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GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1898.

COLD CASH.
How It Has Been Supplanted by the
Check Book.

An abundance of money is looked up-
on in many quarters asa panacea for all

the industrial and commercial ills which.

exist. Silver, greenbacks—anything,
in fact, which can be called money—is
demanded, and it is not quality but
quantity that is wanted. It is not the
purpose of this article to discuss the
financial question from any point of
view, nor to get mixed up in the war
of the standards, but merely to call at-
tention to a very simple fact in modern
business methods which may not be
generally known, or if known may not
be fully appreciated. This fact is that
comparatively little money, by which
is meant currency and coin, enters into
commercial transactions, It is safe to
say that in fully three-quarters of the
business done in this city not a dollar
of money is used. If the modern busi-
ness man has a few bills to pay, he does
not go forth with a bag of coin in one
hand and a_ wad of greenbacks in his
pocket, but he carries the convenient
little check book with him, and the
bills are paid with checks on the bank,
where, of course, he has a deposit. The
extent to which business is done with
checks, drafts, postal notes and similar
evidences of credit, is surprising, and
even the business men themselves have
little idea of how the checks have sup-
planted currency and coin in the trans-
actions of the day. At the Old National
Bank it is estimated that not to exceed
20 per cent. of the daily deposits are in
cash, while the remaining 80 per cent.
is in checks, drafts and similar tokens.
At the Fourth National the estimate is
the same. At the People’s Savings
Bank it is estimated that a somewhat
larger percentage is in cash, owing to
the savings department. Among busi-
ness men, the stories are the same.
Foster, Stevens & Co. estimate that
of their daily receipts nut to exceed 5
per cent. is in money. The Lemon &
Wheeler Company estimates 20 per cent.
in cash, including the collections from
the city trade, while from the outside
trade the percentage is not above Io.
Amos S. Musselman, of the Musselman
Grocer Co., went over his deposit slips
for sixty days to ascertain the exact
proportion, and found that his receipts
were a small fraction in excess of 17
per cent. cash, and the balance in
checks, drafts and postal notes. The
Putnam Candy Co.’s cash receipts are
20 per cent. of the total and _ the
Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co.’s are 15
per cent. In the retail trade the per-
centage of cash is naturally larger, but
even here checks and drafts’ enter
largely into the business transactions.
The Houseman & Jones Co. estimates
that its receipts are not above 50 per
cent. cash. The smaller stores in the
suburbs and the stores doing business in
comparatively small things, like candy
and notions, take in almost all cash,
but the average Monroe street merchant
receives as much or more in checks than
in money. Among the manufacturers
cash receipts are almost unknown, and

 

the larger the house and the more ex-

tended the business the smaller the
proportion of money used. Scarcely a
dollar is ever seen in the receipts of
many of the manufacturing concerns,
but their deposits will run up into the
thousands of dollars daily—all in
checks, drafts and postal notes. W. R.
Shelby, of the Grand Rapids & Indiana
Railroad, estimates that about half the
business of that road, involving $2, 500, -
000 annually, is done in checks or drafts
and the balance in cash. The use of
money on this road includes the pay-
ment of $100,000 monthly in money to
the employes of the road. The percent-
age of money used by the Chicago &
West Michigan Railway is much less,
because the pay rolls are made up in the
form of checks, which are distributed
among the employes, instead of passing
out the coin or currency. Even in the
newspaper office the check system of do
ing business prevails. E. D. Conger,
of the Herald, estimates, after examin-
ing his deposit slips for sixty days, that
not to exceed 30 per cent. comes in in
the form of cash, and this includes his
collections on subscriptions as well as
other receipts.

Taking the other side of the question
-bow much is paid out in money and
how much in credit paper, the situation
is equally interesting. Labor is paid
for in ready money, but aside from the
labor claims, rot a tenth of the dis-
bursements are in cash, ali the remain-
der being paid by check or draft. The
rent, lighting, heating and other local
incidentals in doing business, even the
advertising and charity contributions,
are all paid by check, and in remitting
for goods or supplies it isdone with the

ever-ready check book. The smail
suburban storekeepers and the mer-
chants doing business in the’ small

towns which have no banking facilities
often pay their bills in money instead
of keeping a bank account to check
against, but frequently the latter carry
balances in the nearest city bank, or
when they remit for goods purchased
they do so in postal or express orders.
Not all lapor is paid for in money. The
city, county, government and_ school
officials and employes all receive their
stipends in checks and _ have to go to
the bank for the cash.

Many of the professional men do al-
most their entire business in checks,
receiving their income in that form
and disbursing most of it in the same
way, and there are some men in town
with salaries that are very comfortable
to have who scarcely see a real dollar
{rom the end of one month to the end
of the next.

In real estate transactions involving
large amounts, it is rarely that a dollar
in money changes hands. The parties
get together and a few scratches of the
pen does the business. The buyer draws
his check on the bank and hands it over
in exchange for the deed, and the seller
deposits it to his credit, and although
the transaction may involve a_ thousand
dollars or a hundred thousand, nobody
has seen any money. It is just as real
a transaction, however, as though the
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Number 749

the table. It is the modern way of do-
ing business. It is a transfer of credit
from one party to another and the banks
keep the books.

The bank clearings show to what a
small extent cash enters into business.
For the week of January 3 the clearings
were $1,175,522.37, and the balances
$229,804.82, or only I9 percent. For
the week of January to the clearings
were $1,296,417.66 and the balances
$349, 502.41, or about 24 per cent. The
clearings and balances can be taken
right through the year and it will be
found that the latter rarely exceeds 25
per cent. and often run as low as 15
per cent. The balances represent the
amount of money’ which actually
changes hands from one bank to an-
other in straightening out the checks
and drafts which have been received.
If one bank, for instance, holds checks
payable at another to the amount of
$100 and the other holds checks against
the first for only $75, the $25 difference
is paid in cash and the credit paper 1s
exchanged.

While the check book has a history
that runs far back into the ages, in its
extensive use it is a creature of com-
paratively recent years. It has many
commendable features from the business
man’s point of view. It is handy, for
one thing, as with it the exact amount
of a bill can be paid without making
change. It is convenient, because any
amount can be transferred without dan-
ger of loss. It can be sent by mail or
messenger, and it is a receipt for pay-
ment in itself, as the payee must en-
dorse it before he can realize on it. It
is something that has come tc stay, and,
instead of decreasing in use, it is prob-
able that it will enter more and more
into the business affairs of the world.
The check or draft is not in any sense
of the word money. It is nothing more
than an evidence of credit, and in its
use the entire transaction often involves
merely a transfer of credit at the bank
from one account to another. Laws
have been enacted for the protection of
these evidences of credit, but their
greatest protection is commercial honor
and integrity, and it is confidence that
gives them life. No matter if the coun-
try were flooded with money, the check
book would still be used and business
would still be done with credit paper
instead of cash.

The New York Times thinks the real
prohibition movement that prohibits is
the one inaugurated by business men.
The business man does not waste much
time in denouncing intoxicants, and
none in threatening those who indulge
in them with prison, he simply says, ‘‘if
you drink you cannot work for me.’’
This ultimatum has now been formu-
lated by most of the great railways,
other corporations are repeating it one
after another, and private employers,
commercial and professionai, are fast
joining in the enforcement of this great
boycott against drunkards. The effects
of the movement are to be seen in every
line of industry. Whatever may be said
about otber sorts of prohibition, this

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Dry Goods

Good Window Displays and Full
Stocks Essential to Success.
Written for the TRADESMAN.

During my travels through the State I
have had occasion to meet with retail
merchants almost exclusively, and, as a
rule, of the smaller towns; and, from
the standpoint of close observation, I
would say that, generally, too little at-
tention is paid to the stock. You will,
nine times out of ten, and especially in
the smaller towns, hear the plea that
trade doesn’t demand it so strictly as
m the larger cities. “In the first
place,’’ say these dealers, ‘“‘the people
of the smaller towns have not been ed-
ucated to that which pleases the eye, as
have their city friends.’’

That is very true, but it is not just
exactly what I mean. I have reference
more to orderliness of the stock anda
promptness to keep it up; or, in other
words, don’t let it diminish or run
down. This may seem a minor point,
but it is very essential to a thoroughly
successful business.

I know this much to be a fact: I have
been in places where a customer would
come in and would tail to obtain over
half the articles he or she desired. I
can recall, at this time, two or three
such instances—yes, half a dozen. I
was witness of the following: A lady
came into a grocery store and asked for
a dollar's worth of granulated sugar.
The grocer replied, “Well, now, I'm
sorry, Mrs. M., about this. I ordered
that sugar over a week ago and it ought
to have been here Wednesday. I can’t
imagine why it hasn’t come.’’ ‘‘ Well,
have you any of that 35 cent tea?’’
questioned Mrs. M. ; ‘‘it was so nice.’’
‘“*No, we haven't,’’ was the answer;
‘‘we'’re just out of that, too; but we’ve
got some here at 25 cents that is just as
good.’’ ‘*No, I don’t think I care for
any of that,”’ said Mrs..M. °“l ‘be-
came attached to the other and don’t
like to change. Have you any of those
seedless raisins—the 12-cent kind?’’
**Did those raisins come in this morn-
ing with that soap and stuff on the
freight, John?’’ asked Mr. B., turning
to his clerk. Of course, John has his
cue and answers, ‘‘No.’’ The fact of
the matter ts, they haven't, as yet, even
been ordered, and Mr. B. well knows
it, but, as a nice polite way of smooth-
ing things over, asks bis clerk. ‘‘I will
fake a sack of salt, Mr. B.”" * Jast
hand down one of those sacks of salt
over there in the corner, John. Here
you are, Mrs. M. Now will that be
all?’"

The salt was paid for and I suppose
the grocer laughed in his sleeve at the
**slick’’ way he got out of his embarrass-
ment. I don’t suppose it should be
termed ‘‘embarrassment’’ in his case,
however, for he was probably so used
to such occurrences that they had be-
come sort of second naturetohim. But
if he knew how this neglectful way of
Carrying on his business is hurting him,
he would cease it at once. There is no
need of it; it is merely negligence on
his part. Of course, there are excep-
tions to the rule, it must be admitted,
and no one knows the cause better than
the ones concerned.

 

Neatness should not be overlooked as
essential to a successful business, for
what pleases one more, on entering a
Store, than to have a bright clean floor
meet the eye, or a neat, tastefully-ar-
ranged stock? Why, it is really allur-
ing ; and the man who pays strict atten-

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tion to the arrangement of his stock and
its cleanliness,and has a hearty greet-
ing for every one, is the man who will
succeed.

Arrange your stock ina little differ-
ent way occasicnally and it will not look
sO Monotonous to the customer ; for what
strikes and fascinates the eye so quick-
ly as a different arrangement of things
in a room every time you visita friend?

If you see your stock is diminishing
fast, and you have not, as yet, replaced
it, it is a good plan to shove it to the
front in the shelves and they will have
the appearance of being full.

When you clean house, begin on the
outside of the wall—that is, with the
front of your store. Don’t be afraid of
spoiling the windows with water, for
they are the searchlights for trade.
Keep them clean, by all means; they
are the first department that meets the
trade, and do not repel it at first sight
with dirty windows. Monopolize your
windows to the best of your ability;
they are your greatest drawers. Fix
them up tastily. Do not throw goods
into them at random, for that will reveal
your ignorance more readily than any-
thing else. Decorate your windows in
harmony with the season and with pub-
lic events; this will show your wise
forethought and give you an advantage
over your Competitors who do not take
these things into consideration. Change
your windows as often as once a week ;
and be sure and make a clean sweep, for
by so doing you will catch the same
persons’ attention twice.

Another very essential thing, but
which many stores do not take advan-
tage of and practice, is to place neat,
not too large cards, bearing the price on
most of the articles in the window dis-
play. This does away with any doubts
that might linger in the minds of per-
sons as to the cost and they will feel
confidence to enter the store to pur-
chase. If they did not know the price
they would perhaps think to themselves,
‘‘Well, maybe I have not enough money
with me to pay for that, so I will not go
in.’’ They would rather deny them-
selves than fail to have the price after
asking it. And, therefore, you would
be the loser when, at some future time,
they would be positive of possessing
the price but might go elsewhere to pur-
chase.

Those who deviate the least from the
following are the winners in the long
run: That which you advertise in your
display windows conform to in your
store. And ever abide by ‘‘Honesty is
the best policy.’’ A little deception,
or a little misrepresentation, may boom
your business for a time; but if the say-
ing, ‘‘You can fool some of the people
all of the time, and all of the people
some of the time, but you can’t fool all
of the people all of the time,’’ was true
in Abraham Lincoln's time, it is surely
the more so to-day; for, as years wear
on, more schemes spring into project
and in this age the people have kept
abreast of the times. Last, but not
least, employ good clerks. A clerk at
$5 a week is worth just that much and
no more to an employer. Aclerk at $15
a week will work more for the store’s
interest, be less bother and sell more
goods for his emioyer and be worth
more. than the three combined. Of
course, there are clerks and clerks,
Some clerks will take as much interest
in your business as though it were their
own. But these are few, and are getting
fewer every year. Pick out such an
one, and when you once get him, hang
onto him. This clerk, I Say, 1S worth
$15 where it would take a score of the
other class to be of much value to you.

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Woman’s World

The Enviable Position of the American
Wife.

The American woman has _ been
praised more than enough in many di-
rections. She has been extolled for her
beauty and grace, for her wit and clev-
erness and for her adaptability, but in
one relation, and that the most im-
portant in life, she has received far less
than her just meed of appreciation. It
has been felt that being married was
not her forte. In whatever else she
might excel she was not a conspicuous
success or a shining example as a wife.
When people talk about model wives
we hear a great deal of the many and
admirable virtues of the British matron,
of the industry of the German house-
frau and the frugality of the French
bourgeois woman. Nobody rises to say
a word about the American woman, al-
though nine times out of ten she could
give any of them points in her specialty
and beat her at her own game.

In one of his poems on America
Kipling says that we are the jester and
the jest. Nothing is too high, or too
sacred, or too dear to us to escape be-
ing caricatured, and so it happens that
the picture we oftenest give to the
world of the American wife is a domes-
tic burglar, who arises in the silent
night to go through her husband’s pock-
ets, or else a shrieking new woman,
who leaves her poor, down-trodden hus-
band at, home of evenings to rock the
cradle while she lets herself out with a
latch-key and goes off to haranguea
meeting of other wives on the oppressed
condition of their sex. It may be
argued that no one takes these things
seriously. It is a time-worn joke we
revere for its antiquity and love for old
acquaintance’ sake, but, all the same, it
has had its influence in cheapening the
popular idea of the American wife.

In spite of all that has been said to
the contrary, there is no other country
in the world where the relations between
husbands and wives is so nearly ideal
as inthis. The marriage of convenience,
the marriage for money or position, is
almost unknown among us except in
that society which apes the customs of
foreign lands. When an American man
marries it is not to acquire a domestic
servant, or a doll with which to amuse
himself in his idle hours, but, at least,
in the hope of perfect and equal com-
panionship. Nearly always he gets it,
and a shrewd business partner thrown
into the bargain besides. You can al-
ways count on there being some sort of
laggniappe given with the American
woman, and under the frothiest and
lightest exterior there is pretty apt to be
a rock bottom of good, hard, practical
sense.

It always seems to the American
woman that the wives of other coun-
tries, who are held up for her admira-
tiou and imitation, have rather the
easier time of it. It would be compar-
atively simple to make yourself a deco-
rative object to adorn a man’s house, if
that were all that was expected of you.
It would be simple enough to accom-
plish marvels of cooking and “house-
keeping if that were the chief end of
life. It is when one attempts to com-
bine the useful and the ornamental—to
be a Dresden statuette in the parlor and
a reliable range in the kitchen—that
the situation becomes trying and calls
for genuine ability. Yet this is what
we expect of the average American
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must be a paragon of domesticity, an
ornament to society, a wonder in finance
and a light in the literary circle to
which she belongs.

In our curious social system, many
things are left to her that the men at-
tend to in other countries. For one
thing, her husband expects her to as-
sume all authority and management of
the home and family. He doesn’t want
to be bothered about it. When he makes
the money he feels he has done his
whole duty, and he leaves the rest to
her. When he comes home, tired out,
after a day’s work, he wants rest, to
read his paper, to think out some
scheme in which he is interested. If his
wife has any idea of leaning on his su-
perior judgment and asking his advice
about domestic problems she is very
soon undeceived. Great | Scott,
Mary!’’ is the impatient reply, ‘‘can’t
you manage your own affairs? I haven t
got time to see about it. Settle it yeur-
self.’’

It is the same way about the children.
The American father is generally a
devoted parent, but he wants his wife
to do the managing and the training.
In the brief. hours he is at home, the
little ones are his playthings, and he
spoils them, and indulges them with a
happy sense that he has no responsibil-
ity about it and that their mother will
have to do the subsequent disciplining.
She is responsible for their mental and
physical well-being. She decides on
the schools, and what they shall study,
what colleges they shall attend, and all
the rest of it. The average American
John has a well-founded belief that his
Mary is the smartest woman in the
world, and knows what she is about,
and so, at last, when she announces that
the children need to go to Europe to
study this or that, he consents through
mere force of habit. He is so much in
the way of letting he: decide things it
doesn’t occur to him he could raise a
dissenting voice.

To her, too, he leaves the matter of
society. She dominates it, and runs it,
and an American married man’s social
position depends entirely on his wife. If
she is ambitious he climbs meekly up
the social ladder in her wake; if she is
not ambitious, they sit comfortably and
contentedly down on the lowe: rungs,
and stay there. He feels that he would
be a bungler in the game of society,
aud he simply backs her hand for all it
is worth. He pays for the house in the
fashionable neighborhood’ of _ her
choice, and for her entertainments, but
he leaves all the rest to ‘‘ mother and the
girls.’’ They must attend to the intri-
cate social machinery, that he admits is

a necessity, and is perfectly willing to}

support with anything but his own pres-
ence.

If the American wife is expected to
superintend the education of the chil-
dren, so, to a large extent, the literary
life of the community is left to her.
She has the time her busy husband can-
not spare to read the magazines, and
new books, and to belong to clubs that
are studying everything under the sun.
It is the greatest educational movement
the world has ever seen that these quiet
American wives are inaugurating. Not,
perhaps, as critics say, that they are
learning so much themselves from the
course of study that may be superficial,
but because the woman who studies will
see to it that her children are educated.
A woman's life is within her home. A
man gets the wide, free education that
toiling men and rough life teaches, and
the reason American women are so often

 

able to retain their husbands’ affection
to the very end is because they keep
step with them, and do not sink into
household drudges or ugly and_uninter-
esting dolls after the fresh bloom of
youth has worn off. It takes work, it
takes care and thinking, but it is worth
it.

It is often said there is a woman _ be-
hind the door cf every man’s success,
and nowhere is that so true as of Ameri-
can men. American women have been
dealt with hardly in fiction. They have
been made fair barbarians and silly
Daisy Millers; when they have been put
into fashionable society they have aped
the luxury and haughtiness without the
dignity of the Lady Gwendolins and
Irmintrudes of the Old World, but when
the great American novel is written it
should show her in a kindlier light.

It should be a domestic story, for we
are at heart a domestic people, and it
should tell the great American story that
we see every day, and whose fineness
and humor, and tenderness, and_ pathos
we only miss because it is so familiar.
It is an idyl of love, where a poor
young fellow marries a poor young girl,
and they begin their life together. They
have as their capital youth, and health,
and ambition, and ability. They are
comrades, and work, and save together.
At first, their home is such a one as the
swallows build, almost, for cheapness,
but there is always love and the sweet
smile of her dear face, and when his
courage fails, as it must to everyone
sometimes who is fighting the hard bat-
tle of life, it is her belief in him, her
brave heart that nerves him for the
struggle again. Sometimes it is the
wife’s subtle brain that sees, and her
keen intuition that discerns points her
husband misses; sometimes it is her
pluck that takes risks he shrinks from;
always, if he succeeds, it is her hand that
helps. So the years go by, each one
-ringing some advancement until, at
last, perhaps, we speak of the man as
judge, as senator, or merchant prince,
or even president. And the marvel of

all is that the woman has nearly always |

kept pace with her husband in every
way, and when he is called to his high
place she, who has often known only calico
gowns, and the cooking stove, and the
washtub, is ready to take her place be-
side him in point lace and diamonds.
That is the story of nearly every suc-
cessful man in this country, and in the
largest and fullest and truest sense it
is the story of the American wife.

DorotHy Dx.
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A state monopoly of the liquor trade }
is shortly to be established in St. Pet- |
ersburg, which will entail the closing |
of 353 restaurants and several hundred |
wineshops, throwing 12,000 persons out |

of employment.
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“The bazaar held in the grounds of the

Yildiz kiosk for the benefit of the Turk- |
ish soldiers wounded or disabled in the}

war with Greece has realized a sum of |

over $200, coo.

|

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will be at Sweet's Hotel with
Miller & Co.’s famous line of
Men’s and Boys’ Clothing
February 5, 6, 7 and 8 inclu-
sive. All customers’ expenses

allowed. Come one, come all.

MERCHANTS

who have lost money trying to
carry a stock of clothing should
read this.

 

 

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This celebrated brand of

Ready-to-Wear
5 ’ .
Men’s and Boys’ Clothing
is sold in every state and territory by our
agents who furnish the desired sizes from
ourgreat warehouses.
Wew nt more good agents in towns and

cities where we are not now represented.
Men’s suits, $4.00 to $15.00; Boys’ suits
$4.00 to $10.00. Men’s pants 75e to 4 00.
Complete outfit free. Write for par-
ticulars.
WHITE CITY TAILORS,
213 to 217 Adams Street, Chicago.

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and Ruberoid Ready Roofing for use instead of shingles.

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Three boys have go oranges between them
divided as follows: the first boy 10, the
second 30, and the third 50. They are to
sell them at the same price per orange,
each boy to realize the same amount of
money. In what manner do they dispose of
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Mosherville F.

chased the dry goods and grocery busi-

ness of D. F. Culver.
Lake Odessa— McKelvey & Townsend,
hardware dealers, have dissolved, B.

go

McKelvey succ eeding.

Alt Chas. N. Chicago,
has charge of the clothing department of

na Gibson, of
Vermeulen’s new store

Man
clothing, furnishing and boot and

Bros.

the
shoe

Frank Jarka continues

ates

business of Jarka

Ludington The dry goods and notion

Hamburger has been

under chattel mortgage.

W |, irede bas
meat business under the

stock of I.

Greenville

the

em-

barked in

style of the Model market
Milford—H. ]. Lee & Bro. succeed
Harvey J. Lee in the hardware, paint,

o!l and implement business.
Judson Bancroft has pur-
chased the store building and dry goods

‘
opring port

stock owned by Frank Oyer.

Mt. Jacob Ackerman. suc-
ceeds Ackerman in the tm-
plement and carriage business.

Holland—H. E. Reyher, boot and
shoe removed to Geneva,
Ind., will conduct a depart-
ment store.

Marquette

Pleasant

tarber &

dealer, has
where he
-Wm. Blackwood and Neil
Deemer have formed a copartnership
and the plumbing and
harness business.

lonia—Mrs. Fred Sommers and Miss
Carrie Stoddard have purchased the
millinery stock of Mrs. J. A. Pickhaver.
Mrs. Sommers and Miss Linnie Pullman
have also purchased the ladies’ furnish-
ing goods stock of Miss Mattie Ruther-
ford. The stocks will be consolidated
under the style of Mrs. Fred Sommer &
Co,

embarked in

Hodge has pur- |

seized |

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAW

  

 

 

here

assar—-Knowles & Peters have so
their meat market to Wm. Davies, wh:
wi continue the business at the sam
ocation. <nowles & Peters will re

move to Flint and open the old Warre
market.

(xford—The cc
M. Bowers and E.
n, under the style of Bowers

ypartnership existing

.
between Irvin N.
Copetr

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dissolved.

bas Mr.
continue the meat business

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n his

an,
wers will
own bame.

Morley—Frank Hamilton, who bas
for some time past been acting as man-

ager of Wm. F. Nagler’s drug store,
has purchased the stock and will re-
imove it to Stetson, where he will em-
| bark in the drug business.

Montrose—Haight Bros., who have

been conducting a drug store here for
the past three years, bave decided to
embark in tbe banking business and
will form a limited copartnership with
i several local business men for that pur-
; pose,
Cadillac—P. W. Nichols has leased
'the Morris Black store building
| South Mitchell street, occupied by the
| city bakery. Negotiations are pending
iby which he expects to purchase the
\stock of groceries and bakers’ goods
| from the occupants, Mattoon & Letts.

on

Saginaw--Chris. Graebner, Chas. A.
Oliver and G. Thos. Oliver, who have
conducted the Graebner shoe house at
418 West Genesee avenue, have dis-
solved partnership. Mr. Graebner takes
the Court street store, and Messrs. Oli-
ver, under the style of Oliver Bros.,
| will continue the business on Genesee
avenue.

 

Ypsilanti—Several Ypsilanti ladies
received letters from ‘‘E. J. Thorn &
|Co.,’’ of New York, offering ten or

| twelve yards of pure silk for $3 an end,

| $2 to be paid down and the remainder up-
|on receipt of the silk. A number in-
|vested. Someone wrote to the New
| York police, who replied that the con-
cern bad a little room, always locked,
containing only four chairs and a table.
The postoffice authorities have been
notified.

Manufacturing Matters.
Shepherd—C. C. Field is putting in
new elevators and making otber needed
improvements in his grist mill.
Brooklyn—Aylesworth Bros. are put-
ting in tbe necessary machinery for a
blast furnace to manufacture a patent
fence post.

 

' erected

itracting Co.

The flouring mills here
changed hands, A. M.
Keeney, of Adrian, having purchased

the

Hanover
Have again
property.

Big Beaver— Mason Leonard offers to
erect and equip a factory here provid-
g the farmers will pledge the requisite
imber of cows.

-The Welsh Manufactur-
ing Co. succeeds the Welsh Kerry
Manufacturing Co. in the manufacture

Reed City

iy
(

of maple flooring and boxes.

Jackson—W. A.
King have formed a copartnership
der the style of the Jackson Machine
Co. embark in the manufac-
ture and repairing of machinery.

B.

un-

Richard and Ff.

and will
Oxford—Jossman & Allen, who oper-
grain elevator at this place, have
1 partnership. The business
be continued by J. A. Jossman un-
the style of J. A. Jossman & Co.
ckson—W. V. Parmalee is hauling
timber for his grist mill to be
at the corner of Chicago and
Mechanic streets. Ibe machinery for
the mil] comes from the flouring mill at
Napoleon.

Detroit—F. K. Stearns, David Me-
ginnity and E. J. Booth have filed arti-
cles of association as the Michigan Con-
The firm is capitalized at
$6,000, and the articles say the work to
be done is to equip railways, steam and
electric.

Saginaw-—-The Barrows Music Co.,
which until recently has conducted the
retail business exclusively, will remove
to larger quarters and engage extensive-
ly in the manufacture of mandolins,
banjos, guitars and the Barrows patent
musical cabinet.

Detroit—Thorpe, Conely & Co., drugs
and chemicals, have filed articles of as-
sociation. The capital] stock is $10,000,
of which $6,000 is paid in, and the 600
shares taken are held as follows: Clar-
ence Conely, George W. Henry, W.
W. Hannan and Frank E. Pilcher, 150
shares each.

Owosso—Eben F. Dudley, who has
made a comfortable fortune through the
manufacture of process butter, offers to
establish a cheese factory here in the
event of certain conditions being com-
plied with. The proposition is under
consideration by a committee of the
Business Men's Association.

Detroit—Articles incorporating the
cigar manufacturing firm of John P.
Lieberman & Co. have been filed. The
capital stock is $10,000, all paid in,
and held by John P. Lieberman, with
the exception of two shares, of $1!0
each, which are held by Wm. G. Ham-
burg and Harry Schratz, respectively.

Detroit—Articles of incorporation of
the Michigan Heater Co. have been
filed. The capital stock is $15,000, of
which $2,500 is paid in. The stock is
held as follows: Frank Zannoth, 50
shares; August Knebusch, 700; Henry
Beehm, 100; John Rutkowski, 50; Ed-
ward Henike, too; Herman D. Keller,
500.
Alpena—Robert McKinney, repre-
senting the Michigan Cheese Co., of
Detroit, is in the city for the purpose
of agitating the establishment of cheese
factories in Long Rapids, Hillman and
Posen. It is proposed to run the facto-
ries on the co-operative plan, charging
a stated amount for manufacturing the
cheese, and dividing the net proceeds
among the patrons, according to the

ated a

ry
a1

SSO. VEL
Wii
der
Ja

the

}amount of milk furnished.

Sturgis——Negotiations which have
been pending for some time between the
Gillian Manufacturing Co., of Canton,

 

 

Ohio, and D. J. Sell & Son, of this

 

city, for the consolidation of their fac-
tories for the manufacturing of horse
boots, have been consummated. The

terms of the contract are private, but
they involve the closing of the plant
here. W. E. Sell, who has had charge
of making and selling the Kite Track
bouts will go with the new firm and will

 

the

tue

continue to superintend
the goods.

making of

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Hides, Tallow, Furs and Wool.
Hides remain firm at th

for buffs, witb stocks sold
stock does not accumulate or
weakness in price
free list—in fact all lines show a scarc-
ity; and leather stocks are not

in price on a good demand.
Tallow shows a weakness and a de-
cline of 4%@%c in soaper’s stock, while

 

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irom Dein

shaded

the edible grades remain firm, with the
asking price 4c above offers. Prices
are still low, with no favorabie outlook

for an advance.

