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How the Old Lady Regarded the
Clerk.
Written for the TRADESMAN.

I am not averse to a delightful drive
behind a spanking span of bays, in
midwinter, under clear blue skies and a
brightly shining sun. When, then, after
lunch, yesterday, the driver of that sort
of equipage drew his horses to the curb,
and Mrs. Bostwick asked me if I
wouldn't take a seat by her side for a
turn or two in the park, I did not re-
use.

Without preliminaries the lady began:

**Seen Will lately?’’

‘*Not for a week. Why?

‘* Because I wanted to know where to
begin. I could see that Mr. Bostwick
never was going to be satisfied unless |
made his interest in Will a personal
matter, and I am willing to confess that
I wanted to. He’s with us now and has
been for some days. I like him better
than I thought I should. You know that
a woman never takes any too kindly to
her husband's friends unless she picks
them out for him—a thing be doesn’t
take kindly to—and so, while my inten-
tions in regard to Wili were the best in
the world, I was prepared for the worst
and determined not to be surprised at
anything. Well, he came over one
evening, and while the game was going
on I went up and, after watching them
play a while—did you know, Mr. Strong,
that a man at a game which he likes
shows his real self? Well, he does—I
knew I liked him, and I said, ‘Will,
there is a room downstairs over the sit-
ting room which you may occupy if you
want to.’

ny Wate ie

** “Yes, you. Why not?’

‘* “Why, Mrs. Bostwick, I should be
very glad to have a room in your house
—but are you quite sure that you want
me?’ and he emphasized the ‘you’ as if
he was sure of Mr. Bostwick but wasn't
quite so sure of me.

‘*They soon tinished the game, and I
took Will downstairs to look at the
room.

‘* ‘Why’, said he, ‘it is so much finer
than any room I ever had, Mrs. Bost-
wick, that I’m afraid I couldn't feel at
home in it. Are you quite sure that
you really want me in your house?’

‘* “Quite sure,’ I said; ‘if I didn’t
want you I wouldn't ask you.’

‘“ “Have you taken into account that I
haven't lived at home for years, and
that my ways are not your ways? It’s
a kind of Bohemian life that I have
been living—out all night or in as the
fancy strikes me, accounting for myself
to nobody and getting nettled if any-
body undertakes to question me. Then,
too, it would be too far from where I
take my meals. So I’m afraid I can't
accept your offer.’

‘* *T’ve settled that question—you’ll
have your meals with us. The other
matter will take care of itself, I think.
This is the program I've mapped out:
You'll have your own room and a night-
key. That room shall be as thoroughly
yours as the one you now have. The
rest of the house will be at your disposal
as often as you like. The oniy condi-
tion I should wish to make is that you

 

GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1898.

should be respectable in the broadest
sense of the term. The fact is, Will,
we are going to make our home your
home, if you will let us, and that idea
prevents any meddling on our part in

any way whatever. Do you want to
come?’

Mes.

‘* “When?’

‘* ‘Now.’ And he staid all night.

‘*He’s with us now and it seems as if
Mr. Bostwick and myself had both got
a new lease of life. The boy is odd,
though, and I don’t know just how to
take him half the time. That’s why I
have come to you; Mr. Bostwick says
you understand him better than anybody
else—but I guess that isn’t any too well.
All I am sure of is that a good warm
heart is beating in a rather wayward
body, and what I want is to get at the
heart by the shortest route, and just as
soon as I can.

‘Now, anybody would have thought
that that large well-furnished room
would have satisfied him. And it does
to a certain point, but he caught a
glimpse of a room in the attic just the
other side of the hall from Mr. Bost-
wick’s den, a sort of a lumber room.

‘Since then I’ve noticed him several

times looking into that room with long-
ing in his eyes. The last time, I said,
‘You may if you want to; do you?’

‘* “Yes, I do!’ and he didn’t have to
tell me that the answer came from the
bottom of his heart.

‘‘That settled the question with me,
and I’m of the opinion that I know ex-
actly what he wants—to go in there and
fix up that room just as he wants it,
without any hint or belp from anybody.
Mr. Bostwick, as usual, is ready to
overdo things. He’s bound to go down
to the furniture store and the upholster-
er’s and have the room fitted up regard-
less of expense, and have it all ready
some night when Will comes home.
Now, I don’t think so at all. And
that’s where we stand now, and we don’t
know which is the better course to pur-
sue. Mr. Bostwick is stub—that is,
rather set in his opinion, and he knows
I am. So we concluded to ask you what
the boy would like and let it go at that.
You see, the room is full of odd little
unexpected corners, and Will knows
how to turn them to the best account—I
can tell that by the way he arranges his
traps in his room—and I just think it’s
a shame to take things out of his hands.
It’s going to spoil the whole business
for him. Don’t you think so? Now
say just what you think and don’t let
anything I have said influence you one
way or the other.’’

To be honest about it, I hadn’t be-
come well enough acquainted with the
boy to know whether he had any de-

cided opinions about room furnishing,
especially that particular sort of one.
I saw, however, that Mrs. Bostwick did
know; and, ‘‘assuming a virtue if 1
had it not,’’ I admitted that, so far as
1 could judge, Mrs. Bostwick was right,
and that it would, by all means, be
better to let the young fellow have his
own way.

That settled the momentous question
and I am waiting for the outcome with
considerable curiosity.

RICHARD MALCOLM STRONG.

 

Number 748

The Grain Market.

The past week was a repetition of
the previous week in the wheat market.
While wheat has been very steady at
wheat centers, at local and _ initial
points it is being held very firm. Farm-
ers are not inclined to sell much, as
they are holding it for higher prices.
The receipts of winter wheat are cer-
tainly falling off. The reports from the
spring wheat section are of the same
tenor—that many elevators, owing to
the small movement, are about to be
closed for the season, which is rather
early. Our exports are still of good size
and our visible showed a decrease of
1,025,000 bushels, which was more than
was anticipated. However, it had only
the effect to hold prices firm. The Ar-
gentine supplies are still a matter of
uncertainty. While they have been sell-
ing some, they seem to be cautious so
as not to oversell. The supply from
Argentine is heralded by the bears as a
great factor in future prices; but when
we stop to consider (as has been stated
before) that she grows only about as
much wheat as one of our large winter
wheat states, we are of the opinion that
Argentine supplies will not cut much of
a figure.

The demand for flour is very fair.

Mill feed is steadily advancing, ow-
ing to the inadequate supply.

Corn held its own, although the re-
ceipts were large. The same can be
said of oats.

The receipts by rail were fair, being
47 cars of wheat, 7 cars of corn and 8
cars of oats.

The mills are paying 88c for wheat.

Cc. G. A. Voter.
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A Talented Lad.

Alden Jewell, the 9 year old son of
Frank Jewell (Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.)
could not sleep Sunday morning, so he
lay awake and composed the following
poem and then went downstairs and
wrote it down on paper and put it be-
side his mother’s plate, where she found
it when she came down to breakfast :

The sky was all filled with stars one night,
When out popped the Lady Moon, pretty and
bright.
The stars all surrounded her, crying with joy,

Oh, Lady Moon! did you bring us a toy?

I have brought you enough, the Lady Moon said;

Just look over there in the milky-way’s bed.
Oh! what do you see there, my starlets, to-night?
A dear little baby star, twinkling and bright.
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Cigar manufactureres can no longer
follow the practice of sending un-
stamped samples of cigars through the
mails. An order has been issued by the
Internal Revenue Commissioner that
such practice cannot be countenanced,
as these samples are unaccompanied by
any evidence of being tax paid. Any
postmaster is justified in refusing to ac-
cept the packages for mailing, if he is
aware of the fact that the cigars they
contain are unstamped.

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What is the friendship of a nation
worth to us in whose borders and at
whose very capital soldiers have to he
detailed to guard the persons and prop-
erty of our diplomatic representatives
and in whose harbors it 1s not safe to
fly our flag? Are not the Spanish peo-
ple rubbing their insults into us? We
will have to rename ‘‘Old Glory’’ and
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_Dry Goods —

The Dry Goods Market.

Staple Cottuns—Brown ducks, osna-
burgs, denims, ticks, checks, stripes,
cheviots and cottonades are all quiet
and without features worthy of note.
Wide sheetings have been reported in
one two places as showing a trifle
more activity, but tae cases are isolated
and cannot be taken as typical of the
market. Bleached cottons are, if such
a term can be used for the amount ot
business transacted, the most active ot

or

the staple cuiton goods and the holders
are able to meet all requirements with-
out trouble.

Prints and Ginghams—Indigo blues

are in very quiet demand, except in one
or two cases where the make has become
popular. Shirtings, prints, percales,
blacks, whites and grays, turkey reds,
etc., are quiet and without particular
change in prices. Staple ginghams are
receiving a limited amount of orders
but dress and other fine ginghams show
very small business. Napped fabrics
are in a little better condition,and some
fair sales are reported.

Knit Goods—The manufacturers of
woo! knit goods are decidedly on the
anxious seat this week. Few feel like
opeuing their line and being respon-
sible for the opening quotations, and
yet the time is at hand when the goods
should be on the market. That buyers
are ready to do business, is proved by
the fact that fleeced underwear has se-
cured a large business many mills hav-
ing already sold up their production
of these styles. It is the same way in
cotton underwear. Good sales have
been made, and business is in very
good condition. The salesmen have had
no trouble in securing orders, and at
prices that are considered just about
right in the trade.

Worsteds—It is still too early look for
a general opening of worsted goods for
the new season, but reports are current
that open prices on one or two lines
may be expected within a few days. So
far open displays have chiefly been con-
fined to woolen suitings and overcoat-
ings, and in the former almost entirely
to the lower and medium grades of
cheviots, cassimeres and various plain
staple goods. So far as lines of woolen
and worsted suitings have been opened
in new heavy weights, the advances
range from 25 to 30 per cent. over the
prices of a year ago. It is reported that
worsted cheviots, the products of the
Washington mills, have been opened at
$1.10, against 8oc last year.

Carpets—While there is some revival
in tbe demand for carpets, business
since the opening of the year continues
of a disappointing character. The ex-
pected demand coming forward from
retailers has failed to materialize, as
they show no inclination to anticipate
their season’s wants beyond well-de-
fined limits. This would seem to indi-
cate that they have little confidence in
the price situation and prefer to make
purchases as the necessity arises from
time to time. Ingrain manufacturers
evidently realize that the advanced
prices talked of early in the season are
now among the impossibilities, in view
of the large distribution of tapestries
and the continued popularity of mat-
tings as a floor covering. Prices are now
being adjusted on a more equitable
basis. In the finer grades of narrow
goods, leading makes advanced on
January 15 in accordance with previous
announcements. Rug manufacturers are

 

a gratifying exception to the general
condition which prevails in the carpet
trade. The demand for rugs is un-
usually active. Wilton rugs, in imita-
tion of the Orientals, are growing in
favor all the time, and-retailers who are
not slow to realize this are devoting con-
siderable attention to that branch of
their trade. Art squares continue in
favor and mills which have never pro-
duced them are now adding these goods
to their lines. In the upholstery lines
covditions show fairly gratifying re-
sults, but business at present does not
show the conditions usual at this stage
of the season. Manufacturers, however,
are looking for an early revival in the
demand, which should lead toa good
season’s business.
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of the Annual
Trade.
Written for the TRADESMAN.

The sudden falling off of sales is one
ot the things which I have noticed dur-
ing the annual or semi-annual stock-
taking time. We take an account of
stock twice a year, from the first to the
fifteenth of January, and from the first
to the fifteenth of July. Now, it is true
that the rush of the winter season is
over with Christmas, yet we still have
large quantities of winter goods to be
disposed of, and we still continue to
advertise, but somehow during those
fifteen days business is a flat faiiure.

The merchant himself is largely re
sponsible for this condition. His policy
is to reduce his force immediately after
Christmas and the Fourth of July, keep-
ing only the necessary few. The result
is that the clerks who are taking ac-
count of stock are also expected to at-
tend to the trade. Take the dress goods
department, for example. The sales-
man_ has unrolled a bolt of cloth and is
measuring it. He has told off yard
after yard and is just in the middle of
his count when a customer comes to the
counter. He is interrupted in this
work, which he realizes must be done at
a certain time, and instead of the usual
pleasant reception, this customer is met
coldly by a bothered man. The cus-
tomer sees this and doesn’t like it and
soon takes her leave without making a
purchase. This kind of thing goes on
all over the store and the result isa
large falling off of sales.

Last summer during July, I had oc-
casion to go into one of our leading
hardware stores for a padlock. I no-
ticed several clerks in different parts of
the store; but strange to say, none of

Effect Inventory on

them took any notice of me. They
were taking stock. I approached one
and stated what I wanted. I also re-

marked that my time was limited. The
clerk, without looking up, said, ‘‘In
just a moment,’’ and went right on
counting the balance of a barrel of
butts. When he had finished I got my
padlock—not before. That was the first
time I had ever been in the customer’s
place under a like situation. HadI not
been acquainted with the ins and outs
of a store, I should have been offended
and gone elsewhere for what I wanted ;
but we had just finished our own inven-
tory and I knew that similar circum-
stances had occurred in our own store
time and again.

A remedy for this evil is that some,
at least, of the extra help be kept until
after the inventory has been taken.
Have some of your clerks to take ac-
count of stock and others to attend to
the trade. The customers should be
made to feel, at all times, that they are
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them waiting until you have finished
measuring a forty-yard bolt of cloth or
counted a half-barrel of butts. Five
minutes of their time may be worth
more than an hour of yours; and by this
sort of negligence a good-paying cus-
tomer may be lost for all time.
Mac ALLAN.

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There Be a Collar and Cuff
Trust?

Troy, N. Y., Jan. 16—The efforts of
foreign capital, through the banking
house of J. P. Morgan & Co., to form
into a trust Troy’s great collar, cuff and
shirt industry, first announced in Com-
mercial America, is the principal topic
among business men here. It would not
be surprising if attempts in this direc-
tion were again made, for it has been
said that an English syndicate 1s most
eager to control this city’s chiet indus-
trial interest. The pian is a stupendous
one and involves many millions of dol-
lars, to say nothing of thousands of
operatives who would be affected. The
collar, cuff and shirt industry of the
United States would be seriously affect-
ed by a coalition of the interests of
Troy manufacturers. If a scheme of
this kind were carried into effect it
would doubtless lead to a readjustment
of the wage scale in every factory con-
trolled by the syndicate. This, in all
probability, would antagonize the labor
unions.

Will

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The Debutante Dear in More Senses
Than One.

Undoubtedly heaven’s choicest gift to
adoring parents is a beautiful daughter.
It is also one of the most expensive
luxuries in the world. This should
occasion no surprise. The desirable
things of life must always be paid for,
and they always come high.

To every father it is always a matter
ef profound amazement when he finds
out that his little girl has grown up and
is old enough to be presented to the
world of society. Secretly he always
thinks of her as being in the nursery
drinking cambric tea and playing witb
her dolls, and as going on_ indefinitely
in a kind of perpetual childhood. It is
on this unsophisticated and Arcadian
dream that his wife breaks in one day
with the announcement that Mary is to
make her debut, and she will need to
have more money.

‘She'll need a new frock, eh?’’ says
papa, reaching for his checkbook.

‘“Need a new frock, indeed,’’ repeats
experienced mamma, scornfully. ‘‘She’ll
need at least twenty !"’

And then papa begins to get some
idea of the real money value of the
treasure of his heart, for a debutante
toils not, neither does she spin, yet
Solomon, in all his glory, was not ar-
rayed like one of these. Of course, the
real expense doesn’t begin with a girl's
formal coming out. There has been a
long period of preparation. She has
been expensively educated. She has
had lessons in dancing and reading and
music and the little accomplishments
designed to make her shine in society,
for the clever mother doesn’t trust any-
thing to chance these days, and a girl
is trained for society as thoroughly and
systematically as if it were for a profes-
sion by which she was to earn her daily
bread.

But what does it cost to carry a
debutante through her first winter in so-
ciety?

If she is a good little girl, who is
careful of her clothes, and has a mother
who possesses a genius for knowing how
to ‘‘do things,’’ she can get through by
close economy on from $1,000 to $1, 500.
If she is a girl who is reckless of gloves
and little belongings, and hasn’t a man-
aging mamma, goodness knows what it
costs !

The other day several experienced so-
ciety women were discussing this inter-
esting question ina little white and gold
boudoir that was fitted up for a
debutante of a season or two ago, and
this was the way they figured it out:

‘*To begin with,’’ said a handsome
matron, who had been ‘‘brought out’’
regally in the old regime, and who has
‘‘brought out’’ a charming young
daughter herself; ‘‘to begin with, a
debutante has to have an entirely new
supply of clothes, every whit as expen-
sive as a bride’s trousseau. Of course,
her simple little school-girl frocks won’t
do, now that she ts the observed of all
observers. Debutantage is a kind of
lottery, and everything depends on get-
ting the right start. Of course, a girl
can live down the blunders she makes
when she first comes out, but it takes
time, and it is infinitely better for her
to be well presented, and to make the
impression from the start of being al-
ways suitably gowned. Naturally she

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girl now is mousseline de soie, made

over silk, and if that doesn’t cost a
pretty penny to keep fresh and crisp, I
don’t know what does.

‘““If there was ever a time when one
frock could be made to serve every pur-
pose, like the ones the heroines in nov-
els wear, where the addition of a bow
of ribbon changes a street dress into a
swell decollete dinner gown, it isn’t
now, and the up-to-date debutante must
have tailor-made, silk-lined walking
gowns, elaborate dinner gowns, fancy
opera and theater gowns, gowns to wear
to simple affairs, and others for big
functions, gowns to read in, to sit in,
to de nothing in, bicycle suits and golf
suits, if she is athletic, gowns specially
designed for every hour of the twenty-
four. There must be all sorts of differ-
ent hats to wear with different costumes,
and different shoes and satin slippers,
and heaven knows what little accesso-
ries. There must bea long, brocaded
opera cloak to wear to balls, a little one
for the theater, a dress wrap for calling
and receptions, and a plain cloak for
shopping, silk petticoats and stockings,
and so on. If her mother buys all this
for $1,000 she is a very good manager,
indeed.

‘“Then comes the coming out recep-
tion, or tea, at which the young girl is
introduced to her mother’s friends. With
good judgment that can be given by
one who knows how for about $150, al-
though it may be easily run up to twice
that figure,or even much higher. Still,
that would give a nice one.

**During her first winter in society a
girl generally wears white for evening
entertainments. Of course, it must be
immaculate, and that requires continual
refurnishing, as tulle, or chiffon or
mousseline de soie gets rumpled, and
crushed, and soiled so easily. Evena
careful girl can hardly wear a tulle
dress more than three times without its
needing to be freshened up or changed.
This involves either sending it toa
dressmaker or keeping a seamstress in
the house, both of which are fruitful
sources of expense. Then take the mat-
ter of gloves. I should say it would be
a very moderate allowance fora girl to
use two dozen pairs in aseason. As
the long ones for evening wear cost $3.25
a pair,that foots up a pretty bill. Then
there must be satin slippers, certainly
not less than half a dozen pairs, unless
the girl is a wallflower, and there is be-
tween $30 and $40 more gone in that.
Of course, all this allows nothing for a
maid, who is almost a necessity fora
girl who is going out continually, and
is too busy to look after her belong-

ings.

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‘‘And that’s a very conservative es-
timate,’’ added the handsome matron,
who knew what she was talking about.
‘*You can easily see how much more it
may be made to cost. A debutante is
just about the most expensive luxury
one can think of, and if she should hap-
pen to be chosen as one of the carnival
queens, it is simply bankrupting to her
family, and positively almost reduces
them to bread and water for the remain-
der of the season.

‘‘Of course, this estimate makes no
allowance for any entertaining besides
the original reception at which the girl
is presented. But that doesn’t end the

 

matter by any means. There must be a
succession of balls, or parties, or at
least small dinners, and butterfly lunch-
eons for the buds, each of which
course, a matter of considerable ex-
pense. First and last, bringing out a
young girl is bound to increase the
family expenses at least more than a
thousand dollars, even with the most
conservative and capable management.
Debutantes are ‘dear’ in every sense of
the word.’’

And what does the debutante think of
it all?

She thinks that indulgent papas and
big checkbooks are a combination espe-
cially designed by a merciful providence
to make the way of debutantes smooth
and easy. For the rest, she has troubles
of ber own.

‘‘Being a debutante isn’t all the fun
people fancy it is,’’ she said. ‘‘In the
first place, one’s coming out is an or-
deal. For weeks we've been pulled about
from shop to shop, and fitted on, and
tried on, until we are just sick and
tired, and on the verge of nervous pros-
tration. Then the day comes for which
we have been preparing and looking
forward for so long. We know what our
families expect of us, and feel that if
we are dead failures we had better go
out and commit suicide at once. All
our female relatives come to help us
dress, and criticise us and our appear-
ance, and mamma comes to the door
and tells us over again who is who, and
what we must say to so and so, and at
last we go down with pretty much the
same feelings that green soldiers must
experience when they line up the first
time before the cannon.

‘ Then people come and go, and we
stand there, and smirk, and smile while
we hear the clatter of knives and forks,
and laughter from the dining-room, and
we wish we dared throw down the _ fliow-
ers that are-making our arms ache and
run and join in the fun. Then there’s
the first dance we go to, when we sit in
the shadow of mamma's skirts and won-
der if anybody is going to invite us to
dance, and simply beam with gratitude
at the first man who asks fora turn. It
breaks the ice, you know, and others
come. After that life is a perfect para-
dise, or a howling wilderness. You go
everywhere and have theater parties
given you, and people say little Mary
Jones is the most popular debutante, or
else you are branded once and forever
as a wall flower. Do you know,I could
weep for pity when I look at those poor
girls who sit out dance after dance un-
less some good-natured hostess simply
bulldozes some man into dancing with
them. Mustn’t it be ghastly? But you'd
never catch me offering myself up as an
object for public sympathy. The very
first time my dance card isn’t filled I'm
going to go in for reading, or philan-
thropy, or matrimony, or something else
as desperate.

‘*What do I think is the best qualifi-
cation towards making a debutantea

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| aren't many howling beauties when you
| come to think of it. Then the ability to
| do something—sing negro songs, or play
| the banjo, or dance a skirt dance, just
| for a few you know, or something like
jthat. Cleverness? No,” and. the
debutante shook her wise little head.
‘‘No, I think to be clever is a dreadful
mistake for a debutante to make. Of
course, sometimes we can’t help knowing
more than the boys who are the dancing
set and who are expected to rush’ the
successful debutante, but those of us
who are wise keep it to ourselves, and
are apparently thrilled by everything
every addle-pated Cholly says to us.
Then there are the old men, who really
make the success of a debutante, you
know, the old fellows in the clubs who
pass upon our merits. We must seem
simply sweet to them. Should a debutante
be clever? Not on her life!’’

The debutante smiled.‘‘ But I tell you
what, '’ she ended, ‘‘the greatest factor in
any debutante’s success is having the
right sort of a mother, and a papa with
a nice, big check-book.’’

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Around the State

Movements of Merchants.

 

Shiloh—Chas. Pike has put in a gro-
cery stock.

Melvin—E. L. Moore has removed
his drug stock to Roseburg.

Lake Odessa—A. Tolles succeeds
Tolles & Dally in general trade.

Stevensville—W. G. Mielke has sold
his general stock to Robert Liske.

Pierson—L. G. Fox, of Bradley, has
opened a meat market at this place.

Olivet—Miss J. Annie Willis has sold
her millinery stock to E. C. Corey.

Allegan—S. D. Pond will remove his
jewelry business into the Parker Block.

Muskegon—Tromp & Roach, grocers,
have dissolved, Mr. Tromp succeeding

Port Austin—N. P. Whitelaw has pur
chased the drug stock of Edward B.
Gibson.

Montrose—Forsyth Bros., of Bay
City, have purchased the meat business
of Wm. Stevens

Adrian—S. -Bodenheimer has __ pur-
chased the Leader department store at
14 Maumee street.

Zeeland—J. Van Gelderen will add a
line of agricultural implements to his
carriage business.

Pentwater—E. F.
barked in the meat
Haughey building.

Otsego—Kohblenstein Bros., dry goods
dealers, will open a branch store at Al-
legan about March 1.

Cassopolis—J. H. F. Mullett & Co.
succeed Thomas & Mullett in the drug,
paint, oil and book business.

Grand Ledge—W. R. Clarke contin-
ues the hardware business formerly
conducted by Kiser & Clarke.

Port Huron—The McCormick Harness
Co. succeeds J. McCormick & Son in
the wholesale harness business.

Detroit—Jos. Lathrop, Jr., is suc-
ceeded by Roberts & Smythe in the
wholesale dental supply business.

Lake City--Gleason & Murray, gro-
cers and meat dealers, have dissolved,
E. W. Murray continuing the business.

Plummer has em-
business in the

Alpena—The Gately, Donovan Furni-
ture Co. will remove its stock to the
Johnson block, where it will occupy two
stores.

Detroit—A. Barron & Co. succeed
Metzger & Barron in the wholesale and
retail crockery, glassware and tinware
business.

Stetson— The Butters & Peters’ Salt
& Lumber Co. is starting a general store
at this place, with Guy Vaughan as
manager.

Grand Junction—W. H. Smith has
sold his drug stock to Frank A. Moon,
who was for several years in the empioy
of Mr. Smith.

Sturgis—Cary Daymon and Adam
Longnecker have formed a copartner-
ship to engage in the grocery and dry
goods business

Carson City--John W. Hallett, hard-
ware dealer, has admitted his son, Roy,
to partnership, the firm name being J.
W. Hallett & Son.

Blissfield—P. A. Paul has purchased
the interest of his partner, H. M. Col-
lins, and wili continue the shoe business
in his own name.

Detroit—The German Grocery Co.
has merged its business into a stock
company under the style of the German
Grocery Co., Limited.

Menominee—Guensburg & St. Peter,
dry goods dealers, have dissolved part-
nership, Michael St. Peter retiring.
Adolph E. Guesburg will continue the
business.

 

Lansing—F. H. Holder has_ pur-
chased the bazaar stock of R. B. Shank
& Co., and will remove it to his store
on Washington avenue south.

Lyons—S. W. Webber, Jr., bas sold
his general stock to M. A. Herrick, of
Farwell, who has several other stores of
similar character in the State.

Fowlerville—A. J. Hams has rented
the north half of G. D. Hamilton &
Co.’s furniture establishment and will
put in a bazaar and notion stock.

Kalamazoo—E. E. Ford has resigned
his position as Teller of the Kalamazoo
National Bank to take the position of
Secretary of the Wolverine Paper Co.

Menominee—The cigar firm of Jones
& Maciukiewicz has dissolved, Geo. J.
Jones retiring. John Maciukiewicz will
continue the business in his own name.

Pontiac—F.° E. Starker has retired
from the clothing firm of Starker, Ham-
mond & Judd. The business will be
continued under the style of Hammond
& Judd.

Ovid—A. C. Farmer, who has been
engaged in business here for over thirty
vears, has removed his dry goods stock
to Durand, where he will continue the
business.

Onway—W. C. Sterling & Son, of
Monroe, have opened yards here for the
purchase of all kinds of cedar stock.
They also contemplate opening a gen-
eral store.

Lake Odessa—B. McKelvey has _pur-
chased the interest of his partner in the
hardware firm of McKelvey & Townsend
and will continue the business in his
own name.

Muskegon—J. Hoogstraat and Niel &
Alewines, flour and feed merchants, have
combined their stocks and will continue
the business under the style of Hoogs-
traat & Niel.

Benton Harbor—W. L. Hogue has
sold his stock of shoes, men’s furnish-
ing goods, rubber goods and trunks to
Dr. S. M. White, who will close out the
stock at once.

Brookfield—Mrs. Sarah Williams, who
has continued the general merchandise
business since the death of her hus-
band, is closing out her stock and will
retire from trade.

Marquette—A. E. Archambeau and
Louis Getz, dry goods dealers, have
formed a copartnership under the style
of Archambeau & Co. to engage in the
clothing business.

Shelby —Caleb Cox has sold his meat
market to his brother, W. F. Cox and
will go to Interlochen, where he expects
to open a meat market in partnership
with Elijah Toner.

Escanaba—A new stock company has
been organized at this place under the
style of the Mead Drug Co., to succeed
J. N. Mead. Mr. Mead will have the
Management of the business.

Holland—K. Schaddelee and John
Vandersluis have purchased the east
store building in the Kiekintveld block
and Mr. Vandersluis will occupy the
same with his dry goods stock.

Manistique—Baker & Bashford is the
style of the new firm which will embark
in the heavy hardware and tinware busi
ness at this place about Feb. 1. Both
gentlemen are from Rapid River.

Bellaire—The general stock of J. E.
McCutchan & Co., which was seized by
Burnham, Stoepel & Co., of Detroit, a
short time ago, was sold at mortgage
sale to C. E. Densmore, who has been
in charge of the stock for Burnham,
Stoepel & Co., and who foreclosed their
mortgage. Mr. McCutchan will remain
in charge of the stock.

 

Negaunee--It is reported that B.
Neeley will move his hardware stock to
Calumet in the spring. Mr. Neeley has
been located here for a number of
years, but worked at the tinner’s trade
in Hancock twenty-five years ago.

Allegan—John C. Stein & Co., dry
goods dealers, have leased the _ store
building of H. Coykendall, who is clos-
ing out his stock of china, glassware,
silverware and bazaar goods in order to
make room for the new occupants.

