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Volume XV. ‘

Rare Cliiace foc Small Capital.

A plant equipped for planing, resaw ing, 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.

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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 rece ipted
tor by us.

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R. J. CLELAND, Attorney.

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Collections made everywhere. Write for particulars.

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See our $4 Spring Overcoats and Suits.
Spring line of fine goods—excellent. Write
our Michigan agent, Witttam CoNNorR,

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Box 346, Marshall, Mich., or meet him at
Sweet’s Hotel, Grand Rapids, from Thurs-
day, May 12 to Monday, May 16 inciusive.
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You should use our
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Made to hold from 27 to 60 names
and sell for 75 cents to $2.
Send for sample leaf.

BARLOW BROS.,
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PREFERRED BANKERS
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Net Assets... |. sect ecee cess 32,738.49
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Total Guarantee Deposits Paidto Ben-
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Death: Wateior Woy... 6. 6.31
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GRAND RAPIDS, oe SS 27, 1898.

DISCONTINUE DIVIDENDS.
Telephone Topics—Bank Notes—Fi-
nancial News Generally.
The Imperial interest tables, com-
puted by Worth W. Preston and pub-
lished in this city, is the latest candi-
date for banking office favor. It is in
the form of a long pocketbook and is
divided into three parts, for 5, 6 and 7
per cent. interest, respectively. It is
designed to show the interest on any
amount up to $100,000 for any number
of days up to one year. Its arrange-
ment is ingenious and, when the sys-
tem is understood, its operation is sim-
ple and quick. The Old National Bank
is distributing a few of them to its
larger customers.
oe ee

The Imperial is the second interest
table which has been gotten up in this
city. Charles B. Kelsey, Cashier ot
the People’s Savings Bank, in 18go,
when he was teller in the Kent County
Savings Bank, arranged an_ interest
table on a card, and for eight years this
card has had a place in every bank in
town. The Kelsey card could be ma-
terially improved, but it has served its
purpose very well thus far and will
probably continue to be used because of
its convenience.

The State will issue bonds to the
amount of $500,000 as a war loan, as
authorized by the recent special ses
sion of the Legislature. The bouds will
bear 4 per cent. interest, but the de-
nominations have not yet been decided
on, or at least have not been announced.
Some time ago when the possibilities of
a war loan first became apparent, the
Detroit banks agreed to take $200,000
of them. The Grand Rapids banks have
not yet asked for any of them, but
when the bands are issued a fair pro-
portion of them will, undoubtedly, come
this way. The State is now without a
bonded indebtedness of any kind, un-
less $10,992.83 of the old five million
dollar loan bonds issued half a century
ago and never offered for redemption
can be called such. The interest on the
old bonds long ago ceased.

Detroit has twenty-two banks, with
$6,600,000 capital, and the stock is dis-
tributed among 1,600 holders, or an
average of over $5,000 to each stock-
holder, an average which is nearly
double the Grand Rapids average. The
largest bank stockholder in Detroit is
Senator James McMillan, with a total
par value holdings of $163,200, and a
market value of $276,200, and which
netted him $6,710 in dividends last
year. The McMillan family—James,
Hugh and James H. McMillan—hold a
total of 2,983 shares of bank stock, rep-

resenting a market value of $494, 195.
oe ae ee

The Trust Company interests of De-
troit are agitating an amendment to the
trust company law by the next Legis-
lature, by which the trust companies in
Michigan shall have a wider latitude in
which to do business. The law limits
the trust companies to a purely trust

mercial loans. In other states the trust
companies can engage in commercial
business, as well as the peculiar work
they are organized todo. The savings
and national bank interests will prob-
ably oppose the proposed change in the

law.
x ok *

President Anderson's front office in
the Fourth Naticnal Bank has for a wall
decoration a collection of silver dollars
which attracts much attention. The
coins are inserted in a cardboard and
framed like a picture and date back to
the earliest United States coinage, 1795.
The coins are in excellent condition
and are worth considerably more than
their face value.

* * *

Kalamazoo will vote April 30 on issu-
ing $250,000 local improvement bonds.
Yale, St. Clair county, has voted
$30,000 water works and electric light

bonds.
* * *

The Jackson Gas Co. has declared a
dividend of 1% per cent. on the earn
ings for the first year under the present
management. The People’s Electric
Eight €o., of Flint, bas declared a

quarterly dividend of 114 per cent.
ee

The Fifth National Bank has issued a
neat circular to its stockholders and
others interested, showing the gratify-
ing improvement that has taken place
in its condition since the statement
made July 23, 1897. Its loans and dis-
counts then were $263,054 Io, and on
February 18, the date of the last state-
ment, they had grown to $391,985.35
The deposits on the two dates were
$250, 320.92 and $471,686.78, respective
ly. Before the end of the year the busi-
ness of the bank will be more than
doubled.

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At a meeting of the directors of the
Hastings National Bank, held last

Wednesday, to make the changes on the
board of directors and officers which
was necessitated by the death of the late
Daniel Striker, the following were
elected: John T. Lombard, President;
John F. Goodyear, Vice-President;
Harry G. Hayes, Assistant Cashier.
Judge Clement Smith was elected on
the board of directors. Otherwise the
officers and directors remain the same

as heretofore.
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The Arenac Exchange Bank
name of the new bank at Omer.
a capital of $40,000.

se te ae

The Grand Rapids Gas Light Co. has
declared a semi-annual dividend of 2%
per cent., payable May 20. Transfer
books close May to and re-open May
21.

is the
It has

ee

Bids for the privilege of taking care
of Detroit’s city money for the year
beginning July 1 next show either that
money is more plentiful than last year
or that the Detroit banks have entered
into an agreement as to the city funds.
Controller Blades opened bids for the
custody of the city money Monday, and
the First National, Detroit National,
Commercial National and Peninsular

 

 

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business and forbids anything like com-

Savings Banks offered to pay 2% per

 

Number 762

cent. on the funds, each to have one-
fourth of the city cash. The Dime
Savings Bank offered to give 2.55 per
cent. for the care of the sinking fund.
Last year two of the banks paid 3 per
cent., another 3% and a third 3.91 per
cent.

The Michigan (Bell) Telephone Co.
has probably paid its last dividend.
The suspension of dividends is thus
announced by Secretary H. M. Field in
a letter to the stockholders, bearing
date of April 20: ‘‘Ata meeting of the
board of directors it was decided to dis-
continue the payment of dividends tor
the present in order to hold the resources
of the company to enable it to meet the
unremunerative rates of speculative
competition, and at the same time to
maintain and extend its plant. The
volume of business of the company
shows a continuous increase.’

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The telephone situation is peculiar,
to say the least. The local independent
companies are paying 8 and Io per
cent. dividends on the basis of rates
about half what the Bell charged before
the advent of competition, while the
Bell Co. is unable to hold its own, even
with the extortionate charges exacted
for long-distance service. Even where
residence telephones are furnished free
and business telephones are put in at
any price the customer is willing to
pay, it is found impossible to keep the
quota of Bell connections up to the old
number, on account of the limited num-
ber of business houses which will toler-
ate the inferior and limited service of
the Bell exchanges wherever local com-
petition steps in and accords the public
improved and enlarged service at lower
rates. The action of the directors of the
Michigan Telephone Co. in discontinu-
ing dividends evidently foreshadows the
ultimate retirement of the corporation

from the Michigan field.
tee
We may expect to hear of captures on

the sea by the Spanish and of a Spanish
triumph here and there. No nation ever

went into war without receiving some
hard blows. It is more than probable
that Spain intends to fight a kind of

guerilla warfare on the ocean.
> 6.

An Ame rican boy can fight for his
country with much more ardor and en-
thusiasm than he can fight for the Cu-
bans, who are rot our brothers, and who
have never loved us better than they

have loved themselves.
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In time of war prepare for peace.
The next thing to know will be to know
what to do with Cuba, and how to make
peaceful citizens of insurgents, some of
whom want the spoils they expect to

come with liberty.
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If Spain is able to put up a fight
against this country for as long as six
months, it will indicate that there is
practically no limit to the point to

which credit can be stretched in Europe.
_ -eo

It will pay us to remember,as we pro-
gress with this war, that this country is
full of vivid imaginations and that they
are all working overtime.

 

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Dry Goods

The Clothing Situation.

The clothing trade, although pretty
good, is not anything extra, for not
many people have enough money now-a-
days to buy anything but a very reason-
able priced suit of clothes. When they
do purchase anything, it is with the in-
tention of availing themselves of any
bargains, endeavoripg thereby to obtain
as good a quality of goods as possible
for a small amount of money. The call
for light overcoats, both whipcords and
coverts, has been very good this season,
and fully as many are being worn as at
any other season. Grays and browns,
but blues principally, will be used a
good deal this year. Prices tor spring
and summer goods are somewhat higher
than they were, but they are by no
means as high as they will be this fall.

Bicycle clothing of all kinds will seil
very well this season. In the better
class of men’s wear, the costume most
worn will consist of a blue serge jacket
with a cap and trousers of some rather
striking pattern of goods. Large and
small plaids, as well as loud and quiet
checks, wili be used very largely. Whole

 

suits of the same material, will, to all
probabilities, be used by the general

run of men who wear bicycle clothing,

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large, compared with the fall Low]

}encing the best call.

grades have been in far better demand
than anything else.

Hosiery—-The demand for fancy ho-
siery has in no way abated, and the re-
tail trade are having hard work to se-
cure all that will be wanted for the sea-
son. We counsel a little moderation in
this, however, for the time is, in the
opinion of many who are authorities
on this subject, not very far distant
when the plaids will begin to lose their
hold on the consumers and they will
turn their attention to the handsome
strips and other fancy designs that are
offered, and apparently neglected for the
large plaids that are in the market.
Some of the neat Roman stripes are
beauties, and will command the atten-
tion of the finer trade this season, un-
less all signs fail. Outside of the fancies
mentioned, fast blacks are the interest-
ing features of the market, and an enor-
mous business has been accomplished
in these in the wholesale and retail de-
partments of the market.

Linings—Lirings are experiencing
just about the same call this season
that they did last, there being but very
little improvement noticeable. The tend-
ency is for goods of both a loud and a
quiet nature, each being about equally
popular with the general class of pur-
chasers. Prices run about as they have
been for some time past. Stripes have
a better demand than the plaids in
fancy goods, and some very attractive

j effects are being used this season.

Trimmings—Trimmings are going
very well this spring, and the demand

| is much better than it has been for some
'

time. All classes are selling pretty well,
although spangled goods are experi-
Mohair and wool

 

braids sell well, and the demand for all
tuds of rucbing is very good.
Ribbens—All fancy ribbons are sell-

ing very weil, for scarfs, ties and sashes,

The fad for this
pretty sure to last for
Roman stripes are about

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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

py 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
(QH the goods per yard. We have the best-selling goods on earth. Don't
iM} wait, order samples at once; it will be to your interest and we want you

AY to represent us.

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Dy HENRY NOEE & CO.,
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bleached and unbleached

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very pretty designs, with napkins to match, if desired. In
order to make it possible for customers to buy several de-
signs and not overstock, we have had them put up in demi-
Don’t miss it!

pieces. We consider this a rare opportunity.

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What Really Indicates the Successful
Merchant.

The successful retailer of the present
day does not secure all the goods he re-
quires for the several seasons through
purchases made twice a year, as was
the custom in times gone by. Instead
his early selections are largely confined
to novelties and specialties of which
only limited quantities are manufac-
tured, and which are necessary in order
to present choice in styles and designs.
At the same time, he buys a reasonable
assortment of staples. He is very care-
ful not to overload in any line, nor to
place orders for larger quantities than he
is sure he can take care of in a way to
avail himself of the most favorable cash
discounts. With this foundation stock
on hand he is able to replenish every
week, if necessary. Asa good mana-
ger he keeps his stock so well in hand
that he is always in position to take ad-
vantage of any favorable offer that may
be mrde, such as are put out by various
wholesale houses in the midst of every
season. Managing his purchases in this
way, the retailer always has a fresh line
of goods to show his customers.

By frequent buying his bills are so
distributed that he has no trouble in
meeting them promptly. Neither does
he have cause for complaint about un-
seasonable weather, slack trade, and the
like, when his purchases are made in
the light of current demand. A retailer
who buys in this general way becomes
very careful in his dealings. He has
very few old chestnuts on hand in the
way of goods, but maintains a stock that
is clean and one that is oftentimes worth
twenty-five per cent. more than that of
the average ‘‘early buyer.’’

Dame Fashion is erratic, and styles
change so rapidly that many goods

which are looked upon as certain win-"

ners early in the season fall flat later on.
Therefore, any one caught with large
lines of them in stock necessarily sus-
tains a heavy loss. At the present day
a thoroughly assorted stock is a prime
necessity in the large cities, as well as
plate-glass windows and_ up-to-date
fixtures, and they are also rapidly becom-
ing a necessity in the smaller towns.
A good point for the retail merchant to
remember is that it is not how largea
business he does, but how many times
his stock is turned in the course of the
year that really indicates the successful
merchant. C, H. ARNOLD.
Ch eee
The Meaning of Co-Insurance.

Within a few years insurance com-
panies have, by unanimous agreement,
put into all policies covering merchan-
dise a new condition known as the
‘‘Eighty.. Per Cent. Co-Insurance

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wheel is

Seat Post

of saddle.
All posts

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Clause. This clause provides that in
the event of a loss the adjustment shall
be made on the basis of there being an
insurance carried and in force equal to
80 per cent. of the value of the property
insured. It is evident from various facts
that very few fully understand the effect
of this clause or have taken it fairly in-
to mind in deciding on the amount of
insurance that they should carry,

It may help to an understanding of
this matter to say that if the merchant
has an insurance equal to 80 per cent. of
the value of the property insured, then
the clause has absolutely no effect in
case of loss. Or if the property insured
is absolutely and wholly destroyed,
leaving no value whatever, then the
clause has no effect whatever.

On the other hand, if the merchant has
a partial loss, the effect is very differ-
ent. It may be illustrated as follows:
Assume that the total value of the prop-
erty insured is $40,000. Then 80 per
cent. of its value will be $32,000, which
is the amount of insurance that should
be carried. Assume that the amount
of insurance that is actually placed

amounts to only $25,000. This, it will

be seen, is $7,000 short of the proper
amount. Suppose that a fire occurs,
resulting in a loss ot $10,000, The in-
surance being $7,000 short, the $32,000
proper insurance has to pay the $10,000
loss, figuring $312.50 to each $1,000.
That is to say, the insurance companies
pay on $25,000, which is the amount
of their policies, to the extent. of
$7,812.50, and the merchant, who is a
co-insurer on the $7,000 short insurance,
pays upon that basis $2,187.50. Thus
the merchant receives out of his $10,000
loss the sum of $7,812.50. He is obliged
to count as additional loss the $2,187.50
on account of not being insured up to 80
per cent. of the value of his stock.

Possibly this deficiency in insurance
has occurred from a desire to save the
premium of $10,000. Let us examine
into the real economy of the saving.
Assume that the average rate paid by
merchants is 114 percent. Then the
premium on $7,000 insurance would
amount to $105 a year. In twenty years
it would amount to $2,100. From this
it will be seen that such a loss as is_ il-
lustrated in the example would more
than eat up the saving in premiums of
twenty years. The importance of car-
rying an adequate amount of fire insur-
ance in strictly good companies and
under forms of policies carefully and
properly prepared is thus made appar-
ent. J. R. AINSLEY.

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On the fact that a Spring Seat Post in your

After riding a Berkey Adjustable Spring

special bushing fits it to any wheel. Send

us sample order. THEY WILL SELL.

if he happens to select the right half.

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rough roads and car tracks.

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made 7% inch in diameter and a

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Our new Acetylene Gas Generator, which
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promptly. Weclaim for our generator
superior strength, simplicity of construc-
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elasticity of capacity, and candidly believe
that an inspection of our machine and a
comparison with the generators of other
manufacturers, will result in the selection
of our generator.

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a | I=) to $200 per month. We want 4,000 more active, reliable men to take the places
Vie, not yet filled.
or Many concerns advertise themselves as ‘tailors to the trade,” but we are
eG, | the original and only manufacturers on a Jarge seale of “ready-to-wear”
tee "a clothing exclusively for consumers. We don’t wholesale! We don’t retail!
af ‘There is but one small profit between the first cost of our garments and the
| /| | men and boys who wear them. We run our own plant and the san iples we
lif} send out are cut from the cloths we make up in our factory. Wecut suits athou-
Ed sand at a time. Hence the low prices we offer. ‘These goods bear the trade mark,
Ne _ WHITE HORSE BRAND.
(a iy A superb outfit and advertising matter furnished free to our agents. Do
you not think with all these advantages you could interest your friends and neighbors and secure
their orders for clothing? The workmanship and trimmings are the very best on every garment.

Men’s Suits 84 to S15. Boys’ Suits $3 to 9. Men’s Trousers 75c to S4,

We also operate one of the largest Custom Departments where garments are actually cut
and made-to- measure by the most “skiilful workmen. The trade mark for this de *partment is

WHITE CITY BRAND.

We furnish our agents with a fine line of samples and all necessary blanks from this de-
partment without charge. The prices for suits are $12 to $25. With the two outfits you can
meet the taste and purse of every man and boy in your community. We pay our agents a lib-
eral commission. Don’t miss this chance. Write for particulars to Dept. G. R.

WHITE CITY TAILORS, 222-226 ADAMS STREET, CHICAGO.
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Or if you will send us your weight, and size
of seat post hole with $1.00 we will send you
a Berkey Spring Seat Post, express paid, on
a week’s trial to be returned and money re-
funded if not satisfactory when

If satisfactory to you IT WILL BE TO
OTHERS. |
Send usa sample order for six Seat Posts
(if rated in Dun’s or Bradstreet’s). We will
credit you with price of first post, thus giv-
ing you a Spring Seat Post FREE.

Berkey Spring Seat Post Company, Grand Rapids, Mich.

The GéM Union sult

is the only combination suit in
the market that has given per-
fect satisfaction. Being double
breasted, and elastic in every
portion, it affords comfort and
convenience to wearer that are
10t obtained in any other make.
We are the sole manufacturers
and patentees and are prepared
to supply the trade with a great
variety of qualities and sizes.

Special attention given to mail orders.

Globe Knitting Works, Grand Rapids.

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Around the State

 

Movements of Merchants.

Escanaba—Abner Alley has embarked
in the meat business,

Escanaba—Carl Johnson has opened a
tin and plumbing shop.

Alma—Bert Hayes, of Stanton, has
purchased the grocery stock of Fred
Wright.

Kalkaska—A. F, Skarrett, of Edmore,
has purchased the meat market of A.
i. Sack.

Petersburg — Russell & Grandolph suc-
ceed H. O. Russeil in the bardware
business.

Homer--Dorsey & Conger succeed
H. H. & M. A. Dorsey in the millinery
business.

Central Lake—Gazlay Bros. will erect
a machine shop and bicycle factory at
this place.

Farwell—Maurice A. Herrick has
sold his general stock to Brown &
Honeywell.

Adrian —Beck & Eagan have opened
a furniture and crockery store on North
Main street.

Harbor Springs—Harry Chamberlin
has purchased the meat market of Fos-
ter & Burke.

Allegan—O. W. Bliss, of Orleans, bas
embarked in the mercantile business
at this place.

Black River—Leon G. Ferris has
purchased the drug business of Frank
P. McCormick.

Coldwater—Mrs. May E. Morgan has
opened a notion and bazaar store at 58
West Chicago street.

Detroit—Bentley & Burbank succeed
the Reed, Bentley, Burbank Co. in the
wall paper and paint business.

Stetson—Wm. Fisher & Caplin Bros.,
grocers and dry goods dealers, have
dissolved, Mr. Fisher retiring.

Big Rapids—Mrs. A. Phillips, who
conducts a fruit store, has purchased the
grocery stock of H. E. Frederick.

Ann Arbor—The hardware firm of
Meuhlig & Schmid has purchased the
stock of paints, oils, etc., belonging to
Hutzel & Co.

Detroit—The C. H. Little Co., dealer
in cement, lime and builders’ supplies,
has increased its capital stock from
$50,000 to $75,000

Atbens—M. J. Wood’s Sons and Wm.
Brokaw have purchased the stock of
boots and shoes and rubber goods of
Lewis & Albertson.

Big Rapids—John Johnson, who re-
cently purchased the Arnold meat
market, has also bought out the market
of Takken & Pshea.

Montague—J. H. Crosby has sold his
grocery stock to Mr. Springer, of
Shelby, who will continue the business
at the same location.

Scottville—C. E. Mustard has pur-
chased a half interest in the hardware
and agricultural implement stock of
Frederick J. Reader.

Cheboygan—The hardware firm of J.
E. Cueny & Co, has been dissolved. J.
E. Cueny, who has so long managed
the business, will continue it.

Hillsdale—A. W. Crane has sold his
stock of furniture to C. E. Singer and
will probably locate in the West, in
hopes of improving his health.

Holland—Benj. Sterken has purchased
the shoe stock of Crozier Bros. Mr.
Sterken was formerly employed by
Crozier Bros. at Grand Rapids.

Piainwell—Carl Williams has pur-
chased the stock of tinware and glass-
ware of W. J. Olds and moved it into
his own building on Main street.

 

Sparta— Chas. M. Hallack and J. G.
Humphrey have formed a copartner-
ship and embarked in the clothing and
men's furnishing goods business.

Fife Lake—Jos. S. Clark and Dent.
Blue, who formerly conducted a meat
market under the style of Clark & Blue,
have dissolved. Each wiil continue
the meat business in his own name.

Sears—Geo. Lusk is closing out his
business at this place, preparatory to
embarking in general trade at Spencer,
Kalkaska county. He _ will also deal in
lumber.

Greenville—Bradley & Seaman, gro-

cers, have dissolved. Il). S. Seaman
will continue the business and E. D.
Bradley will travel for the Bradley
Cigar Co.

Owosso—H. W. Mann has_ purchased
the wall paper and paint stock owned
by A. Geeck and has opened a_ branch
store at that location, with Ernest Mann
in charge.

East Jordan—Imerman Bros., who
have been operating a general store at
Thompsonville and branch stores at
other places, will put in a stock of
goods here.

Kalamazoo—W. W. Cushing, who has
been associated in the grocery busi-
ness with his brother, H. M. Cushing,
has retired. H. M. Cushing will con-
tinue the business.

Lansing—Roswell Mott has purchased
the grocery stock of A. O. Taylor, at
the corner of Washington avenue and
Kalamazoo street, placing Joseph Was-
son in charge of the business.

Lansing—The Michigan Produce Co.
will erect a new warehouse in the rear
of the one recently constructed. It will
be 80x32 feet and 20 feet high, with a
capacity of storing fifty carloads of
baled hay.

Norwood—-Neil Flannigan, the gen-
eral dealer, was married April 27 to
Miss Edna Alden, of Clare. Mr. Flan-
nigan will remove to Chiacgo this fall
to continue in the employ of the Ritten-
house-Embree Co.

Lake Odessa—F. L. McArthur has
resigned his position in the clothing
and grocery store of B. Cohen and
formed a copartnership with L.  F.
Pearson for the purpose of embarking
in the dry gaods business.

Cadillac——Nordstrom & Lofgren,
plumbers and agricultural implements
and hardware dealers, have dissolved,
Nelson P. Nordstrom continuing the
business. Axel Lofgren will continue
as foreman of the plumbing and tin-
ware department.

Alpena—Greenbaum Bros., clothiers
and boot and shoe dealers, will enlarge
their business by the addition of a dry
goods department. Their store building
has been remodeled to meet the require-
ments of a dry goods store. Neil Mc-
Phee will be placed in charge of the
new department.

Carson City—The F. A. Rockafellow
Mercantile Co. will dissolve May 2.
The general store will be continued un-
der the style of the Carson City Mercan-
tile Co., and the elevator and produce
business will be conducted by F. A.
Rockafellow or by a company to be
organized by him.

Hillsdale—Fred Cozzens, of this city,
with his brothers Frank, of Toledo, and
Louis, of Coldwater, will open a meat
market in the Jobnson block. Frank
Woodworth, who now occupies the store
building with his grocery stock, will
remove into the building occupied by
the Hillsdale Grocery Co., which will,
in turn, remove into the building re-
cently vacated by them.

 

Jackson—Wm. N. Crone, who for the
past five years has had charge of the
mechanical works of the Withington &
Cooley Manufacturing Co., has resigned

and, in company with John McGraw, |

purchased the har*ware stock of J. C.
Bader.
McGraw & Crone.