The London sales were a disappoint-
ment to fur exporters and, while prices
showed an advance of 1o@2o0c on
ous kinds, none the
that bad been anticipated in previous
purchases. The home trade has been
goed in manufacturers’ goods, which
tends to keep prices firm.

The London woo! sales showed Ic per
pound advance at the beginning and
held strong through the week, witha
good demand for this side. This stim-
ulates holders of fleece to ‘‘hang onto’’
their holdings by turning down pur-
chasers. The numerous enquiries from
manufacturers indicate that their stocks
on hand are not excessive and they
purchased at some advance more freely
in the past week than previously. Man-
ufactuers bave been the buyers on the
seaboard market during the past week.
There are no weak spots and sales were
made to cover present needs.

Wm. T. HESS
—___—» +.
Flour and Feed.

During the past two weeks the de-
mand for flour has been of a hand-to-
mouth character, the trade manifesting a
disposition to wait until the market
takes a decided turn one way or the
other. The city mills are running
steadily but not to their fullest capac-
ity, being content to care for the needs
of regular trade. Within the past few
days enquiries have been more frequent
and, as the market strengthens, there is
an inclination to invest. From the
conditions which now exist, it would not
be at all surprising if, within a short
time, present values would look very
cheap; in other words, present values
are reasonable, with the chances largels
in favor of higher prices.

Mill stuffs are in unusually good de-
mand at prices ranging from $1.50@2
per ton higher Feed and meal are
moving quite freely and with prices
well sustained. Wa. N. ROWE.

->+o

Ex-Senator Tabor, chiefly of
nightshirts fame, bas been appointed
postmaster at Denver. He has been
long poor, however, and Mr. McKinley
was doubtless moved by charity to make
the appointment. Three hundred dollar
nightshirt fads are on a par with too

vari-

y ¢
secured

aqgvance

 

p30

great fondness for ‘‘nightcaps’’ and
naturally lead to ruin.
ere tl nae teeter os
While Great Britain stands ready to
loan China $80,000,000, she might
throw a few crumbs of comfort to ber

naked and starving subjects in Nova
Scotia. The Americans just now are

burdened with Spain’s starving sub-
jects,

 

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

6

 

Grand Rapids Gossip

 

 

Powell Bros. have removed their drug
stock from 317 to 33 South Division
street,

C. H. Catlin has removed his grocery
stock from 20 Plainfield avenue to 403
Ottawa street.

Gerrit Demmink has purchased the
meat business of T. Mull & Son, at 423
East Bridge street.

 

Lindemulder, DeBoer & Co. succeed
R. Lindemulder in ‘the grocery business
at 105 Alpine avenue.

L. Murray bas opened a grocery store
at White Cloud. The Clark-Jewell-Wells
Co. furnished the stock. '

 

Mrs. Mary S. Tschauner has sold her
grocery stock and bakery business at
97 Canal street to Felix Young.

Irving DeHart has embarked in the
grocery business at Vickeryville. The
Musselman Grocer Co, furnished the
stock.

Lester & Co. have purchased the
grocery stock of A. W. Rush & Co., at
217 East Bridge street, and will con-
tinue the business at the same location.

Chas. H. Bagley has engaged in the
grocery business at Adar, an embryo

town located six miles west of Honor.
The Worden Grocer Co. furnished the
stock.

 

Exports of American furniture for
1897 will aggregate very close to $4, 000, -
ooo, a larger amount by more than half
a million dollars than in any former
year. Our furniture goes to more than
twenty different countries, the United
Kingdom taking the largest quantity—
one million dollars—last year. Canada,
Africa and Australia are also good cus-
tomers of American furniture houses,
mainly for chairs. France and Germany
buy more than half a million dollars’
worth between them.

 

Moseley Bros., who have been oper-
ating three refrigerator cars of their
own for several years past, have decided
to make practically all their shipments
in that way and have contracted for
twenty cars of the latest and most ap-
proved pattern, ten of which have al-
ready been delivered and are in actual
service. The cars are much larger than
the ordinary refrigerator car, besides
having a patent extension arrangement
at the end, by means of which the space
occupied by the ice in warm weather
can be utilized at other times during
the year. . The undertaking is certainly
a very formidable one and the experi-
ment will be watched with interest by
the trade at large.

The local Bell telephone exchange is
again in mourning, on account of the re-
ceipt of a letter signed by the agents of
the four local express companies, re-
questing the Bell Co. to remove its
phones from the express offices on Feb.
1. All of the agents recently received
letters from headquarters requesting
them to curtail expenses by discontin-
uing the use of one telephone. On
looking over the ground and canvassing
the situation, the agents found that
every business man in town but one
who had a Bell phone also had a Citi-
zen phone, while hundreds of business
men have Citizen telephones who threw
out the Bell months ago. It was, there-
fore, unanimously decided to request
the Bell to discontinue its service, and
although the Bell manager is making a

 

 

desperate effort to keep his phones in
the express offices, by promising free
service, the edict has gone forth and the
Bell must take its medicine. This is
about the bitterest dose the Bell concern
has ever had to take in this community,
although it has had a continuous suc-
cession of bad-tasting doses ever since
the advent of local competition.

Some Grand Rapids grocers, laboring
under the impression that competition
is the life of trade recently started to
compete with each other on an article
which is a daily necessity by retailing
compressed yeast put up in tin foil at
cost, and it went so far that others be-
gan to retail it belowcost. The dealers
thought to use it as a drawing card
against their neighbors, but before many
weeks had elapsed about 50 per cent
of the grocers were losing money on the
sale of compressed yeast. They there-
upon invited the manufacturers to assist
them to solve the problem, suggesting
that a cut in the wholesale price would
remedy the prevailing evil. “The man-
ufacturers insisted that they could not
reduce their price, as the manufacture
of the article in itself is expensive, it
being superior in every respect to bulk
yeast, while the expense of maintaining
the agencies and delivering fresh goods
daily to the trade would not justify a
reduction in the wholesale price. Fail-
ing to secure a lower wholesale price,
the retail grocers decided to restore the
retail price to 2 cents per cake or 3
cents for two cakes, and from present
indications the uniform price will be
in effect in every store in the city before
the end of the week.

The Tradesman has said a good many
hard things about the trading stamp
swindle, but nothing it could say would
bring the institution into greater dis-
credit than the action of the local agent
of the swindle in shipping his goods
out during the night and leaving the
city clandestinely. The name of the
man who is guilty of such a breach of
good faith is J. W. Tibbits, who is al-
leged to represent men who are finan-
cially responsible at Syracuse. N. Y.
He came here some months ago, rented
a store at 7 South Division street, and
flourished for a time under the style of
the Premium Business Exchange. Sev-
eral good merchants were inveigled into
the scheme by false representations,
but they soon saw their mistake and
discontinued all connection with the in-
stitution, although their names were
still used on the stationery and _ printed
matter of the concern. Finding the
business unprofitable, and also smarting
under the criticisms of the Tradesman,
the manager did what any other swin-
dler would do under the circumstances
—stole away like a thief by night, leav-
ing numerous creditors in the shape of
holders of stamp books to mourn his
departure. It is believed that there
must somewhere be some responsibility
back of even so irresponsible an_ indi-
vidual as Tibbits has proved himself to
be, and a firm of local attorneys is look-
ing up his antecedents and backing,
with a view to instituting criminal pro-
ceedings in case adequate grounds can
be found therefor.

ee

A statesman who may think he isa
watch dog of the treasury is as apt to
growl and defeat the appropriation
most needed as he is to reduce the
wasteful and illegal one.

ee

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

The Grocery Market.

Sugar—All grades were marked down
Yc on Monday. This decline was an-
ticipated by many sugar people, and
buyers held off lately in the expectation
of being able to buy sugar at lower
prices. This resulted in the sending in
of liberal orders at the lower prices, so
that a very good business was booked
and a few grades were slightly oversold.

Tea—Everything sold has brought
full prices, and concessions on anything
whatever seem as unattainable as ever.
Prices will in all probability be higher
during the next few weeks. The tea
commissioners are still in session, but
their deliberations have as yet had no
effect upon the market. When the new
standards are announced they will prob-
ably have somewhat of a stiffening
effect. It is generally understood that
the standards will be raised.

Coffee—There is little change in the
market situation. The stocks of coffees
in sight are large enough to preclude a
considerable advance in Brazils for the
next few months.

Canned Goods—Holders of tomatoes
are holding for a still further advance
of 2%c per dozen, but there are some
lots still available at the old price.
There is no reason to abate the expecta-
tion of even higher prices. The de-
mand for tomatoes is not so good as it
has been. Corn is in fair demand, but
prices are unchanged. It is not un-
likely that prices may advance in the
near future, in sympathy with tomatoes.
Peas are very dull. Some Baltimore
packers are anxious to sell, but nobody
is interested. Very little is doing in
peaches, and prices are unchanged.

Rice—Advices from the South note
increasing hardness of tone, with an
advancing tendency in values, while
available supplies of both rough and
cleaned are not at all large. Buyers in
the local section are for the most part
keeping purchases down to moderate
limits, but dealers say that quite a
number of duplicate orders are com-
ing in, and that business is apparently
shaping itself for a steady run.

Crackers—The new U. S. Biscuit Co.
has evidently played a winning card by
securing control of nearly all the crack-
er-making machinery and a large part
of the skilled labor on this side of the
Atlantic, so that all the new firms that
throw down the gauntlet and start to
fight the combination will have to im-
port machinery as well as obtain work-
men from abroad.

' Fish—John Pew & Son (Gloucester)
write the Tradesman as follows: The
catch of fish kinds by the Gloucester
fleet for 1897, as near as can be ascer-
tained, foots up about 135,000,000
pounds. This is nearly 15,000,000
pounds less than the catch of 1896, ow-
ing principally to the light mackerel.
With our usual catch of mackerel before
the dearth, Gloucester’s receipts would
amount to 200,000,000 pounds or more.
There has been no material change in
the price of codfish since our iast re-
port. The stock of Georges and Bank
codfish is unusually light,and with a fair
demand they wi!! be no lower in price
for some time. The stock of pollock is
light. Mackerel have advanced a dol-
lar or two per barrel on No. 2’s_ within
the past few weeks and will probably
all go into consumption at high prices.
We shall have no new mackerel until
next May or June. We look for an im-
provement in the fish business this year.

Dried Fruits—-An advance in currants
is noted, the market here being still be-
low that of Eastern markets, Reports

 

 

from the East show that the demand for
loose Muscatel raisins is increasing.
Seeded raisins have to a large extent
taken the place of the usual loose goods
with the consuming trade. The seeded
raisin industry has had good business
this year and promises to grow. Cur-
rants are being to some extent replaced
by seeded raisins. The industry in
these raisins has suffered to some extent
this season by certain seeders putting
inferior goods on the market, but al-
though this had the effect to demoralize
the market to some extent, and to turn
the trade to the cheaper goods, the bet
ter grades have held up well in price.
Three crown raisins are showing a bet-
ter feeling under increased demand
from Eastern buyers. The prune mar-
ket has held up remarkably well consid-
ering that the crop of the past year was
the largest in the history of the fruit
business on the Coast. The demand
both for home and export has seemed to
increase with equal pace with the in-
crease in product.

Syrups and Molasses—The demand
for compound syrup has been fairly ac-
tive at unchanged prices. There will
probably be no fluctuation in mixed
syrup until glucose either advances or
declines. Sugar syrup is in fairly good
demand, and medium grades are some-
what lower. Molasses is in fair de-
mand, and fancy open kettle continues
to get scarcer and scarcer. There is
still some in first hands, and prices will
be a little higher. Aside from this, no
particular change in the molasses mar-
ket is expected.

Provisions—The poultry season being
about over, the demand for the crdinary
provisions is increasing. During the
past week the Western market has been
very firm, even more so than the East-
ern, which is usually slow to follow
firmer conditions. Sellers are trying to
obtain an advance on both s. p. and
smoked meats, also on_ pure lard.
Prices on compound lard show an ad-
vance of %@c, in sympathy with the
advance in pure.

ee

The Grain Market.

The past week has been a very un-
satisfactory one with the short sellers.
It did not matter what they sold—they
were unable to buy it back except at
an advance. Notwithstanding the ad-
vance was fought very stubbonly, wheat
is fully 2!4c per bushel higher than it
was one week ago. Some are looking
for lower prices, but just at this moment
the market is in a stronger position than
ever before. The receipts in the North-
west are still of good size, but are de-
creasing right along. The winter wheat
receipts remain ata low ebb. It may
be that the advance in wheat was caused
by the President ordering a warship to
Cuba, but we think the supply and de-
mand are the chief causes of the ad-
vance.

Trading in corn and oats was fair,
but both cereals remain at the same
price as last week. However, oats seem
to be in a stronger position.

The growing crop of wheat is in first-
class condition and gives promise of a
good harvest, barring bad weather, such
as freezing and thawing. The demand
for flour is not as rushing as might be
expected. The trade seems to be hold-
ing off, thinking prices will recede.

All that can be said of mill feed is
that it is very scarce and that prices
are well maintained. The receipts were
very liberal, being 60 cars of wheat, 16
cars of corn and 3 cars of vats

Millers are paying 89c for wheat.

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BUSINESS INTEGRITY.

Some of the Principles Which Under-
line Success.*

The Bible is full of texts upon so im-
portant and practical a theme. You
will find one in the chapter which I
read you from the great Epistle of Paul
to the Romans: ‘‘Take thought for
things honorable in the sight of all
men.’’ Romans XII, 17.

Thought issues, however, in action,
and therefore the same practical apostle
(for he was not only the first theologian
of his day, but the most practical man
of his time) says in another letter that
‘*ye may do the things which are_ hon-
orable;’° and he seems to conclude his
teaching on practical religion in a won-
derful summary in his epistle to the
Philippians, and among his words you
may find these: ‘‘Whatsoever things
are honorable.’’ I will not take these
texts for analytical treatment, but rather
as suggestive of a line of thought for
your consideration. In order that we
may have business integrity, we must
have men in whom reside the elements
of integrity. The wealth of the world,
gentlemen, is its honorable men. The
wealth of the world in all ages has con-
sisted in its men of integrity—not the
yellow grain of the fields, nor the gold
of the vaults, but men of golden char-
acter. And there is no demand at this
hour, perhaps, more imperative in its
call than for honorable men everywhere.
Men of integrity are wanted. They are
wanted in the halls of state; they are
wanted in the pulpit; they are wanted
in the pew; they are wanted in civic
affairs; they are wanted in commercial
life—they are wanted everywhere.

The cry of our day, gentlemen, is for
manly men—men of integrity. You
know the word man is derived froma
Latin term, vir, and is pregnant with
the significance of manhood. From the
term we derive virtus, and our word
‘‘virtue.’’ Some of the ideas associated
with this term have in recent years fall-
en away from it. It stood tor strength,
for courage, for manliness, and when a
man was said to te aman, with the
emphasis on the man, in the olden time,
it was understood that he was a man;
that he was a_ round, fuil-orbed man—a
man in adversity; a man at home and
a man abroad; a man at night anda
man under the shining sun—a man
everywhere, who would die rather than
do wreng.

And that is what we want to-day—
men of that sort. And men of integrity
are men of that sort. If we are to have
business integrity, we must have _ busi-
ness men of integrity.

Now this word “‘integrity’’ is a very
comprehensive term. It means ‘‘whole-
ness,’’ and suggests completeness and
svmmetry of character. I will try to de-
fine briefly some of the characteristics
of this word: Integrity includes truth-
fulness. A distinction has been made
between truth and veracity. Veracity is
said to be a correspondence between
words and a certain proposition; truth
is the correspondence between words
and reality.

If you see something and carefully
study it and accurately describe it, you
may be said to be a man of veracity.
But, if you have defective eyesight and
only superficially and partially examine
the thing, your representation of it may
not be truthful, because it does not cor-
respond with reality. Integrity includes
more than veracity. It includes truth-
fulness. And truthfulness has to do
with reality. A man, therefore, of in-
tegrity is, in the first place, a man of
truthfulness; and a man of truthfulness
hates all shams, al! falsities, all hy-
pocrisy. A man of truthfulness will not
countenance indirection of any kind.
He deals in reality. If he be dispos-
ing of goods and says that they are all
wool, he will sell you goods that are all
wool. There may be wool in the goods,
and he may be truthful, or rather he
may not be a man against whom you can
charge the tault of not being a veracious

 

*Sermon by Donaid D. MacLaurin, D. D., Pastor
Woodard Avenue 3aptist church, to Detroit
members Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Asso-
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man, by simply saying, ‘‘ Yes, sir; these
are woolen goods. ’’.

But, if he be a truthful man, he will
say, ‘‘ This is--in every thread of it (if
it is true)~-wool.’’ If he be selling
boots or shoes for leather, he will sell
boots or shoes that have no paper in
them anywhere; they will be leather all
the way through. I am dealing with
reality. A man, to be truthful, must
deal with reality, and truthfulness is
essential to integrity.

Then, integrity includes also honesty,
or, rather, honorableness, because popu-
lar notions of honesty must be charged
with larger meanings, if we would get
at real integrity. A man may be honest
and yet not be honorable. A man may
be honest enough to keep out of jail,
and out of the toils of tbe law, but,
nevertheless, may not be an honorable
man. It includes more than mere hon-
estv. That was nota very lofty moral
sentiment that suggested the maxim,
‘‘An honest man is the noblest work of
God.’’ An honest man may not be
honorable. An honorable man is open-
faced, is fair, is free from tortuous
methods—you may rely on his represen-
tation of things. An honest man may
tell you the truth, but he may not tell
you the whole truth.) An honorable man
will tell you not only the truth but the
whole truth, and business integrity in-
cludes honorableness as well as honesty.

Then integrity—and the term. will
cover business integrity—includes also
piety. Now, I have been at a loss to
choose the word that I wish to express
the thought which I desire to lodge in
vour minds at this point. Piety, I may
say, includes more than business integ-
rity would include. But what I mean
by the term piety now is the recogni-
tion, on your part, of your obligation to
God ; is a recognition of your responsi-
bility to a Supreme Being. A man
may have that sort of piety without
having all that we now include in the
idea of piety; but according to my
analysis of this word ‘‘integrity,’’ upon
which you have asked me to speak, a
man cannot have integrity, a man can-
not be a full-orbed, symmetrical char-
acter, unless he recognizes his relations
to Almighty God, and his dependence
upon Almighty God, and his_responsi-
bilities to Almighty God. It is utterly
impossible for one to be that kind of a
man and leave out of his reckoning his
relation to the Eternal, the Supreme,
the All-Father.

I wouid have you, therefore, include
in the idea of integrity truthfulness,
honorableness and piety. If you would
be a man of that sort of business in-
tegrity, you will fulfill the Divine ideal
for business men.

But I hear some one—perhaps not
among these honest-looking faces who
honor us to-night with their presence—
but I hear some one say: ‘‘ Mr. Preach-
er, do you know that a man cannot suc-

ceed on those lines in this business
world of ours in this great Twentieth
Century? Do you know, sir, that if you

set out to conduct the campaign of your
business life according to the Golden
Rule, or according to the principles in-
volved in this definition of business in-
tegrity, you will fail?’’

Yes, I have heard that before, so you
have not taken me unawares. I have
heard men say that it is impossible to
live the Sermon on the Mount in  busi-
ness. I have heard men say that in the
sharp competition of our time men can-
not be honorable and succeed. And this
is not very original, gentlemen; this is
an old saying. It has come down from
the Father of Lies, who has impudently
laid claim to the scvereignty of the
world; and, strange to say, with all
that we have learned in history ‘and
through experience, there are multitudes
of men, as you know too well, who be-
lieve it to be true that, for a man to
succeed to-day in business, he must be
in his methods a little—if not a great
deal—shady; that he must be a little--
if not a great deal—tricky; that he must
deceive, if he would keep pace with the
business world. For in every sphere of
life we see it constantly conceded—in
Statecraft, in commerce and in litera-
ture; among politicians and_ poets,
preachers and lawyers, doctors and mer-

chants—so that the man who disowns it
is called unpractical and idealistic.

Now, impudent as this contention is—
and I believe it to be impudent and in-
sulting to our manhood—1 do not intend
to let 1t go unchallenged ; and IJ ask you
hard-headed business men to join-me
in analyzing this contention and to help
Pme discover, if we can, the foundation
for it, if there be any; to learn, if we
may, why it is that so many business
men set their business career on these
lines that cannot square with the Golden
Rule or with the Sermon on the Mount.

I am willing to concede that many
cases of apparent failure in life would
seem to warrant the contention of men
who undertake to conduct their business
life on these lines. Men of bonorable-
ness, men of integrity in every rela-
tion in life, fail. Enterprises that are
angelic in scope, enterprises intended
to bless humanity, often overwhelm and
crush the brain and the heart which
have given them birth. Men who have
started in business and reso!ved that
they would be honorable and straight-
forward and true to the highest princi-
ple have failed and gone out of exist-
ence as business men and to-day walk
the streets of our cities in quest of a
precarious living, who might, if they
had followed other lines, have been
rolling in affluence.

I recall a case that well illustrates the
thought under consideration. A gentle-
man came to the flourishing city of
Minneapolis and opened one of the
largest clothing and furnishing stores
on one of the finest streets of that thriv-
ing place—a_ store full of merchandise
and full of prosperity. But when he
bad built up the business until it was
one of the leading concerns of the city,
because he was so trustful of his brother
in the East, who furnished part of the
capital, because he trusted that brother
as every man ought to be able to trust
bis brother, he lost all that he had and
was turned clean out of the concern,
simply because he had not an agreement
that would protect and save him. He

 

was nearly crushed—he was heartbroken.
His mind was bewildered ; he could not
understand why a man who was_honor-
able—and everybody knew that he was—
should have this sort of an experience.
And, because a good many others like
him have that sort of an experience,
men have concluded that the contention
has truth in it—that a man cannot pros-
per who is honorable.

Then many cases of apparent success
give color to this contention. Many men
die quietly in their beds who ought to
die on the gallows. Many men roll in
luxurious carriages who ought to ride
the patrol wagon to jail. Many men are
thriving in life who ought to be con-
fined in the narrow cell. Deeds of
selfishness ripen often in an atmosphere
in which early histories had been con-
secrated to the plans and purposes of
Almighty God. We know that these
things are true; we may see them on
every side. Men, and women, too, oc-
cupy positions of power, and use their
power for self-aggrandizement, for sor-
row and mischief. And so the conten-
tion holds good, apparently, that it does
not pay to be honest, to be true, to be
faithful to your engagements, to have
any regard for high moral principles.

Out of this apparent failure and de-
feat on the one hand, and this apparent
success on the other hand, the carnal
mind, prone to conclusions that satisfy
the flesh, has drawn its dogma of dis-
honorable methods in business.

Does it pay to be honorable?

Now, I propose to take issue with that
contention, and to claim that, after all,
only men of integrity really succeed;
that only honorable men prosper; that,
in reality, men who are dishonest and
who are wanting in integrity fail in all
the large elements of iife. And to that
contention I ask yourattention. I affirm
this, because, in the first place, the
really successful human beings are not
the people who are wanting in integrity,
but who are men and women of integrity.
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upon the foundation of honesty. Let me
ask you-—let us take large sweeps
in our thought—to take into considera-
tion a century, if you please; for, if we
were to take some of our neighbors, we
might be able truthfully to contend that
the life has not been finished, that we
are not able to judge, we have not ali
the data from which to form legitimate
and solid conclusions. Therefore, in
order to be fair to both sides, I ask you
to take into your thought the sweep of
one hundred years—the books of it are
closed, the record is made, the verdict
of history is rendered—and let us see.

Now, let me ask you, gentlemen,
calmly, who were the two really success-
ful human beings of the last century,
and what kind of people were they?
Were they men of integrity, or were they
men who surrendered to the vicious
principles that are dominant in so
many quarters at this hour? Who were
they? Voltaire? He certainly was a
conspicuous character. He commanded
wide influence; was brilliant in mind,
dashing in personality. Was it Vol-
taire? Was it Thomas Paine—a man
who contributed more than we are ac-
customed to think towards the estab-
lishing of the principles of the Govern-
ment in which we glory, who wrote
‘“The Age of Reason,’’ which is really
unreason and has dethroned the right
reason of multitudes of men in the days
that are gone? Was it Frederick the
Great, who found his state a little cir-
cumscribed empire and extended its
boundaries until it became one of the
first powers of Europe, and carried its
dominions out to the sea? Was it
Frederick the Great? Was it Catherine
IT—let us mot leave out the women? In
all the kast one hundred years, who were
the two really successful human beings?
None of these, I assure you. History
has spoken, men have pronounced their
verdict.

The really successful men of the last
century were George Washington and
John Wesley, because the fruits of their
efforts abide. One founded an empire
that stretches now from sea to sea, and,
from their neighbors on the north to the
sunny border of the Southland, estab-
lished the principles of freedom, not
only for his time and for his country,
but for the world!. for, forth from the
state which Washington founded are
gone and are going those principles that
are liberating the human race all around
the globe. Washington is more influen-
tial, is more powerful at this hour, than
at the corresponding period of the cen.
tury to which he belonged. The other
founded a great church, broke down the
barriers of formalism and ceremony in
religion and yvirdled the earth with the
music of free grace and full salvation.
The two reaily successful lives the last
century were the lives of Washington
and John Wesley. You will grant it
that know the history of that cold cen-
tury.

And you may look into lives nearer
by. Just study the concerns uf which
you yourselves have had some knowl-
edge. Having demonstrated the prin-
ciple, let us apply it in our’own genera-
tion. Will you tell me what are the
successful business concerns in this city
of Detroit? Are they concerns that have
laid their foundation upon honorable-
ness in dealing; or are they concerns
that have laid their foundations upon
the shifting sands of trickery? Just
call to your minds, now, these concerns.
Let us throw away the criticisms that
are always made upon men that suc-
ceed. Every man who succeeds is the
object of the malicious shafts of the un-
successful. This was true of George
Washington and of John Wesley. Both
were vilified ; both were spat upon ; both
were cursed. It is the lot of success to
attract to itself the hurtling shafts of
the narrow-minded. But just strip away
all this, and look for yourself upon the
careers that have in them solid, sub-
stantial prosperity, and, if you do not
conclude that they are the concerns that
are governed by honorable methods, you
will reach a different conclusion from
the one I have come to after studying
the question.

Take it in individual careers. Let
a young man start out in life indifferent

 

to the high principles of integrity and
his career will be singularly short; and,
when once he has stained his record, it
is like breasting the rapids of Niagara
to redeem himself and get another
chance in business. You know that is
true.

Then let us look at another thing.
Success is often ascribed to the wrong

quality. Man is not a simple but a
complex nature. You cannot classify
them into honest or dishonest, honor-

able or dishonorable. There is, for in-
Stance, the lazy honorable man, the
shiftless honorable man, the shortsighted
honorable man; and there is, on the
other hand, the energetic dishonorable
man, the far-sighted, keen-sighted dis-
honorable man, the early-and-late dis-
honorable man, the man who isat it
and always at it. Now, energy and
pluck and perseverance and farsighted-
ness are, in themselves, according to
God's eternal laws, elements of success.
The word of God says, ‘‘The diligent
hand maketh rich.’’ Everybody knows
that the thirfty man or the thrifty
woman is the man or woman who be-
gins and accumulates a little, and by
and by has a store against the rainy
day So we must look at these elements
independently of their incarnation in
individual life. Wherever you find
these qualities you find success. And
men and women do succeed because of
them, whether they are honorable or
dishonorable, in a measure, and we
must give credit tothese qualities. Let
me illustrate more fully what I mean:

How is it that Tammany Hall is in
power in New York City? How did
Tammany Hall bold her power for so
many years in New York City? Howis
it that the good element and the re-
spectable element in that city have not
had—except occasionally—the control
of civic affairs? How is it that, with
the beginning of this year, in the Sec-
ond City of the world, that mighty
voracious monster, that everybody
knows is dishonorable, has its hand
upon the throat of the young giant city?
It is no wonder to those who under-
stand. The men of Tammany Hall are
sagacious, keensighted, persevering,
industrious men in their line. They
never allow sleep to come to their eyes
nor slumber to their eyelids until their
purposes are concluded. They will not
meet in a great popular mass-meeting,
and pass a series of beautiful resolu-
tions, and pat themselves on the breast

and say, ‘‘Now we have done it!’’ and
adjourn and go to their homes. No;
they will work until the wee sma’ hour

of the morning. They will buttonhole
man after man. They will canvas street
after street, block after block. They
know every man whose influence and
vote they can control. It is no secret.
The reason they are successful is be-
cause of the use of these elements that
make success. Why is it that our good
friends have not succeeded? (They are
beginning to learn from their enemies).
Merely because heretofore they have
simply done what I have intimated—
gathered together in great mass-meet-
ings, organized little clubs of respect-
able men here and there, who must re-
tire at lo or 11 o’clock at the latest,
and who are so busily occupied with
other things that they can give but littie
attention to the matters of politics and
government and, although stirred for a
time, ‘‘relapse into innocuous desue-
tude,’’ if I may quote from a former
President of the United States.

It 1s the same thing in business; a
man who is prompt, farsighted, quick
to see values, quick to note changes _ in
prices, quick to learn the influences that
are working in trade; a man, if he be
in service, who is loyal to his employer,
faithful in all his engagements, honor-
able in all his dealings, energetic, not
afraid of the cold or afraid of the wee
sma’ hours of the morning—that man
succeeds. You know that I speak the
truth.

