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Brummeler ons., = 3 *y : BS f . . . 1 4 ¢& © 260 South Ionia Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. 3 $ MAUMEE, OHIO ¢ e = | + € DOROROROHORS AOTOROTOHOROHOHONOHOROHORORONOHORCHOHOHO = — SHFEAEFALELAFEELAELEEEAEEALE NADAS LI he OY Be Up To Date, and Smoke “MR. THOMAS” The Most Popular Nickel Cigar on Earth Mm Ruhe Bros. Co., Makers. — F. E. Bushman, Representative, y, Factory 956, ist Dist. Pa. ° Mail Orders Solicited. TANGLEFOOT Sbdl6d SuGKy FIU Paper ONE OF THE MOST PROFITABLE THINGS YOU SELL. Kalamazoo, Mich. Popular aversion to flies is growing, and Fly Destroyers are coming into greater use. Of all means for their destruction Tanglefoot is the most practical and the best on account of its greater efficacy, cleanliness, endurance and cheapness, This is why the sale of Tanglefoot increases yearly. To increase your sales of Tanglefoot ns ee ac i YOUR let your customers see it in actual use vy in your store, in the Holder; ¥ WHOLESALER They will follow your example. ® Every customer to whom you sell a box of a SELLS Tanglefoot will remember it with pleasure : TANGLEFOOT. every day of the summer. PRICE, 30 CENTS A BOX.—$2.55 A CASE. THE KOPF ACETYLENE GAS MACHINE The best and most economical machine made for residence and store lighting. PUT AWAY YOUR KERO- SENE LAMPS AND HAVE YOUR OWN ‘GAS PLANT. Your inquiries will have our prompt attention. M. B. WHEELER ELECTRIC CO., Manufacturers GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Show Room, No. 99 Ottawa Street. URE UNKLE Long Havana Filler, 5e Cigarg SUMATRA WRAPPER HAND MADE A 10 cent cigar retailing for 5 cents. $50.00-THOUSAND ! 5.00 - HUNDRED / SCENE APIECE // BEST CIGAR FOR THE PRICE MONEY CAN PRODUCE / MICHIGAN CIGAR Co., BIG RAPIDS, MICH. THE OWEN AGETYLENE GAS GENERATOR —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, ** feo. F. Owen & Go. once Se ee ee A Big Lift In Business & Our SCALE TRUCK is an 800-lbscale combined with the regular warehouse truck. Wealso make Engines, Boilers, Smokestacks, Iron and Brass Castings, Steel Culvert Pipe and General Machine Work. Repairs done in any part of the state. Reach us any hour, day or night, by long distance phone. nl nl Lansing Boiler & Engine Works, Lansing, Mich. ee ae ee ene Are our FREIGHT ELEVATORS of any capacity. PARAL ™mALASEI™ PDL AL IS OD ONS ™ PURITY AND STRENGTH! FLESURMANN & GOS COMPRESSED YEAST As placed on the market in tin foil and under our yellow label and signature is ABSOLUTELY PURE Of greater strength than any other yeast, and 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. aty 9th 18>, SRM ANY Ae o® Geny, ~ DS without ok ou r 5 Facsimile Signature 3 % COMPRESSED EY % YEAST os oa sagsre FS” OUR LABEL Are You Anxious To increase your trade? Are you anxious to secure the better patronage of your community? If so, our advice to you is to handle the best line of spices, baking powders and extracts. Of course, we refer to goods manufac- tured by the leading house in that line in Michigan. Northrop, Robertson & Carrier, Lansing, Mich. LIVE DEALERS in the Hardware and Implement Line who want to make good, clean money and build up a good trade on a reliable and quick-selling line of Feed Cutters will da well to investigate the OHIO STANDARD MACHINES The iine is large and complete and com- prises Large Cutters for Silo work, Large : Shredders for Dry Fodder, Carriers and Feed Tables, Small Power Cutters, Large and Smal Hand Machines, Lever Cutting Boxes, Horse Powers and Engines, Feed Grinders and Feed Cookers. Write for complete Catalogue of the best line of above class of machinery ever offered. ADAMS & HART, Grand Rapids, lich. Selling Agents ‘‘OHIO’’ Machinery. f > i IN __ ~~. A J. H. Prout & 60., Proprietors of The Glty Roller Mills Howard Gity, Mich. SOE eee Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Flour, Feed and Grain Our Prout’s Best is a trade winner. Try it. allt a i I see oe Te ee OS a ee ee Nee ee vue eS Sn RE gt = ~~ Jag ar sare ¢ Magpies ee + — Y RE ae... oe See — Volume XV. $OO$SNSSOO5N OO 66 66646446644 oe ee ee ae ae ae ae ee a ee ee ee lf You Hire Help You should use our Perfect Time Book ~=——and Pay Roll. : Made to hold from 27 to 60 names and sell for 75 cents to $2. Send for sample leaf. BARLOW BROS., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. rvyvyvryvvvvyvevvvvvvevvrVGdY?T?* Pe VV VV VV VV VS Geobhbobbbbbbbbdbbbbhbbi bb intintn POG FV VV VG OS VV VV VV OVO VU VG il ; PREFERRED BANKERS LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN. Commenced Business September 1, 1893. Ensorance in force: kl. $2,746,000.00 Net Increase during 1897 ........ 5.2... 104,000.00 Wee Bssete ee 32,733.49 Losses Adjusted and — eee eee None Other Li: abilities te ee ee ee ce None 40,061.00 Total Gu: arantee ao Paid to Ben- Cte 812.00 Death Losses Paid During 1897........ 17,000.00 Seeath Hatefor iSe7. 62000 6.31 Cost per 1,000 at age 30 during 1897.. 8.25 FRANK E. ROBSON, Pres. TRUMAN B. GOODSPEED, Serc’y. full line of Fall and Winter Clothing. Has the largest line of Kersey Overcoats and Ulsters on the road; best $5.50 Kersey all wool overcoat in market, all manufactured by KOLB & SON, rocuHesrtER, Nn. Y. WILLIAM CONNOR now shows a = If you wish to look over my line, write me, Box 346, Marshall, Mich., or meet me at Room 612, Palmer House, Chicago, from Monday, July 11, to Saturday, July 16, or at Sweet’s Hotel, Grand Rapids, Mich , from Wednesday, July 20, until Wednesday even- ing, July 27. Expenses allowed. No harm done if you don’t buy. 9) 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. Yuin. 0 Ft 4 Pag ; $ i ~ ty oe SOOOOOD Prompt, Conservative, Safe. 5 WW Cpaurire. Pres.. W. FRED McBAIN, Sec. GOMMERGIAL CREDIT GO., LIMITED, of Grand Rapids, Mich. Michigan Representatives The Furniture Commercial Agency Co, ‘Red Book.” Reports and Collections. L. J. STEVENSON, Manager and Notary. R. J. CLELAND, Attorney. THE FORGOTTEN PAST e Which we read about can never be 5 forgotten by the merchant who be ™ comes familiar with our coupon e system. The past to such is always a a ‘“‘nightmare.”’ The present is an @ e a e a e = era of pleasure and profit. TRADESMAN COMPANY, GRAND RAPIDS. GRAND oe oe JULY 6, 1898. TOLERATE NO TREASON. The stamp taxes necessitated by the increased expenses incident to the Span- ish war are now in effect and all classes have submitted gracefully and patriotic- ally to the burden thus imposed, with the single exception of the express com- panies, which have undertaken to evade a patriotic duty by saddling the burden on the shipper, instead of assuming it uncomplainingly, as the transportation companies have voluntarily done. Many suits have been brought against the companies because of their refusal to accept shipments without the pay- ment of the stamp tax—not because of the small amount involved, but because this action of the express companies plainly places them in the category of traitors to the country—and there ap- pears to be concerted action in the mer- cantile world to punish treason by com- pelling them to bear the expense of at- torney fees in defending the suits which will amount in the aggregate to much more than the stamp taxes would amount to in years. Besides this expense, the shipments which are being diverted from the express companies and for- warded by mail and freight entail a loss which will be severely felt when the time comes to compute dividends on the enormously watered stock of the companies. Spanish bullets are ugly things to con- tend with, but they are not half as dan- gerous to the country as the spectacle of a dozen great corporations which have waxed rich at the expense of the people, refusing to array themselves on the side of the boys in blue in prosecuting the war, but insist on throwing stum- bling blocks in the pathway of progress by conspiring together to evade a duty which every patriot delights to perform. It is not yet too late to bring traitors to terms. Congress is still in session. Let it amend the tax law by doubling the tax on express receipts, making it obligatory on the companies to furnish the stamps and making ita criminal offense for express companies to advance their rates to recoup themselves for the cost of the stamps. We should not only tolerate no treason, but punish those who array themselves on the side of the enemy. A SIGNIFICANT STRIKE. The strike of the newspaper stereo- typers in Chicago is in some regards the most notable of any on record con- sidering the number of workmen con- cerned, and probably there is no other in which the essential and most obnox- ious principles of modern unionism have received more forcible illustration. It would be difficult to conceive of any combination of circumstances which would more thoroughly enforce the les- son that under unscrupulous leadership the cali and ee of organized labor are not only a constant menace _ to the industries which they essay to con- trol, but that in the operation of the forces created and set in motion by such principles the worst sufferers are the workmen themselves. It is generally understood that the most effective weapon in the hands of “‘labor’’ is the necessity of the em- ployer. If he can be caught with con- tracts which must be fulfilled, for in- stance, then is the opportunity for the striker; or if any great industrial emer- gency arises there is the constant threat of the preferring of demands, which thus become assured of recognition how- ever unreasonable or unjust. The eve of battle of Santiago was an occasion of the most imperative demand on the part of the public for news. The obligation and interest of the publish- ers to meet that demand were so great that no ordinary hindrance could be al- lowed to interfere for a moment. So the opportunity was too tempting for the few dozen stereotypers whose work was essential to the issuing of the news- papers. They were combined in a typ- ical union, which agreed upon that emer- gency to enforce the demands that would place them in such a position as they desired as to wages, hours of labor, etc. That there could be any hesitation in that contingency, when interference with the ordinary sources of news would amount almost to a public calamity, would interfere with the industry of many thousands and would not only sacrifice the unusual profits of such an occasion, but would entail tremendous loss besides, was scarcely to be consid- ered. So it was with the greatest assur- ance of success that the strike was or- dered. But it so happened that the existence of the modern union among employes had resulted in corresponding organiza- tion among the employers. That there should be such organizations, or ‘‘com- bines’’ as they are termed, is a matter which meets the severest condemnation of the apostles of labor, who fail to com- prehend that their existence is a neces- sity dependent upon the unions. Soa great outcry is made that the publishers should exclude from present and future employemnt all concerned in the strike and agree to remain under suspension until all are enabled to resume together. It would seem as though this logical outcome of such movements would serve to hint to working men that there may be a better way than the unreasoning force and arbitrary assertion of labor combines and that the welfare of both might be better assured in the recog- nition of mutual rights and interests, It was an allwise Providence that created women after everything else had been finished ; otherwise she would have wanted to boss the job. Trying to quell a woman's wrath is like sitting down on a bunch of lighted firecrackers to prevent their going off, Spain is as easy as the new postage stamps. She can be licked and never know it. Number 772 GENERAL TRADE SITUATION. Aside from the natural slackening on account of midsummer vacations, the closing of the fiscal year and the usual taking of accounts in many industries and shutting down for repairs, the gen- eral volume of business goes on without abatement. The war as a depressing factor can scarcely be said to have sig- nificance. Stock values have been gen- erally advancing and even this most cowardly element has been scarcely affected by the actual progress of a great battle. Industrial returns are less instructive in the season of midsummer rest and uncertainty than in any other, and the stoppage of some works for repairs, and of others to wait for the development of the next season’s trade, gives some dis- couragement in the iron business at the East, where a slightly lower quotation for steel rails is printed, with Southern pig offered at lower figures since the disagreement of makers. Bessemer pig at $10.25 and Grey Forge at $9 are both slightly lower at Pittsburg, but most of the works there have ample or- ders ahead, and at Chicago the demand really seems to be about as large as ever, especially for materials used in implement and car works and for bridges and buildings. The silk works are doing well, and most of the mixed textile works, and there is better demand of late for cotton goods, with a shade advance in print cloths. In woolens there is a somewhat general increase in demand, with more progress in spring weights, changes which have much improved the outlook, but yet have not wholly cleared it from uncertainty. Prices ot wool are still held at the West much above those which can be paid by manufacturers at the East under present circumstances, although there is said to be of latea little more disposition to consider that wool can not be marketed unless manufactur- ers can market goods. Shipments of boots and shoes were not as large from the East in June as in the same month of four previous years, and yet were exceeded very little, and works have liberal orders ahead for this season. The grain situation continues the same general features of quite pro- nounced fluctuation from day to day, with on the whole a downward tendency, especially at the last. Export move- ment cf both wheat and corn, and es- pecially the latter, continues unusually heavy. The ending of the year shows an export of corn which has never been equaled. The volume of businessJin June has continued heavy, payments through clearing-houses exceeding those of the Same month in 1892 by 12 per cent. Thus the transactions for the half year have been altogether larger than those of any previous half-year, averaging at the fourteen chief cities $208,000, 000 for each business day, against $152,000,000 last year, an increase of 36.4 per cent., and against $188,000,000 in the same month of 1892, a gain of 10.3 per cent. A barber can help a man into a scrape easily enough, MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Dry Goods The Dry Goods Market. Staple Cottons—The slow demand that has been experienced during the last few days for staple fabrics has not been accompanied Ly any indication of weak- ness. If there had been any radically weak spots in the market they would have shown themselves before this and their absence should give buyers the courage to operate freely in the’ future. Wide sheeting and low grade _ bleached goods are as weak as anything in the market, yet leading makes of these are held more firmly than was the case a week or two ago. Price would not have stimulated demand during the last ten days, and most lines are now in such improved shape that buyers will have difficulty in obtaining concessions in the future. Brown sheetings and drills are moving actively upon old contracts, but new business is coming forward slowly. Agents handling several lead- ing lines of heavy goods are not ina position to make deliveries upon new orders for two or three months. Export makes are especially well sold abead, and were never held more firmly than is the caseto-day. Low grade lightweight brown sheetings and drills were moved with considerable freedom during June and are quite firm at quoted prices. Jduck continues firm, despite an in- creased production. Government or- ders are the principal support of the market, but deliveries of regular goods are so far behind that the removal of the Government as a factor in the market would not materially affect prices. Os- naburgs are slow, but firm. Colored cot- tons, other than denims, plaids and cheviots, are very dull, but a large sup- plementary demand 1s soon expected trom the cutting-up trade, and in the interim prices are maintained firmly upon all leading lines. No line of goods in the market reflects the increased con- suming power of the West more ac- curately than grain bags. Tbe demand for these during the last few months has been phenomenal, and continues almost unabated. Leading makes are sold ahead into the winter months, and prices have been advanced about 3 cents during the last two months; an advance of a cent has been forced during the last two weeks. Prints and Ginghams—Despite the temporary dulness in other lines of dry goods, there is a fairly active demand for fancy prints and printed specialties for fall. Dark ginghams and fancy domets are also enjoying a fair call. Staple lines of prints are inactive, but napped prints move with considerable freedom. Fair sales of white goods are still recorded in the primary market; organdies and lawns can be had, but welts are practically unobtainable ex- cept from jobbers, who prepared for a large demand some time ago. Carpets—The jobbers of carpets re- port trade as very unsatisfactory since the auctions recently held in New York, as many of their former customers are filled up with a stock of goods sufficient to satisfy their requirements for some time, while others, who have not pur- chased, are inclined to hold off as long as they possibly can. Some, when the goods are wanted, place orders with a proviso that they shall have immediate deliveries. This is the direct effect of the unsettlement of the carpet market, caused by the auctions, which have taught the retailers to look for surprises. Upholstered Goods—The jobbers re- port business as very fair on velours and corduroys. Damask is receiving a moderate share of attention, while bro- catelle is very quiet. The bunting trade, which a few weeks ago was very brisk, has fallen off, owing to the fact that so many went into the business. Blankets—Two or three more con- tracts for blankets that have been made by the Government have served to assist this part of the business and make buy- ers still more anxious to get their goods. a a About Flags. A nation’s flag represents its sover- eignty and is prominently displayed in all its battles. To ‘‘strike the flag’’ is to lower the National colors in token of submission to the opposing forces. Dipping the flag is lowering it slight- ly and then hoisting it again, to salute either a vessel! or fort. A flag of truce is a white flag dis- played to the enemy to indicate a de- sire for a parley or consultation. The black flag is a sign of piracy. The yellow flag shows a vessel to be in quarantine, or 1s the sign of a conta- gious disease. A flag at half mast means mourning. Vessels come into a harbor with a flag at haif mast to announce the loss or death of some of the crew. Flags are used as the symbol of rank and command, the officers using them being called flag officers. Such flags are square, to distinguish them from other banners. The red flag is a sign of defiance, and is often used by revolutionists. In the American service it is a mark of dan- ger and shows a vessel to be receiving or discharging her powder. Toe white flag with a red cross isa sign of peace. After a battle parties from both sides often go to the field to rescue the wounded or bury the dead under the protection of such a flag. AO A Why She Wanted a Pint. Ethel is small, but extremely sober- minded, and therefore to be trusted to run on household errands. The other day her mother called her from her play and said: ‘* Ethel, I want you to run over to the grocer’s and get me a quart of vinegar.’’ Ethel looked thoughtful and hesitated. ‘*I'd rather get a pint, mamma,’’ she answered. Lo ‘*Why, Ethel, dear!’’ exclaimed her astonished parent. ‘‘I need a_ quart, which you must get.’’ Again the little girl paused. she said; ‘‘I'll get you a pint.’’ ‘‘I’m surprised at you! Why should you buy a pint when | wish a quart?"’ insisted the mother. ** Bceause,’’ answered Ethel, the tears beginning to come, ‘‘I can say pint, and I| can't say krort!’’ —> +> The Force of Example. A certain eminent judge who was re- cently re-elected, when he was asked about the facility with which he turned from one case to another, replied that he had learned that from what he saw at a baptism of colored people, when he was a boy. The weather was very cold, so that to immerse the candidates they were obliged to cut away the ice. It befell that when one of the female con- verts was dipped back in the water, the cold made her squirm about, and ina moment she had slipped from the preacher’s hands and was down the stream under the ice. The preacher, however, was not disconcerted. Look- ing up with perfect calmness at the crowd on the bank, he said: ‘‘ Brethren, this sister hath departed— hand me down another. ’’ “Ne * >_> ___ Fiction Enough. It happened in a bookstore. ‘“What can I show you, madam?’’ he asked. ‘‘Something in the line of fic- tion?’ ‘‘No,’’ she answered, slowly. nig think I'll try history for a change. I get enough fiction when my husband gets home late from the lodge,’’ MASeSS D Ke Dealers don’t keep our goods; they SELL them. Carpets All grades cut at wholesale. You Carry Only Samples We carry the stock. When you make a sale, send us the pattern number, size of roomlor quantity wanted and we will ship your order the same day as received —sewed if desired. OVER 3,000 DEALERS are now han- dling our carpets profitably. Letus start you to success. For One Dollar We will send you a book of Carpet Sam- ples containing about 50 patterns—size 9x18 inches. These samples are cut from the roll, so you can guarantee every Carpet as represented—in style, color and quality. No picture scheme or Misrep- resentation. Every sample is finished, numbered and quality specified on ticket, so you can make no mistake when order- ing. Wealso make up books as above, 18x18 in., which we will furnish For Three Dollars This size 1s very popular, as the patterns show up beautifully. prefer large samples we will cut them any length desired at the price of the goods per yard. We have the best-selling goods on earth. Don't wait, order samples at once; it will be to your interest and we want you to represent us. HENRY NOEE & CO., SOUTHEAST CORNER MARKET & MONROE STS., CHICAGO. Me Complete price list and telegraph code will be sent with samples. If you BOTTA [BAS AS eS Sees ew SEES ESSE Ke es PASSA SEAS SING BLSea SNS SSS ST STS EXENGGE GN] -~-m-w “ww -M -B B BB Ba 33S II a AN We have a good stock to select from: Palm Leafs in both cheap and good grades. Japanese Folding Fans, full size, at 35C, 75C, goc, $1.25, $2.00 and $2.25 per dozen. a Tl —/) The ‘‘Telescope’’ at goc, and ‘‘Fatinitza’’ at $1.25 per dozen, are both good sellers. Mail orders receive prompt attention. VOIGT, HERPOLSHEIMER & CO., \ WHOLESALE DRY GOODs, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH VWeec= Ss22222:224-2: Do... LL. LLM. ~~. SSFQy ie W LLL LLL LLL SS SVS VSS SS SS STS Me MDE 9 WANN NN NT WW Ge Ww en 2 o ui IVING A & 2 M = FALL GOODS S o wy oe Wy 4 Ww fe UNDERWEAR HOSIERY wy ») GLOVES BLANKETS MITTENS COMFORTS, Etc. P. STEKETEE & SON JOBBERS, 9 GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. CORRES 4 4 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN GOTHAM GOSSIP. News from the Metropolis---Index to the Market. Special Correspondence. New York, July 2—The Fourth was such a big day this year that it began on Friday, so far as the suspension of business was concerned. Saturday isa short day, anyway, and so a lull is exist- ing that will last until Tuesday. A hot wave has also put in an appearance, and the only way we can keep cool is to read the accounts of the weather in Cuba where the soldiers are. Coffee has been one of the very dullest items on the list. Brokers say they have scarcely any orders to fill, especially from out of town, and in an invoice way matters are very quiet, also. Rio No. 7 is still held at 6%c. In store and afloat there are 849,498 bags, against 604,836 bags at the same time last year. Mild grades have been doing rather better than a week ago and West Indian _ sorts of desirable coffee are held at full value. Holders of teas show no anxiety to sell and buyers show still less to pur- chase. The holiday has taken dealers out of the city and quietude reigns su- preme. No changes have been made in quotations and the miarket might be fairly called a steady one. Raw sugars are steady, but the volume of trade has been limited, as refiners State that they will do nothing until after the holidays are over. Retined sugars have shown more activity, and a fair volume of business is transacted. Some granulated sugar from Europe (Austria) has been sold, it is said, ata rate practically the same as that of the domestic article. Retiners of domestic refined continue the guarantee as to price for another thirty days from date. Few orders for rice have been re- ceived, but the market is steady and prices are firmly adhered to. Dealers appear to have every confidence in the future and make no concessions. Prime to choice Southern, 6%@63/c. Advices from abroad are strong and the chances are that we shall see rice no cheaper for some time. Buyers of spices appear to be willing to enter into negotiations for liberal quantities—if they can have their own way as to price, but holders are firm in their views and say they are convinced that the situation will warrant no lower rates, and so both sides seem to be waiting. Jobhers have done very little business during the week. Grocery grades of molasses are very quiet and the volume of business could not well be less than it is. Still, prices for centrifugal are generally steady for medium grades. Lower grades are not wanted at all. Low grade beet syrups are expected to make their appearance this month and this will be another fac- tor of competition for low grade cane molasses. : In canned goods, the week has been a very quiet one, the principal item of interest being a decided reaction in the price of spot tomatoes. The chances of the crop are being discussed and it seems to be the prevailing opinion that there will be the usual bumper supply, although possibly a little later than usual, The Southern pea pack is said to be only about two-thirds as large as usual, but the quotations are not at all affected by this narrative, although the market is generally firm in tone. There is scarcely anything doing in either foreign or domestic dried fruits. Fancy evaporated apples are in very light supply and are firm. Oranges lack animation, although the supply is not excessive. Lemons are doing better and, of course, the trade for the Fourth has kept dealers busy in filling orders. Sicily lemons, as to size and condition, are worth $4@6 per box; Sorrentos, $6@6.75. California oranges, $2.50@4 per box. Bananas are quiet and lower. Butter jobbers are taking only enough for current requirements and the market gemerally is rather more quiet thana week ago. Extra Western creamery is nominally 17c; but this is probably shaded, if necessary; firsts, 16c; sec- onds, 15@15%4c; Extra Western imita- tion creamery, 14@14%c; firsts, 12%c; seconds, 11%@t12c. The cheese market shows signs of weakness and it is very doubtful whether the quotations of a week ago could be obtained to-day. Exporters have been doing almost nothing, as they say this market is beyond their reach. Small size full cream is not in excessive sup- ply and is about steady at 8c. Prime to fancy Pennsylvania and Michigan eggs are held at 13@13%e. The supply of really good stock 1s light, as might be expected during such hot weather and, while there is enough of inferior goods, the demand is naturally small, Beans are quiet and the market is well supplied. Choice marrow, $1.50; choice medium, $1.25 ; choice pea, $I. 20. —_—~>-2 German Understanding of ‘‘Receiver.” From the Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune. A few days ago a case was in one of the courts that involved a receiver fora building association. The plaintiff was a highly respected German who knew what he wanted, but in some manner the attorney had not taken the steps that his client desired. When the plaintiff was on the stand his attorney examined him at length. During the examination the old gentleman became excited and answered the questions in sucha way that the Judge was under the im- pression that he didn’t thoroughly un- derstand the questions and answers, He declared that he didn’t want a receiver, that he didn’t want his attorney to take the step, and that all he wanted was his money. At this point the Judge suggested that the court interpreter be sent for, that the German might make himself more clearly understood. But he declared that he understood what he wanted, and that was his money, and if he failed to get it he would kill himself. To ascertain if he knew what he wanted the Judge said: ‘*Do you know what a receiver is?’’ ‘Yes, sir; I do, sir,’’ said the hon- est German. ‘‘He vos der man vot gits der monish und I gits nottings.’’ This convinced the Judge that the plaintiff knew quite well what he wanted and what he was talking about. So the interpreter was dispensed with, for the time being, at least. ‘*Il guess,’’ said the Judge, in con- clusion, ‘‘he knows as much about a re- ceiver as we do.’”’ +02. New Route’to Chicago. Commencing May 15, 1898, 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"and7depart from Dearborn station, Chicago. This sta- tion is on Polk street, between State and Clark streets, is only three blocks south of the postoffice,and near the down town business and hotel districts. Other railroads using this. staticn are the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, Wabash, Chicago & Eastern Illinois, Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville, and Erie. No transfer will, therefore, be neces- sary for passengers to or from the above mentioned lines. Important stations on this through car line between Chicago and Grand Rap- ids are Valparaiso, South Bend, Mish- awaka, Ind., Cassopolis, Macellus, Schoolcraft, Vicksburg, Kalamazoo and Plainwell, Mich. The equipment used in providing this service will consist of new standard vestibuled day coaches. Pullman buffet parlor cars and the latest designs of Pullman wide vestibuled, gaslighted, twelve section drawing room sleeping cars. It is believed that the character of this equipment and the convenience of the schedules will be such as to merit a liberal patronage by the traveling pub- lic. The following is a condensed schedule: Daily. Lv Grand Rapids......... 7iloam 2:10pm 11:35pm pe Chicage,...> ........ f 7 “Lily White” Flour $3 > 4 ily White’ Flour 3 3 4 > We authorize you to do g OO hs 2 g so. It makes good bread > Inks $ . 4 9 i every time. One sack 2 d > ’ = 2 Mucilage, $ sold to-day wili bring e¢ Etc z , a 4 “ customers for two sacks e 3 i ee $ a ¢ and all kinds of Office 2 later on. Order some e $ Nick Nacks. Examine $ > our new device for copy- $ Now. 2 2 ing letters. A > s > < - ili a4 ill M. Hi 7 Valley City Mitling Co. § 3 Will M. Hine, Commercial Stationer, ; 2 49 Pearl Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. @\$ Bande Arcede, 3 & 3 Grand Rapids, Mich. : ORG SOE RH OE ROE ROE COE ROR OE CH RO eet ROH elt SEP SER SOR SOR SR Me MO OR SOP SOR SOR SOR SOR SRR 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 tst. 