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Cet COUPON PREMIUMS For 2 Coupons. Rubber Dating Stamp, TEE worth 40 cents; prints, ‘“‘Paid,” “Ans’d, ee “Rec'd,” ““Acp’d,” “Ent’d,” and dates to 1903. For 3 Coupons, Patent Pneumatic @6e Ink Bottle worth 60 cents: pressure into funnel top brings up ink from center of a5 bottle; no thick ink with this. For 6 Coupons, 4 gross Fly Buttons, delivered. tee TO START YOUR TRADE We furnish through jobber, free Gee samples for your customers, S35 We are the only firm doing this; it increases sales 500 per cent. Try it. If your ‘te jobber don,t fill your order, upon receipt of price we ship direct, paying charges. 7 ORDER FROM JOBBERS. t¢ tt : THE FLY BUTTON CO., “t ; MAUMEE, OHIO. : SARARABEREAEAEAEARAEEEEEAEALEEAEEEEE EEE EE EEEEEEEEY “Tis not in nature to command success, but well do more. Sempronius, we'll deserve it.” MUSTARD versus SALUICE. BAYLE’S HORSERADISH MUSTARD Is the ORIGINAL and GENUINE Horseradish Mustard. OR centuries the English have been known as great mustard-eaters—the greatest in the world. They differ from the Southern races, such as the French, Spanish, Italian, etc., in that they rank condiments higher than sauces. True, they manufacture and export sauces, but they prefer for their own use condiments, and the greatest of all condiments is mustard. The average Englishman delights in having his mustard prepared for him fresh every day. There seems to be a reason for this Sauces, although appetizing, are made with drugs and are more or less disguised in their nature and artificial in their effects. Mustard, on the con- trary, strengthens the natural tone of the stomach, increases the flow of the gastric juice, and thereby promotes the general bodily health. It is probably on account of this power of giving life to the system and enabling it to throw off unhealthy products that the English in former years used mustard as a medium of purifying the blood in skin diseases and similar ailments. For some time past we have made quite a study of mustard, its proper preparation and the reservation of its qualities. Our line of mustards is quite complete, and each and all will be ound to be so put up and packed as to last for years in perfect condition SOLE MAKER... GEO. A. BAYLE, ST. LOUIS, U. S. A. 00000000 0004605000000060000060000000000000000008 SOOO OOOSO OOOO 0000000000 For Sale by Wholesale and Retail Grocers Throughout the United States. 9OO9O0O9F 09969 90O 9999S SSHHSHHHHOO GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 1898. POODSDOS SOHO OOOS SOOO OHHHSOOHHOSSHS FOOG0000 0000090 H 00 CANNED FRUITS ~GANNED VEGETABLES Joc ee | i 2}, te — shortage of fruit in our State last season, we are having an unprecedented sale on all kinds of Canned Goods. Musselman Grocer Company Grand Rapids, Mich. Don’t let your stock get low. Look out for higher prices on Tomatoes. Ask our salesmen about those Nunley, Hines & Co.’s e$e6 Soeens -—____—— CANNED FISH = ANNED MEATS bbb bbe dO CoO OO to Oy OO OO by Or br by by Oe Oy br by bn bn Oy by by br bn bo, bn bn bn bn bn bn by bn de bp in i iy tp FV FOV GF OOO OGG OOO OOO OE OF OOO FOG OV OV VV SO SVU FV VV OSV SD yPYwvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvVvvVvv_VvVvVvvVvGeC?™* POP DO DG GG VV VG OU VV VV VG Sb GbbbGbbbbbobbeb bbbbbob bbe bo bn bn dnb tndn tn FP PVP FOS BGG FS OSG VS SV OVS SVS OD SSCS WW It pays any dealer to have the reputa- WW WW tion of keeping pure goods. W W It pays any dealer to keep the Seymour W W : 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 WV For this class of people the Seymour WW W Cracker is made. W AN Discriminating housewives recognize MN WN its superior WN Mn FLAVOR, PURITY, ms a DELICIOUSNESS rN AN and will have it. A MN If you, Mr. Dealer, want the trade of AN AN particular people, keep the Seymour AN AN Cracker. Made by an aM National Biscuit Company, aM MW Grand Rapids, Mich. WN POS OOOO OO OS 99090909 96000000 09064056 00900600 606000008 we UNKLE / Long Havana Filler, e Cigar SUMATRA WRAPPER HAND MADE // S00- HUNDRED |/ SCENE APrEcE | 10C. Cigar / BEST CIGAR FOR THE PRICE mower caw Prooucé || For 5C. h : Michigan OO OOO0000000000000 00 =< ia Co. 3 $ Big Rapids, ; Mich. 8000000000004 0000040000000000000000000000000000000 TOTS TSS SOOO OOO OUUUUUU UU OOOO ssosoyes 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. FEED AND MEAL Strictly pure corn and oats goods. No oat-hulls, 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. Ro & W., GR SE Roe Pl MM, SN Be or Ann Arbor R. Rs. Correspondence solicited. Walsh=DeRoo Milling Co. Holland, Mich. Michigan Bark & Lumber Co., 527 and 528 Widdicomb Building, Grand Rapids, Mich. EE if i —— U oe... Pia i. U, CEARK. President. W. D. WADE, Vice-President. M. M. Crark, Secy and Treas. We are now ready to make contracts for bark for the season of 1898. Correspond- ence solicited. WS DEED » DEAD > Deb Wb ib DF bib ‘Vb DEAD bE AIDE AID > Bag eee Sa INLET NINN = We i AY 5 ) » yy, a, Dy y yi ») Ds De yy Ds », sj i ») » Py De 2: SAND UN Za 3 iS a d ies) 2 Spring Trade = 5 eS EH / | eZ ma will be very satisfactory we me a ! i we Bi to you if you install our we Be System of Advertising ms ea now. We are offering a Pe Bx | e YE Zg mS = Special Inducement & Pk Xe A Ee ze for new customers. ke ES eC A i a aw) em Write and we will tell ve a you about it. ; NG 2. e e ‘Ee Za Stebbins Manufacturing Co., we Z : as wee EM Lakeview, Michigan. - C gy ee a XE Zh oS ee De N. B. We want a few more 1S ee Commission men who wish a Xe Ee good side line. 2 De Mention TRADESMAN, es ML XE De te a wx << ae we x wae as rae vx wae va rx. vat x wx 5 sat DEALERS IN ILLUMINATING AND LUBRICATING NAPHTHA AND GASOLINES Office and Works, BUTTERWORTH AVE., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Bulk works’at Grand Rapids, Muskegon, Manistee, Caaillac, Big Rap- ids, Grand Haven, Traverse City, Ludington, Allegan, Howard City, Petoskey, Reed City, Fremont, Hart, Whitehall, Holland and Fennville eZ E OMILLS IN BND 25 ROUN <2 op GROUND, MEpy pcfe oN is IN HOUR” © Be R55 90 Tr soit a aN = uct LIST PRICE: MS “ EUREKA eumtre, $15,00PrR poz “ DINGREE pcr, 1200+ « “FUREKASack, 7,000 © DISCOUNT TERS For Sale by Jobbers. 4 ACRES IN oD: —, 2106 Hy 2. Liberal Discount to Dealers. The ‘*‘EUREKA”’ for 1858. With Improved Tube and “Stud” Lock. As the tube is largest at the bottom, perfectly round all the way down, and free from obstructing bolt or rivet heads, it cannot clog, and as the “Stud”’ Lock relieves all tension on the front jaw, it cannot pick up the seed. The “EUREKA” is 20 per cent. faster in light or mel- low soil than any Stick Handle Planter made. THE PINGREE™ The **PINGREE,’’ with “Stud” lock. The handiest best finished and most durable Stick Handle Planter on the market. S ON Sop kts mo HEAVY So, ROu,! Moy: The “EUREKA” and the “PINGREE” are the only “| Hand Potato Planters with Self-Locking jaws or adjustable : depth gauge. As the jaws lock automatically the instant the Planter is raised free from the ground, the potato cannot drop through, nor can it force the jaws apart so as to permit the earth to enter between them and thus crowd the seed ta the surface as the beak enters the ground. Every tool warranted to work perfectly. GREENVILLE PLANTER CO., Sole Mirs., Greenville, Mich. ns ae encane > * i _ peter f ti t * berarpcencontl Vas aca y ah ) 0 Volume XV. ° Rare Chance for Small Capital. A plant equipped for planing, resawing, turning, inside finishing, etc., costing originally over $10,- ooo, offered for about one-third that. Good condi- tion. Now in operation. Just taken on debt by present owners who have other business. Grow- Ing city, 8,000 population. Fine surrounding country. Good opening forlumber yard. Certain ly a sNAp. Easy terms City, Mich. The Commercial Credit Company, L'' of Grand Rapids, Mich. We guarantee the payment of all moneys col- lected by our representatives in the United States and Canada when claims are receipted tor by us. L. J. STEVENSON, Manager and Notary. R. J. CLELAND, Attorney. Lock Box 7, Traverse We are ready to buy for CASH Car Lots or Mill Cuts Pine and Cedar Shingles OO9OOOOW ¢ q q | Write us stating kind, amount on hand and price. C. C. Follmer & Co., 13 Fountain St., Grand Rapids, Mich. < F® OO 9O9SO 990909000000 HE FIRE $ v INS. 7 7? oo Prompt, Conservative, Safe. J.W.CHAMPLIN, Pres. W. FRED McBarn, Sec 090000000000 PREFERRED BANKERS LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN. Commenced Business September 1, 1893. basuiance in force $2,746,000.00 Net Increase during 1897... 5... | ._... 104,000.00 Met msseis. 32,738.49 Losses Adjusted and Unpaid.......... None Other Eiapiiites ooo None Total Death Losses Paid to Date...... 40,061.00 Total Guarantee Deposits Paid to Ben- Cae 812.00 Death Losses Paid During 18g7 ....... 17,000.00 Death Ratefor (Sg)... 6. 6.31 Cost per 1,000 at age 30 during 1897.... 8.25 FRANK E. ROBSON, Press. TRUMAN B. GOODSPEED, Src’y. ; 00000000 00000000000 lf You Hire Help —.- You should use our Perfect Time Book ~~——and Pay Roll. Made to hold from 27 to 60 names and sell for 75 cents to $2. Send for sample leaf. BARLOW BROS., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 00000000000 00000000 3 bbb bobo bnba bo bab bn bo bn bn by be bn le 9OOO6000 00000006000 -: rYvvvvvYvYVvVvVvVvVYVY_yVvVUYyYW?Y?w?w+?*" i i i i Li hi hi ha hi hi hi hi ha hp hi bp ho hn i hd i hf _——_ Prices, styles, fit and make guaranteed by KOLB & SON, Ovpest, most reliable wholesale cloth- ing manufacturers in Rochester, N. Y. See our $4 Spring Overcoats and Suits. Spring line of fine goods—excellent. Write our Michigan agent, WiLL1amM CoNNorR, ee ed Box 346, Marshall, Mich., or meet him at Sweet’s Hotel, Grand Rapids, Thursday and Friday, April7 and 8. He has been with us 16 years and will use you right Cus- tomers’ expenses allowed. ryvvvuvvuvwvyvyvwvvevuvvVVTT?Tt?* vw i i i hi hi ha ha ha be a hr SGSGSOGH6 H4G646 46446444 yuvuvuvuvuvvvvvvvvvvvyvvvwvvvdq™ i i i i i i i hi i ha i ha ha da a a ha ha a he ha he A sbcis: TRADESMAN COUPONS ve Save Dollars WINTER LETTUCE. Origin of the Industry Among Grand Rapids Growers. The growing of winter lettuce is an interest of considerable importance in this city and neighborhood, and the va- riety universally recognized as the best for winter growing the country over had its origin in this city and is known as the Grand Rapids Forcing. It is the variety that the growers of the Pacific Coast and of the Atlantic shore alike call for, and all the great middle coun- try uses it and its fame has even spread to foreign lands. It is a lettuce that will grow rapidly, that will not rot at the roots or in the leaf, that will be ten- der to eat and that will stand shipment without wilting. It possesses all the virtues of good lettuce and has come to be recognized as the standard for winter cultivation, The lettuce growing industry started in this city about twenty years ago. Eugene Davis and his father were its founders. They had a little 20x50 hot- house out on Kalamazoo avenue,and the demand for winter lettuce in those days was so light that the first crop was brought into town in market baskets and peddled around among the grocers. It did not appear in the market until March, and it was looked upon asa good deal of a curiosity, and with the snow still on the ground and the river clogged with ice, there was no mad rush among the people to buy it. The citizens of Grand Rapids had not at that time acquired the habit of liking vegetables and fruits out of season. They were content to wait for nature to bring things around in her own proper time. Lettuce and radishes and young onions were not due until May or June, and to have them offered in March was an innovation which they looked upon with suspicion and distrust. Those who overcame their scruples in this respect —and the sight of the fresh green in the market basket had a wonderfully quiet- ing effect on compunctions of this kind —cheerfully paid 20 to 30 cents a pound for their lettuce, and the demand for it gradually increased. The Davis plant was increased in size and then others went into the business and Grand Rap- ids is to-day one of the largest lettuce- producing points in the country. There are about thirty lettuce-growing plants in Grand Rapids and immediate vicinity at the present time. Some of them are large concerns, with 15,000 to 20,000 square feet of glass, while others are small affairs, conducted as side is- sues to market gardens or the farm. If all the houses could be put into one, it is estimated that the one big hot-house would cover four acres of land area, and possibly even more. Some of the large plants are Eugene Davis, 15,000 square feet of glass; Charles Chadwick, with 20,000 feet; S. J. Perry, 15,000; Thomas and Robert Graham, 15,000; Charles M. Norton, 20,000; Charles W. Garfield, 9,000; Harley Strong, 8,000; Alex Hannah, 8,000; F. J. Cook, 6,000, and a score or more with less than 5,000 feet. No statistics are obtainable with- out a canvass of the entire industry as to the quantity of lettuce grown, but it GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 1898. is estimated that the shipments to out- side points annually bring to this city between $30,000 and $40,000, and the amount may be considerable more. This does not include the home consump- tion, which is more now in a single winter month than it used to be for an entire year twenty years ago. Most of the plants are located in the southern part of the city, in the vicinity of Bur- ton avenue, where the light sandy soil seems particularly suitable for the cul- tivation. Charles W. Garfield, standing on the porch of his house on Burton avenue, can see the shining roofs of nine large plants that are grouped in that vicinity. Besides the plants south of the city there are half a dozen or more west of town, a few north and sev- eral in and around Grandville. It is an interest that is growing and one of the new plants put in in the past season is that of Mr. Garfield, with a glass area of 9,000 square feet. For winter lettuce the seed is planted for the first crop early in September. It is planted in drills and is twice trans- planted, first into rows two inches apart and then into rows six inches each way, and after the second transplanting it is allowed to grow until ready for the mar- ket. It grows to the height of 12 or 14 inches, and just before it is ready for the market a shake of the plants at one end of the long bed will send a quiver the entire length of the solid mass of green. The first crop is ready for the market by Thanksgiving, and as soon as the first is out of the way a second is planted for the March market. Some- times a third crop of lettuce is planted, but more often the beds are put into radishes or onions,and sometimes into a double crop of radishes or onions and cucumbers, the former getting out of the way before the cucumbers have at- tained troublesome proportions. The cucumbers are trained up on wires and, when they have reached full size, they form veritable arbors, the vines reaching to the roof and often covering the alleys between the beds. The iettuce growers usually plant their different houses a week or so apart so as to have a con- tinuous crop, instead of having their en- tire crop ready for the market at the Same time. A large proportion of the winter let- tuce grown here is shipped to other points. It goes as far east as Buffalo and Pittsburg, south to Cincinnati and west to Minneapolis and St. Paul. De- troit draws almost her entire supply from this city and Chicago takes large quantities, but Chicago is not consid- ered much of a winter lettuce town. The first outside shipment made from Grand Rapids was sent to Jackson, but Jack- son, Muskegon and several other Michi- gan towns now grow their own lettuce, or depend upon Grand Rapids tor only an occasional supply at most. Other cities which Grand Rapids used to sup- ply are also going into the business on their own account and the territory has appreciably narrowed since the busi- ness first began here, but it may be said that this narrowing of the territory is partly compensated for by the increased demand for it. } Number 758 The lettuce known as the Grand Rap- ids is essentially a Grand Rapids pro- duction. It originated in the Davis hothouse and is across between two varieties which were formerly held in esteem. The new variety was obtained after long and careful study and exper- imenting and when its success was fairly demonstrated, the Davises gave some of the other growers here some of the seed. It was proposed at first to keep the seed in this city, that Grand Rapids might have a monopoly in the growing of a superior quality of let- tuce, and for several years this was done. It is related that upon one oc- casion the late W. T. Lamoreaux offered $50 for a single ounce of it, but none of the growers would let him have it at any price. Mr. Lamoreaux wanted it for D. M. Ferry, the Detroit seedsman, who, recognizing the superior quality of the Grand Rapids plant, wanted some of the seed, regardless of price. In the course of time some of the seed fell in- to the hands of outside growers, ard, realizing at last that the ‘‘monopoly’’ was getting away from Grand Rapids, the Davises sold half a pound of the seed to an Indiana dealer for $50. The seed was put up into little packages and sold at 25 cents each, and thereafter the Grand Rapids became a standard lettuce and the seed can now be had _ at almost any seed store. Several years ago the lettuce growers had an association for mutual protec- tion and benefit. It was proposed to sell the entire product through one house or agent, thus insuring a better distribution of the crop, guarding against glutting any one market and tending to keeping the prices up. The association lasted a short time and then dissolved, apparently of its own ac- cord. No effort has since been made to organize the interest, although the growers all admit that material benefits could be gained by co-operation. The winter grown lettuce is now held at Io to 12 cents a pound, and some- times even drops to 8 cents. There is not the money in the business that there was a few years ago, but it is still a profitable industry. It does not require a large capital to begin with, anda small farm is just as good for itasa large one. The working season is from September to May or June, and when the ordinary farmer is perspiring in the hay or harvest field the lettuce grow- er is off fishing or tinkering around the place, unless, of course, he is a general farmer, too. The lettuce is sold en- tirely by the pound in this market, and this is another Grand Rapids innova- tion, and it is one that is being general- ly adopted throughout the country. In New York lettuce used to be sold by the bushel, but the quotations are this sea- son beginning to appear by the pound, indicating that the Eastern growers are adopting the Grand Rapids style. In Chicago the custom is to sell by the dozen heads, and Chicago still sticks to this custom, although there are oc- casional signs of a break to the more rational way. Selling by weight will, undoubtedly, in time become universal, because it is the only really satisfactory way of handling lettuce, either to the grower, dealer or consumer. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN OR RN OR RES SESS EES ERS ZS a) ‘ are quiet anu unchaijec. Viaius have Dry Goods : _ | sold well as a rule, with prices holding : firm. Cheviots, cottonades and checks Magnitude of the Umbrella Industry|and stripes are without prominent fea- in This Country. ture. More than one-half of the umbrellas} Prints and Ginghams—-The most grat- used in this country are produced in|ifying feature of the week in the de- Dealers don’t keep our goods; they SELL them. Philadelphia, and the distinction of the Quaker City in this respect is no new thing, for it has passed almost into a proverb throughout the United States that ‘‘when the Quakers come to town it is going to rain.’” Very few persons have any correct idea of the extent of the umbrella business in the United States. It amounts in a year, taking the retail figures, to $25,000,000. There are in this country 500 umbrella facto- ries, having an invested capital of $6,000,000, of which more than $3,000, - ooo is in the city of Philadelphia alone. New York, Massachusetts, Maryland, and Ohio are the other States which are largely represented in the manufacture of umbrellas, while all the states are represented, although un- evenly, in their sale. For many years some of the best um- brellas were imported from abroad, es- pecially from England, and the rate of duty upon them prior to 1890 was 50 per cent. ad valorem if covered with silk or alpaca and 4o per cent. if cov- ered with any other material, cotton or linen included. Under the tariff of 1890 —the McKinley bill, so called—Ameri- can umbrella manufacturers were fa- vored by an increase in the duty of 5 per cent., the rate upon silk and alpaca covered umbrellas being 55 per cent. and on those covered with other mater- ial 45 per cent. Since then the impor- tations of English umbrellas have de- clined, although this change is not to be ascribed wholly to the workings of the tariff, but rather to the fact that Ameri- can-made umbrellas are decidedly cheaper and quite as serviceable as those imported from other countries. Moreover, they have the additional ad- vantage of being lighter and less cum- bersome, and are not constructed to meet the requirements of hard and con- tinuous usage, as is the general custom abroad ; for the number of those who al- ways carry umbrellas is materially larger on the other side than it is here. The American plan is to carry umbrel- las only when it is raining or seems likely to rain, and it is a matter of common observation in American cities that there are more men who neglect, omit, or are unable to get umbrellas on rainy days than there are men who carry umbrellas when the weather is fair. This condition is exactly reversed in most European cities, where it is no uncommon thing to see many umbrellas carried on a bright, clear day. The average rainfall in inches is 25 in Lon- don, 23 in Paris, 24 in Berlin, 20 in Vienna, 17 in St. Petersburg, and 44 in Glasgow. The average in New York is about 40 inches, but the number of days in which there is some rain is larger abroad than it is here. There are in the United States more than 8,000 persons (the larger number of them men) engaged in umbrella man- ufacture, and the total wages paid in a year in this branch of American indus- try exceeds $4,000,000. What peculiar merit the city of Philadelphia offers to umbrella makers is not easily stated. The materials which enter into um- brella manufacture are not procurable with any unusual advantage in Phila- delphia and the chief market of sale is New York. —_—___> 2. The Dry Goods Market. Staple Cottons—Brown osnaburgs and ducks continue quiet, without material change in prices. Bleached cottons have been in moderate request. Prices are without change at first hands, but with jobbers there is some irregularity rul- ing. Only moderate sales of wide sheet- ings have been made during the week, but prices hold steady. Denims are in steady demand, coming from the cut- ting up trades, and with stocks in good shape prices are generally firm. Ticks mand for prints and ginghams is the good distribution going forward from second hands. Each day has witnessed a steady supply of orders coming for- ward, which, while small individually, in the aggregate make up a good tetal sales for the week. Regular fancy cal- icoes have figured to a fair extent in these and are doing somewhat better than a few weeks ago. The market is without material change either in tone or price and all leading makes are gen- erally steady. Shirting prints are well situated and mostly wellsold up. Indigo blues rule quiet and without special fea- ture. Turkey reds and staples still show some irregularity in price, but this is no more pronounced than a week ago. Blacks and whites and grays are in fair demand. Satines are showing fair re- sults. Both the low and the finer grades of sheer fabrics continue to show fair results, a steady demand of goodly pro- portions coming forward. Printed napped fabrics are quiet. Hosiery-—Staples have been attracting more attention than they have for some time, a fact which we apprehend has its cause in that buyers have filled up pretty well with fancy hosiery, and are awakening somewhat to the fact that man can not live by fancy hose alone. The standard of the goods has been well maintained, as far as we can observe, which we wish were also the case with domestic goods; and goods of inferior design, material or construction meet with little success. Buyers are very discriminating when prices are ad- vanced, and only the best can hold their attention. Business for fall is coming in rapidly now, and the aggregate of business will not be inferior to the av- erage. Woolen Goods—There is a much firm- er and more encouraging tone to the woolen market this week than that which has ruled recently. This is due in part to the better feeling existing among the clothing manufacturers, who, on account of the pleasant weather which has for the past few weeks pre- vailed in nearly every section of the country, have been besieged with tele- grams to hurry forward shipments of spring clothing, and they have also re- ceived not a few duplicate orders on goods which have been shipped earlier in the season. Underwear—The finer underwear end of the market is receiving some atten- tion at this time, and fairly good orders are being booked. These lines, as a rule, command a trade that is not so much affected by advances in price, and the effect of deterioration in con- struction and quality is not so obvious in them. a Oe Opposed to Any Restriction. While German agriculturists are en- deavoring to shut out American food products, the industrial and commercial classes are bitterly opposed to any arti- ficial restrictions of the food supply, urging that the failure of European har- vests has so increased the cost of food that the situation of the city laboring classes is becoming desperate, and that only free and profuse importations can avert famine before another crop can be grown. - a i If some men would remember the answers to half the questions they ask, they would bave a liberal education. cS |} GIRS ES VSS * the goods per yard. G to represent us. fF yy Carpets All grades cut at wholesale. You Carry Only Samples We carry the stock. When you make a sale, send us the pattern number, size of room or quantity wanted and we will ship your order the same day as received —sewed if desired. OVER 3,000 DEALERS are now han- dling our carpets profitably. Let us start you to success. For One Dollar We will send you a book of Carpet Sam- ples containing about 50 patterns—size 9x18 inches. These samples are cut from the roll, so you can guarantee every carpet as represented—in style, color and quality. No picture scheme or Misrep- resentation. Every sample is finished, numbered and quality specified on ticket, so you can make no mistake when order- ing. Wealso make up books as above, 18x18 in., which we will furnish For Three Dollars This size 1s very popular, as the patterns show up beautifully. If you prefer large samples we will cut them any length desired at the price of We have the best-selling goods on earth. Don't wait, order samples at once; it will be to your interest and we want you HENRY NOEE & CO., SOUTHEAST CORNER MARKET & MONROE STS., CHICAGO. Complete price list and telegraph code will be sent with samples. cS BASSAS DSASASES Q Sf OO Oe OO OS-> -O On OO OO a OO Oa Oa Oa OO OO LO OD The Pretty Girl is always on the lookout for the latest. Plaids and Stripes in Ribbons are the proper thing just now. Our first big pur- chase nearly sold, but we have another lot on the way. We are also showing some novel things in the line of Jewelry, Belts and 0000000000000009 Kid Gloves. Wholesale DRY GOODS and NOTIONS. Voigt, Herpolsheimer & Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. LEEEEEEE EE EEE EEE EEE ETE OUR LINE NEW HOSIERY— In Black, Colored, Stripes, Polka-dots and Plaids. NEW GLOVES AND SILK MITTS are very pleasing sellers. P. STEKETEE & SONS, Go ee ao ohooh ob oh heh ehopohep of Spring Underwear for Children, Misses, Ladies and Gentlemen is YOUR CHOICE. Grand Rapids, Mich. bbe che ehh Gohohechec hohe hehehe Gohefohehecherheheg- ee PR ane arn aren stent SOS S S O S > own“ S Shhh hohoheheheheheh eee} Ea hae an ar Feat MICHIGAN TRADESMAN ONE PAIR. Sale Made at the Stocking Counter to a Poor Shopper. He looked good-tempered, even affable, and his immaculate dress, care- fully curled mustache, and carefully turned-up trousers betokened him a well-balanced individual likely to do nothing precipitate, even under stess of circumstances. ‘'These—ah, this pair with the all- over red tops—they will wear well?’’ he asked of the shop girl, who was unfold- ing yards of stockings for his inspec- tion. ‘Good, lightweight, all silk,’’ quoted the girl in the tone of a person who has said the same thing so often that the words have lost significance. The red-topped stockings were dropped and a pair with orange and green up and down stripes staring enough to set the observing faculties on edge was taken in hand and examined narrowly. ‘‘Are stripes worn much just now?’’ he questioned, as he ran his hand down into the stocking and stretched out his fingers critically. ‘*Quite a good deal,’ girl. ‘*Do you like them?’’ ‘‘For some people I like them,’’ was the answer, ‘‘but for any one who was slender I would not advise—’’ Then she stopped, and ever so faint a pink rose in her cheeks. The shopper toyed with the stripes as if half inclined, half opposed. ‘*This pair in blue with silver bars and openwork checks—they are nice; $1.75,'’ suggested the girl. ‘‘Bars running round and_ round,’’ murmured the customer. ‘‘Do you ad- vise them?”’ ‘*T don’t know anything abcut it,’’ was the answer. ‘‘I only know what's pretty.”’ The silver bars were pulled trans- versely, just as the other patterns had been, and then the man dropped them and stuffed both hands in his pockets, running them deep down as if to get hold of some hard-to-be-arrived-at conclu- sion. ‘*Much obliged,’’ he said, affably. ‘‘Now, would it be too much trouble for you to show me the plaids, the all-over plaids. 1 rather like them.’’ ‘*Without black feet, $1.87%4. this way.’’ He carried his carefully furled um- brella four yards further up the store aisle and settled it against a projecting box opposite where the girl was getting out the plaids. A gay pair in peacock blue and checked green and gold took his eye, but this time he did not run his hand down into the stocking as though to look for holes; he took it up double, just below the top, and tested the width. ‘*Do these give much?’’ he asked. ‘I think so,’’ said the girl, with an- other influx of pink in her cheeks. ‘‘That is, they are as elastic as most well-made silk stockings. ’’ The man pulled the width of plaid to its utmost and regarded it eritically. Then he took up a pair wrought in old rose and delicate blue and tested the width of that also near the top. ‘‘If I thought they would do—’’ he said with a speculative air. “‘Here’s a pair with more black in the pattern,’’ spoke up the girl, who be- gan to realize that her sale perhaps hung in jeopardy. Two or three women waiting to get stockings looked on in- terestedly. ‘‘Ob! the patterns do all right,’’ said the customer, ‘‘but—,’’ and he took up the blue, green and gold pair again and tried the width at the top. ** These are the usual size?’’ he asked. ‘You wished them for a No. 3 shoe; those are the usual size,’’ was the re- ply, with the pink in the pale cheeks rapidly growing carmine. The customer again dropped every- thing to dive deep into his trousers pockets. There was agony of doubt in his expression and attitude. ‘*Really, on my word,’’ he said, ‘‘I don’t like to trouble you so much, but I’m bothered about the size.’’ ’ answered the Come ‘“Can be exchanged if they don’t suit,’’ urged the girl. ‘“‘Oh! I know the feet would fit,’’ groveling and grinding in the depths of his pocket for resolution, ‘‘but you. see I’m not a very good shopper, and if you don't mind—now would those tops be comfortable for a lady, say, of your size?”’ The red in the girl’s cheeks mounted to her brow and receded, but she stuck to her guns bravely. , 1 think they would,’’ she answered steadily. ‘‘The stocking is in good proportion, I’m quite sure." ‘*Then give me one pair,’’ came_ the decision. ‘‘Those with the broader gold burs in the plaid.’’ The girl picked out and folded over the purchase ; but, as she bent over her register book to jot down the sale, the carmine still stained her cheeks, where it had settled in two vivid spots after the ordeal, and her hair had the ap- pearance of a person who has been flus- tered. ‘‘Did you make that sale?'’ asked an- other stocking-seller, as the man took his parcel and his furled umbrella out of the way. ‘‘Blooming idiot! All that fuss for one pair,’’ snapped the girl. —-. Lectured to Death—Crushed by a Floor Walker. ‘‘T don’t wonder that real manly men object to tagging around with wife, or sister, or sweetheart on a shopping ex- cursion,’’ said a tired, mussed-up, and thoroughly disconsolate little woman the other day. She had been trod on, she continued, ‘‘by great big women, who simply elbow a little person like me out of the way of the bargain counters, and then I have been held up and crushed to boot.’’ Invited to tell her troubles in detail, the litthe woman went on: ‘‘Well, | wish the managers of these big stores had to go around in petticoats just once. They'd sympathize with us women then. -To-day I wanted especially to look at some new spring goods, challies and so on, you know. Then | had to visit the corset department as well. Right there i was held up. For some reason J am unable to fathom, the merchants allow manufacturers of proprietary articles to put their goods on exhibition and to send a young girl or man along in the capacity of lecturer or barker. I struck three of these department store lectur- ers to-day. One delivered a long ha- rangue to me on the hiygienic excellencies of a corset she exhibited ; another dwelt on the virtues of a new skirt lining, and a third almost browbeat me into buying a new bicycle. Oh, I was mad clear through. ‘*That was not the worst of it,’’ con- tinued the hectored shopper. ‘‘I hap- pened to think, while in one of the largest department stores, that we needed a box of poker chips at home, just to use for fun, you know, in our little social games of hearts and euchre. Well, I asked one of the salesmen to di- rect me to the proper department. He graciously turned me over to an im- posing floor walker, one of the most im- pressive of his class. He looked pos- itively shocked when I asked him: ‘Where do you keep the playing cards and poker chips?’ ** ‘Madam,’ he sternly replied, ‘poker chips and playing cards are not per- mitted to be sold in this establishment. ’ ‘I stammered out, ‘Well, you have a celluloid department, haven't you? May- be I can get the chips there.’ ‘*That awful man stroked his flowing whiskers caressingly, towered above poor little me, and crushed me com- pletely. I had added, ‘I know I can get them at So & So’s, and I thought I might, that is, I trade here, and—and—’ That was as far as he allowed me to get. ‘* “Yes, madam,’ he said, ‘poker chips and other gambling devices may be had at So-and-So’s, but not here, Good-day.’ “‘IT know I looked like a_ guilty, hunted, cheap gambler. I must have. I sneaked out of that store and forgot all about the corsets and the spring dress goods, ’’ concluded the shopper, Matchless Ribbon. The lady—Can you match this piece of ribbon? The gent—No, lady. You may re- member that it was one of the match- less bargains we ran last Monday, >. Machines for Making Matches. Some of the machines for making matches make 200 revolutions a minute each, and turn out 2,500,000 matches a day, or about 900,000, 000 annually. —___—_§_»~@~<.___ We sell full standard fancy prints @334c. P. STEKETEE & SONS. - MERCHANTS who have lost money trying to carry a stock of clothing should read this. a WHITE HORSE BRAND This celebrated brand of Ready-to-Wear Men’s and Boys’ Clothing is sold in every state and territory by our agents who furnish the desired sizes from ourgreat warehouses. We want more good agents in towns and cities where we are not now represented. Men’s suits, $4.00 to $15.00; Boys’ suits $4.00 to $10.00. Men’s pants Tie to $4.00. Complete outfit free. Write for par- ticulars. WHITE CITY TAILORS, 213 to 217 Adams Street, Chicago. ener ene FOR SALE @ o ° @ Broom Factory complete, with ; capacity of 60 to 75 dozen brooms per day. Steam sewers and all ; necessary machinery for operating e same. Factory now in operation @ with established trade. Best rea- : sons for selling. Address “Broom : Factory,” care of Michigan Trades- @ man. @ OOOO O0OS 60000006 0000000000 UBEROID EADY OOFING All ready to lay. Needs no painting for two years. Is odorless, absolutely waterproof, will resist fire and the action of acids. Can be used over shingles of steep roofs, or is suitable for flat roofs. Will outlast tin or iron and is very much cheaper. Try our pure ASPHALT PAINT For coating tin, iron or ready roofs. Write for prices. 'H. M. REYNOLDS & SON, | Grand Rapids Office, Louis and Campau Sts. Detroit Office, Foot of Third St. Established 1780. Walter Baker & Co, £10. Dorchester, Mass. The Oldest and Largest Manufacturers of sy PURE, HIGH GRADE COCOAS AND | CHOCOLATES on this Continent. = No Chemicals are used in Trade-Mark. their manufactures. Their Breakfast Cocoa is absolutely pure, delicious, nutritious, and costs less than one cent a cup. Their Premium No. 1 Chocolate, put up in Blue Wrappers and Yellow Labels, is the best plain chocolate in the market for family use. Their German Sweet Chocolate is good te eat and good to drink. It is palatable, nutri- tious, and healthful; a great favorite with children. Buyers should ask for and be sure that they get the genuine goods. The above trade-mark is on every package. Walter Baker & Co. Ltd. Dorchester, Mass. While William Alden Smith was in suffering Cuba to obtain pure Havana fillers for S. C. W. cigars, he was interfered with by the Spaniards, and to obtain his point he displayed the courage of Samson among the Philistines with a jawbo ne. Behold! Michigan’s Worthy Congressman slew and put to flight with his good umbrella 1867 Span coming to his assistance, enough fil facturers of S. C. W. cigars until th iards. The rest of his committee lers were secured to last the manu- e bloody war will be over. ee ne i i { 4 SRN ee 4. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Around the State Movements of Merchants. Moorland—Beers Bros. succeed E. L. Beers in general trad , Hancock—J. Pinter is putting a steel ceiling on his hardware store. Wheeler—A. P. Foland has sold his general stock to S. M. Foland. Decatur—E. Arnold & Son continue the meat business of Edward Arnold. Clare—Halstead & Becker succeed E1- mer Halstead in the grocery business. Alpena—Jos. Gagnon, Jr., has sold his grocery stock to Michael Kotwicki. Bangor—Silver & Hanson succeed Elmer Westfall in the grocery business. Marquette—H. J. Koepp has pur- chased the meat market of Peter Maier. Orion—S. W. Southwick has __ pur- chased the drug stock of B. G. Monk- man. Ovid—H. D. Treat, grocer on Maiu and Williams streets, has closed out his stock, Rose City—John L. Winchester has purchased the general stock of John Dillon. Omer—Lizzie (Mrs. A. M.) Arm- strong, shoe dealer, has removed to St. Charlies. Cadillac—Rheuman & Kennedy suc- ceed Kennedy & Maxwell in the meat business. Alma—Wright & Willard, grocers, have dissolved partnership, Fred Wright succeeding. Detroit—Hoffman Bros. continue the grocery and hardware business of Cas- per Hoffman. Scott’s—Wilson & Gilson succeed H. E. Wilson in the agricultural imple- ment business. Handerson—W. W. Palmer has sold an interest in his hardware business to Ernest Convis. Alma—Fred P. Wright succeeds Wright & Willard in the grocery and bakery business. Lake Linden—Miss J. Friedericks has purchased the millinery stock of Miss Mary Currie. Hart—L. P. Hyde & Co., boot and shoe dealers, have dissolved, L. P. Hyde succeeding! Gladstone—Chas, H. Scott & Son suc- ceed Scott & Mason in the house fur- nishing goods business. Saginaw—W. EE. Robey succeeds Ellen C. (Mrs. W. E.) Robey in the boot and shoe business. Vicksburg—Wm. Welsh has removed from Mendon to this place and opened a bakery and restaurant. Berrien Springs—J. H. Sparks & Son succeed John H. Sparks in the lumber, flour and produce business. Leslie—Ernie Clark bas purchased the interest of C. D. Clement in the bakery business at this place. Lansiug—Frank Spanier has _ pur- chased the meat market of H. H. Cur- tis, at 118 Washington avenue, south. Sturgis—The name of the Snyder shoe Store, recently purchased by Smith & Ream, has been changed to the Hub. Sand Beach—Leszcynski & Co., gen- eral dealers, have merged their business into a corporation under the same style. Richmond—Cooper & Son Co. is the name of the concern which continues the general store business of Cooper & Son. Ann Arbor—Bert E. Holmes has sold his interest in the agricultural imple- ment business of the Hurd-Holmes Co. to J. H. Boyle, the members of the new firm being Ernest Hurd and J. H. Boyle. Reed City—T. V. Childs has sold his grocery stock to Andrew Sturtevant, who will continue the business at the same location. Byron—A. W. Hoisington has re- moved his stock of drugs to the Orr store and added a stock of crockery and glassware. Houghton—J. H. Zealand, formerly Vice-President of the Soo Hardware Co., will associate himself with F. S. Carlton in the hardware buisness at this place. Calumet—The Carlton Hardware Co. has put in an acetylene gas plant to light its store—the first one in this part of the State. Manton—Olof Brink has engaged as salesman at the new store of Frank Smith, which will be opened at Tustin about April 1. Roscommon—A. C. Sly has purchased the dry goods and shoe stock of J. H. Sly and will continue business at the same location, Harrison—Michael Fanning continues the grocery, hardware, shoe and _ furni- ture business formerly conducted by Fanning & Co. Detroit—Wolff H. Keidan, formerly engaged in general trade at Lake City, has opened a department store’ on Gratiot avenue. Central Lake—Underwood J. Ackley, formerly engaged in the hardware busi- ness at Copemish, has opened a hard- ware Store at this place. Ludington—Brad!l & Wilcox, hard- ware dealers, have dissolved partner- ship. Frank Brad] will continue the business in bis own name. Lake Odessa—Levi Blough has_ pur- chased the meat market interest of J]. G. Ralston, and the new firm will be known as Ingall & Blough. Alma—J. B. Parker and E. E. Huff have formed a copartnership and will continue the meat business formerly conducted by J. B. Parker. Muskegon—Frank X. Groleau, for several years employed in the grocery store of O. Lambert, has embarked in the grocery business at 142 Jefferson Steel. Owvosso—Cyrus Reimer has completed a deal whereby he retires from the hardware trade, and Mr. Bloodgood, of Wyandotte, becomes proprietor of the business. Elk Rapids—J. W. Balcom has sold his drug stcck to Chas. Vaughan, for- merly engaged in the drug business at Empire under the style of Gidley & Vaughan. Empire—Chas. Vaughan has retired from the drug firm of Gidley & Vaughan. The business will be con- tinued by the remaining partner under the style of R. Gidley. Thompsonville—C. O. Smith has filed a trust mortgage on his shoe stock, securing creditors to the amount of about $1,000. Parm C. Gilbert, of Traverse City, is named as trustee. Whitmore Lake—H. P. Dodge & Son, general dealers, will put in a new store front and add 30 feet to the rear of their building, and also reshelve and overhaul their entire establishment. Borland—Eli Lyons, formerly engaged in general trade at Altona, will open a general store at this place abeut April 11, placing it in charge of W. W. Smith. Mr. Lyons will also engage in trade at some other point as soon as a desirable location can be decided upon. Detroit—F. W. R. Perry, the Wood- ward avenue druggist, complains to the Mayor that the Board of Education ig- nored his bid for supplying disinfect- ants to the schocls and accepted the higher proposal of the Strong Disinfect- ant Co. He avers that a chemical an- alysis shows the two disinfectants to be equally meritorious. Mr. Maybury will investigate. Muskegon—Miss Emma Neumeister, for many years connected with the Leahy Company, has purchased from Capt. W. J. Inglis the stock of boots and shoes of the Economy shoe house, and the business will be continued at the place now occupied by that store. Traverse City—McLellan & Ash, con- fectioners, have dissolved partnership. Geo. McLellan will continue the busi- ness on Front street, while the branch store, on Union street, has been pur- chased by Geo. Ash, brother of John Ash, formerly a member of the firm. Saginaw—The King & Moore Co. will consolidate their Washington avenue store with their Jefferson avenue store, the former being abandoned the first of next month. Henry King, man- ager of the Washington avenue store, will sever his connection with the house at that time. Hancock—Wendell & Schulte, dry goods dealers and grocers, are erecting an addition of 24 feet in length to the rear of their store building and exten- sively remodeling the old building. Michael Funkey & Co. are also making many improvements in their building, among which is a new plate-glass front. Onway—W. C. Sterling & Son, of Monroe, have purchased a lot on State street, upon which they will erect a 30x63 foot store building with steel sid- ing and stone front. The building it is understood will be occupied jointly by Suodys and the Sterlings with drugs and a full stock of general merchandise. Manufacturing Matters. Detrvit—Richard H. Hall & Co. suc- ceed Richard H. Hall! in the brick manufacturing business Blissield—The Michigan Hat Co. has begun operations under the man- agement of Geo. R. Carpenter. Morenci—Chas. Fish has leased the creamery of C. C. Wakefield and will operate the plant to its full capacity. Reed City—Lee Caldwell and Fred. Schalow have formed a copartnership for the manufacture of wooden bowls. Houghton—O’Connell Bros. have be- gun the manufacture of cigars here un- der the style of the Upper Peninsula Cigar Manufacturing Co. Owosso—C. W. Reed, of Oakley, is the inventor of a reversible plow and will shortly erect a plant in this city for the manufacture of his device. Alma—Subscriptions to insure the re- building of the woolen mills which burned some months ago have failed to reach the necessary amount, and the project is likely to fall through. Niles—C. R. Smith has purchased the Deniston planing mill, near the Big Four tracks, and in all probability it will be converted into a factory for the manufacture of a patent piano stool, the invention of Joseph Snell. New Baltimore—The New Baltimore Creamery Co. has contracted for the necessary machinery, to be delivered April 15. It is expected that the build- ing will be completed so that operations can be begun by May 1. Gobleville—The stock for the new creamery has all been subscribed and work will be at once begun upon the erection of the building A new can- hery project is also anticipated and, from present appearances, it will soon materialize. Ludington—The Pere Marquette Can- ning Co. will start up this season after several years of idleness, The manag- ers could not agree with the farmers on the question of prices. It is well equipped with modern machinery. Howard City—E. A. Soules has sold his interest in the Howard City Table Co. to J. M. Totten. Messrs. Brande- bury and Totten, the new proprietors, are both practical workmen and _ intend to push the business energetically, Alpena—N. Fletcher & Sons have cut their last log in this vicinity. The Fletcher timber was the first to be oper- ated in this region, and the fact that it required forty-three years to cut it all shows how extensive were the holdings. Muskegon—F. M. Spaulding, of Kal- amazoo, has completed the construction of one of his improved patented gas engines at the Lakeside Iron company and negotiations are now being made by that company with the Chamber of Commerce for capital to back a concern for the manufacture of the enigne. Jackson—Eber L. Peek, who recently disposed of his lumber business to Hey- ser & Walker, has opened a new lum- ber yard at the corner of Mechanic and Trail streets, which is to be known as the ‘Log Cabin"’ lumber yard. Suit- able buildings are in process of erec- tion. The office building will be con- structed of pine logs, which will give the yard its name. >. _____ Hides, Pelts, Furs, Tallow and Wool. Hides have declined from the extreme high prices ruling for some time past. There has been little profit to the tan- ner and, as the quality fell off on spring take-off, they got very tired working it. Nine cents is all they care to pay for buffs and cows, and hold out over this price, which is a decline of 1c per pound. The market is not strong at this, nor is there any great supply. The take-off of pelts has been large from Western sheep at stock yards. Prices at the Far West for mutton sheep have tempted the flock masters and they have sold freely, while our home farm- ers prefer to increase their flocks and are, Consequently, not free sellers. Pull- ers find hard work to obtain supplies at any price to keep running. There are some large stocks of pelts accumulated, but at prices above the present market. Holders are not inclined to let go at a loss, as they have faith in the future and could not replace at lower prices. Furs at the London sales showed an advance over March, 1897, but this price did not cover the price antici- pated, which forces a decline in prices that have been paid. The spring catch is light, apparently, and the quality poor, due to an open winter. Buyers are not anxious, a quiet market thereby ensuing. Tallow tends downward, leaving the market lifeless. There is no kick to the trade. Wools are firm on a dull, dragging market. There are not sales enough to make a price changeable from former quotations. An occasional holder gets tired and sells a little by concession to a manufacturer who wishes a small amount to piece out. The result is stagnation of business in this.line, mak- ing the reported sales the lowest on record. One and a half million was sold last week, against 12,500,000 during the same time last year in Eastern markets. There is nothing doing in the State and there are no enquiries. Wa. T, HEss. ———>-2> If some men were to lose their repu- tation,.they would be lucky. : if i ~ MICHIGAN TRADESMAN a Grand Rapids Gossip Barker & Colby succeed S. A. Barker in the agricultural implement business. John Rowson is succeded by U. G. Hayes as manager of the Clark-Rowson Lumber Co. David Finn oak x S. Fiatau & Co. in the boot and shoe business at 32 Monroe street. R. €. DeHart kas opened a grocery store at Amsden. The Musselman Gro- er Co. furnished the stock. Palm & Sunberg have embarked the grocery business at Cadillac. Musselman stock. in The Grocer Co. furnished the Manning Bros. have opened a grocery store on Wealthy avenue. The Lemon & Wheeler Company furnished the stock, The Adie-Franklin Hardware Co. succeeds Adie & Dorland in ware business at street. the hard- 1265 South Division R. E. Mablo, dealer in furniture and hardware at Riverdale, has added a line of groceries. The Worden Grocer Co. furnished the stock. Gisler & Fritz have purchased the machinery and patterns of the Chocolate Cooler Co. and will continue the busi- ness in connection with their wagon business. J. A. Kenning has retired from the Klein & Kenning Manufacturing Co., manufacturers of patent pails at 56 Canal street. The style of the concern will remain the same. Albert Stonehouse has sold his drug stock at 35 West Leonard street to Clar- ence R. Vanderpool, who has_ been identified with the establishment for many years in the capacity of prescrip- tion clerk. The Tradesman again wishes to cau- tion its readers against having any business dealings with the DeWitt Produce Co., of Springfield, Ohio, as experience has demonstrated that the paying department of the institution is badly out of gear. Hirth, Krause & Co. are now pleas- antly settled in their new block on South Ionia street. They have arranged the premises with especial reference to their business and confidently believe they are able to show their friends a model establishment. The wool season in Michigan will open about the middle of May, and, as compared with a clip of between 6,000, - ooo and 7,000,000 pounds last season, it is expected that upwards of 10,000,000 pounds will be marketed. The farmers the past two years have been cultivating their flocks and the increased product is the natural result. Up to two or three ‘years ago a large proportion of the Michigan clip came into the market washed, but the expectation now is that fully three-fourths of it will be offered in the unwashed condition this season. The buyers have been urging this for the past two seasons, because it saves them the necessity of so closely in- specting each fleece to guard against tags, refuse and other extraneous matter which they have learned by experience creeps into the washed fleeces in amaz- ing quantities unless guarded against. The farmers, also, have come to look upon the washing operation as one that does not pay. The washed wool com- mands 5 or 6 cents a pound higher price, but, with the reduced weight of the fleece, the net return is only to or 15 cents for each sheep, and this does not pay for the work, nor for the risk of injuring the sheep. The opening price this season will probably be 14 to 18 or 20 cents a pound. Michigan has no distinctive wool center or market, but when the season opens buyers go out to all the small towns to pick up the offer- ings. —_———~> 22 The Produce Market. Apples—Home grown Northern Spys and Baldwins, fancy stock, command $5 per bbl. Bananas—The market is very firm at the prices that have been quoted for several weeks. The movement is very good, receipts being steady, and the demand being steady. Values are ad- vancing at ports of entry. Beans—Jobbers pay 60@7oc for coun- try cleaned, holding city picked at 9o @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 somewhat stronger than a week ago, although lo- cal dealers still hold fancy at 14c and choice at i Factory creamery com- mands 18'%c Indications point to higher prices and possibly short sup- plies before grass butter cuts any figure on the market. Cabbage—$2. 