Detroit—Edward D. Sloan has re-
tired from the produce and commission
house of Hermann C. Naumann & Co.,
who are located at 33 Woodbridge street,

west, with a branch store at 353 Rus- |

sell street. The business will be con-
tinued by Hermann C. Naumann and
Fred J. Naumann under the same firm
name as before.

Detroit—Case number 16,713, the City
of Detroit vs. Hotchkiss, has been
stricken from the docket of the April

term of the Supreme Court and will not |

be heard until the June term. The case
referred to is one in which an appeal
was taken by the Common Council from
a decision given by Judge Hosmer, and
was the result of an alleged violation
of the $25 peddlers’ ordinance. The
objectjin taking the appeal was a desire
to obtain a clear understanding of the
authority of the Common Council in
the premises.

Manufacturing Matters.
Beaverton—Ross Bros. have started
their shingle mill for the season

Ready—The Ready Creamery Co. has
been incorporated, with a capital stock
of $4,000.

Taymouth—-A $3,500 creamery has
been erected and 1s now in operation
on the farm of Ezra Frye.

Howard City—The Howard City

Table Co. finds it necessary to run its
factory day and night in order to keep
pace with its orders.

Wolverine—P. E. Hackett has started
his sawmill for the season. He has
3,000,000 feet of logs to manufacture,
mostly hardwood and hemlock.

West Branch—The Gale Lumber Co.,
which is erecting a iarge sawmill at
this place, expects the plant will be
ready to begin operations the present
month,

Stearns— Although the sawmill of J,
S. Stearns has been closed permanently,
owing to the transfer of the Stearns’
business to Ludington, the shingle mill
and box factory here will continue to be
operated.

Allegan—Guard, Fairfield & Co. have
purchased the Reed City Valley roller
mills from G. Vahue and have com-
menced remodeling the interior. They
will put in two or three new cleaners, a
new boiler and other machinery.

Benton Harbor—The Rouse Ice Cream
Co. has leased the Mead building and
will equip same with apparatus for the
manufacture of ice cream. The com-
pany will employ the Chicago method
of manufacture and will receive cream
direct from inspected dairies.

Wayland—A pickle factory will short-
ly be established at this place. John
A. Barton, of Detroit, representing
Williams Bros. & Charboneau, assisted
by Dr. E. H. Ryno, has secured con-
tracts in this vicinity for furnishing the
necessary amount of cucumbers,

Middleville—M. S. Keeler, who has
conducted a dry goods and clothing store
here for bout sixteen years, has sold
his stock to M. C. Hayward and W. }:
Hayward, who will continue the busi-
ness under the style of M. C. Hayward
& Son. Mr. Keeler will devote his en-
tire attention to the brass factory, which
is operated under the style of the Keel-
er Brass Co.

The new firm will be known as|

| Gaylord—S. A. Robinson intends to
;erect a saw and shingle mill in this
vicinity. He has an option on 1,400
acres of land near this place.
Ludington—-Ed. Woodruff has taken
| the contract to superintend the cutting
of about 40,000,000 feet of pine in
Mason and Oceana counties for T. R.
Lyon, agent for the Ward estate. It
| will be cut during the summer season,
hauled to Ludington, and sawed in the
Stearns north mill.

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Detroit Grocers Encouraged to Go

Further.

Detroit, April 25--At the last regular
meeting of the Detroit Retail Grocers
and Butchers’ Association, held Wednes-
day evening, April 20, the question of
indiscriminate retailing by wholsalers
came up for turther consideration. The
committee baving the matter in charge
repoited that nearly every retailer who
had been interviewed by them had ex-
pressed the determination. to confine bis
future patronage to members of the
wholesale trade of the city who signified
their intention to stop retailing by sign-
ing an agreement to that effect, which
would be presented to them in due time.
It is evident that the agitation of the
question is having some effect as the
Secretary of the Association read a
communication from the Detroit Prod-
uce Exchange, an association composed
exclusively of commission men, in which
it was stated that at a recent meeting
the members of that body had voted
unanimously to accede to the demands
made by the grocers and that a resolu-
tion had been passed which recom-
mended that -all members of the Ex-
change post in some conspicuous place
in their stores the following notice,
‘‘ Positively No Goods Sold at Retail.’’
The communication was listened to with
much satisfaction by those present, as
they felt that the action which had been
taken by the Exchange would aid great-
ly in the future efforts to be made by
the committee in connection with a
tomplete canvass of the trade of the
city, which it is deemed best to make.
Several petitions emanating from local
labor unions were received, asking the
members of the Association to boycott
certain manufacturers of whom they
were at present purchasing goods, all of
which were received and laid on the
table with a promptness which indicates
that this Association has come to that
point in its history when it does not
care to mix up in matters in which it
has no immediate concern. The drift
of the evening’s discussion showed that
the lack of interest in the work which
was being done by the Association, on
the part of many of the members, was
the most alarming feature connected
with the future outlook of the many
and important enterprises contemplated
by this organization. A committee was
appointed to enquire into the cause of
the non-attendance of some of the mem-
bers and to devise some means by which
they may be led to become more active-
ly interested in the work.

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Frank H. Green, the Allegan grocer,
iS getting some pretty hard knocks
nowadays at the hands of the State Food
Commissioner. The March Bulletin
gave him credit for handling ‘‘Extra
Honey Drips,’’ purchased fromthe W.
M. Hoyt Co., which is almost wholly
low grade corn syrup and should be
labeled ‘‘Glucose Mixture.’’ Since
then the Food Commissioner has caused
his arrest for selling French peas
greened with copper, which is strictly
prohibited by law. Most grocers are
satisfied with one rebuke from the Com-
missioner, and Mr. Green's friends in-
sist that he is getting more than his
share of notoriety.

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It is a great accomplishment to know
how to make the best of life as it
comes.

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Grand Rapids Gossip

Elmer Smith has opened a meat mar-
ket at 1165 Wealthy avenue.

 

Jacob Datema, grocer at 704 Madison
avenue, has sold his stock to John H.
Drebel.

Richard Mengs has opened a grocery
store at Holland. The Lemon & Wheel-
er Company furnished the stock.

Geo. H. Kirtland has sold his dry
goods stock at 1159 South Division
Street to Gerrit J. Boone, late of Zee-
land.

Vander Veen Bros., grocers at 500
West Leonard street, have dissolved.
The business will be continued by J.
Vander Veen.

W. H. Thompson & Son have en-
gaged in the grocery business at Map-
celona. The Werden Grocer Co. fur-
nished the stock.

John W. Brubaker and Arthur Seymour,
composing the Boston Tea Co., at 70
Canal street, have dissolved, John W.
Brubaker succeeding.

The Lemon & Wheeler Company has
sold a new grocery stock to C. H.
Bates, who will embark in general
trade at Baldwin about May 1.

 

 

John Sytsema, of Noorman & Sytsema,
grocers at 36 Grandville avenue, has sold
his interest to Huizenga Bros. The
business will be continued under the
style of Noorman & Huizenga Bros.

The Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co.
has been seriously handicapped by the
calling out of the State troops, the entire
male portion of the office force having
gone to Island Lake--Harry E. Fairchild,
Ford B. Rogers and Roy Youngs.
Their places have been taken by Elon
G. Richards, Will Smith and Will
Besancon, who entered upon the duties
of their new positions as their prede-
cessors marched off to the music of fife
and drum.

 

The prosecution of the Worden Gro-
cer Co. on a charge of selling cider
vinegar deficient in solids, instituted
by State Food Commissioner Grosvenor,
resulted in the conviction of the ac-
cused, which declined to put in any evi-
dence, having decided in advance of
the hearing of the case in the Police
Court to take an appeal to the Superior
Court. While the Worden Grocer Co,
is the nominal defendant, the real de-
fendant is Andrew P. Callahan, pro-
prietor of the Prussing Vinegar Co.,
who has indemnified the Worden Gro-
cer Co. and its customers against any
expense which they may incur in de-
fending suits brought against them by
the Food Department. Rood & Hind-
man represent the defendant and the
Assistant Prosecuting Attorney appears
in behalf of the people.

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The Produce Market.

Asparagus—$1I@1I.25
Southern stock.

Bananas— Dealers are handling this
fruit very rapidly now. This is because
of a fear that war will cut off the re-
ceipts. Advices from New Orleans say
that boats are being laid off, for fear
of the war, and that prices are likely
to be higher. No. 1 stock fetches $1.35
@1.60.

Beans—-The market is fully roc high-
er than a week ago. Jobbers have ad-
vanced their paying prices to 80@goc
for country picked, holding city picked
at $1 in carlots and $1.10 in smaller
quantity, including bags.

Her doz, tor

 

Butter—Dairy and creamery are both
weaker, in consequence of the increased
supply. Fancy dairy commands 14c
and extra fancy fetches 15c. Factory
creamery is in moderate demand at 17c.

Beets—25 per bu.

Carrots—25c per bu.

Cucumbers—$1.25 per doz. for South-
em grown.

Eggs—Local handlers are still paying
gc on track, but intimate that a few
warm days will tend to depreciate the
quality to that extent that they will be
compelled to reduce their quotations to
8@8 4c.

Green Onions—toc per doz.

Green Peas--$1.25 for 24 bu. crate.

Honey—Dark ranges from g@toc.
Light stock commands 12c.

Lemons—No change is to be noted in
prices, but the movement is increas-
ing. The call for Messinas is very
light, and were it not for an old _ senti-
ment in their favor the trade in these
would be almost nothing.

Lettuce—There is so little outside de-
mand that local growers find their prod-
uce a drug on the market,although they
have reduced their quotations from roc
to 8c per lb.

Onions—-Dry stock is stronger and
higher, readily commanding 65c per
bu

Oranges—The market is not quotably
higher although the sentiment of firm-
ness on navels is increasing. The move-
ment of fruit is large, owing to the fine
quality of fruit and the low prices pre-
vailing.

Pieplant—2c per Ib. for home grown.

Pineapples—Medium Floridas com-
mand $2 per doz.

Potatoes—The market is still stronger
and higher, the price having further ad-
vanced 5c, with indications of - still
higher prices in the near future. Deal-
ers pay 55c and hold at 65c. Reports
from the South are to the effect that the
acreage is unusually large, but that the
crop will be from ten days to two weeks
later than usual, on account of the
backward spring. This will naturally
bave a tendency to enhance the value
of old potatoes, so that local dealers are
looking forward to a 75c market in the
course of a couple of weeks.

Seeds—-Timothy, prime, $1.45@1.50;

Medium clover, $3@3.25; Mammoth
clover, $3.15@3.40; Crimson clover,

$2.35; Ked Top, $i@r.10; Alfalfa,
$3-75@4.50; Alsyke, $4.50@4.65; Or-
chard grass, $1.60; Kentucky bluegrass,
I. 30@1.50.

Spinach—Soc per bu.
"Strawberries--Receipts are increasing.
Florida fruit is now out of the market
and Mississippi and Louisiana fruit
rules. Tennessee stock is usually in
market by the middle of April, but will
be fully two weeks late this season. The
price still hovers around $2.25 for 24
pints and $4 for 24 quarts.

Tomatoes—$3 per 6 basket crate.

Vegetable Oysters—2oc per doz.

Wax Beans—$3 per 3 bu. crate.

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Hides, Pelts, Furs, Tallow and Wool.

Hides are firm at last week’s advance.
The quality is somewhat improved.
The Government demands ensure an
increased trade. Leather men have
advanced prices on upper stock, while
sole remains steady There is no in-
crease in quantity of hides offered.

Tallow shows a weakness, with large
stocks held in many places, which have
deteriorated by age and are only suit-
able for soapers or pressing. There is
nothing in the outlook to advance
prices.

Wool is still flat, with no buyers and
no sales, each side waiting for some-
thing toturn up. The shearing of the
new clip has begun and is well ad-
vanced in some parts of the State, with
numerous enquiries as to its value.
Eastern buyers do not want it at any
price, so far as dealers can learn. The
advance in the rates of interest East
and the lack of demand for the product
make buyers hesitate, especially so at
prices talked last month.

Wo. T. HEss,

 

The Grocery Market.

Sugar—The market is very firm.
Refiners claim to be oversold on all
grades and are accepting orders only
subject to delay.

Tea—Although the possibility of a
dut} on tea is removed for the present,
the market is still very firm, with every
indication of a higher range of values.

Coffee— Although it is now very gen-
erally conceded that there will be no
duty or internal tax on coffee, the mar-
ket retains its firm features, plainly
demonstrating the inherent strength of
the staple.

Rice—The situation is strong—so
strong, in fact, that quotations are be-
ing constantly advanced. Southern and
foreign markets are keeping pace with
the higher prices.

Spices—Despite the statement that
there is to be no duty on spices for the
present, the market is as strong as at
any time during the tariff agitation.
Large holders not only decline to shade
their quotations, but some of them in-
sist on higher prices. On the basis of
supply and demand, the market is cer-
tainly in a strong position.

Canned Goods (New York Commer-
cial)—There have been few changes in
the market as far as prices are con-
cerned, and the position of all articles
is much the same. The only new fea-
ture in the general situation is the fact
that packers have been bitten by the
same dog that bit the buyers, anda
number in New Jersey and New York
have withdrawn their offers of future
goods, partially because of the war scare
and partially because they have sold as
many future goods as they at present
think it safe to contract to deliver, An-
other incident is the advance of 5ca
dozen in the price of spot silver medium
red Alaska salmon.

Dried Fruits—The reports of frost
damage on the coast are getting into
more tangible shape as the season ad-
vances. It is certain that the fruits that
were in bloom during the March frosts
are much damaged. This is particularly
the case with apricots. There will bea
short crop of these in California this
season. The State is large and long,
and the frosts did not hurt equally all
parts. The difference in elevation and
proximity to the sea also have much
effect in changing temperature condi-
tions, so that where one part of the
State suffered badly by the frost another
did not suffer so severely. There wil]
be a fair crop of peaches, altheugh
much fruit was destroyed. Cherries
will also be a faircrop. There is no
reason to think that the frost shortened
to a very great degree any other item in
the fruits of the coast that are staple in
this country. Prunes promise to be
plentiful, and raisins are also seemingly
unhurt. The dry weather promises to
be a worse evil in California than the
frost. There have been but few rains
through what is usually a rainy season.
These causes have had the effect to
strengthen the holders of odds and ends
of dried fruits on the coast, and many
have withdrawn from market some of
the stocks offered heretofore. Currants
are easier. The stocks in Greece are
reported to be light, but the absence
of demand and the higher rate of ex-
change have had the effect to make the
market easier.

Molasses and Syrups—The New Or-
leans market is exceedingly strong,
with an advancing tendency, with the
market swept almost clean of available
stock. Syrups are strong Jand advanc-

ing.

 

 

Tobacco—Prices are advancing in all
lines, owing to the expectation that a
war tax will fall early on tobacco, this
being one of the items that is usually
looked to to furnish revenue. The gift
schemes of the dealers are generally
withdrawn and manufacturers are tele-
graphing their jobbing agents, and job-
bers are writing their traveling sales-
men, to contract to sell no tobacco ex-
cept at prices when delivered. The
tobacconists are of the opinion that all
their tobacco on hand will be subject to
a revenue tax soon.

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The Grain Market.

The past week has been a very excit-
ing one in the wheat market. Prices
have climbed day by day until an ad-
vance of foc per bushel has heen estab-
lished. The causes of the advance were
smaller Northwestern receipts, fair ex-
ports, and foreigners accepting every-
thing that was offered. The war news
also contributed to the strength of the
market. The extraordinarily large de-
crease of 3,230,000 bushels had the
greatest effect on the market, especially
as a decrease of about 1,000,000 bushels
was looked for. When it was reported
that the visible had decreased three
times that amount, the market got be-
yond the control of the shorts, who
wanted to cover but found no wheat for
sale. The visible is now 25,914,000
bushels. It was a very exciting time on
all the boards of trade, and we think it
time to calla halt, but in times like
these individual opinion goes for
naught. It is one of those unaccocnt-
able freaks which is bard to explain,
especially as the growing crop never
looked better than it does at present all
over the winter wheat belt, in this coun-
try as well as in Europe. With pres-
ent prices the wheat will prcbably all
be marketed, so that farmers’ granaries
will be swept clean, and then new wheat
will find a ready market at fair prices.

Flcur has advanced sharply, although
not as much locally as in outside
points. Buyers who were slow in mak-
ing up their minds about prices and
were looking for lower markets wanted
flour and had to pay the advance.

Mill feeds have been advanced $1 per
ton and the demand is very good. Corn
meal has also been advanced, owing to
the advance in coarse grains. The de-
crease in corn was alsc large, being
3,000,000 bushels, and oats followed
with a decrease of 900,000 bushels. The
former advanced 3@4c per bushel, while
the latter advanced 2c per bushel.

The receipts of wheat at this point
were very large, being 81 cars of wheat
(more than 45,000 bushels) ; but only 7
cars of corn and to cars of oats, being
very moderate in comparison with the
amount of wheat.

Local millers are paying $1.02 for

wheat to-day. C.'G. AL Vorer.
a
Dates of the State Pharmaceutical
Meeting.

At a meeting of the officers of the
Michigan State Pharmaceutical Asso-
ciation, held at Detroit last week, there
were present Arthur H. Webber, of
Cadillac, President of the Association;
Local Secretary Ed. J. Rodgers, of Port
Huron; Prof. A. B. Stevens and E. E.
Calkins,of Ann Arbor, members of the
Executive Committee, W. D. Church,
of Detroit; Charles F. Mann, of De-
troit, Secretary of the Association. It
was decided to hold the annual conven-
tion in Port Huron on August 2, 3 and
4. The programme has not yet been
fully completed.

—_—__~+ 0.

J. P. Platte, 58 Monroe street, Grand
Rapids, manufacturer and wholesaler
umbrellas and parasols. Alsa covers and
repairs them. Orders are filled the same
day,as received,

 

   

   

   

6

MICHIGAN TRADESMAIN

 

 

 

BUILDING A BUSINESS.

Much Due to Singleness of Purpose.

Forty years ago I thought that the
successful business man was the pos-
sessor of some mystic power that lifted
him above the rank of other men. For
many years I have been aware that there
was no truth in my boyish fancy. The
successful business man of to-day 1s the
painstaking, earnest, forceful man who
goes at his work witha will, who follows
the little things, who masters the field
in which he is laboring.

Once in a great while some one dis-
covers a gold mine and so becomes rich
with a rush. Now and then a business
man, with a long look ahead, gets such
control of some phase of the market that
he makes a fortune in a few months or
a few days. But the great mass of busi-
ness men who attain success grow slow-
ly and so healthily. I have often thought
that the growth of character in a man
and the growth of ability in business
are very much alike, and that both
resemble the growth of coral under the
sea.

When I advise a young man astoa
business career I say tohim, ‘‘What are
your natural leanings? In what direc-
tion do you think you would prefer to
grow?’’ Very few young men can tell
me with any definiteness what lines they
would choose. After the days when to
be a circus man ora Street car driver
or a pugilist is the height of his ambi-
tion comes a time of great uncertainty.
As a young man sees the world a little
more clearly, he begins to realize that
success may not come for the asking;
that there must be effort to back intelli
gence, and that deciding upon a career
is one of the most momentous events in
his life.

Perhaps the inclination of a young
man is toward any one of several call-
ings, but, however many-headed the
choice may seem to be, let him settle
on some one thing that he is willing to
make his life-work. Then let him set
out to get a footing in that line. One
mistake that most young men make is
to expect to begin somewhere near the
top. Only the rarest fortune or the in-
fluence of powerful friends can put him
in such a place. It is better, far better
for most of them, that they can not
jump at once to leadership. To com-
mand well one must know how to obey.
To fully realize the responsibilities and
possibilities of headship in a businessa
man should practically know every fea-
ture of that business. The earnest, de-
termined young man will do well, when
he has once fixed upon his choice, to
get a start in that business anywhere he
can find an opening, no matter how low
down on the ladder it may be.

I have never yet known a young man
to start out in any worthy calling and
follow it intelligently and earnestly
without making a success of it. Whether
it is banking or blacksmithing or teach-
ing or trading, with health and energy
and singleness of purpose there is but
one result. ‘‘Singleness of purpose’’
stands for a great deal. Look into ‘the
causes which lead to most of the busi-
ness failures and you wil! find that out-
side speculation is at the bottom of the
trouble.

As a boy on a Northern Pennsylvania
farm, | was impressed with the almost
invariable tendency to shiftlessness
shown by farm hands. In those days
they received perhaps tivelve dollars a
menth and board. There really was no
need for them to spend much beyond
the small amount needed for clothes,

 

Yet, of perhaps fifty of these men that |
knew well in the course of half a dozen
years, J recall but one who saved any-
thing. Some of them would spend more
than a twentieth of an entire year’s
earnings for a horse and buggy ona
single holiday. They were sure to re-
peat the extravagance at every opportu-
nity. Many of these men I know now.
As a rule they married women as thrift-
less as themselves, and have lived in a
sort of hand-to-mouth way ever since.
The one exception that I recall was
rather the butt of his associates. Not
over bright we thought him then, and I
am sure now that he was not particu-
larly brilliant as brightness is apt to be
measured. At first be could not com-
mand more than ten dollars a month—
two dollars less than the standard. But
he was a careful, uncomplaining . work-
man, and while I was still intimate
with him he had saved $500, which was
working forhim bringing thirty dollars
a year, for he was content with a cer-
tain per cent. rather than venture after
an uncertain usurious rate. By this time
he was regarded as a promising man.
Farmers were glad to pay him more
than the ruling rates, because he was
reliable and earnest, and took the same
sensible interest in his employer’s
affairs that he always took in his own.

More than thirty years slipped by be-
fore I got into the old neighborhood

igain. Some of the men | had known
there were dead, some had ‘‘gone
West,’’ most of them were the shiftless

heads of shiftless families, and still
working out, or farming on shares. The
wealthiest man for miles around, the
owner of most farms, and the recognized
leader in general business affairs, was
the one we had all regarded as not over
bright. Looking back at it all, I can
not see why every one of these farm
hands had not at least an equal ‘‘oppor-
tunity’’ with the solitary one who suc-
ceeded.

I have taken about the least promis-
ing subject for this illustration. The
principle is just the same when applied
to farmers’ sons or traders’ sons. I have
seen hundreds of illustrations. I seldom
see an exception to the rule. Earnest
persistence and singleness of purpose
will win every time, if bealth holds.

What I have so far said mainly touches
the building of a competency, making
and saving, thrift and growth ‘The ac-
complishment of this end turns on the
individual’s fairness and firmness with
himself, and—beyond honesty and _in-
dustry—rather incidentally on his _rela-
tions with others. The man with fair
intelligence, good muscle and _faithful-
ness to sell can find a purchaser for it
at some price somewhere. His money
will draw interest or buy property re-
gardless of personal characteristics. His
workiug days and saving ways should
bring him reasonable wealth before he
is an old man.

But this is not ‘‘building a business’’
in the full sense in which I propose to
discuss it. The qualifications that make
a farm hand a wealth-getter are im-
portant for the business-builder in a
broader field. But he must have more.
The great success of a business comes
from so conducting it that public sup-
port is assured. That can only be bad
by appealing to the self-interest of the
public.

Taking retail stores devoted to gen-
eral merchandise from the _ illustration,
it will be found that where equal goods
can be had for the least money most
people will go. If to this can be added
better conveniences and more liberal

 

treatment, the advantage increases.

Where any business has grown phe-
nomenally, it will be found that some-
where in its management is a person
with an exceptional force of character;
soine one who saw clearly where rivals
groped or guessed. But it will also be
found that his method of doing busi-
ness is surprisingly simple, that the
only ‘‘secrets’’ about it are a little more
common sense in the appeal to the self-
interest of his possible customers, and
a little more solicitude for their com-
fort.

I can name at least four great and
prosperous business houses in leading
Eastern cities whose pedigrees run
straight back to push-carts and ped-
dlers’ outfits, and that, too, not so long
ago.