Success is also ascribed, therefore, to
the wrong quality. An honest man of
energy and pluck and perseverance and
industry and promptness and _ fidelity
will win in any race with any other
man, and certainly against the dishon-
orable man. These qualities make suc-

 

cess. You know the saying, ‘‘A lie
will travel from the Great Lakes to the
Gulf while Truth is putting on his

boots.’’ Why doesn't Truth get on his
boots quicker? Why doesn't he ‘‘geta
move on him?’’ (to use the expression
that we sometimes hear). Why should
the true and the right be so timorous
and weak? Let us just learn to discover
the real elements that make for success
in any human life.

So then, finally, the success, even of
the bad, is only apparent and is not
real. You cannot bribe conscience,
neither can you buy the good opinion of
your fellow man. A man who is tricky,
who is honorable, who is lacking in
integrity, is very soon discovered, and
is loathed as soon as he is discovered.
A man who does not build his life upon
lines of righteousness cannot bribe the
moral law nor abolish hell.

One certain statesman in our coun-
try, who occupied the Vice-Presidential
chair in the highest hall in our Nation,
said substantially that the Ten Com-
mandments and the Sermon on the
Mount are an iridescent dream, and
have no place in practical politics. He
was applauded by the shortsighted, for
he was a man of wit and of brain
power. But where is John J. Ingalls
now, and where has he been for some
time? The last public thing he did—
the former Acting Vice-President of
these United States of America—was
to report, for one of the most sensation-
al of New York’s great dailies, the fight
in a Western State between two human
animals! What a descent! John J.
Ingalls has learned that the Ten Com-
mandments and the Sermon on the
Mount are not an iridescent dream.
They are the most potent and vital of
all the forces in the life of our Nation;
and a man may as soon trifle with the
rapidly revolving saw as to put his neck
against the Eternal Laws of God. No
man dare say, and hope to maintain
even respectability among his associ-
ates, that the law of God is an_irides-
cent dream, and that a man may trifle
with these Divine Declarations that
constitute the foundations of a good
civilization.

Just look, not only at such a man as
Jobn J. Ingalls, but at all the politicians
in our history who have conducted the
campaign of their lives on the same
lines. Marshal the ghastly procession
betore you, and you will hear the cry ot
Woolsey on every lip; and, if you could
put your ear to the heart, you would
realize the agony of Woolsey in every

heart. The men who have undertaken
it have gone down. Take Aaron Burr
—one of the most brilliant men of the

last century ; Aaron Burr—so fascinating
in his personality that by the glitter of
his eye he could fascinate men and
women alike; Aaron Burr—whose name
and influence are felt on almost every
page of the earlier history of the Em-
pire State! Aaron Burr, however, rid-
iculed and spurned right principles,
but, nevertheless, for a time seemed to
climb the steps of fame and power.
But what came of it all? Disgrace—
the hand of Cain—infamy—the curse of
ruined women—a soul consumed with
inward flame—the execration of all men
—the despised of his country—the man
upon whom the wrath of Almighty God
seemed to rest.

Single out any other man that you
please. Take men in the greatest busi-
ness concerns. Take William M. Tweed,
take Shepard of Washington, the men
who bought up courts and legislatures
and did what they pleased. William M.
Tweed and James Fisk plundered New
York City of $11,000,000 in a few years!
Where did they end?

 

Only men of integrity succeed. Life
means more than any of its segments.
Life includes the whoie span of our
earthly career; and, if you wish to meas-
ure the success or failure of human life,
leave out no segment of it. And, after
such study, you will reach the conclu-
sions to which | have come, and which

[ have sought to lay before you to-
night: that only honorableness and
truthfulness and piety—recognition of

our relations to God Almighty—-are the
sure elements of success !n life.

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FAITHFUL OVER A FEW THINGS.

No matter what may be the avenue of
life in which a man seeks his fortune,
and by fortune, here, is meant money,
fame, popularity, admiration, or what-
soever else may be the special object
in view, he is always striving for suc-
cess.

Nothing is more in conformity with
the best interests, as well as the best
aspirations, of the human race than
that every individual should struggle
to reach the highest place in his chosen
field of activity possible to his talents
and abilities. This is the principle
which underlies true democracy.

It is impossible for all to attain the
same success, because there is no such
thing as absolute equality. The natural
endowments, whether bodily or _ intel-
lectual, of different individuals are so
distinctly and distinctively different
that any equality of attainment is im-
possible. Each and every individual!
is able only to fill out the measure of
his capacity, to do the best possible
with his natural gifts and his opportu-
nities.

But it is within the power of every-
one to do his best under these condi-
tions, and he should be encouraged and
stimulated in every worthy way to bring
out the best that is in him, and he may
be sure that in doing his best he is do-
ing the best for his kind as well as for
himself, for it ought to be understood
that there is as much need of good men
in subordinate places as at the top of
the heap. The domes and spires of a
great edifice are really less necessary to
its construction than are the foundations
which are hidden deep in the earth, for
without the foundations the structure
could not have any permanence, while
the lofty upper works are rather for or-
nament and beauty than otherwise.

The world is full of people, but the
number of thoroughly honest and reli-
able men is limited. How often does
it happen that a great ship goes to the
bottom of the sea; a railway train, with
its precious human freight, is plunged
into some black chasm; vast business
enterprises are wrecked and many _peo-
ple are impoverished, because some
man in a highly responsible position
was either incompetent to perform the
duties required of him, or was faithless
to the trust reposed in him?

It is a source of immense satisfaction
to those whose lives or other interests
are at stake to believe that those to

 

whom the care of these paramount in-
terests are confided are faithful and
true. It is often in the power of the
very humblest to render services
enormous importance in_ protecting
society or in saving from ruin vast
private interests. The sentinel at the
army outpost in time of war is buta
private soldier; but the entire safety,
not only of the army, but of the country
and cause it represents, may rest solely
upon his vigilance. The common sailor
on watch at night, as a great ship goes
rushing over the dark sea, may, by the
Keenness of his vision or the acuteness
of his hearing, detect the approach to
a drifting iceberg or to the deadly
breakers, where a man with blunted
senses or inferior devotion to his duty
would permit the vessel to drive onto
destruction,

A faithful dog may save his master’s
house from the robber and the incen-
diary, and it is related that some geese,
by their timely cackling, saved ancient
Rome from a night surprise by a hostile
army. Thus it is apparent that fidelity
and honest service in the very humblest
places of duty may accomplish incal-
culable benefits to one’s country, to
society, to the world. ;

Tbe man who has been faithful over
a few things intrusted to him shall be
made ruler over many. It is by such
promotion only that any man should
ever be raised to the highest places.
The man who has not done his duty in
a subordinate capacity cannot be ex-
pected to be honest and true in the
higher. Almost every day are reported
frightful catastrophes in which many
lives are destroyed, and unexpected
bankruptcies and wrecking of immense
business concerns occur, through the

ot

unworthiness and incapacity of men
clothed with high trusts.
All this vast accumulation of testi-

mony declares the vital necessity of
employing only the best men even for
the lowest places of trust, and it em-
phasizes the fact that there can be no
men fit for such duties unless they have
made themselves so by doing their best
according to their gifts and opportuni-
ties.

It is only to the plain people in the
humbler walks of life that these lines
are addressed. There are those who
have come into prominence through
means that are not always honest. They
are shams, humbugs and frauds, and
they are kept up by influence. Such are
the men who so often shock society by
their sudden and unexpected coming
to grief. If their downfall affected no-
body but themselves, the matter would
not be worth a moment’s consideration;
but they always drag down the innocent
and the trusting in the ruin that they
cause.

The only remedy for such evils is for
every man to do his best in every sta-
tion, and when men are required for
high places, let them be chosen trom
among those who have been faithful
over a few things.

 

Until recently there has been some
doubt in the minds of many people as
to whether the new United States Bak-
ing Co., with its $25,000,000 capital,
would prove to be a success. All doubts
are now dispelled, however, by the for-
mal announcement that the American
Federation of Labor proposes to place
a boycott on the products of the corpo-
ration. Experience has demonstrated
that boycotted institutions invariably
wax rich, which naturaliy leads to the
enquiry, How much does a_ boycott
cost?

‘ly encouraging than the

 

GENERAL TRADE SITUATION.

The record for the week continues tu
show a steady advance in volume of
business and in prices all along the
line, with the exception of two or three
interests affected by local or temporary
The tremendous production of

causes.
pig iron causes a continued weakness
in price and a few of the trust stocks

have been affected adversely to the ex-
tent of a few cents per share, on ac-
count of opportunities given the bears
by the attitude of certain parties in
Congress on the Cuban question and
other political discussion. Then the
strikes of cotton operatives in the East
have served to check production and so
lessened the volume of business, al-
though there is already an advance in
prices on the same account. With these
exceptions the story is one of uniform
advance everywhere. In the face of the
adverse political influences all the lead-
ing railway stocks score an advance,
with active trading. Grain prices are
bigher and iron products are firm,
with orders crowding in at a surprising
rate.

The situation in the woolen trade is
fully as favorable as in other lines.
The heavy weight demand is proving
unexpectedly large and preparations for
summer trade are extensive and encour-
aging. As indicated, the strikers are
helping the trade in cottons by securing
a slight advance, which may materialize
into a sufficiently greater one to warrant
the advance in wages asked tor. The
demand for sole leather continues un-
expectedly heavy and the hide market
continues firm in Chicago.

No sign of the times is more distinct-
demand for
finished products of iron and steel, sur-
passingly heavy for the season in rails,
bars and plates and good in most other
lines. The steel rail mills have orders
for 1,200,000 tons already, which is
88,000 more than they produced in the
whole of 1896, last year’s output being
not yet reported. Plat: and bar works
were obliged to send away part of their
orders to other establishments because
unable to fill all they received and the
prospect is now bright for a heavy busi-
ness. With enough to keep all the works
fully employed, prices may naturally
advance, and are steady now, irrespec-
tive of the steel rail, wire and tin-plate
combinations which are in process of
formation, although Bessemer pig is
quoted at Pittsburg 5c lower.

As an index of the general condition,
the bank clearings of the country con-
tinue very heavy. The amount, $1, 416, -
000,000, has only been exceeded in the
corresponding week in past years by 3
per cent., in 1893, during the boom pre-
ceding the panic. As compared with
1896, the gain is 45 per cent. ; 1895, 55
per cent., and 1894, 69 per cent. It is
significant that the increase is in all lo-
calities, in which but few cities have
failed to join. The reports of failures
are also encouraging, the number, 309,
being less than in the corresponding
week in any year since the panic.

THE PROBLEM IN THE ORIENT.

It has been evident for some time past
that Great Britain has been gradually
manoeuvering to meet the aggressive pol-
icy being pursued by Russia, Germany
and France in the Far East. The British
squadron in Chinese waters, although
already quite large, has heen further
re-enforced, and direct negotiations
have been opened with the Chinese
Foreign Office with a view to securing
a guarantee that China will not turn

 

 

ever to foreign control any more terri-
tory along her coast.

The British government has offered
to loan fourteen million pounds to China,
on condition that certain revenues are
placed under British control in the
event of default, and that a number of
additional ports be opened to commerce.
France and Russia are reported to have
objected to this arrangement and pro-
tested against any agreement with
England on the basis proposed.

The apparently hostile attitude of the
contipental powers has drawn from the
British government what must be ac-
cepted as a direct threat, Sir Michael
Hicks- Beach, the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, having declared that the Min-
isters were ‘‘determined, even at the
cost of war, that the door of Chinese
commerce should not be shut to Great
Britain.’’ This is a most important
declaration, and the immediate effect it
bas had on the value of international se-
curities proves how great has been the
impression it has produced in Europe.
No one will suppose tor a moment
that Sir Michael Hicks-Beach made use
of such strong language without the
knowledge and consent of his colleagues
in the Ministry; hence it may be ac-
cepted as certain that any further at-
tempt on the part of Russia, France or
Germany to annex portions of China
will precipitate war.

This utterance of the British Chancel-
lor of the Exchequer has been the most
important public utterance since the
celebrated message of President Cleve-
land on the Venezuelan question. The
position assumed by the British gov-
ernment has met the approval of people
in England of all shades of political
opinion. British trade with China is
so vast that the prospect of losing any
portion of it was appalling to the British
mind. There has, therefore, been a
constant clamor for decisive action by
the government. The decision an-
nounced by Sir Michael Hicks-Beach
is just what was wanted, and_ has, con-
sequently, been received with enthusi-
asm.

The United States and Japan have the
same interest as Great Britain in main-
taining freedom of trade in China;
hence the decision reached by the Brit-
ish government will be received with
satisfaction in this country. The
United States, after Great Britain, en-
joys the largest share of China’s trade.
The dismemberment of China by Rus-
sia, France and Germany would be prej-
udicial to American trade interests;
hence the -people of this country will
welcome any move which will frustrate
all attempts to absorb portions of China.
However our interests have clashed with
those of Great Britain in the past, in
the present instance they are identical;
hence any effort to preserve free trade
in China should merit our sympathy.

Pn AR

At the death of Senator James G.
Fair he was popularly credited with an
estate of $30,000,000. Under the cold
and shriveling process of a careful ap-
praisement, occupying nearly a_ year,
this sum has shrunk to a trifle over
$12,000,000. While this will prove a
disappointment to those who estimate
rich men’s estates on the inflation plan,
and possibly to the heirs, who were only
too witling to accept the estate at the
popular estimate, those who have had
experience in such matters will con-
clude that the Fair estate has panned
out better than the average. Asa mat-

ter of fact, nearly every rich man’s es
tate is multiplied by from three to ten
in the public estimation,

 

 

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MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

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THE RELAXALION OF JUSTICE.

Everybody who has observed the
course of trials for murder knows how
strong and general is the disposition of
the people to excuse and to sympathize
with the accused. It is only when gen-
eral indignation and rage are aroused
against the perpetrator of a violent
crime that he can be convicted. When
it is impossible to plead self-defense
as the motive fora killing, and when
the facts are not only indisputable, but
the guilt of a murderer is fully estab-
lished, the pretense that his act was
done during a fit of insanity is sure to
secure his release, unless a public out-
cry has been made.

A most curious fact in this connection
is that, although the medical authorities
recognize many sorts of insanity which
force its victims to commit crimes, the
homicidal mania is the only one ad-
mitted to have any standing in our
courts of law.

For instance, there are the klepto-
maniacs, with an uncontrollable propen-
sity to steal; the pyromaniacs, with an
intense desire to burn the property of
others; those afflicted with erotomania,
which drives men to criminal violence
upon women, and several other varieties
of madness which impel human _ beings
to criminal acts.

Many writers on medical psychology
hold that every human act which is out-
side the ordinary manifestation of that
behavior which is considered normal is
an expression of insanity. Sanity means
a quiet and orderly demeanor; a course
of living which may best be described
as a decent routine, with mental endow-
ments not above mediocrity, according
to their definitions. Intellectual bril-
liance,and any acts of personal heroism
or devotion are not wholly sane, while
genius manifested in any department of
human thought is positive insanity.

According to these doctrines, every
act that can be considered cruel, dis-
honest, wanton and unchaste or unusual
in any way is the result of insanity.
It is hard to have the Christian martyrs,
all heroes, all lovers who are devoted
unto death, every brilliant genius in
art, literature, war and adventure, and
all thieves, courtesans and criminals of
every sort dumped by the psychological

physiologists into one vast and indis-.

criminate bedlam of insanes.

Such a classification is terribly hu-
miliating to human pride, and if it were
accepted by people generally it would
exert a tremendously demoralizing
effect, for the thieves, the rascals and the
loafers would then congratulate them-
selves that they are in precisely the
same class of human beings as are those
who are the highest and noblest of our
race and command the most unlimited
and undying admiration.

To return to the judicial status of in-
sanity, if the homicidal mania relieves
men from responsibility for their mur-
derous acts, why should not the other
sorts of criminal madness excuse in the
eye of the law thieves, house-burners,
ravishers and the like? But a jury
would laugh in the faces of counsel who
would seek the release of a robber, a
perpetrator of arson, or a ravisher upon
the plea that he was insane. No judge
would entertain such a plea, or allow it
to go before a jury as a fact, if proved,
that would warrant the acquittal of the
accused.

When, however, the pretense of in-
sanity is made in behalf of a murderer,
or the perpetrator of murderous acts, a
commission to enquire into his sanity is
ordered, and if a verdict of insanity be

 

rendered, no facts, however concluSive,
no testimony, however unimpeachable,
establishing the guilt of the accused,
will have the least weight in securing
his conviction. The more atrocious his
crime, the less responsible the perpetra-
tor. If he has slain two persons instead
of one, then his insanity is all the more
to be respected, and all the malice and
all the motive that could make his guilt
the clearer,and establish with the utmost
certainty the existence of a definite and
logical object to be attained by the
commission of the crime, would only
serve to confirm the validity of the pre-
tense of a protecting insanity which can
be used to secure a license to commit at
will the bloodiest crimes, and to save
the most atrocious shedders of blood
from all responsibility.

 

THE NICARAGUA CANAL GRANT.

For many months past there has been
more or less suspicion that influences
have been at work in Central America
inimical to the interests of the United
States in respect to the Nicaragua Canal
grant. It has been stated on several oc-
casions that the government of Nicara-
gua contemplates the withdrawal of
the grants to the Nicaragua Canal Com-
pany, on the pretext that the company
had failed to carry out its promises, and
that it was proposed to open negotia-
tions with English capitalists for the
completion of the canal.

Whether or not these threats to turn
the canal project over to European con-
trol were serious, they have, neverthe-
less, served the purpose of strengthen-
ing the determination of the American
people to complete the building of the
canal. There is really little danger that
any European power will take possession
of the Nicaragua Canal project without
the consent of the United States,and the
Monroe doctrine could no doubt be so
interpreted as to defeat any such at-
tempt should it be made; but the strong
position in which these facts place us
does not warrant us in playing the un-
becoming part of refusing to buiid the
canal, and at the same time preventing
others who are willing to undertake the
work from doing so.

At the present time there is a special
survey party engaged in making a care-
ful examination of the route of the
canal, with a view to furnishing Con-
gress with an accurate idea of the cost
of completing the work. Several surveys
of the route have been made in the
past, but they were undertaken rather
with a view to determining the possi-
bility of building the canal than with
a view to obtaining the exact data upon
which estimates of cost could be based.
The present survey is fully equipped to
make a most thorough examination.

Of course, it is not expected that the
canal can be completed for the amount
which the canal company proposed
some time ago that the Government
should guarantee, namely, seventy mil-
lion dollars, but it is still hoped that
the surveys will show that the cost wlll
not be too exorbitant in comparison with
the cost of other great canals, or out of
proportion to the volume of business
that is expected to use the canal. Every
day emphasizes the necessity to the
United States of opening communica-
tion between the oceans through the nar-
row neck of land to the south of our
boundaries. Not only our commerce,
but our safety demands it; hence it is
sincerely hoped that the report of the
party now surveying the route of the
Nicaragua Canal will show that the
work can be completed at moderate
cost.

 

THE ANTI-SCALPING BILL.

Scalping, in the sense used in the bill
now before Congress, refers to the buy-
ing and selling of railway passage tick-
ets by persons not the agents of rail-
ways. ‘The object of the bill is to pro-
hibit, under penalties, the dealing in
such tickets by persons unconnected
with railroads, and some of the railway
companies are pushing the bill with all
their might, while others are taking no
part in the fight. The scalpers, or deal-
ers in such tickets, are very influential,
and are resisting the enactment of the
proposed law. There are two sides to
the scalping question. There never
would have been any scalping in rail-
way tickets if the railway companies
in the beginning had treated ticket-
holders with any sort of fairness. When
railway fares were much higher than
they now are, and when the purchaser
of a ticket from any cause was unable
to use his ticket, wholly or in part, the
railways refused to purchase it back or
to make it good in any way, save in the
transportation it called for.

In this way ticket-holders suffered
considerable pecuniary losses and were
subjected to serious annoyances. Out
of every abuse grows a remedy, and
the remedy in this case was the ticket
broker. He paid owners of unused
tickets a proportion of money for them
and sold to others at a profit.

In this way ticket-holders were able to
get some value for their unused tickets.
The pretense that the owner of a rail-
way ticket has no right to sell it, just
as he would any other property, is ab-
surd in the extreme,and po honest court
would deny him the right, and such a
court would doubtlsss compel the com-
pany selling the ticket to redeem it with
money in case it were not used; but
people cannot afford to go to law with
great corporations where the amount at
stake is so small, and the result is that
the ticket-holders have had no recourse
but the scalper.

If scalpers had no other business but
to buy and sell unused tickets, there
could not be such an army of them as
now exists, for they are found by the
dozen and score in almost every city.
The fact is that the greatest numbers
of the tickets handled by them are
bought outright from the railroad com-
panies at reduced prices. Such sales
have been made to the extent of thou-
sands, and even hundreds of thousands,
of dollars, as the testimony taken by the
Congressional committee shows. When
the railroads wanted money, they sold
tickets in blocks to the scalpers for cash
at reduced rates.

The bill before Congress proposes to
prohibit scalping in railroad tickets,
but to require the companies selling the
tickets to redeem them, when unused,
for money. The bill has been greatly
criticised, because it requires persons
presenting tickets for redemption to ap-
ply at the general offices of the railroad,
often in some distant city, and exacts
the furnishing of proof that the ticket
had been purchased in the way of busi-
ness from the company itself. Any such
requirements upon the _ ticket-holder
would put him in the power of the rail-
road, without giving him any redress.
Any law on this subject should require
the redemption of tickets at any office
of the compnay selling them, and no
more proof of genuineness should be
required as to the ticket than is ex-
acted of the holder of bank or treasury
notes presented for redemption.

No purchaser of a railroad ticket can
prove its genuineness. He pays his

 

money and takes what the railroad agent
gives him. The ticket must speak for
itself. It must be so carefully made that
to counterfeit it would be difficult, and
the passenger dealing with the railroad
should be treated with the same consid-
eration when he seeks the redemption
of his ticket as when he purchases it.

If an anti-scalping law be enacted by
Congress, it should be just as solicitous
to protect the ticket-holder as to serve
the railways. There should be no dis-
tinction or discrimination in favor of or
against any party, but the law should
treat all with the same justice and fair-
ness. Such a law, and only such a law,
should be given any consideration by
Congress.

Owosso Business Men Alive to Their
Best Interests.

Owosso, Jan. 24—At the last meeting
of the Business Men’s Association, the
first question considered was the arrang-
ing of plans to make the coming farm-
ers’ institute one of the best ever heid
in the county, and to extend a warm
welcome to every. visitor—a_ thing
Owcsso is noted for doing. The matter
was referred to a committee consisting

of [. H. Keeler, FE. O. Dewey, H. K,
White.
The _ proposed electric railway to

Durand was discussed, ali present fa-
voring an endeavor to have such a _ road
built. If the line could be constructed
it would prove to be a great accommo-
dation to the traveling public, as all
trains on the Grand Trunk system could

then easily be made from Owosso. The
matter is to be investigated by Jas.
Osburn, C. DD. Stewart and BD. M.
Christian.

The matter of building a cheese fac-
tory, which is desired not only by the

farmers of the surrounding country but
also by a number of the business men,
came in for a long discussion, which
may result in such an institution being
established. E. F. Dudley expressed
his willingness to undertake the busi-
ness on certain conditions. Messrs. E.
Carr, E. A. Gould and J. M. Terbush
were appointed as a committee to ascer-
tain what could be done.

The following resolution, offered by
Jas. Osburn, was unanimously adopted
and ought at once to be considered by
the Council:

Resolved—By the Owosso Business
Men’s Association that the Council be
requested to instruct the City Attorney
to prepare an ordinance taxing transient
traders a_ reasonable tax in accordance
with the charters for cities in the fourth
class; also an ordinance regulating
peddlers—similar to the Ionia ordinance
—which in the opinion of the City At-
torney will stand fire in the courts as
the Ionia ordinance has; also that the
Council take steps to enforce such an
ordinance when so enacted, so that all
may share equally the burdens of taxa-

tion. G. TI. Camppeit, Sec’y.
——-o-—
Armiour To Enter the Produce Busi-
ness.

A report is current in the dairy trade
that Armour, the Chicago packer, is to
open a produce comnmaission store in
New York about April 1. H. Raphael,
manager of Armour & Co.’s New York
provision store, is now in Chicago,
and, it is said, to make arrangements
for the new enterprise. It was learned
on what seems to be unquestionable
authority, that a large store 1s soon to be
rented by Armour & Co. for the butter,
cheese and egg trades. It is said that
the building will have a cold-storage
plant of its own, it being part of Mr.
Armour’s pla to store produce when
prices are low, and hold it for a_ profit.
Armour & Co. have been in the produce
business in Chicago for over a year.

—_— ~~ +0

A Chicago company has purchased
2,000 acres of swamp land in Wisconsin,
which it will drain and partition into
farms. The land belonged to the Gov-
ernment, and was sold for 75 cents an
acre.

 

  

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

Clerks’ Corner

The Young Clerk’s New Den.
Written for the TRapEsSMAN.

1 hope those clerks who are more or
less interested in this column are not
beginning to think that a little more
about Will Morris and a great deal less
about the grocer and his wife would
hurry things up a little. If I were mak-
ing things up as I goalong the criticism
would be fair enough; but I have to
wait until the thing takes place before
I can write it down. Another thing
should be borne in mind: If I should
be found too curious, or should force
suggestions upon any of the three who
are unconsciously furnishing material
for this column, that would be the last
of it. So Iam patiently waiting and
watching, and the minute I get some
thing that throws light upon what is
going on, [ will faithfully scratch it
down.

 

 

While the question of a change of res-
idence, and especially that of room, has
been in abeyance | have seen nothing
of Morris. From the other two I have
gained what information has been _pre-
sented, until iate yesterday afternoon,
when the young fellow hailed meas |
was pussing the store and asked me _ to
‘‘come up and have a game to-night;’’
and when | said ‘‘at the Albany’’ with
an interrogation mark, the answer
came with a just perceptible toss of the
head, ‘‘No, at the house. I don’t play
at a public table now!’’

I went over last night early. We
played our usual three games and then
the boy said, ‘‘Come into my room, |
want to show it to you.’’ Instead of
going downstairs as I expected, he threw
open a door just across the hall from
the billiard room, and bade me enter,
It is an apartment something smaller
than Mr. Bostwick’s den, but a good-

sized room, nearly square, with a fire-
place. I could only stand and_ look
around me; and, after I had finished

looking, I began to see what Mrs. Bost-
wick meant when she said that the boy
had an idea of his own and she wanted
to give him a chance to bring it out.

Overhead, he had suspended a huge
Chinese parasol, of a diameter large
enough to reach alinost the entire width
of the room, and had hung a small one
in each corner. The walls are a soft
tint of terra cotta, obtained from a
whitewash brush in the dextrous hands
of the occupant of the room, a color
which furnishes a pleasing background
for the numberless pictures, which are
of all sorts and conditions. They are
framed and unframed. In this line
everything is fish which has come into
the net, and contributions have been
levied from everywhere. Nothing has
been too insignificant to receive recog-
nition and an honorable place in this
unequaled picture gallery; and the re-
sult, contrary to what might be expect-
ed, is pleasing.

An irregularity in the roof makes a
deep recess in the side of the room op-
posite the fireplace, and Genius has
thrust into this the bed and hid it be-
hind some hangings of cardinal red, the
prevailing color of the apartment. The
floor is mostly covered with a rough and
ready rug, woven from odds and ends
of discarded carpet, in which cardinal
prevailed, and that part of the floor un-
covered has been stained terra cotta like
the walls. One corner of the room,
‘‘that the old Harry himself couldn’t do
anything with’’—Mr. Bostwick’s ac-
quaintance with the personage re-

 

ferred to authorizes the statement—is
transformed into a ‘‘cozy’’. with couch
and curtains. A generous library table
occupies the center of the room, made
attractive by a low-falling cloth of red.
Bookcases, similarly arrayed, stand in
different places against the walls, while
easy chairs are scattered about the room,
two of the most comfortable of them be-
ing stationed before the fireplace, where
a fire of well-seasoned hickory was do-
ing its level best to brighten one of the
pleasantest rooms I have set foot in for
many a day.

There wasn't any need of saying a
word—a man’s face always takes care
of that when he’s surprised and pleased.
Will saw this, was satisfied and then
told me to sit down and let him tell me
about it.

‘* Pretty nice room for $15, don't you
think soP—Come in,’’ he called, asa
rap was heard at the door. ‘‘Come right
in,’’ he repeated, as Mr. and Mrs. Bost-
wick appeared, the latter with her knit-
ting. ‘“‘I’ve just been telling ‘the old
man’ what it has cost, and he is laugh-
ing at me. Doesn’t $15 cover the whole
business, Mr. Bostwick?’’

‘*Them's the figgers,’’ was the good-
natured reply. ‘‘Ye see, the boy has a
knack at such things and I just told
him to go ahead. He knows how to ust
a saw and a hammer and that tells the
whole story.’’

‘‘ Bookcases and all, I suppose,’
my tone was tinged with sarcasm.

‘No, by Jinks! that’s one thing he
didn't make; but it took a heap of wit
to see a bookcase in a lot of soap boxes
and cover 'em with red cloth—now,
didn’t it?’’

I bad to admit it did; and it took all
the rest of the evening for the three,
sometimes singly, oftener altogether, to
tell me what had been done and hcew
the young fellow had done it. Time,
taste, considerable skill and some de-
termination were the elements which
had entered into the transformation of
the lumber room into the delightful
‘‘den’’ we were occupying; and it was
easy to see that the old folks were quite
as much interested in the work and _ its
results as the young wizard himself had
been. Every feature of change was a
wonder in their eyes, to be pointed out
and dwelt upon again and again; and |
began to feel at last that I should not
get a chance to hear what it all meant,
when Mrs. Bostwick took her husband
by the arm and gently pushed him from
the room with, *‘ Now, father, they want
to be left alone to talk it over.’’