Big Rapids—J. K. Sharpe & Co.
have removed their grocery stock to the
store building recently vacated by N.
H. Beebe, who conducted a successful
grocery and feed and hay business here
for twenty years and who has now gone
to Ann Arbor to reside. Big Rapids
loses a respected citizen and a good
business man. Sharpe & Co. will add to
their grocery stock a line of feed and
hay.

Hancock—In this part of the country,
where Jack Frost holds forth nine months
of the year, where sleighing is good
for six months at a time, where snow
is often five feet deep, and 20 degrees
below zero is no uncommon thing, it is
strange to see the hardware man, John
Funkey, laying the tin roof of the
Leibline block. This winter has been

remarkable so far on account of its
mildness.
Ypsilanti—C. W. Rogers, who has

been engaged in the drug, book, paint
and oil and wall paper business for the
past twenty vears, F. A. Boyce, who
has been connected with Mr. Rogers
during all this time as clerk, and Geo.
C. Bradley, formerly Cashier of the
First National Bank, have formed a
partnership under the style of C. W.
Rogers & Co. to continue the business.
Mr. Rogers has also a branch store at
Ann Arbor, to which he will give most
of his attention.

Chester— The stock in the co-operative
(Patrons of Industry) store has been
purchased by A. L. Spafford, who has
managed the business since its incep-
tion. The patrons invested $600 in the
concern and, although the goods on
band inventory only $700, the incebted-
ness amounts to $600, so that the original
capital has been sunk. The store was
conducted on the 5 per cent. basis, so
dear to the hearts of the P. of I.’s, and
has been a disturbing element in the
retail trade of Eaton county.

Hancock—Appraisers Richardson and
Emery estimate the total value of the
clothing and furnishing goods of Her-
man Stark recently recovered at
$3 872.57. A large quantity of these
goods have been identified by various
creditors, who have filed a petition ask-
ing that these goods be returned to
them. Of course, this will be opposed
by other creditors, who think they are
entitled to their proportion of assets,
whether the goods are identified or not.
The hearing for the disposition of the
newly recovered goods will take place
Jan. 20 in the Circuit Court.

 

Manufacturing Matters.

Royal Oak—G, A. Dewey and Jacob
Lawson have formed a copartnership
and will erect a store building which
they will occupy with a hardware stock,
They have also purchased the local lum-
ber yard from the receiver.

Adrian —The Lamb Wire Fence Co.
has increased its capital stock from
$50,000 to $100,000 and elected the fol-
lowing officers: President, Charles G.
Hart; Vice-President, J. V. Defoe;
Secretary, H. R. Lamb; Treasurer and
General Manager, W. H. Burnham.

 

Battle Creek—The firm name of the
Hall-Jones Cycle Co, has been changed
to the Battle Creek Cycle Co.

Port Huron—Adam L., Henry W. and
Geo. P. Smith have purchased the Sco-
field Boiler Works and _ will continue
the business under the style of Smith
Bres.

Hastings—A change in the personnel
of the lumber firm of Bentley, Rider &

Co. has been made, Miss Gertrude
Bentley being succeeded by H. G.
Bentley.

Battle Creek—Perry Wolfe, who has
heen manager of the flouring mill of
Wm. Merritt for a number of years, has
leased the premises and will carry on
the business himself.

Detroit—The capital stock of the
Ideal Paint Co. has been increased from
$12,000 to $19,000 by William Reid’s
subscribing tor $2,000 ‘additional and
R. C. Olin for $5,000.

jackson—The Avery Manufacturing
Co. has been organized at this place,
with a capital stock of $5,000, for the
manufacture of buggy bodies, surreys,
phaetuns and sleighs. The officers of
the company are as follows: President,
S. H. Carroll; Secretary and Treasurer,
T. J. Birney; Manager, James Avery.

Muskegon—The F, Alberts Hardware
Co. has purchased a controlling inter-
esi in the patent on the Elliott economy
atomizer, a device tor spraying plants
with paris green or other exterminators,
and will manufacture the goods at this
place. H. E. Elliott, the patentee, will
act as traveling agent for the company.

Menominee—A company will be or-
ganized at this place, with a capital
stock of $5,000,for the manufacture of a
patent combination overall, shirt and
jacket made of denim. The incorpora-
tors are N. Revish, Chicago; M. B,
and R. Oshinsky, Marinette, and Dr.
F. Gregory and C. A. McGinley, of this
place.

Detroit—The Davidson Pipe & Nov-
elty Co. bas filed articles of incorpora-
tion. Jt will manufacture pipes and
other articles from wood fiber, pulp
chips and papier-mache in this city on
a capital stock of $15,000, of which
$9,000 has been paid in. The stock-
holders are: Wm. C. Anderson, 25
shares; Wm. C. Anderson, trustee, 275;
John Kelsey, 300; George R. Davidson
and Emma Davidson, Lenox, Mich.,
150 shares each.

Detroit--Articles continuing the cor-
porate existence of the C. E. Smith
Shoe Co. for thirty years have been
filed with the County Clerk. The capital
stock is $80,000, all paid in. Following
are the stockholders: W. D. Brackett
& (Co., Boston, Mass., 3,000 shares;
George G. Snow, Brockton, Mass.,
2,500; Edwin S. Woodbury, Boston,
Mass., 1,000; Charles E. Smith, De-
troit, 1,275; Henry D. Menzies, De-
troit, 200; Richard G. Elliott, Detroit,
25 shares.

2.

A. R. Thayer, who traveled for John
J. Dodds & Co., Detroit, seventeen
years, and for the past eight years has
represented Williams, Davis, Brooks &
Co. on the road, has engaged with
Morrison, Plummer & Co. to represent
them in the eastern half of Michigan.

—_—_~> 2.

There were 1,251 locomotives built in
this country last year, of which 386 were
for foreign countries. When one Euro-
pean country wants to get ahead of an-
other country she knows where to find
the lccomotion.

 

Gillies N. Y. Clearance Tea Sale now
Phone Visner, 1589.

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Grand Rapids Gossip

 

 

Robt. Bell has embarked in the butter,
egg and vegetable business at 535 South
Division street.

Jacob Van Palen has opened a gro-

cery store at Oakdale Park. The Ball-
Barnhart-Putman Co. furnished the
stock.

Weatherly & Pulte have just fin-

ished putting in a complete system of
ventilation in the Ithaca high school
building.

Frank Corner has engaged in the gro-
cery business at 22 Plainfield avenue.
The Ball-Barnhart-Putman Co. furnished
the stock.

L. J. Snyder & Son have embarked
in the grocery business near Manton.
The Ball-Barnhart-Putman Co. fur-
nished the stock.

The failure of Geo. R. Mayhew, the
Monroe street shoe dealer, is one of the
most unfortunate affairs of the kind that
has ever happened inthecity. From
the time Mr. Mayhew purchased the
business from Mr. McCord, fifteen years
ago, up to the time when he was com-
pelled to relinquish the management
of the business by illness, he made
money every year, enjoyed a constantly
increasing patronage, stood well with
his creditors and was recognized by his
acquaintances as an upright and pro-
gressive business man. In an_ un-
happy moment he was stricken with lo-
comotor ataxia and, for the past four
years, he has been an invalid and, a
portion of the time, confined to his bed
So severe has been the attack that, for
several months at a time, he has not
been able to give the business any at-
tention whatever, and during this time
its management lamentably devolved
upon a relative who proved to be un-
equal to the occasion. Mr. Mayhew is
now left practically penniless, without
a dolJar in the world, and is compelled
to take up his abode at a hospital in or-
der to reduce the expense of living to
the lowest possible limits. While the
failure is to be regretted because of the
distressful position in which it places
him and his family, Mr. Mayhew still
retains the friendship of his acquaint-
ances and the respect of bis creditors,
all of whom will join the Tradesman in
the hope that he may ultimately recover
his health and be able to regain the
credit and-prestige he so long enjoyed
in this community.

More changes have been made among
the officers of the local banks the past
year than in many years before; in
fact, the time cannot be recalled when
so many. and such radical changes have
occurred. It began last summer, when
Marsh H. Sorrick became Cashier of
the State Bank, to succeed Charles F.
Pike, who had been Cashier from the
organization of the Bank. Then Wil-
liam A. Shinkman was chosen Cashier
of the Fifth National, to succeed Wil-
liam H. Fowler, who had been behind
the desk since the Bank began business
a dozen years ago. The Fifth National
also increased its directorate by elect-
ing three additional members. In the
National City John C. Fitzgerald and
Col. George G. Briggs, who had been
members of the Board for years, the
latter serving for a long time as Vice-
President, resigned before the annual
meeting and James R. Wiley and Wal-
ter C. Winchester were chosen as _ their
successors. J. Frederick Baars, who

 

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

had been Cashier of the National City
and its predecessor, the City National,
from the organization of the former in
1865—covering a period of thirty-three
years without a break—was elected to
the Vice-Presidency and Mr. Wiley suc-
ceeded him as Cashier. The death of
Enos Putman created a vacancy in the
Presidency of the Grand Rapids Na-
tional and also the Peninsular Trust
Co. The Grand Rapids National has
elected Edwin F. Uhl as his successor,
an office he held before he resigned to
become Assistant Secretary of State and,
later, Ambassador to Berlin. In the
reorganization of the Board, also, John
E. Peck, who has been Vice-President
for several years, resigned and Joseph
Houseman was elected to the office,
and hereafter the office will be made
rotary, with the view of giving each of
the members of the Board, in turn, a
share of the vice-presidential honors.
The Peninsular Trust Co. has not yet
reorganized and Vice-President Charles
W. Watkins is for the present filling
the executive office. The names of
Thomas M. Peck and Sidney F. Stev-
ens are both mentioned as successors
to the late Mr. Putman, and the Direct-
ors will find it a difficult matter to de
cide which to select when both gentle-
men are so well qualified, by ability
and experience, to discharge the duties
of the position. D. A. Blodgett has re-
signed from the directorate of the Kent
Savings Bank, with the view of sever-
ing his relations with all business cares
and responsibilities, and the vacancy
has not yet been filled. Mr. Blodgett
is also a Director and President of the
Fourth National and _ has earnestly re-
quested that he be relieved from further
duties in that institution. He was re-
elected to the Board by the stockholders,
however and the Directors, in reorgan-
izing Monday, re-elected him to the
Presidency. This, however, is prob-
ably only a temporary arrangement, as
it is believed Mr. Blodgett will in time
insist upon being relieved. He has
rounded out a full half century of hard
work and feels that he is entitled toa
rest and freedom from business cares
In the Old National, L. E. Hawkins re-
quested that his name be left off the
Board, owing to contemplated long ab-
sence from the city, and E. G. Studley
was chosen to succeed him. There have
been other minor changes in the various
boards during the year but those men-
tioned above are the most important and
interesting.
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Resume Business with More
Modern Machinery.

The Ideal Clothing Company met
witha severe loss by fire last Saturday
night, the cutting room and machine
room being entirely destroyed. Enough
made-up stock was saved to supply the
immediate needs of their trade and
their business will go ahead with but
little detention. New and modern ma-
chines have already been purchased by
the company and will be immediately
put into operation, This company
changed its general management about
one year ago, since which time the
general appreciation of the trade has
been evident from the liberal patronage
they have received and the rapid growth
of the company’s business.

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A bill bas been introduced in the
Virginia Legislature to tax unmarried
men over 30 years of age $1 each per
year. Up-to-date fellows on millinery
bills will hardly be stampeded bya
dollar a year tax!

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Why National Banks Do Not Use

More Circulation.

The National banks have the privil-
ege, under the national banking law, to
issue bank notes, and these bank notes
form a considerable portion of the
country’s circulating medium. Probably
there is no other feature in the banking
business that is so little understood as
this matter of bank notes, or circula-
tion, and it is also probable that no
other feature in the business has been
so roundly and thoroughly denounced.
To the ordinary mind the circulation is
a special privilege which gives the Na-
tional bankers the opportunity of real-
izing inerdinate profits. It is figured
that the bankers get 4 per cent. on their
Government bonds upon which the cir-
culation is based, and then get 6 or 7
per cent. interest on the bank notes is-
sued. ‘The returns, according to the
usual way of lay figuring, is 1oor 12 per
cent. on the money really invested. The
facts in the case are very different.
The profits on the circulation are so
small, even under the most favorable
conditions, that scarcely a bank in the
country has all the circulation that the
law allows, and some of the largest
banks in the country have no circula-
tion at all.

The law allows banks with a capital
of $500,000 or less to issue circulation to
the amount of 90 per cent. of its capital,
upon depositing the amount of the cap-
ital in Government bonds with the
Treasury Department in Washington.
Banks with a capital above $500,000
and up to $1,000,000 can have 80 per
cent. circulation ; up to $3,000,000 it is
75 per cent., and above $3.000,000 it
is 65 per cent. This city has four banks
in the go per cent. class, with a total
of $1,400,000 capital, and one of the
80 per cent class, with $800,000 capital,
and the total amount of circulation
these banks could take out is $1,900, 000,
and the amount actually carried, accord-
ing to the last bank statements, is $198,
550, or a little more than Io per cent
The amount each bank could carry and
the amount really carried is as follows:

 

 

Maximum Actual

Old National............-...$640,000 $44,309
National City....... «-+- 450,000 44,340
Grand Rapids National...... $50,000 43,950
Bourth National. ............ 270,000 45,000
Pifth National... ..... .... 96,000 20,900
‘Total,.... ... Gi,900,000 $195,550

The reason so little circulation is
taken out is because there are so many
charges and expenses incident to it that
the profits are almost invisible. ‘lhe
banks must first buy Government bonds
to deposit as security with the Treas-
urer in Washington. These bonds are
at a premium and $100,000 of the new
4's, according to present quotations,
would cost $129,250. Bonds of the issue
of 1907—the kind of bonds most of the
city banks hold—can be had at a lower
figure, and $111,500 can be taken as the
cost of the bonds. Upon these bonds
circulation to the amount of $90,000 can
be taken out. The profits on the circu-
lation can be figured out as follows:

interest on the bonds. ........-. $4,000
Interest on circulation, 6 per cent.... 5,400
‘Total receipts. :........ $0,400

EXPENSES AND CHARGES

ee ee $o00 00

 
 
 
 

 

Cost of redemption.. 45 00
Express charges.... 3 00
Petes. ......... 7 50
Aeeut s fee. 8... ico. Bl
eS ee 686 60
‘Total charges ..,...- $1,649 10
Net return...-.....-.- 75750 90

The amount of money invested in the
bonds is $111,500, and the interest on
this at 6 per cent. is $6,690. Deducting
this from the net returns leaves $1,060.90
as the profits on the circulation, or less

 

at

than 1 per cent. This estimate is based
on the assumption that the entire circu-
lation is kept out, but when the bank’s

reserve runs up to 40 or $0 per cent.,
the circulation, instead of yielding a
profit, results in an actual loss. That

the circulation is not so highly profit-
able as is commonly imagined is pretty
conclusively shown by the small amount
of it taken out by the banks, not in this

city alone but all over the country.
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Hides, Tallow, Furs and Wool.
The hide market moved up a peg. all

around last week, buffs hitting the toc
mark with ease. As for some _ years
past, tanners seem to get more anxious

as stocks get poorer in quality. There
are not enough hides on the market to
meet the demand. Bids are being made
for them up to the asking point of the
dealer, who is not sicw to profit thereby.

Tallow is in increased demand. Old
stocks are held closer, in the belief that
the speculation in which they have been
engaged so long will prove profitable.
Corn and cottonseed oi! and other soap-
ers’ stocks are plenty and it does not
seem possible for tallow stock to ad-
vance very rapidly. There are no new
supplies of any magnitude on hand _be-
yond immediate demands.

Furs are decidedly quiet at firm
prices, all dealers awaiting the result of
the opening sales in London.

Offerings

are not excessive in any lines and good
prices are looked for. There ts, how-
ever, an uncertainty of how the seal

question will affect foreign sales of other
furs.

Wools remain firm under lighter sales
for the past week, and also con-
fined to foreign and territorial wools.
The sales of London yesterday
and manufacturers and dealers are anx
ious this side. States wool ts held
at home as high or higher than quoted
at the seaboard. There are no sales of
fleece in Boston or Philade'phia to gov-
ern the market, as holders there do not
let go freely. mak -
ing enquiries as to the holdings and
prices West, and have their buyers on
the field in readiness tn case the

those
opened

on

Eastern houses are

open-
ing sales in London are propitious
Wm T Hess
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The

There are no changes
to note this week.

Opium—The market is quiet at un-
changed prices. [he primary market
is very firm and there has been a de-
cided advance there It would now cost
$3 to import. It is reported that nearly
all the sowings are ruined by excess of
cold.

Morphine—This article is unchanged.

Quinine—The demand is very good
for this season and prices are un-
changed. An advance within ten days
is quite probable.

German Green Soap—This article
has advanced, on account of duty.

Balsam Tolu—This article has de-
clined, on account of large stocks.

Essential Oils—Cajiput has advanced
and will be much higher on account of
small stocks. Lemon grass is very
scarce and has again advanced. The
import cost at present is said to be
over $3.

Buchu Leaves—Have advanced.

Golden Seal Root—On account of
light demand and free offerings, the

price has declined.
2-2

The St. Johns Gas Co. has declared a
dividend of 5 per cent. on the business
of 1897, after paying all expenses and
taxes. i

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

Commercial Travelers

Traveling Men Should Not Smoke in
Stores.
Written for the TRADESMAN.

He was a traveling representative of
the well-known firm of Gettum & Hold-
um. He was young, bright, intelligent,
well-dressed, thoroughly posted on his
line and enjoying a goodly portion of
well deserved patronage. He was in
the town for the first time and fora
special purpose. If possible, he wished
to add to the already long list of Get-
tum & Holdum’s customers the name of
a particular merchant. He had never
met this man personally but had often
heard him spoken of by other men on
the road as somewhat of a ‘‘crank,’’
very difficult to sell to and very fastidi-
ous about the quality of goods. But so
prompt was he in the payment of all
obligations, and so extensive was his
business, that his patronage was eagerly
sought after.

Our young drummer had thought out
carefully just how he should approach
this man and just what arguments he
should advance. He knew that his
house was all right and his prices as
low as anybody’s, so it was with some
degree of confidence that he entered the
store. Unfortunately, as it proved, he
was smoking. The proprietor was en-
gaged when he entered, so he must wait
a few moments. As he noticed a cus-
tomer, evidently an old foreigner,
puffing away ata big pipe, he contin-
ued to enjoy his fragrant cigar.

When he had gained a hearing with
the proprietor and had begun to ex-
patiate on the merits of his goods he
was abruptly cut short by what seemed
to him the most freezing tones he had
ever listened to.

‘““Your house is all right; I don’t
doubt your goods are as you represent
them, and.that your prices are as low as
I am getting these same goods for.
However, I am now doing very well on
the lines you carry.

 

‘“You entered my store smoking and
have continued to puff away until the
necessity of showing me your samples
caused you to stop. Now, if I used to-
bacco in any form myself, I should not
think of doing so in my store and in
the presence of my customers. I should
not put up for a single day with a clerk
who insisted on chewing or smoking
about the store. True, I have to tolerate
these things in my customers. The
peculiarities of my trade and location
are such that I have never felt it best
to put any restraint on a man’s emjoy-
ing himself in his own way while pur-

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chasing goods of me if he7does ‘nothing
more heinous than indulge in the use
of tobacco, But a long time ago I made
up my mind that if I bought anything
of a firm whose representative came
into my store indulging in a custom
which [ will not tolerate in myself or
my employes, it would be because I
stood in terrible need of goods which
could be obtained of that house and
nowhere else;’’ here the speaker gave
the young traveling man a particularly
cool look and added, ‘‘in which case |
should send a mai! order to the house."'

The drummer stayed not on the order
of his going. He left at once. It was
the only thing to do. He murmured
something about “*being sorry for hav-
ing caused annoyance’’ and bade the
merchant a ‘‘Good morning.’’

Our friend, the commercial traveler,
was disappointed and a trifle crest-
fallen; but, not being too old to learn,
nor too dull nor too conceited, he took
his lesson to heart and never again
offended in the particular in which he
bad been so emphatically and embar-
rassingly “‘called down."’

At his leisure he considered the mat-
ter carefully, and decided that the use
of tobacco, while trying, in whatever
Capacity, to sell goods to another per-
son, 1s discourteous and unbusinesslike,
and therefore to be condemned. This
from a purely business point of view,
not taking aesthetic or economic or
physiological or ethical arguments into
consideration at all.

You go to a busy merchant. This
man is obliged to make all manner of
concessions, to take no end of pains, to
put aside his own pleasures and _incli-
nations, to toil early and late, in order
to win and retain the favor of the ever-
whimsical and ever-fickle public. But,
when he is buying goods, then it is his
turn to have his peculiarities humored
and his opinions and preferences de-
terred to. And, if you would win his
favor, it is not wise to do aught that
will detract from the deferential cour-
tesy with which you ought to treat him.
lo enter his store smoking, or munch-
ing apples, or chewing gum is very
nearly equivalent to saying, ‘‘Mr. Buy-
er, while I should like to take an order
from you, I do not consider your patron-
age of sufficient importance to put my-
self on my best behavior for the purpose
of securing it. If you choose to buy of
me while leaving me free to indulge in
my own inclinations, well and good ; but
I do not propose to govern my conduct
by a lot of antiquated Sunday school
notions. ’’

You would not say this in so many
words; but it is but-little better to con-
vey a like impression by your actions.
The really desirable customer, the man
who can pay and does pay, is apt to be
pretty independent. He can buy when
and where he chooses. Perhaps several
rival jobbing houses are seeking his
patronage, no one of which can do ma-
terially better by him than any one of
the others. Clearly, he will be most

l‘:kely to buy of the one whose sales-
men, by tact, by agreeable manners and
businesslike address, have created the
most favorable impression.

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Liberal Discount to Dealers.

Out with the Old—In with the New.

Lansing, Jan. 17—The regular meet-
ing of the Board of Directors of the
Michigan Knights of the Grip was held
at Lansing, Saturday, Jan. 15. Present
—President Hammell, Secretary Saun-
ders, Treasurer McNolty, Directors
Peake, Wood, Tyler, Palmer and Stev-
ens.

A letter was presented from Mrs. Ada
L. Sheller, of Hart, thanking the Board
for its promptness in paying the claim
resulting from the death of her late hus-
band. Adopted and placed on file. _

Secretary Saunders reported receipts
since the last Board meeting on Nov. 27
as follows:

Death fund, $2,470; general fund,
$1,249; deposit fund, $108—all of which
had been remitted to Treasurer McNolty.

Treasurer McNolty presented his re-
port as follows:

General fund:
Receipts, - -
Disbursements, - -

$1,484.76
284.10

Balance on hand, $1,200.66

Death fund:
Receipts, - -
Disbursements, -

$3,431.59
3, 500.00

Overdrawn on death fund, $68.41
Deposit fund:
Receipts, - -
Disbursements, - -

$167.00

59.00

Balance on hand, $108.00

Total amount in deposit in Peogies’
National Bank of Jackson, $3,240.25, as
per statement attached; four outstand-
ing checks of $500 each on death claims
not yet returned. The report was ap-
proved by the Finance Committee
and, on motion, was adopted and
placed on file.

Warrants were ordered drawn for the
following bills.

J C. Saunders, postage, $ 20.00
J. C. Saunders supplies, 1.62
J. C. Saunders, printing, 1.00
John R. Wood, printing, 1.90
F. J. Pierson, printing, 3 00
C. McNolty, salary, 74.38
Mrs. D. C. Slaght, 290. 50
J. C. Saunders, 145.25

Director Tyler moved that $600 be
borrowed from the general fund and
placed to the credit of the death fund.
Carried

The Treasurer then reported a balance
in the death fund of $531.49 and all
death claims paid in full.

Director Palmer presented the follow-
ing resolution:

Whereas, It is with regret that we
part with President Jas. F. Hammell,
Directors A. F, Peake, John R Wood
and Frank R. Streat, whose terms of
office now expire; therefore be it

Resolved, That we extend to them our
heartfelt thanks for the prompt and
efficient manner in which they have
discharged every duty imposed upon
them and for the interest they have
taken in the welfare of this Associa-
tion; and we wish them God speed,
well done, good and faithful servants.

The resolution was adopted and or-

 

dered placed on file, the motion being
put by President-elect Hoffman and car-
ried unanimously.

The Board of Directors for 1897 then
adjourned sine die.

MEETING OF THE NEW BOARD.

President Hoftman called the meeting
to order with the following officers pres-
ent: Secretary Saunders, Treasurer
McNolty, Directors F. M. Tyler, B. D.
Palmer, C. L. Stevens, E. M. Converse,
J. W. Schram and Chas. H. Smith.

President Hoffman then announced
the following standing committees:

Finance—F. M. Tyler, Grand Rapids;
B. DD. Paimer, St. Johns: CC. LL. Stey-
ens, Ypsilanti.

Printing—J. W. Schram,
Chas. H. Smith, Saginaw; E.
verse, Jackson.

Legislative—N. B.
j. RL Root
mazoo.

Railroads—-L. . J. Koster, Grand
Haven; L. C. Langdon, Detroit: A, C.
Wetzel, Grand Rapids.

Detroit ;
M. Con-

Jones, Lansing ;
Vassar; Sig. Folz, Kala-

Hotels—M. WHowarn, Detroit: Fred
Greenleaf, Leonidas; A. E. Baker, Grand
Rapids

Bus and Baggage—Chas. -J. Lewis,
Flint; C. W. Gilkey, Lansing; A. F.
Wixon, Marquette.

Employment and Reilef—E.  Star-
buck, Kalamazoo; F. N. Mosher, Port

Huron; A. A. Howard, Coldwater.
Chaplain—John M. Fitch, Durand.
Sergeant-at-Arms—John Duncan, Pon-

tiac.

Treasurer McNolty moved that the
members of the Board of Directors be
allowed actual expenses for attendance
at Board meetings and 2 cents per mile
railroad fare from and to their homes.
Adopted.

Warrants were ordered drawn for the
following bills:

F. M. Tyler—$4.20

John R. Wood—$s.02.

C. L. Stevens—$5. 11.

B. D. Palmer—$4.66.

A. F, Peake—$3. 58.

E. M. Converse—¢z. 12.

J. W. Schram—$4 12.

Chas. H. Smith—$3. 06.

C. McNolty—$z. 12.

John A. Hoffman—$4. 78.

The bonds of the Secretary and Treas-

urer having been referred to the
Finance Committee, Chairman Tyler
recommeded that Treasurer McNolty

be requested to return his bond for cor-
rection in form, so as to include indi-
vidual members of the Board, and _ that
President Hoffman be authorized to ac-
cept same when returned; also that the
bond of Secretary Saunders be accepted.
Adopted

Proofs of death of James Kelly were
presented and the claim was ordered
paid,

Director Tyler moved that the Print-
ing Committee be instructed to have
printed 2,000 copies of the amendments
to the constitution adopted at. Detroit
and that the Secretary be requested to
insert same in the proper place in all
constitutions on hand. Adopted.

The Board then adjourned, to meet
the first Saturday in March.

C. SAUNDERS, Sec’y.

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round all the way down, and free from obstructing bolt or
rivet heads, it cannot clog, and as the “Stud” Lock relieves
all tension on the front jaw, it cannot pick up the seed.

The “EUREKA” is 20 per cent. faster in light or mel-
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The “PINGREE,’’ with “Stud” lock.
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The handiest,

The “EUREKA” and the “PINGREE” are the only
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 7

 

Mysterious Marriage of a Store-keep-

in his best suit, assisted his wife into| legacy left me was worth in all nearly | R@OBOROROROROROROCROR OHOROR
| er’s Daughter. the vehicle, and then, to the surprise of | $50,000, and still increasing, greatly de-
Written for the TRADESMAN. the spectators, seated himself by her|sired it should be handed down in the We are ready to push business for

Fifty eight years ago, one summer
morning, one of the best two horse car-
riages of that period might have been
seen driven by a young and _ fasbion-
ably-dressed lady on a public road
which crossed the State Line from Penn-
sylvania into Jefferson county, Ohio.
There were comparatively few rail-
roads in the country at that time and
public highways were the main lines of
travel. After crossing the State Line,
the carriage turned southward, and it
was near the noon hour when it entered
a thriving village and halted in front
of a hotel, from which a man with
bared head quickly emerged, assisted
the lady to alight and, after conversing
with her a moment, indicated with a
wave of the hand the parlor she was to
enter; then, calling his hostler, the team
was driven away. Ten minutes after-
ward, his lady guest had requested a
private audience with him and was im-
ploring his aid in a seemingly im-
portant business matter.

,

‘*T am 22 years old and an orphan,’
she was saying, ‘‘and these papers (de-
positing a package on the table) will
prove my assertions and respectability.
I desire to marry, within the next two
hours, an honorable and fairly well-
educated young man 25 to 28 years of
age, and as I already know you well by
reputation, I beg you will aid in my
selection, for which you shall be well
paid. I may be followed here, thus my
haste in this matter. I will further say
to you that my husband to be cannot re-
turn with me nor have my address, and
I shall leave him within the hour of our
marriage, and we may, or may not,
ever meet again.’’