John Wanamaker delivered his first
order in a wheelbarrow. He had just
started Oak Hail in Philadelphia. He
and his father together had barely
$4,000 capital. There was rent to pay in
advance. There were goods to buy—
cash a little, credit a great deal. There
were help to hire and fitting up to do.
The $4,000 was stretched to its utmost.
When the first order came, everyone
was on edge to fill it the best possible,
and the head of the house put the big
bundle in a barrow and wheeled it to
the customer. More than that; the
thirty-four dollars he received was taken
to a printing office and all paid for an
advertisement for the new firm,

In a country town of perhaps a thou-
sand people, years ago, I knew a trader
whose entire stock at starting did not
exceed one hundred dollars in value.
If any of the other dealers noticed him
at all, it was only to laugh at him and
make fun at his expense. But what-
ever he had to sell was good. If he
agreed to furnish butter or apples to a
customer there was never any question
as to quality or quantity. The butter
was fresh, the eggs were fresh, the ap-
ples were never ‘‘topped out.’’ Anyone
who had been served by him once was
pretty sure to go again and. advise
others to go. In a_ year or so he was
doing a very tidy business, and other
merchants were very serious when they
talked of the competition he gave them.
Within four years he had the largest
trade of any store in all that section.
He simply did business better than his
rivals were doing it, and self-interest
turned the people to him.

Again I say that the ‘‘genius’’ that
builds a business is singleness of pur-
pose, tireless industry, wise economy,
and such a presentation as will appeal
to the self-interest of the public—if
the business is one that depends upon
free-will popular support.

MANLEY M, GILLAm.

 

Advertising One’s Competitor.

No doubt every retailer is tempted at
times to rap a competitor over the
knuckles, sc to speak, when the latter
makes an apparently unbelievable state-
ment in an advertisement. The spec-
tacle of one dry goods store making fun
of another at the cost of a good many
dollars for high-priced advertising
space has recently confronted those who
peruse the bargain columns of the New
York dailies and the same thing doubt-
less happens very frequently elsewhere.

Does it pay? We think not. People
are so prone to doubt the motives which
prompt criticism of a competitor. They
think ‘*Jones must have been hit rather
hard if he takes the trouble to jump
on Smith in his advertisements.*’ A
man serves bis business best by appar-
ently ignoring his competitors. He may
do all he can to down him by buying
better and selling cheaper, and if he
does the crowd soon finds it out.

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which saved my life, and lam now a well man. I
have since recommended this remedy to my friends
and so many have ordered itthrough me that I keep
it on hand for humanity’s sake. Price, $1.00 per
bottle. Nearly all Michigan peopleknow me. My
home address is 5406 Kimbark Ave., Chicago.
Grand Rapids people can obtain this remedy from
my customer, John Benson, the clothier. 26 Monroe
St., upstairs. Stephen T. Bowen.

I will leave Chicago May 1, with John
G. Miller & Co.’s all wool line clothing,
fall and winter samples. Shall also have
with me what we have left of our Spring
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EF. A. STOWE, Eniror.
WEDNESDAY, = = = APRIL 27, 1898.

GREAT RESULTS WILL FOLLOW.

The results of our conflict with Spain
are likely to be far-reaching in shaping
the future policies of the United States.
We have asserted ourselves just at a
critical stage of the world’s history and
have acted with such disregard of the
wishes or criticism of Europe that we

 

 

 

have astonished some of the Old World
people.
The moral effect of our conduct will,

undoubtedly, be to add to the political
and military prestige of the Nation, in
case we give a good account of our-
selves in battle and win a comparative-
ly prompt and decisive victory over our
antagonist. Europe has looked upon us,
as Kipling has intimated, as a big,
‘*fat’’ republic, with plenty of money
but little martial spirit, and almost
defenseless against attack. It has been
assumed that we would stand more _in-
sult than the other large nations except
China, and that it would be next to
impossible to arouse us to a war point.
This bas unquestionably been the pre-
vailing opinion in Europe, outside of
England.

Our aggressive action towards Spain,
followed by an exhibition of military
and naval skill and prowess and a dis-
play of our great and ready resources,
will open the eyes of the world to the
realization that America is one of the
big powers, in war as well as in peace.
The fact will command for us greater
respect throughout Europe and Asia
than we have heretofore enjoyed and
result in larger safety of our citizens
and our interests abroad.

The physical effects, likewise, are
certain to be of surpassing importance.
It is possible that we may at least add
Porto Rico to our territory, thus giving
us a strong naval station in the West
Indies and increasing our defensive and_|
offensive strength, both as regards the
Gulf of Mexico and Central and South
America. The freedom of Cuba and
our ownership of the rich island of Porto
Rico will add, possibly, $200,000, 000
to our shipping trade within a year after
hostilities have closed and open up a
commerce in the West Indies capabie
of indefinite expansion.

Nor will the commercial and political
effects stop with the West Indies. It
seems to be the determination to seize
Hawaii for ‘‘war purposes,’’ and the
suggestion is advanced that we shall
take. and hold also the Philippine Is-

 

lands. This would add another hun-

dred millions or so to our shipping
trade. The Philippines are rich and
contain a population of about 6,000,000,
many of the people, however, being
only savages. Their commerce is large,
and as a_ base for the naval and com-
mercial establishments of this country
the islands would plaee us in a com-
manding position for controlling a great
Eastern trade reaching far into the
Asiatic continent.

These Pacific possessions would throw
us necessarily into the politics of the
East, and compel us to maintain a large
navy, and possibly to join with England
in dominating the Orient.

The prospects, therefore, for our com-
ing out. of our shell of isolation, so to
speak, and taking a conspicuous part
in the future political and commercial
developments of tbe world, are exce'-
lent. Our interests are becoming too
world-wide and momentous to permit
of our longer keeping aloft from the
great ‘‘game of nations.’’ It is pos-
sibly our manifest ‘‘destiny’’ and we
could not hold back if we would! There
iS more in tbis war than the freedom
of Cuba!

 

REFORM IN CONSULAR SERVICE.

The events of the past year or two
indicate very clearly the need of a
‘‘school of diplomacy’’ in this country,
or rather for this country. In the pre-
luminaries to the present struggle we
have been almost continuously placed
on the defensive by the Spanish govern-
ent and outwitted at several points still
fresh in the public mind.

Spain has succeeded in placing us
before the great body of foreign opinion
as the unreasoning aggressor, bent on
war, while she is the innocent victim.

Up to this time we have failed to put
the world in possession of the many
strong points of our case and more than
two-thirds of Europe imagines that we
are playing the role of a robber.

In all the European countries the
diplomatic corps is a non-partisan,
civil service kind of branch of govern-
ment. The men who are members of
the diplomatic staff are trained in all
the laws and usages pertaining to their
calling. They begin at the bottom and
are promoted from time to time until
they become familiar with all the
niceties of diplomatic intercourse.
They know what to do and when and
bow to do it, under any emergency.
They can estimate exactly the mean-
ing and force of diplomatic language
and are not deceived by polite noth-
ings. Asa rule, they are scholarly and
polished men of the world.

Our representatives at
abroad in the diplomatic and consular
service are ‘‘green hands,’’ ordinarily.
They may be men of ability and force
of character, but they go to their post
without any special fitness or experi-
ence for the work before them. Di-
plomacy is a science, but our diplomats
take hold of it with main strength and
awkwardness. Many peaceful triumphs
might be won by a trained body of rep-
resentatives abroad where now we_ have
only politicians, distinguished for noth-
ing save their party service! i

The Nation ought to agree toa re-
form, placing our consular and diplo-
matic corps under civil service regu-
lations and providing for promotions,
thus enabling scholarly young men of
the Nation to adopt diplomacy as a
profession or career. The school would
be experience and the results valuable
if our diplomacy were taken out of
party politics,

home and

 

GENERAL TRADE SITUATION.

The fact that the war agitation has
been a disturbing factor more on ac-
count of the general distraction and un-
certainty as to its imminence than on
account of any forebodings as to even-
tual effects on business is shown in the
revival in most lines dependent upon
speculative confidence. Thus it would
seem that the period of waiting, with
its engrossing interest, has fully dis-
counted the decline to be expected in
stocks, and the declaration of hostili-
ties is followed by a decided recovery.
At the East and South it was to be ex-
pected that the crisis would be attended
with the most serious trade disturbance ;
but, while some lines have suffered,
there is reported especial activity in
many others and the dissipation of the
uncertainty so long prevailing has been
followed by the shaping of trade condi-
tions to conform to the new order of
things. With these changes there are
necessarily excited markets and in
some lines heavy price advances. Ina
less degree the same causes have oper-
ated to both stimulate and depress, in
different lines, in other parts of the
country. The most serious actual dis-
turbance this week is owing to public
attention being engaged in the seuding
out of militia and volunteers in response
to the call of the Government.

A natural effect of the beginning of
hostilities is the heavy buying of the
leading export staples in foreign mar-
kets to discount any interruption in ex-
port movement. The consequence of
this is a heavy advance in wheat and
other grains, provisions and a consider-
able increase in the prices of sugar,
coffee and cotton. The demand for
ocean freights is unpecedented and
rates have risen to nearly double those
prevailing a year ago.

A noticeable feature of the situation
is the fact that with the settlement of
the question of war there is a consider-
able placing of delayed orders in the
iron industry. There is, in fact, a re-
markable demand for iron and _ its
products apart from the war orders
placed by the Government. Indirectly,
it is true, the contract just made for
two large merchant ships at a Delaware
yard results from Government purchases
of the ships they are to replace, and so
many more of the same sort are now an-
ticipated, in view of the necessities of
transporting lines, that the works may
not see the end of such orders until the
century has closed, but by far the
greater part of the new demand is the
fruit of progress in the arts of peace.
Thus, the delayed contract for 40,000
tons of rails for a Russian railway,
30,000 for Siberia, has gone to the
Maryland Steel Company, and another
for 7,000 tons to Peru goes to a central
concern, and there are more purchases
of products for Europe. The Chicago
Postoffice contract has been placed re-
quiring 9,000 tons of steel, and the Har-
risburg Capitol contract- requiring
2,800, and one for the Government
building at Portland, Ore., have gone to
Chicago, besides one for 3,700 tons for
track elevation there, and unusual or-
ders for car-building and plates, and
galvanized wire for fencing. Pittsburg
has taken an order for 3,000 tons to
-uild coal docks at Key West, and pur-
chases of 10,000 tons of pig by one pipe
manufacturer indicate a growing de-
mand, while others are reported of

40,000 tons of Bessemer at Pittsburg.
The textile situation is perhaps the

only one in which there can be said to

be real depression, and in this the best

 

authorities assert that the
cancellations have been greatly ex-
aggerated. The true explanation of
the difficulty seems to be that improv-
ing conditions were too far discounted
in the face of the heavy trade supply of
last year. In knit guods there is re-
ported unusual activity and the silk in-
dustry 1s said never to have been better,
The slightly easier quotations on boots
and shoes do not seem to indicate a
lessening demand, for the movement
in all markets is fully maintained. One
of the curious effects of the war excite-
ment is seen in the market for print
paper. The unprecedented demand for
news of the last few weeks has stimu-
lated newspaper circulation to an enor-
mous extent, witha famine in the white
fabric as the result, and prices have
been greatly advanced. Many publishers
are in a serious dilemma as to the ob-
taining of supply for current needs.

Bank clearings show an improve-
ment, mainly owing to increased con-
fidence in speculative circles; the
amount was $1,113,000,000. Failures
were 224, against 215 last week.

reports of

 

A valued correspondent of the Trades-
man points out the unprofitableness of
a political career under our American
custom of changing our representatives
and officials every year or two, and il-
lustrates his conclusion by citing the
history of Hon. John Bingham, of Ohio.

This once prominent and abie man
served sixteen years in Congress and
then was appointed Judge Advocate
with the rank of Major by President
Lincoln. Afterward Lincoln appointed
him United States Solicitor for the Court
of Claims. Bingham then served twelve
years as Minister to Japan. He was
recognized as a man of superior capac-
ity and this career, as indicated, was,
as things go in politics, an unusually
successful one. Yet Mr. Bingham, at
the age of 83, is now in such straits
that he is glad to accept a pension of
$25 per month!

This is an exceptional case, it is true,
but it is only one of many that readily
suggest themselves to the reflective
mind. Who of us can not recall in-
stances of a practically wasted life that
has been devoted to politics, where,
after long years of honorable and con-
spicuous public service, the servant
has been dismissed without further hope
of preferment, with no other berth in
sight and no accumulation of means for
successfully meeting the requirements
of old age?

Carried away by a thoughtless love of
applause and a misdirected ambition,
splendid talents and energies are
often withdrawn from channels where
independence could have been acquired
only to be frittered away in the noisy
and unsatisfactery whirl of politics.

The young men of the country should
not neglect politics and its better forms.
Attention to public affairs is a duty and
indifference begets bad government.
Every good citizen should take an ac-
tive interest in the selection of first rate
men for office and good men should be
willing to take office and manifest the
proper concern about governmental
measures, but politics as a career is
dangerous and empty! The same adroit-
hess, tact, ability and energy required
to keep a man in office, under the
elective system, if devoted to some le-
gitimate field of business enterprise in
this business and materialistic age,
would win fortune and power a dozen
times where they win it once in poli-
tics,

eo

 

 

    

 

BANKING REFORM.

Review of the Present and Proposed
Systems.

The proposed law provides that. with |
the Comptroller of the |

the approval ot
Currency a Nationai bank may issue,

without tax, credit notes based on its
general assets equal to 60 per cent. of

its capital. If it issues more it must
pay a tax of 2 per cent. on the excess
up to 80 per cent., and on all issues
over 80 per cent. and up to its full capi-
talization it must pay a 6 per cent. tax.
This is one of its best provisions and
will allow the banks to meet temporary
emergencies without the danger of un-
safe inflation. Under normal business
conditions the untaxed portion, together
with the National notes, will
more than meet every requirement for
credits, while the tax on all issues over
the 60 per cent. limit will operate to
force the speedy retirement of an ex-
cess of credits issued to meet an emer-
gency when the emergency has _ passed.
No bank will circulate taxed
the absence of an unusual demand, but
when one arises it can be met. without
violating the law, as the New York
banks were compelled to do when they
issued clearance certificates as an act of
self-preservation during the panic of
1893. The requirement of a monthly
Statement of outstanding notes from
each bank will make it impossible for
a bank to avoid the payment of this tax
if it exceeds the 60 per cent. limit.
Such conditions will give elasticity to
our Currency, and when business de
mands more credits they will be forth
coming. The rise and fall of the volume
of credits will then be contemporaneous
with the rise and fall of the aggregate
of exchanges. Our currency system will
have a liquid character, now most. con-
spicuous by its absence, owing to the
fact that Government bonds are so cost-
ly as to remove all
based on them. At
have to invest bonds for the
privilege of issuing $90 in notes and

reserve

uotes in

profits on issues
present the banks
$120 in f

| established without regard to the nature

MICHIGAN

|

| bank is just as good as cash for the or-
| dinary transactions of business, if the
| cash is in the bank to meet it. This is
also true of a draft, bill of exchange,
mortgage, promissory note, or other evi-
dence of indebtedness, so long as the in-
| Strument is backed by some form of real
wealth which may be converted into
money, if redemption is desired in
money. The rapidity with which the
| wealth can be exchanged for money is
an essential factor and this fact makes
a bill of exchange covering staple goods
a more desirable credit instrument than
a real estate mortgage, as the
|generally carries stated and deferred
periods for redemption. Bank notes
called into circulation by wealth in ex-
change, issued under careful regulations
and made a paramount lien upon the
wealth they represent, are the safest,
most Convenient and most repesentative
forms of credit, for they are convertible
into any of the forms of wealth they
represent within short periods of time.
| The present system seems to have been

of credits.

One of the essentials of a well-de-
veloped credit system is stability in the
standard of value by which they are
gauged. Another is stability of govern-
ment, through which men are obliged by
law to redeem their credits 1f they have
any form of property by which their
obligations can be met. When either of
these essentials is lacking credits are
at a minimum and goods are sold large-
ly for cash. But stability of standard
and government will not of itself
give a desirable credit system, for, al-
though credits are in the abstract
founded on them, the superstrucure
must be made responsive to the indi-
vidual traisactions, soas to rise and fall
with the ebb and flow of exchanges. In
other words, the degree of govermental
stability may not perceptibly change in
a given time, although exchanges may
many times alternate from a maximum
to a minimum during the same period.
This is also true when there is little

 

this tends to a minimum of circulation
and a rigid, unresponsive system,

The volume of all forms of wealth in
exchange determines the amount of
money and credits in circulation at a|
given time, and, so long as the credits
are based on actual wealth passing from
hand to hand, they accomplish every |
purpose as well as the cash itself, and
are much more convenient. The real
strength and usefulness of a credit sys- |
tem are determined by the value of the |
wealth behind the credit notes and the!
rapidity with which such wealth can be |
converted into

money. A check on a

|

| part of exchanges, their efficiency is of

| by a bank note guaranty fund, made up

change in the aggregate of real money in
use throughout a given period, if the
credit systerin is ona scientific basis.
There never was real money enough in
any Civilized country at any given time
with which to transact the minimum of
its exchanges on a cash basis. Credits
being the means of effecting the greater
paramount to civilized so-
ciety.

importance

Under the proposed law the notes of
a failed bank are to be met out of the!
general assets of the bank, supplemented

latter |

  

TRADESMAN

| by the contribution,
‘per cent. of the entire circulation of
the banks and deposited with the Issue

Department. This fund may be
| plenished, if reduced by the redem ption
}of the notes of failed banks, by calls
| upon the solvent banks to the extent of
I per cent. of their circulation during
each year, in addition to their original
deposit of 5 per cent.

This note guar-

of the banks. It makes each bank the
insurer of the circulation of every other
bank, and at a cost that will not be felt
by them. Our experience during the
last thirty years has shown that the as-
sets of failed banks would have been
sufficient to take care of
notes if they had been supplemented
with a tax of 1-60 of 1 per cent. on the
average note circulation’ of all the
banks, had there not been a Government
bond on deposit. In the light of this
experience, what possible objection can
be made to a system of banking upon
business assets? Asa matter of fact,
the general business assets of the banks,
if made available for meeting their
credit notes, would furnish a basis at
least fifteen times more valuable than
that now furnished by the available Gov-
ernment reserves. Business assets are
the basis of the credit note systems of
every civilized country but ours Ours
to base credits on Government bonds.
Aside from the rigid nature of a
bond basis for credit notes, there are
other reasons why we should abandon it
for a business asset basis. When we
adopted the present system the amount
of Goverument bonds outstanding was
large, compared with the aggregate of
exchanges, but conditions have changed
and the volume of exchanges has been
steadily enlarging, while the supply of
available bunds has steadily decreased,
save only such increase as was caused
by the issuance of bonds for gold during
the last administration, and that would
have been avoided had the proposed
law been in operation at that time. A
bonded debt is one of the penalties of
war, and it is to be hoped we will be
spared any large increase from that
cause. It is certainly not desirable that
our bonded indebtedness increase as
fast as the volume of exchanges,
such an increase must be had if we
to avoid contracting the base as we
enlarge the superstructure. The fact is
that, under normal conditions, we
not continue the bon ! basis much longer,
for there are $700,000, 000 out of a total

are

 

Ruhe Bros. Co., Makers.

,

is ily Governi at attempts |
is the only Government that attempts country

| crease

in gold coin, of 5| maturing and becoming payable during

,and Redemption Branch of the Treasury |

re- |

anty fund is more than ample to insure |
the absolute safety of the credit notes |

their credit |

|carry a higher

| credit note issues or abandon the bond
i basis.

| don the bond basis for the safer, more

| We

but |
|holding aloft a

; Companion,
can |

of $900,000, 000 of our outstanding bonds | people and trouble for us.

EVERY MAN LIKES

“MR. THOMAS”

The Best Nickel Cigar in the State.

F. E. Bushman, Representative,

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ithe next nine years. The payment of
| these obligations would practically ob-
literate the present basis of credits.
This fact of itself will compel serious
| Consideration of another system without
delay. The change must come about
| gradually, but the law should be enacted
|at once. The best interests of the Amer-
ican people call for the gradual wiping
out of our National debt while we go
}on increasing the volume of business,
first can not be done if we are to
accomplish the latter with the present
basis of credits continued. To make
the necessities of our credit system an
excuse for continuing our bonded in-
debtedness beyond the time when we
are prepared to cancel it would be ex-
tremely unjustifiable.

As works a reduction of our
pension obligations, our ability to retire
our bonds will accelerate, and no un-
necessary impediments should be placed
in the way of retiring them. The re-
duction of our public debt must not be
made to undermine our credit system,
for under a wisely constructed system it
would have the opposite effect. A gov-
ernment out of debt is a safer guarantor
for the ultimate redemption of credit
notes than it can be if carrying a large
debt. As bonds become scarcer they
premium. The higher
the premium, the greater will be the
tendency to contract the issue of notes
based on them. As the business of our

Increases, we must either in-
our bond issues, contract our

| The

time

|

Which of the three shall we
choose? Common sense answers: Aban-

elastic -and thoroughly rational system
of banking upon business assets. This
will place the United States banking
and currency system in harmony with
the best systems in the world of finance.
lead the world in many lines of
production, but are half a century be-
hind many of our competitors in the
matter of a currency and banking sys-

tem. ANDREW FYFE.
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Albert Noble, the man who invented
dynamite, was an advocate of universal
peace and sincerely regretted that its
invention should be used to take human
life. The monument erected to his
memory in Hamburg represents a wom-
an with a mild,,but earnest countenance
torch, while with her
foot she presses down a bestial male

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jingo! We have been forced to
war in a cause that is freedom for other

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Kalamazoo, Mich.

  

  

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Fruits and Produce.

Liked Bogus Maple Sugar Better
than the Genuine.

Boston, April 23—That patrons of one
of the largest wholesale and retail gro-
cery houses in New England have been
buying spurious maple sugar for years
was demonstrated this week by a test
made in this city.

For the past six or seven years the
chief buyer for this firm had been pur-
chasing several tons of maple sugar
from one man, paying a fancy price
and retailing it at 22 cents per pound.
Jt was of such exquisite and delicate
maple flavor that the patrons of the
house preferred waiting for it rather
than accept an inferior substitute. Last
summer the chiet buyer for the bouse
made the acquaintance of a Vermont
sugar maker, and as a result this year’s
consignment of sugar was bought from
Him at a rather cheaper price. The
sugar to be consigned was warranted
pure maple sugar, and the buyer had
confidence enough in the maker to be-
lieve him.

['wo weeks ago the sugar arrived and
was put on sale. It was somewhat dark-
er than usual, and the head of the firm
was the first one to condemn it. His
opinion was shared by the customers,
apparently, for complaints began to
pour in, and finally the buyer was told
that the consignment was a failure.

He was naturally wroth, and at once
dictated a letter couched in strong terms
to the consignor, who replied briefly
that in a few days he would be in Bos-
ton and would prove that his was gen-
uine maple sugar.

When he arrived, he told the buyer

that he would not only prove that bis
was real maple sugar, but that the
other which the firm had_ previously

bought was bogus. He needed a fire
and a kettle for ‘‘sugaring off’’ his
produci, soheand the buyer went to the
company’s warehouse, where these could
be had. The firm had a small sample of
maple syrup which one of the members
had seen reduced from the actual sap,
and this was first taken by the Vermont
sugar expert and boiled down to sugar.
It had the exact flavor and color of the
sugar which the house was unable to
sell.

Then the Vermont man called for two
pounds of granulated sugar and a sam-
ple of the poorest maple syrup they had
in stock. A hunt was made _ through
the warehouse, and a condemned lot
was found, thick, black as molasses and
smoky in flavor. The expert reduced
the granulated sugar to syrup, mixed
it, half and half, with the black syrup,
and ‘‘sugared off'’ again.

The sample of maple sugar he pro-
duced was the exact counterpart in color
and flavor of the sugar which the house
had been selling its customers for seven
years at a fancy price as the only. genu-
ine and unmistakably pure article.

Another sample was made of brown
sugar, and the three were taken to the
head of the firm. He sampled each,
and at once pronounced the granulated
mixture the genuine article. A sugar
expert in the wholesale district also had
an opportunity to distinguish himself,
He did it by picking out the genuine
at once. Somebody doubted his abil-
ity, and he offered to try again. This
time he picked the bogus granulated,
and then the brown sugar mixture.

The Vermont sugar man had, how-
ever, made bis point, and his consign-
ment was pushed at once, although the
firm was under the somewhat embarrass-
Ing necessity of telling its customers
that for several years they had been
buying bogus sugar for the real article.

—_$—_» 2.

Necessity of Greater Uniformity in
Cranberry Barrels
From the New England Grocer.