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., Cor. Jackson and Fifth Ave., Chicago, Ill. LADIES’ AND GENTS’ __ the SUMMER NECKWEAR. | Clubs and Four-in-hands. Send in your orders for ENTERPRISE latest styles, also NECKWEAR CO., National Colors in Bows, —. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 4 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Around the State Movements of Merchants. Durand—Frey & Jones have sold their meat market to E. Balanger, Jr. Houghton—Jas. Goggin has purchased the meat business of W. F. Miller. Avoca—John E, Staiey has purchased the drug stock of Harry A. McKenna. Coldwater—Fred Parker succeeds Gay & Parker in the confectionery business. Coldwater—F. R. Drury has sold his grocery stock to J. W. Somerloit & Co. Coldwater——Bitter & Huff succeed Calkins & Weston in the grocery busi- ness. Hesperia--H. E. Stebbins, undertaker and furniture dealer, has removed to Ferry. Davison—J. A. Austin, of Bancroft, has purchased the hardware stock of L. P, Herd. Gaylord—Qua & Wilson have pur- chased the grocery stock of Elmer W. - Humphrey. Detroit—Frank F. Liska succeeds Liska & Stone in the merchant taiior- ing business. Grand Haven—Kooiman & Zaagman have purchased the flour and feed busi- ness of A. Stap. Mt. Pleasant—Fox & Thiers, drug- gists, have dissolved partnership, F. G. Thiers succeeding. Benton Harbor—Teetzel & Hayden are succeeded by Gideon W. Hayden in the jewelry business. Springport—West & Stanceli have opened a meat market in connection with their grocery business. Albion—Geo, M. Church has pur chased the confectionery stock and _ res- taurant and bakery of Mrs. Glover. Fremont—The firm of Crawford Bros., bicycle dealers, has been dissolved, P. H. Crawford continuing the business. Vestaburg—E. F. Owen lost his drug stock by fire a few days ago. The dam- age iS estimated at $1,200, with no in- surance. Crawford—Elibu Walling, formerly engaged in general trade at Lamont, has engaged in the drug business at this place. Decatur—G. B. Browning, druggist, has formed a copartnership with Edward Peterson, and will continue the business under the style of Browning & Peterson. Coloma—A. F. Ragatz, of Vineland, Ill., and Alvin P. Kniebes, of South Coloma, have formed a copartnership and engaged in the jewelry business at this place. Hillsdale—Geo, F. Washburn, of E. M. Washburn & Co., dealers in coal, has retired from the firm. E. M. Wash- burn will continue the business in his own name. Sault Ste. Marie—John G. Lake and Wm. Harper, who conducted a commis- sion business here under the style of Lake & Harper, have dissolved. Mr. Lake will continue the business. Ypsilanti—Ned Bristol, formerly with Parke, Davis & Co. (Detroit), will as- sume the management of the Central drug store, heretofore under the super- vision of the late Ray D. Rowley. St. Johns—The Webber clothing store has been closed and the stock removed to lonia. W. W. Peck, who managed the business, has engaged in the real estate business in partnership with J. C. Flynn. Linwood—Jacob Rivkin’s general stock has been seized on attachments is- sued at the instance of Hine & Chat- field, of Bay City, Miller Bros., of Vas- sar, and Phipps, Penoyer & Co., of Saginaw. Lenox—The Macomb Coumy Savings Bank 1s being organized at this place with a capital stock of $25,000. The stcck has nearly all been subscribed and is held entirely by Macomb and St. Clair county business men. Saginaw—Samuel N. Henion, dry goods dealer, has executed a_ chattel mortgage amounting to $11,384.77 on his entire stock and personal effects to Jas. Seed & Co., of Bay City, with whom he was connected in business. Mr. Henion will hereafter conduct the business alone. Hancock—Reeves & Burns, doing business under the name of the Han- cock Mercantile Co., have dissolved partnership and retired from trade. Mr. Reeves will goto St. Paul, where he will enter other fields of business, while Mr. Burns will enter the commis- sion firm of A. Ruhl & Co., of Hough- ton, aS a partner. Manufacturing Matters. Owosso—The Castree & Shaw Co. is erecting a warehouse to be used for the storage of the finished product of its foundry. Fremont—Francis W. Feed and John Weiler, who operated a flouring mill at this place under the style of Reed & Weiler, have dissolved partnership, Mr. Reed succeeding. Detroit-- James Kingsley has purchased on private terms from the Union Trust Company the plant of the Richardson box factory, consisting of mill building, engine house, dry kiln, iumber sheds and dwelling house. Traverse City—The firm of V. & A. Petertyl, for many years engaged in the wagon and carriage manufacturing busi- ness, has dissolved, A. J. Peterty! retir- ing. Victer Petertyl will continue the business in his own name. Marysville—N. & B. Mills are ship- ping over the Detroit & Mackinac Rail- way to Tawas 8,000,000 feet of long Nor- way logs, that are said to be as fine as were ever cut in Michigan. The logs will be rafted to Marysville. Sebewaing—The Sebewaing Lumber & Manufacturing Co. is working overtime in order to keep pace with orders. Aside from the lumbering feature of the company's business it js filling an order for 1,000 center tables for a Cleveland concern. Flint—The Fenton Manufacturing Co., manufacturers of whip sockets and nickel carriage rails and trimmings, will shortly remove its plant from Fen- ton to this place. A building 50x139 feet in dimensions, two. stories and basement, with a wing 18x24 feet, is now in process of erection. Saginaw—A. C. White has purchased the stock of lumber on the yard of O'Donnell, Spencer & Co. for $10,000 cash. The stock was inventoried and appraised by experienced men at about $14,000, and experts have said that it could not be bought in the open market at within a dollar and a half a thousand of the appraised valuation. Manistee—The R. G. Peters Salt & Lumber Co. started its new double ac- tion vacuum pans last week, and the output so far exceeded expectations that it was found they bad not provided half enough storage capacity and would not be able to furnish with their six wells half enough brine to keep the block in operation steadily. The company will probably put in the air pump system on its wells, as this would more than double the capacity of each well. Detroit—The Michigan Beef & Pro- vision Co., with down-town - sales- rooms at 140 Bates street and a large slaughter house and rendering works at the Michigan Central stock yards, is undergoing a process of reorganization which, when completed, will result in some changes in the active business staff of the hrm. Ex Ald. George Beck, who has been general manager for the company ever since its organization ten years ago, will continue to buy the cat- tle for the firm at the yards. Burke Spencer, who has had charge of the firm’s sheep and calf deal from the first, will continue in charge of this depart- ment. John Andrews, who has acted as dressed meat salesman for the company for the past nine years, has resigned. Soon after entering the employ of the frm Mr. Andrews purchased a block of stock in the company, which he still owns. William M. McKay, who has kept the books for the firm for several years, has also resigned and intends soon to engage in business on his own account. Thomas E. Newton, who has been conducting a retail meat business in the Central market on Cadillac Square for some time, has been engaged to act as general manager. i a Strong Talk Relative to the lona Bank Failure. Mance- The Mancelona Herald thus refers to the failure of the banking bouse of A. Young & Sons, of that place: This collapse was no surprise to those who have been ina position to watch the conduct and management of this so- called ‘‘bank’’ during the past several years, for tc those who had half an eye it was plainly evident that the whole con- cern was rotten to the core and was rest- ing on the most ridiculous lying and subterfuge for its stock intrade. Hence, our merchants and other business men are not caught, nor will they be affected by the crash. Later developments show that lying, however, was only one of many dishon- est traits adopted to bolster up the com- mercial carrion which was still strug- gling to do business under the name of Bank of Mancelona, but that no scheme or action was too dishonest or criminal for the managers of this institution to resort to. The only wonder is that the putrid mass has been able to subsist and fool any of the people. We fail to hear of one spark of sym- pathy for any of the younger members of the Young family who have had the management of this institution, but the elder Mr. Young, the head of the firm, who is illiterate and uneducated and who has left the financial management entirely to his sons, and who has strug- gled, economized and saved to educate these boys and start them in life,and who now finds himself in his old age robbed of all his savings and left with worse than nothing, for while his substance is gone, he is still cursed with the dishonest progeny which have brought on his downfall and the family disgrace and who still live to dishonor the good name which the old man _ has struggled to make and maintain—to this old man, in his sorrow, misery and seeming pov- erty, the Herald extends its sympathy and believes that the community at large joins it in such sympathy for this unfortunate sire of degenerate scions. As near as we can learn until later, when the inventory is completed, the following are a few of the heaviest cred- itors: The Fifth National Bank ot Grand Rapids, the Grand Rapids Na- tional Bank, the Detroit National Bank, Peter Jackson, Mrs. C. E. Mills, Almon Kimball, Jas. DePlanty, Frank Harding and Mrs. Hall; but these do not include the scores of poor laboring men, widows and orphans who have lost their all, owing to their trust in these unmitigated scoundrels. +? >____ A woman can talk as sweet as peaches and cream to another woman she hates, while two men would be punching each other's heads before they had exchanged a dozen words, Grand Haven’s Welcome in Working Order. Grand Haven, July 1—At a largely attended meeting of the retail merchants of this city, held last evening, Homer Klap of Grand Rapids was present and thanked the merchants heartily for their invitation to hold the twelfth annual picnic at the Sand Hill City. It was moved and adopted that the Grand Rapids Association furnish the pro- gram for the picnic. Committees were appointed as follows: Arrangements—H._ Z, VanLopik, John Juistema. Sports and Games—J, Addison, Ed. Hollestelle. Finance—D. A. Lane, J. M. Cook, Tony Boet, B. V. D. Boomgaard. Reception—Peter VanLopik, Stephen Brouwer, Peter VerDuin, H. Z. Nyland, John Juistema, John W. Verhoeks, C. N. Addison, Ed. Hollestelle, John Boer, John Cook, Tony VanTol. The following resolution, offered by H. Z, Nyland, was adopted : Whereas, the Retail Grocers’ Associa- tion of Grand Rapids have accepted the invitation of the Merchants’ Association of this city to participate with them at Highland Park in their annual picnic August 4; therefore Resolved, That we, the Merchants’ Association of the city of Grand Haven, hereby express to the said Retail Gro- cers’ Association of Grand Rapids our appreciation of their acceptance of our invitation, and assure them that we will do all in our power to make the day one of pleasure and at the same time {further promote the feelings of good-fellowship between the business men of both places. Nyland, P. Ball) C.. ON: SE eee Eh Thumb Druggists Meet and Organize. Clifford, Juiy 1—A meeting of drug- gists, representing Lapeer, Sanilac and Tuscola counties, held here Wednesday, resulted in the birth of the Thumb Phar- maceutical Association, with the follow- ing officers elected for the term of one year: President—J. H. Branch, Vice-President—E. Warner, Marlette. Secretary--O. G. Millikin, Silver- wood. Treasurer—James Erwin, Marlette. The promoters of the new organization hope soon to enlist the interest and co- operation of all the drugigsts of the Thumb and are confident that through closer intercourse, rendered possible through this medium, much can be ac- complished that will be of mutual and lasting advantage in a professional and business way. It is proposed to hold quarterly meet- ings, the next to convene at Marlette on or about Sept. 1. As a supplementary feature of the or- ganization, an annual social fete of some character will be introduced. During their stay at Clifford, the genial compounders of pills and squills were most hospitably entertained by DuSaar & Kirby and J. F. Turner & Son, the local druggists. —~>-2 > ___ Hides, Pelts, Tallow and Wool. Hides remain firm and are in good demand. There is no weakening of the market, except on light stock, which seems to be manipulated by Chicago dealers. Pelts are not offered to any extent and are dull of sale. Tallow is weak and lower, with little demand. So much grease for soapers’ stock is offered that prices must remain low. Wool seems to feel buoyant, on account of the war victories. Manufacturers are looking around for future needs, They find ample supplies, but no weak prices. Sales are still light, while the future is brighter. Wools West cost as much as they can be sold for East, with freight added, and are strongly held. Either the clip is short or growers are holding back, on account of the small quantity marketed, Wma. T. HEss. Vandecar, North iciatincr vionetsnenereainasa ath 2 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 3 Grand Rapids Gossip The Grocery Marxet. Sugar—-The market is without change. The Trust has renewed its thirty-day guarantee against decline from day to day and there is no reason for any ad- vance, The refineries closed down from Friday evening until Tuesday morning. Several grades of refined sugar are re- ported oversold and_ stocks are fairly light. Raw sugar is dull and the de- mand light. The consumption of sugar ought to be better at this season than it is. One cause of the lack cf activity is the fact that the trade bought pretty freely some time ago, and are not yet out of stock. Tea—Prices show no change, certain- ly no tendency toward shading. Hold- ers are not anxious to sell, and there are some who believe in a higher market, although this view is not universally held. There are no new teas on the market except new Japans, which are selling quite freely. The tea market in Japan and China is still firmly held, and no decline from the recent advance is expected. In any event, there will hard- ly be any further advance. Coffee—No change is reported in bulks or packages, and the feeling is weak in green grades. The consump- tive trade seems still to be feeding on the package goods they bought on spec- ulation some time ago, and retailers also have but little need for renewals of stocks in this line. The supply of coffee in sight, especially of Brazil coffees, is too large to admit of high prices, while the admission of coffee duty free is a pledge of low prices. The duty on tea will in a measure strengthen the coffee market, but can not create any excite- ment. Canned Goods—While there is no par- ticular advance, there is more buying, and every indication of an advance a little later. The Government took quite large quantities of tomatoes during the week, and this will help matters along. Nothing is doing in future tomatoes. Corn is very dull at unchanged prices. Peas are quiet, with no further advance, although only the packers’ need of funds causes them to sell at present figures, if their estimate of 50 per cent. shortage in the pack is correct. Nothing much is doing in peaches, which rule at un- changed prices. California futures are selling only in a very small way. Dried Fruits—Reports from the West indicate that prunes in California are about cleaned up, and that the coming crop will be materially lighter than that of last year. The crop in the North- western Coast States, however, is com- ing to be a considerable factor in the market, and promises this season to be larger than ever, which will make it a larger factor than ever in the market. However, it is freely predicted that the price of prunes of the crop of 1898 will be not far from twice as high in price as that of last year. Raisin growers are of the opinion that prices will be higher than they were the past year, for the rea- son that a pool is being formed for the bandling of a large part of the coming year’s crop. This is thought to be nec- essary this year, for the reason that the present crop promises to eclipse every- thing yet known in the crop record. It is feared that the crop will not pay for the picking and packing unless some method is taken to make an even mar- ket. At best the market will be com- paratively low, for such a pool could not hold prices unreasonably high in the face of such a crop. Nuts—Peanuts have been advanced %@xXc, owing to light stocks on hand. The crop of California walnuts is re- ported to be very large this season, and an association has been formed for the handling of them. This is likely to have a bracing effect on the market. Provisions—There has been no further drop during the past week, although local jobbers have marked their own prices down a little. The supply of hams in the country is very large, and the general market prices are about as low as can be expected. There is a very good demand for provisions, but stocks are very large, caused by a lack of demand earlier in the season. Lard is a little off, because of large stocks also. When lard advanced everybody bought, and their purchases have not yet been exhausted. Fish—The Eastern fishermen are not catching as many mackerel as they were and everything seems to indicate that the market will do better, or at least do no worse. There will hardly be any change in the next few days. Very lit- tle cod is selling, and prices are un- changed. Lake fish could sell if it were available, but it is not to be had. Sar- dines have advanced very sharply dur- ing the last few days. ~~ The Grain Market. Cash wheat has remained very steady during the past week. The Leiter wheat is moving out very rapidly, al- though at a tremendous loss. Receipts are at a low point, only 197 cars having been received in the Northwest Monday (which was for two days), while on the same date last vear the receipts were 760 cars. The shipments were so large this year that the visible made a de- crease of 2,524,000 bushels, against 661, - ooo bushels for the corresponding time one year ago, leaving the amount in sight only 14,701,000 bushels, which, with one exception, is the smallest vis- ible in fourteen years. Harvesting is now in progress and the threshing ma- chines will soon be heard. Barring wet weather, the crop will be in splen- did condition and the yield will be large, but we think it will not be as large as many have anticipated. In sections where threshing has been done the wheat is not being moved as fast as dealers expected. The cause for this is that millers have picked up all that has been offered and farmers are not forced to sell, as the abundant crop and high pbrices of '97 have placed them in good condition, financially. The bears are predicing lower prices, but it is our opinion that the crowding prices down has been overdone and that they will be elevated instead of lowered. Corn and oats held their own and _ re- mained very steady. Neither of these cereals will change for some time yet. The receipts in this market have been very moderate, being only 32 cars of wheat, 14 cars of corn and 15 cars of oats. The receipts of grain in Grand Rapids during the month of June were 156 cars of wheat, 44 cars of corn and 25 cars of oats. Local millers are paying 79c for wheat. Cc. G. AL Vorer. ——--~<>-9 > Excursion to Buffalo, N. Y. On July 12, 13, 14 and 15 the Michi- gan Central will sell excursion tickets to Buffalo and return at one fare for the round trip on account of the Baptist Young People’s Union. Return limit July 19, with privilege of extension un- til Sept. 1, inclusive, on payment of 50 cents. Stop over at Niagara Falls will be granted on both going and returning journeys. W. C. Buiake, City Ticket Agt. THE STAMP TAX. How the Banks Adjust Themselves to the New Conditions. The new war revenue law, requiring stamps on checks, drafts, telegrams, freight receipts and other papers and documents which enter actively into modern business methods, went into effect last Friday, and so well did the people understand the situation and so kindly did they take to it that the new law already works smoothly and as though it had long been in force. At the banks it is rare indeed that any ob- jections are heard to the new order of things and, considering the novelty, the number of checks presented without the stamp adornment is surprisingly small. The stamp formality will, doubtless, be overlooked occasionally, even although the law remains in force for ages, for the same reason that letters are not al- ways stamped, but a high average of law observance is looked for. The banks have not yet observed any reduction in the volume of check business, but it may be too early yet to judge what the effect of the tax will be. A better con- clusion can be drawn a month hence than at this time. ee: The banks have, by clearing house agreement, decided to suspend the free list, in so far as the stamp tax is con- cerned, on drafts. The favored custom- ers who in the past have been getting their exchange free will be required to pay for the stamp. The rates on ex- change sold, ranging from Io cents up to 25 cents, will remain as they are, the banks paying for the stamps. Certifi- cates of deposit, which the law requires to be stamped, will be issued as here- tofore and the banks will put on the stamps free. It is possible the free stamps on certificates may not last, es- pecially should it develop that remit- tances are being made with certificates instead of with drafts. oe ee The banks have declared their semi- annual dividends and none of them in this city have disappointed their stock- holders. The Kent Savings declared a 4 per cent. quarterly, the Fourth Na- tional 2 per cent. quarterly, the Michi- gan Trust Company 4% per cent. semi- annual, the Peninsular Trust 2 percent. semi annual and the others each 3 per cent. semi-annual, the Oid National, in addition, paying the taxes. The amount disbursed in dividends was $88,000. On the aggregate capital the bank dividends averaged 3.35 per cent. and their aver- age will be very materially reducéd when the taxes are paid,and still furtber cut down when the surplus and undi- vided protfis are counted in with the capital. >? The Produce Market. Apples—soc per '% bu. crate of Illi- nois. Bananas ~The holiday trade, com- bined with an advance at the ports of entry, has advanced fancy fruit. The movement is large, and the consumptive demand locally very good. Beets —New, 15c per doz. bunches. Blackberries—$1 per crate of 16 qts. for home grown, Butter—Creamery is in ample supply at 16c. Choice grades of dairy are still scarce and_ stronger, commanding 12 @13c. Packing stock is in ample sup- ply at 9@tIoc. ee Cabbage—Home grown is in supply at 50@6oc per doz. Celery—15@2oc per bunch. Carrots—!o@15c per doz. bunches. Cherries—$1 per bu. for Red and $1.50@1.75 per bu. for White and Black. The crop of red cherries is enormous, the trees being loaded down to the limit large of endurance. A drive in almost any direction reveals sights in the way of cherry orchards which are worth goinga long distance to see. Sweet cherries, strange to say, are a short crop and dealers meet with considerable difficulty in getting stock in sufficient quantities to meet their requirements. Cocoanuts—4@5c. Cucumbers—30@35c per doz. for home grown. Eggs—Local dealers pay 9c on track, holding case count at roc and candled at Itc. Gooseberries—Slow sale at per crate of 16 qts. Green Onions—to@t2c per doz. ac- cording to size. Green Peas—60@75c per bu. for home grown Marrowfats. Honey—Comb is out of stock. Strained in moderate supply and limited demand at ie. Lemons—The range on Messinas is greater than last week, although outside quotations are the same. California stock is coming in for the holiday trade and is selling at better prices. The movement is large and satisfactory this week. Lettuce—4oc per bu. for head and 25c per bu. for common. Muskmelons—$3 per doz. Onions—Dry stock from Mississippi commands $3.25 per bbl. ; California, $2@2.25 per sack. Oranges—The supplies of Mediter- ranean sweets and seedlings are large for this season of the year, and the quality is unusually good. The move- ment this week for the holiday trade of Independence Day is exceedingly good. The market is well prepared to take care of it. Pineapples—Floridas, $1@1.50 per doz. Arrivals are small in size and stock is scarce. Pop Corn—5oc per bu. Potatoes—Louisville stock is now in market, commanding 8oc per bu., with every indication of lower prices soon. Present arrivals are far ahead of the Arkansas stock in point of size and quality, as the Tradesman predicted would be the case last week. Old pota- toes are in limited supply, readily com- manding Soc per bu. Radishes—toc per doz. bunches Raspberries—Black fetche 5o0@6oc and Red 7o@8oc for 16 qt. crates in each case. Tomatoes--80c@$1 per 4 basket crate. Wax Beans—$! per bu. Watermelons — 20@25c choice Georgia stock. - > o> Dennis Coon has sold his half interest in the produce and commission firm of Maynard & Coon to Charles L. Reed and will remove to Pasadena, Cali. Mr. 40@5oc apiece for Reed has been employed in the offices of the C. & W. M. and the Michigan Centra! Railways for the past seven years. The new firm will be known as Maynard & Reed. >? > “ The Consolidated Adjustment Co., which is represented in this city by Chas. Orrin Jeffords, pretends to adver- tise judgments. Wonder if the concern will advertise the judgment recently re- corded against Mr. Jeffords in the Jus- tice Courts of Grand Rapids, amount- ing to $168.98 and $2.50 costs? > @¢->- 7 Geo. W. Stowitts has severed his con- nection with the Houseman & Jones Clothing Co. to accept a more lucrative position with the Continental Clothing House, at Green Bay, Wis. 0 S. G. Tompkins haseopened a grocery store at Entrican. The Olney & Judson Grocer Co. furnished the stock. _— — Daniel Steketee (P. Steketee & Sons) is spending two weeks’ vacation at Mac- atawa Park and Chicago. oo Gillies New York Teas at old prices while they hold out. Phone Visner, 800. 6 MICHIGAN TRADESMAIN Woman’ 's World Refutes the Charge that Women are Stingy. An English paper has recently been devoting much space to a discussion of the question whether woman is stingy or not, and, unfortunately, the general con- sensus of opinion seems to be that what- ever her other and manifest virtues, when it comes to money matters she is decidedly close and mean. Various things were brought forward in support of this theory—woman’s passion for the bargain counter, her inability to buy anything without first trying to beat down the price; the adamantine and un- shakable attitude she takes towards the giving of tips, and so on. Every woman who reads this will feel like entering a vigorous protest against such an unjust accusation, and will deny the charge in toto. We are not stingy, and if, as a sex, we are less free with our money and more given toa cheese-paring policy than men, the very sufficient reason that we less money to spend. Man, asa general thing, is the money-earner. He carries the pocketbook and may doas he pleases with his own, without giving an account to anyone. Woman seldom has any money of which she has absolute control. What is given her for housekeeping, for clothes and necessary expenses is the very least with which the desired and expected results can be accomplished, and she must needs look well to every cent and see that she gets the worth of her money. It is this necessity that makes her the victim of the bargain counter and the trading stamp and the fakirs who sell make-believe goods where you get something for nothing. She has literally nothing to ‘‘blow in’’ on things that are a mere temporary gratification of the moment. it is tor have As a matter of fact, women are not expected to spend much on purely per- sonal indulgencies, and so it seems doubly hard for them to be accused of Stinginess. A man thinks nothing of ordering a lunch that will cost a dollar or two. His wife may be just as hungry a would enjoy it just as much as he does, but she hesitates before she treats herself to a glass of 5 cent soda. No intelligent female stomach hankers for cream puffs and pie, as so many seem to suppose. Women simply order them because they are satisfying and cheap, and that not because of stinginess, but because it is all they feel they can afford. If any woman spent as much money on the gratification of a purely | generosity she would be held up as a warning to young men about to commit matrimony. Nobody would speak of her as a liberal woman. They would say she was reck- lessly, ruinously extravagant. It can not be denied that men and women look at money from different points of view and that men do spend much more freely than women. Take the matter of treating, for instance. A man feels that he must treat his friends and set up the drinks, or the cigars, even although he is behind with his rent and owes the butcher and baker and candlestickmaker. He must do it to maintain his character of liberality, and so it happens that he is often generous before he is just or honest. He will give, although he may never pay. A woman reverses the process. She will pay, even if she never gives. Colonel Bluster always heads the published sub- scription list of all the charities in town ; he is a liberal man and he throws a $5 bill down on the bar and invites all the loafers present to come up and take a drink; he contributes to the cam- paign fund and spends money like water to elect his candidate from the ‘Steenth ward, even if his family have to go on short rations, and pinch and pinch to pay for it. Mrs. Colonel Bluster is accounted a close woman. She takes no stock in any such liberality. An unpaid bill is to her like a nightmare; Mrs. Jones might go without soda water forever if she waited for her to treat her while Mary needed a new frock or Johnny lacked shoes, and if a candidate’s elec- tion to office in a woman’s club de- pended on her friends putting up money for it,she would never get into the Pres- ident’s chair in the world. The truth of the matter is that whether liberality is a crime or a virtue depends altogether on circumstances. How often do we celebrate the generosity of this or that young man. He never asks the price of things, he never neglects to send flowers to his hostess or bonhons to the debutantes and insists on paying every- body’s way on an excursion. How par- simonious beside him appears his sister, who counts every penny and washes her handkerchiefs in her room and dries them on the mirror, and who lets her friend pay her own street carfare! But then some day we hear that in his ex- pansive way of doing things the open- hearted young man has embraced the contents of his employer’s cash drawer and is a fugitive from justice, and then we wonder if there are not times when honesty is as good as liberality. #Vhen it comes to real generosity—tbe that means self-denial and individual taste asa man does on cigars, | self- sacrifice—the very finest flower of Uy Haat MAKE BUSINESS — BEWARE OF. Impure Extracts and avoid the Food Commissioner’s raid. Our Flavoring Extracts are pronounced Absolutely Pure by the Michigan State Analyst. De Boe, King & Co., Grand Rapids, Michigan. A. MURPHY, General Manager. FLOWERS, MAY & MOLONEY, Counsel The Michigan Mercantite 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 Chas. A. 