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Detroit Agency, 118 Bates St. Grand Rapids Agency, 26 Fountain St. OUR LABEL ES TCT TSS TS TSS TSS S STS OST SETS ETS SE SSUES SES SCSESSTSS) Four Kinds of Coupon Books are manufactured by us and all sold on the same basis, irrespective of size, shape or denomination. Free samples on application. TRADESMAN COMPANY, Grand Rapids. ee FESTISIF TTS ST SESS TST E TESTS SFT S ESTE STS E SETS F STF OF TS Do You Sell Wall Paper and Window Shades? We are the only jobbers in Michigan, We sell at factory prices guaranteed. Samples upon applica- tion. We make a specialty of made-to-order shades. HARVEY & HEYSTEK COMPANY, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. SEEESEEEEEELELESEAEEEEEEESESESESSEEEEESEESSESESESS SETTSVITITISITOTITS HEARSE HSESESE EES EES » a ‘FEED AND MEAL: Strictly pure corn and oats goods. No oat-hulls Elgin System of Creameries It will pay you to investigate our plans and visit our factories, if you are con- templating building a Creamery or Cheese Factory. All supplies ‘heumued at lowest prices. Correspondence solicited. barley-dust or other adulteration in ours. Orders for any quantity promptly filled. Favorable freight rates to all points on C. & W. M., D, G. Roe WG Re Boe PM MSN) Bor Ann Arbor R. Rs. Correspondence solicited. Walsh=-DeRoo Milling Co. Holland, Mich. BOROROROROROROROHORORONOROROROROR BORORC ROROEORCROHORG HONCHO ECHEOEE OEORS TOES TOFOTOCHCTOLCHC HOC EORORCEOCONCHOROROHCHOROHO sion thew oa : oS LEADING PROCESSES | A MODEL CREAMERY OF THE TRUE SYSTEM ec mae: HALF-TONE True Dairy Supply Company, Bs MACHINERY. he ZINC- FIC HING 303 to 309 Lock Street, _— New York. ARI aaa ened ae SS ee a Se ee EVERYTHING. ya WwooD ENGRAVING R. E. STURGIS, General Manager of Western Office, Allegan, Mich. ae caw vans. micnican, USB TFAd6SMan GOUDON BOOKS scovvvnnnennvvovnnnssnnnnvonnnnnnntnnnnnnmnnntnnnnnya,_Méectanrs who have lost money trying to =! aw wy carry a stock of clothing should read this. “It’s as good as Sapolio,” when they try to sell you their experiments. Your own good sense will tell { you that they are only trying to get you to aid their \ eS Se er ee WHITE HORSE BRAND | This celebrated brand of Ready-to-Wear Men’s and Boys’ Clothing is sold in every state and territory by our public? The manufacturers, by constant and judi- 4 Who urges you to keep Sapolio? Is it not the agents who furnish the desired sizes from cious advertising, bring customers to your stores whose ered seem nt eon casi cities where we are not now represented. very presence creates a demand for other articles. sosrnenl, $3.00 to $6, Boye’ ants auiisdusissiia $8.00 to $10.00. Men’s pants T5e to $4.00. Complete outfit free. Write for par- LALLA eco DPGODOODOOD® HODOQDOODQO© DOOODDOO® DODODODOOOQOQOQOQOODQOO Der ®DOOOOODODQOOQOOQODOODOOQOQOOQOODOOQOOOOS DOOOQDOOOS DOODOOOMQQDOQOOOQOOQD HE Manitowoc Lakeside Peas Those who are familiar with Lakeside Peas fully appreciate them and know their value. We have made the canning of peas a scien- tific study and feel amply repaid by the re- sults obtained. They are for sale by all grocers. Ask for them. SUIVIIIIIIIIITYYYTEYYYY YTD DNTY ; icine i, THE ALBERT LANDRETH GO., Manitowoc, Wis. = Se SOU Bon eoieios Worden Grocer Co., Wholesale Agents. pe ete Ap eeneaes — f DO MDODODODOODOODODODHDOG©HQOOQOOOODODOOODOOODODODODODODODOE| DOOQODQDOQDOOOOODOODOOQOQOOQOMDOQOOOO re DODOMQOOQODOQODOGQOQGQOQO@QOQOOQOOOQDOGDOOOOS OOO =o sie Pa Pre nicet 7 -8 A French mineralogist has discovered a cobalt mine at Grand Encampment, Wyo. The mineral is worth about $1.50 a pound, and at one of the mines—the Doane—in this district there are thou- sands of tons of the ore already in sight. The mineral is extensively used in col- oring porcelain and glass blue, and it is also the active principle in some paints. Hitherto the world has depend- ed for the bulk of the supply on the mines in Sweden, Norway and Bohemia. Number 757 Wherein Hoyt Errs in Judgment. A Central Lake merchant takes ex- ceptions to the statement in last week’s Tradesman to the effect that Hoyt has arrayed himseif in opposition to the re- tail grocery trade by abandoning equal- ity, and calls for a bill of particulars. From the standpoint of the retail dealer the Tradesman believes that any house which does anything that has for its object the overthrow of the equality plan is an enemy of the retaii trade, because it 1s universally conceded that the sale of sugar has been more satis- factory since equality was introduced than it ever was before. It is easier to do business on the equality plan, be- Cause every retail merchant realizes that he is getting his goods at the identical prices his neighbor pays under similar conditions. The small dealer is not at the mercy of the large dealer, and the large dealer has not the same advantage over the small dealer that he has when he can lay in his goods 5, 1o or 15 per cent. less than his more modest com- petitor, An open market on any ar- ticle means that the small dealer gets the worst of it every time, because the large dealer, with his ready cash and greater shrewdness, secures concessions which are necessarily denied the smaller merchant. In the opinion of the Trades- man, a City is more prosperous where there are several hundred thriving stores than where the lion’s share of the trade is monopolized by a few department stores and the little dealers havea hand- to-mouth struggle for existence. One- third of the transactions of the whole- sale and retail grocer confined to sugar, and any system which compels him to handle this staple at cost—or less than cost, which is too often the case—places him at a decided disadvan- tage, as compared with the position as- sumed by his larger and more _prosper- ous competitor. - oe - A Safe with a History. Lansing, March 21—Charles C. Long- Street, the grocer, is the owner of an old-fashioned safe which has been in use ever since the war. It was original- ly the property of a jeweler at Flint, who failed and went out of business. It then fell into the hands of the old Pen- insular Railroad—now the Grand Trunk -and finally the late John Whiteley pur- chased it. It was many years in his possession and eight years ago it came into the hands of the present owner. When the inner door of the safe is closed there are a couple of stationary iron bars which fit snugly into the back part of the safe, where they are not easily reached. Recently the door of the sate did not close easily and, in or- der to ascertain the cause, the proprietor made an_ investigation, which revealed the presence on the end of one of the bars of a valuable gold ring witha handsome topaz setting. The ring was jammed and bent. How it came to be there is only a matter of conjecture. Mr. Longstreet is uf the opinion that it was dropped in there at the time the safe was owned by the Flint jeweler, and it must have remained there un- disturbed and undetected for at least twenty-five or thirty years. > oe -- The world may owe every man a liv- ing, but the majority of them are too lazy to hustle around and collect it. is i ee = See oe NR AR a aR RES 48 55 sesdnipiateggniasttdotie MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Dry Goods The Dry Goods Market. Staple Cottons—Business in brown and bleached cottons has been some- what better during this week than in other lines, and prices, although no signs of immediate impending ad- vances are shown, are very stiff. Wide sheetings, which have been advanced} several times, have been in excellent demand, and. sold largely, but no change in the prices seems imminent just at present. Ticks and other coarse colored cottons do not show a great deal of strength and the call for them is somewhat faint just at present. Prints and Ginghams—There has been some tulk of a general weak tendency on the printed cotton market, but en- quiry has failed to elicit any such in- formation. There is a slight relaxation of business undoubtedly, but prices are still firm and no concessions are being made by sellers in any of this year’s lines of any consequence. There has been much printed cotton sold at ex- tremely low prices from time to lime at various points, but these consist sim- ply of carried-over stock of out-of-date goods—lines which have failed to at- tract buyers at current prices and have proven failures. Undesirable goods are always to be found selling below the market, but they do not necessarily in- fluence the trade in general nor affect the current quotations and it !s not reasonable to ascribe to such causes a general weakness. Shirtings—The shirtings to be worn during the warmer weather are decided- ly attractive. Stripes, plaids and checks are all sure to sell weli, but it 1s very noticeable that more of this sea- Sson’s patterns are in stripes than the others. All colors are used, as are con- trasts, also, although, taking the lines as a whole, blue is, to all appearances, the favored one. The all-fancy shirts are bound to be more popular than the shirts having white bodies and colored bosoms. White shirts, as is well known, are the regular old stand-bys, but they do not sell as well as the ccloréd sbirts during the spring and summer, except for dress wear. Shirt Waists —Shirt waists are ex- pected to meet with a good deal better enquiry during the coming season than they did the last one. ef the shirts are very likely to be of the Same pattern as was seen last year, but in this, as in all cases, there are excep- tions, and a few new styles will be shown, such as those having a detach- able collar and yoke, slightly smaller sleeves, and a beruffled lace affair. Silk waists are also very sure to be of | considerable popularity; they will be pretty generally of one color, and witb- out any figure or pattern upon them, and that shade will, in most cases, be the very brightest and most showy pos- sibie, as the tendency this season is for very bright colors. Changeable silks in waists will not be used so much as b ysual. Silk underskirts are being worn | more and more al] the time, and from what dealers say, it seems as if a very | good sale of these articles is to be ex- | ected. underskirts are shown Stores, the very latest style being one with two or three flounces of accordion Very dainty creations in these plaiting, but both the plain and ruffled | skirts sell equally well. These skirts will be of rather bright colors this sea- | son, and of plain goods principally. Hosiery—Notwithstanding the over- The genera] run | in the different | | 'whelming demand for fancies in the | hosiery market, fast blacks have suffered | but little, as they will always be in de- j|mand and‘ enjoy a popularity quite | apart from the vagaries of fashion. The | fact that in the retail trade many deal- i; ers have forced off their stocks of black | to make room for fancies, and to get rid of them somehow, will, in itself, | operate to keep blacks going, for they | will assuredly have to be replaced. | Many buyers of fancy hose who have purchased largely have been wearing somewhat anxious faces of late. The reaction and chill that follows an en- thusiastic act is having its effect on them, but, as a matter of fact, fancy bose have come to stay, for some seasons at least, and no one who has bought with any judgment need fear that he is overstocked. The trouble, if any, that will come in the hosiery department will lie in lack of care in making selec- tions and assortments. A stock of fancy hose must be well backed by a thorough supply of staples, and the fancies must be pushed forward and displayed all the time, as they must be seen to attract trade. The care displayed in making selections will perhaps be the most 1m- portant factor in determining the suc- cess of a purchase of fancy hosiery, as the competition in these goods is going to be so keen that only the choicest will survive. Curtains— Domestic manufacturers are producing at this time finer lines and bave prepared to supply the trade with goods formerly made exclusively abroad. Except on the fine lines, the domestic manufacturers have enough machinery already engaged to fill the requirements of the trade on the coarser lines for sev- eral years to come, without any in- crease. Bobbinet has been produced this season for the first time in Ameri- can milis, and it is only a question of a short time when domestic mills will produce the very choicest goods, as sone of the proprietors of the Ameri- can mills have been for years engaged exclusively on all lines of fancy lace curtains abroad, and have now estab- lished in business in America. Laces—This will be a very good if not an excellent, season for laces, and dealers expect to make very profitable sales during thiscoming mild and warm weather. Prices are not so very much higher, in fact not enough to make any noticeable slacking up in the demand. Both black and white goods, too, will be about equally good in demand. Hats—The spring and summer will be quite a good season for stiff hats, for men's wear, and these hats in the light- jer shades will experience a good call. Crash hats will sell pretty well, as they will take the place of the cheaper straws; for this season only the better grades of straws will meet with any very good erquiry. Allsorts of hats and caps are expected to sell well. Although the wholesale and jobbing business is not any better than it was last year, they are by no means having any great rea- son to find fault with it; regarding col- jlections, the jobbers say that just now they are not coming so very fast, but with every moderation of the weather the various retailers’ business starts up and then they commence to settle up | their accounts. ee ae The man who claims to |memory may be cured by | small sums to his friends. j have no lending > _____ In the midst of life a man is in debt | —and his creditors don't allow him to | forget it. SOS 2S 2S SEES Si Aw, A G We carry the stock. When you make a oS sale, send us the pattern number, size f{ Dy of room or quantity wanted and we will AY k G ship your order the same day as received NY —sewed if desired. @ nD OVER 3,000 DEALERS are now han- Ke) Xo dling our carpets profitably. Letus start JN MY, you to success. a > Dy For One Dollar A AY We will send you a book of Carpet Sam- Q% ny ples containing about 50 patterns—size {pj NG oxt8 inches. These samples are cut WR] Oy from the roll, so you can guarantee every (Qs y) carpet as represented—in style, color and Mb Pp epre: y MF quality. No picture scheme or Misrep- ¢ | y: pl I My resentation. Every sample is finished, Q% inhi numbered and quality specified on ticket, ) M7 so you can make no mistake when order- AS ) : f AN ing. Wealso make up books as above, (Q¥ @ Ny 18x18 in., which we will furnish Ke) IMA 4 AG For Three Dollars oa {i} This size is very popular, as the patterns show up beautifully. If you % WA : / i c td la WG preter large samples we will cut them any length desired at the price of 1 (Qs the goods per yard. We have the best-selling goods on earth. Don't Qh Dy wait, order samples at once; it will be to your interest and we want you AR} ne to represent us. ea fy HENRY NOEE & CO., Ze AW SOUTHEAST CORNER MARKET & MONROE STS., CHICAGO. Pai Di Complete price list and telegraph code will be sent with samples. )) i ASEAN BSAA ASRS FSW SSSA SS Serr SBS SxS AY ViSGSaSASeeI ASA aAaAeAaASSs | Av i al ad AY Dealers don’t keep our goods; they SELL them. Pal AY) Gy, a eae AU All grades cut at wholesale. ri You Carry Only Samples . Wt UDAUDALDA UDA UDA UDA IDA UIDALID D PUEDE EA DA) Ai ENDED ND: Ae Be es) e% NEW ARRIVALS IN Xe | ys SSA x WASH GOODS 2 aM we 2 All Latest Designs in we, Se ° e,e . =] = Dimities, Organdies, Percales. & at : . xe, Zi Large Line Fancy Prints. we Zr eS zi P. Steketee & Sons, se Zs JOBBERS Grand Rapids, Mich. we eS = Z \E SIRES SABA RAPA RAPA: SREAE: ‘ SR BIAR ES BENNER EN RENE ENE GAGA CAAA CAA CAAA | Looking Backward a few years we find MEN’S MACKINTOSHES counted among the articles of luxury; to- day they can be had at the price of a rubber coat—not trashy, good-for-nothing stuff—but goods that are stylish and waterproof. Our tan covert cloth, box coat, double texture, sewed seams, with velvet collars to match, is fit for the most Stylish dressers. Will be pleased to quote you prices or have salesman call. Voigt, Herpolsheimer & 60., Wholesale Dry Goods and Grand Rapids, Mich. Men’s Furnishings. : i How the Screw of Competition Twists the City Grocer. From the Chicago Post. ‘*T am finding the fortunes of the small grocer far more entrancing than those of ‘The Little Minister’ or the ‘ Prisoner of Zenda,’ ’’ said an observant matron. ‘“The pathos of the situation comes right home to my own kitchen, and the chapters in the commonplace tragedy come fresh and crisp along with my celery and lettuce, and are served across the counter with the packages of sugar, tea and crackers. It’s a thoroughly up- to-date sociological romance, too full of problems and local color. ‘“The three principal characters are Cummings, Marx and Boyle, the pro- prietors of as many groceries within almost a stone’s throw of each other in an excellent residence section of the North Side. Of course, there’s a wom- an in it—many women, in fact. But Mrs. Boyle, the cheery little wife of the humblest tradesman in the trio, is the only one that need be considered. The opening chapter of this everyday story began when | lived im another neigh- borhood, and Boyle used to call at my door with green groceries. He proved to be an honest, reliable fellow, quiet and pleasant in bis manners, whose word was to be depended upon. The housewives and cooks liked his square dealings, and he prospered where his less scrupulous competitors failed. Finally he dropped out of sight and | had almost forgotten him until J moved, Then I was surprised to find him in- stalled in a small grocery of his own a few blocks from our flat. After I had made my first purchases Mrs. Boyle tucked her plump arms under her apron and confided to me that the experiment was a doubtful one and that many con- ditions were against them. Their capi- tal was smal! and then there were the larger and more showy stores of Cum- mings and Marx at the corner of the block on the same street. The only ad- vantage, however, which these competi- tors held that inspired fear in the heart of the litthe woman was the fact that they did business upon the short time credit system. ‘* *You see,’ she explained to me, ‘we have to buy for cash and we must sell for cash. We made up our minds to that at the very start. When a cus- tomer walks out of our door with a package of goods that is not paid for he goes away with just so much of our money in his pocket. Very likely we'll get it again all right, but meantime he's going about with our money, not his. And so we don't trust. But there’s another side to it. Therich folks don’t want to be bothered with paying the cash for every little thing they buy. Their way is to wait until a big bill is run up and then settle by check. If we only had the capital of Cummings or Marx we might stand the credit system, but we haven’t. The only way we can sell to that class of their custom is to keep the freshest of everything. But we're hoping for the best.’ ‘*So much for the initial situation in which the Boyles found themselves. As Ido my marketing with considerable care, it did not take me long to discover that I preferred to buy certain articles at Cummings’ store, while Marx sold the best tea and crackers. In this way f kept in constant touch with each a of the trio of competitors. One day I noticed that Marx had dispensed with two of hisclerks. His face was constantly careworn, and he was evi- dently doing the work of two men. A\I- though I had not found him quite so frank in his dealings as Boyle, his troubled looks touched me, and from day to day I watched his struggle and became better acquainted with him. A few days ago he chanced to occupy a seqgt in the ‘grip’ with me and became very confidential, It was barely pos- sible, he confessed, that be might pull through by moving into smaller quar- ters, cutting his force of helpers down to the very lowest possible limit and doing the work of three men himself. ‘* *But I’m so worn out with the Struggle that I’m tempted every day of my life to throw myself into the lake and be done with it,’ said he. ‘That sounds like silly talk for a man, but it wears a man to desperation when he has been through this grind month after month, steadily watching the money he put into the business drifting into the pockets of his wealthiest customers, who take their own sweet time to pay their billsand will quit you the moment they are pressed for a weekly settlement. Then it is still worse during the sum- mer season, when the fashionable peo- ple are away at the resorts. The ser- vants trade and the bills wait until fall for payment.’ ‘‘Not long ago when I went to Cum- mings’ store | found it in the hands of the sheriff. The proprietor passed me with his hat drawn over his eyes. His whole attitude was pitiful. As I en- tered Boyle’s store to make the pur- chases which | had intended to make at Cummings’ Mrs. Boyle greeted me with: ‘Ain't it too bad! It just scares me terrible! And did you know that Marx has moved into a little place in the middle of the next block? Yes!’ ‘‘ “But all this will make your trade better,’ I suggested. ‘‘ "IT know that,’ she replied. ‘But it’s awful hard on them, just the same. We're going to shut off on everything that leads up to the credit system. Be- fore this we've been in the habit of sending our boy out on stormy days to the doors of our best customers to take their orders. This will be stopped, for it’s the first step in the credit line. We'll lose some trade by it, but we might bet- ter stand out against the thing that has ruined Cummings first as last. It takes some grit to refuse to trust a rich cus- tomer for a few groceries, but we must fight it out that way.’ “These are only a few of the ups and downs in the tragedy of grocery keep- ing of which I have been an_ interested witness. The result of my observations has been that I now pay cash for every- thing I buy. I do-it on principle and seldom find it more inconvenient than the old way of getting things charged.’’ Sg Diagnosis of the Grocer. ‘*What is a grocer, papa?’’ ‘‘What is a grocer, child? Why, he is a good-natured man who deals in the necessities of life at the corner, and is too humble to believe for a minute that he has any rights. He solicits trade by marking all bis goods down to cost, and when the customer doesn’t pay promptly, he waits. Some grocers stand and wait until the undertaker gets his bill in and then they lean over the graveyard fence and wonder how to get their money. ‘He is the man that lives by selling sugar, and makes so much money on it that he is expected to give lumps of it to all the children. ‘‘The grocer is also a pious man. He rarely ever swears, except when he sells eighteen pounds of raisins out of a twenty-six pound box, or when he weighs out a barrel of granulated sugar and it lacks just six pounds, or when he hears Mr. Never-Pay say, ‘Charge it,’ or when the summer is so hot he loses a dozen good cheese, or when the winter is so cold that his potatoes freeze, or— but your mother is calling you. Good- night, child; I'l] tell you the rest about the grocer another day.’’ —__—_~» 2. The tobacco business in Francé is a governmental monopoly. Tobacco may be grown in only twenty departments’in France, and in Algeria; the cultivation of the plant is under the supervision of the Ministe: of Finance, and is taxed. The manufacturers occupy governmental buildings, and themselves and all their employes are subject to the Minister of Finance. The manufactured tobacco is sold by agents appointed by the govern- ment, who are allowed to sell foreign tobacco properly taxed, as well as na- tive tobacco. ee allt We offer American sbirting prints for akc, P. STEKETEE & SONS, Grand Rapids. er ee te A man smiles when you speak of his level head ; but call it flatand he gets mad, MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 3 Awnings ana Tents Sy aa a a aia'a ela ea ey ele a alo ‘uae ule a ele oleae ela 'elly'ele bel ULI RR Canerereceance nace auc a ny SINAC SA A 8 ane ase ure eve ‘ Best goods and lowest prices in the State. All work guar 5 ‘ Sr sssacess SGsee a . « : \ ‘ s RY a! | : anteed. Send for prices. CHAS. A. COYE, Fel AWTS 4 11 PEARL STREET. RNAR AN ARAN AAA ARAN AN AR AAA HIG SEORSASESSEE a APRSSORSARRSEORES SEBSOBBE FWVVVVUVIUVIVV EDV UEPVVV VUE VU V VV DV OUUY EVV U DY YD LAP PAE PEAR) vV¥e When You Begin to See Anything Green Think of Vinkemulder. When you need anything Green send your order to Vinkemulder. We have choice Dry Onions, Parsnips, Bagas, Carrots, Old and New Cabbage, White 3eans, Pop Corn, Onion Sets, New Lettuce, Pie Plant, Green Onions, Spinach, Radishes, Vegetable Oysters, Oranges, Lemons and Bananas. Will bill at our lowest mail order prices. The Vinkemulder Company, Grand Rapids, Mich. J. A. MURPHY, Genera! Manager. FLOWERS, MAY & MOLONEY, Counsel The Michigan Mercantile Agency Special Reports. Law and Collections. Represented in every city and county in the United States and Canada. Main Office: Room 1102 Majestic Building, Detroit, Mich. Personal service given all claims. Judgments obtained without expense to subscribers BICYCLE SUNDRIES One of the largest stocks in Michigan. Prices right. Service prompt. Write for our ’98 catalogue with dealers’ net price sheet. ADAMS & HART, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. for only one cent you can have an | expert examine Posrac Card + O@ne-Centhy li WnitemStates Stickney Grocery Co. A movement is on foot to organize a corporation here, with a capital stock of $100,000, to undertake the beveling and silvering of mirror plates. The movement is headed by the local repre- sentative of the Atlas Works, of Amster- dam, who is understood to be willing to subscribe for one-half of the capital stock of the proposed enterprise. - > oe - Purely Personal. Geo. D. Sisson, formerly of this city, will represent the Peters Lumber and Shingle Co. in Indianapolis. W. W. Wells, of Penn Yan, N. Y., is visiting bis brother, Sumner M. Wells, Secretary and Treasurer of the Clark- Jewell-Wells Co. Daniel McCoy, President of the State Bank of Michigan, who has been in Cleveland for the past week, is expected home Friday. Gaius W. Perkins, President of the Grand Rapids School Furniture Co., is putting in a fortnight at Florida resorts. He is accompanied by his wite. The resemblance of C. N. Rapp to Gen. R. A. Alger is so marked that it is not an unusual thing for Mr. Rapp to be accosted by some one who mistakes him for the genial Secretary of War. B. R. Thompson, the heavyweight member of the Thompson-Bonnell Lumber Co., was confined to his bed during all of last week at Evansville, Ind. He went for lumber, but com- promised on the gout. It will soon be time for Frank Jewell (Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.) to hie himself away to some imaginary locality in the north woods and come back with stories of big fish which cause his friends’ eyes to enlarge and glisten. What Mr. Jewell’s friends can not understand is that he always eats the big fish while in camp and brings home the little fish as trophies of his skill as an angler. It is suggested that he purchase a camera and have some one take a snap shot of him in the presence of the monster spec- imens ot the finny tribe which he insists he captures on the occasion of every ex- cursion to the Little Manistee. Se oe The Produce Market. ~.Apples—Home grown Northern Spys and Wine Saps from Missouri fetch $3.50@4 per bbl. Asparagus—$2 per doz. bunches. Bananas—The market is firm at prices that move stock very rapidly. In the present condition of fruit supply in this market the banana is a very popular fruit, and the weather is such as to en- courage the best movement. The street peddler is disposing of large quantities of this fruit, and the shipments out are large. Receipts can be made to con- form to the demand, and the market is steady at figures that have ruled for nearly two months. Beans—Jobbers pay 60@7oc for coun- try cleaned, holding city picked at go @g2c in carlots and $1 in small quanti- ties. Few beans are coming into mar- ket at this time. Beets—35c per bu. Butter—Dairy grades are in plentiful supply, commanding r4c for fancy and 13c for choice. Factory creamery is steady at 18@Ioc. Cabbage—$2.50 per 1!oo. Carrots—25c per bu. Celery—Choice stock is held at 20@ 25c per bunch. Cucumbers—$1.50 per doz. for South- ern grown. Eggs—Receipts are large and the quality has so far improved that Eastern buyers are beginning to take hold. Lo- cal dealers pay 8c on track, case cuunt, but insist that the price may go to 7c before the end of the week. Sorted stock is readily taken by local grocers on the basis of 9c. Indications point to large receipts at all primary markets for the next two months. Green Onions—1r5c per doz. Honey—Dark ranges from g@tloc. Light stock commands I2c. Lemons-—-The demand is excellent for this season of the year. The de- mand is running heavily to California stock, with values a little lower on these than on Messinas. It seems that the quality of the former is just as good as that of the latter. Lettuce—Grand Rapids Forcing has advanced to I5c. Onions—Dry stock has declined to 75@ 85c. Oranges— Mexicans are now well out of the market. No changes are to be noted in the quoted prices and the mar- ket may be counted steady. The move ment is heavy, but not quite up to what might have been expected from prices so low. The quality of fruit now being received is good, such frosted stock as was put on the market being now cleaned out of the way. Potatoes—The market is stronger and quotations in most markets are fully 5c higher than a week ago. Local buyers have advanced their paying prices to 55@6oc. Radishes—25c per doz. bunches. -, seeds—Timothy, prime, $1.40@1.45 ; Medium clover, tas. 25; Mammoth clover, $3@3.40; Crimson clover, Sos Red Top, $1@1.10; Alfalfa, $3. 75@4. 50; Alsyke, $4.50@4. 65: Orchard grass, $1.60; Kentucky bluegrass, $1.30@1.50. Spinach—5soc per bu. Strawberries—3oc per qt. Tomatoes—$4 per case of 6 baskets. V snare —— aa doz. a - Hides, Pelts, Furs, Tallow and Wool. The hide market is weaker, with '%c decline, more from manipulation of dealers than from any change of supply or demand. The quality is poor, which cuts a figure. Light stock is more plentiful and prices hold firm. Pelts are not plenty and the price is off,in sympathy with wool. Furs hold up well, with light catch. Hudson Bay sales last week did not in- fluence our market, as they are a higher class of goods. Tallow remains slow of sale, with no kick to the trade, while the demand has been good for fresh stock. Wool is extremely quiet, with light sale and no demand—an_ occasional weak spot on inferior grades. While the bulk of holdings is firm, holders ex- pect much higher prices during the next half year. London sales are firm at 5 per cent. advance for light offerings. Prices are higher than our market will warrant for importation; in fact, it can not be bought for this side without a loss. Wm. T. HEss. —____+_-~»>7-<.—____—__ Gillies’ New York teas. All kinds, grades and prices. Phone Visner, 800. A crank is ao man. who, has. a different hobby than your own. BANK NOTES. Principle of Promotion Exemplified in Mr. Anderson’s Elevation Entirely aside from personal consid- erations, the election of Wm. H. An- derson to the presidency of the Fourth National. Bank is pleasing and gratify- ing. It is a recognition of the prin- ciple of promotion, and not only is this principle applied to him, but the others have the benefit of it as well. In the past history of banking in this city, to eventually be made a teller has been, practically, the highest ambition held out for the aspirations of the young man who goes into the banks as a clerk with the view of making it a life business. When a clerk or teller has graduated in- to a cashiership, it has not been as cashier of the bank in which he received his training, but of some other bank or of some bank which he may have been instrumental in organizing. Mr. Sey- mour, it is believed, is the first in the city to begin in a bank at the lowest round of the ladder, and by regular steps win promotions to the cashiership of the institution in which he started. Mr. Anderson is the first cashier to be promoted to the presidency. If the pol- icy of promotion were more generally adopted and applied, the humblest and youngest clerk would have more of an incentive to hard work than the mere ‘‘holding of his job’’ affords. He would have something to look forward to and to work for, and this in itself would tend to the development of a higher grade of ability and efficiency. oe ae te Another pleasing feature about the election of Mr. Anderson is the recog- nition of the principle that the presi- dent of the bank should, in fact as well as in name, be the executive head of the institution. Too often the presi- dency is given as an honor to one of the heavy stockholders or to some man whose uame is well known in business circles, and therefore of value to the bank, but who may know no more about banking than he does of flying, and lit- tle more of the bank of which he is president and the nominal head than does the average stockholder. ‘To have an honorary president may be well enough in a smal! town bank, but Grand Rapids has become too much of a com- mercial and financial center to warrant its continuance here. It is a wise move on the part of the Fourth National to make its President the real executive officer of the institution. George W. Gay, who for several years has been Vice-President of the Bank, took this view of the matter, and, it is under- stood, suggested Mr. Anderson for the place. Several of the other city banks have presidents who are presidents in fact. L. H. Withey is one of the hardest working men in the Michigan Trust Company and is rarely away from his desk, except when out of town on _ busi- ness for the Company. James M. Bar- nett has his regular desk and office hours in the Old National and his finger is always on the business pulse. Dan- iel McCoy is as prompt in his office hours at the State Bank of Michigan as any of the clerks. Thomas Hefferan is rarely seen elsewhere than at the Peo ples Savings during banking hours. Henry Idema, as Vice-President of the Kent Savings, attends strictly to busi- ness. Atthe other banks the presidents give more or less close personal atten- tion to the business, but do not by any means devote themselves to it. Mr. Anderson came to Grand Rapids fresh from a Sparta township farm. He was born and brought up in the country and as a young man was thrifty and shrewd. About fifteen years ago, while still a young man, he sold his farm, moved into the city and engaged in the real estate and loan business, with an_ office under the Fourth National Bank, oper- ating chiefly upon his own capital. He was modest and unassuming, but in time the success of some of his transactions became known and attracted attention in financial circles, and in 1891 he was invited to become a director of the Bank. He accepted the place, and _ in the fall of the same year was elected Cashier to succeed Homer W, Nash. He entered upon his duties November 17, 1891, and at that time the loans and discounts were $872, 436 and the deposits $792,843. The loans and discounts now are $1,470,742, an increase of about 75 per cent., and the deposits are $1,740,- 693, an increase of about 150 per cent. Six years ago the surplus account was given as $35,000, and this surplus sub- sequently suffered severely when bad loans, long carried, were written off. The surplus now is $47,000, and it is all surplus. The Bank then carried $66,000 worth of real estate, while its real estate holdings now are about g1o,ooo. Under Mr. Anderson's man- agement, the Bank has made rapid strides forward, in spite of the fact that four of tne six years he has been Cash- ier have been years of depression, dis- tress and business uncertainty. sy A question that is beginning to agi- tate the bankers is whether or not the Saturday half holiday will be observed during the coming summer. The Leg- islature of ‘93 made a law naming the legal holidays, and to the list was added ‘tevery Saturday from 12 0'clock noon to 12 o'clock at night."' This law, which is still on the statute books, has a_ pro- viso, however, that upon the vote of the directors the banks may keep open for business Saturday afternoons. Soon after the enactment of the law a move- ment was started to take advantage of , but two or three banks held out a closing Saturdays, even during the summer months,and the subject was dropped. The agitation which Mayor Stow has started for the closing of the factories Saturday during July and August is leading to a hope among the bank clerks that the question of closing the banks may be revived. The subject has hardly been discussed as yet, but when the birds begin sing- ing a little louder, and when the sun grows warmer and the base ball games begin and the bicycles are taken from the store rooms, a committee of clerks will start out with an agreement for all the banks to Sign. There is a strong sentiment among the business men against the Saturday half holiday, even during the summer, but if the manu- facturers set the pace, the merchants may have to fall into line and the banks wiil certainly not be behind the others in taking a weekly half day off. “+ + It may interest investors to know that Charlevoix has voted $9,000 bonds to move the water works. Boyne City has voted $4,000 for water works, and Har- bor Springs has voted $6,000 bonds for a municipal lighting plant. Muskegon county will on April 4 vote on issuing $25,000 bends to build a highway from Muskegon to North Muskegon. Jackson will vote April 4 on issuing $22,340 street improvement bonds. Grand Ledge will vote on $25,000 refunding water works bonds. Petoskey will vote on $15,000 to build a combined city hall, engine house and jail. afternoons Seeger we apc SAREE VERON POD He atrahyt te FRO Ry eee Ne + Ps rie ganraemen seamen AME PEE BA NRE eee ORs parte dee ae BE ais 9 Bins cor all ate ere ! iat apes oS MICHIGAN TRADESMAN PRO AND CON. Views of the Gate System from Both Sides. With a view to ascertaining what ob- jections there are to the gate system, a representative of the Tradesman rode last week from Grand Rapids to Hart- ford and return, going both ways on the local trains which stop at every town. At every stop the train made the writer sauntered out to the car platform for the purpose of inspecting the methods used to handle the people. In each case the gate-keeper appeared to be a man of excellent judgment, throwing his gate open promptly as soon as the train stopped at the station, assisting the people to alight and then passing those into the cars who possessed tickets or transportation of any kind. Ticket holders handed their tickets to the gate- keeper, who scrutinized them quickly and punched them as the passengers passed up the steps of the car. Travel- ing men and others who carried mileage books were only required to hold the book in their hands, no attempt being made to inspect the book, even to the extent of looking at the name inscribed on the cover. Although fully twenty passengers alighted from the southbound train at Holland, and as many boarded it, the transfer was made in good time, without delay and apparently without any friction. Several traveling men on the train who were interviewed on the subject stated that the objections to the system are largely sentimental and that there are no valid reasons why the gates should be removed, in case the management finds it more profitable to keep them on the train. ~~ = * The average traveling man, how- ever, does rot regard the gate system in any other light than that of a nuisance, and an unmitigated nuisance at that. Even the most conservative members of the fraternity turn up their noses in dis- gust when asked to explain what objec- tion they have to the gate system. They insist that they have to stand out in the rain at country stations, waiting the ac- tion of the gate-keeper in inspecting the tickets and mileage books of those in waiting; that it is not an easy thing for a traveling man with two heavy grips to carry his mileage book in his hand, and that the only logical outcome of the situation is for the boys to have coats made witha glass front in one pocket, so that the gate-keeper can see the mileage book through the glass and pass the salesman without further cere- mony. ae _ - = | ‘‘T began to travel out of Grand Rap- ids fourteen years ago,’’ said a well- known salesman, ‘‘and it was common talk at that time among the traveling men that some of the conductors on the ~ Northern division of the C. & W. M. were knocking down. The traveling men talked it around the station houses and it became a matter of common knowledge with station agents, telegraph operators and section hands, yet for some reason which I am unable to fathom these men were permitted to continue in charge of trains until their stealings be- came so flagrant that the company could not stand it any longer. Of course, the gate system is aimed at the traveling man, the intention being that it will prevent collusion between the traveling man and the conductor. that it is unfair for any railroad to dis- criminate against certain classes of trav- elers in this manner, and the time will come when Mr. Heald will see that, if he persists in keeping the gates on the trains, the road will not earn enough to pay for greasing the wheels.’’ ee ‘“The gates do not keep the passen- gers off the trains,’’ said a veteran salesman who has been traveling north of Grand Rapids for the past fourteen years; ‘‘but they keep the freight off the freight trains,’’ he remarked, with a sly wink. ‘‘It is not so much the gate system the boys complain of as it is the frequent changes and unnecessary in- novations that are continually being made by the Heald lines, and the gate matter is simply the culmination of annoyances which the traveling men have been compelled to put up with ever since Mr. De Haven was placed in charge of the passenger department. Why he should harbor such a dislike to- ward the traveling man is more than | can understand, especially when we come to think how much that road de- pends on the traveling men for sup- port. |” ‘“The C. & W. M. was the most pop- ular line in Michigan,’’ said another salesman, ‘‘until it put gates on its trains, and J should say that it is now the most unpopular road in the United States, and it will remain so until the gates are taken off and every vestige of the gate system is abolished. Of course, the boys have to travel over the Heald lines, but so long as the gates remain, they will travel just as little as they can over these lines, and when it comes to the shipment of freight—well, that is where the boys can get in their work.’’ ae A visit to the various jobbing houses of the city discloses the fact that nearly every shipping clerk in town has spe- cific orders to ship goods in every way possible except over the Heald lines. For instance, a representative grocery salesman who was always partial to the C. & W. M., in making shipments to Baldwin, Ludington and Manistee now has a notice pasted in the shipping de- partment of the house for which he travels, requesting that all shipments for these towns be sent via G. R. & I. ana FP. & P. M. Fhe resalt is that Baldwin has ceased to cut much figure as a transfer station except on through business, . ee The above interviews serve to present the gate question as it appears to the unprejudiced observer—to one who took the trouble to investigate the matter on his own account and who is unable to determine wherein the system should meet such determined opposition. Rightly or wrongly, however, there is no disputing the fact that there exists a deep-seated antagonism against the sys- tem, which time will never soften, and, judging by the manner in which freight shipments are being diverted, the writer has no hesitation in asserting that, in his opinion, it is a mistake to continue to keep the gates on the trains, because every dollar that is saved by the use of the gates is costing the railroad Stoo in the loss of freight which is diverted to other lines’ How long the management can afford to hold out against this opfo- sition is, of course, problematical, but it would appear to the writer that no road or series of roads can afford to suffer such a loss of its revenues as must be the case under existing condi- tions, when the matter at stake is so : -- | Insignificant as the continuance O- I maintain | 8 = lition of the gate system. —_—_»2._ __ A man always puts his best foot for- ward ; a mule puts his hackward. 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The only —generator manufactured in — Michigan that has been granted ~a permit by the UNDERWRIT- —ERS’ INSURANCE ASSOCIATION. —For full information and prices —address the manufacturers. (| } Woman’s World Women’s False Ideas of Economy. I am more and more convinced every day that with the majority of women economy is the root of all extravagance. When one runs up a bill that simply paralyzes her or goes dead broke a week before her allowance is due, nine times out of ten it may be safely set down to some conscientious and heartfelt effort to economize. That it proves a boomer- ang does not discourage or disconcert her. She simply wraps the mantle of conscious self-righteousness about her and wonders what on earth her poor family would have done without such a financier to manage for them. Economy has always been woman’s pet virtue on which she prided _ herself, and each and every one of us is fully convinced that we havea close monopoly on it. We are willing to admit we don’t know it all in other directions, that we make mistakes and failures, but I have yet tomeet the woman who did not con- sider herself a shining exponent of the art of judicious saving. The one thing a woman can never understand is the coolness with which a man buys what he wants, when he wants it, or by what miracle her husband kept out of the poorhouse before she took charge of his pocketbook. In pursuance of the theory of economy we stumble into many pitfalls. One of these is the bargain counter. Never was there a greater mistake than to imagine a woman loves a bargain because she thinks it is cheap. We hate cheapness. We would far rather have a high-priced, exclusive article, but we are victims to the economy idea, and feel that the un- pardonable sin is in passing by some- thing that has been marked down. Mrs. Jones paid 50 cents apiece for some towels she needed. We get the very same towels on bargain Monday for 48 cents, and we feel a triumphant thrill at the achievement, and reflect that Mary Jones never did know the first princi- ples of economy,anyway. It is only aft- er our towels come home that we remem- ber that we were already oversupplied and haven’t the slightest use for them— that there isn’t a shelf ina closet or armoire where it is safe to movea thing suddenly for fear of an avalanche of previous bargains falling on our heads —it is only then that we begin to enter- tain suspicious thoughts of economy and to wonder when a bargain is a_bar- gain. Every now and then some prophet in Israel arises and sets forth the advan- tages of buying your organdies in Nvo- vember and your winter things about the middle of July. It sounds alluring. Most of us have tried it, and that no woman has yet committed suicide when she got her bargains out of season is a signal proof of feminine heroism and fortitude under affliction. There is one, just one, infallible rule about this —whatever you get will be exactly the thing you should not have gotten, and you will loathe and despise it. If you buy a stripe in the summer, when win- ter comes every living soul will be wearing plaids. If you get a dark, quiet, non-committal color, fashion will inevitably demand a color that pro- claims its glories from afar. You can never know how absolutely necessary the latest thing is to your happiness until you load yourself up with last year’s goods, and feel like a perambulating back number. There isn’t any use in speaking of the economy that prompts a woman to do the spring housecleaning to save a scrub-woman or to put carpets herself instead of hiring a professional. Doctors and trained nurses have to live, down and these are their perquisites. Be- sides, no woman ever admitted she made herself sick. She may have brought on a spell that necessitates her spending the summer at the seaside, or in the mountains, to recuperate from having painted a set of cottage furni- ture, but she always believes it was a great saving in the long run, and points to it with pride, as an evidence of her ability to economize. Neither is it nec- essary to say a word of those who make | home-made furniture, where a cracker box is converted into a divan and a flour barrel into an empire chair, by means of springs and curled hair and brocade and Turkish rugs, at about three times what a decent article would cost from the store. When a woman contracts the home-made-furniture-econ- omizing mania she is simply hopeless, and there’s no use in arguing with her. I suppose there has never been a woman who was a housekeeper who has not felt herself thrill with the possibili- ties of getting rich off what she could save from the table, as she read the in- spiring words of some of the apostles of household economics. Never throw away a scrap, cry they. Utilize every- thing. Then follow directions for con- verting the cold potatoes left from din- ner into croquettes, transforming scraps of meat into entrancing entrees,and stale bread into ravishing puddings. Also, and likewise, every woman is conjured to keep a stock kettle, where the ma- terials for soup gather themselves to- gether as if by magic and without price. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Now, far be it from things are impossible. I am persuaded that nothing is secret or hidden from these oracles, but I do say that a stock kettle and nervous prostration are synon- ymous terms. Nothing short of eternal vigilance will get the right things into it and keep the wrong things out. Furthermore, to reduce cold potatoes into fancy dishes and turn scraps of meat into things a la maitre d’hotel and a la Hollandaise is going to keepa woman standing continually over the cooking stove. It is an achievement entirely beyond the average plain cook, and the game simply isn’t worth the candle. It is using up $5 worth of time and $10 worth of seule to save 15 cents’ worth of cold victuals. me to say these After all,aren't we victims to the idea of saving up things? ‘‘Keep every- thing. Sometime you may need it,’’ runs the old adage, and so we go on piling up useless rubbish in our attics, until they will hold no more. And if, by chance, in the process of time, you do happen to need the thing the moths have always eaten it, or it has gotten rusted and it isn’t any use after all. It is a distorted idea of economy that makes women burden themselves with things they would be glad to be rid of. | They simply haven’t the courage to , throw rubbish away. The idea of giv- ing things away while they are good doesn’t seem to occur to any, yet it is one of the most practica! forms of philanthropy in the world. At the end of the season every woman and hats and gloves and flowers frills that she is reasonably sure of never wearing again. Suppose, instead of packing them up and _ storing them away, she sent them to some girls out in the country with a word or two about how they could be freshened used. Wouldn't it be a veritable treas- ure-trove? Once I spent a summer in a little village that had its great lady. his country as a cabinet minister, and both in Washington New York she was a brilliant and spicuous figure in society. As her wealth and position, she with great richness, but she never got the old friends left behind in the little town, and thither three times a year she sent great hampers of fine clothing—gowns, wraps and hats— that were divided, at her suggestion, among a number of poor girls, whose cunning fingers adapted them to their new owners’ needs. The gift was made cOn- or four 7 false shame. ‘‘Oh, do you know Mrs. B. sent me the hat she wore to the Brit- ish Minister’s garden party?’’ Or, ‘‘I have the loveliest ball frock—it’s the one Mrs. B. had made for the Patri- archs’ Ball,’’ were the explanations often given of some unusual finery and which were accepted in an equally un- critical spirit, and it seemed to me that no act of a life that was fragrant with good deeds was sweeter or better than the generous remembrance of a young girl’s love of pretty clothing that these boxes expressed. Sometimes it is not alone the mania for economy that makes women put away everything that they bave ever had—it is a sentimental fancy of asso- ciation. I remember that once I lived neighbor to such a woman as this, who used to say that she had in an immense packing chest all the clothing and play- things her son—now a middle-aged and prosperous banker—-had had until he was nearly grown, and that once or twice a year she would overhaul the | things and weep over them, because he enough and fashionable enough to use} who goes about much has a lot of dresses | and up and | She bad married a rich man who served | hadn't staid a baby but had persisted in growing up. QOne cold and bitter night I was called to see a family in the direst poverty. A little new-born baby wailed on the breast of a_ starving mother and a half dozen half-naked children cowered about a handful of fire in the stove. I went direct from them to my rich neighbor. Look here, Mrs. Blank,’’ I said abruptly, ‘‘didn’t you tell me you had all the baby clothes, and clothes your son wore when a child, in a chest inthe attic?” ‘Yes,’’ she said, most precious possessions. Ah, you have no idea how many times I have wept over them—’’ ‘‘Precious fiddlesticks!’’ I cried; ‘‘and are you going to let that box of clothes rot upstairs while those children ‘‘and they are my at your very door are freezing for |clothes? Why, I think your heart must be encased in boiler iron.’’ Do you think it’s wrong?’’ she asked. and afterwards in| befitted | dressed | for- | | things. ido it herself, and when we got ‘Wrong !*’ said I, ing the day; ‘‘ a wickeder seeing I was gain- I don’t think you could do thing, if you hunted a week. "” Well, at sent me last she gave me the key and and a servant up to get the She said she couldn’t bear to through | with that trunk there wasn’t enough left without patronage and accepted without | in it to shed a tear on in the future. Economy is good, but generosity is better. It is a good thing sometimes to take care of things. And sometimes it is better to just pass on our blessings aud give others a chance at them. DorotHy Drx. THE EUREKA” BOHILLS IN GROUND, MEpy \LLS IN HOUR 99 wort S SOIL LIST PRICE: “ EUREKA'SacK, DISCOUNT TERNS “ EUREKA’ ountee, $15,00 ere poz “DINGREE made, 12,006 « 7,00 oe For Sale by Jobbers.~ PATENT ACK 4 ACRES IN = MINUTES, 2, RS ASN OTH O 06 Hy SEED AND FRUIT s Liberal Discount to Dealers. THE PINGREE” es “Stud RECO best finished the market. RD: S ON Sop Mhes io s eA Scud Roy)! depth gauge. 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When writing to any of our Advertisers, please say that you saw the advertisement in the Michigan Tradesman. E. A. STOWE, Eprror. WEDNESDAY, = = = MARCH 23, 1898. TRAVELING MEN VS.TRAIN GATES The discussion between the traveling men on one side and the Heald railway system on the other, relative to the gate system now in use on a portion of the trains of that system, has reached the acute stage, and the outcome is not at all difficult to foresee. Both sides are arrayed in invincible phalanx—and one side or the other must, of necessity, yield. The Tradesman has given the matter thorough investigation and care- ful consideration and is inclined to the opinion that the objections to the in- novation are more sentimental than real. Notwithstanding this fact, how- ever, the traveling men have taken Strong grounds against the gates and insist that they must go or their freight will go over other lines, so far as it is possible for them to divert it. They have not only registered this fiat, but they are putting it into execution with a vigor and a determination character- istic of the fraternity. How long the Heald system can stand up under such a determination and continue its pres- ent policy of opposition and defiance is, of course, problematical; but, as it is impossible to restore the friendship of the traveling men and still keep the gates, and as the friendship of the traveling men is a commodity quite as valuable in its way as any commodi- ties which can be weighed and meas- ured, the Tradesman believes that Gen- eral Manager Heald—who enjoys the reputation of being one of the shrewdest and most diplomatic railway managers in the country—will wisely conclude that the traveling men have opinions and prejudices which even a railway official is bound to respect, and that he will forth- with issue an order abolishing the gate system on the few trains on which it is now used. Had the system been put into opera- tion by concert of action with other Michigan roads, or had it been adopted at a time when the traveling men were not already keyed up to intense excite- ment by reason of the adoption and abandonment of the Central Passenger Association mileage book, the gate sys- tem would probably provoke little com- ment and excite little opposition. Its adoption at such a time, however, was premature and unfortunate, and for the best interests of all concerned, and in order that harmony and _ good feeling may be restored, the Tradesman sincere- ly hopes that Mr. Heald will conclude to withdraw the obnoxious feature and ‘hold out the olive branch of peace, realizing, as he must, that he is deal- ing with a class of men who can make and unmake railroads—who can precip- itate defaults on bonds as well as_ earn dividends on stocks. GENERAL TRADE SITUATION. With the exception of a perceptible checking of wholesale demand at cer- tain Eastern points the tide of trade flows without abatement over all parts of the country. Many large transac- tions are deferred in the seaboard cities on account of the feeling of uncertainty caused by war possibilities. In the stock market the effect is shown in con- tinued dulness, and as the probability of matters being brought toa crisis by the report of the Maine enquiry be- comes more imminent there is a cor- responding increase in the dulness, and tbis week shows a decline in most lines. That these unfavorable indications are the result of the political situation alone is indicated by the fact that throughout the country trade movement is very heavy, the central and western portions leading. Perhaps the most fa- vorable reports come from Kansas City, where the demand for hardware and building materials, as_ well as agricul- tural implements, is greater than the supply, and difficulty is found in filling orders. Another favorable feature of the situation is that export trade con- tinues larger than the most sanguine expectatious. The excess of these over imports is rapidly increasing the trade balance in our favor, until there isa rapid inflow of gold from every direc- tion. The wheat market scored a small ad- vance for last week, but this week shows a tendency to reaction, although as yet with little change in values. The situa- tion seems to be under the control of speculators in the Western markets and the small fluctuations in values are made to suit their convenience. Prices of the other cereals have been weaker. The iron situation continues the fa- vorable features of the past few weeks in nearly all lines. Indeed, the im- provement has been emphasized by the political agitation, not only in the pros- pect of future demands, but there have been enough substantial orders given by the Government to have a material influence. Bank clearings continue very heavy, breaking records for the corresponding weeks in any past years. The amount was $1,288,951,000. Failures were 233, as against 247 last week. Spring poetry is coming in briskly enough, full of roses and posies, and love, from above, and shine of the sun and dearest one, dewdrops of pearl, sweetest girl,and the borrowed perfume of a honeysuckle-scented June; all of which is nice. It is reported that the peach crop has been nearly ruined in some of our Texas counties. The public’s long experience with Michigan and Maryland necessi- tates something like an affidavit to se- cure full credence for reports as to the peach crop. Senator Proctor’s cold facts have rather taken the wind out of the Madrid press, but the latter may be confidently expected to come up smiling for an- other round or two. Facts only tem- porarily embarrass the Spanish editor. Spain can never sell her honor nor pawn her pride. AN UNFORTUNATE DECISION. The Supreme Court of the United States has recently rendered a decision setting aside as unconstitutional a statute of the State of Nebraska which undertook to regulate railroad freight charges. This statute fixed a maximum sum which might be charged for freights within the State and conferred on the Railroad Commissioners of Nebraska power to reduce the rates whenever, to a majority of the number, it seemed just and reasonable so to do. A railroad company operating in Ne- braska complained that the reductions of freight rates made under this law were so great that each of the roads in- volved would have been compelled to do its business at a loss, and that thus the effect of the law was to deprive the railroad companies of their property without compensation, in violation of the constitution. The United States Supreme Court sustained the contention of the railrcad company and held that the authorities of a State have no right, under the con- stitution, to fix an unreasonable rate to be charged by railroads even within the State. But the Court did not stop there. It undertook to fix the basis upon which the reasonableness of railroad charges may be ascertained. Said the Court: We hold that the basis of all calcu- lations as to reasonableness of rates to be charged by a corporation maintain- ing a highway under legislative sanc- tion must be the fair value of the prop- erty being used by it for the conven- ience of the public. And in order to ascertain that value, the original cost of consiruction, the amount expended in improvements, the amount and market value of its bonds and stock, the present as compared with the original cost of construction, the probable earning ca- pacity of the property under any rates prescribed by statute, and the sum re- quired to meet operating expenses are all matters for consideration, and to be given such weight as may be just and rigbt in any particular case. This decision virtually empowers every railroad in the United States to make such charges for its services as will enable it to do business at a profit. This involves principles that are at variance with the rules governing the prices of all other services and products in the markets. A_ thing is worth what it will bring, and the market price is commonly fixed by competition. As the result of competition, prices may be so low that somebody ioses money; but that is only one of the contingencies of business. If some can produce an ar- ticle of consumption at lower cost than can be secured by others, then the com- petition may force one producer to lose money, while another works at a _ profit. Everything depends on facilities and advantages of production. But railroads, save in rare instances, do not compete. At least each has a certain territory, the carrying trade of which it controls. Under the operation of the decision above noted it would seem that a railroad badly constructed and worse managed would have the right in fixing its charges for transpor- tation to insure itself a profit, despite its disadvantage, and this profit is to be made out of the persons who are forced, for lack of other facilities, to use its services, because the original cost of construction, the amount expended in improvements, the amount and market value of its bonds and stock, the prob- able earning capacity of the property under any rates prescribed by the state, and the sum required to meet to oper- ating expenses are all matters for con- sideration in making up a reasonable freight tariff. In equity the matter of reasonableness should not operate whoily to the advan- tage of the railways. It .would seem that those persons whose necessities force them to patronize the railways sheuld also be considered. They might be required to pay for the transportation of their products such prices as would in- sure that their property would not be mar- keted at a loss. Certainly, ail the rea- sonableness should not work to the ad- vantage of the railways and against the shippers; but it appears that there is no ground upon which sbippers can stand in court and fight for the rights. They cannot ship their goods without signing a contract to pay their freights, what- ever they may be, and that ends the matter. Neither the Interstate Com- merce Commission nor State railway commissions can aid shippers in the face of such a decision. The railroad would only have to show that it must charge a certain sum in order to keep up its dividends on its watered, or otherwise overvalued, stock and bonds, to secure the judgment of the court that this was a ‘‘reasonable rate.’’ The market value of any property is just what it will sell for. Many of the railroads that were built at high costs in times of inflation could be duplicated to-day at vastly smaller outlays. They are put up and sold at sheriff's sale for a tithe of what they cost; but if, in making rates, the original cost must be considered, the shippers will be placed at a hopeless disadvantage. it is this sort of thing done in the courts that has aroused so much hostility against the railroads and has given rise to the wild and radical socialistic demands that they shall be operated by the Govern- ment. The State of Indiana, which is con- sidered one of the severest on the rail- roads, only taxes them to the amount of their selling value. Suppose it adopted the rule laid down above for ascertain- ing reasonable freight charges and taxed them at their original cost, etc., whata how] there would be. The State of Indiana, which taxes the railroads on their selling value, secures from them nearly 20 per cent. of the State’s revenues. The Indiana system is to assess against the railroads the total value of all their property within the borders of the commonwealth, no matter where the owners may reside. If a railroad lies two-thirds in Ohio and one-third in Indiana, it assumes that Indiana should receive the tax on one- third of its total value. In short, it ap- plies to railroad property the same rules as are applied to the taxation of real estate, and taxes the roads at the gen- eral rate. As a result, the railroads of Indiana pay as large a proportion of the taxes as its real estate pays. One can easily see why Englishmen wish success to plans for the liberation of Cuba. Their losses through the dev- astation of the island are only less grievous than our own. Scores of cot- ton and tobacco estates are owned or mortgaged in England, and almost all the money invested in the insular rail- ways came from London. It was with English capital that public works were undertaken in a number of Cuban cities between 1878 and 1894. No interest or dividend will be forthcoming on any of these securities until peace has been restored 1n the island. General Fitzhugh Lee is the most pictured man in America to-day. i i § iS { { — ern eeaeneerere” i \ eee ee — RTC NaN tenes FREE VS. PRISON COMPETITION. A curious feature of the prison labor problem in this locality is that the man- agement of one of the prisons finds it- self compelled to give up a line of work because outside competition makes the convict labor in such work unprofitable. In a communication to the press on the subject the warden of the of Correction asserts that that institu- tion is compelled to discontinue the manufacture of cheap chamber suites for the reason that outside ‘‘cutthroat’’ competition has made it impossible for the prison to continue the work; and he further takes occasion to score such competition and to intimate that it is a more pertinent subject for the attention of organized labor than is the question of prison competition. There is little doubt that in the strug- gle to keep factories in operation dur- ing the depression of recent years there was too great competition in some lines, work being continued when there was actual loss to the manufacturers and wages were reduced to the minimum. In these cases the workmen accepted the situation on the theory that a small loaf was better than none; but when the revival of business began both employ- ers and workmen were prompt to regain a suitable business basis for their opera- tions. But in this line, as in many others, the regaining of such a basis did not necessarily mean a_ very radical change in the schedule of values, for other causes had operated to change the Situation, and in many lines of trade in which there are now the greatest activity and prosperity for all concerned there has been’ scarcely any advance in prices. Ionia House From this it may be suggested that the reason for the warden’s discontent and discouragement may be the result of other causes—that for some reason he has possibly failed to meet changing conditions of manufacture and so is left behind in the industrial race. The fact of lessened values during the de- pression, instead of hindering the ad- vance of inventive improvement, oper- ated to accelerate it by supplying the spur of necessity. Take the iron and steel trades, for instance. ‘Those years marked so great a revolution in appar- atus and methods of production that the resumption of the greatest activity ever known is characterized by a less- ening of prices, which enables this country to compete in the markets of the world to a degree far beyond the most sanguine expectation, and that without creating dissatisfaction on the part of the wage earners. To a certain extent the same causes MICHIGAN TRADESMAN have operated to affect the situation in other lines, including that of furniture; and, unfortunately for the continued prosperity of prison industries, which -involve various mechanical appliances and processes, the management is not so situated as to keep in a_ sufficiently advanced position in the march of im- provement, and those among prison wardens who find themselves hopelessly in the rear are prone to attribute to the undue competition of free labor that which is owing to their own limitations as intruders in the industrial army. The deplorable situation in the Ionia prison factory is the natural result of the establishment of a prison industry requiring an extensive and varied me- chanical plant. Every private manu- facturer knows that one of the greatest causes of deterioration of his mechani- cal outfit is the changing of styles caused by improvement. Thus from year to year machines are losing their effic- lency, because newer patterns are doing more and better work, and in many cases are supplanting the older so that they are thrown aside entirely. In carrying on such an enterprise in a prison it is impossible for the manage- ment to meet these changing conditions. The investment in plant of such enter- prises means the greater waste of the state funds, in that they soon become obsolete and worthless. The extent to which this is the case is in proportion to the variety in the machines and proc- esses. On this account this class of en- terprises in prisons are transient in their prosperity and soon cease to be dis- turbing factors in the general industrial field. But, unfortunately, there are some lines of work involving the use of a single machine or process which are not subject to such limitations, and these are constant and serious disturbers in the industries concerned. Thus for many years the manufacture of cheap chairs has been made almost impossible to free labor on account of this intru- sion, and so in varying degree witha long list of other manufactures. It is unfortunate for the interests of free labor that, while the management of lonia seems to fail to grasp the sad difficulty with the furniture industry, it is changing to those lines in which the prospects of success are more favorable. The warden, in his anxiety to keep the good will of the labor element, pro- tests that the new shirt contract does not come into competition with free labor; but his explanation that they are sold where there has been no market is hardly sufficient. Free enterprise is probably as successful in finding markets as prison wardens, and, whatever may be the temporary conditions, the manu- facture of shirts in the Ionia prison will result, if continued, in serious competi- tion with the free industry outside. AVERSION TO SANITATION. It is singular, but nevertheless true, that people resent all attempts at en- forcing upon them sanitary measures. This appears to be a trait inherent in human nature, and no amount of civili- zation or education has been entirely able to eradicate it. This reflection is provoked by the account of the riots which took place, a few days ago, in Bombay, in which numbers of people were killed and wounded. The trouble in Bombay grew out of the efforts of the authorities to sanitate the plague-infected quarter of the city. The people keenly resented the interfer- ence with their habits and privacy re- sulting trom house-to-house inspections and the disinfecting processes. They attacked the doctors engaged in hos- pital work and killed one of them. They also attacked the soldiers engaged in the Sanitary Corps and stoned three to death. So serious was the riot that a large detacument of troops had to be called out to suppress the mobs, and the people had to be fired on, and some were kilied. This Bombay riot is but a_ repetition of the scenes which were enacted in various parts of India some years ago, when the plague assumed serious pro- portions. The semi-civilized Hindoos and Mohammedans resented keenly the action of the authorities in sanitating their homes and of persuasion or explanation sufficed to reconcile them to the measure which it was thought necessary to adopt to check the disease. This same opposition to sanitation is witnessed, although, of course, in a smaller degree, at every place where a serious infectious or contagious disease develops. People in even the most en- lightened communities will revolt at any interference with their domestic arrangements or any close house-to- house supervision. Human nature re- bels at sanitary methods from the very cradle, as all fond parents have doubt- less discovered, and on this point, un- fortunately, men do not appear to im- prove with age. No doubt human _ na- ture will never change in this respect ; but, for all that, rebellious humanity must be disciplined in its own interest. It is this plan that the British are pur- suing in India. interruptedly in spite of the riots, and, | when persuasion fails, force without scruple. It the English soldiers that they keep up | | have the work of cleansing and disinfecting the homes of the ignorant natives of the plague-stricken districts despite disinfecting the} lague-stricken quarter, and no amount | i ee ee ee et | trophes in the modern lofty structures in Sanitation goes on un- | is used | | be. is to the credit of | | gineers are equal to all demands in the | 9 danger of contagion and the imminent risk of serious injury or death at the hands of infuriated fanatics. DEADLY FIRE ‘TRAPS. The terrible conflagration which oc- curred in Chicago last week, during working hours, when many persons lost their lives by inability to escape from the building, is another one of the ob- ject lessons which teach that a most rad- ical reform is needed in the construc- tion of the lofty buildings that are in vogue to-day. These buildings, supposed to be _fire- proof, are commonly furnished with ex- tremely limited stairway facilities. The height of such structures makes the climbing of stairways extremely la- borious, and therefore most attention is given to supplying elevators, while even for a large building a single stairway is all that is provided. This was the case with the structure which burned in Chicago. It was used for business purposes, and hundreds of people were employed in it. While they were all at work the house was found to be on fire. The elevator became un- manageable, the stairway was impassable, and many were unabie to get out. Those who jumped from the windows were either killed outright by the fall or were badly bruised and maimed, while others were burned to death in the building. There have been single other such catas- the past few years, and they furnish les- sons that ought to impress themselves in the most forcible way upon the ar- chitects and engineers who make the plans for such buildings. They should remember that a house which, when empty, may be perfectly fireproof, can, when filled with combustible merchan- dise, become a veritable furnace, gen- erating such heat as to burst the outer and partition walls. The fact that such a building is con- structed of fireproof material induces neglect of provisions for the escape of the inmates in case of fire, or, at least, an undue economy in the amount of space given to stairways. The facilities and conveniences afforded by the ele- vators for the rapid transportation of persons and merchandise have caused the general use of the upper floors for factories and warehouses, where large numbers of employes are engaged. The benefits arising from the use of | lofty buildings should not have charged against them increased risks to the lives of the employes. These dangers |can be provided for, and they ought to Certainly the architects and en- premises. Indeed, the dangers that been »mphasized by horrors like that at Chicago demand the immediate attention of constructors and planners the | of buildings. EVERY MAN LIKES “MR. THOMAS” The Best Nickel Cigar in the State. F. E. Bushman, Representative, Kalamazoo, Mich. APR OP OR EEN, A EAT et Oa lO Clerks’ Corner. From Counter to College. Written for the TRADESMAN. Things have been winding up with a bang, as it were. Will Morris has concluded that the world is hollow; that friendship is only a name, and an empty one at that, and that life is made up of strenuous efforts to get something for nothing, by fair means or foul, out of .the .world at large, and especially out of your friends, if you can find any- body who wants to sustain that doubtful relation to you. For some reason, which I do not think it needful to give, there are two clerks in the Bostwick establishment who have concluded that Will Morris is suffering acutely from a sudden and violent en- largment of the hat-band. His sudden rise in the opinion of *‘the old man’’ is too much for him; and, because he lives there, he has begun to think him- self an essential part of the establish- ment and is getting to be too high and mighty to endure. ‘‘Ye’d think, to see ‘im going ‘round with one of the old man's cigars stuck into his mouth, that he’d earned it; and to hear one of his condescending ‘Hellos’ nowdays fairly lifts your hair. Strange, folks can’t have a little prosperity without its mak- ing a fool of ’em, ain’t it?’’ This last condition of things is due, doubtless, to a certain conclusion which Mr. and Mrs. Bostwick have reached in regard to Will. Mr. Bostwick has been having a warm spot in his heart for the boy for a good while and long ago would have done something hand- some for him if Will had been willing to give now and then a glimpse of the good that was in him. Mrs. Bostwick, on general—female—principles, didn’t take kindly to Will at first. A woman seems to go on the principle, in such matters, that her husband’s friends are drawn to him by the bad that is in him —similia similibus—as she was drawn to him and clings to him for the good that she only can see in him! So, when Bostwick came home with only praises for the boy, at once she scented mis- chief, not afar off, and proceeded to hate the youngster with all her might and main. When, however, she became convinced that her prejudice had run away with her judgment—is that an- other womanly characteristic?—the door of her affection swung open with a bang and Will was taken in without farther question and his fate fixed. Even then it is doubtful whether the future would have become so suddenly bright had he not turned the tables on his employer by showing him that if the one could take pleasure in playing the part of ‘‘a parent,’’ the other could extract some few drops of enjoyment in going through “‘the son racket.’’ I know from what Bostwick said to me _ that the clever turning of the tables is what brought him to his sudden decision; and I know, too—and so do the rest of Mrs. Kostwick'’s friends by this time—that the moment Bostwick, at the request of Will, gave up his pipe, long the de- testation of his worthy wife, there wasn't anything in this world too good tor him, and certainly nothing she wouldn’t do for him. When, then, it became known that the clerk had made up his mind to be an educated man first, and a tradesman afterwards, unless in the meantime something better should beckon to him, there was no halfway work about tbe result. They made up their minds what * they were going to do—if the boy would let them. I was asked to come over and offer any suggestions which seemed good to me, and when I| came away this was the program: From now to the first of September there is to be a general getting ready for a first-class prepara- tory school in the East. The West is well enough in certain lines of life, but in mental training ‘‘the old familiar places’’ are the better. This shall bea matter of choice with the boy. Then, if he wants a college course, he is to have it; aud then, if he wants to go in- to business, there is to be a place for him right here with Mr. Bostwick ; or, if be wants a profession and shows apt- ness for it, he shall have that! It took us old heads far into the night | 35 to fix things just as it seemed for the best; and tke chief anxiety now is whether Will will carry out the present arrangement, or, young-fellow-like, think it best to make out one for him- self. I couldn't help thinking, as 1 walked slowly home in the starlight that night, how strange it was for all these things} S84 to have taken place as they have. It reads more like a bit of fiction than it does like anything real. I might have tried from week to week to ‘‘make up’’ what has taken place, but I am glad now that I didn't ‘‘toucb up’’ certain parts of these incidents, as I freely ad- mit I was strongly tempted to do. Still, who could have guessed that my drop- ping in to see the boy that night when Mr. Bostwick ‘‘went for’’ him so sav- agely should have led to such results ; and who could have believed that so much could have centered in a chance meeting as did in that one at the cor- ner of the street when Will and I found ourselves wheeling side by side that summer morning to and from the park. Well, after all, boys, you have this to think of, as I have in watching what has been here recorded, that everyday life is full of just such things, and that our lives, could they be watched and followed, would show matters just as far-reaching and just as important as what has been written of Will Morris. There is no doubt about it; it is the lit- tle everyday affairs, the likes and the dislikes, the quarrels and the make-ups, that settle the life-questions fur us; and as we, like Will Morris, look at these questions to-day squarely and answer them wisely, so we settle for ourselves the to-morrow and all that the to-mor- row holds. It isn’t of any use to tell me that every fellow doesn’t run into such ‘‘a snap’’ as Morris has. I know what I'm talking about, and I say that it may not be in that particular form, but in some shape it comes to every clerk, as to everyone in any other vo- cation, when he himself decides the question of his own advancement. As he decides so he suffers or rejoices. Morris has proved it, others have proved it; and every one of you boys knows already, in that private corner of his heart where he is true to himself, that the statement is true—a bit of wisdom for which there is no extra charge. I do not know as it is worth stating ; but, if any of you fellows remember a certain Sid. Benton who clerked it for Cy Huxley at Militown until he went away to school, it may please you to know that Morris has decided to go to that same school ; and, with two such good fellows together, we shall probably hear from them later, RICHARD MALCOLM STRONG. a Most men are ready and willing to die for their country—of old age. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN ew RR GRE THE BEST FLOUR in the world is PILLSBURY’S BEST = M4 REE BY x See ay (< xz ry &; 28 Vy eh A HEDV. 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EEO RE SCE RIO 1a SS. halk ite 2 ‘em ee ese : * = ‘i ae = aes © aS vaee im xt EGR: MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Small Towns and Railways. Written for the TRADESMAN. The idea largely obtains that no town can be considered prosperous while lacking railway conveniences, and so there are few such towns which are not hoping and striving for the attainment of this requisite to substantial and _per- manent growth. In some cases the real- ization of this ambition inaugurates the era of development hoped for, while in many others it proves a sad disappoint- ment. The question whether a railway will prove the blessing anticipated usu- ally depends upon the character of the tributary trade and upon whether the railway will not serve the unexpected purpose of diverting more trade to some large center made accessible than it brings, and so make the small town tributary to its more fortunate neighbor. The subject of the relation of the rail- way to the small town is an interesting one. In the early days, as the railways came to feel their greatness and impor- tance the disposition was manifested to afford little consideration for the con- venience of any except as it accorded with their regular routine. The writer recalls an incident in the recollection of his early boyhood which may _ illustrate this characteristic. The New York & Erie had recently been opened through the southwestern counties of the Empire State and the road was run as though most of the region belonged to it. It happened at one of the stations, the hamlet of Baker’s Bridge, that the stream through the town had carried away the bridge which gave it its name and a new one was in process of build- ing. Mr. Lewis, the contractor, was engaged in transporting, by the aid of half a dozen ox teams and a consider- able force of men, one of the largest forest trees found in the locality, to serve as a ‘‘stringer’’ for the new struc- ture, when he found his way blocked by a freight train which had taken the ‘blind siding’’ to wait for the passen- ger. The polite request that the train be cut and the way opened met a curt refusal, and its urging only provoked jeers and ridicule, while the relative positions were maintained until the ar- rival of the expected train a quarter of an hour later. Then the freight backed to take its place on the main track and as soon as the way was clear the bridge builders, with the usual vociferation of ox driving, resumed their journey. As the timber had reached half its length across the track Mr. Lewis stopped his teams and awaited the per- emptory request that he should clear the way. With the nasal twang for which he was noted, he replied,‘* Walk right up and bunt it—I'll risk the tree;’’ and the occasional repetition of this obser- vation was the only response to the most energetic expostulations and threaten- ings which followed. He remained quietly sitting upon the object of inter- est until he thought the reckoning about settled, when the cavalcade resumed its way and the belated train was soon speeding to make up its lost time. But it was not long before the devel- opment of the new systems of transpor- tation brought the need of a remedy for such arrogance to the attention of the legislatures and laws were’enacted reg- ulating the behavior on both sides. But in spite of these there have always been abuses in some localities, and many towns, while acknowledging the need of the railway, accept it as an unpleas- ant, although necessary, evil. Recent tendencies in the centraliza- tion of trade in the larger towns have served to lessen the value of the rail- way to the smaller towns still more, and to increase the evil to others by the lessening to the utmost limit of the service and by indifference and antag- onisms. It is natural that through trade and the trade of the more im- portant towns should receive the more attention and in accordance with this tendency the service in the smaller ones is reduced to the utmost limit compat- ible with maintaining charters. One train each way per day and the most irregular and uncertain freight service is grudgingly accorded, and even this is often an expense instead of profit. But, when there is added to thisa positive antagonism, the town in ques- tion is doomed to suffer. Such antago- nisms are often the result of some dis- agreement as to the observance of mu- nicipal regulations, or the payment of local taxes, damage litigation, etc. The station on the Wabash railroad at Fairmount, Ill., is an illustration of the effects of such antagonism when carried to its length. In this case it is claimed by the railway people that many of the villagers testified against the company in a damage suit, which it lost, and so it sought to be revenged on the town. All service was reduced to the mini- mum. Telegraph wires were taken away from the station building and the doors and windows boarded up, as shown. One passenger train per weekday each way is all the service given and the agent faces the surly townsmen at his window only long enough to meet re- quirements. In the fight the town has tried to retaliate by stringent taxation, which the company refuses to pay. Then it will allow no wire fencing on the right of way, and the speed ordin- ance of ten miles per hour is rigidly en- forced. The corporation limits are widely extended and so train after train of the heavy traffic of this through line creeps slowly through the town; but, with the exception noted, none of them stop. The railway people assert that, if the fight continues, they will ruin the town; and it looks almost as though they were right. Trade is almost paralyzed and the shipments for the country around are taken to other points. Of course, when a town has its trade based upon a railway service the loss leaves it in much worse condition than if it never had a road. For the small town and the railway to be a mutual benefit, it behooves both, and especially the former, to show the utmost consideration in dealing with the questions involved. At the best the business of such towns is of relatively less value than the through business, and if one point does not ship fora given locality adjacent points will. The town then is the more susceptible to injury and care should be exercised that good judgment and conservatism shall control in dealing with the rela- tions to the less vulnerable corporation. ROSENSTEIN. + ~>-€ 2 The man who attends strictly to his own business has a good steady job. Honest Methods Pay. From the Dry Goods Economist. It is always safest and best to judge a finished work ; premature judgment is ever liable to error. An unscrupulous competitor may be filling the newspapers with ‘‘fairy tales,’’ and setting the town wild by questionable merchandising methods. Will he last? Are such to build a business upon? Dare you trust to such methods? Do you know of any merchant who was able to build up a large or perma- nent business by such methods? They don't wear well. The public sooner or later discovers all the bogus spots, and then great is the fall of unjust, unscrupulous compe- tition. It cannot be denied that such compe- tition hurts legitimate business for a while kut in the end strengthens the honest dealer. The fly by-night It merchant caused much uneasiness a few years ago, but} we hear little or nothing of such com- petition now. It has virtually ceased to exist. It killed itself. Honest merchants sometimes fail, but don't think that honesty had all to do with it. Honesty will not cover other business sins and shortcomings. —~~> 2. - Origin of the Word Trust. In 1882 the directors and controllers of a large number of corporations in- terested in the production, refining, and carrying of coal oi] made an agreement by which they placed their stock in those corporations in the hands of nine persons as trustees, who thus obtained complete control of these corporations. This is the first recorded instance of a commercial trust; as it was precisely like an ordinary equitable trust, it re- ceived the name of trust. Other trusts have been formed on similar lines; so the name has come into common use. methods good foundations | Association Matters Michigan Retail Grocers’ Association President, J. WisLER, Mancelona; Secretary, E A. Stowg, Grand Rapids; Treasurer, J. F TATMAN, Clare. Michigan Hardware Association President, Cuas. F. Bock, Battle Creek: Vice President, H. W. WrenBer, West Bay City; Treasurer, Henry C. MINNIE, Eaton Rapids. Detroit Retail Grocers’ Association President, JoserpH Knieut; Secretary. E. Marks, 221 Greenwood ave; Treasurer,C.H FRnk. Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association President, Frank J. Dyk; Secretary, Homer Kuap; Treasurer, J. GEo. LEHMAN. Saginaw Mercantile Association President, P. F. TREANOR; Vice-President. Joun McBRaTNIE; Secretary, W. H. Lewis; Treas urer, LoulE SCHWERMER Jackson Retail Grocers’ Association President, Gzo. E. Lewis; Secretary, W. H. Por TER; Treasurer, L. PELTON. Lansing Retail Grocers’ Association President, F. B. Jounson; Secretary, A. M DaR.ine: Treasurer, L. A. GILKEY. Adrian Retail Grocers’ Association President, A. C. CLark; Secretary, E. F. CLeve LaNvD: Treasurer, Wm. C. KorHn. Traverse City Business Men’s Association President, Tuos. T. Batrss; Secretary, M. B Hotty; Treasurer, C. A. HAMMOND. Owosso Business Men’s Association President, A. D. WHIPPLE; Secretary, G. T. Camp BELL; Treasurer, W. E. CoLuins. Alpena Business Men’s Association President, F. W. Gitcurist; Secretary, C L PARTRIDGE. Grand Rapids Retail Meat Dealers’ Association President, L. J. Katz; Secretary, Pyiuip HILBER Treasurer, S. J. HUFFORD. St. Johns Business Men’s Association. President, Taos. Bromuiey; Secretary, Frank A. PERcy; Treasurer, CLARK A. PUTT. Dorible rs < sert... The grocer sells salt to the buttermaker and buys it back in butter. ‘The butter he buys. the be bettered by being salted with “7he salt that’s all salt.” better the salt he sells, the better will be the No butter so good, none so poor, that it won’t Let the grocer sell Diamond Crystal Salt and butter that’s salted it, and butter user. with he will please both the buttermaker and the 20 cents’ worth of Diamond Crystal Butter Salt will salt about 224 pounds of butter. Greater facilities—the result of greater sales—have resulted in lowering the price of DIAMOND CRYSTAL BUTTER SALT Old Price List. BARRELS, 250 ths. Balk. 0.02 t .. $2 50 20 14-lb. Bags 3 00 SACKS, 16 Ibs... SoFDs.o.. . as ae New Price List. BAgwWers, 260 Ibs. Bolk....:...... ....2 st oo 14-W. Eos.............. 2 Sacks, 28 Ibs Mb Mm tb nn go lbs. (irish Ianen)....0...... 7 gatos, ig) During the Spring 25 Sample Bags of Butter Salt will be packed in each barrel of twenty fourteens. Send us your name and address if you would know more about salt. DIAMOND CRYSTAL SALT CO., St. Clair, Mich. 4 } 3, $ Pe A Sbotiys wie meig Pag pa fay |2 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Shoes and Leather Why Some Shoe Dealers Fail To Suc- ceed. I saw a lot of shoes the other day that were made by a well-known maker and the stock was cut from the now-long-for- gotten French kid. They cost the re- tailer $3.85 a pair and he owned up to the fact that the goods were just ten years old and he now offers them at 35 certs a pair. Here is a_ shrinkage in merchandise values that cannot be dis- counted by any deal in the country. It will be noticed that the price is not even io cents on the dollar. Now I want to ask what would have been the result if this retailer had sold these goods nine years ago at $3 a pair or 85 cents a pair less than cost? One thing is absolutely certain and that is that he would not have had to pay insurance, storage room and clerk hire to care for them for the last nine years, and as the interest on $3 for ten years at 7 per cent., without compounding it, would amount to $2.10, the loss apparent on this method of doing a shoe business is so plain that it seems to mea child wotld see it. In figuring out the mere interest charges, I am only discussing one portion of the loss. If that retailer had had the use of that $3 every season for the past nine years, he would have been able to make on it at least twenty-five per cent. each season, or every six months, which is a modest way of tig- uring the thing on the basis that a man turns his stock only twice a year, which all retailers will admit is decidedly slow in the year 1898. On this basis, what do we have? We have fifty per cent. a year profit lost through the lack of the use of the $3 which in ten years would amount to $15, adding to which we have the interest at 7 per cent., $2 10, making a total of $17.10 which it has cost this man a pair to carry these goods, and the gain in the end to him is seen in the selling of the goods at less than ten cents on the dollar. I see these things frequently in the shoe business and am more than sur- prised that they exist. There is no man in the shoe business to-day, no matter who he is, where he is or how much business he is doing, that can do busi- ness on this basis and expect to keep out of the sheriff's hands. I have talked this thing before to retailers in these columns, | have given them plain fig- ures which show a frightful loss to them in actual doilars and cents, and I hope that any retailer who reads this and finds himself in this pusition will make a move without delay to convert any goods of this kind into cash at what he can get, so that he may have the use of the money in his business. STANLEY STANTON. a ee Good Advice and Its Results. From the Wichita Eagle. A Wichita traveling man about a year ago was asked by a clerk in a shoe store to get him a job traveling. The young man was told to write in to the ‘house. *’ He did and the proprietor asked the traveling man about the young fellow and was told that he might make a good man. The house told the young man to begin. The young man came to the old traveling salesman and asked him how he should begin and received this advice: ‘‘Know nothing but shoes. Talk nothing but shoes. Never go into a store without having your pockets full of shoes. Take an old boot and carry it under your arm. Set it up on the ‘wash-stand and when you go to bed fall asleep studying that boot. Look at the boot the minute you wake up in the morning. When you go into a store never ask a merchant if he will buy. Never induce him to say ‘No’ at the start. Show him your goods and talk shoes.’’ Well, the young fellow started out. Pretty soon a friend of the old traveling man said: ‘‘Your house has got the biggest knock-kneed idiot on the road that ever struck the state. Why, the darn fool lugs an old boot around with him and you can’t get anything but shoes out of him. He is a ninety- eight chainless idiot, that fellow 1s. Why don’t you get the house to call him in.’’ Butat the end of the first year the young man’s work was sized up by _ the house and they wanted to give hima banquet. He had not only earned his salary but $2,200 in commissions in ad- dition. : ——___> 2.>—___ Minor Shoe Notes. J. G. Triberg, retailer, Buffalo, Minn., is reported to have applied for a patent on a birch bark sole for shoes for which is claimed wear equal to cork or leather. It is said that the loss through the branding of cattle in South Australia amounts to about $1,500,000 a year. With this staring them in the face, it seems remarkable that some _ other method less expensive should not be employed to indicate ownership. Two ingenious shoemakers of Collogne have invented a ventilated shoe. By means of a bellows and a _ spring, situ- ated between the heel and sole, and working when the foot is raised, streams of fresh air are sent through holes in the inner sole to every part of the foot. Some years ago a mechanical genius of Waterville, Me., invented a machine simplifying the manufacture of shoes A New England shoe manufacturing company purchased his invention, pay- ing him $100,000 and agreed to pay him $2,500 every year of his life providing he would do nothing. He accepted the proposition. The object of the shoe manufacturers in buying his time was to prevent him from inventing some other machine that would be_ better than the one bought by them and which he might sell to a competing firm. We are drifting again toward the soft toe, without any box, for men’s wear, another step in the direction of the plain French toe. ——___—~> 2. Good Things Said by Up-to-Date Shoe Dealers. Sincerity pays. Your confidence in the ‘‘Old Corner’’ was gained by in- tegrity and business wit together. We truly give you makers’ prices. Otbers claim to; but—do they?—P. J. Halla- han, Phila. Saving half as much as you spend is pleasant, surely. Well, a chance for it—and ten cents more than half as much, which seems to stand for carfare —$4 shoes at $2.60. We could put them with the other $4 shoes and make the profit we now share. But we saved the difference by plauting orders when the business world was barest. It was good the fame of this greatest retail shoe store keeps spreading.—John Wana- maker, Phila. War seems imminent and it is just as well that we all prepare for it while we have opportunity. The head of this house is now ‘‘diving’’ into the depths of the great shoe centers of the East. Upon his discoveries depends our fu- ture conduct. If we find that the shoe business of our competitors has been ‘blown-up’’—as we stiongly suspect— from ‘“‘within’’ there wll be war. Everybody has been claiming to sell the best footwear at the lowest prices. Some one is wrong. We are anxious that the public should know the truth, and to that end we hereby appoint the public as a board of enquiry to investigate in- to these many claims. Upon their judgment we rest our case.—Johnson’s Shoe Palace, Altoona, Pa. —___$_~»2.