ro A cz AN SS VQ COE a vy b im ee i A = / N 4; A Cr) ONES CO RP a NMacuic) V1 aa: Ai Seo es A Si Ta) G @ i) CC: a a bays we Ss HPS S > y YS mo — e AN bs Pe. > LOS ye PA cy a8. Pe HG CEE SS PUBLISHED WEEKLY Vis FIRS Im * 3 P = —<—-; = v 2 \ Se ASS SSS LE WSS Volume XV. GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, MAY II, 1898. Newbies 764 geesrseseseaset » SS ene 7 esrsesesesesesese "SD The Fo od Commissioner nst cheap vinegars which wun an aggressive isade again I g 2 jeSas epee re oe ee se se SeSeS tre not up to the legal standard. It will be well for the retail to prepare for the wrath to come by — in voods of ognized purity and strength, and we beg leave to call the ttenti wGithie Gude to the Gack 44s is always up to the stand ird established by the Legislature and g not to contain any deleterious ac ids orany- that it is ¢ nteed that is not produced from the — One hundred doll: cash stands back of this guaranty Ask your jobber for irs Robinson’s vinegar and insist on hav sie no other. If your job- er will not get it for you, order direct from the manufacturer, eens CIDER & VINEGAR CO., Benton Harbor, Mich. e6eseSesSeSeSe5e5eSe5ese5es$eoe5e5e5eSe5e5e25e5e5 LP AL NA LV PAL AAD SNP AL AA INP OL AAD ANP ALP AA AP SO ALNS FY PURITY AND STRENGTH! FLEOGHMANN & G0.'S COMPRESSED YEAST As placed on the market in tin foil and under our yellow label and signature is ABSOLUTELY PURE ‘2 ~ hiruulet Oa C oer 2 Z oO ws convenient for handling. Neatly wrapped in >, COMPRESSED S» 5 y pp tin foil. Give our silverware premium list to your patrons and increase your trade. Particu- lar attention paid to shipping trade. Address, OUR LABEL FLEISCHMANN & CO. Detroit Agency, 118 Bates St. Grand Rapids Agency, 26 Fountain St. Of greater strength than any other yeast, and } A iF +e eee eae e SaaS Saa HE Ta See eeN REN S ease aa ereeeTeee secsttt. seed S¥, Sites A scientifically compounded,non-cathartic poison, FLY BUTTONS diameter sheets of green paper, with red label, retail at 5 cents. 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Hugs MAKE BUSINESS Bour’s Blended Coffees know no competition. consumption has been simply marvelous, Their growth in which only demonstrates their extremely fine quality over and above all others. Our Coffees not alone increase your sales instantly, but pay you a profit. Give them a thirty day trial now. wait—now is the opportune time. Don’t The J. M. Bour Co., 113-115-117 Ontario St., Toledo, Ohio. 129 Jefferson Avenue, Detroit, Mich. Tanglefoot is the most practical Popular aversion to flies is growing, and Fly Destroyers are coming into greater use. Of all means for their destruction and the best on account of its greater efficacy, cleanliness, endurance and cheapness. This is why the sale of Tanglefoot increases yearly. PRICE, 30 CENTS A BOX.—$2.55 A CASE. To increase your sales of Tanglefoot TANGLEFOOT séaléd Stloky FI) Paper ONE OF THE MOST PROFITABLE THINGS YOU SELL. . ¢ $ = YOUR et your customers see it in actual use ¥ in your store, in the Holder; ¥ WHOLESALER They will follow your example. © Every customer to whom you sell a box of z SELLS Tanglefoot will remember it with pleasure : TANGLEFOOT. every day of the summer. , ances, < Sonia ire A Volume XV. Established Paying Livery and Business In a live town and county. Refer to any traveling man that makes Hart. Been in this business here 15 years and over. Must sell on account of ill-health. 8 excellent horses in splendid condition. Double and single carriages, harnesses, cutters, robes and everything connected with livery goes. This isa bargain for some one. Will not sell less.tthan $1000.00 practically cash. W. H. BAILEY, Hart, Mich. 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The anxiety which has followed the battleship” Oregon in her long voyage around the Horn has strengthened the conviction that the journey was one which might have been avoided if this country had done what it ought to have done years ago-—built the Nicaragua Canal. The war with Spain, should it accomplish nothing else, has demon- strated that, from a naval standpoint, the canal is a necessity, and the com- mercial advantages resulting from the undertaking only increase this. Had the nation been engaged in war with a first-class power, the trip of the Oregon would have been hazardous in the extreme. As it is, it was with many misgivings that the nation followed the daily progress of the vessel and was prepared for the worst in regard to her; and, now that all fears are at rest, it becomes a matter of much concern whether the risk should be repeated. With an extensive seacoast on both sides of South America, with the pros- pects before us that other complications may make such journeys a necessity, the transfer of a squadron instead of a single battleship may be desirable at a time when ‘‘doubling’’ the cape can not be taken into consideration. in sucha condition of things the canal would meet the demands required, as it would to-day were it in existence. This, more than anything else, leads to, the assertion that the canal should belong to the Government of the United States. Any other condition would lead to intervention from some quarter—an idea not to be thought of. It shouid be built, owned and controlled only by this Government, to be of any advantage in war, otherwise, like the Suez Canal, it would be closed to combatants in war- time when it was needed most. To the business question, ‘‘Will it pay?’’ it may be stated that, if the experience furnished by the Suez Canal is worth anything, the canal at Nica- ragua will be found a paying invest- ment. The Suez Canal cost $115,000, - ooo, It is capitalized at $90,500,000. It paid a net profit, in 1892, of $8, 333, 333. Its shares are quoted to-day $538.58 for $100 par value, a statement which answers the question fairly and squarely and which is suggestive that the authors of the bill before the last Congress, who asked the Government to pay most of the cost and leave the control of the canal in the hands of a private corpora- tion, had a fair idea of what they were about and that it would prove a good thing. The conclusion of the whole matter is that the Government should buiid and control the canal. It should be begun at once. When finished, it will be a paying investment in times of peace and in wartime the country will realize its full stragetic value. a Woman’s Influence in the Worid. A recent New York paper has an edi- torial devoted to the subject of men who have become famous or prominent on account of their marriage or associa- tion with noted women, and adduces a GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, MAY II, 1898. number of modern instances in support of its theory. It occurs to us that the writer should have begun at the beginning, if he wanted to make an exhaustive article on the subject. There’s old man Adam, for example; where would he have been —and where would the rest of us be, per- haps—if Eve had not made a sneak on the apple orchard? We can not, it is true, tell what might have been, but if there had been no Eve, there would have been no apple eating, and, for all we know, the pair of them might have been in the garden yet arid none of the rest of us have been heard of. Later on we find Jacob’s mother play- ing what modern slang writers would call ‘‘a gum game’’ on old father Isaac, by which young and smooth-skinned Jacob counted all the points in the game and left poor hairy Esau out in the cold. Of course, it is all specula- tion, but none the less we have often wondered how things would have turned out if Esau had caught onto the little game and broken up the combination. Esau was the older and was entitled to all the honors and privileges belongiug to an elder son. It is natural to sup- pose that if Esau had gotten his rights there would have been no twelve sons of Jacob to found a Jewish nation and no Jewish nation to be founded. That is human reasoning. On the same line is the case of Moses and the daughter of Pharaoh. It is curious to speculate the probable course of events if the dusky princess hadn’t rambled down to the banks of old Nilus just at the proper time. If the little Hebrew kid had escaped being snapped up by an unappreciative crocodile, the chances are that some lowborn Egyptian would have found him and either slammed him against a stone or raised him as a disciple of some one of the thousand or more deities of their re- ligion. There, to follow merely human reasoning, would have been another break in the succession of events, and the Hebrews left to labor as slaves of the Pharaohs fo? all time to come. Coming further down the line, we reach the lion-tearing and jawbone- wielding Samson, whose exploits form one of the most stirring portions of Bible history. If Delilah had not cor ralled him and practiced the barber’s art on his luxuriant hair, he might have gone on killing Philistines and wild animals and tying foxes’ tails together until he died of old age, like other people; but when he suffered himself to be deluded by a woman, as many an- other man has done, he laid the foun- dation for a tragic ending to his al- ready storiny life and played the dickens with some of the best people among the Philistines. And so we might follow sacred and profane history, from the beginning of time, and find that a woman has man- aged to have more or less influence on the lives and histories of prominent men of all ages and all countries. It’s a way they have. a -8 - Charity begins at home; but much of it has gore to Cuba. Number 764 Bananas for Typhoid Patients. After a long experience with typhoid patients, Dr. Ussery, of St. Louis, maintains that the best food for them is the banana. He explains by stating that in this diseave the lining mem- brane of the small intestines becomes intensely inflamed ard engorged, even- tually begining to slough away in spots, leaving well-defined ulcers, at which places the intestinal walls beccme dan- gerously thin. Now, a solid food, if taken into the stomach, is likely to produce perforation of the intestines, dire results naturally following; and this being the case, solid foods, or those containing a large amount of in- nutritious substances, are to be avoided as dangerous. But the banana, although it may be classed as a solid food, con- taining as it does some 95 per cent. nutrition, does not possess sufficient waste to irritate the sore spots; nearly the whole amount taken into the stom- ach is absorbed, giving the patient more strength than can be _ obtained from other foods. —____» 2. A Berlin paper has ascertained that intoxication by means of ether has_ be- come almost epidemic in Lithuania, owing to the fact that ether is cheaper than brandy and less of it is needed to get drunk on. Many families have been ruined by the habit, which has also found victims even among. school children. 8 Ptomaines in shad roe, ice cream, oysters and pickled salmon killed four persons in four days in New York re- cently. In Kansas City ptomaines in milk poisoned a family. It is astonish- ing how deadly these noxious bacilli become as soon as they are discovered. : — 2 -o The government of Hayti has decided to tax American merchants and their employes at the same rate as the na- tives. For the last twenty years the tax on foreigners has been double that on natives. Americans are also to have the same trade and labor privileges. _ > ¢-—> It is almost certain now that when American snobs go abroad to spend their money, those who are not aping the English can be proud of their nation at home. ~ > ee The man who is really overworked never seems to know it. It is the fussy fellow who does not know what work is who thinks he is doing too much. —_—__>-2-. Now everybody who wants to be some- body remembers having known Dewey before the young man became famous. a a It is said fifteen admirais of Spain are ready to declare their allegiance to Don Carlos. That ought to kill him. —— a eect You can bet your life Portugal is now willing to be neutral, Neutrality is ever so much better than annihilation. i France advises Spain to throw up the sponge. Very soon the poor thing may have no sponge to throw up. a >om - The cheerful giver is one who would give more if he had anything at all to give. A woman with her hat on straight is out of style in these crooked days, a nt a a LE EI RCE STSCI SETTER EAI SAIC SN OE: so net scree ar mares De rer nner penny fom aM ane tame ier etn as nce es st pertrcenensienticaats et Sesion Ree Tne PE ea MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Dry Goods The Dry canis ‘Market. Staple Cottons—Another advance of about 5 per cent. has been registered by hicks. and prices of these goods are now 15 to 20 per cent. above those of two weeks Diversion of looms and spindles from regular to Govern- ment goods is the principal cause of this advance, but the demand from reg- ular buyers has been considerably stim- ulated thereby. Converters have shown more interest in heavy brown drills and sheetings during the week, and _ several leading mills are so well ordered that agents can afford to adopt a very inde- pendent attitude toward buyers. If an advance did not mean the holding of an umbrella for competitors, it would have been made before this. Low grade brown goods of light weight have fared a little better during the week under review, but stocks of most varieties are too large to allow one week of fair busi- ness to appreciably strengthen the mar- ago. ket. Bleached cottons exhibit very little improvement, although the cut- ting up trade has shown a little more interest in shirtings, and fine cambrics and muslins. This department of the market is almost as badly in need of a curtailment of production as is the print cloth division. Wide sheetings are extremely slow and in very tull sup- ply; jobbers, however, have made a considerable hole in stocks of these goods, and must soon go into the mar- ket to replenish. Colored goods of heavy weight have been selling more freely, and can not be bad at concessions. Fancy ducks, denims and tickings have moved with added freedom, and the cut- ting up trade has been a freer buyer of stripes, checks, denims and _ plaids. Low grade colored goods are less irreg- ular in price than two weeks ago, as a result of au improved demand, Prints—Very little has been accom- plished recently in seasonabie prints. Some leading lines are well cleaned up, but there are large stocks of wash goods, printed lappets, lawns, organdies and similar thin goods on the market. Unless bright warm weather is soon ex- perienced large lots will be carried for- ward to next season. These goods were made from high-priced cloths, and the loss to printers must be considerable. Hosiery The demand for fancies shows some decrease, as the trade seems to have supplied its wants to a large ex- tent. First class styles in good quali- ties, however, are still in demand, and there seems to be very little probability of any overloading of this class of goods. The goods that are not selling are a certain class of fancies put to- gether by makers who have neither taste nor knowledge of the requirements of the trade. The result is that patterns are seen in many selections which are simply grotesque in their combinations of colors and an outrage on good taste. Buyers will do well to carefully avoid such goods, as certain loss will be in- curred by them. Underwear—Among the jobbers there has been some complaint of dulness in spring and summer weights, which is no doubt justified, as the weather has been unfavorable to that class of goods. It is certain, however, that any sort of a demand that springs up will show that the market is very poorly supplied with spring weights, and is likely to be bare for the balance of the season. Carpets——The manufacturers are close-mouthed to a man regarding the future. As and do not propose to make goods ahead of demand, as they can not get away from the present prices of wool during the present administration, as they ex- pect that the tariff will restrict importa- tions and materially increase prices. What is needed now is to settle down to the actual conditions that confront man- ufacturers. Positive prices for foreign wool have come to stay for the next few years, it is believed, and then manu- facturers will be enabled to form a basis of calculation. They are not eager to take orders for carpets in any amount, unless they see a chance to make some profit. Blankets—There has been an added interest during the past two weeks in the blanket market, as in the woolen, on account of the requests for bids from the Government. The last request has been for specifications for 125,000 gray woolen army blankets. Besides this, however, the medical departments have asked how soon certain quantities of finer white blankets could be supplied in case of necessity. The effect of these requests has been felt in the general tone of the market. Buyers, who have up to now withheld their orders, have in several cases come forward, and seemed more or less anxious to know about deliveries, feeling that the mills that secure the Government contracts will not care to bother with smaller orders, unless they have already ac- cepted them. The call for bids also shows auother thing, and that is that the Government has not the large supplies on hand of either blankets or clothing woolens that it was thought to have, Bunting—The patriotism of the coun- try, which never before was more marked, is noticeable in the display of the National emblem, not only from pub- lic buildings, banks and_ business houses, but also from the homes of the people, and this has caused a very large number to engage in supplying this de- mand, which has given employment to a large number of people, and prices of bunting have advanced during the past week over Io cents per yard. The ‘‘Star Spangled Banner’’ is floating every- where, and will continue to while the war lasts. — 0 Drill Your Clerks. Drill your clerks, Make them all stand ‘‘eyes front.’’ Don't allow them to hang around the store entrance in bunches of threes and fours. If they don’t actually prevent people from pass- ing into your store, the sight of such a group may deter some from making the attempt. Salespeople, when not engaged with a customer, should always be on the look- out for one. For this reason they should never stand with their backs to the counter. They should not gossip with heads together as though plotting against the management or against the government. If engaged in stock work, they should still keep an eye open for the main chance—-the chance to make a sale. '' Ever on motto. Don't give customers who come to your store on rainy days the impression that you wish they had stayed at home, as you are changing around stock and don’t wish to be interrupted. The very best trade often go shopping on these days, because they feel they can take more time and receive better attention from salespeople than on busy days. —_—__> +. ____ J. P. Platte, 58 Monroe street, Grand Rapids, manufacturer and wholesaler umbrellas and parasols. Also covers and repairs them. Orders are filled the same day as received. the alert’’ should be the yet they are full of alarm | frreeeeeeereeree errr rrr ery, “pp + LEEEEEEE EEE ELE EEE EE EE EEE Ladies’ Wrappers New goods at Right prices. + Voigt, Herpolsheimer & Co., Wholesale Dry Goods, (irand Rapids, Mich. PDD pHa enh oahu oh nah ahah uh uhah ah ababababababah \ “ “”- “”- “ “e “e “ “ "~ “- “ “ “ “ “- “? “? “~~ “- “? “ “ “ “? “PPh AD HD OD a Hoe he up oh oe whe ne we een anh ubeab ub ubub bi nbububabay “? “e “e “? “? “ “? “? “e “? “” “” “? “~~ “? “- “e “? “? “? “? “- “ “ 2 POCOLOLOLOLOLOLOL02LOL4 LO 2 2 w : : Warm Weather Coming =« Also new arrivals in summer Wash Organdy from 5c to 20c. Dimity from 4%4c to 15c. Lawns, Lappetts, Ducks, White Goods, we Percales and new plaid cotton Dress Goods. Full standard prints, fancies, blues, madders and staples, 4c. New lines of Belts, Belt Buckles, Belt Pins. Write for samples. e e e@ e e@ @ P. Steketee § Sons, Jobbers, 2 Grand Rapids. c COLDS LTLTDLTLSLSLELSLOL—8 Thé Gem Union Suit 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 not 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. Glove Knitting Works, crane napies. Goods. a ° nemecepeemennannntte Qe EN en Mn - RAM RR Ree on NRE The Tendency in Shawls. From the American Wool and Cotton Reporter. The caprice of fashion, which regu- lates to a large extent the demand for textiles for women's wear, has not as yet favored the market for shawls. To be sure, golf capes, the next thing to shawls, are very much in vogue, and shawl manufacturers have felt the effects, but there is no fashion as yet in shawls. And yet the orders this sea- son show—in most instances—-an in- creased reyjuest, and for attractive, happy styles agents have succeeded in obtaining better prices. In beavers woven with plain. centers the demand from the Northwest and West has been excellent, but from the Southwest the request has been more for longs, squares and fancies, which—where the styles have been right—have com- manded fully 15 per cent. advance over last season’s prices. Agents inform us that the trade this year are disposed to bry heavyweight goods, ranging, for beavers, as high as 48 ounces, and for rugs as high as 70 ounces in plain, quiet effects. So far as foreign shawls are con- cerned, the tariff is almost entirely pro- hibitory, 60 per cent. ad valorem, and a pound duty of 45 cents, shutting out imported goods. The protection ranges from IIo to 112 per cent. to land these goods, and therefore—except for rare novelties—no business can be done. Every lady in the land, if she desires to be in style, must now own a golf cape. They are quite the proper thing. The colors run from plaids reversed to plain, the goods weighing from 50 to 70 ounces. The shawl is a sensible, convenient and economic garment, and in cases of illness and emergencies is almost indis- pensable. ——--—~> 2. His ’Rithmetic Lesson. ‘*This is a straight story,’’ saida gro- cery clerk, whose veracity has never been impeached. ‘‘It happened in our store. A little boy came into our store on Monday, and waited for some one to notice him. He carried a sheet of writ- ing paper in his hand, at which he glanced from time to time. One of the idle clerks came to him finally, and the boy, reading from his paper, announced in a sing-song voice: ‘My motber wants ten pounds of rice, fifteen pounds of sugar, twelve pounds of oatmeal, twenty pounds of—’ ‘Hold on!’ interrupted the clerk. ‘But the boy insisted on calling off the articles himself. Two other clerks were pressed into service, and the three men proceeded to do up the various packages as the boy called them off. He wanted al! kinds of things, and he asked the price of each article as they went along, making a note of it on his paper. The clerks had the counter stacked with packages when the boy wound up with ‘eighteen pounds of flour.’ One cf the clerks called out the price, and the boy continued, ‘And how much does my mother have to pay for her groceries?’ ‘‘One cf the clerks counted up the total and announced it as $18.73. The boy made a note of it and started out. ‘* “Come back here! Where are you going?’ cried the clerks in chorus. ‘*" Why,’ said the boy, as he mide for the door, ‘that’s jest me ‘rithmetic les- son fur Monday. I haveter know it, er [tl git licked.” - oe Took the Conceit Out of Him. A drummer tells a pretty good story concerning a brother drummer who in his early traveling days was overbur- dened with a deplorable amount of self-importance. He was one of those young men who entertain a fixed idea that the entire business community has its eye riveted admiringly on them. They are supremely convinced that the business world could not exist very long without their assistance, and that the establishment which they honor by their services is so widely k-own and ap- preciated that a general feeling of in- tense interest is created whenever men- tion is made of anything or anybody connected therewith, There are plenty of the conceit taken out of them sooner or This particular drummer had occasion on a large house, the proprietor of which was an exceedingly busy man, a man always rushed with work and who had very little time to At the moment the drummer made his call the merchant was busily dictating a letter, and his visitor advanced to the desk and laid down his business card. continued his dictation without looking The drummer was a little discon- certed, and waited about two minutes to receive the hearty and effusive welcome which he was sure awaited him. the merchant went on Presently the drummer again assumed In a pompous voice he one day to call spare to callers. The merchant with his work. My name is Brown, and I represent the house.of Smith & Smith, said the merchant, ‘‘take a chair,’’ and he went on with his dicta- said the drummer, now thoroughly on his dignity, ‘‘I am from Smith & Smith, the great jobbers, ‘“Indeed!’’ said the merchant, with- out looking at him, ‘‘take two chairs.’’ the drummer, and he Advantages of Buying of Few Houses. it the custom of many retail dealers to buy of several houses in the same line of trade. When a deal- er is compelled to consult wholesale merchant because of his ability to meet his obligations and the absolute necessity of extension of time, I have found him indebted to so many houses that it was almost impossible to obtain an extension for him. the smaller creditors, knowing that they have little at stake, would being paid, and would refuse to grant MICHIGAN TRADESMAN these youths around to-day, but they get a ( eS 2S 6S 2S OSES OS OT OSS Q eS SEAS ESS SSS SESS SS SESS i 4 ‘Carpets SAS SRS SAS SRS SaaS Sa aasaakasa Lf to represent us. > cS YET : = = LSS SEES Dealers don’t keep our goods; they SELL them. 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. Letus 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 DAI ash 2) DE me DE IIs Pe} moe She JS QE s, Le ak LD GK & Y a f 0 eS This size 1s very popular, as the patterns show up beautifully. If you AG) prefer large samples we will cut them any length desired at the price of A! the goods per yard. We have the best-selling goods on earth. Don't {Wi wait, order samples at once; it will be to your interest and we want you AU sy HENRY NOEE & CO., KY WA SOUTHEAST CORNER MARKET & MONROE STS., CHICAGO. Ai Complete price list and telegraph code will be sent with samples. OK BOIS ROIS SISOS BOTS /* SASASASHSA SASS an extension. The aggregate of indebtedness represented by these small- er creditors would be sufficient to pre- clude the possibility of securing the desired extension. I am sure, therefore, that the retail dealer will buy to better advantage and have his account much better shape if he confines his purchases to as few houses as_ possible, consistent with the variety in his stock’ to meet the require- ments of his trade. One of the most unwise and unjust acts which a dealer can perform is to attempt to transfer his trade to another house while behind in his payments. The act becomes known very speedily and causes collections to be vigorously need of sufficient Be loyal to those who have granted Do not transfer trade when Wait until you have nothing past due, then place your We furnish our ag | \ $,000 agents are now canvassing with our line of s rs, ng 4\ I>) to $200 per month. We want 4,000 more active, reliab] n te Patt i not yet filled. C % Many concerns advertise themselves as “tailors to the trade,” | } ] “arning from $50 to take the places but we art ie | the original and only manufacturers on a large seale of ‘“‘ready-to-we eo r clothing exciusively for consumers. We don’t wh We r { There is but one small profit between the first cost gvarn P | men and boys who wear them. We run our own pi: 1 the epg send out are cut from the cloths we make up in our factory. We¢ su | sand atatime. Hence the low prices we offer. These goods bear the trad Hf A WHITE HORSE BRAND. oe ~~ ~ oie oe } A superb outfit and advertising matter furnished free to our agents. Do you not think with all these advantages you could interest your frie and neighbors and secure their orders for clothing? The workmanship and trimmings are the very best on every garment Men's Suits $4 to S15. Boys’ Suits $3 to S89. Men's Trousers 75e to ®4, We also operate one of the largest Custom Departments where garments are actually cut and made-to-measure by the most skillful workmen. The trade mark for this department is WHITE CITY BRAND. its with a fine line of samples and partment without charge. The prices for suits are $12 to meet the taste and purse of every man and boy in your co eral commission. Don’t miss this chance. * Write for particu WHITE CITY TAILORS, 222-226 ADAMS STREET, CHICAGO. SOROROROROROHOROROTORORORORONOHOROHOHOROHOROROCTSSO «< ull nece c Wi t itv. We pay our agent: lars to Dept. G. R. SOROROROHROROROROROROHOROR OCHOCTORCHONOCHOE OZOROROHOHOH : © AN OPPORTUNITY “xs nos'ts2. RO RSCRORORORORON PERE Ketesen OBL orders with the firm offering the best op- +> 9. G. R. & I. trains are now running be- tween Grand Rapids and Muskegon F Leave Union Station 9g a. m., returning, leave Muskegon 6:35 An inexpensive Sunday outing. Further Experiments in Stomach Re- Since the publication of Dr. Schlat- ter’s case of total exsection of the stom- ach, two operations of the sort have been undertaken in this country—one in St. Louis, and the other in Milwaukee. {n each instance the patient died a few hours after the completion of the oper- Dnt te abn be at Bn bn be bn bn bn be bn be bn tn tn bn bn bn be nt Mp be eM it te GUC UCU COUETCUECCTCOCCOOOOCOTCOTOROOSC OS ee THE BOYS AT ISLAND LAKE Have had a foretaste of war during the past ten days a4 and many of them have yearned for a place at the family RB table and a chance to partake of some of mother’s bis- 1 cuits, made from L QUEEN FLAKE BAKING POWDER A sg ew 4h which is the favorite brand with thousands of Michigan oe \ housewives and is used and recommended by hundreds Price a of cooks and-chefs. If you do not carry these goods in | \ stock, you are making a serious mistake, both from the \ \ Jj i 4 standpoint of your customers’ health and your own profit | account. Manufactured only by | | \ NORTHROP, ROBERTSON & CARRIER J LANSING, MICH. ie al PRPIPIPEPIPIPIIP SE 4 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Around the State Movements of Merchants. Honor—D. H. Barr