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Ty THE WHOLESALE FURNITURE COMPANY, Grand Rapids, Mich. [p Repairs done in any te. I ih i aa a cht. by a Pe AE IR F a WORLD’S BEST - nu ° ° = “ r s In 1 Lansing Boiler & Engine Works, Gj if Lansing, Mich | e AANSINgG, iVicn. a ru Ly 'o 852 325252 S25 ¢525eSe seSe5eSesesesesesesesese=ssese5e8) lll ate. ln allt an, lan — cin atlanta illite tl nln. =i. lla . a i. J. H. Prout & 60., OI x) Proprietors of S.C feD) 0) Yuys ©) 5C. CIGAR. ALL JOBBERS AND G.J. JOHNSON CIGAR CO. GRAND RAPIDS, WICH. { { \ ee MS The Glu Roller Mil 4 im (A Uwe { p PURITY AND STRENGTH! FLEISCHMANN & GO."S COMPRESSED YEAST As placed on the market in tn foil and under Howard Gity. Mich. Wholesale and Retail Dealers in - | Te | een 4 OeaRaee rs, Flour, Feed and Grain un Facsimile ese ee Of greater strength than any other yeast, and Ss Gas Dinas Beak te 0 tells Wine. Tee icc 2 convenient for handling. Neatly wrapped in tL %,, YEAST se tin foil. Give our silverware premium list to van i nay ager 1 J i ae your patrons and increase your trade. Particu- OUR LABEL lar attention paid to shipping trade. Address, DOOOOGOOOGODQDOOOO DOOOOOOQO OL DOHOHOOQOOOOOQOOOD DOOQOQOODO® 9 HQ FLEISCHMANN & CO. Detroit Agency, 118 Bates St. Four Kinds of Coupon Books are manufactured byt us and all sold on the s ame b nm irrespective KOOOOOO® e ee i 2@do@ : : 5 £ size, shape or denon caitlin . Wree sar s on application. Grand Rapids Agency, 26 Fountain St. TRADESMAN COMPANY, ‘nek Rapids, Mich. Fst gmat nati uci AL HHBSHOGMATOGSGOGOGO|CS|TE POQOQOQOQOS #0101 0101010100191OKGi 9101819 FHGOOGOOOS Be Up To Date, and Smoke “MR. THOMAS’ The Most Popular Nickel Cigar on Earth Wi ht , "pease Bros. Co., Makers. os F. E. Bushman, Representative, yy, Factory 956, ist Dist. Pa. ° Kalamazoo, Mich. > Mail Orders Solicited. SECKORCROROCREROCECE CHOCHONOROROROROROROHOHOHOKS* CHOEROH 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. AN DEALERS IN ILLUMINATING AND LUBRICATING Northrop, Robertson & Carrier, Lansing, Mich. URE UNKLE Long Havana filler, 5e Cigars, ? SUMATRA WRAPPER HAND MADE / A 10 cent cigar retailing m NAPHTHA AND GASOLINES for 5 cents. geen / Office and Works, BUTTERWORTH AVE., W s00- Hwyoneo | S CEM APIECE ] BEST CIGAR FOR THE PRICE MONEY CAN PRODUCE GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. a Bulk works at Grand, Rapids, Muskegon, Manistee, Caqillac, Big Rap- “MICHIGAN j ids, Grand Haven, Traverse City. Ludington, Allegan, W ‘CIGAR Howard City, Petoskey, keed City, Fremont, Hart, WW Whitehall, Holland and Fennville W Co., W BIG RAPIDS, pe | MICH. Our blended San Marto Is famous and pays grocers a good profit when retailed at 25c. eee 6. ae “Royal Duchess” ‘Hillside’ Ss — . ld are Java and Mocha popular brands. ok Co FF ‘J 2 — S} = All our coffees are roasted and packed on day of shipment. : ¥ The J. M. Bour Co., 113-115-117 Ontario St., Toledo, Ohio. MAKE BUSINESS 7 Oar Ss Tel, din ~TANGLEFOOT Sbaléd StOKU Fly Paper ONE OF THE MOST PROFITABLE THINGS YOU SELL. Popular aversion to flies is growing, and To increase vour sales of Tanglefoot i Fly Destroyers are coming into greater use. let your customers see it in actual use ¥ YOUR Of all means for their destruction in your store, in the Holder; : WHOLESALER Tanglefoot is the most practical They will follow your example. © and the best on account of its greater Every customer to whom you sell i box of m SELLS efficacy, cleanliness, endurance and cheapness. Tanglefoot will remember it with pleasure = TANGLEFOOT. This is why the sale of Tanglefoot increases yearly. every day of the summer. $ PRICE, 30 CENTS A BOX.—$2.55 A CASE. ened ee a aiitin ee 2 ) — Eacsaerrnrenennarenarnee sorta Sinan : i ; % i Ze 1 eo Co AU ESMAN Volume XV. ee — oe — 13, 1898. Number 773 orn er rennnnenrnnens 3 lf You Hire Help ; * e You should use our 3 Perfect Time Book 3 ~—— and Pay Roll. 3 3 > Made to hold from 27 to 60 names : @ and sell for 75 cents to $2. @ Send for sample leaf. 3 BARLOW BROS., 3 GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 2 e [CC PREFERRED BANKERS LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN. Commenced Business September 1, 1893. Evsurance in force... |... $2,746,000.00 Net Increase during 1897 104,000.00 Me Asses... 32,738.49 Losses Adjusted and Unpaid. None Other Tables None Total Death Losses Paid to Date...... 40,061.00 Total Guarantee Deposits Paid to Ben- eficiaries, . oe 812.00 Death Losses Paid During 1897. Le eccla e 17,000.00 Death Rate for 1897 o 6.31 Cost per 1,000 at age "30 ‘daring 1897. 8.25 FRANK E. ROBSON, PR TRUMAN B. GOODSPE ED, SEc’y. WILLIAM CONNOR now shows a ce full line of Fall and Winter Clothing. Has the largest line of Ke rsey Overcoats and Ulsters on the road; best $5.50 Kersey all wool overcoat in market, ali manufactured by KOLB & SON, rocuHesTER, N. Y. If you wish to look over my line, write Marshall, at Room 612, Palmer House, Chicago, from me, Box 346, Mich., or meet me Monday, July 11, to Saturday, July 16, or at Sweet’s Hotel, Grand Rapids, Mich , from Wednesday, July 20, until Wednesday even- ing, July 27. Expenses allowed. No harm done if you don’t buy. Connannarnnneecnnnenenss a5 THE MERCANTILE AGENCY Established 1841. Widdicomb Bld’g, Grand Rapids, Mich. Books arranged with trade classification of names. Collections made everywhere. Write for particulars. L. P. WITZLEBEN. [anager. LDP SO9SS9SS9949996900006 »> ? : FIRE$ > ° INS. $ 3 7°? — e q e Prompt, Conservative, Safe. 4 J.W.CHAMPLIN, Pres. W. FRED McBarn, See c€ 90000000006 OO OO< GOMMERGIAL CREDIT 60., LIMITED of Grand Rapids, Mich. Michigan Representatives The Furniture Commercial Agency Co. ‘Red Book.” Reports and Collections. L. J. STEVENSON, Manager and Notary. R. ]. CLELAND, Attorney. 5 SR OROH CHOON CHOHOH OHOROEO = THE FORGOTTEN PAST ¢ we Which we read about can never be e e forgotten by the merchant who be mm = comes familiar with our coupon @ g system. The past to such is always . @ a “‘nightmare.’’ The present is an @ s era of pleasure and profit. = = TRADESMAN COMPANY, e = GRAND RAPIDS. . OROROHORORORORORORORONORON WORSE THAN SPANIARDS. The express companies still array themselves in opposition to the people, Congress, the Commissioner of Inter- nal Revenue and the Assistant Attorney General of the United States by refusing to pay the tax imposed on them by the new Federal Boards of trade and mercantile exchanges in all parts of tax law. the country have placed themselves on record by denouncing the unpatriotic attitude assumed by the companies, and shippers everywhere are showing their disapproval of the companies’ position by diverting shipments which ordinarily go by express to the mails and fast freight lines. The shippers do not re- gard the payment of the penny on each receipt as being the puint at issue, but it is the principle. The Tradesman _ has instituted a test case against the Adams Express Co. in this city, which it proposes to follow to the court of highest resort, if necessary, to establish the soundness of tion. its posi- THE VALUE OF SEA POWER. The present war has amply borne out the theories of Captain Mahan and other naval authorities that, in a war between countries with a seacoast, the command of the sea is the most important factor in determining victory. All recent wars have taught this very plainly. In the war between China and Japan, it was only after the battle of the Yalu, when the Chinese fleet suffered so heav- ily and it was demonstrated that the Japanese were vastly superior at sea, that it became apparent that China must lose in the struggle. With her fleet driven from the high seas to the pro- tection of her naval strongholds, China was unable to move troops, except by tedious overland routes, whereas Japan was at liberty to move her armies at will so as to strike China in the most vulnerable places. It was the command of the sea that enabled the Chilian insurgents to over- throw Balmaceda and his government. Balmaceda, although possessing the army of Chili and all the country’s rev- enues and resources, was defeated, be- cause his opponents possessed the navy and were able to use it to advantage in moving and protecting the landing of troops. When there was a prospect of Ger- many helping President Kruger, of the Transvaal, to attack the British, it was the practical demonstration of England’s naval strength and Germany's weakness in the matter of sea power that re- strained Emperor William’s hand. It was the lesson then learned that con- vinced the Emperor that Germany must increase her fleet at any cost if she ex- pected to hold her own as one of the arbiters of the fate of Europe. To come down to our own war with Spain, the value of sea power has been most thoroughly vindicated. As long as Cervera’s fleet was roaming the sea, it was not deemed safe to send troops to that the Spanish ships might make a raid along some exposed part of our coast line. As soon as Cervera was cooped up in Santiago, we were free to move troops at will. The destruction of her fleets has ren- dered Spain powerless to re-enforce her colonies or even to keep them supplied with provisions and ammunition. Had we been better prepared on our own part for the work in hand, we could have landed armies simultaneously at many points in Cuba and Porto Rico, and thus have been in a better position to dictate terms when the moment arrived to ne- |gotiate peace. So generally is the value of sea power now recognized that all the great nations are actively engaged in strengthening their fleets. Our own Congress, dull and sluggish as it has always been in preparing for the public defense, is now keenly alive to the importance of in- creasing the fleet and maintaining the navy on a substantial and powerful footing. If our contest with Spain made it necessary to put in commission as large a fleet as we are now using, how much greater would be the strength needed to cope with a really first-class sea power, such as France, Germany, Russia, Italy or even Japan. Of course, the possibility of coping with Great Britain at sea is not even to be consid- ered. One of the principal results of the present war will undoubtedly be a per- manent increase in our naval establish- ment. In order to make this increase effective, it will be necessary to greatly augment the strength of the enlisted force. Our ships, asa rule, are under- manned, and, consequently, their effect- liveness is measurably impaired. Our navy is, moreover, very seriously under- officered, especially the battle-ships and heavier vessels. The number of officers of all grades should at once be increased. Of course, there is the old prejudice against officers not graduates of the Naval Academy. This is to be regretted, as it tends to damage the navy in pop- ular estimation and make it unpopular with the merchantmarine, which is the very Class that re-enforcements must be drawn from in time of war. It would be useless to suggest any plan for se- curing the extra officers needed; but it is evident that the naval authorities will have to study the question in the near future, and it is hoped that the difficulty will be approached in a broad-minded and unprejudiced spirit. The Austrians have recently adopted in their army a shelter tent which, when not pitched, 1s separated into pieces cut to fold over and form strong coats for the soldiers. The material is a light, strong waterproof linen, bound along the edges with wide braid and provided with cords which serve the double pur- pose of fastening either the tent or coat. Upon halting for the night, the soldiers remove or unpack their coats in pairs, tie them together and form the tent up- on their two rifles, which, with bayonets fixed, are stuck into the ground to form tent poles, Cuba and there was sides a saesibabibe One effect of the new revenue law will be to materially cut down the number of common articles that are advertised as possessing medicinal properties. For instance, if a manufacturer scents up a lot of ham-rind soap and then claims for it certain virtues of benefit to the complexion, he must puta proprietary stamp on the cakes. A similar tax must be paid on pepsin soda water, anti- bilious cottonseed oil, tonic beer, diges- tion-aiding cocktails, or any other sub- stance that is advertised as hav ing medicinal properties. An Eastern paper very pertinently and very justly remarks that while laurels are being woven into wreaths for Dewey and Hobson and Blue and the lengthen- ing line of male heroes, it should not be forgotten that the aged Clara Barton is displaying qualities no less noble and valuable. And many pure and unselfish women are standing bravely by her side, Se Spain is a funny country. Montejo is to be court martialed for having fought his ships until all were sunk! Spain was thus prevented from having any ground left for claiming a victory. Cervera will probably be shot for fail- ing to take his ships overland to Havana. Life is a continual battle, and it has been and will be found that nobody can get out of this world alive. Any phi- losopher can see his finish, and it is as grand and more glorious to die fighting for one’s country as to pass away at home from a hopeless, torturing, lingering disease. a It is about time for effeminate dopes who dream and drivel for magazines to let up on the degeneracy of American men. The youngsters who are coming up—not the dudes—and who go to the front in tumes of danger are as nervy and brave as men have ever been made. The facsimile business may be car- ried too far for profit all along the line. The Pustoffice Department decides that publications printed in such good imi- tation of writing that it is difficult to distinguish them from written matter must pay letter postage. If Spain does not like this war, she should not have blown up the Maine. She has not yet expressed any sorrow for that outrage, and it is necessary to give her something in Spanish to be sorry about, One difference between a lawyer and a fool is that the lawyer keeps his ad- vice until he is paid for it, while the fooi is giving his free every day to the Government, thinking he is wise. Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails and the water rustles under your bows. A hobby is an idea a man rides when he has no mind of his own with which to think of better things. If a man thinks more of his vices than of his virtues, it is because he has more of them, ne MICHIGAN Dry Goods” The Dry Goods Market. Staple Cottons—As with other depart- ments of the cotton goods business, staple cottons have been quiet in all di- rections, and the demand has been for very limited quantities to fill immediate requirements only. There has been no pressure brought to bear by holders of any stocks, although they have readily met what little demand there has been. Heavy-weight brown sheetings and drills bave shared in this condition, al- though prices remain unchanged. All the leading brands are firm and _ steady in price. Bleached cottons have seen quite decidedly reduced sales, although prices have not changed. Denims and other coarse colored cottons have shown no change in any way. Prints and Ginghams—The print and gingham market has shown somewhat more activity than other lines of cottons, principally in the dark patterns for fall Underwear—There has been a tend- ency for higher prices at the opening 2f the new season, for stocks are low, prices very steady at the present time, and raw niaterial and wages on the up- ward track. Upholstery—The jobbers continue to report business as very quiet. The limited call is on velours and corduroys, with occasional small sales of damask and other piece fabrics. The summer curtain is receiving a fair share of at- tention among the retailers, now that the warm weather has set in. The Bag- dad curtain, selling wholesale at $1.50 per pair, is in good demand. ‘loakings—Sa far the business in cloakings has been confined almost en- tirely to sample pieces, but it bids fair to be the biggest kersey season that has been known, provided no changes take place in the present conditions. Follow- ing kersey are the coverts, which are also in excellent condition. Venetians, which promised to be so good a little earlier in the season, have been hurt for the better trade by the many cheap lines that have been placed on the market. A number; have been brought out as lowas $1 and $1.25. Boucles have also been hurt by cbeap goods, although a fairly large quantity of them has been sold; but kerseys seem to be in the lead, and a number of mills are reported as well sold up. Woolen Goods—The woolen goods manufacturers are confronting a peculiar and critical situation. Few of them have any considerable volume of or- ders upon their books, while many of them have comparatively large quanti- ties of stock goods on hand. The situa- tion of the clothing trade does not war- rant more than a small advance upon prices ruling a year ago, yet the posi- tion of the wool market demands an ad- vance of more than 20 per cent. From February, 1897, to February, 1898, most grades of domestic wool advanced 4o to 50 per cent. ; the goods market in the meantime had not advanced more than 20 per cent Since then there has beena decline in both markets cf fully 5 per cent. Lightweight and heavyweight goods have been freely sold during the last three weeks at prices based upon free wool prices. Most of the goods sold at such prices were from stock, but or- ders for the coming season have been accepted in considerable quantities at prices ruling at the opening of the light- weight season a year ago; or at prices not more than Io per cent. above a free wool basis. The anomaly, therefore, exists to-day of woul showing a 35 to 45 per cent. advance being converted in- to piece goods and sold at a to per cent. advance over free wool values. Manufacturers rightly claimed that there was little or no profit in goods solda year ago, and that being even partially true, there must be a very large loss to many manufacturers in business upon the price basis of to-day. There are undoubtedly some large manufacturers who are fairly well supplied with cheap wool to-day, and who, because of pres- ent exigencies, are willing to turn this stock into goods at a sacrifice of profits to keep their |-oms moving. It is prob- ably not stating it too broadly, however, to say that the majority of manufacturers are not carrying cheap wool, and that to do business upon the present price basis means a serious loss. Manifestly there must be a marked advance in the price basis of the goods market or a de- cline in the price of wool to prevent a considerable number of manufacturers from becoming financially embarrassed. Extremely few members of the trade expect the top prices of last season to be reached during the early part of thea iightweight season. The majority are not hoping for anything better than a moderate advance over opening prices of a year ago—an advance of 5 or Io percent. This would still leave the wool market 20 to 30 per cent. above the average level of the goods market. Such uneven conditions can not long exist, but until they are changed there can not fail to be great suffering among manu- facturers. None but the best equipped plants and those that are financially strong can enter present competition and survive under such embarrassing con- ditions. 8 Exaggeration ts Expensive. From the Chicago Dry Goods Reporter. The merchant who is willing to ex- aggerate in order to gain a temporary success is buiiding his business on the sand. Nothing 1s harder to gain or eas- ier to lose than a store reputation of do- ing exactly what you promise to do. Lying advertisements are found out at the store, and do no end of harm, leav- ing out the moral consideration, ‘‘ Hon- esty is the best policy.’’ These thoughts were forcibly im pressed upon the hints man twice the past week, once at a prominent State street dry goods store where a crowd of people were looking at mattings which bad been advertised at big reductions in the Sunday paper tna large and very extravagantly worded advertisement. People were disappointed when they followed up the advertisement, and more than one customer expressed his dis- satisfaction and contempt of such busi- ness methods in the few minutes the hiats man happened to be present. The second instance was in a depart- ment store. A table was piled with Magazines and over it hung a placard with the legend, ‘‘July magazines 50 per cent. off.’’ The largest and most prom- inent pile was a well-known tIo-cent magazine of the June issue, and was marked nine cents—to per cent. off. The lie was plain to all, Further com- ment is unnecessary. —> 6 > Retribution Coming. ‘‘John,’’ she said, ‘‘you ought to pun- ish that boy.’’ ‘‘What’s tbe matter with him?'’’ he asked. ‘*He’s altogether too dictatorial,’’ she replied. ‘‘ He wants to ruie everything. ’’ ‘Oh, well,’’ he said, ‘‘let him enjoy himself while he may. He'll marry sometime, and that'll end it.’’ Snel ane As the supply of ivory is becoming short, billiard balls of cast steel are be- ing made in Sweden. By making them hollow the weight is made to correspond TRADESMAN IK uo Me 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 room or quantity wanted and we will ship your order the same day as received —sewed if desired. OVER 3,000 DEALERS. are now han- dling our carpets profitably. Let us start you to success. For One Dollar We will send you a book of Carpet Sam- ples containing about 50 patterns—size 9x18 inches. These samples are cut from the roll, so you can guarantee every carpet as represented—in style, color and quality. No picture scheme or Misrep- resentation, Every sample is finished, numbered and quality specified on ticket, so you can make no mistake when order- eS ing. Wealso make up books as above, Ue ————S SS == = 28x18 in., which we will furnish AY For Three Dollars A This size is very popular, as the patterns show up beautifully. ee If you AN prefer large samples we will cut them any length desired at the eae of 3 the goods per yard. We have the best-selling goods on earth. Don't ip) wait, order samples at once; it will be to your interest and we want you DN to represent us. HENRY NOEE & CO., (\% SOUTHEAST CORNER MARKET & MONROE STS., CHICAGO. Db Complete price list and telegraph code will be sent with samples. i} AT YEAS Sas) wean NAIC 5 5 Syn SASS SASS Sys AK bi ENDED UE NDE DED UE NDENDE AE AIDE mi ENDED Ube bE DE DE kib UAE EN aN nee wy ¥ = DAILY RECEIVING 4 § 8 u = FALL GOODS Y t Y w UNDERWEAR HOSIERY . wy GLOVES MITTENS A heals WW t BLANKETS COMFORTS, etc. a = cS 8 8 wy JOBBERS, Ww = P. STEKETEE & SON 9 GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Sa at MS SEZ NIN NEN UZ NS NUNN NU UU UND] ND ND WW with that of ivory balls, SELELEEELE EEE LEE ELE EEE EY A HINT Pretty prints attract attention; they are, in fact, the biggest card a dry goods merchant has. Our new fall styles are in; get your pick early. Never before have we been able to offer so com- plete a line of Underwear, Kersey Pants, Duck Coats, Gloves, Mittens and Hosiery as this season. In many instances our prices are just a little below those quoted by others. Will have agent call if you say so. VOIGT, HERPOLSHEIMER & CO. WHOLESALE DRY GOODS. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. OY Hanh ahah uh apabahay Eh hep eh epuhah opop hahahah ahah Hob ob obuy PEEEEEEEEEEE EEE EEE EEE EY BA SISA ASS eS EAE De SSS ~ ey ‘ he aN neasctonre Se MSL i Rests St: She Wasn’t at all Particular. A few days ago a well-dressed woman about 45, more or less, hurriedly entered our store and insisted, as I afterward learned, that I attend to her wants. I was feeling in excellent mood, with pa- tience inexhaustible, as I thought, Im- mediately I was informed that my lady wanted to select a wall-paper for three rooms. ‘*Now I'm not at all particular—any- thing will do, just so it’s neat and clean looking. I want to repaper a rent house, and I don’t care about appear- ances, so long as I have supplied my renter’s demands. Of course, if I wanted it for my own use I should buy some- thing good.’’ After exhibiting about ten of our lat- est cheap papers, my customer decided that a ‘‘remnant’’ would answer. ‘‘ About five rolls of any style will do. I don’t care if it’s last year’s stock—you see I’m not particular.’’ Again I fished out pattern after pat- tern, until finally she chose one for the side wall. But she wanted a different one for the ceiling. From her vivid and artistic imagination she described the pattern she desired for this. So again on my aching knees I renewed the search, displaying as best I could the beauties of this or that design. When J would produce a pattern she would sug- gest, artistically, how this or that change in it would add greatly to its beauty. ‘*I’m not particular—not a bit—but if this ceiling pattern were just covered a little more it would be just what I want. You know the flies speck a ceiling so, and especially in a rented house. If it were for myself I wouldn't care a snap— that pattern would be just right; but,’’ she added sweetly, ‘‘I know you have other ceiling patterns, for I always get what I want here.’’ Flattered by this last statement, but vexed withal, I again plunged into the search. After displaying about five pat terns I was delighted to have her at last decide. But alas! in a few minutes she changed her mind. ‘‘I guess I don’t like that side wall either. I'm not very particular, but of course I must try and suit my renters. There, I wonder how they would like that? But pshaw! I wouldn’t live in a house papered like that. My! what a large stock of papers. I haven’t seen nearly all, have I?’’ ‘Ob, no,’’ I sarcastically responded, but began to unfoid more paper, without any apparent success. Completely dis- gusted finally, I turned on my unpartic- ular customer and cooly remarked, ‘‘! couldn’t find the pattern you desire if I were to search a thousand years.’’ ‘‘Well, I'll just inform you that I'll not be here in a thousand years looking for paper, or for you either! I'll go and get my paper where they keep a good stock, and where the clerks are at least polite.’’ Ep. A. HANSKE. ee Carrying Leniency to Extremes. Those who give credit ought to know that they injure both themselves and their debtors by undue leniency. Exact fulfillment of the contract is essential to the well-being of both parties. The creditor is injured by delay, for it keeps him short of cash, and makes it neces- sary to pay more for interest, or it causes the loss of what could be made by discounting bills. He is also injured by the increased and constantly grow- ing risk which delay brings, and further, by the certain and costly demoralization which follows as the consequence of all wrong methods. Business demoraliza- MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 3 tion is nowhere more apparent than in connection with this cause, The debtor is injured by the false feeling of restfulness and confidence which the leniency of his creditor en- genders, By this leniency he is taught to rely upon using what really belongs to another, but which has been left in his hands through a mistaken desire to accommodate. He is wronged by the demoralization which comes to him through false training. Further, he is injured by the temptation which is thus presented to be slack in pressing his own collections. Leniency upon his part toward debtors increases his business losses. Many instances are in mind where loans and discounts have been refused simply because the banker has perceived that the applicants, instead of borrowing money, should push his collections, In some instances the would-be borrower has susbequently expressed his gratitude for the refusal because the lesson _there- by taught resulted in saving of money. I recall an instance of too easy loaning by a bank to a retail butcher, which re- sulted in the borrower deliberately per- mitting customers’ bills to grow until they became so large that in many in- stances the temptation to default was too great to be resisted. The end was what might have been expected. The butcher lost heavily and finally falied. The bank lost its claim. It had loaned thousands where hundreds would have been a reasonable limit. Had it loaned only so much as was appropriate there would have been no failure upon the part of the butcher and no loss to the bank. A_ strong and firm adherence to contracts is essential to safety. Carrying leniency to extremes always means loss, and in many cases absolute ruin. E. S. CAMPBELL. ——-> + Danger Signal From Gotham. From the Minneapolis Commercial Bulletin. Retailers of merchandise should ob- serve the danger signal inthe East. The Siegel-Cooper department house in New York has made a radical departure by offering free delivery of all purchases of $5 or more to any railroad station in Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York and Pennsyl- vania, says a New York contemporary. By this step the retail merchants of an enormous expanse of territory are sub- jected to an urban competition as keen as that which many city dealers are compelled to endure. It does not seem fair to their smaller contemporaries, this reaching out of the bazars for some of the best cash trade in Lonelyville, N. Y., or the mosquito-haunted shades of Punkintown, N. J. As for the rural do- minions of King Quay of Pennsylvania, they will receive the news with almost as much sorrow as an announcement that a new ‘‘company store’’ had been opened in the neighborhood. In Mas- sachusetts, or to be more explicit, in Boston, a doubling of the price of beans could hardly cause as much consterna- tion, and in Vermont it’s enough to stop the flow. of the maple sap in its season. Here is the danger signal of 1808. New methods of retailing are creeping in and no one should make prophecies for the distant future. The country re- tailer needs to be wide awake if he in- tends to meet the competition that is closing in upon him. The supply houses and department store catalogues are doing their work on all sides. A woman who lives ina Minnesota town said this week to the writer: ‘‘I buy all my dress goods in Boston.’’ It is probably true that she buys a better quality of goods than her home merchants could provide her with, but in a general way she expressed the new tendency of buying. It will probably develop that many of these stores furnish their country patrons a poor quality of goods. Then very like- ly the pendelum may swing back to the makes in a year?”’ country retailer again. It is not the in- ‘* About $3,000. At least, I heard him “tg to sound an unnecessary alarm talking very eloquently in favor of put- ere, but rather to suggest tbe tendency : sn ia : ting a war tax on incomes above that of trade, looking ahead possibly twenty ‘aac years. i The fact to emphasize here is that re- tailers everywhere must be wideawake if they would hold their trade. ——__—~>-0 > Found a Way to Unload the Quarter. A man went into a_postoffice to change a $1o bill, and intended to buya few postage stamps. He received the stamps and change for the bill, and found among the silver a disreputable looking quarter that looked as though it had earned a well merited rest. He objected to receiving it, and was in- formed by the fairy at the window that it was perfectly good and must go. After arguing about it for some time, and facing anger on the part of the peo- ple waiting in line behind him, a happy thought struck him. Putting on one of his sweetest smiles, he told the young lady to give hima2cent stamp. The result was that the quarter remained in her possession and the man retired in triumph, Above His Limit. ‘IT wonder how much money Billpiers John G. Miller & Co., All Wool Clothing Chicago, Ill. o> &— Making Capital of the War. The war is furnishing many clever druggists with ideas for catching win- dow displays. Divers artistic ways of draping the National flag and making it to surround some line of goods to which it is desired to attract attention is per- haps the most favorite scheme. But there are many others. One ingenious druggist in an Eastern city made a flag whose stripes were composed of (red) bichromate of potassium and (white) alum, with a field of blue vitriol and stars of (white) alum. Another ob- I shall be at Sweet’s Hotel, Room 82, tained in some way one of the huge| Grand Rapids, Mich., Friday and Sat- carving knives employed by the Cu- urday, July 15 and 16, with a full line of bans, called by them *‘machetes,’’ and La : TT conspicuously hung this in his window, | Miller & Co.’s all wool clothing. explaining its character on a neat pla- S. T. BOWEN. card. LADIES’ ENTERPRISE Send in your orders for AND GENTS’ the latest styles, also ii co., SUMMER National Colors in Bows, BLOCK, | NECKWEAR. Clubs and Four-in-hands. GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. "SOR OK COR COR CK OOK “CO eh eh “ef 5% ‘fh ef “ef “ef GRIM IRIN INR MLM IMLS BS ESs 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. SR EGR EGR EGR SOR S08 SI SR SSR Se SS SS HS 4 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN _Around the State Movements of Merchants. Bad Axe—Vizneau & Kerr succeed I. Vizneau in the meat business. Brighton—Ira W. Case, of I. W. Case & Sons, general dealers, is dead. Kingston—W. T. English has sold his drug stock to F. A. Francis & Co. Union City—L. D. Johnson has sold his grocery stock to R. F. Watkins. Alpena—O. O. Black succeeds O, O. Black & Co. in the jewelry business. Hudson—Walter Odell has embarked in the bakery and restaurant business. St. Ignace —John Quame succeeds H. B. Cornell in the confectionery busi- ness, St. Louis—J. L. Buck & Co. have purchased the grocery stock of Phillip A. Throop Benton Harbor—Wm. Stahl, of Bu- chanan, has purchased the meat market of J. J. Miller. Benton Harbor—A. L. Smith & Co., furniture dealers, have dissolved, A. L. Smith succeeding. Marcellus—J. J. Nash & Co. succeed Goodrich & Nash in the drug, jewelry and book business. Coloma—Mrs. A. W. Willis has _pur- chased the restaurant and bakery estab- lishment of H. R. Pegg. Delton—W. B. Eldred has purchased the meat market of Chas. Hazel and will continue the business at the old_ stand. Boon—L. Root is closing his dry goods stock at this place and will devote his entire attention to his farming inter- ests. Lyons—E. N. Thayer has sold his drug stock to Melvin D. Patterson, who will continue the business at the same location. Allegan—H. L, Burton has purchased the grocery stock of DeLano & Co. and will continue the business at the same location, Memphis—The general stock former- ly owned by Jarvis & Co., inventoried at about $2,300, will be sold at public auction July 16. Holland—The Lokker & Rutgers Co. succeeds Lokker & Rutgers in the cloth- ing, men’s furnishing goods and boot and shoe business. Allegan—H. Coykendall has sold his stock of crockery and bazar goods to his brother, James Coykendall, who will re- move the stock to Bronson. Coloma—Frank W. Bryant has dis- posed of his interest in the Central bak- ery and cafe to Mrs. Paulina Johnson, who will continue the business. Lucas—Eppink & Taylcr, general dealers, are erecting a 24x50 foot addi- tion to their store building, which will be used as a dry goods departme nt. Montague—Harvey Morse has _pur- chased the interest of his partner in the drug stock of Hoffman & Morse and will continue the business at the same _loca- tion. Saginaw- Jas. H. Moore, of the King & Moore Co., grocers, has withdrawn from the company and removed to Vas- sar, where he wili engage in the manu- facture of butter. Flushing—Perry Bros. have re-en- gaged in the mercantile business, oc- cupying their own store building, which was recently vacated by Dillon & Pass- more, general dealers. Cass City—A. W. Seed has sold his drug stock to Amos Bond, who has been engaged in the drug business at Fair- grove for several years. Mr. Bond will also become local manager of the Moore telephone exchange at this place. Three Oaks—H. Messersmith has pur- chased the bakery and réstaurant busi- ness of Kubberness & Son. Marshall—R. A. O’Brien, the hay dealer, has accepted a position as gen- eral manager, with an interest in the business, for the firm of W. C. Bloom- ingdale & Co., New York. lonia—The Michigan (Bell) Tele- phone Co. has reduced the local resident service to $6 per year. Business houses are the same as before, $24, with one ‘phone free at the residence of each patron. Hillsdale—F. A. Hodges is now sole proprietor of the drug store formerly conducted under the name of F. A. Hodges & Co., having purchased the in- terest of his partner, B. Van Denberg, of Detroit. Linden—D. H. Power, of Pontiac, formerly Cashier of the State Bank of St. Johns, and B. R. Moore, of New Haven, formerly book-keeper in the same bank, will shortiy organize a bank at this place. Ypsilanti—F. H. Barnum is closing out his jewelry stock, preparatory to re- moving to Traverse City and engaging in the jewelry business with his for- mer partner, F. A. Earle. His store building will be occupied Aug. 1 by Horner Bros., shoe dealers. Manufacturing Matters. Algansee—Higby & Son succeed Higby Bros. in the flouring mill busi- ness. Menominee—Lindsey Bros. have es- tablished a large cedar yard at this place. They expect to handle at least 10,000 poles from this point this sum mer, Ludington—J. S. Stearns has pur chased 2,000,000 feet of lumber of the E. G. Filer stock at Washburn, and is shipping it to his yards at this place. He is also shipping considerable lum- ber from his mill at Odanah. Alpena—Churchill Bros. have pur- chased 10,900,000 feet of logs in the Georgian Bay district. The price paid is supposed to be in the neighborhood of $10 a thousand. The logs wili be rafted to Alpena to be manufactured. Manistee—Hemlock lath, which have been a drug on the market for the past two years, are now in excessive demand and short supply. In fact, it is impos- sible to get a hemlock lath anywhere in this region and anyone who had any on hand can get good money for them. Menominee—Raber & Watson, of Chicago, have decided to establish a lumber yard at this place and make this city their business headquarters. This firm handles a million and a half of rail- way ties, besides large quantities of posts, poles, etc., each year. A. V. Freeman will manage the business, Alpena—The Alpena Veneer Works is the title of another new manufacturing enterprise which will soon be launched here, under the personal supervision of the owner, J. C. Walker. The site of the new plant is at West Alpena, di- rectly across the Detroit & Mackinac Railroad track from the Alpena Spool Works. Ludington—Albert Vogel recently be- came the owner of two more mills. One of these is being operated by the Barn- bart Bros. It is located near Waiker- ville and is cutting about 35,000 cedar shingles per day. The product is all shipped to Ludington. The other mill is located in Eden township near Fern. Dee Baker has charge of this mill, which has a capactiy of about 30,000 feet a day. Bay City--The Michigan Chicory Co. has contracted with farmers in Bay, Tuscola, Huron and Saginaw counties for chicory root from 1,500 acres of land, to be delivered this fall. In order to handle the product, the factory is be- ing trebled in size. The new tariff has made the chicory business profitable. Coldwater—G. A. Cornell and W. H. Godfrey, of Colon, have made the busi- ness men of this city a proposition to organize a stock company for the pur- pose of manufacturing knit goods. A committee was appointed to investigate the propositiun made and make a report of same at a meeting to he called in the near future. Chesaning—The stockholders of the Stuart-Long Co. have voted to extend the corporate existence of the company ten years and will embark more exten- sively than before in the hoop, stave, log and lumber business. The capital stock is $12,000, equaily divided between Henry Stuart, E. T. Long and F. A. Greenfelder. —__+_> 2. —____ Great Boon for the Flour Millers. The following circular letter is being received by Michigan millers: Greensboro, N. C., July 7—We invite your attention to our mineraline, which is without a doubt the greatest existing discovery. There is no flour mill man who can afford not to use it, for several reasons: Your flour will be much whiter and nicer. It does not injure the flour in any way, is not at all injurious to the health, and by using mineraline you realize a margin of from $400 to $1,000 on each carload you use To secure a low freight rate, we mark it as “‘ship stuff.”’ We can furnish you mineraline free on buard cars, your Station, for high grade flour at $20 per ton, for medium grade flour at $16 per ton, for bread meal at $12 per ton and for feed meal at $8 per ton. For a high grade flour use 15 per cent. mineraline, for medium grade use 12 per cent. mineraline, for bread meal use 12 per cent. mineraline and tor feed meal use 18 per cent. mineraline. We fur- nish all our customers with a mixer free of charge This machine will distribute completely any proportion desired and ccsts nothing to attach. All you have to do isto bore a hole in your elevator pipe, clamp on the machine, attach a cord to run it, fill up the hopper and set the feed to the proportion desired. Enclosed find sample of our miner- aline for medium grade flour. You can not afford to let your compet- iter beat you in both quality and mar- gin. We would be glad to hear from you, YORK MANUFACTURING Co. —_—_—_»> 2. Cogent Reason Why the Telegraph Companies Should Pay the Tax. Holland, July 9 —I have read and agree with your sentiments as expressed in editorial in issue of July 6 about the at- tempted evasion of the stamp tax by the express Companies, and want to suggest that at the same time you should have touched up the Western Union Tele- graph Co, also. Very likely the Postal Telegraph Co. is in the same boat; but I do not know, as they do not operate here. I refer to the present attempt ot the Western Union Telegraph Co. to make the senders of messages pay the tax. There is no question but that the evident intent of the law was that the telegraph companies should stand this burden; and they have less reason to object to it than either railroad com- panies, express companies, or even tel- ephone companies, because the tele- graph companies are one of the few en- terprises which have been directly ben- efited by the war. I refer to the enor- mous increase in telegraph tolls earned by the telegraph companies in trans- mission of war news. C. J. DE Roo. Gillies New York Teas at old prices while they hold out. Phone Visner, 800. MORE MECHANICS WANTED. An Eastern paper remarked the othe day that the statement ‘‘more mechanics wanted’’ is heard on all sides among the recruiting officers. The situations and exigencies arising in the campaign of an army, particularly on foreign ter- ritory, it Seems, are constantly calling for mechanical knowledge and skill on the part of the soldiers in the ranks as well as among special branches of the service, The point of greatest interest, how- ever, drawn by the Eastern exchange mentioned, from this demand for me- chanical skill even in the matter of re- cruiting fighters is the widespread necessity and preponderating demand in all directions in these latter days for men with some practical knowledge cf mechanics. All the greatest under- takings of capital in the way of world- wide development are of sucha ma- terial character as to require the great bulk of help to be skilled in some de- partment of engineering and mechanics, rhis is an age of action rather than of reflection. Manual training is called oftener to assist in the work of progress than mere intellectual accomplishment, except as the latter is of a practical scientific character. It is for reasons such as these that the parents and guardians of our youth and the superintendents of public in- struction should begin to reform their educational methods, leaving the liter- ary and classical curriculum more and more to the colleges and universities, and substituting industrial, mechanical, manual or technical training more and more in the common school systems. The events now transpiring are point- ing to a new expansion of the influence and activities of the United States. Whether this new development shall take the form of a great territorial ex- tension and the transplanting of our marvelous American industry and ad- vance Civilization in remote corners of the globe, or confine itself to our present territory and along commercial lines, certain it is that the next quarter of a century will open up multiplied avenues of prosperous activity and numberless golden opportunities to the trained hand of American youth. While we hear so much said just now of having the Nation get out of the old ruts and assert itself as one of the world’s great powers, it is well to recog- nize the imperative necessity of shaping our educational systems to meet the new life and changing conditions. - >20 > When we come to discuss the indem- nity question with Spain, the main fac- tors in it will be these: The length of the war and the actual amount of our military and naval expenditures; the amount of damage directly inflicted up- on our trade and commerce; the extent of ihe losses of life on our side, and, finally, the value of any territory which we may insist upon taking away from Spain, which, according to precedents, will have to be treated as an offset to our bill of costs. —_—_—_9<_ The Bankruptcy Magazine should change its title, or change the picture on its title page, which is a colored _il- lustration of our flag, the ‘Star-Spangled Banner,’’ a National emblem which in no way suggests or is suggested by bankruptcy. ——_2>20.__. Remember the Maine! Those eleven hulks in Manila harbor and the remains of Cervera’s proud fleet at Santiago are reminders Spain will not forget. sano MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 5 Grand Rapids Gossip The Grocery Market. Sugar—There has been no change in refined sugars since May 25—a period of seven weeks—which is the longest time the market has remained stationary for over a quarter of a century. The mar- ket is strong, because the refiners are oversold on several grades, and an ad- vance within the next few days would not be surprising. There will hardly be any decline in any event. Tea—The retail trade seems to be very fairly supplied with old teas, ex- cept the low price goods. They were exhausted some time ago in jobbers’ hands, and persumably in_ retailers’ hands. The jobbers here are about cleaned out of At grades of old teas, so that the movement of teas is limited at the present. The dangers of war on the commerce of the seas are now so little that the increased freights and_ insur- ance will cut little if any figure in the price of the season’s teas. Nothing but the new revenue tax will make prices this year higher than last. Coffee—The retail trade seems not yet to have consumed the surplus stocks it took in before the advance, and with no activity in the market there is no further inducement to buy for future needs. The crop of Brazils is excessive, in spite of recent reports of a shrinking of the crop. Other coffees are not too ample for the demand, but demand for them is light as compared with Brazils. Canned Goods—Large Government purchases of tomatoes have been made and these have advanced the market in the West to about $1.20 per dozen. The Eastern market has not responded as yet, and is fully 15c under the Western price. This difference can hardly con- tinue. If the Government continues to purchase, tomatves will likely do better. The consuming demand is fair. Nothing is doing in future tomatoes, which rule at unchanged prices. Spot corn con- tinues quiet, with the demand small. Buying is only for immediate necessi- ties, and prices are unchanged. Peas are in very light demand, at no further advance. Dried Fruits—The crop of apricots this season is not to be large, nor are the sizes to be as good as in the normal season. Frost and drouth have done great damage to the apricot crop, more comparatively, than to any other item in the West Coast fruit line. This is an inactive season for raisins, but the price, although comparatively low, is steady. The seeded raisin is out of the market for the hot weather, it being a cold weather fruit. The demand for dried and evaporated apples has been steady all the season, although light because of the high price of the fruit. Prunes are steady at former quotations. There is no change in the price of for- eign dried fruits. Syrups and Molasses—From ll ap- pearances the grocery trade is getting out of conceit of straight sugar syrup, because there is much less of this used than of the mixed variety. The recent heavy importations of beet sugar will probably make lots of beety syrup soon. Very little is doing in molasses, which rules at unchanged prices. Provisions—The demand for smoked meats is improving, although prices re- main unchanged. Most jobbers are sat- ished with present conditions, and are not anxious to make changes in prices until warranted by a more active market than is at present prevailing. The weakest thing in the list at present is lard, which is still accumulating, and packers are anxious to move it, even to the extent of shading prices. There is very little enquiry for compound lard, on account of the present low prices of the pure. Tobacco—The revision of the internal revenue law has made it necessary to make over all the packages of tobacco to smaller sizes, so that the packages may be sold at the price of the old packages. The two-ounce package selling at 5 cents will hereafter contain 124 ounces, and the four-ounce will con- tain 3% ounces. The plugs will have fewer cuts and the entire packaging of goods will have to be made over. The old packages now on hand will soon be sold out, but the factories will be crowded to get out the new packages. Cereals—Rolled oats has declined 15 @2oc per barrel. The movement is very fair. No other change in cereals is reported. +2 Famous as a Fruit Farmer. Charles W. Garfield, President of the Grand Rapids Savings Bank, is a farm- er as well as a financier, and as between being known as a good farmer and as a good banker, rather takes the more pride in the former reputation. His farm is on the other side of Burton avenue, just beyond the city line. It comprises about 60 acres, and there isn’t an acre in the lot that Mr. Garfield does not know all about and that he hasn’t trod over. He grows a full line of vegetables, but bis specialty, pride and joy is fruit, and his fruit is of all kinds. He has berries and currants, peaches, pears, apples and cherries, grapes, mulberries and chestnuts and there isn't a vine, bush or tree on his plantation that he does not personally know. He looks after his farm himself, superintends the oper- ation,and directs the planting and reap- ing, but the hard work he delegates to hired men. The farm is a money maker as well asa pleasant recreation and in its way is a model. For two weeks past Mr. Garfield has been gathering his cherries. He has a nice little cherry orchard down toward the end of his acres and it will yield upwards of 300 bushels when the last of the trees has been picked. When visitors have called at the Garfield mansion they have been steered toward the cherry orchard and all that they have been able to eat has been theirs. One little patch of six acres on the farm, located the farthest from the house, is Mr. Garfield’s espe- cial pride. It is planted to forest trees and all varieties are included. The trees are still young, but they are grow- ing rapidly, and the forest patch is a miniature jungle in the midst of civili- zation. It is intended to let the trees grow and see what will become of them and how they will develop. > 0. No diminution in the use of checks has yet been noticed at the banks by reason of the stamp tax. This is due, in part, perhaps, to the patriotism of check drawers, and more to a failure to realize what the stamp will cost in the course of time. For many years checks have been used with the utmost free- dom and it is like breaking away from an old friend to do business on a cash basis now. The decline in the use of checks for the payment of small amounts will be gradual, but in banking circles it is figured there will be a marked dropping off a month hence, as com- pared with the present volume of check business, Evidences of Prosperity Seen on the Market. To see the naturalness with which venders and buyers adapt themselves to their surroundings on the island market one would suppose that that institution had had an existence of many years in- stead of being the creation of barely one. The numbers patronizing it have exceeded by a considerable the attend- ance on the street markets of the early seasons in the past, and guarantee the assertion that the opening of the more metropolitan accommodations marks an era in the history of the market busi- ness of the city. While the architectural features of the institution leave much to be desired, and to be supplied in future years, there is a decided improvement over the lack of all accommodation in the old street markets The hay and other sheds were found sufficiently commodious for the requirements of the stormy season and they afford a slight suggestion of protection from the chill morning winds, although for most of the market the effect is principally confined to the imagination. Speaking of chill reminds that it is unusual to see the venders shivering in wraps ona mid-July morning, such as Monday. Many of the gardeners com- plained that the frost had materially in- terfered with their plans, although the areas affected were limited and confined to the lowest lands. A stroll through the market will im- press the observer with the fact that there is taking place a decided im- provement in the degree of prosperity manifest on the part of the average country vender. Ill-fed horses are sel- dom seen and, while some of the vehi- cles are not yet models of elegance, there is a decided improvement over the appearance presented on the street market of two or three years ago. Of course, the explanation is to be found in the general improved conditions. The earlier year named was yet in the depths of the panic depression and _ re- turns from the market sales were dis- tressingly small. The year following was a year of abundant harvests, espe- cially of fruit, but there was yet so little money 1n circulation, with so much con- servatism in buying, that the effect in appreciable prosperity was smali. Last year marked a material advance, which the present bids fair to outstrip. Sales are more general and mere liberal, al- though at times many prices are exceed- ingly small; so on the whole producers are getting sufficient returns to enable them to improve their surroundings and equipments everywhere, and of course this in turn reflects in increased trade all around. Changes of this kind are so gradual that they are apt to pass_un- noticed, so that an era of prosperity is scarcely recognized, while its opposite is always sufficiently apparent. +> e<- The Produce Market. Apples—75c per '% bu. crate of Illi- nois. Home grown command about $1 per bu., but all receipts so far have been small, green and otherwise infe- rior. Beets—New, 15c per doz. bunches. Biackberries—$1.25 per crate of 16 qts. for home grown. Butter—Creamery is strenger and higher, local dealers having advanced their quotations to 16%c. Fancy dairy is very scarce, and has advanced to 13@ 14c. Packing stock is not as plentiful as it has been, but the price is no higher. Cabbage—Home grown is in supply at 50@6oc_per doz. large Celery—18@2oc per bunch. Carrots—1o@15c per doz. bunches. Cauliflower—$1.25 per doz. heads for Illinois stock. Cheese— Michigan makers have ad- vanced their quotations 4@I1c, in con- sequence of which the jobbers have been compelled to make corresponding changes in their prices Cherries—Red are so plentiful and cheap that the market is glutted, choice stock going at 75c@$1.25 per bu., ac- cording to quality. White and Black are in only moderate supply, command- ing $1.50@2 per bu. Cocoanuts—4@5c. Cucumbers—4o0@45c per doz. for home grown. The dry weather is curtailing the growth of out-door cukes to that ex- tent that dealers are depending maiuly on hothouse stock. Eggs—Local dealers pay careful ship- pers 9c on track, holding case count at loc and candled at ric. Gooseherries—Slow sale at 4o@5oc per crate of 16 qts. Green Onions—10o@15c per doz, ac- cording to size. Green Peas—7o@8oc per bu. for home grown Marrowfats. Honey—Comb is_ out. of _ stock. Strained in moderate supply and limit- ed demand at 2c. Lemons—There is no change in the market quotations, although prices are very firm. The Fourth of July trade devoloped very large on lemons, but the supplies of both Messinas and Califor- niaS were ample, and the movement for the holiday trade was very large. Lettuce—4oc per bu. for head and 25c¢ per bu. for common Muskmelons—Little Gems command $1 per basket of about 20. Osage fetch $1.50 per crate of a dozen. Onions—$1 per bu. for Mississippi and $1.25 per bu. for California. Oranges—-New late Valencias are on the market, but Tangerines are not to be had. The movement is very good, hav- ing been heavy for the Fourth of July trade. No changes in price are to be noted. Pineapples—Floridas, $1@1.50_ per doz. Pop Corn—Soc per bu. Potatoes -Home grown stock is com- ing in freely and in quantities nearly sufficient to meet the consumptive and shipping demands of this market. The price hovers around 8oc, but will prob- ably go lower before the end of the week Radishes—toc per doz. bunches. Raspberries—Black fetch 50@75c per 16 qt. case. Red command $1 for 12 qt. and $1.25 for 16 gt. case. Tomatoes —60@7oc per 4 basket crate. Wax Beans —75c per bu Watermelons -—18@2oc choice Georgia stock. ee Not Bad For an English Joke From the Chemist and Druggist. ‘‘A man came into my shop the cther day for a pound of sulphur. I charged him a shilling for it.’’ ' You aid. ”’ ‘*T should think I did. what he said?’’ ‘*What did he say?’’ ‘“‘He said he could get it from In- man’s for twopence a ton. Do you know what I said?’’ ‘What did you say?’’ ‘‘T told him to go to the place where sulphur could be got for nothing.’’ a a New York Pea Pack Deficient. Reports regarding the New York State pea pack are somewhat conflicting, some stating that the outlook is very good, while others are to the effect that in consequence of unfavorable weather to the present time the pack will fall con- siderable short of that of last year. Some packers estimate the decrease at 25 per cent., and others state that the ouptut will be at least one-third short. oO Just Like a Boy. ‘*We told little Dick he could choose his own birthday present.”’ ‘What did he choose?’’ ‘*He said he would take a soda foun- tain and a base drum.’’ apiece for Do you know 6 MICHIGAN TRADESMAIN Woman’s World The Homely Woman to the Front To the homely woman who has not yet attained to the spiritual heights where she can calmly contemplate another be- ing preferred before her, it has always appeared that entirely too much of a fetich is made of mere beauty. There are other things, you know, and it has seemed to her unjust and unkind that good looks should be esteemed the most desirable quality in a woman and be the one thing she can invariably depend on to smooth the path of life and excuse and atone for all other lacks and_ short- comings. Of course, there are those who will unthoughtedly deny this assertion, but the slightest observation will prove its truth. The beauty always has things her way from the very first. She never has to struggle for her rights. Privileges are presented to her on a silver salver. She reigns a queen in her own family and men make the most invidious dis- tinctions between her and her ugly sis- ters. The pretty woman who enters a crowded car never has to wait fora seat. Some man jumps up and gives her one with alacrity. The beautiful woman might have a dozen if she chose, and the men who gave them to her would stand and ecstatically beam upon her, but let a bard-featured lady of uncertain age come in and she either clings toa strap or the man who relinquishes his seat to her does so with the air and ex- pression of one of the early Christian martyrs. In business, where nothing but ability is supposed to count, it is, nevertheless, the pretty young girls who are in demand for typewriters and stenographers and clerks, not the plain, middle-aged women, who, one might reasonably suppose, would be more set tled and satisfactory. It is the same thing all the way through. The ugly woman who weeps is told not to make a goose of herself, but a man never knows how sorry he can feel for a fel- low-creature in distress until he sees a pretty woman in tears, The truth of the matter is that women are so well aware of this they simply don't dare to be ugly. It is this that makes them keep up the pathetic sem- blance of youth long after age has marked them for its own. It is this that makes them the prev of the com- plexion specialist, the hair dye artist and the beautifier fakirs generally. Talk about men’s rights! There is no other right that woman envy them so_persist- ently and entirely and sincerely as the right to be as ugly as nature made them and to look as old as they really are. The right to vote sinks into innocuous desuetude beside the blessed privilege of not having to squeeze a 28-inch waist into a pair of 23-inch stays, and the de- lights of a latch key would be swallowed up in the overwhelming joy of throwing away curling tongs and crimping pins and wearing the straight locks with which it pleased an Inscrutable Provi- dence to afflict her. For consider that the natures of men and women are materially the same. The ugly and the beautiful are endowed with just the same desire for society and pleasure and lovemaking. The girl with pale green freckles and carroty hair and a snub nose is just as anxious to be amused and entertained as is her broth- er similarly afflicted, but with this difference—no man, except upon com- pulsion, will invite her to dance with him or stroll with him, while her broth- er is welcomed with effusion at parties and picnics and hops and functions,and so long as he is agreeable his looks cut no ice, even at asummer resort. Can any one imagine a woman with a fat neck and a hald head being in eager demand as a partner at balls? Yet we continually see the undisguised delight of women in such men’s society, and rightly, for they may have charms of mind and heart that would make an Adonis sink into insignificance. Who ever saw a middle-aged man_ being massaged for wrinkles or physical cul- tured for scrawniness in order that he might retain the affections of his mid- dle-aged wife? Nobody! And yet there is nothing funnier nor more pathetic than the sight of a class of middle-aged mar- ried women solemnly hopping around on one foot or religiously swaying back- ward or forward, trying to keep young and sylph-like for some John who doesn't care a rap how he looks to them. In reality we demand the impossible of women. We expect them to be pretty whether they are or not, and so the poor creatures pinch and pad and paint and powder and martvrize themselves, and if they are not reasonably successful get laughed at for their efforts afterall their sufferings. Then think what mendacity this ideal of good looks calls for. No matter what else a woman does, she is bound to be good looking, too. Look at the ordinary sketch of a woman’s achievements. She has written a book or painted a picture or been elected president of a railway, or saved a life —anything —but she is always bound to be young and beautiful besides in the description. No biographer would dare to leave that out, although we know well enough, as a general thing, that it is only homely women who do things. But we are bound to have that sop to the conventional idea that no matter what her achievements, a woman couldn't be really interesting unless she were pretty. It is possible, of course, that in time we may outgrow this unreasonable theory that all the petting and the perquisites should go to the beautiful, and the homely woman may yet get her innings. A straw that seems to indicate that the wind is setting in that direction is the fact that one man, with Dewey-Hobson- like courage, has come out and cham- pioned the cause of the plain woman. It is Ex-Senator Nash, of Wisconsin, and he protests against a young and handsome woman being selected to christen the new battleship Wisconsin, now nearing completion. He says, and he sticks to it, that the member of her sex most appropriate for doing the bot tle act at the briny baptism is not some feted and spoiled beauty, but a Wiscon- sin schoolmarm with freckled face and tip-tilted nose, who has warmed the jackets of some of the boys who will man the new battleship. And the honorable gentleman is just dead right. It is not the beautiful wom- en who know how to dress exquisitely, who can spend half a day manicuring their nails and whose cheek no rude wind must touch, who have helped in the upbuilding of the new states. It is the plain girls who had no complexion that required taking care of, whose hands were not too soft and white to do an honest day’s hard work, and who hustled out and taught school or milked the cows or drove the harvesters when help was scarce or did whatever else was necessary without stopping to think about their looks; and it is time a few bouquets were thrown their wav. After all, although we don’t make _ so much fuss over her, it is the plain girl to whom we owe the more. It is to her that we turn in times of trouble. She always knows what to do and what to say. The beauty is too much absorbed in contemplating her own perfections to be able to waste much sympathy on others, and we never think of going to ber with our heartaches. It is the plain girl who watches by our sick bed with sodden eyes and pallid cheeks; it is she who, if necessary, can cook a dinner, or if need be, and when losses come to her family, can go out into the world and make a living; it is she, as sweetheart or wife, who can be depended upon to stand by a man through thick and thin, doing her part, and never complaining if there is a lack of luxuries or things don’t come her way. In a word, she is just the plain, everyday woman who is not too good for human nature s daily food—the kind of a woman we know best as mother, sister, wife, and whose dear face is never plain to us, because we see it glorified by love. Dorotuy Dix. —-- > ¢—>- — The hog may be a squealér, but he never gives anything away. AVP AL ALAND AL ALIN GALS A HEAVY LOAD \ Is carried by the merchant when he undertakes to handle the credit transactions cf his establishment by means of pass books or other equally antiquated methods. The Strain is immediately lessened, however, when he adopts the Cou- pon Book System and places his credit transactions on a cash basis. We make four kinds of Coupon Books and cheerfully send samples free on application. TRADESMAN COMPANY, GRAND RAPIDS. A An improvement over all others. it throws a spray either up or down. 260 South Ionia Street, —— Does work that no other Sprayer can, as of Small Fruit Trees, Vines and Plants. as to reach every part of the tree or plant with one action. Very econom- ical, as it saves enough compound in one day to pay for itself. Tank holds enough to spray 600 to 800 hills of potatoes. Full directions and formulas for using furnished with each sprayer. Wim. Brummeler & Sons., Little Giant Sprayer i Just the thing for spraying all kinds Throws a mist with such force Manufactured only by Grand Rapids, Mich. 0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-:0-0-0-0-0:0-0-0-0-0-000000-00 DON’T GEF WET When in want of a new roof or repairs you Can save money by employing skilled mechanics in this line. We have representatives covering the State of Michigan regularly, ~nd if you have a defective roof, drop us a card and we will call on you, examine your roof and give you an estimate of the cost of necessary repairs or putting on new roof. Remember that we guarantee all our work and our guarantee is good. H. M. REYNOLDS & SON, PRACTICAL ROOFERS, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. ESTABLISHED 1868. 0600-0-0-0-0 eve Everything in the Plumbing Line Everything in the Heating Line Be it Steam, Hot Water or Hot Air. Mantels, Grates and Tiling. Galvanized Work of Every Description. Largest Concern in the State. WEATHERLY & PULTE, 99 Pearl St., Grand Rapids ee —— MEN OF MARK. David Holmes, Manager Mitchell Bros.’ Store at Jennings. David Holmes was born at N. Y., Sept. 20, 1854. His father and mother were born in the north of Ire- land, being a mixture of English and Scotch stock. When he was 5 years old his parents removed from Syracuse, lo- cating at Otisco, N. Y., where David attended school until 13 years of age. Later on he went to schoo! winters and worked at truck gardening summers, subsequently attending the academy at Onondaga Valley, being the youngest academic pupil in the institution. His first employment was with Francis Hen- dricks, of Syracuse, manufacturer of picture frames and photo materials. He remained with this house six years, learning the business and working in the wholesale department. He after- wards took charge of the retail depart- ment and then went on the road for a Syracuse, year, covering New York, Eastern Ohio, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. From this position he was promoted to the management of the wholesale depart- ment, which he held two years, when his health broke down and he took up his residence in the country for a_ year. In the spring of 1881 he came West, stopping for a time in Detroit and after- wards at McBride’s, finding employment the same season with the West Michi- gan Lumber Co. at Park City. He afterwards had charge of the store of Brewer & Brewer at West Troy, and a year later took a clerkship in the West Michigan Lumber Co.’s store at Wood- ville. He remained there a few months, when he was given the management of the company’s Park City store. The same season he was transferred to their Woodville store, and one year later was given the management of the company’s three stores, remaining in that capacity for ten years. On the retirement of this company from trade he took the man- agement of the general store of the Elk Rapids Iron Co., where he remained four years, and about eighteen months ago he took charge of the general store of Mitchell Bros. at Jennings, which position he still holds. Mr. Holmes was married June 26, 1894, to Mrs. Sarah McGregor, of Elk Rapids, and is the happy father ofa daughter 2% years old. He isa mem- ber of all of the Masonic bodies, includ- ing tbe Shrine, and is also affiliated with the Elks, I. O. O. F. and Foresters. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN While not a member of any church, he has always been a persistent supporter of church work, and while at Woodville assisted very materially in the erection and maintenance of the Methodist Epis- copal Church at that place. Mr. Holmes attributes his success to system and hard work. The stores of the West Michigan Lumber Co., while under his management, were models of neatness and order, and it was a com- mon remark among traveling men _ that they could tell whether Mr. Holmes was in town or not by sticking their heads in the door. He takes great pride in his present position, believing that the trade of the store at Jennings is capable of ex- pansion far beyond its present scope and capacity. Green Vegetable Display. From the New York Merchants’ Review. The problem of the indoor display of fresh vegetables and fruits has been suc- cessfully solved by a number of grocers with ample show- window facilities. One dealer of this class, who has a corner store with a window on the main thoroughfare at least a dozen feet wide, has his display of green stuff arranged on a level with the bottom of the win- dow, inside, the counter on which the goods are arranged being about two feet deep. The goods can be seen from the sidewalk as plainly as though they were outside, and can be reached by the clerk or customer as easily as in the old way. The store front gains by the change, being much more attractive than when covered for a height of several feet with baskets and boxes of green stuff arranged in tiers. More store room is required, of course, than when the vegetables and fruits are exposed to the outer air, or when they are huddled together at one end of the store, but the effect is so pleasing that we believe the few ex- amples will be followed by the trade generally before very long. PF Oe Good Florida Orange tea. The drought has probably cut down the Florida orange crop one-third to one-half below what it was expected the crop would be. At one time the yield of the groves this year was estimated at between 750,000 and _ 1,000,000 boxes, but the long continued dry weather caused a great quantity of the fruit to drop, and it is now believed that the crop will be in the neighborhood of a half million boxes. Growers expect fancy prices, though, and are far from being disheartened. The Florida orange- growing industry is making steady headway again. It will be a decade or more, though, before the crop reaches the magnitude of the year or two just preceding the great freeze. A crop of a million boxes, though, may be expected any year now, with fairly good weather conditions. a The Missouri Apple Crop. Apples will be scarce this year, says the President of the State Horticultural Society of Missouri. The crop is now gone on the old trees. The prospect for apples early in the season was good, with the exception of the Ben Davis and Johnson varieties. These varieties bore beautifully last year and exhausted their nutriment. They did not bloom this year. At the time the fruit buds should have formed last year it was very dry and the trees lacked vitality to form them. Extremecold and damp weather this spring prevented those which did form from maturing. There will bea larger crop in the eastern than in the western part of the State. The peach crop will be spotted, dependent on alti- tude and exposure. . ee — the Programme cna * What’s the matter, little Dick?’’ **Say, Mr. Higby, why don’t you bring my_ sister more candy an’ not so many roses?’’ —____~ 2. 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WEDNESDAY, - - = JULY 13, 1898. PROBLEM OF THE PHILIPPINES. When the negotiations for peace com- mence, the Philippines will loom into prominence as the most serious problem confronting this country. What to do with the islands is a most embarrassing question, and yet it is a question that must be answered,and it would be much better were it answered before the war terminates and the European powers de- mand a voice in the settlement. It is perfectly clear that the Philip- pine Islands can never be returned to Spain, and it is evident that it would be impossible for her to again govern them without the adoption of repressive measures, for which this country would not care to be even indirectly respon- sible. It is equally clear that the insur- gents can not be permitted to retain control of the islands, as they are utter- ly incapable of self-government, and life and property would not be safe under a regime controlled by them. There are only three plans open for consideration: One is the retention and government of the islands by this coun- try ; the second 1s a joint administration by the powers interested in the Far East, and, thirdly, the sale of the is- lands to some other power. Any of these plans presents formidable difficul- ties, but they are difficulties which must be faced. If we do not want the islands ourselves, it would be better to sell them to Great Britain than to any other power, for the reason that she is better able to defend the purchase than any of the others, and, secondly, because, un- der British control, trade would be practically, if not actually, free: wbhere- as, under the control of any of the Euro- pean powers, freedom of trade would be destroyed. The reports from Washington to the effect that President McKinley contem- plates calling a conference of the powers interested in the Far East, for the pur- pose of settling satisfactorily the Philip- pines question, are calculated to do much harm, as they will give these pow- ers a pretext for interfering in our affairs. It would bea serious mistake to consult any of the powers in arran- ging a settlement of our dispute with Spain. If President McKinley asks the powers to confer, he will never be able to get rid of them, and they may use the Philippines problem as an entering wedge to bring about an international conference on the whole question of the peace settlement. It is announced that the insurgents proclaimed a republic on July 1 and will ask that the United States recognize this republic and assume a protectorate over it. It is to be hoped that the adminis- tration will do nothing of the sort. These natives have not the least idea of a free government, and this country could not possibly assume responsibility for the acts of any such administration as the insurgents would be likely to estab lish. It would be better by far to return the islands to Spain in return for a cash indemnity. From present indications, it looks very much as if we would have to discipline the insurgents when we have finished with Spain. WE WERE JUST IN TIME. Since the United States has tested the mettle of the Spanish soldier in Cuba and obtained a correct insight into the strength of the Spanish positions, and the weakness and starving condition, on the other hand, of the Cubans, it is very apparent that it would have been im- possible for the insurgents ever to win their freedom without our help. We were all deceived by reports from Cuba that reached us before the war Le- gan and are forced to revise our con- clusions as to the chances that then existed for Cuban success. Garcia's straggling soldiers came to our lines naked, without arms and in the last stages of starvation. It is fair to assume that Gomez’ troops are in the same pitiable plight, and efforts ought to be at once made to assist them as we have assisted those around Santiago. The Spaniards held the towns in force, had access to the sea for food and military supplies, had the country covered with block houses that the Cubans could never have taken and were in a position to maintain their hold upon the island indefinitely. That the stories of Cuban successes over such troops as met Shafter’s des- perate fighters at Santiago with a brav- ery and stubbornness that have chal- lenged our admiration were baseless is now easy to believe. Only an unim- portant guerilla skirmish ever furnished the Cubans with a victory—or else they outnumbered their opponents four or five to one. Our admiration for the Cubans must rise in proportion as we recognize their then desperate, hopeless situation and their still unflinching determination never to surrender or quit the unequal combat for freedom! Naked, helpless, facing slow but certain starvation and the utter annihilation of their race, they clung to the chaparral thickets and mountain ravines with a self-sacrificial patriotism that is worthy of the world’s praise. They may be cruel and igno- rant and show up badly by the side of regularly organized armies, but they have exhibited much of the stuff of which heroes are made. The circumstances as now disclosed demonstrate the fact that our interfer- ence in the interest of humanity was none too soon. The Spaniards were by one means and another slowly extermi- nating the Cuban race. The ruin of the fair island was complete and such crime was in progress as called for the inter- position of justice and civilization to stop it. We stepped in just in time to prevent the Spaniard from counting his victims by the million instead of by the hundred thousand! It is to-day a proud distinction to be an American, much to the disgust of American snobs abroad who are trying to imitate worthless characters of other nations, WAR A MECHANICAL SCIENCE. Among the many lessons taught by the present war is the fact that the elements which governed success in former days must now take a secondary place or be discarded by the modern student of mil- itary science. Thus in the Middle Ages personal dash and individual ferocity were accounted the essential and princi- pal qualifications tor successful warfare. Growing out of this primitive condi- tion, which was not far removed from the strategy of the brute creation, came the science of concerted movements which characterized the European wars of the last and the beginning of this century. In the present struggle one of the con- testants has preserved in a considerable degree the characteristics of the early days of modern warfare. In the dis- cussion as to the seriousness of the task we were undertaking it was stated that Spain was a nation of warriors, with the hereditary courage and training of many centuries, while we were essen- tially a people of peace, principally gathered from the ‘‘sbop’’ people of the world; also that, in accordance with her inherited traits and prestige, she was ready to bring into the field large forces of drilled armies and vast mili- tary, and especially naval, armaments. And, as these comprised the most mod- ern and effective types of weapons that had ever been employed or tried in warfare, the beginning of the contest could not fail to bring us some. serious disasters, especially on the sea. It is interesting to enquire as to the reasons why these predictions have been disappointed. It has been suffi- ciently shown that the qualities attribu- ted to the Spaniards have been mani- fested in an eminent degree. In brav- ery and the traditional fighting qualities they have met every expectation, as has been abundantly demonstrated by the terrible destruction to which they have submitted in every battle. So it is nec essary to look elsewhere for the explan- ation of the fact that the most phenom- enal success has attended our arms from the first, and that in all naval contests there bas been almost no loss to us. In the earlier American wars it has been often stated, and no doubt correct- ly, that the remarkable success attend ing the efforts of troops, with little skill according to the accepted requirements, is to be attributed to the superior marks- manship resulting from frontier life. The fact that in the small development of mechanical industry the country was almost wholly dependent upon European workshops for arms would indicate that the efficiency was not to be attributed to superiority of equipment; but there is little doubt that there was early pro- duced by the necessities of frontier life and Indian warfare a degree of mechan- ical skill and accuracy greater than that possessed by any other nation, and _ this skill had much to do with the creation of the Yankee ingenuity which has been the revolutionizing factor in modern in- dustry. A higher development of mechanical accuracy in the handling of weapons has been the remarkable feature of every American war, and upon it has seemed to turn the question of success in all cases when the contests were with other nations, and when the antagonism was with our -own people, the military science of the world was the most com- pletely revolutionized. Thus from time to time whenever we have entered the arena of strife we have taken occasion to demonstrate a new statement of. military science, relegating the arms and methods of other nations to the ob- solete past. The explanation, then, of the aston- ishing success of our arms in the contest with the Spaniards, with the phenome- nal immunity from injury to ourselves, is to be attributed to our higher attain- ment in mechanical science. While other nations have maintained large armies and navies and bave perfected themselves in the existing military sys- tems, we have been training, in every workshop, an army of mechanics, which on occasion turns their wisdom to fool- ishness. The Spaniards came into this conflict with a formidable navy, pro- vided with the most powerful artillery and protected with the best of modern armor. Impartial critics of the situa- tion, especially among English authori- ties, in comparing the available strength of the two nations, could see nothing but failure for us until we could develop the requisite naval, and military, power. It is a revelation to such critics to see the swift destruction of the Spanish Goliahs by the weapons of the American Davids. It is not alone that the American gun- ners have proven themselves superior marksmen, but it is the mechanical] skill manifested in all parts of the service. The Spanish vessels were provided with the most powerful, modern machinery, but Spanish warriors could not be trained into competent engineers; and mercenaries of other nations, when they were possessed of more mechanical ability, could not be depended upon when the need came. In the handling of the American vessels and machinery there has been shown the highest of trained mechanical skill. The engines and apparatus were kept in such condition that in actual use the efficiency and quickness came very near the best experimental and theoretical service, Auxiliary apparatus, steering machinery, etc., were all made the most effective by the same means, so that when a signal of any kind was given the response was almost equal to the quickness of thought. The same me- chanical accuracy, with the highest at- tainment in projectile science, chara- terized the management of the guns, and in all this there was manifested a development of skill which was a reve- lation to the world, The English critics are awakening to the fact that their own naval armament has become obsolete, and the present contest seems likely to create a greater change in military science than any which bas preceded it. The day of brute force and blustering bravado in war, even when attended by genuine bravery, is past, although in the new regime there is none the less call for courage. The intellectual de- velopment necessarily attending the at- tainment of so great scientific ability assures the highest type of real heroism, and the present contest, while showing such a marvel of mechanical efficiency, is no less wonderful in the great num- ber of instances of personal daring, which will form the theme of story for years to come. —_—$$__________. Spain is anxious for peace if she can have it on her own terms. After what she has done, she should consider her- self lucky if allowed to live as a nation. ee More terrible than war for the defense of a nation is the loss of hundreds of lives intrusted to a peaceful steamer for safe carriage across the ocean. Heroes are becoming so grand and popular that the commanding general of the army wants to be one. ~~ MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 9 BANK TAXATION. How Financial Interests are Discrimi- nated Against. At the institution of the National banking system in 1864 and 1865, the rebellion was nearing its end and the country was trying to look its far-reach- ing results in the face. The National debt had assumed immense and un- wieldy proportions. The demand for founding and systematizing it was im- perative. Secretary Chase saw in the establishment of the National banking system a means to that end and had been working incessantly with Congress for more than two years for its accom- plishment. The great inflation of values by the Government’s immense issue of promises-to-pay sometime and some- how caused an appearance of great pros- perity. Enormous taxes were being lev- ied in every direction and on every- thing taxable. For the most part they were cheerfully and easily paid. Bank- ing, with the great volume of its busi- ness and the high rates of interest, was exceedingly profitable. The National banking law provided for the collection of 1 per cent. per an- num on the average circulation of banks and for one-half of 1 per cent. on de- posits and that portion of capital not in- vested in United States bonds. In 186s, the first successful year of the system, the receipts from National banks were about two millions, and they increased with each succeeding year until in 1882, the last complete one before the repeal of the last two items, when they were more than nine millions. State banks, under the internal revenue law, paid the same rate on their capital and de- posits as National banks. I have not the receipts from this source by years, but the total for the entire time, 1865 to 1883, was about sixty-nine millions, or about one-half the amount received from National] banks for the same time. The Nationai bank was a recent ex- perimental creature of the Government and in every way a successful one and the tax was not especially burdensome or inequitable. It became so, however, before it was repealed. The ability to lévy and collect a tax directly, without a protest on the part of the payor, must depend first on its fair- ness and equity, and in ordinary times it must be so moderate as not to be op- pressive. Iam speaking, of course, of republican conditions. On an extraor- dinary occasion, demanding an extraor- dinary tax, its need must be such as to inspire the patriotic instinct which en- dures all things—nearly. Such was the case at the time of the civil war and such is the case toa great extent now. The theory of taxation has not, like many questions in political economy, been reduced to ascience. No doubt there is a right and a wrong way in tax- ation, but advocates of the various theories—except, perhaps, as relate to protection and free trade—have not reached the dignity of a school. The minister of finance to Louis XIV.,when asked for his method, replied: ‘*‘The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to secure the largest amount of feathers with the least amount of cackle.