‘‘T left my lady guest at the dinner
table with a good appetite,’’ said the
host, ‘‘as I went forth through our
village on my singular mission. I knew
almost every young man in town of the
age required. From ‘the first three
found and to whom I stated my errand,
I received most decided refusals to
‘walk into the trap,’ as they expressed
it. Money seemed to lose its value at
the bare thought of taking the chances.
My fourth and fifth victims were more
ready to talk, and the last one, a_ really
sensible and good-natured head clerk in
a grocery Store, said he doubted whether
bis prospects in life could be any worse
if he married the girl—he had only him
self, Jim Thompson, to look out for,
and as the lady might never present her-
self for recognition, he might possibly
sometime inherit a windfall as a result
of the marriage. Said he regarded mar-
riage as only one of the business _part-
nerships of life, at the best.

‘*T took Jim home with me and intro-
duced him to my guest, with whom he
held an audience of just thirty minutes,
and then I was summoned to go for the
parson. The young couple were lawfully
married and a certificate executed in
duplicate was given to each, in the
presence of several witnesses. I never
knew what the parson’s fee was, but |
myself was the recipient of $50 from
the bride; and Jim said $250 and an
affectionate, hearty kiss were donated
him for his part of the farce, and |
noticed that the same evening he treated
the crowd at my bar right royally on the
strength of that marriage.

‘‘The bride was in haste to leave
town,’’ continued the landlord, ‘‘and
ordered her carriage to be in waiting at
the door when the marriage ceremony
should be over. Jim, who was attired

 

side on the left, while she held the rib-
bons and drove rapidly away in exactly
the contrary direction from which she
had come!

‘‘When I saw Jim again that even-
ing, and enquired why he had returned,
he said that, just at the border of the
village, Mrs. Thompson had _ kindly
asked him to leave her, she appearing
in the best of spirits and saying that he
would probably see or hear from her
again in due time.

‘*Very early the following morning,
news was brought to the village that a
runaway of a span of dark bay horses
attached to a carriage with only a lady
occupant had occurred early the evening
previous five miles north of our village,
and that the left arm of the lady was
broken and her skull fractured near the
right temple. She was yet alive, bui
unconscious, and the physician called
despaired of her recovery. I sent for
Thompson at once,’’ said the landlord
of the ‘‘Southern Hotel, ‘‘and advised
him to go immediately to the scene of
the accident, as I felt certain, from the
description, that his wife was the lady
injured. It proved to be the case and
the lady was brought to my_ house,
where, for nearly three months, she lay
unconscious; but at last, by raising a
portion of bone which pressed upon the
brain, her reason was restored anda
complete recovery followed. In_ the
meantime, her uncle, a merchant ina vil-
lage in Pennsylvania, had learned of
the accident to his niece and also of her
Marriage, and came to see her; but,
believing she would not survive her
injuries, he agreed with her husband
that it was not wise to attempt her re-
moval.

‘‘From the day Jim had brought his
injured wife to my hotel,’’ he contin
ued, ‘‘he had left his position at the
store and devoted every hour to her care
and comfort, sparing no expense for
medical aid, and at the same time
grieving over what he believed would
be his irreparable loss. No husband
could ever have been more faithful to a
loved companion than was James Thomp
son to his stranger wife, and the scene
when the young lady’s reason first re-
turned, and she realized the situation
and the unexampled love and affection
with which her husband regarded her,
was truly pathetic and, without doubt,
contributed to her recovery.

‘*What caused the hasty marriage of
the girl to an entire stranger? Let her
own recital to her husband be the
answer:

‘* “My father died,’ said she, ‘when
I was 15 years old, leaving all his prop-
erty, consisting of real estate, cash and
merchandise, to me, his only heir at
law. This entire property was placed
in care of his only brother, who had
been his faithful clerk and book-keeper
for years previous, and was one of the
executors of the will. In consideration
of my uncle’s labor and care of the
property, he was to have $1,500 a year
for his services, he to continually keep
the stock up to a certain limit, from the
rents of lands, buildings and the profits
accruing from annual sales, until my
marriage. It was also stipulated tbat,
on my sixteenth birthday, I was thence-
forth to be the only book-keeper and
cashier of the establishment while I re-
mained single. Thus I might ‘‘keep
watch and ward’’ over my own. I was
the last of my father’s family, and my
uncle, knowing this fact, and that the

 

family name, and to this end, for more
than two years past, I have been con-
stantly importuned to marry his eldest
son, My own cousin, notwithstanding
my protests and point blank refusals;
and, as I knew the will placed me in
full possession of the property the mo-
ment I married, even should I never
live with my husband a day, sucha
marriage seemed my only source of re-
lief, although exceedingly distasteful to
me. I will admit that, when I parted
from you, it was with the feeling of the
probability that you would never be my
husband except in name, but that I had
well repaid you for your kindness, and
would release you by divorce at my
pleasure; but I now believe that an ac-
cident has fortunately bound us to each
other for life, and I can only repay you
by acting the part of a grateful and
dutiful wife. As soon as Iam able we
wiil go home and you and I will man-

age my property together. And ‘‘we’ll
live happy ever afterward,’’ as_ the
story books say.’ ’’ FRANK A. HowlaG.

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The most expensive carpet in the
world in now on the shelves of the
Gobelins factory. It is worth £10,000,
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Largest Manufacturers of

2 PURE,HIGH GRADE
COCOAS
CHOCOLATES

on this Continent.

   
  

  

   

ae No Chemicals are used in
Trade-Mark. their manufactures.

Their Breakfast Cocoa is absolutely pure,
delicious, nutritious, and costs less than one
cent a cup.

Their Premium No. 1 Chocolate, put up in
Blue Wrappers and Yellow Labels, is the best
plain chocolate in the market for family use.

Their German Sweet Chocolate is good to
eat and good to drink. It is palatable, nutri.
tious, and healthful; a great favorite with
children.

Buyers should ask for and be sure that they

et the genuine goods. The above trade-mark
is on every package.

Walter Baker & Co. Ltd.

Dorchester, Mass.

 

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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 ¢O., Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

  

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Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

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THE UNSYMPATHETIC CLASS.
The development of a distinct class
of professional politicians, devoted to
the pursuit of office rather than to the
defense of sound principles and the
promotion of the general welfare, isa
menace to popular liberty. It is true
that even in a democratic republic only
a comparatively small number of those
who are legally qualified to exercise the
right of suffrage have the leisure and
ability requisite to the mastery of the
more difficult questions of political
philosophy, constitutional law and pub-
lic policy, and where such questions are
concerned the people generally would
do well to follow the guidance of spe-
cially trained statesmen. There is a
vast difference, however, between the
patriotic citizen who gives his time
and strength to the study of law, finance,
diplomacy and practical admunistra-
tion, with a_ view to the service of the
whole country, and the professional pol-
itician who seeks to advance his own
personal interests by securing control of
the machinery of party organization and
management. A specious plea may, in
deed, be made for the latter on the
ground that, having fully accepted all
the distinctive principles of his party
as essential to the prosperity of the Na-
tion, his party service is really an ex-
pression of patriotic devotion. On that
ground a Democratic President has
been denounced as undemocratic after
his refusal to make what is called ‘‘a
clean sweep.’’ The inevitable tendency
of a strictly partisan civil service is to
build up a class of politicians who look
upon office-holding as the proper in-
centive, reward and aim of political ac-
tivity.
The advocates of the partisan system
of appointments declare that they are
opposed to the opposite system—based
upon Competitive examinations and sus-
tained by the practice of making no
promotions except for merit, and no re-
movals except for cause-—because they
apprehend that it would foster the
growth of a class of permanent office-
holders not in sympathy with the masses
and, therefore, unfit for public service.
But, in reality, what they profess to
fear is far more likely to be brought
about by dealing with public offices as
‘the legitimate spoils of partisan vic-
tory. In the first place, the class of
professional politicians has been re-
cruited and maintained for many years
by the practical adoption of that low

 

and debasing view of the civil service,
and no class could be more lacking in
sympathy with those nobler popular as-
pirations which impart dignity to na-
tional life aud afford the surest ground
of national sanity. In the next place,
the practice of removing indiscrimi-
nately all officers of the Government,
from the highest to the lowest, who are
not members of the party in power, de-
prives thousands of their only means of
subsistence and leaves them without any
definite prospect of other employment.
The ex-office-holder has to begin busi-
ness anew; he has broken away from all
his old professional or trade connec-
tions; somebody else has his former
place in the counting-room or the store.
He has saved very little, if any, money ;
for the people will not consent that their
servants shall be paid for four years’
work enough to support them through
that term and four following years of
enforced idleness. The classification
of a great deal of the civil service has
already very largely reduced that woe-
begone multitude which goes out of
office to hunt for private employment
whenever a change of parties occurs in
the administration of the General Gov-
ernment. It ought to be reduced at once
to the lowest possible figure; for it is
an unhappy, restless and dangerous
class. It is often said, and it is prob-
ably true, that a man who has held a
clerical position under the Government
for four years is largely unfitted for
service in any private business. Such
a man is no longer one of the people.
He has very naturally become an ar-
dent politician, not because he is so
much impressed with the superiority of
his party’s foreign or financial policy,
hut because he cannot hope that any
other party will give him an office, and
now he dreams of nothing else.
Whether it is best that any Govern-
ment appointee should have a life ten-
ure is a question that may be open to
debate; but even if it could be shown
that a life tenure is never in any case
defensible, that demonstration would
not in the least strengthen the argument
against the policy of competitive exam-
inations, or be used to prove that ‘‘the
clean-sweep'’ practice is otherwise
than Gemoralizing both to the personnel
of the civil service and to the organiza-
ion of parties. Neither could anyone
logically abandon the cause of civil
service reform upon the clearest pos-
sible proof of the charge that the exam-
inations to which applicants for ap-
pointments are subjected are not cal-
culated to test their fitness for the posi-
tions they seek. If the examinations are
not to the point, let other examiners be
appointed, or let questions of a differ-
ent nature be prescribed by law. But
the arguments that the enemies of civil
service reform make in Congress are
intended to impress the people with the
idea that the whole scheme is essential-
ly absurd, and do not at all convey the
reasons which really account for that
opposition to the reform which is en-
tertained by all professional politicians.

A large and influential class of Amer-
‘can citizens will rise up and call
Blanco blessed if he succeeds in getting
tobacco over here in such quantities
that it may again appear among the
necessities of civilized life. We are all
firm believers in patronizing home in-
dustry, but cabbages and corn husks
seem to have been designed by Provi-
dence for some other purpose than
cigars. If ever there was a friend in
need, Blanco promises to be one to the
downtrodden smokers of America.

 

AMERICAN PUSILLANIMITY.

Late advices from Peru tell us that
the life of Victor H. McCord, an Amer-
ican who has a claim pending against
the Peruvian government, is momenta-
rily in danger and that violence will cer-
tainly be offered him again unless an
American warship enters a Peruvian
port and notifies the government of that
country that any injury inflicted upon
McCord will be followed by a bombard-
ment. Mr. McCord is still a resident
of Peru.

Will this action be taken by the Gov-
ernment at Washington? Hardly, but
we will have to wait and see. The
past conduct of our Government with
reference to this claim does not justify
the expectation of any noticeable exhi-
bition of vigor. McCord, an American
citizen in Peru, was imprisoned ina
foul dungeon and brutally treated by the
local authorities of a Peruvian town in
1885 and was not released until $10,000,
the price demanded fur his release, was
made up by other foreign residents of
the place and turned over to the prefect
of the department. A claim for dam-
ages was lodged with our State Depart-
ment immediately upon McCord’s re-
lease, nearly thirteen years ago! First
It was $200,000, then scaled to $100,000;
now it 1s only $50,000, but still unpaid
after three or four American Secretaries
of State have attempted to collect it!
Peru bas never denied the facts, but she
has successfully procrastinated and put
off settlement to the present time.

Is not this statement of the history of
this claim a statement of another out-
rage against the claimant by his own
Government? Contrast our weak and
tortuous diplomacy with the recent ac-
ticn of Germany at Port au Prince, or
of Austria against Turkey! The United
States looks contemptible by comparison
and American citizenship is degraded in
foreign eyes.

We have such a way of allowing every
man to shift for himself at home, such
an every-man-for--himself--the--devil-
take-the-hindmost policy, that we carry
this indifference into our diplomacy. it
is a humiliating fact that Americans
abroad are the most } oorly protected by
their flag, citizenship or country of any
representatives of any other respectable,
first-class power on the earth. If we
were deliberately pursuing a policy to
keep Americans at home and prevent
the extension of our commerce and in-
fluence, we could not hit upon a better
one than this indifferent protection of
Americans in other lands.

 

TO CHANGE INAUGURATION DAY.

Senator Hoar has presented to the
Senate a Constitutional amendment pro-
viding for the substitution of the 30th
of April for the 4th of March as the
date for the inauguraticn of the Presi-
dent and Vice President of the United
States and beginning of the terms of
congressmen. The 4th of March has
long been considered an inopportune
time for the inauguration ceremonies by
reason of the raw and dangerous weather
generally prevailing “in Washington at
that date.

A later season for the inauguration
might be better than the present fixed
date, from a standpoint of comfort and
health; but from a practical considera-
tion of the best interests of the country,
if prompt action upon popular determi-
nations of the will of the Nation be
conducive to those interests, a different
reform from that suggested by Senator
Hoar is required. A new Congress un-
der existing regulations does not meet

 

for more than a year after it is chosen,
unless an extra session is called. The
issues upon which the congressmen were
elected may be of vast and immediate
importance to the people. If the newly-
elected representatives could meet at
once they would probab!y address them-
selves with some degree of promptness
and enthusiasm toward carrying out the
will of the people. As it is, so much
time intervenes before they take their
seats that they grow lukewarm, possibly,
or it may be that new issues have arisen
about which they have no means for as-
certaining their constituents’ desires.

It is more than probable that Con-
gress so often fails to meet the expecta-
tiens of the country because of the long
time intervening between its selection
and its organization.

Instead, therefore, of postponing the
possible meeting of a new Congress
from the 4th of March to the 30th of
April and leaving the usual time of or-
ganization as it is now, an amendment
should be proposed securing, practical-
ly, the immediate assembling of the
law-making houses of the Nation after
they are chosen—as in the case of our
state legislatures and of foreign par-
liamentary bodies. Propositions look-
ing to this change have been presented
to Congress repeatedly, but without ac-
complishing anything in the direction
indicated.

GENERAL TRADE SITUATION.

With the exception of the unsatisfac-
tory condition of the cotton industry in
the New England States, where the
contest of low prices of product with the
relatively high wages of operatives is
threatening and producing extensive
strikes, the general situation is that of
greater activity and a general advance
in staple prices. In the iron industry,
which was so slow in joining in the ad-
vance in both activity and_ prices,
records of production are not only be-
ing broken, with scarcely increasing
stocks, but there is no yielding of prices
in manufactured forms.

During the week there was consider-
able speculative activity in the Wall
Street markets, based on rumors of war,
either in the political world, as in the
Cuban question, ur between corpora-
tions, which gave operators unusual o p-
portunity. At the same time there has
continued a steady activity and ad-
vance in bond investment and in many
lines of stocks, indicating a generally
improved feeling on the part of the
public.

The textile situation, while unsatis-
factory in the Eastern cotton mills, con-
tinues favorable in most lines of woolen
manufacture, although the continued
warm weather is likely to diminish
sales of heavy goods in the hands of re-
tailers. The mills are generally re-
ported busy, with order books in a sat-
isfactory condition.

Perhaps there is no more significant
indication of the generally improved
condition, not only here in Grand Rap-
ids, but in all parts of the country, than
the fact that the January sales for both
local and foreign houses are unprece-
dentedly large, in some cases exceed-
ing the capacity of the factories to fill
the orders in a reasonable time.

Bank clearings continue very heavy,
the amount, $1, 443,000, 000, breaking all
records for the corresponding week in
past years. Failures are lessening in
number, 323, against 353 for preceding
week,

 

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_.A cheap young man, with a cheap
idea of honor, is not a good thing in a
responsible position.

 

 

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

8

 

TRADE WITH JAPAN.

It was fuund,when Japan waked up to
a realizing sense of what she must do if
she was to take her place among the
living nations of the earth, that Great
Britain, always on the alert to anticipate
and so to secure the lion’s share in any
plunder or profit which might accrue
trom being constantly ou hand, had _al-
ready the foremost place in the trade of
that country. That place so far she has
piously and determinedly maintained,
but it is pleasing to note that this coun-
try is forging to the front with flattering
prospects of gaining, if not of going be-
yond, the trade position in Japan which
Great Britain now holds. In_ proof of
_this, statistics show that during the
year 1896 the markets of the United
States sold to Japan goods amounting
to $13,255,340, an amount almost twice
as much as that country purchased in
1895, and more than four times the
amount five years ago when the exports
to Japan were $3,200,111.

So firmly had Great Britain established
her precedence with Japan in supplying
machinery, rails, nails and pig iron,
that for years it was considered impos-
sible for other nations under the most fa
vorable circumstance to change this con-
dition of things; but times have changed
and this country now holds the suprem-
acy in the sale of these articles which
England held so long.

Cotton adds its confirmation to the
above statement. In ’g!, the sales of
the raw material were valued at $225.879
The next year they fell to nearly $112,-

938, about one-half; and in ‘93 to
$68,423. Then manufactures in Japan

began to develop and for the last four
years the successive annual sales have
been $360, 492, $806,058, $1,481,056 and
$2,259,209, amounts which, aside from
the pleasing financial story, tell of the
great relief the Japan market offers to
the cotton planters of this country, who
have been confronted for years by a de-
mand insufficient to take up tkeir whole
supply. Another fact to be noted is that
while this development of cotton manu-
facture has been going on in Japan, the
sales of cotton cloth to the Japanese by
the United States have increased from
$9,084 in ’93, to $92,830 in ’96. That
is not all. The increase of Japan man-
ufactures has created a demand for ma-
chinery and other manufactures of iron
and steel, demands which this country
has supplied and received therefor
$1,250,719 for the years 1891, 1893 and
1896. Sales of refined oil during the
same periods amount to $7,969,076; and
wheat flour, with sales amounting to
$286,111 in ’96, shows a slight decrease
as compared with those of '91 and an
increase compared with the intermedi-
ate years. Since 1893, the total sales
from this country to Japan show the in-
crease for each succeeding year to be:
$791,321, $647,902, $3,054,968, and
$5,565,655, amounts that speak well for
the enterprise of this country, which in
the opinion of Great Britain does well
enough so far as inventive genius is
concerned, but is wholly lacking in
those qualities which will make her an
antagonist to be feared in commercial
lines. These figures are calculated to
change that opinion and it remains to
be seen whether England will take with
composure a second place in Japan
where she has for so many years stood
first.

 

STARVING THROUGH COLLEGE.

The recent statement by President
Harper, of Chicago University, that
three students had starved to death dur-

 

ing the year, seems to have aroused
much indignation, chiefly, as it seems,
because that university has been largely
endowed by several very wealthy men.

But people ought to remember that
colleges and universities, any more than
the primary free public schools, are not
carried on to feed and clothe the schol-
ars, The entire object of the states and
of the endowers of universities is to pro-
vide educational advantages. The
scholars, be they young or old, are ex-
pected to feed themselves. The State
does not undertake to support its chil-
dren, but only to educate their minds.
Universities do not engage to do any
more for their students, and the starv-
ing of a student is no more to be
charged to the managers of the univer-
sity than if he had been run over in the
Streets.

The simple fact is, there are students
who are poor, but ambitious, and_ they
are determined to pass through a_uni-
versity. They live in private quarters
as best they can, and not at a public
university table. The university author-
ities do not know what their students
eat, and have no concern about it.
Without doubt, if they had an idea that
any of their young men were starving
they would prevent it by extending aid;
but, since the business of schools, high
and low, is to feed the mind, and not
the body, the teachers and managers are
not iu a position to know anything about
the private affairs of their pupils.

The Tradesman can admire the aspi-
rations and the courage of a young man
who strives, in spite of the greatest
difficulties, to secure an education; but
it cannot commend his common sense
when he attempts to do so and_ subsist
on nothing. The body has its urgent
demands as does the mind, and they
cannot be neglected nor ignored. Many
able men have worked their way through
college, performing bodily and even
menial labor to secure the advantages
of an education; but there is neither
merit nor sense in trying to starve one’s
way into Latin, Greek and philosophy.

 

A new philanthropy has been started
by some young women of New York for
the assistance of shopgirls. They go
to the noon rests and luncheon places
frequented by shopgirls, and set.up a
little sewing and renovating room where
stray stitches can be taken for the busy
saleswomen and quick instruction given
them in ways to freshen up and keep in
order their wardrobes. The art of ren-
ovating a ribbon, of curling a feather,
of sponging a dress, etc., is taught as
the need suggests itself, and the girls
thus receive valuable suggestions of
thrift and economy. Some little cash-
girls, similarly instructed, were asked
recently to bring a pair of stockings
that needed darning, in order that the
useful office could be performed for
them, and some teaching in the method
could be given also. Four out of five
thus spoken to were unable to make the
simplest repairs, and seemed to be igno-
rant that there were any ways of fixing
them except by filling up the holes with
pieces of coarse muslin. Excellent re-
sults are looked for from this undertak-
ing.

When a book agent rings your bell
and asks who lives next door it is best
to send him next door to find out. You
have no right to give him the names of
people he will try to worry on your in-
troduction to them.

 

An old man has had experience with
nearly everything, and there is probably
nothing he is so tired of as good advice.

 

Tribute to the Memory of Benjamin
Franklin.*

Early American history furnishes 1n-
dividual examples of men, the resplen-
dent lustre of whose lives and charac-
ters the corroding inroads of time have
failed to tarnish. Foremost among these
is enrolled the name ot Benjamin
Franklin, whose memory we honor in
our humble way to-night.

Contemporary with the names of the
heroes and statesmen of that period in
American history that gave birth to this
great Republic, as statesman and
diplomatist he was the equal of the
ablest, as philosopher he was without a
peer. Cradled in the Jap of Liberty, he
early learned her priceless value, and
history has recorded how cheerfully
and faithfully he gave to his country’s
councils the benefits of his wisdom.

It is not my intention, neither does it
come within my limit to deal with the
cold details of dates of birth and death
and ancestry; these, together with a
record of all his public acts and_ scien-
tific researches, have been recounted by
the ablest and most faithful of biogra-
phers that ever fell to the lot of any
public man.

To the newspaper press published
contemporary with the public career of
Benjamin Franklin, we can safely look
for truthful biography, and from this
source I propose in this short sketch to
show by a few quotations gathered from
these far-off records the esteem in which
be was held by those who knew him
best in his private and public life.

His sojourn in France is frequently
referred to in his letters as among the
most pleasing in his public experience
as a diplomatist. His admiration of
the French character was born of his
association with such illustrious patriot
soldiers and statesmen as Lafayette and
his compatriots, and it was in their so-
ciety that his diversified knowledge
shone brightest and was most appreci-
ated.

He says in his letters that some of his
warmest friendships were formed in
Paris. Among his many _ intimate
friends and admirers was the Marquis
Chastelleux, who records among his
writings the following eloquent eulogy
upon his character, drawn trom his per-
sonal acquaintance and official associa-
tion with him, which, for your enter-
tainment, I copy from an old volume of
newspapers published while Franklin
was a resident of France in an_ official
capacity. Chastelleux writes:

‘The illustrious and amiable charac-
ter of Dr. Franklin is beyond my praise.
To have known him; to have been a
frequent witness to the distinguished
acts of his great mind; to have been in
a situation to learn, and to admire his
comprehensive views and benevolent
motives; to have heard the profound
maxims of wise philosophy and sound
politics drop from his lips with all the
unaffected simplicity of the most com-
mon conversation; to have heard him
deviate from the depths of reason, to
adapt his discourse to the capacity of
the young and gay; to have enjoyed, in
short, the varied luxuries of his delight-
ful society is a subject of triumph and
consolation of which nothing can de-
prive me. He, too, as wellas the en-
vious and interested enemies of his
transcendent merit, must drop from off
the scene, but his name is-inscribed in
indelible characters on the immortal
roll of philosophy and freedom. Few
men in revolving ages can be found
who dare oppose themselves as he has
to the force of tyranny and in whose
breast reposes the genius of nations."’

This tribute is from the pen of one of
the brightest French scholars, states-
men and historians of that day, the con-
temporary and friend of the Marquis de
Lafayette. Where can we look for a
more graceful tribute to the genius and
the mental and moral worth of Franklin
than bas been recorded by this distin-
guished French writer.

While his foreign intercourse with the
great and good men of other countries
called forth praise akin to adoration, his
genius and virtues were not lost sight of
at home. Many and frequent are the

 

Paper read at annual supper of Tradesman Com-
pany by W.S. H. Welton, of Owosso.

 

words in praise of his character and
wisdom, both in prose and verse, that I
could copy if time and my limit would
permit. However, I cannot refrain
trom copying, for your entertainment, a
quaint old poetic effusion published in
the New Haven Gazette of April to,
1787, and styled, *‘A Description of Dr.
Franklin :’’

**See on yon darkening height bold Franklin tread,
Heaven’s awful thunders rolling o’er his head:
Convolving clouds the billowy skies*deform,

And forky flames emblaze the blackening storm.
See the descending streams around him burn,
Glance on his rod and at his idance turn.

He bids conflicting

 

    

   

leavens ir blasts expire,
Curbs the fierce blaze and holds the imprisoned fire.
No more when folding storms the vault o rspread,
The livid glare shall strike thy race with dread:
Nor towers, nor temples, shuddering with the

sound,

Sink in the flame that spreads destruction ’round.
His daring toils the threatening blasts that wait
Shall teach mankind to ward the bolts of fate;
Che pointed steel o’ertop the lofty spire,
And lead o’er trembling walls the harmless fire

  

In his glad fame, while distant worlds r
Far as the lightnings blaze or thunders
voice.’

raise their

Franklin’s

Benjamin life work as
Statesman, diplomat, philosopher, phi-
lanthropist, inventor or promoter of

measures of public benevolence is_ sec-
ondary in value to the world’s wealth
and progress when compared with his
researches in the field of electric
science, in which his discoveries aston-
ished mankind and left a legacy for the
benefit of unborn generations.

Here | am reminded that my theme
has no limit, and also that the patience
of my listeners may have.

His experiments with; his kite and
keys were the starting point of every
advancement in electric science that the
genius of modern electricians has con-
ceived up to the present time. The elec-
tric current, that once dreaded agent,
has lost its terrors and become the
pliant servant of man.

A century and a quarter has passed
and these bright and gaudy lights that
surround us to-night are only so many
electric sparks struck off from the tran-
scendent genius of Franklin.

—_—___~¢<—_ i
List of Amsterdam Swindlers.

The Tradesman is frequently informed
by some manufacturer that he has re-
ceived an order for goods trom an Am-
sterdam importer, over which he is natur-
ally very much elated. Full investiga-
tion frequently discloses the fact that
the order emanates from one of the nu-
merous gang of swindlers which infest
the Amsterdam market. The Trades-
man has taken pains to secure a list of
the swindlers who masquerade as im-
porters and publishers it herewith for
the guidance of its readers who are in
the manufacturing business:

C. C. Demkes & J. Van den Bergh,
A. Oosterworf, Douwe Van der Kamp,
Wesselink & Co., Cornelis Van den
Bergh, A. Cordes & Co., Van Sleisdam
& Co., Cornelis Van Os, C. F. DeJong
& Co., Charles Manio & Co., Rem-
brand & Co., Fritz Winter, Jos. Hekker,
Alfred Weinholtz, R. Knobbs & Co.,
F. H. Drabert & H. Schneiders, O. H.
Rentsene, B. HL & A. Kemimnk, |. PF,
L. Muller & Co., Den Bruggen & Co.,
W. J. E. Havermans & Co., Hofstra &
Co., Holle & Co., Da Chatinier & Co.,
Teesink & Co., J. De Vries of J. Wes-
terhoek, Dominique Marchalle, Milbergh
& Co., Michael van Berkel, Van den
Bergh & Zwartjes, J. van der Markt &
Co, Issers de Vries & Co., L. Caste-
leijm & Co., Hoen & Co., H. van den
Nolen & Co., Ten Nave & Co., Latrine
Stevens & Co., M. M. R. Greveling &
Sen) pM ae Me So) Aste 0 een
Agglen, G. Rigberts, H. Schneiders &
Co., |. la Brane Stevens) & Co, J.) ¥.
Rom, Hessel de Jong & Co., Louis
Woudhbuisen, E. J. d’Hont, H. F. Jan-
son, L. Beijersbergen & Co., Van Dor-
molen & Co., Van den Bergh & Co.,
E. Verkerk, of Verkerk & Co., Kempar
Van Drielen & Co., Mouthaan & Co.,
C. M. Hanenewinckel, A. Kappee &
Co., F. Nieuwenhuis & Co., Govers &
Co., F. Fischer & Co., Van Kempen &
Co., Schmidt & Son, A. P. Besoijn, N.
A. Weatrik, Frederick Godard, Kaspers
& Co, D.C. BH. FP. Van Kempen & J.
E. Graux, J. A. Augustijin, Henri

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DELIVERING GOODS.

 

Science Necessary to Accomplish the
Work.

When one purchases a small article
for a small price at the counter of a de-
partment store and orders it sent home,
he gives himself no further thought of
it and gaily goes his way, knowing that
the parcel will be there before him. As
to the processes by which that parcel
ultimately reaches him he never bothers
bis bead, any more than ke tries to solve
the phenomena ot other ordinary occur-
rences in his life. He knows that a
wagon brings it to his door and, if he
thought about it at all, be would prob-
ably say that the clerk from whom be
bought the article simply took 1t and
threw it into the wagon and told the
driver to take it to the address written
thereon.

