 Guiaca ammon ee 60 Tolutan. ee D@ 80 "gag Be ee cy 48@ 51 toies Seas. 50 Cee 12 : a vb) 2. corter “i — -po. 17@19e ioe . — colorless.... 5 es, Canadian.... WEIOG. 0 Hh 40 ee tee es 30 Ceeue 12) fodide. 2 2 65 | Lobelia...........2.. 50} [<> Cinchona Flava..... 18 | Potassa, Bitart, pure 7 : 30 Myrrh. .............. 50 ~\\ Euonymus atropurp 30| Potassa, Bitart, com @ 6 Nux Vomica 50 Myrica Cerifera, po. 20 | Potass Nitras, opt.. s@ 10| OPii-...-- % Prunus Virgini...... 12| Potass Nitras...... 7@ 9 | Opil, cam horated. 50 Quillaia, gr’d....... 14| Prussiate....... .... 20@ 25 | OPli, deodorized.. 150 —asecriggpeegee =: 2 Sulphate po . H f 18 saree Sete eae. 50 mus...po gr Radix Bcc 50 Rhei 5 Extractum eal. cr ete 50 a ‘ an, 5 Glycyrrhiza Glabra. Aree ...-....... = eee = Glycyrrhiza, DO. Anchusa oe ie 12 | Stromonium . 60 Gr d R id sematox, 15 Ox. ea Gt Tolutan..... N 1 1 897 Hematox,1s........ CAIRNS ..0. 00.8. a a 0 an apt Sy Ov. st, Hematox, %s....... Gentiana...... po. 15 15 | Veratrum Veride... 50 Heematox, 4{s....... fo suaap ask - pv. 15 18) Zimgiber..... |... 20 Ferru ydrastis anaden . 70 lliscet i Hydrastis Can., . % scellaneous poeepare Se a Hellebore, Alba, Bo... 20 _—— = _ - 3 = cancuie mel = nia.. Inula, PO cece as Ly 20 Al lumen hal it.4F acne 38 Ferrocyanidum Sol. Ipecac, ee 2 2 10} Alumen ,gro'd.. po.7 @ : Solut. Chloride..... jee as - PO35@38 40| Annatto............. 40@ 50 rom Sulphate, com’l..... ¢ Jalapa, pr... teem ole a 30 Antimoni, po....... 4I@ 5 Sulphate, com’l, by Podo es 2 ® Antimoni et Poteaet 40@ 50 ’ bbl, per ewt....... Shee 22@ 25! Antipyrin.. @ 1 40 thi | : Sulphate, pure ..... ¥ Rhei mae a - : = Antifebrin . @ 1 S ate W ec W ma Cc Flora ae OF... c i } i i @ 1 Argent Nitras, oz. - = ea 12 14 | Spigelia. . 35@ 38| Balm Gilead Bud _. 238@ Anthemis........... 18S 25 Sanguinaria.. -po.40 @ 35 Biemath SN nia O arge Matricaria .......... 30@ 35 —. sete teres = ei Calcium Chlor., 9 Folia Similax, officinalis H # | Calclum Chior. 4. - Barosma. 28@ 30] Smilax, M Calcium Chlor., 14s. 12 He.) 2. @ Smilax, M........... 25 | Cantharides, Rus. VG or Cassia Acutifol, Tin- | OGre e . 0.35 1 12 | Capsici Fructus, af. 15 mevelly. 000 0. 1 25 | Symplocarpus, Post Capsici Fructus, po. : and t48...... <...- 12@ 20| Valeriana, German. vf Gra Urst... |. 8@ 10| Zingiber ag es i i6 nee a. . 35 ee Zingiber j......... 25@ 27| Cera Flaya.......... 2 LG) Acacia, 1st picked.. @ & _—— fccems. 40 yy), Acacia, 2d picked.. @ 45|Anisum....... po. @ 19| Cassia Fructus...... 33 Acacia, 3d picked.. @ 3 Apinm ieee, B@ 15 Centraria 10 Acacia, sifted sorts. @ 28|Bird,1s............. “a tone------:-. 4 Acacia, po....... ... 60@ 80|Carui.......... po.18 10@ 12 Chioroform.......... 63 Aloe, Barb. po.is@20 12@ 14|Cardamon........... 1 3@ 175 Chloroform, sauibbs 1s CS ‘Aloe, Cape .... po. 15 @ 12| Coriandrum..... |”! 8@ 10 Chloral Hyd Crst.... 1 50@ 1 60 ( Aloe, Socotri..po. 40 @ 30| Cannabis Sativa. 4@ 4% Cnenaras 2. 0G BD Ammoniac.......... B® 60 Cydonium, fa iB 1 of | Cinckonidine,P.&W 2%@ 35 > Assafotida....po.30 25@ 28| Chenopodium ...... 10@ 12 Cinchonidine, Germ 2@ 30] |, Benzoinum ......... 50@ 55 Dipterix Odorate.._ 2 00@ 2 20 | Cocaine ............. 3 05@ 325] \f Cetechn, : ee @ 13 Feeniculum oa 10 a dis.pr.ct. ~ . atechu, %S8......... 14 | Foonugreek, po...... 7 5} NS Catechu, \s......... -.2.0U0UUlCU Oe ‘bb. OUD Camphore.... .... 48@ 55|Lini, grd.....lbbi3 © 4@ 4% | CTet® Prep.......... @ 5 Euphorbium..po. 35 @ 0| Lobelia 2s . 35 40 Creta, precip... 1.1. @ 11 Galbanum........... @ 1 00| Pharlaris Canarian. 43 4% Creta, Rubra........ @ 8 - Gamboge po........ wa sti=-. 4%4@ = 8 Crocus 18@ 20 ee ees Pe. 35 a poem AlDG........ %@ 8 Guor Suiph a ai S ] 8 s ne po. 83.00 @300|Sinapis Nigra....... N@ 12] pUPrrwpa......... ; H It & re k Mastic ieee anos, a # Spiritus Bther Suiph...-"7. 3 90] azeiline erkKins Opii.. po. 84. keds. = 2 85 2 Frumenti, W. D. Co. 2 00@ 2 50| Emery, all numbers @ 8 £G) Sheliag of 23@ 35| Frumenti, D. F. R.. 2 00@ 2 25| Emery, po........... @ 6 Shellac, bleached... 40@ 45 | Frumenti.... 1 5e 150] Bae ee MS & ru O Tragacanth ane 50@ 80 Juniperis Co. O. t 1 65@ 2 00 Biake White... ... L2@ Sd = Juniperis Co........ 1 75@ 3 50| Galla...... 2... Q@ B fe erba Saacharum N. E.... 1 90@ 2 10} Gambier............. s@ 9 Absinthium..oz. pkg 25 | Spt. Vini Galli...... 1 %@ 6 50 | Gelatin, Cooper... @ 60 Eupatorium .oz. pkg 20} Vini Oporto......... 1 25@ 2 00 | Gelatin, French..... 3@ 60 Lobelia...... oz. pkg st Vind Albai i) ili, 1 25@ 2 00 | Glassware, flint, box 70 Majorum ....oz. pkg 28 s Less than box.... 60 Mentha Pip..oz. pkg 93 : ponges Glue, brown..... 9 Rk + Mentha Vir..oz. pkg 95 | Floridasheeps’ wool Glue, white. a 13@ 25 G d R d Rae oz. pkg oo: Gerriage...|...... 2 50@ 2 7% | Glycerina...... 21. 4@ 20 Tati api Sy TanacetumV oz. pkg 92 | Nassau sheeps wool Grana Paradisi ___. @ 15 Thymus, V..oz. pkg oe) | Carrsaee es. @ 2 00; Humulus.. 11. 3@ BB “a : Velvet extra sheeps’ Hydraag Chior Mite @ 80 Mi h agnesia. wool, carriage..... @ 1 2% | Hydraag Chlor Cor. @ 0 — Calcined, Pat..... .. 55@ 60) Extra yellow sheeps’ Hydraag Ox Rub’ 90 Carbonate, Pat... ... 20@ 22 wool. carriage.... @ 1 00| Hydraag ‘aaa g 1 Carbonate, K.& M.. 20@ 25] Grass sheeps’ wool, HydraagUn oetons 2 35 Carbonate, Jennings 35@ 36 Carriage. <......... @ 1 00 Heltratreriie Giue. @ 6 etna Hard, for slate use.. @ %5|Ichthyobolla,Am... 65@ 75 ; Yellow Reef, for Indigo. 7>@ 1 00 Absinthium......... 3 25@ 350) slate use....... @ 1 40| Iodine, Resubi...._. 2 7 } Amygdale, Dulc.. 30@ «50 a Iodoform. pgp a: 2 Amygdale, Amare . 8 00@ 8 2 Syrups ioe $ 3 25 s wae. 2 40@ 2 00] Acacia............ i 5 7 10 5 ( ay Auranti Cortex..... 2 00@ 2 20} Auranti Cortes...... 3 D — al ! ee % Bergamii............ 2 40@ 2 50| Zingiber....... ..... @ 50| Liquor Arse- et h . : a Cajiputh 20022002 85@ 90 | Ipecac. eee eee Seerephyit Da 65@ tw Ferri — ea @ 50| LiquorPotassArsinit 10@ 12 i Chenopadii... oe @ 2 75 | Smilax Oficina. i 505 0 one Sulpn - Cinnamonii. ....... 1 90@ 2 09 | Senega nnia, & F.-. - : ‘a Gian A 0 Saas agi @ 50; Mannia, SP 50@ 60 4@ 50| Scillm..... ... @ Menthol A's Baa sip ena @2% MICHIGAN TRADESMAN GROCERY PRICE CURRER?T. The prices quoted in this list are for the trade only, in such quantities as are usually purchased by retail They are prepared just before going to press and are an accurate index of the local market. dealers. It is im- possible to give quotations suitable for all conditions of purchase, and those below are given as representing av- erage prices for average conditions of purchase. those who have poor credit. our aim to make this feature of the greatest possible use to dealers. Cash buyers or those of strong credit usually buy closer than Subscribers are earnestly requested to point out any errors or omissions, as it is AXLE GREASE. doz. gross es 55 6 00 eg | ae. o 70 Diamond ee 50 4 00 Prasers....:......... 20 9 00 IXLGoldemtinboxes75 9 00 [lica, tin boxes........ 2 3a Pao. 55 86.66. 00 BAKING POWDER. Absolute. ae '> Came Gos... 45 i ib Come ion... ....... 85 [| mocansGos............. 1 Acme. i ib cana Gom............ 45 1p Cane SOen............ vo) 1 Ibcansl we Ee 1 00 Ba... oe El aeaine. 14 lb cans per doz......... 3 46 Ib Cans per dog ........ 1 20 2 WD ecans per doz......... 2 00 Home. lq 1b cans 4 doz case...... 35 % lb cans 4 doz case...... 55 lb cans 2 doz Case ..... 90 iq 1b cans, 4 doz case..... \% lb cans, 4 doz case. 1 lbcans, 2 doz ease €0 Jersey Cream. i i. Cone, per Gos.......... 2 00 oz Gas. ver dos.......... is 6 Oz. Cans, per doz.......... 85 Our Leader. oes... = ib cang.. oe . eo... 1 5 Peerless. [hem 85 BATH BRICK. Ree 70 oe 80 BLUING. CONDENSED) 1 doz. pasteboard Boxes... 40 3 doz. wooden boxes....... 1 20 BRoOrS. Se 6 eres. 1 90 No. 2 Carpet........ o£ ie eer... ---... | 1 50 mo fore... a oe... 2 00 oe eeee............ FB anew Week... 80 Warns. ....... ....... 2 CANDLES. — 7 -_~ 8 Pa 8 CANNED GOODS. Manitowoc Peas. Lakeside Marrowfat....... 9 Lakeside E. J. 1145 Lakeside, Cham. of Eng... 12 Lakeside. Gem. Ex. Sifted. 145 Extra Sifted Early June....1 75 CHEESE. Ce eae @ 11% SO @ 11% Bee @ il Bie @ 12 Ce. @ 12 Gola Medal.. 11 Hovkimer..-:........ @ 10% eee @ 11% pereey 2c... 1. @ 12 eeiwee oe cu. @ 10% Biversias............ @ 11% Bete on cc a @ il Le a @ 10 Ros ick ashen. @ ee erin A aaa Pen @ 18 Limburger.. oo 10 Pineappie............ 43 85 pied oosu oe 18 CHOCOLATE. Walter Baker & Co.’s. German Sweet ......... 23 rca... .. eee Breakfast Cocoa. ... . CLOTHES LINES. Cotton, 40 ft, per doz Cotton, 50 ft, per doz ... Cotton, 60 ft, per doz ..... Cotton, 70 ft, per doz...... Cotton, 80 ft. per doz...... Jute. 6 ft. per Jos.... Jute 72 ft, per ‘tne... wBESERS Chicory. Bulk Red ao COCOA SHELLS. ss... 2% Less quantity....... o. 3 Pound packages......... 4 CREAM TARTAR. 5 and 10 1b. wooden boxes..30-35 COFFEE. Green. Rio. —....... 10 =~ EEE 12 Pree... 8... 13 eee ey ............. ee Santos. Pate ss eH Goat 2S 15 Pame... ct . Pease reg Mexican and Guatamala. ee ee 16 —— . ................. Po 18 Maracaibo we. 29 ee 21 Java. a... a, Private Growth.. bea icee aes Menegentiee.... cs... 24 Mocha. —s................... Breen... t ins OE Roasted. Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brands Fifth Avenue..... = Jewell’s Arabian Mocha... ae Wells’? Mocha and Java..... 24 Wells’ Perfection Java..... 24 Peewee. 