—___— If you will look at the records you will discover that most men who die young are hustlers. buying. This is good selling. And XG uy = es Ze wy at Zw NNN = Manufacturers we . And Jobbers of al wg ae ZZ a wg a Pes] ar eA ww LF NADH NUD RAD AUD AND NUD ANU IE NUD JENNI NUD JE NUD END) NAD Je NUD IEA NUDD}E NNDD)E| ANDI) NUD): AD}: AND): Aly ZU Rindge, Kalmbach, Logie & Co. 3 Z Ee Successors to ws Bi Rindge, Kalmbach & Co., BOOTS AND SHOES Ast Our Spring Lines are Complete. Your Business Solicited. “ae AC Ae Ae AC ACR; TAC Q, 2; cq N wig NENGNENNE . q GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. PANNE wg . "7; wv & We carry it in Oil Grain, Bengal or Kangaroo Calf Buy ours and Increase your Business Herold=-Bertsch Shoe Co., 5 and 7 Pearl St. s | | NONE BETTER $ FUE PPG VV EF VUE VV be be bn by by by bn bp bp bp be tp bn be be be tn be br he hn le i bn hn ha hn hn Canaan PPPPRAPPPIPPPRPPPPRIAPIILRPIPIPPIELPAEPPPR APPL LP WS Store Cleaning Send for our ) Is as essential as House Cleaning. calalogue of } Settees and Shoe Stools Gr S —w Hirth, Krause & Co., and Rapids. ~~ ~~ MICHIGAN TRADESMAN I3 Remarkable Career of the Truthful Drummer. M. Quad in American Druggist. I bappened to be in the wholesale house of Brush & Co., druggists’ sun- dries, when Truthful James Ross ap- plied for a position as traveler. I liked the looks of him. He was frank-faced, had an honest eye, and his smile was magnetic. Mr. Brusb also liked his appearance. Mr. Ross was modest and retiring, but not too much so. In reply to certain questions he said: ‘‘T am Truthful James Ross. I am called Truthful because I cannot tell a lie. I will go on the road with your goods, tell the truth under all circum- stances, and if I cannot do 50 per cent. more business than the liars I will glad- ly resign.’’ Mr. Brush had never met with a truthful drummer before, and although a little doubtful as to the experiment he agreed to give Truthful James a show. In a few days the young man was ready to start out, and- trom one source and another I have gleaned his adventures as a drummer. He was given a route which extended as far west as Toledo, but his first objective point was Buffalo. The train which bore him and his sam- ple cases had scarcely rolled out of the Central depot when ‘Truthful James opened his career of virtue and integ- rity. He discovered that his fellow- passenger was a man who loved the truth above all else, and he gave it to him at wholesale rates. He was the ‘*Co.’’ of Brush & Co. He had put in a million dollars against Mr. Brush’s experience and certain discoveries. He was making a trip in order to havea personal talk with druggists. One of the discoveries was an ointment which would grow hair on a bald head in two weeks, There was a case of it right before the man’s eyes. The luxuriant growth of hair on Mr. Ross’ head had all grown in seventeen days. Another discovery was a disinfectant, so cheap and yet so powerful that for the trifling sum of three-quarters of a cent the air surrounding half a dozen dead horses could be made to smell like a field of roses. A third one would warm up cold feet or cool off hot ones, just as de- sired, and a fourth was a_ troche war- ranted to destroy the germs of consump- tion within two hours. When Syracuse was reached the stranger grasped Mr. Ross’ hand in a hearty way and said: ‘*You are well named Truthful James. I had given up all hopes of finding a truthful man in this world, and I can’t tell you how rejoiced I am. Keep on in the way you have begun and your re- ward will be certain and great.’’ Mr. Ross was encouraged to_ per- severe. At Buffalo he discovered that his figures on toothbrushes were Io per cent. above those of rival houses. He was not ready to meet the cut, but he was ready with a reason why he could not. Every separate bristle in his toothbrushes had been picked up by itself with a pair of tweezers and dropped into a glass of solution and de- odorized, disinfected and rendered per- fectly harmless to the human system be- fore being secured to the handle. There } were no germs, bacteria or microbes ly- ing in ambush in his brushes, and he must have his price. Rival houses had been cutting the price of soaps, but Truthful James was not in the cut. His house had its own - factory. It was not situated in the midst of a marsh, where every cake of soap imbibed a certain amount of malaria, nor did it make use of the fat of cats, dogs, coons, possums and polecats. His factory was built on a hilltop kissed by the rising sun and braced by the ozone of the Atlantic. The fat used was all taken from gazelles, raised on the firm’s own ranches in Montana, and every cake was submitted to a pressure of 100 pounds to the square inch before being sent forth into the world. Crowned heads used it, and every American aris- tecrat cried for it. Truthful James went over his route speaking the truth on all occasions and never forgetting that integrity is the stepping stone to success, and although he didn’t do so wel! as he hoped for, he laid the foundations of his career on a sure and certain basis. Very few of the retail druggists had ever met with a truthful drummer. They were in- clined to believe that Truthful James was no better than the rest. Some even did not hesitate to call him a prevari- cator, and at the western terminus of his route he was thrown out of a drug store, body and boots, tor what was thought to be cheek, but he was not discouraged. On his second trip he found things better, and on his third he was welcomed as an old friend and found orders al! made out for him in advance. I have treasured up some of the truths told by Truthful James dur- ing his career as a traveler, and will give them here as an incentive to be- ginners of a career: He claimed that the hot-water bags sold by his house had cured bundreds of cases of enlarged liver, even when only applied to the feet of a patient. His porous plasters had drawn needles and pins out of patients without caus- ing the slightest pain, and thereby re- moved chronic ailments. His firm always kept at least 1,000 cords of Peruvian bark on hand in their sheds, and their quinine was ground fresh to order. The grinding mills were kept open until 10 o’clock Saturday evenings to fill Sunday orders. His chest-protectors were not made in sweat-shops and out of material taken from the rag-bag, but by Quaker- esses, each of whom took a cold bath every morning, and of material manu- factured expressly for the purpose in an exclusive factory owned by a religious woman. Every nursing-bottle sent out by his house was first inspected by three emi- nent physicians as a sanitary precau- tion, and then by a committee from the Comstock Society, to see that nothing affecting the morality of the infants of America should break loose. His firm raised its own sponges, on its own ocean bed, and from seed care- fully selected two years in advance. The mora! character of each and every one was carefully looked after from _ its birth, and no druggist need fear to handle these goods. The above are only a few specimens of the handiwork of Truthful James. He hadn't fairly got started when the end came. That is, he got a better thing and quit the road. The manager of a truthful New York daily newspaper heard of Mr. Ross and his strict integ- rity, and, arranging for an interview, he said: ‘*T want a correspondent to go to Cuba —one who will tell the truth although the heavens fall. The salary will be $200 per week. Will you take the place?’ ‘*Won’t I have to lie at all?’’ asked Truthful James. TiNot a fie." ‘‘Nor even exaggerate?’’ ‘*Not in the slightest. I want plain facts, without the slightest gloss. I could have got a liar for $100 per week, but I am after a truthful man.’’ Mr. Ross took the position and sailed away, and I am happy to announce that he has made a great success of it. In his very first dispatch he was two months ahead of all rival newspapers in announcing war. He has interviewed a dozen different men whom nobody ever heard of ; located submarine mines all by himself; unearthed conspiracies by the aid of the kodak and ear-trump- et, and originated some fifty different theories regarding fifty different things. His jealous rivals sneer at bim and talk about fakes, but Truthful James goes his way undisturbed and serene, and only yesterday telegraphed the fact that thus far he was the only newspaper cor- respondent who had been permitted .to interview the street car drivers of Havana and learn that the battle-ship Maine was blown up by the explosion of a kerosene lamp. —__+>2.—__—_ Window Trims in Small Towns. From the Shoe and Leather Gazette. The shoe dealer in the small town which only boasts of weekly newspapers bas really more need of paying strict and careful attention to the matter of window displays than the larger said | more pretentious towns and even, per- | haps, the large cities. This remark was made by ashoe man | this week, and furnishes much food for reflection, especially as it is opposed to the views on the subject apparently held | by many. | Taking the stand that the dealer in the small town has just as much need to advertise his wares as those in the larger marts of trade, it becomes clear | that he is under obligations to himself to develop such facilities as he pos- sesses to give publicity to his goods, to the point where results will be as great proportionately as in places where the advertising resources are more varied. | No town liveth unto itself. The deal- | ers in it come in competition with those | of the larger towns and cities. People may be attracted by the more aggressive advertising of the merchants in the larger places to buy their merchandise there, although the dealers at home may be able to satisfy their wants just as| well, i | The dealer who can not appeal to his | local public daily through ye medium We have e 8 of the press, but must depend on week- : ly doses through that medium, has in AN : + , his windows a means of making up the AN A line of Men s and W su deficiency to a great extent. a men’s Medium Priced He should, therefore, use all the!) @ Shoes that are Money means at his command to show his Winners. The most of = the best possible advantage in them sold at Bill Price. is windows, changing his displays as| ‘ : i often as possible, showing the new We are still making the goods he gets in with the greatest prom- Men’s Heavy Shoes in iInence and calling attention to the styles | Oil Grain and Satin; also ce apeta ag attractive descriptive | carry Snedicor & Hatha- He should seize every opportunity to _ sel Shoes at I << make special offerings, net waiting for Pricein Men’s, Boys’ and the weekly paper, but announcing them Youths’. Lycoming and Keystone Rubbers are the in his windows. By these methods he will pr the | c ~ a segrerny produce the best. See our Salesmen or send mail orders. impression on the people of his town} that he is in touch with the new things} in the trade and is just as able to give| them price advantages as the more | “iE. H. REEDER « CO., metropolitan dealers. | 19 S. lonia St., Grand Rapids, Mich. Creek, Micl i € ¥ Wt Ty + Chis is our $6 Gibr alt ar” rine = Solid as a Rocke Our prices on shoes are lower, with the Quality Better than ever. Please note the following: $1.00 ees TASS ’ Men’s plump, first quality, Satin Oil, Coin Toe Tip, } No. 45.- Sole Leather Counter, Solid Inner Sole, Solid Out | Sole and Slip Sole, Fair Stitch, Bals, 6 wide, \ No. 46. Same Shoe, Plain Globe Toe, Bals, $1. No. 47. Same Shoe, Plain Globe Toe, Congress, $1. Send by number for a sample case of each of a e. You cannot do without them, < are the best shoe in the country for $1.00. P.S. We » goods it l advance, and our trade shall have the benefit as long as they Michigan Shoe Company, 7°" setwit, wenigan | YY eH ys 4 30.202 .02 roe aS DETROIT FLEXIBLE DOOR MATS STANDARD SIZES 16x24in. 20x370in. 24% 36 in. hah eb ee a Ly ¥ Retail for $1.00 upwards. At Le Any dimension to order. Made of Flat Wire. The Latest and Best. Supplied by Foster, Stevens & Co. Write for prices. Nh ys pe Tea ue MM SNA “he EB Ez, Fob ¢ nt and the mfrs. RS 5 THE DETROIT SAFE COMPANY, hones 67-85 East Fort Street, Detroit, Mich. BSELELESELESESESEESSESSSELELELEELESELSLE SELES LESS LEE 2 LOOMIS ® GASSENMEIER... is + MANUFACTURERS OF s € ‘ , : SHOW CASES : < For all kinds of goods. Secondhand show cases * ; on hand and eychanged. a ' = 612 Michigan Avenue, East = Lansing, Michigan %@ Resessssssseseess FFSFSFFSSFSS FS SS SSS PSI SS FF TS ISS HS 14 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Fruits and Produce. How Bananas Are Grown in Costa Rica. Although bananas are raised to some extent in Southern Florida, the cultiva- tion of the fruit is an industry which can not grow to any importance in this country, owing to the unsuitability of the climate. Consequently few Amer- icans are familiar with the methods of banana growers in running their plan- tations, and have little idea of the cap- ital which must be invested or the profits which can be derived from the business. A man who has just returned to this city from an extended trip through parts of Central America had, while in that country, excellent opportunities to be- come acquainted with the banana in- dustry, especially as it is carried on in Costa Rica, the southernmost of the Central American States. In his opin- ion it is the most lucrative pursuit of the State, which has been well known for many years for its older and more widespread industry of coffee-raising. ‘‘The cultivation of bananas,’’ he says, ‘‘was begun in Costa Rica about the year 1883, and is carried on almost entirely in the region along the Matina River, in the neighborhood back of Limon, on the East Coast. There are plenty of other districts where it would flourish as well, except for the lack of railroad facilities for transportation. The owners of the banana plantations are for the most part Costa Ricans and Eng- lishmen. They are making a great deal of money out of the business, and I think that if more Americans knew how little capital it takes and how large in proportion the profits are they would go down to Costa Rica and engage in it for themselves. As to the chances of success, I think there is "no question. Bananas are hardy, require very little attention, and there are no_ sudden changes of climate there to injure them. ‘Tt is this very matter of the climate, though, which constitutes the greatest drawback that I can see to the occupa- tion. In the banana region the weather the year around is not only hot, but so damp that it is like being in the inte- rior of a greenhouse all the time. The perspiration pours off one continually, which is naturally weakening to the sys- tem. There is a good deal of fever in the country, to which Northerners are particularly susceptible. But many of the banana-raisers arrange their affairs so that they can live in San Jose, the capital, and come down to the lowlands only about once a_ week to visit their plantations. You see, the nature of the country there is like this: San Jose is situated somewhat over one hundred miles from the Atlantic Coast, in a line about due west from Port Limon, and is on a tableland in the great mountain range which runs through the country in a northwesterly and southeasterly di- rection. This range is a part of the great Andes and Rocky Mountain chain. Tbe plateau in which San Jose lies is about six thousand feet above the sea, and mountains and volcanic peaks tower up another six thousand feet on the east and west sides of the plateau. The climate of this tableland is tem- perate and delightful, so that the city is finely situated. A railroad, owned by an English syndicate, runs from Port Limon to San Jose. The banana re- gion begins at the coast and extends for about forty miles back toward the mountains, which leaves a distance of over sixty miles to be traversed by the planter who lives in the capital and pays visits to his banana field in the low country. The chief banana region up to the present time is along the course of the Matina River and some of its tributary streams, nowhere’ very far from the railroad. These rivers fre- quently overflow their banks, fed as they are from many mountain streams, and in doing so they make the surrounding land extremely fertile. ‘‘All the work on the plantations is done by Jamaica negroes, who work by contract. That is, a foreman or super- intendent will agree to run a plantation for a certain sum per manzana—a man- zana is equal to one and _ three-quarters acres. The usual terms, per manzana, are $40 a year in gold, or its equivalent of one hundred Costa Rican silver dol- lars. The hot, moist climate does not seem to affect the negroes at all, and they are probably, considering that fact, the best people for the work. It is true, though, that the most successful plan- tations, from a business point of view, are those which are most carefully watched by their white owners. It Is not well to place too great reliance up- on the Jamaica negroes, who, if left to themselves, are frequently lacking in both industry and strict honesty. ‘*A plantation is started in this way: The ground having been selected—a tract of forest land along some stream— the workmen proceed at once to set out the young banana plants, or ‘suckers,’ as they are called. Plenty of room is al- lowed them, one sucker being planted at each corner of a_ twenty-two-foot square. Not a particle of clearing is done to the ground before setting out the plants, only at the corners of the squares in the particular spots where the suckers are put the men dig holes and clear a little round space just big enough to give the plants, which are about a foot high, breathing room. The planting can be done at any season, so little change is there in the climate the year around. After the suckers are set out the negroes begin to do some gen- eral cutting; you can scarcely call it clearing. With their machetes—the knives which they use for every imag- inable purpose—they cut down the dense tropical growth of trees and vines and underbrush, leaving it just where it falls. If a big tree happens to land on top of a banana plant, that makes no difference. It does not kill the plant, as you would suppose; if the main stalk is crushed down a_ new sucker starts out from it, crawls round under the tree and starts its career afresh, quite undiscour- aged. ‘“‘As a peneral rule, although the quantity of the forest growth in that country is far more abundant than it is here in the North, it is lighter in its nature. There are few large hardwood trees, and the vegetation of palms and vines is more easily cut down than our forest trees would be, and decays more readily. As I said, it is left as it falls, and it soon begins to rot in the damp atmosphere. Instead of harming, it helps to fertilize the banana plants. ‘‘In thirteen or fourteen months the trees have gained their full growth and begin to bear fruit. After that time the ground around them is cleared four times a year. After the bearing period is once reached, bananas may be cut for shipment every week in the year. The trees grow to a height of ten to twelve feet. They look somewhat like palms, with their sheathlike trunks and spread- ing bunches of huge leaves at the top. WE ARE IN POSITION TO FILL YOUR OR- c DERS FOR FIELD SEEDS BOTH IN QUAL- ITY AND PRICE THAT SHOULD WARRANT YOU IN DEALING WITH US. MOSELEY BROS. 26-28-30-32 OTTAWA ST. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Jaalh Jobbers-Seed-Beans-Potatoes-Produce Will buy or handle on Commission HERMANN C. NAUMANN & CO., DETROIT. Main Office, 33 Woodbridge St. Branch Store, 353 Russell St., op. Eastern Market. BEANS AND POTATOES CARLOTS ONLY. MILLER & TEASDALE CoO., ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI. ; Cees ee ‘BUTTER a of all grades bought at point of shipment. R. HIRT, Jr., Market St., Detroit. Produce Commission Merchant. e6eSeSeSeSeSeSe2SeSeSese2SeSeSe25e25e25e25e25e25e5e2525 hh Promptness is the essence of our success. We will buy your Butter and Eggs for Cash Correspond with us. We do not claim to be the oldest and largest commission house in the country, but in many respects one of the best. HARRIS & FRUTCHEY, Detroit S E = [) S and these we can always supply. ALFRED J. BROWN SEED CO. 24 and 26 North Division Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. The best are the cheapest Green Vegetables from the South Everything that Grows Oranges, Cape Cod Cranberries, Honey, Lemons, Bananas, Red and Yellow Onions, Spanish Onions. BUNTING & CO., Jobbers, Grand Rapids, Mich. WM. SMITH Manufacturer of EGG CASES, FARMERS’ CASES, EGG CASE FILLERS ODORLESS FILLERS AND EXCELSIOR. Capacity one carload a day. Prompt shipment on short notice. Will make any case desired. Write for price list. We compete with all other manufacturers. EATON RAPIDS, [ICH. The fruit of each tree grows in a single dense bunch just at the base of the leaves. The bananas are in a thick clus- ter along the stem of the bunch, and the bunches grow with each banana pointing up, not down, as people usually sup- pose until they see them. A bunch con- tains one hundred bananas or more, and weighs about that number of pounds. «Lhe way in which they are cut is curious. When the bananas have reached their full size and are still green the negroes go up to the trees with their machetes, and, reaching as high as they can, make a deep cut into the trunk, just below the bunch of fruit. This leaves the entire top of the tree suspended on a sort of hinge. They do not cut quite deep enough to let the trunk break at once, for that would let the bananas fall to the ground and bruise them. A man stands ready to gather the fruit, and when the cut has been made and the top of the tree sways down on its hinge he gets hold of the bunch and cuts it off. Then another deeper cut is made in the trunk near its base, and the entire tree is felled to the ground. Thus each plant produces only one bunch of bananas and then dies, for if it were left standing no more fruit would appear. But in the meantime the tree has sent out several. suckers along the ground, and these, taking root, be- come new trees. Some planters believe in transplanting all the new suckers in squares, as I described the setting out of the plantation, but others think the trees do just as well if the suckers are allowed to run on and root and grow in their natural way. ‘*By timing the planting, you see, a banana plantation may be made to yield fruit constantly throughout the entire year. The average yield is thirty bunches a month from each manzana, which would be at the rate of from _ fif- teen to eighteen bunches a month from an acre. There is no expense for trans- portation, for the men carry them to the railroad nearby, and the present mar- ket price for each bunch, at the rail road, is from 20 to 30 cents, gold. At the rate, say, of 25 cents gold a bunch, and a yield of thirty bunches a month from each manzana, the amount re- ceived annually for the product of each manzana would be $90. The contract- or’s usual charge for running the plan- tation, covering all expenses, being $40 a manzana, it leaves a pretty good profit. Stories are often told of the number of bunches of bananas which have to be thrown overboard because they spoil while the ships are on their way to Northern ports, but as a matter of fact these are usually much exaggerated. The vessel on which I left Central America three or four weeks ago had a cargo of sixteen thousand bunches of bananas, and of this number only two bunches were ripe enough to be eaten when we reached New Orleans. ‘‘It has been found that the bananas will last about twelve days after being picked without becoming fully ripe and beginning to rot. Their transportation is hastened as much as possible by the railroads and steamers. The planter’s responsibility ceases when the fruit reaches the railroad and is put into the cars. From there it is run down to the coast and loaded on shipboard the same day that it is picked. There is a ma- chine for putting it into the vessel’s hold, which saves the expense of hav- ing all the loading done by hand. This machine consists of an endless belt passing around two drums, one of which is placed in the car to be un- MICHIGAN TRADESMAN loaded and the other on the steamer at the wharf nearby. The bunches of bananas are placed in this belt and transferred from the car to the ship at the rate of two thousand five hundred a minute. Menon the vessel receive them and stow them away, and they are packed with a view to securing good ventilation during the trip. It takes the banana-laden steamers five days to reach New Orleans and seven to reach New York. Upon their arrival at either port the bananas are unloaded at once into special trains which are waitng to take them to all parts of the country. These trains are very fast, sometimes being run with the passenger express trains and sometimes even ahead of these, at a greater rate of speed. It does not injure the bananas to be picked while green. They ripen just as well off the trees. The ripe fruit which | ate in Costa Rica was not a bit better than the bananas we get here; in fact, some of it was not so good. All the choicest fruit is sent North. ‘*When you consider the industry on all its sides—the small capital required at the outset, the ease and cheapness with which competent laborers may be obtained, the conditions of climate, which permit the gathering and ship- ping of fruit every week in all seasons, the hardiness of the plant, the fact that no expensive machinery whatever is needed on the plantations (everything is done with the machete), and the ready, constant market for bananas in the North—it is easy to see why the raising of the fruit is proving lucrative in Costa Rica. When railroad facilities there are better it will doubtless increase very rapidly throughout all the low-lying parts of the country. It is an oppor- tunity for the American who wants to try his hand at a new pursuit-—-always remembering, of course, that he must incur a certain amount of risk if he makes his home or stays much in the tropical fever breeding climate of the coast. ‘*Among the few dangers which beset the banana plants there is one which often gives trouble while the suckers are young. This is a strong vine which twines itself tightly around the green banana shoot. It grows at just the same rate as the latter, and if not removed will soon choke out its vitality. The plantations have to be watched for this and other weeds which grow up too rapidly around them while they are stil] small. After they have developed so far that the large leaves of the different plants meet overhead, thereby shading the ground, there is no longer need of much weeding, for the lack of sunlight puts a check upon the rank under- growth. It has been given as another disadvantage of banana-raising that the ground is likely to become exhausted after a time. I think this is never true of the lands which are overflowed by the rivers, and, as I told you, the largest and best plantations are always located in such places. One of the fin- est banana plantations in that country is now seventeen years old and shows no sign of deterioration. ’ _~> 2 Adin i What He Wasned. Sturgis Democrat. Two little tots of Hudson were kneel- ing at their mother's knee saying the Lord's Prayer. The older one was re- peating it after his mother, and when he reached the passage that reads, ‘*Give us this day our daily bread,’ what was the mother’s astonishment when the little tot exclaimed: ‘‘Hit him for a pie, Johnny; hit him fora pie. Hi C. N. Rapp & Co., Commission Merchants 56 West Market St., Buffalo, N. Y. We solicit consignments of Butter, Eggs, Poultry, Beans and Produce generally, assuring prompt sales and immediate returns. We are a branch of the Grand Rapids house of the Same name, which has been established eleven years. We refer Michigan shippers to the Fourth National Bank, Grand Rapids Savings Bank and Michigan Tradesman, all of which are familiar with our standing and acquainted with our methods and will cheerfully answer any sa saees which may be made in regard to us. PEPE EPO POPETE DEY HE PEE SHS ESTABLISHED 1893 Eggs, | eeteeret eS RR T. L. BRUNDAGE, WHOLESALE COMMISSION MERCHANT 54 and 56 Central Ave., Cleveland, Ohio. Only Exclusive Butter and Egg House in the City Want to correspond with those who have butter and eggs to ship. Can handle large quantities. EARLY FRUITS AND VEGETABLES Wil please your customers and make you money. Popular prices prevail. Ask for quotations. r. d. DETTENTHALER, 117-119 MONROE STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. HORORTZORCHSCRCEOKS TORCES AOROROCHOROHROROROHOROROROROR We are Shipping Fancy Cabbage They are white, crisp, solid and will surely please you. 