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These goods are extra-plated, of handsome design and are made by one of the largest manufacturers in the United States and will wear five years. 25 of Our Yellow Labels, attached to original tin-foil wrappers, will procure one Silver Plated Teaspoon, and 50 of same will procure one of either, Table Spoon, Fork, Butter Knife or Sugar Spoon. For 75 you will receive one Silver Plated Steel Table Knife, and for toa hand- some Aluminum Thimble is given. of Present labels, attached to tin-foil wrappers, at our office in this city, and receive premiums free of any charge in return; or hand labels, at- tached to tin-foil wrappers, to 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 WHY NOT TRY THEM NOW? Cy ry YAY S.C. . 5c CIGARS SOLD BY ALL JOBBERS. G. J. JOHNSON CIGAR CO., Mfrs., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Dolls, Toys and Games of every description. “HOLOAY a Season 1897-92. Christmas Cards, Booklets, Calendars, _On account of moving to our New Build- and Novelties. ing (50x 125 feet—three floors and_base- ment) we are a little late this year, but Albums, ovr New Line, especially adap a to the Beets, Drug, Stationery and Bazaar Trades Photo Frames, Medalions, will be on exhibition by Nov. roth in our Hem Sample Room, (25 x 100 feet), com- 2 ale: Need prising ie mrst co iigilets and attractive : ' assortment ol Fancy (ioods. sey Sa POPULAR PRICED HOLIDAY ARTICLES to be seen in Michigan. to prove this by a personal visit. Railroad Perfumery of all Leading Makers. Give usa chance a expenses allowed up to 5 per cent. of your Fancy China P . , J pil P ie purchase of Holiday Goods. No cata- Bric-a-Brac. lozues. 1 e invited. Our travelers will soon be on their routes Stationers’ Sundries, i FRED BRUNDAGE, Supplies, WHOLESALE DRUGGIST, etc., etc. 32 and 34 Western Avenue, - Muskegon, Mich. Druggists and to solicit your orders as usual. SSS AIS: ee HAND SLEIGHS * desks Great Variety New Styles. . New Prices . Order Samples Now. They will open yeur eyes. Catalogue Free. LEONARD /1FG. CO.. Grand Rapids, Mich. ©OOO00S0000000000S 2OSOOF SOS SOHSHOOSHOSHSOHSHOOHODOOO 9990000 S 006009000000 oe LELEELEE EET ETE ET EET TT Te MERE ASSERTION ¢ + + Pebeey Does not carry the full force of conviction. But when a man has tested a thing for himself, and knows that it is true—that it pays—there is no longer any room for doubt. The MICHIGAN TRADESMAN pays its advertisers in a way that makes repeaters of them. When they once try it they come again, they stay. The circulation is not based on the papers printed and circulated helter-skelter, but on the number actually paid for yearly in advance. Sample, rates and the facts about it sent free on application. “~ “? rt Heeb poh heh oh oh popup ee Pepop hob ohehopepop “* * “? *~ “ “? “? “> a * TRADESMAN COMPANY, Grand Rapids. : se + LEE EEE EEE EEE EEE EEE EE EE POP SHH HOO OS 00000000 00000000 00006000 00060000006006 “"Tis not in nature to command success, but well do more. Semtpronitus, we'll deserve it.” ood MUSTARD versus SALCE. BAYLE’S HORSERADISH. MUSTARD Is the ORIGINAL and GENUINE Horseradish Mustard. OR centuries the English have been known as great mustard-eaters—the greatest in the world. They differ from the Southern races, such as the French, Spanish, Italian, etc., in that they rank condiments higher than sauces. True, they manufacture and export sauces, but they prefer for their own use condiments, and the greatest of all condiments is mustard. The average Englishman delights in having his mustard prepared for him fresh every day. : = here seems to be a reason for this Sauces, although appetizing, are made with drugs and are more or less disguised in their nature and artificial in their effects. Mustard, on the con- trary. strengthens t natural tone of the stomach, increases the flow of the ¢ istric juice, and thereby promotes the general bodily health. It is prohably on account of this power of giving life to the system and enabling it to throw off unhealthy products that the English in former years used mustard as a medium of purifying the blood in skin diseases and similar ailments. “or some time past we have made quite a study of mustard, its proper preparation and the preservation of its qualities. Our line of mustards is quite complete, and each and all will be sea to he so put up and packed as to last for years in perfect condition. SOLE MAKER... GEO. A. BAYLE, ST. LOUIS, U.S.A. For Sale by Wholesale and Retail Grocers Throughout the United States. FOP OF VO VVVVVVVVvVvVvVVvVvVvuVvVUVvVvVvY 9OOOOOO0 OOF 0900000040 600000008 Gbbhhbhbbhbhbbbbhibi hb bb bobnhn bobo bn bo bn bnth tbh bh bh bb bo bo & : : | SORIA A RAR RAAB ARARARARARAR GF Al Business Proposition faa | You have something to sell to the merchants. You are not at all particular where you sell it— where the orders come from so long as you get Pei 4 the money and freight rates do not interfere with the delivery of the goods. You only want to get before a prosperous people—those who have money with which to buy—in a direct and forcible way, with an argument that will turn their dollars into your pocket. Isn’t that true? Well, just here is where the Michigane Cradesmane AN can help you. We are in the prosperous territory with a strong, well-conducted paper that reaches the majority of all those to whom you wish to sell within that territory. You make your busi- ness argument—we will lay it before our peo- It pays others to do this—wouldn’t it be fs -: strange if it didn’t pay you also? Grand Rapids, Mich. FU aaapaaapaaanaaay Are You Dead---to reason? fi b bn tn he ia mbereisin Gg iy a om A 7S) cw ii ED Af MANUFACTURED BY wel. PRESCOTT & CO. NEW YORK,N.Y.US.A. () Lahr VP pe eS Seve rt ee 1, A. MURPHY, General Manager. FLOWERS, MAY & MOLONEY, Counsel. The MMlichigan Mercantile Agency Special Reports. Law and Collections. Represented in every city and county in the United States and Canada. Main Office: Room 1102 Majestic Building, Detroit, Mich. Personal service given all claims. Judgments cbhtained without expense to subscribers. EDCGAR’S HOUSEHOLD SYRUP = {A -A A 2A. A.B. A-@A .@A BQ. @Q_.@.@.@.@ eA. w.eA.w- “f POP OO EEE EEE EE EE I I I I I I aN GH! A ® Yeds0l Opened h AN Grocers who sell Oysters or bs Oyster Crackers - should WN handle. ... m deals sailing Wafers AN They are the finest Oyster MN : Crackers made. Are light, slightly salted or plain. Cut square. | 30 cents per gallon, freight prepaid. W. H. EDGAR & SON, Detroit. Mich. a Show them up and they will sell themselves. Made A only by... ® — THE NEW YORK BISCUIT COMPANY, is GRAND RAPIDS. ¥ iS Le Noe, oe... LA. LO. LA. LA. LM. MO MP LO. LO. LO. LM. MO. MP. MP. LP. LP. hi ~~ “ea “a Ma’ a a’ LL SVS VTVVVS=Z"”" Is it reasonable, or just to yourself, to sell an unknown ameline TheModem STOVE POLISH on which more money is being expended than on any other stove polish on earth? of all the retail grocers in the United States sell Enameline. Ninety per cent. It pays them to do it. | Am COE ae A eis aia Daa ; SN Volume XV. GOVMMERGIGL GREDIT GO, Ltd | Commercial Reports. Prompt and vigorous attention to collections. L. J. STEVENSON, Manager, R. J. CLELAND, Attorney, 411-412-413 Widdicomb Building, Grand Kapids, Mich. The Preterred Bankers Life Assurance CO. Incorporated by 1 O O MICHIGAN BANKERS Maintains a Guarantee Fund. Write for details. Home Office, Moffat Bldg., DETROIT, MICH. FRANK E, ROBSON, Pres. TRUMAN B. GOODSPEED, Sec’y. OD OOO9S9SSO99S OOOO OOO If You Hire Help—e- You should use our Perfect Time Book ~~——and Pay Roll. Made to hold from 27 to 60 names and sell for 75 cents to $2. Send for sample leaf. BARLOW BROS., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 9S OOOO O00O SOOO 00000000040 CoCo? Abb bbb bbb bb bd bbs ooo PUVVVUVVVVVVVTVYVVVVvVVV VY LSAb hbbbhb babi hb bbabboboeee SOS OVOUVVUVVes VT VuVuVewrw SY rwwwvwvvwvvvvuvvvvvvuvvwvvwvvy i i i i hi i hi hi i hi i i hi hi i hi hi hi hi hi i Grocer's Can reduce stocks at a good profit. Also increase sales by giv- ing Street Car Tickets free for trade marks and coupons from B. T. Babbitt’s several products. Same will be re- deemed at Spring & Company’s, Monroe Street. Also by B. T. Babbitt’s Agent, who will call for them. bbb bh bf bp bp he tn bn bri to bana tanbn4 tr te ee he be be i he bp bp be bo bp bp bb bh bh bon PPPPEEOLD III DEG SED ESS OE SES 5 Tickets for 50 “Best” Soap Wrappers. 5 Tickets for 50 “1776” Small Fronts (1 Large “1776” counts as 2 small). 1 Ticket for Coupons from B. T. Babbitt’s Baking Powder equal to 1 pound. aah hb hb bi hh bb bt by be bet bn bn bn bn bk br bn tn bn bn tn te GUISE OCECCTOCTCCCSCCCCCTCCCC CVU VV QPP P GPG OPI PIF DE FEES ESE aera bb bbb pba bbb hhh hihi beter br tr tr taba br br te tater baba tar tne brbrhatartasr Pebrbubttubrdrtr Dn ryvyvuvuvvvvvvvvVvYVvvvVvVvYyWVYWWvyW*" POO OOOO EGC OO OU GOOG OCOTEU WIN’ TRADESMAN COUPONS Save Trouble Save Losses Save Dollars GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1897. GENERAL TRADE SITUATION The general conditions of industrial activity continue almost uniformly fa- vorable, and local causes have operated to increase trade movement, as in the South on account of raising fever quarantine, greater demand in the Mid- dle States and activity at Pacific ports, and yet the speculative outlook has been decidedly unfavorable. This is to be accounted for by occurrences of a tem- porary influence, such as the results of the New York election, the death of Pullman, the speculative causes in the Cuban situation, the illness of Hav- emeyer, etc. It is not strange that so many adverse influences, following the reaction which had already materialized, should have made a considerable de- cline in the average. And it is prob- ably just as well that there should have been such a reaction to prevent too rapid and too great an inilation of values. After the unprecedented rush of or- ders some time ago, the iron works have enough to do, most of them for the rest of the year or longer, although orders have of late been fewer. In most kinds of manufacture the works are still so far behind their orders that delays caused much complaint, and _ further orders have to be declined unless deliv- ery can be deferred. Considerable or- ders have come for shipbuilding plates, for rails, cars and other railway mate- rial, and for thin sheets, but the de- mand for structural formed wire and wire nails is seasonably slacker. The cut nail manufacturers were unable to maintain fixed prices, which have dropped to 1.15 base at Pittsburg, and the increase of furnaces in blast makes Bessemer pig slightly lower, notwith- standing heavy purcbasés. The expec- tation of still lower pig iron is met, however, by the advance in coke, which is expected to go higher January 1, and by the evidence that even the in- creased output does not much, if at all, exceed the present consumption. In the wheat situation there has come a considerable reaction, principally for the reason that there seems to have been no real cause for the preceding advance. Prices have declined about to the point before the advance, which seems to be near the normal. Movement at the West and for export continues to be very heavy. In the textile and boot and shoe mar- kets conservatism is the principal char- acteristic. There seems to be a fear that heavy stocks and overproduction may cause trouble again and this oper- ates to check movement somewhat. Bank clearings continue heavy. The amount—$I, 216,000,000—is 2 per cent. over the preceding week. Failures were 223, against 218 for last week. a a ae et Trading Stamps Not In Demand. From the New York Butchers Advocate. Last week we compared the yellow fever to the trading stamp scheme. This week we can continue the com- parison—and in a satisfactory way, too. News comes from the South that the yellow fever is dying out. The yellow signs which denote that a yellow fever victim is suffering in the house to which the sign is attached are not so numerous as they were a few weeks ago. The same sort of news is coming in regard- ing the trading stamp signs. We who are observant know that the trading stamp signs are rapidly disappearirg from the store windows in New York, Brooklyn and Jersey City, which isa certain indication that business 1s in a better condition, and that business men dhave reajized that the stamp scheme is not a Klondike—for them, at least. Over in Jersey City the battle of the merchants was short, and has apparently landed the merchants victors. The stamp companies now have the goods in their stores marked with the number of stamps necessary to secure the different articles, and when one sees the number of dollars that must be spent to secure enough stamps to become owner of any- thing worth having, one resolves to give up trying to collect them. The stamp scheme was such a good thing for the companies who run them that too many of them got inthe field. The butcher handled the stamps of one company, the grocer gave away stamps of another company, and the clothier gave his customers the stamps of still another concern. The purchaser, in nine cases out of ten, did not take the trouble to investigate, and thought he was getting the same stamps from every retailer. These he pasted in his book, and when full presented it for exchange, only to be told of his mistake. Then he gave it up altogether, and wouldn't take a stamp if it were given him without making a purchase. As a result, the demand for stamps has almost died out. Business at the stores of the stamp com- panies seems to be at a_ standstill Young men _ with long yellow hair look out through the glass doors at the pass- ing throng with sad and longing faces, and when persons with no other object than to see the sights stop and look in the windows at the ‘‘premiums’’ and at the stamps, the yellow-haired clerk’s face brightens up at the attention being paid the company and in the hope that the gazer may be a customer. But when the eyes of the looker have devoured the entire contents of the window, and he has again joined the throng of hurry- ing pedestrians, the yellow-haired clerk sighs deeply and retreats behind the ‘‘premium'’ lamp and other things. ~~. How He Got a Drink. They are telling a good story about town of a tall, lank young man who stepped into a grocery store not a thou- sand miles from this city, where they keep something to drink as well as eat. Peering about the store a little, he spied some cakes. Said he to the grocer: ‘‘Them’s mighty fine cakes. What’s the least you’ll take for one of ’em.’’ ‘*Ten cents,’’ replied the grocer. ‘‘Well, I believe I'll take one if you'll wrap it up right good.”’ The grocer wrapped up the cake and handed it to him. He looked thought- fully at him a while and said: ‘I don't believe I want this cake, after all. Won't you swap me a drink for it?’ ‘‘Ves,’’ said the grocer, as he took back the cake and handed him a glass of something. The young man swallowed the liquor and started off. *‘Hold on,’’ cried the grocer, "you baven't paid me for my drink.’’ ‘*T swapped you the cake for the drink.’’ ‘But you haven’t paid me for the cake *’ ‘* You've got the cake.’ This last retort so nonplussed the gro- cer that he stood and scratched his puzzled head, while the young man made good his retreat. ’ Number 738 Another Fraudulent Collection Agency. To the long list of fraudulent collec- tion agencies already exposed in these columns the Tradesman adds this week the name of the Michigan Mercantile Co., which purports to do business from South Bend, Ind. The nominal mana- ger of the concern is J. F. Gay, who was formerly identified with a Grand Rapids collection agency, but proved to be so crooked that his services had to be dispensed with. Mr. Gay’s last ap- pearance in Michigan, so far as the Tradesman’s information goes, was at Frankfort, where he made numerous collections which he failed to turn over to the proper parties, leaving suddenly on a boat for Menominee, apparently bound for St. Louis, Mo. Mr. Gay hails originally from New Jersey, where he claims to have conducted a collec- tion agency with indifferent success. His relations with a local agency were exceedingly discreditable, including the jumping of board bills and other acts equally reprehensible. The Tradesman warns its readers against having any- thing to do with the Michigan Mercan- tile Co. orany other concern with which Gay is in any way identified, at least until he mends bis ways and demon- strates his ability and disposition to deat fairly. Complaints continue to reach the Tradesman of the failure of the Sprague agency (Chicago) to make returns on collections within a reasonable length of time. The Tradesman has repeated- ly warned its patrons to give this con- cern a wide berth, but many merchants have been led into executing contracts with the wily solicitors of the agency by reason of the remarkable letters of recommendation written by Hon. S. M. Lemon, President of the Lemon & Wheeler Company. It appears to be the policy of the Sprague agency to treat one house in a town well, so as to have a place of reference. Mr. Lemon has evidently been selected by the Sprague agency as the headquarters for Grand Rapids references, and several people have found to their sorrow that the serv- ice accorded Mr. Lemon, as commended in the letters above referred to, is not the same as is given the average sub- scriber. Numerous instances of inex- cusable delay in making returns on col- lections are on file in the Tradesman office and also several cases where no returns have ever been made and no attention whatever is paid to letters of euquiry. The methods adopted by some of the solicitors to secure paid member- ships to the agency are disreputable and dishonest, giving ground for the belief that the entire concern is honeycombed with fraud and misrepresentation. —___—»-2 One Kind of Klondike. Jack—That Miss Beverly, to whom I bowed just now, is a regular Klondike. Tom—That so? Rich? Jack—Yes; also cold and distant. —>-- << Judging from the number of ‘‘vic- tories’’ the British forces are scoring against the fighting tribesmen in India, one would think they had secured a second edition of Weyler’s talented typewriter. ] hinkeddebtishiucihek Ldvdnkaan bdbas cbse eee Cun tN GP mA AES AN AEN? ERNE I OAS EDN FIRE Ts owen Se tae ee ee eaaiinrea ton Shire piston poet Neda} Peete oe pebetaainis Nes od emncrt esa SOTA SP pe eee anda ieee eer ee Sone ete tron ePeee aes MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Dry Goods The Dry Goods Market. Linens--—Considerable talk is now heard in linen circles regarding the effect of the lately passed tariff on the price of goods generaily. Manufactur- ers on the other side are devising every possible means to evade the law by miking goods lighter and changing the counts. The revision of the schedule Seems to be aimed especially at low enu stuff, but on the other hand some of the higher grades are to be materially affected. One or two popular table damask lines that have been on the market tor some time will uct change much, if any, in price, as their weight is less than 4% ounces to the square yard, and the Count 1s abuve 100 to the square inch. If damasks of this kind exceed these specifications in the least the duty would be entirely different. To escape these higher rates it 1s necessary for toreign manufacturers to make a caretul study of the present linen sched- ule and make goous accordingly. On union goods composed of cottun ana linen troidle bas also arisen. This difficulty is overcome by using a larger percentage of cotton, which brings such union materials under the provisions for cotton goods. Ginghams——After struggling along near the end of the dress goods _ proces- sion for several years, ginghams will be among the salable wash guods in the spring. In view of this reviving de- mand, manufacturers are prepariug a more elaborate line than has been seen for a number of years. All the popular effects of former seasons, with many new creations, will beshown. The line of zephyr ginghams to retail] at popular prices will be a triumph in the manu- facture of cotton goods. Madras cloths printed in gingham patterns are among the new popular priced cloths, Wash Goods —Several lines of wash goods for spring are now in the sample Stage, and reveal the general character of sheer goods for next season. On printed diaphanous cloths no material change is noted. The lappet idea has been retained to a certain extent, and lappets of various weaves will enhance the beauty of many new floral designs. The popularity of all kinds of plaids will be a feature of the spring season, even in wash goods lines, and samples of elaborate plaid organdies for entire dresses and shirt waist purposes will be goods every retailer will have occasion to buy. Hosiery—Salesmen out with fancy hosiery lines for spring are already making a good showing in point of or- ders. ihe position of the trade on the fancy hosiery question seems to indicate one of the best seasons on record dur- ing the spring of ‘98. The advance or- ders so far, among the large retail trade, show that fine grades will be es- pecially good. Underwear—A new underwear article, or at least an article for the underwear stock, is being placed on the market, and is meeting with considerable suc- cess. This new notion is a paper vest, intended to be worn over the underwear in cold weather. The paper utilized in the manufacture of these garments is made of spruce fiber, well known as a non-conductor of heat. These vests are obtainable both for men and women, and while they are very warm, do not add materially to the weight of the clothing. Gloves—A decided glove novelty is being shown this week for the holiday trade, which will doubtless prove very popular, The novelty of this line is Seen in the high-colured back stitch- ing. For instance, a dark glove will be garnished by bright red back stitching, with welts and buttons tomatch Other desirable shaces are treated in the same way. Notions—Staple and fancy notions continue to hold attention, and a brisk Ousiness through the mails is coming to light again this week. The buying otf noliaay goods has made progress on all sides, and market buyers have been quite numerous ail through the whole- sale district. As the days go by it be- comes evident that a marked scarcity of many notion and holiday lines will se- riously handicap business during th¢ latter part of the season. Some 1m- porters are prone to noise abroad the possible scarcity of certain lines every season. This has a tendency to cause ihe situation at the present time to be looked upon lightly by buyers, but it is well for all people, especially smaller deaiers, who have not purchased lines vf holiday goods to give the matter immediate attention. Purchases made aow will be far more satisfactory than later when stocks are broken. Japanese Novelties—Although many salable Japanese wares will eventually be much higher, owing to tariff changes, prices for the season at hand will show u0 material change from those of last year. The growing popularity of Japan- ese and other Oriental wares has made it possible for dealers to import large and varied lines of these guods with impunity. Fancy Japanese baskets at this season are great sellers in all retail fancy goods stocks. The line this sea- son is worthy special attention. China and porcelain and wares of Japan origin are steadily gaining popularity, both in bargain gcods and _ high-priced novelties. The season's best things in this line are now on exhibition in sev- eral Japanese departments about the market. Early inspection of these goods will insure the best results, as far as securing a good assortment is con- cerned. on Deplorable Condition of Shopping Manners. Turn where we will, we find a want of manners in society; and that, too, in good society, not in the ranks of the confessedly uncultivated, or, at the best, of the only half-cultivated. You come upon these lapsts of courtesy every- where and in all circumstances, You write a friendly letter on a matter of business as the root work, and you get a brief business acknowledgment of the cheque you enclosed, without a word of reply—rot even an allusion to the friendliness of your letter. This is from one whom else you know well in society and often meet. On the other hand— we will give all their due—you have charming letters from a perfect stranger with whom you have only a business correspondence—letters which go far to reconcile you to the boorishness of others, and make you reconsider your Sweeping assertion as to the general and universal bad manner of us Ameri- cans—badness of manner which in no wise presupposes badness of heart, but is just the boorishness which comes from want of thought and want of im- agination. For to be absolutely well- mannered we must have sympathy, keenness of perception, an imagination which can transport ourselves into an- other’s position—see with his eyes, feel with bis heart, ihink with his brain— and thus enable us to realize all that he must feel and suffer by what we should feel and suffer were we in his place. We show our bad manners in shops, in hotels, in crowds, as well as in the more usual circumstances of society. How few of us show any real courtesy to shop assistants, who yet have to main- tain a smiling face and an unruffled de- Meanor, insulted as they may be half a dozen times a day. We march in with the air of conquerors annexing all that pleases their fancy. We make our de sires known with short, sharp words of command, with never a ‘‘please’’ to soften the verbal asperity we affect. We toss things about the counter with a disdain that expresses itself as acrimo niously as if colors and patterns were moral offenses which gave us righteous cause for. anger We give all the trouble we can, without a thought as_ to the time to be employed in putting away the failures we so contemptuously discard; and then we stalk out of the shop, where we have not expended a shilling, and we carry our heads as if we were tbe injured party, not they— those poor snubbed and badgered shop assistants. This is no fancy portrait. We can see it realized in good substan- tial Mesh and blood any day we like to go into a large store and watch the throng passing to and fro. Whether it be from pride, or shyness, or down- right boortshness, it is none the less reprehensible, and he would bea true benefactor to his country who should substitute for our present bearing some- thing m re gracious and more genial, More Couiteous and more considerate. KATHARINE COLE. ———> 4. —__ Useful Adjunct. ‘‘I always like to have at least one boarder who 1s a little slow about pay- ing,’ Mrs. Hashcroft admitted to her dearest friend. *’A man of that kind, especially a young man, is always so handy to use up all the chicken necks, the cold biscuits, and so on.’’ Mackintoshes New See them of them. 4 Monroe Street. Lot Specially Nice. and you will have some Prices lower than ever. RUBBER GOODS OF ALL KINDS. Studley & Barclay, Grand Rapids, Mich. = -~{ .® .Q, . BW, . BW. W.-W. W-wW.BW-W-W -~™ .BW .W WM AMA Ww -~ ‘ 7 FOI OOO OO OOOO II I wramN ;: C0 ® Voigt, Herpolsheimer § Zo., © ae Wholesalee NV NY oonds= Grand Rapids. W w ES. L. L. LO. LO. L.LO. .L.L. L. L. LO. L. LO. L. Le. Me. f VPLP FFI IFIFS PSPSPS SESS SESE — ~=-A.A QB ..W. BW. BW W.-W. WWW a, - Ta, -“Va, -a, .a, . a. a, a -B -B ft YI FFSS SSP SSCS SoS SSS SSseeN WW AN A =Grea Ine 0 2 APS* v 2 for Children, Youths and Men, from W A $1.25 per dozen to $12.00 per dozen. v AN All Shapes and Styles. New Arrivals. W M® oP. Steketee § Sons, Grand Rapidse W Ws ° wT TD’ BW’ ’ ’ BW’ zSTeS~ ~~ » ~~, ™,’ ' ¢ Woman’s World Carry Common Sense in the Matri- monial Cargo. This is the season when people marry and are given away in marriage. Al- most every mail brings me a handful of smart, Crisp invitations to weddings, and | am reminded over again of the appropriateness of the simile that likens matrimony to a voyage over an unknown sea. It is a pretty idea, and we like to fancy the little fleet of white-winged boats setting sail in the golden dawn, and putting out across the harbor bar with all the happy winds of youth and hope blowing across their bow. Of course, we wish them bon voyage, and predict that they will do nothing but cruise around the fortunate isles for the next forty years or so, but in our hearts we know that there is bound to come storm and stress and tempest, and when some of them are towed back into port again with lifeless sails and bat- tered hulks, we are not surprised. Sometimes one thing brought about the disaster. Sometimes another. Often- est it was caused by pure ignorance of navigation on the part of the skipper. A landlubber put out to seaand ran foul of the first obstacle in the way. It is a safe thing to say that almost every American marriage is a love match; and, this being true, it is a curious and cynical commentary on it that we lead the world in the number of divorces. American women are the most sentimental creatures on earth, and when we marry it is because we are convinced—temporarily, at least—tbat we Cannot exist without the adored one. We seldom take money into considera- tion in the matter; position rarer still, and suitability never. If we love Tom Jones, or John Smith, that settles the matter, and we marry him expecting to live happily ever after, as the fairy books say. ‘‘Love is enough,’’ we cry, with the fatuous folly of inexperience, and then some day we wake up aghast to find out that love isn’t enough, but that it requires to be ballasted with a lot of other things to meet the requirements of everyday life. It is a hard saying, but worthy of all saying, that on women depends the hap- piness-making of the whole family, and I for one never go to a wedding without wishing it were my privilege to address a few words of advice to the bride. I should like to say to her: ‘‘ My dear girl, 1 know you have been preached to un- til you are sick and tired of it all. They've talked to you about obedience and duty and respect until you could say it backwards in your sleep, but has anybody ever said a word to you about carrying along a little common sense in the cargo you are going to ship for this long voyage? No? I thought not, yet a little hard, practical, everyday sense will do more to insure domestic felicity than a square mile of illuminated mot- toes of ‘God Bless Our Home.’ ”’ ‘‘In the first place,I suppose you real- ize what you are doing in getting mar- ried? Matrimony means, among other things, a few parties to which you drag a tired and unwilling man, instead of being joyfully escorted to innumerable balls. It means no more beaux; oc- casional theater tickets; buying your own candy and flowers; few compli- ments; a_ peck on the cheek for a kiss, and that, instead of daily rehearsals of undying devotion, you will be expected to take your husband’s love on trust. But you will have lots of husband, and MICHIGAN TRADESMAN sometimes he is worth paying this price for. lf, however, you are not prepared to exchange a sweetheart for a husband, imitate the example of the Frenchman, who refused to marry the woman he loved because if he did he would have no agreeable place to visit.’’ Then I would recall to you the fact that the very highest ideal of matri- mony is a perfect partnership in the duties, responsibilities and perquisites of life. No honest man has a right to marry a woman until he has told her fully and truly about his business affairs. If a girl is too frivolous and silly to understand a plain business proposition, she is certainly too idiotic to marry. We hear a great deal about extravagant women who ruin their hus- bands. If we could know the other side of the story, we should hear that, in ninety-nine times out of a hundred, the busband never confided in his wife, and she was in utter ignorance of what they could or couldn’t afford. On the other hand, the terms of the partnership bind a woman to make a home—to keep a clean hearth and set well-cooked food before her husband and make him com- fortable. If she shirks these duties, she fails in her part. Just remember that, won't you? And don't board. I don’t know any- thing sadder than to read in the papers, at the end of the account of a swell wedding, that the happy couple have ‘‘taken rooms’’ at Mrs. So and-So’s. Of course, you think that you and Tom, being the first couple that ever truly, unalterably loved each other, will lead an ideal existence, where bliss will thyme forever with kiss, but when you come down to the common everyday tacts, the inevitable adjustment of two different lives into a common life is bound to be accomplished with fric- tion. If you were in the privacy of your own home you would havea cry and Tom would call himself a brute and no harm would be done. But some day you come down to dinner in your pretty wedding finery, with red and swollen eyes, and the handsome star boarder looks at you with worlds of unexpressed sympathy in his face, and you flirt a lit- tle with him just because your heart is so hurt and sore with Tom, and Tom, in anger, goes off for a night with the bovs, and comes home reeking with to- bacco smoke and sodden with liquor. Ah, little sister, that way is paved with coldness and sorrow and regret, and it leads to the divorce court. Don’t take it. Have a home of your own, althongh you set up housekeeping in your big Saratoga trunk. Insist from the very start on a definite allowance for yourself and the house- keeping ; so shall you achieve peace and comfort and raise yourself from the po- sition of a beggar to a paid empioye. It always comes with a shock of surprise to a man to find that his wife has spent the money he gave her, and there’s just thirty times less friction and aggrava- tion in getting money once a month than there is in asking for it every morning at breakfast. And don’t start a bad precedent by telling how every nickel of it went. There are women held to such strict account they have actually to steal and falsify their ac- counts to get the price of a matinee ticket. I have always rejoiced in the story of the young wife whose husband presented her with a nice morocco leather account book, in which she was to enter every cent of money on one page, and every single purchase on the other. At the end of the month he called on her to show her book. She proudly brought it forth, and on one page was written, ‘‘Received of John, $1co0,’’ and on the other, “Spent it ail.’’ That settled it. She bad made him com- fortable, and that was all he needed to know and all the details she proposed to give. Attend to your own affairs. The American man, as a general thing, has just all he can do, and it is an outrage for his wife to afflict him with the burdens of the housekeeping. Man- age your own servants, do your own errands. When your husband comes home, let him find it a piace of rest, and don’t meet him at the door with an account of the cook burning the soup, or the housemaid breaking the best par- lor vase. Keep the pinpricks to your- self. He has plenty of troubles and worries of his own. Don’t talk too much. Of course, be- ing a good little girl, I take it for granted you have no serious secrets to conceal, but it isn't necessary to tell your husband everything you think, especially in regard to other peo- ple. Argument is the death of peace and harmony, and don’t get into the way of discussing beforehand every- thing you do. Half the time it doesn't make a bit of difference one way or the other, but by talking it over you can get up a family squabble. As Davy Crockett says, ‘‘Be sure you are right, then go ahead,’’ on your own respon- sibility. And for goodness’ sake use a little discretion, and when you want to make a suggestion to your husband, don’t preface it with, ‘‘Mamma says you ought to do this,’’ or, ‘*‘ Papa thinks you ought to do that.’’ ‘‘Saw wood and 8 say little,’’ is a good motto for women as well as diplomats. Because you are married gives you no right to wear wrappers to breakfast and tell your husband home truths. If he was worth catching, he is worth keeping. If he was worth entertaining before, he is worth fascinating now. If you love him, don’t be afraid to show him that you do. A kiss may heal a broken heart and a caress give a man fresh courage to begin the battle with the world over again. Finally, don’t expect too much of your husband. Of course, it was a shock when you found out he was merely mor- tal and could be ruffled by dinner being late and swear a blue streak when his collar button rolled under the bureau. This was not the conduct you expected in a demi-god, but, my dear girl, there’s nothing like the companionship of a cheerful sinner who makes mistakes and gets mad and knows how to make allowances for like frailties in you. Jane Carlyle set down her opinion of a man of genius as a husband, and I am told by a woman who is married toa saint that he is the most exasperating thing in the world. Take your husband as you find him and make the best of him, and with all his faults and whims, a husband is a handy thing to have around the house. For what does the good book say? ‘‘ There must be hewers of wood and drawers of water and buy- ers of Easter bonnets.’’ And may heaven bless you, my children! Dorotuy Dix. + 0. — The human race is divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do something and those who sit down and enquire why it wasn’t done the other way. —Oliver Wendell Holmes. COSC STS SSSSSSSS CTS SSTS SST) / -—= OUR book- keeping should not be neg- lected—and the simpler it 1s made the more economical it is—a saving of time. Be up to date. All kinds of Blank Books, Invoice Books, Letter Files, Letter Copying Books and Station- ery for your office are the goods we carry. We can save you money. Give us a chance. Mail orders promptly attended to. Will M. Hine, 49 Pearl St., Grand Rapids COVES TUTTO UU TUT UU UN UU NUNN UY a QAQALANQLRANANLAHLAAKAANAA LAL AAKA AY BARGAIN BEAUTIES Cee $7.50 Idaho “ 655 DAKOTA. Knowlton’s Pat. 122. The best quality made PER DOZ. CAVALIER. Pat. 351. $6.00 per dozen, in ali colors. We have a complete line of these goods in stock, and can assure prompt delivery. Soliciting your orders, we are, Yours for business, CORL, KNOTT & CO. GRAND RAPIDS. ‘ H i i H § Pee dae eee eee Lesa matant teem eee enact NecdeAas wdlvler We a9 P 4 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Around the State Movements of Merchants. Albion —Jonn N,. Flynn succeeds the Richter Grocery Co. St. Charles—E. C. Jones has opened a grocery store at this place. Ashley —Orlando Luce succeeds My ron H. Mills in general trade. Han—W. Stitt bas embarked in the grocery bus ness at this place. Marshali- Ward & Tnwing succeed Ward Bros. in the ciothing business Laingsburg—Lyman S$. Reed has opened a grocery stcre at this place. Hopkius Statteen—Rockwell Bros. & Wharton bave opened a meat market. Oak Grove- Guy B- Huos.ey succeeds M. J. Hosley & Son in general trade. Brown City —Chas Johnson, of Cros well, has opened a meat market at ths lace Milford—Wm. C. Grier has sold his stock of hardware and stoves tu F. b. Hatch. Monroe— Reisig & Hcffman succeeu Bever & Reisig im the plumbing business. Brooktheld—Chas. Powers, of Char- lotte, will shortly open a grocery store at this place. Charlutte —Aaron Losey has taken the position of prescription clerk for Dr. Frank Merritt. Dimoudale—A new general store will shortly be opened at this place by Rum- sey & Shotwell. Escanaba—Eugene Lavigne contem- plates embarking in the grucery busi- ness in the near future. Eaton Rapids—Amos McKinney has opened a meat market in connection with his grocery business. Union City—Kinnell & Co. have purchased the book, stationery and mil- linery stock of D. b. White. Lansing—Wilson & Jordan, dealers in Carriages and harnesses, have openea a branch store at Laingsburg. Ironwood—The Prescott Hardware Co. succeeds Fred M. Prescott in general trade at this place and also at Bessemer. Brown City—W. Trevithick and a Buchanan, of Glencoe, Ont., have opened a new merchant tailoring estab- lishment. Cheboygan—J. A. Ramlow has opened a meat market tn his building on State street. Chas Melancon is manager of the business. Durand—L. C. Mead, who recently opened a grocery store here, is unable to find a vacant house in the town in which to locate his family. Boyne City— Byron Lyke has sold a half interest in his meat market to John Lewis, of Detroit. The new firm will be known as Lyke & Lewis. Thompsonviile—C. O. Smith has commenced tu build a large double store Opposite the company sture and will put tn stocks of furniture and shoes. Port Huron—F, A. Weyers has closed his grocery store on Military street. The stuck is being moved into a vacant Store in the Merchants’ Exchange bluck Alma—Howard Willard and Fred Wright have purchased the Woodward grocery stock and bakery and will con- tinue the business at the same location. Grand Haven —David Wright has sold his confectionery stock to Neil McMizl- lan and Herman Z Nyland, who will continue the business at the same _loca- tion. Oshtemo—The grocery stock and store building belonging to the late Mrs. Emily E. Stevens has been purchased by Mr. Kinnie, who will continue the business, Leslie—Mitchel Buckingham, former ly engaged in the bakery business at Ovid, has formed a copartnership with O D. Clement and established a bakery at this place. Coral—Soules & Skeach have just completed a two-story warehouse witb stone basement, 40.80 feet in dimen- sions,and are storing potatoes and grain and will bandle lime, brick, cement and seeds. Jackson—The Parker & Fleming Co has opened a meat department in con- nection with its grecery store. Of course, the fixtures and_= stock are first class~ Parker & Fleming never do any- thing by halves. Whitehali—L. G. Sweningston, who nas had charge of A. Mears’ mercantile business for the past ten years, has pur- chased an interest in the general stock and the firm name will hereafter be Mears & Sweningston. Saginaw—King & Moore have dis- continued their meat market and gru- cery store in South Saginaw. The fix- tures will be removed to Fotter street and used in the new store of King & deatles. The stock will be. trausterrea to the old store on Jefferson avenue. Manufacturing Matters. Detroit—C. E. ‘Lurrell succeeds F. E. Turreil as proprietor of the Detroit Pop Corn Noveity Co. Ithaca—B. H. Wells has sold the machinery and stock in the Ithaca toundry to Phillip Tinlin, who will con- tinue the business. Midland—Anderson Bros., manufac- turers of shingles, have merged their business into a Corporation under the same style as heretofore. Sagiuaw—The style of Randall & Boyd, planing mill operators and lum- ber dealers, has been changed to the Booth & Boyd Lumber Co. Portland—The Michigan Cabinet and Commode Co. has closed a deal with L. E. Steinman & Co., of Chicago, to take the entire output of the factory for the next fifteen mouths, Interiochen—C. F. Reid, of Traverse City, bas leased the Hart shingle and Sawmill plants and is preparing to run them both. When the mills start Mr. Reid will employ about forty men. Port Huron—Dr. A. L. McLaren has invented a bicycle brace suspender ana will immediately begin its manutac- ture. The doctor thought out his inven- tion, applied for a patent and ordered his machinery, all within thirty-six hours. Owosso—The Greer Spoke Works plant has been purchased by Joseph M. Story, who will make a number of changes and improvements in the plant, a larger boiler having already been put in,and an addition is being made to the building used. Muskegon— The Lageland Manufac- turing Co. has purchased the plant known as the Standard Box Shook tac- tory, at North Muskegon, which has Neen operated by James Hudson for some time past, and will use itasa supply concern in connection with its present factory. Twenty-five men are furnished employment by the change. Jackson—F. R. Bassett, manager of the Challenge Churn Manufacturing Co., at Paw Paw, has concluded nego!- ations with the Aspinwall Manufactur- ing Co. to make his churns in any quantity desired. The work will com- mience as soon as the machinery can be removed here and set up, and it is fully expected that by the end of the first year the output will be 300 churns per day. Cheboygan—E A. Vorce has leased the Langdon feed mill and will operate It to 1s full capacity. Traverse City—Smith Bros., Scott Woodward and Noah Shattuck have formed a copartnership, to be known as the Smith Bros Co. The purpose of the company is to manufacture lawn chairs and woodenware novelties at the plant of the Shattuck Manufacturing Co., which built a factory on the bay shore. Mr. Shattuck was a member of the com pany mentioned, which was forced ti discontinue business on account of lack of capital. oe en) Fraudulent Failure at Hancock. Hancock, Nov. 6—Herman Stark, who has been engaged in the Clotning and men's furnishing goods business at Hancock the past five years, failed to open bis doors this morning and made an assignment for the *‘benefit’ of bis creditors. The assignment has the most beaut ful appearance of being ‘'a gooa thing’’ and snould result in Mr. Stark re-engaging in business on a more ex- tensive scaie and with a larger capital than teretotore. The exact amount ot Stark s liabilities is $11,388 94, and 1 is stated on good authority that the goods representing this amount have pearly ail been received the past iew months. Mr. Stark inventoried bis stock Thursday and the best value he coulu place on it, together with two old build- ings —one at Chassell, the other at Port- age Entry—was $2,700. When Stark saw he was to face ‘‘the blow that al most killed father’’ he promptly deedea the property at Chassell to his better half, but the assignee, James ‘lamblyn, would bave nothing to do with the affair under such circumstances and the deed was reverted to Stark and it will figure in the assets. The houses are next to valueless and the stock at the store is valued at $1,500, and the question ag- itating the creditors 1s, what has become of the $10 000 worth of goods received of late? Houghton, Nov. 8—Herman Stark is now conceded to be a new star in the firmament of modern financiers. A search for Stark’s only clerk tailed to reveal him, and it is now learned he went to Lake Linden Friday, and left for Buffalo on a lumber barge. The youpg man displayed a roll of bills at Lake Linden. It is believed Stark didn't want his late employe to stay around Hancock, lest he should be asked to tell a few things he might happen to know, and accordingly ar- ranged for a p'easure trip on the steam barge. One year ago Stark inventoried his worldly possessions, when they are said to have footed up $10,500, free of any encumbrance. He has bought goods to fully this amount the past few months but to-day it 1s doubtiul if the stock turned over to ‘the assignee is worth $1,000. Mr. Kahn, of Chicago, one’ of the creditors, arrived in Hancock to- day and, calling upon the assignee, asked if his firm's account was included in the statement of liabilities. He was told that 1t was, to the extent of $1. 300, which was for a bill of men’s clothing sold Sept 6. Mr. Kabn then proceedea to the store to see how much of the goods he shipped were still unsold, but imagine his surprise, when, as_ he stated, he could not find a button that had formerly belonged to him. Other creditors have also appeared on the scene and there 1s some talk of criminal proceedings being instituted against Stark, who is believed to be in Chr- cago.’ The impression prevails that Stark has the goods ‘‘planted,’’ which idea is borne out by the fact that the dray business from his store is said to have been quite good of late. —_- s+ >___ Women’s Shoes Like Men’s. The demand for women's shoes made over lasts shaped like men’s, which Sprung up a few seasons back, has not died out. On the contrary, manufac- turers producing work of this character “Cleverly Conceived and Skillfully Executed Swindle.” A manufacturing establishment in a neighboring city recently asked _ its Grand Rapids representative to prepare a briet on the trading stamp scheme. Tbe opinion furnished in pursuance of such instructions was as follows: My candid opinion of the trading stamp system is that it is one of the most Cleverly conceived and skillfully executed swindles | have ever had Drought to my attention. In every case the solicitor who secures the signature of the merchant attempts to obscure the real facts in the case, making it appear that he will have to pay but 5 per cent. on the new trade he secures as the re- sult of his adopting the trading stamp system. Later on be finds, to his sor- row, that he is not only paying 5 per cent. on bis new trade, but 15 compeiled to pay the same amount on the old trade secured by reason of years of persistent effort. I have talked witha aozen or ftteen Grand Rapids mer- chants who went into the scheme when it first arrived in town and every one is heartily sick of it, but cannot get away trom it because he is bound by an iron- clad annual contract. In no case has a dealer renewed his contract with the agency, which 's pretty good proof, to my mind, that it is not a desirable thing fur the merchant. ~~ What a Blind Merchant Can Do. Buchanan, Nov. 1—Del Jordan, dealer in groceries and confectioneries at this place, can weigh correctly on the scales any article, operate a typewriter as well as the average person, tell the time of day and give the correct name of any piece of money except bills. He selects and buys all his goods unaided, save by the band of Providence. What makes everything so interesting is that Mr. Jordan is unable to distinguish a ray of light; having lost his eyesight about eleven years ago. While he was work- ing in the Buchanan windmill works a piece of steel tlew in Mr. Jordan’s left eye, resulting in total blindness. He has made Buchanan his home since 1863, arriving here when about six mouths old. He was born in Charlotte in Nov., 1862. The first year after los- ing his sight he attended the State School for the Blind, remaining three years, during which time he pursued a literary course and learned the art of both hammock and broommaking. He returned here atter his school work was fnished and has ever since been en- gaged in business for himself. He en- joyS a growing trade and is in every way deserving of it. Few are better read and able to converse more intelli- gently upon almost any topic than is Mr. Jordan, and he has the sympathy and respect of the whole community. —_—_—_2.___ Result of the Lansing Session. The State Board of Pharmacy held an examination session at Lansing last week. Out of fifty-eight candidates the following were granted certificates: Registered Pharmacists—C. W. Blake and Robert W. Cockburn, of Kalama- zoo; Anton Deisler, of Saginaw; Rich- ard W. Evans, of Flushing; C. W. Fallas, of Cedar Springs; C. Earl Van, Avery, Middleville; L. D. Glassford, of Chalton, Ont.; Truman G. Hoyt, of Muskegon; Chas. Hagadorn, of Bay City; John A. Miller, ot Caledonia: H. [. Markham, of Port Euron; H. D. Phelps, of West Bay City; J. F. Spin- ney, of Lansing; Agnes S. Rich, of Traverse City; S. L. Wyman, of Wes- ton; G. A. Knoak, of St. Joseph. Assistant Pharmacists——Harry L. Gibbs, of Greenville; Walter E. Turn- er, of Clifford. ——_>2.__ All One Sided. Mrs. Prye—Tell me, dear, ever quarrel with your husband? Mrs. Lamb—Never. But he often do you quarrels with me, the hateful thing! ——_>0.__ Phone Visner for Gillies N. Y. teas, are kept busy. It is chiefly contined to the best grades. all kinds, grades and prices. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Grand Rapids Gossip G. W. Daud has opened a grocery storeat AEtna. The Ball-Barnhart-Put- man Co. furnished the stock. Goossen Bros. have removed their grocery stock from 149 Monroe street to the Goossen building on Ottawa street. Peter Veenstra has embarked in the grocery business at Ig Ohio street The Ball-Barnhart-Putman Co. furnished the stock. F. E. Prestel, general dealer at Sheri- dan, has opened a branch grocery store at McBride’s. The Clark-Jewell-Wells Co. furnished the stock. J. Frank Gaskill has purchased the grocery stock of John Odejewski, at 185 Fifth avenue, and removed it to his store, 202 East Bridge street. Grand Rapids dealers are selling butterine which has the rich yellow color peculiar to factory creamery butter, but it is somewhat doubtful whether the Food Commissicner can secure any con- victions for violation of the State law prohibiting the sale of colored butter ine. The reason for this is that the coloring is put into the butter, which enters into the composition of butterine, so that the manufacturer of bogus but- ter will be able to exhibit his formula in court and swear that no butter color of any kind or character is used in his establishment. The subterfuge is a clever one and the Tradesman _ very much doubts whether a jury can be se cured which can convict an apparent violator of the law on these grounds. ——~> 2 The Produce Market. Apples—Northern Spvs are about the only variety of winter fruit in market, commanding $2@225 per bbl. The stock is not strictly No. 1, but is fair in quality. Bananas—The quotations are not changed, although the market has an easier feeling. The movement is fairly large. Butter—Separator creamery has de clined to 23c. Dairy is coming in more freely, commanding about 2oc for fancy. Cabhage—$3 per 100. Carrots—25c per bu. Cauliflower—$r per doz. Celery—15c per bunch. Cranherries—Choice Cape Cods and Fancy Wisconsins are now sold on the same basis—$7 50 per bbl. Eggs—Local dealers pay I5c, case count, holding at 16c, case count, or 17¢ for fancy candled. Grapes—New York Concords mand 12c for 8 lb. baskets. Honev—The market is steady and firm. White clover is held at 11c and dark buckwheat at toc. Lemons—The movement is light and prices are steady. Lettuce—Hot house goods fetch 15c per lb. Onions—White Globe and Red com- mand soc. Spanish, $1.75 per crate. Oranges—Mexicans are as yet the only fruit on the market. They are coming freely but the demand is good enough to hold the market steady. Pears—Keefers command $3 per bbl. Potatoes—While many outside markets are still glutted with stock, conditions have materially improved and _ prices— 40@5o0c—are well maintained at all the local buying points in this State; in fact, buyers appear to be banking on higher prices and their ability to se- cure cars, which is now the greatest obstacle in the way of moving the crop. The situation at St. Louis is thus de- scribed by the Miller-Teasdale Co. : ‘*The movement is very good, with the arrivals this week heavy and mostly of very inferior quality, poorly-culled, small and dirty, which sell low Fancy, bright, uniform potatoes, well-culled and matured, are wanted, and will sell com- at full quotations, and a little more if really nice; but much of the stock com ing in ts not such. Shippers must know that such poor quality of potatoes as are being shipped ts very hard to sell. Much of the stock is only suitable for ped- dlers, and they shake their heads often and will not buy. Shippers must cull their stock more closely it they expect to get good prices. Ship your fancy stock in a car by itself, and the poor stock by itself, but never mix it in the hope of getting a better price for the poor.”’ Poultry— Hens and spring chickens are rather scarce at 7@8c. Ducks are in fair supply at 8@1oc. Turkeys are strong and in active demand at 8@Itoc. Geese are in moderate demand at 8@o-. Quinces—The market is quiet, jobbers holding their stocks at 75c per bu., with few takers. Squash— $1 per too lbs. for Hubbard. Sweet Potatoes— Genuine Jerseys com mand $4, while Virginias are held at 32 75. Game—Dealers pay 75c@$1 per doz. for rabbits and $1 per doz. for No. 1 squirrels, Beans—Have advanced again anda good demand prevails. Prices may go higher, but the future is uncertain. The price is now '5c above the lowest price on new beans. > ¢ 2. — Concerted Effort to Smother Unfav- orable Comment. Grand Rapids, Nov. 8—There ap- pears to be a disposition on the part ot the city press to smother the opinions of all who are not in sympathy with the late street disgrace of the Valley City. I notice that the pulpit which endorses the show has from a halt to a whole column of carnival utterances published, while the ministers who dare defend the morals of society by condemning the affair get about two inches of sarcastic ridicule. The writer expressed his von-endorsement at the arrest of a cer- tain ‘‘attraction’’ which was invited to participate in the late carnival, ana which added to the committee’s coffers, in about the following language, and jropped his communication into the editorial basket of the Evening Press, nut, like other opinions of its ilk, it failed to get space: ‘‘Where a city invites outside enter- tainments to add to the attractions and iccepts blood money for privileges, and the police are so blind that they cannot discover any objectionable features un- til the very last hour of the exhibition, does it not appear farfetched to swoop down upon one particular dive which was no more obnoxious than many scenes upon the public streets? If the committee bas run short of funds to lefray the expenses of the demoralizing show it should levy a tax upon the en- tire city, Inasmuch as it claims it was an education and of great financial worth to the Valley City.”’ The envelope should have been a warning from the start No _ private citizen dare use such a design to adver- tise his business. Prison walls encircle those who have sent less obscenity through the mails, but the carnival committee must have had a “‘pull’’ with Uncle Samuel and, like many saloons and other variety shows, stood in with the fathers. G. D. Bary. —_———> > Gaius W. Perkins and Chas. F. Reed, President and Vice-President of the Grand Rapids School Furniture Co., are spending a fortnight in the New England States and in New York City, inspecting the branch offices of the cor- poration. a S. W. Peregrine formerly manager of the defunct Grand Rapids Seating Co., is undertaking to interest Detroit capital in a new corporation to engage in the manufacture of school desks and opera chairs. > 2-2 P. Steketee & Sons offer Merrimac shirting prints at 33¢c and American shirting prints at 3%c, less 2 per cent. To days. The Grocery Market. Sugar —The only change this week is an advance of a sixpence in Nos. 3, 4 and 5. The volume of business in sugars will be comparatively light from this time on for about four months. The period between this and the middle of February is the natural period of lowest depression in sugars. Reports from the cane growing sections of the United States say that the crop, although late, promises to be a good one. Tea—The outlook is for a dull and quiet trade during November and De- cember, with seme activity after the turn of the year. Prices are unchanged, and holders are still refusing to make any concessions, which would seem to imply that the market is in good shape. Coffee—Since the beginning of the crop year there has been received at Rio and Santos 5, 343.000 bags of coffee, which means, 1f crop estimates are ac- curate, that five-eighths of the crop has been received in less than one-half of the crop year. Receipts, therefore, should materially decrease in the not very far future, and present prices would seem to be very safe for the buyer. Maracaibo quotations have been a trifle easier, due more, perhaps, to the undesirability of the supplies in first hands, as first-class stock will read- ily bring full prices and find prompt purchasers. Java and Mocha are un- changed. Canned Goods—The supply of toma- toes is much larger than was expected and further declines are anticipated by some holders, although on this point all are not agreed. Very few tomatoes will be carried over. The corn market is dull and unchanged. Peas are in only small demand and prices are un changed. Peaches are quiet, especially so far as the Eastern grades are con- cerned. A few pie and seconds are selling, but the trade has generally bought California standards and extra standards to arrive, arid they are there fore out of the market for the present. Dried Fruits—Reports from the Coast say that raisins have suffered consider- ably from rains and that there will be a great scarcity of three crown raisins. Rumor has it that some of the packers are mixing lower grade raisins with the three crown, and that still others are changing their screens so that a smaller raisin is being graded as three crown. Prunes are unchanged and the sale of these is reported to be considerably lighter this season in this market than usual. This is not due to a greater con- signment of dried fruits to commission houses in this market, for this is not the case. It looks as though there would be little of this work done this season. [There is an advance in currants of % cent. Low grade currants are reported to be very scarce in the European mar- kets, and the currant market in Greece is made firmer by the better system of finances new instituted in that country. Provisions— Lard is slightly weaker, although there has been no further ac- tual decline. There is still a stronger universal tendency to sell. There has been no change in the jobbing price of provisions during the week, although in first hands everything except bellies has advanced. Fish—The catch in Ireland is over, and the total catch is only one-third of last year. The quality of the new Irish mackerel this year is exceedingly fine. The week’s receipts. have been only moderate. Cod is in fair movement at unchanged prices. Salmon is in moderate demand, and prices are un- changed. cS The Grain Market. The wheat market has been of a drooping character during the past week. The exports were again nearly 6,000,000 bushels and the receipts were equally as large, increasing the visible 2,000,000 bushels, so that we now have 29,000,000 bushels in sight against 60,000,000 bushels at the same time last year, 57,000,000 bushels in 1895 and 81,000,000 bushels in 1894. The statis- tical position wheat IS as strong as ever, 1f not stronger; but, owing to the fact that cash wheat is fully as high as futures, stocks are being pressed to wheat centers and the interior elevators in the Northwest are being depleted. How long this can last is entirely prob- lematical. There appear to be two strong cliques in Chicago, the long and short interests. It remains to be seen which will be victurious, owing to the uncertain price of wheat. Flour buyers are somewhat timid just at this mo- ment. However, should the wheat mar- ket advance, there will be a good de- mand for flour at advanced prices, as dealers are not overstocked with flour by any means. We note a decline of 2c per bushel from last weck Corn and oats, as is usual, remain quiet. Rye also does not show much animation The receipts during the week were 75 cars of wheat, 4 cars of corn and 13 cars of oats Local millers are paying 86c for wheat, C G. A. Voie. a ee Flour a.d tf eed. Flour markets for the past week have been somewhat demoralized on account of the condition of wheat markets. buy- ers and se.lers have been wide apart in their views, from the fact that on the one hand buyers can apparently see but one side, while. the seiler or manufac- turer cf flour, who cenes in close teuch with the movement of wheat frm first hands niturally believes in higher prices in and is unwillirg to follow the trend of a purely speculative depression of wheat The farmers of this country are wide awake and know full well that present supplies, together with the prospective demand and the outlook for the growing winter wheat crop, have brought about a condition such as_ has not existed for years, and they are de- termined, as far as_ possible, to profit by it. As a result, the movement throughout the winter wheat belt ts very light and the price of flour is firm, as compared with wheat. Grand Rapids mills are all running full time and are fairly supplied with orders. Millstuffs are in good demand, with values well sustained. The movement of feed and meal is light, values tend- ing somewhat lower. Ws. N. Rowe. i Hides, Pelis and Wool. The hide market is strong from scar- city. All markets are already sold up and no supply is in sight or to be had. The demand is good at an increased price. Pelts remain firm from the same cause. Prices are fully above what the wool market will warrant and pullers bank on an advance in wool to makea profit. There is some enquiry for wool, but it cannot be bougbt at the old prices to any extent, and manufacturers await the sale of spring goods before buying stock except for immediate wants. The Situation is strong for higher prices, nearly to importing point. Ws. T. Hess. ee ee ae Ser PE nat dana geri terrs tere wie 5 Meee oe Ree neteaee ce re eamec oe tiated Se a a ee The Meat Market Venison at a Cent a Pound. Norcross (Me.) Correspondence N. Y. Sun. The first deer of the season offered for sale here came in on Oct. 2 and was purchased by a Bangor hotel man, who paid 12 cents a pound for the dressed carcass. To-day a man may buy all the deer he wants, or all he has money to pay for, at the rate of 1 cent a pound, or 500 pounds for $4. The visitor who wants a deer has no need to go hunting. He can drop off here at night, buy a 175-pound buck, including antlers big enough to hold a dozen hats in the front hall, and a beautiful soft skin that may be tanned and converted into a $I0 mat, and get the whole lot for $1 50. The late dry spell has caused the fallen leaves to crackle under foot in the woods, so that the deer take alarm before the hunter gets within gunshot of his prey, and most of the deer that have been captured lately have been shot from canoes early in the morning or late at night, when the animals come down to drink. Thedeer’s love-making season begins in November, at which time the bucks forget their shyness and come out into the clearing, where any- body may kill them at short range. Should the delayed