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Fancy Calendars The Tradesman Company has a large line of Fancy Calendars for 1898, to which it invites the inspection of the trade. The Company is also equipped to prepare and execute anything in the line of specially designed calendars, either engraved or printed. SUCCESSFUL SALESMEN. J. C. Saunders, Secretary of the Mich- igan Knights of the Grip. J. C. Saunders was born at Buffalo, N. Y., July 28, 1862. His father was English and his mother Irish. He lived in Buffalo until 1888. He attended the public schools of that city until 16 years of age, when he commenced work as clerk in a meat market at a small salary, remaining there two years. He then entered the employ of W. H. Glenny, Sons & Co., wholesale crockery and china dealers, starting in the pack- ing room and working along up to house salesman, taking the road in 1886. His first trip was through Indiana. He then traveled in Western New York, coming to Michigan in 1888 in the in- terest of the same firm. He remained with them until they gave up the whole- sale part of their business, in February, 1891, when he engaged to travel for Jones, McDuffee & Stratton, of Boston, still covering the same territory. He remained with them five years, when he engaged with Pitkin & Brooks, of Chi- cago, January, 1896, covering a large part of the same territory. He has re- mained with Pitkin & Brooks up to the present time and has recently re- newed his contract for 1808. Oct. 21, 1886, Mr. Saunders was mar- ried to Miss Julia Allen, also of Buffalo. The couple have two children, both girls, Frances and Gertrude. They oc- cupy their own home on St. Joseph street, Lansing. He has been a mem- ber of the Knights of the Grip ever since it was organized and an active member of Post A, holding various offices in the latter organization. He was chairman of the Committee on In- vitations and a member of the Hotel and Executive Committees when the con- vention was held in Lansing in 1895. He came out victorious in the contest undertaken by the members of Post A by securing the greatest number of members for the State organization dur- ing 1895. Mr. Saunders was appointed by the Board of Directors to fill the va- cancy caused by the death of Secretary Slaght and has received the unanimous endorsement of Post A for re-election at Kalamazoo next week. i Tendered_ the Traveling Men. Owosso, Dec. 20—The reception and dinner tendered the traveling men of Owosso by the proprietor of the Hotel Wildermuth last Friday evening was a most enjoyable affair. On the arrival of the guests, they Reception Owosso were announced to Mr. and Mrs. Wil- dermuth by R. P. Bigelow and directed to the parlors by Mrs. Bigelow. The host and wife, occupying a position where one of the side corridors turned off from the main hall, were completely surrounded with palms and cut flowers, furnishing a_ beautiful retreat for the music as well as to keep J. F. in line to receive the congratulations of his many friends. After a short time spent in social conversation in the parlors, dinner was announced. Following the sweet strains of a beautiful selection of the orchestra, the guests were escorted to the dining room, which was tastily decorated with smilax and cut flowers. The tables were laid for 100 people, but, on account of the inclemency of the weather, there were not that number present. Our host, in a few well-chosen remarks, informed us that we were thrice welcome; that the house was ours; that the keys were hanging on the outer wall and requested us to ‘‘help ourselves.’’ The way the good things described on the menu _ disappeared showed that most of his guests were not timid or bashful and were availing themselves of their host’s hearty wel- come. After the banquet, W. D. Royce, when called upon by the toastmaster, re- sponded in his usual happy manner to our welcome by saying that words were inadequate to express the appreciation of the hospitality we were all receiving ; that we would all carry an individual souvenir of our more than genial host, and that our memories were ever green with the many acts of kindness the es- timable hostess was ever ready to bestow upon the weary knights of the road. The toastmaster then called upon Fred Hooper, who told us how much he _ had and always should appreciate the ladies. In the course of his remarks he advised the practicability of occasionally carry- ing home a boquet of flowers, believing it better practice to bestow these gifts while they were with us than wait until they were gone and then scatter them in profusion on the casket. J. H. Web- ster, in his usually jolly manner, related a few of the traveling man's mistakes. Geo. W. Haskell gave us a few his- torical facts, covertly insinuating that if he was to do his best he would be compelled to wear the mantle now car- ried so gracefully by Chauncey M. De- pew. Being of a very retiring dispo- sition, he was naturally reticent about acquiring any popularity that belonged to others. At this juncture, all present were cordially invited to participate in cards in the parlors or join in tripping the light fantastic to the time of the Wesner orchestra. In the wee sma’ hours, one after another reluctantly shook hands with the host and hostess and bidding them Godspeed wended their way home to dream of happy hours spent. ee Movements of Lake Superior Travelers. Will C. Brown spent two weeks in Appleton, Wis., inventorying the stock of the Lake Superior Knitting Works, of which he is a part. While there he took occasion to give about fifty girls employed in his factory a sleigh ride party and a supper at one of the prin- cipal hotels. Lake Superior merchants have gotten rid of Harry Brilling for 1897. He'll be on deck for his ’steenth annua! debut soon after Jan. 1. J. A. Fuller (Jewett & Sherman) and H. F. Alexander (Chas. Baumbach Co.) both from Milwaukee, after hav- ing spent about twenty years in the telegraph business, took to the road. We never have heard of their lately practicing their old profession—getting things on tick. Number 744 GENERAL TRADE SITUATION. The natural diminution of wholesale demand as holiday week and the season for stock taking approaches is becoming manifest, but it is remarkable that in so many lines there seems to be no lessen- ing even on these accounts. In the manufacturing industries, notably that of iron, the demand continues very heavy, so that with a constantly in- creasing output stocks are diminishing. The only exception of imfortance is the cotton manufacture, which has persisted in accumulating such tremendous stocks in the face of relatively less demand than in other manufactures. In the stock markets there has been a slackening of the advance movement which was in evidence last week, which is accounted for by the hardening of money rates caused by the heavy payments to the Treasury on Union Pacific account. All other elements in the situation in Wall Street seem to have a bullish tendency. The demand for iron products has re- sulted in the greatest output of pig ever known in this country. This isso great that there has been a slight lessening in prices of both Bessemer and grey forge,and yet there has been a strength- ening in prices of most steel forms. This is significant in that the widening of the margin means better profits and increased wages. In the grain trade the movement of wheat kas been upward again, recover- ing more than the loss of the preceding week, Export movement continues heavy although lessening, and that of corn considerably exceeds the outgo of last year, which, on account of the plentiful crop and low price, broke all previous records. The quantity this year is of more significance on account of the better prices obtained. There is no change of significance in the woolen situation, while cotton con- tinues its low level, with the discoura- ging accumulation of products men- tioned elsewhere. Boots and shoes are still breaking records for Eastern ship- ments. Bank clearings continue heavy, the record for the week exceeding that of the corresponding week in any _preced- ing year. The amount was $1, 369,000, - ooo. Business failures were 283, against 359 for the corresponding week last year. ee A bridegroom down East who was married on Tuesday, a week or two ago, hung himself the following Thurs- day. Few men display such prompti- tude in extricating themselves from the embarrassing experiences of the honey- moon. Ne The Durrant case is interesting as showing how many years a murderer can juggle with justice and be kept from hanging after he has been duly convicted and sentenced to die. em After the mischief is done we are told that American warships ‘‘will closely watch Hayti.’’ This is about the de- gree of ‘‘vigor’’ there is in our foreign policy. The faults we rail at in others are usually the ones we possess ourselves, a MICHIGAN TRADESMAN __ Dry Goods The Dry Goods Market. Cotton Dress Goods—The jobbing trade in the cotton dress goods depart- ment shows the same lack of energy that characterizes most of the dress goods, and with the exception of a few lines of heavy goods and napped fabrics there is no special activity. Fall prints have been extremely backward this year and jobbers have been unable to move the amount of stock that they expected to earlier in the season. In spring goods there is an unusually large advance, business being taken at first hands, and the jobbers’ salesmen who have started on the road with lines of printed wash fabrics report fairly good business in the West. There is quite a strong demand for percales, and the jobbers are sup- plying the retailer as fast as possible. Woolen Dress Goods—At present writ- ing the retail dry goods merchants are) devoting more of their time to the Christmas trade, and less to their regu- lar staple business. They have sold off, as far as possible, the dress goods that they have bought for this season, and are waiting until after this month's trade in toys and novelties is over be- fore replenishing. This is necessary on account of the room, as well as the fact that their customers are generally more interested with this business during this time of the year. Wool and silk mix- tures and crepons are moving to some extent to replenish certain lines that have been selling well and still con tinue in demand. Jacquard effects will be again prominent, as they were last | season, and some exceedingly handsome designs will be shown in flowered pat- terns. Etamines will again be promi- nent features in the retail trade, next spring, but far different fabrics in ap- pearance from what were seen last year. They will be not only handsome in de- sign, in flowered, striped and irregular figures, but it is hinted that a fabric will be placed on the market ready- backed—in other words, a cloth that is bright in color, of silk, cotton or wool, with the net finish loosely woven on the surface. No samples of these are yet shown, but it is one of the possibilities in the manufacturing trade. Linens—November was a compara- tively light month in the linen depart- ment of the jobbing houses, with the ex- ception of such orders as were placed for January delivery, but it is expected that the sale of linens for December, preparatory to the usual January sales, will more than make up this deficiency. Salesmen on the road have very nearly completed this season’s business, and the only efforts now made are to work all lines preparatory to stock taking. Hosiery—Many new lines of hosiery will be shown after the first of the year. Some of the samples are now ready and many more are on the way, and are ex- pected to arrive within a few days from Chemnitz. The market abroad, while lower than last season, is very firm. For these reasons, the importer of ho- siery is in a position to sell in this coun try to better advantage than importers of many cther lines. It is generally ex pected that fancies will be in an excel lent position for at least another year, but after that their popularity will be gin to fade. Tapestry Carpets—The manufacturers report that they have a fair demand far | tapestries and velvets; there is no rush. | Many large department stores and other | | buyers are loadea up at low prices from the large sales Nov. 1 in New York, and until they have sold the goods in stock,are not eager to place new orders. 0 The Hat Question. The hat question, so far as women are concerned, has recently taken on a new and alarming feature. The down- fall of the theater hat is a matter of so recent history it need not here be re- called. Envious man, having no adorn- ment for his head beyond the hideous Derby ana the unaesthetic stovepipe, rose up, and, by preconcerted action with his fellows, passed jaws making even a $25 Paris pattern bonnet a mis- demeancr in a theater, urging only by way of excuse that he was tired of pay- ing a dollar anda half for two hours’ uninterrupted inspection of a conglom- erated mass of feathers and flowers and velvet. It was a case of ‘‘top-knot come off,’’ and it came off, for no woman, as men are well aware, has enough money, after buying a picture hat, to pay a fine for the privilege of wearing it ina theater That was one side of the hat question, and it must be said in extenuation that now, since they have tried it, women are the staunchest uphoiders of the theater hat law; but it seems the mat- ter is not to be allowed to rest there. The hat question has now invaded the churches, and it looks as if there would soon be no place where a woman could display a picture hat with peace and sstistaction to her soul. It is claimed that the women’s hats keep men away trom church, and that when men do go they are unable to see the minister for the hats that block every pew, and that, |furthermore, the spectacle of a large number of hats with sweeping feathers }and nodding flowers has a somnolent effect, that is exceedingly deleterious to the proper interest a man should feel in the sermon. Of course, when the matter is pre- sented to women in this light—as a great moral issue—there is only one thing that they can do, and that is take off their hats. In Kansas, where the women are always the first to fearlessly grapple with great problems, a momen- tous experiment is just now being tried along this line. For years it has been a source of great trouble to the women of Hutchison, in that State, that their husbands, sweethearts and_ brothers showed a deplorable lack of interest in church affairs. One woman who re- proached her husband with his remiss- ness in this regard received in reply the statement that it wouldn’t do him any more good to go to church than to a winter millinery opening, because he couldn’t see the preacher. This set the women to thinking, and the result has been a bargain between the saints and the sinners, by which the women agree to remove their hats if the men will come to church. The compact has been ratified, and the different clergymen, irrespective of creed, will see to its be- ing carried out. Church-going women will watch this experiment with much interest, and if, indeed, the women’s hats are a stum- bling-block in the way of their brothers, they will be removed; but let no man underestimate the sacrifice he is de- manding. To have to take off one of the picturesque and becoming hats in vogue this season and hold it in your lap, instead of displaying it on your head to an admiring congregation, will take the courage of a hero and the self- abnegation of a martyr! a First: Second: Profit by it. Enjoy it. ERS KE RE AE KG KE KF es Continuing five days, closing with the old year. over VALUES AND PRICES--~as many inquiries as to the date of the sale this year prove. OFFERED AT PRICES THAT WILL SELL THEM QUICKLY. you to inaugurate a January sale—that will do you good and at the same time enable you to CLEAN UP YOUR Special Announcements for the Sale. Your car fare to and from Detroit will be allowed on purchases amounting to over Four Hundred dollars. Your terms on general invoices will be Spot Cash, March 1, 1898. Third: Your terms on winter goods, Spot Cash, July 1, 1898. Under these conditions, AS A WIDE AWAKE RETAILER, you cannot afford to miss this sale. salesmen will be in the house to wait upon you. STOCK AT A PROFIT. ANNOUNCEMENT=-EXTRAORDINARY To the Retail Merchants of Michigan, Ohio and Indiana: Monday Morning, December Twenty-Seventh, We will begin our This sale ANNUAL REDUCTION SALE Merchants who attended the sale last year were decidedly enthusiastic ALL GOODS WILL BE Attend this sale—secure jobs which will enable is for you. Attend it. Our slogan for 18983—Highest Values, Lowest Prices. Strong, Lee &¢ Company, Detroit, Michigan. 134 and 136 Jefferson Avenue, 38, 40 and 42 Woodbridge Street. SV3 io 33 Da Vaio V2 D3 23 3 De 2¥3 Doo Attend it early Monday morning. AE AE AB AE AE AE AE AE AE AE AE AE AT AE AES # STRONG, LEE & COMPANY. WHOLESALE DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, UNDERWEAR, HOSIERY, ETC. x 2 # Ya Da 23 LYs a Da Le Our road OY D6D6H6 een ameecris, PREF NE gee aN Fae ne ET Soaeieee. a rare. — ene _- ey MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 8 Woman’s World Christmas Shopping from the Wo- man’s Standpoint. The new woman pushed her chair up cluse to her favorite window in the club and surveyed the hurrying throng in the street with calm philosophy. ‘‘Undoubtedly,’’ she remarked, ‘‘the proper study of mankind is man and woman, and the best way to take a post graduate course in human nature is to watch the holiday crowd doing their shopping. Look at the faces passing here—so tired, anxious, care-burdened with the awful responsibility of choos- ing a Christmas gift that, like as not, is going to be a misfit. I don’t think there’s anything funnier than the rev- erential awe with which we approach that subject. All the rest of the year we are so cock sure of our own judgment, but just let Christmas come around, and, with it, the necessity of buying somebody a present, and we are thrown into a state of panic bordering on hysteria. ‘*Of course, the principal reason is because we try to buy something that will be highly ornamental and perfectly useful at the same time. It is as absurd as to expect to find a pair of goloshes that could be used for a parlor mantel ornament on dry days. The things that hre our fancy and the things that come up to our ideal are never one and the same. If you will pin your faith to the useful present theory, or entirely aban- don that and launch out on the utterly aesthetic principle, you will save your- self trouble and gray hairs. Either one is good, but the combination is bound to be a failure. “‘Then there’s the folly of waiting until the last minute to buy things when you can’t get waited cn in the Stores, and are just as liable to buy a wooly horse for a clubman and a cut- glass whisky decanter for a probibition- ist, as any other way. Of course, we all say we will never do that way again. We will commence buying our Christ- mas presents for next year promptly on the Ist of January, so that if Christmas should happen to come in August it would find us ready. But wedon’t. We put it off until the week before Christ- mas, and then we get in among the fighting, scrambling, scrouging mob, and bully the poor shop girls, and buy the wrong things and do our best to make the season of peace and good will a free-for-all scrap, with malice and hatred and all uncharitableness thrown in for good measure. ‘‘But watch them as they come, the noble army of shoppers, equipped with lists that will be valuable souvenirs of the things they intended to buy and didn’t. Isn’t it one of the mysterious dispensations of nature that we can never tell whether we really want a thing or not, until after we have bought it, and then it is too late? That’s the trouble with all experience, anyway. It comes at the wrong end of the line, after we have done the thing we shouldn’t. ‘‘Ah, bere comes the woman who re- futes my theory. This is she who knows her own mind, and is never swayed by bargains like those of us of feeble intel- lect. She doesn’t buy a pink chiffon boa when she meant to get a flannel pet- ticoat, as I have done many a time and oft. Marked-down things don’t swerve her from the narrow path she has laid out. I’ll warrant she will put a pair of tout shoes in the baby’s stocking, and present a tract and a serviceable apron to the pretty. housemaid as a token of the joyous season. Christmas is strictly business with her, and she hails it as the time when a really clever woman can wring tears of gratitude from her family by presenting them with the necessities of life that they would have gotten anyhow. ‘Now, right behind her—the woman who is stopping to buy a climbing monkey of the street peddler—the wom- an of moderate means with a houseful of children to make Christmas for—she is the one who really is to be most envied in all the Christmas throng When you come to think of it Christmas is only for the children. For the rest of us it is a kind of hollow mockery when we try to be gay and merry and have some sort of unusual feelings of mirth because it is the traditional thing to do, but we don't feel it. It takes children to get the joy out of it, and it is only in those homes where lit- tle anxious faces are pressed against the window panes, looking for eerie reindeer, and little stockings are to be filled, that there is any of the real Christmas spirit. The poorest mother in all the world who plays Santa Claus on Christmas eve, although she may only fill the little stockings with noth- ing better than pink-striped candy, and red apples and oranges, and her best gift may be but a tin trumpet, and a painted drum, on that day of all the year need envy no woman anything. She sees all the joy, and all the rapture, and all the wonder that Christmas can bring before childish hearts have learned the sordid avarice and envy and covetousness of the world. ‘‘Look ! there comes a woman behind her who illustrates what I was saying. You know her. Rich and childless, and so far as the world can see, with not a thing left on earth that she couldn't have for the asking. Yet—there’s al- ways a yet, isn’t there? Yet, the other day {i was at.her house, and I asked her, casually and idly, what she was go- ing to do for Christmas. ‘**T’m going to borrow some,’ she said, and then she went on. ‘Oh, I know what you are thinking,’ she said. ‘You think that I can buy what- ever I want. I can't. There are a good many things money won't buy, and Christmas is one of them. On Christ- mas morning I shall give my husband something he doesn't want, and he will present me with some jewelry that I have longed ceased to care for, and our house will be just as quiet and solemn and staid as a funeral, and we shall have everything we want—except Christ- mas. Iam tired of giving presents to rich people who return them at their market value to me. I am sick of rich children who have had all there is to have, and couldn't be surprised by an earthquake. I want to hear a child shriek with delight, and stand gaping before a stocking so full of wonders he can’t make up his mind which treasure to take out first, and I am going to bor- row two real, live, poor children, who are unsophisticated enough to be pleased with a wall-eyed doll, and a tin railroad train, and peppermint candy, and I am going to hang their stockings up and fill them myself with all the simple things I can think of that would delight a child. Furthermore, don’t imagine I am doing this from any noble philan- thropic purpose whatever. | have given my charity where it was expected and needed, and | am going to do this other for a purely selfish reason—because | want to see a child delight in his Christ- mas things, and borrow a little of it.’ ‘*That’s one side of the Christmas problem, isn’t it? Ah,look at these men. I confess there is none to whom my sympathy goes out so freely and unre- strainedly as to the man who has to do his own Christmas shopping. People who talk about the superiority of the masculine intellect have never observed the conduct of a poor, forlorn, unpro- tected man in the agony of buying his family their Christmas presents. It’s simply pitiful. He may be capable of running a railroad, or engineering a cotton deal, or organizing a trust, but the moment he strikes a dry goods store he becomes like a lamb in the hands of the shearers. He sadly realizes his doom, too, poor fellow, and you don't need to be a mind reader to know that when, these times, you see a middle- aged business man going along the street with a set, hard, determined look on his face, and a wild glare in his eye, he is only trying to remember whether it was an ostrich feather boa his wife had hinted she wanted, ora yellow brocade opera cloak, and that he is wondering why in thunder she doesn’t take a check and go and_ pick it out herself. ‘*Ah, there’s little Mrs. the anxious, worried lines showing through all the stereotyped smile on her face. To me, she’s a pathetic figure of the Christmas shoppers. She’s a libel on the day and custom of giftgiving. She spends money she can’t afford making presents to rich people who don't want them. he casts her Christmas presents abroad on the waters of society, and expects them to return to her in the shape of invitations to teas and recep- tions. No child will be made happy by her; no poor person will call down heaven's blessings on her, but a lot of rich people will wonder scornfully how she could have afforded to send them bric-a-brac, and editions de luxe, and what on earth made her do it, and_ will despise, as they have a right to, the gift that proclaims itself the forerunner of a purpose. * Ah, here’s Cholly. Christmas Push, with Do you know that is the time when summer 2229292229229929229222 300 pieces of flirtations come home to roost? I am always a bit sorry for Cholly at Christ- mas. When he begins to count up how many really best girls he has who will all expect to be remembered at Christ- mas, he sees nothing before him but bankruptcy. I met him at a party last night, and he confessed to me he was on the verge of lunacy trying to figure out how he was to divide his salary up so it would go around. ‘It used to be,’ he said, ‘that you could stand a girl off with a box of candy, but the enemy of all mankind has devised these fancy boxes and baskets to put the stuff in, un- til now a_ respectable offering of bon- bons consigns you to the free lunch counter for the next two weeks. Say, why don’t some smart girl shake this present racket?’ he went on. ‘If I was a debutante I'd have ‘no presents’ en- graved on my coming-out cards, and the men would just be falling over each other to come and worship at my shrine. That's a dead straight tip you can give the girls; but,’ he concluded gloomily, ‘I know none of them will take it.’ Now, Cholly isn’t stingy. He’s the most liberal soul alive, and I, for one, should like to see him have the courage to come out honestly and say that on a bread and _ butter salary he can't afford to give turtle and champagne presents. ‘‘But here are the pathetic figures in the Christmas sidewalk show. The poor little children from the dingy courts and alleys, who creep forth to look in the shop windows at toys they shall never have, and sweets that are not for them. See them choosing the dolls and the toys that they can possess only in imagination, and sniffing the savory odors from rich men's dinners. A little while in the brightness and the light, a little peep into other people's happiness, and then they are jostled back into the poor homes where there will be no Santa Claus and no joy of Christmas morning will come. Come, let down the curtain. We _ have seen enough. Let us go.’’ Dorotny Drx. © best standard Print to close out before in- ventory at 4¢ per yard. Order at once. © S P. 