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Of course, 1t may | all end in a frost that will kill all the| peaches in Maryland ; but that’s another story. Business is good, and the thing that interrupts the general gaiety | of nations 1s the war spirit. Senator Proctor’s speech made a profound im- | pression, and go into what store you will, you hear talk of fight. It per-j} only | of meates all classes and nothing else has} so occupied men’s thoughts for many | years. The markets have held their own, and save for the usual declines in the butter and egg trade to be expected at this sea- son, everything seems to remain steady, unless we except coffee, which troubled by another cut. Rio No. now held at 53 This decline has made interior roasters fearful of an- other slash in package goods and a rate of 7!4c on such will cause no surprise. A little more has been done in invoices and news from Brazil indicates a de- | cided falling off in the movement of the crop. This led to a little more enquiry on the part of jobbers and some of them | have made material additions to their | stocks. In store and afioat the amount of coffee reaches 1,161,537 bags, against | 732,126 bags at the same time last year. In mild sorts there is jittle to note of interest. Of the better grades the sup- ply is not excessive and good Cucuta is worth oc if the quality is all it should | be. East Indias are quiet and prices | are weil sustained. Teas have held their own, but the vol- ume of trade during the week has not been up to the average, either among country or city dealers. The better sorts | move with some degree of freedom, but as a whole the market is uninteresting. The week bas been very quiet, so far as sugar is concerned ; indeed, not since | the year opened bas the market shown ; more is is SC. less animation. Stocks are large and | it is thought a fractional reduction in granulated may take place. It is still 5i 0s Which Do Not Real Receipts. From the New York Produce Review. Reports Represent There is now a very general belief among receivers of eggs in New York that the receipts as collected by the New York Mercartile Exchange are short of the fact, and that the failure to report correct figures by some of the transportation lines is at the instance of certain Western shippers who make their patronage of these lines condi- |tional upon the withholding of a> report iof the quantity |day last week we received information delivered here. One from a number of houses that they had received in the aggregate over 2,500 /cases from a certain railroad line, while the report of the deliveries given by that line to the Exchange collectors was only 625 cases. The knowledge that the scale of re- ceipts has an important bearing upon of the market is sufficient to tistics. But as soon as the fact becomes known it 1s sure to prove of a boomerang. Dealers is a disposition to exaggerate the short- Thus were posted something over 15,000 cases, most of the trade were basing their judgment of the position upon a supposition that the actual receipts were 25,000 Cases. It is certainly most unfortunate if the correct collection of trade statistics in | this city is to be interrupted and thwarted by the whim of a few operators. The fact that the deception cannot possibly produce the desired result is not sufh- cient to guard the integrity of the re- ports. The collection of accurate sta- tistics of supply is one cf the chief the New York Mercantile Exchange and is so important that any assault upon its natural sources of in- should be resisted and re- pelled with every resource at command. If other means fail efforts should be made to secure the enactment of a State compelling transportation com- organizations, on the ground of public | necessity. ——— eee A’ counterfeiting plant was recently | discovered in the State Prison at Fol- The work was done in the only nickels were metal, taken from the engines in the prison. > 0—- - Some men seem to have been made out of dust that had gravel in it. MICHIGAN TRAD ee ESMAN False Economy on the Part of Egg Shippers. From the New York Produce Review. We find that some egg shippers, no- tably those doing business at nearby Western points, are making an effort at economy by using second-hand egg cases. It is a false economy. These second-hand cases are very objection- able to buyers in this market and _ seri- ously interfere with the sale of the goods. Sometimes when offerings are short of requirements and buyers can’t afford to be too particular, they sell without serious disadvantage, but when eggs are plenty for all needs buyers pass them by, and unless the price is shaded they remain unsold just at a time when prompt sale means money gained. New No. 2 cases are comparatively cheap and the saving by using second- hand rattletraps is trifling in compari- son with the losses often occasioned by dull sale or increased breakage. Eg Shippers Attention The best packing for eggs is excelsior. Order direct from the manufactarers, Bay City Excelsior Co., Bay City, Mich. WANTED To furnish Western dealersfor their Eastern trade for season of 1898; cold storage in quantit- ies to suit up to 15,000 cases of eggs and 30 Cars butter; moderate rates and liberal advances to reliable parties; modernly equipped plant; me- chanical refrigeration, with an improved system of perfectly dry circulation and change of air in rooms; intermittent and continuous circulation, also gravity system; these systems are the latest and best known in cold storage practices; our eggs are said to be the finest on the Philadelphia market this past season; fine distributing point: only 2!4 hours to Pittsburg, and quick transit by both Penn Central and B. & O. to New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington; we are authorized to purchase for our local cus tomers 5,090 cases finely candled eggs for April and May deliveries; also several cars creamery butter;correspondence solicited. Address Hyge- ia Crystal lee & Cold Storage Co.,Uniontown, Pa. We Have Some Special Inducements KS = > CS f = > =" =" Q & to offer to... h Commission , Merchants Write us 1) for particulars. i 0 See canoer ) MICHIGAN PACKAGE CoO., , OWOSSO, MICH. \ OS 9S 2S S S te > SS > > Se ee 2 SS S SS OS is OS S SOS 2 ~> . The man with the handsome silk handkerchief is the one who is the most afraid of a sore throat. > = A man may be as honest as the day is long, and still do a lot of mischief dur- ing the night. > ee Shallow men are generally despised, but they don’t require as un watching as deep ones, —~> © > The more a man _ has the more he wants—unless it happens to be twins. HOTEL WHITCOMB ST. JOSEPH, MICH. A. VINCENT, Prop. THE WHITNEY HOUSE Rates $1.00 to $1.25 per day. Complete Sanitary Improvements. Electric Lights. Good Livery in connection. State Line Telephone. Chas. E. Whitney, Prop., Plainwell, Mich. Hoskins & Company COMMISSION BROKERS. GRAIN, PROVISIONS and STOCK 176 Griswold Street, Detroit, Mich. Hodges Building. New York, Chicago and St. Louis. Private wires: 9 . A REMARKABLE CASE Having suffered with rheumatism and constipa- tion for over twenty-five years, and my case having been pronounced hopeless last summer by the best medical skill, when I was given upt e, Imiracu- lously had my attention cailed to Frye’s Quickstep, which saved my life, and lam now a well man. I have since recommended this remedy to my friends and so many have ordered itthrough me that I keep it on hand for humanity’s sake. Price, $1.00 per bottle. Nearly all Michigan peopleknow me. My home address is 5406 Kimb: irk Ave., Chicago, Grand Rapids peo ple can obtain this remedy from my customer, John Benson, the clothier,,26 Monroe St., upstairs. Stephen T. Bowen. I will be in Chicago at the clothing factory of John G. Miller & Co., 276 and 278 Franklin St., from Feb. zo to April 1, and hope my trade will make that establishment headquarters while in the city, I8 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN MICHIGAN STATE BOARD OF PHARMACY. Term expires F. W. R. Perry, Detroit . Dec. 31, 1898 A. C. ScoUMACHER, Ann Arbor - Dec. 31, 1899 Gro. GuNDRUM, Ionia - - - Dec. 31, 1900 L. E. REYNO.Lps, St. Joseph Dec. 31, 1901 Henry Hem,'Saginaw -— - : Dec. 31, 1902 President, F. W. R. Perry, Detroit. Secretary, GEo. GuNDRUM, Ionia, Treasurer, A. C. ScHUMACHER, Ann Arbor. Examination Sessions. Star Island—June 27 and 28. Marquette—A bout Sept. 1. Lansing— Nov. 1 and 2. All meetings will begin at 9 o’clock a, m. ex- cept the Star Island meeting, which begins at8 o’clock p. m. MICHIGAN STATE PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION. President—A. H. WEBBER, Cadillac. Secretary--CHas. Mann, Detroit. i Treasurer—JoHN D. Mure, Grand Rapids. “We Can Get It for You.” How often does a druggist offer to procure for an applicant an article that he does not carry in stock? How often after the usual statement, ‘‘No, we haven't it,’’ does he add, ‘‘But we can get it for you?’’ To answer this question by a practical experiment, I visited stores to the num- ber of a score in a certain metropolis not a thousand miles from Greater New York, and in each enquired for a prep- aration for which I felt sure they had had no previous demand, but which I knew was in the hands of the local job- bers to accommodate the trade in ad- jacent towns where the product had a moderate sale. Among those twenty druggists there were but two whose sagacity prompted them to enquire if they might get the desired article for me. The preparation chosen for this experiment was ene of the few on which the druggist can realize a fair profit—a particular brand ot a much-used prod- uct. When the diversity of the stock car- ried by my preceptor proved inadequate to fill some demand, he invariably taxed every resource to remedy the deficiency in this way: When a call was received for something we did not have, the customer was told that while we were without the article in question, if it could be had in the neighborhood we would get it for him in a few minutes and send it to his home, and thus save him the trouble of further search. This offer usually met with an affirmative reply, and I was detailed to find the article. If my efforts in this line proved futile, the failure was communicated to the applicant with a request to permit us to order from our local jobber, and permission was most eagerly given. And the article was ordered and delivered on arrival. By this means the store not only won favor with the neighboring residents, but its fame for supplying one with what he wanted spread past the stores of competitors, that felt the effect, but apparently knew not the cause. People would come into the store, and after asking for something foreign to our stock and being told of our willingness to accommodate them at the earliest moment with what we did not then have, they would say, ‘‘Well, if you didn’t have it I intended asking you to get it for me, as I have tried in several stores to do so without success,’’ or some words to the same effect. This ‘‘system’’ proved an effectual advertisement and brought to the store many a patron that might otherwise have continued dealing where they were less observant of the wants of those who supported them. This, then, is the profit my preceptor won and prized by a simple method that we so seldom see observed—strictly observed. But a short time ago I[ did finda druggist who was shrewd in this re- spect, which this incident will illus- trate: A lady enquired for a certain cough remedy which he did not have and promptly admitted it. His fair customer as quickly responded that she could get it trom Mr. Brown, who was his nearest competitor. The druggist pondered a moment and then ventured to remark that if she would sit but a minute be would look over his stock, as it was just possible that he had been a little hasty in his reply and had mis- judged the extent of same. Then to the time of clinking bottles he charged his clerk to hasten to Brown’s by the rear way and buy a bottle of ‘‘that stuff."’ Five minutes later he was handing it over the counter to the un- suspecting and thoroughly contented patron. JosePH F. HOSTELLEY. On Regarding the Admission of Doses into the Pharmacopoeia. Much has been and is being said and written concerning the admission of doses as a part of the text of the Phar- macopoeia. In the writer’s opinion this} should immediately be done, not only under each article, but in a separate table as well. The doses of many reme- dies are variously stated by different authorities, and the ranges of dose given by them differ widely also. A physician may often be at a loss to know what the proper dose of a sub- stance is, and the pharmacist, too, has no absolute standard upon which to rely as to what constitutes a proper dose of many of the remedies he may be called upon any moment to dispense. There is no valid reason why the Pharma- copoeia should not be made such a standard. Since it is always the legal standard of what its drugs ought to be, so far as purity and fitness are con- cerned, it should state how much of such pure and fit drugs, whose standard it fixes, should be the proper dose Both single and daily maximum doses should also be given. The introduction of doses would tend to prevent overdosing, yet need not prevent a physician from prescribing a large dose should such, in his judgment, be desirable or necessary. He need but indicate his intentionally large dose by a sign (!) placed after the dose, to be thoroughly understood by the dispenser, and he would thereby relieve the phar- macist of a very grave responsibility at a time when minutes may cost a life— when the delay caused by a search for the physician in order to verify the dose might have most serious conse- quences. It would be well, also, to state the therapeutic properties of each sub- stance, as well as the affections, so far as possible, in which it is usually given. Those additions would make the Pharmacopoeia much more popular among physicians, the great majority of whom, as we all know, rarely, if ever possess a copy of it. Their lack of interest in the volume as it exists at present is easily accounted for: there is nothing of direct interest in it to them; they do not care very much for dry working formulas or descriptions of crude drugs; nor do the lists of reagents or tables of the various specific gravi- ties attract them much. These things bave absolutely no practical value for them, and this being so, they believe it neneemitnaintenibniitnine tnt ynncine pean to be a waste of good money to buy such a book, put it on their shelves, and then never look at it. Were the sug- gestions as above made carried out, however, the work would havea distinct value for them, and the majority would buy it, tothe everlasting benefit of phar- macy, because then they would be much more likely to prescribe the official compounds instead of the numberless proprietary preparations that are gotten up ‘‘for physicians to prescribe,’’ and with samples of which their offices are deluged. ALBERT I. COHN. ee The Drug Market. Opium—Has advanced in Eastern markets, but is still 1o@2o0c below the cost of importation. The damage to the growing crop has been confirmed and higher prices will no doubt rule, Morphine—Is as yet unchanged, but an advance is expected daily. Quinine—The market is quiet at the decline at unchanged prices. Insect Powder—On account of large stocks of flowers and also on account of strong competition, the price has de- clined. Essential Oils—A further advance has taken place in bergamot. Cajiput is slightly lower. Croton has advanced, with higher prices looked for. Gums—Arabic and tragacanth, as pre- dicted in a former issue, have advanced, on account of new classification under the tariff. Sulphur and Brimstone—Are tending higher, on account of an advance in crude. Camphor—Is in active demand and the price is firm. Linseed Oil—Is steady. Turpentine—Has declined. > eS Taking the Chances. From Harper’s Round Table. He walked into the apothecary shop with a hesitating step, and glanced scared look in his pale blue eyes, After fidgeting about uncertainly for some time, he at last caught the eye of the clerk, and, beckoning mysteriously, led nervously at the rows of bottles with a/| FOLDING PAPER BOXE the way to a secluded corner by the cigar case, where the clerk was sur- prised by finding a trembling forefinger hooked tenaciously into one of his but- tonholes and an eager face thrust sud- denly almost against his. ‘‘What’s the matter?’’ clerk. ‘*T s’pose you can lay your hand right on the mophine bottle, can’t you?’’ said the stranger, in an anxious whisper. ‘*Yes, sir. Certainly,’’ replied the astonished salesman, ‘*An’ I reckon if you was pushed you could find the strychnine in a minute or two?”’ ‘OF course.”” ‘‘Mebbe the arsenic hasn’t got lost or mislaid clear beyond findin’, if you just had to have it?’’ ‘* Assuredly not.’’ ‘*An’ the sugar-of-lead bottle couldn't get away from you if it tried?’’ ‘‘No, indeed.’’ ‘‘An’ chasin’ up the vitriol to its lair would be just play for you?’’ ‘*My dear sir, of course Iam familiar with all the drugs here.’’ ‘*But s’posin’ some of the other fel- lers had been changin’ them around, just as a joke, you know?’”’ * **What do you mean?’’ = ‘‘Suppose the bottles got mixed?’’ ‘‘Impossible. Besides, everything is plainly labeled.’ ‘‘And there ain't no chance of your palmin’ off prussic acid for pepper- mint?" ‘‘Not the slightest.’’ ‘Well, I’ ve—half—a—notion—to—risk —it. Yes, you may give me two ounces of peppermint, young man.”’ > 0. asked the Men are like chickens: they always want to get on the highest roost. Carbolate Cutler's creas Pocket lonaler IS GUARANTEED TO CURE Ail druggists $1. W.H. SMITH & CO., Props., Buffalo, N. Y blackheads, boils, blotches, freck- ' PIMPLES les, eruptions caused by ingrow- 9 9 ing hair, skin that is soft and wrinkly, or rough or swarthy, in fact, all complexion difficulties should be treated with SCHROUDER’S LOTION, a scientific preparation for keeping the skin smooth, firm and clear—it produces and preserves a healthy glow to the complexion ; perfectly harm- 4 less. At drug stores 25c per bottle; by mail 3&c. 4 ¢ 8. Schrouder, Pharmacist, Grand Rapids, Mich. § 1S ecco eo coc erosorocoesocoeceoet 9 Printed and plain for Patent Medicines, Extracts, Cereals, Crackers and Sweet Goods, PHONE 850. Candy, Cough Drops, Tobacco Clippings, Condition Powders, Etc. and Box Labels and Cigar Box Labels our specialties. Bottle Ask or write us for prices. GRAND RAPIDS PAPER BOX CO. 81,83 ano 85 CAMPAU ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. = =D | COFFEE ! COMPOUND. wholesome i & ¢ e _ Manufactured by | Woodbury Ap. Charlotte. Mich. | | package. RARE COMPOUND market for the money. gross. wants in every — ples and prices before RICH DRINK of choice coffee with palatable cereals and other ingredients. “cereal” drinks. 12 prizes in each and every pound Retails for 13c a package, affording re- tailer big profit. case and see how quickly it sells. WOODBURY & CO., mrers. CHARLOTTE, MICH. The Cheapest Enameled Playing Card ON‘ THE MARKET IS THE NO. 20 ROVERS Has a_handsome assortment of set designs printed in different colors—Red, Blue, Green and Brown; highly finished, enameled, and is the best card in the Each pack in a handsome enameled tuck box. in one dozen assorted designs and colors. | Far superior to all Pleases customers. Order trial Put up A good seller. List price $20 per We make a full line from cheapest to highest grades, and can meet your If you are handling playing cards for profit get our sam- placing your order. They may help you. THE AMERICAN PLAYING CARD CoO., KALAMAZOO, MICH. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT. Advanced—Turpentine. Declined—Linseed Oil. Acidum mceticum.......... .. 8 6@8 8 Benzoicum, German 70@ 7% a @ 6 Carpolticum ......... 2@ 41 Citricum .... ; 0@ 42 Hydrochlor ... 30 «66 Nitrocum . 8@ 10 Oxalicum........... R@ 14 Phosphorium, dil... a Salicylieum. .....,.. 60@ 65 Sulphuricum........ 1%@ 5 Torsieum ......-.... 1 25@ 1 40 Tarcarcum......-°... 38@ 40 Ammonia Anne, 16 deg........ 4@ 6 Agua, 2) der........ 6@ 8 Carbonas............ 123@ 14 Ciloridum .......... nq@ 14 Aniline Diack... ............ 2 0O0@ 225 oes... 80@, 1 00 WOO 5 ee ce cs 4@ 50 a 2 50@ 3 00 Baccez. Cubesee........p0.18 8a 15 a ogee coec. 6 8 Xanthoxylum.. .... 3@ 30 Balsamum Oopaibe............... Sa Pare @ 2 40 Terabin, Canada.... 15@ 50 Torsten... ....-... 50@_~—SsC«#G#O Cortex Abies, Canadian.... 18 Lo 12 Cinchona Flava..... 18 Euonymus atropurp 30 Myrica Cerifera, po. 20 Prunus Virgin... ... 12 Quitiaia, gr’d_...... 14 Sassafras......po. 18 12 Ulmus...po. 15, gr’d 15 Extractum Glycyrrhiza Glabra. U4@ 2% Glycyrrhiza, po..... 28a 30 Hematox,15lb box. lW@ 12 Hematox,i6......... LB@ 14 Heematox, 4%s....... 14@ 15 Heematox, 48....... 16@ 7 Ferru Carbonate Precip... 15 Citrate and Quinia.. 2 25 Citrate Soluble...... rb) Ferrocyanidum Sol. 40 Solut. Chloride..... 15 Sulphate, com’l..... 2 Sulphate, com’l, by Dbl, per Cw. .... .. 50 Sulphate, pure ..... q Flora Pu) Ge ee 12@ 14 Attoemis........... 18@ 2% Matricaria ........:. 30@ 35 Folia Barosma............. 23@ 28 Cassia Acutifol, Tin- i: ] MOGI. 1 25 Cassia Acutifol,Alx. 2 30 Salvia officinalis, 4s met 368... 2 1 20 Ure Urs.........-.- Gummi Acacia, ist picked.. Acacia, 2d picked.. Acacia, 3d picked.. eeee 88 85 Acacia, sifted sorts. 28 Acacia, po... 60@ 80 Aloe, Barb. po. 18@20 2@ 4 Aloe, Cape .... po. 15 Co kL Aloe, Socotri. -po. 40 @ 30 AwAMonies. <........ dQ 6 Assafotida....po.30 23@ 28 Bengoinum ......... 55 Cetechn, Is: :........ 13 Catechu, eee. as 14 Catechu, J¢s......... 16 Camphore ie 3 Euphorbium. _po. 35 10 (Gaipamime. ....... cs. 1 00 Gamboge po........ ScssoBistocoll Guaiacum.....po. 25 30 King: . 52.2, po. 83.00 3 00 Maer. 60 eee 40 Opii...po. #4. 104. 30 3 20 3 35 Shetae 23@ 35 Shellac, bleached... 40@ 45 Tragacanth a 50@ ~=80 Herba Absinthium..oz. pkg 25 Eupatorium .oz. pkg 20 Lobelia...... oz. pkg 25 Majorum ....0z. pkg 28 Mentha Pip..oz. pkg 23 Mentha Vir..oz. pkg 2 eae... oz. pkg 39 TanacetumV - pkg 22 Thymus, V..oz. pkg @ Magnesia Calcined, Pat.. 55@ «60 Carbonate, Pat... 0@ 2 Carbonate, K. & M.. 20@ 2 Carbonate, Jennings 3@ 36 Oleum Absinthium......... 3 25@ 3 50 Amygdals, Dule.. 30@ 50 Amy: gdale, Amare . 8 00@ 8 25 Co eS 2 15@ 2 2 Auranti Cortex..... 2 25@ 2 40 Berges. 2 40@ 2 50 63 — ae 4 = mevomayi..:...... 7 edar Meeiws ete. 3@ (65 uaninadie Cy arte @2% el el ee oc 1 6@ 1 7 Citronella. ......... 45@ 50 Conium Mac........ 3@ Coperha. i 10@ Cubens. =. 90@ Exechthiton .....__. 00@ Briveron 8) | 1 00@ Gaultheria ..... 1 50@ Geranium, ounce... @ Gossippii,Sem. gal.. 50@ Hedcama 0 | 1 0@ SUMIDORA, 3). 1 0@ Lavyendula .... |. 9 Limonis.. --- 2 Som) Mentha Piper... ee! 1 60@ Mentha Verid....... 1 50@ Morrhus, gal... .. 