*’ Bankers are not noted for the unnecessary noise they make in their vocation. Perhaps if they were more assertive they would be the subject of fewer injustices, and I sometimes won- der how far modern methods are an im- provement on those of the seventeenth century. On what principle in politi- cal economy is the most sensitive of all trades selected as an object of especial taxation, at a time when everything de- pends on the ability of the banker to do his part well,except that he is a reticent fellow who just saws wood? One says: ‘‘The banker is a servant of the people; be waxes fat at his neigh- bor’s crib and should pay for an espe- cial privilege.’ In what respect is the business of banking an especiai priv- ilege? The methods of the National bank are regulated by the Nation, and those of the state bank by the state; this regulation gives them a certain. credit— a certain prestige they might not other- wise have. This gives the patron of the bank a certain assurance for the safety of his money he might not otherwise have—safety which the singling of a bank for especial taxation, or any other method of persecution, tends to destroy. There is nothing in the law of Nation or state that prevents who will from doing a banking business, provided he have money and credit or some other means of getting the confidence of his fellows. There is nothing in the law to prevent any association of men from organizing a state or National bank, if they can raise the capital and convince the Com- missioner or Controller of the honesty and intelligence of their purpose. Some of us, no doubt, wish banking were a little less free and unprincipled compe- tition a little less sharp, and the facts justify us in it. As to the profits in these days, let those testify who know and not the Kansas farmer. Another says: ‘‘Bank deposits and stocks, on account of the ease with which they are sequestrated, for the most part escape state and local taxa- tion, and so there isa kind of retribu- tive or poetic justice in their being reached in some special manner.’’ As a matter of fact, bankers know—and it seems as though no one else knows—the relentlessness with which their stocks are taxed, how impossible it is for them to escape the assessor, and how unfair he is when he has them. They are, I be- lieve, the one kind of property of their class that can not be hidden and that is taxed to the utmost possible limit. It seems sometimes as though there were a malignity in it that wanted to revenge itself on some other fellow who was not so easily reached. Punishment by sub- stitution ! No doubt bank deposits do to a con- siderable extent escape taxation; so do all kinds of personal property. It is not for me to apologize for the deviation from probity which this involves or to explain it; but whose duty is it to list them? Not the banker’s surely. His relation to them is that of a ware- houseman ; a storage agent; a confiden- tial custodian, if that sounds better, who recoups himself, nowadays, mostly by inhaling their effluvia as they lie rotting in his vaults, with their accre- tion of dirt gathered in former travels, the Government refusing to redeem and replace its soiled notes with clean ones except at the expense of the sender. Bank deposits are no easier hidden than other property of their class. The fact is, morality in such matters is at a low ebb, and will continue so until a higher idea of justice and equity prevails with the makers of our tax laws—and per- haps longer. This was written when the newspapers had informed the writer that a tax of one-quarter of 1 per cent. was to be levied, payable in monthly installments, on the deposits of banks, by the revenue bill then under consideration; but let it alone. Like the licking inflicted by a mother on an habitually recalcitrant son, it will do for some other time. It seems instead that our legislators concluded to tax the capital and surplus of banks two dollars a thousand, seeing rightly that the geese could be as effectually plucked in this way, and that it would be im- possible to vary the amount or evade the payment, as might have been the case with the tax on deposits, and that it would be likely to produce a much smaller amount of cackle. I have jyst come into possession of an official copy of the law, and, opening at the index, look under ‘‘special tax.’’ It includes every item of internal rev- enue not covered by the stamp sections. Listen to them: they are banks, brokers, manufacturers of tobacco, pawn bro- kers, public exhibitions, circuses, con- cert halls, museums, theaters and shows. A man is known by the company he keeps; sol presume with a bank. I have always had an intense admiration of the clown in his bedizened costume, the mouldy chestnuts he offers me as wit give me sometimes as much enjoy- ment as the refined comedy. The wom- an in abbreviated garments who jumps through a hoop from the back of a gen- tly rocking borse has still, as when a boy, my approval. And yet, I had come someway to imagine myself and the kind of institution I serve as some- thing better than the acrobat and the circus. In some way I had come to re- gard the bank as the keystone in the economic fabric. I had got in the way of thinking myself, in my public ca- pacity, one of the principal pillars that kept the sky from falling on my little town. I thank my most exalted and worshipful representative in Congress and his associates for showing me my place. There is another item of taxation which, even inthe time of the rebellion, was a real grievance, not only to banks, who had to bear the greatest burden of it, but to all the rest of the commercial world—the stamp tax. It was a griev- ance, not alone on account of the cost. By the tupenny manner in which it was paid, its immense sum was _ hardly realized. It was hated most, because it was such a nuisance. It came like the hite of a gnat, with such continually ir- ritating recurrence that it damaged most in the lapses of temper it caused and its destructive effect on the purity of the English language. Every time one had to affix one of the things, he said, ‘‘God save the Queen,’’ or some- thing else more striking and less patri- otic. Since the rebellion and the eight- een ensuing years, I have understood better the position of our forefathers who rebelled at the stamp tax law. Had I been there, I would have rebelled. Every commercial transaction involving the necessity of a written instrument demanded a stamp costing from 2 cents upward. An omission to affix it did not in most cases invalidate the transaction, but it subjected the parties to it to much annoyance in getting the error cor- rected, and the issuer of the paper to a severe penalty. Congress has seen fit in its wisdom to re-enact the stamp law almost verbatim. In some cases it is lighter; for instance, the stamp required for a promissory note is but 2 instead of 5 cents a hun- dred dollars or a fractional part thereof, but it has every tantalizing feature of the old bill, and, as I remember, some new ones. Soon the Bank Examiner on his rounds will havea new duty. He must go through your check files and re- port omissions to comply with the law. He will find certainly, in your collec- tion, ten or a dozen unstamped checks; perhaps, notwithstanding the utmost care on your part, he will find a hun- dred. These, with a kind of ghoulish glee, he reports to your ghostly father in Washington. You will get a long letter, recounting your naughtiness and the penalty therefor in as strong lan- guage as the English language affords, without infringing on the privileges of the preacher, and asking that he hear from you by return mail. You reply that you are very sorry, that you did not mean to do it, and that you will try not to do it again, if he will forgive you this time. Then another shorter moral lecture from Washington, at the end of which you find your conditional forgive- ness written very small. I do not know bow many times the offense may be re- peated and pardoned before more cor- rective measures are used—the limit was never reached in my case, and it seems now as though the number of my reprimands must have exceeded seventy times seven. Well, we have the law, and it is ours to obey, honestly and loyally, but O, Lord, how long? Do you remember the history of the repeal of the war taxes of 1861-65? I can not give you the exact dates—am trusting to my memory most- ly for them. The personal income tax, the fairest and most equitable of them all, only remained two or three years. It touched everybody with an income of over $600 and so of course every- body clamored for its repeal, and what everybody says generally goes in this country; it is the minorities that have to wait and endure. Of the tax on spirits and the like, I will not speak because I do not remember. Your pocket and your stomach are your great memory joggers. I think it was in 1873 that the coun- try was relieved of most of the war tax. The tax on beer and spirits was re- duced somewhat at that time, was it not? The stamp required on proprietary articles was removed then. The same with notes, receipts and all written doc- uments except bank drafts and checks. They modified the whisky tax then, but bank deposits and capital still paid the war tax of 1865, and the stamp was still required on all vouchers received or is- sued by them. Then we began to see the injustice of it all and to protest, and it took us ten years to get our rights. In 1883 the tax on deposits and capital was removed and the check stamp law re- pealed. Eighteen years after the close of the war! And here it comes again- The tax on circulation, for reasons that found justification in the minds of our lawmakers, has been continuous. The profits of banking have always been overestimated. In the later ‘6os and earlier ’7os, banks looked very pros- perous, even to stockholders. They paid big dividends and piled up surplus ac- counts, only to tind later, at the twenty year limit of their charters, or when they were compelled to liquidate for any other reason, that the gilt edge had worn off from many of their investments, that their assets were not all their fancy had painted them. I do not believe this would be the case to so great an extent to-day as then, because we have learned by the past; because our property has been so recently tried as by fire; and because, with the lower rates of interest and smaller profits generally, banks can not afford to take the chances they once did. For these reasons they are much more conservative and consequently able to show cleaner bills of health than was the case ten or fifteen years ago. Now- IO MICHIGAN TRADESMAN adays conservative banks are but just able to turn over and hand their stock- holders 6 or 8 per cent., out of which they must pay 3 to 5 per cent. local tax. These are not the times to lay fresh burdens on banks and at the same time ask them to assume the responsibilities to the Government which war brings. Suppose, to offset this new burden, they were to make one or two of the conces- sions banks have been asking for so long; for imstance, give them circula- tion to the amount of the par value of their bonds. This could be done under present conditions without loss to the Government and with proper collateral legislation with great benefit. That, coupled with the opportunity now tn prospect of getting a 3 per cent. bond at par, might make investment in circu- lation leok a little more attractive. Wholesome bills locking this way have offered in Congress during the present but they ‘‘sleep the sleep that knows no waking.’’ been session, We have the law and it is ours to obey, honestly and loyally. Still we were craven did we not protest. The country must meet toe financial demands of a great war and it is not for us to shirk or evade tbe particular responsi- bility that fails on our shoulders, heav- ter though it be than that of our neigh- bor. It is not in the payment of a tax only that the duty of a bank lies; it is for us to do again what the banks dida Without them army impossible, and given the carnage of battle 1n generation ago. and navy navy and army, vain. Were Once, in my sailing days, on the we were in great peril. taking our turns at the several hours. I asked a ld colored man, what he situation, ‘I’se got nuffin’ to say now, Massa Stickney, but you jes’ wait till I gets ashoah; den I'll blow.” Let us until the war is then let us blow. May it not be four years this time before ‘‘ Johnny comes marching home,’’ and may it not be eighteen years before the last vestige of a war tax is wiped frcm our statutes for ever and ever and ever! GEO. STICKNEY, Cashier National Bank of Grand Haven. _> . — Felt Called Upon to Interfere. Georgian Bay, We had suMps tor been shipmate, an thought of the wait over, No one knew who she was. She was decidedly handsome, well dressed and seemed to have plenty of money. She was buying a pair of bicycle boots, the kind that come just up to the calf of the leg. She had a pretty foot and a pretty ankle and she didn’t care who knew it, and moreover her foot was faultlessly clothed. She had just tried on one pair but they didn't fit properly and the clerk had gone to hunt another pair when an- other lady came in. You could tell ata glance that she didn’t want bicycle boots. Tall and angular, she looked around with an expression of grim de- termination on her face and stalked to- ward the nearest clerk. ‘I want a pair of shoes,’’ she jerked out as she dropped into a seat. Just then her eyes happened to stray over to where the young lady sat with her bi- cycle boots. The clerk was just puliing off the boot he had put on at first and was getting the second one ready to put on. ‘Does that man intend to lace up those shoes on that girl?’’ came from lady No. 2. ‘Certainly, clerk. The young lady and the clerk who was Madam,’’ replied the waiting on her both overheard this, but neither paid any attention, although the young woman blushed rather furiously. The clerk went on with his work. He pulled the boot on and after getting it straightened out he began to lace it up. Ihe young lady pulled up her skirts to the top of the boot. This was too much for the other woman; she felt called up- on to interfere. It was an insult to her that such things should go on under her very eyes. Turning to the clerk who was waiting on her, she snapped out: ‘Young man, you go and send the proprietor to me at once.’’ ‘‘The proprietor is out of the city, madam,’’ returned the clerk, ‘‘but | will call the manager if you wish to see him,’ and, turning, he spoke to the man- ager, who stocd close by. The manager stepped up and asked what he could do for her. Then she began: She declared that the store was no fit place for any lady; said she had been outrageously insulted by the proceedings that had been going on in her sight, and a great deal more of that sort of thing. After she had gone on like this for about two minutes the manager stopped her and told her in good, plain English that they htted bicycle boots to many of the best and most modest ladies in the city; that it was part of their business,and that no one who was not looking for insults would find them. They always had fitted bicycle boots and they always ex- pected to as long as they were worn. The old maid was crushed complete- ly, and when the manager turned to the young lady and apologized for the in- sult that had been offered to her, she grew livid with rage, but had enough common sense to leave without saying anything more. 8 Short Sayings Pertinent to the Shoe Trade. Ladies’ low cut shoes cut very much lower. A low shoe sale in the Icw shoe sea- son. In truth there is strength.’* The strengtb of an advertisement lies in its truthtulness. In striving to attract attention bear in mind that it is the unusual thing that makes people look twice. One good turn deserves another and one good advertisement deserves an- other—keep everlastingly at it. Don’t let your advertisement give your customers the ‘‘icy glance.’’ Let it glow with the warmtb of a true friend- ship. ‘*A straight line is the shortest dis- tance between two points.’’ The straight truth in your advertisements Is the short- est way to your customers’ pocketbooks. Don't fret and fume about your busi- ness—it won't better matters. The wheels won’t go around unless you get right down to work and keepa plugging. “Necessity is the mother of inven- tron.’’ Now, who on earth do you sup- pose invented advertising? We'll bet honey to a bee's sting that a run down business was the mother of the first ad- vertisement. Six to twelve years are the ages when mothers of boys have most trouble to shoe them properly. Both mothers and boys will be pleased witb our stock! These shoes have the proper style nec- essary to becomingly dress boys of this age. Did it ever occur to you that one-half of the oxfords don’t fit correctly? It is because they are made on the same lasts that bigh shoes are made on. That is why they don’t fit snugly around,the ankle. Every patr of our oxfords is made on oxford lasts. For tired, tender feet—we have the shoes to give them comfort, broad in the tread, softest leather and flexible soles. Having once worn a pair and realized what they are in point of ease and all other qualities which a good shoe should possess, you’]] want to du- plicate them. Association Matters Michigan Retail Grocers’ Association President, J. WisLEk, Mancelona; Secretary, E A. Stowz, Grand Rapids; Treasurer, J. F 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, JosepH Knieut; Secretary. E. MARKS 221 Greenwood ave: Treasurer, U.H FRINK. Grand Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association President, Frank J. Dyk; Secretary, Homer Kuap; Treasurer, J. Gro. LEHMAN. Saginaw Mercantile Association President, P. F. TREANOR; Vice-President. Joun McBraTNIE; Secretary, W. H. Lewis; Treas- urer, Lourie SCHWERMER Jackson Retail Grocers’ Association President, Geo. E. Lewis; Secretary, W. H. Por TER; Treasurer, L. PELTON. Lansing Retail Grocers’ Association President, F. B. JoHNSON; Secretary, A. M. DarRiine; Treasurer, L. A. GILKEY. Adrian Retail Grocers’ Association President, A. C. CLarK: Secretary, E. F. CLevge LAND: Treasurer, WM. C. KoEHn. Traverse City Business Men’s Association President, Tos. T. Bates; Secretary, M. B. Houiy; Treasurer, C. A. HAMMOND. Owosso Business Men’s Association President, A. D. WHIPPLE; Secretary, G. T. Camp BELL; Treasurer, W. E. Co..ins. Alpena Business Men's Association President, F. W. Gitcurist; Secretary, C L. PARTRIDGE. Grand Rapids Retail Meat Dealers’ Association President. L. J. Katz: Secretary, Poitip HILBER Treasurer. S. J. HvFForRD. St. Johns Business Men’s Association. ~resident, THos BromLey: Secretary, FRANK A. Percy: Treasurer. Clark A. Potr We have. 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. sesesesesesesesesese OEVERY DEALER % can please customers and guarantee them Perfect Foot Comfort by se ling PEDA-CURA (Flint’s Original Foot Powder). Shaken in the stocking it will relieve burning, stinging and a rspiring feet, cure soft corns and eep the feet as sweet and healthy as an infant’s. PEDA-CURA has been sold for eight years and is superior to all other foot powders. Largest pack- age. Retails for 25 cents; $1.75 per doz. of jobbers. Dealers in Michigan supplied by Hirth, Krause & Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. Mfd. only by ¥ PEDA-CURA CO., Chicago. yy ee i yin yyy Photographs of Samples, Display Cards, Etc. It often occurs that traveling salesmen find photo- graphs of such articles as are too large to carry a great convenience. The engraving department of the Tradesman Company is prepared to furnish such photographs of the best quality on short notice. OUR FALL LINE IS A WINNER ¢ We are especially strong in our men’s $2.50 line. Black Vici, Box Calf, Enamel and Winter Tans. If you have not seen this line it will pay you to do 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. . A. MURPHY, General Manager. FLOWERS, MAY & MOLONEY, Counsel “Th Michigan Wlercantile Agency Special Reports. Law and Collections. Represented in every city and county in the United States and Canada. Main Office: Personal service given all ciaims. Room 1102 Majestic Building, Detroit, Mich. Judgments obtained without expense to subscribers FOLDING PAPER BOXE Candy, Cough Drops, Tobacco Clippings, Condition Powders, Etc. and Box Labels and Cigar Box Labels our specialties. GRAND RAPIDS PHONE 850. Printed and plain for Patent Medicines, Extracts, Cereals, Crackers and Sweet Goods, Bottle Ask or write us for prices. PAPER BOX Co. 81,83 ano 85 CAMPAU ST., GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. a. = mT eS MeTeetesennmonweonanceeeemaee How Signboard Advertising Can Be Done Effectively. Laster laughed a good deal when I told him that I had an idea of trying the old country road advertising signs again; but he is good-natured azd lets me do about as I like «bout such harm- less things, and I have been at work on them for quite a while now. Laster has been selling his old shoe packing cases to a candy wholesale firm for five and ten cents apiece and I stopped that and the little junior clerk and I have been knocking them to pieces as fast as they were emptied. | used to go to all sorts of pains with my country signs, having the boards exactly square, building them up toa special size and bracing the backs with infinite pains. I don’t doso now. Just as we happen to get the boards out of the box is the way now and I adapt the sign to it. End boards of bovt boxes, side boards of sixty-pair cases, top boards— they all look alike to the little junior clerk and me, and we knock out ten or twenty a day and not half try. All that we make any pretense of do- ing with the boards is to give them smooth edges. Confidentially, I pre- sume it would be just about as cheap to buy lumber and _ saw the boards as we wanted them; but it would lack that ele- ment of getting something for nothing which is so dear to the true economical advertiser for the country trade. The first requisite in country signs is to have good paint. I have gotten all over using these ready-mixed _ sorts. Good lead and oil are the only things to use, and good thick coats atthat. I prefer to put two coats of white on first —one very thin to fill the board and then another, thicker, to give the color. We paint our boards white, black and blue, but letter only in white and black. After the boards are given a good foundation color, putting on the lettering is the artistic part. I can letter pretty fairly, but the kid, who is only fourteen years old now, and has only been to school six years in all his life (don’t tell the truant officer), can letter as ar- tistically as one of Hote’s big railroad sign painters. Funny, isn’t it, how it seems to come naturally for some men to letter with a brush. Men who can’t write a line so that it can be read, hard- ly, will take a brush and paint a sign for a strawberry festival that will look as though it had been engraved. Anybody can learn to do a pretty fair job, though, and don’t you believe that you can’t. Practice, after someone has given you a copy of how to make the different styles of letters, will fix you out all right. I bought a_ book of de- signs, the ‘‘Sign Painter’s Friend,’’ or something like that, and it had twenty full alphabets in. We have great fun getting up the wording. Of course, it isn’t every firm where you can say anything like ‘‘ Last- er’s Shoes Are Laster’s Until You Buy Them, and Then They Are Still Last- ers. ’' *“*3 Miles to Laster’s Shoe Store, Last- erville,’’ is a good idea, and we have got one every mile and half-mile on every road leading out of the town. ‘* Do Those Bicycle Shoes Hurt You? Try the Kind Laster Sells.’’ ‘‘You Remem- ber, Your Wife Told You to Get Some Shoes for the Baby. Goto Laster’s.’’ ‘*Can’t you remember the size of the shoes for the baby? Goto Laster’s; he has a table that tells.’’ ‘“‘T’ll meet you at Laster’s. shoes there.’’ ‘*That’s a nice pair of shoes you have I buy my MICHIGAN TRADESMAN on. You must have got them at Last- ers.” ‘*Have you seen that $2 shoe for ladies at Laster’s?’’ ““Have you corns? Then you don’t wear Laster’s comfort shoes.’’ There's no use in giving samples. Those are just a few that we have put out. Of course we have a lot of stock wordings. Advertise experts will say that they don’t pay; but advertisement experts are not good authority outside of newspaper advertising. The country trade that reads by the wayside needs a lot of dinging at or they will forget the firm name in spite of you. We get them up in all sorts of ways. Sometimes we load up a_one-horse wagon and go out with a ladder for a day of it; but since we have been mak- ing them of such light weight we find that the bicycle is the handy thing. A man can go out for his morning’s spin with half a dozen signs slung on his back and put them up before breakfast. I can stand on the seat of my bike now and reach up high enough on a tree to give a sign a good showing. It doesn’t take long to get a big lot of signs out in the country and it doesn’t cost a great deal. The little clerk is a dandy at painting fences. He takes a couple of bottles of paint, white and black, with two or three brushes, and away he goes on_ his bike. Before he gets back he will have gone fifty miles and will have left a trail of painted signs or fences, rocks, trees and barns that are great things to keep the firm name before the people. Last year I worked quite a big scheme. I went cut and bought the privilege, for a pair of shoes each, of painting signs on entire barns after the manner of Hood’s Sarsaparilla and I tbink that it paid first rate, because it looked so big. I got regular house and sign painters to do the work and we painted twenty-two on the roads _ lead- ing into the village and by the side of the railroad in the suburbs of the vil- lage. It cost quite a good bit to do it, but it paid because it was an unusual thing for a village dealer to do. People had seen such things from big city deal- ers and from the patent medicine houses, but it made things look big for us to do it. We had no trouble to get the barns. A good many of the own- ers were glad to let us paint them just for the sake of having them painted and a pair of shoes fixed things right every time. Another dealer from over the way has got a lead on us in working the country trade. As soon as it got nice and warm and the farmers wouldn’t come inte the village because they were so busy, this sharp dealer put a horse and wagon on the road with an assortment of sizes of the sort of goods farmers wear—plow shoes, rubber boots, a few solid shoes for children, some of the medium and cheaper grades of women’s sboes and slippers. It was wonderful what a nice little stock he was able to get in a _ one- horse wagon. It helped out the sales, too, I understand, although it cost some- thing to run the thing and he could only put it out two days in a week. I think I am going to get a lead on him, though. I’ve made a deal with the grocery house that send out a wagon in- to the country all of the summer, to carry a line of our goods on commission and I think that the scheme is going to be a winner.