| - ( a | PB AS Ie STIR Tie . W ww SS SG CY : "Pri A NGS ( 4 y Gn By ms \ yf » - Af 5 \ ny 5 a NAG ry. To AAT ER 107: al 4 Aa asi Lan) GG ra ‘Tr ese? a We VA Xt Me: ¢ ow cv REX DRE aE (= Sa eS SscaeeeDey SEPUBLISHED ae PERCE S PASS SSS OT REF A ee ESSER Volume XV. Our Stock of Wall Paper and Paints Is New and Fresh from the Factory. 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 our name. THE ONLY WAY... To learn the real value of a trade or class paper is to find out how the men in whose interest 11 is published value it. Ask the merchants of Mich- igan what they think of the... MICHIGAN TRADESMAN We are willing to abide by their decision. Ew ne NEO ee OEY PE VED, PURITY AND STRENGTH! LESUHMIANN & GO.’S GOMMPRESSED YEAGT As placed on the market in tin foil and under our yellow label and signature is ABSOLUTELY PURE or Sth Re, oT oon wi — %% wad or wo Ec —— Of greater strength than any other yeast, and 2 ——— convenient for handling. Neatly wrapped in * tin foil. Give our silverware premium list to your patrons and increase your trade. Particu- lar attention paid to shipping trade. Address, FLEISCHMANN & CO. Detroit Agency, 118 Bates St. Grand Rapids Agency, 26 Fountain St. GRAND RAPIDS, aracmamiaca MAY 18, 1898. Number 765 | Q0-0-0-0-0-0:0-0-0-0-0-0:0-0-0-0-0-0:0-0-0-0-0-0:0-0-0-0-0-0.0-0-0-0-0-0 0-0-0-0-0-0.0-0-0-0-0-0.0-0-0 We can save you money On em | A —— eee WALL PAPER ¥ We are the only wholesalers in the State. Write us for samples : 90 o HARVEY & HEYSTEK COMPANY GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 0-0-0-0-0-0 0-0-0-0-0-0 0-0-0-0-0-00-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-00-0-0-0-0-0- 0-0-0-0-0-00-0-0-0-0-00-0-0-0-0-00-0-0-0-0-0 0-0-0-0-0-0:0-0-00-0-0000-0-0-0-000-00-0-0-0 a SUA eevee eave eveeiddVevendveve¥e 2 Everything in the Plumbing Line Everything in the Heating Line Be it Steam, Hot Water or Hot Air. Mantels, Grates and Tiling. Galvanized Work of Every Description. Largest Concern in the State. Ss WEATHERLY & PULTE, 99 Pearl St., Grand Rapids AAR) ee GANNED FRUITS GANNED VEGETABLES shortage of fruit in our State last season, we are having an unprecedented sale on all kinds of Canned Goods. Musselman Grocer Company Grand Rapids, Mich. Don’t let your stock get low. Look out for higher prices on Tomatoes. —_ our salesmen about wwe ame we Owing to the aula os te SOOO0SO0 99900009 00000068 000006000 a : “MK. Ruhe Bros. Co., Makers. - Y Factory 956, 1st Dist. Pa. * EVERY MAN LIKES THOMAS” The Best Nickel Cigar in the State. s F. E. Bushman, Representative, Kalamazoo, Mich. Bour’s Blended Coffees know no competition. Their growth in consumption has been simply marvelous, 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. Don’t wait—now is the opportune time. The J. M. Bour Co., 113-115-117 Ontario St., Toledo, Ohio. 129 Jefferson Avenue, Detroit, Mich. ANGLEFOOT baled SoOKY FIU Paper ONE OF THE MOST PROFITABLE THINGS YOU SELL. ruse ptr LN YG L, Me Popular aversion to flies is growing, and To increase your sales of Tanglefoot ‘ fe Tcl cal : ei v YOUR Fly Destroyers are coming into greater use. let your customers see it in actual use w Of all means for their destruction in your store, in the Holder; y WHOLESALER Tanglefoot is the most practical They will follow your example. @ and the best on account of its greater Every customer to whom you sell a box of RE SELLS efficacy, cleanliness, endurance and cheapness. Tanglefoot will remember it with pleasure ° TANGLEFOOT. This is why the sale of Tanglefoot increases yearly. every day of the summer. g PRICE, 30 CENTS A BOX.—$2.55 A CASE. DO QDOOQOQOODODEO HLHDODQDOO© DOMDDOOODDDODDOOOOGDOOQOQOOQO# QDBOHQDOOQOQQOGQOQOOO© HDODOQOQDOOOQDOOOQODOOQOOOOOOOODOOOQODOQDOOQDOOQOOQOOQOOO Manitowoc Lakeside Peas Those who are familiar with Lakeside Peas fully appreciate them and know their value. We have made the canning of peas a scien- tific study and fee] amply repaid by the re- sults obtained. They are for sale by all grocers. Ask for them. THE ALBERT LANDRETH G0., Manitowoc, Wis. Worden Grocer Co., Wholesale Agents. s GOODODOOQOGQODQOOODODOOOQDOQDOOQOGHDODOQOGQO©OGDOOQ®© QOODGDOODOOQGQOGOQODODOOQOS Weddle oN ealUehd a eee WeN Ce ANNON UPC Vee We eV OZ Anti-Adulteration fa aap ee The Food Commissioner has begun an aggressive crusade against cheap vinegars which THE INTEGRITY OF EACH IS THE CONCERN OF ALL. are not up to the legal standard. It will be well for the retail No. 97. Ww $1,000. THIS IS TO CERTIFY THAT trade to prepare for the wrath to come by putting in goods of recognized purity and strength, and we beg leave to call the attention of the trade to the fact that : h Robinson’s Cider Vinegar Walsi-Dé R00 Milling 60. having duly made affidavit and signed contract required, is a member of The Anti-Adulteration League. Members of this league guarantee the Absolute Purity of their Flour by a sworn is always up to the standard established by the Legislature and that it thi in cash stands back of this guaranty. Ask your jobber for Robinson’s vinegar and insist on having no other. If your job- > 5 - J aranteed not to contain any deleterious acids orany- ng that is not produced from theapple. One hundred dollars statement and a Bond of One Thousand Doliars. Relying thereupon The Anti-Adulteration League guarantees that the Flour made by this mill is Free from Adulteration of any : : se kind, and engages to collect from its owners, managers or proprietors the sum of $1,000 upon ber will not get it for you, order direct from the manufacturer, receipt of proof to the contrary. Signed y- , e The Executive Committee Anti-Adulteration League. ROBINSON CIDER & VINEGAR CO., Benton Harbor, Mich. F. L. GREENLEAF, Chairman. W. C. EpcGar, Secretary. e$eseseseSe5e5e25e25e25e25e25e5e5 SP ED i on sti aa il PA Mica nn Bi ae ti we ae sa aoauaeine i ai ee iliac arse oo ete * (aiahidne goats ecient ele ae ADESMAN Volume XV. PREFERRED BANKERS _ LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN. Commenced Business September 1, 1893. Insurance th force, ..... _. : es soe . - $2,746,000.00 Net Increase during 1897 .... 104,000.00 Bet meesets. oe a 32,735.49 Losses Adjusted and Unpaid........-: None Other Liabilities... None Total Death Losses Paid to Date...... 40,061.00 Total Guarantee Deposits Paidto Ben- CHCA 812.00 Death Losses Paid During 1897........ 17,000.00 Death Ratetor 807000 6.31 Cost per 1,000 at age 30 during 1897... $.25 FRANK E. ROBSON, Pres. TRUMAN B. GOODSPEED, SeEc’y. 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 is a bargain for some one. Will not sell less than $1000.00 practically cash. W. H. BAILEY, Hart, Mich. Prices, styles, fit and make guaranteed by 3 e KOLB & SON $ 3 Ovpesrt, most reliablé wholesale cloth- ing manufacturers in Rochester, N. Y. 3 See our $4 Spring Overcoats and Suits. Spring line of fine goods—excellent. Write our Michigan agent, Wittt1am CoNnNor, Box 346, Marshall, Mich., or meet him at Sweet’s Hotel, Grand Rapids, room 82, daily, from June 1 to June 7. He has been with us 16 years and will use youright Customers’ expenses allowed. 9999090006 O0000006 06 9OOOOOO0 0900000006 60000000 GOMMERGIAL CREDIT GO., LIMITED, of Grand Rapids, Mich. We guarantee the payment of all moneys col- lected by our representatives in the United States and Canada when claims are receipted tor by us. L. J. STEVENSON, Manager and Notary. %. J. CLELAND, Attorney. Loe 99909095999 909000000004 q p 4 j 4 4 : y INS. $ 7? co. ¢ 4 4 7 OOOOOOOC: Prompt, Conservative, Safe. J.W.CHAMPLIN, Pres. W. FRED McBam, Sec. See 99900000 060000000000 THE MERCANTILE AGENCY Established 1841. R. G. DUN & CO. Widdicomb Bid’g, Grand Rapids, Mich. Books arranged with trade classification of names. Collections made everywhere. Write for particulars, L. P. WITZLEBEN, [anager. Rare Chance for Small Capital. A plant equipped for planing, resawing, turning, inside finishing, etc., costing originally over $10,- 000, offered for about one-third that. Good condi- tion. Now in operation. Just taken on debt by present owners who have other business. Grow- ing city, 8,000 population. Fine surrounding country. Good opening forlumber yard. Certain- ly a SNAP. Easy terms. Lock Box 7, Traverse =i TRAUESMIN COUPON Save Trouble Save Losses Save Dollars GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1898. COLONIZATION AND CONQUEST. The aggressive movements by the} United States against the West Indian and East Indian possessions of Spain are about to mark the launching forth of this country upon a career of foreign conquest and of colonization. This republic has never had a colony and its public men have no practical knowledge of the management of such possessions. The vast regions acquired from France, from Spain and from Mexico all adjoined the territory of the United States, and as_ soon as those ad- ditions to the republic had become suffi- ciently filled up with a civilized popu- lation they were subdivided into states, and these were admitted into the galaxy of the Union. The extensive region purchased from Russia has been of little value to the Union until the recent discovery of rich gold deposits bave brought it into sudden importance, As it is in no way fitted to become a state of the Union, and is separated by long distances from the main body of the Union, it will probably have to be treated for a long time to come as a far-away colony. The conquest by the arms of the United States of the Spanish posses- sions, in both the West and East Indies, promises to force upon this country ex- tensive experiments in colonizing, and it will behoove our statesmen to con- sider what are the proper objects to be carried out in the processes of the planting and maintenance of colonies, and what are the best uses to be got out of them. There are two methods of getting profits out of colonies. One is to plun- der and pillage; the other is to develop them into important factors of com- merce. The Romans conquered and robbed. To secure new countries and prey upon them was the sum of Roman ‘foreign policy. It was faithfully imitated by Spain, with the result that the wronged and oppressed colonists were always in rebellion and gained their ip- dependence whenever they could. Eng- land started out un the Roman plan; but her disastrous experience with the American colonies taught her much wis- om, and she changed her policy to the Phoenician or commercial system, so that to-day a new British colony means a new factor in British commercial power and pre-eminence. The two nations, with their two dia- metrically opposite methods of man- aging colonies, present examples which statesmanship and_ philanthropy can well take to heart. Spain, starting in the beginning of the fifteenth century, accomplished the conquest of the great- er part of the Western Hemisphere. By the end of the nineteenth she will have lost the last of her possessions in Amer- ica and Asia. England, on the otber hand, starting with the dawn of the seventeerth century on a career of for- eign conquest and colonization, has built up in every part of the world an em- pire on which, it is proudly boasted, the sun never sets. Spain’s colonies were used only to be ravaged of all their wealth as fast as it was produced. The British colonies are fostered and developed to furnish new markets and bases of commercial power. Despotic nations and those that oper- ate upon the Roman plan can not suc- cessfully maintain colonial possessions. To a people thoroughly imbued with a spirit of liberty and free institutions only is any proper system of colonizing possible. The surplus population of the British Isles, when it overflows the nar- row limits of the fatherland, emigrates to distant British colonies, there to de- velop and build up, under free institu- tions and home rule, new and_ powerful appendages of the empire. When the Germans, the Russians, the Italians, Austrians and other peoples of the con- tinent of Europe emigrate, they hasten to countries where there are already es tablished free institutions and constitu- tional governments, to escape from the despotisms they left behind. As _ for the French, they seidom leave their na tive country, where, apparently, there is no surplus population, since the birth rate is scarcely greater than the mortal- ity. Germany, after centuries of indiffer- ence to foreign discoveries and coloni zation, has, under the autocratic influ- ences exerted by the present despotic ruler, developed a sudden activity and Is seizing on territory in China and Africa. The same sort of activity 1s also manifested by France. Do they want to establish commercial colonies or are they only seeking new opportuni- ties for plunder and rapine? Are they proposing at this late day to adopt the Spanish system or the English methods in colonizing foreign countries? The same questions may be asked of the United States. With the fate of Spain and the example of England be- fore them, there should be no trouble in answering the question Some races are fitted for certain sorts of work and not for others. France, in the past, neglected the colonies she had, and lost some in war and others she sold for a song. Germany has no experience, and it is much to be doubted if either na- tion can prosper with foreign posses- sions. Russia seems bent on the absorption of all the territory adjacent to her vast dominions, and is wonderfully success- ful in dealing with the Asiatics, and ap- parently has no interests in common with France and Germany, except to use them. The appetite for conquest grows by what it feeds on. Now that the Republic of the West has tasted blood, who can say what will be the end of the course upon which it has launched? A baking powder bill has been favor- ably reported by a New York Legislative Committee. The bill provides that the baking powder shall contain not more than 30 per cent of flour and not less than 14 per cent. of carbonic acid gas. Once it was Bunker Hill. Now it is the coal bunker that inspires steam for war. Manila was a pudding before Dewey knocked it into pi. Number 765 There is a sect known as the ‘‘Even- ing Light’’ scattered throughout In- diana, Ohioand Michigan. The families are not isolated, but form communities. No one is really leader, but in each community there always is a man who is looked up to. Altbough nearly ail are well-to-do, no attempt at display is ever made, The homes are in one-story houses, built about a house where the sect meet on Sundays. This sect wears peculiar clothing. The women make all the men’s clothes. When the baby boy’s dresses are taken from him he ts clothed in the garb he is to wear for life. They wear trousers reaching to their ankles and boots to their knees. barbers in the community. allowed to grow. There are no rhe hair is These people never take part in politics, never go to court and don't have photographs taken. They never insure their property, and if one should lose his, the others start him anew. The parents match the children as soon as they are born, and they are brought up in each other’s company, and are made to understand that they are to marry and always live together after they leave their homes. Wisconsin proposes to take care of the relatives of the boys who go to the front and lose their lives for their coun- try Insurance Commissioner Fricke has made arrangements with Adjutant General Boardman to distribute blanks to every Man enquiring as tothe amount of life insurance he carries and in what conipany it is placed. The State pro- poses to see to it that the policies are not allowed to lapse while the men are at the front,and also that the companies will not unexpectedly cancel the policies on the men. The department will also, in the case of death, look aftér the col- lection of the insurance for the benefici- aries of the deceased. This move on the part of the State meets with great favor in the rank and file of the guard, as it guarantees to their families ample protection in case the worst should come and they should be killed. It is also proposed, if arrangements to that effect can be made, to insure the lives of those who do not carry any life insurance. According to the Chicago Inter-Ocean, General Lew Wallace will not go to war. He is quoted as saying: ‘‘I am very much afraid that I am entirely of the past. I offered the other day to en- list and carry a gun in the ranks, but was confronted with the statement that, being over 45 years of age, there was no chance for me. I tried it a second time, and went so far as to offer $100 fora place as private, and endeavored to pre- vail on the officers to throw their scru- ples aside and accept me. They de- clined. In addition to the argument of age against me, It is my misfortune now to have been a major general.”’ Trouble not others with your own complaints, but rather sympathize with them over theirs. Do this and all com- plaints will soon disappear. The tin soldier makes more noise and show when on parade; but the real thing can be depended upon in action. sO piece Pageant peat oe MICHIGAN TRADESMAN _Dry Goods | The Dry Goods Market. Staple Cottons—Heavy staple cottons, such as sheetings, drills and ducks, are the most active articles in the market, and they are assuming a firmer price tone every day. The duck mills are all very busy, most of them upon Govern- ment contract work. Ten and twelve ounce tent duck that is anywhere near Government standard is all cleaned up and new orders can not be filled for sev- eral weeks. Up to date the Government has secured goods at low prices, but it 1s likely to pay advanced rates for all con- tracts placed now. Four yard and lighter grades of sbeetings and drills are ina much stronger position than was the case two weeks ago; stocks are decreas- ing and concessions that were obtain- able then are being gradually cut off, as sellers assume a more independent posi- tion Osnaburgs are in fair demand and prices are generally firm. Colored cottons of heavy weight are being taken with considerable freedom by the cut- ting-up trade, denims, tickings, stripes and checks proving the best sellers at present. Cheviots and jeans are selling more freely, and many lines are sold far ahead; the price position of these and other heavy colored goods is increasing in strength nearly every day. Fancy lines of colored goods are in better de- mand than are Staple patterns and are stronger in price. Low grade checks, stripes and plaids are well sold ahead and are pretty firm in price. Dress Goods—There is very little, if anything, being accomplished in spring lines at the present time, a number of the mills having sold up to such an ex- tent that they will not take any more, while others say that the conditions for these goods have been so_ unsatisfactory that they do not care to offer any more, and have made no effort to do_ business with them. There is no demand from the retailers, the weather having been decidedly against retail trade, and the jobbers having had sufficient stocks to meet any and all requirements. It is merely a question of weather at the present time whether more spring dress goods will be sold or not. Hosierv—Buyers are taking hold fair- ly well, largely for fancies and certain staples, of which they are short. Various lines of staple plain goods are, however, in the best position, and it is safe to say that fancies have lost ground slight- ly for summer wear. In golf hosiery, however, sales are very satistactory, and but little trouble is found in disposing of almost apy quantities. A new stock- ing, shown this last week, is a fine, seamless cotton and cassimere hose, and is made on a new machine which is patented. It makes a rib on the stock- ing automatically from the leg down the front of the foot, while the sole at the same time is being knitted plain. These machines, it is claimed, are the only devices whereby this can be done. Carpets—The effect of the backward spring on carpets and upholstery sales has been quite marked, as the average housewife does not care to refurnish until the weather becomes more settled. Clothing—While the clothing trade have not been buyers of woolens to any extent during the past week, still there has been considerable enquiry for cer- tain lines of goods, which seems to in- dicate that the clothing trade, or some portions of it, are beginning to realize that they must augment the quantity of their fall piece goods, and that very soon indeed. Clothiers seem to be a lit- tle stronger in their feeling that a good business this fall may yet be the out- come, because already they are receiv- ing about the usual number and volume of orders from the men who have thus far started out. The weakness of the situation lies, however, in the fact that no one can yet tell what proportion of these orders will ‘‘stick.’’ a Men Critics of Millinery. The man whose wite buys his neckties revenges himself by supervising her summer hat. Here is what a Chicago milliner says of him: ‘‘Hardly a day passes,’’ she said, ‘‘that one of my customers does not come back to me witha perfectly lovely bat that she has carefully picked out and had made herself, after long delib- eration, to have me alter it, because her husband doesn’t like it I could just shake the women who do tthis, so I could! The idea of their permitting their judgment about such a thing as a bat for their own heads to be overruled by their husbands! What do men know about women’s hats, anyhow? Yet, the poor little disappointed, tyrannized wom- an comes in hereto me, saying, ‘I think the hat is perfectly beautiful myself, and I certainly would like to keep it, but my husband pooh-poohs it, and says it’s ‘‘dinky,’’ and a color mess, and an outrage on art, and 437 years too young for me, anyhow, and so I'll have to change it for something more staid.’ “Too young for you’'—that’s what the husbands are all saying now about the hats their wives are selecting for them- selves. It’s too exasperating, so it is! Do these husbands want their fresh look- ing, youthful-looking wives to get them- selves up like occupants of a home for superannuated ladies? Do they want them to appear on the streets in bundly little black toques, with bunches of cherries sticking up at the back,and with Paisley shawls thrown over their shoulders? The idea! ‘*And the big way these men talk of colors, too—as if any of them knew the difference between cerise and burnt or- ange! Why, a man came in here with his wife the other day to see that she changed a hat she had had me make for her a few days before. The hat was as pretty a thing as any of my girls ever made, trimmed with a delicate shade of heliotrope chiffon. It certainly was not loud, and it certainly was not too young for the lady, who was not more than 35, and as pretty as a peach. Well, the way that man bossed around! And do you know that all the time he was talking about women’s loudly trimmed bats he was wearing a green and yellow necktie himself—positively! If these crazy men are so afraid of their wives looking pretty and attractive, why don’t they immure them in convents, or make them wear those blankets, with eye- holes, that oriental women wear?’’ RSyOS3eSSeaeS SVS SS CZYZLSZIZLJOFSQS) BSOSAS SASSO ESERIES AU MG Dealers don’t keep our goods; they SELL them. Dy 7) if Carpets Wy Dy : : : Ke SS Aw All grades cut at wholesale. You Carry Only Samples Av We carry the stock. When you make a 2 sale, send us the pattern number, size & of room or quantity wanted and we will AW ship your order the same day as received Ae AC f —sewed if desired. _ OVER 3,000 DEALERS are now han- dling our carpets profitably. Let us start Bi you to success. 3M For One Dollar X 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, colorand {pi quality. No picture scheme or Misrep- j resentation. Every sample is finished, Q% numbered and quality specified on ticket, {i so you can make no mistake when ofder- ( ing. Wealso make up books as above, OF 18x18 in., which we will furnish Aw) For Three Dollars Ri DE This size 1s very popular, as the patterns show up beautifully. If you wi § prefer large samples we will cut them any length desired at the price of ea ay, the goods per yard. We have the best-selling goods on earth. Don't & Wp wait, order samples at once; it will be to your interest and we want you BQ) aN to represent us. B } HENRY NOEE & CO., i 2 SOUTHEAST CORNER MARKET & MONROE STS., CHICAGO. B Complete price list and telegraph code will be sent with samples. wy A Also new arrivals in summer Wash Goods. e Organdy from §c to 20c. Dimity from 4%c to 15c. Lawns, Lappetts, Ducks, White Goods, Percales and new plaid cotton Dress Goods. Full standard prints, fancies, blues, madders and staples, 4c. New lines of Belts, Belt @ @ $ e Buckles, Belt Pins. Write for samples. J e @ e @ © P. Steketee § Sons, Jobber's, Grand Rapids. CaltealelLeleleLelelelLe®ele All kinds of Fixtures for best displaying all kinds of goods. Send for catalogs. ACME MFG. CO., Battle Creek, Mich. fg TOTS TSS T TSS SSS SOUS U WANT: OF COURSE YOU WANT A POINTER—o-+ : The pointer we have to offer is that the grocer who undertakes to do busi- Northrop Flavoring Extracts Is handicapped in the race for success. These goods are sold at low prices, quality considered, and are guaranteed >to give entire satisfaction. Manufactured only by NORTHROP, ROBERTSON & CARRIER, Lansing, Mich. Queen Flake Baking Powder and Cree rnn oreo RPDee en eRerRRRPnnarernrrnnnoornnnnnrrey 2 chet ss cls Patt ce. wots Atte eens ca to 8 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN The Question of Honesty. If there is one thing of which women boast themselves more than another, it is of their superior moral sense. It is the one qualification that, in their eyes, fits them for careers and positions for which otherwise they are totally un- qualified. Of course, we have no busi- ness training, they will admit, but con- sider how honest we are! Who ever heard of an absconding woman cashier? Who can point to a woman senator who has been bribed? Who knows a default- ing woman bank president? To those who cherish this rosy theory of woman's honesty, it is a little dis- concerting to find out that many of those who have dealings with the sex boldly declare that women are less honest than men, and that the extent of their steal- ing is measured by their opportunities. In proof of this it is urged that shop- lifting is a crime almost entirely con- fined to women, and that what we polite- ly call kleptomania is a disease that at- tacks women of the rich class with alarming frequency, but from which rich men seem to be almost immune. Hotel-keepers are also among the scep- tical critics of women’s honesty. They say that well-to-do and apparently re- spectable women who occupy good po- sitions at home consider hotel towels and glassware, bureau scarfs and such like their legitimate prey, and that it takes a large yearly outlay to supply these purloined articles. Furthermore, that women have no shame about tak- ing them, but beast of collections that they have accumulated under the spe- cious title of ‘‘souvenirs.’ Happily, such women are far from representing the larger part of woman- kind, and here, as elsewhere, it is idle to draw comparisons between the sexes. Human nature is the same in both. There are honest women and dishonest women, just as there are honest and dis- honest men—the only difference is that women’s lack of principle manifests it- self in pilfering, while a man’s may take the form of street franchise gob- bling or railroad wrecking, and in time come to be celebrated as financiering. There is, however, one form of dis- honesty among women that is far too prevalent and that is the dishonesty that springs from extravagance. Stripped of all the verbiage and sophistries with which women clothe the ugly fact, buy- ing what one has not the money to pay for is nothing but plain, everyday steal- ing. Unjust as this is to the merchant, it is far worse when its victim is some poor seamstress or dressmaker, whose needle is the frail weapon with which she fights her hard battle against fate. It is almost incredible what hardships many of these are made to suffer. They are beaten down to the last cent for which they will work, and in many cases when they take home the dresses they have spent such toil upon, they are told it isn’t convenient to pay then, and to come again. Time and again the weary dressmaker plods her way to her patron’s house, often walking the long distance because she can not afford even car fare, while the rich woman who owes her indulges in an- other luxury with the money that should have paid a just debt. Say what one will about thoughtlessness, make what ex- cuse you can, such money is_ blood money—stolen from one who can least afford to lose it, and the time will come when it will cry to heaven for restitu. tion. Let no woman who owes her dressmaker or her servants account her- self honest. If she spends on self-in- dulgence what is due them, and keeps them pathetically waiting for their hard- earned wages, she is as dishonest as _ if she looted a bank or burglarized her neighbor’s house. >> Advantages of Ledge Displays. Written for the TRADESMAN. The overhead or ledge display ina dry goods store is a valuable adjunct as an advertising medium. By overhead display I mean the space between the top of the shelves and the ceiling. _2>__ The American Navy, Cuba and Hawaii. A portfolio, in ten parts, sixteen views in each part, of the tinest half- tone pictures of the American Navy, Cuba and Hawaii has just been issued by a Chicago publishing house. The Michigan Central has made ar- rangements for a special edition for the benefit of its patrons, anda specimen copy can be seen at the ticket office in the depot. Single parts may be had at ten cents each; the full set, one hundred and sixty pictures, costs but one dollar. Subscriptions for the set may be left with the agent. In view of the present excitement regarding Cuha, these pic tures are very timely. Call at the ticket office and see them. —765. Oe 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. Oe Have political and religious opinions, but don’t flaunt them in the faces of all who differ from you. “SESE SE OE OE COE OEE OE OEE OE RSL RR IR LR RR RII RTS To Merchants: We have a sample book that we will furnish without charge express prepaid to any good merchant who wishes to take orders for single suits, either ready to wear or made to order. We manufacture all our own Clothing, and do not sell through agents. We sell to merchants only. We furnish them the best book in the market, and are so well known that we do not need to sail under false colors like the Empire Tailors, or Royal Black Snake Manufacturers of Clothing, or American Mon- gul Tailor, or the Black Horse Tailors, etc. We have been established twenty-five years, and our firm is well and favorably known. Can you use a book of samples to advantage? If so, send in your application and we will send you our next book which will be ready July rst. Our spring and summer books are all placed. Get your application in early, for we will have a larger demand for our books than we can supply. Yours very truly, Work Bros. & Co., BOR AOE WON ON WON LON ON ON OR EN ON >. SOY. )>. 