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A woman may insist on having the worth of her money, she may refuse to treat or pay the way of those who are perfectly able to pay for themselves, but when it comes to a question of real want her hand is the first and quickest to give. It is the mites that women save by scrimp- ing here and pinching there that build the churches and sustain the charities and send missionaries to the heathen. Among the women against whom this charge is oftenest brought up is the woman who keeps a_boarding-house. Mrs. Slimdiet’s stinginess has been the subject of the cheap wits for genera- tions, who have rung the changes on ancient butter and the centipede legs of the boarding-house chicken ad nauseam. We have seen her pathetic striving held up to ridicule, her economies made mean and sordid, but no one has said anything about the other side of the question—of the hundreds and hundreds of times when she has given shelter and home to poor girls out of work and of the weeks and months she has let a board bill run along for some young fel- low who has lost a job and who but for her would have neither food nor shelter. No one whose fate has not taken them among such people has any idea of the extent of the generosity—the generosity that does not meet even the poor re- ward of a thanks—that such women be- stow. It is given out of poverty and hard work and bitter striving, and one girl so kept off of the street, one man saved from tramping or desperation is more real generosity and worth more than a line of colleges and charitable institutions built from here to the Atlan- tic Ocean. 3ehind the apparent stinginess of many a woman liesa pathetic little story that the world never knows. Sometimes she is a well-to-do woman who is cloak- ing her husband’s miserliness to her. Sometimes we see her niggardly, and the servants tell us tales of pinching and scrimping, and we can not know that she is heroically standing, like a lonely and deserted sentinel over wrecked and ruined fortunes, trying to keep up ap- pearances until the girls are married or the boys are in business. It is to his mother’s so-called stinginess that many a poor boy owes his college education and his after career in life. His father hadn’t the courage not to be liberal, be- cause he couldn’t afford it. He must belong to lodges and pay his part for expensive floral designs when Pat Doolan died and contribute to the band when some idiot suggested presenting a medal to the leader. He was esteemed the soul of generosity and the neighbor- hood pitied him for having a stingy wife. ‘‘They do say she can make five pies out of three blackberries,’’ they whispered and tittered behind her back. But she went unmoved on her way. She stinted the coffee here and saved on the sugar there, and practiced a thousand heart-breaking economies, but she gave her boy an education and a start in life. Stingy? It is an unfounded charge. Women are careful of money; they are just with it and, when there is need, they are liberal. Dorotuy Dix. <> 8 Clear Case. ‘It is mv opinion,’’ said the wise man, ‘‘that the tax on tea is a righteous one, but. that the tax on tobacco is an outrage.” ‘‘But how do you make that out?”’ asked an admirer. ‘“‘Make it out?’’ thundered the wise man; ‘‘isn’t it self-evident? I don’t use tea, but I can’t live without to- bacco.’’ MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Licensed Adulteration of Breadstuffs. The war tax which has come into op- eration provides, among other things, that every person, firm or corporation making, packing or repacking mixed flour shall pay a special tax at the rate of twelve dollars per annum, the same to be paid and notice posted conspicu- ously in the office of such party. The said parties shall also pay for each package of such flour at the rate of four cents a barrel, or two cents a_ half- barrel, one cent on every quarter-barrel, and on smaller packages in the same proportion. Section 35 specifies what is meant by mixed flour as follows: “Mixed flour’ shall be understood to mean the food product made from wheat mixed or blended, in whole or in part, with any other grain or other material, or the manufactured product of any other grain or other material than wheat. ’’ Here is authority, unquestioned and absolute, on the sole condition of the payment of a tax, empowering any and all parties who may choose to engage in the business to adulterate, with any material that it may: be profitable for them to use, the people’s bread, the staff of life. If the mixing had been confined to other sorts of grain, the result would be the authorization of the depreciating of the quality of the breadstuff, but it would at least be all edible. The use of the words, ‘‘other material,’’ permits the introduction into the flour of any substance whatever. Finely ground saw- dust, chalk or terra alba, or any other material sufficiently cheap to make the mixing profitable, can be used under this law to adulterate the flour sold in the markets of the United States; and it will have the full protection of the statute. This enactment by Congress shows that, when in need of money, this great Republic can become as unscrupulous as individuals in a like extremity. They will stick at nothing to obtain the cov- eted funds. To defraud the Govern- ment of the tax on adulterated flour is an offense to be punished with severe penalties; but to rob the people in the quality and wholesomeness of their bread is all right enough. For nearly forty years the General Government has been raising an enor- mous revenue on the manufacture and sale of liquors. The heavy tax has con- stantly created a strong temptation to unscrupulous parties to adulterate and deteriorate the qualities of such liquors ; but now the Government actually licenses persons, firms and companies to adulterate bread. It is a most re- markable act, and it shows how utterly unscrupulous even a great Government may become when it is determined to wring money out of the people. FRANK STOWELL. _ ~> 2 > 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. a From the Printer’s Standpoint. Undoubtedly one ot the best toasts on record was given by a printer: ‘‘Woman—the fairest of Nature's work. The edition is large and no man shouid be without a copy.’’ SSeSeseSesese oes wis LABELS FOR GASOLINE DEALERS Association Matters & Michigan Retail Grocers’ Association President, J. WISLER, Mancelona; Secretary, E. A. Stowg, Grand Rapids; Treasurer, a. FF, TaTMAN, Clare. Michigan Hardware Association President, Cuas. F. Bock, Battle Creek; Vice President, H. W. WEBBER, West Bay City; Treasurer, HENRY C. MINNIE, Eaton Rapids. Detroit Retail Grocers’ Association President, Jos—ePH KNiaut; Secretary, E. MARKS, 221 Greenwood ave; Treasurer, C. H. FRink. The Law of 1889. Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association President, FrRanK J. Dyk; Secretary, Homer Kuap; Treasurer, J. GEo. LEHMAN. person who shall sell and Saginaw Mercantile Association at retail any gasoline, President, P. F. TREaNor; Vice-President, JoHn I a McBratnige; Secretary, W. H. Lewis; Treas- naphtha without having the true urer, LOUIE re name thereof and the words “ explo- Jackson Retail Grocers’ Association ln} sive when mixed with air” plainly President, Gro. E. Lewis; Secretary, W. H. Por- printed upon a label securely at- TER; Treasurer, L. PELTON. a tached to the can, bottle or Lansing Retaii Grocers’ Association vessel containing the same President, F. B. JOHNSON; Secretary, A. M DaRLINe; Treasurer, L. A. GILKEY. | one hundred dollars. Adrian Retail Grocers’ Association | President, A. C. CLarK; Secretary, E. F. LAND; Treasurer, Wm. C. KoEHN. CLEVE We are prepared to Traverse City Business Men’s Association President, Tros. T. Bares; Secretary, M. B. Houuy; Treasurer, C. A. HAMMOND. Owosso Business Men’s Association ing basis: President, A. D. WHIPPLE; Secretary, G. T. Camp BELL; Treasurer, W. E. CoLLins. 2 TE 75¢ CT 50c per M Alpena Business Men’s Association 10 M. 4oc per M President, F. W. GitcHrist; Secretary, C PARTRIDGE. 20 M. ..35c per M SOM... o. .30c per M Grand Rapids Retail Meat Dealers’ Association President, L. J. Katz; Secretary, Portip HILBER: Treasurer, S. J. HUFFORD. d ds, Mich. St. Johns Business Men’s Association. ant Sees pu President, THos. BROMLEY: Secretary, FRANK A. PReRcY; Treasurer, CLARK A. PuTT. | | | | fi elaine S508 DIAMOND HIGH GRADE.#.% WINTER WHEAT FLOUR .t-st 8.82% Sold Once tried, always used. Sold on on its merits. the same basis as best patent brands manufactured by Grand Rapids Mills. BALL=-BARNHART=PUTMAN CO., SOLE AGENTS, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. : Every druggist, grocer or other deliver benzine or other shall be punished by a fine not exceeding furnish labels which enable dealers to com” ply with this law, on the follow- Tradesman Company, | ul i | | | | | J 8 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Devoted to the Best Interests of Business Men Published at the New Blodgett Building Grand Rapids, by the TRADESMAN COMPANY UNE DOLLAR A YEAR, Payable in Advance. " ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION. Communications invited from practical business men. Correspondents must give their full names and addresses, not necessarily for pub- lication, but as a guarantee of good faith. Subscribers may have the mailing address of their papers changed as often as desired. No paper discontinued. except at the option of the proprietor, until all arrearages are paid. Sample copies sent free to any address. Entered at the Grand Rapids Post Office as Second Class mail matter. When writing to any of our Advertisers, please say that you saw the advertisement in the Michigan Tradesman. ¥. A. STOWE. Barros. WEDNESDAY, - - - JULY 6, 1898. OUR LACK OF PREPARATION. Only people who are utterly blind to the significance of passing events can fail to profit by the lessons which the war now in progress have afforded. The most conspicuous and valuable lesson to be learned is the folly of the total lack of preparation for war which has been the policy of this great country since the close of tne struggle of thirty- five years ago. Poor as Spain is, she has yet found the means to fully equip her troops with modern arms, with the best artillery and with smokeless pow- der. The United States, with unlimited wealth and credit, has hardly enough modern arms to equip our small stand- ing army and no smokeless powder at all. The lack of these modern imple- ments of warfare greatly handicapped our troops in the recent fighting before Santiago. The advantage secured by the Spanish through the use of smokeless powder was so considerable as to be noticeable to all our commanders. While the Amer- ican positions and batteries were promptly disclosed by the smoke of the discharges, the position of the Spanish batteries and intrenchments could only be guessed at, as the smokeless powder did not betray whence firing proceeded. While our positions were excellent tar- gets, our men were left at sea as to the position of the Spanish batteries, The possession of a sufficient supply of smokeless powder would have entailed but a moderate cost; hence it is a sad commentary on the lack of foresight on the part of our statesmen that the ap- propriation needed for the manufacture of the powder was not long since forth- coming. Mary of the valuable lives sacrificed at Santiago would not have been lost bad the army been equipped with smokeless powder. Another evidence of lack of prepara- tion is tne fact that a very large pro- portion of the volunteer troops are be- ing provided with the old-style Spring- field rifle, long since discarded by the regular army. The Springfield rifle, while an excellent weapon of its kind, can in no sense compare in effective- ness with the modern small-caliber rifle. The fire zone of the modern gun is nearly twice as great as that of the Springfield rifle; hence troops armed with the latter weapon are placed at a tremendous disadvantage in a combat with troops armed with the modern small-caliber gun. It would have been easy for the United States to have accumulated a supply of modern arms sufficient to equip a quar- ter of a million men. This could have been done at comparatively moderate expense, and the surplus supply main- tained in store at the various arsenals ready to be issued whenever needed. A supply of modern weapons should be provided at once, and not only should the regular army and volunteers be armed with them, but the militia of the States should also be provided with such weapons as speedily as possible. The same lack of preparation is true of all other matters of military equip- ment. There are not sufficient tents: no surplus stock of uniforms; no equip- ments, such as haversacks and canteens, and, in fact, no stores to draw upon, except such as have been hastily manu- factured since the outbreak of the war. It is, of course, of no use to refer to these matters now in any spirit of com- plaint or reproach, the proper thing to do being to remedy the defect as best we may. But we would be worse than blind were we not to carefully consider the matter with a view to drawa helpful lesson therefrom for use in the future. This country must never again be caught unprepared for war. a The absence of commercial morality is one of the great deterrents to the progress of Italy. It is a curious and perhaps a significant fact that for years past the correspondents of the English press have glossed over or failed to refer to the things which have been perfectly well known in well-informed circles as to the corrupting influence of the suc- cessive governments which have ruled the country. Little or no reference has been made to the bribery and falsifica- tion of returns, the place-hunting and log-rolling, the inflation of the civil service for political ends and the handing over of the schools to men morally unfitted to be in conact with the children in them. If we take Porto Rico and Manila promptly,or within the next week or so, there may be no third call. It is pos- sible even for a Spanish cabinet to know when it has enough. Spain’s cabinet has postponed its crisis until somebody gets licked. It is presumed a crisis in Spain is something that can be kept on ice, or ina pickle, —————————— It is said men invent more things than women, because they do not have _hair- pins they can use for so many purposes in case of an emergency Tc The millionheiress is thought to be beautiful because all figures are good if they are on the right side of a bank ac- count and big enough. Spain says Yankees are a nation of shopkeepers. The dons will all be on the bargain counter for sale in cheap job lots soon. There is said to be another large and impatient army of volunteers ready to take charge of the civil offices in the **colonies.’’ An island that does not want to buy anything, and has no coal to sell, can remain neutral without much self-sac- rifice. per Spanish mackerel are coming our way. Soon everything worth having will desert Spain. esi iene en We are remembering the Maine with a vengeance, WHEN WILL THE WAR CLOSE? ‘“How long will the war last?’’ isa question that is being asked on all sides, with no hope of getting a satisfactory answer. Nevertheless, it is not difficult to get an intelligent view of the matter, so far as the contemplation of past experience can go, and all experience shows that to the United States a short war is im- possible. The reason for this is that this coun- try is never prepared for war. It not only has no considerable body of regular troops, but its militia is so poorly pro- vided for that it has never been in a condition, save in small numbers, to be ordered into the field. If the militia of the several states were kept organized into companies and regiments, and duly uniformed, armed and equipped,so that at ayy time it would be ready and able to answer a call, there would-be no de- lay, such as there has been, in getting troops to meet any emergency. In this case, not only has time been required to enlist the men, but after they were assembled in camp it was found that there were no clothes, shoes, hats, canteens and blankets with which to supply them, while the stock of arms and equipments was quite as inadequate. Then, when it became necessary to send troops abroad, there was a great scar- city of ships for transporting them and their supplies. Thus it is that, had everything requi- site for the movements against the Spanish West and East India colonies been provided beforehand, Cuba and Porto Rico and Manila could by this time have been captured and placed under control; but the fact remains that barely some preliminary steps are being taken to accomplish those results. A war to which the United States is a party is, therefore, necessarily slow, and since, in the present case, the war has just begun, there is no sort of rea- son to suppose that it will come to an early conclusion. The American people are excessively impatient and demand the utmost dis- patch in carrying on a war and are no- torious for persistent refusals to provide for it until driven to do so by the ex- tremity of emergency. For years Con- gress has been urged by an intelligent and prudent press to make adequate preparation for the public defense, but scarcely anything was done, and, asa result, the country has a war upon its hands with nothing ready for it, It is not strange that such an impa- tient people as are the Americans are also carried away by an overweening self-confidence. No sooner was war de- clared than the notion was proclaimed and propagated that the war was going to be a picnic, to be fought out and settled in a few days—three months at the utmost. Now, at the end of nearly three months serious operations are be- ing barely begun. The extreme im- patience and the excessive overconf- dence of the American people have done immense harm, because they have led to the forming of a widespread notion that everything would be over by this time, and the result has been an im- mense disappointment and a general cooling of that demonstrative patriotism which in the beginning manifested itself in an eager desire to enlist in the army. Going back to the experience of the Past wars in which this country was en- gaged with foreign countries, it is seen that the War of the Revolution lasted seven years; the second war with Eng- land continued two years; the war witb Mexico went on for two years anda half, while the Civil War required four years for its completion. The war with Spain may be given a year for its full course, and then it will be the shortest war ever fought by the United States, ——— SCHOOL COMMENCEMENTS. The termination at this season of the sessions of the various schools, public and private and the turning loose upon the country of bundreds and thousands of graduates call for some remark. Education in this great free Republic is intended to fit men and women to be intelligent, virtuous, honorable and use- ful members of society, and to prepare the men to be worthy citizens of great states, and enable them to play well their parts. in maintaining the rights of the people and their free institutions under constitutional guarantees and right regulation. There can be no proper mental de- velopment separated from moral train- ing. No man, however distinguished his intellectual endowments and accom- plishments, is fit to be chargéd with trusts and responsibilities unless his rule of action be founded in principles of honor, justice and truth. No man lacking in these regards is fit to be a voter, much less an official holder of special trusts. A system of education is valuable, not for the great number and variety of the subjects taught, but to the degree that its graduates are imbued with such a sense of the duties of life as may be proper to youths and maidens, and are inspired with a desire to perform them to the best of their abilities, There is much tendency in modern schools to introduce in a brief course a vast variety of subjects, the value of not a few of which being more than ques- tionable. It makes such schools showy at the expense of thoroughness and re- sults in giving a smattering of many subjects where completeness in a few would be of vastly greater practical use. There can be no serious objection to the fact that this sort of fadism causes the employment of more and higher-priced teachers; but the worst result of it is that where the income is limited, par- ticularly in the public schools, money is withdrawn from the primary and ele- mentary departments, where it is most needed, in order to make a show with what are supposed to be higher branches, If the schools but turn out incipient Citizens and youthful men and women trained in right principles of honor and truth, their other shortcomings may be excused. —_—— The supply of red crosses in Cuban towns threatened by our troops Is liable to be immediately exhausted. Spanish honor is not above seeking any port or violating any usage in the face of a storm. eens A man who charges the Government three prices for something the Govern- ment needs and must have can hardly expect to have his name put down on the roll of American patriots. If Honolulu could taste ofa regular United States Fourth of July celebra- tion, she might not want to be annexed, —_—_—_—_—_ Much of the means for stamping out the war in Cuba will be raised by the use of revenue stamps in this country. coe It won’t be so very long before we be- gin to make Blanco’s Havana smoke, i Se cee! Spain’s isiands come high; but we must have them, 2 ae THE PHILIPPINES. When the United States waked up one morning and found itself in possession of the Philippine Islands its surprise was equaled only by its ignorance of these islands in every possible particu- lar. They were off somewhere in the neighborhood of China; there might be five of them, there might bea thousand ; how large they were, who occupied them and what they were worth or good for hardly one in a hundred knew or cared. It was known that the man Dewey had done a pretty heroic piece of business, but aside from that little was to be said. More for the sake of finding out a little something about the new possessions the old geographies, unseen since the early school days, were opened and the Phil- ippine Islands for once proved an in- teresting study. For all intents and purposes there are 1,700 of them, lying wholly within the tropics between 4 degrees 40 minutes and 20 degrees north latitude, in a direct line between the southeast coast of China and the north of Australia. Manila on the island of Luzon is about 630 miles from Hung Kong and 7,000 miles from San Francisco. The smaller islands are simply rocks but the larger ones are extremely fertile and well-populated. The entire area is estimated at about 115,000 square miles, two-thirds of which is included in the two principal islands of Luzon in the north and Mindanao in the south. This territory is almost three times as large as Cuba, is larger than Italy and 20,000 square miles less in extent than Prussia, or about the size of New England and New York. The islands are mostly mountainous, with several active volcanoes. FEarth- quakes and typhoons are common and the climate, while tropical, is cooler to the north, a distance from the equator of something over fifteen degrees. Min- eral deposits are numerous, gold being found in considerable quantities, there are forests rich and valuable, while trop- ical fruits in the greatest variety grow in the greatest abundance. Tobacco and Manila hemp are produced in large quantities, a less amount of sugar, and rice, the principal article of food. The population is estimated at 1o,- 000,000. Of the Aetas or Negritos, the original inhabitants, about 25,000 re- main in the mountains of the interior, where they have fled from Malay in- vasion. They have never been subdued by the Spaniards and are practically independent. The rest of the population is chiefly Malay, with a mixture of Chinese. There are a few Spaniards and a few hundred Americans, Germans and Englishmen. The annual revenue to Spain from the islands is about $8,000,000, raised chiefly by taxing the natives, and the amount collected is greatly increased by the ex- tortions of the tax gatherer and higher officials. As the Tradesman has stated before, all forms of property, of busi- ness transactions and of private industry are taxed, and there is an additional poll tax on both men and women, amounting sometimes to $25 a year, the money go- ing either to Spain or into the pockets of the local officials, while little or nothing is spent for local improvements. The foreign commerce did not amount to much until late in the present cen- tury, and to-day the largest consumer of the products of the islands is the United States. During the last fiscal year $4, 383,740 worth of goods have been im- ported to this country from the Philip- pines, although their purchases from .us were less than $100,000, From a re- cent report of the United States Consul at Manila, our imports from the islands have lately averaged $1,000,000 a month. All of the commerce passes through Manila, the capital city, which has a population of 150,000 and is situated on the west coast of Luzon, the principal island. It has a fine harbor, the bay be- ing about 120 miles in circumference. While little is known of this territory, it 1s believed generally that, under fa- vorable circumstances, political and financial, it would become remarkably productive. It remains to be seen whether, under the protection of the United States, this condition of things will be realized. An order has been issued by the War Department that hereafter the bands of the regular army and volunteer service must play ‘‘ The Star Spangled Banner’’ and ‘‘America’’ in their original forms, and not in medleys. It is ordered, furthermore, that all officers and_pri- vates must remove their hats, no mat- ter what they are doing, during the rendition of the Nationai airs. This custom is an old one in the army, and the order calling attention to it is for the benefit of the volunteers. It was first adopted by the cadets at the West Point academy, and was the result of contact with foreign officers, who always made it their business to arise and un- cover whenever our National hymns were played at the military post in their presence. An Italian doctor has discovered that there is in the common pineapple a sub- stance similar to pepsin, and that one pineapple is sufficient to digest ten pounds of beef. But one must have the stomach strength of a beef to digest the coarse-fibered pineapple. Debs glories in the assertion that ‘‘not one of his 10,000 brethren of the social democratic party has enlisted for this unholy war.’’ Somehow we don’t seem to miss ’em any. ‘The social democrat is possibly a very useless person in war as well as in peace. When the new reporter decides that be will be a descriptive writer, he in- troduces the landscape of the action he is to tackle ‘‘as a scene that beggars description.’’ Then comes the golden wealth of his word-painting. It is not good form for a young lady to show animation or emotion of any kind; but when she is at a picnic and has a bug crawling down her back there is bound to be an exhibition of emotion. Germany does not really mean to be too officious at Manila; but she thinks a barrel of beer may be tapped there by Americans before her mug is ready. Don Carlos is liable to issue another manifesto at any moment. He must stand ready to catch the pieces when he sees Spain’s throne totter and fall. It is more than likely that some of the cables connecting Cuba with Mad- rid have not been properly cut. Laziness is a disease that grows on a man. It can only be cured by hard work. Lots of quinine bas been sent to Cuba. The war wilt be fough* to the bitter end. Whatever is is right, if responsible parties are disposed to make it right. The man who means well should prove it by doing well. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN THE FOLLY OF PARTISANISM. Nothing in the public life of a demo- cratic republic is more distasteful to sincere patriots than the bigotry, bitter- ness and reckless scurrility of an intense and narrow-minded partisanism. is, however, one thing worse than that evil temper—that is, the disposition to play upon it for the promotion of an in- dividual interest. It is said, sometimes, that the Senate is a very good club, and the Senators of opposite parties often manifest an evi- dent pleasure in each other’s society patriots before the country. As a matter of fact, however, it is probable that there are some real, as well as some pre- tended, partisan zealots in both houses of Congress. And no doubt very bitter things are said in those high places by men who mean them, and it is discour- aging to reflect how little effort is made on the part of the recognized leaders of the people to inculcate the beauty of Matthew Arnold’s rule of ‘‘sweetness and light.’’ When it is remembered how nearly the country has been evenly divided between two great parties fora long series of years, there is something almost appalling in the contemplation of the absolute distrust with which those rival organizations have almost invari- ably regarded each other. One asks himself whether it is possible that one organization has absorbed all the wis- dom and public virtue in the country, while each rival, although it represents nearly, if not quite, half the people, would inevitably involve the country in ruin and disgrace if it were not checked and thwarted by its opponents. Indeed, it is inconceivable that any really sen- sible man can go quite that far, although one might suppose that nothing could be more common were he to judge solely from what he reads in party organs, or from what he hears in partisan speeches. It may be imagined by party leaders who do what they can to cherish and in- tensify a feeling of partisan enmity in the breasts of their followers that it is necessary to keep the strength and ac- tivity of their own parties unimpaired, and they may suppose that it tends to promote their own individual popular- ity; but it is altogether possible, even from the very selfish point of view, to go too far in this direction. The pres- ent Speaker of the House of Represent- atives is an able man, and his influence with his own party is so great that, for many years past, he has been its only serious candidate for the speakership when a Speaker was to be elected; but he is, of all the more eminent of the po- litical leaders of this time, probably the most intensely partisan. He not only acts with his party and for his party, on every possible occasion, but he also finds it consistent with his own sense of dignity and propriety to refer to all op- posing parties in an almost invariable tone of contempt. Men who are opposed to Mr. Reed and his party not only are mistaken men, but they are silly and ridiculous men, unworthy of serious consideration. But, despite his unques- tioned leadership of his own party in the House, Mr. Reed has never been nominated for the Presidency. He is spoken of, from time to time, as a_pos- sible nominee for that high office; but, when the time comes, somebody else is preferred. There is, it may be sus- pected, a feeling in his party, as well as out of it, that a man of such an ultra partisan temper ought not to be Presi- dent of the United States. He who re- ceives the highest office within the gift There | when they are not posing as indignant | g of the people should feel that he is the President of the whole people, and should understand that his election does not mean that the Government is to be administered for the exclusive benefit of his party throughout his term of office. It is that other feeling of implacable enmity to the opposition which, added to the natural desire to strengthen one’s own party by bestowing upon it an ex- clusive patronage at the expense of the whole people, renders it so supreme- ly difficult to secure a thorough enforce- ment of the rules established by law for the promotion of civil service reform. These reflections have been suggested by recent exhibitions of partisan feeling in Congress when important war meas- ures were under consideration. There is something at once disgusting and dangerous in the attempt to make polit- ical capital out of a struggle in which the honor and prosperity of a whole country are at stake. Now, if ever it can come at all, the time has come to lay partisanism aside and rise to the level of a hearty patriotism, for if the old intensity of partisanism is still cher- ished, and unleavened vindictiveness is permitted free play by those who oppose the party in power, it 1s evident that the people of this country are divided by a feeling of enmity well-nigh as im- placable as any they can possibly feel for foemen from over the sea. RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION. The New York Railroad Gazette gives a summary of the new railroad mileage constructed in the United States for the first six months of 1898, showing a total of 1,092 miles. If the same rate of con- struction shall be continued for the com- ing six months, the mileage of the year will be about 2,185, and this will be larger by some 75 miles than that of last year and will exceed that of any year since 1894. Experience has shown that, as arule, more railroad is built in the second half of the year than in the first, so that it is not unreasonable to suppose that the summary for 1808 will show more than 2,200 miles built. The 1,092 miles reported was built by 82 companies, or an average of 13% miles to each company; but the build- ing by few of the companies corresponds closely to this The largest mileage during the six months by any average, one company is that of the Mobile & Ohio, which built 97.6 miles, com- pleting its extension to Montgomery, Ala. The State which heads the list in new mileage is Alabama, with 125.1 miles; next comes Missouri, 94.3 miles; then Louisiana, 78.3 miles; New Mexico, 71.5 miles; California, 63.51 miles, and miles; Texas, 63.08 Georgia, 62 miles. At the | other end of States, without the list are the following a mile of new road re- ported: Connecticut, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North and South Dakota, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont, Wyoming and the Dis- trict of Columbia. It is an interesting point to note that about 620 miles of this increase, or three-fifths of the total, is in the states west of the Mississippi, and that of this, all but about 80 miles is in the southern half of that section. Of the mileage in the Eastern States, about some 378 miles was built in ten of the states south of the Ohio River. With the exception of five miles in Maine, not a mile was built in the New England States. 10 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Shoes and Leather Returning Goods and Claiming Dis- counts. Returned goods may be divided into two kinds, namely, justifiable and un- justifiable. The instances of justifiable returns are more rare than the unjus- tifiable. There are, no doubt, instances where a dealer is justified in returning goods; still it is at all times a serious matter, whether considered from the standpoint of either seller or buyer. The causes of complaint may not be en- tirely with the seller or manufacturer. A dealer may, in placing his order with a salesman, have some _ ideas of changes inserted that may result in making up goods very different from what he orig- inally intended. A small change—such as a different tip, facing or trimming— may result in making a very sightly shoe, or it may turn out just the oppo site. A member of the trade who values his reputation can not afford to get for himself the uame of returning goods or canceling orders. While his ability to pay may not be questioned, still he soon becomes recognized as an undesirable customer and bis business is not sought after. The same may also be said of the manufacturer. If he goes into the market and buys material that is not up to the standard as represented by sam- ples which were shown by his salesman and the goods are sent out, the discov- ery is soon made and the goods are soon relegated to the rear. In selling goods, there is no doubt that there is considerable pressure brought to bear on the average dealer, and 1f the salesman bea careful, prudent one, who wishes not only to sell the goods but to build up a trade, he will he as careful not to sell the dealer some- thing that will result in his being dis- satisfied, or that will lay on the shelves and be an eyesore to him every time he sees this customer, as to sell goods that will make money for him. He must also not make promises that he knows his house can not fulfill. Quite a number of goods are returned by dealers perhaps without much thought on the subject. If a dealer happens to have a few days of dull trade, just preceding the arrival of a shipment of goods, the fact that he is not doing much gives him an opportunity to make the common general complaint, that goods are not up to sample. Some buyers come out candidly, and say that they have to return so many goods, or make complaints, in order to have goods come up to sample, when, if they knew the actual facts, this would not be necessary with a reliable house. The question-before us is how to remedy this evil. There is great room for improvement, both with the seller as well as with the buyer, not so much in making any vital or great change, but by improving in the smail things that go into all of our business methods, by our getting nearer to the dealer, and be- ing in toucb with him and his needs. The manufacturer must use greater care in the small things that go to make up our production, and the dealer must come nearer in touch with the manufac- turer and realize some of his difficulties in making a good shoe from the ma- terial he bas to use, etc. We expect to have complaint in re- gard to the upper stock, until the peo- ple over in India and South America learn how to raise the kids so that every hide they send over to America is taken from the same kind of fat, round body, so that the skin when tanned here will have that nice, smooth, meaty touch which we all like. When this is brought about we think the millennium will not be far off. The system of discounts as used in business transactions are of two kinds, viz.: Trade and cash discount. The former is used nearly altogether in that class of merchandise where the value or cost of production is more or less fluctu- ating, and by this system of trade dis- counts the merchant or manufacturer is enabled to have a certain fixed list price on his goods, and by the giving of vary- ing discounts may make the price to customers conform to the actual market value of the article sold. Trade discount is not intended to be a certain fixed rebate, but from its very nature and from the result obtained by its use it must be more or less varying, according to circumstances. However, this kind of discount cuts no figure in the shoe business, Cash discount, on the other hand, oc- cupies an entirely different position in the ‘‘economy of business,’’ and is one of its most vital principles. By its use the evils of the ‘credit system’’ are to a great extent overcome. Sharp com- petition in the business world to-day is the cause from which most of the evils of the ‘“‘credit system’’ arise. Many manufacturers or wholesale dealers are trying to gain an advantage over their competitors by the giving of longer time, extra datings, and larger cash discounts, and while those methods seem to be acceptable and eagerly sought for by the customer, it is un- doubtedly to his disadvantage in the end. 1 business, to be successful, must be done at a profit, and by the present sys- tem the profits are reduced to such an extent that any especial inducement offered to the customer by the seller must be made up in some other direc- tion. All business to be successful must be done on business principles, the most important of which is the employ- ment of a capital that must be utilized to the best advantage by ‘‘turning it over’’ aS many times as possible in a given period, and each time it is used a certain margin, or profit, should be ob- tained. If turned a sufficient number of times, and the other details of busi- ness carefully watched at the same time, the business will be successful; the re- verse is equally true. Where the customer takes a longer time than that allowed by the seller he takes just that much more than belongs to him, and that his creditor can _ really afford to grant; for the creditor, if a good business man, has made bis cal- culations on receiving bis pay in a cer- tain time, so as to have it to use over again, and, if not received, his calcu- lations are disturbed. It is in this con- nection that the cash discount system plays an important part in the economy of business. The seller, in making his terms and prices, makes a calculation as to the value of money to his business, and on the result of this calculation bases his per cent. and time for cash discount, and makes the proposition to the debtor that ‘if you will pay this account in such a time I| will give you such a per cent. cash discount, as the money is worth that much to me.’’ He makes the proposition to the debtor after hav- ing made his calculations as to what he can afford to pay for the money before it is actually due,according to the terms of the sale. OPPEPEPPIPPPEPIPP PE PCOREB IG Bike Junior. Boys’ Brown Canvas Bicycle Bals, Grip Sole = ~ * = = 80c Youths’ Brown Canvas Bicycle ; Bals, Grip Sole > = * 60c Sn Seasonable Saleable Also a full line of RICE & HUTCHINS’ celebrated cycle shoes. They are Leaders, gan Shoe Co., Detroit, Mich. PPPPIPA IPP IIA rvvvyvvvVvuWwvvwVwYVreYVTteeree'v+=r«+; V"TwCcwowvwVvTVvVvTV—CCC7"% ee OD SO EE EEE EVES PP PLPIPEAPIEEPPEAPIPAPEOS OOO 0000060600090 008 Seer cete 9OO0S60O 50065006 99600004 POSOOO IOS HOO9OOOS $O00050990O90696 0959660060000 006 OLD COLONY RUBBERS FINE JERSEY BUCKLE ARCTIC, in up-to-date last, net $1.06 per pair. Send for a sample pair and be convinced that they are seconds IN NAME ONLY. PS PSS SVS OSS SUSE SVTS? SCV SCoeCeeosoe Ss BOOS 00900000 09999906 66664 O06 en ae rr HIRTH, KRAUSE & CO., cranp rRapips, MICH. OSS OSS OOD SOC SOOO SDFOSFSS S9OSOOSS 004606690 0006O000 @e SA BAO bb& bd & & & 2 + A i> by di i, i, i, be, >, Lin Ln di da GSO OSS OSSSOGSSSSOSHCEOSES TeV ee ee Ve Vee PU V VV VS Boots, Sshoés and Rubbers POSOOOHSS SOS 690099966 990006866 POSS OSS OGG SS 90H 90S 01 OHO OO oo | i A A | z a We make the bess wea line of Shoes on the market. We carry a full line of Jobbing Goods made by the best manufacturers. When you want Rubbers, buy the Bos- ton Rubber Shoe Co.’s line, as they beat all the others for wear and style. We are selling agents. See our lines for Fall before placing your orders. Rindge, Kalmbach, Logie & Co., (it tren st. 90000-000000-0-0-0-00-0-0-0-0-00-0-:0-0:0-00-0-0-00-0 lcteaeneunbuascsceddesasass Gh 4 | : : : VE VAPNTPNET ITT VEP INT HTT NT HTH ATT TOR NT IOF NTT NTP NET NET Or terNTTONr ONT IOrES “Remember the Name’ ALES (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. Herold-Bertsch Shoe Co., °° 7 res wich State Agents for Wales-Goodyear and Connecticut Rubbers. UUAAMLGAA GMA GUA SAA J6h 4b ddd 466. J4hJ4b bi 4bb.J4hJ4h ddd 4b 46h Jd ddd db Jb ddd NITIPVEPH NNN EP ener er NneNer Noreen teres UMA AMAA AUN GMA ANA UA bk dk AMA Abb dk db bd =r: ap — MICHIGAN TRADESMAN If the foregoing statement is in ac- cordance with the facts, as it undoubt- edly is in all well-managed concerns, then if the debtor, in paying the ac- count, takes a larger discount or longer time than that allowed, he must be. in- fringing on the rights of the creditor and demanding that to which he is not entitled. The principal reason why a cash dis- count is offered, and which is not. often mentioned, especially to the debtor, is that the creditor is willing to allow a concession for the elimination of the risk, as there is no doubt that the long- er the account runs the greater the risk : and another reason for allowing a cash discount is to make an inducement for the debtor to pay the account before it is due, so that the proceeds may be used in the business and enable the creditor to run his business on a smaller investment than would be necessary if the full time were taken by all his cus- tomers, In the event a customer takes the full time, and also demands the cash dis- count, he is asking something entirely unreasonable on the face of it, and which he is apparently unable to see, and the only explanation to give for this failure to understand the reasons for cash discount is that ‘‘There are none so blind as those who won’t see.’’ So far, the subject of discount has been considered from the standpoint of creditor only. Viewed from the debtor's standpoint it is of even more impor- tance. It enables him to anticipate his maturities at an advantage, and also re- duces the net cost of his goods, and, if taken advantage of on all occasions, with other details of his business looked after with care,there is very little doubt as to his final successs. J. M. Granam., ———~ 8 -@- How the Farm Was Paid For. Speaking about this war with Spain, and the mint of money those Chicago speculators are coining by dealing in ‘‘futures’’ with grain, reminds me of the way I chanced—just happened, you know—to turn an honest penny, in our civil war. It was old Nick Walrod, a_ neighbor- ing farmer, who was talking, and who had been one of the first to enlist as a high private in defense of the starry flag nearly forty years ago, and who received his discharge in better health than when he enlisted, if I except the loss of the index finger of his right hand; although he yet smiles at that small loss and says, ‘‘I was well paid for it and am quite satisfied. Sit right down here on this log, Frank, while I tell you all about it,’’ said the old gentleman. ‘*Early in 1859 I had bought an eighty- acre farm adjoining my father’s, not far from Rockford, Illinois. Land was cheaper then than now, and money scarce as hen’s teeth. I was to pay two thousand dollars for the farm and the apology for a house upon it; $500 down and the balance in eight years with 6 per cent. interest; with the stipulation of paying the balance due at any time previous. I was strong and rugged for a man of my vears—then 22—and was looking ahead to a home of my own. My father was to furnish mea span of horses, and a few other animals to par- tially stock the farm, and for the time being I was to board at home. After the Rebs hung old John Brown-—whose soul is marching on, you know—I guessed there would be war sure, and although I had paid five hundred in cash on my farm, and held my bond for a deed, I took mighty little interest in my work; and my mind was made up to go for a soldier if the call came for defenders of the old Starry Flag. There was only one thing stood in the way of my enlisting, and that was a plump little girl of 18 years, who had already promised to go in partnership with me in farming, and she is now Mrs. Wal- rod. This young woman, Miss Fanny Kinney, and her brother, Harry Kinney, were the only children cf their parents, who were both stricken with cholera and died just about the time I bought my farm. Young Kinney, a few years my senior, was a carpenter by trade, and at the first call of Father Abraham for seventy-five thousand men he and J enlisted, but each preferred a different branch of the service—he going as En- sign Kinney on board a gunboat on _ the Mississippi River, and I ina regiment of cavalry as a common soldier. We met each other but once only after we left for the South ; and that was early in the spring of 1864 at Memphis, Tennes- see. Then we enjoyed a visit with each other for about half a day to the fullest extent, and congratulated each other up- on our improved physical appearance. ‘Of course I was corresponding with his sister—Miss Fanny—and was kept informed of matters in my father’s fam- ily, and in the autumn of 1864 her let- ters expressed much anxiety about her brother, whose quite regular missives had for some reason failed to arrive, and about this time news reached me that the flotilla in which he was serving had been in an engagement with the Rebs. Two weeks later a letter from Fanny stated that Harry was reported among the missing. I need hardly add that the poor girl was wild with grief, nor that my share of suffering fora time rendered me almost heart broken at the affliction. No particulars regarding Harry’s death were ever received. Dur- ing the winter of 1864-5 my regiment, with squads from others—all cavalry— was ordered into Southern Tennessee to drive out the bushwhackers who were then busy in that region, devastating and destroying the property of all Union families and their sympathizers. Our regiment, when once on the ground, usu- ally scouted in companies, but en- deavored to be together or within easy reach of each other every night, that no superior force might surprise us. At that time the Johnnies were hard pressed for clothing, and presented anything but a military appearance in all respects. Every conceivabie kind and color of garments were worn, and their half mil- itary and half rag-tag and picked up tinsel from the dead Union soldiers, to eke out their garments, rendered it im- possible to tell officers from privates. One afternoon my company was sud- denly startled by emerging from a forest road which made a sharp turn to the right close to the timber and riding plump into a camp of bushwhackers just enjoying their supper. Like ourselves they were mounted men, and no time was wasted in reaching their horses, Our Captain ordered a surrender, but the order fell upon uv willing ears, and the next order was to his own men to fire The standing trees and underbrush saved many lives, but gave us a number of severely wounded to care for. I person- ally singled out a Johnny Reb whom I took for an officer by the cap he was wearing, which was of Union blue and ornamented with a bright tinsel band. He saw me raise my Winchester while yet standing beside his horse ready to mount, and we both fired at each other almost at the same instant. I felt the whiz of his bullet as it passed near my face, and my gun fell from my hands as I saw his horse fall dead at the re- port of mine. His cap was knocked of by the falling horse, and without stop- ping an instant he ran like a deer in the direction his companions were _tak- ing As I dismounted and led my horse along in order to pick up the cap he had dropped, I noticed for the first time | the bleeding stump of the index finger of my right hand, and also that the lock of my gun was ruined. The cap I picked up, while badly soiled by use, was still a good one and evidently be- | longed to a soldier in the United States | navy, and to my _ surprise, gold band on its front were the letters, H. K., the initials of my lost friend, Harry Kinney! Hastily fastening this treasure to my belt, I answered the re- | The bleeding | call to join my company. stump of my finger required attention, as the first and second phalanges were entirely gone. To make a long story short, Frank, after spending several weeks in a hospital, caring for my | wound, I was mustered out of the serv- | above the| ice as no longer fit for duty from the loss | of this important member of my right | hand, and returned home. In due time | there was a wedding at my father’s | house and Miss Kinney became my | wife The cap bearing her brother’s | initials was in due time renovated almost | to its original freshness and beauty, | and was kept as a memente of patriot- | ism of one who gave his life for his country, As the initials of many other men might be the same, doubts whether this cap had belonged to Fanny’s broth- er had often arisen not only in our own minds, but also in others.’ sel a ae “We are settled at last in our own ‘apology for a house,’ and on our own farm, and I am pleased to say that we bold a clear title to the property and are contented and happy. !t happened in this way: **One day while Fanny was exhibiting the sailor's cap to a lady friend she noticed that a portion of the lining had been coarsely re-stitched part way around, and with different thread: and also that a prominence was perceptible at this point. Ripping open the lining, a small oiled cloth covered packet was found, which, upon being opened, re- vealed twelve hundred dollars in green- backs of large denominations, and up- on a slip of paper in the well-known writing cf her lost brother were these words, a my dear sister Fanny,’ and signed, ‘Harry Kinney.’ FRANK A. Howie. ee (EVERY DEALER 9 i can please customers and guarante them Perfect § oot ( Comfo rt t by eee al PEDA- CURA (Flint’ ginal Foot Powder). Sh king it a will reliev g nging and perspiring feet, cure soft corns and J keep the feet as sweet and healthy as an infant’s. PEDA-CU RA has been | sold for eight years and is su iperior to ull other foot powders. Larges t pack- a aye Retails fe r 25 cents; $1.75 per doz. oe obbers. Dealers in Michigan a supplied by Hirth. Krause & Co., Gras id Rapids, Mich. Mfd. only by | eau CURA CO., Chicago. 252°eS52525cSe5e5e5e5e5 Mn 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. Ionia St., Grand Rapids, Mich. OUR FALL LINE We are especially strong in our men’s $2.50 line. ci, Box Calf, Enamel and Winter If you have not seen this line it will pay you to do e fen A WINNER ‘Tans, so before placing your order. Our sales last year on Woonsocket and Wales-Good- year rubbers were the largest in the history of the house. We are in the market for orders. Write us. THE RODGERS SHOE CO., Toledo, O. vwvauddvvau Everything in the Plumbing Line Everything in the Heating Line Be it Steam, Hot Water or Hot Air. Galvanized Work of Every Description. Tiling. Concern in the State. Mantels, Grates and Largest WEATHERLY & PULTE, 99 Pearl St., Grand Rapids 12 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Fruits and Produce. Rejoicing Over the Vindication of Oleo- margarine. From the New York Commercial. Oleomargarine, having fought a long fight, has at last gained a substantial victory. This much-maligned product was, at the instance of the dairy inter- ests, which it was long supposed to menace seriously, discriminated against vigorously, boldly, and, as the United States Supreme Court recently decided, unjustly, by the laws of almost every dairy state in the Union. While onlv the oleomargarine laws of New Hamp- shire and Pennsylvania are by this de- cision expressly declared unconstitu- tional, the position of the Court is plain, and similar laws in other states will be overthrown. Both of these States sought by statute to prevent the sale of oleo- margarine by prohibiting not only its manufacture, but its introduction into the State. This the Supreme Court holds is a violation of the Federal Con- stitution relative to the freedom of in- terstate commerce. The New Hamp- shire law provided that in case the oleo- margarine were colored pink, so as to distinguish it unmistakably from butter, it could be brought into the States, hut this the Federal Court treated as a mere evasion which dees not alter the force of the law’s unconstitutionality. There was a time, before the creamery era, and when the disposition to sneak bogus butter upon the consumer as the real product was pronounced, when this question was considered of great im- portance. Buttermakers demanded the outlawing of a product which they be- lieved struck at the very existence of their industry. Consumers were led to believe that the product was unhealth- ful and almost poisonous—at best a vile concoction of stale grease and pernicious coloring matter, deftly molded and placed upon the market to decoy and deceive people. It was in vain that pro- test was made and an inspection of the methods of manufacture and all the ma- terial used was demanded. Clamor prevailed and prohibition that did not prohibit was pronounced in many states against oleomargarine. The panic has subsided in late years, the opposition settling down to a more rational basis. Hence, the decision of the Supreme Court causes no consternation among farmers and will attract little attention. All that is required to protect butter- makers from competition and consum- ers from being imposed upon by oleo- margarine is a law that prohibits the sale of the product as butter. Under 4ts own name it can do no harm and has a right to the courtesies of the market. Many states, including our own, have such a law, and carefully administered it has been found quite effective. The mistake was made in the first place in trying to do too much. Arbitrary meth- ods in this country defeat their object. The American people do not take kind- ly to prohibition when it invades their kitchens and cellars. Very few of them, relatively speaking, wanted to eat oleo- margarine, but the number who were not over particular in the matter ran up into the thousands many times multi- plied, and the substitute being cheaper than butter, they preferred to use it. Supply was inevitable and manufactur- ers found it profitable to furnish it. So the long fight has ended in a decision of the Supreme Court on constitutional points involved and concessions that will settle the matter on a reasonable basis. Se How Oranges and Lemons Are Handled in Gotham. New York, July 2—Of the millions of boxes of oranges and lemons received at the port of New York about 80 per cent. is disposed of at public auction. Many methods have been tried, but this has proved the most successful, and scarce- ly a day passes throughout the year, with the exception of Sunday, that there is not a cargo selling under the ham- mer. New York boasts of two fruit auction- houses. The more important of the two gee a cc a a has had a successful career of’over forty years, while the other, although a new- comer in the field, has already secured a flattering patronage. No doubt many enterprising business men would take to the auction business were it not for the fact that the capital required is un- usually large. One of the inducements found in the auction system is a cash settlement the day after the sale. When it is known that in a single day sales have been made aggregating $50,000 to $100,000, it will be readily seen that the auction house must have a pretty good- sized bank account to draw on. Then again, a large amount of room is re- quired for storing and exhibiting sam- ples, to say nothing of a small-sized amphitheatre where the auctions are conducted. One of these two big concerns oc- cupies a large four-story building, while the other uses three fluors of another. By an ingenious arrangement the seats are so arranged that when a sale is not in progress they may be hauled up and fastened to the ceiling, leaving the val- uable space below for exhibiting sam- ples. In both auction rooms the seats rise tier upon tier, so that every buyer is in full view of the auctioneer. In this way not a single bid escapes notice. A fruit auction sale in full blast is an in- teresting entertainment and is worth go- ing a good way to see. The dusky sons of Italy are still largely interested in this trade, and with their naturally im- pulsive natures they make excited bid- ders, A large number of sales take place right on the steamship piers. The scene here is entirely different, for there are no seats for the buyers, and they are obliged to stand in a group around the auctioneer, who is perched on a box or other point of vantage. The handling of perishable fruit in- volves a large element of risk as regards the condition of the fruit. In purchas- ing a lot of two or three thousand boxes the buyer is guided by a dozen or more sample boxes which are opened for his inspection. It is said that human na- ture appears in all its weakness in the fruit business, for the seller desiring to obtain the best price possible for his goods shows a marked tendency to ‘‘fix’’ the samples. So _ bitter was the feeling engendered over this subject that many times life has been threatened. Under the present system inspectors are hired by the Fruit Buyers’ Union, whose busi- ness it is to watch the opening of sam- ples and report if the fruit is tampered with. This report is made to the auc- tioneer, and he is obliged to read it be- fore offering the goods for sale. Time was when inost of the fruit was imported, but the speedy development of California has caused a rapid shifting around of conditions. New York re- ceived from California last year about 1,600 carloads of 336 boxes each. A box contains between eighty and three bundred _ Not more than 20 per cent. of all the fruit disposed of in the city is sold at private sale. Even the branch houses of the big California fruit companies turn their consignments over to the auctioneer. While oranges and lemons are the principal varieties thus sold, it is found that bananas, pine- apples, onions, grapes and dried fruits are also extensively handled in a sim- ilar manner. Oa Not Worried by Shee: is. Mrs. Styles—‘‘Is your husband wor- ried about business during these war times?’’ Mrs. Rich—‘‘No, indeed. He thinks the war will help his business. He’s interested in a gas company, you know, and he thinks there will be so many young men go to war that there will be no more occasion for turning down the parlor lights every night. ’ _~> 0 > Michigan Central War Atlas. Only 25 cents for 15 large pages of six- colored authentic maps of all countries of the world, with marginal indices, statistical notes and supplementary sheet showing, in colors, the flags of all na- tions. The best war atlas published. $4.00 worth of maps for 25 cents. They can be obtained at the Michigan Central Ticket Office—772. NUTIPIPPNEPNETEP OPN NEE NTP NPT Nr NTH NTP NEP eRNrNTr NTT ier ver rereTr tree Eggs Bring High Prices in Buffalo Correspond with your old friend, 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 returns. 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. monenyenyrrenenprenyrenenyrenyrenenyronynyienyrt. SOS OOOO O99F 60906065 9009009S 90000000 06000060 00000000 VOPNOPINNEPHNE VIPER NTP NEPerNN Enter NT eT GULUUA TAA bk dNA bk AA bb bk dbb bd Jk bd Jbk ddd @ e ;HARRIS & FRUTCHEY Only Exclusive Wholesale BUTTER and EGG 3 House in Detroit. Have every facility for han- o dling large or small quantities. Will buy on track ; at your station Butter in sugar barrels, crocks or e tubs. Also fresh gathered Eggs. Secccccooes 90000606 99000606 60000000 N. WOHLFELDER & CoO.., WHOLESALE GROCERS AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS 399-403 HIGH ST., EAST SIDE, DETROIT, MICH. We want your shipments of Eggs, Butter and Cheese and will make liberal advances on same to reliable parties. Ps GCODOQODQOG (2XHOQKOOQOOXE DODODOODOE QOOQOQOOODE DOODOGOE QOOQOQOQOOOS Butter Wanted = Cash FF. ©. B. Cars; carload lots or less. Prices quoted g on application. ® H. N. RANDALL PRODUCE CO., Tekonsha, Mich. DO® DOHOGQHOOHO© $1}DHOOQDQOOODO®ODOOOO.HLHOQOO.HOH.OOO(HOOOOOHOOOQOOOOQOOS 900-0-0-0-00-0-0-0:0-:00-0-000-00-0-:0-0-0-00-00-0-0-00-0-0000-000-00-0000-000000 Ship your BUTTER AND EGGS to R. HIRT, Jr., Detroit, Mich. 3 34 and 36 Market Street, 2 2 43574377439 Winder Street. Cold Storage and Freezing House in connection. Capacity 75 carloads. Correspondence solicited. 