autumn rains begin early in November, the chances are that 100 deer a day will be shipped from this station all through the month. Ina few weeks now the weather will be so cold that carcasses hung up out of doors will keep for an indefinite period. The pot hunters will avail themselves of the opportunity and shoot and store away large quantities of venison for sale or: winter consumption. Although practically prohibited by law, the practice of shooting deer and selling them to visitors who are too busy or too lazy to hunt is increasing every year. After having secured a deer and disemhoweled it, the only article neces- sary for its preservation is a ‘‘ French- man's shotgun,’’ which is the Yankee name for a sapling gray birch. An old legend says that the French would have conquered the whole of the North American continent if the grav birch had held out. With a piece of string and a stiff birch sapling the French- men could rig snares and catch all the rabbits they wanted without the use of firearms. As far as the birches ex- tended the French held domain. Where the birches stopped the English began. These ‘‘ Frenchmen’s shotguns,’’ having served their purpose in colonization, are again doing service for the pot hunters. The gray birch is a catch crop between two growths of evergreens When a pine wood has been cut away or burned by forest fires the birches come up and monopolize the land for a score of years. By the time they are big enough to afford shade during the sum- mer the pine cones come skating along on the snowdrifts and find congenial seed beds among the birch woods’ In ten years more the pines have over- topped the birches and begun to kill out the plants that protected them in in fancy. As deer feed on birch sprouts the year around, preferring them to all other foods, the best place tor deer shoot ing is in a birch and pine thicket, where the hardwood affords food and the ever- greens give protection. Here the man who shoots for profit makes his camp and catches his supply of fresh venison. As fast as he kills and dresses his deer he hitches the hind legs of each animal toa springy birch sapling and sends it aloft among the dark pine boughs, where it may remain frozen for months. Then he_loats arounds the railroad stations and hangs about the hotel piazzas, telling the visit- ing hunters mysterious stories about deer and how cheap they may be had. If the newcomer wants a deer regardless of how it is secured, a trade is made, and the resident visits his cold storage lot to get what is ordered. Should the visitcr be old-fashioned enough to want to kill his own game, the resident turns him over to a friendly guide and gets a liberal commission for his services. This is a practice whicb has gained greatly of late, and is largely respon- sible tor the slaughter that is annually recorded. The wardens have made many arrests, but the captured men have all been unable to pay fines and have run up so heavy board bills while confined in jail that the taxpayers are fighting mad, and several of the local justices have refused to commit men who could not settle in cash. Supported by local public opinion, the cold-stor- age hunter is becoming a leading factor in backwoods life. Ten years ago his calling was unknown. Now there are men who do nothing else. How many deer they kill in a year is hard to say. Last February a lumbering crew at work on the West Branch found forty- six deer carcasses hanging on a quarter section. All of these were left over and could not be sold prior to Jan. 1. How many were sold and shipped away be- fore the beginning of close time nobody but the man who did the killing knows, and as there is a fine of $40 a head for every deer thus killed hanging over him, he will not be likely to tell. es The Butcher Girl of San Francisco. A sixteen-year-old girl in San Fran- cisco has hit on a novel way of earning her living. She has gone into the butcher business and is making a great success of it. Her name is Lillie Kanitz, and her customers say that it is a real pleasure to have a steak ora roast cut off and served by a brown-eyed slip of a girl ina spotless print gown and apron instead of a man in a spotted jacket and apron. Miss Kanitz’s father, Otto Kanitz, conducts the Log Cabin Market in San Francisco. She is a full partner in the business and her father’s only assistant. The father is as proud of his daughter as possible. The girl bas so mastered her trade that when her father is away she is left in charge of the shop. She runs it like a veteran, too, filling orders from a quarter of beef toa tidbit for somebody's pet dog. A girl butcher might not be expected to be attractive in person and manner. This one is. She is said to be straight and lithe and active, acd the arm that wields the cleaver instead of a golf club or tennis racquet is prettily rounded, with a sup- ple little wrist and tapering fingers. Miss Kanitz has rosy cheeks, brown eves and hair, and dresses becomingly She has a gentle manner, and, while business life has made her alert and keen, it has not taken away her girlish modesty and simplicity. Her parents are industrious Germans, who, by years of steady labor and frugality, have ac- quired considerable property. The girl butcher and her mother own city real estate valued at several thousand dol- lars. This was deeded to them by Mr. Kanitz, but the possession of it has not been a check to the daughter’s ambition to earn money for herself. She keeps the books of the firm, makes out, col- lects, and pays all bills, and delivers orders to customers in their own homes. Early any morning she is to be seen with her horse and cart whisking brisk- ly from street to street. Miss Kanitz was graduated at one of the grammar schools two years ago, and is a fine housekeeper. She bought and has paid for out of her own earnings a piano. The first payment she made on it was $200, which she had saved out of commissions allowed by her father as a bill collector. Mr. Kanitz expects to go to Dawson City next spring, leaving his daughter to carry on their joint busi- ness. 2. A deposit of marble has been discov- ered near Hermosillo, Mexico, which is said not to be inferior to the best fro- duced by the quarries of Carrara. ABSOLUTE ~ PURE GROUND SPICES, BAKING POWDER BUTCHERS’ SUPPLIES, ETC. FOR THE TRADE. THE VINKEMULDER COMPANY, PHONE 555. 418=420 S. Division St., Grand Rapids. Who gets the ... Oyster Trade? 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TOHODHOQOEO* DOE DOQOQOQOOOQOQOQOQOOOOS FOOO) Elgin System of Creameries It will pay you to investigate our plans and visit our factories, if you are con- templating building a Creamery or Cheese Factory. All supplies furnisned at lowest prices. Correspondence solicited. A MODEL CR EAMERY OF THE TRUE SYSTEM True Dairy Supply Company, 303 to 309 Lock Street, Syracuse, New York. Coutractors and Builders of Butter and Cheese Factories, Manufacturers and Dealers in Supplies. Or write R. E. STURGIS, General Manager of Western Office, Allegan, [lich. USé TFadésman Goupon Books ate i oe Hard Times and Margins. Written for the TRADESMAN. A natural consequence of the long de- pression in trade was the lowering of prices to the last limit possible, espe- cially as to primary markets. It is claimed, and perhaps with reason, that the greatest pressure was brought upon the manufacturer and that there was a greater yielding on his part than either circumstances demanded or the cost of production warranted. Undue competition and overanxiety for trade no doubt greatly reduced the margins on which goods were handled by many retailers; but this was not an universal condition of that division of the trading world as it seemed to be in manufacturing. In some localities the dealers persisted in demanding fair margins, and such gotthem. Indeed, in some cases there was taken into con- sideraton the fact that lessened volume of trade made better margins in the dis- tribution of goods a necessity, and so margins were kept up to a living basis. This, of course, was by no means the rule, yet such instances and localities were not uncommon. But the pressure brought upon the manufacturer was such as to bring the selling prices in primary markets very commonly below the legitimate cost of production, and in all cases of standard products below the possibility of profit. The comparative narrowness of the field in these markets make it possible for the pressure to be more nearly universal, A retailer might lower his price below the fair margin and the effect was only lo cal; but, when the prominent manufac- turer of a standard article cut his price unduly, the effect might be as wide as the country in the line concerned. Every manufacturer of standard arti- cles is susceptible to pressure in this direction from many sources. In his anxiety to keep his enterprise in oper ation he is willing to submit to tem- porary loss, hoping for an early turn in the situation. Of course, he will ask his employes to share the loss with him, and so wages are brought down. Then, on account of the narrowness of the field al- ready referred to, there is the opportun- ity for the greater pressure of competi- tion. While this competition is, much of it, natural and unavoidable, there is some which might be met by the exercise of more firmness and discretion on the part of the sales managers. For in- stance, a very common manifestation of the pressure for the lowering of prices is in the reports of salesmen as to the lower prices offered by others which are handicapping their operations. These salesmen are considered reliable and their representations are too frequently met by the undue reduction. Investiga- tion will sometimes demonstrate that the salesman has exercised too much credulity—not a usual failing, however —and that it is a case of untruthfulness on the part of one not scrupulous as to the means employed to bring down the price of his purchase. This is only one of the many ways in which the producer is susceptible to the pressure which seems to have had the greatest effect in his part of the question. And so, as the greatest depression is in the primary market, there, also, is the slowest recovery. As the purchasing power of consumers increases it is not difficult for the retailer to demand and geta fair margin on his goods. But it is human nature to he slow in the exercise of corresponding liberality by the dealers in purchasing. It is the MICHIGAN TRADESMAN buyer’s business to buy in the lowest market, and it is natural to continue the pressure on the poor producer as long as possible, thus lengthening, un- necessary, his struggle with adverse for- tune. ROSENSTEIN, ———__> 2. ____ The Merchant Need Not Be a Non- entity. The determination of the Board of Police Commissioners to prevent Sunday theaters was under discussion and a South Division street merchant asserted that the advanced position taken by Wm Judson, as President of the Board, would cause him the loss of considerable trade. This opinion met with the hearty dis- sent of all who constituted the group of listeners, whereupon the Division street dealer continued: ‘‘Say what you may and think what you please, the city merchant cannot take and maintain ad- vanced grounds on any economic. sub- ject without suffering the loss of trade. He must truckle to every class, clique and clan--be good lord and good devil to every committee which comes around and tells him how he must run his busi- ness, whether it emanates from the church, the saloon element or the trades union. The modern merchant cannot afford to entertain or express cpinions which run counter to those of his cus- tomers; in fact, he must be a nonentitv, without opinions of his own and without the courage of expressing them if he had them.’’ ‘*Nonsense,’’ exclaimed a_ listener who is himself a merchant whose every- day life is a standing rebuke to the statement that the merchant must be a nonentity. “‘I have always entered with zest intc every movement which has for its object the betterment of the city and the elevation of mankind, and instead of causing me the loss of trade, such a course has actually increased my sales and augmented my profits. Moreover, I can cite the case of a man who has run counter to every cherished opinion and ignored and insulted every class in the city at intervals, yet at the same time his trade is constantly enlarging and his profits are constantly increasing I refer to a leading merchant, who has repeatedly assured me that he got his start in his mercantile career by be- ing boycotted by the trades unions and manages to keep the walking delegates in a state of constant agitation by handling every boycotted article he can pick up in the market. Nothing gives him greater delight than to turn down the committee of some union which calls on him to enter a silly protest of some kind. He insults every preacher who has the temerity to take him to task for some lapse of duty and _ horrifies well-meaning ladies who call to inter- cede in behalf of some half-starved girl clerk by suggesting that she augment her income by having a ‘fellow.’ He treats his clerks worse than the slave owner ever treated his black chattels and his policy toward his competitors and the houses from which he buys _ his goods is that of the guerilla and the cutthroat. Yet all classes crowd his es- tablishment from morning until night, pay him spot cash for his goods and join in praising him as the ‘poor man’s friend.’ ’’ ——_~> 2 ____ Cruel Old Man. He—Did you tell your father that I would kill myself if I couldn't have you? She—Yes. He—What did he say? She—He said that settled it. You couldn't have me. eee 4 which we are Headquarters. A I 4 : , w General Offices Pythian Temple. 262eS5e°SeSeseSe25e2Se25e5e2SeSe2525e5eSes5eSeo eseseseese A Good Extension T able Is Our No. 61. 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Plain and fancy shelf boxes; suit, pant and millinefy boxes: plain and fancy candy boxes; druyyists’ slide boxes; pigeonhole file boxes; sample trays; sample cases; mailing tubes. Foiding Box and Printing Department. Folding boxes, plain and cartons a specialty; embossing; making; die cutting. 81 and 83 Campau St. ESTABLISHED 1866. rinted, of ali er tuck end folding bottle gold lea printing, special envelope Grand Rapids, Mich. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN a aittvs MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Crs, CHK Devoted to the Best Interests of Business Men Published at the New Blodgett Building, Grand Rapids, by the TRADESMAN COMPANY ONE DOLLAR A YEAR, Payable in Advance. ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION. Communications inv ted trom practical business men. Correspondents must give their full names and addresses, uot necessarily for pub- lication; but as a guarantee of good faith. Subscribers may have the mailing address of their papers changed »s ‘ften as desired. No paper discontinued. except at the option of the proprietor. unti! ali arrearages are paid. Sample copies sent free to any address. Entered at the Grand Rapids Post Office as Second Class mail matter. When writing to any of our Advertisers, piease say that you saw the advertisement in the Michigan Tradesman. E. A. STOWE, Epitor. WEDNESDAY, - - - NOVEMBER 10, 1897. PECULIAR VAGARIES OF WOMEN. It has been said by psychologists that women are creatures cf impulse rather than of principle. They act from the promptings of a mysterious interior force, or they are influenced by some powerful sympathy, rather than by _ rea- son and argument. If this be true, it is certain that in a great majurity of cases their impulses are noble and pure, and their sympa- thies are generous and worthily be- stowed. Nevertheless there are excep- tions. The admiration of women for all that is heroic, lofty and grand in human character is proverbial. No friends are so true, so devoted, so ready to encounter all dangers and all shame to pass through fire and flood, for those they love as are women. Their con stancy, fortitude and devotion in such cases have been the highest theme of the historian, the poet and the romancer in every age of the world. God's best gift to man, women alone make life worth living to many. Never- theless their extraordinary impulses and profound sympathies lead them some- times into most remarkable and out- rageous vagaries, and the world is from time to time astonished at the erratic behavior of some of the gentler sex in the wayward and outrageous freaks that lead respectable and well-raised females into voluntary association with and _ at- tachment for men of the most infamous character and surroundings. A curious example of that sort of sen- timental obliquity is seen in the interest that many women took in Adolph Luet- gert, the man who was tried for the murder of his wife under circumstances of unusual atrocity. The following Statement on the subject has been printed in the Chicago papers: Women who cailed on him in jail........ . ....2,385 Parcels left him by women (food)........ Ce ee ee ee ee ee Rs a ce 101 oe. ae Serene at ne Gaede 232 es el Oy Women... Proposals of martare...0 62 38 it 1s reported that these proposals be- gan coming by mail almost as soon as Luetgert was arrested. One, from Vin- cennes, Ind., was written in wery fair verse. Another, from Pocatello, Idaho, to Luetgert that the writer had dreamed of him every night since May 1. A few of the communications are written in German, and one came from Bremen. It was from a female who offered her hand and her fortune. She keeps a bake shop. One was from Memphis, and proposed a scheme to rescue Luetgert on a cer- tain day of the trial. If he favored the plan, he was to wear a white flower on his right lapel. He was to remain per- fectly supine whatever happened, and to make no resistance or cry. out. His unknown rescuer was to hypnotize the court, jury, bailiffs and spectators and convey Luetgert through the solid walls to ‘‘the free air and liberty and me.”’ Luetgert gct the white flower and wore it as he was told; but, although he waited ‘‘supinely,’’ no rescue came. It is not difficult to believe such state- ments, because they are but repetitions of what has happened in not a few other cases, and the only explanation is that there are female as well as male mons- ters. But there are the exceptions which prove the rule of the generally noble impulses and worthy sympathies of the softer sex. WALKA AND TONKA. On Oct. 30, John R. Walka, a Creek Indian, was executed in the Indian Ferritory by shooting. He and another member of the tribe, Jonas Deer, were rivals for the hand of an Indian maid- en, and at a dance, where she was pres- ent, they fought it out. Walka killeo Deer and married the girl. The mur- derer was convicted, sentenced to death, and, after the Indian fashion, released on promising to appear for the death penalty. Subsequently he went to Kan- sas City with an Indian ball team. He could have escaped, but returned to the Territory of his own accord, that bis sentence might be carried out. In this same ball club was another murderer, Walla Tonka, a Choctaw. He was convicted of killing his uncle, a deputy sheriff, and was also released on his word. He was to have been exe- cuted on Aug. 6, but that date conflicted with one on which his ball club was to play in Kansas City, and it was ar- ‘anged, through an appeal to the su- preme council, to have the execution stayed. Tonka was resentenced to be shot on Saturday last. Learning that ais friends had appealed to Chief Isparhecher, the Choctaw authorities decided to carry out the sentence be- tore a reprieve could be granted. Ac- cordingly, the execution was ordered to take place Thursday. Tonka’s friends, however, lost no time, and just before midnight Wednesday they were on hand with not only a reprieve, but also an order for a new trial. When the con- demned man was aroused from a sound slumber and told the news, he simply said: ‘‘Maybe me play more ball uow,’’ and then, turning over, went to sleep again. He will be tried again ext month, and it is believed that he will be acquitted. Every trade journal in the country which has participated in the discus- sion of the trading stamp system has ar- rayed itself against the scheme. The tride journals, as a class, are fair minded and disposed to treat all ques tions bearing on _ business without prejudice. The fact that they are unan- imous in condemning the scheme as unbusinesslike and unprofitable is sug- gestive to those who have not yet heen inveigled by the wily solicitors of the various branches of the conspiracy. Abyssinia’s social code provides for a fair chance to young married couples hy forbidding the brice’s mother to visit her daughter until a year after the mar- riage. PROPER NAVAL RESERVE. Now that the navy of the United State is assuming something like the proportions it should reach, although much yet remains to be done before it can be claimed that it has attained per- fection, the naval authorities are be- ginning to concern themselves seriously as to the reserve forces upon which the navy could draw in time of war. In order to make our naval establishment thoroughly efficient, there must be a reserve of fast-cruising vessels to sup- plement the regular cruisers of the fleet. There must also be a good sup- ply of tonnage to be used as_ transports and troop ships. So much for the ma terial reserve required. In the way of personnel, there should not only bea sufficient number of men to man all the available ships of the fleet, but a liberal reserve to recruit where casualties may occur. In the way of providing a reserve of cruising sbips, Congress has taken the proper steps by authorizing the enroll- ment of certain classes of large and fast merchant steamers. These vessels are of two classes, the first comprising those which have been built under Gov- ernment supervision and receive a sub- sidy for carrying the mails, and the sec- ond those which have been accepted by the Navy Department since their con- struction as suitable for prompt conver- sion into auxiliary cruisers or trans- ports. In these two classes have been enrolied nearly all the larger steam- ships of the American merchant marine. [his fleet of fine merchant ships would be of great value to the navy in the event of war, did the proper facilities for arming then exist. The last Con- gress authorized the construction of a sufficient number of rapid-fire guns to arm half a dozen of the auxiliary cruisers. For the balance no guns nor ammuniticn are provided, which isa matter that should claim the prompt at- tention of Congress at its next session. While Congress has made a beginning in the way of providing a material re- serve for the fleet, nothing whatever has been done in the way of organizing a reserve of trained men and _ officers. The existing numerical strength of offi- cers and men in the regular navy is far from sufficient to properly man_ the ships actually in commission. Many vessels have crews much smaller than their proper complement, while there are barely enough officers for the press- ing work. Were al! the ships of the fleet commissioned at once, there would not be enough men by many thousands nor sufficient officers by many hundreds to properly man the vessels. A reserve is, therefore, urgently needed, not only to ensure a supply of men to fill out the ranks during war, but actually to prop- erly man the fleet shouid it be called suddenly into actual service. Great Britain has a naval reserve force of about 2,000 officers and 25,000 men. The officers are chosen from the officers of the merchant marine, and are given a year’s training on a regular warship, while the men are given from one to six months’ training in the reg- ular navy and then enrolled in the re- serve, with a small annual grant from the government. France and Germany maintain a similar reserve system. In the United States nothing has yet been done to forma naval reserve force, except the organization of the naval militia battalions of the various sea- board states. This force, considering the opportunities that have been ex- tended to it for training, will furnish excellent material in both officers and men in time of war, not only for coast defense, but also in the case of the older and better trained battalions for filling out the complement of the sea-going fleet. Something mere comprehensive than this is required, however. It is understood that a b.1] will be presented to the next Congress providing for the creation of a naval reserve, to consist of the existing naval militia and the officers and men of the merchant ma- rine. The bill will provide that such officers as are found properly equipped with professional knowledge are to be enrolled as reserve officers, and afforded a specified period of training on board ship. In the case of enlisted men there will also be a_ period of service pro- vided. Whether such 2 bill be passed by Congress or not, it is evident that some- thing of the sort must be done, as the navy is clearly deficient in both officers and men to perform the duties that would devolve on it in time of war. The sooner this deficiency is removed the better. IN POOR HANDS. In order that the business men of Grand Rapids may note the character of the men into whose hands is placed the dispensing of funds now being raised all over the country for the relief of the striking miners of Spring Valley, the Tradesman herewith submits a clipping from a recent issue of the Spring Valley press showing the char- acter of the men now holding the reins of office in that city: The men who make up Spring Val- ley’s city administration are engaged in the following business : The Mayor—Saloon business. City Clerk—Saloon business. Six Aldermen—Saloon business, one of them being a highway robber. One Policeman—Late ex-saloonkeep- er in Ladd. One Policeman—Agent for brewery. One Policeman—Abductor of young men into questionable houses and a _ no- torious liar. The question is, can we expect much of such a set of officials? Frank H. Gill, who has been a lead- ing spirit in trades unionism in Grand Rapids for several years, having suc- ceeded in living very comfortably on the sweat of his tongue and his ability to foment dissatisfaction between em- ployer and employe, has decided to take up his residence at Los Angeles, Cal., nominally on account of his health, but really for the purpose of entering upon a crusade to unionize the town in the interest of the American Federation of Labor. The good people of Los An- geles—who have thus far managed to escape the evils of trade unionism by refusing to entertain the infamous doc- trines of Debs and other men of his ilk —will find Mr. Gill an accommodating gentleman, ready at any time to act as walking delegate or strike manager and not at all averse to holding any office within the gift of the people, either ap- pointive or elective. Specimens of the white Adriatic fig, of good size and flavor, have been raised by George Giustin in Portland, Oregon. He has had to protect the fruit nights of late, but says as the trees be- come older they are more hardy, and if the tree was fully grown the fruit would ripen without protection. While it is practicable for one to sit under his own vine and fig tree in that highly favored region, it is scarcely probable that Oregon will ever become celebrated for the production of figs. as a ADVANTAGE OF THE LINGUIST. This is, above all, a practical age, and of the young men who are sent to college one in a thousand devotes him- self either to literature as a career or as a means of living, while others go into business or the professions, which, al- though classed as liberal, are commonly studied for the exclusive purpose of making money. Then, of each one thousand men who are educated in colleges and universi- ties, but one goes into art and litera- ture. One branck of learning which is too little attended to in this country is the study of the living languages. Clergymen and students working for scholarships devote themselves to the dead languages; but they seldom pay much attention to any of the living tongues save their own. Probably they learn enough to enable them to read French and German; but they are en- tirely unable to speak them, and they do not need to do so for their purposes of mere study. It may be said that the purely literary person does not need the modern tongues, since he can get the best foreign thought in translations; but in this commercial age the business man and the traveler need to know the languages of the peo- ple with whom he deals. The intimacy and complexity of in- ternational political relations, the enor- mous growth and universality of com- merce, the vast numbers of people of all nations engaged in foreign travel, and the practical benefits under these con- ditions to be derived from a speaking knowledge of foreign languages make such an acquirement of special im- portance to business and professional men. A writer in Self-Culture, speaking upon the desirableness of a knowledge of modern languages, says: Those of most consequence to Amer- icans are German, French and Spanish. Of these three the first is the most use- ful in this country, as the Germans greatly outnumber the foreign-born citi- zens of any other nationality, and in places have managed to keep their ver- nacular on an equal footing with Eng- ‘lish, French is spoken or understood by all educated Europeans and, on the Con- tinent, at least, is indispensable to all who have any social or literary preten- sions. Thus it easily takes precedence of German for all the purposes ot the American traveler and sight-seer through the continent of Europe. Spanish, as the speech of nearly one- half of the Western Hemisphere, is bound to be some day the medium for the transaction of an immense volume of business in American manufactured products. No business man can afford to ignore it if he has any interest in South American trade. The American people of British descent are extremely deficient in ali knowledge of the modern languages. They seem to have imbibed the English contempt for both races and to have in- herited or contracted a notion of the sufficiency of their own mother tongue for all purposes, and to consider the foreigner who does not speak English as one who does not appreciate his own unfortunate situation. Any such notion is extremely foolish and absurd. The man who can speak to all comers, to each in his own tongue, enjoys a great advantage. He who is forced to com- municate by signs, or to converse with the aid of an interpreter, must be con- tent with what he can get. Probably there are _ physiological causes why persons of the English race have naturally a poor facility for speak- ing foreign languages, although there MICHIGAN have been notable exceptions. Pos- sibly the facility for learning to speak foreigns tongues is more distinctive and noticeable among people of the Slavic races than in others. Russians, Poles, Hungarians, Bulgarians and peo- ple of the other countries of Turkey have presented innumerable examples of pollyglots, and even persons of mod- erate education readily learn to speak the tongues with which they come in association. Their position between the various nationalities of Europe and Asia brings them in frequent contact with all races; but they must possess some special natural facilities. Lovers of those’ very treacherous affairs, historical parallels, will be dis- posed to see in Spain's latest policy of placating Cuba an analogy to the last desperate shift to which Philip II. re- sorted in order to retain his sovereignty over the Netherlands. After Alba’s rule of blood and iron in the low coun- tries had failed to break their spirit, he was recalled, as General Weyler is now, and Alexander of Parma was sent in his stead, He was to detach the Catholic nobles from the cause of the rebels, as Captain General Blanco is now to draw off the Cuban autonomists from the insurgents. Parma won much immediate success in the new policy of conciliation, only to fail miserably in the end. This does not, of course, prove that General Blanco will meet the same fate, but it does suggest that the same difficulties and dangers beset him. For him to come with an olive branch in one hand and a sword in the other, not as alternatives, but as the contradictory things to be put into play at one and the same time, is enough to make the Cubans look twice at their new cap- tain general. They will be justified in asking whether it is peace or the sword, and in refusing to believe that it can be both. A year ago last spring Dr. A. Mc- Phall, Professor of Pathology in Bish- op’s College, Montreal, was commis- sioned by the Dominion Minister of Marine and Fisheries to investigate the causes of discoloration of canned lob- ster. The importance of the lobster canning industry—the export in 1896 amounting to $2, 500, o00— warranted such an investigation; and in the report which has just been issued by the Superintendent of Marine and Fisheries the subject is thoroughly treated. Dr. McPhall found the discoloration to be due to bacteria, and, after elaborate experiments, proved that the bacteria could only be destroyed by the applica- tion of heat to the filled can, the use of germicidal fluids being out of the ques- tion. The process is simple enough, and when adopted will save hundreds of thousands of dollars yearly to the Canadian canners. The Denver Republican says there is a man in Colorado who has invented a device whereby $4 worth of gold per ton can be extracted from coal. If the dealer would deduct $4 a ton from the price of coal to the consumer, the latter would be willing to permit him to keep all the gold he might find. Those Klondikers who had to eat leather to keep from starving must have been reminded of some of the steaks they were wont to buy back home under the pseudonym of tenderloin. The chainless bike is good as far as it goes, but what is most needed isa costless bicycle. TRADESMAN A TIMELY SUGGESTION. With the return of business, every man in the world of trade has been gath- ering things together—himself among them—ready to take advantage of the first good chance that presents itself. Without doubt, for the next five years there will be the busiest set of business men that this country has ever seen, The days will be too short and too few and the nights will be cheated more and more of the needed relaxation and rest, To ask these eager men not to give themselves up to this excessive work will be labor lost; but, if a timely sug- gestion will prevent them from yielding to the tendency to be in a constant hurry, they ought to have it. There, after all, in too many in- stances, the real danger lies. Not a man of them, when the hard day’s work is over but believes that the weariness is due to his having done too much. It is rather the result of the hurry which has been driving him from the moment the day’s work began. That is the real nerve-breaker. A man can endure al- most any amount of labor without bad results if he will only work so as to save his nerves. Unsettle them, and the real trouble begins. He frets, he worries; and a year or two of that either kills him or, what is worse, starts him on that long, lingering, painful journey which is sure to land him in the graveyard. A minute’s work with a minute to do it in never hurts anybody, while an over- anxiety to do the same work in half the time is sure to lead to an early purchase of crape for the front door. There is such a thing, even in busi- ness, as deliberation and he who prac- tices it will be as fresh after having done twice the work as the man who, in hurrying, sinks exhausted. ‘" The method, I have followed,’’ said a suc- cessful business man to a modern hustler, ‘‘has been to make up my mind, before I left my bed in the morn- ing, what 1 was going to do during the day and then do it in the order in which I had planned. It may not be the best way for everybody, but it has proved so for me. It may leave me at night tired sometimes, but never worn out. ‘Go slow and you will go far,’ is an old proverb which J have tested and found to be true.’’ The conclusion of the whole matter is this: It is the haste in business life that kills. Let the business man work early and late if he must and will; but let him remember that, while the man who never hurries will be hale and hearty at seventy, the hurrier will be in his grave at fifty. ‘‘A word to the wise is sufficient.’ THE TAKING OF CANADA. Ever since Arnold's fateful expedi- tion to the banks of the St. Lawrence, there has been a feeling on both sides of that river that sume day that Domin- ion would be a part of the United States. In times of war, and especially in rumors of war, the invasion of Can- ada and its subsequent union with ‘‘the States’’ is a favorite topic; and in the piping times of peace, as surely as the year rolls around, the same old_ subject rides to the surface, floats its accus- tomed period and placidly sinks to ap- pear again a twelvemonth later. To judge from a_ single expression from *‘An English Visitor,’’ in the St. James’ Gazette, London, affairs between this country and Canada are rapidly approaching a crisis; for ‘‘the most popular thing, in the eyes of Canada, 9 which it is within the power of England to do would be to administer to the United States a good ringing box on the ears.’’ For reasons which need not be here considered, it is safe to say that the box has not yet been administered. It will not be administered; and any attempt, now or later on, todo so will be parried by the business man on both sides of the St. Lawrence. It may be true, in a general way, that there have been times when the box would have furnished infinite satisfac- tion on both sides of the stream: but the taking and the surrender of our north- ern neighbor will be accomplished by milder, surer and wiser measures. For years the importance of developing trade with Canada has been a matter of concern with the tradesmen of this country. There has been, and is now, an equal concern on the part of the Canadian merchant, and both have waited for some move to be made by the respective governments to forward these interests so momentous to both. They have waited in vain, and it re- mains for the business world to take’the Matter into its own hands—to meet, to get acquainted, to present plans con- cerning their common interests and dis- cuss them, and, irrespective of political boundaries, to set up a realm of their own where trade is the Chief Executive and the obedience to whose laws will be followed by a prosperity hitherto un- known in both sections. That is the way, and the only way, by which Can- ada will ever be taken. Nor will it be the first instance recorded in the history of trade where the business man has fought and conquered on fields where scepters have been hopelessly lost. As a means of getting the Turk out of Palestine, the Jewish plan of purchasing that country is to be commended. It is not likely that the Jews of America will emigrate to Palestine in any consider- able numbers. It is doubtful, indeed, if the country would ever be populated largely by the Jewish race. The pro- posed purchase is largely a matter of sentiment, and it is a sentiment which Christians can share, for Palestine is the cradle of their religion as well as that of Judaism. Both Christians and Jews cannot but feel humiliated at the thought that this historic region is dom- inated by the Turk. It may be that the Jews may accomplish what the so- called Christian powers of Europe have been too indifferent to attempt, and re- deem the Holy Land from the sway of the infidel. A writer in an American journal de- voted to milling says Siberia is too cold to compete with this country in the production of wheat, and that the open- ing of the Great Russian Railway across Northern Asia will not lessen the de- mand on this country for breadstuffs. Siberia is unsuited to a large production of wheat. Its winters last eight months, the area available for wheat is compar- atively too small, and all that is pro- duced will be needed for home con- sumption. The Russian Railway, for the most part, runs north of the 55th parallel of latitude. There are fifty manufactories in Ger- many engaged in making imitation but- ter. A factory in Mannheim is said to produce 6,000 pounds of the stuff from cocoanuts. The man who greatly admires himself is sure that he is a worthy object of ad- miration. osasepbege-2 +. Good Things Said by Up-to-Date Shoe Dealers. In the schoolroom is where the ill- fitting shoe does its worst—while the child endeavors to do problems in arithmetic, the shoe pinches; while the little one stands before the blackboard, the shoe rubs; when he goes to or from his seat to ‘‘class,’’ the shoe binds the instep or hurts the ball of the foot.— Johnson’s Shoe Palace, Altoona, Pa. >» Lhis has been shoe show week at Wanamaker’s—an exposition of leather workmanship—the get-acquainted-days with the shoes for now and winter. On an average there are two hundred and twenty-five thousand pairs of shoes in stock here—need to be, that we may have fair selling stocks of the shoes we show. There is only one American shoe business that equals this in volume, while it would likely take the combined business of any half dozen home stores to equal it. That counts for something —it means an outlet for such lots of goods that the shoe chief doesn’t hesi- tate to give orders that keep makers busy for months, that scare dull times awav.—John Wanamaker, Phila. Right on the heels of that big lot of men’s fine hand-sewed shoes that turned all male Washington toward our stores tollows a great agreeable surprise for the ladies. Through the failure of a Philadelphia shoe retailer, a Carlisle manufacturer had left on his hands the stitched-together uppers and linings of a lot of $3 and $4 shoes, going through the works. The upper leather being of the same quality as that which is used in our own regular shoes, we bought these uppers and had some made up on our own regular lasts—at a price which only about covered the cost of the soles and heels. We have not the room to hold this big lot of goods, and will therefore give you, from to-morrow morning on, a chance to buy—as long as they last—these famous.—William Hahn & Co, Washington, D. C. — #0 2.__ Nuremberg, the great toymaking cen- ter, has had a banquet to celebrate the completion of the 300,oooth model steam engine by a certain well-known maker. The same factory has turned out more than 325,000 magic lanterns. MICHIGAN Tendency Toward Sirnplicity in Styles of Women’s Shoes. Simplicity seems to be the word that best describes the tendency of the times in styles of shoes. From the highly or- nate and much-perforated styles of late seasons we appear to be heading toward plainness and neatness. At last it seems that retailers have become thoroughly tired of loading their shelves up with goods as_ variega- ted as women’s millinery and are of one accord in buying fewer styles and those more staple ones. It is time that such were the case. A prominent retailer handling only women’s and children’s goods recently remarked, ‘‘I have bought only misses’ and childern’s so far, but those I have selected are identically the same lines as last season. I will take on nothing new. I’ve had enough of novelties and will dodge all I can.’’ Few of the Eastern travelers selling to the best city trade are showing much that is ornate or new. About all of the women’s samples there is a tone of plainness that is pleasing. Perforations are missing. The fad that prevailed for so long of punching holes everywhere there was room for them in the trimmings has hecome outre or passe or lapsed into some other condition of French innocuous desue- tude. Tips and trimmings are plain. Patent leather trimmings are almost a novelty in the best lines of goods for the winter as well as for spring wear. The day of patent leather lace stays on ladies’ shoes, with fancy cutting, is not past so far as cheap goods are con- cerned, but on the best grades little of this sort of work is desired. It is the same way with tips. Instead of patent, stock tips are in favor. How long this will continue to be the case is a ques- tion. On the heavy calf shoes that the fashionable woman is sensibly adopting for winter wear the stock tip—that is, tip made of the same material as the shoe—is all right. On a kid shoe it looks well when new, but scuffs up badly with a little wear and on this ac- count may not prove as popular as_pat- ent tips have done. It will not be sur- prising if patent tips supplant the stock tips again after a short time. The best seller of the high-grade shoes of a city retailer whose trade in- cludes many fashionable women is of Box calf on a broad Bull-dog last, set on a low, mannish heel, stitched with three rows of brown stitching and capped with a straight-across stock tip. It is, in fact, a man’s shoe in a wom- an’s size, severely plain, but neat and stylish. In lines less mannish women who buy the higher-priced shoes are giving pref- erence to a plain kid shoe, kid tipped with one point or plain foxing, military heel, Coin or Bull-dog toe, chaste and neat, but unornamented. This tendency in the fine city trade is already having its effect on the coun- try trade and less gingerbread is seen on many lines of spring samples. Black cloth tops are in some demand for cold weather, but spring will de- velop the cloth top trade in its full measure, when the handsome designs shown in colored goods will attract the feminine customer, It is probable that the vesting top will work evil on many dealers, who will attempt to handle it in lines too cheap, with the result that the color will rub-off and soon hecome a dingy, dirty hue that will mean trouble for the merchant. The better quality of vesting, queen’s cloth, di- TRADESMAN agonal or other cloth topping, is not open to this objection, but is durable and neat, being easily cleaned, when soiled, by an application of gasoline. In connection with cloth tops colored shoes will be more popular than ever the coming season. East the shade that is predicted to lead is very light brown —much lighter than will sell in the | Out this way a light} West and South chocclate will be the favored color, a sort of golden brown that holds its color, is not obtrusive, but soft and pleasing to the eye. for to any extent, ox-blood being about out of it and green, purple, etc., in no demand whatever. It will be observed that this tendency toward simplicity in shoe styles is no- ticeable chiefly in the grades sold to the better class of trade, not so much in cheap lines. In the less costly varieties there is still a call for gingerbread effects practically as strong as ever. But the influence of fashion leaders in- variably makes itself felt all along the line. Where fashion leads the world follyws and to-day fashion is headed toward plainer styles. It is for every shoe man to help this movement along--to dispose of his lines that are overburdened with gingerbread and work toward plain goods that com- bine style with service. It is to his ad- vantage to lend assistance to anything | that will simplify his stock and reduce the proportion of profitless odds and | ends that collect every season as a result | of rapid and radical style changes. — Shoe and Leather Gazette. A fit of temper has very often nothing to do with the thing which appears to give rise to it. Che extreme dark colors | prevailing last season will not be called | | Patent Leather Slippers Fashionable. | Satin goods are taking a back seat |} among fashionable dames and damsels, i yielding place to the patent leather slipper with French heel. The plain patent leather slipper sells well in the best stores; but the favorite is provided with a large pointed tongue piece and is known by a variety of names. Some are fur trimmed, but only a few. A prominent city retailer says he is selling three times as many black pat- |ent leather slippers as he is colored and | white satin. There 1s method in this | freak of fashion. Patent leather doesn’t soil like the dainty tinted goods. ‘BULLDOG, OPERA LAST Y No. 151. Men’s Fine Satin Calf. McKay Sewed. Cylinder fitted. Outside backstay. Dongois top. | Bright raised evelets, smooth inner sole, one piece | sole teather counter, solid heel and bottom. Bull- doy, Opera, Coin, English or Boston cap toe or | Globe. Glaze or Fre: plain toe Lists. Balls or Co gress. Order sampie case and prove our as- | sertion that this is the BEST shoe made for $1.50. | Satisfaction guaranteed. New samples now ready, To insure an early ca land secure exclusive agency address A. B. CLARK, Lawton, Mich. |E. H. STARK & CO., Worcester, Mass. | | | HOC CHOOOGQE OE COOQOQDOE® D F 010K 0\01010K1OX) enexsrororerere S 8 : Rindge, Kalmbach & Co., 12, 14, 16 Pearl Street, 3 @ : O} $ Grand Rapids, Michigan. S Manufacturers and Jobbers of : @ ° @ @ Boots and Shoes Our Lines and Prices for fall are right. We carry $ 6 a full line of Warm Goods—Felt Boots and $ @ Socks; also, Boston and Bay State rubber goods. § Your business is solicited. 3 $ 00000006 0000006 DOKMO@D SOKO) XO © @ ( 1DOCOOOOOO S Michigan Shoe Company Detroit, Michigan. tate Now ready, and our agents will : Spring Samples A NEW JOBBING HOUSE with a line of goods that speak for themselves. : call soon. Wait for them. Shoes and prices will please you and we want your trade. e rere uterine MICHIGAN TRADESMAN ’ Clerks’ Corner The Situation from the Employer’s Standpoint. Written for the TRapEsMAN, Just back oi my dining room, out of sight and sound of the parlor, is an apartment which I have ‘‘fixed up’’ as aden, to which I repair when the spirit moves me—or when some other spirit moves me!—and I fain would enter the realm of rest and silence. | had thrown myself into my easy chair and was read- ing with considerable satisfaction my own contribution to the Tradesman in regard tu the clerk “‘watched by a thcu- sand eyes,’’ and was wondering whether, on the whole, Bostwick had bien ben- efited by anything which I had said, when with a preliminary tap the door opened and Mr. Bostwick came in. There is no ceremony in dendom and the grocer was not long in finding an attitude as comfortable as mine, on the other side of my blazing fire. Of course, I knew what he had come for and | hastened through the necessary prelim- inaries with all dispatch. I passed him my box of Centaurs and a_ lighted match ; and in due time, blowing away the blue, he began: ‘I'm afraid you dida’t understand me the other day in our talk about the clerks. I've no objection to the boys having all the fun they want after busi- ness is over; but I do think there is a limit beyond which they should not go —must not go. In the first place, fun that takes the strength of the young man and so unfts him for his day’s work is not to be put up with. That's where I tind fault with Morris. I have work enough to keep him busy from six in the morning until six at night. He’s a stout, healthy young fellow who ought to stand any amount of work. Why, good thunder! when I was at that chap’s age I did the work of two men and thought nothing of it and expected to do it; but the minute I say anything about coming down to the store after Supper, he says it’s all right; he just as lief, but of course he'll expect to be paid for such extra work! ‘Well, that’s neither here nor there. What I’m after now is the way he spends his time. You spoke about his playing billiards with you. He doesn't always play with you, I can tell you that, and he doesn't always stop a little after ten o’clock. I venture to say .that fellow doesn't see the inside of his own room earlier than midnight oftener than once a week. I’m willing to bet ten dollars. Now I can’t have that; the fel- low knows it, and yet let me say a sin- gle word to him about it and he'll fly off the handle in a minute. ‘‘That’s a part of what I meant the other day when you were in there. You saw how red he got in the face, and | expected more than anything that he would flare up. That isn’t the worse thing about him, though. He's a boy that’s been brought up to go to church and Sunday school and have a whole- some respect for such things. I’ve an idea that he’s a church member; but if he’s seen the inside of a church in over a year I'll miss my guess. A man told me within a week —of course, you'll say he'd better be minding his own busi- ness—that he saw him the night before carousing around the bar down at that swell saloon on Curtis street with three others of the same clique; and another man -has a_ story that I should be ashamed to repeat to you, to the effect that to his certain knowledge Morris was seen in the most disrepuiable quar- ter of the town with one of the most disreputable characters in the city. How's that for a grocer’s clerk with a salary of $45 a month? ‘*Now, that’s all wrong. The boy’s bright as a dollar. He comes of a good family in the East—1 know 'em_ well— and if that boy's mother knew what kind of a life he 1s living ‘twould kill her. What I want him to do, after he gets through with his day’s work, is to go to his room after supper and stay there. He’s tired enough after I get through with him to sit down and rest. When I get home I find something worth read ing and read it. Whats the reason Will can't do a little studying, now the tvenings are getting longer? I asked him something about a sum in arithme- tic the other day, not a hard one either, and he was dumb as an oyster—couldn't tell a blessed thing about it. I tell you that isn't right. Something ought to be done about it. If that fellow, smart and bright as he is, keeps on the way he’s going, he'll land plump to the devil; and I'll give him less than five years to do itin! It’s too bad; but I can't do anything about it. I’ve tried it and--well, it isn’t satisfactory. We both of us get mad and that's the end of it. I’ve been on the point of ship- ping him; but at heart he’s a good, likely fellow and i like him. He isn't lazy; he’s got good, common sense; and if be'd only sober down and try to make something of himself, I'd do the nandsome thing by him. ‘* Somehow or other you've got on the right side of him, and I believe you can talk to him if anybody can. Just try it—I wish you would. That’s why lve come over—to ask you. You and ne have been together for sumething like six months now—yes, I’m willing o admit that I’ve been onto you !—and you've done him a world of good. You can do him more. I only wish I had your knack; I'd begin to-morrow morning. Here, take another cigar— it's a choice brand—and tell me just what you think about it. You like the boy—I saw that the other day. Now go ahead and tell me what you think about e I felt the time had come for a ten- strike and with the choice Cuban pro- duction fairly started, 1 turned towards my boy Will’s ‘boss’’ and began. Next week I'll tell you ‘‘fellers’’ what 1 said. RICHARD MALCOLM STRONG. —__>2.___ Revival of an Old German Institution. From the Shoe and Leather Gazette. Solomon's oft-quoted aphorism that there is nothing new under the sun stands as true to-day as when it was first uttered, centuries ago. No sooner do we evolve a novelty that we flatter our- selves is really new than some icono- clast shatters our idol and we find that our new idea was born before we knew the light of day. The street fair, that novel institution that is creating enthusiasm throughout the North, is nothing new. It found its origin in Germany years and years ago and as the ‘‘Yahrmarkt’’ has flour- ished for decades on decades in the Fatherland. . If the street fair is not new, it is a profitable novelty —and that is the main consideration. The street fair is a great institution for drawing crowds to town and boom- ing business for a few days. It is only temporary, but brings excitement and pleasant entertainment with it. ——_~_>_2~__ John Temple Graves, of Georgia, in] a recent lecture on ‘‘The New Woman and the Old,’’ said: ‘*Woman is no longer a sentiment; she is a problem, and it is now our unhappy mission to grapple with her or surrender, as I have done. ’’ A Barrel of Flour Branded like this one “ges BNGQTAN Bus.d # 23 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. We are handling JEWELL CHOP on small margins, the same as heretofore, on the theory that the nimble sixpence is preferable to the idle shilling, Clark=-Jewell-Wells Co., , Sole Owners. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN IS “Old Man” Not Necessarily a Term of Disrespect. Written for the TRADESMAN. ‘*Hard to Grow Old Gracefully,’’ an article in a recent number of the Tradesman by H. H. T., appeals di- rectly to my heart; but not exactly on the writer's side of the argument. The fact is simply this: The son said, ‘‘I’ll see if the old man can spare me.’’ Was that any intentional disrespect on the part of the young man? No. When the boy was born, the father was 30 years old, and through all these changing years the interval of time between their ages has remained unchanged. To the boy of 10 or 15, thirty years isa long time, and to him the man who is 30 years his senior is, to all intents and purposes, an old man. When the Loy is 21, the father is 51; and I should like to know if a man who is over half a hundred isn’t old! So, then, the boy didn’t mean to imply that his father is superanuated and ready to be shelved: but simply that, since he, the boy, is a young man, his dad must be an old man—thirty years older (!)—that is all. Let anybody else speak of that same father as old in any disrespectful sense of the term and the young fellow would knock the offender down. So much for that. Now, then, Mr. H. H. T. needn't un- dertake to tell me that the man he writes about never thought of being looked up- on as old until the boy, John, called him ‘‘the old man.’’ That thought has been agitating his gray matter off and on for years. Ever since he pulled the first ominous white hair from his whiskers, he has been haunted by the same dreadful idea; and it seems to me a significant fact that somany men in the neighborhood of 45 shave all but the moustache so long as that capillary ornament of the upper lip shows no sign of ‘‘the sere and yellow leaf ;’’ and, when a man of that age makes a clean sweep with the razor, it may be put down as a fact which he had _ better not be questioned about that he does it —well, because! The most trying trouble which most men encounter in fighting old age re- lates to the eyes. Spectacles? Perish the thought! They quarrel with the newspaper. Somehow there is no com- fort reading it; and it is amusing as well as noticeable that about this time they are too busy to read anything but the headlines! Woe to the man, woman or child who hints at glasses; but when, some day, the knowing wife of his bosom wonders if eyeglasses wouldn't be becoming to him, ‘‘just to please her’’ he gets himself the most stylish pair he can find, and so makes a sacri- fice of himself ‘‘just to satisfy a foolish whim of his wife!’’ One friend of mine who has passed ‘‘the Great Di- vide,’’ when asked the other day why he wears the wide-toed shoe in place of the London peg, instead of saying that he is too old for that sort of non- sense, with an expression of wisdom on his sly old face insisted that the wide toe is the prevailing style in the East, and that that is his ground of prefer- ence; while another is indulging with all his might and main his fondness for red, and daily appears ina splen- dor of neckwear which many a younger man would not dare to put on. The fault to be found in all this lies in the evident ‘‘make-believe.’’ We are all growing old; but so many of us forget that the thing has been going on ever since we were born. The trouble seems to lie in the fact that we are not quite ready to give up at our age what by common consent belongs to an earlier one. After all, ‘‘old man’’ is a term not necessarily offensive. My 17-year-old Bob often calls me that; but, with his arm around my neck, it is so much music to my years. Mac, with his wis- dom and experience (!)—he is 25— would hardly be the dear fellow he is without his always hearty ‘‘ Hello, old man!’’ And when Lawrence, 9 years his senior, puts his arm across my shoulders and says, in his earnestness, ‘“*Now see here, old man!’’ does any- body suppose, for a moment, that I would change it to commonplace ‘‘father?’’ Not I. The words mean much to them—much more to me: and nothing would so shock either of us as the thought that in them lurks anything unfilial or anything that hints at dis- respect. RICHARD MALCOLM STRONG. ——__~> 2 Why He Succeeded Where Others Failed. Correspondence Trade Magazine. I had a long and very interesting con- versation with a candy man the other day—a nervous, energetic, thoroughly wideawake and therefore successful mer- chant. It was a private interview, but I can’t help repeating some things he said to me: ‘‘I was standing before a large candy store in Philadelphia some time ago, when two ladies paused at the door. ‘* “Come in,’ said one of them, ‘and let’s get some candy.’ ‘‘ “No,” replied the other, ‘just come along to my store, Let us get the candy there. | ‘‘T wanted to see what kind of a store had pleased the lady so much, and _fol- lowed them to it. I looked it all over, bought some candy myself, and think I got some ideas for my own business. ‘“‘T get a great many ideas by stand- ing on the pavement in front of my store, looking into the show window, and listening to what people say as they come out of the store. That is the time that they express an unbiased opinion. If they find fault with the goods or the store or their treatment, | am pretty sure to hear it, and thus ascertain what faults are to be corrected. When they are pleased, | discover just what is right. ‘‘When I entered business I began using a certain brand of chocolate. It is a first-class article and commands a high frice, but people like it, and I have continued to use it and shall do so. Not long ago a salesman tried to persuade me to use another brand. He said that it ws just as good and far cheaper. Not selling me any, he offered to let me have a lot gratis asa sample, but I declined even that proposition. ‘* “You won't even let me give it to you?’ he asked. ‘* “No,” was my answer; ‘the choco- late that I am using has carried me through from a very small beginning to the present, and I’m going to stand by i ‘‘Whenever I go to the metropolis I try to take. two or three of my clerks with me. We go into the retail candy stores, buy and ask prices, keep our ears and eyes wide open, and then talk our experiences over and compare notes. It is wonderful how much good it does them, and I find that it pays me richly in increasing their effi- ciency. ’"’ In speaking of the necessity of honest dealing, of reliable goods and thoroughly unbending integrity throughout all the transactions of a mercantile career, he uttered this sentence, which is worthy a place among the axioms of the day: ‘“*T can afford to lose a sale, but not a customer.’ How many merchants there are who have made a sale netting them, per- haps, a dime, and because of the poor quality of the goods have lost a custom- er that might have been worth hundreds, perhaps thousands, of dollars to them! Matter Michigan Retail Grocers’ Association President, J. WISLER, Mancelona; Secretary, E. A. Stowz, Grand Rapids; Treasurer, J. F, TATMAN, Clare. Association Michigan Hardware Association President, Cuas. F. Bock, Battle Creek; Vice President, H. W. WrEsBer, West Bay City; Treasurer, HENRY C. Minniz, Eaton Rapids. Detroit Retail Grocers’ Association President, Josep KNIGHT; Secretary, E. Marks, 221 Greenwood ave; Treasurer, N. L. KoEnie. Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association President, FRanK J. Dyk; Secretary, Homer Kap; Treasurer, J. Geo. LEHMAN. Saginaw Mercantile Association President, P. F. TREANoR; Vice-President, JoHn McBraTNIE; Secretary, W. H. Lewis; Treas- urer, LovulE SCHWERMER Jackson Retail Grocers’ Association President, Gro. E. Lewis; Secretary, W. H. Por- TER; Treasurer, J. L. PETERMANN Lansing Retail Grocers’ Association President, F. B. Jounson; Secretary, A. M. DaR.Line; Treasurer, L. A. GILKEY. Adrian Retail Grocers’ Association President, Martin Gafney; Secretary, EF. Cleveland; Treasurer, Geo. M. Hoch. Traverse City Business Men’s Association President, THos. T. Bates; Secretary, M. B. Houtiy; Treasurer, C. A. HamMOND. Owosso Business Men’s Association President, A. D. WHIPPLE; Secretary, G. T. Camp- BELL; Treasurer, W. E. Couins. Alpena Business Men’s Association President, F. W. Gitcurist; Secretary, CL. PARTRIDGE. Grand Rapids Retail Meat Dealers’ Association President, L. J. Katz; Secretary, Pamip HILBER; Treasurer. S. J. HUFFORD. \ 7 7 READY FoR USE) (READY FOR Use. {USE NO YEAST. SALT Sopa OR; (USE WO YEAST.SALT Sona ced | BAKING POWDER E BAKING POWDER ; 7 7 “KEEP BR [MIX COLD WATER AN _MIXCOLD WATERANE, E SWEET MILK E SWEET MILK ; BAKEATONCE | BAKE AT ONCE acs Fallis’ Pancake Flour Fallis’ Self-Rising Buckwheat 20 5 lb. sacks to a case. . 23.50 FALLIS & CO., Toledo, 0. WM. R. TOMPKINS, Agent, Detroit, Mich. Saree 3 C.B.