At the twenty-eighth annual meeting
of the American Cranberry Growers’ As-
sociation, held in Trenton, N. J., Mr.
French said: ‘‘We want to adopt some
measures to bring about a_ uniform
standard for Cape Cod and New Jersey.
The New Jersey law calls for a smaller
barrel than the Massachusetts standard,

| but some of the large growers have been
using barrels of the same size. The
Cape Cod crates are more irregular
than thegJersey crates.’’
| Mr. Rider said the New Jersey law
prescribes a certain size for the crate,
but not for the barrel. The Massa-
chusetts law prescribes that the crate
shall hold 32 quarts. This accounts for
the greater regularity of the New Jersey
crates. The original New Jersey Stand-
ard Measure law was a good one in this
respect: it prescribed exact sizes for
both the crate and barrel; but it failed
because these sizes proved too large to
admit of properly tight packing. An in-
vestigation by a committee of retail
grocers revealed the fact that the tight-
ly packed New Jersey barrel contained
105 quarts, and the crate 35 quarts.
Uhey also discovered that two Cape Cod
barrels contained 97 and 99 quarts re-
spectively. This led to the prompt re-
peal of the New Jersey law and the en-
actment of the present law, which speci-
fies the size of the crate only, which is
7 14X12x22 inches inside measure. While
this was thought by some too small, a
number of growers have ever since
guaranteed this crate to contain
quarts, and J have yet to hear of a com-
plaint or claim for shortage. This would
seem to establish this size as the correct
one for crates.

Now, as to the barrel
be a general

32

there seems to
desire to conform to the
Massachusetts standard of 100 quarts.
In order to determine that the size in
use by Mr. Makepeace and the large
growers of the Cape was the correct one,
a number of tests by a committee of
growers were made and measurenients
were taken. They found the barrels to
contain 100 quarts, and the size as fol-
lows: Diameter at head, 16 inches; at
bilge, 1734 inches; depth, 26'< inches,
inside measure. Without any law, the
large New Jersey growers have adopted
this size, and the large Cape growers
have generally adopted the sizes pre-
scribed for the New Jersey crate. If
the Wisconsin Association will now
procure the enactment of a law pre-
scribing these cases, with a penalty for
anything smaller, we believe that both
New Jersey and Massachusetts wiil fol-
low, and, with the endorsement of and
the co-operation of the three associa-
tions, I believe the same can be made
the law in other states where berries
are sold. Having given the matter much
thought, I believe this the only practical
way to secure a uniform standard
throughout the country. This would do
away with the repacking business, and
both growers and all honest dealers
would be benefited.
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California Dried Lima Beans Advanc-

ing.
From the Grocery World.

Speculation has taken hold of the Cal-
ifornia lima bean market and has
forced it up fully tc per pound during
the last few weeks. Each week seems
to carry the market up a notch further,
and at this writing prices are:%4c higher
than a week ago.

There is every indication that the
coming crop of lima beans will be seri-
ously short, on account of the dry
weather which has prevailed in Califor-
nia this season. This has caused a por-
tion of the speculation.

Another feature, which will be apt to
have a depressing effect on the market,
is the fact that considerable lima beans
are coming back from Europe. The
stocks sent over there on consignment
proved too large, and re-exportations
bave been found necessary. The lima-
bean growers who ship their stocks
abroad virtually get four months’ free
sturage, besides being able to secure
money from the banks on bills of lad-
ing. Often they are said to ship lima
beans abroad without any very clear
idea that they will be sold. All told,
some 200,000 bags of lima beans—one-
eighth of the entire crop—went abroad
this year. If 20,000 bags of this are
brought back to the United States it will
surely have a depressing effect upon the
market, and possibly discount the ad-
vance which has already occurred.
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reach of everybody.

All Green Vegetables—Tomatoes, Green Onions, Radishes, Cu-
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GOTHAM GOSSIP.

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

New York April 23—Everything is
given over to the one absorbing question
of war. From 5,000 to 20,000 men may
be seen standing in front of the news-
paper offices, watching the changing
Inscriptions, It is almost as exciting as
a professional ball game.

The impression seems to be quite
general that it will not be necessary to
Impose an internal revenue tax on
coffee. Be this as it may, business in
the coffee market has been fairly satis-
factory and from the country has come
a volume of orders that has made the
week one of far greater activity than
its immediate predecessors. No. 7 Rio
is firmly held at 7c, with a stock here
and afloat of 1,022,251 bags, against
703,025 bags at the same time last year.
Mild sorts are firm. Good Cucuta is
held at 10%c. East India growths are
firm and arrivals are quite liberal—
about 50,000 mats having come to hand
during the week,

Tea is firm. Sales, while not large im
any particular case, aggregate a good
round total. Little was done in an_in-
voice way. A thousand packages of
Congous changed hands at full value,
which constitued the bulk of the trans-
actions.

The war talk has had its effect on the
sugar market and the article has ‘‘riz.’’
It is said that independeut refiners re-
fuse to accept orders for lots of over 100

bbls. There has been a good volume
of business, orders coming to hand
from every part of the country. All

grades have been marked up, the in-
crease being 1-16c. After the advance
business seemed as active as before.

> The rice market is generally strong.
A fair volume of business has been
transacted with out-of-town dealers and
prices are very firmly adhered to and
no concession is made to effect sales.
Foreign grades as well as domestic
show greater strength, Java selling at
44%@5c. Patna, 54@53(c.

There is not much doing in spices,
but prices are firm and dealers will do
no talking. They do not seem over-
anxious to make sales and on the other
hand, buyers do not haggle over rates,
but pay quoted prices without a mur-

mur. Jobbers report rather a light
trade. ee
The molasses market is firm. Both

domestic and foreign are well held and
full prices are asked and received.
Good to prime New Orleans centrifugai
15@22c ; good to prime open-kettle, 27
@30c; fancy, 32@33c; Porto Rico,
strong at 27@33c. Syrups are quiet, the
demand from local dealers being quiet.
What trading there is is from exporters.

In canned goods purchases are made
for present wants and little is doing in
the way of providing future supplies.
Prices are practically; unchanged and
certainly no lower.

Dried fruits are rather quiet, although
some large transactions have been re-
ported in prunes, Peaches are firm.
California raisins are selling with some
freedom but there is still room for im-
provement. In domestic dried fruits,
a little better feeling has developed for
evaporated apples and really desirable
goods are held fram 83; @g ‘4c.

The butter market is quiet but a con-
fident feeling prevails. Extra Western
creamery is worth 18c; firsts, 17@17%c;
seconds, 16@16!4c; imitation creamery,

extras, 16c; firsts, 15@15!4c; Western
factory, firsts, 14%4@15c; seconds,
14@15c.

A moderate volume of business has
been done in cheese and neither the
home trade nor export demand has been
all that might be wished. Exporters
are picking up a lot of low-priced stock,
say within the range of 7@8c. Fancy
full cream, large size, are worth 8c;
small size, 834 @oc.

Arrivals of eggs have been rather
light, but so has the demand, and the
market is steady. Lower rates of freight
seem to be anticipated in a day or so,
and it is thought that quite large sup-
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effect. Fancy selected Western eggs are
worth 11%c; Western fresh gathered
firsts, 11@11 Kc,
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A Farmer’s Strategy Brings Abundant
Returns.

A farmer on the Fort Rice reserva-

tion, about ten miles below Bismarck,
N. D., on the Missouri River, has a
liberal supply of wild geese, both dead
and alive, as a result of an experiment
upon which he has been pondering for
some time, and which worked to his
entire satisfaction and greatly to the
disadvantage of the geese. The sea-
son for the flight of the great Canada
geese from the South to their summer
haunts in the North has begun, and
thousands of the honkers stop at differ-
ent places along the river en route. The
sand bars in the morning are black with
the great flocks of geese, and they make
short pilgrimages from the bars to the
fields of the farmers adjacent to the
river for feed. They remain several
days in the locality and furnish abun-
dant amusement for sportsmen.
- At the farm of the man in question
there is a huge sand bar projecting in-
to the river, but so far from the shore
that no hunter can steal upon the geese
which congregate there near enough to
geta shot. Aware of their immunity,
large flocks of the birds settle there every
morning and sun themselves for several
hours, and then migrate to the interior
for food.

Having observed the movements of
the geese for several days, the farmer
resolved to accomplish by strategy what
he could not accomplish by stealth, and
every morning before the arrival of the
birds he distributed about a peck of corn
about the bar. Upon the return of the
geese this would be speedily devoured,
and the process was repeated every
morning for several days, greatly to the
satisfaction of the geese.

Last Saturday night the farmer came
to the city and secured a quart of the
best alcohol, which he said would be
sufficient to saturate a peck of corn
quite thoroughly. He placed the corn
in the alcohol over night, so that it was
thoroughly soaked, and in the morning
at the usual time he spread it over the
bar and concealed himself in the brush
along the shore of the river and awaited
the coming of the geese.

They came as usual, and also as usual
ate up the corm. Soon after there was a
great disturbance manifest among the
feathered denizens of the bar. The
alcohol had a swift effect and soon the
bar was covered with sprawling,
waddling, maudlin geese in all stages
of intoxication. Those that had eaten
most freely of the doctored corn were
speedily affected, and in various ways.
Some of them were immediately over-
powered and lay helpless in the sand in
a sort of drunken stupor. Others at-
tempted to fly and were unable to do so,
their wings refusing to perform their
usual functions, and the only result of
their efforts being an aimless flopping
about the bar. Others staggered off like
tipsy men and finally succumbed to the
influence of the liquor and lay down in
the sun in a drunken sleep. A few
were able to fly and soared off for a few
moments, but the alcohol was too much
for them and they were forced to circle
back to the bar and settle again on the
sand,

After waiting for the liquor to have
effect the farmer emerged from his hid-
ing place and approached the drunken
birds. They seemed to have lost their
usual fear and many of them were in-
spired with a remarkable pugnacity,
flying at him and endeavoring to beat
him with their wings. It was a laugh-
able sight and none of the geese realized
their danger, but were inspired with all
the drunken courage of men inthe same
situation. The farmer knocked over a
number of them with a club and cap-
tured as many as were totally stupefied
with the liquor, alive, for decoys.

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Cured Him in One Day.

‘‘T cured my husband of finding
fault with the coffee.’”’
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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

  

Established in Philadetphia 1852. C. M. Drake.

W.R. BRICE & CO.
WHOLESALE
CASH BUYERS

OF EGGS
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

REFERENCES:
Corn Exchange Nationa! 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.

Our mutual friend, Editor Stowe, Says we have hada change in

have to say: We are here buying Eggs for Cash, and want all you can
ship us f. 0. b. cars, your station. We want all the Roll Butter you
can ship. Write for prices on Eggs and Butter.

W. RY BRICE) & |CO:,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

Our Philadelphia house is also badly in want of Fanc y Creamery
Butter on Commission, and it will pay you to ship all you possibly can.
They have the best market on fine Creamery in the United States.
Ship sure,

Wi BRC R) | é! CO),

Philadelphia, Pa.

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advertisement. We haven't time to write much, but here is what we

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Cultivated Ginseng to Become a Fac- | the upper joint was stripped. The wom-
tor of Importance. ian stood aghast. She pattered out to
Geo. Stanton in New York Commercial.

The traffic in American ginseng Is an |
old-established industry dating back to |
ee a ee touched side of the turkey toward him.
United States during thirty-nine years,
1858-1896, amounted to 13,738,415
pounds, at a value of $20,837,169, aver-
aging $1.52 per pound. The price in
New York for the past few years has
ranged from $3 to $4.50 per pound The
increasing demand and high price have
stimulated the hunting to such an ex-

pear before her eyes

|
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jbones of the large fowl, be attacked
j the pie and left not a crumb,
|
|

She was too much overcome for a mo-

tent that the supply of the wild rovt is eee wat ——_ : — — said =
fast becoming exhausted. Tons of this ou seem to have enjoyea the tur-
Nin |key. There is not so much left as I ex-

root were taken out of Onon iaga, N. | erik =
Y., and adjoining counties 150 years i She could say no more. She felt that
ago. It is rarely found now in paying! _ * ca en ae if
: 5 aie 2 rts z > } - | ti i
Se oe ee ae Phe man pushed back bis chatr, took

: | out his quill toothpick, crossed his legs
s unfortunate | . psi ae ale
“gg wiieeenpeied did a a (and sighed with satisfaction. Then he
i ; | Spoke -
an earnest effort to develop the cultiva- E Gn die as ee te
tion of this valuable plant fifteen years is & wory aecemeteiont Sink ©

ago, while the wild root could be found He fell to ruminating. His counte-

= with. : nance expressed the benevolence whicha
The writer has endeavored during the | good dinner is apt to produce in aman.
past six years to educate the American The woman waited for him to ex
people to the importance and value of} pjain, but he was silent. Then she
this industry, and I am gratified to note} c,jq-
that my efforts are beginning to bear **Why is the turkey inconvenient?
fruit. Ginseng plantations are being | + Wei], madam, it 1s a little too much
started in nearly every state in the} for one and not quite enough tor two,’’
Union; quite a number are getting | reniied her guest
nicely started. Within the next few Pls uenenain Esiunell,
years cultivated ginseng will become a _ > e<-- i
factor of some importance on the mar- April in American History.
ket. After eleven years’ practical oper- The battle of Lexington, in the Rev-
ations on this line, the writer has at | olutionary War, where was fired the shot
tained the following very gratifying re- 1
sults: We have at this time in garden| April 19, 1775. The battle of San
about twenty-four square rods of ground | Jacinto, Tex, in which the American
stocked with root, about 100,000 seedling | forces under Gen. Houston defeated the
roots in forest nursery, and about 52,000; Mexicans under Santa Anna, was fought
seed sown last fall in forest to produce} on April 21, 1836 Lee closed the civil
plants this spring. My grounds, up ts! war by his surrender at Appomattox on
the close of last season, had produced} April 9, 1865.
126 pounds of dry, marketable roots, April has been, indeed, most im-
which sold for $650, the product of 6% | portant in American history. On April
square rods of ground in eleven years. 25, 1846, the first engagement of the
As already indicated, the best way to! Mexican war was fought ; on April 12,
develop ginseng culture is to gather and | 1861, Sumter was fired on; on April 15,
transplant the fresh wild roots; in this; 1861, Lincoln's first cail for troops was
way one soon gets a producing seed inj published, and on April 14, 1865, Lin-
quantity. A few thousand roots put in} coln was assassinated. Nor does this
each season for a few years would soon} list exhaust the number of national an-
place the business on a paying basis and niversaries occurring in the month of
furnish a seed crop from which it could; April. It was on April 24, 1862, that
be developed quite rapidly. My ex-jFarragut's fleet made the famous pas-
perience is that ginseng can be culti-|sage of Forts Jackson and St. Philip,
vated as successfully as other ordinary}and it was on April 16, 1863, that Ad-
crops. Of course, we must learn its|miral Porter ran the blockade of the
habits and requirements and meet them. | Confederate batteries at Vicksburg. It
I have clearly indicated its commer-|was on April 2, 1865, that Richmond
cial value. The supply is not equal to| was evacuated by the Southern troops,
the demand and the price always rules} and it was on April 11, 1865, that Mont-
high—all conditions favorable to culti-|gomery, the subsequent capital of the
vation. Culture develops a quality of | Zonfederate Government, was evacuated.
root superior to the wild. I sold my| The attack of the Sixth Massachusetts
cultivated root last season for $6 a| Regiment, passing through Baltimore,
pound, and for $5.50 the two previous| occurred on April 19, 1861, and John-
seasons.

 

ston’s army surrendered to Sherman,
Tee eT after the March to the Sea, on April 26,

Too Large for One and Too Small} 1865. Ulysses S. Grant was born in
for Two. \pril; the battle of Fort Pillow was

fought in April; Farragut captured
New Orleans in April, and Thomas
jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Edward

From the St. Louis Repubiie.
In the days ‘‘before the war’’ a family
of hard-working people lived in a bor
f ee eee ]
der county of Mississippi. — anes Monroe, whose enunciation of the Mon-
was situated upon the ‘‘big road,’* which ' ; i
£8 freuen Alsbcums mortiwaid into Miss. 1 °° doctrine has made him distin-
een Gees : avery, | guished among American Presidents,
issippi. They did not keep a tavern, ' f I
ak thew cles Sed tie wasianes were born in that month. There are
Hl : ig * L many reasons for believing that the
One Saturday the housewife — @lmonth of April, 1898, will not pass
large turkey, baked a batch of read, without some substantial addition to the
and made a number of pies. Sbe was] umber of memorable events in the his-
ready for her Sunday dinner, and ex- tory of the United States.
pected to go to church the cme ee One reason, perhaps, for the promi-
sec’ services were held a number of | nence of April in the historical record
miles away of the United States is the fact that it
After 2 o'clock that Saturday after- | marks the peginning of the spring sea
noon a single horseman appeared. Hejson, when, among countries within the
asked for a dinner, and fed his horse temperate zone, hostilities, relaxed dur-
in the ample stable of the farmer. The! ing the months of winter, are resumed.
~enogpiae a was — me ~ > oo - eee oy *
aste, so she set tne turkey bDetore » | the United States, although a month o
thinking that he would not make much variable weather, with frequent show-
of an impression upon it. ers and much uncertainty, is never in-
The stranger sat down in front of the} tensely - nor Pgseire warm. =
turkey and set to work. He cut into| 1s a month especially suitable, it wou
the breast of one side and ate itall. His; seem, for military operations, for long
appetite was only whetted. He de-j| marches, for manoeuvering, and for the
molished the wing and then cut off the|transportation of supplies and muni-
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How a Love of Cats Killed a Grocery |
Business.
Stroller in Grocery World. |

It is astonishing, when you think of |
it, what apparently insigniticant things |
often swamp us. It is a fact that the
business failures which are caused by
some great and sudden calamity are
the few, while those caused by a slow
and steady undercurrent of small short-
comings are the many. I knew a gro-
cer once who was ruined simply by |
keeping pet animals in his store and
giving them the free run of the place.
Seems like a little thing, doesn’t it?
That was the cause, I’m positive, be-
cause in other things the man was a
good business man, and he did a good
trade in a good neighborhood. My
friend, the grocer, whose first name was
Andy, and who mostly went by that
name, was a young fellow of a taciturn
nature. He had no very close buman
friends, so he pinned his affection on
dumb animals, and a man witha great-
er passion for beasts I never saw. He
had a whole army of cats and dogs and
two or three parrots. He lived over and
behind the store and he gave his pets
carte blanche to go wherever and do
whatever they would. Consequently,
they were mostly in the store.

Andy was absolutely devoid of any
sense of delicacy where animals were |
concerned. He thought they were as|
clean as human beings. He thought!
nothing of mauling a nasty cat around
and then going and handling cheese or
cakes. He would just as soon eat after |
a cat; why should anybody else hesitate? |
He did these things so often, in fact,
that people, especiaily ladies, began to

 

avoid the store. Who wants cats and
cheese mixed? But Andy didn’t seem
to notice it or, if he did, he was per-

fectly indifferent
fondle his cats
trade go.

Those parrots got to be perfect nui-
sances. Andy had put up a lot of sup-
ports on the ceiling of bis. store to
hang things on, and_ these parrots|
would roust there all day. As_ they
weren't always particular to see what
they were roosting over, there were oc-
casions when these parrots wouldn't
seem exactly cute. Andy wasn’t asleep;
he realized that his birds were not the
cleanest things to have around, but he
simply didn’t care or didn’t seem to.
You can recognize the effect such things
would have upon a fastidious lady cus-
tomer. Can you imagine one enduring
such at thing the second time or com-
ing to the store again! I will Say, to
Andy's credit, that he often tried to
drive his parrots from over the coun
ter, but they wouldn’t go and, rather
than hurt their feelings by using vio-
lence, he let them stay. Incidentally,
you can’t ignore the presence of a good,
healthy parrot roosting in one place all
day.

As the summer season approached,
Andy’s cats and dogs got to be the
greatest pests on earth. Both these
animals shed their hair as the weather
gets warm, and they shed it by the bag-
ful around the store. Cat hair and dog
hair mingled here and there in every-
thing and it was impossible for a cus-
tomer to come in the place without get-
ting some of it somewhere. One of the
cats had a penchant for lying on the
top of.a bag of prunes and she couldn't
be driven away except by force, which
Andy would rather sell his store than
use.

But a bag of moist prunes and a hair-
shedding cat together, and the result
will be prunes with full beards. I know
personaliy that Andy got complaint after
complaint from the people be sold those
prunes to and who used to find little
reminders of his cat in their sauce
dishes. He got so he didn’t try to sell
those prunes any more, and, oi course,
they were a total loss.

The only one of Andy’s animal va-
garies I witnessed personally, although
I had heard a good deal about them,
occurred one day when I had been go-
ing to the store about six months off
and on. I was in the place one day
when Andy had one of his dogs in his
arms. The beast had been drooling
for several days and Andy was very

I'll wager he’d rather
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| sore,

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

much exercised over the belief that he
had a sore mouth. “At the time I speak
of he was fishing in the dog’s mouth
with his fingers, trying to locate the
It wasn't a very appetizing thing
to see, and | should think a less appe-

tizing thing to do; stil, Andy did it,
right enough Incidentally, the dog
didn’t have the kindness to suspend

his drooling while the investigations
were In progress. While he was fishing
away there for the sore a lady came in
and she could very well see what Andy
was doing. I think 1f it had been I, 1
would have turned around and gone out
again, but she was braver and asked for
a pound of water crackers.

Andy didn't like being disturbed. He
was having a good time slipping and
sliding around in bis dog’s mouth and
the finding of that sore and the treating
of it would have been more real _pleas-
ure to him than the selling of a hundred
pounds of crackers. But he got up and
may I be jiggered if he didn’t go
straight to the cracker barrel, merely
giving bis hands a cursory wipe on his

apron.

The lady looked on in disgusted
amazement,

‘““You needn't mind about those to-

day, if you please,’’ she finally said and
went out. Andy never said a word, al-
though he was a customer less, but went
back to bis investigations ayain.

This will give you a good idea of what
[I mean when I say that Andy lacked

all delicacy regarding animals. He

| would let bis dogs entertain their friends

right in his store, getting under every-

| body’s feet and becoming the most out

rageous nuisances to customers, without
seeming to see what a fool he was.
Anybody who knows anything at all
about dogs knows that you don’t want
to entertain a horde of them in a pub-
lic place.

I haven't been in Andy’s town for
two years, but a personal correspondent
of whom I enquired about him wrote
me just the other day that he had sold
out his business and left town. The
correspondent added that clean people
got so they wouldn’t go near his store.

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Telephones for Two Languages.
From the Milwaukee Telephone.

J G. Nolen, who is an old-timer in
the electrical construction business,
tells a story on’ Val’’ Blatz, the  mil-
lionaire brewer of Milwaukee.

‘Our company had had some cor-
respondence with Mr. Blatz regarding
the putting in of a telephone plant in
his big brewery establishment and |
was sent up to try to close a deal.

‘*T took a couple of our ’phones with
me in order to make a practical demon-
stration should one be required, and |
went-with the intention of making a
sale,

‘I got to talking with Mr. Blatz and
showed him the advantage of putting
in our intercommunicative system
throughout his establishment. He lis-
tened attentively and finally said:

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But,’ and he spoke with the conviction
of one who was putting a poser, ‘but my
men down in the malthouse and the
warehouses and cold storage are al!)
Dutchmen.

‘I, myself, although a German and
a graduate of Leipsic and Heidelberg,
can speak English, but what would your
telephones be to my Dutch workmen,
who can not talk English at all?’

‘*Well, I saw how the land lay. Old
Val could not get it through his head
that the telephone would transmit any-
thing but the language of America. |
was bound to make the deal, as I said
before, so | remarked to Mr. Blatz:

‘* *T can put on some German receiv-
ers if you so desire. I have some with
me,”

‘‘T connected up the ‘phones, made a
show of changing the receivers, and in
half an hour Mr. Blatz was talking to
one of his Dutchmen down in the malt-
house. He was delighted.

‘**You may put them in,’ he said,
‘and I shall want one German one in
the malthouse, one German one in each
warehouse, English ones in my office
and the business office and a German
one in the cold storage house,’

 

 

‘‘We closed the deal and Mr. Blatz
was glad to pay $2 extra for each Ger-
man enunciator we put in. When the
"phones were shipped from the factory
I had them labelled German and Eng-
lish, respectively, and the big brewer
was perfectly satisfied.

“It was five years before I saw Mr.
Blatz again,’’concluded Mr. Nolen. ‘‘He
recognized me at once, and said with a
hearty German laugh: ‘You are the
accommodating gentleman who put in
the German and English telephones for
me. Well, you are a good one.’ ””

8

The man who confesses his ignorance

is on the road to wisdom.

 

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MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

 

 

Shoes and Leather

Limitation of Shoes Impossible.