93 Breskfast B'end. —_ a Valley City Maracaibo. ... Rw ee ee 13 header Bleng....... .. .... 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 pavs from the market in which he purchases to his shipping point, including weight of package. In 60 Ib. cases the list is 1M per 100 lbs. above the = in full cases. Arbuckle . 11 09 Jersey 11 on rcLeughlin’s XXXX.. 11 00 Extract. Valley City % gross ..... 7 weux 3% press... ...... 115 Humme!l’s foil ® gross... 25 Hummel’s tin % gross... 1 42 CATSUP. Columbia, pints.......... 2 09 Columbia, % pints.......... 110 CLOTHES PINS. Deres DOREE.. oooh ee cco 40 CONDENSED MILK. 4 doz in case. Gail a Eagle.... ....6 7% Sn 6 25 Daisy . Sole ee ty oe eee Champion . Pos c oer Meee 8 cs 4 25 CREO 335 Dime _.... 2.2: lL 8o COUPON BOOKS. Tradesman Grade. 50 books, any,denom.... 1 50 100 books, any denom.... 2 50 500 books, any denom....11 50 1,000 books, any denom....20 00 Economic Grade. 50 books, any denom.... 1 50 100 books, any denom.... 2 50 500 books, any denom....11 50 1,000 books, any —. .-.20 00 Sedeceant Grade. 50 books, any denom.... 1 50 100 books, any denom.... 2 50 500 books, any denom....11 50 1,000 books, any denom....20 00 Superior Grade. 50 books, any denom.... 1 50 100 books, any denom.... 2 50 500 books, any denom....11 50 1,000 books, any denom....20 00 Coupon Pass Books, Can be made to represent any denomination from #10 down. ~oreens. 100 : . 200 . 300 C 2 SeueeRs 10 00 1000 books ...-17 6O Credit Checks. 500, any one denom’n..... 3 00 1000, any one denom’n..... 5 00 2000, any one denom’n..... 8 00 Bieel pumen. .. ........... vi) DRIED FRUITS—DONESTIC Apples. Sundried @ 4% Evaporated 50 lb boxes. @ 7% ene ~e ‘ ricots .. 8%@ Blackberries. ewes Roce ............ @ Peaches..... Loe cee Se 8 @39 rea. Pitted Cherries........ Prannerion......... ..- 12 Happberrics............ agrees ae 100-120 25 lb 8. @ 90-100 25 1b warace bee @5 80 - 90 25 Ib boxes....... @h% 70 - 80 25 1b boxes....... @ 6 60 - 70 25 1b boxes. @ 6% 50 - 60 25 lb boxes....... @i7 40 -50 25 1b boxes ...... @ 30 - 40 25 1b boxes 4q cent less In 50 Ib cases Raisins. Lundon Layers 3 Crown. 1 London Layers 4 Crown. 2 Dehesias : Loose Museatels2 Crown 5 Loose Museastels 3 Crown 6 Loose Muscatels 4 Crown 2 FOREIGN. Currants. Patras bbls. . .-@ 6% Vostizzas 50 Ib cases. --@ 65 Cieaned, bulk .....-.5. 2) @ 7% Cleaned, packages........ @ 8% Peel. Citron Americau 101b bx @i4 Lemon American 10 1b bx @12 Orange American 10lb bx @12 Raisins. Ondura 28 Ib boxes.....8 @ 8% Sultana 1Crown....... @ Sultana 2Crown ...... @ Sultana 3Crown....... @i1 Sultana 4 Crown....... Snitana Crown é Sultana 6 Crown....... [Petes caaaeer arena FARINACEOUS GOODS. Farina. Sl iib. pacieges.......... 1% Bulk, per 100 Tbs..... .... 3 50 Grits. Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s....... 2 40 Bulk in 100 1b. bags....... 3 40 Hominy. Barrels... 3... oe Flake, 50 lb. drums.. .1 00 Beans. Dried Lima . ... - Sy Medium Hand Picked....1 00 Maccaroni and Vermicelli. Domestic, 10 1b. box. .... Imported, 25 Ib. box.. ...2 50 Pearl Barley. Common. oe . 22 Paester ee Pe 2% Peas. eben, Bi. ee £0 Bolt, yer)... = Rolled Oats. Rolled Avena, bbl.......3 6 Monarch, bbi........... 36 Monarch, % bbl.......... 1s Private brands, bbl..... 3 15 Private brands, %bbl.....1 70 Quaker. cases. 20 ron, Cases... 17 Sago. oo ne 3% Past INGA. ls 8 Wheat. Cracked, bali. ...........- 314 242 Ib packages........... 2 50 Fish. Cod Georges cured......... @ 1% Georges genuine...... @ 5% Georges selected. ..... @ 4 Strips or bricks....... 5 @7% Halibut. CO 10 2 EE ee ou ;. 9 Herring. Holland white hoons, bbl. 12 00 Holland white hoop % bbl 6 70 Holiand white hoop. keg. 85 Holiand white hoop mchs 95 eee... .....-....-. 1 Bos oe ioe.....,....... 2 90 Round 40 lbs....... 1. - ee Sealed... i... 2... : 15 pasa Moses 10 es... ....-... ... 1 Mees ite... . 5s... 6 70 moe WP iee.............., 1% Mess Giese... 1... 2... -- 1 43 ot Oe re... oe 14 50 WO.) Ste... 61) Bo. Wie... .....2.5.-5 1 60 moe Bia le. 1 30 Pare... .....-.-...- 1 tO Das iee............. 43) es ee......... 115} Bo.* Sie... ....... 95 Sardines. Russian kegs.. .. .. 55 Troat No. 1 100 :bs .. . 4 00 No. 1) ibe ...... 1s No.1 101bs BA No.1 8lba.. ae 47 Whitefish. No.1 No.2 Fam ibe :..... 60 Sse re ite ..... 27 2 te Oie........ 63 34 Bie c.. 63 55 31 FLAVORING EXTRACTS. Jennings’. D.C. Vanilia . C. Lemon Ec. 1 Z208....:, SOn...-.8 30z. ....1 00 40z.. ...2 00 #08. 2... 1 40 6 O6...... 3 00 Son...... 2 00 No. 8 400 No. 8...2 40 No. 10. .6 00 No. 10...4 00 No. 27.1 2 No. 2T. 80 No. 3 T.2 00 No. 37.1 35 No 4T.2 40 No. 4T.1 59 Souders’. Oval bottle, with corkscrew. Best in the world for the money. Regular Grade Lemon. doz Sih... v £08... 1 50 Regular Vanilla. doz -o,...,.. oe On. c 2 40 XX Grade Lemon. Zoe... 1 50 40z. ....3 00 XX Grade Vanilla. S Sos...:.. 1 %5 Ghose 34 Bossa Duck—Dupont’s. ao... ae Quarter Kers.....). 22 oT 2a ie Cams 2. HERBS I ee 15 ope 15 INDIGO. Madras, 5 Ib boxes..,...... 55 F., 2,3 and 5 lb boxes.... 50 JELLY. ib We. 40 Dorp pare 2 8... LYE. Condensed, 2 Gos .......... 1 20 Condensed. 4 doz 22 LICORICE. MSE Hee i Eur ee 30 Calabiia See ceemee ya socia dus 2 Le 14 MOORS ee 10 MINCE MEAT. Ideal, 3 doz. in case......... 225 MATCHES. Diamond Match Co.’s eam. No. 9 eulpour.. 5... : Amehor Tener... 1.0... i 70 o.> Mowe. ... 0. os Export Parlor... .......... _4 00 MOLASSES. New Orleans. Black. Seis ol ce il wee, a. i4 ee 20 Fancy eee es 24 Open Bete 25D35 Half-barrels 2¢ extra. PIPES. GCiey, We. 216... 6... ce 1 > Clay, T. D. fullcount...... MOON, Oe ees a 5 POTASH. 48 cans in case. Mapes. 4 00 Penna Salt Co.’s........... 3 00 PICKLES. Medium. Barrels, 1,200 count........ 5 50 Half bbis, 600 count........ 3 2 Small. Barrels, 2,400 count....... 6 FO Half bbis, 1,200 count...... 3% RICE. Domestic. Carolina head.... .. .... 6h4 Carolina No: 1...........;. 5 Carolina No.2. ..:......... 4% EOE oe ae ce: 3% Imported. sapes, NO. bo... 6565.5, 5% Japan. No. 2.. Sooo ae eee Java, fancy head.......... 6 onve, Os 8. os. se. 5 ee ec gece ge Bek SALERATUS. Packed 60 lbs. in box. Crees... 3 3C POI 3 15 ode ra Spee ceees ccs day ee 3 30 Taylor’s.. i EU SAL SODA. Granulated, bbis........ - 70 Granulated, 100 lb cases.. 9) Dury, opis. se Lump, 145]b kegs 85 SALT. Diamond Crystal. Cases, 24 3-lb boxes.........1 50 Barrels, 190 3 1b bags 2 @ Barrels. 40 7 Ibbags...... 2 40 Butter, 26 1b. bags....,.<.... 30 Buster, o6 i) bags........... @ Butter, 20 14 1b bags........ 3 00 Butter, 280 1b bbis..........2 50 Common Grades. MOC aseks..... . ........ 1 70 OOSIb SACKS. us 1 55 20 10-1D aaeks............ 1 Worcester. ow 4 Ib. Gartons........ 52. 3 25 1 24610 enews. .... ....... 4 > 16 Seeks... 8c. 3 75 = te TD. RCRA... . ss. 3 50 OU 1010, Sabie 8 ee Sa 1b. nen eseks... 2.3... 2 56 Ib. litien sacks. ... 2... |. 60 Bulk in barrels..... a 2 50 Warsaw. 56-Ib dairy in drill pags..... 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. S61 sacks... 21 Common. Granulated Wine.....,.... .. 7 MeCN Fine. 0... | &3 SEEDS. Pe 9 Canary, -Seedspacegns ea Ss Caraway . ec ee ae € “ardamon, ‘Malabar a. Cee. 11 Hemp, wussian.........: 3% Mixed Bird.. ce Mustard, white....... — S maken o SNUFP, Scotch, in bladders......... 37 Maccaboy. in jars.. oe French Rappee, in jars. oe SPICES. Whole Sifted. Allspice .... <7 oe Cassia, China in mats..... <8 Cassia, Batavia in bund... .25 Cassia, Saigon in rolls......32 Cloves, Amboyna...........10 Cloves, Zansibar............ 9 mece, Tavs.............. Natmeers, fancy....... 0... 60 Nutmegs, No. 1, co Nutmegs, No. 2". ..& Pepper, Singa; ore, ‘black. -10 Pepper, Singapore. white...i2 Peprer, anes. 3... oo 10 Pure Ground in Bulk. AU oo ae Cassia, Batavia 22 Cassia, CeO Cloves, Amboyna...........20 Cloves, Zanzibar.......... 5 rer, AteOe ck 15 Ginger, Cochin........ ce Ginger, Jamaica............ 22 Mace, Batavia... .::...... 70 Mustard, Eng. and Trieste. .20 Mustard, Trieste............ 25 Nutmegs. ... .40@ 0 Pepper, Sing , black ....190@14 Pepper, Sing., white....15@18 ne Cc eres eu —— Sage.. Ls ‘SYRUPS Corn. ose ee Gee cree eee 17 Bair bis ecund 19 Pure Cane. Meee gg 16 Choice ..... See Aa SODA. Boxe be donc a oce oes a ena Rigiish 4% MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 21 SOAP, andry. Arn s Brands. Armour'’s Family. . 2 OO Armour’s Laundry. ie eae 3 30 Armour’s White, Armour’s White. 50s. Sieccs Gv mee Armour’s Woodchuck..... 2 50 Armour’s Kitchen Brown. 2 U0 2 25 Armour'’s cant German Bingie box..... by saa 5 box lots, deliv ered.. 10 box lots, delivered....... 2 65 JAS. 8. KIRK & G0.'S BRANDS. American Family, wrp'd....3 33 American Family, unwrp’d.3 2 Re 3 33 eo ee 2 20 BPVOR ee 2 50 Dusky Diamond 50 6 oz....2 10 Dusky Diamond, 50 8 oz....3 00 Blue India, 100 % Ib......... 3 00 Bimkoune. 2.00... oe ae os. ....... 2 45 One box American Family free with five Schulte i Co.’s Brand. Edoar A \ mrcw. |i 100 D cakes, 7 75 ibs. Single box. eee BD OOx Ite. 2 8. co 2% MM) tex lot 277 Pe OM TORS a 2 60 Stipes Boe 2 65 5 box lots, delivered........ 2 60 10 box lots, delivered. ......2 50 Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands. Old Country, 80 1-Ib. bars ..2 7 Good heer, 60 1-lb. bars....3 % Uno, 100 %-lb. bats.......... 2 50 Doll, 100 10- POs. GIS. ...... 5. 2 05 Scouring. Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz ..... 