53. >.>. V3>. IS OES SSDS GS Cor. Jackson and Fifth Ave., Chicago, Ill. WORLD’S BEST 5C. CIGAR. ALL JOBBERS AND G.J. JOHNSON CIGAR CO. GRAND RAPIDS. WICH. Strawberries Are Coming forward in fine condition. Prices are reasonable. Send us your standing order for daily shipment. Will always bill as low as possible. The Vinkemulder Company, - Grand Rapids, [lich. Our Flavoring Extracts stand the Pure Food test. Put up in full measure bottles and guaranteed to give satisfaction. Send us a sample order and be convinced. DE BOE, KING & CO., Grand Rapids, Mich. 16 and 18 South Ionia Street. BY ALL THE LEADING PROCESSES Mr) STACHAER i HALF-TONE | a ZINC-ETCHING oMMARERMTSS yoo txcRNIN TRADESMAN COMPANY —— GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. ENGRAVERS acticin Ra yh ie KENS 4, MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Around the Stat Movements of Merchants. Memphis—Streeter & Co, have em- barked in general trade. Flint—Mrs. A. L. Gay has opened a grocery store at 713 Chippewa St. Marcellus—Edward P. Castner soid his grocery stock to J. Wiicex. has Gladwin—Horace E. Blodgett, hard- ware dealer, has removed to Gaylord. Lansing—E. L. & M. J. Howard suc- ceed W. E. Sear in the meat business. Wayland—W. J. Mills is now in charge of the drug store of H. K. Glea- son. Lansing—Cyril Blatt has sold his confectionery stock at 201 Washington street to J. S. Wilson. Kalamazoo—Glass & Son have moved their drug stock from 106 Portage street to 151 South Burdick street. Kalamazoo — The Kalamazoo Drug Ce, Dr. ©. BP. Sayles, manager, will shortly occupy 106 Portage street. Kalamazoo—Wirt C. Henry, who con- ducts a grocery store here and at Bat- tle Creek, has removed to Tekonsha. Calumet—F. C. Glocke & (Co,, of Marquette, will shortly engage in the wholesale and retail tobacco business. Cheboygan—Wm. E. Allair has pur- chased the grocery stock of E. J. James & Co. and will also deal in provisions. Adrian—Baker, Shattuck & Co., pork packers and wholesale cheese dealers, have changed their style to the River- side Co. : Charlevoix—R. P. McDermott has sold his confectionery stock to C. J. Long, of Chicago, who will take pos- session June 15. Traverse City--—Hendrick & Co., wholesale and retail dealers in confec- tionery and ice cream, have removed to this place from Ann Arbor. Saginaw—Sydney R. Qua, of Detroit, has taken the management of the men’s furnishing goods department of the Sag- inaw Dry Goods & Carpet Co. Watervliet-—W. L. Garrett has sold his drug stock to R. W. Cochrane, former- ly from Kalamazoo, who will continue the business at the same location, Fenton—-Judge Wisner has granted the petition cf creditors of the defunct State Bank of Fenton for a hearing in regard to their claims, and has set i for May 23. Fenton--H. S. Beaumont and G. E, Beadle constitute tne new firm, under the style of the Star Shoe & Clothing Co., which succeeds A. Forbes, the clothier. Greenville—B. Haskell, of Cadillac, has rented a store building at this place and will begin business Aug.1 witha line of dry goods, clothing and boots and shoes. Whitehall -S. P. Van Zant has em- barked in the meat and farm produce business. Charles and Joseph Watkins and A. E. Van Zant will represent the firm on the road. Homer—Jokn A. Barnum has retired from the shoe firm of Shear & Barnum. The business will be continued by the re- Maining partner under the style of Harmon E., Shear. Homer—Geo, W. Feighner, who has for some time been in the employ of Harmon & Allen, has purchased their stuck of boots and shoes and will con- tinue the business. Lapeer—Wm. Carr, for a long time head clerk for L. J. Haddrill and later with the Lapeer Mercantile Co., has embarked in the grocery and provisien business on his own account. j store Kalamazoo—Hal! Brothers are fitting up a very fine drug store at 141 South Burdick street, moving the stock of E. M. Kennedy, which they have pur- chased, from 157 South Burdick. Saginaw—Simon Sheyer, dealer in clothing and boots and shoes, and Tillie (Mrs. N.) Sheyer, also engaged in the same line of trade, have merged their stocks under the style of Sheyer Bros. Petoskey——Jacob Spearow, of La Grange, Ind., has purchased the feed store of Frank Merchant. Mr. Merchant retains the feed mill and will devote his attention to his real estate and saw- mill business. Saginaw-.The market committee of the Retail Merchants’ Association, con- sisting of David Swinton, Louis Mout- ner, J. H. Moore, A. Robertson and T. J. Norris, have undertaken the work of securing the establishment of a regular city market. Kalamazoo— John Richmond is under- taking to interest the meat dealers of this city in the organization of a Retail Meat Dealers’ Association, similar in scope and purport to the Grand Rapids Retail Meat Dealers’ Association. He is meeting with flattering success. Gaylord—Robt. H. Russell has sold his druy stock to Arthur E. Morrish and Mark S. Brown, who will continue the business under the style of A. E. Mor- rish & Co. Mr. Morrish has been em- ployed for several years in the drug of his brother, N. D. Morrish, of Sault Ste. Marie. St. Johns—Foerch & Danley, dealers in grain, feed, hides and furs, have dissolved. Geo. J. Foerch will con- tinue the business at the old stand, and Byron Danley will remove inte another building and combine the purchase of chickens, hides, etc., with the agricul- tural implement business. St. Joseph—Four large fishing firms which left here two months ago and went to Michigan City, Ind., on account of the stringent Michigan fish laws, have been driven back here by the scar- city of fish in those waters. They will lay up their boats and not fish at all until the laws of Michigan are changed. Detroit—The J. C. Ayer Co., Lowell, Mass., is sending circulars through this State warning druggists and general dealers against a man who represents himself to be an agent of the company and who goes under the names of Bur- rows and Smith. They say he isa swindler. His method of operation. is to try to obtain cash for a small draft on the J. C. Ayer Co., or to sell goods pur- porting to come from them and collect for the same. Manufacturing Matters. Marion—The Marion Cheese Co.’s new factory began operations May to. New Baltimore—The New Baltimore | Creamery Co.’s new plant is nearly ready to begin operations. Onaway—Brooks & Sterling will put in a shingle mill plant here at an early date, with a capacity of 75,000 shingles per day. Harrisville—A cheese factory is to be established here by the Michigan Cheese Co. Farmers are asked to give a bonus of $1.50 for each cow. Mt. Pleasant—The Deerfield cheese factory has begun operations with a goed supply of milk. John A. Gardham is manager of the enterprise. Detroit—The Avery Preserving Co. has been incorporated with a paid-up capital of $25,000. The incorporators are: Darius N. Avery, 1,250 shares; George E. and John H. Avery, 625 shares each. Battle Creek—L. J. Davis, of Olivet, has engaged in the manufacture of mop handles and the Davis coat hanger. Greenville-—-— The Greenvilie Buggy Co., composed of Dell Moore and L. B. Wright, has begun business at this place. Gagetown—A. Frutchey, of Cass City, has purchased the grain elevator of R. Klein. Mr. Klein will devote his entire attention to his mercantile interests. Escanaba—The new railroad to open a new territory between here and Re- public is an assured fact. Work on the necessary construction camps has been begun. Huughton—The St. Mary’s Canal Mineral Land Co. has sold to the Tam- arack Mining Co. the timber on twenty square miles of land between Houghton and Ontonagon for $90, 000. Petoskey—F. D. Merchant has pur- chased the Bain & Chapman sawmill. He will convert it into a hardwood and hemlock mill, putting in a side track so as to draw logs from the North. Manistee—J. O. Nessen has shipped his machinery, boiler and engine to Burdickville, where he will erect and equip a sawmill. ‘he capacity of the mill will be between 12,000 and 15,000 feet per day. Manistee—The loss on the Sands salt block was adjusted last week, and men and teams are busy at work clearing away the debris, and a new block will be in operation there within 60 days. The mills can not start until the salt block is ready, so they do not want much delay. Newaygo— Hemily & Kennicott is the name of a new copartnership which has been formed at this place. They have purchased the planing mill and machin- ery of the Converse Manufacturing Co., which they will remove to a tract of land purchased by them, and will conduct a lumber yard and deal in all kinds of building material. Saginaw—J. W. McGraw owns a tract of timber on the Bagley branch of the Mackinaw division which is estimated to cut 250,000,000 feet of soft and hard- wood timber. The Michigan Central has a contract for hauling several mil- lion feet of logs annually from this tract to this river. E. Bennet built a shingle mill on this branch which has been cutting shingles for McGraw, and the latter has about closed a deal for the purchase of the mill which is located at a new lumber hamlet called New To- ledo, and McGraw is also closing a deal witb Moore & McMorris, of Arthurville, also on the Bagley branch, for the pur- chase of their stave mill, which has been cutting timber for McGraw under con- tract. Bay City—It will be about three weeks before any logs can be expected from Canada, and mill owners who are wait- ing for stock are getting rather impa- tient for the sawing season to begin, in view of the good prices at which lum- ber is selling. Sawmills not in oper- ation have been placed in readiness for active work as soon as logs are received, and when the logs do come the mills will be crowded the remainder of the season. Smalleys & Woodworth are running day and night. The lumber market is a little taime just now, and only a few transactions have been noted. Box lumber has been sold up closely and there is very little of it on the mar- ket either on this river or the Lake Huron shore. A large portion of the output of the mills here goes into the Eastern market, and as trade there is dull the effect of it is felt here. Nashville—W. E. Shields has pur- chased the Powles’ property and will convert the old woolen mills into a wood working plant, thus affording room for more machinery. Saginaw— Lumber is not accumulating very fast here, for the reason that few mills are being operated. Merrill & Co. have not started their mill and have less than 6,000,000 feet of logs in the mill boom. C. K. Eddy & Son have not started their mill. They have been figuring on some logs, but the deal hangs fire and it is not known when the mill plant will be put into operation. Cheboygan—There was a large amount of logs and timber put in last winter on the northern extension of the Detroit & Mackinac Railroad, in the vicinity of Onaway, and it is expected that it will take until July to haul it to points of manufacture, and as soon as this is out of the way it is understood the work of extending this road to this city will be started. ‘here remains only twenty miles of road to be built. It opens up one of the most extensive timber tracts in the State. ~~ 0. The Produce Market. Asparagus—25c per doz. for grown. Bananas—The demand is steady, with prices rather higher than good for the best movement of fruit. The expecta- tion was a few weeks ago that by this time the supplies would be cut short be- cause of the war, and the market would be abnormally high. Such has not been the case. The supplies are still ample and promise to be so for some time to come. Beans—The market is stronger and higher, due in a large degree to the enormous purchases of the Government for the use of the army and navy. Lo- cal dealers hold city picked ‘at $1.30 per bu. in carlots and $1.35 in® smaller quantity, including bags. Beets—New, 30c per doz. bunches, Butter— Dairy commands 9@!Ic, rang- ing from choice to fancy, and factory creamery is in moderate request at 15 4c. Receipts are ample to meet the con- sumptive demands of the market. *“Cabbage--75@85c per doz. © Carrots—30@35c per doz. bunches. Cocoanuts—4@5c. Cucumbers—60@75c per doz. * Eggs—The market has taken a drop, due to the withdrawal of the cold stor- age buyers and the collapse of the Lake Odessa bubble. Local buyers are offer- ing to pay 8c on track and in some cases are offering to return cases free of freight, especially in localities where the eggs are unusually fine in quality and large in size. Brice & Co, have pulled out of the local field, largely because they could not meet the crazy quotations sent out by the Lake Odessa mushroom and get out whole—on the basis of the present market in the East- ern cities. The demoralization incident to the massing of several carloads of stock at Lake Odessa will havea ad effect on the Michigan market for several days, after which the warm weather and the consequent deterioration in quality will probably take a hand in forcing the price down still lower. Green Onions—8c per doz. Green Peas—$1.2o for bu. crate. Honey—Dark ranges from g@toc. Light stock commands I2c. : Lemons—The demand is increasing as the season advances, but the weather thus far has been rather cooler than usual, and so has checked the call. But Messinas are advanced a little, while Californias are steady at former figures. - Lettuce—8c per Ib. ie *“*Onions—Dry stock from Mississippi commands $1 per bu. Bermudas fetch $2.25 per crate, : | Oranges—The market is a trifle firmer on navels, and the movement continues good. The demand on the whcle list continues good. There are few, if any, more navels to arrive, but they are yet the best sought for orange on the mar- home ket. ~The receipts of Mediterranean sweets and Malta bloods are increasing and are of fine quality. Seedlings are selling at fairly low prices, but are of fine quality in general. Parsley—z2oc per doz. bunches. Pieplant—3{@rc per lb. for grown. Pineapples—Medium Bermudas com- mand $1.50@1.75 per doz. Floridas are in good demand at $1.75@2. Pop Corn-—soc per bu. Potatoes—The market for old stock has every appearance of being on the verge of a last grand rally. Local deal- ers are paying 60@7oc and holding at 7o@8o0c. New stock commands $1.25 for red and $1.35 for white. Radishes—$1 per box or 20c per doz. bunches. Excellent stock is arriving now from Canada. Seeds—Timothy, prime, home $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; Orchard grass, $1.60; Kentucky bluegrass, $1.30 @1.50. Spinach—3oc per bu. Strawberries—Arrivals are about equal- ly divided between Tennessee, Arkansas and Illinois fruit. Prices range from $2@2.75 per 24 qt. case, according to size and quality. Tomatoes—$3 per 6 basket crate. Vegetable Oysters—15c per doz. Wax Beans—$1.25 per 24 bu. crate. BF 3G Comparative Statement of the Banking Situation. The statements showing the condition of the banks May 5, just published, are very encouraging. In spite of war and rumors of war and the consequent un- settlement of business, the reports show a decided improvement over the condi- tions of Feb. 18—a greater improve- ment, in fact, than the reports of Feb. 18 were better than those of Dec. 15 preceding. From a consolidated state- ment of the five National and four State banks in this city, omitting the two trust companies, the following in- teresting figures are gleaned: Commercial deposits Feb. 18........... $2,967,074 93 Commercial deposits May 5............ 3,178,265 92 Mcresse. 211,100 99 Savings deposits and certificates Feb. 18 6,508,810 35 Savings deposits and certificates May 5 6,607,220 96 RRC OS,410 61 The commercial deposits in the Nat- ional banks increased $291,654.50, and in the savings banks decreased $80, - 463.51. The saving and certificate de- posits, bearing interest in the National banks, decreased $52,286.92 and in the savings banks increased $150,697.52. The net increase in commercial ‘and savings deposits was $390,065.11, as compared with Feb. 18 and $662, 272. 22, as compared with Dec. 15. The total deposits decreased $10,955.94, due to heavy withdrawals by out-of-town banks carrying deposits and reserve here. Loans and discounts Peb. 15........... loans and diseounts May 5.........-.. $,984,230 23 Increase ... 924,080 67 Bonds and mortg 1,804,925 SS Bonds and mortg Decrease... . $5,060,149 56 bo ade Way 5. 1,763,701 93 ae 11,223 95 The National banks increased their loans and discounts by $633,505.41 and the savings banks by $290,574.26. The increase in loans and discounts since Dec. 15 was $1,417,577. 38. G@ash resauxecs eb. 19.0.0 0... $3,506,423 9S (Cash sesources May s,...-..00.-05. 5.2: 2,745,004 OF DICrEASe a 760,819 34 Of the decrease in the available funds the National banks have $621,635.38 and the State banks $139,183 96. The total reduction since Dec. 15 was $1,034,943. - 28, and at this rate the complaint of having too much capital on too heavy a reserve will soon disappear. An encouraging feature about the statements is that they show that the improvement is not confined to any one bank, but affects all of them. All have increased loans and discounts; all but two have increased deposits, and all but two have reduced their idle funds. The Grocery Market. Sugar—Refined grades are firm, with a good many grades oversold. The grades oversold include crushed, XXXX powdered, powdered, mould A, stand- ard granulated, diamond A, confection- ers’ powdered, Nos. 1, 4 and 5, and Nos. 13 to 16 inclusive. Other grades are in light supply. Tea—Expectations that the new crop of Japan teas, purchases of which are now being made, would be available at lower prices than last year have not yet been realized. The new-crop prices are fully as high as last season, when they were considered unduly high be- cause of the duty expectations and the speculation incident thereto. Prices have not changed during the week, and the future is uncertain. Coffee—There is no change in the market, the feature of the week being the difficulty in getting bulk and pack- age coffees fast enough to fill orders. Another feature of the trade is the large amount that has gone into consumption. In spite of the unusually large volume of coffees sent out to retailers, the average retailer has still very small stocks, and is calling for more so rapidly that the jobbers and roasters are not able to fill the demand. Canned Goods—Baltimore advices are to the effect that the purchase of 25,000 cases of tomatoes by the Government for the use of the army and navy has completely cleaned up the spot stock at Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York. Spot corn is in fair demand at un- changed prices. Nothing is being done in Harford county futures, but some New York and Maine futures are sell- ing. Baltimore packers are asking 5c a dozen advance for seconds yellow peaches, on account of the scarcity on spot and the probability of a small pacx. Some peaches can be gotten from second hands for less than the packers’ price. California futures are not offered to any extent, and spot goods are not in much enquiry. Small sales of peas are reported, Nothing is doing in futures Rice—A healthy condition of trade is still reported in the rice market. Busi- ness is perhaps less active than hereto- fore, but there is considerable trading going on in a comparatively small way which makes a good aggregation of sales. Firm reports continue to come from primary markets at home and abroad. Syrups and Molasses—Molasses has been especially active, this condition being largely produced by the scarcity. The market has advanced at least tc per gallon during the past week, and may go even higher. Porto Rico mo- lasses has ceased to come to American ports, on account of the war complica- tions. There will be comparatively lit- tle business done in syrup from now on, owing to the warm weather. There are no lew or medium grades of sugar syrup, and the fancy stock is being taken for export. Prices are unchanged. Dried Fruits—Not much change is noted in the market, except that prunes are still tending to higher prices be- yond the advance recently noted. There is a stronger feeling in fancy raisins, but no changes are to be noted this week in quotations. The stocks of low grade and second picking raisins are being disposed of to other sources than through the trade, some going to the wineries, and some to the feeding of stock, a use that is sometimes resorted to with currants when the grade is low, with the stocks heavy. Thereare so few evaporated or dried apples in the mar- ket as to cut but little figure in the course of trade. Prices are high, as they have been all the year. The high prices on apricots have tended toa slackening of demand for them, and the movement is light. Peaches are scarce and are reported to show a stronger feel- ing. Reports from the coast say that Southern California is well cleaned up on prunes, and buyers are going to northern coast states for stocks. The use of California prunes in Germany the past year has grown wonderfully, and this class of fruit has come to bea staple stock in the leading cities of that empire. The foreign demand has been the salvation of the prune market, and promises to continue a large factor in the market for a considerable time to come. There is no change in the mar- ket on berries, and the movement is comparatively light in this market. Figs—A firm of well-known fig im- porters in New York City has received a letter from Smyrna which conveys the information that the male fig trees, be- ing rather deiicate, were hurt by the cold winter, and from present prospects the crop will be short about 30 per cent. The correspondent predicts high prices for figs,and states that in his opinion it will be a risky proceeding to make con- tracts for future delivery, as in all prob- ability prices will be considerably high- er, and it will be difficult to make de- liveries. Provisions— Export trade for English and Continental markets has been the leading feature during the past week, but even for this the trade has been comparatively slow. Prices for the home trade are about steady, but there is no special activity in the market. Family and short cut pork are the firm- est on the list. There is also a decided- ly firmer feeling and good demand on bellies and bacon. Lard continues very firm and prices are still advan- cing. The prospects for the entire list are for higher prices. Salt Fish—John Pew & Son (Glouces- ter) write the Tradesman as follows: The receipts of fish kinds at this port for April was 5,041,606 pounds, or near- ly four and one-half million pounds less than in March. The total receipts for the four months of this year to May 1 was rising thirty million pounds. The Southern mackerel fleet have landed only eight fares of fresh mackerel at New York and Philadelphia, and the catch has been a failure, owing to the stormy weather. The vessels are re- turning home and will fit for the catch off the Cape Shore coast. In codfish kinds there is a firmer undertone to the market, and already the prices for fresh fish for splitting have advanced this week 10 per cent. or more over last week’s prices. At present some diffi- culty 1s experienced in getting crews to man our vessels, as 275 fishermen have already enlisted in the navy and the vacancy has not been filled as_ yet. Gloucester thus far has sent into the navy and army one-seventy-fifth of its population. If the whole country does the same it would take g50,c00 men out of the ordinary pursuits for sailors and soldiers. Probably no city or town in the United States feels the war at present as Gloucester. In the present condition of affairs we do not see any cause to make lower prices for codfish kinds. When Cuba is restored to free- dom and a wise government, that fair island will blossom and bloom like the rose; this country will receive much business from there, and our city will be likely to receive a large demand for fish. { 6 MICHIGAN TRADESMAIN MODERN ADVERTISING. Strength and Weakness of the Present System. Written for the TRADESMAN. One of the most elusive, as well! as il- lusive, problems which pester the wak- ing hours of the commercial promoter, and one which, if given the opportunity, will absorb a large share of his profits without affording him any adequate re- turn, is the problem of advertising. Almost every business man thinks he knows how to advertise his own busi- ness, but the millions of money wasted every year in fruitless advertising ought to awaken a suspicion at least that somebody is making mistakes in this connection. One of the elusive features of advertising is the difficulty of ac- curately tracing results so as to place the credit where it belongs. This is even more difficult in connection with local retail advertising than in a whole- sale or mail order business. If a system of advertising could be devised that could guarantee to the ad- vertiser a certain number of enquiries of opportunities to accomplish the thing aimed at in the advertisement, then the advertising business would be placed upon a practical rather than a theoretical basis as at present. But so many factors enter into the problem of success or failure, in connection with advertising, and so long as the responsibility in this connection is divided and uncertain of satisfactory demonstration, more or ‘less dissatisfaction will continue to exist. Under the present system no seller of advertising space can guarantee his patrons anything in the way of results—- he simply farms out so much space in a certain position and the advertiser must take his chances of securing a harvest from it. In many—we might safely say in a majority—of cases the advertiser does not even know how much space he is paying for, and the circulation of the medium is an un- known quartity to him. An advertiser is certainly entitled to know positively just how many inches of space he is paying for and the approximate number and grade of prospective customers he is reaching through it. After he has possessed himself of th’s necessary in- formation the success of his investment will depend upon his own tact and judg- ment. Experts differ as to details, but there are certain well-grounded principles which are largely self-evident and may be stated as follows: 1. The best advertisement is the one that brings the best results. 2. The medium which has the largest circulation among the class the adver- tiser desires to reach is the most valu- able for his purpose. 3. The first requisite of an advertise- ment is to attract favorable attention and the second is to bring the adver- tiser and his prospective customer to- gether. 4. The more exclusive and direct the.communication between the adver- tiser and his prospective customer the better for the advertiser. 5. To be continuously effective the advertisement must be sustained by the facts or its field of usefulness shifted to catch fresh victims. 