The convenient branch of our highly
civilized Government which enacts for
us laws, either for beneficent or selfish
purposes, is continually appealed to in
the hope that it may furnish us with
facile means to set in motion some new
enterprise, or to clog the wheels of some
pernicious one that appears to forbode
damage to human interests—as we view
it. Leaving out entirely the great field
of leveling reform in which the ever-
busy bees of communism are working
with unprofitable energy and often hon-
est devotion, we may, nevertheless, find
ripe minds among deep thinkers to-day,
theorizing upon the great problem of
advancing the interests of the masses by
checking the too-soaring progress of the
few who are gathering, as a snowball
gathers in its simple act of rolling, the
most of the desirable things in their
way.

Among these so-called reforms is a
recent one looking seriously toward the
limitation of wealth. It is a curious
problem, anyway. Most persons don’t
have any trouble about this matter, be-
cause circumstances manage to limit
their wealth for them; and those who
become a little bloated with this world’s
goods don’t seem to chafe at the bur-
den, so it is doubtful whether all the
legislators in the land, urged on by the
indefatigable lobbyists and reformers,
could fix a boundary line which money-
getters would not be able to break
through. Wealth, even in moderation,
is a giant.

 

 

“And who shall place
A limit to the giant’s unchained strength.
Or curb his swiftness in the forward race?”

Somebody has suggested, in view of
the enormous production and confusing
variety, a limitation of shoes. This
revolutionary movement was to be in-
augurated by means of shoe congresses
composed of the manufacturers, who
were to peacefully bring about the re-
sult by deciding, unanimously, of course,
on only one style of last to last a season
at least; whereas, at present, so rapid
is the succession of styles, and so close-
ly do they tread on one another's heels,
that, other things being equal, the lead-
ers are tripped by their followers, and
go down in the accumulating heap of
last month’s styles. It will be a new
era, indeed, if not a forerunner of the
millennium, when our army of competi-
tive manufacturers agree, unanimously,
to follow one line of last for an entire
season, and to refrain from the indul-
gence of that greatest (after profit) of
the producer's joys, the creation and
dissemination of novelties in models
with which to catch the public eye and
foot.

There is scarcely a manufacturer
who will consent to any limitations in
styles by himself. Of course, he will not
object to such a movement on the part
of his competitors, because the more
they limit the more opportunity it will
afford him for successful expansion,
and he will be swift to avail himself of
it. Popular tastes have been so sharp-
ened by the modern profusion and vari-
ety in footwear that shoe wearers are
now constantly on the watch for new
things, just as the pampered gourmand
is ever on the alert for new and savory
dishes.

The public, then, can not be depended
upon as allies to the promoters of limi-
tation in shoes, even in the matter of
variety and frequent changes. The be-
wildered retailer would, very likely,

drop in his vote for the measure if he
were eligible. But he has no voice in
the matter. He must go on wearying
himself with the mental task of discrim-
inating, to the best of his fallible judg-
ment, between the multitude of styles,
in order to have on hand what his cus-
tomers demand, and yet avoiding the
risk of taking too great chances in any
one new thing until it has been well
tested.

The question seems to narrow itself
down to the will of the shoe- wearing
public. The producer and the con-
sumer must settle it between themselves.
The manufacturer is in business for
profit, and he is not going to limit shoe
wearers in their demands for his prod-
ucts if he has to get a new style every
month to please his patrons. And as
shoes under our modern methods, in
the hands of skillful designers, are Capa-
ble of as many slight but distinct
changes as are letters in their combina-
tions, the possibilities are almost limit-
less for changes in styles in footwear.

Meanwhile the minor limiters are not
idle. But these are mostly engaged in
petty crusades againt some particularly
offensive style, as they view it. There
was a Presbyterian Assembly out in In-
diana which took cognizance of the
toothpick shoe unfavorably. At least,
one of the good brethren said he re-
garded this type of graceful footwear as
a sort of moral stumbling block to the
fair members of the congregation, as_ it
tended to discourage contributions to
missions and other good causes! Now
there is nothing sound in this argument,
because a toothpick toe doesn’t cost any
more than a Piccadilly or a square one.
It only goes to prove that the objector
in this case was lamentably ignorant on
the subject of shoes and toes. This
was a mild step toward limitation in
styles, and may show that the tendency
toward luxuriousness and profusion in
shoes is a modern weakness which the
church seeks to remove.

But the peaked toe is not a new thing
in footwear. It is said to have originated
in India, and, by a natural orthograph-
ical, but an unnatural geographical,
transmission, to have brought up in In-
diana, where its presence was resented
by a native pastor in the Presbyterian
Assembly. The church, centuries ago,
saw fit to frown upon it and to openly
anathematize it; and yet the peaked toe
was not limited; or if it was tem po-
rarily driven into seclusion, it again
showed its saucy front even more
pointedly because of its persecution.

There are broad-minded and coura-
geous retailers, however, who are not in-
timidated by the growing multiplicity
of styles, and who make no sign of dis-
approval. When a certain fashion gets
a little antiquated, say six months or so
in the rear of the procession, they are
disposed of at a reduced price to make
room for their ‘‘betters,’’ so called;
just as eggs that have lost their pristine
freshness are no longer labeled ““strictly
fresh,’’ and are sold at tempting prices
to the inexperienced or unwary house-
keeper or to the ultra thrifty customer.

Our ancestors, too, those strict old
Puritans, essayed to limit the footwear
of our grandmothers. This was done
less through the curtailing of quantity
than of vain splendor in shoes. The
annoying sumptuary laws aimed at per-
sonal adornment were as irksume and
disagreeable to those worthy people as
an actual limitation in the number of
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low who insists upon his whole gamut
of changes in athletic shoes for various
games and pastimes; not to mention
the placid dude whose  peevishness
would be provoked if he were deprived
of his dancing pumps, his set of dainty
walking shoes, his boudoir slippers and
his gorgeous outing things—not to dwell
upon the masculine side of this im-
portant subject, there the modern
woman, who will not be limited in any-
thing pertaining to dress, especially in
footwear, which has come to take its
place, deservedly, as the highest thing,
under foot, that contributes to feminine
personal adornment. Her tennis shoes,
her bicycle boots, her variety of street
shoes, her outing shoes, her dainty house
shoes and slippers and ail the rest, these
have now become almost part of herself
and she could spare none of them. She
would in fact rather be moderately
limited in the matter of gloves or ice
cream than be stinted in the number
and variety of her shoes. It will never
do to limit shoes. It is too late.

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There is a good hygienic reason, too,
in favor of the non-limitation of foot-
wear too well known by every thought-
ful shoe wearer to be discussed here.
And yet this reason alone ought to plead
powerfully in favor of many changes.
Supposing that the feet of most people
are now no longer used as suffering shoe
stretchers, then the more shoes to each
person the better. So it has been pretty
conclusively shown that limitation in
shoes, even if possible, would be in-
judicious. The popular verdict is
against it. People now have not only
abundance of shoes to wear, but some
have shoes to burn. In fact, the only
limit placed upon them by wearers is
the purse limit, and even this is ready
to stretch a point or two when new
temptations in the very latest thing out
are presented to their admiring gaze.
‘‘Unlimited footwear, in numbers, qual-
ity and splendor,’’ say the people. And

the producer’ exclaims, heartily,
**Amen!’’—E. A. Boyden in Boots and
Shoes.

How Did the Retailer Feel?
From the Carpet Trade Review.

A funny thing happened at Grand
Rapids not long ago. A_ prominent
citizen in one of the minor towns of an
adjoining state had built a handsome
residence, and having properly mort-

gaged and otherwise decorated it, pro-

ceeded to look out for furniture.
‘*You,’’ he said to the local dealer,

‘do not carry the goods | want. Can’t

I buy them at wholesale? Give me one
of your business cards. I'll be the ‘Co.’

in your firm and you will get credit in
Grand Rapids for my purchases.’’
‘*All right,’’ said the dealer, who

gave him the cards and the addresses
of several manufacturers, to each of
whom he immediately wrote that Mr.
So-and-So, accompanied by his wife,
would be in Grand Rapids shortly, rep-
resenting himself to be a member of
his tirm. ‘‘He is not so,’’ he added.
‘*Please protect me, as I want to make
a profit on the goods.’’

Mr. and Mrs. So and-So, on reach-
ing the market, stumbled into a house
which was not on the dealer's list. They
found what they wanted, and the firm,
having found the country dealer rated
well by Dun & Co., sold the ‘Co.’ $800
avorth of goods.

Ever since the local dealer has been
kicking himself, while the prominent
citizen has no idea of the amgunt of
money he saved by buying where he
did.

> 2.
Heard in the Gallery.

Customer—‘' Do you suppose you can
take a good picture of me?’’

Photographer—‘‘! shall have to answer
you in the negative, sir.”’

 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

The New Boy in the Bostwick Grocery.
Written for the TRADESMAN.

When it was finally fixed that Will
Morris was going to give up his place,
it became a_ serious question who
should be his successor. When Mr.
Bostwick called Lawrence Means into the
office and asked him if he thought
there was any likelihood of his being
able to step into Morris’ shoes in a
month or so, and Lawrence thought
there was, one question was settled.
But one involving much more annoy-
ance at once presented itself. The line
of clerks would all be moved up a peg
by putting Means in the office, but
there was the vacancy at the end of the
line, and then there would be a lot of
testing and discharging until the right
boy should be found.

In a moment of something like de-
jection he hailed me as I was going by
his establishment and I sauntered in to
hear what he had to say.

“‘T hate to bother you about such
things, and it’s just barely possible that
you won't have to be bothered at all.
Do you happen to know of a big  stout-
fisted boy of eighteen or thereabout
who has a head on him and something
in it resembling brains, who will come
into the store and go to work? I want
him to begin on the lowest round of the
ladder, with nothing but a broomstick
to climb with. I want him to know
that there isn’t a ‘soft snap’ in the
house for him to fall into, and that he’)l
be expected to work like the Old Nick
from morning until night. I want him
to have a fair amount of schooling, and
I want him to be a decent fellow to
have around. Now do you happen to
know that sort of human being?’’

‘“Why don’t you advertise?”’

‘Advertise be hanged! I’ve gone
through with that too often; and don't
for goodness’ sake ask me to go through
with that racket you quill-drivers are so
fond of— about taking the boy that shuts
the door after him quietly when he
leaves the office; or picks up a pin that
he sees on the carpet; or takes off his
hat and stands respectfully before you
and says, ‘Yes, sir,’ or ‘No, sir,’ when
he is addressed. I don’t want to go
through with any of that nonsense. I
don’t care whether his mother is a
widow and he is her only support, or
whether she a washerwoman and is
supporting him. I want the sort of
fellow I’ve told you of. You shied my
question and I'll ask you again: Do
you happen to know that sort of human
being—yes or no?’’

ives.”

‘Who is he?’’

‘“‘A boy eighteen years old named
Jack McIntosh. I’ve a notion he wants
just such a place. What are you willing
to give him?’’

‘Oh, along at first, umtil I see what
kind of a boy he is and how he takes
hold, I guess $3 a week will be about
all he’s worth.’”’

‘*Well, unfortunately for you, I don’t
happen to know any half-dollar-a-day
boy. You won’t get Jack McIntosh for
any such price as that, I can tell you.
To be out and out honest with you, f
don’t feel especially flattered, after I’ve
told you what I have, to have you con-
clude to look over the goods and, if you
find that they are what I’ve represented
them to be, you'll take ’em. Now, if
you want this boy, and will give him
a dollar a day for a month of good solid
service, all right, I'll send him over. If
he isn’t worth that he isn't worth any-

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thing and I don’t want him to come.”’

‘‘How do you know what he’s
for or what he’s worth?”’

‘Tf you thought J didn’t know, why
did you ask me? You store-keepers are
a fine lot. You growl at and find fault
with your help and think it about kills
you to break a new man in, without
ever once thinking what torment the
man has to go through with by the same
process. You rather give all the way
from five dollars up toa hundred than
have a new man come into the store—
that’s what you say; and then when I
give you just the man you need you
offer him 50 cents! I'll tell you what
you do: Advertise for a boy, and throw
down the broom or ‘any old thing,’ and
the applicant who picks it up and asks
you where he shall hang it up will be
the good little boy who will take your
job for 50 cents a day and earn a dollar
and a half! When you grocers get down
to what you call business, you can’t
bear the thought of letting a nickel slip
through your fingers. Just make an
exception in this boy’s favor. Give
him a dollar a day for a week, and if he
doesn’t earn it ship him and I'll pay
you the six dollars.’

‘You know I wouldn’t make such a
bargain as that. I should like to know,
though, how you came to be acquainted
with a boy of that description that you
can swear by?’’

‘That's easy; I'll tell you: The boy’s
teacher told me. For two years or so
he has taken it upon him to look out for
himself, and he’s doing it in good
shape. He carries papers, for one
thing. He’s always looking out fora
job, gets it, and the men he works for
keep for him other work they may have.
Better than all, his teacher tells me he’s
at the head of his class, a fact which
shows that the boy isn’t a fool. It seems

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| to me, so {far as I have any means of
| judging, that you’d have a boy in Jack
| that would soon be pushing up the line;
| and, while I think everything of Morris,
| I’m convinced, with the training Jack
| will get at the foot of the business lad-
|der, he will be ready, one of these
| bright days, to step into the shoes Will
| will leave in the office for somebody to
|step into. You think I may send the
| boy around to you?”’

‘Tell him to come in the morning.”’
‘‘Why not send for him now and let
| him go to work in the morning?’’

And the next morning, when the man
came to open the door he found Jack
waiting to go to work.

RICHARD MALCOLM STRONG.
~~

Jf aman were able to do just as he
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Woman’s World

Some Objections to Marrying a Poor
Man.

She has been a brilliant and conspic-
uous figure in society for the past two
seasons, and the other day she slipped
around in the quiet dusk to tell me that
she was going to be married.

“After all,’'’ she said with something
that was between a laugh and a sob,
‘‘after all, I am not making what the
world calls a brilliant match. I am
marrying a man who has his fortune
stil! to make, and the most I can say for
mother is that she is reconciled. She
isn’t jubilant like she was when Sallie
married Colonel Croesus or when Mary
married Jack Bonton. Poor mother!
I am awfully sorry for her and it almost
broke my heart to disappoint her so,
but what was I todo? There was Jim
and we were in love with each other,
and bread and cheese and kisses seemed
better to me with him than trufiles and
champagne with anybody else. But you
haven't any idea what I went through
with trying to make mother see it in
any other light than a case of premedi-
tated suicide.

“‘I didn’t blame her. It was just her
love for me and her mistaken idea of
trying to save me from every hardship.
I suppose it’s inevitable, perhaps, that
a time should come to us all when the
luxuries of life outweigh its sentiments
—kind of a you’ll-be-romantic-a-very-
little-while, but-you-can-be-comfortable-
a-long-long-time feeling, eh? Only,
you know, it hasn't come to me yet, and
we couldn’t see things from the same
point of view.

‘*Did you ever think,’’ the girl went
on, with her voice a little unsteady,
‘‘that sometimes mother love can be the
cruelest thing in the world? It isn’t
often that it is a vulgar love of money
for money’s sake that makes a woman
want to see her daughter marry a rich
man. She wants to shield her from
work, from privations, from worry and
cares, and she forgets how many things
money won't buy. If our mothers could
have their way, they would put us all! in
nice, soft, satin-lined boxes, and pat
us on the head and say: ‘There, there,
dear, you are so nice and comfortable.
You have everything a reasonable wom-
an can want. Now, just keep still and
be good. Oh, of course you feel a bit
smothery and you want to get out and
stretch your wings and take your part
in life; but you will get over that feel-
ing after a while, and if you went out
in the world, you might get hurt. Be-
lieve me, there is nothing like a satin-
lined box for comfort, and thank heaven
that it gave you a mother who didn’t
let you have your own way, but insisted
on seeing that you were properly pro-
vided for.’

‘“Of course, you may say that no one
can make a girl marry any one but the
one whom she prefers, and that the
good old days are past when a daughter
could be locked up in her room and
fed on bread and water until she was in
a proper frame of mind to accept the
suitor her parents had selected for her.
Nobody would dream of doing anything
of that kind now, but there are moral
thumbscrews that are just as agonizingly
effective as the physical ones ever were,
and it takes a deal of courage and a
backbone like a telephone post to brace
up a girl who goes against her family
when she marries.

‘Take the case of the girl whose peo-
ple belong to a good family, but are not

 

 

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well off in this world’s goods. They
have made sacrifices to educate her and
dress her so she can go in society. She
knows of all the pinching economies
hidden from the public. She remem-
bers how often her mother’s standby
black silk has been made over in order
that she may have fresh taffetas for ger-
mans. She knows how many :luxuries
her father has done without to buy her
satin slippers for parties. I know it is
the fashion to speak of society girls as
heartless wretches who keep their fath-
ers on the rack to pay their bills, but
it is not true. Often and often it is none
of the girl’s doing. She would far
rather live simpler and not attempt to
keep the pace of the rich and fashion-
able, but her mother is ambitious. Per-
haps the girl is pretty or clever or has
some charm that makes her sought after.
Nobody puts it into words, but she
knows as well as she knows anything
that she is expected to marry rich and
that only by doing so can she repay the
family for what they have sacrificed for
her.

‘Don’t think that it is easy fora
girl like that to marry a poor man, no
matter how much she loves him. She
sees her mother’s face with the tired,
worn look that struggling and striving
bave traced there; she looks at her fath-
er's bent shoulders; perhaps she has
younger sisters that would benetit by
her making a brilliant match—sym-
pathy, gratitude, her duty to others, are
all urged on her, openly or tacit!y, and
she knows that if she goes her own way
and makes her own choice she is cruelly
adding another sorrow to burdens that
were already crushing before. And the
strange part of all this is that it is noth-
ing but ill-judged love that makes the
mother urge her on. She would die for
the girl, but the more she has struggled
and been denied, the more she is de-
termined that her daughter shall have all
the physical comforts that money can
buy. If there is anything beyond or
above that she shuts her eyes and will
not look at it.

**One could better understand a moth-
er’s desire for her daughter to marry
rich if rich people were invariably
happy, or to make a brilliant match if
brilliant matches always turned out
brilliantly. But they don't. We have
all known of brilliant marriages, the
splendor of whose details was tele-
graphed all over the country, and whose
sequel was a broken-hearted woman
coming back to her own people after a
few years of intolerable misery. We
have seen young girls arrayed in bridal
white walk up the church aisle with
men old enough to be their fathers, and
heard the whispered comments of how
lucky Lucy Poorgir! was to catch that
rich railroad president and how well her
mother had managed for her daughters;
and, later on, we all sat in judgment
on the poor girl, when her heart, re-
belling against its fate, strayed across
the borderland of conventionality and
found its own mate. We have every one
of us seen riches take wings, and the
girl whose wedding was celebrated with
a pomp befitting royalty almost taking
in sewing to support herself and her
children. One wonders if the mothers
who are so anxious for their daughters
to make fine matches never think of
these things.

‘Of course, | am not advocating a
girl being left perfectly free and un-
trammeled in making her selection of a
husband. Any mother is justified in do-
ing anything she can to prevent a girl
throwing herself away on a man who is

 

idle or dissipated or worthless. Any
girl’ with a grain of sense in her head
knows that the man who has never sup-
ported himself isn’t going to be able to
support her, and that kind of grinding
poverty would kill the most robust case
of sentiment that ever lived. If a man
won't keep from drink for his own self-
respect and manhood, he isn’t going
to do it for any woman who ever lived,
and the quicker she listens to reason
and lets him go the better for ker.
That is the poverty and hard times that
has no hope to gild its horizon and no
self-respect to make its present endur-
able.

‘* But there is another kind,’’ and the
soft and tender as a June rose, ‘‘ where a
man has youth and health and ability

 

to-do woman whose lot is suddenly cast
amongst us, and who has no friends or
acquaintances, or even letters of intro-
duction to pave her way into some sort
of companionship. She is oftena woman
who in her old home has been a leader
in church work, has belonged to clubs,
has occupied a good position and been
of consequence. Oftenest, perhaps, she
is a bride—some girl from a little town
or the country, who has been admired,
and has been called ‘‘Mamie’’ or
‘‘Sallie’’ by half the communiiy. Her
husband may be a stranger, too, know-

‘ing no one but the men he meets in

| business, and then, indeed, her lot is
| pitiable.
society girl’s face grew rosy red and |

isame city, who have friends and
| tives

and has already gotten a foothold in the |

world. He its still poor.
of luck, of hard work and self-denial,
it will be many years before he will be
able to afford his wife many luxuries,
but a mother ought to think a long time,
and be very sure, before she tries to

With the best |

keep her daughter trom saying ‘yes’ to |

him.
me the great American romance, and |
never se€ a prosperous middle-aged
American couple together, and note the
man's fondness for his wife and his ad-
miration for her and his reliance on her
judgment, without thinking that it is the
very flower and perfume of our hard-
working commercial life. They bave
worked together and struggled together
and had the same ideals and interests
and hopes and plans and have grown
into a oneness that people never know
who have only always been rich and
prosperous.

‘“That was the way my mother and
father married,’’ said the girl with a
smile, ‘‘and I reminded mother of it in
one of our arguments.’’

‘“And wkat did she say?’’ I enquired.

‘‘She said I needn’t think I could
hope to marry such a man as my father
is,’’ returned the girl. ‘‘And then |
knew that she is romantic still. ’’

DorRoTHY
>> -

. Our Duty to Our Neighbor.

When women think of doing good to
their fellows they think at once of the
lame, the halt and the blind, and these
are the objects of their benefactions.
They seldom or never remember how
many people there are—who wear silk-
lined gowns and fare sumptuously every
gay—who are every whit as much in
need of their good offices as the beggar
at the gate. Dives has gone away many
a time starving for the bread of sym-
pathy, and no one cast him so much as
a crumb from their tables.

Prominently in this great question of
our duty to our neighbors comes up that
little-considered question of our duty to
the strange woman within the gates of
our city. Not alone the working wom-
an, not she chiefly, indeed, for she is
too busy to be lonesome, but the well-

Dix.

Somehow that always seems to |

 

Women who have always lived in the
rela-
and oid associations, can have
realization of the loneliness of the
woman who goes, a perfect stranger, to
a strange city. Sometimes for weeks
and weeks no woman will darken her
doors, no woman’s voice speak to her,
except such as she has dealings with in
the shops. If she were stranded ona
barren and desert isle the very savages
could scarcely be less inhospitable.

Not long ago a charming young
woman, who came to town as a bride was
relating ber experiences. ‘‘I knew ab-
solutely no one,’’ she said, ‘‘and Jack,
who had only been here a couple of
years, knew only a few men. ‘They
called and then reigned isolation. I
sat for days in my pretty new house as
absolutely alone as if I were the only
woman in the world. I had always
heard that the church was a good place
to get acquainted, but if there’s any-
thing more freezing than the perfunc-
tory and professional way the preacher
and the visiting committee can visit
you, it must be located up about the
Klondike. Then after a bit I came to
know a woman or two—real nice wom-
en, In my own class, you know—and I’m
sure if they could have known how Ial-
most prayed they would come to see me
it would have touched a heart of stone.
I used to often think they wouldn’t turn
a beggar away hungry from their gates,
yet I was starving for companionship.
[t taught me one lesson, though. When-
ever now I meet a woman who says she
has just moved to town and doesn’t
know anybody, I go and call on her the
next day. I don’t go in much for mis-
sionary work, but there's feeling in my
visits. I bave been all along there, and
I know how it is.’’

~~» 2 ---
Losing No Time.

‘‘T have heard a good deal about peo-
ple who borrow trouble, but I think my
wife is a champion in that line.’’

“‘Why, I thought she was always
cheerful and contented with her lot.’’

‘*Sbhe was until our baby was born six
weeks ago. Now she is worrying be-
cause he may marry some girl that we
may not like.’’

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Drugs--Chemicals
MICHIGAN STATE BOARD OF PHARMACY.

~ Term expires
Dec. 31, 1898
Dee. 31, 1899

 

F. W. R. Perry, Detroit .
A. C. SCHUMACHER, Ann Arbor -

GEo. GunpRUM, Ionia Dec. 31, 1900
L. E. REYNOLps, St. Joseph Dec. 31, 1901
HENRY HEiM, Saginaw - - - Dec. 31, 1902

President, F. W. R. Perry, Detroit.
Secretary, GEO. GUNDRUM, Ionia.
Treasurer, A. C. ScHUMACHER, Ann Arbor.

Examination Sessions.