50 per too. Carrots—25c per bu. Cucumbers—$1.35 per doz. for South- ern grown. Eggs—Receipts are large, but local dealers are taking all offerings on the basis of 7!4@8c on track. The receipts have an unusual amount of pullets and dirties, but an improvement in both respects is expected next week, although the price may drop !4c. Green Onions—toc per doz. Honey—Dark ranges from Light stock commands 12c. Lemons—The demand is very good for this season of the year, with favor being shown for California fruit. No changes are to be noted in values. Re- ports from the coast say lemons are showing much better prospects for a good summer yield than they were sixty days ago. Lettuce--Grand Rapids Forcing is in ample supply at 15c. Onions—Dry stock has declined to 9@toc. 75¢. | : Oranges—The movement is active. The stock is much finer than it was earlier in the season. There is now no frosted fruit on the market, as that has been disposed of sometime ago. This better stock is having the effect to in- crease the movement of the fruit. Prices continue very low, and stocks are lib- eral. On good sized orders prices are quoted as shaded a little. Potatoes—The market is weaker and quotations in most markets are fully 5c lower than a week ago. Local buyers continue to pay 5o0c. Radishes—25c per doz. bunches. Seeds—Timothy, prime, $1.40@1.45; Medium clover, $3@3.25; Mammoth clover, $3@3.40; Crimson clover, $2.25 ; 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—soc per bu. Strawberries—3oc per qt. Tomatoes—$3 per case of 6 baskets. Vegetable Oysters—z2oc per doz. PH It was the good fortune of the Trades- man to be represented at the fourth an- nual banquet of the Saginaw Retail Grocers’ Associtaion, which was held last Wednesday evening. The oc- casion was an unusually enjoyable one, P. F. Treanor scoring a decided suc- cess as toastmaster and master of cere- monies. The menu was superb and the speeches were above the average. eee a " Gillies’ New York teas. All kinds, grades and prices. Phone Visner, 800. BANK —— Relations of a ‘Clerks to the Sev- eral City Institutions. Those whom the general public see behind the desks, windows, screens and counters of the banks do not own the institutions, even although in some rare instances such an impression might be gained from talking with them. Asa matter of fact, comparatively few of those actively connected with the banks in this city have any proprietary inter- est in them. The banks are ‘‘owned’’ by numerous stockholders, the stock- holders from among their own number elect a board of directors and the direc- tors employ the cashier, clerks and other attaches. The directors are, of course, stockholders and—in theory, at least—exercise a general supervision over the management of the institution, but those whom they employ to do the actual work are not necessarily stock- holders, and in this city a great major- ity of them are not. Inthe Old National Bank only three of those actively con- nected with the bank are stockholders, and two of the three are President Bar- nett and Cashier Hollister. In the Na- tional City Bank Cashier Wylie and As- sistaut Cashier Hunt are the only stock- holders. None of those connected with the Grand Rapids National are stock- holders. President Anderson and Cash- ier Seymour are the only stockholders in the Fourth and Cashier Shinkman isthe only one in the Fifth. In the Kent County Savings Bank Vice-President Idema and Cashier Verdier are the only stockholders, the Grand Rapids has but two, the Peoples three and the State two stockholders actively engaged. The Michigan Trust Company has seven stockholders among its employes, which include President Withey and Secre- tary Hodenpyl, and all but one of those actively connected with the Peninsular Trust Company are stockholders, the Peninsular in this respect being an_ ex- ception. oe In some of the banks the clerks are encouraged to become stockholders, in none of them is it compulsory and in all it is entirely optional with the clerks themselves whether they invest or not. That more of them do not become stock holders is because they can not afford it, or, if they have surplus funds, be- cause they can invest them to better ad- vantage in other ways. If purchased at par, after paying the taxes the average bank stock in this city does not pay in excess of 4'4 per cent. on the invest- ment, and this return is materially re- duced if the stock has to be bought at a premium, as most bank stocks have to be now. There are many stocks and bonds that net better returns than this, to say nothing of mortgages, but it may be said that most of the bank clerks who bave surplus funds are investing them in homes. It may be said, inthis connection, that the bank clerks in this city, whether stockholders or not, are as loyal and true to their respective insti- tutions as though they owned them. Although bank stock does not neta very handsome return on the money as a short time investment, yet when the investor gets in on the ground floor and stays in to the finish, it is fairly satis- factory. Take the Old Nation! Bank, for instance, which is not an exceptiunal case, but will do as well as any other for an illustration. The original stock- holder, who paid par for his stock, has been receiving 6 to 7 per cent. divi- dends ever since the Bank was reorgan- ized in its present form. When the charter expires there will be a surplus of 20 or 30 per cent. to divide, which, added to the dividends paid, makes the Investment, as a whole, a very good one. If the stock had to be bought at a premium, the returns would not be so satisfactory. The bank clerks, of whom there are about Ioo in town, formerly had an as- sociation of their own. Its purposes were combined social and mutual benefit and it was on the cards to hold monthly meetings, when papers would be read on banking subjects and then discussed. The association flourished for a time, but interest in it has gradually died out and if it still exists it is only in name. In at least one of the banks, the clerks are required to carry their accounts in some other bank. This is done equally for the protection cf the clerks and of the bank, and as it has been a _long-es- tablished rule and one that is applied to all alike, the rule is taken asa matter of course. When the account is carried in some other bank the temptation to doctor or fix up the books is entirely removed. Even the cashier deposits his surplus salary at another bank. oe ee The war scare is tightening up the money rates in New York, Chicago and other financial centers, but its effect has not yet been felt here, and probably will not be to any great degree. The war will be a short one at most, even if it does come, and the recovery from it will be speedy. The conditicns are en- tirely different from four years ago. Business is now on a firmer foundation and a pinch would not be felt nearly so severely in any quarter. ee Port Huron Grocers and Meat Dealers to Celebrate. Port Huron, March 28—The Grocers and Butchers’ Association has already laid its plans for the serving of a han- quet on April 15,and hopes to be able to score a success in working up an _inter- est in the advantages to be gained by a thorough understanding of its members witb each other. It is worthy of remark that the movement to establish a better feeling among the grocers and butchers is already bearing excellent fruit, and no injustice whatever appears to have been doneto any grocer or his customer by the determination of the Ass ciation to have prices and commodities more uniform among its members. Trading Stamp Store in Peanninciiel of the Constable Bay City, March 28-—Callers at the trading stamp store the past few days have been disappointed in case they wished to exchange stamps for goods, Constable Houck, it seems, is in pos- session of the store, and refuses to al- low any of the goods to go out. The reason is that he holds the stock on a claim of about $1oo for rent. a Visitors to the Grand Rapids market who arrive via any of the roads_ center- ing at union station can not help noticing the new wholesale hardware house of the Clark-Rutka- Jewell Co., situated nearly opposite the depot. Al- though less than three months old, this house has already established the repu- tation of treating its customers well and those who call at the house are as- sured of a cordial welcome. 2-2 J. B. Furber, formerly identified with the Grand Rapids Seating Co., has taken the agency for the National Cash Register Co., at Williamsport, Penn., and will assume his new duties at once. i F } or arilah tay aria arate heh ANatia abraded eced. emer oak ds pth ae eRe aan TRA sea pes Leadon iihedd. Rien ite ge 6 MICHIGAN TRADESMAIN Woman’s World Patient and Uncomplaining Marthas of Life. It can not be denied that in these days the feminine hero has the center of the stage, and the eyes of the world are upon her. Whenever a woman does anything out of the common we hear enough, and more than enough, about her. It is the fashion to burn incense before her, and we have, in turn, pros- trated ourselves before the woman ora- tor, the woman reformer, the woman lawyer and doctor, and all the rest of her, and chanted paeons of praise in her honor. She has taken up so much of our time and attention that we have not had leisure to do honor to the great- est woman of all—the woman who stays at home and keeps the family together, while the woman reformer is exploiting herself abroad and is out hunting for a career. For my part, whenever I build a monument to woman, the lady who is going to be invited to occupy the front top seat is going to be the family mar- tyr, the patient Martha of life, whose self-sacrifice we only appreciate, and whose labors we only realize when we are called on for a few days to try to fill her place. The first day we are appalled and conscience stricken at what she must have done. The second day we determine never to permit such an imposition to happen again; by the third we have lapsed from grace and are glad enough to let the burden slip back again on the patient, uncomplain- ing shoulders. By just what process of natural selec- tion one member of a family is sac- rificed for the others nobody ever knows. But the family martyr is always there. She does all the disagreeable things. She entertains the bores. She visits the sick. She sees about the housekeeping. She puts the babies to bed. She helps the children with their lessons. She is the confidant of all the hard luck stories and must break Jack's getting in debt to papa and Mary’s determination to marry Cholly Poorman to mamma. In a word every duty that everybody else shirks because of its unpleasantness falls to her lot. And nobody by any chance ever appreciates her. We don’t mean to impose onher. On the contrary we have a consoling theory that she leads a life of inglorious ease. Of course, she attends to the housekeep- ing, but everybody who has never tried it knows that a house is a kind of per- petual motion machine that goes run- ning along smoothly and glibly by it- self once you start it going. Of course, we all have our little peculiarities and whims that must be remembered and catered to and we should be terribly upset and out of temper if they weren't; of course, meals must be on time and everything spick and span; of course the books we leave on the floor and the papers and clothes we scatter all over the house must somehow get into their proper places; of course, when we teie- phone up we are going to bring com- pany home for dinner we expect every- thing to be bright and dainty and at- tractive, but surely these things happen of themselves. At any rate they have never failed us and for the life of us we can’t see what Martha finds to keep her so busy. We sigh and say we fear that she is too material and that it is sad to see any one spending their lives on the pursuit of trifles. Ther we talk about Arabella who is studying art, with a big A, and Portia who has been admitted to practice law somewhere, and Maud who has written an inscrutable magazine poem, and we say that ‘‘poor Martha never had any aspirations. She is satisfied to do noth- ing.’’ Do nothing! When it would take a commissioner of the census to figure out how many meals she has cooked, how many rooms she has swept, how many babies she has washed and dressed, how many sick people she has nursed, how many times she has served ice cream and cake at church affairs, how many tramps she has fed and clothed. Why, the other women in the world have done nothing, to her, A woman professor may inspire a love of learning in a dozen bright pupils. A million mothers are starting little feet every day on the road to knowledge. A woman doctor may make a marvelous cure. Thousands of women can kiss a burt and make it well. A woman re- former may plead with trumpet voice for temperance and for purity. The love of some quiet little woman has kept more men in the straight and _ nar- row path than every other agency in the world combined. These are some of the things that Martha is doing while the rest of us are theorizing and aspiring and pitying her for being so earthy and it is only now and then that we have sense enough to realize she has gotten right down to the bottom of things. The world would bea pretty uncomfortable place and there would be a lot of ill- kept homes and negiected children if there were no Marthas to go quietly and unostentatiously along looking after mat- ters. Aspirations and dreams are all right, but they are not a satisfactory substitute for three good meals a day and a clean-swept hearth. In this dull world there is scant honor and praise for those who do not claim it as their right, and so the Marthas get little or no appreciation. We only see a woman whose hair is growing gray, whose cheeks have lest their bloom, and whose shoulders are bowed with care and work. She seems nothing more than a dull gray background, against which the brilliance of the rest of the family circle shines out, and we wonder at her vaguely, if we happen to notice her at all. Often and often she is an old maid who lives at home with her mother after the other children have left, and the grayness of her life is like the ashes that might be left on an altar where some precious and holy sacrifice had been offered up. Sometimes, when I have an hour to spare, I go and sit with two such women as these. They live in a little cottage, where everything is as neat and sweet as Care can keep it. The roses look in at the open window, by which the old woman sits in her easy chair, and the sun shines ful] upon a group of photo- graphs that hang upon the wall. They are all of handsome, prosperous, well- dressed people, and the old woman who is growing garrulous with age likes to tell you their story. ‘* Yes, yes,’’ she will say, ‘‘they are all pictures of my chil- dren. The top is Tom. He isa law- yer. A judge now out West, and they say he is making a name for himself, That woman in the evening gown is my daughter Jennie. Yes, yes. She’s very beautiful and she is married to a rich man in Chicago. I have never been there myself. I am_ too old to travel, but they say she lives like a princess. And the next one is Adele. She hada lovely voice, and we gave her the best advantages we could, and she is sing- ing in concerts in New York. Martha, you must bring the papers and show her what the critics say about Adele’s voice. And that other picture—that’s my baby. Why, he is going to bea professor of ancient languages, and is in Greece now, studying. All my chil- dren are talented and ambitious. All but Martha, not but what she is a good girl, too,’’ she adds, with a pity that has its contempt for failure in it. ‘‘Ah, well, mother, you had to have an ugly duckling amongst your swans,’’ Miss Martha will reply, smiling bravely with trembling Jips, and the old woman will nod her head discontentedly. All her heart and pride have gone with the handsome, gay, prosperous ones of the flock, who left her without a backward glance of regert or remorse when the world beckoned to them. Sometimes it hardly seems as if she even remem- bers the one faithful and loyal soul who has kept by her. No one ever tells, Jeast of all Miss Martha, that all the other successes are builded on the wreck of her hopes and love. She was the eldest, and the bur- dens and the cares and the responsibili- ties of the others slipped on her shoul- ders when she was pathetically young. There was Tom who was bright and talented and gave such promise if be could only have the proper education, and Jennie who must have fine gowns to set off her splendid beauty, and Adele's voice that needed training, and Jack who must have a university course. Miss Martha began teaching the year after she left school, and all her youth was Sacrificed to them. She toiled early and late, and at last she watched them go on their different ways, with- out so much as a word of tenderness or appreciation, without ever knowing what she had sacrificed for them. Once love came Miss Martha's way, but she put out trembling hands and pushed _ it away. The other children had all gone then, and she and the old mother were left alone. The man would have taken Miss Martha away and she felt she could not forsake the feeble old woman. To the man it seemed a trivial excuse. Per- haps it was. All of Miss Martha's brothers and sisters who are pursuing ‘*careers’’ in the world say that poor Martha never had any aspirations. That she always frittered her life away on trifles, And that’s all the appreciation she has ever gotten. Poor, patient, uncom- plaining Martha. DorotHy Drx. Pernt > > —<— The Town of Nogood. My friend, have you heard of the town of Nogood, On the banks of the River Slow, : Where blooms the Waitawhile flower fair, Where the Sometimeorother scents the air And the soft Goeasys grow? It lies in the valley of Whatstheuse, In the province of Letherslide. That liredfeeling is native there; It’s the home of the reckless Idon’tcare, Where the Giveitups abide. It stands at the bottom of Lazyhill, And is easy to reach, I declare; You've only to fold up vour hands and glide Down the slope of Weakwill’s toboggan slide To be landed quickly there. The town is as old as the human race, And it grows with the flight of years; It is wrapped in the fog of idlers' dreams: Its streets are paved with discarded schemes And sprinkled with useless tears. The Collegebredfool and the Richman’sheir Are plentiful there, no doubt; The rest of its crowd are a motley crew, With every class except one in view — The Foolkiller is barred out. The town of Nogood is all hedged about By the mountains of Despair; No sentinel stands on its gloomy walls; No trumpet to battle and triumph calls, For cowards alone are there. My friend, from the deadalive town Nogood If you would keep far away, c Just follow your duty through good and ill; Take this for your motto, “i can, I will,” And live up to it each day. W. E. Penney. Modern Methods of Determining Ratings. There are many merchants both large and small whose credit ratings are not what they ought to be; at least, they are not what the merchants think they should be. Investigation, however, dis- closes that in most cases, if not in all, the fault lies with the merchants them- selves. One prime cause for the mer- chant’s failure to secure the rating to which he believes he is entitled is the lack of information furnished with reference to his financial condition. Some merchants refuse all information whatever, upon the assumption, appar- ently, that their resources are so large as to make them independent of credit ratings. Such a position is extremely foolish. The world is prone to accept a man at his own valuation until such time as it has had the opportunity to demonstrate an error. Silence leaves the world to form its own opinion, and at this date it is very apt to conclude that because no statement is made there must be something to conceal. On the other hand, a statement frankly made and demonstrated to be correct carries opinions to the other extreme, and gives the merchant the full measure of credit to which he is justly entitled. Several points are considered when ratings are established, in addition to capital or present worth. These include the broad questions of business integ- rity, of general business methods, and of habits with respect to payments. Of two men, equal in all other respects, one discounting his bills and the other habitually paying slowly, the first will have the better rating as to credit, even although the capital ratings of the two are essentially the same. Merchants formerly bought their goods in person. They journeyed to the ware- house and factory to make selections, and thus came into direct contact with those of whom they asked credit. Now purchases are made through interme- diaries. The merchant’s orders are given to traveling salesmen or are for- warded by mail or telegraph. The merchant, then, should not overlook the fact that, in the changes which have been made in the methods of conducting business, changes also have necessarily been made in the methods of establish- ing credit or determining a rating. A signed statement to-day takes the place of the personal interview of a few years ago. The great commercial agencies that make a business of ratings are only an instrumentality that modern business has found necessary to employ in or- der to meet changing conditions. ‘The merchant who does not have the roisg to which he tniuks fe ts ent. | commence to remedy the wrong y a careful study of the situation. In the end he will be quite willing to comply with the reasonable modem jobbers and some of which are bere pointed out A. O. KITTREDGE. ——__>2~. American Apples in Hamburg Hamburg receipts of American apples to the middle of November were 64,538 barrels, and so superior is the Ameri can to the German fruit for table use that German growers who have pre ferred quantity to quality, and grown great quantities of apples which were fit only for cider, have resolved to change their tactics and plant and graft the finest varieties. ——___» 2-2 More men have been self-undone than have been self-made. requirements «ft Manular turers i MICHIGAN TRADESMAN eh tas J | feed Pee Pees ary DATARS i AN ) LEONARD & SONS, “0% GRAND RAPIDS, MICH, UNION) [PRON pepot > | ry SPRING ST a Bp Lous Se y it J —. ———___ Cut showing the new seven-story addition to our wholes-le stores, corner Spring and Fulton Streets, on the first floor of which our office and wholesale sample room will be located. square feet. Two blocks from Union Depot. Four elevators, steam heat, electric lights and every modern im- provement for the quick despatch of goods and convenience of customers. Our business now occupies 110,000 AA FW Faots--Read Them =" Children’s Carriages. Over one hundred and fifty numbers from which to select, ranging in price from $2.50 to $39.00. FOOT-OPERATING ; BRAKE on every carriage sold FREE OF \ CHARGE. Any carriage furnished with rubber tire wheels at a slight advance. We are abreast of the times» Our prices are from 15 to 30 per cent. lower than those of many firms handling the same goods, as our facilities are superior. We show new and reduced prices on every line of HOUSEHOLD NECESSITIES and NOVELTIES, the re- sult of constant hammering to get our goods before the people lower than ever before. Don’t wait for agents. We can save you money on quick orders and prompt -ship- ments. If not received drop postal at once for spring catalogue. H. Leonard & Sons, Grand Rapids. : Two complete lines of Ice Cream Freezers any size from 1 to 20 quarts. Also all kinds of Ice Picks, Chisels, Shaves, Ice Cream Dishers, etc. Do not place your order for Iron or Wood Express Wagons, Toy Carts, Children’s Velocipedes and Tri cycles, Croquet Sets or Hammocks until you have had quotations from us. The “TRUMAN.” A guara The finished result of the finest workmanship and mature experi- ence. Thoroughness marks this wheel at every point. Don't pay any fancy prices. Write for terms, (1485, Lamps and House Furnishing Goods - Wiolesalé Bargain Gountér Supplies Ask for Crockery and Glassware CATALOGUE Importers and Jobbers of All grades, all kinds, all prices of Crockery, Glass and Stoneware. Agency for | Alfred Meakins «English White Granite.’’ | Johnson Brothers «‘English Semi Porcelain.” Knowles, Taylor & Knowles | Domestic Earthenware. 225 Men Employed in the Manufacture of Refrigerators. Ss les Pr chy as r NARD po Sows ‘a, Into every one ee of our Refriger- THE LE ators we put twenty years’ knowledge and experience. That means more than we can explain here. The enor- mous success of , our Refrigerat- ../ ors has brought gga | out many worth- * less imitations. Your only safety = is to look for our —= yield 50 to 60 loaves more per barrel than any Winter # Wheat Flour. For this reason, and because it makes a handsome loaf of bread, all first-class grocers prefer it to any other Flour. Nout oe | ~ . ~ rest f el Good flour necessitates the use of good baking 23 ee) powder and to meet the demand for ahigh grade powder Toes ‘sie MN 7. @ as feo at a popular price we have placed on the market a brand which is known as PEERLESS wa 3 i ake x mA i ° ~ Oe = which is sold in pound cans only and retails at 10 cents x for 16 ounces net. This powder is guaranteed to be 3 ie ‘eae made from pure and healthful ingredients and to make ~ oe as beautiful, fllaky and light biscuit or cake as any brand of baking powder on the market. 4 3A f ont ese No Scheme No Prize t oat ise ‘en No Chromo Only Quality That’s all CLARK-JEWELL-WELLS CO. Sole Owners. = S) ¢ j ora [sée . es 7 eae anes OOD PESO: ores f mi“ pu) i\ aoe RTE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN themselves. Is this a result which is to be desired, either by the general retail trade or by the public at large? In the first place, no trade policy is worthy the advocacy of an_ unbiased, fair- minded individual whicb will not, in its practical workings, result in ‘‘the greatest good to the greatest number’’ of those engaged in any given line of trade. If the public, fooled by shrewd- ly-worded advertisements, are led to take advantage of cheap street car fares and rush down town and buy everything they need from a few large department stores, will the number of men employed as salesmen in the city at large be in- creased thereby? Will the number of empty stores in outlying districts be decreased, and will the general pros- perity of these outlying districts be in- creased and value be added to the real estate in these localities? Will the in- terests of the small tradesmen of the city be subserved, or will they eventual- ly be driven out of business by this selfish one-sided policy? Surely, any policy which favors the interests of only a fragment of the peo- ple should be discontinued. But how is this to be accomplished? This ques- tion has been asked often, during the past year, by men who have the welfare of the general public at heart and are anxious to see ‘‘a square deal’’ all around. Some have gone so far as to predict that, sooner or later, this ques- tion must be made the subject of spe- cial legislation. No doubt some of the “‘up-to-date’’ dealers will hold up their hands in holy horror and insist that a man has a right to sell his own guods, in his own way, at his own price. But, while they are making this claim, let some traveling auctioneer commence doing business in a vacant store next door to their place of business without complying with the local license ordi- nance, and mark, how unanimous are these gentlemen on the question as to the ‘‘right’’ of the city to intervene. But why assume to control, and often positively prohibit, the business of the auctioneer while the dealer in the same block is allowed to resort to methods which are as reprehensible and are productive of results a thousand times more detrimental! to the interests of the city at large? Fi, Ef.) MACK. —__—_§9-— Boston Traveler Cheap Goods. In the advertisement of a leading de- partment store in one of the Sunday papers is found this significant head- ing, ‘‘Shall we have war? Not witb Spain, we hope, but we are having a little war of our own—and not so very little, either. We are waging war on high prices. We have waged this war for years, but we are just now making it hotter than ever. Those who visit our store this week will find this war going on with relentless vigor and in- tensity.’’ This may be good advertising, but it certainly shows much to the mind of one who is already imbued with the facts that even although times are bet- ter, cheaper goods are what is being asked for by the trade. How much of this is due to the department store? Is this advertisement pregnant with sig- nificance? A friend of mine who makes bicycle tires tried to sell that same house. The buyer said, ‘‘If you can make them cheap enough I will buy in large quantities.’’ He was asked to name a price, which he did. It was about a dollar a tire. The tire manu- facturer then said: ‘‘I can make them How a Regards at that price, but they won't wear long enough to carry the rider ten blocks after they are put on his wheel.’’ The buyer did not care how long they wore. All he wanted was a price at which he could beat all his competitors and_ still make money. The bargain was struck, and the tires will soon be delivered. | pity the poor rider if he gets far away from home on one of those tires. Again, my own wife has bought some of these department houses’ 17c tin. cvoking utensils, and the heat of an ordinary stove has melted the thin metal until in less than a week it was utterly use- less. This sort of thing comes home to us in our own industry. A department store buyer was in Boston recently, and he said he had got sick of trying to tell his clerks, and through them his cus- tomers, that a cheap price meant cheap goods that would not wear. This man said, with truth, ‘‘Our customers say, ‘Well, we can go across the street and get a shoe for $1 or 1.50,’ ’’ as_ the case may be, ‘** ‘and we want a shoe at that price.’ ’’ This buyer knew when he bought very cheap goods that he was buying paper and other substitutes for leather. Siill, he must have cheap goods in order to beat his competitor. Let me ask you, if this thing is car- ried to its logical conclusion, where will it come out? These department stores are absolutely and designedly ‘‘waging war on high prices,’’ as the advertisement says, and they are meet- ing with success, too. Under the direc- tion which they are taking prices will grow lower and lower, until the Ameri- can people, whom Barnum said ‘‘like to be humbugged,’’ arrive at the con- clusion that cheap prices mean cheap goods, medium prices better goods, and a fair price must be paid for the best goods. That advertisement struck me as an object lesson, and | made up my mind that I would call your atten- tion to it when you called on me again. My duty is done, but let me say in closing that I myself sell department houses, and therefore want to say that there are times when, by reason of large capital, these concerns can take advan- tage of the peopie going into insolvency and bankruptcy, and thus. advertise true bargains tothe consumer. Still, I venture the assertion, without much fear of contradiction, that where one such sale is legitimately advertised one hundred other cheap grades are either put in with that sale bought for the spe- cial purpose of selling at a price, or the sale itself is a farce. It may be good business, but it 1s hard on the customer. JOHN Goop. — > Another co-operative community is about to be dissolved, that of the Society of Shakers at Pleasant Hill, Ky. The failure is perbaps more notable than that of other ventures inasmuch as it is a community held together by the ties of religious communion, as well as by the material ones of trade and in- dustry. The community was founded about the beginning of the century, and for many years its products, such as fruit preserves, silk, cattle, seeds, etc., were in great request all through the Southern States. Its downfall began some years ago on the death of Rufus Bryant, who for many years had been the financial brains of the community, and now the pretty mecting house, sold with other property to meet burdensome debts, is being converted into a ball- room. SaEInnieee cai cite aaa A merchant who will lie in his ad- vertisements will lie in his goods. Michigan Acetylene Gos GO., Ud. ING ic Fa. Jencliaar:x, Sole owners of the Celebrated Buffing ton Acetylene Gas Machine for the States of Michigan and Ohio. Jobbers of Cal- cium Carbide, Acetylene, Bicycle and Table Lamps, and a full line of Acetylene Apparatus. Acetylene Gas is the best and cheapest light in the world. Esti mates furnished and contracts taken Endorsed by the Board of Underwriters. The Buffington Generator is the most complete and simplest in the market Satisfaction guaranteed. Write for further information to the above company, or to Sproul & ee General Agents for We Mict DISPLAY ROOMS, 84 EB PULTON STL, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. THE OWEN OWE N AGETYLENE GAS GENERATOR | s = ~" Pal ee aes a 5 Bis4 ee [eee fees) ; Al ee i —si ; —6 ; M 3 j a Figen | nN eee oe 4 A —F¢ snerator a permit by the Re- solutely automat quires no more care than a iall hand lamp. The only manufactured = in ichigan that ha ranted UNDERWRIT- s been g ERS’ INSURANCE ASSOCIATION. yr full information and prices address the manufacturers. 4-1 Geo. F. Owen & Oo. ae ESSER TCT OTE TTS Grand Rapids Michigan. about Ap yaratus. interest you. lM. B. 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PHONE 850. 81,83 ano 85 CAMPAU ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. SE ve dee Pe eg a i , ‘ f fi MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Shoes and Leather Shoe Manufacturing in New England. New England is the cradle in which the infant industry of shoe manufactur- ing in America was rocked. The de- velopment of this art within a period of half a century is one of the greatest of the many achievements in mechanism which have made this age illustrious. The pioneers in this held of labor could net have had any conception of the im- mensity of the harvest which was des- tined to grow out of the seeds they were planting Their productions at the outset were limited in quantity, of crude materials, and not especially attractive in respect of style and shapeliness. Within the memory of men who are still young enough to be in active busi- ness there were in many a village two or three little shops in which a few in- dividuals were making shoes by hand. They plied the lapstone with the ham- mer to fit the hand-cut and hand-closed upper to the last, pounded the wet sole to render it as solid as they could, fas- tened it to the last with nails, held it over the knee with a strap around the shank, and then with a hammer in one hand, anawl in the other, ard a mouth- ful of wooden pegs ready for service, they pegged the sole and inner sole to- gether. Having gotten the fabric into shape by pegging and by trimming, the latter process consisting of the applica- tion of a piece of window glass, broken over a file to assure a cutting edge, the grain was scraped, as a preliminary to the sandpapering of the pegs and of the sole to give them smoothness. Then the bottom was rubbed witha stick, beeswax was applied to impart a gloss, a coat of ink put around the edge, and, after that had had time to get dry, the operation was repeated, the varnish- ing was performed, and the shoe of the period was ready to be worn. The whole performance was primitive, clumsy and slow. Shoemaking in winter and farming or fishing in summer furnished congenial occupations to many thrifty men, pro- viding them with comfortable homes and the means for living well and _ lay- ing by some savings from their income. Their children, boys and girls, attend- ed school in the daytime and worked at stitching and such other parts of the mechanism as they could do to advan- tage when they were not. studying. Doubtless in the brains of many of these youthful artisans ideas originated which afterwards took practical form in the construction of machines of inesti- mabie value. The children at the cheer- ful fireside were busy with their hands and with their thoughts, and while they were contributing to the support of the household they were learning things constantly which were destined to speed their way to fame and fertune. The domestic hearths around which these little groups gathered were nurseries in which the new-born offsprings of genius were tended in their infancy and reared to full-grown stature and strength. The surroundings were advantageous to their development. They were favored with a hardy climate and an invigorating atmosphere, and under the influence of healthful associations they drank in iife with each breath they drew and advanced from the moment they first saw the light, by regular stages of progression, to sturdy maturity. The shoe manufacturers had no mar- kets for their fabrics, except such as they sought and found, at first near by and afterwards farther off. They suc- ceeded by diligence and perseverance in selling shoes to dealers in the large cities in the Middle States. The peo- ple of the South were among their earli- est and largest customers. The plain, homely, substantial brogan was found by the Southern planters to be the most serviceable foot covering for its cost which they could procure for the bond- men over whom they held the undis- puted claim of ownership At that time few ready made shoes were worn; Cus- tom work was deemed indispensable to comfort. Even shoes made to order were the cause of considerable suffering to the wearers until they had become adapted to the contour of the foot. Be- ing made of leather which was inflex- ibly stiff, it was rarely that there was not some part of the foot at which they pinched unpleasantly, it being so diffi- cult to fit a person by measure. Shoes made for promiscuous use were still more liable to inflict pain at some point. It is necessary to take these things into account to form an adequate estimate of the disadvantages encoun- tered by the shoe manufacturers, in their early efforts to popularize their produc- tions. There is no other article of raiment of which it is so essential that it should be easy to wear. It is highly creditable to the ingenuity of the shoe manufacturers of New England that they have succeeded so well in clearing this obstacle out of the path of their progress. The cordwainer’s kit of that time varied but little from the collection of tools used two thousand years ago. A set of them is preserved in the Musuem at Mayence which were exhumed from the ruins of a Roman village. The process of manufacture did not differ essentially in the beginning of the Nineteenth Cen- tury from what it was before the Chris- tian Era, The expansion of the shoe industry during the last half of the present cen- tury has been amazingly great. The evolution from the little workshop to the colossal factory building has _ pro- gressed so quietly that the magnitude of the change can hardly be compre- hended, except by those who bestow careful attention upon the subject. Numerous cities have grown up from the little hamlets, the inhabitants of which have acquired wealth almost ex- clusively by the prosecution of the shoe- making art. The consumption of shoes has increased prodigiously. Rival es- tablishments have sprung into existence in all parts of the Union, but New England still holds its primacy and prestige. In every improved method it has led the van. No measure of excel- lence has been reached which did not serve as a stimulus to further aspira- tions. The encouragement given to in- ventive genius has been instrumental in bringing into general use a vast num- ber of machines so dexterous of con- struction, so admirable in their opera- tion, and so effective in utilizing and economizing labor, that they have great- ly enhanced the value of the work done by them and cheapened its cost. The part which machinery plays in the shoe manufacture is of incalculable impor- tance. It was not until after 1850 that these inventions were introduced into the factories to any considerable extent. Subsequently they multiplied so rapidly that now almost every portion of the shoe is made by machinery. Each in- dividual workman does a part of the construction, but the shoe passes through several, hands before it is completed, Rubber will not be lower when the price changes. Buy the Goodyear Glove now. Hirth, Krause & Co., Grand Rapids. 2M Ti ay e e 2S) =: Rindge, Kalmbach, Logie & Co. # aa Successors to ie Z iG es Rindge, Kalmbach & Co., ee Bi Manufacturers ee Zi And Jobbers of ) = BOOTS AND SHOES” & em e Be Our Spring Lines are Complete. we es Your Business Solicited. CG Ax! a 12, 14 and 16 PEARL ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ee ay a Beet! SX ESLER ESSER BABAR EEE: SRR LEAE; BOER NEN N NON CNN GNC ON ONGC CON CAN CON GGG 4 i) | PIPPPO OUR RIVER SHOE We carry it in Oil Grain, Bengal or Kangaroo Calf NONE BETTER * 6 2 : FU OPO VV EWG GT ESTO OO ET TO VEO STOO EET OOS Buy ours and . Increase your Business Herold=Bertsch Shoe Co., 5 and 7 Pearl St. TSE ee On eee ar ee EAE # = # = MICHIGAN TRADESMAN I3 each one doing the share assigned to him in the production of it, the sub- division of labor being so arranged that the best and most economical results are secured. The workmen in the factories do not, under this system, acquire a knowledge of the trade of shoemaking ; that is an unsatisfactory feature of it, but the work is done with such precision and skill, and with so much saving of expense, that the use of machinery has caused a very great reduction in the prices of shoes. By increasing the facilities of pro- duction the manufacturers have aug- mented the consumption of shoes vastly. They have directed their ingenuity to the conception of new styles and_ fash- ions, attractive enough to induce people to buy what they might, without a sac- rifice of comfort, dispense with, but which they are tempted to indulge in because they suit their tastes and are not dear. The shoe manufacturers bave in this way created a stupendous de- mand for their wares, so that their an- nual sales are greatly in excess of the actual necessities of consumers. The varieties of their productions are vir- tually illimitable. They embrace colors to match all sorts of costumes, materials of every conceivable kind, from the plainest to the most ornate; shapes to suit every fancy and caprice; modes so diversified that no inhabitant of the land, however fastidious or eccentric, can fail to get accommodated fully and completely. Because of their selina and versatility the shoe manufacturers of New England have enlarged their busi- ness to colossal proportions. There is no country in the world in which there is so great a per capita consumption of shoes as in ours, and this is in a large measure attributable to the masterful ability which has been displayed in every elaboration of the art. They have been continually originating novel and attractive specimens of their handi- craft, thereby creating a demand which could never have existed but for their skillfulness. The extraordinary progress which has been made in the amplification of the shoe industry in New England has been so steady and regular that it has elicited less attention and received less admira- tion than it is entitled to, in view of the fact that so much has_ been accom- plished. There has been a continuous and uninterrupted succession of achieve- ments, and the contributions to them have been so numerous and the effects they have produced have been so strik- ing that it may be said that the guerdons of merit belong to the entire fraternity, no single individual towering so far above his compeers as to impair their claims to renown in a field of endeavor in which they have won distinction, ac- quired fortune, and rendered inestimable services to their fellow-men. The fact is self-evident that in this multitude of artisans there must have been vast numbers who possessed in a large degree the faculty of creating fabrics so thoroughly adapted to the predilections of consumers that there were sure to be markets for them as soon as they were exhibited. The pro- ducers were full of ideas. They were forever discovering ways of imparting additional value to their wares by in- vesting them with some embellishment which had never before entered into the mind of any rival to supply. In this respect their range of conception seems to have been virtually illimitable. The novelties were brought forward in end- less profusion. They accumulated” to such an extent that purchasers had not time enough at their disposal to exam- ine them all and make selection of the kind which suited them. They were embarrassed by having so many _ invit- ing styles to choose from. Neverthe- less, the varieties, so far from having diminished, have steadily continued to increase, until a full assortment in a well-appointed shoe store presents a succession of objects of beauty, at which any tasteful person can gaze for hours with pleasure. One conspicuous feature of the shoe industry is that it grew to great strength without nurture and flourished without stimulants. It has had no support or fostering care from legislation, nor have there ever been any combinations or organizations to infuse vitality into it. It became powerful wholly through the operation of natural causes. The contributors to its success have worked as effectually for the common interest as if they had been in concert from the beginning, although they have not been consciously co-operating with each other. Every one of them has simply evolved his own conceptions in his mind, and produced the best results ob- tainable therefrom. And with so many minds fixed intently on the same thought, it is not difficult to account for the multiformity and diversity of the fabrics generated in such a fecund soil. Yet they are striking evidences of the prowess of the men whose gifted brains and cunning hands have wrought such vast quantities of shapely articles, alike indispensable in their utility and super- lative in their attractiveness. So much that is wonderful has hap- pened in this age of industrial progress and scientific discovery that we natural- ly feel some hesitation in exalting the exploits of any one class ot experts in mechanical art over others. Nor is it necessary to make any invidious dis- tinctions. It is enough to say that the producers of shoes are entitled to a place in the front rank in the great utilitarian procession, the stately tread of whose triumphal march resounds al! over this continent. They have made themselves a place among the artists of their time. They have succeeded in converting large quantities of the plain- est materials into objects of beauty and of use. They have performed the doubly valuable function of ministering to the refined tastes of the populace and of adding largely to the aggregate wealth of the nation. Their master- pieces combine the merits of substance with the garniture of show. The satis- faction of looking at them is greatly enhanced by appreciation of their serv- iceability. They have a property value independently of, and in addition to, the interest they elicit because of their comeliness of appearance. And taking into consideration the immense quantl- ties there are of them, of what an in- finite variety of shapes and fashions there are, and how many phases of dis- similar mechanical ingenuity are repre- sented by them, they invest with strong interest the great industry which they have brought to such a high degree of perfection. The shoe industry has exercised a wholesome influence upon social life in New England. In the great shoe towns the communities are far above the average in culture and refinement. They have excellent schools, well-se- lected libraries, and all the concomi- tants essential for making the most of their opportunities for cultivating the graces of friendly intercourse and good neighborhood, They are valuable citi- zens. They fully comprehend their re- sponsibilities, and discharge them with conscientious fidelity. They display good taste in architecture and build fine houses; they lay out excellent roads; they establish parks and pleasure re- sorts; they contribute largely in numer- ous ways to each other’s enjoyment. Being well-to-do and independent, their houses are pleasant and supplied with comforts and even with luxuries. They are peaceful, law-abiding, considerate of one another. They meet together and devise measures calculated to enhance the common happiness. They pay at- tention to the education of their chil- dren. They are diligent; they employ their time to good advantage. And not- withstanding their devotion to business, they have a thorough appreciation of pleasure and indulge in it on suitable occasions with genuine relish. There are so many of them and they possess such diversities of gifts that they are able to do a great deal towards their mutual entertainment and edification. They live in and for each other, and their associations and fellowship are in a very large degree potential in strength- ening the ties which bind them together and bring them into closer unity and accord. Their intimacies have been productive of beneficent effects. It is because of them that the people of New England have such a faculty for self- government that their local affairs are so judiciously administered; that they conduct themselves with so much dis- cretion and good sense; that there are rarely any disturbances or controversies among them; that they take an_intelli- gent interest in all that is going on in the world, far and near, at home and abroad ; that they are familiar with cur- rent and with classical literature ; that they are constantly adding to their store of knowledge by judicious reading; that they enlarge their experiences of life by travel, at suitable times, in their own country and in foreign lands, They are always on the alert to gather up all the good things within their reach ie) turn them to the best account. ~ and well-« well adver ‘ cheaply V Knee per n ews ) at : much n n We have MN A line of Men’s and Wo- m men’s Medium Priced ay Shoes that are Money Winners. The most of them sold at Bill Price. We are still making the Men’s Heavy Shoes in Oil Grain and Satin; also carry Snedicor & Hatha- way’s Shoes at Factory Pricein Men’s, Boys’ and Youths’. Lycoming and Keystone Rubbers are the best. See our Salesmen or send mail orders. GEO. H. REEDER & CO., i9 S. Ionia St., Grand Rapids, Mich. : The Acme Perfection Display Fixtures l the attentio n of mer- tility, I urabil- We desire to call D ; Deauty, f the Acme Win- tk. It is unnec > fact that ie stantly v: urie window a it tO | merchant a » his show window Write the ACME MANUFACTUR- ING CO , Battle Creek, Mich , for ill istratec 1 catalogue, showing dis- play fixtures that would be very use ft il to you. Qo2ggarongra2oreg9ggn22) s No. 45. } Sole Leather Counter, Chis is our caper” rine Our prices on shoes are lower, with the Quality Better thanever. Please not ( Men’s plump, first quality, Satin Oil, Coin Toe Tip, | Sole and Slip Sole, Fair Stitch, Bal, 6 wide, | No. 46. Same Shoe, Plain Globe Toe, Bals, $1. No. 47. Same Shoe, Plain Globe Toe, Congress, $1. Michigan St _ Company, r yx RED hey aA Solid as a Rock « e the following } Solid Inner Sole, Solid Out $1.09 00 Send by number for a sample case of each of above. You cannot do w ithe out them, as they 29.0, are the best shoe in the country tor Steo. FS. hai purchased these goods before the od idvance, and our trade shall have the benefit as long as they hold out. SA 81-83 Jefferson Ave., ie Detroit, Michigan DETROIT FLENIBLE DOR nT STANDARD SIZES 16x24in. 20x30in. 24 x 36 in Retail for $1.00 upwards. Any dimension to order. Made of Flat Wire. The Latest and Best. Supplied by Fos‘er, Stevens & Co. and the mfrs. Write for prices. THE DETROIT SAFECOMPANY, 67-85 East Fort Street, Detroit, Mich. HELLELESELELESESLELEEESESLELELEEES EEE ESSE EEE EE EE EES ¢ LOOMIS & GASSENMEIER... . € MANUFACTURERS OF . * : SHOW CASES $ = For all kinds of goods. Secondhand show cases : 3 On Hand and (evcnangedy (6 ee : < 612 Michigan Avenue, East = Lansing, Michigan : ESSSTSSSTSSSSTSTSSSSSSSSSSSHSSSTSSSTSTTTSTSSSTTSTSS I4 ‘Fruits and Produce. Reasons Why Fodder Cheese Should Not Be Made Little Falls, N. Y., March 28—Will you kindly allow me to address the cheese manufacturers vf Michigan on the advisability of putting off the open- ing of their cheese factories this spring, and to state that I advise such a course on their part, firmly believing that it will result in much better average prices for the season than if they make a lot of fodder cheese, which will have to be sold at a low price. I have just re- turned from a six weeks’ trip to Eng- land, and during my sojourn there I visited many, and, in fact, may say nearly all the principal points of dis- tribution of cheese. From a_ careful canvass and trustworthy estimates it ap- pears that there 1s now about double the amount of cheese in dealers’ hands that they usually have this season of the year. They claim that they have enough stock on hand to last them until Jnne 1. I do not say that they will not buy new before that time, as they will undoubt- edly take on some if offered at a low price; but that will result in their carry- ing a big stock of fine old cheese still later into the season, when they should be in the market for large quantities of fine grass cheese. This must result in very low prices, if we have an average make. I believe the only remedy is to curtail production until the consumptive demand takes the current make. This can only be accomplished by concerted plan on the part of the factorymen. It you figure that your neighbor will not make any fodder cheese, that there will be a demand for a few, and that you will make to supply that demand, you can rest assured that your neighbor is arriving at the same conclusion and pursuing the same tactics. It will be much better in the end to have an un- derstanding and fix the time to begin making, and stick to the agreement. Besides, if the present prices of butter and of well fatted calves hold, farmers will find an immediate gain by divert- ing their milk into those channels; and the value of their milk will be enhanced when made into cheese later in the sea- son. In advocating a late opening, I have no ax to grind, as I am carrying no cheese, but, on the contrary, a_ late opening is against my interests, inas- much as it will give me just so much less stock to handle and necessarily make my season’s business less than would an early opening of my usual line of factories. I find that in many sections of Exg- land there exists a prejudice against ‘*states’’ cheese and in favor of ‘‘Cana- dians,’’ and I regret to say in most cases the same is well founded, as most of the Canadian cheese possesses better keeping qualities than state cheese. The principal fault of our cheese is that too much moisture is left in the curd when made. This comes from our makers sacrificing keeping qualities for the sake of getting a big yield. If we are going to compete successfully with Ca- nadian cheese in the English markets we must pay more attention to keeping qualities and less to yield. Their de- mand is for a firm, close boring, rich curd, but one from which the moisture has been thoroughly expelled in the making; in other words, they want a curd as dry as it can be made and leave all the butter fat in. Of course, moisture adds weight to the cheese, and it takes more milk to make cheese suitable for the English market than for our home trade, which has become educated to use a loose-made, sloppy curd, full of moisture and which does not contain nearly as much nutriment as the cheese the English demand as one of the’r staple articles of food. If the consum- ers of cheese here at home could come to know that what they call cream in cheese is largely water, and if they only would get to using a make of cheese from which the water was properly ex- pelled witbout sacrificing any of the cream, not™eating the same until it was thoroughly~ cured, they would find the same much more palatable, nutritious and digestible, and it would result in a larger home consumption and_ in- creased demand. As to the size best for export, a cheese 1414 to 15 inches in diameter and 11 to 12 inches in height, weighing 70 to 75 pounds, seems to be the most desired. While various sections want different shades of color, the general demand is for a full color, if colored at all, but in all sections white cheese a-e growing more into favor each year. For example, the three principal ports of distribution in England are Liverp ol, London and Bristol. Liverpool, which a few years ago tock about equal quan- tities of white and colored, now takes three white to one colored. London formerly took nearly all colored, and now takes as many white as colored, while Bristol, which has grown very rapidly as a point of distribution in the cheese trade, demands nearly 90 per cent. of her supply uncolored. The Canadians are putting forth every effort to supply the requirements of the English market. The states cheese has lost prestige in the last few years. Only by the utmost care and pains taken in making and catering to the foreign de- mand as to quality can we hope to re- tain the trade we now have. C. W. RICHARDSON. —__» + .