6. The subject advertised must meet or create a want either actual or imagi- nary. (But imaginary wants are apt to react upon the advertiser. ) 7. Honest guods honesty and intelli- gently advertised by an honest adver- tiser in an honest medium will bring the most satisfactory and lasting results and cover the whole ground of legiti- mate advertising. Every advertiser should cultivate an individuality in his advertising in har- mony with the individuality of his busi- ness—in other words, talk through the advertisement the same as to a customer face to face. Then when the two meet no formal introduction is necessary, but they meet as old acquaintances and the customer is at ease, free from restraint. If otherwise, the customer, after reading an advertisement, calls in answer to it and the unfamiliar reception he meets with causes him to feel that he has made a mistake and got into the wrong place and the resuftant embarrassment is like- ly to defeat the good work of the adver- tisement. The illusive features of advertising may be fitly symbolized by a two-edged sword. Such advertising is apt to in- jure both the advertiser and those who answer to its blandishments. It is said that figures do not lie, that 2 and 2 al- ways make 4; but we all remember to have seen them arranged so as to make 22, which proves that even a statement of fact may have a double meaning. Many an honest merchant ts forced to pursue methods in his business which he had rather not have mentioned, but be must meet competition or go out of business. Our competitive system has certainly gotten us into a nice predica- ment when an honest man, in order to pay his honest debts, is obliged to swindle somebody else in order to get the money to do it with. But, as a Western attorney is quoted as para- phrasing or modernizing Benjamin Franklin’s motto, ‘‘ Honesty is the best policy,’’ ‘‘It pays to be pretty nearly honest. ’’ The modern fad of bargain advertis- ing so extensively engaged in by the leading retailers has its ridiculous fea- tures and is certainly demoralizing to legitimate business, as well as con- fessedly unsatisfactory in general re- sults. The public is being educated to become a_ horde of desultory shoppers, instead of reliable and steady custom- ers, while the advertiser manages to take in just about enough cash on spe- cial sales to pay for the advertising and the cost of the goods sold. He hasa crowd on bargain days, but, ‘‘don’t you forget it,’’ so has his competitor. Prob- ably a few more goods are sold than would have been by the ordinary meth- od, but neither of them has a cent more profit to show for it than if the special sale had not been held. Neither of them has won a steady customer, but each has probably lost a few through dissatisfaction in the shoddy or shop- worn goods worked off on them through the bargain sale. Everybody connected with the store is overworked one or two days in the six and the rest of the time has little to do. But it looks like busi- ness while it lasts, and wil! end only when it has run its course and every- body gets sick and tired of it, or until a new fad is sprung to fill another long- felt want for free entertainment at the expense of the obliging merchant. It is probably one of the phases in the process of evolution succeeding the remnant counter fad, which used to be extensively advertised as the star per- former to attract the crowd. The writer remembers a circumstance in point, some years ago: On entering a large general store, the clerk at the dry goods counter was noticed cutting up whole pieces of new goods, rolling them up and placing them on the rem- nant counter. Upon being asked what it meant, he smiled and said: ‘‘The goods sell faster that way.’’ ‘‘ But don’t you have to sacrifice on the price?’’ was asked. ‘‘We get just the same price and often sell to a customer a yard or two more than we would otherwise, because we are not expected to cut a remnant,’’ was the reply; which goes to show that an innocent fad, although ridiculous in itself, if well catered to, may be the keynote to success after all. We are fast developing into a nation of bargain-hunters, and the advertiser 1s largely to blame for it. ‘*Something for nothing,’’ is the watchword and we literally fall over one another in our mad rush to embrace a fake, while legi- timate business, with idle hands in empty pockets, looks on in helpless amazement. The poor dear public will probably never learn that the law of compensation is inexorable and that, 1f one of its number gets the advantage in one point, there must sooner or later come a reaction which will pay back in losses in some other way, to balance the account. Local newspaper advertising seems to be the most popular with the retail merchants just now, and probably justly so. Where there are several local papers published, the merchant is usually under tribute to all of them and the chances are that he is unable to justy determine which of the several mediums is of the most value to him. He pays the same rate probably to each, and kicks with out discrimination when the bills are presented. A bouse that employs a practical advertising man is nearer to being on a scientific basis with regard to advertising than are the indiscrim- inate patrons of the art; but it is only the large houses that can afford to em- ploy a specialist in that line. As newspaper advertising seems to have the preference, I would like to suggest a co-operative scheme embra- cing the newspapers and their patrons. The value of advertising space is based usually on circulation, and circulation is necessary to secure advertising pa- tronage. The circulation of any given newspaper extends only to a limited percentage of the population, as a great many people in every community who buy the necessaries and sometimes the luxuries of life do not feel that they can afford to subscribe and pay for all the local papers, and a great majority who do take them regularly do not pay cash in advance. Merchants who advertise get the greatest benefits from the wid- est circulation and are, therefore, inter- ested in increasing the circulation of the papers in which they advertise. The advertising patronage of a news- paper is its largest and most reliable source of income. Few people refuse to take something they can get for nothing. A great many merchants are continually giving away prizes of one thing and another to their customers for which they are paying some outside concern a royalty on their entire trade, in addition to the money they are obliged to expend for news- paper advertising with a limited circu- lation. Now let us suppose that the news- paper publisher and his advertising patrons get together on the following co-operative plan: The publisher to provide coupon books containing cou- pons representing one month’s subscrip- tion to his publication; he will present to each cash subscriber coupons, the face value of which is equivalent to the amount of cash paid. These coupons to be redeemed at their face value by the merchants who are in the plan, in the proportion, we will say, of 5 per cent. of the amount purchased for cash at their places of business by the hold- ers cf the coupons. The coupons, hav- ing been thus redeemed, may be de- stroyed, or an arrangement might be made whereby the publisher would allow a part or all of the value of the coupons to the advertiser on his advertising con- tract. Not a family but would take a news- paper on these terms, which in most in- stances would increase its circulation fourfold. The plan would result in cash transactions all around. The ad- vertiser would have a double pull on the public—one through his regular ad- vertisement in the publication, which would be four times more valuable by reason of its increased circulation, and second, he would get the advantage of the cash trade of the coupon holders, who would be obliged to patronize bim in order to get their money back from the newspaper subscription. While the war excitement is high and everybody wants the news, and as every family is obliged to patronize some merchant and would, of course,go where the coupons were good, this scheme ought to take like hot cakes. J. 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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. E. A. STOWE, Epiror. WEDNESDAY, - - - MAY 18, 1898. THE FIRE WASTE. The statistics giving the fire losses for the first four months of the present year continue to show a steady decrease in the waste from conflagrations in the United States. It has been manifest for some time that the underwriting busi- ness has been quite profitable, but the figures now available prove more con- clusively than mere reports of profits of individual companies that the insurance business is again very prosperous, According to the New York Journal of Commerce, the accepted authority on the subject, the total fire loss for the first four months of the year has been $37,958,000, as compared witb $42,032, - ooo last year and $47,620,000 in 1806. Most people would imagine that this decrease in the fire waste would be cause for congratulation, but apparently the Journal of Commerce does not think so. Our contemporary fears that the large profits made by some of the companies will lead to rate cutting and to the rup- ture of the compacts existing between the companies and controlling rates in nearly all parts of the country. ‘‘ Look- ing at the matter from the standpoint of the future of the fire underwriters, ’’ says the Journal of Commerce, ‘‘it would seem that the temporary profits now being made are an injury rather than a gain, because there is so much dissatisfaction and disloyalty in the va- rious rating associations that a contin- uation of moderate fire loss means an encouragement to plunge into rate wars in at present profitable sections. A series of heavy fires at this time would operate the direction of restraining combative minds, and it is probable that an increase of, say, 50 per cent. in May, June and July aggregates this year, as against 1897, wouid be to the ultimate advantage of the fire insurance compan- ies. At present, too, many of them are flushed with the profits of 1896 and 1897, and their managers are eager to engage in rate fights, evidently regarding sur- plus as ammunition for the manage- ment, rather than treasure for the stock- holders. ’’ Looking at the matter from the stand- point of the insured, however, there can be no doubt that the profits of the insur- ance business entitle him to some reduc- tion in the rates he is compelled to pay for insurance. For several years back most people have been compelled to pay enhanced premiums to offset the losses suffered by the companies through dishonesty of some insurers and the in neglect of the companies in properly examining risks. Now that a more ‘healthy state of affairs has been brought about, it is but right that the great mass of insurers should share in the greater prosperity of the underwriters. The causes assigned for the great re- duction in the fire waste are greater care on the part of underwriters in examin- ing risks, more conservative methods employed by the companies in accepting business, and the many improvements which have been made in_ building methods and in installing electric plants. The moral hazard is not complained of so much as formerly, which would seem to indicate that it played a less promi- nent figure in increasing the losses than was imagined. The bombardment of any part of the American coast, arising because of an inadequate naval force for its protec- tion, would fire this Nation and _ result in the creation of one of the biggest and best navies on the seas. We are slow to anticipate trouble, but we can al- ways learn a lesson when experience is the teacher. With the concentration in Cuban waters of the limited navy we now have, 15,000 miles cf the richest coast line in the world is wholly ex- posed to the assaults of a hostile fleet! Was fate ever so recklessly tempted by a wealthy and intelligent nation before? Unless Spanish naval officers are fool- hardy they will hesitate a long time be- fore going against Sampson’s fleet, when there are a score of our small gun- boats surrounding Cuba that could be picked off one ata time. We have only two fighting ships, the New York and Brooklyn, that could catch one of Spain's armored cruisers, did the latter deter- mine upon a guerilla warfare in the gulf. A Massachusetts bank defaulter who decamped the other day left a detailed statement of his shortcomings to be handed to the bank officials. Such thoughtful consideration of his employ- ers’ convenience was admirable and touching in the extreme. It is estimated that the wealth of the Untied States now exceeds the wealth of the whole world at any period prior to the middle of the eighteenth century. And it is still increasing through de- velopment. We shall soon be too proud to speak to Spain. Spain counts on Cuba being too un- healthy for United States soldiers. She will find that our soldiers will hurry up, steal a march on the fever, and make the country entirely too unhealthy for Spanish Blanco soliders. It is funny to see the men who are not strong enough to volunteer for the army stand in the rain and watch the bulletin boards in spite of the pneumonia and kindred diseases. In the civil war, except in a few cases, the officers of the army gained the grand honors. Now the navy has sailed away with the glories of protec- ting Old Glory. If Spain had a Christopher Columbus to-day, she would send him out to dis- cover some place where the Spanish navy, army and government would be safe. el a The man who has a theory that war can be carried on without loss of life should take his theory out and shoot it. GENERAL TRADE SITUATION. The generally favorable outlook in the war situation bas been such as to re- move all apprehension as to industrial disturbance on account of the serious- ness of the task undertaken, so that there remain only the depression and disturb- ance to be attributed to the natural dis- traction of public attention from usual pursuits, which is much more than com- pensated by the stimulus of military preparation; so that, contrary to all ex- pectation, the progress of the war is marked by a strengthening tendency in nearly all prices with a steady increase in volume of business. This latter is especially indicated in the earnings of railrcads, which continue to show marked gains in nearly all quarters. The earn- ings for April of those roads which have been compared with the same month last year show an increase of over 13 per cent. As a consequence of this ac- tivity there is to be considered the cor- responding increase in the demand _ for rolling stock and railway betterments. The upward movement of the general stock market with its activity has been checked by speculative sensitiveness pending the expectation of an important naval battle, but money rates have con- tinued to grow easier and ,in spite of bigh sterling exchange, gold continues to come in in considerable quantities. The speculative climax in wheat which marked the beginning of last week was followed by a much smaller reaction than was expected and since the rally again prices are steadily ad- vancing, apparently based on the gen- erai strength of the situation. The prices ruling for the week have exceeded those of any time in over twenty-five years past. And it is remarkable that with these high prices the movement continues unabated. In sympathy with wheat corn and other grains, as well as provisions of all kinds, have advanced in prices and with heavy trade move- ment. Indeed, the importance of our thus laying the rest of the world under tribute for their food supplies at such rates can hardly be overestimated. For breadstuffs alone the bill for April against the outside world was $27, 427, - {95. Notwithstanding the enormous produc- tion of iron, the situation shows such strength that what changes have oc- curred in prices have been towards ad- vance. Of course, the war demands have had their influence, but the enormous sales of farm products at high prices have created a tremendous demand for agri- cultural implements and fencing. Then the strength in the railway situation, al- ready noted, is having a decided influ- ence, so that the unprecedented output seems to be nearly or quite absorbed, In textiles cotton prints are still at the point of lowest record—$1.87; but mills have purchased cotton in quan- tities which indicate increased confi- dence for the future. Wool enquiries are somewhat more encouraging, al- though the complaint of cancellation is still heard. In boots and shoes the heaviest orders ever known for the sea- son had been booked before May 1, and more are constantly coming. Ship- ments from the East this year to date have been 72,000 cases larger than for the corresponding period of any preced- ing year. Leather is Stronger, with in- creased sales, and hides have advanced at Chicago about 4 per cent. The generally improving conditions are again coming to be reflected by the volume of bank exchanges. The clear- ings for the week were $1, 378, 000, 000, an increase of 17 per cent. over preced- ing week and the largest reported for the corresponding week of any year. Failures were 250, an increase of ten. GRATIFYING CONDITIONS. The latest reports from the leading commercial agencies indicate that the business alarm which existed prior to the commencement of hostilities has not only given away toa feeling of confi- dence in the situation, but business in a majority of lines has been quickened by the war. The call for troops and able-bodied seamen was responded to by ail classes of young men throughout the country. Not only those out of work, but far more, possibly, of those with good po- sitions volunteered promptly. Thou- sands of vacancies have thus been made, to be filled by those who are in need of employment. Certain lines of industry have been taxed to their utmost capac- ity for war supplies of every descrip- tion. Prices of some food crops have gone up and money kas been to an_ un- usual extent turned loose in nearly all parts of the country. While these favoring circumstances have existed, there has been nothing to create alarm—no fear of an invasion, no possibility of blockade, no chance for the enemy to stop the process of domestic production or the wheels of in- dustry and commerce. This spectacle of commercial, indus- trial, agricultural and business activity and confidence while a foreign war is in progress, with its vast expenditures and uncertainties, ought to impress our public at home as well as outsiders with the greatness of this Nation. To Amer- icans such conditions can but be peculiarly gratifying and encouraging. Instead of touring Spain this summer, New York snobs should hunt for board up among the green hills of Vermont, where Dewey came from. It is not enough for men to be freezing to death in Alaska; bridges of ice must be falling down on people and killing them. It may reconcile us to the smaller loaf to remember that we are at war fora people who can't get bread for love or money. The new United: States battle-ships are generous with their ammunition. They are ready to shell out at any mo- ment. No matter what Sampson may do, Dewey has shown that the trouble is not in our ships nor guns. English-speaking people must do the talking among the civilized govern- ments of this world, Chicago has a schoolboy who describes an island as a body of land surrounded by Sampson’s fleet. The wonder is, how long Spain will stand on the defense before she knows she is whipped. The powerful navy we have will be able to create a big floating debt for the United States. To be courted by a soldier makes a girl feel like undergoing a court mar- tial. Poets remember the Maine. It has been for a few weeks their Maine stay. The United States will have islands to burn if she keeps what she takes. ~ THE RIOTS IN ITALY. The serious disturbances which have broken out in Italy indicate very clearly a condition of affairs which thinking people can but regard as presaging an upheaval threatening not only the Italian dynasty, but even the integrity of the country itself. Although the dis- turbances are called riots, there can be no disguising the fact that they are de- cidedly revolutionary in character. At Naples, Milan and Turin there have been very grave disturbances, it being found necessary for the troops to fire upon the mob, killing many people, Entire provinces have been placed un- der martial law, and, at the rate that troops are being asked for, the entire country will soon wear the appearance of being in a state of war. The ostensible cause of the trouble is the high price of food, and the indus- trial depression prevailing, coupled with the bankrupt condition of the country, high taxation and the like; but bebind all these natural and just causes of dis- content there exists undoubtedly a revo- lutionary propaganda which is prepared to take advantage of any favorable cir- cumstance which may present itself in order to overthrow the present govern- ment and the monarchy. It is not easy to understand what the ultimate aims of the revolutionists can be. While it is known that there exists a considerable sentiment in Italy favor- able to a republic, it can not be said that it comprises the substantial classes. Asa matter of fact, the repub- lican sentiment is largely anarchistic. It must not be supposed, however, that the discontent in Italy is limited to the socialists and anarchists. This is by no means the case. There is, for in- stance, the large and influential church party, which has for years remained sullen and unforgiving under the exist- ing regime. While the adherents of this faction might hesitate at precipitating a revolution, they would not fail to take advantage of any disturbances which might arise, from whatever cause. In any event, the government could not look for any aid or comfort from the church party; but, on the contrary, would have to count its rich and_ influ- ential adherents among its opponents. The troubles in Italy are a companion picture to those now in progress in Spain. The Iberian peninsula is really in the throes of revolution at home, as well as involved in a war abroad. Dis- content with the government and dynasty, as well as exasperation at ruinous taxes and industrial depression, has frenzied the Spanish masses and made them difficult for the authorities to handle. The south of Europe is evi- dently in anything but a happy frame of mind at the present time, and grave events may be looked for there in the near future. Don Carlos continues to justify the unfavorable opinion that was formed of him at the beginning of the war. Ensconced in a comfortable hotel at Brussels, he chuckles over the dissen- sions which have arisen in Spain and sees in the battle of Manila only a fa- vorable augury for his designs upon the throne. Although he is enormously rich, he has not, so far as known, contributed a peseta toward the Spanish war fund. Indeed, it is evident that his hopes lie in the defeat of Spain. And yet he pre- tends to believe that the Spanish people will welcome him to Madrid when the war is over. ‘‘I shall be found ready to ascend the throne when the time ar- MICHIGAN TRADESMAN rives,’’ is his confident declaration. The wish is perhaps the father to the thought. At any rate, we don't believe that the Spaniards, whatever their faults may be, will accept as their ruler a man who has shown himself to be a selfish egotist, a miser and an all-around cur. If they do they will deserve whatever may befall them. The patriotic spirit has made itself felt in the musical world. Songs of war and liberty are issuing rapidly from the presses, and music store windows are being filled with sheet music printed in the national colors. If the heat of war lasts for two years, patriotic songs will receive a great stimulus. At present we have no national hymn which will bear comparison with those of either Ger- many or France. The best known and most popular patriotic song, ‘‘Amer- ica,’’ has the music of ‘‘God Save the Queen,’’ and none of the many patriotic songs has stood the test of years. Musi- Clans say we may expect permanent good from this new stir of national life and feeling. They predict that if the present production of patriotic music keeps up there will come at least one song which will be strong enough to stand as a hymn of both battle and peace for the Great Republic. The best material of which to make fighting soldiers is found in boys from 16 to 21. This is the expression of old commanders. There were many cap- tains in the civil war who were under 20 years of age. There were brigadier- generals only 21 years old. General Grant was under 4o when he entered the war. Stonewall Jackson had won im- mortal fame at 38 and died at 39. Gen- eral Sheridan was a general at 30. Fitz- hugh Lee was a major general at 29 Alexander had conquered the world before he was 33. Napoleon became master of Egypt, crossed the Alps and fought the battle of Marengo at 30. Young men make the best soldiers. The civil war was fought by young men and boys. There are living veterans of that war who are now only 50 years of age; yet that war began thirty-seven years ago. The steamer Illinois is being fitted out as a refrigerator ship, under the di- rection of the Paymaster General of the navy, who has charge of furnishing pro- visions to the vessels of the service. The Illinois will have a complete re- frigerating apparatus and several cold storage compartments. For the first time in the history of naval warfare officers and men’ of a squadron operating in the tropics will have fresh meat and other frozen supplies, with plenty of ice. Contracts have been placed by Paymaster General Stewart for securing 100,000 pounds of fresh beef to be stored on the Illinois. Spain has the same right to bea peaceful, respectable republic that France has; but her leading politicians all want to be dictators or kings. Spanish olives are a drug in the patriotic market, and they are now be- ing sold as cocktail olives. By any other name they are as puckery. Spain feels that she is Leing bom- barded somewhere; but is so uncertain of everything now that she can not place her hand on the spot. If the young king of Spain wants to be baptized in blood, he can show him- self at home where the rioters are. BANKING REFORM. Review of the Present and Proposed Systems. The soundness of the principle of banking upon business assets has been demonstrated in every country where it has been given a fair trial and where the laws have made necessary the prompt redemption of credit notes in the coin standard. Redemption on demand is the great safety valve by which credit notes are constantly maintained at a parity with the standard of value, and this requirement as to redemption will at all times keep their volume within the limit fixed by the actual needs of business. An issuance beyond the de- mands of exchanges would carry with it the swift and sure penalty of a maxi- mum of redemption, for an excess of issuance is always followed by an ab- normal demand for redemption and the hoarding of coin; and the work of re- demption being transferred to the banks, under the proposed law, it would be monumental folly on their part to pre- cipitate a condition that would tend to curtail the demand for credit notes while thus increasing the demand for coin. The Canadian banking system is very similar to that proposed for our country and their experience, as well as that of every other country under a simi- lar system, has shown that no danger of an excess of issuance of credits is attend- ant upon the system of issuing them upon business assets; in fact, it has been demonstrated that a liberal power of note issuance leads gradually to the development of a greater use of current accounts, through checks and_ other forms of transfers, and to a minimum of bank notes, when compared with the actual volume of exchanges. The vol- ume of any one form of money or credits that will circulate is always de- termined in a measure by the available volume of the more convenient forms in use, if all are of equal value. It is through the operation of this principle that credit notes, properly safeguarded, will largely take the place of coin in effecting the ordinary transacticns. Another important factor in prevent- ing ap over-issuance of notes is found in the fact that a plethora of credit or token money in this country, as com- pared with other gold standard countries, jalways results in the export of gold. Were such a condition preduced, it would not only bring large redemptions upon the banks, but also tend to reduce the available supply of gold at atime when their greatest need for it exists. There need be no apprehension of an excessive credit note issue if the pro- posed law is enacted. The volume of credits allowable are as thoroughly safe- guarded as possible through statutory enactments ; and the operation of the sys- tem itself, with the work of maintaining the parity with all forms of money through redemption by the banks, is a sufficient guaranty that they will not pursue such a suicidal course. The dangers and drawbacks inherent in the present system are tenfold more dam- aging to the business of our country and the stability of our finances than would be the case under the proposed law. So long as our Government interferes with our credit system we will be humiliated and our prosperity threatened from time to time with attempts to make the credit system responsive to the necessities of the Government, rather than the needs of commerce. At the present moment we are threatened with an attempt to meet the temporary necessities of the 9 Government with a permanent addition to our greenbacks. What excuse can be given for such a proposition? Is there not enough money in our country for all needs? There is an abundance of cur- rency and gold in the banks to meet all demands, but the Government tempo- rarily needs a larger share of it than it possesses at present. Then why not supply this one need of borrowing and using by offering security for the loan and thus attract it from the present abundant supply, just as an individual has to do under similar conditions? The business of the people does not call for more credit notes, and no rational- minded man will sanction their inflation beyond the needs of trade and up to the limit of the passing necessities of war. There are dangerous possibilities in such a false course We might be- come involved in war to such an extent that several hundred million dollars an- nually would be required over and above our revenues. This requirement would not remove any cunsiderable amount of money from the ordinary channels in which it circulates, but it would make the accumulation and diffusion of it more intense and rapid than in ordinary business transactions. Then all the Government needs is the