Star Island—June 27 and 28.
Marquette—A bout Sept. 1.
Lansing— Nov. 1 and 2.

All meetings will begin at 9 o’clock a. m. ex-
cept the Star Island meeting, which begins at 8
o’clock p. m.

MICHIGAN STATE PHARMACEUTICAL
ASSOCIATION.

 

President—A. H. WessBeEr, Cadillac.
Secretary—Cuas. Mann, Detroit.
Treasurer—JOHN D. Murr, Grand Rapids.

 

 

Drug Store Wrecked by an Unusual
Mixture.

The drug store of G. F. Quackenbush,
703 Greenwich street, New York, was
wrecked from end to end on the evening
of April 6 by the explosion of a mixture
composed of two parts potassium chlor-
ate and one part of sodium salicylate,
which was being rubbed up with fric-
tion by the head prescription clerk,
George A. Palmer, who is now a patient
in the surgical ward of St. Vincent's
Hospital as a result of the explosion.
Mr. Quacknbush’s pharmacy is a long,
narrow store, some sixty feet in length
and low in ceiling. The prescription
calling for a mixture of potassium
chlorate and sodium salicylate was
handed to Mr. Quackenbush by a wom-
an, who disappeared about the time the
explosion took place. It was written
with a pencil, and after smoothing out
the paper, Mr. Quackenbush handed it
to Palmer, who weighed out the chemic-
als in powder form and proceeded to
mix them in anew No. 7 wedgwood
mortar, the unused rough sides of which
probably helped to bring about the sud
den combustion. Palmer had been at
work but a few moments when the
substances exploded with terrific vio-
lence, shivering the mortar into a
thousand pieces, and hurling Palmer
back in a diagonal direction from where
he stood to the base of the sink, behind
the dispensing counter, where he sank
in an unconscious state with a big gash
in his cheek. The sleeves of his coat
were torn and hung in shreds, and the
fire which followed the explosion had
attacked his torn clothes before Mr.
Quackenbush could come to his rescue.
The force of the explosion, curious to
relate, expended itself in a lateral di-
rection, the narrow space in front of
the dispensing counter being uninjured,
while the door and windows to the right
and left, distances of some forty and
twenty feet respectively, were blown
out with great violence, the show globes
and contents of the front window being
hurled into the street. The fire which
followed the explosion was partially sub-
dued by the proprietor of the store, who,
with great presence of mind, directed
the contents of every siphon of carbon-
ated water in his possession against it,
and the firemen had comparatively lit-
tle work to do when they arrived on the
scene.

 

—_—__~»> 2.
The Drug Market.
Opium—The market is steadily ad-

vancing under the reports of damage by
drouth to the growing crop. It would
now cost about $3.30 per pound to im-
port. Some holders in New York ask
$3. 503in case lots.

 

Morphine—The market is firm, cn
account of the position of opium, and
another advance is expected soon.

Quinine—The demand at the decline
has been enormous and, while large
quantities could have been bought at 18c
a few days ago, the best price it can
be purchased at to-day is 25c in bulk.

Paris Green—The manufacturers have
named the following prices for the
opening of the season:

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@and 5 Ib. paper boxes ..........
Fi. paper bemes. (gk,
ie ID. paper Ores
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Terms strictly 60 days from date of
invcice, with usual discount for cash.
There is no rebate to purchases of less
than oue ton.

Beeswax—lIs scarce and prices have
been advanced.

Chloroform—The combined manufac-
turers have reduced the price toc per
lb. The only reason given for this de-
cline is stated to keep out foreign com-

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petition,
Cocaine--—-Competition and_ large
stocks in outside dealers’ hands have

brought about a reduction of 25c per oz.

Sulphur and Brimstone—Have been
advanced, owing to scarcity. The re-
finers in New York will not accept or-
ders and very high prices are looked
for.

California Mustard Seed—Is very
scarce and has advanced about ‘0 per
cent.

_—-2. 2
Denver Druggists Seeking Relief from
Monopoly.

Denver druggists and other smail
dealers are making an effort to destroy
department store competition in the
same manner tried with unsuccess in
the Illinois Legislature last year. Brief-
ly, the scheme is this: Every line of
business is first placed under a license,
The license fee is then doubled, in
geometrical progression, for each ad-
ditional department or class of business.
The license fee is one-eighth of 1 per
cent. of the amount of stock in any one
class of goods. Suppose $20,000 to be
invested in clothing. The license fee
would be $25 per year. If in addition
an equal amcunt should be invested in
hardware, the license fee therein would
be $50. If still another equal amount
be invested in crockery, the license fee
therein would be $1co. Carry this cal-
culation up to the tenth department, and
the license fee for a department carry-
ing but the $20,000 stock would be al-
most prohibitory. When consideration
is taken of the immense amount invest-
ed in a department store, and of the
great variety of business represented, it
will be seen that the licensing fees
would be enormous. This, it is thought,
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Advanced— Opium, Quinine
Declined —

Acidum | Conium Mace........ 3@ 50 | Seiler Ge. 0.5 ol. @ 50
Aceticum............ 8 6@8 3|Copaiba...... 2... i 10@ 1 20} Tolutan . ee
Benzoicum, German 70@ 75/|Cubebe.............. 90@ 1 00/ Prunus virg.. @ 50
Doracte 2... @ 15 Exechthitos ....... 1 00@ 1 10 Tinctures
Garbolicum ......... 29@ 41 MOIPEIOR 0... 1 00@ 1 10 Aconitum NapellisR 60
Citricum ............ 40@ 42 | Gaultheria..... .... 150@ 1 60| Aconitum Napellis F 50
Hevdrochior ......... 3@ 5 | Geranium, ounce. *° Q@ 5 | Aloes 60
Nitrocum. ......... 8@ 10 | Gossippii, Sem. oo 0@ 60) Aloes and Myrrh.. 60
Oretieiiy........... 12@ 14| Hedeoma.. “25 ONDE 0) Aoniea 50
Phosphorium, dil... @ 15|Junipera...... - 150@ 2 00] Assafcetida ny 50
Salicylicum. ........ 60@ 65| Lavendula.......... #@ 200) Atrope Belladonna. 60
Sulphuricum. ...... 1%@ _ 5| Limonis............. 130@ 150] Auranti Cortex... 50
‘Tannicum .......... 1 25@ 1 40 | Mentha Piper. 1 60@ 2 20) Benzoin............. 60
‘Tartarieum..-....... 38q@ 640 | Mentha Verid. 150@ 1 60] Benzoin Co 5)

Morrhue, gall. L0G) 35) Barge 50
—" Myrcia . - 4.00@ 4 50 | Cantharides. ®
Aqua, 16 deg........ a) Olive oO) 8 ON oanswaen 50
Reus, 20 deg........ CG §) Ficis Liquida...._. 10@ 12 ic amen. oe we
Garbomes, o.. 0... 12@ 14] Picis Liquida, gal... So 6 igus co =
Chioridam ......_... 2 | Rieing . 9@ 1 10| Gastor hd tee ae 1 00
Aniline Rosmi ee  .@ 100! Gateenn 507! 50
95 am unee. e 6 50@ 8 = ——. ee 50

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Sabina 90@ 1 00 Geta — Co... 60
50 | Santal.... 2 50@ 7 00 fekeea =
tees +) temeie 50 80 | Cassia! outifoi. HH

Bacce. Sinapis, ess., ounce. 65 | vee: “outifol og =
Gubeme-..... .. pois 13 to) ee 1 0G 150], 1 os ' 50)
Juniperus........... 6@ §8| Thyme Sees ee | SO ON Re 50
Xanthoxylum.. .... 5@ 30 Eo aera Ws @ 1 60| Ferri Chioriau - 35

Balsamum COPTOmIas ........ 15@ 20] Gentian. ae 50
einen 55@ 60 Potassium Gentian Co. 60
— @240| BiCarb........... wg 19 | Guises -. pe s
Terabin, Canada... 45@, 50 ee ee 13@ 5 foo 60
"POMICAR.....2 20.2... § 60 a — = tading. (i =

Cortex Chlorate.. “PO. ‘17@19¢e 16@ 18 | 1odine, coloriess ip
Abies, Canadian.... 18 | Cyanide.. : 3G 40 Kine... |e, 50
(ees te 12 | Iodide.. 2 600, 2 65 Lobelia. 50
Cinchona Flava..... 18| Potassa, Bitart, pure 2s@ 30] Myrrh. .....-..20... 50
Euonymus atropurp 30 | Potassa, Bitart. com a Nox Vomica .. 50
Myrica Cerifera, po. 20 | Potass Nitras, opt.. s@ 10] Opi ..---- ..... i)
Prunus Virgini...... a2 | Potass Nitvas, 7@ 9 rary eamphorated. 50
Quillaia, grd....... 14 | Prussiate...... i 20@ «25 | pil, deodorized... 1 50
Sassafras...... po. 18 12 | Sulphate po ..... 1b@ 18 Pours ns 50
Se 7 Radix ata 50

Extractum Acomiiva. 20@ %/| Sanguimaria ...._.. 50
Glycyrrhiza Glabra. A@ 25| Althe........... --- 22@ 25| Serpentaria..... 50
Glycyrrhiza, po..... 23@, 30} Anchusa ..¢..... 1@ 12| Sttomonium....__.. 60
Domotox Dib box. tig 12, Aruampo..... _.... @ 2 | Tolutan..... 60
Meemeton,is.....-.. os 6 ee lit. 20@ 40} Valerian 50
Heematox, o....... 4a . 5) Gentiana.... __ po 15 2@ 1 Veratrum Veride... 50
Heematox, 4s....... 1g i¢| Giychrrhiza. py.15 ié@ 18| Zinetber. |. 20

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Carbonate Precip. 15 | Hellebore,Alba, — 18 0 ae — a ef : 7 =
Citrate and Quinia.. 2 25/1 Inula, po. 15@ 201 Alumen via it.4 ue 7
Citrate Soluble...... t | Ipecac, po...... |... 2 50@ 2 60| Alumen, gro’d. bet ~~ 3
Ferrocyanidum Sol. 40 | Tris plox.. Ses | Annats - le
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Sulphate, com - ‘ ts ~ M aranta, @ 35) AntimonietPotassT 40@ 50
oe boos y 50 Podophyilum, po... 2@ 25| Antipyrin......... @ 1 40
bil a LE SS Ah 70H 1 00 f > =
Sulphate, pure ..... CBee @ 125 Argent Nitro g 50
Flora oo: eee 75@ 1 35] Arsenicum. 10@ 12
oe 1 14] Spigelia. ...........2 35@ 38) Balm Gilead Bud __ 38@ 40
pieces oe ix 25 | Sanguinaria.. — 15 a = smuth S.N. .. 40@ 1 50
Matricaria 306 35 | Serpentaria . 30@ 35) Calcium Chlor... Is. a 9¢
: a Senega...... i 40@ 45) Calcium Chlor., - @ 10

Folia Similax,officinalis @® 40) Calcium Chior. @ 12
Bacawne.... 2 38) Seitax mM .. @ 3I1¢ antharides, Rus. po @ ris
Cassia Acutifol, Tin- oe | oo Pe ‘1po.35 10@ 12) Capsici Fructus, af. Q@ 1b

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Cassia Acutifol,Alx. 2@ 30} dus, po............ @ 25 | Capsici FructusB,po @ 15
Salvia officinalis, 4s : aleriana,Eng. po.30 _@ %|Caryophyllus..po.15 12@ 14
7 ue... .....- 12@ 2%| Valeriana, accu an. ) 20} Carmine, No. 40.. @ 3 00
Ura Cre. .-.........  S@. 16) Sincivera. ! @ 16|Cera Alba, S.&F 50@ 55

dieiian Seeeiber yoo... 27| Cera Flava.........” 40@ 2
Acacia, Ist picked.. @ 6 Semen ane a
Acacia, 2d picked. @ 4) Anisum.. -po. 15 @ 12\¢ etaa atic @ 10
Acacia, 3d picked.. @ . s' oon a (gray eleons) 13@ 15 | ¢ etaceum Se a be =
Acacia, sifted sorts. @& 2B) rdf... 41@ $i cn. : —. @ 4%

" od ; - loroform.... .. 0@ 63
Acacia, po..... 60@ 80 | Carui Pie is WG. i2i\i¢c hioroform, squibt @1 45
Aloe, Barb. po.1s@20 12@ 14| Cardamon.-.-2-..... 1 25@ 1 %/ Ghlorel idea ~ 156 15
Aloe, Cape ....po. 15 @ BIC oriandram.. ca 8s 10} ¢ ‘hondrus. denen 300 35
Aloe. Socotri. - po. 40 @ 30| Cannabis Sativa... I®@ 4%1 0 inchonidine.P. Ww 5 35
Avamoniac.......... So@, 60|Cydonium.......... + 25@ 1 00 Ciachonidi 1€, se 29@ =
Assafctida....po.30 2%@ 28} Chenopodium ...... 100@  12| ¢ ocaine ne, Germ 3 30@ 3 50
Benzoinum ......... 50@ 55 | Dipterix Odorate... 2 00@ 2 20} Gorks list. dis oe
Gatecey ts... .. 0; e is Foeniciinm.  - @ 10) Gre cae 8. pr. et , 2
Catechu, %s......... @ 14! Foenugreek, po...... ™]® 9 Greta ae @ 35
Catechu, Yas. Le @ 16 Lint 4@ 4% Creta, p a tree b 8 @ *
Camphore . a. 40 «42 Lint, gerd. a 3 I1@ 444! Greta, ti 9@ i
Euphorbium..po. 35 @ 10} Lobelia Sis eet ieee 2 I HU gale precip. .. Le, 1 1
Galbanum......-... @ 1 00| Pharlaris Canarian. 2 O64) Cea 18@ 20
Gambese 30........ Gg — 7! Si i. 45%@ Sia ot @ 2
Guaiacum..... po. 25 @ 39] Sinapis Alba.) 3 | 1G | Siauuesnion 5a |
Kino........ po. $3.00 @ 3 00} Sinapis Nigra.. Hi@ 12 estatec. a 10@ 12
_— See ie : z ae 2 o Spiritus — — . “s 90
Myrrh......... 3 49@, 3.50 | Erumenti, W. D. Co. 2 00@ 2 50| Emery, all numbers ;
ae po. 84. idee 60 3 =a 3 = Frumenti, D. F. R.. 2 00@ 2 25| Emery, po........... @ 6
CMaC.......-...--. . pins Framenti a . 1 Sea ts Pro. .60 Ma &
hellac, bleached... 40@ 45 25@ 1 50 : :
Shellac, ble 2d. UG Juniperis Co. 0.1 Sa op | Flake WHYGe 6 oi 2@ 15
Tragacanth 50@ «80 riperis Co. 0. 'T.. 1 65@ 2 00 |
oe ae ‘ TO ORIOTs OOF; |. 1 75@ 3 50) Galla. ... Q@ 2X

Herba Saacharum N. E.... 1 90@ 2 10| Gambier Gos teres teeees - 2
Absinthium..oz. pk 95 | Spt. Vini Galli...... 1 75@ 6 50 | Gelatin, Cooper... t )
Eupatorium .oz. ae 20 | Vini Oporto......... 1 25@ 2 00 | Gelatin, Freneh...., 35@ 60
Lobelia... oz. pkg ae Vin Alia 1 25@ 2 00 | ares flint, box .
Majorum ....oz. pkg 28 Sponges | ‘a oo Rex. -. 60
Mentha Pip..oz. pkg 23 | Glue, brown........ 93@ 12
Mentha Vir..oz. pkg 95 | Florida sheeps’ wool | Gite. white... 13@ 25
Rue. OZ pkg 39 carriage.. 25 2 7% | Glycerina.. <a. Joe | oD
Tanaretum’ of. pkg do | Nassau sheeps ‘wool | Grana Paradisi |_| @ i
Thymus, V..oz. pkg 25 Garsiape.... @2,00'| Bomains. 3Q &

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Magnesia. wool, carriage..... @ 1 2! Hydraag Chlor Cor. Ge wm
Calsined, Pat..... ‘i 55@ 60/ Extra yellow sheeps’ Hydraag Ox Rub’m. @ 9
Carbonate, Pat.. ... 20@ 22| wool. carriage @ 1 00| Hydraag Ammoniati @ 1 00
Carbonate, K. & M. 20@ 25| Grass sheeps’ wool, HydraagUnguentum 45@ 55
Carbonate, Jennings 5@ 36 eatriage.-....-.... @ 1 00| Hydrargyrum....... Q 6

Hard, for slate use.. @ %|Ichthyobolla,Am... 6@ 7
Oleum Yellow Reef, for Oe ce @ 1 00
Absinthium..... Spee eo Obl GIANG Uae... @ 1 40 aoe Resubi...... 2 60@ 3 7
2 te...  < 5 ROTM oi rc. 4 20
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Anisi.. 5 2 1.@ 2.96] Roacis .. |... @. 50} Lycopodium ........ 45
Auranti ‘Cortex . 2 25@ 2 40| Aurantic oites.. a @ 50} Macis ee D
Dormant ss 240g. 2 50) Almeiver... ... @ 50| Liquor Arse- et By-
Cajiputi.. <ssc- 7 Soe ee Ipecae . Ge dreary lod...) . 6 xs
Garyophyiii ee ee Jay. «80: Fersifod...-5......: @ 50/ LiquorPotassArsinit 10@ 12
OBCe Se 6h -Rhei Arom.... ..... @ 50/| Magnesia, Sulph.. 22. 8
éhenopedii bocce. 2 75 | Smilax Officinalis.. 50@ 60/| Magnesia, Sulbh, bbl @ 1%
Cinnamonii......... 1 60@ 1 70 | Senega.. ‘ @ 50) Mannia,S F........ SOQ 60
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Morphia, S.N.Y.Q. Sinmipis, Opt......... @ 3| Linseed, boiled..... 42 45
Oe 2 25@ 2 50/ Snuff, Maccaboy, De Neatsfoot,winterstr 65 70
Moschus Canton. . @ 40 r Voor... @ 34| Spirits Turpentine.. 34 40
Myristics, No. t.._... 65@ 80) Snuff,Scotch,DeVo’s @ |
Nux Vomica. ..po.20 @ 10) Soda Boras.. : es @ it}
Os: Sepa... 156@ | Soda Boras, po... ena $@ ii} Paints BEL. LB
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Soda, Bi-( SED... |. 3G >| Ochre, yellow Ber. 1% 2 @3
@ 2 00 | Soda, Ash Delo c wa. 34@ 4 | Putty, commerei al 24% 2%@3
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Picis Liq., pints..... @ %&| Spts. Coldgne......_. @ 2 60) y vammsien, be ia 24
Pil Hydrarg...po. 80 @ 50} Spts. Ether Co...... 50@ 55! American 3@ 15
Piper Nigra.. we @ 18;|Spt Myrcia Dom... @ ° | Vermilion, English. 7@ 75
Piper Alba.. 3 @ _ 30/ Spts. Vini Reet. bbl. @ 2 42) Green. Paris , 16% 6Q 201%
Piix Burgun........ @ 7 | Spts. ViniRect.4bbl @247| Green’ Peninsular. 13@ 10
Piombt Acct... ||. 10@ 12! Spts. Vini Rect.10gal @ 250) tesa Red | 5%4@ 6
Pulvis Ipecac et Opii 1 10@ 1 20/ Spts. Vini Rect. 5gal @ 2 52 | ona’ atic oa aay 5%4@ 6
Pyrethrum, boxes H. Less 5¢ gal. eash 10 dars. | Whiting, white Gos n r 1 1
& P. Dy. Co., doz. . @ 1 25 | Strychnia, Crystal... 1 40@ 1 45 | w hiting, gilders’. . @ 0
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Quinia, N.Y. 23@ :3/| Theobrome.. oe 10D 42 | Seen Frees. 1 te
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GROCERY PRICE CURRENT’.

The prices quoted in this list are for the trade only,
dealers. They are prepared just before going to press and
possible to give quotations suitable for all conditions of pur
erage prices for average conditions of purchase.
those who have poor credit.
our aim to make this feature of

in such quantities as are usually purchased by retail
are an accurate index of the local market.
chase, and those below are given as representing av-
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IXL Golden, tin boxes 75
Picea, tin bores. ....... 1D
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¥% lb cans, 4 doz case... ... 8
1 Ibcans, 3 doz case...... 1 60
Jersey Cream.
tb. cane, per doz.......... 2 60
9 Ox. CARS, por doz.......... is
S6e@= Cann, per dox.:......_. 85
Our Leader.
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Lit, Cank ....._. ek 85
Queen Flake,

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Of. S00n: Gase _...._..... 3 BO
9 oz., 4 doz. case... .. _ oo
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Sin, 1 Gor cane............ 9 OD
BATH BRICK.
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Fancy Whisk.. oe 80
Sasemoene.-... 225
CANDLES.
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CANNED GOODS.
Manitowoc Peas.
Lakeside Marrowfat....... 95
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Lakeside, Cham. of Eng.... 1 20
Lakeside. Gem, Ex. Sifted. 1 45
Extra Sifted Early June....1 75
ATSUP.
Columbia, pints..........2 00
Columbia, % pints......... 1 25
CHEES
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Cotton, 40 ft, per doz.......
Cotton, 50 ft, per doz.......
Cotton, 60 ft, per doz.......
Cotton, 70 ft, per doz......
Cotton, 80 ft, per doz ......
oute, GOTt. per Jon........-
Jute. 72 ft. per das... _...

COCOA SHELLS.
oi bees
Less quantity... ...._.
Pound packages.......

CREAN TARTAR.

RSSSERS

m9 dy
&

| 5 and 10 1b. wooden boxes..30-35

  

COFFEE.
Green.

Rio.
a...
oon 10
ee ee
Goren
Peaocry _.....-............ 8

Santos.
ee
ooo ok. yb 4
oe ee
Eeapery -.......... 2... 15

Mexican and Guatamala.
es 15
aes 16
renee 2. 17
Maracaibo.

Prema ...; a
eee
Java.
Peer 19
Exivase Growsh.............. 20
Ma@ndchimp.................. 20
Mocha.
——oe.. ......-.......... ae
Arabian ....20 0. ee
Roasted.
Slark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brands
Fifth Avenue..... oe
Jewell’s Arabian Mocha... .28
Wells’ Mocha and Java..... 24
Wells’ Perfection Java.....24
RANGED... ee
Dreekiags Gleac........... 18
Valley City Maracaibo. 18%
meal Wipe... a
eager Biemt 12

Package.

Below are given New York
prices on package coffees, to
which the wholesale dealer
adds the local freight from
New York to your shipping
point, giving you credit on the
invoice for the amount of
freight buyer pays from the
market in which he purchases
to his shipping point, including
weight of package, also %e a

pound. In 601b. cases the list
is 10c per 100 lbs. above the
price in full cases.
Brpeeko 1... a6 ae
ORHOW 10 5
MicLaughlin’s XXXX...... 9 50
Extract.
Valley City % gross ..... 6)
Petz % gross... |... 1 15
Hummel’s foil & gross... 85
Hummel’s tin % gross... 1 43
CLOTHES PINS.
Saromceres... __........ 40
COUGH DROPS.
C. B. Brand.
405 cent packages ......... 1 00

CONDENSED MILK.
4 doz in case

Gail Borden Eagle.........6 %
Coe. -.6 235
Dae
Chameleon ..... ..450
Regnoim |... vo 425
cee 3 35
ee ee 3 35

COUPON BOOKS.

    

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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

1,060 books, any denom....20 00

 

 

Universal 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
Superior Grade.

50 books, any denom.... 1 50

100 books, any denom.... 2 50

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

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

mauoees oc 1 00

Se OeORe.. 2. 3. 2 00

Peeene 3 00

me eOOKS.. 8... CB

eee. 10 00

ep veonn...... -.... ay Ge
Credit Checks.

500, any one denom’n..... 3 00
1000, any one denom’n..... 5 00
2000, any one denom’n..... 8 00
Sao pane.

DRIED FRUITS—DOMESTIC

Apples.
Sunaroe. @:

Evaporated 50 lb boxes.
California ee

 

Prunes...
Raspporries............

California Prunes.
100-120 25 lb boxes.......
90-100 25 Ib boxes.......
80-90 25 Ib boxes.......
70 -80 25 1b boxes.......
60 £70 25 1b boxes... ....
50 - 60 25 Ib boxes.......
40-5025 Tb boxer... ...