—__—_ Evaporating Bananas in Nicaragua. From the New York Commercial. Millions of bunches of bananas, ripe and luscious, are allowed to rot in South and Central American countries, which, with proper management, would bea source of revenue to their owners. Two gentlemen of Rama, Nicaragua, Wil- liam Edwards and Ed. Neuhaus, hear- ing that the natives of the Samoan Is- lands dried bananas in the sun and shipped them abroad, determined to im- prove upon the idea, and thus the in- dustry of evaporating bananas was in- augurated. It is in its infancy yet, but it bids fair to be of great importance. Many interesting details are given in a letter sent by M. J. Clancy, United States Consular Agent at Bluefields, Nicaragua, in reply to a request for in- formation sent by Valentine Brothers, of this city. This firm, besides being the buying agents for the Honduras Rail- way Company, own vast tracts of banana- producing land in Honduras. The evaporating machines in use at present are improvised and home made. The bananas, thoroughly ripe, are peeled and put into an oven made from sheet iron, and are dried there. They retaain there twenty-four or forty-eight hours. No one knows the temperature, as no thermometer is used. The neces- sity of having a proper machine for this evaporation designed and manu- factured is emphasized by Mr. Clancy. Six pounds of bananas are required to make one pound of the evaporated fruit. The saccharine matter crystallizes while the fruit is in the oven and appears on the surface. The evaporated fruit is put up in five-pound wooden boxes. The banana in this form is used by confectioners as the base in the manu- facture of candied fruits, and it is con- sidered excellent food for animals in public parks, as well as for home pets. The evaporated fruit has been intro- duced, in a small way, into Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Germany, as_ well as the United States, and all are said to be good markets. It is the intention of the pioneers in this industry to sell the prepared fruit to dealers at New Or- leans or New York for !o cents a pound gold in large quantities. Consul Sorsby, writing from San Juan del Norte, adds to Mr. Clancy’s state- ment the information that ‘‘if the de- mand for evaporated bananas should become general, the industry would em- brace every banana district of Central and South America, Jamaica, Cuba, the West Indies, Hayti. and other tropical and semi-tropical belts, and the sale of the machinery therefor would be enor- mous. ”’ Experiments are also being made in the manufacture of banana flour. It is asserted that for cakes it excels the best buckwheat, and that it can be used also for bread or biscuit, while for dyspep- tics it is highly recommended. RALQLID@) Butter Wanted Will buy or handle on Commission HERMANN C. NAUMANN & CO., DETROIT. Main Office, 33 Woodbridge St. BEANS and POTATOES CARLOTS ONLY. MILLER & TEASDALE CoO., ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI. 3ranch Store, 353 Russell St., op. Eastern Market. : Promptness is the essence of our success. BUTTER R. HIRT, Jr., ee of all grades bought at point of shipment. Market St., Detroit. Produce Commission ara eseseseseseseSesesSeseseseseseseseSese5e25e5e25eS 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 STRAWBERRIES from the South will soon be cheap and within reach of everybody. All Green Vegetables—Tomatoes, Green Onions, Radishes, Cu- cumbers, Spinach, etc. Oranges, Lemons, Bananas. 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. WE ARE IN POSITION TO FILL YOUR OR- DERS FOR FIELD SEEDS BOTH IN QUAL- ITY AND PRICE THAT SHOULD WARRANT YOU IN DEALING WITH US. MOSELEY Br0OS. 26-28-30-32 OTTAWA ST. }aalh Jobbers-Seed-Beans-Potatoes-Produce GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. GOTHAM GOSSIP. News from the Metropolis---Iindex to the Market. Special Correspondence. New York, March 26—The demand for refined sugar has been moderate throughout the week, with no change in quotations, granulated closing at 5! 2 > Decrease of Exports of Filled Cheese. Washington, March 28—The Bureau of Animal Industry of the Agricultural Department has sent a reply to the State Department's enquiry in regard to MICHIGAN TRADESMAN the statements made from English sources thai filled cheese is being ex- ported to England. The Bureau says: ‘‘From the beginning of the Nine- teenth Century, exports of cheese from the United States increased year after year, with no fluctuation of conse- quence, and, as partly shown by the fol- lowing table, until the maximum of 148,000,000 pounds was reached in 1881. This was more than half the total prod- uct of the country. Nearly all of these exports went to Great Britain, and the quality of the article steadily improved until cheese from the United States =— at the head in the English mar- et. ‘*Beginning between 1881 and 1885, a change took place, and cheese exports from the United States to the United Kingdom decreased gradually for fifteen years. This decline was accounted for partly by a remarkably rapid growth in the cheese industry of Canada, fostered by extraordinary aid and encouragement on the part of the Dominion govern- ment, and partly, during the later years, by a loss of reputation sustained by United States cheese, owing to the expor- tation from this country, by unscrupu- lous dealers, of much low grade cheese and the adulterated or counterfeit article known as ‘filled cheese.’ ‘*The evil of unidentified filled cheese became so great, at home and abroad, that the Congress of the United States enacted a law in June, 1896, regulating the manufacture and sale of the article. This act is now so well enforced that the output of filled cheese has been greatly reduced. The product is well identified, and, although some is still exported, it leaves the ports of the United States under such form and markings that purchasers can not be deceived as to its true character. What becomes of it later, and how it is offered to consumers, are points beyond the control of the exporting country. ‘The filled cheese frauds at home have been practically terminated, and the reputation of genuine cheese from the United States has been improving of late.’’ According to British official statistics, the imports of cheese into the United Kingdom from Canada and the United States were as follows during the calen- dar year of 1896: From Canada, 138,- 241,264 pounds, valued at $12, 600, 822. 32, or. g.12 cents per pound; from the United States, 65,092,944 pounds, valued at .$6,005,441.06, or 9.23 cents per pound, showing that the quality of the American cheese was superior to that of Canada. - >> — Maintaining Home Harmony. Mrs. Fairleigh—Does your husband ever compare your housekeeping to his mother's? Mrs. Warwick—Not to, though. Mrs. Fairleigh—How did you break bim of it? Mrs. Warwick—I compared his be- havior to that of my first husband. —~> 0 > Advertisements are the powder and shot in the gun of business. He used now. Eg Shippers Attention excelsior. Order direct from the manufacturers, Bay City Excelsior Co., Bay City, Mich. WANTED To furnish Western dealers for 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 1efrigeration, 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 scason; 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 5,000 cases tinely candled eggs for April and May deliveries; also several cars creamery butter;correspondence solicited. Address Hyge- ia Crystal Ice & Cold Storage Co. ,Uniontown, Pa. I5 When You Begin to See Anything Green Phink of Vinkemulder. When you need anything Green send your order to Vinkemulder. We have choice Dry Onions, Parsnips, Bagas, Carrots, ( )ld and New Cabbage, White Beans, 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. ESTABLISHED 1893 eT , 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 Will please your customers and make you money. Popular prices prevail. Ask for quotations. F. J. DET TENTHALER, 117-119 MONROE STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. HORORTORSRS ROTORS TORSCRCHORORSCHOROROCHORSOHORORCROROR See C. N. Rapp & Co., ' Commission Merchants 56 West Market St., Buffalo, N. Y. Re 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 enquiries which may be made in regard to us. SESSSSSESESESS To Any Grover § : | Creamery or Dairyman having a either Dun will good or Bradstreet One Hundred Paraffined, Parchment- rating in we send Butter They are light, strong Try them. Lined Packages on ap- proval. and neat. { Michigan Package 60. : Owosso, Mich. RINTING FOR PRODUCE DEALERS a Tradesman Company Grand Rapids. gee 2a Bye lo A Case of the Greedy Dog. Stroller in Grocery World. Have you ever heard the story of the greedy dog who was carrying a bone in his mouth over a stream, and who, see- ing his reflection in the water, thought be was looking at another bone, and grabbed tor it, losing his own in the process? Probably you have; everybody has, aud it has just as much point in it to-day as it had probably centuries ago, when it was first born. Ihere’s a grocer over in North Jersey who has been carrying a good big bone in his mouth, but who is at present in the act of grabbing at another shadowy one. He hasn't entirely lost his own yet, but it’s halfway out of his mouth, and will probably go entirely if he doesn't mend his ways. This grocer does, or did, a good business. I suppose his trade aggre- gated $40,000 a year, and as he got good prices for everything he scld, being in a rather exclusive territory, I suppose he averaged at least 1214 or 15 per cent. profit. The business 1s one which Smith, as I'll call him, built up him- selt and was a mighty good thing. It netted him a comfortable income, he lived in a handsome house, and en- joyed life. And yet in face of all this, it that man don't change his tactics, his nice business will be gone and wasted inside of two years, probably in one year, for he has live competitors. Smith is following a will o’ the wisp. He’s completely under the spell of the Klondike fever. Not that he’ll ever go there; I don’t believe he will; don't believe, in fact, that he has any inten- tion of going there, but the subject has about it the fascinating glitter of gold, and Smith is hypnotized by it. When the Klondike fever first became epidemic, Smith succumbed, and he’s been under its spell ever since. He reads every line of matter be can get about the gold fields, neglecting prac- tically everything else in the daily paper, and he knows more about the lay of the land up there than any other man I ever met. Mention any of the camp- ing stations or passes, or whatever you call ’em, and Smith will sit down and tell you all about them. He knows where the most goid has been found, what it assays to the ton, and every thing else about it. One day when I was in his place I happened to men- tion a display of nuggets that some market street (Philadelphia) store had in its window, and I'll be slapped if he didn’t go down to Philadelphia the next day for nothing but to see them. Smith never in the world expects to go to Kiondike. I’m not sure that he wants to go. He simply likes to talk about the thing. The stories of the poor clerks and men who had been failures in the States going up there and com- ing back with a big pile dazzle him. They make his own business, good and solid and remunerative as it was, seem bumdrum. It looks slow, don’t you see, to make only $3,000 or $4,000 in a whole year, when up in Klondike you’re liable to turn up a nugget worth that any minute. The result of this is that Smith is weglecting his business—badly. He thinks, talks, and probably dreams, of nothing else but gold. It’s obscuring his eyes so he can’t see his store, and the store, being left to itself, is slip- ping gradually away from him. Did you ever see a business that wouldn't play when the cat was away? Smith's competitors are shrewd fel- lows, and they are taking advantage of his absence of mind by sending sales- men into his territory. I’m told they have found that the time was ripe, be- cause these salesmen found dissatisfac- tion rife. Mr. Smith hadn’t done this, or that, or the other, and the people didn’t like it. One of these salesmen— a bright fellow—told me this himself. And in view of it the other grocers have had very little trouble in getting their hooks in. And the getting of their hooks in means the getting of Smith’s out. The quickest thing which a grocer’s customers size up and feel aggrieved over is inattention or indifference. They'll forgive errors if the grocer shows that he feels them of sufficient importance to burly up and = scurry around attending to them. So when Smith, by pure lack of interest or at- tention, delays the delivery of this cus- tomer’s order, or that one’s, dissatis- faction waxes and flourishes like a green bay tree. That is exactly the condition of Smith's business at present. He ts inattentive, doesn't pay the attention either to his customers or to his buy- ing that he used to, and in consequence both suffer. And when you neglect both the buying and selling ends of a business, how long do you think it’s going to run itself? It just shows what a fool a man can be! Here’s Smith, with a sure thing— no nugget business, but the certainty of a steady income probably as long as he lives, oras long as he attends toit. And it's a good income, too. And yet, for the glitter of gold 10,000 miles away, he’s wasting what he has, and will end up, Just as sure as I’m aiive, a penniless man, if he doesn’t stop it, It’s a hard thing to talk to an intelli- gent man about such things as this. Yet I did my best to make him _ under- stand his danger, without telling him so in so many words, but I failed—failed utterly. You couldn't get him to talk about his business at all. The minute I'd bring it up he’d switch the conver- sation off by asking me whether I'd heard of this or that big strike, and finally I gave it up. If Smith only knows it, he’s drifting toward Niagara, and he’s pretty near the rapids. —_—_—~> +. Some of the Products of Java. Away off in the Indian Ocean, the lit- tle continent called by the natives Djawa, supports twenty-four millions of people within the area of New York State. It is the most densely packed population in the world, except pos- sibly Belgium, which has 540 people to the square mile, Holland has 359, and the most crowded portion of Massachu- setts has about 300. The Javanese are little known except as producers of coffee and quinine, and Sumatra is fa- mous for its inferior but indispensable tobacco. The Dutch rule as conserva- tively here as in the Transvaal, their methods remain primitive, their dis- cipline is severe to brutality and _ their attitude to tourists, whether on business or pleasure, is that of suspicion. When the Dutch first worked Java they for many years secured a minimum profit of 300 per cent. by destroying planta- tions to limit the production of spices. From 1811 to 1816 Sir Stamford Raffles introduced a more enlightened rule, na- ive chiefs were given great estates, peasant ownership was encouraged, ports were made free to all nations and a sys- tem of justice was established. When the country was ceded back to Holland at the close of the Napoleonic wars, the Dutch reverted to the main lines of their harsher land system, exacting one- fifth of produce as rent, and forced the peasants to plant one-fifth of the land in crops to be sold to the government at fixed prices, the peasant giving one day’s labor in seven. Revenue dwindled seriously, until the ‘‘culture system’’ was established in 1830, by which the government backs the native in devel- oping the land’s resources, of course on highly advantageousterms to Holland. This opened a fine field for sons of wealthy Dutchmen to settle as_ planters, jand has resulted in a vast increase of trade in sugar, tea, indigo, quinine, tin, salt and opium, the last two being close government monopolies. Although the cinchona tree was only introduced in 1850, no less than one-half of the world’s supply of quinine is grown in Java. Of late years the Dutch have found it pays, in more ways than one, to treat their subject natives more hu- manely than in the old days. The cul- ture system has worked wonders and the reign of monopoly and selfish coer- cion is approaching its end in Java as in another fair island or two. a ie It is a good idea to become acquainted with your customers so as to be able to greet them by name when they enter your store, MICHIGAN TRADESMAN No Broken Eggs! venient Farmers’ Crate. United States. hold 6 and 12 dozen. lots of five dozen or more, free of charge. Pat. Feb. 20, ’94. No Time Wasted! No Disputed Count! The best and cheapest egg carrier in the A first-class advertising novelty. A con- Made in sizes to We will print your ‘‘ad’’ neatly on covers in Write us for prices, CUMMER MFG. CO., Cadillac, Mich. WI IN SHIH SHIN DIV IN IN HF Ns WMS AS WS SAF AS MS AS AF AS AF AF AS AS SAF SAAS As sa abs SI IN IN IN IN IN SN STII IY SHY I) | emer | MMS MSS ASA AAI A A Was dss MMM MS AF AS AS AS AF As AS SAS ds Pf TIT TIIT INIT IN IN INIT INI W.R. Brice. anne | SS | eo C. M. Drake. Established in Philadelphia 1852. Eggs We are in the market for large quantities of Fine, Fresh, Selected Eggs delivered on board cars your Station. Write for prices. W.R. Brice & Co., 9 and 11 N. Ionia St., Grand Rapids, Mich. REFERENCES: Corn Exchange National Bank, Philadelphia. Western National Bank, Philadelphia. W. D. Hayes, Cashier Hastings National Bank, Hastings, Mich. Fourth National Bank, Grand Rapids, Mich. D. C. Oakes, Coopersville, Mich. E. A. Stowe, Michigan Tradesman. GMS MMMM MMM AAS AS MAMA USMS MUST, —— IN SS Ws Ns IH SSIS SAY SAY SAY SAY SAY ITY SAY IY IPN AAT SAY IHN THY SAN SN SY —2 Detroit Commission and Manufacturing Co. Manufacturers of CHICORY—Y Cereals, Koffee Aid. Specialties in GROCERS’ SUNDRIES. Produce and Fruit of all Kinds. Telephone, New, 1312. Flour, Feed, Baled Hay and Straw. Butter and Eggs a specialty. ellow Rolls (imitation of Sellig’s). Pink Rolls. Red Rolls. Also Granulated Chicory and Essence of Coffee in bulk or tin foil constantly on hand. Malt Coffee, 27 Farmer Street, Detroit, Mich. LE —_ | || COFFEE |) | os || Manufactured by || Woodbury 8p, (Charlotte, Mich | COMPOUND.|| 2. RICH DRINK of choice coffee with palatable cereals and other wholesome ingredients. Far superior to all “cereal” drinks. 12 prizes in each and every pound package. tailer big profit. Pleases customers. case and see how quickly it sells. CHARLOTTE, MICH. Retails for 13c a package, affording re- Order trial WOODBURY & CoO., mrers. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 17 Commercial Travelers Michigan Knights of the Grip. President, Joun A. HorrMan, Kalamazoo; Secre- tary, J. C. SaunpERs, Lansing; Treasurer, Cuas. McNo try, Jackson. Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Association. President, C. C. SNEDEKER, Detroit; Secretary and Treasurer, C. W. ALLEN Detroit. United Commercial Travelers of Michigan. Grand Counselor, F. L. Day. Jackson: Grand Secretary, G. S. Vaumore, Detroit; Grand Treas- urer, GEO. A. REYNOLDS, Saginaw. Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual Acci- dent Association. President, J. Borp Pantiinp, Grand Rapids; Secretary and Treasurer, Gro. F. Owen, Grand Rapids. Lake Superior Commercial Travelers’ Club. President, W. C. Brown, Marquette; Secretary and Treasurer, A. F. W1xson, Marquette. Efficient Work of the Ladies’ Auxiliary. Detroit, March 28—Post C held its regular business meeting Saturday even- ing. Chairman Howeran, of the Cake Walk Committee, made a_ report which fired the boys with the same enthusiasm that the genial Mike carries around with him, and the result is, Detroit is goin’ to have a cake wa’k, ‘‘ ‘sho’s yo bon’’ and under the auspices of Post C, and in the near future, too! Chairman Walsh appointed a com- mittee of the whole to meet, subject to the call of the Secretary. The details are well under way and about the latter part of April, just watch our smoke. As no business of importance was on hand, an early adjournment was voted, as the Ladies’ Auxiliary had taken en- tire possession of our hali (our business session was held in the anteroom) and we were anxious to see what they had in store for us. Now, I want to say a word right here about our ladies’ auxiliary. They are hustlers in every sense of the word, and pull together like 2 matched team. It was hinted to them when ap- pointed that the Post’s funds were low. They took the hint and gave us the most novel and, from a financial stand- point the most successful, entertainment in the Post's history. Whatever magic spell they cast over their victims is not known, but we do know that a vote of thanks is due and heartily given to the following, for their cheerful donations: W. J. Gould & Co., 5 pounds Java coffee. Lee & Cady, bag of oranges. H. & I. Marks, a box of cigars. - John McLean, a box of cigars. San Telmo Cigar Co., a box of cigars. E. J. Harris, a bottle of wine. S. Valmore, several rolls cotton bats and several pairs dress stays. E. Van Nostitz, 5 dozen buttonhole bouquets. P. T. Walsh, can smoking tobacco. Brerth’s Restaurant, bag of loaf sugar. F. Traver, basket of fruit. R. H. Traver, loan of uniform caps. Miss Van Nostitz and Mrs. Flowers, music for dancing. J. C. Goss, loan of canvas. Geo. Gorman, pair of slippers. Michigan Central Railroad officials, lanterns, etc. Mrs. C. W. Allen, beauty). Ladies of the Post, all the provisions needed. With the above equipments, they laid their plans, perfected their arrange- ments and then made a raid on our purses, and to-day Post C is richer by $31 than it was on Saturday morning. We came! We saw! We conquered! will well apply to the Ladies’ Auxiliary of Post C. But as I will want to tell you about the cake walk next month, | fear I am taking too much space. H. Y. Kenyon, Sec’y. —____§_<@@<.____ Movements of Lake Superior Travelers Arthur McMillan has severed his con- nection with the Ferguson, Hardware Co (Soo) and will represent the a prize cake (a with headquarters at Kalamazoo. Mack is all right and success to him, W. E. Conroy (Foster, Munger Co. ) is doing the Upper Peninsula this week, ‘Con’’ is an old hardware man; worked for P. M. Church (Soo) eight or nine years ago, and was Lake Superior rep- resentative of Freeman, Delemater & Co. for a short time in 1890. George Walz, formerly with the Fer- guson Hardware Co. (Soo), has ac- cepted a position with Buhl, Sons & Co., at Menominee. W. F. Mitchell is now with the Soo Hardware Co., taking the position va- cated by J. H. Zealand. E. E. Emmons is representing the Geo. Worthington Co. (Cleveland) in the Copper Country. Mr. Emmons has a few other specialties. Al Lighton (W. F. Dermot Co., Trout Creek) has organized a base ball team for 1898 which promise to clean out all visiting clubs. We don’t know how they will fare when away from Trout Creek. Late additions to the membership of the Lake Superior Commercial Travel- es’ Club are: Roscoe C. Bradley, New- berry; Charles Wenzel, St. Ignace; J H. Scott, De Pere, Wis.: Frank D. Schwartz, Marinette, Wis. —___--~>_4~<______ The Grocery Market. Sugar—There is an improved demand for refined grades and the refiners have improved the opportunity by making two advances so far this week. Buyers are generally of the opinion that still higher prices will rule. Teas—The greater part of the import orders have already been placed, and at figures that are about equal to the open- ing pricesof last year. There is a tendency to avoid ordering the higher- priced Japan teas, that is, such as must sell to the retailer at more than 30 cents. One wholesaler of this city ex- presses the belief that the day of high- priced Japan teas in this country is about over. Moreover there will be not much of the very low grade tea handled in this country this year because of the operation of the inspection laws. The result will be to bring the price of the medium and best grades of Japan teas nearer together. There will be but little tea this year sold to jobbers un- der 14 cents, and the same grades of teas that sold at this figure last year will probably cost about ™%@ic more this year. Dried Fruits—Prunes are not strong, in spite of the reports of a cleaned-up coast, and frosts on the coming prune crop. Peaches are also weak, there be- ing a considerable stock yet unsold on the coast. Apricots are said to have been affected by the reported heavy frost on the coast. As these frost re ports are annual, and are rarely as destructive as at first reported, this re- port is not given full credence in buy- ing circles. There are still a good many second and rain-damaged raisins in the market, which are being hurried off as fast as possible to avoid further damage by reason of hot weather. This making the raisin market rather easy in all grades. There has been a drop in raspberries, which makes them lower in price than they have been for eight years. Blackberries are high, but are moving but slowly because of the very low price of raspberries. The demand for foreign dried fruits is confined in large part to the call for currants, but the movement of these is not very large. Molasses—Medium grades are selling fairly well at full quoted rates. At New Orleans stocks are light and strictly de- sirable grades are held firmly at top prices. IS ———_>#.___ The moral support of a man without se son Electrical Supply Co. (Milwaukee), morals is not a strong pull, Equality Not the Creation of Sugar Trust. the Pentwater, March 28—Referring to the article in the Michigan Tradesman of March 22, ‘‘Wherein Hoyt Errs in Judgment,’ kindly explain why it is not the duty of any patriotic citizen of this country to bother a trust at every Opportunity. It seems that Hoyt was compelled at one time to obey the com- mands of the sugar trust. If he can now throw off the fetters, he should do so, and all other wholesale grocers should buy their sugar from some. other house than the sugar trust. At the United States Senate investi- gation of trusts in New York, some two years ago, Mr. Searls, the Secretary of the sugar trust, testified that it cost to produce barreled granulated sugar, f. o. b, New York, 3 cents per pound, and the trust was then getting 4 cents per pound for such sugar f. 0. b. New York. There is no question but the stockholders of the sugar trust buy the raw sugar at low prices and sell such raw sugar to the trust at fictitious high prices. Refined granulated sugar is sold in New Orleans--1,o00 miles from the New York refinery--at 50 cents per 100 pounds less than the same kind of sugar is sold at the refinery in New York. Doubtless the stockholders wish to get some cheap raw sugar to sell to the sugar trust. “The greatest good for the greatest number’’ will eventually be, ‘‘The greatest good for the retail grocer.’’ The equality plan is not for the good of the consumer. The sugar trust is evi- dently not satisfied with nearly doubling its Money on every pound of sugar sold, as every barrel of sugar we get is shy four to five pounds. 