However, the handling and delivery
of parcels 1s one of the greatest depart-
ments of all in a big department store,
as it is the one never seen and least
thought of by the public. The value ot
the system usted 1s especially tested at
Christmas time and the last three days
of the holiday purchasing season par
ticularly. Then the resources of the de-
livery department are taxed to the ut-
most to avoid vexatious delays and
much of the popularity of the store de-
pends upon its efficiency.

During the month of December one of
the department stores in this town de-
livered about 150,000 packages. Nearly
three-fourths of the number were Christ.
mas purchases. On Monday following
Christmas the delayed or detained coun-
ter at the enquiry desk contained about
sixty packages which were not delivered
because the wrong addresses had been
given. For instance, a person had
bought a book for a friend and ordered
it sent to Miss Daisy Dean, 1321 High
street. At that number Mr. John Jones
lives and he, not knowing Miss Dean,
refused to receive it. Miss Dean’s ad-
dress is not in the directory and the
package is taken back to thestore. The
purchaser had probably given the wrong
address, or the clerk had transposed the
number and it should have been 3121
High street. The person who ordered
the book will be surprised that no ac-
knowledgment comes from Miss Dean
and when she learns that the young
lady has not received it she will go to
the store and find it on #he detained
counter. On another coumter are a num-
ber ot articles that were not delivered
because they became separated from
their sales tickets or addresses. These
were found wanting when the parcel was
delivered at your door. They embrace
toys and gift articles of every descrip-
tion. Jf you missed anything from your
parcel it is probably there and your
duplicate “sales ticket presented to the
person in charge will claim it for you.

But the mystery is, how were all those
parcels dejivered without delay and
with such smoothness? The best way
to describe it is to follow a purchase
from the counter to the delivery wagon.

On Mrs. Henry Jones’ shopping list
are seven articles she desires to pur-
chase, as follows:

A pair of shoes,

A pitcher,

Six yards of flannel,

A bonnet,

Muslin underwear,

A toy wagon,

A small table.

In the department store she goes first
to the shoe stock and buys her shoes.

‘‘Anything else to-day, madam?’’
asks the clerk. '

 

“*Yes, I want a transfer to the china
department,’’ answers Mrs. Jones.

The clerk makes out a sales ticket for
the shoes with the amount of the pur-
chase and marks thereon ‘'O. G.,”’
which means ‘‘other goods.’’ The par-
cel coutaining the shoes, together with
the duplicate of this ticket, is sent to
the inspector’s station. The clerk then
gives Mrs. Jones a transfer check. This
is a long slip of paper on which are
columns for th number of the clerk,
the letter of his stock and the amount
of the purchase. Theclerk writes on it
Mrs. Jones’ name and address. His
number is 721 in D stock; the amount
of the purchase is $3.50.

Armed with her transfer check, Mrs.
Jones repairs to the china department
and selects a pitcher. It is packed ina
box in hay and with its sales ticket
gues to the delivery department, while
the clerk adds his number, stock letter
and the amount of the purchase to the
transfer check. Mrs. Jones then goes
upstairs to the department in which
flannel! is sold, from there to the millin-
ery department and so on until she has
finished her purchases, without delay
and without waiting seven times for her
change. She takes her transfer check
then to the transfer clerk, who adds up
ber purchases and finds that they amount
to $18.22. Mrs. Jones tenders a check
for $20 in payment thereof, which, to-
gether with the stub of the transfer
check whereon is an epitomized record
of all the purchases, is put into a small
metal box and inserted into a pneumatic
tube and shot up to the teller’s station,
where all cash is received and change
made. The teller who receives it knows
the check to be good and immediately
sends back $1.78 change by means of
the metal box and the tube. If, how-
ever, he doesn’t know anything about
the check he puts it into another box
and shoots it through a tube to the
office, where the credit man takes a look
at it, scribbles his initals on it and
shoots it back, whereupon the teller
sends the change to the transfer desk
and Mrs. Jones, her arduous duties done,
goes home or calling.

Now begins the career of her parcel
in the delivery department. As each
article was bought the clerk took it with
the sales ticket to the inspector's sta-
tion. The inspector looked at it, com-
pared its price mark with that on the
ticket, tore the sales ticket in two and
wrapped up the duplicate sales ticket
with the goods. At the bottom of the
sales ticket was a stub on which was
marked the name and address of Mrs.
Jones, the amount of the sale and the
talisman ‘‘O. G."’ This is torn off and
sent with the original sales ticket to the
teller. The teller retains the stub,
stamps the check and sends it back to
the inspector. When the transfer clerk
sends the teller the transfer check
showing the total amount of all the sales
tickets and the amount paid, he knows
that the transaction is complete, and the
goods are passed. .

Long before this Mrs. Jones’ pur-
chases have found their way to the de-
livery department. Every few minutes
the wailing cry is heard in a big store:
**O—Gee ee!’’ When heard for the first
time it startles one as being out of place
and as disrespectful and slangy. But it is
only the call of the inspector for one of
the small boys whose business it is to
collect parcels from the inspector’s sta-
tion ard send them to the delivery de-
partment. The boy has gathered up
the parcels and at a point in the store
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therein. That is the last one sees of
them on the sales floors.

On the lower floor, in one corner of
the building, is a space about 20x40 feet,
whence all the deliveries are made. At
one end of a long counter is a chute
coming from above. Behind the counter
is a series of big pigeonholes or bins.
When Mrs. Jones’ pair of shoes, her first
purchase, came down the chute and
landed in the padded box at the bottom,
a clerk took them out, looked at the
sales ticket and saw that it was an ‘‘O.
G.’’ transaction. He therefore turned
the ticket over to a young woman at a
big register, who called out: ‘‘Forty-
one.’’ The clerk found bin forty-one
empty and put the parcel containing the
shoes therein. The young woman turned
the big page of the register over until
she came toa space marked “‘J.’’ wherein
she entered Mrs. Jones’ name and ad-
dress and the number ‘‘41.’’ As the
parcels containing Mrs. Jones’ pur-
chases arrived they all went into bin
forty-one, until down came the transfer
slip, showing that the quota was full.
The duplicate sales ticket, the transfer
check and the parcels were checked
against each other and the tickets and
check pinned together and sent to the
wrapper’s table.

Meantime other small parcels had
come tumbling down the chute, those
of a fragile nature being lowered by a
rope and bulky parcels on a small ele-
vator. These were single articles for
delivery and did not go into bins, but
directly to the wrapping tables, of
which there were several. Each was
accompanied by the sales ticket and
send ticket, both bearing the address of
the purchaser.

The wrappers are marvelously ex-
pert. It is their business to so wrap an
article that it is safe and at the same
time economize in paper and twine. As
a parcel is wrapped it is thrown intoa
great tray at one side of the large table,
whence it is taken by a girl, who pastes
one-half of a duplicate send ticket upon
it and files the other half as a record of
the delivery. On the send ticket is the
name and address to which the parcel is
to be sent.

But to return to Mrs. Jones’ purchase.
When the wrapper comes to her papers
he goes to bin 41 and takes out the arm-
ful of goods and carries them to his
table. ‘There being a bonnet in a box,
a toy wagon, a pitcher and a table, it
will make several parcels. He wraps
the shoes, flannel and muslin into one
parcel. A duplicate send ticket has
been made and pasted to each article
and all are sent in an elevator to the
floor above, where the delivery wagons
get them.

The town is divided into fourteen
divisions or routes for delivery, for
each of which is an enormous bin.
As the parcels come up clerks take
them, glance at the address on the slip
pasted to them and assign them to their
proper bins. Each package is then en-
tered on a large sheet which shows the
name and address, with a space for the
signature of the person who will receive
it. There are four deliveries every day
—at 8, 11, 2 and 5 o’clock respectively.
It takes thirty wagons, each with a crew
of a driver anda boy, to carry the par-
cels to the door, to deliver the goods,
and they are kept constantly going. To
each route are apportioned two or more
wagons, according as the business on it
is heavy or otherwise.

When the hour for delivery comes,
the drivers of the wagons come in, go
to the bins assigned to their various

routes and check the goods therein
against the sheet on which they are en-
tered. If they check properly the driver
signs the duplicate sheet in receipt and
loads his wagon, putting the goods for
first delivery nearest to his hand. Some
routes are so long that another delivery
is on the way and following it before
the first is finished.

This account of the delivery of the
parcels of a great department store has
not taken into consideration such goods
as are taken away by the purchasers,
nor the exact science necessary to the
keeping of accurate account of a myriad
of small sales, for, as Mr. Kipling says,
“‘that is another story.’’—Kansas City
Star.

Preliminary Preparations for Business
Success.
Written for the TRADESMAN.

Business is a wide term, comprehend-
ing nearly every avocation in which
man is engaged. A man’s business is
his occupation. Commercially, it is ap-
plied to all men engaged in supplying
the wants of their fellowmen, from the
merchant prince, importing and export-
ing all products, to the costermonger.

To commercial men knowledge is
power. The men who read and reflect
must be better informed, and more
fitted to climb upward, as chances offer,
than their competitors or fellow work
ers who do not. Books, magazines and
trade journals pertaining to their work
should be read, more especially by those
commencing in business life. By these
words I do not mean in the least to bar
out the old heads in business, because
they are needed as well.

There is, perbaps, nothing more pain-
ful in business than the number of fail-
ures we become acquainted with, owing
entirely to starting with an imperfect
knowledge of how to get or manage the
business undertaken; for, as the stern,
inexorable decree cf Nature seems to
be that we must eat or be eaten, so
equally inflexible and unyielding are
the laws of Commerce, the one line of
conduct as certainly ensuring success
as deviation therefrom, whether from
willfulnesstor ignorance, ends in failure,
for, just so surely as water seeks its
level, any one who embarks in trade
with insufficient knowledge or capital
will lose his money and his business rep-
utation.

But do not, for a moment, imagine
you will become a_ thorough business
man by reading books or following any
set plan of action laid down therein.
All that study can do is to prove to you
the importance of pursuing a certain
policy; so that, in practice, if you fail
or your business does not pay when you
have been expecting the reverse, a
knowledge of the laws of trade will en-
able you to trace the failure generally
to your own errors, and thereby you
may remedy the same in the future.

Do not think trom the preceding that
books and journals play no part in busi-
ness; they on the contrary are most es-
sential to its thoroughness. But re-
member,

“A little learning is a dangerous thing
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring. :

It seems to me advisable that we
should pick up every crumb of knowl-
edge that falls in our way. ‘‘Many
mickles make a muckle;’’ and, when
we consider the immense number of
human beings who daily rise, each one
struggling to get foothold on the lad-
der, to keep his position thereon, or to
push himself higher up, even if be
knock his neighbor down, we must ad-
mit the necessity of the aid of every

 

tiny bit of knowledge.

After reading every available book on
the subject, and reflecting carefully on
my own experience, I am _ convinced
that, although success and fortune may

Association Matters

Michigan Retail Grocers’ Association

 

 

seem at times accidental, yet they are | President, J. Wistzx, Mancelona; Secretary, E.
. . . A. Srows, Grand Kapids; Treasurer, J. F.
invariably due to industry, persever-| ‘Taran, Clare.
ance, wise forethought and a prudent
reserve against being led away by the Michigan Hardware Association

. ; President, Cuas. F. Bock, Battle Creek: Vice
temporary oe of speculation, President, H. W. WessBerR, West Bay City;
which seems periodically to make sad} Treasurer, Henry C. Minniz, Eaton Rapids.
havoc witb the accumulation of equally
industrious but less careful men. Asa Detroit Retail Grocers’ Association

President, Jos—EPH KNIGHT; Secretary, E. MARKs,

rule, the man who honestly and exactly
describes the process by which the
sound fortunes in any city have been
made would detail a story of thrift and
prudence, good judgment and wise re-
serve; and also the lasting fortunes are
those that have been made in regular,
straightforward business, by cautious
investments and not by hazardous spec-
ulations or a system of sharp practices
bordering upon actual dishonesty.
Study and observation will also con-
vince one that all natural operations are
based upon a strict, although at times a
seemingly stern, justice; for, ‘‘ Whatso-
ever a man _ soweth, that shall he also

reap.’ C. C. McKIBBIN.
—__0>__

Some men have a distressing habit of
carrying their business home with them
in the evening and lying awake at night
to think about it. This is a bad habit
which anyone with any sort of control
over himself can break up. The con-
clusion of the whole matter is that man
walketh in a vain shadow and disquiet-
eth himself in vain, and the most un-
happy man is the one who thinks every-
thing is wrong, and it is his especial
calling to set it right. Fretting causes
our food to remain undigested; it
whitens our locks and makes wrinkles
and imparts the bicycle face.

 

President,

President, P. F.

221 Greenwood ave: Treasurer, N. L. Korenie.

Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association

Feanx J. Dye;
Treasurer, J. GEO.

Secretary, HoMER
Kap; LEHMAN.

Saginaw Mercantile Association
TREANOR; Vice-President,
McBRatTNIE; Secretary, W. H. LEwis;
urer, LourE SCHWERMER

JOHN
Treas-

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

President, F. B. JOHNSON; Secretary, A. M
Daruine; Treasurer, L. A. GILKEY.

 

Adrian Retail Grocers’ Association

President, Martin Gafney:
Cleveland; Treasurer, Geo. M.

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Traverse City Business Men's Association
President, Tuos. T. Bares; Secretary, M.
Houty; Treasurer, C. A. HAMMOND.

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Owosso Business Men’s Association

President, A. D. WHIPPLE;
BELL;

Secretary, G. T. Camp
Treasurer, W. E. CoLuins.
Alpena Business Men’s

President, F. W. GILcHRIST;
PARTRIDGE.

Association

Seeretary, C L.

Grand Rapids Retail Meat Dealers’ Association
President, L. J. Katz: Secretary, Puitip HILBER;
Treasurer. S. J. HuFFoRD
St. Johns Business Men’s Association.

President, THos BROMLEY:
Percy; Treasurer. CLark

Secretary, FranKA.

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Shoes and Leather |

Shoes and Shoemakers in Spanish
America.

To be able to make good shoes is an
art in the American tropics, and the
proprietor of a successful shop is called
‘*maestro,’’ especially in tbe small
country towns. In larger cities it is
different, but the Spanish-American has
a reverence for fine shoes, and a man
who turns out good work is alwaysa
person of consideration. Just now the
shoemakers are busy. The master sits
in his shop surrounded by perhaps a
score of apprentices and workmen.
The boys are doing repairing, of which
there is always an abundance, because
shoes are expensive and must last a long
time in Spanish America. The men
are cutting out the uppers and soles,
while two or three of the best workmen
are putting them together. The mas-
ter sits in an easy chair, occupied with
an important piece of work for some
great person. As the day passes in-
terested patrons drop in to see how
their shoes are coming on, politics and
general news are discussed, while at
intervals the apprentices and workmen
come to the master to show what they
have done and to receive instructions.
There are many shoemakers, but not
all are masters of the art, to whose shops
apprentices are clamoring for admit-
tance, and where high dignitaries can
be seen giving their orders and discuss-
ing the affairs of the day. The poorer
workmer are of all grades, from those
who turn out ordinary footwear, to those
who cannot make shoes at all, but who
confine their efforts to cutting out the
rough sandals from rawhide, which are
used by most of the laboring people
throughout the American tropics. These
sandals are cut very broad and are
something the shape of a slipper sole.
Two little slits are made on each side
and through these narrow thongs are
passed, which are then bound about the
foot. They are easy to make and cost
about ten cents a pair.

 

 

In some places, especially among the
Indians, hides are scarce, and to make
sandals a soft rope twisted from sisal
hemp is laid round and round in an
elongated oval, and then stitched to-
gether and drawn in at the center to
something the shape of asole. It is
then ready to be bound on the foot with
cords, or cloth uppers are sewed on,
making a very comfortable | slipper,
which is used freely about the house
even by the wealthiest people. The In-
dians do quite a business making these
fiber slippers for traders and peddlers,
who carry them to the towns and cities,
where they have a ready sale.

My own experiences with the Span-
ish-American shoemakers have at times
been amusing. I was once ata little
city overhauling my kit, and proposed
to throw away an old pair of shoes, but
was earnestly advised that a master
shoemaker, whose shop was_ nearby,
could make them over, and that they
would do good service. So I went
around to see about it. The shoes were
old when I left the States, and one had
a cemented patch on theside. The mas-
ter shoemaker looked at them gravely,
and said they were far too good to throw
away. Then he noticed the cemented
patch and with an exclamation of  sur-
prise called two of his best men, saying:

‘“*See! Look at this; notice what a
wonderful thing. Here is the work of
a true master. Actually the shoe has
been mended without a stitch.’’ Then

 

it was passed all around the shop while
the master explained what wonderful
workmen the Americans were,and final-
ly he said to the younger apprentices
that they might live to do such work,
but for himself he feared it could never
be.

A few days later my shoes were sent
home mended with a reverent care that
made them useful for a long explora-
tion, lasting several weeks.

I had a peculiar experience once be-
cause of a pair of yellow cowhide boots
made tough and strong to stand the
roughest usage. ‘They were very bright
and shiny when I first put them on and
the natives admired them beyond any-
thing.

I was examining some coal deposits
and had five or six men working for
me. The tropical sun was unusually hot
that day and thé men all threw off their
clothes and worked entirely naked, al-
though one would have thought that the
sun would have blistered the skin off
their backs, but they were used to it and
did not seem to mind at all. I set them
at work cleaning away a lot of brush
and old logs that were piled in front of
an outcropping of coal. Presently they
disturbed a big poisonous snake and
the next moment it came angrily out
from its hiding-place and with open
mouth twisted itself in and out among
the bare legs of the frightened men and
made a savage rush at my yellow boots,
but luckily it was killed before any
damage was done, and now they say in
that country that new yellow Amz: rican
leather will attract snakes and is conse-
quently dangerous.

Once near Christmas time I was at an
interior city of Central America, well
off the beaten track. The shoemakers
were busy, and as the ‘‘Feast Days’’
drew nearer, the masters became more
and more important. [here was a shoe-
maker who lived near me to whom I
gave a little repairing. He was not a
remarkable workman and he had no ap-
prentices At home he would scarcely
have ranked as a cobbler’s assistant,
but by doing a little at saddlery as well
as shoemaking, he managed to live.

One pleasant evening, while the full
moon was just rising above the moun-
tains, | happened past his house, and
was immediately invited to take a
chair and sit with him in front of his
door. It seemed a little strange, but not
wishing to beimpolite, I accepted his
invitation, and was soon _ interested
hearing about his customers, and sun-
dry small gossip of the city.

Presently the Senator representing the
Department came along. Another chair
was Immediately breught, and the states-
man, the shoemaker and the humble
explorer began at once to have a pleas-
ant time together, all as a matter of
course. A little later the Governor of
the State, a man of great wealth and
fame in that country, came by the house.
The shoemaker invited him to a seat,
which he took without any ceremony,
and the little company became more in-
teresting.

Our host was a poor shoemaker, yet
the Governor of the State was his guest,
a man who had been entertained at more
than one distinguished nobleman’s house
in Europe. During that whole evening
our host never for an instant forgot his
respect for those who were certainly his
superiors, yet it did not seem that it
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of society in Spanish America, and it
is under these customs that the com-
fortable workshop of a master shoe-
maker becomes a convenient place
where politics and business can be dis-
cussed informally, especially at Christ-
mas time, when everyone who can must
have new shoes, and all the important
people are apt to stop at their, shoe-
maker’s each day, just for a few min-
utes, to see how their work is coming
on.—Francis C. Nicholas in Boots and
Shoes Weekly.

oe

Personal Experience as Store Boy.
Stroller in Grocery World.

I never told you that the first work I
ever did was working as a boy ina
country grocery store, did I? It’s not
a part of my life I like to bring for-
ward, not because I’m ashamed of it at
all, but because I didn’t have a very
good time. The man.I worked for
wasn’t an angel, exactly.

! was paid 30 cents a day for my val-
uable services, which were supposed to
continue from 7 o'clock in the morning
until g at night. I worked--that is,
I called it work; my employer didn’t
seem to be too sure--on Saturdays only.

While on duty I acted as errand boy,
clerk, collector, barrel hustler, oil
pumper, sugar carrier and_ general

medium for working off the chronic 1ll-
humor of my employer. How’s that for
30 cents?

I suppose there are other grocers in
the country like the man [ worked for,
yet I hate to think so, for the sake of
the poor devils who may be working for
them. Never in all the several years
through whose weary length I dragged
my services in that grocery store did
that grocer ever say: ‘‘Well done, my
boy.’’ If he ever said anything it was
simply to grunt, which has its limita-
tions somehow when a fellow has worked
hard.

I remember particularly one day when
I was ordered—be never requested me—
to clean up the cellar. It was a hot
Saturday afternoon in summer time, and
the cellar was boiling. It was alto-
gether the meanest hole I ever stepped
into. It had only one window and was
all twisted up and piled up with stuff
of several vears’ accumulating. Besides
this, the floor was damp and _ often
mushy.

To take a stroll about this cellar was
warranted to take the shine off a pair of
patent leathers everytime. There were
always a score or so of sociable nails
waiting for your coat tails, and besides
all of this, the grocer had a pleasant
habit of heaving every decayed orange
or lemon he found in his boxes as far
down the cellar as he could. No matter
where it went; it could land where it
would; he didn’t want it any more.

I would often ‘‘find’’ these defunct
oranges and lemons on my trips about
the cellar. Once 1 caught one just as I
was starting up the stairs with a crate
of eggs. The grocer was very wroth,
but when I explained that one of his
oranges caused it he didn’t say much.

One day I was ordered to clean this
dainty little boudoir. I had long been
disgusted with it, and I made up my
mind to put it in as good shape as I
possibly could. So I worked and per-
spired, and lifted and swept, until at 5
o'clock the place was thoroughly trans-
formed. It was cleaner than it had ever
been before in my time, and I was
proud of it. The fact that I looked
like a man just through a job on the
sewer didn’t cut any figure. I had done
a good piece of work, and I naturally
expected appreciation.

I called my employer down, and stood
back with my mucky hands on my bips,
while he surveyed it. He looked it over
casually and then said:

‘‘Humph!’’

Quite a compliment, wasn’t it? I
felt flattered. Just then the grocer
caught sight of the empty space where
the orange box had been accustomed to
stand. I had removed it further toward
the front of the store, so it would get
more light.

‘*Where in thunder is them oranges?’’

 

be howled, loud enough to be heard way
upstairs,

I explained.

‘‘Well, you leave things where I put
*em!'’ he shouted. ‘‘ You don’t seem to
be able to learn that somehow! By
goodness, ain't there a boy in the place
that’s got any brains?’’

Then he went politely "and snatched
up the box to cart it back to its place.
Incidentally, I had let the bottom out of
it when I moved it, but the grocer
didn’t know that. He did when he saw
the trail of oranges it left, though, and
I had to listen to his flattering opinion
of me again. I really knew what he
thought of me before, so it wasn’t news
to me.

That experience made me so hot that
if I'd been able I believe I’d have
slapped his mouth. But I didn’t, be-
cause he was bigger than I was, and
would have probably washed my face
with bad oranges.

That was the way I was treated all
the time. I could work like a Trojan,
do my level best, labor honestly and
conscientiously, and after it all would
be found fault with for some little
thing that nobody but a dog would have
noticed. -One day I had a barrel of oil
to pump into the tank and _ because
everybody in the store was busy I hustled
and got it all in in about half the usual
time. The grocer came down. stairs
when I had finished it. He knew per-
fectly well the good time I had made,
but he nearly kicked me because I had
spilt about a thimbleful of oil on the
cellar floor. I thought that oi! rather
improved the floor than otherwise.

It is an easy thing to size up the re-
sult of this sort of thing. Asa boy, too
young to be bound very closely by any
conventions of business honor, I would
have done anything I could to injure
that grocer, and would have slept over
it that night with the sweet realization
of a good deed well done. And the fact
that I didn't do anything to injure him
was simply because nothing came my
way. l1’mnot attempting to justify this
feeling. I’m simply saying that asa
boy I felt that way, which was perfectly
natural.

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How the Salesman Overdid It.

From the Chicago Record.

A young man in Chicago had been
out of employment for many months.
He was capable enough and anxious to
work, but it seemed simply impossible
for him to ‘catch on, He was m
debt and well-nigh discouraged when a
friend came to him and offered him a
job as traveling salesman for an Eastern
firm engaged in the manufacture of an
improved monkey-wrench. The young
man went into an agreement witb the
firm. He was to receive a monthly
salary and have all expenses paid.

The position was attractive, for the
reason that he was to ‘‘make’’ cnly the
large towns and deal with the jobbers.

He was given full information as to
prices and learned his little speech in
praise of the improved monkey-wrench.

St. Louis was his first stop.

He went to the biggest jobbing house
in that city of immense wholesale estab-
lishments, and he was determined to
capturea big order. He felt that he had
to hold his job at all hazards.

The buyer of the jobbing house lis-
tened to the young man’s convincing
talk and examined the new monkey-
wrench with care. He seemed im-
pressed and asked the price per dozen
gross. It was given to him, and he
figured on a desk pad for a while and
then asked: ‘‘What kind of a price
could you give us if we tock a hundred
dozen gross?’’

The young man came very near hav-
ing heart failure, but he figured for a
few moments and made a price.

‘*Come back to-morrow,’’ said the
buyer.

The salesman was elated, for he felt
sure that he would make a sale.

Next day when he went back to the
wholesale house the buyer said: ‘‘We

have been figuring and we believe we
can handle this wrench to advantage.
Of course, if we take hold of it we want
the closest price you can make, and we
will be willing to give you a big order.

What is the output of the
The salesman did not know.
‘*You find out what your output for

the next five years will be and make us

a price on the whole thing.’’

The young man telegraphed his house
and received the information. The price
was satisfactory. The buyer gave the
immense order and the salesman _ wired
it to his house. Ina few hours he re-

factory?’’

employers:

‘Congratulations. Having sold out-
put for five years, services no longer re-
quired.’’

Next day he was back
looking for another job.

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Coffee-Growing in Ohio.

A number of Ohio families will this
winter use coffee which they have raised
from the seed. The experiment of rais-
ing coffee was begun in Chillicothe some
years ago, and has now reached that
point where it is no longer an experi-
ment. Thisseason’s crop has just been
gathered, and is pronounced satisfactory
in every way. Seed has been distrib-
uted among a large number of persons,
and in almost every case the crop has
been satisfactory, both in size and qual-
ity. From thirty plants one woman se-
cured enough coffee to last her nearly
a year, and the other crops were in pro-
portion. The grains are brown and
hard, and, when roasted and ground,
make an excellent coffee. In fact the
families who used the coffee last year
state that after they had used up their
supply they were at a loss to find any on
the market that was as good.

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The business that does not gain is on

the wane.

in Chicago

ceived the following message from his |

American Pluck Wins.
| From the Paint, Oiland Drug Review.
| The European borax situation has un-
| dergonea great change since the advent
|of the Pacific Borax Company in the
| foreign market. A London correspondent
| states that the American company has
{been found the most formidable rival
| continental borax producers ever had in
|the British metropolis. A leading finan-
cial paper declares that the undertak-
ing was stupendous, but thus far Amer-
ican pluck and keen business foresight
have made it win. Competition has
grown so fierce as to bring about the
| breaking up of the International Borax
Union. Borax, which in 1888 was 30
pounds sterling a ton, is now only 14
pounds sterling a ton. Immediately
prior to the collapse of the union it was
20 pounds sterling a ton.

— tee
Another Freak.

‘*That young man of yours,’’ said the
observing parent, as his daughter came
down to breakfast, ‘‘should apply for a
job in a dime museum.”’

‘*Why, father,’’ exclaimed the young
lady in tones of indignation, ‘‘what do
you mean?’’

‘*T noticed when I passed through the
hall late last night,’’ answered the old
man, ‘‘that he had two heads upon his
shoulders. ’’

An Apt Pupil.

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Fruits and Produce.

Tendency Toward Lighter Salted But-
ter.
From the New York Produce Trade Review.

More frequent complaints have been
made of late of too light salted butter
in this market, and it would seem as if
buttermakers were making the same
mistake that they did regarding color.

For the past two years there has been
a steady trend toward lighter salted
goods for home consumption, as well as
to meet the needs of foreign markets.
People have grown tired of eating butter
that was heavily loaded with salt, and
there came such a reversion of senti-
ment in favor of using less salt, that
buttermakers were forced to recognize
and supply that need. In the effort to
meet the changing requirements, how-
ever, they are going to the extreme, and
considerable of the butter received here
during the past month has been entirely
too fresh in the sense that it lacked salt.

Whatever may be the need of foreign
markets in the way of sweet butter, or
that which contains a very little salt, it
should be remembered that the Ameri-
can trade demands moderately well-
salted goods, and for a large part of the
year the product of this conutry is con-
sumed at home.

There are to-day in this market nu-
merous shipments of fresh creamery
that have been so lightly salted as to be
practically sweet butter. Outside of the
Hebrew trade very few buyers can use
this butter, and it hangs about the mar-
ket regardless of the fact that sellers are
willing to accept a less price for it.