—I. Fitem in Boots and Shoes Weekly. —_—__—~» +» The man who invests in green goods must want money bad. 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We are 12, 14, 16 Pearl St., 0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0000-0-0-0-0-0 0-0-0-0-0-0 0-0-0-0-0-0 | | : | | WIPVOP IN NEP NET INN NON NEPNNA NT NEPNTT eer NT ED ierNNT eT Neraee er tyT tees “Remember the Name’ WALES (jOODYEAR The best RUBBERS on earth for general Place your orders for them wear and shape. with us, avoiding the price later in the season. State Agents for Wales-Goodyear and Connecticut Rubbers. rush and advance in al Mab ANA bk dAk kk AAA JUN dAk Abb bk Abd Abb ddbdd 4 MUL AA AAA bk GNA dUk Ak Jk Ab dbk bk Abb bk bk bk Ahk dbk bk Akh bd dk dba dad ddA PAPE PS ere Bike Junior.% Boys’ Brown Canvas Bicycle Bals, Grip Sole = Youths’ Seasonable Also a full line of RICE & HUTCHINS ' celebrated cycle shoes. They are Leaders. Michigan Shoe Co., Detroit, Mich. Rannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn~~~~nnparnnPPPPPPPPODOD Brown Canvas Bicycle x = Herold=Bertsch Shoe Co., °° Gact Rens, ict 71 | Bals, Grip Sole 8oc = = = 60c Saleable Crannnrnnnnrnnnnnn 12 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Fruits and Produce. Tune ae pecan: From the New York Produce Review. We are pleased to see some agitation by the butter trade of New York of the so-called premium business. No definite plans have been formulated, and it is doubtful that even if a satisfactory scheme were suggested it could be put in operation until! after the July con- tracts have expired. But the fact that possible remedies for the existing evils are again claiming the attention of thoughtful merchants is encouraging to say the least, and we hope that out of the present chaotic condition there may come a means of solving one of the most perplexing questions that have confronted the trade. That the time has come for a change in the method of doing business is ap- parent to all. This destructive compe- tition can not continue witbout seriously affecting the soundness of the trade. And there is no earthly reason why men should invest large capital in the busi- ness, assume all the risk incidental to that business, and after working hird and faithfully to protect shippers’ inter- ests be compelled to give up most ot the legitimate compensation which such services usually secure. There is but lit- tle use of any house in the trade repre- senting that they can get the %c above quotation. No one denies that there are a few special channels into which some stock can be worked at some ad- vance over the general market, but in comparison with the total receipts that trade is a mere bagatelle. On the 17c market last week nine-tenths of the fancy stock that was sold went at that price, and the returns at 17'%c simply mean that one-half cent per Ib., or 3o0c a tub, came out of the 5 per cent. com- mission, leaving 2!c asa net compensa- tion for the labor and expense incurred. The competition has driven so many in- to paying the premiums that it is now quite general, and no one has any ad- vanatge that was not equally open to them before the premium system came into vogue. The old argument holds good that when sales based on a quotation are guaranteed the receivers become buyers instead of commission agents, and their efforts must naturally be used in the di- rection of getting the goods as cheaply as possible. The incentive to keep the market up is gone. We believe that it makes a great deal of difference to the producers which way the goods are marketed. But it seems useless to go over this well-beaten path again. The evils at- tending this method of doing _business, and the steps that have led up to the peculiar conditions as they exist to day are thoroughly understood and deeply deplored. It now rests with the mer- chants themselves to correct the abuse. A volurtary abandonment of the practice would be the most mercantile way out. An agreement of some kind between the memters of the trade, most of whom belong to the Mercantile Exchange, might be effected, ard there ought to be honor enough to live up to whatever pledges are made. SiN Canada’s Share of American Dairy Exports. Canada and the United States contrib- uted in 1897 no less than 82 8 per cent. of the total! quantity of cheese imported into the United Kingdom and 38.8 per cent. of the total consumption. As com- pared with the United States, Canada’s share of the trade amounted to 76,351 tons, against 31,581 tons. The total ex- ports of all countries other than Canada to Britain amounted to 59,811 tons, or, in other words, the exports from the Dominion exceeded by 22,540 tons the total quantity exported to British mar- kets by other colonies and foreign countries These statistics give Cana- dians sufficient reason to feel proud of the prominence their country occupies in dairy product markets. But unfortu- nately this immense turnover of cheese was not followed by corresponding profits to those engaged in the trade. When the values fell below a figure that would renumerate makers, the pro- duction was still continued, because most Canadian dairymen were solely cheese producers. The market was, to a large extent, subject to control by Canadians in that they were exporting the bulk of the supplies; but few facto- ries, however, were deterred from pro- duction on account of the depressed condition of values. Butter, although not realizing at all times top prices, in 1897-98 brought far more satisfactory returns. The market was maintained on a steady basis, and Canadian creamery owners and butter forwarders made modest profits, while those in the cheese trade suffered dis- astrously. The lesson is apparent to every one. All dairymen should be ina position to alter their plant within a reasonably short time, to take advantage of the changing markets and be able to make milk i: to either butter or cheese at will. An _ effort is being put forth to this end, and in 1897 Canada was sur- passed by only one colony, Victoria, in the quantity of butter supplied the mother country. But compared with the total quantity of butter imported, Can- ada’s contribution was a mere pittance. a Consolidation of Eleven Dealers. New York, July 11—The Jewish but- ter and egg dealers of New York area very important factor in its trade. There are many of them and their busi- ness has for some time been in an un- satisfactory condition, owing to the stress of competition, which has. cut down profits for all. To remedy this eleven of the larger firms have organized a wholesale establishment under the name ‘‘Consolidated Butter and Egg Company,’’ with a down-town establish- ment at 48 Harrison street and an up- town branch at Harlem Market Indi- vidual memhers of the consolidat:on will he allowed to have only one retail store each and will be compelled to buy their goods from the consolidation, which will make a husiness of supplying retail trade in all parts of the citv. Represent atives of the company will do all the buving on the open market, and it is expected to have representation on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The Company will have at the start thirty wagons to deliver goods to retail trade, and expects to do a large business much more satisfactorily to its members than under the old plan of ‘‘Every man for himself, and divil take the hindmost.’’ Oe Standard Measurements for Apple Barrels. Boston, Mass., July r1—A large crop of apples is expected this season. To realize a fair price we will necessarily export a large amount and, as we shall have to compete with Canada, we must have good cooperage and a standard barrel. The National Apple Shippers’ Association and the National League of Commission Merchants have already adopted the following dimensions: Head—17% inches. Stave—28 4 inches. Bulge—Not less than 64 inches out- side circumference. The above are the measurements of the Minneapolis flour barrel. A. WARREN PATCH, Sec’y National Apple Shippers’ Ass’n. Oe The business house which enforces prompt payments and insists upon cus- tomers living up to their promises or contracts is the most respected and loses very little trade that is desirable, be- cause of it. Of course, occasions arise when it is expedient to show forbearance to a dilatory debtor, and the creditor will always take such cases into consid- eration, dealing as leniently with them as is necessary. If, however, an account is continually in arrears, cut it off. Col- lect what is due you and let the longer time concern sell him his wants, event- ually making a loss. EO A Boston business man was asked re- cently by a firm who sold him quite a large bill if he considered himself good for that amount. ‘‘Good!"’ echoed the merchant, ‘‘f ought to be good; I owe everybody !"’ SOOSSSSSSOO9SO0S 9909909 S 90000000000000000 090000006 J. WILLARD LANSING. BURGE D. CATLIN. ; Lansing & Catlin 44 W. Market Street 103 Michigan Street BUFFALO, N. Y. WHOLESALE DEALERS IN : Eggs Eggs Eggs Eggs are getting scarcer and higher. We are selling at 12%c to 13c and can use liberal shipments. Write for any information you may want. Send us your Eggs and we will get you full market price and quick returns. > OOOO OOOOO060000000> 00000000 00000000 0000000600000000000000006 000000000000000000 MEMBERS BUFFALO PRODUCE EXCHANGE Bean, Coward & Chaddock WHOLESALE FRUIT AND PRODUCE COMMISSION MERCHANTS Butter, Eggs. Apples. Potatoes and Small Fruits Peoples Bank, Buffalo. Bank of Batavia, Batavia, N. Y. MICHIGAN REFEKENCES: Traverse City state Bank. Shelby Bank, Shelby, Mich. M. Oberlin, Bingham, Mich. Any Mercantile Agency. Any large Wholesale Produce Merchant in New England States. HARVEY P. MILLER. EVERETT P. TEASDALE MILLER & TEASDALE CO. WHOLESALE BROKERAGE AND COMMISSION. FRUITS, NUTS, PRODUCE WAT ERMELONS eran ae. ST. LOUIS, ro. 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. GOS OOOOOOOF 60060009 96060600 00006066 0000000000000000 HARRIS & FRUTCHEY Only Exclusive Wholesale BUTTER and EGG House in Detroit. Have every facility for han- dling large or small quantities. Will buy on track at your station Butter in sugar barrels, crocks or tubs. Also fresh gathered Eggs. SOOOOSOSSOOOSSOSSOOSSSOOOOHOOOOOSSOOOOOSOOOOOOOO SOSOOOCOOSOS “. QOS LPOODOES xe11 101918 DHOOOHOOE QOOOQOQOQOQOES S & COOQOQOOOO® Butter Wanted Cash F. O. B. Cars, carload lots or less. Prices quoted on application. © H. N. RANDALL PRODUCE CO., Tekonsha, Mich. ©) COD DOQQDOOQO© HOQOOQOOQOQDOOQODOOOQOODODOODOQOODOQDOGSDE DOOQDOQOOO© QCOOQOOO Special Blanks for Produce Dealers We make a specialty of this class of work and solicit correspondence with those who need anything in this line. TRADESMAN COMPANY, - Grand Rapids, Mich. @: @: a REPRESENTATIVE RETAILERS. E. M. Smith, the Cedar Springs Mer- chant and Produce Dealer. E, M. Smith was born on a farm two miles northeast of Cedar Springs Jan. 2, 1869. He lived on the farm until 16 years of age, when he went to work asa clerk in the general store of Morley Bros., with whom he remained two years. He then attended a Grand Rap- ids business college six months, gradu- ating from the commercial course in September, 1888. Returning to Cedar Springs, he purchased the grocery stock of Morley. Bros. for $1,232, giving his notes therefor. This indebtedness he succeeded in liquidating in full within thirteen months from the date of pur- chase. Five years ago he erected a store building of his own on the corner oppo- site the Morley Bros. building, which he used as a warehouse until Nov. 1 1897, when he fitted it up for a grocery store and moved his stock across the street. In connection with the grocery store he conducts a meat market, own- ing his own slaughter house and twenty acres of land just east of the town. His store is 24x70 feet in dimensions, two stories and basement, and is conceded to be one of the neatest and best equipped stores on the line of the G. R. & I. Railway. The counters are of oak and the shelving is finished in oak and varnished. The second story of his building is used as a repository for vehicles, of which he has sold a consid- erable number since embarking in the business in 1891. He was the agent of the Adams Express Co. four years, lo- cal representative of the Champion Co. one year and of the McCormick Co. two years. During the past two years he has carried on the livery business, in partnership with Levi McDonald, un- der the style of McDonald & Smith, but sold bis interest in the establishment a few days ago. He has always been par- tial to the fruit and produce business, having a warehouse on the G. R. & I. track 20x60 feet in dimensions, which is used to good purpose. In 1896, he handled over 5,000 barrels of apples and during the past three years has handled large quantities of butter and eggs, hav- ing lately extended his operations to a large scope of country. He handles hay and straw in large quantities, having a hay press of his own in the country. Mr. Smith was married June 2, 1891, to Miss Orpha M. Thomas, who was born and brought up near Cedar Springs and had fitted herself for a school teach- MICHIGAN TRADESMAN I3 er. They have one son, now 5 years old, and live in their own bome. Mr. Smith attributes his success to the systematic methods he learned at the business college and to the facts that he can work sixteen hours a day and keep down his expenses to an unusual degree. He hoasts that he has been in business ten years with only one week’s vacation. Those who know him, how- ever, are frank to admit that he possesses an unusual amount of shrewdness and that he is destined to become a man of means. His friends insist that his proper sphere is the city and that he must ulti- mately seek a location in Grand Rap- dis and win shekels and reputation as a produce dealer, especially in the line of butter and eggs, with which he is thoroughly familiar and for which busi- ness he has always had a peculiar fond- ness. a 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 and depart from Dearborn station, Chicago. This sta- tion is on Polk street, between State and Clark streets, is only three blocks south of the postoffice,and near the down town business and hotel districts. Other railroads using this staticn are the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, Wabash, Chicago & Eastern Illinois, Chicago, Indianapolis & Louisville, and Erie. No transfer will, therefore, be neces- sary for passengers to or from the above mentioned lines. Important stations on this through car line between Chicago and Grand Rap- ids are Valparaiso, South Bend, Mish- awaka, Ind., Cassopolis, Macellus, Schoolcraft, Vicksburg, Kalamazoo and Plainwell, Mich. The equipment used in providing this service will consist of new standard vestibuled day coaches. Pullman buffet parlor cars and the latest designs of Pullman wide vestibuled, gaslighted, twelve section drawing room sleeping cars. It is believed that the character of this equipment and the convenience of the schedules will be such as to merit a liberal patronage by the traveling pub- Ic. The following is a condensed schedule: Daily. Lv Grand Rapids......... 7:10am 2:10pm 11:35pm Ae Ciicaso .... ........2:00pm OQuepm 6:30am Lw Chicago... .. 3:02pm _)=s-11:45pm Ax Grand Kapids........ 9.30pm) 7:25am C. L., Lock woop, General Passenger and Ticket Agent. a Store Mottoes. We covet for our goods a searching examination. We strive to have no vacancies in our assortments. We seek profit when we buy, more than when we sell. Our clerks will serve you without soliciting a purchase. Our store does not fear the most strin- gent comparisons. The buyer ought not to give us his money until we suit him. Look leisurely ; we ask no sudden nor thoughtless purchase. a The True Definition. ‘‘Genius is the ability to say clever things which haven't been said, isn’t ie ‘*No. Genius is the ability to say clever things to people who haven't beard them already.’’ ——— ee ee Something Ought to Be Done. ‘*My dog is almost as intelligent as J am,’’ remarked Squildig. ‘Are you going to have him shot, or will you try to give him away?’’ asked McSwilligen. ————_—> 2. —__— The man who is employed by his wife’s father dones’t worry about losing his job. New Potatoes and Watermelons Cherries, Raspberries, Lemons, Oranges and Bananas. HOME | Cabbage, Beets, Peas, Celery, Green Onions, Radishes, GROWN | Cucumbers, Spinach, Asparagus, Pie Plant, New Dry Onions, Turnips, Carrots, Squash, Wax Beans, Tomatoes. BUNTING & CO., Jobbers, Grand Rapids, Mich. 90-00-00-000-00-0-00-0-0-0-0-00-0-0-0-0-:00-0-0-0-0-000-00-00-000000000000000 Ship your BUTTER AND EGGS to R. HIRT, Jr., Detroit, Mich. 6 34 and 36 Market Street, 43574377439 Winder Street. Cold Storage and Freezing House in connection. Capacity 75 carloads. Correspondence solicited. 00-00-0-0-00-0-0-0-0-0 0-0-0-0-0-000-0-0-0-00-0:0-0-0-0-0-0-:0-0-0-0-0-0:0-0-0-0-0-00-0-0-0-0-00 SEEDS ALFRED J. BROWN SEED CO. 24 and 26 North Division Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. NEW POTATOES We are receiving New Potatoes in carlots The best are the cheapest and these we can always supply. direct from growers. We solicit your orders. ey ee oe es ec. Ship us yOurss——-~ BERRIES etc., and get highest prices and quick returns. ) 0 LJ Lu ~/) We still want your 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. ¥ Sscececceececceccececeeceecccecececccecece PSS BUTTER and EGGS Car lots or less. 1 am in the market the year around. REFERENCE: Any Wholesale Grocer in Grand Rapids. SeSeSeSeSeSeSeSeSe5e5e25e25e52 eseseseseserseseseSesese5e5e5 E. M. SMITH, Cedar Springs, Mich. y eseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseseses a I4 MICHIGAN TRADESMAN GOTHAM GOSSIP. News from the Metropolis---Index to the Market. Special Correspondence. New York, July g—During the week a new lease of life seemed to be given the coffee market and the general situa- tion was much more encouraging than it had presented for some time. Invoice trading took quite an active appearance and prices are well sustained.at a slight decline, which, possibly, was the cause of the activity. In store and afloat there are 857,153 bags, against 652,776 bags at the same time last year. Mild grades have, in sympathy, perhaps, shown more animation and the leading jobbers report a very Satisfactory state of things. Quotations for Rio No. 7, 6%c. Raw sugars have declined ‘sc and the market is only moderately active. Im- porters were not extremely anxious to sell at the decline, but there appears to be nothing else to do. Refined have sold in the most leisurely way imaginable, and it would seem that everybody has enough to last all summer if be takes a ‘‘barrel or two.’’ The new refinery in Brooklyn is about ready to do business and it seems to be the opinion that the effort will be made to put up a large amount of granulated sugar in packages as usually sold by the retailer—an excel- lent plan, it would appear. Prices of granulated are still guaranteed for the next thirty days. Little business in tea was done and the general market is very quiet. The next sale will not be of a very large amount. Prices in the street are pretty firm and certainly no decline has been noted. Full stocks of rice of foreign growth are said to be held here, as well as at Charleston, New Orleans and Chicago. This fact, in connection with slow de- mand, has made the past week rather of a record-breaker—for dulness. Still holders are not without hope and main- tain that later on we shall see a rousing market for rice. Prime to choice do- mestic, 6%@6%c. In spices, little that is of interest has transpired during the week. The mar- ket is quite firm, especially for pepper of all sorts. Jobbers generally report trade as only fairly active. Cloves said to be short and are wel] held. Trading in molasses is at a low ebb. Scarcely any interest is shown and the orders coming to hand are for the small- est amounts. Low grades are worth 8@oc. Fair to good, 13@1oc. The syrup market is pretty well cleaned up and the general situation is one indicating considerable confidence. Canned goods transactions during the week have not been iarge and the mar- ket is practically unchanged. It is still Maintained that the peach and tomato crop of Maryland will be very light and it is said that the pea pack is only about half what it should be. Large lots of goods have been taken by Govern- ment this week and the new goods will come upon nearly empty warehouses. Lemons and oranges have developed a good deal of strength and at auction offerings of both went off rapidly at sat- isfactory returns. Bananas are quiet, as are pineapples, with rather a light stock of the latter to select from. Dried fruits have moved slowly. The demand is for very small lots and the whole market is simply waiting for fall. The weather is too hot to think of eating dried fruits and dealers are lying on their oars. Fancy apples are worthg'sc. Some good cherries from the South have sold at about toc. Blackberries, ’97 crop, 9%@ioc. The bean market is very quiet, with choice marrows held at $1.45@1.50; choice medium, $1.22%@1.25; choice pea, $1.20. More strength has been shown in the butter market and, while prices are ractically no higher, there is a better eeling. The demand has kept the ac- cumulation pretty closely sold up, and some transactions have taken place showing best Western creamery selling at 17c. This is hardly a correct figure, however, and 16@16%c is about the proper basis to figure on. Firsts, 15@ 1514c; Extra Western imitation cream- ery, 14; firsts, 1214@13c; Western fac- tory, 123¢c for extras and 12%c for firsts. = Really desirable offerings in eggs are in light supply, and, in fact, there are not enough to meet the demand. The hot weather has worked havoc in the egg market and a large part of the arrivals are decidedly ‘‘off.’’ Fancy New York, Pennsylvania and Michigan eggs will bring 13@14c. Western selected for storage at mark, 12%c. There is a moderate demand only for cheese. Some business has been done in an export way, but quotations are low and indicate very little profit to any- body. Large size, New York State full cream are worth 67%@j7c; small, fancy, 7c. —_—__—~»-2~.____ Not Up To His Part. From the Chicago Chronicle. Just came trom St. Louis,”’ re- marked a well-known commercial trav- eler, as he alighted from the train, ‘‘and had one of the funniest experiences of my life on the way up.’"' ‘“Relate it, and be quick,’’ replied his fellow drummer, who was about to catch a train. ‘“‘Well, vou know Mandlebaum, the ticket scalper,’’ replied the other. ‘*Just as I was about to board the train he came to me and offered to sell a first- class ticket for so low a figure that I was obliged to take it for strictly business reasons. My time was limited and I neglected to look at the name of the original purchaser, so I boarded the train and took possession of a seat in the smoker. First came a cigar, and then, being thirsty, I took out that old flask of mine from the satchel and _pro- ceeded to quench my thirst in good old- fashioned style. ‘‘All the while the conductor kept his eyes on me, and at times whispered to the brakeman, who was sitting quite close to me. They were toth strange on the run, and consequently, I did not pay much attention to them. I then got mixed up in a hot game of seven-up, and told one or two stories which would not pass the ordeal of press censorship. Finally the conductor came around and whispered in my ear. He asked me how the Sunday School was getting on, and allowed that church matters were bright- ening up a bit in my section of the country. His talk was all Greek to me. but T managed to look wise until we had reached Chicago. ‘““The whole business dawned on me then. He told meT should have been more circumspect on the journey up,and warned me against one of my congrega- tion. He said it was bad form for a clergyman to smoke, play cards, and drink whisky from a flask in full view of the passengers on hoard atrain. J asked him if he knew whoT was, and he pulled that scalper’s ticket from his pocket and informed me that T was Rev. Mr. Phineas Bascom, of Hannihal, Mo. “‘T have made up my mind never to buy another scalper’s ticket from Mandle- baum.’’ 9 Aging Coffee. One of the most prominent retailers in New York makes a practice of storing his best grades of coffee for two years before roasting. It is undeniable that age improves the raw bean up toa period of five years. It tends to give the bean a mellow flavor, highly appreciated bv lovers of the beverage. To carry Padang Java or fine Maracaibo coffee two years adds 3 to 5 cents per pound to cost. It is for this reason that some firms are retailing their finest marks of coffee at 38 to 40 cents per pound. > Oo California Walnut Crop Large. Advices by mail from California are to the effect that the walnut crop, ac- cording to present indications, will be large. Present estimates place the crop at upwards of 500 cars, a quantity large- ly in excess of the crop of 1897. Lack of rain in some of the Southern districts where irrigation could not be resorted to will, however, it is thought, inter- fere with the quality of the nuts. —__—___.}>-9-——_____ The lass whose lover goes to sea sheds many a private-tear, A = — = 2. “ The rich man may be too old and feebie to go to war; but he can stay at home and lick revenue stamps until the on Bay war debt is paid, | 17 Postmaster General Smith has issued an order changing the postal regulations in regard to sheet music illegally sent into this country. Canadian music pub- lishers sometimes pirate music copy- righted in the United States and then sent it through the mails into the United States for sale. When such music has been discovered by the postal authorities it has been held for three months, and if the owner of the copyright did not in- stitute proceedings for its forfeiture it was returned to the sender, who general- ly again sent it through the mails, and, after repeated attempts, often succeeded in putting it upon the market. Under the new order issued, the music, if not claimed by the holder of the copyright, will be destroyed at the end of three months. This is based upon an opinion recently given by the attorney general. Music upon which a duty should be paid will be sent to the near- est collector of customs. > o> -— a Man proposes, woman the divorce court exposes. order imposes and REMODELED HOTEL BUTLER I. M. BROWN, PROP. Ave. and Kalamazoo St., LANSING Rates, $1. Washir HOTEL WHITCOMB ST. JOSEPH, MICH. A. VINCENT, Prop. about Whitehall, Mich , MANY LAKES BND STRERAS sri einai, shington htful Pastime. Special attention and rates for parties. Write to Mears Hotel. Wm. Cherryman, Prop. $2 PER DAY. FREE BUS. THE CHARLESTON Only first-class house in MASON, MICH. Every room heated. Every- Large and wel!