2 40 Sapolio, hand, Sdosc ........ 2 40 Washing Powder. A Moot Pleasant, Dut Mont EMective UTACTUMED ONL THE SUMWIT CITY SOAP WORKS. Cent weeet SO Ame, 100 12 Of pes: 5:6... se. - 3 50 STARCH. Kingstora’s Corn. )1-ib packages............. 6 20 1 Tb packages............. 614 Kingsford’s Silver Gloss. @) 1-ib packeres... oo 2... 6% Gib beres.... 5... 2 Diamend. 64 10c packages ........... 5 00 128 5c packages ieee eee oe 5 00 10e and 64 5c packages...5 00 Common Corn. 26 1 ib packages....-.... .. 4% 40 1 tb. packages... ......... 414 eo ib. Woees so. 4 1h Dates. 33% Common Gloss. 1-lb packages.......... boca 3-lb packages... : 6-lb packages.......... : 40 and 50 lb boxes........... Barrels STOVE POLISH. a Enametine \\ } Rota a RTT eat RS 4 Nem z 3 doz in case, gross.. 450 6, 3 doz in case, gross. .: 7 20 SUGAR. Below are given New York prices on sugars, to which the wholesale dealer adds the local freight from New York to your shipping point, giving you credit on the invoice for the amount of freight buyer pays from the market in which he purchases to his shipping point, including 20 pounds for the weight of the barrel. Gs Egat 5 63 Oe ee a 5 av CObGe eo ‘ Powoeree .......... . XXXX Powdered... 3 Mowie As. 5x Granulated in bbls... ...... 3 OU Granulated in bags......... 5 UU ine Granulated... .......- 5 u Extra Fine Granulated..... S13 Extra Coarse Granulated...5 14 Diamond Confec. A........5 U0 Confec. Standard A......... 4 8> 1 we Be 4 2a Pee Oe 419 nO. Te 413 No. 11.. 4 U6 DO Te 4 Ww we 3 94 NO: Pe 4 88 Mem 3 81 NO es 3 75 TABLE SAUCES. Lea & Perrin’s, large..... 4 75 Lea & Perrin’s, small..... 2% Hatford, larwe............ 3 7% Halford'small....... 911... 2 2 Salad Dressing, large.....4 55 Salad Dressing, small..... 2 6 TOBACCOS. Cigars. Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s brand. NOW BVGe 35 00 H. & P. Drug Co.’s brand. Cuintette 2.0 35 00 G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand. Sh Cw. Star Green...... a 35 00 VINEGAR. Malt White Wine.............. 7 Pore Cider. 8 7 Fresh Fish. Per lb. Wihntetahi si. oso @ 9 Trout 2. 1 @ 8 Black Bass... a @ 10 i o @ 15 Ciscoes or Herring.. @ 4 eee. 4k... @ 10 Live Lobster....... @ 16 Boiled Lobster...... @ is OO ee cl. @ W Co @ 8 No. 1 Pickerel...... @ 9 Pie. oo @ 7 Smoked White...... @. 9 Red Snapper. . Go wv Col River Salmon.. @ 15 Mackerel -.... 2... :. @ 18 Oysters in Cans. P. B. Counts |... ci @ 3% F. J. D. Selects...... @ 27 ee @ 2 F. J. D. standards.. @ 2 Beecher. isl @ 4 Standards.. <: @ 18 Fayorites ........... @ 16 Oysters in Bulk P. . Counts...<.... @1 75 Extra Selects....... @' 60 Seleers <=)... . +. @1 30 Ancnor Standards... @i1 .v St nderdas.... 0.0... . @1 v? Fees... eo, G@i 2 Shell Goods. Oysters, per 100....... 1 1 50 Clams,” per 100)...” 2061 00 e ° Candies. Grains and Feedstuffs Stick Candy. Wheat. Dols. patle | Wheat.................. 90 Sommer. ........... of 4@ i% Standard H. H.. ) ong iM Winter Wheat Plour. Standard er ne Local Brands. Cut Loaf. iy * Gm Patents eT 5 50 vas mecond Patent. ............ 5 cee Si... es ee 4 Cra eo. CaCl 4 40 Boston Cream...... ee 47 Pace wheat... 5... LL. 4 xd Mixed Candv. ee 3 5u Competition......... @ 6% Subject to usual cash dis- Standard............ SE ero bbis.,.25 bbl. ad. COmserve..... ..... @7% dit — auc Bet aa Regal @ 7 | ditiona ee @ 8% Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand. BIORKen oc: @ 8% | Quaker, %s..... ae HOSE 8... @ d's | Quaker, \s..... Pye oe Rock....... Oe epee Me). 4 60 } saeaecanreggrecinae ec g rn Guard, Fairfield & Co’s Brand. Dandy Pan........ gw W hole Wheat 1-i6s......... Valley Cream.. .... @i3 Spring Wheat Flour. o Clark-Jewell-Wells Uo.’s Brand. Fancy—In Bulk. Pillsbury’s Best %s........ 5 8 Lozenges, plain..... @9 Pillsbury’s Best 4s........ 5 Ww Lozenges, printed.. @ 9 Pililsbury’s best vas cos ogee 5 6, Choe. ‘Drops oT @l4 Piilsbury’s Best 4s paper.. 5 6u Choe. Mouumentals @i2 Piilsvury’s Best 548 paper.. 5 ou Gum Drops......... @6 | Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand. Moss Drops.......-. @s Sour Drops.......... @ 8% Grand Republic, ¥%s........ 5 05 Pmperiais ). 0 @ 8% | Grand Kepublic, 4s.. + 2:00 Grand Republic, PA ae 5 4d Fancy—in 5 Ib. Boxes. Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s Brand. Lemon Drops....... x Gotd Medal ies. ............ 5 63 sour a. a = Gold Medat i4s........ - 5 do Peppermint Drops.. @u Goid Medul tae. ...: a 45 Chocolate Drops. . @é6u | Parisian, s..............., > 6 H. M. Choc. Drops... @i5 Parisian, “48. teres ee. 9 5d Gum Drops......... @30 Pomme. t66 5 4a Licorice Drops...... @ias Olney & Judson’s Brand. A. B. Licorice ga Coos | Cereseta. ses 00 5 65 Lozenges, plain.. @50 | Ceresota, 248. i 5 —-, printed... @” | Ceresota, is. ue PE @5v aches Ee 35 Worden Grocer cath Brand. Cream Bar.......... @0 Pimerel $66........ 5 63 Molasses Bar .... Go | UderelMs....... 5 55 Hand Made Creams. 80 @1 0) Laurel, Pees eee dee a clea, 5 4d Plain Creams....... 60 @w Meal Decorated Creams.. @90 i ru Bote —. . ering Bock......... @b6u ‘ : Burnt Almonds... 153 @ Gramainged - 000... 2 WwW Wintergreen Berries @bv Caramels. No. 1 as ete 2 |b. Berea @30 No. V1 wrapped, 3 lb. SN a @45 No. “ 2 wrapped, = ih. Fruits. Oranges. Choice Naples. PO oc @ cee @4 50 Rodis aoe Haney @5 00 Lemons. Strictly choice 36vs.. @3 50 Strictly choice 300s.. @3 50 Fancy 300s...... ... @4 Ww Ex.Fancy 300s...... @4 5u Ex. Rodi 360s....... @5 Ww Bananas. Medium bunches...1 25 @I 50 Large bunches...... 1% @2 00 Foreign Dried Fruits. Figs, Choice Layers 10 lb Califoruias... @ 10 Figs, New Smyrnas 727 1b boxes..:.._.. @F Figs; Naturals in tb baee. @ 6 mee F ards in 101b Domes... 8c. @s8 Dates, Fards in 60 1b Cases .... @6 Dates, Persians, HLM. B., 60 Ib Cases, new @ 5% Dates, Sairs 60 lb COGC8 2. 8c. ce... @ Nuts. Almonds, Tarragona.. Almonds, Ivaca....... Almonds, California, soft shelled Brasile new... ....... Brrmere 2... .... Walnuts, Grenobles .. Walnuts, Calif No. 1. va soft shelled Calif Table Nuts, fancy.. ‘Table Nuts, choice... Pecans, Med a eee Pecans, Ex. Large.. Pecans, Jumhos....... Hickory Nuts per bu., Obie; new. ......... Cocoanuts, full sacks © ge uo mm CO E898 cwca@ a © ggegee wo Oocwnw a8 I oot : Peanuts. Fancy, H. P., Suns. Fancy, H. P., Fiags Roasted. .<... 2... Choice, H. P., Extras. Choice, H. P., Extras, Roasted 6 €8 6 oH RAG Bw OR see eereeeeae Feed and Millstuffs. St. Car Feed. screened ....14-00 No. 1 Corn and Uats....... 13 vO Unbolted Corn Meal....... 12 a0 Winter Wheat Bran. -11 Winter Wheat Middlings.. = UU Bescon 0 Ov The O. E. Brown ase Co. quotes as follows: New Corn. Car lots... -—-«.. Less than ear lots......... 3u Oats. Car lots. .. coe tees Carlots, clipped... eeu Sieh -& Less than Gar iots......... ry Hay. No. 1 Timothycarlots...... 9 00 No. 1 Timothy, ton lots....10 OU Provisions. Swift & Company quote as follows: Barreled Pork. ee ee 9 50 Par. 11 ov Cleese HAGM 2... 3... lv <5 PeereGes..... |... lu 23 Pig.. oo 14 5u eam 8 du a 9 50 _Dry Salt — Berges 8, 534 Setalents a 5% xtra Shierig............. dhe Smoked [leats. Hams, 12 lb average .... 9 Hams, 14lb average ... 9 Hams, 16 1b average..... 844 Hams, 2U lb average..... 8 Ham dried beef.......... Shoulders (N. Y. ow. 6% Bacon, Clear. . 3 @ California hams. ie Boneless liams........... 8% Coemed Haye. ............ ll Lards. In Tierces. Compound................ 434 Mee 5% So ib Tube....... advance 4g SO lb Tabs........ advance OO lb Tims ....... advance 4 20 1b Pails. ...... advance Me 20 1 Pain. . 2... advance % o 1b Pails. ..-... advance % $i) Pails... .... advance 1 Sausages. Bologna Mee ed oes 5 POVGE 6% MrOeenOrs................ @ om... 6% meee -.. 6 a 9 Head cheese... 1. 6% Beef. Hegre Meas... 9 00 DGBGONA oo 12 v0 POE ss os. 12 00 Pigs’ Feet. Mite, 15 Ihe |... 80 14 bbls, Se, 1 bu Ve bbls, eo. 2 30 Tripe. Bie ee 75 S¢ DDS, 4) Ibe............ 1 40 % bbis, $0 lbs...........- 2% Casings. CO es. 16 Heer rounds... .......4. 4% BOGr wiiddics............ 12 ee 5 Butterine. Rone dairy... 11 Bolia. daiimg..........._.. 10% Rolls, Creamery ........- 14 Solid, creamery ......... 13% Canned Meats. Corned beef, 2 Ib....... 210 Corned beef, oy... 14 00 Roast beef, 2 lb Potted ham, Potted ham, Deviled ham, Deviiedham, ‘Ys Petted tongue 4s....... 60 Potted tongue %s....... 1 00 Crackers. The N. Y. Biscuit Co. quotes as follows: Butter. SCvViInGwE Nae Seymour XXX, 3 1b. carton 4 DOWNY MN 4 Family XXX,31b carton.. 4% POMOC Ree Salted XXX, 3Ibecarton... 4% Soda. pea ean 4 Soda XXX, 3 lb carton. 4% Soda, City’ ee cece 5 Zephyrette eee 9 Long Isiand Wafers....... 9 L. 1. Wafers, 1 lb carton. .. 10 Oyster. : Square Oyster, XXX....... 436 Sq. Oys. XXX.'1 lb carton. 5% Farina Oyster, XXX 4 SWEET — AMSA ce Bent’s Cold Water......... 13 BGI MOBS oc ase 6 Cocoanut Tally............ 8 Coffee Cakes... ..........., 8 Frosted Honey............. 10 Graham Crackers ......... 6 Ginger Snaps, XXX round. 5 Ginger Snaps, XXX city... 5 Gin. Sups,XXX home made 5 Gin. Snps,XXX scalloped.. 5 Ginger Vanilla... ........ 7 ERUGEIMIR oo 6 Jumples, Honey........... 10 Molusses Cakes............ 6 Marstyaniow ............. 12 Marshmallow Creams..... 13 Pretzels, hand made ..... 6 Pretzelettes, Little German 6 Sultanas eit ecuce Semrs LMNen. sk... Vanilla Sqiare........... q Vanilla Waters ........... R Pecan Wafer.............. 12 Biirod Ficnic.....:........ 10 Cream Jumbles ............ 