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Port Huron—Fred Lorie, of Detroit, has embarked in the meat business here. Pinckney—Swarthout Bros. have sold their general stock to Murphy & Ruen. Freiburger—A. C. Graham has re- moved his general stock to Port Huron Buchanan—Corey Bros. have opened a new grocery and will add a meat mar- ket. Lake Odessa—J. G. Ralston has_pur- chased the meat business of J. E. War- ner. Alpena—Geo. D. Bradford succeeds Bradford & Stevens in the meat busi- ness. Vassar—The grocery store of Marvil Ogden has been closed on chattel mort- gage. Rapid River—H. N. (Mrs. A. P.) Waldo succeeds A. P. Waldo in yeneral trade. Dt. chased the bazaar stock of Geo. Whittaker. Marion Springs—Chas. Sensabaugh has purchased the general stock of P. E. Willoughby. Lansing—G. A. Munyon has opened a grocery store at the corner of Saginaw and Larch streets. St. Louis—Jas. E. Bush succeeds Bush & Buck in the furniture and un- dertaking business. Escanaba—N. Blanchette has opened a grocery in his store building at 309 South Elmore street. Lansing—C. J. Rouser has engaged Miss Edith Francis, of Detroit, as as- sistant in his drug store. Sunfield—J. C. Haslett and Frank Madison, of Charlotte, have engaged in the mercantile business here. Brookfield—W. R. Goff & Son are erecting a new store building for the postoffice and harness business. Lansing—Calvin S. Hoag, of Adrian, has purchased the meat market of Owen Jones at 113 Washington avenue. Manton—B. Danziger, of New York, will embark in the general merchandise business here in the near future. Berrien Center—A. J. Ford, of Mex- ico, Ind., has engaged in the hardware and farm implement business here. Lansing—C. F. Long has opened up a jewelry stock in the drug store of C. M. W. Blakeslee on Michigan avenue. Nashville—Hicks & Leismer have embarked in the vehicle and agricul- tural implement business at this place. L’Anse—Sol. Jacobson, of the firm of Jacobson & Levitan, general dealers, has opened a branch store at Dollar Bay. Petoskey—I. Goldstick, of East Jor- dan, has opened a grocery and provision store at the corner of Petoskey and Mitchell streets. Lakeview—S. E. Youngs’ drug busi- ness has increased to that extent that he has been obliged to get an assistant pharmacist, who arrived last week. He is of small proportions, weighing only 8% pounds. Louis—John L. Buck has pur- M. Lansing—The Dunham Hardware & Implement Co. will remove its stock irom its branch store at De Witt to its Main store at this place. Grand Ledge——Lambie, Clark & Hulse, clothiers, have enlarged their floor space by leasing the store building adjoining them on the south. Lansing—Sidney Edson will occupy part of the store with F. M. Alsdorf, druggist, with his jewelery stock, as soon as the building is opened. Central Lake—Nelson Cummings has sold his meat market to H. Van Alls- burg & Co., of Charlevoix, who will continue the business at the same _loca- tion. Eaton Rapids—W. D. Brainerd has sold his stock of groceries to J. F. Knapp, of Hillsdale. Mr. Brainerd has been in business here twenty-seven years, Cadillac—The firm of Garvin & Lar- son, proprietors of the Central meat market, has dissolved, John Garvin re- tiring and Peter Larson continuing the business alone. Mulliken—Charles Graves has closed out his stock of groceries to Eber Van Antwerp, and removed to Sioux City, South Dakota, where he will engage in the mercantile business. Shelby—J. C. Munson has sold his in- terest in the agricultural implement stock of Barker & Munson toC. E. Abraham, who will continue the busi ness at the same location. Alma—A. J. Dingman has purchased the lot, 70 feet deep, east of his store building and expects soon to erecta fine brick block thereon, which he will oc- cupy with his dry goods stock. Petoskey—S. J Long, florist, has sold his store building to William Petten- gill, who will put in a bakery. Mr. Long will continue the flower business, taking orders at his greenhouse. Holland—Gerrit M. Van Tubbergen has retired from the grocery firm of Klomparens & Van Tubbergen. The business will be continued at the same location by Henry J. Klomparens. Sherman—B. H. Rose, whose store building was destroyed by fire about two years ago, has just completed a new building, 24x80 feet, which he will oc- cupy with his drug and hardware stocks. Durand—W. L. Ash, formerly of Reed City, has opened a sboe store at this place. He is located in a new brick block, 25x85 feet in dimensions, one of the finest store buildings in this vicin- ity. Detroit—The McLachlin Coal Co. has filed articles of association. The con- cern is Capitalized at $5,000, with $1,060 paid in. Shares taken up num- ber 106, of which Louise McLachin holds too, John McLachlin 1, and El- mer L. Allor 5. =.Detroit—Judge Swan, of the United States Circuit Court, took the suit of - K. Burnham & Co. against the United States Casualty Co. from the jury and directed a verdict of $12,005.59 for the plaintiffs. The firm insured with the company against loss by everything ex- cept fire. On July 4 the intense heat set off an automatic water tank on the roof, flooding the establishment and causing heavy damages. The verdict represents the entire loss, after deduct- ing what was received for the damaged goods. The Casualty Co. refused to pay, Claiming that misrepresentations had been made. It was alleged that the firm stated that a watchman was always on duty at the store, while, on the day of the accident, the place was left wholly unguarded. Detroit——Schowitz & Hirschfield, clothiers at 18 Monroe avenue, have uttered a chattel mortgage to Simon Cohn as trustee for $3,313.65. The principal creditors are Bertha Hirsch- field, $2,600, and the Palms estate, $666 65, for rent. Jackson—Newell, Galbraith & Rich- ardson’s furniture stcre was closed Mon- day morning on attachments. An in- ventory is being taken, and a member of the firm said the firm expected to re- sume business in a few days. Their in- debtedness aggregates $25,000, the prin- cipal creditor being Foster & Co., of Fort Wayne. Hancock—The recovery of Herman Stark's stock of dry goods goes merrily on, and it is now certain that the cred- itors will receive a considerable com- pensation instead of the total loss that faced them at the time of the failure. Goods are being received from the vicinity of the Entry and stored in the Kauth building under the care of Mr. Tamblyn, the assignee. It is estimated that no less than $10,c00 worth of goods were * planted,’ and clues to fully half of that amount bave already been found. It now leoks as though Stark, who has been forced to much legal and other expenses, is apt to come out at the short end of the deal. Manufacturing Matters. Midland—Jay S. Bristol succeeds the Midland Electric Light & Power Co. Trent—Frank Hatch, of Grand Rap- dis, bas been engaged as chief miller at the Trent roller mills. Angell—John L. Wealch, general dealer, will begin the manufacture of shingles as soon as there is enough snow to get in bolts. Lawndale—Robt. McKinney, of Sagi- naw, has organized a stock company to manufacture cheese at ihis place the coming season. Saginaw—The Saginaw Clay Manu- facturing Co. has discontinued opera- tions for the season, having completed a very successful season’s work. Bailey—The creamery here has gone out of business, and much of the par- aphernalia has been absorbed by the Crystal Spring creamery of Fremont. Lakeview—Jas. Edgar is repairing and remodeling his sawmill, prepara- tory to Starting up the first of the year. He expects to cut about 1,000,000 feet ot lumber this winter. Petoskey—C. N. Teets will stock the mill of J. D. Andrus, at Pleasantview Center, this winter. He expects to put in at least half a million feet of elm, birch, ash and basswood. Barryton— Plato, Renwick & Co, will Start their sawmill near Chippewa as soon as there is sufficient snow for haul- ing purposes. They have a fine tract of hardwood timber to lumber this win- ter. Barryton—Kemp Bros, have pur- chased eighty acres of cedar timber, north of here, which they will put into their mill. With other stock secured, this will make a steady winter’s run on shingles, Alpena—The cut of the Alpena mills for the season foots up to 105,200,000 feet of lumber; lath, 27,500,000 pisces, and shingles, 53,000,000. The lumber concerns here expect a full stock of logs for next season’s cut. Freesoil—Manegold & Stephens have Started their sawmill for the winter and have a good stock of logs on hand. When sleighing comes again, they ex- pect to get in enough to supply them until the last of April. Onaway—T. W. Dickerson, of De- troit, is negotiating for ten acres of land in this vicinity and will at once commence buying elm and_ basswood stave bolts for a stave and heading mill plant, which he will erect on the land purchased. Manistee— The Babcock shingle mill commenced operations on Dec. 11 and will saw all winter. It is cutting pine bolts for E. R. Wheeler and the com- pany has made a contract with him which will keep it sawing nights in summer and daytime winter for about three years. Detroit—The Aertz-Meyers Furniture Co. has given a chattel mortgage to U. Grant Race, as trustee for creditors, with claims amounting to $14,162.92. The heaviest creditor is the Home Sav- ings Bank, which holds a_ note for $6,000. Manager Wm. Flynn says that if the creditors do not press the firm too hard it will pull through the embarrass- ment all right. Saginaw—Ernest Jochen, of this city, purchased the salt block of Pack, Woods & Co., at Oscoda, and is tearing it down and bringing it here. He paid about $600 for the block, and it is esti- mated that he will take out of it 1,400, - ooo feet of lumber and timber, making it cost him about 50 cents a thousand feet. He has sold a portion of tbe lumber at $10 a thousand. Houghton—From present indications the sound of the explorer’s pick will be familiar on the south range the coming summer and some idea gained of the extent and value of the deposit of cop- per located in this thirty miles of min- eral territory. The success being at- tained at the Baltic bas served to open the eyes of local capitalists, and they realize that a splendid opportunity was lost when they failed to secure this property and instead let the control of it go to outside parties. Confidence in the south range was greatly established by the recent purchase of the Isle Royale consolidated properties, together with the vigorous exploratory work being conducted by the Atlantic. It was not, however, until the Baltic began to show up so rich that the sentiment among a number of local business men began to crystalize in the idea of forming a com- pany for exploratory purposes. This organization is not yet completed and the names of the promoters are withheld until this is done. It can be stated, however, that a diamond drill has al- ready been secured for this purpose. The company will secure options on various tracts of mineral lands in the direction of Ontonagon. A number of homesteaders residing in the territory are only too glad to give options for work of this kind, as they will be richly benefited in case of favorable results being secured. The south range is practically unexplored, while the work thus far done upon it has proved satis- factory. The Winona is the only point at any distance south where develop- ment work was conducted, and were it not for the absence of means of trans- portation the mine might have a differ- ent history to-day, as every one familiar with the property knows that it showed up well in good copper rock. The new company will have ample means and its success would be shared by every resident of the county in many ways, as it 1s believed nothing would have great- er tendency toward securing one of the Chicago trunk lines than the opening of this territory, with its valuable timber and heavy coppér deposits. sear? Grand Rapids Gossip W. J. Bailey succeeds Bailey & Barn- ard in the grocery business at 265 Straight street. C. McHugh has opened a grocery store at Sutliff’s Siding, near Tustin. The Musselman Grocer Co. furnished the stock. J. A. Spooner, the Cedar Springs clothier, has added a line of groceries. The Ball-Barnhart-Putman Co. fur- nished the stock. Quartell & Venema have embarked in the grocery business on Maple street. The stock was purchased of the Ball- Barnhart-Putman Co, The Citizens Telephone Co. had 2,074 telephones in active use on the date of its last directory, Nov. 1. Since that time 93 new telephones have been lo- cated and connected, making the total connections 2, 167. Geo. F. Stevens, formerly a member of the firm of Moseley & Stevens, Ltd., has formed a copartnership-with Moses D. Girard, formerly engaged in general trade at Mears under the style of Comp- ton & Girard, and engaged inthe carlot fruit and produce business under the style of Geo. F. Stevens & Co. The new firm will be located for the present at 737 Michigan Trust building. Both partners have had a somewhat extended acquaintance with the produce busi- ness, which will serve them to good purpose in their new undertaking. > The Produce Market. Apples—Home grown Northern Spys are in moderate request at $2.25@2.50 per bb]. The quality is far from choice. Arkansas Jonathans, fine in appearance and excellent in quality, command $4. Ozarks and Etrus, also Arkansas prod- ucts, fetch $3.75. Bananas—F ancy fruit is selling at the outside quotations of last week. The movement is good for this season of the vear. The cold weather now pre- vailing will curtail the movement to some extent. Butter—Dairy grades are about the same as a week ago. Fancy is slow sale at 15c, while fair stock can be had at 12@13c. Factory creamery is held at 20@2Ic. Cabbage—The market is sluggish and unsatisfactory, choice stock command- ing only $2.50 per foo. Carrots—25@3oc per bu. Celery—1c@12%c per bunch, accord- ing to size and quality. ° Cranberries—Cape Cods_ have ad- vanced to $7.75, while Wisconsins have been marked up to $8. Eggs—Strictlv fresh, carefully candled command 21c. Storage stock is held at I2c, case count, 13c for candled and 14c for fancy candled. Game—Squirrels are very scarce, local dealers willingly paying $1.20 per doz. forall offerings. Rabbits are in plenti- ful supply on the basis of 75c per doz. Honey—12¢ for white comb and toc for dark. = Lemons—The market is easier by a quarter of a dollar a box on California lemons. New Messinas are on the mar- ket, but in light supply and are not attracting much attention. Californias are in best demand. The movement in the total is not large. Lettuce—Hothouse goods per lb. Onions—White Globe and Red have declined to 60c. Spanish, $1.75 per crate. Oranges—The market is well supplied with oranges, seedlings being now freely offered at low figures. The first receipts are not as good as later receipts will be. Navels are in good supply and of good quality, as is the case with Mexi- cans. The movement for Christmas is quite large. Prices are off 25c per box. fetch 15c MICHIGAN — Potatoes—The market is passing through a period of uncertainty, as the result of over activity among shippers and dealers. Poultry—Turkeys are in good demand at loc. Ducks and geese are in plenti- ful supply at 8c, although strictly choice stock fetches 8%c. Hens command 5@6c, and spring fowls bring 6@7c. There appears to be an abundance of chickens to meet the holiday demand. Sweet Potatoes—Kiln dried Illinois Jerseys fetch $3.75. Genuine Jerseys are entirely out of market. te The Grain Market. The past week has been another of gradual advance in the wheat market. The most absorbing topic among the trade was the Chicago December wheat corner, and never in the history of the Board of Trade have there been such large deliveries. Chicago has probably seen as large corners, but never so much delivered, especially when wheat seemed to be so scarce. P. D. Armour has drawn in the neighborhood of 7,000,000 bushels of cash wheat to Chi- cago to fill his short contracts with the Leiter clique. Both have millions at their command and traders are watching to see who will come out victorious, Looking at it from a distance, it would seem that both parties are well pleased with the way things have gone. Armour is furnishing the wheat and Leiter takes it with the expectation of realizing a profit on it and, as long as both parties are satisfied, it is no one’s business but theirs. Of course, the ordinary trader has no business in the arena. Our visible increased about half what was expected. Wheat on passage as well as in Liverpool showed a decrease, which made the market strong. Millers find it hard just at this time to secure much wheat, owing to the fact that all the wheat is headed for Chicago. We think the millers will have to wait un- til all the contracts in Chicago on De- cember wheat have been filled. In case Leiter should ship the wheat out of Chicago it would leave the market very barren of wheat and might make things very interesting at home. However, December is drawing toa close, and, as the roads are getting fairly good, which will enable farmers to move their wheat (if they have any quantity to move), we may expect to see more lib- eral offerings. Corn has kept pace with wheat and advanced about tc per bushel, while oats made a gain of 2c per bushel and are doing very well. The receipts were very large, being 64 cars of wheat, 3 cars of corn and 7 cars of vats. Local millers are paying 88c for wheat. C. G. A. Vorer. 2 > Judgments for Sale. The Tradesman Company herewith offers for sale justice court judgments against the following persons: C. M. Philabaum, traveling repre- sentative Franklin MacVeagh & Co., Muskegon. Geo. W. Williams, formerly 300 South Division street. Frank E. Drew, 605 Cherry street. John Faulkner, Bridge Street Honse. John Fehsenfeld, 64 Page street. Theodore Kemink, 80 Clancy street. Albert W. Lobdell, 254 Clancy street. Emil Rebentisch, 865 Griggs avenue. Horace B. Rose, 40 Houseman block. Niles H. Winans, 40 Tower block. —_—__> > __ The commonest kind of cheerful giver is the one who gives nothing but good advice. Mae Gillies N. Y. Clearance Tea Sale now on. Phone Visner, 1589. TRADESMAN The Grocery Market. Sugar—The European markets are reported firmer. The estimate of Euro- pean beet sugars for the season past is reduced 70,000 tons from the last esti- mate, and the sugar in Europe at this date is estimated at about 2 per cent. less than the estimate of a year ago. The movement in refined sugars is al- ways better at this season of the year than just before or just after this date. The movement now is rather better than the usual Christmas trade, and is large in the aggregate, not only in this mar- ket, but in the greater part of the coun- try. Molasses--The demand, especially for the lower grades, is better than it has been. Good supplies are now being ob- tained, and prices are low. Theseason was late this year, and the quarantine had a depressing effect on the market. Tea—The supply of cheap teas is short, and the new inspection law will continue to keep them short. There is no inclination on the part of retailers to buy beyond their immediate require- ments. The volume of business is very fair. Coffee—Receipts have fallen off and there is a slight diminution in the stocks. Reports of drought in Santos and growing crop somewhat damaged. Maracaibos show a firmer tendency. Desirable qualities held at a premium. No change in Java or Mocha. Canued Goods —An advance in toma- toes is likely after the first of the year. Corn is slightly easier and offerings are made at slight shadings. The demand is not heavy. Nothing is doing in peas, which rule at unchanged prices. Very little is doing in peaches. There is some slight demand for seconds, but this is about all. Prices are unchanged. Dried Fruits—The movement of prunes from the Coast this season has been unusual. During the three months from Aug. 23 to Nov. 27, there were shipped from California 68,254,000 pounds of prunes, a quantity largely in excess of the entire crep of the State in any preceding year. In the year 1895 the full crop of the State was estimated at 64,750,c00 pounds, and it took a full year to market it, while this crop has Zone out in three mouths. The export trade is very much larger this year than last, but it is also true that Eastern brokers and jobbers bought earlier than usual, believing that the market would advance This it has not done to the extent expected. New Persian dates are reported to be of fine quality, and some are now afloat for this country, but in spite of their good quality, the interest in them seems dull, and prices are low. Fish—The demand for mackerel stil] continues good ‘in spite of the season, but considerable of the trade is un- doubtedly speculative, in view of in- evitable higher prices after the first of the year. Holders are very firm and there is no doubt of higher prices in January. No further advance this year is likely. Cod is not selling on account of the warm weather, although prices are firm. Lake fish is a little higher, al- though nothing is doing. Salmon is quiet, at unchanged prices. Sardines are rapidly advancing and are liable to be still higher. Hides, Pelts, Wool and Furs. Hides have not changed materially in price or demand. The demand is equal to the supply, with orders ahead. Light stock is in demand, but prices are held too high to give tanners a new dollar for an old one. Gc Furs are in good demand at full quo- tations. Peits prices. Wool is in light demand, even at the prices at which it is heid, and holders are not anxious sellers. The supplies for coming use are far short of any such needs as present appearances indicate. Estimates lately received from New Zealand alone show 200,000 bales short- age, as compared with last year, and Australia has a big shortage besides. While the imports here have been large, sales have been still larger, making a big shortage in this country from last year’s holdings, with more spindles run- ning than ever before. Wm. T. Hess 0 are well cleaned up at fall in the talk of the traveling man going out of business and the merchants buy- ing direct from the wholesale houses. In the first place, the merchants wouldn't save anything by the opera- tion; the railroads and hotels would be knocked out of their best passenger traffic and small towns out of a large amount of entertainment. The travel- ing man who understands his business and is not an ‘‘Aleck’’ comes to the country merchant like a special Provi- dence. He keeps the merchant in touch with the outside world and helps him to stock up with the kind of stock his trade demands. If the merchant had to go to the city and select his stuck after the old fashion, he would find himself bewildered with an array of goods in the wholesale houses and would load up with a lot of goods he could not sell, while he would forget to stock up on a lot of things he really needed. Further- more, the wholesale houses ceuld not get along without the traveling man any more than the country merchant. The commercial man 1s a traveling commer- cial agency. If be is onto his job in proper shape he will find out more about a man’s standing financially in half an hour than Dun or Bradstreet can find out in a year. —_—__+_» 0. Detroit —The Farrand & Votey Organ Co. has decided to try the experiment of allowing its employes to manage all the details of the firm’s business after Jan. 1. The factory will be conducted by a factory board, compused of the foremen of the several departments, while W. R. Farrand, Treasurer of the company, who first suggested the new plan, will have general supervision over the concern. It is thought that, by this scheme, the foremen acting as mid- dlemen will have a tendency to bring the company and employes into closer relationship. SE Hu Grayling——The Railroad Company is building another branch line to tap a large tract of pine and hardwood in Otsego county, which is owned by Salling, Hanson & Co. It will be twelve miles long and leaves the Lewiston branch one mile east of Lovell station, extending in a northerly direction. It is said that Salling, Han- son & Co will build a sawmill at the terminus of this line and lay the foun- dations of a town there. —--+_~»>-2 . Otsego—The Bardeen Paper Co. will add machinery for the manufacture of another line of goods—cardboard and wrapping paper. In connection with the new addition there will be a kin- dergarten, with a competent matron in charge, where mothers who work in the mills can leave their children for the day. There will also be free reading rooms, where all employes will be wel- come, Bice Ae NBA, SA acre seed atthe ; AA RRR Mt et RH me as earn Ret s 6 TRADESMAN MICHIGAN Sham and Pretense of the Union Label. Starr Hoyt Nichols in North American Review. If the unions, instead of devising a union label to increase the effect of the boycott by forcing retailers to buy union-made goods at higher prices on penalty of ruin if they sold other goods, would devise a label which should mean superior goods for less money, which would ensure the customer that he was getting his money's worth in quality and finish, they would not need to go to the expense of sending com- mittees around to examine every retail- er’s stock for their label. The com- munity would be eager enough to buy such articles and the unions would thrive upon the skill and honesty of their mem- bers, rather than on their brutality and arrogance toward their fellows. With a disciplined army of advocates so numerous and very active, it is easy to see that they wield a power capable of bringing extreme pressure to bear upon retailers, and through them upon manufacturers in almost every domain of business. They form, in fact, a vast dominating trade union trust, which, by its pressure, can dictate to every great manufacturing body what men thev shall employ as laborers, to the retailers what goods they shall sell in their shops, and to all workmen what work they shall be permitted to do or not to do, according to their will. It will be seen at once that such comprehensive powers throw into the shade all that is arrogated by any other trust, whether it be the Standard Oil, Tobacco, Sugar, or whatever trust is most spoken against by the enemies of such aggrega- tions. None of these aspires to manage any business but its own at any rate, and not one reaches to the power of life and death which lies in the hands of those who control the employment of la- borers and dictate as to who shall and who shall not have a chance to earn his bread. And when one knows before- hand that this last power will be exer- cised after the accustomed violent fash- ion of unions towards all but its own members, by cutting off free or inde- pendent workmen on every side, watch- ing their movements, picketing shops where scabs are permitted to work, per- suading, terrorizing, spying and, in fact, performing all the acts of war up- on outsiders, one may well hesitate to throw his influence in favor of further- ing the aims of an organization so harsh, and exclusive towards men of its own kind. It should be remarked, too, that the violent outcry of working men against the trusts of capitalists must have little weight with those who see in the union label nothing less than an attempt to organize the same sort of combination in their own interest. Their attempt appears to be to stifle the competition of laborers with themselves as capital- ists extinguish it in their own ranks. They are trying to limit production to what union men can produce, setting aside a larger body of the laboring class. They are trying to prevent all produc- tion below a certain rate of wages which they wish to prescribe, not heeding the needs of workmen who cannot be em- ployed at such rates because they are not worth them. They wish to prevent a fall in the price of gonds, forgetful of the fact that such declines bring goods within the reach of multitudes who otherwise could not purchase at all. They are ready to coerce all vendors who shall sell other goods than those of their approval. They would limit pro- duction as the coal barons are said to do; would limit selling as the Tobacco Trust is accused of doing; would mo- nopolize the labor supply as Italian padrones are blamed for doing; would starve some kinds of workmen as cloak- makers were accused of doing; would close non-consenting factories, which the Standard Oil Trust was _ reprohated for doing ; would cut off the public from various brands of desirable goods, which no trust ever even attempted; would finally control many enterprises for which they furnish neither the plant, the capital, nor the hrains, and in which they neither take the risks nor devise the policy. Surely it is asking ot the public more by the label to abridge the rights of the than any trust ever demanded, that it |others in the common pursuit of life, should lend its support to help the union liberty and happiness. label to a power so general and irre- | ee, sponsible and so clearly opposed to the} How Persistence Secured a Position. welfare of a large body of citizens whose | The foxy boy applied for a job ata interests are vital to the public good. |, ree ablish No other trust ever asked of the public | !@™ge mercantile establis sepa support for itself alone on the grounds} ‘‘Do you want a boy?’’ he asked of of its public benevolence. | the magnate of the office, standing be- If the trades unions had proved to be fore him, cap in hand. half as wise as they are active and ag-| «Nobody replied the gressive, 1f they had been as kind to : ace ae their fellow-workmen as they have been | ™@8nate, eyeing him sharply, cruel, if they had looked to the general Do you need a boy?’’ asked the ap- welfare as carefully as they have to|plicant, nowise abashed what they fancy to be their own, if they ‘*Nobody needs a_ boy,’’ had endeavored tu be as useful as thev | discouraging reply. were powerful, one might indeed regard The boy stuck his cap on the back of every advance made by them with/his head. pleasure and advocate its further de ‘‘Well, say, mister,’’ he enquired, velopment. But, with their past unruly | ‘do you have to have a boy?’’ history, it is indeed a grave matter to The magnate collapsed. wants a boy,’’ came the give force to so drastic a supervision as| ‘‘[’m sorry to say we do,"’ he said, the union label puts into their hands/*‘and | guess you're about what we exclusively. Its general adoption would | want."’ go far to make them masters of the business community. Its support by : : e 5 e700 citizens at large would be little else CE SPS SES TEE than a surrender of the whole working class to their imperious orders. 1. The union label is mainly a dis- tinctive device for enforcing boycotts and making them mare effective. 2. Its object 1s to increase the power of trades unions and to force all to sub- mit to union authority. 3. Its asserted purpose—to insure good conditions among working men—is mere pretense, since the label is not al- lowed to all manufacturers who can prove their conditions to be satisfac- SHNAC HAAR EY | PINAR ANAC AN ACA A A AK Aaa A a SECCTIRCTITETT REVERE verre TAA AA Ae RAR Ree nae Raa Rig ANUTUCT OTST Ty LIne YOU Potato Ga1S posin ited Gar Pape It is CHEAPER THAN STRAW BOARD Freight costs less and it is absolutely impervious to frost. soard in stocs and at the right price, if you prefer it. Send us an order. H. M. REYNOLDS & SON, Grand Rapids A chewing apparatus for people who have lost their teeth and do not care to wear false ones has just been invented by a Frenchman. The food to be chewed is placed between the blades, which are opened and closed three or four times, and the food is thus reduced to a state of pulp. ff As WAAC ANAL A ARE R AeA Ane Rn an annee anne gg erer Totorin Out ofthe Maret Michigan’s Pure Food Com- ' VEVIVVYVV SVU VV VV VV VV VV VV eS missioner has ruled that Tar- tarine is not salable, and we request that all persons in Michigan who have any in stock would return it to us or to the jobber of whom they bought it. Wolverine Spice Co. Grond Rapids, W’ch. asen PT TT VVEVV VV VV VU PVP VV EVV SUV V EVV VV UU PU VV LD VS with our 500-foot Roll We have plenty of Straw - tory, but only to those who employ none ea OH EE Py : on Se LOce PY see e but union workmen. ae ea Pe toate are EEA EAE EAE EA LY see _ 4. The circulars of its advocates harp on the employment of union men only and say little about their vaunted ‘‘good conditions. | 5. The claim of the label to the sup- SSAEAEKALLEELS SEEEESELELEEEDERESELELE EDEL ELEEEEEEEN a Y Che Light of the World is port of good citizens is, therefore, un- FFFFTS warranted, unless good citizens ought always to support trades unions and re- | pudiate free and independent workmen. 