power to quick- ly gather and distribute money. When war 1S over it 1s safe to say that our ex- changes will call for but little money in addition to that utilized prior to its commencement. If so, and we inflate the credits by untold millions, bow will they then be employed and what will prevent their depreciation unless re- deemed at once~—an impossible act? The volume of business is not greatly increased during war. It merely be- comes centered and intense at certain points, witha corresponding diminution at other points, and under a proper banking system credits will act auto- matically with all such business changes, seeking their natural level again with the passing of abnormal con- ditions at certain points. Not so with credits based on the power of taxation, for they must await their cancellation until the industry of the land has been overtaxed enough to care for them in addition to current burdens. The solvency of nations has been an- nihilated time and again through the suicidal policy of regulating credits by the varying necessities of government and in utter disregard of the needs of trade. Thoughtless politicians have, by drifting from the safe anchorage of basing credits on business necessities and attempting to adjust them to the necessities of governments, done more to impoverish nations than has any other one cause. ANDREW FYFE. _ > ©. ~ An automatic machine, ingeniously constructed and very effective, is now being employed in the manufacture of boxes. It is fed from four sides with boards first cut of the desired size, and a box is turned out at great rapidity at every revolution of the machine. A single operator can thus work off 1,000 boxes per hour, the work of the attend- ant being simply to feed the press with wood, the mechanism for adjust- ment requiring but a few minutes for producing a bex of any size within rea- sonable limits, from cigar boxes up- ward. On the machine being once started, its action is automatic, a box being shot out at every revolution, with great velocity. Thus turned out, the box is complete, with the exception of the lid. Lock corner boxes are as read- ily handled as the straight-edged sort, the hammers used in nailing them being taken off and plates substituted which squeeze the parts together instead of nail them. lO MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Fruits and Produce. How Co-operative Creameries are Conducted in lowa. There are three kinds of creameries in successful operation in Iowa, the in- dividual creamery, the stock company, and the co-operative. The individual creamery and the co-operative are now clearly in the lead. For some reason the stock company is losing ground. A probable explanation is that many of them were inaugurated by _ professional ‘‘creamery promoters,’’ and were placed where the dairy advancement was in- adequate. When town people take stock in a creamery there are many farmers who imagine the object is to bleed them and they give but a half-hearted sup- port, and many of them keep making remarks calculated to arouse suspi- cion. As arule such creameries were built at an expense out of proportion to the real worth and it has been found difficult, often impossible, to declare a paying dividend and at the same time pay good prices for milk. The individual creameryman needs no suggestions, as he looks the situation over from a business point of view and satisfies himself whether a creamery will be a good investment, and if he concludes to invest he goes at it ina Strictly business way; but there are many places where the co-operative creamery is desired and the milk pro- ducers are anxious to learn how they are built and operated. Strange as it may seem, many of the most successful of these co-operative creameries are conducted on the loosest methods. A loose method gives elas- ticity and adapts itself to changing con- ditions, and possibly this overbalances the disadvantages, although I am in- clined to question this and attribute the success to the fact that they are located in good dairy localities. Given a good dairy locality, and the creamery busi- ness naturally flourishes like a green bay tree. But if green bay trees are too thick they will not flourish, and this is also true of creameries. The co-operative creameries in this part of Iowa were built without advanc- ing a dollar of cash. No stock was sold. No money was asked of any wlio were solicited to go in. Many of them were built close to individual creameries and the only hope of success lay in causing the failure of the individual creamery. This seemed like a heartless plan, and the individual creameryman who had been the pioneer in the work and had educated the farmers in the business felt it an injustice that his property should be made worthless in this way. In some cases the individual creamery has been purchased, in other cases, and the majority, no attention was paid to it and it had to prove its right to live. Where the individual creamery is an up-to-date establishment, and is run with the patrons’ needs constantly in mind, there has generally been little trouble in satisfactorily adjusting mat- ters, for such a creamery can do justice by the patrons, and if they insist that it is better for them to own the creamery themselves they will buy it. But if the machinery is old and’ poor and the building inconvenient, the farmers will not buy it, for it would be as unsatis- factory in their hands as before. The usual plan of starting is to call a meeting of those interested and see if enough wish to go into the business to warrant the erection or purchase of a creamery. If this is decided upona ‘“bond’’ is drawn up (this is a joint note), and the farmers sign it. Those who sign the bond hold a meeting, elect their officers, appoint a committee, and the committee proceeds to build and equip the creamery. The usual form of the bond is this: We, the undersigned, agree to pay a sum not exceeding §..... ...for the pur- poses hereinafter named, viz., buying land, building a creamery and _ furnish- ing the same with the necessary fixtures and machinery, for which we bind our- selves, our heirs, executors and admin- istrators In the sum pro rata according to the number of cows subscribed by us, said creamery to be located at....... ET Signed this.........day of. ........ Name of Patron. No. of Cows. Besides electing the officers it is de- cided at the meeting of those interested as to the amount that shall be _ invested in the aggregate, and the style of cream- ery that is to be built, and the commit- tee makes the best terms available with supply houses,and a constitution and set of by-laws are adopted. The constitu- tion and by-laws describe the usual duties of the several officers and fix the detail of work or empower the officers to do so. For instance, the debt must be paid. The directors are, therefore, empowered to levy upon all milk furnished a cer- tain rate or per cent. The usual amount levied is five cents upon each hundred of milk furnished the creamery, and this is taken from the patrons’ checks until all debts are paid, and in practice for much of the time afterwards, as im- provements have to be made constantly to keep things strictly up to-date. The directors are authorized to act as a board of arbitration to settle any diffi- culties arising among the patrons, and all other matters periaining to the busi- ness are also referred to them. A provision is made by which each patron is pledged for the payment of any indebtedness or loss by fire or other means, the liability being pro rata ac- cording to the number of cows. fur- nished by each patron. Fines are fixed for skimming or adul- terating, for sending bloody milk, etc., the usual amount being five to twenty- five dollars for the first offense, ten to thirty for the second offense, and a third offense forfeits all rights and interest in the company. It will be observed that all the pro- visions are plain and simple, that no man gets one dollar profit from the op- eration of the creamery except as he gets it in the form of milk checks and gets the profit by producing the milk at a profit. No man advances a dollar, no man has any advantage over another. All have to conform to the rules which they as a body have made and the ma- jority must be satisfied, for when they change their minds they change the rules to agree with their present desires. Such individual creameries as continue to operate in the vicinity of the co- operatives become themselves virtually co-opelative in their work and do not fix any price which will be paid for milk, but at the end of the month pay the usual price which patrons of the co- operative creameries receive. ‘There is little essential difference except in case of sale the individual proprietor would have the money and in case of fire would have to stand the loss. As a matter of fact the success or the failure of a modern creamery is in the patrons’ hands. If they will furnisb plenty of good milk it is practicable to find a buttermaker competent to do the rest. E. C. BENNETT. ———> > —____ A woman is not in it now unless she is begging some one not to go to war. W.R. Brice. Est. 1852. C. M. Drake. W.R. Brice & Co. Philadelphia’s Leading Hustling Commission Merchants REFERENCES: W. D. Hayes, Cashier Hastings National Bank, Hastings, Mich. Corn Exchange National Bank, Philadelphia. Western National Bank, Philadelphia. Fourth National Bank, Grand Rapids, Mich. D. C. Oakes, Coopersville, Mich. E. A. Stowe, Michigan Tradesman. 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 city. W. R. BRICE & CO. x Z 3 = = — = = — 3 = — = = — = 3 | = = = —~ = = = 3 = 3 3 = — = = N Eggs Bring High Prices in Buffalo C. N. RAPP & CO., Buffalo, N. Y. 56 West Market Street. Buffalo Produce Exchange quotations sent free daily to all who request them. They solicit consignments of Butter, Eggs, Poultry, Beans and Produce generally, assuring prompt sales and immediate ret irns. They are a branch of the Grand Rapids house of the same name, which has been established eleven years. They refer Michigan shippers to the Fourth National Bank, Grand Rapids Savings Bank and Michigan Tradesman, all of which are familiar with their standing and acquainted with their methods and will cheerfully answer any enquiries which may be made in regard’ to them. 7UUAUAAAAA AAA 464464 60d6b GDA UL UA db i A i A STRAWBERRIES from the South are now cheap and within reach of everybody. All Green Vegetables—Tomatoes, Green Onions, Radishes, Cu- cumbers, Spinach, Asparagus, Pie Plant. Oranges, Lemons, Bananas. Jobbers, Grand Rapids, Mich. TPYEPYOPNTP NA NTPNNE NOPE EP NTD Norn Ter Nt UMMA AUN ANA Ak ANA Ub AA Jbk Nb Jbb bk Jbb db ddd BUNTING & CO., When You Begin to See Anything Green Think of Vinkemulder. When you need anything Green send your order to Vinkemulder. We have choice Dry Onions, Parsnips, Bagas, Carrots, Old and New Cabbage, White Beans, Pop Corn, Onion Sets, New Lettuce, Pie Plant, Green Onions Spinach, Radishes, Vegetable Oysters, Oranges, Lemons and Bananas. Will bill at our lowest mail order prices. The Vinkemulder Company, Grand Rapids, Mich. = een eae Fare emi — oe — ih Rough Handling Unavoidable Fruit Shipments. Chicago, May 14—iThe average ship- per has no idea how often his fruit is handled and moved about before it reaches the consumer, and therefore the importance of the most careful packing can not be lost sight of. To illustrate. let us review the scene on the arrival of the fruit runs from the South—the two main runs arriving about the same time in the morning (6:30 to 7:30). On arrival of trains at the Union De- pot, the Southern and Pacific Express Companies back up their wagons to the express Cars as soon as the doors are open. A _ few expressmen, assisted by some of the commission men, or their employes, enter the car and commence passing out the goods to the drivers. A dozen or more firms are represented and all are in a hurry and anxious to get off with the fruit, for their customers are at their stores up town waiting, and they do not want to miss the early sales —always the best. ‘Therefore, handling each package carefully or laying it down easily is out of the question where so many have to be handled in the very short time in which it has to be done, In this car is fruit from perbaps twenty different shipping points, and from 100 different shippers, intended possibly for seventy-five different firms, for this car may have shipments for the various towns in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Mis- souri, Kansas, Nebraska, etc. The out- going trains will soon be ready and _ all this fruit must be transferred, checked off and re-billed for its various desti- nations. The express employes, in their anxiety to keep these various lots from getting left, add to the confusion and prolong the delivery to local re- ceivers. All must be separated for the various parties and numerous firms here and elsewhere. Consequently rapid and occasionally rough handling seems un- avoidable. When the wagons are loaded they drive across the track to the ex- fress buildings and platforms, where the fruit is separated once more for the many firms whose wagons form a_ solid wreath around the platforms. It is lifted again and passed into all these wagons, receipted for and driven off rapidly, and on reaching the commis- sion houses the fruit bas to be separated once more and credited up to the re- spective owners and shippers. After be- ing thus hurriedly handled half a dozen times it is ready for the purchaser's in- spection. He throws it into his wagon once more with similar haste and it is hurried off over the streets again and set down again for the inspection of the consumer; and _ it is safe to say it could not be recognized now by the original owner—apart from his marks—unless the packing was of the best at the start. These are some of the features of the business that should be calmly consid ered by the shipper, who too often jumps at the conclusion that he was robbed— that his fruit was first-class, and must have opened up fine. Large shipments or carload lots do not, however, suffer to this extent, for such are usually loaded into the re- ceiver’s wagon and hauled direct to his store, or the express company’s wagons will do the same when the amount reaches something neara load. Time and re-handling of fruit are thus saved to the large shipper. a > o> -— Fruit Dealers Opposed to a Tax on Bananas. From the New York Commercial. With The proposition to tax bananas has stirred up a hornet’s nest in some quar- ters, and discussions upon the subject are waxing warm in fruit circles. It would seem to the casual observer that, in view of the fact that there are 6, 500, - ooo bunches of bananas imported an- nually into this country, the :mposition of a tax would have a_ far-reaching effect. However, the friends of the proposition claim that the producers would pay the tax, and they cite the fact that the increase in the duty on other fruits has not affected the price to consumers. There are many interestirg phases to the subject, made plain by the following interviews: MICHIGAN I. Cadmus, of the American Fruit Company, said yesterday: ‘‘The im- position of a tax will kill the business. Fruits of all kinds reach the poorer Classes. Especially is that true of bananas. ‘The tax will thus have to be shouldered by the laboring people. The business is overdone at present and im- porters cap hardly get their money back at present prices,’’ Cuneo & Co., of No. 85 Park Place, handle about 1,000,000 bunches of bananas yearly. Nicholas Cuneo, the bead otf the house, is known throughout the trade as the ‘‘Banana King.’’ It was he who first introduced the system in New York of selling bananas at auc- tion on the dock. Joseph Cuneo, of the firm,said yesterday: ‘‘It makes no par- ticular difference to us whether the tax is imposed or not. If it is prices will be higher, as a natural result. I think there would be just as many brought in as if they were admitted free. This move is in the interests of California fruits. It would be just as sensible to compel the cutting down of apple trees to help their business. Bananas are not a fruit luxury—on the contrary, they are food. Many people live upon them to a large extent. Dealers depend en- tirely upon the poorer classes for their trade. There is more nourishment in the banana than in any other fruit. Bananas must be cut as they grow. If large and smal! bunches paid the same duty we should have to continue taking them as they come. Cuba formerly sup- plied much of this fruit, but none has come from there in two years.’’ Edward Ruhlman, the well-known Washington street dealer, said: ‘‘] have received notification that I have been made chairman of the National Committee which has the matter of tax- ing bananas in charge. California asks for a tax of 25 cents per bunch on bananas, but I am inclined to the he lief that 15 cents would be about right. There is every reason why bananas should be taxed. They interfere greatly with the sale of domestic oranges, and, in fact, are the only fruit not taxed, The Government needs money for war expenses and bananas should be levied upon at once.”’ F. R. Franke, of Schott & Franke, No. 280 Washington street, said: ‘‘The matter of taxing bananas was thoroughly discussed a year ago when those engaged in the fruit trade interested themselves in securing a sensible and reasonable duty on oranges and lemons. At that time some of the people who are now antagonistic to a duty on bananas urged the imposition of a tax on bananas and a lessening of the duty on oranges and lemons. There is no valid reason why there should not be a tax on bananas. We are taxing all the other fruits.’’ >. —_ Canned Goods Law Repealed. The Maryland cannedgoods law which required the actual name and ad- dress of the packer to appear on every can, and under which two Baltimore canners were fined for putting up peaches under fictitious California la- bels, has been repealed by the Legisla- ture, but a check to the illicit employ- ment of territorial titles as_ trade-marks has been given by the United States Circuit Court of Appeals in Illinois, where the decision of Judge Showalter declining an injunction against the use of the words ‘‘Minneapolis Mills’’ on flour by millers in other locations has been reversed and the objectionable practice enjoined. — -_ > smeonecerenenneente Florida’s Sugar Cane Output. There were 8,000 acres of cane grown in Florida last year, resulting in the manufacture of 61,900 barrels of syrup and 1,150 000 pounds of sugar, of the aggregate value of $710,000, or $88.62 per acre, which is a good thing, inas- much as it is no more work and not as much expense to grow an acre of sugar cane as it is an acre of corn, as it takes much less fertilizer to grow the cane. —_——— 0 At Whatcom, Wash., a woman. work- ing for an evaporating company peeled 15,49! potatoes in twenty days and earned by her wors $20. TRADESMAN EARLY FRUITS AND VECETABLES Wil please your Customers and make you money. Popular prices prevail. Ask for quotations, i F. J. DET TENTHALER, 117-119 MONROE STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. CROHORECHONCKOHOHOROROCHOROHOHOHOHOHONOCHOHOHOHOHOEOE 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. Can handle large quantities. 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. N. WOHLFELDER & CoO., COMMISSION MERCHANTS 399-403 HIGH ST., EAST SIDE, DETROIT, MICH. Ship to us your Butter, Eggs, Cheese and Potatoes and get Full Market Prices. SeSeS25e2S25e25e2SeSe25e5eSeSeSeSeSese5e5ese5e25e52 We Want Your Eggs-~~—~~ f any quantity for Cash, F. O. B. at your station. Also Butter. Quote us prices. HERMANN C. NAUMANN & CO., Detroit, Mich., Wy Main Office, 33 Woodbridge St., = Branch Store, 353 Russell St., op Eastern Market. eS 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 COSSTTSSSS TS G® 3 To represent a first-class Roller and Rye Flour Mills in our market, or will buy the same on the basis of cash- 27 Farmer Street, Detroit, Mich. Detroit Commission & Manufacturing Co., ; QAQQQLQALAARAANAAAAAD \2 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN GOTHAM GOSSIP. News from the Metropolis---Index to the Market. Special Correspondence. New York, May 14--There is a_ good volume of business being transacted here among jobbers, and dealers express themselves fully satished with the out- look. They argue that, with the advanc- ing prices for farm products, the inter- ior small dealers in every part of the country will have a regular boom this fall and, naturally, the effects must be felt here. Prices all along seem to be very firm and the tendency is toward a higher plane. An officer of the sugar trust is said to have remarked that within sixty days the clashing interests will have become harmonious with everything running smoothly. Of course, the war has some influence in disturbing certain lines, but the casual visitor would not know that anything unusual was going on save from the number of flags. A light trade is generally looked for in coffee at this season and this year proves no exception to therule. Orders have been rather light and the market for the moment lacks animation. Little was done in an invoice way and jobbers seemed to ‘‘fight shy’’ of the market. Rio No. 7 is held at 63%c. The amount in store and afloat aggregates 1,062,802 bags, against 734,588 bags at the same time last year. There has been some enquiry for the better grades of mild coffees, but no appreciable advance has been made in quotations. Padang coffees are worth from 24@3oc, the latter, of course, for fancy stock. The tone of the sugar market is firm, but orders have not been numerous. The strength seems to be owing to the very firm situation of raw sugars abroad, and which strength is likely soon to be re- flected here, although as yet buyers seem determined not to give the asking price. Granulated is still held at 53¢c. Teas are quiet. The amount of teas placed at auction the other day seems to have met all requirements and the orders coming to hand have been small- er than for some time. Prices generally are well held and few concessions are made. There is room fcr improve- ment and dealers hope to see it mani- fest soon. The rice market is closely cleaned up and, with stronger advices from the South, the situation is very encouraging for holders. Foreign sorts are freely taken and full rates paid. The supply of these is likewise moderate. Spices are steady. Pepper is espe- cially firm and it is hard to pick up any black Singapore below 83(c. Molasses is firm, The market is pretty closely sold up and quotations are made without concessions. Above relates to grocery grades. For lower grades the supply seems to be ample and is sold in some cases down to 9c. Good to prime centrifugal 16@25c. Syrups are firm and some pretty good orders have come from exporters. The supply of desirable stock is not excessive. General trade in canned goods is _ ex- cellent. There is an especially active demand for tomatoes and corn and peas are not far behind. Since the beginning of the year orders for futures have been freely placed and jobbers express great confidence in the future. Hitherto prices have been so low that to buy canned goods seemed like picking up money, and indeed some who made pur- chases have found them to be ‘‘as_ good as a bank.’’ There has been a substantial improve- ment in dried fruits, and evaporated apples have advanced to toc and seem to be selling readily at this figure. Raspberries and other small fruits are firm and dealers are confident as to the future. Lemons and oranges have been mov- ing with about the usual dispatch. Prices are practically unchanged. Ban- anas are firm and the outlook seems to favor holders. Beans are rather quiet, with the mar- ket well supplied. Choice marrows are held at $1.75; choice pea, $1.40@1.45; choice medium, $1.45@1.50 Old potatoes are worth from $2.75@ 3.25 per bbl. $3.50@5. : Butter supplies have become larger than can be readily taken care of and quotations have reacted, so that now the finest Western creamery will not fetch over 16%c. The demand has been pretty good, but, notwithstanding this, tbe quantity coming to hand is suffi- cient to cause some accumulation and it is likely we may see a still further decline. Some very good butter was purchased at 16c and more not so desir- able at 1444@15c, the latter for Western imitation creamery. Best Western fac- tory, 13¢. Dulness characterizes the cheese mar- ket. While receipts of new cheese have not been excessive, the demand has fallen short and the immediate outlook is not altogether encouraging. Not much old cheese is left and lots that are worth having seem to move very siowly, with- in a range of 7'44@oc. For new cheese, 74% @8c 1s asked. Eggs which will grade up to the highest standard are selling at 12c. The market is not overstocked with such goods and the price seems very low. For other than the best the demand is extremely limited and choice to fancy Western will not bring over 10%4@ric. —_—__ 2. ___ Growing Market for Evaporated Vege- tables. New {prime Bermudas, A recent dispatch from Tacoma says: Evaporated onions are precious. Every Klondiker wants five or ten pounds in his outfit, but the suprly is running very low and the price has risen to 5c¢ cents a pound. Green onions are scarcely obtainable at any price in Washington and Oregor. Tacoma firms have cabled to Germany for a sample shipment of 500 pounds of evaporated onions If they are satisfactory several tons will be cabled for. Fifteen vegetable evapo- rators are at work on the Puget Sound. Together they are turning out daily ten tons of evaporated potatoes, carrots, soup mixtures, squash, pumpkin and parsnips One vegetable drier in the Santa Clara Valley alone has worked up something like 200 tons of green onions since JJecember 1. Prior to that date it had evaporated 300 tons of potatoes, besides other vegetables, such as squash, | pumpkins and carrots. The price of onions in the Santa Clara Valley has steadily risen through the fall and win- ter, and was recently quoted at $2.50 a hundred pounds, and at this writing is still higher. a & Gamble Defeated. Judge Barr, of the Federal Court at Louisville, bas handed down his opin- ion in the case of Proctor & Gamble, of Cincinnati, against the Globe Refin- ing Co., of Louisville. The plaintiffs desired to enjoin the defendants from using the name ‘‘Everybody’s’’ on the wrapper of a brand of soap they have on the market. This motion Judge Barr overru'ed on the ground that the use of the name was not an infringement on the Proctor & Gamble soap. When Proc- tor & Gamble first brought suit against the Globe Refining Co. they charged that the similarity of the wrapper to that on their soap which is called ‘* Every Day,’ had. been the means of causing great loss to them by a dwindling in their sales, as grocers often substitute defendants’ scap for theirs. The Globe people granted that the wrapper was similar and agreed to change theirs, which was done. But the Proctor & Gamble folks then charged that the name was an infringement on theirs, and brought suit to enjoin its use, with the result as stated above. — ee When a deputy sheriff who wanted to arrest a negro near Tallahassee, Fla., had searched vainly all about the man’s house and yard, he kicked a barrel, just for spite, as he was on his way to the gate, and out came the negro. —____9»__ Feeling her little dog tugging at the back of her dress, a Waukegan, IIl., woman turned around to drive him away and found that her dress was afire. A tub of water was near at hand, and she Proctor jumped in and escaped harm. Brn, a eS et x a ae ys ex a ae x eS fo we DEeNENe LAA aa Buffalo Cold storage Co, XE ae eG hee Buffalo, N. Y. negate TY, |i WM. SMITH Manufacturer of EGU CASES, FARMERS’ CASES, EGG CASE FILLERS ODORLESS FILLERS AND EXCELSIOR. Capacity one carload a day. Prompt shipment on short notice. Will make any case desired. Write for price list. We compete with all other manufacturers. EATON RAPIDS, [ICH. BEANS AND POTATOES CARLOTS ONLY. MILLER & TEASDALE CoO., ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI. 58 2 moyenne me ie scat Nt -caetaomint cS need ac Daata sea ——~# ——~# MICHIGAN TRADESMAN I3 Advantages of a Bankruptcy Law to Retailers. The indifference of the average re- tail merchant to bankruptcy legislation has always been to me a matter of great surprise. It is only another illustration of the fact that men take very little in- terest in affairs in which they are vital- ly interested, except when such affairs are brought home to them by a direct demand upon their pockets. As a fact, no Class of citizens is so vitally inter- ested in the passage of an equitable and just bankruptcy law as are the merchants in the smaller towns. Although this class of citizens, by reason of its great number, has within it the power to bring enough influence to bear upon Congress to cause it to pass the law, yet no class, as a Class, has displayed so little inter- est in the measure. Every merchant, particularly those doing business in the smaller towns, every credit man, every jobber and every manufacturer knows that one of the greatest evils with which the retail- er of to-day has to contend is the ras- cally dealer who leaves his conscience behind him when he goes into business. A man of this sort starts in with the idea that he is going to make money out of his venture by hook or crook, and proposes to feather his nest by_illegiti- mate as well as by legitimate means. He commences by underselling his neigh- bor at prices against which no legiti- mate competition could