1 00@ Myréia. Le eae cl 4 00@ Ove TQ Picis Liguida. |... 10@ Picis Liquida, gal.. iu @ Rina IQ HOnmaring,. @ Hose, ounee........ 6 50@ Bece 40@ peu: |... 9 Santa... 2 0@ Sassatras ... .... | 55@ Sinapis, ess., ounce. @ os 1 40@ Tyme. .. 40@ Thyme, opt. a Theobromas 156@ Potassium Bi-Carb.. cas) Io Bichromate . \ 13@ Bromide. . Looe Se Care 12¢ Chlorate..po. 17@19¢ 16@ yeaa | 35, fodide. . 2 60@ Potassa, ‘Bitar:, pure 28Q@ Potassa, Bitart, com @ Potass Nitras, opt.. 8@ Potass Nitras........ 1@ Erieuiate | 208 Sulphate po ...... 15@ Radix RGONIVM...... . 5. 20@ Ale. 22@ PBCHUSA 10@ Aven pO... @ Calais 2.0. 20@ Gentiana.. po 5 12@ Glyehrrhiza. | -pv.15 16@ Hydrastis Canaden . @ Hydrastis Can., po.. @ Hellebore, Alba, po. the Inamla pO. 15@ Ipecac, Poe. 2 50@ Iris plox.. ae 35@ Jalapa, pr.. 23Q Maranta, Ws. peo. @ Podophyilum, po. . 2@ Beer TH@ Rhei, cus. @ Rhei. pv. TQ Spigelia. 3@ Sanguinaria.. “PO. cs @ Serpentaria . 30@ ReeeeA 40Q Similax, oo H e Smilax, M. Serie 0. 35 108 Symplocarpus, Feeti- Gus, po-:,.. @ Valeriana, Eng. ‘po. 30 @ Valeriana, — 1b@ Zingibera.. oo La Cineier sy. 2%5@ Semen Aisa |... po. 15 @ —- nn) 3Q Bird, Is. IQ Cae. | po. 18 10@ Caraamon .. 1 3@ Coriandrum..__.. 8@ eon Sativa... 4I@ MOOnINe..... |. 5@ C enopodium ...... 10@. Dipterix Odorate... 2 00@ Ponieuinm ...... |. @ ee Po oe ooe. 7@ Lini . “ 34@ Lini, grd. ee ee “bbl. § I@ Lobelial 0 3@ Pharlaris Canarian. 4Q ee 44@Q@ Binspis Alba... |... 1@ Sinapis Nigra....... 1N@ Spiritus Frumenti, W. D. Co. 2 00@, Frumenti, D. F. R.. 2 00@ Frumenti . - 135@ Juniperis Co. 0. T_! 1 65@ euniperis Co... . |. 75 Saacharum N. E.... 1 90@, Spt. Vini Galli...... 1 HQ Vini Oporto... |... 1 23@ Vint Aiba 1 23@ Sponges Florida sheeps’ wool carriage. 2 0@ Nassau sheeps ‘wool Carriage... .... |. Velvet extra sheeps’ wool, carriage. .... @ Extra yellow sheeps’ wool. carriage... @ Grass sheeps’ wool, carriage... | @ Hard, for slate use. @ Yellow Reef, for slate ase... . |. @ — Acacia . @ Auranti Cortes. Pee. @ S2OSIDeR |... @ een @ Or ton. 6). @ hel Arvom..:. ..,.. @ Smilax Officinalis... 50@ cen, @ SOHis....2.... @ —. -. Ie ee wo BDO MOO WW 1909 w SSSSFSsss Selle Co... 88... @ 50 TOmian 1... @ 50 Pros virg........: @ 8 Tinctures Aconitum NapellisR 60 Aconitum Napellis F 50 MIOCS. eS. 60 Aloes and Myrrh.. 60 Brien... 50 Assafostida ......... 50 Atrope Belladonna. 60 Auranti Cortex..... 50 Benzo 0... 60 Bensgin Co... . |... 50 BOTGsIae 50 Cantharides........ 75 Capsicum .......... 50 Cardanmion .......). |. 75 Cardamon Co... ... vi) CASE 1 00 Catechu. 50 Cinchona....... 50 Crmehona Co... . 60 Commpa 7... 50 Cubeba.... 50 Cassia Acutifol..... 50 Cassia Acutifol Co 50 Bo 50 MreOe 50 Ferri exieum.. 35 Gentan |... 50 Gentian Ce. . 60 Guisen re 50 Guiacaammon...... 60 Hyoscyamus........ 50 toate. D Iodine, oe v6) Ce 50 LOD 50 Myrrh. 50 Nux Vomica......7! 50 Cp... 7 Opii, cam = 50 = deo orized.. 1 50 50 50 50 50 50 60 ToMtan a 60 Malerign 50 Veratrum Veride. 50 Aiport... 20 Miscellaneous “ther, Spts. Nit.3F 30@ 35 “Ether, Spts. Nit.4F 34@ 38 Aimer 24Q@ = =3 Alumen,gro’d..po.? 3@ 4 Aniatio | 40@_ 50 Antimoni, po. _..._. 4g 5 Antimoni et PotassT 40@ 50 Antipyrin. ..0. 0. @ 1 40 Antichrin .. |. @ 15 Argenti Nitras, oz . @ 50 Arsenicim 0!) 10@ 12 Balm Gilead rene 38@ 40 a Ss. 1 40@ 1 50 Calcium Cc at ‘Is. @ 3 Calcium Chlor., %s. @ 0 : alcium Chlor., 4s. @ Cantharides, Rus.po @ %% Capsici Fructus, af. @ ib wee Fructus, po. @ 15 Capsici FructusB, po @ Tepe Tas. pO.i> tg 14 Carmine, No. 40... @ 3 00 Cera Alba, S. & F 0@ 55 Cera Wlaga, 0@ 42 Coceds @ 40 Cassia Fructus...... @ 33 Centraria, @ 0 Cetaceum.. coy @ 4% Chloroform... 17777” HG 63 Chloroform, saith @ib Chloral Hyd Crst.... 1 25@ 1 50 Chondrus. ... aa |S Cinchonidine,P.&W 2%5@ 3 Cinchonidine,Germ 2@ 30 Cocame 3 55@ 3 75 Corks, list, dis. pr.ct. 70 Creosotum. . 6 & Crota 2 ... “bbl. 7 @ 2 Crota, prdp. @ > Creta, precip......__ 9@ 11 Creta, Rubra......_. @ s erectus 18@ 20 Cambeae @ w# Copri Sulph...., || 5@ 6 Dextrine. | 10@_ 12 Ether Sulph......... HQ Emery, all numbers @ 8&8 Emery, po. @ 6 Erect.) po.40 30Q 35 Hiake White... |. R@ 15 Gallia... .. am 2 Gambier.. i 8@ 9 Gelatin, Cooper... @ 60 Gelatin; French. |.” 35@ 60 Glassware, flint. box 70 Less than box.... 60 Glue, brown... 9@ 12 Glue, white... |. 1@ 25 Glycerina ee, W3%@ 2 Grana Paradisi @ bb PAGING 2@ 55 Hydraag Chlor Mite @ 80 Hydraag Chlor Cor. GF Hydraag Ox Rub’m. @ 9% Hydraag Ammoniati @ 1 00 HydraagUnguentum 45@ 55 Hydrarpsyrom.._.... @Q 6 Ichthyobolla, Am.. 6@ 7D eee 75@ 1 00 Iodine, Besuni...... 2 60@ 3 7 lodoform....... 1.1” @ 4 20 Lupulin. Vaud @ 2 Lycopodium ........ ee 45 acm gs. 65 5 Liquor Arse= et y- Grare Tod.......... @ 2% LiquorPotassArsinit 10@ 12 Magnesia, Sulph.. 2@ 3 Magnesia, Sulph,bbl @ 1% Mannia 8 F. sseeee 50@_ 60 Menth SS eegee O2% 40 Morphia,S.P.&W... 2 15@ 2 eae. @ 18] Linseed, pure raw 40 43 —- S.N.Y.Q.& Sinapis, opt....._... @ 30/ Linseed, boiled.... 42 45 Ce 2 15@ 2 40 | Snuff, Maccaboy, De Neatsfoot, winterstr 65 ? ican. Canton.. | Vees..:.. @ 34| Spirits Turpentine. 42 47 Myristica, No. 1..... 65@ 80/ Snuff,Scotch,DeVo’s . 34 | Nux Vomica...po.20 @ | Soda Boras.......... 9 iH} Os Sepla.....-..:..- 1K@ 18| Soda Boras, po... 9@ Iil| Paints =. i Pepsin Saac, H. & | Soda et Potass Tart. 26@ 28] peg Venetian... ... 1% 2 sete eesceeeees @ 1 00! Soda, Carb ce eee 1yHA@ 2 Ochre, yellow Mars. iz 2 = Picis Liq. N.N.% gal. | Soda, Bi-Carb.... ||. 3@ 51 Ochre. yellow Ber.. 1% 2 @3 ee @ 2 00 oo. A. 344Q@ 4) Putty, Commercial. 24% 2%@3 Picis Liq., quarts.... @ 1 00| Soda, Sulphas....... @ | 2| Putty, strictly pure. 2% 2%@3 Picis Liq., pints..... @ 85 | Spts. ‘Cologne........ @ 2 60} Vermilion, Prime i Pil Hydrarg...po. 80 @ 50/Spts. Ether Co...... SOG) 56/1 Weema.| | 13@ 15 Piper Nigra. . = 22 @ 18) Spt. Myrcia Dom. @ ° 00! Vermilion, English. 00@ % Piper Alba.. | 35 @ 30/ Spts. Vini Reet. bbi. @ 2 42| Green. Paris ... ... ie 19 Piix Burgun........ @ 7) Spts. Vini Rect.%bb! @ 2 47 | Green, Peninsular 13@ 16 Erumpt Acet.....__. 10@ 12) Spts. Vini Rect. 10gal @ 2 50} Lead. Red.... 540 6 Pulvis Ipecac et Opii 1 10@ 1 20/ Spts. Vini Rect. 5gal @ 2 52/ be ad, white........ 5,4@ ——— boxes H. Less 5¢ gal. e¢ash 10 days. Whiting, white Span Q 2 D. Co., doz... @ 1 25 | Strychnia, Crystal... 1 40@ 1 45 | Whi iting, gilders’... @ wv setae. o...... 30@ 33) Sulphur, Subl....... 24@ 31 White, Paris Amer... @ 100 Cuasnig. oo... 8@ 10/ Sulphur, Roll.... . 2Q 2%4|w hiting, Paris Eng. Quinia, S. P. & W.. — os | TAMArinds ......... 8@ 10) oli @1 #0 Quinia,S.German.. 2 30 | Terebenth Venice... 23 ) | Universal Prepared. 1 00@ 1 15 Quinia, N.Y.. -- 29@ 34| Theobroma... | BQ 45/ Rubia Tinctorum... om «| Vania... 9 00@16 09 eid SaccharumLactis py 18@ 20) Zinci yoipe......... 7@ 8 | ' Salacin.............. 3 0@ 3 10| | No. ’'Turp Coach... 1 10@ 1 2@ Sanguis Draconis... 40@ 50 | Oils | Extra Purp......... 160@ 1 70 apo, W........... 0. R@ 14| BBL. @aL. | Coach Body......... 2 T@ 3 00 Sapo: M 10@ = 12) Whale, winter....... 70 70| No.1 Turp Furn.... 1 00@ 1 10 te etee eee e oe @ | Lard, extra. oe 45 | Extra Turk Damar.. 1 55@ 1 60 Siediits Mixture.... 20 @ 22} | Lard, Woe 35 40| Jap.Dryer,No.1Turp 70@ %5 oe i ceceanneall Conchas Perfecto each 500. The best 5 of 250. of 250. ee oe wie CIGAR We have added A handsome cigar lighter cent cigar on the One | of 2 [)EPARMENT OAS, The Dollar market at Send us a sample order. Grand Rapids, Mich. the following Cigars and solicit a trial order Wedding Boquet A superb ten cent cigar in three sizes and advertising with 25 cigars free with each purchase The Challenge A good 5 cent cigar . One box of 25 c The Fumado Equal to any cigar on the market for igars free with each piviaiace ee i el. Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co. Se be De De De Se Se be De he De De De at $55.00 at 60.00 at 65.00 $35.00 at $30.00 CRULU LURE EU EURULERERERERER IER oe ie ee % POPP es 20 if ; ‘ VICHIGAN TRADESMAN GROCERY PRICE CURRENT. The prices quoted in this list are for the trade only, in such quantities as are usually purchased by retail dealers. They are prepared just before going to press and are an accurate index of the local market. It is im- possible to give quotations suitable for all conditions of purchase, and those below are given as representing av- erage prices for average conditions of purchase. those who have poor credit. our aim to make this feature of the greatest possible use to dealers. Cash buyers or those of strong credit usually buy closer than Subscribers are earnestly requested to point out any errors or omissions, as it is AXLE GREASE. doz. gross cre 55 6 00 comero::........-...- 60 7 00 ee... 50 4 00 eg 7D 9 00 TXL Golden, tin — vis) 9 00 [lica, tin boxes.. 13 9 00 Paragon.. -- _ 6 00 BAKING POWDER. Absolute. ac ip came Gon.............. 45 ib eane Ggon............. 85 . Means doe............. 1 50 Acme. 44 Ib cans 3 doz...........- 45 i> Camssdos............ 7 1” Gane i Goz...........- 1 00 ee 10 El Purity. 44 lb cans per doz......... v6) % lb cans per doz ........ 1 20 1 i> cans per doz......... 2 00 : Home. lq 1b cans 4 doz case...... 35 ¥% lb cans 4 doz case...... 55 Ib cans 2 doz case ..... 90 EZY<, NI 14 1b cans, 4 doz case. \% lb cans, 4 doz case...... 1 lbcans, 3 doz case...... 1 60 Jersey Cream. i ib. Gans, per@oz.......... 2 00 9 oz. Cans, per dox.......... 1 25 6 os. Cans, per doz.......... Our Leader. pene... 45 came 75 [ bee... 1 50 Peerless. i fame ................. 85 BATH BRICK. Soe 70 ee 80 BLUING. 1 doz. pasteboard Boxes. 40 3 doz. wooden boxes...... 1 20 BROOrIS. we. t Cormpot,.......... 1 90 ee eS 1% Me, S carmme:................ 2 Sp oe 2 carsos.....-..--.. 1 15 Peer oom... 2 00 Common Whisk 7 ence Woexk...............- 80 Warehouse. ....... 22 CANDLES. eS 7 a ee a 8 Penne 8 CANNED GOODS. Tanitowoc Peas. Lakeside Marrowfat....... 95 Eekowao mo... .......... 115 Lakeside, Cham. of Eng.... 1 20 Lakeside, Gem, Ex. Sifted. 1 45 Extra Sifted Early June....1 75 CATSUP. Columbia, pints.......... 2 00 Columbia, % pints.......... 1S CHEESE eee @ il @ @ 11% S Gem @ Gold ae @ il ce @ il ae @ il Lenawee ............ a i nawcriac;........... @ Springdaie:......... @ 11% Brick @ 12% @ % @ 18 lumburper <......... @ 10 Pimeappis............ 438 @ 8 Sap Sago............ @ 18 Chicory an 5 Red . ed 7 CHOCOLATE. Walter Baker & Co.’s. German Sweet ................ 23 a 34 Breakfast Cocoa.........1... 45 cite i Tie CLOTHES LINES. Cotton, 40 ft, per doz.......1 Cotton, 50 ft, per doz....... :3 Cotton, 60 ft, per doz.......1 Cotton, 80 ft, per doz....... 1 Jute, Tt, per dos......... Jute, 72 ft. per dos.,. COCOA SHELLS. 20 1b bags.. ! 2 Less quantity. ae 3 Pound packages. oe ce 4 CREAM TARTAR. 5 and 10 1b. wooden boxes..30-35 00 20 40 Cotton, 70 ft, per dos....... 1 60 80 80 95 COFFEE. Green. Rio. Fair 10 Gost. 12 oe... 3 ——. lL. Pease 15 Santos Pair ..... .. eee cena cae ee 15 Prime. ny Peaberry . _. 17 Mexican a cial. ae... ..-16 eee a Rancy ..... a. 18 Maracaibo. Pimas ... ee Java. iebecer.. 20 Prva Growen............_.. 22 Mendcnting. ....--... ae Mocha. ieeieation .........._._._.. 5. Avabian ..... ae 24 Roasted. Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brands Fifth Avenue..... 22 Jewell’s Arabian Mocha... .28 Wells’ Mocha and Java..... 24 Wells’ Perfection Java..... 24 Bemeeieo... 22 Breaktect Biend........... 13 Valley City Maracaibo. .-18% Ee 14 header Blend... .. ... a8 Package. Below are given New York prices on package coffees, to which the wholesale dealer adds the local freight from New York to your shipping point, giving you credit on the invoice for the amount of freight buyer pays from the market in which he purchases to his shipping point, including weight of package, alsol¥%ca pound. In 601b. cases the list is 10c per 100 lbs. above the price in full cases. Arbuckle . 9 50 Jersey 9 50 TicLaughiin’s XXXX...... 9 50 Extract. Valley City % gross . 43) Felix % gross...... 1 15 Hummel’s foil 4 gross.. 85 Hummei’s tin 4 gross. i 48 CLOTHES PINS. 5 gross boxes i 7 COUGH DROPS. Cc. B. Brand. 405 cent packages ........ 1 00 CONDENSED MILK. 4 doz in case. Gail Borden Eagle.. _ot Oe se 6 25 es. 5 % Cures 4 50 er 425 OU 3 35 ae 8 35 COUPON BOOKS. Tradesman Grade. i 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 ' Universal Grade. 50 books, any denom.... 100 books, any denom.... 2 50 500 books, any denom....1 1,000 books, any denom....: Superior Grade. 50 books, any denom.... 1 100 books, any denom.... 2 50 500 books, any denom. 1,000 books, any denom....20 00 Coupon Pass Books, Can be made to represent any denomination from 810 eee peers. ........-.....- 50 books. a 00 ee ooaee |... 4... 3 00 eee CB Ge noeEe. 0. 10 00 ee 17 50 Credit Checks. 500, any one denom’n..... 3 00 1000, any one denom’n..... 5 00 2000, any one denom’n..... 8 00 Steel punch. % DRIED FRUITS—DONESTIC Apples. Sundried. @5 Evaporated 50 lb boxes. @s California Fruits. Apres... 8, a, T4@8% Blackberries.. —- eee @ 7% — a... Se Se Pea —_ ee eee 3 50 1 | OO ic ae 3 50 GUNPOWDER. Ps ih: lines egeee....... 2 32 sia Rina eiceadns 56 lb. linen sacks............ 60 ee eee Bulk in barréla.......:....5- 250 Half Kegs eee ini arter Ke . ee 30 | 56-Ib dairy in drill bags... 30 RC eave ie 1g | 28-Ib dairy in drill bags..... 15 Choke Bore—Dupont’s. Ashton. Reoe | is 4 25 | 56-lb dairy in iinen sacks... 60 AAAS Me 2 40 Higgins. Quarter Kegs.. Cougs eee eee 1 35 | 5¢-1p —_s in oon sacks... 60 Banat esc as a lar Rock. cage Oe OES, lait eat i Piet Bee. i es 4 25 Com mmon. Quarter, aeeen cy tuctes seme 2 25 | Granulated Fine............ 79 ID COMB. ec xk cee 45 | Medium Fine............... 85 SAL SODA. Granulated, bbls....:..... vi Granulated, 100 lb cases.. 90 Lump, bbls. : 75 Lump, 1451b kegs... eo 85 SEEDS. PEs SOUS ag Aen oe 9 aoery, Ceeyena........... 3 at a 8 Cardamon, Malabar ..... 69 eter ce, 1 Homp, Russian.....-..... 334 Mizoa Bird............... 4% Mustard, white........... 5 ee ... yo Me Cussie Bone. ......... ....- 20 SNUFF. Scotch, in bladders. . oe Maccaboy, Sy eare.. i... 35 French Rappee, in jars..... 43 SOAP. RESIS DOK eee ee 2 7 5 box lots, delivered........ 7 10 box lots, delivered....... 3 65 JAS. 8. KIRK & GO.’S BRANDS. American Family, wrp’d....2 66 ee ee 2 to nee 2 20 RO ec ee 2 50 Dusky Diamond, 50 6 oz....2 10 Dusky Diamond, 50 8 oz. 3 00 Blue India, 100 % Ib......... 3 00 Misiceline. 3 50 oe 2 50 Schulte Soap Co.’s Brand. 100 cakes, 75 lbs. Sinele bet 2... i. 2 80 Spex tote. (00 Sigs - bex tots... 2 7 oe NOx fete... 2 60 Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands. Old Country, 80 1-lb. bars ..2 75 Good Cheer, 60 1-lb. bars....3 75 Uno, 100 4-10. bars.... ...... 2 50 Doll, 0 10 -ce. Dare......... 2 05 Scouring. Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz .....2 40 Sapolio, hand, 3 doz........ 240 SODA. MOOS 5% Megs, Maeiian 4% SPICES. Whole Sifted. Allspice ..............-.... 12% Cassia, China in mats....... ll Cassia, Batavia in bund....25 Cassia, Saigon in rolls...... 32 Cloves, Amboyna........... 15 Cloves, Zanzibar............ 11 Mace, Batavia.............. 55 Nutmeps, fancy. .-...--... -60 Nutmegs, No. : bce ee coe 50 Nogners, No. 2....-.......- 45 Pepper, conse: black...11 Pepper, Singapore, white...12 Panger, M6... . 2... 6.5... 12 Pure Ground in Bulk. Aiineee ... 5: .s.,s 15 Cassia, Batavia .......-....; 30 Cassia; Saigon....:......... 40 Cloves, Zanzibar............ 14 Ginger, African............ 15 Ginger, Cochin.......:..<.. 18 Ginger, Jamaica............ 23 Mace, Batavia.............. 65 Wier ... 12@18 ee ese 40@50 Pepper, Sing. , black ........ 12 Pepper, Sing., white........ 20 Pepper, Cayenne Re oes ees 20 GR ee ce 15 SYRUPS. Corn. sc 15 Half OE ec 17 Pure Cane. eee 16 OO 20 Coe tee 2 TABLE SAUCES. Lea & Perrin’s, large..... 47% Lea & Perrin’s, small..... 2% Halford, large............ 3 75 Halford small....... ..... 2 25 Salad Dressing, large..... 4 55 Salad Dressing, small..... 2 6 m A ni 4 Bea Nt ie SNE IN aaNet telnet eee rmrcsauy te Seer MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 2\ STARCH. Kingsford’s Corn. 40 1-1b packages............. 6 m0 11> packages. ........... 614 Kingsford’s Silver Gloss. 0 1-3 packages. .......... 6% Gib bores ....... tee ae Diamond. 64106 packages ...........5 00 128 5c packages. ..o 0 32 10c and 64 5c pac ‘kages.. » © Common Corn. TID. packages ........ .. 5 401%). packares. ....... 4% Common Gloss. tip packaves............... 4 Sib paekages............. 4 Gib packages. .............. 416 40 and 50 lb boxes.......... 256 ee... 246 STOVE POLISH. Cao Sa tt ae ad El as) 4 50 20 No. 4, 3 doz in case, gross.. No. 6, 3 doz in case, gross. .! 7 SUGAR. Below are given New York prices on sugars, to which the wholesale dealer adds the local freight from New York to your shipping point, giving you credit on the invoice for the amount of freight buyer pays from the market in which he purchases to his shipping point, including 20 pounds for the weight of the barrel. DOMINGO. oe eo 5 63 a Sh 5 63 Cyrashed:.......... _..... . 6 eS OUBOR ooo, 5 3l Poma@erea: 2. 5 31 ZEN Powdered....-......5 38 Granulated in bbls... ...... 5 13 Granulated in bags..-...... 5 1 Fine Granulated............ 5 1k Extra Fine Granulated..... 5 Extra Coarse Granulated... Mould A TOBACCOS. Cigars. Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s brand. New Breck st 83 00 H. & P. Drug Co.’s brand. Guintette .....5............ 35 00 G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand. SOM: a ee Michigan Cigar Co.’s brand. Ure Unkle ere Unile 85 00 Ruhe Bros Co.'s Brands. 1 Sy a 35 00 mer era. 35 00 Wo ee ec: 35 00 Generals Grant and Lee... .35 00 Spanish Hand Made........ 35 00 NR i co cas ws oe 35 00 VINEGAR. Malt White Wine, 40 grain.... 6 Malt White Wine, 80 grain.... 9 Pove Cider. 9 Pure Cider, Leroux:........ |. 11 Washing Powder. << | Most Prensont, but Mont e: Maite Gude Ob T2 On pres 4... 3 5 WICKING. No - 0, per gross eee cae. Fish and Oysters Fresh Fish. Per lb. Wortensh .......... 9 Ons ge. a 9 Black Bass. . os @ 2 Halibut . @ Ciscoe sor Herring. @ 4 BiInegse. |. @ 10 Live Lobster. ...... @ 2 Boiled Lobster...... @ 2 Cog @ Ww MAGGoeK Ls, @ 8 No. t ee oe. @ 8 Pine... a Go 7 ia. @ 3% Smoked White...... @ 9g Red Snapper........ @ 10 Col River Salmon.. @ 10 Mackerel ....5...... @ 2% Oysters in Cans. EP. Counts. ....... @ % FP. J. D. Selects... :. a 2 pelcets 1... ke @ 2 F. J. D. Standards.. @ 20 HONOMNGS ...... 22.’ @ Oysters in Bulk Py. 1. Counts........ @1 75 Extra Selects. ...... @1 50 ee... @1 2 Anchor Standards... @1 10 PRAMS oo @ Shell Goods. Oysters, per 100.... ... 1 25@1 50 Sams, per 100 _ oe Hides and Pelts. sag Cappon & Bertsch Leather 100 Canal Street, quotes as cae Hides. Green No. t.3. 8... @8 Green NO. 2.45... . @iTt Cured No, 1... .. ea. @9 Curca No 2)... @8 Calfskins, green No. 1 @Y Calfskins, green No, 2 @ 4 Calfskins, cured No. 1 @10'4 Calfskins, cured No. 2 @9 i Furs. barge Hear...) 1 00@15 (0 BOVE. i. 50@ 6 00 Cat Wild ......2..... 5@ 2a Hisper................) Og 7 66 Red Wor. :.......: 2... 25@ 1 50 Gray Wor... 2@ 70 Cross Fox 5@ 5 00 yee... 1. a 2 ee Muskrats.. 2@ 15 oo Martin... .... beecees 25@ 3 00 Otee 1 00@ 9 00 MOGOCM osc. 10@_—s 80 per % Skink. ..:. .... 10@ 1 00 a 2U@ 1 50 Pelts. Potts. each. ........... 5O0Q@I1 00 Ta'low. Oe Be @ 2% ee @ 2 Wool. Wasbed, fine ......... @20 Washed, medium ..... @25 Unwashed, fine.... ...13 @l5 Unwashed, medium ..18 @20 Oils. Barrels MOCGHE ......5....:..- @i1% XXX W.W.Mich.Hdlt @ 83% W W Michigan........ @ 834 Diamond White... . @ 74 IE as oc rece oo @8 Deo. Naptha eee eyes i @7 Cyimder..., 2... 2 @i4 Engine oh ea B'ack, winter.. @ Candies. Stick Candy. bbls. pails 64@ 7 64@ 7 6 @8 Seamer... Standard H. H..... Standard Twist..... Omit Egat... @ 8% eases gumbo, 32 1b ..... @ 6% etre @ 8% Boston Cream...... } Mixed Candv. Competition........ @ 6 Peeeie........... @i Conserve...... @i% beogne. . @i% Se @ 8% Broken ............ G 8% Cut Boat... @ 8% English Rock....... @8 Kindergarten...... @ &% French Cream...... @ 8% Dandy Pan... ... @i0 Valley Cream.. @l2 Fancy —In Bulk. Lozenges, plain..... @ 8% Lozenges, printed.. @ 8% Ghoe! Drops... 10 @l4 Choc. Monumentals @il Gaim Drops......-. @ 6 Moss Drops...... @s8 sour Drops..... @ 8% Tmperiais |... @ 8% Fancy—In 5 tb. Boxes. Lemon Drops...... @5v Sour Drops. . . @5v Peppermint Drops. @bu Chocolate Drops ... @bv H. M. Choc. —_ @i5 Gum Drops. a G30 Licorice Drops... _. @ia A. B. Licoric e Drops @a0 Lozenges, plain. @5u Lozenges, printed. @av Tmiperiais ..... @av Mottoes . @is Cream Bar @av Molasses Bar ... @do Hand Made Creams. 80 @i 03 Plain Creams.. . 60 @9 Decorated Creams... @W Bering Rock... .._.. @ov Burnt Almonds.....1 25 @ Wintergreen Berries @6U Carameis. No. 1 en = 1b: boxes @30 No. I wrapped, 3 1b, box @45 =. 2 wrapped, 2 2 Ib Fruits. Oranges. Cal, Seedlings ...... @2 23 | Fancy Navels 112 .. te ee @3 00 | Choice. 7... @ | Lemons. Strictly choice 360s.. @3 00 |} Strictly choice 300s. . @3 25 | Fancy Sule...) |. @3 25 | Ex. Maney 300s.... . @3 50 | Ex. Faney 360s. ..... @3 7 | Bananas. Medium bunches...1 25 @I1 50 Large bunches...... 1% @2 00 Foreign Dried Fruits. Figs, Choice, 101b boxes.. @ 13 Extra choice, 14 1b BORES. @ | Fancy, 12 1b boxes.. @ 14} Imperial Mikados, 18 1D DOME6. oo... @ & Pulled, 6 lb boxes... @ ts Naturals, in bags.. @ 6% Dates. Fards in 10 lb boxes @s8 Fards in 60 ib cases @ 6 Persians, G. M’s..... @ 5% 1b cases, new...... @ 6 Sairs, 60 Ib cases 4} ee Almonds, Tarragona. . @13 Almonds, Ivaca...... @il Almonds, California, SOft shelied.......-. @13 Bractis view... 0)... @9 | Bitherts 2... @l10 Walnuts, Grenobles .. @12 Walnuts, Calif No. 1. @10 Walnuts, soft shelled 2 @ ¥ | Table Nuts, fancy.. @i0 Table Nuts, choice. @ 9 Pecans, Med.. @ 8 Pecans, Ex. Large... @Ii0 Pecans, Jumbos....... @12 Hickory Nuts per bu., Onio, new... ... 2... @1 60 Cocoanuts, full sacks @4 50 Peanuts. Pancy, H. P., Sana. @7 Fancy, H, P., Flags leet Roasted...... Choice, H. P., Extras. Choice, H. P., Extras, Reasted / Urains é and Feedstuiis | Provisions. Wheat. | Swit. & ‘Company quote as Thes ( | Whea........ - Barreled Pork. Winter Wheat Flour. | —. 10 75 | | Bae ' 11 00 Local Brands. | Clear back. 10 5U Patents... ............... 5 50 | Shortent. oe Second Patent.......... 200] 5.” | Bean 8 To Straight.. 4 80) Pamily 10 50 | Clear.. , . 440) y i ia Nal a ' Graber eT a ae Dry Salt Meats. Dbucewhest ......... _.. 3 50 | Bellies .... .. 6 ey ce oO einen 534 Subject to usual cash dis- | Extra shorts / 514 count, | : et Smoked eats. di mou bbls., 25¢ per bbl. ad- | Hams, 12 lb average 9 copay Hams, 14 lb average 83; , ol a | Hams, 16 lb average. Bl4 Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand. | Hams, 20 lb average 7% Quaker ics. _. 4% | Ham dried beef...... 14 Quaker, 8...) |... 47 | Seoulders CN. ¥. eut). 6 Quaker so. 4%} Bacon, clear... _. 4 @e i California hams.. . Spring Wheat Flour. Boneless hams. . . Cooked ham...... . ‘s@u1’ Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brand. Lards. In Ti ierces Compound.. os Kettle.. . 6% | 55 lb T abs) 0 1) “advane e 14 80 1b Tubs.......advance é 501lb Tins .......advance 8 20 1b Pails.......advance % | IO Ip Patis....._. advance % 5 1b Pails.......advance i 3 1b Pails.......advance 14 | | Sausages. | Bologna ....._. ' 5 Liver... 8 6% Frankfort a ou 8% ieee |. 6 Tongue ... 9 | Head cheese. 6% Beef. ; xtra Mess....._. . 900 | Boneless 12 25 | Rump. --.- 42 OO Pillsbury’s Best 738. > 65 | Kits, 15 pPigs’ F Peet. Pilisbury’s Best } Bl, 6 Se aa eae ae Pillsbury’s Best a 5 15 | 74 DIS, 40108)... 1... 2 Bb ii iia gh eal is, 80 Ibs 2 Piilsbury’s Best \%s paper.. 5 45 | @ bbls, 80 Ibs ay 80 Pillsbury’s Best ss paper.. 5 45 | ers Tripe. [aes fates. 7d Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand. | fy rT a sesh settee 1 40 1% bbls, ee 2% Duluth Imperial, %s....... 5 | Duluth Imperial, _ | Pork . Casings. 16 Duluth Imperial, ---- 539! Beef rounds... 11/7! 4 : | of le Sete i Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s Brand. | a er: : y Gold Medal %s............. 5 +4 Butverine, Gold Medal \4s..... | Rolls, dairy.. : 10 Gold Medal sa.) |... a | Solid, Cay. 94 PAQIAIGN, 48................ 5 45) Rolls, Crcaimery ......... 14 Parisian, t48 See eel i | Solid, creamery . 13% Parisian, $66.....0.. | Canned eats . a | Corned beef, 2 1b 2 15 Olney & Judson’s Brand. | Corned beef, 14 ae 25 Ceresona, fea. ul) 0 5 | Roast beef, 2 lb....... 2 is Ceresota, 14s Ll Soa cole — 48 es 50 Ceresota, %8.. ............. 5 45 | [otted ham, 8 : | Deviled ham, i. Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand, | Deviledham, s....... 1 00 | Petted tongue \s.... 60 oe Pe es Ba Potted tongue %s....... 1 00 | Peearee, S,.......... cess Oo OO Eevrel 45... 40 | | Crackers. — Meal . — eo I National Biscuit Co. Bolted . | ee | uotes as foliows: | Granulated . 2 ov | 4 ° | Butter. | Seyinour XXX. | Feed and Millstuffs. — mily SX 3 1b. carton 6% St. Car Feed. screened ....15 25 | Family : 6 No. 1 Corn and Oats.......14 25 | Family } >. 3 1b carton. 6% Unbolted Corn Meal.......13 75 | Salted XXX 3 Winter Wheat Bran... . .14 00 | Salted XXX. 3 Ib carton. 6% Winter Wheat Mi a. 15 00 Soda. Sereenings.... 13 00! Soda XXX. 7 Soda XXX, 3 1b carton. 7% New Corn. | Soda, City. ee 8 %¢ . io Zephyrette. iu... 20 Laon fo Long isi and Wafers....... il i oe Nafers, 1 lbearton .. 12 Oats. Oyster. | | Square Oyster, XXX. “a 6 | Car lots. .. -+ s++++ 30% | Sq. Oys. XXX,11b carton. 7 Carlots, eli pped.. 1c. oe Farina Oyster, XXX.... 6 Less than car lots. toes oe SWEET aoops- Boxes. Hay. Animals ... 10% Bent’s Cold Water...._.... 14 No. 1 Timothy arlots...... 9 00 | Belle Rose. 8 ; No. 1 Timothy, ton lots....10 00 | Cocoanut Taffy .. i 9% Coffee Cakes.... g | Progted Eloney........._.. 12% Graham Crackers |... 11.) 8 Fresh ‘Meats. | Ginger Snaps, XXX round. 7 a 1 | Ginger Snaps, XXX city. q | Gin. Snps,X XX home made 7 Beef. | Gin. Snps,X XX scalloped... 7 | ‘ma 1,1G Wanita. 