has purchased the meat market of A. E. Paradise. Ishpeming—F. C. Glocke, wholesale confectioner, has sold out to John Mug- fur. Jackson—-McGraw & Crone succeed John E. McGraw in the hardware busi- ness. Battle Creek—Landes & Co. have opened a grocery store at 215 West Main street. Marquette —F. C. confectionery dealer, Calumet. Benton Harbor—J. W. Lundy & Co. bave sold their stock of groceries to Adam Miller. Kalkaska—Stanton Swaverly and Ern- est Sherwood have engaged in the meat market business. St. Charles—Will Altenburg, of Ithaca, has established a jewelry busi- ness at this place, Big Rapids—E. G. Hopkins has pur- chased the Peters Kandy Kitchen and will continue the business. Traverse City—G. B. Schiappacasse, of Grand Rapids, has opened a fruit and confectionery store here. Alger—Jos. Fournier, who was for- merly engaged in general trade at this place, has removed to Colfax. Brown City—H. McNair has taken Fred Kerslake, of Lexington, into partnerhsip in his mercantile business. Glocke, cigar and has removed to Marysville—Jos. Williams, who con- ducts a grocery and meat business here and at St. Clair, has removed to the datter place. Owosso—J. G. Davison, formerly en- gaged in the grocery business at this place, has purchased a stock of groceries at Williamston. Lansing—Hodge & Hoagland have discontinued their wholesale fruit busi- ness at Battle Creek and engaged in the same line of trade at 112 Michigan avenue. Ferry—The report that P. F. Ernst has sold his drug stock to J. E. Con- verse is untrue. The reverse is the case, Mr. Converse having sold his stock to Mr. Ernst. Hancock—-E, M. Lieblein is moving his wholesale grocery stock into his new three-story and basement brick block, which is one of the finest structures in the copper country. Ann Arbor—Edward Duffy, who has conducted the grocery business in the Duffy block for the last thirty-seven years, bas retired from active business on account of ill health. Wayland—W. H. Bechtel, who recent- ly engaged in the grocery business at this place, has formed a copartnership with A. E. Butterfield, of Paw Paw. The style of the firm will be Bechtel & Buttertield. Fremont—The Indicator thus notes the tendency of trade in Newaygo county: DeWitt Bros. are making ar- rangements to start a general store at Stumpy Corners. This region has evi- dently adopted the down-South idea of having a store at most every important cross-roads and on some roads that don’t cross. This being a ‘‘tendency of the age,’’ the question will naturally come up, What is the destiny of villages in general, but especially that class of vil- lages in which the country round is thickly populated with thrifty farmers? Probably there will be one grand com- bination, some time, making it village- country or country-village! Bad Axe—A. Lepevsky & Co. have removed their general stock to Minden City, where they are also engaged in the mercantile business. Port Huron—J. W. Goulding & Co., wholesale and retail dealers in notions and furnishing goods, have opened a branch store at Imlay City. Alma—B. S. Webb has removed his stock of drugs and wall paper into the new corner store of the Opera House block, being forced to make the change on account of the necessity of more room. Elk Rapids—O. C. Van Wormer, junior member of the firm of Van Wormer & Sen, bankers at this place, was married to Miss Lizzie Verdine, at the home of the bride’s parents, at Grand Rapids, April 26. Sherman-—-E. B. Stanley, who has been engaged in the mercantile busi- ness here for nineteen years, has sold his general stock to Gilbert & Sturte- vant and will devote his entire atten- tion to his lumbering interests. Detroit--John C. Hartz, hatter and haberdasher at 52 and 54 Monroe avenue, has added a shoe department and placed the same in charge of J. E. Valentine, who was in the shoe busi- ness. here for many years. Mr. Hartz is at present city assessor. Battle Creek—The copartnership here- tofore existing between E. N. Cadwell and S. A. Howes, under the firm name of Cadwell & Howes, has been dis- solved, Mr. Howes having purchased the interest of his partner in the grocery business at 25 North Jefferson street. Manufacturing Matters. Shelbyville—W. Bostwick has pur- chased the machinery of the cheese factory and will operate it this season. Detroit—The Leech-Ellis & Gentle Lumber Co., Limited, succeeds Leech & Ellis in the wholesale lumber busi- ness. Menominee—The Richardson Shoe Co. has started six salesmen on the road and expects to be able to fill orders in the course of a week or ten days. Maple Rapids—The creamery at this place has been leased by Smyth & Henry, who are overhauling it, prepar- atory to the manufacture of butter and cheese. Missaukee—All of the machinery has been taken from the creamery building here and removed to Vogel Center, to be used in the new cheese factory es- tablished at that place. Hastings—A new company has been organized at this place for the manufac- ture of tin car seals and locks. The promoters of the enterprise are R. B. Messer and J. T. Lombard. North Branch—A. D. Killip is now sole proprietor of the cheese factory at Teeple’s Corners, having purchased the interest of the other stockholders. The factory began operations last week. Cheboygan—The sawmill of Thomp- son Smith's Sons started last week, and with a double crew it will be operated day and night the entire season, A good portion of the stock comes from Canada. Bay City—J. W. McGraw, of this city, who owns 250,000,000. feet of timber on the Mackinaw division, and a railroad which was extended from the Bag- ley branch of this road last season, has negotiated a deal for the purchase of a shingle mill built ona branch of that road last season at the new lumbering town of New Toledo, which Mr. Mc- Graw was instrumental in founding. Detroit—Articles incorporating the Michigan Safety Furnace Pipe Co. have been filed with the County Clerk. The capital stock is $6,000, with $3,000 paid in. The stockholders, each own- ing 100 shares of stock, are Isaac, Sam- uel and Wm. Stearns, all of Detroit. Manistee—Log shortage has become a vital question. Rivers are so low at points that logs will not float and some mills have had to shut down. Despite recent rains the driving stage is not high, but better conditions are ex- pected soon, especially on Bear Creek. Alpena—-Manager McDermott, who is establishing cheese factories in this lo- cality, has received the machinery for the factory at Long Rapids, which will begin manufacturing in about ten days. The Harrisville and Mikado plants are being equipped and will be opened soon. Menominee——The_ Fisher-Anderson Co., composed of D. J. Fisher and A. L. Anderson, has been organized for the manufacture of cartons for shoe dealers. The company has a contract to manufacture the boxes for the Rich- ardson Shoe Co. and, to start with, will turn out 600 a day. Saginaw—The Walsh & Kerry Manu- facturing Co., which recently started in business here, is employing 30 men and is making boxes, having so many or- ders that there has been no opportunity as yet to begin the manufacture of ma- ple flooring, which is to be one of the features of the concern’s business. Edmore—John Dallavo, of Wyman, has purchased the Spanagle lumber and shingle mill machinery south and west of Stanton, and will remove the same to his green timber in Ferris township. He is erecting shanties for the accom- modation of his men and teams, and in a very short time will have the mill in operation. Aside from hardwood tim- ber, he has considerable green cedar and some pine which he will manufac- ture into shingles. Owosso—The Michigan Package Co., manufacturer of parchment lined but- ter packages, has sold its stock and leased its plant to J. B. Wo-din, who has had the management of the estab- lishment for the past year and will con- tinue the business under the same style. Mr. Woodin has displaved remarkable executive ability in establishing the business, and richly deserves the good fortune in store for him as the sole own- er of the institution. Jackson Grocers To Picnic Aug. Il. Jackson, May to--At the last meet- ing of the Jackson Retail Grocers’ Asso- Ciation, it was decided to hold the an- nual picnic on Aug. 11. N. H. Branch was selected to act as chairman of the general Committee on Arrangements, the sub-committees being as follows: Tickets—W. H_ Porter, J. Frank Hel- mer, B. C. Hill, G. E. Lewis, Lewis Pelton. ° Transportation—C. G, Lewis, J. Frank Helmer. Advertising—W. H. Porter, P. W. Haefner, B. D. Legg. Music—H. C. Eddy, J. Frank Hel- mer, J. L. Petermann. Badges—M. M. Whitney, M. Fisher, W. H. Porter. The place of picnic has not yet been decided upon. W. A. McGraw, proprietor of the Michigan Shoe Company (Detroit), submitted to a surgical operation for appendicitis about two months ago, He has recently been removed from the hospital to his home at Grosse Point, where it is confidently expected that he will completely recover his health, although the recovery will necessarily be slow. Hill, G. E. The Lesson to Be Learned from Mr. Grosvenor. Casnovia, May 7—I have watched, with considerable interest, the workings of the pure food laws, also the vigorous prosecutions under the laws, in many cases against innocent parties, which is, no doubt, commendable and right. It is, no doubt, right and proper that the people of this commonwealth should be protected from imposition by having palmed off upon them some articles of food which, as a rule, are not un- wholesome or injurious to health. The worst that can be said is that the pur- chaser has been defrauded to the amount of the difference between the genuine article and the spurious ene. It is, no doubt, right that there should be a horde of paid officials to spy out and prosecute offenders against this particular law. But standing over against this are many laws which there is no such effort being made to enforce. Prominent and most conspicuous is the law governing the liquor traffic, which robs the people, not only of wealth, but of almost every other Godgiven right; yet who stands sponsor for this law and who is responsible for its prosecution? What official does the State of Michi- gan pay whose especial business it is to see that this law, governing the most iniquitous traffic the world has ever known, is properly enforced? I suppose if the merchants of Michigan were to be mulcted to the tune of several thous- and dollars, the violators of law might be winked at and they would cease to be ‘‘hampered, harrassed and_perse- cuted,’’ as Mayor Perry puts it. It is enough to almost make one think that law is a farce and travesty upon the idea of justice. ‘‘O, Constancy! Thou art, indeed,a jewel of a rare type.’’ But one lesson we may learn from this, that law can be enforced if there is a dispo- sition to enforce it. Oo: DB. SS The Retail Dry Goods Assuciation of New York has taken action toward regulating the price of proprietary goods, suchas patent medicines, lotions, etc., which are important items in the stock of department stores. The price cutting on this class of goods has been so severe that in numerous cases the sale of them has been rendered abso- lutely profitless, and something had to be done to prevent losses. It has been agreed that a scale of prices shall be drawn up which will put these goods on a profitable basis. This action of the retail dry goods men is noteworthy be- cause it 1s the first concerted attempt ever made _ by them to regulate the price of any line of merchandise. a - The advance on rubber footwear, May 2, proved to be about-1o per cent. on nearly all of the heavy grades of goods. Boots, arctics, overs, etc., carry the burden of the advance, while sandals and specialties will average about 6 per cent. The United States Rubber Co. is said to have removed any restric- tions formerly laid upon jobbers and the season now ahead of us is expected to be a lively and interesting one, during which it is safe to assume the retailer will not be the under dog in the fight. The discounts are unchanged. —_——_>-2 > ___ The State Bank of Durand has been organized with a capital of $25,000. The officers are Luther Laucks, President; O. H. Obert, Vice-President, and J. D. Leland, Cashier. A two-story brick building will be erected and occupied within sixty days. > 0 A writer in the Electrical Review inclines to the opinion that as the elec- tric motor superseded the horse car, so the perfection of paving will ultimately do away with rails and currents alto- gether, and automobile vehicles rule supreme. Gillies’ ——_.-0 New York teas. All kinds, Phone Visner, 800. grades and prices, Le pin i or Lie = ARREARS SLES Re SIO Nek ee ae ee manasa eas, oe \ MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 5 Grand Rapids Gossip N. P. Jenson has opened a grocery store at Amble. The Worden Grocer Co. furnished the stock. H. O. Lester has opened a grocery store at Delton. The Musselman Grocer Co, furnished the stock. Compton & Swanson have opened a grocery store at Manton. The Ball- Barnhart-Putman Co. furnished the stock. The Valley City Desk Co. has pur- chased the plant of the defunct Grand Rapids Seating Co., paying $16,000 therefor. The annual meeting of the Michigan Wholesale Grocers’ Association, which was called to convene in Detroit this week, has been postponed for the pres- ent, pending negotiations for a correc- tion of the sugar irregularities. W. R. Brice & Co., who have con- ducted an egg buying house here for the past two months, have secured enough stock to fill their storages and will, therefore, discontinue operations here at the end of the present week. This house has taken in 14,000 cases of eggs, affording a cash market which has been very acceptable to Michigan merchants. The Grand Rapids Fancy Furniture Co. has purchased a tract of land on the south side of Hall street, alongside of the Michigan Central Railway, and will immediately begin the erection of a three-story brick factory building, 60x 200 feet in dimensions. The plans for the structure, which are in the hands of Architect Williamson, contemplate mill construction on the slow burning plan, automatic extinguishers and all other modern improvements which are _ in- cluded in an up-to-date factory. Un- less there is unexpected delay in erect- ing and completing the building, Man- ager Uhl expects to be able to occupy the new premises by Sept. 1. RO The Grain Market. We have seen the wheat market very excited and irregular, but the past week has eclipsed anything that has been seen since April, 1877, when wheat ad- vanced 5oc per bushel in one week, but this year wheat advanced 7oc per bushel in the same time. Traders seemed to be wild in bidding and, owing to the import duty being removed in France, Italy, Spain and other wheat-importing countries, it set every trader to buying wheat. New York No. 2 red reached $1.90 per bushel, while Chicago struck about $1.85 at the highest point. These prices are for cash and May wheat. July was also very excited and to-day sold as high as $1.24 and as low as $1.05, closing at $1.14, against $1.20% yesterday. Wheat has gone higher than the most sanguine bull ever dreamed it would, but such are the present condi- tions. Flour has naturally followed wheat in the advance, but not so fast, and the demand has been very good. Mill feed is as much looked after as be- fore and prices have been very steady. Corn has also advanced fully 4c, while oats have advanced 4%c per bushel. The decrease in wheat was somewhat of a surprise, being only 735, - ooo bushels, while a decrease of 2,000,- ooo bushels was expected. We have now 23,187,000 bushels in sight, against 31,862,000 bushels last year and 54,062, - ooo two years ago. To show how Chi- cago drives wheat up, we will say that on May 9g, 343 cars of wheat were re- ceived in that market, against nine cars the same date last year. In these times we can not foreshadow prices. How- ever, we are of the opinion that they will remain about where they are until the new wheat comes in. The receipts in Grand Rapids were very heavy, having been 81 cars of wheat, 17 cars of corn and 9g cars of oats. The miils are paying $1.25 for white wheat and $1.35 for No. 2 red. ©. 'G. A. Vorer. 0 The Produce Market. Asparagus—75@$1 per doz. for home grown. Bananas—The market is pretty well supplied, but the trade is active, and the movement is good. Prices are very firm, and it would not be surprising to see prices advance soon. Beans—The market declined last week, but rallied again Monday, regain- ing the ground lost. Local dealers hold city picked at $1.20 per bu. in carlots and $1.25 in smaller quantity, includ- ing bags. Beets—Old are played out. per duz bunches. Butter—Dairy and creamery are both weaker, in consequence of largely in- creased receipts. Dairy fetches g@rIc, ranging from choice to fancy, and _ fac- tory creamery is in moderate demand at 16¢c. Cabbage—$3 per crate of 4o heads. All receipts so far are from Mississippi. Cucumbers—75c per doz. for home grown. Eggs—Local handlers are still paying gc on track,but as all the storage buyers are about full and the quality is now deteriorating, lower prices are looked for. Receipts are large. Green Onions—toc per doz. Green Peas—$1.25 for 24 bu. crate. Honey—Dark ranges from o9@uloc. Light stock commands I2c. Lemons—There is no change to be noted in the market, but prices are very firm at the advances last quoted. The movement has not been large this week, owing to the cool weather. Lettuce—8c per Ib. Onions—Dry stock from Mississippi commands §1 per bu. Oranges—Prices are rather better than last quotations. There are good stocks of ravels on hand here yet, but they are going fast, and promise to be out of market earlier than usual. They have about ceased to arrive from the coast. Seedlings are also in better form, and are selling well. There is very fair stock of bloods and Mediterranean sweets, which are selling well. ; Parsnips— 25c per bu. *Pieplant—tc per lb. for home grown. Pineapples—Medium Bermudas com- mand $1.50@2 per doz. Potatoes—The market isa little weak- er, on account of the amount of stock the farmers have succeeded in scaring up and rushing into market in order to avail themselves of the present high prices. Dealers pay 75@85c for old and bold new Southern at $1 25 per bu. Seeds—Timothy, prime, $1.45@1.50; Medium clover, $3@3.25; Mammoth clover, $3.15@3.40; Crimson clover, $2.35; Red Top, $1@1.10; Alfalfa, $3.75@4.50; Alsyke, $4 50@4.65; Or- chard grass, $1.60; Kentucky bluegrass, $I. 30@I1.50. Spinach—4oc per bu. : Strawberries— Tennessee stock is now coming in very freely, commanding $3 per case of 24 quarts. The first arrivals of Illinois will reach this market Thurs- day, commanding $4. The Tennessee stock is of medium size and firm in quality. Tomatoes—-$3 per 6 basket crate. Vegetable Oysters—15c per doz. Wax Beans—$1.25 per 24 bu. crate. S aInIRIEinaatiina tie anne A $400,000 boot and shoe factory will be opened in Atlanta next month, and Georgia will begin to compete with an- other of the great industries of Massa- chusetts. New, 4oc The Grocery Market. Sugar—A decline of a sixpence on nearly all grades of refined was an- nounced Monday. Jobbers were unable to understand why prices should be _ re- duced, as the market was just about re- lieved from its heavily oversold condi- tion and grocers throughout the country were receiving considerable of the sugar purchased on the last spurt of activity. Teas—The market is still firm at the advance noted last week. No news is reported concerning the new crop that will soon be on the way from the Orient. The fact that the Spanish fleet has been cleaned off the Pacific ocean will doubtless have the effect to make the shipment of teas more prompt and certain, and possibly to reduce freights. It will not be long before the new crop, or a few of the first pickings, will be coming to this country. Coffee—The situation is very strong. As a result of the general rush for coffee by retailers and consumers, it is stated that warehouse stocks show a decrease of about 700,000 bags in the world’s supply. The supply is large, however. If there shall be no material hindrance in getting stocks to this country the market for Brazil coffee should not go very high. Rice—-So far as foreign markets are concerned, it is not a question ot price, but a question of getting the goods. Holders are indifferent about selling and bids are increased now and then without bringing out large offerings. The situation in New York is just as it has been in reference to spot supplies, and everything is about cleaned up and sales have been made ahead for this month, which prevents the taking of any large sized orders for prompt deliv- ery. Spices—Foreign advices are still firm, resulting in a strong undertone in the American market. Canned Goods—The feature of the week has been the strong position taken by Western canners in relation to to- matoes. Most canners have booked orders for all the futures they are to handle and in many cases jobbers’ or- ders are declined. The season is likely to be from two to three weeks late, which naturally causes the canners con- siderable uneasiness on account of the fear of frost. Future canned corn isa little stronger. No opening prices have yet been made by the fruit canners of the West coast. This ts due to the fact that the dry weather is making the can- ners uncertain as to the supplies. It is expected that there will be a good crop of pears, plums, grapes and ap- ples, and a fair cherry crop. But the apricot and peach crops are not to be unusually large. Spot peaches and pears are reported to be very firm, and apricots are held generally for better prices Dried Fruits—Prunes are higher. There is no change in peaches or apri- cots. There is not great assurance that the coming crop of prunes will be ade- quate to the demand. They have sus- tained some frost damage, and in Cali- fornia the ¢rought, which is unprece- dented, is certain to make a shortage in the crop in that State. In the irri- gation country this will be in a meas- ure obviated. The last season’s crop was truly an immense one. From San Jose, Cal., alone, 55,000,c00 pounds of prunes were shipped during the past crop year, with some more still to come forward. The odd lots of lower priced stock on the cuvast have been picked up, with five months still to new crop. It iS apparent that prices must hold at least to the advance, and possibly go higher. The low grade soft raisins that have troubled the market for some time are about cleaned up, and better grades are in better condition. Good sound stock is reported not to be plentiful on the coast. The outlook for the grow- ing crop in districts where water is to be had is reported to be good. Salt Fish—No changes in prices are to be noted, although there is a scarcity of mackerel and cod, with prospects of a shortened catch this season. A good many of the fishers have gone to sea with the navy, while many vessel own- ers have decided not to risk their boats on the high seas until the war is over, The mackerel catches are not very large thus far this year, and are in a meas- ure disappointing. Tobacco—It is announced that the new plug tobacco trust will be launched within a month, to include the plug tobacco factories already included in the American Tobacco Co. and the other plug factories which have been conducted independently. It is claimed that options have been secured on all of the independent factories except the plant of the Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co., of St. Louis, payment to be made in preferred stock at the appraised value of the plants, with 10 per cent. of the appraised value in common stock asa bonus. The capital stock of the new trust will be $30,000,000, one-half preferred stock and the remainder com- mon stock. Those manufacturers who refuse to accept stock in exchange for their plants will be paid in cash, and the aggregate of such payments will be $8,000,000, which will be raised by the sale of preferred stuck at par. It is expected that Frank Ray will be placed at the head of the organization as Presi- dent and executive officer. Mr. Ray has made a remarkable record as selling agent for the P. J. Sorg Tobacco Co., of Middletown, Ohio, and is personally known to every Michigan grocery job- ber and to many large retailers through- out the State. His business career has been little short of meteoric. Twenty years ago he was porter and office boy for the Chicago representative of Sorg. The regular agent became so intimate with John Barleycorn that he neglected his duties, and the porter summoned Mr. Sorg to Chicago to staighten things out. The outcome of the visit was that the agent was relieved from his engage- ment and Mr. Ray was placed in charge of the branch office. Within a year the new representative was on the highway to prosperity and within a dozen years bis commissions from sales in his ter- ritory amounted to $175,000 a year. No finer example of the opportunities afforded for advancement in this country can be found than in the remarkable career of Mr. Ray, who now aspires to hold a position which will carry with it an annual salary of $25,000. Peanuts—According to the best posted authorities in the trade, there is every reason to expect a further enhancement of values before the summer is over. The stock of fancy handpicked Virgin- iaS is comparatively small and will probably enter into consumption long before the new crop is available. Low grade unshelled peanuts are in more lib- eral supply because of the effects of the rain which fell while many of the nuts were in the shock. Shelled nuts have had a good demand, owing to their cheapness, the consumption being enor- mous. iaciieaainasieacianeMaiaiiiiatiais ter ensaeette tatiana acnlaemacaminianspeite tis 6 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN _Woman’s World Silence a Trump Card in the Game of Life. If it were given me to make but one wish for woman, I would wish that she might be inoculated against the morbid craving for sympathy that seems to afflict tbe entire sex. Somehow, in the com- plexities of the feminine makeup, the faculty of bearing things alone in silence was left out, and from the cradle to the grave we struggle against the tempta- tion to tell our hopes and desires and troubles to anybody who has the time and amiability to listen to us. It is a weakness that is fuli of dan- ger and has wrought untold misery. Many a woman has repented in_ bitter- ness and tears the things she confided in some other woman for no better reason than that they were alone together in the dusk. Her heart was full and, be- fore she knew it, she had revealed fam- ily secrets or betrayed the faith of those who trusted her and told things she would have given her head to have recalled. For an instant’s dole of sym- pathy she had bartered knowiedge that should never bave been made public and that but for her might have been kept from the world. If, as a cynic has said, we hate the man to whom we are indebted for money or favors, be sure we doubly hate and distrust the one to whose discretion we are indebted for the keeping of our secrets. The flabby-souled woman who must talk or die would be bad enough, in all conscience, if she only told her troubles to those whose long friendship and faith she could trust, but she is simply reck- less in her confidences. Give a woman a sympathetic looking face and make her a good listener; put her on a sum- mer resort gallery with a piece of tancy work and inside of a week she will know the private history of nine-tenths of the women present, and that without any prying curiosity of her own. The chances are that she doesn’t want to know their affairs and has troubles enough of her own to keep her oc- cupied, but she can’t help herself. She is the victim of the indiscreet confider and must listen whether she will or not, or give mortal offense. And what things these women tell! Good heavens, the folly, the madness of it, and the wonder that anyone with so little sense should be permitted to be at large without a guardian ! Consider the lack of dignity of a wife who will confide her husband's short- comings and faults and her own unhap- piness to a woman she never saw be- fore, just because the stranger murmurs, ‘*Poor thing !’’ in a sympathetic tone at every pause in the conversation! Just think of a lovelorn damsel who con- fesses that she is the victim of unre- quited affection and who will hold up the cracks in her broken heart for in- spection, because some woman is_ will- ing to plaster it over with a little cheap pity! Think of a mother who is will- ing to raise the dark curtain that should hide a son’s or daughter’s wrong-doing, just because somebody was sorry for her! There are women as responsive to a word or look of sympathy as a bottle of champagne is to a corkscrew. Ap- ply it, and they are bound to effervesce and slop over. Of course, when the heart is bowed down with sorrow, there is a_ natural impulse to sbare the burden with scme one else, and to a woman a grief, for the time at least, has lost half its bit- terness when another mourns with her, It is this feeling that is generally at the bottom of her confidences, so often misplaced, so more than often indis- creet. Say what one will, there is tem- porary comfort in ‘‘talking things over’’ with a sympathetic person, and in that lie the temptation and the danger. We tell of our disappointment in this one, of the ingratitude of that one, something has happened that makes our hearts sore and heavy, and we pour it all out, only to wonder the next day what on earth made us guilty of such idiocy. In a clever novel that was pub- lished a few years ago it is related that a young man was discovered sitting, silent and lonely, out on a fence while the college hop was going gayly on near by. A friend asked what he was do- ing, to which the young philosopher responded that he was trying to keep from making a fool of himself; that there was a girl at the dance that he knew he should propose to if he were to give himself the chance, and that if be did he would regret it the next day. There is a world of suggestion in the remaik, and when we are tempted to ences in strangers it would save us a lot of subsequent mortification and regret if we would only go off by ourselves and sit on a fence until we had cooled off and were reasonably safe from com- mnitting such a folly. The desire for sympathy that is such a passion with most women leads them Ey ' ; loa | ing things to ourselves, but it is one into all sorts of unintentional selfish- ness. by themselves. Tbey don’t mean to be hard on their friends or families. They only fail to realize how wearing contin- ual drafts on one’s sympathy can be- come. If their servants are unsatis- factory, they spend hours recounting their misdeeds, and you must moan and groan with them over the degeneracy of domestic help. If their dressmaker disappoints them, you never hear the last of it and you are expected to think that it is the worst catastrophe that ever occurred. If they are sick, it is rank heresy to believe that anybody ever suffered so before and you are bound to maintain an unwearied attitude while the thrilling recital of pills and potions goes on. Such women deluge their husbands with all the petty domestic worries of the family, not because they want any help, or would take a sug- gestion from him, but just because they want him to sympathize with them and know the troubles they have. It never occurs to them that a man may have troubles, too, and that after worrying with the bread and butter problem all day and being harassed with his own employes, by the time he comes home he is a peace-at-any-price sort of per- son and would like a little quiet and sympathy on his own account. Of course, we all know very well that there is no other subject under heaven quite so interesting as ourselves and those belonging to us, and next to our troubles we like to talk about our hopes and plans and ambitions. We feel that Jobnny’s talent for drawing and Susan’s turn for music are topics of absorbing importance to everybody we know. That is the reason we expatiate on them by the hour, but it is a cold and selfish world, my sisters, and it is quite use- less to look for sympathy along this line. Every woman you know is also the mother of infant phenomenons, and try to remember how you have writhed under the accounts of what these jany willing back. At confide our personal feelings and experi- | They simply won’t bear anything | little prodigies have said and done and bow you wondered what made anybody idiotic enough to so exploit their own vanity for the derision of their friends, It is also well to reflect that while people may wish us well and be glad to know of our success, they don’t care to hear all the details, particularly about the things we are going to do. Alas, and alack, which of us has failed to fall into this pit? A quiet hour, a sympathetic person disposed towards a listening, and we had spread out all the poor, vain, shallow heart of us for their inspection, and bragged, and bragged, and bragged about our plans and prospects. And the plans fell flat and the prospects ended in inglori- ous failure. It is one of the things that we hope are forgotten, but we are beset with doubts. People always remember what you would be willing to pay them to forget. After all, the brave attitude towards life is in shouldering our own cares and responsibilities and bearing them with- out asking ever the sympathy of the world. It is an ignoble and weak creature who would shift its load onto its best, even when given in its fullest measure, sym- pathy amounts to very little. In its dire need, at the extremity of its joy or sor- row, every soul must be as lonely as if it were the only one in created space, for it is eternally true that ‘‘each heart knoweth its own bitterness and a stran- ger intermedleth not with its joy.’’ It is not easy to acquire the habit of keep- that is worth cultivating and that will yield large and handsome dividends on the investment and labor expended.: It will save us from getting into a world of trouple by telling the things we should have kept to ourselves. It saves us from making ourselves ridiculous. It is never the thing we didn’t confide that we regret. It is the thing we told. In whist, when in doubt, says the old rule, always play trumps. Silence is a trump card in the game of life. DorotHy Dix. —__—_»e0—.___ Wherein Woman Is Superior. From the Sioux City Tribune. ‘The longer I live,’’ said the house physician of one of the big hotels, ‘‘the more I wonder at and admire the fe- male stomach. That abused organ, a” ‘onmdle and measurimg seventeen inches about the middle: ‘‘Soup, fish with rice sauce, olives, sliced cucumbers, sweetbreads, turkey with chestnut dressing, grouse aspar- agus, new potatoes, cauliflower with cream, two helpings of lobster New- burg, lemon pudding, ice cream, cakes, Roquefort cheese and coffee. The liq- uids were a glass of white wine and a quart bottle of beer, which she shared with her father. This is her usual per- formance. I weigh 195 pounds, and take a great deal of exercise. My din- ner consisted of a light soup, stale bread, a liberal portion of beef, some peas, asparagus, cheese and coffee. That was plenty, if not too much. And women will drink sherry, milk punches, cocktails and other heavy concoctions, and perhaps feel the effects of them, too. But they get over it quickly.’’ ——___<>-@- <> When a man is beside himself, he should never place much confidence in his companion. POOR ECONOMY It is poor economy to handle cheap flour. It is never reliable. You cannot guarantee it. You de not know whether it will make good bread or not. If it should not make good bread —and poor flour never does— your customer will be displeased and avoid you afterwards. You can guarantee... “Lily White” Flour We authorize you to do so. Itmakes good bread every time. One sack sold to-day will bring customers for two sacks cabined, cribbed and confined in a cor-|@ set two sizes too small, can stand more : —— oe oor hard knocks than any pugilist that ever| @ NOW. stepped into the ring. The averaye | @ woman at a hotel has the choice of a : : onge world of things to eat, and does not know | @ Valley City Mitling Co. in the least what to eat. Here is the list | @ of the things that were stowed away at ° Grand Rapids, Mich. my table the other day by a spirituelle| @ creature weighing not more than oo | @@@S@R@ROEOROROnOROcEORGE att Weleda deeded vdee we deface evvbleeu dee Vee vvedv'wu vue vue veldeWvivlldie der a 2 ANG-Aduiteration League: - = No. 97. WW evel eal Wialaveha veh ¥ League. kind, and engages to collect from its owne receipt of proof to the contrary. Signed, The Executive Committee Anti-Adulteration League. F. L. GREENLEAF, Chairman. THE INTEGRITY OF EACH IS THE CONCERN OF ALL. w $1,000. THIS IS TO CERTIFY THAT Walsi-Dé ROO Milling Go. having duly made affidavit and signed contract required, is a member of The Anti-Adulteration Members of this league guarantee the Absolute Purity of their Flour by a sworn statement and a Bond of One Thousand Doliars. League guarantees that the Flour made by this mill is Free from Adulteration of any rs, managers or proprietors the sum of $1,000 upon PyYTYTYTYYYTYYTTT TTT) VIVUVVV PVR EVV VV VV VV VV VD V VU SV) VOY YDS Relying thereupon The Anti-Adulteration W. C. EpGar, Secretary. is TING, Hae me gist TR BEI ~ ER AG PPLE YSN Ps NARI nero HE RTNRERR ERAS nee a . “* Sea SaReanReNCNCT eee “Ng ange anes ~*~ pangs Oro weenespeacqunNER EERE premmuesy “CR rE PRE Je ee garage RARE C= GOTHAM GOSSIP. News from the Metropolis---Index to the Market. Special Correspondence. New York, May 7—-General business here continues in as satisfactory a con- dition as could be expected. A good many buyers have been here during the week from widely separated points. In the dry goods district the great carpet sale was the attraction, and about $2,500,000 worth of carpets changed ownership. Prices have been quite sat- isfactory and the general bidding seems to have averaged about 1214 per cent. below the store price of the goods. There was a large auction sale on teas on Thursday and many buyers were present. The bidding was spirited and the trade seemed to take more interest in the proceedings than for a long time. The coffee market remains pretty much in the same condition as char- acterized it last week. The belief seems to be gaining ground that the Woolson and Arbuckie war will cease before long and matters adjust themselves ac- cordingly. Prices to-day are fractionally lower, being 63(c for Rio No. 7. The deliveries from warehouse are much lighter than last month, when _ they reached the huge total of about 900,000 bags. Indications now point to about 500,000 bags for May. In store and afloat there are 1,050,852 bags, against 685,551 bags at the same time last year. Not as much interest has been shown by country dealers in coffee as there was last week. While the auction sale of teas was quite interesting, as stated, prices were ‘‘off,’’ perhaps a full cegt a pound. This was about what was expected. On the street trading was rather dull, with orders few and far between. Very lit- tle interest has been manifested by the country trade and all buyers are ap- parently pretty well stocked up. There is a lessening of interest in the sugar situation and a somewhat weaker feeling all around, although there is as yet no decline in prices. Kefiners are still largely oversold and, of course, some delay is experienced in filling some orders. Raw sugars are easier, on account of probable ‘‘early termination of hostilities. ’’ Rice is active. Orders have come in very satisfactorily and from all points. Holders are happy and there is no hunt- ing for bargains among would-be buy- ers. They promptly take what is offered and know that they are getting value received right along. Both domestic and foreign are sought for and prices are firm. Prime to choice Southern 6@6%c; Japan, 57 @6c. A fair trade has been done in spices and prices are remarkably firm. For cassia and nutmegs there has been most call. Jobbers generally report good trade and say that orders have come in with quite a good degree of freedom for supplies to be filled at full values. Molasses is firm. There has been a good jobbing business done and_ orders have come in quite freely from local dealers, as well as from the country. Full rates are asked and obtained and the outlook is very encouraging. The market is rather short of really desir- able centrifugal molasses, but of all other grades there is sufficient to fill or- ders with little if any delay. Quotations on syrups are rather higher than buyers care to consider and the volume of trade during the week has been somewhat curtailed. The refiners make no concessions and seem to be in a position to obtain all they ask. The market is not at all overstocked and the general] tone is firm. Canned goods are firm, both for spot and futures. Tomatoes have advanced 5c and the whole line is strong, with weakness nowhere felt. A_ Ict of in- ferior salmon has been offered, run- ning as low as Soc per dozen. Califor- nia fruits are especially strong and the supply of apricots is rather light. There is a good export demand for evaporated apples and desirable stock brings toc. Sun dried are firm and sell from 3@4c. Lemons, oranges and other fruits are MICHIGAN TRADESMAN in about the usual request. The weather has been somewhat against the lemon trade. California oranges have been sought for and at good rates. Pineap- ples are in light supply and moderate demand. Bananas are quiet and steady, from $1.30@1.60 per bunch for firsts. The butter market is so closely cleaned up at present that it is difficult to fill orders. Not for a long time has this condition prevailed, and the con- sequence is that prices are firm and the trend upward unless the receipts on Monday indicate larger supplies soon due. Extra Western creamery is worth I7€; firsts, 1632c; seconds, 15'4@16c - thirds, 15c; imitation creamery, extra, 15 /4C; firsts, 15c; seconds, 14@14%c. The cheese market is quiet, both for new and old. The former has been in some request by exporters, but they want very low-priced stuff. Stock of old cheese is not large and holders are_ in- ciined to hold firmly to quotations. New State, colored, fancy, large size, 8%c; do. old cheese, oc. On Friday the receipts of eggs ag- gregated 15,581 cases. The demand, while not especially active, is pretty brisk and quotations are quite firmiy adhered to Western firsts average about 10'4c, with some really desirable goods a quarter of a cent higher. Western selected, 11% @t2c. beans are steady, but the market lacks animation. Choice marrows are held at $1.80; choice medium, $1.50; choice pea, $1.50. Receipts, Friday, 715 bar- rels, all sorts. —es ow ___ New Route to Chicago. Commencing May 15, 1808, a through car line will be established between Chicago and Grand Rapids, operated by the Grand Trunk Railway system and the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railway, via Vicksburg. Trains will arrive at and depart from Dearborn station, Chicago. This sta- tion is on Polk street, between State and Clark streets, is only three blocks south of the postoffice,and near the down town business and hotel districts. Other railroads using this staticn are the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, Wabash, Chicago & Eastern Illinois, Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville, and Erie. No transfer will, therefore, be neces- sary for passengers to or from the above mentioned lines. Important stations on this through car line between Chicago and Grand Rap- ids are Valparaiso, South Bend, Mish- awaka, Ind., Cassopolis, Macellus, Schoolcraft, Vicksburg, Kalamazoo and Plainwell, Mich. The equipment used in providing this service will consist of new standard vestibuled day coaches. Pullman buffet parlor cars and the latest designs of Pullman wide vestibuled, gaslighted, twelve section drawing room sleeping cars. It is believed that the character of this equipment and the convenience of the schedules will be such as to merit a liberal patronage by the traveling pub- lic. The following is a condensed schedule: Daily. iby Grand Rapids......... 70am 2.10pm 11:35pm Ar Chicaso ... _....... 2:00pm g:1opm 6:30am Ey Chcire os. 3:02pm) 11:45pm Ar Grand Rapids... -..- 9:30pm 7:25am C. L. Lockwoop, General Passenger and Ticket Agent. - ee Will Not Injure Legitimate Business. From the Boston Globe. Once we get used to the idea of war, enterprising men are going ahead with their business and the hum of industry will continue to be heard in the land. No doubt the weak-kneed, the incom- petent and the timid will sit down in their offices, spending most of their time in hunting rumors and dwelling on them until they addle what few brains they have. But the pushing, vigorous business man will go ahead and will, as usual, make money. A war like this, on the whole, as soon as we adapt ourselves to it, ought to make business better for the time being in- stead of worse, and the first measure of adaptation should be to give the wild- eyed rumor fiend a wide berth and to cease to waste any further time on men who wish to discuss their fears rather than forge ahead and transact business. THE OWEN AUETYLENE GAS GENEGATOR Geo. F. Owen & 69, Absolutely automatic Ke quires no more care than a I ) —small hand lamp. The gcnerator —For full information and prices - address the manufacturers. Grand Rapids Michigan. ry by only ¢£ manufactured in -Michigan that has been granted a permit by the UNDERWRIT- ERS’ INSURANCE ASSOCIATION. 4 : Michigan Acelylene GOS 60., Lid Jacheor, Niick.. The following letter from a noted pa- tent expert is self explanatory: Detroit, April I have just returned from Washington, and while there in connection with my patents, [had occasion to go through the files and examine patents pertaining to the generation and control of Acetylene Gas. With me was an expert from the office of K. G. Dver & Co, late commissioner of patents It may be a source of some Satisfaction to vou to know that he pro nounced the *Buflington”’ eenerator the best thing of the kind on the market) and we examined over a dozen different gvenerators pertaining to this industry. E. C. Nownris, Electrician. Sproul & McGurrin, General Avents for Western Michigan. DISPLAY ROOMS, 18f E FULTON STL, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. We Are the People Our new Acetylene Gas Generator, which has been before the Board of Underwriters for several weeks, has received the approval of that organization and we are now pre pared to execute orders for all sizes pr ly. We strength, claim for our yvene simplicity of bility, economy in operation and capacity, and candidly believe that an in spection of our machine and a co with the generators of other manufacturers wiil result in the selection of our ge on application. All PI strated catalogue and price list fr enquiries promptly and carefully answered. B. Wheeler Electric Co. Grand Rapids. a W ‘Blank ¢ ; : ' Books: aly Ww as Ww a wv R Inks, ¥ n Mucilage, v a hie., wv | R and all kinds of Office | wn Nick Nacks. Examine aa) Ms our new device for copy- W a ing letters ¥ a Will M. Hine, Commercial Stationer, W 2 49 Pearl Street, A 2 and 4 Arcade, > “AN Grand Rapids, Mich. ¢ i ay aa AEF Cents ne == REPL S ES eH F | oss sl 8¢, Pag Te acap esas SRA Ree 33> [ 1 L sere OBS MANUFACTURED BY Srrrerc tc get eete Pezzees fi fi a" THE C.BLOM, Jr |i) CANDY CO., § HOLLAND,- Miche g c aS SERERESERE AB RE PePePPpepepepepeRypstoeppep % For Sale by Leading Jobbers. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Devoted to the Best Interests of usiness Men Published at the New Blodgett Building, Grand Rapids, by the TRADESMAN COMPANY UNE DOLLAR A YEAR, Payable in Advance. ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION. _ t ommunications invited from practical business men. Correspondents must give their full names and addresses, not necessarily for pub- lication, but as a guarantee of good faith. Subscribers may have the mailing address of their papers changed as often as desired. No paper discontinued, except at the option of the proprietor, until all arrearages are paid. Sample copies sent free to any address. Entered at the Grand Rapids Post Office as Second Class mail matter. When writing to any of our Advertisers, please say that you saw the advertisement in the Michigan Tradesman. EK. A. STOWE, Epiror. WEDNESDAY, - = = MAY II, 1898. GENERAL TRADE SITUATION. The dominant influences of the week have been the reassurance of the Amer- ican successes and the emphasizing of the demand for breadstuffs by the fam- ine riots in Italy and Spain. The nat- ural consequence of the demonstration of our ability to prevent any serious interference on the part of Spain has been a decided improvement in all speculative prices, with a degree of trading activity exceeding that of any time for many months. This improve- ment includes nearly all the industrial and transportation stocks and, of course, Government securities come in for their share. In foreign trading the domi- nant element has been the American situation. In spite of any adverse in- fluences of the war, export trade con- tinues heavy, with the balance stil! heavily in our favor. The exports for the week were 36 per cent. more than those for the corresponding week of last year, while the imports for the same period were 55 per cent. less. As a consequence, gold shipments still con- tinue, although but $3,000,000 was actually received. Some $9,000,000 more was ordered and is yet to come. General trade distribution throughout the interior of the country continues without diminution. Indeed, the activ- ity on account of military demand seems to fully offset any depressing in- fluences caused by the war. The hesi- tation in the prosecution of new enter- prises is more than counterbalanced by the increased iron and steel activity, the increase of shipbuilding and the demand for military supplies. The lat- ter has had a materia! influence in some lines of cotton and woolen goods, shoes, projectiles and all kinds of ammunition. In the iron and steel industry, in ad- dition to the natural stimulation of de- mand for plates for shipbuilding, there is to be considered the material for the arming and equipment of vessels, forts and armies and for construction of more cars and other facilities of transporta- tion. Aside from the war demands, there are many favorable indications, as in the placing of a number of large orders for building materials and for rails, including one from Mexico. The wheat situation for the week has been the most remarkable for many years. The rapid advance in prices for near delivery is naturally credited by many to the existence of the war. Such an idea is entirely erroneous The war excitement and complications may, and doubtless do, have some influence, but the prime cause of the advance in this cereal, and by sympathy of the others, as well, as all kinds of provisions, is the scarcity obtaining in the various trans-Atlantic countries. This is suffi- ciently indicated by the bread riots in Italy and Spain and by the fact that several of the governments have remit- ted the duty on wheat, while Russia has forbidden its export. Thus it is the misfortune of our neighbors which makes the comparative abundance in our hands so profitable to us. The least favorable showing in any of the industrial lines seems to be in the textiles. The principal activity seems to be on military account. Cotton print cloths made a new record of 1.87 cents, and some mills are stopping to relieve the pressure of over-production. In boots and shoes there is still an un- usual demand, which is the more re- markable in that it succeeds so long a period of activity. As promising for the continuance of favorable conditions the crop situation is, aS a whole, an excellent one. This is particularly true of wheat, both win- ter and spring,and indications for other crops in most parts of the country are unusually favorable as far as the season has advanced. Some time ago the Woman's Feder- ation of Federations pledged its sup- port to the President in case of war, but we haven't heard anything lately from the fair creatures. If they really meant business, now is the time for them to come forth. Let each put on a cast-iron sun bonnet and sally forth with a rolling-pin in hand. We believe a regiment of unterrified women could do great execution if given half a chance, particularly if they could man- age to read a few of their original man- uscripts to the enemy. The Scientific American of April 23 contains an article on acetylene gas gen- erators, illustrating and describing a simple generator which is recommended to be of sufficient capacity to illuminate an ordinary house. The Tradesman warns its readers against undertaking the use of such a machine, because it is so constructed that it comes under the prohibition of the insurance under- writers, who refuse to approve any gen- erator having a pet cock, rubber tubing, rubber packing or asbestos packing. Owners of large ranches in Califor- nia are preparing to be independent of the elements in the matter of moisture. They will rely upon gas-pumping en- gines rather than on the clouds. A re- cent issue of a California paper reports that gas engines are being erected in all parts of the State. They vary in ca- pacity from twenty to sixty horse power, and some of them, on the largest ranches, have a lifting power of 200,000 gallons of water per hour. Queen Victoria Seems likely to sur- vive two more of her prime ministers. While the life of Mr. Gladstone is de- spaired of and Lord Salisbury’s health seems shattered, the remarkable old lady in her 79th year, who rules over 400, - 000,000 people, and nominally controls about one-sixth of the whole earth, keeps well despite the alarmists. General Jake Coxey is missing the chance of his life in not volunteering his army for service against Spain in Cuba. It would just do the hearts of his tramps good to go there and have power to make Spaniards keep off the grass. THE MILITIA LAWS. After the war with Spain is ended it is probable that a strong effort will be made to so thoroughly reform the militia law that never again will such difficul- ties be encountered in creating a federal volunteer army as those which have ap- peared since the President called for 125,000 volunteers. Ever since 1792, when the law was passed for the organ- ization of the militia, the defects in our militia system have been apparent. Many attempts have been made to cor- rect these defects, but without success. Not very long ago an attempt was made to provide a militia force that would come somewhere near answering the needs of the country, but it was de- feated, largely by the efforts of the na- tional guard. The militia colonels and their men insisted that whenever the op- portunity presented itself they should have a chance tor glory. No doubt they were animated by a patriotic spirit, but the developments of the last few days in militia circles have indicated that they did not foresee the difficulties in the way, under the existing condition of affairs, of quickly creating a large and effective federal army. There is no lack of patriotism among the organized militiamen of the differ- ent states. There are about 115,000 of them, and if the President had called for them for any one of the three pur- poses mentioned in the constitution, they would have responded with remark- able promptness, but he did not want an army especially for any one of these purposes. He wanted one that he could use as the situation demanded—that he could send out of the country if it be- Came necessary to do so. Therefore, he had to call for volunteers. Naturally, it was expected that the members of the militia organizatious would be the first to volunteer, because they are in a measure trained soldiers, but it became apparent at once that if they did so they could not retain their organizations and officers, because, in many, if not most, instances, the regiments and companies bave not their full complement of men, ana also because of the necessity which might exist for breaking up regiments in the crganization of the volunteer army. The consequence is that the members of the organized militia are not enlisting in all the states as freely as it was expected they would. There is no doubt, of course, that the number of volunteers called for will be obtained. It is roughly estimated that already more than half a million of men have offered their services, but the volunteer army, when completed, will not be so well disciplined, nor in any other respect so ready for actual service in the field, as it would have been had it been made up almost wholly of mem- bers of the militia organizations. There is need for a radical change in the militia laws--a change that would put the military organizations under the orders of the President whenever and wherever their services were needed, not oniy for the purposes stated in the constitution, but also in any war de- clared by Congress. A change of this sort is necessary or else there will be a demand for a much larger standing army than we have at_ present. DAWN OF A NEW ERA. The Tradesman declared, at the time of the first act of the present war, that the United States was taking a step that would precipitate it into the inter- national politics of the Old World, and scarcely a fortnight has elapsed before the Western Republic has begun, ina most brilliant and splendid naval vic- tory, the conquest of the vast Spanish dominions in Asia.° It might well have been supposed that the first blow of conquest would have been struck at Spain’s island pos- sessions on our own hemisphere; but, contrary to every probability, the first battle, the first victory, the first act of conquest, was consummated by an American squadron in the Eastern Hemisphere. The group of the Philip- pine Islands, nearly two thousand in number, covers an area of some 350,000 square miles, with a population of, perhaps, eight million souls. The city of Manila, which is now in the hands of the United States Admiral, has a population of nearly 300,000 souls, and the Island of Luzon, on which it is sit- uated, is of more than 40,000 square miles extent. It thus turns out that the Great Re- public has launched forth on a tide of conquest that may end in the permanent acquirement of territory in the Asiatic seas that will place this country in the same Category with Great Britain, Hol- land, France and other European coun- tries that have possessions in the East Indies, and in relations of proximity to China and Japan. These conditions, which will in all probability be added to by the annex- ation of Cuba and Porto Rico and Hawaii, will force upon the Republic the necessity of garrisoning those dis- tant colonies with standing armies, the establishing of lines of steamships and submarine cables, and of maintaining all the organization and material force required to hold coloniai possessiuns. The acquisition of extensive foreign territory will change the character of the American system, since all the peo- ples and parts of the Republic should be represented in Congress and free from military control. The compara- tively barbarian, and even savage, races that will be thus brought into the Union will require for long periods to be held under military control, necessitating the permanent embodiment of a large standing army, and it will fall to the lot of the American negroes to furnish the main body of the troops that will be required to hold the colonies or terri- tories of the East and West Indies. With this acquirement of colonial domains in various parts of the world will come a new commercial policy, the opening of the ports of this country to free trade with all the colonies, and the carrying of the commerce in American ships. The United States and Great Britain, the two great commercial and colonizing nations, will combine to share the trade of the world between them, and with it armed coalition for the protection of that trade, and a new order of public administration, entirely at variance with the old policy of an isolated republican system, will be nec- essary. Already European statesmen are an ticipating all these probabilities, while the thinkers among the American peo- ple, unaccustomed as they are to cun- sider great problems of statesmanship, can not help foreseeing the mighty even- tualities that are looming up so_ por- tentously in the horizon of the future. An improved navy, capturing all ships in all waters, indicates that war is being carried on by machinery and lawyers. Spain saved her honor; but she _ lost her ships. oo seis oon 0 ET SPANIARDS STILL. When a distinguished Spaniard de- clared the other day, ina moment of patriotic fervor, to the anxious Regent Queen, *‘We are Spaniards stilli’’ he doubtless thought that the terse expres- sion, pregnant with patriotism, would follow ‘‘the shot heard round the world,’’ and thrill the hearer of every clime with the Spaniard’s love ot his native land. Into the four short words what pride was crowded of Spanish pomp and glory, rising first from be- hind the mountains of Asturias, a decade of centuries ago, when the struggle begin which drove the followers of the Crescent from Spain and from Europe before the determined soldiers of the Cross. How the Spanish heart throbbed at the oft-recurring story of the Spanish Queen who, by the pledging of her jewels, gave strength to the despairing Columbus and an impetus to the awak- ening spirit of that questioning century and added to the Spanish crown a splendor which remains undimmed. What wonder if the glory that followed in the wake of Columbus's discovering keel should bring back pleasing recol- lections of power and possession and conquest in the New World, which the genius of the distinguished Genoese had lifted from the waves of the Western Sea. What wonder that the grandeur of the old times returned when the gift of Columbus to the Castilian crown, which the early-coming century placed upon the head of Charles V., was only a gem added to a crown already ablaze with the royal pomp and power of the grand- est empire Europe had seen since the days of Augustus, uniting, as it did,the arms of Spain, the looms of Flanders, the gold of Peru and, as a crowning glory, the triple tiara of the Pope. That was the vision that Sagasta saw as be spoke to the Regent Queen, and that was the thought that forced to his lips the boastful words, ‘‘We are Spaniards still !"" Not so, however, does the outraged world receive them. There is another side to the picture, another story to tell which adds strength to the expression, a depth of meaning and a sarcasm which the boaster did not intend to convey. The wail of the Cuban, dying of Spanish cruelty, is not an unfamiliar sound along the highway of the centu- ries,and every groan from the lips of this the latest victim sanctions the assertion that the Spaniards are, indeed, **Span- iards still!’’ rs What the Spaniard was and has been is not an unknown story. Yielding to persecution, the acknowledged spirit of the age, the gentle Isabella began the nefarious history by expelling the Jews through an edict, the cause of untold misery, which was looked upon as a signal instance of piety. The same power called to its aid the inquisition, the instrument of incredible torture, burned thousands at the stake and con- demned tens of thousands more to pen- alties hardly less terrible. Led by his thirst for gold, the Spaniard landed with Cortez in Mexico, and during a three years’ war of unexampled cruelty completed its conquest; Pizarro and Peru stand for years of untold misery at the hands of Spain, and the curse of African slavery which deluged this country with blood owed its existence to the same detestable race who proudly proclaim themselves as ‘‘Spaniards stillt"’ Follow Charles V. in his relations with the Netherlands, and, when he has grown weary of the work of fire and sword, mark how closely Philip II., bis son, Carries out the Emperor’s design, continuing the carnage for more than a generation and adding to Spanish ig- nominy the assassination of the Prince of Orange. It isa continued story of human misery and _ bloodshed from first to last, and confirms the assertion of Sagasta that he and his detested race are ‘*‘Spaniards still.’”’ That they will remain Spaniards to the end, there is little doubt. Whether they will continue to carry on their Spanigh ideas of tyranny and cruelty re- mains to be seen; but, whether the end is far or near, there is little doubt that, when it comes, the Spaniards will be found **Spaniards still!’’ It is now evident that thousands of citizens who would have gone abroad under normal conditions will manage in some way to pass the summer in their own country. This means, among other things, that many millions of dollars that would else have been expended in foreign parts will be kept at home. Some portion of this large aggregate will remain in the hands of present owners, but it is probable that the major part of it will be expended in travel and recreation in this wonderful country of ours, which very few of those who bave been in the habit of visiting the Old World have ever ex- plored. The Spanish dynasty is tottering, and will make a nasty die of it. It is hard for a widely scattered nation to enthuse over the kingship of a little boy whom few of its people have ever seen. The Spanish fleet had rope enough at Manila, and tied itself up. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN PHILANTHROPY INCREASING. Some days ago the New York Times printed a list of persons who, from their private fortunes, during the last five years have given a total of $165,800,000 for public uses. The gifts have risen from $29,000,000 in 1893 to $45,000,000 in 1897. Among the donors mentioned are: Wm. Waldorf Astor, Andrew Carnegie, Mrs. Alfred Corning Clark, John Watts De _Peyster, George R. Edwards, Marshall Field, Lewis Ginter, Wm. R. Grace, Mrs. Mary R. Hawley, Adrian Iselein, Sr., Emanuel Lehman, Mrs. Winifrede Martin, Geo. M. Pullman, John D. Rockefeller, Chas. Broadway Rouss, P. A. Wildener, Mrs. Leland Stanford and Cornelius Vanderbilt. It was stated that, while all the per- sons mentioned were not millionaires, there were but few of the owners of great fortunes in the country whose names were absent from the list. The vast amount of money stated above was given to endow universities and other schools; to found or endow hospitals and asylums for the dependent classes: to establish libraries and other benefi- cient institutions, which are the crown- ing glory of modern civilization and Christian countries. In no other than Christian countries are there to be found any grand _ charitable institutions. Those persons who re- ject all the spiritual powers and ibflu- ences claimed for Christianity must admit that it is at least a religion which is devoted to works of charity and ben- efaction, and its material monument is built in the numerous and great be- neficent hospitals, asylumis and other such institutions, while its spiritual record is in the fact that millions of orphans, sick and other suffering hu- man beings have been succored and relieved by the good works accom- plished by that means. Philantbropy is one of the noblest principles that can inspire human nature, and it is worth while knowing that it operates on the wealthy as well as on those of humble means. German law holds a’man to his bar- gain when he has agreed to give up his name. A young count, Finck von Finckstein, in order to marry a girl of whom his family disapproved, consented to change his name, and petitioned the emperor to be allowed to call himself Stein instead. After obtaining per- mission, however, he kept on using his former name, and has just been fined ‘‘for illegal use of a title of nobility."’ erence Spain, as she is, is of few days and full of trouble. y 18097 For the nine years preceding the normal annual vintage yield in Cal- ifornia was 15,000,000 gallons, and the doubling of this last year is claimed to be due to the abandonment of haphazard methods and the approximation to science through the experiments and advice of the viticultural department of the University of California. Vines to which the soil and climate of the State are adapted are now generally culti- vated, and the knowledge of what grapes to grow in order to get a desirable blend in the wine is spreading. Not only has the quantity of wine produced in the State doubled in the last ten years, but, as Prof. Hilgard points out in his re- port of 1896, *‘a very notable improve- ment in the average quality of our wines has occurred within the past five or six years and the high excellence of the product obtained in so many cases renders any further continuance of slip- shod methods inexcusable. Hereafter, California wines may appear in the world’s markets under their own names, instead of being, as has heretofore been too largely the foreign case, disguised under when of good quality, while the poorer qualities were sure to be placed upon the market with the true statement of their California gin.” ones ori- The spectacle of putting $50,000,000 into the hands of one man without ac- countability—to be expended at his dis- cretion—-attracted no attention in this country, for the people knew the man was their President, and that its ex- penditure would be in making the be- ginning of a war preparation that needed to be made. There was no thought of its being diverted to other uses. The people knew the President— any President could be trusted implic- itly to do the very best he knew in the premises. But the spectacle is still the wonder of Europeans. They can not quit talking about it. When Spain's Queen Regent runs away it will be to get away from Spanish traitors. No American would harm a hair of her head, although she wants us killed. She is a woman. All that remains for the United States to do now is to press the button on Blanco with a bayonet; the insurgents will do the rest By force of circumstances the news of naval victories seems to be more thought of now than that of baseball or politics. Spain is in reduced circumstances, and all the forts in her defense wil! soon be in the same condition. EVERY MAN LIKES “MR. THOMAS” /. Ruhe Bros. Co., Makers. —/ Factory 956, 1st Dist. Pa. . The Best Nickel Cigar in the State. F. E. Bushman, Representative. Kalamazoo, Mich. lO MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Fruits and Produce. Something New Regarding the Potato. One would imagine that science could not furnish us with anything new in our daily foods, but it isa remarkable fact that our food potato has not been suffi- ciently examined from a_ scientific standpoint, while greater attention has been paid to the- varieties of potatoes employed for industrial uses. The French chemist Balland has striven to fill this void in an essay pre- sented to the Paris Academy of Science, divulging many interesting character- istics of the potato used for food. Aside from the skin, which only represents a small fraction of the total weight, the potato consists of three layers well, dis- tinguishable with the naked eye if a thin slice is held against the light. Still more distinctly these three layers become visible if photographed with the Roentgen rays. The strata are of dif- ferent thicknesses,which decrease toward the interior. The outermost layer con- tains comparatively the most starch but less nitrogenous substances; with the innermost layer the proportion is just the reverse. The middle layer has a mean composition between the two others. The skin layer is the driest, while the inside marrow contains con- siderably more water. Onan average a potato contains three-quarters of its weight of water, two-tenths of starch and one-fiftieth of nitrogenous matters. Balland has discovered the important fact that the food value of the potato is so much greater the more nitrogenous substances it coutains, and so much smaller the richer it is in starch. In the best table potatoes the proportion between nitrogenous matters and starch attains three times as high a value as with the food potatoes of the lowest] quality. Hence the value of a_ potato can be ascertained by a chemical analy- sis; but it so happens that the food value of different varieties of potatoes can be. judged according to their be- havior when boiled. We all know that some potatoes swell up in hot water, cracking in certain places, and even breaking apart, while others retain their original shape, even when done. It was supposed, formerly, that the crack- ing or breaking apart of potatoes was indicative of an especially large per- centage of starch, the starch swelling up and breaking the skin. According to the latest investigations this is erro- neous, the percentage of albumen being responsible. If a potato is compara- tively rich in this substance, it will keep its shape on boiling; a cracking and falling apart indicates a deficiency of albumen. The potatoes containing most albumen being the most nutritious, everybody can determine the worth of a potato by boiling it. The best varie- ties are those which do not fall apart, but remain whole, on cooking. ~~ 0 <- Let the Snides Alone. From the New York Produce Review. There is no reason why shippers of produce to this market should ever lose anything by entrusting their goods to irresponsible or fraudulent concerns. In no other city of the Union is there so large a number of thoroughly responsible commission merchants and it is easy to find them. The larger operators in produce at interior points who are fa- miliar with our market and the personnel of its merchants are not likely to be caught by fly-away concerns’ whose tempting bait consists of promises im- possible of fulfillment, but there seem to be a good many small shippers who do not realize the fact that first-class con- cerns get as muci for their goods as can be obtained, and who are ready to try new and strange houses whenever a goodlooking letter head brings a claim of ‘‘superior advantages’’ which enable the sender to secure prices for goods above their worth. Every little while we run across traces of snide houses who thus entrap the un- wary and we are occasionally able to show up the frauds; but it is only after damage has been done. Shippers have only themselves to blame if they fall into these snares,as they can easily learn of the character of a strange house by enquiry through the proper sources. The fact that references are given is not enough of itself to insure character. Enquiry should be made from sources apart from those given by the strange solicitor. The method adopted by snides is to get up a lot of attractive stationery headed with a fictitious firm name, hire a cellar or an office in some more or less obscure place and write letters claiming all sorts of advantages, fol- lowed by quotations for produce con- siderably higher than the goods are worth. These letters are sent to ship- pers and usually result in consignments. Sometimes the first lots are returned for in the hope of drawing larger lots, some- times not at all. In the end the ship- per gets nothing for something. When the damage is done and enquiries make things dangerous, the snide shuts up shop, opens a new deal under a different name and proceeds as before. We frequently learn of small shippers leaving old and responsible commission houses to take up with these fly-aways, to their ultimate sorrow. We should have little sympathy for them if it were not for the thought of their ignorance of the danger, and we give these repeated warnings so that this ignorance shall not exist excusabiy among any of our readers. —+$—_>2>—____ Never Made Any Returns. New York, May to—For some weeks past complaints have been coming in from egg shippers in New York State, Pennsylvania and other states that their consignments to J. H. Montgomery & Co., 78 Barclay street, were not being returned for, and we have taken occa- sion to investigate the matter thoroughly. The result is that we have in our pos- session a mass of evidence of such con- clusive character as to brand the firm as swindlers. Their method of doing business is almost identical with that of Walter Sinclair & Co., whose crooked ways the Tradesman exposed some _ three weeks ago; in fact, we see the ear- marks of the same man or men; and the belief of the commercial agencies, as well as of the police authorities, is that the gang operate for a little while under an assumed name, and when it gets too hot for them they change the firm name, rent new offices and start out to entrap other shippers. For a while J. H. Montgomery & Co. occupied a small, poorly-furnished office upstairs in 78 Barclay street. From there letters were sent to country ship- pers, and in response to these a number of consignments of eggs and other prod- uce were secured. Unlike some of the snide concerns that are content with stealing 1@2c per doz., besides getting their commission, this firm took the whole thing, and never made any re- turns, WANTED To furnish Western dealersfor their Eastern trade for season of 1898; cold storage in quantit- ies to suit up to 15,000 cases ofeggs and 30 cars butter; moderate rates and liberal advances to reliable parties; modernly equipped plant; me- chanical refrigeration, with an improved system of perfectly dry circulation and change of air in rooms; intermittent and continuous circulation, also gravity system; these systems are the latest and best known in cold storage practices; our eggs are said to be the finest on the Philadelphia market this past season; fine distributing point; only 214 hours to Pittsburg, and quick transit by both Penn Central and B. & O. to New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington; we are authorized to purchase for our local cus- tomers 5,090 cases finely candled eggs for April and May deliveries; also several cars creamery butter; correspondence solicited. Address Hyge- ia Crystal lce & Cold Storage Co., Uniontown, Pa. Promptness is the essence of our success. We will buy your Butter and Eggs for Cash Correspond with us, We do not claim to be the oldest and largest commission house in the country, but in many respects one of the best. HARRIS & FRUTCHEY, Detroit 4 Sane re VvVVvVvVVvVvVVVGvvvwuvwvvVvwuWVvuWwVvVvWTYeVVCVvVVrVeVVeVVCTVTCTCCT Satan tn4 be ba bn Bn bn 4 by bn pd FEO OU VU VU VUVUVUVY TT TT TT OT FS FOI FITTS TTT TST TTT EST GF ECGS WANTED Will buy them in any quantity on point of shipment or delivered. R. HIRT. JR.. 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Correspond with your old friend, C. N. RAPP & CO., Buffalo, N. Y. 56 West Market Street. be made in regard to them. GUGM MA SUA TUA GAA UNA bk db dk bk Uhh Jb db bk Jbk Jbd dk Ahk Jbd Jbd dk ddd dd They PVT UY UL 2 city. W.R. Brice. Est. 1852. Philadelphia’s Leading Hustling Commission Merchants REFERENCES: W. D. Hayes, Cashier Hastings National Bank, Hastings, Mich. Corn Exchange National Bank, Philadelphia. Un7 We have closed our branch house in Grand Rapids and will not buy any more eggs this season. but want your Butter and Eggs now at our main house in Philadelphia on commis- sion and you can rest assured that we will watch your inter- ests carefully, make you prompt sales and prompt returns, and you can be assured of the best service to be had in our W. R. BRICE & CO. Cc. M. Drake W.R. Brice & Co. Western National Bank, Philadelphia. Fourth National Bank, Grand Rapids, Mich. D. C. Oakes, Coopersville, Mich. E, A. Stowe, Michigan Tradesman. We SpRIREE RRR RINE He: om RE OST RAE ony a * WSS RICE NNR he ORR nr ey PR ca SRN en pee MICHIGAN TRADESMAN i LEGAL SUPERVISION. Regulating the Commission Business by Inspectors. [CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK. | Mr. Walsh: I happened to be on the committee that framed this resolution, and would simply state to the meeting that the intention was not to give offense to honest men, nor to injure honest men, nor to do aught but was honest and upright. Now, the thought occurs to me, from Mr. Barnett’s statement— which, of course, I. do not recognize as speaking to the resolution—he simply shows you what he himself did toward promoting honesty and toward getting money back of which people were robbed. If he can accomplish that, bow much more can Uncle Sam accom- plish? I would like to have that ques- tion answered. If there are men in that business who are robbing the people, is it right and just that they should not be turned out of it? Can he offer any argument why they should ex- ist? Can he offer any argument why they should not be turned out? He can assume that commission men are not to blame for anything. A poor man _ has ten cases of berries, and he expects from the proceeds to buy a pair of shoes for his child, or a dress for his wife, or something of that kind; he sends them toa commission man he does not know (he gets a flaming adver- tisement through the mails and he sends those ten cases of berries), and he re- ceives Io cents or nothing. Where is his redress? Certainly, there 1s a law, but can that poor man avail himself of it? Now, what this resolution proposes to do is to cover such cases—turn that class of men out who are perpetrating these crimes, and let honest men do the business. Weare band in hand with Mr. Barnett. We want honest men in the business. We want to turn the ras- cals out, and the best way we can con- ceive of doing it is to license them and have a Government officer look after them. When Mr. Barnett puts his money into the bank, the avails of his ‘day’s or week’s work, there is somebody to look after it and see to it that money is not thrown away. Why should not the poor man’s interests be looked after by this Government just as much as Barnett’s or anybody else’s? The object of the resolution is to correct these wrongs that are going on and to place the business as nearly as possible in the hands of honest men. I can not see for the life of me why any class of men should be considered free-commoners in this country, with the right of just saying to their fellows, ‘’We will send you what we havea mind to for your product.’’ I cannot see why any class of men should expect any such right, to the exclusion of all others, for there is no one else who has any such right, and there is not any attempt made to correct any business or any methods but what somebody opposes it. It seems to me there is nothing wrong in the adoption of the resolution by this Association; and, further, we have the opinion of our Congressman and Senator, and the opinion of one of the best judges in our State that such a law would be just and honest and certainly could hurt no hon- est man and will dispose of the rogues. Mr. Barnett: One item of informa- tion for Mr. Walsh. There is on the statute of Illinois a law which will en- able any shipper to go to the State's At- torney, make his affidavit against any commission man in the city, and if he is wronged, unless that man at once rectifies it, he can be locked up in the county jail, without bail, and sent to the penitentiary. Mr. Slayton: Does that include fruit sold from Michigan? Mr. Barnett: From any state. Any- thing that is sold and not paid for, if sold in the State of Illinois, is a penitentiary offense. The President: clude false returns? Mr. Barnett: I presume it does. There was a man arrested in Chicago. where it was claimed he sold 7,000 pounds of poultry out of a carload, and then the same attorney that said that he was engaged in keeping the fellow out of the penitentiary told me just how he did it. They could not put him in the penitentiary under this law, and this law was more stringent than any law the United States Congress will ever pass. It is difficult to prove intent with the wrongdoing, and it is also very difficult to prove what the market on your goods is, and especially on perish- able fruits. I simply speak of this as among the difficulties of the question. I am not opposed to these resolutions, but under the general discussion | want to air some of the practices and present some of the facts surrounding the com- mission business, and enter my protest against vilifying honest commission merchants when you are trying to reach the dishonest ones. Mr. Graham: It seems to be the popular idea here to-day to advocate these resolutions, and I am_ well aware that in arising to speak against them I am going against the popular will of this assemblage. But I am opposed to the resolutions on general principles. I am opposed to governmental inspection of private business matters. We have no such thing in the United States to- day. I do not think we ever have had, and I.do not think we want it. Refer- ence has been made to our banking system of inspection. That is an en- tirely different matter. The Govern- ment, in a measure, stands behind the banks, stands behind their solvency, stands behind the bill-holder and makes his loss good. Can they pretend to do it in regard to commission men? If you are going to have an inspection of commission men, why single out the commission men who handle only farm products? Why not take them all? Why not go further? Why not appoint a commission to make all men honest and look after the solvency of every business man? |! amconnected at home with a business institution outside of my farm operations that lost $10,000 last year in bad accounts, a manufac- turing institution. We received orders we sold the goods, we looked up the purchasers in the commercial reports, but before the bills had been paid they failed and our concern lost $10,000. Why not include such—have a commis- sioner to look after the solvency of such people? Then, again, your banking commissioner does not pretend to look after the individual deposits and ac- counts and business deals of the indi- vidual depositors and patrons of the bank in any sense. If I gotoa bank and ask for a loan, and offer to put up certain collateral or certain endorse- ments, and the bank refuses to accept it, and from my inability to obtain that loan I fail in business, can 1 goto the United States Congress or the banking commissioner and ask for redress? Not at all. Think of thisa moment before we place ourselves on record as advoca- ting the enactment of a resolution for the Does that also in- J. WILLARD LANGING BURGE D. CATLIN Lansing & Catlin Wholesale Dealers in Butter and Eggs 44 W. Market St. 103 Michigan St. Buffalo, N. Y. _ Watch for our Card here each Write us or Michigan Tradesman We deal EXCLUSIVELY in Butter and Eggs week and try BUFFALO markets with us. for references. ene neneaemenenenenenenenenedin EARLY FRUITS AND VECETABLES Wil please your customers and make you money. Popular prices prevail. Ask for quotations. F. J. DET TENTHALER, 117-119 MONROE STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. HORORTOTONS TOROHSCTOROHOHOTOHCHOHOHORORS ROROROROEOE Bak leer Cononenononenenouenont OHOCEOCEOCEO Ror Or GeBeRe ESTABLISHED 1893 T. L. BRUNDAGE, WHOLESALE COMMISSION MERCHANT 54 and 56 Central Ave., Cleveland, Ohio. Only Exclusive Butter and Egg House in the City Want to correspond with those who have butter and eggs to ship. N. WOHLFELDER & CoO.., COMMISSION MERCHANTS 399-403 HIGH ST., EAST SIDE, DETROIT, MICH. Can handle large quantities. Ship to us your Butter, Eggs, Cheese and Potatoes and get Full Market Prices. Our City Trade With Detroit merchants want some more of your Michigan produce. Irwin S. Scrimger & Co. 43745 W. Woodbridge St., Detroit. Bradstreet’s or Dun’s Commercial Agencies City Savings Bank REFERENCES: $2e5285225°eS2525205e 7252528525 2525e25e2Se25e25e252eSe5e252 © We Want Your Eggs-~~—~ any quantity for Cash, F. O. B. at your M ol station. Also Butter. Quote us prices. HERMANN C. NAUMANN & CO., Detroit, Mich., Main Office, 33 Woodbridge St., = Branch Store, 353 Russell St., op Eastern se 8 2 Oe eee oe 5 esse sese5e2S35e25e5e5e5 STRAWBERRIES from the South are now cheap and within reach of everybody. Tomatoes, Green Onions, cumbers, Spinach, Asparagus, Oranges, Lemons, Bananas. Jobbers, Grand Rapids, Mich. Radishes, Cu- Pie Plant. All Green Vegetables — BUNTING & CO., 12 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Se appointment of a commissioner. Let us look at it In a practical light. Sup. pose I should ship, as the poor man did, ten cases of berries to Chicago to a commission man. They go in there with ten hundred thousand more cases, good, bad, and indifferent. I do not get sufficient returns to satisfy me. I enter my complaint to this commis- sioner.. How many complaints would there be entered this week on account of the slump in the Chicago market last week? Is there a grower or a shipper in Michigan who would not have entered a complaint? Is there one single man who would not have entered a complaint to this commis- sioner? How many commissioners would you need in the city of Chicago, how many hundred commissioners? How many thousand commissioners in ths whole country would you need to look after these individual cases and look up the purchaser of an article— how much he paid for it, the condition in which he found it, and so on? Every town in the United States would wanta commissioner. Think of it a little betore we go into this matter; let us look at it ina practical light. I be- lieve it is the fault of the shipper him- self when he is beaten, in nine cases out of ten. There are dishonest com- mission men, there are. dishonest growers, there are dishonest men in every walk of life; but they are in the minority. Last year there were some people in the city of Detroit who were soliciting consignments of fruit by ad- vertising. J got daily cards from those people during almost the entire ship- ping season, offering the very greatest inducements—great prices, good sales, their ability and facilities for getting rid of fruit were superior to those of any one else. I had had too much ex- perience to be caught. I did not send them any fruit, and I did not reply to them in any way; but I know some poor people who did, some people who needed every dollar they could get for their fruit, who were caught by these things and who did ship them some fruit, and they never got anything for it. That was simply poor business ability—nothing more nor less. A Member: Suppose there had been a commissioner at that time who had seen what you saw there, could not that have been prevented? Mr. Graham : It is simply private business. I have a right to advertise, and ali the laws on earth can not prevent it. If I advertised that | am in a position to handle fruit to the very best advantage, that my facilities for getting zood prices for fruit are su- perior, and people are foolish enough to send me their fruit knowing they have no redress, without looking me up in any way, are you going to Stop it by an enactment of lawr You can not do it, gentlemen; do not try it, do not do it. Twenty years ago I shipped a dozen carloads of fruit to Minneapolis and left it there to be stored during the winter, in the hands of a commission man. Along toward spring he sent me an account of sales, and he owed me some- thing like $1,100, but he said: ‘‘My partner has run away and I have not got a dollar—flat on my back, don’t believe Ican pay you.’’ It was not twenty-four hours until that man was locked behind the bars for embezzle- ment, and vou can do it in any state of the Union, but you can not compel him to send you accounts of sales that are honest. You can appoint just as many commissioners as you see fit, but you No, sir. can not do it. When there are ten thousand, twenty thousand, or fifty thousand people sending little consign- ments of fruit or farm products to the great markets, you can not keep track of these individual consignments; they will send you what they please. If the commission men are not doing business right, that is, asa body, let us select those who are doing it right; and above all things, let us drop the commission men just aS soon as we can and sell direct. If they desire our goods, let them come to our markets and buy them. They will do it. They come to Grand Rapids and buy our products. We do not ship them to any commission men. They come there and buy them and pay us cash for them right there on the spot, and you can all do the same thing. Mr. Barnett: Now tora suggestion: Organize every locality into an associa- tion, have a board of directors as out- lined by Mr. Thayer, accept applica- tions for business, and ship only to those approved by the directors. Then stay by them, if they prove true, the entire season, aid you minimize your loss and increase your profits. Mr. Morrill: And watch the business as Closely as you possibly can—I might add that. Mr. Lawton: It occurs to me that this does not meet the evil. The pre- amble in these resolutions sets forth all the misfortunes under which fruit growers are suffering very faithfully. We can agree with all that is set forth in the preamble, but when you come to the resolutions for the remedy it does not seem to methat they meet it. We can not delegate this thing. There isa disposition on the part of human nature, whenever one gets into trouble, to look around and find a remedy by shoving responsibility upon somebody else. This advocates appointing a commis- sioner, and what does he do? Why, he simply authorizes somebody to do busi- ness, and if that man does not do busi- ness right, he will remove him. Now, we know that our troubles in Chicago are not with ‘“‘snide’’ commission men. 1 never deal with such commission men or men of no responsibility whatever. There are men who make no returns and all that, and those men will get certificates to do business and you can not reach them, nor find out who they are. The remedy must be different from that. I do not think the appoint- ing of a commissioner to give somebody a certificate to do business, and then taking 1t away if he does not do_ busi- ness right, is going to remedy the evil. We must get away from the commission man, have as little todo with him as possible, and contrive in some sort of way to sell our fruit and not allow them to eat us_ up. Mr. Cornelius: I just want to say this, as to why we did not make this resolution large enough to cover all creation. We must commence as we can. This inspector in Chicago is not a man who is to go there and do every- thing. Heisa man, as I understand it, to be appointed by the Government, and in case letters are written to him, or business actions of parties in the commission business are complained of, he is to be empowered by Congress to go and command them to show up their books and their sales. The President: I did not understand the resolution in just that way, but that the Government was to license them first. Mr, Cornelius: License them, and by lots of five dozen or more, free of charge. The —- cme No Broken Eggs! No Time Wasted! No Disputed Count! A con- venient Farmers’ Crate. The best and cheapest egg carrier in the United States. © Michigan Package Co., Owosso, Mich. 8 @ é m— os O° Oke D1 OXLEY! (GX OXOXOXOXSKOXS (OXAVSYOVGXOXE® OXOXOXODSOO@O ODODOOQOOOO OOS OOE OOOQES —=—@ RICH DRINK —___, Trane ig of choice coffee with palatable cereals and other ¢ 'B wholesome ingredients. | Far superior to all OMPOUND. ey “cereal” drinks. A beautiful Tea and Coffee Pot oY x) B Stand given with each 2 pound‘package. Retails @° of for 13¢ a pound, affording retailer big profit. Nance % jeases customers. Order trial case and see how | A | yy Syracuse, New York. 83 to 97 Sixth Street, OOO OOOO OO OK) QCOGQOGCOOQOOODOOQDOOOOS® 4 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Shoes and Leather Plain Talk and Sensible Suggestions to Shoe Salesmen. I wonder if some people have any idea how much trouble they cause us,’ sighed a clerk to me the other day after a long siege with a hard custom- er. ‘‘Some of them seem to think that our patience is infinite, and that it makes no difference bow much work they make us. Of course, we never ob- ject to showing a customer goods until he is perfectly satisfied, but some peo- ple will sit and look at goods and keep us trying them on long after they have decided in their mind what they expect to take. Take the man I just had, for instance ; he knew what he was going to take in fifteen minutes after he sat down, yet he stayed with mea good forty minutes.’’ In order to be at all successful as a clerk, in this advanced age, a man must be a fairly good judge of human nature and be able to read his customer at a glance, as he would the head lines in his morning paper. Ifa clerk is of an observant nature the training he will get in a big shoe store, where he comes in contact with all kinds of people, from the poorest to the richest, of all colors, races and nationalties, good, bad and indifferent, will naturally make him a quiet judge of people and incidents. He must put his mind in motion, teach- ing it to do its work rapidly, for often he must think and act at the same time. He gains a wide experience and insight into the sharp side of human nature that are hard to gain in any other way, for nowhere else is the niggardly side of men and women displayed so plainly. He learns to put this and that together and draw his conclusion and he is sel- dom wrong as to the result. It had been a fearfully dull day and all the clerks were wondering if they were going to be able to add a few more dollars to their sales, when a young lady entered the store. She was so decided- ly pretty and pleasant looking that all of the clerks started forward to wait on her—rather an unusual occurrence. She asked, ‘‘ May I see a pair of tan boots, please?’’ and when the clerk produced a pair she admired them and promptly asked him totry them on. ‘‘My! what a snap,’’ thought the rest of the clerks. Just then one of the periodical rushes came along and for the next half hour everybody was busy. When the rush was over the discovery was made that the pretty young woman was having her old shoes put on, and they heard her saying to the poor fellow who was serv- ing her, ‘‘Iam sure I am very much obliged to you for showing me all those nice shoes. I had an extra half hour and I thought that I would just come in and see what you had—thank you very much,’’ and the pretty girl with the sweet smile and the pleasant look was gone. ee A good majority of clerks expect some day to have a store of their own. To those clerks I would like to givea word of advice. I know unasked ad- vice isnot very acceptable as a rule, but if you read this I am sure you will think it is right. You are a bright, up- to-date young man, of course, and have been saving enough to have a nice bal- ance in the bank. Now if you have been working in the city then choose a city to do business in when you start out for yourself. It doesn't need to be this didn’t soften him. New York or Chicago, but have it some place large enough to use city methods, the methods you have been used to. If, on the other hand, you have been ina country store, then stay in the country. Your place is there. City methods and city ways are so different from what you have been used to that you will find yourself unable to compete with other people simply from sheer lack of knowledge as to their ways. It is only once in a great while that a city man makes a success in the country ora country boy makes a success in the city. Country boys coming to a city oftener make a success than city boys going to the country, because the country boy is willing to begin at the bottom and learn, while the city boy has a habit of thinking he already knows enough to step into the best of positions. But wher. you are ready to start in life for yourself stick to what you are used to and you will make a_ bigger success than in an entirely new line. -_ + = When a possible customer finds fault with the goods you are showing him, don’t spring too vigorously to their de- fense. Show him something else, or, if you bave nothing else that will suit him better, talk about the style, the texture and other qualities that haven't occurred to him. But don’t dispute with him. Don’t try to convince him that he doesn’t know what he is talking about—few people do, but it jars a man awfully to be told so. ae Fred and Bob are cierks in a down- town shoe store and a short time ago were the very best of friends. To-day they never speak as they pass by and each thinks the other is about the meanest fellow they know. Now Fred is quite a ladies’ man and Bob is just the opposite. Fred had a girl and finally after many trials he induced Bob to go with him and call on her. Now he wishes that he had not been so friendly, for Bob got stuck on the girl and, sad to say, the girl got stuck on Bob. Poor Fred tried his best to keep his place. He even tried to argue with Bob, but Bob told him that all was fair in love and war, and that he guessed he had just as much right with the lady as any one. So one word led to another and to tell the truth Freddie got rather the worse of it. At last accounts the girl had heard of his scrap with Bob and she had cut him dead and was lavishing all her time and affection on the more fortunate Bob. Now Fred is spending his days and his nights trying to think of some scheme to get even with them. If he succeeds this story may be con- tinued sometime later. ~~ = * A young man and his pretty wife came into a retail store where I was one day not long ago and asked to see a pair of ladies’ shoes. The obliging clerk first showed them some light turned shoes, These suited the lady very well, indeed, but her husband thought she should have a heavy shoe and asked the clerk to get some and let her see them. A pair was brought out and tried on her, but she would not have them and plainly said so. This made the male member of the family a trifle angry and he tried to argue her out of what he termed ‘‘her silly no- tions,’’ but without a bit of success He finally got so excited he lost his temper, and told her she never did have any sense, anyhow. By this time his wife was shedding briny tears, but even The poor clerk x : : : : : : : We have them in Black and Tan, Lace sizes I to 4. 4.52 TAKEN IN PREFERENCE TO HOT CAKES or Button; BABIES’ SOFT SOLES ee VESTING TOPS Make every mother’s heart glad. FFSFSFSSFSISSS HIRTH, KRAUSE & CO. HEADQUARTERS FOR CHILDREN’S : : FOOTWEAR Grand Rapids, Mich. SESLEEEESSES ES SEAERAEEAEESEEEEEREEREESEEREEEEEREEEED! eer ee Tee eee ee eee me pehbhhaanbhtsdeedhtesnbeeinedlcs fas Herold=Bertsch Shoe Co. oy ane 5 and 7 Pearl Street Best General Line of Footwear State Agents for Wales Goodyear Rubbers iene SS OS a ) RUBBERS«+ New Lists on Rubber Goods for 1898 and 1899, We are agents for the Boston and Bay State Rubbers the best wearing goods made—and we solicit your busi- ness for the same. Our terms and discounts are as liberal as those of any firm selling the above lines. Rindge, Kalmbach, Logie & Co. 12, 14 and 16 Pearl Street, _Grand Rapids, Michigan. quan... eae .24. ate antiahinl ee sais > The Rodgers Shoe Co., : 2 Toledo, Ohio = Made to Order Shoes o We have the best line of $1.00 Creoles, Pedros and Satin goods in the market, but we pride ourselves on our high grade goods in Men's 5: and Women’s. We excel all for style, quality and price. zh ~ If our agent does not call on you drop us a postal. ra S THE RODGERS SHOE CO. thought it was a last sale and had _ half a mind to fight the husband. But had he known him as well as madame did ne never would have worried any. She asked the clerk between sobs, to put on the old shoe and to have the heavy pair wrapped up. Then her Lord and Mas- ter_(?)) broke in and ordered Mr. Clerk to ‘‘wrap up the light ones, that he guessed she didn't have to wear what she didn’t like.’’ The light ones were accordingly done up and they went out, but on the way to the door the clerk received a queer little smile and nod from the lady that meant as plainly as words, ‘‘I knew I should get what I wanted,’’ +t >____ Good Things Said by Up-to-Date Shoe Dealers. You can put your foot into any shoe we sell and rest content in the belief that you have really done a good thing ; not only for your feet, bet for your pocketbook as well.—Hahne & Co., Newark, N. J. The bugle call has been sounded and the gathered hosts of newest and pretti- est styles in spring footwear await your coming. Here are a few ‘‘flowers of the army’’ of splendid bargains we offer.—Lazarus, Columbus, Ohio. Here's a shoe for which you’d pay a custom shoemaker $o9 or $10, and you'd not be overcharged at that, as shoe values are generally gauged. We sell this shoe at $6 a pair, and we'll fit you, too, as well as if it were made to or- der.—John Wanamaker, N. Y. Hess shoes have become known here as the leading shapes~-they set the styles, in fact. The ‘‘ Mastiff’' and the ‘“Egg’’ shapes were created by Hess— bear the stamp of fashion. You pay from $3 to $7 a pair—little enough for such footwear goedness.—N. Hess’ Sons, Washington, D. C. Shoes for fussy men. If you are one of the particular men who take a great deal of pains to get exactly such a fit and such a shoe as pleases you, you are likely to be a steady customer of ours, for that's the kind of men we please. We have already a reputation for pains- taking and accurate fitting, and we wish to extend it all we can.—John Wana- maker, N. Y. Shoes extraordinary at prices extraor- dinary.—Siegel-Cooper Co., N. Y. The difference between the $5 patent leather shoes, the $3 derbys we sell and the $7 shoes, the $5 derbys sold else- where is: ours are worth the price asked—your money back if you want it.—-Rogers, Peet & Co., N. Y. Tramp, tramp, tramp, the boys are marching. And they must have strong, easy hcots and shoes. They will find just what they need at our store. Should they tramp all over Cuba they will not re- quire more than one pair of our war boots or war shoes for this campaign. — Cammeyer’s Shoe Store, N.Y. Perfection in footwear has been reached in Hess Footwear. ‘They are the embodiment of all those qualities which make a shoe popular. They have a certain distinctive style and smart- ness about them—the mark of bestness —that is entirely missing from any other make.—N. Hess, Washington, 0. ©. : A remarkable purchase of 2,400 pairs of ladies’ fine shoes from one of the famous Rochester shoe manufacturers— who, being sorely pressed for money, came to The Big Store, where he de- posited his ‘‘load of trouble’’ in ex- change for an exceedingly low sum—will be placed on sale to-morrow, and ata price that promises to create a little in- surrection in shoedom.—Siegel-Cooper Co. , . oo 8 Useless Languages. Jones: Its surprising how imprac- tical some very learned men are. Smith: Yes; there’s Professor Lin- gwist, for instance. He spent over half his life in acquiring fluency in nine or ten different languages, and then went and married a wife who never gives him a chance to get in a word edge- ways. SS ee een eee rare een ae eee ee MICHIGAN TRADESMAN The Store Boy. It is a question whether or not boys are useful in stores to act as assistauts in waiting on customers and attending to the stock ; that is, to keep the store neat, clean and in good order. There are many varieties of boys, as every one knows. Some are amenable to rea- son, industrious, intelligent and finally work up to responsible positions from very menial ones. In order to attain this, the boy must, undoubtedly, be trained by his employer. There are instances where this care on the part of the employer is well repaid by the de- velopment of a personal attachment and a deep interest in the business on the part of the protege. Lately a compre- hensive discussion of the whole matter appeared in a journal, which took the point of view that a boy in the store is an important factor nowadays, although he is usually ignored and disregaraed until he reaches an age when the problem arises as to what position he should be promoted, to be a salesman or discharged? There is a prevaleni feeling that boys are rather irresponsible and that but little dependence can be put on them, although there are some things which a boy can do as well asa man, if he is properly taught the manner in which they should be done. If some patience and perseverance were employed in training boys, and ideas about business gradually inculcated one by one into their minds, they would soon learn how to be useful as weil as popular. The tendency on the part of boys to slight their work could be overcome if at the beginning of their apprentice- ship they were made to do a thing over and over again until it was done thoroughly. Boys are expected to as- sist in or do the janitor service entirely. But comparatively few people, young or old, know how to sweep properly, for it is no light, easy task. Never let a boy begin by sweeping around movable ob- jects, but see that he lifts them out of the way. Always dampen the floor by sume means before beginning to sweep, after which the broom should be ma- nipulated so as to prevent as little dust as possible from rising, as it injures goods, and be kept from spattering wood work with water. Even although the floor is dampened, some dust cir- culates in the air, and this should al- ways be carefully wiped off after it has been allowed sufficient time to settle. Oue of the principal places where many stores show neglect is the window glass in the front. This form of neglect Is noticed as much as any other by cus- tomers. Cleaning should be done sys- tematically and at regular intervals not too far apart in order to be effective and obtain that unvaried, shining clean- liness which is so pleasing to retned minds. All stores can not have the handsomest fixtures, or great expanses of plate glass, but they can have neat- ness and order, which require little ex- pense and effort. When sent out with parcels the boy should be instructed to handle them carefully, not toss or bump them about or against anything. Packages should reach their destination in good condi- tion or customers will be offended. Boys should be taught nice manners, to be courteous and gentle, This can not be learned too soon. It will repay the boy a hundred fold in late years if he has cultivated the faculty of being agreeable. If some of these suggestions are borne in mind, a better generation of salespeople may be evolved. > 0 Bargain Day in the Rural Store. From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. ‘*You say them shoes is wuth $1, but you'll take 75 cents ef I pay cash, won't aoe ‘vies: 7 ‘*Then you'll fling in a pair of woolen socks, I guess?’’ **Reckin’ so.’’ ‘‘Hold on; them shoes hain’t got no strings, have they?’’ ‘'T'll give you a pair.’! ‘*Better make hit two pair; one will soon wear out.’’ ‘‘ All right, here they are.’’ ‘Looks like you might gimme a pair of suspenders fer good measure. "’ ‘Well, rather than miss trade I’ll do it. What else?’’ ‘When a feller buys a_ bill you alius} set ‘em up, don’t you?’ ‘“Yes, what'll you take?’’ ‘Two segars an’ a pound o’ cheese.’’ - > © Summer Schedule on the Grand Trunk. The Grand Trunk Detroit & Milwaukee Division, has opened up the summer season by pla- cing in service five trains daily, except Sunday, each way between Grand Kap- | ids & Grand Haven, and two each way on Sundays. sold same as last year: Grand and return on Sunday, 50 cents. For particulars, call at D. & M. city office, | Morton House, or at depot —66s. C. A. JusTIN, City Pass. Agt. - a Learn the lesson of patience thorough- ly and much of the unnecessary wear and dear of your life will cease. Railway System, | Excursion tickets will be | Haven | I5 | | We have. . | * A line of Men’s and Wo- | ate men’s Medium Priced 7K Shoes that are Money Winners. The most of them sold at Bill Price. We are still making the Men’s Heavy Shoes in | Oil Grain and Satin; also carry Snedicor & Hatha way’s Shoes at Factory Pricein Men’s, Boys’ and Youths’. Lycoming and Keystone Rubbers are the best. See our Salesmen or send mail orders. GEO. H. REEDER & CO.. | 19'S. lonia St., Grand Rapids, Mich. j » Michigan Bark ee ee f tine & Lumber Co., 527 and 528 Widdicomb Building, Grand Rapids, Mich. C..U, CLARK, President. W. D. WADE, Vice-President. M. M. Crark, Sec’y and Treas. Sell us your Bark for Cash. We aim to please. Cor- respondence solicited. POS PHOS OOOH OOO 909OF 96050650 999F99FF 0609095 O99O66600 sme toot oy ba | : imams Yeaneet HEMLOCK BARK. pag ba 8 betes LUMBER, SHINGLES, (Pata pe, oy R.RTIES, POSTS, SOOOSSOSHOS0F99SHOHOOOSOO HOE OD ooo "anipy Yaris Pucaf, We Pay HIGHEST MARKET PRICES in SPOT CASH and Measure Bark When Loaded. Correspondence Solicited. 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The enactment into law of the bill of our banking system would mark one of the greatest economic advances in| the history of our country. It contains so some relation to every other part, that a review of the bill in all its details would be quite :mpossible without in- | / | be correspondingly contracted and detinitely extending these articles. It is the foundation of a symmetrical system of finance, conform- ing to the conditions of. an advanced in- dustrial organism. be as simpie as seems possible and parts structed as human ingenuity can them. It is no experiment. cial history and experience of of any commercial complete and seem to be as harmoniously con- make importance has by tion been those who drafted its m: its the Canadian and tems, which are ito consulted and examined it n provisions, fashioned after banking Many of parts are Scotch sys- acknowledged } best in the world. Under it the laws of supply and de- studeuts of banking to be the i trade, commerce, Competition, mand —in a hand in of all gravita- -are linked to and hand with credits, the touchstone These Jaws, like the tion, are parts of the constitution of the universe and serve man’s pur] operate laws of oses only in so far as he adjusts his principles of Its operation weuld | Its | , : ‘ |main object of ; Should be the fixing of the minimum ot The finan- | i" led | credits, couplec every na- | . lits, = jiations as will prevent or detect fraudu- | lent operations. i banks jtimes prompt the banks to grant the |largest credits consistent with safety, word, the laws of economics |f0F their prosperity depends upon the |exchanges are the creators and sustain- action to theirs. This bill will place} credits in touch with the magnets that| attract or repel them, obedient to nat- | ural laws, in the supplying of man’s| needs. A banking system is efficient | In aiding the exchange of goods and drawn and defined ina legislative enact- products only within the limitations by | which it 1s by law allowed to operate. It is through it that the whole process of credits, which take the piace of actual money, the necessity for credits, but this neces- sity calls them into existence and it is a short-sighted policy toast seeks to cur- tail their powers of plying credits, hin the general by law, for be- is evolved. sup f so long as they keep wit safety 1 lines prescribes Banks do not make | | sory |; changed business conditions, | might | a isuch debt was at a minimum. igree of yond this point the success or failure of | each bank must depend upon the _ hon- esty and business judgment of those re- sponsible for the of its busi- ness The individual transactions of a bank can not be the object of legislative guidance and direction. the nature of things, left bank, ‘tis to investigate, quickly and quietly, the pecuniary responsibility and honesty FREE conduct These are, in QO practically t one man !n each whose business wheel is Seat Post | This rule alone should be the test of a | bank’s issues of credit notes and there | would be no more need for fixing the {maximum volume of a_ bank's credit | notes by law than there is of fixing the | notes were it not for the fact that a bank | and credits of scores of people, and for | Review of the Present and Proposed | | approached by a borrower it accepts or now before Congress for the revision | @Jects bis request as the judgment of | its responsible head dictates. patrons have large orders on hand from hind its credit notes. | responsible parties, or ample actual! as-|the Government to see that credits are forty-six sections, and every part eed HTS form a_ safe basis for large i cred by aj] | Within the radius of their patronage. | banks are not bona fide exchanges but | speculative enterprises. = Spring Seat Po On the fact that a Spring Seat Post in your After riding a Berkey Adjustable Spring of each borrower and the security offered A bank exists to make loans of its own capital and the | tank When | vouches for the confinement of its oper- for each loan sought. capital of others entrusted to it. accommodations; if orders are small or from questionable sources, or actual assets are small, credits should the regulation of these transactions must, in the nature of things, te with the officers | If its|sume that there is adequate value be- } | j this reason must be treated as a semi- chartering a practically institution. In the Government public ations within certain general limita- tions, and the public has a right to as- It is the duty of kept within safe limitations, not by ab- solute fixity of volume, but through a relative fixity by which they are allowed to expand or contract and exchange rises or recedes. When an individual offers a promissory nete It is generally a comparatively easy as production | Properly Adjusted You will be well posted. It relieves all jar or vibration caused by rough roads and car tracks. It can be attached to any wheel or any make of saddle. All posts made special bushing fits it to any wheel. Send us sample order, matter to fairly ascertain his resources, honesty, etc., but without some guar- antee of law as to resources, it would be impossible for the great mass of people to determine the quality of a bank’s credits, and each bank would be- of the bank and such transactions are, as a matter of fact, absolutely inde- pendent of statutory enactments. The Statutory regulations the maximum ot assets necessary to come the object of investigation by hundreds of individuals each day. Un- der such conditions, business would be retarded and credit notes would become practically worthless for facilitating exchanges beyond the immediate vicin- ity of the bank of issue. This lack of a proper guarantee by law was the real weakness of the wild-cat system that prevailed prior to the rebellion and made it necessary that each person have recourse to daily market quotations, in order to learn the value of the credit | notes of each bank. ANDREW FYFE. | —_——¥__-0»——___ Pe ; | The steward of a big restaurant in St, Louis gives a bill of fare to cost $25 per j plate, exclusive of wine, and the Prov- jide t Association of that city adver- | tises to give a square meai for 7 cents, | consisting of soup, pork and beans, pota- | toes, rutabaga, bread, coffee and peach | pudding, with only such regu- Within these lines the should be allowed the most liberty to augment or contract credits in obedi- ence to the rise or fall of exchanges An enlightened self-interest will at all eS 5C. CIGAR. prosperity of their patrons. Bankers action that minimizes exchanges, for GRAND RA ALL JOBBERS AND | Can not prosper by adopting a course of | G. i : J OH N SO N cE; IGA R =, & ’ REE eee WORLD’S PIDS, @MticH ers of banks and their interests are best served when actual exchanges call for many credits. The real pitfalls for Everything in the Ce iiiy Plumbing Line The line of demarkation as to the safety of credits can not be arbitrarily Everything in the Heating Line ment any more than can be the quality of volume of an individual's promissory notes. An individual may, under fa- vorable business conditions, negotiate and redeem many times more promis- notes than he could meet under and he be more solvent while he had a large credit debt against him than when The de- stability would be found in comparing at given times his credit liabilities with the volume of his assets. Tiling. Galvanized volume of an individual's promissory is, of necessity, the trustee of the funds St 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 Are You Posted better than a Pneumatic Tire? @ @ If satisfactory to you IT WILL BE TO OTHERS, Send us a 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. ADDRESS Berkey Spring Seat Post Company, Grand Rapids, Mich. Properly Adjusted 7 inch in diameter and a THEY WILL SELL. Be it Steam, Hot Water or Hot Air. Concern in the State. WEATHERLY & PULTE, 99 Pearl St., Grand Rapids AAARARAAARAR Mantels, Grates and Work of Every Description. Largest WAAAARARAAARAP kor only one cent you can have an expert examine YOUR LEAKY ROOF and tell you why it leaks and how it will that We have had 28 years’ ex- much cost ‘to stop hole.’’ perience in this business, and are We have men traveiing and can send them to All kinds of roofs put on and repaired by reliable and responsible. you on short notice. H. M. REYNOLDS & SON, GRAND RAPIDS OFFICE, CAMPAU & LOUIS. DETROIT OFFICE. FOOT OF THIRD STREET. FREE MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 17 President, JoHNn A. HorrMan, Kalamazoo; Secre- tary, J. C. SAuNDERs, Lansing; Treasurer, Cuas. McNo ry, Jackson. Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Association. President, C. C. SNEDEKER, Detroit; Secretary and Treasurer, C. W. ALLEN Detroit. United Commercial Travelers of Michigan. Grand Counselor, F. L. Day, Jackson: Grand Secretary, G. S. Vatmore, Detroit; Grand Treas- urer, GEO. A. REYNOLDS, Saginaw. Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual Acci- dent Association. President, J. Boyp Pantiinp, Grand Rapids; Secretary and Treasurer, Geo. F. Owen, Grand Rapids. Lake Superior Commercial Travelers’ Club. President, W. C. Brown, Marquette; Secretary and Treasurer, A. F. Wrxson, Marquette. He Was Prepared for Emergencies. It was raining straight down, as the saying goes, and had been doing so _ all day; one of those soakers, when it seems impossible to stop, a sticky, hot, wet night in September, as I stepped from a train at a little station on the B. & O. road. I was a full-fledged drummer. My only customer at this village was the general merchant in the place, a dealer in sugar, grindstones, patent medi- cines, calico and eggs; a department Store of ‘‘auld lang syne.’’ My schedule said to see this customer and sell him what I could; get supper at a boarding house half a mile away and get back to catch the g o'clock train for the West. Rain—how it did rain. I had two grips and a light-weight overcoat, but no umbrella. I rushed to M.’s place and found the old gentleman alone, reading the evening paper and awaiting the return of his two clerks, who were out to supper. After the usual trade greeting, I said: ‘‘Mr. M., I must get over to the boarding house (hotel, he called it) and back for the next train west, and I have no umbrella. Can you loan me one?’’ ‘‘Well, now,’’ he said, ‘‘what a night to borrow such a thing. We keep two here and the boys have both of them out to supper, and they won’t be back for an hour. But, my boy, I will fix you out. Back here in a barrel, under my long-legged desk, I keep a big, cotton umbrella that is a veteran. It has seen service many years. I never allow anyone to carry it but myself, and I know it is always there. [I can bet on it every time. It is the Old Man’s private property and no one disturbs it. I call it my ‘rainy day’ umbrella. I will loan it to you if you will bring it directly back after supper and return it to me_ personally; it’s an old friend and I can't do busi- ness without it.’’ I complied with the old gentleman’s request; sold him a nice order, had my supper, caught the west-bound train, was dry and felt well contented with myself and with the world at large. Over a cigar in the smoker, as the train rumbled and swung along, it struck me that there was a moral in my old friend’s umbrella for a young man, merely a boy, as I was at that time. I fell into this train of reasoning: That old gentleman has been a suc- cessful merchant, has a fine trade, car- ries a big stock of goods, discounts his bills, and is the adviser, attorney and the friend of every farmer witbin ten miles of his place; he is looked up to as authority by everyone in his little bailiwick, yet he made so much ado about an old cotton umbrella! But then, it was his rainy day umbrella; one that he did not use in sunshine, one that he did not carry about in fair weather, but for emergencies, like this to-night. He knew positively just where to put his hand on it; knew without a shadow of a doubt that he would find it ready for anything—a good, big, sub- Stantial rainy day umbrella. And then I said, have I such an article, that I know to be in exactly such or such a place; not for rain, but for clothing, bread and butter, and for any pressing wants that might arise? And, believe me, I could not remember where I had any such an arrangement that was _ re- served and set apart for rainy days. The grocer pushes trade for all it is worth. He cuts a profit here and one there to draw business; works late and early, keeps his clerks and delivery men on the jump; uses his ‘‘fair day"’ umbrellas for the wholesale grocer and the notion jobber, for the butcher, his butter man, the produce dealer and_ for his help. If the supply of umbrellas does not go around some one must wait. He never thinks of himself; and now an unexpected but positive demand comes from an outside concern, where he bought just a few too many goods, goods that were new style and have not sold readily; in fact, most of them are on the shelves or unpacked in the cellar, and his credit is at stake. What now? It must not get to Dun, or to Smith, who travels for Rice & Co., the big wholesale grocers and his principal creditor. His paper gone to protest for the want of just one small umbrella to protect it! That must not happen. It shall not; and then he thinks of his old-standby, solidly-made, rough, crook-necked, old-fashioned rainy day umbrella, that he has laid away with Interest & Co., bankers, and he takes it out, for he knows exactly where he will find it; takes up his paper, anxiously awaits a few collections and a few days’ sales, and then back goes the old cotton friend, back into the old hiding place, its duty done. Clouds and rain gone, sunshine now. No use for anything, not even a parasol. The day is saved. His credit is saved. His name is at par the world over. And all honor to his old, homely, rainy day um- brella. Have you got such a one? W. B. GEROE. ———_~> 2. He Got His Receipt. Uneducated people sometimes have a happy knack in coming to the point. Dan and Mose, neither of them noted for erudition, were partners in an en- terprise which it is needless to specify. One morning a customer called to set- tle a small bill, and after handing over the money asked for a receipt. Mose retired to the privacy of an in- ner room, and after a long delay re- turned with a slip of paper on which were written these words: **We'’ve got our pay. Meand Dan.”’ ee ee Joe F. O. Reed (H. Leonard & Sons) has stolen a march on his friends by abandoning the state of single blessed- ness, the fortunate partner of his joys and sorrows being Mrs. Eliza Lathrop, of Delta. The ceremony occurred at the residence of the bride Tuesday evening. The happy couple will reside at 48 Bost- wick street. Joe has hosts of friends who wiil join the Tradesman in wishing him and his bride long life and much happiness. ~~ 0» H. S. (Happy Hi) Robertson has engaged to cover the retail trade of Western Michigan for the Diamond Requisites of the Successful Salesman. Cigar In the first place, a salesman must be the soul of honor. The implicit truth is the only road toa customer’s con- fidence, and where there is no confidence predominating there can be no suc- cessful business relations. It is more than necessary for this confidence and integrity to find its fountain head at the factory. An employer and employe must be as closely allied to each other as the partners of the concern are, and they must know and feel that their interests are identical, and hence oft-repeated interchange of ideas should be resorted to, To be a successful cigar salesman one has to be a thorough physiognomist and a competent judge of human na- ture. He must be able to conclude at a glance how and in what strain to open a conversation with a buyer, and should he have made a mistake he must be so quick to detect it that he can change the style of wording his phrases so as not to be discovered. There are no two people that you can address alike or on whom you can make an impression with the same words. A man starting on the road must first of all feel that he is selling the finest productions in his line that are manu- factured. He recognizes no competition with regard to quality, and knowing or believing this, he can represent his goods with truth and accuracy. It is quite necessary for him to be thoroughly conversant with the modus operandi of making a cigar, what it is made of, how it is made and a full de- scription of same from the time the _to- bacco goes to the stripper until it leaves the packer’s table. The personality of the salesman is an- other great requisite. Of good address and neatly clothed, he must be able to impress a buyer upon first sight with the knowledge that the caller is a perfect gentleman, and as the conversation ad- vances he must by his talk and actions convince the buyer that if he has con- cluded that such is the case he has made no error. The amount of conversation that a salesman resorts to does not count for much with a merchant, as it is the qual- ity of talk that inspires confidence and leads to good orders. A salesman, to meet with success, dare not under any circumstances make any misrepresentations, nor make prom- ises that he knows beforehand his firm will not nor can not live up to. ‘Becoming too familiar with a custom- er is not a good thing to do. A sales- man must avoid becoming a bore, and must strive to conduct himseif in such a way that he is at all times a welcome visitor in a merchant’s place of busi- ness, so that the buyer will always be pleased to see bim, whether he does business with him or not. A salesman must be able to interest a possible purchaser sufficiently to get him to look over his line of goods, and so make an impression on him that he will remember his line and he eventu- ally get some of his trade. Never neglect to call on all the trade. Slight no one and never leave a city until you have thoroughly canvassed all the good houses, and although you don’t succeed in doing a large business, you can feel that you have conscientiously done your duty. There are many other requisites nec- essary to become a_ successful cigar salesman,and yet the representative of a Crystal Salt Co., of St. Clair. the goods with the trade, and the firm at the back of him must do the rest, be- | Cause people can only reorder such ; goods that sell and that the public will |smoke, and desire to smoke again, thus creating a demand for brands, and this means mail orders whether the sales- man comes around or not. A. METZGER. > ®—_—> Some Facts About Mr. Murphy. Total reported production of potatoes in 1897 was 164,015,964 bushels, being 58,218,576 bushels, or 35 per cent. less than was reported for 1806, The total reported area of production was 2,534,577 acres, as compared with 2,767,405 acres in 1806, a decrease of 232,888 acres, or 8.4 per cent. The total of the crop was $59,643,059, an increase of $17,460,700, Or 24.2 per cent. value The average yield per acre, 64.7 bush- els, is 26.4 bushels less than was re- ported for 1896 and 10.4 bushels below the average of the ten years from 1887 to 1506, A yield than that for 1897 was reported in the preceding dec- ade only in the years 1887, 1890, 1892 and 1894. The average value per bushel, 54.7 cents, is 26.1 cents per bushel higher than the average for 1896, and is more than double the average price per bushel realized for the crop of 189 The average value per acre was $35.3 as compared with $26.08 in 1896. There was only one extensive and clearly defined section of the country, namely, the Pacific coast, where, in 1897, the potato crop was not to a very large extent a failure. Only’ from ten states aitogether was any increase re- ported over the crop of 1896, and in the case of several of these the increase was unimportant. The production of the lower 5. 7» whole of New England was but little greater in 1897 than that of the single State of Maine in 1896. New York shows a reduction of over one-third, and Pennsylvania of almost one-half. In the central West the conditions were still worse, the production of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and Illinois falling off from 61,000,000 in 1896 to 29,000,000 in 1897. Wisconsin and Minnesota re- port a notable increase of production from a somewhat reduced acreage, but Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, and the Dakotas, all important potato-grow- ing States, report a greatly reduced production. Washington, Oregon and California, however, increased their contribution to the total crop from 4,800,000 to 7,000,000, a noteworthy in- crease but one that, after all, makes but little impression on the greatly reduced grand total. With the exception of Rhode Island, which reports a yield of 110 bushels per acre, all the states re- porting more than too bushels per acre are west of the Mississippi River, and all except Minnesota are in the Rocky Mountain region or on the Pacific coast. ~~ A member of Congress from the West has just received this startling informa- tion from a soured constituent who did not approve of his position: ‘‘I’vegota big yellow squash left over from last year’s harvest that’s got more brains in it than you’ve got.’’ HOTEL WHITCOMB ST. JOSEPH, MICH. A. VINCENT, Prop. THE WHITNEY HOUSE Rates $1.00 to $1.25 per day. Complete Sanitary Improvements. Electric Lights. Good Livery in connection. State Line Telephone. jobber or manufacturer can but place Chas. E. Whitney, Prop., Plainwell, Mich. E> PA cm Is MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Drugs--Chemicals MICHIGAN STATE BOARD OF PHARMACY. Term expires F. W. R. Perry, Detroit - Dec. 31, 1898 A. C. SCHUMACHER, Ann Arbor - Dec. 31, 1899 Gro. GunpRUM, Ionia - - Dec. 31, 1900 L. E. REYNOLDs, St. Joseph Dec. 31, 1901 HENRY HE iM,' 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. WEBBER, Cadillac. Secretary—-CHas. Mann, Detroit. ' Treasurer—JoHN D. Muir, Grand Rapids. Is There a Kola Habit? The statement is occasionally met with that the continued employment of kola or its preparations as a medicinal agent or light stimulant results in the contraction of a ‘‘habit.’’ This *‘habit’’ has been described as being either more or less dangerous than the morphine habit—depending considerably on the fertility of the writer’s imagination— and its effects on body and soul have been depicted in a manner well worthy of DeQuincey. My own experience re- futes these statements so completely that I feel constrained to relate it. For the past two years | have been engaged in investigating, under the supervision of Prof. A. B. Prescott, of Ann Arbor, the chemistry of this inter- esting drug. During that time I had constantly at hand a supply of fresh kola, and for the first few months I ate two or three of the so-called ‘‘nuts’’ every day, a quantity represented by a good deal more of the various wines and elixirs of kola than most persons would be apt to use in the same period of time. The stimulating effect was, of course, perceptible, and I soon learned not to partake of the drug in the even- ing unless I wished to remain awake until a late hour. After three months, or perhaps a little longer, I decided to abstain from further use of it for atime to ascertain if it had really become a necessity to me. ‘The first day of ab- stinence I suffered from a dull head- ache, the second day the headache was less noticeable, and the third day there was no headache or discomfort of any kind—the same effects exactly that I have noticed on abstaining from coffee or tea after using it foratime. There was positively no more desire for kola than for tea or coffee under the circum- tances, and that certainly can not be re- garded as a serious matter. After about two weeks of abstinence had convinced me that no habit had been formed, I resumed its use with about the former regularity, but after about a month I felt that I was gradually coming to dis- like it; in a few months more J had ceased using it entirely, and that with- out any resolution or previously formed intention to do so. I quit merely be- cause I did not care for it any longer. During the second year of my research I do not suppose I ate more than a dozen kola nuts. And this is the kola habit! The stimulating action of kola seems to me to be much the same as that of coffee, except that it is more prolonged than that produced by coffee. This might be explained by the fact that caffeine kolatannate, in which form rather more than half of the caffeine of kola exists, is but slowly soluble in the fluids of the stomach, and this slow ab- sorption would tend to prolong the stim- ulant effect. The fact that certain prep- arations of kola are so strongly alcoholic that the stimulation produced by them is much more due to the alcohol than to caffeine may be in part responsible for the notion that there is a kola_ habit. If any one finds that such a preparation of the drug has become an absolute necessity to him it is very likely that a few simple experiments will show that it is the alcohol he wants instead of the caffeine. No one is disputing that there is an alcohol habit, but let us call things by their right names and _there- fore not call this the kola habit. JAMES W. T. KNOx. —_—_—>-0-»—__—_— The Drug Market. Opium—The market is steady at the advance noted last week and continues firm, with an upward tendency. Morphine—In sympathy with opium, is also firm and has advanced toc. Quinine—Speculators have dropped the article for the time being and man- ufacturers’ prices rule. At the auction sale of cinchona bark, very much high- er prices were paid and it is reasonable to expect that quinine will remain at the present price for some time to come. Quicksilver—Has advanced about 7c per lb.,and an advance in all mercurials is looked for. Balsams—-Copaiba, Peru and Tolu are all tirm at the recent advance. Soap Bark—Is scarce and has been advanced. Gums—Asafoetida is in good demand and steady. Kino has been advanced 5oc per |b. Roots—Jamaica ginger is in light stock and the price has been advanced. Golden seal is in good demand at high- er prices. Ipecac is firm and, with the stock in a few hands, prices have been advanced. An advance is expected on the price of licorice, on account of the war. Seeds—Canary, caraway and celery are all advancing. Hemp is higher, There is very little California yellow mustard to market this year and high prices will rule. Poppy is scarce abroad and has advanced. Sulphur—There has been a sharp _ re- action, on account of the arrival of crude, and we note very much lower prices. Linseed O11—On account of competi- tion, has declined, but the seed market has advanced and it is thought the low price will only rule for a few days, Sperm Oil—Has advanced on account of the Government having purchased nearly all the oil in market. CoE a Peculiar Orders Received by Drug- gists. A local druggist is making a collec- tion of the queer orders he receives from people who send children to the store for things they need. Here are a few samples of them: ‘‘This child is my little girl. I sent you 5 cents to buy two sitless powders for a groan up adult who is sike.’’ Another reads!: _‘‘Dear Dochter, ples gif bearer five sense worse of Auntie Toxyn for to gar- gle babi’s throte and obleage."’ An anxious mother writes: ‘“You will pleas give the leetle boi five cents worth of epecac for to throw up in a five months’ old babe. N B— The babe has a sore stummick, ”’ This one puzzled the druggist: ‘‘] have a cute pain in my child’s diagram. Please give my son some- thing to release it.’’ Another anxious mother wrote: ‘*My little babey has eat up its fath- er's parish plasther. Send an anecdote quick as possible by the enclosed little oir.” The writer of this one was evidently in pain: ‘‘T haf a hot time in my insides and which I wood like it to be extinguished. What is good for to extinguish it. The enclosed quarter is for the price of the extinguisher. Hurry pleas.’’ ——_>-0-~»--- — New York Legislation on Paris Green. Owing to the many complaints which have reached the New York Legislature recently from the rural districts regard- ing the poor quality of the Paris green sold to the credulous farmers for de- storying potate bugs and cther entomo- logical devastators, a bill for the pur- pose of regulating the quality of this article was prepared, and, after meet- ing the approval of both Houses of the New York State Legislature, is now awaiting the signature of Governor Black. Under the proposed law all Paris green sold within the boundaries of the State must be up to a certain standard, or, to quote the bill: ‘‘The composition of Paris green, when sold in this State, shall be a chemical com- pound of acetic acid, arsenious oxide and cupric oxide. All Paris green sold, offered or exposed for sale, shall contain at last 50 per cent. of arsenious oxide.’’ The hill also provides that all whole- sale dealers in Paris green must obtain a permit and provide samples of their product for analysis by the State Agri- cultural Department. The penalty for violation of this proposed law is a fine of $200. a The Pleasure Was Mutual. Browne—Allow me to have the pleas- ure of returning that $5 that I borrowed the other day. Smyth— Thanks. mine. The pleasure is Forgot His Latin. ‘‘I’m afraid I have lost a patient,’’ said the young physician who realizes ihe value of making an impression, ‘*Didn’t you know what remedy to prescribe?”’ ‘*Perfectly. That part of it was sim- ple enough. But I couldn't think of the Latin for ‘mustard plaster.’ ’’ SUFERING HUMANITY, READ A REMARKABLE CASE Having suffered with rheumatism and constipa- tion for over twenty-five years, and my case having been pronounced hopeless last summer by the best medical skill, when I was given upto die, I miracu- lously had my attention called to Frye’s Quickstep, which saved my life, and Iam 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 be at Sweet’s Hotel from Friday, May 6, until Tuesday, May 10, with my entire winter line and all spring weights we have left. ON THE MARKET IS THE NO. The Cheapest Enameled Playing Cad 20 ROVERS Has a_ handsome assortment of set designs printed in different colors—Red, Blue, Green and Brown; highly finished, enameled, and is the best card in the market for the money. Each pack in a handsome enameled tuck box. Put up in one dozen assorted designs and colors. A good seller. List price $20 per gross. We make a full line from cheapest to highest grades, and can meet your wants in every way. If you are handling playing cards for profit get our sam- ples and prices before placing your order. They may help you. THE AMERICAN PLAYING CARD CO., KALAMAZOO, MICH. pepwiebia baba Qa bala tu tutu Sababatababatulule SaSe Nea 2B Paint & Varnish Co. & a uckeye Faint arnis 0. 6 a PAINT, COLOR AND VARNISH MAKERS ws 2 E 2 E 3 G Ze Mixed Shingle ee ee Paint Stains ee E Ze White Wood ws a Lead rw Fillers es ae e Sole Mfgrs CRYSTAL ROCK FINISH, for Interior and Exterior Use $3 Corner [5th and Lucas Streets, Toledo, Ohio. WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT. Advanced— Opium, Quinine. Declined— Acidum ACCuUGERL 38. c. 8 6@8 8 Benzoicum, German 70@ 7% Boracie.............. @ it CarboHcum......... 22@ «41 Cimieum ..._...... 10@ 2 Hye@rochior ......... 3@ «5 Nitrocum. .....:... 8s@ 10 Ose cum .......»... LR@ 14 Phosphorium, dil... @ 1 Salicylicum. ........ 60@ 65 Suiphuricum........ 1%@ 5 (Tennicmm ........<. 1 25@ 1 40 Tercericum.......... 38@ 4 Ammonia Aqua, 16 dez........ 4@ 6 io: ma Gee... 6@ 8 Carnonag...2....... 12@ 14 Cileriduim .......... IR@ 14 Aniline —.............. aa so Brown -... 10.0... 80@ i 00 ee Sc 45@ _ 50 Yellow 2 50@ 3 00 Bacce. Cubere........ no.18 i@ 15 ouniperms........... 6@ 8 Xanthoxylum.. .... 5@ 2 Balsamum Copatia ..........- 60@ 65 —...... ..... @ 2 fp) Terabin, Canada.... 5G 50 Toruten....:.,....... G@ 5 Corte Abies, Canadian.... 18 Coss 2 Cinchona Flava..... 18 Euonymus atropurp 30 Myrica Cerifera, po. 20 Pranus Virgini...... ee Quillaia, gr’d....... 14 Sassafras..... -po. 18 12 Ulmus...po. 15, gr’d 15 Extractum Glycyrrhiza Glabra. 4@ 2% Glycyrrhiza, po..... 23a ©4030 Heematox,15Ilb box. 1@_ 12 Heematox, Is ........ 1 14 Hematox, 4S....... 14@ 15 Heematox, 48....... 16@ 1% Ferru Carbonate Precip... 15 Citrate and Quinia.. 2 Citrate Soluble...... Ferrocyanidum Sol. Solut. Chloride..... 15 Sulphate, com’l..... 2 Sulphate, com’l, by DDL per cwt....... 50 Sulphate, pure ..... 7 Flora Areies...........- LR@ 14 Bnememig.... 3.2... 18@ 2B Matriearia .......... 30@ «35 Folia Barosma............. BQ 2% Cassia Acutifol, Tin- . MeVeUy. 35. .... 8 25 Cassia Acutifol,Alx. 2 30 Salvia officinalis, 4s mend %e...::. 2.5 20 ee Ores... ..... 10 Gummi Acacia, ist picked. . Acacia, 2d picked.. Acacia, 3d picked.. Acacia, sifted sorts. Apecm, pe....... ... Aloe, Barb. po.18@20 Aloe, Cape .... po. 15 Aloe, Socotri..po. 40 Seese 65 88 R gr we Seed to Ammoniac.......... 5 60 Assafeetida....po.30 2@ 28 Bensomum ......... 50@ «5 Cateeha, fs. ........- @ 18 Catechu, %s......... @ 14 Catechnu, %s......... @ 16 Camphore . .. “«@ «& Euphorbium..po. 35 @ ww Gaipanum.......-... @ | 00 Gamboge 6@ 7 @ 30 - @ 0 @ 40 3 75@ 3 0 A@ 35 40Q@ 45 ‘Tragacanth ......... 50@ ~=—s80 Herba Absinthium..oz. pkg 25 Eupatorium .oz. pkg 20 Lobelia......0z. pkg 25 Majorum ....0z. pkg Mentha Pip..oz. pkg 23 Mentha Vir..oz. pkg 25 es oz. pkg 39 TanacetumV oz. pkg 22 Thymus, V..oz. pkg 25 Magnesia. Calcined, Pat..... .. 55 60 Carbonate, Pat...... Carbonate, K. & M.. Carbonate, Jennings Oleum Absinthium......... 3 25@ 3 50 Amygdale, Dule,... 30@ 50 ee Amare . 8 00@ 8 25 8556 k,n 2 10@ 2 20 Auranti Cortex..... 2 25@ 2 40 Berni... ......... 2 40@ 2 50 Compu... .-.. 2... 90 Caryophylli......... Q@ 8 OE ce 3@ 65 Chenopadii.......... @2%7 Cinnamonii......... 1 60@ 1 70 isronella. ......... 45@ 50 Conium Mac........ 35@ 50 Conaipa | 01). i 15@ 1 25 Cupenie 90@ 1 Excehthitos ........ 1 00@ 1 10 Eriveren 600 1 00@ 1 10 Gaeitheria 3.0 |_|. 1 50@ 1 60 Geranium, ounce... @ % Gossippii,Sem.gal.. 50@ 60 Hedcoms.. 10). 1 00@ 1 10 Junipera. ........... 1 50@ 2 00 havenduia §..... 9@ 2 00 Pomonis 30@ 1 50 Mentha Piper....... 60@ 2 20 Mentha Verid....... 50@ 1 60 Morus, gal... |. 10@ 1 23 Perel: 4 00@ 4 50 CUve 75@ 3 00 Picis Liquida...... 10g 12 Picis Liquida, gal... @ Bieing: oot. 98@ 1 10 Rosmarini.... @ 100 Rose, ounce. --- 6 500@ 8 50 Secemy 40Q@ 45 Sana 90@ 1 00 Ramee 50@ 7 00 BRSKRtrag. 55 60 Sinapis, ess., ounce. @ & coe 1 70@ 1 80 peyme. 40@ 50 inyme, opt....._... @ 1 60 Theobromas ........ 5b@ 2 Potassium Bt Carp... ..... - bea Bichromate......... 13@ 15 Bromide........ || 50@ 55 Carp Pe 15 Chlorate..po. 17@19¢ 16@ 18 Cyanide. 600000. | 3@ 40 ROGIGG 2 60@ 2 65 Potassa, Bitart, pure 28 30 Potassa, Bitart, com a Potass Nitras, opt... 10@ 12 Potass Nitras.....__. 10@ 11 Dreedinte 8. 20@ 2% Sulphate po ........ 15@ 18 Radix Aconitvm ........... 0@ ee 2Q@ 2 AReHUSS 90 |. 10@_—s 12 AVG pO. | @ B® Calamus ...____: | | 2 Gentiana......po. 15 12@ 15 Glychrrhiza...pv.15 16@ 18 Hydrastis Canaden . @ Hydrastis Can., po.. @ 60 Hellebore,Alba,po.. 18@ 20 Engin, po... 15@ 2 Ipecac, pe... 80@ 3 00 Iris plox....po35@38 35@ 40 Jarape, De 3@ 30 Maranta, 4s........ eo Podophyllum, po.... 2G BB Bae 75@ 1 00 mbel ent... @123 Rhel py... ...... T@ 1 35 Sees 3@ 38 Sanguinaria...po. 15 @ s&s Serpentaria 300@ 35 Se 40Q@ 45 Similax,officinalis H @ 40 Saitiax Mo. a @ Sete po.35 10@ 12 Symplocarpus, Feeti- Ona, po @ & Valeriana, Eng. po.30 & & Valeriana, German. 1@ 2 Ameibera.0 0 Ba ie Zineibers. .... 2@ 27 Semen Anica... po. 15 So Apium (graveleons) 1I@ 15 mere. te 1@ 6 Carat... po. 18 08 Caréamon.....¢..... 1 5@ 1 % Corigndrum......... 8@ 10 Cannabis Sativa.... 4@ 4% Cyaonium 75@ 1 00 Chenopodium ...... 10o@ 12 Dipterix Odorate... 00@ 2 20 Poniculum @ Foenugreek, po...... 7@ 9 ae 38%@ 4% Lini, grd....bbl. 31% 41@ 4% Bove 3@ 40 Pharlaris Canarian. 1@ 4% POR ieicsisiies os GU Sinapis Albu........ % 8 Sinapis Nigra....... H@ it Spiritus Frumenti, W. D. Co. 2 00@ 2 50 Frumenti, D. F. R.. § 2 25 Frumenti..... «+. | a 1 50 Juniperis Co. 0. T.. 1 65@ 2 00 Juniperis Co. . | Be 3 3 Saacharum } 90@ 2 10 Spt. Vini Galli 75@ 6 50 Vini — -.. (Seca Vint Aiba 25@ 2 00 Sponges Florida sheeps’ wool Carries... 25 2% Nassau sheeps wool od @ 2 00 Velvet extra sheeps’ wool, carriage..... @12 Extra yellow sheeps’ wool. carriage.... @ 1 00 Grass sheeps’ wool, Carriage. 0... @ 100 Hard, for slate use.. = & Yellow Reef, for plate Use... | @ 140 Syrups meses... .... : @ 50 Auranti Cortes...... @ Beueiper os... Qa wx Ipecac. ee ele @ 60 Perrmeled |. 8... @ 50 mnel Arem .:. 2... @ Smilax Officinalis... 50@ 60 mere ee @ 50 Scills...... .. ‘ ‘ @ 50 peta Co............ Toritan .........1... Pruuus virg......... Tinctures Aconitum Napellis R Aconitum Napellis F MIOCS oe: Aloes and Myrrh.... ot Assafcetida ......... Atrope Belladonna. Auranti Cortex..... Benzam. Benzom ©o...../.__ Bares Cantharides........ Capsicum. ...._. : Cardamon .......- ‘ Cardamon Co... ... Coste Catcehnu @Cinehona. Cinchona Co... | _. Columba ae Gubepe, Cassia /.cutifol..... C2gs1° sentifol Co. . naglatsS .... . a. ...... Ferri Chloridu + Gentian ....... i Gentian Co,...__. Gmaca. Guiaca ammon.. Hyoscyamus.... oo Todine, colorless... Bie. i oe Nux Vomica .___. Om Opii, camphorated. Opii, deodorized.... ease ee BAG Sanguinaria. .__.. Serpentaria ... Stromonium .... __. OnWsaR Veterian 3 Veratrum Veride... Aingiher, Miscellaneous Aither, Spts. Nit. 3F AKther, Spts. Nit.4F Ane Alumen, gro’d..po.7 AWGAIO | Antimoni, po... .. Antimoni et PotassT Antipyrn .... |. Antifebrin’,...... Argenti Nitras, oz .. Arsenicum. =... Balm Gilead Bud... Bismuth S.N. ..... Calcium Chlor., 1s.. Calcium Chlor., %s. Calcium Chlor., 4s. Cantharides, Rus.po Capsici Fructus, af. Capsici Fructus, po. Capsici FructusB,po Caryophyllus..po. 15 Carmine, No. 40..... Cera Alba, S.&F... Cera Miava |. Cocens i. Cassia Fructus...... Centraria, Cetacemm. Chloreformn... Chloroform, squibbs Chloral Hyd Crst.... Chondrus, Cinchonidine,P.& W Cinchonidine, Germ Cocaine. 0 3 Corks, list, dis. pr.ct. Creosotum. ......... Cretan. bbl. 7% Crete prep... Creta, — . OCreta, Rubra........ CTOGUs Codpear oo...) Cupri Sulph..... Dextre Ether Saiph......__. Emery, all numbers BMery pO... | Ergota...5. po. Piake White... CGee Gambier... Gelatin, Cooper..... Gelatin, French..... Glassware, flint, box Less than box.... Glue, brown... Glue, white. Glycerina... Mod Grana Paradisi..... Humealur.... _. |. eee Hydraag Chlor Mite Hydraag Chlor Cor. Hydraag Ox Rub’m. Hydraag Ammoniati HydraagUnguentum Hydrargyrum....... Ichthyobolla, Am... Meigs Iodine, Resubi...... fodesorm. Lupin. ..... Lycopodium . Mace. Liquor Arsex et hy- drarg Iod.......... LiquorPotassArsinit Magnesia, Sulph.... Magnesia, Sulph,bbl Mannia, SF. ::..,.. Mental. . 4.4 05++3; 8ao RASRSSSSSSSSSSS Fay SSSSSSSSSSSSRSSSSRASSESSRASSAsyssus Se008Sas _ oSSRSrRS Susan w BR cs SSdadaaeaeed Re G9) Bg 0 ‘ow &8SeSedee0 2 ° BC 9 o asesseeds DO OO Le 50850 S5e05Ssede00050808 § MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Morphia,S.P.& W... 2 45@ 2 70 | a Morphia, S.N.Y.Q.& > Moschus Canton.... Myristiea, No.1... .. Nux Vomica. ..po.20 Os Sepia... Pepsin Saac, H. & P. Dee... Picis Liq. N.N.% gal. Ga Pieis Lig., quarts. ... Picis Liq., pints..... Pil Hydrarg...po. 80 Piper Nigra...po. 22 Piper Alba....po. 35 Pir Buren... .... Petmb Acet........ Pulvis Ipecac et Opii Pyrethrum, boxes H. F. D. Co., doz... Pyrechtam, py.._... Case Quinia, S. P.& W.. Quinia, S. German.. Quinta, N.Y... ... Rubia Tinctorum... SaccharumLactis pv Silscme 3 Sanguis Draconis... Seng. Woo. Sapo, Mw... Bape, Go... Siedlitz Mixture.... 2 45@ 2 70| _ Singpis, opt......... 40 65@ 80 Snuff,Scotch,DeVo's @ i0| Seda Baras.......... 15@ 18] Soda Boras, po...... | Soda et Potass Tart. @ 1 00| Soda, Carb.......... | Soda, Bi-Carb....... @ 200) Soda. Ach... @ 1 00} Soda, Sulphas....... @ _ 85/ Spts. Cologne........ @ 50| Spts. Ether Co...... @ 18/Spt. Myrcia Dom.. @ 30| Spts. Vini Rect. bbl. @ 7 | Spts. Vini Rect.4bbl 10@ 12! Spts. Vini Rect.10gal 10@ 1 20) Spts. Vini Rect. 5gal | Less 5¢e gal. cash 10 dz @ 1 25/| Strychnia, Crystal... 2 30 | Sulphur, Subl....... 8@ 10/ Sulphur, Roll.... 30@ 40) Tamarinds.......... 30@ 38! Terebenth Venice... 33@ 38/| Theobrome....... ' Iam. «4! Vania... 18@ 20 Zinci Sulph........ 00@ 3 10 | 40@ 50 | Oils RP@ 14} 10@ 12 Whale, winter....... @ 15 | Lard, extra. |... @ | Lard) No.1.......... t _ oa Snuff, Maccaboy, De foes. Seees Oe H Weewo ¢ RS wee BIILL & & Oy @9Eee WWMM yvonne See Oe . GAL. | Coach Body..... 70 | No. 1 Turp Furn. 45 | Extra Turk Dama: 40 | Jap. Dryer,No.1Turp Linseed, pure raw.. Linseed, boiled..... Neatsfoot, winter str Spirits Turpentine.. Paints Red Venetian... ... Ochre, yellow Mars. Ochre, yellow Ber.. Putty, commercial... Putty, strictly pure. Vermilion, Prime American... ... o Vermilion, English. Green, Parts... .... | Green, Peninsular. | Lesa, Hed. ......... | Lead, white... .. | Whiting, white Span >| Whiting, gilders’... 2 | White, Paris Amer.. o| Whiting, Paris Eng. cliff | Universal Prepared. 1 Varnishes | No. I Turp Coach... 1 10@ Bete Forp......... Fr... 19 42 45 44 47 65 70 34 40 Ba. 6k 1% 2 @a 1% 2 @4 1% 2 @3 24 2%@3 2% 2%@3 13@ 15 W@ 164@ 20% 13@ 16 5K@ 6 54@ 6 @ 3 @ w @ 1 00 @1 #0 00@ 1 15 1 20 60@ 1 7! 75@ 3 00 00@ i 10 55@ 1 60 0@ 75 o J ° 3. °o 2PRLD one(e3 0%, a o ° S460 AOfo o ° o ° Ne ° a a °o [=) o o os ° oo 2G 9 BJOKo a ° eee °o 2 ° 0° o o 9 Bored o ° ° oO oa BI Con Sow oO oe? ° ° °o ° G ° aS ow o ° 9 a 915 0}9.00 1}0.00 o o o Sons Zs ° BrO[0 BPolo Yor oo °o ° AND 2 Sao o a ° J ° 9° ° aon oO 2 9° J 2° ° 9° oP aS ° ° ° ° ° ° e ° "oe ° ° ° ° ° ° So) POCKET BOOKS PURSES and well assorted line of We shall sample in a few days a large Ladies’ Pocket Books Ladies’ Purses Gentlemen’s Pocket Books Gentlemen’s Purses on Drug Co. And invite your inspection and order. Hazeltine & Perkins GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Ge os ODO a BCCI Owego ASS ° R ° Ar oDBr90 ° Ord ° 2AOfy oc Gro ° ON oD oa o S.o ow ° > oc cs Ne so" S ‘o v) oS Re CB PIO O's ow'o' 5) 0 S 9 (4 ] x 6 '° a 3 DOGO os So 50 ° Gs me _D Yoroo Sows o 6 9 > Ofa0)oe Cr ou SR o So Cro Ke ASS ° ° 3 H6r2 $) oP AS oY DIX oc oc ° au 5Q.° oo wGCo oa Jee So ODGr.0S9 Ga? ODGr0 oDGn9 ° 9 on Re a? oF SDE $) Gro Qe Yo SPDs CARH OVSo0} b%G0 10%n0 6 9)920 0 ; 9 0)5765 ° SOLOS Ogre ¢ ° a POPE DCC Coe ° Co% e an SSwSo FOC oo Gos Cox o oO 0 oe °o to 1 agg ha hase ne onset 20 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN GROCERY PRICE CURRENT. The prices quoted in this list are for the trade only, in such quantities as are usually purchased by retail dealers. They are prepared just before going to press and are an accurate index of the local market. It is im- possible to give quotations suitable for all conditions of purchase, and those below are given as representing av- erage prices for average conditions of purchase. those who have poor credit. our aim to make this feature of the greatest possible use to dealers. Cash buyers or those of strong credit usually buy closer than Subscribers are earnestly requested to point out any errors or omissions, as it is AXLE GREASE. doz. Dn nm oe. ........... ae aor Ol... 60 ————— 50 eg ei 7D TXL Golden, tin boxes = Tlica, tin boxes....... Paragon... .. i 35 BAKING POWDER. Absolute. — 0 Che Gon..--.. ...... 45 i i ee Gos....-.-.-.... 85 ican Goe...... .... 16 Acme. 44 Ib cans 3 doz...........- ib CansSdos............ - came i dox............ ft rae oe ‘ Arctic. G6 oz. Eng. Tumbiers........ - El — 44 Ib cans per doz......... % lb Cans per doz ........ 1 20 i i caus perdoz......... 2 Home. 4q 1b cans 4 doz case...... % lb cans 4 Gon case. ..... 55 lb cans 2 doz case ..... 90 JAS aE \g 1b cans, 4 doz case. % lb cans, 4 doz case... .. $ 1 $Ibeans, 2 doz case...... 1 60 Jersey Cream. ath. Cans, per dor.......... 2 00 Sos. Gans, per doz......_... 12 G6 o&. Cans, per dox.......... 5 Our Leader. or ne — Pee... 7 i eee... occ 1 Peerless. ao ee Queen peer 3 oz., 6 doz. case.. 2 2 Son.,4 dos. case .....-..... 32 Gan. tdoe. cise... 4 oe. Fae cos............ 4 ( Sr, | oon, Goee............ 9 BATH BRICK. ee ............,...- v0 ae. 80 BLUING. . 88838838 ee oO Paes, 2 ae BROOMS. SS Na, 2 Carpet........ aE a eee i No. 4 Carpet. . Ferrer Gem ........ CANNED GOODS. TManitewoc Peas. Lakeside Marrowfat. . Lakeside E. J.. Lakeside, Cham. of Eng... Lakeside. Gem, Ex. Sifted. Extra Sifted Early June.... Caiumbia, pings........_. Columbia, % pints.......... 1 CHEESE ms. .: . cae. @ Auaboy.......- |... @ Pee Mego Gem Gold Medal.. Ideal . J ersey . ee a — mawereeee....2. Spemdaic..... ...- ick 5 Limburger ... Pineapple... CHOCOLATE. Walter — - wage Ss. German Sweet .. se See 34 CLOTHES LINES. Cotton, 40 ft, per doz....... Cotton, 50 ft, per doz....... Cotton, 60 ft, per doz....... Cotton, 70 ft, per dos..... ms Cotton, 80 ft, per doz....... Juse, GOTt, por dos....:.... Jute. 72 ft. per dos... COCOA SHELLS. Beit Bare... Less quantity........-._- Pound packages... CREAN TARTAR. 5 and 10 1b. wooden boxes.. COFFEE. Green. Rio. arc: ape ee 10 Prue... ... se 11 Soe ee Peabormy |... -.......0. 2... 30-35 Peaberry ee i Mexican and d Guatamals. i — ...... 15 a... oe Java. Encersoe. Private Growth...........-..- 3 Menichiing....-......-...... - —_— Imitation . eee a Roasted. Clark-Jewell-W atte Co. a Pifth Avyenue..... Jewell’s Arabian Mocha.. “= Wells’ Mocha and Java..... 1.24 Wells’ Perfection Java..... 24 Sancaibo..... " . Breakfast Blends 18 Valley City Maracaibo. ee ee 1 Leader Biend....... -- ..- 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 4c a pound. In 601b. cases the list is 10c per 100 lbs. above the price in full cases. Arbuckle . . =a Jersey .. . 2a Mclaughlin’ @ XXX. om McLaughlin’s XXXX sold to retailers only. Mail all orders direct to W. F. McLaughlin & Co., Chicago. Extract. Valiey City % gross Felix % gross...... Hummel’s foil & gross. Hummel’s tin & gross CLOTHES PINS. 5 gross boxes.... COUGH DROPS. C. B. Brand. 405 cent packages ........ 1 00 CONDENSED MILE. a Gail Borden ~——. os Crore... . oo ee Daisy . oe cae Champion - eee Soe eee Meee... (more. mee Tradesman aia. 50 books, any denom.... 100 books, any denom.. 500 books, any denom.. 1,000 books, any denom.. Economic Grade. 50 books, any denom.... 1 100 books, any denom.... 2 books any denom.. a 1,000 books, any denom....20 ini Universal Grade. 50 books, any denom.. 100 books, any denom.... 2 500 books, any denom.... 1,000 books, any denom.... Superior Grade. 50 books, any denom.... 100 books, any denom.... 500 books, any denom.... 1,000 bouks, any denom....20 00 Coupon Pass Books, Can be made to represent any denomination from 810 down. ieoens...... 1 00 50 books...... 2 00 Me poene - ss 3 00 Pu ogens.........-..-. GC OOOO... 10 00 ine OeGKe. 8. Le 17 5 Credit Checks. 500, any one denom’n..... 3 00 1000, any one denom’n..... 5 00 2000, any one denom’n..... 8 00 Stee! punch. DRIED FRUITS—DONESTIC Apple S38 Ssse ioe et DD Sundried Evaporated 50 lb boxes. California Fruits. Ape. 8 7 eee ce cee one a. @ iM Peaenen 85 . 6%4O A Pears oc SO a Pitted Cherries........ Pronmmelice... .-...._... Raspoermes............ California Prunes. 100-120 25 lb boxes...... 90-100 25 lb boxes....... 80 - 90 25 1b boxes....... 70 - 80 25 1b boxes 60 470 25 lb boxes.. .... 50 - 60 25 lb boxes....... 40 - 50 25 lb boxes....... 30 - 40 25 ib bores... .-._- 1g cent less in 50 1b cases Raisins. Lundon Layers 3 Crown. London Layers 4 Crown. Denese Loose Museatels 2 Crown Loose Muscatels 3 Crown Loose Muscatels 4 Crown FOREIGN. Currants. ge | @ 74 Vostizzas 50 lb cases......@ 7% Cloaeed, bam ...-:-._.-. @ 84 Cleaned, packages........ @ 8% Peel. Citron American 101b bx @13 Lemon American 10 1b bx @12 Orange American 101b bx @12 Raisins. 8 @8% S aT RUT Re wo HHHS8OOSa a a Ondura 28 ib boxes... . Sultana 1 Crown....... Sultana 2Crown....... Sultana 3Crown....... Sultana 4 Crown....... Sultana 5 Crown..... : Sultana 6 Crown....... Sultana package....... FARINACEOUS GOODS. Parina. ilb. packsres..........1 Bulk, per 100 Ibs.-... --.. 4 00 Grits. Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s 242 ib. packages... ._.- 2% 10 ib. Kees 4 13 Hominy. Bares oo 2 50 Fiake, 50 Ib. drums....... 1 00 Beans. Dried Lima . : 1 a Medium Hand Picked....1 25 Maccaroni and Vermicelli. Domestic, 10 lb. box...... Imported, 25 lb. box.. ...2 50 Pearl Barley. Caen... ...... oe. meeps. Peas. oe be... Spit, peri... Rolled Oats. Rolled Avena, bbl. ... Monarch, Dhl... -.s sss Monarch. % bbl.. cc Monarch, $0 lb sacks.. oe s aor, coe. ........... ee, OE. i a 1% Sago. Ca oo 4 Hast Pipes. 3c: 2 Wheat. Cracked tik... .- 3.3... 34 242 lb packages........... 2 50 Fish. Cod. Georges cured......... Georges genuine...... Georges selected...... Strips or bricks....... 6 Herring. Holland white hoops, bbl. 1 Holland white hoop % bbi Holland white hoop, Keg. Holland white neers mechs Norwegian... .... Round 100 Ibs. Meas 100 tbs. ... .. . a Mesa 2) ibe... Meee 10 ibe... Mess 8 lbs.. No. 1 100 ibs No. 2 Bis... No.2 8Ibs T No. 1 100 ibe. mot Siee..........- . No.1 10 ibe.. Mot Sie... Whitefisi. No.1 No.2 100 lbs om ot 40 ibs . 2 om....... Sie PLAVORING EXTRACTS. "aes. : D. C. Vanilia D. 12 Northrop Brand. Lem 20z. Taper Panel... 75 2 Ae | Eg MS %5 3 oz. Taper Panel..1 35 4 oz. Taper Panel..1 60 Souders’. Ovai bottie, with corkscrew. Best in the world for the Regular Grade Lemon. doz Son...) a 1 50 Regular Vanilla. FLY cae. Tanglefoot, per box........ 30 Tanglefoot, c’se of 10 b’x’s 2 55 Tanglefoot, 5 case lots..... 2 50 Tanglefoot, 10 case lots.... 2 40 ara a tC Ie a GUNPOWDER. Rifle—Dupont’s. Kegs eee Bi 25 Quarter —- ee ge (oa... . . OE Choke Bore—Dupont’s. a... Half Kegs.. Pee ee Quarter Kegs. See ea ee 1 Ib. cans. — nae a Ty Senet Ss. eee Seige re mie 8 Balt Kees ee Quarter Kegs. behiees cea oe iib cans. .... i a HERBS. Sage.. Hops .. “INDIGO. eS 5 ib boxes.... ... . F., 2,3 and 5 lb boxes.. JELLY. ibib patis.... 30 1b pails.... - LYE. Condensed, 2 doz . Condensed. 4 doz LICORICE. Pure.. eae Calabria. ce eens a peace chee Meet ee MINCE MBAT. Ideal, 3 doz. in case.... MATCHES. Diamond Match Co.’s brands. No. 9 sulphur.. : 1 6 Anchor Parlor.............. 4 70 No. 2 Home.. ey Export Parlor..............4 00 MOLASSES. New Orleans. Bisek oo. ne 2. Good . : Fancy. ee Open Rete al 5@35 Half-barrels 2c extra. MUSTARD. Horee Radish, 1 doz......... t % Horse Radish, 2 doz......... 35 Bayle’s Celery, 1.doz.. .... 1 PIPES. Clay, No. 216.. 5 — = D. full count. . so -.2 2 48 cans in Case. Been. ce Penna Salt Co.’s...... PICKLES. Medium. Barrels, 1.200 Gount........ & Half bbls, 600 count........ : Small. Barrels, 2,400 count...... Half bbis 1,200 count..... RICE. Domestic. Carolina head.... whe Cargusa Ne? ........<.: Carolina No.2... -.,.... Brenen foo es sonnet. Japan, No.1... .. Japan, No, 2 Java, fancy head.......... Java, No. i.. as ee wees. ...:, = SALERATUS. Packed 60 lbs. in box. Shurch’s Lis 3 Daas a 5 Dwight’s Taylor’s. SAL SODA. Granulated, bbls. Granulated, 100 lb cases. Lump, bbls. .... Lump, 1451b kegs SEEDS. Ae Canary, Smyrna... . 2... .. Caraway . es Cardamon, “Malabar .. Celery Hemp, Russian........ Miten Ming... :.. 2S. Mustard, white. .-...:,... Cuttie ee SNUFF, Scotch, in bladders......... Maccaboy, in jars 35 French Rappee, in jars..... 43 SALT. Diamond Crystal. Table, cases, 24 3-lb boxes.. Table, barrels, 100 3 1b bags. Table, barrels, 407 lb bags.2 Butter, barrels, 280 1b. bulk. Butter, barrels, 2014 lbbags.2 Buster, GROKR, SU TDR... |. Butter, sacks, 56 lbs.. ‘ Common Sesiten. Os lbeacks. ... . 60 5-lb sacks. . oe ae Siiipenska Worcester. oO 4 2b. cartons......-...- 115 24elb. Pen wae @ 5 Ibs 2214 Ib. 3010 1b. sack ein. nen eaeER.,. 12... 56 ib. nen sacks’........... Bulk in barrelg............. Warsaw. 56-lb dairy in drill bags.... 28-lb dairy in drill bags... Ashton. 56-lb dairy in iinen sacks. Higgins. 56-lb dairy in Tees sacks Solar Rock. 6610 sacks... 5... Common. Granwmated Fine...-. ....-: Medium Fine. SOAP. JAXON Seis per. 4... 2% 5 box lots, delivered........ 27 10 box lots, delivered....... 2 65 JAS. 8. KIRK & 60. os American seeps wrp we ee CeIeOes oc ee 2 Oi Wyniite Rissian..........-.- White Cloud, laundry...... 5 White Cloud, toilet... ...... Dusky Diamond. 50 6 oz....2 Dusky Diamond, 50 8 oz.... Bine india, 100 X& Ib... .. ...- Mirtoune 2s... a Os. i Schulte Soap Co." s ) Bead. 100 re 75 Ibs. Single box.... on 5 box lots.... ne ox os. oot ei 26 Allen B. Wrisley’s cen: Old Country, 80 1- Ib. bars ..2 Good Cheer, 60 1-1b. bars....3 Uno, 100 4-16. bars... ... 2. 25 Don, 206 10-08. bare:........ 2 05 Scouring. Sapolio, kitchen, 3doz..... Sapolio, hand. 3 = oie SODA Boxes .. \ Kegs. ee PICES. aun Slited. Allgpice ...... Cassia, China in mats. Cassia, Batavia in bund Cassis, Saigon in rolls..... Cloves, Amboyna. ......... 14 Cloves, Zanzibar........... Mens, Beavis. ....... -.. .§ Nutmors, fancy........... : Nutmegs, No. 1. Nutmegs, No. mi Pepper, Singapore, “black... Pepper, Singapore, white. . Pepper, shot.. Pure Ground in ‘Bulk. Ailignice ... . Cassia, Batavia . Cassia, Saigon... coe Aowee, Saneiper. 6s... ss. 8 Ginger, African........-.: Ginger, Cochin.. oe Ginger, garantie 2 = OE Baad 12 5618 reese, 3 40@: 0 Pepper, Sing , bisck :....... 12 Pepper, Sing., white........20 Pepper, Cayenre...........:20 Sage... : ae, SYRUPS. Cern. Batre... . {8 Half bbis.. Jere es Pure Cane. TT = a onsen enor ase nora cow Eoserrraneans MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 2| Kingsford’s Corn. 11> packages... 6 wo 11) paokeges 614 Kingsford’s Silver Gloss. a0 1-10 packages......%. ... 6% Sr) DOZOS os. Z Diamond. G4 i0e packages ...........5 00 ia) oC. paGkises -§.... | 5 O8 32 10e and 64 5c packages... .5 00 Common Corn. wiib packages... |. 5 a tib packares 434 Common Gloss. LID packages........ .. 4 FID pacKapes. 4 Clip. PaGUAROR | a 10 and 50 lb boxes........... 254 Barrels... 23 STOVE POLISH. (ena ¥.L.PRESCOTTS& co DISCAL hee No. 4, 3doz in case, gross..c4 50 No. 6, 3 doz in case, gross.. 7 20 SUGAR. Below are given New York prices on sugars, to which the wholesale dealer adds the local freight from New York to your shipping point, giving you credit on the invoice for the amount of freight buyer pays from the market in which he purchases to his shipping point, including 20 pounds for the weight of the barrel. DGG oe. 5 8&8 5 88 Pxreemea. 8. . 5 88 Coes 5 63 Powsercd ............. 5 63 AAAx Powdered..........-5 69 Granulated in bbis... .....- 5 38 Granulated in bags......... 5 33 Wine Granulated............ 5 38 Extra Fine Granulated..... 5 50 Extra Coarse Granulated...5 50 Mend A. 5 63 Diamond Confec. A........5 38 Confec. Standard A......... 5 25 ao. f... Pee eee eae clas 5 00 No 5 No. No. No. No. No. No. No No No No No No No No TOBACCOS. Cigars. Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s brand. Mow Brien. 33 00 H. & P. Drug Co.’s brand. (irintetie .......... |... oe ae G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand. ol co. Michigan Cigar Co.’s brand. .-33 00 Ure Unkle Ure Vaile: 2 ok 35 00 Ruhe Bros Co.’s Brands. mer Pooeias............ +. 35 88 ree aie 35 00 Cate Pine. as 60 Generals Grant and Lee... .35 00 Spanish Hand Made........ 35 00 Crewe ine ic. 35 00 TABLE SAUCES. Lea & Perrin’s, large..... 475 Lea & Perrin’s, small.....2 75 Haliord, targa. 3% Haltotd small... .. 1. 22 Salad Dressing, large..... 4 55 Salad Dressing, small..... 2 6 VINEGAR. Malt White Wine, 40 grain. .. 6 Malt White Wine, 80 grain.... 9 Bure Caters «+ Pure Cider, Lérgux.. ||. 11 Washing Powder. A Rew Discovery. a ue ees Mort Pransant, Dut Most EMective TAL onty THE CITY SOAP WORKS. 108 wevee uD awa OF ogres 2 3 50 WICKING. No.0 persress. 3046. 25 No. 1, pergross..... .c.. oO NO.2 pergross. (0... 40 NO. POP SrOsn, 2.) |. 75 Fish and Oysters Fresh Fish. Per lb. Wealtehaty 2... |. @ .s8 rege... @ 8 Batce BAsS.. |... 10 Gott IGG @ 12 Ciscoes or Herring.. @ « BIHCHAR @ 10 Live Lobster....... @ 18 Boiled Lobster...... @ 2 eo @ Beadeee 3... @ 8s Noe. t Piekerel..._.. @ Fs Pee @ 6 Perea @ 2% Smoked White...... a Ff Red Snapper........ @ 10 Col River Salmon.. @ 10 Mackerel @ % Oysters in Cans. W. Counts... |. @ 40 Fr. J. D. Selects... .. @ 30 Beretta @ 2 F. J. D. Standards.. @ & Oysters in Bulk H. H. Counts... 0. . @2 0d Extra Selects. ...... @I1 50 Anchor Standards.. @1 10 Clams. 2). 3. 8 @ Shell Goods. Ovsters, per 100....... 1 25@I 50 “ems ner 100 . Ore’ "A Hides and Pelts. The Cappon & Bertscb Leather Co., 100 Canal Street, quotes as follows: Hides. | Green Na fo @ 8% | ieen Nas... @ a @ 9% | gal Home Rule... ...... 12 00 |5gal Pirate King.......... LANTERNS, No. OTabpnine |... No. 1B Tabular..... No. 13 TubularDash. .. No. 1Tub., glassfount... No. 12 Tubular, side lamp. No. 3Street Lamp........ LANTERN GLOBES. No. 0 Tubular, cases 1 doz. each, box 10 cents.. ..... No. 0 Tubular, cases2 doz. each, box 15 cents....... No. 0 Tubular, bbls 5 doz. Caen, HBL. No. 0 Tubular, bull’s eye, cases 1 doz. each.... LAMP WICKS No.2 per grams oo NG, 2 POr SPO8e........ . 5 Mammoth OO ee eee isere- cease WHE AAGA DS 9 50 50 30 00 oc % 45 45 40 125 20 25 38 58 76 actors raherns tipo a ag Spt tits lee Mae OT pn Hy a Seren Mei Serpe Sr abe kas f oe 2 22 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN _ Hardware Trend of the Retail Trade in Bicycles It is often asserted that the ultimate fate of the cycle dealer is tu be absorbed in one of the older, recognized branches ot trade. Some people even profess to believe that cycles will always be car- ried by retail business men of all branches of trade. The latter opinion is equal to declaring that there is nothing about bicycles to be understood or that knowledge of bicycles and accessories does not enable a dealer to purchase and sell with greater skill than one may display who has only ordinary commer- cial sagacity foraguide. This opinion, although widely shared, is contrary not only to business experience in other branches of trade, but even to the ex- perience accumulated in the cycle tirade, vet so young. Other things being equal, it is almost beyond dis- pute that hardware men and _ jewelers, among the recognized trades, have proved to possess the greatest ability to handle bicycles asa sideline. ‘They have survived the vicissitudes of the trade better than others to sucha de- gree that a very considerable percentage of non-exclusive cycle dealers to-day 1s made up from these two trades alone. This has come about in spite of the great difficulties which both trades as a rule experience in finding store room for a complete stock of cycle goods and the still greater disadvantage that they can not display cycle goods properly without dwarfing their main line. In the hardware trade comes hereto the circumstance that the busy cycle sea- son is also the busy season in builders’ hardware, dividing the energy of the dealer between two lines, each of which requires undivided attention, When hardware jobbers have persisted in selling bicycles and hardware dealers continue to handle them, it is difficult to find any other explanaticn than that they managed to avoid losses through a general knowledge of metal ware which steered them clear of costly mistakes, where tradesmen in other lines were not so fortunate. Jewelers have perhaps had less experience with steel goods and steel goods manufacturers, but have, on the other hand, had some training for understanding and appreciating all of that minutely accurate workmanship which is necessary in cycles and for detecting rough work ata glance, be- sides which they have been able to give most of their time to the bicycle trade during spring and summer. it seems that these facts speak strongly against the assumption that the retail cycle trade will be divided as much in the future as it has been during the rush of the past few years. It is ad- mitted that it requires more knowledge now to buy right and to sell right than ever before, and that the close margin of profits makes mistakes more serious. New types of bicycles in the market in great variety of makes will draw still more heavily on the retailer's experi- ence if the largest possible profit shall be secured for him. The public will no more be led by a nameplate alone or by any dealer who does not know his book to the last dot. Small orders and quick deliveries are of course the favor- ite means of tiding past the dicffiulties of making a choice among cycle goods, but the greatest profit must always fall to him who can decide his orders on a large scale and far enough in advance. According to these observations, all the requirements for thorough success are apparently possessed in a higher de- gree by a cycle goods dealer whose time and energy can be given to business matters, which will tend to increase his capacity for distinguishing good values from bad ones, and the only fact which prevents the exclusive cycle dealer from being in the best position is the inter- mittent character of the cycle trade and the absence of income during the dull season. Hardware dealers, although better situated in this respect, have found it imperative to add live side lines to their stock, and it seems that cycle dealers who adopt the same method need only to be extremely care ful that they do not depart too far from the nature of the business with which they are acquainted, in the selection of their lines, in order to have the best chances in the world not only for re- maining in business, but actually build- ing up a new branch of trade, clustered around cycle affairs but including in its scope many of the products of the most modern forms of the steel, rubber, small machinery and electrical indus- tries. If this field sball not be occupied by those persons who are now experi- enced cycle dealers, whether exclusive or in connection with kimdred lines, it will in all likelihood be taken posses- sion of by other individuals, who will then in short order develop a great capacity for absorbing also the cycle retail trade by reason of natural fitness for it. Cycle dealers, as a class, will go on existing and flourishing, but it is a question who the persons will be who shall compose it. —- > oO > Look Over the Stock. From the Stoves and Hardware Reporter. We believe that it will repay hard- ware dealers to examine their stocks carefully at this period, in order to as- certain just what requires renovating or rearranging. Upon close investigation it will be found that many things are out of order, displaced or soiled. An air of dinginess will pervade the estab- lishment which retains the accumulation of winter’s grime and dust. All this should be carefully removed, or else both stock and store will be given an antiquated appearance. Age may be commendable in humanity when the years have been well spent, but hard- ware can have no sentimental feeling attached to it which can render it more interesting with age. Articles of mer- chandise at least have the advantage over people, in that a cleaning or coat of paint will make them look new again, while human nature can resort to no such expedient to bring back a youthful appearance. It is really re- markable how much the appearance of shabbiness detracts from the value of an article. A shabby article, although begrimed, may be as good asa bran new one; but people will not believe it, and always think they should not be asked to pay as much for it. It will repay dealers to brighten up tools, steel parts, etc., and paint others when they require it. Let their arrangement in the store be altered so as to display them to the best advantage and at the same time protect them. It wil! also be the means of cleaning out certain dark corners which may contain mysterious accumulations that have not been touched for years—a task which has doubtless been postponed so long that it has assumed gigantic proportions in the dealer’s mind. It will be well to select a dull day to effect changes and do the odd jobs which should not be neglected.. —____»> 2. The Woman’s Way. ‘“We’ve got to economize,’’ said Mr. Gadgoyle to his wife. ‘Very well,’’ replied the good woman, cheerfully. ‘‘You shave yourself and I'll cut your hair,’’ much Wm. Brummeler & Sons Grand Rapids, Mich. Manufacturers and Jobbers of Tinware and House Furnishing Goods New Illustrated Catalogue sent to dealers if they drop us acard. Every dealer should have it. Seo ae OOOO eee eee ees S800 too roe eee SiR LEO OL Sawe—mee wa S Clark-Rutka- Jewell 0. lonia Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. Opposite Union Depot. New Wholesale Hardware House New House, New Goods, New Prices. Call and see us when in the city. Write us for prices. Clark-Rutka-Jewell Co. FISHING TACKLE To regular dealers in this class of goods we are al- ways glad to send our catalogue and discount sheet. Foster, Stevens & Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. fi i i The Hardware Market. General trade in Michigan keeps up remarkably well in all lines of hard- ware. The tendency of the market among manufacturers is of a varying nature. On some lines there is a ma- terial advance in prices, while in others there is a feeling of weakness. It is not believed, however, that any changes will be made that will be of any great moment. Wire Nails—The market on wire nails is not as firm as it has been, as all fac- tories at the present time are running full time, and the demand not being up to what it usually has been, the result is large stocks have accumulated in all mills. ‘This is readily accounted for, especially in this State, as retail deal- ers are well stocked, having bought early in the year and having not had oc- casion to urder many nails since. The price at present for shipment at mill is $1.40 base and from stock $1.65. Ad- vices, however, from nail sections in- dicate that there will be an advance of 5c, which will take place shortly. Barbed Wire—The situation on barbed and plain wire is somewhat different from nails, as the demand is something unusual and factories in all parts of the country have great difficulty in keep- ing up with their orders, it now taking from ten days to two weeks to get an ordinary order filled,and that is consid- ered quite well. The price as quoted at present is $1.50 on painted barbed and $1.80 on galvanized, when shipped from mill, with an advance of 20c per cwt. when shipped from stock, Window Glass—Owing to the unusual demand for glass, the manufacturers have found it necessary to make an ad- vance in prices, averaging about 15 per cent. Jobbers are quoting at present So and 20 by box and 80 and 10 by the light. In addition to this advance in discount, the prices on the following sizes have been advanced $3 per box: 12x28, 16x20, 16x22, 16x24 and 18x20, Rope—Nothing in the hardware line nas scored such advances in the last month as both sisal and Manila rope. The cause of this is the war, which in- terferes with bringing in of the fiber to this country from the different sources of supply. Quotations from this market are as follows: Sisal, 8c; Manila, gizec. It is prophesied by those who seem to know that before a week is out, another advance of at least Ic per pound will take place. Retail dealers will make a mistake if they give their rope away. This advance has also affected binders’ twine of all kinds, as well as other twines which dealers usually carry in stock. Building Paper—The advance made early in the season on this line of goods is fully maintained and jobbers’ prices are as follows: Plain board, $1.05; tarred board, $1.15; tarred felt, $1.75. Reports from other markets are as follows: Chicago: The demand for shelf hard- ware appears to have felt the uncer- tainty attending a state of war. St. Louis: Trade is in a very sat- isfactory condition and salesmen are sending in liberal orders. Baltimore: The quiet which general- ly characterizes trade at this season now prevails, although, taking every- thing into consideration, we are well pleased with business we are now doing. San Francisco: The dry weather still continues. The state of California is ex- periencing the driest season that we have had for many years. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Louisville: We are glad to report a fair amount of business. Portland: The demand for heavy goods is only moderate but shelf hard- ware goes off in good quantities. Boston: Business continues but mer- chants are limiting their wants to the smallest possible quantities, Cleveland: Shelf hardware is in bet- ter demand than for sometime. The trade in general can be classed as good. Omaha: There has been a marked and steady increase in volume of busi- ness since January tst., each month showing a gain over the corresponding period of last year. —_? 