exist. He does this knowingly, and under the existing laws of most states he has more than ample opportunity to reap a rich har- vest, regardless of the price at which he sells. Finally the inevitable crash comes, and with it the foreordained preferences to members of his family. With these preferences he can easily manipulate the destiny of the stock that remains, and he can also obtain settlement, if be so elects. Accordingly, in a very short time, he is again launched upon his career of dishonest competition with the man who is trying to earn a living and pay his debts in full. Undera Federal law, which would put such rascals to the rack, the possibility of competition of this character would be entirely wiped out. Another reason why the retailer is in- terested in the passage of an equitable and just bankruptcy law is that no man, however strong financially to-day, is se- cure against the unforeseen which may occur to-morrow. Under an equitable Federal bankruptcy law the honest re- tailer overtaken by misfortune will have a speedy and honorable method of returning to business and continuing his efforts in the community. It is a well-known fact that in assign- ment cases it usually happens that there are one or more rapacious creditors, who, under existing laws, succeed, when they so desire, in keeping a man out of business, no matter how honest the debtor may* have been. In any event they are able to put upon him the stigma of forcing him to do business in the name of somebody else. This of itself handicaps his credit, and_ indirectly forces him to pay more for his goods than he should. These are only a few of the many reasons that could be cited why the retailer ought to favor the pas- sage of a just bankruptcy bill. The Torrey bill, which is now being urged for passage in Congress, is a bill that has received the approval of the broadest-minded men of the country who have given the matter of bankruptcy the attention which it deserves. It is just and equitable to the last degree. Those who are entitled to the benefits of its provisions will secure them, while those who are unworthy and dishonest will be checked. Its provisions have been very aptly summed up in a trite phrase: It is a ‘‘square deal’’ all round. The retailer, therefore, can do himself no greater service than to promptly write to the Congressman for his district and to the Senators for his State, urging the early passage of the Torrey bill. HENRY J. GLEICK. ——_ 0<__ Foreign Eggs in London. Australian eggs now sell in London in large quantities. retaining their freshness has been solved so satisfactorily that they sell as ‘‘new- laid eggs’’ after their journey from the end of the earth. The eggs, while still perfectly fresh, are forwarded by the Australian poultry-keepers to the cold store, and are shipped to England at the time when eggs are scarce, and, consequently, at their dearest. Many thousands of dozens, packed in boxes with cardboard divisions, filled up with dry pea husks are now forwarded to this country from November to January. In a recent consignment the local price of eggs at the time of the shipping was fivepence halfpenny per dozen, the freight and packing cost threepence per dozen, and they realized one shilling and sixpence per dozen retail on ar- rival at this side of the world. Enor- mous quantities of eggs are imported into England, and it is only recently that Americans have had any interest in this trade, some 3,000 cases having been shipped there last month from the United States. ——_>-¢ In addition to the mineral wealth discovered in Alaska, reports have been received stating that petroleum is also found there. Analyses and tests show that the oil is of as high grade as any from the Pennsylvania wells. The oil was found in a large lake close to the ocean, while the surrounding mountains are full of coal. It was fed by springs, and there was every evidence of a large supply. WANTED To furnish Western dealers for their Eastern trade for season of 1898; cold storage in quantit- ies to suit up to 15,000 cases of eggs and 30 cars butter; moderate rates and liberal advances to reliable parties; modernly equipped plant; me- chanical refrigeration, with an improved system of perfectly dry circulation and change of air in rooms; intermittent and continuous circulation, also gravity system; these systems are the latest and best known in cold storage practices; our eggs are said to be the finest on the Philadelphia market this past season; fine distributing point: only 2% hours to Pittsburg, and quick transit by both Penn Central and Be & O. to New York Philadelphia. Baltimore and Washington; we are authorized to purchase for our local cus tomers 5 0'0 cases finely candled eggs for April and May deliveries; also several cars creame ry butter:correspondence solicited. Address Hyge- ia Crystal Ice & Cold Storage Co.,Uniontown, Pa Elgin System ! ci Creameries It will pay you to investi- gate our plans and visit our factories if you are contem- plating building a Creamery or Cheese factory. All sup- plies furnished at lowest prices. Correspondence so- licited. R. E. Sturgis, Allegan, Mich. Contractor and Builder of Butter and Cheese Factories, and Dealer in Supplies. e5esesesesesesese5e5 eseseSeseSeSe5ese5e5 SeS5e25e5e2Se2Sesese5eoeS5e25e25e25 Ng [5 The problem for| DOOOOOODQOGOOQOOOOOGOQOQQOOOQOOOOQOOOQOQOOQOOOOOO SO©@OQQQOQOOOO© NEW WAY 10 HANDLE BUTTER Instead of packing in heavy =)stone crocks or WOOO OOOO.O wooden tubs, @? | put it in our SVECererycesyneecennensqneareeeeetes: mt 4POUNDS 3 Paraffined ae Parchment-=Lined «Fancy CreameryBullt Butter Packages ty hae ' They are light, strong and neat. QGOOQOOQODOO©O DOOOQOOOOQO®DOOOOO® Michigan Package Co., Owosso, Mich DODOQODOS QDOOMDOODQOOQO®DOQDOOQOOOQOODOQDOOOOOQDOOQOOOOOQEO®DOQOOOOE Butter and Eggs me ay Any quantity at any station gets highest cash prices from me. R. Hirt, Jr., 36 Market St., Detroit, Mich. IRWIN S. SCRIMGER, DETROIT. F. H. PEASE, YPSILANTI, ESTABLISHED 1892. IRWIN S. SCRIMGER & CO., WHOLESALE COMMISSION MERCHANTS PRODUCE, BUTTER AND EGGS. SOUTHERN FRUITS OF ALL KINDS A SPECIALTY. REFERENCES: Bradstreet’s and Dun’s Commercial Agencies. 43745 West Woodbridge Street, Detroit, Mich. OOO DOOS11L1HDDOOQOOOOQOOQOODOOQOGDQO®QOOO®DOOOQOO©ODOOQDOQDODDOOQOOQOOOOOS ® All Grocers MICH. City Savings Bank. - who desire to give their customers the best © Vinegar on the market, will buy © ’ @ LEROUX’S PURE CIDER VINEGAR $ *‘Red Star Brand.’’ A trial order will ~ convince you of the merits of these goods, © and a guarantee bond goes to every purchas- ~ er protecting him in the sale of our vinegar. 2 oo THE LEROUX CIDER & VINEGAR CO., Producers, Toledo, Ohio. DOQOOOOQOOGDOGSDHOHOOGQOOOGHOGOHOGOOS QOOOQOOQOQOQDOG®:#:DOOE QOOQQOOOO RICH DRINK of choice coffee with palatable cereals and other wholesome ingredients. Far superior to all “cereal” drinks. A beautiful Tea and Coffee Pot Stand given with each 2 pound package. Retails for 13c a pound, affording retailer big profit. L Pleases customers. Order trial case and see how quickly it sells. WOODBURY &® CO., mERs.. CHARLOTTE. MICH. nn Extracts, Cereals, FOLDING PAPER BOXES svn: ext comats Candy, Cough Drops, Tobacco Clippings, pees Powders, Etc. Bottle and Box Labels and Cigar Box Labels our specialties. Ask or write us for prices. GRAND RAPIDS PAPER BOX CoO. PHONE 850. S COFFEE COMPOUND. esis ony by Woodbury &€p, Carte Mich. =a a Printed and plain for Patent 81,83 ano 85 CAMPAU ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. VET le Veale e a ieee eee Vee Vleet eevee eevee ved dde ved Ww by Awnings «4 Tents ? Best goods and lowest prices in the State. All work guar- anteed. Send for prices. CHAS. A. COYE, 11 PEARL STREET. Avi wi ea avai abaWa WWW s; aN CF SESRSES 14 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Shoes and Leather Helps and iiiedaine of Trade. The various aids and obstacles met with in the course of business are so numerous and many of them so complex as to furnish a text for some prolix par- son which would enable him to reach, at least, ‘‘nineteenthly’’ in dealing with it. There are those general rules which have passed into platitudes and which are indiscriminately applicable to the trade at large; and then there are many special rules that must be applied with individual dealersto their particular trade. Passing the well-known require ments of modern times in the shoe trade, such as a handsomely-appointed store, cleanly and well-stocked witb up-to-date footwear, there are many minor requisites to success, among which must take first rank that corner- stone of a stable and profitable business —truthfulness. Of course, intinite pa- tience, charity and unremitting courtesy with a diversified and sometimes pro- voking run of customers go before truth- ful representations in the natural order of business; but the latter must find its place before the sale is consummated, if cordial relations are to be cemented for the future. A truth withheld from a customer de- frauds him of bis whole rights from you. A half-truth is a greater sin, be- cause it furnishes an insecure founda- tion on which a confiding patron rests temporarily and which must give way later on, with the result that his con- fidence in you is destroyed. Misrep- resentation of the goods sold is a crimi- nal methods of doing business. The self-respect of an honest dealer leads naturally to respect for his customers and he practices it always in his deal- ings with them. He is laying in a solid, lasting foundation for trade that is worth having. The value that this sort of dealer puts upon a satisfactory trade is the highest that exists between man and his fellows. By fair dealing, truthful representations and uniform courtesy he reaches a standard of busi- ness prosperity which is unattainable by less worthy methods. The bonorable retailer is never know- ingly a party to an unscrupulous manu- facturer of questionable products, labeled falsely. This sort of thing, happily for the honor of the craft, is not very largely practiced ; stil] the cases that exist burt the trade and are a menace to honest producers in the general harmfulness of the results. There 1s too much of this fraudulent “‘hand-made’’ stamping of machine-made shoes. To make a liar of an innocent shoe, an honest, ma- chine-sewed article that has no need of false pretenses to make it better, is a pitiable method of deception and de- serves the open reprobation of every houest dealer. Among the most fascinating decep- tions used upon the public in the mat- ter of clothing and many other manu- factured articles is that of stamping it with the mark of some foreign country supposed to have an exceptionally high reputation for artisanship in some _ spe- cial products. This is, of course, un- necessary in the matter of shoes. No factitious ‘‘bush’’ is needed on products in which we excel, and which are ac- knowledged the world over to be supe- rior in excellence to those of other coun- tries. As a nation, our footwear is our glory, and we make and design our own, and even spare some of it for less fa- vored people who admire and de- mand it. True, we still have that clothes sycophant among us in inconsiderable numbers--the worshiper of foreign clothes; but his race is gradually dying out. Speaking of those miserable hu- man imitators of toreign dress, who think the summit of excellence is at- tained when they have their duds made and labeled in foreign lands, a writer observes: ‘“‘Heaven help us as a na- tion if proselytes to this silly creed shall become numerous! Not necessar- ily in the nation’s pecuniary loss, but in the shame of fostering ungrateful and ungracious natives, who will thus lose the respect of every right-minded Amer- ican by such a curse, and who also be- come the laughing stock of the very foreigners whose dress or manners they try to ape.’ We have often heard how much a man is like his shoes. Perahps this is the reason, if there were no other, why Americans should wear home products if they wish to have loyal self-respect. Perhaps the dude in his foreign-made footgear is not just like the nation he is imitating, but then a man is no bet- ter than he thinks, so ke feels bimself something like those shoes. But, as inconsiderable as are the number of these shoe wearers, they constitute one of the hindrances to the trade. The ordinary possibilities of a trade, so called, may be foreseen and, there- fore, met by the thoughtful and _ experi- enced dealer. But these are, after all, more in the nature of probabilities, be- cause they are not unlooked for. The contingencies of trade, however, the unexpected things that may happen, are not so easily met by the inexperienced man, or the one whose nature is mercur- ial and who loses his head when sume thing out of the ordinary occurs in the course of business, To the level-headed, resourceful dealer these happenings are usually confronted calmly and are checkmated or rendered, at most, but slightly disastrous to his trade or to his peace of mind. There is no such thing as a set for- mula by which a business can be kept in perfect running order; therefore, the dealer must be alert for new develop- ments, for eccentric movements in the mechanism of trade; quick to note every apparent deviation from courses marked out on his mental chart, and prompt to act when such things happen. Perhaps one of the greatest helps of the trade is the present high stage of the shoemaking art, and its inevitable result in inciting greater consumption of its products per capita than ever before. This greater prodigality of con- sumption is due, not only to advanced hygienic education on this point, by which frequent changes of footwear are advocated, but it is largely due to the fact that peopie bave come to regard the feet as of considerable importance in the tout ensemble of the dressed body. To say that the output of shoes has been trebled within a very few years by this course alone would be within the bounds of truth. Many per. sons who formerly regarded the permis- sion of two pairs of shoes a luxurious indulgence now have a collection of from four to six pairs to draw from, and from this number the indulgence leads up to a dozen or more pairs of foot cov- erings to an individual at one time. A-hindrance to the modern dealer may be found in the overgrown and constant- ly-growing assortment of styles in the store. But to offset this temptation and SSUNTPNEP OPT vere NTP Vr PNT Vr VP ET NTP enV YT NTP NTP “Remember the Name’ WALES (JOODYEAR The best RUBBERS on earth for general wear and shape. Place your orders for them with us, avoiding the rush and advance in price later in the season. 5 and 7 Pearl St., Herold=Bertsch Shoe Co., °°" Gran Rapids, mich State Agents for Wales-Goodyear and Connecticut Rubbers. 7UMAANAANA.ANA. ANA. JAA 444446446444 446 446446 4b 4b dbb bb db bd Ab bi Jd Jb JSD TOYO NTT NT YNANE NOP IOPNNT NOP ERNE IErdER eT GUANA AUN AA AbA Sh Ubb bk bb bk Abd Abb bd dé ddd We have them in Black and Tan, Lace or Button; sizes 1 to 4. 4.52 TAKEN IN PREFERENCE TO HOT CAKES BABIES’ SOFT SOLES sass VESTING TOPS Make every mother’s heart glad. FSFSSSSFFSFSSSTS HIRTH, KRAUSE & CO. HEADQUARTERS FO CHILDREN’S ; FOOTWEAR Grand Rapids, Mich. LEPEEELELELSELELELGEEEELAAFHEASLEADS BPSSPPSP SSPE SSF SF SS FSS SSF SS SSS OSS SERRE LEEELELELELELEAEEAESSELELEEELEEEEELELELEREE ESD \s ee ee ) 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. quinn .24.e, eae .24.. ase ssinitsaaih eee The Rodgers Shoe Co., Toledo, Ohio Made to Order Shoes 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 and Women’s. We excel all for style, quality and price. If our agent does not call on you drop us a postal. THE RODGERS SHOE CO. eo cause of indecision to the patron the dealer frequently sells two pairs of the differing coveted articles to the per- plexed person, who declares to herself that she could be happy with either if the other dear charmer were not in evi- dence. So, as! a compromise, she stretches her purse a little, denies her- self some other precious trifle, and takes two shares of the dealer's stock when she had intended to take but. one. Usually she does not regret it, either, for these modern accessories to the fem- inine toilet are simply great, and the woman knows it well. And the generous press, perhaps un- wittingly, bas contributed considerable towards the shoe dealer’s welfare; and whatever promotes his welfare of course helps the manufacturer. By these gratu- itous contributions from the press 1s meant type matter apart from the ad- vertising columns; hints, advice and shoe literature from the minds of va- rious persons. When the following ad- vice is acted upon by a large number of the readers of a leading newspaper, the trade is helped materially: ‘‘Get a good pair of shoes made of pliable leather, with flexible soles of medium weight. Wear these shoes on Monday, rain or shine. Have another similar pair for Tuesday. Have another pair for Wednesday. Then on Thursday wear the first pair again; on Friday the second pair and on Saturday the third pair, and then begin all over again.’’ A longer rest for the shoes than this plan allows is advocated by another foot and shoe expert, who advises a pair for each day of the week, the whole line of seven pairs to be reversed each week in the order of their wearing. This is all right. The more the merrier for the trade. But to sum up, shoes themselves in these times are the greatest help to the trade. It is said that ‘‘money will talk ;’’ so will these modern shoes; at least they speak for themselves. Shves that are comfortable, as well as hand- some, are the rule now; they used to be the exception. The shapes of lasts have changed, and are modeled more closely after the natural foot. It is really only feet that are malformed which need be subjected to the pain of ‘‘breaking in’’ their shoes. So the modern shoe, by its beauty, its comfortable fit and its re- markably low price, almost sells_ itself, and thus helps the trade it represents. E. A. BOYDEN. —_—_+$» 0. Window Dressing for Shoe Dealers. A window should be so dressed that every shoe stands by itself, and stands alone, so that a person walking by the store window can not fail to have his eye arrested by some particular shoe. And it is this end that window dressers should strive for. A window that sim- ply strikes passersby as a window full of shoes, and impresses on their mind no particular shoe, does not accomplish what it should in attracting trade. For few people except those who are im- pelled by idle curiosity will stop and look at a windew unless their attention can be attracted at a single glance. To attain this end several things are necessary. First and foremost is the fact that a good window dresser must never think of mixing up all classes of boots and shoes in a window. If you put cheap shoes in your window let them all be cheap shoes, and all of one price if possible, or if they are fine shoes fill your window with fine shoes only. Then, to catch the attention of people more than once, your windows must be varied ; MICHIGAN and I make no mistake when I say that varied windows are within the reach of every window trimmer, If you use window fixtures, change the shape of the fixtures as often as you can. Then sometimes take the fixtures out entirely, and build one of your own. A little ingenuity and study will build fix- tures that will surprise and delight the public. The majority of windows are dressed too much alike. I am abso- lutely certain that I have seen the same shoes in some windows for weeks in succession, and | want to tell you that this kind of business gives people the impression that your stock is small and the number of your styles limited. Avoid all sameness and do not copy your neighbors too often, but invent distinct styles for yourself. Have at least two distinct sets of price cards and once in a while get an entire new set as different from the old ones as pos- sible. Adopt a style that is all your own and one that has never been seen before in your community. All this will help you catch the eye of that kind of trade that goes hurrying by your store without having the slightest idea as to what your windows contain. + * * The most striking window I ever saw was a Spring trim put in by a clerk in a small city in the interior of Illinois. This clerk was a genius at window dressing and some of his windows have been widely copied. The colors he used were white and green. His entire win- dow was draped in white cheese cloth in such a manner that he had every other bit of color in the window covered up. In the front corners he had two small palms placed and he had them set in green jardinieres he borrowed from a near by china store. Back of these he placed two others slightly larger. These two he placed a trifle nearer to each other, Then at the rear of the window he had two very large ones placed. These were only about three feetapart. Down in front of these two palms, in about the center of the window, he placed three pedestals, setting them so they formed a perfect triangle. The two in front were about fourteen inches high and nine inches one way by twelve the other. The one in the rear was eighteen inches high. They were all entireiy covered with white cheese cloth. At the base of each pedestal the cheese cloth was puffed out so as to make it look like the base of a monument, and about two-thirds of the way to the top he had narrow green ribbon tied around them, and fastened to the bow in front was a miniature wreath. Down in front of the triangle he built a small flight of steps, so that it appeared as if they led up to a group of monuments. On each pedes- tal he placed a single pair of spring shoes. This window with its three pairs of shoes attracted wide attention and was given notice in several of the papers. That it sold shoes for the firm is an un- doubted fact, for one member told me after that they sold more of those three particular styles than of any other three they carried. Patriotism is the order, even in shoe stores, and some of the windows make me think of the Fourth of July and hot weather. All the same they attract the attention of the people, who are so in- tensely interested in our war. It is not often that the retailers throughout the country get a chance to use an inter- national dispute as a subject for window trims and they are making the most of TRADESMAN this one. Flags, bunting and red, white and blue colors of all description are used. Some very clever cartoons are in use in some of the store windows that are made by means of lay figures. | One store has taken an idea from Christ- mas and has a very lively copy of Uncle Sam in the window, pasting bulletins which they receive by telephone from one of their local papers. It is useless to say that they always have a crowd, and they manage to advertise them- selves by posting a bulletin about some of their goods once in a while. a oe A German mathematician has calcu- lated that three tons of sea water hold about a cent’s worth of gold, and that if all the gold in the oceans of the globe could be collected it would make a solid cube measuring 718 meters on each side and worth about $1,450,000, - 000, 000, 000. We have.. NN A line of Men’s and Wo- “ men’s Medium Priced % 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. oe - ae ~ n A es - A ea < \ Keep your eye open for NEW FALL LINE of Men’s, Women’s and Children’s ear v v v w FINE SHOES Salesmen now on the road and will call soon, in plenty of time for Fall Orders or for sorting up of summer trade. { { Michigan Shoe Company, 81-83 Jefferson Ave., Detroit, Michigan Ol lS v v Vv V wr v Ww v Vv wv POD SOSSOHSS GOSH OGOSSS OOS OO9O0908 OO SOS OOO OOOO S 909506 9960500S $9G99009 65096400 990060060 4 BUILDING Wis Grains Warios Jue, We Pay HIGHEST MARKET PRICES in SPOT CASH and Measure Bark When Loaded. Correspondence Solicited. DS GSGSHOGS 9HOO0O94S OO HOHOSS + HHF9OOGS 65065664 94400606 OOSOOOOO © eA L 99999 OS 06069 SO6 0000000006 527 and 528 Michigan Bark & Lumber Co., Widdicomb Building, Grand Rapids, Mich. Cc. 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. fe) MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Woman’s World The New Attitude Towards Children. To people who still cherish the effete theory that children shouid be made to behave, there is balm and comfort in the announcement that a man out in Denver has invented a spanking ma- chine that is to carry repentance and reformation in its wake. Heretofore there has been nothing the matter with the old-fashioned hand-made spank, ex- cept that there hasn’t been enough of the brand to go around, and if it can be eked out with the manufactured ar- ticle, it will be cause for genera! thanks- giving and gratitude. I am quite aware that this is heresy of the rankest sort and that the Denver man will look in vain for recognition and encouragement of his labor-saving device from the Mothers’ Congress. To be sure, Solomon would have certified that it met a long-felt want in every community, but Solomon is a back num- ber when it comes to the advanced theorists about child study. There isn’t a one of them who wouldn't feel quali- fied to give him points on how to bring up a baby and train it in the way it should go. It is altogether out of the fashion now- adays to makea child behave. He is no longer forced into the straight and narrow path and made to stay there. He is beguiled into the ways of right- eousness and politeness and civility, and if he condescends to walk in that direction, everybody breathes a sigh of relief and is thankful for small favors. But if he behaves it is simply a matter of grace. Nobody is rash enough to try to make him. To every thinking person it is pain- fully apparent that we take an entirely different attitude towards children now from that occupied by people in the past. There didn’t seem to be any par- ticular difficulty or flurry in raising children in the days when most of us were brought up. It was a perfectly plain and simple proposition, without any sterilized milk or sterilized philos- ophizing about it. We were dressed simply, reared plainly, spanked when we were bad, kissed when we reformed, taught obedience to our parents, respect for our elders and had the fact forcibly impressed on your youthful understand- ing that children were to be seen and not heard. How is it to-day? Children’s parties are only a degree less elaborate than their elders’ and the little guests are keen critics of the price of decorations. By the iime a little girl has learned to talk she is competent to discourse on fashions and has already learned to value her acquaintances by their clothes. At hotels where I have trembled under the august patronage of the head waiter, | have seen children order a meal from the carte with a perfect sang froid that I envied, but could not emulate, choos- ing an assorted diet of sweets and ices that must have played havoc with their little insides, but with which their ad- miring parents did not attempt to inter- fere. As for the seen but not heard theory that has fallen into utter desuetude so far as the modern child is concerned. After the first baby is born into a fam- ily, even the most optomistic abandon hope of getting any rational conversation out of either parent for the next twenty years, It is always what Tommy thinks, what Jacks says, or the clever thing Sallie did that is the staple of talk, re- enforced by corrections and emenda- tions from the author. ‘‘No, mamma, I didn’t say it that way;I said so and o;’° ‘* Papa, tell the lady what I did,’’ and soon. No effort is made to sup- press these infant terrors. On the con- trary they are dragged to the front and kept there. Once upona time, in an- other city, | was invited to spend an evening with a number of charming people, among whom was a noted trav- eler, scarcely less famous as a raconteur than be was for his adventures. I am sure that all the other guests, as well as myself, went expecting to sit in ab- sorbed silence, listening to the great man, but, alas for our hopes, early in the evening the young son of the house brought forth a copy of the American Boy’s Hand Book ef Sports, and insisted cn reading aloud how to build an ice boat. For one solid hour we writhed in silence while he droned along with all the fascinating elocutionary effects pe- culiar to inexperienced youth. Nobody dared put their impulse into execution and gag him, and at the end his mis- guided mother turned on her outraged guests and beamingly asked us if we didn't think Charley read remarkably well for a child of that age? I trust that was an extreme case, but do you know a house in which there are children, that they are not the eternal subject of all conversation? There, there, beloved, don’t ransack your memory any more. You don’t. Neither do I. I don’t be- lieve in suppressing children altogether, or even too much, but I do think it isa rank injustice to any child to raise him up to think that he is of supreme and paramount importance and that the world is waiting breathlessly to hear his opinion. It is going to be a bitter day for him when he finds out he is not the only pebble on the beach, and he will get many a hard lick before life knocks the inflated self-esteem out of him and reduces him to the proper size for the little bit of a place he is going to fill in the world. Another cherished theory is that you mustn't force a child to do anything. Lead him, entice him. Always present duty with a halo around it,and the right thing in an alluring and attractive light. It is a lovely idea. The only trouble is that life contradicts it at every turn. It is very, very seldom that duty is wreathed with roses. It is part of the temptation and deceitfulness of sin that the wrong thing is always the attractive thing. Any parent who teaches a child that it is pleasant and easy to do right has given him a broken reed to lean on in his hour of need. It is not easy to always do right; duty is not always pleasant. It is bitter, hard and cruel as death at times, and it is always dead easy to do wrong. ‘‘I never give my childern any duties to do at home,’’ says one woman, triumphantly exploit- ing her theory, ‘‘as duties, because that would be distasteful tothem, but I make a game of it, and they never discover that it is anything but play.’’ Yes, but how about the day when that child— grown into a man or woman—faces the work that is stripped of its tinsel and disguise, and that is nothing but a hard, unromantic, twelve-hour a day job?|/ The chances are that if it is a boy he will throw it up and go and loaf on his kinsfolk, or if it is a girl that she will marry for a home, and swell the ranks of the dissatisfied, complaining, spite- ful women. There isn’t any use in trying to sugar- coat the duties of life in the hopes that a child will swallow them and never dis- cover there's a bitter pill inside. The sweet always rubs off at the critical mo- ment. Better cultivate enough back- bone to make him strong enough to choose the right, even if it is hard. When anyone has learned to do what they have to do without fuss or com- plaint, when they have learned to take their pill without making faces—they have conquered fate. Don’t buoy any child up with the hope that things are going to be made smooth and_ pleasant for him in life. They are not; and re- member that it is the things we learn in childhood, the prayer we learn at our mother’s knee, the old song we heard on our nurse's bosom, the habits we formed then that stick to us through life. They are the thousand gossamier threads that are woven into character, and if they are weak, some day the cable that shouid bind us fast to goodness and truth breaks and we are blown out to sea. In the new attitude towards children it is held that obedience is desirable, but that it is tyrannical and brutal to enforce it. You must never say ‘‘must’’ to a child, but instead insinuate your desires in a diplomatic way that will leave you a chance to crawfish with dig- nity if he doesn’t see fit to accept your ultimatum. Could anything be more ridiculous? A parent who never com- mands, and who never enforces obedi- ence with brute strength, if necessary, has no authority. Suppose a general on the eve of battle should say to his troops that he would be gratified if they would advance, and hoped that those who felt like it would charge theenemy. Would anybody be wild enough to predict any- thing but disaster? It is the sharp, stern command, the habit of obedience that does the work. It may seem a mat- ter of very small moment whether Sally comes in off the sidewalk when you call her, or Johnny stays away from the ball gamne when you forbid him to go, but what about the day when Sally imagines herself in love with some drunken beast whose acquaintance she has picked up somewhere, or Johnny takes to running with hoodlums and staying out of nights? You can’t contro] themthen. You never enforced obedience and you are respon- sible here and hereafter for a wrecked life. The greatest misfortune that has _ be- fallen the human race since the Eden episode was the discovery that a child was a problem. Up to that time we hadn’t been pestered and confused with theories. If a child was disobedient he was punished for it and refrained from repeating the offense. In the mercy of heaven it had not occurred to anybody that there was danger of cowing him by making him behave. If he disturbed an entire neighborhood with yells and howls that were nothing but temper, some humane person turned him across their knee, and administered a spank- ing that created a beaming pacifico in a few minutes. Inspired wisdom hadn't discovered then that it was likely to break a proud spirit. It is probable that Mrs. Washington and Mrs. Jeffer- son, and Mrs Grant, and a_ thousand other energetic and determined women who brought up sons who were a credit to themselves and an honor to the na- tion never once suspected that in little George, or Thomas, or Ulysses they were confronting a problem. They were just human boys, and they dealt with them on that platform. Children are just as adorable now as ever. They are still the sunshine and the perfume of life, but for their own sakes we need to get back into a saner attitude towards them. They need to be relegated to the rear a while, and not brought perpetually to the front. They need to be taught obedience that they may be fitted some day to command. They need to be strengthened to meet the stern requirements of destiny, not taught that they may shirk its responsi- bilities, for childhood is the school of life, and as we learn its lessons so shall we stand or fall. Dorotuy D1x. a Never set another doing what you would not do yourself. Everything new and strictly first-class. Osborn, Charlevoix-the-Beautiful, Mich. ; & West Michigan and Detroit, Grand Rapids & Western Railways are the only direct lines to Charlevoix, the prettiest place in Northern Michigan. GEO. DEHAVEN, Gen’l Passenger Agent. ae THE INN. ox _CHARLEVOIX-THE f\-BEAUTIFUL, — For terms, address Egbert T. and bear in mind that the Chicago - MURPHY, General Manager. FLOWERS, MAY & MOLONEY, Counsel “The Michigan Mercantile Agency Special Reports. Law and Collections. Represented in every city and county in the United States and Canada. Main Office: Room 1102 Majestic Building, Detroit, Mich. Personal service given all claims. Judgments obtained without expense to subscribers a a ae ee MICHIGAN. TRADESMAN 17 Commercial Travelers Michigan Knights of the Grip. President, JoHn A. Horrman, Kalamazoo: Secre- tary, J. C. SAUNDERs, Lansing; Treasurer, Cuas. MoNo ry, Jackson. Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Association. President, C. C. SNEDEKER, Detroit: EKE Secretary and Treasurer, C. W. ALLEN Detroit. United Commercial Travelers of Michigan. Grand Counselor, F. L. Day, Jackson: Grand Secretary, G. S. Vatmorg, Detroit; Grand Treas urer, Gro. A. REYNOLDs, Saginaw. Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual Acci- dent Association. President, J. Boyp Panriinp, 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. Gripsack Brigade. W. L. Clippinger has resigned his position with R. B. Shank & Co. (Lansing), to take the position of city salesman for Hodge & Hoagland. A. R. Gray, who has been connected with the Swinton, Reynolds & Cooper Co. (Saginaw) as book-keeper for a number of years, has resigned to accept a position as traveling salesman for Paige, Chope & Co., wholesale paper dealers of Detroit. Rhine Osting, who has represented the Lemon & Wheeler Company among the city trade for several years, has taken the position of Western Michigan sales- man for the Detroit Soap Co. He is succeeded by Mina A. Tuinstra, who formerly conducted a retail grocery store in the city, but for the past two years has traveled on the road for Scofield, Shurmer & Teagle. The next Board meeting of the Mich- igan Knights of the Grip will be held at Kalamazvo on Saturday, June 4, at which time the train gates of the Heald system will come up for discussion and action. In order that the Board may act understandingly in the matter, it is requested that all traveling men who have ‘‘views’’ on the subject communi- cate them to President Hoffman between now and the date of the meeting, to the end that a fair conclusion may be reached and definite action taken in the premises. President Hoffman, of the Michigan Knights of the Grip, makes a very sen- sible suggestion in relation to the future of the organization—the creation of a surplus fund of $5,000, to be invested in Government bonds or other securities of an unquestioned character, to be raised by a special assessment of 50 cents a year on each member of the organization. The suggestion Is certainly a very perti- nent one, because there may come a time when the organization will feel the need of a special fund on which to draw in the event of there being an unusual death loss as the result of an epidemic or railway holocaust. On the basis of the present membership, a special as- sessment of 50 cents a year would create a fund of about $800, so that it would take only about six years to accumulate a reserve fund ample in amount to place the organization beyond the possibility of disaster in the event of any unusual or unexpected sumber of deaths. a Movements of Lake Superior Travelers Eugene Murphy (Zenith Paper Co. ) may become a soldier boy. He _ has signed the roll of volunteers at Han- cock. i L. B. Young, who has covered this territory for a long time for the Michi- gan Stove Co., goes into the works, and R. B. Waddell takes his place. Mr. Waddell has been located for years at the Soo. E. S. Mather (Fletcher Hardware Co.) has resigned his position to enter the coal business at Bay City. This is Mr. Mather’s first break in the hard- ware line for about fifteen years. He is the long-distance hardware traveler of this State; that is, he was engaged b the Fletcher Hardware Co. while in Naples, Italy, and came on to take the grip. Success to Ed. Hotel Superior, Marquette, will no doubt be the place where the annual ball and reception of the Lake Superior Commercial! Travelers’ Club will be held Aug. 12. It is an ideal place for such an affair and, with the present large membership of the Club, a pleasant time is assured. It is really too bad that Congress has neglected to create the much-talked-of cabinet office, Secretary of Commerce. Had it been done President McKinley would now be able to have the valued ( ?) advice of a Chicago traveler who covers the Upper Peninsula, whose ability (?) is not confined to such a small sphere as the knowledge of his own business. He knows all about war, finance and more about other people’s business than any other hog in the rut. He claims to have spent ‘‘three years six months and_ four days in Uncle Sam's service in ’61’’— really a long time to put into twelve months. The patriotism he exhibits at every occasion is seasoned with bluster. He delights in calling other travelers cowards and yet nota syllable of his name _ indicates anything American. The only thing that prevents him from being obliged to wear a number 8% hat and a tin ear is his age. > e-- — The Grain Market. There were never before such wide fluctuations in the wheat market as have prevailed since our last. On Tuesday last, Chicago closed $1.85, that being the pinnacle. New York touched $1.91, Detroit went to $1.60 and closed at $1.56. The closing prices (Monday) were: Chicago, $1.50; New York, $1.56; Detroit, $1.38 for red and $1.28 for white. All of the above prices are for May wheat. During the week prices have been 15c per bushel lower. The receipts have been the largest this year, both in the Northwest and in the winter wheat states, they have been for years at this season and the exports have kept pace with them. Our visible showed a decrease of only 534,000 bushels, against 2,124,000 bushels during the correspond- ing week last year, so it will be readily seen that our stocks of wheat are melting away by degrees, and it is no wonder when our exports in wheat and flour are 51,000,000 bushels larger than for the corresponding time last year. However, as the month of May is drawing toa close, we may expect to see prices gov- erned by the supply and demand, but any one who expects to see them recede to where they started from will probably be mistaken. It is our opinion that prices will remain about where July wheat is new. The demand for flour has been only fair, but good enough to keep the mills running right along. Mill feed keeps up remarkably well for this time of the year and prices remain firm. Corn and oats have been very steady. The receipts during the week were as follows: wheat, 65 cars; corn, 18 cars; oats, II Cars. Local millers are paying $1.20 for wheat. C. G. A. Voter. os eee MUSKEGON SUNDAY TRAINS G. R. & I. trains are now running be- tween Grand Rapids and Muskegon every Sunday. Leave Union Station 9 a. m., returning, leave Muskegon 6:35 p. m. An inexpensive Sunday outing. 50 CENTS ROUND TRIP. Peddlers. Detroit, May 14—At the last regular meeting of the Detrvit Retail Grocers and Butchers’ Protective Association nearly the entire session was taken up with a discussion of the report made by the Ordinance Committee, giving the the present status of the peddlers’ license ordinance. The Committee reported that very little information could be obtained from official sources as to the cause of the recent postponement of the hearing of the test case in the Supreme Court. present condition of things had been brought about by the rankest official negligence and recommended that the Association employ an attorney, at its own expense, to investigate and ascer- tain, if possible,the real facts in the case and determine upon some definite plan of action by which existing evils could be remedied. The Association passed a resolution instructing the Ordinance Committee to take any steps which it deemed necessary to bring the matter to a definite issue and authorizing them to employ an attorney. After looking up matters a little further, it was deemed best by the Committee to open the matter again in the Common Council and, if possible, get through another ordinance which would be acceptable to all concerned. dinance was brought before the Council, advanced to the second reading and re- ferred to the Committee on Ordinances of the Common Council. made in the provisions of the new or- cense on handcarts from $25 to $15 and double and single teams the same—s25. of the Council and the Mayor to get this fore the beginning of the fiscal year. The battle royal will probably occur at peddler gang will be out in force pre- pared to make every possible effort to opposed to their interests. Another question, upon which the re- tail grocers of Detroit propose to make a determined fight this year is the prin- ciple of making grocerymen pay the modity. In the spring of 1807 an ordi- ferred to above. The attempts to en- force this ordinance met with a more or less determined Detroit Grocers Seek Protection from | results of recent investigation concerning | They also expressed the opinion that the | On Tuesday evening, May Io, a newor- | The changes | dinance include the reduction of the li- | making the amount to be charged for | It will require prompt action on the part | ordinance into successful operation be- | the next meeting of the Common Coun- | cil when it is expected that the cheap | defeat a measure which they regard as | same license for selling milk as Is re- | quired of wagon peddlers of this com- | nance was passed by the Common Coun- | cil which embodied the principle re- | resistance on the part | of the retail trade of the city, but even- jtually nearly all fell into line. This | year an effort will be made to have the ordinance amended so as to limit ‘he collecting of licenses to milk dealers who sell from wagons, the assumption being that men who pay taxes regularly should be exempt from such special | license provisions. ———-~ 2. Prospect for Mint. From the Kalamazoo News. Those mint growers who will have a crop this year are congratulating them- selves, for the price will undoubtedly be good. The acreage is estimated by some to be but half that of an average year. There are two reasons fer this. The dry spell last fall killed out many old beds. The winter following was an unusually easy one for mint, but much of it was so poor it could not stand any unfavorable weather. Less acreage of new mint was set out than usual, many not wanting to bother with it at the low prices that have prevailed for the past |few years. Much of last year’s crop is still being held, but will probably all be cleaned up when the new crop is marketed, if not before. — ~>- 2 Summer Schedule onthe Grand Trunk. The Grand Trunk Railway System, Detroit & Milwaukee Division, has opened up the summer season by pla- cing in service five trains daily, except Sunday, each way between Grand Rap- ids & Grand Haven, and two each way on Sundays. Excursion tickets will be sold same as last year: Grand Haven and return on Sunday, 50 cents. For particulars, call at D. & M. city office, Morton House, or at depot. —665. C. A. JusTIN, City Pass. Agt. - —~> 0 Proper for the Pig. Boarder (savagely)—This food fit for a pig to eat, madam. Boarding house keeper (sarcastically) ~Then no wonder you are dissatisfied with it. isn’t ee Giving a man advice and throwing stones at a dog have about the same effect. a Union Bunting, twenty-eight inches | wide, solid colors, red white and blue, at 7!4c per yard. P. Steketee & Sons, | Jobbers, Grand Rapids. THE WHITNEY HOUSE Rates $1.00 to $1.25 per day. Complete Sanitary Improvements. Electric Lights. Good Livery in connection. State Line Telephone. Chas. E. Whitney, Prop., Plainwell, Mich. HOTEL WHITCOMB ST. JOSEPH, MICH. A. VINCENT, Prop. ad thing in Store or house truck. stacks, Iron and = phone. He peo oppo h ahah udup > + = ee = 2 — © MA with our FREIGHT ELEVATORS. an 8o00-lb. Scale W and General Machine Work. Repair work done in any part of the State. can reach us any Lansing Boiler & Engine Works, Lansing, Mich. SEEEEEEEEELEEE EE EEE EEE ED Lobel bedetesbebetesobebedesbobedeesbebegespobnbegese We Can Give You Another great Warehouse is our SCALE TRUCK: in connection with the regular ware- e also make Engines, Boilers, Smoke- Brass Castings, Steel Culvert Pipe You hour, day or night, by long distance POP PepepePoh pop ehopehehuhey BICYCLE SUNDRIES One of the largest stocks in Michigan. Write for our ’98 catalogue with dealers’ net price sheet. ADAMS & HART, Prices right. Service prompt. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH 13 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Drugs-- MICHIGAN STATE BOARD OF PHARMACY. Term expires F. W. R. Perry, Detroit - - Dec. 31, 1898 A. C. SCHUMACHER, Ann Arbor - Dec. 31, 1899 Gro. GunpRvUM, Ionia : Dec. 31, 1900 L. E. REYNOLDS, St. Joseph Dec. 31, 1901 Henry Herm, Saginaw - - Dec. 31, 1902 President, F. W. R. Perry, Detroit. Secretary, Geo. GUNDRUM, Ionia. Treasurer, A. C. SCHUMACHER, Ann Arbor. Examination Sessions. Star Island—June 27 and 28. Marquette—A bout Sept. 1. Lansing— Nov. 1 and 2. All meetings will begin at 9 o'clock a, m. ex- cept the Star Island meeting, which begins at8 o'clock p. m. MICHIGAN STATE PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION. President—A. H. WEBBER, Cadi!lac. Secretary—CHas. Mann, Detroit. : Treasurer—JOHN D. Muir, Grand Rapids. Medical Supplies for the United States Army. ~ Medical supplies for the U. S. Army are all purchased on bids submitted in response to circular letters sent out by the medical supply depots, the principal enes of which are located in New York City and St. Louis, although smaller supply depots are also situated in Wash- ington and San Francisco, and the sam- ples of the supplies submitted are all examined in the army laboratory in Washington. In times of peace, bids are solicited semi-annually, and the last regular series of bids have just been awarded and the goods delivered. All supplies other than simply medical, pharmaceutical and surgical are fur- nished through either the quartermas- ter’s or commissary department of the army,and are also purchased on bids ex- cept in cases of emergency such as exists at the present time when a bundred and seventy-five thousand men are to be added to the army at one time. Pharmacists are not recognized as such in the army until they get down to the grade of non-commissioned officers, when they are termed ‘‘hospital stew- ards." The purchase of medical and surgical supplies, the examination of the samples submitted and of the goods purchased, all of which are purely phar- maceutical functions, are in the United States Army (and navy also) performed by members of the medical staff. As has frequently been pointed out in these columns, these duties are performed by expert pharmacists in the military serv- ice of all the European nations, except England alone, and, being charged with the performance of such important duties, the pharmacists in other coun- tries are given commissioned rank. In view of the fact that the whole of Europe is an armed camp, it would seem that the experience of European powers should be utilized by the United States and their example followed in placing the entire pharmaceutical department of the army under the charge of pharma- cists and giving them adequate rank and remuneration. Trials of a Druggist. The druggist gazed wearily out into the street. He had labored hard all day, and evening was uow. coming apace. The lights began twinkling from other windows, but he saw them not. He was thinking of his trials and troubles and night offered little solace. From early morn his feet kept moving, waiting on customers, yet as he thought of the lack of profits he heaved a bitter sigh. True, the coin had passed over the counter, but it had all been for one article, one only—-postage stamps. Now there is as much profit in selling stamps as there is in dollar bills, and selling stamps doesn't pay rent, gas and other expenses. So the whereofness of the druggist’s sigh. Thus he soliloquized as the time came for him to go to his supper. The boy who- was to relieve him hadn’t arrived, and the druggist awaited the brief respite he enjoyed at his own fi eside. But his rhapsody was rudely broken in two, aS a woman cus- tomer with a firm tread walked over the linoleum floor. The pill-roller woke up. ‘‘Have you any stamps?’’ she coolly enquired. ‘* Yes, sponse. ‘Well, gimme a dime’s worth.’”’ Then the man who keeps stamps for accommodation fiiled her order. He produced ten cents’ worth of Uncle Sam's passwords, and received the dime. The woman looked surprised. In fact. she glared at the poor man. ‘‘And don’t you give a trading stamp with every dime’s purchase?’’ she ques- tioned. It is effeminate in a man to break down as the druggist did, but then we all have times when we are fain to cross that Rubicon. The druggist, too, had worked hard that day, and probably was worn out. Luckily, his boy arrived at the right time, and by the aid of re- storatives brought his employer to. Speaking of druggists and stamps, there is another druggist in this city who has tried to combat the stamp evil. In his store he has posted a sign, which reads: ““We sell stamps. charge them.’’ The other day, a smart boy added these words: ‘*Nor lick them, nor stick them.’’ ——__—~> 2. 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 iine 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 : liberal patronage by the traveling pub- Ic. The following is a condensed schedule : ma’am,’’ came the faint re- Don’t ask us to Daily. Ly Grand Rapids........- 70am 2:10pm 11:35pm Ar Chicaso .... ........2009m O:F0pm Gye, Ey Ceecaeo. 3:02pm) —s-11:45pm Ar Grand Rapids... .... 9:30pm 97:25am C. L. Lockwoop, General Passenger and Ticket Agent. gee Profitless and Wearing. Mrs. Russet: No, I never quarrel] with my husband. I can’t get any satis- faction out of it. Mrs. Tanner: Why so? you have the last word? Mrs. Russet: Oh, it isn’t that. He just sits there like a dummy and never says a word. One might as well try to argue with a fence post. It’s awfully wearing, I assure you. a Do not buy because it is cheap; al- though cheap for some houses, for you it might prove high priced. Won't he let Want Individual Revenue Stamps. Many manufacturers of proprietary medicines are eager to have included in the schedule of the proposed revenue bill which provides for the taxing of such articles a clause according to man- ufacturers the privilege of having their own individual revenue stamps of spe- cial design. This privilege was granted them under the old Stamp Tax Act, and every reader will remember many de- signs of such special stamps, each bear- ing the trademark or other significant device adopted by the individual pro- prietor as a distinctive label. The manufacturers, many of them, are not only willing, but eager, that a stamp tax on proprietary medicine should be im- posed, and maintained indefinitely, but they hold that it is only right that the Government should grant them the priv- ilege of the special stamps. It would cost no more to the Government, as each froprietor would pay for his own die and for printing. The advantage to the manufacturer in having such a stamp is ihat it is the best safeguard and surest protection as yet devised in this coun- try against counterfeits and bogus imi- tations of his goods. Several of the manufacturers believe that unless such a provision is included in the stamp tax bill, it will be a difficult matter, if not an impossibility, to secure the privilege after the tax becomes operative. > es — The Drug Market. Opium and M orphine—Are firm at re cent advances. Quinine—Is prices. Citric Acid—Manufacturers have ad- vanced their price 2c per lb. and there is an active demand. Alcohol—Has advanced since our last issue. Antipyrine—Price has been reduced by the agents, on account of the patent having expired. The decline amounts to 6oc per oz. Mercury— Has advanced again and all mercurials are higher. Crude Brimstone—Is again advanced and tbe market for rolled and flour is again advancing. steady at unchanged 2c per gal. easier. advan- Oils—Anise is lower. Cloves are Essential C+jipet is Cilng Golden higher. Linseed Oil—Has advanced 2c per gal , on account of high price tor seed. Seal Roct—Is scarce and MANUFACTURED BY THE C.BLOM, ur! CANDY CO., HOLLAND,- MICH { PEEP PRR. Rope pepe Bupa For Sale by Leading Jobbers. JERSEY CREAM 6 oz. 6 doz. in case 85c¢ Q OZ. 4 doz. in case $1.25 1 Ib. 2 doz. in case $2.00 O. A. TURNEY, Migr., PETROS, Corner 15th and Lucas Streets, Toledo, Ohio. ZEN ENING EN GN ENGNG CAA ONAN ONON CNN ON ORGRONGN ei piehlamlenleraea mca hdt bc a a a a aaa By . . te a Buckeye Paint & Varnish Co. 3 ee PAINT, COLOR AND VARNISH MAKERS EG) Shingle Stains Fillers L nterior and Exterior Use NO. market for the money. gross, wants in every way. ON THE MARKET IS THE 20 ROVERS Has a_handsome assortment of set designs printed in different colors—Red, Blue, Green and Brown; highly finished, enameled, and is the best card in the Each pack in a handsome enameled tuck box. in one dozen assorted designs and colors. Put up A good seller. List price $20 per We make a full line from cheapest to highest grades. and can meet your i If you are handling playing cards for profit yet our sam- pies and prices before placing your order. They may help you. THE AMERICAN PLAYING CARD CO., KALAMAZOO, MICH. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN I9 WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT. Advanced—Citric Acid, Alcohol, Mercury, Declined—Antipyrine, Oil C: ajiput. Brimstone, Linseed Oil. Acidum Aceticum...........- 8 8 Benzoicum, German ne D BOreCiIG..... 51... @ 15 Carbolicum ......... 2@ 41 Caucn. 2@ 44 Hydrocblor......... 3@ 5 roo. ......... -8@ 10 Oxalioum.......<... 122@ 14 Phosphorium, dil... @ sb Salicylicum. ........ 60@ 65 Sulphuricum........ %¥@ 5 SOUmieceM ........_- 1 25@ 1 40 Tartaricum.......... 4 Ammonia Aqua, 16 deg........ 41@ 6 Aqua, 20 deg........ om &§ Cerpenas............ 122@ «14 Chloridum .......... 12@ 14 Aniline ee 2 00@ 2 25 eg dele nS ON 80@ 1 00 ee os. 45@ 50 Mellow. 0 2 50@ 3 00 Bacce. Cubese........ po.18 189 15 euniperus........... am 8 Xanthoxylum.. .... BO BW Balsamum Copaipa. ............ 6@ 65 Pera. ee @ 2 (6) Terabin, Canada.... 45@ 50 Wormtar............... 60@ 5 Cortex Abies, Canadian.... 18 Cone 2005s. 2 Cinchona Flava..... 18 Euonymus atropurp 30 Myrica Cerifera, po. 20 Prunus Virgini riecee 12 Quillaia, gr’d....... 14 Sassafras...... po. 18 12 Ulmus...po. 15, gr’d 15 Extractum Glycyrrhiza Glabra. YQ 2% Siaeeden, ne. ._.: 2a 30 Hematox,15lbbox. l1@ 12 Heematox,is........ 13@ 14 Hematox, eo... 14@ 15 Heematox, 48....... 16@ 7 Ferru Carbonate Precip... 15 Citrate and Quinia.. 2 Citrate Soluble...... 75 Ferrocyanidum Sol. 40 Solut. Chloride..... 15 Sulphate, com’l..... 2 Sulphate, com’l, by bbl, per cwt..... 50|R Sulphate, pure ._... 7 Flora Agnes... 12@ 14 Avthomis ........... 18@ 2% Matricaria ...:...... 30@ «35 Folia Barosme = 1 we 23@ 2 Cassia Acutifol, Tin- nevelly. 13@ B Cassta Acatifal-Alx- 3@ 30 Salvia officinalis, 4s gua 6... uo: 12@ 20 Ura UFsi «5.2... ., 8@ 10 Gummi Acacia, ist picked.. @ & Acacia, 2d picked.. @ 4 Acacia, 3d picked.. @ & Acacia, sifted sorts. @ 8 Acacia, po.. 60@ 80 Aloe, Barb. po. 18@20 12@ 14 Aloe, C -po. 15 @ L& Aloe. need - po. 40 @ 30 Ammoniac.......... 55@ 60 Assafotida....po.30 2@ 28 | C Bensonum ....:.... 50@ =s«BD Catccha, t.........- @ 13 Catechu, 48......... @ 14 Catechu, 1¢8......... @ 16 Camphore : 4@ 43 Euphorbium. _po. 35 @ 10 Galbanem.......-... _@ 1 00 Gamboge po........ 6@ 70 Guaiacum.....po. 25 @ 38 Hino. ......- po. 83.00 @ 3 00 — Socata neo s @ 68 myers... .... @ 40 ag -po. 5.05.20 3 = 3.0 Serene. 35 Shellac, bleached. . 0 45 Tragacanth ihe ous @ 80 Herba Absinthium..oz. pkg 25 Eupatorium .oz. pkg 20 Lobelia...... oz. pkg 2 Majorum ....oz. pkg 28 Mentha Pip..oz. pkg 23 Mentha Vir..oz. pkg 5 ees oz. pkg 39 TanacetumV oz. pkg 22 Thymus, V..oz. pkg 5 Magnesia. Calcined, Pat........ SQ. 6 Carbonate, Pat...... 0@ 22 Carbonate, K.&M.. 2@ 2% Carbonate, Jennings 35@ 36 Oleum Absinthium......... 3 25@ 3 50 Amygdale, Dulec.. 30@ 50 Amygdale, Amare . 8 00@ 8 25 EE ee 21@2 2 Auranti Cortex..... 