8 Carcass ............... 64@ 7% | Ginger | = . rele ... . Bs | Fore quarters......... 5%@ 6 | imperia : 2 Hind quarters........ THGI | i ote Honey... — a eee os | Meolisecs Cakes....,,...... ibe loca : = } Marshmallow ............. b Rounds ........ | 6%@ 7% | Marshmallow Creams..... 16 (Giger ae aie: | Pretaels, hand msde) |.) 9 Peis @ 4 | Pretzelettes, LittlkeGerman 7 ee i | Ouear Cane................ 8 Pork. Sultanas . 1% | Sears’ ee Pressed. (0) 0 J: |. lea @5 | Vanilla Square. 844 POMON oles @ $% | Vanilla ters 000 14 BNOUIGERS .: @ 9% | Pecan Wafers.............. 15% Leak lard. ...... 54@ ' Mixed Picnic... ..._..... 16 | Cream Jumbles a Mutton. Boston Ginger Nuts........ 8% | Carcass Le cae 2 @8s Chimmie Fadden.......... 10 | Spring Lambs... ..... 8 @9 Fineappie Glace...... ..... 16 Fenny €akee... ......... 8% Veal Marshmallow Walnuts.... 16 Carease .............. 64%@ 8 Belle Isle Pieni¢........... i Crockery and | | Glassware. Pc AKRON STONEWARE. | Butters, 14 eal, perdos........... 50 btoGeal.pergal........ Si Seal pergay. 6% | 10 gal., per gal.. : 6% i122 gal., | ler aal...... 6% | 15 gal. anar tubs, per gal. 8 20 gal. meat-tubs, per gal.. 8 | 25 gal. meat tubs, pergal.. W | 30 gal. meat-tubs, per gal.. 10 Churns. | 2 to 6 gal., per gal.. 5% | Churn Dashers, per doz... 8 | Milkpans. % gal. flat or rd. bot., doz. 60 | 1 gal. flatorrd. bot.,each 5% | Fine Glazed Milkpans. % gal. flat orrd. bot.,doz. 65 = 1 gal. flatorrd. bot.,each 5% = Stewpans. | % gal. fireproof, bail, doz. 85 | 1 gal. fireproof, bail, doz.1 10 | Jugs. | 3 Sal... per Gog........... 40 [4 gal. perdoz.... ........ Ser} | tO 5 gal, pergal......... 6% Tomato Jugs. 1 onl perdas........ |. 70 eT 7 | Corks for % gal., per doz.. 20 | Corks for 1 gal., perdoz.. 30 | Preserve Jars and Covers. | 4% gal., stone cover, doz... %5 1 gal., stone cover, doz...1 00 Sealing Wax. 5 lbs. in package, perlb... 2 LAMP BURNERS, OO eee 45 NOt Ba, 50 | No. 2 Sun 75 | Tubular 50 | Security, No. 1 65 | Security, No. 2......... -. Oe ee a 1 50 LAMP CHIMNEYS—Common. | Per box of 6 — (Ne OS... | No. 1 San. ae (ae. 2 Sag 27 | First -. | No. 0 Sun, crimp top, wrapped and ae . 210 [No I San, erin top, | wrapped and label ea.... 225 | No. 2 Sun, crimp top, wrapped and heed. . 8% XXX Flint, No. 0 Sun, crimp top, wrapped and labeled.... 2 55 No. 1 Sun, crimp top, wrapped and labeled. 2% No. 2 Sun, crimp top, | wrapped and labeled. 8 75 CHIMNEYS—Pearl Top. No.1 Sun, wrapped and Iabeleg,. No. 2 Sun, wrapped and labeled... No, 2 Hinge, wrapped ‘and labe ee. No.2 Sun, “Small Bulb,” | for Globe Rapes... ... .. | La Bastie. No. 1 Sun. plain bulb, per doz No. 2 Sun, _— bulb, a doz 1 50 No. t Cc ‘rimp, per doz... 1 35 No. 2 Crimp, per doz... ... 1 60 Rochester, No. 1, Lime (65¢ doz). .... 3 50 | No. 2 ” Lime (We dos)...... 400 No. 2 ’ Flint (80e dos)...... 470 Electric. | No. 2, Lime (70c doz) ..... 4 00 | No. 2, Flint (80e doz)...... 4 40 OIL CANS, Doz. | 1 gal tin cans with spout.. 1 25 | 1 gal galy iron with spout. 1 65 | 2 gal galv iron with spout. 2 87 | 3 gal galv iron with spout. 3 50 5 gal galv iron with spout. 4 75 | 3 gal galv iron with faucet 4 75 | 5 gal cane iron with faucet 5 25 o Gal Tilting cams.......... 8 00 | 5 gal galv iron Nacefas.... 9 00 Pump Cans, 5 gal Rapid steady stream. 9 00 5 gal Eureka non —, 10 56 3 gal Home Rule.. - «10 50 15 > eemee Tie. 12 00 | ogal Pirate King ......... 9 50 | LANTERNS. | No. OVahuiar 0 1... 4 25 [No. 1B Tabular..... 6 50 | No. 13 Tubular Dash.. .... 6 30 | No. 1Tub., glassfount.... 7 00 | No. 2 Tubular, side lamp. 14 . | No. 3Street Lamp....... =e LANTERN GLOBES. No. 0 Tubular, cases 1 doz. each, box 10 cents.. ..... 45 No. 0 Tubular, cases 2 doz. each, box 15 cents No. 0 Tubular, bbis 5 doz. oe 40 No. 0 Tubular, bull’s eye, | cases 1 doz. Caen ou | LAMP WICKS, Pept cnk or mneghenee : 20 | NO. P PGE SPOR, cane... cc .ae 25 | No. @ Or gross ............ oe [NGL Shee erase = | Rane, 8... a 22 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN . Hardware_ the Hardware Silent Salesmen of Dealer. Silent Salesmen! Those inanimate aids to business which yet speak louder than the men who make use of them, and make or mar the merchant's pros- perity, according as they are controlled ; that work night and day, week days, Sundays and holidays, rain or shine; that don't go to funerals in the baseball season, don’t throw business to the winds every time a brass band comes up the street, nor try to flirt with lady customers; exacting in their require- ments as a tax gatherer, yet yielding faithfully good returns for fair treatment. The name of the first is the store front. It stands to an establishment as the face to a man, and the wayfarer is attracted or repelled by the first impres- sion of the outside of a place just as he is by the first sight of a person’s coun- tenance. One does not associate thrift with an unpainted building any more than with an unwashed face, nor does he expect courteous, intelligent, satis- factory service when he enters a store the very outside of which proclaims a man indifferent toappearance. A dingy, weather-beaten sign, second story win- dows rendered light-proof with dirt, a broken step or badly arranged entrance, old worthless samples displayed outside, ashes dumped into the road before the door—each and all betoken a_ laxity that will in all probability find further expression within, and cause a_ pro- spective purchaser to seek further. Nor should the merchant go to the other extreme. A door front can be made to assume a too smart appearance that is as fatal to confidence as_ sloven- liness. A book could be written on in- dividuality in store fronts. The dude, the smark aleck, the sluggard, the solid citizen and the pretentious humbug find their exponents in the fronts of differ- ent hardware stores, just as certain types of femininity are exhibited in others in other lines of trade. The store front should be made inviting in ap- pearance, and in general effect set forth the character and magnitude of the business done within—or perhaps carry an impression a little in advance of the real truth, just as the proprietor’s ideal is above the reality. Next in order, and equal in 1mpor- tance, come the show windows, the eyes in the store’s face, through which the business looks forth at the buyer, ogling and cajoling him, captivating his er- rant fancy and creating hot desire, or repulsing by indifference to his opinion, even as is the way of a maid witha man. ‘There is a general recognition of the importance of having the show windows well and frequently dressed, and yet one does see lamentabie cases of neglect and ill judgment in this re- gard—where the goods from a dozen different lines are arranged in a jumble that fails to make any impression what- ever upon the casual observer, or where the same articles are displayed week after week without change. The aver- age hardware dealer has a consuming desire for dollars, and is not wont to be sparing of exertion where anything is to be gained. So it is pretty safe to say that when his show windows are not all they ought to be it is through lack of proper knowledge or taste. The former be can remedy when he discovers his need, but if the fault lie in the latter he will do well to cast among his clerks for latent talent or call in outsiders to help him, for the show windows, com- manding the attention of the people more surely and constantly than any other one thing he can devise, can be made his very best salesman. Window trimming. Bottles of ink have been spilled and reams of paper wasted in the endeavor to tell the mer- chant how his windows’ should’ be trimmed, but there is one thing that the self-styled experts all seem to miss, and that is, that the window should show forth the merchant's personality. Give Jones, Brown and Smith the same as- sortment of cutlery for the windows and the three displays will be widely differ- ent—and they should be, with a differ- ence founded in the peculiar quirks of the make-up of each, although to get the best results all must observe a_ very few—two or three—plain rules that form about all there is to three-fourths of the articles that are written concerning window display: Cleanliness, neatness and light. But one line of goods at a time. Frequent changes. The third of the silent salesmen is the advertisement, whose work lies out- side the store, going to the homes and business places of the purchasing pub- lic and soliciting favors for the mer- chant, with accounts of bargain sales, dear to the heart of the good housewife, tools for the artisan, implements for the farmer, hammocks and bicycles for the summer girl, sporting goods for the swaggering youth and all sorts of things for the head of the family. It catches its victims when they are in a receptive mood, seeking for new impressions and devouring what is set before them in their paper. It silently tells its tale, and if it fails to interest the first time, it retires with honors and comes again and again with new temptations until it makes a customer for its sender. This is the age of printers’ ink. Great are the ‘‘advertisement,’’ the ‘‘ write up,’’ the ‘“‘free puff,’’ the ‘‘reading notice’’ and the ‘‘fake’’ scheme, and thrice blessec is that ironmonger who knows how to employ them to get the maximum of results with the minimum of expense. The advertising manager of one of the great monthlies says in a burst of confidence that only about ro per cent. of his patrons make it pay to advertise, but of the purely local adver- tisers it is probable that less than to per cent. find that it does not pay. A merchant must advertise, or spiders will spread their nets across his doorway. The public expects it of him and goes to buy at stores the proprietors of which pronounce them as the best and largest, with finest stocks and lowest prices—and if the proprietor doesn’t know, who does? If a fellow will tell us a thing often enough and forcibly enough, we will in time accept it as truth and finally an- nounce it as a fact we ourselves evolved, with additions and enlargements accord- ing to the scope of our imagination. In this fact lies the power of the press to mould public opinion, and it also fur- nishes the wise advertiser a powerful lever for advancement if he wil! claim for himself and his business every ad- vantage he truthfully can (truthfully, mind!), do it persistently and forcibly, and see to it that the people whom his advertisements draw to his store do not go away disappointed. ‘‘He that blow- eth not his own horn the same shall not be blowed,’’ and it behooves the wise blower to see that his neighbor’s trom- bone does not drown the sound of his own penny whistle. SACRIFICE SALE PLANT OF THE LANSING LUMBER CO. o——aa ails property is one of the finest equipped plants of its kind in the State. It is fitted with the latest improved and best kinds of woodworking machinery, centrally located on one of the principal avenues of the city and everything is complete for any first-class business adapted to such a plant. The property must be sold to settle an estate. For further particulars address, Horace Lapham, or Chas. C. Longstreet, Lansing, Michigan. se Red EN The Very We quote Best Factory NOVELTY GLUE FLAMES 7 Oa Blue Flame Prices. Oil Send for Stove Circular on the and Market. Discount. SYRUP CANS Round and Square Sap Pails and Sap Pans Write for prices, Wm. Brummeler & Sons, Manufacturers, Grand Rapids, Mich. Factory and Salesrooms 260 S. lonia St. treet ii iia tesla nla ath eM as A i ok Se ieee et ee ere ere eee re al Fourth comes good stationery, and it is surprising how little value isZoften placed upon this valuable assistant to a good impression. It is recognized that the largest firms in the country all use good stationery, and the appearance of the letter alone will generally determine the commercial importance of the writ- er. It costs very little if any more tor good, well-arranged letter heads, bill heads, statement blanks and envelopes than for poor ones, and the increased effect produced upon a prospective cus- tomer is tremendously cheap at the price, and will at times alone suffice to turn the scale of a wavering buyer's favor. Fifth is punctuality, promptness in delivering goods, sending bills and collecting accounts. The customer who gets his goods quickly is pleased. He wants his bill at once, to see that all is right regarding the price, and if pay- ment is exacted when due he is apt to remain the merchant’s friend. It is the fellow to whom extended credit is given, and who let his bills stand until they are long past due, who falls out with the merchant, leaves him fora competitor and repays his kindness by making slurring comments to his in- jury. And still the force of silent salesmen increases. The dodger, labor savers, full stocks, convenient stores, all deserve due credit for the good work they do in aiding the merchant to increase his sales. His ‘‘silent salesmen’’ form a longer list than that which is found up- on his pay-roll, and the wise hardware- man will see that they are all employed and doing their best to help him in his race for supremacy in his field of en- deavor. JoHN HABERMAN. ——+_~>-9 2 The Hardware Market. Trade for March is very satisfactory, as dealers in the surrounding towns are finding quite a revival in business. There is but little change to note in prices and of what the future will bring forth it is hard to form an idea. Wire Nails—Wire nails are quiet and it is now believed there is no prospect of the large consolidation of all the wire and nail mills going into effect. Prices, however, remain firm and it is not be- lieved there will be any material ad- vances just for the present. We quote $1.50 at mill, but if a carload buyer was in the market, this price could probably be shaded. Barbed Wire—Conditions controlling the prices of nails are those governing the wire and prices remain as quoted in our last report. The demand continues good and it is believed there will be a large trade on wire the coming spring. Window Glass—All indications point to an advance in window glass, which, if it takes place, will undoubtedly put a stop to the excessive cutting that has been going on of late between various jobbers of window glass. Rope—Prices are firm and with an advancing tendency on all kinds of cordage. This is caused by great scar- city of the fiber which goes into the manufacture of rope and which has been steadily advancing during the past sixty days. Those who are con- versant with the inside facts prophesy that prices will be fully maintained during the spring months, Reports from other markets are as follows: St. Louis: Hardware trade continues to show daily improvement, Chicago: Jobbers report trade de- cidedly active. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Omaha: The movement of all kinds of hardware from this point has been very heavy and very satisfactory to the jobbing fraternity. Louisville: There is active demand for most articles of hardware, particu- larly those pertaining to agricultural use, San Francisco: Trade continues to show encouraging improvement and prospects point to a very good year. St. Paul: Trade in the Northwest has begun a month earlier this year than usual and is starting in with a great deal of vigor. New Orleans: Business fairly active in this section. Cleveland: The movement in continues hard- ware has been excellent since our last writing. SS Electricity Necessary to Keep the Human Dynamo Vigorous. Next to the welfare of the human soul one of the most important things in life is the sole of the foot. ‘[o this gener- ally overlooked and disregarded part of human anatomy may be attributed a large number of the ills which flesh is beir to. Physicians will tell us that the sole of the foot is a network of nerves that radiate like telegraph wires to different portions of the body. A disturbance of the nerves of the feet will therefore cause hygienic troubles that may be- come serious. Who knows but that Napoleon might have conquered Russia if he had kept the soles of his feet and the feet of his soldiers warm? Up to recent years physicians have never given a thought to the possibility of hygienic connection ‘ between the soles a the feet and the eyes. Yet it is often the case that where a man with perspiring feet uses a powder to stop the trouble he is at once attacked by a wondertul running of water from the eyes and loss of sight. Rubbers constantly worn will often cause a similar trouble. The latest ad- vances of science concede the fact that the nervous system is to all intents and purposes the electrical system of the! body. It is necessary, physicians say, that this system should have direct connec- tion with the earth, more especially through the soles of the feet, as this is the most highly organized nerve surface of any in our bodies. This is why we cannot bear tickling on our feet with a straw or feather. Disturb the natural currents between the feet and the earth in any way and the consequences are inevitable. One person will be stricken with blindness, another deafness, another baldness, or cancer or consumption or heart failure, decayed teeth, rheumatism, neuralgia, or indeed any other unnatural or dis- eased state of the body. Diseases caused by neglected soles affect different subjects in divers ways simply because some are weak in one place and some in another, the partic- ular location being determined entirely by the idiosyncrasies of constitution. From certain physiological causes the eyes are perhaps in all cases the first organs plainly damaged by the insula- tion of the feet. But although they are more directly injured they are not more damaged than other organs are in time from the same cause. OOS OO8O99OS96096966969004 FOR SALE Broom Factory complete, with capacity of 60 to 75 dozen brooms per day. Steam sewers and all necessary machinery for operating same. Factory now in operation with established trade. Best rea- sons for selling. Address “Broom Factory,” care of Michigan Trades- man. Hardware Price Current. AUGURS AND BITS . 70 CCUMMIRE SOARING | 25410 Jennings’, imitation a . .60&10 AXES First aaety S. B. Bronze . 5 00 Pacet Quality, DE. Browse. 9 50 First Quality, S. B. S. Steel. bit etecess OO ares Chrite. PB Steet 10 50 BARROWS Pere aa an £4 on Cee net 30 00 Stove aa Ace at aah wl ia 604£10 Carriage new list.. ........ «+ os face Se 50 BUCKETS Well, plain... ee ee 8 3 25 BUTTS, CAST Cast Loose Pin, figured... _ .......... ee Wrought Narrow eee 70&10 BLOCKS Oeetiiney Teele 70 CROW BARS Cast Steel... ..... per lb 4 CAPS Riy 6 11d... ee per m 65 ee pen ay 5d ee eh 35 CE er i 60 CARTRIDGES Oe ee, eS Central Fire... a CHISELS pocnes Pimentel 80 ores Pia... 80 mocret Cee 80 et ee So DRILLS Morse’s Bit Stocks . oe 60 Taper and Straight Shank, <2. ee Ss Morse’s ‘laper Shank.. 1-2. ....... see o ELBOWS Com. 4 piece, Gin... |. doz. net 30 ee 13 BOOMER dis 40610 EXPANSIVE BiTS Clark's small, $18; a ee Ives’, 1, $18; 2, $24; oe 25 je a List New American . -. 7&10 PICHON A 70 Heller’s Horse Rasps.. ...-. a GALVANIZED IRON Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26; 27. 28 List 12 13 14 15 i, .... 17 Discount, 75 to 75-10 GAUGES Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s...............60&10 KNOBS—New List Door, mineral, jap. trimmings... Sa 70 Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings... ee ea cua, MATTOCKS Be ve $16 00, dis 60&10 PORE NG $15 00, dis 60410 ee $18 50, dis 20&10 NAILS Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire. pace Hae Gane. 8 | 65 Wire nalis, base..... . Lt meee G@ladvanee. 8. s.... 8, Bese i te tGSauanoe cs... Bamvweee, te... et... 10 Coe... 2 SOGVAMO 30 eee ee 45 waOveee 70 Mnesuivance 50 Casing 10 advance.. ec, 15 Cree GUase le 25 a 30 OH WAV ARCO occ sec ecu 5 Baie SOGvenee 35 Puen GC aawenee. 45 earree & Sdvanee 85 MILLS Coffee, Parkers Co.’s..... 40 Coffee, P. S. & W. Mfg. Co os Malleables.. 40 Coffee, Landers, eT & & Clark’ S. . 40 Coffee, Enterprise. . " i 30 MOLASSES GATES Stebbin’s Pattern. _ oo .. 60410 Stbbbens Gennine 60&10 Enterprise, self-measuring . oe ae 30 PLANES ete to Cee, Eaew. tt... @50 CMe Oe Sandusky Tool Co.’s, — ee las ea @50 Bench, first quality... a. oe Stanley Rule and Level Co.'s wood......... 60 PANS Fry, Acme. ae. . -60&10&10 Common, polished. Nee te ae weal Chicago. ly. G. Rapids... ....°..: 8:45am 1:25pm *11:30pr Ar Caicago,.........-.- 3:10pm 6:50pm 6:40an iy. Cnieago..:.. 1... .. 7:20am 5:15pm *11:30pn Ar. G@’d Rapids....... . 1:25pm 10:35pm * 6:2)an Traverse City, Charlevoix and Petoskey. iy. Gid Rapids... 7°. |...) 7:30am 5:30pm Parlor and Sleering Cars on afternoon and night trains to and from Chicago. *Every day. Others week days only. DETROIT,“ snes Detroit. Ly. Grand Rapids...... 7:00am 1:35pm 5:35pm Ar. Detroit........ --.11:40am 5:45pm 19:20pr Ly. Detroit........ .... 8:00am 1:10pm 6:10pm Ar. Grand Rapids..... 12:55pm 5:20pm 10:55pr Saginaw, Alma and Greenville. Lv. G R7:10am 4:20pm Ar. G R 12:20pm 9:30pr Parlor cars on all trains to and from Detroit and Saginaw. Trains run week days only. Gro. DEHAvEN, General Pass. Agent. T GERAND rrerts aca xiieenee ni (In effect January 19, 1898 ) EAST. Leave. Arrive. + 6:45am Sag., Detroit, Buffalo & N Y .+ 9:55pm +10:10am... ...Detroit and East.... ..+ 5:07pm + 3:30pm..Sag., Det., N. Y. & Boston..+12:45pm *10:45pm... Detroit, East and Canada...* 6:35ain +ii: 10am: |... Mixed to Dureand........ + 3:15pm WEST * 7:00am....Gd. Haven and Int. Pts....#10:15pm +12:53pm.Gd. Haven and Intermediate.+ 3:22pm + 5:12pm....Gd. Haven Mil. and Chi....+10:05am +10:00pm...... Gd. Haven and Mil... 5... Eastward—No. 14 has Wagner parlor car. No. 18 parlor car. Westward—No. 11 parlor car. No. 15 Wagner parlor car. *Daily. rr Sunday. E. H. Huewss, A. G. P. & T. A. BEn. FLETCHER, Trav. Pass. Agt., C. A. Justin, City Pass. Agent. No. 23 Monroe St Rapids & Indiana Railway Dec. 5, 1897. Northern Div. Leave Arrive Tray. C’y, Petoskey & Mack...+ 7:45am + 5:15pm Tray. C’y, Petoskey & Mack...t 2:15pm + 6:35am Wrav. C’y, Petoskey & Mack... ........ $10:50pm Camiiae 2. + 5:25pm til:15am Train leaving at 7:45 a. m. has parlor car, and train leaving at 2:15 p. m. has sleeping car to Mackinaw. Southern Diy. Leave Arriv: Cincinnatl..........: .-t 7:10am +t 8:25pr- Ft. Wayne..... -+ 2:10pm + 2:00prn Cincinnati..... -* 7:09pm * 7:25ar 7:10 a.m. train has parlor car to Cincinnati 210 p.m. train has psrlor car to Fort Wayne. 7:00 p.m train has sleeping car to Cincinnati. Muskegon Trains. GOING WEST. Ly @’d Rapids......... +7:35am +1:00pm +5:49p: Ar Muskegon.......... 9:00am 2:10pm 7:(5-m GOING EAST. Ly Muskegon....... .. +8:10am +t11:45am +4:0)pr ArG’d Rapids... ..... 9:30am 12:55ypm 4 2)pr tExcept Sunday. *Daily {Saturday only. Cc. L. LOCKWOOD, Gen’! Passr. and Ticket Agent. DULUT ; South prea Atlantic It is poor economy to handle cheap flour. It is never reliable. You cannot guarantee it. You de not know whether it will make good bread or not. If it should not make good bread —and poor flour never does— your customer will be displeased and avoid you afterwards. You can guarantee... “Lily White” Flour We authorize you to do so. It makes good bread One sack sold to-day will bring every time. customers for two sacks later on. Order some NOW. Valley City Mitling Co. Grand Rapids, Mich. POOR ECONOMY W It pays any dealer to have the reputa- W W tion of keeping pure goods. W W It pays any dealer to keep the Seymour WW WW Cracker. W W There’s a large and growing section of W W the public who will have the best, and W W with whom the matter of a cent or soa W W pound makes no impression. It’s not W W HOW CHEAP with them; it’s HOW W W GOOD. W W For this class of people the Seymour W W Cracker is made. W/ AN Discriminating housewives recognize AN AN its superior WN i FLAVOR, PURITY, m a DELICIOUSNESS A AN and will have it. AN JN If you, Mr. Dealer, want the trade of MN AN particular people, keep the Seymour MN AN Cracker. Made by aN N ; ou | aN National Biscuit Company, Mn AN Grand Rapids, Mich. MN pbdbbkdd bok | » .. B . t wes 10) 3S ‘Cough Drops : . i THE C.BLOM, uri CANDY CO., HOLLAND,~ MICH ——$—$————_____} SASS RRR ¥ RIT Poe cpreheche fe Befoshoefoafe . ic Seeee eters, Te Scete For Sale by Leading Jobbers. ark & Lumber Co., 527 and 528 Widdicomb Building, Grand Rapids, Mich. CU. CLARE: President. W. D. WADE, Vice-President. M. M. Crark, Pie ee hb se | Sec’y and Treas. We are now ready to make : =: contracts for bark for the WEN R season of 1898. Correspond- has Pes MAC i. ence solicited. =e = ae pnt amt WEST BOUND. Ly. Grand Rapids (G. R. & L.)+11:10pm = +7:45am Ly. Mackinaw City............ 7:35am 4:20pm Ap Se lenges... oo... 2s. 9:00am 5:20pm Ar. Sault Ste. Marie. 12:20pm 9:50pm 2:50pm 10:40pm 5:20pm 12:45am Ar. Marquette eu At, Nestoria. ...... Ae: Daluth......... ee 8:30am EAST BOUND. LP ee +6 :30pm es PICHUOE coed +l1:l5am 2:45am AY. Marquette. 9.0.6)... 1:30pm = 4:30am Ly. Sauit Ste, Marie... ...):.: | Sate oS Ar. Mackinaw City. ......... 8:40pm 11:00am G. W. Hipparp, Gen. Pass. Agt. Marquette. E. C. Oviatt, Trav. Pass. Agt., Grand Rapids TRAVEL VIA F. & P. M. R. R. AND STEAMSHIP LINES TO ALL POINTS IN MICHIGAN H. F. MOELLER, a. a. P. a. a 4 The Leader of all Bond Papers Made from New Rag Stock, Free from Adulteration, Perfectly Sized, Long Fiber Magna Charta Bond A paper that will withstand the ravages of Time. Carried in stock in all the standard sizes and weights by TRADESMAN COMPANY Manufacturer’s Agent, GRAND RAPIDS. a ee ie Ne eT eT Ne v eer -GANNED FRUITS i Owing to the Tia shortage of fruit in our State last season, we are having an unprecedented sale on all kinds GANNED VEGETABLES of Canned Goods. Musselman Grocer Company Grand Rapids, Mich. Don’t let your stock get low. Look out for higher prices on Tomatoes. 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