- e rooms. Send your mail care of the } CHARLES A CALDWELL, formerly of Donnelly House, Prop. eston, where the boys stop. Rapids & Western R. R., and its northern division terminating at this place makes it easy of access from any point in the State. hiv eile viral ved eden ded de edadu vee dt eddy) , = MICHIGAN’S POPULAR = SUMMER RESORT.. = = = [7 2 @ | : SEVEN : = CITY OF GRAND LEDGE. : Hotel now open. _ First- = class, at reasonable rates. : = This Resort is conceded to be the great = Central Park of Michigan, located eleven = miles from Lansing, on the Detroit, Grand : = One of the finest row boat liveries; two NA oreey splendid steamers, 150-passenger capacity; ‘ hotel and grounds thoroughly illuminated by electricity; a veritable paradise for those appreciating rugged rock scenery, beauti- ful islands, groves and glens. With eleven years of experience, we feel competent to meet the various wants of visitors, tourists, excursionists, picnicers, etc. Those con- templating a summer vacation, write me for full particulars. P. S. Owing to other business, I offer this magnificent property FOR SALE, but don’t burden me with ietters of inquiry juiry Wave adv du uuu Wea Welw ve Unvess You Have Money, ENERGY, AND MEAN BUSINESS. J. S. PRIDE, Owner and Proprietor. eee JPHUARMAARNSARAASOADADDRADDAARNIADNSARNSADHASPNDADRAADRAADROAR ANAND ISD UIADASADADADSNAANAAOBSADRSADNSSRARARARAR Aa} z. MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Drugs--Chemicals MICHIGAN STATE BOARD OF PHARMACY. Term expires F. W. R. Perry, Detroit - Dec. 31, 1898 A. C. SCHUMACHER, Ann Arbor - Dee. 31, 1899 Gro. GuNDRUM, lonia - Dee. 31, 1900 L. E. REYNOLDS, St. Joseph Dee. 31, 1901 Henry Herm, Saginaw - Dec. 31, 1902 President, GEo. GuNDRUM, Ionia. Secretary, A. C. SCHUMACHER, 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 at8 o’clock p. m. MICHIGAN STATE PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION. President—A. H. WEBBER, Cadillac Secretary——CHas. Mann, Detroit. ' Treasurer—JOHN D. Muir, Grand Rapids Programme for the Pharmaceutical Convention. The following programme has been prepared for the sixteenth annual meet- ing of the Michigan State Pharmaceu- tical Association, which will be held at Port Huron, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, Aug. 2, 3 and 4: FIRST SESSION. John Munday, Prayer—Rev. Port Huron. Address of Welcome—Mayor H. W. Stevens, Port Huron. Response—D. E. Prall, E. Saginaw. President's Address—Arthur H. Web- ber, Cadillac. Secretary's Report—Chas. F. Mann, Detroit. Treasurer's Report—Jno. Grand Rapids. Report Secretary Board of Pharmacy —Geo. Gundrum, Ionia. Receiving of delegates. SECOND SESSION. Report of Executive Committee— Prof. A. B. Stevens, Ann Arbor, Chairman. Report of Trade Interests Committee —E. F. Phillips, Armada, Chairman. Report of Pharmacy and Queries Committee—Prof. A. B. Prescott, Ann Arbor, Chairman. Report of Legislative Committee—H. J. Brown, Ann Arbor, Chairman. Report of Adulteration Committee— Prof. A. B. Stevens, Ann Arbor, Chair man. Report of Special Committee on Re- vision of Pharmacy Law—F. W. R. Perry, Detroit, Chairman. Report of Special Committee on Mu- tual Manufacturing—C. N. Anderson, Detroit, Chairman. Illustrated Paper on Tea Culture— Prof. J. O. Schlotterbeck, Ann Arbor. THIRD SESSION. Reports of delegates. General business. Reading of papers. FOURTH SESSION. Election of officers. Selecting place of next meeting. General business. Reading of papers. Trolley ride at 4 p. m. Jolly good time; ride to the summer resorts and the beautiful Lake Huron. WEDNESDAY EVENING. Boat ride by moonlight on the beauti- ful Lake Huron and St. Clair River to Stag Island; reception and dancing. FIFTH SESSION. Discussion of papers. Consideration of rerorts. Unfinished business. THURSDAY AFTERNOON. Games and athletic sports at Pine Grove Park and the beautiful pavilion which lies on the west bank of St. Clair River, just south of Lake Huron; con- tains over twenty acres of beautiful ground. From this park is obtained a beautiful view of Lake Huron above and the St. Clair River to the east and south, with the city of Sarnia lying on the Canadian side of the River, about D, Murr, two miles below its mouth, where the river widens and reaches the width of over three-fourths of a mile. Under the shade of the beautiful trees that abound in this park you can pass the afternoon watching the large steamers, propellers and the magnificent vessels that con- stantly pass down this great water thoroughfare. THURSDAY EVENING. Banquet at Hotel Harrington, presided over by Henry J. Brown, of Ann Arbor, who will call for the following responses : City of Port Huron—Major N. S Bovnton, Port Huron. The Wholesale Druggist—James E. Davis, Detroit. The Country Druggist—H. E. Har- rison, Vassar. The Traveling Man—F. E. Wester- velt, Grand Rapids. What We Owe the Traveling Man—J. J. Sourwine, Escanaba. The Ladies—C. N. Anderson, Detroit. The Indispensables of a Drug Store— E. F. Phillips, Armada. The City Druggist—Fred A. Cooke, Detroit. —__-_~> 4. The Drug Market. There are very few changes to note in the drug line this week. Opium—Is slightly lower, on account of the absence of demand in the Eastern market. Small orders can be filled at less price than large ones. The esti- mate of the crop shows a less number of cases than former reports. Morphine—Is unchanged. Quinine—Is_ steady at prices. Citric Acid—Manufacturers advanced the price tc last week. Alcohol—Is steady at the late advance. Distillers in their recent combination have full control and may again advance prices. Cod Liver Oil—The position is very strong. The catch has been light and high prices are looked for under fall de- mand. Spices—Cloves, nutmegs and pepper have all advanced and are very firm. Linseed Oil—Is dull and lower. unchanged at the Fountain. If using napkins at the fountain, you might utilize them as a direct means of calling attention to a requisite of the toilet, in this wise: Obtain a quantity of white or cream-colored tissue-paper cut in the size of small napkins, and have printed on each your card and an announcement that the napkin is scented with a certain perfume peculiar to your store. Lay them for a time in a closed receptacle with a sponge or piece of ab- sorbent cotton that has previously been soaked with the extract you advertise. When they are thoroughly scented they are ready for service. Japanese napkins would hardly answer this purpose, owing to the peculiar and distinctive odor they carry that would interfere with the aroma of a delicate perfume. j. ¥. HOsTELLEY. +» 4. Odor of Hydrastis and Opium. Prof. Gerock calls attention to the re- markable similarity in odor existing be- tween extract of hydrastis and extract of opium. As the chemical relationship between hydrastis and narcotine is very close, it is suggested that there is a simi- lar relationship between other constitu- ents of the two substances, and especially in the volatile oils. iS ae Syrup lodide Iron With Rock Candy. Prof. Nixon says that the best quality of pure rock candy should be used in place of sugar, as the product is more permanent. The so-called rock candy syrup does not contain any rock candy. Napkins Patent Medicines to Be Stamped Ac- cording to Retail Prices. Washington, July 9—The Internal Revenue Bureau has announced the fol- lowing decisions in regard to taxes un- der Schedule B of the War Revenue bill: Malt extract is liable to taxation, and the fact that a tax has already been paid on the beer from which the extract is made has no bearing on the question on the taxability of an article in its new and medicinal form. Patent medicines must be stamped ac- cording to the regular retail price as fixed by the manufacturer, and not at the selling price. For instance, if the printed retail price of an article is $1.50 and the druggist sells it at 95 cents, it would require a stamp of 334 cents. Chemical preparations and prepared drugs, like phenacetine, sulphonal, an- tipyrine, even although having no fixed or retail price, and not sold in prepared packages by the retailer, are held to be taxable. In regard to the administration of the stamp tax on bulk goods which have no fixed or advertised retail price, the bureau decides that all medicinal prep- arations subject to the stamp tax, and all perfumeries and cosmetic articles, are equally liable to the stamp tax when sold in what are termed bulk packages, as when sold in retail packages, and the value of the stamps to be affixed must correspond with the price charged for a single package with its contents. This decision specially applies to imported bay rum, cologne waters, vaseline and petroleum, which are held to be cosmetic articles, and to bitters claimed to be medicinal when sold in kegs, half bar- rels, barrels, etc. Dealers may retail directly from such bulk packages which have been proper- ly stamped by the manufacturer or im- porter, drawing from the same in quan- tities to suit their customers, without any additional stamping, but the stamps attached to such bulk packages will only protect the original articles contained therein, and only protect those so long as they are kept within such stamped pack- ages. If bulk packages are broken and their contents drawn off into smaller vessels, thereby ceasing to be identified with the stamped package in which they were put up by the manufacturer or sold by the importer, such contents are liable to seizure if stamps are not affixed to the articles thus sold or offered or exposed for sale. Concentrated extracts of witch hazel or hamamelis, napier compound licorice powder, pardoe seidlitz powder and napier extract of witch hazel are taxable under schedule B, because they are all proprietary medicinal articles, and are put up in a manner and form similar to those of proprietary articles in general, because the diseases for which they are a remedy are placed on the label and because special claim is made as to their excellence as preparations. Artificial lithia waters manufactured from pure distilled water by adding lithia bicarbonate and advertised as ben- eficial for gout, rheumatism, etc , are taxable under the first paragraph cf schedule B, and the stamp must be fixed to each bottle or syphon, in accordance with the retail price or value. ——_ —~>_2 Some Types of Pharmacists. I will not undertake to depict the thorough and candid happiness of the druggist who has his humble home over or behind his store and, while conducting his business, can remain in close con- tact with his family. He has his loved ones near him during the day; the gen- tle voice of his companion in life pours melody into his task and the touch of her soft hand smooths lovingly the wrinkles of his worried brow. Nor will I attempt to describe the pleasures of the pharmacist who finds recreation and satisfaction in reading and studying, and who, even at the expense of his hours of rest, imparts by his writings the love of his vocation to his brethren. I will not dwell further on the odd but charming peculiarities of the apothecary in ripe years who moves about his old- fashioned closets and shelves like a liv- ing fixture, with a glance of enthusiasm and inspiration, who loves each bottle and jar as his dear old friend, caressing them like a mother her child, and is moved almost to tears when one of them breaks by accident. Nor will I follow up before you the pharmacist with the fiery imagination, to whom drugs and chemicals are not mere pieces of vege- table growth or mineral formation, but living messengers from far-off countries and seas, from snowclad mountain-tops and dark mines, from foreign tribes and nations, and who thus entertains a lively mental intercourse with all the creation. I have known all these types—I know them to-day. And, thank heaven! they still live! These are the true disciples and exponents of pharmacy; to them their daily work is not drudgery ; they do not envy their brother his penny, but welcome him to their modest home; they do not effuse loud-mouthed, ill-na- tured plaints at meetings or among neighbors; their thoughts and actions take a nobler flight; they are the true working representatives of our profes- sion, on whom its future depends. Wm. C. ALPERS. ——_—___~+ 2. Sell What Is Wanted. If a customer asks for ‘‘sweet oil,’’ don’t label it ‘‘olive oil’’ and then spend five minutes trying to make him believe it is the same thing. No matter what article is sold, it is better to label it by the name it was called for, being sure to spell the common name _ proper- ly, and not abbreviate the official name. A good many druggists and label print- ers have not yet discovered that it is easier and better to spell Epsom salt with only one s in salt. Ce Waterproof Labels. Labels are best waterproofed by the application of a solution of white shellac in alcohol, taking care that tbe shellac extends a quarter of an inch or so be- yond the edge of the label. If desired, a coating of paraffin may afterwards be applied by simply rubbing a lump of paraffin thoroughly over the label. +2. You will always get a truthful answer if you ask a woman her age and she tells you it is none of your business. AMERICAN '§ | a competitor. 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 Send for samples and prices. THE AMERICAN PLAYING CARD CO., KALAMAZOO, MICH. i i \ i | | MICHIGAN TRADESMAN WHOLESALE PRICE CURRENT. Advanced— Declined— Acidum am ee -- Oe 50 sara OO. ky. = 50 Acaticum............ 8 6@8 38 50 aiba. tee. § OE 25) Foitan 50 Benzoicum, German 70@ 75 | Cubebe.............. 90@ 1 00] Prunus virg......... @ 50 Borage @ 15| Exechthitos ........ 1 eb 1 10 Tinctures Carbolicum ......... 20@ 41| Erigeron............ 1 0@ 1 10! Aconitum Napellis R 60 Citicwm 45@ 4g|Gaultheria..... ..., 1 50@ 1 60) Aconitum Napellis F 50 Hydrochlor......... 3@ 5 | Geranium, ounce... @ | Atgen 60 Nesrochm. _........ 8@ 10 es, Sem.gal.. 50@ 60! Aloes and Myrrh.. 60 Oxalicdia (012. 12@ 14| Hedeoma..... 7... LOMB 110) Wentea 7) 50 Phosphorium, dil... @ 15|Junipera. --++++ 150@ 2 00] Assafostida . 50 Salicylicum. ........ 60@ 65 Lavendula ...... 9@ 200! Atrope Belladonna. 60 Sulphuricum........ 1%@ | Tomes 1 30@ 1 50| Auranti Cortex..... 50 Temienme 00. 1 25@ 1 40} Mentha Piper....... 1 60@ 2 20/ Benzoin........ 60 Tartaricum.......... 38q@ 40| Mentha Verid....... 150@ 1 69] Benzoin Co....... 1. 50 Morrhue, mr eee: 1 10@ 1 25} Barosma 50 Ammonia Myrcia,...-.- 2... 4 00@ 4 50| Cantharides.... 111] % Aqua, 16 deg........ 6 6) Olive H@ 3 00) Capsicum ....._.. : 50 Aqua, 2 deg..:..... ( S| Picts liquids _._.. 10@ 12) Cardamon....... 5 Carbonas —-- 22... 12 14 | Picis Liquida, gal... @ 35) Cardamon Co.. rest Crioridum _.- 2.5... Re 4 a cS es al a 4 - =... 1 00 Samiarin’ =. |: PiGateehy |. 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Bi lodide 2 60 2 65 uy ag thee eeeee eee 50 Cinchona Flava..... 18| Potassa, Bitart, pure 2x%@ 30 a oo wet ena es be Euonymus atropurp : pa i com @ 6 Opii . MiC&........ = Myrica Cerifera, po. 20 | Potass Nitras, opt.. 1@ 12 . % Paas Virgini.. - ¥2 | Potass Nitras.. 6. 10@ 11 Obit cam) horatied. ; = Quillaia, gr’d....... 14| Prussiate,.... 6, «Sig «685 aa deg orize = Sassafras..... po. 18 12 | Sulphate po. a. boo is een pe tce ease ene 56 Ulmus...po. 15, gr’d 15 Radix Se. ee 50 Extractum Aconitum 20@ 2 Sanguinaria Se 50 Glycyrrhiza Glabra. 24@ 25| Althe......0000777) 22@ 25} Serpentaria. ....... 50 Glycyrrhiza, po..... 2g, «S| eechines .. 10@ = 12| Stromonium 60 Hematox,isibbox. 11@ 12} Arumpo...... ...._. @ ) emt. 60 Hematox,1Is........ 199 14 Cabime 20@ 40| Valerian............ 50 Heematex, 45 -.....- 14@ 15 | Gentiana.....- po 15 12@ 15| Veratrum Veride 50 Heematox, 48....... i6@ |) Glyehrrhiza py ts ie 19| Zingetber.......' 20 Berea Hydrastis Canaden . a Tliscellaneous i ~ | Hydrastis Can., po.. @ 65} Atther, Spts. Nit. 3F 35 Carbonate Precip... 15| Hellebore,Alba,po.. 18@ 20 Aither, Spts. Nit.4F %@ _ 38 Citrate and Quinia.. AO ingia po. 15@ 20] Alumen rT a Citrate Soluble...... % | Tpecae, po.... 1.1...” 2 80@ 3 09| Alumen, gro°d..7o°7 Ss ; Ferrocyanidum Sol. 40 | Tris plox.. . . P035@38 35 40 Annatto . 40@ 50 Solut. Chloride..... 1D) Jalapa, pe) 25@ 30|Antimoni, po....... 4@ 5 Sulphate, com’l..... 2| Maranta, \4s.. @ 35) AntimonietPotassT 40@ 50 Sulphate, com’l, by Podophyllum, po.. 2@Q@ | Antipyrin @ 80 bbl, per ewt....... eee 7@ 100] Antifebrin 11117 @ 15 Sulphate, pure ..... ‘ Rhei, ot: @ 1 25 | Argenti Nitras, 07 @ 50 Flora = _ Saale ne 1 * Arsenicum. . 10@ 12 Pecis. 35¢ 38 | Balm Gilead Bud. ( 40 Arnica sacred era = 2 Sanguinaria..-po. i5 . 13] Bismuth S. N. ee 1 50 atioarts. Co 35 perpentaria ....___. 30@ 35) CaleciumC hlor., ia @ 9 ae Senega............... 40@ 45] Calcium Chior. , 4S. @ 10 Folia Similax, ie H @ 40 Calcio Chlor., 4s. @ 2 Darocma............. 23@ 28| Smilax, M... @ 2 | Cantharides, Rus. po @ ® Cassia Acutifol, Tin- Seite po.35 10@ 12) Capsici Fructus, af. @ MeveHy 18@ 25 | Symplocarpus, Foeti. Capsici Fructus, po. @ 15 Cassia Acutifol,Alx. 25@ 30] dus, po..... @ 25/ Capsici FructusB,po @ 15 Salvia officinalis, \s Valeriana,Eng.po.30 _@ 2% | Caryophyllus..po.15 12@ 14 and S600... ce: 12@ 20/ Valeriana, sseisommn 15@ 20] Carmine, No. 40..... @ 3 00 ra Ors 8@ 10 Zingiber a. ... : 2@ 16 | Cera Alba a) 50@ 5d Sisainaa ameter}. |... 23@ 27 era Flava.......... 40@ 42 Acacia, Ist picked.. Q@ & — Cassia it i @ 33 Acacia, 2d picked.. @ 45) Anisum....... po @ 12) Centraria........ 917’ @ 10 Acacia, 3d picked.. @ 3 — (giaveleons) 1B@ 15| Cetaceum.... @ 44 Acacia, sifted sorts. @ a ae CL niece 60@ 63 Acsela po... 60@ 80 Garni. wttececens po. 18 10@ 12/6 zhloroform, squibbs @ib Aloe, Barb. po.18@20 12@ 14] Cardamon........... 1 25@ 1 75} Ghioral Hyd Crst.... 1 25@ 1 50 Aloe, Cape ....po. 15 @ tt) Corlandrom.. |. 8@ 10} Chondrus. 20 25 Aloe, Socotri..po. 40 @ 30| Cannabis Sativa.. I@ 4% Cinehonidine P'é cw aoe = Ammoniac.......... 55@ 60] Cydonium........... %5@ 1 00| Cinchonidine. Ger PQ 30 Assafotida....po.30 25@ 28| Chenopodium ||)” 10@ | 12) Cocaine 8 30@ 3 50 Benzoinum ......... 50@ 55 | Dipter'x Odorate... 2 00@ 2 20| Corks, list, dis pret. 70 Catechu, Is... @ 13) Feniculum......... @ 10] Greosotum. . - @ 35 Catechu, % @ 14} Faenugreek, po...... 7@ 91 Creta.. --bbL.% @ 2 Catechu, i\s.. @ trient 34@Q 1% Creta, prep @ 5 Camphore ... 4@ 43 Lint, ged... ‘bbl, 3% 4@ 4% | Creta; precip... 11” @ 11 Euphorbium. “po. “35 @ 10} Lob élia a 35Q 40! Greta, * Bane oa @ 8 Guitanum @ 1 00} Pharlaris Canarian. 4@ 4%|Crocus.. ... ne 18@ 20 Gamboge po........ Gg Wi Rapa “2 Sicuiier. "ss a Guaiacum..... po. 25 @ | Sapis Alba... ... 9@ 101] Cupri Sulph. ao 5@ 6 Kino........po. 83.00 @ 300} Sinapis Nigra....... N@ 12] Dextrine.....//71177 10@ 12 os eee ola, = - Spiritus Ether Sulph weg 90 rrh......... Frumenti, W. D. Co. 2 9 59 | Emery, ail numbers @ 3s a , W. D. Co. 2 25 Opi. po. 85. 3005. 40 3 a 3 = Frumenti, D.F.R.. 9 on 3 3, | Mery, po... | @ 6 Shellac, bleached... sop 43 | Brament!’ 1 25@ 1 50) ike Whi ite Be v sora 50@ 80 | Juniperis Co. O. T.. 1 65@ 2 00| Flake White........ 2@ = ragac duniperis Co... 1 75@ 3 50 | Galla Q@ zB Herba Saacharum N. E.... 1 90@ 2 10 Gambier. pes 8@ 9 Absinthium..oz. pkg 25 | Spt. Vini Galli.. 1 @ 6 50 | Gelatin, Cooper...” @ 6 Eupatorium .oz. pkg 20 | Vini Oporto......... 1 25@ 2 00 ee French. .... = = Lobelia......0z. pkg i Vind Ate 1 @ 2 00 | Giassware, flint, box a Majorum ....oz. pkg 28 Spanien tee Shan box... Tbe Mentha Pip..oz. pkg RB pong Gluc, brown... |. 9@ 12 Months it as. pkg 35 Florida sheeps’ wool Glue. white... 13@ 25 Rue |.0z. pkg 39 | Carriage. . 2 50@ 2 7% | Glycerina........... 154@ 22 Waacatun’ as. pk 2 Nassau sheeps ‘wool Grana Paradisi .... @ 15 ican oe ce on | Gamage 0. @ 2 00} Humulus.. 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D@ 2 wool. carriage... @ 1 00; Hydraag Ammoniati @ 1 10 Carbonate, K.&M.. 20@ 25| Grass sheeps’ wool, HydraagUnguentum 45@ 55 Carbonate, Jennings 35@ 36] Carriage........... @ 1 00} Hydrargyrum....... @ iz Hard, for slate use. @ %5|Ichthyobolia,Am... 6@ 7% Oleum Yellow Reef, for Indigo. .. -.1. . go@ 1 00 Absinthium......... 350@ 375] slate use.......... @ 1 40| lodine, Resubi..:1! 2 60@ 3 70 Amygdale, Dule.. 30@ ¢ lodoform ee @ 4 20 Amygdale, Amare . 8 00@ 8 25 _—— Lapolins 20050) @ 2% 21 @ 2 2n| Acacia. @ 50| Lycopodium........ oe 45 . 2 5@ 2 40} Auranti Cortes... @ wi Maca ......... 5 - 2 oe 2 6) Simgiber.) . ... @ 50| Liquer Arsez et by- - SO Ssiipecae. @ |. drariod.. |... @ 2% ‘me «68 Ferifod..... ...... @ 50} LiquorPotassArsinit 10@ 12 rr, Sg «ti hel Arom.... ..... @ 50; Magnesia, Sulph.. 2@ «63 Chenopadii.......... @ 2 75 | Smilax Officinalis... 50@ 60| Magnesia, Sulph, bbl @ 1% Cinnamonii......... 1 600) 1 7) Senees.... ... @ 50| Mannia,S.F........ 30@ 60 Citronella. ......... 45@ 50|Scillw.......... .. @ Wj Menthol... .. ...... 2% Cro ojOe% ‘aw ao Bore ° Morphia,S.P.& W... 2 45@ 2 70 ——— eo. @ _ 18) Linseed, pure raw.. 40 43 ‘Co S.N.Y.Q.& Sina if Ome... |. @ 30| Linseed, boiled..... 42 45 ee 2 45@ 2 70 ~~ Maceaboy, De Neatsfoot,winterstr 6 70 ances Canton.. a 2 Vea... @ | Spirits Turpentine... 34 40 ae No. 1.. “35 65@ 80 suf, Seoteh, DeVo’s @ 34 Nux ot aggre 10 | Soda Borag.......... °@ an. 15@ 18| Soda Boras, po...... 9@ il Paints BEL. LB — Saac, H. & P. Soda et Potass Tart. 26@ 28] Red Venetian... ... 1% 2 @ eee 100) Seda, Carb.......... ing Ochre, yellow Mars. 1% 2 a Picis Lia, N.N.% gal. Soda, — oo 3@ 5 Ochre, yellow Ber. 1% 2 eT @ 200} Soda, Ach... 3%4@ 4 Putty, commercial... 24 ouOs Picis Liq., quarts... @ 1 00| Soda, Sulphas ee @ | 2! putty: strictly pure. 2% 24@3 Picis Liq., pints. .... @ - Spts. Cologne........ @ 2 60 Vermilion, Prime Pil Hydrarg.. -po. 80 @ Spts. Ether Co...... 50@ 55) American.. 13@ 15 Piper Nigra...po. 22 @ 18 Spt Myrcia Dom... @ ? 00| Vermilion English. Ks 75 Piper Alba....po. 35 @ 30} Spts. Vini Rect. bbl. @ 2 48| Green, Paris 18%@_ 22 Piix Burgun........ @ 7) Spts. ViniRect.4bbl @ 253! Green’ Peninsular. 13@ 16 Plumbi Acet........ 10@ 12] Spts. Vini Rect.10gal @ 2 56 | Lead, Red 54@«b Pulvis Ipecac et Opii 1 10@ 1 20/| Spts. Vini Rect. 5gal @ 2 58 Lead, wile 5K@ 6 Pyrethrum, boxes H. Less 5¢ gal. cash 10 dars. Whiting, white Span @ 1 & P. D. Co., doz. . @ 1 25| Strychnia, = gaes - 140@1 4 Whiting, gilders’. @ w Pyrethrum, Pv kine ue 2@ 30/ Sulphur, Subl....... 3%@ 4% | white. Paris Amer.. @ 1 00 Cansei 8@ 10|Sulphur, Roll..... 3%@ 4 Whiting, Paris Eng. Quinia, ~ E &W.. 200, 3t oe oo 2@ = cliff... @ 1 40 uinia, S. German. 2 32 | Tereben pemi¢e.- =a St) cece al pec a uinia: SY a = Theobrome emai ie 88 #2 Universal Prepared. 1 00@ 1 15 ubia inetorum. 12 14 Sateen —— pv 13 2 ae oe .. 7@ Varnishes ee 3 00@ 3 1 a Sanguis Draconis... 40@ | Oils ao i soe i 70 Sapo, z See eee R@ 14 BBL. @AL. | Coach Body......... 2 T@ 3 00 a - 10@ 12! whale, winter....... 70 =70| No.1 Turp Furn.... 1 00@ i 10 PO, G........... 6. @ 15| Lard, extra.....:.:: 40 45| Extra Turk Damar. 1 55@ 1 60 Siedlitz Mixture ...20 @ 22! fard'No.1...0000.7 3 40|Jap.Dryer,No.i1Turp 7@ 75 HORTRAE IRS RITES POCKET BOOKS|: AND ROI ° ° ° ° “Ae o 2S G ALD Qe °o o Gro 0), ° Ow °o Of50 o Cog ° a4 Fo’ ° ° °o eo 1Ofy oS ALzZ o A) Joep oN ° f=) Gro de ‘oD 0° ° o oe 3 = We shall sample in a few days a large ALL 0 2 AC %,0 o OW? FGr9 Bd ows ow 9 0°, o °o 20fo So ° ° and well assorted line of ° sees o cos o ° are (028(0 Yow co 2 9 w Se a o Ladies’ Pocket Books o ao os ° De Yo Ladies’ Purses oO 3° Boye 9O¢5 90H 9 0 o Cro r a oO 9 Sows a o oe Gentlemen’s Pocket Books Ne 8. fe A Oe Gentlemen’s Purses 9 fe 0 And invite your inspection and order. Ero © o)age ‘Ow ° ° v 0 89°09 Oe, ° | Hazeltine & Perkins | 9 ° Drug Co. S 3 ecans per doz......... 2 00 Home. 4 lb cans 4dozcase...... 35 % lbcans4dozcase...... 55 lb cans 2 doz case ..... 90 14 1b cans, 4 doz case..... ¥% 1b cans, 4 doz case... .. Ib cans, 2 doz case...... 1 Jersey Cream. i th. cans, per doz.......... 2 ° os. Gans, per dos. ......... 1 6 Oz. Cans, per Gos.......... Gur Leader. 4¢ Ib Cans : ee % ib See a 1 Peerless. Lie. cams... ....-...... Temes Flake 306.,6 G08. Gane............ 27 6 0z., -oe., 6 Gon. Cace............ io. © 28 Case............ Sib. | doz. Case............ BATH — a - 1: English. . ork ‘BLUING. oe Le Small, 3 ao... 40 Large, 2 doz. <= BROOMS. mo. 1 (arpe.......... 1 90 No. 2 Carpet.. 1% No. 3 Carpet... . 1 50 No. 4 Carpet.. / te Parr oem... .. 2 00 Common Whisk 2 Fancy ak. | 80 _eroeease. ....... . 25 CANDLES. ~~... 7 —. 8 oe ee 8 CANNED GOODS. Manitowoc Peas. Lakeside Marrowfat....... 95 oe 16 Lakeside, Cham. of Eng.... 1 20 Lakeside. Gem, Ex. Sifted. 1 45 Extra Sifted Early June....1 75 CATSUP. Comsbia, pmnts.......... 2 00 Columbia, % pints.......... is CHEESE eee @ 8 OO ———————e @ 8% paornes.......-.-. a 38 Carson City.... . @ 8s Embiem........ : @ &% ee @ 2° hom... @ &% Semeey -......-.. 3... @ & T_T io &s payeaee....-....... @ 8% ee @ & a Loo ee @ ae oa il Soa. @ 7 Looe @ 17 Lamburper.......... @ 12 Pineapple............50 @ 8 eS ee 17 Chicory. — ..... ia 5 Red i CHOCOLATE. Waiter Baker & Co.'s. PPCTRNRE BWC. ooo. ss oo 23 Pon, i; coe Breakfast Cocoa... . 45 CLOTHES LINES. 00 Cotton, 50 ft, per dos....... 1 20 Cotton, 60 ft, per doz.......1 40 Cotton, 70 ft, per dos....... 1 60 Cotton, 80 ft, per doz....... 1 80 Jute, SOTt, por Jox......... = OE COcoA a 20 1b bags.. oo 2% Less quantity... a 3 Pound packages... 4 CREAM TARTAR. 5 and 10 1b. wooden boxes..30-35 COFFEE. Green. Rio. eae... ee 9 eS ee ees 10 —.. CtCi‘i‘. LL 11 eS ee 12 Peahores ....:... Santos. Coae e Pome... Peaverry __-......... -----...- 15 Mexican _ ‘a i rar ... 2 aoee 2 ee Fancy .. 1% Maracaibo. Pre... ee ee we 19 Te Java. TPOIROR. o.oo ce hott ee ne cen 19 Private Growth..............-20 Mandehiing.........--..-....- 21 Mocha. iiliation .. .. ee CES a 22 Roasted. Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brands Fifth Avenue..... --.----- 29 Jewell’s Arabian Mocha....29 Wells’ Mocha and Java..... 24 Wells’ Perfection Java..... 24 Bemcaieo. 1 2. ew = Breakfast Giend........... Valley City Maracaibo. Is Tdeal Blend Leader Glend....... -. ---- 3 Package. Below are given New York prices on package coffees, to which the wholesale dealer adds the local freight from New York to your. shipping point, giving you credit on the invoice for the amount of freight buyer pays from the market in which he purchases to his shipping point, including weight of package, also 4c a pound. In 60lb. cases the list is 10c per 100 lbs. above the price in full cases. Arbuckle ...... Sl ae ee Jersey. . . 20 rcLsughtin’ s xx x. McLaughlin’s XXXX ‘sold to retailers only. Mail all orders direct to W. F. McLaughlin & Co., Chicago. Extract. Valley City % gross .... 2 Ves = fees 115 Hummel’s foil 4% gross... 85 Hummel’s tin & gross 1 42 —— PINS. 5 gross box CONDENSED MILK. 4 doz in case. Gail Borden Eagle......... 6% aoeen 6 25 as... 5 % Chametor .........._....._ 2 oe ions _............... 2 CHATIONEO. .... 2.200. .:.....8 oe Dime -3 33 COUPON BOOKS. Tradesman Grade. 50 books, any denom.... 1 50 100 books, any denom.... 2 50 500 books, any denom....11 50 1,000 books, any denom....20 00 Economic Grade. 50 books, any denom.... 1 50 100 books, any denom.... 2 50 500 books any denom....11 50 1,000 books. any denom....20 00 Superior Grade. 50 books, any denom.... 1 50 100 books, any denom.. | 250 500 books, any denom... ..11 50 8 Ss 1,000 books, any denom.... Coupon Pass Books, Can be made to a any denomination from 810 d ~~ ae Gee oe ee ee oe 3 00 Pe ooees .......--......5- 3 00 MOORS eos 6 ee POURS... eee 10 00 1000 books. . be eceee eee oe =/c OUPON TS Siting | Universal = 50 books, any denom.... 1 50 100 books, any denom.... 2 500 books, any denom....11 50 1,000 books, any denom....20 00 Credit Checks. 500, any one denom’n..... 3 00 1000, any one denom’n..... 5 00 8 00 % 50 2000, any one denom’n..... Steel punch. ..... DRIED FRUITS—DOMESTIC Apples. Soamrien. 25... @5 Evaporated 50 lb boxes. @8 California Fruits. pees... @8% Blackberries... ........ Nectarines ... @ 74 Peaches.........-- 4@ 7% Pears oo 7% Pitted Cherries........ Erannoee....-..- Raspberrics............ California Prunes. 100-120 25 lb boxes....... 90-100 25 Ib boxes....... @ 4% 80 - 90 25 lb boxes....... @ 70-80 3 Ib boxes....... @ 60-70 25 lb boxes.. .... @ 5% 50 - 60 25 Ib boxes....... @ 6% 40 - 50 25 lb boxes....... @9 30 - 40 25 lb boxes....... iq cent less in 50 1b cases aisins. London Layers 3 Crown. 1 45 London Layers 4 Crown. 1 55 Deneeas Loose Muscatels2 Crown 3% Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 4% Loose Muscatels 4 Crown 5% FOREIGN. Currants. Petras Pies... @ 74 Vostizzas 50 Ib cases......@ 7% Cipaned tak <....c, @ 8% Cleaned, packages........ @ 8% Peel. Citron American 10lb bx @13 Lemon American 10 1b bx @12 Orange American 101b bx @12 Raisins. Ondura 28 |b boxes @ &h% Sultana 1 Crown.. @ Sultana 2Crown . @ Sultana 3Crown....... @ 7% Sultana 4 Crown....... @ Snitana & Crown : ma Sultana 6 Crown = Sultana package FARINACEOUS Goobs. — 2411b. packages... s+. Bulk, per 108 ibs..... _... 3 50 Grits. Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s Brand. 2423 Ib. packages..-.......2 2 mith, keee. 3 60 Soo ib. barrels... ......-... 5 Hominy. Bees 2 50 Flake, 50 lb. drums....... 1 00 ans. Dried Lima . ... 3% Medium Hand Picked. Maccaroni and Vermicelli. Domestic, 10]b. box...... 60 Imported, 25 Ib. box.. ...2 50 Pearl Barley. Coen Chester .. .....- Pepi... : Peas. Gren. Mi a 95 Belt, peree... 2% Rolled Oats. Rolled Avena, bbl.......3 60 monarch, bie. .........- .3 40 Monarch, 3% bbi.........- 1 80 Monarch, 90 1b — cae 1 60 Quaker, Gaecs........:....3 2 Tver, GREER... .. -... ...- 1% Sago. CN i a 4 mast india... ....... a — Flake isin nS 3% i ee ce ee 356 Anchor, 40 1 lb. pkges.... 5 Wheat. Cracked, balk. .......-.... 3% 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 ee 6 bbl Moliend, % ph... .... 1 30 Holland white hoop, keg. 30 Holland white ~_- mchs 85 Norwegian... .... Round 100 lbs............. 27 Round 2 ite...-......... 1 30 PRPC oo Coen oy 13 ee Mess 100 Ibs... Ce: Mess 40 lbs. Mess 10 lbs.. Mess _ 8 lbs.. Mo. Ligping... 2... Cs Hot Oe... .. No.1 101bs No. 1 No. 2 a Go.) SOtPe. ose. 2 > €8HOO OUT ie RS ve a No. No. : Trout. No. 1100: Ibs..._-. oe mo. t ie... ....... . No.1 1 _ eee Ne.1 6&2 Whitefish: No.i Ne,.2 100 ihs........ 6 $2 16 -—ie........ 280 260 iw ite........ 78 7 33 Sie....20.. 85 61 29 FLAVORING EXTRACTS. 00 No. 8...290 No. 10. .6 00 No. 10...4 00 No. 2T.1 2 No. 27, Ww No. 3T.2 00 No. 3$T.1' 5 No 4T.2 40 No. 47.1 50 Northrop Brand. Lem. Van. 2 oz. Taper Panel. . 7 5 120 Pos. Over. :-..s. % 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 Grade Lemon. doz SOS... vie) .os...... 1 50 Regular Vanilla. doz RS 2on.....-1 20 = 405...... 