We did and after a settling down into
our visiting attitude the boy began.

RICHARD MALCOLM STRONG.
——__»>2.___
Regarding the Value of Stock.

The New York Court of Appeals has
recently decided that where the owner
of a stock of goods has made false rep-
resentations that this stock of goods
cost him a certain sum in order to in-
duce another to enter into partnership
with him and purchase one-half the
stock at such valuation, such represen-
tations are not mere matters of opinion,
but are warranties, and the one who is
induced to enter into partnership under
such circumstances is entitled to a dis-
solution without proving pecuniary
damage.

and

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Settled Out of Court.

‘*Madam,’’ said the Court, ‘‘do I un-
derstand that you have withdrawn your
action against this man for stealing a
kiss?’’

‘“‘Yes, Your Honor; he has returned
it and agreed to pay the costs.’’

 

 

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Pillsbury’s
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milling, and if experience counts for anything in
this world-—and we rather think it does—the man-
ufacturer ought to have things down pretty fine by
this time.

Peaking the R6Co

The papers have not yet ceased discussing the
record-breaking Kaiser Wilhelm. Why she did it
is lost sight of in contemplation of what she did.
There is a reason why this boat won, and why
others have not won. The secret was in her build.
Make anything right, and it’s bound to beat. no
matter whether it is boats, or flour, or lard, or
canned goods or cigars. Our

Old Fashioned Lard
Emblem Brand Ganned Goods
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business we are having in all these lines to-day.

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POLLY’S PICK-UPS

From Here and There and Everywhere.
Written for the TRADESMAN.

‘Your write-up of the Grand Rapids
window displays at Christmas time,
Polly dear, where you made mention of
‘the irrepressible Treusches’, recalled to
my mind a little incident in connection
with ‘Monte,’ ’’ said a friend of mine,
recently, whose paternal ancestor was
one of the earliest settlers of the Valley
City, well known to every old resident.

‘It was in the days,’’ she continued,
looking reflectively at me over her
spectacles, ‘when his father ‘kept store’
up at the head of Monroe street, where
the Kendall Block now stands. I used to
buy my sweet potatoes there. I would
ask ‘Monte’ how he sold them. ‘Six
cents,’ he would reply, and then, evi-
dently remembering the proverbial in-
ability of the average woman to grapple
with matters of an arithmetical charac-
ter, or perhaps to give me the impres-
sion of a ‘bargain,’ he would quickly
supplement his first statement with,
four pounds for a quarter!’ ‘Well,’ I
would say, ‘I think I will take four
pounds at six cents a pound.’ He would
smile, put up the potatoes, take my
quarter—and give me back a penny !"’

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I number, among my child lovers, the
bright little son of a business man
whom many of you personally know.
He’s a dear little 9-year-old, and has a
head on him out of all proportion to his
age, and a habit of settling, according
to his own convictions, the matters that
perplex an older thinker than he.

‘‘Mamma,’’ said he one day, after a
silence—on his part—of unusual dura-
tion, ‘‘Mamma, do good little children
live a long time, or do they die right
oe’

‘“Well, my child,’’ replied his
mother, cautiously, ‘‘there’s an old say-
ing that ‘The good die young;’ but I
don’t know as it is a very true saying. ’’

‘Well, it might be true,’’ he ob-
served, ‘‘so I guess I’ better snoop
some o’ Gran’ma’s cake ’at she hid
away tbis mornin’—but I hunted till I
found where she put it—an’ that'll
make me some bad; an’ nen I'll do
some more things ‘at I know ain't jess
zacly what you've told me wuz right,
an’ nen some more an’ some more, an’
nen I'll sure live to grow up! An’ nen
I’ll keep abein’ bad, so 't I'll live to be
a hundred years old! An’ nen I spose
I'll have ter die, an nen God can mike
me good again!’’

Which is not so very different from
the faith on which many an older sinner
pins his hopes.

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I was talking, the other day, witha
representative of the Sunny Southland,
a bright young fellow from Atlanta.

‘*You Northerners,’’ said he, ‘‘can
form no idea of the utter shiftlessness,
the entire lack of forethought, o: the
negro character. If, by the merest
chance, one of them has saved upa
little something during the cclder
months, he’ll lay around all summer
long, and he just won't doathing Now
here's acase in point, to illustrate their
improvidence: We have, among the
servants, in our home down in Atlanta,
a ‘likely niggah’ named John. He's
perhaps 22 years old. He takes care of
the lawn, and, besides, is as handy
around the house as a girl—can do the
lighter work, such as make beds, dust,
etc., and thoroughly understands din-
ing .room service. He earns, in all,
about $13 a month. Not long ago, he
took it into his woolly head to get mar-

 

ried. He'd been courting a ‘yaller gal’
—a pretty little thing, too—for about
three months, and had reached the con-
clusion that marriage with her would
be no failure. I said to him, the day
after the event, ‘How are you going to
get along, John?’ ‘Dunno, Boss,’ with
a serious shake of the head. ‘Well,
but how are you going to support a wife
on $13 a month—that’s what you get?’
‘Dunno, Boss,’ he repeated with a
happy-go-lucky grin, ‘dunno—ah nevah
thought ob da—at!’

‘“You’d be amused,’’ he continued
({’ll not attempt to give the delightful
Southern accent), ‘‘at the colored peo-
ple’s appearance when our cold weather
comes, when we get our first snow flurry.
Every niggah that can gets hold of a
piece of burlap from the factory, the
warehouse, or wherever he can pick it
up, and with a string ties it ‘any old
way’ around his feet; and you'd laugh-
ing to see the footprints they make,
thus attired.’

‘‘What do they do that for?’’ I asked.
‘“‘Just for fun, to see their comical
tracks?’’

‘‘Why, no,’ he replied; ‘‘that’s their
way of keeping warm. It’s no amuse-
ment with them. There’s nothing a
niggah hates worse than cold weather,
and when it comes, it’s a stern reality
with them.’’

‘I have dozens of colored people in
my employ,’’ he went on, ‘‘and you'd
be surprised at the number of them that
have exceptionally fine voices; and any
of these could ‘hold his own’ with any
college boy, in pic'ing a banjo or
thrumming a guitar. To look at their
great coarse hands, you would imagine
them to be wholly incapable of handling
anything less than cord wood or pig
iron. They often come up to the house
of an evening, and, lounging on the
grass in picturesque typical attitudes,
fill the soft night air with melody. But
they never come without permission.
In the afternoon, one of them will
broach the subject with, ‘Want us t’
come up to-night, Boss, an’ give you-all
a little music?’ The answer is generally
in the affirmative. They are always
glad to come, and it does not take their
eager shining eyes long to find the tips.

‘“Your ‘Aunt Sally,’ in your depot, is
quite a character, I understand. ’’

‘‘Well, she is. Everybody who comes
to Atlanta knows, or hears of, ‘Aunt
Sally." I must tell you a bit of her his-
tory.’’ my pleasant acquaintance began.

But just here business interrupted the
conversation, and the ‘‘bit of her his-
torv’’ had to be relegated to a more
convenient season. POLLY PEPPER

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An Ohio genius has submitted to the
army department two novel appliances,
which he claims will completely revolu-
tionize warfare, and place the soldier
equipped with the same in a perfectly
impregnable position. The one is an
<i.ctrical sword for the cavalry. The
electric power is furnished by a small
battery which the cavalryman is sup
posed to stow away in his trousers’
pocket or any other handy place. It
would only be necessary to touch the
enemy and the same would be placed
hors de combat instanter. The other is
a iasso, also charged with electricity.
The inventor seems to have forgotten
the fact that as a counter agent the
enemy might invent a completely in-
sulated saddle.

Sanne aatik ote cain

The Japanese language is said to con-
tain 60,000 words. Jt is quite impos-
sible for one man to learn the entire
language, and a well-educated Japanese
is familiar with only about 10,000 words.

Association Matters

Michigan Retail Grocers’ Association

President, J. WisLER, Mancelona: Secretary, E.
A. STOWE. Grand Rapids; Treasurer, J. F.
TATMAN, Clare.

 

Michigan Hardware Association
President, Cuas. F. Bock, Battle Creek: Vice
President, H. W. WEBBER, West Bay City;
Treasurer, Henry C. MINNIE, Eaton Rapids.

 

Detroit Retail Grocers’ Association
President, Jos—epa Knigut; Secretary, E. MARKS,
221 Greenwood ave: Treasurer, N. L. Koenig.
Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association

President, Frank J. Dyk; Secretary, HomER
Kiap; Treasurer, J. Geo. LEHMAN.

Saginaw Mercantile Association

President, P. F. TREANOoR; Vice-President, Joun
McBratnig; Secretary, W. H. Lewis; Treas-
urer, LOUIE SCHWERMER

Jackson Retail Grocers’ Association

President, Geo. E. Lewis; Secretary, W. H. Por-
TER; Treasurer, J. L. PETERMANN

POOR
ECONOMY

It is poor economy to
handle cheap flour.
is never reliable.
cannot guarantee it. You
de not know whether it
will make good bread or
not. If it should not
make good bread
poor flour never does—
your customer will be

 

Lansing Retail Grocers’ Association
President, F. B. JOHNSON: Secretary, A. M
DaRLine; Treasurer, L. A. GILKEY.
Adrian Retail Grocers’ Association

President, Martin Gafney; Secretary, E F.
Cleveland: Treasurer, Geo. M. Hoch.

Traverse City Business Men’s Association

President, THos. .T. Bates; Secretary, M. B.
HoLiy;

Owosso Business Men’s Association
President, A. D. WHIPPLE; Secretary, G. T. Camp-

BELL:

Alpena Business Men’s Association

President, F. W. GincuristT; Seeretary, CL.
PARTRIDGE.

Grand Rapids Retail Meat Dealers’ Association

President, L. J. Katz; Secretary, Puitip HILBER:
Treasurer. S. J. Hurrorp.

St. Johns Business Men’s Association.

tresident, THos Bromuey: Secre omer FRANKA.
PERCY;

afterwards.
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Treasurer, C. A. HAMMOND.

 

every time.

Treasurer, W. E. Coins.

later on.

 

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Treasurer. CLARK A. Put

displeased and avoid you
You can

“Lily White” Flour

We authorize you to do
so. It makes good bread
One sack
sold to-day will bring
customers fortwo sacks
Order some

Valley City Milling Co.

Grand Rapids, Mich.
BOROROROEOHS FORORSC OROROR

 

AN We mean your system of advertising System is necessary in every -

pe thing pertaining to business, and the merchant who recogni

AN fact is in a fair way to win success, and will see to it that hi

AN ing is conducted in a systematic and not in aspasm m

x Merchants who have adopted our method of adverti

r \Y perfect system that is constantly in operation Mhey first decid

AN per cent. they can afford to use for building up trade and from thi

oe figure the amount of trade to require for each premium offerte

AN they get the cash trade in advance before i the pret

AN take absolutely no chances on their advertising investment.

“a. gruntled merchants who find trade dull compiain at the

AN ges of their competitors who have adopted our system.

AN “humbug,’’ “fraud,’’ etc., but they cannot expect to draw

a bygone methods. Our customers give their patrons their adver

AN expenditure. Is that wrong in principle or policy? Advertisi

AN conceded to be absoluteiy essential to the

ah Therefore, in making the selling price on your goods you mu

AN sider this point: If advertising could be done away with

AN fogy merchants who fear competition wish it Lt

a: prices could be made somewhat lower, but the te1

AN to seek a higher, not a lower, level

MN It does not matter how large or small your busines

aL you. If you can afford to spend anywhere from $50.00 to $1,

AN vear for advertising, our system will give you the most for your
and it brings the merchant and his customers together on a mutual

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pleasant and satisfactory basis

Our method of business is endorsed by ali the Trade Journals of the
country, as it is founded on stric tly legitimate principles, and shouk
not be confounded with Trading Stamp methods. We would

send you our catalogue.

i Stebbins Manufacturing Co.,
| Lakeview, Mich.

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Fruits and Produce.

Statistical Position of Cheese.

Utica, N. Y., Jan. 24—Notwithstand-
ing the strong statistical position of
cheese that confronted the trade the first
of January, 1897, and the general knowl
edge that the production of lard cheese
would be greatly reduced (the make of
same was figured for the winter season
of 1896 by the Internal Revenue Depart-
ment at 15,000,000 pounds or 428,571
boxes of 35 pounds cheese average),
cheese dealers in the States, Canada and
Great Britain had their work cut out for
them to dispose of the light visible
stocks. Of course, if the consumptive
demand had only to take care of the
stocks as presented the first of January,
1897, cheese would have gone to 7os.
per cwt. in Great Britain and 14c in
New York. On account of the high
prices ruling in December, 1896, and
January, February, March and April,
1897, there was a very large production
of winter made fuil creams and skims
throughout Canada, New York State
and Illinois during this period, and it
is figured that Illinois alone manufact-
ured 25,000 boxes of filled cheese and
225,000 boxes of skims of various sizes.
In addition to the largest winter make
of cheese ever known in this courtry,
the exports were decidedly increased by
the extreme dulness of trade throughout
the United States. It made the exports
of cheese for January, February, March
and April and first half of May from
Auantic ports to Great Britain, foot up
to a quantity considerably in excess of
one-half a million boxes of cheese.
Then, again, the retail trade in England
was practically killed by 80 per cent. of
the retailers refusing to handle cheese
on account of three large co-operative
systems of stores having on hand quite
a quantity of summer made cheese,
which they were disposing of at 6d. per
pound, and as the other retailers could
not buy finest cheese for less than 55s.
to 57S. per cwt. or practically the same
price as what the co-operative stores
were disposing of cheese at, why they
simply killed the consumptive demand,
because they could not realize a_ profit
in handling it.

The conditions this season are entirely
changed. Retailers are in a position to
obtain finest September and October
cheese at prices lower than have been
known for twenty years and will be able
to dispose of same at 14c in the States
and the popular price of 6d. or 12c per
pound throughout Great Britain and
realize a handsome profit. The Raines
law was in force in this State in Janu-
ary, February, March and April last
season and it is claimed that this law
shut off the consumption of cheese by
50,000 boxes for the months of January,
February, March and April.

It was pointed out to the dairy farmers
of this State and Canada in March,
1897, that a large make of fodder cheese
would prove very disastrous to the
cheese trade in general and dairymen
and factorymen who completely ignored
this good advice were willing to admit
last fall, when dry rot struck the cheese
trade throughout the States and Canada,
that it was a very poor idea to open up
factories early in the spring and to
manufacture so much fodder cheese. In
several of the early cheese districts
throughout New York State and Canada,
factorymen and leading dairymen are
urging farmers to raise their calves on
the fodder milk and point out that cattle
are selling higher in this country than
they have since 1882, and that the quan-
tity of young stock on hand is nearly
depleted.

The English consumptive demand for
States and Canadian cheese is figured
at 65,coo boxes weekly—that is, when
fine and finest cheese can be bought at
5d. to 6d. per pound, or at quotations
which the retailers are now selling at
throughout Great Britain. Jobbers of
cheese throughout the New England
States and the retailers of Great Britain
are reported to have very light stocks,
unusually so for the season of the year,
so taking a general view of the situa-
tion, it is decidedly a very bright one.

 

With the large consumption of cheese
going on in Great Britain and the
United States, the extremely small make
of winter cheese, on account of the very
low prices and butter selling on a parity
of 25 per cent. above the price of cheese,
it 1s only reasonable to anticipate that
the visible addition to stocks will rap-
idly go into consumption during the

next four months. Wma. D. GRANT.
4
Futile Schemes for the Preservation
of Eggs.

From the Grocery World.

The question of preserving eggs, in
other words, ot devising some scheme
by which the hen product could be kept
indefinitely, has probaby been the sub-
ject of greater research than almost any
other mentionable branch of investiga-
tion alonz similar lines. Dozens of
men have thought that they had some-
thing by which they could preserve eggs
from decay, but up to this time, all of
these wonderful discoveries have proven
worthless when put into practice. Near-
ly all of the ‘‘treatments’’ consist in
sealing up the pores of the egg shell.
By several of these schemes eggs can
be kept for several weeks, or even
months, but when finally broken, they
bear no resemblance to a fresh egg.

The latest of the ideas whose strong
point is to seal the egg against the in-
roads of the air, has been devised by
one M. Bournof, a Frenchman, whose
method is as follows:

Dissolve in two-thirds of warm olive
61] one-third of beeswax, and cover each
egg completely with a thin layer of this
pomade applied with the tip of the fin-
ger. The egg shell by degrees absorbs
tne o1l, and each of the pores becomes
hlled with the wax, which hermetically
seals them. The discoverer also thinks
that the germ may be preserved in this
manner for a considerable length of
time.

During the past week the World has
received a report of certain experiments
made by the National Agricultural
School of Germany, into the efficacy of
all the principal methods of preserving
eggs. At the beginning of July, twenty
fresh eggs were treated by each method,
and examined on the following Feb-
ruary. All of the eggs which were
soaked with brine, one of the commoner
methods, were found to be unfit for use,
through having been saturated with salt.
[he report on the other methods tried,
here presented, gives the percentage of
eggs which the method in use failed to
keep:

Per Cent.
Spoiled.
Wrapped in paper, - - - 80
Kept in a solution of salicylic acid
and glycerine, - - - - 80
Rubbed with salt, - - - 70
Packed in bran, - - : - 70
Coated with paraffine, - : : 70
Painted with a solution of salicylic
acid and glycerine, - - - 70
Immersed in boiling water 12 to 15 sec-
onds, - - - - - - 50
Treated with a solution of alum, - 50
Kept in a solution of salicylic acid, 50
Coated with soluble glass, - - 40
Coated with collodion, - - - 40
Coated witb varnish, - - - 40
Rubbed with bacon, - - - 30
Packed in wood ashes, - - 20
Treated with boric acid and soluble
glass, - - - 20

Treated with potassium permanga-
nate, - - - - - - 20
Coated with vaseline and kept in lime
water, - - - - All good
Kept in soluble glass, All very good
From this it appears that only two
methods out of the nineteen tried were
really able to preserve the eggs.
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Quart Measures of All Sizes.

A tinsmith near Exeter, England, has
a sign which reads:

‘Quart measures of all shapes and
sizes sold here. *’

——_—_»2.__

The gambling hell at Monte Carlo is
not to be closed, the shareholders of the
Casino having accepted the terms of the
Prince of Monaco. The terms involve
an increased payment of $6,400,000,
and an immediate cash payment of
$2,000,000 to the Prince,

 

BEANS AND POTATOES

MILLER & TEASDALE CoO.,

ST. LOUIS, - - MoO.

POTATOES-BEANS-SEEDS

We buy DAILY: Potatoes, Beans, Clover Seed ; if any
to offer, Wire or Write Us. Send Liberal
Samples Beans, Seeds.

MOS ELEY BROS., ee GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

Established 1876. Jobbers of Seeds, Potatoes, Beans, Produce.

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,

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GOTHAM GOSSIP.

News from the " Metropolis---Index to

the Market.
Special Correspondence.

New York, Jan. 22—We have had the
mildest sort of a winter so far and it
is no wonder that some large failures
have been chronicled among glovers and
fur dealers. Luckily, it has been cold
enough for ice to thicken and the big
companies are gathering it in. -Within
a few years every home will have an ice
machine to make its own ice, just as
people now produce their own ice
cream. There is a big field here.

Business is pretty good. Compared
with some years, it is excellent; with
others, the increase is about what might
be expected. Jobbers are quite busy
and quite a good many buyers have
been here from all points, making
spring and summer purchases. Dry
goods, especially, seem to be active,
and hardware ts fairly so.

The grocery trade is in good shape.
Jobbers express confidence in the fu-
ture, notwithstanding the war jabber in
the House. Most of this talk seems to
come from repesentatives far inland.
Were they to abide on the Coast for a
few years, they might not be so_ fierce.
Not but what we can ‘‘lick’’ any coun-
try on the globe, but we would rather
have the State of Missouri in front of
us than its howlers shouting for war.

Coffee is steady. Prices seem to be
firmly sustained and, although the fig-
ures indicate big crops, dealers profess
to be quite happy over the outlook. In
a speculative way very little interest
has been manifested. Mild grades are
meeting with everyday enquiry and
prices are well held. For Rio No. 7
the quotation is still at6%c. There are
afloat and here 1,119,265 bags, against
749,142 bags at the same time last year.

Raw sugars are dull and the tendency
is toa lower basis. No changes have
yet been made, however. Refiners seem
indifferent and the market is being al-
lowed to take care of itself. Refined
sugars are in very light enquiry. Sales
have been made of small lots and _ buy-
ers seemingly want only enough to last
from day to day. Granulated is listed
at 5c.

Teas are dull. A shower is enough to
make this market sag, as dealers will
run no chances of wet feet. A few or-
ders have come to hand from out of
town, but, as a rule, there is room for
improvement. The better grades are
well held and, taking the market alto-
gether, the outlook is certainly brighter
than a month ago. May it keep in-
creasing in ‘‘illuminosity!’’

There has been a fairly free enquiry
for rice from out-of-town dealers. The
Southern markets are reported as firm
and, altogether, dealers are hopeful.
Prices of both foreign and domestic are
well held and there is no weakness any-
where along the line.

In spices, it has been a pretty good
week—beyond the average for several
weeks past. Dealers are well satisfied
and, 1n fact, will be if the seascn keeps
up anywhere near as well as it has_ be-
gun this year. Of the staples, pepper
1s doing best.

The volume of business in molasses
has hardly been up to expectations and
yet a fair number of orders have been
received. Prices are firm here and at
primary points. The supply is suffi-
cient for requirements, but not at all
excessive. Syrups are meeting with
fair sale, but the output is not as large
as dealers hope it will be later on.
Prime to fancy, 16@22c.

“*Sales of Maine corn, '98 pack, were
made during the week, thus opening
that market. Prices were quoted the
same as for '97. The gefieral market
has shown little change. Some good
sales of tomatoes have been recorded,
but no advance has been made in quo-
tations. New Jersey standards are worth
$1@t1.05; corn, 70@75c for New York
State; Maine, goc@$1, with very little
offering. Reports from Baltimore are
encouraging, without exception, and
brokers talk as if the winter of their
discontent were fairly over.

= Lemons are quiet and the orders com-
ing to hand have been for a box or so

 

to keep the wolf from the door. Oranges
are selling at unchanged prices, but are
steady. Bananas are in light supply
and are held at full prices. Pineapples
are firm and in light supply.

Dried fruits of all kinds have been
in pretty fair demand. This is espe-
cially true of California goods and evap-
orated apples, the latter being in light
supply and selling from 9@gl%c and
more if strictly fancy.

The butter market remains practically
unchanged. Best Western is quotable
at 20c and from this the decline is
rapid. Supplies seem sufficiently large
to prevent any immediate advance.

Cheese exporters have retired and
scarcely anything has been done in this
way during the week. Home trade
shows some improvement, bwt no ap-
preciation has taken place in rates.

A decided slump has taken place in
eggs and a decline of 3@4Cc is the re-
sult. Best Western stock is worth 2oc.

The bean market is dull for all vari-
eties. Choice pea, $1.15. Choice mar-
rows,.$1.371%4

Trade in Fine Cheeses.
H. S. in Country Gentleman.

There is a large trade done in potted
cheese through the fine grocery stores.
Cheese put up in pound jars sells for 25
to 50 cents a pound. It is well made
cheese, of course, but it is cured slowly
in the jars, developing a buttery flavor,
as well as a mild, aromatic flavor of
cheese. The cheese thus sold is made
of two milkings and the cream of one,
mixed with the night’s and morning’s
milk of well-fed cows high in butter
yield. A four-per-cent.-of-fat cow's
milk is as rich as is required, for more
fat could hardly be kept in the cheese
made in this way. The curd is made at
not more than 8o deg., and in half an
hour. More rennet than this will make
the cheese too hard, and not of the right
flavor. The cheese is not pressed, but
the curd is drained and put in the mold,
with no other pressure than its own
weight. To preserve the richness of
fat, the cheese is turned daily fora
week,and after that twice or three times
a week. This cheese should be cured
in cold storage, at a temperature of not
over 45 deg. or 50 deg. for two months.
It is then ready for sale, and if sold
right, will bring twenty cents a pound
—at least a large quantity of such cheese
is sold at this price, made small, or
from six to ten pounds each. The
cheese are rubbed daily at first, to keep
the rind from cracking, with cream
twice a week; after a month oncea
week. The size is handy for domestic
use, and is greatly preferred to cut

cheese.
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Imitation Raw Oysters.

The municipal authorities of Paris
are just now engaged in the suppression
of an altogether novel form of food
aduleration which is assuming phenom-
enal proportions. Real oysters are ex-
pensive in Paris, and so, with the ob-
ject of suiting slender purses, artificial
oysters on the half shelf have been in-
vented, which are sold at 20 centsa
dozen, and they are so cleverly made,
and look so nice and fresh, that once
lemon juice or vinegar has been added,
they cannot be distinguished from the
real article, especially when white wine
is taken in connection therewith. The
only genuine thing about these oysters
is the shell, the manufacturers buying
second-hand shells at a small cost and
fastening the spurious oysters in place
with a tasteless paste. The municipal
laboratory has not yet proclaimed the
ingredients of which these bogus oysters
are composed, but has announced that
they are of a harmful character.

> 2.
California’s Enormous Prune Output.

It is now believed the production of
prunes in the Santa Clara district, Cal-
ifornia’s chief prune section, will ex-
ceed the estimate of 50,000,000 pounds.
Already 46,348.000 pounds have _ been
shipped out of the country, and it is
estimated that those yet to be marketed
will run the total for the season to
55,000,00 pounds.

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

Shoes and Leather

Tne Throbbing Pulse of Trade in
“Underground New York.”

The cobbler, he who devotes. his
hours of work to patching, soling, heel-
ing and otherwise renovating old boots
and shoes, plays an important part in
the drama of life. To him the econom-
ical man appeals in his desire to pro-
long the life of his footwear. The man of
moderate means sees in him a helper
who for a pittance makes over the
much-worn shoe. The poor look to him
to make their badly-worn shoes once
more a protection to the feet from the
wet and cold, while the poverty-pinched
have no other friend to whom they can
appeal, when the sole is thin, the heel
worn off and the upper in the last
stages of decay. And a sorry pile in-
deed it is of dilapidated footwear that
one sees on entering one of these shops,
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semblance of a shoe. The cobbler’s
assurances, however, ‘‘that he will
make it as good as new’’ are carried

out to the letter, and nothing seems to
be too far worn to create the slightest
idea in his mind that repairs cannot be
made. i

The timid man whose purse is small,
too small to admit of the luxury ofa
pair of new shoes, watches to see that
the cobbler is alone, and he then opens
his bundle and asks if those old shoes
can be mended, ‘‘they are so easy for
my feet that I hate to part with them,’’
and he feels that he has met a good
Samaritan when our cobbler says,‘‘ Yes,
they can be made to wear as long as
they have worn.’’ The price may be
75 cents, $1 or $1.25, according to the
work to be done or the range of prices
established in each individual shop.

The tramp often finds the cobbler a
willing purchaser for the odd old shoes
he collects from the city’s garbage, for
not a few of our basement workers in-
clude in their business the making over
of old shoes, selecting the best for re-
pairs, and using the leather in the
‘too far gone’’ for patching the other,
and the man ‘‘on his uppers’’ can_pur-
chase these made-overs for any price
from fifty cents to a dollar or more, and
he will get his money’s worth if he is
not particular as to the shoes being
mates.

All cobblers do not include this mak-
ing over the old with the old, but many
do. A visit to their places will reveal
a barrel of water, in which there may
be a score or more of old shoes soak-
ing, preparatory to undergoing the sur-
gical operations that will determine
whether they are to be restored, or
whether they are to be used as the re-
storative. Aftera thorough soaking the
old shoes are removed from the water
and closely examined. If there is
enough substance left to form a base for
repairs, the shoe is put onto a last, well
drawn to shape, and secured so that it
cannot draw off,and then allowed to dry.
If not deemed fit to make over, the en-
tire shoe is ripped up, and such pieces
of leather, sole or upper, as can be used
for repairing are cut out and thrown in
boxes kept for the purpose. All that
cannot be utilized is thrown in a heap
and eventually sold to the ‘‘scrap man.’”’

It is a profitable business withal, this
making over of old shoes, but it is
doubtful if any man not trained to pa-
tience and long hours like the cobbler
would ever be able to carry on such an
occupation.

 

The cobbler is no modern product, he
flourished in his way in the days of
sandals, when, with a few thongs of
leather, some wood pins and a few nails,
he restored to use the wood sole and the
rawhide thongs. In the early days the
cobbler was not so fortunate as to be the
possessor of a shop. The most prosper-
ous had a little counter in the street, be-
hind which he did his work, having
over his head a narrow roof which
served to shelter him, in a measure, from
the sun and rain. His nearest prototype
to-day is the Chinese cobbler, who se-
lects some corner or old doorway, pro-
vides himself with a low stool and the
ever-present umbrella; then on the side-
walk, with his joss stick burning at his
side, he repairs the shoes of the ‘‘ Meli-
can man’’ as well as those of his own
countryman. When doing some small
job of repairs for the white man, the
latter will be found a few hundred feet
away watching the operation, but suffi-
ciently distant soas not to create the im-
pression that he is patronizing the
heathen Chinese. This scene is a
common one in the streets of San Fran-
cisco.