6. The general success of the label would result in raising the prices of goods, reducing the employment of free workmen, curtailing the liberty of con- | tract between employers and employed, | injuring many skilled and useful non. | union laborers, and giving to the unions | a new and wide power in the commu- nity equivalent to areal tyranny, a most) un American and dangerous enlarge- ment. It would seem, therefore, to be better that the community should oppose the | use of the label and refuse to buy the goods on which it appears, preferring to favor the nine-tenths of laborers who are non-union men to the one tenth who PREEEREEAEEERA ED AAMHMHHMAHAHHHAEAEG =3R seer enn C RASS are, because the one-tenth are secking| S0¢0¢e07~~~~~~~~~~+ssosebesssaaseseessesesooosatons 4‘ = a7 ww —_ oO Ca =. N os “—< their experiments. new atic. 2: 5% 2 ffs POPYYYYYYYYPPPYYY TYPES oo — = oo a a > Our Fifteen plants now operating in Michigan furnish the best of satis- faction. Nearly as cheap as Day- light. Mm. B. Wheeler § Qo., Mnfrs., 25 Fountain St., Grand Rapids, Mich. “It's as good as Sapolio,” when they try to sell you Your own good sense will tell you that they are only trying to get you to aid their Who urges you to keep Sapolio? public? The manufacturers, by constant and judi- cious advertising, bring customers to your stores whose very presence creates a demand for other articles. WAS AUAULdNadALdaebbbddddGddbddbddbddddddddaddddddids eAcetylene Gase ss Se Valuable information free. et ek are PPFFSSSSS SSS S TS TS TSS SI TSS —/_ —aP —_P —_ —~< —< WD —_p —_ ——p — Dp —? — — -——7 — Dp — » Is it not the ITTECVTEeeeeryrcereer ricer MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 7 Clerks’ Corner A Glimpse at the Other Side. Written for the TRapEsMAN. I called at the Bostwick mansion the other evening and found him at home. It was a little flattering to my vanity to have him come into the hall and take me by the hand and tell me that he was glad to see me; that he had been want- ing to see me for several days, and that, after he had introduced me to Mrs. Bost- wick, he would take me into ‘‘his part of the house.’’ These preliminaries gone through with, a few minutes later we were up in the attic. The house is a large one standing on a corner and the apartment into which I was ushered is long and wide and high. A billiard table—it was a new one !—occupied one end of the room and, as if to balance this, a large library table was at the other end, in front of a roaring hardwood fire. There were bookshelves against the walls and such masculine bric-a-brac asa man is liable to pick up in his wanderings about the country. Sofas and comfortable chairs were arranged here and there and two Morccco easy chairs stretched out their arms to us in kindly welcome from their places on either side of the blazing fire. ‘‘I’m mighty glad you’ve come,’’ said mine host ir the unmistakable tone of genuine hospitality. ‘‘I can’t say that we are going to dedicate the bil- liard table, because I’ve been playing against myself for over a week; but I haven’t played with anybody yet and so we'll call this the dedication. Yes, it’s a good one, as good, anyway, as I wanted to pay for; not so much on the ornamental, but all the better for that, ! think. It’s a first-class make and one that will easily keep good. Help your- self to a cue and let’s have a game.”* I recalled what I had said to this man about ‘‘like clerk, like merchant,’’ or something to that effect; and, with a curiosity I was almost ashamed to ac- knowledge, I watched this man who had been so ‘‘dead set’’ against his clerk’s billiard playing. ‘‘You'll have to look out and get a good stick. [ordered a picked set, but I guess they took ‘em as they came. Just look at that! The man that made that cue had an idea of shooting around a corner with it! I don’t know what weight you like best, but there are three or four ranging from fifteen up and they are dandies. Help yourself.’’ While I was admiring and selecting my stick the cigars were brought and lighted. I confess to a little surprise when, after banking for the first shot, Mr. Bostwick quietly put the light red ball back into its case, and I said: ‘*Three balls, Mr. Bostwick, doesn’t mean a beginner. I’m not sorry, but it looks as if you, away back some- where, had at least heard of the game; and I don’t remember seeing a novice quite so particular in the selection of his cue.”’ There was a gleam in the man’s eyes I bad not seen before and something like a smile nestled down into the cor- ners of his mouth, as hesaid: ‘‘I don’t mind saying it to you now, although at first I thought you were going a bit too far, but the fact is you hit the nail plumb on the head the other night, when you said that a man’s clerks are only a reflection of himself. That was what set me to thinking; and, although I’ve carried myself straight enough of late years, somehow I've understood what all these fellers have been leading me to infer about Will, and have easily and too readily fancied that he was getting over my old ground at the usual lively pace. I thought, for a while, that I was following him up because I rather like him; but, after you hit me that dab be- tween the eyes, I gave myself an over- hauling, and I honestiy believe that my liking means envy! Did you ever hear of anything quite so foolish as that? For two days I kept away from the look- ing-glass, and even now I don’t catcha glimpse of myself there without calling myself a d—d fool? ‘*That has brightened things wonder- fully and, instead of looking at Will through an inverted opera glass and lo- cating him way off somewhere, I’ve just come right up close to him. I’ve made up my mind that he ain’t any worse than I used to be—nor so bad, perhaps, if the truth were known—and that, if a young man thirty years ago knew enough to stop when he’d got through, there is just as much likelihood of an- other young man’s doing the same thing now. ‘That's where I stand this min- ute; and, after you run this game out— and hurry up about it—I want to talk the matter over with you. ‘There! Now we'll talk.—Will has got it into his head that I’m not the old de’il he thought I was. I guess I’m to blame for it, but that’s all right, ‘lm beginning to see the error of my ways,’ as some old wiseacre has said, and the more I look at the young feller in that light the more I see what’s in him and the more I am convinced I was like him at his age. Well now! do you know, when that dawned upon me, I began to have the old liking for this game, and because I don’t like the idea of going out nights to play, I just had this table put up and have heen playing solitaire every night ever since. I’ve a notion that, one of these days when we wear round to it, I’m going to have Will over here to spend the evening. He plays a gcod game, I hear, and I know he likes a good cigar. By the way, I’ve got some of the best old port you ever tasted. [ keep it for rare occa- sions. There! if you don’t like that I shall be astonished.’’ The wine and the cigars and the bil- liard table and certain breaks—calied ““give-aways’’ now—in the man’s nar- rative made it plain that Mrs. Bostwick had probably had considerable difficulty in convincing her father and motber that her lover was in all respects an ex- emplary young man! I had reached this conclusion when a tap was heard on the door, followed a moment after by the entrance of Mrs. Bostwick, who took a seat between us before the fire. RICHARD MALCOLM STRONG. ll eon i New Facts About South Dakota. To enable the farmers in the Eastern States to pass the long winter evenings in an entertaiuing and instructive man- ner, the Chicago, Miiwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company has recently pub- lished, for free distribution, a new pamphlet, finely illustrated with pictures which will delight the eye of Eastern farmers, and containing letters from their brethren in South Dakota descrip- tive of their experience while tiliing the soi] and raising cattle, sheep and hogs in the ‘Sunshine State."’ This pamphlet is well worth readirg through from cover to cover It will be sent free if you will send your address to either H. F. Hunter, Immigration Agent, 291 Dearborn street, Chicago, or to Geo. H. Heafford, General Pas- senger Agent, Old Coleny Building, Chicago, Ill. 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When writing to any of our Advertisers, please say that you saw the advertisement in the Michigan Tradesman. E. A. STOWE, Epirtor. WEDNESDAY, - - - DECEMBER 22, 1897. A NATIONAL BANKRUPT BILL. There is a fairly good chance that the present session of Congress will adopt a bankruptcy law which will carry out the leading aims of the Torrey bank- ruptcy bill, which has been before the country for so many years. It will be remembered that this measure has been introduced in each of the five last Con- gresses, but has always failed of pas- Sage. On two occasions it actually passed one of the houses, but was not reached in the other, owing to the large amount of pressing business which claimed precedence. Owing to the actual demand for the enactment of such a measure, coming from the business interests all over the country, repeated failures have not dis- couraged the promoters of the bill, and in the various revisions it has undergone prior to its reintroduction in the differ- ent Congresses which have considered it, it has been modified and improved to a considerable extent. Nearly all the important commercial conventions which have been held in re- cent vears have indorsed the Torrey bill and the measure has also from time to time received the approval of about all the commercial exchanges and boards of trade of any prominence in the country. Whether the measure now betore Congress is the Torrey bill it- self, or a measure akin to it, there is a practical certainty that before the com- mittee to which it has been referred has finished with it, all the essentials of the Torrey bill will be included. The main argument behind the pro- posed bankruptcy legislation is the great dissimilarity of the bankruptcy laws of the States. These laws differ so radically in different states that busi ness men find it practically impossible to regulate credits with any degree of confidence. Unfortunately these laws are often taken advantage of by unscrupu- lous men to victimize jobbers and man- ufacturers at the great distributing cen- ters, and the uncertainty which is thus infused into business calculations works a hardship to those who are anxious and willing to meet their obligations. The principal objection to a National measure is the extortionate charges levied, under the authority of the law, by the officials of the United States courts on all business which passes through the channels of those tribunals. Federal courts should be poor men’s courts, to which any man may resort ay a en semen ee ee for justice after all other legal tribunals are closed to him. Asa matter of fact, our Federal courts are gigantic shear- ing machines, exacting the last pound of wool on the body of the litigant, whether he stands in the position of victor or vanquished. A National law which would correct these infamous practices and also en- sure business men against frauduient failures would meet with general sat- isfaction; but at the same time Con- gress can be depended on to oppose any measure which will not throw all proper protection and safeguards around. debt- ors as well as creditors. What is aimed at is a law which will allow no premium on dishonesty, and, by making it pos- sible to punish fraudulent failures, place credit on a safer basis. It is held, and probably with reason, that, owing to the interstate character of all com- merce at the present time, a National law is the only way in which the subject can be properly dealt with. At any rate, the practically unanimous indorse- ment of the business people from all parts of the country is a strong argu- ment in favor of such a measure, CONSOLIDATING THE MINTS. The closing of the New Orleans mint, which Director Preston recommends in his annual estimates, is the beginning ef the policy of concentrating coinage work at places as near as possible to the centers of the production of gold and silver. The closing of the mint at Carson City is also recommended. No coinage has been done there for several years, but some deposits of gold and silver have been received and assayed. ‘This mint has been closed several times by the Director, but has been reopened under pressure from Nevada congress- men. On June 1, 1893, Secretary Car- lisle ordered it closed and refused to yield to requests for its reopening. The New Orleans mint was established in 1838 upon a lot given by the city. Under the terms of the agreement the property can be returned to the city with the privilege of having the build- ing used for hospital purposes. Louisi- ana congressmen make some opposition to the abolishment of the mint, but they may be satisfied if the Government do- nates the building to the city without charge, or for a small compensation. The Government expects hereafter to do the coinage work entirely at San Francisco and Philadelphia, until the Denver mint is completed. This will not be for several years, but the Den- ver mint will be capable of doing work enough to meet any probable demand in excess of the work at the other mints. Denver has become a great center of gold deposits, and the assay office there has been receiving more than a million dollars per month in new bullion. Work on the Philadelphia mint is now pro- gressing, so that it will be finished in two or three years. The capacity of the new building will be much superior to that of the old, and, with the new mint at Denver, will be capable of turning out an immense quantity of new gold and silver coins of all classes. Most of the gold coinage is now done at Phila- delphia and much of the subsidiary sil- ver coinage. The abolition of the mint at New Orleans will save the services of some sixty or seventy employes, and the coin- age of the future can be executed at Philadelphia at a diminished cost to the Treasury. Even at Philadelphia the force is considered too large, and forty-two employes have just been dis- charged, thus effecting a saving in ex- penses of about $40,000 annually. THE MIXED FLOUR PROBLEM. The practice of adulterating food- stuffs is again commanding considera- ble attention throughout the country, and no doubt Congress will be assailed to provide remedies for this condition of things. At the present time New York is discussing adulterated molasses, a question which in times past has been considerably discussed in New Orleans, The New York trade papers advocate an appeal to the State Legislature for a remedy, which is the proper course to pursue. By far the most widespread agitation on the subject of food adulter- ation, however, is the fight which is being made against mixed flour. It is only recently that the mixed flour evil has attracted any attention; but its influence is now being felt all over the country, particularly in the South and West. It is not claimed that mixed flour is at all deleterious to health, or in any way an unwholesome foodstuff. It con- sists of a mixture of a percentage of corn flour with the ordinary wheat flour so skillfully prepared that the mixture is able to sell as pure wheat flour, The greater cheapness of this mixed article enables the mixers to undersell the makers of legitimate flour; hence, if the practice is allowed to go on unchecked, the reputable millers will either have to go out of business or resort to the mix- ing practice themselves. The manifest tendency of this adulteration of flour is to drive out of the market the pure ar- ticle. In order to check the manufacture of mixed flour, it is proposed that Con- gress be asked to place a high tax up- on the article and compel the manufac- turers to properly brand it, so that it can be readily distinguished from the pure product. This was the process followed with oleomargarine, and the taxing power of the Government is again to be appealed to, to practically prohibit the manufacture of mixed flour. The National Board of Trade, which has been in session for several days at Washington, was asked to consider the matter and_ pass resolutions requesting Congress to act. Some Opposition was developed, however, to an appeal to Congress, on the ground that the states were the proper authorities to deal with the matter. The subject was finally referred to a special committee for further investigation. There can be no denying the fact that the mixing of flour is an evil of con- siderable proportions, and is a fraud perpetrated upon the masses of the peo- ple. At the same time it is manifestly wrong to appeal to the Federal Govern- ment fora remedy. The taxing power of the Government, which is the only way in which such matters can be reached by Congress, has been already too much abused for the purpose of regulating trade affairs. The evil is one which wili no doubt eventually work its own cure; but, in the meantime, the various states have all the authority necessary to prevent the sale of mixed flour disguised as the pure article. As the adulterated article is not un- wholesome as food, its sale under its proper character cannot be interfered with legitimately; but laws can be passed compelling handlers of such flour to plainly brand it as mixed and imposing penalties for its sale as the genuine article. The disposition shown by the business world to run to Congress for remedies for trade evils is a serious mistake, and a stop must, sooner or later, be put to the practice by a refusal on the part of the National Legislature to further abuse the taxing power for a purpose not contemplated in the organic law. GRANT NO EXTENSIONS. There are undoubtedly two distinct reasons why the matter of granting the new franchise to the Consolidated Street Railway Company engages so little of the public attention. One is that ques- tions of economic policy in which the future is concerned lose their importance in a rapidly increasing ratio as that fu- ture is more distant. Thus the ques- tion of buying a garbage reducing ap- paratus involving a few thousands is given more attention than the other in which millions are at stake. The other is that there is so much of local inter- est concerned in the welfare of the street railway stock that consciously or unconsciously there is the disposition to favor such interests to an extent which decidedly lessens discussion. There is also another element which tends to diminish the interest—the fact that the amounts which may be involved are indefinite. It is unfortunate that the interests of the city are not receiving more careful attention, for it is but natural that in the presentation of the case of the com- pany its representatives should endeavor to secure as good a bargain as possible. As a means to this end there are urged the financial vicissitudes of the enter- prise for several years past. It is shown that, without sparing expense, it has established and maintained one of the best systems in the country and that in so doing the loss has been heavy and it is justified in asking something in return, There should be no hesitation on the part of the fairminded to accede to this proposition. But to give every- thing they may ask without any consid- eration of values granted and the in- terests sacrificed is another matter. Then it should be taken into consideration that all that the company has done for the city has not been done out of pure generosity and good will. It is a part of a business Speculation ; and, further- more, the apparent loss which has been sustained by the company is increased by the evil of an over capitalization resulting from the failure of previous systems. No one should object to the granting of such a franchise as will properly recognize the interests of the company, but to acceed to its extreme demands without a question would seem to be the height of folly; there should be some advocate to represent the interests of the city. in granting an unconditional and un- limited franchise for thirty years the Council is asked to grant that which, judging from the ratio of development of the past, involves many millions. It may be conceded that the ratio of change will not continue as great as ina like period of the past, but the prob- abilities are such as to warrant serious consideration of this point. Perbaps the most ridiculous request embodied in the petition is that the company shall have control of its time schedules. It is not probable the peti- tioners expected to receive such a con- cession, but expecting to lose something from their demands, put this in for such a purpose. The idea of permitting a company to run its system wholly in the interests of the revenue produced without any regard for the accomoda- tion of the public beyond what those interests would prompt is too absurd for serious discussion; and yet it would look as though such a provision would pass for want of any to defend the city’s interests, —_ —_ MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 9 MERRY CHRISTMAS! These words convey the gracious ex- change of good will between uncounted millions of kindly hearts. “One cannot say how many will pause to find or re- call the significance of the sacred an- niversary in ancient scrolls, or modern translations; but it has been lived as it has been written. Turning the pages backward, Christmas after Christmas rises out of the deep past in a blended light of memory and hope, pointing, like posts along the road, to the origin and meaning of its observance. This is no time, this is no place, for the speculations and conjectures of a groping criticism. It is true, beyond all controversy, that the consciousness of universal neighborhood and_brother- hood prevails more and more in the world, leading on to the reign of peace and good will in every zone that belts the globe. But out of what deep dark- ness did that light begin to shine—the greed of conquest, the pride of empire, the contempt of the great and strong for lowliness and weakness everywhere! Now men have come to believe in the possibility, and even in the certainty, of a world-wide progress. Extremely difficult problems arise from time to time and press for practical solution in the course of social development; but there is no despair. The solution of those problems is expected upon grounds of common justice and humanity. No one any longer believes in the prac- ticability of.an arbitrary adjustment of the relations of man to man, or of class to class. It is profoundly felt that pros- perity in every quarter depends upon a frank and complete recognition of the rights and interests of the-poorest of the poor. In the_ realms of science it has been for a long time understood that all truth is related, and now it is dawning upon the common sense of mankind that the moral balance must be equally _per- fect. A broader philauthropy has in- troduced a new statesmanship and a new diplomacy. Time was, not so long ago, when every foreigner was regarded as a barbarian or held for ransom. The modern world has built up a body of international law and cherishes usages of comity based upon considerations of justice and humanity, and ail the great nations have pledged themselves to a policy of peace. It is true that Europe is sometimes described, with too near an approach to justice, as an armed camp. It is true that blood is shed even now under one pretext or another, in the name of free- dom or in the name of loyalty and order. But it is also true that humanity has become a conquering cause, and there is a public opinion, at once just and philanthropic, which even the most powerful governments must take into account. Whence this enormous change? Was it first suggested in the secret con- sultations of French, German, Russian or English cabinets? Or was it in- spired by the conflicting ambitions of great party leaders? Let men philos- ophize as they may, it finds expression in that sentiment pre-eminently appro- priate to Christmas, ‘‘ Peace on eartb, good will to men.’’ Preachers, teach- ers, writers, myriads of unknown work- ers, hoist that banner and take their stand beneath its folds. It is in the air. The future belongs to the people on that condition, peace and good will. There is no strength, no policy, that can prevail on any other terms. The sentiment is here without analysis, or it would not be here at all. It is natural that parents should give good gifts to their children, it is natural that kinsmen and neighbors should exchange kindly offices and tokens of friendship; but it has become a gladly accepted cus- tom, not only to give these things em- phasis on Christmas day, but also then to remember those who are most in need of sympathy. It is the beautiful dis- tinction of the true Christmas gift that it is given in love. Given to the rich or to the poor, it ischarity in the broad Christian sense. In business and in politics, general principles are too much forgotten, especially those general principles that have a purely unselfish application. Give full measure and keep your word; ‘‘Be true to thyself, thou canst not then be false to any’’ —these are worldly maxims, marred by a leaven of self. There is no real sense of neighborhood or brotherhood in them; and, after all, it is more than doubtful whether one can be just unless he is also generous. The honest mer- chant, the fair dealer in every line of life, deserves his meed of praise; but on a day like this, one would rather think of the missionary in savage lands, the nurse in a plague-haunted hospital, the sailor in a lifeboat buffeting the fury of a winter storm—something in kind- ness meant, with all the deep sincerity of life at stake. There is something in the noble heart that says: Give, spend and be spent. “In some good cause, not in thine own.” Nowadays there is a general advocacy of organized charity, and unquestion- ably that kind of enterprise is one of the grand distinctions of the age; but organized charity might become self- destructive if it ever became exclusive of individual impulse and expression. Benevolent societies cannot meet every need and occasion of persoral influ- ence. The giver should be bestowed sometimes with his gift, in the glance of his eye, in the touch of his band, in the accents of his voice; for then is blessed both he that gives and he that receives. The lesson of the day is love and sympathy, and the poor should be helped as little children are made happy with the things they cannot provide for themselves. Misfortune needs no certifi- cate but suffering. Police Prohibit the Use of Trading Stamps. The most radical stand against the trading stamp scheme yet taken was made last week by the local legal authorities of Williamsport, Pa. The stamp scheme became such a_ nuisance that the Chief of Police issued an edict ordering all merchants using the scheme to discontinue it, on the ground that it violated the provisions of an act passed in June, 1885, prohibiting all such schemes. This order became operative last Monday, and in consequence the stamp scheme has become a dead letter in Williamsport. The Chief of Police called on the merchants in person and told them plainly that any disobedience of his order would be followed by ar- rest. He reports that he didn’t find any who objected to discontinuing the scheme. Some of the merchants endeavored to have the Trading Stamp Co. indemnify them, under which protection they would continue to give out stamps. This the company declined to do. The stamp company now threatens to bring suit against the merchants who handled their stamps for violation of contract, but the merchants declare that the com- pany must show in the courts that the scheme is legal before they will abide by the contract. STORE RULES. Rules Established at Marshall Field & Co.’s Retail Store. A careful observance of the following rules is expected of every employe in this store: 1. Record your time promptly upon entering the store in the morning. 2. Never leave the store during busi- ness hours (except for dinner) without permission from manager, superintend- ent or assistant superintendent. 3. Never leave your department on any account without informing head of department. 4. Proper reasons must be given for absence. 5. Be cleanly and neat in appear- ance, avoiding extravagance and dis- play. 6. Do not use tobacco, neither eat candy, fruits, nuts, or lunch of any kind while on duty. 7. Avoid gossiping, and do not al- low your friends to consume your time by visiting with you. 3. Respectakle and moral associa- tions outside of business are expected of every employe. g. Printed books and papers must not be read during business hours. 1o. Letter writing, while on duty, cannot be allowed when letters do not relate to business of the house. 11. If you desire to make purchases in the store, do so during the less busy hours of the day. 12. Borrowing or loaning of money among employes is strictly prohibited. The attention of all employes is called to the following: The greatest courtesy is required from employes in all matters relating to business of the house, whether custom- ers wish to purchase, to inform them- selves regarding an article on sale, to exchange merchandise, or simply to visit the different departments. The same promptness and care will be used when merchandise is returned and money refunded. All merchandise which has failed to give satisfaction is exchanged or re- deemed at choice of purchaser. This privilege is, however, subject to the following exceptions: 1. When article has been worn. 2, When sufficient time has elapsed between purchase and return to make article unsalable. 