11% Boston Ginger Nuts........ 5 Chimmie Fadden .......... 9 Pineapple Glace...... ..... 12 Pome Cares... wk... 6 Marshmallow Walnuts 13 Belle Isle Picnic.. Fresh Meats. Beef. Caressa)... 54@ 7% Pore quarters......... 5 @6 Hind quarters........ 7 @23 toms No. 3........... 9 @l2 TO ooo... s.. rece, Goan Panes 64@G 7% err 4 @es Pe @ 3 Pork. Peaseee .... 4... @ 5% Eeees ls... @8 Shoulders... a @ 6 ee 6 @ Mutton. Cascaay 2... 6 @7 Spring Lambs... .....8 @9 Veal. Carcass ...... i.e Be Hides and Pelts. Perkins & Hess pay as fol- Ows: _ Green . a oe ae Part cured............ @ 8% Full Cured.. ws-eee 84Q@ Vn Be eee waa 9 @il Kips. a ........... 7 @8 Migs, Gured........... 84@ 94 Calfskins, green...... Te@ 9 Calfskins, cured. ..... < @wy Deaconskins ......... @30 Pelts. Smeneines ........... 5@ 30 en 40@ 90 Old Wool : 61@Q Oils. Barrels. os ......... @11% XXX W.W.Mich.Hdlt @ 8% W W Michican........ @ 8 Diamond White....... @7 2 Gee... @ 8 Deo. Napths .......... @ 7% yitiGee oe. 2 @36 Ce ee ieee 11 @2l Black, Winéer......... @8s Crockery and | Glassware. AKRON STONEWARE. Butters, 4 @Al.. per Gos. ........... 50 L to ¢ gal. per gal........ 5% Seal. peregal 41)... 64% re Ban, Der eel... b% 12 gal., per gal.. an Oe 15 gal. meat- tubs, per a. & 20 gal. meat-tubs, per gal.. 8 2 gal. meat-tubs, per gal.. 10 30 gal. meat-tubs, per gal.. 10 Churns. 2 to 6 gal., per gal.. 5 Churn Dashers, per ‘doz. 8 Milkpans. % gal. flat or rd. bot., doz. 60 1 gal. fatorrd. bot..each 5% Fine Glazed Milkpans. M% gal. flatorrd. bot.,doz. 65 1 gal. flat orrd. bot.,each 5% Stewpans. M% gal. fireproof, bail, doz. 85 1 gal. fireproof, bail, doz.1 10 Jugs. 4 Gal., per dog..........._. 40 “Gal perdes... ........ 50 Ito 5 gal., per gal......... 8% Tomato Jugs. 34 eal... per deg... ........ 7 ee 7 Corks for % gal., per doz.. 20 Corks for 1 gal., per doz.. 30 Preserve Jars and Covers. % gal., 1 gal., stone cover, doz.. Sealing Wax. 5 lbs. in package, perlb... 2 LAMP BURNERS. stone cover, doz... % "1 00 45 50 75 50 pecuricy, Na. f............. 65 oe ieee | ee Nutmeg . a ee ee TCI 150 LAMP CHIMNEYS—Common. Per box of 6 doz. me Chae 175 me 8 Sam, 1 88 Ne. 2 Gum 2 70 First Quality. No. 0 Sun, crimp P, wrapped and ee ae . & 10 No. 1 Sun, crim wrapped and labe ed. | 225 No. 2 Sun, crimp wrapped and faea is 2 XXX Flint. No. 0 Sun, crim wrapped and labe ed. l2 55 No. 1 Sun, crimp wrapped and enced. 12% No. 2 Sun, crimp to op, wrapped and labeled.... 3 75 CHIMNEY S—Pear! Top. No. 1 — wrapped and iabeled es labeled. . 470 No. 2 Hinge, wrapped ‘and ee i “Small Bulb,” for Globe bamipe......... La Bastie. = SS ecag plain bulb, per .o tds Secon ceseua 5 No. i Crimp, per doe....... 1 35 No. 2 Crimp, per doz.. .... 1 60 Rochester, No. 1, Lime (65c doz)...... 3 50 No. 2) Lime (70c doz)...... 4 06 No. 2) Flint (80c doz)...... 4 70 Electric. No, 2, Lime (70e doz) ..... 4 00 No. 2, Flint (80¢ doz)...... 4 40 OIL CANS, Doz. 1 gal tin cans with spout.. 1 25 1 gal galv iron with spout. 1 65 2 gal galy iron with spout. 3 gal galv iron with spout. : 5 gal galv iron with spout. 3 gal galv iron with faucet 4 75 5 gal galy iron with faucet : = 5 gal Tilting cans.......... 5 a galv iron Nacefas .. “| 00 Pump Cans 5 gal Rapid steady stream. 9 00 5 gal Eureka non- eee 10 56 3 gal Home Rule.. oo. el SO Seal Home Rale...._...... 12 00 5 gal Pirate King...... a. oon LANTERNS. No. @Tabular. .... - 425 No. 1B Tubular... - 650 No. 13 Tubular Dash. - 630 No. iTub, glass fount.. 7°00 No. 12 Tubular, side lamp. 14 0C No. 3 Street Lamp . - 3% gee GLOBES. No. 0 Tubular, cases 1 doz. each, box 10 cenis.. . 45 No. 0 Tubular, cases2 doz. each, box 15 cents. 45 No. Seerae bbls 5 doz. each, bbl 35 No. 0 Tubular, bull’s eye, eases 1 doz. each. ........ 1% LAMP WICKS. No. 0 per gross....... No: 1 per arogs............. 2 Na. 2 per groes 1... ....... 38 Ne. 3 per srome........ ..... OB Pewee, 43655 ..... | 22 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Shoes and Leather Relation Between Shoes and Health. The girl of to-day who slips into her bicycle boots for a morning spin, later into her tennis shoes for a good game, and ends her day in dainty house shoes, perhaps does not realize the action she is taking toward the establishment of perfect health. Yet the same course of shoe changing pursued throughout the year would mark marvels in keeping her free from ailments of the throat, in- fluenza and kindred troubles. If there is one thing more important than another to which woman's atten- tion should be called, it is the necessity of taking care of her shoes. The sym- pathy which exists between the foot and the throat is probably more marked than between any other two members of the body, and nothing obviates the pos- sibility of throat diseases and vocal in- conveniences so much as keeping the feet well shod and perfectly dry. A generally delicate feeling prevails when the subject of feet is broached, as if a conversation based upon it might have in it somewhat of the indelicate, and when discussed at all, the style of the shoe and the cost of it are about the only permissible points one may dwell upon. We must all ruefully admit that the latter is a worthy subject for con- sideration, but it would be a less de- pressing one if taken up more thought- fully. Proportionately, it is not one of the great extravagances of the wardrobe, but we demand of one pair of shoes at least double the service we ask ofa dress, a skirt or other garment. Were we to resolutely supply ourselves in the beginning of each season with an ade- quate number and variety of shoes, the purse as well as the body would ulti- mately be the gainer. We wear one pair too steadily. We would look upon it as dangerous to our health to wear any other garment a pro- portionate length of time. From an econominai standpoint it is more profit- able to keep six or seven pairs of street shoes in wear, using them in regular turn. Notwithstanding the hard, firm, al- most impervious character of the fin- ished outside of the leathern footwear, it should be remembered that the rough inside is more or less absorbent. ‘The healthy foot should perspire as freely as the rest of the body; and since we cover it with leather instead of the light and easily covered fabrics employed for the person generally, we should at least see to it that as many changes are provided for it as for the freer portions of the body. Were this done the leather would have the same opportunity for purifica- tion and drying out by thorough airing as have other garments, the heavy tex- ture of which prevents them from know- ing the cleansing medium of soap and water. oO Good Things Said by Up-to-Date Shoe Dealers. The tariff hasn’t affected the price of our ladies’ shoes—except in the matter of a surprise on account of the lowness —Drex L. Shooman says he has never seen such a complete line of fall and winter shoes for the ladies at such small prices as we have just received—all the latest toes in dress and wet weather shoes, with the double soles—cork filling —you can’t make any mistake, if you want an up-to-date shoe, by selecting the new this season high-cut lace shoe— with Louis Fifteenth heel—one of the most elegant shoes for the ladies ever made—our new fall catalogue is ready for mailing—send tor one.—Drexel Shoe Co., Omaha, Neb. It there were some who were not properly served, in the crush of yester- day’s buying, we tender them our sin- cere apology. Even our army of sales- people found it impossible to serve such an outpouring ot shoe-buying peo- ple. Yesterday's sales were more than double those of any previous day in the history of this always-busy store. This is a direct result of our being able to sell shoes at the same prices other deal- ers are obliged to pay for them. Our shoes were contracted for long before the price of shoe leather advanced. Our great fall opening sale will continue all this week, and the following new souvenir prices will prevail. —William Hahn & Co., Washington, Dp: c. When the question of shoes presents itself the public mind _ instinctively turns to this store—the one great, pop- ular, up-to-date, complete shoe store of Louisville. The New Mammoth’s shoe department will not rest upon the laurels of the old house. With new manage- ment, new ideas, new store fixtures, and new stocks throughout, it now enters upon the fall season farther advanced at ‘‘the head of the procession’’ than ever before—better equipped to supply the demands of the great masses and the exclusive classes than the small- er shoe concerns of this city were they all concentrated into one. Take the items here mentioned as examples: come and call for anything your fancy may suggest; if we can’t funish it, you may as well give up the search. —Mam- moth Clothing and Shoe Co., Louis- ville, Ky. a Shoe Fitting for Children. Of all toes the round toe, now becom- ing so popular, is without doubt the most sensible shape. In the normal foot the second toe is longer than the great toe and the round toe gives it the room it requires, following in comfort- able manner the shape of the foot. This style of shoe is specially suitable for children. Young girls especially require comfortable footwear and _ foot- wear that will not ruin the growing foot for all future time. The foot of the young girl sheuld have first-class care. It should be fitted for ease and conifort. The