The itinerant cobbler working by the
roadside was a familar sight for cen-
turies in Europe, and he flourished to a
certain extent in this country even as
late as the forties. The writer well re-
members, when a boy, seeing a cobbler
mending shoes, seated under a tree, sur-
rounded by children from a nearby log
schoolhouse, near Ypsilanti, Mich.,
but, so far as he knows, these cobblers
of the road, too, have passed away.
The little shop in the small town or vil-
lage has taken his place in the coun-
try, while the basement cobbler has be-
come a feature in all our leading cities.

A visit among these cobblers revealed
many features of sufficient interest to
warrant a review of their habits, cus-
toms, nationalities, mode of life, prices,
etc. Nearly every nationality is repre-
sented, but the German and the Italian
predominate. They are found occupy-
ing little basements, which serve as liv-
ing and sleeping rooms as well as work-
shop. Some have the smallest possible
number of tools, and everything around
them indicates poverty. The whole stock
of thread, leather, tools, lasts, etc.,
could be purchased for $5. Others have
neatly fitted up shops, an ample supply
of modern tools, and in som2 cases ma-
chines that can be used to advantage
in making repairs. Cobbfers, as a class,
work longer hours than any other; in
fact, it seems as if they never stop
working. From early morn tothe hours
of midnight they can be seen handling
old footwear, or, if a little enterprising,
making shoes for some customer whom
Nature has provided with a pair of feet
of exceptional form, or a man who pos-
sesses a whimsical nature that leads him
to reject everything ‘‘factory made,’'
or who is unwilling to pay the prices
asked by a first-class custom manufac-
turer. To such the little basement offers
an exceptional opportunity for ventilat-
ing his superior knowledge regarding
footwear, and an opportunity to have
shoes made ‘‘over my own last, which I
have had for twenty-five years,’’ not-
withstanding that said last bears no re-
semblance to the original, being covered
with patches of leather put on by the
many cobblers who have used it. Such
men are a Godsend to the basement
worker, as they pay well for having
their shoes made as they direct, and the
cobbler possesses sufficient shrewdness
to express appreciation of the wonder-
ful genius who thus patronizes him.

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It must not be supposed that our cob-
bler rejects the more profitable business
of soling, restoring the worn-down heel,
patching, etc. The introduction of
cement for patching enables him to
perform a given piece of work in much
less time than when sewing on was the
only way of securing a patch, and it
must be admitted that the modern
patch is an improvement over the patch
of our daddies. In New York City one
can have a patch put on ata cost of
from five to thirty cents, according to
the size and degree of prosperity of the
cobbler. The poorest member of the
craft has his little spirit lamp or an im-
provised gas burner placed on_ his
bench, whereby he heats his slickers,
and a small bottle containing the ad-
hesive mixture, and he will put ona
patch “‘while you wait."’ But the higher
priced man will insist upon the shoe
being left with him over night, at least,
in order, as he will tell you, to insure
a good job and to give the cement time
to become thoroughly dry. He will tell
you that it requires much skill to put
on the patch so that it will not be seen,
and when the work is delivered he will
take pride in showing the superiority
of his workmanship.

Half-soling and heeling isa profitable
business, even to those who charge the
smallest price, they who use little, if
any, new leather. There are many who
never use a piece of new leather for
their cheapest mending. They have a
plentiful supply of old sole leather for
soles and heels and old upper leather
for patches, and since the advent of the
present street commissioner, Colonel
Waring, and his white brigade of street
sweepers in New York, the user of old
stock is enabled to obtain a plentiful
supply,as all the old footwear 1s gathered
up by the scavengers and carefully as-
sorted and priced. The cobbler looks at
this stock of derelicts, selects such as
he wants, pays from four to twenty-four
cents a pair, according to size and qual-
ity, and thus secures an ample stock,
without waiting for the uncertain tramp
with his pickings. This materially in-
terferes with the tramp's glass of beer,
but the cobbler is benetited and the city
gets the money.

Another grade of cobblers buy flanks,
bellies, etc., for sole and heel leather
and scraps of soft leather for patches.
These may have a portion of a side of
good sole leather hanging in the shop,
but they seldom cut anything from it.
A third class buy seconds and culls of
cut soles, heel legs, etc., from the deal-
ers in leather and findings. The stock,
therefore, costs but little and labor is
cheap.

An average basement journeyman
cobbler earns from $1 to $1.50 a day,
and works from 7 a. m. to I! p. m. five
days in the week, and a few hours less
on the remaining day, obtaining, in ad-
dition to his wages, a few cents’ worth
of rye bread and a pail of beer for a
noonday meal; and, if inclined to doso,
be may sleep in one corner of the shop.

As a rule, the basement cobbler uses
the old-time shoe bench with its leather
seat bottom and medley of tools, nails,
wax, stones, scraps, etc., in the box.
Some of the more enterprising use a low
stool, and have a counter with a bank
of drawers underneath in which they
keep their materials, and perhaps their
account books, using the top of the
counter as a tool bench. The few
benches of this kind seen, it must be
confessed, do not accord with the gen-
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The interior views of these little shops
are not specially attractive, and the
ventilation 1s such that one wonders how
aman Can retain his health and work
where the air is so impure. Generally
there are not more than two benches.
These are placed as near the door as
possible and opposite the stairway, as
the only natural light that enters is
through the opening for the stairs. The
workers sit facing the door, and near by
is a collection of old tootwear awaiting
manipulation.

On the bench, or on a rack near it, is
the repaired footwear, a stool or chair
is placed nearby for the use of the cus-
tomer, while the floor is used as the
most convenient place for _ storing
leather, lasts and such other materials
as may be needed. ‘The walls are gen-
erally barren, but occasionally coarse
prints or colored posters are used as
decoration. Occasionally one sees the
basement shop of an Italian cobbler
decorated with some bits of artistic
carvings, plaster images, bisque groups
or figures, etc., which betoken a sense
of the artistic that accords most strange-
ly with the everyday, bread-earning
surroundings.

The signs on the railings and over the
doors are, as a rule, interesting because
of theircrudity. They contain singular-
shaped drawings of boots and shoes and
the name of the proprietor. At times
they reveal the originator by the efforts
made at spelling in English. One of
these had in large black letters ona
white ground the following: ‘‘Bots
mada fin vare.’’ The proprietor was an
Italian, and with many protestations he
assured the writer that ‘‘him was good
English.’’ In another locality a French-
man had a sign upon which wasa gilded
boot and shoe and the words: ‘‘Mon-
sieur et Madame Boots and Shoes.’’
Occasionally one tells his business in a
poetical strain, as did one in Upper
New York who erected a signboard and
had painted on it:

Here jives a man

Who won’t refuse

To make or mend boots or shoes;

His leather is good, his work is quick;
He is honest, but he won't give tick.

Whether his honesty or his refusal to
grant credit drove him out of business
is not known, but his sign is gone and
the room he occupied is now used for
storage.

It seems almost incredible that so
many can obtain a livelihood at repair-
ing footwear. It is estimated that there
are three hundred repair shops in New
York, two-thirds of them being base-
ment cobblers.

The proprietors of these shops repre-
sent almost every nationality. In one
locality Hebrew signs predominate, in
another French names are the most
numerous, while in another German leads
all others.

The Italians, while numerous, are not
grouped together; they can be found in
all our business avenues. An occasional
Greek, Spanish or Russian name meets
the eye, and the Chinaman cobbler is
not an exception, only that he is net
fond in the basement, but on the side-
waik. It might be supposed that the
cobbler is but an incident, not a nat-
ural factor, in the shoe-repairing line;
but this is not the case. One findings
man claimed that there are at least
three hundred and fifty underground
cobbler shops in New York, in which
are employed, including the proprie-
tor, who is always a steady worker, not
less than one thousand people, earning
not far from forty thousand dollars a
year, solely in repairing. These men
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stores, and their custom is no inconsid-
erable item, representing two-thirds at
least as much as the wages paid, and all
for repairs for the medium and poorer
citizens of our great city.—Newbury in
Boots and Shoes Weekly.
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Another View of the Seal
versy.

Luther, Jan. 24—Being a reader of
your valuable paper, | was somewhat
interested on the seal question, written
up in your last issue. I am alsoa reader
of the Chicago Journal and notice this
paper has something to say regarding
the matter. I enclose clipping of same,
which takes a different view of the sit-
uation. E. E. CRANDALL.

The article to which Mr. Crandall re-
fers is as follows:

If the seals which caused the contro-
versy with Canada had involved this
country in war with Great Britain they
would hardly have done more harm
than they inevitably will if they should
be allowed to become the cause of the
corruption of public officials and the
turning of the representatives of the
people away from allegiance to their
trust.

Already the laws passed by Congress
and the arrangements made by the
Treasury Department under former ad-
ministrations for the regulation of seal-
ing in Behring Sea have taken on the
appearance of gigantic jobbery. The
creation of monopolies has never found
favor in the eyes of the American peo-
ple, but when a monopoly is created
and defaults in its obligations to the
Government, and when the Government,
instead of taking measures to compel
the discharge of those obligations,
passes laws to foster the monopoly by
the enactment of cdious and oppressive
laws, it is time for an investigation of
the facts and a demand for their ex-
planation.

A fur company was given a monopoly
of sealing on the Pribylov islands. The
company was to pay $60,000 a year for
it. To secure payment it was required
to deposit bonds to the paltry value of
$50,000. The Government has spent
thousands of dollars patrolling the sea
to protect this monopoly and has nearly
been embroiled in war because of it,
yet since 1892 the North American
Commercial Co. has not paid the Gov-
ernment a single cent, and 1s, accord-
ing to the records published in this
paper, in debt tothe Government to the
tune of over $1,500,000.

The contract could have been termi-
nated by the Government at any time.
It was not. The crowning disgrace was
the recent enactment of the law prohibit-
ing the importation of all sealskins not
taken on American territory, an act
which has actually led to the seizing of
travelers’ seal caps and garments on the
Canadian border. That law was passed
to benefit a company which owed the
Government over a million and a half,
and had forfeited every claim to con-
sideration.

Why was it done? How was it done?
By whom? Did the people demand it?
Did public interest call for it? This is
a matter which needs ventilating. An
investigation should be demanded and
pushed to the limit. If nothing but
gross negligence exist in the enforce-
ment of the Government’s claims and
gross carelessness in the passage of
well-meant but unjustifiable laws, that
negligence ought to be punished and
that recklessness of the people’s rights
exposed.

Contro-

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Cycling Boots Shorter.

The full-length boot for wheelwomen,
coming up above the calf, is passe. My
lady of the wheel will come down in her
ideas the coming summer and if she
doesn’t abandon the leg boot altogether
and adopt the oxford, will shorten her
boot tops and wear a boot about Io
inches high.

This is the edict and in the large cities
will be closely followed. In the small-
er places the new style will not be so
quickly adopted.

 

The Requirements of a Good Sales-
: man.

A first-class salesman presupposes a
first-class house. The employer should
furnish the proper environment for the
best development of the prospective
salesman. Where there is feebleness in
the selling force, there is generally some
antecedent feebleness in the store man-
agement, which reacts on the clerks,

The store is practically 4 commercial
school, where the boy or young man
gets his sole knowledge of business.
The employer should never forget that
he is first of all a teacher and an ex-
ample. In the school or college the
teacher counts for more than the sys-
tem. The most successful of these in-
stitutions have been those whose teach-
ers have been men of strong personality.
who have influenced pupils by the force
of personal contact. The same is true
in the commercial schooling a boy gets
in a business house. It’s the strong
personality and inspiration of some em-
ployer that influences the career of the
boy, and furnishes him with a stimulus
and an ideal. The employer cannot es-
cape this great responsibility of ex-
ample, and this is the first and most
important requisite in the training of a
salesman.

It is for the interest of the employer
to make thorough business men out of
his clerks. They are likely to be his
competitors some day, and the better
training they get in his store the better
competitors they will be. The worst
competition comes from men who have
had a superficial training, whose em-
ployers have failed to impart sound
business principles and methods. It’s
the competition of the unintelligent
deaier that hurts.

To my mind, the greatest requirement
of a good salesman is thoroughness. This
means a thorough knowledge of the
goods, their construction and uses, The
man who knows how an article is made,
why it is so made and how it should be
used, can talk about it interestingly
and convincingly ; without this prelim-
inary knowledge, he can only show the
goods in a slipshod way, and rely upon
the inspiration of the moment for some-
thing to say about them. The best in-
spiration comes to the man who is pre-
pared, and no great salesman or great
business man was ever produced by any
process except through a thorough, pains-
taking knowledge of details.

Knowledge of the goods leads toa
knowledge of men, and knowledge of
men enables the salesman to know what
to say and what to leave unsaid, how
much of the story the goods should tell,
how much the salesmen should tell.
The whole selling process hinges on
previously acquired knowledge of the
article being sold, and the first duty of
the salesman to himself and to his em-
ployer is to know all about what he is
selling.

To get this knowledge the salesman
must study as well as observe. Obser-
vation is good, but the progressive
salesman will appreciate the advantage
of special study. Business, like a pro-
fession, requires study, and the man who
reaches the top of the ladder must ap-
ply himself.

The mastery of some department is
important. Know that thoroughly, and
be the one clerk in the store who is an
authority on that department. The well-
equipped salesman should learn to write
advertisements. This will show him
where his knowledge is weak, and he

 

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Writing about a thing makes that thing

clearer, J. R. PRESCOTT.
a
More About the Gate Nuisance
Written for the TRADESMAN.

Travarca Caity, Jan. 23—Aie bane
lakang das town gude dal sance aie
bane har. Aie lake at planty gude. Ate
skal tank hae bane gude town for vork-
angmans. Phanty gude store das blace
got, an gude tavarn. Gude mills are
vorkang, lukang lake planty vork. Aie
tank aie skal gotang aie job. Aie skal
stay bae das blace. Aie tank aie skal
tal yo bout blace har yust bae da subarb
of das town: Fallar tal mae das bane
grat blace for freak. Aieskal navar tal
yo what das vas. Aie kant tal aie freak
whan aie sae at. Aie drumer fallar tal
mae hae tank das fallar bae C. W. M.
R. R. Co. bane one hae tank got out
das blase, an hae tank bane gude tang
to katch ham an sand ham bak har. Un-
der drumer sa hae bane no freak—hae
got not brains nough to bae cracked.
Aie kan no tal bout das. Aie skal hav to
lat som fallar wat got educaton oxplan
das businas. Aie har fallar sa_ bae
nodar fallar das mans talagraf das Gan-
aral Mangar of R. R. Co. das gate bane
gude tang. Bane runan gate now two
veeks, an condoctors not buildang von
new house all das taime. An all das
voman what got babys payang halve
fare. An tank bae maself das bane
pratty gude tang. Aie tank condoctor
battar com bae das bank an save das
money an don’t spand at bae new
houses; an voman das mus go bae R.
R. cars not gotang babys. Aie tank das
skal bane gude dal battar. Aie fallar
bane sayang das C. & W. M. R. R. Co.

|gate businas com bae das cars. All
|dem onder railroads bae das State bane
goang to putang fanc round das cars;
Yumping Yiminy! Aieskal stan round
| dapot yust to har das lot drumers swar.
| Bane good yoke on das fallars.
|Aie har som fallar sa, ‘‘Bae gol! We
|skal bane gatang big portions bae Ole
| Ping, an gatang extra legeslatcr sasson,
lan gatang aie flat to sant rate. An
| lat das railroad fallar fance in bole darn
businas.’’ Aie bane glad aie vorkang
bae lumbar voods. Aie skal bane quite
dal battar, aie tank so.
YONIE YONSON,
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Potato Situation at Minneapolis.
From the Commercial Bulletin.

The weather now prevailing bas been
very favorable to the good movement
of potatoes. The movement has been
well distributed through all grades, with
but little demand as yet for seed. There
is large enquiry for seed, but-the dis-
position of Southern buyers is to con-
tract for later delivery at prevailing
prices. This is not the most desirable
thing for merchants here, for it is hard-
ly safe to do this. If potatoes fall they
are not sure of holding their Southern
friends to their contracts, and if they
shall advance they will themselves be
caught; so few contracts are being
made now for seed. But when the time
shall come for the movement of seed it
is believed that good straight varieties
fit for seed will be found to be scarce.
Farmers are now willing to sell mixed
varieties and good table stock at pre-
vailing prices.

 

 

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Michigan Knights of the Grip.
President, Joun A. Horrman, Kalamazoo; Secre-
tary, J. C. SauNDERs, Lansing; Treasurer, Cuas
McNo try, 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. Vatmore, Detroit; Grand Treas-
urer, GEO. A. REYNOLDS, Saginaw.

 

Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual Acci-
dent Association.

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

J. HEINZELMAN, CHas. S. Rogpinson.

Lake Superior Commercial Travelers’ Club.

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

 

Tale of Two Travelers.
The scene was laid
Green Bay, Wisconsin. The time was
Jan. 18, 1898. The actors were two
traveling men who had finished work for
the day, because in that city, like in all
up-to-date towns, the stores close at 6
o'clock, thereby giving the proprietors
and clerks a chance of becoming better
acquainted with their own families
The two travelers had eaten an early sup-
per and adjourned to the easy chairs in
the hotel office to read the evening
papers, chat and smoke a good cigar—
which had been duly charged to ex-
pense.

The weather outside was miserable.
The rain during the day had made the
snow-covered streets exceedingly slushy.
The wind was blowing a gale and there
was scarcely a soul to be seen, all of
which was conducive to thoughts of
loved ones at home—and the blues.

One of the travelers had picked up a
paper and among ‘“‘plays and players’’
read a complimentary notice about
Cissy Fitzgerald, who held the boards
for the week.

‘*By Jinks, Billy, let’s go to see Cissy
Fitzgerald. She is fine and it will be
much more pleasant than remaining in-
side all the evening. ’’

‘‘Oh!’’ replied the other, ‘‘it’s too
cold and wet to go anywhere to-night.
Besides, the opera house is ona side
street several blocks away.’’

**Well, can’t we get a hack to call for
us?’’ said the first speaker. ‘‘She is
well worth going to see, even on a
stormy night like this.’’

It didn’t take long to persuade Billy
to go. They both went into the barber
shop, got a shave and a_ shine, bought
a buttonhole bouquet, put an extra dose
of perfume on their handkerchiefs and
were soon on their way toward the opera
house.

Inside the hack, the traveler who
particularly admired Cissy Fitzgerald
was entertaining his friend with sketches
of that little bunch of vivacity and their
anticipations were way above par. Out-
side, the driver was wondering what on
earth those two fellows wanted at the
opera house. The carriage soon reached
the place and the boys hopped out, to
find all darkness.

“‘See here, driver, is this the right
place?’’ was asked in concert.

They were assured that there was but
one opera house in town.

‘Well, where does Cissy Fitzgerald
play, anyway?’’

‘““Cissy Fitzgerald?’’ asked the driver.
‘Who the deuce is she?’’

After a hurried conference, the driver
was ordered to return to the hotel for
further information,

in the city of

Bi iesciny a eee Sg

 

No one around the hotel knew of any
show in town, and a search for the
newspaper containing the complimen-
tary item revealed the fact that the
cause for all the trouble and expense had
appeared in the Bay City Tribune. The
expense attached to that nizht’s mis-
take was not alone the shave, shine,
bouquet and the hack. It hasn’t stopped
yet. The boys will buy you a house and
lot if you call for it. OUIX.

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Gripsack Brigade.

The Michigan Commercial Travelers’
Association has changed Secretary, C.
W. Allen having been elected in place
of Dan Morris.

Miss Rena Challender is now on the
road for the French Garment Co, of
Kalamazoo, covering the retail trade of
Michigan and Indiana.

Owing to the strained relations be-
tween the Central Passenger Association
and Northern Mileage Bureau, the ques-
tion has arisen whether the Northern
Bureau will accept Central mileage
covers for redemption, but it is an-
nounced that all books purchased prior
to February 1 will be accepted. On
that date the Northern book will go into
effect.

The Western Commercial Travelers’
Association, incorporated under the
laws of the State of Missouri, has just
issued its twentieth annual report,
showing that it has paid to the benefi-
ciaries of its deceased members the
grand sum of $1,000,734, at a cost to the
members who have paid every assess-
ment commencing with No. 1, Ti
This includes expenses, dues and all
assessments.

Two candidates for the presidency of
the Michigan Knights of the Grip for
1899 have already been announced—P.
T. Walsh, of Detroit, and J. W. Thorn,
of Owosso. It is not unlikely that the
next annual convention will be held at
Owosso, although the Tradesman under-
stands that no move has yet been made
in that direction. It is reported that
Port Huron will renew the invitation
extended a year ago, and it is barely
possible that Jackson may also put in a
bid for the honor, albeit her hotel fa-
cilities are hardly adequate to the oc-
casion. The place of holding the next
convention will probably be decided at
the March or June meeting of the
Board of Directors.

John McLean insists that the Trades-
man ought to correct the statement that
the Kalamazoo convention was the first
occasion when political cranks and
freaks were tabooed at the annual ban-
quet. In proof of his statement he sends
the Tradesman a list of the toasts and
responses of the Detroit banquet in
1896, and candor compels the statement
that he appears to have facts on his side.
Mr. McLean is all the more ‘‘touchy’’
on the subject because he was toast-
master on that occasion and prepared
the topics and selected the speakers,
While it is a little questionable whether
Mayor Boynton, of Port Huron, is a
politician, traveling man, or employer
of traveling men, the Tradesman is dis-
posed to give Mr. McLean the benefit
of the doubt and accord him the honor
he so anxiously covets.

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It is said one pound of cork will sup-
port a man of ordinary size in the
water. That will be good news to many
a poor, hard-working woman who is
trying to support a husband. A _ pound
of cork will not cost much, but there is
always a chance that a man who de-
pends upon the labor of his wife will not
want to be supported by water,

$5

 

The Produce Market.

Apples—The demand is brisk and the
supply of Southwestern fruit is ample
for all requirements. Ozark Jonathans
fetch $4.50 per bbl., Etrus command $4
and Ben Davis bring $3.75. Michigan
Spys are held at $3.50, but the Southern
fruit is preferred, on account of its su-
perior quality and appearance.

Bananas—The market is well supplied
with desirable fruit, and the movement
is very fair for this season of the year.
The market is steady.

Beets—25c per bu.

Butter—The consumption of butter at

this time is either very small, or else
there has been a decided increase in
the make. Even after the recent de-

cline, the movement is not yet up to the
average. The only explanation for this
condition is that the mild weather pre-
vailing at this season has increased the
inake, in addition to which there is a
decrease in the consumption. The im-
proved business conditions have as yet
made no increase in the demand, al-
though they are likely to, as present low
prices are likely to stimulate the de-
mand. Choice dairy commands 12@
14c, while factory creamery is slow sale
at roc.

Cabbage—The market is without
change, choice stock commanding only
$2.50 per 100.

Carrots—3oc per bu.

Celery—Scarce and higher, choice
stock readily commanding 20c_ per
bunch,

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

I;.ges—The recent snowstorms are ex-
pected to check the receipts, but so far
it has not apparently had any effect, al-
though it must have seriously affected
the marketing of eggs from first hands.
Strictly fresh command about 18c.
Pickled and storage stocks are nearly
depleted.

Game—As the game season closes
Feb. 1, dealers are closing out their
stocks on hand and decline to take in
any more stock.

Honey—ric for white comb and
for dark.

Lemons—The market is well supplied
and the demand is great. There are few
Messinas on the market, the best stock
being California fruit. Prices are about
25 cents under the quotations of last
week.

Lettuce—Grand Rapids Forcing com-
mands I5c per Ib.

Onions—The market is unchanged,
both yellow and red varieties being
held at 70@75c. Spanish remain the
same, $1.75 per crate, but the demand is
not large.

Oranges—The market is well supplied
with both Mexican and California fruit,
the latter being about equally divided
between seedlings and navels. The
movement of stock is on the increase,
and the market is steady, although the
receipts are increasing. Thus far little
if any of the frosted fruit has come to
this market. It is reported from the
Coast that this city will get none of this
fruit, and that, as only to per cent. of
the crop was affected, the fruit grow-
ers’ exchanges will see to it that they do
not ship any of this stock to the East.
Even with this reduction the crop. will
be a large one, and prices will rule ata
reasonable figure.

Potatoes—The market is stronger and
higher than a week ago, buyers having
advanced their paying price to Soc.

Poultry—Fowls are in plentiful sup-
ply and are weak at 614@7%c. Turkeys
are scarce and strong at ric. Ducks are
nominal at roc. Geese are not in mar-
ket.

Sweet Potatoes—Kiln dried Illinois
Jerseys are in good demand and ample
supply at $3.50@3.75 per bbl.

IOc

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Movements of Lake Superior Travelers

Jj. W. Richards (W. Bingham Co. )
has returned to his territory from Cleve-
land, to which point he goes every two
years to renew his acquaintance with
his house.

Oscar Hopperstead, who has _ repre-
sented the Ferguson Hardware Co, (Soo)

 

of late, has accepted a position with the
Menominee Iron Works Co.

John Burder, who has_ represented
the Carlton Hardware Co. (Calumet),
in the copper country, will cover the
same territory for the John Pritzlaff
Hardware Co. (Milwaukee). H. E.
Bice, who has been making that part
of the Upper Peninsula for the Pritzlaff
Co., will retain all the rest of his old
territory.

Frank Horton (Pemberthy, Cook &
Co.) has resigned and gone to his old
home in the East. Geo. Gallagher suc-
ceeds.

Alex. Stevenson (Buhl, Sons & Co. )
works a dummy telephone game on in-
nocent travelers who visit him in his
office at the Menominee store. Some-
body pushes a button and the bell of the
dummy telephone rings. Alex answers
the phone and proceeds to write down
a large order, always for goods that the
traveler present does not sell. The
traveler 1s jollied and told he is in the
wrong line. Traveler goes out. Alex
Says Hext

A brether tourist gave me a dollar a
short time ago to pay fora year’s sub-
scription to the Tradesman. He said
‘‘T’ve got to get that yellow sheet. I
think it the best thing in the way of
a trade journal I ever saw. Even my
wife has become interested in it—the
first time I ever saw a lady care a snap
for a trade paper.’’

Poe
Monthly Meeting of Post E.

Grand Rapids, Jan.°24—-At the regu-
lar meeting of Post E, held at Imperial
Hall last Saturday evening, Chairman
Wetzel presided.

There being a shortage of $6.80,
growing out of the trip to Kalamazoo,
by reason of less than the schedule
number going over the Lake Shore
route, B. S. Davenport moved that an
order be drawn on the Treasurer for
$6.80 to cover the shortage, which was
adopted.

Geo. F. Owen was appointed cus-
todian of the banner, flags, bunting and
other decorative paraphernalia belong-
ing to the Post.

A vote of thanks was tendered Post K
(Kalamazoo) for the courteous enter-
tainment of the ladies and members of
Post E during the recent State con-
vention.

There being no further business, the
meeting adjourned, and until nearly
midnight the members and their ladies
tripped the light fantastic to their
hearts’ content. E. A. STOWE, Sec’y.

+ 2.

Successful leaders of men have in
them the qualities of good men. The
sneak who cannot look you in the face
cannot inspire men to rally under his
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Term expires

F. W. R. Perry, Detroit - Dec. 31, 1898
A. C. SchUMacHER, Ann Arbor - Dec. 31, 1899
Gro. GunpRvUM, Ionia - - - Dec. 31, 1900
L. E. REYNOLDS, St. Joseph Dec. 31, 1901 |
Henry Heim, Saginaw. - Dec. 31, 1902

President, F. W. R. Perry, Detroit.
Secretary, Geo. GuNDRuUM, Ionia.
Treasurer, A. C. SCHUMACHER, Ann Arbor.

Examination Sessions.

Grand Rapids—March 1 and 2.
Star Island—June 27 and 2s.
Marquette—About 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. Mann, Detroit. :
Treasurer—JoHN D. Murr, Grand Rapids.

 

Suggestions Concerning the Manu-
facture of Cold Cream.

There is no pharmaceutical prepara-
tion concerning which more is_ written
or for which more formulas have been
given than cold cream. Nevertheless,
if you purchase some from the average
drug store, you will often not find it as
white as it should be, and it will prob-
ably be lumpy and devoid of that
creamy consistency which this prepara-
tion should possess. I have no new for-
mula to offer, but I have a few sugges-
tions to make as to manipulation, which
will always insure perfect success if
followed to the letter. This process has
been used by me constantly in one of
the largest pharmacies in the South,
which does quite an extensive theatrical
trade, and in which I have therefore
had an opportunity to prepare large
quantities of it a great many times.

I use the U. S. P. formula, but sub-
stitute distilled water for the rose water,
and afterwards add oil of rose. The for-
mula for a convenient quantity of cream
is as follows:

Spermaceti, - 40 ounces av.

White wax, - - 38 ounces av.

Oil expressed almonds, 12 pints.

Borax, - - - I ounce.

Distilled water, - 33% pints.

Pour the oil of almonds ints a_porce-
lain-lined vessel of sufficient capacity
that the cream may be stirred well.
Add the spermaceti and wax to the oil,
and heat over a slow fire until melted.
Dissolve the borax in the water, and
pass through cotton into a Florence
flask. Place the flask into the mixture
contained in the vessel. Let the heat
continue until the waxes are entirely
melted, then pour the water from the
flask into the vessel and heat for three
minutes longer.

Have a larger vessel, partly filled with
slightly warm water, and place the first
vessel in it. The larger kettle should
be connected with a reservoir of ice
water, which can be gradually added to
the lukewarm water so as slowly to cool
it off until the water is quite cold. Stir
the mixture constantly from the time it
is taken from the fire until it is quite
cold. As the cream will cooi rapidly in
the cold water, the stirring can be con-
ducted without much fatigue. When
nearly cold, essences may be added to
suit the taste and pocketbook of your
patrons. Continue the stirring until
quite cold.