2 >__ Random Shots at Wisdom. A Chicago hardware man has gathered together the following choice bits of wisdom; some he heard and _ others came from his inner consciousness : A tombstone always has a good word for a man when he’s down. If people were compelled to bury their faults the undertakers would be kept busy. Burning kisses always go with Sparks. Love and potatoes both spring from the eyes. Love isa tickling sensation at the heart which can not be scratched. A cow has many good qualities, but she is too modest to blow her own horn. Notwithstanding the hard times, seal- skins are worn the year ‘round—by the seals. The man with a shady character ought to be able to keep cool. Always avoid the use of big words; they are sometimes inconvenient to swallow. The hog may bea squealer, but he never gives anything away. There is no insurance against the flames kindled by a woman's eyes, The convict on achain gang is always attached to his work. Most people are as bad as _ they look, and the rest a great deal worse. The hand that once rocked the cradle now grips the handle bars. A waitress may not know how to deal a pack of cards, but she always raises the deuce when she drops a tray. If you need exercise and haven't a wheel, get out in the street and dodge those who have. A lawn mower is an appropriate wed- ding gift for a man who marries a grass widow. Time _ used to fly, but now the wheel- men make a century run. es _ —_>-o-<__ — Hints on Selling Stoves. Probably because of the little atten- tion bestowed on them, stoves for sum- mer use are not sold in as great quan- tity as they should be. Within the last few years this condition of affairs has gradually changed for the better, since there is no earthly reason why people of average means should not be able easily to buy both a coal range for win- ter use and a gas or gasoline for the summer. In order to attract attention to this department, and give prominence to it so as to increase sales, some mer- chants have adopted methods which, while extending the volume of sales, have gradually decreased the profits. This mistaken course arose primarily from the desire to make a low price the principal feature in the sale of the stoves. In order to place the retail stove business on a more profitable basis a departure must be made from the pres- ent system. We believe that if mer- chants would endeavor more strenuously to educate their trade to buy and use better stoves, business in this line would prove more remunerative to them. No doubt this will be a discouraging proc- ess which can not be executed quickly, but by exercising patience the mer- chant may overcome the difficulty. That is, of course, if he does not suc- cumb before the object in view is at- tained. —_——>22__ There has been a remarkable develop- ment of late in the furniture manufac- turing business in North Carolina. The factories now number thirty-five. Hardware Price Current. AUGURS AND BITS ee ee 70 Jennings’, Se 25&10 Jennings’, imitation noe . «-O0&10 AXES First Quality, S. B. Bronze ................. 5 00 First Quality, D. B. Bronze....... 1.002.177” 9 50 First Quality, S. B.S. eee ae First Quality, D. B. Steel ....0.2.1.00. 1177 10 50 BARROWS Le 812 00 14 00 BE net 30 00 BOLTS SEO 60410 Carringenaw Hag 70 to 75 eT Nn 50 BUCKETS Well, plain..._. ee $33 BUTTS, CAST Cast Loose Pin, figured..................... 70&10 Wrought Narrow........... dteecee. ot.) ee BLOCKS Oreiiry Tame 70 CROW BARS Cee --per lb 4 CAPS See ee rm 65 ee io 53 on... tes ciate ee, EP El a) i a per m 60 CARTRIDGES mim Wire ve - -...e o ee 235& 5 CHISELS He ei 80 Re re in 80 Re 80 BOcKet Slicke eee 80 DRILLS Morse’s Bit Stocks... fy eee, 60 Taper and Straight Shank, _... oo. --- 0a 5 Morse’s Taper Shank...... eee. - 00& 5 ELBOWS Com 4picce Gin... |. «+--+. GOR, net 50 Meee ee a, 13 aG@pustebie: a EXPANSIVE BITS Clark's small, $18; large, $26.............._. 30&10 Ives’, 1, 818; 2, 824; 3, 830 0 25 FILES—New List New American totes on CO MCBOnen es . 7 Heller’s Horse Rasps............ tan<,5.... .OCGIIO GALVANIZED IRON Nos. 16 to 20; 22 ana PA eee: Sy 28 List 12 13 14 15 © 1. 17 Discount, 75 to 75-10 GAUGES Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s........... -- + -O0&10 KNOBS—New List Door, mineral, jap. muses 70 Door, porcelain, jap. SEmineR MATTOCKS ee $16 00, dis 60&10 Pate eve $15 00, dis 60&10 ee ae 50, dis 20&10 NAILS Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire. eee BA 1 60 Wire nails, base..... Oe SOON RIVENeS io. ee Mie i¢aavanee o 05 eee 10 COavanee a 20 Block teh EE ee 30 Ce 45 ere Ce 7 Mime teavanee i 50 Casing 10 advance...... a, 15 anes SAOwenee 25 Cannes Gadvanee 35 PSO RAVA Ce 25 Beare Savanee 35 Winish Gadyvanée..........._. eee, 45 Barrel % advance.... eee eee, MILLS Cotes, Parkersi@e’s. 6). 40 Coffee, P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s Malleables... 40 Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’s........._. 40 Cetee, Muterpeise 30 MOLASSES GATES SeCODIAS AMO eee ReCOUSE SN GeMMING 60&10 Enterprise, self-measuring ............ .... 30 PLANES Cate foal Cala, taney @50 Belota Bene 60 Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy.. a. Qe Bench, firstquality............ - =. @oe Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s wood......... 60 PANS ee eeeoeie Common, PONSBGG W& 5 RIVETS iron ang Tinied 6.8 Sf . 60 Copper Rivets and Burs............. 60 PATENT PLANISHED IRON “A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10 20 ‘““B’? Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 25 to 27 9 20 Broken packages 4c per pound extra. HAMMERS Maydole & Co.’s, new list........ ...... dis 235 Ne dis 25 NMermes & Plumbs dis W&10 Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.......... ..30¢ lisi, 70 Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Stee] Hand 30c lin, 40&10 23 HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS Stamped Tin Ware....... . .......new list 75&10 capanned Hin Wares 20&10 Granite Iron Ware..........__. .... new list 40&10 HOLLOW WARE nee . -.... SE 60&10 Se ss oo HINGES . dis 6U&10 Gate Clara 128) i. State... tte e ded ede da ss eseoues DOr GOS Bet & 50 WIRE GOODS Brig. ! eo 80 merow ives. eg ee, 0) eee a . 80 Gate Hooks and ae 80 LEVELS Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............ dis 70 ROPES Sisal, % inch and Mae 8 Manilla.. bee ad de eu cl ete. 9% SQUARES Ce 70K 10 ony Cee eee 69 Sy 50 SHEET IRON com. smooth. com. Nee WtoMm oe &2 40 NO tot 2 70 2 40 Nee i8to21 -—.. 2 oe 2 45 Nog Steet. <1. oOo 2 55 Noa. 25 to 26... .. |. tee ea 3 10 2 65 No. 27 2% All sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30 inches wide not less than 2-10 extra. SAND PAPER List acct. 19, °S6...... _... SASH WEIGHTS Solid HY@8..... 00... eee... es... DOr ton 20 00 TRAPS .- dis 50 PCO Oe s. 60&10 Oneida Community, Newhouse’s....... 50 Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s 70&10 MOMS CHORGE per doz 15 mouse, delusion. (00/00) | per doz 1 2 WIRE tee 5 SEO Oe 75 Conperca Marmee won a COGEIO SCG ee 62 Coppered Spring Steel.......... .__ hee 50 Barbed Fence, galvanized ......... |” _. 2a Barbed Fence, Muni cat ee eG Ae HORSE NAILS Clot dis 40&1C ee a TK is 5 Pe ee dis 10&10 WRENCHES Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.............. 30 STE 50 Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought ....... 80 Coe’s Patent, malleable. ...............2 2777 80 MISCELLANEOUS Bird Cages oa 50 Pumps, Cisterm........._.. 80 Rerows, New Bigg 85 Casters, Bed and Finte, 50&10&10 pranpens, Armeciedm 50 METALS—Zinc Leja mainte 61g Ce 6% SOLDER ee 12 The prices of themany other qualities of solder in the market indicated by private brands vary according to composition, TIN—Melyn Grade 10x14 IC, Chareoal..... --85 % er IC, Charcoal : . oe mala IX, Charéoal..........._. ae 7 00 Each additional X on this grade, 81. TIN—Allaway Grade FOmIG TG, Charcoah 450 ei Clarecog) hcnes 2 I ES Charon 5 50 PRE CAR 5 59 Each additional X on this grade, $1.50. ROOFING PLATES 14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean.................... 4 50 14x20 IX, Charcoal, Dean ................! . oe 20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean........ ........ 1" 9 00 14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade..... |_| 4 00 14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade..... ||| 5 00 20x28 1C, Charcoal, Allaway Grade......... 8 00 20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade......... 10 00 BOILER SIZE TIN PLATB 14x56 IX, for No. 8 Boilers, 14x56 IX! for No. 9 Boilers, {PeT Pound... 9 o HOnOHOHOROHORORoHOHOES x * e THE FORGOTTEN PAST . : Which we read about can never be ° = forgotten by the merchant who be . @ comes familiar with our coupon a : system. The past to such is always S : a “nightmare.” The present is an S = era of pleasure and profit. e s a @ TRADESMAN COMPANY, & . GRAND RAPIDS. e a e CHOROROROHORORONOHONOHONOR 24 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Didn’t Want Nothin’ Stuff. **Speakin’ of bilin’ things, ’’ remarked Deacon Puffer to the throng in the vil lage store, ‘‘reminds me of my wife. Some time ago she sez tu me, sez she, ‘Josiah, ef th’ exertion won't be too much fur ye, I'd be obleeged ef yer would fetch me ’bout a pint of alcohol. An’ Josiah,’ sez she, ‘I want it strong.’ **What she wanted it fur ’pears I've furgottin’ neow, but when | fetched it tu hum she smelled of it several times an’ sez she, ‘It du beat the world, Josiah, how these pesky critters du ‘dulterate things neowadays. Why,’ sez she, ‘if this hain’t more’n half water then my Christian name hain’t Malviny.’ Well, gentlemen,’’ said the deacon, recross- ing his legs and then crossing them again, *‘Malviny bein’ Mrs. Puffer's Christian name, as ye all be knowin,’ it warn’t fur me tu dispute, an’ I vowed thet th’ best thing fur tu be done was fur me tu take th’ stuff back an’ sug- gest thet what was wanted was pure stuff, or none ‘tall. ‘An’ then hev ‘em send worse stuff than afore,’ remarked Malviny. ‘No, Josiah,’ sez she, ‘them critters be past redeemin’. Leave it tu me, Josiah.’ ‘*T left-it tu. Malviny, gentlemen,’’ explained the deacon, after helping himself to a bit of cheese and a cracker, ‘an out I goes ta du my chores. I ‘spose I was at ’em fur ‘bout five or six minutes when all of a sudden I heerd th’ durndest explosion an’ the tallest yeliin’ from th’ kitchen, where I left Malviny, thet ye ever heerd tell of. 1 runs in there, an’ what ye ‘spose I tind? ‘‘Durn my buttons,’’ chuckled the deacon, before any one could reply, ‘ef I didn’t discover Malviny flat on her back by th’ stove, which was busted all tu thunder, with her eyebrows gone, an’ no more kair on her head hardly than ye’d find on a baby’s. ‘Bury me from th’ meetin’ house, Josiah,’ sez she, as I bent over her, ‘an’ don't ‘low Hannah Perkins in th’ door, for I’m done fur.’ But she warn’t done for, an’ when I[’d convinced her of thet fact, an’ thet she had not been called as yet, she up an’ told me al! "bout it. ‘It pears, gentlemen,’’ continued the deacon, ‘‘thet Malviny hed decided tu strengthen thet alcohol, an’ she con- cluded thet to du thet she'd better bile it deown. She put it in a_ b’iler, slapped it on th’ stove, an’ then goes ‘bot her work. Th’ stove. was pretty hot, an’ afore Malviny hed done more’n tu or three things, an’ hed jes started tu look tu see how that b’ilin’ process was a comin’ on, th’ durn thing blew up. Malviny never sed much ‘bout it, Inore’n tu tell me how it happened, an’ if she’s hed alcohol in the house sence I ain’t heerd of it.’’ +> 2-2 Hides, -Pelts, Furs, Tallow and Wool. Hides have advanced to an extremely high price, with no accumulations. There seems to be no limit to the prices asked and paid. The quality has im- proved and the stock is desired by tan- ners. Each day’s report shows an ad- vancing tendency, with sales one-quar- ter higher and one-quarter more being asked. The home kill has been great- er, on account of soldiers’ consumption incamp. Light stock also shows an advance, but not to the extent of heavier hides. Pelts are too scarce and wool too flat to ensure quotable prices or a stable market. Furs are few and the demand limited. They are almost out of season, and the few which are coming in must be car- ried over. Tallow shows more demand ata slight advance, but not sufficient to create any kick to the trade. Prices are low and long-time holders of stock are getting weary of waiting for the advance they believe must come sometime. There are large stocks of old renderings held. Wool disappoints all holders. With But the Pure no foreign offerings of consequence suit- able for this side and with prices 4c above the importing point, it would seem tbat prices should go higher here, as the coming clip is not over half its former magnitude and as manufacturers consumed in 1897 more than in any previous year; yet the trade is stopped. For weeks past there bas been no de- mand, with no sales worthy of note. There is enough wool East to supply manufacturers’ wants for six months. Money is bringing a high rate, which stops consignment. The Government orders bring uo profit to manufacturers. While there was more enquiry last week, it has not created trade, and no advance is looked for before August or September. Wm. T. HEss —-~ ——>--9- <> Potatoes Scarce and Strong at St. Louis. | St. Louis, Mo., May 1o—The receipts of potatoes from the North and North- west during the past week were never so light at this season of the year. St. Louts has had to depend almost entirely for the past two weeks on potatoes from Colorado, and some very nice stock has been received, as well as several cars of Colorado seconds and culls, all of which have found ready sale, as did everything arriving from any section. Some few cars of Washington and Ore- gon stock came in, also a few cars of lowa common potatoes, but almost noth- ing came in from Dakota, Minnesota or Wisconsin, as Chicago offered a better market than ruled here. However, our market rules strong and has steadily ad- vanced ; but we have not been able to keep pace with Chicago, where the re- ceipts have been heavy, but the Eastern demand has kept up, and Chicago being the gateway to the East for Northern potatoes, the receipts at Chicago there- fore represent the bulk of the supplies for the Eastern markets as well as for Chicago, locally, except a few ship- ments from Michigan, where potatoes are scarce and shipments light. Look- ing at the situation in this light, the re- ceipts at Chicago are not heavy. Our market is in good strong shape; receipts are light, with very little in sight for next week. We look for a good market next week and higher prices unless receipts are much heavier. MILLER & TEASDALE Co. ee eS Appropriateness. When people are ina buying humor is the best time to push sales. Make the store attractive with new goods and fur- nish up things generally. There is al- ways a veritable purchasing epidemic of wide-spreading extent which takes possession of people in the spring. Their thoughts turn to new goods as surely as the young man’s fancy does to love. It is the tide which should be taken at the flood by dealers in all lines. Every one comes in for a share of the prosperous conditions. If the hardware dealers will but take advantage of this opportunity and make an effort all along the line to sell better goods, they will not have so much leisure time to spend in discussing the encroachments of the department stores. Rather the opposite will ensue and possibly the department stores will complain of the falling off of trade in their hardware departments. ——_>_2.___ Corn Prizes for a State Fair. The Illinois State Board of Agricul- ture has determined to renew prizes for the greatest yield of corn per acre for the State Fair of 1898, and will offer liberal premiums to the persons raising the first, second and third greatest num- ber of bushels of corn on one acre of measured ground. The rules governing the contest are similar to those which prevailed last season. —___»2.___ How a Bashful Man Got a Wife. ‘Blusher is the most bashful man I ever knew.’’ ‘*How on earth, then, did he come to get married?’’ ““He was too bashful to refuse. ’’ Forgot He Was Married. The best joke of the honeymoon sea- son is told by a hotel-keeper. The male half of the new partnership registered like this: ‘‘August Buerger and wife.’’ He remained one day, and when he stepped up to ask the amount ef his bill the clerk said it would be $4. ‘‘Four dollars,*’ Mr. Buerger said; “why, your rates are rather high, aren't they?’’ ‘“No, I guess not; that’s only $2a day.’’ ‘But I have been here only one day.’ ‘‘T know it, but it’s $4,’’ the clerk replied. ““ How do you figure that?’ the newly- wedded man asked, as he leaned over the counter with a frown of perplexity on his otherwise blissful features. ‘Well, there’s yourself, one day, $2; and there’s your wife, one day, $2; two and two are four.’’ Then the fellow slammed his fist down on the register, while a crimson flush of blood suffused his cheeks. "Well, I'll swear!” he cried: ‘if I didn’t forget all about her I'll eat my ‘ hat. Here, take this V, keep the change, and say nothing about it, please. ’’ But the clerk didn't keep the change, so he thought there was no reason why he shouldn't tell the story. Chinese Honor. Non-progressive as the Chinese are, it would be well for Americans to emu- late them in some of their business ethics. In some respects the Chinese are superior to some Americans in point of honor, even although they may not be so progressive. The American consul at Ningpo, China, is responsibie for the assertion that Chinamen are the souls of honor in mercantile affairs, whether in transactions among them- selves or with foreign merchants. This feeling is so highly developed in their minds that it induces them in many in- stances to deal harshly and unjustly to- ward themselves. For a Chinaman to fail to pay his debts is such a disgrace that it frequently causes him to commit suicide. Fraudulent failures are un- heard of in China—they never occur— and in case of failure the creditors’ claims are good against the whole fam- ily. The father is responsible for the debts of the son, and vice versa. Willie’s Heroism. Mamma: How did you get your clothes so badly torn? Willie: Tryin’ t’ keep a little boy from being licked. Mamma: That was Who was the boy? Willie: Me. a brave deed. PREFERRED BANKERS LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN. Commenced Business September 1, 1893. mcuranee in force.) $2,746,000.00 Net Increase during 1897 ....... .:.... 104,000.00 Pee Se 32,738.49 Losses Adjusted and Unpaid.......... None Other Eaapitises. 2 Ge Nohe Total Death Losses Paid to Date...... 40,061.00 Total Guarantee Deposits Paid to Ben- CMOS ee, ae 812.00 Death Losses Paid During 1897........ 17,000.00 Dest Mate bor thee. oo ee 6.31 Cost per 1,000 at age 30 during 1897.... 8.25 FRANK E. ROBSON, Pres. TRUMAN B. GOODSPEED, Serc’y. WANTS COLUMN. Advertisements will be inserted under this head for two cents a word the first insertion and one cent a word for each su uent in- sertion. No advertisements taken for less than 25 cents. Advance payment. BUSINESS CHANCES. OR SALE—UVRUG STOCK IN GOOD RAIL- road town of 800 inhabitants. Only drug and wall paper stock in town; part cash, re- mainder on easy terms. Good reasons for sell- ing. Address Otis Jones, New Buffalo, Mich. 601 OR SALE—GENERAL STOCK; STORE TO rent; good location, good trade. Will sell cheap for cash. Royce & Rolison, Hamburg, Mich. 599 OR SALE—THE WELL-KNOWN BUSINESS of the Detroit Pharmacal Co. A splendid chance to buy an estahlished drug trade. Ad- dress Geo. R. Angell, 149 Griswold St, Detroit, Mich. 595 HAVE SMALL STOCK OF DRUGS AND fixtures in [onia, taken on mortgage Will selle eap for cash or trade for produ-tive real estate. Answer immediately. Will seii s: on W. W. Hut, Under National City Bank, Grand Rapids. 598 KICK STORE FUR RENT—BEst LOCA- tion in city; will be let for any business ex- cept dry goods and cloth'ng. J. H. Levinson, Petoskey, Mich. 6.0 YS SALE OR EXCHANGE—STOCK OF drugs and fixtures; furniture of gum wood finely finished; elegant soda fountain and charging apparatus complete; located on eor- ne of two best principal streets in city of Muskegon, Mich. Can be moved if desired. Stock and fixtures invoiced April i about $4.8°0 Wil. exchange for productive real estate timber land or something similar, located most any where. Drugs are outof my Jine of business Will give someone a great bargain. Callonored dress D. S. Hopkins, Grand Rapids, Mich. £93 OK SALE—I have two complete drug stocks in Middleville. Will sell one and move other away, Or will sell one ha:f interest in either st ck—one to be moved into an other location— toreliableman. Dr. Nelson Abbott, Middleville, Mich. 5g Se EXCHANGE ~—220 acres farming land in Crawford county, Mich, title perfect, ‘or st.ck millinery or groceries. Address Lock Box #' St. Lonis, Mich. SRS HAVE SOME GOOD CITY PROPERTY, free and clear, to exchange for stock of mer- chandise Would assume a little incumorance if necessary. W. H. Gilbert 1.9-Ottawa Si. Grand Rapids. Mich. Fo 7 WELL - LOCaTED, WELL-kKENTED residences near Normal College, Ypsilant , to exchange fer merchandise. Address 202 Con- gress St., Ypsilanti. ba2 NUR RENT—LARGE DESIRABLE STORE on best street. Address Mrs. B. Brewer, Owosso, Mich. AT. | are RENT—DOUBLE STORE BUILDING in Opera House block, Mancelona, Mich., be-t location in town: best town in State. Ad- dress Julius H. Levinson, Petoskey, Mich. 589 a SALE—BsKING. CONFE::TIONERY, cigar stock and ice cream Wusiness, with good fixtures. Address No 579, care Michigan Tradesman. 579 yo SALE--MODE , WELL-ESTABLISHED and equipped broom factory and good trade. Other business commands our attention. Ad- dress No. 5-4, care Michigan Tradesman 584 ee SALE, EXCHANGE OR REN —LARGE two-story store and residence building in town of 1,600 population in Northern Indiana; stone basement. 120 feet in dimensions. Inves- tigate. Aduress No. 575, care Michigan Trades- man. 575 PUR RENI—THE FIRST AND SECOND floors and basements of the brick building numbered 12 and 14 Lyon street, recently oceu- pied by Hirth, Krause & Co.; suitab’e for mer- canliie or manufacturing purposes. Also the large hall on the third floor 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 ANTED — FIRST-CLASS BUTTEK FOR retail trade. Cash paid. Correspond with Caulkett & Co.. Traverse City, Mich. 381 Ree SALE—FIRST-CLASS GROCERY, MEAT market and crockery stock, located in one of the best towis 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 POR SALE—BUILDING AND GENERAL stock; test farming section in Michigan. No trades. W H. Pardee, Freeport, Mich. 500 NOR EXCHAEGE FOR GROCERY OR MER- chanaise stock—Choice section land near Jamestown, North Dakota. Dakota lands in great demand for farming or stock raising. Carl Dice, Monroe, Mich. 534 1. EX: HANGE—FOR CLOTHING, DRY good-~ or shoes. very nice well rented Grand Rapids property. Address No. 552, care Michi- gan Tradesman. 552 Vy J ANTEU—1,000 CASES FRESH EGGS, daily. Write for prices. F. W. Brown, Ithaca, Mich. 556 7. EXLHANGE— FARMS AND OTHER property for dry goods, clothing and shoes. Address P. Medalie, Mancelona, Mich. 553 aS PRACTICAL MILL MAN, with $1,000 capital, to take a one-half or full interest in a stave, heading and planing mill. 3,00) contract, with stock to fillit. All goes. Five years’ cut in sight. Side track to mill. Good reasons for selling. Address Stave Mill, care Michigan Tradesman. 546 ____ PATENT SOLICITORS. _ TL REE—OUR NEW HANDBOOK ON PAT- ents. Ciiley & Allgier, Patent Attorneys, Grand Rapids, Mich. 339 MISCELLANEOUS. W ANTED—— REGISTERED ASSISTANT pharmacist, single man. Must furnish good references as to character, etc.; one from the country preferred. Address No. 597, care Michigan Trac esman. 597 ANTED—POSITION IN GROCERY. 1 make a spécialty of teas and coffees; age, 27. Frank Bentiey, Ludington, Mich. 598 was 7ANTED— REGISTERED PHARMACIST at once. Must furnish good references as to character. J. H. Chapman, Mears, Mich. 592 ANTED—SITUATION BY REGISTERED pharmacist of twenty years’ experience. Address No. 589, care Michigan Tradesman. 589 RANT c i eagESSane—ermerege t te Travelers’ Time Tables. CHICAGO **¥e# Meine Chicago. Ly. G. Rapids...........8:45am 1:25pm *11:30pm AY Cigar... 3:10pm 6:50pm 6:40an iby. Chicago... 7:20am 5:15pm *11:30pr Ar. G’d Rapids....... . 1:25pm 10:35pm * 6:20ar Traverse City, Charlevoix and Petoskey. by. Gd Rapids: 0. 7:30am 5:30pm Parlor and Sleeping Cars on afternoon and night trains to and from Chicago. *Every day. Others week days only. DETROIT, “ts Yeo Detroit. Ly. Grand Rapids...... 7:00am 1:35pm 5:3>pm Ar. etre... .... 11:40am 5:45pm 10:2 pn EN. Detrole. 2. 8. 8 8:00am 1:10pm 6:1'pm Ar. Grand Rapids.....12:55pm 5:20pm 10:54 pr Saginaw, Alma and Greenville. Lv. GR7:10am 4:20pm Ar. G R 12:20pm 9:300r Parlor cars on all trains to and from Detroit and:Saginaw. Trains run week days only. Gro. DEHAVEN, Genera! Pass. Agent. GRAND “Serene (In effect May 2, 1898 ) EAST Leave. S . Arrive. + 6:45am .Sag., Detroit, Buffalo & N Y .+ 9:55pm +10:10am.......Detroit and East.... ..+ 5:07pm + 3:30pm. .Sag., Det., N. Y. & Boston..+12:45pm *11:00pm...Detroit, East and Canada...* 6:35am til: l0am...... Mixed to Durand... ._.. + 3:15pm WEST * 8:35am....Gd. Haven and Int. Pts....* 7:10pm +12:53pm.Gd. Haven and Intermediate.+ 3:22pm + 5:12pm....Gd. Haven and Chi......... +10:05am *5:40pm.Gd. Haven and Intermediate. 8:15am +10:00pm...... 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. Huewss, A.G. P. &T. A. BEN. FLETCHER, Trav. Pass. Agt., C. A. Justin, City Pass. Agent. 97 Monroe St. Morton House. Rapids & Indiana Railway Dec. 5, 1897. Northern Div. Leave Arrive Trav. C’y, Petoskey & Mack...+ 7:45am + 5:15pm Tray. C’y, Petoskey & Mack...+ 2:15pm t 6:35am Trav. C’y, Petoskey & Mack... ........ 10:50pm WMOHIee + 5:25pm t11:15am Train leaving at 7:45 a. m. has parlor car, and train leaving at 2:15 p. m. has sleeping car to Mackinaw. Southern Diy. Leave Arrive Cincinnath:. 5. + 7:10am + 8:25pm Re Wayne... os. + 2:10pm + 2:00pm Cincinnati....... .............% 7:00pm * 7:23am 7:10 a. m. train has parlor car to Cinciunati 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. Lv Q’d Rapids......... +7:35am +1:00pm +5:40pm Ar Muskegon........... 9:00am 2:10pm 7:05pm GOING EAST. Ly Muskegon....... .. +8:10am +11:45am 4:00pm ArG’d Rapids... ..... 9:30am 12:55pm 5:20pm +Except Sunday. *Daily. {Saturday only. C. KWOOD, Gen’! Passr. and Ticket Agent. DULUTH, sis gr Atlantic WEST BOUND. Lv. Grand Rapids (G. R. & 1.)t11:10pm = +7:45am Ly. Mackinaw City............ 7:35am 4:20pm Ar. St. Ignace........2.....-.. 9:00am 5:20pm Ar. Sault Ste. Marie........... 18:20pm 9:50pm Ar. Marquette................. 2:50pm 10:40pm Ar. Nestoria icc esa cetea acces. 5:20pm 12:45am Ar. Duluth.......... escevecewes | ssa cee 8:30am BAST BOUND. iy: Baia +6:30pm Ar. Nestoria..........0-...... til:15am 2:45am Ar. Marquetie................ 1:30pm 4:30am Ly. Sault Ste. Marie.......... 3:30pm :....-. Ar. Mackinaw City........... 8:40pm 11:00am G. W. HrssBapp, Gen. Pass. Agt. Marquette. E, C. Oviatt, Trav. Pass. Agt., Grand Rapids TRAVEL VIA F.& P. M. R. R. AND STEAMSHIP LINES TO ALL POINTS IN MICHIGAN H. F. MOELLER, a. a. P.a. Dorchester, Mass. Cy) The Oldest and Largest Manufacturers of 6 PURE, HIGH GRADE COCOAS AND CHOCOLATES on this Continent. 4 y\-BEAUTIFUL, MICH: ~ a June 25,to Sepl25""% = No Chemicals are used in Trade-Mark. their manufactures. Their Breakfast Cocoa is absolutely pure, delicious, nutritious, and costs less than one cent a cup. Their Premium No. 1 Chocolate, put = in Blue Wrappers and Yellow Labels, is the best plain chocolate in the market for family use. Their German Sweet Chocolate is good to eat and good to drink. It is palatable, nutri. tious, and healthful; a great favorite with children. Buyers should ask for and be sure that they get the genuine goods. The above trade-mark CBABCA BCA BABA BABA EA CACAGACAGACGACGAGAGAGAEGA 15 ON eVEry package. Our Stock of Walter Baker & Co. Ltd. Wall Paper and Paints Dorchester, Mass. Serre eerieieetharny A HEAVY LOAD Every Wall Paper Design is of 1898 make. Picture Frames made to order. C. L. Harvey & Company, 59 Monroe St., Grand Rapids. We are not connected with any other firm using Everything new and strictly first-class. For terms, address Egbert T. Osborn, Charlevoix-the-Beautiful, Mich.? and bear in mind that the Chicago & West Michigan and Detroit, Grand Rapids & Western Railways are the only direct lines to Charlevoix, the prettiest place in Northern Michigan. Gra. DEHAVEN, Gen’! Passenger Agent. SP "THE NN. Established 1720. <— Pe ae Walter Baker & Co, L10. J} By, BA. DASA BGABABCAS our name. QA. L SOS PEPE OSS OE OGD PALPP ALA ILL ALOA ID ~ We can save you money on Is carried by the merchant when ALL APER he undertakes to handle the credit transactions cf his establishment We are the only wholesalers in the State. Write us by means of pass books or other a t equally antiquated methods. The for samples. ae : Strain is immediately lessened, 9 |) however, when he adopts the Cou- i@ pon Book System and places his credit transactions on a cash basis. We make four kinds of Coupon Books and cheerfully send samples free on application. TRADESMAN COMPANY, GRAND RAPIDS. HARVEY & HEYSTEK COMPANY GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 0-0-0-0-0-000-0-0-0-0-0-:0-0-0-0-0-0 0-0-0-0-0-0 0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-00-0:0-0-0-0-0-0 USé Tradesman 60.'s Poison Labels shire vrevevovenvenvenervennennvonvonvonnennenenennes Ad = = = They allsayF === J = “It's as good as Sapolio,” when they try to sell you = = their experiments. Your own good sense will tell = -— {| you that they are only trying to get you to aid their = eS ee i TN Who urges you to keep Sapolio? Is it not the =S$ a {| public? The manufacturers, by constant and judi- = cious advertising, bring customers to your stores whose = =~ very presence creates a demand for other articles. <= — — »_ ANNAN ALNLAMA LUMA L Akl hALddkkddkbdbMbbdbkabbbbddudND ~ SACRIFICE SALE! PLANT OF THE. LANSING LUMBER CO. HIS property is one of the finest equipped plants of its kind in the State. It is fitted with the latest improved and best kinds of woodworking machinery, centrally and everything is complete for any first-class business adapted to such a plant. Unloading Baby Cabs Weare quoting JOBBERS’ PRICES to MICHIGAN MERCHANTS on 50 STYLES of Cabs. Every one is High Grade. Every one is Low Priced. Every one is Guaranteed. Large Catalogue sent on applica- H tion. GRAND RAPIDS @| WHOLESALE FURNITURECO. | GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. located on one of the principal avenues of the city The property must be sold to settle an SOOO OOOS OOOO OO0SO9O99906 00605600 | SOOSSESS O9OOO099 090 0F664 OOOOH OOO EE GANNED HUTS owing co the DANNED VEGETABLES last season, we are baswriaie an unprecedented sale on all kinds of Canned Goods. Musselman Grocer Company Grand Rapids, Mich. Don’t let your stock get low. Look out for higher prices on Tomatoes. Ask our salesmen about hab bbb bhbbbbihbbhb bbb bbebtebtrtrbntrtntntn tte . ob bb he hb hp bb hp hp bh he bb bbe be bp bb pb bp bn te > estate. For further particulars address, those Nunley, Hines & Co.’s ca ea low Peaches Ca Horace Lapham, or Chas. C. Longstreet, ( ANNE() | ‘H PANE) MENTS. 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