No definite rule can be laid down as
to the amount of salt to be used. The
quantity must be varied at different
seasons of the year, more being used
during the winter. Much depends upon
the conditions affecting the product.
It is a known fact that some butters
will take on more salt than others; and
if washing is practiced one-eighth to
one-quarter of an ounce more of salt
should be used.. In the absence of a
rule that may be followed at all times
and under all circumstances, the matter
must be left to the skill and knowledge
of the buttermaker; but by careful at-
tention to the subject, with frequent in-
formation from the selling agents in the
markets to which the goods are shipped,
the present difficulty regarding too light
salted butter may be quickly corrected.

—_—__—~» 2»

Steady Decline in Production of Oleo.

The report of the National Commis-
sioner of Internal Revenue, issued re-
cently, shows that the production of oleo
is diminishing every year, as the result
of the prohibitory laws which are being
passed in several states. From the re-
port in question, we take the figures
showing the average monthly produc-
tion of oleo during the last ten years, the
computations being made on the basis
of the fiscal year, which ends June 30,
instead of December 31. Following are

the figures:

1888 - - - - - 2, 860, 460
1889 - - - - - 2,972,002
1890 - - - - - 2,693, 669
1891 - - - - - 3,699, 367
ing2 - - - - - 4,030, 346
1893 *. - - . - 5,602,024
1894 - - . - - 5,801,853
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1896 - - - - - 237,769
1897 es

This shows that the average monthly
production of oleo in 1897 was nearly
one million pounds more than in 1888,
although considerably less than for the
five years preceding. There has been
a steady falling off since 1894, when the
production reached its highest point—
5,801,853 pounds per month. The total
production for the fiscal year of 1897
was 45,531,207 pounds.

The report also shows that there was
a decrease in the number of persons
engaged in the sale of oleomargarine

during the fiscal year ended June 30,
1897, as well as a decrease in the pro-
duction of the article.

The report also gives the production
of filled cheese under the filled-cheese
law. It shows that the total production

 

of filled cheese, for the nine months
ending June 30, 1897, was _ 1,663,067
pounds. ‘The special tax of I cent per
pound was paid on all of this. In New
Jersey two retail establishments took
out a license to sell filled cheese. In
other states, those who paid the license
to sell were as follows: Illinois, seven
manufacturers; four retailers. Indiana,
three retailers. Louisiana, twenty-nine

 

retailers. Maryland, one wholsaler;
nineteen retailers. Missouri, two retail-
ers. Virginia, two retailers. West
Virginia, one retailer.
—<>9>—___
Causes of the Spring Wheat Belt.

From Harper’s Magazine.

The spring wheat of the Northwest
owes its superior nutritious qualities to
a law which governs the whole proces-
sion ot commercial flora, of which it is
the leading representative—that the
cultivated plants reach their highest
perfection in food qualities near the
northernmost limits of their growth—a
law to which the bright summer sun,
the clear, dry atmosphere and the pure
waters of this inland region lend addi-
tional force.

The cattle which become skeletons on
the plains of Texas are driven north to
grow fat on the grasses of the Montana
and Dakota ranges, or the pastures of
Minnnesota, twice as rich in albuminoids
as even those of Illinois. The fruits of
these northern altitudes are jucier, the
potatoes more farinaceous, the melons
more luscious. The strawberries, the
tomatoes, the butter, the whole series of
field, garden and dairy products, tell
the same storv.

This hard wheat belt following the
curves of mean summer temperature,
extends far narth of the international
boundary line, through Manitoba and
the Canadian Northwest, traversed by
the Canadian Pacific and tapped by
several American lines. Within the
United States it embraces the broad
prairies of Minnesota and the two Da-
kotas.

—_—__~» 0. ____

Suit Over an Evaporated Apple Deal.

New York, Jan. 17—Leggerman Bros.,
of 165 Duane street, have brought suit
against C. R. Sworts, of Dundee,
N. Y., for $1,875 damages for violation
of contract. The brief for the plaintiff
alleges that on July 2, 1897, the de-
fendant signed a contract to deliver to
Hartwig & Bennett 1,500 cases of strict-
ly prime evaporated apples, to be made
of winter fruit of 1897 crop, at 514 cents
per pound, to be delivered between Oct.
1 and Nov. 15, 1897. It alleges further
that Hartwig & Bennett assigned the
contract in writing to the plaintiffs,
notified the defendant thereof, and that
the delivery of the goods was demanded
and refused.

On Nov. 15 Leggerman Bros. pur-
chased of other parties 1,500 cases of
apples paying the full market price of
8 cents, the total cost of which was
$6,000. The suit was brought to recover
the difference between 1,500 cases of
apples at 8 cents and 5% cents, which
amounts to $1,875. For answer the
plaintiff denies that the contract was
signed by him. ~

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10 Per Cent. Theory.

Saginaw, E. S., Jan. 17—-I note with
pleasure the communication of Hermann
C. Naumann on the subject of the proper
percentage for the commission dealer to
exact. I have conducted a commission
business thirteen years in Saginaw, and
always on the to percent. plan. Ido
not believe that any honest man can
handle butter, eggs, poultry or general
produce upon less than Io per cent.
commission. Goods in carlots and pork
might afford a profit upon 5 per cent.

A. ALLEN.
—_—__—~> 2 .____

Senator Mason will soon prepare and
introduce a bill in the Senate providing
for a special appropriation for a corn
meal exhibit at the Paris exposition.
He hopes by this means to second the
efforts of our representatives in Europe
in widening the markets for the abun-
dant corn crop of the United States.

> 2.

In only three cases out of ten the

sight is equally good in each eye.

Believes in the

Big Red Apples

From Arkansas, furnished by the barrel or carlot.

Oranges, Cape Cod Cranberries, Honey, Lemons,
Bananas, Sweet Potatoes, Red and Yellow Onions,
Spanish Onions.

BUNTING & CO., Jobbers,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

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Butter, Eggs and Produce

to us. Our Commission is Io per cent,
but you get all your goods sell for.

HERMANN C. NAUMANN & CO., DEetrRoIT.

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PEAS, BEANS, POTATOES

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If any to offer, Telephone, Wire or Write us, stating quantity.

ALFRED J. BROWN SEED CO.,

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GOTHAM GOSSIP.

News from the Metropolis---Index to
the Market.

Special Correspondence.

New York, Jan. 15—As time goes on
it becomes more and more apparent
that we are going to have a banner year
for general trade. In the dry goods
district and along the streets given over
to boots and shoes, the walks are piled
high with cases going to every part of
the country. Grocery jobbing houses,
without exception, give encouraging
statements. Prices, except for some
canned goods, have not advanced per-
ceptibly, but are generally firm.

Coffee is the weakest thing on the
list. With the huge supplies here and
afloat and the tremendous crops almost
certain next harvest, the consumer is

destined to have mighty cheap coffee
for the next few years. Aud to think
that parched rye sells for 25 cents!
Liquid rye not quoted. The amount of
coftee here and afloat reaches the total
of 1,154,338 bags, against 746,486 bags
at the same time last year. Rio No. 7
is hardly firm at 61%4c. For mild sorts
there is about the usual enquiry and
quotations are practically unchanged.

The tea outlook is still encouraging.
Some very good orders have been re-
ceived for the better grades of China and
Japan and, altogether, dealers have felt
more encouragement than for a year at
least. [he quality of teas is certainly
greatly improved under the new regula-
tions, and as the old stuff is largely
worked off by this time, the supplies ar-
riving stand a better show. '

Nothing especially interesting has
transpired in the sugar market during
the week. Orders have been of the usual
character and quotations have remained
unchanged. It is thought that the Ar-
buckle refinery will be in operation by
May 1 and another ‘‘independent’’ one
during the summer. We shall then,
perhaps, see a battle of the giants, as
interesting as the Ohio senatorial con-
flict has been—only in the former case
money will largely enter into the oper-
ation. Raw sugars during the week have
remained without particular change.
Refiners seem to have all they need and
matters are quiet.

Canned goods are firm. While there
is a feeling of quietude, the market is
firm and prices are ‘‘solid.’’ Tomatoes
are especially well held and offerings
are light. No. 3 Marylands are worth
9714c@$i here and this is a bottom fig-
ure. New Jersey tomatoes at $I are not
plenty and it is said that sales have
been made at $1.05. New York State
corn commands 70@85c, the latter for
fancy stock. Letters from California
indicate that an enormous amount of
canned stuff will be taken from the
Coast when the spring rush to Alaska
begins. Examination of a good many
of the goods for sale here shows inferior
stuff which sells for almost nothing.

Lemons and oranges have met with a
fair demand and prices have kept about
as usual, although the tendency is
hardly in the direction of an advance.
Other fruits, such as pineapples and
bananas, are selling fairly well.

Dried fruits have. shown wonderful
improvement and the outlookk is very
encouraging. This is especially true of
California fruits, but domestic goods as
well have felt the influence of a rising
market. Raisins, currants, prunes,
apples and the smaller fruits as well
have all moved along merrily.

Foreign sorts of rice have been most
in evidence during the week and the
demand for the better sorts of Javas has
been excellent. Domestic sorts are in
somewhat limited supply. Japan grades
are worth 5%@53c or almost ic higher
than a year ago.

In spices; there is little doing in the
way of invoices, and the jobbing trade,
too, is rather shrinking.

Fancy grades of molasses sell well,
but other sorts move with the proverbial
slowness of molasses in January. Syrups
are rather quiet.

The butter market has been dull and
best Western creamery cannot be quoted
above 2oc.
tive.

Buyers are very conserva-
The cheese market has been im-

 

proving right along since the first of the
year and there is plenty of room for the
same. Full cream, of course, sells better
than other grades.

Eggs are dull and lower, owing to
larger supplies. Best Western, 2Ic.

—__<@>@<>—__
Jackson on Record on the Trading
Stamp Fraud.

Jackson, Jan. 15—-A mass meeting of
the business men of the city pursuant
to a call that had been circulated, was
held at Forester Hall on Friday evening,
Jan. 14.

D. J Riley, of the firm of Riley &
Harrison, was called to the chair and
W. H. Porter, Secretary of the Retail
Grocers’ Association, was appointed
Secretary. The chairman stated the
object of the meeting and the Secretary
read the following paper in regard to
the trading stamp scheme as it exists:

Many and grievous complaints have
been made to me, as Secretary of the
Jackson Retail Grocers’ Association,
in regard to the trading stamp scheme
now in use in this city and, at the re-
quest of several of the members of our
Association, I have circulated a call for
this meeting. Upon the advice of some
of those who signed the call, | have sent
copies of the letter which you have re-
ceived to all who are handling the
stamps and to others who might be inter-
ested. This subject was taken up by
our Association for the reason that there
was a larger percentage of grocers
handling the stamps than merchants in
any other branch of trade, and there
did not seem to be any other organiza-
tion to take hold of the matter.

The Chairman then called upon repre-
sentatives of the different branches of
trade to express their opinions as to the
effect of the trading stamp on business,
which, when summarized, seemed to be
universal that the trading stamp, as a
factor in business, is a good thing to
let alone. After a general expression
had been taken on the subject by those
present, a Committee on Resolutions
was appointed, which presented the fol-
lowing report, which was unanimously
adopted :

Whereas, We, the merchants of Jack-
son, in convention assembled, believe
that the trading stamp scheme in use in
this city is a detriment to the business
of the whole trade of the city, therefore
be it

Resolved, That we pledge ourselves
to discontinue the use of the trading
stamps, and all other trading schemes,
such as books, silverware, bicycles, and
all schemes of whatsoever kind that are
given out as premiums for drawing
trade, and

Resolved, That these resolutions shall
go into effect on the first day of Febru-
ary, 1808.

Resolved, That we endorse the action
of merchants in Grand Rapids and
Ypsilanti in their movement to stop the
use of the trading stamps.

Committees of the different trades
were appointed to call on the merchants
and request them to pledge themselves
to discontinue the use of trading stamps.

W: HB. Porter, Sec y-
ee

Cecil Rhodes, it is said, frequently
dictates for eleven hours at a time,com-
pletely breaking down three typewrit-
ers. During this time he paces his
office and the alcohol necessary to keep
him going would set three men drunk.
Under this great strain he is aging
rapidly and his health is much im-
paired.

—___»22___—

W. C. McDonald, the millionaire to-
bacco manufacturer, who has already
given McGill University, in Canada,
$3,000,000, has made another gift of
$250,000 to the institution. Fifty thou-
sand of it is to be used in strengthening
the law faculty, while the remaining
$200,000 goes to the scientific depart-
ment.

—___»0>—__

The Avondale cotton mills, in Bir-
mingham, Ala.,are rapidly nearing com-
pletion and will be in operation within
a couple of months. The mills will cost
about $700,000, and when finished will
be the fourth largest plant of its kind in
the South.

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ness of a Clerk.
Written for the TRADESMAN.

The front door closed with an angry
little slam, there was an ominous click-
ing of little French bicycle heels across
the polished hardwood floor of the roomy
old hall, to be buried in the deep soft-
ness of the large Persian rug, and fol-
lowed by a quick turn of the telephone
crank.

‘‘ Hello! Central! Say, Central! give
me 2190—an’ I’m in an awful hurry,
too. 7’

There was something that sounded

suspiciously like a sob, which, if it
was, was resolutely repressed, for the
voice went on:
Hello? Who is this?—Will
you please let me talk with Mary—the
Mary that waited on Miss Klyde this
morning for woolen underwear? What's
Number 59.”’

' Hello!

my number?

ihe receiver was hung up with a
vehemence that threw it off the hook
aud caused it to wildly describe the arc
of a large circle and end with a bang
against the nearby hall chair. This
evidently did not materially improve
the siate of affairs, and by this time the
subs had developed into a certainty.
Scurrying footsteps crossed the inter-
vening space anda small bundle of dis-
turbed femininity threw itself, face
dowiward, into the pile of parti-colored
dow. pillows on the luxurious couch
that boasted a width equal to Du
Maurier’s famous one in Little Billee’s
Studio, and gave vent to a torrent of
tears that shook the small form like a
reed. Kitty is an emotional creature,
entirely governed by impulse, and never
does things by halves; and, when she is
living through one of her Black Mon-
days, it is just as well for the relatives
under the same rooftree to take a vaca
tion,

The sobs in the depths of the big
ruby-red pillow increased in passion.
At this juncture the door of ‘‘ Forty
Winks'” opened—that was the name
Miss Kitty had given the cosy little
smoking den—and her big athletic
brother, in handsome velvet jacket and
beslippered feet, appeared on the stormy
scene, and at his heels a jolly specimen
of the Genus Drummer—Bob’s chum-
miest chum.

Way, | Rntty,
What’s all this

Kitty! Katherine!
Sit up, Kitty!
be sick !’’ and Bob
lifted her in his strong arms as he would

about?

Don't cry so—you’ll

her namesake, and dropped her as gen-
tly into the big armchair in front of
the glowing grate.

But voiceless Kitty, her face still bur-
ied in her hands, sprang up from the
chair’s embrace and again flung herself
despairingly among the cushions that
were her solace in woe and her delight
when in her proper senses.

‘‘Now, Kitty, see here! You really
must let up on this cyclone business, or
it'll blow you away ;’’ and Bob picked
her up again, and this time held her
two little hands gently but firmly and
forced her to ‘stay where she was put.”

‘‘Now tell me what's happened and
perhaps I can remedy it.’’ (This with
a supfrior, purely masculine air which
said as plainly as words, ‘‘ Behold in
me the panacea for all ills!’’)

‘It's those dreadful boxes,’’ wailed
Kitty, and fresh tears brimmed in her
’ glorious eyes.

‘“What boxes? Where?’’ demanded
Bob, awful visions rising before him of

 

gruesome coffin boxes falling from a
high-piled wagon onto his darling sister
and her beloved wheel.

‘“ Those pasteboard boxes—and—and
that——that miserable little clerk,’’
moaned Kitty from behind outspread
hands.

‘“'Tell me where he holds forth, that
I may go fight a duel with him!’’
tragically exclaimed the drummer
friend, gallantly coming to the rescue
of Fair Woman in Distress, true to the
traditions of his clan.

‘‘He’s in So-and-So's store. He's
one of the fellows that just walks around
and sticks his finger into the clerks’
pies,’’ explained Kitty, a smile break-
ing through the tears.

‘‘ Tell us all about it, Dearie,’’ urged
Bob, sitting down on the arm of her
chair and affectionately rocking her to
and fro.

‘‘And put your little feet on this,’’
suggested Mr. Drummer, bringing for-
ward a floor cushion with a diplomacy
calculated to win favor in the eyes of
the fair Miss Katherine, while a bright
spot slowly gathered in the middle of
each pretty round cheek.

Thus comforted and coddled, she be-
gan the role of ‘‘Calamity Howler,’’
which was the name bestowed on her by
privileged brotherhood whenever she
aired a grievance.

‘‘It was just this away,’ as they say
down South,’’ and she looked reminis-
cently at the red flames crackling and
flashing in the crevices of the big
chunk of coal the drummer had just
knocked apart. ‘‘You know, when
Christmas comes, it’s just next to im-
possible to get hold of an empty box in
the stores to put your presents in for
your friends?’’ Kitty's dark eyes rested
meditatively on the handsome drummer
stretched lazily at her feet—'‘talking
eyes,'’ he called them to himself, ‘reg-
ular fjords’’—and he nodded affirma-
tively. Not that he knew anything
about the subject, but for the purpose
in hand it was just as well to pretend
that he did. ‘‘Well,’’ she went on,
the tempest by this time having entirely
subsided, ‘‘I had made my purchases
and was standing at the parcel counter
giving the address to my nice Mary that
I always like to have wait on me there.
The bundle boy was abvut to put my
things into a box. Remembering my
bother te get boxes just before the holi-
days, and that the proprietors them-
selves had always been so kind to me
whenever I had asked for any, even
offering—of their own accord, mind you
—more than I requested, and also con-
scious of the fact that I had been a
steady patron of that store for almost a
score of years, 1 ventured to ask my fa-
vorite clerk ‘if I might have more than
one,’ at the same time telling her what
I wanted them for. She pleasantly
said ‘Yes;' and all would have gone
well, and I would still be among their
steady customers as in the past, if that
officious—J don’t know his title—per-
haps ‘head clerk’—hadn't come along
and poked his meddling old finger into
my Mary’s culinary concoction! And
he wasn’t content with mere poking—
he cut a quarter right out and lugged it
away with him! There I had asked,
and Mary had said ‘Yes’’’ (here a
roguish side glance from under long
lashes set the drummer’s pulses aflutter
and he wondered if the time would ever
come when Mistress Kitty would say
‘“Yes’" to a certain question of his!)
‘‘And,’’ she continued, with apparent
oblivion, ‘‘that detestable fellow pawed
those boxes over and then sneeringly

 

observed, to nobody in particular but he
meant it for the benefit of the embar-
rassed clerk and her abashed vis-a-vis,
‘I wouldn’t give all the boxes to one
customer,’ with the most crushing em-
phasis vou could imagine on the ‘all!’

Here the lachrymal duct again got the
better ot the speaker and she dropped
her face on her knees and swayed _ her-
self in an agony of wrathful tears.

‘‘T hope, Katherine,’’ said Bob,
gravely, ‘‘that you didn’t make a scene
and spoil my pleasant relations with the
house I've had business dealings with
for so many years.”’

‘Don't you worry about that, Bobby
dear. ‘What did I say then,’ Mr.
Drummer Man? I just didn't say one
word to that mean pie sampler. 1 sim-
ply ignored his presence, and pretty
soon he took his hateful self off.

““ ‘Mary,’ said I, quietly, ‘if it is
too much to ask for these boxes, don’t
give them tome. I don’t want to go
against any of your rules.’ I lingereda
few moments after this, trying to chat
pleasantly with my good clerk, but feel-
ing the lump rising higher and higher
in my throat and threatening to  suffo-
cate me every minute.—There’s the
telephone—let me answer it,’’ and she
bounded out of her chair and rushed in-
to the hall.

‘*Hello! Who's talking? Oh, Mary,
at So-and So’s? Say, Mary! You know
that underwear you sold me this morn-
ing—this is Miss Kitty Klyde talking?
Well, say! Mary! You needn’t mind to
send the goods home in those boxes we
were looking at. I’ve changed my mind
about the boxes—I don’t care for them ;”’
and the way the receiver was hung in
its place would have alarmed the Citi-
zens Telephone Company.

‘There !’’ and the little heels walked

 

back to the chair and calmly and com-
placently tilted their pretty nothingness
on the gay floor cushion. ‘‘There!’’
and Miss Katherine put on her most
severe look and most dignified manner;
‘“‘that ends my transactions with that
store forever and evermore. I have
traded with that house ever since I was
a little girl; but I have set my foot’’
(here she suited the action to the word
and brought it down emphatically on
the floor)‘‘ inside their doors for the last
time in my life. And nothing on earth
can alter my decision!’’ and her black
eyebrows scowled until they almost came
together.

‘*Now, Kitty,’’ said Bob, in a decid-
edly remonstrative tone, ‘‘don't you
think you'd be doing a mean thing to
stop trading at that store, when, accord-
ing to your own statement, the proprie-
tors have always ‘treated you white,’ as
the saying is, and all for the sake of an
uncivil remark dropped by an under-
ling?’’ and Bob turned her indignant,
flushed face toward him and made _ her
look him straight in the eye.

‘‘And that’s just where it hurts—that
he was an underling !’’ said the incensed
Kitty. ‘‘And I wouldn’t have felt
so bad about it, either, if there had
been only a few boxes; but there was a
whole stack of 'em! No, I have spent
hundreds of dollars in that establish-
ment, but,’’ very positively, ‘‘I shall
never darken its doors again as long as
Ilive and breathe !’’

And, from what I know of Miss
Kitty Klyde—and we grew up children
together—she never will.

POLLY PEPPER.
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Michigan Knights of the Grip.
President, Joun A. Horrman, Kalamazoo; Secre-
tary, J C. SAuNDERs, Lansing; Treasurer, Cuas.
McNoury, Jackson.

 

 

Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Association.

President, S. H. Hart, Detroit; Secretary and
Treasurer, D. Morris, Detroit.

 

United Commercial Travelers of Michigan.
Grand Counselor, f. L. Day. Jackson: Grand
Secretary, G. S. Vatmorg, Detroit; Grand Treas-
urer, GEO. A. REYNOLDS, Saginaw.

Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual Acci-
dent Association.

President, A. F. PEaKE, Jackson; Secretary and
Treasurer, Geo. F. OwEN, Grand Rapids.
Board of Directors—F. M. Tyuer, H. B. Farr-
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Gripsack Brigade.
Jobn McBurney, formerly with the
Musseiman Grocer Co., has resumed his
old position with J. Cornwell & Sons,
of Cadillac, covering the same territory
as formerly.

Geo. A. Newhall (Clark-Jewell-Wells
Co. ), who has been confined to his house
for the past five weeks, will resume his
regular visits next week. His territory
has been covered in the meantime by
Fred E. Morley. :

Frank N. Davis, formerly with the
W. T. Lamoreaux Co., has engaged to
travel for the M. S. Benedict Manufac-
turing Co., of Syracuse, N. Y., in Min-
nesota and the Dakotas. He will con-
tinue to reside in Minneapolis.

An Upper Peninsula correspondent
writes as follows: A traveling man tells
that he stopped at a hotel in Ishpeming
not long ago, and being shown the bill
of fare, be wrote upon a slip of paper,
‘Heb. 13, 8.’ The girl who was wait-
ing on the table thought he was _ trying
to guy her, and took the paper to the
proprietor. Upon looking up the refer-
ence ina Bible the latter read: ‘‘Jesus
Christ, the same yesterday, to-day and
forever.’’ :

J. B. Evans has evidently abandoned
the idea of practicing medicine, judg-
ing by the following circular letter from
the Ball-Barnhart-Putman Co.: ‘‘Mr.
J. B. Evans, who has represented us
for the past fifteen years in territory
tributary to Grand Rapids, has accepted
a position in our office and will be glad
to see any of his old friends whom he
has visited so regularly in the past, at
any time when they are in the city, and
trust you will not hesitate to call upon
him for favors, as he will be more than
willing to accommodate you. His long
experience with the trade-and traveling
will enable him to be of invaluable
service in the house and we feel confi-
dent that all of his friends will be glad
to learn that he has accepted the posi-
tion. |”

A certain traveling man, who is new
to the Michigan territory, recently dis-
covered that he had overlooked a cus-
tomer of the house in an obscure coun-
try crossroads and made haste to call on
the merchant the next time he was in
that part of the State. As is usual with
the ‘‘angels of commerce,’’ the first
thing he did on entering the store, after
the usual salutations and enquiries as
to the rush of business, was to size up
“‘the new found’’ and mentally make
an estimate of its worth—in other words,
he ‘‘snapped his kodak’’ on the scene.
As he entered the door he caromed on a
coil of rope, and only the finest **Eng-
lish’’ brought him into an _ opening
again, As a ‘‘running mate’’ to the

 

coil of rope, he discovered an open keg
of nails, the two being surmounted by
a well bucket, while a little higher up
and resting upon the counter was a show
case, somewhat the worse for wear and
Strongly suggesting the thought that the
proprietor had abolished the use of a
duster. Within the case was a limited
supply of ladies’ hats, both trimmed
and otherwise, some of them up-to-
date, while the others were rather pre-
historic in appearance and interspersed
with sundry bolts of ribbon, a few packs
of cigarettes and a monkey wrench.
Back of this extraordinary pyramid, and
sitting at random on the shelves, was
a varied assortment for ‘‘the ills of
life,’’ both patent and household reme-
dies, and here again the companionship
strikes the same peculiar gait, for he
found Mrs. Winslow’s soothing syrup
doing a double with Lyons’ screw worm
ointment, while a few boxes of Ayers’
pills, seemingly afraid of being lost,
were hugging closely to a_ bottle ot
‘‘Mother’s Friend.’’ Across the narrow
pathway that ‘‘ye angel’’ had just
worked through were two more kegs of
nails, braced up on one side by a sack
of coffee, on the other side by something
done up in bagging, while back to them
was a large bacon box, long since
emptied, and the whole topped off with
John L. Boland’s immense catalogue,
Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary and
an old edition of the United States Dis-
pensatory. Behind this scene were
numerous boot and shoe boxes, arranged
at every conceivable angle, and scat-
tered over the tops of all a collection of
hats, trace chains, bcots, ropes, caps,
gloves and axes, making in all what
could well be called a gumbo of mer-
chandise. This was certainly one es-
tablishment which hadn't a single arti-
cle that was ‘‘out of sight,’’ for every
item was in evidence. There were
empty boxes galore, but not for the lack
of goods, for there they were in endless
profusion and confusion, in fact it was
‘*confusion worse confounded, ’’ and the
thought occurred to ‘‘ye angel,’’ Sup-
pose the proprietor in a moment of ab-
straction,should decide to clean up this
wonderful aggregation and put it in
shape, he would discover more goods
than he could use, and the result be a
wrecked business from the effort to un-
load, and one more would be added to
that great majority who imagined they
were born merchants, when Nature de-
signed them for the plow.
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The frequent accidents to elevators
that have occurred of late are, unless
some efficient safety device can be
provided, a menace to cur whole system
of skeleton building construction, and
through them to the growth of business
centers in our great cities, says Archi-
tecture and Building. The tall office
building, factory and hotel are only
possible with the elevator, and depend
absolutely for their usefulness on the
speed and safety of this device. The
whole building community are therefore
most- intensely interested in providing
absolute security in their use. If the
matter is with their construction the
manufacturers need call to their aid the
best inventive and engineering talents
to be obtained; if it is a matter of
handling, both owners and city author-
ities must require more capable attend-
ants for their use. These accidents
cannot be but regarded as a most serious
menace to business centralization, for to
it tall buildings are a necessity, and
these can only be used under conditions
of absolute safety in elevator service,

 

Yonie Yonson on the New Mileage
Book.

Travarse Caity, Jan. 15—Aie skal
tank yo gude manie time for printang
ma lettar. Aie bane bae das place livang
hare now gude many yar aie lave bae
Mill Iron; vorkang bae das lumbar vood
but aie kan gat no yob das vintar lum-
bar vood gon avay; battar place har
now for Swinskie man; I tank so; aie
vant to tal yo gude yoke; whan aie com
har las weak aie com baie das C. & W.
M. R. R. Co. cars; hae make mae laf
gude many taime, aie bat yo; aie com
bae Dapo an by mae takat an tank aie
skal com bae tha cars fallar tal mae he
skal sae mae takat; aie tank das fallar
bane confadaince man an vant to. skin
mae; aie yust bustal baie masalf an
com bae under end of car to yump on,
but yumping Yerusalam das cars got
fance round hole business; aie com bae
das fallar hae punch mae tackat an aie
yump on Cars an when das cars go avay
from das Dapo das fallar putang up da
bars bae gol aie bat mae tan Dollar
texas stare not yump ovar das gate; Lot
of Drumer fallar; bae das car; gude
many aie saebae Yonie Dehaas Dutch
tavarn, gude many yars ago; one fallar
sae Yonie how go like ridany on _ kattal
tran with de bars up; bae gol das fallar
was hot; one fallar sae; das lattle son
of gun battar run an under penny nuse-
papar in Chicago for tree mont more on
bar vill kno less dan hae dos das taime;
under fallar sai; O, he is great; den
fallar sae aie seen Nuting Greater: som
fallar sae; has skal not thank hae bane
da only close pin cause hae got wooden
head; bae gol aie skal almost die bae
laffang ; aie har das Drumer fallar sae;
aie vil com back bae G. R. & I. aie
bat yo aie skal go gude many mile out
mie vay to comidate das R. R. Co. ; aie
pay tan Dollar extra for privlage of
buying mallage buk ; den fenced in like
hog; aie tank’ das Rode gattang lot
freight bae mae; dan hae vinked has
under eye.