The points to be observed are: (1)
The wax used must be No. 1 white wax,
not the extra white, as that usually con-
tains paraffin, and this positively will
not answer. (2) The best quality of
spermaceti is also essential. (3) See
that your oil of almonds is not rancid.

 

Cold cream is intended to be an oint-
ment, and a rancid oil might do harm.
(4) The fire used in melting the waxes
must not be too hot, for fear of setting
up chemical decomposition.

It may be asked, What are the ad-
vantages of this process? Let us see.
The reasons for the frequent failures in
making cold cream are these: First,
the difference of temperature of the
two liquids when mixed, causing a sep-
aration of the two waxes, which are
difficult to incorporate. This is avoided
by heating them both at the same time
to the same heat. Besides, a great
many druggists have only one gas stove,
and therefore do not find it convenient
to heat the water before the wax. Sec-
ond, the trouble of heating the second
vessel (into which we are instructed by
the Pharmacopoeia to pour the cream)
without smutting it causes a great many
to dispense with this precaution. But if
this be omitted, the sudden reduction
of temperature on taking the melted
waxes from the fire and putting them
on the cold water-bath may also cause
separation of the waxes. This is avoid-
ed by using the same vessel for cooling
the cream that we use for heating it.
Third, the length of time usually re-
quired for cooling it in the open air is
such that it is almost beyond human
endurance to continue the stirring with
sufficient rapidity to keep the ingred-
ients thoroughly mixed; it is almost
impossible to continue the operation for
so long atime. This is avoided by the
rapid cooling of the ice water. If you
stir by hand, be sure that you use the
lightest stirrer obtainable, so as not to
become too wearied by the constant agi-
tation. Wm. B. PARKER.

a
Dangers of Cocaine.

A member of the faculty of the Mass-
achusetts College of Pharmacy is quoted
in a Boston Post interview as having
said, in regard to the cocaine habit:

‘“‘It is not a boy’s habit, this taking
of cocaine. There are plenty of boy
opium smokers and no end of fast wom-
en to keep them company; but the vic-
tims of cocaine are usually in the prime
ot life, from 30 to 40 years old. They
may have been introduced to the drug
by the familv physician, who has ad-
vised its use for the relief of neuralgia
or who has used it in spray in throat
and nose troubles; or the dentist may
have made operations upon the teeth
painless by cocaine; or again, in the
various preparations of coca and kola
wines they may have had their first
taste. After a while the exhilaration
and good feeling due to the wine does
not come. Something stronger is
needed. Then comes the cocaine, pure
and simple. Once in the clutch of the
drug, not one in a thousand breaks

away.’’
—___§_e 2.__
Lack of Uniformity in Seidlitz Pow-
ders.

J. Rutherford Hayes, of London, re-
cently purchased and examined nine
samples of ordinary Seidlitz powders.
All of these but one were gotten from
‘doctors’ shops,’’ a species of unjust
competition that our English cousins
have to contend with. Only one of these
nine samples conformed to the British
pharmacopoeial standard. Instead of
containing thirty-seven grains of tar-
taric acid, they varied from thirty-two
to fifty-seven grains, and contained
twenty-two to fifty grains of bicarbonate
of sodium instead of forty grains.
Three samples contained sugar in addi-
tion. President Hill, of the Pharma-
ceutical Society, declared that this was
but another evidence of the highly un-
satisfactory condition of things that pre-
vails in these ‘‘shops,’’ and an addi-
tional proof that, in the interests of the
public, pharmacy should be in the
hands of pharmacists.

 

What Are Cholagogues?

From time immemorial certain medi-
cines have been used under the name of
‘‘Cholagogues’’ for the purpose of re-
moving bile from the system in the in-
testinal dejections. As to the produc-
tion of this result being the ordinary
object of the treatment, there has at no
time been any doubt or difference of
opinion. Erroneous ideas have, how-
ever, been entertained as to the nature
of the process or as to other processes
associated with it. Up to a_ recent
period, it has been very generally sup-
posed that this result was accompanied
by, and depended upon, an increased
secretion of bile by the liver. Upon
this idea was based the definition of
cholagogues as ‘‘medicines which stim-
ulate the secretion of bile,’’ with the
addition by some definers of ‘‘and its
excretion by the intestines.’’ In ac-
cordance with this idea, the object of
giving the cholagogues has often been
supposed to be the stimulation of the
liver. Studies of the mode of action of
the cholagogues determined the fact
that certain of them did not increase
the liver secretion. These, therefore,
came to be excluded from the class;
that is, it was concluded that we had
been mistaken in calling them chola-
gogues. As other members of the class
were investigated, it was found that
neither did they have this action, and
they, in succession, were similarly ruled
out of the class. A yearor so ago, Dr.
Fr. Pfaff, of the Harvard Medical
School, made a very thorough study of
the cholagogues, showing—probably
conclusively—that not one of them, ex-
cept bile itself, which has never been
regarded as an important one, possesses
the power of stimulating the secretion of
the liver. It is even to be noted that
bile does not belong to the class at all
so far as its use is concerned, for in-
stead of promoting the discharge of bile,
it increases the amount in the system.
The outcome of the perverted order of
reasoning here recorded is the conclu-
sion that, with the technical exception
of bile, we have no cholagogues. We
still have the entire class of medicines
which have gone under that name.
There is no question of the propriety of
the use to which they have been put,
nor any doubt that they will continue to
be so used with great benefit: but be-
cause we happen to have made a tech-
nical error in our definition, it is con-
sidered necessary that we abandon the
term. The proposition is indefensible,

The Cheapest

market for the money.

gross.

wants in every way.

 

for two reasons: First, it violates the
principle of convenience found in con-
tinuing to use a long employed and
commonly accepted term, which is
never to be done except for very im-
portant reasons. Second, it is a fully
accepted principle, in establishing rules
for terminology, and especially for
nomenclature, that a name shall not
change with modifications in the idea
which it represents, unless it be found
to conflict with some other. Both con-
venience and law, therefore, furnish us
the strongest warrant for continuing to
apply the term ‘‘cholagogues’’ to the
mercurials, podophyllum, letandra, iris,
euonymus, nitro-hydrochloric acid, sal-
icylate of soda and all other substances
used to produce ‘‘bilious stools,’’ and
for modifying our definition of the term
by saying: ‘‘Medicines which promote
the discharge of bile from the intes-
tine, ’’ H. 8. Ruspy, M: BD.

—_——__>2.__
The Drug Market. -

There are few changes to note.

Opium—This article is firm under
the conditions noted last week.

Morphine—Is steady at unchanged
prices.

Quinine—P. &‘:W. have reduced their
price 2c per oz. There is no change in
foreign for fresh goods. Old goods,
heavy and short weights, can be bought
2@3c lower.

Salicylic Acid—There are rumors of a
combination of manufacturers and im-

porters, and this fact may advance
prices a little later on.

Essential Oils—Bergamot is firm
and the market is advancing. Cloves

and cubebs are tending higher, owing to
the advance of raw material. Orange
is steadily advancing. Prices are higher
abroad. Pimento is also higher, on ac-
count of the advance in allspice.

Ipecac Root—This article has ad-
vanced and is tending higher.

Linseed Oil—Has again advanced and
market is very firm.

2-02

There are signs apparent that the stag-
nation of population in France is be-
ginning to have a turning. The births
in 1896 exceeded the deaths by 93,700.
The population is over 38,000,000.
>em -

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Advanced—Linseed Oil, Ipecac Root.
Declined—Quinine, P. & W.

Acidum Conium Maec.. B@ 50! | Seille Ce... a w
Acoticum............ 8 6@8 2 Copaiba...... ‘coco t Coe | on | Tolutan .. oes ao ww
Benzoicum, German 70@ 75 Cc subeber. . oe . 90@ 1 00; Prunus virg.. a. @ 50
Boracic.............. @ 15| Exechthitos ........ 1 00@ 1 10} Tinctures
Carbolicum ......... 20@ 41| Erigeron ............ 1 one 1 10 | Aconitum Napellis RB 60
Clirioum 0066). 40@ 42| Gaultheria..... .... 1 50@ 1 60) Aconitum Napellis F 50
Hydrochior ......... 3@ 5 | Geranium, ounce... @ 7 | Aloes.. cS 60
Nitrocum. ......... 8@ 10} Gossippii, Sem. — 50@ 60} Aloesand Myrrh... 60
Oxaticdin 20.0.0... 2@ 14| Hedeoma.. s+: SOME CO Arete 50
Phosphorium, dil... @ 15|Junipera............ 1 50@ 2 00! Assafcetida ......... 50
Salieylicum. ......:. 65 | Lavendula...... -  90@ 2 00} Atrope Belladonna. 60
Sulphuricum. ...... 1%@__~—+5| Limonis.. --+-. 1 20@ 140} Auranti Cortex... 50
GGunia 1 25@ 1 40 Mentha Piper. __ 1 60@ 2 20) Benzoin. a 60
Tartaricum.......... 38@ 40 Mentha Verid. -- 1500 1 6] Bengain Co... 50

Morrhue, gal.. .. 100@ £10| Garoemn 50)

ante 1@ a teseseeeee 4 00@ 450) Cantharides........ 5

Aqua, 16 deg........ 6 eG tL. %@ 300) Capsicum........ 5()
Aqua, 20 deg........ 6@ S| Eiets Liquida. ..... 10@ 12! Sasdanet ee 25
Carponas...-........ 12@ 14] Picis Liquida, gal... @ 35) Cardamon Co....... (6)
Ciforidum .......... 122@ 4 —— eee 908) 0101 Gages 1 00
ORnaATrHA @ 1 00| Catechu..... 5

me ‘ai. nS Sl eens 30
Bisex... .,..:-..__.. 2 0H@ ©! Suecini ..... ---cs+-- @@ 4) Cinchona Co... 60
Brown .....-....:.... 80 CO Sahin O41@ gaan i
Red a i os ‘ = Sate > 50@ 7 00 | Cubeba. . ce 50

CLOW — see rere eee ~< Daskatrag ........ 55@ 60] Cassia Acutifol 50)

Bacce. a cae cer 1 a 1 = > gre Acutifol 1 Co 50

cont PO: 1g oe. +: W@ io etralis ..... oie 50
Seana Le . : 5 ae 8 Thyme ............ 10@ 50 Ergot.. : oe 50
Xanthoxylum.. .... 2@ 3 Tayme, off tees = I =| Ferri Chloridum.. 35
AS ........ "a wi Gentian ......... 50

Balsamum i ae tees
eae iii 55@ 60 Potassium | Gentian Co.......__. 60
oe at @ 2 40| Bi-Carb........ 16@ 19] Guiaca............. 50
Terabin, Canada... 45@  50| Bichromate ||...” aq 15| Gulacaammon...... 60
manatat 50@. 60) bromide i...) 50@ 5a | a Sse eee. Po
ee : —s — 2 a de 73

Cortex _ Chlorate .-po. 17@ide — = lodine, colorless... (o)
Abies, Canadian.... 18 | Cyanide. SG || cs als sale ciel ait 50
Ce. ss... 2| Iodide............... 2 60@ 2 65| — anaes a
Cinchona Flava..... 18 | Potassa, Bitart, pure 23@ 30| + =e ee nese =
Euonymus atropurp 30 | Potassa, Bitart, com @ Sian; omica. 2... a
Myrica Cerifera, po. 20 ss Nitras, opt. s@ 10| OPil-.-.. .
Prunus Virgini...... 12} Potass Nitras|, | tae Pe =
Quillaia, grd....... i4)| Prossiate 0... 2. Ong. 25] i os
Sassafras...... po. 18 12 | Sulphate po ...... he i8| 3 my
Ulmus...po. 15, gr'd 15 Radix iS R ae =

Extractum Aconitvia 4). |... 208 |S 50
Glycyrrhiza Glabra. 24@ 25/ Althe....... | oe 50
Glycyrrhiza, po..... ma «630 | Anehusa 10@ 60
Hematox, 15 lb box. ie =| Arum pO... @ BB} 60
Hematox, Is . 14} Calamus ...... 20@ 40) Valerian ._. c 50
Hematox, rg | oe. a | Gentiana...... po 6 12@ 15} Veratrum Veride. 50
Hematox, 4S....... 166@ 17 Stokes. py.i5 f6@ 18) @meiber.. 20

Hydrastis Canaden @ 55} Miscell

— ~ | Hydrastis Can., po.. @ 60 Aither, Spts. N it3r 30@ 35
Carbonate Precip... 15 | Hellebore, Alba. Po. 15@ 20} Hither, Spts. Nit.4F %@ 38
Citrate and Quinia.. 2 2 | Inula, po. Ce es | aA er enn ne 24@ 3
Citrate Soluble...... 5 | Ipecac, po...... 2/50 2 60] Aluimen, ora? ia ee

I | Alumen, gro’d..po 3@ 4

Ferrocyanidum Sol. 40 | Tris plox.... po35@38 QB 40 | Annatio age ei
Solut. Chloride..... 19 | Jalapay peo.) 2A, 30 | Antimoni, po....... 3 =4@. 5
Sulphate, com’l..... “| Maranta, ws... @ 35! AntimonietPotasst 40@ 50
= — by En abel po... 2@ 25| Antipyrin......... @ 1 40
, per Cwt....... Eee 7@ 1 00} Antifebrin ce @ 15
Sulphate, pure ..... i Rhel, ae i ein oo @ 15
lora oe T@ 1 35| Arser ao Ff
onion . i 2P@ 14 Spigelia. ee BO 38 | Balm Gilead Bud _. 3p 40
Anthemis oe 18@ 2% Sanguinaria...po. 15 @ 13] Bismuth S. N . 1 40@ 1 50
Matricaria ae 30@ 35 Serpentaria 30@G 35 | Cale ium C hlor. a @ 9
c Polla ens Sa m * 40@ 45/| Calcium Chlor., %s. @ 10
imilax,officinalis H @ 40| Calcium C hee s. a rr
Barosma............. 23@ 28} Smilax, M....... @ 2%5|Cantharides, Ruspo @ 7%
Cassia Acutifol, Tin- : ere 10.35 10@ «I Capsici Fructus, af Qa 6b
meveliy...... 2... 25 | Symplocarpus, Feeti- | Capsici Fructus, po. a &
Cassia Acutifol,Alx. 2@ 30] dus, po............ @ 2% Capsici FructusB,po @ 15
Salvia officinalis, 4s Valeriana, Eng.po.30 @ | Caryophyllus..po. 15 10@ 12
and 368.0050. ol. 12@ 20} Valeriana, eiminaee 15@ 20| Carmine, No. 40..... @ 3 00
Ure Ursi............. 8@ 10 —_- a. 12@ 16| Cera Alba, S.& F 50@ 55
Guna ingiber j. com «6 | Cera Minva..__. 40@ 42

ae Coccus @ 4
Acacia, Ist picked.. @ 6 Semen Cassis eo 3
Acacia, 2d picked... @ 4} Anisom...... po. 15 @ Bi Gentura a
Acacia, 3d picked.. @ %| Apium oon eleons) 1L3@ 15] Get; ac aria. oe a 4
Acacia, -— sorts. @ 28} Bird, Is. IQ 6| Chlorof Wi eonay 1K .
Acacia, po....... ... 60@ 90|Carui.......... “Po. 18 0@ W2IG cary a : va 1 35
Aloe, Bon po.18@20 12@ 14| Cardamon.. 1... oe 1 Chiral Hyd ra rbs 06 1 60
Aloe, Cape ....po. 15 a & Coriandrum......... 3 10| Ghondrus, TT Sea
Aloe, Socotri::po.40 _@ 30/ Cannabis Sativa 4@ 4%) Cinchonidine. P&E W B@ 35
Ammoniac.......... 55 60 oe wetttee cess T5@ 1 00 Cinehawidine, Germ  2@ 30
Assafotida....po.30 2%@ 28} Chenopodium ...... 4 10@ i 2 Cocaine. -. 3 80@ 4 00
Bensonum ......... 50@ = at Odorate. . nee 2 > Corks, list. dis. pr sy 70
Catechn, ts:........- emculam ........ @ e -
Catechu, con... = A oe pe...... = 9 i en bbl. 7 g °
Catechu, \4s......... @ in —. 41 Greta, prep... 5
Camphore .. 40@ 43] Lini, erd......bbl. 3 1o 4% | Greta, ee i oo 1
Euphorbium..po.35 @ 10| Lobelia... 3@ 401] Greta; Rubra... ||| @ 8
Galbanum........... @ 1 00| Pharlaris Canarian. 4@ 4%| Grocus _. ae 18@ 20
Gamboge po........ 65 7 BPS .-..-.--.... -.. 414@ 516 ag @ >
Gusiacum.....po. 2% "6 30 Sinapis Albu........ am 8s c eet tet ey 5B "a
Bane... ..... po. 83.u0 @ 3 . Sinapis Nigra....... iO i) pextvine. 0e@ 12
sane steccecees eee @ Spiritus | Ether Sulph.. sa ab
Myrrh......... @ 10)» iw Wag 9 59 | Emery, all numb @

, rumenti, W. D. - 2 00@ 2 50 umbers a <
pli po, 4. toa. 30 3 oo s 2 Frumenti, D. F. 2 00@ 2 2% Eme ry si oe @ 6
Shellac, bleached... 40@ 45 | Frumenti’... - 125@ 1 50| BE — =:
iain iar Gh 50@ 80 Juniperis Co. 0. T.. 1 65@ 2 12@ 1
8 an " " taunineris Co... .__. 1 75@ 3: Pe 2
erba Saacharum N. E.... 1 90@ 2 10} seats | eae |e
Absinthium..oz. pkg 25 | Spt. Vini Galli. 1 75@ 6 50 | Gelatin, C ooper.. .. @& 60
Eupatorium .oz. pkg So | Vini Oportoe....... 1 25@ 2 00 Gel: itin, French..... a0@ «60
Lobelia...... oz. pkg o5 | Vint Aspe... 1 25@ 2 00 “oo tha ye a =
Majorum ....oz. pkg 28 Sponges ee eee y

i 2 Giuc. brown |. %@
ae — = Florida sheeps’ wool Gime, write... ||. B@ 2%
Rue i" pkg 39 carriage 2 50@ 2 75 | Glycerina ........... 134@ 20
wanetuay oa pkg 29 Nassau sheeps ‘wool | Grana Px @ bs

: on | Carriage.. @ 2 00} Humui 23@ 5d

Thymus, V..oz. pkg 25 G
y : Magnesi | Velvet extra sheeps’ Aras aag Chlor Mite @
a. wool, carriage..... @ 1 ®| Hydraag Chior Cor. oa w
Calcined, Pat..... .. 55@ 60} Extra yellow sheeps’ Hydraag Ox Rub’m @ 90
Carbonate, Pat... . 20@ 22 wool. carriage @ 1 00} Hydraag Ammoniati @ 1 00
Carbonate, K. & M. 20@ 25} Grass sheeps’ wool, HydraagUnguentum 45@ 55
Carbonate, Jennings 2 6° S61 «6 Carriage @ 1 00| Hydrargyrum. @ 6
Hard, for slate use.. @Q Twi te ‘hthyobolla, Am. 6@ 75

Oleum Yellow Reef, for nde 7@ 1 00
Abeinthinum......... 3 25@ 3 50 SIAGe WSO... 2... @ 1 40| Iodine, Resubi..... 60@ 3 70
Amygdale, Dule.. 3 50 lodoform....... ou @ 4 20

g :
Amy dal, Amare . 8 8 25 Syrups Lupulin ee @ 2 2
ys :
Anisi.. s--, 2 2o@ 23>) Acacia........... @ 50| Lycopodium........ 40@ 45
Auranti Cortex. ees 3 2o@ 2 40} AurantiCortes....... @ WO Macis oe
Zingiber....... | @ | Liauer Arse-. et hy. f
85@ 90} Ipecac. Pe us G& drare lod... ._ ®
65@ - 7%} Ferri Iod..... @ 350} LiquorPotassA rsinit 10@_ 12
ar 35@ 65] Rhei Arom.. ; @ 50| Magnesia, Sulph.... 7a 4
Chonopadit Poe se ces @ 2 75} Smilax Officinalis... 50@ 60 Magnesia, Suiph,ppl @ 1%
po caer a iciwieee 2000, 190 Seen: @ 50 eels, S. F ‘ “ey 2
nella... ...,.. 45@ 2 50 ie css, @ 50] Mentho. peseee

 

 

Morphia, 3 a&W... 2 i5@ 3 40 | Sinapis aaa @ 18! Linseed, pure raw... @& 45
a 5S.N_Y¥. aA &’ Sinapis, opsé......... @_ 30; Linseed, boiled..... 44 7
c . 2 15b@ 2 40| Snu , Maceaboy, De Neatsfoot,winterstr 65 70
acl Canton. @ 40} Vaes on @ 34) Spirits Turpentine... 38 43
Myristies, No. 1..... 65@ 80) Snuff,Scotch,DeVo’s @ #4
Nux Vomica...po.20 @ 10) Seda Borag.........- se wn Pai
Os Sepia... 15@ 18 | Soda Boras, po.. 8 @ 10 aints BBL. LB
epsin ‘ Saz ic, & | Soda et Potass Tart. 26@ =«=a28 Red Venetian 1
D. c aes @ i 00 | Soda, Carb oe. 1%~@ 2 Ochre. yellow Mars. in : =
@ 200! a pee arb....... me. > | Ochre, yellow Ber.. 1% 2 @3
, e aia a as veteees — 4| Putty, commercial.. 2% 2%@3
Picis s Liq., pints... @ 85 | Spts. Cologne........ @ 2 60 tania ae 2 24@3
Pil ydrarg ..pe. & @ 530| Spts. Ether Co...... 50@ 55 American 13@ 15
Piper Nigra...po. 22 @ 18!Spt Myrcia Dom... @ > 0| Vermilion, English. gue %
Piper Aiba. ...po. 35 @ 30) Spts. Vini Rect. bbl. @ 2 40 | Green Paris . 13%@ 19
Pex Bereun, ....... @ 7 | Spts. Vini Rect.4bbl @ 2 4} Green. Peninsular... 13@ 18
Fiumb) Acet.... .. 10@ 12) Spts. Vini Rect. 10gal @ 2 48/ Lead, Red 54@ «6
Pulvis Ipecac et Opii 1 10@ 1 20} Spts. Vini Rect. 5gal @ 2 50| Lead, white......... 54@ 8
Pyrethrum, boxes H. Less 5e gal. cash 10 da Whiting, white Span *@ 70
& P. D. Co., doz @ 1 25} Strychnia, Crystal... 1 40 i 45) w hiting, gilders’. 'e@ wW
Fyrethium, py...... 20@ 33) Sulphur, Subi_.._..- 2%@ _ 3! white, Paris Amer.. @ 1 00
Quassiz.. ia Sa 10| Sulphur, Roll.... . 2@ 2% Whiting Paris En
Quinia, S. P. & W.. 33@ 38} Tamarinds.......... §S@ 10| aif’ * "@140
Quinia, S. German. mus 6 COS| Verementh Venice... 28 90) pis os 0@
Quinia, N.Y. - d@ 38|Theobrom=s........ £03 & Universal Prepared. 1 16
Rubia T inetorum. . Im 14| Vanilla.............. 9 Gog r
SaccharumLactis py 18@ 20; Zinci Sulph......... 7@ 7 TVarnishes}’ _
Saimein...... .- & OO@ 3 10} ann
Sanguis Draconis. 40@ 50 Oils oe : "108 1 20
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Sapo, . vote ee teens a a BBL. @AL. | Coach Body......... 2 %@ 8 00
Sane, x -- 10@ 15 | Whale, winter....... 7 70| No.1 Turp Furn.... 1 00@ i 10
eset et ae @ %5| Lard, extra.......:: 40 45 | Extra Turk Damar.. 1 55@ 1 60
iedli ixture.... 20 @ 2 | Tard Not) 35 40|Jap.Dryer,No.1Turp 70@ 75

 

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ROCERY PRICE CURRENT.

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

dealers.

They are prepared just before going to press and are an accurate index of the local market.

It is im-

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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.

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Zz. gross | Cotton, 40 ft, per doz...... 1 00
Aurora.................5% 6 00 | Cotton, 50 ft, per dez.......1 20
Castor C2’......... 7 00 | Cotton, 60 ft, per doz.......1 40
Diamond.. ; 4 00 | Cotton, 70 ft, per doz....... 1 60
Frazer's . 5 9 00| Cotton, 80 ft, per doz....... i 80
TXLGolden,tinboxes75 9 00| Jute, GO ft. per dos......... 80
lica, tin boxes. 0 9 00 | Inte. 72 ft. per dos... .. Os
paramo: .. 6+ 2 6 00 COCOA SHELLS.

BAKING POWDER. 291» ee
Absolute. Less quantity. eee 3
wih eawndez.... _....- 45| Pound packages......... 4
|) = cera ~ $5 | CREAM TARTAR:
a a weoeerereees ESOS and 10 1b. wooden boxes..30-35
cme.
$e Tb Cans 3 doz............ 45 COFFEE.
ib cans 3dox............ 7 Green.
E > came i dos............ 1 @ Rio
ee -_ = : ~
El Purity. Se oie enter et ae
a. ibeane perdoz......... % oc a 13
a ------ ‘= Min...
1 gue gga cs a Saberty oe
ome.
iq lb cans4dozcase...... 35 | Santos.
% lb cans 4 doz case..... be eet. ee
a -- : 90 | Good .... uo ae
[rue oo
JA xXMO re Pesberey 17
Mexican and Guatamais.
lg lb cans, 4 doz case..... meer a rap eone nee KO
% lbcans,4dozcase... .. 95 | GOOd ............. ee eee eee 7
i 1m Gann. 9 Gor ecase...... 160) Fancy <.........- 00+ ----2.0 18
Jersey Cream. Maracaibo.
ii. cams, peridoz......... 200) Prime 20
9 oz. cans, per doz.......... fo nie 2
6 Ox. Gane, per doz.......... 85 5
Our Leader. ava.
OS ee 45 | Interior . en
eben. ............... 71 eevete Growth. cee!
: oot. | £8 Mendetiine —:. 24
he. Mocha.
1 lb. cans ...... Li BG weeping
BATH BRICK. Reabing 6665 eo 24
neon 70 Roasted.
English.. - .-+---.-80 | Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brands
" BLUING.. Fifth Avenue..... ..28
Jewell’s Arabian Mocha... _——
NDENSE] Wells’ Mocha and Javea.. is
pepmocomn | Wells’ Perfection Java..
cs a 'Semeaive.... 8.

   
  

BLuinG

1 doz. pasteboard Boxes... 40
3 doz. wooden boxes....... 1 28
BROONS.

Be. 1 Carpes........- . 192
No. 2 Carpet. 12
No. 3 Carpet... . ie
No. 4 Carpet. . i
Paerior Gem ...... So. Soe
Common Whisk........... 70
Rancy Whisk.. ....... Se
Warehouse. ...... i 2 oe
CANDLES.
EE ie 7
i ce 8

Pane 8

CANNED GOODS.
Manitowoc Peas.

Lakeside Marrowfat....... 95

Lakeside E. J.. a8

Lakeside, Cham. of Eng. a oo
1

Lakeside. Gem. Ex. Sifted. 1 45
Extra Sifted Early June. 5
CATSUP.

Columbia,  pints.......... 2 00
Columbia, % pints.......... is
CHEESE
Pome o See @ 11%

a... ......., @ 12
Pee @ 11%
Sees @ 12%

ne ee 12%
Gold Medal... ..... 2 11%
eiremeer.  . @ il
Ee ee @ 11%
a @ 12
Pome os, 11
ee G 12%
pprimpdaic.......... @ 11%
RIN Sas se @ il
eee @ 10
Ee @ 7%
ie eer @ 18
Eisgburper .......... @ 10
Praeapeic............ 48 @ 8
Ban Sao... - 86. 2... @ 18

Chicery
nak. §
Red 7
CHOCOLATE.
Walter ea = Eon s.

comes ee: a
GreakfastcCocos..... boo eee aed 45

| Breakfast Blend.

| Valley City Maracaibo.
(ideal Mion
| Deader Siend....... .. ....2

 

| Package.

| Below are given New York
prices on package coffees, to
which the wholesale dealer
adds the local freight from
New York to your shipping
point, giving you credit on the
invoice for the ammount 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.

a 10
SRESOe cs 10
MicLaughlin’s XXXX...... 10
Extract.
Valley City % gross ..... 7
Felix % gross.. Soo Sn
Hummel’s foil % eToss. 85
Hummel’s tin & zroee 4
CLOTHES PINS.
5 gross boxes a
a DROPS.
B. Brand.
405 cent icin Reo ee 1 00
CONDENSED MILE

4dozin case.
Gail Borden Basie. oes 6 75
Crown .-...- i-.2 oe ee
assy 2... so. oe
GCnamuion 00000000) 2 .-450
Megnolia cence — oo
SSNIeNNe 3 35
a 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....11 50

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

 

 

ene =a

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

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

50 books, any denom.... 1 50

100 books, any denom. = =

500 books, any denom. .11 50
1,000 books, any denom....20 00
Coupon Pass Books,

Can be made to represent any
denomination from $10 down.

mE OGGRS. 0
ROROOKR Soe
Webeeke 32
Seepeere
ee
ee WOOne cc.

Credit Checks.
500, any one denom’n.....
1000, any one denom’n.....
2000, any one denom’n.....
Stee! punch

3

ASowr
ASSS SSRsSs

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DRIED FRUITS—DONMESTIC
Applies.