shoe for it should be well made, should fit sung to the instep and leave room for the toes to lie in a natural position. Too much care cannot be exercised in fitting children’s shoes. ——___» 2. ___ The devil was never known yet to de- sert his friends in a tight spot, but gets them into a tighter one, and then does. BULLDOG, OPERA LAST No. 151. Men’s Fine Satin Calf. McKay Sewed. Cylinder fitted. Outside backstay. Dongola top. Bright raised eyelets, smooth inner sole, one piece sole leather counter, solid heel and bottom. Bull- dog, Opera, Coin, English or Boston cap toe or Globe, Glaze or French plain toe lasts. Balls or Congress. Order sampie case and prove our as- sertion that this is the BEST shoe made for $1. Satisfaction guaranteed. New samples now ect 9 To insure an early ca!l and secure exclusive agency address A. B. CLARK, Lawton, Mich. E. H. STARK & CO., Worcester, Mass. Men’s Oil Grain Creoles and Credmeres in 2 S. and T. and % D. S., also Men’s Oil Grain and Satin Calf in lace and congress in2 58. and T. and ¥% D. S., all Solid—a good western shoe at popular prices. We also handle Snedicor & Hathaway Co.’s shoes in Oil Grain and Satin. It will pay you to order sample cases as they are every one of thema money-getter. We still handle our line of specialties in Men’s and Women’s shoes. We still handle the best .rubbers—Lycoming and Key- stone—and Felt Boots and Lumbermen’s Socks. Geo. H. Reeder & Co., 19 South Ionia Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. lieve us, too. Our general line of Foot- wear never was stronger in the history of our business, “and these are our — days. é) HEROLD-BERTSCH SHOE 0, Johnnie says our Felt Goods ARE warm! os GA y # We believe the boy—and Oo if you look over our line of 3 Warm Goods, you will be- 5 & 7 PEARL STREET. 4 a —PPLP ALA LL ALS Fit and Quality Are the two essential Features combined in the. HARRISBURG LINE OF LADIES SHOES HIRTH, KRAUSE & CO., MICHIGAN STATE AGENTS, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Correspondence solicited. ‘ay me 9 ‘ % WOMAN’S LOT IN BUSINESS. Attentions That She Is Advised Never to Accept. From the New York Sun. They were at the same table in the women’s restaurant, the prosperous business woman, with ten years of effi- cieut’ work to her credit; the veteran clerk, who had been twenty years in harness, yet showed few signs of wear, and the young graduate from the busi- ness college, just in the first flush of ex- perience as a wage earner. ‘The less a woman in business is like a woman out of business the better it will be for her,’’ said the veteran clerk, crumbling a morsel of bread re- lentlessly on the tablecloth. ‘“Yes,’’ agreed her neighbor. ‘‘A business woman can be as womanish as she chooses outside of business mat- ters, but she must adopt a different code when she sets out to compete with men.”’ ‘She must be oblivious of everything that goes on during business hours ex- cept what relates strictly to her work,’’ affirmed the veteran. ‘*And she must not have her business life and her social life in any way re- lated to each other. To my mind, if a woman means to succeed in a business Career, she must separate her business and social interests wholly and entirely. I should warn any girl against accept- ing attentions, even the most trivial, from the men she works for, even from those men who might seeming!y be able to help her on her way,’’ and this was uttered in a tone that said plainly, ‘‘1] know what I am talking about.’’ ‘*How about taking luncheon with a really high-toned man if he asks you?’’ enquired the novice. ‘‘Two or three have asked me.’’ ‘*Oh! my dear! The men in your office, you mean, those you work for?’’ The novice nodded. ‘“‘Never do it,’’ said the veteran, jointing her chicken wing with a snap. **Never do it in a single instance.’’ ‘*It is a mistake to accept such atten- tion, even in exceptional cases,’’ said the efficient woman. ‘‘Treat all such offers politely, but decline them firmly, and in such a way that they will not be made a second time.’’ ‘‘It is even wiser for a girl not to ride in the cars with a man she works for; that is, not voluntarily,’’ put in the veteran. ‘‘And she had better not walk on the street with him, either; not so much as a couple of yards,’’ said the woman manager, stirring her coffee vigorously. ‘*T doubt even if she ought to take the same elevator. Better wait for the next irip. vand she should certainly not laugh and talk with him in between times, as I have seen done,’’ added the veteran. ‘‘When a woman is in a_ business office she’s there for work; that stands to reason. But she also occupies j.sta little higher plane than the men. 1 mean higher in the men’s estimation. When she laughs and talks and becomes familiar with them she steps down from that plane to their level. The best way for a woman to get along in business is for her to be like a machine—an ac- curate, painstaking machine—and do her work so thoroughly that the men will torget her sex. That is the key- note of all the successful women’s ca- reers that I know of.”’ ‘*But why must a womar in business be a mere machine?’’ said the college graduate. ‘‘The less a man in business is like a machine the better it is for him. I can’t see the difference. There are a good many little deals and trans- actions entered into and half formed ideas developed at those very social communings and luncheons and outside chats that you condemn. If a woman is in business for life; if she is never, never to marry and give it up, or any- thing of that kinc, why can't she share these advantayes?’’ **Simply because she can’t. Women are different. What answers for men in business doesn't hold good for them,’’ said both elders in a breath. ‘*But you said just now that women must not be women in business, that MICHIGAN TRADESMAN they must be machines, sexless. Now, I’m sure there can be no harm in the business part of a woman going out to luncheon. She could leave the teminine part out of the question, and she might learn much during that iuncheon that would be to her advantage if the man were genuinely kind and interested in Her, | i ‘*Yes, she might,’’ said the veteran. ““T think I see the gist of the mat- ter,’’ went on the graduate. ‘‘The woman in business must drop all the priviliges of her sex, but abide by ali the restrictions. ’’ ‘*Precisely,’’ said the other; ‘‘women are always hedged about that way.’’ The novice sighed. ‘*] think that 1t women have to meet men on the same plane and compete with them in business,’’ she said, ‘‘they ought to get rid of these embarrass- ments you talk of and make use ot all their chances, socially and every other way.'’ The veterans looked contemplative. ‘* Business is much easier tor men than it is tor women,’’ the older woman said as she tolded her napkin and_ touk up her pucketbook. ‘| have thought a good deal about it. Women can effect very nearly the same results as men, but they have to go about it in a dead-in- earnest, hard-work sort of fashion, whereas the men can go round by short cuts and pleasant paths to the same end. |” ‘‘And you think that being friendly with the men and taking luncheon with them is one way of going by the short cuts?’’ said the fledgling. ‘‘Yes, and the woman who tries to do that will generally meet with interfer- ences that will cause her to alter her course and get back to the long, monot- onous road. You mark what we tell you,’’ and the trio separated. The graduate from the business col- lege is not so wise at the end of her first year in business as she is at the end oft the second, and in the third year she just begins to get an inkling of things as they really are. It is probable that she is human at the start, being earth born, and that she forgets and lets_her- self out occasionally, and gets into tepid, if not actually hot, water in con- sequence. It may be possible that she is betrayed into laughter that has its origin in matters other than business, and that occasionally, when she runs across one of the lords of the office in the street or other public place she does not pass by on the other side. It may be possible that she has a genuine bit of sunshine in her nature and can’t help getting interested in things or having things get interested in her. All these drawbacks and propensities, however, get duly ironed out after a time, and she learns to speak by the card and adapt her steps and bearing and per- ceptions to the accepted code. If the woman clerk encounters unex- pected complications in her career, it is probably because certain things were not made plain to her at the start. For instance, wben a business man engages a woman for any clerical work it would be so much plainer sailing for her and for him if he should stipulate, among other things, that she should refuse to go to luncheon with him in case he asked her. Perhaps this stipulation is not made because it does not occur to the business man at the time that he is ever likely to ask her, or that she might ever be likely to want to go if he did. Be that as it may, itis likely that when the asking does come it is entirely un- premeditated, and that the refusal is equally premeditated. The asking, it is presumed, is prompted solely by a generous good will toward human kind, and a desire to expand in the congenial company nearest at hand, a motive de- void of any impulse that the most mi- croscopically inclined skeptic could scoff at. When his invitation is declined the would-be host is reminded suddenly that the clerk whom he would befriend is dual in nature, that she is not only a clerk, and a satisfactory clerk, but a woman as well, and he should not have asked her to break bread with him, or to pledge a cup with him, or to do any- thing that might have been the thing had she been a man or had he not been responsible for her weekly salary. **Hang it all!’’ meant to suggest anything awkward, and I never thought of what might or might not be proper. People get hun- gry at this time of day; she has to get her luncheon and I mine; why not eat it in company? It won't hurt her and it Is not going to hurt me.’’ two go their respective ways, the wom- an thinking that to have accepted the proffered hospitality would occasion talk, and her employer, although at- tributing her refusal to a somewhat overstrained self-consciousness, yet re- specting her womanly deference to pub- lic opinion. In the wage-earning mart, whether her task be mental or tangible, the business woman meets with many men of many minds. Often, although no conscious fault of her own, her sex mil- itates against her.’’ ‘“‘l am hurried now, and have no time to talk about the matter,’’ the well-informed man whom she has called upon tells her; ‘‘but I go out to my luncheon in just an hour. I should be glad to have you go with me, and we could then discuss the subject at length. You could not go to-day? Well, to-mor- row, then—or some other day that will suit you. I am at your disposal.’’ The woman whose acquaintance with | the . |etiquette for the business woman has jnothing to go by on her side. this man is of the slightest does not wish to go to juncheon with him; in fact, she feels that for her to accept such an obligation from him would be _intol- | erable. She would like very much to hear what he has to say; his informa- tion would be of real use to her, but she at once decides to do without it. She makes her acknowledgments and gets away wishing devoutly for the time be- ing that she is a man. The flull-fledged business woman, she who has sounded the ground in all directions and found firm footing whence she can see the quagmires and quick- sands around, maintains stoutly that the non-luncheon, non-attention, sternly negative path is the only route that leads he thinks; ‘‘I never | But the } 23 to a woman's permanent success. If {there is testimony to be heard on the other side, and there certainly is, it is evidence of a kind so mute and non- come-atable that the voices of the wom- en who would proscribe it are far in the ascendant. _ There are laws written and unwritten ior guidance in matters social and_ po- lite, laws formulated when and_ by whom no one knows, but that are judged admirable in their way and regarded as fixed authority, from which there can be no appeal. In the business woman’s particular orbit, and for the guidance |of the woman clerk, there are no laws, alterable or otherwise. The woman clerk herself is an anomaly hatched out only twenty years or so ago, a mere iota of time in the world’s history. No- body yet has thought out any rules of etiquette for her convenience, and she has hastily adopted a half-defined code for herselt. The business woman who has accepted attentions more than once from men potent in her career, who has taken luncheon occasionally and found that all went well, does not tell her sis- ter tyros of the f If, on the other Fact. hand, the experiment precipitated the embarrassments that were predicted, | is not yet, she remains mute | verse, remains an she keeps her own counsel; and if it led to complications, the end of which regarding them, also. The compiler of codes of The question as to whether certain things are proper and expedient, or the re- open one, and the woman clerk, womanly considered, will have to be much older, in the abstract, before it is settled. In the meantime the business man goes on treating his woman clerk with most unbusiness-like inconsistency. He takes off his hat to his typewriter because she is a woman; | holds the door open for her and lets her | pass out before him because she isa woman, and—pays her lower wages _be- cause she is a woman. > em. — Keep your own secrets if you have any. ==: TR BW -BW- BBW BW BW BW BW BB “BM MW - BW -B -B -BW BM: = A YI LA ALAA AALAS LASS ASS OO OOO OOM ® Buy WN money. A MN ' A NEW JOBBING HOUSE W with New Stock, New Styles, Cash Prices, W and near enough for you to get goods within W AN where you can buy the best for the least W i " twenty-four hours after you order them. wv WN Think what that means: wecarrythestock ¢: AN ' 7 W he Weeece AN you order as you need goods. W MICHIGAN SHOE COMPANY, Detroit, Mich. Wy V7 secccsescsescecsescesecescee* .™~, “TT TB’ B’ BW’ @’ Se’ @®’ @’ SS’ SB’ SB’ SQ’ SB’ SB’ BW’ BS’ SD FQDOMOQOOOQOMD©OOOQODOOE§ QDOHOQOOQOGQOGQDOOOOQOOOGDE® ® : Rindge, Kalmbach & Co., 12, 14, 16 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids, Michigan. 2 Manufacturers and Jobbers of Boots and Shoes @ 8 Our Lines and Prices for fall are right. © @ @ @ @ @) @ @ A full line of Warm @ Socks; also, Boston and Bay State rubber goods. Your business is solicited. QCOHOQOQOODQOGDOOOQOOOOQOOOOQOQOQOODODOOQDODOODOE © DPOOQOOQOQO©OQOOQDOQOQOQOOE We carry Goods—Felt Boots and QQOQOOOO® @ 24 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN MANUFACTURING MATTERS. Potterville—Swift & Shainholtz have resumed business in the grist mill line. Jackson—The Jackson Candy Co. will manufacture a line of candies for the wholesale trade. Whitehall—Geo. H. Nelson and Lew Myers have engaged in the manufacture of a never-slip pipe wrench in the old Linderman building. Charlotte— Harlow & Sewall are en- gaged in the- manufacture of a sack holder upon which the former received letters patent last week. Eaton Rapids—Wm. Smith has started up his egg crate works, employing from twenty-five to thirty girls. He will in the near future move the business from Smithville to this city. Coleman—Wm. J]. Tower and Geo. Miller have formed a copartnership for the purpose of engaging in the sawmill] and general merchandise business at Onaway, Presque Isle county. Hastings—The firm of Wilmont, Green & King, founders and machinists, has been dissolved by the retirement of A. A. Wilmont. The firm hereafter will be known as the Green & King Co., being composed of Wm. T. Green and E. E. King. Elk Rapids—The Elk Rapids Iron Co. sold and shipped nearly 5,000 tons of pig iron the past week. The furnance is making nearly ninety tons daily The Chemical works, which burned nearly sixty days ago, will be replaced by Jan. 1. Detroit—The Peerless Hose Coupler Co. has filed articles of association, and will manufacture and sell hose couplers in this city on a cash capital of $9,000, ‘of which James H. Donaldson has put in $2,000, Wilbur W. McAlpin $3,000, and Louis E. Eastman $4,000. St. Joseph—The Truscott Boat Man- ufacturing Co. has purchased the old tub and pail factory property of the Wells-Higman Co. and increased its capital stock to $100,000, Messrs. Wells and Higman taking stock in the en- larged company to the amount of the purchase price of the property. Detrcit—The Dickinson Chemical Co., of which Dr. A. E. Dickinson is the President and General Manager, and Henry A. Haigh, the Secretary, will commence doing business at No. 113. East Fort street about Jan. 1, and will develop Prof. Meiers’ new process for the manufacture of caustic soda and glycerine. St. Ignace—James Nickel and W. J. Ross have formed a copartnership for the purpose of lumbering a tract of pine in the vicinity of Seul Choix point. The firm will be known as Nickel & Ross. The latter will conduct the ac- tive operations in camp, while Mr. Nickel will attend to purchasing and shipping in supplies. Alpena—The latest industry at Alpena is the Besser-Churchill Co., a corpora- tion just formed to manufacture staves, headings, hoops, shingles and excel- sior. The company is composed of Herman Besser, W. L. Churchill and H. D. Churchill, all men of large busi- ness experience and abundant capital. The new company has purchased the old Cockley stave mill and will putin a fine plant, costing about $100,000. Part of the plant will be in operation by January 1. This is the fourteenth plant outside the lumber mills established in Alpena in recent years, and all are in operation. Alpena seems to be getting right to the- front and is not suffering much from the decadence of the pine lumber industry. Buchanan—The Columbia Manufac- turing Co., manufacturer of show cases, grill work and wood novelties, will re- move from Chicago to this place. It expects to employ fifty men. This makes three new factories secured by Buchanan within six months. There are no vacant business places and but few vacant houses in town. Traverse City—The Kelly Shingle Co., of which W. N. Kelly, of the firm of Kelly & Covell, is the active mem- ber and manager, has purchased 8co acres of cedar land in Lelanau county, which contains timber equal to about 75,000,000 shingles, which it is designed by the new organization to manufacture on the premises. It is expected that 10,000,000 shingles will be manufactured this winter. Detroit—Articles incorporating the Diamond Stamped Ware Co. have been