* §_o__-s-e> _, ‘Cough | Drops a oe | THE C.BLOM, ur CANDY CO., 5 HOLLAND,-Micné =e io i APELERRLE HF } v "Tre. ©. HH} | Tree repcpePe PR pour bee & Ra) ee ws Pree et eee Site SERS ares For Sale by Leading Jobbers. Buckwheat ~»>>>, A genuine article. That is PURE is the kind we offer you MW at prices that are reasonable. MN We sell buckwheat that has the good old- 3 fashioned buckwheat taste. adulterate it in any way, shape or manner. W We believe that when people ask for buck- ¥ WN wheat they want buckwheat, and it is for \ the class of people who know what they want that we make this buckwheat. We believe it will please any lover of the We would like to have your order and WN shall take pleasure in quoting you close prices on any quantity. Valley City Milling Company, Grand Rapids, Mich. Sole Manufacturers of “LILY WHITE.” “The flour the best cooks use.” We do not W 14 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Fruits and Produce. Judge McMahon Holds the Oleomar- garine Law Constitutional. Detroit, Nov. 6—On October 15 a written complaint was laid before Police Justice Sellers, charging a dealer with selling an imitation of yellow butter in violation of the law. The justice re- fused to entertain the complaint on va- rious grounds, and State Dairy and Food Commissioner Grosvenor applied to the Wayne Circuit Court for a man- damus to compel the police justices to receive such complaints. The case was argued several days ago before Judge McMahon, who delivered a decision yesterday, granting the mandamus prayed for. In a clear and thorough opinion, the court showed that the rea- sons given by the police justice for re- fusing to issue a warrant were untenable. ‘‘This is a case of great public inter- est,’’ said Judge McMahon in his opin- ion, ‘‘and I regret exceedingly that I lacked time and opportunity to spend several days upon it. In his answer to the petition for a mandamus, Justice Sellers gives several reasons for his re- fusal to entertain such complaints. One of these is that the complaint in ques- tion was not made by the commissioner himself, as required by law. Another is that the act is unconstitutional, be- cause it embraces more than one ob- ject, and, still another, that the act is class legislation. ‘‘The intent of the act was to prevent deception and fraud in the manufacture and sale of imitation butter. Justice Sellers holds that all such complaints must be made by the commissioner in person. This opinion is evidently de- rived from another legislative act, fix- ing the duties of the commissioner. The act we are considering nowhere indi- cates that complaints can be made by any onee'se. Without express legislation to prevent it, every citizen can exercise the fundamental right to make com- plaints against public evils. It is doubt- ful if even the legislature can take awav this right. It is not claimed that ordi- nary citizens cannot make complaints for violations of the jiquor laws. The dairy and food commissioner has a verv wide territory to look after, and it would be an impossibility for him personally to cover it all. ‘*As to the contention that the act is unconstitutional. I cannot appreciate the force of the objection, because ] have been unable to find that it em- braces more than one object. That ob- ject is plainlv to prevent fraud and de- ception in the sale of imitation butter ‘“The same is true as to the contention that the complaint did not charge that the article sold looked like imitation yellow butter. I have -een unable to find that the act requires the insertion of any such charge in complaints. ‘“The contention that the act is class legislation is somewhat ambiguous. It is not the province of courts to criticise legislatures. Their occupation of their own field is exclusive. Courts cannot legislate. If thev pass acts that are re- garded as oppressive. courts have noth ing whateverto do with it. There is no doubt that legislatures should not on- press any legitimate business, that they should not pass acts to help butter pro- ducers to the injury of the manufacturers of other pure foods, but the act we are considering does not do that. It was framed for the sole purpose of prevent- ing deception and fraud. This the State has a perfect right todo. It has been so decided many times by the courts, and is so well established as to be be- yond controversy. ‘*The Supreme Courts of Massachu- setts and the United States have passed on an act precisely like the one under consideration, even to punctuation. de- claring it to be constitutional. Their opinions should carry more weight than those of a police justice, or of this court. There is no question that the State has a perfect right to prevent de- ception in food products, even though they may be wholesome. There are many people who would not buy or use oleomargarine, or imitation butter, un- der any circumstances, if they knew it, and they have a right to protection. If some one is incidentally injured in en- forcing this act for the general good, there is no redress. Some burdens may be imposed, but it is in the exercise of a large State policy, and they must be borne.’’ ———_~>_2___ High Price for Ditto. From the Lewiston Evening Journal. What is the power of a ditto mark? A nice housekeeper in this city knows more about it than she did once. This is the time of year when mus- tard, cloves, cassia, bell peppers, vin- egar, and the other fixings that go with cucumbers, celery, etc., are seething in the pot and the pickle jar is yawning with open mouth to receive them. A good recipe for mixed pickles or chow- chow is at a premium just now. The lady referred to above had a re- cipe for chowchow which ran some- thing like this: Cauliflower, 3 heads; button onions, 2 quarts; small cucum- bers, 2 quarts; bell peppers, 6; celery seed, I ounce; white mustard seed, 1 ounce; curcuma seed, I ounce, and so on. Now everything went well until she asked her grocery man to bring these materials to her. Hesaid he got every- thing all right until he struck curcuma seed. The druggist, when he got the rest of the things, said he didn’t keep curcuma seeds. ‘‘Never mind,’’ said she, ‘I'll get those myself the next time I go uptown."’ Accordingly, she soon called on a leading druggist for curcuma_ seeds, one ounce, holding the recipe in her hand and reading from it. He blandly said he never had a call for them be- fore, but would order some and have them in a day ortwo, She waited a proper length of time and then called again. The druggist referred to his bill and read a footnote which said: ‘‘None in this city. Will try Boston.’’ Bos- ton could not furnish them, but would trv New York. New York responded. “Can't find. Would probably cost $1 or more an ounce, If obtainable.’’ Not long after, her husband dropped into another drug store one evening, and the conversation was running on the ex- pensiveness of some kinds of drugs, and he joined in with a bit of his wife’s experience on curcuma seeds. The druggist listened intently to the yarn and said quietly, ‘‘There must be some mistake about this- it is not curcuma seeds that you want—it is curcuma, ground curcuma. I sell lots of it every dav for coloring chowchow yellow. ’’ ‘‘T don’t care,’’ said he, ‘‘the recipe reads: Celery seed, one ounce. Curcuma ‘‘ - ‘‘T’ve read it adozen times, and if those ditto marks don’t call for curcuma seed, then I don’t know how to read English.’’ So the pursuit of curcuma seed was dropped, and he carried home some ground curcuma, and his wife made the chowchow and it was lovely. Now the point of this is that the cur- cuma root is the part used. It grows in China, Japan, Ceylon and East India countries in general, and is an_ ingre- dient in the famous ‘‘curry powder’ of the Orient. When it is dried it has a taste like ginger root, and is consumed in great quantities by the natives of the countries where it grows,as a condiment, 't is perfectly harmless and is used en- tirely in this country to give the bright vellow color to chowchow and pickles in general. It is a tuberous plant and is wholly propagated from the root, which makes it unnecessary to save the seed, which are few and entirely useless. This is why they would cost $1 an ounce if they could be obtained! ———_>2—___ Armour & Co. are heavy buyers of butter on South Water street at present, and on this account little opposition to them is heard from that quarter. The time may come, however, when the but- ter merchants of Chicago will not look with so much favor upon this great monopoly, whose success depends large- ly on its ability to cut out middlemen and crush individual enterprise. CLOVER a TIMOTHY ALSYKE Full line of light Grass Seeds, etc. Will buy or sell Beans, Clover Seed, Alsyke, Popcorn car lots or less. Write us... ALFRED J. BROWN SEED Co. BUTTER Handled only on Commission. EGGS On Commission or bought on track. M. R. ALDEN, 98 Ss. Division st., Grand Rapids. Mail Us Your Orders For Peaches, Pears, Grapes, and all kindsof Vegetables. Cor- respond with us before placing your order for your winter sup- ply of Onions, Potatoes, Cabbage, Apples, etc. We can furnish them in carlots, or less, and shall be pleased to quote you prices. The Vinkemulder Company, Grand Rapids, Mich. MILLER & TEASDALE CO. FRUIT AND PRODUCE BROKERS BEANS a POTATOES SEEDS BEST GRADES, AND PRICES ALWAYS RIGHT. 24 and 26 North Division St., Grand Rapids, Michigan. ONIONS a CABBAGE 601 NORTH THIRD ST., ST. LOUIS, MO. Consignments solicited. Advances made. Reference: American Exchange Bank, St. Louis. Harris & Frutchey are the only exclusive dealers in BUTTER and EGGS in Detroit. They can handle your shipments to the best advantage and will pay cash for eggs on track at your station. 60 Woodbridge St., W. .350 High St. Telephone 2524. Potatoes -- Beans -- Onions We are in the market daily; buy and Sell Potatoes and Beans, carlots; if any to offer, write or wire, stating what you have, how soon can ship. MOSELEY BROS., Established 1876. 26-28-30-32 Ottawa St.. Grand Rapids, [ich. Wholesale Seeds, Potatoes, Beans, Fruits. Antiseptio Fibre Packags 60. Manufacturer of Packages for marketing Lard, Butter, Jelly, Mincemeat, etc. Pay for themselves in securing higher prices. Always clean and attractive. Furnished with your advertisement printed upon them Cheaper than packages now used. 187-189 Canal St. GrandiRapids, Mich. LORE NAB ERS RIE ENS ROA ss i SAE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN i6 ON THE OTHER SIDE. How American Butter Is Regarded in Europe. Boston, Mass., Nov. 5—The foreign butter markets are not altogether satis- factory, with little or no prospects of further business with them, especially so in our better grades. Fora while, say during July, August and part of September, business was very satisfac- tory and profitable to exporters As long as prices this side kept below 18 cents for finest goods, foreign markets Stood up under rather liberal shipments from America and Canada, but above this price all English markets cried ‘a halt.’ During June and July, when price was I5 cents as top in New York, prices in ali the principal English mar- kets ranged from eighty-three to cighty- five per cwt., (equal to 18% cents Amer- ican money per pound). hese prices were for buxes of the very finest de- scription of creamery. Tubs, of cor- responding quality, sold, on an average, fully a cent a pound below boxes and were very difficult of sale. The preju- dice against the tub with jobbers is be- coming, if anything, more pronounced than ever. However, it must be borne in mind that this prejudice does not exist on the part of consumers and it is safe to say that a great Many pounds of our finest butter that has been sent across th’s season in tubs has been consumed by Her Majesty’s subjects under the delusion that they were relish- ing a first or second grade of Danish, as the stripped condition of our tifty or sixty pound tub, on the slab, presents the exact appearance (in shape) of that of the Danish cask after it has been cut down from sales below its center, The plunder in American butter this season has been great to the jobbers and retailers in England, and what makes it so annoying is to know that our butter is consumed with the consumers perfectly ignorant of the deception and cupidity of the purveyors. A large proportion of this year’s ship- ments to Great Britain has been sold at several cents below its intrinsic value in comparison with butters from other countries. It is true, this is owing to so much of the lower grades of Ameri- can butter having been shipped iu years past, which gave our butter a bad reputation. In time this will wear off, but I am commencing to think, serious- ly, if it will not be better for us to re- vive the old firkin, made to the same dimensions as the Kiel cask (firkiu), and enter the field as direct competitors with the Danes; for I am satisfied we make just as fine butter as is made in Denmark, Sweden, or any other country in the world. True, the percentage of our make of such is very small com- pared to the Danish. I, as well as other shippers, have sent, this season, several lots of butter that, on the trier (with the box and its contents out of sight), no jedge in England could tell what coun- try the butter came from, and were equal to any Danish, Australian or Canadian, but sold as job lots because they were I have often thought what a field there is for a man like Phil Armour to open up American provision shops in the larger cities of England, selling only American produce, butter, cheese, canned goods and hog products. There would be barrels of money in it, be- cause, as I have said, there is no prejudice on the part of British consum- ers. They are always willing to pay a good price for a good article. For the past month, all markets the other side (Great Britain as well as Continental) have ruled very dull and lifeless. Prices were forced up on Dan- ish until it passed the retail shilling cut, which was one step towards re- stricting the free sale of that butter, and then finest American was forced up to 94 to 96 per cent., or say 20% and 21 cents per pound, our money, which made American butter out of joint for the shilling (241% cents) cut, thus caus ing the first step in the restriction of its sale. The consequence was that free shipments from here and Canada, amounting some weeks to as high as 42,000 packages, caused large accumu- lations in their current arrivals. This, coupled with rather liberal supplies (?) of cold storage stocks of summer-made Irish, Continental good and old Aus- tralian, gave ail markets over to buyers entirely, so that prices have almost been nominal for the last two weeks. Danish has fallen to to 12 per cent. from its highest point, but American has not suffered so severely ; the decline has only been a matter of about 4 to6 per cent. from top price and latest cable advices would indicate that American butter could be sold quite freely at 90 to 94 per cent. (equal to 19'%4to 20% cents per pound), for finest fresh in boxes, with tubs at about a cent a pound less. These prices, it will be seen, bring their pres- ent stocks of finest descriptions of American butter into line for the shil- ling cut and there is no doubt but what the sale would be quite liberal at these prices. However, it will be seen at once that prices in our home markets are so much above these that it pre- cludes the possibility of any further shipments, at the moment, of our finest grades, and I very much doubt, with the conditions prevailing this side and the heavy shrinkage in the make, that we will ship any more of our better de- scriptions of butter the balance of the season. Medium grades of butter have been the most difficult of sale in all foreign markets and this condition has been practically the same in all our markets here. There is also exactly the same condition in Europe as on this side in the lower grades. They are very scarce and latest cable advices give a good demand for finest June ladles at prices netting 13 to 1344 cents in New York or Boston. To my way of looking at foreign mar- kets, I am of the opinion that they are on the eve of a better condition of things and while it is hardly probable there will be much, if any, advance in price, it is quite probable they will have an improved demand, and this in conse- quence of the stoppage of shipments American preduct. cay IS PS FS OS ASF SOTO SEIS S SS SS OS OSEWSWSweseses SSews BSS AA es SEES BS SS eS SS SS SSS SS I IPS SS SIS LISI ISS i p Do you want to know Dy all about us? YK Write to : Corn Exchange National Bank, Dy Philadelphia, Pa. yh QZ Fourth National Bank, Grand Rapids. W. D. Hayes, Cashier, Hastings National Bank, Hastings, Mich. D.C. Oakes, Banker, Coopersville, Mich. Bale) CS from this side. It must not be forgot- ten that the first arrivals of the new make of Australian will reach the Lon- don market in the course of the next fortnight. True,.the first shipments are very light and it is hardly likely they will have any arrivals in London dur- ing November that will average above 3,000 or 4,000 packages a week. Eng- lish advices claim their latest news from Australia would indicate perfect conditions for the make, and that coun- try expects to ship fully as much as she did last season. My private advices from Australia would indicate like con- ditions to what English advices claim, so far as weather is concerned, but there is a difference of opinion as to the amount of shipments this season. They lost a great many of their cattle, as they did of their sheep, through the severe drought during March, April and May, and from having to replenish these lost cows, there will not be as many Cows giving their milk to cream- eries as last year. Prices now are moderate in Great Britain for all grades of butter; in fact, the English markets to-day are the low- est markets in the world. In closing, I would like to call the attention ot creamerymen to the tact that American creamery butter, this summer, has had its reputation some- what injured by the appearance of mold through improperly treated pack- ages, So many having packed their but- ter in the boxes as well as tubs with- out soaking them, relying upon the parchment paper alone. This is a se- rious mistake, as well as using so many inferior tubs as have been used this sea- son. The very best packages only should be used and, box or tub, should be thoroughly soaked in brine and _ well rubbed with salt before putting in the paper linihg. What is better still is to paraffine the boxes or tubs, not only the inside of the packages, but the lids as well, so that no portion of the wood that comes in contact with the butter can give off a woody flavor. Gro. A. COCHRANE. a e a e a ® a ® a e a ® 5 Popular prices prevail. . a e ° - 117-119 MONROE STREET, e ANCHOR BRAND OYSTERS Will please your customers and make you money. Ask for quotations. F. J. DETTENTHALER, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Cape Cod Cranberries__——_ Very bright; good sellers; crop short. Will probably advance in price. Hubbard Squash, Sweet Potatoes, Red and Yellow Onions, Spanish Onions, Quinces, Kiefer Pears, Honey, Lemons, Oranges, Bananas. BUNTING & CO, Grand Rapids. Watts Hie ann >= H1[[iptneeeess ST TEES, oe BSL 4 { entire building. handling ail kinds of | W.R. BRICE. Established 1852. RICE. USIEST EST « Commission House in Philadelphia, = | 4 (OS SS SED SD LILES LE IIIS II ENS RS TSI SITIOS DEPOSITS AT PRINCIPAL POINTS, C. M. DRAKE. R. HIRT, Jr., Market St., Detroit. Butter and Eggs wanted x Will buy same at point of shipment, or delivered, in small or large lots. Write for particulars. BARNETT BROTHERS 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 Well equipped for business, they are still in the tront in FRUITS Stencils furnished on application. S| SA33 NAS J) AVE ~J= ES Butter IS} S AAS ) Poultry. Qs ‘yt 1 rd I6 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN GOTHAM GOSSIP. News from the Metropolis---Index to the Market. Special Correspondence. New York, Nov. 6—There seems to be a little lull in trading among the job- bing grocers of this city, with the ex- ception of certain lines which might properly be classed as holiday staples. Perhaps this is natural as the year draws to a close and merchants seek to reduce stocks as closely as possible without crippling themselves. The serious _ill- ness of O. Havemeyer has had its effect on the sugar market, but only so far as the sale of stock is concerned, The staple itself probably would not be influenced, one way or the other, by the death of any officer of the Trust. The coffee market has had another slump and No. 7 Rio is now quotable at 53{@6c, invoice, and 6%c in a smaller way. It is cabled that receipts at Rio and Santos during this month will be over 1,000,000 bags, while in store and float there are now about 930, - ooo bags, against 666,945 bags last year. Some fine Mocha coffee has been put on ‘the market here—the real simon- pure article from Arabia—which will make friends among those who love a mild coffee. It is worth, in such quan- tities as retailers generally buy, 20@22c, and can be sold at a good profit. Other mild coffees can be said to be rather in- active and the demand is light. Prices have held their own and this is one favorable sign. In sugar, quite a good many orders have come to hand, but mostly for small quantities, indicating a dispcsition to buy for only present wants. Foreign refined is dull and seems to have lost something of its popularity. The vis- ible supply ot raw sugar is 1,070,coo tons, which is an increase of about 250, - ooo tons over the same time last year. There is no animation to the tea mar- ket. A few desultory orders have come to hand for small quantities and interior dealers seem to have sufficient supplies to carry them over the year. Rice prices are very firm. The Japan crop is reported short a million tons, which is fifteen times as much as the entire crop of this country and this will have some influence on the future. Burmah has a huge crop. Domestic is fairly steady, with offerings not exces- Sive. Spices are dull and inactive. There is, perhaps, a little more enquiry for one or two articles, but, as a whole, the condition of affairs is not one that is full of encouragement. Orders are for the smallest quantities and out-of-town dealers seem to have stopped buying al- most altogether. The molasses market is steady and quotations are quite firmly adhered to, especially tor the better sorts. Good to prime centrifugal is quotable at 17@2I1c. Good to prime open kettle, 26@28c. In syrups, both sellers and buyers are apparently waiting for something to turnup. No interest is shown and sales have been of very moderate proportion. In canned goods, the general run of prices remains unchanged. The market 1S Comparatively quiet and brokers have been more busily engaged in making deliveries than worrying about new sales. Competent judges have expressed the opinion that we have seen about the “‘top of the market’’ and that until the close of the year the situation will be pretty much unchanged. Tomatoes are steady and New Jersey brands are firm at $1; Maryland, 824% @85c. Domestic dried fruits are Steady. Evaporated apples have been in light request and are worth 8% @oc. Rasp berries, 13%@14c. Raisins, dates, prunes, figs, citron and that class of goods are steady and there has been a very Satisfactory trade allthe week. Of course, Thanksgiving accounts for this ‘‘spurt’’ but it makes ‘‘things lively’’ and that’s good. The butter market is almost exactly where it was a week ago, with best Western at 23%c. The demand is rather light and the supply ample, seemingly. Cheese is dull, decidedly so. En- quiry is almost nil and dealers are sim- ply waiting. Large size full cream, fancy Sept., 8%c. Supplies of eggs are running light and, with a good demand, the market has hardened. For best Western 20@22c is quoted. Eggs are eggs, now. Peas are steady. Marrows are held in a jobbing way at $1.32!4@1. 35. Offerings of honey are liberal and the demand is rather quiet. Fancy white clover is worth 12c for comb; buckwheat, 8@oc. Potatoes are worth from $1.75@2. 40 per bbl.—180o lbs. Apples bring high prices and many are going into storage for still further appreciation. The range is from $2 to $4. —————_-2 << Progress of the War Against Chicago Department Stores. Chicago, Nov. 8—War has been de- clared against Chicago 's great depart- ment stores by the smaller traders of the city. The department stores, they say, threaten to ruin every small merchant in Chicago by a system of selling at cut rates, the concentration of many lines of business under one roof, and the reduc- tion thereby of the cost of operating the stores. Some: of the larger stores in Chicago have from sixty to 150 depart- ments, and customers may buy in them almost anything from a diamond _neck- lace to a ton of coal. They operate groceries, meat markets, banks, barber shops, dental offices, and sell dogs, birds, bicycles, horses and harness; they make photographs, give music les- sons and run employment agencies where domestic and other help may be obtained. In fact, there is no industry un- known to the Chicago department stores Their ‘‘bargain days’’ have caused the small retailers countless heartaches, and as the ‘‘uptown’’ merchants have watched their customers go by for the bargain counters, they decided that something must be done. With this end in view they formed the Cook County Business Men’s Protective Association, and branches were organ- ized in the three large divisions of the city. The meinbership swelled to about 6,000. The Association tried to stop the department store evil by legisla- tion. A bill was prepared, the pro- visions of which were that no man, or firm, should conduct more than one line of business under one roof and within four walls. It graded the art of mer- chandising into about sixty groups. Grocers were to be allowed to sell some articles which did not strictly come un- der the head of groceries. Butchers were to have similar small privileges, but they were not to go beyond certain limits. Under the provisions of this bill such firms as Siegel, Cooper & Co., the Fair, and A. M. Rothschild & Co. would have to pay about $150,000 to $160,000 annually in license fees, besides going to the enormous expense of erecting partition walls to enclose each branch of their business. A mass meeting was held by the small merchants and a com- mittee of 300 was appointed, which made a trip to Springfield, headed by a brass band. At Springfield the com- mittee was left in the cold, for the Leg- islature refused to pass the bill. Two ordinances were then prepared and presented to the City Council, which passed them. The ordinances prohibit the sale of meats and provisions and wines and liquors in the same estab- lishment in which dry goods and kindred articles are sold. Warrants for the offending department store proprie- tors will be forthcoming shortly, the traders say. It is intended to push the matter to the Supreme Court. Commit- tees will be appointed whe will go about among the establishments of alleged transgressors of the recently enacted or- diriance and gather evidence against them. These same committees will then appear in the courts as_ prosecuting witnesses. The fine for the non-observ- ance of the measures has been set at from $25 to $200. In case of conviction the Association will lay claim to half the amount of the fine, the other part reverting to the city treasury. The Association already has a sponsor in the office of the Corporation Counsel, and it is the intention to engage the services of a lawyer to work in co-oper- ation with him. No suits have been begun as yet against the department store proprietors, although the ordinan- ces are violated in every department store daily. It is intended to organize in wards and make the branches of the Cook County Business Men’s Protective As- sociation a powerful factor in politics and in shaping legislation. The Exec- utive Council will appoint one member of the Association to serve as the di- rector for each of the following pur- poses: Organization, publicity, adul- terations, child labor, trade and labor relations, relations to the professions, taxation, restrictive legislation, en- forcement of laws, and political action. Members of the organization will co- operate in competition with the big stores; they will have ‘‘bargain days’’ and advertise in the newspapers, and will make war against food adultera- tion, and will try to secure the enforce ment of statutes and ordinances designed to ‘‘ protect the lives and health of the public against the monopolies and mis- representations of the department stores, ”’ Meantime the department stores con- tinue in their violations of the ordi- nances, which they declare ‘‘won't hold water, ’’ ee A man in Paris finds a_ profitable business in collecting bad debts by stopping at the debtor’s with a_ wagon, around the top of which are these words: ‘‘This buggy only stops in front of houses of people who will not pay their debts.’’ Everybody, and particularly business people, dread this man’s buggy so much that they pay promptly. —~> 2 > __ One of the important officials of the German court is said to be the ‘‘im- perial pants stretcher.’’ As the emperor has over 100 pairs of trousers, and changes them with considerable regular- ity, the position is far from being an honorary one. : Car Lots: References: cago. Bankers: Write for Tags and Stencils. COYNE BROTHER: WHOLESALE COMMISSION MERCHANTS 161 S. Water St., Chicago. BUTTER, EGGS, POULTRY, FRUITS AND VEGETABLES POTATOES, APPLES, BEANS, ONIONS W. M. Hoyt Co., Wholesale Grocers, Chicago. W. J. Quan & Co., Wholesale Grocer, Chi- Bradstreet and Dun’s Agencies. Merchants Nantional Bank, Chicago. Mention this Paper when Writing. FOUNG ab Last «ded Gongdon’s Gider Saver and Fruit’ Preservative Gompound Guaranteed to keep your cider and fruits pure and No salicylic acid or ingredients injurious to the health. sweet without changing their flavor or color. Send for circulars to manufacturers. d. L. Gongdon & Go. PENTWATER, MICHIGAN. WHOLE WHEAT FLOUR contains the entire grain of wheat with only the fibrous cov ering removed. Every pound of this flour represents 16 ounces of food value. { , } e It contains all the elements required to build up the daily wastes of the human system. Bread made from it js easily assimilated; is highly nutritious and is most palatable. Every grocer should have it in stock. Manufactured by.... GUARD, FAIRFIELD & CO., Allegan, Mich. Michigan trade supplied by the Oiney & Judson Grocer Co., Grand Rapids. IN. WOHIFEIDER & CO., WHOLESALE GROCERS and COMMISSION MERCHANTS 399-401-403 HIGH ST. EAST, - DETROIT, MICHIGAN. CHEESE, BUTTER and EGGS. wm 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 OUIENTIFIC BEAN PICKER ROCHESTER, MICH. oa vey ata MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 17 Commercial Travelers Michigan Knights of the Grip. President, Jas. F HamMELL, Lansing; Secretary, D. C, Staeut, Flint; Treasurer, Caas. McNoury, Jackson. Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Association. President, S. H. Hart, Detroit; Secretary and Treasurer, D. Morris, Detroit. United Commercial Travelers of Michigan. Grand Counselor, Ff. L. Day. Jackson; Grand Secretary, G. S. VatmoreE, Detroit; Grand Treas- urer, GEo. A. REYNOLDS, Saginaw. Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutua! Acci- dent Association. President, A. F. Peaks, Jackson; Secretary and Treasurer, Geo. F. OWEN, Grand Rapids. Board of Directors—F. M. Tyrer, H. B. Fatrr- CHILD,Jas. N. BRADFORD, J. HENRY DAWLEY,GEO. J. HEINZELMAN, Cuas. S. Roprnson. Lake Superior Commercial Travelers’ Club. President, W. C. Brown, Marquette; Secretary and Treasurer, A. F. Wrxson, Marquette. Plea for Better Hotel Service by a Traveler’s Wife. Written for the TRADESMAN. Though I am not a commercial trav- eler, I am the wife of one—and am therefore interested in whatever tends to promote the happiness and comfort of the men who spend their days, and often the nights (or the best part of them) traveling about the country, not for pleasure, ah no! although I hope they are all wise enough to gather all the pleasure (honorable) possible along the rough and well-beaten track their weary feet travel daily. So I have been interested in all that has been written in the Tradesman, which I always read, about ‘‘those mileage books,’’ and do not wonder at the ob- jections to them. I know one man who bought one a few days ago because he could not get any other mileage book, .and word came back the first day out that it took thirty minutes for the sta- tion agent to make out four tickets for as many men, who took the seven o’clock train Monday morning—and expect to hear more about it Saturday. There are other things to make life miserable for the traveler which cannot be avoided, but must be endured pa- tiently, or otherwise, according to the disposition of the sufferer, chief of which are cold hotels and poor coffee. You are all familiar with the hotel pro- prietor who, for reasous best known to himself, takes down every stove in the house, or lets all the fires go out the first pleasant days in the spring, and no matter how cold and gloomy the days that come after (and they are sure to come), no fire is kindled to warm and cheer the weary travelers far from home, and dependent on the hotels, to whom they pay a good price for whatever comfort they have as they go about the country. And let me remind them that, to be comfortable, a man must be warmed as well as fed. How they en- dure it themselves is a question never answered. Not only are the fires allowed to go out in the spring, but some hotel- keepers pursue the same course in the fall, put off building fires as long as possible, until a man _ has to wear his overcoat while he eats, I am _ told, and often, when they have a fire in the office, the dining room will have a zero temperature. I wonder some of them (the hotel men) do not get pneumonia themselves; if they do, let us hope it will prove a dreadful warning to the rest of the fraternity. They certainly need something to awaken them toa sense of their duty to the men who are their best customers. Another grievance, and a _ serious ene, is the poor, yes, vile, coffee that so many of the hotels and restaurants serve their guests. ‘To call it coffee is really an insult to the genuine article. I can- not understand why, when all the rest of the menu is at most hotels excellent, well cooked, of good variety, the coffee (?) should be the only thing lacking strength and goodness. I have tried it myself and know just how wretched they make it at some places. Surely good coffee is easy to make if you buya good article in the first place—much easier to make than good pies, and a hotel that would not think of giving a man bad meat or potatoes should be just as particular about the coffee. From the bottom of my heart I felt sorry for my husband when, seated at his own table,he said, ‘‘How I wish the hotels would give us coffee like this.’’ Think of having. delicious coffee served with cream at home one or two days in the week, and the rest of the days the dreadful stuff called coffee, above men- tioned. Is it not enough to make a man homesick and indignant! I believe, if the traveling men would join forces and demand a reform in this respect, they would get it. It is worth trying any way. And here is hoping they will be successful. oy - > oe. And Still They Come. Marquette, Nov. 8—The following are the most recent additions to the mem- bership list of the Lake Superior Com- mercial Travelers’ Club: Samuel Swenson, Marquette, with Wm. Larsen & Co,, Green Bay, Wis. Willis Peak, Mt. Pleasant, with Gray, Toynton & Fox, Detroit. Albert Sternfeld, Chicago, with Reiss Bros. & Co., Chicago. W. W. Hargrave, Seney, with Har- grave Bros. & Co., Seney. . E. Kelso, Grand Marais, Eddy Land Co., Toledo. L. DD. Packer, Saginaw, E. S., with C. Elliott & Co., Detroit. Wm. Rennie, Detroit, with Boydell Bros., Detroit. T. L. Hilton, Detroit, with Forman- Bassett-Hatch Co., Cleveland. Lewis Cass Bradford, Holland, with E. B. Millar & Co., Chicago. Arthur McMillan, Soo, with Ferguson Hardware Co., Soo. M. S. Brown, Saginaw, E. S., with Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co., Grand Rapids. W. J. Dillon, Bros., Detroit. C. J. Byrns, Ishpeming, with Wiscon- sin Land & Lumber Co., Hermansville. Judge J. H.. Steere, Soo. EF. €. Comstock, Escanaba, with Roundy, Peckham & Co., Milwaukee. C, E. Riddle, Gladstone, with Brad- ley, Watkins & Co., Minneapolis. P. A. Jacobson, Soo, with Armour Packime €o., St. Paul. A. F. Underwood, Menominee. M. J. Brooks, Ishpeming, with Swift & Co., Chicago. with Detroit, with Standart W. R. Jenkins, Madison, with Hub- bard Milling Co., Mankato, Minn. S. P. McIntyre, Chicago, with Rich- ardson & Norcross Co., Janesville, Wis. Claude V. Seeber, Houghton, with Roack, Seeber & Co., Houghton. A. F. Wixson, Sec’y. HO Important Meeting of Post E. Grand Rapids, Nov. 8—All emembers of Post E are requested to meet at Sweet's Hotel, Saturday evening, Nov. 13, for the purpose of making arrange- ments to attend the annual convention of the State organization at Kalamazoo; also to decide on the dates for our monthly social parties during the win- ter months. Let there be a full attend- ance! B.S. DAVENPORT, Chairman. ie Eo an aa H. M. Harrington, of St. Clair, has taken a position on the road for the wholesale grocery house of J. W. Bene- dict, of Port Huron. He has been for some years associated with the Diamond Crystal Salt Co, SUCCESSFUL SALESMEN. Fred G. Hooper, Representing J. H. Copas & Sons. Frederick G. Hooper was born with- in the sound of Bowbells, London, Oct. 24, 1853. His mother was of German birth, being a native of Frankfort-on- the-Main. His father was a graduate of Oxford University and was ordained as a minister, but subsequently, on his emigration to America in 1859, prac- ticed medicine instead of following the career originally selected forhim. The family resided two years at Owen Sound, Ont., when they removed to Cleveland, where they remained until the close of the war, when they removed to Bay City. Frederick attended the public schools of the latter city until he had finished the eleventh grade, when he entered his father’s office and stud- ied medicine for a couple of years. Forming a dislike to the practice of medicine, he concluded to embrace the following of the commercial traveler, and for eight years he covered North- ern Michigan for F. H. Blackman & Co., merchant tailors of Bay City. His friends then prevailed upon him to re- tire from the road and he purchased a stock of cows and embarked in the dairy business at Bay City on his own ac- count. Two years’ experience was suffi- cient to satisfy his ambition in this di- rection, when he engaged to travel in Northern Michigan for the confection- ery house of Jas. S. Smart, Jr., of Sag- inaw. On the failure of that house, two and one-half years latter, he engaged with the Weils-Stone Mercantile Co. as city salesman, which position he occu- pied for two years. For the next five years he covered Northern and Western Michigan for the Jas. Stewart Co., and eighteen months ago he signed with J. H. Copas & Sons, of Owosso, to cover the retail trade of Northern and West- ern Michigan. Mr. Hooper was married in 1883 to Miss Linnie Sinclair, who was a daugh- ter of the first white child born in Bay county. Mrs. Hooper died February 18, 1895, leaving four daughters, who now range from 5 to 13 years of age. The family reside in Owosso. Mr. Hooper isa member of the Mich- igan Knights of the Grip, K. P. Lodge No. 23, of Bay City, and FE) & Al M., No. 129, of the same city. He is also a member of the Baptist church of Sag- inaw. Few men have met more discourage- ments than Mr. Hooper and fewer still have proven themselves equal to the emergency. Twice within three years Mr. Hooper was burred out of house and home at Saginaw, the second loss occurring at the time of the great con- flagration at that place. The excite- ment incident to the conflagration re- sulted in his wife’s decline and death about a year afterward. Being left with four small children and with no immediate relatives available to take the mother’s place, he faced the situa- tion in man fashion and has not only kept the family together, but has pro- vided for them in a manner that has won for him the respect and admiration of his associates and acquaintances. Mr. Hooper is an aggressive worker, having the natural bull-dog tenacity of the typical Englishman. To this fact he attributes his success on the road and his ability to stay up under the try- ing situations in which he has been placed by fire and death. 0 Our children will remember our deeds long after they have forgotten our ad- vice, Clock Ticks for Insomnia. From the Washington Star. ‘“For several years,’’ said a commer- cial traveler, ‘‘] had never been away from home over night, when I got my present position, and was compelled to travel about a great deal. At first I found it extremely difficult to go to sleep nights. I stopped at the best hotels and usually had fine rooms and good beds, but there seemed to be some- thing the matter. ‘‘One day I mentioned the fact to a friend, who said, ‘Get a clock.’ I al- ways have a clock in my room at home, and I am accustomed to the sound of its ticking. It is curious how silent and strange a room may seem without it. That was what I wanted, a clock, and I bought one. Now, when I go to my room in a hotel, usually the first thing I do is to put my clock on the mantel- piece or table. It ticks away bravely, a friendly and familiar sound, and I go to sleep without any trouble whatever. ’’ A He who wants to cheat and can't is no better than he who wants to cheat and can. Hotel Normandie of Detroit Re- duces Rates. Determined to continue catering to popular de- mand for good hotel accommodations at low prices, we reduce the rates on fifty rooms from $2.50 to $2 per day, and rooms with bath from $3.50 to $3. The popular rate of 50 cents per meal, established when the Normandie was first opened, continues. Change of rates will in no way affect the quality, and our constant aim in the future will be, as in the past, to furnish the BEsT accommodations for the rates charged. Carr & Reeve. The New Griswold House Has NOT reduced its rates but has roo of the Newest Rooms in Detroit at $2.00 per day. Meals ‘Fifty cents. Rooms with bath and parlor $2.50 to $3. aa. Most popular moderate “9 priced hotel in Michigan. Postal & Morey, Detroit, Nicks. || Prtone: 490. 3 CANAL STW LDD FHSS OOHS HS HHO46999OOOO94 Tf 4 4 ‘ INS. ; co. « 4 Prompt, Conservative, Safe. 4 J.W.CHAMPLIN, Pres. W. FRED McBatn, See. ¢ DS SIDOFSEHEFGIOH4OO9F 09 O9% NEW REPUBLIC Reopened Nov. 25. FINEST HOTEL IN BAY CITY. Steam heat, Electric Bellis 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. wvrwVvrVvyVeVy YS SOOOOSOO : a pe m ] Cutler House at Grand Haven. Steam Heat. Excellent Table. Com- fortable Rooms. H. D. and FP. H. IRISH. Props. THE WHITNEY HOUSE Rates $1.00 to $1.25 per day. Complete Sanitary Improvements. Electric Lights. Good Livery in connection. State Line Telephone. Chas. E. Whitney, Prop., Plainwell, Mich. Is MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Drugs--Chemicals MICHIGAN STATE BOARD OF PHARMACY. —— Term expires . E. PaRKILyi, Owosso - - Dec. 31, 1897 F. W. R. Perry, Detroit - Dec. 31, 1898 N A. C. ScHUMACHER, Ann Arbo AG Dee. 31, 1899 Gro. GunprRvM, Ionia - - Dee. 31, 1900 L, E. REYNOLDs, St. Joseph Dec. 31, 1901 President, F. W. R. Perry, Detroit. Secretary, Geo. GunprvM, Ionia. Treasurer, A. C. ScouMacHER, Ann Arbor. Coming Examination Session—Lansing, Nov. 2 and 3. MICHIGAN STATE PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION. President—A. H. Wesser, Cadillac. Secretary—Cuas. Mann. Detroit. Treasurer—Joun D. Murr, Grand Rapids. The Esthetics of Packages. He must be a slovenly dispenser in- deed who does not have some apprecia- tion of neatness as exhibited in the parcel, box, or bottle made ready for his shelves or for the hands of his cus- tomers. One of the things which the ““apprentice’’ is early taught to do ina well-regulated drug store is to fold, tie, label, and wrap properly; to use paper of the right size and texture; to avoid a too plentiful amount of string; to put only enough paste on the label; to put the label in the proper position and have it ‘‘straight;’’ to do all and sin- gular those things which will produce a handsome package. As the package which goes out to the customer is one of the pharmacist’s best advertisements, it is worthy of more care as to appearance than it sometimes receives. One who is in the habit of taking what comes to him in the way of box, bottle, or label may find it to his profit as well as satisfaction to turn over well in his mind the question whether he is having those which may produce the best general impression as to neatness and tastefulness on the pub- lic mind ; to consider whether the stvles and methods of his boyhood days met those of the present time. When this mental operation begins, let him, if he is in doubt as to his esthetic ability, seek aid in arriving at a conclusion. The form of a bottle or box does not admit of successful variation outside of limited lines. Years ago we had a col- ogne bottle supposed to represent a ‘‘cathedral,’’ another in the shape of a shoe, another faintly representing an old-time musical instrument, and so on: but these have gradually gone out of fashion, and we have in general use but fewr bottles which depart from simple and graceful outlines. But we still have to choose between the oval, the round, and the square, and between variations in the proportions exhibited in these forms. These vari- ations are often important from an es- thetic standpoint and should be cunsid- ered in the choice of a bottle. The bot- tie itself may be too long or too. short. and the same may be said of the neck ; the finish of the lip is also a matter for consideration. The box, while coming under the same limitations of form as the bottle, is manifestly susceptible of some va- riety as to material and much as to color, so we have here a wider field for choice, The label is usually the weakest point in the esthetics of the drug package. There is opportunity here for more art and more originality than in either the bottle or the box, but it unfortunately often goes unimproved. Many, perhaps most, printers have very indefinite ideas as to what con- stitutes an appropriate and artistic label. The lithographers are the worst offenders in this respect, as their work is usually, if not always, overloaded with misplaced ornaments. Plainness, almost to severity, gives far better esthetic results, and restriction to plain- ness does not imply a limit as to origin- ality of design. Keeping in mind the value of the package as an advertising medium, it is evident that it should have as much individuality as can be given it. The chief field for this is the label, and, of course, this means that its various sizes should te of uniform design, the firm name printed in a uniform type, and it is a decided advantage that it should bear a device or trade-mark which will readily identify it as having been sent out by So-and-So. To avoid crowding ihe label this device may be printed as a background in an ink of lighter color —a pale blue or a carmine, for instance —the remainder of the print being in black. With these hints we must leave the matter, with renewed urgement that the pharmacist look to his package. It should afford him gratification to have it neat and attractive; and when so it will help to put money in his purse, 2s >____ The Drug Market. Staples are all firm but unchanged, Opium—While the price is unchanged, the market may be calied strong. Morphine—This article is in good demand at unchanged prices. Quinine—At the bark sale in Amster- dam, higher prices were paid, but. this has not yet affected the price of quinine. Balsam Copaiba—Is advancing and is very firm, stocks being concentrated. Roots—Blood root is getting scarce againand prices are higher. This may be said of gentian and mandrake. Balm of Gilead Buds—These are very scarce and the price has advanced. Essential Oils—Anise is again declin- ing, on account of full stocks Berga- mot is weak and lower. Cassia has declined. Lavender will be much higher later on, owing to short crop. Oil lemon is declining. The crop is said to be very large. —_—__2>22—__ Rubber Goods and Iniquity. A Danish missionary has been mak- inz some startling revelations concern- ing the. rubber trade of the Upper Congo. He says that the white man wants India rubber, and is in a hurrv to he rich, and to terrify the black into rendering the utmost possible amount of lakor, the rubber gatherers whose quantity falls below a certain weight are either shot or deprived of their hands. Rows of hands stuck on trees, or heaps of them forwarded in haskets to Euro- pean officers, or to native sergeants un- der their command, serve as an object lesson to all. Rubher gathering isa slow and difficult task, and whole vil- lages are depopulated in order that their inhabitants, men, women and children, may he sent on the search. Companies of black troops, organized by white officers, impress the villagers into this new species of slavery, and the reverend gentleman declares he has seen forty-five villages burnt down and two abandoned through the rubber trouble. If these statements are reli- able, the amount of iniquity represented by a stock of rubber goods must be alarming. —_—_>2+.___ Aunt Milly Smith, a negro woman of Georgia, not long since went to hear Sam Jones preach. Soon afterwards she met the evangelist, and said: ‘‘Marse Jones, I shorely love to hear you preach. I certainly do, for you’se everybody’s preacher. An’ I'll tell yer, honey, you preach more like a nigger den any white man I eber seen."’ Happy Outcome of a Meeting at the State Association. The very nature of our calling is one calculated to make us narrow-minded, from the smallness of our transactions. We find here a man who has been in business for the past twenty-five years. A block above, on the same street, is one who has been in the same _ location for the past fifteen years, and one block below is another who has been there for ten years. Our friend of twenty odd years did not call upon his new neigh* bors when they opened. He is not acquainted with them, and for all these years he has scowled when either jas been mentioned. He has to himself (and, in fact, mentioned it to others) felt all the time that both were inter- lopers, whose only object was to make life one constant drudge for him, for- getting that the population of their town had increased in the time men- tioned at the rate of about 500 per year, and that there was plenty of room for them all, also forgetting that each of these parties had as much capital in- vested as he, and was, perhaps, just as good a pharmacist and man in the community. There was no fellowship between them; each kept to himself, The time came when our friend was induced to attend a meeting of the State Association. He was astonished at the number of druggists who assembled, and could hardly believe that there were so many in the State. His friend, the popular salesman for the enterpris- ing firm of Ketchum & Cheatem, took particular pains to introduce him to many of the members. He stayed through the meeting, enjoyed his out- ing, and went home the better for his contact with something besides the four walls of his old store. His friend, the salesman, was asked to make him acquainted with a fine- looking man who was standing at the opposite side of the room. He smiled, and did so, introducing him as Mr. Jones. In the course of conversation he learned that his new friend was from Lonelyville (his own town). His sur- prise can be imagined. Further con- versation developed that his new friend was the man who had done business within a block of him for fifteen years. He apologized for bis past neglect, and they decided to begin life anew on the friendly basis. They called on Mr. Brown (the neighbor of ten years’ stand- ing) when they returned home, and _ be- fore the time for the next meeting came around they had his application for membership, also one from each of the other three druggists doing business in the same place. From that time on they were as one family. EpwarpD A, SAYRE. —_—__> 2. ___ Deplorable Lack of Confidence. “‘T’ll never buy candy at that store again! Never!’ ‘‘Why, what's the matter?’’ ‘You know they have the candies on the counter in front and tbe scales on the shelf back of the counter?’’ ‘Well, they have looking glasses back of the scales, so that when the girl turns around to weigh tive cents’ worth of candy she can watch you to see whether you take anything off the counter or not.’’ THUM BROS. & SCHMIDT, Analytical and Consulting Chemists, 84 CANAL ST., GRAND RAPIOS, MICH. Special attention given to Water, Bark and Trine Analysis. Manufactured by H. VAN TONGEREN, Holland, Mich. For Sale by All! Jobbers. “MAS “YUM The best 5 cent cigars ever made. Sold by BEST & RUSSELL Co.. CHICAGO. ‘CE A @ a Represented in Michigan by J. A. GONZALEZ, Grand Rapids. Rieu MILTON KERNS, Manufacturer, No. 52 oth Street, Pittsburgh, Pa. El Puritano Finest 1o¢ Cigar on Earth Couchas 1-20 $55.00 Bouquetts 1-40 $58.v0 Perfectos 1-20 $40.00 Cabinets 1-40 (544 in.) $70.00 B. J. REYNOLDS, Grand Rapids. BATEMAN & FOX, Bay City. JOHNSON & FOSTER, Detroit. Distributers for Michigan. : MICHIGAN TRADESMAN WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT. Advanced— Declined— Oil Anise, Oil Cassia. Acidum —* Mae. too 50 ee Ce... 2... @ 50 Acotican:......... 8 6@8 8 OUI i 1 20 Re co | @ 50 Benzoicum, German 70@ 15 Cubebe he etee cesses 90@ 1 00} Prunus virg......... @ 50 Bose @ 15 octemics Le case 1 00@ 1 10 Tinctures Carbolicum ......... 20@ 41| Erigeron............ 1 00@ 1 10| Aconitum Napellis R 60 Citricum ............ 40@ 42| Gaultheria..... .... 1 50@ 1 60) Aconitum Napellis F 50 Hydrochlor ......... 3@ 5| Geranium, ounce... @ 1%! Aloes 60 Nitrocum. ......... 8@ 10| Gossippii, Sem. gal. 50@ 60! Aloes and Myrrh... 60 Oxalicum........... om 14| done OR A Ol ae 50) Phosphorium, dil... @ 15| Junipera. ---+++ 150@ 2 00! Assafoetida ......... 50 Salicylicum. ........ 65 a tite ee eee #@ 200) Atrope Belladonna. 60 Sulphuricum. ...... 1%@ _ 5| Limonis............. 1 20@ 1 40| Auranti Cortex.... 50 Tannicum .......... 1 25@ 1 40| Mentha Piper....... 1 60@ 2 20! Benzoin 60 Tartaricum.......... 38@ 40| Mentha Verid....... 1 99@ 2 00| Benzoin Co......... 50 ci Morrhue, gal....... 100@110|B co F Ammonia ; g 2, | BAFOSMA ...... es 50 MVIG Accs: 4 00@ 4 50 | Cantharides 5 Aqua, 16 deg........ a Gi Ommer eels 75@ 3 00| Capsicum ........7! 5 Aqua, 20 deg........ 6@ Picis Liquida. .. 10@ 12] Cardamon.......... 5 COsDONGE...........- 12@ = =14| Picis Liquida, gal.. @ 35| Cardamon ‘eo c 6 Chloridum .......... 12 14] Ricina ooo. t.. 1I@i18iaa. a Aniline Rosmarini........... @ 100} Gatechu......0 27! 50 Rosse, ounce........ 6 50@ 8 50| Cinchona............ 50) oe... |. ieasscse 2 OOD 2 Succi 40@ 45 Gi ong aa Brown... .... 80@ 1 bie... | ae pa _— eo 60 Bed 45@ aie a 2 50@ 7 00 a oe 50 WeEMW . .------ 450: 2 50@ 3 00| Sassafras...... 2.1... 55@ 60| Cassia Agatifol. ’ Bacce. Sinapis, ess., ounce. @ 65} Cassia Acutifol Co . 50 Cubesee -po 18 13@ 15 Tiglii Nee ee avely cial 1 40@ 1 50 — .. 50 Juni TUS... i 6@ Gg) Poyme 50 ree 50 Xanthoxylum.. .... 2%@ 30] Thyme, opt......... @ 1 60 Ferri Chioridum.._. 35 prensa Theobromas |... .... 15@ 20|Gentian.......... 50 Comets 0@ 55 Potassium Gentian Co.......... 60 Peru..... a eee . 1@_ 18| Gulaca 50 Terabin, Canada... 40@ 45| Bichromate......... — So: = Wolutan 00. B® ewe Eee 18@ ai 50 Cortex Chiorate..po. 17@ide 16@ 18 | odine, coloriess % Abies, Canadian.... 18 | Cyanide... . ).._. 3@ 40 7 ai oe tase: 50 Cease es | fodide 0 2 60@ 2 65 | yr a aie 50 Cinchona Flava..... 18| Potassa, Bitart, pure 28@ 30 = ay gasree rte 50 Euonymus oe = Palate Mire com @ pil omica........ = Myrica Cerifera, po 2 otass Nitras, opt.. Sm Wi ts ees i Pa Virgini...... 12 | Potass Nitras........ % 9 —— poe horated. 50 Quillaia, gr’d....... 14) Prossiate....... 2.2. 20@ 2%5| YP, a orized.... 1 50 Sassafras...... po. 1 12| Sulphate po ........ 15@ 18 Data a 50 Ulmus...po. 15, era 15 Radix Rhee oe ., = Extractum Aeonttym oo... ‘ 95 | Sanguinaria. ...... 50 Glycyrrhiza —_— “@Q | Ane. 22@ 25/| Serpentaria......... 50 Glycyrrhiza, po..... (2am Mi Anenuss...... 10@ 12|Stromonium....... 60 Hematox, 15 > box. ti@ | Arumpe...... ...... @ | Telutan. 60 Hematox,1s........ 13@ 14} Calamus ...... Se . 40) Valerian... |. 50 Hematox,%s....... 14@ =15| Gentiana...... po. 15 12@ 15| Veratrum Veride... 50 Heematox, \48....... 16@ 17} Glychrrhiza..py.15 ié@ i8| Zingtber............. 20 Ferru Hydrastis Canaden . @ Miscellaneous | : - | Hydrastis Can., po.. @ ‘5| ther, Spts. Nit.3F 35 Carbonate Precip... 15 | Hellebore,Alba,po.. 15@ 20| Ather’ Spts. Nina4F 23 38 Citrate and Quinia.. 2 25/ Inula, po............ 15@ 20| Alumen— 24u@ 3 Citrate Soluble...... 7 | Ipecac, po........!, int Ol thea aes os 48 , Ferrocyanidum Sol. 40 | Tris plox.. .- P035@38-35@ ~~ 40| Annatto gro'd..po.7 0@ 50 Solut. Chloride..... 15 | Jalapa, pr........... 25 30| Antimoni, po... |. “= 5 Sulphate, com’l..... | Maranta, 4s... 20. @ 35|AntimonietPotass? 40@ 50 a 50 | Podophyilum, po.:’: 22@ 25) Antipyrin.......--. @ 1.40 Sulphate, pure ..... 7] Rhei, cut... .. es “] i 5 = g 50 Flora a vite eees = 1 = Arsenicum.......... 10@ 12 oo 12 14| Spigelia. ............ D 38 | Balm Gilead Bud . 38 40 ao en 183 95 | Sanguinaria...po. 15 @ 13] Bismuth S.N. ... 40@ 1 50 Matricaria .......... 35 - hh oe = prs Chlor., @ 9 Beeson sa | © L Folia SimilaxofficinalisH @ 40 Caleium chlor. is $ 12 Barccms.:.-........- 2 30) Smiiax, MC. @ %| Cantharides, Rus.po @ z Cansin rAcutifol, Tin- Rete... 0.35 10@ 12] Capsici Fructus, af. @ mevelly. 2.5... 18@ 25} Symplocarpus, Peeti- Capsici Fructus, po. @ 15 Cassia Acutifol,Alx. 25@ 30] dus, po............ @ 2%5| Capsici FructusB, po @ 15 Salvia officinalis, 4s Valeriana ,Eng.po.30 @ 2%|Caryophyllus..po.15 10@ 12 ane 448. ..0.. - 12@ 20) Valeriana, German. 15@ 20] Carmine, No. 40..... @ 3 00 Ura Orel... 0... S@ 10) Zingibera.......... 12@ 16| Cera Alba,S.&F . 50@ 55 Gummi mineiber Fo 2@ 27| Cera Flava.......... 40@ 42 Ceca... @ 4 Acacia, Ist picked... @ 65 — ccu Acacia, 2d picked. @ 45} Anisum....... po. @ 12 oe a @ = Acacia, 3d picked... @ 35|Apium (graveleons) 190 15 | Gotnooe = : Acacia, sifted sorts. @ ~ 28} Bird, Is. 4 Gl Grane i 53 Acsela po... .. —.. toe 6|Carui.......... ‘po. 18 10@ ss 12 (Saaaiies ant ibb oe 1 = Aloe, Barb. po.18@20 12@ 14| Cardamon........... 125@ 1 %1| GhioralH Ter ibbs ; 50 ; . Aloe, Cape ....po. 1 @ 12|Coriandrum......... 8@ 101 Ghondru yd Crst.. Bs ps Aloe, Socotri..po.40 @ 30 Cannabis Sativa.. 4@ 4% Be nee seen a 20@ 2 enna a ee 55@ 60 | Cydonium. 25@ 1 00 Cinchonidine,P.& W 25@ 35 Assafoetida....po.30 23@ 28 ons dium ... 10@ 12 — Germ 3 2@ 3 = aan Ge S| Mists Odersic. 2 00@ 2 20! Corks, list. dis-orot 05@ 3 2% Catechu, Is.. a as Feniculum . . a. @ & Catechu, 4S......... @ 14| Fonugreek, po. "@ 9 came gee 3 . Catechu, 48......... me 16h 3@ ae oe 6 - a Camphore .. 48@ &5| Lini, egrd...... bbL3s 46 4 Ceaka ee. eee on Euphorbium..po. 35 @ 10| Lobelia ....00..... OQ oo Pubre terete 2 Gaibanum.......-... @ 1 00} Pharlaris Canarian. 41a 4% eae. 18@ 20 Gamboge po........ 65@ 70} Rapa. cee ee eee pea rn @ 24 Guaiacum..... po. 35 @ & Sinapis ele cs 1@ 8| Cupri Sulph...2 91.7’ 5@ 6: mo po. 83.00 @300| Sinapis Nigra..... |. N@ 12 ee earn 106 18 —_ Seen ug ae “ @ . Spiritus — SUA. THQ 9 a ea Son © Ge = | Frumenti, W. D. Co. 2 2 50| Emery, all — @ s&s Opt - po. 84.00@4.20 2 > ia Frumenti, D.F.R.. 2 On 2 2s a eS eis cthaees ramenti......... 1 e8.1 So ss anise 35 Shellac, bleached. 50 ] Juniperis Co. 0. T.. 1 4 2 00; Flake White........ 122@ 15 Sen cunieere Oo... 1 75@ 3 50| Galla....-. 2... Q@ 2B Herba Saacharum N. E.... 1 9@ 2 10| Gambier............. 8s 9 Absinthium..oz. pkg 25 | Spt. Vini Galli...... 1 75@ 6 50 | Gelatin, Cooper. . @ 6 Eupatorium .oz. pkg 20 | Vini Oporto......... 1 25@ 2 00 | Gelatin, French..... 35@ 60 Lobelia...... oz. pkg 95 | Vini Alba........ 1. 1 5@ 2 00 Glassware, flint, box 70 Majorum ....oz. pkg 28 ereneea Less than box.... 60 Mentha Pip..oz. pkg 23 Pong! Giue, brawn... .... 9@ 12 Mentha Vir..oz pkg 25 Florida sheeps’ wool Gine, white......... 13@ 25 Rue..........0z. pkg 39 | . Carriage........... 2 50@ 2 7% | Glycerina........... 4@ = 20 TanacetumV oz. pkg 99 Nassau sheeps wool Grana Paradisi .... @ Thymus, V..oz. pkg oe |. CREPIORG oo). @ 2@| Humulus......... 5B@ 5+ Ss Velvet extra sheeps’ Hydraag Chlor Mite @ 80 Magnesia. wool, carriage. .... @ 1 25 | Hydraag Chlor Cor. ao F Calcined, Pat..... .. 55@ 60/| Extra yellow sheeps’ Hydraag Ox Rub’m. @ 9 Carbonate, Pat...... 20@ 22) wool. carriage.... @ 1 00| Hydraag Ammoniati @ 1 00 Carbonate, K.& M.. 20@ 25| Grass sheeps’ wool, Hy draagUnguentum 45@ 55 Carbonate, Jennings 3@ 36 Corraee.... 0.0... @ 1 00; Hydrargyrum....... @ & Hard, for slate use. . @ 7%) Ichthyobolla, Am.. 65@ 7d Oleum Yellow Reef, for TnGieO. eh 7@ 1 00 es ae “= 3 50 wate ee @ 1 40 — Resubi..... 2 60@ 3 70 Amyedals, amare. 8 008 8 25 Syrups ‘trae g 2 35 A ce i 22a 2 3) | Acacia ............ : @ 50 — os, 4 45 Auranti Cortex..... 2 00@ 2 20} AurantiCortes...... & Wi Macs | 2 ..: ee %5 Berean eo cs: 2 40@ 2 50 | Zingiber....... ..... @ »w andl Arse=. et Hy- Cajtpail.......-..... 85@ 90] Ipecac. oe. @ 60 Grare ida... . |... @ Caryophylli feos pe cs toe ‘Ai Fersifod..... ..... @ 50 LiqnorPotassd ixinit 10@ 12 POR cy ey 35@ 65| Rhei Arom.... ..... @ 50/| Magnesia, Sulph.. 2Q@ 3 Chenopadii. cee. @ 2 75 | Smilax Officinalis. . 50@ 60| Magnesia, Sulph, bbl @ 1% Cinnamonii......... 1 80@ 1 ae: ae @ 50} Mannia,S. F........ 50@ 60 C'trenella. .... ... 45@ 30| Scillm.. : @ 50 Menthol .. ....... ie @2% Morphia, S. P.& WwW... 2402 Sinapis.............. @ 18] Linseed, pure raw.. 35 33 Morphia, S.N.Y. Q.& Ainspis, Opt......... @ 3} Linseed, boiled..... 37 40 <6... 2 05@ 2 39 Snuff, Maccaboy, De Neatsfoot,winterstr 65 0 Moschus Canton.. @ Von @ 34; Spirits Turpentine.. 35 40 Myristica, No. 1.6 65@ Snuff,Scotch,DeVo’s @ & Nux Vomica...po.20 @ 0 Soda Boras.......... 7 @ 9 Paints Os Sepia as 1@ 18 | Soda Horas, p wari 5a 9 ee epsin Saac | Soda et Potass Tart. 2@ 28ipz y t | ‘ ed Venetian... ... 1% 2 Db. Co O.-. ee nee eee e ne @ 1 00| Soda, ¢ arb . Ye@ 2| Ochre, yellow Mars. it 2 = Picis Lig. N.N.% gal. i Soda, Bi-Carb 3@ 5 | Ochre, yellow Ber.. 1% 2 @3 oe + eee uae @2@| Soda, Ash. .......... 3%4@ 4 Putty, commercial.. 24% 2%@3 q., quarts. . @ 1 00/ Soda, ar aang @ 2 Putty, strictly pure. 2% 2%@3 Picis Liq., pints..... @ 85! Spts. Cologne.. @ 2 6) Vermilion, Prime Pil Hydrarg...po. 80 @ 50 | Spts. Ether Co...... 50@ 55) American 13@ 15 Piper Nigra...po. 22 @ 18/Spt Myrcia Dom. @ ° 00| Vermilion, English. 7@ 7% Piper Alba....po. 35 @ 30| Spts. Vini Rect. bbl. @240 Green, Paris 13%@ 19 Piix Burgun........ @ 7| Spts. Vini Rect.4bbl @ 2 45| Green, Peninsular.. 13@ 16 Fiumbi Acet........ 10@ 12} Spts. Vini Rect. 10gal @ 2 48) Lead. Red . 34@ Pulvis Ipecac et Opii 1 10@ 1 20} Spts. Vini Rect. 5gal @ 2 50| Lead: white......... 54@ 6 Pyrethram, boxes H. Less 5¢ gal. cash 10 days. Whiting, whiteSpan @ 70 & P. D. Co., doz.. @ 1 25| Strychnia, — 1 40@ 1 45) whiting: gilders’ @ wv Pyrethrum, we ... 30@ 33) Sulphur, Subl....... 24@ 3] white. Paris Amer.. @ 100 beng De tes eae 8@ 10) Sulphur, Roll.... . 2@ 2%) Whiting, Paris Eng ee: Ss. = &W.. = = nie es a 10) oe | tate uinia, S. German. { erebent enice... 2am. 20] Gateae) Bac 0@ 7a. = eo 37@ 42|Theobrome........ @2@ 45 Universal Prepared. 1 — ubia Tinctorum. a «4 Vaniia............. 9 00@I16 0g “ Stlgein py 18@ 20|Zinci Sulph......... 7 8 iVarnishes}, eer oe... 3 00@ 3 10} No. 1’ ’ Sangels Draconis.” * So ott No, 1Turp Couch... 1 10@ 1 2 ao aaa reese ~~ a BBL. Gab. | Coach Body......... 2 75@ 3 00 ee — - Whale, winter Ha 70 70|No.1Turp Furn.... 1 00@ i 10 eee P . ard, Gxtra......... 40 45 | Extra Turk Damar.. 1 55@ 1 60 Siedlitz Mixture.... 20 @ 2] Tard’ Nolo... 35 40|Jap.Dryer,No.1Turp 70@ 75 Sgunumueseceouseonceecees Quotations Chicago Style F or quantities you do not buy. Price charged for your usual wants. Epsom Salts, 1o barrels.......... 14c ato 3 memeca Wigwews, Olle. ...2.....4.. Se ........3@ tO Ese Boracic Acid, bbl..... SS Tai IOC -- 14 to 5c Chilcsate Potash, beg..........+--- rosc .14 to 5c German Chamomile, bale..... Igc .25 to 28c Tin. Senna Leaves (ordinary), bales 8c ........12 to I5c Sulphite Soda, bbi...-....... ee Ww tole oO 5 to 7c Gilycerme, 26 deg., goo Ibs. .......18de ........ 12¢ Glycerine, 30 deg., 50 Ibs......... eu 13c Do you see the ‘‘Concealed African?’’ Quota- tions for quantities and quality you do not buy may take your order from us once. Prices charged should not hold your trade. Box and Cartage Free. Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN GROCERY PRICE CURRENT’. The prices quoted in this list are for the trade only, in such quantities as are usually purchased by retail dealers. They are prepared just before going to press and are an accurate index of the local market. It is im- possible to give quotations suitable for all conditions of purchase, and those below are given as representing av- erage prices for average conditions of purchase. those who have poor credit. our aim to make this feature of the greatest possible use to dealers. Cash buyers or those of strong credit usually buy closer than Subscribers are earnestly requested to point out any errors or omissions, as it is AXLE GREASE. doz. gross ve FOIE ate 55 60— «66: 00 poor OM. 60 7 00 ee 50 4 00 Prerere..... 5. By 54 9 00 IXL Golden, tin boxes 75 9 00 Fiica, tin boxes........ 15 9 00 Parsee... 55 6=—s«6 00 BAKING POWDER. Absolute. . ib Cams dos......-...... 45 ib cane gon. ............ 8&5 i ib came Gos....... beeace 1 50 Acme. of ip Canes dox,.......... 45 ip Cams 3S dox............ DB . eames igon...... 100 ee: 10 EI Purity. 44 1b cans per doz......... ve) ‘6 [> Came per Goa ........ 1 20 t ibcams per dos......... 2 00 Home. lg lb cans 4 doz case...... 35 % lb cans 4 doz case...... 55 Tb cans 2 doz case...... 90 JAXON 4g 1b cans, 4 doz case..... 45 % lb cans. 4 doz case...... 85 1 =ibeans, 2 doz case...... 1 60 Jersey Cream. ib. cans, per doz......._.. 200 Sor ca &,*erdosg......... 13 G Gz. Cans, per doz.......... 85 Our Leader. Sipe... 45 eae v6) : Meee... ...... 1 50 Peerless. ria cam 85 BATH BRICK. Ree 70 eee 80 BLUING. 1 doz. pasteboard Boxes... 40 3 doz. wooden boxes....... 1 20 BROOMS. ne taro... No. 2 Carpet.... No. 3 Carpet.. No. 4 Carpet.. Parlor Gem .. Common Whisk Fancy Whisk.. Wemmonse. ....... .... 