Som fallar hae sae; das smart Alex
bane gude one; hae got op check for Con-
doctor von taime; hae must take _pas-
angars padigree evray taime; das not
lastang long; R. R. Co. loosang too
many fares; hae try an under vay to got
evan; hae fence in de passangers so das
condoctor an Braksman skal not fall off
das cars.

Yo bat yo aie skal laff gude many
taime bout das ride an harring das lot
Drumer gavaing das R. R. manager
Hal Colunba.

Skal tal yo somtang about das place
whan aie findaig at out.

YONIE YONSON.
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The Only Hope for Improvement.

Chicago, Jan. 17—The con@dition of
the retail drug trade in Chicago is even
worse than at the close of last year.
While perhaps a few of the downtown
stores may have experienced a slight
improvement during the last few months,
the druggists in the outlying portions
of the city almost unanimouslycomplain
of extreme dulness of business

Part of the explanation of this condi-
tion of affairs is to be found in the fact
that there are vastly too many drug
stores. Many of these open up without
the slightest prospect or even possibil-
ity of success, and lack of business has
a tendency to cause their proprietors to
cheapen prices and substitute poor ma-
terials.

Much might be done by the whole-
sale houses to remedy this by using
their influence to dissuade men from
entering the drug business under such
depressing conditions as prevail at
present.

The day is coming—and the sale of
drugs by the department stores is *has-
tening it—when the druggist will con-
fine himself strictly and exclusively to
his own line of business, leaving the
sale of all other articles that encumbe
the trade to the merchants that should
properly handle them. In connection

with such a reform a rigid system of
inspection of drugs ought to be insti-
tuted that would compel, under severe
penalties, all druggists to keep for saie
only such drugs as are up to grade in
every respect.

 

There seems little hope for any radi-
cal improvement over existing condi-
tions in the retail drug trade except by
the inauguration of some such reforms
as have been suggested.

WALTER M. SEMPILL.
a
Movements of Lake Superior Travelers.

W. J. Crane carries a brand new grip.
It belongs to Lord, Owen & Co., Chi-
cago. Mr. Crane severed his connec-
tion with the Fuller & Fuller Co. Jan. 1.

E. M. Smith, erstwhile buyer for the
Menominee Iron Works, is now in the
employ of Buhl Sons & Co.’s branch at
Menominee.

<. E. Emmons, formerly manager of
the Carlton Hardware Co.’s branch at
Houghton, will represent the Geo.
Worthington Co., Cleveland, in the cop-
per country.

J. A. Fuller (Jewett & Sherman) is in
this territory now, looking for business
and his lost voice.

The well-known and respected (?)
grocery traveler who has been used to
one good meal a day and cheese and
crackers for the other meals, is non est.
It is hoped that a gentleman will fill his
place.

Where is W. R. Smith? is an unan-
swered question so often asked. At last
accounts he had gone to Florida on his
wedding tour. Early married life and
the balmy breezes of a tropical clime are
so enchanting that one accustomed to
winter weather on Lake Superior may
be excused for prolonging his stay.

-- oe Oe
A Queer Cucumber.
From the Harrodsbur

Mrs. Rose Marimon found in
garden the middle of last July a cucum-
ber eleven inches long and twelve
inches in circumference which she left
for seed, but looked in vain for the
vegetable to ripen and turn yellow. The
first week in September it was discov-
ered to be loose from the vine, and was
taken in the house and put away. To-
day it is as green and firm as it was in
July, and there is no indication that it

state. Mrs. Mari-

x (Ky.) Sayings.

her

will ever change its
mon has been gardening for forty vears,
and never observed the like of this cu-
cumber before.
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Value of Chicken Crop.

From the Indiana Farmer

An estimate of some of the principal
agricultural products recently published
shows that chickens eggs rank
above the wheat crop in value. Here
are a few items from the list: Value of
poultry products, $290,000,000; value of

and

  

the cotton crop, $260,000,000; value of
the wheat crop, $238,000,000; value of
the swine crop, $187,000,co0; value of

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the potato crop, $

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

Drugs--Chemicals

 

MICHIGAN STATE BOARD OF PHARMACY.

Term expires

 

F. W. R. Perry, Detroit - : Dec. 31, 1898
A. C. ScHUMACHER, Ann Arbor - Dee. 31, 1899
Gro. GunprvmM, Ionia - - - Dec. 31, 1900
L. E. REYNOLDS, St. Joseph - - Dec. 31, 1901

Henry Herm, Saginaw - - Dec. 31, 1902
President, F. W. R. Perry. Detroit.
Secretary, Geo. GuNpRvUM, [onia.
Treasurer, A. C. ScouMAcHER, Ann Arbor.

Examination Sessions.
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 at8
o'clock p. m.

MICHIGAN STATE PHARMACEUTICAL
ASSOCIATION.

 

President—A. H. WEBBER, Cadillac.
Secretary--CHas. Many, Detroit. :
Treasurer—Joun D. Murr, Grand Rapids.

 

Employment of Aromaticsin Pharmacy.
From the pharmacal standpoint, in
most cases the active aromatics, as well
as the milder ones, are exhibited for at
least six reasons:
1. To contribute a pleasant taste.

2. To induce an agreeable odor.

3. To produce a desirable color.

4. To conceal the identity of drugs.

5. To prevent change or decomposi-
tion.

6. To enhance, harmonize or modify
the action of certain drugs.

Cinnamon as an aromatic is largely
employed in pharmacy. We find it as
an ingredient of the aromatic sulphuric
acid. It enters here in combination
with the ginger to produce flavor and
a slight coloration; also to increase the
astringency of the compound. It is
exhibited for the same reason in the
aromatic fluid extract, tincture and
syrup of rhubarb; it forms a valuable
addition to aromatic powder, compound
tincture of lavender and compound tinc-
ture of cardamom. Cinnamon in the
form of the aromatic powder enters into
pills of aloes and iron, and of aloes and
myrrh.

Cloves, along with cinnamon, are an
aromatic agent in the aromatic tincture
and syrup of rhubarb.

Nutmeg also enters into these, but its
chief use seems to be in the form of a
flavor for the troches of chalk, mag-
nesia, bicarbonate of sodium, etc.
Anise, orange, ginger and _ sassafras
also find great favor as aromatizing
substances in official troches, and many
other popular confections, syrups, and
cordials.

Red rose is added to pill of aloes and
mastic not only to give aroma, but also
a slight astringency to modify the ac-
tion of the aloes on the intestinal canal.

Aromatic powder and the confection
of rose enter for the same reason into
the pill of aloes and iron and aloes and
myrrh.

Lavender in the form of oil is used
in aromatic wine and Griffiths’ mixture,
and forms an important ingredient of
the compound tincture of lavender,
colognes, toilet waters, smelling salts,
etc. While in itself not a fascinating
odor, yet it blends with other oils to
form agreeable ones. The same can be
said of the oil of rosemary.

Cardamom is a mild and most agree-
able aromatic; it could be used in many
instances to good advantage in place of
something else. Its principal employ-
ment is in the compound powder of
colocynth and the plain and sweet tinc-
tures of rhubarb to prevent griping.

The oils of wintergreen and sassafras
are very; popular aromatics; very few

 

 

individuals dislike them, no matter in
what form they aregiven. Wintergreen
supplies some of the aromatic qualities
to the compound syrup of sarsaparilla;
and the compound fluid extract of the
same drug, combined with simple syrup,
furnishes a vehicle appropriate for the
administration of many bitter and sa-
line remedials.

Regarding the medical utility of
aromatics, considerable of interest can
be said. The physician of long ago had
great respect for them; the one of to-
day likewise regards them with high
esteem, as they assist him in hundreds
of ways to fight disease and stay the
hand of death. The good effects of the
aromatics were certainly recognized
some time ago. We find them in the
confectio damocratis 1746, which was
once an ingredient of the well-known
and popular Warburg’s tincture. We
note it in the cinnamon, ginger, mace,
pepper, aniseed, red rose, and many
other aromatics. In this preparation
the aromatic principles enhance the
effect of the other ingredients.

Nearly all bitter principles seem to act
more harmoniously when conjoined with
one or more of the aromatics. Strych-
nine, along with iron and quinine, will
be better borne by the stomach and
exert more tonic action when dissolved
in an aromatic elixir than otherwise.

The employment of an aromatic ve-
hicle for the administration of the
iodide of potassium or bromides of
sodium, potassium or ammonium pre-
vents gastic disturbance and lessens _ in
a great measure the production of either
iodism or bromism.

Other salines, like salicylate of so-
dium acetate, citrate and bicarbonate of
potassium, are found to be agreeable
and certain in their action when ex-
hibited along with an aromatic cordial.

A good place for the aromatics is in
connection with the administration of
laxatives, cathartics, and purgatives.
Here we find the active and usually _ir-
ritating principles of rhubarb, aloes,
senna, colocynth and mandrake are
easily overcome, and the patient pleas-
antly relieved.

The astringency of certain galenicals
is increased by aromatics, as prepara-
tions of chalk, bismuth, catechu, opium,
kino, logwood, blackberry, galls, and
dilute mineral acids.

As agreeable flavoring adjuncts few
better can be found than the fragrant
orange and lemon peel, also the carda-
mom, Cinnamon, aniseed, fennel, and
rose.

Most of these are the ingredients of
the usual aromatic elixirs and cordials
which have done so much towards an-
nihilating the bitter and nauseous med-
icines cf the materia medica.—Prof. P.
E. Hommell in Druggists’ Circular.

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Cut in Capsules.

The United States Capsules Company
have sent out a notice stating that
henceforth they will market their cap-
sules direct to the jobbing trade. Pre-
viously most of their goods have been
sold through Parke, Davis & Co. A
new wholesale and retail price list is

adopted at a considerable reduction
from previous figures. The jobbing
price is now $5.50 per gross. It is the

intention of this company to advertise

largely,and to create a demand for their

goods direct through the retail trade.
—_—__» 0. .——_

The price of game in France is al-
leged to depend principally upon the
state of the moon. When the moon is
dark and poachers cannot see to set
their snares at night game is scarce.
When the moon is full there is plenty
of light and the poachers get lots of
game. [

 

Pharmeceutical Education and Legis-
lation.

In the department of pharmacy to
which I have devoted most attention—
pharmaceutical education and legisla-
tion—there has been no single great
advance during the past year, but there
has been a very general progress in the
right direction along all lines.

Some of the schools of pharmacy have
lengthened their courses of study, while
nearly all have announced increased
ceurses of laboratory work, and other
improvements in their curricula, It is
moreover gratifying to notice less of the
antagonism which existed between cer-
tain classes of schools several years ago.
It seems to have become generally _rec-
ognized that no single school or set of
schools can have a monopoly of meth-
ods, and that the people with whom we
totally disagree may nevertheless pos-
sess some very good ideas which it
would be well for us to study.

In the methods of examining boards
there is a noticeable improvement. The
standard of admission required by some
boards is, I should say, a hundred per
cent. above what it was several years
ago. Others have made less progress,
while a few bave unfortunately shown no
advancement whatever. In the case of
some of the latter class we are at least
assured against any further depreciation,
for the reason that their methods and
standards are already so abominably
poor that retrogression is not possible.

In several states some important
amendatory legislation has been
adopted, while the list of judicial de-
cisions affecting the interests of phar-
macists is unusually large and important.

In the matter of legislation it will be
well for pharmacists to bear in mind
that attempts to totally repeal the phar-
macy laws, or to permit physicians to
register as pharmacists without exami-
nation, are still being made, and are
likely to prove successful where phar-
macists are not alert and well organized.

The legal decisions of the year have,
in general, been consonant with both
reason and justice, although two of them
are remarkable for being just the con-
trary, and from the profundity of ig-
norance which they display, recall the
unique decisions of the sapient Van
Twiller, the Dutch Governor of New
Amsterdam who, when he had a cause
which he was unable to understand, was
wont to discharge the principals to the
suit, fine the witnesses and make the
constables pay the costs.

 

One of the remarkable decisions was
that rendered by a Supreme Court to the
effect that a grocer was not liable for
the sale of Beef, Iron and Wine, on the
very singular ground that the particular
article sold was too poor to be consid-
ered as a medicine! Wedo not doubt
the poverty of the article, but it is
something new to learn that a grocer
who wishes to practice pharmacy with-
out the necessity of registration may
safely do so, providing the goods he
sells are sufficiently adulterated. The
accidental sale of a pure article, how-
ever, would immediately render him
liable for practicing pharmacy without
registration.

The other decision referred to is of
a more serious nature, as its impro-
priety is not so readily apparent to the
general public. In this instance a Su-
preme Court judge takes the extraordi-
nary position that the preparation by
one physician of medicines prescribed
by another is not the practice of phar-
macy within the meaning of the phar-
macy act, and further, that by reason
of his medical education, the physician
is perfectly qualified to perform such a
service.

The grain of consolation which phar-
macists may find in these two decisions
is that their absurdity is such that they
are not likely to be generally followed
by the courts of other states.

In conclusion it may be said that
there has never been as much _ interest
manifested in the execution and revision
of the pharmacy laws as at present and
it is a safe prediction that the next de-
cade will witness a greater advance in
the development of a rational system of
pharmaceutical jurisprudence than has
occurred in all of our previous history.
—Prof. J. H. Beal in American Drug-
gist.

0
Slot Telephones Accepted by Cleve-
land Druggists.

Cleveland druggists are debating
whether they will keep the old-fashioned
single line, the metallic circuit, or the
slot telephones. The first costs $72 per
annum, the second $120 and the third,
the slot machine, costs $140 per year for
3,040 calls, each call to be paid for.
The druggist is to receive all the tolls
for all calls up to 3,940 and tu pay $140
per year for the phone and to give the
company one-half the tolls received for
calls in excess of 3,940. Forty-four
druggists have accepted this proposi-

tion and more are falling in line.
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Abeinthinum..... _.: 3 25@ 3 Simic use... @ 1 Iodine, Resubi...... 2 60@ 37
Aue = Amara ‘ “8 oo 50 Sateen TOCOfOT @ 4%
mygdale. Amare . 8 25 Po a 22
Anisi. . 2 @ 2 Acacia... . a Lycopodium .. 0G
Auranti Cortex... 2 B@ Auranti Cortes... @ Macis 656
Bergamii............ 2 40@ 2 @ingiper...... @ Liquor Arse: et By-
Cappu....... | Saag Ipecac. eo G@ drare lod....... @
Caryophylli .. a Se Ferri Iod..... A @ 50| LiquorPotassArsinit 10@ 12
ee 3@ nel Arom.... ..... @ 50} Magnesia, Sulph.... a
cates eee @ 2 Smilax Officinalis.. 50@ 60| Magnesi: a, Si ulph,b bbi @ 1
Cinnamonii......... 1 80@ 1 —-- = : @ 50/ Mannia, 50@ 60
Citronella. i 45@ 50 | Scillw... , “ @ 50| Mentho!. sste0 O27

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

   

 

 

Morphia, S.P.& W..

a. S.N.Y.Q. &
C.

aes us Canton..

Myristies, No. 1.....
Nux Vomica...po.20
Os Sepia. ...........
Pepsin Saac, H. & P.

Picis Liq. N.N. * gal.

                

oe @
| Sina OMe... @

See cee 2 15@ 2 40 | Snuff, Maccaboy, De
a i Vow... @
6@ 80) Snuff, aaaikaie DeVo’s @
a wv Soas Boras. ......... 8 @
15@ 18) Soda Boras, po. 8 @
| Soda et Potass Tart. 268
1 00 Soda, Carb.. 1%@
| Soda, Bi- Carb. 3@
00 | Soda, Ash. 34@

doz..

Picis Liq., ;quarts. ou
Picie 116., pints.....
Pil Hydrarg.. - po. 80
Piper Nigra... po. 22
Piper Alba....po. 35
Pix Bareun .......

Plumbi Acet....

Pulvis Ipecac et Opii
Pyrethrum, boxes H.

& Fr. . Co., dos...
Pyrethrum, py......
Gurasaice 5...

Quinia, S. P. & W..
Quinia, S. German..
Quinia, N.Y.. :
Rubia Tinctorum..

SaccharumLactis PV
2

Salacin. ....
Sanguis Draconis. .
V

SOQESOEO ©

s ake S

—

x
8
®

» sasiaal

ag

00 | Soda, Sulphas.. a @
85 | Spts. Cologne. . - @
50 | Spts. Ether Co. 50,
18; Spt Myrcia Dom.. @
30 | Spts. Vini Reet. bbl. @
7 | Spts. Vini Rect.%bbl @
12 | Spts. Vini Rect. 10gal @

20 | Spts. Vini Rect. 5gal @
| Less 5¢ gal. cash 10 d: as.

25 | Strychnia, Crystal... 1 40@ 1 45
33 | Sulphur, Subl....... 24@

10 | Sulphur, Roll. ; 20

40 | Tamarinds.. ga

38 | Terebenth Venice.. 280

#8 | Theobroma. ...... 2 4)
14) Vanes. 9 00@16 Oo |
20 | inet Suiph......... 7

10 |

50 | Oiis

14 | BBL.

12| Whale, winter....... 70

SI Bare, Gxtra......... 46

S| tard, No. i.......... 35

PAINT
BRUSHES

We shall display Sample
of a complete assortment of ade.
January 1, 1898, consisting of

Whitewash Heads,

Kalsomine, Wall,
Oval and Round
Paint and Varnish.

Flat, Square and
Chiseled Varnish,

ders.

HAZELTIN
& PERKINS
DRUG CO.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

Sash Tools,
Painters’ Dusters,
Artists’ Materials.

and invite your inspection and _or-
Quality and Prices are right.

 

| Linseed, pure raw..

| Neatsfoot, wi inter str
Spirits Turpentine.

NH UN GOOF

| Putty, strictly pure.

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

GROCERY PRICE CURRENT.

The prices quoted in this list are for the trade only, in such quantities as are usually purchased by retail

dealers.

possible to give quotations suitable for a
erage prices for average conditions of purchase.
those who have poor credit.

our aim to make this feature of the greatest possible use to dealers.

They are prepared just before going to press and are an accurate index of the local market.
1 conditions of purchase, and those below are given as representing av-
Cash buyers or those of strong credit usually buy closer than
Subscribers are earnestly requested to point out any errors or omissions, as it is

It is im-

 

 

AXLE GREASE.
doz.

gross
a—s................ 6 00
aac. 60 7 00
Diamond. . : a 400
Frasers ....-. 9 00
IXL Golden, tin boxes 7: 5 9 00
Mica, tin boxes........ 2-2 oo
Paraeen... ....... |
BAKING POWDER.
Absolute.
‘ eaeeGe...... ...... 45
i. i ecancdec............. 85
oO 1 50
Acme.
ib eGamesGoen...._....._. 45
ib eames Goxr............ v6)
a 1 00
Baik... oo
El ae.
iq lb cans per doz......... 7
% lb cans per doz ........ 1 20
. Scans per doz......... 2 00
Home.
iq lb cans 4 doz case...... 35
4 Ib cans 4 doz Case...... 55
Se cans 2 doz case ..... 90 |
14 1b cans, 4 doz case..... 45
% lbcans,4dozcase...... 8%
1 beans, 3 dox case...... 1 60
Jersey Cream.
1 1b. Cans, per Goz.......... 2 00
0 ox. Cans, per dos.......... 1 3
6 os. Cans, per doz.......... 85
ies Leader.

‘ Ib Cane........ oo =
os. ................ %
. o...........,....
Peerless.
———————————— 85
BATH BRICK.
aoe 70
OO 80
BLUING.

 

ene

 

1 20z. pasteboard Boxes..

3 doz. wooden boxes....... 1 30
BROOMS.
No. i Carpet.. 1 9
No. 2 Carpet.. ae
no Scere... .-.......... 2 Se
No. 4 Carpet. te
Parior Geom... 2 00
Camo Whiek............ Ff
Fancy Whisk.. oe p
Marcos... .. ee
CANDLES.
Se Z
eS 8
rare 8
CANNED GOODS.
Manitowoc Peas.
Lakeside Marrowfat....... 95

Lakeside E. J 1

Lakeside, Cham. of Eng.... 1 20
Lakeside. Gem, Ex. Sifted. 1 45
Extra Si

fted Early June....1 75

   

CATSUP.
Cotumbia, pints..........200
Columbia, % pints..........1%
@ 11%
eo &
@ uy
@ 12%
@® 12%
@ i1
@ il
@ 11%
@ 12
@ il
. a 12%
Sprimgdaic.......... @ 11%
PN @ ll
ee @ 10
ee @
aan @ 18
Limoermeer.......... @ 10
Pimcapee............ 48 @ 8
Sap Sago............ @ 18
Chicory. i
Bulk oo 5
Red 7
CHOCOLATE.
Walter Baker & Co.’s.
German Sweet ................ 23
ae 34
BreakfastoCocos..... “aoe

 

CLOTHES LINES.

Cotton, 40 ft, per doz...... 1
Cotten, 50 ft, per dexz....... 1 20
Getton, 6) ft, per desz....... 1 40
Cotton, 70 ft, per doz....... i 60
Cotton, 80 ft, per doz....... 1 80
Jute, Ot, per aen........- 80
Jute. 72 ft. per dox,, . 95
COCOA SHELLS.

wiih bags... ... : 2%
Lo oo... 3
Pound packages...... 4

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

COFFEE.
Green.

Rio.
ee
eS ee
Paes 13
oe... 14
Peabercy .....__.

Santos.
ae 14
Good tl oo. .
lL
oe 17

Mexican and Guatamala.
Pair...
mosa a
macy |. 18
Maracaibo.

Prime _...- oe
ee
Java.
infertior.......... .. oe
Private Growth..........-.-. 22
Mandchensc ...............
Mocha.

Imitation . ee ee
Arapan ....... Lee
Roasted.
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brands
Fifth Avenue..... 2

Jewell’s Arabian Mocha... |
Wells’ Mocha and Java..... 24

Wells’ Perfection Java..... 24

ee 23

Breaktact Biend........... 20

Valley City Maracaibo......18%

_—, Bler 1d. oe

Lead r Blend.. Le oe
Paikuse.

Below are given New York
prices on package coffees, to
which the wholesale dealer
adds the local freight from
New York to your shipping

point. giving you credit on the
invoice for the amount of
freight buyer pays from the
market in which he purchases
to his shipping point, including
weight of package, also ic a
pound. In 601b. cases the list
is 10c per 100 lbs. above the
price in full cases.
Bepeeede oS 10
Lo 10
McLaughlin’ s XXXXK..... 10
Extr ict.
Valley City % g798s8 . 5
Felix ¥ STOSS..........-- 1 15
Hummel’s foil % gross. $5
Hrmmel’s tin &% gross. 142

CLOTHES PINS.

ee eT 40
COUGH DROPS.
C. B. Brand.
405 cent packages ........ 1 00

CONDENSED MILK.

4 doz in case.

Gail Borden Eazle......... 6%
on ..._.. Leese uc ee
Daisy Cai cee eee doce ec oes ee
gg eee eee .. 2
Macnolf a ee
Chal aa ee eee ae 35
se. 3 35

COUPON BOOKS.

 

Tradesman Grade.

 

50 books, any denom.... 1 50
100 books, any denom.... 2 50
500 books, any denom....11 50
1,000 books, any denom....20 00
Economic Grade.

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

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

 

 

aac aastin.

50 books, any denom.... 1 50
100 books, any denom.... 250
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.

Seeeeks....... 1 00

weeeens.... 2 00

oe 3 00

fp eeets.... C

ceemeges..... 10 00

Mee books... -.... 17 50
Credit Checks.

500, any one denom’n..... 3 00
1000, any one denom’n..... 5 00
2000, any one denom’n..... 8 00
Steel punch. cs %

DRIED FRUITS— DONESTIC

Apples.
ae... @ 5%
Evaporated 50 lb boxes. @ 8%

California Fruits.
Aprieota................ QGee
Bisckperrieg...........
on oo game @ 7%
Peaches.. a 8 @&%
Pears. . 8 @7%
Pitted Ch erries..
Pea o............
Raspberries............
California Prunes.
100-120 25 lb boxes....... @ 3%

90-100 25 Ib boxes....... 4

80 - 90 25 Ib boxes....... @ 4%

70 - 80 25 1b boxes....... 5

60-70 25 lb boxes.. .... @5%

50 - 60 25 Ib boxes....... @™%

40 - 50 25 lb boxes....... @ 8%

30 - 40 25 1b boxes.......
44 Cent less in 50 1b cases

Raisins.
Lendon Layers 3 Crown. 1
London Layers 4 Crown. 2 00
Dehesias............
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 3
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 5
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown 6

FOREIGN.
Currants.
Patras bbls. cS @ 6%
Vostizzas 50 lb cases...... @ 6%
CreanOd PIE oo... 4... 5c @ &%
Cleaned, packages........ @9

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 1 Crown....... Z
Sultana 2Crown.....
Sultana 3 Crown....... “‘oyOt0
Sultana 4 Crown....... @
Suitana 5Crown...... @
Sultana 6 Crown....... @l12z
Sultana package....... @l4
FARINACEOUS GOODS.
Parina.
Miib. packages..........1 3
Bulk, per 100 The..... ...- 3 50
Grits.
Walish-DeRoo Co.’s....... 2 15
Bulk in 100 lb. bags....... 3 00
Hominy.
Bese co ee 2 50
Fiake, 30 ib. drums....... 1 00
Beans.

Dried Lima . 3

Medium Hand Picked.. 90

Maccaroni and Vermicellt.

Domestic, 10 1b. box. . 60

Imported, 25 Ib. box.. ... -.2 50
Pearl Barley.

  

Common. 2 40
Chester .. .. a
oer: 2%
Peas.
reen, Ba... 85
Bent peri. 2c... |: :
Rolled Oats.
Rolled Avena, bbl.......3 7
Monarch, bil. ......... .3 50
Monarch, % bbl.......... 1 9
Private brands, bbl.....
Private brands, %bbl.....
Quaker. cases. ...........- 3 20
Eacron, cases....-......... 1%
Sago.

Eee oe 3%
Rast tng... 3
Wheat.

Cracked, bulk............. 34
242 1b packages........... 2 50

 

Fish.

 

Cod.
Georges cured......... @ 4%
Georges genuine...... @ 5%
Georges selected...... @ 64
Strips or bricks....... 5 @7%
Halibut.
CNS. 6. 10
oo 9

Herring.
Holland white hoops, bbl. 10 25
Holland white hoop % bbi 5 50
Holland white hoop, keg. 7
Holland white hoop mchs 80

Perwerwa... ......... 11 00
ae oe e............. 3 40
monn So ime........... 1 60
Beare. .....-.... 2... 15
Mackerel.

ee 16 00
oe SO te... 6 70
oe tO ihe....... -..... 16
Meek & IBS. ...uccce...... 1 43
me te es... 14 50
No.1 401bs.. 6 10
ee 1

No Sipe... 22o... 1

po. See... ... 10 60

 

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

 

HERBS
eee 15
Bae. 15

INDIGO.

Madras, 5 Ib boxes......... 55
S. F., 2,3 and 5 1b boxes.... 50
JELLY.

UD Pare... 40
Seip pais... 73
KRAUT.

eae... 3 50
oat bareeis. - oo... 2 00
LYE.

Condensed, 2 doz .......... 1 20
Condensed. 4 dos ..........3@
LICORICE.

OA... e 30
Cee 2 p-3)
2. A ER SIE Sere tle 14

Rosa ae a ee 10

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

ene aa = 8 brands.
No. 9 sulph S 1 6

  

 
 

  

Anchor
No.2 Home....... :
Export Parior.............. 4 00

MOLASSES.

New Orleans.
mea ll
ee 14
ec 20
One 2. os 24
(nen Mette... ............. 25@35

alf-barrels 2c extra.
MUSTARD.
Horse Radish, 1 doz.........1 7
Horse Radish, 2 doz......... 3 50
Bayle’s Celery, 1 doz.. ..... 1%
a
Ciay, Ho. 26..............., 1 70
Clay, T. D. full comnt...... 65
Con, oe. 5. 85
POTASH.

48 cans in case.
Babpit’s.......... 4 00
Penna Salt Co.’s. 3 00

PICKLES.
Medium.

Barrels, 1,200 count........ 5 50
Half bbls, 600 count........ 3 30
Smali.

Barrels, 2,400 count....... 6%
Half bbls 1,200 count...... 4 00
RICE.

Domestic.