2 25@ 2 40 Bereamil...........: 2 40@ 2 50 eee sarees — = Saevor ae ae WR oo ares 3@ «65 Chenopadii Peek @2%7% Cinnamonii. ........ 1 60@ 1 70 isvronellg. ....... 4@ 50 Conium Mac.... 35@ 50 Copaiba...... teass. & pg 1 25 Cubebee...... ewe eae 90@ 1 00 Exechthitos 1 00@ 1 10 Hrigeron ... . 1 00@ 1 10 Gaultheria ..... .... 1 50@ 1 60 Geranium, ounce. @ vis] Gossippii, Sem. gal.. 50@ 60 Medeoma:. |. |. 1 0O@ 1 10 Junipera. 1 50@ 2 00 favendtla /..). | 901, 2 00 Limonis. . c+. Loom ¢ 56 Mentha Piper... oa, 1 60@ 2 20 Mentha Verid....... 1 50@ 1 60 Morrhas, gal... 1 10@ 1 25 Merein 4 00@ 4 50 Olive.. 75@ 3 00 Picis Liquida. oeeas ie 12 Picis Liquida, gal.. a oo 98@ 1 10 Rosmarini.. : @ 1 00 Rose, ounce - 6 50@ 8 50 Recent 40@ 45 Nantes 90@ 1 00 Nanteal..... soneee 2 7 oe BESHACTAS 55@ 60 Sinapis, ess., ounce. @ & ig 1 70@ 1 890 See 0@ 50 Thyme. opt... .... @ 1 60 Theobromas ........ 15@ 2 Barb: 8. 18 Bichromate . 3G 15 Bromide : 55 CS PQ 15 Chlorate. ae. 17 a 16@ 18 Cyanide.. 3@ 40 Iodide... 2 60@ 2 65 Potassa, ‘Bitart, pure 283@ 30 Potassa, Bitart, com @ b&b Potass Nitras, opt.. 10@ 12 Potass Nitras........ r@ wu Prussiate..... .- 2a = Sulphate po ...... 15b@ 18 Radix ACGHItV@...),. .._. 0@ 2 Me 22 25 ARCHHSR oe. . |. 10@ 12 Aree pe... @ BD Cala oo 20@ 40 Gentiana.... .. pe 5 Be Glychrrhiza...pv.15 16@ 18 Hydrastis Canaden . @ 5 Hydrastis Can., po.. @ 60 Hellebore, Alba, po.. 1k 2B Inula, po |. 1I5@ 20 Ipecac, pe.. 80@ 3 00 Iris plox.. .. P035@38 3@ 40 JIB, Pro. | 23@ 30 Maranta, lgs........ @ 3 Podophyllum, po.. 2Q@ ee 7@ 1 00 thel, i @123 Rhei, pv cee T@ 1 3 Beigela, 3@ 38 Sanguinaria...po. 15 @ 8 Serpentaria ... |. 30@ 35 Senersa. 40Q@ 45 Similax,officinalis H @ 40 omias Mo. @ Sete. po.35 10@ 12 Symplocarpus, Feeti- us, po.. @ Ss Vaieriana, Eng. ‘po. :30 oe xs Valeriana, German. 1@ 2 Zingiber a.. ' LR@ 16 Zingiber oe ee 23@ 27 Semen Amigam..<.... pe 15 @ 2 Apium (graveleons) 13@ 15 oe ie 41@ 6 Cara... po.is He 2 Cardamon........... 1 3@ 1% Coriandrum......... 8@ 10 Cannabis Sativa.. 4@ 4% te Omigm... 5. 75@ 1 00 enopodium ...... 10@ 12 Dipterix Odorate... 2 00@ 2 20 Poaicninm .... |. |. Se ww Foenugreek, po...... 7@ 9 SS ee 4@ 4% Lini, grd.... bbl. 334 I@ 4% Bobelia 0 oe 35a Pharlaris Canarian. 4I@ 4% i 4@ 5 Simapis Albn........ 7@ 8 Sinapis Nigra....... ma & Spiritus Frumenti, W. D. Co. 2 00@ 2 50 Frumenti, D. F. R.. 2 00@ 2 25 Frumenti..... - | 3@ 150 Juniperis Co. 0. T.. 1 65@ 2 00 guniperis Co........ 1 7%@ 3 50 Saacharum N. E.... 1 90@ 2 10 Sot. Vint Galli... .. 1 %@ 6 50 Vini Oporte._....... 1 25@ 2 00 Vini Alba.. .- | Se 2 00 Sees Florida sheeps’ wool Corrieee .......... 2 50@ 2 75 Nassau sheeps wool ee... 2 00 Velvet extra sheeps’ wool, carriage. .... 13 Extra yellow sheeps’ wool. carriage. . @ 1 00 Grass sheeps’ wool, po @ 1 00 Hard, for slate use.. @ & Yellow Reef, for Silage uSse.......... @ 140 Syrups Acacia . oh @ 50 Auranti Cortes...... @ 50 PeMethOn 8c @ 50 eres.) = Cl. @ Bert fod... @ 50 Zhe) Arom..... ..... @ 50 Smilax ee 50@ 60 Seueee is... @ 50 Scille.,.... 0... @ 50 Ro eee WOMAN 8. c). Pranas vite. ........ Tinctures Aconitum Napellis R Aconitum Napellis F OCS Aloes and Myrrh.. POR Assafootida ......... Atrope Belladonna. Auranti Cortex..... Deneiie. Benson €o..... 5. Barosma , Capgiecum 2.3). Cardamon CONOR. 2S: Columba Cubeba, eee cece Cassia /.cutifol..... scutifol — : ‘ ai ey no *eg7 Ferri. a . Gentian...... Gentian Co.. Guiaca ... Guiacaammon...... Hyoscyamus Iodine..... Todine, coloriess Bie Myrrh. . Nux Vomica_ Opii. Opii, cam} horated. Opii, deodorized.. Sanguinaria . Serpentaria . Stromonium ........ Tolutan eee. Miscellaneous Aither, Spts. Nit.3F ther, Spts. Nit.4F Ae Alumen, gro’d..po.7 Annatto ay Amtimoni po....._. Antimoni et PotassT Antipyrin Peart ete, Balm Gilead os Bismuth §. Caleium Ghior., ‘Is. 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, = &F.. — maar ag = Chloral Hyd Crst. 3 Chendrus. .- Cinchonidine,P.& W Cinchonidine, Germ Cocaine 2.0.0. Corks, list, ‘am pr.ct. Creosotum. . Crete... -bbi. % Creta, prep pees Le, Creta, Creta, Crocus Ether Sulph.. sh Emery, al] numbers Emery. po. Breet. Flake — Galla. Gambier 000.7 Gelatin, Cooper.. Gelatin, French..... Glassware, flint, box Less than box... Giue, brown. ..- _... Glue, white Giveerina. |... Grana Paradisi .... Tinaniog Hydraag Chlor Mite Hydraag Chlor Cor. Hydraag Ox Rub’m. Hydraag Ammoniati HydraagUnguentum Hydrargsyrum....... Ichthyobolla, Am Indigo. .. Iodine, Resubi. vs Iodoform....... .... Pipe Lycopodium .. Sete. Mage Liquor Arse= et hy- Grare lod... 3.3)... LiquorPotassArsinit Magnesia, Sulph.. Magnesia, oe bbl Mannia, S. Mentha}, ©8e SSS 30@ UG 24@ Soooksis eee ts w~ @VHPASHASO scooted sa8 9 a88s pa a 85 Bos S080 9 ee e —_— Seaaedeeed abotie &Sae58eo SIMEON | LES SES ° ° co 1eie3 ee ° CO) g ot bt 2 Zi te aw on So 35 a ur 15 DO He OO Morphia,S.P.& W... 2 45@ 2 70| Sinapis.............. @ 18)| Linseed, pure raw.. 44 47 Morphia, S.N.Y.Q. & Sinapis, opt......... @ 3 Linseed, boiled..... 46 49 Cee 2 45@ 2 70 | Snuff, Maccaboy, De Neatsfoot, winterstr 65 70 Moschus Canton.. @ 40/ Voes. @ 34| Spirits Turpentine. 34 40 oo Not... = 80 | Snuff, Scotch, DeVo's @ % ux Vomica. ..po.20 10 | Soda Boras... —. 2 @ 7 si Sac res 15@ 18 | Soda Boras, po...... $a itt Paints BEL. LB - n Saac, & Soda et Potass Tart. 26@ 28 Red Venetian... .. 1% 2 eee a. @ 1 | Soda, Carb. |. kas Ochre, yellow Mars. in 3 oi Picis Lig. N N.% gal. | Soda, =~ Carb. 3@ =—-5| Ochre. yellow Ber.. 1X 2 Cy @ 2 | Soda, Ash... 34@ 4 Putty, Commercial.. 2% ayo Picis Liq., quarts... @ 1 00} Soda, Sulphas......) @ 2 Putty, strictly pure. 2% 2%@3 Picis Liq., pints..... @ 8} Spts. Cologne........ @ 2 80| Vermilion, Prime Pil Hydrarg.. -po. 80 @ 50/ Spts. Ether Co...... 30@ 55/ American......... 13@ 15 Piper Nigra...po. 22 @ 18 Spt Myrcia Dom.. @ ° 00} Vermilion English. 70@ 75 Piper Alba.... po. 35 @ 30} Spts. Vini Reet. bbl. @ 2 45! Green. Paris .... 16%@ 20% Piix Burgun........ @ 7| Spts. Vini Rect.%bbl @ 251! Green, Peninsular. 13@ «16 Plumbi Acet........ 10@__12| Spts. Vini Rect. 10gal @ 2 54/ Lead. Red LL eieen | g Pulvis Ipecac et Opii 1 10@ 1 =| Spts. Vini Rect. 5ga] @ 2 56) Lead’ white... ||” 5%@ 8 Pyrethrum, boxes H. Less 5e gal. cash 10 days. Whiting, white Span *@ 70 & FP. D. Co., doz... @ 125) Strychnia, a . 140@ 1 45 Whiting, gilders’. @ w Pyrethrum, pv...... 2 30 | Sulphur, Subl..... 44@ 5% | white, Paris Amer.. @100 SSIs 8@ 10) Sulphur, Roll.. 44@ 5 Whiting, Paris Eng. ou SP. & Ww. 35@ 40 | | Sandee tae onl 8@ =10 iff @1 40 uinia,S.German.. 30@ 38/| Terebenth Venice.. 23@ 3!) Universal Prevarca Quinia, N.Y.. - &@ 38] Theobroms....... - “ae 2 Universai Prepared. 1 0@ 1 Rubia Tinctorum.. Re 14) Vania, 9 00@16 00 Varnishes Selec nn py 18@ 20) | Monel Salph. 0.) | aq |g " Sa ee 3 00@ 3 = Y Stage rics * tg * | olts else come. | apo, W............. Re 4 BBL. @AL. | Coach Body......... 2 7@ 3 00 Sapo, M.... ......... 10@ 12) whale, winter....... 70 70| No.1 Turp Furn.... 1 00@ 1 10 Apo, G......-.... . o @ 15 | Dard, extras... 0... 40 45/| Extra Turk Damar.. 1 55@ 1 60 Siedlitz Mixture‘! 20 @ 2 | Lard, 1 35 40|Jap.Dryer,No.1Turp 70@ se oo DeoPe( ° 2° 1975 6 om (0 ° J o °o oc o °o a o 09 A915 DJORD 9, o [=) a ° 5) ° ne 9 (4 Od 6 9 oSrofo ° °o o °o ROR: 2 DGWO so aw oO ° oO oor ce U%oreo 2 Qo a o976[0o. 9 o ° ° o ° a. °o 2 Dee ou e o.o oS So HDGrO Selo Se(orater so (or) xxo owsowGo Cy 3 oW oS 3g ODG9 o oo owugond o ° So °o 9° ° ° ° 9 &° 9 9 ° Qe POPE III ° ° ° OW Sow ~o- SS ° ows ° ° ow POCKET BOOKS AND PURSES as aes 2 —-____ an. We shall sample in a few days a large and well assorted line of Ladies’ Pocket Books Ladies’ Purses Gentlemen’s Pocket Books Gentlemen’s Purses And invite your inspection and order. —__ 34 -__ Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. IMO OOOOOTIIOIOEN OS) So °o ( o ° G 5s) ° os OoAGRO ey Go Oo o% S) DEK oc O¥50 Ofs C) FOR0 >) 9 ° )P¢ wisa 0 oe o » Qo De So ° o OF, > 10%6 0 o So °o ° R26 o o,? IG ow oS ° one Fo’ ) Gao e ¥) ° ° 9; G Cf os J o7A9f6 50 ro 0) Jie So 2D ee vo Bd 5) 2 0J0.09 9 saa S) o % 210. 6hO 09)9¢ of ° a o JS 0 G oc = 02 AO fo Uoy'oo, os o eo eo 5) ae Sy oSrofo? eae oo ov Cs D ° 9 oe Ja oO ne oe Sowso irene At tit a a aac Sa eee aT — ee xB opaagernst: Sg CREA IT eee eT Beseirentnne rs He stein senathntenanatsagemtannlniens sandeep aap en 20 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN GROCERY PRICE CURREN 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 —. 0z. gross OS Se ..bD 6 00 camera... oo 73 emo. :.. 50 «64 00 Frazer's ...... so 900 IXL Golden, tin boxes 7 ee UU Tlica, tin boxes........ 75 9 00 Paragon oe eee ce wee 55 6 00 BAKING POWDER. Absotute. - 2 Come doz..........._. 45 ip seme dos... 2... 85 bear Gos...... .... ESO Acme. if ip Cans 3 dox............ 45 ib Cams 3 Gox............ 7 - ipe¢ans ider............ 1 00 Bee _ 2 Arctic. 60s. Ene. Tumplers........ 8 El Purity. ag Ib cans perdor......... 6 1b Cans per Gos ........ 1 20 . Te cans per doz......... 2 00 Home. iq lb Cans 4 doz case...... 35 ¥% lb cans 4 doz case...... = Ib cans 2 doz case...... lq lb cans, 4 doz case..... 45 ¥ 1b cans, 4 doz case... ... 85 I Tb Cane, 3 dos case...... 1 60 Jersey Cream. i tb. Cans, perdoz......._.. 2 00 9 oz. Cans, per doz.. cc 6 oc. Cans, per doz.......... 85 Our Leader. Se . = ica... v3) | ib cans.. —..-. oo Peeriess. [.o coms 85 Mines Flake, SOn6@0n Gere... 2 70 6 0z., 4 doz. case 2 oe mon 4Gor Gane......_...-. 4 80 £ip. 2 aoe case... -.... 4 00 5 lb., 1 doz. case.. i. 2 OO BATH BRICK. eee 70 ae 80 BLUING. a seek. 40 Large, 2 doz. oo BROOTIS. No. 1 Carpet.. i No. 2 Carpet. en No. 3 Carpet.......... ee ee er | ranor Gem ...... Looe Lo ces Whisk. ........... Fancy Whisk.. Warehouse. . . CANDLES. eee Cees se CANNED GOODS. Manitowoc Peas. Lakeside Marrowfat....... 95 ee Fl 115 Lakeside, Cham. of Eng.... 1 Lakeside, Gem, Ex. Sifted. 1 45 Extra Sifted Early June 1 CATSUP. Columbia, wvints.......... 2 00 ae a pints. 1 25 HEESE © Acme. he @ 8% y @ 8% @ 9 @ @ @ @ @ @ BaVersIeG 2.02... .... @ Bprmeagie..... .... @ OO! @ oe... @ Leiden ssh oe @ Tampurcer.......... @ Pinecappic............50 @ pop Seeo... @ i7 hicory ao... 6 Red 7 CHOCOLATE. Walter Baker & Co.’s. German Sweet ...... -. Prestem. ....-.. Breakfasi Cocoa. CLOTHES LINES. Cotton, 40 ft, per doz....... 1 00 Cotton, 50 ft, per doz ......120 Cotton, 60 ft, per doz ......1 40 Cotton, 70 ft, per dos ......1 60 Cotton, 80 ft, per - mi 1 80 Jute, 60 ft. per do = Jute. 72 ft. per can. _ COCOA seneescae 20 1b bags.. 2% Less quantity. _ 3 Pound packages......... 4 CREAMS TARTAR. 5 and 10 1b. wooden boxes..30-35 COFFEE. Green. Rio. as... Ls cS 10 Pe 11 Golem . 12 —— Santos. a. 12 Bee 13 —.. ......... 11 oy ........... ......... 15 Mexican and Guatamaie. _ air re i Lee a aoe 16 —S =... 17 ‘Maracaibo. Prime ... ee a Java. Interior. oe Private Growth...............20 ee 21 Mocha. Doietion .......-.....-.._.. ee eo ...lt............. Clark-Jewell-Wells Co. Leann Fifth Avenue..... oe Jewell’s Arabian Mocha... .28 Wells’ Mocha and Java..... 24 Wells’ Perfection Java..... 24 eee 22 Breaktect Biend........... 18 Valley City Maracaibo. 18% mont ieee. 14 Eeager Biceg....-.. -. 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 %c a pound. In 601!b. cases the list is 10c per 100 lbs. above the price in full cases. Arbuckle . Jersey... ‘ McLaughlin’ s XXXX.. McLaughlin’s Ck ‘sold to retailers only. Mail all orders direct to W. F. McLaughlin «& Co., Chicago. Extract. Valley City % gross . 75 Felix \% gross...... ._ tf Hummel’s foil & gross... 85 Hummel’s tin & gross = PINS. 5 gross boxes.. ~~. oe COUGH DROPS. C. B. Brand. 405 cent packages ........ 1 00 CONDENSED MiL&. 10 50 10 50 4 doz in case. Gail Borden Eagl io Owe 05... Le ss DAIey 2)... st, 5 %5 ieachon ae 4 50 Magnolia 42 — Oe Tradesman Some 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.... 2 500 books any denom.. itt 1,000 books, any denom. £2.20 isto SSss sess 7am : ie Universal Grade. 40 books, any denom.... 1 100 books, any denom.... 2 500 books, any denom....11 : 1,000 books, any denom....20 00 Superior Grade. 50 books, any denom.... 100 books, any denom.... 2 50 500 books, any denom.... 1,000 books, any denom....20 00 Coupon Pass Books, Can be made to represent any denomination from $10 weg 2) hoeks. 50 books. . . 3 00 Beeps 3 00 Poueeee.: . p25) Seepoume. me Gesks ..... .. Credit Checks. 500, any one denom’n..... 1000, any one denom’n. 2000, any one denom’n.. Steel punch. .... DRIED FRUITS—DONESTI Apples. pun@rieg....-..... @5 Evaporated 50 lb boxes. @8 California Fruits. a a 7 @8 Biackberries........... Mecwermes ........... 734 ee ene 7% ae 8 @7% Pitted Cherries........ Prenneites............. Raspberries...... California Prunes. 100-120 25 lb boxes....... 4% 90-100 25 1b boxes....... 80 - 90 25 Ib boxes....... 5 70 - 80 25 lb boxes....... e& 60 770 25 lb boxes.. .... @7 50 - 60 25 Ib boxes. -40 - 50 25 lb boxes....... 30-402 ib bores....... lg cent less in 50 1b cases Raisins. Lendon Layers 3 Crown. London Layers 4 Crown. Dehesias . iad see muw 00 50 00 00 00 7 Cc Loose Muscatels2 Crown 3% | Loose Muscatels 3 Crown Loose Muscatels 4 Crown 5% FOR . Currants. oe. @ 74 Vostizzas 50 lb cases...... Cleaned, bulk Cleaned, —_—— eee @ 8% eel. Citron American 10lb bx @13 Lemon American 101b bx @12 Orange American 10lb bx @12 Raisins. Ondura 28 ib boxes.....8 @ 8% Sultana 1Crown....... @ Sultana 2Crown....... @ Sultana 3Crown....... @%™% Sultana 4 Crown....... @ Sultana 5 Crown Q@ Sultana 6 Crown. - ae Sultana package... ees @i4 FARINACEOUS GOODS. Farina. 241%. paekaves .........1 & Bulk, per 100 Ibe... ... .... 4 00 Grits. Walsh-DeRoe Co.’s. A? 1b. pACKapeS.........2 %o 10 1: Meee 413 Hominy. Berto... 2 50 Flake, 50 lb. drums....... 1 00 s. Dried tama. .........-.. 3% Medium Hand Picked....1 30 Maccaroni and ee Domestic, 10 1b. box...... Imported, 25 lb. box.. ...2 50 Pearl Barley. Commen -. soc. cr 200 MOR a ea, 22 Rowe 3 00 Peas. een; Oo ec 95 Shut, perth... 2% Rolled Oats. Rolled Avena, bbl. 4 60 Monarch, Dbl... ......7 . 4 40 Monaren, % bbl-......-.: 2 35 Monarch, 90 1b sacks...... 210 Quaker. cases. .. «21 BO yen, COOK... ....... .... 1% Sago. Gorman 3... 4 Bast Fadia... : 4: 3% Tapioca. Fiske ......_. sees eae 384% POR ee ee 356 Anchor, 40 1 lb. pkges.... 5 —— . Cracked, bulk.. was 34 2421b packages. Sees ec epee 12 50 Fish. Cod. Georges cured... ..... @5 Georges genuine...... @ 5% Georges selected...... @6 Strips or bricks.......6 @ 9 Herring. Holland white hoops, bbl. 10 25 Holland white hoop % bi “5 AO Holland white hoop, keg. 75 Holland white = mchs 35 Seca ad . a 11 00 Round 100 | 2c Round 40 — . eee ee 13 Mackerel. Mess 190 Ibs... .. oe. mone 2) lee... ae mors Wine... 6 Ben Sie... Pe MO, 1 160 tbs.” . oe ‘ 14 50 aot Os... 6 lu not Wis... 1 60 Mat Slee. 1 30 No. 2 100 ibs o-oo Oe os Site fk... mo.e Mike... me: Ses 93 Trout. No. } 100 ivs 5 a0 No.1 43 ibs 2 50 mo.t t \ 70 Mot Cie... |... 59 . Whitefish. No.1 No.2 Fam 100 ives... too So 2a + 1Ds _coe 260) tm wits... 73 “8 8 lbs. . 2 61 33 FLAVORING EXTRACTS. % iS ESTABLISHED 1872 ennings’. Jen ie D.U. Vanilla D. C. Lemon Lo ek 1m 2 of... vi) | 302. -1 50 oo... : 1 00 fog... ...2 00 on, o. 1 40 6o2......3 0 6 oz. 2 00 no. 8 1a) mo. &.. © No. 10. .6 00 No 0. 40 No. 2712 No. 2T. & No. 372 2 00 Ho. 3T.1 3 No 4T.2 40 Bo. 47.1 Northrop Brand. L em Van. 2 oz. Taper Panel. ti 2 i= Soc. (vel.......... % 170 2 00 3 oz. Taper Panel..1 35 4 oz. Taper Panel..1 60 2 2 Souders’. Ovai bottle, with corkscrew, Best in the world for the money. Grade Regular Vanilla. | Saupe DERS SO... i TLEGAN? | Half bbls, 600 count........ 3 13 Smail. | Barrels, 2,400 count...... 6 35 Half bbls 1,200 count...... 3% RICE. Domestic. Carolina head.... ca. 655 Carolmm Boot... Carolina No. 2.:.. 0... .:. 4 Bronwen 33% ee Japan, No.1... oe 6% Japan, No. 2 . 6 Java, fancy Neagle iL 6 eee PO Be aS Table i SALERATUS. Packed 60 lbs. in box. Church’s . .-8 36 Deland’s . eS Li 15 Dw 6 3 30 Taylor’s.. ae SAL SODA. Granulated, bbis...... 7 Granulated, 100 lb cases... 9) Lump, bbls. ae Lump. 145]1b kegs 5 SEEDS. BUNA ! 9 Canary, Smyrna.......... 38% CRC coe 8 Cardamon, Malabar .... 6 CeTAry ee 11 Hemp, Hussian.......... 3% Mixes Hite: oo. 3... K Mustard: white,.:........ 5 EO ee ace 10 OBO cera ae 4% Crustio Bone... igs 20 SNUFF. Scotch, in bladders......... 37 Maccaboy, injars........... 35 French Rappee, in jars..... 43 SAL Diamond an Table, cases, 24 3-lb boxes. ray barrels, 100 3 1b bags. lable, barrels, 407 1b bags. Butter, barrels, 280 1b. bulk. wiromwrwe On dS we oO Butter, barrels, 2014 lbbags.2 50 Butter, Sacks, 261bs........ - 25 Butter, sacks, BO ee 55 Common ee. MOS Ipsacks..... .. _. oe 60 5-lb sacks. . eo ae O83 10 1h seeks. -1 60 Worcester. oO 4 ID. cartons....... .-8 © Ei 21610, BRERS.....-.. 1... 4 00 Oe > ID Races... 3 75 ai Ib saeks..... ...... £50 0.10 1D, BACKS... ....:... 8:50 76 iD. NO BAOKR.....)...... 32 SO1D. linen BaeksS. 1. 60 Bulk ip barreis......,.......2 56 Warsaw. 56-lb dairy in drill bags..... 30 28-lb dairy in drill bags..... 15 Ashton. 56-1b dairy in iinen sacks. . 66 Higgins. 56-1b dairy in linen sacks 60 Solar Rock. oolD sacks... 8s. Common. Granulated Fine..... Modtum Fine... “ Qe et SOAP, RE WOK ul 8 7) 5 box lots, delivered........ 2 70 10 box lots, delivered....... 2 65 JAS. §. KIRK & 60. 8 BRANDS. American Family, wrp’d....2 66 cic, oS ET EGC a cilia: 3 78 Ceminct <0, 2 20 Savon. Sed acca ue ee White Russian. eee eee cone 2 35 White Cloud, laundry... .. 6 2 White Cloud, totlet......... 3 50 Dusky Diamond, 50 6 02...-2 10 Dusky Diamond, 50 8 oz....3 00 Blue India, 100 % lb........ 3 00 ee 8 oe Bon... . 200 Schulte Soap Co.’ 8 ; Brand. 100 cakes, 7% Ibs. ee BOK. »..-.2 60 5 box lots.... = 2 10 box lots. ame dae Pe HOM Teis. s: 2 60 Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands. Old Country, 80 1-Ib. bars ..2 75 Good Cheer, 60 1-lb. bars....3 75 Uno, 100 %-1b. bars... .....-. 2. 2 50 Doll, 100 10-oz. -bars...:... 2 05 Scouring. Sapolio, oe Sa0n.... 2 40 Sapolio, hand, 3 doz..-..... 2 40 SODA. Boxes... 5% Kegs. English 4% SPICES. Whole Sifted. Alispite ..:,.. 3 Cassia, China in mats. 12 Cassie, Batavia in bund... <5 Cassia, Saigon in rolls...... ay Cloves, APO 14 Cloves, Zanzibar........... pe Mace, ew es 55 Nutmegs, PANCY i) cle: 6u usmens, No. 4.2.2... 50 Nutmegs, No. 2.. ..45 Pepper, Singapore, black...11 Pepper, Singapore, white. . .12 PROT Mb ce eu 12 Pure one ~ a: Sliapiee 2. om Cassia, Batavia . Cpesie, Seieon.-.. 2... Cloves, POMRIOY oe 14 Ginger, Afrosn.. oo: 6 c.. 15 Ginger, Coghin:....:.....:. 18 Ginger, Jamaica... 2... . Mace, Batayia.<..... os... Mustard. 0.0 12@ 8 Nutmegs, . -. 40@=0 Pepper, Sing , Black 06.5". 12 Pepper, Sing., white........ 20 — Cayenne oe ee 20 pee areas 15 SYRUPS — Barrels.. Aes eee Half bbis.. Sees cee Pure Cane. Oe eo ee 16 egy Cane pas aOR a REC 20 CHONG re 2 STARCH. = Kingsford’s Corn. ao tap packaces .._ _.. 6 oo 11D packages. |. 6% Kingsford’s Silver Gloss. ‘Ot ib packages... 6% Clip perce -2 Z Diamond. 64 106 packages 5 00 5 OC packiges........ _.5 00 32 10c and 64 5¢ packages...5 00 Common Corn. cei ID. packages, oo 5 #7110, packages... 43, ot Common Gloss. 21D pecrages. 3: 41 S20 packages... 8. 4% GID DACKAGCR |. 2... | 4h 40 and 50 1b boxes. ......... 3% Barrels -....., 2 STOVE POLISH. GEE \ Enhametine Oe 8 9 ko ae ce NEW VORK.NY. U5. No. 4, 3:doz in case, gross..14 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. Dene 0s. Be ee One heat... 6S ae roseee. 7... 88 ee 63 Powaere 22.55.00. 63 AAAe Powdered......... Granulated in bbls... ..... Granulated in bags........ Pine Grannisied.....°...... Extra Fine Granulated..... Extra Coarse Granulated. . wooo ne 2 a © au Mowld A .................. 568 Diamond Confec. A........5 38 Confec. Standard A......... 5 25 a 3 06 No o No. Lz No. 4 No. 49 No. 48 AO 481 Re. Oe 475 MO. Bo 4 69 No. 10 . 4 63 No. 11 ue 6 No, 12 . 450 NG te 444 No. 14 ..4 38 MeO ee 4 31 POO Ws 4 25 . TOBACCOS. Cigars. Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s brand. Row Mack. -.... 2... 33 68 H. & P. Drug Co.’s brand. RSRRCGCEE 35 00 G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand. oN SC oo 33 00 Michigan Cigar Co.’s brand. Ure Unkle Ure Unkle. ois co 35 00 Ruhe Bros Co.’s Brands. Ae A oe 35 00 Bie Wiam, 2... 3.8). 4. 35 00 PGR Ine ek. 35 00 Generals Grant and Lee... .35 00 Spanish Hand Made........ 35 00 Crowi ine... .. cs... 35 00 MICHIGAN TABLE SAUCES. Lea & Perrin’s, large... 4 75 Lea & Perrin’s,small... 2 75 Maltord, larvae... ||. 3 75 MAlfordemall 2B Salad Dressing, large.....4 55 Salad Dressing, small..... 2 65 VINEGAR. Malt White Wine, 40 grain.... 6 Malt White Wine, 80 grain.... 9 Pure Cider 00 os AO Pure-Cider, Leroux... 11 Washing Powder. ey g ME Lovee TT 86) GA M001 Pransant, but Most EMecting Vaid tig Murder WICKING. NOG mereregs. 1. oe NG lL herevods: 30 NO. 2) DOr OrORe 6c. | | 40 INO. 3, Pererods as Fish and Oysters Fresh Fish. Per lb. Wetensh |... @ § rest... @. s&s Black Races 10 @ 31 Eee @ wB Ciscoes or Herring @ 4 BineGen. @ 10 Live Lobster....... @ 18 Boiled Lobster...... @ 20 eae feaader |... @ 8 NO. 1. Fickerel... |. @ ¢ Pee. @ ¢ reren . @ 2% Smoked White...... a 8 Red Snapper........ @ 10 Col River Salmon.. @ 10 mackerc (1... @ 2 Oysters in Cans. ¥. HW. Counts..).... @ 4 F. J. D. Selects...... @ 3 PEIOCMR @ 2B F. J. D. Standards.. @ B& Oysters in Bulk EF. H. Counte...... |. @2 00 Extra Selects....... @l 50 Anchor Standards.. @1 10 Cine Sf Shell Goods. Oysters, per 100.......1 25@1 50 - et oe ‘YVems nar tno Hides and Pelts. The Cappon & Bertseb Leather Co., 100 Canal Street, quotes as follows: Hides. | Green Noto... @ 8% Green Ne. @ 7% a @ 9% Cured No.2 >. 5... @ 8% Calfskins, green No. 1 @ 8% | Calfskins, green No. 2 ai | Calfskins, cured No. 1 @10 | Calfskins, cured No. 2 @ 8 | | Pelts. relts, €ach ........... Set 00 Ta‘low. Be te @ 2% “7... @, 2 Wool. Washed fine |... @20 Washed, medium...... @25 Unwashed, fine.... ...13 @l5 Unwashed, medium ..18 @20 Barrels. Eocene .. 13. ic... @il% XXX W.W.Mich.Hdlt @ 8% W W Michizan........ @ 8% Diamond White....... @7%4 te SOM ca @ 8% Dea: Naptha .........: @7 CymnOer ko 2 @34 oe aout cess 11 @21 Baek. winter....5...: ms | Sairs, 601b cases. Candies. Stick Candy. bbls. pails Standard . 6%@ 7 Standard H.H...... 6%@7 Standard Twist..... 6 @B8 Can Boat os. @ 8% cases dumipe, 22th .., @ 6% mitra @ 8% Boston Cream...... G@ Mixed Candy. Competition......... @ 6% ones... @t Comserve. oe @I% Heya) @i% oo. @ 8% Broken = @ 8% Cut Beat...) @ 8% English Rock....... @8 Kindergarten....... @ &% French Cream...... @ 8% Dandy Pan...... Co @10 Valley Cream.. .... @i2z Fancy—In Bulk. Lozenges, plain..... @ 3 Lozenges, printed.. @ 9 Coe. Props... |. @i4 Choc. Monumentals @il Gum Drops... @6 Moss. Drops... |. @8 Sour Swipe... | @9 Imperialy. @9 Fancy—In 5 Ib. Boxes. Lemon Drops....... @50 peur Drops. @5o Peppermint Drops. . @60 Chocolate Drops.... @60 H. M. Choe. Drops... % Gum Drops.... @30 Licorice Drops...... @i5 A. B. Licorice Drops @50 Lozenges, plain... . @a50 Lozenges, printed.. @a50 maperials 00) | @5 Motiees ....- @55 (seam Bar @av Molasses Bar... _- @50 Hand Made Creams. 30 @1 00 Plain Creams..... - 6 @90 Decorated Creams... @9# Serer Rock... @b6o Burnt Almonds.....1 25 @ Wintergreen Berries @60 Caramels. No. 1 wrapped, 2 Ib. Roles @35 No. 1 wrapped, 3 Ib. PORGH @50 No. 2 wrapped, 2 Ib. PORES ° Fruits. Oranges. Cal. Seedlings ...... @2 50 Fancy Navels 112 .. @3 00 Poot C16. @3 50 Coote | @ Medt Sweets........ @2 7 Lemons. Strictly choice 360s.. @3 50 Strictly choice 300s.. @3 50 Fancy 360s or 300s... @4 00 Ex.Fancy 300s.... . i Ex.Fancy 360s...... @ California 300s. ... @3 25 Bananas. Medium bunches...1 25 @1 50 Large bunches......1 75 @2 00 Foreign Dried Fruits. Figs. Choice, 101b boxes. . Extra choice, 14 Ib Sexen Fancy, 12 lb boxes.. Imperial Mikados, 18 Ib domes... | Pulled, 61b boxes... Naturals, in bags. . Dates. | Fards in 10 lb boxes | Fards in 60 ib cases Persians, G. M’s..... Ib casen, new... __ ‘Nuts. Almonds, Tarragona. . Almonds, Ivaca....... Almonds, California, soft shelied..:... |. . Brastia new. . 1.0... Filberts Wainuts, Grenobles .. Walnuts, Calif No. 1. Walnuts, soft shelled Calif Table Nuts, faney.... Table Nuts, choice... Pecans; Med... Pecans, Ex. Large.... Pecans, Jumbos....... Hickory Nuts per bu., Oo, now. ....°. |. Cocoanuts, full sacks Peanuts. Fancy, H. P., Suns. Fancy, H. P., Flags POOStGM s.r: Choice, H. P., Extras. Choice, H. P., Extras, Roasted : @ @ @ @ @ @ 6 @8 @ 6 @i wonamoeow Sem thee eet com ~ 88 © OO OBHHOHA OOOHO a a] A e Ss we 14 ee uw ce TRADESMAN Urains and Feedstuffs Wheat. OUR Verte 20 | | No.2 ree 1 "| Winter Wheat Flour. | Local Brands. en ee mecond Patent... |... 7 95 ereteng 16 ear 6 50 ee Buckwnest 0. |. | 4 00 | ee 4 50 | Subject to usual eash dis- | count. } Flour in bbls., 25¢ per bbl. ad- | ditional. Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand iiamend sa. 7s Diamond Ws... 12 DiaeOnd, 48. 1... 2 O5 Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand. Caer, ee ee essen sl 7 50 Cieker 4s. 7 50 Spring Wheat Flour. Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brand. Pillsbury’s Best Ks........ 7 50 Pillsbury’s Best \%s........ 7 40 Pillsbury’s Best 4a... ie oo Pillsbury’s Best \%s paper.. 7 30 Pillsbury’s Best 54s paper.. 7 30 Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand. > Ws UL 3\) “IMPERIAL |), . y, PATENT S/// { un Z Duluth Imperial, %s....... 7. on Duluth Imperial, ¥ as. Duluth Imperial, %s....... 7 30 Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s Brand. Gold Medal %s.... 7 Gold Medal tgs........ Le. © oe Gold Medal ign... a 46 Faridan ta. |... _1.o Parisien, Sf) 000. 1... 7 50 Parsan ee. 7 40 Olney & Judson’s Brand. Cerceors, 448... < 50 | Cresta) 7 40 Ceresota, 1¢8.0 .. | 7301 Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand. | PORTE eee ee | Darel Ys eae paunel 46000 eae | Meal. Bekoa: = oo Granulated . 2 50 Beef. HCareass 6...) eae 7% | Fore quarters......... 5%4@ 614 Hid guarters........ S4@ 9 Toins We. S$... 9 @i2 Fees - 8%@12% Rounds Seeccetes, © 1S Coners.. 6 @ 5% Plates ey 4 Pork. PRCRBOR 5 00@5 25 POees 4... @ 8% SmOwmiges ... 7... @ 6 Eeatiace ........... 62@ Mutton. Carcess ....... ...... 7@8 | Spring Lambs... ....- 8 @9 Veal. CRPCRRM 6%@ 8 Feed and Millstuffs. St. Car Feed. screened ....19 00 No. 1 Corn and Oats.......18 00 Unbolted Corn Meal....... 17 06 Winter Wheat Bran... . .17 06 | | Winter Wheat Middlings..18 00 | Borcecniagg 3. 16 00 New Corn Ne ee ae Less than car lots......... 43 | Oats. Cae TOR i ae Cariots, Glipped............ 38 Less than ear lots. ....... 40 Hay. No.1 Timothy arlots...... 9 | No. 1 Timothy, ton lots....10 00 Fresh Meats. — 8 | Ginger Snaps, XXX city... & i 8 Provisions. Swift & Company quote as follows: Barreled Pork. Mess a 12 50 Back . 13 00 Clee Dace 12 7% Paeene 12 50 i... ae 16 v0 Bean 11 OU 12 U0 Dry Salt Meats. Bees @ Lorene 634 Eutra Shorts) 6% Smoked Meats. Hams, 12 lb average .... 9 Hams, 14 Ib average ... 8% Hams, 16 Ip average..... 8% Hams, 20 lb average..... 8 Ham dried beef... 14 Shoulders (N. Y. cut). 6% Bacon, clear... 8 @9 California hams......... 6% Boneless hams........___ 9 Cooked iam =... 10@124% Lards. In Tierces. Competing (00 4% Bete TM 59 lb Tubs.......advance 4 80 lb Tubs...... advance 36 d0 1b Tins ....... advance 3% 20 lb Pails....... advance 5g ib Pails __ advance k Sib Pais. |. advance 1 Ji) Pails: advance 14g Sausages. | Bowens i. 5% River 6% Prankiare. 7% en 6% ee 6 eee 9 Head cheese. eee 644 Beef. | Rear Mes; is io | pemeless mo | Re 12 00 Pigs’ Feet. at 70 4 DD 40a as % bbls, 80 lba...... 2 40 Tripe. tee Fo eg | ma ODIs 40 ibe... ge | a ObIs, BO Iba... 8 ae Casings. CO 15 Hect roads, 4 Beet middices 10 Se 60 Butterine. MONS) daing 0 | 10 SOG dairy 9% Rolls, creamery ......... 14 Solid, creamery ....... |. 13% Canned Meats. Corned beef, 21b...... 2 50 Corned beef, 14 lb.......16 50 Roast beef, 2 Ib.. - 2 50 Potted ham, is | 4 Potted hn oa 1 i0 Deviledham, \s....... 70 Deviled iitin, ia} 10 Potted tongue a... le Potted tongue %s......_ 1 10 Crackers. The National Biseuit Co. quotes as follows: Butter. pepaoer ike | llhUlUUlCUG Seymour XXX, 3 lb. carton i% ee Family XXX, 31b earton.. 7% Sao Salted XXX, 3 1b carton... 7% Soda. | peda Ae _ oe | Soda XXX, 31b carton.... 8 pogm, CG 3% Remi an | Long Island Wafers....... mm i L. I. Wafers, 1 lbecarton .. i | Oyster. | | Square Oyster, XXX....... 7 | | Sq. Oys. XXX.11b carton. 8 | Farina Oyster, XXX...) oF SWEET GOODS—Boxes. ee. |} Bent’s Cold Water......... 15 bere Mbee wk. 84 | Cocoanut Taffy........ io | Coffee Cakes. ....... Mevcys Eo Hrosted Honey............. 13% Graham Crackers.......... 8% Ginger Snaps, XXX round. Gin. Snps,X XX home made Gin. Snps,X XX sealloped.. 8 Cinmer Gene... 8% SOAR ee. ae gumbles, Honey........... 12% Molusses Cakes. 8% Marshmallow ..... ~ 16 Marshmallow Creams 17 Pretzels, hand made ..... e% Pretzelettes, LittleGerman 7% poeet Cone. 2... ..5..<..,.. 8 Dore 134% eats LUNG... Ske Seger Scduares 9% Vanilla Wafers........... 15 Pecem Wafere............., 16% mised Freme. 12% Cream Jumbles............ 13 Boston Ginger Nuts........ 10 rineapme Glace... ..... 17 Penny Gmmed. ... 9 Marshmallow Walnuts.... 17 Balle Isle Picnic... ....... 11% 2l Crockery and Glassware. AKRON STONEWARE. Butters, % Gal, per dos........ : 50 1 to6 gal., per gal........ 5% Seal perder... 64% (ieee pera 6% 12 gal., per gal...... 6% 15 gal. meat-tubs, per gal.. § 20 gal. meat-tubs, pergal, § 25 gal. meat-tubs, per eat.. 30 gal. meat-tubs, per gal.. 16 Churns. 2toGgal pergal | ___ 5% Churn Dashers, per doz... 85 Milkpans. % gal. flat or rd. bot., doz. 60 i gal. flat or rd. bot., each 5% Fine Glazed Milkpans. % gal. flat or rd, bot.,doz. 65 1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each 5% Stewpans. % gal. fireproof, bail, doz. 9% 1 gal. fireproof, bail, doz.1 10 Jugs. MSA), ner den |... 