5. E. RUSSELL & Co. has no love for the sugar trust, as every reader of the Tradesman will testify. Its existence is a curse to the country and a menace to our free institutions. This is the po- sition taken by the Tradesman on the organization of the trust and this posi- tion has been consistently maintained ever since. The Tradesman is the only trade journal in the country which ex- posed the practice of the trust in put- ting up refined sugars short weight. As the result of such exposures, a repre- The Tradesman ing Co. visited Grand letter of introduction from President Havemeyer and spent a day investi- gating the charges made by the Trades man. Rapids with a proceedings would be taken against the Tradesman, but careful investigation disclosed the fact that the charges were sustained and more recent investigation leads to the belief that the trust has re- formed its methods and is now up its sugars full weight. putting delusion tbat the equality plan created and foisted on the trade by the trust. Such is not a fact. Equality originated with the wholesale grocery trade —being tirst suggested by the Western wholesale grocers, if the Tradesman remembers rightly—and it took several months to induce the trust to put it into execution; in fact, it was adopted by the trust only after the most aggressive measures were resorted to by the wholesale trade. Thetrust has never been in sympathy with equality, be- cause it is utterly devoid of the ele- ment of monopoly, and it is hinted that the action of Wm. M. Hoyt & Co., in withdrawing from equality, is inspired in tbe West. equality Fortunately the Hoyt house is such a small concern, compared with a half dozen other whole- sale grocery establishments at the Chi- cago market, that any action it may sentative of the American Sugar Refin- | It was currently reported that, if | the charges were found to be false, legal | Mr. Russell is evidently harboring the | | was by the trust in the hope of breaking up| take cuts very little figure, one way or the other. Equality soon found friends among the retail trade and is now very gener- ally regarded as quite as advantageous to the retailer as it is to the wholesaler. It has been commended by the Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association, the Michigan Retail Grocers’ Association and the Illinois Retail Grocers’ Asso- Ciation and is everywhere conceded to be the best help the small dealer has im his effort to compete with the large dealer and the department store. The fact that the department store people condemn equality and are bending every energy to bring about its abandonment is pretty good evidence that the system is an ad- vantageous one for the small dealer. > o> - Myron A. Fish, formerly engaged in the furniture and hardware business at Jamestown, N. Y., has engaged to travel for the Towner Hardware Co., of Muskegon, the engagement to date from May |. >_> C. L. Comey has been engaged as city salesman for the Clark-Rutka- Jewell Co, 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. SUFFERING HUMANITY, READ! Private wires: A REMARKABLE CASE Having suffered with rheumatism and constipa- tion for over twenty-five years, and my case having b pronounced hopeless last summer by the best medical skill, when I was given uptodie, I miracu- ly 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 people know me. My home address” Kimbark Ave., Chicago. Grand Rapids people can obtain this remedy from my customer, John Benson, the clothier, 26 Monroe St., upstairs. lous is 5406 Stephen T. Bowen. I will be in Chicago at the clothing factory of John G. Miller & Co., 276. and 278 Franklin St., from Feb. 20 to April 1, and hope my trade wi!l make that establishment headquarters while in the city, I UT ie gh de sak 2 z I8 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Drugs-=Chemicals MICHIGAN STATE BOARD OF PHARMACY. Term expires F. W. R. Perry, Detroit - - Dec. 31, 1898 A. C. ScouUMAcHER, Ann Arbor - Dee. 31, 1899 Gro. GunpRovM, Ionia - . - Dec. 31, 1900 L. E. REYNOLDS, St. Joseph Dec. 31, 1901 Henry HEIM,’Saginaw -— - - Dec. 31, 1902 President, F. W. R. Perry, Detroit. Secretary, Gro. GuNDRovM, 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. : Treasurer—JoHN D. Murr, Grand Rapids. The “Alkaloids” of Cod-Liver Oil. Of late years there have appeared in the journals a number of articles con- cerning the so-called ‘‘alkaloids’’ or ‘active principles’’ of cod-liver oil, and discussing whether these chemical! compounds represent the wonderful virtue possessed by the oil itself. Con- flicting views have naturally been ex- pressed, since there must always be two sides to every new question; and ex- periments on the part of chemists and therapeutists have resulted. But it would seem to us that there is one phase of the subject which renders experi- mentation almost unnecessary, and that is this: Cod-liver oil must be regarded simply as a food, and one of such great and peculiar efficiency that it deserves to be classed as a therapeutic agent by virtue thereof. As is well known, a certain amount of fatty material is a necessity to the organism when performing its regular functions. Under ordinary conditions it matters little in what form this ole- aginous material is supplied to the di- gestive organs, which can generally in- sure its preparation and absorption. But it frequently happens that under the conditions supervening in cases of inanition, phthisis, strumous skin dis- eases, or disorders referable to exhaus- tion or debility of the nervous centers, the assimilative organs are unable to supply the fat required to carry on properly the vital functions, much less make good the loss which has already occurred. Under these circumstances we have in cod-liver oil a food which can in many instances, unfortunately not in all, be assimilated in full meas- ure. This is the whole secret of its sur- passing excellence. By virtue of chem- ical constitution it yields itself to the manipulation of the enfeebled organs of assimilation with peculiar readiness, and but little change is necessary to adapt it to its function. Otherwise, butter, cream or olive oi] would be just as suitable, and would perhaps be pref- erable on the score of attractiveness. When the oil is assimilated, there fol- low the results so much desired, name- ly, facilitation of the digestive proc- esses, increase in body weight and in the proportion of red blood-corpuscles, and a stimulation of healthy cell-for- mation throughout the tissues. To sum up the whole matter in a few words, it may be said that the oil sustains the organism until it is able to renew its functions and to rebuild the shattered structure. In performing the role above outlined for cod-liver oil, we can not see that there is any need for the intervention of an active principle; the evident necessity is not for some minute sub- stance which by its presence will stim- ulate the process of elimination; in- stead, the demand is for food. The special food value of the oil is attested by the fact that, of the hundreds of sub- stitutes which the past has_ brought forth, many of them oils of fatty com- binations of every conceivable variety, not one has survived the practical test, and cod-liver oil is consumed in greater quantities than ever before. Now, as to the so-called alkaloids. The oil from which the alkaloids are extracted, and which the advocates of the active principle theory claim to be most efficient, upon which, say they, the reputation of cod-liver oil was founded before the advent of improved methods, is collected by allowing the livers to lie exposed until by decompo- sition of the hepatic tissues the oil is allowed to exude. It is well known that liver tissue is a most inviting field for bacterial growth; how, then, can any sane man convince himself that bacte- rial decomposition of the albuminous matter, with the formation of ptomaines, will not supervene during the time re- quired for the breaking down of the oil cells? Furthermore, if the active principles are present in the livers when taken from the fish, why are they not present in the oil which is extracted by imme- diate manipulation before decomposi- tion sets in? Yet we have the evidence of the advocates of the ‘‘active princi- ples’’ as our authority for the statement that these alkaloids do not occur in the light oil made by the improved proc- esses, but that the dark oil procured by decomposition processes is rich in them. Is it not reasonable to expect both oils to take these alkaloids in so- lution? Again, a noted advocate of the alka- loid theory states that the reputation of cod-liver oil was made several hundred years before the advent of the ‘‘steam- process,’’ etc. ; arguing further that this oil made by the decomposition process owed its virtue to the alkaloids it con- tained. He further admits that the oil made by the improved process in use since 1853 does not contain these alka- loids. If this be so, what shall we say of this improved oil made since 1853 and which has for nearly a lifetime practically superseded the oi] made by the old process? Has it proved the less efficacious? Do not physicians get just as good results as before? Has any- thing been found to supersede it? Is it not a fact well known to all physicians that where there were half a dozen pa- tients who could stomach the old oil, there are now twenty who can take the new with comfort? If the alkaloids impart to cod-liver oil all its value, why is a new oil, which contains none of them, so invaluable? Jonu M. FRANCIS. ee Castoria Not a Trade Mark. The United States Court of Appeals has affirmed the decision of the United States Court of North Nebraska that ‘*Castoria,’’ being the descriptive name of an article on which the patent has expired, can not be appropriated as a trade-mark. This is an absolute victory for the ‘‘Pitcher’s '’’ people, who main- tained their right to use the word in designating their product, but who for such use were in 1896 sued by the Cen- taur Company. _ You may count on newspaper adver- tising as the best aid to count profits. —__—_~» 2. The man who doesn’t want a big busi- ness shouldn't advertise a little one. Are Business Assignments Necessary? It has been the experience of a vast number of manufacturers and jobbers who are selling their goods largely on credit that when a customer wno is strictly honest, desiring to pay his debts in full, becomes discouraged from the stress of hard times, or from being pressed for payment on accounts a little overdue, and acting from a desire to serve all alike, makes a general assign- ment without preferences, he takes a step which in many cases is entirely un- necessary. It is one that results only in a sacrifice of the debtor’s business, and the payment of a very small per- centage of his debts. While an assign- ment under the circumstances named is strictly legal and not subject to severe criticism, from a moral point of view, yet it has come to be regarded among large givers of credit as generally in- judicious. It certainly is not the plan that is the best for paying debts. Upon the assumption that the debtor is honest, and has no desire to give preferences, but wishes his estate to be used in paying, pro rata, assign- ment proceedings should be avoided in every possible case. The great objec- tions to an assignment are that thereby the debtor delivers his business over to be managed by an outsider, who can not obtain the good results that the owner can secure. The assignee is obliged to close up the business by forced sales, that rarely bring more than a small per- centage of its value. As a_ final result the owner loses his business and sees his assets greatly reduced, with only a very small amount of his debts actually paid. This question then naturally arises: Are assignmnts really necessary, and if they are not necessary, how can they be avoided? As the world has grown older, there has been an improvement in business practice and in business ideas, as_ well as in many other directions. There has come to prevail a kindlier feeling for the honest debtor upon the part of the creditor than prevailed in earlier days. At present harsh plans of collecting and peremptory demands for the settlement of obligations are not the methods most in favor with jobbers and manufactur- ers. Instead, there is manifest in ac- tive business practice much more of the spirit of the Golden Rule. In cases of business embarrassment the first step upon the part of the debtor should be a conference with all his creditors, at which a complete and hon- est statement of his condition is sub- mitted. Business men engaged in large transactions are, in a great majority of cases, fair-minded men. Where a debtor presents a truthful statement of his em- barrassment, it is their inclination, in nine cases out of ten, to at once make some satisfactory arrangement with him, either in the form of an extension or a compromise. Thereby the debtor’s business is saved him, and a much larger proportion of his indebtedness is paid than would follow from a general assignment. A customer saved is worth much more to a creditor than a failed or ruined customer, even although in the latter case the same amount of debt has_ been liquidated. Every credit man, therefore, will put forth every effort to save an honest debtor, even although the first result may be a loss to his house. If these conclusions are correct, then it is excellent counsel to give an embar- rassed business man to promptly con- sult with his creditors, taking this step before making a general assignment or giving a chattel mortgage. D. C. DELAMATER. —_+__>2 > The Drug Market. Opium—The market is quiet, due to lack of information from primary mar- kets. Prices are unchanged. Morphine—Is in good demand at un- changed prices. The looked-for ad- vance has not yet been noted. Quinine—The market is quiet and no change of price is expected before Thursday next, on which date the bark sale will take place in Amsterdam. It is believed on the other side that bark will sell at an advance, in which case quinine will be advanced. Spermaceti—Owing to light demand, the price has declined. Sassafras Bark—Is in better supply and lower in price. Crushed soap bark is believed to be cheap at _ present prices and an advance is looked for when the summer demand starts in. Essential Oils—There are no changes te note. Peppermint is in full supply and easy. Linseed Oil—Is active at unchanged prices. The demand is good. a To Lessen the Free Dispensary Abuses. The State Board of Charities of New York has caused to be introduced in the State Legislature a bill designed to prevent in large measure the patronizing of free dispensaries by people able to pay for medical treatment. In support of its movement, the Board has gathered statistics which lead it to declare that more than 50 per cent. of the people of New York City are practically receiving free medical attention ! > 2. ____ Failure is sometimes more profitable than success, because we don’t waste any time bragging about it. Carbolate (ler Pock WIer'S crteaine Pocket [DNaler 1S GUARANTEED TO CURE Ail druggists $1. W. H. SMITH & CO., Props., Buffalo, N. Y. 1220-0 PIMPLES blackheads, boils, blotches, freck- les, eruptions caused by ingrow- 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 92 healthy glow to the complexion ; perfectly harm- 3 q less. At drug stores 25c per bottle; by mail 3éc. @ B. Schrouder, Pharmacist, Grand Rapids, Mich. g 1 Oo Ce , The Cheapest Enameled Playing Card NO. market for the money. gross. ples and prices be’ dCUSRSEL EEL LITT ON THE MARKET IS THE 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. Put up A good seller. List price $20 per We make a full line from cheapest to highest grates and can meet your wants in every ie If you are handling playing cards ‘ore placing your order. They may help you. for profit get our sam- THE AMERICAN PLAYING CARD CO., KALAMAZOO, MICH. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT. Advanced— Declined—Turpentine. Acidum Aceticum............ 8 6@8 8 Benzoicum, German 70@ 7% WORMON se ec @ 15 Carbolicum ......... 2@ 41 Citricum .... 100@ 42 Hydrochlor .. 3@ 5 Nitrocum . 8@ 10 Oxalioum .:......... 1L2@ 14 Phosphorium, dil... @ 15 Salicylicum. ........ 60@ 5 Sulphuricum. ...... 1%@ (Wenmnicam .....-.... 1 25@ 1 40 Tartaricum.......... 38] = 40 Ammonia Aqua, 16 deg........ 4@ 6 Aqua, 20 deg........ 6@ 8 Cerpomes............ 129@ «14 Chioridum .......... 12@ 14 Aniline Bacce. Cubese........ po. ” 13@ 15 Juniperus..... 6@ 8 Xanthoxylum.. .... 23@ 30 Balsamum ggg eee ceemengs 55@ 60 POM @ 2 40 Terabin, Canada... 45@ 50 Toleten... 3... 50@_=s«60 Cortex Abies, Canadian.... 18 Cannio, 12 Cinchona Flava..... 18 Euonymus atropurp 30 Myrica Cerifera, po. 20 Prunus Virgini...... 12 Quillaia, gr’d....... 14 Sassafras...... 18 12 Ulmus...po. 15, gr d 15 Extractum Glycyrrhiza Glabra. U4@ 2% Glycyrrhiza, po..... 23a 30 Hematox,15lbbox. l@ 12 Hematox, Is ........ 13@_ «14 Hematox, 4s....... 144@ = 15 Heematox, 48....... 146@ 17 Ferru Carbonate Precip. . 15 Citrate and Quinia.. 2B Citrate Soluble...... % Ferrocyanidum Sol. 40 Solut. Chloride..... 15 Sulphate, com’l..... 2 Sulphate, com’l, by bbl, per cwt....... 50 Sulphate, pure ..... ? Flora Lo 122@ 14 Anthemis........... 18@ 2 Magriceria ......... 30@ =«35 Folia Garosma. ..:.... 2... 23@ Cassia Acutifol, Tin- Mevoiy. .... 00.5. 18@ 2% Cassia Acutifol,Alx. 2%@ 30 —— officinalis, 4s oe eae 12@ 20 ve wre “ 8@ 10 Gummi Acacia, Ist picked.. @ 6 Acacia, 2d picked.. @ Acacia, 3d picked. @ Acacia, sifted sorts. mm 28 Acacia, po. 80 Aloe, Barb. po. 18@20 12@ 14 Aloe, Cape ...po. 15 @ 8 Aloe. Sorotri..po. 40 @ 8 Ammoniag. ©... .... 55@ 60 Assafwtida po.32 S2@ 2 Beuzoinum 50@ 55 Catechu, Is @ ik Catechu, 4s @ vavechu, ys oOo Cai pnore 40@ 43 Kuphordium po. 35 Ss ww mlbanum 2 @1” amhboge po Ha Ww 10. 25 a ; Rte HA 1 Lad BU 3 2 5 snellae 2 -@ a5 shellac, bleacned Le 5 *raganecanth MM? Herba i ith pee storiuin oz. pkey rbelia ..0Z. pkg Majorum oz. pkg Mentha Pip..oz. pkg Mentha Vir..oz. pkg Rue oz. pkg TauacetumV oz. pkg "hymus, V .oz. pkg Magnesia. Calcined, Pat... fag. wi Carbonate, Pat.. ... 0 2» Carbonate, K. & M =a Carbonate. Jennings 35@ 36 Oleum Absinthium 3 25@ 3 du sarees, Dule.... 30@ 50 Amygdala, Amare . 8 00@ 8 25 Ree 2 15@ 22 Auranti —— Saas 2 25@ 2 40 Bergamii............ 2 40@ 2 = Cajiputi ere 85Q 9) Caryophyli 7@ 8 “edar 3@ vo Chenopadit. Seca. Go eats. cree ees 1 &@ 1% Conium Mac........ Copaipa. 0... 6. Capen Exechthitos Gaaltheria .... |. Geranium, ounce.. Gossippii, Sem. gal.. Hedeoma..... ...... Junipera. . Lavendula .. oT Mentha Piper....... Mentha Verid Morrhue, gal - mere 4 Ove. Picis Liquida. Picis Liquida, gal.. 55558 s8ite 5 sbis8d dn88diis Rieme Mosmarini. ....: |. Rose, ounce........ 6 Beetint Seo Santee. 2 RASHAETAS.. |. 55@ Sinapis, ess., ounce. @ ee 1 40@ Mayne 40@ aye, Ont... |... @ Theobromas ...._.. 15@ Potassium Br-Oarb...:........ _ % Bichromate......... iB Bromide 50@ ee 122@ Chlorate. - _— 16@ Cyanide.. 35@ sOGsde. 2 60@ Potassa, Bitart, pure 28@ Potassa, Bitart, com @ Potass Nitras, opt.. 8@ Potass Nitras....._.. ql Prunsiate...(:. 0 |... 20@ Sulphate po . 15@ Radix AComtym 0... J me 10@ @ eee ees 20@ Gentiana elle po 5 12@ Glychrrhiza...pv.15 16@ Hydrastis Canaden . @ Hydrastis Can., po.. @ Hellebore, Alba, po.. 18@ nai. DO... 15@ Ipecac, Secs ee 50@ Iris plox.. en 35@ Jalapa, pr...... 23@ Maranta, Se @ Podophyllum, po.. 2@ Boe T@ hei, cus. @ Rhei, pv... : GN Seeiia |. 35@ Sanguinaria...po. 15 @ Serpentaria ees 30@ NenGme 40@ Similax, mee ass H @ Smilax, M. @ Scuie. ....: -po 0.35 10@ Symplocarpus, Foti- dus, @ Valeriana,Eng. po. 30 @ Valeriana, German. 14@ Zingibera. 00 12@ Minpiper§ 25@ Semen Atuisum o. 1 @ —. (graveleons) 13@ Reece ES 1@ Carui -po.is 103 Carn@amon 1 23@ Coriandrum. ... 8G Cannabis Sativa .. 41Q Cydonium.. .... 75@ Chenopodium 10g Dipterix Odorate 2 dug Foeniculum it Foenugreek, po 76 titi 3%O Lini, grd --Obi. 3 Ly Lobelia Sen Pharlaris Canarian 477 Rapa > Sittegus Vibu “a vit Fr i , Fae Vo. 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Serpentaria .. eee ce aes Stromonium......., Toluten. ... dee WaIerag Veratrum Veride. Zingiber. lliscellaneous ther, Spts. Nit. 3F ther, Spts. Nit.4F 2B AMC. | 8. 24@ Alumen, gro’d..po.7 3@ Auntie 40@ Antimoni, vo....... 4I@ AntimonietPotassT 40@ Snpyrin. |. @ Antifebrin |. |. @ Argenti Nitras, oz @ Arsenicum. . 10@ Balm Gilead Bud _ 3k Bismuth §.N. 1 40@ Calcium Chlor., 1s. Calcium Chlor., %s Calcium Chlor., 4s Cantharides, Rus. po Capsici Fructus. af Capsici Fructus, po. Capsici FructusB. po Caryophyllus..po. 15 12 Carmine, No. 40 ... @: Cera Alba, S.& F 50@ Cera Flava a 10Q, Coecus. .._ @ Cassia Fruetus a Centraria. a Cetaceum.. @ Chloroform Chloroform, squib}: Chioral Hyd Cr Choudrus Cinehonidine Cinenonidine ¢ f aire 5a st (yi lie Gite Gri ye Galva Huu | Hydraa dave i | Hydrar | Icninyy Hydraag Chi Hydraw Ox \ Hydiaay Aimimousati Hydraagi nzuc 1 syruw Yoooia : 6 @ Indigo. lodine, Kesu lodoform @ Lupulin ( Lycopod) ua 4 G7, Macis i Hine, Liquor Arse hy Grary lod Liquorrow mit Magnesia, Suiipu.... Magnesia, Sulph,bb] Mannia, S. Menthol. ++ eeee Murpuia,o.P.a W 2 lnw ~ 40] sinapis od i Morphia, S.N.Y.Q.&« | Sinapis, opt : oe 2 C. Co 2 15@ 2 40 | Snuf Maccaboy, De Moschus Canton ao ws V¥ oes. @ w# Myristica, No. 1 ; 6@ %0/ Snuff,Se oteh, DeVo’s eo x Nux Vomica... po.20 @ wv Soda Boras........ ¢$@ i Os Sepia.. 15@ 181 Soda Boras, po... 9@ ll 59 | Pepsin Saac, H. & P. | Soda et Potass Tart 22@ 2 50 D. Co @ 1 00! Soda, Carb...... 1%@ 2 50 | Picis i NN. % gal. Soda, Bi-Carb....... aa 6S Gem ee. @ 2 0 Soda, Ash... 3% 4 Pieis, Lig., quarts.. @ 1 00| Soda, Sulphas....... @ 2 60 | Picis Liq., pints. @ _ 85| Spts. Cologne........ @ 2 &0 50] Pil Hydrarg...po. 80 @ 50 | Spts. Ether Co...... 50@ 55 60] Piper Nigra... po. 22 @ 18/Spt Myrcia Dom... @ ” 00 60] Piper Alba....po. 35 @ 30} Spts. Vini Rect. bbl. @ 2 42 50] Piix Burgun ....... @ 7| Spts. Vini Rect. bbl @ 2 47 50] Plumbi Acet........ 10@ _12/ Spts. Vini Rect.10gal @ 2 50 60] Pulvis Ipecac et Opii 1 10@ 1 20] Spts. Vini Rect. 5gal @ 2 52 Pyrethrum, boxes H. Less 5¢ jal. eash 10 dars & FP. I. Co., dos. . @ 1 25| Strychnia, Crystal... 1 0 1 45 Pyrethrum, pv Lous. 30@ 33 Sulphur, Sub i. 24%@ 3 ee S@ 10/ Sulphur, Roll... . 2@ 2% Quinia, S. P.& W.. 6S 4 Tamarinds...__.... &@ 10 Quinia, S.German.. 23¢ 30 | Terenenth Venice... 2Q@ 30 Quinia, N.Y.. 29@ .4| Theobrome.. .. =. « Rubia Tinctorum.. i@ f4/ Vanilla... --. 9 00@16 09 SaccharumLactis pv 18@ 20| Zinci Sulph.. 7@ 8 wale 00@ 3 10 Sanguis Draconis. . 40@ 50 Oils Sapo, -- R@ 14 BBL. GAL. ae Z al each 1g = Whale, winter. .... .. 70 70 Siedlits Mixture 20 @ @/|faaner wo: & # Liuseed, pure raw 10 42 Linseed, boiled 42 45 Neatsfoot,winterstr 6h 70 Spirits Turpentine 37 45 Paints BBL .B Red Venetian - at oe Ochre, yellow Mars. 1% 2 @4 Ochre, yellow Ber 1x2 @3 Putty, commercial 2% 24%4@3 Putty, strictly pure 2% 2%@2 Vermilion, Prime Amorican.......... 13@ 15 Vermilion, English. 70@ 7: Green, Paris .... 133%@ 19 Green, Peninsular. 13@ = 16 Lead, Red... . 5%@ 6 Lead, white..... 54@ 6 Ww hiting, white Span a 7 w a gilders’ @ wn White, Paris Amer.. @ 1 00 Whiting, Paris Eng. coe... @1 #% Universal Prepared. 1 00@ 1 15 Varnishes’ No. | Turp Coach. 1 10@ 1 2 Extra Furp......... 1 @@ 170 Coach Body......... 2 H@ 200 No. i Turp Furn.... ft 00g 1 10 Extra Turk Damar.. 1 55@ 1 60 Jap. Dryer,No.iTurp 70@ 75 MRCP PePePeereY Ae — @ h, ; S IGAR CIGAR Conchas Purtanos |)... a Equal to any ci price Cigars and solicit a trial order Wedding Boquet A superb ten cent cigar in three sizes Perfecto each 500. ee ee a ala A handsome cigar Sidhe Tr (aula advertising with The Dollar The The Fumado rar on the nd us a sample order. market The best 5 cent cigar on the market at $ One box of 25 cigars free with each purcl.ase hallenge * Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co. Grand Rapids, Mich for at at $55.00 60.00 at 65.00 a ‘ - 35.00 y ‘ spot ou Y at $3000 oe oy a a oe or] & oe Oe | Rama am ey my eMMRRB MMW MMMM LRMR [)EPARMENT We have added the following MICHIGAN TRADESMAN ROCERY PRICE CURRENT. The prices quoted in this list are for the trade only, in such quantities as are usually purchased by retail dealers. They are prepared just before going to press and are an accurate index of the local market. It is im- 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 ee 55 6 00 Pearce... 60 7 00 Oo , 4 00 Praser’s ..... fy 4 9 00 [XLGolden,tinboxes75 9 00 Tica, tin boxes. . p= 9 00 Paragon... .. 55 6 00 BAKING ‘POWDER. Absolute. i( ib Cans Goz............. 45 i tb came Ges.-........... 85 . eooee............ 1 50 Acme. ag Ip cane Sdos............ 4% ¥% lb cans 3 doz. -— 1 Ibcansido 1 00 mek... 10 Arctic. Gos. Eng. Tumblers........ &© El Parity. t¢ lb cans per doz......... 75 ¥% lb cans per doz ....... 1 20 1 Ib cans per doz......... 2 00 Home. lq lbcans4dozcase...... 35 ¥% Ib cans 4 doz case...... 55 ae cans 2 doz case 90 14 1b cans, 4 doz case..... % 1b cans, 4 doz case... .. = 1 Ibcans, 2 doz case...... 1 60 Jersey Cream. 1 ib. cans, per doz.......... 2 00 Sox. Gams, perdos.......... 13 6 Gz. Came per dos... ._-- 85 Our Leader. oe 45 el vb) . oo. 1 50 Peerless. [ia eae... 85 BATH BRICK. Lae 7 a 80 BLUING. CONDENSED Small, 3 doz........ 40 Dasee, 2 oos.-...._..... __. % BROOIIS. Se 1 90 No. 2 Carpet........ -/.... on 2 cero... 1 50 No. 4 Carpet....... 25 Parlor Gem ..... . 200 Common Whisk... . = Fancy Whisk.. 80 Waercnome. .............:. 225 CANDLES. SS 2 — 8 ——————— 8 CANNED GOODS. Manitowoc Peas. Lakeside Marrowfat....... 95 ae a it Lakeside, Cham. of Eng.... 1 20 Lakeside. Gem, Ex. Sifted. ! 45 Extra Sifted Early June....1 75 CATSUP. Cause, pints.......... 2 00 Columbia, % pints.......... 1 25 CHEESE 2 ............... @ Beey c... -.-: 8 ! @ re @ eee. @ vn @ Soke coe ees @ Gold Medal.. @ Reeet @ SIO @ ieeewece =. @ eigecside:......_.... @ Sprngdaie......_... @ ae @, Te @ EMIGOR ....... co0e00 @ -amburcer .......... @ Preeeero.. 8... 48 @ ae es @ 18 Chicory. OE 5 Bee 7 CHOCOLATE. « Walter er . og s. — or - ‘ a Greakfasi (oom ou 45 CLOTHES LINES. Cotton, 40 ft, per doz....... 1 Cotton, 50 ft, per doz....... Cotton, 60 ft, per doz...... Cotton, 70 ft, per dos...... Cotton, 80 ft, per doz....... Jute, Tt, per dox........-. Jate, 72 tt, per doz... .....-. COCOA SHELLS. 20 1b bags.. Less quantity... dee Pound packages......... CREAM TARTAR. 5 and 10 lb. wooden boxes..30-35 RSSSERS em 09 0D eR COFFEE. Green. Rio. ee eS a 12 Pras... a oe 15 Santos. Dae 14 ee 5) Pee... ee eee 17 Mexican and Guatamala. for wee ccee es AG cae ee 18 Maracaibo. eo eS 20 aiiea 21 Java. Interior. oe Private Growth.. ee 22 Mandehling.. oe Meche. Eeettatien ........._.__:..._. ioe 24 Roasted. Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brands Pith Aveowe..... -..--... 28 Jewell’s Arabian Mocha....28 Wells’ Mocha and Java..... 24 Wells’ Perfection Java..... 24 ROMORIOO ec 22 Breakrast Blend........... 18 Valley City Maracaibo. ....18% iaea: Hema. 14 Leader Biend......_. .. .... Package. Below are given New York prices on package coffees, to which the wholesale dealer adds tbe 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, alsoi¥ca pound. In 601b. cases the list is 10c per 100 lbs. above the price in full cases. Arpeeitae ........ ....... 3 ae ee 9 50 McLaughlin’ s XXXX.. 9 50 Extract. Valley City % gross ..... 75 Molix 36 Sroes...... ..... 1 15 Hummel’s foil & gross... 85 Hummel’s tin % gross - 1 43 CLOTHES PINS. 5 gross boxes COUGH DROPS. C. B. Brand. 405 cent packages ........ 1 00 CONDENSED MILK. 4dozin case. Gail Borden ——- Locos Tradesman Grade. 50 books, any denom.... 1 50 100 books, any denom.... 2 50 500 books, any denom....11 50 1,000 books, any denom....20 00 Economic Grade. 50 books, any denom.... 1 50 100 books, any denom.... 2 50 500 books any denom....11 50 1,000 books, any denom....20 00 San Satin Saute} Universal Grade. 50 books, any denom.... 1 100 books, any denom.... 2 50 500 books, any denom....11 50 1,000 books, any denom....20 00 Superior Grade. 50 books, any denom.... 1 50 100 books, any denom.... 2 50 500 books, any denom.... 1,000 books, any denom....20 00 Coupon Pass Books, Can be made to represent any denomination from %10 down. IyeeKs................ 1 00 Seeeens... 2 00 Mebeees 2c. 3 00 map OGOKR.. 2. 