 

iq cent legs in 50 1b cases

Raisins.
Lendon Layers 3 Crown. 14
London Layers 4 Crown. 2 00
Debesigs...
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 334
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 4%
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown 5%

FOREIGN.
Currants.
Patras pps... a ae
Vostizzas 50 lb cases......@ 7%
Cleaned, bulk... |, @ 8%
Cleaned, packages........ @ &%
Peel.

Citron American 10lb bx @13
Lemon American 101b bx @12
Orange American 101b bx @12
Raisins.
Ondursa 28 Ib boxes.....8 @ 8%
Sultana 1Crown....... @
Sultana 2Crown.......
Sultana 3Crown....... @7%
Sultana 4 Crown....... @

Sultana 5 Crown....... @
Sultana 6Crown....... @l12
Sultana package....... @14

FARINACEOUS GOODS.

Farina.
mith neckaves .......1 we
Bulk, per 108 te..... -<... 3 50
Grits.
Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s....... 21
Bulk in 108 Ib. bags.......3 59
Hominy.
Bamels .... | eee
Flake, 50 Ib. drums....... 1 00
Beans.

Dried tian | ae

Medium Hand Picked....1 00
Maccaroni and Vermicelli.

Domestic, 10 Ib. box......

 

Imported, 25 Ib. box.. ...2 50
Pearl Barley.
Comune. 1%
Chester a...
Meare 6.) Be
Peas.

Gacen. ba... 8)
Be perie. 2
Rolled Oats.

Rolled Avena, bbl.......4 15
onarece, bei... 6 ok
Monarch. % bbl... . 2 13
Private brands, bbl.....
Private brands, %bbl.....
Quaker, cases.............3 20
RatrOet; COMER. 1%
Sago.
ermen 3%
Mast Tndin: |... 3
Wheat.
Crockon, balk. .-.....:.... 344
242 1b packages........... 250

Fish.

Cod.

 

Georges cured......... @ 5

Georges genuine...... @ 5%

Georges selected...... @ 6

Strips or bricks..... 6 @9
Herring.

Holland white hoops, bbl. °0 25
Holland white hoop 4 bbi 5 50
Holland white hoop, keg. 75
Holland white hoop mchs 35
Norwegian... io.) A oe
Round 100 lbs. 2%
mound S) igs... 2... 1 30

oe ee 13
Mackerel.
Mess 100 Ibs...... . 16 39
Mow ite... ae
Mere 10 ie... J... 1 Be
Mowe 8 ee... |
Ne. 19 ie... 14 50
No.1 401bs... 6 10
No.t Wie... ....... 1 60
Ret Soe. 5... 1 30
No. 2 100 lbs. .. 9 50
No. 2 401bs 4 0
No.2 101bs 1 07
mo.> 8 ibs.... 88
CP we
No. 1100 ibe .. 5 50
Neat 2 he... 2 50
moO. 1 iv its.. nt)
Not Gite... 59
W attefisn.

0.1 No.2 Fam

100 ibs bio Si 29
40 ibs 300 26) 1.8

lbs -. ie 83 a 45

8 lbs 69 61 a4

FLAVORING EXTRACTS.

 
 
 
 
 
 
   
 
   
 

Jennings’.

D.C. Vanilla D. C. Lemon
Zoz......1 8 5

 

1 <<... =
eS ~~ 16
. J oo 408......2 40
ceo oe Soz......2 00
No. § £0 No. &...2 40
No. 10. .6 00 No. 16...4 00
No. 271 3% No. 27,
No. 37:2 60 No. 37.1 3
No 4T.2 40 No. 47.1 50
Northrop Brand.
Lem Van.
20z. Taper Panel.. %5 1 20
2 oz. Oval , 1 90
3 oz. Taper Panel. .1 35 2 00
4 oz. Taper Panel..1 60 2 2

Souders’.
Oval bottle, with corkscrew.

    

      
  

 
 
 

Best in the world for the
money.
Regular
Grade
Lemon.
doz
ca... &
402.. 1 50
Regular
Vanilla.
doz
| 2 0Z......1 20
4 sano il _o..... 2 40
FASS LAVORING | /fE
oS | XX Grade
Reg etac5 bil emon.
A tag's
yon] L it Son. ... 250
f iy, £08. ... ¢0
Rovar A |
| KX Grade

 
 

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Venilla.
.DAYTON.G,3;
———— 20x......1 %

eal oe 3 50
FLY PAPER.

 

Tanglefoot, per box........ 30
Tanglefoot, ¢’se of 10 b’x’s 2 55
Tanglefoot, 5 case lots..... 2 50

Tanglefoot, 10 case lots....22 40

 

 

 

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Moe. 8 ..4 00
Half Kees... .. 2 Bo
Quarter Kegs...... 2 oe
tie ook: ee
ie. CARS. 18
Choke Bore—Dupont’s.
a... ....... hl
Half Kegs.. ..2 4
Kyusiter Meee... 2. 8 oo
110 cans... Se
Eagie Duck—Dupont’s.
ROR ee 8 00
Balt Mees.  ... s...:..... a
Woearter Bees... |... ee
{i Cine... . ei
HERBS.

RO et ee
Pepe. ae
INDIGO.

Madras, 5 lb boxes....... 55
3. F.,2,3.and5 1b boxes.... 5€
JELLY.

i iD pes... 5s. _
30 Ib pails... es
KRAUT.

Barres. 3....,....:. 2; 3 Se
Malt barrels .-....,..... 2 00
LYE.

Condensed, 2 dex ......:...1 2
‘ondensed. 4 dng « 2 &
LICORICE.
Puro........ 30
Calabria 25
ee _
Bee 10
MINCE MBAT.

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

Diamond Match Co.’s brands.
No. 9 saipbur...... |... 1 65
Anchor Parior...:.....:.., : 1 70
No.2 Home... .... 0... eo
Brpor Pare... 2... 4 00
MOLASSES.

New Orleans.

Black ea eee ee a 11

i4
8 20

y | 24
Open Bettie... 33. 25@35

Half-barrels 2e extra.

MUSTARD.
Horse Radish, 1 Gon......... 1%
Horse Radish, 2 doz. -..:._:, 3 50
Bayle’s Celery, 1 doz... .....1 7%
PIPES.
Ciay, NO, S06: 1 7
Clay, T. D. fal count... .. 65
Cen, MOS i 85
POTASH.

48 cans in Case.

BODO Rese. 4 00
Penna Salt Core... 1... 3 06
PICKLES.

Medium.

Barrels, 1,200 eount..... 5 3%
Half bbls, 600 count....... 3 13
Small.

Barrels, 2,400 count....... 6 35
Half bbls 1,200 count...... 3%
RICE.

Domestic.

Carolina head.... .. -
Carsimna No.t |... 3... .!. 5

Caratina Ne: 2...
Breme 2 .  e
Imported.
gaven, Net 4... 6%
Japan, No.2... La. 6
Java, fancy head.......... 5%
ova fo. 8S 5
ee... sos i ae
SALERATUS.

Packed 60 lbs. in box.
Ceres... 3 3 3
DPeleug’s....2.0. 02. 3 15
Dewees 3 30
Pewee 3 00

SAL SODA
Granulated, bbis........ _
Granulated, 100 lb cases.. 9)
Lamp, DOB. 2 eS
Lump, 145]b kegs i

SEEDS.

PG cc 9
Canary, Smyrna........... 3%
MSRP 8
Cardamon, Malabar ..... 6
CO 11
Hemp, Russian. ......... 3%
Mieco ind... |... +»,
Mustard, white....... .. 5

ON 10

I oii win uulnig dg a ait c%
Cuttle BONG a 2 20

SNUFF.
Scotch, in bladders......... 3
Maccaboy, in jars........... 3
French Rappee, in jars..... 48

 

SALT.

Diamond Crystal.
Table, cases, 24 3-lb boxes. .1 50
Table, barrels, 100 3 1b bags.2 7%
Table, barrels, 407 lb bags.2 40
Butter, barrels, 280 1b. bnlk.2 25
Butter, barrels, 2014 ibbags.2 50
Butter, sacks, 2Sibs...°..... 3
Butter, sacks, 56 Ibs......... 55

Common Grades.

100 3 lb sacks..... 1 90
COG1D SSCKR ... 26...
oo 10-10 eGR... |. 1 Be
Worcester.
oo: 4 1D. cartons... _.. 3 25
ce 26ib. sacks... :..... 4 60
Oe mo iB cocks... 3%
oe oe 1b Gacke |... 2 50
ous0 10, BackR....... |. 3 50
2a iD. nen Baeia: |: 2
SOLD. linen sacke....... |...
Bulk in barre... . 2 50
Warsaw.
56-lb dairy in drill bags..... 30
28-lb dairy in drill bags..... 15
Ashton.

56-lb dairy in iinen sacks. . 60

Higgins.
56-lb dairy in linen sacks 60
Solar Rock.

56-lb sacks.... 21
Common.
Granulated Fine: .... F
Mogiimn Fine. |... BS
SOAP,

Sate ONE 26
5 box lots, delivered........2 70
10 box lots. delivered....... 2 65

JAS. 8. KIRK & CO.’S BRANDS.

American Family, wrp'd....2 66

Dime, 2%
Carenes, ke 2 2
MO 2 50

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

Blue India, 100 & Ib......... 3 00
Barge. cl, 3 50
aoe > 2 50

Schulte Soap Co.’s Brand.

100 cakes, 75 Ibs.

Singie box..... .2 80
BOX igs. 2%
i ben tole. Se
ben fot 2 60

Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands.
Old Country, 80 1-lb. bars ..2 75
Good Cheer, 60 1-lb. bars....3 75
Uno, 100 %-1b. bars..........2
Doll, 100 10-oz. bars.........2 05

Scouring.
Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz..... 2 40

Sapolio, hand, 3 doz ........2 40
SODA.
OR
Mees. hugiish.. ._....... 4%
SPICES.

Whole Sifted.

AriemeOe os 13
Cassia, China inmats.... 12
Cassia, Batavia in bund.. 5
Cassia, Saigon in rolis..... a?
Cloves, Amboyna... ..... 4
Cloves, Zansibar..........: 12
mace, Patavia..............55
Nutoens, fancy. .......... 60
Nuimnors, NO, 4... .... 2. 50
Mummers ie. 2.2 45

Pepper, Singapore, black...}1
Pepper, Singapore, white...12

Pomper, seee.... 25: 12
Pure Ground in Bulk.
GMO os
Cassia, Batavia .........:.. 3u
Cassie, Saigon.........:.°:- 40
Cloves, Zanzibar............ 14
Ginger, African:.......... u
Ginger, Cocnin.......:/...:18
Ginger, Jamrica............ 23
Mace, Batavia... .....-... 75
meee 1°@18
PORE rs 40@ vu
Pepper, Sing , black ........ 12
Pepper, Sing., white........2u
Popper, Cayenne... ....... 20
A ee a ol ae
SYRUPS.

Corn.
Eagtee...... 8. 15
Haif bbls..... aac 17

Pure Cane.
Oe ee pee a 18
OO eso oe ice ey oes 20
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64 10¢ a ? ng Powd ream...... @ 6% | Sec tents srands | M Bar y quote as | er
sm ae mse ttnto g 34) cea a eae =| lassw.
pac Bat 3 me) ed é a ent. Soca. . |
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packag .o & = | nse i a Ry n a vo : | Pi it i 7) ON S mn
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ackag i tibbon ress ae | Subject io i 7 ie | Fami os Cs Do | 4 Bad u . 3 i
oe packages vis baie fi @ 7 ae t ahs — oe 10 70| eu cag “
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it Ce _. =} sut jel aa .- @ 7% | Fic “usual ou. son | D in 00 1 gal., p » per ge ae |
1b eucknnes. a 43 ; bugis eeu @ 74 | itional. bb! ok oe Bellies ry Salt Meats. Boge 2 Og irae oo
8-lb pore a a fe Kindergarten ae @ 8% | a DIS., 25€ p el Briskets . Meats. 100 | 15 gal., oa cal. | dy,
40 coon a Auonh | I indergarten ca @ 8% Ball-Ba per bbl. oo ae i | 20 gal.’ mea gal... i
and ges es 4 envent, but | Dandy Cre Sons e @s8 2iD rnh . ad- | shorts tense .. | Or gal. n at-tul *e 61
B. 501 : Veit rer a idy P am : iai art-P ts f | O= | mes ibs . ‘
vas i bones. ne . 4 Waite Lote Valley aoa - ae @ 8% ~eraeiaminy } utman’ | Ham: Smoke bine ee ie 53 } 30 oe sot tubs, Pee gal.. 6%
ao i 4 Cue. larder | ream. setae g 8u% ee yg Le s Brand Hans, Bi ib 3 me Heads 534 gal. ane tubs, — a 8
OVE =78 a Fa a DIO W 1d AB. seven : | Ham 4 1b erage ... | at-tubs, er gal. -
PO 23 [ese% Lo ncy — @i: Vorde NE 5 40 | Ha i Ce 12 ti ’ per gal. 10
ge oT oC pkgs. fae plai oo Ie | Quak den Grocer Ci ce 5 = aie ds 2 ib ove srage cc 3 | C toed : gal., —— gal.. 10
<i Chen oe n. 7 oe ta ae 40 | St thee To  bibee ta
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. ce : Choe. Drops.. ited. @ Qu nig UT be ders f. 334 | a
mh ' Cee > gh aker 14S .. [ae (N. =e | 7a 8 I ‘
Lt & Nod WICKI 359 | Gum Mowunon @ ae a Califo: clear Y. Ll i | ie onl fla Milkpa doz.. =
aot hae No. ), per gr NG. Moss Drops entals " as sede fae necaTT a et 1 gal. dat or rd vai 7
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my ) | eae iment | aang | ee ge Me, | tet ne Glaze pth
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: es em In @ 84 _| 55 lb Tubs. ou es. li or rd. bot doz. 65
i 75 | Sour I D 5 ib. | 80] Tubs....... tees | % gal. fi Stew a 4
a Fish and Loe — _— Boxes. | Soin Tabs not anna oT a Breproof bal, hse
No. 4, : —1€ erm 7 12 mas ance 6% | . firepré , bai
No. 6, : doz in ci ca Oys I hocola ap it Drops. @50 | 7 Ib Pail. es -ady cae ig proof, ae doz. 8%
doz in — gro : ers = M. C ae ae @5o0 0 lb Sch a aeeeeee 4|% gal Jags il, doz.1 :
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. ZTOSS a: D drops 60 : pane advance | 428 rd
o Below SUGAR Oss.. 7 ] a Fresh F. i — ie a . = 3 1b Sean oe “advance 1 ee gg be |
oe ' is | San iB = gi be per dos... .......
whole a sug given N —— » | | A. B. Licorice D. o @30 lp eeuee | ls . totes 40
fr esale gars, t New Y Bl a P | Loze ges, Drops @7 | ls ologr Sau nce 1 | me eeu oo
a —— ba Paap ay: = Hi aib Bass. a ao | iaperials eiaed : @50 | — ico a ar per doz o Jugs -- 6%
pir e s the ol Ch but . ne @ Moti rials nted. oo | | Frankfort. si iy | Cork , eae icy '
pac ag w Y¥ el Cis a @ eae ‘ @0 | |p ast orks ‘i
ir ork oca coe ' .° . 8 Cc es. Hobe BU ork ort. ne , i 1c fc le
aaa the it, givi to your Ciscoes or a, r ‘ @ i2 Molen B i anna @0 Biba. Co. LL . ao 5 | orks for an wate 70
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includi ses toh cet in w od pays Cod = @ 10 |t ain C e Cream Gao | vad aun a a 6y| 1 al., ston rs and c 30
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D = of ee aes po he | No. deck @ = Strin — Gioia 80 @l Extra trees a ae pod doz ers.
. co int, 1 Picker 20 | gt ea 60 00 k M e : S er
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xx ered a = 8 Col Ri apper.. a @ ny olw aramel @60 Pillst ury’s B st ks | M4 bi 5 lbs Ss "Peet. pe | beni Sun. RS.
eae Powder es pd Mackerel Salmi . . oe earn, 3 ag Pillsbury"s macs a cal % Sr dies lSaketen ait
Gra ulated ered... os cu : 3 el on. 10 No. 1 wranne >ilIst iry’sB 28st a ae be 80 Ik ' ; / ao _— oo 45
nu inbbis.._ ie OF * k Tanned 2 1 bur patiace wai 6 50 | be... ce 80 security ERLE :
Fine — ra poh 45 69 : z 10 No 0Xes ee 3 ib, @3 Ball y’s Best 48 paper... 6 40 | Kits, 15 T hn " 1 50 Security’ Sop -
Ex aren ee 5 8 0 25 0. 2 wrapped, 30 -Ba 48 pi r.. 6 +4 k 5 Ibs ripe .. 2 or Nut Ys NO. deve seos sees. li
tr ile a ys I a : r pa A bb pe. 30 tme b= :
Extra Fine reno = F. H.C ters in C : aioe werd, = ik @ Dul nhart-Put nt lah 0 7 bbl 40 lbs... | Clim &8 Sa -
coe jranula es. Jounts ans. ———— 2 Ib, es |2 uth h man’s ! Blanner ST ae " en EGO
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No = Standard he ea =? cae a Fees. oo idea oe 2 Beef rounds. = ios .ao (EY Common,
so. 5 38 ei @ 2 a hee Le et oe Ll, |N a co t
No 2.0.00... Oyst @ 2 Se ssa Gold Med neeler Co.'s Bi 6 5 ee . = te
No. 3... CUNT cc mia ie a H. Cor ers in Bulk a sp Seedli oo. | Gold Medal eee -’s Brand. | Roll a a veeeee. a No Fir see eeees beats ’ ®
No. $0.0... xtra re ints fancy Nz ings i Tae Med Sen [tS 8s, d eee | wi 05s - Qu a 70
No. a... oe Aneh Seldgis, 126 to 2 avels 112. ——-, al is... Lae 6 56 olid, ee erine. : 60 aor un, alit . 70
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NO. Fees sees ae oo = 50 Chole... 2... rl Parisian’ see. fg oc pesos ry .. aoe 10 “wrapped & aa FP pee
No. cee seeteteneeeeneees 4 ee Sweets... ae ans oe 6 50 eamer — a , oe a
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Hardware —

Ringing Resolutlons Adopted by Cleve-
land Dealers.

The Cleveland Retail Hardware Asso-
ciation has adopted the following reso-
lutions:

Whereas——The manufacturers and
wholesale dealers in general hardware,
stoves and tinware persist in selling to
catalogue supply houses and depart-
ment stores, to our injury and detriment,
placing us toward our customers in the
light of extortioners, causing endless
trouble; and

Whereas—The system of protecting
us from this wrong Is ineffective, it is
absolutely necessary to perfect such a
system by united action, which will re-

 

move these evils from which we have
suffered for years. Therefore be it
Resolved—That the members of this

Association confine the purchase of
hardware, stoves and tinware to manu-
facturers and wholesale dealers who sell
goods only to firms that are regularly
engaged in the retail hardware business,
as detined in these resolutions.
Resolved—That it is the sense of this
convention that the interpretation of the
term ‘‘retail hardware dealer,’’ as set
forth in the above resolution, to entitle
him to purchase hardware, stoves and
tinware, be construed to mean any _ per-
son having an established place of busi-
ness and carrying a line of hardware,
stoves and tinware and such goods as
are usually kept in a first-class hardware
store; and in cities of less than 5,000
population, all persons carrying a gen-
eral line of hardware in connection with
any other kind of merchandise.
Resolved—That it is not the intention
of the above resolutions to prevent the
interchange of goods mentioned between
manufacturers and wholesale dealers in
such goods, or for the export trade, and
the interpretation of said resolution is

hereby vested in the executive com-
mittee, with power. The following are
exempt from these resolutions: The

United States Government, state, county
and city institutions, railroads, gas,
water and electric light companies, and
such manufacturing industries and com-
panies as the executive committee may
approve, for such goods as are necessary
for their respective lines of business.

Resolved—That any manufacturer or
jobber in hardware, stoves or tinware
turnishing net prices or any discount
from list prices contrary to the forego-
ing resolutions, either by themselves,
employes or agents, shall be considered
as disapproving the above resolutions.

Resolved—That this Association shall,
as far as lies in its power, keep a record
of all goods seld, and by whom sold, to
catalogue houses and department stores,
and of all other violations of these res-
olutions.

Resolved—-That any member purchas-
ing goods from any manufacturer or job-
ber who has been listed by the executive
committee as disapproving of these res-
olutions, shall be subject to a fine or
expulsion, at the discretion of the
executive committee.

Resolved—That every member of this
Association is constituted a committee
of one, and is expected to report to the
proper officers in this State any viola-
tion of these resolutions.

Resolved—That these measures are
just and necessary for our welfare, and
a rigid enforcement is demanded.

Resolved—That this Association en-
dorses the above, and urges its officers
to use their best efforts to bring about
the formation of a national association,
with the end in view that a uniform sys-
tem of protection for the trade will pre-
vail throughout the entire country.

—___»+1.____
Growth of Glassmaking.

Plate glass affords another instance
wherein American inventiveness, enter-
prise and competition, fostered by a pro-
tective tariff, have brought into com-
mon use an article which, so long as _ it
could only be obtained from foreign
manufacturers, remained a luxury for
the rich alone. To such an extent have]

American makers improved their proc-

 

esses and enlarged their plants that,
according to the National Glass Budget,
plate glass is now offered at prices as
low as or lower than those asked for the
larger sizes of double-stref&gth blown
cylinder glass for glazing purposes,
which it will displace *‘because of su-
perior polish, finish, temper, trueness
of surface, flawlessness and higher bril-
liancy.’" Not only this, “but. it wili
also take the place of single-strength
cylinder glass in all medium glazing
sizes where quality is a consideration,
and absolutely displace al! blown glass
in picture sizes, coffin fronts, photo-
graphic requirements, vehicle and car
glazing, and in studio and office glaz-
ing.’ Others predict the total disap-
pearance of blown window glass from
use. This may well be looked for in
view of several announcements. One
of these is that the window glass com-
bine, making the old-fashioned article,
has already ordered a la arge reduction of
its output, through inability to compete
with the plate glass product at the pres-
ent prices of the latter. Another is that
the leading European manufacturers
are now, according to our consular re-
ports, shipping their polished plate to
this country ‘‘at prices from which the
Dingley duty seems to have been de-
ducted.’’ That they are able to do this
shows that there is room for a still
greater reduction in the price of Amer-
ican plate glass. But the laws of de-
velopment are kind after all. The
concerns which have been making com-
mon glass for windows, mirrors and the
like will not lack a market for their
glass in other forms. It is discovered
that it makes excellent fence posts! A
Western concern has lately received a
large order for substantial glass fence
posts, Seg for wires. Its use for
roofs, tor sidewalks covering areas, for
partitions in office buildings, for outer
walls even, is increasing. Indeed, so
multiform are the uses to which com-
mon glass is now being put that we
may be said to have entered the vesti-
bule of a coming “‘glass age.’’
Ss — a

The Sale of Bicyles.

When spring has fairly commenced,
cycling will undoubtedly receive a great
deal of attention from men and women
who make a practice of riding, while
there will be a Jarge number of new as-
pirants to this form of pleasant amuse-
ment added to the list. They will nat-
urally feel a deep interest in the wheels
they intend tu ride and their accessories.
There may be some hardware merchants
who ride the wheel and find it as amus-
ing and diverting as any one else.
However, whether a merchant rides or
not, it would pay him well to give the
different phases of the bicycle business
sufficient attention to extend the sale
of wheels. While giving this advice, we
intend that it should be taken seriously
by every dealer who does not sell bi-
cycles, and who may be put in mind of
it by these suggestions. Not only should
they sell the wheels, but certain of the
essential sundries as well which come
within the lines of a complete hardware
stock.

—_—___>1-.—___—
Reopening of the Popular Grand
Haven Route.

April 11 the Grand Trunk Railway

System placed in service their fast
steamboat train, leaving Grand Rapids
at IO p. m., arriving at Grand Haven 11
p. m., making close connection with
Crosby Transportation Co.’s steamers,
arriving in Milwaukee at 6.30 a. m.
Connections made at Milwaukee for all
points West and Northwest. As in for-
mer years, this train will have attached
an elegant Wagner buffet parlor car.
Rates via this line are less than going
all rail. Berths on steamers are free to
passengers holding first-class tickets.
For information apply at City Ticket
Office, 97 Monroe street, Morton House,
or at depot.
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Increased Demand for Grand Rapids
Furniture in London.

About 3,000 office desks were shipped
from this city to the English market
last year, and the shipments this year
will exceed last year’s record by consid-
erable. In addition to office desks,
many chairs and rockers were sent over,
a few office chairs and a fair quantity
of miscellaneous furniture.