Carolina head.... ......... 64

Carolina No.1.... 5
Carolina No. 2. 4%
Srores.-.-.___ 3%
. uel
Japan, No.1.. oe ae
Japan, No.2.. oe sec ee
Java, fancy head.......... 6
ewe Oe 5
Table......... 5%

SALERATUS. _

 

 

money.
Packed 60 = = ane.
= —-- --8 8
and’s 15
Lemon. | Dwight’s 30
She. Taylor’s 00
en 150 SALT.
Diamond Crystal.
Regular Table, cases, 243-lb boxes. .1 50
Vanilla. | Table, barrels, 100 31b bags.2 75
doz | Table, barrels, 407 1b bags.2 40
202...... 1 20| Butter, barrels, 280 1b. bnik.2 25
40z...... 2 Butter, barrels, 20 14 lbbags.2 50
Butter, sacks, 881bs......... 25
= Butter, sacks, 56 lbs......... 55
/ — a om amon Grades. ‘aid
sacks..... : ue
oS io eee... .......-.. 155
' 20 10-1) GAGES... ........... 1 45
XX Grade Worcester.
Vanilla. 50 4 Ib. cartons........... 3 25
115 —_ Saene. Ll. 400
.2ee..:... 1%} 6 > oe... .... 3 75
See 350 = i ib. pr —— ; 50
GUN Ww ase csc eccus 50
ee Po ae 28 Ib. linen sacks............ 32
eae ee 4 00 | 26.1b. linen sacks............ 60
Half Kegs mL ARENA hcg — re 7
ber Kren, °
ae 13 | ge datey nari age... 30
ib eae 1g | 28-Ib dairy in drill bags..... 15
_— Bore—Dupont’s. Ashton.
ee ne 56-lb dairy in iinen sacks... 60
Half mes 2 40 Higgins.
— eee. 1 35 | 56-1b dairy in \egin: sacks . 60
jeans ok tenes se Solar Rock.
en ee 5 ee. a
Bart ere 25 Common.
——— Meee. co, cc 2 25 | Granulated Fine............ 9
[cee oe a, 45 | Medium Fine............... 85

 

 

SAL SODA.
Granulated, bbis.......... %
Granulated, 100 lb cases.. 90
Dump. bbs... 6... 62... 75
Lump, 145]b kegs.......... 8&5

SEEDS.
AMSG .. ... Stee cuece ow
Canary, Smyrna. eee crea 3
Caraway... . 8
Cardamon, Malabar ..... 69
eneT 1
Hemp, Russian.......... 3%
Mewoa Mird............... 4
mustard, white.......... 2
bo ee &%
ene... 44
Custis Bene... 20

SNUFF.
Scotch, in bladders......... 37
Maccaboy, in jars........... 35
French Rappee, in jars..... 43

SOAP.
Sieie DOX 27
5 box lots, delivered........ 2 70
10 box lots, delivered....... 2 65

JAS. §. KIRK & GO.'S BRANDS.

American Family, wrp’d....3 33
American Family, unwrp *4.3 27
3 33

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

Blue India, 100 % 1D... whee 3 00
Birkoumne... |... t...... , 3 75
ae... 3 65

One box American ‘Family
free with five.

Schulte Soap Co.’s Brand.

    

eee)

100 — 75 lbs.

Single box.. 3 oo

SGonr lets oo 2%
fe box lots. 2 70
OOM TO. ee 2 60

Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands.
Old Country, 80 1-lb. bars ..2 7%

 

Good Cheer, 60 1-lb. bars....3 7%

Uno, 200 %-ib. tars. ...... 2... 2 50

Doll, 100 10- Om. DAI... 2 05
Scouring.

Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz ..... 2 40
Sapolio, hand, 3doz........ 2 40
SODA.
Bete 54

pom Senglish ee ees

SPICES.
Whole Sifted.

Allspice ...... cia
Cassia, China inmats...... 12
Cassia, Batavia in bund....22
Cassia, Saigon in _ esee 32
Cloves, Amboyna. a“
Cloves, Zanzibar. ..
Mace, Batavia............. 55
Nutmegs, fancy.. ee
Nutmegs, We. Pe 50

Nutmegs, No. 2..........:.. 45
Pepper, Singapore, black...10
Pepper, Singapore, white. . .12

Pepper, SBOG. oe: 12
Pure Ground in Bulk.
MM os ee le 12
Cassia, Batavia ............ 2
Cassia, Saigon.............. 40
Cloves, Amboyna... ..18
Cloves, Zanzibar............ 13
Ginger, Rien 15
Ginger, Cochin............. =
Ginger, Jamaica............
Mace, Batavia.............. 70
Mustard, Eng. and Trieste. .18
a teste... 20
MO ccc occa cess 4 0
Pepper, Sing , black ..... oo
Pepper, Sing., white........ 15
Pepper, Cayenne............ 20

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

2!

 

 

STARCH.

 

Kingsford’s Corn.
40 Eb packages............. 6
20 1 lb packages............. 614

Kingsford’s Silver Gloss.

40 11 packawes............. 6%
Gib boxes _.. ... i... 7
Diamond.

64106 packager ........... 5 00
128 5e packages......... ..5 00
32 10c and 64 5c packages...5 00

  

 
    

Common Corn.
20 1 tb packsves.......... .. 4%
4011b packages. \y
oo it: DOMER.. sl 4
Seite DOxes. 3%

Common Gloss.
D> packages... 44
31D packages..........-.... 414
Sib packages... ..... 4%
40 and 50 lb boxes........... 3
Barres ...-: Se

STOVE POLISH.

Z er - <== VY,
ee

   

J.L.PRESCOTT& ce
NEW VORRK.NYOU. SA

SY VITENT eG
No. 4 3 doz in case, gross.. 4750
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.
Domigo 5 5
Ome beat. 5%
Crashed... 5 75
AES 5 44
Powacrod ................., 5 44
MAXX Powdered........... 5 50
Granulated in bbis... ...... 5 25
Granulated in bags.........5 25
Fine Granulated............ 5 2%
Extra Fine Granulated..... 5 38
Extra Coarse Granulated...5 38
Moma fos 5 50
Diamond Confec. A........ 5 2
Confec. Standard A......... 5 13
ie 7 485
ee 4 8&8
ee 4 81
a 4 47
MO. Seo 4 63
a Roepe neces 4 56
ee 4 50
ee 4 44
oe fT . 43
ae Be 4 31
No. 11 ‘ .4 25
me 419
Oe Be ce, 4 13
cE. ea nee aaa ace 4 06
oe 4 00
ao oS ae
SYRUPS.
Corn.
pare ee 16
am te ee 3 18
Pure Cane.
eee ee 16
ee 20
Cmeeee 25
TABLE SAUCES.
Lea & Perrin’s, large..... 475
Lea & Perrin’s, small.....2 75
Halford, large... .-...... 3 75
Halford smail............. 223
Salad Dressing, large..... 4 55
Salad Dressing, small..... 2 6
TOBACCOS.

Cigars.
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s brand.
Mow teu oo 33 00

H. & P. Drug Co.’s brand.
GPEUOEED cook occ oe wees ee 35 00
G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand.

C
nc. Wo: Ree a ee

H. Van Tongeren’s Brand.

Star Green............ «22.35 00

 

VINEGAR.
Malt White Wine.............. 7
ure Older 8
Washing Powder.

‘Mor Prassent, dul Most EMective

THE

087 waver wo ame

 

OO oz pkgs... 20)... 2... 3 50.
WICKING.

Ne. 0, pergross.... ..... 5... 2S

No. 1, péereross..)...... - .. oe

NO: 3, per SrOcs........_:.... 40

NO. 3; pergross, ... 4... 11... %

 

Fish and Oysters

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fresh Fish.
Per lb.
Whitefish .......... @ 8
rege @ 8s
Black Bass.......... @ 2
J @ 15
Ciscoes or Herring.. @ 4
Biweese @ 10
Live Lobster....... @ 18
Boiled Lobster...... @ 20
roa... @ 10
Eaddock <. |... @ s
No. 1 Pickerel...... @ 8
a @ 7
Smoked White...... @ 9
Red Snapper........ @
Col River Salmon.. @ 12%
Mackerel ..... | .. @ 18
Oysters in Cans.
PB. H Counts........ @ 3
F. J. D. Selects...... @ 2
MelCGte @ 22
F. J. D. Standards.. @ 20
Anehora. 2 @ 18
Standards... @ 16
Pavorises ..... 2... @ 14
Oysters in Bulk
EE Counts. ....._. @1 75
Extra Selects....... @l1 50
BOICCIN os. @1 2%
Anchor Standards.. @1 10
Standards. ...... _. @1 va
Ciies. @l1 2
Shell Goods.

Oysters, per 100 ...... 1 150
Pecee = mm ‘ = ”
Hides and Pelts.

Perkins & Hess pay as fol-
ows:

Hides.
Cl 7 @8
Part cured... ..... @ 8%
Full Cured............ 84@ 9%
Dry... OC a
Rips, green... 7 @8

ine, Cured... ..... |. 8%@ 9%
Calfskins, green...... 74@ 9
Calfskins, cured......9 @10%
Deaconskins ......... 25

Pelts.

Shearlings ........... 5@ 30
sl. 40@ 110
——— -enu..... ..... 60@ 1 2

Furs.

Mink... .... 1... Bog 1 Sp
Moe... ....2..-....,.. 30@ «(90
ae 50@ 1 00
Muskrats, fall........ 5 &
Muskrats, spring..... @

Muskrats, winter.... 12@ 16
Med Fox. .... ee 1 256@ 1 50
Gray Por... 8. 40@ 7
Cross Fox ........... 2 5 @ 5 00
Oger. se 20@ ~=«60
Cat Wid... 3... 1@ 40
Cat, House,.......... 10@_ 20
PBROP oes ls 3 50@

> ae I 1 O0@ 2 00
Martin, Darm......... 1 50@ 3 00
Martin, Yellow...... %@ 1 50
OR 5 00@ 9 00
We 75@ 1 50
NE ee eels 7 00@15 00
ONOE ee 2 00@ 6 00
Beaver Castors....... @ 8 00
ooee......... 5m 15
Deerskin, dry, perlb. 15@ 2
Deerskin,gr’n,perlb. 10@ 15

Wool.

Washed ............14 @es

Unwashed ........ ... 17 @l7
Miscellaneous.

allow ....... 6... Ye@ 314

Grease Butter......... 1 @2

Bwrenes ...- 2... 5... 1%@ 2

J @3 2%

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Candies. Grains and Feedstuffs
Stick Candy. Wheat.
Beis. palin | Witeat 88
SMMNGrG 64%@ 7 Ww
Standard H. H.....: 64@ 7 — spores —
Standard Twist..... @8 —
Cut host. @ 8% eee wiz SS
Gases | Second Patent............. 5 UO
outdo, S20b |. @ G4 | Siraient.... 4 80
furmHp CO S46 Cree. 4 40
Boston Cream. ..... ——..lllC ss 475
Beecewhest 4 25
Mixed Candv. Rye pe ha ‘oor yg
See : aig
Competition......... @6 aman argued teas me
Standard............ @i Flour in bbls., 25¢ per bbl. ad-
a oc = i” ditional.
wee cua a é git Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Bremen @ S64 | Guaker us... 4 60
Cut foaft. @ si | Geaker ws. 4 60
English Rock....... @s8 Guster Ge. 4 60
Kindergarten....... G@ 8% | Guard, Fairfield & Co.’s Brand.
French Cream...... @ 8% | Whole Wheat 1-16s......... 5 20
Dandy Pan........_. @i0 .
Valley Cream.. .... @iz Spring Wheat Flour.
il Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brand.
Fancy —In Bulk. Pillsbury’s Best \%s 5 50
TBR cccccove e
Lozenges, plain..... @ 8% | Pillsbury’s Best 4s........ 5 40
Lozenges, printed... @ 8% | Pillsbury’s best igs........ 5 30
Choe. Drops........ @l4 Pillsbury’s Best 14s paper.. 5 3u
Choc. Monumentals @li Piilsbury’s Best 4483 paper.. 5 30
pare ne — @6 | Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand.
ee eae $ oe Grand Republic, ¥%s........ 5 40
Imperials @ 846 Grand Republic, 4s.. ..... 5 3u
ae * | Grand Republic, %s........ 5 20
Fancy—In 5 Ib. Boxes. Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s Brand.
Lemon Drops . Gold Madal tts... 5 50
Saas ha... = Gold eitiges ee 5 4U
Peppermint Drops.. @e0 | Gold eee PAB --- ose ese, _=
Chocolate Drops... @6u Parisian, a, 2 50
HM. Choe. Drops. @i5 Parisian, a... 5 40
Gum Drops......... Feta tg & 30
Licorice Drops...... Qi Olney & Judson’s Brand.
A. B. Licorice Drops @50 Ceresota, igs. 5 5
Lozenges, plain... @av Ceresota, ee 5 40
—_ printed.. @50 | Ceresota, %s.. .....1!! ‘co ae
ausens NE = Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand,
Cream Bar... @50 Laurel, Mae 5 50
Molasses Bar ....... @50 | Laurel, }4s......... 5 4u
Hand Made Creams. 80 @i o|taurel %s. 5 30
Plain Creams....... 60 @90
Decorated Creams. . @9 Bol =n
String Rock........ @60 OMee i 1é
Burnt Almonds...” 13 @ Granulated 2 00
Wintergreen Berries @60 Feed and Milistuffs.
Caramels. - er Feed, screened ....14 00
No. 1 wrapped, 2 Ib. Hukebied Gare Meal. ci 2 30
ipoxes @30 Winter Wheat Bran... . _13 06
v 1 wrapped, 3 lb. i Winter Wheat Middlings. .14 00
OXES ..... 2.2... @45 Nereenineg 12 OU
No. 2 wrapped, 2 Ib.
bokes (0 ae The 0. E. Brown Mill Co.
cc quotes as follows:
New Corn.
i Cat tote 2. oon
Fruits. Less than car lots......... 33
Oats.
Oranges. See 25
Mexicans 150 176-200 @3 25 | Carlots, clipped............ 27%
Cal. Seedlings ...... @2 7» | Less than car lots......... 30
Fancy Navels 112 .. @2 %5 Hay.
Ho to 216............ @3 25 | No. 1 Timothy carlots 9 00
Choice............., @3 00 No. 1 Timothy, ton lots... 10 00
Lemons. Gon a oe
Strictly choice 360s.. 3 2:
Strictly choice 300s. 3 35 ___ Crackers.
ancy 3608.......... @350| The N.Y. Biscuit Co. quotes
Ex.Fancy 300s...... @4 U0 | as follows:
Butter,
Bananas. PeVINOUP AME 6
Medium bunches...1 25 @1 50 | Seymour XXX, 31b. carton 6%
Large bunches...... 1% @2 00| Family Xxx 6

Foreign Dried Fruits.

Figs.
Choice, 101b boxes...
Extra choice, 14 lb
Doxes..
Fancy, 12 1b boxes...
Imperial Mikados, 18
ID bewes..-....o! |
Pulled, 6 1b boxes...
Naturals, in bags...
Dates.
Fards in 10 1b boxes
Fards in 60 lb cases
Persians, G. M’s.....
lb cases, new......
Sairs, 601b cases....

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Nuts.

 

Almonds, Tarragona...
Almonds, Ivaca.......
Almonds, California,
soft shelled.........
Brarii¢new...........
Ritberts
Walnuts, Grenobles ..
Walnuts, Calif No. 1.
Walnuts, soft shelled
ORE ce,
Table Nuts, fancy....
Table Nuts, choice...
Pecans, Med...........
Pecans, Ex. Large....
Pecans, Jumbos.......
Hickory Nuts per bu.,
Oni, Hew... 8...
Cocoanuts, full sacks
Peanuts.
P., Suns.
H. P., Flags
ROBO. kc
Choice, H. P., Extras.
Choice, H. P., Extras,
Reatee ..

Fancy, H.
Fancy,

 

Family XXX, 3b carton.. 6%

 

Reece 6
Salted XXX, 3 1b carton... 64
Soda.

ee ANN.

Soda XXX,31b earton.... 7% |
oak. Cite a
POPUVPCBe 10
Long Island Wafers....... il

L. I. Wafers, llbecarton .. 12

Oyster.
Square Oyster, XXX. 6

Sq. Oys. XXX,11b carton. 7
Varina Oyster, XXX... 6
SWEET GOODS—Boxes.

PSEA 10%
Bent’s Cold Water......... 13%
ene MONG ot...
Cocoanut Taffy............ 9%
Cotes Cakes... 3
Wrectca Honey............. 12%
Graham Crackers ......... 8
Ginger Snaps, XXX round. 7
Ginger Snaps, XXX city... 7
Gin. Snps,XXX homemade 7
Gin. Snps,XXX scalloped... 7
Ginger Vamilia............ 8
pe ee a 8%
eGmbies, Honcy........... 11%
Molisses Cakes............ 8
Marshmallow ............. 15
Marshmallow Creams..... 16
Pretzels, hand made ..... 9
Pretzelettes, LittleGerman 7
eee Ce 8
ene ccc... 12%
eens PAU.
Vanilia Souare........... 8%
Vanilla Waters ........... 14
Poca Werem.............. 15%
Merod Fienic ........-.... 10%
Cream Jumblies ............ 12
Boston Ginger Nuts........ 8%
Chimmie Fadden .......... 10
Pineapple Glace...... ..... 16
Penny @akes.............. 8%
Marshmallow Walnuts.... 16
Belle Isle Pienic........... ll

 

 

 

 

Provisions.
Swift & Company quote as
follows:

Barreled Pork.
aoe 8 50
Back Kieceeeeeeeso..., 39 OO
Ciear back....... co. 2
Short cut.. 9 50
Page. 14 uv
Bean 8 Ou
a 9 50

Dry Salt Meats.
Bellies... .. i
Briskets .... 544
xtra shorts... 514

Smoked [eats.

Hams, 12 lb average .... 9
Hams, 141b average ... 834
Hams, 16 lb average..... 834
Hams, 2U lb average..... i%
Ham dried beef.......... 13
Shoulders (N. Y. cut). . 6
Bacon, clear...... Lo. Coe
California hams......... 5%
Boneless hams........... BY,
Cooked ham........_.... il
Lards. in Tierces.
Compeuna. ..- 4
OE 53%
55 lb Tubs.......advance 14
Seth Tips... .. . advance 3%
coi Tins |. ..... advance Ay
20 lb Pails.......advanee 58
Wib Fails. ...... advance 3
Sib Fails... advance 1
wip Pats... 2. advance I4g
Sausages.
Belogna ....__. 5
ives... 6%
Hime. 4
Ome... ... 8% |
Mee S |
Monee. le 2 |
Head cheese.......... 6% |
Beef.
Mitral Meee 900 |
BOnGICHS ......._. ie |

Rp ..... . es 50
Pigs’ Feet.

Pe, Fo TBR ge
4 eis 46th 1 du
4 Dols, Silos. 2 30
Tripe.
Pete los
a bis, 40 ihe... 8 48
“4 pois, Sihe. ... 3 aS
Casings.
3 16
meet rounds... |... 4
Beef middics | i
EOC 60
Butterine.
Mele. Gairy............. 10
Bold dairy... __. . 9%
Rolis, creamery ......_.. 14
Solid, creamery ...... 13%
Canned Meats.
Cemmed beef, 2 Ib ...... 2 10
Corned beef, 14 lb...... .14 00
Hoast beef, 2 Ib....... 2 10
Potted ham, s....... 60
Foted ham %s.,..... i

00
Deviledham, Wa....... 60
Deviledham, 14s....... 1 60
Potted tongue 4s..... 60
Potted tongue %s....... 1 00

Fresh Meats.

 

 

 

Beef.
—. ............. - 54G@ 7
Wore quarters.........5 @6
Hind quarters.......67 @9 |
Roms Ne. 2.1.1...) OS Gate
Co -& @e |
Rounds etctmetee, GOA ou |
Cuucee ....... 4 @5
Pe @ 3

Pork.
reese @ 4
fee @ 6%
SOOMMGeES, .. ........ @ 5
heat bara... |. 5%4%@

Mutton.

Cares 7
Spring Lambs... .....8 @ 9
Veal.

Carcsee 2. 6 a8

 

 

Oils.
Barrels.
Moceee. 0... @ilt*%
XXX W.W.Mich.Hdlt @ &%
W W Michigan. ....... @8
Diamond White....... @7
cp @ 8
Dea. Napa .......... @i%
Cyameer.... 25 @36
Bygene............... 4 aaa
Back, wttiter......... @?

4
| 1 gal galv iron with spout. 1 65
| 2 gal galy iron with spout. 2

3

4

|3 gal Home Rule....
| 5 gal Home Rule....

No.

Crockery and

 

Glassware.
AKRON STONEWARE.
Butters,
oo OL... per Goe.......... 50
LteGeal pergal....... 3%
Seal, pergar... | eke
HO gal, pergal........ ... by,
IZ Gal, pergal..... . .... =i
15 gal. meat-tubs, per gal.. 8

20 gal. meat-tubs, per gal.. §
25 gal. meat-tubs, per gal.. 10
30 gal. meat-tubs, per gal.. 10

Churns,
=toGeal., per gal._......- 5%
Churn Dashers, per doz... 8
Milkpans.

% gal. flat or rd. bot., doz. 60
1 gal. fatorrd. bot.,each 5%

Fine Glazed Milkpans.

% gal. flatorrd. bot.,doz. 65
1 gal. flatorrd. bot.,each 5%

Stewpans.
4% gal. fireproof, bail, doz. 8
i gal. fireproof, bail, doz.1 10

Jugs.
54 Gal, per dee... 1... |. 40
2. on.. pervades... ........ a

Ito 5 gal, per gal... _. a 6%

Tomate Jugs.

tL. perdos ....._..-. 70

[ee coche... a

Corks for % gal., per doz.. 20

Corks for 1 gal., perdoz.. 30

Preserve Jars and Covers.

4g gal., stone cover, doz... %5

1 gal., stone cover, doz...1 00
Sealing Wax.

5 lbs. in package, perlb... 2

LAMP BURNERS.

ne. O fan. ._ =
NO fon... 50
NO 2S. 75
[veewiar 50
pocuring, WOE... 65
meenrity, Na.S.............
Netmee oe

Cla

LAMP CHIMNEYS—Common.
Per box of 6 doz.

NO. 0 Sm ld ae
DO Lean... 1 88
NO. 2a... 2%

First Quality.
No. @ Sun, crimp top,
wrapped and labeled.... 2 10
No. 1 Sun, crimp top,
wrapped and labeled.... 2
No. 2 Sun, crimp top,
wrapped and labeled.... 3 25
XXX Plint.
No. 0 Sun, crimp top,
wrapped and labeled.... 2 55
No. 1 Sun, crimp top,
wrapped and labeled. .. 2 75
No. 2 Sun, crimp top,
wrapped and labeled.... 3 75
' CHIMNEYS—Pearl Top.
No.1 Sun, wrapped and
labeled........
No. 2 Sun,
labeled...

eared acens Oe Oe
wrapped and
No. 2 Hinge, wrapped and

Iaeice ae
No.2 Sun, “Small Bulb,”
for Globe Lamos......... 80
La Bastie,

No, 1 Sun. plain bulb, per
a

0z
No. 2 Sun, plain bulb, per
ann 8

50

No. t Crimp, per dos....... 1 35

No. 2 Crimp, per doz... ... 1 60
Rochester.

No. 1, Lime (65c doz). .... 3 50

No. 2, Lime (70e doz)...... 4 06

No. 2, Flint (80e des)...... 4 70
Electric.

No, 2, Lime (70c doz) ..... 4 00

No. 2, Flint (80e doz)...... 4 40

OIL CANS.
i gal tin cans with spout..

3 gal galv iron with spout. :

5 gal galv iron with spout.

3 gal galv iron with faucet 4

5 gal galy iron with faucet 5

5 #al Tilting eang..........

5 gal galv iron Nacefas ...
Pump Cans.

oe

| 5 gal Rapid steady stream. 9 00

5 gal Eureka non-overflow 10 56
ee 10 50
<ctac ohn Oe

| Gg@al Pirate Ming. ......... 9 50
LANTERNS,

Ne. Guba... 1... 4 25

No. 18 Tabwiar..... —_ Oo

No. 3 Tubular Dash. .... 6 30
No. 1Tub., glassfount..., 7 00
No. 12 Tubular, side lamp. 14 0C
3 Street Lamp...... « 6 te
LANTERN GLOBES.

No. 0 Tubular, cases 1 doz.

each, box 10cents.. ..... @&
No. 0 Tubular, cases2 doz.
each, box 15 cents....... 45

No. 0 Tubular, bbis 5 doz.

     
 

Oo 40
No. 0 Tubular, bull’s eye,

cases 1 doz. each......... 1 %&

| LAMP WICKS.

No. @ DOr SrORs..ic...... — =
No. 1 per gross.. 25
No. 2 per gross . =
No. 3 per gross.. —o,
PERRO ciccieccteccacce «|= OO

 

 

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

 

  

_ Hardware

Result of the Cheapening Process in
Stove Polish.
Ante Lucem in American Artisan.

The beginning of the year 1898 might
be a good time for a short chapter on
stoveblacking and stove arrangement.
During the year many dealers have
plied me with questions as to where
could they find the very best AI stove
polish, and many have registered com-
plaints that for the last year or two the
blacking they were using did not appear
to be as good as in former years, being
thick, muddy and devoid of that black
luster so desirable to make a stove show
up; besides, there were apparently no
wearing qualities to it, and ina few
days, at most, the stoves grew dingy.

1 sought information from a large
dealer in stove sundries and from him
learned that the probable cause lies in
the cheapening process that has been
going on for the last year or two. Man-
utacturers of benzine polish have been
trying to see how cheap (not how good)
they could make that class of goods,
and have s ught business largely upon
the score of price alone. This may be
the cause tor complaints.

Other information disclosed the fact
that a high grade polish has been quite
unsalable, as against low priced, cheap
grades. The price for 1898 has been
considerably advanced, and it is to be
hoped the grade has been correspond-
ingly advanced. The mere cost of a
littie blacking for a stove or several
stoves 1S not such a great item, anda
good polish on a stove will,in looks,add
trom $1 to $3 in selling points.

Dealers, as a rule, give too little at-
tention to this Single feature, inexpen-
sive as itis. Aman took me around to
his sample floor and said:

Why can't I get a polish, surface and
shine like that?) Where can I buy the
blacking to do it with?’’ Why, my dear
fellow, that stove has done sample serv-
ice on the maker's floor for perhaps
three or four years, and has been pol-
ished and rep times without
number, and the blacking rubbed down
like hard-baked japan, that’s the secret
of it. Its not in the blacking. Put
some labor on your samples, keep your
line unbroken, year in and year
out, g6 over each stove once or twice a
week, and see what you have at the end
of two years.’’

Arrangement of sample stoves is also
an important feature of the business,
and should be done with some idea of
convenience in showing up, symmetry
in appearance, and it is not a poor
idea to shift the positions of stoves from
time to time. It is a change to the eye
of your patron, and often results in
bringing to his attention just the article
he wants.

Jn lieu of suitable platforms, good
convenient stove-trucks are not so ex-
pensive. To place a good, nice-heating
stove, cook or range upon an ill-look-
ing box or makeshift truck detracts
trom its value and sale. In the smaller
country stores where room is limited,
good suitable trucks are preferable, as
it aids in economizing space, exhibition
and sale work. I hope 1898 will see
many changes in these things which
will materially add to an increase of
business and help prosperity.

Tbe months of January and February
are usually dull months in the hardware
business. It is the usual season for in-
ventory, and when going through with
this part of the work a most opportune
time is offered to re-arrange stock, make
additional shelf room, tool racks and
clean up generally. Within the last
twelve o1 eighteen months many dealers
made greater or less alterations in their
business buildings, all of which be-
speaks a healthy tone. May _ prosperity
for the year 1898 be so great as to en-
able still larger improvements. To fore-
cast probable results would be impos-
sible, but there is a buoyant hope.

a SiovVe Of

  

lished

~ 97) })
Ssmail

 

ee
The Inventory Bogy.
Sidney Arnold in American Artisan.

*“Did any of you gentlemen ever hear
of a business bogy?’’ queried the paint

 

salesman. :‘‘Well, I have, and its name
is inventory. The other day I was talk-
ing with a hard-working, energetic 1e-
tailer who carries ona large business
and ism’t afraid of work by any means,
and you ought to see how frightened he
looked when I casually asked how soon
he intended to take stock. ‘Why,’ he
said, ‘I am_ so busy that I can’t spend
the time necessary to take an inventory,
although I know it’s a good idea to have
one occasionally. In a few months I
expect to take on an extra clerk and
then, perhaps, I can do it.’ Now this
sort of talk is rank foolishness. I make
this assertion boldly and without fear of
contradiction, that there is not a single
wholesale or retail house in this coun-
try whose supply of clerks is adequate
for the successful management of their
business, and whose system of keeping
stock is up-to-date, who cannot take a
complete inventory of their goods in
one working day. Lots of retailers
seem to have a notion that an inventory
takes anywhere from a week toa month,
to hear them talk about it, but this is
rank nonsense. If there is one thing
every merchant should do, that is to see
where he stands. It is idiocy to delude
yourself into a notion you are making
money when you are not, and every
man should know once a year where he
iS an 7
Hi a
Some Things Which Business
Should Not Do.

Do not forget that good address is
as important as it is pleasant to custom-
ers and associates.

Don't look for success until you can
command the respect of employers, as-
sociates and customers.

Don't be discouraged when you make
a mistake; the man does not live who
never made one.

Do not spread out too much, for you
may spread very thin.

Don't trust a man simply because he
is honest; honesty does not supply abil-
ity.

Do not count your credit so good that
you can afford to abuse it.

Don’t make a credit without _ first
considering what proportion of assets
are avaliable to meet liabilities.

Do not be so anxious to sell goods on
credit that you fail to ascertain your
debtor's worth.

Did you ever realize that the average
cash discount will amount to nearly
double the interest you are obliged to
pay for money borrowed for the pur-
pose.