00-00-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0 0-0-0-0-0-00-0-0-0-0-0 0 0:0-0-0-0-0-0-:0-0-0-0-0-0:0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-06 @ DOAKLOOGE VHHOODDHODOOQDOOOOOQ®©Q ODOOQQDOOQOCS QQOOQQOOQDES QDODOQOO® -BUTTER 47 EGCS I want them, and at the highest market price for cash. Let me hear from you at once. References—Dun or Bradstreet’s Commercial Agencies; Northern Kent Bank, Cedar Springs; any Wholesale Grocer in Grand Rapids. Yours for business, . M. SMITH, - CEDAR SPRINGS, MICH. OOO £:0X0K9OQOOODOGODO®OOOOOOOOOOGS SOOOODODHGDOOQOOQOOQOOQODODOE More Profit ___. for dealers in this than in any quality of dairy butter. Cus- tomers demand this butter after trying it once. Write us. MAYNARD & REED, Grand Rapids, Mich. ®©D@OOO@OO® @ oT FANCYG BRAND } Packed Expressly for @ a MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 13 How to Build a Cheese Factory. People have asked me how I would build a factory and how much it would cost. A good one can be put up for about $1,200. If possible, I would build it into the side ofa hill, for two rea- sons: First, to get a cellar curing room in which an even temperature can be held, and second, to secure an elevated whey tank without it being necessary to elevate the whey. I would build a basement with two rooms for curing cheese. One room can be kept fairly dry for the new cheese. New cheese ought to dry on the outside for a few days, until a good rind is formed, and then they may go into a room contain- ing a more humid atmosphere, where they will dry out less; in fact, they will cure better. One reason why our peo- ple complain that the cheese is too dry is that the makers have to make the cheese firmer to stand the hot curing rooms,and the cheese is dried still more in such rooms, The building above the ground can be built fifteen feet longer to accommodate a boiler room at the end, right on the ground, as it will be necessary to get a foundation in the ground for the boiler. The rest of the building above ground can be divided into a making room and a store room for supplies. The floor of the making room should be well sup- ported from below to stand the heavy weight upon it. It should also be double thickness with tar, or something similar, between, to prevent water run- ning through. It must also be remem- bered that the insulation from the warm- er rooms above must be secured for the curing rooms. The inside of the build- ing should be properly ceiled and painted. For ventilation of the curing rooms, run two galvanized iron pipes, one foot in diameter, through the roof, one for an inlet of air, and the other for an out- let. On top of the inlet have a funnel with a vane to it, so that it will always swing on a pivot towards the wind. The air would then flow down the funnel in- to the room below, and the air in the room would be forced out of the other tube. For times when there is little air moving, a steam jet may be inserted in- to the outlet. A small jet of steam es- caping will cause a surprisingly strong current of air that will make a partial vacuum in the curing room, and of course air will rush in through the inlet. For buildings that can not be built on a side hill I would recommend a sub- earth duct for ventilation. The ground is warmed in summer and cooled in winter down to a depth of about ten feet. To secure an even, low tempera- ture we must go down ten or twelve feet. Air drawn through a long tube, laid in the ground at that depth will be cooled, and a curing room built above ground, but well insulated, can be kept at a temperature of 60 to 65 deg. Fahrenheit. There are some im- portant points that must be observed in securing a good earth duct, such as depth in the ground and surface of duct in proportion to size of room, as the air is cooled by coming in contact with the walls of the duct. The curing room must be properly in- sulated from outside temperatures. The approved plan, up to date, is to dig a trench ten feet deep and 100 to 200 feet long, and lay down about ten rows of six-inch drain tile. A brick chamber is built up to the ground at each end, and the earth filled in. One of the brick chambers is connected with the curing room, while on the other one is_ erected a wooden tube not less than tweive inches in diameter and fifty feet high. On the top of this long tube is a funnel that always faces the wind. An air out- let is placed in the top of the curing room, JoHn W. DECKER. ate >< Result of Insisting on Case Count Sales. From the New York Produce Review. A receiver of eggs the other day called our attention to a letter he had received from a large egg shipper in regard to selling eggs loss off. This shipper packs a fine quality of eggs most of the year and he wrote as follows: ‘IT will not ship eggs and have them sold loss off to fit the market. If I can not sell at mark will not ship any, as I can place all the eggs I get at mark and know what I am doing. The time must come when the packer must sell his eggs at mark or get out of the business, and I am now ready to get out of the business, so will try to find a place to put eggs case count.”’ This letter brought to mind one phase of the case count egg selling question which is interesting to consider. Under the present circumstances in this mar- ket eggs are sold both case count and loss off. The bulk of the cheap and in- ferior eggs, including seconds, are sold case count to the cheap trade, who judge of their quality by a partial examination before the candle before buying. There are also a few lots of superlative quality graded eggs which are taken by first- class trade on a case count basis during the loss off season. These are sold either at mark or with a light fixed average loss, the loss terms, together with the price per doz., entering into the deter- mination of the net value at mark. There are now certain definite rules in force on the Mercantile Exchange which prescribe the quality which may be suld at mark even during the loss off season. But these requirements are very high and they are met by very few of the eggs arriving. Under the present method of packing eggs in the West the great bulk of the stock arriving will bring the full value of the good eggs contained only under loss off sales. Therefore, for a shipper to say, ‘‘I will not have my eggs sold loss off,’’ will, if he really means it, result in one of three things: either his eggs will have to arrive here so closely selected and so free from de- fects as to meet the requirements of the case count “rules, or, 1f they are below this quality they will have to be sold for less than they would realize if sold loss off, or he will have to find, as he says he can, some less fastidious outlet. We are pretty well convinced that a large part of the receipts of Western eggs can be so handled in the country as to meet the requirements of a case count rule at all seasons; also that if this could be effected it would be an enor- mous economy to the egg trade at large. We are equally confident that a satisfac- tory business can not be done in mixed and irreglar qualities of eggs on a case count basis with dealers whose only out- let is for fine stock; this is the trade which handles the bulk of the supply. We have argued in favor of case count sales in spite of this conviction, for the reason that it appears to be the only method which will assure the proper rel- ative range of values for superior qual- ity and because we believe it alone will force a close grading of Western eggs. If the trade should suddenly determine to sell all eggs case count, most of the stock which is now going to good trade loss off would undoubtedly have to be sold below its present value; and if this were persisted in shippers would have to improve the goods by throwing out before shipment all that are now thrown out here. Thus the cure would be effect- ed. Wesee no other advantage to ship- ers in insisting upon sales of mixed qualities at mark; it would undoubted- ly be disadvantageous so long as their goods continued mixed and irregular. It is this fact—that case count sales of mixed qualities would be disadvanta- geous to the shipper—that makes us be- lieve that a general insistence upon case count sales would force a grading close enough to satisfy buyers on a case count basis and eliminate the enormous loss which now arises from shipment of worthless and inferior eggs, J. WILLARD LANSING BURGE D. CATLIN Lansing & Catlin Wholesale Dealers in Butter and Eggs 44 W. Market St. 103 Michigan St. Buffalo, N. Y. ms EGGS EGGS EGGS Our market is firm on Eggs at 12c. We can use much larger receipts, so urge you to send all you can, aS we are sure we can please you. Write for prices or references if wanted, or ask MICHIGAN TRADESMAN. Slug US votes BERRIES etc., and get highest prices and quick returns. BUTTER AND EGGS for cash at your station. Write us before ship- ping elsewhere. HERMANN C. NAUMANN & CO., Detroit, Mich. Main Office, 33 Woodbridge St., W. Branch Store, 353 Russell Street. WSSSSSSTTSSESSSTSSTESSESSSSSSSSSSSSSESTSSSSESSESESESES 33 Cc. M. Drake. v W v : We still want your : v : W. R. Brice. Est. 1852. 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. Take an Observation Philadelphia to-day is the leading Butter market of the United States. The receipts of all grades of Butter are light and the market is firm and active. Extra Creameries selling at.....----- 17i%c Firsts selling at...... ...--16@16%c Seconds setlime at... .... . 06. te EAU OC Fancy Imitations.............+.+---14@15 ¢ a aaa wa wales mm. € Packing stock in barrels or tubs...... I1@12 c¢ Ship your Butter to a Butter house and be happy, knowing you will get full market value and quick returns. We solicit a share of your consignments on business principles. W. R. BHICE € CO. Special Blanks for Produce Dealers We make a specialty of this class of work and solicit correspondence Grand Rapids, Mich. with those who need anything in this line. TRADESMAN COMPANY, = 14 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Character the Basis of Credit. George Washington, in his first in- augural address, said: ‘‘The founda- tion of our National policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality,’’ and in reply to this address of Washington by the Sen- ate of the United States these words were used: ‘‘We feel, sir, the force and acknowledge the justice of the observa- tion that the foundation of our National policy should be laid in private moral- ity. If individuals be not influenced by moral principles, it is vain to look for public virtue.’’ A well-known writer says: ‘‘What we are sooner or later shows itself in what we seem. Our char- acter, unconsciously but inevitably, ex- presses itself in our actions, our speech, our manner, our looks, and finally it is seen by our fellows as they observe us. What is character? It is an individual matter. You can not have another's character. You may try to imitate, per- haps, the character of some great man; but to the man himself who is his own master his character standeth or falleth. Character is that something within you which receives and impresses upon your mind and writes in indelible letters on your heart your thoughts, words and deeds. Character is the fine tone of your heart strings, or else it is the dull thud of life which seems to chill you through and through. Character is that some- thing which points you onward and up- ward in life’s work, or else drags you down to lower and lower depths as it be- comes foul with the heavier material of life’s dregs. Some one has well said that ‘‘Character is not something that is added to your life, but it is life itself.’’ Character building is not the work of a moment er a day. You can not jump into a character as you would intoa suit of clothes, unless it be an assumed character. The man with an assumed character is a hypocrite, whom we all despise. Character building is a slow process. It must be worked at contin- ually, and we are building even when we are not conscious of it. James G. CANNON. > ¢ > No Sympathy for Sulter’s Victims. From the Dairy World. It is amusing to note the profuse ex- planations now being made by some dairy and so-called creamery papers as to the recent failure cf A. Svlter, the commission merchant of Cleveland, Ohio. The Dairy World re peatedly warned the dairy public against his sys- tem of business and advised them to re- frain from making any shipments to him, despite the fact that he occupied large and plausible advertising space in those papers and that they endorsed him, and if any buttermakers have now been caught in his failure, as must be the case with quite a number judging from the fact that his liabilities are re- ported to be $75,000, they have them- selves and these ‘‘veracious’’ papers to blame. Verily, as Barnum tersely put it, or some equally good authority has said, ‘‘A fool is born every second ;’’ but the worst of the situation is that such poor, deluded mortals will rush in- to their own loss and ruin, notwithstand- ing the best efforts of friends to save them. Is there any pity to be expended on such a class of people? —_———_>2+.___ Why Dairy Butter is Doomed. One of the reasons why buttermaking | | on the farm is rapidly giving way to the creamery system is because it is al- most impossible to secure as good a price for farm butter as for creamery butter unless the farmer has special cus- tomers. The dairyman who keeps a large number of cows and therefore has a large output of butter sells it to as good advantage as a creamery can, but those who keep a few cows find it im- possible to sell butter by ordinary meth- ods at the price of creamery butter, al- though the butter may be as good or even better. This is the complaint of the private dairymen all over the United States. There does not appear to be any way by which small lots of butter can be sold in the general market at top prices, and creameries are likely, therefore, to keep on making a rapidly increasing proportion of the butter for some time to come. >_> Moldy Butter Tubs. A correspondent of the Rural New Yorker recently made an attempt to mold some tubs, in order to find some- thing about the subject. Four 60 pound tubs were taken from the store-room and kept under water, entirely submerged, four days. After this soaking they were allowed to dry for one day, and were then placed in a tightly-covered tank which had about one-half inch of water on its bottom. The tubs were left in this damp atmosphere a few days and soon showed a luxuriant growth of mold on the surface of the wood. This evi- dence seemed to show that the com- plaints about moldy butter probably came from the dampness of the wood in the butter tub, and that the mold could be prevented by thoroughly drying the tubs before they were used. Store them in a dry room and not in a base- ment. - +>es. He Knew the Sex. ‘‘Young man,’’ said the magistrate severely, ‘‘the evidence is conclusive against you. You tried to kiss the plaintiff against her will. Have you anything to say before sentence is passed upon you?’’ ‘Only this, Judge,’’ replied the young man, who was about as handsome a specimen as you could find in a day’s journey; ‘‘only this, Judge, that I am exceedingly sorry I did not succeed. When I look upon the beautiful face and the rosy red lips of the plaintiff I feel that, if I had succeeded in kissing her, T would have paid the fine with the greatest cheerfulness. ‘Judge,’’ faltered the fair plaintiff, ‘if you don’t mind, I should like to withdraw the charge.’’ — —?> ~~? > Doctor Said so. An excellent story was told at a char- ity dinner. One day a man was brought into the accident hospital who was thought to be dead. His wife was with him. One of the doctors said, ‘‘He is dead,’’ but the man raised his head and said, ‘‘No, I’m not dead yet,’’ where- upon his wife admonished him, saying, ‘Be quiet ; the doctor ought to know best.’ (GP FETOTETESOTESOS? SOSERR, Pigin System : 2 of 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. g. £. Sturgis, Allegan, Mich. Contractor and Builder of Butter and Cheese Factories, and Dealer in Supplies. fi = S2N ie a “Hutto Col Buffalo, N. Y. D. E. Knowlton, Pres. and Gen’l Mgr. sirage | SCACACARARARAAA xa «( Lae an nN Warehouse “A” Capacity 600,000 cubic feet. Exclusively Butter and Eggs Rates Reasonable. Low Insurance. Liberal Advances. aw Correspondence Solicited. aE STR TAN TN TNT TATA TEATEATEATEREATENEAREREEETTTICES Warehouse “B” Capacity 500,000 cubic feet. Poultry, Cheese, Fruit and Miscellaneous Storage. Don’t try experiments. Store where you know your goods will be properly cared for. A New Cold Storage Butter Package Is_ the Package, Parafined Parchment Lined all sizes. Send for free sample and testimonials from users. Michigan Package Co, Owosso, Mich. 2 NEW POTATOES We are receiving Lu Lu () MOSELEY BROS., direct from growers. New Potatoes in carlots We solicit your orders. 26=28-30-32 OTTAWA ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. SEEDS The best are the cheapest and these we can always supply. ALFRED J. BROWN SEED CO. 24 and 26 North a aa Division Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. Nah BASEL MIG aA The Measure of Business Expense. Written for the TRapEsMAN. The one question a business man most often asks bimself without a satisfactory answer is, ‘‘How much can I afford to pay my help?’’ or ‘‘With how small a salary list can I manage my business?’’ And so seldom is there any satisfaction gained from personal enquiry on this vexed and vexing question that I ven- ture, in the limits of this article, to give my views on this theme of universal in- terest : The first proposition to make is as broad and deep as the very foundation of business, to wit, profit alone is the gauge by which to measure returns from any investment; nor can we take into consideration the expense incurred to reach this conclusion, If, through the increase of his salary list 1oo per cent., a business man adds to his income a single dollar, he has been justified in the raised cost of run- ning his business: and if, as is most generally the case, a corresponding ad- vance of Ioo per cent. has been made in the year’s net gains, then was the act a wise one, as on his profits only must a man’s gain be gauged. It would be a poor plan, if not cen- surable folly, for a farmer to sow wheat screenings, could they be secured with- out expense, instead of prime seed that cost $1 a bushel, simply to save expense when getting in his fall wheat crop, because the returns would not only be disappointing but show a loss on the season’s crop. In this case ‘‘The best is always the cheapest’’ is true in the matter of store, or we might add, any hired help. Again, the expense of seed is like un- to a man’s salary list, for from its frui- tion does he look for his profit. The farmer does not hesitate to sow clover seed at $10 a bushel, when needed, even if beans could be bought at less than one-twentieth the original outlay of cash for seeding the same land. On the same hypothesis does the man in business who is sustained by true business acumen willingly pay $20 a week for that combination of body, brain and hands thoroughly’ qualified for what is to be done, instead of getting incompetent, although equally as large, hands if they might be secured at $1 per week less. Using the farmer again as an illustra- tion, we state, it is more to his advan- tage to harvest forty bushels of dollar wheat from an acre to secure which it cost him $20 as expenses than to have saved at seeding time and reaped fifteen bushels from the same ground, even al- though he may have saved one-half, or $Io, per acre expense ‘‘from seed time to harvest.’’ Equally true is it of the business the expense to run which amounts to $100 per week, and $50 net profit accrues, compared to the getting of the same work done at $50 on which only $25 shows as net profit, with chances all in favor of the prospects for the coming week to be brighter than in the latter instance, where cheapness led in secur- ing help. From which we can state that the best, the brightest help, paid all such help is worth, is a better invest- ment than cheap help at any price, or even no price at all. In selection of store help there is never a question raised but that brains are of more value than hands, in the building up of a business, and when able brains guide and direct willing hands there is suc- cessful business-building, especially when those helpers are satisfied that they receive their work’s worth and have an equitable rating on the firm’s salary list ; MICHIGAN TRADESMAN I5 but where dissatisfaction on this point exists there is always chance to think better results might have been secured had a better understanding of business worth and recompense been had between employer and employed. Some one has suggested that among the duller minds are to be found the greater percentage of strictly honest helpers for store work, hence a good excuse to employ only such in the re- tail business; from which surmise ] again call on our farmer friend fora homely illustration: Suppose a_ well- ripened field of wheat should shell in the harvesting 10 per cent. of its bulk and bring the highest market price at selling time, would it not be policy to lose this per cent. rather than to cut the crop while green and, although saving this loss, jose through shrunken, mouldy grain one-fourth or more its value, as might be expected? How can_ other than one answer be given, that it is more profitable to ‘have the smaller amount of a first-class article than in- creased bulk of a second. Therefore we assert, even if bright help will pil- fer (which we strenuously deny), it is better to have such about, even at this expense added to their higher salary, than the cheap dullard. But, on the other hand, when the farmer knows of improved machinery by the use of which he can save the loss by shelling at har- vest time, what excuse on earth can be made to justify the premature harvest- ing, especially when the outlay for im- proved machinery can be but a small per cent. of the total saving in grain aud handling expense; or, in other words, what excuse can that merchant make for employing dull salespeople in order to secure honest ones, when the means is at hand, purchasable at small cost, that almost insures absolute ac- curacy and honesty among store help? Our opinion, based on several] years of careful, practical study along busi- ness lines, confirms our belief that good help well paid is the best means of reaching that success at which we all aim and hope to reach through the va- rious channels of business in which our all is ventured. Nor yet is that man who seeks to do all his own work very far advauced to- wards the fruition of his hopes, a retir- ing competency, because he, like the army general who attempts to do the private’s daily duties, fails in that high- est duty to himself, his country and his family when he drops the reins of gov- ernment to do that which others might as well do for him. Rather should he give his time to strategy than toil, to plans than performance, to direction than execution. In retail business the eve of the master is worth both his hands, yea, many other hands added to his can not offset the loss to his business interests from his eye and mind being turned from the management of his work to the drudgery of minute performance. First-class lieutenants are essential to success and there is no business small or large but that is worthy a ‘‘second in command’’ on whom the duty of direc- tion must devolve when circumstances remove from the active field its com mander-in-chief. And this should be one thoroughly trustworthy and capable, one who can, and does, enter complete- ly into the plan of campaign and who can carry it on ‘‘all but as well’’ as he in chief command, the proprietor him- self. But don’t, my worthy retail friends, think for a moment that such an one can be bought—he must be made to fit the ee antiago News Is no more season s appetizing than are this Luscious Fruits and Veg- etables in all their freshness. Watermelons in any quantities. : Cherries, Raspberries, Currants for canning. Home grown Vegetables, Peas, Beans, etc. Vinkemulder Company, Grand Rapids. Manufacturers and Jobbers of Spices, Baking Powder, and Grocers’ and Meat Dealers’ Sundries. = MEMBERS BUFFALO PRODUCE EXCHANGE Bean, Coward & Chaddock WHOLESALE FRUIT AND PRODUCE COMMISSION MERCHANTS Butter, Eggs, Apples, Potatoes and Small Fruits MICHIGAN REFER ENCES: Peoples Ban uffalo. ‘rave og State I Bank t B de hide, N.Y. Shel on , Mich, Any Mercantile Agency. , Bing hat n, Mich. Any large W holesa ile Produce Merchant in New E ngland States. This Desk, 30 nches deep; so inches high. Made of selected oak, of choice grair 1, and be autifully fin- ished Has every convenience for filing private papers for ae reference. Workmanshiy p high grade in every partic- ular. By closing the roll top the entire desk, including each drawer, is locked automatically. We would recom- mend deaiers to sell the above desk at $18 to $20. Our wholesale price to you is $13.75. Our large catalogue containing full line mailed on receipt of 4 one-cent stamps. ADDRESS IN FULL THE WHOLESALE FURNITURE COMPANY, Grand Rapids, Mich. Bullding Paper, Rooing Material We are jobbers of these goods, among which are Rosin Sized Sheathing, W. C. Oiled Sheathing, Tarred Felt, Roofing Pitch, Coal Tar, Rosin, Asphalt Paints, Elastic Cement, Ready Roofing, Carpet Lining, Mineral Wool. H. M. REYNOLDS & SON, Grand Rapids, Mich. Detroit Office, Foot of 3d Street. SGHOROCKOCHORSEOROCROROCRORSOROROHOROCEOHOROROEOCHOROROROR , vty. ws & RY Faas HARVEY P. MILLER. EVERETT P. TEASDALE. MILLER & TEASDALE CO. WHOLESALE BROKERAGE AND COMMISSION. FRUITS, NUTS, PRODUCE WATERMELONS ST. LOUIS, ro. 835 NORTH THIRD ST., 830 NORTH FOURTH ST., New Potatoes and Watermelons Cherries, Raspberries, Lemons, Oranges, Bananas and Tomatoes. HOME Cabbage, Beets, Peas, Celery, Green Onions, Radishes, GROWN | Cucumbers, Spinach, Asparagus, Pie Plant, New Dry Onions, Turnips, Carrots, Squash, Wax Beans. BUNTING & CO., Jobbers, Grand Rapids, Mich. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN place, either in your or some similar employ; and once miade, he will be capable of filling that place with satis- faction and profit to both the business and its owner. Such a one will cost you money, but, as in the case of first-class seed, the expense is thoroughly justified and the returns will demonstrate the outlay to have been one based on true business principles, that the profit there- on exceeds the expense. Our final conclusions are that it is poor policy to secure help on the one understanding that it is seemingly cheap, as measured by the coin of the realm, because nothing is cheap at pur- chase price unless returns thereon show a clear balance of profit, and the ex- perience of all our business past dem- onstrates that high-priced help about one’s store or place of business secures a greater gain per cent. to that business than the ‘‘cheap-in-price’’ help. It al- ways has, does yet and forever will hold true that any purchase that turnsa profit on the investment is a good one; and just as true is it that a poor investment shows loss. oA Maw, ——_> 2. How People Impose on the Grocery Boy. ‘“Hully gee, but I’m hot,’’ said the grocery boy, as he brought in the gro- ceries that had been ordered in the morning. ‘‘I’m most dead, too, and it's only 12 o’clock.’’ He turned to the cook and continued in an injured tone: ‘‘I wonder if other people have to work as hard as I do, Just because I work in a grocery store, every one thinks they can walk all over me. He got no answer to his query, but he went on just the same: ‘‘] get up at 6 every morning, clean up that darned store, put everything up shipshape, and open up at 7. Then at 8 I start out after the orders. Ob! don’t I have a nice time getting the orders! Perhaps you don't think I have any reason to be cross, but I guess you’d be worse than |] am if the boss, when he comes down- Stairs after you have put all the things out in front of the store, swears at you like the Dutchman he is just because you put the watermelons on top of the butter beans. ‘I’m glad I don’t bave to take orders all day. Sumebody always blows me up because that fool Eddie down at the store puts up the order wrong, and they think that I don’t care what happens as long as I sell ’em a lot of stuff. I have to tell ’em that the strawberries are fresh when I know that they came in the day before. Anyway it won’t be my fault if I don’t go to heaven. The boss makes me lie. I pass the day gettin’ blown up first by the boss, then by the customers, and then by the boss again, and on Saturdays it’s worse than ever. ‘‘This morning when I went over to 125 the girl over there asked me to fix the garden hose for her. I couldn't do it, and I knew it, but I had totry, ‘cause the boss says I must always be accom- modating. That's just the trouble; when any one asks me to do anything J've got to try, whether I want to or not. If the boss hears that I won't try and do things for the customers then I get the bounce. ‘I get asked to do the craziest things you ever saw. You know Mary, don’t you? Well, she has got the darnedest nerve of any girl I ever saw. What do you suppose she wanted me to do? You know the Dirtsenemy Soap Company gives prizes for the wrappers on the soap? Weil, Mary wanted me to take fifty wrappers that she had saved and send ’em off and get her a belt fora prize. How’s that for nerve? She asked me to spend two cents on a postage stamp to get her a belt. And she never winked, either.’’ ‘‘Well, did you do it?’’ asked the cook. ‘‘Do it? Of course I did it. I had to. Don’t I do everything? But I pinched the stamp from the boss,’’ he added confidentially. ‘‘Day before yesterday I was gettin’ an order when the missus comes down- stairs and asks me to go down to ber sister's and get her card tables, as she was going to have an euchre party. Say, do you know why they always play euchre and not pinochle? I've often wondered. So [| got the table and a lot of camp chairs, but you can bet your life I didn’t get no more. Not even ‘thanks.’ ‘‘The next morning I went up and down came the missus again. She wanted me to try and put up a cabinet that had fallen down. I thought to my- self that I couldn’t do it for nothing, and so I told her I didn’t know how. Then she asked me to stop at the car- penter's and tell him to go up, and then —say, what do you think, you could have knocked me down with a straw! She gave me a dollar and said that she was ever so much obliged. I felt like a farmer, but I couldn’t back down. There ain’t nothing too good for her now. She gets the biggest eggs and the best butter, and her strawberries ain’t rotten, either. ‘“ But they ain’t all like her, you can bet. The very next place I went to the mistress and the cook was putting up a job on me to do something for them, The mistress asked me to go to a friend of her’s house and borrow her stretchers. Of course I did it, but it made me late back, and the boss didn’t do a thing to me. And then you wonder because | get sore when you ask me to do things for you that takes me all day. ‘Do you know that Bridget is going to have a party? The missus went away yesterday and next week Bridget is go- ing to have it. This morning she asked me to put on a clean apron and wait on the folks. She promised me a lot of grub and beer, so I guess I’ll do it. It ain't every day I git all the beer I want. ‘Oh, I forgot; here’s an answer to the letter I took down to Jack for you this morning. Hope it's all right. So long.’’ ~> Smoothing Down the Old Man. ‘‘T have come,’’ said the young man, “to ask for your daughter’s hand.’’ The proud banker gazed over his glasses at the fellow and demanded: ‘‘Well, have you any means of sup- porting her?’’ ‘Alas! I am poor. But hear my story.’”’ Go on." ‘*When I spoke to Claudia about com- ing to see you she told me it was use- less— that her mother was the man of the house, and that I had better go to her. But I said, ‘No. Your father may _per- mit your mother to think she is the man of the house, just to humor her, but I have seen enough of him to know that when a matter of importance comes up his strong will must always assert itself. His strength of character may not be brought out by little things, still—’ ’’ ‘‘My boy,’’ interrupted the old gen- lteman, patting him on the shoulder, ‘‘I have known all along that you were not one of those ordinary persons who are incapable of understanding what is go- ing on in the world around them. Take her and may you always be happy.”’ We are now offering our 1898 pack of Canned Goods for future delivery. Com- pare our new prices with prices of spot stock and you will buy. MUSSELMAN GROCER CO., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. | Goods eSe5e5e5e5e5e5e5See5e5e25F 552525252 2 * The Food Commissioner has begun an aggressive crusade against cheap vinegars which are not up to the legal standard. It will be well for the retail trade to prepare for the wrath to come by putting in goods of recognized purity and strength, and we beg leave to call the : hh attention of the trade to the fact that : Robinson’s Cider Vinegar is always up to the standard established by the I_egislature and that it is guaranteed not to contain auy deleterious acids or any- u thing that is not produced from theapple. One hundred dollars in cash stands back of this guaranty. Ask your jobber for Robinson’s vinegar and insist on having no other. If your job- ber will not get it for you, order direct from the manufacturer, srunevenasdeabiriwdnencrneih” v ROBINSON CIDER & VINEGAR CO., Benton Harbor, Mich. e HDHODQOOQOQOQDQOQQDOOQDOOQOODOGOOOS POOOOOQDOODOQDOOGQOOQOGOO©OOQOQOOOOOS © THE LEROUX CIDER & VINEGAR CO., Producers, Toledo, Ohio. 500200000000 CHOQOOQ® DOOGGODOOE QOOQODODOS© HOS: 21HOOE ©OOQOOQOOO @ @ © All Groce rS—__ © © who desire to give their customers the best @ © Vinegar on the market, will buy @ © s @ © LEROUX’S PURE CIDER VINEGAR © ‘Red Star Brand.’’ A trial order will g ® 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. © : @ @ @ Season Now Open Congdon’s Cider Saver and FRUIT PRESERVATIVE Compound Had a big sale in 1897 and all stores must sell it thisyear. Guaranteed to keep your cider and fruits pure and sweet without changing their flavor or color. No salicylic acid or ingredients injurious to the health. Order of any first-class jobber or of the manufacturers. J. L. CONGDON & CO., Pentwater, Mich. Printed and plain for Patent F LD G PA B0 FS Medicines, Extracts, Cereals, Crackers and Sweet Goods, Candy, Cough Drops, Tobacco Clippings, Condition Powders, Etc. Bottle and Box Labels and Cigar Box Labels our specialties. Ask or write us for prices. GRAND RAPIDS PAPER BOX CO. PHONE 850. 81,83 ano 85 CAMPAU ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 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 13¢ a pound, affording retailer big profit. Pleases customers. Order trial case and see how quickly it sells. WOODBURY & CoO., mrrs.. CHARLOTTE. MICH. ¢ Nanda Woodbury Qty, 11 Charlotte, Mich MICHIGAN i | i S © ce so Commercial Travelers °°" time all the staples are cut s TRADESMAN a Martin R. Wilkins, who was formerly | 17 iv edd needed ded vvW dvd V dd vuvyuWvddddy eg, t ary, so conducive to personal comfort in and laid off. HOTEL WHITCOMB Wav WiavuulvvdVeVvviva ccc |Closely that there are but few items left engaged in the manufacture of soap on | 3 4 = na ae "| that will show any profit. Expenses are|his own account at Detroit, has been = MICHIGAN S POPULAR = : Michigan Knights of the Grip. | fully as large as they used to be and we engaged by the Schulte Soap Co. to look = SUMMER RESORT = tary, J Saunas reat, Kalamazoo; Secre- are working harder than ever and some | after its interests in Western Michigan = de : McNo ry, Jackson. / of us accomplish scarcely more than|and will make Grand Rapids his head- | = THE = Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Association, | °"°USh to make both ends meet. quarters. Mr. Wilkins expects to devote | = & i = President, C. C. SNEDEKER, Detroit: Secretary In no other profession do we find so|the month of July to making the ac- |= = and Treasurer, C. W. ALLEN Detroit. | many beginners or first-trippers. The | quaintance of the city trade, |= SEVEN = United Commercial Travelers of Michigan. | tanks of the travelers are filled princi- The members of Post E will hold a| = = Mauer C2 Ve Bay City; Grand | pally by recruits from among clerks. |meeting at Sweet's Hotel Saturday = ISLAN DS = urer, W. S. Wusr. Jackson. on ee eon Many a clerk has become acquainted — July 16, for the purpose of |= = Ta i with a traveler and listened to stories of | making preliminary arrangements for = r = ‘ Michigan — Mutual Acci- road experiences and longed to take a| the annual picnic of the Grand Rapids | CITY OF GRAND LEDGE. = President, J. Boyp Pantunp, Grand Rapids; | 8rip out himself. He thinks the life of traveling men and to take a fall out of | = un = a and Treasurer, Geo. F. OwEn, Grand a commercial traveler one round of a on the — oS = Hotel now open. First- = a Be : riche i hea ons ! raveing men are invited to attend|/S , _ ea We q Lake Superior Commercial Travelers’ Club. ae les oe — participate in the proceedings. J ' lass, at reasonable rates. = ; President, W. C. Brown, Marquette: Secretary P R. L. Hall (Allan B. Wrisley Co.) | 3 : a and Treasurer, A. F. Wixson, Marquette. "| Monotony, cranky customers and more was elected President pro tem of the = This Resort is conceded to be the great = 4 A than cranky employer and longs for an] Detroit Board of Education last week. | = eo Pale Ge a a ae | = 4 Troubles of a Traveler. opportunity to take out a line of goods| Mr. Hall’s election was a complete vic- ae as Se esiin nei a ph “a = = 4 We have already enumerated some of | and become a traveling man. At last he = I wa : — Bio . = R: . e itecn R ca a. = the disagreeable things a traveling man | Starts out with the principal idea of hav- a we es oe = ision terminating at this place makes = 4 has to contend with at the hands of | ing a good time, and making promiscu- with Mr, Hall’s well-known views ‘on i= it easy of access from any point in the State. = q hotel and baggage, ’bus and railroad | OUS acquaintances (female as well as| the measure of economy which should 3 One of the finest row boat liveries; two = lines; but this is by no means all. The| male), learns very soon to call the buy-| be practiced in school affairs, Z splendid steamers, 15 assenger capacity; = great question with every traveler is|er by his first name, and establishes the ican ce = hotel grounds t hly illuminated & how he can sell the goods necessary to | eputation of being a dead game sport| FE ~~ HOTEL BUTLER ' ty; a veritable paradise forthose satisfy his house, which, of course, is| 4nd all-around jolly good fellow. Such| lates, $1. 1. M. BROWN, Prop. rugged rock scenery, beauti- = the key to obtaining a satisfactory sal-| beginners are short lived: they are called | Washington Ave. and Kalamazoo St.. LANSING. ful istands, groves and glens. With eleven & “irs OL experience, we feel competent to and a happy home. The greatest ob- In these days of sharp competition a ST. JOSEPH. MICH. | - aes nan of v oo tourists, stacle is competition, which in these | traveler has no time for frivolities; he A. VINCENT Pine i Ge aay ' a A piney con- days is so sharp. The methods used by | must be on deck seven days in the week | Samneiengg mer vacation, write me for travelers to sell goods are varied in-|and all the time, working by day and HANY LAKES AND STREAMS fuout Whitenatt, Mich eae eu deed. Some travelers are salesmen, | traveling by night in order to make a| Delightful Pastime. Special Sticetion and vaits tor | oo others are order-takers, while others are sbowing and establish a trade that will rties. Write to Mears Hote. such p this magnificent property FOR SALE, BARBRARADARRSASBSESESSDESSSESEORGE VEVVV PV UVUVUV EVV VY VU VV DV UNV VY me j ; : : Wm Cherryman, Prop. it don’t burden me with letters of inquiry order-wreckers, The latter class are permit of his taking it easy later in life. Untess You Have Money, ENERGY, ANp contemptible. They do not try so much Ourx. $2 PER Day. FREE BUS. MEAN BusIness, q to sell their own goods as they do to dis- SP eihee cam THE CHARLESTON Rb Movements of Lake Superior Travelers J. S. MUDGE, satisfy a customer with the goods al- M “ ] A h Only first-class house in MASON, MicuH. Every- = ready purchased from other travelers. en ee ee Se Eee Ee ce Meee eocen heated. Large and wel!- | . = They are sure to make low quotations ers who attended the Shriners MeEet- | jiehted sampie rooms. Send your mail care of the | Owner and Proprietor. = ano es nd ball were: ee, ENT ie ep Neos wes at = ; when a customer has already placed his | ;°° ,# eo «Ww 7 oa ee BARES AL AAANAAABAAMMABBAAAAABAAAAAARAAAAAAA RAAB ARLEN 2 : ° sr . " ’ - oe FC. s-DWELL, formerly of Donnell ouse, Pron, | ig order or _when they see a nice bill of | p, Simpson, Alex Stevenson, A. F. - eee anata (i goods being received. These fellows Wixson, P. A. Jacobson, J. C. Foster, i a tell a customer of a low price made M. R, Manhard and W. ic Monroe—all ; some other dealer by a competitive|™embers of the Lake Superior Com- traveler. These travelers oft 2n consider | ™€tclal Travelers’ Club. ' ae ee The latest addition to the Travelers’ themselves the only pebbles on the Club is the dapper little traveler for the beach, that the trade belongs to them | Palmetto Fibre Co., Miss E. R. Phelps. and that other travelers in the line have| It is needless to say we receive her with no raison d'etre. These fellows swell] a “aay b f 1 out of sbape and treat competitors with oe ee sl ee “ina apeiniy - : ; tended the carnival at Milwaukee last contempt. Such men fal! by the way- | week. side and the cream of the business is E. F. Gengnagel (National Cash Reg- obtained by the gentlemen who travel | ister Co.) is in our midst. J. N. Mackin (Henry Disston & Sons) s and act as if they were alone in the line, paying no attention to other travelers’ business, minding their own business was with us last week. F. S. McCurdy (Jenness & McCurdy) is in the copper country. strictly. E. R. Morrison (alias Baby Bliss) Order-takers always consider that presents a fine 250 pound appearance price alone sells the goods. Their | 45tride a wheel. knowledge of the goods they sell is very limited and if they happen to travel for a house whose policy is to consider the average profit on the whole bill rather than a profit on each item, they are sure to name some extremely low prices in order to get the buyer started, and take advantage of the first opportunity to get an extra profit out of some of the other items so as to even up the average profit, This kind of jockey business goes for a little while, but a traveler prone to such methods will not wear and soon he is representing another house. Salesmen who are salesmen and know their business know that a profit on each and every item is necessary and just. There are few buyers who expect to buy goods at cost. We are between two fires, lower prices on the one hand and closer competition on the other, which necessitates larger gross sales in order to keep up the net profit. Cut prices are always remem- bered by our customers; and if one traveler cuts on a few items this trip, the next man does the same and in a John Power (Franklyn MacVeagh & Co.) is entertaining his family at Ish- peming. Mr. Power’s home is at Ap- pleton, Wis.,but he makes his headquar- ters at Ishpeming. Sam Rose (Detroit Cap Co.) was with us last week, Alex Stevensen (Buhl Sons &° Co. ) helped examine thirty-five recruits. After it was over Alex complimented himself by saying that in some respects he averaged with the best of ‘em. A. F. Wixson (Fletcher Hardware Co.) goes to Detroit for a couple of weeks, Ourx. ———~>-9 Gripsack Brigade. Jackson and Hillsdale traveling men held a joint picnic at Baw Beese Lake, near Hillsdale, last Friday. Boos’ band furnished the music and a closely ‘con- tested ball game was one of the features of the day. Geo. H. Jewett, who has covered Cen- tral Indiana and Western Ohio for the past two years for L. Perrigo Co., of Allegan, has severed his connection with that house and contemplates identifying himself with a Grand Rapids establish- ment. patriotism Envelopes. z We are having a large run on Flag Envelopes, printed in imita- tion of Old Glory, which we are prepared to furnish you on short notice, imprinted in black ink on either front or back of envelope. In no way can you show your at this time than by the use of Old Glory Samples sent and prices quoted on application. better Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids. 13 Lema aL NN Ad ESN Tr MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Drugs--Chemicals MICHIGAN STATE BOARD OF PHARMACY. Term expires F. W. R. Perry, Detroit - Dec. 31, 1898 A. C. SCHUMACHER, AN Arbor - Dec. 31, 1899 Gso. GunprimM, Ionia Dec. 31, 1900 L. E. REYNOLDS, St. Joseph - - Dee. 31, 1901 Henry Hem, Saginaw - - Dec. 31, 1902 President, en GuNpDRvUM, Ionia. Secretary, A. C. ScouMaACHER, Ann Arbor. Treasurer, Henry Heim, Saginaw. Examination Sessions. Marquette—Aug. 30 and 31. Lansing— Nov. 1 and 2. All meetings will begin at 9 o’clock a, m. ex- cept the Star Island meeting, which begins at 8 o'clock p. m. MICHIGAN STATE PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION. President—A. H. Wesser, Cadillac Secretary—CHas. Mann, Detroit. Treasurer—Joun D. Mute, Grand Rapids. ine = ae Soda ‘oe. With summer upon us, druggists every- where are overhauling their soda ap- paratus, figuring up the profits (or losses) of the past year, and elaborating plans for the summer season. With many the experiences of former years have been such as to seriously call forth the ques- tion of the advisability of continuing to operate their fountains during the sum- mer. Here surely something is wrong, for it is commonly acknowledged that not alone is the soda fountain self-sup- porting, but that, with proper manage- ment, it becomes the most profitable of all the side-lines open to the druggist. As a general rule, it is found that fail- ure is due either to bad management or to the use of poor materials. In addi- tion, such druggists buy ready-made the supplies for their fountains, paying lit- tle regard either to the prices paid or the quality. In looking over the accounts of pre- vious years, it is almost invariably found that the heaviest items of expense have been for syrup. The usual cus- tom is to buy the syrup, under various high-sounding names, in quantities of a barrel or less. Experience, however, has shown that it is far more advanta- geous to the average druggist to manu- facture his own syrup, for various rea- sons. First of all, the manufactured syrups, if of good quality, are too ex- pensive; if not of good quality, it is folly to buy them. Another disadvan- tage, which especially affects country druggist, and those west of the Mississ- ippi, where freigbt charges are high, is the matter of freight and containers. It is certainly poor economy to pay freight on several hundred pounds of water. The schedule of the sugar trust is such that the price of sugar varies but little between different localities, and the druggist might as well mix his sugar and water at his own store. Again, the quality of many of the so- called ‘‘rock-candy’’ syrups is not to be relied upon. True, there are good syrups to be had; but such are rather the ex- ception than the rule. An examination of some of the cheaper grades soon dem- onstrates the truth of this statement. Some time last year a barrel was re- ceived bearing the label, ‘‘Pure Rock- candy Syrup.’’ The price was such as to warrant the assumption of its being of at least fair quality. The syrup was dense, somewhat cloudy, and slightly opalescent. Upon the addition of car- bonated water, it lay at the bottom of the glass, much like a thick jelly, re- quiring much agitation to effect its so- lution. Its sweetening power was but slight, an excessive amount being re- quired for each glass of soda. Upon in- vestigation, it proved to consist of little more than sweetened glucose. It was with the end in view of obvi- ating these difficulties that the apparatus here described was devised. Two years’ trial has proved it to give entire satis- faction. It is at once cheap, simple and efficient. It can be used continuously or at interavls, and can not get out of order. An ordinary five or ten gallon cylin- drical can, such as is commonly used for alcohol, is taken, the bottom removed and the edges slightly smoothed with a mallet. A close-fitting wooden cover with a handle should be made for the can so as to exclude dust. A twenty gallon wine cask is then taken and a hole bored in the head, of such a diam- eter as will snugly admit the neck of the alcohol can, which rests upon the cask. Two or three inches above the bottom of the barrel, another hole is bored, and a common water tap, or yet better, an iron ‘‘syrup tap’’ with a wide mouth, such as is made for the purpose, is inserted. In the neck of the can, a small, clean sponge is introduced, and above this is laid a perforated, circular piece of tin (aluminum is better than tin for this purpose) to keep the sugar from the sponge, which acts as a strain- er. The whole is now supported upona box fourteen or sixteen inches high, and the apparatus is complete. However, before using, the cask should be thoroughly cleaned. First rinse with cold water several times; the same with hot water; again with cold water, con- taining a little ammonia, and lastly with pure water. These precautions are necessary, in order to remove all pos- sible source of contamination. From twenty to fifty pounds of granu- lated sugar is now introduced into the can, which is then filled with water, and the process of percolation goes on, Cane-sugar is much to be preferred to that made from beets. The syrup thus prepared is all that could be desired. It is of a high specific gravity, clear, brilliant and sparkling. It mixes read- ily with the soda, requiring but little stirring ; and what is more, it is cheap- er than the commercial syrups, at least those of good quality. In some cases several of these percolators can be used at the one time to good advantage. It is well, every two weeks or so, to dis- continue the percolation, and subject the apparatus to a thorough cleansing. — Leon L. Watters in American Druggist. A Perfumed Darling. From the Philadelphia Record. Among the customers of a Columbia ave. drug store a few evenings ago was a young colored man attired in a very flashy suit and with the air of a ‘‘real hot sport, sub.’’ He asked for Io cents’ worth of perfumery, and the druggist, sizing up his taste properly, poured out an ounce or two of the loudest-smelling cologne in the store. In the meantime the young ‘‘blood’’ stood in front of a mirror admiring his own shape. He confided to the druggist that he was go- ing to see his best girl. fod needen’ wrap up de bottle, mistah,’ * he said. ‘IT wish yo’ would po’ hit ovah me. ‘*What! Pour it all on your clothes, ‘to you mean?”’ asked the astonished drug- gist. “*Dat’s jes’ wat | mean, seh. ! done want to smell good fo’ onct in mah life.’’ After complying with the queer request the druggist sold him another to cents’ worth for his girl. > 2. — Sweetly Sad. Groom—A ring around the moon is a sign of rain. Bride (sweetly )}—-And a ring around a woman's finger is the sign of — i Groom (sadly)—Reign. The Drug Market. The changes are few and unimportant, while the volume of business is very large. Prices are well maintained. Opium—The market remains firm with the recent reports of small crops. There is no change in the primary mar- kets, although prices are higher here. Morphine—The very firm position is unchanged and an advance is looked for. Quinine—It is believed that bottom has been reached and, while prices may remain the same for some time, the next change will be an advance. Alcohol—Has advanced 4c per gallon and, as both of the spirit companies are now working in unison, higher prices are looked for. Norway Cod Liver Oil—The fishing has ended and the result is below last year. Large purchases are being made in the primary markets and an advance is shown here of about $3 per barrel. Iodine and the Jodides—Have been reduced by manufacturers loc per pound, due to competition. Balsams—Copaiba is unchanged, but higher prices are looked for, on account of large stocks. Tolu has declined un- der the same influence. Essential Oils—Anise is slightly high- er. Bergamot has advanced abroad and is scarce. Higher prices will rule here. Spices—Both black and white pepper have advanced. Nutmegs have de- clined. Linseed Oil—Is weak, although prices are well maintained for the time being. >712 Stop the Leaks. The drug business is one in which the sales are small, and from the nature of the stock it is liable to evaporation and leakage; natural changes spoil some of the goods and render them unfit for medicinal use. One very serious leak is the accumu- lation of dead stock. Patent medicines quickly become such when the advertis- ing stops. Although the sale may have stopped with you, in some territory cov- ered by your wholesaler there may be a demand. Make an exchange with him at some price. Your essential oils and perfumes have been left exposed to the sun and are no longer salable. Don’t let this happen again. Your ointments have become rancid, because you did not benzoinate your lard and — it in a cool place. Your camel’s-hair brushes and others are moth-eaten, because you have not i frequently handled them or taken care to use some moth preventive in time. Your apprentices are careless in re- gard to weights and measures. In your anxiety to do business you are too easy in the matter of credits and bad debts accumulate. A very serious leak is loss of customers. New ones are hard to get, therefore hold fast to those you have. They are your friends; use them as such and give them no cause for complaint. Some things may occur in which you must submit to an injustice, or they will be dissatisfied and leave you, never to return. Submit cheerfully to this. Their future patron- age will more than cover the pecuniary loss, and time will give you an oppor- tunity to correct the temporary injustice. ° Drug stores sometimes burn. Have you this leak stopped by reliable insur- ance? J. W. BALLARD. > 2. Thirty-one Out of Seventy-two. The annual meeting of the Michigan Board of Pharmacy was held at Star Is- land last week. In all seventy-two took the examinations, fifty-five for regis- tered pharmacist and seventeen for as- sistants. For registered pharmacist twenty-four passed and seven secured the certificate for assistants. For the ensuing year Geo. Gundrum, of Ionia, was elected President; A. Schu- macher, of Ann Arbor, Secretary, and Henry Heim, of Saginaw, Treasurer. The Board will meet at Marquette Au- gust 30 and 31, and at Lansing Novem- ber 1 and 2. The successful candidates were as follows: Registered Pharmacists——W. E. Brown, Stockbridge; J. Bertram, De- troit; W. H. Blome, Ann Arbor; C Biehl, Sandusky, O.; B. E. Bauman, # Kalamazoo; J. W. Cobb, Ann Arbor; J. * J. Dawson, Hastings; C. C. Dewey, Jackson; F. Elder, Elkton; R. Jackson, Detroit; O. H. Kessell, Saginaw; D. E. Laing, Wetroit; M. Hawes, Parma; Wm. Kremers, Holland; H. E. McLellan, Utica: E. M. Laird, De- troit; H. E. Neuhoff, Detroit; D. A. Skinner, Detroit; A. I. Ulrich, Kala- mazoo; C. S. Prentiss, Quincy; L. Short, Manistee; A. Vander Velpen, Detroit; W. H. Whitcomb, Vicksburg ; a Winterborn, Saginaw. Assistants—W. F. English, Kingston ; B. W. Glaspie, Fenton; W. A. Howell, West Branch; A. A. Johnson, Marion : L. M. Tebbel, La Porte: E. H. Thilck, Detroit; W. F. E. White, Detroit. L ae Thirty druggists in Buffalo have been detected in a violation of the city ecrdi- nance forbidding the sale of nursing bottles with long rubber tubes. AMERICAN PLAYING CARDS Best Value for the Money. Quality and price put together are sure to win,and we have got them. No other line of playing cards offers the inducements that the American does. Rover Playing Cards are the cheapest enameled card on the market, and at the price are without a competitor. Send for samples and prices. ‘THE AMERICAN PLAYING CARD CO., KALAMAZOO, MICH. ee a ee ee Se > oe 4 J [School Supplies New stock. Special attention to mail orders. FRANKE BROS., Muskegon, Michigan. Jobbers in Druggists’ and Grocers’Sundries, Fishing Tackle, Sporting Goods, Notions, Toys, Etc. 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ICICI AC ICAL 09} 2.800 AO i CORIO | O92, OCI | 08 jeter ; ROORIES i 20 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN GROCERY PRICE CURRENT. The prices quoted in this list are dealers. for the trade only, in such quantities as are usually purchased by retail They are prepared just before going to press and are an accurate index of the local market. It is im- possible to give quotations suitable for all conditions of purchase, and those below are given as representing av- erage prices for average conditions of purchase. those who have poor credit. our aim to make this feature of the greatest possible use to dealers. Cash buyers or those of strong credit usually buy closer than Subscribers are earnestly requested to point out any errors or omissions, as it is AXLE GREASE. doz. gross ee «5D 6 00 Caeser oi... 5... oo Te Paomene..... 5s | 64 0 Prasere ..... 2D 9 00 IXL Golden, tin boxes 75 9 00 | Tijce, tin boxes... .....%5 9 00 | Paragon... .. 55 6 00 | BAKING POW DER. Absolute. — SRNR Gos...... .... 45 i come dos.......... 85 Ib ean doz. 1 50 Acme. i¢ Ib Cane S Gox............ 5 ' ib Gans 3 dox............ 7 . & Gans i dGoez...........- 1 00 Ree - = Arctic. 6 oz. Eng. Tumblers........ 85 EI Parity. 44 1b cans per doz......... 6) % lb cans per doz ........ 1 20 1 it eans per dos......... 2 00 Home. iq lb cans 4 doz case...... 35 % lb cans 4 doz case...... = lb cans 2 doz case ... JAXO ) 14 1b cans, 4 doz case.... 45 ¥% lbcans,4dozcase...... 8 Ib cans, 2 doz case...... 1 60 Jersey Cream. i tb. cans, perdoz.......... 2 00 Ses. Gans, per doz.......... i= S ot. cans, perdoz.......... 85 Gur Leader. ecm... 45 = case. ............... 75 [ meme... 1 50 Peerless. tip. came ee... 85 Queen _— 3 oz., 6 dor. case... 2 6 oz.,4 doz. case .... soe oe Cee eeoe............ 4 80 Lib, doe case......... -2£e 5 lb., 1 doz. case. . 9 00 —" BRICK. American . oe ~a-. 90 Re 80 BLUING. Sant Sloe. 49 Large, 2 doz. 5 BROOTIS. So. i Carpet. : 1 90 No. 2 Carpet.. _-..:- - oo No. 3Carpet.......... .-- toe ee ParerGem.......... . 20 i Pones Wok... Wars. ....... ....... eo CANDLES. a 2 Se 8 Pace 8 CANNED GOODS. Manitowoc Peas. Lakeside Marrowfat....... 95 Lakeside E. J... .. tt Lakeside, Cham. of Eng.. 1 20 Lakeside. Gem, Ex. Sifted. 1 45 Extra Sifted Early June....1 75 CATSUP. Columbia, pints.......... 2 06 Columbia, % pints.......... 125 CHEESE Aree... ._........ @ 7% Araboy .......... : @ 8 Butcermmt........... @ 8 Carson City.......... @ 8 Eenmiem........ .... @ 7% a @ 8% Ideal .. a % Jersey . @ 7% Lenawee. . = 7 Riverside............ — & Springdale... - @ ox. 11 aa... @ 70 oe eae oe @ W lampurees .......... @ 2 Piaceepeec............0 @ © Sap Sago... --<+ <<. 17 Chicory. Bulk ) Red . 7 CHOCOLATE. Walter Baker & Co.’s. German Sweet ................ Pee 34 Breakfast Cocoa.... sos CLOTHES LINES. Cotton, 40 ft, per doz....... 1 00 | Cotton, 50 ft, per dos....... 1 20 | Cotton, 60 ft, per doz....... 1 40 | Cotten, 7 ft, per dos....... 1 60 i Cotton, 80 ft, per dosz....... 1 80 oon OO, per 2on......... 80 | Jute. OH. oer G.......... COCOA SHELLS. | 20 ib Dae 2% Less —_— a 3 Pound pack ages. 4 CREAT TARTAR. 5 and 10 1b. wooden boxes..30-35 COFFEE. Green. Rio. Fair ee ee 9 OE Premo Gaiden Peshery ..........._..) 3) : 15 Good a mace 17 Maracaibo. Prame ...... .--:..------5 = 19 Mited. ee Java. interter. 3. . 19 Private Grows. ....-.....-... 20 Mandonting —_.____.__ ___. et ee Imitation ...... TE Arapian ....... ies Roasted Clark-Jewell-Wells Co. *s Brands Fifth Avenue..... 29 Jewell’s Arabian Mocha....29 Wells’ Mocha and Java..... 24 Wells’ Perfection — ee 2 Sancaibo ..... ue Breakfast B! end. Loe 18 Valley City Maracaibo. 18% ideal Bicod 14 Leader Blend....... ..-.... 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 60 1b. cases the list is 10c per 100 ibs. above the price in full cases. eee Jersey . Mct sughlin’ 5 xxXxX, MeLaughlin’s XXXX sold to retailers only. Mail all orders direct to W. F. McLaughlin & Co., Chicago. Extract. 10 50 9 50 Valley City % gross 5 Felix & gross...... 135 Hummel’s foil % gross. 8 — tin %& gross 1 43 OTHES PINS. 5 gross yen 40 CONDENSED Mik. 4 doz in case. Gail Borden —, ee Crown ........- ees ee ee ae 5 % Champion ...... 4 50 OO 42 eT ce 3 35 me a cecceeccoee OO COUPON BOOKS. Tradesman Grade. 50 books, any denom.... 1 50 100 books, any denom.... 2 50 500 books, any denom....11 : 1,000 books, any denom....20 Economic Grade. 50 books, any denom.... 1 50 100 books, any denom.... 2 50 500 books any denom....11 50 1,000 books. any denom....20 Superior Grade. 50 books, any denom.... 1 50 100 books, any denom.... 2 50 500 books, any denom....11 50 1,000 books, any denom.... Coupon Pass Books, Can be made to represent any denomination from $10 eae 7 oe eee ee 2 00 epost ................ 3 00 SP DOORS... 2.25)... G 2 I oe a oon e eee ee 10 00 Co ee ee 17 50 Universal Grade. 50 books, any denom.... 100 books, any denom. 500 books, any denom.... 1,000 books, any denom.... Credit Checks. 500, any one denom’n..... 3 1000, any one denom’n..... 5 2000, any one denom’n..... 8 00 Steel punch. .... 7 DRIED FRUITS—DOMESTIC Applies. Sundricd..........-..... Evaporated 50 ib boxes. California Fruits. Amaepie............... Biackberrion........... Noestarmes............ Peacnet..........-.... ue mm Pears.. i . .-8 @7% Pitted Cherries. : Prunneliles...... Raspberries.. California Prunes. 100-120 25 lb boxes....... 90-100 25 Ib boxes....... 80-90 25 Ib DOKGK..... -. = 80 2 i> bowes....... - 70 25 ib boxes.. .... @ SX 80. 60 28 Ib DOKeS....... @ Oy 40 - 50 25 lb boxes....... @ 9 30 - 40 25 1b boxes....... %¢ cent less in 50 1b cases Raisins. London Layers 3 Crown. London Layers 4 Crown. Desesas... 50 1 oo 1 aoe 50 50 0 00 00 00 @5 @ 8 Ge @ 4% @ ® Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 3% Loose Muscatels3Crown 4% Loose Muscatels4Crown 5% FOREIGN. Currants. Patras bhin. <8... @ 7% Vostizzas 50 lb cases......@ 7 Cieaned, balk ... 005.0 @ 84 Cleaned, ——_ oe @ 8% eel. Citron American 101b bx @13 Lemon American 10 1b bx @12 Orange American 101b bx @12 Raisins. Ondura 28 ib boxes.... 8 @8K% Sultana 1Crown....... @ Sultana 2Crown ..... @ Suitana 3Crown....... @ 7% Sultana 4Crown....... Snitana & Crawn i a Sultana 6 Crown Sultana package FARINACEOUS GooDs. Farina. 23411b. packares..........1 50 Bulk, per 10 ihe..... .._. 3 50 rits Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s s Brand. 243 1b. PRcCKAweR...... 2 25 Op 1 keen 3 60 200 th. Hareels. | 6 90 Hominy. Bames 2 os 2 50 Flake, 50 1b. drums....... 1 00 Beans. Dried fame 2 ot 3% Medium Hand Picked.... Maccaroni and Vermicelli. Domestic, 10 1b. box...... 60 Imported, 25 Ib. box.. ...2 50 Pearl Barley. Come 1 7% Coase 2 00 Beepite .. 8 3 00 Peas. Greet, De, 95 Salt, peri... 2% Rolled Oats. Rolled Avena, Dbbl.......4 00 Monarch, Dbi..........: .3 85 Monarch, % bDbi.........-. 2 05 Monarch, 90 1b sacks...... 1 85 Guaeker: capes: ..... 2... 3 20 aon, Cree... ..........:, 1® Sago. er 4 Best Inde... .....-. 3% Tapioca. Piare. 3% Peat 35% Anchor, 40 1 lb. pkges.... 