2 40 XX Grade mon. 5 2Og...... 1 50 Mm, 40z. ....3 00 XX Grade Vanilla. ae 2 O8....., 1% ee 3 50 FLY PAPER. i SouDER: JUVERS Fiavorine Tanglefoot, per box........ 30 Tanglefoot, c’se of 10 b’x’s 2 55 Tanglefoot, 5 case lots..... 2 50 Tanglefoot, 10 case lots.... 2 40 GUNPOWDER. Rifle—Dupont’s. MPN ee a 4 00 ae Meee 235 Quarter “ities eterna ena. 1 2 RIO GANS. 82k ae IOAN cc: 18 Choke Bore—Dupont’s. Oe 4 Half Kegs.... Quarter Kegs....... a oo 17D POR os ot 34 Eagie Duck—Dupont’s. Rem 8 00 WOT os cee pee 42 Apumenoer Mees. 6. eck 2 25 i Che. HERBS. Base... 8... Meee 15 INDIGO. Madras, 5 lb boxes......... 55 8. F.,2,3 and 51b boxes.... 50 JELLY. i eae 35 oo ih pecs... .... .... oe LYE. iGundensed, 2 doe .......... 1 20 Condensed. 4 doz........ .2 5 LICORICE. ee 30 ——s 5 Sicily... 14 eo 10 MINCE MEAT. Ideal, 3 doz. in case......... 2 2 MATCHES. Diamond —. me 8 brands. No. 9 sulphur.. : 1 65 Anchor Parlor.............. ..1 70 No: 2 Home........ 4. expen Tarior........-...:- 4 00 MOLASSES. New Orleans. nee ee 11 Re ee 14 ee 20 ae 24 Open Reale a 25@35 Half-barrels 2c extra. MUSTARD. : Horse Radish, i doz......... 16 Boree Radish, 2.doz.........3 Bayle’s Celery, 1 doz.. 1% PIPES. Cag 0. 210...........-4.- i = Clay, T. = full count...... Com, Me.8.... ps POTASH. 48 cans in case. Babbitt’s. _.. <0 Penna Salt Co.’s. . 3 00 PICKLES. Medium. Barrels, 1,200 count........ 5 90 Half bbls, 600 count........ 3 00 Small. Barrels, 2,400 count....... 6 00 Half bbis 1,200 count...... 3 50 RICE. Domestic. Covonna nead.....:..2... 6% Camo Bef. ............ & Carolina = 2. oo Broken.. oe. 7). eta paren, 0.4... 2)... 6% Japan, No. 2.. icc Java, fancy Bead 6 Java, N 5% Table SALERATUS. Packed 60 lbs. In box. ONIONS cee chs acca 3 POIANA co csp ees ayes cle 3 15 PS a eae 3 30 ee ee 3 00 SAL SODA. Granulated, bblis.......... 7% Granulated, 100 lb cases.. 90 Lump, bbls. 75 Lump, 1451b kegs.. pee ees. 85 SEEDS. ee 9 Canary, Smymme........... 3% Caraway ............5:.. 1: 8 Cardamon, Malabar ..... 60 COPE es 11 Hemp, HUsciag.......... 3% mimen itd... 4% Mustard, white....... ... 5 eon ee EE a Seer 10 ON es 4h6 Custio Hone............... 20° SNUFF. Seotch, in bladders......... 37 Maccaboy, in jars........... 35 French Rappee, in jars..... 43 SALT. Diamond Crystal. Table, cases, 24 3-l1b boxes..1 50 Table, See 100 3 1b bags.2 75 Table, barrels. 407 1b bags.2 40 Butter, barrels, 2801b. bnlk.2 25 Butter, barrels, 2014 lbbags.2 50 Butter, sacks, 2 lbs......... 25 Butter, sacks, 66 1ba......... 55 Common Grades. MOS ibseeks... =... 190 OO510 maces... 1% SS ISTP SAGES... 2... os. 1 60 Worcester. SO 4 Ib. cartona........... 3 25 15 2461p. eacke..... ....... 4 00 O 5 ib seers... ....... 3 %5 == > ee a0 10 10. aheks.:.. 8. :.. 5: 3 59 28 ib. linen a beiceecns us. 32 DO lb. nen sacks... ........ 60 Bulk in barrels... . ...... 2 50 Warsaw. 56-lb dairy in drill bags..... 30 28-1b dairy in drill bags..... 15 Ashton. 56-lb dairy in iinen sacks... 60 Higgins. 56-lb dairy in linen sacks. 60 Solar Rock. S610 sacks... Fe Common. Granulated Fine.......:.... ? Medium fing .........__... q SOAP. Binele ben... 4... sks: 275 5 box lots, delivered........2 70 10 box lots, delivered....... 2 65 JAS. §. KIRK & 60.’ BRANDS. American Family, wrp’d....2 66 a 2% Cernes... eee iseee 2 20 PON es 2 50 White Russian..... 23 White Cloud, laundry... ..6 25 White Cloud, toilet.........3 50 Dusky Diamond, 50 6 oz....2 10 Dusky Diamond, 50 8 oz. “13 00 Blue India, 100 % ib. ee ee 3 00 Biemorne.... 22.8 3 50 nee 2 50 Schulte Soap Co.’s Brand. 100 cakes, 75 lbs. Senele box...) oc 2 80 & box fous... .- Setaes box tole... poeeee eo oe tote... 2 Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands. Old Country, 80 1-Ib. bars ..2 7: Good Cheer, 60 1-lb. bars....3 7 Uno, 100 %-1b. bars.......... 2 56 Doll, 100 10-02. DAM... se Scouring. Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz ..... 2 40 Sapolio, hand, 3 doz........ 2 40 SODA. OM oes coo ee 5% Rom, Boeies.........-...-. “ene iiiphia pa Seimetint ene Dish ss i hanna geiP een SSA So hee Ore na LaPne a i MICHIGAN TRADESMAN 2l SPICES. Whole Sifted. Allspice ... Cassia, China in mats....... Cassia, Batavia in bund....2: Cassia, Saigon in rolls...... 2 Cloves, Ampeyns. |... Cloves, Zanzibar... “ “ SW (mo Car AS eat oe ty NY ade No. 4, 3 doz in case, gross.. 4 50 No. 6, 3,doz in case, gross.. 7 20 SUGAR. Below are given New York prices on sugars, to which the wholesale dealer adds the local freight from New York to your shipping point, giving you credit on the invoice for the amount of freight buyer pays from the market in which he purchases to his shipping point, including 20 pounds for the weight of the barrel. PO 5 88 Cut Poet 8s Crags. cc a 88 OIRO os 5 63 Pow@ore .................. d 63 RREX Powdered...........5 Granulated in bbls... ...... 3 38 Granulated in bags......... 5 38 Wine Granniated............ 5 38 Extra Fine Granulated..... 50 Extra Coarse Granulated... mote Ao. Diamond Confec. A........ Confee. Standard A......... Ne. 1 HA a ie De ue ea TT SN OH TO OTT TOBACCOS. Cigars. Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s brand. New Brick... 5. |... 33 00 H. & P. Drug Co.’s brand. mintebte | a ae G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brana. * $6 SC Wo... . 33 00 Michigan Cigar Co.’s brand. Ure Unkle Ure Unkle... 35 00 Ruhe Bros. Co.’s Brands, Double Eagles, 6 sizes.$55@70 00 Gen. Maceo, 5sizes.... £ 5d@i0 00 Mr. Fhomas......... | 35 UU Cuban Hand Made... 35 OU Crowe Five........... 35 00 Sac Witte...) 35 00 Clap Five. ..... |... 35 U0 Gens. Grant and Lee.. 35 00 Little Peggy . Seca 35 00 Signal Five. Se 35 U0 Knights of P ythia 35 00 Key West Perfec ts, 2 8z 55@60 00 TABLE SAUCES. Lea & Perrin’s, —.- 4 75 Lea & Perrin’s, small. 2% Halford, large... eo Halford ‘small .. 2 2 Salad Dressing, large..... 4 55 Salad Dressing, small..... 2 © VINEGAR. Malt White Wine, 40 grain.... 6 Malt White Wine, 80 grain.... 9 Pere Cider. Pure Cider, Leroux... Pure Cider, Genesee... :. Pure Cider, Robinson. WICKING. No.0; pereross. 3 25 No. 1, pergross.. oo MO. 2; POL@rons 40 No. Coaches The National quotes as follows: Butter. Neyinour SAN. Seymour XXX, 3 1b. carton 8% Family XXX Family oe 31b carton... 6 Salted SNe Salted XXX, 3lbearton... 6% Biscuit Co. Soda. Soaa 2x... 6% Soda XXX, 3 1b carton. 7 Soda, Ci ity. ooo Zephyrette.. _ a0 Long Island Wafers....__ il L. 1. Wafers, 1 lb carton .. 12 Oyster. Square Oyster, XXX....... 6 Sq. Oys. XXX. Lib earion. 7 Farina Oyster, XXX 6 SWEET — ee Animals ... ove TOG Bent’s Cold W ‘ater. a l4 mene Mee 8 Coeoguns Taity .........-. 12 Coffee Cakes........ eo Prosted Honcy............: 1244 Graham Crackers ... 8 Ginger Snaps, XXX round. 7% Ginger Snaps, XXX city... 7% Gin. Snps,X XX home made 7% Gin. Snps,XXX scalloped... 74% Ginger Gomes... POR 8 Jamies, Honey........._. 11% Motssses Cakes........ 8 Marnmegtow 0. 15 Marshmallow Creams..... 16 Pretzels, hand made ..... 9 Pretzelettes, LitthkeGerman 7 Surat Cake... 8 Pres 124% pear Lenen ........... TM Sugar Squares............ 9 Vanilla Wafers ......... 14 Fecan Wafers. ............. 15% Mircea Ficme. 11% Cream Jumbles ............ 12 Boston Ginger Nuts........ 9% Pineapple Glace...... ..... 16 Penny Cakes. . 8% Marshmallow Wainuts.... 16 Relle Tale Piente 10% Oils. Barrels. et ae bedadcaues @ily% Xxx W. W.Mich. — @ 8% W W Michigan.. @ 84 Diamond White. @7% pee ee @ &&% Deo. Napths .......... @7 yemeer 25 @34 Marine... os. -11 @2i Back, winter......... @s Candies. Stick Candy. bbls. pails canes... 64@ 7 Standard H. H...... 642G 7 Standard — beet 6 @8 Cut Loaf.. i @ 8% cases Jumbe, c21b ....... @ 6% Bita8.8.. @ 8% Boston Cream...... Mixed Candy. Competition......... @ 6% eo cerc............ @i7 _—ocrve...... ..... @i% ee. @i% Meron... @ 8% omen... @G 8% Cus boat... @ 8% English Rock @s8 Kindergarten....... @ 8% French Cream... _. @ 8% Dandy fan | @i10 Valley Cream.. .... @i2z Fancy—In Buik. Lozenges, plain..... @ 8% Lozenges, printed... @9 Choc. Drops |... @il4 Choc. Monumentals @ll Gom Drops......._. @ 6 Moss Drops.. @8 NOUEETOpS...... ||. @ 9 iaperiais 2. i... @ 9 Fancy—In 5 Ib. Boxes. Lemon Drops... @io Sour Drops.. . @a0 Peppermint Drops... @6v Chocolate Drops.... @é6o H. M. Choe. Drops. 73 Gim Traps... ||. @30 Licorice Drops...... @i A. Bh, — oa @50 Lozenges, plain.. @50 Lozenges, printed.. @50 Peperials D5 Mottoes @i5 Cream Bar. ea @50 Molasses Bar ....... 5 Hand Made Creams. 80 @1 00 Fiain Creams... 60 @90 Decorated Creams. . @9 String Rock... @60 Burnt Almonds..... 1S @ Wintergreen Berries @bu Caramels. No. 1 seen. = 2 Ib. poxes @35 No. “1 wrapped, 3 lb. @50 Fruits. Oranges. Medt Sweets........ @3 00 Lemons. Strictly choice 360s.. @4 50 Strictly choice 300s.. @4 50 Fancy 360s or 300s... @5 00 Ex.Fancy 300s. : @5 5) Ex.KNancy 360s...... @> 50 Jumbo cases-Maioris @6 50 Bananas. Medium bunches...1 1 25 @1 50 Large bunches......1 7% @zZ 00 Foreign Dried Fruits. Figs. Choice, 101b boxes... @ Extra choice, 14 Ib boxes.. i @ Fancy, 12 ‘Tb boxes... @ 14 imperial Mikados, 18 ip bomes. @ Pulled, 6 1b boxes. . @ 18 Naturals, in bags... @ 6% Dates. Fards in 10 lb boxes @s Fards in 60 lb cases @ &6 Persians, G. M’s..... @5 Ib Cases, new...... @ 6 Sairs, 601b cases.... @ 4% Nuts. Almonds, Tarragona. . Bil3 Almonds, a a @ Almonds, California, soft shélled......... @13 Brac ney........... @ 7% Pipers @ll Walnuts, Grenobles .. @13 Walnuts, Calif No. 1. @10 Walnuts, soft shelled Cae @ Table Nuts, fancy @10 Table Nuts, aaa @9 Pecans, Mod @8 Pecans, Ex. Large.. @I10 Pecans, Jumbos....... @l2 Hickory Nuts per bu., OND sow, @1 60 Cocoanuts, full sacks @4 00 Peanuts. Pancy, H. P., Suns. @7™%& Fancy, H. P., Flags OGMed @i% Choice, H. P., Extras. @ 4% Choice, H. P., Extras, Be 5% Grains and Feedstuffs | Wheat. Wheat.. ie, 70 Winter Wheat Flour. Local Brands. Parone. .......... «so. 3 00 Second Patent..........., 5 Ov ee eae oe . 40 Clear. . -. 4 30 Graham ec. .. 450 Buckwheat . 400 Rye .... | 2 oe Subje ct to usual cash dis count, Flour in bbls., 25e per bbl. ad- ditional. Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand Diamond, 3¢s...... .. 1.4 0 Diamond, 4s..........- ..4 50 Paag@ond, 445. ..............4 50 Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand. Guaker, 4a... .. 4 50 OSROn, 348.,..0...0.... | 4 oe Citaier 542... ........ 2 0 Spring Wheat Fiour. Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brand. Pilsbury’s Best ics... _... ; 00 Pillsbury’s Best 4s........ 4 90 Pillsbury’s Best \s... . 480 Pillsbury’s Best Les paper.. 48a Pillsbury’s Best 4s paper.. 4 80 Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand. = Duluth Imperial, . 5 00 Duluth Imperial, as. . 4 90 Duluth Imperial, %s....... 4 89 Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s Brand. Gold Medal ts..........__. 5 00 Gold Medal a _. 4 90 Gold raage ya Parisian, Parisian, i ee eee Parag. sa... 4 80 Olney & Judson’s Brand. Ceresota, 48 Ceresota, 4s Ceresota, 4s.. Worden Grocer Co.” s Brand. Enerel, 368... . _.. 2 06 Laurel, - Peden ea Ol Laurel, \%s. cs cca. 400 aan POteG =... .. : . oO Granulated ......... 2 10 Feed and Millstuffs. St. Car Feed. screened . 16 CO No. 1 Corn and Oats.. "15 UU Unbolted Corn Meal ......14 50 Winter Wheat Bran... .13 06 Winter Wheat Middlings 14 50 | Sereenings..... : 15 00 | Gace. Car lots... 2. oe Less than ear lots...... 40 Oats. Car Ite... 8... toes Coe Carts, clipped... . ... Less than car lots. ...... 34 Hay. No. 1 Timothycarlots..... 9 00 No. ait perctd ton lots. ...10 00 Fresh Fish. Per lb Woitetish ......_... @ § pe @ s Binee Bass.......,.. 8 @ i Halibut . @ 15 Ciscoes or Herring. @ 4 Bluefish @ 10 Live Lobster. i. @ 16 — Lobster...... @ 18 Coa. : @ 10 Haddock. . Lo @ &§ No. 1 Pickerel....__ @ 38 re... , @ 7 Perch. @ if Smoked W hite. ee @ # Red Snapper. . €@ Col River Salmon. @ }2 Mackerel @ 18 Oysters in Cane: BH. Counts... ..... @ 40 Shell Goods. ° sters, per 100....... 1 25@1 50 Clams, peri00... @i 2 1 | | | | | | ° . Provisions. Swift & Company quote as] follows: Barreled Pork. mesa ......... 12 00 Back a“ ' Il Z Clear back..... ||. , li % Short cut 10 75 re. Loto ic. | fo Oe Bee ,6 Family eo 1, 50 Dry Salt Meats. Bellies... .. a. 634 Briskets ..... re ae 6% Extra shorts.. . 6% Smoked Meats. Hams, 12 lb average 8 Hams, 14 lb aver: age 8 Hams, 16 lb average. 8 Hams, 20 lb ave rage. ? Ham dried beet ..... Shoulders (N. Y. cut). Bacon, ro ng 7 California hams._. . . Boneless hams...... Cooked ham.. |Crockery and Glassware. “AKRON STONEWARE. Butters, +6 Sal., per dos...... ' 40 oa icc har eee a Leo e, OC 10 gal., cn. eho wo 48 12 gal., aa i. oe 15 gal. meat-tubs,each.... 90 20 gal. meat-tubs, each....1 20 25 gal. meat-tubs, each....2 25 30 gal. meat-tubs, each....2 7. Churns. 2 to 6 gal., per gal.... 5 Churn Dashe ors, per doz. 85 Milkpans. 4 gal. flat or rd. bot., doz. 45 1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each 434 Fine Glazed Milkpans. }% gal. flat orrd. bot.,doz. 60 1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each a% Stewpans. % gal. fireproof, bail, dos. 85 1 gal. fireproof, bail, doz.1 10 Jugs. | eal per dog... 40 mm en. perdos..., ....... 42 te o gal, pergul... 5% Tomato Jugs. eal, perdos....... .. a io. cocn 5% Corks for 4% gal., per doz.. 20 | Corks for | % gal., 1 gal., per doz.. 30 Preserve Jars and Covers. stone Cover, doz... %5 i gal., stone cover, doz...1 00 | Sealing Wax. | 5 lbs. in package, per'lb.. 2 LAMP ee No. 0 San..... . a roe teue.. 40 ae TOO 50 mOourity, WO f............. 60 Security, NG o.......... | oae Nutmeg .... MS tee ce ees | Climax. 1 25 | LAMP CHIMNEYS— Common. Lards. In Tierces. om at ee 4% Kettie....... a as. 634 55 lb Tubs....... advance 4 80 lb Tubs...... advance 38 SOtD Tins ...... advance My 20 lb Pails.......advance 56 10 Ib Pails....... advance % 5 lb Pails....... advance 1 3 1b Pails.......advance 14 Sausages. Bolcgna a% Liver...... ' 6% Pranetor. | 7% ro... fouls, % | Bioed ..... a Tomeac. - 9 Head cheese . H 644 Beef. Extra Mess.... oS Boneless ..... .-13 00 Rump 14 00 Pigs’ Feet. Bits. ite... i. 7 4 bbls, 40 ibe... 3D 564 bbls, 80 lba...... 2 50 Tripe Kits, 15 lbs. ve ole 70 44 bbls, 40 en oS % bbls. i... y 25 a. Pork... _. a 15 Beef rounds. oo 4 Beef middles. . 11 SCCe 60 a. Rolls, dairy........ 10 Solid, dairy . 9% Rolls, cre¢ umery oo... 14 NOUG, creamery... . 3% Canned Meats. Corned beef, 2 lb . 3 2 Corned beef, 14 ID... 22 75 Roast beef, 2 lb....... 2 35 Potted ham, 50 Potted ham, gu Deviled ham, 50 Deviled ham, 90 Potted tongue 4% 50 Potted eer 90 Fresh Meats. Beef. ——....... « @8 Pore quarters... ..... 5%@ 614 Hind quarters..... 9 @il0 —— NOS... gg @i2 Rib eae... | le Rounds Pests. Cae Chucks... 6 @ 6% Pies 3 @4 Pork Dressed . ‘s+... , Ser G rome @7T%, Shoulders. . ee @ 6 Heat tare 64@ Mutton. Careess 7 @8 Spring Lambs... ..... 9 @i2 Veal. Carease ... 7 @ 8%! _ Hides and Pelts. Fish and Oysters - ty Cappon & Bertsch Leather 100 Canal Street, quotes as fol lows: Hides. Green No. 1 @ 9 Green We? ........ . @ 8 Cored 4G 1............ @i0 1 Cured No.2... @ 9 | Calfskins, green No. 1 Calfskins, green No. 2 Calfskins, cured No. 1 Calfskins, cured No. 2 Pelts. Felts, cach............ 50g@t 00 Tallow. MO cis cie l.. @ 3 PO 2 @ 2 Wool. Washed, fine ......... @18 Washed, medium...... @23 Unwashed, fine.. it @is Unwashed, medium . -16 @I18 S91 GS G0 St Ge PO et Per box of 6 doz. No. 0 San..... le Ne teen... 1 48 No. 2 Sun. Loa wae First Quality. No. 0 Sun, crimp top, wrapped and labeled.... 2 10 No. 1 Sun, crimp top, wrapped and labeled.... 2 25 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% No. 2 Sun, crimp top, wrapped and labeled.... 3 75 CHIMNEYS—Pearl Top. No.l Sun, wrapped and Iiteled. 0 No. 2 Sun, wrapped and labeled. 4 70 No. 2 Hinge, wrapped and labeled. 8 No. 2 Sun, “Small Bulb,” for Globe ESmOA. 80 ie Bastie. No.2 aed plain bulb, per do 1 No. | Cvlies per doz....... 13 No. 2 Crimp, per doz.. 1 60 Rochester. | No. 1, Lime (65c doz). .... 3 50 No. 2, Lime (70¢ doz)...... 4 00 No. 2, Flint (80¢ doz)...... 4 70 Electric. | No. 2, Lime (70c doz) ..... 4 00 No. 2, Flint (80c doz)...... 4 40 OIL CANS, Doz. 1 gal tin cans with spout.. 1 25 gal galy iron with spout. 1 55 2 gal galy iron with spout. 2 75 3 gal galy iron with spout. 3 50 ) gal galv iron with spout. 4 75 3 gal galv iron with faucet 4 75 5 gal galv iron with faucet 5 25 oo aL Tite Cane... 8 00 gal galv fron Nacefas.... 9 00 Pump Cana, The 5 gal Rapid snl stream. 9 00 5 gal Eureka non ee 10 56 3 gal Home Rule.... -10 50 5 gal Home Rule.... a. Tp 00 5S gal Pirate King...... |... 9 50 LANTERNS, NO. OVabaiar..... .:.... 4 20 No. 1B Tubular. 2 No. 13 Tubular Dash. io. 0 OO No. 1Tub., glassfount.... 7 00 No. 12 Tubular, side lamp. 14 OC No. 3Street Lamp...... - 3% LANTERN GLOBES. | No. 0 Tubular, cases 1 doz. seed box 10 cents.. ... 45 No. 0 Tubular, cases2 doz. ~ each, box 15 cents. 45 No. 0 Tubular, bbls 5 doz. | 35 No.0 Tubular, bull’s eye, eases 1 doz. each......... 1% LAMP WICKS. | No. 0 pergross.......... 15 INO. 1 DET ROR. ..4.....,.., | at BO. 2 DOr MrONe ool. Se No. 3 per gross.. oo Mano vi MICHIGAN TRADESMAN Hardware Stove Trade and Prices. It is evident that business for fall will soon be, if indeed it is not already, the leading topic among stove men. Even now orders are being placed quite free- ly for fall shipment by some dealers who would fain be some of the early birds who catch the fattest worms. Apropos of the discussion in regard to the improvement in the country’s finan- cial condition, the stove business in many cities is better at this period than at the corresponding period of last year. In some cases the improvement has been so marked in the sales that much good feeling prevails among the manufactur- ers. There is every reason to believe that Western retailers will share toa marked degree in the coming fail trade, which promises to be very good. It is reported from reliable sources that the stocks of stoves in the hands of retailers are very light, while those of the man- ufacturers are less than they were last year at this time. There is no good reason, then, why greater profits and benefits should not accrue from the stove business than have hitherto been the rule. If people have more money to spend, why should not the stove dealer come in fora larger share of it? Inasmuch as his wares are necessities and not luxuries, an advance in price on such staple goods should meet with no disfavor from people who are in a position to pay more for them. We do not believe that much urging on this point will be necessary, yet there must be some union in the attempt to raise prices, else the pioneer in the ven- ture will have to endure as many _hard- ships te maintain his higher prices as Daniel Boone did to found a settlement in Kentucky. When money is plentiful it is a nat- ural sequence that consumers do not feel the need of exercising a stringent economy. They usually desire to pur-’ chase a better class of goods, feel no anxiety in paying more for them and are rather proud of the freedom with which they can spend money. Everywhere on nearly all products prices are advan- cing. Certainly the stove dealer should not be the lagging one in the band; he should rather be in the front of the pro- cession and obtain some benefit with others. Dealers should advise people to discard cheap worn out stoves and buy new ones, which should be marked up at least 10 per cent. a Relation of One Retailer to Another. In the first place, the relation should be friendly, neighborly and utterly de- void of a spirit of antagonism or hostil- ity, but characterized by good feeling, mutual understanding and a desire to achieve the one object and aim of con- ducting a business—success; to make a living for one’s self and family; to pro- vide something for the charitable and benevolent objects that claim support, and to acquire a surplus to sustain the disability and feebleness incident to old age. This is certainly a laudable am- bition and ought to be achieved when one invests his capital, devotes his time and energy and employs his knowledge and experience in the prosecution of a legitimate business. How can it be ac- complished? Certainly not by a feeling of jealousy and hostility toward one’s neighbor and a determination to sell goods at a lower price than that neigh- bor asks and less than ought to be real- ized to insure the profit which both he and his neighbor ought to have and which they know is essential to mutual safety and prosperity. The consump- tion of any kind of merchandise is not increased by such methods. Any con- cession in price by the retail dealer does not thereby add to the quantity con- sumed. The wholesaler or manufacturer may increase the volume of his sales by con- cessions sufficient to induce the retail dealer to buy and carry the stock until required for consumption, but the retail dealer can not dispose of it in like man- ner. He must carry it until it is ab- sorbed by the natural demand. To do this and conduct a successful business, he must be guided and governed by the well-established principle that a certain percentage over cost is an absolute necessity. The question naturally arises, What is cost? Opinions may differ, but a conservative man would claim it 1s the price paid for stock, together with the expense of rent, fuel, lights, insur- ance, clerk hire, delivery, interest on capital, advertising, stationery and other small incidental items, not overlooking depreciation on buildings, stock and fixtures. Prudence would increase this sum sufficiently to cover the average annual loss in bad debts, which are al- most inevitable where goods are sold on credit. This will determine cost, and the desired profit must be over and above all these if any financial benefit is to accrue to him whose capital, time and experience are invested. An inflex- ible determination by all to accomplish this purpose will be to the advantage of each, and deprive the purchaser from securingehis material at widely different prices from different dealers. It is as- sumed that we all pay substantially alike in price for the stock we buy, and gov- erned by the same principle in deter- ming cost, the selling price should not be devoid of uniformity. . Cuas. H. GELTMAN. ~~ 0 Exaggerated Economy. From the Sto ves and Hardware Reporter. There is nothing more repelling to customers than a suggestion of stingi- ness in the appointments or manage- ment of a store. It is a false economy which will prompt a merchant to wait until a line of goods is sold out before he will order more of the same kind; yet one sees this quite frequently. lt not only results in a loss in the sale of goods, but it leavesa bad impression in customers’ minds, which after frequent repetition becomes so indelibly fixed that an amendment in the future will not completely eradicate it. There are people who will haggle for an indefinite length of time over a two-cent stamp or equally insignificant matter, without realizing that the expenditure in time far exceeds the small saving in recov- ering some article worth but a few cents. There are merchants who will en- deavor to sell shop-worn goods at full prices rather than lose a cent of profit; but more offense is given in this way than the profit could possibly cover. Then people sometimes go to the other extreme and with an exaggerated idea about the value of their time will not do favors, order anything specially for cus- tomers or inconvenience themselves in any way. There is only one result, one ending to the careers of such people. They see only the small things, with a microscopic range of vision; conse- quently their success in life is propor- tionate totheir aimsand conduct. There is a great deal of difference between thrift and parsimony. The former is cautious and careful of things which re- quire looking after, while the latter characteristic leads the possessor of it to continually think of insignificant matters to the exclusion of everything else. —_—____> 0. When a girl reaches the age of 25, she loses all desire for birthday parties. WME ADEA ADE DE DEDEDE AIDE IDE DF AID AID EAD) AID AAI) AID) At) AID: SEADOO PRD ND RD DDD AD NDAD SDD NDAD SPADE PDD i & Buckeye Paint & Varnish Co. & Re ex PAINT, COLOR AND VARNISH MAKERS je ee as noneen ue ex We a ee Ze Shingle = ae Stains &2 Ex Ue Ss, A TT RE ce MTT ee Ze Wood esd A Fillers ws mR . fe EG) ext ey XE, ae i mS) or ; . 1S a nterior and Exterior Use we om Corner 15th and Lucas Streets, Toledo, Ohio. we Sri x : be Se SR a Se a OO a Mt A A A SE SOY OO Me A SE et ea Mt Me St TR TREREN GANGA GA GANT CGA CGN ON GNGGN CGN ONAN CGN ONTGN CGN GNOME ¥ \© DDQDQOD®HOGDBOHGYGBYDDO) LARK-RUTKA-JEWELL ([0. 38 & 40 South lonia St. Opposite Union Depot. WOWlWOOYW > 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. 2 CLARK-RUTKA-JEWELL CO., Grand Rapids, Mich. QDDDODQDHHHHQDOHHLHOD) OlWlOlWWOWIE Mail orders solicited. GOWWOOWWOCOLOOYO Oe Sued AAA AA RARAD Novelty Blue Flame Olt stoves Superior to and safer than Gasoline. The Novelty is conceded by every one to be the best one now on the market. We sell it at factory price. Write for circular. Foster, Stevens & Co., Grand Rapids. She cde dba dba dba be he ede De De De De ee VEER PRRR Eee RRR ey VEER MRRP e RyRy i : i When the Dealer Should Send Away for Goods. Another problem which confronts deal- ers in small stores is how to keep the higher class of patronage at home, and thus prevent its going to larger towns where a more effective attempt is made to keep a higher class and a greater va- riety of goods in stock. Many people who do not always make the trip person- ally to buy the goods out of town will send for them and the effect on home trade is about the same. There are sev- eral reasons why people do this, In the first place they find a larger stock to select from or else they save a few cents on the transaction, and the latter consid- eration is a weighty one with many who desire to economize, either from neces- sity or parsimony. The writer has known instances where this occurred in small towns, and observed that the mer- chant did not employ very skillful tactics in putting a stop to it. Instead of pro- ceeding as he should, he assumed an antagonistic air, grew angry with his delinquent customers and wore an offended, repellent manner, preparing to stand upon his dignity in his treatment of them rather than propitiate them by obliging them in ordering any desired goods which were not in his stock. Among the many other things which are not remunerative in storekeeping a standoffish, dignified manner is one. A merchant who desires to win trade must cater to the people’s idiosyncrasies rather than that they should cater to his. This is one of the relationships which can not be reversed. The man who has commodities to dispose of is entirely dependent for his livelihood upon the good will of the public, while it is read- ily. seen that the latter is in no way bound to conciliate the merchant, for if one happens to be disobliging, unfriend- ly and obnoxious, they can readily find another who is ready to receive them with open arms. In smaller places where a dealer wishes to be particularly in- gratiating he offers where he possibly can to sell goods at the same prices quoted by city stores. This, of course, makes a telling; advertisement, which should have good results. Other dealers who wish to excel in showing their in- clination to please will gladly offer to order goods for customers, thus saving them time and trouble as well as uniting them in a stronger bond of friendship and unity. If such a practice were once started it would be comparatively easy to keep it up, when necessary, although we know people feel some natural hesi- tation in requesting the home dealer to send away for gcods, as it impliesa dis- satisfaction with his stock. Yet it is much better for the far-seeing merchant who desires to retain trade to swallow his pride and send away for the goods, for by so doing he will probably sell something at the same time from his own store and make up for any trouble it may cause. 