Don’t overlook the fact in granting a
credit that the all-important questions
are: How much is your applicant for
credit actually worth; in what shape is
he worth it and what proportion of his
assets 1s readily convertible to meet his
liabilities?

Don't be deceived by the extra profit
you may obtain on a sale to a slow-pay-
ing customer; asa rule, the slow-pay-
ing customer is unprofitable.

Does your indebtedness nearly equal
the liquidating values of your assets?
You are in danger.

Don’t trust a man with your goods to
whom you would not make a cash loan.

Do not discontinue your research un-
til you feel assured that you know all
you possibly can about your particular
trade.

Do not overbuy, even if price offered
is low; interest on money invested in
unnecessary stock rapidly eliminates
profits.

Don’t neglect to take an annual in-
voice, all prudent merchants want to
know exactly where they stand.

Don't expect your best salesman to be
a good collector.

Doing business in an over-cautious
manner is more profitable than to be
too credulous.
> Don’t endorsean accommodation note;
if you can afford to lose the money loan
it to your friend who asks the favor.

Don’t buy of many houses in same
line; you will have better prices if trade
is confined to few houses and trade is
sufficient to warrant.

Do not allow a loss to cause unneces-
sary worry, but consider errors in
handling the account and place cau-
tionary signals.

Men

 

Acetylene Gas Destined to Come Into
General Use.
From the Dry Goods Reporter.

A great deal has been said about
acetylene gas and its practical use for
illuminating purposes, and yet the gen-
eral public bas but a vague and often-
times erroneous idea concerning it
This is due, perbaps, to the fact that
much of the publicity given to acetylene
has been through unreliable sources.
Parties with none too great knowledge
of this new gas and with imperfect ap-
paratus for using it have preyed on the
curiosity and gullibility of the public to
an extent that not a few people have
come to believe that there is a good
deal of ‘‘fake’’ about it. Nevertheless
this new gas,for it is yet comparatively
new, being first discovered in_ 1836,
is destined to come into quite general
usage for illumination. One has only
to see the strong, clear light that the
gas gives, when properly generated, to be
forced to this conclusion.

The impression has been given out
on unreliable authority that acetylene is
exceedingly cheap, considerably cheap-
er than city gas. This is not wholly true.
It is economical fiom the standpoint
of the volume and the quality of the
light given, and the expense is not
greater than the average cost of the city
gas, but it cannot be said to be the
cheapest means of illumination. Theo-
retical candle power, as developed in
the laboratory, and applied illumination
are not always to be classed as the same
thing. The cost of a foot of acetylene
is ten times that of ordinary coal gas,
but on the other hand it goes ten times
as far, making the expense about the
same.

Acetylene was first discovered by the
English chemist, Edmund Davy, in
1836, and introduced to the notice of
the British Association. It is lighter
than air and has a distinct odor. Its
specific gravity so nearly approximates
that of air, that any leakage from pipes
or fixtures diffuses and is quickly
ognized. Pure acetylene will not ex-

 

forms an explosive mixture, as does
every illuminating gas. It is commer-
cially produced by treating calcic car-
bide with water, in apparatus designed
to automatically control and adapt pro-
duction to consumption. Carbide is
made by mixing finely ground coke
(about 40 per cent.) and lime (about 60
per cert.), and fusing in an electric
furnace. Each pound of good carbide
will produce five feet of gas, equal in
illuminating value to 60 to 75 feet of or-
dinary city gas.

In suitable burners, a_ beautiful,
steady, pure white flame is produced,
burning without odor or smoke, so near-
ly resembling sunlight that all shades
of colors are readily distinguishable.
The relatively small amount of gas
consumed reduce, heat and air vitiation
to the minimum.

—_—~> 0+
Output of Pennsylvania Oil.
From the Oil City Derrick.

While no field of extraordinary magni-
tude was discovered during the year just
closed, and while prices continued
steadily downward, yet the aggregate
output of Pennsylvania oil was greater
by over a million and a quarter barrels
than the year preceding. This increase
in production was accomplished with
the drilling of 1,731 fewer wells than in
1896, and under circumstances that ex-
ercised a depressing influence upon
field activity. A single poll, that of
Elk Fork, in Tyler county, West Vir-
ginia, monopolized the attention of the
trade, and proved by far the most re-
markable development of the year.
There was likewise a considerable in-
crease in the new production from va-
rious other sections of West Virginia.
The Gordon sand territory furnished
most of the gusher strikes, but there
was also a large yield from the shallow
sand wells of the same State.

———~+-0._______

In judging another’s honor we often

place a valuation upon our own.
Ne 0
If you wish to know a man’s charac-

 

plode but, mixed with air in proportions

ter, learn his thoughts.

 

 

 

 

Wm. Brummeler & Sons,
Manufacturers and Jobbers of
TINWARE,
ENAMELED WARE and
NICKEL PLATED WARE.

Factory and Salesrooms, 260 South Ionia Street.

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

GTP ENN 2 Ne GOOEY

Wire Nails

 

 

Barb Wire

 

 

Plain and Galvanized Wire

 

 

the advance.

 

Enter your order now for

spring shipments and save

Foster, Stevens & Co.,

Wholesale Hardware,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

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How the Trading Stamp Scheme

Works in Jackson.

The trading stamp scheme is one of
the many evils that burden the retail
dealer of to-day. While there are a
great many other schemes that area
detriment to trade, the trading stamp is
the worst. It stalks in the land, causes
vexation of spirit, hard words and the
useless expenditure of hard cash for
which we get no profit or even value re-
ceived.

The other schemes are evils in their
way, but necessay evils. Some of our
merchants, foreseeing the future of the
trading stamps, and being satisfied that
by their very nature they must prove
unsatisfactory, have purchased the ma-
terial with which to handle schemes of
their own, which have been handled en-
tirely by themselves, they receiving the
profits there were in the business. This
kind of a scheme is preferable to the
trading stamp, for the reason that the
dealer keeps the premium goods in
stock, where they may be inspected by
the customers, and the merchant, of
necessity, must furnish the goods as he
represents them or he will be dishonest
and lose the faith of his patrons.
These individual schemes should not be
favored, for they are a close second to
the trading stamp and are only used as
a means to meet the scheme of some
other dealer, There is one thing which
can be said for the individual scheme
that cannot be advocated for the trading
stamps; that is, the merchant has_ con-
trol of his individual scheme and must,
of necessity, make it honorable, which
he has not the power to do with the
trading stamp. It would be useless for
us to ask or give a reason why so many
have gone to the expense of purchasing
these stamps. After finding how much
of a detriment they are to us, and real-
izing that there is no possible chance
for us to get value received for the
money we put into them—not to men-
tion the profits that are promised us_ by
the stamp company—it is our duty to
take steps to get rid of them and drive
them out of use.

The Merchants’ Supply Co., which
furnisbes these stamps, agrees to double,
or very materially increase, the cash
trade of the dealer if he will handle
them. I have found only one man in
over two hundred with whom I have
talked who is satisfied with the stamps.
All of the rest say that they are injuri-
ous to trade and a serious loss to the
dealer, without any valuable return.
This company agrees to advertise for
those who handle the stamps sufficient
to increase the trade of the dealer one-
half, but we who have watched its
methods can testify that its style of ad-
vertising would not attract custom to
anyone or anything.

In discussing this question with mer-
chants in the city, I find that the almost
universal opinion is that no merchant
can afford to pay out 5 per cent. in ad-
dition to the regular current expenses
for the purpose of increasing trade un-
less he is sure of the result. In the case
of buying trading stamps it is simply
betting 5 per cent. of your business on
another man’s game, and the other fel-
low has figured so that there is no
chance for him to lose.

The merchant, when he hands out the
trading stamps, virtually recommends
the goods and the methods of the Sup-
ply Co. It they do not act honorably,
then the merchant is blamed for mis-
leading his customers. The Supply
Co. puts a value on its goods that gives
it an enormous profit on its premiums.

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

This, with the loss of stamps by cus-
tomrers and_ the non-presentation of
books, filled or partly filled, makes an
immensely profitable business for it;
but the dealers who give out the stamps
have to pay tor everything, as they get
nothing back on account of stamps that
are lost or not presented. (See Michi-
gan Tradesman of January 12.)

Since the trading stamps have been
in use here, many of our grocers have
asked me what my opinion is regarding
them. I have invariably told them that
the plan is not a right principle in
business and should be let alone. Some
have taken my advice—and some have
taken the stamps; but there is not one
who has not had great cause to regret it
after having tried the stam scheme for
a time. Complaints without number
have come to me that the Supply Co.
did not furnish the articles as they had
agreed, either in quality or quantity.

These stamps might be used to ad-
vantage, perhaps, if they could be
given strictly with spot cash trade; but
this is an impossibility. The weekly
or monthly customer has to have the
stamps and the merchant has to give
them or lose that customer. Many in-
stances of this kind have happened.

The stamp scheme is a positive in-
jury to the customer as well as to the
dealer, as it creates extravagance,
causes the purchaser to buy more than
he is able to pay for and, in many
cases, will cause the merchant to lose
his customers, also his accounts, be-
cause more has been purchased than can
be paid for.

Now, a word in regard to what has
been done in other places to get rid of
this trading stamp scheme. In looking
over the trade journals, we find that the
stamps are condemned everywhere and
steps have been taken, or are being
taken, to do away with the handling of
them. In Ypsilanti, Ann Arbor, Grand
Rapids and other places I do not call to
mind, meetings have been held and res-
olutions adopted to discontinue their
use. (See Michigan Tradesman of
Januaty 5.) In Detroit and other places
the merchants have organized schemes
of their own to offset the scheme of the
supply companies’ trading stamps. In
making a canvass of the city I find that
the general opinion is that reliable,
first-class tradesmen do not need any
scheme with which to purchase custom-
ers. W. H. PorTER.

——_> 2. ___
Hardware in Germany.
From the Philadelphia Record.

General hardware and housefurnishing
hardware, which comprises table, kitch-
en and laundry goods of all kinds, are
not sold in the same stores in Germany.
Stoves also (except gas and oil stoves,
which fall under the head of housefur-
nishings) require separate  establish-
ments, as do also the pewter goods,
which are made in immense quantities,
and which include the wonderfully
carved and ornamented covers which
adorn the German beer mugs. Locks
are handmade from wrought iron, and
are made to the architect’s order to fit
the doors. Of course, such locks are
far more expensive than American
goods made by thousands in factories,
and the idea is slowly finding its way to
the Teutonic brain, but the German has
a great deal of English conservatism in
his makeup, and the locksmith’s reign
promises to be long in the land.

+> 2».

The really remarkable things of life
are seldom heard about; people do not
talk about them.

—_—__» 0.

Do not own property you cannot

afford to insure.

 

Hardware Price Current.

 

AUGURS AND BITS
ee 70

 

Jeunes. eninge, ........ ae
Jennings’, imitation . .. 60&10
AXES
ime Quality 5S. B. Bronze... 5 00
First Quality, i, &. Brome... 9 SO
Pitse Quality. SBS Steel. |. .......... 5 50
inst Quality, DH Side)... 10 50
BARROWS
eaetoas $12 00 14 00
Cen net 30 00
BOLTS
Be 60410
Carriage new list .. 70 to 7

iio ee 50
BUCKETS
Well, plain..... 83
BUTTS, CAST
Cast Loose Pin, ee. --+- 0a10
Wrought Narrow.. - -T0&16
BLOCKS
Cedimary Qaemie 8. 70
CROW BARS
oo ee ..-per lb 4
CAPS
a per m 69
Pease ey .-per m 5d
Ge. D. ee ees ee -perm 35
Ne Te Tc perm 60
CARTRIDGES
hoe Five eee Ss
Conte fie. 2odc 5
CHISELS
poches Firion 80
POGmes HEMI 8... 8... 80
BOCHeR COMME 80
BOCHGG SMeM Lee 80
DRILLS
Morse’s Bit Stocks . Pe ee 60
Taper and Straight Shank...... ence e es One S
Morse’s Taper Shank.. eee cee eee SF
ELBOWS
Com 4pyicee Gin... ............ doz. net 50
Corrugated. ...... eee ee 1 2
UMORO dis 40&10
EXPANSIVE BITS
Clark’s small, $18; T-4 a... 30& 10

ayes, t Gis: = fa. 2 On... 25

FILES—New List

New American ee. CC. TOKO
Nicholson’s.......-

   

Heller’s Horse Rasps..... a
GALVANIZED IRON.

-60&10

  

Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26; 27. ..... 28
List 12 13 i4 1d re. .... 17
Discount, 75 to 75-10
GAUGES
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............... 6UKI0
KNOBS—New List
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings.... ......... 70
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings............ 80
MATTOCKS
Hae Wye... cl le $16 00, dis 60&10
ee PG $15 U0, dis 60&10
Eee je... te. $18 50, dis 20410
NAILS
Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire.
mace tare BARS. 8 wl. Ll, 5
Wire nails, base..... eee ee 8
me ae Oe Siva 1... Bee
Mico te acvence 0S
eee 10
OC eeeante 20
ee ee 30
3 advance.. 45
2 advance... 70
Fine 3 advance 50
Caste We aavemce i... 15
Costas Saevuuce |... ............... 25
Cusine Gadvanee......... ... 35
Pinion Maayvanee,...... .. 2.8... 25
ries 8 ACN 3
inten G@advende ............. 45
Berrel © aGyanee. 85
MILLS
Oomiee, Paster Cos... 40
Coffee, P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s Malleables. .. 40
Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’s........... 40
Coffee, Enterprise So a a 30
MOLASSES GATES
Stebpin'’s Pattern............ -60&10
Pecoosm se Genwi... -60&10
Enterprise, self- measuring . SS ee oe. 30
PLANES
Grice Tool Ce's, fancy... - @50
OO eee 60
Sandusky Peo! Co.'s, fancy ............... @a0
oo eo... .............. @a0
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s wood......... 60
PANS
Ray, Semel 60810410
Common, polished.. ee FO& 5
RIVETS |
Iron and Tinned . eee 60
Copper Rivets and Bere 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
eee = On S wew Ust........ «=. 2556
a le dis 25
Yerkes Pree ck = “—

Mason’s Solid Cast Stee 30¢ lis
Biacksmith’s Solid Oust Steei Hand 30e ies ‘Odi

 

23

HOUSE aa tea aetna =,
Stamped Tin Ware..... : -new list 75&10

Japanned Tin Ware. eddie -20&10
Granite Iron Ware.......... _.. new lst 40&10
HOLLOW WARE
Fots..... ee. . 60&1
Mecuen 60&10
Spiders Lone ..60&10
HINGES |
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2,3.. .....d18 60410
State... i "per “doz. net 250
WIRE Goops
ee... Cs. 80
PerCw Wve 80
HOOk’s..... ee oe 80
Gate Hooks and Eyes. . ee 80

LEVELS
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............dis 70
ROPES
Sisal, % inch and larger....... lope asc. @
Manilla... ewes ud. 8

SQUARES:
Steel and Iron..... a Ma
Pry and Beyela ... ...

Mite
SHEET IRON
com. smooth. com.
Hes i0to mM... ee #2 40
Nes te a 2 40
Nes. Ito 71.... so. 2 2 45
NGOs 22 tee4.... a 2 5d
MOS cae0ce...0... ll 2 6
No. eee 3 20 2%
ll sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30 inches
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
SAND PAPER
List acct. 19, ’86.. — 59

SASH WEIGHTS
Solid Eyes.. -per ton 20 00

“TRAPS”
steel, Game...

Oneida C ommunity, ‘Ne Ww hous se s,

60&10
50
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton's 70&10

 

  
  

Motne ClGmer. ww... per doz 15
Mouse, delusion................. per doz 1 2
WIRE
ripest Marken... tl, 7
mvmeaied Mares... |... %
Copperce MAtmet 70810
Tinned Market.. ES
Coppered Spring Stee ' ' —— 50
Barbed Fence, galvani ized . =i
Barbed Fence, ‘painted. . ' 1 8
—_ NAILS |
An Sable. ..... + 4 oo oo Ole SOE
WOCMOME 8 ee ee ee tke dis 5
mortnwesterm ..............,......., |. dis 1010
WRENCHES
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.............. 30
Coe’s Genuine. cee eo 50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought teh oes 80
Coe’s Patent, malleable. . aes 80
MISCELLANEOUS
Hird Cages ...... 0 50
Pumioe Crterm.......................... 80
Screws, New List..... dea 8d
Casters, Bed and P late. . ---. W&104&10
Dampers, American. ‘ 5
METALS—Zine
600 pound casks...... Ses eea 644
PCE ee 6%

SOLDER
4@ .

12%

The prices of the many ‘other qualities of solder

in the market indicated by private brands vary
according to composition.

ae one

10x14 IC, Charcoal.. | 75

14x20 IC, Charcoal . eee 5 5

mosi4 x, Charcoal .............. 00
Each additional X on this grade, 81.25

TIN—Allaway Grade

wexss 0c Cugieoe .... . 8. 1. 5 00
emo A Cree. C8 sl 5 00
10x14 IX, Charcoal . a“ 6 00
14x20 IX, Charcoal ... 6 00

 

Each additional X on this grade, $1.50.
ROOFING PLATES
[x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean. ...................
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Dean
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean.. ae eu en
14x20 IC Charcoal, Allawse ay Grade. ieee
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade.........
20x28 1C, Charcoal, Allaway Grade.........
20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade......... 1
BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE

14x56 LX, for No. 8 Boilers, )
14x56 IX. for No. 9 Boilers, { Pet pound... °

 

 

*Phone 1357.
THOMAS DUNN & SONS,
WHOLESALE
HARDWARE SPECIALTIES, BELTING,
Engineers, Machinists and
Factory Supplies.

93 PEARL STREBT. GRAND RAPIDS.

¢ Cradesman

. Itemized
Ledgerse

Size, 8% 4x14—3 columns.

2 quires, 160 pag
3 quires, 240
4 quires, 320
5 quires, 400
6 quires, 480
INVOICE RECORD or BILL BOOK.

So double pages, registers _ invoices...... $2 oo

Write for prices.

 

  

TRADESIIAN COMPANY,
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

 

 

 

 

24

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

 

The Grocery Market.

; Hd :
Sugar—The raw sugar situation istun- |

changed. The refiners reduced cut loaf
and crushed ¥c on Monday.

Tea—No change is to be noted in the}

call for the better grades, and the total
of trade is but a fair movement for im-
mediate wants. No changes are reported
in prices.

Coffee—Package goods have been
marked down another %c. The war
between package coffee houses is still
on and the rebates for case lots are still
offered. In some instances bulk coffee
men have refused to reduce prices in

competition with the package goods.

The movement of package zoods is
large, consumption being unusually

good, probably because of low prices.
Nothing new is learned from foreign
coffee fields, except that the prospect is
for large supplies of Brazils the com-
ing year.

Canned Goods—Tomatoes are _ still
the most active line on the list, although
further advances have considerably re-
duced the movement. There has been a
further advance of 2%c per dozen, and
with every succeeding advance the trade
off somewhat. Early in
the week, before the advance occurred,
there was a good trade in tomatoes at
the prices ruling the week before. Corn
1S Strong, and an advance of 2%c has oc-
curred on most grades. The demand is
fair. Peas are very dull, and rule at
unchanged prices. Peaches are almost
as dull as peas, although there is an oc-
enquiry for California brands
in small lots.

Dried Fruits—The yeneral situation
in dried fruits is favorable to holders.
The consumption is steady and large all
over the country. Stocks on the Cali-
fornia coast are very light, while those
in dealers’ hands throughout the coun-
try are thought not to be excessive.
The export demand has not only been
unusually good thus far but it is holding
up well, and the expectation is that this
will much affect the stocks on hand,
and, consequently, strengthen the mar-
ket. The shortage of evaporated and
dried apples this year has made the de-

nand for California dried fruits un-

usually good, better in fact than has
ever known. The export
demand for apriccts has been larger than
that for any other line of fruit, while
the kome demand has been larger than
that of last year. Although the crop of
1897 was about double that of 1896, yet
the increased demand seems to have ab-
sur_lus without trouble. The
r seeded raisins this year is
to the scarcity of currants
and their comparatively high price.
But the demand for the raisins has
caused an excess of brands, and a com-
petition that has depressed the market,
and caused some irregularity in prices.
The situation in prunes is said to be
better than ever for holders.

Rice—The demand runs chiefly to
foreign, owing to the better assortment
offered’ in those grades, as compared
with the assoriment of domestic grades.
Stocks at primary points are light for
both rough and clean.

Spices—The jobbing demand is fair
to good, and this gets a good many or-
ders on the books at top prices. Mail
advices from abroad confirm previous
cables of a strong market there, with
holders having everything pretty much
their own way at the same time. Two
thousand bags of cloves were sold in
New York Monday, causing a slight ad-
vance in price.

Provisions—The market has notice-

seems to fall

casional

 

before been

sorbed the
demand fo

due largely

snes stenrnreatemnenencren

| ably improved during the last two
|weeks. The holiday demand for poultry
| is entirely over, anda good, lively trade
| in: provisions bas now developed. The
business in provisions has, in fact,
about doubled in the last two weeks.
Prices have advanced considerably,
and at the present writing are very
strong. Lard is stiff, but no further ad-
vance is expected.

Fish—Mackerel are selling right along,
and prices are steadily advancing.
While the prices from first hands have
advanced several notches in the last few
weeks, the jobbing prices have been un-
touched, but sooner or later an advance
must come. Mackerel at present are
undoubtedly good property. Cod is sell-
ing better, but is still rather quiet. The
weather has been too warm. Prices are
unchanged. Salmon are in much bet-
ter demand, and larger orders are forth-
coming. Prices are still unchanged,
but advances are likely to come even-
tually. Sardines are very strong, and
are held at the advance noted some time
ago.

> Oe — —
The Produce Market.

Apples—Michigan grown Northern
Spys are _in moderate request at $3.50
per bbl. The quality is far from choice.
Ozarks and Etrus, from Arkansas, fetch
$4.

Bananas—There is no change in the
market, but the movement and the sup-
ply are both good. The weather is fa-
vorable for the good movement of the
fruit,

Beets—25c per doz.

Butter—There has been a good trade
in dairy grades during the past week.
The market is in a healthy condition,
but has declined somewhat during the
past week. Fancy grades are selling
as fast as they come in on the basis of
14@15c. Factory creamery is in fair de-
mand at 18@Igc.

Cabbage—The market is without
change, choice stock commanding only
$2.50 per Ioo.

Carrots—25c per bu

Celery—15@18c per bunch. The
higher range of values is due to a
marked improvement in the quality of
the offerings.

Cranberries—Cape Cods and Jerseys
command $7.50. Quite liberal supplies
are in sight and the movement is satis-
factory.

Eggs—There is a general scarcity of
fresh eggs, caused either by an actual
shortage in the lay, or the fact that
farmers are holding stock back. At
present there are really not enough fresh
eggs to supply the demand, but this is
largely the normal shortage which oc-
curs at this season. Refrigerator eggs
are about cleaned up, and those which
are still available are bringing close to
the price of the fresh, which easily com-
mand 2oc for carefully candled stock.

Game—Dealers pay 75c per doz. for
rabbits, which are scarce.

Honey—ric for white comb and toc
for dark.

Lemons—There is but a light move-
ment, the market remaining steady un-
der light receipts of both Californias and
Messinas,

Lettuce—12@15c per lb. for hot-house
stock.

Onions—The market is weaker and
lower, so far as home grown stock is
concerned, both yellow and red varieties
being held at 7o@75c. Spanish remain
the same, $1.75 per crate, but the de-
mand is not large.

Oranges—The market is weaker. Out-
side prices of last week cannot be ob-
tained, and inside quotations are the
best that can be had. This is true of
all the stocks, seedlings, navels, and
Mexicans. The decline is about 25c per
box. The stock arriving is very good,
and is plentiful. The movement is
large, and will be larger as the season
advances. The promise is of the lar-
gest crop the West Coast has ever seen.

Potatoes—The market is without par-
ticular change. Buying is brisk at
most points in Northern Michigan on

 

 

the basis of about 45c and shipments
are going forward rapidly at fairly re-
munerative prices. Most of the Michi-
gan crop Is finding ai outlet in the East-
erp and Central States, the Southern
demand being met by Wisconsin and
Minnesota shippers, who have a more
favorable rate into Texas than Michigan
shippers can succeed in obtaining.

weet Potatoes—Kuiln dried Illinois
Jerseys are in good demand and ample
supply at $3.50@3.75 per bbl.

: —____» 2.
Proposed Macaroni Trust.

A meeting of importers, manufacturers |
last |

and brokers in macaroni was_ held
week in New York to bring about, if
possible, some concerted action in the

future method of handling this product. |
1S |

Present prices of macaroni, it
claimed, are unfairly low, and the ulti-
mate object of the current negotiations,
it is understood, is to secure the main-
tenance of higher figures. After some
discussion a committee was appointed,
executive in its nature, to devise means
for bringing about the ends desired.
The committee will confer with mem-
bers of the trade.

WANTS COLUMN.

BUSINESS CHANCES.
rfro EXCHANGE—DOUBLE FLAT HOUSE
in Grand Rapids for stock of dry goods:
property worth %,000. Address Lock Box 157.
Grand Rapids, Mich. 482
YORSALE AT A SACRIFICE~—STOCK OF
boots and shoes, invoicing about $1,200.
Address Wm. H Gardner, Greenville, Mich. 4s0

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OR SALE—A GOOD CLEAN DRUG STOCK
in one of the best locations in Grand Rapids.
Reason for selling, proprietor not rez istered
pharmacist. Address S, care Michigan Trades-
man. 477

AY JANTED—SALESMAN TO SELL SHOES
and rubbers; territory, Michigan, north of
Grand Rap ds. Must have an acquaintance and
good references. Address Jobber, care Michi-
gan Tradesman. 483

+. SALE, CHEAP FOR CASH—52 ACRE
farm with orchard and buildings, one mile
from Clio; or can use a bazaar, book or station-
ery stock as part or whole payment. F. J. Kel-
sey, Saginaw, E. S., Mich. 478
_ ALL KINDS OF GRAIN IN CAR
lots. Name price or ask forbids. Rhodes
Co., Grain Brokers, Granger, Ind. 4379
OR SALE—»TOCK DRUGS AND FIXTURES
in a town of 500 population with only four
drug stores. Terms to suit, with a smali pay-
ment down. Address W. W. Hunt, unde: City
National Bank, Grand Rapids, Mich. 476
OR SALE — GROCERY, WELL ESTAB-
lished in good farming town of 3.000; terms
tosuit. I have other business. Address No.
467, care Michigan Tradesman. 467
\ JANTED—LOCATION FOR DRUG STOCK
in town of 500 to 5,000. Address Geo. W.
Kern, Prairieville, Mich. 459

 

 

 

 

O EXCHANGE—900 ACRES OF GILT-EDGE
white and red oak timber, only three miles
from railroad, for stock of bazaar or dry goods;
also two houses in Battle Creek to exchange four
baz ar stock; also furniture factory in State of
Iowa to exchange for good business or residence
property. For particulars address No. 469, care
Mivhigan Tradesman. 469
CHANCE TO SPECULATE—A COMPLETE
ue carriage factory, with all necessary machin-
ery, Carriage materials, complete vehicles and
an established trade, for sale for less than half
its value. Mason Carriage Co., Mason, Mich.
470
y JANTED TO BUY—A STOCK OF BOOTS
and shoes and turn in as part payment a
well-located piece of Grand Rapids real estate.
Stock must not be less than $2,000 nor more than
$5,000. Address Shoes, care Michigan Trades
man. 475

Foe SALE—100 Ib. new Dayton scale at 50
cents on the dollar. Address Groceryman,
care Mich‘gan Tradesman. 473
EST LOCATION FOR GRIST MILL IN THE
State. Good grain region. Location and
building will be given outright to man with
$4,000 capital, Address for particulars, J. C.
Neuman, Dorr, Mich. 763
OR SALE—OLD-ESTABLISHED MEAT
business, located at 253 Jefferson avenue.
Smoke house and all modern conveniences.
Present owner soon leaves city. Enquire on
premises. \ 464
OR SALE OR RENT-—STORE BUILDING,
30x70 feet, fixtures on ground floor, good-
paying = house above, dwelling rooms,
barns and ice house in rear, adapted to any
kind of business. Store fitted with electric
lights. G. K Coffey, White Cloud. Mich. 457
4 GOOD FLOURING MILL,
best location in the State; also good plan
Address F. Salisbury, Middleton,
447

   
 

 

 

 

 

ing mill.
Mich. ae
OR SALE—DRUG STOCK FOR CASH, ONE-
third its real value. Address Copperas, care
Michigan Tradesman. 450
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 Ottawa St.. Grand Rapids, 449
OR SALE—IN ONE OF THE BEST BUSI-

 

ness towns in Northern Michigan, my entire
stock of groceries; only grocery store in Petos-
key doing a strictly cash business. Good reasons
for selling. For particulars write to J. Welling
«& Co., Petoskey, Mich. 441
\ ANTED—BUTTER AND EGGS. IF YOU
want good prices and quick returns w ite
us. Lunn & Strong, Toledo, Ohio 402
J ANTED — FIRST-CLASS BUTTER FOR
retail trade. Cash paid. Correspond with
Caulkett & Co., Traverse City, Mich. 381
JOR EXCHANGE—TWO FINE IMPROVED
farms for sicck of merchandise; splendid
location. Address No. 73, care Michigan —
man. ve

PATENT SOLICITORS.

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