filed with the County Clerk. The object is to manufacture and sell stamped ware made of copper, brass and other metals. The capital stock is $50,000, of which $20,000 is paid in. The incorporators are all residents of Detroit, as tollows: Lewis H. Jones and Rufus W. Gillett, 150 shares each; Allan Shelden, Martin S. Smith, Henry B. Joy, Oliver Gold- smith and George W. Bissell, 250 each; Wm. F. Montgomery and Charles D. Milne, too each; Lewis H. Jones, trus- tee, 3,250 shares. Lansing—A letter from one of the prominent manufacturers of vinegar in the State was recently received at the office of the Dairy and Food Commis- sion which stated that the writer had 400 gallons of cider vinegar on hand, which the merchants refused to take unless the wholesaler would prove it to be salable, and he asked for the for- mula of the State Analyst to determine the amount of acetic acid it contained. This is only one evidence in the num ber of letters of a similar nature which are received at that office, and which indicate the growing regard which the retailers of the State have for the pure food laws and the recognition that they will be rigidly enforced. Belding—During the past few days negotiations have been pending with a view to releasing the Ballou Basket fac- tory from the hands of the receiver and once more turning it over to Mr. Ballou. Several meetings of the parties inter- ested have been held and, although nothing definite has as yet been agreed upon, it is quite probable that the deal will be consummated within the coming week. Mr. Ballou’s father, a gentieman of some means, is in the city for this purpose, and the plan is to purchase the claim of the Belding-Hall Co. and give the two banks security on the plant for the amount of their claims. This arrangement is understood to be agree- able to the banks, when they will give their consent to the release of the re- ceiver and once more restore Mr. Bal- lou to full possession of the business. Adrian—The Adrian Packing Co. is now out of existence, the real estate, stock and accounts of the corporation having been taken possession of by the Adrian State Savings Bank. The com- pany was incorporated about three years ago with a capital stock of $12,000, di- vided equally between W. Swift, G. R. Swift and an Eastern man named Cotton. About a year ago the Adrian Savings Bank was given a mortgage on the plant to secure $9,000 then due the bank and also any future credits which might be granted the institution. The mortgage was withheld from record un- til a few weeks ago, at which time the bank demanded and was given a bill of sale of the entire property to cover its claim, amounting to $16,000. Four thousand cases of tomatoes were sold to Berdan & Co., at Toledo, and 3,000 cases of squash yet remain on hand un- sold. What the bank will do with the property is as yet problematical. Saginaw—The Michigan Flax Fibre Co. has filed articles of association with the County Clerk. The purposes of the company are the production and purchase of flax straw and the manu- facture therefrom of flax fibre and tow for the market and the spinning and weaving of the same into fibres for the market. The cperations are to be car- ried on in this county and the capital stock of the company is $5,000, 89 per cent. of which is paid in. pany has leased a building at the cor- ner of Franklin and Meredith streets and will shortly place the flax machine in it which was invented and patented by General Manager Morrison. It will be run by electric power and about ten hands will be employed. During the summer about sixty women have _ been employed working on the flax at the different farms on which it has been grown. There is now about 200 tons of straw as a result, which is being rutted on the farms. The com- The Facts in the Case. Gould City, Nov. 1—We wish to cor- rect a statement which appeared in your issue of Oct. 27 under the heading ol business changes. John I. Bovee, Frank W. Robinson and Frank H. Freeman, of Gould City, and A. D. Day, of Engadine, bought of Culver & McArthur, at Corinne, an undivided half interest in the firm of Culver & McArthur, 0H. C. Culver re tiring from the above firm of Culver & McArthur and A. B. McArthur retain- ing an undivided half interest in the firm, the name of the firm being changed to A. B. McArthar & Co. A. 6. Mc- Arthur has no interest whatever in the firms of F. Freeman & Co (Gould City), Bovee, Robinson & Co. (Bovee), of (A. D. Day & Co. (Bneadine). There has been no change in the first, the partners in which are as follows: F. H. Freeman Co. (Gould City) is composed of John I. Bovee, Frank W. Robinson and Frank H. Freeman. Bovee, Robinson & Co. (Kovee) is composed of John I. Bovee, Frank W. Robinson and Frank H. Freeman. A. D. Day & Co. (Engadine) is com- posed of A. D. Day, owning one half interest, and John I. Bovee, Frank W. Robinson and Frank H, Freeman, who jointly own the other half. You will see by this that A. B. Mc- Arthur has no interest whatever in the firms of F. H. Freeman & Co., Bovee, Robinson & Co. or A. D. Day & Co., but does own a half interest in the firm of A. B. McArthur & Co., which is the only firm in which there has been any change. Please correct in your next is- sue, as the item in your last is very misleading, as it gives Mr. McArthur a half interest in the entire business, which is not true. BOvVEE, ROBINSON & Co. a 0 Jackson Traveling Men on Record. Jackson, Nov. 1—The following reso- lution was recently adopted by Jackson Council, No. 57, United Commercial Travelers’ Association: We, the members of Jackson Council No. 57, do most earnestly protest against two requirements of the new __ inter- changeable mileage book issued by the Central Passenger Association—that of checking baggage and of exchanging the mileage slip at the ticket agent's window for a train ticket; and we most earnestly hope and pray that the mem- bers of the Central Passenger Associa- tion can see their way clear to remove these two objectionable features, which will then give to the traveling publica most acceptable and popular mileage book. WANTS COLUMN. Piicieiecaies ds will be inserted sini this head for two cents a word the first insertion and one cent a word for each subsequent in- sertion. Noe advertisements taken for iess than 25 cents. Advance payment. BUSINESS CHANCES. FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE—STORE AND dwelling - combined, at Mec ord Station, on D..G. K. & W.R. R.: sood well in house: cis- tern, new horse barn, ete. Store finished ready for gouds An excelent point for business. Price, $700—a bargain. Address Dr. L. FE. Has kin. Me ord, Mich. 421 W step STOCK OF DEY GOODS OR general merchandise for Northern In diana, Illinois and lowa improved farms. Have buyers for general stores, and stores for sale. \eldress No. 419, care Mic higan Tri ide ‘smn. 419 - SALE—CLEAN STOCK OF HARI WARE in Al shape and full set tinner’s tools: best town in Michigan and best farming country in the State. Excellent chance to er gage in the hardware business; reason for selling. other l ness Address No. 417, care Michigan Trade man 117 \ LOCATION FOR DRUG STORE. WRITE D4 at once to No. 415, care Michigan T:ades man, 415 ARGE STORE BUILDING AND GENERAL 4 stock of mere he anudise to exchange for good tmi:g lands. Address Lock Box 254, Wolcott ville Ind $155 Fok Rest ~OWLNG TO DEATH, THE BEST equipped hardware store in Michigan: old established stand: good location in one of the best farming end manufacturing towns: low rent. Address No. 418, care Michigan Trades man, 418 W ANTED-GOOD DRY BEECH AND MA- ple 16-inch block wood, not less than two thirds hard maple. Price on ci 4g" at shipping point. . Hyde, 860 Madison Aye. rand Rap 1ds. Mic th 111 W ANTED—BUTT i i “AND EGGS. IF ¥Ot want good pric s and quick returns w ite us. Lun n & Strong, T oledo, Ohio 402 POR SALE - SMALL DRUG STOCK, INVOIC- ing about $700, in best town for size iu Mich- gan; doing $60 to $75 per week business; rent, $100 per year: best location in town: best of reasons fcr selling. Address cook Box 20, Lake Odessa, Mich. 4ul — — FIRST-CLASS BUTTER FOR retail trade. Cash paid. —e with Caulkett & Co. _'Trave'se City, Mic 3el POR EX¢ HANGE —A WELL- ASSOR TED drug stock that wil inventory $1,200 for a stock of grueeries. Address John Creoper, 340 Ww oodworth avenue, Gr ind Rapids Mich 866 ye EXCHANGE—TWO FINE i MP ROVED farms for stock of merchandise: splendid location. Address No. 73, care Michigan ‘Trades- man. 13 \ JANTED—1,00 CASES FRESH EGGS daily Write for prices. ©. W. Grow n, Ithaca. Mic h. le 249 a“ SAL E—JU DGMENT FOR $8.08 AGAINST Niles H. Winans, real estate egent in the Tower Block. Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids 38 PATENT SOLICITORS. eRe E—OUR NE W HANDBOOK ON PAT- ents. Ciiley & Algier, Patent Attorneys, rand Rapids, M: ceh. 339 MISCELLANEOUS WAsTED_ A GOOD MAN TO MANAGE city office. Liberal salary to the right party Metal-Back Album Co., Battie Cre+k, Mich. 423 \ TANTED—SITUATION AS SALESMAN IN ary goods or general store; five yea s’ ex- perience; Al rcferences. Address No. ,22, care Michigan T rade smn. 422 W ANTED—POSITION IN GROCERY OR general st..re by experienced clerk. Satis- faction guaranteed; references furnished. Ad- dress Walter E Bigelow. Bundy Mich. 470 GF CBnES ae —— ee bbhtes be ———EEEee *C.B.