8 CANDLES. ne, 7 ee 8 Perea 8 DO bat pet pt et CANNED GOODS. Manitowoc Peas. Lakeside Marrowfat....... 95 SO, ee Lakeside, Cham. of Eng.... 1 2; Lakeside Gem. Ex. Sifted. 1 45 17% Extra Sifted Early June....1 75 CHEESE. ee @ 11% Amboy. @ 11% Byron .. @ ii Elsie ... @ 11% Pe eee @ 12 Gold Medal... ..... @ il Herkimer........ cece @ ce. @ 11% ee ae @ 12 ienawee...- @ il Meversi@e......2...... @ 11% PATON os as... @ il ee @ ee 75 teen, pesee g 18 samba eS ee a 10 Pineapple............ 43 ¢ & pi enwese cue 18 CHOCOLATE. Walter Baker & Co.’s. German Sweet ................28 Poe ee Breakfast Cocosa..... a CLOTHES LINES. Cotton, 40 ft, per doz...... 100 Cotton, 50 ft, per doz...... 1 20 Cotton, 60 ft, per doz...... 140 Cotton, 70 ft, per doz...... 1 60 Cotton, 80 ft, per doz...... 1 380 Jute. 60 ft. per dos. . 80 Jute 72 ft, per dos... of Chicory. Bulk 5 Red 7 COCOA SHELLS. 20ab Dame... 2% ess quantity............ 3 Pound packages......... 4 CREAMS TARTAR. 5 and 10 1b. wooden boxes..30-35 COFFEE. Green. Rio. eee 10 ——..... 12 Paes 13 en ee 14 Peewee oo. ss 15 Santos. =. Ce i ae. ee Le me Peaeermy 3 mej Mexican and Guatamala. Pare... eee 14 east Cs a“ 17 sy _. Maracaibo. Ere hd as. 21 Java. Vere. en Privace Growin........... £2 Meudenlios. =. 24 Mocha. mameon <... See 72 eee 24 Roasted. Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brands Fifth Avenne..... on Tewell’s Arahian Mocha... 28 Wells’ Mocha and Java..... 24 Wells’ Perfection Java..... 24 Someame oR Breskfect B'end........... Valiev “ity Maracaibo. .... 18% teen Wend 13 iveager Bionf...-.°. .. __./ 2 Package. Relow are given New York prices on package coffees. to which the wholesale dealer adds the local freight from New York to yvonr shipping point. giving you credit on the invoice for the amonnt of freight buyer pavs from the market in which he purchases to his shipping point. inelnding weight of package. In 40 Ib. eases the list is 19¢ per 100 lbs above the price in full cases. Arouekic ...< - ....... 7 -erey MicLaughlin’s XXXX...... 11 00 Extract. Valley Ci oes ..... 75 Felix % =< peal —— Hummel’s foil % gross... &5 Humme!l’s tin % gross... 1 42 CATSUP. Columbia, pints.......... 2 00 Columbia, % pints.......... 1 10 CLOTHES PINS. Sore bere.. 5 40 COUGH DROPS. C. B. Brand. © 405 cent packages ........ 1 00 CONDENSED MILK. | FARINACEOUS GOODS. 4 doz in case. Farina. 6 i 241lb. packages..........1% 6 25/| Bulk, per 100 lbs..... .... 3 50 5% Grits. 4 50 | walsh-DeRoo Co.’s....... 2 40 : = Bulk in 100 1b. bags....... 3 40 3 35 Hominy. BOOS os, 22 Flake, 50 lb. drums.......1 00 Beans. Dred limes . |... Medium Hand Picked....1 00 Maccaroni and Vermicelli. Domestic, 10 1b. box...... 60 Imported, 25 Ib. box.. ... 2 50 Pearl Barley. eee. 2 40 eee 2 5u 3 ape... 2% Peas. Tradesman Grade. 50 books, any denom.... 1 50 gat eae eee ° 100 books; any denom.... 2.50 | [P's Pot .----.------ ~~ 500 books, any denom....11 50 Rolled Oats. 1,000 books, any denom....20 00} Rolled Avena, bbl.......3 60 i Monarch, bbil........... a Economic Grade. Monarch. % bbl.......... 175 50 hooks, any denom.... 150] Private brands, Dbbl..... 3 15 100 books, any denom.... 2 50] Private brands, 4%bbl.....1 70 500 books. any denom....1! 50 | Quaker. cases. ...........2 20 1,000 books. any denom....20 00| Huron, cases.............. 1% - Sago. ——s 3% Rast Ingis........... 3 SMU SY nee oe oe Universal Grade. Crecred, Dark. ............ : 50 books, any denom.... 1 50 242 1b packages...........2 50 100 books, any denom.... 2 50 500 books, any denom....11 50 = 1,000 books, any denom....20 00 Fish. Superior Grade. 50 books, any denom.... 1 50 . 109 books, any denom.... 2 50} Georges cured......... @ 41% 500 books, any denom....11 50} Georges genuine...... @ 5% 1,000 books, any denom....20 00} Georges selected...... @ Strips or bricks....... 5 @7% Coupon Pass Books, Halibut. Can be made to represent any Chunks 10 denomination from 810 down. | Strips... i ee 9 Peboeks ow 1 00} WIBGens. 00 Herring. —ooe. 300° Holiend white honns, bhi. 0 95 POORER € 2 Helland white hoop % bhi 5 50 MOORS. 10 00 +1 and white hoop. tee. 72 1000 books...... ...........17 50 | Hol'and white hoop mchs : 80 MOrwerian... ........... 35 Credit Checks. mound 100 ths. :....... 3 40 500, any one denom’n..... 3 00 Round 40 lbs 1 60 1000, any one denom’n..... 5 00 wae ee 18 2000, any one denom’n..... [eo Oe oh ay Sicel punch. .... Mackerel. am DRIED FRUITS—DOMESTIC | Mess ‘40 Ihe 922222002.) 890 Apples. Mees 0 lis....... ....... 17% Seeieted. 0... @ 2% | Messe & The.) 2... 6. 143 Evaporated 50 lb boxes. @8 | nv. i lwvivs.......... 22. 14 50 ; California Fruits. mi aa Ge Apricots ... .. - 7S iget te... 1 30 Blackberries No. Bee iee .. go. 1:0 Nectarines ©. ites Ole... 43)! Peaches.. Se? ims Oe... 115 Poars..............---.8 @ Ino? 8ibe............... 95 a a Ge - a neeoees. Sardines. Raspberries............ Russian kegs.............. 55 California Prunes. Trow 100-120-25 lb boxes....... ? | No. 1100 ihe 400 90-100 25 Ib boxes..... @ 4% 1No 1 ie oo a aS 80 - 90 25 Ib boxes....... Ry No.1 ie. ea BA 70 - 80 25 1b boxes....... @ FX No. 1 8 lbs... et res 47 60 - 70 25 1b boxes... .... oN agi 50 - 60 25 Ib boxes....... @ 6% Whitefish. 40 - 50 25 lb boxes....... 74 No.1 No.2 Fam 30 - 40 25 1b boxes. .... — weereee [. a = 4¢ cent less in 50 1b cases 10 lbs... 5 85 34 Raisins. aie 63 55 31 Lendon Layers 3 Crown. 1 London Layers 4 Crown. 2 Dehesias : Loose Muscatels 2: Crown 5 Loose Muscstels 3 Crown 6 Loose Muscatels 4 Crown 7 FOREIGN. Currants. Petras Dhie @ 614 Vostizzas 50 lb cases...... @ 6% Cleaned, butik @s8 Cleaned, packages........ @ 8% Peel. Citron American 10lb bx @14 Lemon American 101b bx @12 Orange American 101b bx @12 Raisins. Ondura 28 Ib boxes.....8 @ 8% Sultana 1Crown....... @ Sultana 2Crown....... @ Sultana 3Crown....... @ll Sultana 4 Crown....... @ Snitana 5 Crown ___. @ Sultana6Crown....... @12 Sultana packege @l¢4 PLAVORING EXTRACTS. Jennings’. D.C. Vanilia D. C. Lemon On... 18 2 Os....... 70 3 Oz. 150 3 oz. -1 00 4 oz. 2 00 OR... 140 Sox....., 3 00 Cox... 2 00 o. 8 400 No. 8...2 40 No. 10. .6 00 No. 10...4 00 No. 27.1 25 No. 2T. 80 No. 8T.2 00 No. 8T.1 35 4T2 0 No. 4T.1 6g Souders’. SALERATUS. Oval bottle, with corkscrew. Best in the world for the | omy nacre? © Ibs. in box. Cesena... 3 3C money. Demers 3 15 PWR SE Soe | 3 30 OE Se 3 00 SAL SODA. Granulated, bbis........ . 7% Granulated, 100 lb cases.. 9) Ene, bias 75 Lump, l45lbkegs.......... §5 SALT. Diamond Crystal. Cases, 24 3-lb boxes......... 1 50 Barrels, 190 31bbags...... 2 % Rarrels, 40 7 lbbags...... 2 40 Butter. 28 Ib. bags........... 30 Butter, 56 lb bags........... 60 Butter, 20 14 1b bags........ 3 00 Butter, 280 lb bbls.......... 2 50 Common Grades. MOS Ihsecks..... _........ 1 70 OSlb eaeks.... 0.5. 1 55 ee a0 1p seers... 1 45 Worcester. GUNPOWDER. oo 4 Ib. Cartons. | 3 25 Rifle— Dupont’s. ie 26O. weer 4 00 Beet ee Oo 5 tb sees 2... 3 75 Matt Megs... 2:0... 1S eer Be is WS cack oS: 3 50 iarter Were. ii Ww le eae... 3 50 Cte Ce 30 | 28 Ib. linen sacks............ 32 i. i eos. 18 | 561d. Mnen sacks....-._... .; 60 Bulk Im barreig....:.....2..: 2 50 Choke Bore—Dupont’s. Re 4% Warsaw. Shee HORS es 2 40 | 56-Ib dairy in drill pags..... 30 Guarter hers... 3... 1 35 | 28-lb dairy tn drill bags..... 15 C7 OS 34 bitin Eagle Duck—Dupont’s 56-lb dairy in iinen sacks... 60 Rew 8 00 H Half Kegs. 00 06) 00722. 425 iggins. Quarter Kee. 6:00.00. 00. 2 25 | 56-1b dairy in linen sacks... 60 1 lb. cans. aad: Spee eee ae Solar Rock. ie Se 451 AD SRORB cl) AMOS i 15 Madras ¢ tNDIGO. s aC — ” s. F., 2.3 and 5 Ib Bee 50 Medina: Ming 7.0: &3 eau JELLY. : SEEDS. t palls................... ee ee 9 ib pais, te. .. ‘3 ) Canary, Smyrna........... 3 LYE. COTOWOy ee 8 Condensed, 2 doz .......... 1 20 | Cardamon, Malabar ..... 6 “Condensed 1 dng... SO ery 11 LICORICE. Hemp, Russian.......... 3% Pure ao) misee Birds... 4a Ghids |. i gs, | Mustard, white.......... 5 Sicily..... .. ee Bae? ooo oe. ye oe 10 Cuttle Bone.....7722.7°"" Ideal, 3 a ce — 2 25 a. eat, > OR, 3k OREO. -+ «7+ a — beep ece 37 MATCHES. accaboy, injars....... 35 F h Ra an sare... Diamond Match Co.’s brands. — ee ™ No. 9 sul nor Sy a ae i S SPICES. menor Farier:.... 2.6. oo. No.2 Home, ..-...-.000.000. 5 Pee Whole Sifted. o port Parior.............. PU ns een oot eden nin'y me Cassia, China in mats....... 12 MOLASSES. — a in —- -:2p assia, Saigon in rolls...... 32 Black New Orleans. 11 | Cloves, Amboyna........... 10 ee 14 | Cloves, Zanzibar............ 9 fads 99 | Mace, Batavia..............55 Fan cy See ae eet ee ee 24 Nutmegs, fancy............. Open Kettle...............25@35 cues, Be Deeeeee seers ee 50 alf-barrela 9c extra. Nutmegs, No. 2....... ..... 45 Pepper, Singapore, black...10 PIPES. Pepper, Singapore, white... 12 Clay, No. 216............... 17] Pepper, shot................ 10 Clay, T. D. fullcount...... e Pure Ground in Bulk. » NO. B......-.. 000s eee ee Wi ie 12 POTASH. — —- cepece suse ne 22 assia, Saigon..............35 ae 4 09 | Cloves, Amboyna. -..°°.°-° 20 Penna Salt Co.’s........... 3 00 Ginger, African. 5 PICKLES. Ginger, Cochin... - -20 Fediuee Ginger, Jamaica i ae Barrel 1,200 count. 5 50 — eo a cs 8, 1,200 count........ : : : T ue Half bbls, 600 count........ 3 25 Mustard, a Pree, 40@*0 Small. Pepper, Sing , black ....10@14 Barrels, 2,400 count....... 6 FO | Pepper, Sing., white.. -- 15@18 Half bbis, 1,200 count...... 3 75 | Pepper, Cayenne........ 17@20 RICE. e Coeeecr ere eereseereccces Domestic. SYRUPS. Carolina head.............. 614 Corn. Carolina No. 1. os ee. ge coca 16 Carolina No. 2 4% See Wee... 3 18 Broken....... 3% Pure Cane. NR cc 16 imported. ME 20 Japan, No.1... +--+ 5%/Choiee............ 0 022!! 25 Japan. No.2....... i> Oi Java, fancy head.......... 6 SODA. TN, Os Wiese cps ees oe) NO ieee ca kk 5% Me sa . BY‘ KegssEnglish............... 4% a = a < ie aac rey .e, Col See BON 2% 5 box lots. delivered.. 2 7 10 box lots. delivered....... 2 65 JAS. 3. KIRK & G0.’S SRANDS. American Family, wrp'd....3 33 American — — "3 27 Dome... . 3 33 Cabinet. . 2 20 Sev0e 2 50 » Dusky Diamond 50 6 oz....2 Dusky Diamond. 40 & oz ...3 00 Biue India, 700 % Ib... ---3 OW Kirkoline......... as 1 oe ee Eos 3 ne One box American Family free with five. Schulte Soap Co.'s Brand. 100 cakes, 75 ibs. Mure BOE 2 80 Sot tate 3 ee Mbox tots 2. . De mo BOX FOGR ~+a-- 2 GO Wolverine Soap Co.’s Brands. Sin aie box oe 5 box lots, delivered......_! 2 60 10 box lots, delivered........ 2 50 Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands. Old Country, 80 1-lb bars ..2 75 ood Cheer, 60 1-lb. bars....3 75 Uno, 100 %-lb. bars.......... 2 50 Doll, 100 10- Pen. UMiB 8. 2 6 Scouring. Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz..... 2 40 Sapolio, hand, 3doz........ 2 40 Washing Powder. A Mont Pressant, Dut Most EMective tHE city e289 wees -eOume iD 12 os pkgs... ......... 3 50 STARCH. Kingstord’s Corn. 40 1-Ib packages............. 6 201 1b packages............. 614 Kingsford’s Silver Gloss. 40 1-lb packages............. 6% re pence 7 Diamond. G4 106 packages ........... 5 00 128 5¢ packages...... -5 00 82 10c and 64 5¢ packages.. 5 00 Common Corn. oily peckeecs.......... .. 4% “01th packages... ......:.. 4% ae tm CORES... 8. 4 Ber. Paxes, 3% Common Gloss. Pie peekaces.§..--. ... 44 Sip packages. ...........:. 44 Gib packages .............- = 40 and 50 Ib nee olteueues Barrels . STOVE POLISH. No’ 4 3 doz in case, gross. 4 50 No. 6, 3 doz in case, gross.. 7 20 SUGAR. Below are given New York prices on sugars, to which the wholesale dealer adds the local freight from New York to your shipping point, giving you credit on the inyvice 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, Cut Lost... 5 63 Domino : Cu bes eel Mould A itsanend ae i: Selects. Selec 2 FJ D. “standard 22 ARGCHOES......... @ 20 Standar-is . @ 18 Bavuriies .........-. @ 16 Oysters in Bulk Fr H. Cou: ts........ @!1 75 Extra Selects....... @ 60 PCC cas @! 30 anenor Standards... @i 10 Be ne@ards.........-° @1 v0 RR ea. @i 26 Shell Goods. Oysters, per 100....... 1 25@1 50 Clams, per 100. ... 9@i x Candies. Grains and Feedstuftis Stick Candy. bbls. pails SeanGarG ........... 64@ 7% Standard H. H...... 642e@ 7% Standard Twist..... @ 8 Cus Beat... @ vo cases durrmiho, 32 1b ........ G@ 6% Mitra no... @ S% Boston Cream...... @ Mixed Candv. Competition......... @ 6% ~aneare,........... Qi - Conserve, .... ._. @i% So @ 77 PapOGH | @ 8% Broken ...... .. @ 8% Cut Empat... .. . @ os English Kock....... @8 Kiudergarten PSD G@ 8% French Cream...... @ 8x Dandy Pan... :.._ q@lu Valley Cream.. G@i3 Fancy —In Bulk. Lozenges, plain..... @9 Lozenges, printed.. @ 9 Choc. Drops. ...._.. @l4 Choc. Monumentals @i2 Gti Drope......... @6 Moss Drops......... @s3 sour Drops.......... @ 8% Euiporigia..: 6... @ 8% Fancy—in 5 Ib. Boxes. Lemon Drops....... Beur Drops... ..... Peppermint Drops.. Chocolate Drops.... H. M. Choe. Drops.. Gam Drops... .. Licorice Drops...... A. B. Licorice — Lozenges, piain.. Lozenges, printed.. imperials.. 1... MOLIOGR Hand Made Creams. 80 Plain Creams.. 60 Decorated Creams. String Rock... Burnt Almonds..... 13 Wintergreen Berries Caramels. No. 1 ™ d, 2 lb. ‘boxe ppe of @ou @bv @is G30 @ia @ov @45 Fruits. Oranges. Fancy Mexicans. i a OO ceccc Rodis au Raney. Lemons. Strictly choice 360s.. Strictly choice 300s.. Fancy 36Us.. Ex.Fancy 3008 |... 2! Ex. Rodi 360s... .... Bananas. Medium bunches...1 = Large bunches...... 12 Foreign Dried ecm. Figs. Choice, 101b boxes.. Extra chuice, i4 lb Dexes Faucy, i2 1b boxes.. Faucy, 50 1b boxes.. imperial Mikadus, 18 PO uekes so, Pulled, 6 lb boxes... Naturals, in bags... Dates. Fards in 10 1b boxes Fards in 6U ib cases Persians, H. M. B., 60 ® i! oO €@D AH LOO Ib cuses, bew...... @ Sairs, wWlo cases.... @ Nuts. Almonds, Tarragona. . G13 Almonds, Ivaca....... @il Almonds, eee : soft shelled......... @i5 Breasiis new........... @ 8% Piers @lu Wainuts, Grenobles .. @i3 Walnuts, Calif No. 1. @10 Walnuts, soft shelled Cale @12 Table Nuts, fancy.... @i2 Table Nuts, choice... @lu Pecans, Med....... ... @9 Pecans, Ex, Large.. @iv Pecans, Jumbos....... @i2 Hickory Nuts per bu., Oia. new. ......... @1 75 Cocoanuts, full sacks @4 00 Peanuts. Fancy, H. P., Suns. @ 6% Fancy, H. P., Flags Heested. -.... ...... @ 6% Choice, H. P., Extras. 4 Choice, H. P., Extras, MOGEGON 3... oc. os. @b% Wheat. Whee 86 Winter Wheat Flour. Locai Brands. RRC 5 50 pecond Patent. :........... 5 WO RONG 4 wu ee 4 40 rae 47 Beceweent... ... 425 SS 3 5u Subject to usual cash dis- count. Flour in bbls., 25¢ per bbl. ad- ditional. Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand. CMEAROr, 8 4 Bi a oe... 4 6 Ceeer Se... 4 60 Guard, Fairfield & Co’s Brand. Whole Whexst 1-16s......... 5 2u Spring Wheat Flour. Clark-Jewell-Wells Uo.’s Brand. Pillsbury’s Best tgs... . 2 oo Pilisbury’s Best 4s........ 5 3o Pilisbury’s Lest ss. a @ Pitlsbury’s Best gs paper . 5 25 Pilsvury’s Best as puper.. 5 25 Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand. Grand Republic, = eee 5 - Grand Kepublic, 4 — Grand Republic, re Becee oc 5 4d Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s Brand. Gold Medulica | 5 65 Gold Medal gs... ®. dD Goi Medal 4a... |. 5 4 DOO ee Parisian, 4s Pome Se Oiney & Judson’s iad: Cerceora, 465... ..... 5 65 Ceresots, 48. ....0..... 5 55 Ceresota, 448.. ... a. oo Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand. ACL See 5 63 Laurel, 4s. - 5 55 Laurel, ee 3 40 Meal. Ome 1 % Grantiiated ..... 2 Feed and Milistuffs. St. Car Feed. screeued ....14 09 No. 1 Cor and Gats....__. ne WO Unbolted Corn Meal....... 12 30 Winter Wheat Bran... . .11 Ou Winter Wheat Middlings. = UU Derccnmers 0 Wu The O. E. Brown = Co. quotes as follows: New Corn. Car lots. oe. Be Less than ear lots......... 3u Oats. Car lets. ... Los Soe Carlots, clipped... = Less than ean tee 0 27 Hay. No. 1 Timothycariots...... 9 00 No. 1 Timotny, ton lots....10 00 Cindi The N. Y. Biscuit Co. quotes as eit Butter. seymonr Xe Seymour XXX, 3 1b. carton a“ Maeey Se Family XXX, 31b carton.. 4% Salted ax i. Soda Bae Soda XXX, 3 lb carton.... pean, Cie. 5 SCpntiete 9 Long Isiand Wafers....... 9 L. 1. Wafers, 1 lb carton .. 10 Oyster. Square Oyster, XXX... .. 4% Sq. Oys. XXX. 1 1b carton. 5% Farina Oyster, XXX... |. SWEET GOODS—Boxes. Mo 9 Beut’s Cold Water..... i Belle Hose... ... . « Cocoanut Taff, 8 Cottee Cakes... .:. 8 Frosted Honey. eet eevco yok 10 Graham Crackers ......... 6 Ginger Snaps, XXX round. 5 Ginger Snaps, XXX city. 5 Gin. Saps,X XX home made 5 Gin. Snps,X XX scalloped... 5 Ginger Vanilia........ |. a ie | 6 dumoples, Honey........... 10 Molusses Capen 6 Marshmallow ............. 12 Marshmallow Creams..... 13 Pretzels, hand made ..... 6 Pretzelettes, LittleGerman 6 pigear Cake ow. cl. 6 ORAS 10 Sear bupen. oo... 8... 6 Vantila Souare........... < Vanilla Wafers ........... 12 Pocasm Wafers. ..........:.. 2 Pertog Pigme 10 Cream Jumbles ........:... 11% Boston Ginger Nuts........ 6 Chimmie Fadden es Pineapple Glace...... ..... 12 Penny Cakce: 6 Marshmallow Walnuts.... 13 Beli Isic Pienic............ MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Provisions. Swift & Company quote as follows: Barreled Pork. mee. 9 50 ee 11 30 (lear tack: lu 45 OO lu 25 ee 14 50 COR ee ce. 8. § dU a 9 5U Dry Sait Mant. eines: Ce. 5% Eerineets 8.8... Be metre BOeie............. dhe Smoked Meats. Hams, 12 lb average .... 9 Hams, 14 lb average . 9 Hams, 16 lb average..... 84 Hams, 2U lb average..... 8 " 6 iam Gried beef ......... ldy Shoulders (N. Y. —- l 344 Bacon, Clear. --8 @Y California hams. 6 Boneiess hams.. ne 8% Coeted ham ............ ll Lards. In Tierces. CONN 44 Bete. |. .... bye fo 1D Tube....... advance +g 30 1b Tube....... advance 4 SE Tihs... advance 4 20 Ib Pails. ...... advance Ye IO tb Pails. ...... advance % 215 Pars. ...... advance % Sib Pails. ...._. advance 1 Sausages. beers TT. ee % rameters, 3... AOR AIS or = * Extra Mess 9 00 Bopeiese |... 12 WwW ee 12 00 Pigs’ Feet. Mis, he 80 “4 bbis, athe... _<.. 2 oe Ye bbis, mie. 2 380 ~ ie Kits, 15 lbs.. si % 4% bbls, tha 1 4 be bbls, a 2% Casings. CO 16 Beet rounds... 4% meet middieg .........., 12 NO j Se. Rolls, dairy... ... 11 Solid, dairy..... 10% Kolls, Creamery ......... 14 Sold, ereamery .......: . 13% Canned Meats. Corned beef, 21b....... 2 10 Corned beef, “4 .. -14 00 Roast beef, ..... 210 Potted ham, “M48. a Potted ham, 45.._.... 1 00 Deviled ham, a 60 Deviled ham 4s... _. 1 00 Petted tongue \s..... on Potted tongue \%s....... 1 00 Fresh Meats. —_ Carcass . os 54@ i” Fore quarters. ee @ 6 Hind quarters........ « @? Lots No. 3........... 9 @l2 ee eee Rounds .. . 644@ 7% Chucks. .. 4@5 Plates @3 Dressed @ 5% DOP @i7 DROUIGETS 0. @ 5% Pees tard |. 6 @ Mutton. Caress. 8 @i aprng Lambe... .._. . 8 @9 Veal. Carcass a @9 Hides and Pelts. Perkins & Hess-pay as fol- lows Hides. Creen e aS Fart Gured.... @ 8 Fall Cured... Sig@ Ga ae = Kips. Breese... 7 @S§ Bins. Cured. .........- 84 944 Calfskins, green...... T42@ 9 Calfskins, cured...... 9 @lU% Deaconskins Se eco 23 G30 Pelts. Nnecertimes oo... 5@ 30 barabs ot, 40@ 1 v0 Olid Waol 60m 1 Ov Oils. Barrels. |e @i1% XXX W.W.Mich.Hdlt @ 8% W W Michigan... ... @ 8 Diamond White....... @7 OO os. @ 8 Deo. ‘Nepthe ees ac @™% Cee 2 @30 Bagae ll @21 lack, winter......... @ 8 21 Crockery and Glassware. AKRON STONEWARE. Butters, 46 Gal. per dos. .......... 50 1 to 6 gal., per gal... 5% SSal., per gal ..... _ ose eal pergal |. 6% 12 gal., per gal... 6% 15 gal. meat-tubs. per gal. 8 20 gal. meat-tubs, per gal.. 8 25 gal. meat-tubs, per gal.. 10 30 gal. meat-tubs, per gal.. 10 Churns. 2toGeal. pergal....... 5% Churn Maseean per doz.. 85 Milkpans. % gal. flat or rd. bot., doz. 60 1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each 5% Fine Glazed Milkpans. ¥% gal. fatorrd. bot.,doz. 65 1 gal. flatorrd. bot.,each 5 Stewpans. % gal. fireproof, bail, doz. 85 1 gal. fireproof, bail, doz.1 10 Jugs. i ea... per dos............, 40 8a. perdos ... ..,. _ Oo 2t0 5 gal, per gal......... 6% Tomato Jugs. * Se), per dds... |... e 1 gal., each eed 7 Corks for ¥ 2 gal., perdoz.. 20 Corks for “i gal. » per dos.. 30 Preserve Jars and Covers. % gal., stone cover, doz... 7%5 1 gal., stone cover, doz.. 11 00 Sealing Wax. 5 lbs. in package, per Ib.. 2 LAMP BURNERS. a 45 Re Fee 50 Oe 75 AMO 50 pecurty, No ft ............ 65 Beeuriy, No.2... «=| SS Ute ie ae Cimae 1 50 LAMP CHIMNEYS—Common. Per box of 6 doz. me. GO Som 1% Ne Ese 1 88 Ne. 2 2 70 First Quality. No. 0 Sun, crimp to wrapped and neta 2 10 No. 1 Sun, crimp top, wrapped and ae a - 22 No. 2 Sun, crim wrapped and aed | 325 XXX Flint. No. 0 Sun, crimp top, ee and ea 2 55 No. Sun, crim top, wuiaaen and labeled. 2% No. 2 Sun, crimp top, wrapped and lakoled. 3 75 CHIMNEYS—Pear! Top. No. 1 og wrapped - labeled... por No. 2 ca wrappe aa" labe FO No. 2 ee wrapped and labeled. . No.2 Sun, “Small ‘Bulb, he for Globe Lamps......... 80 La Pastie. No. Shgag plain bulb, per No. 2 Sun, plain bulb, per Ss ee ce 1 50 No. “ Crimp, per Gos....... 1 35 No. 2 Crimp, per doz....... 1 60 Rochester, No. 1, Lime (65¢c doz)...... 3 50 No. 2) Lime (70c doz)...... 4 06 No. 2) Flint (80c doz)...... 47 Electric. No. 2, Lime (70c doz) ..... 4 00 No. 2, Flint (80c doz)...... 4 40 OIL CANS, D 1 gal tin cans with spout.. 1 1 gal galv iron with spout. 1 2 gal galv iron with spout. 2 3 gal galv iron with spout. 3 5 gal galv iron with spout. 4 75 3 gal galv iron with faucet 4 75 5 gal galv iron with faucet 5 25 2 Gal Tilting cane.......... 00 5 gal galv iron Nacefas ... 9 00 Pump Cans 5 gal Rapid steady stream. 9 00 5 gal Eureka non-overflow 10 56 3 gal Home Rule.... 50 5 gal Home Rule. r= 5 gal Pirate King..... _s LANTERNS. Ne OTapniar ... ...... 4 25 No. £8 Tabular.......... 6 50 No. 13 Tubular Dash. .... 6 30 No. 1-Tub., glass fount.. oo No. a 12 Tubular, side lamp. 14 OC No. 2 Street Lamp 3 LANTERN GLOBES. No. 0 Tubular, cases 1 doz. each. box 10 cenis.. . 45 No. 0 Tubular, cases 2 doz. each, box i5 cents... 45 No. 0 Tubular, bbls 5 doz. egen bGlds cou... 40 No. 0 Tubular, bull's eye, cases I dos. each. ........ 1% LAMP WICKS. Ne. ¢ pergroes.... 2 Ne. | per eross............. 25 NG 2 ner groas. 38 NO. 3 per gros... 58 Mammoth, . 2.0... aa a 70 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Hardware Mutual Relations of Retailer and Cus- tomer—Prison Goods. Ante-Lucem in American Artisan. The strong relationship that actually exists between the country retail mer- chant and his patron, particularly the farmer, is a far more —— factor to the commercial life and well-being of our country than the casual observer realizes or is willing to admit. The existing attachment and the utter im- possibility of their divorcement are things that force themselves stronger and stronger upon the mind of the earnest advocate of trade reform, as he studies more and more into the ques- tions involved. The one tactor (farmer) is the pro- ducer, the provider for the whole ges try, the world. He tills the soil, ploughs, he sows, he reaps, and ae God’s earth (given to man) he raises the essentials to support life, the food- giving products. While he farms for a livelihood, he expects also a profit. As he toils by day he forgets or does not realize the God-given mission he is performing. Let all the farmers cease to be producers and there would come destitution, starvation and ruin. Whiie the farmer is hard at work per- forming the intended labor of his Creator, the country retail merchant stands hard by as the strong reserve fac- tor, supporting the producer from his accumulated stock of stores, gathered for his (the producer’s) wants as neces- sities may require. These the producer gets largely upon the eg -to-pay plan, the merchant having fuli faith in a possible growing crop and the farm- er’s honesty. There is but one man to whom the farmer can go for credits. There is but one man who can grant those favors of credit, that is the retail merchant. Crush out the retail merchant or let him cease to perform his part of the great work, and down would: go the store-houses of supplies, and half the producer’s time would be lost in an end- less chase for the things so needful for the every-day prosecution of his work and living, things he cannot manufac- ture nor produce. With tbe retail mer- chant gone, where is the one to grant the credits from month to month, and year to year? Surely he is not among the wholesalers, manufacturers or cata- loguers. The loss from the field of mer- chandising of the retail merchant would be a grievous one, entailing loss to every industrial enterprise of the world, The retail merchant is the foundation of all the commercial superstructures ; upon him rests all the prosperity of the wholesaler, the manufacturer. Pull down or undermine the foundation wall, and the superstructure falls. The clientage of the retail merchant is but the footing stones of the supporting wall. You can- not remove him, or down come ina crash all the dependencies. That the patron of the retail mer- chant must goto him (the retail mer- chant) to sell his few pounds of butter or dozen eggs, that the producer must go to his country village for his mail, to get his horses shod, to consult his doctor, and a hundred other little things, to say that these are all the reasons, the essential reasons, why the producer should patronize his home dealer is to shut one’s eyes to the important facts and turn a deaf ear to the mighty ap- peal of a country’s cause. To say that the retail merchant is satished when he has secured control of his customers’ patronage, to say that protection must be granted the retail merchant for the attainment of that purpose, is but to champion an ignoble, selfish cause. It is not the forwarding of the selfish interest, it is not the specific better- ment of either the retail merchant or his client’s cause,as it is the serving the best interests of all the people of our common country and the upbuilding of a country alike unto none other known. That is the prime object, and we must begin at the root of the evil, the foun- dation of the superstructure, strengthen the walls, cut off the leeches sapping and mining its strength. He who has an ambition no greater than his own selfish interests can be measured in two words, selfish ingrate. There is absolutely no dissolution, no possible divorcement of the commercial interests of the retail] merchant and _ his patrons. The confederation of interests must become. stronger and more thoroughly cemented. The correction of the little things will aid ina just settlement of the larger and more im- portant measures demanding changes if our general commercial prosperity shal] advance. The real issue is our coun- try, not individuals. I have at all times studiously avoided mention of names, individuals or firms (1), because I have no quarrel with anyone; (2), because | do not seek to in any wise oe anyone’s position or business; (3), be- cause only those who are violators will feel the thrust; (4), because those who feel the lash may give to the questions involved that serious thought commen- surate with the subject, and upon calm reflection do those things they ought to do and so essential to advance our internal commercial interests. There has been no further action, so far as I know, relative to the sale of stoves to exclusive furniture houses and installment dealers. There is, however, a movement on foot to bring before the Minnesota Hardware Association at its first annual meeting the subject of com- missioning stoves, prison-made goods, and the sale of new stoves to second-hand dealers. The sale of stoves on the consignment plan (stock orders) and its introduction to the trade is liable to prove one of the most disastrous features of the stove business ever introduced, at least ten times worse than sales to exclusive fur- niture dealers and easy-payment houses, for the only injury resulting from the latter class of sales is in a cutting of prices. The commission or consign- ment plan is the equivalent of furnish- ing capital for another to do business upon without interest or risk, and puts a dealer selling the same line of goods in an adjoining town hors de combat at once. This is a most proper question for the consideration of the National Association of Stove Manufacturers. Once you open the door to consignment business and soon the entire field will be covered, resulting in the most de- moralizing condition imaginable. There is nothing more vicious or re- pulsive to an honest American than the sale of prison-made goods, faliing most heavily upon free labor and dealing a menacing blow to all free American in- dustries. Some states have prohibited the employment of convict labor as a most injurious thing to honest toil. There are, however, a few grasping, greedy manufacturers who still buy con- vict labor to make goods to sell to hon- est people. It is simply impossiblle to describe the wrong, the injury, the damnable nefariousness of the sale of prison goods. Second-hand dealers are largely the buyers of prison goods, and largely through ignorance of where made. Other sales of new goods that go to the second- hand dealers are from the small manu- facturer or jobber. No representative stove house will sell new goods to these second-hand dealers, and it will be quite an easy matter to work reforms in that direction. The organized dealers of Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and Wis- consin, as well as states where the retail hardware trade have organized, should take cognizance of these things and pre- pare for drastic measures. —_—_——~> 0. Chainless Bicycles. Eleven of the leading bicycle houses have decided to manufacture chainless bicycles for next season, so that the prospects of a large turn-out of this type of bicycle are encouraging. The advent of the chainless in 1898 will mark the reduction in price of chain wheels. There is considerable specula- tion regarding the price at which the chainless wheel will be listed. It is thought that firms will sell chainless bi- cycles next season at either $100 or $125. These figures indicate the highest figures now in contemplation. Manufacturers and Jobbers of TINWARE, NICKEL PLATED Factory and Salesrooms, 260 South Wm. Brummeler & Sons, ENAMELED WARE and WARE. Ionia Streets GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ude evaWtvaw ved ewuicdveddiedddy Vevuvvvadvvddver' AS uve dveddvvudivadivuvevddvvudveddvaddd) OuR SPECIAL OFFER: count of 5 per cent. on all orders for Electric Oil before Dec. 1 Write for Catalogue. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. BAAD ANACA AACA AA NARHA ARAN ARR AAA NAR AR ARA NAAR ARAN AR AAA AN ARR AAR ANG NEE EY We will allow a Cash Dis- a CUCUSCCU TTS CCU C TUE CTU CUVCC CCC UCC U ELEM CEE Wy al o - ELECTRIC OIL HEATING STOVES: 2 . a : : They are built like a stove; have perfect combustion; hot air flues; water reservoir 5 > in burner; removable reservoir; and have all the improvements that make the only perfect Oii Heating Stove made. We guarantee them to work perfectly. They are no experiment; this is the fifth year we have sold them. No. 5 Electric Oil Heating Stoves, ~ - $4.20 : : No. 35 Electric Oil Heating S:oves, - 4.80 . No. 16 E‘ectric Oil Heating Stoves, = = 5.40 : No. 17 Electric Oil Heating Stoves, = 6.00 ; No. 32 Electric Oil Heating Stoves, = - 7.20 . 7 +et i ,, . No. 34 Elec'ric Oil Heating Stoves, = 7.80 : , H. LEONARD & SONS, Stoves FVUNV EVV VEU DV VV VV VE EVV UVP sex AAMAAAAAAAAAAAAAARAARRASSAAARAAASAAARAAARA SARA RAR ASAE RAR ASAD! aA} APIA RP SARS IARPIR ARIA PAD URR SPAR EA BD) This handsome Heater, diameter body 11. inches, Only $8.00 Delivered any R. R. Station in Michigan. Less 5 per cent., cash with order. We have other sizes. Send for descriptive circular. Foster, Stevens & Co. Grand Rapids, Mich. bw. : 3 Wood Heaters E : Be = TR Be orga siieties TIER, AE E : Be = Wea eh srigas iia a: Spa Effect of Department Stores on the Hardware Trade. From the Hardwure Dealers’ Magazine. Charles W. Bullard, President of the Bullard & Gormully Co., of Chicago, 1s a gentleman who has been ideutined with tbe hardware trade of the Western metropolis tor the past thirty-two years, and has been for twelve years connected with the Bullard & Gormully Co. By reason of such a long and continuous association Mr. Bullaru is naturaliy im a position to speak as one with author- ity on many subjects of interest to tbe retail hardware trade. In a recent interview he was asked: ‘‘What is your opinion regarding the effect of department store competition upon retail merchants?’’ He replied: ‘‘T consider department stores not only disturbing factors but disastrous ones as well. While they seldom, 11 ever, succeed in drawing away trom regular hardware dealers any appre- ciable amount of custom, still their talse and misleading advertisements are usea by purchasers to hammer down prices. It is easy enough to explain away the claims the department stores make in the daily papers, but their quotations, although not redounding to their own benefit, serve to depress market prices. "’ ‘* Have dealers tried to meet depart- ment sture Competition by advertising in bewspapers?’’ * Not generally—some spasmodic at- tempts have been made but | think they yielded small results. Hardware is es- sentially a catalogue line and requires little publicity of that sort. Quality and price are the main considerations. ’’ *‘Are the competitive attacks of de- partment stores along the lines of fine hardware or upon cheaper grades?”’ ‘* Most emphatically upon the cheaper grades. This is the point of danger, because they advertise to sell the best and nine times out of ten deliver an in- ferior quality or a cleverly disguised imitation. From personal experience | can say that they handle very few stand- ard trade-marked goods and these few are uniformly quoted much higher than the prices asked by regular dealers.’ ‘Wherein does the remedy lie?’’ ‘*Partly in the dealer himself and partly in legislation. We very fre- queatly have people come to us who are not disposed to trade with department stores, but who seem to thiuk that we are robbing them when we ask a rea- sonable price for a first-class article. A little explanation generally convinces them that we are fair and just; or, if they are not amenable to reason and do join the department store army we often find them returning to us later on and paying our prices without quibble. ’’ ‘in what manner can legislation reg- ulate department stores?’’ “*I can best illustrate that by an ex- ample in point. Some weeks ago one of these establishments advertised wire nails—all sizes—at a cent a pound. Builders, contractors, mechanics, and men of tamily elbowed each other in the crowd which gathered to take advantage of this exceptional offer. Their surprise and disgust may be imagined when they discovered that only five pounds of nails would be sold to any one person. Now, that was deception pure and sim- ple. Laws can and should be enacted to compel these stores to make good their assertions and punish them severely for deceiving the public through false and misleading statements. 1 believe that department stores are legitimate enter- prises. I do not entertain anarchistic ideas regarding them, as do many mer- chants; but I maintain that in competi- tion they should act honorably, or, if they will not, the power of the Jaw should be invoked to enforce square dealing.’’ 22 The Cnainless Bicycle. Every since the first safety bicycle was built manufacturers and inventors have been trying to do away with the link belt, commonly called the ‘‘chain,"’ used to transmit motion to the driving wheel. It seemed to be taken for granted from the very first that the chain was a mere makeshift, to be used only MICHIGAN TRADESMAN until something better was invented to take its place. While bicyclemakers were experimenting with other ariving devices, hundreds of thousands of bi- cycles with chains were made, sold and used. Occasionally some make of wheel with a substitute tor the chain was brought out, but the ‘‘makeshift’’ held its own. The chain was a nuisance, in that it collected dust and gravel, re- quired constart attention and trequently broke. Nevertheless, it was the best method of transmitting motion or power, and wheel people accepted it. as the only practical device. Now the chainless bicycle has ap- peared as a competitor of the common wheel. Recently two bicycles, with bevel gears, were brought to Chicago, aud in a few hours the bicyclers of the city were divided into two factions, one standing for the chain, and the other for the ‘‘coffee-mill’’ gear. The ad- vocates of the bevel gear, accepting the claims of the manufacturer as authorita- tive, hailed it as the long-looked-for improvement which is to do away with chains altogether. The friends of the old favorite regarded the bevel gear with suspicion, called it a fad, and refused to concede that the ‘‘coffee mill’ was an improvement. It will be well for both factions to withhold judg- ment unul the new gear has been fairly tested. The bevel gear uses beveled cog- wheels, with a shaft, to transmit mo- tion from the crank to the driving wheel of the bicycle. The gearing must be placed in the machine with perfect ex- actness. The trout and rear axles with their gear attachments should lie pre- cisely in the same plane and exactly parallel with each other. Any tailure to do this will result in strain and un- satisfactory work. The frame construc- tlon must be so rigid that there will be no spring or yield under the strain. (hese are the conditions, admitted to be such by the makers of the chainless whee!, which must be secured and main- tained in order that the bevel gear will be a success. The makers say that all these conditions and requirements have been met, although the weight of the wheel had to be increased. The claim is made that with the bevel gear there is no ‘‘back-lash,’’ no dirt, no fear of broken driving mechanism, perfect lubrication and positive and instantaneous action at all times, But # is still a question whether the rough- and-ready riding of the ordinary bi- cycler will not so strain the frame as to disturb tbe exactness of position which seems to be essential to the easy opera- tion of the bevel gear. However, the bevel gear at last is here, and the ver- dict of approval or disapproval will show whether the sanguine manufactur- ers made a paying investment when they put $150,000 into experiments and machinery. The bevel gear wheel will cost $125; according to wheelmakers, twenty-four out of twenty-five chain wheels next year will sell for $50 or less, Vhis difference will have the effect of giving the intangible attribute familiar- ly known as ‘‘swellness’’ to the chain- less wheel, at any rate. 9 The Rascal Won. ‘“‘What’s the price of these gloves?’’ she asked. ‘‘A dollar and seventy-five cents,’’ said the clerk; ‘‘but I’m afraid we haven’t any small enough tor you. We can order an extra small size, how- ever.’' ‘Ob, these will do. I'll pairs. "’ take three —_—_—-e<____ The postmaster general of Paris has, according to recent advices, prepared a bill for the gradual adoption of motor cars and omnibuses by the postoffice for the use of carriers in the delivery of the mail. Write for prices. *Phone 1357. THOMAS DUNN & SONS, WHOLESALE HARDWARE SPECIALTIES, BELTING Engineers, Machinists and Factury Supplies. 93 PEARL STREET. GRAND RAPIDS. ’ Hardware Price Current. AUGURS AND BITS Sa Ee 70 CGhInee SOMME 25&10 vouningn imiiation 0 - -6Ud10 AXES Bites Quality. SB. Bronze 5 00 Bist Goality, DB Bronze... 9 50 Birst Gasity. S&S Steen lg 5U ivst Guilty, DIE Steet 10 5u BARROWS eee $12 00 14 00 Ce net 30 Uv BOLTS Ove e. ee cece fae. 60&10 Carriage new lis Gedo acaad os | OO Zo CO 5U BUCKETS eee ee $3 2 BUTTS, CAST Cast Loose Fim. fisured. | 70&10 WtOUSG NGEPOM e 70a 10 BLOCKS Craig Paeme 70 CROW BARS Cmeroicer per lb 4 CAPS an perm 65 PnCksC fo perm 55 ee -perm 35 Pe perm 60 CARTRIDGES ee 50& 5 es 2& 5 CHISELS MOCECe WiMMer SOCEeC Prmiiing. .... — 80 Oe CO 80 MOGHKGCL Siteks eee 80 DRILLS MOKee S BAG SOCK ec 60 Taper and Straight Shank. ............... |. 50& 5 mores Taper Shame 5O0& 5 ELBOWS Com 4piece Gin... doz. net 20 Corrugated....... a a 13 ER dis 40&10 EXPANSIVE BITS Clark’s small, $18; large, $26................ 30&10 ves, © mie 2 Ges 25 FILES—New List ks maa FO&10 PRCHOUNO — 70 eters Horse Magne -60&10 GALVANIZED IRON Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and i 28 List 12 13 14 15 — .... 17 Discount, 75 to 75-10 GAUGES Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............... 60410 KNOBS—New List Door, mineral, jap. trimmings.... ......... 70 Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings............ 80 MATTOCKS ee ee, $16 00, dis 60&10 Pee ee $15 U0, dis 60&10 Gee $18 50, dis 20&10 NAILS Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire. cet EAR WANS 1 Wire nails, base..... oo ar me cOUeOVanee Base A OG RG VO 5 te 10 OOOVONe 20 AUOVeOee 30 Se 45 ici ie WW Bie 6 CAVA 50 Cane tO MONANOG 15 eee SOONNNCe 25 UREN CAGVNNCO 35 BUan tO advanCe 25 Pinish Sadvanee............ 5... 33 Hrnish Gadvanee............_.. 45 BOrrGr B advanee 85 MILLS Cotes, Varkers Cds... 40 Cotfee, P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s Malleables... 40 Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’s........... 40 Cotee, Enterprise 30 MOLASSES GATES Stebbin’s Pattern...... Sodas 6 5 we ce as ire PeOmeeIES GEMM 60&10 Kinterprise, self-measuring ............ .._. 30 PLANES Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy..... ek ee @50 ee 60 mancusky Too! Co.'s, farey.. @50 Bench, tirstquality...... once cae a @50 Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s wood......... 60 PANS ry, Some 60&10&£10 Common, polished. eo... TO& 5 RIVETS en and Ties 60 Copper Rivets and Barg.......0.000......... 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.'s, new list........ ...... dis 25> a dis 25 wernes @ Fine dis W&10 Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.......... ..30¢ lim, 70 Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel Hand 30c lis :40&10 23 HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS Stamped Tin Ware. Sec eeaeea new list 75&i0 vupannod Tin Ware. 20810 Granite ron Ware........... new list 40410 HOLLOW WARE Ce 6041 ee - 60810 Se an eae 60&10 HINGES Gate Clara tee dis 60.410 eee per doz. net 2 50 WIRE GOODS Se 80 2 i 80 Se 80 Gate Heossand Eyes... 80 LEVELS Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............ dis 70 ROPES Sisal, 4 Meh and lareer............ _... 5% MO SQUARES i Mey ane Bevelg a SHEET IRON com. smooth. com. Mee 10 fet &2 7) #2 40 Wee tate 2 70 2 40 Nes. ts tg28 ce ee 2 45 NOR 2 tee. 3 00 2 55 MOG 2 sO 3 10 2 65 ee 3 20 2% All sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30 inches wide not less than 2-10 extra. SAND PAPER tie acct ce. dis SASH WEIGHTS Aeig Meee per ton 20 00 TRAPS ees Gai i. 60&10 Oneida Community, Newhouse’s....... 50 Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s 70&10 mouse Choker... per doz 15 House, Gelusion............_._.. per doz 1 25 WIRE Brgne Market...) .. sea due oa, 75 AnenIeG MAENCE % COMPerOG MOTRGe 70&10 eG Aen 2% Copperca Simimg Stcel 50 Barbed Ferce, galvanized ................. 210 Berood Wetice, paiiied =... 1 80 HORSE NAILS EE dis 40&1C OO is 5 TOTCHWCHECEM dis 10&10 WRENCHES Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.............. 30 Coen Gemma. 8 he 50 Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought ....... 80 Coes Patent, malleable... 0... ,, MISCELLANEOUS Pe Cae. 50 a ‘ 80 sore, OW Elgg ss... 5 Casters, Bed and Pilate............. .... 50&10&10 Sraapers, Aveeriean..................... 50 METALS—Zinc Cn) pam Cae ls, 634 OE 6% SOLDER EE 12% The prices of the many other qualities of solder in the market indicated by private brands vary according to composition. TIN—Melyn Grade Denes BO, Crareoee i. 1... ol. $5 7 Pee et Coleone 5 75 mae x, Charéoal .............. 7 00 Each additional X on this grade, 81.25. TIN—Allaway Grade geese SC, Cotareems 8... «8 Oe edt ee ie ete ee Cee, 6 00 EE 6 00 Each additiona! X on this grade, 81.50. ROOFING PLATES Meee ic, Charcoal, Deam.................... 5 00 Iauee IX, Charcoal Dean ................... 6 00 eunen tC, Charcoal, Dea. ...... ..........- 10 00 14x20 IC, Charcoal, Alluway Grade......... 4 50 14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade......... 55 20x28 1C, Charcoal, Allaway Grade......... 9 00 20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade......... 11 00 BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE 14x56 IX, for No. 8 Boilers, | 14x56 IX: for No. 9 Boilers, {Pet Pound... = 9 60000000 00069506960000000 TRADESMAN ITEMIZED LEDGERS Size 8 1-2x14—Thvee Columns. = Gatres, 16) pages............. 2 00 3 Quires, 240 pages..... .... 2 50 4 Guires, S20 pages.......... ne : & Guires, 400 pages. ............ 3 50 € Quires, 480 pages. ............ 4 @ Invoice Record or Bill Book. 80 Double Pages, Registers 2,880 in- WOtGR $2_00 TRADESMAN COMPANY GRAND RAPIDS. AAAS ANCOR AAOORN ILA RB RAR ass ntadeninegieenciinemetesin 24 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Telephone Situation in Lansing, Sagi-| naw and Flint. Lansing, Nov. 9—The State line serv- ice between this city and Grand Rapids is steadily improving, and many _ users have pronounced it better than the Bell company. An incident related by Man- ager F. B. Johnson, of the Lansing Telephone Co., wiil please Grand Rap- ids jobbers. A druggist here went to the Bell office to call up a Detroit whole- sale house to order some goods ina hurry. The rate to Detroit was 55 cents. He considered it too much, went back to his store, called up a Grand Rapids jobber, much cheaper rate, got excellent service, goods came at once, quality and prices ‘‘more than satisfac- tory,’ and now he buys in Grand Rapids rather than Detroit—difference in tele- phone rates helps. Another ‘‘independent’’ phone has been put in the Capitol, in the Auditor General’s office. Manager Johnson of the new exchange here says business is growing steadily and nicely. He is pre- paring to enlarge his switchboard, and paint, paper and generally improve his office. His company 1s paying 2 per cent. quarterly dividends. He expects the new State line from Detroit in a very short time, which will connect the independent in Grand Rapids and De- troit. Saginaw, Nov. 9—The Valley Tele- phone Co. is making very satisfactory progress in the cities in this region. In West Bay City the external work is practically done and ail the inside wir- ing. Switchboard and phones for this town will go to place soon. Central efice will be over Babo & Edin- borough’s store. In Bay City the con- duits are finished. Most of the inside wiring is completed. Some cables are ‘*drawn in’’ and work goes well. The Central here will be in the Phoenix block.| In Saginaw, E S., the con- duits will soon be finished, when setting of poles will follow. Here, too, inside wiring is well begun. In this city the Central will be in the Eddy building. Hon. Orren Bump, President of the Old Second National Bank of Bay City, Treasurer of the company, states that several quite large blocks of stock, several thousands of dollars lots, have recently been taken. The company al- ready has some 300 stockholders, the general plan and purpose being almost precisely like the Citizens Co. of Grand Rapids. This company has franchises also in Flint, Midland, Mt. Pleasant and smaller towns, and is plainly a general State line or toll line system of connectious. it will connect with the *‘thumb’’—as Tuscola, Huron and San- ilac counties are cailed—system, and with Alpena. The company and its patrons are anxious for a speedy com- pletion of the link from St. Louis, Grat- lot county, here, so as to connect with Grand Rapids. It’s coming soon. Flint Nov. 9—At last Flint is to have a new telephone company with lower rates and better service is promised. Toll line service to ‘‘all the rest of the world’’ is said to be close at hand, too, via Detroit, Lansing and Grand Rapids, with full metallic systems at much lower rates. There was something of a strug- gle over the situation, two weeks ago, the Detroit State Line Co. securing a franchise of the Common Council, but the Valley Telephone Co., of Saginaw, Bay City, etc., appeared promptly on the scene with men and material and began to build under the terms of a prior ordinance granted to J. H. McFar- lan, of this city, and others, and now seems likely to have no interference in this field. Last night the resolution which was presented to affect the Valley Co.’s ordinance was unanimously re- scinded, and the city arranged fora full supply of phones with the Valley Co. The work of setting poles, putting in inside wiring, etc., is well advanced, and it is hoped to open the Exchange here by Jan. 1. The Bell Co. attempted to save some of its business by reducing rates to $24 and $18—the new company’s rates—and getting signatures on a ‘‘pe- tition’’ asking for the reduction and in- dicating a probable continuance of serv- ice if reduction be granted, all next year. It was a shrewd move, and was quite numerously signed—the Bell Co. has had a few more than 200 phones here. Many detected what they called a ‘‘scheme’’ in it and refused to sign, saying frankly they wanted to go toa new company as soun as_possible—they ‘“had no love for the Bell.’’ Others declare the document was distinctly de- clared not to be binding, and they will ignore it. Others have ordered their signatures erased. It was intended to cripple the new company, but prompt action of the Valley Co.’s friends de- feated its plan, for Flint’s business men are shrewd and loyal to home in- terests. The new Exchange here is to be over the First National Bank. Flint is anxious for a connection with the new exchanges in Detroit and Grand Rapids, for that means all the balance of the country pretty soon. ———_> 0 +> The Purchasing Power of Money. Written for the TRADESMAN. The less the amount of money in cir- culation among the masses of people the more valuable it becomes. Its purchas- ing power increases in a direct ratio to its scarcity. Thus,if crops of all kinds are abundant and money is scarce, every producer in want of a little money is willing to pay more for it, and _ rela- tively the price of produce falls. If money is plenty in everyone’s pocket the community consume more goods of every description, and also of the better qualities produced, while prices then tend upward and money is said to be cheap, or, rather, its purchasing power is less. During the first quarter of this cen- tury money was scarce and food was cheap. Very little gold or silver was then produced on this continent and the price of food on the whole remained nearly stationary from year to year, wheat and potatoes—the two great staples—bringing $1 per bushei for the first and twenty-five cents per bushel for the second, if produced anywhere in the Eastern and a few of the Middle States, and these were the standard by which other farm products were valued. Nearly every person is better satisfied to pay high prices, if labor and its prod- ucts are equal, than otherwise. The late discoveries of gold in various places on the globe will havea tendency to cheapen that metal, and will do more toward giving the world a gold standard than all essays, lectures, or legislation upon that subject. It will be remem- bered that, during the late discussion of a bimetallic standard for the world, one of the strongest arguments was that there was not sufficient gold in exist- ence to admit of any other. Possibly that difficulty is to be overcome in the near future,and the writer hopes it may. Certain it is that the great number of tons of that precious metal which is sure to be placed upon the world’s mar- kets must tend toward cheapening it, and therefore make it possible fora single standard of value for the world. Both the natural and artificial wants of mankind have really increased beyond the ability of persons in ordinary cir- cumstances to supply. But a compen- sating balance is found in the inventive genius of the age to chearen those wants, making it possible for the day laborer to procure more and better food and cloth- ing for even less money than formerly. Agricultural products are quadrupled by the aid of machinery and science has apparently perfected their quality and beauty. Inscme parts of the world the purchasing power of money is still greater than ours and one may live com- fortably on a sum which would seem trifling in America. In the present age it is not our real necessities which cost us the greatest amount of effort or cash, but, disguise it as we may, it is our cultivated or artificial wants. These cost us fully double the amount of the real, and if they tend to our happiness —which is doubtful—they also cause us much suffering. There seems only one way to rid ourselves of this expense, and that is a fraternal co-operative so- ciety of both sexes. This would strangle the hydra-headed monster—artificial want—forever. Who will immortalize themselves by taking the initial steps in this organization? The present may properly be called a highly intellectual age, in which improvements in all fabrics, in every art and every mechan- ical and agricultural device, are rapidly being made. Automatic machinery not only accomplishes the labor of hundreds of men, but produces every article as nearly like as is possible. Even the propelling power 1s cheapened as never before. The pound of nails we paid to cents for, half a century ago, are in no way comparable to the stronger, bet- ter, and really beautiful, round steel nails we pay 2'4 or 3 cents a pound for to-day. A friend said to me, ‘‘There are actually more and better nails wasted to-day than were then used.’’ Saving is now almost an obselete word and the definition of extravagance has doubled in power. Many articles in daily use have seemingly attained the very acme of perfection; and yet time may refute the assertion, for there are no bounds to improvement. FRANK A. HowlG. — 9 The Show Case and the Window. Correspondence Hardware Dealers’ Magazine. The most attractive store is the one where all the goods are in show cases on the counter or behind glass doors. The druggist and contectioner fully ap- preciate this and the arrangement of their wares therein is usually very at- tractive. If the hardware dealer con- siders a show case necessary at all, he usually covers the bottom of it with green baize and promiscuously scatters over it most of his stock of pocket knives, razors and carving sets. But even in the hardware store the show case may be made a ‘‘thing of beauty.’’ Halfway between the top and the bot- tom of the show case suspend a glass shelf. Cover the bottom of the case and the top of the shelf with yellow crepe paper or cotton crepe. Procure some glass dishes, not less than five inches in length, and of any convenient shape, but have them all alike. Polish the glass until every particle of it shines. Place these on the bottom of the case in uniform order and fill each one neatly with some class of goods car- ried in stock. Have neatly printed price tags on each article. On the shelf place the cutlery. Put it in so as to form a dia- mond or heart, or some other fancy fig- ure, or put light handled knives in one group and dark handled in another, or better still put those of a price together. Whatever you put in the case put it in in anything but a baphazard manner. A good advertising show window may be made by building back a platform from the lower part of the window. This platform should be raised several inches at the rear, so as to give a good slant toward the street. Cover the boards neatly with red crepe tissue paper. On this ground work of tissue paper use tacks, nails or any similar small articles carried in stock to form letters. Let the words thus worked out tell some story to the passerby. It may be win- ter season and the tacks might be made to tell that the advertiser had skates from 50 cents to $2 per pair, or that sleds are from 50 cents upward. The advertisement should be changed at least weekly, so that people would come to look in at the window to see what bargains are offered. The bright steel of the tacks against the background of red paper makes a charming contrast. WANTS COLUMN. Advertisements will be inserted under this head for two cents a word the first insertion and one cent a word for each subsequent in- sertion. No advertisements taken for less than 25 cents. Advance payment. BUSINESS CHANCES. DHYSICIAN WAN?tEv—GOOD LOCATION: first-class farming community. For partic- nlars address Box A, Burnip’s Corners, Mich. 424 ro SALE OR EXCHANGE—STORE AND dwelling combined,at MeCord Station, on D., G. R. & W.R.R.; good well in house: cis- tern, new horse barn, ete. Store finished ready for goods. An excellent point for business. Price. $/00—a bargain. Address Dr. L. E. Has- kin, McCord, Mich. 4?1 W ANTED—STOCK OF DRY GOODS OR general merchandise for Northern In- diana, Illinois and lowa improved farms. Have buyers for general stores, and stores for sale. Address No. 419, care Michigan Tradesmun. 419 a SALE—CLEAN STOCK OF HARL WARE in Al shape and full set tinner’s tools; best town in Michigan and best farming country in the State. Excellent chance to engage in the hardware business; reason for selling, other business Address No. 417, care Michigan Tradesman. 417 | pe RENT—OWING TO DEATH, THE BEST equipped hardware store in Michigan; old established stand; good location in one of the best farming and manufacturing towns: low rent. Address No. 418, care Michigan Trades man. 418 aS oe DEY BEECH AND MA- ple 16-inch block wood, not less than two- thirds hard maple. Price on cars at shipping point. A. Hyde, 860 Madison Ave., G:and Rap- ids, Mich. 411 want good prices and quick returus w ite us. Lunn & Strong, Toledo, Ohio 402 eS — FIRST-CLASS BUTTER FOR retail trade. Cash paid. Correspund with Caulkett & Co., Trave'se City, Mich. 381 OR EXCHANGE—A WELL-ASSORTED drug stock that wil inventory $1.200 for a stock of groceries. Address John C: oper, 340 Woodworth avenue, Grand Rapids Mich. 366 YOR EXCHANGE—TWO FINE IMPROVED farms for stock of merchandise; splendid location. Address No. 73, care Michigan Trades- man, 93 was TED—1,000 CASES FRESH EGGs, daily. Write for prices. F. W. Brown, Ithaca, Mich. : 249 - PATENT SOLICITORS. a OUR NEW HANDBOOK ON PAT- ents. Ciiley & A'lgier, Patent Attorneys, (a rand Rapids. M cb 339 MISCELLANEOUS, SS BY REGISTERED pharmacist. Best of references furnished. Address No. 427, care Michigan Tradesman, 427 PV ANTED—A FTER. DECEMBER 1 rOs5lI- tion by experienced shoe salesman ia re- tail store. Have had twelve years’ experience. Can furnish best of references. Address No. 428, care Michigan Tradesman. 428 W ANTED—SALESMEN WHO VISIT GRO- cers and creameries to handle good side line on literal commission. Address No. 425, i an Tradesman. 425 W ED — REGISTERED ASSISTANT? pharmacist. Address Lock Box 50, Lake Odessa, Mich : a 426 if W ANTED- SITUATION AS SALESMAN IN dry goods or general store; five years’ ex- perience; Al references. Address No. 322 Michigan Tradesman. ott: will be at William Connor 2) °°." Hotel, Grand Rapids, Mich., Thursday and Friday, November 11 and 12 for the last time with winter samples from KOLB & SONS, of Rochester, N. Y., Whole- sale Ready Made Clothing Manufactur- ers. All jobs will be closed ata sacrifice. Customers’ expenses allowed, or Mr. Connor will wait upon any retail mer- chant with his samples if you write him at his permanent address, Box 346, Mar- shall, Mich. THE ORIGINAL THE BEST THE ONLY PETTIJOHN’S BREAKFAST FOOD Has the “Bear” trade-mark on every package. All Grand Rapids jobbers have fresh-made stock. 5 ees nor ts pe RA CN ¢ ¥ ran Pel anes % i deipitercantotetanbiciitae Travelers’ Time Tables. C AN ADI AN Pacific Railway. D ET ROI : Grand — Going to Detroit. Ly. Grand Rapids..... 7:00am 1:30pm 5:35pr Ar. Detroit............ 11:40am 5:40pm 19:20pr Returning from Detroit. Ly. Detroit........ .... 8:00am 1:10pm 6:10pxr Ar. Grand Rapids..... 1:00pm 5:20pm 10:55pr Saginaw, Aima and Greenville. Ly GR7:10am 4:20pm Ar. G R 12:20pm 9:30pr Parlor cars on all trains to and from Detroit and Saginaw. Trains run week days only. Gro. DEHAVEN, Generai Pues. Agent. T GRAND wreots ant tuganiee oi (In effect October 3, 1897.) Leave. tSAST. Arrive. t 6:45am. Saginaw, Detroit and East..+ 9:55pm +10:10am... ... Detroit aud East.... . + 5:07pm + 3:3upm..Saginaw, Detroit and East..+12:45pm *10:45pm... Detroit, East and Canada...* 6:35am WEST * 7:00am....Gd. Haven and Int. Pts ...*10:150m +12:53pm.Gd. Haven and Intermediate.t 3:22pm + 5:12pm....Gd. Haven Mil. and Chi....+)0:Q:am +10:0Upm...... Gd, Haven: and Mil... ...2...., Eastward—No. 14 has Wagner parlor car. No. 18 parlor car. Westward—No. 11 parlor car. No. 15 Wagner parlor car. *Daily. tExcept Sunday. E. H. Huewss, 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. 2c, 1897- CHICAGO EAST BOUND. fy eto. a ---t11:45am *11:35pm er, POLOHIO ee 8:30pm 8:15am MYO MONICA... oc eis oe. 7;20am 8:00pm WEST BOUND. by. Monten 8 oo 8:59am 9:00pm bv, TOROnte.f. 0 4:00pm 7:30am Ar DeeneG 6 . 10:45pm 2:10pm D. MeNicol!, Pass. Traffic Mgr. Montreal. E. C. Oviatt, Trav. Pass. Agt., Grand Rapids. DULUTH, WEST BOUND. South Shore and Atlantic Railway. Ly. Grand Rapids (G. R. & I.)+11:10pm +7:45am by. Mackinaw City... ...... 7:35am :20pm me WG Pence ee 9:0cam pm A®. Sault Stes Marie. 2... 2... 12:20pm :50pm At Margouctie (00g 2:50pm 10::0pm Pe¥s NESGORa sc os 5:20pm 12:45am Ae, Dat 8:30am EAST BOUND. ti +6:30pm AE. NCSOPA ee ul ct - 11:15am =. 2:45am AT, MOPQUPSEG, oss: 1:30pm) = 4:30am Lv. Sault Ste. Marie.......... SOE ela. Ar. Mackinaw Cliy..... 02... 8:40pm 11:09am G. W. Hipparp, Gen. Pass. Agt. Marquette. E. C. Oviatt, Tray. Pass. Agt., Grand Rapids TRAVEL VIA F.& P. M. R. R. AND STEAMSHIP LINES TO ALL POINTS IN MICHIGAN H. F. MOELLER, a.c.p.a. Going to Chicago. Ly. G. Rapids........... 8:30am 1:25pm *11:30pm AP, CMICREO. 53s: 3:lupm 6:50pm 6:40an Returning from Chicago. Ly. Chicago.... --- 7:20am 5:15pm * 9:30pn Ar. G@’d Rapids......... 1:25pm 10:3>pm * 6:20an Muskegon. Ly. G’d Rapids..... .... 8:30am 1:25pm 6:25pn Ar. G’d Rapids........... Loe os. 10:10an Traverse City, Charlevoix and Petoskey. by. G'd Rapids... 6...) 2... 3 7:30am 5: Upm Ar. Traverse City .......... .. 12:40pm 11:10pm Ar. Charlevoix: :...:.- |... CRORE, 34.2. Ar. POtGskey... o.oo. Ss4apMt . 60405 .. PARLOR AND SLEEPING 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...+ 7:45am + 5:15pm Trav. C’y, Petoskey & Mack...¢ 2 3)pm t 6 3 am ORG ios godt eg seue ee + 5:25pm +11:15am Train leaving at 7:45 a. m. has parlor car, and train leaving at 2:30 p. m. has sleeping car to Mackinaw. Southern Div. Leave Arrive TOUR cos as + 7:10am + 8:25pn Pe ONO eee. + 2:00pm ¢ 2°10pr Cincinnati....... ... .........* 7:00pm * 7:25an 7:10a.m. train has parlor ear to Cincinnati 2:00 p.m. train has prior car to Fort Wayne. 7:00 p.m train has sleeping car to Cincinnati. Muskegon Trains. GOING WEST. Ly G’d Rapids.........¢7:35am +1:00pm +5:40pr Ar Muskegon........... 9:00am 2:10pm 7:05pm GOING EAST. Ly Muskegon....... .. +8:10am +11:45am +4:03px ArG@’d Rapids... ..... 9:30am 12:55pm 5:2)pr tExcept Sunday. *Daily. Cc. L. LOCKWOOD, Gen’! Passr. and Ticket Agent. MINNEAPOLIS St. Paul & Sault Ste. ’ Marie Railway. WEST BOUND. Ly. Grand Rapids (G. R. & 1)............ +7:45am iy: Mackinaw City ooo ck 4:20pm Ait GRORONNG Sooo ee dS ig aa cae 9:50pm RG EM et Ga cles asd a. oy 3 8:45am dts PETTOR OIG sce co. es ns cc ewes 9:30am EAST BOUND Ly. Minneapolis. ........5... 2.20.06. +6:30pm Ar. St. Paul....... eb aee ay akiw wee tac as 7:20pm DEE GURU ko aces boas . 5:45am Ar. Mackinaw City..... 11:0'am Ar. Grand Rapids....... Cag 00pm 10: W. R. CALLaway, Gen. Pass. Agt-, Minneapolis. E. C. Oviatt, Trav. Pass. Agt., Grand Rapids. * ene Are You Going South? Then make the trip over the famous Queen & Crescent Route. Historic and scenic country en route, vestibuled trains that have no equal in the South, and the shortest journey possible. You save a hundred miles of travel to the most important Southern cities via the Queen & Crescent. } | 1 | | | Write for information to W. C, Rinearson, Gen’! Pass’r Agent, Cincinnati, O, Send 10 cents for fine Art Colored Lith- ograph of Lookout Mountain and Chickamauga. SHO9OOO09 9000900006000 00004 oo POOF O9OS OO O99O0000 0H OOOO CCO OO Secccccccocccccoccooooo oes | on’t Go to Kion to better your finan - it's necessary. If cial condition. not you strike the key- note to profitable advertising your business will thrive and prosper where you. are. We are ADVERTISING SPEGIALISTS Our whole study is to bring merchant customer to- gether on a mutual and and satisfactory basis. Advertising must be done if ever you succeed; then why not give your customers the benefit of this expend- iture? The above cut shows another of our Cash Trade Premiums. An elegant polished antique Toilet Case for gentlemen. Its usefulness is evident at a glance, having apartments for collars, cuffs, neckwear, per- fumes, jewelry, handkerchiefs, gloves, shaving mug, razor strop, brush and comb, etc. plete Medicine Cabinet. It also makes a com- The door at the top has lock and key which also iocks the lower lid when closed. If desired we furnish either plain or bevel mirror for the door, size 10 x 1o inches. Two mirrors can be put in the door, if wanted, one facing inside and one out side. The lid shown at the bottom is 12 x 14% inches, HEIGHT 36 iN., WIDTH 16 IN., DEPTH 7% iN. 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 read like one? STEBBINS MANUFACTURING CO. MENTION TRADESMAN y. Would you LAKEVIEW, MICH. published value it. SSSSSSS55S5SSSS 332, THE ONLY WAY... To learn the real value of a trade or class paper is to find out how the men in whose interest it is Ask the merchants of Mich- igan what they think of the... . MICHIGAN TRADESMAN "SSSSeeescecceceesce . We are willing to abide by their decision. 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