BeBOroe oo... @ 5%
Evaporated 50 lb boxes. @ 8%
California —.
Apricots .. ae 4@s14

Blackberries...........
Nectarines . cece @ 74
Peecees.. ... 8 @ 8%
Pears.. a. © i tos
Pitted Cherries........
Prannolies...-.........
Raspperrics...........-

California Prunes.

100-126 25 lb boxes......-. @ 3%
90-100 25 lb boxes....... ss
80 - 90 25 1b boxes....... @ 4%

70 - 80 25 1b boxes....... 5
60 - 70 25 1b boxes.. .... @5%
50 - 60 25 1b boxes....... @7z

40 -50 25 lb boxes.......
30-40 S 1b boxes. ....-.
4¢ rent less In 50 lb cases
Raisins.
Lendon Layers 3 Crown.
London Layers 4 Crown.
ee
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown

FOREIGN.
Currants.
Qe @ 6%
Vostizzas 50 lb cases......@ 6%
Cleaned, bulk ....22._... @ &%

Cleaned, packages........ @9

Peel.
Citron American 101b bx @13
Lemon American 10 lb bx @12
Orange American 101b bx @12

—-
Ondura 28 ib boxes..
Sultana 1 Crown.......
Sultana 2 Crown .......
Sultana 3 Crown.......
Sultana 4 Crown.......
Sultana SCrown....... @
Sultana 6 Crown....... @12
Sultana package....... @I14

FARINACEOUS GOODS.

-.—

Farina.
2411b. packages..........1 7%
Bulk, per 100 Ibs..... ....3 50
Grits.
Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s....... 26
Bulk in 100 lb. bags.......3 00
Hominy
Bermers a 2 50
bake. “50 ib. @rums....... 1 00
Beans.
Dried Lima . ... 3
Medium Hand Picked.. 90
Maccaroni and Vermicelli.
Domestic, 10 1b. box...... 6
Imported, 25 Ib. box.. ...2 50
Pearl Barley.
CRON os 5 os. oe a 2 40
COM nc. ss ee
Reape 2 ae
Peas.

Green. Di. se 85
Split, per lb.. os 2) 9
Rolled Oats.

Rolled Avena, bbl.......3 7%
Monarch, bhi... ..:.-.. .o 50
Monarch, % bbl............ 1 9%

Private brands, bbl.....

Private brands, %bbl.....

iGunker Canes: 6. :. os. 3 20
Harr, CAgeS......-..-0 5... 1%
Sago.
rear 3%
Mast meae.;......;. ee
Wheat.
Oracked, balk. ......5..... 314
242 1b packages........... 2 50s

 

 

Fish.

Cod.
Georges cured.........
Georges genuine......
Georges selected......
Strips or brieks........ 5

Halibut.

 

Herring.
Holland white hoops, bbl. 10 25

 

Holland white hoop % bbi 5 50
Holland white hoop, keg. 72
Holland white hoop mchs 80
Norwegian... ....:....... (OP
Round 100 Ibs............. 3 40
ound 20 6... 2... 5. 1 60
PORN oe cece ales 15
ee
Mess 100 Ibs.. .. oo
eee ee 6 70
Mees: 40 M5........ ....... to
Meee 66 1he.. 2... 1 43
met eee... 14 50
No.1 ibs. ..... 6 10
es We. ...........; 1 60
met Slee... ........... 1 30
Me. 3 tee te. 10 60
Sardines.

Russian kegs ............. 55
frout.
Ce 4 50
Not Si ibe.... 2... 2 10
Ne. 1 Te... ...... .....- 60
Ne.?t Sie... . 51
Whitefish.

No.1 No.2 Fam
SOO Ton... ... 67 500 50

 

D.C. Vanilia D. C. Lemon
co... .. 1 20 2e8..... Wo
BQE...... 1 50 3:0z......4:00

oc. - 2 On. <2) 1 40
Goz......3 0 a 2 00
No. 8 400 No. 8...24
No. 10. .6 00 No. 10...4 00
No. 2 7:1 3 No. 2T. 9
No. 3T.2 00 No. 3T.1 35
No 4T.2 40 No. 47.1 59

Souders’.

Oval bottle, with corkscrew.

 

Best _in the world for the
money.
Regular
Grade
Lemon.
doz
[-...... ®
_—-<...... 1 50
Regular
Vanilla.
doz
202. -1 20
en 2 40
XX Grade
mon
2or...:..13
402. 3 00
XX Grade
Vanilla.
mi) 20Z...... 1%
on... |. 3 50
GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.
EES NCI ied cone 4 00
Half Ss 2 2
Quarter Megs... 0. cc c0. 5. i
ih eee 30
i te Cee. ee 18
Choke Bore—Dupont’s.
oe ee 43
Niaet Bees ok a 2 40
Quarter Miers. os. osc 1 35
SID Cans i
Eagle Duck—Dupont’s.
SE IO ee ler eae 8 00
Half Kegs i clcele © cinlglatete etic ini 4 25
a ae ips eu cee se o. 2 3
Bo gu Soak ape 45

 

HERBS.
Mee... ce 15
ORR as a 15

gem
Madras, 5 lb boxes......... 55
S. F., Stoaek aa 50

JELLY.
i616 pas... 8. 40
20 ib pais... 23... 7

KRAUT.

Byreere oe 3 50
Halt barrels... <. -ce 2 00
LYE.

Condensed, 2 doz .......... 1 20
Condensed. 4 doz........... 2 2
LICORICE.

ee 30
ROUSE oo eh 2
EO 14
MOGe cs 10

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

Diamond Match Co.’s ——
No; 9 sutphur........-......

Anchor Parier.............- i 70
ie A iss 110
Export Parlor.............. 400

MOLASSES.

New Orleans.
ee aie ll
Be eee ee cis te eves 14
See ce clade eclele aesieleln 20
ancy ........ acts ieee 24
Open Kettle............... 25@35

Half-barrels 2¢c extra.

MUSTARD.
Horse Radish, 1 doz.........1 7%
Horse Radish, 2 doz......... 38 50
Bayle’s Celery, 1 doz.. .....1 75
yaaa
Clog, Noe. 216... ee 1 70
——o T. D. full count...... 65
oe 85
POTASH.
48 cans in case.

Baits s. 4 00
Penna Salt Co.’s........... 3 00
PICKLES.

Medium.

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

Barrels, 2,400 count....... 6 7S
Half bbls 1,200 count...... 4 00
RICE.

Domestic.

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

Caroling Net... ...:...:. 5
Carolina No. 2...:........- 4%
PERO 2 334
Imported.
Depean, MOoE swt. 5%
Japan. No. 2.. cess, ee
Java, fancy heads. =. 6
Java, Mest. 5
Mania <:...-.. i... oa
SALERATUS.

Packed 60 lbs. in box.
Ces oo 3 3C
Dera Oe 3 15
SOMIIGE Sooo 5 os 5 co coe oe 3 30
Tayler se. ee 3 00

SALT.

Diamond Crystal.
Table, cases, 24 3-lb boxes..1 50
Table, barrels, 100 3 1b bags.2 7%5
Table, barrels, 407 lb bags.2 40
Butter, barrels, 280 1b. bnlk.2 25
Butter, barrels, 2014 lbbags.2 50

25

 
  

Butter, eacks, 23ibs..-..-".. 5
Butter, sacks, 6 Ibe 55
Common Grades.
10S ipaaeks... Le: 70
O51 SACKS... 5... sss. 1 55
28 104b sacks............... 1 45
Worcester.

4 lb. cartons 3 25

115 2%1b. sacks. 4 00
60 5 Ib. sacks... 3 6
oie 1. sacen.. 3... 3 50
oo io Te. gaeks. 2c. os: 3 50
28 Ib. linen sacks............ 32
56 lb. linen sacks............ 60
Bulk in dbarreie.... <o.:. 2 50

Warsaw.

56-lb dairy in drill bags..... 30
28-lb dairy in drill bags..... 15

Ashton.

56-lb dairy in iinen sacks... 60
ee

56-lb dairy in 1 sacks 60

 

Solar ee
56-lb sacks.. ae ae
pa
Granulated Fine............ 79
Medium Fine............... 85

 

 

  
  

 

SAL SODA.
Granulated, bbls.......... 7
Granulated, 100 - cases.. 99
Lump, bbls. . ae
Lump, 1451b kegs.. ee a 85

SEEDS.
Aa. ts 9
Canary, Smyrna....... 3
Corawes ............ a
Cardamon, Malabar ..... 69
eee, il
op, Baetion.......... 344
Mace Hive... 4%
Mustard, white.........., 3
Foppy Meee seeds ce eau scan e
feke we

SNUFP.

Scotch, in bladders......... 37
Maccaboy, in jars. . ses aD
French Rappee, in jars. cay 43
SOAP.
SiO BOX... ak 2%
5 box lots, delivered........2 70
10 box lots, delivered....... 2 65
’

JAS. §. KIRK & C0.’S BRANDS.
American Family, wrp’d....3 33

American Family, unwrp *4.3 27

Oe 3 33
CRIES. ee oe see, 2 20
RIN ee eee ae 2 50
Dusky Diamond, 50 6 oz....2 10
Dusky Diamond, 50 8 oz....3 00
Blue India, 100 % Ib......... 3 00
Mirk@lUme. .-: 5555 iess 3 75
Moe 3 65

One box American Family
free with five.

Schulte Soap Co.’s Brand.

 

100 cakes, 75 Ibs.

PNGID BOR «occ. so 2 80
5 box lots... ..... K Scs ae
nO bax Tote. .f ss 2 70
per OOK LOi cn. ccs ee. 2 60

Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands.

Old Country, 80 1-Ib. bars ..2 7
Good Cheer, 60 1-lb. bars 3%

  

Uno, 100 %- Ib. bars.. 200
Doll, 100 10- OZ. DATA. 6: 2 05
Scouring.

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

IS co a

Kegs. English... ...

SPICES.
Whole Sifted.

Alispice .. ~- ae
Cassia, China in mats..... bb}
Cassia, Batavia in bund... z
Cassia, Saigon in rolis..... 82
Cloves, Amboyna.......... 10
Cloves, Zanzibar........... 10
Mace, Batavia.. aed. on
Nutmegs, fancy.. eee 60
Nutmegs, We 1 ee 50
Nutmors, No. 2... oc. =

Pepper, Singapore, black. .
Pepper, Singapore, white. . 2
Pepper, shot................ 12

Pure Ground in Bulk.

PAIRCO! soos eS 12
Cassia, Batavia ............. 22
Cassia, Saleen... .5 oc cc: 40
Cloves, Am oyna.. sie ke
Cloves, Zanzibar............ 13

 

is ...70
Mustard, Eng. and Trieste..18
Mustard, Sirieste.... a. 20

  
 
  

Bs,
Pepper, Sing , black

 

Pepper, Sing., white s5
Pepper, Cayenne.. »..20
RING 0 ig 5 FS ess 5s oh yee 15

 

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STARCH. VINEGAR Cc :
. andi
ee ee es. Grains and Feedstutis Ss Provi isions, Crockery and
Pare CMlen  . 8 ae foo | G ]
Washing Powder i Wheat — ot regi Company quote as | assware.
=F Phi, Pa ea 89 | 7 | a
: AE standard............ BuO 7 Winter Wheat Pies Barreled Pork. AKRON STONEWARE.
Mor Standard H.H...... 64@7 Local Brands ae 8 5 Butters
Standard Twist..... 6 @8 >. i : |Back .. . 1 ly i
i 1 : ——..,lwsC«C«iz‘i‘(C;«‘CiCi. fe - _ | a Sal, por daa........ 5
Cut Loaf.... @ 8¥ --. 5 50] Clear back. 9 75 | rE Ha
a tee eatin ee ease b°4 | Second Patent............ 5 00} Sh . i ee to 6 ga al., a gal a”
se Cases | Straigh bei 20rt cut. 9 50] al.. per :
Jumbo, Bib |... @ 6% clone t. 4 § £0 | Pig.. 8 gal., per gal o%
ae a Pee esse 8... , al aoe ; per vq
/ 3 Extra .H.......... @ 8% | Graham - 440) Bean aaa = %
Kingsford’s Corn. f z Boston Cream...... @ Baceaheae - 47] Family a sag al er oe
40 1-lb packazes 6 “fe 7 "7 uckwheat ............ 22 Dry Ss : 1. meat-tubs, per gal.. 8
ose Pi : ee see iw w Mixed Candy ede aa, (2 3 Se) ry Sait Meats. -tubs, per gal.. 8
packages 2.86... 614 a aa - A : — ct to usual cash dis- | Bellies... ai. meat-tubs, per gal.. 10
Kingsford’s Silver Gloss. ape ee Sompetition......... @e ios eT ai. meat-tubs, per gal.. 10
Via Standard... e Flour in bbls., 25¢ bbl | Ext I Cc
40. 1-D packages............. 6% ditting Parr Comaarven a @ vo ditional. S.,25¢€ per bbl. ad- | ra shorts. : Chures.
WN coe ss, 7 Speen oat eee. aa na Smoked Feats. | » to 6 gal., per gal..... 5%
“pe hia Civ ine woe ( Waite edcg %i% orden Grocer Co.'s Brand. | Hams, 12 lb averave g | Churn Dashers, per doz... 8%
iiss er. md en eo. @ 8% | Quaker, %s ; rr 14 it yerage y | t
ia . een 84 Pe A 60 ams, 14 ib average 83, | Milkpans.
& 6410 packages ........ soot Wlizozpaga. oo. 350) Gat Boat | = ro neers ae 4 60 | Hams, 16 1p average 834 | 1% gal. flat or rd. bot., d 6
og 5 oe English I * | Quaker, Ms. 4 60 | Hams, 20 lb average gu | gat nig age
fo 0G packares......... .. 5 00 1glish Rock....... @B8 Be iv | 1 gal. fat orrd. bot.each 5%
32 10¢ and 64 5¢ packages...5 00 WICKING. Preston... @ 8% Spring Wheat Flour. \auenieen a You (3 | Fine Glazed Milkpans.
. | Breneh Cream... .. 3 : : ; ennai cut) a. "
Common Corn. No. 0, per gross.............. 25 | Dandy — oo Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brand. | Bacon, clear... ....7 @8 | % gal. flat orrd. bot.,doz. 65
20 1 Ib packages.......... ae _ 1, oo Se = Valley Cream. |.” @i2 California Hams... 5i4| 1gal. flatorrd.bot.,each 5%
J packasen. 0 4, | No.2, pergross.............. [ i . oneless hams.... |
= = a SE enn a | eee pereem. i Fancy—In Bulk. Cooked ham... vl a a... —— =
4 : eee 33% In 14 | “ S41. Dreproor, bail, doz. 8
OXES . Se Lozenges, plain..... @ 8% Lards. In Tierces | 1 gal. fireproof, bail, doz.1 10
Common Gloss. FE a printed.. @ 8% oo . 4 ol f
Ae : oc, Props. 10 14 ente.. . 5x1, :
_— ee seed eee ae = ish and Oysters Choc. Monumentais Gil 55 lb Tubs... advance 5 “a eel., per dos... | ae
6-lb packages... i i 435 = — a @6 380 - — advance ; sry ET = _ ea =
2 40 and 50 1b boxes 3 eS @s 50 ims . -advance o er erence %
' Barrels _.... il eax Fresh Fish. sesohe ae tele ate @ 8% io lb B --advance ; Tomato Jugs.
: Per lb. a @ 8% 0 lb Pails. advance % | % gal. perd a
STOVE POLISH. Wiotefich ......*_. @ 8 2 3 Ib Pus |. advance “I oat OZ... -.-...e. 70
Le @ 8 ancy—tIn 5 ib. Boxes. 3 lb Pails....... advance 14% | Corks for % cal. per dos. on
z ae 78 | % gal., perdoz.. 2%
cae ne aa g i3 caen Dees eh @0 Sausages. Corks for 1gal., perdoz.. 30
SQN | Halibut ............. i Sour Drops......_. 50 Bologna 5 Preserve Jars and Covers.
jC ute oe my Glenna a _ Peppermint Drops. oe Liver... . 6% ¥% gal., stone cover, doz... 7%
rica aaa Re na @ 18 my _—. ee @6u Erankfort. rt 7 1 gal., stone cover, doz...1 00
Boiled Lobster...... @ 20 | Gum Drops... @30 Blood a Sealing Wax.
+ ae g 7 cee. Drops... .. @i5 | Tongue 9 | 5 lbs. in package, per lb. 2
i No. 1 Pickerel...... @ 8 aa. oe @av | Head cheese. ... 6% LAMP BURNERS.
$ tae eas @ 7 | Lozenges) printed. — errs Best \s.. i Beef. - 0 sun 4
: e tte @ 9 | apenas 2 illsbury’s Best 14s........ Extra Mess My SI ae =
3 rey raid ea @ 12 Mottocs es e cond s Best 4s........ Boneless i: ao . oT %
i ‘ n cas : Jol River Salmon. @ 32z%|C B illsbury’s Best 14s paper . : Re | i ibular. .. ie Si
No. 4. 3 doz in case, gross.. 4§50 ream Bar... 2.) |. @s0 > 48 pal es : Security, No. 1 53
: No. 6. 3 doz in case. gross.. 7 20 Mackerel -  @ 18 | Molasses Bar .. @a0 Pillsbury’s Best 34s paper.. 5 35 | Pigs’ Feet. Security, No a l $5
SUGAR dais hike — — Creams. 80 @I 00 Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand. —, 15 Ibs. SU Nutmeg 50
: " n Creams..... . 60 @90 | Grand Republic, \s. 5 50} # Pvis, 40 lbs. a Clin "428
; 5 50 : du 4 lax. 1 50
Below are given New York] F.H. Counts........ @ 3% | Decorated Creams.. @#” |Grand Republic, 4s. 5 40 | 2 Dbls, 80 Ibs... SU
prices on sugars, to which the | F. J. D. Selects...... @ 27 | String Rock......... @6o0 ‘| Grand mpeniie’ i i 5 a ‘Thine. LAMP CHIMNEYS—Common.
‘ wholesale dealer adds the local | Selects .............. @ 22 | Burnt Almonds..... 125 @ Lemon & Wheel : | | Rite, 15 Ibs , \o. USI to
i freight from New York to your| F. J. D. Standards... @ 2) | Wintergreen Berries @60 ' coer CM's | Brand, % bbls, 40 lbs... a ea + 1
i shipping point, giving you| Anchors............. @ 18 Cc Gold Medal 268. i 5 5u| % bbls. 80 Ibs. ; i) ae -- 188
credit on the invoice for the | Standards........... @ 16 aramels. Gold Medal ¥4s............. a 40 ui Le iti “4
amount of freight buyer pays Raveries (0 ))) | @ 14 No. 1 wrapped, 2 Ib. oo Medal \s.. - 5 30] pork Casings. First tality
from the market in which he box > arisian, gs - » 50 a : v4 » Sul mp
attests tet wn - @30 arisis ; Beef rounds. ee!
purchases to his shipping point, No. 1 wri Parisian, 4s...... .. 5 40 i en ; wrapped and labe 2
‘ including 20 pounds for the Oysters in Bulk / _— » @45 Parisian, 7 5 30 a middles. 10 No. 1 ' Sun, crimp top, 7
+ weight of the barrel. EH: Counts oe @1 75 No. "2 wrapped, 3 Ib. ’ Olney & Judson’s Brand. r ney ow wrapped an a labeled... 2 25
5 Domine 5 63 oe Selects. ...... @1 50 box - Ceresota, igs 5 50} Rolls, da Butterine, "eae : inkole We
‘ Gat Beat, 5 63 | Selects .............. @1 2% Ceresota, MB a Sy ee ee oi 10 wrapped and labeled 3 2%
3 o — ee 5 63 eee. @l lo Gerecot meg 0 T 3 5 30 = po eae in an XXX Flint.
¥ ube va cee cece ccceeneD Saag an oe he agp s Solid, AMETY ...... o.;| NO. @ Sun, crimp t
ee 5 AMS..... 2.2.2.2... 1 25 a ae Brand. Nfl Cena cite an 13% | Sat wins
j AXMXX Powdoered.......... 5 3 Laurel, ee Soe Canned Meats. x Wrapped at “crimp. ¢ chy 2 56
: Granulated in bbls... ...... 5 13 Shell Goods Laurel, fs -terterseesse., 5 45 | Corned beef, 2 lb . 210 | wrap ed and lab beled.’ 2 75
; Granulated in bags.........5 13 ° : ‘ Oranges. Laurel, waS-.......... |. 5 oh | COrmed beet 14 Ip 14 00 No. 2 , un, a. . . top, 7
Hine Granulated. |......... .5 13 | Oysters, per 100....... 1 25@I1 50 exicans 150 176-2u0 @3 moan, beef. 2ib....... 210 7 . ’
Extra Fine Granulated..... 5 25| Tams.) nar inn . “a on | Cal. Seedlings ...... @2 0 Bolted... |. — 1 75| Potted ham, is....... 8 es a
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et NC oo. 7 cb 3 2 . ; ' }  Goz .
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a Pelts. imperial Mikados, 18 me =| City...... a No.2. L Electric.
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ua Dates i Oyster. al tin Cans with spout.. 1 25
, u Beef | Sc ( er, ‘ c spou 25
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ee . : . el %@ 150| Walnuts, soft shelled | Veal. | Marshmallow .... ae i ud., giassfount.... 7 00
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; ‘ ae ee @ 8 . Fnac —— e¢9 |= ——— oo LittleGerman 7 i ‘<a GLOBES,
ee 5 pane, Med. |... 8 Sueer €ake... g | No. 0 Tubular, cases 1 doz,
Deerskin, dry. perlb. 15@ 25/ Pecans, Ex. Large.. ee Oils. Suitanas |. toe) eaeh, bom tb cenia. | 45
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q Wool. Oia, now... @1 60 Barrels. Vanilla Wafers ........ 4 | Noo ao ular, bbls 5 doz.
= Washed eile 14 @23 Cocoanuts, full sacks @4 50 | Pocee @1i1% | Pecan Wafers alo, See Gach, DOL I... . cs, 40
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€ eis ee wes ea __ | W W Michigan. @8 | Cream Jumbles............ 12 cases 1 doz. each... .... .125
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ee " ngine ........ ....11 @21_ | Marshmallow Walnuts.... 16. | nn eM
tar Green 2 oe. 35 00 | Gimseng............... Ps} oasted 5 intas ' 6 | No. 3 per gross........ .... 58
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Hardware

Wherein

 

Organized Effort Would
Benefit the Trade.

Ante Lucem in American Artisan.

Everyone at all familiar with the
hardware trade knows full well that
some in that class of,trade want to corral
all the business—shelf hardware, stoves,
baby carriages, tinware, graniteware,
rubber goods, clocks, plate ware, reed
and rattan goods, beltings, cordage,
lamps, and everything conceivable—and
such houses are fast coming to be
looked upon as huge department stores.
I say, and have always said, let every
man to his own business, his own line,
leaving his fellow man the right to work
out his own salvation, so far as trade
goes, along his own lines.

have heard travelers say if I don’t
sell department stores and blacksmiths,
someone else will, and within the last
six days I have seen a hardware sales-
man go into a town and first call upon
all the wagonmakers and blacksmiths,
then canvass the hardware dealer for
his business, and in two cases I saw
orders taken from blacksmiths in deal-
er's store, the goods shipped direct,
billed direct, and in the items a single
rod of iron, one or two burs, and quan-
tities less than bundles and full pack-
ages were freely accepted, and this they
caJl a wholesale business. Bosh!

The retailer as an individual is al-
most powerless as an opponent to the
corrupting influences in trade. The
retailers, as an organized body, wield a
power and an influence that cannot be
measured until their numerical strength
is tully calculated. As the strongest
factor in business, as the only factor
supporting the wholesaler, they have it
In their power to say if the wholesaler
shall continue the policy which brings
ruin upon their prosperity and eventual-
ly to him, or if such policies shall be
changed, but I believe there is a_ better
way out than any policy that has for its
purpose drastic measures.

The policy of education, for which I
have always contended, 1s, no doubt, the
better one, and the one now being car-
ried out. Much of the iils have been
brought about by careless thought or no
thought, and so soon as reflection and
thought are given over to the subject, re-
form measures will become the order.
Every factor should make a strong pull
for the desired end. The arraignment
of one class or one faction against an-
other cannot result in good to either.

One of my customers in a small pros-
perous town recently asked me if I
would do him a tavor, to which I as-
sented if it was a possibility. His re-
quest was that | call at a fair or racket
Store down the street and learn if a cer-
tain large hardware jobber was selling
them. Without going into detail, all the
desired information was secured, 1n-
voices inspected, letters quoting prices
read, manufacturers’ labels examined,
etc. Thanks for esteemed favors, prof-
fers of various catalogues and as much
gush extended to the from-one-to-ten-
cent-counter man as to the man who
would place a thousand dollar order,
and this same jobbing house was one
of the first to approve of the course of
the Minnesota retail organization and
promise support and _ co-operation.
Their traveling man who makes the
town in question has told my customer
he never called upon, sold, nor did his
house sell, the little fair, yet its proprie-
tor, Mr. J——, told me Mr. S—— al-
ways calls soliciting his business, and
I believe Mr. [——

There is no question but what any
manufacturer or wholesaler has the
right, undoubted right, to sell any legit-
imate trade—catalogue, department
Store, fair, or racket store—but it isa
question of business policy if he shall
do so, and this question must be solved
largely through educational effort ; and it
is just as possible that some of the les-
sons must come through drastic meas-
ures of withholding trade as that they
shall come through talks and persua-
sions.

The perfidy of the jobbing house in
question passes my understanding, and

I shall not longer defend them when as-
sailed. I want to be able to defend
every house. I want to see every ruin-
ous Condition in business changed, and |
am not pleading for the disruption of |
any branch of trade, wholesaler nor any- |
one else, but that the whole superstruc- |
ture be strengthened and bettered, and |
as the first principle, I am_ particularly |
earnest for the retailer,
foundation of all.

In many things, such as food adulter-
ations, legitimate branding and honest
advertising, state legislatures must be
invoked to aid. A thousand wrongs can
be cured by a union of all retailers
working for acommon purpose. Let the
quality of every piece of goods be its
own measure of worth and make it pos-
sible that seconds, thirds and fourths
must be sold as such and cannot be sold
as firsts and the battle is half won.

—_—__»> 2.
The Bicycle Trade of the Future.

From Hardware.

The bicycle business of the country
has evidently reached bed rock, and_ in
the calculations for the future now pal-
pably before the large manufacturers,
there are fewer elements of uncertainty
as to a profitable outcome than for the
two seasons just past.

as_ he is the}

The desire among the manufacturers
capable of turning out a large product
will be to keep the trade of the country
within their reach, no matter whether it
runs on a basis of low-priced product of
larger volume, or is required to sustain
a reputation for superiority already es-
tablished. They want, and are willing
to take, what they can get of it, and
with the unequalled facilities which
mark the opening of the 1808 season,
they will leave the smaller makers steer-
ing between Scylla and Charybdis, be-
tween the vale of bankruptcy anda scale
of profit anything but self-supporting.

The few factories which still enter-
tain the belief in a growing export trade
for American cycles will be those pos-
sessing the power to turn out a surplus
beyond domestic requirements; with
them the foreign market furnishes an
outlet for any excess that might other-
wise Create a glut of wheels and repeat
the experience of 1896. With foreign
depots, even if but little profit is shown
in direct traffic, the knowledge that
prices abroad have no material effect on
the prosperity of the cycle trade here
will create the desire to keep up a con-
nection that may possibly prove a
safety-valve governing the business suc-
cess of the manufacturers participating
iu the export business.

The havoc that has been made among
the smaller makers, who in one way
and another have made the present sea-
son unprofitable, will have the effect of
destroying the inordinate desire to em-
bark in the cycle business in competi-
tion with years of experience and limit-
less resources, thus leaving the past
masters of the industry in control of the
Situation. They will so use it as to
make the season of 1898 level up the
output to an intelligent standard of
values, encouraging no extravagant ex-
penses to market the product, and en-
tertaining no inflated ideas regarding a
fair profit.

This will doubtless have the effect of
making the coming season one long to
be remembered for its freedom from
retrograding influences. Products will
be sustained by the leading companies,
and not largely exceeded. Some forms
of high-flown, expensive exploiting,
such as unlimited cycle shows, and
thousands of dollars daily spent in un-
convincing cycle races, will no doubt be
restricted,and a healthier state of affairs
result therefrom, settling down to a
legitimate business linked with efforts
to market the product, which, while
pushing and persistent, will still be
dignified and prosperous.

a

The , Brazilian government has _in-
creased the postage rates of the country
on all classes of matter. In some _ in-
stances the new rate is double that of
the old. Box rents have also been

 

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doubled,

New Organization of Business Men at
Jackson.

Jackson, Jan. 22—The meeting held
Jan. 14, by the business men to take
action regarding trading stamps and
other schemes was adjourned subject to
call. In order to keep the work before
the people and _ not let it get cold, the
adjourned meeting was called for and

eld Jan. 20, with a good attendance.
The Secretary reported that 140 reliable
business men had pledged themselves
not to use the trading stamps and other
schemes in their business. After the re-
lation of experience in the handling of
the stamps, a Committee on Resolutions
was appointed to embody the sentiment
of the meeting in compact form. After
a few moments’ consideration, the Com-
mittee recommended the adoption of
the following resolution :

Whereas—We, the business men of
Jackson, in convention assembled, be-
lieve that the time has come when it is
a positive necessity that an organiza-
tion should be formed of people in all
branches of trade for mutual protection,
therefore, be it

Resolved—That we proceed at once to
organize a Business Men’s Association,
and

Resolved—That the object of such
organization shall be to increase ac-
quaintance and foster the highest com-
mercial integrity among business men;
to promote the proper observance of the
Sabbath and National holidays; to dis-
courage excessive, unfair, and unmer-
cantile competition, obliterate feelings
of distrust and jealousy; remove by
cencert cf action all evils and customs
that are against good policy and sound
business principles; to influence legis-
lation in favor of better collection laws;
to encourage the increase and prosper-
ity of the manufacturing interests of the
city ; and to take such action in the As-
soctation as shall be thought best for the
prosperity of the city.