3. When goods are marked ‘‘Jobs,’’ and sold with the understanding that they shall not be returned. Any lost article found in the store will be sent without delay to the lost and found department. Moneys or jewelry not called for and identified within six (6) months shall become the property of finder, subject to decision of superin- tendent. TO HEADS OF DEPARTMENTS. From the heads. of departments, es- pecially, will a strict performance of duty and a willing compliance with the rules of the house be looked for—as an example to others. It is expected that they will use their best efforts to assist salespersons under them in making sales, and it is_partic- ularly desirable that they shall instruct the less experienced salespersons in the methods of handling merchandise, ap- proaching customers, displaying goods, ete. TO SALESPERSONS. Salespersons will take their positions in stock to which they may be assigned by head of department and perform to the best of their ability the duties con- nected with same. They will at all times while on duty obey orders relating to business of the department, of the head of department or assistant. They will obey directions of the ushers when same refer to atten- tion to customers. Salespersons will treat all visitors alike, courteously and with care, using the same promptness whether they wish to purchase, examine goods, or simply visit through curiosity. Any want of courtesy in speech or manner. will oc- casion a reprimand or dismissal, while a second offense will subject employe to discharge. Salespersons will have patience in serving customers, showing goods will- ingly and pleasantly, without asking too many questions as to price, width, size or color wanted. Salespeople will never misrepresent an article, nor guarantee wear or color. Salespersons and stock boys will keep in good order all stock under their care. In case of loss occasioned by error of salesperson in making out ticket, exten- sion of figures, or in delivery of pack- ages, the loss must be made good by the one in error. GOODS IN WINDOWS. When articles are displayed in the windows that cannot be duplicated in stock, these articles must be subject to sale. And when customers desire to purchase same, salesmen will request the window dresser to return them to stock. MANNER OF ADDRESSING LADIES. It is requested that employes use the word ‘‘madame”’ instead of ‘‘lady,’’ in addressing ladies who visit the store, when not familiar with the visitor’s name. PRESERVATION OF WRAPPING PAPER. Many pieces of merchandise come from the manufacturer wrapped in paper of superior quality. These pieces of wrapping paper we wish to preserve, to be used in lining express packages, etc. All heads of departments will, therefore, please see that this is done and will, each morning, have sent to express counter in the shipping room such wrappers as are not required for the goods in stock, or are not too badly soiled or torn to be used by express de- partment. All employes will co-operate with department managers in this mat- ter. UNBECOMING DEPORTMENT. Complaint has been received by us that our sales girls sometimes so far for- get themselves as to clean their finger- nails or perform other small duties of the toilet while on duty in their depart- ments. As any acts of this kind are entirely inconsistent with our rules and with ladylike behavior, we wish any- thing of this kind entirely done away with. To the many in the house who have never committed any fault of this kind, this bulletin does in no way refer. MEN’S GOODS. Some time since, we expressed a wish in a bulletin that salespeople address ladies as madame and not as lady. We further wish to ask that they will, in speaking ot men’s goods, refer to them as men’s goods, and not as gents’ goods. The word gents’ should be avoided with reference to any merchandise in this store. SALESMEN MUST BE ALERT. We are receiving complaints from customers regarding indifference and inattention of salespeople, and there is hardly any fault which we cannot ex- cuse more easily than this. It is rec- ognized in this store that the undue urging of merchandise upon customers is not desired, but this does not in any way mean that indifference in the slight- est degree is to be permitted. Sales- men must be much more alert and will, under no circumstances, allow any of their actions to be such that customers can interpret them to be actions of in- difference. Salespeople will always en- deavor to serve customers immediately as they approach their counters or sec- tion, and not wait to be asked either by customer or floorman; and, when all salesmen are necessarily busy, the one nearest to the customer will excuse him- self for the moment and ask the cus- tomer to be seated. A. very strict cem- pliance with this rule will be required. The above bulletin is one to which the attention of all floormen is particu- larly called, as they will be held largely responsible for its very careful mainte- nance. Floormen are requested to be extremely watchful to see that every customer, as far as possible, receives attention (and the best of attention, too), at once upon approaching a de- — one customer may tat May seem toc many will be attentiveness. PROFANE LANGUAGE We regret to learn from a customer, who overbeard the same, that one of our young men recently psed profane anguage in talking toa cash boy. We are sorry that we could not obtain his iame or number, as immediate dismiss- al would bavve followed. Any !an- guage other than that of a gentleman wiil not be permitted for one moment; a and a littie reflection on b empioye wil show anything tmproper in avoided, especially sO Many young people are employed. TOMERS. Phe care must be| used by house in the} treatme . We receive! visits from many out of town, and the! mpression which is made upon them by | a few moments 1 our employes remains forever in ii minds. If the employe is courteous and polite, the impression is good; 1f he is too short in his answers or other than very attentive in his actions, the im- pression is bad. We are particularly desirous that visitors from out of town be allowed to see that we understand how to do business correctly, and this nterview with one of their | | particular. effect can only be had when every em- | pioye treats every visitor witb careful c sideration, -O0 LOUD CONVERSATION. There altcgether too much loud conversation between employes during business hours, especially between em- ployes upon opposite sides of an aisle or at some distance from each other. We must ask that this annoyance cease and that ushers pay careful attention to the enforcement of this bulletin. 1s UNDUE A suggestion came to us which hardly seems to apply to our salespeople; and especially those who have been tn the store some time, and we think are not referred to in this notice. The sug- gestion is that ladies, in being waited upon by saleswomen, are often ad- dressed in other stores as ‘‘my dear’’ or with similar expressions. Anyone in the store who may be in the habit of using such expressions to customers will please discontinue it, FAMILIARITY. CHANGE. So many instances are continually occurring where customers claim that they do not receive the proper amount of change, that it becomes necessary to request salespersons, in all instances where the change is not even, to repeat to the customer the amount received before giving the checks to the inspect- or. For the same reason salesmen will see to it that cash boys return change to them instead of to customers. VACATIONS. A vacation of two weeks will be al- lowed only to those who have been here for twelve consecutive months, and one week to those who have been here for six consecutive months. The two weeks’ vacation cannot be allowed during the summer to those who begin work after the first of September. CRITICISMS. Well-directed and intelligent criti- cisms are very valuable; and, although they are often unfriendly for one reason or another, yet in a general way, when they come from the customers of the house, they are worthy of our attention. Ikmployes hearing any criticisms re- garding this business will please write them out in brief form and submit them to the manager for attention. We teel that from criticisms we can improve this business, and therefore solicit them from all. SUGGESTIONS, There are probably a number of mat- ters connected with this house which are being fairly well done, but which could be better done. It is our desire that every detail in every portion of this business be done in the most thoroughly approved method, and to | double interest to the ch It is our intention that every adver- tisement published under our name shall be absolutely true and correct in every It is further our desire that the employes in the house shall, as far as possible, become familiar with the advertisements as rapidly as they ap- pear, so that questions asked them by customers may be answered intelligent- ly, whether the goods referred to are in their department or not. In order to draw many critical eyes to our adver- tisements and, furthermore, to give reading of same by ail employ:s in the house, we do |hereby offer one dollar ($1) to the em- ploye who wil! in any of our advertisements. Errors will be considered as such— When there is in any way an.exagger- ation. When the price is wrong. When a werd is misspelled. When the advertisement is grammati- | cally incorrect, or When a false statement occurs. SYSTEM OF FINES We propose abandoning the system of fines for tardiness in this house. It will, of course, be recognized by ail employes that punctuality is a very nec- essary qualification, and in doing away witb fines we shall, instead, keep a very careful record of those who are late or absent. ABANDONED. of lates is sufficiently great to make any employe’s service unsatisfactory we shall act accordingly. In other words we do not wish nor propose to exact fines from employes; but we do insist that employes shall as far as_ possible, be punctual and regular in attendance Tardiness is oftentimes caused by either carelessness or habit and neither of these reasons can be, under any circumstances, considered as an excuse. Employes who are necessarily delayed and can give good reason for same may obtain excuses as heretofore from the superin- tendent. Excuses will not be given by anyone other than the superintendent unless he is absent from the store, in which case they may be obtained from the manager. GOOD MANNERS. One very important qualification in all employes is that of good manners, and we would ask that department heads thoroughly scrutinize their em- ployes frequently and critically, and report any lack in this direction. We must insist upon gentlemanly and lady- like conduct, and think we have it gen- erally throughout the store. CALLING SALESPEOPLE *‘FORWARD.’’ The use of the word ‘‘forward’’ in calling salespeople to wait upon cus- tomers should, we think, be avoided as far as possible. It is much better to name the salesman or saleswoman in person and ‘request that he or she wait upon the customer. Please, therefore, let the word ‘‘forward’’ be used only when it seems especially necessary. TREATMENT OF EACH OTHER. We wish to ask that our employes use dignity, respect and care in addressing first cal] the attention of | our advertising department to an error! At regular periods such a !ist will be examined closely by the man- | ager and when in his judgment the lst} 52 57°52S25252525 e6e6e$e5e5e250585P5aG0t SeseseseseseSeSeseSeseseSeSeseSeSe5e5eSesesesesese2 — anise 29eSeseseSe5e525e5e25e5e25 Next to the satisfaction involved in handling Pillsbury’s Best Flour and Old Fashioned Lard is that of being able to give your customers a good cigar. ee ee Seo e 525252525252 5e5e5e5e5e5e5e525e25e5e525e25e5e5e5e5a625 Thesé will increase your Holiday Trade. Include some in your order when our traveling men call on you. Clark-Jewell-Wells Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. 2525252525e25e5e5 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN each other while on duty, as a careless word or an act of familiarity may, in the mind of some passing customer, cause a reflection, to the discredit of those who are responsible for same, or allow customers to wrongfully interpret words or gestures—and this we wish to avoid. We desire also, as far as possible, that the prefixes miss and mister be used in cases warranting the same. WASTE OF TIME. Employes are requested to be more careful and conscientious in the use of their time. It sometimes happens that salespeople in the toilet rooms, during working hours, do embroidery, crochet- ing, read books and waste time gener- ally. This is not fair and will not be indulged in by anyone who is con- scientious in the use of the time which belongs to the house. CARE OF STRANGERS. This store is daily visited by stran- gers from other cities and from smaller towns. Itis our desire that these stran- gers shall be made to feel as much at home as possible, and we therefore ask that our ushers endeavor especially to be on the watch and pay them careful at- tention. It frequently occurs that strangers would be pleased to be shown through the store, and that they are, perhars, desirous of buying merchan- dise which they do not know we carry Please let these strangers have special attention, and if we find it to be suffi- ciently necessary we will establish a corps of guides to take them in charge and show them over the house. USE OF TELEPHONES BY EMPLOYES. Employes have grown into the habit of using the telephones for personal business to altogether too great an ex- tent. While we do not wish to stop the use of telephones for this purpose en- tirely, we must ask that they be used only when necessary, and not for petty matters or for gossip. USE OF TOBACCO PROHIBITED. The chewing of tobacco by employes while on duty has more than once been prohibited in this store, and yet we have frequent indications that this rule is not lived up to. We shall immediately dismiss anyone in this house who is de- tected in chewing tobacco while on duty, and shall, furthermore, consider it a misdemeanor on the part of any usher or head of department who fails to inform the superintendent when this rule is being broken. CARE OF FIXTURES. Any who find it necessary to stand upon the counters at any time will please use pasteboaid, or some other protecting substance, beneath their shoes. EMPLOYES’ TIME FOR SHOPPING. Again it is necessary to call the atten- tion of employes to the time of making purchases, and to ask them to do their shopping during the less busy hours of the day. This is asked both for the rea- son that they may be required in their own departments and the salesmen in the department in which they buy may be busy with outside customers. CLOSING TIME. It is especially desired that all em- ployes give careful and courteous atten- tion to the customers who may come to the store at closing time or just before. Tke writer recently endeavored to make a purchase at one of the small stores just before closing time, and the incivility, lack of courteousness and apparent extreme haste on the part of the employes to get out of the store was, to say the least, disagreeable, and in the present instance left a very un- pleasant impression in the customer's mind regarding that portion of that store’s management. Please, therefore, let all employes see that customers who may approach the counters at this time of the day receive careful attention. The doors are closed promptly and customers are not ad- mitted after the closing bell—conse- quently there is no probability of delays amounting in any way to hardship. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE. It occasionally occurs that salespeople ‘It would seem, are called from one section of a depart- ment to another section of the same de- partment to wait upon customers, and through absence of familiarity with the merchandise fail to please the customer. therefore, that sales- people in one department should, as far as possible, be made conversant with all portions of that department by being occasionally placed in each section. There are, of course, exceptions to this, and heads of departments will use their judgment in carrying it out. In the main, however, please let salespeople be informed regarding the whole depart- ment. UNCOMPLIMENTARY REMARKS. We are sorry to have it reported that employes occasionally make remarks derogatory to customers after they have left the counter or department; for in- stance, suggesting that the customer is a ‘‘crank,’’ or making some equally uncomplimentary remark. Language of this kind should be avoided, and we must insist that our people refrain from using anything of the kind. PUBLIC DISCUSSION OF BUSINESS MATTERS. It has been suggested, by one who has overheard such a conversation, that any of the saleswomen who may be using the toilet rooms which are also used by customers should not discuss business of the house, as it is complained that in the presence of customers matters have been referred to which included the mentioning of customers’ names. Our salespeople will avoid anything- of this kind for very obvious reasons. MANNER OF DRESS. While we have never insisted,as have many other stores, upon our saleswomen wearing black, we do desire that they shall appear in modest costume, and we deprecate the use of striking colors and patterns. We should much prefer that young ladies appear in dresses which may be conspicuous for their neatness and tidiness and inconspicuous for the color and pattern of material. IMPORTANT POINTS IN SALESMANSHIP. Many salespeople seem to think that the house holds them so strictly to ac- count in the matter of sales that it is nat always easy to allow the desired time to some particular customers and at the same time place the required amount of sales to their credit. We can see how such a feeling might arise, and in response to the same would say that while, of course, large sales are very im- portant factors in the value of salespeo- ple, they do not alone form the basis upon which salaries are paid. Polite attention, interest in one’s duties and care in waiting upon customers are also important factors; and it must be re- membered that these same factors are often largely responsible for producing the other much desired result, viz., large sales. These points, and all others, will be carefully considered in estimating the excellence of employes. >30 > He Was a Careful Buyer. Customer--Keep any flytraps? Grocer—Best in town. Only success- ful flytrap on the market. Use ’em in my stor: all the time. Let me show you one. You see, the flies enter here, pass through this aperture, and are unable to return. Cleans a room of flies in no time. Wrap you up one! ‘ You find them good practical traps, do you?"’ ‘* Absolutely.’’ ‘‘Use them yourself, I believe you said?’’ ‘“All the time. Make one to you real low as the season’s nearly over.”’ ‘“You don’t have hardly any flies around your store when you_ use this trap, do you!’’ ‘“You bet I don’t. This trap is the best—’’ ‘*All right, then. Give me_ two pounds of dried currants. —_— +> -4 So Like the Scotch Mrs. Blimbre has put up four hun- dred cans of fruit.”’ ‘*Scotch, isn’t she?’’ ‘*Why?’’ ‘*So canny.’’ Michigan Retail Grocers’ Association President, J. WIsLEk, Mancelona: cea i E. F. A. Stowk, Grand Rapids; Treasurer, TATMAN, Clare. Michigan Hardware Association President, Cuas. F. Bock, Battle Creek: Vice President, H. W. WEBBER, West Bay City; Treasurer, HENRY C. Minniz, Eaton Rapids. Detroit Retail Grocers’ Association President, Josepu KNiguT; Secretary, E. Marks, 221 Greenwood ave; Treasurer, N. L. KoEnie. Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association President, Frank J. Dyk: Secretary, Homer KuaP; Treasurer, J. Geo. LEHMAN. Saginaw Mercantile Association President, P. F. TREANoR; Vice-President, JoHn McBratnNig; Secretary, W. H. Lewis; Treas- urer, Louvre ScuwERMER Jackson Retail Grocers’ Association President, Gro. E. Lewis: Secretary, W. H. Por- TER; Treasurer, J. L. PETERMANN Lansing Retail Grocers’ Association President, F. B. JoHNson: Secretary, A. M. DARLING: Treasurer. L. A. GILKEY. Adrian Retail Grocers’ Association President, Martin Gafney: Seeretary, EF. Cleveland: Treasurer, Geo. M. Hoch. Traverse City Business Men’s Association President, THos. T. BarTEs: Secretary, M. B. Houiy; Treasurer, C. A. HAMMOND. Owosso Business Men’s Association President, A. D. WHIPPLE; Secretary, G. T. Camp- BELL; Treasurer, W. E. Couiins. Alpena Business Men’s Association President, F. W. Giucurist: Seeretary, C L. PARTRIDGE. Grand Rapids Retail Meat Dealers’ Association President, L. J. Katz: Secretary, Pip HILBER: Treasurer. S. J. HUFFoRD. St. Johns Business Men’s Association. President, THos BRoMLEY: Secretary, Frank A. Percy; Treasurer, Clark A. Pur. My prices on all _ eet Office Supplies o | : Will save you money. Mail orders a specialty. Will M. 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SATIN QUILLED. SOFT SOLE. FUR TRIMMED. HIRTH, KRAUSE & CO. $0. 00 per buzen. GRAND RAPIDS. OFOS9OOS $99SOSLO 9OSOSOOS BOSOSOOS OO 9OOSOOOS OOSOOOSO $ POPS OPSSHSSHSS SOHO OOHSS $OOOGOSS 09009098 909000006 RINDGE, KALMBACH & CO., If you want the BEST line of River Shoes Buy ours. We know howto make them. oad See our full Line for Spring before pla ing your order. The Qualities, Styles and Prices are Right and will please you. 12, 14, 16 Pearl Street, (irand Rapids, Michigan Agents Boston Rubber Shoe Co. PSST H Hw ve VT FOOSS Cw w~ ce SOOO HSOOSOOOSHS 09899999 F0909SS6 OOO cc sheniee FOOOSODOHSOOGOO699999O9S $0999OO0 000 U0 Q 0000 00000000000 0 Q Q i Men's Oil Grain Creoles and Credmeres in 2 S. and T. 4 and ¥% D. S., also Men’s Oil Grain and Satin Calf in lace 2 and congress in 2 S. and T. and % D, S., all Solid—a © < good western shoe at popular prices. an We also handle Snedicor & Hathaway Co.’s shoes in i Oil Grain and Satin. It will pay you to order sample © o cases as they are eve y one of thema money-getter. We @© still handle our line of specialties in Men’s and Women’s = shoes. 4 S We still handle the best tubbers—Lycoming and Key- © i stone—and Felt Boots and Lumbermen’s Socks. nh : Geo. H. Reeder & Co. °¢ 19 South fonia Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. = = eg MICHIGAN TRADESMAN is at an increased temperature, is con- veyed to the next vat and goes through the bark. This infusion is, of course, stronger. Ata still higher temperature it, ip turn, is conveyed to the third vat, and so on until a liquor of about 30 deg. specific gravity, and nearly or quite at the boiling point, is obtained. It is then fit for use in the tannery. When the hides emerge from the tanning liquor they are a nice wholesome-look- ing piece of leather which, after dry- ing, is ready for the curriers. Webster defines curry, ‘‘to beat,to drub, to scratch and smooth,’’ and the curriers I saw at work surely exemplified this definition. The different processes to which the hides were subjected after this stage were so numerous and complicated that I dare not attempt a description, but I remember the long tables of marble on which the leather was laid while men rubbed oil and grease in and wrinkles out. I asked one man, ‘‘What have you there?’’ He answered, ‘‘ Von leedle bull hide.’’ As I watched the wrinkles and creases disappear, I thought how a woman might apply the lesson to her own ‘‘crows’-feet’’—always rub with the wrinkles, not across them. This tannery is equipped with all the latest machines: a blacking machine, which automatically brushes the color into the leather; staking machines, which do away with hand-staking, which, by the way, is simply scraping ‘*biasways’’ of the grain; a special ma- chine for brushing and polishing, in- vented by Mr. Cappon himself; ma- chines for splitting the leather, on which the belt is a knife; printing jacks, where, from an innocent cow skin, kid, goat, Morocco, kip, box calf, or any other leather desired, may be produced by simply changing the die! The most wonderful machine 1s the Sawyer measuring machine, through which is run a side of leather, and no matter how irregular in shape, the ex- act number of square feet is computed and registered. One can actually ‘“square a circle’’ with it. I was in- formed that the inventor lost his mind, at which I did not wonder; for one brain to have evolved such a marvel is enough to pruduce insanity. After about three months’ labor the finished leather is ready for the mar- ket. This tannery turns out about 400 finished hides per day; so that some- thing like 36,000 hides in different stages of tanning or currying are in the tannery constantly. In answer to my enquiry where all these hides come from, I was told that most of them are from Chicago pack- ing houses. But many hides, are im- ported from the East Indies, China and South America. The imported hide is inferior in quality, being small and much scarred from fly bites and brand- ing. There is absolutely no waste, every particle of the refuse being in demand for some purpose. The hair is cleansed and used in the manufacture of cheap cloth, for mattresses and for piaster. The scrapings of flesh are bought by people who reduce it to oil to be used as filling and stuffing by tanners. There is a factory somewhere that buys up all the shavings of leather and by some process reduces it toa pujp, which is mixed with sizing and under pressure made into a’ very good imitation of sole leather. This is used for heels and soles on cheap shoes. Duty or no duty on hides, the subject of skins and leather has been much dis- cussed lately. Gov. Pingree has ex- pressed some very decided views on this subject and his telegram to the President and Michigan representatives in Congress will be remembered in this connection. His statement that ‘‘labor- ers wear as many shoes as millionaires, and must contribute as much toward the tax on hides,”’ and that ‘‘it is grossly unfair to make the poor pay so much per capita as the rich towards the sup- port of the Government,’’ is a senti- ment with which many can agree. But alas for the farmer and the poor pack- ing house owner! The free admission of hides certainly cannot help them. The farmer’s hope that a restricting tariff on foreign hides might put some value on the hide of old ‘‘Bossy’’ or ‘*Brindle’’ would be a vain one. Free hides would also increase the supply and proportionately lower the price of the home product, thus bringing a_ loss on the packing house owner. So the tariff question must ever have two sides, with the poor man in the middle to act as a buffer. A gentleman kindly procured mea copy of the little pamphlet entitled ‘‘ An act to provide revenue for the Govern- ment and to encourage the industries of the United States,’’ known as the ‘*Dingley Bill.’’ I am thus able to give the exact wording of the section which applies to hides. It reads: ‘‘Hides of cattle, raw or uncured, whether dry, salted or pickled, 15 per cent. ad va- lorem; provided that upon all leather exported made from imported hides, there shall be allowed a drawback equal to the amount of duty paid on such hides.’’ Another section provides that skins of all. kinds, raw (except sheep skins with the wool on) shall come in free. And now it has been decided to call calf under one year and a half ‘‘old skins,’’ and let them in free, also. Well, as a tariff does not seem to make our shoes wear much longer, or obviate the necessity of frequent half-soling, I am unable to get up much interest in this phase of the leather question. The first tanner of whom there is any record is Simon, a Christian con- vert who lived at Joppa, and gave lodg ing to Peter. Many men prominent in American history tegan life at the tan- ner’s bench, notably Ulysses S. Grant, Zachary Taylor and the late Jay Gould Emma L. ALLEN. a ae os aa He Didn’t Sit Down. She was young and good looking but very rural, and the drummer in the seat hack of her did want to move over and talk to her, but she didn’t give him any chance. Finally he offered to put the window up for her. ' No, She said, (1 dept want it ap ‘T beg vour pardon,’’ he responded ‘*You don’t have to,’’ she chirruped, ‘‘but if you want to set in this seat with me, why in thunder don't you? I promised my hushand this morning that | wouldn't talk to any man that wasn't homelier than he was, and he said if | would keep that promise he was willin’ to let me go clean ‘1ound the world by myself. You never saw my husband, did you?’’ and she moved over to make room for him, but he heard seven peo- ple laugh, and he backed out and went in another car ee Wants Women to Waik. Chicago women are being talked to energetically and enthusiastically by a woman physician who is advocating pedestrian clubs of women who shall walk several miles a day. If the Chicago lady can establish this fad the shoe dealers and shoe manufac- turers of this country will be neglecting their plain duty if they fail to recom- pense her in the degree that her efforts merit. | Good Things Said by Up-to-Date Shoe | Dealers. Shoes like this, $1.75. Real $3 toot- wear for $1.75, and according to the| papers this is the poorest bargain State | street has seen for a month—the shoes | tell a different story. At a time when | vou can read about buving ‘'$7 shoes for | 69c,’’ these of ours at $1.75 are quite re freshing. For they’re the best bargain for the money we've ever seen, —Car- son, Pirie, Scott & Co, Chicago. Never such a big variety of fine, well-made and shapely slippers in all the newest novelties. And for so little money—we can save you at least a ‘*quarter’’ a pair, generally more. It's worth knowing that there is not a man’s slipper in our stock that has not the easy turnsole, and the kid sock lining. —Gimbe! Bros., Phila. It’s a mistake to advertise an inferior | shoe at a cheap price. Nothing is| more certain to create dissatisfaction | than the shoe that looks well but is| |shoe_ store poor in quality. Apparent economy is often real extravagance. But low prices and good shoes make a_ wonderfully strong combination. Nothing is so quickly appreciated as a really good shoe sold cheap.—Ehrich Bros., N. Y. $1.90 a pair seems absurd for really high-grade up-to-date shoes for women. It is absurd looked at from the usual standpoint. But it’s our method. The method we've been build- ing our business on for twenty-seven years. The method that has made Hallahan-made a magnet for thrifty shoe buyers.—P. T. Hallahan, Phila. Very Much Attached to His Last Place. ‘‘Why were you discharged from your last place?’’ asked the merchant of the applicant for a situation. ‘*T was discharged for good behavior, Sir ‘‘Wasn’t that a singular reason for discharge?’’ ‘Well, you see, good behavior took nine months off my sentence.’’ You now need . W. A. McGraw SSS Ss SSS ss sss ssSSFssssFsFFssFFFsFFFFFSFsFFFFSSFFF>: RUBBERS Order them of Whose stock of Boston and Bay State goods is the & Co., Detroit, # Largest and Freshest of any house in the country. a Try us on Mail Orders. WY 4 awe rR ea = pis PAT ee tee we STV SS Sau ape SORES vas 4 RIE: 4 “ab # Te a ae 2 Cee ae Sef CES. ek ae; SNRs Se 4 SBS ee (74 be ‘ i, rae ries ae = Portrait Qalendars f rae er tx. c a i" 2 —— cs ce Ng re, ‘ ae rage We have lately placed on the market a se: i line of portrait calendars which we think see ae: superior in many respects to the colored oe; te # calendars so long in use, in that the cus- 5 ee: tomer who han 2 eee (ae (at Coes . c~ & ae ete MRICS SERS BORE PERS BI 14 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Fruits and Produce. Narrowing Margin as the Result of Process Butter. The margin between store butter and creamery butter is narrowing, with in- dications that there will never again be so wide a difference. The increasing number of creameries will suggest it- self to all as a reason for this, but there is another reason of an altogether differ- ent nature. It is in the increase in ‘“‘process’’ butter. The store butter of low grade, or of no grade, is clarified and deodorized and colored and fixed up into a resemblance of good butter. It is certainly cleaner after this process than it was before, the same as a sow pulled out of the wallow and scrubbed up is cleaner than before; but this is compromising with bad practices which robs real excellence of its due reward. It also fosters a continuance in bad methods. When a method is bad the right way is to reform the method, rather than reform the bad product of the method. It is cause for joy when a dissolute woman is reformed, but it is far better to keep womanhood pure and clean from the start. It is a help to unclean butter to melt and clarify it, but it is better to keep all dairy prod- ucts clean and pure from the milking to the finish. From the consumer’s point of view, ““process’’ butter is doubtless welcome, for it improves the grade of the low class and gets rid of its offensive rank- ness, while it also depresses the price of the best grade by making eatable butter more abundant. Anything which fosters unclean and objectionable customs by dependence upon subsequent conversions, so to speak, is essentially wrong in itself. It is in the same lineas sending filthy milk to the factory and asking that the taint be taken out after- wards. G. C. BENNETT. —__—_»~¢—.____ Canada Puts Up the Bars Against Rejected Tea. From the Grocery World. It appears to be generally conceded that the pure tea law of the United States is destined to revolutionize the tea trade of the entire world. During the first few months of this law’s opera- tion it was easy to find a market for all the tea rejected at United States ports Much of it was shipped to Canada, and some to London, whence it was trans- ‘shipped to the Continent. The most of the rejected tea was Ping Suey, a cheap green tea for which the retailer pays 15 to 30 cents per pound. Even the 30- cent grade is rejected because its com- paratively high value springs from its appearance, and not from the real qual- itv. This excellence of appearance comes from the free use of rice paste. The customs authorities of Canada now announce that no more ot this re- jected tea shall be allowed admission to its ports. That disposes of one good market for it. ——_2>2.___ Cheese in a Stronger Position in England. From the Montreal Trade Review. Were it not for the fact that the price of cheese is sufficiently low to induce a largely increased consumption, one would be inclined to believe that the trade is in a very unenviable position, but its salvation would seem to lie in the very reasonable prices that now ob- tain. The I.ondon Times, in predicting still lower prices, of course voices the wishes of consumers, whose object it is to buy as cheaply as possible, but as long as choice Canadian cheddars can be sold at the popular sixpenny cut, and show a good profit to retailers, there is bound to be a big demand; and now that the cotton strike has fortunately been averted, the consumptive require- ments of the great English masses, which are the principal demolishers of Canadian cheese, will be considerably augmented. Now that, to all appearances, the trouble between the cotton operatives and their masters has been adjusted, it is only reasonable to expect that consump- tion will increase, more especially as prices are low and popular among the English cutters. Of course, no one ex- pects any great activity until after the holidays, but it may be said here that there are a great many more cheese be- ing placed over the cable than is gen- erally credited. That business is being done we know from the complaints of some shippers here who have no _ stocks and have to go into the market to fill current orders, to the effect that holders here are selling on the other side at lower limits than the former can pay. Another feature in the trade is that short sales have been made to a large extent for December and January ship- ment, and when the time arrives for the execution of these contracts it is ex- pected that a little more life will be in- fused into the situation here. —_—__>2.__ Sugar Made from Potatoes. From the London Telegraph. Brighter days are in store for Ireland, and her inhabitants will soon forget all about home rule in their anxiety to flood the English market with Irish sugar. At present that useful commodity is manufactured either from canes pro- duced under tropical sunshine, or from the beet root cultivated in France and Germany, whose inhabitants, with a self-sacrifice highly meritorious, pay 14 and 16 cents a pound for an article pro- duced in their own country in order that perfidious Albion may enjoy it for 4 cents. Ireland expects soon to enter into competition with the foreigner and to Crive him out of the field. A scien- tist who has had large experience of cane cultivation in Java, and bears a name which under a Dutch exterior shows indisputable marks of Hibernian extraction, has discovered a process by which excellent sugar in immense quan- tities can be got from potatoes. It does not matter whether the tubers are in first-class condition or not; they yield the sugar all the same. Trish agricul- turists are, it is reported from Donegal, waiting anxiously for details of the process, which may revolutionize the future of Ireland. —__—__»2<.___ Orange-Growing in Ceylon. The orange is grown to a consider able extent in Ceylon. The oranges grown in this colony are, mostly, unlike those from Australia and: the West. However ripe, they, asa general rule, preserve their green hue, and do not change to the fyellow fruit with which we are so familiar. This is not ex- clusively the case, but is so with most varieties grown, while the flavor isa sharp one, and, consequently, even more refreshing than the sweet orange of Europe, America and Australia. 2a» a>____ California Mandarins from Italy. Riverside navel oranges grown in Spain made their appearance in the Eastern markets last year, and now Cal- ifornia mandarins from Italy have be- gun to arrive. They are said to be from trees grown from seed obtained in California nine years ago. The fruit is packed in American boxes and_ is decked with tinsel and tin foil a la Italienne. On the covers stand out in bold letters, ‘‘Riverside,’’ and other sections in California where the seeds were procured. —> 2 Are Jamaica Oranges Being Sold as Floridas? From the Grocery World. The repacking of Jamaica oranges from barrels and boxes has created a suspicion among dealers that a great deal of this fruit is going out branded as Florida. We believe that, even if the fruit does bear a mark or brand, experienced fruit merchants ought to be able to tell the difference between Jamaica and Florida oranges, 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. 2 -28-30-32 Ottawa St., Grand Rapids, [lich. Wholesale Seeds, Potatoes, Beans, Fruits. Harris & Frutchey Wholesale Commission Merchants Are a good firm to ship Butter and Eggs to. 60 Woodbridge St., W., Detroit, Mich. MILLER & TEASDALE CO. ORANGES “i: NUTS We have too cars La Barca and Sonora Oranges rolling, which can PRODUCE be diverted to any point; wire for prices. 601 NORTH THIRD ST., ST. LOUIS, MO. We are in the market to buy PEAS, BEANS, POTATOES Onions and Onion Sets, Clover Seed, Allsyke, Pop Corn, etc. If any to offer, Telephone, Wire or Write us, Stating quantity. ALFRED J. BROWN SEED CoO., 24 and 26 North Division St., GRAND RAPIDS. a : R. HIRT, Jr. : n Produce Commission Merchant y 2 &* Market Street, Detroit. : a Write for particulars, ¥ N. WOHLFELDER & CO., Wholesale Grocers and Commission Merchants CHEESE, BUTTER and EGGS. Consignments Solicited. 399-401-403 High St,, East, DETROIT COYNE BROTHERS ' WHOLESALE COMMISSION MERCHANTS 161 S. Water St., Chicago. BUTTER, EGGS, POULTRY, FRUITS AND VEGETABLES Car Lots: POTATOBS, APPLES, BEANS, ONIONS References: W. M. Hoyt Co., Wholesale Grocers, Chicago. W. J. Quan & Co., Wholesale Grocer, Chi- cago. Bradstreet and Dun’s Agencies. Bankers: Merchants Nantional Bank, Chicago. Write for Tags and Stencils. Mention this Paper when Writing. All kinds of VEGETABLES Ask for prices upon carlots or less. The Vinkemulder Company, Grand Rapids, Mich. Cranberries | Grapes | Celery | Onions | Apples | — anes n — anes n MICHIGAN TRADESMAN i6 GOTHAM GOSSIP. News from the Metropolis---Index to the Market. Special Correspondence. New York, Dec. 18—Coffee, while rel- atively in about the same condition as last week as to quotations, is not meet- ing with any great amount ot enthusi- asm. Orders trom interior points have been for present wants and there is an entire absence of speculation. Rio No. 7 1s held at 63¢c 1n invoice lots. The supply, both here and afloat, remains large, aggregating 1,020, 384 bags, against 693,000 bags at the same time last year. In mild grades there is only a limited amount of business going for- ward, and the general feeling seems to be ene of quietude. Of course, dealers profess to be simply waiting until after the holidays before making a_ brave fight for more business. An advance of \%c has been made on nearly all grades of sugar and granu- lated is now listed at 5c after a long period of absolute rest. In general, trade during the week was extremely quiet and buyers seemed to take only enough for temporary purposes. Deal- ers look for a firm market until at least the turn of the year. Raw sugars are firm. Teas are dull. Matters seem to have fallen back into the same old rut and neither at auction nor at private sales do buyers seem to take any interest in the article. Just waiting—that’s the word. The finer grades sell pretty well, but, as a rule, purchases are for sorting-up purposes. Invoice trading is at a stand- still. There is a somewhat better demand for rice, both for foreign and domestic sorts, but no change in quotations. Ad- vices from abroad’ are firm and a good market is looked for after Jan. 1. Pepper is decidedly more active and some very liberal orders have come to hand—liberal, that 1s, as compared with many previous ones. Some speculative buying has evidently been going for- ward. Orders have come from many points and the general tone is_satisfac- tory. Prices on all lines are firm. The canned goods market grows firmer day by day and it is becoming very evident that stocks are lower, both with packers and retailers, than for a long time. It is said that Maryland warehouses are more nearly depleted than for a long time. Corn is especial- ly in request this week and standard brands are worth 85@ooc at Portland. Stocks there are light. New York, 7o@goc on the spot, as to quality. Standard New Jersey tomatoes sell very quickly at $1, and higher prices seem inevitable within a month. And there are yet eight months before new goods arrive! Salmon are also firm. No. 1 Columbias, tall tins, $1.30@1.50. Lemons and oranges are very quiet and the holiday rush seems to be over or gathering strength for the final on- slaught. The better grades of Florida fruit sell with quite a degree of readi- ness, but there is room for improve- ment in the general market. Florida oranges are worth $3@4.50 per box. There is hardly an atom of interest displayed in the dried fruit market for anything. Prices all around are low and seemingly unremunerative. The butter market is without interest. The demand is of an average character and 23c is top price for best Western dairy. For grades not up to standard there is no market. The cheese market is quiet, but in rather better condition than a week ago. New York State, small size, full cream, is worth 9@1o%c. Very little is doing among exporters. Western fresh gathered eggs are firm at 23c and the market is very firm. The demand is for greater supplies than are available and the situation will probably favor holders for the remainder of the year. Beans are quiet for nearly all sorts. Choice marrow are worth $1.35@I. 40. Choice pea, $1.15@1.17%4. e008 The Microbe in Our Everyday Life. Written for the TRADESMAN. From the day when our forefathers and foremothers expiated their sins by dressing themselves in a coffee sack and sitting down in the ashes, and the Hin- doo devotee, who believed the unpar- donable sin was to eat animal food— particularly if alive—was permitted to gaze through the lens of a microscope and see the swarms of animal life that he in his ignorance was daily devour- ing, mankind have persistently sought for a lower life principle until to-day the initial cause of all our ills, together with numerous blessings to balance them, is found in the dreaded microbes which the subtle genius of man still later discovered. According to our scientists, we now have a microbe not only for every disease, but also for all the chem- ical changes which take place in the vegetable and animal food we _ have hitherto considered harmless and wholesome. Heretofore, we have as- serted that certain kinds of food ‘‘did not agree with us;’’ in other words, caused illness. In our ignorance we were not aware that, like mankind in general, there are good and bad mi- crobes ; and, while certain kinds produce disease, others whose home is in other foods are friendly to our organisms and produce health and longevity. These infinitesimal bacteria seem to be often amphibious—in fact all-per- vading—and whose vital spark is not easily extinguished. The scientist, with his gummed glass, may ensnare their unwary feet in all places, whether cleanly or putrid, and by the aid of his microscope is enabled, by their form, features, complexion or size, to decide whether they be good for food, danger- ous or harmless. Shades of Hahnemann! Similia similibus curantur! Think of the infinitesimal dose of microbe which can neither be seen, tasted nor felt, but which -is to kill or cure the patient if the effect is not counteracted. Here- after death may literally ‘‘lurk in the pot’’ unsuspected and unknown. All our exquisite flavors which gratify taste or smell are also caused by these microbes. Hencetorward it will be the province of science to simply furnish the dose which will render the bite or the pres- ence of each species of microbe harm- less, when considered fatal, and to propagate the species which add to the delicious flavor of the various kinds of our food and drink. The fertilizing butter microbe is actually on the market to-day, and not only is a greater quan- tity obtained from a given quantity of milk, but the butter is considered su- perior to any other. One writer says, ‘‘A thousand living animals are in every glass of water.’’ This assertion is doubtless true, yet most of them are harmless and con- decive to health. The animal life in our food and drink are known as bacilli, bacteria and infusoria and, because they are invisible to the naked eye, are spoken of, in general, as microbes, or material which must be examined with a microscope. One of the most com- mon organisms found in water is the Omoeba. It is one of the lowest forms of animal life, and really nothing more than a speck of jelly, and as nutritious as gelatine. The infusoria are among the prettiest, as well as the smallest, of all micro-organisms. Most kinds of the harmless and eatable microbes with- stand the effects of extreme heat and cold to a marvelous degree. ‘‘You do not intend to eat that ice cream, after listening to the lecture by Professor Gamot?’’ said one lady to another. “*Yes, indeed, I do,’’ was the answer. ‘‘IT think the ice cream microbes deli- cious, and a glass of old sherry immedi- ately after it puts the little animals to sleep.’’ ‘‘But if they should awaken?’’ queried the lady. ‘‘Then, of course, I take another glass of sherry, and con- tinue the treatment until one of us is locked in sleep for at least ten hours, and then we all arise refreshed."’ One old farmer tells me that he has discovered a microbious (?) food for fowls, and that it surpasses all other food in the production of both the num- ber and quality of eggs; also fattens the birds at one-half the expense. He says the home of this microbe is found only in the seeds of our common _ sunflower. It is to be hoped that, unlike the Eng- lish sparrow and potato bug, no enemy will arise to declare a war of extermina- tion against it and thus bar this rising industry. Our good wife offers a premium for a microbe which will cause her bread- rising to ‘‘hump itself’’ inside of fifteen minutes after mixing, and also with- stand a temperature in the oven vf 212 degrees Fahrenheit for thirty minutes longer. She believes it would add at least a decade of years to her life. Ver- ily, we live ina wonderfully progressive age, in which science is bounded by no lines; and to ‘‘labor for bread’’ will soon be only an annoying dream of the past. FRANK A. Howie. ———~>_-2 It is he who spends his life in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing that he ought to do, who ever complains of the shortness of time—always complain- ing that our days are too few, yet acting as though there would be no end of them. —__> «-___ The hardest of all tasks is to be tol- erant of intolerant people. Who gets the... Oyster Trade? The man whose oysters are the freshest and best flavored. Who loses other trade? The man who sells fishy oysters diluted with ice to disgust his customers. Avoid such a calamity by using our Oyster Cabinets. (See cut.) They are lined with copper so you can use salt with the ice. They have porcelain lined cans. Send for circular. Grand Rapids Refrigerator Co. Grand Rapids, Mich. ANCHOR BRAND OYSTERS Will please your customers and make you money. Popular prices prevail. F. J. DET TENTHALER, 117-119 MONROE STREET, HORORRONORORONOROTONORORONOHOROROHONOReHORORORONCE Ask for quotations. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. CHOHRORORCROROHOROHORE Mnfrs of Foot and Power Bean Picking Machinery. We will send our Machine on 10 days’ trial to interested parties, as we know that it will give satisfaction. culars, Prices and a Machine if you wish. MILLER BROS., A card will bring Cir- ROCHESTER, MICH. HOLIDAY ORANGES Gloriously Fine and going to be higher. Cape Cod Cranberries, Honey, Lemons, Bananas, Sweet Potatoes, Red and Yellow Onions, Spanish Onions.#.%.% BUNTING & CO., = Grand Rapids For HOLIDAY TRADE. Carloads of % Be sure to get our price before buying. Hermann C. Fancy Callifornia Navel ORANGES Naumann & Co., 33 Woodbridge St. W., Detroit MICHIGAN TRADESMAN EVIL DAYS AHEAD. How the Wise Merchant Should Hus- band His Resources. Prosperity ruins nine out of ten busi- ness men. The figure is not exact per- haps, but it is little, if any, too high. Look along the street of any town and compare the signs with those that hung in the same place ten years ago. How similar are the names? How many of the signs have remained unchanged for a decade? Run down the list of absentees and figure each one’s present condition. How many of them who are still alive are enjoying the moderate fortune that they possessed ten or even five years ago? I am reminded of a shoe man, a pop- ular gentleman, honest, upright and capable. Less than ten years ago this man was one of the leading shoe mer- chants of the West, drawing from his business a princely income annually and living in extravagant, lavish lux- ury. To-day he is flat. There are plenty of others who have been equally unfortunate. Prosperity has given them unbounded contidence in themselves. Their business bas been so successful that they fall into the er- ror of believing that it will always be so and that as they prosper to-day so will they prosper to-morrow. It seems strange, in the face of the number of examples to the contrary, that this should be so, but it is. It is characteristic of the American business man to be over-confident and this trait usually results in his undoing. The average business is built up from nothing or next to nothing. A man with a little money and unlimited con- fidence in himself starts in with a small stock of goods obtained largely on credit. Hard work, close economy and oftentimes a fortuitous combination of circumstances put the business on a good paying basis and before tke mer- chant fully realizes it he is one of the prosperous men of the town. Then he makes one of two mistakes. He either sits down to enjoy his in- come, letting the business run on In the same old way, or he regards himself as an able business man with unlimited capacity and in a boid-bluff plan to get rich in a jiffy spreads himself over a variety of business enterprises until the tabric is so thin that the first sharp point punctures it. A few days agoa prosperous Louisiana merchant failed for about $100,000. He was doing well, but ambitious to do better. He owned and leased no less than twelve plantations and had cotton been high would bave come out with colors flying and a_ bank account ap- preciably fattened. With cotton low be was unable to meet the strain and as- Signment was the only course left. So it goes. Business men have their ups and downs in the world and must expect them. The merchant of to-day may be the broken-down, disheartened wretch of to-morrow and it lies with him to profit by the prosperity of the present to avoid trouble in the future. It is so easy to increase one’s ex- penses to keep pace with the growth of one’s income and so difficult to econo- mize once the habits of extravagance have been formed. Better progress less slowly at the start than to shoot up rocket-like and fall as does the stick. If the young business man _ whose trade is growing and whose profits are increasing will hold himself down he will find it the best action of his life. He need not be niggardly, but careful. It is not well to try to live in too big a house that is plastered with mortgages. it is safer to stick to the smaller house until the cash account is large enough to build the new one without jeopardi- zing the whole future with debt that must be met sometime—possibly when con- ditions are less rosy. He is a wise merchant whu husbands his resources even to the extent of tak- ing from his business the full percent- age that it will stand and putting it in- to safe property in the name of his wife or children, Every merchant can with confidence count in a falling-off in his business in the future. It may be one year hence or it may be ten, but it is almost as sure to come as death itself and it is the height of wisdom for the merchant to make provision for it. I would not stifle ambition. Almost every good thing in-this world comes from ambi- tion. But 1 would control it. Over-am- bition has strewn the commercial shore with mercantile wrecks and made of Wall Street a graveyard of hopes. I would have the merchant watch himself more closely when money comes easy than when it comes by hard work. I would have him less quick to spend more for his food, more for his clothes, more for his amusements, more for van- ity. I would have bim live well and comfortably, dress neatly and in style, enjoy life in a wholesome, honest man- ner—and I would have him work justas hard to keep his business moving for- ward when it is on a prosperous basis as when he was building it up to that level. In short, I would have him mas- ter prosperity, not let prosperity master him. The merchant is peculiarly surrounded with the elements which in nine cases out of ten, perhaps, accomplish his ruin He buys his goods on credit. He grows accustomed to buying to-day and paying ‘in the future. Familiarity breeds contempt and he plays with the fire that a man less used to it would dread. In a supremely confident mo- ment he bites off more than he can chew and when the day of Jiquidation comes—and it always does come—his life’s work falls in ashes at his feet. “It’s true enough,’’ you say and you will go about your business in the same old way. You will not heed the warn- ing. It’s human nature that you should not. Your business is paying you. It is prosperous. The year 1897 shows up far brighter than you expected. Next year will be better yet—so you hope, and, hoping, will take it for granted that it is bound to be so; but it is for you that this warning is given. Your business will not always prosper. Ex- perience teaches it and you _ should realize it. Some day there is coming a liquidation day. The old business will begin to stop moving up the hill and will begin to slide back. And how fast it will slide! Now is the time to pre- pare for that day. Sticking to a busi- ness hard and pushing it for all there is in it will usually result in better returns than drifting into uncertain outside speculations. Get all you can out of it and adjust your living so that you save a guod margin every year. Work your buying around to as nearly a cash basis as possible. Keep an eagle eye on col- lections and a close guard on credits. Keep the stock close trimmed and buy often rather than on speculative lines. Get ahead. Own something besides your business; something that is safe and more than likely to grow more valuable. Study from to-day, to the end that when the sign over your door makes its inevitable change there will be no op- portunity for your old friends and newer competitors to shake their heads sadly and mutter, ‘"Too bad, too bad! Poor old Smith, I guess, is flat on his back. Hung on too long and lost everything. ’’ —Shoe and Leather Gazette —___»-0 2. Vows made in storms are forgotten in calms. WHOLE WHEAT FLOUR contains the entire grain of wheat with only the fibrous covering removed. Every pound of this flour represents 16 ounces of food value. q \ A WA Ee Ss =F) DE é ze y & Pe EPO ywowws» WS MAY Wwawk It contains all the elements required to build up the daily wastes of the human system. Bread made from it is easily assimilated; is highly nutritious and is most palatable. Every grocer should have it in stock. Manufactured by.... GUARD, FAIRFIELD & CO., Allegan, Mich. Michigan trade supplied by the Olney & Judson Grocer Co., Grand Rapids. POOR ECONOMY It is poor economy to handle cheap flour. It is never reliable. You cannot guarantee it. You do not know whether it will make good bread or not. If it should not make good bread — and poor flour never does — your customer will be displeased and avoid you afterwards. You can guarantee... “Lily White” Flour We authorize you to do so. Itmakes good bread every time. One sack sold to-day will bring customers fortwo sacks later on. Order some NOW. Valley City Mitling Co. Grand Rapids, Mich. BOROROROCHONOHONOROOCHOROR W.R. BRICE. WN 2 ENS Ro An Sd WwW aE fe dollar mark, years. squarely, PF ENIN IAL ESTABLISHED 1852. Butter, Eggs and Poultry 23 South Water Street, Philadelphia, Pa. To our many shipper friends: The past year has had a good many ups and downs, and has no doubt been profitable to some of you, while right the reverse to others. Our business has grown year by year, and this has been the banner year. Our sales have run over themillion and we believe that our success is due to the energy and perseverance with which we have conducted our business for many We believe we have a repu- tation for treating consignors giving them right prices, proper weights and quick réturns. Would this not interest you? We wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy and Prosperous New Year. (ee 9 PO ENR SNe Ir Cc. M. DRAKE. W.R. Brice & Co., Produce Commission Merchants nee ‘Renee cs toni cn acgaciidepuplaaaeactiaene ales ‘of Reed City, MICHIGAN TRADESMAN I7 Commercial Travelers Michigan Knights of the Grip. President, Jas. F. HAMMELL, Lansing; Secretary, J. C. SauNDERs, Lansing; Treasurer, Cuas. Mc- Noury, Jackson. Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Association. President, S. H. Hart, Detroit; Secretary and Treasurer, D. Morais, Detroit. United Commercial Travelers of Michigan. Grand Counselor, F. L. Day. Jackson; Grand Secretary, G. S. Vatmore, Detroit; Grand Treas- urer, GEO. A. REYNOLDs, Saginaw. Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual Acci- dent Association. President, A. F. Pzake, Jackson; Secretary and Treasurer, Gro. F. Owen, Grand Rapids. Board of Directors—F. M. Tyter, H. B. Farr- CHILD,Jas. N. BRADFORD, J. HENRY DAWLEY,GEO. J. HEINZELMAN, CuHas. S. RoBrnson. Lake Superior Commercial Travelers’ Club. President, W. C. Brown, Marquette; Secretary and Treasurer, A. F. Wrxson, Marquette. Gripsack Brigade. J. Henry Dawley severs his connec- tion with the Hanselman Candy Co. Jan. 1 to return to the fold of the Put- nam Candy Co., with which establish- ment he was connected for several years prior to his going with A. E. Brooks & Co. C. W. Saylor, who has been repre- senting Morley Bros. in this territory, has engaged to travel next year for the Clark-Rutka-Jewell Co., covering the same territory as formerly. Other sales- men will be engaged by the new house as soon as the necessary preliminaries can be arranged. Frank W. Haddon, formerly on the road for H. Leonard & Sons, but for the past year in charge of the Heyman Co., has engaged to cover Central and Western Michigan for Jenness & Mc- Curdy, of Detroit. Mr. Hadden has made an excellent record with the Hey- man Co., but has yearned to resume road work, which is more congenial to him than life behind the counter. Council 116, United Commercial Travelers, was organized at Hillsdale last Saturday by F. L. Day, Supreme Counselor, assisted by G. S. Valmore, Supreme Secretary. The organization Starts out with fourteen charter mem- bers, the territorial jurisdiction extend- ing from Adrian to Sturgis. After the organization of the Council was com- pleted, a banquet was given by the lo- cal members to the supreme officers and visitors at Smith’s Hotel. T. V. Childs, the pioneer merchant now 88 years of age, writes the Tradesman as follows: ‘‘I was much pleased to read Mr. Brad- ford’s biography in your last issue, which is very true, so far as my ac- quaintance with him is concerned. I have dealt with him a good many years and he has always given me good ad- vice and been a good friend to me. I am always glad to meet him, as it seems like meeting a brother.’’ S. H. Hart, President of the Michi- gan Commercial Travelers’ Associa- tion, assures the Tradesman that the report which has become current throughout the State to the effect that the new club rooms maintained by the Association in Detroit entail financial loss on the parent organization is un- true. Mr. Hart states that enough money was voluntarily pledged to keep up the expenses of the club rooms last year and that more than enough has been pledged to meet the expenses the coming year. Commercial Bulletin: A commercial traveler of experience, in discussing the essential qualities, the other day, for a successful salesman, was heard to remark that ‘‘cheerfulness was the most desirable attribute through which suc- cess could be obtained.’’ The dis- gruntled individual is not alone un- happy himself, but he casts a gloom over those with whom he comes in con- tact. If aman cannot be cheerful un- der the influence of adverse conditions and annoying surroundings he would better retire to the life of a hermit. The necessity of changing the time of holding the annual conventions of the Michigan Knights of the Grip is emphasized this year by the fact that Saturday is a legal holiday. If the con- ventions were held on Thursday and Friday, instead of Tuesday and Wed- nesday, those of the boys who have to be out on the road holiday week could get in three full days the first part of the week, spend two days at the con- vention and end the week by remaining home New Years. As it is, they are compelled to go out Monday, jump to Kalamazoo Tuesday and Wednesday, and then complete their routes Thurs- day and Friday. Several efforts have been made to change the time of hold- ing the convention to conform to these conditions, but each time the effort has proved futile, owing to the opposition of the Board of Directors. Inasmuch as the constitution can be amended by a two-thirds vote of the members present at any Convention, it is quite likely that this and other amendments of an es- sential nature will be taken up and dis- cussed and possibly acted upon at Kal- amazoo. The inconsistency of men was never more strikingly illustrated than in the action of Post E (Grand Rapids) in vot- ing—24 to 12—to go to the Kalamazoo convention over the Lake Shore Rail- road. Half fare rates to the convention were made by the Michigan Railway Association, so that the selection of the route naturally depended on which road could offer the better facilities and stood on the closer terms with the traveling fraternity. The G. R. & I. route is nine miles shorter; its depots are more advantageously located at both ends of the route, and there are three trains a day over the road, whereas the Lake Shore has only two trains; furthermore, the G. R. & I. has always been on friendly terms with the boys, having exerted its kindly offices many times in their behalf and having persistently and consistently advocated the change re- cently made in the new mileage book; moreover, the G. R. & I. has always been a law-abiding institution, selling fam- ily mileage books for $20, in accordance with the act of the Legislature. The Lake Shore, on the other hand, ignores the law, defies the decisions of the Su- preme Court, insults the boys on fre- quent occasions and invariably treats them with scant courtesy; yet in spite of this fact, a majority of them in, vot- ing in open meeting, voluntarily stooped to “‘kiss the hand that smites’’ and voted to patronize a road which never had any use for a traveling man and probably never will have. The spectacle is not one calculated to increase the respect of the community in the con- sistency of the fraternity ; and, in com- mon with all true friends of the travel- ing men, the Tradesman deplores the hasty action, believing that if a vote were taken of the entire traveling men of Grand Rapids, it would be found that nine votes would be cast for the G. R. & I. route where one would be cast for the Lake Shore. —_—_—_2> 2. ____ The pruned limb is seldom the one that dies, The Men Whom Lake Superior Trav- elers Meet. Dick MacLean, the general manager of the Isaac Stephenson Lumber Co., Wells, is good company for any _travel- er to meet, whether it is in a business way or not. Dick is as full of witty Scotch poetry as he can well be and when he does ‘‘give up’’ a little, he is an entertainer—AA No. 1. Joe Hayden (I. E. Swift, Ishpeming) can roast a traveler to the queen’s taste. He enjoys a good story as well as the best of them and when his old sides shake—each one weighs 130 pounds—you may know that when he catches his breath he has got a better one to tell. If there were more Joe Haydens there would be fewer gloomy traveling men. M. R. Manhard (Marquette), although pretty well along in years, is just as young at heart as any of the boys. He is on deck for business all the time and conducts a fine hardware business in his own store—one of the prettiest and most conveniently arranged in the State. A. M. LeRoy (Chicago Lumber Co., Manistique) was an old traveler, having covered the Upper Peninsula for Jenness & McCurdy for years. His popularity on the road has followed him to his present position. He knows how it was on the road and has rather a smooth way of calling down a faulty traveler. LeRoy is all right, just the same. M. RL Manhard Co. Ltd. (New- berry), have purchased the Hubbard grocery stock. The manager of the for- mer concern, J. C. Foster, who has been in no other business but hardware, will tackle the job of keeping up stock in the grocery department. He solicits hardware business in several adjoining towns and is a very much mixed up man at the present writing. His order book is more varjed than a traveling man’s character or an old maid's crazy quilt Items appear in this order: Axes and eggs, butter and axle grease, matches and gunpowder, boiled oil and molasses, pickles and a carload of hay, chewing gum and glue, potatoes and axe handles, Syrup, screen doors and fly paper. He thinks of buying tea by the keg, tobac- co by the crate and soap by the gross He insists on buying sugar at 75, 1oand 7% per cent. discount from list and wants to place an order for a carload of pork at present price for spring deliv- ery, price guaranteed to date of ship- ment, specifications subject to change or cancellation. His troubles have only begun. eo __ A Traveler’s Tribute to Grand Marais. Grand Marais, Dec. 20—This is a pretty little town, to be sure. It is situated beside one of the best harbors of Lake Superior and is the terminus of the Manistique Railway, which runs something of a novelty by way ofa train. It looks like an ordinary mixed or ‘cannon ball’’ train, but it is different —it is a (‘Smear’’ train. While it is thirty miles to Seney—a point on the D., S. S. & A. Railway—it doesn’t seem ten—you get so interested, you know. The scenery is grand! The town is inhabited by as fine a lot of people as one will find anywhere. They are wholesouled and make a traveling man’s stay a pleasant one. In no other town on the top of the green earth can a traveler put more hours into a day than here. He is on duty from early morning until early morning; and, if he went there often enough, he would be able to prove or disprove Edison’s theory that man doesn’t need much sleep. ——__~>-2 2 Hoffman Endorsed by Post E. Grand Rapids, Dec. 20--At a special meeting of Post E, held at Sweet's Hotel Dec. 18, the Entertainment Committee was instructed to order coaches for a special train over the Lake Shore road to the Kalamazoo con- vention. It was decided to have the train leave at 9:30 a. m. Geo. F. Owen was designated to act as custodian for the occasion. Jas. N. Bradford, Geo. F. Owen and John Cumins were appointed a Com- mittee on Decoration. On motion of F, M, Tyler, the can- didacy of John A. Hoffman for the presidency of the State organization was unanimously endorsed and the members of the Post were instructed to vote as a unit for that gentleman. It was decided to get out a circular letter to all Grand Rapids traveling men, asking them to join the members of the Post in attending the convention. It was also decided to get out 500 ribbon badges, reading ‘‘ Hoffman and Bradford. ’’ E. A. Stowe, Sec’y. ——__+_~> 2» And Still They Come. Marquette, Dec. 20—The following are the most recent additions to the membership of the Lake Superior Com- mercial Travelers’ Club: Geo. A. Donlin, Detroit, with U. S. Accident Association, Detroit. , Watson, Grand Rapids, with- Daniel Lynch, Grand Rapids. Fred Marymont, Detroit, with Pres- ent & Co., New York. Sam Rose, Detroit, with Detroit Cap Co, G. F. Mack, Chicago, with Keith Bros. & Co., Chicago. J. A. Fuller, Fond du Lac, with Jewett & Sherman, Milwaukee. H. J. Kremer, Ashland, Wis., with Marshall-Wells Hardware Co., Duluth. A. L. Thompson, Marquette, with Phelps, Brace & Co., Detroit. —__—~>-2 Speculation is very rife just at pres- ent as to what will be done when all the coal of the world is exhausted, but there is a dumb silence in regard to the fu- ture of the country when the timber is all cleared away. There is more than sufficient evidence to prove that the coal will last for thousands of years, but at the rate at which the wood is disap- pearing there are grave doubts whether the present supply will last even a life- time, Cutler House at Grand Haven. Steam Heat. Excellent Table. Com- fortable Rooms. H. D. and P. H. TRISH. Props. HOTEL WHITCOMB ST. JOSEPH, MICH. A. VINCENT. Prop. 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.. Plainweil, Mich. _ Hoskins & Company GRAIN, PROVISIONS and STOCK 176 Griswold Street, Detroit, Mich. Hodges Buiiding. New York, Chicago and St. Louis. Private wires: For Two Dollars AN Aw A day, it’s the finest a hotel in the State; newly furnished, high- class table and ex- cellent service, at The Griswold POSTAL & MOREY, Props. DETROIT, MICH. Hotel Normandie of Detroit Re- duces Rates. Determined to continue catering to popular de- mand for good hotel accommodations at low prices, we reduce the rates on fifty rooms from $2.50 to $2 per day, and rooms with bath from $3.50 to $3. The popular rate of 50 cents per meal, established when the Normandie was first opened, continues. Change of rates will in no way affect the quality, and our constant aim in the future will be, as in the past, to furnish the BEST accommodations for the rates charged, Carr & Reeve. 8 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Drugs-=Chemicals MICHIGAN STATE BOARD OF PHARMACY. Term expires S. E. PARKILL, Owosso”~ - - Dec. 31, 1897 F. W. R. Perry, Detroit - - Dec. 31, 1898 A. C. ScoUMacHER, Ann Arbo - Dee. 31, 1899 Gro. GunprRom, Ionia - - - Dec. 31, 1900 L. E. REYNotps, St. Joseph Dec. 31, 1901 President, F. W. R. Perry, Detroit. Secretary, Geo. GunpRuM, Ionia, Treasurer, A. C. ScHUMACHER, Ann Arbor. Examination Sessions. Detroit—Tuesday, Jan. 4 and 5. Grand Rapids— March 1 and 2. Star Island—June 27 and 28. Marquette—A bout Sept. 1. Lansing— Nov. 1 and 2. All meetings will begin at 9 o'clock a. m. ex- cept the Star Island meeting, which begins at 8 o’clock p. m. MICHIGAN STATE PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION. President—A. H. WespeEr, Cadillac. Secretary—CuHas. Mann, Detroit. Treasurer—JoHNn D. Murr, Grand Rapids. Whom Nothing Could Feaze. M. Quad in American Druggist. There may be another druggist in this world the equal of Hazen, who departed this life the other day, but I know I shall never find him. There are drug- gists and druggists. Hazen wasn't born for a minister, lawyer, doctor, plumber or blacksmith, but fora druggist. He was suave, courteous, cheerful, calm and nervy. He never took sides in politics, had no religion to dispute about, and nothing ever rattled him. The beginning of our acquaintance was a pleasant incident. I had been lured into the store by a bargain in toilet soap, and Hazen had entered into a lengthy, but interesting, dissertation on the subject of fly-specked toilet soap at 3 cents per cake, when a man came rushing into the store and exclaimed: ‘*My God, man, but you sold me morphine for quinine and have killed my wife!’’ I jumped a foot high, and felt my hair trying to stand up; but not so with Hazen. He finished his harangue by warning me that sassafras-scented soap was not made from sassafras root—not by a jugful—and then calmly turned to the man, and said: ‘*Let’s see! Your name isn’t it?’’ ‘““Yes; and my wife has taken two of your morphine capsules and won't live an hour!’’ shouted the man. ‘“*“Just so—just so. Will you have a glass of soda water, Mr. Dover?’’ ‘*My God—My God! but what an awful mistake!’’ groaned the man. ““You see,’’ continued Hazen, as he toyed with a toothbrush from the _ bas- ketful on the show-case, ‘‘you were in here about half an hour ago. You asked for quinine capsules. I put them up for you. Had your wife taken two after you got home she would not be ina dying condition now. It takes morphine longer to act than that. A doctor and a stomach-pump will save her. She doesn’t want to be saved, however. It so happened that I sold the last speck of morphine in the store this morning, and although I telephoned for more it has not arrived yet.’’ ‘*Then—you—you?”’ ““Then I put up gquinine—only quinine, Mr. Dover.’’ ‘*Thank God--Thank God!’’ almost sobbed the excited man as he rushed from the store. ‘*You see,’’ said the druggist to me, as he ran his finger over the toothbrush in an absent way, ‘‘I am not contend- ing that fly-specks add to the virtue of toilet soap; but neither will I admit that they detract. It is an open ques- tion—a problem which may be unsolved for years to come!”’ On another occasion I had made the purchase of a 5-cent sponge as an ex- cuse to enter the store and admire Hazen for a few minutes, and the pur- chase had almost been concluded, when a wild-eyed man with a gun in one hand and a letter in the other kicked the door open and almost yelled: **Perfidious wretch, but J have caught you at last, and now you shall feel my vengeance! I suspected that my wife A Druggist is Dover, received this letter to-day, and holding this pistol to her head I made her give it up!’’ ‘*Your—your name is Jones, I be- lieve?’’ replied the druggist, in an ab- sent way as he continued to look over the sponges. ‘*No, sir—it’s Philbrick!’' shouted the man. ‘“‘Oh! I see. Well, Mr. Philbrick, what can I do for you this evening?’’ ‘‘Do! Do! You can explain this letter and then die!’’ ‘‘A letter? Ah! yes—a letter to Mrs. Philbrick. I did not write it. I never even saw her. There are several cor- ner drug stores in this town, and you have got us mixed up.’’ ‘Do you pretend !’’ shouted the man with the gun, as he waved it on high, when Hazen suavely interrupted with: ‘*Some other corner drug store, please, as I am very busy just now.’’ Then he turned to me and_ explained that sponges were a marine growth found in tropical seas—that they were bleached before coming into market—-that 5 cents was less than the original cost of a clothes-cleaning sponge, and I don’t be- lieve he even heard the man with the gun back out and slam the door. Again, as I hypocritically purchased a 5-cent box of chloride of lime in order to have an excuse for hanging about the store a few minutes, a woman with bare head and woe-begone expression entered and exclaimed : ‘“Mr. Hazen, my husband has struck me again!’’ ‘Struck you again? I see,’’ replied the druggist without looking up from his work of filling a prescription. ‘*And I don’t care to livea day longer —not a day!’’ ‘Not a day,’’ he repeated, **He shall come home in the morning and find me dead and cold, and I don’t care if it breaks his heart. The idea of his daring to strike me!’’ “*Yes, the idea.’’ ‘‘T want some poison, Mr. What would you recommend?’’ ‘“Why, we have arsenic, strychnine, morphine and several other sorts, al] warranted to do the business. I think arsenic will suit you best of all. Here are ten grains. Good-bye, Mrs. Tay- lor, *” And he banded her a_ package of chalk and_ began telling me about chloride of lime and other disinfectants, and he didn’t see the woman fling the package into a soap-hox and sail out in a huff. These and scores of similar in- cidents endeared Mr. Hazen to me and made me his staunch admirer. He was not rattled even when the doctor told him that death was only a few hours away. On the contrary, he smiled and sought to rub his hands,as if greeting a lady customer at the store, and cheer- fully whispered : ‘‘Just so, doctor—just so. Hope the public will not f211 to take advantage of my cut-down sale next week—all cough medicines cut half in two, and genuine castile soap for less than the cost of importation. ‘’ Hazen. 2 The Drug Mar «et. There are few and _ unimportant changes to note. At all the large trade centers inventory is taken about this time and there is no movement of goods in large quantities. Balsam Peru—Very firm and advan cing. Cloves —Stock in this country is con- centrated and, on account of higher prices abroad, an advance is noted. Opium—Is in a strong position, but unchanged. Morphine—Is in active demand at unchanged prices. Quinine—This article is steady at the decline. Borax—Market is very firm and the article is scarce. Caffein—This article has declined $1 per lb. Gum Camphor—Has declined on ac- count of Japanese competition. Calamus Root—Is scarce and_ higher. of Wholesale Houses. Detroit, Dec. 20—The papers in the consolidation of the drug firms of Wil- liams, Davis, Brooks & Co. and T. H. Hinchman, Sons & Co., were signed to- day, and the deal goes into effect Janu- ary 1. The consolidated house will be known as ‘‘Williams, Davis, Brooks & Hinchman Sons.’’ The two firms had not been incorporated, but the consoli- dation will be a corporation, with a cap- ital stock of $600,000, and the articles of incorporation will be tiled in a few days. The officers of the new concern will be as follows: President, Wm. C. Williams, President of the present firm of Williams, Davis, Brooks & Co.; Vice-President and General Manager, James E. Davis, alsoa member of the firm of Williams, Davis, Brooks & Co. : Second Vice-President, Charles C. Hinchman; Treasurer and Auditor, John M. Hinchman; Secretary, Alan- son S. Brooks. All those at present members of the old firms will be inter- ested in the consolidation, and members of both firms say they will now be in a better condition than ever to hustle for business. ‘‘The purpose of the consolidation,’’ said Mr. Davis last night, ‘‘was to re- duce expenses and increase our sales. Any idea that the consolidation means a raise of prices is erroneous. There will be just as much competition as ever, as there is a rival house in Detroit and we shall have competition from Chicago. But as a consolidated concern we shall be able to get goods at better prices and be ina position to sell for less, if anything, than before. Both firms have had control of certain proprietary med- icines. These will be kept, and we shall push them harder than ever. We have made perfumes heretofore and will try to extend our business in this line, and we expect to do a business of from $1,800,000 to $2,000,000 a year. ‘The store occupied by Hinchman, Sons & Co., on Jefferson avenue, will be closed on January 1, although the business will be carried on at that place as usual until that date. The business of the new corporation will be carried on in the quarters at present occupied by Williams, Davis, Brooks & Co., at 26-38 Congress street East, which isa model building for the drug business. We shall be one of the largest drug- gists’ supply houses in the country, and probably the largest in Michigan. There is no house in Chicago or in this part of the West that is better equipped to do business than we shall be.’’ —___~>-2.__ Consolidation Drug Perfumed Glycerin an Excellent Hair Oil. ; Gylcerin possesses in a high degree the property of extracting the fragrance from flowers. Besides, it has proved to be excellent for the skin as well as for the hair, so that it puts even the finest olive oil in the shade. If we take a ves- sel of best glycerin, putting into it lilacs, taded hyacinths, narcissuses, lilies of the valley, mignonette, violets, roses, lime flowers, jasmine flowers, etc., and leave them in for three weeks, they will have given off their whole fragrance to the glycerin when taken out. In this manner a hair oi] is obtained that can- not be surpassed by any Parisian ‘‘ par- fumeur.’’ Since glycerin can be mixed with water in any proportion (in con- tra distinction to the fat oils), a few drops may be poured into the water used for washing, in order to perfume it delicately. He surely may walk straight who hath nothing to draw him aside. kbd eh » -B.* e__.<-e_> _, to es Cough Dropsi!’ pe oy Wu? MANUFACTURED BY it THE C.BLOM, IR, CANDY CO., HOLLAND,- MICH, ee Roepe pepe ppp k s Manufactured by H. VAN TONGEREN, Holland, Mich. For Sale by All Jobbers. “YUMA” The best 5 cent cigars ever made. Sold by | MASTER” BEST & RUSSELL CoO., Cuicaco. Represented in Michigan by J. A. GONZALEZ, Grand Rapids. | WHY NOT TRY THEM NOW? \ Cw ; me) ©) 0 Xi \ ye 5c CIGARS SOLD BY ALL JOBBERS. G. J. JOHNSON CIGAR CO., Mfrs., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. sy a AE MRE a ORE NG ewe: Bes ae ants Wh gremmesnce aes : ' 3 Fs i = + < soit ade eat alan ERE: soeoue » af seaaaix i 3 ‘ : + MIiCMmiGAN TRADESMAN WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT. Advanced— Linseed Oil Declined—Gum Camphor. Acidum Acetcnm........:..- 8 6@8 3 Benzoicum, German 70@ 75 Boraete.............- @ 1 Carporicum ......... 2@ 41 Clete 22 We 2 Hydrochior .....-... 30 5 Neeocum. ......... 8@ 10 Oxaligum ........... IQ 14 Phosphorium, dil... @ 6b Salicylicum. ........ & Sulphuricum. ...... 1%@ 5 Tenmicem .....-.... 1 25@ 1 40 Tartaricum.......... 40 Ammonia Aqua, 16 deg........ 4m 6 faa - oe. ....... 6@ 8 Carponss...-........ 12@ 14 Chieridum .......... 12@ 14 Aniline Bisek. .-. ce... CRB SS Brown .....:........ 80@ 1 00 Hod (2.032... 45@ _ 50 Wemow. -........... 2 50@ 3 00 Bacce. Cubesee........ po.i8 13@ 15 Juniperus........... 6Q 8 Xanthoxylum.. SQ BW Balsamum Cepaiba. -...:.-.....- 55: 60 ee. eee @ 2 40 Terabin, Canada.. 15@ 50 Tordten.............. 15@ 80 Cortex Abies, Canadian.... 18 Cente 62a. 3... 12 Cinchona Flava..... 18 Euonymus atropurp 30 Myrica Cerifera, po. 20 Prunus Virgini ean 12 Quillaia, gr’d....... 14 Sassafras...... po. 18 12 Ulmus...po. 15, gr’d 15 Extractum Glycyrrhiza Glabra. 2@ 25 Giveyeshiza, p oe 23a 30 Hematox,15lbbox. l1@_ 12 Hematox,1is........ 13@ 14 Heematox, %S....... 14@ 15 Heematox, 48....... 16@ i Ferru Carbonate Precip... 15 Citrate and Quinia.. 2% Citrate Soluble...... 75 Ferrocyanidum Sol. 40 Solut. Chloride..... 15 Sulphate, com’l..... 2 Sulphate, com’l, by . bbl, per cwt..... 50 Sulphate, pare ..... 7 Flora Areiee 2... 12@ 14 Atos... 18@ 2 Matricaria ......-... 30@ «35 Folia Barosma...........-. 28 Canale , Acutifol, Tin- Bevery... 18Q@ 2% Cassia areata sas 3@Q@ 30 Salvia officinalis, 4s end en Re 2 Ue Ure... 8@ 10 Gummi Acacia, tst picked.. @ % Acacia, 2d picked... @ Acacia, 3d picked.. @ Acacia, sifted sorts. @ Acacia, po. . 60@ 8 Aloe, Barb. po. 18@20 122@ = 14 Aloe, Cape ....po. 15 @ Aloe, Sovotri. - po. 40 @ 3 Ammoniac Vee cae cues 55@ «60 Asssfostida....po.30 2U@ % Benadinnm <........ 50@ ~=s«S Catechn, is. ......... @ 13 Catechu, %s...... " oe Catechu, \s.. @ 16 Camphore. .. 42 iS Euphorbium. ‘po. 35 @ Galhbanum........... @10 Gamboge po........ 6@ 70 Guaiacum..... po. 25 a Ming... 2... po. 83.00 @ 3 00 Mecca @ 60 Sern... @ 40 Opii...po. 84. ies. o 3 00@ 3 10 Sheling es >a 3 Shellac, bleached. . 40@ 45 Tragacanth ......... 50@ ~=80 Herba Absinthium..oz. pkg 25 Eupatorium .oz. pkg 20 Lobelia...... oz. pkg 25 Majorum ....o0z. pkg 28 Meutha Pip..oz. pkg 23 Mentha Vir..oz. pkg 25 Re: oz. pkg 39 TanacetumV oz. pkg 22 Thymus, V..oz. pkg 3) Magnesia. Calcined, Pat..... .. 55@ 60 Carbonate, Pat...... 0@ 2 Carbonate, K.&M.. 2@ 2% Carbonate, Jennings 3@ 36 Oleum Absinthium......... 3 25@ 3 5u Amygdala, Dule.. WG 50 Amygdale, Amare . 8 00@ 8 25 Anisi. . ioc. Soe & oD Auranti ‘Cortex. Sees 2 00@ 2 20 Bergamii............ 2 40@ 2 50 Cay SQ 90 Seen ee aes SQ Ww eee re ci BQ 6 Chenopadii Ps al @27 Cinnamonii......... 1 80 1 90 Citronella... .... 46@ 50 Conium Mac.. _. oe 56 ——— Sa se i 10@ 1 20 CMperie i. 9@ 1 00 Exechthitos ...:.... 1 00@ 1 10 Briperon |. 1 0@ 1 10 Gauitheria..... __.. 1 50@ 1 60 Geranium, ounce. @ id ee ‘Sem. gal.. 50@ 6 Hedeoms..... ...... 1 0@ 1 10 inna, 1 50@ 2 00 Lavendula ...).. | 90@ 2 00 Limomis......- 1 2@ 1 40 Mentha Piper 1 60@ 2 20 Mentha Verid....... 1 5U@ 1 60 Morrhue, gal....... 1 OU@ 1 10 MYrcia,....... oe 4 00@ 4 50 vob 7@ 3 00 Picis Liquida....... 0G Picis Liquida, gal... @ 3% oo 1 03@ 1 08 Reosmarini...:....... @ 1 00 Rose, ounce........ 6 50@ 8 50 SaeCee oe . 0@ 4 Seema. 90@, 1 00 SOMeee 2 50@ 7 00 Sassafras... 5a &) Sinapis, ess., ounce. Qo & a 1 40@ 1 50 Thyme eee, 40@ 50 Rhyme, opt... ._.. | @ 1 60 Theobromas _....... 156@ 20 Potassium Ot Car. : b@ 18 Bichromate ......... 13@ 15 remo. 0) 1 50@ 55 oT) 2@ 15 Chlorate..po.17@19e 16@ 18 Cyanies. ...... 35@Q 40 fogtee 2 60@ 2 65 Potassa, Bitart, pure 2a «63 Potassa, Bitart, com Ge & Potass Nitras, opt. s@ 10 Potass Nitras........ 7 9 PEUssigte....... .... W@® ® Sulphate po . 15@ 18 Radix Aconitvm........... 0@ A 2G 3 AMCHUAR ........... 0@ 2 Avie po..,..... ...._. @ 2B Cole 20@ 40 Gentiana...... po 5 12 15 Glychrrhiza...pv.15 16@ 18 Hydrastis Canaden . @ 6 Hydrastis Can., po.. eo 7 Hellebore, Alba, po.. bea Bw Pgs, OO... Tl: 6a 2 Ipecac, ..... 2 10@ 2 25 Iris plox....po035@38 35@ 40 oaape, PE @ 30 Maranta, %s........ a & on po.. 20 BB ae 75@ 1 00 Rhei, cut @12 Rher py...... 75@ 1 35 Spigelia. ..... 33@ 38 Sanguinaria.. “PO. “5 ae i Serpentaria . 30@ «35 Beuera.-.... 0Q@ 4 Similax,officinalis H @ 4 Sia, Me @ Ss Belle . 0.35 10@ 12 Symplocarpus, Feeti- —-.........,. @ Ss V aleriana ,Eng.po.30 @ s&s Valeriana, German. 15@ 20 Zingiber a.. ke i Zingiber qc os 25 27 Semen Anistm..... .. po. @ #2 Apium — 13@ 15 Bird, Is. I@ «6 Carat... .. na Caradamon. .......... 1 25@ 1 7% Coriandrum. ....... 8@ 10 Cannabis Sativa.... 4M 4% Cygonium........... 75@ 1 00 Chenopodium ...... 10@ 12 Dipterix Odorate... 2 00@ 2 20 Poarichium ......... eo 10 oe ve . 7 9 Lini . . 3@ 4 Lini, grd. oes ‘bbl. 3 I@ 4% Habeas) 5 Pharlaris Canarian. 4B 4% a 44@ 5 simapis Albu,....... 1@ 8 Sinapis Nigra....... iS Spiritus Frumenti, W. D. Co. 2 00@ 2 50 Frumenti, D. F. R.. 2 00@ 2 25 Frumenti..... . Ao is Juniperis Co. 0. T.. 1 65Q 2 00 duniperis Co... .:... 1 75@ 3 50 Saacharum N. E.... 1 90@ 2 10 Spt. Vini Galli...... 1 75@ 6 50 Vini Oporto......... 1 25@ 2 00 Vint Alba... 1 25@ 2 00 Sponges Florida sheeps’ wool Carriage... ...... 2 50@ 2 75 Nassau sheeps wool Careeee........... @ 2 00 velvet extra sheeps’ wool, carriage..... @123 Extra yellows eeps’ wool. carriage. . @ 1 00 Grass sheeps’ wool, carriage. . @ 1 0 Hard. for slate use. o& G&G Yellow Reef, for mate Une... . 2... @ 1 40 —— Acacia . a @ 50 Auranti Cortes... baa. ce ww Breuer, 605 @ Lpecac. eG en @ 60 Bert tea... @ 50 Bec Arom... ..... @ ww Smilax Officinalis.. W@ WH Senega . a @ wv Sefllee ca} a * BellisCa. a Ww Woman a Prutmus virg......... @ 50 Tinctures Aconitum NapellisR 60 Aconitum — F 50 Aloes.. 60 Aloes and Myrrh.. 60 Renee 50 Assafestida ......... 50 Atrope Belladonna. 60 Auranti Cortex..... 50 DEnSO. ., 60 Benzoin ©o.......... 50 BAVORIIA 600. .05 50) Cantharides........ 15 Capsicum ........ 50 Cardamom... 2... 75 Cardamon Co....__. 75 ee ey. 1 00 Cateeha............. 50 Crmehons oo... 50 Cinchona Co........ 60 Colum... 50 Crete: 50 Cassia Acutifol..... 50 Cassia AcutifolCo . 50 —— a dO eee ce ea os 50 Fern, Chloridum.. 35 <<... 50 Gentian Co... ... 60 Gittiaen 1 50 Guiacaammon...... 60 Hyoscyamus....... 50 et 7 lodine, colorless. ... 75 a0 Peppers 50 Mote 50 Nix Vomies....._.. 50 ee 7 Opii, camphorated. 50 Opii, deodorized.... 1 50 Cesaa 50 Rhatany..... 50 Meee, 50 Sanguinaria . ...... 50 S@rpentaria .....___. 50 Stromonium ...._... 60 Rete 60 Valerian 50 Veratrum Veride... Bs) Smginer: | 20 Miscellaneous: “Ether, Spts. Nit.3F 30@ 35 Atther, Spts. Nit.4F 2 @ 38 Alusen ...... 24@Q@ 3 Alumen, gro’d. pot 3@ 4 mateo 10 50 Antimoni, i 41Q 5 AntimonietPotassT 40@ 50 Autinyrin | @ 1 40 Antieprin @ 15 Argenti Nitras, oz . @ 530 Arsenicum. . ' 10@ i Balm Gilead Bud 38@ = =40 Bismuth S.N. . . 1 40@ 1 50 Calcium C hlor., is.. & 9 Calcium Chlor., @ 10 Calcium Chior., ee @ R Cantharides, Rus. po Q@ Capsici Fructus, af. @ i Capsici Fructus, po. @ ib Capsici FructusB,po @ i Caryophyllus..po. 15 1@ 12 Carmine, No. 40. . @ 3 00 Cera Alba,S.&F | 50@ 55 Cera Fiava.......... 40@ 42 Coceus..... oe @ Ww Cassia Fructus.__ || @ 33 Centraria.. a Cetaceum..... @ Chlioroform..... CO@ 63 Chloroform, squi ibbs @1% Chloral Hyd Crst.... 1 50@ 1 60 Chondrus. 20@Q@ 2% Cinchonidine,P.& W 23@ 35 Cinchonidine,Germ 2@ _ 3) Cocaine . 3 55@ 3 75 Corks, list, dis. pr.ct. 70 Creosotum. ..... QB x Greta... bbl. 75 @ 2 Creta, —- @ 5 Creta, precip.....__. %@ il Creta, Rubra... ._.. ae 3s eroeus 0 18@ 20 Caudbear ........... @ x Cupri Sulph......... 5@ 6 Dextrine. 10@ 12 Ether — ec ea TG W Emery, al neers a 8 Hiner. po... @ 6 Breeta..: po.40 30@ 35 Fiake White... 1I2@ 15 os... @ 23 Gambier. 