40 “Sal. perdoz ||. 500 1too gal. pergal:.. |... 6% Tomato Jugs. SRE. perdoe 70 Peal ecaen,. 7 Corks for % gal., per doz.. 20 Corks for 1 gal., perdoz.. 30 Preserve Jars and Covers. % gal., stone cover, doz... 75 i gal., stone cover, doz...1 00 Sealing Wax. 5 lbs. in package, perlb... 2 LAMP BURNERS. No.0 San 45 NO San 50 eS Oe 73 Pabiae 50 security Nati... | 65 SeGUEM, NOS ae Numer ce | Cimewe 1 50 LAMP CHIMNEYS—Common. Per box of 6 doz. Ne. 0 Sun... _. neces 2 Ne. Sa 1 88 NO 2S 2 70 First Quality. No. 0 Sun, crim top, p wrapped and labeled.... 2 10 No. 1 Sun, crim top, wrapped and labeled.... 2 25 Ne. 2 § No. Sun, crimp top, wrapped and labeled.... 3 25 XXX Flint. No. 0 Sun, crimp top, wrapped and labeled.... 255 No. 1 Sun, crimp top, wrapped and labeled. .. 2 75 No. 2 Sun, crim top, wrapped and labeled.... 3 75 CHIMNEYS—Pearl Top. No.1 Sun, wrapped and SOC a 7 No. 2 Sun, PAC No. 2 Hinge, wrapped and meiosis No. 2 Sun, “Small Bulb,” for Globe Lamos......... 80 La Bastie. No. 1 Sun. plain bulb, per dos .. wrapped and No. 2 Sun, plain bulb, per d oe a 50 | No. 1 Crimp, per doz....... 1 3 No. 2 Crimp, per doz... ... 1 60 Rochester. No. 1, Lime (65¢ aon), .... oo No. 2, Lime (70c doz)...... 4 00 No. 2, Flint (80¢ doz)...... 4 70 Electric. No. 2, Lime (70c doz) ..... 4 00 No. 2, Flint (80¢ doz)...... 4 40 OIL CANS. Doz. 1 gal tin cans with spout.. | 25 1 gal galv iron with spout. 1 65 | 2 gal galv iron with spout. 2 87 3 gal galv iron with spout. 3 50 5 gal galv iron with spout. 4 75 3 gal galv iron with faucet 4 75 5 gal galv iron with faucet 5 25 5 gal Tilting cans.......... 8 00 5 gal galv iron Nacefas.... 9 00 Pump Cans, 5 gal Rapid steady stream. 9 00 5 gal Eureka non-overflow 10 56 3 gal Home Rule..... .....10 80 [Saal Rome ule,..,. ...... 12 00 5 gal Pirate King...... hole BOE LANTERNS, no. OTenwe..... 25 No. 15 Tupulay..... 50 No. 13 TubularDash. .... No. 1Tub., glass fount.... No. 12 Tubular, side lamp. No. 3Street Lamp...... 2 3 LANTERN GLOBES, No. 0 Tubular, cases 1 doz. PAIS h Ss ~ each, box 10cents.. ..... 4% No. 0 Tubular, cases 2 doz. each, box 15 cents....... 45 No. 0 Tubular, bbls 5 doz. each, bbl 35}...... erin ws No. 0 Tubular, bull’s eye, cases 1 doz. each. ........ LAMP WICKs, No, 0 per grose.......... DO. Sper Sees wc... No. 2 per gross ... os No. 3 per groas,...... — PRE a J rt SZERS 22 r Hardware | Best Way to Cripple the Department Stores. Ante Lucem in American Artisan. The liquor business is by a large per- centage of our people and the world looked upon as an immoral and illegiti- mate business and the retail part of it is run under police regulations in the larger cities and towns, while some sort of restriction is placed over it almost everywhere in this country, and the wholesale part of the work is conducted under strict governmental laws, but the business, as a business, has never yet been the subject of state investigation. In all business, and among ail lines of business in this country, it remains a fact that the department store business is the only business that has been sub- jected to state legislative investigation. Not another single line of commercial trading has been brought before the bar of a state legislature in this country but the department store. Several states have been called upon to look into this particular class of trading ; several more states will again corsider it. Why and what tor? Be- cause it is considered an evil and reme- dies are sought to correct it. They would have been measurably corrected ere this but for the highly paid lobbies working against the returms. Who paid the lob- byists and was the price obtained from the margins of legitimate gain? If these institutions are selling goods at legiti- mate profits and for less than the regu- lar and smaller dealer, where come the thousands raised to bribe legislators? Is there any other legitimate business in our Country that would try to evade an honest investigation? Not in over one hundred years has any other class of commercial trading in this country been investigated by a state legislature. The State of Louisiana for a number of years ran a State lottery. There grew up much public clamor, with prosecutors on the one side and defenders on tbe other. The State would not suppress it as an evil, because of large pecuniary gain therefrom. Public opinion at last called the strong arm of the Govern- ment, and despite the offer on the part of the lottery company to pay the en. tire National debt, it had to go as an intolerable evil. Thus it was that a man did not have the right to do what he would with his own money and pay it into a swindling combine, even sanctioned by a. state grant. The poorer people, those easily led by lying advertising, were daily swindled out of their earnings, and the general Government put a stop to it. It is not the stores as stores, but their methods and the manner in which the business is conducted. It is too much on the lottery plan and not enough of opeu honest conduct. 1 am in favor of a law regulating all advertising that will prevent the depart- ment store, catalogue house, every mer- cbant and manufacturer from gain through lying advertising, vide an in- vestigation which advertised certain goods were from a bankrupt stock, for- mer dealer's price $1.50, our price 79 cents, and the goods were never owned and never formed a part of the said bankrupt stock. Moreover, the same class of goods were on sale at a regular dealer's store six blocks away at 35 cents. It is less than two years since an _ in- junction was served upon a Minneapolis newspaper and one of its advertising patrons preventing the utterance of a lying advertisement. We want some law,some sort of a police regulation, that will correct these evils, that will pre- vent this lying and scheming. With all their schemes and frauds eliminated, they can not run full page advertise- ments with three and four page Sunday advertisements, because they will not be able to hoodwink the gullible. —__» 2. The Ending of the Window Glass War. From the Paint, Oiland Drug Review. The two years’ contest between the so-called plate glass combine and the MICHIGAN. TRADESMAN outside factories was suddenly and—to buyers of glass—sorrowfully brought to a close last week. It appears that a ‘“‘gentlemen’s agreement,’’ or an un- derstanding of like import, has been fixed up by the rival-producing inter- ests, and, for the present at least, for- mer enemies are sworn friends—and in- cidentally plate glass sells at about 100 per cent. more than it did a week ago. The last week has been a record break- er, for no such single advance has ever been previously recorded in the history of the business. Indeed, the most star- tling feature of the price movement was an advance of Ioo per cent. on one day, its withdrawal on the next, and the for- mer advance restored on the third. A Chicago jobber of a quarter of a cen- tury’s standing stated that such marked fluctuations are simply bewildering, and challenge the admiration of Leiter, Armour and other lightning-change mar- ket manipulators. By way of explana- tion, it may be said that the deal seemed well under way when the advance was first made, a hitch was encountered and the advance withdrawn, and latterly the deal was perfected and the advance re- stored. So it appears that the plate glass magnates were not ‘‘playing horse’’ with the trade—but simply getting to- gether as best they could in order to make a little money! The cessation of hostilities between the plate glass belligerents inaugurates an era of high prices-—-high when com- pared with recent sales at 90 and 5, and go and Io off the list, but very moderate when contrasted with values two and three years ago. It means that all the factories will reap large profits on their output instead of keeping even or losing money. The restoration of peace acts as a windfall to jobbers with large stocks and good contracts with produc- ers, for the value of their holdings was about doubled in a night. They are happy. Contractors who had closed in on work in which plate glass was fig- ured at the old price and will now have to pay the new are the ones hard bit. They are unbappy; also the miscel- laneous buyers who could just as weil have made their purchases a week or ten days ago as now, but didn't. They could have bought $1,000 worth of plate, list price, at $95 then; they must now pay $190, the difference between 90 and 5 off, and 80 and 5 off list price. The comments in the trade on the events of the week are interesting. One prophesies that the agreement is but the entering wedge which will lead to a consolidation of all the producing inter- ests. Auother thinks it will have an opposite influence, aiding the indepe- dents’ cause. —__»-—.___ When a woman has nothing else to do, she fixes her hair. UBEROID EADY OOFING All ready to lay. Needs no painting for two years. Is odorless, absolutely waterproof, will resist fire and the action of acids. Can be used over shingles of steep roofs, or is suitable for flat roofs. Will outlast tin or iron and is very much cheaper. Try our pure ASPHALT PAINT For coating tin, iron or ready roofs. Write for prices. H. M. REYNOLDS & SON, Grand Rapids Office, Louis and Campau Sts. Detroit Office, Foot of Third St. SS iS =" =" =" i i fs =" =" f i SS = > = Ks = . =" > Ss = aes | Grand Rapids, Mich. ‘ oS Manufacturers and Jobbers of Tinware and House Furnishing Goods Illustrated Catalogue S S New sent to dealers if they drop us acard. Every dealer should have it. Oo a 2 S 2S OS S 9 S ee Oo S S 2S 2S OS S S OS SS S a S S S 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. LRLMQLLNLQLKLN MLR LLLRLOKRRD Wt Clark-Rutka- Jewell Co. o 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. —Absolutely automatic. Re- —quires no more care than a —small hand lamp. The only —generator manufactured in — Michigan that has been granted —a permit by the UNDERWRIT- ERS’ INSURANCE ASSOCIATION, —For full information and prices —address the manufacturers. our wheel for a few days’ trial, If not satisfactory we will re- In ordering send exact size of seat post hole and Adjustable Have your BERKEY SPRING SEAT POST COMPANY, Grand Rapids, Mich. 24 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN PAPER PROTESTED. Logical Outcome of Illegitimate Busi- ness Methods. The Tradesman has frequently had occasion to warn its patrons against having any dealings with A. C. Hager, the Lake Odessa egg buyer, principally on account of the fact that he has con- ducted his business so recklessly that nothing but a National bank back of him could prevent his ultimately meet- ing with disaster. He began business in Lake Odessa about six years ago, but cut very little figure in the egg market until the season of 1897, when he de- moralized the market for several weeks by reason of his paying from one-half cent to one cent above the market. It was understood at that time that he was backed by the officers of the Lake Odessa Savings Bank, and the general understanding is that the loss at the end of the season was found to be sev- eral thousand dollars. Notwithstanding this experience, Hager started in again this season to bull the market, offering 9 cents when eggs were actually worth only 8 cents—on a parity with Eastern markets—-and subsequently paying 10 cents when it was not possible to ship the eggs to the Eastern markets, pay the freight and commission and get out whole on the basis of sucha paying price. It 1s ciaimed that Hager has frequently asserted that he would drive every other egg dealer out of the field, and if this was his intention, he suc- ceeded to some extent, although buyers with ample nerve and ampler bank ac- counts stayed in the field and met his prices, at the same time protesting that such a policy was ruinous and must ulti- mately result in the failure of Mr. Hager or the embarrassment of the bank or whatever financial influence stood be- hind him. On Monday morning of this week, Mr. Hager uttered a chattel mortgage for $800 to W. J. Percival, Cashier of the Lake Odessa Savings Bank, covering the following described properties: Three thousand five hundred wood egg cases and 8,000 set of egg cases filled: also 650 mineral wool egg cases, the same being all the egg cases and fillers now used by him. Alsoone black mare 6 years old, also one lumber wagon pur- chased of Arthur Tolles, also one spring egg wagon purchased of M. R. Alden, also one single top carriage purchased a OO. A. Lapo, also one light road wagon purchased of H. C. Carpenter & Son, also 3 set of light single harnesses and one set of light double harness, be- ing all the harnesses owned by him, also one fire-proof safe. Owing to the retirement of most of the cold storage buyers from the field, the receipts of eggs at Lake Odessa last week were very large, and instead of assorting the eggs and repacking them in his own cases, it is asserted that Hager dumped the receipts, cases and all, into cars as fast as they arrived and shipped them East by fast freight. How many cars left Lake Odessa during the week the Tradesman has been unable to ascertain, but it is probable that not less than five or six cars were hurriedly sent out in this way. Monday after- noon, Hager left on the Eastbound train, ostensibly for Philadelphia, and it is asserted that he informed some of his friends that he would return ina few days and square accounts. In the mean- time, his checks have been going to pro- test for several days, and from present appearances, shippers who sent him eggs during the last week or ten days prior to Monday of this week will be compelled to wait a long time for their pay. The eggs which reached Lake interest amounts to $300. Odessa subsequent to the filing of the chattel mortgage were held by the Iccal agent of the D., G. R. & W. Railway, who immediately notified the Generai Freight Agent at Grand Rapids, who, in turn, notified the shippers that their eggs were held at Lake Odessa subject to their orders. At the same time Mr. Davis notified all of the local agents on the line of the Heald system not to ac- cept any more shipments from Hager for good and sufficient reasons. So far as Hager’s indebtedness is con- cerned, it is estimated all the way from $7,000 to $20,000. It is pretty well scat- tered over the Western portion of the State, and it is not thought that many of the amounts are large. The largest creditor the Tradesman has knowledge of is Martin Datema, 120 Jennette Street, Grand Rapids, whose claim is $861. The next largest claim is that of Thos. Condra, of Grand Rapids, whose Local credit- ors have sent attorneys to Lake Odessa to look up the matter, but between the bank and Hager there appears to be nothing left on which either attachment or execution could rest. The Tradesman had never had any confidence in Mr. Hager’s business ca- pacity because of the reckless manner in which he conducted his business. That this opinion is shared by the mer- cantile agencies is shown by the poor ratings accorded him in their reference books. April 14, 1897, he made a state- ment to R. G. Dun & Co. that he had $5,000 in cash, $2,000 in real estate and $1,100 in personal property, and that his entire indebtedness was only $285, making his net worth $7,815. Notwith- standing this statement, Dun & Co. con. tinued to rate him blank, evidently in the belief that the statement was not en- titled to credence. After the horse is stolen it is a poor time to lock the barn, yet the Trades- man Can not resist the temptation to again remind the country merchants and produce shippers of the State that it is not good policy in the long run to deal with a man who has not a satisfac- tory business rating with the mercan- tile agencies, especially if he is given to splurges and wild periods of specu- lation, which can not fail to result in disaster to all concerned. Mr. Hager had a good location and his expenses need not have been heavy, because he did business in a comparatively inex- pensive building and could employ whatever help he needed at reasonable prices. If he had been content to do a smal! business and keep within safe and conservative limits, he would probably be in business to-day, besides being able to look every man in the face and pay 100 cents on the dollar. The am- bition to do a large business and to crowd every other buyer in the same line off the track led him into excessive buying on the basis of a higher range of values than the market warranted, ulti- mately resulting in failure for himself and a serious loss for his shippers. How far the Lake Odessa Savings Bank is interested in Mr. Hager, the Tradesman has no means of ascertain- ing; but the Bank permitted Mr. Hager to use its name as reference and. fre- quently answered letters of enquiry from country shippers, recommending him as trustworthy. How far the Bank ought to be held responsible, under such cir- cumstances, for the claims of the credit- ors is entirely a matter of conjecture, but the Tradesman has no hesitation in asserting that such a practice ought to be stopped and that this is a good time to call a halt. It is entirely too easy for a man with limited capital to se- cure the permission of his local bank to refer his customers thereto, yet in the event of liquidation, the bank scoops in all the available assets and the creditor gets out his letter from the bank, recom- mending the liquidator as_ reliable, and no longer wonders why it is that banks are so willing to recommend irrespon- sible dealers when they have a prior claim on everything the dealers own. This is sometimes referred to as the ‘‘divine right of the banks,’’ but the man who has suffered loss as the result of this practice is unwilling to look upon the transaction as bordering on the divine, insisting that it has a closer connection with the land of sulphur and brimstone. Later—Since writing the above, the Tradesman is in receipt of a telepbone message from its special representative which it sent to Lake Odessa, stating that the amount of eggs on track at that place aggregates about seven carloads. Mr. Percival, the Cashier of the Lake Odessa Savings Bank, informed him that the amount of checks which have already gone to protest is about $5,000, and it is estimated that this represents about one-third of his actual indebted- ness to country shippers. Mr. Percival States that Mr. Hager has 10,000 cases of eggs in cold storage at Pottstown, Pa., on which it is expected that he will be able to realize a profit, in case the eggs are held until fall. If they are closed out now at forced sale, the result will be a considerable loss. What in- terest the Bank has in the stock stored at Pottstown is not disclosed, but it must be in the vicinity of $30,000, un- less Hager has an equity in the stock or advances have been made thereon by the cold storage warehousemen. The general opinion at Lake Odessa appears to be that Mr. Hager will return and square himself, so far as it is possible for him to do so. This expression of opinion is certainly .creditable to Mr. Hager, whose operations have been of great value to the town because he has employed an average of twenty-two per- sons in his warehouse during the egg season. There are rumors in Lake Odessa that the crash would not have occurred had Mr. Percival continued to furnish the capital on which to swing the business, as he was doing up to the: latter part of last week, when the Pres- ident of the Bank came over trom Ionia and put an embargo on the Bank’s mak- ing further advances. The uncertainty as to how much the bank may be inter- ested in Mr. Hager naturally causes considerable unfavorable comment on the part of the customers of the institu- tion, and under the circumstances, it is thought that the officers of the Bank will shortly make a statement to the public, to the end that the customers of the Bank may rest assured that it is not embarrassed by the speculation. WANTS COLUMN. Advertisements will be inserted under this head for two cents a word the first insertion and one cent a word for each subsequent in- sertion. No advertisements taken ior tne than 25 cents. Advance payment. BUSINESS CHANCES, pINE OPPORTUNITY FOR EXPERIENCED man with means to engage in the grist mill business in Leelanaa county. Fine wheat coun- try. Acreage of wheat this year in easy access to mil!,8 09. acres. No opposition within twen ty-six miles. Mill site furnished free. Best of shipping facilities either by rail or water. For further particulars address Empire Lumber Co., Empire, Leelanau Co., Mich. 602 | pes SALE—uRUG STOCK IN GOOD RAIL- road town of 800 inhabitants. Only drug and wall pajer stock in town; part cash, re- mainder on easy terms. Good reasons for sell- ing. Address Otis Jones, New Buffalo, Mich. OR RENT—LARGE DESIRABLE STORE on best street. Address Mrs. B. Brewer, Owosso, Mich. 571 OR SALE—THE WELL-KNOWN BUSINESS of the Detroit Pharmacal Co. A splendid chance to buy an established drug trade. Ad- dress Geo. R. Angell, 149 Griswold St., Detroit, Mich. 595 HAVE SMALL STOCK OF DRUGS AND fixtures in Ionia, taken on mortgage. Will sell Cheap for cash or trade for productive real estate. Answer immediately. Will sell soon. W. W. Hunt, Under National City Bank, Grand Rapids. 596 RICK STORE FOR RENT—BEST LOGA~- tion in city; will be let for any business ex- cept dry goods and clothing. J. H. Levinson, Petoskey, Mich. 600 OR SALE—GENERAL STOCK; STORE TO rent; good location, good trade. Will sell cheap for cash. Royce & Rolison, Hamburg, Mich. 599 YOR SALE OR EXCHANGE—STOCK OF drugs and fixtures; furniture of gum wood finely finished; elegant soda fountain and charging apparatus complete; located on cor- ner of two best principal streets in city of Muskegon, Mich. Can be moved if desired. Stock and fixtures invoiced April 1 about $4,800. Wili exchange for productive real estate timber land or something similar, located most any- where. Drugs are out of my line of business. Will give someone a great bargain. Call on orad- dress D. S. Hopkins, Grand Rapids, Mich. 593 ‘OR SALE—I have two complete drug stocks in Middleville. Will sell one and move other away, Or will sell one-half interest in either stock—one to be moved into an other location— toreliableman. Dr. Nelson Abbott, Middleville, Mich. 591 igi WELL- LOCATED, WELL-RENTED residences near Normal College, Ypsilanti, to exchange for merchandise. Address 202 Con. gress St., Ypsilanti. 582 OR RENT—DOUBLE STORE BUILDING in Opera House block, Mancelona, Mich., best location in town; best town in State. Ad. dress Julius H. Levinson, Petoskey, Mich. 580 “ SALE—BAKING, CONFECTIONERY, cigar stock and ice cream business, with good fixtures. Address No, 579, care Michigan Tradesman. 579 re SALE, EXCHANGE OR REN?T—LARGE two-story store and residence building in town of 1,000 population in Northern Indiana: Stone basement, 120 feet in dimensions. Inves- tigate. Aduress No. 575, care Michigan Trades- man. 575 i eo REN'T—THE FIRST AND SECOND floors and basements of the brick building numbered 12 and 14 Lyon street, recently occu- pied by Hirth, Krause & Co.; suitable for mer- cantile or manufacturing purposes. Also the large hall on the third floor over 8 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 Kc SALE—FIRST-CLASS GROCERY, MEAT market and crockery stock, located in one of the best towns in Michigan; best location in the city. Good reasons for selling; a bargain for the right person. Will sell for cash only. Address No. 568, care Michigan Tradesman. 568 VOR SALE— BUILDING AND GENERAL stock; best farming section in Michigan. No trades. W. H. Pardee, Freeport, Mich. 500 NOR EXCHAEGE FOR GROCERY OR MER- chandise stock—Choice section land near Jamestown, North Dakota. Dakota lands in great demand for farming or stock raising. Carl Dice, Monroe, Mich. 534 1.2 EXCHANGE—FOR CLOTHING, DRY goods or shoes, very nice well rented Grand Rapids property. Address No. 552, care Michi- gan Tradesman. 552 — EXCHANGE — FARMS AND OTHER property for dry goods, clothing and shoes. Address P. Medalie, Mancelona, Mich 553 ANTED—A PRACTICAL MILL MAN, with $1,000 capital, to take a one-half or full interest in a stave, heading and planing mill. 3,000 contract, with stock to fillit. All goes. Five years’ cut in sight. Side track te mill. Good reasons for selling. Address Stave Mill, care Michigan Tradesman. 546 BROOMS A BOMERS, MANUFACTURER OF HIGH- e grade brooms at all prices, for retailers only. Grand Rapids, Mich. 605 VOR SALE--MODERN, WELL-ESTABLISHED : and equipped broom factory and good trade. Other business commands our attention. Ad- dress No. 584, care Michigan Tradesman. 584 COUNTRY PRODUCE W ANTED—BUTTER, EGGS AND POUL- try; any quantities. Write me. Orrin J. Stone, Kalamazoo, Mich. 604 ANTED — FIRST-CLASS BUTTER FOR retail trade. Cash paid. Correspond with Caulkett & Co., Traverse City, Mich. 381 VJ ANTED—1,000 CASES FRESH EGGS, daily. Write for prices. F. W. Brown, Ithaca, Mich. 556 PATENT SOLICITORS. _ ))REE—OUR NEW HANDBOOK ON PAT- ents. Cilley & Allgier, Patent Attorneys, Grand Rapids, Mich. 339 __ MISCELLANEOUS. \ ANTED —— EXPERIENCED GROCERY salesman. State experience and salary expected. If you wish to improve your present position, address No. 603, care Michigan Trades- man. 603 ANTED—— REGISTERED ASSISTA NT pharmacist, single man. Must furnish good references as to character, ete.; one from the country preferred. Address No. 597, care Michigan Tradesman. 597 ANTED—POSITION IN GROCERY. 1 make a specialty of teas and coffees; age, 27. Frank Bentley, Ludington, Mich. 598 ep | meme nme agp Sed ee, ee ee - T ~ ee eel ct Travelers’ Time Tables. CHICAGO *1¢ ee. tens ey Chicago. Ly. G. Rapids...........8:45am 1:25pm *11:30pm Ar, Chicage. 3:10pm 6:50pm 6:40am liy. Chieago............ 7:20am 5:15pm *11:30pm Ar. G’d Rapids....... . 1:25pm 10:35pm * 6:20ar Traverse City, Charlevoix and Petoskey. by. Gd Banids 7:30am 5:30pm Parlor and Sleeping Cars on afternoon and night trains to and from Chicago. *Every day. Others week days only. DETROIT reste Detroit. Ly. Grand Rapids......7:00am 1:35pm 5:35pm Ar. Detratt. 3.0... .: 11:40am 5:45pm 10:20pm Ly. Detroit...... -8:00am 1:10pm 6:10pm Ar. Grand Rapids....°12:55pm 5:20pm 10:55pm Saginaw, Alma and Greenville. Lv. G R7:10am 4:20pm Ar.GR 12:20pm 9:30pm Parlor cars on all trains to and from Detroit and Saginaw. Trains run week days only. Gso. DeHaven, Genera! Pass. Agent. Trunk R GRAND rere and iwenkes Di (In effect May 15, 1898 ) Leave. EAST. Arrive. + 6:45am Sag., Detroit, Buffalo & N Y .+ 9:55pm *10:10am. Detroit and East.... ..+ 5:27pm + 3:20pm..Sag., Det., N. Y. & Boston..+12:45pm * 8:00pm... Detroit, East and Canada...* 6:35am +10:45am...... Mixed to Durand........ + 3:15pm WEST * 8:35am....Gd. Haven and Int. Pts....* 7:05pm +12:53pm.Gd. Hayen and Intermediate.+ 3:12pm + 5:32pm..Gd. Haven and Intermediate.+10:05am * 7:40pm...Gd. Haven and Chiecago...... 8:15am +10:00pm...... Gd. Haven and Mil....... 6:40am Eastward—No. 16 has Wagner parlor car. No. 22 parlor car. Westward—No. 11 parlor car. No. 17 Wagner parlor car. *Daily. +Except Sunday. E. H. Huewes, A. G. P. & T. A. BEN. FLETCHER, Trav. Pass. Agt., C. A. Justin, City Pass. Agent. 97 Monroe St. Morton House. voi ite | NVZ -~ Bw - Bw BWA AAAs FF... 8... NZ AW FFF SSO OSS oS SSG ~a WV | l WV WV $0000000000000000 W It pays any dealer to have the reputa- WW WW tion of keeping pure goods. W W It pays any dealer to keep the Seymour W W Cracker. W W There’s a large and growing section of WV W the public who will have the best, and W W with whom the matter of a cent or soa W WW pound makes no impression. It’s not W W HOW CHEAP with them; it's HOW W W Goo. W W For this class of people the Seymour W W Cracker is made. WW MN Discriminating housewives recognize AN its superior ‘ mn FLAVOR, PURITY. . a DELICIOUSNESS MN nV. Fae AN and will have it. NN MN If you, Mr. Dealer, want the trade or AN AN particular people, keep the Seymour AN AN Cracker. Made by AN ee a ; i National Biscuit Company, ” A Grand Rapids, Mich. Msssssssssss<-ccccccccee Rapids & Indiana Railway Dec. 5, 1897. Arrive Trav. C’y, Petoskey & Mack...+ 7:45am t¢ 5:15pm Tray. C’y, Petoskey & Mack...+ 2:15pm ¢ 6:35am Trav. C’y, Petoskey & Mack... ........ $10:50pm CO + 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 GRAN Mackinaw. Southern Div. Leave Arrive Cmomna. 3). c. + 7:10am + 8:25pm ee Re + 2:10pm + 2:00pm Cincinnati....... .............* 7:00pm * 7:25am 7:10 a.m. train has parlor car to Cincinnati. 2:10 p.m. train has parlor car to Fort Wayne. 7:00 p. m. train has sleeping car to Cincinnati. Muskegon Trains. GOING WEST. Ly G’d Rapids......... +7:35am +1:00pm +5:40pm Ar Muskegon........... 9:00am 2:!%m 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. . L. LOCKWOOD, Gen’! Passr. and Ticket Agent. DULUT 3 —— — Atlantic WEST BOUND. Ly. Grand Rapids (G. R. & L.)ti1:10pm +7:45am Ly. Mackinaw City............ 7:35am 4:20pm Ar. St. Ignace........0......5. 9:00am 5:20pm Ar. Sault Ste. Marie........... 12:20pm 9:50pm Ar. Miaranetie...... 22.0.0: 2:50pm 10:40pm Bei ORTOP So ois. ce 5:20pm 12:45am Ar. Datath.......... Secseotsae. | 4 cue 8:30am EAST BOUND. es a ea ole oes. +6 :30pm Ar. Nestoria. .......:..0...... .- t11:15am = 2:45am Ar Marquette... 6... 1:30pm 4:30am Ly. Sault Ste. Marie.......... Ar. Mackinaw City........... G. W. Hrpparp, Gen. Pass. Agt. Marquette. E. C. Oviatt, Tray. Pass. Agt., Grand Rapids 3:30pm 8:40pm 11:00am TRAVEL VIA F.& P. M. R. R. AND STEAMSHIP LINES TO ALL POINTS IN MICHIGAN H. F. MOELLER, a. a. 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