On motion, the President appointed a
Committee on Constitution and By-laws
for the new organization, consisting of

 

W. H. Porter, B. S. Mosher, L. H.
Field, M. W. Hoffman, C. F. Wasson,
E. C. Green and L. B. Cawley.

Aiter a sharp, brief discussion of the
needs of such an Association, the meet-
ing was adjourned to Friday evening,
Jan. 28, at which time it is expected
that a permanert organization will be
perfected that will be an honor to the
city and a credit to the members.

W. H. PorTER.
— - rom —~

American Shoemaking Machinery in
Scotland.

Rufus Fleming, United States Consul
at Edinburgh, says that some shoe _ fac-
tories to be established in Scotland will
be equipped throughout with Ameri-
can machinery of the latest description.
Commenting on this announcement, the
Scotsman, of Edinburgh, says: ‘‘Some
one may ask, Why American machin
ery? The answer must be, Because it
is the best. In the invention and pro-
duction of machinery for the rapid man-
ufacture of boots and shoes, America
undoubtedly stands unrivaled.’’ One
important advantage claimed by the
capitalists promoting these shoe facto-
ries is the cheapness of labor in Scot-
land as compared with the rate of wages
in this industry in the United States.

—---> 2. ____-

In Chicago there is a J. Appel in the
wholesale potato business. There is a
prominent surgeon named Dr. Gore.
There is a building and loan associa-
tion run by one Shakey. There is a re-
pair shop which promises the greatest
promptness owned by a Delay. There
is a dairy run by a man named Waters,
although he has the good sense not to
call the business by this name. There
is a Green detective agency and one
Bleed running a comfortable, home-like
family hotel. But, perhaps, one of the
most amusing of al! is a sign in an out-
of-the-way part of the west side, in

large display letters, which reads:
‘Oldest firm in business Adam's
Sons, ’’

 

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Plain and Galvanized Wire

 

 

 

enter your

the advance.

order now

spring shipments and save

Foster, Stevens & Co.,

for

Wholesale Hardware,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

 

SYRUP CANS

Round and Square

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Write for prices,

Wm. Brummeler & Sons, Manufacturers,
Grand Rapids, Mich.

Factory and Salesrooms 260 S, lonia St.

 

 

 

Mystery of the Butcher’s Stolen Fowls.
Written for the TRADESMAN.

[ was strolling through the meat mar-
ket of my friend Chapman, just pre-
vious to the holidays, and was admiring
the abundant display of fish, flesh and
fowl which is usually temptingly exhib-
ited at such times. There were dressed
chickens, ducks, geese, quails, pheas-
ants and turkeys, seemingly innumer-
able.

‘Do you expect to find customers for
all these, Mr. Chapman, within the
next two weeks?’’ I enquired.

‘‘I may not,’’ was the answer; ‘‘but
you will notice they are all nicely fro-
zen, and look as plump and fresh as if
just brought in, and they will keep well.
I buy them when they are plenty and
in good condition—often alive—as after
the holidays very few are brought in,
and the market which has a good assort-
ment left over possesses an advantage. ’’

‘“T also notice you have lines of these
fowls hanging on the outside, around
the front windows,’’ I observed. ‘‘Are
not these in the way of temptation, when
you are so busily employed, and some
of them liable to be carried away with-
out so much as a‘ By your leave, sir?’ ’’

‘Now you’ve just struck it, Frank!’
And the butcher laughed, as he contin-
ued, ‘‘It is too late for many more cus-
tomers to-night, and now isa good time
to tell you how my birds were once
stolen here, and how I caught the fel-
low weeks afterward. You see, I’ve
been right here in this business for
years. I have an icehouse back on the
alley, in which.I keep ice the year
around ; then I also have an ice closet
in the rear of this room yonder. I al-
ways make a large display of-the birds
from December 15 to January 5, more
in fact than I expect to sell: and after
that I nave few in sight, they being
mostly hung up in that cold storage
room, in fine condition for any extra
suppers or banquets that may chance to
occur. You may recollect that, when
I first opened here, I had a_ 12-year-old
boy and my dog for assistants; and
several times when I missed a few birds
which I believed had taken ‘French
leave,’ either the boy and dog, or the
dog and myself would stand guard for
several nights in succession, to catch
the thief. But nothing came of it. Of
course, either the boy or I may have
slept a half hour or so while on duty,
but I knew the dog would arouse us at
the least noise.

‘The most unaccountable part of the
case was that all of my losses were dur-
ing the nights when I was personally on
duty, with my faithful dog near me
even though I slept. Of course, I could
not account for my dog remaining quiet,
if thieves came in, unless he knew
them well. If some one had entered
with false keys or by other means they
left no trace. I each time missed my
first-class stock uf birds—no other meats
—showing that the party was no novice
in the business.

‘“We had an unusually cold winter
that year—no rain or thaw until March z
Sometime in the first week in February,
Mat Bannister came in late one evening
and, after looking around the room a
moment, said: ‘Where’s all your fowls?
You must have had a good sale for them
lately.’

“Well, I’ve sold a few: but more
have been stolen, Mat!’ I answered.

‘* “Oh, pshaw!’ was his response;
‘you’re just holding them for fancy
prices, that’s all.’

‘“ “Well, Mat, they’ve all disappeared,

.and how is a puzzle to me,’ I replied.

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

‘‘* Well, if that isa fact, just put a new
lock on your icehouse; and, if it’s a
good one, they will hardly find a dupli-
cate key,’ said Mat. ‘You see, Chap-
man, I know all about it,’ he continued,
noticing the puzzled expression on my
face; ‘but you’ve forgotten, that’s all.
Just two weeks ago, I was passing
through the alley, going home from the
lodge, between one and two o'clock in
the morning, and I saw you come out
from the back door—your dog just be-
hind you—with both hands full of fine
large fowls of some description, and [
called out,‘‘ Hello there, Chapman!
Aren’t you keeping rather late hours?”’
You did not even look toward me—paid
ho attention whatever, in fact, but un-
locked the icehouse door, went in and
carried the fowls with you; and, after I
reached the next street crossing, I dis-
tinctly saw you return to the back door
empty-handed, with your dog still fol-
lowing you.’

‘*Mat has since told me that he never
saw such a Curious expression as came
over my face when he ceased speaking.
I immediately turned the key in my
front door and said to Mat, ‘Come with
me ;’ and, taking a light, we went to-
gether to my icehouse, where, after
quite a lengthy search, I removed a
loose board from the attic next the roof,
from which I drew forth some of the
finest birds of my winter purchase, and
as solidly frozen as need be to preserve
them well. I now think that I lost very
little poultry that winter, as I carried
between forty and fifty birds from that
attic back inte my ice closet. But not
many that night, for I was thoroughly
disgusted with myself, as the secret of
the whole thing came to me, and I ex-
plained then and there I recollected
that, when a boy of to years, I wasa
somnambulist, a sleep walker, but was
supposed to have outgrown the disease.
But the bare thought of my losses by
theft had so worked upon my mind that
it again returned; and probably, for
several nights, while sound asleep, I
had carried my best stock to that en-
tirely-forgotten attic in the icehouse,
where it would have remained until
ruined had not my friend, Mat Bannis-
ter, remembered seeing me. And he
had been greatly puzzled to know why I
did not answer nor even look toward
him that night, as we knew each other
so well. My dog probably supposed I
was awake, even if I did not notice or
speak to him, and followed me as i
went about my work.’’

FRANK A. Howile.
How Clerks Can Drive Away Trade.

A repellent clerk will drive away a re-
fined class of customers from the most
genuine bargain counter that ever was
offered to a buying public. The young
man who imagines that a leering ex-
pression of countenance and an abrupt
manner of speech are characteristics of
the high school graduate in the first-
class store is ona misplaced switch.
The frowning young man is invariably
a third or fourth-rate clerk, whose bad
temper has no place in a first-class re-
tail store. The first-rate establishment
hires only first-rate clerks, who are po-
lite and suave at all times and who
possess other personal attractions which
tend to make the store they are ina
pleasure for the sensitive buyer to visit.
> 0.

In 1886 there were 21,000 children
employed in German factories, in 1890
the number was 27,000, and this year ‘it
would have been 40,000, but for the
new law, in consequence of which the
number was reduced to 4,513 in 1897.

 

Hiardware Price Current.

 

 

 

AUGURS AND BITS
ee. 70

  

CCHS PernING 25&10
vecnnings, imitation... |... | eee
AXES
Hirst Quality. SB. Bronze...) .. 5 00
First Quality, D. B. Bronze................. 9 50
ices Guahty.S. 6 S Sicel |) Sse
rest Guatity, DB Steel 10 56
BARROWS
ee de. i ao
CAS net 30 00
BOLTS
RO 6010
Camiasenew Hat. 8.) ee eae
Oe 50
BUCKETS
mer Pi .-83 25
BUTTS, CAST
Cast Loose Fin. fisured..................... FOKLO
Wreemet Narrow 70&10
BLOCKS
Ordinary Tackle... ........ ; ee ae 70
CROW BARS
CASE SOCCN --per lb cs
CAPS
Do ««- +. er 65
et per m 5d
ee per m 35
Lo ee ee perm 60
CARTRIDGES
ee
cnt Pie 2D& 5
CHISELS
ROCIee Ee 80
pocuee Praming ... 80
Héemes COANE 80
SOGEGS SCHR : su
DRILLS
Mores Big Socks 60
@aper and Straigne Shank... ......... dU& 5
Morse’s Taper Shank... ... 50k 5

ELBOWS
Com. 4 piece. Gin... ........... @ox. net 50
COU Ae  . 1 25

Ad@jastable...........

Sete S. .. dis 40&10
EXPANSIVE BITS

Clark’s small, $15; large, @6................ 30610
ivs ten 2st 25
FILES—New List
NeW Armacrican FO&10
DCROIOM A 70
Heller's Hore aspe.... eke
GALVANIZED IRON
Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26; 27. ..... 28
List 12 13 14 15  .... 17

Discount, 7% to 75-10
GAUGES
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s...............60&10
KNOBS—New List
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings.... ......... 70
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings............ 80
MATTOCKS
Aes Bye ce. $16 00, dis 60&10
$15 00, dis 60d10
s,s. $18 50, dis 20&10
NAILS

Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire.

 

  

 
  

Steel nails, base..... 1 65
Wire nails, base..... _...... el. | 2
a0 to GO advance.......... Sue Base
10 to 16 advance.......... Dee ee U5
ee 10
Gadvemte. 88. 2
mOOWaNee 30
aCe ee 45
AON 70
Pie SAGA 50
Cassius 10 eevanec.... 15
ome Baavanee 25
Comme Gatvanee.. 35
Prmigt 10 adtvanice «=... 5
ren Hadwance 8. 35
Venn GA@vanes 8... 45
Berea! & aGynnee 85
MILLS
Cofec Parkers Co.s......-... 40
Coffee, P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s Malleables. .. 40
Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’s........... 40
COnee, MHLGRNISe 30
MOLASSES GATES
Stebbin’s Pattern. ........... So aoc ee
MCDMn Ss GOMMENG 60&10
Hnterprise, self measuring ............ .... 30
PLANES
Olio Tool Co.'s, fancy... ...... @50
pelea CMe 8... 6
eandusny Tool Cos, fancy... @50
mereh MistOuality................ ae 50
Stanley Rule and Level Co.'s wood......... 60
PANS
ey, OOM 60£10&10
os heres i. ee. TO& 5
RIVETS
Tron Gad Timed to fl. 60
Copper Rivets and Bura..................... 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
Mavdolo & Co.'s, now list. ....... ..._.. dis 255
Nee ue eta Casa tee sua ddec. dis 2%
OCS ea ee dis w&10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.......... ..30e lis, 70
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel Hand 2e Me: 40&'8

 

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HOUSE PURNISHING GOODS.
Stamped Tin Ware....... .........new list 75&10
dapanned Tit Wate...) sean
Granite Iron Ware....... ...-. new list 40&10

HOLLOW WARE

row... ..... etsee ese
La eT .. .60&10
Spiders ee
HINGES
Gate, Clark's, 1,2,3.......,.. Head cones CA GOTO
eS ser Gam net 2 ap
WIRE GOODS
ee 80
Sere Oe 80
Boone oo 80
Gate Hooks and Byea...... 1... 40
LEVELS
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............ dis q
ROPES
Sisal Minchant wre |... 6
Ct
SQUARES
PeCee AITO
Pry On Gee
SHEET IRON
com. smooth. com.
Nes 10t0 4 a 82 40
a 2-40
mee WtGet eee 2 45
NOS Stee. aan 2 56
Nos. 2 to 26. .... . - 2 65

RT see 2%
All sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30 inches
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
SAND PAPER
Mma ace_ oa
SASH WEIGHTS
Lo ros -o- DOF ton 20 00

.. dis 50
Solid Eyes..... a
TRAPS
Steel, Game....... 60&1u

Oneida Community, Newhouse’s SAN 50
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s 70&10

 

MOURG, CHOKer, 8 ner dos 15
MmOuse, Golusion,....... per doz 1 3
WIRE
Brent Market. ve"
Auneaicd Markee 7
Cepoerce Maric, ........ -- 70&10
OBC Mee 62%
Copperea Sizing Sicel.... 50
Barbed Fence, galvanized ........._.. . 2
puroea ence, painted. 0 a ae
HORSE NAILS
An Sabie... .... a
Putnam. .:. Le. Levee 5
Nerthwestern. bette cee. a
WRENCHES
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled a 30
Coes Genuine....... eee 50
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought 80
Coe’s Patent, mulieable. .. . 80
MISCELLANEOUS
Bie Caen 50
RUE CMe. 80
merews, New lige... 85
Casters, Bed and Plate............. .... 50&10&10
Dampers, AGresn. |... 50
METALS—Zinc
Cou panvid €aske 0... 64
Fer veut 6%
SOLDER
U4@% .... 12%

The prices of the many other qualities of solder
in the market indicated by private brands vary
according to composition.

TIN—Melyn Grade
MEE tC, CRSrCGe ee
ieee 0 Cuareost 5 %
Pear Ex Charceal..... ........ oc
Each additional X on this grade, 81.25.

TIN—Allaway Grade

 

10e14 IC, Charcoal ........... 5 00
Pence ie, Ciereoge ee
MOxte TX Charecogs 6 00
Soe TA CRAMGOSE ee
Each additional X on this grade, 81.50.
ROOFING PLATES
Fixe tC, Conneoal Hean........... 1.0. 5 00
daxo IX, Charcoal, Dean ............ | a ae
poaee 1, Charcoal, Dean... 201... 10 00
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade......... 4 50
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade......... 5 50
20x28 1C, Charcoal, Allaway Grade......... 9 00
20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade......... 11 00
BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE
14x56 [X, for No. 8 Boilers, ) _
14x56 IX, for No. 9 Boilers, (Pet Pound... 9

 

’Phone 1357.
THOMAS DUNN & SONS,

WHOLESALE

HARDWARE SPECIALTIES, BELTING,
Engineers, Machinists and
Factory Supplies.
93 PEARL STREET. GRAND RAPIDS.

© Cradesman

. Itemized
Ledgerse

Size, 814x14—3 columns.

Write for prices.

 

  

A IEeR FOG Daves $2 00

Squires, 240 pates. 8... a

iq (ines, 320 pabes. ow 3 00

SG@umes, 400 pares. 3 50

G didtres, 450 paoes 4 00
INVOICE RECORD or BILL BOOK.

80 double pages, registers 2,880 invoices...... $2 co

TRADESIAN COMPANY,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

 

 

 

tied,

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

 

 

   
 

GAINING GROUND.

How the Independent Telephone Move-
ment Is Spreading.

Before the end of the present year
Michigan will be fairly laced with the
wires of the independent telephone com-
panies. The construction last year was
to the extent of several hundred miles
and it will be even larger this season.
The work has already begun on some of
the projected routes and it will begin
all along the line as soon as the spring
opens, and before another winter comes
nearly every town of any importance in
the State will be on speaking terms
with the others, and hundreds of vil-
lages will be within talking distance of
the outer world.

The independent telephone movement
began in this State soon after the ex-
piration of the telephone patents. The
old company, having had a castiron
monopoly of the talking business for
many years, charged rates which were
extortionate. A vigorous demand was
everywhere made that the rates be re-
duced, but, claiming that the rates were
already as low as prudence and busi-
ness principles would permit, these de-
mands were ignored and defied. In
1895 several independent companies
were organized in different towns in the
State, but not until 1896 were these
companies put in operation. Among
the first to create and operate inde-
pendent exchanges were Grand Rapids,

Muskegon, Holland, Kalamazoo, Lan-
sing, Ypsilanti, Petoskey, Alpena and
Marquette. The new companies cut the

old rates in two and the old company,
which so long bad enjoyed the monop-
oly, did likewise, but the old com-
pany’s cut was not to be a permanent
thing. It was distinctly announced that
the cut was merely a discount and not
a fixed rate, and that as soon as the
competition was killed off, the old rates
would be restored. The stockholders in
the new companies were mostly local
citizens, and lecal pride was appealed
to to make them successful, and the ut-
most use was made of the fact that the
stockholders in the old company lived
mostly in Boston and all the money dis-
bursed in dividends was sent out of the
State. In this city the new company
started off with 1,200 subscribers in the
fall of 1896, and now it has over 2,090,
while the Bell company, which once
had nearly 1,500 subscribers, has been
reduced fully one-half—mostly free
phones in residences, saloons and places
of ill repute.

The new local exchanges were hardly
established before the desire manifested
itself to connect the local exchanges to
form a State exchange. The first of the
State lines thus established was from
this city to Holland, built in the sum-
mer of 1896. Last year the State lines
were pushed in every direction and be-
fore the end of this year the State will
be fairly covered. In this work of con-
struction the State is divided into three
districts, each as yet separate and dis-
tinct from the others. This city is the
center of the largest and most important
of these districts, with a total of 148
towns on the lines. Detroit and Sagi-
naw are each the focus for a district,
and each has about fifty towns within
speaking distance. These three dis-
tricts will be united this season, and
with the new construction the combi-
nation will bring several hundred
Michigan tewns within easy communi-
cation with each other.

This city, with its 148 towns in West-
ern Michigan, has lines radiating to

 

Cadillac, Sparta, Muskegon,
Haven, Holland, Allegan, Kalamazoo,
Lansing and Ionia. The Cadillac line
will, as early as the season will permit,
be extended northward thirty miles to
South Boardman, where it will connect
with the line built south from Petoskey
last summer. From Petoskey the line
already reaches north to Pellston, and
it will be pushed through to Mackinaw
and thence to Cheboygan to connect with
Hammond. From Petoskey the wires
reach to Harbor Springs. From Wal-
ton Junction a line will be extended to
Traverse City. From Cadillac a line
already reaches to Lake City. From
Reed City a line will be built to Man-
istee, and a wire is already in opera-
tion east to Evart, and it may in time
be extended through to Clare, Midland
and Saginaw. From Howard City a
partially constructed line will be com-
pleted through to Alma and Saginaw.
The Sparta line from this city will be
pushed on to Newaygo, and possibly
still farther north. The Muskegon line
will be extended to Whitehall and Roth-

bury, at the latter place connecting
with the Fruit Growers’ Exchange,
which penetrates every township in

Oceana county, with Hart as the center.
The line to Holland already extends to
Fennviile and South Haven, and these
two points can also reach this city by
way of Allegan. St. Joseph will be
brought into the fruit belt exchange by
way of Lawton and thence here by way
of Allegan or Kalamazoo. The Kalama-
zoo line will be extended southward to
La Grange, Ind., to connect with the
Northern Indiana and Ohio exchange.

The lines from Detroit, which is the
second exchange in importance in the
State, extend to Port Huron, Pontiac,
South Lyon, Ypsilantiand Monroe. The
Pontiac line will be pushed through by
way of Durand, Owosso and St. Johns
to Iania, where it will connect with the
line to this city. The South Lyon line
is now being pushed through to Lan-
sing, nine crews being on the route in
spite of the wintry weather, and at
Lansing it will connect with this city.
The Ann Arbor line will be built
through Jackson, Albion, Marshall and
Battle Creek to Kalamazoo, and some
work was done last year at the Kalama-
zoo end of the line. The Monroe line
will be buiJt to Toledo, and from Mon-
roe it will run west to Adrian and
thence to Fayette, Ind., where it will
connect with the Northern Indiana and
Ohio circuit, as will also the line to
Toledo. From Adrian a line will un-
doubtedly be built through Hudson,
Hillsdale and Coldwater to Sturgis,
thence to Elkhart and South Bend for
Chicago, but this line has not yet been
projected.

The Saginaw Valley Exchange has
Saginaw and Bay City for its centers,
with its tributary lines reaching up into
the ‘‘thumb,’’ to Pt. Austin, Bad Axe,
Vassar and other points. This season a
line will be built from Marlette to Port
Huron, thus connecting the two sys-
tems. Another extension will be from
Saginaw through Flint to Holly, con-
necting on the Pontiac wire for De-
troit. From Bay City a line will be
built north to Alger and Emery Junc-
tion to connect with the Alpena system.
The Alpena system takes in the Huron
shore lumbering towns, including Os-
coda, Au Sable, Tawas City, Lewis-
ton, Rose City and Jackson Lake. The
connection between the Saginaw and
Grand Rapids systems will be by way of
Alma and Edmore to Howard City and
thence south. A line will probably be

Granc

 

: |
built from Sagiuaw to Lansing by way

of Owosso, but this has not yet been
booked for early construction. When
built it will afford another direct con-
nection with this city.

In addition to the
new routes already mentioned, the line
from Kalamazoo to Lawton will be ex-
tended to Niles, New Buffalo and Chi-
cago. From Niles, also, a line will be
run to South Bend. Other routes pro-
jected run from Lansing to Battle
Creek, there connecting for Kalamazoo,
and from Mason to Jackson, giving the
latter direct communication with Lan-
sing. A line already exists from Lansing
north to St. Johns and St. Louis and it
will be extended to Mt. Pleasant and,
possibly, still farther north. At Ithaca
it will connect with the Gratiot County
Farmers’ Exchange, one of the first and
largest farmers’ exchanges in the State
With Ithaca as a center it reaches into
every township in Gratiot county, and
many of the more substantial farmers
bave connections in their houses.

The Northern Indiana and Ohiv sys-
tem, with which connections will be
made at Toledo, Fayette, LaGrange and
South Bend, has Fort Wayne as its cen-
ter, and the radiating lines reach such
towns as Ejikhart, Warsaw, Portland,
Celina, Lima, Finlay and Tiffin. The
lines will undoubtedly be extended this
season to Indianapolis, Richmond, Cin-
cinnati, Columbus and Sandusky. What
will be done toward reaching New York
and the other distant Eastern points has
not yet been ascertained by the Michi-
gan promoters of independent telephone
construction.

connections and

i a
Telephone Topics.

Grand Rapids—The Citizens Tele-
phone Co. sent out checks for its sec-
ond quarterly dividend of 2 per cent.
last week.

Munith—A company has been organ-
ized here to erect and equip a telephone
line from this place to Pleasant Lake.
Ed. Carley is President of the com-
pany, Bert Dean is Secretary and Wm.
Reed is Treasurer.

Ypsilanti—'Lhe Bell concern has re-
ceived its deathknell at the bands of
the Common Council, which has or-
dered al! Bell phones out of the city
offices. About the only Bell phone now
left in public place in the city is
at the depot of the Michigan Central
Railway, which stubbornly refuses to
accommodate the people by connecting
with an exchange which is patronized by
the business public. Ypsilanti people
have their remedy, however—they will
patronize the electric line to Detroit as
soon as it is completed and use the
Michigan Central enly when actually
obliged to do so,

- +> ee -

Marshall D. Elgin distinguished him-
self in several wavs last week. First he
succeeded in getting himself elected
Secretary of the Musselman Grocer Co,
Then he married Miss Florence Teal,
the fashionable modiste, whose dress
making bills have made many a man
have the toothache. Tien he managed
to get out of town with his bride with-
out any of his friends getting onto his
pitching, although he knew that some-
thing like a ton of rice and a thousand
pairs of old shoes were in readiness to
salute them. Mr. Elgin’s friends have
been very lenient with him in the past,
but they will never forgive bim for ig:
noring them in such a_ cold-blooded
manner and, judging by the sinister
glances they exchange and _ the whis-
pered conversations they indulge in
when they meet, something is going to
drop some of these days. And Mr.
Elgin is quite likely to be around when
the drop occurs.

any

 

WANTS COLUMN.

BUSINESS CHANCES.

Go OPENING IN THESCOPPER COUN-
try. On aecount of family rexsons I am
compelled to retire from the mercantile busi-
ness, and I therefore offer my geueral stock for
sale ata bargain. For further particulars call
on or addiess T. Wills, Jr., Agt., 210 5th st., Red

Jacket, Miel "486
ce SALE—STORE BUILDING AND
dwelling combined, located at Levering,
Emmet County. Excellent location for general
store. Wiliseilcheap for cash. A.M. LeBaron
339 Crescent Ave., Grand Rapids. 488 i
Was LEV—POSITION BY KEGISTERED
pharmacist with five years’ experience in
city and country. References. Address No.

 

 

 

 

 

is, care Michigan Tradesman. 487

\ JANTED—SMALL HARDWARE STOCK.
Must be up to date in every respect. Ad-

dress 49 College st., Alliance, Ohio. 485

RUG STOCK FOR SALE—BUSINESS LAST
four years about %7,000 per year. No cut
prices. Correspondence or inspection solicited,
Address Lock Box 25, Charievoix, Mich. 484
\ JANTED—POSITION AS  REGISTERE
Pharmacist; married; age 26; eight years’
experience. Best of references. Am working
now 'ut desire a change. Address Box 425, Elk
tapids, Mich. 489
\ J ANTED—HOME FOR TWO BRIGHT,
healthy twin boys, 5 years oid on Jan. 2x,
whose parents are unable to care for them be-
cause of misfortune. Cannot consent to separ-
ate them. Also home wanted for another voy
7 years-old on March 8, who is heaithy and
gooa-natured. Address promptly, Noah Rice,
320 Ninth st, West, Flint, Mich 490
\ JANTED—BOOKS TO KEEP AND AC-
counts to audit out of business hours by
anexpert book-keeper who has full charge of
the financial department of one of the largest
manufacturing establishments in the c.ty. Ad
dress No. 491, care Michigan Tradesman. 491

ANK WANTED—IN A PROSPEROUS VIiL-

lage situated in the midst of a fine farming
country—oue of the best shipping points on the
railroad. The export business of the village
amounts to $75,000 annually. The town has a
good start and is bound {to grow. Bank with
capital of at least $10,00: is desired. Address
Bank, care Michigau Tradesman. 492
Ce EXCHANGE—DOUBLE FLAT HOUSE

in Grand Rapids for stock of dry goods;
property worth %),000. Address Lock Box 157,
Grand Rapids, Mich. 482

PORSALE AT A SACRIFICE—STOCK OF
boots and shoes, invoicing about $1,200.
Address Wm. H. Gardner, Greenville, Mich. 480

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

: SALE, CHEAP FOK CAs>H—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

wi ALL KINDS OF GRAIN IN CAR
lots. Name price or ask forbids. Rhodes
Co., Grain Brokers, Granger, Ind. 479
NOR SALE—sTOCK DRUGS AND FIXTURES
in a town of 500 population with only four
drug stores. Terms to suit, with a small pay-
ment down. Address W. W. Hunt, under City
National Bank, Grand Rapids, Mich. 476

ge SALE — GROCERY, WELL ESTAB-
lished in good farming town of 3.0u0; terms
to suit. I have other business. Address No.
467, care Michigan Tradesman. 467
CHANCE TO SPECULATE—A COMPLETE
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.
47

 

 

 

 

W ANTED TO BUY—A »TOCK OF BOOTS
and shoes and turn in as part payment a
well-located piece of Grand oe real estate.
Stock must not be less than #/,000 nor more than
$5,000. Address Shoes, care Michigan Trades-
man. 475
Fie SALE-—100 Ib. new Dayton seale at 50
cents on the dollar. Address Groceryman,
eare Michigan Tradesman. 473
a SALE — VULD-ESTABKLISHED MEAT
busines~, located at 253 Jefferson avenue.
Smoke house and all modern conveniences.
Present owner soon leaves city. Enquire on
premises. 464

Wants D—A GOOD FLOURING MILL,

best location in the State; also good plan

Address F. Salisbury, Middleton,
447

 

 

ing mill.
Mich.
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. 440
Kee 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., Peioskev, Mich. 441
~~ — FIRST-CLASS BUTTER FOR
retail trade. Cash paid. Correspond with
Caulkett & Co., Traverse City, Mich. 38
SOR EXCHANGE—TWO FINE IMPROVED
farms for stock of merchandise: splendid
location. Address No. 73, care Michigan Trades-
man, 73

PATENT SOLICITORS.
JPREE-OUR NEW HANDBOOK ON PaT-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ents. Cilley & Allgier, Patent Attorneys,
Grand Rapids, Mich. 829

 

 

MISCELLANEOUS.

OOK-KEEPER—A YOUNG MAN WITH SEV-

era] years’ experience would like a situation

as book-keeper and general hustler Best of ref-

erences furnished. Address 481, care Michigan
Tradesman. 481