For about ten years the Grand Rapids
furniture manufacturers have been try-
ing to gain a foothold in the English
market, and even longer ago efforts were
made in this direction. Charles R.
Sligh was one of the pioneers in the
movement. He, with John Widdicomb,
E. H. Foote and others, opened a Grand
Rapids furniture store in Birmingham
and stocked it with up-to-date Grand
Rapids furniture. After a year’s trial
this first effort was abandoned and a
new store was opened in London and
everything was done to push the Ameri-
can goods. The English, however,
did not seem to crave for American
furniture. The wooden beds would not
‘‘go’’ because the English use metal
beds, brass and iron exclusively, and
have used them for half a century or
more, and prefer them to any other.
The bureaus, chiffoniers, cabinets and
other goods of Grand Rapids production
were attractive, but not enough demand
for them couid be aroused to make the
venture successful, The styles were
different, the workmanship was unlike
the English and English prejudices did
the rest. The second venture, the Grand
Rapids furniture store in London, was
abandoned, as had been the store in Bir-
mingham. The experience had been
valuable to the manufacturers and it was
not so very expensive either.

When the other stores were abandoned
Stickley Bros. & Co., of this city, took
hold of the foreign furniture store proj-
ect as a private enterprise. They
opened a store in London about a year
ago and stocked it with chairs and
rockers of their own manufacture and
with office desks manufactured here,
and also carried a line of fancy tables
and cabinets. Their store has now been
running a year and it has just about
““played even.’’ No money has as yet
been made, but the foundation has been
laid for future success and the experi-
ence gained will materially promote the
success. One of the chief obstacles to
sending American goods to the English
market is the heavy freight rates. By
the time the goods are laid down in
London the goods have cost, with the
freight rates, about the retail price here,
and to this price must be added the
necessary percentage of profits for the
jobber and other incidentals. By the
time all these charges have been made
the cheap suit is no longer cheap and
the medium priced goods have become
expensive. This matter of freights is
the most serious obstacle tc selling
American furniture in England, but
there is another obstacle, in that the
American case work is not up to the
English standards, anda still greater ob-
stacle is the English prejudices against
foreign made goods.

When Stickley Bros. & Co. first began
shipping chairs to the London store the
chairs were already set up, finished and
ready for business. The chairs are now
shipped in the white, knocked down, at
a material reduction in cost, and this
method will be followed hereafter.
The chairs are put together and finished
by English workmen. American chairs

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are winning a place for themselves in
the foreign market and success in this
line is looked for. It takes about five
years to acquire a hold in England, and
the hold is being acquired as rapidly as
possible. The same is true of small
tables and rockers, the trade in these ar-
ticles having already assumed satisfac-
tory proportions,

Office desks, with numerous pigeon-
holes, drawers and recesses, and the
roll top so familiar in the American
office and store, were first introduced in
England about ten years ago, and since
then have become securely established
in the market. The Grand Rapids
manufacturers have been shipping desks
to England for four or five years and the
trade has been steadily growing in pro-
portions. Until last year the desks were
shipped set up and finished, but close
competition demanded a reduction in
the expenses and one of the manufac-
turers here began shipping in the white,
knocked down, which reduces the
freight charges about one-half, and the
others will probably do the same as soon
as they can make the necessary arrange-
ments at the other end of the line. The
wood is carefully machined in the facto-
ries here and the pieces are made ready
to put together, and then the material is
shipped over to England to be set up
and finished. The American desk has
become a welcome addition to the Eng-
lish office, now that the novelty of the
thing has worn away. Flat table desks
were formerly used exclusively and
when the business man had to leave his
desk oor office everything had to be
cleared up and packed away in the
vault. With the American roll topa
pull of the handy curtain covers every-
thing, and not only locks the desk but
also locks all the drawers. The con-
venience of the desk is what has won for
it favor, and it is rapidly finding its way
all over the world, with London as the
great distributing point.

The English have revolving office
chairs but the ‘‘revolving’’ has been on
a swivel, without the spring and the
raising and lowering screw so familiar
in the American office chair. The
English have taken very kindly to the
American chairs and a substantial trade
has been worked up in them. Two of
the Grand Rapids desk companies are
now making office chairs to go with the
desks and Stickley Bros. & Co. will
also put out a line of them in connec-
tion with their other chairs.

————~>-2 --
Ignore the Note and Turn Over a
New Leaf.
Grand Haven, April 25—Last year a

representative of the Comstock Law and
Collecting Agency called on me ar
am ashamed to admit it—induced me
to sign its contract to make some
lections for me. The contract now tu
out to be a note, the agency is bothering
me to death with
ment of same. What is your opinion in
regard to this ? (

they can collect
know you are acquaintes
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found which would bring in a verdict} >

against the makers. In no case have
suits been begun on the notes, although
in several

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time, register a solemn vow that here- |

after he will give schemers and fakirs
and the agents of fraudulent collection
agencies a wide berth.

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cases attorneys holding the}
notes have offered to compromise on the |
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Hardware Price Current. penises ligueiaimataliataeane
Stamped Tin Ware..... ..... Dew list 7&10
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| Granite Iron Ware ... new list 40&10
AUGURS AND BITS
See, Bec ce. 70 HOLLOW WARE
Jennings’, genuine . +. - cade | EO... OE --- 60&1
Jennings’, imitation . ..60&10 a ee eae ee ...60&10
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BARROWS WIRE GOODS
Railroad ..............................612 00 14 00 | Bright...... dali iinis 80
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BOLTS Gate Hooks and Eyes 80
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Carriage new list. . eo 70 to 75 LEVELS
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BUCKETS ROPES
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BUTTS, CAST —
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Wrought Narrow........... : ----70&10 | Steel and Iron...........
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CROW BARS SHEET IRON
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Preparations for the State U. C. T.
Meeting.

Jackson, April 26—The annual meet-
ing of the Grand Counci! of Michigan
of the United Commercial Travelers
will be held in this city Friday, May
20, when it is expected that several
hundred traveling men, many of them
accompanied by ladies, will be pres-
ent.

The meeting will be held at Castle
hall, the business meeting being called
for g:30 a. m. The visitors will be met
at the trains by the reception committee
and escorted to U. C. T. hall, where
they will register and receive souvenir
books, badges, etc.

At 12:30 a parade will be formed in
front of Castle hall and march through
the principal streets, carriages being
furnished for the ladies.

Immediately after the parade the
ladies will be entertained by a drive
about the city anda visit to the State
prison, underwear and corset factories
and other points of interest, following
which a reception will be tendered them
at the Jackson City club.

At 2 p. m. the business session of the
order will be resumed.

At 6 p. m. a complimentary banquet
will be tendered the visitors at Co. D
armory, to be followed by an interest-
ing program of toasts and responses,
interspersed with music. Dr. O. J. R.
Hanna will serve as master of cere-
monies and the program will be as fol-
lows:

Welcome—C. E. Townsend.
Response—-Grand Counsellor F. L.

Why Are We Traveling Men?—O.
Gould, Saginaw.

The Ladies—Geo. H. Randall, Bay
City.

The Baby Council—Frank Thompson,
Hillsdale.

Tbe Order—Flint Council.

The Employer—H. S. Griggs, Jack-
son.

The Traveling Man as a Citizen—P.
Walsh, Detroit.

This will be followed by a grand
complimentary ball, for which two full
orchestras have been provided and the
dancing will be continuous until the
wee sma’ hours.

The local members of the U. C. T.
are preparing a handsome _ souvenir
book to be presented to eack of the
visitors. It will contain numerous half-
tone views of Jackson streets, residences
and public buildings, executed by the
engraving department of the Tradesman
Company, and will also state facts and
figures relative to the commercial and
material condition of Jackson, which will
do much towards advertising the busi-
ness and social advantages of this city.
They have used this means for raising
funds to meet the expenses of the gath-
ering and have received liberal aid from
the business men of the city in the way
of advertising, for which they return
thanks.

a
Movements of Lake Superior Travelers

L. P. Murray (Plankington Packing
Co.) has resigned his position and gone
to Joliet, Ills., to join a company of
cavalry to go to the front. If Mr. Mur-
ray proves to be as effective as he is
enthusiastic, he will make his mark.

Harry Brilling (A. Kroleck & Co.) is
with us again.

Lost—W. C. Monroe and Willis Peake.
Last seen in these parts three months
ago. Fears for their safety are felt.
Probably they have been annihilated by
Tom Hilton.

©. D. Hutchinson (Consolidated Mill-
ing Co.) was with us last week.

H. F. B. Wendels (Bunte Bros, &
Spoehr) did the iron country last week.

A. B. Wheeler ( Kewaunee Boiler Co. )
worked the copper country last week.

The Lake Superior Commercial Trav-
elers’ Club now has a membership of
176.

Everybody who knows Dell Dane
(Michigan Stove Co.) is acquainted
with one of the jolliest representatives

 

of the craft. He missed his calling.
Although he is a success, Ar, in the
stove trade, he would have been a hum-
mer had he taken the stage for a pro-
fession. Dell was never known to be
at a loss for a word but once. That
happened a few years ago upon a stage
coach between Crosswell and Lexington.
Dell was entertaining the passengers
with a few of his 11,478 stories, much
to their enjoyment. His companion in
the same seat nearly went into convul-
sions, whereupon Dell cracked him on
the back and said, ‘‘Old boy, what line
do you handle?’’ When his companion
replied, ‘'Preaching,’’ Dell fell ina
faint and didn’t come to for some time.

OUIX.
SEO a

Gripsack Brigade.

B. F. Parmenter has sold his farm
near Saugatuck and purchased the resi-
dence of Chas. S. Brooks (Musselman
Grocer Co.) at 16 Bradburn street. He
will return to Grand Rapids and make
this city his home, having effected a
business arrangement with a local job-
bing house.

During the excitement incident to the
military parade Tuesday, an explosion
startled the people assembled at the
corner of Monroe and Ottawa streets.
The first thought was that a serious
accident had occurred, but subsequent
investigation disclosed the fact that the
noise was caused by Cornelius Crawford
kissing his wife, on leaving her to take
a train.

A Toledo dispatch notes the follow-
ing—The Woolson Spice Co. has called
all its traveling salesmen from the road
and for the present, at least, little coffee
will be placed on the market by the
company. It appears that the Arbuckles
have stolen a march on the Woolson
and by purchasing a million bags have
practically cornered the market. Asa
result of this manoeuvre the price of the
green product has advanced 2 cents a
pound. In the present unsettled state
of the market the Woolson people are
not aggressive.

Austin H. Bruen, a well-known com-
mercial traveler, died at Detroit Tues-
day. He was born at Penn Yan, N. Y.,
sixty-four years ago, learned the tin-
ner’s trade at Toledo, took the road
when 15 years old and had been travel-
ing for the past forty-nine years, sell-
ing pressed tin and other hardware.
During the past twenty-one years he
lived in Detroit and covered Michigan
for Sidney Shepard & Co., of Buffalo.
He was a member of the Royal Arca-
num, Knights of Honor, and Michigan
Knights of the Grip. He leaves a
widow, Mrs. Marietta Bruen, also three
brothers and two sisters.

The will of the late Wm. Boughton
lras been filed for probate. It was exe-
cuted last August and names Jas. M.
Dudley and Fred E. Rice as executors.
The estate comprises $3,000 life insur-
ance and $1,600 in cash, all of which,
exclusive of funeral expenses, is left to
the sister of the deceased, Mrs. Frances
A. Cowdrey, who resides in Bucks
county, England. The reason why the
sister was made the sole beneficiary of
the deceased is that she has the sole
care of the aged mother of the deceased,
who had contributed to her support dur-
ing his lifetime, and probably took this
means of assuring her a support during
the remainder of her days. Mr. Bough-
ton has been a father and a brother to a
large family who were dependent upon
him only by the ties of marriage, and
his death leaves many aching hearts
among those he has befriended, as well
as among those who cherished his
friendship.

 

 

A well-known traveling man writes
the Tradesman as follows: ‘‘I was in
South Bend again last week and, for
the purpose of seeing how wretchedly a
hotel could be run, I registered for din-
ner at the-Oliver House. Before going
into the dining room I repaired to the
washroom to perform my _ customary
ablutions, but one glance at the towels
was sufficient to deter me from so do-
ing. They were as stiff as boards and
as black as a silk bat. The dinner
was the worst I ever saw—and I have
seen a good many tough dinners in a
career of twenty years on the road. It
was a combination of the vilest lot of
stuff I ever saw set before a white man:
I can taste it yet, and had I had time I|
should have called on the local health
officer and suggested that he investigate
the culinary department of the house,
with a view to proceeding against the
establishment for maintaining a nui-
sance and causing sickness. I believe
that diningroom has given the doctors
and nurses more business than all the
miasma which emanates from the Kan-
kakee marshes; and if Boyd Pantlind
would like to ascertain how badly it is
possible to run a hotel, [ suggest that he
pay a visit to South Bend, register at
the Oliver House, and takea giance at
those towels and a sniff of the sickening
cdors which prevail in that diningroom.’’

—____» 2...

Have You Paid Assessment No. 1?

Lansing, April 25—Will you please
notice in the Gripsack column of the
Tradesman this week that assessment
No. 1 expires May 1 and should be paid
on or before that date? Some of the
boys are likely to overlook it and a no-
tice in the Tradesman will act as a re-
minder to them and save us the expense
of sending a second notice.

C. SAUNDERS, Sec’y.
EN

One of the most significant incidents
in the commercial and industrial world
at this time is the placing with the
Pennsylvania Steel Company of large
orders for steel rails by the Russian
government. These rails are to be used
in the construction of the Trans-Siberian
Railroad, and it is understood that the
contract covers the metal to lay about
300 miles of track. It is to be noted
that while deliveries are to be made
here, the material is to be shipped
across the continent and over seas to
Viladvostock, the Pacific terminus of the
great Russian road. It is fairly pre-
sumaktle that not only the rails but all
the plant and equipment for the eastern
section of one of the greatest transpor-
tation systems in the world will be re-
quired for delivery at the terminal port.
Furthermore, as the road is pushed for-
ward, it will open up a new region
where the opportunities for trade, al-
though not fully known, are believed
to be very great.

 

 

WANTS COLUMN.

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.

ORSALE—STOCK OF DRUGS, GROCERIES,

hardware, crockery, dry goods, notions,
ete.. invoicing about $3,600: a great bargain for
cash; large building; well located ina thriving
Northen village. Address No. $86, care Michi-
gan Tradesman. 586

POR SALE—STOCK DRY GOODS AND
clothing: established nine years; best loca-
tion. Wili take improved real estate as security
for payment. Address J. H. Levinson, Petoskey,
Mich. 587
| ~~ SALE—I have two complete drug stocks
in Middleville. Will sell one and move other
away, Or will sell one-half interest in either
stock—one to be moved into an other location—
toreliableman. Dr. Nelson Abbott, Middleville,
Mich. 591

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

a: EXCHANGE—?20 acres farming land in
Crawford county, Mich., title perfect, for
st.ck millinery or groceries. Address Lock Box
40) St. Louis, Mich. 588

HAVE SOME GOOD CITY. PROPERTY,
free and clear, to exchange for stock of mer-
chandise Would assume a littie incumbrance
if necessary. W. H. Gilbert. 109 Ottawa St.,
Grand Rapids, Mi 500
a. WEL LOCATED, WELL-RENTED
residences near Normal College, Ypsilanti,
to exchange for merchandise. Address 202 Con-
gress St., Ypsilanti. 582
sen SALE—A CLEAN STOCK OF HARD-
ware, one set tinner’s tools and store fix-
tures, for sale cheap. Good schools and Al
farming country. Fuil description on applica
tion. Also reasons for selling Address No.
58s. care Michigan Tradesman. 583
NOR RENT—LARGE DESIRABLE STORE
on best street. Address Mrs. B. Brewer,
Owosso, Mich. 571
| geo RENT—DOUBLE STOR#& BUILDING
in Opera House block, Mancelona, Mich.,
best location in town; best town in State. Ad-
dress Julius H. Levinson, Petoskey, Mich. 580

 

 
  

 

eee SALE—BAKING, CONFECTIONERY,
cigar stock and ice cream business, with
good fixtures. Address No. 579, care Michigan
Tradesman. 57$

 

 

 

Pipi SALE-MODERN, WELL-ESTABLISHED
and equipped broom factory and good trade.
Other business commands our attention. Ad-
dress No. 534, care Michigan Tradesman. 584
yes SALE—STOCK CLOTHING, SHOES,
dry goods and fixtures. Leading store, good
location. For particulars address R, Box 351,
Montague, Mich. 585

NTICE BUILDING LOT ON OAKDALE AVE-
aN nue, Grand Rapids, for sale or exchange for
lumber, shingles, brick, merchandise, bicycles,
or whatever you have to trade. Address Box
1, Leslie, Mich. 572
NOR SALE, EXCHANGE OR REN lt'—LARGE
two-story store and residence building in
town of 1,000 population in Northern Indiana;
stone basement, 120 feet in dimensions. Inves-
tigate. Aduress No. 575, care Michigan Trades-
man. 575
gee RENt—THE FIRST AND SECOND
floors and basements of the brick building
numbered 12 and 14 Lyon street, recently occu-
pied by Hirth, Krause & Co.; suitable for mer-
cantile or manufacturing purposes. Also the
large hall on the third fioor over8 and 10 Lyon
street, especially arranged for fraternal socie-
ties. Apply to Wm. McBain, Agent Estate of
Jas. W. Converse, 433 Michigan Trust Building,
Grand Rapids. 578
eS BUTTER FOR
retail trade. Cash paid. Correspond with
Caulkett & Co., Traverse City, Mich. 381
rt SALE—FIRsT-CLASs GROCERY, MEAT
market and crockery stock, located in one
of the best towns in Michigan; best location in
the city. Good reasons for selling; a bargain
for the right person. Will sell for cash only.
Address No. 568, care Michigan Tradesman. 568
VOR SALE—BULLDING AND GENERAL
stock; best farming section in Michigan.
No trades. W. H. Pardee, Freeport, Mich. 500
NOR SALE—50 FT. LOT WITH STORE
building and small dwelling, on principal
business street in Traverse City. Address F.
Brosch. 56
RoR 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
5 ee EXCHANGE—FOR CLOTHING, DRY
goods or shoes, very nice well rented Grand
Rapids property. Address No. 552, care Michi-
gan Tradesman. 552
y ANTED—1,000 CASES FRESH EGGS,
daily. Write for prices. F. W. Brown,
Ithaca, Mich. 56
, EXCHANGE— FARMS AND OTHER
property for dry goods, clothing and shoes.
Address P. Medaiie, Mancelona, Mich. 53

Vy 7TJANTED—A PRACTICAL MILL MAN,
with $1,000 capital, to take a one-half or
full interest in a stave, heading and planing
mill. 3,000 contract, with stock to fillit. All
goes. Five years’ cut in sight. Side track to
mill. Good reasons for selling. Address Stave
Mill, care Michigan Tradesman. 546
PATENT SOLICITORS.
NEW HANDBOOK ON PAT-
ents. Ciiley & Allgier, Patent Attorneys,
Grand Rapids, Mich. 339

MISCELLANEOUS.

JANTE)D — REGISTERED PHARMACIST;
good references required; a@ young man
preferred; steady position and fair wages. R.
Gidley. Empire, Mich. 574
SITUATION WANTED-REGISTEKED PHAR
macist, married, 27 years of age, registered
8 years, country and city experience. Best of
references given. Address No. 530, care Mich-
igan Tradesman. Ce 530
ya — REGISTERED PHARMACIST
at once. Must furnish good references as
to character. J. H. Chapman, Mears, Mich. 592
VS SS BY REGISTERED
pharmacist of twenty years’ experience.
Address No. 589, care Michigan Tradesman. 589

HOTEL WHITCOMB
ST. JOSEPH, MICH.
A. VINCENT, Prop.

THE WHITNEY HOUSE
Rates $1.00 to $1.25 per day. Complete Sanitary
Improvements. _ Electric eee Good Livery
in connection. State Line Telephone.

Chas. E. Whitney, Prop., Plainwell, Mich.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Ly. G. Rapids.. --8:45am 1:25pm *11:30pm
Ar. Chicago............. 33: 10pm 6:50pm 6:40am
Ly. Chicago oe 7:20am 5:15pm *11:30pm

Ar. G’d Rapids... . 1:25pm 10:35pm * 6:20am

Traverse city, ‘Chatiotein and Petoskey.
Ly. G’d Rapi 7:30am 5:30pm

Parlor a hen Cars on afternoon and
night trains to and from Chicago.

*Every day. Others week days only.

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Detroit.
Ly. Grand Rapids...... 7:00am 1:35pm 5:35pm
Ar Petrowt..: 6... il perce 5:45pm 10:20pm
oy. Detrete oc 8:00am 1:10pm 6:10pm

Ar. Grand Rapids..... 2:55pm 5:20pm 10:55pm
Saginaw, Alma and Greenville.

Ly. G R7:10am 4:20pm Ar. GR 12:20pm 9:30pm
Parlor cars on all trains to and from Detroit
and:Saginaw. Trains run week days only.
Gro. DEHAvEN, General Pass. Agent.

CHANG wc ccencn

(In effect April 11, 1898.)
EAST.

 

 

 

Leave. Arrive.
t G3 a Sag., Detroit, Buffalo & N Y .+ 9:55pm
+10:1 -Detroit and East.... ..+ 5:0%pm
+ 3; op =i ‘Sag. Det. N. Y. & Boston..+12: 45pm
*11 aa. Detroit, East and Canada...* 6:35am
+11:10am...... Mixed to Duradd........ +3:15pm
WEST
* 7:00am....Gd. Haven and Int. Pts....*10:15pm
+12:53pm. Gd. Haven and Intermediate. + 3:22pm
+ 5:12pm....Gd. Haven and Chi. .-.+10:05am
+10: 00pm... cece. Gd. Haven and Mil....... 6:40am
Eastward—No. 14 has Wagner parlor car. No.
18 parlor car. Westward—No. 11 parlor car.
No. 15 Wagner parlor car.
*Daily. +Except Sunday.
E. H. Huenss, A.G. P. & T. A.
— FLETCHER, Tray. Pass. Agt.,
Cc JusTIN, City Pass. Agent.
“ys Monroe St. Morton House.

 

 

Rapids & Indiana Railway
Dec. 5, 1897.

GRAN

 

Northern Div. Leave Arrive
ta 45am +t 5:15pm
Trav. C’y, Petoskey & Mack...+ 2:15pm + 6:35am
array. Cy, Petoskey & Mack... ._..::.. $10:50pm
atae +5: 25pm Fil :15am

Train leaving at 7:45 a. m. has parior ear, and
train leaving at 2:15 p. m. has sleeping car to

Mackinaw.

Southern Diy. Leave Arrive
CRGIRMAR + 7:10am + 8:25pm
Be Weenie. + 2:10pm + 2:00pm
Cincinnati Mee eee wens eee cc. s * 7:00pm * 7:25am

7:10a. m. train has parlor car to Cincinnati.
2:10 p.m. train has parlor car to Fort Wayne.
7:00 p. m. train has sleeping car to Cincinnati.

Muskegon Trains.
GOING WEST.

Ly G@’d Rapids......... +7:35am +1:00pm +5:40pm
Ar Muskegon........... 9:00am 2:10pm 7: Sen
@Omme EAST.

Ly Muskegon....... .. 48:10am +i1:45am +4:00pm
ArG’d Rapids... ..... 9:30am 12:55pm 5:20pm

+Except Sunday. *Daily. Saturday only.
Cc, L. LOCKWOOD,
Gen’! Passr. and Ticket ‘Agent.

 

 

South Shore and Atlantic
Railway.

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Ly. Grand Rapids (G. R. & L. 7S —— +7:45am

Ly. Mackinaw City............ 4:20pm
Ag. Se. benaee.. enue 5:20pm
Ar. Sault Ste. — Rewald ees 12:20pm 9:50pm
Ar. Marquette.. seeeeeee- 2:50pm 10:40pm
Wr, Nestore. os 5:20pm 12:45am
Ar. Daluth.......... Sewccea eee ane. 8:30am
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Ar. Marquotte........<....... 1:30pm 4:30am
Ly. Sault Ste. Marie.. -.- | Soe
Ar. Mackinaw City........... 8:40pm 11:00am

G. W. Hresargp, Gen. Pass. Agt. Marquette.
E. C. Oviatt, Trav. Pass. Agt., Grand Rapids

 

 

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