* gc _.t-te> _, :Cough : Drops 5 THE C.BLOM, Jr} CANDY CO., HOLLAND,- MICH: ‘ea enn ececAnOO ee cSrrsrrr sees Peepers: ee a % Tsp asa hae aaa PELE Stee weet y wet ew etaaseee BRS —. ete e ORES A tw tS Beet ecectrrers ee ee eee tate, me HT Se For Sale by Leading Jobbers. —— «+, cpaniicte tiny Cuiptinuaaet ie Travelers’ Time Tables. C AN ADI AN Pacific Railway. ABSOLUTE Grand Rapids & Western. June 27, 1897. DETROIT, Going to Detroit. Ly. Grand Rapids..... 7:00am 1:30pm 5:33pr Ar. Detrors..... ....-: 11:40am 5:40pm 19:20pm Returning from Detroit. by. Detrote.. io .5. oc: 8:00am 1:10pm 6:10pr Ar. Grand Rapids..... 1:00pm 5:20pm 10:55pm Saginaw, Alma and Greenville. Lv. G R7:10am 4:20pm Ar. GR 12:20pm 9:30nr Parlor cars on all trains to and from Detroit and:Saginaw. Trains run week days only. Gro. DEHAVEN, General Pass, Agent. Trunk Railway System Detroit and Milwaukee Diy. GRAN (In effect October 3, 1897.) Leavy EAST. Arrive. + 6 6:45am. .Saginaw, Detroit and East..t+ 9: — hes etoe cs Detroit and East.... . + 5:07pm +3 en = -Saginaw, Detroit and East. — 45pm *10: aon. -Detroit, East and Canada...* 6:35am WEST * 7:00am....Gd. Haven and Int. Pts....*10:15nm +12:53pm.Gd. Haven and Intermediate.+ 3:22pm + 5:12pm....Gd. Haven Mil. and Chi....+10:05am +10:0Upm...... Gd. Haven and Mil................. Eastward—No. 14 has Wagner parlor car. No. 18 parlor car. Westward—No. 11 parlor car. No. 15 Wagner parlor car. *Daily. t+tExcept Sunday. : E. H. Huenes, A.G. P. & T. A. BEn. FLETCHER, Trav. Pass. Agt., Jas. CAMPBELL, City Pass. Agent No. 23 Monroe St and West Michigan R'y Sept. 26, 1897. CHICAG Going to ——- Ly. G. Rapids........... am et :25pm *11:30pm Ay. Chicawe........<..- 3: oon 6: a 6:40am Returning from Chicag Ly. Chicago............ 7:20am Sib oe * 9:30pm Ar. @’d Rapids......... 1:25pm 10:32pm * 6:20am Muskegon. Ly. G’d Rapids..... .... 8:30am 1:25pm 6:25pm Ar. G@’d Rapids........... i:2opm 32. 2. 10:10am Traverse City, Charlevoix and Petoskey. Lew. @d@ Rapids. --..... 2-4)... 7:30am 5:50pm Ar. Traverse City . 2: 2 11:10pm Ay. Chartovarn. -.... 5.2... Scroiae . .-. we Petoskey... 2 8. tke 3:45pm See aes PARLOR AND 8LEEPING CARS. CHICAGO. Parlor cars leave Grand Rapids 1:25 p m; leave Chicago 5:15 pm. -Sleeping cars leave Grand Rapids *11:30 pm; leave Chicago *9:30 m. - . 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. GRAN Rapids & Indiana Railway June 20, 1897. Northern Div. Leave Arrive Trav. C’y, Petoskey & Mack...t 7:45am + 5:15pm Trav. eg Petoskey & Mack...t 2 30pm ¢t 6 3 am re ee ee + 5: 25pm +11:15am Train leaving at 7:45 a. m. has parior car, and train leaving at 2:30 p. m. has sleeping car to Mackinaw. - Southern Div. Leave Arrive Cincinnati...... Oe oa aoe + 7:10am + 8:25pr ee Wayne. 332.08... 2... + 2:00pm + 2:10pm Cincinnati....... .....-......- * 7:00pm * 7:25am 7:10a.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 Cincinuati. Muskegon Trains. GOING WEST. Lv @’d Rapids......... . :35am +1:00pm +5:40pm Ar Muskegon........... 9:00am 2:10pm 7:05pm GOING BAST. Lv Muskegon....... .. +8:10am +11:45am +4:0)pm ArG’d Rapids... ..... 9:30am 12:55pm 5:2)pm +Except Sunday. *Daily. Cc. L. LOCKWOOD, Gen’! Passr. and Ticket Agent. MINNEAPOLIS, §*: Pat! & Sautt Ste. WEST BOUND. = Grand Rapids (G. R. & L)............ +7:45am Ww. Mackinaw Olty. <.. .... cose. . 05sec. os 4:20pm = Gladstone.............- Sineclc sca osecuse 9:50pm Ar, 6G Pagal: . oc... ses fF aeenaas os 8:45am Ar. Minneapolis. <....c00.0....2:.-ceccee 9:908M EAST BOUND. Ly. ee Ar. St. Paul.. Ar. Gladstone.. W. R. CaLtLaway, Gen. Pass. Agt., eicaeanalie E. Cc Oviatt, Trav. Pass. Agt., Grand Rapids. Ly. Ar. AQ. Ly. Lv. Ar. PURE GROUND SPICES, BAKING POWDER EAST BOUND. ie eG, 11:45am *11:35pm BUTCHERS’ SUPPLIES, ETC. MOOUOR ccs cots sve o ee 8:30pm 8:15am MORCAL so .icoecs vans. 7;20am 8:00pm FOR THE TRADE. WEST BOUND. THE VINKEMULDER COMPANY, Montreal..... ........... 8:59am 9:00pm PHONE 555. POremGhe, cc 4:00pm 7:30am a TRCCWONG ct . 10:45pm 2:10pm 418=420 S. Division St., Grand Rapids. D. MeNicol!, Pass. Traffic Mgr , Montreal. E. C. Oviatt, Trav. Pass. Agt.,Grand Rapids. Who gets the ... DULUT South Shore and Atlantic Oyster Trade? Railway. The man whose oysters are the freshest and best flavored. WEST BOUND. Who loses other trade Lv. — Rapids (G. R. & I. ea — +7:45am ra ? Ly. Mackinaw City............ 35am 4:20pm The man who sells fishy oysters ey eae ae was ne 8: am ae diluted with ice to disgust his Ar. Marquette ........ Seca ae an 10: Opm customers. Ar. Nestoria................... S:2pm Iz:dbam Avoid such a calamity by d € s a C2 y y ee. PO sc cecccewcc.) 522 5.. 8:30am dsing cur Oyster Cabinets, EAST BOUND. (See cut.) They are lined with a6 eee... ce. oo... 46:30pm copper so you can use salt with At: WGSOFIS. 65... tne... +11:15am =. 2:45am the ice. They have porcelain (AY. Mariette... ............ 7:30pm = 4:30am lined cans. S fi i Lv. Sault Ste. Marie.. Spm = ....... sala ot enn Ar, Mackinaw City. ......... 8:40pm 11:0°am Grand Rapids Refrigerator Co. Grand Rapids, Mich. G. W. Hipparp, Gen. Pass. Agt. Marquette. E. C. Oviatt, Trav. Pass. Agt., Grand Rapids Che Fe Brsie of the United States of America, To HENRY KOCH, your clerks, attorneys, ager 3 salesmen and workmen, and all claiming or holding through or under you, GREETING: 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, complained of, and that the said ENOCH MORGAN’S SONS COMPANY, 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, under the pains and penalties which may fall upon you and each of you in case of disobedience, to be relieved touching the matters therein Complainant, that you do absolutely desist and refrain from in any manner unlawfully using the word ‘‘SAPOLIO,” 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 Complainants said manufacture, and from false or misleading manner. in any way using the word ‘‘SAPOLIO” in any yy e 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. [sear] [sicNeD} S. D. OLIPHANT, Cleré ROWLAND COX, Comblainant’s Solicitor Omaha Retail Grocers’ Association £Corner Park Avenue and Leavenworth Street. ESSERE ES EES eb coe ee se ‘ OFFICERS Cc. R. COURTNEY, PRESIDENT H. J. HUGHES, VICE-PRESIDENT oO. J. WILDE, JR., TREASURER oe E. T. JOHNSON, SECRETARY BOARD OF DIRECTORS WM. FLEMING J. M. JOHNSON A. PETERSON E. D. EVANS A. GLADSTONE CHAS. HANLEY W. J. HUNTER R. A. LENHART FRED BRUNING F. A. JONES WM. GENTLEMAN GEO. F. MUNRO Office of the Secretary, Telephone 1759. Resolutions Passed by the Retail Grocers’ Association of Omaba, Neb. RESOLVED—tThat, in view of careful consideration and the practical knowledge of our members, we recognize the Dayton Computing Scale as being of material benefit to the retail grocers at large, for the following reasons: Ist. Its extreme accuracy. 2nd. It places a check on all goods weighed. 3rd. That we believe the dollar and cent system to be far more convenient and safer than the pound and ounce system. 4th. It takes the place of a living auditor and prevents errors and mistakes. 5th. It cleans up a great leakage in the retail grocery business. We believe it to be to the interest of all retail grocers to carefully investigate this system. Therefore, the secretary is hereby instructed to furnish a copy of these resolutions to our-lead- 2s Beason, z ss area z ing Grocery Journals for publication. THE COMPUTING SCALE COMPANY, Dayton, Ohio. Bie _ enn sy sr senses mse (Signed) E. T. JOHNSON, Secretary. isesaons is Weverenereven aeerendvudendvedvdevdvvdeveen = DB ae . a eat tae |The Stimpson | 7 oA Zz S We meet a man who has been MG s % ae for — pan for Ke e Ss ip the merchants’ trade without t S | ZS “3 knowing that the very best Hi Compu ing Ca e ZF = medium he could employ for Xo ZG iS that purpose is the oi sissies 3 e | S Simplicity, accuracy, weight and 2 Michigan Tradesman. | | | | AWS AF AAS AS AAS AS AAS AS AAS AAS AAS AF AAS AAS OES SH STI IN IVY INS FY SAY ITY IY SHY IY IWS PIII NV When we have had the op- portunity to talk to him we have had no difficulty in con- vincing him of the truth of the above statement. It takes no talking after the first trial. If they come in once they stay. Weare not in the business for fun. We want your money, but we have honest value to exchange for it. Better think about these things a little in advance and write us. Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids. SSS eS SEES EESSSEESSSESESS Ke SCS) Value shown by the movement of one poise. It is the acme of perfection and not excelled in beauty and finish. We have no trolley or tramway to handle. We have no cylinder to turn for each price per pound. We do not follow, but lead all competitors. We do not have a substitute to meet competition. We do not indulge in undignified s and unbusinesslike methods to make sales—we seil Stimpson scales on their merits. Agents of other companies would not have td spend most all ot their time trying to convince the trade that our scale was no good if the Stimpson did not possess the most ES IES) ICSE 3 PIRSA RASS points of merit. All we ask is an opportunity to show you the Scale and a chance to convince you that our claims are facts. Write us and give us the opportunity. i : Xj The Stimpson Computing Scale Co., Re ELKHART, IND. Represented in Eastern Michigan by R. P. BIGELOW, Owosso. Represented in Western Michigan by Cc. L. SENSENEY, Grand Rapids. Telephone No. 266.