8 Using Barbed Wire in War. Spaniards are not given to making in- novations, but their proximity to Amer- ica in Cuba has led them to introduce one new feature into warfare in their so- called trocha defenses of barbed wire. ‘Lhese straggling fences that have been stretched across the island at various places are an attempt to graft the mod- ern American barbed wire fence upon the medieval Chinese wall idea. The re- sult is no more successful than might be expected from Spanish hands. All the trochas have amounted to were so many imaginary lines dividing the Spanish sphere of operations from the territory acknowledged to be held by the insur- gents. Whenever the Cubans have MICHIGAN TRADESMAN wished to cross these lines they have drawn out their machetes and cut their way through in afew moments. The blockhouses with which the trochas are studded are similarly antiquated and useless. Now the Spaniards have forti- fied Santiago with an aggravated combi- nation of these defenses. Four lines of thickly-set barbed wire fence, studded with blockhouses, are stretched around the city, and the intervening space be- tween the fences is a tangle of barbed wire. Behind this rather formidable chevaux de frise are the Spaniards’ in- trenchments and rifle pits. From these and from their blockhouses they intend to pour a deadly fire with their Mausers and machine guns upon the Americans while the latter are struggling in the tangle of barbed wire. General Shafter is wise in keeping the hotheaded Amer- ican heroes trom rushing too eagerly upon this sort of trap before they have the siege guns at hand to clear the way. He evidently intends to clear the Span- iards out from behind the fence first, after which it will be comparatively easy to demonstrate that the nation which invented the barbed wire can also invent a way to get through it. sD A Little Oil a Good Investment. Every hardwareman knows full well that a little oil in a knife not only gives the blade more spring and allows it to be opened and closed more easily, but that it preserves the knife. How many retail hardwaremen are there, however, who ever think of in- structing, in this particular, customers who are buying knives? Very few, in- deed. Not only should a knife be oiled when purchased, but a little lubricant should be applied every three or four months. Of course, a knife that is well taken care of in this way will wear longer than one that is not, and it seems, therefore, to be contrary to the interests of the bardwareman to enjoin his customers to be careful along this line. But, while apparently it may be against his interests to do so, yet, in reality, the results in the long run, are in his favor. In the first place, the knife that is taken care of wears well, and, naturally, when the owner wishes to replace it he goes to the store at which he got such good value before. That is an evidence that the hardware- man has secured that person’s confi- dence, and to be envied is the merchant who has the confidence of his customers. A hardwareman should never allow a pocket knife to go out of his store be- fore oiling it. The oiling of a pocket knife may be a little thing, but it is a good paying thing. ——~>-0 > Entirely Free to Si. ‘*What is your name?’’ enquired the officer in charge. **John Smith.’’ ‘*Your age, Mr. Smith?’’ ‘Forty-three, next October.’ ‘Where were you born?’’ ‘In Indiana,’’ ‘*Do you reside here?’’ “Yes, sir; have for the last ten years. ’ ‘*Are you married or single?’’ "Married. 7’ ‘An, is that so?’ ‘| Ves, Sig.” ‘*Well, you can’t enlist.’ ‘“Why not?’’ ° ‘Because you are married.’’ ‘*What’s that got to do with it?’’ ‘*Can’t take married men into the service. ’’ ‘‘Why not? Hasn’t a married man got courage enough? Can’t he beas good a patriot as a bachelor?’’ ‘*T suppose so, but we can’t take mar- ried men. They have to stay at home and support their wives and families.’ The applicant’s face gleamed like a sunrise. ‘‘Oh, that’s all right,’’ he laughed easily. ‘* You needn't worry on that ac- count; my wife keeps a boarding house, and has ever since the second year we were married.’’ —_——_>2.__ Arbitration is a good thing for a na- tion that has no guns and no warships. Hardware Price Current. AUGURS AND BITS Lee 70 Jennings’, genuine eee ee aes ee Jchnines /imitagion. . ...... | epee AXES First Quality, S. B. Bronze . 5 00 Wires Quality, DB Bronze, |... 9 50 First Quality, Soa. |.) 66 Se Piss Qaality, DB. Stedi 10 50 BARROWS Malinogd 2... eee on 14 oo Carte net 30 00 BOLTS Stove . oe . 60410 Carriage ae 70 to 75 Te 50 BUCKETS Well, piain........ eee 833 BUTTS, CAST Cast Loose Pin, ee oe meee pao e os COE Wrought Narrow... ' a. BLOCKS | Ordinary Tackle... |... to. 70 CROW BARS Coc ote! =... ..- per lb 4 CAPS SS eer ea 65 a a ae perm 5d D.. a .. Der m 35 aks es el per m 60 CARTRIDGES Him Fire... .... Pe co 5 oe S Centra: Wire......._. _ Bd 5 CHISELS DOcEet Pamir. 80 Socket Framing a 80 et a 80 socket Slicks.. 80 DRILLS Morse’s Bit Stocks ..... oe 60 Taper and Straight Site o-,-a e SS Morse’s ‘l'aper Shank.. oo ELBOWS Com. 4 piece, 6in. .-doz. net = COmeuensee Ae dis 40810 EXPANSIVE BITS Clark’s small, $18; large, $26................30&10 es, G2 aaa 25 FILES—New List New Amevican .............- ee NIGMOISOM Ss 2... oe... 70 Heller’s aa Haas... .. wos os COLOR GALVANIZED. IRON. Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26; 27. ..... 28 List 12 13 14 15 a ... 17 Discount, 75 to 75-10 GAUGES Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s...............60d10 KNOBS—New List Door, mineral, jap. trimmings.... ._....... ww Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings............ 80 MATTOCKS Adze Eye.. wetdeeeienes nose Oi OO, Gis GOGI0 DOME Pye, $15 00, dis 60&10 BOG $18 50, dis 20410 NAILS Advance over base, on both Steel und Wire. moctmene Paseo 1 60 Wire nails, base..... fee cl Peto Ge SGvamee. tl... 6) Base Pabe tO Seueite. 05 ee 10 1... ...... 20 eavance........ ae 30 7s ...................... i 45 2 advance.. ee 70 Fine 3 advaz ice. De el olete cue we Lo. 50 Come i aavance. lt Coating Sacvance........... ol, 25 Cosine G@aGeaice ..............., ..,..... 35 Pints (Gave... 8... P) ee OU AMIOG. 8... 35 ieee Oeavees |... 45 montes © Gyance,.. 1. 85 MILLS Coffee, Parkers Co.’s. eed 40 Coffee, PS. & WwW. Mfg. Co.’s Mal ‘leables. .. 40 c ‘offee, Landers, biggie a Cures ... 40 Coffee, Enter prise... . . 30 MOLASSES GATES Stebbin’s Pattern. oo toes a « a Oe Stopes Genin 60&10 enterprise, sclf-measuring ............ .... 30 PLANES Gmie Toot Co.'s, fancy... sl. eee Renee CHG cs... 60 Sandusky Tool Co.’s, fancy.. Seece ota.) ee Bench, firstqual ity. a. Stanley Rule and Leyel Co.’s wood........ 60 PANS Fry, Acme. : aoe 60410410 Common, polishe a. es eee FO& 5 RIVETS: Iron and Tinned ... “ a. 60 Copper Rivets and Burs.. : : 60 PATENT PLANISHED IRON “A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 10 20 ““‘B” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 25 to 27 9 20 Broken packages 4c per pound extra. HAMMERS —. & Co.’s, new list. . Y ee &Plumb’s.......... Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.. ..30e lis Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel Hand 30c Mis, 40819 23 HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS Stamped Tin Ware.. -new list 75&10 Japanned Tin Ware............... -.- 20810 Granite Tron Ware.............._.. “new list 40&10 HOLLOW WARE eas Ee eer Se ... 60810 HINGES Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2, 3. a --..- dis 60&1( Siete. od eeu cue ..per doz. net 2 50 WIRE GOODS ~ seen a 8u Screw Eyes.. eee 80 Hook’s. . ee 80 Gate Hooks and Eyes... oe 80 LEVELS Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............dis 70 ROPES Sisal, —— and larger.. el Manilla..... dst eee cae | — Saeel dnd Iron......... dialtone ae a) See ee Try and eet ae eee 60 Mire ....... ha Cues tee 50 SHEET IRON i com. smooth. com. Nos. 10 to 14 70 82 40 Nos Gtom. ....... .. 2 40 a 2 45 Noe conden. 2 55 Doe steel. 2 & No. 27 3 20 v5) All ‘sheet 2ts No. 18 and ‘lighter, ‘over 30 “ae wide not less than 2-10 extra. SAND PAPER hase acet 19,°86...... oe 50 SASH WEIGHTS Solid Hyes....... ea - per ton 20 00 TRAPS | pce! Game . 60a 1U Oneida Community, Newhouse’s 50 Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’ 8 70&10 Bete, CeGker of... per doz 15 Mouse, delusion. «+. Per dos 1 WIRE Bright Market.. a eee a. 75 Annealed Market... Dee ae tee ue ca ce % Coppered Market.. eee a ae Toned Mate. 62% Coppered Spring Steel. _ 50 Barbed Fence, galvanized . ae . Barbed Fence, painted.. Meee ees ll ee HORSE NAILS AUS dis “_— Putnam.. Te rtnees serene ae Northwestern. . Co 10810 "WRENCHES Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.............. 30 CogeGeatineg. 6. 50 Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought ....... 80 Coes Patent, malieabie,..... 80 | MISCELLANEOUS Bera Cages... 50 Pumps, Cistern.. ee 80 Screws, New List........ eee 35 Casters, Bed and Pie 50&104&10 Dampers, POMC@Ge sw... 50 —— 600 pound casks. ee 64 Perpouee 5 SOLDER i 12% The prices of the many other qualities of solder in the market indicated by private brands vary according to composition. TIN—Melyn Grade tert IC Charceal.........._.... sso. 14x20 IC, Chateeee 5 7% 20x14 x, ¢ harcoal . TIN ~Allaway jun 10x14 IC, Charcoal ......... 14x20 IC, Charcoal ...... 10x14 1x Cmageoe! 8.1... ee ee ood Each additional X on this grade, 81.50. ROOFING PLATES ieee IC, Charcoal, Dean. ................... 4 50 14xon TX Chiareaal, ean ................... 8 Ge cones 2, Cligreeal DeGad........ .......... 9 00 14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade......... 4 00 Orn we ee 14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade 5 00 20x28 1C, 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. 8 Boilers, { Pet pound... 7 Paris Green Labels 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: ee 25 cents. ies . 40 cents. SOO... ++ ovcrccecs 75 Cents, FO ok es de como ekws $1 00. Labels sent postage prepaid where cash accompanies order. Tradesman Company, Grand Rapids, Mich. OHGHORORGCHOROROROCHROHOHOR RGRGHE HSORRSEONt BORG RO 88 OROROR OE OROROROROCHORO MICHIGAN TRADESMAN GENERAL TRADE SITUATION. In many lines the summer dulness, with its slackening in volume, is be- coming decidedly more pronounced, al- though all depending on the healthy ag- ricultural situation are kept booming to an extent unusual for the season. Agri- cultural implement demand continues heavy, as well as materials for car building and other lines affected by the long-continued returns from products at good prices. In the stock market variations in values have been less than could have been expected in view of the sensational war news. Prices have generally tended upward, with good foreign interest, but it seems to be so thoroughly demon- strated that there is no real relation be- tween the contingencies of the war and the credit or general prosperity of the country that temporary effects are be- coming greatly lessened. A factor which has probably had more influence in increasing the present dul- ness than is generally considered is the attention which has been given to the operation of the war revenue bill, which took effect July 1. Aside from the ar- rangement of details, procuring and affixing of stamps, etc., there has been no little controversy as to who should pay the tax in the case of carriers, tel- egraph companies, etc., resulting in reference to authorities, appeals and legal action. Ail this has taken time and has been a source of distraction from more profitable business interests. Prices and demand in the Eastern iron markets are matters of complaint, out in the West where agricultural in- fluences prevail there is scarcely any effect of the dull season. Closing of works for repairs, etc., has been reck- oped upon to put a healthy check upon production, but as wage scales. have been adjusted to an unusual extent the shut-downs promise to be fewer and shorter than usual. The week’s course in wheat and other grains has been steady, with a general tendency downward, especially toward the close. Export demand continues zood, but uniformly favorable crop _re- ports seem to have more potent influ- ence. The textile situation continues its feature of dulness in cotton and its products,and this may be said to extend to wool to as great a degree as in sev- eral months. Prices in both branches of the trade continue unsatisfactorily low and the prospect of improvement seems distant. The shipments of boots and shoes were only six hundred cases smaller for the first week of July than for the same week last year, but were larger than for the corresponding week in any other year. The controversies between jobbers and manufacturers, be- tween leather producers and consumers, have not prevented an actual output at the Eastern works larger this year thus far than ever before, which is the more surprising because this manufacture has been rapidly and largely expanded at the West, where accounts agree that the factories are crowded with orders, with some of them weeks behind in their deliveries. A significant feature of the money market is the great demand for the new issue of Government bonds. There is a considerable strife among the banks to secure as many as possible as a basis for circulation and employes are sub- scribing in many cases to secure more than would be allowed to the banks di- rect. Considering that these bonds net less Ethan 3 per cent., it is remarkable that the issues should be taken with such eagerness. In the local furniture market the July season was late in opening, as many outside exhibitors were behind in plac- ing their lines. Buyers were on hand even before the exhibits were ready, and the increasing number already as- sures the success of the season. Many of the local factories report an unex- pected business and tbe assurance of busy months to come. ><> The American Idea Will Predominate. Written for the TRADESMAN. The press, the world over, is indulging largely in suggestions regarding the duty of the United States in her pleasing and at the same time embarrassing relations with foreign powers John Bull in the best of health and spirits is doing his best to win to himself the smiles and the more substantial favors of Cclumbia,and the Russian bear, equally vigorous and persistent, is trying to show his appre- cation of the same goddess, with flatter- ing hopes of success. The Englishman in his tenderest tones pleads for favor on the grounds of kinship and of speech. There is a com- mon mission which the Saxon race and tongue have been appointed to accom- plish, and there is no better time to en- ter upon it than now. Together, the two foremost nations of the earth have only to will and to work and the task is done., Civilization can realize its best achievements only through them. With their fortunes united, what can the future refuse them? And America, lis- tening to his plea, toys with her fan and ponders. The Russian presents his suit with equal fervor. No kinship can he claim, but he remembers a time when America needed a friend and Russia, unsolicited, stood by her side with a ready right hand resting on the sword hilt. That should not be so soon forgotten. But it is not all: Little in common may there be between the eagle and the bear, and as little between the nations they repre- sent in language or in race, and yet these two may not be without a com- mon future. Joining hands, do they not almost girdle the globe, and may they not, these two youngest in the fam ily of nations, nnd work before them which only their hands can do? Ifa better civilization is the hope and aim of both, will there not be a higher ideal realized, and a wider one, from the combined efforts of two such peoples and two such countries? Already, the two nations have found common inter- ests in trade. During the last three years this has increased three-feld, a fact which shows clearly enough that the two are naturally drawn together, and, what is of the greatest importance to America, that the possibilities of her future trade expansion in that part of the world are practically unlimited. Working together, can they not control the trade and commerce of almost a third of the population of the earth? It is, indeed, a population that is rapidly becoming more civilized; but this day and generation, and several after them, will pass before this people can manu- facture for themselves, and in the mean- time, if fitting relations are established, America, besides making the most of present financial opportunities, can se- cure a commercial foothold, which the other nations combined can never break. And America, still toying with her fan, smiles and ponders. The situation is interesting alike to the suitors and the rest of the watching world. America is more than ever the land of surprises, and with an anxiety which can not be concealed the Ameri- can idea is being eagerly waited for. j Will the sound common sense for which this country Is noted be taken in by the sentimental nonsense of England; or will the arguments of Russia be found convincing? It can not be denied that both have merits which call for consid- eration, nor need it be affirmed that both will be duly considered. The American idea, however, will not be found whoily pleasing to either suitor nor to the world at large. America’s in- terests are peculiarly her own. The leading republic of the world, and the best exponent so far in that world’s history of personal liberty and manly independence, she can not concur with tbe absolute power of Russia on the one hand or the constitutional monarchy of England on the other. Hers is a mid- dle course, and all that remains for her to do is to take of the best that the two nations offer and, without fear or tavor, so to republicanize the best of both that the civilization to be so benefited shal be of a higher type than has so far blessed mankind. R. M. STREETER. > o> Elia The Grain Market. As is usual at the end of the season, there is a lull in grain trade which is especially noticeable this year. Prices were so much out of line that all of the old wheat was moved from farmers hands, so that now the price is based on new wheat. While the smail receipts and fair exports would have naturally advanced prices, the splendid weather was a bearish factor and prices receded. The visible made a fair decrease of 2,184,000 bushels, leaving the amount in sight 12,500,000 bushels. This is the smallest visible recorded in many years, with the exception of 1891, when the amount in sight was the same as it is now. The price of No. 2 red on July 6, 1891, was 92!'4@o4c and September 87@8 9c, while on July 12, 1808, the price of No 2 red was 75c and Septem- ber 67%c in Chicago markets. The Government crop report of July 1801, showed 612,000,000 bushels, while the present report indicates that the yield will be 625,000,000 bushels, which, we think, is very conservative. Harvesting has been nearly completed and with a few days more good weather we think we will have one of the finest crops of wheat, both in quality and quantity, that we have had for years. Threshing has commenced and reports are very satisfactory. Corn and oats are unchanged from one week ago and have been very steady. Frosts have been reported in some sections, but not enough to damage corn, The receipts were the smallest that they have been in years, so far as wheat is concerned: wheat, 20 cars; gats® © Cars: corm, 17 cars. Local millers are paying 7oc for new wheat. GA Vor. WANTS COLUMN. Advertisements will be inserted under this head for two cents a word the first insertion and one cent a word for each subsequent in- sertion. No advertisements taken for less than 25 cents. Advance payment. __BUSINESS CHANCES. _ OR SALE—FIRST-CLASS MEAT MARKET in hustling town of 1,700 population. Ad- dress No. 650, care Michigan Tradesman. 650 N AKE US AN OFFER, WELL-SITUATED, x good-paying wall paper, paint and picture framing business must be sold at once, for cash ouly. Schwind & Alten, 32 West Bridge St., Grand Rapids, Mich. 654 OR SALE—ONE 18-FOOT COUNTER, WITH giass doors in front and dust proof doors in the back; also three 6-foot show cases made of bird’s-eye maple, all in good condition. Will be sold very cheap. Address J. C West & Co., Grand Rapids. Mich 651 OR KENT OR SALE—A STORE SUITABLE for general merchandise. located in a pros perous village in Berrien county, Mich. Splen- did opportunity for a live man to establish a paying business. For particulars address I. W. Allen, St. Joseph, Mich. 649 fie EXCHANGE—GOOD WESIRABLE CITY property for good clean drug stock. Address J. J., 150 South Jefferson St., Battle Creek, Mich. 647 V YIsH TO CORRESPOND WITH FIKST class dry goods or shoe man; object. busi- ness. Wish also to exchange farming land in Michigan for grocery or miliinery stock. Ad- dress Lock Box 40, St. Louis, Mich. 646 eo SALE—UNE SECONDHAND FIVE- ' barrel oil tank; one double-door safe; one jeweler’s safe. H. Leonard & Sons, Grand Rapids. Mich. 648 ges SALE —GENERAL MERCHANDISE stock in growing town in Southern Michi- gan. Will bear investigation. Address No. 644, eare Michigan Tradesman 644 | KsT LOCATION IN MICHIGAN FOR A cold storage and general produce dealer. Write to tne Secretary of tne Otsego Improve- ment Association, Otsego, Mich. 631 oS GENERAL STOCK 1N growing Michigan town in exchange for cash and 13 acres of land in the suburbs of Grand Rapids which will surely double in value inside of tive years. W411 seil land at its cash value. No old stock desired. No poor towns need ap- ply. Address No. 633, care Michigan Trades- man. #33 \ ERCUHANTS—DO YOU WIsH CASH QUICK 4 for your stock of merchandise, or any part of it? Address John A. Wade, Cadillac, Mich. 628 Capen SALE—A PROSPEROUS DRUG AND grocery stock, invoicing from $4,000 to $9,000, 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- welliuvite inspec ion. 625 HAVE SMALL STUCK 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 yen SALE, EXCHANGE UK REN i—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 FINO EXCHANGE—FOR CLOTHING, DRY goods or shoes, very nice well rented Graud Kapids property. Address No. 552, care Michi- gen Tradesman. 5a2 J i EXCHANGE — FARMS AND OTHER property for dry goods, clothing and shoes. Address P. Meda:ie, Mancelona, Mich. 553 . PRACTICAL MILL MAN, with $1,000 capital, to take a one-half or full interest in a stave, heading and planing mill. 3,000 contract, with stock tofillit. All goes. Five years’ cut in sight. Side track to 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 miy. Grand Rapids, Mich. 605 POR SALE--MODERN, WELL-ESTABLISHED and equipped broom factory and good trade. Other business commands our attention. Ad- dress No. 534, care Michigan Tradesman. 584 COUNTRY PRODUCE WANTED — FIRST-CLASS BUTTER FOR retail trade. Cash paid. Correspond with Caulkett & Co.. Traverse City, Mich. 381 ya CASES FRESH EGGs, daily. Write for prices. F. W. Brown, Ithaca, Mich. 556 FIREPROOF SAFES (EO. M.sMITH, NEW AND SECONDHAND safes, wood and brick building mover, 157 Ottawa street, Grand Rapids. 613 SHIRTS. I AVE YOURS MA"E TO YOUR MEASURE. Send for measurement blanks. Frank T. Oe, Se Ene St. & . Lanetng, Nich. 6 MISCELLANEOUS. Ve eS BY FIRST-CLASS general merchandise clerk. Good stock- keeper, first-class salesman, hustler and not afraid of work. Very best references. Four years’ experience in clothing, two years’ ex- perience as manager of general business which did #2400 business per month. Address Lock Box 36, Portland, Mich. 648 J ANTED— REGISTERED PHARMACIST, young man. Address Drugs, 106 Portage St., Kalamazoo, Mich. 693 J ANTED— POSITION BY REGISTERED pharmacist of ten years’ experience. Can furnish best of references. Address No. 652, care Michigan Tradesman. 652 \V 7 ANTED—A REGISTERED PHARMACIST at once. Address, with references, M. A. Barber, Petoskey, Mich. 645 ANTED—POSITION IN CLOTHING OR general store by an Alsalesman. Address F, care Michigan Tradesman. 622 lea. anti on Cee eee ee ee a —_ % ps Travelers’ Time Tables. CHICAGO "™ "sx Meteea Chicago. Ly. G. Rapids........... 7:30am 3:40pm * 2:l5ar Ar. Chicago... 2.6.65 2:10pm 9::5pm 7 3%m Ly. Chicago........ ... 7:20am 4:15pm * 8 45° m Ar. G’d Rapids...... 1:25pm 10:30pm * 2°15 m Traverse City, Cherlevoix and Petoskey. Lv. @’d Rapids..........2:15am 8:(5am 2:10pm Parlor and Sleening 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 3:35; Ar. Detroit... 11:40am 5:45pm 15:4 Lv. Detroit..... 00am 1:10pm 6:19; r Ar. Grand Rapids...:. 12:55pm 5:20pm 10:55) n Saginaw, Alma and Greenville. Ly. GR 7:00am 4:20pm Ar. GR 12:20pm 9:30r Parlor cars on all trains to and from Detroit and Saginaw. Trains run week days only. Gro. DEHAVEN, Genera] Pass. Ageut GRAND Trunk Railway System Detroit and Milwaukee Dit (In effect May 15, 1898 ) Leave. EAST. Arrive. + 6:45am Sag., Detroit, Buffalo & N Y .+ 9:55pm +10:10am... ... Detroit and East.... ..¢ 5:27pm + 3:20pm..Sag., Det., N. Y. & Boston... +12:45pm * 8:00pm... Detroit, East and Canada...* 6:35am +10:45am...... Mixed to Durand........ + 3:15pm WEST * 8:35am....Gd. Haven and Int. Pts....* 7:05pm +12:53pm.Gd, Haven and Intermediate.+ 3:12pm + 5:32pm..Gd. Haven and Intermediate.+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. +Except Sunday. E. H. Huenses, A. G. P. & T. A. BEN. FLETCHER, Trav. Pass. Agt., C. A. Jus71n, City Pass. Agent. 97 Monroe St. Morton House. GRAND Rapids & indiana Kaliwey Northern Div. Leave Arrive Trav. C’y, Petoskey & Mack...* 7:45am + 5:15pm ray. \’y, Petoskey & Mack.. .t 2:15pm t+ 6:35am Trav. G’y, Petoskey & Mack... ........ $10:50pm ORATIAE foes ee cae + 5:25pm tli:i5am Train leaving at 7:45 a. m. has parior car, and train leaving at 2:15 p. m. has sleeping car to Mackinaw. Southern Div. Leave = arriv: Cincinnatl...... eke ies -t 7:10am ¢ 8:25)-. We Went ye + 2:10pm + 2:00) RONEN eo ue eo * 7:00pm * 7:26; +:10a. m. train has parlor car to Ciueinnueat: 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. Ly. Grand Rapids...t7 10am +2 19pm *11 35pm AP CRICRRO ees 20!pm 9 10pm 6 30am FROM CHICAGO. Eve IGN PG 5 oe as +3 02pm *11 45pm Av. Grand Rapids. .<.. 2. ....0.. 9 30pm 7 3am 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 leaying Chicago 3.02 p. m. has buffet parlor car to Grand Rapids. Train leaving Phicaas 11.45 p. m. has coach and Pullman sleeping car to Grand Rapids. Muskegon Trains. : GOING WEST. Ly G’d Rapids......... ¢7:35am +1:00pm +5:40pn Ar Muskegon........... 9:00&8m 2:10pm 7:05pm GOING EAST, Lv Muskegon....... ..+8:10am +11:45am +4:00p. ArG’d Rapids... ..... 9:30am 12:55pm 5:20prr Sunday trains leave Grand Rapids 9.00 a. m. and 7.00 p.m. Leave Muskegon 8.35 a. m. and 6.35 p. m. +tExcept Sunday. *Daily {Saturday only. Cc. L. LOCKWOOD, Gen’! Passr. and Ticket Agent. . C. BLAKE, Ticket Agent Union Station. DULUT ; — — Atlantic WEST BOUND. Ly. Grand Rapids (@. R. & I.)¢11:10pm = +7:45am 7:35am Ly. Mackinaw City............ 4:20pm Ax SE: IWNOOG esi sce <3 9:00am 5:20pm Ar. Sault Ste. Marie.......... 12:20pm 9:50pm Ar. Marquette................. 2:50pm 10:40pm Ate Nestorg eis 5:20pm 12:45am Ar: Duiuth.......2. Seaper les eae aoe Tks * 8:30am EAST BOUND. Eis DOING ear c tole +5 e ce, SOROpM At: NOBbOHS 06 605 ous ac. S .. 11:15am = 2:45am Ar. Marquette. ..... cc. 1:30pm 4:30am Ly. Sault Ste. Marie.......... SiO ak Ar. Mackinaw City........... 8:40pm 11:00am . W. Hipsarp, Gen. Pass. Agt. Mar uette. E. C. Oviatt, Trav. Pass. Agt., Grand Rapids M N S : | : | & Northeastern Ry. o 442 =e ge | ; : >: = > DZ ZPD AWA an he PD AP LP LP AY A A Le > os Manistee. > SS ae reg A ee palaces IK LOPE LOI OO IN EI I Ie we ee ; : Via C. & W. M. Railway. W iy, Grand RNpIGS 0 ct 7eoaes so: YY ie AAD IStee el oes ek a 12:05pm ate cae VW awe EASBR@ eH. os ees es 8:30am 4:10pm ae Ar Grand Rapids 2.020.000.2005... scopm 9:55pm \ 4 W HOLLAND Xx GHIGAGO LINE ¥ It pays any dealer to have the reputa- W tion of keeping pure goods. W It pays any dealer to keep the Seymour 07 Cracker. W There’s a large and growing section of WW the public who will have the best, and WW with whom the matter of a cent or soa W pound makes no impression. It’s not W HOW CHEAP with them; it’s HOW W GOOD. W For this class of people the Seymour Operating. the elegant and fast steamers ‘‘Soo W Cracker is made. Sie ees Se | a Discriminating housewives recognize M. Railway for Grand Rapids and all points east . ‘ and north. SUMMER SCHEDULE. AN its superior In effect June 25th. 8 AN Lv. Holland, daily (except Sunday).... 8:00 p.m. iv. Holland, Sanday. ou... 3:00 p.m. iv FLAVOR PURITY Ly. Holland, Saturday (spec 6:30 a.m. AN 9 9 Lv. Chicago, daily (except Fri. anc -).-7:00 p.m. iy. Ciena, Briday (oe oe <3 5.400 pin. 4 \ DE LICIOUSNESS Lv. Chicago, Saturday...... 9:00 a.m, and 4:00 p.m. “a RE AN . oe z Single Round yas Between Holland and Chicago $2.25 $3.50 : : Between Grand Rapids and Chicago 31s i 4 \ and will have it. Berth included. “ik SPECIAL RATES. 4 If you, Mr. Dealer, want the trade or Chicago to Holland and Resorts, Friday and Sat- ay : : A urday, leaving Chicago at 4 p. m. one way, $1.75: AN particular people, keep the Seymour Ay round trip, $2.50. Saturday morning, leaving : “Ay Chicago and Holland, $1.00 each way. Above rn \ Cracker. Made by AN special rates for transportation only. : hj 4 Office, No. 1 State St., Charles B. Hopper, WN 4 Cas = m® National Biscuit Company, in GRALLLALALLLLLLALLLL LLL) AN : ; AN r tnd Picture. Cards | m Grand Rapids, Mich. mn See 2.2.2.2.8. 0.0. wa WV. =’ eee LO Be -saiiew ena. asic “arti ite i 4 be ee ~~ Se Se 7. We have a large line of new | goods in fancy shapes and unique designs, which we are offering at right prices. Samples cheerfully sent on application. THE ONLY WAY... 0 } j * TRADESHAN COMPANY, Grand RDI. ‘ To learn the real value of a trade or class paper Onmenssssssssesessses®| is to find out how the men in whose interest it is COSC VCS TU VST TY N : j = < published value it. Ask the merchants of Mich- TRAVEL igan what they think of the. . . VIA F.& P_ M.R.R. | | AND STEAMSHIP LINES TO ALL POINTS IN MICHIGAN | | i H. F. MOELLER, a. a. P. a. TYOvevervevevvrvenenenervenevevenonnevevennenenennenenees They allsayF ==== MICHIGAN TRADESMAN We are willing to abide by their decision. “It's as good as Sapolio,” when they try to sell you their experiments. Your own good sense will tell { you that they are only trying to get you to aid their \ : ew cere Se es Se public? 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