5 Wheat. Cracked; bulk... ....-... 334 242 1b packages......... .-2 50 Salt Fish. Cod. Georges cured......... @ Georges genuine...... @: @ @ Georges selected...... Strips or bricks...... . 6 Herring. Holland white hoops, bbl. Holland white hoop %bbi 2 75 Holland, % bbi.:......... 1 30 Holland white hoop, keg. 30 Holiand white — mechs 85 Norwegian... .... Round 100 tha. 2 aes Sie... 1 30 See 13 Mackerel. Meat 200 Tbs... 15 0) Moss 2 ite...,........... 6 30 Meee 10 e....... ......- 1 6 Bess §=§ 18... 13 No. 1 M0irs.......... .... Be No. t @ibs...:........... 668 moO. t Mie. 1 48 No: t Sips... 22. ........ 2 OO 8 50 os ie... ........... 37 Mo. 2? Wie... .......... 1 00 Mo.> Sis: .......... 83 cut. No. 1 100 tbe... ._- 5 25 at Siee........... 2 40 No.1 (toa 68 No.t Gite: |. 7 Whitefish. No.1 No.2 Fam mois... om 5% toe 40 lbs 2 260 1060 ie... 8 = 33 Jen ». C. Vanilla D. Cc. Lemon Bos... ... 1 20 SOh..... $0O£......1 50 308. ....1 © of... 2 00 ape... 5. 1 40 Soz...... 3 00 Sox...... 2 00 No. 8 400 No. 8...2 0 No. 10. .6 00 No. 10...4 00 No. 27.125 No. 25. & No. 3'T.2 00 No. 3 T.1 & No 4T.2 40 No 417.150 Northrop age on Van. 2 oz. Taper Panel.. 7 1 20 2oe. Oval... 1 20 3 oz. Taper Panel..1 33 2 00 4 oz. Taper Panel..1 60 2 25 Souders’. Oval bottle, with corkscrew. Best in the world for the Regular ot _ Regular LO LSS on — 4 0z . Savors i. FLavorinG | ie XX Grade Vanilla. NO./ full oount.... _. Con, No.3... = POTASH. 48 cans in case. Beste se , 4 00 Penne Sait Goe."s........... 3 00 PICKLES. Medium. Barrels, 1,200 count........ 5 30 Half bbls, 600 count........ 3 00 Small. Barrels, 2,400 count....... 6 00 Half bbls 1,200 count...... 3 50 RICE. Domestic. Carolina head.............. 6% Caron Met. SS Carolmm Ne. 2... : 2... 2... 4 Breece. 3% Imported. Japan, NO.1..2...:)). 6% Japan, No. 2.. oe Java, fancy Madu 6 Java, ee ee 5% Wane... SALERATUS. Packed 60 - in see Church’s 3 3C Dotawas cs 3 15 Dwignee...... =... oe 3 30 TRVIOFS oe 3 00 SAL SODA. Granulated, bbls.......... 7 Granulated, 100 lb cases.. 90 TOD, WI oS ew ees % Lump, 145lb kegs.......... 85 SEEDS. NG 9 Canary, Smyrna........... 3% CONG WEY oo 8 Cardamon, Malabar ..... 60 Ey il Hemp, Unssian.......... 3% Nosee Hire... 4% mecearG, Wihite....... ... § Pee es. 10 aa Dee eee 4% atte Hone..:............ 20 SNUFP. Scotch, in bladders. . oo Maccaboy, mjere..... 2. BE French Rappee, in jars. Soag 43 SALT. Diamond Crystal. Table, cases, 24 3-lb boxes..1 50 Table, barrels, 100 3 1b bags.2 %5 Table, barrels. 407 1b bags.2 40 Butter, barrels, 2801b. bnlk.2 25 Butter, barrels, 2014 lbbags.2 = Butter, sacks, 28lbs......... Butter, sacks, ae IPS... 53 Common Grades. MOS Waaere..... 4.5... 1 90 OORIB SACKS... ......_..... 1% 25 Otbaseks.... 1 60 Worcester. 50 4 Ib. cartons.... 115 2%lb. sacks... 5 Ib. sacks... 22% ib. ee. 2010 ib. eaeke... 28 Ib. linen ee Seeder oe 56 lb. linen sacks.. 60 Bulk in barreia.............. "2 50 Warsaw. 56-lb dairy in drill bags..... 30 28-Ib dairy in drill bags..... 15 Ashton. 56-ib dairy in iinen sacks... 69 Higgins. 56-lb dairy in linen sacks... 60 Solar Rock. Sein O6ORS .. 6... ee Common. Granulated Fine............ 70 Medium Fine... ............. 70 SOAP. Niagie BOR... 2 5 box lots, delivered........2 70 10 box lots, delivered....... 2 65 JAS. 8. KIRK & 60. 8 BRANDS. American Family, wrp’d... Savon.. White Russian... dss. oe White Cloud, laundry. 6 25 White Cloud, toilet. 2... 50 Dusky Diamond, 50 6 0z....2 10 Dusky Diamond, 50 8 oz....3 00 Blue India, 100 34 1b......... 3 00 Bivieene ek, 3 50 me 2 50 Schulte Soap Co.’s Brand. : 100 cakes, 75 lbs. panei DOK co ce 2 80 5 uek lots... 0 2% a0 box los. 3. cs ele aia 2 70 mo HOx Tots... 2 60 Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands. Old Country, 80 1-lb. bars ..2 75 Good Cheer, 60 1-lb. bars....3 75 Uno, 100 % ib) bare.) 2 50 Doll, 100 10-02. Rae. 8 2 05 Scouring. Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz ..... 2 40 Sapolio, hand, 3 doz........ 2 40 SODA. RO oe eos ee eda Mere, Magan... ...:......- 4% MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 2l ae Seances. Candies. Grains and Feeds Provisions. Crockery and ae : Cigars. Ss —__— ———_—_— ma”. le sc... Ul lassware. Cassia, China in mats.......12 | Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.'s brand. Stick Candy. Wheat. | toile; Company quote as Han G cia Cassia, Batavia in bund... .25 N i . : ‘12 | Whes ce ee : Casein, faa ive iNew Eniek. 33 60 ea = Weear : 2... .. 9g | ibiiiaee AKRON STONEWARE. FO nee Te ee ee 4 a Gana = H. & P. Drug Co.’s brand. —_| Standard H. |" 84@ 7 nn eee eee a oe , i Mace, "Batavia oe 3 Quintette 35 00 | Standard Twist..... 6 @8 Local Brands. Cles bi Saal % gal., per doz.. ee Nutmegs fae a ee es Cut teat @ 8%] a= i to 6 gal. per gal Pe 6 cases | Patents -... 02.22.22... 8 He ote ea Sek Cae er masin — ie 7+ --- = a G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand. | Jumbo, 321b ........ @ 6% | Second Patent............. § Se oes 10 CA ee ee. Pe oe fins os a ae a ria H @ ug | Suaient.. tt ee . . Segal, Goch... | |. P pper, ‘ s2pore, cee Boston Cream...... @ Ge Pee 15 gal. meat-tubs, each.... Pose.’ ae wahite.. rs hs Graibam ........ || Dry Salt Meats. 20 gal. meat-tubs, each.... eg oe ia Cc Mixed Candy. = pny a Hollies ||| 7 = gal. meat os ea oe ‘ . 1 ele: ; es i. §ai. meat-tubs, each.... Alispice ... 2.) 0... 15 Competition......... » 63 subject to usual cast Briskets .-......... o ~ Cassia, Batavia. ... . .._ 3) pesmaen a @ : Pig ee xtra shorts...) |. 6 Churns, : ' @ Oa oy ‘ Cassia, Saigon. ....... ...40 Comserve...... @i% Flour in bbls., 25¢ per bbl. Smoked Meats. 2 to 6 Sel., Per gar... ... = Cloves, Zangibar............ id ® Royal @ 7% | ditional. Hams, 12 lb average ... 8% | Churn Dashers, per doz... 85 Ginger, African... _..__. 15 mipbon...... _ @ 8% Hams, i4 lb average 844 Milkpans. Ginger, Conn 18 Boren @ 8%} Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand Haims, 16 1b average..... 8% | 1% pal fat at d 45 — Seed cee 2 8.0. W 33 00 ae ak Sidi. @ 8% | Diamond, s................5 00 a 20 2 aVeISEO...., 9 “ = a = 7 oe i. ree aes ; i cn inglish Rock....... =e | iam, Me. am dried beef ......... 133 Su A f Mumerea 12@18 ae ce Kindergarten....... @ 8% eae Tay ee Shoulders (N. Y. cut). 6 Z Fine Glazed Milkpans. INUEMOES, ....... aieeEe Michigan Cigar Co.'s brand. French Cream @ &% cc Bacon, clear.... -.-™4@8 | % gal. flatorrd. bot.,doz. 60 Pepper, Sing , bilack........ 12 Dandy Pan... @10 Worden Grocer Co.'s Brand. California hams........ 53 1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each 5% ——— pmeni white........ - U Valley Cream.. .... @ | Guaker te) a a ees ‘ Stewpans epper, Cayenne............ 20 re fl i Quaker wa Cooked ham. an r i — SYRUPS. be —— — Quaker, %8................ Lards. In Tierces 4 gal. fsa bail. con 10 : Une Cae, 35 00 | Lozenges, plain..... @ 8% i Compound Seas i teas Corn. Lozenges, printed... @ 9 Spring Wheat Flour. Senile LRAT RE ON | Jugs. Lo ee 15 Ruhe Bros. Co.’s Brands, Choe. Drona... || @i4 Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brand. SSin Tube | || aes 120). perdos. |... 40 eee ble 17 Gide! oa 99 1b Tubs...... advance a ary i - Pure Cane. Double Eagles, 6 sizes.855@70 00 | G.0C: Monumentals @il | Pillsbury’s Best %8........ 5 25 | 80 lb Tubs...... advance fase oa 3en. Maceo, 5sizes.... 55@70 00 m Drops......... @6 ilisbury’s Best iis... 5 Sin Tins advance O29 Gal., porgal......... 5% G : @ : Pilis ¥ Ss Best t4s.... - Me Thomas... 2 35 vv aoe 1. @ : Pillsbury’s Best %s_... 11! 5 20 Ib Pails. ......advance Tomato Jugs. coben Sead Made... SOT @ 3 | Pillsbury's Best 14s paper. 5 05 | 10 1b Pails. ..... advance % gal., per doz............ 42 a — SOG eae Pillsbury’s Best 44s paper.. 5 3 4 oe oteee a ee ee 5 Sir Jj ain 35 00 : ‘ US.......advance Yorks \, oe § Ay ame 35 | Paney—tn 5 tb. Boxes. | ait Bamnart Putmen's Brand oo Gorks for 4 gal. per dou. 30 Gens. Grant and Lee.. 35 00 | Lemon Drops. ..___. @50 Boloen: — | Hi i Little Peggy ea 35 00 | Sour ie. @50 — eee, . Preserve Jars and Covers. Signal Five........... 35 U0 | Peppermint Drops. @60 Seoukicn | % Sal., stone cover, doz... %5 oo pls ceragege , a . Chocolate Drops... @60 | Pork oa | 1 gal., stone cover, doz...1 00 ney West Perfects,2sz 55@60 H. M. Choe. Drops.. @i5 iRloga ||. Sealing Wax. Gum Drops. @30 Ton Se An | 5 lbs. in package, per Ib 2 TAB SA ‘Ss. Ppa : = i 0108S. in package, per ib... ABLE UCE. Licorice Drops le a la @i5 Head cheese. oe e | LAMP BURNERS Lea & Perrin’s, large... 475 | A. B. Licorice Drops @50 Beef 1No. 08 i 5 Lea & Perrin’s,small::. 275 | Lozenges, plain... Gav Sis tie min 06°C U8 : ee zenges, printed. 50 ixtra Mess........... Ca a ea Halfordsmali. "7": 33 |impertais Tne 0 — TR aaeaepmenteees : Kingsford’s Corn. Salad Dressing, large..... 255 | mOtboes @55 quan eco he Seoutity, Wed) en Salad Dressing, small..... 26 | Cecam Bar). @av a _ ,, Pigs’ Feet. Guan? toe ha 8 40 1-Ib packages............. 6 Molasses Bar .....__ @50 Bits 15 lhe co oe NO. 2............. 80 20 1 Ib packages....3........ 614 VINEGAR. Hand Made Creams. 80 @I 00 M4 erm oe 1: Clima HER etna a Sat . , | Plain Creams....... 60 @ % bbls, 80 Ibs...... 2 eu a ast ir Kingsford’s Silver Gloss. Malt White W ine, 40 grain.... 6 Decorated Creams. = : LAMP CHIMNEYS—Common. Malt White Wine, 80 grain.... 9 String Rock...... on Kits, 15 Ibs Tripe. Per box of 6 doz. maa ieee 10 | Burnt Almonds.."!11 25 oe ee le | eae 1 32 ecw On saat Pure Cider, Genesee......_.../11| Wintergreen Berries ~~ Geo %% bbls, 80 Ibe. 2.222222.) 7 ini 2 18 Diamond. Pure Cider, Robinson......... tt Caramels. Casings. ee WICKING . PO low n First Quality. 6410c packages ........... 5 00 . . | No. 1 wrapped, 2 Ib. Beef rounds... No. 0 Sun, crimp top, 128 5c. packages......... .. 5 00 | No.0, pergross.............. 7 @35 — Beef middles _wrapped and labeled... 2 10 32 10¢ and 64 5c packages...5 00 | No.1, pergross............ 30 | No. 1 wrapped, 3 ib. . TO No. 1 Sun, crimp top, = 2) Per gross.............. 40| boxes @50 | Duluth Imperial, %s....... a seas nwrapped and labeled... 2 25 O.d,pererose, ® 5 Common Corn. re tip. paekares. co... 5 401 1b. packages. ............ 434 Common Gioss. l-lb packages............... 41g Sip peekases....... |... 4M Gib packaces............... 456 {Sand SOIb boxes........... 344 Barrels 0 3 STOVE POLISH. ESS tutes ¥.L.PRESCOTTS Co NEW VORK.NY.U SA No. 4, 3 doz in case, gross.. 4 50 No. 6, 3,doz in case, gross.. 7 21 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 eredit 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. Brae cs: 5 8&8 Remeeree oe 5 63 XXXX Powdered...........5 69 Granulated in bbls... ...... 5 38 Granulated in bags......... 5 38 Fine Granulated............ 5 38 Extra Fine Granulated..... 5 50 Extra Coarse Granulated...5 50 Mom foo. 5 63 Diamond Confec. A........ 5 38 Confec. Standard A......... Be ee a 47 ae 4 63 ee 4 63 ee: 4 63 ao. . 450 ee 4 44 we. 14... ..4 38 ee Te 4 31 Oe. 0, Se eeaeee 4 25 Crackers. The National Biscuit Co. quotes as follows: Butter. meyinote X RS... 6 Seymour XXX, 3 lb. carton 6% Maraiiy SN og Family XXX, 3 1b ecarton.. 6% aed MM 6 Salted XXX. 3 1b carton... 6% Soda. Soda MO 6% Soda XXX, 31b carton.... 7 mods, Cig. sg Cepnyretie ok 10 Long Island Wafers....... ll L. L. Wafers, 1 lb carton .. 12 Oyster. Square Oyster, XXX....... 6 Sq. Oys. XXX,1 1b carton. 7 Paring Oyster, XXX... ¢ SWEET GOODS—Boxes. Ane 10% Bent’s Cold Water......... 14 Beme ROBO 8 Cocesnut Tatly....... 12 Cotes Cakes... lu Frosted Honey............. 13% Graham Crackers .......... 8 Ginger Snaps, XXX round. 7% Ginger Snaps, XXX city... 7% Gin. Sups,X XX home made 7% Gin. Snps,XXX scalloped.. 7% ipecr Gon... 8 Paper 8 gumples, Honeg........... 11% Molasses Cakes............ 8 Morsnmaiog 0. 15 Marshmallow Creams..... 16 Pretzels, hand made ..... 9 Pretzelettes, LittleGerman 7 mugen Cake... 8 tee 12% poms EARRGN 7% Sugar Sdugres............ Nanaia Waters... ...__. 14 Pocan Waters... 15% Mited Eienle. 11% Cream Jumbles ........ 2 Boston Ginger Nuts.. oo Pineapple Giace...... ..... 16 Penny Canea. 0... 84% Marshmallow Walnuts.... 16 Relle Tate Pienie 10% Oils. Barrels. MeCN, @ll% XXX W.W.Mich.Hdlt @ 8X W W Michigan........ @ 8% Diamond White....... @ 74 ,S. Gas... @ &% Deo. Naptha .......... @it Cynder. 2 @34 POBANG ll @2i B'ack, winter......... @8s No. 2 wrapped, 2 lb. hexes Fruits. Oranges. Medt Sweets........ @3 00 Lemons. Strictly choice 360s.. @4 50 Strictly choice 300s.. @4 50 Faucy 360s or 300s... @5 00 Ex.Fancy 300s.... . @ Ex.Fancy 360s...... @ Jumbo cases-Maioris @6 50 Bananas. Medium bunches...1 25 @!1 50 Large bunches...... 1% @2 00 Foreign Dried Fruits. Figs, Choice, 101b boxes.. Extra choice, 14 lb DOXxCS. |, Fancy, 12 lb boxes.. Imperial Mikados, 18 ED Ores Pulled, 6 1b boxes... Naturals, in bags... ) ee Dates. Fards in 10 lb boxes Fards in 60 lb cases Persians, G. M’s..... lb cases, new...... Sairs, 60 1b cases.... Nuts. Almonds, Tarragona. . Almonds, Ivaca....... @€OSOH OOO He CQ OO) GO eg Almonds, California, Sots shelicd ..... Braziis new........... Pues Walnuts, Grenobles .. Walnuts, Calif No. 1. Walnuts, soft shelled Cate Table Nuts, fancy.... Table Nuts, choice... Pecans, Med, Pecans, Ex. Large.... Pecans, Jumbos....... Hickory Nuts per bu., Chilo. new... Cocoanuts, full sacks © | | my | €HOO Rr Nemes Sera Ss 8 Peanuts. Fancy, H. P., Suns. Fancy, H. P., Flags Roasted...... ee Choice, H. P., Extras. Choice, H. P., Extras, Roasted... © © 8 EEEEge = © Ha a3 * 5% Dulutb Imperial, ws. ... . Duluth Imperial, i4s....... 5 Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s Brand. Gold Medalice 5 00 Geid Mews) ts... 4 90 Geld Medal t4a..... |... 430 ranean “ea. 5 00 Parisian, ie... |... ioe Parison, 36800... |. Olney & Judson’s Brand. Corceeia. 368... 5 2 Ceresota; ¥48....... elec ae, 5 15 | Ceresaia. 465. 5 05 Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand. Eaurel 4a.......... Laurel, Eanrer a Meal. pouca Granulated? Feed and Millstuffs. St. Car Feed. screened ... No. | Corn and Oats.....__ Unbolted Corn Meal ...... Winter Wheat Bran... . Winter Wheat Middlings. Screenings...... Corn. Car lots..... Less than ear lots. a Oats. Car lots. .... Carlots, clipped........ Less than car lots. Hay. No. 1 Timothy carlots..... No. 1 Timothy, ton lots.. Fish and Oysters Fresh Fish. Whitetish . | rene Piaek Bass... .... 8 Ieee Ciscoes or Herring... IBIGenem. sJave Lobster....... Boiled Lobster...... oe Had@eeck .... Noe. t Pickerel...... fimo Pered 20... 4... Smoked White...... Red Snapper.....__. Col River Salmon.. Mackere] _..... Oysters in Cans. y. B. Counts. 2... .. Shell Goods. Oysters, per 100....... 1 Clams, per 100. groror Set Sten oe wu co nee oo feat fad eft bn tt Ot ie Co He 4 men | Spring Bamba) 01) 9 Hides and _ ® PPHALHAPHHHHHHHAPS be ge Butterine. Rolls, Gary Sold dain Rolls, creamery ......._. Solid, creamery ......._. Canned Meats. Corned beef, 2 lb ..... Corned beef, 14 1b Roast beef, 21b....... Fotted ham, ws... rotted Ram) tca | | Deviledham, is....... Deviled ham, P44... Potted tongue a... Potted tongue hea... Beef. Carease .. ....., ZF Fore quarters....._... 5% @ Hind quarters........ 9 G@ Oras Noe lo Mie lg Heanas --- T2@ 8 ¢) Cobeee gs riaces ... |... 3 Pork. reese 434 ¢ Oe PSeOuider ( | reat tard... 64@ | Mutton. | Carcass ... 7 Veal. Careass | The Cappon & Bertseb Leather | | Co., 100 Canal Street, quotes as follows: Hides. Grek No. t......... Green NG. a... | | Carca Not... |. Ly Cured No.2... ....... Calfskins, green No. 1 Calfskins, green No. 2 Calfskins, cured No. 1 Calfskins, cured No. 2 Peits. Felts, eaeh....,...... Tallow. Not ee Wool. Washed, fine ......... Washed, medium...... Unwashed, fine.... ...11 . @ Unwashed, medium ..16 @I1 nv Fresh Meats. | | | i Pelts. (uo. OFubaia..... _.... | No. IB Toabalar..... | No. 1Tub., glass fount... | No. 12 Tubular, side lamp. 1 50@1_ 00 | | No. 0 Tubular, bbis 5 doz. | No. 0 Tubular, / buil’s ‘eye, No. 2 Sun, crimp top, wrapped and labeled.... 3 25 XXX Flint, No. 0 Sun, crimp top, wrapped and labeled.... 2 55 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 EC No. 2 Sun, wrapped and labeled...... 60 A ‘ No. 2 Hinge, wrapped and libeieg. No. 2 Sun, “Small Bulb,” for Globe Lamps......... Le Bastie. No. 1 Sun. plain bulb, per on...) No. 2 Sun, plain bulb, per ot a No. 1 Crimp, per doz....... 1 35 No. 2 Crimp, per doz.. 1 60 Rochester. No. i, Lime (65¢ don). .... 350 No. 2, Lime (70¢ doz)...... 4 06 No. 2, Flint (80e doz)... 4 70 Electric, No. 2, Lime (70¢ doz) ..... 4 00 No. 2, Flint (80¢ doz)...... 4 40 OIL CANS, Doz. 1 gal tin cans with spout.. 1 25 1 gal galv iron with spout. 1 55 2 gal galv iron with spout. 2 75 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 fron Nacefas.... 9 00 Pump Cans, 5 gal Rapid steady stream. 9 00 5 gal Eureka non-overflow 10 56 3 gal Home Rule..... .....10 50 | 5 gal Home Rule.... ...... 12 00 5 gal Pirate King...... i. Oe LANTERNS, No. 13 Tubular Dash. We ES Oe RSSSRS No. 3Street Lamp...... ee LANTERN GLOBES. | No. 0 Tubular, cases 1 doz. each, box 10 cents.. ..... 45 No. 0 Tubular, cases 2 doz. each, box 15 cents. ...... 45 _each, bbl 35 cases 1 doz. each......... 1 2 LAMP WICKS, No. 0 per grogs.....,.. 5. 15 NO. 1 per @rosa......... ... «~ 22 Ne: 2 pergrogs ...... ..... 3 No. 3 per gross....... oe ao em ae a 4 i 5 i a 22 ea MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Hardware How the Government Was Supplied | With Gunpowder. On the banks of the Brandywine, in Delaware, are the great Dupont Powder | Miils. Established in 1802 by the French Royalist, Eleuthere T. Dupont Nemours, who found Republican France an uncongenial home, they have grown to be the greatest mills in the world for the making of explosives. At the time of the Civil War the Duponts were, as they are to-day, powdermakers for the United States Government. In 1861 the Secretary of War sent for the Duponts, and La Motte Dupont, one of the heads of the firm, went to Washington in reply to the summons. ‘“‘Are you prepared to furnish a very large amount of gunpowder?’’ said the Secretary of War. ‘*That depends on our obtaining salt- petre,’’ was the answer. °‘The salt- petre of the world is mined in India, of course, under the control of the British government, and the markets are in London and Liverpool.’’ The Secretary of War was startled. If England should prove unfriendly during the course of the war which was opening, the saltpetre market would, ot course, be closed to the United States. | | must buy a large} ‘*The Government amount at once,’’ he said. ‘Exeuse me, said Mr. Dupont; **the United States can not go into the} market and buy saltpetre at any reason- able price—indeed, it might not be abie to buy it at all; but the Duponts can get it without exciting comment.’’ **Will you go to England and buy it— buy all there is?’’ Mr. Dupont agreed to go, and he and the Secretary of War talked a few mo- ments longer; they made a few tigures, and the powder man was provided with letters of credit on the Rothschilds. On the next steamer he sailed for Eng- land and presented himself with letters of introduction to the Rothschilds. ‘*Sorry, Mr. Dupont; your letters of credit have not arrived’’—and he was politely bowed out. He next presented letters of introduction to Baring Broth- ers, the London correspondents of the Duponts. One of the firm, a Mr. Archi- bald, cordially received the powder manufacturer. ‘‘Very happy to meet | you, Mr. Dupont; we have never had the pleasure of meeting a Dupont, al- though we have done business with the firm for fifty years.’’ ‘‘I am_ very glad to meet you,’’ said the American, ‘‘for I am in need of money.’ ‘*We shall be most happy to furnish you with all that you require. About how much will you need?’’ Mr. Dupont looked meditatively at the floor fora mument, and Mr. Archibald looked with some curiosity at bis Amer- ican customer. A homely man was this powdermaker; high cheek-bones, a square chin covered with a thin, un- even, bristly beard, spectacles on his deep, kind eyes; a man who somewhat resembled Lincoln in the character of his face. Mr. Archibald thought he might want several hundred pounds. | This American had perhaps found Lon- don a little more expensive than in his Western simplicity he had supposed. Mr. Dupont, looking up, said: ‘*T shall want £500,000, and I want it right away.’ Mr. Archibald was amazed--only British phlegm prevented his exhibiting his astonishment. Was this American a new Monte Cristo! ‘* By ‘right away’ do you mean now?’’ he managed to ask. **I mean in twenty-four bours; that is what we call ‘right away’ in the United States. "’ **You will pardon me if I consult my partners—it is a good deal of money.”’ Mr. Dupont admitted that it was a good deal of money, and he took his hat. ‘*By the way, when you send word to my hotel, ask for ‘Mr. Jones;’ I am registered under that name."’ Mr. Dupont, having no money to buy de | l |saltpetre, went sightseeing and spent ithe evening at the theater. Before he j}was out of bed the next morning Mr. Archibald called. He had called the inight beforeand found Mr. Dupont out. | The Barings would let Mr. Dupont have | the money. Mr. Arcbibald was hardly gone when agent of the Rothschilds hastened |in with profuse apologies. The letters of credit had arrived; they came on the same steamer with Mr. Dupont, but were delayed in transmission. Mr. Dupont now had money to burn (this 1s not altogether slang), and he set out to buy saltpetre. He proposed to buy not only the large lots, but to buy them all. He went first to Liverpcol, and tound the saltpetre in the hands of four dealers. He was a ‘ Mr. Jones’’ who wanted some Saltpetre. He called on the head of one firm; the dealer had so many hundred bags, 300 pounds to a bag, so much a pound. ‘*Mr. Jones’’ bargained like a cautious man who wanted to get his money's worth. He would call again. After visiting the other three dealers, he went back to the first, bought the stock presented his check. ‘*We don’t know Mr. Jones.’’ =‘*Wire to Barings or Rothschilds.’’ The reply came: ‘‘Mr. Jones has credit for any amount.’’ He bought the stock of all the dealers, and each man hugged himseif with de- light because he had sold his saltpetre, until he had discovered that there was {none in the market, and the price had |advanced; therefore the balance of his | days he cursed the tricky Yankee Meanwhile ‘‘ Mr. Jones’’ had bought all the saltpetre in London at what was virtually his own price. When he came to the last dealer, however, some rumor nad preceded him, and the dealer said: ‘‘I have five hundred bags, but it is not for sale.’’ Ahi sard Mr lobes,’ you) are keeping itfor a curio. Good morning.’’ This great supply of saltpetre bought, the next thing was to hire ships to carry it to America. He found American vessels in Liverpool which would un- dertake to transport it, a matter of some risk, for saltpetre was contraband of wal. The loading began; everything moved slowly. Mr. Dupont was exasperated at the tedious delays, for all the means of transportation moved deliberately in England. At last the vessels were ready, and he informed the harbor master that the ships would sail at high tide that evening. The harbor master found it impossible to have the papers ready—it would take two or three days. There was red tape here and red tape there. Mr. Dupont was now in a fever of im- patience. Every hour increased the danger of the government finding out that all the saltpetre in England was about to go over the sea; another day’s delay and the ships might not sail at all. He pressed the harbor master for the clearance papers. The polite offi- cial explained that it would cost him bis position if it was known that he had violated the rules, ‘‘And how much worth?’’ ‘Three hundred pounds a year.”’ Mr. Dupont looked at the harbor mas- ter attentively—he was a man of over sixty years. Then he put his hands in his pockets and looked out the office window, which bristled with masts of all nations. Now Mr. Dupont knew his Dumas well, and at that moment he was turning over in his mind the method the Count of Monte Cristo used to rid a gar- den of dormice which ate his peaches. ‘*] should like to draw a check for £3,000 in exchange for the papers,’’ he said. The ships sailed on the next tide. When Mr. Dupont reported to the Secretary of War there was a love feast in the office of the War Department. After the congratulations were over the Secretary said: *‘How much do we owe you, Mr. Dupont?’’ The powdermaker named the amount of his expenses, to which he added $15,000 to the harbor master. **But what charge do you make for your services in the negotiation?’’ Then this Franco-American, | the and iS your position who HWWOOOWOWWOUOOOO RHALAAADRR MARA Novelty Blue Flame Oil Stoves The Novelty is conceded by every one to be the Gasoline. than Superior to and safer best one now on the market. We sell it at factory price. Write for circular. Foster, Stevens & Co., Grand Rapids. SD WWD MAHA WY a MMR RT 22292292292929292929 (ILARK-RUTKA-JEWELL G0. 38 & 40 South Ionia St. Opposite Union Depot. PRR ERER eee eee PREP ER Ree eee ry Complete stock of HARDWARE, TINWARE, CUTLERY and every- thing usually kept in a first-class hardware store. STRICTLY WHOLESALE Allorders filled promptly at bottom ruling prices. Mail orders solicited. WOWWOWlWIWWOUOCOOW CLARK-RUTKA-JEWELL CO., Grand Rapids, Mich. 5DD9HHHHHHHHHHHO) © >, 9 NN NN NN NN Ae ae cd 2 & Buckeye Paint & Varnish Co. PAINT, COLOR AND VARNISH MAKERS Shingle Stains Fillers ae tr Ag ’ e wet Sole Mfgrs CRYSTAL ROCK FINISH, for hetiaer and Exterior Use z Corner 15th and Lucas Streets, Teledo, Ohio. spite boar spas praret cA AES NEE ITSO TS oT might have demanded a princely sum for his extraordinary services, bowed to the Secretary and replied: ‘*I bave had the distinguished honor of helping the Government; I wish noth- ing further.’’ There is a sequel to thisstory. When the war was over Mr. Dupont, realizing the tremendous risk run by the Govern- men in relying upon native saltpetre, set bimselt to inventing an artificial substitute, and hereatter, with moun- tains of nitrate of soda in Chili and potash everywhere, the United States will never be in such straits again. In 1884 this distinguished powder- maker fella victim to his enthusiasm for his business, and while experimenting with high explosives was killed in an explosion. el SS High Prices for Stove Repairs. Ante Lucem in American Artisan. There seems to have been no inaugu- ration of the National Association reso- lution to advance prices, but if one may judge trom what he hears, the push who Were so anxious to get the resolution through are now beating around the bush and telling how’ they have reduced prices, even under the burden of in- creased expenses tor pig iron. Dealers are taking trade papers and many are watching market quotations, compari- sons and yearly averages, using com- mon-sense reasoning about these things, and it’s harder to create a sympathetic feeling in such resolves than it was twelve or fifteen years ago. There is a growing feeling among dealers that the charge of 6 and 7 cents a pound for repairs and extras is an out- rageous one and not warranted by fair dealing. As a dealer said to me, ‘* Look at that lot of extras; I thought those shelves would cost me about 25 to 30 cents apiece; they come biiled at 7 cents a pound and cost 60 to 7o cents each, and | give them free with sales. I wrote the house and got a curt letter saying that was the price, the rate charged by all first-class houses, and they could make them no less. Now,’’ said he, ‘‘their stoves are sold me at a rate not exceeding 5 cents, which in- cludes nickel trimmings, reservoirs, japanned covers, and represents labor in putting together, which must cost con- siderable for each stove or range and add something to each pound of cast iron in them, and | can see no reason in asking me to pay 7 cents a pound for such castings that do not represent such an amount of extra labor in production. 1 am just waitifig for their agent.”’ ——- > +9 California’s Fruit Yield. = Despite the most unusual climatic conditions, as much money will come into the State for fruits as usual. There will be a full crop of grapes, apples and pears all over the State. The prune crop in Sonoma and Napa counties will be as good as usual, The apricot crop is very light. That fruit ripened was smail and of inferior quality. The peach crop will be about half the usual crop. The grape and apple yield will be very heavy, and scarcity of other fruits will stiffen the price of table grapes. The walnut crop now promises well. Orangesare setting well, but it is early to tell much about the yield. — —>~?—> - The Requisites to Success. There are three requisites to success in business. The first is ability to buy, and the second is ability to sell, and the third is ability to attract trade. It is obvious that the man who can not buy right can never sell with profit, and that the man who can both buy and sell right, and doesn’t know how to get trade, can not do business. It is evident that the long-time-pay- ing buyer can’t buy at bottom, and can’t compete witu the cash buyer. The profit of business is in right buy- ing. ee His Part. Friend—Do you raise vegetables? Suburbanite—No, I only plant them; and, as you observe, my _ neighbors’ chickens raise them. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN The Hardware Market. General trade keeps up remarkably well. The demand for goods is much better than usual for this time of the year. Especially is this noticeable in the line of seasonable goods. In many lines it is far beyond the ability of mills to produce. Trade for June was an Improvement over a year ago and, if nothing happens more than tbe present indicates, the summer trade will fully hold up to the gradual increase already noticed, Wire Nails—Notwithstanding the con- solidation ot nearly all of the outside mills under one head, the price is not strong, and in many instances conces- sions are being made. The fact that the entire country loaded up early in the year has had its effect, as dealers have not as yet been obliged to order in any large quantities. It is hoped that early fall will show an increased demand for this line. Wire—While the demand for nails has been below the average, both barbed and plain wire have been hard to get, owing to the very heavy needs that pre- vail everywhere. This demand is, no doubt, caused by so many patent fences being put up in all parts of the coun- try. The price remains firm and job- bers quote $1.25 for No. 9 plain, f. o. b. mill and $1.50 for painted barbed, with an advance of 30c for galvanized. For shipment from stock jobbers are trying to get $5@6 per ton over factory ship- ments. Rope—Prices are way up. Not for years have we been obliged to pay such prices. It is not believed that any lower figure will rule, but rather higher prices are looked for. This market is ask- ing 1034c for sisal rope and 11% for Manila. Agricultural Tools—Not for years has there been such a demand for goods in this line. Snaths and cradles are espe- cially out of the market. Jobbers are out and the makers have no woods that can be made up into new stock. This scarcity extends from Maine to Califor- nia and dealers need not think Michi- gan alone is the sufferer. The demand for forks, especially those with 4% foot handles, is far beyond the supply. Window Glass—Is very firm and stocks are not large and in any sizes are al- ready getting low. Price is held firmly at 80 and 20 per cent. by the box, with an advance of 1 per cent. for it by the light. Oe! An Argument Against Annexation. ‘*Don’t you know,’’ said the politi- cian, ‘‘that some of those islands in the Pacific Ocean are the work of coral in- sects?’’ ‘What has that to do with our taking possession of them?’’ oo ‘*My friend, you are wholly deficient in the foresight that makes a statesman. Supposing some ship with a cargo of insect powder was to founder in the neighborhood ?’’ A A Really Good Story. ‘*I’ve a great story to tell you, boys,’’ said a man to a group at the City Hall. ‘*T don’t think any of you ever heard me tell it before.’’ ‘‘Is it a really good one?’’ asked one of the party, doubtfully. *‘It certainly 1s.’’ ‘Then you never told echoed the crowd. ee Her Talent. ‘*There’s a young woman who makes little things count.’’ ** How does she do it.’’ ‘*Teaches mathematics in.the public school.”’ ’ it before,’ a What men call firmness in themselves they call contrariness in others. Hardware Price Current. AUGURS AND BITS eo , eis Sea 70 Jennings’, genuine -..-25&10 Jennings’, imitation ee AXES First Quality, SB. Bronge................. 5 00 Hirst Quality, D. B, Bronze,................ 9 50 First Quality, S. B. S. Steel...... ioc. | Oe Hirst Quality, 6 Sieel. 10 50 BARROWS OOM ee oe 14 oe Ce et 80 BOLTS Coe Ee oe ne 60&10 Riseereee HOW Het... 8. | ke eS Et a 5) BUCKETS Wer ma $3 2 BUTTS, CAST Cast Loose Pin, figured......... no. S0GnRO Wrought Narrow... . -70&10 BLOCKS Ordimary Tachic.... ........... te oe cn 70 CROW BARS Cee eee -- per Ib i CAPS Ce per m od Sse 5d mo 2 -.. per 35 Ro ee an 60 CARTRIDGES Mie ire oe ~ «. Om oS Central We B& 5 CHISELS BOGHeS Hermer ie 80 PGCE PIGMINe 80 Soeket Comer. ........... So eS 80 POCKCt Stems 80 DRILLS Morses Ba Stocks 60 Taper and Straight Shank,................ 50& 5 MOtsE Ss Taper Shank. |. ea S ELBOWS Com. 4mece Gin..... ............ doz. net 00 COME 1 25 AAGseee. 8. dis 40410 EXPANSIVE BITS Clark’s small, $18; large, $26......%.........30&10 ives’, 45,2 G2:3,.55 25 FILES—New List New American ... 7O&10 ee Homers Here Gasp... €C&i0 GALVANIZED IRON Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26: 27. ..... 28 List 12 13 14 15 <= 17 Discount, 75 to 75-10 GAUGES Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s...............60&10 KNOBS—New List Door, mineral, jap. trimmings.... _....._.. 7 Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings............ 80 MATTOCKS Meee RVG $16 00, dis 60&10 Ce $15 00, dis 60&10 Bee $18 50, dis 20410 NAILS Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire. Steel nails, base..... ... epee ee wee. 1 6 Wire nails, base.... eo cl, me to GU acivatice, = s...... 4... Base Mc I aGwanCe. we U5 Soares... 10 Oo ee a 20 eg, 30 ooo ...... ee 45 Dee i... 70 Mie Thyamee 50 Come Mi atvance 15 (ae Sacre .................... 25 Costing Gadvanee.. 8 35 oon eo Ct... 5 amie SAdeoeee 35 Peeks GGGvAMGe........... 8... 45 Berrel & advance |... 85 MILLS (oeoe, Peers... 40 Coffee, P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s Malleables... 40 Coffee, Landers, Perry & Clark’s........... 40 Comed, Miteririne........... .. Se a 30 MOLASSES GATES CIES BACON 60410 Beppeen 8 Gcenine wl... eee dinterprise, self-measuring ............ .... 30 PLANES Caio Tool Cavs, fancy... @50 Bema CNG e ack. 60 Gandg@usky Tool Cos, fancy... 21... @50 Pench, BISLGUalIty. __. oo Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s wood......... 60 PANS oy, ACme ee 60&10&10 eanrmtin DOMARGG. 60 T& 5 RIVETS ron and Timed .... ..°...... eee eee. 60 Copper Rivets dnd Hurs............2...,..... 60 PATENT PLANISHED IRON “A? Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10 20 ‘““B’? Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 25 to 27 9 20 Broken packages 4c per pound extra. HAMMERS Mmaydaol & Co.'s, now Tist........ |... _. dis 3355 ee dis 25 Mores & Pimmh 6. 60: . se dis 40&10 Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.......... .. 30¢ list, 70 Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel Hand 30c lis; 40&10 23 HOUSE PURNISHING GOODS Stamped Tin Ware....... . ...- hew list 75&10 eapanned Tin Ware........................ some aranite Iron Ware................. new lat 0610 HOLLOW WARE oe | Kettles .... « . +o eG Spiders .. 60&10 HINGES Gate, Clarks, 12,3. .................... cia State.. ele ee be. «c+cees DOr dog. net 2 50 WIRE GOODS ion. Cl. 80 Screw Eyes... Le edad a. 80 HOG’ ss. ....,....... . Lo 80 Gare Hogkaagad Hyon... «s,s, 80 LEVELS Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............dis 70 ROPES asa, en ane larger... ... Cd. 10% aa 11% SQUARES Matte - 70&10 Try and Bevels ... Se ete, 60 mite ....... ...... ete 50 SHEET IRON i com. smooth. com. men tt 82 70 €2 40 a 2 40 mee. tSfoc............ ......... ee 2 45 Nos. 22 ta 24... .. eee seats 3 00 2 55 Pt 2 6 NO ee ee 2% Ali sheets No. 18 and lighter, over 30 inches wide not less than 2-10 extra. SAND PAPER Ting acee oC. SASH WEIGHTS eee ee .... per ton 20 00 .. dis 50 Solid Eyes TRAPS me. OSM 60&10 Oneida Community, Newhouse’s....... 50 Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s 70&10 MOUS, CROROE,............ 6... per ade 15 Mouse, delusion.................per doz 1 WIRE riget Markee | % Aiiemien MAGE vi) Copeerca Market... 2 ned MAME 62% Copperce Siwing Sicel, eC 50 Barbed Fence, galvanized ............. . Barbed Fence, painted.......: i 1 7% HORSE NAILS Sa eeee. 8 dis 40&1C So is 5 DOCtWCMCEN dis 10&10 WRENCHES Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.............. 30 Cees Gentine... wg... 50 Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought ....... 80 Cees Patent, malieable................. |... MISCELLANEOUS mire Cages... 50 Futape Cimtcre.. 5... . 80 Serews, New Eist............. <. 85 Casters, Bed and Pilate........... -- 50&10&10 Dempers, American... 50 METALS—Zinc Ge pound COMke B14 Perpoene 6% SOLDER we... 12% _ The prices of the many other qualities of solder in the market indicated by private brands vary according to composition. TIN—Melyn Grade Diets tC Charcoal $5 75 Peo I Charcoat wl 5 75 meee TX. Charcoal .............. 7 00 Each additional X on this grade, 81.25. i TIN—Allaway Grade morte ee) Cemicos) 45 fee, Crercoa:. 8. ere ee Chateee 5 5¢ ce Each additional X on this grade, 81.50. ROOFING PLATES 14x WC, Chareaal Mean. ....... ol .. 450 eanve EX Charegal team... |... 5 50 ro ot, Ceneons, Oem. ...... ........... 9 00 14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade......... 400 14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade......... 5 00 20x28 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade......... 8 00 20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade......... 10 00 BOILER SIZE TIN PLATE 14x56 IX, for No. 8 Boilers, | 14x56 IX, for No. 9 Boilers, (oS pound... © RGRSLSRSASASO RRS ASRORORO The Paris Green season is at hand and those dealers who break bulk must Jabel their packages according to law. We are prepared to furnish labels which meet the requirements of the law, as follows: Tee 25 cents. ee ae - 40 Cents. SOO... seen ese « 75 cents. Oe a ay ee SI Oo. Labels sent postage prepaid where cash accompanies order. Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids, Mich. ORSRSKSHSROROESAGROROROR o4 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN The Drug Editor’s Experiments. M. Quad in American Druggist. I couldn’t stand it any longer, and I have moved into another building—far away from the drug editor and his trial- boys. The drug editor is an all-around good fellow, but he has certain ways which I object to, and I kuew that | must either quarrel with him or get be- yond sight and sound of his experiments. I had scarcely taken an office along- side of the drug editor when he adver- tised for a boy. He explained that he wanted a willing boy, and one in the best of health, and that a boy devoted to his interests would have a steady place and a liberal salary. Of the fifty boys who called in answer, the drug editor picked out the fattest and plumpest, and a few minutes later I heard him ex- plaining: ‘*Now, sonny, we will begin business. Here are two pills which I wish you to swallow right away, and you are to keep close track of any symptoms which may follow.’ The boy protested, but he was a fath- erless boy with a widowed mother on his hands, and he had to swallow the pills or lose his job. They were a new kind, sent to the editor for experiment and repurt; but he wasn’t taking any chances himself. They didn’t kill the boy, although his ears kept twitching and his hair continued to curl for tbe next two hours. The poor, innocent lad was just getting his nerve back when the drug editor called upon him to swal- low a generous dose of a new kidney cure. There was nothing wrong with that boy’s kidueys, and he tearfully pro- tested against being experimented on, but the drug editor fixed him with his eye, and replied: ‘*Very well, sonny. If you had rather see your poor mother begging from door to door than surrounded by all the lux- uries that wealth can buy, then so be it. It is either swallow this or go.’ The boy wept for a while and then swallowed the stuff. He was taken with cramps soon after, and then the drug editor worked in a panacea on him, and made two experiments out of one. That was the beginning. I didn’t feel like saying anything in opposition, but it made my heart bleed to watch that boy day after day. After three or four days the drug editor got him down to a regular routine. The first move in the morning was to sweep out the office. Then he was given a dose of some new consumption cure. Then came an er- rand or two and a dose of something to stir up his liver. Then he went to the postotfice after stamps, and upon his re- turn it was a spring tonic or a cure for dyspepsia. His fatness and his plump- ness soon disappeared and at the end of a fortnight he was hollow-eyed and weak in the knees. I saw that he was not long for this world unless the drug edi- tor let up, and I mustered up courage to throw out a hint. ‘‘Johnny? Yes, he is going fast,’’ was the calm reply. *‘He hasn’t got the constitution I thought he bad. I don’t expect he will last over two weeks more. However, boys are plenty, and I must have one to try these things on.’’ Two weeks later Johnny’s mother sent word that he was dead, and the drug editor sat down to write another adver- tisement for another victim. This time he got a boy with moles on his chin and warts on his hands. The stock of salves had been piling up, and here was a boy to use ‘em on. A dozen times a day his moles were touched up and his warts liberally greased, and after the third day a sure cure for cold feet and a liniment for lumbago were mixed in with the others. In a week he lost five pounds of flesh and began to have a wandering look in his eyes. The drug editor tried to brace him up by ringing in a remedy for dandruff, but the boy continued to fali away and wonder where he was at until he fell down the stairs one day and broke three ribs and was paid his salary up to date. Then a third boy appeared. He was a frank, trusting lad, and it grieved me to see him there. He was welcomed with a dose of a new remedy for tape- worms, and before night had taken an anti-cholera mixture, submitted his corns for treatment and had four or five differ- ent porous plasters sticking to him. He trusted the drug editor, and had no guile in his heart, but he didn’t last a month. His mother called and said the boy had got so nervous that he would climb a tree at sight of a bicycle, and so poor in flesh that he was like a mop-stick, and she thought he had better give up study- ing to be a drug editor. There were other boys—seven or eight of them. All began and ended alike, except that the majority of them were brought to the grave. Liquids and solids —powders and ointments—salves and plasters—it made no difference to the drug editor. It was his duty to investi- gate and analyze in the interest of the drug trade and he would not permit a boy to escape. In his enthusiasm he went further. He got a machine and advertised for a type-writer,and the one he selected had scarcely written ‘‘ Dear Sir’’ on a business letter when he inter- rupted her to say: ‘‘Miss Jones, I had forgotten to men- tion that I have just received a sure cure for fits, and that the inventor wants a report as to its efficacy at once. Please take a teaspoonful before going any further. ”’ But I never had a Gt.of any sort,’ she protested. ‘‘No? Well, you have certainly had spells of dizziness and loss of appetite, and we will try it for those complaints. ’’ She was a proud and obstinate girl, and rather than work for her employer's interest, she quit the job, but the one who took her place also took her regu- lar dose until one day she was carried to the hospital. I wanted to intertere— I wanted to call in Bergh and the law, but a fear came upon me that if I inter- fered and drove away those trial-boys and trial-typewriters the drug editor would demand that I submit myself a victim. Yesterday he obliged the poor, wan-faced. type-writer to eat half a pint of infants’ food, experiment with three different pectorals and gulp down a dozen tablets, and the office boy was subjected to three sorts of squills, a cup- ping process and five headache powders. I was powerless to interiere, but I re- solved to be no party to further murders, and when night came I moved my _ be- longings far away. The drug editor will go right along with his experiments just the same, and office boys and type- writer girls will pale and fade and go to their doom, but I shall not be there to hear them sigh nor see them weep. P. S.—I stop the press to announce that the drug editor had a fresh adver- tisement in the papers this morning. That means that the office boy died dur- ing the night. The type-writer may last the week out, but her doom is surely sealed. >. —-——- The Suiters Under Arrest. Cleveland, Ohio, July 5—August Sul- ter, the commission merchant who made an assignment, and his two sons, G. A. and R. B. Sulter, were arrested last week on charge of contempt of court. Their arrest was ordered by John H, Simpson, a notary public, because they refused to be sworn to make depositions in relation to the condition of their business. The three men were imme- diately taken to the county jail, when their attorney, J. C. Heald, commenced habeas corpus proceedings to get them released. After Mr. Sulter made an assignment on June 17, C. W. Cornell filed a_ peti tion in the Common Pleas Court, asking that the business be placed in the hands of a receiver, for which a hearing was set for July 6. Mr. Sulter and his two sons were Called before a notary public and asked to make certain depositions. They refused to be sworn at all, where- upon Mr. Simpson had them placed un- der arrest. Se ee Engbert Kuyers and David Hooger- hyde, travelers for P. Steketee & Sons, are enjoying a two weeks’ vaca- tion, visiting with their families. —_~> 2. When a lot of women get together, the main subject of conversation 1s whether some other woman knows how her hus- band is acting. The Canadian Conference. Notwithstanding the action of the Senate Appropriations Committee, the appropriation for the expenses of the conference between this country and Canada is certain to be provided for, as the Senate itself has decided to restore the appropriation to the general defi- ciency bill, thus insuring the proper provision for the expenses of the con- ference. The Governments of Great Britain and the United States agreed, not long ago, on a conference for the settlement of all outstanding questions relating to Canada. Owing to the many vexatious problems which have cropped out of re- cent years to produce friction between the two countries, the holding of a con ference to arrange all these matters ap- peared to be a matter very much to be desired ; hence the action of the Senate Committee was surprising and unpa- triotic. To meet the expenses of the commis- sion to be appointed by the United States, the sum of fifty thousand dollars was set apart in the general deficiency bill. That bill passed the House of Representatives with this item in it. When the bill reached the Senate, the appropriation was stricken out by the Senate Committee, but happily was _ re- stored later by the Senate itself, No good reason was assigned by the Senate Committee for its course, and it is assumed that it was a side blow aimed at the President. It is matter for congratulation that the conference is now assured. The relations of this coun- try with Great Britain are at present very cordial, and it 1s much to be de- sired that they may continue so. The time appears ripe to arrive at an ami- cable settlement of all causes for dispute growing out of our relations with Can- ada, and it would be a great blunder not to improve the opportunity. . ——0<>— — Banking Change at Otsego. W. C. Edsell has sold his interest in the banking house of W. C. Edsell & Co., at Otsego, to Hiram A. DeLano and Geo. E. DeLano, who have formed a copartnership with Mr. Edsell’s for- mer partner, C. Irvin Clapp, and will continue the business under the style of DeLano & Clapp. Geo. E. DeLano will shortly remove from Allegan and take up his residence in Otsego. SS ey It is said in Indiana that the Ameri- can Lamp Chimney Company, with a capital stock of $750,000, has been in- corporated at Anderson, under the laws of West Virginia, for the purpose of controliing the lamp chimney markets of the country by revolutionizing manu- facture by the introduction of machin- ery, which will blow at a cost of 5 cents a dozen better chimneys than can be produced by hand at 15 cents a dozen. Aside from this saving in cost of blow- ing, there 1s also a material saving in other particulars. The company will control the only machine yet constructed. The annual consumption of the Nation 1S 7,000,000 dozen per annum. It is fig- ured that they can control the market by cheap prices. Edward D. Libby, of Toledo, Ohio, is President of the new company. The company will also man- ufacture reflectors and globes. This in- novation will go far, if successfully car- ried out, in revolutionizing all kinds of glassmaking by the introduction of ma- chinery to displace men. LE aE eR A woman can go to church and after- ward tell you what every other woman in the congregation had on—and some- times she can even remember what the text was. WANTS COLUMN. - Adyertisements will be inserted under this head for two cents a word the first insertion and one cent a word for each subsequent in- sertion. No advertisements taken for less than 25 cents. Advance payment, : BUSINESS CHANCES. JQJOR SALE—ONE SECONDHAND FIVE. barrel oil tank; one double-door safe; one jeweler’s safe. H. Leonard & Sons, Grand Rapids. Mich, 643 re SALE —GENERAL MERCHANDISE stock in growing town in Southern Michi- gan. Will bear investigation. Address No. 644, eare Michigan Tradesman ; 644 i SALE—AN 380 SODA FOUNTAIN FOR #200. Address J. H. Levinson, Petoskey, Mich. 639 fe EXCHANGE—l HAVE A GOOD FAKM to trade for a stock of goods. Large crop on the ground. Soil very good. One-half mile from fine village. Address No. 639, care Michi- gan Tradesman. 639 EST LOCATION IN MICHIGAN FOR A cold storage and general produce dealer. Write to the Secretary of the Otsego Improve- ment Association, Otsego, Mich. 631 eS GENERAL STOCK IN growing Michigan town in exchange for cash and 13 acres of land in the suburbs of Grand Rapids which will surely double in valne inside of five years. WHIll sell land at its cash value. No old stock desired. No poor towns need ap- ply. Address No. 633, eare Michigan Trades- man. €33 \ ERVUHANTS—DO YOU WISH CASH QUICK i for your stock of merchandise, or any part of it? Address John A. Wade, Cadillac, Mich. 62 ‘OR SALE—ONLY FIRST-CLASS BOOK- store in hustling town of 3,0.0 population. Address F. C. Wallington, Mt. Pleasant, — 6 _ SALE—A PROSPEROUS DRUG AND grocery stock, invoicing from $4,000 to $5,00), Consisting of drugs, groceries, school books, wall paper, crockery, paints and oils and notions, in live town Carson City: best town of its size in State; brick store building in best location in town. Outside business averages inside running expenses. Reasons for selling, loss of partner and poor health. Kelley & Cad- wellinvite inspec.ion. 625 HAVE SMALL STOCK OF DRUGS AND fixtures in Ionia, taken on mortgage. Will sell cueap for cash or trade for productive real estate. Answer immediately. Will sell soon. W. W. Hunt, Under National City Bank, Grand Rapids. 596 Kok RENT—DUUBLE s'ltORbm BUILDING in Opera House block, Mancelona, Mich., best location in town; best town in State. Ad dress Julius H. Levinson, Petoskey, Mich. 580 POR SALE, EXCHANGE OR RENi—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 ye EXCHANGE—FORK CLOTHING, DRY goods or shoes, very nice well rented Grand Rapids property. Address No. 552, care Michi- gan Tradesman. 552 7 EXCHANGE — FARMS AND OTHER property for dry goods, clothing and shoes, Address P. Medaiie, Manceiona, Mich. 553 AY JANTED—A PRACTICAL MILL MAN, with $1,000 capital, to take a ene-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. 554, care Michigan Tradesman. 584 COUNTRY PRODUCE ANTED — FIRST-CLASS BUTTER FOR retail trade. Cash paid. Correspond with Caulkett & Co., Traverse City, Mich. 381 ANTED—1,000 CASES FRESH EGGs, daily. Write for prices. F. W. Brown, Ithaea, Mich. 556 FIREPROOF SAFES G2; M. SMITH, NEW AND sECONDHAND safes, wood and brick building mover, 157 Ottawa street, Grand Rapids. 613 a - SHIRTS. I AVE YOURS MA‘"'E TO YOUR MEASURE, Send for measurement blanks. Frank T. Coliver, 103 Washtenaw St. E., Lansing, Mich. 635 MISCELLANEOUS, wast ED—A REGISTERED PHARMACIST y atonce. Address, with references, M. A. Barber, Petoskey, Mich. - a 645 JANTED—MAN OF EXPERIENCE TO work in grocery and meat market. Must be well recommended. Address E. B. Huntoon, Carson City, Mich. 641 SS BY REGISTERED pharmacist; eight years’ experience in general drug business and with soda fountain; best references. Address P., care Michigan Tradesman. 640 ITUATION WANTED BY YOUNG MARRIED man, registered pharmacist; excellent ref- erences; five years’ experience in retail and wholesale stores. Address 629, care Michigan Tradesman. 629 ANTED—POSITION IN CLOTHING OR general store by an Alsalesman. Address F, care Michigan Tradesman. 622 ee f a 4 e © 5 & ea - i. =“ = Hs e 3 > . ae Ten ene ere Saat Travelers’ Time Tables. Best route to Manistee. CHICAGO Naan” Chicago. iy. G. Rapida......- -._. 7:30am 3:40pm * 2:15am Ar Chieggo.. oo... 2:10pm 9:05pm 7 3%m iy: Chicago. 3.0. 2... 7:20am 4:15pm * 8:-45°-m Ar. G@’d Rapids....... if: 25pm 10:30pm * 2°15: m Traverse City, Charlevoix and Petoskey. Lv. G’d Raplids.......... 2:l5am 8:05am 2:10pm Parlor and Sleeping Cars on afternoon and night trains to and from Chicago. *Every day. Others week days only. DET ROIT Grand Rapids & Western. 9 June 19. 1898. Detroit. Ly. Grand Rapids...... 7:00am 1:35pm 5:35pr AE: PICMOM. = -40am 5:45pm 19:05pm Ly. Detroit ae = 00am 1:10pm 6:107m Ar. Grand Rapids.. os e. ‘55pm 5:20pm 10:55; m Saginaw, Alma and Greenville. Lv. G R7:0)am 4:20pm Ar. G R 12:20pm 9:30pr Parlor cars on all trains to and from Detroit and — Trains run week days only. Gro. DEHAVEN. Genera) Pass. Agent. GRAN D — Se Div (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. .t12:45pm * 8:00pm. . Detroit, East and Canada. ..* 6:35am +10:45am...... Mixed to Durand........ + 3:15pm WEST * 8:35am....Gd. Haven and Int. Pts....* 7:050m +12:53pm. Gd. Haven and Intermediate. + 3:12pm + 5:32pm..Gd. Haven and — +10:05am * 7:40pm...Gd. Haven and Chicago..... 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. ee Sunday. E. H. Huewses, A.G. P. & T. A. BEN. FLETCHER, Trav. Pass. Agt., C. A. Justin, City Pass. Agent. 97 Monroe St. Morton House. GRAND Rapids & Indiana Railway Northern Div. Leave Arrive Trav. C’y, Petoskey & Mack...* 7:45am + 5:15pm Tray. C’y, Petoskey & — + 2:15pm ’ 6:35am Trav. C’y, Petoskey & Mack... ........ $10:50pm Ceeriee. es wt 5:25pm t11 15am Train leaving at 7:45 a. m. has parlor car, and train leaving at 2:15 p. m. has sleeping car to Mackinaw. Southern Div. Leave Arrive Cuncinnati is... + 7:10am t+ 8:25pm Bi. WANG ess. + 2:10pm t+ 2:00pm Cincinnati.. --* 7:00pm * 7:25am 7:10 a. m. train has parlor car to a 2:10 p.m. train has parlor car to Fort Wayne. 7:00 p. m. train has sleeping car to Cincinnati. Chicago Trains. TO CHICAGO. Lv. Grand Rapids...t7 10am +2 19pm *11 35pm Ar. Chicago. ........ 20pm 910pm 6 30am FROM CHICAGO. PV OMCAGO eos cocci ck +3 02pm *11 45pm Ar. Grand Rapids. ..........._. 9 30pm % am Train leaving Grand Rapids 7.10 a. m. has buffet parlor car to Chicago. Train leaving Grand Rapids 11 35 p. m. has coach and Pullman sleeping car to Chicago. Train leaving Chicago 3.02 p. m. has buffet parlor car to Grand Rapids. Train leaving Chicago 11.45 p. m. has coach and Pullman sleeping car to Grand Rapids. a Trains. GOING WEST. Ly @’d Rapids......... +7:35am +1:00pm +5:40pm Ar Muskegon........... a — 2:10pm 7:05pm eon Lv Muskegon....... .. +8: ‘a +11:45am +4:00pm ArG’d Rapids... ..... 9:30am 12:55pm 5:20pm Sunday trains leave Grand Rapids 9.00 a. m. =o m. Leave Muskegon 8.35 a. m. and "thoes Sunday. *Daily. {Saturday only. Cc. L. LOCKWOOD, Gen’! Passr. ‘and Ticket Agent. ¥. BLAKE, Ticket Agent Union Station. DULUT : —_ — = Atlantic WEST BOUND. Ly. Grand Rapids (G. R. & L.)ti1:10pm +7:45am Ly. Mackinaw City............ 7:35am 4:20pm Ar. St. Ignace..... cede cakes, 9:00am 5:20pm Ar. Sault Ste. Marie.. = ae 9:50pm - BIauCHEO |... ck. 50pm 10:40pm Ar. Nestoria. . sia Seslaton alec i 12:45am Ar. Duluth.......... eeeeiccnesee , chen, 8:30am EAST BOUND. Ly. Duluth.... -.+-. +6:30pm Ar. Nestoria. til:l5am 2:45am Ar. Marquette m 4:30am = Sault Ste. Mari Scoopeo... es Ar. Mackinaw City.. 8: —_ 11:00am BARD, Gen. Pass. Agt arquette. E. Cc ‘Oviatt, Tray. Pass. pie Gand apids MANISTEE ‘Sr. HOLLAND & GHIGAGO LINE Bstablsboa 10. Lv Grand R: id Pal as i ia aw a 7:00am vie WM. Ray : ‘Walter Baker & Go, 472 Ar Manistee CS SG an ins o5pm = | Dorchester, Mass. Ly Manistee. toes Soman gclopm | The Oldest and Ar Grand R: ipids tnteeewtee esc, HOOP O:55 pm | Largest Manufacturers of Tees Pp das PURE HIGH GRADE VIA H. F. MOELLER, a.c. Pp. a. F.&PMRR | AND STEAMSHIP LINES metre TO ALL POINTS IN MICHIGAN see COCOAS "| Ay \ \CHOCOLATES Operating the elegant and fast steamers ‘‘Soo City” and “City of Holland’? between Holland and Cy) Chicago, connecting at Holland w ith the C. & W. on this Continent. M. Railway for Grand Rapids and all points east N o Chemicals are used in and north. SUI! {a Trade- Mat. their manufactures. ne 25th. Lv. Holland, daily (except Sunday)........3:00 p.m. Their Breakfast Cocoa is absolutely pure, Ly. Holland, Sunday. ge none delicious, nutritious, and costs less than one ae Lv. Holland, Saturday (special). . ng :30 a.m. cent a cup. Ly. Chicago, daily (except Fri. and § S: at. )..7-00) pm. Their Premium No. 1 Chocolate, put-u in ly. Chicaoo. Priday... $:00 p.m. Blue Wrappers and Yellow Labels, is = est : Lv. Chicago, Saturday...... 9:00 a.m, and 4:00 p.m. | plain chocolate in the market for fami y use. goods in fancy shapes and FARE. Stele iteoad = oi Their German Sweet Chocolate is good to unique designs, which we are Between Holland and Chicago 2.25 $3.50 eat and good to drink. It is wana need Between Grand Rapids and Chicago 3.15 5-00 offering at right prices. Samples "Boon fiided: be > tious, and healthful; a great favorite with cheerfully sent on application. SPECIAL RATES. children. uo hy PI Chicago to Holland and Resorts, Friday and S at- Buyers should ask for and be sure that the urday, leaving Chicago at 4 p. m. one way, $1.7 get the genuine goods. The above trade-mar round trip, $2.50. Saturday morning, leav fae is on every package. We have a large line of new : TRADESMAN COMPANY, Grand —o pace enng armen se — w ay. Above Walter Baker & Co. Ltd. Office, No. 1 State St., Charles B. Hopper, Chicago. Gen lI F. & P. Ast. Dorchester, Mass. he President of the United States of America, To HENRY KOCH, yor clerks, attorneys, ager.3, sSatlesmem and workmen, and all claiming or holding through or under you, 3REETING : Whereas, it has been represented to us in our Circuit Court of the United States for the District of New Jersey, in the Third Circuit, on the part of the ENOCH MORGAN’S SONS COMPANY, Complainant, that it has lately exhibited its said Bill of Complaint in our said Circuit Court of the United States for the District of New Jersey, against you, the said HENRY KOCH, Defendant, to be relieved touching the matters therein complained of, and that the said ENOCH MORGAN’S SONS COMPANY, Complainant, is entitled to the exclusive use of the designation ‘‘SAPOLIO” as a trade-mark for scouring soap, Wow , Cherefore, we do strictly command and perpetually enjoin you, the said HENRY KOCH, your i attorneys, agents, salesmen and workmen, and all claiming or holding through or under yo vader the pains and penalties which may fall upon you and each of you in case of disobedience, that you a absolutely desist and refrain from in any manner unlawfully using the word *““SAPOLIO,” or any word or words substantially similar thereto in sound or appearance, in connection with the manufacture or sale of any scouring soap not made or produced by or for the Complainant, and from directly, or indirectly, By word of mouth or otherwise, selling or delivering as “SAPOLIO,” or when “SAPOLIO” is asked for, that which is not Complainant’s said manufacture, and from in any way using the word ‘“‘SAPOLIO” in any false or misleading manner. Y if avi 1°55, The honorable MELVILLE W. FULLER, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States of America, at the City of Trenton, in said District of New Jersey, this 16th day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand, eight hundred and ninety-two, {szar] [stcnzp) S. D. OLIPHANT, Clr: ROWLAND COX, Complainant's Sokcitor. MOOWOOOOWWOOOO DIDDOOQODDOWODOBYHYDOYBHDOY®®OO® © ANNOUNCEMENT EVERY BUTCHER SHOULD LAY ASIDE THE KNIFE AND CLEAVER LONG ENOUGH TO STUDY THIS ANNOUNCEMENT You have been looking for a reliable, Quick-acting, Spring-balance ‘‘Computing’”’ Scale WE HAVE IT FR YOU The Spring Balance Automatic Scale we now offer the public is the best that brains and money can produce. Our long successful career as the Pioneer Manufac- turers of Money-Weight Scales is a sufficient guarantee that anything in this line we may offer you is a “Success.” A scale that shows the selling price in money. One operation to obtain results. Shows both weight and value of the article weighed. The front, or weight and value dial, shows Has two separate and distinct dials. money-value and weight of the article being weighed. The reverse dial gives weight alone. THE COMPUTING SCALE CO., Makers, Dayton, Ohio, t t. S.A. SSSSSSeeees eee WRITE } Reeeeseasoososseses ror Wasssss55555222222222225W MSE FF FF FFF FF FLD SSS ZINK ¥ MONEY IN ITY § It pays any dealer to have the reputa- tion of keeping pure goods. It pays any dealer to keep the Seymour Cracker. There’s a large and growing section of the public who will have the best, and with whom the matter of a cent or soa pound makes no impression. It’s not HOW CHEAP with them; it’s HOW GOOD. For this class of people the Seymour Cracker is made. Discriminating housewives recognize its superior FLAVOR, PURITY, DELICIOUSNESS and will have it. If you, Mr. Dealer, want the trade or particular people, keep the Seymour Cracker. Made by . National Biscuit Company, Grand Rapids, Mich. W DEALERS IN ILLUMINATING AND LUBRICATING NAPHTHA AND GASOLINES ¥ Office and Works, BUTTERWORTH AVE., - GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. \ Bulk works(at Grand, Rapids, Muskegon, Manistee, Cadillac, Big Rap- . ids, Grand' Haven, Traverse City, Ludington, Allegan, Howard City, Petoskey, Reed City, Fremont, Hart, . Whitehall, Holland and Fennville ° Highest Price Paid for Empty Carbon and Gasoline Barrels. > mS G ° °. ° Q e * * ° * * e. . G G e ° O QO LO» LI 2 ’ - ° ° ° . ° ° ° * ° ° ° . e . ° ° e e ~~, a,’ 7