5) ee Se 10 00 ebooks 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 Néoet panen. -¢ 3 DRIED FRUITS—DONESTIC Apples. Runemog..:..-. wes 5 Evaporated 50 ib boxes. @8 California Fruits. Apricots ...... ont. ROO Blackberries... - Mocmrmen............ 74 Poscees..........-_... 8 3 8% @7% Baspperres............ California Prunes. 100-120 25 lb boxes....... @ 3% 90-100 25 Ib boxes....... @4 80 - 90 25 Ib boxes....... @ 4% 70 - 80 25 lb boxes....... @ 5 60 470 25 lb boxes.. .... @5% 50 - 60 25 lb boxes....... @™% 40 - 50 25 lb boxes......- @ 8% 30 - 40 25 1b boxes ig cent less in 50 lb cases Raisins. Lendon Layers 3 Crown. 1 45 London Layers4 Crown. 2 00 Denese ....... Loose Museatels2 Crown 3% Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 4% Loose Muscatels 4 Crown 5% FOREIGN. Currants. Peles WO... @ 73 Vostizzas 50 lb cases...... @7 Cleaned. Baik .......... 814 Cleaned, packages........ @ 8% Peel. Citron American 101b bx @13 Lemon American 10 lb bx @12 Orange American 101b bx @12 Raisins. Ondura 28 ib boxes.... 8 @8% Sultana 1 Crown....... @ Sultana 2Crown....... Sultana 3Crown....... @7% Sultana 4 Crown....... @ Sultana 4 Crown....... Q@ Sultana 6 Crown....... @12 Sultana package....... @l4 FARINACEOUS GOODS. Farina. 241 1b. packares..........2 7% Bulk, per 100 ibe..... .... 3 50 Grits. Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s....... 2 15 Bulk in 100 Ib. bags....... 3 00 Hominy. Bare 2 50 Flake, 50 1b. drums....... 1 00 Ss. stea Tams. . 2... S 3 Medium Hand Picked....1 00 Maccaroni and Vermicelli. Domestic, 10 lb. box...... Imported, 25 Ib. box.. ...2 50 Pearl Barley. Comma... 3.6: a... 1% eee ee 2 00 Meanie... 5. 2 50 Peas. rece Bie. ee 89 Bert perie:.... 8. . 2 Rolled Oats. Rolled Avena, Dbbl.......3 90 Moearch, bbl... .:..... 3% Monarch, % bbl.......... 2 00 Private brands, bbl..... Private brands, %bbl..... a Quaker, Gases. .:.......... Hiren, Cases...... 130... 1% Sago. MOORUNOM oo ose eae ce 3% Hast India..........< os Wheat. Cracked, buik............. 334 242 1b packages........... 2 50 Fish. Georges cured......... @5 Georges genuine...... @ 5% Georges selected...... @ 6 Strips or bricks....... 6 @9 Halibut. Crake .. Bertes 8% Herring. Holland white hoops, bbl. 10 25 Holiand white hoop % bbi 5 50 Holland white hoop, keg. 75 Holland white ee mchs 35 Norwesian... .:... U1 00 Round 100 Ibs............. 2 % Bound =) ths........-...- 1 30 Beneee oc 13 Mackerel. Mhcas 000 Ibs... 16 30 oe iee.............. 6 90 oe me iee....... ....-.. 1 82 ——_—_—————OOOO 1 48 No. 1 me ibe. ......... .... Bw Not ike............... ome DG POOR. cc al cy 1 60 mod Sie i is 1 30 No Siig... ..... 2.2: 9 50 mos Sims... 4 60 nos Die... 1 07 Na] S8ibs.......\....... 88 Sardines. Russian kegs........ ee 55 Trout. No. 1160 ihe. 5 50 mo. t Sie.....: 5. 2 50 Not Pee... 7 Bo.t Sie... .. 59 Whitefish. 2¢ 120 u 5 O%.....11 0 3 O2....1.1 00 4 oz. -2 00 OR, os 1 40 i eS 3 00 a 2 00 No. 8 400 No. 8...2 40 No. 10...6 00 No. 10...4 00 No. 2T.1 2 No. 2T. 80 No. 3.2 00 No. 3T.1 25 No 4T.2 40 No. Peeper, mot... ... -. 5 es 1: Pure Ground in Bulk. TO os 15 Cassia, Batayia ............. 30 Cassie, Saigon... -.......3... 40 Cloves, Zanzibar............ 14 Ginger, African............ 15 Ginger, Cochim............. 18 Ginger, Jamaica............ 23 Mace, Batayia.............: 65 Miia de ee 12@18 Weeneee. ows. ee 4 Pepper, Sing , black........ 12 Pepper, Sing., white........ 20 —— Cayenne bee hae 20 SAO es te gia 15 ‘SYRUPS = Barrels. . ba coaein cos Half bbis.. cos eos, ee Pure Cane. ORE oe a 16 OO ei ce et ee 20 Cheese 25 TABLE SAUCES. Lea & Perrin’s, large..... 4% Lea & os emait:... . 2% Halford, large......:..... 3% Halford sma. ee oe Salad Dressing, large. b Saas 4 55 Salad Dressing, smaill..... 2 6 f MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 2| STARCH. Kingsford’s Corn. 40 1-Ib packages............ 20 1 Ib packages.....-......: 614 6 Kingsford’s Silver Gloss. 40 1-lb packages....... -. 6% O1b BOxes .-. |. z Diamond. 6410c packages ...........5-00 128 5¢ packages eee 5 00 32 10¢ and 64 5c packages...5 00 Common Corn. SO 21h packages. |....... .. 5 407 1b. packages. ........:... 434 Common Gloss. Flb packages...) .. 1... lo. 4 =ID PeEKaPPS..-... 4 Gib packaes...-.. .:_ 4% 40 and 50 lb — oe Barreig ___... 23% STOVE POLISH. N Ait Clooee are eae NEW YORK 4 50 (% 20 No. 4, 3 doz in case, gross.. No. 6, 3 doz in case, gross... 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. SPOON dc. 5 63 ree PGRE e . 5 63 rmsd... ...., 5 63 CHMeR ee, 5 38 Powmaeree 5 33 RAMA Powdered...) |: 5 44 Granulated in bbls... ...... 5 13 Granulated in bags......... 5 13 Fine Granulated .......... 5 13 Extra Fine Granulated..... 5 25 Extra Coarse Granulated. ..5 25 OMG A 5 44 Diamond Confec. A. 13 Confec. — A. Z.: TOBACCOS. Cigars. Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s brand. Mow BMGR. us 33 00 H. & P. Drug Co.’s brand. Chitobee: 5s 35 00 G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand. SOW OW... Michigan Cigar Co.’s brand. Ure Unkle hire Unkle: 2. oc. 5. 35 00 Ruhe Bros Co.’s Brands. WOE EON oe sc 35 00 Pee Wea 35 00 Se Tine. a: 35 00 Generals Grant and Lee... .35 00 Spanish Hand Made........ 35 00 Crown Fine......... ih iacccoe OU VINEGAR. Malt White Wine, 40 grain.... Malt White Wine, 80 grain... Pure Cider Pure Cider, Heroux.: 2.1... 1 6 i. 9 1 Washing Powder. A Now Discovery _ Bi A Most Plassant, but Most EMective WANUTACTUED ONLY SY THE SUMMIT CITY SOAP WORKS. FORT WaeeE omOANA me UT. Of piee .. WICKING. NO. 0; POreross. 2. |... No. 1, per gross No. 3, per gross Fish | ee haces INO. pergross.-...... -- 3 30 Fresh Fish. Per lb. WaetenSH ooo @ 9 rene 2 a 9 Bisek Bass. ........ @ 2 Halibut . @ Ciscoes or Herring. @ 4 Blmeash @ 10 Live Lobster....... @ 18 Boiled Lobster...... @ 20 Cod . ie @ Ww Haddock............ @ 8 No. 1! Pickerel...... @ 9 Pike... ae 7 Perch @ 3% Smoked White...... @ 93 Red Snapper. . @ 10 Col River Salmon.. @ 10 Mackerel. ....) |. @ % Oysters in Cans. wr Counts... ..._- 35 F. J. D. Selects...... @ 27 Selects . @ 22 zy. J. Standards. @ 2 Favorites . el @ ounces in Bulk >. . Cogais........ @1 7 Extra Selects....... @i1 50 BeleCie @1 2 Anchor Standards. . @1 10 COR @l Shell Goods. Oysters, per |. 1 B@1 50 ams, ner 100 Wee The Cappon & Bertscb Leather Co., 100 Canal Street, quotes as f ollows: Hides. Green We. fo. @8 Green WG.s.......... . @ 7% Cured No. i.-)..... @9 Cured No. 2... ..... ae @8 Calfskins, green No. 1 @9 Calfskins, green No. 2 @ 74 Calfskins, cured No. 1 @10% Calfskins, cured No. 2 @ 9 Furs. barge Bear... 1 00@15 00 Beayer.......- -- 50@ 6 00 Cat, Wild . 5@ 2 Fisher... 1 00@ 7 00 Red Fox... 25@ 1 50 Cray Fox........ --- 2@ q (Poe ........... o@ 5 00 Lyne -..:. ..... 30. BS OO Muskrats.. lie eso oo a «oh Mee i. 5@ 1 2 _oee......,......... 25@ 3 00 Ne 1 0O@ 9 00 eBCOON 10@_ 80 Pesce okunk..... .... 10@ 1 00 Wee oc... o. 2'@ 1 50 Pelts. Pers) Cache. 1... 50@1 00 Tallow. NO. to @ 23% a @ 2 Wool. Washed, fine ........: @20 Washed, medium...... @25 Unwashed, fine.... ...13 @15 Unwashed, medium ..18 @20 Oils. Barrels. Eocene @11% XXX W.W.Mich. Halt @ 8% W W Michigan........ @ 8&4 Diamond White....... @i% oo OGe @ 8 Deo. RDU cs... @7 Cveneeer. es... 2 @24 Tene ts... 11 @2i B: tok. winter ‘ QF Caildies. uals atid Feedsiuiis | Stick Candy. Wheat. bbls patlg| Wheag 88 Standard... ... 4@ 7 i Standard co ng 7 Winter Wheat Flour. Standard Twist..... “ . , (iat. @ 8% Local Brands. cases | Patents .... - 5 50 Jumbo, 321b .....:.. @ 6% | Second Patent.. . 5 00} Poa a oe Sa 4 80} Boston Cream...... @ a 40 CTA ae Mixed Candv. Buckwheat... 3 50 Competition......... @ 9. | Eabject is “wauial’ cash Si? Standard 3. Qe count ae oncerve...... ..... @i*% > . me @ 7% aa bbls., 25¢ per bbl. ad Bipbom..... ........ @ 8% Broken... @ 8% , ae Oh iL Ata @ 8% Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand. English Rock....... @s8 Quaker, s.. . £6 Kindergarten....... Se | Ouaker we 475 French Cream...... Qos Quaker te 4% Dandy Pan... @i10 Valley Cream.. .... @iz Spring Wheat Flour. Fancy—In Bulk. Lozenges, plain..... @ 8% Lozenges, printed.. @ 8% Choe. Drops a @l4 Choc. Monumentals @il Gum Drops... |... @é6 Moss Drops... @8 Sour Drops. La @ 8% Imperials ........... @ 8% Fancy—in 5 Ib. Boxes. Lemon Drops...... @50 Sear Drops... .._. @50 Peppermint Drops.. @6o Chocolate Drops.... @bv H. M. Choe. Drops. y75 Gam Drope......_.. @30 Licorice Drops...... @id A. i, oa @50 Lozenges, plain.. @5u Lozenges, printed... @a0v Imperials . @5v Mottees. @55 Cream Ear... ||. @o0 Molasses Bar ....... @50 Hand Made Creams. 80 @1 00 Pisim Creams... __. 60 @90 Decorated Creams. . @9 Siemg Roce... @bo Burnt Almonds..... 13 @ Wintergreen Berries @bu Caramels. No. een, 2 ib. boxes @30 No. v1 wrapped, 3 Ib. ee oe @45 No. 2 wrapped, = ih. Padi Oranges. Cal. Seedlings ...... 2 25 Fancy Navels 112 . @2 T2606 216.0... 0... ||, @3 00 Cheiee @ Lemons. Strictly choice 360s.. @3 25 Strictly choice 300s.. @3 25 Fancy 360s or 300s... @3 50 94 Faney 200s.... . @3 75 Ex.Fancy 360s...... @3 % Bananas. Medium bunches...1 25 @I 50 Large bunches...... 1% @2 00 Foreign Dried Fruits. Figs. Choice, 101b boxes... @ 13 Extra choice, 14 lb | Oe @ Fancy, 12 lb boxes.. @ 14 Imperial Mikados, 18 PD DOxCe @ 5 Pulled, 6 1b boxes.. @ 13 Naturals, in bags... @ 6% Dates. Fards in 10 lb boxes @8 Fards in 60 lb cases @ 6 Persians, G. M’s..... @5 lb Cases, new...... @ 6 Sairs, 601b cases.... @ 4% Nuts. Almonds, Tarragona. . B13 Almonds, Eyvaca: @n | Almonds, California, soft shelled......... @13 Brastisnew.......... @9 Pipers coco i) @10 Wainuts, Grenobles .. @12 Walnuts, Calif No. 1. @10 WwW alnuts, soft shelled Celie: @9 Table Nuts, fancy.... @10 Table Nuts, choice... @9 Pecans, Med... ... @ 8 Pecans, Ex. Large.. @10 Pecans, RMDOS: ...... @i2 Hickory Nuts per bu., Ohie. new... @i 60 Cocoanuts, full sacks @4 50 Peanuts. Fancy, H. P., Suns. @7 Fancy, H. P., Flags ROGRtCH ecu. @7 Choice, H. P., Extras. @ 41% Choice, H. P., Extras, Bosted 5 Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brand. Pillsbury’s eat. 168... 2 d9 | Pillsbury’ Ss Best \s.. 54 Pillsbury’s Best 4s........ 5 35 Pillsbury’ 8 Best 4s paper. 5 35 Pillsbury’s Best 44s paper.. 5 35 Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand. Duluth Imperial, %s....... : Dulutb Imperial, 4s. .. Duluth Imperial, os Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s Brand. Gold Medal t¢s......_...... 5 55 Gold Medal 48 eee. 3 45 Gold Medal } i 5 35 OPIN MB 5 55 Parisian, 4s bas ac Se oe ee bas 5 45 a 5 3d Olney & Judson’s Brand. Ceresorms 48... Ceresota, i Ceresota, me... 3 Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand. Dtivel a eC Laurel. 4S. _o <2 Laurel, wS.. . ooo Meal, Bolted . oo oe Grannlated (00) 2 00 Feed and Millstufis. St. Car Feed. screened ....15 25 | No. 1 Corn and Oats.......14 25 Unbolted Corn Mez:.......13 7 Winter Wheat Bran.. -14 06 Winter Wheat t Middlings. -15 00 Screenings.. 13 00 New Corn. Car its. sl, 32% Less than car lots......... 5 Oats. Car its oc. 30% Carlots, clipped........ -. oe Less than car lows. 35 Hay. | | No. 1 Timothy arilots...... 9 00 | No. 1 Timothy, ton lots....10 00 | pee Meats. Beef. Carcass . oe. Fore quarters. Hind quarters. Pe a a Co Cage ToNOR Pork PCREOG @5 POG @i DOGG @ 5% Peat bard... .... Gee, Mutton. Carcass ....... —<¢ @a Spring Lambs.. -&§ @9 Veal. Carcass .............. 64@ 7% Provisions. Swift & Company ‘quote ¢ as follows: Barreled Pork. Mess Back .. . Clear back...... . 10 Short cut. . ry © 5 qG Dry Salt Meats. Bellies... .. riskets . .... Extra shorts.. Smoked eats. Hams, 12 lb average Hams, 14 lb average Hams, 16 1b average.... Hams, 20 lb average. Ham dried beef Shoulders (N. Y. Bacon, Clear... 1.1% @s California hams......... . Boneless hams. Cooked ham.. Lards. Compound Meme. bo lb Piubs...... 0 lb Tubs.......advance 501b Tins ....... advance 2 it Pails... | advance 56 10 lb Pails.......advance 4 5 i advance 1 OI Ure: ) ae i satay 3 1b Pails ...advance Mg Sausages. Boleomag =... 5 Liver. . 6% Frankfort... 7 Pork . 6% Blood Le. 6 Teugae ae 9 Head cheese......... 6% eef, Extra Mess 8 a Meneiess . eae |} Rump 12 00 Pigs’ Feet. Kits, 15 Ibs... 80 14 bbls, Se i 5u % bbls, 80 Ibs... 2 80 Tripe._ Kilts, lbs... .. . % 4 bbls, 40 lbs.. 1 40 % bbls, 80 lbs.. 2% Casings. Pork . 16 Beef rounds. 4 Beef middles...._.__ 10 Seeen 60 nas Rolls, dairy —. 10 Solid, ee Loa. 9% Rolls, Creamery ......... 14 Solid, creamery ......... 13% | Canned — Corned beef, . 2155 Corned beef, a a 14 7 Roast beef, i... = Potted ham, a...) 6 Potted ham, 4... |. 1 00 Deviled ham) #48. tcc. Oo Deviled ham, ma....... 1 08 Potted tongue 4s....... 60 Potted _tongue AS.. 1 00 Crackers. The National quotes as follows: Butter. Biscuit Co. pevimotr Xk. 6 | Seymour XXX, 3 Ib. carton 6% Family XXX. 6 Family XXX, 3. Ib. carton. 6% Salted XXX . ¢€ Salted XXX. 31b carton... 6% Soda. Soda XXX... 7 Soda XXX, 3 ib carton. 7% Soda, City. oo. 38 Zephyrette.. .. 10 Long Island W ‘afe rs. ee OF L. I. Wafers, 1lbcarton . 12 Oyster. Square Oy sea aX. 6 Sq. Oys. XXX. 1 lb carton. ‘ Farina Oyster, XXX.. 6 SWEET GooDs— Boxes. Ame Bent’s Cold Water. Belle Rose . Cocoanut Taity.. Coffee Cakes. Frosted Honey.. a, Graham Crackers .... Ginger Snaps, Ak round. Ginger Snaps, XXX city. a me tt MIO © te Gm ¢ © Gin. Sups,XXX homemade 7 Gin. Sups, XXX a 7 Ginger Vanilla.. _ 6 Piperialg 4... 8 dummbles, Honey........._. 12% Molasses Cakes. 1s Marshmallow 15 Marshmallow Creams..... 16 Pretzels, hand made ..... 8% Pretzelettes, Little German 54 peer CONG... 1... 8 SIRS eee sear Luneh,.............. 8 Vanilla Samarc........... 8Y Vanilla Waters .......... 14 Pecan Waters. ........... 1544 Mrxeq Fienic._...... 1044 Cream Jumbles . cose. Oe Boston Ginger Nuts... oo Oo Chimmie Fadden . " 10 Pineapple Glace...... ..... 16 Peary €akew.. 3... Marshmallow Walnuts.... Belle Isle Pienic 10 75 ll 60 50 | 1U 5U 14 00 -advance i | _| Crockery and Glassware. AKRON STONEWARE. Butters, SAL, per doz........ : 50 itoGeal,pergal....... ss 8 gal., en..........., 6% 10 gal., per gal et cee eae 6% 12 gal. } reo...... . 15 gal. meat-tubs, per gal.. 8 20 gal. meat-tubs, per gal.. 8 | 25 gal. meat-tubs, per gal.. 10 30 gal. meat-tubs, per gal.. 10 Churns. 2 to 6 gal., per gal.. _ 5% Churn Dashers, per ‘doz.. 85 Miikpans. 4 gal. fiat or rd. bot., doz. 60 i gal. flat or rd. bot., each 5% Fine Glazed Milkpans. 44 gal. flat orrd. bot.,doz. 65 1gal. flatorrd. bot.,each 5% Stewpans. % gal. fireproof, bail, doz. 985 1 gal. fireproof, bail, doz.1 10 Jugs. 44 gal., per doz.. 40 M% gal.. per doz.. 500 1 to 5 gal., per gal.. 6% Tomato Jugs. “eal, per doe... ...__.. 70 I gal., each.. le C orks for % gal., per doz.. 20 Corks for i gal. perdoz.. 30 Preserve Jars and Covers. % gal., stone cover, doz... 7% i gal., stone cover, doz...1 00 Sealing Wax. | 5 lbs. in package, perlb... 2 LAMP — No. 0 Sun... 45 no. tom... 50 NGO Meee 75 Sapnmr. 50 mecurias, NO. 1... | a Security, No. 2 a ee ee Ciimax..... 1 50 | LAMP CHIMNEY S—Common. Per Fam of 6 doz. | No. 0 Sun..... . ba (eo, 6 Se, 1 88 Ne 250m 2 70 First =... Ne. 0 Sun, crimp wrapped and iabelea.. "2 10 No. 1 Suan, crim wrapped and labe oe | 225 No. 2 Sun, crimp wrapped and labeled.. ie 25 XXX Flint. No. 0 Sun, crimp top, wrapped and ae th 2 55 No. 1 Sun, crim top, wrapped and labeled. 2% No. = Sun, crim top, wrapped and labe od.... 7% CHIMNEYS—Pearl Top. No.1 Sun, wrapped an IAneee 70 No. 2 Sun, wrapped and Ispelee 70 No. 2 i wrapped and labeled.. No. 2 Sun, “Small ‘Bulb, ” for Globe Lamod....,.... 80 La Bastie. No. 1 Sun. plain bulb, per doz No. 2 Sun, plain. bulb, ‘per Ce 50 No. 1 Cr rimp, per doz.. _ No. 2 Crimp, per doz... ... 1 60 Rochester. No. 1, Lime (65¢ doz). .... 3 50 No. 2, Lime (70¢e doz)...... 4 00 No. 2 Flint (Ue dox).:.... 4 70 Electric. | No. 2, Lime (70e doz) ..... 4 00 oO. 2, Flint (80e dbz)...... 4 40 | OIL CANS, Doz. | 1 gal tin cans with spout.. 1 25 | 1 gal galy 4 | 3gal galvy iron with faucet 4 | 5 gal galv iron Nacefas.... iron with spout. 1 65 2 gal galy iron with spout. 2 87 c= galv iron with spout. 3 50 5 gal galv iron with spout. 4 75 75 25 00 00 5 gal galv iron with faucet 5 S gal Tilting €ans....... |. 8 9 Pump Cans, 5 gal Rapid aaa stream. 9 00 5 gal Eureka non-oy heaps 10 56 3 gal Home Rule.. ~<«. & |S gal Home Rule.... ...... 12 00 | 5 gal Pirate King...... «coe OSE —_— No. 0Tubular.. a No. 1B Tubular.. . 6 50 | No. 13 Tubular Dash. «eas OOO No. 1Tub., glassfount..., 7 00 i No, iz Tubular, side lamp. 14 OC |} No. 3Street Lamp........ 375 | LANTERN GLOBES. | No. 0 Tubular, cases 1 doz. each, box 10 cents.. 45 No. 0 Tubular, cases 2 doz. each, box 15 cents....... 45 No. 0 ae bbls 5 doz. esen, Obit 4.0.0...) 40 No. 0 Tubular, bull’s eye, eases 1 doz. each... ..... 1% LAMP WICKs. No. 0 per grogs......,... No. 1 per grogs. ..4.,-....., INO, = per arose ...)....,.., ING, 2 DGr Sree Mammoth, iG BS2R8 Hardware The Age of Steel. Written for the TRapDESMAN Within the recollection of a consider- able portion of those still actively en- gaged in the field of industry there was a time when, in the divisions of the ecopomic conditions of the world into the various ages of stone, bronze, iron, etc., the addition of the Steel Age would have had comparatively little mean- ing. This was not on account of the lack of importance of this form of the grey metal, for even at that time it gave the principal significance to this factor in the problem of civilization; but it continued subordinate in impor- tance to the cruder forms, for the reason that these had to be first produced and then by certain retining and chemical processes changed into the form capable of varying degrees of hardness and toughness. Thus steel was only one of the products of the metal which appro- priately gave the name of the Iron Age to that period. At that time the production of steel was a very costly process. [t was first necessary to select suitable ores and subject these to reducing and refining processes involving the use of much la- bor and costly fuel and other materials to produce the form of iron suitable for conversion into steel, and then with ad- ditional expenditure of much more la- bor and fuel and the most careful and skilled manipulation the final process was accomplished. The importance of steel as a factor in all economic proc- esses had built up immense industries and its production and use even then were of wonderful importance. But a comparison of the conditions then with the present shows a revolu- tion exceeding the most ingenious im- agination. At that time all railroads were laid with iron rails—the idea of using steel for such a purpose was too absurd for consideration. Then all railway bridges which were not too large were constructed of timber, and the remainder were of masonry and iron, involving vast labor and expense and the most serious engineering prob- lems. Then the construction of a build- ing of steel would have been about as ridiculous a proposition as it would be now to construct it of copper. Even so late as when the first elevated railroads were projected in New York the ma- terials were wood or cast iron for the posts, with the remainder of the construc- tion of timber, held in position by iron rods. Then steel was not known asa material in conimercial ship-building, and its use in naval architecture was only in forms produced at tremendous cost for defensive purposes. Then cars were constructed entirely of wood, held together by the sparing use of iron in the forms of rods, etc. Then petroleum and other liquids were contained in wood or iron tanks. Similarly might be enumerated many other uses, which will serve to suggest the extent of the revolution of later years. How recent is the change thus indi- cated 1s brought to the attention by the fact of the death, a few days ago, of the man whose inventions and discov- eries are responsible for the entire de- velopment of modern metallurgy. Fifty or sixty years ago, William Bessemer was experimenting in London to find a practical method of producing steel di- rectly from the ores, so as to avoid the costly manipulations which were neces- Sary in first preparing the iron as a | |material. in MICHIGAN TRADESMAN a woliucilu.ly short time, involving only a few years, the experi- ments were successful, and the new method was promptly adopted by the steel workers to whose attention it was brought. But, while the revolution thus inaugurated was wonderfully rapid, the magnitude of the changes involved re- quired many years; indeed, they are by no means yet complete. At the first, the new product, while materially cheaper than any other form of steel of equal quality, was still far more costly than iron; and the contest between the two, as their positions gradually changed, extended over many years un- til finally they became reversed. The extent to which the inventions of Sir William Bessemer have affected modern industry and civilization is nearly incalculable. Modern transpor- tation has been made possible by them, and this has wrought the changes in economic conditions which have been the themes of many writers. Thus the wheat fields of the American North- west, of Argentine and Russia, and the corn fields of the Mississippi Valley have cheapened the food supplies of the centers of industry of the Old World until the conditions of labor are incom- parably improved. At the same time this has reduced the value of the farm- ing lands in the old industrial countries to a nearer level with the rest of the world, and has thus taken from the wealthy and distributed to the needy. The extent of the changes wrought by the direct conversion of steel can scarce- ly be indicated in the limits of an ar- ticle like this. It has not only taken the place of iron until its production has become the cheaper, but it has very largely superseded wood, thus partially answering the question, which has given much concern, as to how that need of civilization could be supplied after the exhaustion of the forests. Not only are the railways of the world supplied with the most rigid and durable steel rails, but nearly all bridges, trestles and other engineering constructions are of the Same material. Even the railway build- ings in most localities, as well as the rolling stock,-are very largely dependent upon it. And its increasing produc- tion and cheapness permit the railways to penetrate what were the most inac- cessible regions of the earth. Then in the sister branch of transpor- tation it has taken the place of wood and iron in naval construction until it not only monopolizes the ocean marine, but has taken the lake and river as well, and has even driven wood out of the field of canal-boat construction. Also note the revolution in the archi- vecture of all the cities of the modern world, and in the construction of all important edifices. Note the street railway systems of every town in this and other countries. Note the less numerous, but more gigantic, enter- prises in the greatest cities in the con- struction of the steel elevated roads; and then the almost universal use of the same material in the construction of industrial implements of every sort. The Age of Steel is only just begin- ning. The changes are now progress- ing at an undiminished rate. Where it will end, the full consequences of the invention of this one mind in the army of the world’s workers, who can com- prehend? WARREN N. FULLER. > +2. A bargain counter without an adver- tisement is like an orator without lungs. > oom You can wake up even a _ sleepy community by bright advertising. eek Clark-Rutka- Jewell Co. Ionia Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. Opposite Union Depot. New Wholesale Hardware House New House, New Goods, New Prices. Call and see us when in the city. Write us for prices. Clark-Rutka-Jewell Co. Novelty Blue Flame The Very We quote ) Best Factory Blue Flame Prices. Oil Send for Stove Circular on the 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. Ionia St. Four Kinds of GOupOn Books are manufactured by us and all sold on the same basis, irrespective of size, shape or denomination. Free samples on application. TRADESMAN COMPANY, Grand Rapids. How to Secure a More Equitable Division of Trade. Ante Lucem in American Artisan. This is the important problem now being submitted to the arbitration of the best minds governing our commer- cial industries. It is a mighty inter- rogation point for the first time thrown upon the canvas by the camera of trade, and can be answered by no past _prece- dent in our country’s history. Solve it and the commercial millennium is at hand; half the burden will disappear like a mist before the morning sun. We have gotten into a rut. Fora number of years we have been dividing, subdividing and re-subdividing the different lines of trade, until they are scattered and distributed, and have be- come a conglomerate mass prevalent at all trading points. The wholesaler has tried to compass the earth, corral all the products, all lines of business, until it is hard to tell what one may not find in the sample case of his represent- ative. The hardware jobber no longer sticks to his line, but has seized upon the last of the shoemaker. He no longer sells shelf hardware, iron and steel for a liv- ing, but he handles paints, oils, glass, stoves, sewing machines, mackintoshes, rubber goods, cordage and every con ceivable thing belonging to any and all distinctive lines. This vari-colored product has been as variously distrib- uted, until one can not tell the color of one’s business from the shingle he hangs outside. This was forcibly impressed upon my mind in calling at the store of an old acquaintance after a five years’ absence. The shingle read, ‘‘Swipe’s Hardware.’’ On the inside I found shelf hardware and stoves (small quantities), harness, furniture, crockery, bargain counters with yellow covered literature as prize offerings, and as the auction notice reads, many other things too numerous to men- tion. The store did not look like a junk shop, but it was little like a real live hardware store. Such is the modern evolution of business. All distinctiveness is being lost. One class of business is being used asa cat’s-paw to pull chestnuts from the fire for some other line of trade. The gro- cer uses granite and tinware as prize offerings for his sugars and baking pow- ders. The fusionist, as above related, resorts to the dime and half-dime pub- lications tor his entering wedges. Al- most all lines of trade have some ignis fatuus scheme as a pull, except the re- tail hardware dealer, who sits back and sees many of his legitimate articles of trade cast into the holdings of his com- petitors, there to become prize offerings at less than cost. _ ‘‘What are you going to do about it, Davis?’’ : Every proposition that is new is nec- essarily strange, and those whose men- tality flows along old-time ruts are slow of action. It will require time, pa- tience and work to secure co-operation and a radical correction of the wrongs. Let no one be skeptical, let all know that ‘‘‘Thrice armed is he who has his quarrel just.’’ We are beset with problems, but none more important to our commercial wel- fare than the one, ‘‘How can we secure a more equitable division of the several lines or distinctive branches of _mer- chandising?’’ It is only within a very few short months that the question has been publicly thrust before the mer- chandising community, and in that short time it has become patent to the thoughtful one, some step, some action must be speedily taken to check the onslaught upon legitimate trading, hence Mr. Davis’ question, ‘‘What are you going to do about it?’’is a per- tinent one, and can be propounded to all classes of traders, manufacturers, jobbers and wholesalers. The impartial consideration of any question is almost an impossibility, as each individual insists on being a teacher and not in being taught. If success shall crown the efforts now be- ing made to organize and solidify the various lines of trade operating inde- pendently for their own class of busi- ness, and conjunctively for all the busi- ness of the country, despite the fact some refractory ones wiil be found in each class of business, and among man- ufacturers and wholesalers, it will not be so long a time before at least 75 per cent. will be working along proper lines and in harmonious accord. There will, no doubt, be some friction to start with, but no good thing can be had without labor, and hard labor. Then let every trade patriot put forth his might. If a manufacturer is not with you, labor with him earnestly, that you may bring over to your way of think- ing. Treat the wholesaler likewise. There is much in reasoning out the proposition. Arbitration may sometimes be slow, but final results thus gained prove lasting and beneficial. One class of business that is proving something of an interrogation to the hardware trade is the tin and granite ware business. It is an indispensable component part of the business, and it is found in every department store and is the part of the wares of every cataloguer of the country, and no man- ufacturer of either class of goods can show a clean bill of health so far as sales go in those lines. Again, no class of goods offer as many inducements for the catch-penny transactions of trade as these two classes. ‘‘What are you going to do about it?’’ Simply the very best you can for your own individual busi- ness, and when the time shall come that some responsible manufacturers of these goods shall break away fiom their old methods, and fairly and squarely plant themselves upon your platform, and hew to the line, cleaving every chip down to the score mark, they then must be- come Competitors in the open market upon a price basis that will insure fair trading and fair remuneration. That some manufacturers shall resort to spe- cial brandings for the two classes of trade (so called) will not suffice for the desired end. The stove question also has its com- plex issues. Some manufacturers tell you they do not sell, it is, and ever has been, an invariable rule of theirs never to sell to a furniture dealer, with par- ticular stress on the furniture, as though it was a heinous crime, and yet it is not an impossible thing to find small quan- tities of their goods and their outer shingle in regular furniture houses, even in department stores in remoter sections of the country. Another pleads unswerving loyalty to the regular hard- ware dealer, yet if the dealer will con- sult the advertising columns of some of the dailies of large cities, he will read Mr. Department’s advertisement, with retail figures that would bring tears to the prices he paid. ‘*What are you go- ing to do about it?’’ What a difference there is between a real live, aggressive hardware store and a don’t-care sort of hardware business. One is in trim shape, goods in order, counters, show cases, etc., clean; stoves nicely arranged, blackened, everything in presentable shape, the other wears a don't-care air, covered all over with grime. One has a sharp, progressive, pushing owner, who searches out, gets business, makes business; the other takes the business that seeks him, and wonders why more does not come. One buys sharp, quick and upon his own good judgment soon formulated. The other laboriously struggles along the lines of indecision, doubt and fear, as though he would first consult the sooth- sayers, oracles and wise men. Thus reads the sign posted in an up-to-date hardware store: ‘*We keep tools for sale. ‘‘We have tools to use. ‘‘We pay men to use them.”’ ‘‘We want pay for their use. You had better buy than borrow and thus save trouble for each of us.’’ In the reading is a sermon to beat the band. ———__~> 6. They Are Friends. Helen—I wonder why Kate dvesn’t mind her own business, Mattie—She hasn’t any. Helen—Business? Mattie—No; mind. ——_>_ 2. A man's body may be an earthly ten- ocr but he objects to being called a at. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Hardware Price Current. AUGURS AND BITS Se 70 demnings Senwing |... 25&10 Jonbings . imitation... .................. ..60&10 AXES iret Quality, S. B. Brouze............7.... 5 00 First Quality, D. 8. Broties..... 8. 9 50 Pires Quality, 8. BOS Steel. SO Piat Quality, DB Steel... 10 50 BARROWS a ea $12 00 14 00 Garden ees ue. net 30 00 BOLTS PON ee 60&10 Caeriage new ligt. 6... - wort ee 50 BUCKETS ee 832 BUTTS, CAST Cast Loose Pin, figured............. 70&10 Wrowght Narrow... oe 7WO&10 BLOCKS Ordinary Packie... ........... : 70 CROW BARS Cast eer .-per lb 4 CAPS Se ee per m 65 PGE A perm 55 ee perm 35 Ce perm 60 CARTRIDGES ie Mie 8... a - D0& 5 Ponte Mie B& 5 CHISELS ROCHCO Tiree 80 Pocket Mraming.........-.... 8... — 80 ebies CAMHS 80 POCHCE Sees 80 DRILLS Morse’s Bit Stocks ........ ee. 60 Daper and Straight Shank................... 50k 5 mores Taper Sanne = | ee 5 ELBOWS Com ¢pieee 6m. doz. net 00 Oe 3) Fi dis 40&10 EXPANSIVE BITS Clark's small, $15; larce @6................ 30&10 aves, 1,08, 2 8: 2G 2 FILES—New List now See FO&10 COO meters Horse Haspa -60&10 GALVANIZED IRON Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26; 27. ..... 28 litt i 14 15 -_ ... 17 Discount, 75 to 75-10 GAUGES Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............... 60&10 KNOBS—New List Door, mineral, jap. Srinenes. |... Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings............ MATTOCKS ie ye $16 00, dis 60410 awe Eve $15 00, dis 60410 oo ee ee $18 50, dis 20410 NAILS Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire. Steel nails, base..... ... Ma eel lo eec 1 65 Ware mane bate 175 moO Ceemvemee ee Base Meta Mi aevenee 8 5 Samu ooo o.......,......_........., Pee ess CO ee ON cl. cl. ee Me SHONRMOG ee Cone MAACO Costes Saovace 8 gs. Caste Caddvance ...- LL. Minas $0 Achviee 5. Me GO OVA ume GO RGvaree... marre: SB AGwatee MILLS Celron, Pormora Cas: Coffee, P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s Malleables... Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’s........... Ceitoce MIGCrmrInG, i ics sc. MOLASSES GATES 70 80 SaOpOMEA PAUEA ee Ll... OOO Reouenes Geet 6010 Enterprise, self-measuring ............ .... 30 PLANES ne Fool Cex, faney ce @50 GIORNO ge 60 Sandusky Tool Co.'s, fancy................. @50 Bremer AVORGUAlEy ok. ll, @a0 Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s wood......... 60 PANS Dry, Aeme OO aO Common, polished............... Soteed.- 7O& 5 RIVETS Ce ee Copper Rivets and Burs...................... PATENT PLANISHED IRON “A”? Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10 “B”? Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 25 to 27 9 Broken packages %c per pound extra. 60 60 20 20 HAMMERS Maydole & Co.’s, new list........ ...... dis 3355 Me ee ns Seeger te eae dis 25 NGrnes Grogs... dis 10&10 Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.......... .. 30¢ 70 lisi, Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel Hand 30c lia; 40&10 23 HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS Stamped Tin Ware....... .........new list 75410 Japanned Tin Ware....... Mod de cle ee ls a 20&10 Gremtte Iron Ware................. new list 40&10 HOLLOW WARE rom..... _.... ale ets ac cues + pate ee -60&10 ee - 60&10 HINGES Gare, Cakes beg. dis 60410 See... ce per doz. net 2 50 WIRE GOODS eee 80 ee 80 eee 80 Gate Heoms and Hyea........... 2... 2... 80 LEVELS Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............ dis 70 ROPES Sisal, % inch and larger....... ll Geeeuey Gua 6% ae 8 SQUARES Pece Amd GH Sry ene Bevo ee SHEET IRON com. smooth. com. mem. te 82 70 82 40 Net tei ol ae 2,40 moe ieee... rica Oe 2 45 Oe. oe tee... cl Se 2 55 Wee tee ge. 3 10 2 65 WG) Ae 2 @ 3 au 2% 3 20 All sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30 inch wide not less than 2-10 extra. SAND PAPER fom ace oe... dis 50 SASH WEIGHTS Dard Myla, per ton 20 00 TRAPS ee es 6010 Oneida Community, Newhouse’s....... 50 Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s 70&10 Meno, Crier... kw... cl. per doz 15 Mouse, dciugion,................ per doz 1 2 WIRE rigs MAGNO... v6) wpesiog Market ................. ' % Coppered Market. ................. 70&10 ned Marmee. 62% Coppered Spring Steel.......... ‘ 50 Barbed Fence, galvanized ....... ._ —. Berved Wence, painied................ .... 1 8 : HORSE NAILS AUS dis 40&1C Posse... is 5 Nemnweetcte. dis 10&10 WRENCHES Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.............. 30 Coen Genmire «| wt 50 Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought ....... 80 Coes Pasens, walieabie....... 80 MISCELLANEOUS mire Cages 50 Pumps, Cistern............ eee das ac, 80 Berews, New Pine... cc cll, 85 Casters, Bed and Piate............. .... 50&10&10 Papers, Avacricge. oo... 50 METALS—Zinc OM pound Case. 644 Or 6% SOLDER TT 12% The prices of the many other qualities of solder in the market indicated by private brands vary according to composition. TIN—Melyn Grade Le $5 75 bre IC, Charcoal ............... i. were eX CEANCOGE 7 00 Each additional X on this grade, 81.25. TIN—Allaway Grade Meets IC Choreem:.. ...t.. Peee fC Charcos, .... .8 ot... Meee OS Chnpeoes cs eee re Ciarecay oo Each additional X on this grade, 81.50. ROOFING PLATES T4ueg IC, Charcoal, Deam...... 2... 2.6.35... ace ES. Charcoal, eam ................... 2exze IC. Ciarcoae Dean........ ..........- 14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade......... 14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade......... 20x28 1C, Charcoal, Allaway Grade......... 20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade......... BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE 14x56 IX, for No. 8 Boilers, 14x56 IX. for No. 9 Boilers, { per pound... Ar NN 883s Founmoan SSSsSsE — © Perfect Success ---.-.Quick Meal Blue Flame Stoves D. E. VANDERVEEN, STATE AGENT, 106 Monroe St. Grand Rapids, Mich. Pe Dat dMeh gh a a7: S 2 Ss * ‘ 1 Ply Bt ay ikea. oben Ps Sa RENE baa. 24 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN THE TROUBLES IN CHINA. The people of the United States are not alone in enjoying the luxury of a genuine war scare. While we are has- tening preparations for a possible tilt with Spain over the Cuban question, Russia and Great Britain are hurriedly mobilizing fleets and setting defenses in order, owing to the rivalry existing be- tween them for the control of affairs in the Far East. Something like a fortnight ago, Rus- Sia made a demand upon the Tsungli- yamen, or Chinese Foreign Office, for a practical cession of Port Arthur and Talien-wan, with the privilege of ex- tending the Trans-Siberian Railroad southward, through Manchuria, to Port Arthur. Notwithstanding the opposi- tion of England, it is reported that the Chinese government has determined to yield to Russia’s demands, having been thoroughly intimidated by the Czar’s representatives. The success of Russia in practically securing the consent of China to her occupation of Port Arthur has aroused popular indignation in Great Britain. Lord Salisbury has been accused of having been caught napping, and im- mediate and decisive action is de- manded. There is no disguising the fact that the British government con- siders the situation critical, as several hurried Cabinet meetings have been held, and unusual activity is reported from the various British naval stations. Public sentiment in Great Britain de- mauds that either Russia be restrained from prosecuting her designs in the Far East, or that the British government at once take steps to demand for the Brit- ish Empire compensating advantages. The British government has an_ enor- mous fleet in Chinese waters. Several first-class battle-ships are now stationed in that part of the world, and additions to the fighting strength there are being constantly made. British agents have taken the precaution to buy up all the available coal in those waters, a bit of prudent foresight which insures not only a good supply of coal for British ships in case of trouble, but at the same time a scarcity of coal for the enemy’s ves- sels. It is difficult to see how a clash be- tween Great Britain and Russia can be avoided. The possession of an open port in Eastern Asia has long been the ambition of Russia, and she will risk much to secure the coveted facility. Now that she has her talons on Port Arthur, it will be difficult to either persuade or frighten her into relin- quishing her hold. Now that the troubles on the Indian frontier have been practically settled, Great Britain is in a better position to cope with Russia. The British naval strength in the Far East is infinitely greater than that of Russia; hence, should Great Britain determine to for- cibly eject the Russians from Port Arthur, it could be readily accomplished at the present time. For some unex- plained reason, Lord Salisbury seems tu shrink from openly provoking hostilities with Russia. This disinclination is be- lieved by many to be due to the oppo- Sition of Queen Victoria to a war dur- ing her lifetme. It is doubtful, how- ever, if the British Cabinet will be able to withstand the popular pressure, which is unmistakably in favor of prompt and energetic action against Russia. Japan is also to be reckoned with, and, unless all signs are deceptive, Russia is in about as great danger from that power as from Great Britain. ~The Japanese power in the Far East is de- cidedly formidable; moreover, the Japs are in possession of the stronghold of Wei-Hai-Wei, which would be a for- midable base of operations against Port Arthur.. The danger of a clash in the Far East is really more imminent than the danger of war between this country and Spain. SUGAR CONSUMPTIONIN EUROPE The failure of the sugar bounty sys- tem in Europe to stimulate the produc- tion of beet sugar at paying prices has forced the growers to look about for other means of improving the condition of their industry. The bounties paid are paid entirely on exports, and asa heavy tax is levied on internal con- sumption to meet the outlay for boun- ties, the free movement of beet sugar to foreign countries is maintained al- most entirely at the expense of home consumption. The improvement of home consumption is now looked to by the beet growers as a partial remedy for the existing depressed state of the in- dustry. According to the last number of the Louisiana Planter, the Sugar Manufac- turers’ Association of Germany is en- deavoring to develop a larger home consumption of sugar, and with this purpose in view, they have petitioned the Minister of War to add sugar to the rations of the army. For this purpose the Association has placed sufficieut sugar in the hands of the army officials to conduct certain experiments, with a view to determining the food qualities of sugar. The French beet growers, always quick to adopt any improvement ad- vanced by their competitors, are also considering the advisability of intro- ducing sugar into the food supply of the French army. Of course, everything that will improve the domestic con- sumption of sugar will improve the gen- eral sugar market, but the continent of Europe can never hope to popularize the consumption of sugar until the cost of the article to the masses is materially cheapened. While sugar is selling in England and this country for less than 4 cents per pound, it is selling in Ger- many and France for prices ranging from 7 togcents. Of course, it is out of the question to expect any expansion of the industry, as far as domestic con- sumption is concerned, while such prices as those prevail, The prices prevailing in Germany and France are relatively higher than equal figures would be in this country, because of the lower ratio of earnings of the laboring men and the generally smaller range cf incomes among the masses. The only way to popularize a food product is to cheapen its cost. It is because of the low prices which have ruled for years that the consumption of sugar has increased so materially in this country and Engiand. In the latter country, it is even proposed to further improve the consumption of the article by using it for cattle feed. The reason why sugar is not consumed more exten- sively in Germany and France is be- cause its cost is above the means of the masses of the people. - +> ee ~ General Utility Fruit. “‘Here’s an order from a customer who wants a bushel of winesaps, a bushel of Northern spys, and a_ bushel of willowtwigs.’’ ‘All right. Open that barrel of Ben Davis and sort ’em into the three kinds he wants.’’ The Grain Market. Wheat during the past week was in the dumps. War talk, fine weather, fair Northwestern receipts and large Argentine shipments were all bearish news. The large visible decrease and the large world’s shipments were about all the bull news that could be mustered up. This allowed cash wheat to de- cline fully 2c and new futures fully 4c. Chicage May held as firm asa rock at $1.04, but as we are getting very near May, the play will soon end. Busy tongues have it that Leiter and Armour have come to an understanding as to their respective deals, and only the most venturesome will tackle the May deal. We have to-day 9,000,000 bushels of wheat less in sight than we had at the same time last year, and the price one year ago was 8oc in local markets, against 88 cents to-day. Our exports are large, but most of .the wheat was bought some time ago, but since then the Leiter clique bave been making large shipments. Rye has been very steady and did not follow the fluctuations of wheat, owing to the large foreign shipments. Corn advanced about tc per bushel. While oats held firm, they did not ad- vance. Tbe decrease in wheat during the week was 1,316,000 bushels; corn, 6,000 bushels, and oats, 668,000 bushels. The demand for flour is fair, While the slump in wheat would naturally make buyers hold off, we find they take flour quite readily, owing to the fact that stocks are light. Bran and middlings are in good de- mand and the mills are behind with their orders. Tbe receipts during the week were only fair, being 33 cars of wheat (which is about the same as _ De- troit received), 12 cars of corn and 7 cars of oats. Mills are paying 88c for wheat. C. G. A. Voier. A woman is profoundly interested in aman when she remembers how many lumps of sugar he takes in his coffee. “WANTS COLUMN. Advertisements will be inserted under this head for two cents a word the first insertion and one cent a word for each subsequent in- sertion. No advertisements taken for less than 25 cents. Advance payment. - BUSINESS CHANCES. 7}OR SALE—I HAVE FOR SALE CHEAP A complete cigar factory, including tables, chairs, moulds, presses, zinc lined boxes! book- keeper s writing desk, iron safe with burglar proof chest, cigar boxes, labels for two brands of cigars which have a wide reputation, and everything ready to go on with the business. It is the factory formerly known as the United States Cigar Co., on Lyon street, Grand Rapids, Michigan. It must be sold to satisfy creditors and will be sold cheap. The factory consists of three large rooms and can be rented for $10 per month, 54 Lyon street. For particulars, address C. O. Smedley, 15 and 16 New Houseman Bldg., Grand Rapids, Michigan. 559 ye — DRUGGISTS’ SECONDHAND fixtures, prescription case, shelves and counters, oak preferred. Would exchange choice lots in Lansing for complete drug stock, sey $5,000. Address Chas. Maynard, Gagetown, Mich. 561 YY ANTES toca TION FORA SMALL AND well-assorted new stock hardware. Ad- dress No. 564, care Michigan Tradesman. 564 WwOR SALE—ONE OF THE BEST BAZAAR stocks in Southern Michigan. Located ina good live town with excellent country round- about and a good established trade. A good chance for the right person. If you wish it write soon to Lock Box 111, Cassopolis, Mich. 555 O EXCHANGE—FARMS AND OTHER property for dry goods, clothing and shoes. Address P. Meda:ie, Mancelona, Mich. 553 POR SALE (NO TRADE)—ONE OF THE finest and best suburban drug stores in this city. Satisfactory reasons for desiring to sell. Address Druggist, 1169 Wealthy Ave., Grand Rapids, Mich. 551 Yy ANtep TO EXCHANGE—40 ACRES OF good unimproved land, situated on the banks of a beautiful lake, two miles from rail- road, west and north of Pierson, for small stock of drugs, medicines or general merchandise; or will trade for other goods or property. Address No. 528, care Michigan Tradesman. 528 ANTED—1,000 CASES FRESH EGGS, daily. Write for prices. F. W. Brown, Ithaca, Mich. 5d6 VOR SALE—STOCK OF STAPLE ANN fancy groceries, crockery, ete , in one of the best towns in Michigan. Willsel) for cash only. Stock will invoice about $2,500, average sales $75 daily. Located in one of the liveliest towns in Michigan. For full particulars address No. 538, care Michigan Tradesman. 5D8 NOR EXCHAEGE FOR GROCERY OR MER- chandise stock—Choice section land near Jamestown, North Dakota. Dakota lands in great demand for farming or stock raising. Carl Dice, Monroe, Mich. 534 ‘OR SALE—SECOND-HAND MATHEWS’ soda fountain, six syrups, removable glass cans, one 10 gallon copper tank, retinned in 1897, 1 five foot counter slab of pink Tennessee marble, six tumbler holders. Price and terms yrite L. A. Phelps, Douglas, Mich. 54) W: TED—RESPONSIBLE AGENiS~ TO sell the celebrated Buffington Acetylene Gas Machine in Michigan and Ohio. Apply to Sprou! & McGurrin local agents for Kent, Al- legan and Ottawa counties, or Michigan Acety- lene Gas Company, Jackson, Mich. 549 VOR SALE—MY 60 BBL. STEAM ROLLER mill, modern machinery, everything first- class. Good house, barns, ete., located in live town in Southern Michigan. Might take small Michigan farm as part payment or desirable Grand Rapids property, For full descriptions and particulars address Grain Dealer, care Michigan Tradesman. 548 wODA FOUNTAIN, LARGE, ELEGANT, FOR sale cheap; good condition; complete out- fit. Write Crozier Bros., Grand Rapids, Mich. 535 bho eign Pies AND GOOD SECURITY for we'l-located, pate mer- chandise stock: or will trade stock, store room and good residence property for good small farm in Indiana or Southern Michigan. A bar- gain. Ca'l or address Box 21, Bryant, Ind 550 ANTED—POSITION IN STORE AFTER March 15. Large experience in general store. Good references furnished. Address No. 526, care Michigan Tradesman. 526 te. BEST BUSINESS CHANCE ON THIs PAGE—On account of the death of my hus band, I will sell my stock of general merchan- dise, invoicing from $7,000 to $8,00). Best cash trade in Frankfort, Michigan, county seat town of about 2,000 population. Enquire quick if you wish it. Terms, cash or bankable paper. Ad- dress Mrs. M. B. Grisier. 533 4 EXCHANGE—FOR CLOTHING, DRY goods or shoes, very nice well rented Grand Rapids property. Address No. 552, care Michi- gan Tradesman. 552 ANTED—A PRACTICAL MILL MAN, with $1,000 capital, to take a one-half or full interest in a stave, heading and planing mill. 3,00) contract, with stock to fillit. All goes. Five years’ cut in sight. Side track toe mill. Good reasons for selling. Address Stave Mill, care Michigan Tradesman. 546 VOR SALE—STOCK OF DRY GOODS, GRO- ceries and shoes. Will sell or rent building. Reason for selling, poor health. Address L. Schrock, Clarksville, Mich. 499 NOR SALE—BUILDING AND GENERAL stock; best farming section in Michigan. No trades. W H. Pardee, Freeport, Mich. 500 W ANT ALL KINDS OF GRAIN IN CAR lots. Name price or ask for bids. Rhodes Co., Grain Brokers, Granger, Ind. 479 HAVE A PARTY WANTING GROCERY OR general stock. Must be a bargain. I have buyers for any line of merchandise. W. H. Gil- bert, 109 Ottawa St., Grand Rapids. 440 ANTED — FIRST-CLASS BUTTER FOR retail trade. Cash paid. Correspond with Caulkett & Co.. Traverse City, Mich. 381 YOR EXCHANGE—TWO FINE IMPROVED farms for stock of merchandise; splendid location. Address No. 73, care Michigan — man. 7 PATENT SOLICITORS. pe ATTORNEYS, 20 YEARS’ PRAC- tice. Ideas developed. Drawings a spec- ialty. Reasonable rates. Dennis Rogers, Grand Rapids. 534 “REE—OUR NEW HANDBOOK ON PAT- ents. Ciiley & Allgier, Patent Attorneys, Grand Rapids, Mich. 339 MISCELLANEOUS, ANTED—SITUATION BY FIRST-CLASS tinner on furnace, general job and tin work, some knowledge of plumbing; twenty years’ experience, with best of references; mar- ried; desires steady work. Address H: M. Holmes, 905 S. Ciayton St., Bloomington, Ill. 563 ate WANTED BY A KEGISTERED pharmacist of seven years’ experience. Ad- dress Lock Box 35, Lowell, Mich. 562 ANTED — POSITION IN GENERAL store by one who speaks German and has had years of experience and is capable of taking charge of a store. Address No. 560, care Mich- igan Tradesman. 560 ANTED—POSITION IN HARDWARE OR grocery and dry goods store. Large ex- perience in store business. References furn- ished if desired. Address No. 565, care Michi- gan Tradesman. 565 ANTED—A REGISTERED PHARMACIST of experience, references required. A permanent position offered. Address No. 538, care Michigan Tradesman. 538 ITUATION WANTED-REGISTERED PHAR- macist, married, 27 years of age, registered 8 years, country and city experience. Best of references given. Address F. S. Tuxbury, Elk Rapids, Mich. 530 ANTED—BY MAN OF NINE YEARS’ experience, — as manager of gen- eral store. Have had experience in all lines; can also do book-keeping of any kind and would do same with other work. Address No.519, care Michigan Tradesman. 519 A AA SR CCAR RCT NN Ae oe LE as TRNAS SRR Ne Travelers’ Time Tables. CHICAGO "™™sx.tenees Chicago. Ly. G. ee bee eae 8:45am 1:25pm *11:30pm Ar. Chicago.. -3:10pm 6:50pm 6:40am Ly. Chicago. 7:20am 5:15pm *11: 30pr Ar. G’ d Rapids ie - 1:25pm 10:35pm * 6:20ar Traverse ll Charlevoix and Petoskey. ie Ga Rapias. 6. 7:30am 5:30pm Parlor and aie Cars on po scat and vight trains to and from Chicago. *Every day. Others week days only. DETROIT Grand Rapids & Western. 8 Nov 21, 1897. Detroit. Ly. Grand Rapids...... 7:00am 1:35pm 5:35pm Ar. Detrots. 200050505) 11:40am 5:45pm 10:20pm Ly. Detroe ..s. 33..: 8:00am 1:10pm 6:10pm Ar. Grand Rapids.....12:55pm 5:20pm 10:55pm Saginaw, Alma and Greenville. Ly. G R7:10am 4:20pm Ar. GR 12:20pm 9:30pr Parlor cars on all trains to and from Detroit and Saginaw. Trains run week days only. — DEHAVEN, General Pass. Agent. T R GRAND ee. Div (In effect January 19, 1898 ) Leave. EAST. Arrive. + 6:45am Sag., Detroit, Buffalo & N Y .+ 9:55pm +10:10am... ...Detroit and East.... ..+ 5:0%pm + 3:30pm. ‘Sag., Det... N. Y. & Boston. .+12:45pm *10:45pm.. Detroit, East and Canada...* 6:35ain t1t-10am.....-.. Mixed to Durand..:..... + 3:15pm WEST * 7:00am....Gd. Haven and Int. Pts....*10:15pm +12:53pm. Gd. rp ee and Intermediate + 3: 22pm + 5:12pm....Gd. Haven Mil. and Chi....+10:05am +10 ven. oo. Gd: Haven and Mil:.. 6... 2.63 Eastward—No. 14 has Wagner parlor car. No. 18 parlor car. Westward—No. 11 parlor car. No. 15 Wagner parlor car. *Daily. +tExcept Sunday. E. HH Hueues, A.G.P. & T. A. ae FLETCHER, Trav. Pass. Agt., C. A. Justin, City Pass. Agent. No. 23 Monroe = GR AND Rapids = oe —T Northern Div. Leave Arrive Trav. C’y, Petoskey & Mack...t 7:45am t+ 5:15pm Trav. C’y, Petoskey & Mack...¢ 2:15pm t¢ 6:35am Trav. C’y, Petoskey & Mack... ........ $10:50pm CMONIRG: oc “t 5: 25pm +t11:15am Train leaving at 7:45 a. m. has parlor ear, and train leaving at 2:15 p. m. has sleeping car to Mackinaw. Southern ~ oe Arrive Oincinmag co 7:10am + 8:25pn MG Wet. ee ; 2:10pm ¢ 2:00pm Cincinnati.. * 7:00pm * 7:25an 71108. m. train has parlor car to Cincinnati 2:10 p.m. train has parlor car to Fort Wayne. 7:00 p.m train has sleeping car to Cincinnati. Muskegon Trains. GOING WEST. Ly G'd Rapids........: 7:35am +1:00pm +5:40pr Ar Muskegon........... Be — 2:10pm 7:05pm eos Lv Muskegon....... 8 0am ti1:45am +4:00pr ArG’d Rapids... ..... 9:30am 12:55pm 5:29pr +Except Sunday. er aa only. L. LOCKWOOD, Gen’ Pasie and Ticket Agent. South Shore and Atlantic D ULUT 9 Railway. WEST BOUND. Ly. Grand Rapids (G. R. & L. )t11: 10pm - +7:45am Ly. Mackinaw City............ 7:35am 4:20pm Ar. St. Ignace eek dn seb adee laa, 9: OJam 5:20pm Ar, Sault Ste. Maric.......... 12:20pm 9:50pm Ar. 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