200. ?s 9 Gelatin, Cooper. @ 60 Gelatin, French..._. 35@ «60 Glassware, flint, box ww Less than box.... 60 Glue, brown... .... 9@ 12 Gite: Witte... 1I3@ 2 Giyecerina |... 1344.@ 2 Grana Paradisi ... @ 6 Humulus.. 5@ AD iiydraag Chlor Mite @ so Hydraag Chlor Cor. a «aw Hydraag Ox Rub’m. @ 9 | Hydraag Ammoniati @ 1 | HydraagUnguentum 45@ 55 Hydraceyrum.....-- @ & Ieéhthyobolla,Am:.: Gm 7% Pee T>@ 1 Vv lodine, Besubi...... = 0@ 3 10 lodoform............ @ 4 Ww Lupulin. es 22 Lycopodium ........ 40@ 45 Macis : 6G 75 Liquor Arse- et By- Grace lod... -.,, Qo LiquorPotassArsinit 10@ 12 Magnesia, Sulph.. 2@ 3 Magnesia, Sulph, bbl 1% Mannia, 8. F........ 5 60 Menthol. sean Q2% Morphia, 8.P.& W Morphia, S.NY. ~ & Cc. mauenus Canton. Myristiea, Neo. 1... .. Nux Vomieca. po.20 Cs Sema... “x: Saac, H. & P. 0 Dee eee eae @ Picis Liq. nae. doz.. @ Picis L iq., qui arts. @ Picis Liq., pints. @ Pil Hydrarg...po 80 @ Piper Nigra...po. 22 @ Piper Alba....po. 35 @ Pilx Burgun ....... @ Pinmpi Acet...... 1K Pulvis Ipecac et Opii | 10@ Pyre thrum, boxes H. ‘S&P. PD. Co. dos. . @ Pyrethrum, pv Hoey oe 30 Quassiz..... QD Quinia, S. P. & Ww. 25@ Quinia, S. German. 280 Quinia, N.Y. 3G Rubia Tinctorum. 12@ SaccharumLactis py 18@ Salacin. : .. 0g Sanguis Drae onis.. 10 Sapo, Ww ; 12@ San0 M8... 10@ Sapo, G... @ Siedlitz Mixture 20 @ | | | | | 2 15@ 2 40 . 2 6@ 2 40 @ 410} 6 80) @ 10! 1b@ 18! Sane. Sinapis, opt......... Snuff, Maceaboy, De Voge. Snuff,Scotch, DeVo’s Soda Borag.......... Soda Boras, po...... | Soda et Potass Tart. pods. Carb. ....._... Seda, Bi-Carb....... ooce, Aan.......... Soda, Sulphas....... | Spts. Cologne......_. Spts. Spts. Spt Spts. Spts. Spts. Ether Co...... Myrcia Dom... Vini Rect. bbl. Vini Rect.4bbl Vini Rect. 10gal Vini Rect. 5gal Less 5¢ gal. Strychnia, Crystal.. Sulphur, subl....... Sulphur, Roll.... . ‘Tamarinds..... Tererenth Venice.. Theobrome.. \ Vanilla. Hoeaeg Zinci Sulph. busa ou. Oils Whale, winter....... Lara, Cxtra......... tard Nel cash 10 darzs. @ 18 @ @ # @x $s @ sec 26@ = 1%@ 2 3@ 5 3%@ + @ 2 @ 2 6 50@ 55 @ ? 00 @ 249 @2 4% @ 2 4% @ 2 50 it 40@ 1 45 24@ 3 2Q@ 2% 8@ 10 2Q@ 30 LQ 9 00@16 09 i@ 8 BBL. GAL. vil) 7 40 45 35 40 Linseed, pure raw.. 38 Linseed, boiled .... 40 Neatsfoot,winterstr 65 Spirits Turpentine.. 36% Paints BBL. Red Venetian... ... 1% 2 Ochre, yellow Mars. 1% 2 Ochre, yellow Ber.. 1% 2 Putty, commercial.. 2% 2 Putty, strictly pure. 2% 2 Vermilion, rime A‘merican.......... 13@ Vermilion, English. 7 Green, Paris .... 3%4@ Green, Peninsular.. 13@ Lead, Hea. ......... 54@ Lead, white....__.. %@ Whiting, white i @ |W Ss gilders’. @ White, Paris Amer.. @ Whiting, Paris Eng. i "@ Universal Prepared. 1 00@ Varnishes} No. 1°Turp Coach... 1 10@ Extra Vurp..... - oo Cosce Hogy......... 2 HQ No. 1 Turp Furn.... 1 0@ Extra Turk Damar.. 1 55@ Jap. Dryer,No.1Turp 70@ | nd ders. enrnacni PAINT BRUSHES We shall display Sample Lines of a complete assortment of Brushes January 1, 1898, consisting of Whitewash Heads, Kalsomine, Wall, Oval and Round Paint and Varnish. Flat, Square and. hiseled Varnish, Sash Tools Painters’ Dusters, Artists’ Materials. and invite your inspection and _ or- Quality and Prices are right. HAZELTINE & PERKINS DRUG CO. Grand Rapids, Mich. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN ROCERY PRICE CURRENT’. The prices Subscribers are e quoted in this list are for the trade only, dealers. They are prepared just before going to press and possible to give quotations suitable for all conditions of pur erage prices for average conditions of purchase. those who have poor credit. our aim to make this feature of the greatest poss in such quantities as are usually purchased by retail are an accurate index of the local market. chase, and those below are given as representing av- Cash buyers or those of strong credit usually buy closer than arnestly requested to point out any errors or omissions, as it is ible use to dealers. It is im- AXLE GREASE. doz. gross OM 55 6 00 eeer ee 60 7 00 ee 50 4 00 ne, 9 00 IXLGolden.tinboxes% 9 00 Mica, tin boxes........ 3 9 00 Fereson... _...... .. 56 6 00 BAKING POWDER. Absolute. Bc 1 Canesten. ........... 45 Pea. 85 - WH Cansdoc ..... eee 150 Acme. 34 Ib cans 3 doz............ 45 peas cos........._.. BD : Mecameidgos.......... 1 op ae CLL. El Purity. a4 1b Cans perdos......... ve) % lb Cans per doz ........ 1 20 i beans per doz......... 2 00 Home. 14 1b cans 4 doz case...... 35 % lb cans 4 doz case...... 55 Tb cans 2dozcase ..... 9% JAXON 34 1b cans, 4 doz case..... 45 % lb cans. 4 doz case...... 8 1 Id cans, 2 doz case...... 1 60 Jersey Cream. 1 1b. cans, per doz... -_ow 9 oz. cans, rer doz.. - . G6 Gz. Cans, per doz.......... 85 Our Leader. eee 45 eee 5 . ee 1 50 Peerless. OO 85 BATH BRICK. een 70 ae 80 . BLUING. 2) y “- 1 d0z. pasteboard Boxes... 40 3 doz. wooden boxes....... 1 20 BROOrIS. aot career 1 90 Seek CL 1% Ne. Scars... ........ 2 Sp Me. saree... 1 15 Parr oem ............ ee | es fie 80 Warehouse ....... --. 2 oe CANDLES. Ee, 7 ee 8 Paraiine.. .... . — 8 CANNED GOODS. Manitowoc Peas. Lakeside Marrowfat....... 95 a Lakéside, Cham. of Eng.... 1 2 Lakeside Gem. Fx. Sifted. 1 4 Extra Sifted Early June....1 75 CATSUP. Columbia, pints.......... 20 Columbia, % pints..........1 25 CHEESE ae @ 11% ee @ 11% Pee @ i1 Mee @ 12 aoe @ 12% Gold Medal... ..... @ il erkamer............ @ ii ioe GA as @ Eememec 3... @ Riversige ..... @ CO @ ae @ ae @ Reese @ Limburrer.......... @ Pinwaippe........._.. 43 @ Sap Sago... ........ @ 18 Chicory. Bulk Segoe eg ee ie 5 Red - 7 CHOCOLATE. Walter Baker & Co.'s. German Sweet ........ ... ... 23 Premium. . ote ele Breakfast:Cocoa....... ..... 45 CLOTHES LINES. Cotton, 40 ft, per doz....... 1 00 Cotton, 50 ft, per doz....... 1 20 Cotton, 60 ft, per doz.......1 40 Cotton, 70 ft, per dos.. -1 60 Cotton, 80 ft, per doz.......1 90 Jute, 60 ft. per dos......... 80 Jute, 72 ft. ner dog,, 2 5 COCOA SHELLS. pote bees 2% ees quantity... __.... 3 Pound packages......... 4 CREASI TARTAR. 5 and 10 1b. wooden boxes..30-35 COFFEE. Green. Rio. ee 10 SOOM 12 Pe 13 eee 14 Peonery 15 Santos. ee 14 eee 15 Pee 16 Feaperey ...0 ig 17 Mexican and Guatamala. eae 16 foo ... 17 Pee es 18 Maracaibo. a er 2n meee 21 Java. Eeporiee 20 Private Growth ....... oe Ee Mocha. meen 22 crane 2 Roasted. Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brands Fifth Avenue..... 28 Tewell’s Arabian Mocha. f , Wells’ Mocha and Java.....24 Wells’ Perfection Java.....24 Sanerihn 23 | Breakfast Blend...... 20 Valier City Maracaibo 18% ical Bioeng... <1 eager Siond....... .. oe Package. Below are given New York prices on package coffees. to which the wholesale dealer adds the local freight from New York to your shipping point. giving you credit on the invoice for the amount of freight buyer pavs from the market in which he purchases to his shipping point. including weight of package, also Ic a pound. In 601b. cases the list is 19 per 100 lbs. above the price in full cases. Bypeenie oo 10 50 oat fe McLaughlin’s XXXX...... 10 50 Extract. Valley City % gross ..... vio Poeltx & erecs...... ..... 1 15 Anmme'l’s foil * gross... Re Fummel’s tin 4 gross... 1 42 CLOTHES PINS. 5 gross hove ae COUGH DROPS. Cc Brand. 405 cent packages ........ 1 00 CONDENSED MILK. 4 doz in case. Gail Borden Eagle......... 6 7 owe 6 2 Dy eee 5% Cenneey .--4 0 Magnolia coe (eee 3 35 Dime eee als! 3 35 Tradesman Grade. : 50 books, any denom.... 1 50 100 books, any denom.... 2 50 500 books, any denom....11 50 1,000 books, any denom....20 00 Economic Grade. 50 books, any denom.... 1 50 100 books, any denom.... 2 50 500 books any denom....11 50 1,000 books, any denom....20 00 50 books, any denom.... 1 50 100 books, any denom.... 2 50 500 books, any denom....11 50 1,000 books, any denom....20 00 Superior Grade. 50 books, any denom.... 1 50 100 books, any denom.... 2 50 500 books, any denom....11 50 1,000 books, any denom....20 00 Coupon Pass Books, Can be made to represent any denomination from 810 down. Credit Checks. 500, any one denom’n..... 3 1000, any one denom’n..... 5 2000, any one denom'n..... 8 Secel pimen. DRIED FRUITS—DONMESTIC Applies. Banteieg.... 2. Oe Evaporated 50 lb boxes. @ 8% California Fruits. oe 748 Biaekberrics........... Nectarines ..... heen @ ss... 8 @9 a... ............ 8 @ Pitted Cherries........ Sraanenes............ 12 Rasphersies............ California Prunes. 100-120 25 1b boxes....... @ 34% 90-100 25 Ib boxes....... @4 80 - 90 25 1b boxes....... @ 4% 70 - 80 25 1b boxes....... @5 60 - 70 25 1b boxes... .... @ 5% 50 - 60 25 Ib boxes....... @™ 40 - 50 25 lb boxes....... @ 84 30 - 40 25 1b boxes..... 4¢ cent less In 50 lb cases Raisins. Lendon Layers 3 Crown. 1 London Layers 4 Crown. 2 00 Dehesias ee Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 4 Loose Muscatels3Crown 5% Loose Museatels4Crown 6% FOREIGN. Currants. Pate ube. |... @ 6% Vostizzas 50 lb cases......@ 6% Cleaned, bulk .....-..: Te Cleaned, packages........ @ 8% Peel. Citron American 101b bx @13 Lemon American 10 1b bx @12 Orange American 101b bx @12 Raisins. Ondura 28 Ib boxes.....8 @ 8% Sultana 1Crown....... @ Sultana 2Crown ...... Sultana 3Crown....... @il Sultana 4 Crown....... @ Snitanes 5 Orown i a Suitana 6 Crown....... @12 Sultana package....... @1'4 FARINACEOUS GOODS. Parina. 241 1b. packages..........1 % Bulk, per 109 ibs........:. 3 50 Grits. Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s....... 2% Bulk in 100 lb. bags....... 3 00 Hominy. Bares 2 2 50 Flake, 50 1b. drums....... 1 00 Beans. Dried Lima cs 3 Medium Hand Picked.... 90 Maccaroni and Vermicelli. Domestic, 10 1b. box...... Imported, 25 lb. box.. ...2 50 Pear! Barley. Come 2 40 er ee: 2 5U Meee 2% Peas. reek, ee 85 Spe, pori> 2 Rolled Oats. Rolled Avena, bbl.......3 75 moneren, OM... ....... .3 50 Monarenh. 46 bbi.......... 1 95 Private brands, bbl..... Private brands, 4%bbl..... Quaker. cases. ............ 3 20 Heron, Capes...... 22.2... 1% Sago. German cg 3% Hast Indies. .... ..... . _ 2 Wheat. Cracked, bulk............. 31g 24 2 1b packages....,...... 2 60 Fi sh HERBS. o Se ee 15 Cod OS 15 Gowers ——e foes i INDIGO. eorges genuine 4 = Georges selected..:!1 @ 6M |S 8 2's and sib boxes... fp Strips or bricks....... > ori ° JELLY oe Halibut. 7 Clinker 10) 25 oO PAS es 40 See . 9 | 90lb pails... .... 0... Herring. B ] Kraut. 350 Holland white hoops, bbl. 10 25] waif barrele 2 95 Holiand whtichoep'<{bbi 558| °°: Holiand white hoop, keg. 72 LYE. Holiand white hoop mchs go | Condensed, 2 doz .......... 1 20 Norwegian. 000s 11 00 | Condensed. 4 doz .......... 2 Feoumd $00 lbe.......-..... 3 40 LICORICE. Mound 4) ibs............. 60 ee 80 ie SE TN CEST Se Ret 15 Pitta es 5 Mackerel. ee 14 Mess 190 - eo cee. . = Oe 10 mons 20 tie more ibe 1% MINCE MBAT. meee Fie... a = Ideal, 3 doz. in case......... 2 e+ oe e.......... .... 4 oO. Sine. 6 10 ——. No.1 Whe 1 60 | _ Diamond Match Co.’s brands. Ned Bike No. 9 sulphur.. 16 No: 2 000th 10 co | Anchor Parlor No.2 Wiha No.2 Home.... Ne? Wilts 1 15| Export Parlor.............. 4 00 No.2 § es ee 95 MOLASSES. es. awa Russian kegs gs 55 | Black — ers 11 No. 1100 Ibs..........-.... OS Meneses 24 iOpen Mattie... - 0... 25@35 Half-barrels 2e¢c extra. MUSTARD. Horse Radish, 1 doz......... 1% Horse Radish, 2 doz......... 3 50 Bayle’s Celery, 1 doz.. .... 1% PIPES. ier, Ne 2 8: 170 Clay, T. D. fullcount...... 65 Cen Me. se, 85 POTASH. 48 Cans in Case. Bepvies 4 00 Penna Salt Co.’s........... 3 PICKLES. Medium. Barrels, 1,200 count........ 5 50 Half bbls, 600 count........ 3 30 Small. Barrels, 2,400 count....... 6 75 ennings’. Half bbls, 1,200 count...... 4 00 D.C. Vanilia D. C. Lemon RICE. Tox... 5 _. . Do ti 302 150 oon. ....2:00 mestic. 462 “2 00 oe 1 49| Carolinahead.... .... .... 63% . 3.00 Sac... 3 en | Caroline No.l... ......... 5 No. 8 400 No. 8...2 49| Carolina No.2............. 4% No. 10. .6 00 No. 10...4 00 ——..... 3% No. 27.1 & No. 27. @ Imported. No. 3 T.2 00 No. 27.1 i Japan, Wo.t......:5......- 5% No 4T.2 40 No. 47.1 59| Japan. No.2... .......... 5 Souders’. Java, fancy head.......... 6 Oval bottle, with corkscrew. oo. ss... 5 Best in the world for the ae --- -++. BH money. SALERATUS. Packed 60 lbs. in box. —— Cumren se... 3 3C Lemon PO oe 3 15 doz SRA se 3 30 oon SS 3 +06. 1 50 SALT. Diamond Crystal. Regular / Cases, 243-lb boxes......... 1 50 *S¥\ Vanilla. | Barrels, 190 31bbags...... 25 Hie doz} Barrels. 40 7 lbbags...... 2 40 DUDERG § 2 02......1 20] Butter. 28 1b. bags... 30 ee | 4.0Z...... 2 40/ Butter, = lb _ Be a 60 LAVORING | |i) Butter, 20 14 One. .... 3. : 3 00 ‘i oe Butter, 280 1b bbis.......... 2 50 _— ean oe Grades. WO ks 170 t (— Fo oe. 155 | OYAL me oe 25 10 tp anekes:: 1 45 : XTRAcy | ©=XX Grade J Reneovebiz Te Vanilla. 1.325 HDAYTON.O, i "4 00 om 2 OZ...... 1% 3% ~ tec... :. 3 50 ..3 50 GUNPOWDER. 3 = L Rifle—Dupont’s. 60 ie $ 90 | Bulk in barrels..22000220017) 2 50 ser Keegs...............1% Warsaw. —— "50 | 362 dairy in Gril bags... 30 ib (ene a 1g | 28-lb dairy in drill bags..... 15 Choke Bore—Dupont’s. Ashton. MPR ceteris 4 25 | 56-lb dairy in iinen sacks... 60 Sait Bere 2 40 Hi " pagans or poe cies eats 1 > 56-lb dairy in linen sacks... 60 : a tyes za Solar Rock. we ee Janae Saat Meee ee 4 25 Common. Quarter Kegs.......... ..... 2 2 | Granulated Fine............ 77 OT CONG ois. Soy cies aay: Medium Vine............... 8 SAL SODA. Granulated, bbls.......... 7 Granulated, 100 lb cases.. 90 bump, Bele... 2 co... %5 Lump, 145]b kegs.......... 85 SEEDS. SUNN cs 9 Canary, Smyrna........... 3 Caraway . 2 8 Cardamon, Malabar ..... 60 Ceterg li Hemp, Russian........... 34 Mixod Bird............... 4% Mustard, white....... ... 5 Pope oe 8% OO 4% Cuttle Bone............... 20 SNUFF. Scotch, in bladders......... 37 Maccaboy, injars........... 35 French Rappee, in jars..... 43 SOAP, Single box..... cr 2% 5 box lots, delivered........ 2 70 10 box lots, delivered........2 65 JAS. 8. KIRK & GO.’S BRANDS. American Family, wrp’d....3 33 American Family, unwrp’d.3 27 Dame 3 33 Come 2 20 ON 2 50 Dusky Diamond. 50 6 oz....2 10 Dusky Diamond, 50 8 oz....3 00 Blue India, 100 % Ib......... 3 00 Bivkaitne 3% ee 3 65 One box American Family free with five. Schulte Soap Co.’s Brand. ig hs v a , ee ff tae) Sees a = i EARS) 100 cakes, 75 Ibs. Singie bor... 6... 8 88 ouox tote...) 6.) 2% 10 box lots.... -2 70 25 box lots...... 2 60 Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands. Old Country, 80 1-Ib. bars ..2 75 Good Cheer, 60 1-lb. bars....3 75 Uno, 100 %-lb. bars.......... 2 50 Doll, 100 10-0z. bars......... 2 6 Scouring. Sapolio, kitchen, 3doz..... 2 40 Sapolio, hand, 3doz........ 2 40 SODA. BORO ee 5 Kegs. English... ... “a SPICES. Whole Sifted. TO 10 Cassia, China in mats...... 12 Cassia, Batavia in bund... ¢2 Cassia, Saigon in rolls...... 32 Cloves, Amboyna.......... 10 Cloves, Zanzibar..... Mace, Batavia.... Nutmegs, fancy... Nutmegs, No. 1... Nutmegs, No. 2..... Pepper, Singapore, blac 0 Pepper, Singapore, white... .12 2 Tepper, BnO6... c... 1 Pure Ground in Bulk. Alispice 12 Cassia, Batavia .... Cassia, Saigon.. Cloves, Amboyna. ee Cloves, Zanzibar............ 13 Ginger, African............ 15 Ginger, Cochin............. 18 Ginger, Jamaica............ 23 Mace, Batavia.............. 70 Mustard, Eng. and Trieste. .18 Mustard, Trieste............ 20 eee 40@=0 Pepper, Sing , black........ 12 Pepper, Sing., white........ 15 Pepper, Cayenne........... 20 a ida ene aia BIN Lies ee é nena aot age CS ioe i a A ee RS MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 21 Kingsford’s Corn. 40 1-lb packages............. 6 201 1b packages............. 614 Kingsford’s Silver Gloss. 40 1-lb packages............. 6% Gin betes 7 Diamond. 64 10c packages ........... 5 00 128 5¢ packages......... ..5 00 32 10c and 64 5c packages...5 00 Common Corn. 2011b. packages.......... ., 4% 40 1ib packages... ... 44 sie, BOOS 6. 4 a0 TD ORCA 3% Common Gloss. Lib packages............... 44 Sib packages............... 414 6-lb packages............... 43; 40 and 50 lb boxes........... 3 ares. 23% STOVE POLISH. ES ¥-L_PRESCOTTE ce No. 4, 3 doz in case, gross.. 4 50 No. 6, 3 doz in case, gross.. 7 20 SUGAR. Below are given New York prices on sugars, to which the wholesale dealer adds the local freight from New York to your shipping point, giving you credit on the invoice for the amount of freight buyer pays from the market in which he purchases to his shipping point, including 20 pounds for the weight of the barrel. Cus fost 5 7 POTN tee Cleese 5 31 Powered 5 31 XXXX Powdered...... -, 2 oo Mouwa 4. 5 38 Granulated in bbls... ...... 5 13 Granulated in bags..... 5 13 Fine Granulated........ 5 13 Extra Fine Granulated.....5 25 Extra Coarse Granulated...5 25 Diamond Confee. A........ 5 13 Confec. Standard A......... 5 00 Ne ee 0 47% ee ee a 4 69 Se 4 63 Ce 4 56 Ae Co 4 Ne go 4 38 Ne Be 4 31 Ne ee 4 2% Me ee 419 ee 413 ee ml 4 06 ee 4 06 ee 4 00 ee 3 94 NO ee dS ee SYRUPS. Corn. Eee 16 Half bblis..... anes 6 te ea on 18 Pure Cane. : 16 eee osc Cetee 25 TABLE SAUCES. Lea & Perrin’s, large..... 47% Lea & Perrin’s, small 2% Halford, large............ 3 7 Halford small....... ..... 2 25 Salad Dressing, large.....4 55 Salad Dressing, small..... 2 65 TOBACCOs. Cigars. Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s brand. Now Eriek...............,. 33 00 H. & P. Drug Co.’s brand. Gubitetie 35 00 G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand. Cc » Soy... .. apes ss 5s. OO H. Van Tongeren’s Brand. Star Green............ 1202230 00 VINEGAR. Malt White Wine.............. 7 eure Cider 8 Washing Powder. aaa ED fuauw Naithing udev OG TS Ge pEGe 3 50 WICKING. NO. 0, pergross. 25 No. 1, pergross. 30 NO. 2, pergross. 0 40 No.3, perpross. 4 v6) Fish and Oysters Fresh Fish. Per lb. Whitefish .......__. @ 3 Lo @ $s Biaek Bass... @ 10 a @ 15 Ciscoes or Herring... @ 4 2 @ 10 Live Lobster....... @ 18 Boiled Lobster...... @ 20 a @ Ww marigeek. @ 8 No. 1 Pickerel...... @ § eee @ 7 Smoked White...... @ 9 Red Snapper........ @ 12 Col River Salmon.. @ 35 Mackere) 20. @ 18 Oysters in Cans. FF. H Connts....._.. @ 3 F. J. D. Selects...... @ 2 Belcan @ 2% F. J. D. Standards. . @ 20 Anchora:) - 2... @ 18 Standards: ...... | @ 16 Favorites... @ 14 Oysters in Bulk fH. Counts. ._.._. @1 75 Extra Selects...... @i 50 @1 2 Anchor Standards. . @1 10 Se«na@ards. 9... @1 vw Tome. @1 2 Shell Goods. Oysters, per 100....... 1 25@i 50 Suan ae eo 90@s1 AP Hides and Pelts. Perkins & Hess pay as fol- lows: Hides. Sree ls @8 Pare cured... @ 8% PeCnied |. 834@ 944 ee 9 @il Kips. green... 6... 7 @8 aan Cured... 84@ 94 Calfskins, green...... T@ 9 Calfskins, cured...... 8%@10 Deaconskins ......... 2% @30 Pelts. a ee 5@ 30 ROMA oe 40@ 1 10 Old Wool...... ee 60@ 1 % Furs. Meee 50@ 1 30 Cee 30@ 90 a 50@ 1 00 Muskrats, fall........ 5@ 12 Muskrats, spring..... Muskrats, winter .... l@ 16 ee POM 1 25@ 1 50 Gray Fox... .. - 2 2 Cross Fex ..._.. ---2 #@ 5 00 Bagger 20@ ~=60 Cas Wild 1@ 40 Cat, House... .. |. 10@ ~=20 Le ee. 50@ 7 00 POR Oo @ 2 00 Martin, Dark......... 1 50@ 3 00 Martin, Yellow...... TE 150 MR ee! 5 00@ 9 00 Wee T@ 1 50 BORE co 7 00@15 (0 Beever 2 00@ 6 00 Beaver Castors....... 8 00 COpeerna 5@ 15 Deerskin, dry, per Ib. 1b@ 2 Deerskin, gr’n, per lb. 10@ 15 Wool. Waeehed .... 14 @23 Unwashed........ ... 17 @Il7 Miscellaneous. Tallow ...... Grease Butte Switches . Ginseng........ 2.7’ i Candies. Grains and Feedstuffs Stick Candy. Wheat. ie. pela | Wee 88 Standard... |. 14@ 7 Winter Wheat Flour. Standard H.H...... 6%@7 Local Brands Standard Twist..... 6 @8 sia er Cut oat @ 8% oe Set eas artetins ros, 5 50 cases | Secon ben | ce 5 U0 Jumbo, aro ....... @ 6% 2 4 &U wmf OS 4 40 Boston Cream...... Crane _ 4 Buckwheat... _. — Mixed Candv. ee 3 5U Subject to usual cash dis- Competition Se @ 6 ceneaa’ ' ° Standard............ @i Flour in bbls., 25¢ per bbl. ad- — ee ee @ 7% | ditional. Ribton ee é sig Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand. Broken poco G 8% eee = Dee eee . ; . Cut leat. |. 1... @ 8 UaKEr, }4S.... 2 English Rock....... G8 r RCE, ee 4 6 Kindergarten oe @ 8% | Guard, Fairfield & Co.’s Brand. pier ont gaa oe os” Whole Wheat 1-16s......... 5 2u eee. ‘ Valley Cream... .... @i3 Spring Wheat Flour. F en Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brand. ancy—In Bulk. Pillsbury’s Best %s........ 5 55 Lozenges, plain..... @ 8% | Pilisbury’s Best igs.... |_| 5 40 Lozenges, printed.. @ 8% a —— ce 5d 30 Choc. Drops... 14 lsbury’s Best gs paper.. 5 35 Choc. Monumentals oii Pilsbury’s Best ss paper.. 5 35 — — ect ee @6 Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand. cote eieaaas = 8., | Grand Republic, \s........ 5 55 Mea Bie Grand Republic, 4s.. ..... 5 45 P Goat ee naa a @ 8% | Grand Republic, %s........ 5 35 Fancy—in 5 ib. Boxes. Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s Brand. Lemon Drops....... @50 eae —— a 5 65 Sour Drops.. oo. @50 Gold Medal Mec | 5 5d Peppermint Drops.. @60 Goid medal a 5 45 Chocolate Drops.... @6u Parisian, a... 5 65 H. M. Choc. Drops.. @i a a... ._-.... ... ooo Gum Drops......... @30 mEGar, 78...) & 45 Licorice DEOTS.. |. @i Olney & Judson’s Brand. A. B. Licorice Drops @5v c soba. len = x= Lozenges, plain.... @50 rca Oo ==. e ss 2 Lozenges printed @50 Ceresenn 34a . 4a Imperials......... @50 CCrcnOta, a 5 35 Mottoes | @35 Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand. ROOM BAP ty f 4 5 55 fone Goo | Laure, Soc voces: 858 Hand Made Creams. 80 @i 00 Oe 5 35 Plain Creams....... TE Decorated Creams... @9# : Meal. String Rock.......__ @60 ee 1% Burnt Almonds..... 13 @ Granningee 2 00 Wintergreen Berries @60 Feed and Milistuffs. Caramels. “> ee Feed, ea -eo. 14 00 NO. 1 Corn and Oats....... 13 U0 No. 1 Wrapped, 2 Ib. Unbolted Corn Meal...._ || 12 ab _ boxes eee. arses @30 Winter Wheat Bran... -12 06 ~ 1 wrapped, 3 lb. i Winter Wheat Middlings..13 ov toa sx @45 SCrCeHine ie on - a, pped, . The O. E. Brown Mill Co. Ceo quotes as follows: : New Corn. 1 Car ieee 30 Fruits. Less than car lots......__. 32 Oats. Oranges. Car Me 25 Mexicans 150 176-200 @4 00 | Carlots, clipped........7'"! 28 Cal, Seedlings ...... @3 00 | Less than car lots......__- 30 Fancy Navels 112... @3 00 H dee co Sg @3 7 inst hig No. 1 Timothycarlots....._ 9 00 Lemons. No. 1 Timothy, ton lots....10 00 Strictly choice 360s, @3 25 | — Sa Strictly choice 300s... 3 25 Fancy 360s...... ... os 75 Crackers. Ex.Fancy 300s... -. @4 0) The N.Y. Biscuit Co. quotes Milind as follows: : ce L Butter. Medium bunches...1 25 @1 50 | se gal Home Rule.... ...... 12 00 5 gal Pirate King...... ic. 2 Oe LANTERNS, Ne, OTapalar 4 25 No. 18 Tubular..... ««. 6 30 No. 13 Tubular Dash. .... 6 30 No. 1Tub., glassfount.... 7 00 No. 12 Tubular, side lamp. 14 0¢€ No. 3Street Lamp ....... 3 % LANTERN GLOBES. No. 0 Tubular, cases 1 doz. each, box 10cents.. ..... No. 0 Tubular, cases2 doz. each, box 15 cents....... No. 0 Tubular, bbis 5 doz. een Sia. 40 No. 0 Tubular, bull’s eye, cases I dos. each......... LAMP WICKS. No. G per gnoes. 0... s No. 1 per gross.. oo Ne. 2 Der erOes cous. ae No. 3 per gross........ .... 58 Mammoth Oreo er esecercesse MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Hardware The Arrangement and Care of Goods. Written for the TRADESMAN. A desirable arrangement for many kinds of goods usually kept in their original packages which is an improve- ment over the use of open shelves is shown in the illustration herewith. The DROP DOOR FOR SHELVING. shelf openings are fitted with a door of half-inch pine or ash, hinged at the bot- tom to the lower shelf. A chain is at- tached to the top of the door, the other end being fastened to the under side of the upper shelf, so that the door, when open, will form a continuation of the lower shelf. The door not only serves the excellent purpose of excluding dust and hiding what are apt to be unsightly packages, but also affords an excellent surface on which to display samples of the goods inside. It is fastened by a cup- board catch as shown in cut below. The frequency with which hardware stores are burglarized, cutlery being the article most largely stolen, has _ sug- gested a plan of keeping cutlery in the original packages where it is not likely to be seen by intruders. To this enda cutlery case is used as shown in the il- J bs i Mi ln lnnsnisian y\| iF Wu POCKET CUTLERY BACK OF CHISEL BOXES. lustration for containing the cutlery. This case occupies only a width of one-half of the shelving. Chisels are kept in front of the case in boxes that fit the shelving, with a sample of each size chisel fastened to the face of the box, as shown. The chisel boxes are 6 inches deep and 18 inches long, while the shelving is 12 inches deep. This leaves a space of 6 inches back of the chisel boxes, where the stock of pocket cutlery is kept in the original boxes. The numbers corresponding to the sam- ples in the case are marked on the end of the cutlery boxes in large figures, with an oil crayon or marking pencil. The smaller numbers are put on the top shelf, with the larger numbers in regular order below, making it an easy matter to find any number desired. Along the line of suitably hiding the unsightly packages and boxes usually of varying sizes and colors and more or less soiled by handling is the plan sug- gested by the engraving below. RY ~e ere Ames k In front of goods kept in original packages shallow cases are hung on hinges. The cases are ahout 3 inches deep, the back and sides being lined with dark cloth, against which are dis- played spoons, cutlery, tools and the .| endless variety of bright and attractive gocds which go to make up a_ hardware stock. The front of each showcase is a glass door hung on separate hinges from those upon which the back ishung. The glass door may be opened to allowa purchaser to inspect the samples more closely. When the goods have been de- cided upon, the glass door is closed and the showcase swung away from the shelves, when the articles required can be taken from the original packages. Although not so shown in the cut, the side of the showcase opposite the hinges should be beveled from tront to back, so that the case will swing clear with- out striking. When the doors reach from the ceiling down toa desirable point above the counter ledge, drawers are used to fill the intervening space. An array of hardware goods in a_ series of such cases imparts to a store an ap- pearance of elegance and _ is not very expensive. The plan can be adopted in many stores with very little trouble and it pays to impress customers with the idea that the goods are of high grade. J. MESSERSCHMIDT. <> 2s Is Not Getting Something for Nothing. From the Philadelphia Ledger. Trading stamps have been declared illegal by the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia and many mer- chants who now feel obliged to use them because their business rivals do so_ will be glad to have them done away with. At the best, they are an illegitimate method of doing business, since they persuade the purchaser that he is get- ting something for nothing, whereas both the stamps and the profit on the goods they represent must be paid for. For this reason, among others, the larger merchants do not use them, nor any sim- ilar device, but give the customer the value of his money in the goods he ae and expect bim to recognize that act. PAGE WIRE DOOR MATS Durable. Will not roll, warp or crush. Michigan agents wanted. E.E. METCALF 14 W. BRIDGE ST., GRAND RAPIDS. Page Fence Headquarters. Detroit Flexible Wire Matting BLS . fee STANDARD SIZES Yee ESSN 24 in, 2 i < 36 in. ips = Sr 16 x 24 in 20x 3o in, 24 x 36 in WAS S = Any dimension to order. YE = AES Made of Flat Wire. The Latest and Best. ka Se : Supplied by all jobbers and the mfrs. AN WS; Write for prices. SSH THE DETROIT SAFECOMPANY, SS Sez4 67-85 East Fort Street, Detroit, Mich. 1 | PAV VAARALA SEAT Wm. Brummeler & Sons, Manufacturers and Jobbers of TINWARE, ENAMELED WARE and NICKEL PLATED WARE Factory and Salesrooms, 260 South Ionia Street GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ‘ rOur Kinds of Goupon Books are manufactured by us and all sold on the same basis, irrespective of size, shape or denomination. Free samples on application. TRADESMAN COMPANY, Grand Rapids. by AOI Prev J t (iki } \ Ft —— re We have the Malleable and the Wire. Write for prices. se Foster, Stevens & Co., Grand Rapids. aaa - Lost a Clerk $800 in Sales While She “Looked Around.” ‘*'Talking about cranky shoppers’’ said the salesman in the jewelry and_silver- ware store, ‘‘the coming of Christmas reminds me of a customer | had last year, two or three days before the 25th. About 11.30 one morning, just when the store was packed with shoppers, a lady came in and asked to look at novelties, also silverware. She was interested in only the expensive goods and | took pains to show her fully our best line. Several parties whom | am accustomed to serve were in the store while she was there, but | let others wait on them and devoted my time to her. | flatter my- self that | am a good salesman, and moreover that I can tell pretty quickly the shopper who really intends to buy that day, and the shopper who is ‘only looking around.’ This lady, atter ex- amining everything closely, pricing, comparing, getting my ideas, and oc- casionally referring to the proprietor’s taste as he came around, taking up an hour's time in the busiest part of the day, remarked carelessly that she had a son who was then on a hunting expedi- tion in the South. ‘He expects to be an usher for a wedding in June,’ she said. ‘I will write him about these things | have seen and very likely when he comes back he will look in himself.’ ‘**In June, madam!’ I could not help exclaiming ; ‘are you looking at these things now for a wedding in June, and all these people waiting to get things for the day after to-morrow?’ ”’ “**Why, yes,’ she said, seemingly not a whit embarrassed; ‘I thought all of your prettiest things would be out of their cases now and that it was a good time to get suggesticns. ’ ‘* “Suggestions for a June wedding, ’I whispered to one of the men, as my customer swept out to her carriage; and then the laugh was on me, because all had expected to hear of a $1,000 sale at least. I counted up and found that | had lost exactly $800 worth of sales while that thoughtless woman was in the Store ! “‘We have people in here sometimes who do such odd things that to tell about them sounds like exaggeration,’’ he went on. ‘‘See this brvoca?’’ pointing to a small gold leaf with vivid glowing berries. *‘We sold one like it to a lady who lives—well, not a bundred blocks from here, and has the reputation of being wealthy. If those berries were rubies the brooch would be costly, but being garnets it is worth only g4o. The day atter the brooch was sent to the purchaser, a tall, self-collected, stern- looking man came in and addressed himself to me. “** You sold this brooch to my wife, I understand,’ he said, holding out the brooch. ‘*I told him that was the case. ‘‘*T want you to take it back and re- fund the money.’ ‘* “Anything wrong about it?’ I asked. ““"No. But you had no right to sell such an expensive piece of jewelry to my wife without first finding out if she bought it with my consent. I do not choose that she should buy goods all about town in this fashion; when I wish her to have personal ornaments | will get them for her. Besides, you over- charged her because she was a woman.’ ‘‘He was so in earnest and berated me so roundly that I really felt uncom- fortable, although I knew it was all ridiculous. I explained that the sale was made, that the lady had paid for the article and that the firm did not take back goods under such conditions. He got into a towering passion, argued with me to the top of his bent, although there were other customers listening, and then, when he found that it was no go and that we would not take back the brooch, he pitched the case out through the open door into the middle of the muddy street and took himself off. “‘What did we do? Why, one of our boys ran out and picked up the case from under the very feet of a cab horse. We packed the brooch carefully ina new case and sent it around to the lady’s address. What was it that made the man act in that way? Crankiness, pure and simple. He is one of the kind MICHIGAN TRADESMAN that objects to his wife’s making any disposal of his money without consulting him. He is not close-fsted, either, ‘That very Christmas he bought her a superb brooch and some other things, costing six times the amount of that little gold leaf with the garnets. ’’ ae No Sentiment in Business. The following announcement from a Washington shoe house contains some excellent points: We will venture to say that not ten— out of the thousands of people who bought shoes here during the past week —Care a snap of their finger—personally —whether the firm sinks or swims in the sea of business; the selling of shoes simmers down to just three words— quality, style and price! There is no sentiment in business—you want the best for the least money—and you Il buy it where you can get it. People used to imagine that in order to get good shoes it was necessary to pay a high price in some down town store— but we have convinced them that they can save almost one-half of their shoe bills in buying here. While other deal- ers were waiting to see what was going to happen—from a tariff point of view —we bought shoes! And to-day we are selling them for less than our competi- tors can buy them for at wholesale! << e____ Plainly Stated. From the American Stationer. The trading stamp continues to cause trouble. It has engendered bad blood between dealers; it has been the cause of a very large amount of bad language, and now those who devised it. and who have built up a lucrative business by its use are In trouble, authorities in various places having proceeded against them under the anti-gambling laws. Just what the outcome will be is not very clear at the moment. —_—_—_e2.___ Experience alone is unconquerable conviction. HOLIDAY GIFT. FOR PROMPT SHIPMENT 5 H MUSIC CABINET. No. 34. Either quarter sawed Oak, antique fin- ish, or Birch, Mahogany finish. Height 47 inches, width 20 inches, depth 14 inches. Has beautiful French Pattern Plate Mirror, size 5x14 in, Is beautifully hand carved, with piano polish finish. Price only $7.78 net. No. 34%. Same as above except hand carved back in place of mirror. Price $6.42 net. When remittance accompanies order we will prepay the freight. Catalogue sent for three 2c stamps. Grand Rapids Wholesale Fury. C0. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Hardware Price Current. AUGURS AND BITS RC, eee esses... 70 ecnnings gonnine 25&10 JCiMinen, Mason | | ae AXES Hirst Quality, S.B. Bronze ..............._. 5 00 Pirst Quality, ). 6. Brome... 9 50 pies Quality 8. 6S Stee Sao Witst Quality, DB Steel 10 50 BARROWS en A $12 00 14 00 a net 30 00 BOLTS te 6010 Carmmpe now Hat 70 to 75 Mt 50 BUCKETS ee 832 BUTTS, CAST Cant Eoese Pin, figured... 70&10 Wredeht Nasr 7Oa10 BLOCKS Crtinary Packie 70 CROW BARS ee OG --per Ib 4 CAPS a per m 65 Co perm 5d ee perm 35 Cl perm 60 CARTRIDGES fete Mire. te. d0& 5 Contra: Vie. D& 5 CHISELS BOGHes PMicg 80 Socket Framing......... 80 Saltese 80 BeCRCE See 8U DRILLS Mores Hii MOcks 0 60 Paper and Straight Shank................ | sé & monies TaperShame 0 eae ELBOWS Com 4 piece Gin... doz. net 30 Corrugated....... eee ee. oe. 12 FE dis 40&10 EXPANSIVE BITS Clark’s small, $18; large, @26................ 380K10 ives, 1 65; 2 ese. 25 FILES—New List NOW AOtea FO&10 IIGROGM A a 70 Hetlers Herse Hasna. -60610 GALVANIZED IRON Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26; 27. ..... 28 List 12 13 14 15 a... 17 Discount, 75 to 75-10 GAUGES Stanley Kule and Level €o.’s............... 60&10 KNOBS—New List Door, mineral, jap. trimmings.... ......... 70 Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings............ MATTOCKS AGme Wve $16 00, dis 60&10 BO $15 U0, dis 60410 Pee $18 50, dis 20410 NAILS Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire. Steel nails, base..... ... 1 6 Wire nails, base..... oh eee i 7a ee Oe Se Base Ite 1G SGvenOe 5 Sawa 10 Gaavanee. oe es 20 SOGvareG oc 30 Seeavance 0... 45 3 aavance........... 70 Fine 3 advance..... eee oc 50 Casing 10 ativasice. .... 1-1... aaa 15 Caner Saavance. 8 a esis Gadvanee 35 Witeon MAG VENEG 8. 5) Rate GSOVANee 35 Prnse Godvinee 45 Barme!l RaGvance 85 MILLS Cofee, Parkers Cas... 40 Coffee, P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s Malleables... 40 Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’s........... 40 Comece, Hiterperne MOLASSES GATES POCOONNS DRMCK eo ll. 60&10 PeCvusns GEIB 60410 Enterprise, self-measuring ............ .... 30 PLANES Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy..... eee eee @50 Bele CHC 60 pandusky Tool Co.'s, fancy... .... @50 menor, HTSEGUAMIG @50 Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s wood......... 60 PANS Pee, ROM 60£10£10 Common, polished. |. ; TO& 5 RIVETS ivenanG@ Tinned 8 8, 60 Copper Rivets and Burs.....-. 22... ... 2... 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 235, i dis 25 Memes debian. dis wW&10 Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.......... ..30¢ lisi, 70 Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel Hand 30c lis; 40&10 23 HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS. Stamped Tin Ware....... .........new list 75&10 Japanned Tin Ward.........0...0 | nae Granite ren Ware.........._._... new list 40&10 HOLLOW WARE roe 8. wee ose. OOD ee 60410 Soe ne .-..60&10 HINGES Gate, Clark s,1,2:2.0 0 |. aan ee ent dda wee 2 50 WIRE GOODS ee Su ee ee 80 Oe bo ue BU Gate Hooks and Hyes =... 80 LEVELS Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............dis 7 ROPES Sisal, % inch and larger....... Reeeee cc 6 Oe ee SQUARES mecca eee ten Mey ana Seve EE a a SHEET IRON com. smooth. com. Mes 166g & 70 #2 40 Be 2 70 2 40 Nos met... 2 80 2 45 Nes. 22to24......... 3 00 2 55 NOS tee 3 10 2 6 3 20 2% All sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30 inches wide not less than 2-10 extra. SAND PAPER fe aeee ee dis SASH WEIGHTS Sore eee per ton 20 00 TRAPS mec. Game. Lo 60&10 Oneida Community, Newhouse’s....... 50 Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s 70&10 MiGtine, Cider. 8... per doz 15 Mouse, delusion........ 0... per doz 12 WIRE rigs MOR 7 munesiog Magnet... 7 Coppers Mareen 70&10 ones Maree 62% Coppered Spring Steel... ...... 50 Barved Wence, galvaiiived................_. sm Barved Menec, painted... 1 80 HORSE NAILS Aaa dis 40&1C eee dis 5 OCS WeRC dis 10&10 WRENCHES Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.............. 30 CogsaGentine 50 Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought . 80 Coes Patent, malleable 80 MISCELLANEOUS Dir Cages 50 Pompe (rater... " 80 Nerows, New Tigt.............. no 85 Casters, Ged and Piste............ ._.. 50&10&10 Deaapers, American. 50 METALS—Zinc Ce OE Ca 614 er BOG 6% SOLDER eee 12% The prices of the many other qualities of solder in the market indicated by private brands vary according to composition. TIN—Melyn Grade 10x14 IC, Charcoal... ...... Seeeeee eee ce. $5 75 Pome TC, CRAPCOME 5 75 merle ix Coerces, | 7 00 Each additional X on this grade, 81.25. TIN—Allaway Grade nie 10), Cuascoal ...... 8... |... 5 00 fai, Chancea:. 5 FOmee EN Chto 6 Meee Charcoal 6 Each additional X on this grade, 81.50. ROOFING PLATES eexce IC, Charcoal, Dean. ................... 5 00 ioe IX, Charcoat Dean... 6 00 ries IC, Charedal Dean... | |. 10 00 14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade... .. £50 14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade......... 5 50 20x28 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade......... 9 00 20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade......... 11 00 BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE 14x56 IX, for No. 8 Boilers, } 14x56 IX: for No. 9 Boilers. ( Pet pound... © Write for prices. *Phone 1357. THOMAS DUNN & SONS, WHOLESALE HARDWARE SPECIALTIES, BELTING, Engineers, Machinists and Factory Supplies. 93 PEARL STREET. GRAND RAPIDS. s Cradesman . Itemized Ledgerse Size, 8%4x14—3 columns. a qeies, 160 pawess $2 00 fo eres, 260 es 2 50 A Gemkes, 200 Cas 3 00 5 Gees 400 Pare 3 50 GO @uires, 400 Dames 4 00 INVOICE RECORD or BILL BOOK. 80 double pages, registers 2,880 invoices...... $2 00 TRADESMAN COMPANY, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Reena hatter en ees 24 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN CHRISTMAS WINDOWS. Seasonable Displays of the Grand Rapids Merchants. Written for the TRADESMAN. **Me write ‘em up? Man’s or wom- an’s standpoint? I can have carte blanche to say what I want to? Well, nothing could be more generous. Say, can I take Kit with me? She’s no end of fun and you know she’s bubbling over with originality —and I might cribbage an idea or two from her when she wasn't lookin’. Yes? How kind.’’ So I telephoned to Kit to meet me at a certain store within twenty minutes. Kit's always ready to fly, and if there’s a ‘‘lark’’ on the tapis, can be relied on to do her full share of flying. ‘‘Well,’’ said I, when her speaking, sparkling eyes came within hailing dis- tance, ‘‘where shall we begin?’’ ‘“‘Why not at the beginning? Isn't that as good as at the end or in the middle?’’ I assented, so we took Daane & Wit- ters for a ‘‘starter,’’ as the cheese men would say. Talking about cheese, there was a nice little Edam _ reposing in the right hand window, labeled *‘ Ex- ported by von Rossem Bros., Rotterdam, Holland.’’ It ‘‘made one’s mouth water,’’ as did also the enormous dates, raisins, Michigan boiled cider, Michi- gan maple syrup, and the long hottle ot fat queen olives with which it was flanked. In the other window were dis- played the usual Christmas attractions in the way of nuts, oranges, grapes and other fruits, arranged on the bottom of the window in a geometrical pattern. Passing on down the street, we stopped in front of E. J. Herrick’s. The window on the right was easy to impress on the ‘‘gray matter,’’ for it was entirely devoted to a collection of the yellowest of Yellow Kids and the brownest of saucy Brownies. We had begun to succumb somewhat to the in- fluence of the raw atmosphere, so stepped inside to recuperate. ‘“Nice little fat order, Mrs. Polly?’’ said the genial proprietor, eyeing my notebook and busy pencil with approv- ing optics. ““No, not this time, Mr. Herrick— I’m just making a little picture of your window here. Don’t you think it’s a good likeness?’’ ‘‘First rate, first rate. natural,’’ he beamed. ‘‘What are those things in the giant bottle there?’’ ‘*Those? Those are sickle pears.’’ ‘‘Are the sickles good to eat, Mr. Herrick?’’ piped up Kitty. ‘‘Well, these are not to eat—just to look at. Here are some, though, that are made to serve a more useful pur- pose ;’’ and he showed us cans of fruit of such evenness it looked as if each piece had been measured before it was placed in the can. Then followed a lit- tle dissertation on the different varieties of cheese displayed and, with a hearty ‘*Thank you,’’ we ended the interview. We zigzagged over to take a peep at Hoffman’s, where the old-fashioned Looks real _vivid pink candy cats and dogs recalled our firm belief in the blessed Santa Claus of our lost childhood. And there were dear little pink and white baskets, made of twisted candy, which ended in a handle and somehow re- minded us of those other burdock bas- kets we used to fashion in that same happy Long Ago. The other window, with its wealth of rich ‘‘plum pud’’ and modern inventions to fill the doc- tors’ pockets, held not half the charm of the one with the big candy canes. Then we _ inspected Boss-Norton’s goods, which include many pretty lamps, keeping company with a row of cups and saucers, and in front of these are Carpet sweepers. Water sets are sandwiched in with heavy rolls of car- peting, which bode no good to the sets should they topple over. A writing desk, an inlaid cabinet, a sofa and a side- board are also in evidence, and hang- ing high in the air are children's chairs which give an uneasy feeling of insecurity to the onlooker as to the pos- sible fate of the lamps beneath. Plain price tags on everything “leave no room for unbelief” as to the cost. The Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. offers its heart—made of coffee—to the prac- tical public and extends the compli- ments of the season—not in honeyed, but sugared words. Tony Benjamin displays comfortable- looking sweaters, shirts, neckwear and umbrellas to please the masculine heart. Pennell’s windows, usually quick to respond to a new call, show nothing different in the way of decoration ex- cept a brown stuffed bird in among the shoes. Vander Veen & Witman make a fetish of skates and sleds to enrapture the omnipresent Small Boy. And the cigar store of the irrepress- ible Treusches! Kitty and I don't know a meerschaum from a toadstool, but we simply could not resist the temptation to stop and gaze at the merry-go-round of fat pipes and emaci- ated ones, Turkish pipes and Dutch- man's pipes, and the grandfather of them all, a German one at least four feet long—‘‘not meant,’’ explained ‘*Monte,’’ who had noted our admira- tion and invited us inside, ‘‘not meant to take along with him and smoke on the way when he goes of an evening to call on his ‘best girl,’ but to enjoy in the privacy of his own apartments.’’ Then he undertook to initiate us into the mysteries of the Turkish pipe, deftly picking up one from the revolv- ing mass of smokers’ delights and de- positing it carefully on the show case. ‘‘Now understand’’—and we did our best to—‘‘that the great trouble with these affairs is they are not kept clean. Cleanliness is absolutely necessary to secure pleasing results. The whole ap- paratus should be gone over after each smoking, and fresh water used each time, otherwise it becomes as disagree- able as a cuspidor.’’ ‘‘T don't suppose a woman knows very much about pipes?’’ | deprecating- ly ventured. ‘*Monte’’ gazed out the window witha reminiscent look in his eyes and wither- ingly replied : ‘* Nothing—absolutely less than nothing!’’ Here Kitty sidled over to the other show window, to refresh herself with the roguish glances of ‘Our Cissy.’’ ‘‘No,’’ he continued, “the only way we can sell ’em goods is to have them rely on our judgment, and tell them, if it isn’t satisfactory to ‘Him,’ we will change it for something else.’ The conversation seemed somehow to bave drifted around to a point where a change would not be undesirable, so I carelessly remarked, with a glance at the revolving goods in the window, ‘‘I see you are carrying a new line— pocketbooks, ’’ His reply showed I had not mended matters any, for he said, with a smile he could not repress, ‘‘No—same old line; those are pipe cases ”’ ‘Ob!’ (with chagrin). And Kitty (Bob calls her ‘‘Diavolita,’’. and I guess he’s right about it), that dread- ful Kitty, giggled right out. Just as if she were wiser than I! ‘‘Never you mind, Mr. Treusch,’’ said I; ‘‘just wait until we get you into a dry goods store. We'll get even with you.’’ ‘‘T don’t doubt it in the least,’’ laughed ‘‘Monte,’’ and he gallantly opened the door. ‘“Weli, thank goodness here’s some- thing you know something about,’’ said Kitty, meanly, as we came on down the street and stopped in front of Foote Bros.’ elegant windows. “You needn't say anything,’’ I re- torted. ‘‘You didn’t know any more about those things than I did—the only difference was you knew enough to keep your mouth shut and so not display your ignorance !’’ Kit subsided at this shot, and we kissed and made up—figuratively. ‘‘Goodspeed doesn’t seem to have made any change; but Whew! just look at Mayhew’s windows. Aren't they just gorgeous! Let’s run in and con- gratulate them;’’ which we did, and asked them who trimmed them, and how they came to think of fixing them just that way. *‘We've seen Herpolsheimer’s before —and Friedman's, so don't let's spend any time on them,"’ said Kitty, as we hurried along. ‘*Well, look here—if Friedman hasn't changed this west window again! See those dolls! Aren't they havirg a good time? And doesn’t that dummy with the cap and apron look natural as the nurse to take care of them?’’ But our time was flying, and we must be doing likewise. We skipped past Wurzburg’s notion store, where it is al- ways such a delight to shop—everyone from the proprietor down is so accom- modating. ‘*Spring’s windows are always good, ’’ said Kitty. ‘‘Let’s stop and look at Foster-Stevens. *’ Cut glass and cutlery vie with each other in this mammoth window. ‘* But,’’ averred my observant compan- ion, ‘I don’t like the way they display that line of hair brushes alongside the gravy spoons and put the coal receptacles next door neighbor to the water sets. ’’ Studley & Barclay have not made the most of their opportunities. ‘‘Why didn’t they pile those beautiful big red balls way up high ina pyramid, and put a rubber doll on each one?’’ de- manded Kitty, the planner. **Well,’’ let’s hurry and get down on Canal street,’ she continued, ‘‘or we’ll never get home.’’ The G, J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s win- dows were not finished, but would evi- dently be fine when completed. ‘‘Look at the Greek temple!’’ ex- claimed Katherine, as we paused in front of The Giant. ‘*No Greek Temple,’’ I scornfully asserted. ‘*Can’t you read? It savs, ‘Temple of Fashion!’ ’’ “Well, ‘Temp. of Fash.’ then—I don’t care!’ Music-loving Germans touched elbows with us in front of Friedrich’s, admir- ing in no half-hearted way the fine in- struments which completely fill the southern window, while street Arabs cast longing glances toward ye festive mouth-organ and Jews'-harp. Some foreign-looking instruments have these Strange-sounding names: Samasen, Gecken and Ni Gecken, all coming from Japan. The Ni Gecken looks like a baby totem pole! ‘‘Wonder if that’s ‘Paul and Vir- ginia’ over in the north window,’’ re- marked Katherine. ‘‘And I wonder why they have so many of those cards and books with the German religious inscriptions on, and _ those little paper houses. ’’ ‘*Let’s go in and ask,’’ I suggested. No sooner said than done. Yes, the statuette is ‘Paul and Vir- ginia’—very pretty, don't you think? Made in Milwaukee. How do you like those little niggers in the window? They help to attract attention. Those cards with the reading on we keep for German customers. They are very popular in the Fatherland and we sell very many. It’s harder to make a win- dow look nice with those, though—here’s where it’s easier;’’ and he glanced ad- miringly at the other window. Thanking him, we drifted a few steps farther on, to be confronted with the elaborate windows of The Star, and to try to solve the problem why a dummy labeled ‘‘Old Year,’’ and dressed in an up-to-date style, should be pointing to an electric-lighted cross on the left, while another one on the right is in the same attitude and engaged in the same pointing occupation, and labeled, “*New Year,’’ and attired in a cheese- cloth robe de nuit! PoLty PEPPER. 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. ve SALE—ON ACCOUNT OF OTHER BUSI- ness, only dental office in locality of 40,000 people. Address 109 Bostwick St., Grand Rap- ids. 456 RATERNAL INSURANCE ORGANIZERS aitent.on—An opportunity to organize “Fraternal insurance without the lodge’? The New Era Life Association of Grand Rapids, Mich., has accomplished this, and practical or- ganizers pow in the field are having splendid success. Two district organizers and local rep- resentatives wanted. Apply C. D. Sharrow, General Manager. 455 WASTED - EVERY YOUNG MAN AND young woman desiring improvement in Business Arithmetic to send for circular of the School of Correspondence and Business Arith- metic. Address A. S. Parrish, 109 Ottawa St., Grand Rapids, Mich. 453 A GOOD DRUG BUS:NESS FOR SALE; $3,W00 in stock and fixtures. Must change Climate on account of health. Address Dollars. exre Michigan Tradesman. 446 ANTED—A GOOv FLOURING MILL, : best location in the State; also good plan- ing mill. Address F. Salisbury, Middleton, Mich. AT OR SALE—DRUG STUUK FOR CASH, ONE- _ _ third its real value. Address Copperas, care Michigan Tradesman. 450 OUSE AND LOT, WELL RENTED. 40 acre farm, land contract; first mortgage well secured and $2,000 to $5,000 cash for a good exclusive or general stock. Investigate. Wm. Fagan, Manistee, Mich. 451 HAVE A PARTY WANTING GROCERY OR general stock. Must be a bargain. I have buyers for any line of merchandise. W. H. Gil- bert, 109 Oitawa St., Grand Rapids. 440 OR SALE—IN ONE OF THE BEST BUSL ness towns in Northern Michigan, my entire stock of groceries; only grocery store in Petos- key doing a strictly cash business. Good reasons forselling. For particulars write to J. Welling & Co., Pe oskeyv. Mich. 441 ee RENT—FOK LIGHT MAN UFACTURING purposes; two-story building, 28x78, with 20 to 20 horse power; electric lights; side track and two railroad connections; Chicago line of boats daily for six months in the year; located in best town in northern Michigan; timber of all kinds to be had; low rent. Address box 126, Petoskey, Mich. 443 ANTED—BUTTER AND EGGS. IF YOU want good prices and quick returns w: ite us. Lunn & Strong, Toledo, Ohio. 402 ANTED — FIRST-CLASS BUTTER FOR retail trade. Cash paid. Correspond with Caulkett & Co., Traverse City, Mich. 381 yOR EXCHANGE—TWO FINE IMPROVED farms for stock of merchandise; splendid location. Address No. 73, care Michigan Trades- man. 73 {OR SALE—J UDGMENT FOR 88.08 AGAINST Niles H. Winans, real estate agent in the Tower Block. Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids 382 PATENT SOLICITORS. j;REE—OUR NEW HANDBOOK ON PAT- ents. Cilley & Allgier, Patent Attorneys, Grand Rapids, Mich. 339 MISCELLANEOUS. ANTED— POSITION IN. NORTHERN Michigan in wholesale or retail grocery or meat business. Six years’ experience; first- class references. Address No. 454, care Michi- gan Tradesmin. 454 ANTED — POSITION IN NORTHERN : Michigan by registered pharmacist hav- ing twelve years’ experience. Correspondence solicited. Good references furnisned. L. J. Shafer, 31 Calkins Ave.. Grand Rapids. 419 ANTED SITUATION — PH. G. REGIS- tered in Michigan desires situation by Jan.1. Three yeurs of city experience. First- class references. Address No. 453, care Michigan Tradesman. 452 ANTED—POSITIUN IN WHOLESALE OR retail grocery or crockery business by salesman of eight years’ experience. Address No. 436, care Michigan Tradesman. 436 Pa rN ET Se ands ini : oad ee waa aA shes Travelers’ Time Tables. DETROI — oo Going to Detroit. Ly. Grand Rapids...... 7:00am 1:35pm 5:35pm -Ar. Detroit............ 11:40am 5:45pm 10:20pm Returning from Detroit. Ly. Detroit........ .....8:00am 1:10pm 6:10pm Ar. Grand Rapids..... 12:55pm 5:20pm 10:55pm Saginaw, Alma and Greenville. Lv. G R 7:10am 4:20pm Ar. GR 12:20pm 9:30pr Parlor cars on all trains to and from Detroit and:Saginaw. Trains run week days only. Gro. DEHavEN, General Pass. Agent. HEA cot ana tiseectes or , om _— (In effect October 3, 1897.) Leave. EAST. Arrive. + 6:45am..Saginaw, Detroit and East..+ 9:55pm +10:10am... ...Detroit and East.... . +5 5:07pm + 3:30pm..Saginaw, Detroit and East..+12:45pm *10:45pm... Detroit, East and Canada...* 6:35am WES * 7:00am....Gd. Haven and Int. Pts ...*10:15pm +12:53pm.Gd. Haven and Intermediate.+ 3:22pm +t. 5:12pm....Gd. Haven Mil. and Chi....+10:0ham +10:00pm...... Gd. Haven and Mil................. Eastward—No. 14 has Wagner parlor car. No. 18 parlor car. Westward—No. 11 parlor car. No. 15 Wagner parlor car. *Daily. +Except Sunday. E. H. Huewes, A. G. P. & T. A. BEN. FLETCHER, Trav. Pass. Agt., Jas. CAMPBELL, City Pass. Agent, No. 23 Monroe St CHICAGO ne Going to Chicago. Ly. G. Rapids........... 8:45am 1:25pm *11:30ps Ar., Catearo..... 2... 3:10pm 6:50pm 6:40an Returning from Chicago. Ly. Chicago............ 7:20am 5:15pm *11:30pr Ar. G’d Rapids......... 1:25pm 10:35pm * 6:20am Muskegon. Ey. Gd Rapids... 6... 1:25pm 6:25pm Ar. G@’d Rapids........... 1:25pm ....... 10:25ar Traverse City, Charlevoix and Petoskey. Lv. Ga Hapids:.......) 2:2... 7:30am 5:30pm Ar. Traverse City ............. 12:40pm 11:10pm Ar, Charleyoix................ S:i5pm ......... Br. POWOGROY sss shes cc 3:45pm ......... 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 11:30 pm. TRAVERSE CITY AND BAY VIEW. Parlor car leaves Grand Rapids 7:30 a m. *Every day. Others week days only. Go. DeHaven, General Pass. Agent. Rapids & Indiana Railway Dec. 5, 1807 GRAN Northern Div. Leave Arrive Tray. C’y, Petoskey & Mack...+ 7:45am + 5:15pm Trav. U’y, Petoskey & Mack...t 2:15pm ¢ 6:35am Mee ea sep cee + 5:25pm t11:15am Train leaving at 7:45 a. m. has parlor car, and train leaving at 2:15 p. m. has sleeping car to Mackinaw. Southern Div. Leave Arrive CROGINUOE 6 os or ee see + 7:10am + 8:25pn We, A + 2:10pm t¢ 2:00pm CMOMINATL 8d, * 7:00pm * 7:25an +:10a. m. train has parlor car to Cincinnati 2:10 p.m. train has parlor car to Fort Wayne. 7:00 p. m. train has sleeping car to Cincinnati. Muskegon Trains. GOING WEST. Ly @’d Rapids......... ¢7:35am +1:00pm +5:40pr Ar Muskegon........... 9:00am 2:10pm 7:05pm GOING EAST. Lv Muskegon....... .. +8:10am t+11:45am +4:00pm ArG’d Rapids... ..... 9:30am 12:55pm 5:20pm +Except Sunday. *Daily. Cc. L. LOCKWOOD, Gen’! Passr. and Ticket Agent. MINNEAPOLIS, St Pan! & Sautt Ste. WEST BOUND. Ly. Grand Rapids (G. R. &1.)............ +7:45am Ly. Mackinaw City.. neice st waa 4:20pm PE CRON ek ete ces 9:50pm AP. St Paul. 3.5... : onl ne Res sae as yh ae Ar. MIUMCRBONS (2025 is. oo os 9:30am EAST BOUND. Ly. Minneapolis......................... 6:30pm BE Me Oe 7:20pm At. Gladstone. :: -..... ....5....2...... . b45em Ar, Mackinaw City...................... 11:0Uam Ar. Grand Hapids,.. 2.) sw 10:00pm W. R. CatLaway, Gen. Pass. Agt., Minneapolis. E. C. Oviatt, Trav. Pass. Agt., Grand Rapids. C AN ADI AN Pacific Railway. EAST BOUND. Riv Demers ee... 411;45am *11:35pm Lt, -ROPOMCO. 8:30pm 8:15am Ar. Montreal 0.5.5 8 7;20am 8:00pm WEST BIUND. boy. Montreal. 0. 6i..55.-... 8:50am 9:00pm iv. POrOnte. ... 6c. es. 4:00pm 7:30am Ar. Detroit. 0... . 10:45pm 2:10pm D. MeNicoli, Pass. Traffic Mgr , Montreal. E. C. Oviatt, Tray. Pass. Agt., Grand Rapids. DULUT : South —— a Atlantic WEST BOUND. Ly. Grand Rapids (G. R. & L.)+11:10pm = +7:45am Ly. Mackinaw City............ 7:35am 4:20pm ee Se TOE coe 5 9:00am 5:20pm Ar. Sault Ste. Marie.......... 12:20pm 9:50pm Ar. Marquette ................ 2:50pm 10:40pm irs NOROOTIN. cco 5:20pm 12:45am Ar. Duluth......... Pee ctensete | | cuca 8:30am EAST BOUND. Ey. RC ee +6:30pm at NOSOpia - til:lbam = 2:45am Ar. Marquetée.:.............. 1:30pm 4:30am Lv. Sault Ste. Marie.......... Sou °c. Ar. Mackinaw City. ......... 8:40pm 11:00am G. W. Hipparp, Gen. Pass. Agt. Marquette. E. C. Oviatt, Trav. Pass Agt., Grand Rapids TRAVEL VIA F.& P. M. R. R. AND STEAMSHIP LINES TO ALL POINTS IN MICHIGAN H. F. MOELLER, a... Pp. a. HOROROHROCHOROHOROROHONOHOR firé 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. 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. A HEAVY LOAD | ! : | Is carried by the merchant when he undertakes to handle the credit transactions cf his establishment by means of pass books or other equally antiquated methods. The strain is immediately lessened, however, when he adopts the Cou- pon Book System and places his credit transactions on a cash basis. We make four kinds of Coupon ‘ Books and cheerfully send samples free on application. TRADESMAN COMPANY, GRAND RAPIDS. TAPALEIEANALAMNE™ Begin thee Hew Year Right= i : + % and * »# Shake off the by abandoning the time-cursed credit system, with its losses and annoyance, and substitut- ing therefor the @ Coupon Book System which enables the merchant to place his credit transactions on a cash basis. Among the manifest advantages of the coupon book plan are the following: No Forgotten Charge. No Poor Accounts. No Book-keeping. No Disputing of Accounts. No Overrunning of Accounts. No Loss of Time. No Chance for Misunderstanding. at Weare glad at any time to send a full line of sample books to any one applying for them. TRADESMAN COMPANY GRAND RAPIDS. DEALERS IN ILLUMINATING AND LUBRICATING NAPHTHA AND GASOLINES Ofiice and Works, BUTTERWORTH AVE., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Bulk works at Grand Rapids, Muskegon, Manistee, Caaillac, Big Rap- ids, Grand Haven, Traverse City, Ludington, Allegan, Howard City, Petoskey, Reed City, Fremont, Hart, Whitehall, Holland and Fennville Highest Price Paid for Empty Carbon and Gasoline Barrels. v oN “% NS Dk rs Do. f.D.L.L.L.L.L. oe a... fo: V€e